weekend. the lincoln group of the district of columbia hosted this event. our speaker tonight is wendy allen. most people in the room know who wendy allen is. for those who don t, she s an artist. wendy allen first painted did her first painting of abraham lincoln in 1983. since then she s focussed on him as her subject and has made many, many paintings in many different styles. she s listen very active, been interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the historical society along with some other people you might have heard of. salvador dolly, norman rockwell. certainly in very good company and so were they. in addition to all this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there, lincoln into art. she s also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania. she s on the board and a vice president to the fellowship of pennsylvania. she s also very active in the lincoln forum and a lot of us went there this past year. we had a record turn out. we re going to try to beat
examples and discusses her influences and reasons for painting lincoln. she concludes the program by discussing a summer-long daily tribute to veterans held at gettysburg national cemetery. the lincoln group of the district of columbia hosted this event. our speaker tonight is wendy allen. i think most people in the room probably know who wendy allen is, but for those who do not, she is an artist. did her first painting abraham lincoln in 1983. and since then, she has focused on abraham lincoln as her subject and has made many, many paintings in different styles that she will talk about. she also has been very active being interviewed by cnn and had her paintings in the historical society along with some other people you might have heard of. salvador dali. he was there, too. and norman rockwell. certainly in very good company, and so were they. in addition to all of this, she lives in gettysburg and has a gallery up there. she is also very active with the fellowship of penn
that breaking news is in sausalito, one person died after their car crashed and burst into flames. looking live at the road right now. a tow truck is there. traffic is crawling along southbond 101. on the other side, you can see police are on the scene of this tragedy. and tow truck arrived, and that is what you are seeing now. taking that vehicle away. here is the closer look from earlier this evening, at the car after it ended up on an embankment. highway patrol officers blocked three of four lanes. they investigate what happened. and you are seeing the backup, the drivers face as they head towards golden gate bridge. chp expects delays to continue for at least another hour. you can download the abc 7 news app enable push alerts for breaking updates. good evening. thank you for joining us. i m matt keller. eric thomas is off tonight. to our other top story tonight the storm about to hit the bay area. looking at live doppler 7. see the green, that set to drench the bay area
south carolina capturing its first national championship in women s college basketball. north carolina and gonzaga meet tonight for the men s title. those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 3rd. important week in store for president trump putting his foreign and domestic policy skills to test. the president sitting down with his egyptian counterpart but all eyes on mar-a-lag-a-la-o thursday. the son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner is in iraq visiting at the invitation of the joint chiefs chairman. more on the president s busy week. reporter: some welcome news for president trump. his nominee for the supreme court, picked up a vote from across the aisle. as the senator joe donnaly of indiana said he will support, judge gorsuch. the third democrat to break ranks. the president need five more democrats to bring the nomination to a vote. senate democrat leadership is threatening filibuster. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell vows it won t wo
poison. gamecocks fans are crowing this morning. south carolina, capturing the first national championship in women s college basketball. north carolina and gonzaga meet tonight. for the men s title. those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 3rd. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning to you everybody on this monday. we ll start, this half-hour, important week in store for president trump putting his foreign and domestic policy skills to test. yes, the president sitting down with his egyptian counterpart. all eyes on mar a lago, later thursday when he plays host to the chinese president. meantime, the president s son-in-law, senior adviser, jared kushner is in iraq visiting at invitation of the joint chiefs chairman. more on the president s busy week. reporter: some welcome news for president trump. his nominee for the supreme court, picked up a vote from across the aisle. as the senator joe donnaly of indiana said he will s