Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t
Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Safely. We are learning more tonight about the 11 people who were killed friday night when a skydiving plane crashed and burned in hawaii. It went down shortly after takeoff on the island of oahu. Jonathan vigliotti is there. Reporter those who saw the skydiving plane plummet to the ground looked on in horror. All 11 onboard were killed. I saw it hit. I was right there, man. I was right there. Reporter Carlos Zapato drove denver tourists brian and Ashley Weikel to the doomed flight. They were celebrating their oneyear wedding anniversary. If you knew them for five minutes or five years, they touched your life. You couldnt ask for any two better people in your life. Reporter the ntsb have their work cut out for them. The impact of the crash and the massive fire that happened afterwards reducing this aircraft to just charred and mangled pieces. Witnesses say just after takeoff, the plane reached only about 100 feet, spun twice, and clipped trees before hitting the ground nose first. The
The rain shafts coming through this thunderstorm. Theres a nice little lightning bolt right there. That was chopper 4 about 20 minutgo that. Same storm. Take a look at it on storm team 4 radar has really declined and decdased in intensity, an what its done is sent out this boundary, so were seeing other storms form in parts of fauquier and Fairfax County and Prince William county. Lets go in and zoom on it. Lets show you in through Fairfax County nd greatfalls, the heaviest of which coming towards quantico. Strockest storms now, ba into Jefferson County west virginia. A lot of lightning with this one and a ne forming back towards thisn our way moving t through evening. On the hot side. 91 so far today, leon and well go higher tomorrow. Ngouve been talki about the chances of a 12day long heat wave. Are we still on track for that . The one day were really watching would bemo nda 8y. 9. That would take us out of the heat wave, but if were looking at 89 to give us some relief, you know wev
Beltway so that is complicating things as well. This was a deadly pedestrian hit and run that happened at about 11 30 last night. Not a lot of information about why the pedestrian wasown there on the parkway at that hour. And not any information on the triking vehicle. All we canll you is that the driver did not stop and they are looking for that person. If you normally travel through this area, expect delays at wleast for a le. This was closed for quite a bit of time here this morning. Whenever that happens you have residual delays even when things open back up so keep that in mind. With more on the traffic, here is jack. Timing is all its about the timing. We show your live shot of the lanes opening on the southbound bw parkway back to boueds mill. Crash heading tard kenilworth avenue that has been over on the shoulder. We bope that will clead as well. We had some active in virginia going south on 28 toward a oll road in sterling. The work zone still there but blocking just the left