Her main interest is the history of Hampton Roads from 1890 to the present. After publishing short online history pieces, she has devoted her research and writing over the last four years telling the story of the roma and her crew. We join me in giving a warm dhs welcome to make the shepherd. [applause] thank you for that warm introduction. I would like to thank the Virginia Historical society for having me, and cspan for coming out here and taping. Very exciting. As andy said, my name is nancy e. Shepherd. I am a author from Hampton Roads. This has been my project for the last five years. To tell you about roma to get started, this is a forgotten piece of our printing your virginia history. It was the deadliest disaster of a u. S. Hydrogen airship, one long forgotten. It has been my honor to bring it to the world and to you today. So, i will take you back to 1921. This was a time of innovation, prosperity, hope for our new future. We had survived world war i, the spanish flu epidemic.
Naval station norfolk pick up but its been heavy out there since about five oclock this morning. Maybe a little bit before that lets head to our camera now we have a couple of things working around naval station norfolk sell ideas deployment day the us is barry headed to japan and nine this morning a lot of traffic they are combining with the normal traffic then heads to the base in the midst of all of those backups. We also have an accident on sixty four west and the insides of lanes hov lanes just past chesapeake boulevard to the left lane is blocked you can see one lane open here the outside to the blaine just jammed when i give you a live look is well aware the backups begin ill say that this is what fifty four westbound around or view avenue which is a couple of miles away from the accident scene several miles away from the five sixty four interchange and five sixty for all the way into the base is a mess so if youre reporting to work and are still at home mom to abound who said l
Going pretty good around town center in Virginia Beach temperatures warming up into the upper forties during the early afternoon and then low fifties for a daytime high is sprinkle possible this evening temperatures falling off after that thats going to check on the road theres some road work out their nasty going to give us enough to bolster the good news craig so between four thirty and five our overnight project started to clear up we still had one that was lingering out there in norfolk and sixty four. What can you live look at that scene now not much working at this point everything has wrapped up his sixty four eastbound here in these lanes are your new ford few street thats with the construction was but again all the lanes are now open in traffic is moving well and if youre headed westbound with ehr bt no delays reported there either to battle the Traffic Network maps reminder of the abridged list for later today the berkeley bridge opening at nine oclock this morning the high r
Right now but we will see the winds building later today temps in the forties and one low thirties near the coast this is a little chilly that was this time yesterday and you can see the temperatures will be topping out in the lower fifties as we head into the early to middle part of the afternoon not a bad day today skies partly to mostly sunny but we will see some changes with that front coming through tonight i wish a lot more on that a few minutes when ask an early check on the ride will check things out around norfolk with ashley smith the morning are a good morning drag her kicking traffic now in norfolk not too far from the hr bt on sixty four watch a couple of road work projects out there starting on the eastbound side of distracted driving away from the hr bt before you get the fourth q street the left lane is blocked or construction that will give you a live look now at that you can see for yourself this is a temporary overnight project so i expected to wrap up hopefully befo
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