you don t have an acronym for that, do you, like cwi. it just doesn t work, does it? before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an senior vice president for public affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. for the previous ten years he co-chaired the u.s. abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should ade president bush awarded harold the national humanities medal in 2008. harold has authored or co-authored or edited 52 books. that s what you re up to now. i know you think i ve read 52 books in my life. his latest mayor book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for public opinion . it has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by gettysburg college. just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been awarded the empire state archives and history award. this is harold s significant contributions to the profession and he joins an impressive list of recipients. this event is going to be held on september 6 a
i am peter carmichael. i am a professor of history here. i am also the director of the civil war institute. it s my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. he is the director of hunter college s roosevelt house public policy institute. you don t have an acronym for that, do you? before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an senior vice president for public affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. for the previous ten years he co-edited or, excuse me, co-chaired the u.s. abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the national humanities medal in 2008. harold has authored or co-authored or edited 52 books. that s what you re up to now. i know you think i ve read 52 books in my life. his latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for public opinion . it has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by gettysburg college. just this week i saw it was announced
news out of baltimore. a massive house fire with six children unaccounted for. three other children and their mother were pulled out of the home. they are all in either serious or critical condition. brand-new this morning, maryland representative elijah cummings says the woman works for him. he released a statement saying my staff is a family and this unimaginable tragedy is shocking and heartbreaking to us all. jennifer fran yotty has the latest from the scene. reporter: here in northeast baltimore fire officials have just confirmed the nine children involved in the overnight fire are from the same family. as i step out of the way, you can see this home that caught fire after 12:30 last night here in the northeast section of town. four people were outside of the home when firefighters arrived. an adult female and three children. they have confirmed it s a mom and her three children taken to the hospital. two of those children now in also in critical condition and six chil
morning. i m david culver. i m meagan fitzgerald in for angie goff. a little bit of snow and a little bit of rain and sleet. coming in this morning, didn t seem too bad for us a couple hours ago. i was talking to tom kierein. it seemed to be sleet. this is going to be a low to moderate impact event. because road temperatures are well above freezing. anything frozen that s falling is melting on roads. it s mainly a rain event. looking at storm team 4 radar. the areas in green, rain. the pink sleet. this includes northern virginia. this blue line is the freezing line. all the cool is off to the north and east. much of this is in the form of a sleet and the pink and in the areas you see herein it s rain. maybe a little bit of wet snow down 95. all this tracking off to the east. now hour by hour timing. eventually works out throughout the day, when it s going to end tonight is coming up in a few minutes. thanks, tom. we re tracking this winter weather out there this morni
quijano: good evening, i m elaine quijano. south florida is bracing for possible floods. a system that could become a tropical storm is churning off the coast threatening the region with several days of heavy rain. it comes as the miami area is struggling to contain the zika virus spread by local mosquitoes which can breed in just a bottle cap of water. omar villafranca is in miami beach with more on the double threat. omar? reporter: sunbathers flocked in the sun before the storms roll in. the ocean winds are expected to bring in several days of rain including heavy downpours. right now the main concern at the shore is the strong rip current. on land health officials want to make sure pooling water from possible floods doesn t turn into a widespread breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying the zika virus. property owners face a $1,000 fine for not getting rid of pools of standing water. local mosquitoes. 38 of those cases are right here in miami dade county. elaine? qui