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swing, with those beautiful fire works busy boardwalks as well, all ready to celebrate the fourth. but we have to mention some rain this fourth of july holiday unfortunately as we look live at storm scan three the big question is will the weather cooperate with all of the fire works, festivities and backyard barbecues you have planned for today? i think, we will of good news for you just a little bit. happy independence day to you, it is saturday july 4th. i m nicole brewer. just past 6:00. we will send it over to kate and get those questions answered. you said it is not perfect by any stretch but it is not terrible either. it is not terrible. it is a two day weekend. two of the three days are perfect. today is not the worst day we have ever had if that is the best way to put it. when you lead with that it is in the worst day we ever had it doesn t sound great but we have a couple showers to track. it is in the a complete wash out. i m s hopeful by late this afterno ....
fairfax to montgomery is actually weakened over the last 30 minutes. and some other showers now approaching frederick city a little heavier down 340 over toward myersville about to get wet and the heaviest stuff i m watching south of dog land and colonial beach will cross the river over the next 30 minutes. futurecast tonight waves of showers occasional storms into saturday morning. and then as we get into midday here are the showers, but notice in the afternoon, they start to move south of us. so we are going to dry out some of the afternoon. that means i think decent conditions for the fireworks. i ll have the fireworks forecast and seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. tonight, a memorial to remember a brazilian police investigator who was killed competing in the world police and fire games thursday afternoon in northern virginia. our mola lenghi reports. reporter: debra, 48-year-old carlos silva will be honored here at the reston towne centre in an hour ....
.. it is good to be here at the national archives. to be back here i should say. i have researched all of my books at the national archives. is a place of buried treasures they have a lot of boxes here filled with little folders filled with papers in the stories headed and escapers if you listen closely you may have somebody take a piece of paper upstairs and read it to a head yell holy cow. we don t have those that often the when they come it is what keeps the researches going. this book exists because i gave in to the deep dark desire that lurks in the depth with the human soul and researched the desired to prove that your boss is full of baloney. this happened in 2010. at american history magazine i immediately made a suggestion to the launch of the plays and had just hired me. the with the 50th anniversary is coming up. why don t we take a couple of pages to run a newspaper story aired on dash story i that it was a good idea. but he did not and he said the civil w ....
for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. you re watching booktv. next, peter carlson recalls the capture of journalists albert richardson and junius browne by confederate forces at the battle of vicksburg. the reporters were sent to multiple confederate prisons over 20 months until they escaped and made their way across the appalachians with the assistance of union sympathizers. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] thank you, david. i m thrilled to be here at the national archives. to be back here, i should say. i ve written three books, and i have researched all of them at the national archives. a place with buried treasures all over it. they ve got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and there are a lot of stories hidden b in those papers. in fact, if you get really quiet and you listen really closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of a box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. you don t have those ....
they got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and there s a lot of stories hidden in those papers. in fact, if you get real quiet and you listen real closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of the box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. you don t have those holy cow experiences all that often, but when they come, it s really a thrill for a researcher, and that s what keeps researchers going. so this book exists today because i gave into one of those deep, dark desires that lurks in the depths of the human soul. i refer to the desire to prove that your boss is full of baloney. this happened in 2010. i was hired as an editor at american history magazine, and i immediately made a suggestion to the honcho of the place who just hired me. i said, the 150 the anniversary of the civil war is coming up. i don t we take a couple pages in each issue and run a newspaper story about some event in the civil war that happ ....