and subsequent financial reforms. i m donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the senate caucus room in the russell senate office building. before c-span started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920 s and 1930 s, but television came along in 1940. this is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. so this was the most televised room until the senate chamber was open to television. i bring people in here from time to time. you can hear the echoes. point of order, mr. chairman. you can hear the gavel. of the chairman. my point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement i m getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. mr. chairman, do i have the fl
before cspan started covering the sessions, this was where the major hearings were televised going back to news reels covering it in the 1920s and 30s. television came after long in the 1940s. this is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, army mcarthur hearings, water gate hear agos. this was the most famous televised room until the chamber was open to television. i bring people in here from time to time. you can hear the echoes. you can hear the gavel of the chairma chairman. the story of congress is the story of the nation. that s a story of growth. the capital started as a very small sand stone square box. it sort of grew as states entered the union and more senators and representatives came. in the 1850s so many entered they had to put on two wings for current senate and house chambers. by the 70s they were crowded and couldn t find space for senators to work. initially senator s offices were their desk in the chamber. they were constantly besieged there.
representatives came. in the 1850s, they had to put on the wings. by the 1870s, they were crowded. they couldn t find space for the sn senators to work. offices were their discs in the chamber. of course, they were constantly besieged there. so eventually they kept adding space to the capital. they built terraces in the 1870s and added extra rooms and that p wasn t enough. in the 1890s, they bought an old apartment house, which is down constitution avenue about where the taft stands today. for a while, senators moved in there, to the envy of many house members, because that gave senators private offices, at least some of the senators. but the building had been built as an apartment house, not an office building. the weight of an office building was too much. it began to sink. the elevator shaft was seven inches lower by the time they moved out. that was pulling the floors apart. it was unsafe. it was a fire trap. it was very uncomfortable. people complained about it. it would
system and climbing so it s probably attributed to the cold breaks any weakness. reporter: spokesman jerry irvine says this pipe, more than 90 years old it s been repaired and filled in. the water main break fixed around 1:00 and service restored to all 77 customers affected by the break the wsse picking up the tab for families forced in to hotels. and dominating, top s fork. what forecasts, what do you have for us tonight? temperatures mainly below freezing leesburg and 30 ma nases, even in la plata, temperatures much colder and we talk about low temps tonight in the teens fairfax and sterling, 18 leesburg, bethesda, 24 black ice is possible, may look wet but frozen u down, be careful getting the paper tomorrow. quiet and cold wednesday afternoon but then we re tracking a weak clipper for thursday, very cold in the wake of that clipper friday and saturday and we re really kind of turning our attention for super bowl sunday, what that means if you re going to atte
to an olympic gold medal. and the puck goes down! they hit the goal post. before falling to canada in one of these game s most breathtaking finishes. a loss the men of team usa try to avenge today. friday, february 21st, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from olympic park in sochi, russia. good morning, everyone, i m savannah guthrie alongside natalie morales and al roker and willie geist. we thought we d pay a visit because this is our last day covering the olympics. they head into the final weekend this weekend. and what about a night last night? willie, al and i were at the hockey final against canada. i don t know what words to use to describe it. 3:30 to go. and we thought, we re in. it happened so quickly. it was one open-netter we almost had. we were smiling a lot, maybe too much. anyway, the entire women s hockey team, the silver medalists will join