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Pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capitol. We will develop a vision for this iconic street which is home to so Many National treasures, including this building. I want to send a thanks to the National Parks service and recognize peter may. He is a fellow ncpc commissioner but his day job is associate director for lands, resources, and planning. Fort totten, fort reno, fort dupont. Locals may recognize these names as parks, neighborhoods, even metro stations but many are surpris...

You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulne...

Kind of oversaw the fortifications during most of the war, as they redid and reconstructed some of these forts, he decided new guns would go in and help cover this which it wasnt doing before. So your plans for the fortifications, the system of fortifications did change over the four years of the war. Coming back, i told you we would stop and i would show you what some of the 360degree angle guns look like. See, the carriage is a little bit different, but this shows you, and you notice the botto...

Im 75 years of age folks. I remember things differently than when i was fighting or Something Like that at 20, 18, or what have you so the veterans may have been mistaken but they wanted to mark that spot and they got the stone out of the water reed area Cameron Creek and put that bar relief and thats their monument to the remembrance of lincoln on enemy fire. We dont know that the Justice Supreme Court really uttered one of those immortal words, get that damn fool down. The records suggest ther...

Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated ...

If they could get a canon there and have a ranger give a talk about it, they could learn about it. This is part of the fort circle drive land that was never built around it. Fort de rucy. Its so beautiful. You come up to oregon avenue and you just drive in and pull off. Its very easy to find. When you go to the Nature Center and walk down, sometimes when they got cut off, the trees grew back. It still 150 year old. Here the earth works there they are massive. You can go all the way around. This ...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this...

At the box office smashing records. One of the biggest Opening Weekends ever. How the blockbuster is bringing paul walker his final big screen triumph. And we do say good morning, america on this monday morning. Hope everybody had a happy easter and passover. And College Basketball weekend, both the mens and womens teams getting ready for the championship games. Take a look at duke freshman. Look at that. Carmine gaball. Making it look tiny. Like a tennis ball. Duke will take on wisconsin in the...

We will check the sevenday forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Good morning. We have the drizzle as well. A bit of a difficult rushe. Heading for the fort mchenry, 95 in pretty good shape. Five minutes to go from the 895 split down to the fort mchenry tunnel. Lights have been out on the j. F. X. And the north side of the parkway. Things are looking pretty good on the north side and the j. F. X. Despite the fog. No problems to report at padonia road. 65 on eastbound 70. A very foggy picture...

Patrols on duty. The next big question that people are asking, what about the weather for tomorrows parade . I was just outside. I dont know. Skies are gray. Theres talk about rain. Well go to our chief meteorologist paul deanno. Its going to rain a lot tomorrow but the timing is so critical for this and i think im getting more and more confident that the driest part of the day is going to be when the parade happens. Our official forecast partly cloudy and cool. There will be a chance of showers...