test. test. it was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. so he was one of the engineers on the washington monument. another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the washington monument in 1848 was george washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. that looks like the washington monument. this is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. randolphs were very prominent in virginia. her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. her cuss cousin was the wife of george washington custis and she was buried there. born april
you will be hearing from myself and from fellow park ranger diane wolfe. will talk to you a little bit in celebration of women s history month about the women of floyd bennett field we will talk to you a little bit. it s one of the more significant sites in the history of aviation. it is a story that doesn t get told to much anymore, but in its day, the aviators who flew at floyd bennett field during the 1930 s were as big of celebrities as anybody you might think of. you know, you start with the age of charles lindbergh, 1927 and really, right up until world war ii, these folks were advancing aviation technology at an incredible rate. when you think that the first airplane flight was in 1903 with the wright brothers, we are at the dawn of the jet age. we go from a time when it was perfectly common to have biplane wood and fabric airliners to all-mental monoplane airliners capable of crossing the country at 200 miles an hour carrying 22 passengers all-mental. all-metal.
bitten by a tick. harry potter, watch out. there s another magical teen with more than a few tricks up his sleeve. i ll have that story. that and more, next on teen kids news. welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m siena. we ll start with our top story. if you play a sport, you know that having a great coach is really important. but in some communities, coaches are hard to find. libby reports on a game plan to change that. sports are more than just fun. kids who play sports are more likely to. do better in school. they re less likely to. abuse drugs. or become pregnant. and they re less likely to be. overweight. and yet sports programs in public schools across the country are being. reduced! cut. downsized. in fact, almost $4 billion have been cut from sports programs in recent years. especially hard hit are kids in poor areas. only 3% of them get to play organized sports. as a result, there are lots of kids out there who want to
i ll tell you what to do if bitten by a tick. harry potter, watch out. there s another magical teen with more than a few tricks up his sleeve. i ll have that story. that and more, next on teen kids news. welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m siena. we ll start with our top story. if you play a sport, you know that having a great coach is really important. but in some communities, coaches are hard to find. libby reports on a game plan to change that. sports are more than just fun. kids who play sports are more likely to. do better in school. they re less likely to. abuse drugs. or become pregnant. and they re less likely to be. overweight. and yet sports programs in public schools across the country are being. reduced! cut. downsized. in fact, almost $4 billion have been cut from sports programs in recent years. especially hard hit are kids in poor areas. only 3% of them get to play organized sports. as a result, there are lots o
welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m siena. we ll start with our top story. if you play a sport, you know that having a great coach is really important. but in some communities, coaches are hard to find. libby reports on a game plan to change that. sports are more than just fun. kids who play sports are more likely to. do better in school. they re less likely to. abuse drugs. or become pregnant. and they re less likely to be. overweight. and yet sports programs in public schools across the country are being. reduced! cut. downsized. in fact, almost $4 billion have been cut from sports programs in recent years. especially hard hit are kids in poor areas. only 3% of them get to play organized sports. as a result, there are lots of kids out there who want to play sports but don t have what they need most coaches to work with them. that s where an organization called up2us comes in. up2us was started because we know that kids all ove
country s credit rating in the new year. each day toward the fiscal cliff is also another day closer to the country maxing out on its borrowing limit. president obama talked to business leaders today. the only thing that the debt ceiling is good for as a weapon is to destroy your credit rating. reporter: he s worried republicans may re newsto raise the country s debt ceiling to get their way on spending cuts and risk defaulting on the country s loans. that is a bad strategy for america. it s a bad strategy for your businesses. and it is not a game that i will play. reporter: republicans are pushing back. he s the president, not the emperorer. reporter: fiscal cliff negotiations have been at a stand still since monday when republicans proposed raising revenue by closing tax loopholes, not by raising rates on the rich as the president has insisted. we re not insisting rates just out of spite, but rather because we need to raise a certain amount of revenue. we ca
pat collins, news4. a bomb scare this morning at a bank in fredericksburg. police say it looks like someone tried to blast open an atm. keith russell has the latest from the news4 live desk. keith? wendy, police say their surveillance video shows someone walking up to the atm around 4:00 this morning. he put something down near the machine moments later and explosion. if he was trying to blow open the atm, it did not work. it s still standing. believe it or not, it still works. fredericksburg police, state police and fbi roped off the area this morning. the state police bomb arson unit even suited up to check for more explosives after a bomb sniffing dog picked something up near a dumpster. nothing else was ever found. now, there were no injuries. but that blast was powerful enough to wake up a woman who lived nearby and set off car alarms in the area. keith russell, news4. keith, thanks. two fbi raids in arlington today, officers searched the seventh floor of an office
i ll tell you what to do if bitten by a tick. harry potter, watch out. there s another magical teen with more than a few tricks up his sleeve. i ll have that story. that and more, next on teen kids news. welcome to teen kids news. i m mwanzaa. and i m siena. we ll start with our top story. if you play a sport, you know that having a great coach is really important. but in some communities, coaches are hard to find. libby reports on a game plan to change that. sports are more than just fun. kids who play sports are more likely to. do better in school. they re less likely to. abuse drugs. or become pregnant. and they re less likely to be. overweight. and yet sports programs in public schools across the country are being. reduced! cut. downsized. in fact, almost $4 billion have been cut from sports programs in recent years. especially hard hit are kids in poor areas. only 3% of them get to play organized sports. as a result, there are lots o
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