It was a wonderful memory. Thats a terrific memory from long ago. Those are accurate. Shes referring to the girls dressing room upstairs. The Custis Lee Mansion was known as until it was changed after your visit to arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial. Next up is jean in wyoming. Caller hello. Please go ahead. Hello. Were listening. Whats your question . Caller i have a couple of questions. The one question is, why do you not why do you not advertise more often about your events and stuff coming along . Okay. You have another question . Caller yes. The other question is, i am actually a volunteer from for the laramie. I was there you know what . Were getting feedback on your call. We will take your first one. Why doesnt the park service advertise more frequently . Hopefully, were doing a better job of doing that. Its difficult for us to take out time on media to be able to put things out there. We do our best. We rely not exclusively but a lot on social media, try to get people
Will talk about this special has and how it is being preserved and interpreted by the National Park service. Formerjoined by a National Park Service Director and a site manager at this house. Monday to just start with you telling the story of how the National Park service began. Washe National Park service authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson on august 25, 1916. Therefore, we celebrate the 100 anniversary today. That legislation came about ofough the stellar efforts Civic Leaders throughout the country. We are proud to have that agency with us for 100 years. Was a controversial at the time it was signed into law . It was in the sense that there was a misunderstanding in terms of some of the constraints that may be imposed by having one federal agency administer our National Parks. I think the American People have developed an understanding and by theation of the parks fact that there were already 35 National Parks established before the National
Youre looking at a live picture of arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial. This is the National Park services most visited historic home and it was on this day in 1916 that president Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that created the park service. Were here this evening at arlington house to talk about the park service and its history. We will also learn more about this special house and the people who lived here and how its being preserved and interpreted by the National Park service. Were joined tonight by robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon bies, the former site manager here at arlington house, and obviously, park Service Employee who is also overseeing a yearlong rehabilitation of the estate. Let me start with the story of how the National Park service began. As the National Park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, august 25, 1916. Therefore, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nati
Wipers and a allow extra time. It is 52 degrees. These are wind right now sustained at 20 miles an hour, and 76 degrees should than our high today. Heavy rains this morning. We will get a break, we may even get a little sunshine in the middle of the day but then thunderstorms firing up later on and those gusty wind will stick with us all day long. So messy monday on the way but our better times are ahead and we will tell but them in the seven day forecast, coming up. Bob kelly, just how yucky on the roads. It is so yucky how yucky is it. Yucky for travelers most likely today at philly international. The heres a live look, if you have a flight scheduled today, would i check with the airlines. Right new there is no delays on the big board but whenever we get weather like we will experience throughout the morning, midday than those thunder boomers later this afternoon. We have a plane getting ready to taxi out to the runway but no problems or delays at least for the moment. All of the spe
Today as one of several cases thats raised the question just how safe is the white house . And now were getting a first look at the changes coming to security there. News4s Megan Mcgrath joins us live now with details. Good morning, megan. Well, good morning. Dominic adesanya will be in federal court after undergoing psychiatric treatment. Treatment that was ordered by a judge. Now, this cell phone video shows adesanya punching secret service dogs after jumping the white house fence last october. He made it 20 yards past the fence before he was taken down by canines. It was one of several fence jumping igs dents that incidents that focused on White House Security and the fence itself. And now we are learning of changes that are on the way. In the coming weeks, pointy steel spikes will be bolted on top of the existing fence. There will be they will be sharp, so in theory it will make it difficult for people to jump that fence. And increasing security at the eclipse, replacing the curren