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To bury him which was ridiculous so the general did intervene and we it have him buried at the cemetery on saturday. in fact, they closed the bridge that day. no traffic was allowed except us on that bridge so it was fourth of july weekend. >> in honor of your son. janet, why your fight? you think the cemetery would say yeah, we should allow these flags. why four years? >> you would have to ask jareds father that. he was the one who really pushed this issue and hes been doing the fighting for th...

Ceremony and expected to nominate another general as the next army chief of staff and admiral james winfield as the new joint chiefs vice chairman. we will have admiral mike mullen, the current chairman of the joint chiefs of staff coming up on this show. ainsley? >> well, for 30 years, american flags couldnt be placed at the headstones of fallen soldiers at massachusetts national cemetery in bourne but after a four year battle, the ban has now been lifted thanks to the family of medal of honor ...

Killed in afghanistan made it happen. amalia bereda of wcvb has his story. >> i just want to hug him one more time. >> reporter: instead, paul monte can only caress the gravestone of his son, medal of honor recipient jared monte, who died in afghanistan in 2006. what makes the visit different, that monte and the 56,000 other graves at the massachusetts memorial cemetery, each as an american flag in memory of memorial day. paul monte made that possible he called for volunteers to help him and the...

honor the dead at a veterans cemetery in massachusetts. every one of the 50,000 graves now has a flag. the father of a war veteran killed in afghanistan made it happen. >> i just want to hug him one more time. >> reporter: instead, paul monte can only caress the gravestone of his son, jared monte who died in afghanistan in 2006. what makes the visit difference, that monte and the other graves each has an american flag in memory. paul monte made that possible he called for volunteers to...

>> its memorial day and youre listening to the u.s. navy band. we will be on the plaza throughout the show grilling and serving up a special meal for our troops. >> getting the tables ready. can you handle more this morning, dave? >> clayton, no, i cannot. im maxed out. >> yesterday we had the hot dog man here and we were serving hot dogs to the troops. we ran out because they all wanted one. >> well have much more of that today. ill get dave to eat more of that. you saw yesterday gove...

decimated medical center. see how the doctors and staff have set up a new temporary hospital. believe it or not they did their first surgery yesterday under a tent. if you can believe it. >> yeah, also this half-hour, sarah palins thunderous visit to washington, d.c. you should see these pictures. its the first stop of her bus tour of the northeast. its making political insiders wonder what is she doing and why? hmm. >> yes, very much hmm moment there. later cloning extinct animal the ...

high pressure is going to be building in. our clouds will give way to sunshine late today and more sunshine over the weekend. temperatures up north are in the 50s in pittsburgh and buffalo. we stayed at 64 here in washington. lots of 60s down south. as far as were concerned, we are looking at cloudy skies, a little drizzle in spots. high temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. code green air quality, thats good. it is 6:00 on this friday. we have good traffic news, with that, here we go....

wusa9.com. from the first local station with news in high definition, this is 9news now. the government is making plans to defend the h1n1 flu vaccine. good morning. im angie goff in this friday for andrea roane. first, we kick off with howard bernstein who says we are in for a nice weekend. >> we just have to get past this morning and by this afternoon, a little sunshine. the weekend, weevil see a lot more sunshine and very pleasant temperatures for this time of year. lets start t...

we clouded up and cooled down out there, bob. >> switch off the ac. nature brought in the ac. that northeasterly wind outside right now. a low in the sky. we had sprinkles, a bit of drizzle. not much in the rain gauge. our average high 79 degrees. remember i mentioned that in a quiz yesterday? here we are 65. this is really if we were now into the latter part of october. eight of the last 11 days, cooler than average. our temperature now outside has dropped to 64. look at up in caribo...

reaching out to republicans today, the wte house announced grants for states to boost patient safety and reduce doctors malpractice insurance. >> getting to a point where if an error occurs, there is just and rapid compensation and we move forward. >> reporter: appealing to democrats, president obama took his case for public health inrance to the university of maryland today. >> weve got public universities. and private universities. nobody says that we are taking over private colleges...