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Which is a glacial erratic that was moved to the top of the hill from the lakeshore just a short distance below us, and coming up on the wing tip of a bird effigy mound built here around 1000 years ago. Are difficult to photograph. They are quite shy. Every time they see a camera, they sink down into the earth and hide themselves. They are not very spectacular earthworks, but they are special. The body comes down the hill towards the lakeshore, and then the other thing is just out of sight on th...

Intelligence committee, mike rogers, who says we need much stronger fire walls against this growing threat. Then, the u. S. And cuba end a cold war that lasted half a century. Suddenly, cuba is open to the world in ways that it has not been before. This president has to be the worst negotiator weve ever had, and he has betrayed, betrayed those cubans that have work sod hard and have sacrificed so much. Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will debate the president s opening to c...

Here at nbc 4 in northwest washington and the farther west and north you go from downtown washington, the more snow youre going to see. Temperature down to 32 at Dulles Airport, 34 at gaithersburg and leesburg. 42 down in Southern Maryland. Heres storm team 4 radar. Theres the quick switch from rain to snow now, moving right inside the capital beltway and on to the i95 corridor. So well be watching this very, very carefully. The rain snow line just now into northwest washington. It will work its...

A cold war that lasted half a century. Suddenly, cuba is open to the world in ways that it has not been before. This president has to be the worst negotiator weve ever had, and he has betrayed, betrayed those cubans that have work sod hard and have sacrificed so much. Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will debate the president s opening to cuba. Republican ron johnson and democrat ben cardin. Plus, jeb bush moves one giant step closer to running for president. How does his ea...

National cemetery. And it is here not because u. S. Military or anyone in government said, oh, lets put the soldiers here along with white soldiers. Rather, it is because the africanamericans in a hospital built for blacks here and alexandria wrote a petition requesting that they be buried with other white soldiers. And this occurs because they had been buried for the last six months with the civilians, or contrabands. In a cemetery that the federal government began at about the same time that t...

Pennsylvania studying with the now president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying, isnt this unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [laughter] elizabeth embarked on a career as a historian for the National Parks service, workin...

Is the second closure unless the amount that is to get the work done and it was the work they did over the weekend that it to you gentlemen is on the bridge and also some resurfacing these are the weekend that would normally use the bridge again over this Holiday Weekend as we were talking about the got the work done that everything done on time reopened and called the problems over the weekend but obviously the hope was that it is open for the evening commute all the people coming back for memo...

The team from houston. Eastbound lanes are other at 3 45. They needed to do this week over the weekend and they decided they would carefully check the calendar and picked out these dates thinking it would have the least effect on people that would normally use the bridge. What did they do . General maintenance to the bridge but at the same time they used the large pieces of the surface to work on the bridge. It caused traffic issues on may 8th, 9th and 10th but especially at the bay bridge. A lo...

Everybody was. We were crying. We knew he was gone but kept performing c. P. R. We said a bunch of prayers. Left it in gods hand he started coughing up water. Kevin a remarkable account by all three of the individuals. The young 7yearold boy were told may be transferred to a Second Hospital for observation but he is stable and expected to survive. We are being told the boy is an avid swimmer and has been in the water many times before. Everyone just happy he is going to make it through. We will ...

Day singalong for the 200th anniversary of of our starspangled banner. [applause] thats right. 200 years ago this year, Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem to defense of forth mchenry and set it to a british tune and together, they formed our national anthem, the star spangled banner. Here, we explore americas history through collections, research, and public outreach. We help people understand the past, to and to shape a more humane future. And we are hoping our program will be able to ...