Lots of clouds and there will be some showers around so not perfect at 8 oclock, 75, by 10 oclock, 71 degrees but there is some heavy rain that will be moving in after the fireworks are over and this heavy rain moving in after midnight so the National Weather service has posted a Flash Flood Watch for entire viewing area from midnight until 10 oclock tomorrow morning. Some of the rain could be heavy enough to cause some localized flooding. This is what to expect. An overnight soaker and then middle of the week through the weekend were looking at a heat wave and this could be a tough one with a heat index near 100. Ill talk about the specifics in the full accuweather forecast. Walter. Does it always rain or july 4th . Seems like it happens all the time. Thank you cecily. This Holiday Weekend is certainly a big one for people to hit the jersey shore. Action cam on the scene in Sea Isle City this morning where some budding athletes. Kids ages three through 13 competed in a string of event
Cokie this is a neighbor of mine, as well. We live very close to each other. I live in the house that i grew up in. The shes newer to the neighborhood. I probably moved there before she was born. But what a fabulous contribution she made to this community. Really. [applause] cokie really wonderful. In addition to taking on this now Legendary Store a legend in washington, doing the National Book fair was really a challenge and one that was well met. Didnt you guys go . My grandsons are here. You have to pay attention. You have to sit up and pay attention. [laughter] cokie but really they did a fabulous job. My College Roommate is here. You see its all the old and another college classmate. Its the old gang. And robert stevens, my roommate when i was in college, helped me type my papers late at night. And she couldnt help me finish this book and it was really upsetting to me. Because i was very late in getting it in. But it was great fun to do. I appreciate your words. I started on this
Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. A special couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and museum was known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to collect specimens of human anatomy. To send them to washington for care and preservation. Staff doing the business of Lessons Learned theyre trying to understand the nature of battlefield surgery and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in nearly days museum is housed at the Surgeon Generals office and actually the first few Museum Artifacts were on the shelf behind the Surgeon Generals desk. That is the Riggs Building your the white house. It wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before movi
Disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome to the National Museum of house and medicine. I am tim clarke, im the museums deputy director. Were here to spend a little museums civil war medicine exhibit and a special show of other things to you. The National Museum of health founded in 1852 and we were known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to of morbid cimens anatomy and to send them to washington for care and to ervation and study improve the care of the soldier. So at the time of the civil war, the museums staff were doing learned. Ness of lessons they were trying to understand the nature of battlefield, surgery, medicine and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues and counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection in ted during the war and the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. Actually, the first Museum Artifacts were actually on a surgeon ind the generals desk, and then in a building that we know today as build
Fact is that i write these history books often, many of the characters in the history book are political wives. There is a political wife who starred this book festival, it was laura bush who went to the fabulous library of congress and said i did it taxes a book festival, can we do one in washington. It shows you what a fabulous legacy political lie wives have left here in washington. That makes it more delightful for me to be able to participate in it. Also, we should just say the volunteers of this festival are the heroes. [applause]. By and large the heroes because there is no way this could go on without these wonderful hundreds of volunteers. Thank you all very much for what you do. I have written history books about women in history and i never was going to write about the civil war. First of all all of my ancestors fought on the losing side. So i didnt really have any interest in its. Secondly, its an awful war. It is a horrible, horrible time in our history, we lost more than