All times ready for war. It was in line with this principle that washington advocated as mrs. Patton has said, a system for universal military training for our country. It is for the same reason that we advocate it noy and we believe that the article argument for it is stronger now than ever before because of the character of modern warfare and that universal military training will remain a necessary component of any adequate military security until such time as the nations have established an Adequate Police force with adequate powers and without weakening limitations. February is black History Month and the cspan bus is on the road visiting the top historically black colleges and universities to speak with their faculty and discuss Public Policy issues and highlight their role in American History. This tuesday well be at Fisk University in nashville, followed by Morehouse College and Spelman College in atlanta. This month well be focusing on the life and legacy of George Washington t
The school board and him have reached a settlement. Its been a tough couple months for him. Megan mcgrath is live from the School Headquarters went down. Reporter good morning, barbara. Sources with Montgomery County School System who are familiar with the negotiations tell chris gordon that joshua starr and the board of education have reached an amicable agreement to part ways. Starr and the board chair will be holding a press conference at noon a expected to learn the details of that agreement. They are also expected to take questions from the press. Dr. Starr was hired in 2011 and a source says hes found it difficult to do his job since media reports surfaced about divided support for him on the cool board. Talks of an ongoing for the last several days. A source tells chris gordon that dr. Starr will not work through the end of his contract which is june 30th. The board did appear briefly in a Public Session this it morning. Thats the video that you see here. They then adjourned to
Winter weather advisories meaningless sorry amounts of snow wins you move into sections of delaware and points west of philadelphia. Temperatures with this storm its not going to be an issue. Were looking at numbers at or below freezing already pretty much across the board. But watch the clock and watch what happens as we move toward the overnight time frame after midnight while most of you are sleeping, thats when this system really starts to get going. It will be a sharp contrast between the heavy snow north and east of us and lesser amounts where you see that light shade of color to the west of philadelphia. So the bulls eye the jackpot is definitely going to be north and east of our area. But with that said well watch the clock, watch the temperatures and watch the timing of this system. Once again by 10 00 oclock, we start to see some of that heavy snow pinwheeling back toward the philadelphia area. But the darker bands are likely going to set up as we move east of philadelphia in
I think your project with the National Park service is great and really exciting. If theres any way, gas prices are down, i do a little bit of work involving disciplinary with students, you can even get interns to talk about your process of working with the people and places. We do have a lot of interns of the portrait gallery. One of the big misconceptions is that we are fully funded by the federal government. It was very interesting, when i got the job, to find out we were being sequestered and getting a 14 cut. The truth is, it is wonderful. You have this amazing building. The maintenance of this building and a large number of the sellers are covered by government support. But every exhibition, every program we do, every work of art that we conserve, we raise the money for that. So we do rely on our volunteers. We also take very seriously i do mentoring young people. Teenagers are very deliberate. Not just because i have two of my own. But i want my boys thinking about what kind of
You how hes being portrayed. The question that arises is how did he violate air space in lets go to news4s pat collins with that part of the story. Reporter chris we spend bundles an bundles of money protecting the security of our city. And its hard to believe that Something Like this could happen, that a man on a flying bicycle could buzz into our town and land, undetected on the capitol lawn. How much do you think we spent on Homeland Security a year . 100 billion . 50 billion. 20 million. Im probably lowballing. Reporter we have a lot invested in protecting the air space over the nations capitol. Missile sites strategically located around the city. Fighter planes at the ready, poised to intercept airborne intruders, special orange helicopters that circle the city with warning Message Boards to tell stray aircraft to turn back. Yet, with all of this, yesterday 61yearold man on what he described as a flying bicycle penetrates the restricted air space of our city and lands smackdab on