Presidency,he thomas talks about the architectural trends that influenced the design of George Washingtons mount vernon estate. He is director of architecture at washingtons Virginia Home and has overseen the restoration of several prominent rooms, including the recently updated blue room. This program is part of a mount vernon symposium focusing on the places where washington lived and visited. It is 50 minutes. It is my pleasure to introduce my colleague, Thomas Reinhardt who joined Mount Vernons staff in 2013. In that capacity, he provides dynamic leadership for the ongoing preservation of the estates 36 originally constructed buildings. Since his arrival, i have had the privilege of working with tom to develop a partnership between preservation and curatorial staff. We have completed several mansion room products including andblue room in 2014 currently underway, the front parlor hopefully to open up next year. He has also led critically important projects, stabilized the and the 1
And when will it arrive . Lets get to tom with the answer and the weather headlines. Good morning. Right now, dont have any storms locally. Theyre far away for now. Theres a few breaks in the cloud cover. Live view from the tower cam showing a mostly cloudy sky. A muggy morning. The weather headlines in this wednesday might get a few isolated passing showers or thundershowers this afternoon. Our Storm Chances, though, are much higher for thursday especially tomorrow, Late Afternoon and tomorrow evening. Right now storm team 4 radar all clear. Dont have any showers around now. Just the clouds coming on through. It is a muggy morning. Were in the low to mid 70s most of the metro area. Upper 70s right around the bay. Next weather traffic on the 1s, drivetime forecast for this wednesday. Back to you. Thank you. 6 01. A man waking up in Police Custody after a s. W. A. T. Team was called to a home in Montgomery County. A woman left a house on valley bend drive in germantown and headed to a n
Buses running on schedule as well. The inner loop of the beltway this is it van dorn street and springfield interchange where we have an accident thats blocking the left lane. Sky 9 will be making its way there shortly. We should be able to give you a live update in about ten minutes. Meantime if youre going to be traveling along 50, the bw parkway or 95, youre good to go, i will traveling along 50 from crofton, bowie, mitchellville. Youll have no major issues this morning. Coming up in ten minutes, well look at how things are shaping up on metro and take you out to other parts of virginia and show you how the commute is shaping up in that area as well. Well send it over you to. Reporter right now d. C. Police are working overtime trying to get a handle on all this violence thats happening acots city from across the city from shaw to southeast washington where two people were killed just yesterday. Lets take a look at some video of one scene right outside of a churn on east capitol str
100 Years Ago: Nearly 400 prize chickens were burned to death when fire destroyed the large chicken house in the rear of C. Rubie Landis, E. Eighth street, early Tuesday