A 24yearold former teenage model is recovering from her 16th surgery after repairing her face after a devastating car crash. That crash happened more than three years ago after a single moment of distraction. This morning shes sharing an Important Message about driver safety. Wabctvs amy freese has her story. This everything it happened in three seconds. And i was distracted, for whatever reason. Reporter at 21 years old, nicole slammed into the back of a tractortrailer, completely mangled, car totaled, she was unrecognizable. She was treated for life threatening injuries. You can see the First Responders surrounding her car. Reporter her face was crushed. Distracted driving robbed the prom queen turned model of her physical identity. When i found out that i broke every bone in my face, i was a model. Like that was extremely, extremely difficult. Reporter facing hopelessness, nicole and her family found dr. James bradley. Her nose was collapsed completely centrally and her jaw was misa
Her graduate training at uva and as i mentioned, she is at kentucky. She only goes to schools where there are basketball powerhouses, there used to Winning National champions. Being from indiana i have got a faint memory, i know amy won this year at uva because you know a guy from indianapolis. So lets not forget that. Amy has just published, her book is right here, the book is entitled embattled freedom, journeys through civil war slavery vg camps. It is part of the america series. Its a pretty good year i would say. Its going to take a while for me to tell you all the awards the book is receiving, the 2019 Tom Watson Brown prize from the society of civil war historians, the 2019 award from the organization of american historians, the John Millbrook prize, youve cleaned up amy, congratulations this is well deserved as you all will discover this, as i said is a very important book and finally, i should add shes not only a traffic scholar shes also an excellent teacher as i recall, she
Weather alert. Strong store likely this afternoon and evening. Right now, were dealing with a lot of heat and humidity, were used to that around here, arent we . Our meteorologist joins us with a look at wh theorms are expected to arrive. You can see the disturbances all around us, theyre starting to spark up as we head toward the afternoon. The daytime peak heating. Timing on that after 0 20 p. M. Ill dig into that a little deeper in the newscast. Were dry in the district pretty quiet. Highs today going into the 90re we already in the low 80s. Hot, humid, breezy. The storms we see this afternoon will be strong to severe. So its fair gme for any neighborhood in our region relly to see some of these storms popping up. 15ds out of the southwest to 20 miles an hour. The question become when are we going to dry things out, see some improvements here. Ill let youknow about that in a moment. Wego to a developing story in southern prince georges county. A man dead in what appears to be a trag
Take a look at this pool behind me. Its full of dirty, brown water. Now, the water has actually gone down since this morning, but, still, no one is going to be swimming in that any time soon. Weave seen several members of the swim team here taking a look at the place where they normally practice. S a discouraging sight to say the least and weve been seeing floodingan situations damage like this throughout montgomery county. I think thats just water rushing through. Rter whatever plans these neighbors have for the day. Well, those plans will have to t nt even walk on the sidewalk. Off of mcarthur boulevard, belfast road, not a road anymore. All the rain washed it away and unfortunately its the only road into this neighborhooo i feely for thee guy on the other side. Reporter cindy has lived around here for 20 years and says shes never seen anything like this. Imhe worried about poor people that live in this neighborhood. I have a feeling they will be parking by us to get to their neighbo
Project manager for the rehabilitation of arlington house and worked at the battlefield, George Washington Memorial Parkway and he will be as you just heard the topic is unprecedented discovery of i am looking forward to sharing this unprecedented story with everyone here. I have the great privilege and humble village of be the superintendent of 5000 acres of some of the most hallowed ground. Field to give the obligatory 30 seconds of why it is an important place. We preserve the scenes of two significant civil war battles. The first largescale battle of the civil war in july 1861 followed by 13 months later the second battle of manassas which was much larger and between these two about 4000 men died and tens of thousands were wounded. Those are some powerful statistics. Today we will diving a little bit more beyond the statistics and look at what happened to some of these poor unfortunate soldiers who were killed or maimed as well as the stories of those who tried to save them. I come