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delays are starting now out from fredericks, maryland, you are sluggish. you re seeing heavy delays as you make your way towards 109. 109 the road opens up clear commute for folks as they continue. now we ll head over to the beltway. i have a trip around the beltway in prips gorges county. 6:02 is your time. the government shutdown has made for a quiet week on the national mall, but spaces that have been closed to visitors are about to be packed with supporters of dueling immigration rallies. melissa mollet is live on capitol hill and what congress has planned for the day. melissa? reporter: good morning. that s right. two different groups holding two different rallies here on the national mall today. it has been completely shut down for the last week and a half or so but now will reopen just for these two rallies. the first pro immigration rally at noon. tens of thousands of people expected including house minority leader nancy pelosi. the other, that counter prote ....
#printersrowfest. it is my pleasure to announce the moderator. i cannot think of a more appropriate discussion in 2014 and an election year too a conversation with you and the authors of the book fixing illinois: politics and policy in the prairie state there is a book coming out i believe on tuesday by hilary clinton called hard choices and that might have been a more appropriate title. on my far right is j. thomas johnson. tom was appointed president of the tax federation of illinois in 2006 and became president in january of last year. he was on the illinois revenue board and was the chairman of the gaming board as well. tom johnson. [ applause ] to my direct right is james nowlan. jim was a senior aid to three governors. he is president of stark county communication and they publish community newspapers in central illinois. he is vice chair of the illinois ethics commission that oversees the ethics and ethics training of 120,000 state of illinois employee ....
apparently attacked inside her home. darcy spencer is live in capitol heights tonight where police were canvassing the neighborhood this afternoon. reporter: i was able to talk to several maybes here in this community today. they all tell me that the victim was a nice woman. she was a kind woman. she lived right here in this house. she had trouble walking so she used a ramp here, and all these neighbors are struggling to understand how and why someone could kill her. we all look out for each other here in this neighborhood. i have been here ten years, and i have never heard anything like this happening before. reporter: this woman brought to tears as she talked about the death of her neighbor, geraldine joyce mcintyre. the disabled woman lived for 71 years. that life came to a tragic end saturday. that s when police found her hurt in her capitol heights home. she died at a hospital later that day. scary to not be comfortable where you live. and to know that it c ....
died at his home today of natural causes. ben bradlee s family announced last month he was in hospice care suffer from alzheim alzheimer s disease. he sky rocketed to fame in the early 70s when he allowed the washington post to look deep into the burglary at the washington hotel. they eventually brought down the nixon presidency and established the washington post as one of the top newspapers. his watergate fame was sealed in the movie. benjamin, crown and shield bradlee born in boston, graduate of harvard. worked in paris and then joined news week and eventually the washington post where he was executive editor for more than 25 years. he was a prominent figure in the kennedy administration days and was a close friend of both john and jackie kennedy. he married a young report in 1998, quinn, 20 years his junior. since he wrote a memoir and received presidential honor of freedom from mpresident obama last year. he was 93. quite a life he had. you worked at the post ....
on her but there are already great expectations for a baby that will one day lead 16 countries. ever since the wedding, the clock has been ticking. duchess of cambridge became the world s most watched expectant mother. the press focused less on her pace and more on her bump. as it grew kate was elegant, graceful, even smashing. now she is about to give birth to a royal princess or prince who will make history. for the first time kate and william s child, whether boy or girl, will become the future monarch. changed by the grandma. she was keen to see the monar monarchy moved with the times. this child, whether boy or girl, it wouldn t matter. a girl will be queen. kate and william are considered the most modern couple. kate is having a malbirth. they have chosen not to know the baby s sex. kate is giving birth in st. mary s. the same hospital where 31 years ago the mother-in-law she never met introduced the world to william. nation cheered the official announcement, ....