Museum in london. The lost world of James Smithson was her first book and she resides in new york. Please welcome heather ewing. [applause] heather thanks for having me. Can you all hear me . Wonderful. It is really a pleasure to be here. I very much look forward to speaking and meeting with you all afterwards. I just wanted to let you know i will be bowing to you and not shaking hands per our current instructions. I encourage you all to do the same. Anyway, i wanted to thank you all very much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here to talk about this topic that i care about so much. And so, here we go. You all know the smithsonian well as the keeper of many of the most iconic objects of american culture. And, i thought i would run through a bunch of them. Dorothys ruby slippers, of course. Charles lindberghs spirit of st. Louis. Abraham lincolns top hat. Since we are here in baltimore, this is the starspangled banner. Soon after it came to the smithsonian where it was conserved for
Problem clarks burk southbound 270 after 121 clarksburg road crash on the right shoulder. We do have that crash but not t. Eing much of a delay eastbound 66 Fairfax County parkway, disabled vehicle has cleared out of the way. Everything is nice and open. Inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, dont have any complaints on the beltway. No road work either. Those eastbound lanes clo d another water main break in arlington, northeney betwe north quinn and north oak street. Eun . Thank you. Ne its 5 01, a controversial arrest has turd into charges for a montunmery coty Police Officer. The announcement was made on tuesday. Now people in the county want more accountability from police. News 4 justin finch is li at Police Headquarters in gaithersburg now with more on this story. Justin, good morning. Reporter aaron, eun, good r mong. Those charges came down yesterday, Second Degree assault and misconduct in office for officers kevin morris. He he is t officer seen in that video that first appea
Displaced people and a prisoner swap. Theres been no successful agreement on a ceasefire in gaza since a week long pause in november. Well, students at november. Well, students at oxford and cambridge have set up gaza protest camps on their university campuses. Created in university campuses. Created in the early hours of this morning, the early hours of this morning, the protesters are urging their universities to cut financial ties with israel over the countrys offensive in gaza. Similar camps have also been set up at manchester, sheffield, newcastle and london universities. Oxford issued a statement saying we respect our students and Staff Members right to freedom of expression in the form of peaceful protests. Rishi sunak says hes determined to fight and the general election is not a foregone conclusion. The Prime Minister is calling for unity among tory mps, after saying that he believes britain could be heading for a hung parliament. The conservatives lost hundreds of Council Sea
Youd expect. A state of the youd expect. A state of the nafion youd expect. A state of the nation starts now. And theyll also be joined by an exuberant panel this evening. The industrial action studies degree Holding Former labour mp Stephen Pound and the conservative peer and former adviser to Boris Johnson, lord moylan, now remember , i want to moylan, now remember, i want to hear from you. And the email remains the same despite the person being different. Mailmogg gbnews. Com. But first, its mailmogg gbnews. Com. But first, wsfime mailmogg gbnews. Com. But first, its time for your latest news headunes its time for your latest News Headlines and its ray addison. Thanks very much, martin. Our top stories this evening. Israel has rejected a ceasefire deal which hamas claims to have agreed with egyptian mediators, but says theyre exhausting every possibility regarding negotiations. An israeli official described the proposed deal as softened and said it was a ruse intended to make isra
Newsroom. The number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has hit a record high of 7. 68 million. Its the highest number since records began in august two thousand and seven. Earlier, the government announced the nhs will receive. £200 million to will receive. £200 million to help the service in the coming winter. Labour says the monies are sticking plaster, but the Prime Minister says the government is trying to improve waiting times. Waiting times. Well winter is always a challenging time for the nhs and this year we started planning for winter earlier than ever before. Today were announcing before. Today were announcing £200 million, which will go to the nhs to help build extra capacity and resilience for this winter season, making sure that patients can care that patients can get the care that they need. Earlier this year, we also announced the long term workforce plan , making sure that workforce plan, making sure that for the first time we train more doctors a