farragut --george george farragut is actually from mallorca. he becomes a sea captain and then won the revolution takes place he becomes a lieutenant in the south carolina navy, then a lieutenant in the continental navy. he runs aservice fairy -- runs a ferry in ten nessee. actuallyrragut would moved to new orleans, where he becomes a collector of the u.s. customs in new orleans be at inld move there in 1804 -- new orleans. he would move there in 1804. his real name is james glasgow farragut. what would happen is when george farragut is in new orleans, his will actuallyfe tend to his friend's father, who is suffering from yellow fever. his friend is david porter, the famous naval officer, whose father is head of the naval station at new orleans. what happens is david porter comes down with yellow fever. mrs. fairy get treats him -- mrs. farragut treats him. he dies, she contracts yellow fever, she dies. they have 11 children, so what is george farragut owing to do? david porter says i will take one of them. volunteers farragut and becomes the f

but likewise is farragut. i will tell you that farragut would be in command of the west coast blockading squadron. he's keeping his ships at pensacola. he decides his assignment is to capture mobile bay. now this is a huge assignment. but he feels he can only achieve this only with the help of monitors. because the rumors are out about how powerful the tennessee is. and so he waits to receive monitors. he gets two sent down the coast that are actually -- they are improved monitors, as we would call them. the tecumseh. which has two 15 inch dogruns on board. each one of those weighs 43,000 pounds. you have the tecumseh, then the manhattan, that also has two 15 inch guns. two monitors from the mississippi and they are armed with four 11 inch guns. he has his captured ships, which are the harvard class steam screw sloops. he knows that the confederate, but confederates have great defense. number one, they have this massive coastal defense fort known as fort morgan. fort morgan has 11 seven inch brook guns. those

david farragut, his real name is james glasgow farragut. what would happen is when george farragut is in new orleans, his wife will actually tend to his friend's father, who is suffering from yellow fever. his friend is david porter, the famous naval officer, whose father is head of the naval station at new orleans. what happens is david porter comes down with yellow fever. mrs. farragut treats him. he dies, she contracts yellow fever, she dies. they have 11 children, so what is george farragut gonna do? david porter says i will take one of them. young james farragut volunteers and becomes the foster son of david dixon porter senior. and william porter, later captain of the u.s. navy. farragut becomes a midshipman to in 1810. he changes his name when he is detailed as a mid-shipman to david glasgow porter in honor of david porter raising him up. the war of 1812, the you know who is going to be the great hero? it happens to be farragut. at age 12 years old, he will be given command of a captured merchant ship. he is described as being 5'6",

farragut says, "let's try it." farragut commanded the fleet of steamships and admiral porter, general benjamin franklin butler is assigned to command the army forces that would occupy the forts and occupied new orleans after it has been seized. april 24, 1862, the ship started up river. farragut does what weitzel says. weitzel comes around the backside with a fleet of long boats and canoes and ladders. they scale the wall of fort phillips, and after an hour and a half while -- battled that rages on the seaside, the soldiers scaled the backside and capture the two forts. with the two forts silenced, farragut sails his fleet up the river and anchors just off new orleans. general butler marches into the city with his troops to occupy the city. weitzel says we should separate headquarters from the customhouse. he knows that building pretty well, too. he's the only one in the mission that knows new orleans. him most of the men in new orleans had left. what's left behind is the women. they we have this occupation of fede

hot inside farragut north, hot inside dupont circle. if metro wants to cool those stations down, it's going to have to dig up more than a football field of busy connecticut avenue. the chiller system that cools metro's busy farragut north and due pop t dupont circle stations is in shambles. pipes beneath the avenue that usually carry water to cool the stations are filled with leaks. >> experienced catastrophic failures of the supply lines to the cooling tower underneath connecticut avenue. >> reporter: get this fixing the problem requires finding the pipes and replacing them and that means digging up more than the length of a football field of connecticut avenue. paul cram is head of plant maintenance for metro. >> connecticut avenue is going to have to be dug up 400 feet in each direction. >> reporter: without the chiller system, the temperature inside stations gets down right hot. today inside farragut north, we measured 90.3 degrees. inside dupont circle, 89.1. >> it's hot. sweating now. >> not only that it is 90 degrees in here and

. >>> it's a warm day outside the farragut north station and you know what, it's kind of hot inside,too. have you felt that? i'm adam tuss. i will tell you why it's so hot in there coming up. >>> and not only are we hot tomorrow, but storms threaten the forecast along with plenty of includes. so, not a great pool day, but friday on into the weekend, looking good. i'm going to have the latest timing and impacts of tomorrow's >>> it is pretty hot inside a couple metro stations. the chiller system that cools the due pop the circle and farragut north stations badly damaged that means some riders are left to sweat it out. transportation reporter adam tuss live at the far gut north station to tell us just how hot it is. how hot is it, adam? >> reporter: pretty hot. metro says it likes to keep the temperature inside stations about six to eight degrees cooler than outside. right here, right now, it is about high 80s outside, inside the station, hotter than that. inside the farragut north station, 90.3 degrees. >> if i were infirm or elderly, this would be not only uncomfortable but hazardous

david farragut is the first admiral of the navy. you probably remember him more than anything else for the expression "damn the torpedoes full speed ahead." that's not exactly what he said. but the shorter version is a little more catchy. winfield scott hancock is also a very important general. those of you that have seen the movie "gettysburg" -- he was the corps commander of the second core, which is the union core that faced picket's charge. he is a fairly significant fellow. he eventually became major-general and commanded the left-wing of the army of the potomac. he ran for president in 1880 and narrowly lost to garfield. the next fellow is george thomas, known as the rock of chickamauga. his defense saved the union army. he later became the general of the army of the cumberland. he essentially destroyed the confederate army of tennessee at nashville. military experts rate him as probably the third best general in the union army behind grant and sherman. he is not too familiar today. phil sheraton was the commander of the u.s.

the chiller system that usually cools farragut north and dupont circle stations is filled with leaks. adam tuss found temperatures in both stations hovering around 90 degrees. get this. to fix the problem, metro will have to disrupt the commutes of thousands of you. >> connecticut avenue is going to have to be dug out in each direction. >> metro hopes to have a fix in place by next spring just in time for temperatures to rise again. >>> we are working to find out if a man who was taken into custody after a carjacking and a chase is going to face charges. news 4 has exclusive video of the suspect after his arrest in northwest d.c. this started with a carjacking this morning. police chasing the suspect from american university into bethes bethesda. that's where he ditched the suv. they caught up with him back in d.c. he was in the spring valley neighborhood. >>> tomorrow morning, former president jimmy carter is going to talk publicly for the first time about his cancer diagnosis. last week, carter announced he has cancer that is now in other parts of his body. the diagnosis came after

. >>> i'm adam tuss outside the farragut north metro station. it is a warm day out here. know what, inside the metro station, things aren't much better. that's because the chiller system that cools farragut north and the du pont circle stations is busted. water was leaking from it the cooling station has been shut down for the rest of the summer. for riders, of course, that means it is going to be a bit toasty inside those stations and there's going to be a big fix that's required to get rid of that problem. coming up on news4 at 5:00, going to tell you just how big of a problem this is and why digging will be involved. >>> prostitution, child porn, underaged sex with girls. prosecutors describe how jared ♪ i am never getting married. never. psssssh. guaranteed. you picked a beautiful ring. thank you. we're never having kids. mmm-mmm. breathe. i love it here. we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life, state farm is there. >>> we want to w

the battle of mobile bay in august of 1864, and the leadership roles of union rear admiral david farragutand confederate admiral franklin buchanan. providing resulted in a union victory and closed one of the confederacy's last major ports. the victory, coupled with the fall of atlanta gave a boost to president abraham lincoln's bid for reelection just a couple of months later. the mariners museum host this 45 minute event. [applause] john: there is an unseen battlefield in every human breast where two opposing forces me to and where they seldom rest. the battle of mobile bay is actually the story of a contest between the two highest ranking naval officers in the civil war, david farragut and franklin buchanan. if you think of two opposing wills, that is what you have happening at the battle of mobile bay. first, i want to talk about who these characters are. first let's start with franklin buchanan, since he was on one of our ironclads here in hampton roads. franklin buchanan was born on september 17, 1800 in baltimore, maryland. his father was founder of the maryland medical society and

do you have any feel for the leadership style of admiral farragut, and compare and contrast with the leadership styles worn needs of but naval commander versus an army commander? >> naval commander has to be able to swim. i really can't. i am writing about the army. not to neglect the navy but that is what i know. boots on the ground kind of guy. what strikes me about the navy in the civil war, most important operations other than the blockade are wolverine operations. aground water navy to a great extent and the joint operations in the west, cooperation is joint action. full speed ahead, the united states navy to me as an army guy, it has a tradition that goes back to the continental navy which was small and had to be ferocious and so our navy traditionally has been a ferocious in harm's way navy. it was frustrating, didn't have a confederate navy to fight. actions around hampton roads, blue water brown water but the confederates rely on private years like the famous alabama the savannah. they are commerce raiders not interested in taking it out and get cornered off of cherbourg, fo

the chiller system that usually carries the farragut north station is filled with leaks. adam tuss reports it can take months to fix because it requires digging up big sections of connecticut avenue. tuss as you saw there also measured temperatures in both stations and they were hovering around a comfortable, right, not, 90 degrees. >> boy. these days, what we're doing with outside, the humidity and the heat, now we have some storms coming into the mix maybe a little bit too. >> yeah. >> live look outside for you. lots of clouds. that is a sign of things to come. >> that's right. >> let's check in with on your on -- on your weather and traffic on the 1s. >> good morning. a lot of low clouds around the metro area, including this view from prince george's county overlooking national harbor. there's the capital wheel a great wheel reflected in the potomac. but good weather for the driving, just damp roads. and then the early afternoon into the evening hours that's when there's a caution, many roads will be wet from the downpours coming through. some roads are damp, and we'll

the chiller system that cools the farragut north system is filled with leaks. adam tuss found temperatures were hovering around 90 degrees and a fix is months away and that could affect the commuters. >> connecticut avenue will have to be dug up 400 feet in each direction. we have experienced catastrophic failures to the cooling tower underneath connecticut avenue. >> metro hopes to have the chillers fixed by spring. >>> the army is facing a wrongful death suit over claims that toxins from ft. detrick have caused cancer. for years they have faced criticism for the handling of chemical and biological agents. well, the lawsuit said groundwater contamination along with anthrax and agent orange led to neighbors getting sick. a woman who died from brain cancer her family is leading the suit. >>> in "news4 your health" at 5:49 it seems all work and no play may make you sick. researchers in the u.k. says working 55 or more hours may increase your chances of having a stroke or a heart attack. the research time followed more than half a million people over the nine-year

do you have any feel for the leadership style of admiral farragut and can you compare and contrast withhe leadership styles or the needs of a naval commander versus an army commander? >> enable commander has to be able to swim. [laughter] a naval commander has to be able to swim. i write about the army and is not to neglect the navy but that's the one i know. i'm a boots on the ground kind of guy but what strikes me about the navy in the civil war is most important operations other than the blockade are referring operations. its brown water navy to an extent in the joint operations in the west a reporter corporation is a model for joint action. it's really impressive. fair debt is a great naval tradition full speed ahead. the united states navy to me as an army guy has a tradition that goes back to the continental navy which was small and had to be ferocious. .. for the plan to sarah and but that is what won the war. the navy was good at delivering supplies. that doesn't sound very romantic, but they did. the naval cooperation he he's no interservice rivalry and with the james river fle

the battle of mobile bay in august of 1864, and the leadership roles of union rear admiral david farragut and confederate admiral franklin buchanan. the resulted -- though battle andlted in union victory closed one of the last major ports. the victory, coupled with the fall of atlanta gave a boost to president abraham lincoln's bid for reelection just a couple of months later. the museum of mariners hosted this 45 minute event. [applause] john: there is an unseen battlefield in every human breast where two opposing forces meet and where they seldom rest. the battle of mobile bay is actually the story of a contest between the two highest ranking naval officers in the civil war, david glasgow farragut and franklin buchanan. if you think of two opposing wills, that is what you have happening at the battle of mobile bay. so first, i want to talk about who these characters are.