american artifacts a behind the scenes tour of castle spaces not open to the public with novelist steve barry and curator richard stamm. much of mr. barry's latest work of historical fiction the lost order takes place here richard stamm is author of the castle and illustrated history of the smithsonian building. we met our tour guides inside the crypt of the institutions founder james smithson. this is abou40

american artifacts a behind the scenes tour of castle spaces not open to the public with novelist steve barry and curator richard stamm. much of mr. barry's latest work of historical fiction the lost order takes place here richard stamm is author of the castle and illustrated history of the smithsonian building. we met our tour guides inside the crypt of the institutions founder james smithson. this is about 40 minutes. and i'm steve berry and i'm here today with rick sam rick is the curator of the smithsonian castle. he has a really cool job. he looks after all the stuff inside this building when we all like to have that it's really neat. we're in right now in a really interesting place though. it's kind of where it all started the smithsonian started by a man named james smithson who was kind of an innocuous british chemist. there was nothing magical about him whatsoever. he was just a guy had an interest in science at the time, but he died and he had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew now if his nephew and married and had some kids life would have been great. he had kept the

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steve. we'll go to barry in washington, d.c. hi, barry. >> hey there, how's it going, y'all?good morning. >> so as far as drug laws and whether they should be changed, they should be changed for the prison population, who for people who possess minor, you know, amounts of [ inaudible ]. overall, we don't want cartels [ inaudible ] as well. it's a line in the sand we have to draw, we don't want to harm the people in the united states who have worked so hard and we don't want our taxpayer funded money to go toward people who maybe just need a little bit of rehab or substance abuse prevention, if anything. so overall, it's a fine line we have to walk but i think we just need to legalize cannabis and legalize drugs that have been proven to be efficient. and for other drugs that are not efficient, we just need to ban them overall. but also decriminalize like the small possession of them. also target the [ inaudible ] for heroin and cocaine or something like that which are obviously a problem in the united states. >> all right, barry. vickie mayfield posts on her facebook page, rem

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steve jones with the center for biological diversity. thank you so much for your insight today. thanks for your time. how well barryr remember a few days ago, we had all that heat and temperatures. they've been coming down a bit over the past few days kind of in that comfortable range. even the cool kind of cool side of the temperature spectrum. no major changes for tomorrow, but things will be trending up by the weekend. take a look at our thinking here with the forecast graph, and we show you here actually to skip into a thursday and as we show you what what's developing in a thursday now too much change friday, we begin to warm things up, and it looks like as we head into the weekend, especially by sunday. that could be another hot day inland, with temperatures topping 100 degrees. here's the satellite. we had the clouds this morning. even a bit of some drizzle. i know had so much drizzle on the at the back of the back patio this morning and that we could have some drivel. drizzle once again to start out your wednesday but right now we have clear to partly cloudy sky still a pretty good onshore breeze having a b

> and steve kerr talks about being an olympic assistant coach sports director jaso >> this image is drawing both praise criticism and scrutiny around the world. this is team usa athlete when barry turning her back on the american flag while the national anthem was being played at a recent qualifying event. and while the white house and many others are applauding her using her platform for social justice. >> the international olympic committee has a strict no protesting policy police bolton has more on what that means for her in tokyo. >> it's just like on the type of it's this moment that has millions around the world talking olympic athlete when barry turned her back to the united states flag during the national anthem. then she places a black t-shirt reading activists athlete over her head. all of this happening after she earned the 3rd spot on team usa for her hammer throw. she says the move was on bland. it was funny because they said that they were going to play before we actually walked out. and then it just so happened that they played it when we were out there. >> so, you know, this i really want to talk about the anthem beceuse that's not important. the anthem not spea

steve, can i throw another story idea your way too? >> sure. >> okay. >> hang on, let me take notes. >> no, talk this out with me, barry sternlicht was with use hotels they're at 80% capacity. they only have something like the staff that they would normally have 50% capacity and my question that i didn't get to ask him because we had a million other things going on and we were asking him, what do you do under that scenario? if you only have the staff for 50% occupancy for cleaning and you have 80% ccupancy, do you leave things dirty do you pay people overtime >> no. >> how do you fix that >> we were talking about this. we were talking about this the other night with restaurants and my guess, i happen to know barry is a very smart businessman who thinks long term you do not under any circumstances degrade the service that you are providing so you only open up enough so that you can provide the level of service that you want to provide that has people coming back this is a huge problem for businesses who are watching money sort of go out the door, so to speak, because they're not able to do it. what they don't want to do is have somebody come