it's the year of the anacostia and we'realking about allf the wonderful ways the anacostia is being cleaned up so people n use, fish again and eventually swim again. and some of those things are actually happening. >> a lot of things, canoeing, kayaking. and we learn a role everyone has to play to ensure the spaces are clean forveone to enjoy and the way clean parks plan terms of wildlife habitat. so we want the entire ecosystem to be healthy. we want people to come and enjoy and the wildlife toen come and y. and we that in both recreational and funit activs and park services that the park provides. >> you're still waitsing for osprey, right? but you're seeing fish now in the river that we thought were gone? >> there's a really wide range of wildlife. no one wou really think that there's otters in thenacostia watershed. you think of that someplace else.ha and w the american eagles the have come back to watershed. we have flying squirrels in the watershed and little thing like salamanders and muscles. so there are arod 500 species found in the watershed that coexist with 800,000 people we we

in the streets of the district it's obvious that there are huge amounts of wealth just across the anacostia river in the southeastern part of the district the disparity is glaring and twenty fifteen mayor muriel bows are unveiled her plan to address income inequality and poverty with her pathway to the middle class program community activist schuyler pondexter more lives in public housing in ward eight the poorest in the district she says bowzer is program has been a fig leaf for giveaways to private developers and corporations i believe that this income gap in the salton that the way out she's doing it back just phasing us out i believe she thinks happy to pay for it just get rid of all the income taxes think about all of this and get the most of us by the law going to japan south of the city or have innocently say gentrification has devastated d.c.'s african-american population in one. seventy one african-americans accounted for seventy one percent of washington's population struggling to cope with increasing costs of living and lack of employment opportunities in twenty six to the percen

that could mean flooding for neighborhoods all along the anacostia river. thatas happening regularly about ten yearsago. >> so this is the old original station. >> reporter: then the county added on to its edmonton pumping station. it now has five pumps, pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. >> so as the waters rise, it triggers the pumps that come along when they are supposed to. someporter: we've had storms when all five pumps have been triggered. dave howard chief inspector for prince george's county department of public works says it's hpening more now than ever. >> i've been with the county over 34 years. ve hadtime here, yeah, w heavy storms, but today's storms in the last 10, 15 years seemar like the coming down harder and quicker, and that you -- you can quadruple the size of the pumping station. >> reporter: that's ana cstia. as you see it's really low at this point. not really low but not high enough toer trigg these pumping stations so that's the goodws ne i want to show you here. they have got these cameras all over the pumpingn sta

that could mean flooding for ll neighborhoods along the anacostia river. that was happeniul rly about ten years ago. >> so this is the old original station. >> reporter: then the county added on to its edmonton pumping station. it now has five pumps pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons water. >> as the waters rise it triggers the pumps to come on when it's supposed to. >> reporter:e've had some storms where all five pumps have been triggered. dave howard, chief inspector for prince george's county's department of public works says it's helping more now than ever. are you saying that our storms rew are n batig ggester issue i not just the amount of water. it's the time frame in which it falls so you're getting more bursts. >> reporter: looking like here at anacostia, this is what they we paying attention to and what triggers the pumpsn it gets too high. the water is theigh butot as high as it would need to be to igger the pumps. sometimes it gets as igh as where the brown marking is below the grass. when that happens, these pumps go into full force to m

i've seen him over in anacostia when we've a race for charity that many of our senate offices participate in, and i believe i've seen him run in those 5k races with his team. professionally judge kavanaugh known as a distinguished legal professional. but it's important to know that even amidst the hustle and bustle of a high-powered legal bustle of a high-powered legal high-power legal career he found time to do a lot of really important things while private practice for the example he was head of the practice group devoted to protecting religious liberty is. you don't earn a big fee as a lawyer by advocating in the cases involving religious religs liberties typically these are cases where you volunteerol your time and believe in the right in the citizens to have their case heard particularly when it comes to the liberties. he's advocated on behalf of those in regardless of their ability to pay whose religious liberties are at risk. he also wrote two briefings fore the court supporting the cause of religious liberty including i believe the case i mentioned earlier that i argued in the s

in the streets of the district it's obvious that there are huge amounts of wealth just across the anacostia river in the southeastern part of the district the disparity is glaring and twenty fifteen mayor muriel boughs are unveiled her plan to address income inequality and poverty with her pathway to the middle class program community activist skyla pondexter more lives in public housing in ward eight the poorest in the district she says bowzer is program has been a fig leaf for giveaways to private developers and corporations i believe that this income gap. this all that way out she's doing it back just phasing us out i believe she thinks happy to have to just get rid of all of the income folks and take a bit of all of this and get the most of us back to the law going to japan south of the city or have innocently say gentrification has devastated d.c.'s african-american population in thousand one. in seventy one african-americans accounted for seventy one percent of washington's population struggling to cope with the increasing cost of living and lack of employment opportunities twenty six

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the kid in this fountain pool and voters on the anacostia are all part of it a the capital river walk is decorated in all-star red, white and blue. washington went without a for 33 years and then the joy of baseball returned. >> and the best day of my life was april 14th, 2005 when baseball returned. i'm a native and used to go to griffith stadium with my father and older brother. d.c. stadiumnd rfktadium. i love it. >> nats park spurred development all around it fro the stadium to capitol hill and construction cranes are putting up buildings ndth offices and restaurants and retail a residential units. now the nats are hosting the mlb all-star game. some season ticket holders seem to be getting a little giddy. they look much younger in person than you do on tv. mwah. go nats. >> reporter: fans without a ticket to the all-star game may be out of luck, evehe ifare willing to pay premium prize. >> 800. >> $800 per ticket? >> yeah. >> and you're lookingor two. >> yeah. >> will washington have to win a world series like houston order to get the respect of being called a real baseball town.

i grew up in anacostia. i'm clear that me being there is an aberration. i know that, but because of the fbi record they let me through anyway, i'm like oh, must be a new day for real here in government because i was worried when everything else was going on with the other presidents because they didn't spend any time in d.c., but president clinton and mrs. clinton loved to go out to restaurants and eat and meet people and take time to shake hands and i'm like these people are different. it was so cool. d.c. had at last arrived. >> i like to call this photo timing is everything and this was taken the first week of the administration. a lot of us know president bush. he's very timely. he hated to be late. he started his meetings on time or early. so this is a good illustration of that and i felt really lucky to be in the right place at the right time to literally raise the camera as it was happening and luckily there was no one walking in the hallway looking through the door. >> that was a foreign leader call. i couldn't tell you who the leaders were. so wh

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i've seen him over in anacostia when we've a race for charity that many of our senate offices participate in, and i believe i've seen him run in those 5k races with his team. professionally judge kavanaugh known as a distinguished legal professional. but it's important to know that even amidst the hustle and bustle of a high-powered legal career, he found time to do a really lot important things. while in private practice he was head of a practice group devoted to protecting religious liberties. you know, you don't earn a big fee as a lawyer by advocating in cases involving religious liberties. typically these are cases where you volunteer your time because you believe in the right of the citizen to have their case heard by the courts. and particularly when it comes to religious liberties, judge kavanaugh's record is very crystal clear, but he has advocated on behalf of those regardless of their ability to pay whose religious liberties were at risk. he also wrote two briefs for the supreme court of the united states supporting the cause of religious liberty, including i believe the case