it is all in anacostia park, and if that is not enough, yes, anacostia park has cherry trees and cherrylossoms. anacostia park is a great example of how important green spaces are to an urban environment, and we the national , park service, committed to working with the states of maryland and the district of columbia and other federal agencies in a huge effort to clean up the anacostia river and to really make the anacostia transform into a wonderful, incredible urban space. it's already a great space, but we're committed to working in the future with all these entities to make it better. anacostia park is a great example of how important green space is an urban environment. it's hemmed in by development. the open spaces of the park are a pressure release valve that gives people room to move around. it's also an important natural refuge with wetlands that mitigate flooding and are vital natural refuges that protect animal and plant life. i believe the parks are truly essential. john muir said in 1912, "everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature m

and what happened was the battle of anacostia flats as they called it. he used several hundred infantry in cavalry. george patton commanded the capital unit. dwight. eisenhower was one of macarthur's aids at this point. they use some light tanks to drive the bonus expeditionary force down, pennsylvania avenue. hoover and hurley ordered macarthur not to pursue the marchers over the 11th street bridge to the anacostia flats. but might macarthur ignored the orders. according to dwight eisenhower, who was his aid at the time quote. he said he was too busy and did not want either himself or his staff bothered by people coming down and pretending to give orders in quote. the army units drove the families across the bridge and from the camp, which burned to the ground. macarthur went public held a press conference in the wake of this. it was a big uproar over what the army had done. he claimed that no one was seriously injured, which was not so he said that only about 10% of the bonus marchers were veterans not so 94% were bonafide veterans of the great war. an

having spent 35 years in washington, can confirm, nobody in washington knows anything about anacostianoring people if you don't know anything about them, and you are not honoring our country if you let the actual environment degrade completely, which they are doing in favor of silly little chats about what you're pronouns are. who cares what your pronouns are? shh. save the land. that is the last thing they are doing. well, illegal immigration takes a massive toll on our environment and is out of control. to give just one example, this march, authorities in arizona encountered more than five times that they encounter the year before. environmental do not want to talk about it because it is not about climate, but if you care about nature and the actual physical environment, and this is a disaster. unregulated waves of people coming in destroy the land and contribute to massive amounts of pollution. again, no one ever says this because no one in charge of our environmental movement cares anything about the environment, like, nothing, and they know nothing about it, either. for one perso

you see the anacostia river. there's a lot of trash that's coming out when those overflows happen there's a lot of trash in the river as well and then we also have some neighborhoods in the district where the sewer system was historically undersized and it was put in place the bloomlingdale's mall, the shopping districts, the middle part of the city, the oldest parts of the city and when that sewer system was put in place, it was really undersized from day one. at that point in time, you know, the upstream portions of that sewer shed were really farms, fields, forests, and over time as the city was developed, the flooding issues and the undersized, you know, problem really became more and more of an issue. so, you know, the residents in these neighborhoods have been experiencing these surface floodings, these backups both into their homes and into the streets, you know, going on 100 plus years at this point. and so, the project will address not just the overflows into the river, but also these overflows and backu

and i recognize that i live and work within the ancestral lands of the anacostians, and the anacostiaknowledge the knowledge of these peoples, and i am grateful for their ancestral stewardship of this land. my pronouns are she/her. >> my phonons are so she/her, and i recognize i live and learn on the ancestral lands of the cheyenne people. >> my pronouns are she/her. and i am the director of the bureau of ocean energy management. i recognize that i live and work within the ancestral lands. and mohican people. >> tucker: that is a lot of she and hers, so much for diversity in the government. what is amazing -- i'm sure they are all nice people and probably have real skills, but here they are, before they do anything, apologizing to the ancient p tribes whose lands they are now overseeing. and what is so interesting is if you got to ask follow-up questions, and no one is ever allowed to do that, by the way, you would ask, what do you know about anacostians, who apparently were in charge of washington? having spent 35 years in washington, can confirm, nobody in washington knows anything

he you can still see in his in the national park home in anacostia the frederick douglass home. he went on to become one of the grand old men of the republic. he deserves a wonderful lecture of his own. mary became drifted from one sad stage of her life to another she a times. he became very involved with but was known as spiritualism. she came to believe that she could contact her beloved lost who were waiting for her in heaven and they were photographers such as this one who were willing to take advantage of that. that deep belief and hope and produced for her this image, which she believed was real that he had captured the image of her ghostly husband. tenderly behind her. i'd like to know what she paid him for this. and there's robert about the time he had his mother institutionalized. that's the last image of mary. and here we see some of the the i mentioned that african americans kept alive the emancipationist legacy of abraham lincoln and what one of the ways they did so was in honoring the emancipation day itself. which became largely a black observation rather ignored b

it is this kind of journey what i find in this moment is one of the parts of the smithsonian the anacostia neighborhood community museum went around and began to do oral histories interviewing people about what does this mean to them? what what and so what's been wonderful is hearing people say here's how what here's what we've lost. here's where i'm sad. but here's where i see. this is pointing us to better understanding why i need to vote or to better understanding that this is a moment of reckoning for the nation. and how do we participate in that kind of moment some participated by voting some participated by protesting some participated by sharing your artistic creativity to make sure these moments aren't lost we've had amazing young poets who have taken us in new directions. so for me, this is a moment of real loss real pain, but it's a moment that is transformative. if we seize the moment and that's always the question for me. yeah. what about for our democracy? i mean this idea that the more we look back the more questions. we may ask the more things. we may find are not necessaril

alexandria anacostia cortez is now saying that climate change -- that is not a lot to do with climate the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change. the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change because we are allowing people and we are allowing ourselves to deny ourselves human rights and it deny people right to health care in the right housing and education. >> sandra: is climate change the result of racial injustice? >> i am not exactly following that logic. what i am worried about denying people is a right to earn a living. joe biden has announced that he wants to call all of our carbon emissions in half in just nine years by 2030. you can sense how radical it is. that would be the equivalent of taking every car in america off the road, shutting down every power plant -- but kill millions of jobs in the oil and gas sector. in a time when the united states leads the world in carbon emissions. even though we left the parents climate accord, we still continue to lead the world in carbon emission reductions. hill leads the world in growth? it is china.

reporter: for this area on the anacostia river where the potomac comes, the owner is very happy withool deck up here, stu. stuart: a few office buildings in midtown manhattan could use renovation. they're empty. ed, we'll take you later. >>> look at this, according to redfin, that is a real estate company, 59% of homes on the market, went under contract, sold within about two weeks. better yet, 42% sold higher than asking price. that is an extraordinary situation. mitch roschelle is our real estate guy. when does this calm down, cool down, if ever? >> i think it is geographic. so you have two things happening at the same time. we talked about this before. you have the folks who were in cities moving into the suburbs. which will happen like crazy this spring. then you have the folks that are in high-taxed states moving to low or no taxed states. for the latter, this does not end. i've spoke to 10 brokers in florida in preparation for this. 10 for 10 they said this does not end until the state and local deduction is repealed because the buyers going down there are motivated by less tax