check out this picture from charleston, south carolina.ion tarp cables and netting came down onto the cars below during the evening rush tonight. north charleston police tweeted a picture and traffic cameras captured more of the chaos. look at that. officers had to reroute traffic, but nobody got hurt here. >> that's crazy. you've taken that bridge a time or two. >> wouldn't that scare [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- harry styles, jenny slate,

at the time of the american revolution, a population of the bigger than a charleston, south carolina, the fourth biggest city on the atlantic seaboard. i said, holy cow -- what if we told the story of early america from the center of the continent? what if we counted all of the people as americans? this is american history and this is the quintessential american story. thank you. i will stop there. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. marks 30 years since lieutenant colonel oliver north testified before the house and senate committees investigating affair.-contra on railamerica from july 13, 1987, in a 60 minute portion of a day-long hearing, colonel north is questioned by orrin hatch and pauib

northwest, coming across the nation's midsection to places like nashville and winding up around charleston, south carolinaaround 2:40 on august 21 is when we will be at max here. i just posted on the facebook -- on my facebook page the impact it will have on solar panels and the power grid, something a lot of folks maybe have not thought about. 95, 96 degrees by 1:00. ,he pools will be crowded today but i think as hot as it will be with the heatwave kicking into high gear, folks may want to limit their time outdoors. certainly, put on the s forecasting a high temperature of 99 on friday. angela: trouble spots are continuing to cause tieups but otherwise, we are looking ok especially traveling through fairfax county. capital beltway, no major backups, minor slowing into annandale from inner loop to the springfield mixing bowl. backups on 66 from the earlier accidents. toward potomac mills crossing the occoquan northbound into dale city, 11 miles brouwer and that will add on to your drivetime. headood news is as you toward newington and the fairfax county parkway toward the springfield mixing bowl area, you

that is the pacific northwest down through areas like nashville, charleston, south carolina. it will allow us to get a solar 80% clear at 1:17. 4:0, and eventually august 21. we cannot wait for that here. great information posted on our facebook page and online, "good morning washington" facebook as well. is the number today through the weekend. those of the high temperatures and storms that will come from the area for saturday afternoon and saturday evening. it may slow your 5k down a bit. one graphic i wanted to get to, 90's for the high heat this weekend. next weekend, mid to upper 80's. whenever you are looking to do this weekend, just put it off until nestlÉ can -- until next weekend. let's go eileen whelan right now who has a look at how hot pavement temperatures are. well, they definitely are going to be storming later today. we were just at the dog park here. as we go through the day, you can really sunshine hitting the pavement, you really want to watch out for your dog, it can get up to 167 on the blacktop. a love of dogs out here this morning, also a lot of runners

the totality goes from oregon all the way to charleston, south carolina. so the path of totality is what we're calling it, it's about a 70 mile wide strip that goes south of portland, oregon, across the plains to the western carolinas to charleston over the ocean. if you want to see the total solar eclipse, you have to drive south of here. you have 30 days to come up with a plan for where you want to be. closest to us, western carolinas. know this. the weather community, the astronomy community have been getting the word out and the hotels in and around totality are nearly booked up already. if you want to make a day trip to see it, here's friendly advice. don't even think about driving down i-95 to charleston on the day of the eclipse much the eclipse will occur, the totality will occur around 2:30, 3:00 in the afternoon. i-95 will be a parking lot trying to get down to that spot. so just know, if you're going to go make a plan to leave saturday and spend saturday night, sunday night where the path is. because getting to the path of totality on the eclipse

. >>> it's been two years now since the gunman opened fire inside a charleston, south carolina churchling nine people. one survivor recently made a trip to washington and visited the national museum of african-american history and culture. >> molly shepherd is her name. and she spoke with news 4 about her impressions of the museum and her reflections of the tragedy back home in washington. >> holly shepherd, for 35 years, this has been her place of worship, her place of peace, never question her faith. she says 2015, god was present. >> that night, it was like a bright light was in that room, almost like a twilight. >> polly hid under a table and prayed. her call to 911. >> he's still in here. i'm afraid he's still in here. >> dylann roof a self proclaimed white supremacist killed nine members at bible study. he told her he would let her live so she could tell her story. polly told me it was her god that let me live. >> i don't know exactly what it is, but he left me. the rest of them were ready to go. he took them with him. >> shortly after the second anniversary of the church massac

. >>> on some of the rural island communities off the coast of charleston, south carolina, many african-americansntify as gullah or geechee. dating back to their ancestors, the slaves. they speak an english-based creole language that can still be heard throughout the region. and inside the sheriff al cannon's detention center. >> me being here all my life, i have to sit back and listen. they talk fast. it's rumbling or mumbling, but it's just the language. and they speak deep. >> the the accent is sometimes mistaken for jamaican. >> they do kind of relate the language because they speak patois. we sound the same, i guess. but i'm from south carolina, i'm not from jamaica. >> these guys sound like from jamaica or something like that. >> carlton solomon jr. has lived his interior life on nearby john's island. >> you ain't got nothing, you got dirt roads and trouble. that's just really it. different roads and trouble. >> solomon? how you doing, buddy? >> good. >> you all right? >> now, solomon has plenty of trouble. he is charged with murder, first-degree burglary, and other crimes related to a terr

. ♪ oh yea >>> charleston south carolina is rich in civil war landmarks including the old city jail. peration between 1902 and 1939. the occupants include a prison of war between the army and pirates. today, the charleston county jail is the sheriff al cannon detention center. it houses about 1300 men and women. >> selling some cookies for some noodles, man. got to keep their stomachs full because they don't get [ bleep ] in here. >> most are awaiting resolution of their cases. tilghman kronsberg is only a few days away from his one year anniversary here and his stay isn't likely to end soon. >> it's been horrible. i'm not used to this. you know, there's a lot of guys who come in here and it's no big deal to them. they're content with it and i just can't seem to find that mentality. this is my cheese dip, consists of different kind of potato chips audiotape crushed up. add pickle juice and water. mmm, so good. i grew up actually pretty privileged until i was about 12 years old. my parents had a lot of money, but my father, he had a drug problem and so i went from living in a mansion t

. >> it's been two years since a gunman opened fire in that charleston, south carolina church killing nine people. one survivor made a special visit to washington recently. polly shepherd said touring the african-american history and culture was their prapeutic. she came face to face with the charleston shooter. shepherd survived while hiding under a table and praying. >> i don't know exactly what it is, but he left me. the rest of them were ready to go. >> news 4 also spoke with shepherd about her side inside the museum and how it's impacting her today. >>> a car bursts into flames after slamming into a truck in philadelphia and the high risk rescue was caught on camera. last week a vehicle rear ended a trash track. authorities released the video today. the crash impact was so strong, the driver who was knocked unconscious was wedged beneath the car's dashboard, bystander burning vehicle. >> pretty scarey. watching it, like i said, it felt like i was there for 20 minutes trying to get him out. like, seeing it, it was 40 seconds. it gives you goose bumps a little bit. if i wasn't ther

the total eclipse goes to charleston south carolina. it will be off the coast of charleston about 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon. you'll need to leave before that monday. because it's going to be a lot of traffic on the roads. you'll have to head down there probably that weekend before and plan to be where you watch that eclipse on monday and plan to be there on monday morning. it's hot and steamy for the weekend coming up. >> thanks so much. >>> get to that hot and steamy. lauryn ricketts is here with the forecast. >> we're getting ourselves into trouble. remember, we're on camera now. microphones. >> happy friday. >> that's my cue to keep going. >> let's go ahead and run that storm team 4 weather graphic. if you notice, you noticed it's red. weather alert today. pretty much all through the weekend. it's going to be so darn hot. dangerous heat upon us. not only yesterday but again today and through the weekend. not only an isolated chance of a storm today, better chances on saturday and sunday and the heat finally breaks as we head into

you want to get after boeing and put people, maybe have a diminished workforce in north charleston, south carolinagton state, you will help create more jobs in france because airbus will get the contracts. why don't you want american-made products competing with japan or germany or the uk or china? because those countries export credit agencies why, shouldn't we be on a level playing field and care about america first? steve: the level playing field i care about is all the small companies who are disadvantaged by this. >> the small companies benefit. steve: other companies do. >> they benefit part of the supply chain -- steve: hang on a second, paul ryan said this, why should we say -- hang on a second, paul ryan said why should we say me too on crony capitalism? and that is exactly right. thank you very much for joining us and having that discussion. >> my pleasure. steve: good to see you. steve: good to see you. we're going to have that next you won't see these folks at the post office. steve: good to see you. we're going to have that next they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursu

father's presidential ambitions, but during the campaign, he also had a major foible in charleston, south carolinag called title atlas manufacture, a business he started with colleagues that did not do well. eventually folded but a $3.5 million loan from deutsche bank he couldn't buy back. his father bought that loan, assumed that liability. and then a lawsuit from a big french company that put some supplies in inventory in the warehouse that was left over from titan atlas and now a big lawsuit between them and donald trump, actually, still going on in south carolina. and so, you know, he's never -- he's always been a little bit off the map and doing things that his father wishes he wouldn't do and creating messes his father has to clean up here's a perfect example of another one. >> how do you think this plays in terms of the family dynamic? >> well, i think that it creates a lot of -- got to be creating a lot of tension in the familiy. i'm sorry i do not believe a meeting between don jr., paul manafort and jared kushner with a russian operative who is going to supposedly bring serious informatio

in charleston, south carolina. from there i went to a v.a. house for substance abuse. stayed in that house for a year. it took me a year in that program to beat this thing. host: for people who do not have that access like you did, what were their options in baltimore back then? caller: their options were going into the grams and coming right back to the streets -- into programs and coming right back to the streets. just like leaving the son and allng back to the father, these products, it is more than likely you're going to stay in that cycle of drug addiction because you are using constantly. you're taking one drug away to substituted with another drug that substitute it with another drug. host: thank you. anthony is in new york. caller: good morning. thank you for this opportunity. i would like to draw your attention to an article on may 20, 2001. a news reporter from the new york times had written a story that mentioned stephen castella, the assistant administrator for the drug enforcement administration in washington pointed out that the first -- concluded that th

. >>> from its seawall to historic downtown landmarks, charleston, south carolina, is a picture of southern charm. but not everyone displays southern hospitality. and for some, that could mean time at the county jail better known as the sheriff al cannon detention center. most of the 1,300 men and women incarcerated here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. and each one entered the jail through the intake department. >> take shoes off. >> it's a steady flow from body search to fingerprints. >> all right. you're all done. >> and a booking photo. and for those who will be here for a while, the important step of determining where to house them. >> i'm officer teagarten, i'm doing classification interview. >> william jarrett began his stay here in a unit largely considered the most desirable -- minimum security, general population. there are no cells. so inmates feel less confined and have more privileges. but 16 days in, jarrett requested a transfer to protective custody or p.c. >> there's some older guys in there that really were creeping me out

. >>> it's been two years since a gunman opened fire in a charleston, south carolina, one survivor made a special visit to washington recently. polly shepherd sells touring the national museum of african-american history and culture was therapeutic. the visit was the last stop of her family reunion in june of 2015. she came face-to-face with the charleston shooter. she survived by hiding under a table and praying. >> the lord leaves certain people to do certain thing. i don't know exactly what it is, but he left me. the rest of them were ready to go. so he took them with him. >> news4's kristen wright also spoke to shepherd about her time inside the museum and how it's impacting her. you can see more of that interview tonight on news4 at 6:00. >>> their home went up in flames while they were out of town. but they couldn't be more grateful this morning. >> kind of an interesting juxtaposition here. the murphys ar hotel while their northeast d.c. home is being repaired but it's one of the three homes badly damaged in a fire over the weekend. neighbors have been more than generous in getti

the eclipse itself will go all the way from portland, oregon, down to charleston, south carolina. if you want to me the anything and everything about the eclie, nasa sight, including how to get these great glasses and build your own eclipse viewing kit at home and go to our website. we'll have a link on the app or you can go to eclipse2017.na eclipse2017.nasa.gov. we'll tell you how to see the total eclipse 30 days from today. >> chuck mentioned people are coming from, laike, all over to book rooms and to really get a look at that. >> he said a lot of the places down there, if you're headed south where the line is, a lot of those hotels are already booked. pretty incredible. >>> but what's incredible out there is that heat index at quantico. it's at 101 right now. >> you know, some days i feel very much so like i'm back in texas and today is one of them. >> yes, well hopefully that texas-like weather is not going to last too long. as we get early next week, finally this heat and humidity will break. weather alert toda dangerously and brutally hot out there. we do have some storm c

the sheriff al cannon detention center in charleston, south carolina, is no exception.here are about 1,300 men and women incarcerated here. most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. keeping them all fed requires an inmate kitchen staff to work nearly around the clock preparing 3,900 meals per day. mohammed abdullah is a cook on the afternoon shift. >> work seven days a week. we work eight hours a day. we go in at 1:00. we're usually back between 8:30 and 9:00. 8:30, 9:00. the benefits of that are you don't have to lay around all day. your bones aren't getting achy. you're constantly working. working in the kitchen keeps you alert and aware of things going on around you. you get to eat good, you know. make sure the food is hot and warm. that's the rice right there. gourmet. professional, i cooked it. that the patties there. i cooked those, too. they're going to want seconds of those, i guarantee you that. >> although abdallah takes pride in his work, he may be overestimating its appeal. >> the food here sucks. >> man, i ca

managing the highly complex operations in washington and charleston south carolina, he has served as the head of the commercial airplane program. his attention to detail, while operating some of the largest operations in the world. he is also fearless. he understands what our country is up against when it comes to the russians and the chinese and the north koreans and won't faze him. he focuses on big game changing innovation and science and technology and will be deterred at the bureaucracy of dod. he also knows the department of defense operates and has served as vice president general manager of the boeing missile defense system and was responsible for the u.s. army aviation program in philadelphia and mesa arizona as vice president for rotorcraft systems. he has been able to achieve positive results throughout his career. he understands the need for fiscal responsibility and for innovation of the department. dod is the largest employer in the world with almost 3 million people in the largest military budget in the world. he has the management skills from the private sector to gui

. >>> well it has been two years since a gunman opened fire inside a charleston, south carolina churchine people. >> one survivor made a special trip visiting the national museum of african-american history and culture. news her story. >> reporter: holly shepard. for 35 years, mother emmanuel ame church in charleston has been her place of worship, her place of peace. never questioned her faith. polly says even on june 17th, 2015, god was present. >> that night it was -- the lack of bright light was in that room, almost like a twilight. >> polly hid under a table and prayed. her call to 911. >> he's still in here. i'm afraid. he's still in here. >> dylann roof, a self-proclaimed white supremacist killed nine members of polly's church family at bible family. roof told polly he would let her life so he could tell the story. polly told me it was her god that let her life. >> you know how the lord leads certain people to do certain things. i don't know exactly what it is, but he left me. the rest of them wre go so he took them with him. >> shortly after the second anniversary of the church

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