eisenhower had encouraged the congressional hearing from juvenile delinquency. he addressed delinquency in his state of the union message. and in that message, he linked it to illegal use of drugs. he is the first president -- may have been the first leader of a country -- to publicly address illegal drugs, transportation thereof, into a country. he twice proposed there be federal funding for preventative programs. congress refused to fund any programs that were linked to preventing juvenile delinquency. but in 1961, partly because of pressure from the 1960 white house conference on children and youth, and partly because there was a change in administrations congress approved $10 million a year in federal grants for pilot projects and training programs aimed at reducing delinquency. now, over the years, we have probably become accustomed to and maybe a little jaded by politicians' proclamations about caring about their nation's children. but from eisenhower, you get the sense that there is very little if any, political posturing and what they say about america's

amy: whited president eisenhower desert dust cut off relations?the united states has has a problem. the united states feels it owns a large part of latin america and it was very hard for the united states to stomach a revolution that said cuba is an independent and sovereign country, and set an example for the rest of latin america. there were a lot of reasons, but that really was at the time the recent and has been the reason why diplomatic relations have not been restored until president obama did so. amy:, can you weigh in on that? >> i just want to say thank you for having us here on this momentous day. there are a lot of people who never thought they would live to see the day come and so many people have worked for this day to arrive and here it is right now. the more sinister reason that eisenhower broke relations was because the united states was preparing to invade cuba, the bay of pigs. fidel castro had his intelligence agents in central america reporting on his preparations and decided he wasn't going to let the u.s. the be a nest of spi

eisenhower. taiwan will announce it's giving money.rganizers are trying to figure out if they can raise $20 million in private donations. the project has been in planning stages for 15 years. last week the memorial won final approval for its overall design despite objections from eisenhower's family. >>> we could have some severe weather today. let's get right to tom. >> well, we have had some showers passing to the north and now that we're in chester town and north of baltimore. got a big area under a flash flood area. and including the shenandoah valley for some storms coming through late tonight. so watch out for high water tonight as these storms will be coming through. this is the severe risk zone. it includes all of maryland, most of virginia. for these storms coming through tonight, look at new timing hour by hour, next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:21. melissa, what's going on now? >> breaking news right now. 50 west would be at mlk highway we have two lanes blocked there. three mile backup because of a crash. 66 east at 1

the wartime experiences of eisenhower's successor as president, john f.sent a dramatic contrast. a sign of a prominent family and 1940 harvard graduate, sought first to join the army but was rejected because of chronic back problems. he volunteered for the navy in 1941. family influence led to an appointment or assignment in the secretary of the navy's office. the attack on pearl harbor however, caused the young one to take officer training and then to a trust -- request assignment to the motor torpedo trading center. he commanded three pt boats from december 1942 to february 1943. and then having been promoted, was dispatched to the pacific. on august 2, 1943, kennedy's draft was conducting a nighttime patrol near georgia. when he was rammed by a japanese destroyer. despite reinjuring his back, he assisted the surviving crew members to reach a nearby island. the group was subsequently rescued and kennedy was awarded navy and marine corps medal. later asked how to explain his heroism, jfk said "it was easy. they cut my pt boat in half." after brief servic

. >>> tom brokaw is getting behind an effort to build a memorial honoring president dwight eisenhower. the former "nbc nightly news" anchor is joining an advisory committee for the eisenhower memorial project along with former senator bob dole. brokaw says he learned while writing about world war ii that veterans very much want to see eisenhower honored. the project has been slowed though by design and funding problems. >>> stay with us. "news4 today" starts right now at 5:00 a.m. >> "news4 today" starts now. >>> action being taken today after this dog was attacked possibly by a bear. this happened in great falls. we have a crew in the neighborhood with what is being done to protect people and peps. >>> temperatures this morning can almost be called refreshing. but can this great weather last into the weekend? tom will have that for us coming up next. >>> first though, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> hi, i'm erika gonzalez. welcome to "news4 today." beautiful start out there. nice and cool. you almost need a light sweater if you're heading out the door this morning. really nice. >> wouldn't b

president eisenhower felt it was a luxury that he just didn't need.ng a navy vessel all the artifacts of the ship were scattered. in 1964 about ten years later our base commander put out a directive, i want the piano. and amazingly admirals get what they want. they found the piano in storage in washington had it shipped back to key west, had it restored and president truman on a post-presidential visit was surprised to find his old piano back in the little white house. this is where the president came to relax. now the president told everyone he was on vacation, working vacations, but on vacation in key west. it turns out it was all a lie. both the president and his staff were lying to each other. harry would get up on vacation at 7:00 in the morning read a newspaper, come down stairs have a glass of orange juice with a shot bourbon. he would then go out walking ten blocks at a pace of 120 paces a minute. that's cardio if i ever hear of it. then he would take up his position at this little desk. every day or every other day very large mail bags would

he was press secretary to president eisenhower in 1961 when the u.s. broke off diplomatic ties with kooubl. they said they hoped and expected the american embassy in havana would only be closed for a short time. that it would reopen in the not too dinlt future. that was 54 years ago. 1961 at the height of the cold war. this island incredibly close to the united states. lots of economic ties and tourism ties and ties through binational families. it was huge news in 1961 when the embassy closed. when diplomatic relations were cut off. even then though, with it being a blaring front page story throughout the country and the world, still, nobody thought that those diplomatic ties that were cut that day in 1961 would stay cut for 54 freaking years. it took until today. >> more than 54 years ago, at the height of the cold war, the united states closed its embassy in havana. today i can announce the united states has agreed to formally reestablish diplomatic relations with the republic of cube and reopen embassies in our almostivies. in january 1961, the year

so he sends a message to eisenhower saying please get some french troops to france, which eisenhowery and, indeed, it is general lecleric who commands the rooms who liberate the forms in august. >> rose: de gaulle comes in when? >> at that moment and gives a famous speech saying the real france has always been the resist pt france. >> rose: who are the famous members of the resistance. >> andre monroe, monjo was the most famous. mital was in the resistance those he had a previous life before he was in the resistance when he was on the other side. there are a lot of people. and andre was one of the most famous people. >> rose: one of the most famous people -- >> who had been in the resistance by the time in 1978 the mayor of a small town on the bored were germany and chief spokesman on the party with economic affairs and probably poised to become the first socialist finance minister after world war ii but dies in a terrible plane crash two years before he becomes finance nine industry. >> rose: what are the most vivid memories of christian. >> i said after i had known her for a number

. >>> taiwan says it will contribute $1 million for a new washington memorial to dwight eisenhower. the pledge comes 15 years after planning the memorial to the nation's 34th president first began. the design for the tribute won final approval last week. th at despite criticism from president eisenhower's family members. >>> taylor swift headlines a second show tonight at nats park. there was a bit of a glitch at last night's show. a piece of equipment that allowed the singer to rise stuck. she joked with the crowd she'd be stuck up there forever unless she compose to jump down -- chose to jump down. swift chose to sing from her perch until the glitch was cleared and she could return to the stage. >>> after a nine-year journey, nasa's new horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to pluto. delia goncalves has more on the story. >> reporter: 50 years to the day that nasa flew by mars, new horizons visits pluto and the exploration of all nine classical planets now complete. >> six, five, four, three, to, one. >> reporter: a countdown to history and our first glimpse into what was o

but president eisenhower snubbed him, going on a golfing holiday, instead of sitting down with castrothings went downhill from there. castro soon took over u.s.-owned properties in cuba and raised taxes on american goods. the u.s. we retall lated, slashing trade with cuba. and amid cold war tensions in fear of communism bordering on hysteria castro strengthened ties with the soviet union. in 1961, the u.s. severed diplomatic relations, but in 1960 president eisenhower asked the cia to plant overt operations to overthrow fidel castro. a debacle was soon to follow. the bay of pigs invasion launched by president kennedy in 1961, and lead by cuban exiles. it's failure boosted castro's standing at home and abroad. >> they basically said thank you, you have transformed us into an equal in the eyes of the world. >> reporter: havana and moscow grew closer hatching a plan to build a soviet missile base on the island. >> this government has maintained the closer surveillance of a military buildup on the island of cuba. >> reporter: it ended with a deal the missile sites would be dismantled if t

government sets by jeff president truman was reversed by the eisenhower demonstrations.so much of history stem from those few weeks in tehran. let me talk a little bit about what i mean. as i said earlier that coup could have been considered a success from the american perspective for the whole next 25 years. i was a years. i was a period when the shah was in power and served as a faithful ally of the united states. but let's look at it from the perspective of the shah. shaw's repressive regime shut off all political alternatives for anybody who is against the dictatorship. the only place that had a principled opposition and was routed in the iranian masses with the fundamentalist branch of islam. fundamentalism began to attract many people who were disillusioned with the impossibility of change any of the way in iran. the shah's repressive regime led to the exclusion of the late 1970s that we call the islamic revolution. that revolution brought to power a group of fanatically anti-american clerics proceeded to launch a campaign of terror against american and other weste

an example is dwight eisenhower. popular with the public but not so much with the academic community. the first pool of scholars rank him 26th. which gives you some idea of where a lot of scholars were coming from in their own policy. five years later, we began to get access to eisenhower's papers and very quickly, we discovered the grandfather we thought, who played golf during the 1950's, was in fact a much shrewder and frankly more manipulative and skillful leader. today, i do not think you will find any outside the top 10. when you look at barack obama, some things we know, obviously. six years into his presidency. we know he is a consequential president and that is not always the case. we know he has pursued days ideas. he has taken big risks. whatever you think of the affordable care act, for example, history will record that he managed to do something a whole string of his that assessors had been unsuccessful in doing. he did it in gridlock, intense polarization and, frankly great suspicion of government gener

general eisenhower said thanks for share hag we me. we need to go. so we shift targets again.ack to transportation targets and a lot more operational targets in france to prep d-day. we also begin to hit some oil production targets. now, we had tried oil as early as 1942 when you think of the poesti raid which ended in near-disaster, there had been some attempts at oil with mixed results. but increasingly it becomes apparent that oil targets are going to pay off. we know the result of the -- the campaign to isolate the normandie battlefield. it's very successful. jer man transportation attempts train the bridges in france are destroyed. the battlefield is isolated. american and allied forces land quite successfully in normandie. it's fair to say even surprising ourses. but the germans are incablet of reacting as quickly or as effectively. they're paralyzed in a sense. they also have fuel problems. moving on the battlefield is difficult for them because of allied tack any cal error. shortly after the landings, after the breakout which occurs in the summer of 1944, by fall of 19

general eisenhower says, thank you for sharing that with me. we need to go.e shift back to transportation targets and more operational targets in france to prepare d-day. we also begin to hit oil production targets. we had tried oil as early as 42 when you think of the raid which ended in near disaster. there have been some attempts at oil with mixed results. but increasingly it becomes apparent that oil targets are going to pay off. we know the result of the campaign to isolate the normandy battlefield is very successful. german transportation, frames, the bridges in france are destroyed, the battle is isolated. allied forces landed successfully in normandy. it is fair to say, surprising even ourselves. and the germans are incapable of reacting as quickly and effectively. they are paralyzed, in a sense. they also have fuel problems. moving on the battlefield is difficult for them because of allied tactical air. shortly after the landings, after the breakout which occurs in the summer of 1944, my follow 44 present -- by a fall of 44 eisenhower releases the bo

he sends a message to eisenhower saying, please get french troops over to france.hower does in july and indeed, it is general leclerc under the french troops to liberate trance in august. -- france and honest. then charles de gaulle comes in and gives a famous speech. charlie: and who with famous members that we later new? charles: andre and others. there are a lot of people. entree was one of the most famous people. charlie: one of the most famous people who had been in the resistance. by the time of-- charles: by the time of 1978, he's the chief spokesman for the party of economic affairs and poised to become the first socialist finance minister after world war ii, but he died in a plane crash. charlie: what are the most vivid memories? charles: i said to her once after i had known her for a long time, it must have been so romantic to be in the resistance. she looked at me like i was out of my mind. it was not romantic. it was all about fear and having to be suspicious of everyone you knew all of the time. but also it was of course, the most intense experience of

abandoned but that defense rationale including the space race are those investments because president eisenhower who wanted the interstate highway said we could evacuate but in new orleans in 2005 it was clear you could not evacuate by everybody piling in their cars to head to the interstate because it does not work. while i was a great rationale at the time we have not had big visions since the 1950's or '60's about the role that they play in our future. there is a gorgeous braved that people admire. there are fantastic bridges like the golden gate. they are beautiful works of art but we need to help them move across beverages. we need time that takes into account the 21st century and that is why you were trying to do. >> host: yes. you mentioned that earlier but one thought before we leave here but really during the fdr administration came up with a national system of roads and it took a few years of gestation with the emphasis on defense during the eisenhower years to move that for word is there a way with the issue of competitiveness might replace the driver of defense and security to some d

so he sends a message to eisenhower saying please get some french troops over to france, which eisenhowert's the general who commands the french troops who do liberate paris in august. de gaulle comes in and gives the speech at that moment saying the real france has always in the resist french. charlie: and who were the resistance members that we later new? charles: metta rant was in the resistance, although he had a previous life when he was on the other side. he was one of the most famous people who had been in the resistance. by 1978 he was the mayor of a small town on the border with germany and was chief spokesman of the socialist party on economic affairs, and probably poised to become the first socialist finance minister afterworld or two, but he dies in a plane crash two years before he becomes finance minister. charlie: what are the most vivid memories of christie andane? i said it must've been so romantic to be in the resistance. she looked at me like i was out of my mind and said it was not romantic. having to be suspicious of everyone you knew all the time. it was of course th

. >>> tom brokaw is getting behind an effort to build a memorial for president eisenhower. the former "nbc nightly news" anchor is joining an advisory committee for the eisenhower memorial project. mr. brokaw says when he was researching his books about world war ii, he learned a lot of veterans want to see president eisenhower honored but up until now, design issues and funding problems slowed that project down. >>> beautiful day outside, backyard weather this week takes us to loudoun county. >> around the office, we know this is an excuse for doug to go to people's homes and eat their food. so -- >> i saw him earlier. >> another beautiful day out here for backyard weather, our second backyard in a row, we did one last week, doing two this week, one today, another one tomorrow, because the weather just could not be better, no humidity, the sun is beautiful right now, and they are ready to go. you guys ready for this? we are in loudoun county, the bramble ton area, up on the deck, introduce you guys to somebody. this is the brinker family. brinker family, go ahead and wave

. >>> tom brokaw is getting behind an effort to build that memorial honoring president dwight eisenhower. the former "nbc nightly news" anchor is joining an advisory committee for the eisenhower memorial project. mr. brokaw says when he was researching his books about world war ii, he learned a lot of veterans want to see president eisenhower honored but up until now, design issues and funding problems slowed that project down. >>> fetal deaths around the country are down but most of our region is outpacing the national average. newly released numbers from the cdc show more than 23,000 deaths for 2013. that's rate nearly six per every 1,000 live births. here in the district, the mortality rate is closer to 10, while maryland is about 8, virginia 6. west virginia, meanwhile is lower than the national average. >>> donald trump makes a run for the border. what he is saying about his tour along the u.s./mexico line. >>> she helped lead the u.s. women's soccer team to that world cup victory. >>> donald trump said he put his personal safety at risk when he advice subject the u.s./mexican borde

eisenhower.oining an advisory committee for the eisenhower memorial project along with former senator bob dole. he learned while writing about world war ii that veterans very much want to see eisenhower honored. the design and funding problems had slowed the project down. it is moving now. >>> big improvements are headed to maryland. big developers descended on college park to reveal their plans. county officials are looking at five other proposed project sites. developers are looking to build a 300-unit and retail development near the college park metro. >>> dulles international is offering free rides to the airport. that's because they're celebrating one year of express bus service between metro silver line to the terminals. on sunday and monday they're picking up the tab between the wiehle-reston east station to the airport. the rides on the express bus normally cost $5 so extra change in your pocket. >>> a fairfax county remains on guard after a family's pet is attacked by a black bear. the s

next we have maybe eisenhower. she was born in boone iowa, her father was a successful businessman, he moved around a lot. her mother was a housewife. the family moved frequently just because of her dad's business. she had a high school and finishing school education. she married ike eisenhower when she was 19, he was already in the service, the couple moved 33 times in 37 years. they had two sons, one died under age four. she was 56 years old when she became first lady. she was first lady for about eight years. she died at age 82, and she is buried in abilene, kansas. mamie wasn't interested in politics, but she would do anything to help her husband get elected. and so if the politics and the party people said mamie, would you post? she would pose. she was always very willing. she loved the thrills in the trials of the campaign. she always went along with ike on his campaign trips. she would wear the ike jewelry. happily. she was energetic and enthusiastic. on the campaign trips. i could finish his speeches by say

eisenhower. and i have to say that the -- and i can say this as one of the most conservative members of the senate that i believe the federal government has grown larger and more invasive than our founding fathers ever envisioned and our country would benefit from a smaller more efficient government. and i think that we -- you know, one of the things that i've observed in government as a conservative is, if there is a problem out there government comes along they start some kind of an agency to deal with the problem and the problem goes away, but the agency continues. and so they -- and in fact they become more of a problem. right now i'm having a problem with one of the big bureaucracies, the f.a.a., on legislation that i have proposed and that we passed actually two years ago. now we have an extension of that. and i think that if you look at the budgets of the various bureaucracies, in that case, i don't have the exact figures but it has almost doubled since 199. -- 1996. and yet the work load

next we have maybe eisenhower. she was born in boone iowa, her father was a successful businessman, he moved around a lot. her mother was a housewife. the family moved frequently just because of her dad's business. she had a high school and finishing school education. she married ike eisenhower when she was 19, he was already in the service, the couple moved 33 times in 37 years. they had two sons, one died under age four. she was 56 years old when she became first lady. she was first lady for about eight years. she died at age 82, and she is buried in abilene, kansas. mamie wasn't interested in politics, but she would do anything to help her husband get elected. and so if the politics and the party people said mamie, would you post? she would pose. she was always very willing. she loved the thrills in the trials of the campaign. she always went along with ike on his campaign trips. she would wear the ike jewelry. happily. she was energetic and enthusiastic. on the campaign trips. i could finish his speeches by say

i called the eisenhower moment. dwight eisenhower rodders the interstate highway system.the challenge for us is to construct what i call a skilled superhighway. we need to make sure there are on-ramps and off ramps for everyone. that's exactly what we are trying to do. the destination for workers is the middle-class. the destination for employers is du jour for the and sustainable prosperity. the challenge for us as we construct this ecosystem and the skills superhighway is to take the remarkable best practices that we see emerging across the country, figure out the principles of general application, understanding that what works on one-sided country may not have immediate application elsewhere but recognizing our principles of general application. and then figuring out how we scaled and sustained those. one of the on-ramps that we have discussed in the skills superhighway is the on-ramps of apprenticeship. i have traveled across thisn germany is roughly half of what it is here. the apprenticeship model in germany and in some in other countries enjoys the stature that we

the best example is dwight eisenhower. when he left office he was popular with the public but not so much with the academic community. in fact the first pole after he left office ranked him 22nd, tied with chester arthur which gives you some idea of where they were coming from and politics. then five years later, we, we began to get access to eisenhower's papers and very quickly we discovered what we thought, who who played golf during the 50s, was in fact a much more manipulative and skillful leader. today i don't don't think you'll find any presidential polls where he is outside the top ten. when you look at barack obama, some things we know, obviously. we know that he is a consequential president. that's not always the case. we know that true to what he told us, he has pursued big ideas, he has taken big risks whatever you think of the affordable care act, for example, history, history will record that he managed to do something that a whole spring of his predecessors had been unsuccessful in doing and he did it in a po

one of them being what president eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex. the other is lesser-known but as important to pioneer and that is what started in january of 1945, educational reform known as life adjustment education. and this was very -- it was the beginning and it affects me to this day. i am wondering if you can put into better perspective of the downsides from world war ii we are suffering through today? david kennedy: let me start by saying that i am unfamiliar with the second item. i am going to have to take a pass on that one unless you would care to elucidate and give us a stronger cue. life adjustment? >> let me give it to you very quickly. place adjustment was based on the idea that only 20% of the school kids were going to college and another 20% going to trade school and the other 60% having to go through life adjustment which means being adjusted to not having ambitions in life that you might want to have. and one of the primary damages that was done to this was done to women because they were all out -- hauled out of the defense buil

even after president eisenhower in 1956 signed actually the death warrant for the road, the interstateo the creation of five interstate highways that tried to take route 66's place from chicago to santa monica. but it wasn't until the mid 1980s that the last shields went down. that's when the decertification was complete. the federal

eisenhower federal highway system. because a republican president had the foresight and vision in the aftermath of world war ii to develop a first class federal highway system. but you know what else he had? he had two great allies in the congress. lyndon johnson, the majority leader in the senate and sam rayburn, the speaker of this house, who helped sponsor legislation that gave us a system that was the envy of the world and 35 times, we are extending the highway bill because we don't have time to develop a plan. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield two minutes to another valued member of our committee, mr. blumenauer of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you. mr. speaker i would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the presentations i made one year ago today on this flo

i'm going to suggest an idea that dwight eisenhower used. he saw how the german autobahn system more and he decided that we have a lot more done on and then this is what they did, they had this as a result. >> it's a little bit part like this and get yourself together. we might have to defend our country. >> the interstate system that president eisenhower was associated with is called the national interstate and defense highway network and certainly it has defense leads as part of its role and as to this notion of highways paying for themselves, the caller makes a very good point that transportation investment does stimulate the economy. it enables people to get jobs and goods to move more efficiently. there have been some studies done when you make an investment in transportation you are really saving money and creating economic opportunity and unfortunately that phenomenon comes into play and they really stimulate greater tax activity and stuff so while the overall economy gets that transportation program, many don't necessarily benefit. >

eisenhower. he is joining an advisory committee along with bob dole. brokaw says he learned while writing about world war ii that veterans very much want to see eisenhower honored. design and funding problems have slowed the project down. >>> temperatures right now in the 70s and 80s. high today in washington of 88 degrees right now. we are coming in at 81 with low humidity. plenty of sun. pretty much a repeat performance for tomorrow. another gorgeous day with a high around 90. a little bit humid on saturday but nice. hot but not too humid. a high of 91. then, on sunday, there is the chance of a late day shower or thunderstorm. most, if not all of your day, is really looking mainly, nothing you should cancel or change plans over. a high of 90 to feeling the humidity more on sunday and specially feeling the humidity next monday tuesday and wednesday, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms on monday and tuesday. highs around 90 aaron. >>> amelia, thank you. >>> safe liftoff and docking for three astronauts this morning. the new members, a three-man

remember what i eisenhower told us -- beware of the military complex. people are taking money from us in the military complex. not the soldiers, but the people who build the weapons. we had two boats out in california that were supposed to be minesweepers. one of them almost sunk. the avionics on the ship couldn't find it. we have to cut the cost on everything, not just the things that republicans want to cut. guest: let me tied up back to transportation. i think it does have to do with the notion of that we are very serious about is making sure that taxpayers -- we want the users to be assured that when they make that investment that they are going to receive something back in return. host: john, in ventura, california. caller: i am just amazed, every day there is a new tax, do this and you get less oriented.

eisenhower memorial project. they already have the support of bob dole. the eisenhower memorial is still not completed despite 15 years of planning. jonathan: 7 on your side with a study that could change the way doctors treat late stage cancer patients. researchers found that nearly half of all terminal cancer patients are given chemotherapy in the final months of life, even know there is no chance of a curing them. the hope being that perhaps those tumors will shrink and the patient will be in less discomfort. this brand-new study found this. it is just the opposite. it says the chemo had no with that -- effect on the cancer in the quality of life only got worse. kimberly: another reason to turn up the smartphone. the link between it and depression. researchers tracked the habit of 28 people all around the country, ages aged -- 19 to 58. predict with 86% certainty of the person suffer from depression because people who are more depressed moved around less and use their cell phones more. 28 people. jonathan: that is not what i call a huge study. coming u

but president eisenhower snubbed him. going on a golfing holiday instead of meeting with castro.o soon took over u.s.-owned properties in cuba and raised taxes on american goods. the u.s. retaliating, slashing trade with cuba. leading to the embargo that lasts to this day. and in fear of communism bordering on hysteria castro strengthened ties with the soviet union. in 1960, president eisenhower has already asked the cia to plant overt operations to overflow fidel castro. a debacle was soon to follow. the bay of pigs invasion lead by cia-trained cuban exiles it's failure boosted castro's standing at home and abroad. >> he basically said thing you from the bay of pigs you have transferred us into an equal in eyes of the world. >> reporter: havana and moscow grew closer. >> this government as promised has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military build up. >> reporter: it ended with a deal. the missile sites would be dismantled, if the united states pledged not to invade cuba. cuban exiles pored into south florida. they hated castro and his move to nationallize man

this is at the eisenhower connecter. crews checked it out and said the lines are safe. >> restore4,000 without power in d.c. and dominion virginia power is reporting about 3,000 outages. most of the outages are in fairfax countys. chuck is in the storm center. a calmer day today? >> way calmer outside today. here's the satellite and radar review. overnight last night there's the line of thunderstorms that came racing through between midnight and 2:00 in the morning. quite a bit of lightning and heavy rain as well. there you can see the complex of thunderstorms going up the i-95 corridor. they're into parts of northern new england. storm team 4 radar right now is clear of any rainfall. that is welcome news. temperatures have made it into the upper 70s and almost 80s. it's a warm day to be on the outside today. a summer soaker. glad to see the month of june come to an end. just shy of 12 inches of rain. our second wettest june on record. the weather headlines for today. sun shine, at least for now. but rain chances are inc

even after president eisenhower in 1956 signed actually the death warrant for the road, the interstate highway act which led to the creation of five interstate highways that tried to take route 66's place from chicago to santa monica. but it wasn't until the mid 1980s that the last shields went down. that's when the decertification was complete. the federal shields were down. now we had the interstates, 55 and 44 and 40 and 15 and 10. and route 66 went into a bit of a limbo. it's so many things that is the road is so many things. much more than just the physical road itself. for many people -- it's not for many people. it's nostalgia, traveling and a lot of yucks and buying souvenirs. and that's fun. whatever it takes. but for many people it's a reminder that progress is good. i mean route 66 could no longer handle the traffic. but along with progress you give some things up. >>> i think it's important to remember that the official title of our museum is the thomas gilcrease institute of american history and art. and what he was doing in his collecting in fine arts through archival mat

hopkins is also responsible for the elevation of kuwait eisenhower who he had become a patron to. chimps forestall who became secretary of state. why did they make the decisions they did? why did do the things they did a wartime conferences? using hopkins as a way, trying to understand fdr as well. their shares strategic sense. fdr understood and hopkins shared fdr's convictions that the united states was the only power in the words that have genuinely global interests. the soviet union understandably was largely concerned with fighting the germans. china was fighting for survival on significant numbers of japanese forces in china throughout the entire war. britain did have a global empire that britain had been so reduced by the war that its objectives became somewhat more narrow. churchill was hoping once the war was won and once the soviet union was in the war and the americans in the war at the end of 1941 was pretty clear hitler would be defeated and churchill in particular could begin looking at other objectives beyond winning the war for example recouping as much of the brit

this is dwight eisenhower. a network of modern roads is as necessary to defense as it is to our national economy and our personal safety. he was referring to the fact that we really couldn't move easily between the states if there was some type of national emergency. and i want to say, you know, i was a little girl when eisenhower ran and my father was a lifelong democrat but he was for ike, and one of the reasons he was for ike is, he knew that we needed this kind of network. it appealed to him. he knew how important it was. now, mr. president if we look at the groups that are supporting us in this effort, i would just say they represent america. they're everyone. from the u.s. conference of mayors to the brotherhood of carpenters. the international union of operating engineers. the triple a -- and we all most of us belong to triple a because we're worried something is going to happen in one of owes bridges or roadways that's filled with obstacles, and we could get in a crash. we belong to the triple amp. they

an example is dwight eisenhower. with the public but not so much with the academic community. the first pool of scholars rank him 26th. which gives you some idea of where a lot of scholars were coming from in their own policy. five years later, we began to get access to eisenhower's papers and very quickly, we discovered the grandfather we thought, who played golf during the 1950's, was in fact a much shrewder and frankly more manipulative and skillful leader. today, i do not think you will find any outside the top 10. when you look at barack obama, some things we know, obviously. six years into his presidency. we know he is a consequential president and that is not always the case. we know he has pursued days ideas. he has taken big risks. whatever you think of the affordable care act, for example, history will record that he managed to do something a whole string of his that assessors had been unsuccessful in doing. he did it in gridlock, intense polarization and, frankly great suspicion of government generally and

this has been going on since 1961 when dwight eisenhower closed our ambassador there, and now barack obama is set to open it back up. july 20th is the date according to the letter delivered from president obama today to raul castro july 20th will be the day that the cuban flag will fly here in washington, d.c. >> reporter: tell us more about the logistics. cuba has this letter from washington, and i understand washington has also received its letter from cassandra petersont -- castro. >> reporter: exactly and that's sort of the formality that has to happen. that letter was delivered to the interim foreign minister there in cuba. that has to happen. and it has to happen here. and the president has already reported to congress there is that 15-day waiting period. so congress has 15 days and then from there, we're going to see the theater of congress, because there are some who are running for president, some serving from miami, florida, and they are going to make their voices heard on this issue, as to who will be the ambassador. >> reporter: i want to go back to melissa chan. it's eas

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chris: wss this type was installed in 1964, 61 years ago when the man in the white house was named eisenhower. leon: heavy rain and thunderstorms rolled through this weekend. the big story for the rest of the week will be heat and humidity. steve rudin is here. how hot will it get? steve: it will feel like 100 degrees. earlier this afternoon outside the belfort weather center. it poured. a little bit less in silver spring. thankfully all of that is gone. scanning the skies for doppler radar. a few showers well to the south of us. highs will make it into the lower 90's but that is just the beginning of real heat and humidity. full details coming up in a few minutes. leon: seven is on your side with consumer news. it is being called the biggest smartphone flaw ever discovered. android phones can get infected with a single text message. the problem stems from how the phone analyzes text messages. google says android can limit a hacker's access to home. a major car maker was mishandling recalls. hundreds of millions of cars are on the road with dangerous recalls. j corp. -- jay korff is live with

before that, in 1960, president eisenhower already asked the c.i.a. so plant operations to overthrow. fidel castro a debacle followed. the bay of pigs invasion launched about kennedy. >> basically said thank you for the bay of pigs. you transformed us from an aggrieved little country into an equal in the eyes of the world and allowed us to consolidate the revolution. >>> havana and moscow grew closer hatching a plan to build a missile base on the island. >> this government, as promised maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military build up on the island of cuba. >> a discovery touched off the cuban missile crisis. two weeks on the brink of nuclear annihilation ending with a deal - the missile sites would be dismantled if united states did not invade cuba. cuban exiles pureed into california, halting castro and moves to take their assets. no american president dared cross the hard line they drew on cuban policy - until now. in secret talks brokered by pope francis, president obama secured the release of american growth imprisoned in cuba f