the osprey belongs to the 31st marine expeditionary unit in okinawa, japan. it had taken off from and if abs assault ship -- from an amphibious assault ship. fire in frederick, firefighters getting the call just before 8 p.m., finding the barn engulfed. no injuries reported and no word yet on what started the fire. an unseasonably comfortable and warm day, but can the glorious weather last? we will get a look at the forecast with meteorologist josh knight. you say that tomorrow could be better? josh: i think it could. if there is one takeaway, the downside from today if you nitpick, this evening that has started to happen, quite a few people starting to enjoy the water at the national harbor. in general, looking at a nice, cool, in some places chilly night. as we switch over, but big change has been the air mass that moved in after the cold front pushed through yesterday, bringing thunderstorms, but now we have clear skies. a few clouds further to the west pushing and tomorrow, so we will have to give up some sunshine through the afternoon. in general, we hav

it is a marine expeditionary unit. it takes time to get them on board. there is a process here.nd the navy couldn't get ahead because of the way the system works. they couldn't get ahead of local and civil authorities. they had to be -- this request had to be made by the state of texas and then approved, of course, by the defense department. i think they moved as quickly as they could. it will take some time to get there, five days. but as barbara said, we also have a lot of military assets in texas already across the services. in fact, even in special operations command has some special operations forces, small units that are there working to help. >> we, of course, are a nation at war, two longest wars. i think you can be pretty certain those marines go on a lot of those pilots, they have been deployed. they've seen wartime and now they are seeing the need here at home. that picture there, this is a live picture. this is in houston, texas with our ma miguel marques. he's been out with some of those citizens soldiers who are doing their part to rescue residents in need. and the

these were developed by the units and by the american expeditionary forces to represent the great variety of americans that served in the war. about 4,800,000 americans were in uniform by the end of the war in june of 1919. to illustrate the variety of insignia that were worn on the american uniform, we have moved over to the 1917 u.s. service coats that were warned by the majority of the soldiers in the army. one of the insignia is the standing buffalo. this is very important, this was worn by the african-american soldiers of the 92nd division. there were two african-american divisions in the war, 92nd and 93rd, both of them were segregated from the rest of the army. most of the soldiers, of course, enlisted soldiers were african-american and most of the officers were caucasian. even though they fought alongside their compatriots in the war and fought along with the french during the war, they were segregated and were not treated very well. as we progress through the museum into the rest of the american section, we are going to look at a special exhibition dealing with american women's s

expeditionary force to italy and mexico sent an air squadron to the pacific. all forms of inter-american solidarity. the region also served as the arsenal for allied victory. the united states relied on for vital raw materials like copper, quartz and zinc. if you look at the war that people carried out, facilitating the war during world war ii, they would say openly at the end of world war ii that latin america was the arsenal for allied victory. it supplied the raw materials that helped the allied powers defeat the axis powers. more important the effect of , wartime goals had an immediate and profound impact on political structures in latin america. the idealism inherent in the new deal, the atlantic charter, the four freedoms, and the united nations' charter all contributed to political mobilization in latin america. democratic leaders admired president roosevelt. basically these are social reformers that said, president roosevelt has brought a new deal to the american people, we want a new deal to the latin american people. in 1940, only four of the 20 latin american countries could be called representative democracies that respected civil liberties. by 1946, only