there was to be merely a seat of government, not a capital, not a federal city, not a federal town. jefferson threw l'enfant's plan into the trash and along with it george washington's vision of this grand emporium, this great world capital, the capital of the future greatest empire in the world, commercial city cultural city, political city. no, jefferson said, just a political city. build some buildings. plant some trees. don't pave the streets. don't put in a water system. washington, d.c., is controlled as a colony by the congress of the united states. congress does nothing for the city of washington unless the president takes leadership. washington, adams, jefferson jackson was actually a supporter of doing something. the great hero is going to be ulysses s. grant. but in our own times, lady bird johnson, the kennedys, bringing an expanded smithsonian, all the landscaping to the city. only presidential leadership. jefferson provided leadership. the plan is in the trash. that is the way it is going to stay until ulysses s. grant. washington is unpaved, dirty. the canal become so

he sort of began the work on the federal city. the little bit that i will review, just a few pages reading rather than talk about it because it gets things moving, the book and the talk but it is also a snapshot of who he was at that moment at this momentous point in time. thank you for coming out in the cold and the rain tonight. this is a similar kind of meteorological situation as to what he encountered them, so you will have a little bit of sympathy for him. i am going to start with a bit of reading from the book, then move forward to talk about him and his plan. -- wednesday, march 9, 1791. the major entered georgetown well after dark near the end of one exhausting journey, anxious to begin another one. he arrived on foot blanketed by a steady rain, his breath visible, his overcoat wet, his boots caked with mud and his belongings packed onto his horse. the architect had not waited for another stagecoach. eager to get to the banks of the river and finish what had promised to be the culminating work of a lifetime. a loan, unmar

he sort of began the work on the federal city. the little bit that i will review, just a few pages reading rather than talk about it because it gets things moving, the book and the talk, but it is also a snapshot of who he was at that moment at this momentous point in time. thank you for coming out in the cold and the rain tonight. this is a similar kind of meteorological situation as to what he encountered them, so you will have a little bit of sympathy for him. i am going to start with a bit of reading from the book, then move forward to talk about him and his plan. the book begins wednesday, march , 9, 1791. the major entered georgetown well after dark near the end of one exhausting journey, anxious to begin another one. he arrived on foot, blanketed by a steady rain, his breath visible, his overcoat wet, his boots caked with mud and his belongings packed onto his horse. his stagecoach had broken down many miles back, but the architect had not waited for another stagecoach. eager to get to the banks of the river and finish what

we have other things that he drew, but in terms of the federal city and actual plans, this is it. we've got the final one, so that's good, but when we attempt to trace out the development of the federal city and the way that l'enfant worked on it and what he was doing, we cannot rely in the drawings, even though everyone involved would have been relying on his drawings at least as their first lace to go for meaning. they had to go to his writing. these writings were produced in three forms. a fairly small collection of letters for the various involved and interested parties including jefferson, hamilton, and washington, along with a series of memorandums, most written to washington during his 11 months on the project. probably at the behest of washington. and the nearly endless collection of memorials written to various bodies of congress area in his grievances regarding his shoddy treatment at the hands of the city commissioners, demanding what he felt was overdue payment for services. many of these as we get into 1810 and 1820 get closer to his sad death, fractured, rambling inc

eighty-seven year old man died sunday at the federal city road and i-95 interchange in lawrence townshipe crossed into the opposite lane and struck three other vehicles. a driver and passenger from one of those cars were taken to the hospital to get checked out. >> still ahead this morning, a remote region devastated by a powerful cyclone. we'll show you some of the damage left behind. >> and, no password? no problem. the simple way you can still access your e-mail, even if you always have trouble remembering your passwords. that's me. it is monday morning we're coming right back. stay with us. thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. thank you cable, because if we never had you we wouldn't know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. in customer satisfaction studies, fios is rated #1 in internet speed and reliability - 8 years running. plus, fios has the fastest wi-fi available from any provider. period. see the difference for yourself. get a fios triple play online at an amazing price, guaranteed for two full year

deadly accident meantime in new jersey claims the life of an 87-year-old man earlier today at federal city road and i-95 interchange in lawrence township. police say the man's vehicle crossed into the opposite lane and struck three other vehicles. a driver and passenger from one of those cars were taken to the hospital to get check out. >>> and philadelphia police they're looking for the suspect who shot a man 11 times in south philly. the shooting happened shortly before midnight on the corner of south 23rd and moore streets. police say the 21-year-old victim was awake and alert when they found him. he's currently in stable condition at an area hospital. the victim told police he never saw who pulled the trigger. >>> armed occupation that is how one lower merion township commissioner described a gun rights protest today in bala cynwyd public park. demonstrators gathered to protest the city ordinance and were met with some tough criticism. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers has more. >> reporter: several dozens demonstrators and several dozen guns the making of protest sunday in lower

police say the victim' cars hit three other vehicles on a stretch of federal city road that crosses over5. two other people hurt but doctors do expect them to be okay. >>> all right. on your radar, kind of a chilly day today. but a pretty nice looking monday coming our way. let's get right over to fox 29 meteorologist caitlin roth. >> that's right. hi, iain. >> hey. >> we saw an improve many i guess from saturday. we lost the rain from the first half of the weekend but it was pretty chilly with the persistent clouds and the gusty wind all day long. outside right now ultimate doppler still showing some clouds around we are going to clear out but we'll probably see the clouds return again tomorrow but tomorrow does in fact look milder than our high temperature of 48 which we saw earlier today. right now outside here in center city 42 degrees. winds out of the northwest at 16 miles an hour. making obviously it if feel colder through the afternoon and the evening hours. 42 here. 38 in allentown. 39 in writes downtown. low 40s in south jersey and delaware. winds still pretty decent out of the

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city officials say they cannot afford a federal grant that pays their wages. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan explains. >> shame on him. >> reporter: fifty atlantic city fire fighters are heading for layoffs after marry fuse todd sign a federal grant application due on friday. >> residents are to be the losers of this whole thing. >> reporter: atlantic city has paid for 50 fire fighters through a grant neck named safer, staffing for adequate fire and emergency response. every two years city cannery apply for nine million-dollar. >> i'm a city resident. anytime you can bring your federal tax dollars back to the city to off set your budget and make sure public safety is taken care of, it is a win/win. >> reporter: mayor don guardian ace begins the program's long term cost. >> not only do you pay all of the salaries but you pay their health and retirement benefits until they and their partners die. >> reporter: international association of fire fighters sent a letter on city hall on friday urging them to sign the the grant application even if they don't plan

the question, opened then in ferguson is whether or not city officials in ferguson and the police department in ferguson are going to support federal intervention and the demands of the justice department here. >> doesn't really feel that the police force or the city of ferguson is going to be fully in support of what the federal government wants to do and suggested that the police force be taken over by a police force in normandy, missouri, which i've i'd never heard of and a yet smaller police force. first off these numbers you're talking about the 100 million in los angeles and new orleans raised taxes as a result. do we have any sense of what it costs to reform a small police force 53 members in a place like ferguson? >> this is an open ended question. its difficult first off because most cities where the department of justice have utilized law enforcement, big cities like los angeles, new orleans pittsburgh cincinnati, we don't have much of a track record of the doj using it in small cities like steteubenville. ferguson is likely to have to pay for an external monitor. ateam of law enforcement experts, civil rights attorneys a

the report contains the results of a joint, federal and city study on fatal shootings by philadelphia police. it included a review of policies training and tactics. the report was put forth for a department of action at the police department. commissioner ramsey will comment at a news conference later this morning. >>> and today a judge will sentence one of four men arrested in the murder of a teenager caught in crossfire at a philadelphia playground. this is the victim here 17-year-old bernard scott. police say he was an innocent bystander when the suspects opened fire near overbrook high school two years ago. today rahim pleasant faces charges of first-degree murder. jawan jordan is serving four to seven years in prison. and stanley postell received a life sentence for murder. >>> also in philadelphia the trial is set to begin for this day care worker accused of leaving children inside a vehicle while going to buy groceries. on a hot day last july skyforce 10 was over the shop rite when police arrested karen thompson. she left five kids including two infants inside her suv with the

. >>> san jose city council has decided to apply for federal grant money to hire more firefighters but at least one city leader worries this may be a temporary fix. the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession. because of that, san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant, it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> we're trying to get back to the staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007, 2008. we're 659. we're in thing in the aggregate struggling. >> the goal is to continue to grow it. not take the money and hire and watch the firefighters leave. >> san jose will be in competition to get the federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money the last two years. >>> the trial of the alleged boston marathon bomber began today with his attorney saying, it was him. 21-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev is accused of helping to set two bombs that killed three people and injured 260 others near the finish line of the race in 2013. but in her opening statements,

he is intent on making the city, the state and the federal government pay for the years. >> the fact that my children, five of them. grew up without a father. others had to raise my children. we can't get that back >>> derek joins us. he is acting for $100 million. there have been settlements. he's not going to get $100 million. >> no, it's likely he'll get millions, several millions, if his case goes the way of others. the city is settling the cases before lawsuits are filed. >> what is the hold up. why is the settlement process not part and parcel of that. settlements? >> they are excruciatingly slow. we are following one man, there were hearings, his family showed up. thinking they'd hear a decision to find out the case was adjourned or the hearing adjourned. all they could do was wait. the prosecutors are going over cases that happened 20-30 years ago. and they are tracking down witnesses and police. >> this is in addition to what we talked about a while ago. they are not part of the costs, they are additional costs. how many cases is new york dealing with and how much could it c

. >>> san jose city council decided to apply for a federal grant money to hire more firefighters but at least one city leader worries this may be just a temporary fix. the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession and an audit shows because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> it's essential, we're trying to get back to the staffing. peak staffing was 758 in 2007 and 2008. we're currently 679. ? the goal is to grow our firefighter and police force, sustainably and continue growing it. not simply taking money to hire and then losing the money a year or two later and watching the firefighters leave. >> san jose will have competition to get that federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money in the last two years. >>> a woman who was killed in a shootout with arizona police officer the weekend has been positively identified as one of the suspects in the murder of a penngrove woman investigato

it's a way that the federal government can crack down on police misconduct and cities unwilling or unable to address misconduct. it's far from a silver bullet. it is by itself not necessarily the single answer to police misconduct. cities like ferguson have to pay for the implementation of expensive reforms. that's plausible in cities like los angeles. that has police resources and a budget of 2 million, it's harder for ferguson to have the resources to address that. i found in my research that it's important for the cities to have local support for the initiatives. and the question open-ended in ferguson is whether or not city officials in ferguson and the police department in ferguson support federal intervention or what the d.o.j. demands. >> i had a state legislator on from the ferguson legislator that doesn't feel the police force or department of ferguson is in support and suggested that the police force be taken over by a police force in normandy - which i never heard of - and a population of 5,000 and a smaller police force. the numbers that you are talking about, 100 million in l

the world dave talked about that nothing hardly than a project that takes lots of funding federal funding a city and thanks to mayor ed lee that would be nice to have a governor that supports affordable housing but more than anything else is takes organizations like this it takes an organization that sweats blood for a project and do the financing and the seat and project manager your property alone is a huge humane deal i don't know how many people it took here but it took a lot we said our partners worked endlessly an projects we stay up here and speak to us but that part is easy compared to the others again congratulate and it's an honor just to be up here thank you (clapping). >> oh, my god. >> so that's the horn that is going to close (laughter) our - i have to say that is such a heart warning experience to be reminded or everybody that put time and energy and effort to make this project happen i see gloria and pelosi and on that did so much it is so much to make this happen it sends a message to the young people that are here that structural with homelessness that people want them to have

san jose city council decided to apply for federal grant money to hire more firefighters but at leastleader worries this may just be a temporary fix. the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession. an audit shows that because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city win the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 million new firefighters [we're trying to get back to staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007, 2008. currently we're 679. there's a number of ideals we're struggling to get to. >> we want to continue to grow our force, not lose the money a year or two later and watching them leave. >> san jose will be in competition to get the federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money in the last two years. >>> your time 5:34. a woman killed in the shootout with arizona police officer the weekends -- weekend has now been positively identified as one of the suspects in the murder of a penngrove woman. it's believed 37-year-old stephanie hill was one of three peop

transaction together and greg and others in terms of the city staff it is the whole city that works on this (laughter) federal reserve the mayor's office the city administrators offers and naomi kelly is critical in the task force and the departments of all sort of lined up behind the mayors directive assist the housing authority i know tom from dbi and planning and dpw and the human resources we're all working targeted a common goal this is again, the whole notion that the housing authority are no longer a island in san francisco i want to thank the enterprise list and the other people we're working with the developers and the cohorts and thank our housing developers we're uniquely blessed in san francisco to have 5 eco system they've step up to the plate and it is continuing to be difficult they'll do it t and last but not least i want to thank my staff who have been working on this lydia and others who have been leading the charge (clapping.) again, thank you all we will all do this together and hopefully, all see each other in he 12 months for the groundbreaking for the first one or the completion of the

city council to send a letter to the u.s. postmaster about martinez's mail delivery problem. knowing full well that this is a federal issue and a city council letter may not change much. >> we know our options are limited but speaking on behalf of the community, i think it's incumbent upon us to try. >> reporter: the city council decided to draft aer letter and -- a letter and invite the postmaster general to discuss the problem at a meeting. >>> a bay area woman is in big trull for her wild hoby -- trouble for her wild hobby. she collects tax i dermy animals. she says she buys most of the animals on e bail. one owl she ordered from 23r57bs, -- from france, she's now facing a fine and community service. >>> an iconic sign is gone tonight from a bay area freeway. you will know it right away. if you have ever driven on 80 to sacramento or tahoe you've seen the sign for the nut tree vaunt in vacaville. it stood for decades. promoting what became one of the biggest tourist attractions in northern california. now cranes have taken it down. >> you are kind of sad because you see this sign that's been here forever coming d

from the scathing federal government report allegeing racial profiling by police in ferguson federal. three cityaccused of sending racist e-mails have lost their jobs, one of them fired. the e-mails uncovered during a probe by the u.s. justice department which found systemic racial bias in ferguson law enforcement. >>> and longtime syracuse basketball coach jim boeheim has been suspended for nine games next year for academic drug and gift vie laths committed by the school primarily by the men's basketball program. syracuse is not participating in the acc or ncaa tournaments this year as a self-imposed punishment. >>> and a social media firestorm. a real dustup after chicago bears wide receiver brandon marshall was traded to the new york jets. it turns out wide receiver brandon marshall of the denver broncos says his twitter is blowing up with a barrage of tweets from bears and jets fans, same name, same position, totally different person. >> that's not confusing at all. >> that's very confusing. >>> and finally, dozens of piglets in a dash to the finish line at the great american pig race in tex

live at the federal courthouse in center city, vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> governor tom wolf talked about plans for pennsylvania's energy future with industry leaders today wolf addressed the leader of the center and believed that the commonwealth has the resources and manpower to become an energy hub, his goal is to attract more engineers to the commonwealth a bill proposed today would change the way pennsylvanians registered to vote, state senator vincent hughes unveiled the legislation at the center have you the option to register to vote. under the proposal. people would automatically be registered to vote with a chance to opt out. coming up on "action news" tonight. meet the septa driver that is transporting passengers around philadelphia for nearly five decades and the villanova and lafayette basketball are bound for pittsburgh their sendoff rallies are ahead. >>> after temperatures in the 60s earlier today cold air is rushing in and this storm system over texas will likely bring snow to the region on friday. i'll have details in the accuweather forec

much of the city have been devastated by fire in 1865, but this was the federal government's efforts to have a nice architectural presence in the city. that building is now city hall and still located here. i think an architectural record is a viable part of the states passed. especially if you have various renditions of a certain building. it gives you an idea what the architect was thinking at the time, how architecture was meant to be emblematic of certain purposes of state government and this building in particular is a beautiful structure that the federal government put money into to make a presence as the city had been devastated by war. it gives you an idea into the mindset of people at the time and the federal government's efforts to compensate for what happened in 1865. the last two documents we have are of great significance nationally. this is the november 24 1832 ordinance of nullification. south carolina had undergone a decade of decline in prices. south carolinians were reacting to the terrace of 1828 -- tariffs of 1828. they were terrorists who benefited -- tariffs who

ferguson, a house that the federal government found filthy with racial bias from the police department to the courts. late today the police chief resigned, just hours after the city

similarly with the bombing of the oklahoma city federal building it was the worst deadliest act of domestic terrorism and american history, and people history, and people remember where they were when that happened, to. this year would be a memorable year in many respects. >> the research process the next book. in the back of my mind was a proper -- prospective topic to take on in book link depth. i remember the end of 1995. what is called the year of the internet and is explained why 1995 was the year of the internet. this was in hyperbolic terms nonetheless is stuck with me and was one of those back to the burner kind of notions back to the burner ideas. and we and we were angling for the publisher and the 20th anniversary i.e. 2015 to bring out the book now at the anniversary. and it made sense in that regard, but it was very much of a hinge moment, a watershed year not only for the events i mentioned a moment ago, because with the passage of time we could see how important the emergence of the internet into mainstream american consciousness was an you can define 1995 as a time when we t

work that needs to be done this agreement shapes the way that the housing authority the federal government and the city will work together to make this all possible. >> at this time it is my pleasure to introduce a very special man yes he's my boss he's very special (laughter). >> as part of his 2013 state of public safety address speak the mayor said we must do something to help our public libraries residents and called for the revitalization of the housing authority which were struggling loan to try to serve san francisco neediest residents as the mayor likes he like the big issue led by the naomi kelly of the city metrics administrator's office and that work group helped to identify the challenges that were faced by the housing authority and it also identified some of the opportunities that we in san francisco, california pull together to assist the housing authority and it's residents to have a safe descent sanitary housing to implement this work the mayor district automobile cities departments not only the housing and urban development to work with the housing authority to towards the goals of the

he is determined to make the city state and federal government pay for the years he was kept from his family. >> the fact that i went to no graduations, no funerals, i was able to mourn my family to raise my children, you can't get that back. >> marry snow joins us now. derrick hamilton is asking for $100 million. there have been settlements, the settlements are a lot higher than the year before. he's not going to get 100 million will he? >> no. it's likely he will get millions. but not 100 million. the likelihood of the city settling these cases before a trial. >> why is that settlement not part and parcel to that? why sit taking these guys so long to get their settlements? >> excruciatingly slow. a man in the pipeline trying to get his conviction overturned, in the last two plosion there were hearings, his family showed up thinking they would hear a decision only to find out the case had been adjourned or the hearing had been adjourned and all they can do is wait, this is very slow. don't forget these prosecutors are going over cases that happened 20, 30 years ago, these cases are n

ferguson, a house that the federal government found filthy with racial bias from the police department to the courts. late today the police chief resigned, just hours after the city manager was forced out. the federal investigation was a response to the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer. no wrongdoing was found in the shooting, but there was plenty of it in the department. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: in the seven months since the shooting death of michael brown chief tom jackson has been the face of the ferguson police force and its chief apologist. this is what he told us less than three weeks ago. did you discover a racial problem in the department? >> no. >> reporter: none? >> no, there is not a rarely problem in the police department. >> reporter: is there a racial problem someplace else? >> no. >> reporter: while the department of justice exonerated white police officer darren wilson in brown's death, it issued a follow-up report last week that said place -- police harassment in ferguson was routine and included arresting, jailing and even tasering african americans unnecessarily. furg isn't's police force is almost all white in a to

city council to send a letter to the u.s. postmaster about martinez's mail delivery problem. knowing full well that this is a federal issue and a city council letter may not change much. >> we know our options are limited but speaking on behalf of the community, i think it's incumbent on us to try. >> reporter: the city council decided tonight to draft a letter and invite the local postmaster to a future meeting to discuss the city's postal problems. in martinez, christin ayers, kpix 5. >>> you've heard about aurora borealis, of course, the northern lights phenomenon seen in alaska and other places near the arctic. this is the lesser known aurora australis. this is in new zealand. i'm sure you're going to correct me, brian. >> have you ever seen the northern lights? >> no. nobody in the studio has ever seen the northern lights. >> it's not easy. >> can you see it in the states? >> only if you have really strong solar storms that push the aurora borealis once. it happened once and i went outside in novato and looked in the dead of novato, i kind of could see a little green curtain waving in the atmosphere. i think i

san jose city council unanimously decided they are going to apply for a federal grant in order to heifermore firefighters. but at least one city leader says that could cause problems. the city had to close firehouses and reduce staffing during the recession. a city audit shows because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> it's essential, we're trying to get back to staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007/2008. currently we're 679. there's a number of areas in the city that we are in the aggregate struggling to get to. >> the goal is to grow our firefighter and our police force, sustainably and continue growing it. not simply taking money to hire and then losing the money a year or two later and watching the firefighters leave. >> san jose will be competing to get that federal money but the city has been successful in getting grant money the last two years. >>> a change at the 49ers museum in levi stadium drawing attention from fans. janan

the philadelphia federation of teachers will officially endorse former city councilman jim kenny this afternoon. kenny pick up another big endorsement from the afl-cio last week, one of six democrats running in the may 19th primary. >> happening today septa holds public workshops to discuss the king of prussia rail project. residents are encouraged to take part, get preview of the ex it end sean of the norristown high-speed line. the first workshop is today at the radisson hotel valley forge from 2:00 to 4:30, the next march 25th at the double tree hotel valley forge that's from four p.m. to 6:00 p.m. then later if 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. septa's seeking the public's input on this project. >> investigators say the men charged in the shooting of two police officers in ferguson, miss your had i attended protest earlier thursday night. jeffrey williams is charged with two counts of first degree assault. the st. louis county prosecutor says williams told investigators he was not firing at the officers. >> we're not sure we completely buy that part of. >> this but, in any event, it is possible h

city. >> the federal emergency management agency has agreed to reopen up to 144,000 flood insurance claims from super storm sandy. many property owners say they were vastly underpaid for danl caused by the storm. and they have caused insurers of fraud for the way they assessed damage. some victims say they got a frank of what their insurance companies promises and about 2200 claims are already in litigation. >> there was frank newark camden on how to turn ten struggling schools around. mayor daniel red and school leaders he met with parents and community leaders to get idea. some schools with academic challenges and others in cents ray old buildings which clearly out lived their useful lives. the ideas will be sem bld and a plan will be shortly presented. >> pennsylvania correction secretary today scheduled two executions despite the moratorium on the death penalty. state law requires the secretary to issue noticed if the governor does not sign execution warrants. but the spokesman says tonight the governor plans to issue reprieves. executions are scheduled for april 17. the halt on capito