we are a few miles from frederick douglas's house. he really brought that to life, i thought that was amazing. i'm going to ask some questions of you gentlemen. i want today for your introduction. i believe you want to say a few things about how this speech was given. >> i wanted to give a comment on the way this was given right now. i think it was the finest performance i have ever heard of the douglas speech. [applause] i want to step back to the 1850's, things were different then. you were pretty quiet and dutiful and polite. havewere a few moments, i read a whole bunch of s'snscripts from douglas speech and transcripts. backill have laughter and in the 1850's, when he gave speeches, people were worked up. he was one of the great comic performers. i thought it was really terrific. say,ther thing i want to when douglas gave his speeches, this really avoided the abolitionists who spot him, women lined up to meet him. whichis that in print said they want the white women douglassway from and they didn't. has back,rius charisma. : caref

. >> frederick douglas memorial bridge. the construction of the bridge is the largest project in the history of the d.c. department of transportation it includes replacement of the 68-year-old frederick douglas memorial bridge and the reconstruction of the suitland parkway i-295 interchange. that unveiling will begin at 11 :00 this morning. >> powerball jackpot rolls over once again. nobody won the $307 million jackpot in last night's drawings. last night's numbers were 12, 30, 36, 47, 62 and the powerball was nine the the next drawing will be on saturday. that jackpot is now up to $356 million and if you can't wait for the weekend, the mega mill that jackpot $382 million. hurry up and get your tickets. >> in the meantime, 4:35 is the time. let's get caught up with the weather and mike thomas. another nice cool start. >> hey, and another nice day on the way today. yesterday absolutely gorgeous in the afternoon, low humidity, sunshine, temperatures warm. most of us headed for that again today. one exception out to the west.

. >> he made the comment about frederick douglas being recognized more and more. do you have any idea what he was referring to? >> i think there's contributions, i think he wants to highlight the contributions that he has made. and through the statements he'll make, the contributions will become more and more. >> remarkably enough, the trump comments yesterday highlighted new contribution from frederick douglas. >>> so frederick douglass is being recognized a year after the civil war ended. and it was republished this morning how to deal with a treacherous president who stood in the way. at the time it was first published, the president was andrew johnson who was sim that a athleticic to the confederate states. douglass's advice to congress was whatever may be tolerated, no republic is safe. the tolerance of prift class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them. the constitution of the united states amongst the distinction on citizens on account of color. if the constitution knows non, it is clearly no part of the duty of a re

. >> he made the comment about frederick douglas being recognized more and more.you have any idea what he was referring to? >> i think there's contributions, i think he wants to highlight the xrikss contrib that he has made. and through the statements he'll make, the contributions will become more and more. >> remarkably enough, the trump comments yesterday highlighted new contribution from frederick douglas. too. too. and if that's not enough... we should move. our home team will help you every step of the way. still not enough? it's smaller than i'd like. we'll help you finance your dream home. it's perfect. oh, was this built on an ancient burial ground? okay... then we'll have her cleanse you house of evil spirits. we'll do anything, (spiritual chatter) seriously anything to help you get your home. ally. do it right. and life's beautiful moments.ns get between you flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. >>> so frede

by frederick douglas about earnest ness, working hard, which is the foundation of what we are as americans. these were immigrants from it states, who did this work to create probably the most iconic memorial in washington, dc >> i saw it from the florida avenue across went across the bypass, at really good view from there >> 50,000 people day can see this mural by riding up and down the red line, between rhode island avenue and noma and visitors on amtrak can see it from the train stations >> with the controversy with taking down the confederate statues, i think this is just an amazing statement. >> this is an omage to what it takes to be part of the history of this country. and what it takes to build these things don't magically appear on the mall. there's a lot of hard work, craftsmanship and the department of general services wanted to honor that. >> it's amazing, i love it. >> that's beautiful. >> it's beautiful. when you just look at how incredible and the detail. looks so real and it's huge when you can see people walking by in comparison, i love you can see it from the trains, peopl

then we could just add frederick douglas piggybacking on top of him. (laughter). >> trevor: or you know what, could you do, could you have like a confederate soldier, right, and then just add lebron james dunking on him, that's all you do. just to remind them who lost the war. that's all. >> but lebron, i have to have the balls on the head. you got to have the balls right there on the head because you want to capture the proper culture and heritage. >> trevor: roy wood, jr., everybody. we'll be r introducing the new moto z with moto mods. hello moto. ♪ ♪ (3-2-1 liftoff) ♪ ♪ (gasps) (oh!) (cheering) buy the new moto z with shattershield, and you'll get a free projector mod. hello moto. un. de♪ trois. three apple varieties for a perfectly balanced flavor. ♪ cidre. from stella artois. real meal for five bucks. real meal for five bucks. real meal for five bucks. real meal for five bucks. real meal for five bucks. finger lickin', finger lickin', finger lickin'... gooooood!! ♪ oooooh ooh ooh oh ooooooooh daaaaaaaaa ♪ ♪ dum dum dum dum ♪ harmonious melody >>

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this meurl begins with a e quote by fled frederick douglas about ernest in, working hard, which is aation of what we are as americans. these were immigrants from italy and freedman from the united states who did this work to create probably the most ionic memorial in washington, d.c. i thought from the florida app that went across the bypass. it's a really good view from there. 50,000 people a day can see this meurl by riding up and down the redline between rhode island avenue and noam a and also our visitors who are on amtrak mark can see it from the train stations. with all the controversy with taking down the confederate statues i think this is just an amazing statement. this is an oh imagine to what it takes to be part of the history to this country and what it take s to build. these things don't magically appear on the mall. it's a lot of hard work, a lot of craftsmanship and the department of general services wanted to honor that. it makes me tear up. it's amazing. i love it. >> i live just a couple of blocks from there and i take the trail, that's the metropolitan branch there

highland beach was actually founded earlier in 1893 by charles douglas, the son of frederick douglas.ncorporated in 1922, the 40 acres near bay ridge, maryland, became a summer retreat for many well-known black professionals and their families. cars and sparrows beach drew families and singles who came for picnics, beauty contests and weekend shows by some of the well-known performers. >> the water is so beautiful here >> reporter: barbara and jack hot harbor said amid segregation african-americans had few options but to create their own resorts. >> we have to be mindful of what our history was and why this was necessary. if we had been wanted to go anywhere else, this would not have been a black beach. >> reporter: but they say they like it here. they like the slow pace of this place that hasn't changed much in many ways. there are some white residents here, now, and they welcome that. >> and i'm raising a granddaughter, and i want her to be accepted by who she is, not by what color her skin is. >> reporter: for now her granddaughter loves the slow pace too here at eagle harbor. but

that would instead stand for doug commonwealth to honor frederick douglas. tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. >>> mean the tonight, there is more fall-out our the latest remarks on charlottesville >> with ceos dropping out of the president's strategic policy form as well as the council, he tweeted he would simply end both >> ronica cleary live with more on this story. >> jim and sarah, it came after decided to resign from one of the presidentially advisory councils, as you said he decided to do it via twitter. the president jumped ahead the game and decided to dismantle both of his council that have seen significant attrition before they might have had the opportunity to do it themselves, rather than putting pressure on manufacturing council and - strategy forum, i'm endng both, thank you all. just yesterday, at that firing press conference, in trump tower, the president said that the reason business leaders were leaving, it had nothing to do with the remarks he's made since charlottesville. >> i think the challenge that people face or the consumers face is th

maybe there should be frederick douglas in maryland, for example where they're taking down another statuee these ideas of doing parallel statues to give bothsides of the story. what the president has done unfortunately along with the demonstrators but what he has condoned is the idea these statues are the -- resurrect naziism. the statues are going to be the losers at this point or maybe deserve to be. >> thank you. it's an important history lesson for earn. thank you all for being with us. quick break then news room with john berman. sensing and automatically adjusting to your every move. there. i can even warm these. does your bed do that? i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. >>> the good morning everyone john berman here. the big question this morning is what now? what now after the president made his feelings crystal clear on the violence and death sparked by white supremacists this weekend

. >> frederick douglas is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job as being recognized more and more, i notice. >> we've had leaders like susan b. anthony. have you heard of susan b. anthony? >> andrew jackson, if he had been been later, there wouldn't be the civil war? why was there the civil war? why could that have not have been worked out? >> he told me a year and a half ago, a year ago, you know, you thought he could have done a deal to have averted the war. >> what's important is this flag and its message of freedom. a message as important to donald trump as it was to the 13 original coloniecolonies. >> i don't know what the 13 stripes represent. >>> that was a look at the president's casual relationship with american history. much of it taking place since he came into office. >> the push to dismantle symbols across the country met a series of tweets from the president yesterday. the great great grandsons of stonewall jackson even wrote an open letter in slate saying the monuments must go, and former mississippi governor and secretary of the navy ray mabus writes every

you don't take general lee down but you add frederick douglas, you know, and that you keep history and -- what you pull forward, though, are people that are -- don't have monuments to them like eye da b. wells or wilson. a philip randolph and create a conversation. i put that to them and they said, one of them said, you know, that's a great idea. why isn't anybody talking about that? >> when you talked with these people, could you discern why some would want to join a neo-nazi movement? >> i should for the record, the people i came to know over five years are not neo-nazi and they're in horror of it and they feel in the eye of the public confused with that position. but they don't feel seen by anybody else. there's a sense of being strangers in their own land. and that makes them think, well, i don't have choices. they didn't see that in the democratic party. >> you are echoing how you described them and characterized them is what a lot of african americans would say in this country as well. based on what you learned in those five years, did you also -- or were you able to identify a w

and frederick douglas chastises him, slaves aren't the cause of the world, slavery is the cause of the war. but i feel no missionary zeal for the african-american. he's so worried about acceptance of the proclamation, but the one that no one ever talks about is a delegation of religious leaders from chicago, who come and say, mr. president, we're begging you to do something to free the slaves when you have the power and the moment. and this is even closer to lee's invasion of maryland. and lincoln says, what good would have a proclamation from me do? it's like the pope's bain against the comment. i actually went to see what he went by that. he had issued a papal order that i think it was haley's comet was not to appear. so these ministers go back to chicago and they write an article summarizing lincoln's lecture to them, that he's i e' impotent, and guess what date the article appears? september 23, which is the same date that the proclamation is printed in the papers. he's made total fools of them. they should have gotten their news out. fake news has to be published right away or it'

mayor muriel bowser will unveil the design for the new frederick douglas memorial bridge.struction of the bridge is the largest project in the history of the d.c. department of transportation. it includes replacing the 68-year-old bridge and the reconstruction of the suitland parkway i-295 interchange the unveiling will begin at 11:00 this morning. >> ♪ >> time right now is that means it's time to check in with mike thomas, talk about the weather. i got to say you a pretty surprised when i walked outside this morning 'cause it wasn't too bad. >> not bad at all. a lot like yesterday morning. a little chilly in some of our suburbs. few more clouds this afternoon than we had yesterday afternoon and for those living far out to the west, winchester, cumberland maryland you could pop a shower maybe this afternoon but here in d.c. baltimore i believe we keep it dry all day. satellite and radar -- satellite and radar -- temperatures outside cool and comfy, 69 in washington but look at gaithersburg, 58 as you start your day. 59 at dulles. out to the west winchester 54, martinsburg

i'm really focused on right now thinking about the words of frederick douglas who said that -- had to remind the north after winning the civil war that there was a right side and a wrong side to the civil war. and that means that if he had to remind the north which had just won, that there actually was a right side that they had been on what people view as a morally right side of that war, then imagine how we as a country now are still having to grapple with this so many, month -- actually, more than 150 years later. and the same could be said for world war ii. there was a right side and a wrong side to world war ii. these actually are clearer cut conflicts than many others, and yet here we are still dealing with the after effects of that. we find ourselves in a situation in which, you know, when you think about what lyndon johnson ended up having to say after the civil rights act of 1964, he said he feared that we would -- that the democrats, he said, would lose the south for a generation and as it has turned out, the democrats lost not just the south for a generation, but a lot of p

mayor muriel bowser and congresswoman eleanor holmes norton unveiled the design for the new frederick douglashistory of the d.c. department of transportation. it includes replacing the 68-year-old bridge and the reconstruction of the suitland parkway, i-295 interchange the new bridge will be rebuilt from its current reaction big deal. >> yes it is. >> that's it for us at 5:00. >> tony and shawn standing by and the news starts right now. >> ♪ >> this is fox5 local news at 6:00. >> ♪ >> right now at 6:00 a 13 and 14-year-old are accused of stabbing a homeless man to death in prince george's county. how an eyewitness helped police solve the crime. >>> plus, dramatic video in the district. that's a mother running for cover clutching her baby as the bullets fly by. >>> and the montgomery county public school system is at the center of a new lawsuit following a sexual abuse scandal. the news at 6:00 starts right now. >> ♪ >> we begin tonight with some breaking news in the district. police are still on intersection of saratoga and montana avenue in northeast. >> fox5's lauren demarco is live on the

by bringing this authorization, you know, it started an enormous swell of people enlisting, frederick douglasas out there encouraging people to enlist. he had sons who enlisted. it was critical. the role that african-americans ended up playing in the war was critical to the union. host: what tripped it for the union to allow blacks to come into the service? guest: i think it was part necessity. part, there were enough people out there, you know, people pushing for a long time for this to happen. but the union also started seeing that the south had an advantage because they had slave labor, and so when the war first started, they had, slaves were building fortifications. they were doing lots of work. they were giving the south an advantage, and, and one of the things that smalls did through his heroic act was he convinced a lot of people in the north that african-americans were willing to fight for their freedom. it's hard to imagine, but at that point, a lot of people questioned whether they would. and that's one of the major contributions of smalls is that he became this focal point for peop

mayor muriel bowser will unveil the design and time line for the new frederick douglas memorial bridgeatest construction project and the largest one in the history of the district's department of transportation which also includes the reconstruction of the suitland parkway. the new bridge will be built about 100 feet from its current location. steve. >> al, one very simple question for you. are you ready for some fo not just for the morning line but time for some football. exciting day for redskins fans the first preseason game finally here. tonight they'll kick off in baltimore. redskins players have been going up against their teammates in camps. finally time to hit somebody else besides a player wearing burgundy and gold. kirk cousins says he would love to play as long as possible without getting too hurt. junior galette hasn't played in two years with the team been hurt the last two seasons so he's ready to go tonight. is he firedup. >> why would i be worried that somebody is too tired up? i hope everybody is as fired up as junior. i think everybody is excited to get back outfield.

in any case, with regard to cuba you should know that with regard to our folk, people like frederick douglas, martin delaney, are on the forefront of objecting to u.s. involvement in the slave trade to cuba, objecting to the fact that in terms of the coffee plantations, sugar plantations and tobacco plantations on the island of cuba, that were disproportionately controlled by u.s. citizens. martin delaney, one of our greatest intellectual leaders, wrote what i consider to be perhaps still the leading novel in the canon of african-american literature of late, which has at the center of story not only black abolitionists fighting slavery in cuba, but also puts forth a prescient story about how cuba would be the hope of the america does. americas. for those of you that are following what is going on with regard to west africa and ebola and that cuban authorities have outstripped many larger nations in terms of sending scores if not hundreds of epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, medics to be on the front lines in terms of combating the ebola epidemic, outshining many larger nations, not least

. >> this mural begins with a quote by frederick douglas about earnest ness, working hard, which is the foundation of what we are as americans. knees were immigrants from italy and freedman from the united states. who did this work to create probably the most iconic memorial in washington, dc. >> i saw it from the florida avenue across going across the bypass, it's a really good view from there. >> 50,000 people a day can see this mural by riding up and down island avenue and noma and also our visitor whose are on amtrak or mark did see it from the train station >> with all the controversy taking down the confederate statues, i think this is just an amazing statement. >> this is an homage to what it takes to be part of the history of the this country. and what it takes to build these things don't magically appear on the mall. a lot of hard work, a lot of craftsmanship and the department of general services wanted to honor that. >> this makes me tear up. it's amazing. i love it. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit c