georgetown pike is virginia's first historic and scenic biway. it took ten years for it to earn a spot on the national register of historic places. now that it's there, any work on the pike needs to respect this heritage. >> the pike was started in 1813, so it is 200 years old. we are trying to keep it the way it looks now, so it retains its historic value. virginia department of transportation is expecting to wrap up work in two months as long as the weather holds. reporting on georgetown pike, armando trull, wusa9. >> vdot is recommending that commuters looking to avoid delays use old dominion drive instead. >>> a man is shot to death in northwest washington. we know who died. police don't know who killed him. neighbors reported hearing gun shots near the intersection of quebec place just before 11:00 last night. that is where police found 23- year-old, dondre dire, suffering from multiple gun shots. he died a short time later at the hospital. >>> four people were shot overnight at u street in northeast. d.c. fire and ems transported all of the

georgetown --d to into georgetown, and goes to the home of one of the madisons friends.word fromting for president madison. he arrives at the white house around 4:00 in the afternoon. left, and he takes sort of a last look around at the place. he is accompanied by a couple of aides. he is exhausted, a 50-year-old man who has been riding on horseback after the battlefield. yet, under rocket fire,. you can only imagine what his thoughts were at this moment. this was a nation he helped conceive. he had been the guiding light behind the constitution. enemy,, america's great great britain, had a clear path and was on its way into washington. wine,ses for a glass of collect his thoughts, and then he gets on horseback and why it's -- and rides down here to georgetown where the sun is setting at this point. there is a fairy, known as carrys ferry, that could people, as well as horses across the river. over here to masons island. it is next to the virginia shore. today is known as theodore roosevelt island. from there, madison, who is jennings,d by paul the madisons house slave,

georgetown was a lot of fun back then. >> reporter: customers say georgetown is going through a transitionones taking their place. cephalwe just checked into our hotel and starting to walk down the street. it sort of looks like so many other cities right now, a lot of chain stores have moved in. >> reporter: mr. smith hopes to rekindle hometown flavor at a new location. >> some of the things we will try to take with us. a lot of stuff will be auctioned off. hopefully we will relocate and have mr. smiths back in business. >> reporter: in georgetown, tom sherwood, news 4. >>> a sailor's voyage to the u.s. interrupted. why he initially refused help and about his unusual guide to get to the american shores. >>> busy road, busy bridge. i'm adam tuss. i'll tell you about the

others had towards georgetown.really, none of them are heading back to the third line of defense, which has been formed by joshua barney and his navy flotilla men, and the district militia which had raced up from washington during the course of the morning in the terrible heat. in fact, the maryland militia commanders hadn't even been informed that there was a third line. no one had told him that joshua barney and the district militia had formed behind them. they are retreating in a chaotic fashion. winder is losing his nerve. he ends up ordering a general retreat. this even as the british are starting to approach the third line of defense. it is made up of barney and the district of militia. the british at bladensburg have to move uphill to attack this third line. barney is situated on a strong position, right on the district maryland line. you had big guns, and u.s. marines from the u.s. marine barracks in washington. they had come up to support the flotilla men serving as infantry for them. the british are tryin

they moved to a house on bridge street in georgetown, the main east-west street in georgetown. their house is on the river, and it's not there anymore. there is a park called francis scott key park. if you come over the key bridge, which is named after francis scott key, and surprisingly, there is a park -- if you turn right onto m street, there is a park. that's not where the house was. the house was to the left of the bridge because it was turned down in 1947 to make way for the entrance ramp onto the whitehurst freeway. the national park service founded by that time, and the park service was going to rebuild the house, so they put the brakes and the logs and everything on the other side where the park is, and then they disappeared. that's all we have left. that is where they lived. they wound up having 11 children, and he became a big lawyer in town. he had a thriving practice. he would wind up arguing over 100 cases before the supreme court. he later becomes u.s. attorney for washington for eight years under andrew jackson. so let's go up to the events that happened in 1814

sorry, not the georgetown pike, the 7th street pike, they cut off the georgetown pike in what is now wheaton, maryland, and cut out to the 7th street pike, georgia avenue, so early, uncharacteristically for him decided not to invade, but there was fighting that went on with artillery and skirmishing that day, july 11th, and that night. this is all, we are now in the city of washington, d.c. it's not urban washington, d.c., but it's definitely city, and -- but back then, this was all farms out here. this is hardly considered part of washington, d.c., because washington was down there where the white house is and downtown and georgetown and so on. now they had cleared tries out for firing outside fort stevens, but this was all farmland, and people from washington came out to see what all of the excitement was about, including president lincoln. fort stevens was one of -- might have been the most extensive of the defenses of washington. there were 67 of them, not all of them were as extensive as this one. there was a magazine, looks like barracks, it was enclosed on all four sides. some

sorry, not the georgetown pike, the 7th street pike, they cut off the georgetown pike in what is now wheaton, maryland, and cut out to the 7th street pike, georgia avenue, so early, uncharacteristically for him decided not to invade, but there was fighting that went on with artillery and skirmishing that day, july 11th, and that night. this is all, we are now in the city of washington, d.c. it's not urban washington, d.c., but it's definitely city, and -- but back then, this was all farms out here. this is hardly considered part of washington, d.c., because washington was down there where the white house is and downtown and georgetown and so on. now they had cleared tries out for firing outside fort stevens, but this was all farmland, and people from washington came out to see what all of the excitement was about, including president lincoln. fort stevens was one of -- might have been the most extensive of the defenses of washington. there were 67 of them, not all of them were as extensive as this one. there was a magazine, looks like barracks, it was enclosed on all four sides. some

georgetown prep held a prayer service in the school chapel. just before the service i spoke with athletic director by phone. >> he was an energetic, enthusiastic, fun young man who probably wanted to please you more than any other young men we have. >> reporter: friends oth family shared their grief at the home where abe's mother lives in rockville. she had already left for cleveland. family friends say they have known abe since he was small. >> all his life. he was very smart, athletic. he was handsome, smiling. always a smile. he was such a sweet, sweet, sweet boy. god bless him. >> reporter: a lingering question hangs over this tragic death. why did abe get on that flying club plane last night and take off after dark with a pilot who was a fellow student and only 20 years old? we will look into that part of the story coming up tonig on news 4 at 6:00. that is the latest live at georgetown prep. >>> developing tonight on news 4 at 5:00 a possible audio recording of the moment michael brown was shot in ferguson, missouri. the attorney for the

. >> it's been a georgetown staple for 50 years but now mr.ith's is closing down. >> will the popular bar/restaurant have a future somewhere else? richard reeve has the story. >> it's a classic bar and restaurant. >> when you think of georgetown, you think think of this place. >> from its earthy wood tones to casual cool. >> we are the friendliest saloon in town. >> it's been part of georgetown for 50 years. >> this is where the cool people came back in the day. >> we're sad to see it go. >> but this m. street icon is shutting down. the manager says the boston-based landlord wants more money. 25 employees facing uncertainty the doors will close on or around september 1. >> it's hard for me, for all the employees. our head chef has been here for almost 30 years. >> so you'll forgive the patrons if they enjoy lunch with a side of nostalgia. >> the favorite part of the restaurant, the outdoor garden, kind of an oasis in the middle of a busy city. >> here there are memories but also character. >> all you see now are chain stores. we see them every

they then move out throughout georgetown pike, out through georgetown, because the first reports the general received, the confederates are in the area of rockville. but they are going to be detoured, turn in and move out 7th street extended georgia avenue. there's a lot of excitement in washington that night as the 6th corps arrive to help out with the militia, the 108 men, the imbi corps of the next day. the confederates are having a real ball up in silver spring. montgomery blair is going to lose his house, franklin, to the confederates, who show that they can burn houses pretty well, too. francis blair, adviser to all presidents from andrew jackson to abraham lincoln, he's not at home, but he has a good liquor closet, and some of the confederates, particular jubal early, is a good drinking man, and they are consuming francis p. blair's liquor supply, and they are very delighted as they get more and more, because one of the confederates there is john c. breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. being vice president under james buchanan,

one was a georgetown prep graduate. he's 18, and was a fresh man in cleveland. investigators say the students wanted to take a quick flight over the city. moments after taking off the plane crashed. those who knew him are devastated. >> very smart. all the time he's laughing. he's so cute. everybody loved him. >> he was from rockville. georgetown prep held a prayer service for him this afternoon. >> new tonight on the eve of the first day of class georgetown university students gathered to remember michael brown. a vigil was held on the edge of campus. it was part of a largerer discussion for the recent events in ferguson. thursday a community-wide forum will be held that includes participation by faculty and an open comment period for the audience. >> in st. louis, protesters marched to the u.s. attorney's office today. enough to keep pressure on local and federal investigators looking into it. the group wants a nationwide look at how black communities are treated by police. an audio tape of the moment brown was shot was released today. the man who recorded it

her parents in 1986 were living in georgetown. they made their home now after he resigned in protest from his daughter and son-in-law's government. so they had been living in georgetown, and in 1986 they were murdered in their sleep by their only son. and i thought, this is real life? this is non-fiction? so the mystery really drew me in, and that was the last time madam nu emerged from her sort of self-imposed seclusion to say, this is my family, leave them alone. >> did syou start out thinking about writing about the children's lives, praerhaps, an then she became such an interesting figure to you along the way? >> i thought there was something there. i'm going to get the names wrong because i don't have it in front of me, but they were like 90 and 86 or something when they were murdered, and they were murdered, i read, in their pajamas. that seemed is to heartbreaking and sad. so i started digging into it, and what i found was these lives of this sort of sympathetic, elderly couple had lived quite a life before that. madam nu's

in 1986 her parents were living in georgetown. they made their home there after he resigned in protest from his daughter and son-in-law's government so they have been living in georgetown and in 1986 they were murdered in their sleep by their only son. i thought, this is real-life? this is nonfiction? of the mystery mystery drew me in and i was the last time madame nhu emerged from her self-imposed seclusion to say you know this is a family affair. leave my family alone and at that time she was living in rome where she was as you mentioned back and forth between rome and paris during those years. >> did you start out and the parents, did you start out thinking about writing about their lives perhaps and she became such an inch think figure to you along the way? >> i certainly thought there was something there. i'm going to get their names from that they were 90 and 86 or something when they were murdered and they were murdered i went in their pajamas. that to me seems those heartbreaking and sad. i started digging into it and what

they then move out throughout georgetown pike, out through georgetown, because the first reports theere's a lot of excitement in washington that night as the 6th corps arrive to help out with the militia, the 108 men, the imbi corps of the next day. the confederates are having a real ball up in silver spring. montgomery blair is going to lose his house, franklin, to the confederates, who show that they can burn houses pretty well, too. francis blair, adviser to all presidents from andrew jackson to abraham lincoln, he's not at home, but he has a good liquor closet, and some of the confederates, particular jubal early, is a good drinking man, and they are consuming francis p. blair's liquor supply, and they are very delighted as they get more and more, because one of the confederates there is john c. breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. being vice president under james buchanan, and the confederates are feeling good. now, lincoln had kept construction going on the capitol dome. the dome has been completed. you can see it from the soldie

. >> reporter: crews put down concrete barriers in georgetown as the first wave of closures take effect. and this is just the beginning. expect to see detours and parking restrictions from now through wednesday. samantha is already finding ways. >> find alternate routes. >> reporter: events are happening at the academy of sciences, the white house, the world bank and the mandarin oriental hotel. people should expect delays due to road closures and motorcades. there could also be protests. dignitaries could be seen at the four seasons hotel in georgetown. >> there were some roads flagged, a lot of police, a lot of security. so i guess it's a good thing. >> reporter: street closures could also have an impact on some businesses, limiting customer access. this store is just one in the closure zones. he hopes the increased activity could be a good thing. >> it being laos like i lucked out, the closures start there. >> reporter: they are encourage being people to be flexible for the next couple days and to think about letting workers telecommute. >> so even with these planned closures we know

esposito a professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university thank you so much for your time thank you. cheeseburgers video games playing basketball hammer at the mall all a typical suburban american teenager stuff right but then something happens something triggers a change and that's exactly what people in the twin cities are wondering seeing two young men from their towns convert to radicalized islam so what happened how do average american teenagers turn into radical jihadi fighters artie's a mirror david explores this seemingly growing trend. thirteen years after waging war against afghanistan to eradicate al qaeda the u.s. is now dealing with a potentially greater threat that of course is the threat of a terrorist organization isis that's exactly what was addressed here today by a panel of experts one of the things that the panel spend some time talking about is why why we've seen this rise of the isis group now georgetown professor john esposito said it had less to do with religion and more to do with a long list of other grievances the drivers include mo

you don't want to chagrin the business group in georgetown. they marked the chairs and even put up a sign asking people to leave them behind because those chairs cost about $100 each. the gro -- this would never happen in paris. the group is still planning to purchase and put out 50 more chairs. i think that would be lovely. >> good look out there. >>> uber is the next trendy way to hitch a right here, but the southwest has launched a war on our local roads. we'll find out why some say this new trend is cutting into their bottom line. >>> as the must military launches air strikes in iraq, a young iraqi woman who lives here in our area is desperately trying to keep in touch with her family back home. her story coming up.ñoñí >>> iraqis now call the d.c. region home and say the lives of their families are in increasing daj. news 4's kristen wright is live at the white house for us tonight with more on their story. kristen. >> reporter: an international organization called the iraqi refugee assistance project helped a young woman get a special im

we have froefr from georgetown university. a senior fellow from the council on foreign relations and deputy security of defense. and a fellow at the brookings institution and author of temptations of power. you have got these lists of possible options, the chips on the u.s.'s side of the table, and on the islamic states, what's the next logical moh for the u.s.? >> well, the first thing that we need to do is take some lessons from the past. one thing we know to be true is that taking a short term approach and thinking that you can bomb your way out of this is not the best option in the short term. what we need is a long term approach bringing in actors from the region and bringing in the political problems and that is realistic about what can be done. that being said, in the short term there is a threat. i do believe there are viable military options in the short term that can continue on the momentum to push back isis and that is not the long term fix. >> so, what is job one? they are deployed in the field. they have got what

we settled up across from georgetown. he rode uch ap and told the two apparent owners he was impounding it. so some citizens who might normally have buckled under bureaucratic pressure, now bristles. it's got my fingerprints all over it at the national archives. booth was one of the last to free the city before the british arrived. and before he did so, he decided to check at the white house. he saw an american colonel and the colonel dismounted, went over to the locked front door of the white house, pulled hard on the bell rope, banged on the front door shouting out the name of the french, john latif of the household staff. but for booth, all was as silent as a church. only then did this poor navy cloak realize that in his words, the metropolis of our country was abandoned to its horrid fate. you can almost hear his howl. he then ordered his stuff to secure as best they could in the departmental records. one of the cloaks, steven plesant, remember that name, stephen with a p-h and pleasantton. p-l-e-a-s-a-n-t-o-n. but pl

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eastbound the georgetown pike, a vehicle hit a guardrail. vehicle almost cleared itself out of the roadway. at this point the guardrail appears to be sticking out into the eastbound lane. across georgetown and the key bridge you're looking good and running without any kind of problems this morning. >> thank you. 5:31, we want to get to breaking news this morning because while you were sleeping the who world health organization -- the world health organization declared the ebola outbreak a public emergency. >> it is the longest and the largest in history and the who says the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread. they issued similar advisories for the swine flu in 2009 and polio in may. >> john gonzalez outside the u.s. supreme court this morning with details on a decision that could affect the entire country. >> that's right, ladies. good morning and the question on capitol hill this morning, will the 14th amendment finally take center stage. virginia will formally ask the country's highest court to finally review its marriage

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sorry, not the georgetown pike, the 7th street pike, they cut off the georgetown pike in what is now wheaton, maryland, and cut out to the 7th street pike, georgia avenue, so early, uncharacteristically for him decided not to invade, but there was fighting that went on with artillery and skirmishing that day, july 11th, and that night. this is all, we are now in the city of washington, d.c. it's not urban washington, d.c., but it's definitely city, and -- but back then, this was all farms out here. this is hardly considered part of washington, d.c., because washington was down there where the white house is and downtown and georgetown and so on. now they had cleared tries out for firing outside fort stevens, but this was all farmland, and people from washington came out to see what all of the excitement was about, including president lincoln. fort stevens was one of -- might have been the most extensive of the defenses of washington. there were 67 of them, not all of them were as extensive as this one. there was a magazine, looks like barracks, it was enclosed on all four sides. some

they then move out throughout georgetown pike, out through georgetown, because the first reports theut with the militia, the 108 men, the imbi corps of the next day. the confederates are having a real ball up in silver spring. montgomery blair is going to lose his house, franklin, to the confederates, who show that they can burn houses pretty well, too. francis blair, adviser to all presidents from andrew jackson to abraham lincoln, he's not at home, but he has a good liquor closet, and some of the confederates, particular jubal early, is a good drinking man, and they are consuming francis p. blair's liquor supply, and they are very delighted as they get more and more, because one of the confederates there is john c. breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. being vice president under james buchanan, and the confederates are feeling good. now, lincoln had kept construction going on the capitol dome. the dome has been completed. you can see it from the soldier's home, and they are debating, because breckenridge had been expelled from the sen

dense fog for georgetown right now. it will clear and sunshine for most of the area. showers north and west. we could see some of those late this afternoon. most of the area stays dry. it's the shore that is of greater concern today as cristobal moves up the coast and offshore. stays offshore. clear of any land mass. close enough to create dangerous rip currents not just today but over the next several days. in fact, through the holiday weekend. so be on the lookout for that. sunshine today. 82 degrees this afternoon along the coastline. 70s for friday as the temperatures come down and the wind will pick up that northerly wind will make things much more comfortable starting later tomorrow. 87 to 90 degrees this afternoon inland. a hot one today. more areas will see 90 degrees this afternoon. we'll get a break tomorrow. 84, breezy, less humid for thursday. nice and comfortable on friday. temperatures start climbing for saturday and here come the 90s for sunday and labor day monday. >> we continue for follow breaking news in the fairmount park area. three men were abduc

news4's megan mcgrath is live in georgetown right now to tell us more. megan, you've been there all morning. we haven't even hit the work week and we're already dealing with traffic issues. >> reporter: that's true. african leaders summit will have a big impact on traffic. we'll see road closures, parking restrictions, and it has already started. look behind me here. we're in georgetown. i'm actually standing on m street. this is 29th street. the police cruiser is blocking the roadway there. it is blocked all the way down to k street, just one of a number of closures in effect already. a little while ago they brought in some concrete jersey barriers, they put those down. this is what folks can expect to see now through wednesday as this summit gets under way. there are going to be some traffic tie-ups, no doubt about it, as a lot of roads in the area are going to be closed as events get under way. take a look at some of the areas that are affected. there are going to be events this week at the national academy of sciences, the white house, world bank, th

crews are repaving georgetown pike from the beltway to springdale road. most of that work will happen between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.. the road will not be shut down, but vdot urges to you take alternate routes. the project will take about two months. >>> election day is growing closer and today a group will endorse mayorurieboer to be mayor. afl-cio will back bowser against catania and schwartz. bowser is a democratic candidate. you'll be able to vote for your choice on november 4. >>> we're following a developing story, a vigil for peace erupted in violence. the crime wave that started after a group came together to remember an unarmeded man shot and killed by police. >>> and why it is tougher to buy your favorite disany money movi. and tom kierein will look at who will see rain first. (vo) ours is a world of passengers. the red-eyes. (daughter) i'm really tired. (vo) the transfers. well, that's kid number three. (vo) the co-pilots. all sitting... ...trusting... ...waiting... ...for a safe arrival. introducing the all-new subaru legacy. designed to help

southern delaware, georgetown seeing dense fog at quarter mile visibility.l disappear once temperatures climb but they're still falling at this hour. 69 degrees in philadelphia. 61 for pottstown and atlantic city and some 50s for millville, wildwood and the pocono mountains. stand by for a sunny day today and a hot afternoon. 86 degrees by lunchtime and climbing. looking for 90 later on in some spots. i'll show you where those spots are most likely to occur when i come back with a neighborhood by neighborhood forecast. first we say hello to jillian mele. >> good morning to you. starting off in chester county, quiet look route 100 at the pennsylvania turnpike. 100 looks good. pa turnpike is clear but elsewhere we still have a spot of construction out there eastbound right approaching the exit for valley forge. the left lane is blocked in that area. it's part of that long-term overnight construction. at this point we're used to seeing that in overnight hours on the pennsylvania turnpike. heading north right now to lehigh valley, 78 right at cedar crest bouleva

it's not just berkeley and georgetown. columbia university, university of chicago's also doing that. and until recently, george town had on its law school web site basically talking about how the school's aid combined with the federal plan, quote: means public interest borrowers might not pay a single penny on their loans ever, exclamation point, end quote. the school spokesman said the statement was removed this year. so, again, i understand that this $3.5 trillion entity called the federal government and the student loan ram and all these aid packages are all well intentioned programs. but i think we have to honestly take a look at the reality of the situation and look at the very severe and serious negative unintended consequences of our good intentions. art of that being we have collectively enticed our children to incur loan debt that we're trying to figure out how to solve the problem that the government's caused. thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. we are going to turn to our witnesses. again, ms. jones, we're goi

there were many free blacks here in georgetown. the fact that there was a freedman'svillage -- village at arlington cemetery. howard theatre and the lincoln theater. i tried not to include commercial entities. i thought if i started down this path, and because all , i electeds so much not to do that, but because i had ford's theatre and the kennedy center, i wanted to put lincoln theater and howard the in.-- howard theatre very vibrant city, increasingly. one great place to go for a the synagogue, and i do have some of the churches in washington because i wanted to .ut the national cathedral in a very vibrant religious history, but i touch upon those rather than to go in to them deeply. i have a question before we go on. i want to ask this question here because i know it is a very educated audience, and i have asked this question of other groups where i have spoken -- which president -- and i have always stumped the audience, so i want to see whether anyone can guess the right answer here -- which president pardoned robert lee?- ro

from a homeless shelter to georgetown university, one student's amazing journey next. when healthcare changes. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when healthcare becomes simpler. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care. this is a woyeah!esitating on a life-changing decision. at university of phoenix, we- we know going back to school is a big decision. that's why we offer many first year students with limited to no college experience a risk-free period. so you can commit to your education with confidence. get started at phoenix.edu surprise you. the number of homeless students in american public schools is at an all-time high. 1.2 million students in the united states were homeless during the 2011-2012 academic year. that is up 10% from the previous school year. but we want you to meet this student. not only is she a straight-a student who became valedictorian of her washington, d.c., class, she's also been homeless for five years. just a few weeks ago she left a shelter and moved to georgetown university where she'll attend on a ful

her parents in 1986 were living in georgetown. they made the elder after he resigned in protest from his daughter and son-in-law's government so they been living in georgetown. and 96 they were murdered in their sleep by their only son. and i thought, this is a real-life? this is nonfiction? so the ministry really threw me in -- zooming in and those of us time madame nhu emerged from her self imposed exclusion to say this is a family affair, leave my family alone. at the time she was living in rome but she was back and forth between rome and paris. >> did you start out possibly, the parents, did you start out thinking about writing about their lives perhaps and then she became such an interesting figure to you a long the way? >> i sort of thought there was something there. their faces looking, 90 -- i'm going to get the names wrong -- 90 and 86 or something when they were murdered and they were murdered i read in their pajamas. that seem so heartbreaking and sad. i start looking into it and what i found was that these lives, these

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in fact, he picked georgetown maryland as the site of the new capitol. now, the congress gave washington not only the authority to pick the location, but they also gave him the authority to select three commissioners and an architect to define the new city. it was andrew ellicot and benjamin baniker who set the outlines ten miles on each side from land donated from maryland and virginia. benjamin baniker was a free black and he and andrew ellicot were good friends. if you go looking for these boundaries today, the ones most accessible happened to be in the state of virginia. one is in jones point park in alexandra and two others are in parks in virginia. if you go to those particular boundary stones, you'll see how far into virginia the district of columbia once reached. but in 1846, virginia reclaimed the land that it had donated and today the district of columbia is on land districtly donated by the state of maryland. so george washington turned to pierre lafon to design the city of washington that would house our federal government institutions. and p

people on the ground are responding to this outbreak. >> i would like to ask lawrence gostin of georgetownis whole issue of quarantine and especially large communities has created quite a bit of controversy on the ground there as well. could you talk about that? we specialize in trying to look at quarantine efforts. >> they've tried to use basically a very large guarded area. they've used a must a medieval form of quarantine with soldiers, blockades, people who are in the quarantine area are very frightened -- and i think deservedly so. they're frightened not only because they are in a hot spot, a hot zone of ebola, but also with roads blocked, food is expensive and getting scarce. there are no medical supplies. met. needs are not being way of a really inhumane trying to do that. we never should have come to this. disease that is a an be contained if you have strong health system, but provided no international assistance of the level and sustainability that is needed to build health systems in the world's poorest countries. and this is what happens. and now we have these large quarantine a

they then move out through georgetown pike, out through georgetown.at night as the 6th corps arrive to help out with the militia, the 108 men the next day. the confederates are having a real ball up in silver spring montgomery player is going to lose his house. franklin to the confederates o show that they can burn houses pretty well. francis player, adviser to all presidents, from andrew jackson to abraham lincoln, he's not home but he has a good liquor closet and some of the confederates, particularly general anderson early, is a good drinking man and they're consuming francis player's liquor supply and they're very delighted to get more and more. because whone of the confederat there is john c. breckenridge. who? the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. being vice president under james buchanan. the confederates are feeling good. now lincoln had kept construction going on on the capitol dome. the dome has been completed. you can see it from the soldiers home. and they're debating, because breckenridge had been expelled from

he's trying to provide some some some kind of support for the private efforts on that then and georgetown university professor chris chambers as always thank you so much for getting on and weighing in. a lot has happened in the five days since michael brown was shot and killed for a look at how the events in ferguson have unfolded from day one let's go to our tease military and high powered rifles flash bang grenades burning buildings a community under siege and these images behind me depict a war zone but this is actually ferguson missouri a midwestern town of about twenty three thousand ferguson police department a force of only fifty three unable to contain the growing chaos and rage from the community wounded by the slaying of unarmed eighteen year old michael brown in broad daylight on a sunny saturday afternoon by ferguson police. what started out as a peaceful protest quickly evolved into civil unrest looting rioting but how did we get here how did we get to this. let's start with saturday august ninth michael brown an eighteen year old boy enjoying the last summer weekend before h

esposito a professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university to discuss the growing trend of american recruitment by isis and how the u.s. will deal with the terror group inside of syria i first asked him why isis seems to be appealing to westerners in general. well i think that one of these we should get first of all is that isis actually is appealing far more broadly than we really thought for example indonesians chechnyans who would have thought that it would be already growing in indonesia. and i think in terms of the u.s. . and the and europe. if you think about it it's precisely what al qaeda has been trying to do in recent years and particularly targeting use disaffected youth in one way or another disaffected the first young person who died as a suicide bomber from florida talked about he was raised in a good middle class background family but talked about never really feeling that he fit in. yeah you know and they can be a variety of reasons for that is sometimes you can just be a psychological personality but other times it can actually be depending on wher

continues with georgetown university associate professor matthew kroenig whose latest book was releasedin may. "a time to attack." the looming iranian nuclear threat. that's followed by the three americans imprisoned in 2009 after hiking an the wrong side of the border and accused of being spies. they tell their story in "a sliver of light." then military historian john mcmanus on the difficulties in the days and weeks following the normandy invasion in world war ii. >>> tonight at 8:00 eastern on american history tv, army veterans tell their stories of the front lines in world war ii, including this soldier who remembers his first encounter with a german soldier while fighting in north africa. >> we were fighting on a hill, 609, just beyond the pass. i went up one night to check on my company men and while i was there, there was a lot of big, big boulders on top of the mountain. we'll call it a hill with a small mountain how we're thinking here. and i heard this kind of scraping noise over my head, and i looked up and a german came down with a bayonet. went right through the fleshy par

i was called the georgetown pike and it goes directly on a line to washington, d.c. today it's called the urban that pike. it becomes rockville pike and then wisconsin avenue. goes right into washington. a little further we have the national pike which goes right to baltimore. then we have the railroad line straight down here from baltimore. you have a north/south, east low pressure west suburb. there was pan nick the streets in baltimore and washington. the rumors started flying. early gained troops, had about 14,000 on july 9th. the rumor was that he had 35,000 troops. the command structure was fragmented. there were a lot of generals in washington, d.c. in fact general hallic said we have plenty of generals. we need privates here. we need people to fight to get to the barricades of washington. so that was the situation in washington. now back down in richmond, grant, hen he learned what was happening here, did not want to sends troops outside of richmond and petersburg. you can read the telegrams that went back and forth. you can real the memoirs of the people who

georgetown where he saw a wagon outside a store. he told the owners he was impounding it for the department of the navy. this is wartime. some citizens who might normally have buckled under to bureaucratic pressure bristled when the power possessors, chasing off the officials with abuse and profanities. this is what happened. in a chronicle written two weeks after the departure of the british, he described what happened next. it has my fingerprints all over it at the national archives. i dismounted and followed them into the store with a made use of such lane which agreed into gentlemen. he did not have backup power. he did not get his wagon. booth was one of the last to flee the city before the british arrived. before he did so, he decided to check at the white house to see if anybody was there and get reliable information. when he rode up, he saw an american colonel on horseback near the front door. walkedonel dismounted, over to the locked front door of the white house, pulled on the bell rope, and bank on the door shouting out t