navy in hampton roads. this idea -- applied to the potomac. the fear that the merrimac will come up the potomac and shell the capital was palpable. and to send ships below washington, a rather treacherous stretch of river and sink ships there. after all, if the merrimac destroyed two of the navy's best ships in an afternoon. why not sink thechl in the potomac and block the merrimac from getting up to washington and, she doesn't have to destroy them, we'll do it for her. also the suggestion is -- and, it's -- very much -- a strategy, why don't we have a a fake confederate ship run the blockade. that is have a ship come sailing up to hampton roads flying the confederate flag, the union would make -- not very convincing attempts to stop the ship, it would get by the confederate battery because they would think it was one of their own. and then once that happened. the ship would sing k itself in the channel of the elizabeth river and again block the merrimac from coming down. also popular and admiral golds. borough favors this idea initially. what

navy in hampton roads. this idea also is applied to the potomac. that is, the fear that the merrimac is going to come up the potomac and show the capital is palpable. and so the solution was to send ships to kettle bottom shoals just below washington. it's a rather treacherous stretch of river. and to sink ships there. two frigates if necessary. that after all, if the "merrimac" destroyed two of the navy's best ships in an afternoon, why not just sink them in the potomac and block the "merrimac" from getting up to washington so she doesn't have to destroy them, we'll do it for her. also, the suggestion is, and it's very much a strat agem, why don't we have a fake confederate ship run the blockade? that is, have the ship come sailing up to hampton roads, flying the confederate flag. the union would make not very convincing attempts to stop the ship. it would get by the confederate batteries because they would think it was one of their own. and then once that happened the ship would sink itself in the channel of the elizabeth river and again block th

it hosted a conference in march to mark the anniversary of the battle of hampton rhodes. we'll hear remarks from the history professor on the war on the atlantic coast. this is about 50 minutes. >> well, it is my great pleasure to introduce our opening session here for the battle of hampton rhodes weekend 150th edition. craig symonds taught war history for 30 years. he thought he was retired. then he went back. and he is teaching there again. and he is a native of anaheim, california. craig earned his b.a. as ucla and masters from university of florida where he studied under the late john kay mahan. in 1970s he was in the navy, navy officer and first ensign ever to lecture at the naval war college in new port, rhode island. after his naval service he remained at the war college as a civilian professor of strategy from '74 to '75. he's an award winning author of 12 books, maybe more by now, but who's counting, right? editor of several others. and has written over 100 articles in professional journals and popular magazines. from 2005 to 2007, he lived here too. he was the c

navy in hampton roads. this idea also is applied to the potomac, the fear that the merrimac is going to come up to the potomac and shell the capital is palpable. so the solution was to send ships to kettle bottom shoals, just below washington's rather treacherous stretch of river and to sink ships there, two frig ets if necessary. if the merrimac destroyed two of the navy's best ships, why not sink them in the potomac and block the merrimac from getting up to the washington so she doesn't have to destroy them. we will do it for her. also, the suggestion is, very much a strat gem, why don't we have a fake confederate ship run the block aid. have a ship come sailing up flying the confederate flag. the union would make not very convincing attempts to stop the ship. it would get by the confederate batteries, because they would think it was one of their own. once that happened, the ship would sink its self in the channel of the elizabeth river and again block the merrimac from coming down. also popular, admiral

chase and stanton will actually cruise around hampton roads and he's found a spot where the union army can land to capture norfolk. once norfolk is gone, the confederate ship is untenable. lincoln orders this attempt to be made. in fact, lincoln actually gets to see the merrimac come down the river to investigate some shelling that the union maybe is doing, and there's conflicting reports. the union reports say that merrimac shows up, we withdrew trying to lure her further down so that vanderbilt and the other big rams could get a shot at her where the confederates say, well, the union saw the merrimac come and go fled. they all went to hide under the guns of fortress monroe. the union landing does take place, norfolk does fall, and on may 11 the confederates blow up the merrimac. in fact, solomon p. chase, who finds it sometimes reluctant to praise abraham lincoln writes to his daughter saying, if lincoln had not come down, the merrimac would probably still be as great a terror as previously. lincoln's presence and his forceful insistence that something be done actually garnered resul

it is even brought down to hampton roads at one point. but it is also not terribly workable. the navy officers who command it find that, yes it's, it submerges but goes straight to the bottom. it does not, you know, float, very well. doesn't answer, its helm. got all these different problems. and they tinker with it for two years. the alligator is sent to charleston when it sings off cape hatteras, close to where the monitor went down just almost a year before. even levelheaded montgomery meggs suggests we need to take out the merrimac in emergency. put men on different ships, have them jump on the merrimac and throw grenades down the smokestack. the merrimac's smokestack an object of sing lar faular fasci by those who view it as an achilles heel, a chinning in the armor that could mean destruction if handled improperly. a number of people write in with this idea, let's send, 10, 50, men, some wearing india rubber shoes to run up the case mate and sometimes, carrying hook ladders, some times chisels to somehow take apart the merrimac smoke take. apparently the confederates ar

another three miles to hampton road. so it's particularly fight fitting in a way that this issue is something we're dusting here in this particular place. i'll just leave it at that, say a little bit about for any of those in the room, my nephew sam is here, who's having a great time, and just getting interested in history. one of the things that's so satisfying about it is that it doesn't change. it hasn't all been figured out before. and the "monitor" as we know it is constantly changing and evolving, very much thanks to the efforts of a lot of the people here at the museum and at the marine sanctuary. and again, maybe all graduate students feel this way but 20 years ago i certainly felt like i was the only person in the world interested in the "monitor" and the "merrimack." it felt like such an old story. and now a lot of people have become interested in it and the wreck sort of continues to evolve. so it's great to be here. and thanks for your attention. >> happy to take questions. >> you mentioned that john ericsson

the alligator is brought down to hampton roads at one point but also is not terribly workable. the navy officers who command it finld th find that, yes, it submerges but it goes straight to the bottom. it does not float very well, doesn't answer its helm. it's got all these different problems. and they tinker with it for about two years. in fact, the alligator is being sent to charleston off of cape hatteras, very close to where the monitor went down just almost about a year before. commando raids are also very popular. this idea that -- in fact, even very level-headed montgomery megs first suggest we need to take out the merrimac in an emergency, let's just put different men on different ships, have them jump on the merrimac and throw grenades down the smokestack. the merrimac smokestack exercises -- it's an object of singular fascination by a number of writers who view it as this achilles heel, this fatal link in the rebel's armor who could handle immediate destruction if only handled properly. in fact, a number of people write in with this idea, let's send in 10 or 50 or wha

. >> let me go to hampton on the point by point here. hampton, what did you think the prosecution established today in terms of the claim by them, and of course by the star witness that john edwards came in second in the iowa caucuses for president. how he was able to spend money he got from people like bunny using that money according to the prosecution to cover up the affair, the child he had out of wedlock with rielle hunter. how he's doing all this as part of a campaign expenditure? how successful were they today? >> well, they didn't lose ground today. but you this was i think in many ways a win/win. a win for each side. andrew young backed up not just by his word which has a lot of credibility issues, but by documents, checks, bank account statements. was able to put john edwards in the middle of the plot to keep the affair private. and in many ways today was an audio version of the politician. but andrew young helped john edwards in three key ways. one, he made clear that bunny mellon wanted nothing in return. two, he made clear t

can you think of a trap like that being built across hampton roads? [ laughter ] on the coastal plain, especially the outer coastal plain, you've got these wide, wide estuaries, which are useful for some things but among other things, the fish traps you find are going to be entirely different. john white got partially right, de vie got it correct, you can see in the upper left there, except the heart shaped bay is meant to be out at the end of the fence. when they reinvented fish pounds like this, this is what they came up with. this has one or two sets of bays. up in the potomac, more like three sets of bays. very efficient way, though, these traps, to catch fish. for months on end. it's a passive way to get plenty of fish for supper. but they were a lot of work, because you've got limited technology to build them. in the old days, you would have some stakes and some reed bundles or bundles of cedar bow, and any storm, doesn't take a hurricane, can take it out. so the men were constantly doing repair work. and for this, you don't need a memory like a

this year's conference in early march marked the 150th anniversary of the battle of hampton roads, where for the first time ironclad warships met in battle. in this session author and professor david mindell talks about the technology of the "uss monitor" and the experience of its crew aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. >> well, i've got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be part of what we're doing today. and david mindell has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and i'm so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i've got to admit, i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mindell is a historian and electrical engineer. and he is the dibner professor of the history of engineering and manufacturing and. we're not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit's program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is a

he was the first person to come on after the battle of hampton roads. he said well, gentlemen, you don't look as though you've just come through the greatest naval battle on record. you might say the same thing about this photograph. these men are not looking all that happy. they're not looking all that shevelled, if that's a word. they are hastily contriving. they are sitting on the covers of the skylights to create a dignified picture. they have thrown their uniforms on, as you can see they're all sort of in different states of array because of the photographer coming on board that day. they are on watch, in hostile territory. you can see the binoculars in the binocular case here. some of the other shots actually have an enlisted man standing on the tarp, keeping watch. they have carefully arranged the photograph, as all these photographs from this period were to show the dents in the armor made by the merrimac. they're very, very proud of that. it's not a coincidence that it's right there. and they're hot and keeler here is sun burned. they have been

>> 715 crew from south hampton went on the ship. 156 returned. >> titanic sailed out of south hampton movies like "a night to remember," tell the story of sinking the unsinkable. and james cameron updated the story. "titanic" redefined the term blockbuster. the band played on. in less than three hours, titanic was gone. >> do not let go of my hand! >> reporter: of other 2,200 passengers on board less than a third made it onboard. it was 17 years before we saw titanic again, 1985. american explorer dr. robert ballard reveals the watery grave. >> the one for me was the signature image that told us we found the titanic. >> reporter: his discovery breathing new life into her story and the stories that perished bubbled to the surface. >> up fortunately died, but the clock stopped at exactly the time he hit the water and subsequently his body was found by crew members, and his stop watch was recovered. >> reporter: these murky waters where the titanic rests tell the story of time and could last another 100 years. and the story keeps on coming. the other theory is the sun and moon in alignme

palaro leads south hampton in scoring and administrators claim that's creating an adverse impact on the female players. the spokesman says the rules would allow him to play if he was not the dominant player. his family is appealing. >> it just means everything. like i play a lot of sports, but none of them compare to how i like field hockey. it's just so much phone. >> his family points out he's -- public. >> his family points out he's not a big guy, 4' 8 and weighs 82 pounds. his first appeal was denied. the second is scheduled for next month. let me get thi it's okay for a buy to play on girl -- get this straight. it's okay for a boy to play on girl's teams if he's not better than the girls or is it paving the way for the boys to come in and take over what had been a sport and team reserved for girls? you can take over mcginty's mailbag any time you like. drop us a line, mailbag at wusa9.com. >> looks like spring is returning. we think it's for good. topper has a toasty start to the month in his forecast. >> but first the world trade center is not back, but where it used to be, anothe

and then was educated at hampton university, hampton institute as it was then. he traveled down so alabama where he was invited to be the founding principle of the steel institute as it was then. tuskegee was created on the model of hampton as a school to educate teachers at the end of slavery, of course, education was very much needed by the freed men in very much wanted. to have education you have to have teachers. hampton had been treated to educate teachers. tuskegee was created on the same model. by 1900 tuskegee was a very successful school. washington has several attributes that contributed to this. he was a good teacher and a very hard worker. also a brilliant fund-raiser. he spent a lot of his time traveling up north making speeches and soliciting donations. to see was a thriving institution. in 1895 he had an opportunity that thrust into national limelight when he was invited to be a speaker at the atlanta, in state exhibition. a kind of world fair, and he was the only african-american speaker there. he spoke for five minutes, giving a speech that was

for the rest of the war, only hampton roads here in virginia surpassed port royal, south carolina in importance as a union naval base. indeed, it's hard to imagine how the north could have sustained that blockade at all without the base of port royal. so what was it like, then, to serve on this blockade as it became increasingly effective and is now sustained by basis along the south atlantic coast? these next several slides, by the way, are from the sketchbook of charles ellory steadman, who was the ship's doctor on the u.s.s. huron, one of the vessels on the blockade, and he kept a sketch book which provides just about the only contemporary images of the blockade that we have today. the union sail oors who kept th watch and fed the engines and manned the guns on these blockading vessels from virginia to texas found life at sea mostly an endless tedium of routine. they spent enter days focused in one direction or the harbors in another direction the black smoke that would be a sign of the ports. sure enough, time began to hang very heavy on the watchers. night, though, was the most

that toy for the lead at 7- under and with two strokes behind the leader and that would be peter hampton and on that 17th amount long birdie putt to move into the outright lead at 8-under and that that is good and with that birdie to finish under par and with that birdie to 12-under on the 13th and an eagle. at this point, folks, he died for the lead at 6-under and the crowd goes wild and with that pump, to the 18th now and another birdie here and to get to 8-under and with that 30 on the back. >> and that is giving me an opportunity to make something special happen and that is making it possible to have something tomorrow. i have to go out and do it and play some great golf on a tough golf course with some tough placements and having that opportunity to be in that final group on sunday is a great feeling in professional golf. >> and i kid you, how can you not route for phil mickleson? and he kicked the club and angered. and now it appears that woods is subject to discipline by the pga tour and, according to the policy, they can be disciplined for conduct unbecoming of a professional and

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that ship faced off with the "css virginia" near hampton roads in 1862. this is about 35 minutes. >> all right. i think we'll go ahead and get started here. so if you want to find yourself a good seat, we will begin this next very brief section, but dave alberg has something really important to say, and he has brought lisa stansbury with him to help him out. and i think some of you may have met a couple of new faces here at the mariners museum. they're up in the lobby. and that's who dave alberg is here to talk about. i've known dave for i'm not quite sure for how many years now, a lot. and he has been such an incredible partner to this institution while running the monitor national marine sanctuary. their offices may be here, but their sanctuary is 16 miles off the coast of cape hatteras, 240 feet down. it's a little hard to go there to the visitor's center, so we brought the visitor's center here to newport news. it is my extreme pleasure to bring david alberg up here to the stage. [ applause ] >> it worked. that's always a first test right there. well,

many thanks to hampton pearson for that report.now is california republican congressman darrell issa. he is the chairman of the government house oversight and reform committee. first of all, chairman issa, thank you on the day of your hearings, the opening hearings on this crazy gsa taxpayer rip-off. tell me what happens. your key witness, jeff nealy, organized the conference, takes the fifth, sir. what happens now? >> well, what happened for the rest of the hearing is really we lehnered a lot of what nealy had done but what we also lehnered, of course, is that nealy is still a federal employee and will take weeks or months to dismiss him. foley, many people saw giving the awards and making the jokes about delegate holmes norton is still there, still being paid. what we saw is an administrator who admitted her failures and told us that that was why she resigned. we met with the new administrator, acting administrator, and the first thing we did was said that this is somebody that's got to be confirmed wp can't have just an acting i

virginia beach holds the naval institution, in hampton roads. what's your reaction?e right. hampton roads in particularly, the norfolk naval base, the air station in virginia beach, are really the east coast hub of our great united states navy air operations. i lived there for 21 years in virginia beach just a few miles from where this took place, also in the flight path. and it is a great source of pride for that region to have the navy there. i think you've given an up to date report on where things. are i talk to the mayor three times and the congressman from the area once. state police are on the ground. hazmat, all the state resources we can deploy are there. i think i just spoke to the mayor and i think they're close to the point now where the smoke and fire are going to be under control where they can begin the next phase of the rescue operations, entering these apartments to see if there might have been any fatalities. so far the news has been good with some injuries but no fatalities reported. we're into that key phase now. >> as i pointed out, this area of

good evening, hampton. >> good evening, larry. the scorecard of the secret service prostitution scandal now includes a 12th member of the military, an army soldier who was part of the advance team from the white house communications office, that agency went ahead of president obama's visit to colombia to the summit of americas. the president today withdrawing security clearances of all military personnel who have been implemented. at the same time, the white house ruled out any misconduct by white house staff members. that was the conclusion of an internal investigation led by the white house legal counsel's office. >> the white house counsel's office has conducted a review of the white house advance team and in concluding that review came to the conclusion that there was no indication that any member of the white house advance team engaged in any improper or conduct or behavior. >> now the controversy moves to capitol hill on wednesday, but homeland security director janet napolitano testifies before a senate judiciary oversight

if you are traveling 123 at palmer drive only one lane able to get by as you travel between hampton andu. >>> a series of sexual assaults in prince george's county has people worried about their safety. >> there have been five attacks on or near a popular park trail. melanie. >> good wisdom. we are here this morning standing right along the last part here of the north branch trail where some of the attacks have happened. we are seeing a lot of the people the metro station is about three blocks behind me. most of the people were actually choosing to walk on the road instead on the path which is a direct cut through. the most recent assault that happened here began in mid march through april 20th. in all in the area five women have been attacked. two were on streets that were nearby. police say all the women attacked were all accosted by a man, they were dragged off the trail and raped. one victim was in her 30s, one in her 20s and the most recent victim just 14 years old. they all got together and compared notes and decided cases that have been happening even since january were probably

hampton pearson joins us from the labor department.part hampton, just pretend year doing it again.ur, three, two, one. >> hampton, the necessary b we see please. >> up 120,000, way below the consensus forecast for growth of about 203,000. 8.2% unemployment rate. that's the lowest unemployment rate since january of 2009 when it was 7.8%. 0.2% average hourly earnings. over 12 months, 2.1% year over year. remember, in private sector job growth up just 121,000. the overall revengz for january and february, january down 9,000. february up 13. so a net increase of 4,000 jobs over what had previously been reported. march job growth, manufacturing as well as services and drinking establishments, both had gains of 37,000 jobs in each of those sectors. health care, plus 26,000. professional and business services, up 31,000. the big loser in march, retail. down 34,000 followed by transportation to warehousing which lost 9,000 jobs. construction down 7,000. long-term unemployed, 5.3 million, 42.5%. out of work six months or longer. one surprise to the positive, if you will, the u6, the total u

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. >> reporter: leading this couple, keri hampton who last year helped did her team to a second placeinish. >> we're dog a lot of circuit training, cardiointervals. they come in at 5:00 every morning and they want to win. >> reporter: so whether it's on the -- crunching the abs. >> as fast as you can go. >> reporter: this uphill climb is worth it. heather wants to lose 60-pounds and be a better role model for her kids. mark wants to drop 70, he said for a longer healthier life and one day watch his daughter get married. >> if you take it easy one day you're in the just letting yourself down but others who are watching you. that pressure has been helpful. >> reporter: in timonium, charley crowson, abc2 news. >> they have lost 37 pounds. >>> a big day for health care for the homeless. the organization which provides access to healthcare services to 6,000 baltimoreans received a grant check much the grant is part of an initiative from care first group blue shield and they say this grant will allow them to hire more. >> a bright sunny scenario, goreious shot of the inner -- gorgeous shot