a community meeting at james monroe high school in fredericksburg today that begins at 6:00 p.m. go to nbc washington app and search i-95 in virginia for details how you can weigh in. >>> u.s. marshals have doubled the reward amount to $10,000 to track down isaiah murchison who is 1 of 11 indicted in connection to the murder of 10-year-old makiyah wilson. look for more in our nbc app. ngton >>> use the interpret radar feature in the nbc washington app to track the rain in your neighborhoods today. horain off and on throug most of the day. you're beach-bound or mountain-bound for the weekend, the weather looks fantas jic. >> it it beautiful. >>> first 4 traffic alert. connecticutig avenue side blocked and mail all over the road. the postal inspector just arrived. that isprocedure in a situati like this. now the cleanup can begin. can you see the front-end loader working there. the icc might beeyorth the mon today. delays on the outer loop. thank you, chopper 4, for all of those pictures r urs. >> definitely worth the money to take that alternate route. my goodness. look at those m

there will be a community meeting at james monroe high school in fredericksburg today and begins at6:00 this evening. >> if you have the answerthere, you're a popular person around here. >>> a virginia woman is lucky to be ave after a lawn mowing accident st her down the side of a hill. i >> i thoughtheard a goat. mistakenly, it was her. >> wow. 80 yer 80-year-old juanita when a deedvery person tri to drop a package off at her house. he found her dog and she was nowhere to be found. he called for her and she respond and he found her more than 50 feet down the hill. >> i yaelelled for juanita and heard her yell and i found her on the sidehi of the . >> she survived for water more than two days in the scorching heat. her familyenopes this couraging more people to check in on elderlyoved ones every day. >> wow. >> i'm glad he knew something was not right. >>> alcohol spiked with dangerous chemical compounds is making tourist sick. we will tell you where it's happening. >>> we all felt om taking a mental health excuse from work andow kid can make ta it happen froschool.ou we will tell yow

i appreciate things from early america and james monroe essentially became president and doesn't even have an executive mansion to move into because it is still being rebuilt by james hogan after the fire. he decides he is going to redecorate and he brings in a french maid suite. 53 pieces made of beechwood. it is gilded and it was done in red. it is spectacular. it would have been something americans had never seen before in the states. monroe, he really wanted to project this persona about the power of the presidency and the power of the united states. it was pretty bold and considering the white house had just been burned, i always saw it as monroe was looking forward not backwards and he wanted the white house to represent what he believed the presidency should be. >> how did americans feel about their president having anything french at that time? we have gone through various iterations of their feelings of being focused on america verses internationalists. >> james monroe was really popular, not a lot of people wanted to speak out about it. however, after he left office, congres

e will be a community meeting at james monroe high school in fredericksburg this evening. it begins at 6:00. >> there's major progress on metro's silver line extension to du fes airport, the first time actual metro trains have moved into louden coun. esterday i was able to get up in chopper 4 to get a birds eye view of it all. > a look at this momentum milestone, really not just for louden county, but for our entire region. take a look, this is the louden gateway metro station, phase two of the silver lining, you see what's hanging out there in the station, that is a metro train, yes, louden county forhe first time, you actually have a meo train in your property, and it is not far from the crown jewel of phase two, dulles international airport which is rit over here. this is why this project was envisioned all along, to b able to bring metro service all the airport.here to the and then into louden county, and with all the problems, the con kree issues we detailed. all the issues regarding the labor management. we are starting to se physical reality that this project is com

police are telling me it appears ere two people were killed on a park bench in james monroe park when they were hit by this suv, a large suv that went o the road and into the park. i'll step out of the way and you can see the scene behind me here as they are starting clean things up. the road is still closed. pennsylvania avenue still closed between 20th and 21st street while they do the cleanup here but may not beo too much ler before they open things up. take a look at the video from earlier this morning. this happened about 11:45 last night. the suv according to police was traveling west on pennsylvania avenue, when,rfor some son, it left the roadway, went up into the park and struck the two people who apparently were on the bench in the park. w, police say that they are looking into whether excessive speed was a factor in all of this. there was no othe vehicle involved. it was the single suv that went into the park d two victims were pronounced dead on the scene. things are still being investigated he r. thead still closed at least for the time being. we can tell you thatin term o

james monroe park. they were struck and killed by that vehicle as it le the roadway and actually went into the park, landing on its se. i'll st i'll step out of the way. pennsylvania avenue nd me is closed between 20th and 21st streets. we have 2000 block of i street closed as we. his is monroe park you see behind me here with therees and this vehicle was travelings we on pennsylvania area just about a quarter of 12:00 last night. for whatever reason, we don't have that information, for some reason, it left the roadway, potentially traveling at a high rate of speed, jumped the curb andent into that park, striking these two people, killing them. he vehicle then landed on its side. ale a little whigo a tow truck came here and positioned in place and and the police office are me removing some of the tap and starting to take things down but pennsylvania avenue right now is closed in both directions. >>> more on the traffic alert in the district. canal road is closed for repairs following monday's flash floo

there will be a community meeting at james monroe high ol scho in fredericksburg today and that meeting begins at 6:00 this evening. >>> >>> a virginia woman is lucky to be alive after a lawn mowing accident sent her down the side of a hill. >> i thought i heard a goat. mistakenly, it was her. >> 80-year-old juanita mullins lives in virginia. when a livery person tried to drop a package off at her house, he found her dog and she was nowhere to be found. he called for her and she responded and he found her more than 50 feet down the hill. >> i yelled for juanita and i heard her yell and i found her on the side of the hill. i saw the mower beyond it. i found her. >> mullins survived without water for more than two days in the scorching heat if you can believe that. her family horas this encng more people to check in on elderly loved ones every day. >> something we always suggest. >>> next on "news4 today," we are going to check back in with that breaking tra ic newst on the beltway. it is just one of several crash out there this morning that could make ithard to get to work >>> alcohol sp

and patrick henry and his forces, they put up james monroe to run for congress against madison. he was tall, dark, handsome. it was not looking good for madison and they were spreading the word that madison no longer cared about religious freedom. even though madison had really thought for the baptist. because he did not want to have a bill of rights, he initially did not want a bill of rights. so he goes to virginia and meets with the baptist leaders and you couldn't argue it's a most consequential campaign promise in a murky history. , if you support me, i will propose a bill of rights, when i get to congress. and he won by a few hundred votes. an proposed the bill of rights bring what became the first amendment. so then there's an alliance between madison and jefferson in the even's and it continues on. >> jefferson was ambassador of france at the time. >> they were riding back and forth instead of behind the scenes. >> he was poking at madison saying you should do a bill of rights. madison was skeptical. he called it richmond barriers. he had suspicions that they would not d

future and my favorite the logic of political survival with al ster smith, randall ciphererson and james monroe. he is author of 140 articles and numerous pieces in major newspapers and the subject of feature stories in the new york, "the wall street journal," the economist, u.s. and news world report, independent, financial times and a two hour documentary about his political forecasting. he has a doctorate in political science from the university of michigan and doctorates from the university of grunnen general and the university of hyfa. three doctorates. welcome, doctor. dr. daniel twinge joined the international republican institute as president in september 2017. he leads iri's team of nearly 600 global experts to link people in governments, motivate people to engage in the political process and guide politicians and government officials to be responsive to citizens. previously he served as counselor and director of the asia program at the german marshall fund of the united states. before that dr. twining served as a member of the u.s. secretary of state's policy planning staff as the for

james monroe. patrick henry. george mason from fairfax coun fairfax county. george with -- w-i-t-h.lliamsburg. richard henry lee from west county. incredible names. incredible names. [applause] self-government in virginia did not just give us a state we love. and very true sense, it gave us the country we love. the united states of america. thank you very much. [applause] one madison drafted the first amendment to our constitution, he drew inspiration from virginia statute for religious freedom. as john adams wrote in philadelphia just before the adoption of the declaration of independence, we all look up virginia for examples. right. it's great. [applause] and when patrick henry rose to speak his famous words at st. john's church in richmond, "give me liberty or give me death," he spoke in defense of a tradition that began more than 150 years before at jamestown. right here. it was a heritage those patriots would fight along war of independence to defend. and it is a heritage that countless americans have fought and died for to secure and all of the centuries since. and our time, w