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c-span's john mcardle took a tour. >> welcome to the constitution center. we're the first and only museum in the country dedicated to the u.s. constitution. we're on independence mall in heart of historic philadelphia. we have three main missions at the center. of course we're a museum where you can come to see our amazing interactive exhibitions. we're also america's town hall. you can find great programing on site, online, about current constitutional debates and discussion. we're a specific education center.nds. we're trying to get a lot of our civic and constitutional content out to students across the country. we'll talk a lot more about our museum.. we're in one of the signature exhibition spaces called signsers hall. this is depicting the moment of the constitution was signed back on sent 17th, 1787. there are 42 statues represents those still present and participating in the constitutional convention after a long summer working in philadelphia to create this document. you wan walk amongst the signers. you can touch them. we invite you to touch them.

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they have an area called signers hall and john mcardle took a tour. >> welcome to the national constitution center. we are the first and only museum in the country dedicated to u.s. constitution. we are located on independencet mall in historic pennsylvania and we really have three main missions at the center. of course we are a museum where you can come throughout the year to see our meeting and interactive exhibitions but we are also america's town hall which means you can come find great programming online about current constitutional debates and discussions.gr we are also an education center and were trying to get our content out to teachers and students across the country. today i want to talk more about our museum and we are right now in one of our signature exhibition spaces called signers hall. this is depicting the moment the constitution was signed on september 17, 1787. there are 42 statues statues in this room representing those were still present and participating. it was a long summer they spent in philadelphia working to create this document. you can really walk amongst the s

first, john mcardle, with a california delicate -- caught up with a california delicate -- delegate.uninteresting work history including some projects that you worked on that our viewers would know about. >> from the design side or from the fix it afterward side? probably one of the most interesting was the port authority of new york and new jersey. after the 1993 bombing, they asked me to come in and study and find out what could be done to make the facilities safer if some idiot came up with an idea like that again. >> this was in your capacity as a construction engineer? >> my best-known specialty is contaminant movement within buildings such as smoke during a fire. they want to know -- they wanted to know how to keep holding safe and get everybody out all at once. we looked at it to see how with the smoke move throughout the building, where the fire were -- fire was an temperature conditions, wind conditions, and find out how we could isolate it to limited areas, so people would have time to escape. we tried, but we did not anticipate what happened in 2000. >> everyone has a stor

that is one of the things we about, butem yesterday john mcardle caught up with the director of the houset the wells fargo center. right of the platform is the setup for the ricky minor band. how does one become the band for the dnc? : i have been in the business for a long time, and there are a lot of guys, and i got the call -- a lot of guys that can do this kind of work and play good music. john: how is his work different than some of the other gigs that you do? shows,some of the other if you are doing the oscars, they are more generic and written for that moment, and you, kind of, right for whoever is, but here, the presenters we do not always know when we are really told until right before. it has to be confidential, so the producers want a lot of energy. we just pick some great songs from america's songbook. what is a day like for you at the dnc? at 7:30 a.m.rt call, and finish at about 11:30 p.m., 12, midnight. direct the day, it is run-throughs, for her in for it all. john: do you write original music for this? ricky: we have some original know they haves music that they want to b