the previous example was done in texas in matagorda bay by the 17th century french explorer la salle and the vessel la belle. this is only the second time anything like this has been done. one of our partners is the state of maryland, state highway administration. they do coffer dams all the time. however, they don't normally do them for archaeological projects. they do them for bridge repair and abutments and there is innovative engineering going into the project. state highway administration has been in the lead with that as well, but we think that we will be able to put the steel coffer dam around the site, have six months to excavate the site, remove the steel coffer dam, rebury the wreck and take all of the information and data back for conservation and for research and for write up and hopefully have things for exhibit during 2014 while the commemoration is still going on. we also think with our partners maryland national capital parts and planning that they're going to assist in bringing people out to the site so that we can have regular tours and visits to the site and explain

diving trials, the freshman from de la salle qualified in the spring board. ncaa champion won the three meter spring board title. both are considered serious medal contenders. >> she could be the greatest spring board diver of all time. >> we have competed at a lot of world meets at a high level. th is amazing, but this is like no other meet. >> after 2008 she quit diving and started working and experienced life outside the sport and then somewhere in the course of 9 to 10 months, the passion returned. >> i think always in the back of my mind there was an idea that might not be a real retirement. but it is amazing and it is a little surreal. on the one hand it is a dream i have had since i was 3. and the other i am living it right now. >> the practice and the dreams didn't stop by making it out of trials. we now go to the games also with some goals and some dreams. >> we wish them all well. that is your abc7 sports report brought to you by river rock casino. rick con casino. >> thank you, colin. that's it for this edition of the abc news. i'm ama date. >> i'm

diving trials, the freshman from de la salle qualified in the spring board.champion won the three meter spring board title. both are considered serious medal contenders. >> she could be the greatest spring board diver of all time. >> we have competed at a lot of world meets at a high level. th is amazing, but this is like no other meet. >> after 2008 she quit diving and started working and experienced life outside the sport and then somewhere in the course of 9 to 10 months, the passion returned. >> i think always in the back of my mind there was an idea that might not be a real retirement. but it is amazing and it is a little surreal. on the one hand it is a dream i have had since i was 3. and the other i am living it right now. >> the practice and the dreams didn't stop by making it out of trials. we now go to the games also with some goals and some dreams. >> we wish them all well. that is your abc7 sports report brought to you by river rock casino. rick con casino. >> thank you, colin. that's it for this edition of the abc news. i'm ama date. >> i'm alan

the french had come initially with la salle and formed a series of committees many along the southern part of the mississippi between st. louis and what is now carol. there's also french settlement in what is now peoria. called peoria at the time. they had been there longer, other than the end interest. the next senior residents were indian tribes of the north and then the white settlers would come in, white and black settlers were coming from the south, can primary from tennessee and kentucky. is a risky note that if you were to draw a line across the present state of illinois, say running to the present springfield and decatur, south of that line, other than the indians on the wabash river there were virtually no indians who are in permanent residence. the indian tribes who are north of that line had come in from the north, had forced their way into kaskaskia, forced their way in by violence and taking land away from the illinois in the event had been a more than one or two generations, had so the really longer than the 1760s at the earliest. bill that passed through the state on ma