the 21 foot monument is greased with lard. and classmen with.and this year's attempt was live streamed. thousand tuning in to the riveting spectacle of team work, tumbles and fastest recorded time, class of 1972, clocked in at 1:30. but back then the monument was not greased. the slowest was the class of 1998, took just over four hours to complete. for the class of 2020. the challenge lasted 2:21:21. a valiant effort for the unrelenting, under classmen. byron pitts, abc news, new york. >> 2:21. >> in 2014. decide to leave the lard off the monument. safety concerns, climbed under 3 minutes. next year, the lard went back on. they say average takes 1 to 3 hours. >> oh, man. can you imagine? >> i think we could do a world news now. >> in 3 1/2 days. >>> breaking news this morning on "world news now" -- a deadly explosion at an ariana grande concert. >> a massive blast creating chaos. young fans and parents running for their lives in the midst of confusion and carnage. >> the late dooes taist details analysis from home how it could change security at

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and to make it harder-- upperclassmen cover that obelisk in lard. the event marks the end of the freshman year. it's xx and we're just getting started. tragedy in college park. a student-- days away from graduation-- murdered on campus. now the fbi is joining the investigation. what we are learning about the man responsible. good morning washington. - rainy morning drive - unsettled work week - keep the umbrella handy - temperatures in the 70s all week - some improvements for the start of memorial day weekend today: mostly cloudy. am showers. isolated pm t-shower. winds: vrb 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. patchy fog. lows: 57-62 winds: n 5 mph tuesday: mostly cloudy and cooler. rain developing late. highs: 68-73 winds: ne 5-10 mph - rainy morning drive - unsettled work week - keep the umbrella handy - temperatures in the 70s all week - some improvements for the start of memorial day weekend today: mostly cloudy. am showers. isolated pm t-shower. highs: 75-80 winds: vrb 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. patchy fog. lows: 57-62 winds: n 5 mph tuesday: most

. >> they cover the monument covered in lard and try to replace the white dixie cup. video from years past. then you have all of that cheering. >> yeah. they get it done every year though. this is what i mean. >>> we are off to a cold, wet start this morning and it could be like that for a good chunk of the week, sheena. >> yes, it could be like that for a good chunk of the week, eun. we're talking about keeping your umbrella around for the next defrl days. coming up, i'llw timing and what you can expect as we head into the weekend. >>> just in time for summer. chick-fil-a unveils a seasonal sandwich. >>> the latest in israel where president trump just touched down. a live report from tel aviv is next. get free delivery -- -- save big on our most popular living room, dining room and bedroom sets. plus save $100 dollars on every $1000 you spend. the memorial day sale at havertys. life looks good. i'm at higher risk fore as depression.ave a stroke. i'm 26% more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. i have a 65% higher chance of

people tried to scramble to the top of a 30-foot tall pole covered in lard to win prizes and of courseing rights. and a day long fund raiser to fight cancer just wrapped umin the past hour. >>> hundreds of people spent this saturday walking in the annual relay for life to support the american cancer society. >>> well, hats off today to thousands of new college graduates around our region. more than 700 students got to turn their castles in delaware county. they handed out associates and bachelor's degrees at the school's main campus in chester. that's widener's graduation ceremony right there. next we have st. joseph's ju university. they awarded more than 2200 graduate and undergraduate degrees today. we want to say congratulations to all the graduates. >>> next on nbc 10, getting a taste of the tropics without ever leaving home. we'll tell you about the special event right here at a local hospital. >>> and i am tracking a chilly sunday in the forecast that's going to be mainly dry but looks like showers will making it here very late sunday into your early monday morning commute. i ha

more than 200 pounds of lard is applied to the monument to complicate that task. but every year they prevail. >> they can't leave until they get it done. >>> you can watch them right here about four hours from now. two colleagues are celebrating a essential anniversary. j jim handly and wendy rieger have been on the air together for ten years. they anchor at 5:00. and they have an incredible bond. even though they sit across from each other, they sometimes call each other on you all think we can't hear you, but we can. you can like the facebook page for more fun with them all week. a big congrats to them. >> they are so much fun. >> they really are. we are half way there. we are five years. >> that's it it. i feel like it's an eternity. let's take a look at the forecast. >> you're going to want the umbrellas for the next four days. e we could still see an isolated shower this afternoon. then we go to wednesday, thursday and still looking at the rain. good news is finally drying up. plenty of sunshine friday starting off the weekend saturday. sunday and monday it l

bull lard. >> this is a hard question. i say that because. >> at any point the head of command could have done something. >> i found in my experience, you are absolutely right, 90% of allegations are true. that's been my experience as five-time commander. i found that you should start court marshal people, they're pleading guilty. i wanted to substantiate and back up your point. >> thank you, sir. >> i would like to make one point and love to have your feedback. the fact that you're calling you a dub and plural dubs to the ladies. you see any efforts from the higher level command or anywhere in the middle to try to correct that? >> nope. >> okay. thank you very much, i yield back. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me just tell you how extraordinary you all are and how grateful we are that you are here today. i am -- i'm troubled by a number of things that happen -- >> the rapes did not occur at the academy. it occurred at a team house off campus in one occurrence, and hotel on another occurrence. but both of th

here to share awesome recipes from a new cookbook and yes they do cook with lard. >> lard. >> dc policenewsham is in charge. the chief long-standing department policies. officers can now grow beards and officers can now wear earrings. previously only female officers could wear earrings. male officers could only grow beards if they were granted medical or religious waivers. so some changes perhaps coming to the d.c. police department. >> let them do what they want to do. that's what that sounds like. >> change is coming to tucker's outlook just in the last few minutes. >> erin gave me a grum poe cat book to read and it's making me feel a lot better. i've been laughing. time heals all wounds. so i broke your watch. >> see? [ laughter ] >> little pieces like that. >> grumpy cat embraces his grumpy and make it funny. >> yes. let's do the weather. this is going to make everybody else grumpy. i'm sorry it's going rain fort next couple of days. >> here come the flowers. >> right. >> um-hmm. >> everything is so green. >> isn't it a amazingly green. feels greener than usual. showers back today.

. >> 1,000 students will form the human pyramid with the goalf covered in lard. >> by the end of it they're covered in it. the idea here is to replace a white dixie cup with an upper class man's hat. >> they get it done every year. it shows team work. you have to do it together. >> pretty cool. >> 4:34 is our time. >> speaking of team work. >> i'm not 100% sure because i did not go to the naval academy. apparently the person who gets to switch the hat at the top is the person who's going to reach admiral first out of the class. >> it's kind of like catching the bouquet, i guess. >> similar, only a lot messier. >> with many more men, that's for sure. we're looking at a wet morning though. you're going to want to have the umbrella ready. why are you laughing? >> i'm laughing. >> chuck will be laughing in the rain let's look at the radar. before you leave -- i think chuck is still laughing. have the umbrella this morning. you're going to really want it over the next few days, look at the rain over the district. wet roads this morning. temperatures not too bad. pretty mild. mid to upper 50s. le

. >> then praise the lard.arbecue champion will be here with erin for cooking with como to share awesome recipes from his new cookbook. >> fantastic. >> all about the lard. >> barbecue season right around the corner, right, let's get some good recipes. we'll find a way to celebrate. it wasn't a nightmare for caps fans. um, i should say it wasn't a nightmare they did lose last night we know that. we know it hurts this morning. it hurt last night when you went to bed. it hurts when you wake up this morning. that has not gone away. >> super disappoint. >> we were planning to help this morning. we were -- planning for celebration now we're handing out consolation prices. mike and holly are in bethesda. they've got doughnuts. who doesn't love a good doughnut to help ease of the agony of defeat? hello. >> reporter: i can't believe you called out my crock so dial tears, steve. there's only crocodile tears this morning because i cried so many left night i have none left to give. >> why are you smiling? >> just for tv.

the catch, the 23-foot obelisk is greased with lard. upper classmen are standing by with hoses.ringing to mind the zombies in "world war z." this year's attempt was live-streamed. thousands tuning in to the riveting spectacle of teamwork, tum sxblz ultimately triumph. the fastest recorded time was the class of 1972 who clocked in at 1:30. but back then the monument was not greased. the slowest was the class of 1998, who took just over four hours to complete. as for the class of 2020 -- >> punsh, push. >> the challenge lasted two hours 21 minutes and 21 seconds. a valiant effort for these unrelenting underclassmen. >> good for them. as they say in the navy, not for self but country. thank you for watching abc news. tune in to "gma" tomorrow for much more on the events in manchester. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and the "nightline" facebook page. thanks for the company, america. good night.

and to make it harder-- upperclassmen cover that obelisk in lard.vent marks the end of the freshman year. it's xx and we're just getting started. tragedy in college park. a student-- days away from graduation-- murdered on campus. now the fbi is joining the investigation. what we are learning about the man responsible. good morning washington. - rainy morning drive - unsettled work week - keep the umbrella handy - temperatures in the 70s all week - some improvements for the start of memorial day weekend today: mostly cloudy. am showers. isolated pm t-shower.

the challenge is that the 21-foot object listing is greased with lard and upperclassmen are standingth hose. >> this year's class competed the challenge in 21 minutesbreas morning. at least 22 people outside an ariana grande concert in manchester, england. chilling images flooded onto social media as thousands of concert goers-- many of them teenagers, rushed to escape the venue. police say they are treating this as a terrorist attack, and believe that a single bomber is responsible. we have complete coverage coming up-- good morning washington. toss to eileen - areas of fog this morning - 3 more rainy days... stormwatch7 times it out - friday is our next nicest day! - warmer holiday weekend; storm chances return today: am fog. mostly cloudy and cool. showers developing mid to late afternoon. highs: 64-69 winds: ne 5-10 mph tonight: areas of rain. lows: 54-59 winds: ne 5 mph wednesday: mostly cloudy. isolated shower. milder. highs: 71-75 winds: ne to se 5 mph back now to our story-- a bombing outside manchester arena last night, minutes after an ariana grande concert. new details eme

the challenge is that the 21-foot object listing is greased with lard and upperclassmen are standingth hose. >> this year's class competed the challenge in 21 minutes 20 seconds, the slowest class took more than four hours. more news after this. tried to qe patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. for me, chantix worked. it reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, chantix helped significantly more people quit smoking. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of these. tell your healthcare provider if you've had depression or other mental health problems. decrease alcohol use while taking chanti

you're lard already in the 70s. in the afternoon, once again, up eve er 80s.ht from the roof camera and that is very good if you like it mild. we're looking at the fog from the golden gate bridge to the south. we will be looking at light breeze, sun coming and you know how to do it with the sweatshirt. 70s for the afternoon highs here with a flash flood watch. this will be the case for the entire month, and the drivers and streams are rising quickly and that is loosening some of the rocks. so be careful if you are there. maybe even mudslides. today will be a beautiful day in the 70s. 65 right now, 74 in gilroy. half moon bay getting out of the fog in a little while. the visibility is better, 54 degrees, and san francisco, your temperature really depended on the wind, the fog, and whether or not you're in bright sunshine and you have buildings around you. by the financial district it will be warm. by the coast, of course, not so war. 70 in concord. livermore at 69 degrees and the golden gate bridge, the sun is going here, hot inland . cooling on tuesday. the co

. ♪ oh lard. ♪ and-- thank you.he new special counsel is former fbi director and macho john kerry robert mueller, who is done all trump's worst nightmare, a competent adult who owes him nothing and who i am guessing has not seen "the apprentice." but trump should have seen this coming, okay. this should be no sur prietion to him,-- surprise to him, especially because after all it is just keeping one of his campaign promtions from the debate. >> if i win, i'm going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. >> stephen: yeah. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: he's a man of his word. >> jon: he keeps his word. >> stephen: he's a man of his word. and there's going to be no shortage of stuff for mule tore investigate because the man is he center of the scandal is former national security advisor and father-in-law who won't set foot in your foreign carmichael flynn. and we just learned that the trump team knew flynn was being investigated for secretly working as a paid lobbyi

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he can release jonathan poll lard from the terms of his probation. he was spying for israeli. he was convicted, served his sentence, but in terms of his probation don't let him come to israel. if he allows him to come to political that too will be another win. let's not forget because he's republican, republican senate and congress, he can bring to bear pressure from both democrats and republicans to make concessions, so trump when it comes to his options for leverage on both sides here has quite a bit of options, questions, which of those does he use to make sure the necessity and the ability to making concessions is there. >> well, let's talk about those choices. thank you with david at cc founding editor of the times at israel and former editor at the jerusalem post, suggesting that there are a number of choices strategies that donald trump and administration might take into trying to provide a resolution to this conflict. some of which are pretty explosive and some of which are less. where do you see him positioning himself at this point? >> i think it's very unpredictable

you try to slither to the top of a 30-foot pole covered in lard to win prices and bragging rights.rd the battleship new jersey, the floating museum in camden will serve its new black dragon beer, and the battleship earned that nickname when it was painted dark blue to avoid being spotted at night by the enemy. >>> and then the i run for life kids only 3k will take place at the park and it fights childhood obesity through running. >>> following two breaking stories this morning. nine people wounded in a shooting spree in north philly, plus a deadly row home fire in philadelphia's overbrook neighborhood, and we will have a live report coming up in the next hour. and in the meantime, krystal klei is keeping an eye on our sunday forecast. >> the sunday forecast, cool and clouds, a couple words you can use to describe it. but this is looking over center city and it's clear as can be and i think that will start changing and details on your sunday coming up, and then talking about a rainy stretch through your workweek, and that's all coming up in just a few minutes. >>> right now on nbc10

it's lard to make sense of a child die tag young. it's even harder to cope with when you learn that he was hit and killed walking home from his own birthday party. ♪ happy birthday to you >> xavier never got to hear his friends single happy birthday before he died in a crash wednesday night t. group of children you saw this sang it for him last night at a vigil. the family describing the person that hit the careless driver. >> he didn't have to lose his leicester because 134b was careless behind the wheel. >> he was a good friend. we played for a while. we went to the playground and played on the playgrounds. >> reporter: are you going to miss him? >> yes. >> and it is still unclear why xavier was crossing livington road. >>> we want to switch gear, turning to some online shopping that has made buying anything so much easier. with each order, you could be selling something, too. >> the chances are your personal information is going umm for seam, too. news 4 justin flinch explains. >> reporter: hop one line you are a few clicks or a s

the tradition dates back to before world war ii, lard was added to make the climb harder in the early 1970's. nancy: to keep it interesting. larry: yeah. nancy: 7 on storm watch with a chance of more showers tonight and throughout the week. chief meteorologist doug hill is in the stormwatch7 weather center tra a great day. doug: it is. we saw steady rain move out this morning. all east of the metro area. we have areas of sunshine back in the clouds. no rain. if we look at the radar along to the satellite image, we have to look to the right-hand side of the screen to see the showers. it's all on the eastern shore. mostly cloudy skies for us. showers popping up from harrisonburg and that is moving south. most of the d.c. metro area, most of the viewing area is cloudy without rain. there may be areas of fog to deal with. tomorrow we start it over again. there is another disturbance that will bring us more showers tomorrow afternoon. the possibility of the period of rain exist tomorrow. through wednesday. wednesday night. thursday. this monday night overnight, 55 to 60. cloudy. patchy fog

it was covered with lard. they had to work as a team to try to get up there. we stood here and he watched them go over and over again. trying to climb that monument. they used the t-shirts and socks. anything to try to get a grip on the monument. it took a long time. there were so many close calls but finally a young man joe mcgraw, 19 from illinois, finally got to the top and put that mid-shipman's hat. let's hear what he had to say about it. >> my mind is racing. things going on. glad to see it as a team. this is great for us to bond. richard: what an emotional moment. show you the monumented up there. when he finally threw the hat, midshipmen hat to the top of the memorial the whole place went crazy. that is not just a storied tradition but a transition for the plebes. no longer plebes officially. now the midshipmen at the u.s. naval academy. reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. if you want to see more of the climb go to wjla.com. search "herndon" to see the best images coming in from today's climb. a greased obelisk and sprayed wi

jason crab, barton mill lard and yo less than today adams happy about all of the due we said.ave to say myself. it's a hot album >> i got to imagine it is, you know, we can't have you here and let you go without hearing a little bit of this song i will survive sort of have any idea how big it was going to become? when records were big, this was on side b. it wasn't even a main hit single >> i knew when i read the lyrics. i said to the producers, that says timeless lyric. this is something that everybody can relate to and i'm certainly will relate to. so what are you stupid you're putting this on the b side? and they said well, if it's anything to do with me >> i think gwen is having a little bit with the music. we were talking a little bit ago, i will survive. and just real quick. tomorrow's event, 7:00 p.m. to 12:30 at the library of congress, tickets are gone. but we want to get a chance to sing a little bit of i will survive. you know this is a big karaoke song. what are your out there if they're going to get out and sing >> just have fun, let it all hang out and have fun.

15 people go up there yes, these people didn't even know each other and they covered this pole in lardve to figure out how on get people to go to the top. you have to be over 18. they give you a breathalizer test. people go do it. they have you come up. it was really interesting did they make it to the top. >> not while i was there but they do it saturday and sunday >> that is crazy. >> look at this guy's face, it is painful. >> trying to figure it out. >> fascinating. >> is frank rizzo breaking out , there. >> yes. >> i want to say hi to dominic from village day romea. satisfaction listen to me. giving instructions. you have to try our meat balls so, i see all of the family. i know the family now. >> is that a classic italian restaurant. >> amazing they introduced me. i got to try it. i have to come back for a real dinner. it was great. i loved it. you have to go too. nathan's, they have a area of balloons, slide. >> we will go next year. >> we will go. >> meat balls. >> he has been on the pole many times that guy. >> yes. >> yes. >> pippa getting hitched. >> i like the royals and som

balancing lard was 32 years old and leaves behind a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. he was from maryland. >>> now to a story you will only see on news 4. a sou up and found an attacker inside her apartment. she's okay this morning. we spoke with her about what happened and for safety reasons we are not showing her face as we've also altered her voice. >> violated, embarrassed. he choked me as i was laying in my bed. >> she lives in the mar burry plaza apartments. she said trouble started two weeks ago when someone left sexually explicit notes under her door. she filed a police report but then the masked man broke in this past saturday. >> i was forced to fight and defend myself against this masked man and i was able to get him to stop attacking me and he got away. >> news 4 has reached out to the mar bury plaza apartments. we haven't heard back yet. police urge anyone with information to give them a call. >>> right now d.c. lawmakers are holding a public round table on medil would make it easier for patients to get medical marijuana from licensed physicians in d.c. c

americans, even if that means that we have to repeal certain provisions of a law that you worked so lard>> well, i think that -- i know how we can improve the affordable care act. the bill that the republicans have put forth is not a bill in good faith. as i say, it's called by many a death panel bill because it is there to eliminate that access to affordable care. if the president were to say to me, come in and see what we can do about this, we could get it done. if your goal is the deconstruction of government and to say we're not going to have an affordable care act, we're just going to have a death panel bill posing as a -- let me say this other thing. i think it's really important for you to know this. this bill -- this death panel bill is a tax bill disguised as a healthcare bill. it moves $600 billion from working class families to the richest people in our country. it's a tax bill in disguise as a healthcare bill. it's a very dangerous bill to people, children and other living people. it must be stopped. again, you have to understand, there is no good faith in that bill. they don

rich lard township police say 32 year old brandon grasso has been involved in three confrontations inelieve that in one of those incidents, he shot at car's rear window in quakertown. police don't know yet what caused the three incidents. they arrested grosso in milford at 11:00 last night. meantime, still don't know what led to this car crashing into a store. over puller deli at 22nd and cambria street just before 10:30 last night. you can see where the car damaged part of the brick storefront there. fire officials say no one was sent to the hospital. >> father from schuylkill county behind bars this morning, accuse the of locking one of his children in a homemade cage. police made the discovery on pottsville, about 100 miles northwest of philadelphia. police say 38 year old cecil cuts locked his 22 month olds son in a makeshift cage. they say cuts put his one year old son in a play pen, his one day old infant in a baby seat on the floor. their mother was in the hospital after complications from childbirth. children are in the care of social service. >> happening today in new orleans

it would be lard to believe. i don't think there's anything in her background that would suggest to me or any of the people she worked with here proclivities in that direction. yes, i would be surprised. >> reporter: shortly after arriving in syria, she had a change of heart and within weeks was sending e-mails back to the united states. i was weak, she wrote in one. i really made a mess of things this time. the following day she wrote, i am gone and i can't come back. i am in syria. i am in a very harsh environment and i don't know how long i will last here but it doesn't matter. it's all a little too late. she went on, i will probably go to prison for a long time if i come back. but that is life. on august 6, 2014, she left syria, left isis and did return to the united states where she was immediately arrested. unlike other terrorism related cases, her arrest and plea deal would receive no publicity at all from the department of justice. the case quietly hidden. court records sealed for months. even after her c

you know, it's just the cascading of these things that is making it very lard for hhar to get out.esident to think about how much jet fuel he has added to turn this into a runaway rocket. there's so much instances in the last one that we though about is this strange conversation with the russians. kislyak, who was in the room, is a russian spy master at the center of this whole story. he was the guy who flynn was con sorting with according to some. trump is bragging to him or unloading in front of him about how he fired this nut job comey to get the russian -- take the heat off of the russia investigation. unthinkable. the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. the president has been digging furiously for some time. >> admiral, as someone who worked inne ed administrations, do you do to turn the corner on something like this? as senator santorum and others say, this could be an opportunity. this special counsel could be an opportunity for the president to say, look, that conversation is done. we support the investigation. it's ongoing. i'm talking

. >> it's lard hard to say. there's a published account with her sort of knocking that story down. we've reported a couple of days ago that she's been in the discussion. the other possibility if sean is replaced -- and again, we don't know that that is definitely going to happen. we don't even know if it will happen at all. but another potential scenario is sarah huckabee-sanders, his deputy, who did a pretty serviceable job at the podium last week. there could be a potential time share. here's the problem with this. it's not like there's some binder with a plan. when i covered the obama administration, pete rouse, one-time chief of staff and long-time staffer for president obama, spent months and months and months concocting plans. in this white house, things are often made spur of the moments things affecting the united states. >> glenn, i know you hate it when we do this on television where we just read chunks of the article, but people will go online and read it. the last line of your online post you write, "in private, three administration officials conceded that they could no

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he would go on to be france's lard in this -- longest serving french minister. he spent a couple of years here along with all these others. there was also louis-marie vicomte de noailles, lafayette's brother-in-law, who fought in the american revolution. he was the person who actually negotiated the french terms at the surrender, cornwallis' surrender. in the 1780's, after he returned to france, he became a figure in reform circles, and it was he who presided on august 4, 1789 when feudalism was formally abolished. the third character was one of the wealthiest aristocrats of old regime france. as the master of the king's liancourt whowas burst into his bed chambers to tell him of the uprising in paris. is it a revolt, the king asked? there was a traveler and a famous writer and future senator. the last character was moreau de saint-mery, a lawyer and historian who had been born in the caribbean, married into a wealthy planter family and had gone to paris to write about french politics. these men were all aristocrats , but they were liberal aristocrats. they saw

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to make it harder upper classman cover the monument with congratulationsy lard.ave low visibility out there. we have lots of cloud cover. we have steady rain out their coming down. dulles, 58. moving lite southwest wind. that the area key. through the after we will get breaks in the clouds, a bit of a warming trend. showers along that 95 corridor, kind of lifting from southwest to northeast. we'll continue to see these lift out. through the afternoon, some drying but can't rule out a late day shower. 78 this afternoon. 70 tomorrow. the next couple days shower chances are almost daily. not a washout. keep the umbrella handy through the work week. how is it looking through the morning rush. >> reporter: we have got re duced visibility. road spray and very slow ride, capital beltway accident in mcclean now. on the inner loop, ramp restrictions at georgetown pike. map is showing a lot of red, especially the bring georges county side of the beltway. outer loop slow toward 50, john hanson highway, a live look at the delays traveling through oxon hill. near national har

that is what any lard legislation should be based on. if you base it on anything else you are imposing what might be a personal truth your personal truth is that everyone should fend for themselves and not get a government handout let's say you feel really strongly about that. we'll that's how you feel. it's a free country go right ahead. if you want everyone else to feel that that is politics, fine go have that political discussion on the floor of congress. that will affect where monies go to fund the support program or not to subsidize or not. that's a political conversation so go ahead and then the law that comes out will have political flavor to that. if you lost somehow pivots on something that is not scientifically true, you are building a house of cards where the first two floors look stable and are completely hollow and empty. by the time he put out a whole floor the whole thing collapses. nature is the ultimate judge and jury and executioner what is true. >> space chronicles of 2012, we need to go back to the. >> i will not say

for attack by an anti-muslim group, would the missouri constitution permit the erection of balance lards like we have around the court here? end of quote from alito. astonishing to me, the lawyer responded no, the missouri constitution would not permit the state even on a neutral basis to administer a security grant program to protect houses of worship. the safety of build gsds is porp in itself, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that people are so often in those build gds and being targeted. the establishment clause should not be read to forbid government from safiving the lives of peop practicing their religion. i believe religious hate crimes, i governmental response. our response is financial assistance to facilities that are targets. i hope that the supreme court does not issue a ruling that allows government to forbid religious entities from receiving assistance against attacks that is available to other organizations. our witnesses today will shed light on this topic. we will hear from the just department about efforts under way to combat religious hate crimes. we will then hea