i was driving from dc back to lynchburg. i was driving back to see my parents and the head at the time at nasa called m me instead of e orbiter shuttle is late. when we landed we have no fuel left so it is a glider coming in and it's pretty accurate it gets to zero and it should be on the ground. the countdown clock is now counting up and i said how late is it and she said it's late. so i turned around, i think i was on 66 going to go home i turned around and came back and everyone at the headquarters was assembling a team of people to figure out what happened. but the first thing we do is take care of our families so at that point i was told to drive out to washington virginia where davidavid crowned with a mission specialist on the flight where his parents live, i drove out there, it was nighttime, there were satellite trucks on the side of the road and a state trooper was blocking entrance because a reporter acted as a florist to get the story and just kind of bum rushed out to get the story. they let me through. i walked

he came to train in lynchburg. we moved from doctor johnson's apartments to pierce street, 5 blocks from where this clay-court was in lynchburg where two stellar athletes were being trained. also on pierce street there was and spencer of the harlem renaissance, she was a poet. her son was chauncey spencer, one of the first black aviators to petition congress to get money to create tuskegee airmen. i had three levels of integration that i didn't even know what was going on in lynchburg to help me get to this podium to talk about chasing space. that was part of the journey of writing this book, to find out people that had an impact in my life, lynchburg, i didn't even though. so do your history, go back -- thank you for coming. thank you. thank you so much. [applause] >> he will be signing books if you will line up here, he will be happy to sign books. [inaudible conversations] >> on c-span2 booktv in prime time hits the road tonight starting at 8:00 eastern we feature programs from our local content vehicles. some o

healing set with other confederate forces in the valley, so by the time he gets the lynchburg, he has got 15,000 men are so under his command. over the course of june 17-june 18, early will win the battle of lynchburg, send hunter reeling back into the valley of west virginia. has a decisiony to make. to keep anstanton eye on david hunter to see what he is going to do. from stanton, early has a couple different choices. andan stay in the valley babysit it, make sure no union forces move into attack resources. he can return to the army of northern virginia, which is getting really engaged around petersburg. or he can move north, down the shenandoah valley. so on june 28 from stanton, early will make his decision. he will write to robert e lee, saying, i decided to turn down the valley and proceed according to your instruction to threaten washington, and if i find an opportunity, to take it. that is is objective, admitting his objective is to march on washington and take the capital city. he starts to move north, starts to move down the shenandoah valley. there is no opposition because

christopher cannot well turned himself into police in lynchburg, virginia. he became the face of the rally after appearing in this documentary. he was wanted by uva police for his actions during the friday night torch rally. before saturday's deadly rally. at some back to charlottesville to face three felony charges. meanwhile, the confederate statue at the center of that deadly rally is still causing controversy. yesterday a man with a gun tried to cut a tarp off the robert e. lee statue. crews put the tarp up earlier as a symbol of mourning for the woman killed in that rally. the man said it was desecration but stopped cutting when police arrived. the thomas stonewall jackson statue, also covered. >>> a family from our area is hoping for the best, fearing the worst about their son serving in the navy. electronics technician second class kevin bushel serves on the u.s.s. john s. mccain. he's one of ten sailors missing after monday's collision with an oil tanker near singapore. we have more from his family. >> posted on the mccain facebook page. an image tha

the new hampshire resident surrendered overnight in lynchburg. right now he's awaiting transport back to charlottesville. police at the university of virginia had issued a warrant for cantwell after the march on august 11th in which dozens marched through the university campus holding torches. cantwell was wanted on two counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious bodily injury with a caustic substance. office and today a new twist in the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. congressional investigators have found an email refrencing a previously unknown effort by the trump campaign to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. c-n-n reports the email is from white house deputy chief of staff rick dearborn -- seen here behind the president at the top of your screen. committees in the house and senate, as well as special counsel robert mueller are investigating russian meddling in last year's election. new developments - after a northern virginia priest- admitted he used to be in the k-

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i have lived in lynchburg, virginia, for 55 years. i went to law school at the university of virginia in charlottesville. i lived there for three years. i have never met a white supremist member of hate group in all my years in that part of the country. that is not what our central virginia community is like. terry mcauliffe, our governor, was right. when he said these people need to go home. they're not of virginia. heir not about virginia. and they're all evil. >> would you say, given what you know, there were no very fine people on that side? the side of the neonazis? >> i don't have that information. those people are pure evil. there is no moral equivalency. the secretary of the treasury said this morning that donald trump does not believe there is any moral equivalency. >> you should turn tail if there are neo nazis there. you're saying you're still not sure if there are fine people on that side. >> if somebody showed up and found themselves marching alongside people like that, they should walk away. >> susan bro, the mother of t

we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) this is lynchburg.mall town in the heart of tennessee. where families and neighbors work together to make every drop of our whiskey. if you can't get here, just look for one of our postcards. we send them all over. they look like this. go ahead and treat yourself to that extra stick of gum. you've earned it. natural light. now, it's natty time. >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. thank you for oink joining us. we'll be back next week at 11:00. "the president show" is up next. now here it is... your moment of zen. >> with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office, that i can tell this office, that i can tell you. - les: ♪ i'm goin' down ♪ to south park ♪ gonna have myself a time - ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ humble folks ♪ without temptation - les: ♪ goin' down ♪ to south park ♪ gonna leave my woes behind - ♪ ample parking ♪ day or night ♪ people spouting ♪ "howdy, neighbor" - les: ♪ headin' on up ♪ to south park ♪ go

the university of virginia police say he is in custody in lynchburg. now to a new controversy over that statue of robert e. lee in charlottesville, video shows a man trying to cut the tarp off the pave ht from the bottom there. he called the tarp a desecration and police stopped him from taking the tarp down. workers placed the tarp over the statue yesterday morning. this follows the violent protests surrounding the violence in charlottesville earlier this month. it placed the tarp over the statue as a memorial to heather heyer. she was killed after a car drove into the demonstration. >>> a columbus statue will be considered for removal. a commission will conduct a 90-day review of so-called symbols of hate. columbus has come under fire for his poor treatment of people in the caribbean. >>> president trump has done a 180 calling for healing and unity. he spoke at the american legion national convention yesterday. he softened his home from tuesday night's rally in phoenix and called for patriotism and national healing. >> it is time to heal the wounds t

cantwell is in jail tonight in lynchburg, virginia. >>> a popular store at your local mall is getting trashed online. people have been tweeting and posting facebook messages about forever 21 carrying rings with swastika symbols in their stores. one person even claims the rings are sold at a specific location at a mall in nashville. so what's the deal here? is this true? before she shared it with her friends viewer pamela goings from silver spring reached out to our verify team for answers. >> my question is to verify is forever 21 selling swastika rings? i'd appreciate that. thanks. >> yeah. we got to find this out, too. pamela, we went straight to forever 21. a spokesperson told us the rings are not a forever 21 product. the folks person told our researchers the images of rings actually showed up about a year ago when the store did a complete investigation including an audit of all the records of their stores here in the u.s. and across the world. they reconfirmed that that item was never sourced, produced or sold by forever 21. so just to triple check that we did a reverse google im

issued a statement last night saying christopher cantwell of new hampshire was taken into custody in lynchburgted to pepper spraying a person back on august 11th when demonstrators marched across uva's campus the night before heather heyer was killed. president trump returned here to washington last night after speaking to the american legion in nevada on wednesday. the president is scheduled to meet with national security adviser hr mcmaster. that will be followed by the director of office of management and budget along with the office of legislative affairs. busy day for the ated. >>> fiat chrysler is now considering spinning off the upscale brands. the automaker wants to focus on mass market cars as it looks for a partner. the luxury brands could be worth more than $8 billion. ♪ >>> that's a tribute right there. country legend loretta lynn is being honored in nashville. the singers include brandy clark that paid tribute to the 85-year-old in a ceremony. lynn right now though is recovering from a stroke in may from she couldn't be there. the exhibit opens tomorrow and that's what's going on.

christopher cannot well turned himself into place -- police in lynchburg, virginia. he openly talked about his racist views. he was wanted by uva police for his actions during the friday night torch rally before saturday's deadly rally. at some point he will be brought back to charlottesville to face three felony charges. meanwhile, theon deadly rally is still causing controversy. yesterday, a man with a gun strapped to his leg tried to cut a black tarp off the robert e. lee statue. crews had to put the tarp up earlier as a symbol of mourning for -- the man said it was desecration but stopped cutting it when police arrived. the thomas stonewall jackson statue was also covered up. >>> the debate is stretching to churches. coming up, we'll tell you about the future of the two stained glass windows honoring the confederacy at the national cathedral. >>> it turns out that deadly charlottesville rally had little to do with a virginia priest revealing his past with the kkk. the arlington catholic diocese confirms to news 4 that a freelance reporter was about to out the fat

some activity in the western areas, higher terrain from hagerstown through winchester down towards lynchburg area. clouds are certainly around. by 10, this is really concentrating some heavy thunderstorm activity a long interstate 66 into d.c. some brighter colors showing up indicating heavy rain and maybe even a little bit of hail with some of these. by midnight still have the complex crossing our area. if you have friday night planses be aware of that. eventually that pushes on out of here april we may deal with another round on saturday. i'll take you through the saturday. we'll talk about the weekend and have the seven day forecast coming up most of the daylight hours are dry, but watch tomorrow night. >> there is still no word tonight what caused a deadly house fire in anne arrundel. sky fox was over the scene earlier today on lincoln drive. you can see all the damage the flames caused. investigators have not identified the person who died in that fire. fox5 was first to report united medical center's obstetrics ward was ordered to shutdown for 90 days today a former umc patient tells u

school district i led in virginia as subject in lynchburg had had the before labor day schedule for severalents loved it. the first year, when your summer a little shorter, it's a bit of a transition but we'll have more instructional time for kids to be ready to be successful on the tests. >> catch a popsicle to a lady wearing white gloves. school districts with 189,000 students. >> he explained it quite well. >> if you ever wanted to see the governor of maryland behind the wheel of an excavator, here is your chance. that would make anybody feel powerful behind the controls. larry hogan helping tear down a building to begin construction on the new purple line. they signed a grand agreement giving the purple line the green light. the 16 mile long light rail line will run from new carrolton to bethesda. they say the purple line creates thousands of jobs and helps ease congestion but the plan faced backlash. >> we say $50050 million state taxpayers money, getting the bids in lower but also making the effective and would benefit the most chip in and they did and we appreciate their effort. >> t

we also constructed a levee system around the lynchburg pump station that is now operated by the federal project that we turned over to the local government that protects the drinking water supply for the citizens of houston. mike: any damage to those love you so far? >> so, no damage to the levees so far. in the one in houston and the other ones that we constructed and transferred over to other sponsors in the city of freeport, texas and port arthur. to date we have had no impact in the structures that help protect the citizens of the state of texas. mike: colonel, any success stories? it seems that galveston has held up well so far. >> we have been fortunate here in galveston unlike the previous storms. we definitely feel for our fellow citizens across the state of texas that have been negatively impacted by the storm. our success stories are our communications between the various levels of our governme government, local, the county, the state and federal government. the sharing of information and preparing for the response and recovery for the people of texas is one of the biggest suc

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the school district i led in virginia as superintendent in lynchburg had had the before labor day schedule for several years and parents and students loved it. the very first year when your summer is a little shorter it's a bit of transition but we're going to have more trabs is time for kids to be more success tell on their ap tests, sol tests. he was really enthusiasmic about it. fairfax county is one of the biggest school district in our region with 189 now steuns students. coming up, tragedy at a d.c. metro station we're going to tell you you how the trains are moving tonight after a fatal incident on the rails. first here's ronica cleary. hey, jim, we speak with a red cross employee on the ground in houston about president trump's visit to the area tomorrow. is it really going to help coming up after the break. z2fwdz z16fz y2fwdy y16fy >> more headlines at five. thirty, a driver still at large after a fatal hit and run in virginia. this happened at 11 near the northbound lanes in dumfries. the person in the second car died. right now the description from police, a dark colored car wi

he turned himself into police in lynchburg, virginia last night. he gained notoriety in this documentary where he talked openly about his racist views. he was wanted by before the saturday -- at some point he will be taken to charlottesville to face three felony charges >>> the confederate at the center of the rally is causing controversy still. a man with a gun strapped to his leg tried to cut a black tarp off the robert e. lee statue yesterday. crews had put up the tarp hours earlier as a symbol of mourning for the woman killed in the rally. the man said it was desecration. but he stopped cutting the tarp when police arrived. the stonewall jackson statue was covered also. >>> a tale of two trumps. >> he lashed out to critics and the media. the president called for unity in reno, nevada at the american legion >> it's time to heal the wounds that divide us and seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. and one great flag. >> the president's speech in reno was full of calls for patriots and national healing. >>> it is a terrible situ

we do have one captured confederate flag from the battle of lynchburg.his is the confederate national flag. it is known as the stars and bars. a lot of people will come expecting to see the battle flag. this is the national flag of the confederacy. all of our flags are in climate they will cases where live for many years to come. beginning in the 1890's, there was a concerted effort to find and to collect the remaining civil war flags of west virginia. of, theyat decade collected most of these flags. at the time, they did not know how to preserve them. in some cases, they used chemicals that were detrimental to the flags. most of these flags set in dark storage. they did not see light at all until we can figure out how to conserve them and how to repair them and how to put them in climate controlled cases. they had been restored as much as possible, even though they looked pretty ragged. for is left will be there many generations to come. inbe decided a flag and be the presence of that objects is to be in the presence of the past because this is a tangib

developing story this morning in charlottesville where christopher cantwell has been extradited from lynchburg. cantwell became the face of the white nationalist a rally after appearing in this vice news documentary. he wasmented wanted by uva poln before that deadly car attack the next day. cantwell is facing three felony charges. >>> meanwhile, the confederate statue at the center of that deadly rally is still causing controversy. a man with a gun strapped to his leg tried to cut a black tarp off the robert e. lee statue yesterday. crews had put the tarp up hours earlier as a symbol of mourning for the woman killed in that rally. the man said it was desecration, but stopped cutting when the police officers arrived. the thomas stonewall jackson statue was also covered as well. >>> turns out that deadly rally virginia priest revealing his past with the kkk. the arlington catholic diocese confirms to news4 that a freelance reporter was about to expose father william aitcheson before he came clean. the priest claimed he was moved to come forward by the violence in charlottesville this month. in

amy: as many as 50 graduates of liberty university in lynchburg, virginia, arare planning to rern their diplomas in protest, after the university's president defended president trump's refusal to quickly condemn the deadly white supremacist a and neo-nazi rally i in charlottesville, virginia, which left anti-racist activist dead one and dozens wounded. in response to trump's comments that t there was violence on boh sides, university president jerry falwell, jr., tweeted -- "finally a leader in wh. jobs returning, n korea backing down, bold truthful statement ababout #charlottesvillele trag. so proud of @realdldonaldtrump." the secret service says its run out of money to protect presidident trump and his fafamy as the agency has been stretched thin by trump's large family, their multiple homes up and down the east coast, and trump's frequent trips to his private golf resorts. the secret service currently has 1000 agents protecting trump and 41 of his family members. trump's trips to his private golf courses are particularly expensive, with the secret service already spending $60,000 in

orientation, and it disgusts me that he has no plans on coming here, but he made a point to go to lynchburghould be here at least paying a visit to a grieving mother, to a grieving brother, a father. she was somebody's child, and not just her, all the victims were someone's child, and just the simple fact that you have no plans on coming here? you shouldn't be allowed to sit in the white house. >> in a word, leave us with this. how do you want us all to remember heather? >> she,is i just don't what happened to heather and the others to be in vain. it cannot be okay to be a racist behind your own doors, it cannot be okay toment could out right and be a racist in public and i feel that's what the presidency was done. it has made it okay to a public bigot. >> thank you for your candor, and thank you for sharing your memories of heather. i wish we all could have met her. she sounds like a remarkable woman. thank you, felicia. >> thank you for having me. >> chris? >>> it is election day in alabama. president trump has thrown his support behind a candidate he wants to replace jeff sessions in the

we also constructed a levee system around the lynchburg pump station that is now operated by the federalct that we turned over to the local government that protects the drinking water supply for the citizens of houston. mike: any damage to those love you so far? >> so, no damage to the levees so far. in the one in houston and the other ones that we constructed and transferred over to other sponsors in the city of freeport, texas and port arthur. to date we have had no impact in the structures that help protect the citizens of the state of texas. mike: colonel, any success stories? it seems that galveston has held up well so far. >> we have been fortunate here in galveston unlike the previous storms. we definitely feel for our fellow citizens across the state of texas that have been negatively impacted by the storm. our success stories are our communications between the various levels of our governme government, local, the county, the state and federal government. the sharing of information and preparing for the response and recovery for the people of texas is one of the biggest successes

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i have lived in lynchburg, virginia, for years. went to the university in charlottesville. i have never met a white supremist member of hate group in all my years in that part of the country. that is not what our central terry mcauliffe, our governor, was right. these people needed to go home. >> there were no very fine people onned that that side? >> i don't have that information. those people are pure evil. the sec stair of the treasury said this morning that donald trump does not believe there is any moral e ququivalent si. >> you should turn tail if there are neo nazis there. you're staying you're still not sure if there are fine people on that said. >> if something showed up and found themselves march a ing alongside people like that, they should walk away. >> susan bro, the mother of the woman killed in the car attack, heather heyer, said she would not talk to let's listen. >> i saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters, like miss heyer, with the kkk and the white supremacists. you can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying i'

this falls apart when richmond falls and lee sets out toward -- not toward appomattox but toward lynchburg. he gets as far as appomattox. the only member of the government he is meeting with during the retreat is breckinridge, who is secretary of war but also the leader of this group. the last thing he said to them have one of the last meetings was this has been a magnificent epic. in god's name let it not terminate in a farce. he wanted to surrender honorably as a nation, a better yet if they could get an armistice first. i think that is what he and lee are discussing. we don't know because the sources are very, very thin. but it is interesting, i think that once lee and grant open the communications that lead to the surrender. grant sends him a note saying, you have to realize there is no point in continuing this. lee will write back saying i do share your views at all. but just for the fun of it, what would be your terms if i were interested? relative to the confederate states' forces under my command. he didn't say relative to the army of northern virginia. lee is general in chief of a

takes too long to go into all of it but this falls apart when richman falls and lee sets out toward lynchburg or danville. the only member of the government that he's meeting with during the retreat is breckinridge, who is secretary of war but he's also the leader of this group. the last thing he had said to them in one of their last meeting was this has been a magnificent in god's name let it not terminate in a farce. he wanted to surrender honestly as a nation. i think that's what he and lee are discussing. we don't know because the sources are very, very thin but it is interesting i think that once lee and grant open the communications, that lead to the surrend surrender. grant sends him a notice saying you've got to realize there's no point in continuing this and lee will write back saying, well, i don't share your views at all, but just for the fun of it, what would be your terms if i was interested? in listening to your terms relative to the confederates states forces under my command, he didn't say relative to the army of northern virginia. lee is general and chief of all confederate a

. >> joining us now, retired nasa astronaut heland melvin and grew up an hour south in lynchburg and of "chasing space." welcome. it's not every day -- it's no days that we get an astronaut here. what is your take on all of this? >> oh my goodness. i was malawi helping girls, building robots and things and i was watching the news, seeing what was happening in my home state, i went to the university of virginia. watching heather and all of these things happen. and i was just appalled and i felt like i needed to be there. i was almost ready to get back home and help people who are there. and i can't believe, you know, the administration, would allow something like this to go on in our country. >> i mean allowing it to go on would be benign. it almost seems when you look at all of the time -- as a nasa astronaut, you know that one of those times of national grief is when we had shuttle disasters and that is where the first thing that happens is the president does things to bring people together. you just heard people saying why is that not happening here. the president is going in a dif

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his family opened up a new dealership in lynchburg. across state line?line to pick her up. i have full custody. >> it's not happening. i'm getting a lawyer. >> with what money? >> katie, welcome back. good to see you. >> i lived in west virginia. that's a west virginia twang. you lived in ohio. how did you pick that up? >> we worked with the same i e dialect coach. >> it wasn't easy? >> no. you want it to feel natural. and not feel like too much. >> give me a word that would help you. give me a word that you would work on to get the access just right. tough. something like that. did you find the accent tough? >> i did. >> i thought you did a good job. congrats on that. what's it like to get a call from steven soderberg that he wants you to be in a movie? he loves casting. >> it was exciting. i met with him. i had just finished directing my first film. we spent most of the meeting talking about directing. he was so generous. and i was like, i hope i get to work with him. and he e-mailed the next day. we'd love to have you. wow, really? and he was -- it's

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the school district i led in virginia as superintendent in lynchburg had had the before labor day scheduleor several years and parents and students loved it. the very first year when your summer is a ltl we'll have more instructional time for kids to be ready to be successful on their ap test, virginia standards of learning test and getting out a little earlier for the summer i think is going to be a big win for our kids and their families. >> reporter: we're starting early this year because of all the snow days we had in recent years and the superintendent also spoke about the fact that we could see that happen again in the next upcoming years as well. so, if you are heading out to work this morning, be aware that school is starting here in fairfax county. you might see a lot of buses and more traffic on the roadways. that's the latest here in fairfax county. i'll send it back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> still to come this morning a busy day for transportation news as well. we'll take a look at metro's long term funding needs. >> groundbreaking for the purple line gets under way later

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