and mead looks at him. now, the mood in washington is this: if mead in autumn of 1863, if mead had ordered an attack and it had failed at the cost of five or six thousand casualties, he would have been forgiven. he wouldn't to that to his men. he ordered a withdrawal. he knew the position couldn't be taken. and for saving his men's lives, he's damned as a coward. but he's still not fired because even lincoln, who's disappointed that, you know, mead doesn't make magic happen, still, nobody fires mead because they know there's nobody better, and he's the victor of gettysburg. and that crucial test, as i mentioned, is when grant comes east. grant's staff are westerners, they've got their hackles up, we won in the west, we won in pittsburgh, we just won in chattanooga, we'll show them eastern mamby-pambies how to fight. and mead's considering replacing -- everybody in washington seems to want to replace mead. mead comes down to brandy station in march, rainy day, 1864. miserable winter weather, kind of like sum

so general mead rescind's grants order and stops a massive slaughter. grant send word back he is come though front. they agree to meet at the mclean house which is in appomattox. and when lee arrives, grant is dressed in his infamous private's unform. he hadn't taken time to prepare like lee had. they pass a few words back and forth. grant mentions a few things about the mexican war where they both served. lee basically responds politely. and says, let's get down business. grant sits down at a table. he writes out the order -- the terms of the surrender. lee looks over them and makes a few requests, particularly he requests the southern soldiers be able to retain their side arms and they be able to retain their horses. in the southern army, the horses were the personal property of the soldiers. as opposed to the northern army where they were owned by the government. which meant that if the northern army simply appropriated all the horses, the men who were going home would have no way to raise crops the next year. grant agrees. also orders over 25,000 re

meade. they are burning underbrush, dense underbrush in the area i guess in the event that -- so it can't be a hazard later on this summer but the column of smoke can be seen from the baltimore area and as you can see there is a lot of smoke and flames in here. earlier the cloud plume could be sign, looks to be about four miles wide or so, but the area looks to between 6 and 10 acres, it is heavily forested, there are plenty of folks standing by to keep it under control. we are just down here getting some pictures of it because it is rather awesome to see. back to you on tv hill. >> all right, captain mike, thank you. >> all right. well, you know, it is real interesting, let me just jump into this because i am going to show the watch warning advisory graphic when we set up that graphic and we will continue a discussion of that controlled burn. >>> what we have is shower activity down to our south. okay. let's take a look at that graphic. now it is being held at bay, the shower activity, whic

they can't find grant to tell him that lee is ready to talk to them, so general meade we sense grant's order and stops a massive slaughter. grant sends word back that is coming to the front as fast as he can. they agree to meet at the mcqueen house which is in appomattox not far from where we are right now. when lee a rise, grant is dressed in his infamous uniform. he hadn't taken time to prepare like lee had to bypass a few words back and forth. grant mentioned a few things about the mexican work where they have both served. lee basically responds politely, and then said let's get down to business. grant sits down at a table. he writes out the order, the terms of the surrender. lee looks over them and makes a few request, particularly a request that the southern soldiers be able to retain their sidearms and they be able to retain their horses. in the southern army, the horses were the personal property of the soldiers as opposed to the northern army where they were owned by the government. which meant that if the northern army should appropriate all the horses, the men going home woul

the only bad thing does to mead is he doesn't hold up the surrendered map for mead to get there. mead's not president of the actual surrender ceremony, but he's quite a ways away. we're wrapping up. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. [applause] >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> our coverage of the 2012 colby military writers' symposium in northfield, vermont, concludes with james hornfischer. mr. hornfischer discusses his book, "neptune's inferno," and takes audience questions for a little under an hour. >> good afternoon. it is my distinct pleasure to present to you today at our colby symposium writer and speaker james hornfischer. hornfischer quickly is establishing himself as doing for the navy what popular historian steven ambrose did for the army. this quote is from "the rocky mountain news," and i feel it fits hornfischer very aptly and describes him very went mr. hornfischer is the author of three works of naval history; the last stand of the tin can sailors published in 2004

they brought the camouflage group from fort meade. a group of radio specialists who came radio disinformation specialist whose wrote scripts that were quite elaborate. a head guy a former script writer for nbc radio, fred foxx, i'll talk about that a little more. they also brought into the fold a group even the army or most people in the army didn't know yet existed, because it was formed on technological breakthroughs. this was the 3122 sonic deception company. signal service company but they called themself sonic deception. these guys were the product of two mavericks. one maverick was douglas fairbanks jr. the movie actor. douglas fairbanks sr., none of you even here is old enough to remember and certainly not me, but douglas fairban p bankbanks his day was the greatest superstar on earth, along with charlie chaplin. you could go to any country, go to africa, show his picture, they would know who he was. go to norway or spain, she all knew it. and intimate with president roosevelt when he was still the undersecretary the navy and s

less than 12 hours later a third deck fire was started on king meades way. all three were started by cigarettes and could have been prevented. they want to remind people how dangerous cigarettes can be if not put out properly. >>> taking a look at harbor cam, you can see some of the wind is still out there. there's a flag flying in the bag. it's still windy. let's check in with meteorologist wyatt everhart. >>> a ripple on the water. also some chilly hair coming in on -- air coming in on that northwest breeze. more of a freeze for western maryland as we typically see. this time the frost advisory extends to the northern half of baltimore county, harford county, cecil county and carroll. take a look at the pattern. some clouds drifting out of the north a couple of showers but not much, a couple of isolated showers primarily on the eastern shore and some of it slowing a few raindrops. 59 baltimore more. 57 at the bee. most spots struggling to get out of the 50s. so definitely dress warm as you head out and b -- about. there's much warmer weather. >>> and just

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. >> for more on this, we're joined by our brussels correspondent jeff mead. they said this is not violate the fundamental right to the protection of family life. tell us more. >> they said that this was a guarantee to the right of private and family life. in europe, where the majority of countries do and, they said it was too early to change that moral code, and a german court said it plans to protect the family on the basis that and blurs family. the judgments themselves are blurred. the court saw no reason to change the overall position in europe and it allows those countries that do allow between consenting adults to go ahead and do that. for the vast majority, they will retain what has been a longstanding legal, as well as moral taboo against. >> you did mention the other countries. do you think this german decision will influence other countries? >> i doubt it very much. i think those that changed their laws -- the most recent is france -- i do not think they are going to change. there is still a moral feeling about, whatever the lot is, and in many of t

including washington, as pretrial hearings for private first class bradley manning resume today at fort meade. he is facing several charges including aiding the enemy and could face life in prison if convicted. also, opening statements expected today in the trial of former falls church democratic party chair michael gardner. he faces sexual battery charges for allegedly touching three young girls inappropriately during a sleepover and his home last june. he pleaded not guilty. that trial could last a week. he is the husband of the falls church councilwoman and former mayor. >> there's a health alert for metrobus riders. the agency has taken a bus out of service after one of its drivers was diagnosed with viral meningitis. now the details. >> it is scary. >> pretty scary. >> very upsetting. >> the 52 and the 54 passengers are not thrilled to hear this. >> it's not a good feeling. >> metro says the man drove three routes on friday morning. all of them were primarily on 14th street nw. of them went from 14th street and buchanan at 7:13 down to l'enfant plaza. it was a return trip at just after 8

but but the question to our foreign affairs correspondent, jeff meade. >> very worried and they have been for long time. this is one of the biggest economies. there's no question that europe could afford the scale of a bailout required. officially, today, all is calm on the surface. the commission is saying, yes, there has been a downgrade of spain but that has not triggered a market fall. the official line from brussels is that the commission is supporting the spanish economic reform austerity program. they will meet their target in 2013 reducing their deficit to no more than 3% of national wealth, which is the highest allowed commitment under a you stability lot. -- e.u. stability law. that will not happen, largely because of the scale of the spanish economy in the spanish prime minister telling the president of the commission that we will need to recapitalize banks and we will not meet our deficit targets on time. that is the official commission. spain is on course and we are supporting them in their austerity measures. >> how did equities react in the eurozone?% our markets corre

oral arguments in the case are scheduled for a pretrial hearing at fort meade in maryland. >>> the future of the u.s. postal service is being debated on capitol hill. the senate will vote today on plans to end saturday mail service and to allow the postal service to tap into its retirement funds. the post office wants to begin closing thousands of branches beginning next month. >>> a fire badly damaged a house in montgomery county. sky 9 was over the home at 2323 twin valley lane in silver spring this morning. fire officials say the occupants were not home when the flames broke out. they suspect that the fire began in the chimney. there's no word yet on how much damage was caused. >>> metro says one of its bus drivers has been diagnosed with viral meningitis. his bus on the 14th street line has been removed from service and metro says that it has disinfected all 164 of their buses as a precaution. viral meningitis is generally less severe than bacterial meningitis and it goes away without specific treatment. >> generally causes fever, headaches, confusion, sometimes light sensitivity. it'

. >>> a military judge in fort meade, maryland is expected to rule today whether she will dismiss any of the individual counts against private bradley manning. the army intelligence analyst is accused of turning over classified military documents to the wikileaks website. manning's trial is scheduled for september. >>> we had a wet morning across the washington, d.c. area, but is there rain on the horizon? anny is here with full details. hello, anny. >> hi, jc. will you need your umbrellas for the rest of today. not expecting anything heavy but still a chance for scattered light rain will remain us with the rest of today. here's a look at the doppler radar to show you we do see some pretty good showers go through the northern neck early this morning, especially central maryland. we have another system that i think will bring us a chance for more scattered showers spots rest of today -- for the rest of today. right now a sprinkle around winchester up toward 270 north of town. fredricksburg, you also got a pretty good rain earlier today. here's a look at our temperatures. it's going to

secrets to wikileaks is in a fort meade court for another pretrial hearing. bradley manning facing several charges including aiding the enemy of. is asking the judge today to dismiss all the charges claiming military prosecutors did not hand over documents that could help his defense if. faces life in prison if convicted. >> clear skies around the region, warm weather could be making a return as well. adam caskey has a look at the forecast. >> warmer outside today than yesterday. but still about 10 degrees below average for this time of year in spots. i want to start with a time lapse in the belfort furniture weather center from arlington. the camera at washington-lee high school. the clouds drift away in the morning and dissipate as they move out of the region. now we have patchy fog, fair weather clouds of. you can see the trees shaking around because of the gusty wind in excess of 20 miles an hour at times. we are 56 degrees in herndon, 55 in fairfax 52 in my delma village, 55 in oxon hill -- 52 in montgomery village. the upper 50's in the northwest of the

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and mexico's minister of finance jose mead. and the director general and pro mexico carlos guzman. and of course our two esteemed ambassadors. and i'm going to introduce them separately, and i'm going off the script. the first of course is tony wayne representing the united states in mexico city. and we're very pleased to have him. he's working hard, and it's working very well. i'd like to put just a little bit of emphasis on my friend arturo circan, who represents mexico here in the united states. and mr. president, just a little while ago at our breakfast, we celebrated many things that have worked out over time to expand both of our economies. the ambassador has been a hard worker, a good friend, and occasionally a pain because he would push us to get done what has to be done in a way that we finally do it just to quiet him down. but arturo, we very much appreciate our partnership. it's been great for everybody. now, it's great to have all of you here -- [ applause ] so i'm glad you're all here today and so much distinguished private sector guests from both of our countries, and

. >>> motions hearing will be held at fort meade for bradley manning accused leaking classified litary and state department documents e g inraq. and some of the inrmation ended up on the wileaks website. supporters manning will hold a vigil in his honor at 8 this morning. it is expected that a gate will be -- a date will be set for the urt martial during the hearing. if convicted he could face fe in prison>>. republican lawmakers say three more sect service agents have been forced out and two othehave been eared of misconduct in that investigation into the prostitution scant scandal. peter king says he was told by the top secret service official what was going on ano agents are regninand one is having h clearance revoked. one thresigning employees stayed in the same hotel the president stayed in. nearby hol. ents were in a in all the secret service investigated 12 of its agents. >>> tuesday did mark a turning contest. the gop presidential it was the first round of contests since rick santorum pulled out and left mitt romney's path to the republican nomination ubstructed. romneysweep of

stable sustainable and solid growth and it's going to make some short term needed actions as well as mead yumd and longer term ones. -- medium and longer term ones. what is clearly need sed more confidence, more stability, more demand. the immediate focus of policies therefore should be to support growth where it is still weak. let me be clear. in many countries, especially in the advanceed economies fiscal adjustment is essential but the base of adjustment matters and it must be country-specific so the imf is saying it not only has to be demand therefore any policy it supports demand will be fine. neither is the imf saying it has to be fiscal consolidation across the board without specificity. we are saying there is a base to be had and it has to be country specific. let me be clearer. yes. some countries have no choice but to adjust now sharply and quickly but it's not true across the board. other countries can actually let out matic stabilizers play their role, let revenue reduce and public spending especially if it's about safety nets increase and there are some countries although a l

a motions hearing will be today at fort meade for private first class bradley manning.leaking documents and some of the information ended up on wikileaks. supporters of manning will hold a vigil in his honor. it's going to begin at 8 this morning. it's expected that a date will be be set for manning's court martial during the hearing. if convicted, he could face life in prison. >>> we are getting new reaction this morning after a jetblue plane bound for west palm beach made an emergency landing in suburban new york at an airport shortly after hitting birds following take off. christina moore with the scripps station is live in west palm beach with more and all new reaction. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. those passengers were headed here to west palm beach. they finally made it here last night a little later than expected. the good news is they were all safe. there were more than 50 passengers on jetblue flight 571 when it ended up striking a number of birds. it happened right after taking off from the westchester county airport in white plains new york. the p

yes, it is -- you know, we meade it, we will sesee. >> do you want to see baby pictures? yes. -- we need it. we will see. >> >> do you want to see baby pictures? >> yes. let's do it. >> now, meet this little one, monkeyies monkeys are cute. first time parents. you can see all of the monkeys right now at the forest maryland zoo here in baltimore. that is great. all right. >>> today is national earth day. and the national aquarium celebrated. you know, they are partnering up in conservation. i want to report on the first person who jumps in the harbor. now, the mayor says this is the perfect collaboration in making the city greener. >> we can continue to make the city greener and it is important we lead by example. the new partnership and the national aquarium will be a great step in the effort. >> now, the national wildlife federation gave out free trees to everyone who came out to the event as long as they promised to take care of them. that was great today. >>> you should be proud of your young men and women taking part in thconference at mary valley. it is a day of, rea

meade for his court-martial. >>> a marine accused of fatally stabbing another marine to death says he was acting in self-defense. michael poth is charged with murder. he is accused of stabbing michael bushong. poth told police he stabbed bushong because he punched him in the head. witnesses say the pair started fighting when poth made a homophobic remark to bushong. a preliminary shrg set for may 15. >>> a maryland man is upset a d.c. police officer pulled him over because of an air freshener. the man said he was pulled over for having an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. kerns said he didn't let the officer search his truck and ended up with a $35 ticket for objects hanging as to obstruct view. kerns also received a $800 fine for driving without proper insurance and failure to prove he has insurance. he says he does have insurance but was driving a new car and couldn't show proof. dooep tell us it is a -- d.c. police tell us it is a violation to have an air base freshener on your rearview mirror, and you can be ticketed for that. >>> today voters in five states will hea

water reservoirs, large water reservoirs also trigger earthquakes, as in lake mead in nevada and orville in california. and many other places around the world. and also geothermal, the geothermal field, where the injection has resulted in an earthquake, and a few others that do -- that you probably have heard. so it's not a new phenomenon. we understand why this happens fairly well. it's just actually very difficult to predict when it's going to happen, and the research program we're working on is what to do about it when it does happen. many of these, as you see, are related to the injection activity, and that's what i'm going to focus my remarks on tonight. those activities that humans are involved with and entail are -- involve food injection in depth or waste, liquid disposal of all types. disposal into wells and earth. geo they we geothermal production, as i mentioned. and these three production activities -- that doug described, tight shale gas, tight sand, coal bed, methane, can involve fracking. and the associated need to dispose of formation water, fluids that dennis described.

meade headquarters and around the world. georgie, democratic caller in california. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i've always found this interesting and with my age i've always known that they have been doing this. but now they are doing it where people are actually getting arrested for things they have done five years ago. and it's been things that's been on their cell phone. so that's going to be interesting to see how that plays out in california. in los angeles, it's going to set a precedence. if it hasn't already been set, i don't know if it's been set or not. anything you say on your cell phone, you get red flagged. and people know they are red flagged but then there are so many that don't, and they find themselves behind bars five years later for something they said five years ago. to me it's absolutely insane. we lost this country, the citizens of this country need to take this country back, and make it a democracy. >> all right. chris a republican in las vegas. >> caller: thank you for your work, mr. bamford. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> as one w

the old mckim, meade, and white structure, the old penn station torn down. controversy around the world. from all corners of the world. which gives birth to the historical preservation law of new york. but you're in new york, there's a lot of great architecture in new york, not like washington. a lot of great architecture. and art in new york. much of the art, of course, that's not in public spaces and architecture. behind a door that you've got to pay a fee to access, you know. great art in london, spain, all over europe, rome is singular to me. i just got back from rome. the city itself is a work of art. you are inside a work of art that is the expanse of an entire city. you know, and i think that in this country, when you're over there, you see they've got the -- i only have glib words for you today, but they have the art thing down. they're spending a lot of money over there. and they're getting a lot of tourists over there. they're getting a lot of our money over there over the last many years because they have preserved that heritage and they've made a

that it would be better to not get so concerned about any potential demonstration that they would mead to go to such efforts to -- that they would need to go to such efforts to force its cancellation. so they got much better at figuring out whether or not such marches would result in real threats, and you can see the development in the wake of this march and over the 1940's and 1950's of much more sophisticated plans on the part of police forces, the military, the various groups and officials with authority over this capitol on how to respond to marches. the other part was that that legacy, the legacy of the threat of making a march powerful because it had so many people, that conversation about 100,000 people, became an increasingly important part of future marches. we all know about how how many people you get to come to your march becomes often the most important part of the discussion and you could see that clearly in the planning of the 1963 march on washington. they wanted to be big. they were committed to being big. they made claims that they were going to be big. and they were

exploration is that the oil in this region is a very difficult to get to hard to extract and russ have to meads the technology and to partner with other outside ventures to make this happen in fact of the exxon deal no oil is expected to come to fruition for about eight years in that deal as well also kind of talking a little bit about the importance of the deal that was signed today the prime minister vladimir putin and current president elect was on hand to make sure that that deal was signed and everything was handled fairly. thomas thank you very much indeed at the wrong headquarters for us all we got time for just now let me just quickly mention that the u.s. markets are indeed posting shop gains for they sell more details in the next bulletin in about fifty minutes time carol many thanks for that update katie our very special report just a few minutes away wrap up of the top stories with me. well for the future science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. that's not on the tires. market why not come to. fin

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we just put a picture of the mead when i was like nine years old so if you told the truth. i think that's an i'm going to get it and i'll grab him because he's sick and. he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the little without you see it split. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some of the part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. if you lie seafood you're screwed friday marks the two year anniversary the b.p. oil spill in the gulf b.p. wants you to think everything is just going to go from mexico. let your in for an isle beach is the water just open for everyone to enjoy. and the economy is showing progress with many areas along the coast having lived this experience and see you. i was born here i'm still here and so is b.p. more committed to the goal for everyone who loves it and everyone who calls the home unfortunately a fish aren't quite as happy to call the gulf now two years later a lon

. >> a military judge at fort meade says she will rule today whether to dismiss any individual charges against bradley manning. he is the u.s. soldier accused of providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. the judge refused yesterday to grow out his case and set the trial for late september. an emotional day of testimony at the trial of a man accused of killing members of jennifer hudson's family. her former brother-in-law is charged with killing lover, her brother, and the actress left the courtroom when prosecutors showed autopsy photos of the three victims. >> metro riders will find out today how much a rival cause this summer theme of the board will vote on a proposed fare hike and will vote on the first- ever on limited monthly pass. we go live outside metro headquarters. >> good morning, it is expected that around 11:00 this morning is when they will take up the issue of the proposed fare hikes that will go to into effect for fiscal year 2013. under this proposal, it calls for increasing the maximum peak fare from $5 to $5.75 an increasing the basic char

more free trial hearings in the case of alleged wiki leaks or bradley manning kicked off today fort meade in maryland and the hearings are expected to last three days and will center around the defense's motions to dismiss this case either entirely or at least to try to get some of the charges against manning dropped he despite his blanket intention manning's lawyers said that military prosecutors had failed to turn over the three evidence in the discovery process that is grounds to dismiss the case entirely so that motion was filed last month of made public only last week and a blast the prosecution claiming that it's abdicated wholesale its discovery obligations of a document at the heart of this kerfuffle is no small matter either it is a sense of the alleged damage done to national security by the leaks and it appears that none has been proven right now only with that the bunk the claims of wiki leaks you trackers and the government but manning's lawyers say that it is crucial to their client's defense they also intend to argue that manning had no intent to aid the enemy and they're f

today's ruling came at a pre- trial hearing at fort meade, maryland. manning faces a court-martial in september. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: and we turn to the still unfolding story of wal- mart and allegations of bribery in mexico. judy woodruff has more. >> woodruff: with more than 2,000 stores throughout the country, mexico is an important foreign market for wal-mart. but a "new york times" investigation has raised troubling questions over wal-mart's dominance there and how it came to be. among some of the findings: former executives for the company orchestrated a campaign of bribery to obtain construction permits and build stores more quickly during the past decade. a paper trail of bribery documenting payments of more than $24 million. and top executives of the company seemed to shut down an internal investigation until recently. wal-mart is now conducting an inquiry into whether employees may have violated the foreign corrupt practices act, a federal law that makes it a crime for american companies to b

nor is there at the fort meade, maryland museum nor at the signal core museum or army electronics museum in fort hancock or the desert training center or anywhere else i could find. in fact, the 23rd headquarters troop, the 603rd camouflager, 3122 sonic company, all disbanded prior to these guys leaving the service either deliberately or accidentally, meaning when they were discharged each of these guys was sent to some far flung -- they were scattered to far flung army outposts and they all were mustered out as part of different units to which they never really belonged. came out of members of the 28th infan fri or something. even the paperwork doesn't follow them to say, oh, yeah. here's who you were. this is on your discharge papers. the unit was supposed to receive a presidential citation. that never happened. there were a number of men who never got medals, probably should have, never gotten pro motions that should have and never authorized to wear the most prestigious medal for combat troops in world war ii. it's not for me to say whether they should be allowed to or not, because t

our let's look at the latest from bradley manning's pretrial hearings at fort meade in maryland now today was the third and final day of hearings this week we told you yesterday that a military judge colonel denise lind denied manning's lawyers motion to dismiss this trial because the prosecution concealed exculpatory evidence however she did order the prosecutors to give her this evidence in question so-called damage assessment reports and she's going to privately review them to determine if manning's lawyers have the right to see that one hour early this morning linda denied more defense motions to drop or combined charges she ruled the prosecutors did not indict manning with an unreasonable multiplication of charges and he dismissed another motion to drop the drop the charge that manning wrongfully and wantonly caused u.s. intelligence to be published but was later today of the most significant development happened the linda ruled against the defense motion to drop charges of aiding the enemy as we've discussed many times before on the show this charge sets a very dangerous precedent o

>> the soldier accused of leaking secrets to wikileaks will return to a military courtroom in fort meade a judge is expected to rule today. he faces several charges including aiding the amount -- the enemy. prosecutors at the trial for jennifer hudson family will focused on the youngest victim. the 7-year-old nephew was abducted. prosecutors showed graphic pictures of the bodies. >> the immigration debate takes center stage at the supreme court today. justices will hear arguments on the obama administration's challenge to the arizona controversial immigration law which allows police to question immigration status. david leventhal is joining us. some are calling the arizona immigration policy the show me your papers law. it has the support of the latino community and the support of the obama administration. do we know where mitt romney stands on this issue? >> he has been very open to different possibilities. he is definitely somebody who does not want to see illegal immigrants but flown into the country. he mentioned in the debates many months ago about having people go back to their nat

the latest pretrial hearings in the case of bradley manning now the defense argued yesterday at fort meade was that the entire case should be dismissed because of a flawed discovery process in which the prosecution didn't give up a whole lot of information now that information at hand were assessment reports written by the cia the pentagon the state department and possibly even other agencies now those so-called we can leak task force or reports are expected to show the government privately admits that the leaks have not harmed national security what happened instead was a bit of a mixed bag for the man defense team the army judge who needs lynndie yesterday ordered the prosecution to turn over those reports detailing the alleged damage that the leaked documents of costs to national security so that could help the manning team they argue that aiding the enemy charge being brought against him should be dropped as their client neither intended to nor actually did assist the enemy as no harm was done to national security and the prosecution today said that they're going to try to prove that m

we do have an accident on the inner loop of the beltway at camp meade road on the right shoulder not causing delays right now. no delays to report either on the beltway the moment. 56 and 57 miles per hour are your averages. everything still running smoothly on 95 southbound between white marsh boulevard and the beltway. there is the west side. it is wide open and looking to be a beautiful sunrise. this traffic report is brought to you by your toyota dealer. back over to you. >> at the top of the news this half-hour, the secret service agents and members of the military accused of inappropriate behavior ahead of the president's trip there. investigators are there look bike looking into a growing scandal. gigi barnett has the story. >> reporter: this scandal includes strip clubs and prostitutes and now they are promising a full probe. the scandal has widened. they report they were partying less than 48 hours before the president arrival. >> under the rules of this hotel guests had to be signed in. >> 21 people responsible for the president's security are accused of soliciting prostitu

. >> a military judge in fort meade expected to decide today whether the case against the soldier accusedng secrets to wikileaks website can move forward. private first class bradley manning's lawyers want charges against him thrown out because prosecutors are taking too much time to hand over required information. he faces several charges including aiding the enemy. maryland governor martin o'malley says that he is not only leaning towards a special session, called two of them. the first would be a midnight. it wants lawmakers to pass a tax to raise $12 million in debts. he might order a second special session this summer to take up a gambling bill. fairfax county supervisors have given preliminary approval to a 6.7 billion budget. it would raise real estate taxes on the average household by about $80. it would increase spending by $175 million over the years. board members approved several amendments including $3.3 million for affordable housing initiatives. the budget is up for final approval on may 1. >> under the people expected to gather in d.c. tonight to raise money for the family

it will be prenled when they meade on april 278.ew outlook falls short of 1% as the bank regards the priced stability goal. to support price recovery trends it will consider monetary easing steps at that meeting. in another story we're following. companies are preparing for a summer without nuclear power. potential reactionty vags of two power reactors has bogged down, raising the likelihood that japan will be operating without reactors. as a result they're bracing for even more power shortages than last summer. firms are planning to operate in-house generators fueled by lng at their plants. the government hasn't ruled out the possibility of roll blackouts if electricity supplies become tight this summer. back to you, christine. >> thank you very much. nozomu kitadai from japan. >>> what will the industry look like when and if it returns. joining us now for discussion is george, head of the international nuclear projects team. george, good to have you with us. what are the economic ramifications here, specifically for japan when the

this is most recent graffiti on theal mead theater on central avenue.here have been 8 incidents with similar graffiti throughout the island. all the alameda police department if you have seep anything that may help them find who is responsible for this, call them. >> central valley man has made it his mission to get execution resumed in california. he's taking legal action to force the department of corrections to take the necessary steps to proceed with the execution of the man who murdered his siste sister. annette has the story now from sacramento. serve. >> sick to my stomach. i'm asking this court to set it right. >>reporter: bradley says he has been waiting more than 30 years foreclosure. his sister was brutally murdered raped in 1981 in a lodi vineyard. can i recall michael sits on san quentin death row. one of 14 inmates who have exhausted all their appeal. but as he was about to be executed in 2006 a judge grant add reprieve allowing morales lawsuit to move forward after he claimed the 3 drug injection method was cruel and unusual punishment. >