mt. vernon. i love to go back to monticello. those are the two most places that i go back to. mt. peelier's being recreated in a big way, madison's home. and i respect the work that they do. the adams, i like the adams' homestead in quincy. >> quincy. >> which is run by the national park service, okay? it's a real thing, and it's a real home. the other places have become museums in some sense. people actually lived, you know, for the next three, four generations in the adams home. and i like that. i like that thing, that kind of -- but if there's anything creative that i do, it happens when i'm reading a letter and i see things in it that make me think about an issue in a way that i before had not been able to think about. >> i think's fantastic that you do your own research. and i would agree that the story about the dog at german town in october of '77. a research assistant would have said, i'm not going to pass this along to professor watson or professor ellis. they were dog lovers. imagine two leaders in a battle, after exchanging a dog that was running along lost on the battl

mt. vernon since henry ford brought the first fire engine to mt. rnon to keep the mansion house from burning to the grandpa to some of you know it's an ongoing challenge and in fact you are welcome to donate to our fire suppression efforts right now. i would like to welcome you all out here and before we begin the main event i also want to mention some of coming library programs which we still have tickets available. our annual martha washington lecture featuring ford frasier discussing women as consumers on both sides of the atlantic. is going to be a fantastic conversation led by around susan showalter who is a senior curator at mt. vernon and we have the first of three shells with lectures coming up featuring george goodwin discussing benjamin franklin and the british life of america's founding father on march 30. that's when he definitely want to try to sign up for it. i met george in london at the benjamin franklin house which is an an extraordinary house museum there and he's got an extremely large personality. i think you will particularly en

mt. vernon community school is set for tomorrow. organizers are setting up at the mt. rnon community center and there are thousands of items all available. funds raised by this benefit -- by this will benefit the school in many >> it funds field trips, classroom enrichment, clubs for kids who can't afford them. we really pride ourselves at mt. vernon community school of being a real community school and we make sure every student can participate in every activity regardless of their ability to pay. >> early birds start at 7:00 a.m., final sales are at 1:00, and there are admittance fees. >>> disturbing allegations, a woman arrested for shoplifting and now plolice are looking it's custom made so you know it's good quality. i'm just speechless because it's perfect. n and now at 4:30, a mother arrested for shoplifting and now police are looking into whether she used her toddler son to help with a separate crime. i'm leon harris in for chris lawrence. >> i'm pat lawson muse. jim has the details. >> we have a search warrant that talks about a troubling case. charges are pend

mt. vernon during the winter. i was with you at mt. vernon. i was with you at valley forge. i was out in the field with you. we're a band of brothers. he has them in tears by the time he ends because he pulls out a letter to read by some congressman who says we're going to do something for the army and so on. he pulls out his specspectacless glasses, and there is a gasp because many of the officers had not realized he needed reading glasses. he looks up with just perfect timing and says, yes, gentlemen, i have grown nearly blind as well as gray in the service of my country. at that point they all break into tears. he was, as adams said, he was the best actor of the presidency we've ever had, and it's true. washington had a real sense of drama. he loved plays. he put them on for his -- and there is no doubt this was a performance. but it was a brilliant performance and it broke this crowd -- this coup. so we owe a lot to him. his presidency was -- without him the country wouldn't survive. he represented -- people were -- had been raised in monarchy, when washington takes over

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mt. vernon will be trying to get a few more hours of sleep tonight. after sirens and s.w.a.t.ounded a house last night, a barricade situation lasted nearly 17 hours. bureau reporter david culver explains how it came to an end. >> reporter: a long night turned tense morning for this mt. vernon community. >> quarter to 5:00 a.m., auffed all of a sudden the sirens were going off. >> reporter: the stand-off involved a man holed up inside this home. most concerning, he had his two young kids with him. around 1:00 in the afternoon, it all came to an end. we watched as an ambulance and medic crossed the police tape. police from fairfax county and alexandria, clearing the scene. >> just seemed like a good family. i don't know how this happened. >> russell dale, off school today, watched the fal out and the kids looked healthy and all good. >> reporte >> we looked down there and they gave the sign like it's over, it's done. >> reporter: throughout the stand-off, another neighbor watched the man inside come to the smashed window, talking with police. when he stepped out of the home, the

mt. vernon. just a beautiful day all the way around. but the tree pollen, very high. we peaked over the weekend and we have come down a little bit from that, but still very high. and is it does look like we'll stay rather high the next couple days. grass, weeds, and mold, all on the low sides. but if you're sneezy, it's the tree pollen still out there. nothing on the radar. there's nothing out there right now. you can see what i'm talking about, no clouds, no rain. the clouds are starting to move our way. with that, we'll see the shower activity down south move our way too. not a lot of rain. but if you're sending the kids to the bus stop, it's going to be cool, they'll need the jacket. a shower possible around recess. to the west of the blue ridge, you'll need the umbrella at the bus stop early tomorrow morning along the i-81 corridor. the rest of area, maybe a shower possible around the 11:00/12:00 area. we go well above average high up to 80 degrees thursday and friday. about a 30% chance of a shower in the afternoon. a much better chance of straight rain saturday

mt. vernon, green, justin, and brandywine street. all morning long, and definitely check the nbc10 philadelphia app for more information on the closures. let's look at the schuylkill expressway. our camera at spring garden street, light traffic. again, it's early. when i come back, we'll look at the majors and what's in story this morning. >>> as francesca mentioned, the countdown to the nfl draft is reaching the final

mt. vernon, green, justin, and brandywine street. we'll be looking for these road closures all morning long, and definitely check the nbc10 philadelphia app for more information on the closures. let's look at the schuylkill expressway. our camera at spring garden street, light traffic. again, it's early. when i come back, we'll look at the majors and what's in story this morning. >>> as francesca mentioned, the countdown to the nfl draft is reaching the final days. the city getting ready for the estimated 200,000 people expected for the event. >> matt delucia is live in center city. tell us what's happening now. >> reporter: well, the last phase of closures was delayed until 6:00 this morning to coincide with a new traffic police shift. right now we're along kelly drive where it is shut down. you see that some cars are making their way around the art museum. right over there by akens oval, that is shut down. the ben franklin parkway shut down. we will see some closures expanding to the side streets from 21st to 24th street. parts of

mt. vernon street, and they started getting calls about gunshots around 11:30 last night x. they found plenty of shell casings but no victims or shooter. >>> also this morning police are searching for the gunman that shot and killed a young man in philadelphia philadelphia's neighborhood here. a man had been shot several times in the head and upper body, and he later died. >>> a triple shooting in one neighborhood has police busy. it was near hope and summer streets where three people were wounded and two are in critical condition. no arrests in this case either. >>> developing now overseas, vice president mike pence is seoul, south korea. the vice president is expected to join u.s. and south korean troops for easter sunday services. a north korean missile exploded as it launched. washington is working to determine on what type of missile was launched yesterday. north korea threatened an all-out war if attacks. experts believe there was one but as many as three new types of intercontinental ballistic missiles. >>> april 15th, a traditional tax day has come and gone but thous

mt. vernon square only. and taking a look at the red line, trains running every 8 to 15 minutes. have a great weekend. we'll see you monday morning for "news4 today." >>> and we are still working to get more information on a shooting that happened outside a strip mall in lorton, virginia. chopper 4 was over the scene along route 1 and lorton road last night. now we noticed there are a number of restaurants in that strip. police say one person was shot or one person shot into a crowd before 9:00 and people scattered. we though for a fact that one person was shot and that they are expected to survive. >>> and we're going to stay in fairfax county for the next story. thees figure out who murdered aapat a retirement community thursday morning at the little river glen senior retirement community just off barker road. now, residents found the man dead inside his apartment there located in fairfax county really on the border of fairfax and annendale. and the victim's body was found in the apartment bordering the busy river turnpike. he died from trauma to the upper body. police are aski

mt. vernon. this is all on the weather underground network.4 radar clear in our region, but notice to the west, starting to see the shower activity moving in. and here it is, the front well back to the west, but these showers and storms ahead of this, pretty strong storm here, coming through west virginia, this will clip areas around petersburg, western maryland as well. heading up. we'll see more showers tonight. i'm not anticipating much in the way of strong storms tonight in our area, but we'll see a couple of showers. so know that if you're going out at 9:00 a.m. 82, warm, but not as humid as it was today. some people are complaining about the humidity. not used to it just yet. gorgeous at 7:00, and yeah, we're talking about a fantastic friday. yard work this weekend, probably better on sunday. because we are talking some pretty good heat on saturday. caps game, saturday night after tonight's win of course. hot and humid if you're heading to the game at 8:00 on saturday night. if your kids have games this weekend, looking pretty good. the

mt. vernon is over. david culver is live now in the stratford landing neighborhood with details on how this all ended. david? >> reporter: for folks watching news4 today, or keeping up to date with all the developments through our app, you know that we were kept pretty far from the home at the center of all of this. several blocks, in fact. now we're getting our first look up and close and rather personal to this home. you can see at this window right by the front door, it is smashed out. and a neighbor across the street, i was talng short time ago, she tells me, that's where the man who was inside this home, holed up for several hours, was talking to police from. that was going back and forth throughout the night into this morning, and ended around 1:00. i want to show you what we saw around 1:00. this is when we got the indication that things were changing here. we saw ambulances going through the police tape, then saw police intact c in tactical gear, and the tense moments had subsided. we learned fro

mt. vernon but nothing compared to palaces of the dukes dukes dukes and duchen england. america has vast lands to the west and what that meant was that any white man -- it was limited to white men -- could become a property owner and have measure of economic independence. let me read now a few brave conditions. the first is from noah webster, the creator of the deck dictionary and said equality of property is the very soul of a run republic. the people will possess both power and freedom. when this is lost, power departs, liberty expires, and a commonwealth will assume some other form. second is charles pinckney, was a delegate to constitutional convention and here's what he said the convention. he said america not only very different from theinhabitants of any state we're acquainted with the modern world but at distinct from either the people of guest or rom or -- or rome or ain'tents. he believed america hat a greater equality than to be found among the people of any other country and thought that equality would continue because, close, the nation possessed tracks of u

mt. vernon.ome 270 years after the county formed, another bit of history was made with the election of its first female sheriff. >> being the first female sheriff is special, because i have the opportunity to not only be a role model for young women, but also to move an agency forward that i've had the opportunity to work with for many, many years. >> sheriff kincaid's largest responsibility is overseeing the jail facility, where she began her career as a corrections deputy 26 years earlier. the fairfax county adult detention center houses 1,200 men and women, most of whom are only charged with crimes. they're awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. but the majority of them have been here more than once. nationally, the bureau of justice statistics estimates that about two-thirds of released inmates are incarcerated again within three years. the new sheriff says she wants to change that. >> these are our neighbors. these are, you know, folks that we live around. so what i'm hoping to acc

mt. vernon, green, and brandy dids wine will be open for local access only.k at 95 at woodhaven to the vine, it's stacked. it will take you 30 minutes. >>> the wind is blowing clouds in place. we've seen rain, and more rain is on the way. a dreary view from penn's landing this morning. the rain has moved through berks county, most of berks county, and into the lehigh valley. that rain moved through south jersey and delaware. the motion will continue. we'll get a break until this arrives later this morning, and this afternoon, the heavier downpours are set for our area, too. 48 degrees right now in the suburbs. philadelphia at 50. temperatures will be holding in the lower 50s with showers, 56 degrees by lunchtime. the winds increasing to 22 miles per hour. the gusty winds this afternoon with rain and potentially thunderstorms developing in delaware and south jersey. even at the shore. all combining to keep temperatures in the 50s today. if you saw the seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen, a big warmup at the end of the week. >> psyched for that. >> f

mt. vernon around 8:00 last night. one of the friends of the man became concerned after talking to him on the phone. he refused to come out when police arrived and officers say the man's two young children were inside the house during this whole ordeal. the good thing is, they are both safe tonight. >>> and eveth normal at an apartment complex in prince george's county after a gas fire broke out there. this is what it looked like earlier along 28th avenue in temple hills. we're told everyone was evacuated safely and washington gas did manage to shut off the natural gas line before noon. crews put out the fire, no word on what caused it. >>> and scott macfarlane at the live desk with breaking details on the helicopter crash. the army say three crew members aboard, one is dead. one is in critical condition, one is in serious condition with injuries. the two injured crew members are at shock trauma in baltimore and they detell us this flight that had a hard landing at the golf course in leonardtown, was a training exercis

mt. vernon, this is no new story. we know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more -- who know her. this expectation. i want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake harriet tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. sew so the title -- a quick story about the titling "never caught." this is one motor vehicle first -- one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. they said gives away the story, erica. i said, yeah, but so does "12 yours a slave." only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. with "never caught" this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. she was never free. she simply was never caught. and i think there's a distinction and one that it wanted to make, especially as i was trying to kind of dismantle what we think about slavery in the south and the north at this moment where the nation is new. and i thin

mt. vernon only. and red line trains running every 8 to 15 minutes. have a great weekend. i'll see you monday morning. >>> and now to the roads where starting this weekend, getting to virginia from downtown d.c. will be easier. after two years of construction and detours, the massachusetts avenue ramp to 395 south opens tomorrow. the new ramp allows traffic to go directly on to the highway instead of using 3rd street and this is good news for drivers going east, but those driving westbound on mass avenue will see new delays. the capital won't wrap up until 2019. >>> the announcement made last night that has sports fans in our area looking forward to thanksgiving already. >> and relief this morning for a family of a missing teen. the help police got locating the girl and the teacher accused of kidnapping her and taking her across the count.ry fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, t