announcer: president joe biden paid a visit to northern virginia, where he was joined by governor northam to talk about the commonwealth response to covid-19. the governor gave an update to an audience at an indoor rock climbing center on the status of vaccinations and the easing of restrictions on capacity and social distancing. president biden: hey, everybody. [indiscernible] [laughter] good morning to everybody. welcome. i don't know about you all, but this is an exciting day for me. finally after a long year. thank you also much for joining us today. [indiscernible] i asked the president if he would like to play some -- [laughter] [indiscernible] i want you to all join me and give a round of applause to the president and the first lady of the united states of america. [cheering and applause] i want to also acknowledge that dr. biden, who was one of my fellow state employees, we are so grateful that you teach here in virginia at northern virginia committed to college. please, welcome. [cheering and applause] as you probably know, there are a number of dignitaries here with us today. i

almost nobody thought there was a chance for anything to happen least on the army northern virginia's gone. that's it. we had a good shot. it's over with what are some i think the war ended and some of the things that suggest that to me are that the the confederacy cease to exist. slavery ceased to exist the all a million united states soldiers who were underarms in may of 1865 80% of them were home by the end of the year. there were 11,000 of them left the following spring these suggest to me the end of a war and and now that doesn't mean that there aren't of course long-term ramifications and it doesn't mean there's a kind of low grade of violence that continues in the former confederate states for a long time, but it's not it's not a continuation of the war by other means the scale is so vastly different. and what is possible is so vastly different. the former confederates aren't going to establish a modern nation-state built on slavery. they are going to try to find a way to perpetuate white supremacy that so that's a mightily scaled back goal there they're doing that within. and

but what's happening in the army of northern, virginia? from june of 1862 all the way up through the gettysburg campaign in july of 1863 is the fact that robert e. lee is bleeding this army white. during the seven days battles his army number 92,500 men. he lost a little over 20,000 men in that campaign, which is 23% of his army. 175 officers were killed 675 wounded and 110 of them were field grade officers lieutenant colonels majors colonels maxi griggs brigade lost 854 out of 2500 men engaged and they lost 36 field in line officers during that campaign. its second manassas lee lost 19% of his army, including two very very senior officers isaac trimble and richard ewell for brigade commanders 11 regimental commanders and 726 field and line great officers. when you go on to antietam, he took 41,000 men into battle there and lost 14,000 men between south mountain and antietam. that's 27% of the army. 836 officers fell as casualties including four generals killed in six wounded six, georgia lost 226 men out of 215 gauged 30th, virginia 160 o

was one of my fellow state employees, we are so grateful that you teach here in virginia at northern virginia committed to college. please, welcome. [cheering and applause] as you probably know, there are a number of dignitaries here with us today. i would like to give my best attempt at recognizing some of them. we have congressman connolly, jerry, thank you for being with us today. my favorite lieutenant governor, congressman don b., welcome. senator george f., good to see you this morning. [applause] senator adam evan, thank you very much for your leadership. [applause] we have the speaker, the first woman speaker of the house of delegates. [applause] speaker eileen philip ellwood our leader in the house of delegates. our mayor, justin wilson is with us here today, justin. [applause] we have numerous members of our local council and school board, thank you also much for being here and your leadership over this past year. finally, the superintendent for helping put all this together. [cheering and applause] it is also great to see all the students with us today, and teachers. [cheering and

by the 16 50's, the english are moving northwest into what is now northern virginia in pursuit of arable land, which is obviously occupied by native people. then they are also moving southwest along the kind of north carolina-virginia border as we know it today in pursuit of the fur trade. we are used to thinking about the fur trade and things like beaver and fox, but in the southeast specifically this is a skin trade in deer skins. not that they would turn away beaver and fox and richer pelts, but deer skin was in demand for a variety of reasons in europe, among them vellum, or paper, which we now get from trees. in order for the english to move west, they need a lot of help. they need help understanding other people, non-english people. they need help with diplomacy. they need help just knowing where to go and how to navigate an entirely new environment. so where do they turn? they turn to the new tributary indians they now live alongside. a great example of this is abraham, who came to virginia in the 1620's as an indentured servant. by the 1650's, he was a successful planter who oper

so here in virginia an american candidate running in northern virginia is the kind i would like to see get into office in virginia and neck also running in northern virginia out knockingkn on doors and understands we need to turn the page and focus on our constituents. when i see candidates like that that i'm now working with in congress. i'm happy to help. privilege to serve. i served a decade and a worked in congress for years. there are other ways to serve the community. ia continue to serve on charitable boards and work on issues i am passionate about and businesses i care about what the future of the 21st century economy. i'm happy to continue help elect the people i think would be good leaders around the country. not just the party. >> republican line tennessee. >> i think you are all alone about the big lie. it is not a big lie. we saw the proof and then you are out there promoting yourself nobody else but you. frankly, i thank you are part of the swamp you voted with mitt romney and he would stay with him no matter what and people like you of the republican party. that's all i

by the 1650s the english are moving northwest into what's now the northern neck and northern virginia and pursuit of arable land which is obviously occupied by native people and then there are also moving southwest along the kind of north carolina virginia border as we'd know it today in pursuit of the fur trade. we're very used to thinking about the fur trade in terms of things like beaver and fox. but in the southeast specifically this is a skin trade in deerskins. not that they would turn away beaver and fox and other kinds of richer peltz obviously, but dear skin was in demand for a variety of reasons in europe among them vellum or paper which we now get from trees in order for the english to move west. they need a lot of help. they need help understanding other people not english people. they need help with diplomacy. they need help. just knowing where to go and how to navigate an entirely new environment. and so where do they turn they turn to the new tributary indians that they now live alongside. really great example of this is abraham wood. who came to virginia in the 1620s a

he would communicate a dead drops around washington and northern virginia.we give a complete list of them in the book on his final drop in february 2001. it was at foxstone park his signal that he was filling the drop was a one-inch piece of johnson and johnson white medical tape placed horizontally on the left up right of the fox stone. sign he disappeared into the park nine minutes. if you walk four and a half minutes into the park, you come to this bridge and he left his package beneath this left in placement between the bottom of the wooden bridge in the concrete and abutment there in the bank when he comes back out his car is left there. it's currently about 1700 about five pm. he has just dropped his best friend at dulles airport jack kosher his wife bonnie is waiting at home with a tv dinner and they're gonna watch nascar. these are robert hansen's last moments as he exits the park. whoops as he exits the park and he's walking up the hill. he's wearing his. great jacket his black sweater. he's armed. he's a serving supervisory special agent. he's goin

this be for your campaign given how accelerated this radicalism has become in our school in northern virginia and how will you handle it for the next 6 months? moment in our education system in virginia. mcauliffe north from dynasty has been dismantling virginia schools and thank goodness for parents. they are the last line of defense and we don't see anyone standing up from the mccullough northrup administration trying to help them. they are the ones doing the dismantling. you can just add to this list expectations that accelerated math won't be taught anymore through eleventh grade, they are going to try to stop awarding advanced diplomas, the fourth of july and pledge of allegiance out of the list of things that bind us. this is just part of the agenda of the liberal left led by tara mcauliffe and ralph northrom and thank goodness for parents. pushing back, can't get there for 7 months. >> terry mcauliffe who was governor before is not serving now but i see what you're doing, he attacked you on twitter this week, no surprise saying here is the true -- extreme republicans want nothing more

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this b for your campaign given how accelerated this radicalism has become in our schools in northern, virginia, and how we'll handle it over the next six months? >> this is an extraordinary moment in our education system in virginia. the dynasty has been dismantlin just virginia schools. thank goodness for parents, the are the last line of defense. we don't see anybody standing u or trying to help them. they are the ones doing the dismantling. it we can just add to this list expectations and accelerated math isn't being taught anymore in fact they're going to try to stop awarding advanced diplomas. or going to take the fourth of july and the pledge of allegiance out of the list of things that bind us, this is just part of the agenda of the liberal left, and thank goodnes for parents. >>laura: i want to move on. >> they can get there for seven months. >>laura: democrat candidate who was governor before, he's not serving now, but i see what you're doing there. he attacked you on twitter this week no surprise there. he said folks, extreme republicans like glenn youngkin want nothing more than to

state legislatures here in virginia, e harold, pion who is a create america candidate running in northern virginia, he's the kino of candidate i'd i like to see t into office in virginia. nick clemente who's also running in northern virginia, been out knocking onand doors and he's someone i think understands we need to turn the page and focus on the kitchen table issues of l our reconstituents. so when i see candidates like that, and also some women candidates that i am now working with in congress. so that's the type of -- and i'm happy to helpor a boutthem. it was a privilege to serve.cong i was -- served for about a decade both in the state and ws congress. to for s , and congress years. but i think there are other ways you can serve your community. i continue to serve on charitable boards and work on t issues that i'm passionate about with businesses that i care about that i think are the future of the 21st century economy. so i'm happy to continue to helo elect the kind of people who i think will be good leaders for the country, not just for the ,g party. >> let's hear fromm joanne, she's in

lee's army of northern virginia was the 23rd regimen united states color troops. my colleagues and i represent the 23rd. during the battle of spotsylvania courthouse. so may 15th 1864. they were called on to assist. the second ohio cavalry who were being chased by general thomas ross's brigade of calvary they march from the chancellorsville ruins to the intersection of what was then catharpon and orange plank road to the all-rich farm and they drove back the confederate cavalry. that led the white soldiers know that the black soldiers would fight. and this was very specific to that area because many of the soldiers in the 23rd were escape slaves from the fredericksburg and spotsylvania county area. and they were now fighting on their own home ground. but let me start with the story of the 23rd as you see right here the 23rd has an exhibit at the chancellorsville, battlefield. visitor center and i'll say a little bit more about that. later. but let's talk about how the black troops and the fourth division of the ninth corps came to being. in january 1864 general am

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stay asleep. >>> and we're back here live at northern virginia community college in alexandria, virginiahe town hall. groundbreaking pfizer and moderna vaccines would not have been possible without the work of a female scientist, a scientist whose work was dismissed by her colleagues for years until the fight over an office copier led to a partnership, and that was responsible for the discovery that began turn the course of this pandemic. chief washington correspondent andrea mitchell has the exclusive first interview. >> the scientific breakthrough that helped create today's covid vaccines was unlocked here at the university of pennsylvania by two unassuming scientists. for years their work went unnoticed and dismissed. talk to me about how skeptical people were about the value of rna. >> you know, i don't know, did we listen to them? not really, you know. >> everybody was skeptical. we didn't care. >> born in hungary, one of two daughters of a butcher, she came to the u.s. to study science. but her funding dried up. >> i tried to get grants but couldn't get the grants, and so i was not

those disappointed by this vote is barbara comstock, a former republican congresswoman from northern virginia she was shepherding a group lobbying for this panel. the group included the mother and girlfriend of brian sicknick, the capitol police officer who died as a result of the january 6th assault and two other officers. barbara comstock joins me now. welcome back to "meet the press." i want to put up the statement that sicknick put out before you guys started your meetings on capitol hill. she said, i suggest that all congressmen and senators against this bill visit my son's grave in arlington national cemetery and while there, think about what their hurtful decisions will do to the officers who will be there for them going forward. she said this wednesday. you had 36 hours trying to convince these skeptical republican senators to do this. why didn't this message do more to support this commission? >> well, thank you, todd, for showing that statement. mrs. sicknick had such grace and quiet courage and spoke very directly to these members, and i do think, because of what she did and brian'

i went to that world into many places in northern virginia which is amazon and the rest the industry'sl big east coast hub for data centers, just as whole sprawl of them and going out into the worst countries of northern virginia was about washington. now increasingly also ohio, excerpts, this whole new kind of sprawl of them. i spent time with them. it's hard to describe how huge kind of aggressively land and the horses utterly and personal and literally there are almost only a few dozen people employed which is why it's all the more striking that these little communities have just thrown incentives at the companies to build them because they're only going to get a couple dozen of employees out of them. they are super heavily guarded and secretive. i was followed by an amazon cop followed me all around. it was crazy. and now of course there's this whole the biggest question with them as really the energy. this just the incredibly amount of energy. and the companies are making all sorts of grand claims to try to make them as renewable energy dependence as possible but they are so far f

could be victims of kidnapping from the army of northern virginia and as she watches in her diary she sees refugees coming into the city ofphiladelphia fleeing the army . she writes evocatively in her diary how concerned she is about her freedom. they're free now in pennsylvania but that freedom is a tenuous thing without a legal end to slavery which seems like a remote possibility in thesummer of 1863 . with davis diary and her experiences as this woman living in the free city of philadelphia remind us, that freedom, or experience of freedom certainly didn't seem final and it didn't free her of the concerns for her family and it certainly didn't protect her from the humiliation, the daily humiliation of racism in the city of philadelphia and segregation in the city of philadelphia. so davis follows all these events carefully. he's a great -- she watches the progress of lincoln's campaign. she predicted and she was smart, she predicted lincoln was going to win in 1864. she says i think she is going when and course she was right although right again as she stubbornlydoes franchise . sh

president biden is on his way to northern virginia.is set to speak alongside virginia governor ralph northum there. that state lifting covid restrictions. that's welcome news for millions of americans hitting the road for the holiday weekend. the first big holiday since so many states started returning to something closer to normal. aaa expecting travel numbers closer to pre-pandemic levels than ever. our team live in miami beach, our team live at the busiest airport where travellers are eager to reach their holiday destinations. they got a ringing endorsement from the head of the cdc. >> if you are vaccinated, enjoy your memorial day weekend. we have been longing for time away, time to do the things we love with the people we love. >> yes, we are. >>> live look at capitol hill where we could finally see the senate vote on a january 6th commission to investigate the capitol insurrection. not before republicans kept their colleagues up until the wee ho hours of the morning to w walk the process. we will find out where things stand. a sp

northern virginia takes this personally. this race could show us how much of a motivator that issue is, especially with suburban voters and voters with college degrees, which democrats see key to their coalition nationwide. there are other races to keep an eye on this odd-numbered year, for important signals about the future of the gop. in particular strongholds like new york city and mayor's race or new jersey's governor's race. but virginia is a big one, when they vote to remove liz cheney from leadership. >>> joining me is leigh ann caldwell and mark murray from the political unit. he's been following the gubernatorial race in virginia. we have republican strategist matt goran. leigh anne, i want to start with you. we are almost speaking in the past tense with liz cheney in leadership. what support will she get in support of her staying in leadership tomorrow? is it 10, 20, 50? what is the line and how nervous is kevin mccarthy? >> no one really seems to know. i have been asking this question for about a week and i was wo

the senate majority leader as well as thank all of you working so hard for the people here in northern virginia. four months after i took office we're further along in this fight than anyone thought possible. let's remember where we were 129 days ago. when i took office we were averaging 184,000 cases per day nationwide. here in virginia, as the governor pointed out, schools were closed. main street had gone quiet here and in cities all across america. virginia tech didn't play in a bowl game this winter, first time in 28 years. and so many joys of life, large and small, have been halted by a long, dark winter. and today you've gone from 184 cases per day nationwide to fewer than 22 cases -- 22,000 cases per day. deaths have dropped by over 85%. tens of thousands of moms and dads, grandpops and grandmas, brothers, sisters, neighbors, friends are still with us today who would otherwise have been lost. this has been true here in virginia particularly, from 43,000 cases the week before i took office to fewer than 2,800 in the past week, a 93% decline. we've been able to do it for three reasons. fi

the noisy yet harmless red-eyed bugs have popped up in this northern virginia neighborhood.nd them on the menu at a restaurant near washington, d.c. the chef makes tacos and burritos featuring sauteed cicadas topped with serrano chili, avocado, and verde sauce. >> cicadas and shrimp are in the same family. it's one of the reason why people say it tastes like shrimp. yep. and when i tried them yesterday, i definitely got that same sensation from eating them for sure. >> the cicadas will stick around for a few more weeks and lay some eggs which will hatch four to six weeks later. their offspring will repeat the cycle and head back underground until 2038. >>> and it's an embarrassing hole in one for a professional golfer. sebastian munoz teed off on the 18th yesterday at the pga championship, but his ball veered off course, bounced off a fence, and landed right in a trash can. nearby fans celebrated the whacky shot. get t bwhheach inside the trash gave to a spectator. he still made par on the par 4 hole. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," in our "spring into summer" series, w

i've been in northern virginia. yes. but there has been trouble in central shore steps of the capital. i'm not sure what is that? that has been largely in unable to provide security to civilian nicholas hawk. go for insight story. all right, let's have a look at how democracy crumbled and molly, in re sent months protests against the then president ibrahim bobo car cater began in june of 2020, many accused him of corruption, economic mismanagement, and disputed his victory in the 2018 elections. nearly a month later, several protesters were killed during a crackdown by security forces. then as protest continued, military leaders took power and briefly detained cater in august, forcing him to resign. the international community condemned the qu, fearing political instability, regional un and french forces had been in molly fighting against armed groups. under pressure cool leaders agreed to hand over power to civilians. elections were due to be held after an 18 month transitional period. the alright, let's bring our guess

spikes in gasoline and shortages here across america and we have them again max and i drove from northern virginia down to north carolina so about a 325 mile drive and as we're heading further and further south there are more and more gas stations without any gas and those that did have gasoline had huge lines sometimes miles long so it was so weird this time of pandemic and shortages and loads of things like microchips and other in the beginning of the pandemic of course we had food shortages now we also have oversupply and like you know money and treasuries and bonds all over the place that's why we have negative and stuff like that so we have also surprised signal.

. >> reporter: video of a two- year-old boy in northern virginia being dragged under the 455-pound tread+ alarmed parents and regulators who last month warned consumers with children to stop using the machine. at the time, peleton's c.e.o. said he had no intention of recalling the treadmill. but in a statement today, john foley said "peleton made a mistake in our initial response to the consumer product safety commission's request that we recall the tread+. we should have engaged more productively with them from the outset. for that, i apologize." the boy in the video survived, but another six-year-old child was killed. brandon ratliff's daughter was injured. >> her leg got pulled underneath the actual treadmill, and it dragged her under, and thank goodness i was in the room. >> reporter: the c.p.s.c. says there have been more than 70 incidents to date. is it true that the agency was getting ready to sue them? >> we were looking at all of our options, and on something that we options, and on something that we consider very serious. >> reporter: some 125,000 tread+s were sold. the company

spikes in gasoline and shortages here across america and we have them again max and i drove from northern virginia down to north carolina so about a 325 mile drive and as we're heading further and further south there are more and more gas stations without any gas and those that did have gasoline.

a survey i received today from public schools in northern virginia shows how this is going down. to justify what they are planning, the county solicited responses and input from community members want parents and others are asked to react to a slew of statements taken out of a blm workshop. their of an evolved educational environment is where multiple identities are taught about in the schools. what does that mean? who needs shakespeare when your kids can learn from the brilliant thinkers like robin deangelo and mr. kennedy. >> white privilege is the automatic taken for granted advantage destowed upon white people. >> it's critical for white people to stop denying their racist ideas. >> in certain parts of the country, modern policing has directly lineage to the slave patrol. >> laura: by the time they get through with our schools the topics of race, racism, bias, and identity based bias and white privilege, they will permeate every subject matter taught every minute of every day. you have to hand it to these folks. they created an entire industry around stoking white guilt and p

spikes in gasoline and shortages here across america and we have them again max and i drove from northern virginia down to north carolina so about a 325 mile drive and as we're heading further and further south there are more and more gas stations without any gas and those that did have gasoline had huge lines sometimes miles long so it was so weird this time of pandemic and shortages and loads of things like microchips and other in the beginning of the pandemic of course we had food shortages now we also have oversupply and like you know money and treasuries and bonds all over the place that's why we have negative. stuff like that so we have all sorts of price signals mast up and crazy times all right the crisis and so the crisis begins that's the way you used to be now there is just $1.00 crisis on top of another you don't know where one starts and one stops and it's just a multiple crises stacked up you know right there in front of us think of yourself by goodness gracious what happened then you know when i was looking at all these lines at the gas stations i did have a gasoline available i was

all day long lee center reinforcements and by the night he has 20,000 veterans of the army of northern virginia there. he decides he has to take this fort back. if you think about it a minute, it's obvious. why. if the yankees keep a fortification there they have a strong position for which the threat enrichment. lee will have to leave significant reinforcements on that side of the river eventually you'll leave the whole first core over there. this weakens him and petersburg and gets rid of any opportunity for launching significant offensive threat. he has to take this back. so it comes above the plan for the next day. he has troops at fort johnson. he's going to send two brigades down towards the fort. he also has troops under robert hooke. a whole division to the west if you'll remember i told you the west there was a hill there. and there is and they're down in a valley and they can't even be seen they're completely safe. now in the meantime the yankees have fortified fort harrison. they started to build a walls up inside the fort they have two regiments with repeating rifles. they have a ba

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people in the global site that we would just disposable as a black person who grew up in like northern virginia. i always felt like there wasn't room for me in environmentalism, was i into the environment? absolutely. from super young age. now i think black and brown people get involved with these things because we don't have a choice. like when you think about who is being affected by private emergency. currently, in the us, it is a lot of marginalized people, you know, but additionally, if you go back into the history of the u. s. black, people are stewards of the land. that's what happens when you grow everything. they're the cotton. you know, you have to make things grow that never grew in that climate before. you're actually more in tuned with the land and the people that are turning profit off of your back. and so even as a child, i felt like there is no room for me and the conversation, even though i knew that i had this in my heart, this is something that i've always been a part of. but it felt incredibly whitewashed, you know, growing up in the eighty's and ninety's. i spent 10 years w