northbound, southbound georgia avenue shut down at reedie drive.est alternate is veirs mill ad. five-mile backup, 66 near 50. we have t left lanes getting by. that's better than it was. it's very slow through tha area. >>> the weather is cooperating, at least. we're nice and cool. many areas in the 50s. tomorrow and sunday, we're going to be nice tay and tomorrow. highs near 90. look at the hot and humid summer return. and we are watching rain as we get closer to labor day weekld. wee updating it as we get closer. don't be worried just yet. >> thank you. >> thank you for joining us. the "today" show is.p ne >> we'll be back in 25 minutes with weather and traffic and local news. >> thankspi for h out. >> absolutely. make it a great friday, everybody. every year, 3.2 million cats enter shelters and less than half of those ever getdopted. so cat's pride created the litter for good program (alarm beeping) for every green jug of litter you buy, cat's pride will donate a pound oftt to animal welfare organizations across america - find out how you can hel

with the aid of unmanned submersibles the reedy mapping technology state of the art robotics and an international team of experts the son jose was found. the catch is a company called sea search armada claimed they had found the ship more than thirty five years ago and had been locked in a fierce legal battle with the colombian government over their share of the treasure a treasure that today is valued up to twenty billion dollars. it had everything the cargo manifest lists gold silver precious stones spoils all of the wealth from taxes collected over six years from colombia and peru this is. literally wrote the book on the san jose he says there were several parties who have a legitimate claim to ownership over the treasure is the spain because it was a spanish ship through because most of the congo was peruvian. because part of the congo was panamanian and colombia because the ship was founded on water has. recently a delegation from bolivia presented colombian officials with a two hundred page document claiming a percentage of the treasure should be given to them as reparations. it's believed

. >> reporter: a pedestrian hit and killed here at the reedie drive and georgia avenue. >> it's bad. it's sad. >> reporter: shoes about and the hurearo. he died at the scene. a crash still under investigation and one of fouroun they in the last two weeks. >> it tells us we have a huge and the problem is everybody has to do their part to prevent these crashes fromoccurring. >> reporter: captain thomas runs the traffic division of montgomery county. he says in allour cases the pedestrians were not in the crosswalk. >> a car weighing 3,000 pounds going 30 miles an hour has way more force to kill you than the handgun i carry on my side. >> reporter: an educational campaign in the county is coming soon, alerting pedestrians of the dangers on the road and precautions they should take. >> making that eye contact and making sure you are paying attention and you're safe and that you're sn or being seen. >> reporter: because this area of wheaton and others in montgomery county have revealed a disturbing trend, one they hope can be curbed if everyone slows down and pays attention. the driver in

looking at chief anthony rivera, and he has a staff, as well, in captain steve mcpartland, captain james reedy. otto sarkisian is our engineer, and we'd cliek to clone him because he gets work done quickly. i would say our single point of contact is deputy chief rivera. >>commissioner cleaveland: the 9-11 ceremony, has that been fleshed out in terms of details, where and what time and all that good stuff? >> commissioner hayes-white: so on 9-11, typically what we have done, at least since 2004, every station has a similar ceremony where the -- that we have a commemoration of what occurred in 2001, the world trade center, in shanksville, pennsylvania, and then, at the pentagon, and all the names are read. any member of the public or commission are welcome to participate at any station. typically, i will pick a station to participate. it's been station 15, station 19, station 7, station 4. a lot of times, if there's a class in session, which there will not be this time, we do it at station 7. so more to follow on that, but we'll put a general order out, and it goes through exactly sort of what t

reedy thought lbj believed he had no alternative to feeding more and more draftees into the vietnam meat grinder. that's your final thought to sort of ponder. what's it say about presidential leadership? what's it tell us about the turmoil of america? and the role, the central role of vietnam? thank you. >>> we continue our series on women in congress with former republican congresswoman helen bentley. >> i knew i had to do well. because i couldn't afford not to. and i just kept plugging. and working hard. it's not a playpen. a campaign is tough work. and i admire anybody who goes into it. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> san diego state university professor pierre asseline teaches a class on the vietnam war looking at the conflict from the u.s. escalation from 1965 to the fall of saigon in 1975.

reedy thought lbj thought, quote, he had no alternative than feeding more and more draftees into theietnam meat grinder, end quote. that's your final thought to sort of ponder. what's this say about presidential leadership? what does this tell us about the turmoil of america and the role the central role of vietnam. thank you. >>> you have been watching lectures in history, a weekly series on american history tv saturday night at 8:00 and midnight eastern here on c-span 3. you can also find the lectures on c-span.org's video library and they are available as a podcast. lectures in history on the vietnam war will continue in a moment with a course on u.s. policy in vietnam between 1965 and 1975. that's followed by a class on the operation rolling