slocum, it's just a graet park. >> this is military road. you just come in and drive in and pull off. it's very easy to find. it's a huge tree by the nature center. they call this a witness tree. it might have been a regrowth. but it still is ashlt 150 years old. >> it's just a terrific park. >> similarly, when jubil early looked out at his eyeglass, he said oops, that is pretty well-fortified. it's high, it's big, it's strong. and then he turned down and game down on georgia avenue to ft. stooempbs. and here's the molds earn fort reel know. you can really feel what it might have been like. and i took this just a couple weeks ago. and i'm driving along here, this is on 36th street. looking down here, i'm thinking. what a beautiful wilderness in the city. this is more man cured. i felt this guy and i looked over here. sure enough, here's a guy on the tree reading a kindle book or something, i guess. that's a park. back in these trees are some fences that remain and it's well-worth a visit. it's a beautiful area. it's got massive, pretty good-

fort slocum, a great park. just interpreting it, could get a cannon there and now and then have a ranger give a talk for people who live around it, they could learn about it. this is part of the fort circle drive land again that was never built on, along the side, makes a lovely boulevard. fort derussy, it's so beautiful. come up to oregon avenue, drive in and pull off. it's very easy to find. there's this huge tree when you go to the nature center and walk down towards fort derussy. they call it a witness tree because they think it was there during the battle. sometimes when they got cut off, the trees grew back. it might have been a regrowth but still about 150 years old. here earth works, massive. you can go all the way around. my picture doesn't do justice. some hiking trails. it's just a terrific park. again, fort reno is the highest point in d.c. on top of that to boot they had some power. up here they could see the confederates coming. they knew uh-oh, we're in trouble. similarly when early looked out of

fort slocum, it's in manor park as i mentioned. as you can see around it, this is all farm land. u.s. colored infantry was there. these are white officers here. behind are the ncos that are african-american. and fort slocum today, there's really nothing left of the defenses there but there's a great park. i frankly think interpreting it, if they could get a cannon there and have a ranger come and give a talk there for the people who live around it, they could learn about it. this is part of the fort circle drive land that was never built on. along the side. it makes a lovely boulevard. fourth derussy. you have to go to fort durussy. this is military road. you come up to oregon avenue, drive in and pull off. very easy to find. there's a huge tree by the -- when you go to the nature center and walk down towards fort derussy. they call it a witness tree. they think it was there during the battle. it still is 150 years old. here are the earth works. they're massive. you can go all the way around. my picture doesn't do justice. and some hiking trails. it's just a terrific park. again,

the director indirect result of fracking you've got variables going sixteen ways to sunday tyson slocum why isn't that this is not you know i know josh. for you josh fox came out with you know gas land a couple of years ago i mean this is been kind of floating around the edge of the environmental movement and people who are living in gas country but it really hasn't it's only starting it seems to get some traction at the national level in terms of of press and public safety why is that wife and first because a lot of the opposition to fracking has revolved more around issues of water contamination and wallet water quality issues air quality issues and quality of life concerns around writing an m.b.a. she's right exactly not so much fracking and as the professor pointed out most of the seismic activity has been around these waste wells and not necessarily around the active fracking oil and gas sites but you have seen a lot of news in the states that are affected i mean california has already banned several waste wells as they are can solve in direct response to what they confirmed was se

at forts franklin, alexander and riply, at fort gaines and pennsylvania, massachusetts and slocum, 30ts and securing the gair sons that helped to fortify the city. in fact, this very same request would ultimately not go filled because the other authorities were reluctant to give up their contrabands to work on forts north of the potomac. there was much. greater use of contraband later made on the outside of the potomac. these men, these self-emancipated black folk who would decide they wouldn't necessarily wait for a federal executive decree and proclamation, but they took it upon themselves to risk life and limb in order to answer the clarion call that beats in the hearts of all of us. the desire to be free. to be self-determining, to be independent. and in fact, when these laborers came to many of the forts surround i surrounding the district, many of the soldiers were happy to see them. a member of the 50th regimen reported that a detail was sent in every morning to work on the forti fortificatio fortifications, but from north carolina was sent to take our places in the ditches and

well slocum if you've got a you know the expression however a man named trevor farrel posted a video does facebook page of himself lighting up none other than a mcdonald's french fry then he proceeds to smoke it and he's pretty disgusted by the concept take a look this is were people cruel over. we've been given to kids this for years i used to go. with it or grandma used to take. to school is this where we want to feed our cues is this what we want in our system. on the way through every day a woman donald has recently come under fire for concealing the ingredients of their chicken make maggots now we can see that there are french fries can actually catch fire and be smoked that's weird but if you're tempted you might want to think again . i guess that's why there's no french fry flavored ether ads. everywhere we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is actor david arquette and in this clip larry asked him about his new business endeavors. what about you and i clubs yeah i could call bootsy bellows which is. belo would say bellows yeah we call it b

at forts franklin, alexander and riply, at fort gaines and pennsylvania, massachusetts and slocum, 30ts and securing the gair sons that helped to fortify the city. in fact, this very same request would ultimately not go filled because the other authorities were reluctant to give up their contrabands to work on forts north of the potomac. there was much. greater use of contraband later made on the outside of the potomac. these men, these self-emancipated black folk who would decide they wouldn't necessarily wait for a federal executive decree and proclamation, but they took it upon themselves to risk life and limb in order to answer the clarion call that beats in the hearts of all of us. the desire to be free. to be self-determining, to be independent. and in fact, when these laborers came to many of the forts surround i surrounding the district, many of the soldiers were happy to see them. a member of the 50th regimen reported that a detail was sent in every morning to work on the forti fortificatio fortifications, but from north carolina was sent to take our places in the ditches and

pipeline project once and for all that's asked tyson slocum director of public citizens energy program tyson it's always great to have this great to be here thank you. were you surprised by these funds i wasn't i mean we've always thought that the state department analysis underestimated the climate impacts from the keystone pipeline not only did we think that they underestimated the impacts of the development of tar sands oil in alberta but also the downstream effects and that's what this report clearly suggests is that by building this pipeline to link landlocked albertan tar sands crude with the u.s. gulf coast that now the pipeline will be able to more easily facilitate getting that tar sands oil into the global market which is going to increase supply which will have a downward pressure on prices and it's that downward pressure on global oil prices that will increase global demand according to the study and it's that increase in global demand and all that additional barrels of oil being burned that the study claims wasn't take into account in the state department study and this is

slocum is in manor park, a neighbor of ours. ft. stevens, we live up here. here's ft. stevens. we're very close. ft. derusie was in play, very that leads up there. it should be a great recreation spot, even though it doesn't have any of the defenses that are left. leading from there, coming into where ft. taughten is is this stretch of land, and it's along galleton street. the -- there is a drive along it here. this is lating into ft. taughten, the high hills of the actual fort are up here. and then these part of a ft. srk the driveland. the more i study this and the more i get to learn, i love the land, i love the parks, all of that, but these are real people. i'm trying to bring the human element into this story as well. . ft. taughten today, well, really nothing left of the defenses there, but there's a great park. i frankly think just interpreting it, if they could get a camera there, and now and then at least have a ranger give a talk there. this is part of the ft. circle driveland, again that was never built on in the middle. it makes a lovely boulevard. >> it's so beauti

colored troops in places like slocum and totten and lincoln and baker and we fd stanton and carroll,ing defenders of the w national capital in times ofil . crisis. thank you. [ applause ] >>> thank you, mr. gibbs. please welcome dc council member for word 4, muriel bouser. [ applause ] >> well, good morning, everybody.g,erybo and welcome to ward 4.o i'm certainly delighted to be here with you to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the battle of ft. stevense. there's really so much great oe history here in our capital city, and i often, and am very y proud to celebrate the part than ward 4 played in the history of our city and certainly in the history of our nation. we're very proud of it. we know that the only civil war battle to take place in the district of columbia took place here at ft. stevens. the only time a sitting president in the united states, in the history of our country, has come under hostile fire from an enemy combatant was here at ft. stevens.esmy and we know that the battle -- at the battle of ft. stevens thn nation's capitol was saved from imminent attack. you may a