. >>> i am onin' one today with the reverend -- i am one on one today with the reverend sondra butler truesdale. i am so excited. let me tell you why. a newly renovated historic treasure is getting ready for a grand reopening in the shawn neighborhood. i am talking about the howard theater and reverend trusdale is in charge of that press conference and opening of it. and we are -- i mean, residents are just -- i mean, there are no words to describe how we feel because this is a treasure. >> we're just elated. it's taken a long time. >>> it has. >> for us to get to this point, but thank god for the ellis brothers and we are here. so on april the 9th will be the ribbon cutting with everything involved. we're going to have all the dignitaries there, the unveiling of the duke-ellington statue, we're going to have the jazz man statue and we're even going to have some of the members of the ellington family there. >> wonderful. >> however, we were focused on the howard theater itself. it's going to be very different from what we know as a howard theater. there's going to be -- eventually there's going