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hat thering the period t garden was underway, several important things were happening in washington as well. the lincoln memorial by henry bacon was begun in 1912, although it was a decade before it was dedicated. and then the freer gallery of art, by charles platt, was 1916 thein 1913, and fine arts commission approved it but platt was not sitting on the commission at the same time. verys approved, but a close coterie of professionals. now, i want to bring up flat again because -- platt again because he was also the architect of woodrow wilson's summer white house in new hampshire. he was also another one of these people involved in a number of other important planning commissions at the time. he was involved with roland park, which is a garden suburb in baltimore laid out by homestead junior. a kind of marginal -- model for garden suburb design at the time. i am showing you two views of the gardens he designed in 1903 in baltimore. i'd mention this because just around the block from this is roland park's women's club. and i want to show you that beatrix farrand, again, was mixing wit

garden for a year. technically, before it was allowed, they wanted to help the environment. e lining the body of thesds is that tree. >> reporter: fairfax county is gio ing people the ability t grow garden in their front yard but where some see beauty, others see something else. >> i think he has failed with this vegetable garden. >> reporter: valerie lives nearby and likes the idea of the garden but wishes they would take better care of it. >> put it behind thehouse where nobody can see it. >> reporter: he knows his garden is a frickling topic with his neighbors but is not backing down. >> grapevines on the edges. >> i've also met more of my neighbors the lastyear since i put this up since the ten years i've resided here. it's been fanrtstic. >> re: in annandale, aimee cho, news4. >>> still ahead, d.c. is gettin ready for the fourth of july. >> we will show you what is being done to prepare for the largest fireworks display in washington history. >>> plus, tragedy at a virginia church. the ceiling caved in, leaving the building unusable. have been much worse. his could >>> lauryn, at is up? >> we are talking about that n. that sun is coming up. 5:47. beautiful out there but

wecomee t glasshouse in the gardens, because this is where all the live, andpted plants even these plantsthey have opened all the windows to get ventilation in here. according to my thermometer, it is more than 39 degrees in here, and these plants are a to the hottest, driest conditions on earth. it is those adaptions that scientists here are studying in order to work out how ight grow more drought-resistant plants in the future. >> these plants are called succulent plants because they have evolved over millions of years to have spialized water storage tissue. the part in the middle is whereo the tissue is cated. w yeah, and you can see ch water is in there. victoria: while the collections here look exotic, they contain plants that could eventually become familiar food crops. >>tays like today tell us t if we carry on doing what we have done in the past, then that is not going to work. we are going to have to adapt daat we do and potentially the crops we grow. we need to be exploring, we need to be researching, we need to be understanding our options so that we can change as climate begin

garden. >> we continue leadon't leave t love.nd when we love this country, that means we propose the solutions to fix it. >> reporter: democratic house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are calling for congressional votes condemning the president. >>> and a south bay restaurant owner says she was targeted for being muslim. i'm amanda del castillo. coming up, how the owner of the restaurant is turning that bad experience into a good deed. >>> a woman from california lost in the forest is rescued. >>> i'm larry beil. when you put your name along willie mays, you have done something special. we'll show you how brandon crawford made history today. >>> high pressure moving east, low pressure coming in. i'll show you the changes this week. >>> all that is ahead. but here is a look at what is coming up on jimmy kimmel live. >> please spend a few precious seconds of your life on this. are you planning to do a shot with every person in that bar before you're don tonight? >> it's tradition, yes. at comcast, we didn't build the nation'

times square going silent, madison square garden going dark. >> we're going t i'm so sorryhis htheiddle our >> carnegie hall impacted, showgoers taking to the streets after the shows were canceled. con edison blaming an explosion. when it came back, governor cuomo acknowledging the best. >> still workers at their best. stories of new yorkers getting out and managing traffic at intersections. >>> ironically it was 42 years to the day when new york experienced another massive power outage. those at the j.lo concert, there is good news. she is reselling the concert from monday. reporting from new york, megan tevrizian, abc 7 news. >>> i was scanning social media and a lot of my friends were posting on instagram as all of this was happening. megan, i know you're relatively new to new york. i have to ask, what was it like for you being there in the middle of the outage? >> good question. you know, this is the first time i've been in new york where there was such a massive power outage. we were standing on this block. it was pretty chaotic. you couldn't see too far ahead of you. the shops, th

gardening weather for today, perfect time to spend great t qualityime in the yard today getting everything pretty for the second half of summer. 60s this morning. only into the low and mid 80s for highs today. your garnding tips, mowing your lan, 3 and 3.5 inches to keep everything nice and green and promote healthy roots. >> chuck, thank you. robert mueller in the hot seat. we're looking ahead to what will no doubt be aistoric day on capitol hill. we'll tell you what you need to keep an eye out forhen "news 4 today" rurns. 4:4et2 >> announcer: you're watchinge "n 4 today." >>> welcome back. after nearly two years and more than 30 indictments, it all comes down to this, today, just hours from now former special counsel robert mueller is going re congress e during two hearings that will no doubt find their way into the history books. and we know that those hearings will last much of the work day today. >> yeah. bethat, though, what will happen is really anyone's guess. news 4 tracie potts joins us now from pitol hill. tracie, what can we expect to see today and what should we keep an eye ou

he acknowledged during a rose garden evhatilate thursday t he had essentially run out of time and options to try to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.th president said instead he er will direct f agencies to give records they already have to thee commerc department to try to more accurately determine how many u.s. citizens live in the united states. ponents have argued that adding a citizenship question to the census would have resulted in an undercount, especially in immigrt communities. >> kristen welker at the white house for us, thank you. >>> in the meantime, as we first told you yesterday, the nationwide immigration raids that originally were postponed by the white house a few weeks ago are now scheduled for this coming weekend. and the operation is already being met with protests. some from inside the trump administration.l nbc nationa correspondent miguel almaguer has the details for us. good morning. >> savannah, good morning. we're told by two senior officials with the department of homend security that beginning this sunday, immigration and customs enforcement agent

>>speaking of on t waters, the lotus and lily festival at aye kettle worth aquatic gardens, sa and sunday. get up close and personal with water lilies a lotuses in full bloom. this festival is a full roster of music, entertainment, arts, crafts and plenty of instagram opportunities >>> just when you thought the fireworks were over, alexa ria to the rescue, everyone. they're celebrating on saturday, independence day, the 243rd birthday of america but also the 270th birthday of alexandria. a town cryer will be celebrating, cake for everybody and those fireworks go off with aymphony behind them starting around 9:30. >>> check out the events foris th weekend, search the scene n the nbc washington app. i'm tommy mcfly, news 4. >>> check out what's happening on the apollo 11 mission. and we've got ideas of thing to do beyond the beltway on our nbc washington app. >>> don't be surprised if, you know, you look outside and it's a littleit hotter than you thought it would be because it's going to be warm today. we're going to check in with laryn in a minute here. all eyes are on tropical storm barr

garden? >> nobody's ever stolen anything like this from us beforer @r(t&% >> a local woman said she's bees robbed five t in recent weeks. the pictures she wants you to see. >> "news4" begins with "storm team 4" weather alert. >>> we begin first at 4:00 with a weather alertre for seve storms. >> you see them right now popping up.te "storm 4" radar. flash flooding is a big concern with these and so is damage with any troung w get. ts we might >> as thes stormkick out there, we're working for you. three hours of live team co'serage. lettart out with doug and amelia. 'here are the storms right now. >> th all around us to the north and west, down to the south and the d.c. area. much of the area under a severe storm watch. much of the airy is out for a flood watch. >> most of us are under that un severe thrstorm watch until 9:00. >> where we're seeing the rain, it's coming down heavily.so al severe thunderstorm warnings down around this area. i'll take you to the north. this severe thundstorm area is through west virginia. look at the line that's formed right now. it's going to make its way through fre

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t the fire fromol refineriries burned 24 hours a day, every day. back at the university, sebastian is now heading out. he is going to tend to his gardenhing is really long in the center. >> just three meters from the surface, he set out all of his coral samples. they have been collected from right across the red sea. to spot the cream of the crop, the most resistant to changes in temperature. sebastian also measures the chlorophyll levels and that is becacae there arare plants livig in the coral. tiny micro flips into its cells. a perfececsymbiosis.s. thriving itit is because e the algae is healthy. while sebastiaia nurses his coral, and his colleagues are looking closer at the algae. man u well comes s -- manuel coe from spapain. he is convinced that thehe key o save the coral can be found in this microalgae. >> the problem is that the organisms are very sensitive to tempmperature. so under stress, the coral basically expels the algae from the tissue, and what happens is that the tissue now becomes translucent and we c can see the white skeletons, and this is why we call it bleaching because it basically turns white. untilill buy us

t>> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. . >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. w

if you get outn i the garden ana e chrysanthemums, you want to give them a light pinch. >> an extra large iced tea. down to a looarge and back up t an extra large. feeling humid. this weather is perfect forgetting out to the local beach. in the mid-80s tomorrow and upper 80s there. finally starting to warm up. plenty of sunshine. tt is certainly hot on tuesday. wednesday, anor hot day with the high of 96. what's left of barry just in the form of some rai showers, nothing very serious could impact our area on thursday. something we'll keep an eye on. friday the high of 96. xt weekend, looking dry with high temperares in the low 9 90s. >> she saw a need in her community and did something about it. now this former redskin cheerleader is helping young girls in many ways. this week's harris' heroes. >> la tash casey wanted to create a sister hood for school ed girls. she figured dnce was the best way to bring them together. her possible squad is this week's harris' heroes. >> time for rehearsals and her dancers. look closely they are learning much more than these moves. >> having self-determination, believe in her self and leadership.

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the experts and merryfield garden center tell us the hot and humid weather, tomatoes and ppe dlersrop their flowers and fruit but don' try. they will continue flowering and producing fruit when cooler weather returns, and that beginm row. but because of that, maybe not the best pool day with cool temperatures and rain in the forecast. head to the pool on wednesday and thursday and make outdoor plans wednesday, thursday andi frday. the weather is looking fantastic out theren those days. doug, we have low humidity moving in. tomorrow, it's going to be okay wednesday, thursday, friday, just smiling faces out there. >> yeah, everybody will be smiling wi this forecast coming up in the middle of the week. that's some good news. the bad news is all the damage we saw earlier. take a lookt i this is chopper 4 over the damascus area. that's a tree right now over the road in diascus. not sure exactly where this is. notice the croak right there running through the area. that cre on the higher side, too, and definitely closed roads up around tam dcus area. numerous frorts northern loudoun county and northern montgomery county and f

3625 balboa, the televised sports t wall of fame on one interior wall, including photographs of renee trudeau. the monday night steak dinner. pool table, outdoor garden, pebble dash front facade and the exterior signs. the third business is a restaurant and the family-run restaurant that was established by the leppy family at 50 west portal avenue. el toreador mexican restaurant created an environment full of memorabilia. since 2011, esperanza has been running the restaurant after the passing of her husband along with her sons and a t chef who has been there since 32 years. the traditional regional mexican dishes, exterior painted areas and san francisco state university students and the interior restaurant decoration including mexican art and dolls. the next application is joe good performance group. joe goode established the performance group with the mission of promoting, understanding, and compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater. it is currently located at 499 alabama street in the project art top building and arts complex in the mission district where it has operated the past 32 years. joe goode perf

our sherr burruss is with t players in richmond and she has a look at the big story lines as the team starts the 2019 season! chuck? >> all right! >>as gardeningec for weekend. perfect time to spend time in i. did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed network. complete internet reliability. advanced voice solutions. wifi to keep everyone connected. video monitoring. that's huge. did you guys know we did all this stuff? 'no. m not even done yet. wow. business tv. cloud apps and support. comcast business has the solutions you need. get start with fast, reliable internet for just $39.95 per month. yt it's everng a small business owner needs. call 1-800-501-6000 today. >>> straight out the gate here at 6:30, thatreaking news in montgomery county, it could be several more hours before crews move a tractor-trailerrom ru270. that tck lost control and slammed into a police cruiser. you some of sho the damage from the predawn crash. wir megan mcgrath is live on the scene and we hear from her in a few minutes. >>> good morning to you. i'm jummy olabanji aaron gilchrist and eun yang have the morning off. >> i'm molette green. will g

t virginia is for lovers campaign. and a few yashds away, c youan do all you can eat crabs or other items as well. the lotus and lily festival at the gardens. saturday and sunday. can you get up close andpe onal with water lilys in full bloom. this fesal is not only about smelling the flowers. it a full roster of entertainment and arts and crafts. >> also the 70thround versery of alexandra. >> he didn't mention that that celebration will have pat larsson there. make sure you sayi. h >> our team of reporters working on a new story. >>mbush in an uber. the local driver that was shot a randomac att. >> new information on tropical storm barry. more ahead of land fall overnight. another heavy rainfallvent out there. as webo talk aut our changing climate. >> lately, when it rains, it seems to pour. check out this video of the downpours yesterday. >> seee like ther is no in between. this kind of rain will become more common downd the rartly because of our changing climate. right?t >> that's right. we are seeingse the changes happen. as our temperatures continue to warm, thetmosphere can hold more moisture. think about you are getting a bigger spo

t-shirts, sisi -- so she obliged. invitees she would celebrity chefs and other people to help with this. here is rachael ray at one of the spring garden plantings. the garden group throughout the grows the garden throughout the year. the late planning was in late march and early april. spinach, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, and it would grow through the spring and be lush throughout the year. at the end of the spring term, we would guess when we would have the biggest harvest, she would have a garden harvest. schoolkids would come in and harvest the spring vegetables, dig up the root vegetables, and have a cooking event. they would learn what to do with the produce. the summer garden was not so formal in its planting. not everything right and at the same time, so as it ripened we would plant the summer garden. the first lady did a planting at one time with some native american tribes and did a three sisters garden with corn, beans, and squash. the court actually was the poles for the beans to grow up and the beans had nitrogen to help the corn grown, and the squash helped kill any weeds. the garden thrived all summer and gr

and 5:00 t p.m.,at part of the area is dealing with heavy rain and the potential forgi da wind gusts, a high tomorrow of 89 degrees. the experts at maryfield garden center tell us, plant black-eye susan, coneflower, that thrive in the summer sun. it's ally about the heavy rain followed by gusty winds, winds potentially gusting to 660 miles per hour. so certainly flooding is a possibility, the flash flood emergency. likely not a repeto rrow. but here's the thing. these storms are not fast moving tomorrow. theyre going to be slow movers and it's going to be so juicy with the humidity. that we could see some flooding is aes. it's not all day rain. we're going to have breaks in the action. the best chance for rain and severe weather is reenly betwe 3:00 and the 9:00 p.m. and as we look to the weekend it's mainly dry. tomrow again, storm team 4 weather alert day. >> we'll be watching it tomorrow. high around 90 degrees. 91 on friday and saturday isolated storm on friday. but a much better chance on sunday. and th30's only chance so really on friday. 20%. but an0% ch of strong storms tomorrow. it will be a day we'll be watching closely. we'll be in wea

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t concessions. >> i'veen at this event my hole life and i said we need great food and great drinks. all of d.c.'s favorites will be on site. great drinks, moet, amsatel light beer garden, a totally transformed event. >> if you don't like the tennis, the food and befrmg, just for that. >> the whole thing is fun. >> look at those drawings.so there's al going to be brand-new air conditioned spaces where people can see the practice courts. that's always n. the city open runs saturday through august 4th. be down there. >>> a story from iide a metro station has gone viral. a me flow police officer going above and beyond for a boy and his mother. the young mom posted this picture after the officer stepped in to help her autistic son when he s having a meltdown. news 4's mark segraves spoke to us about how much it meant to them. >> reporter: this is the picture that's gone viral a metro trans police officer holding hands with a 4-year-old boy, but it's the mother's story about that picture that stole the social media world. this wan's son andrew had a meltdown riding the metro on friday afternoon. >> like the regular toddler tantrum and it very quickly started to escalate and

garden. that's a beautiful photo there. more news from across the pond. the who took the stage last night or over tof the highlights is eddie vedderame on stage to sing with roger daltrey, and they did the punk and the godfather. here's a little bit ♪ >> pretty cool. two legends right there. >> i like that. >> in othne music , last friday, i played you a snippet of a song that's constantly on repeat in my house and in my head. overnight, the trio released a music video. here's a ltle bit of that, ♪ ♪ ♪ pull my trigger let me blow your min >> all my '90s mos e pitrgy flying back. that video was shot at the viper room. bruno mars dirted the video. the concept, three rock s young women playing their parts for the verses and rocking out. very cool concept for the video. 's part ofs ed sheeran' upcoming album that comes out on july 12th. >> finay, another great movie.n mula premiered 20 years ago featuring an asian princess who diz guises herself as a man to fight in the army. now the film is getting the live action treatment as we see the first teaser trailer remake.e >> quiet. composed. graceful. disc