the president at the potomac after donald trump touted the view created by the clearing just a month ago. a group started a petition calling on him to donate 500 with two or trees to be planted in parks across northern virginia. so far, 5000 signatures. >> we want to put in protections to ensure this kind of tree clearing travesty doesn't happen in other people's neighborhoods. >> some golfers say the clearing is far from a travesty. for lovers say it is time right the wrong. >> it's up to him to try to make up for that damage. >> the potomac conseancy says it has not heard back from donald trump regarding the petition, and neither have we. but did multiple times not get a response. donald trump is facing a bit of a backlash over some claims he made last night about the work in done on the capitol dome. donald trump: they are going to take all of the scaffolding down, paid millions of dollars to do that, and then after the inauguration, they are going to put it back up again and pay millions of dollars. do you believe that? actually not true, according to the architect of the capitol

longstreet is holding up a the entire army of the potomac. lee realizes that morning of april, 1855 that the jig is up. he told his staff, "there is nothing for it then to go see general grant, and i would rather die 1000 deaths." we will come back to that line further. it's important to note, and it always thought this was interesting -- i will is the question to you why and let you come up with your own decision. robert e. lee, leaving richmond, saved one pristine uniform and a presentation at sword. for something. [laughter] he's going to put it on to go meet general grant. the question i would post to you, as far as i'm willing to get into someone's head, did he know when he left richmond at petersburg, did he know what was going to happen? i leave -- that question rhetorically for you to decide. grant, for his part, has been on campaign. he is muddy, riding around sheridan's forces opposite gordon. gets a message from lee, "find a place in appomattox. i will meet you there." "send it on this road, i will be there." after some searching, b

it is called the potomac river. the official french itinerary says at the ferry there are two large boats, each of which can carry two wagons, three that can carry one wagon, etc., etc.. crossings across the potomac -- nine hours. it takes 22, 25 minutes. and this is exactly what happens. train crossesagon and camps within three miles of alexandria. some of you may know where four this -- some of you may know where four mile run is. on the 1781 map it is right here. what is across from four mile run today? the national airport. this is where we are. i did not take a picture because i might be dead. it there is a sign here if you go really slow and take a picture. road.lebe why did i circle this? because if i said you could get the continental army wagon train over it, you cannot do that with the french. there is simply too many, too many wagons certainly. but you don't have a choice with the wagons, so the wagons also cross. the wagons also cross here at four mile run, and we know that because we have the ferry bill.

from riley's lock in poolesville, maryland, one portion of the virginia shoreline of the potomac river looks different from the rest. >> very noticeably baron on the other side right there. not good. >> five years ago, donald trump

among the early victories of the slave power on the banks of the potomac, the government was located in a unity -- the burninging of influences of the slaveholding society, more significant and disastrous still, the fact of the district of columbia compromise the government and committed ignition -- the nation to the existence of slavery, giving it proceeds if not respect ability, it could never gain as a state institution. unlike some folk who would sing the song that it was not a big deal in the nation's capital, we would find ourselves horribly wrong. washington in embryo, the geometric patterns and shapes remind us that the original land owners of what would come to be the heart of the district of columbia were slave owners. two of the names on here were men who were dependent on the uncompensated labor of people of african descent. it will only talk about three people -- we will only talk about three people. two names are on here and the first is notley young. if you have ever been down by or wharf to grab a few crabs some fish, then you have been down to the land that in the 17

he crossed the potomac at this town over mason's island. towards town is built on the side of the mountain. the town is beginning to grow. the camp was about a mile from the town." the camp was in the immediate vicinity of the current location of the society's headquarters. if you head down p street, you will see the bridge which has been renamed. i'm not sure how long it has been there. it would have been right in this area. passing through baltimore, he alludes to the global context of the war, referring -- war. "there is a neighborhood because canadians transplanted by the english live there. there is also a catholic chapel." roshambo's forces had returned to rhode island. the general went back to france in 1783. the details are fuzzy or with -- fuzzier with dillon. that is my presentation. i would love to take any questions that you have and see if i can provide the answers. afterwards, you are more than welcome to come up and take a look at these wonderful items. yes. >> by caribbean, do we mean -- rachel: yes. >> they got to newport in

the second is mount vernon, washington told the--washington's home 30 miles up the potomac. the unidentified black servant in the corner of the painting -- it's not known, it might be meant to portray washington's very devoted personal slave who was with him through the war. his name was will, william lee whom washington freed with his , will. his name was the second mentioned after martha. it may have just been to add or make it known that it was a virginia planter home. the view up the potomac is for washington. it was a commission for a painting by savage. that is what led to this commission. i'm not sure where it hung. i think savage showed it and it was more -- i think it may have been something savage kept and allow people to see because people were so interested. it was the talk of philadelphia when it was being painted. everybody wanted to see it. george washington was so important and everyone wanted an image of him. every painter wanted to paint him and everyone wanted a copy of those paintings. this was popular and it was reproduced many times by print engravings.

not heard a we dide to this, but speak with some people who are very passionate with things on the potomac river and spend a lot of time on the river. they had strong thanks to say about this, not only the clearing but the petition moving forward, and we will have much more on that coming up at 6:00. live in sterling, jeff goldberg. jonathan: thank you. and talking about golf, not a bad day to hit the links. hey, doug. doug: day after day after day, our only chance of rain is just and latehance, saturday, early sunday, we are not even including that in our forecast for 84 degrees now in bethesda at congressional country club, and we will just continue to enjoy beautiful sunshine. temperatures in the 70's this evening with light and variable winds. we will start off early in the morning with temperatures in the 50's with clear skies and sunshine throughout the day. still a warming trend. by friday and saturday, humidity levels maybe up a bit, but a small increase, and by the time we get to sunday and monday, the cold front is turning cooler. and then back to the 70's. a long stretch of dry

we have a problem, and that problem is the potomac river. the initial french itinerary says that there are two large boats, each of which can carry two well against year to make a long story short, , 809 crossings would have taken the -- eight or nine crossings would have taken them a cross. this is exactly what happens. the american wagon train crosses and camps within three miles of alexandria at four mile run. some of you may know where four mile run is. on this map, it is right here. you see it right here. today?from four mile run the national airport. i did not take a picture here because i might be dead. here.is a sign route oneture on bren . wesley wrote, why did i circle this? if i said you can get the continental army train over, you can't do that with the french, there are similar to many of them, too many wagons. you don't have a choice with the wagons, so they also crossed here at four mile run. we know that because we have the bill. this is all from the wadsworth papers, by the way. he is the chief supplier of forces, and he need

rain and that brings in those winds upward of 30 to 40 piles per hour and coastal flooding along the potomac and flooding around the rest of the region and we saw a lot last night and tonight's headlines, heavy rain and wind likely on friday and saturday. not joaquin, just the nor'easter. flooding rain will be likely and again, this is on friday and saturday, if joaquin was to hit, veronica, that's coming sunday into monday. >> that's right. here you are four days out. when you're four days out a lot could change and that's the one thing we want to stress is this is still a track that could very much so change. here's the very latest from the national hurricane center on hurricane joaquin up to a category 3 hurricane just east of jacksonville, florida. this is late friday night. by the time we get into saturday and sunday, it makes more of a north to northwesterly turn and it starts hooking it very close to the bay. that for sunday night and monday, even on sunday with a storm system intensifying. on sunday, we still could see a lot of storm surge coming up, folks from areas of virginia beac

this is the water the potomac. ,this is the house. this was a substantial structure. let me take you to daniel carroll's place, this is an actual picture of it. getting on the metro, get off at capitol south and i will ask you to make a right coming out of the capitol south metro station. i want you to walk down the hill, straightahead and on the right you will see a brick building. that is the old restaurant. to the left look diagonally across the street because you nuttingtam place which was the slave house of his plantation. here in a picture taken about 1862, one of them is shown on the front porch of the house of daniel carroll. the key here is it is called dunnington place. knockedding has been down a long time, but the name is still there. the next place, you are back on the subway but we are not going too far. we are going to the eastern market metro. we are going to come out of the eastern market metro. there is only one way in and out. you come around to the back and at this point we have the southeast neighborhood library, we have the corner cvs. you are go

coming up on news >>> a major project taking shape on the potomac and tonight we'll take a look inside the mgm casino and the one being built at national harbor and we are one year into that construction project. as it takes shape there is some concern about what it might mean to other casinos in maryland. our bureau chief tracee wilkins got to speak to the man at the top. >> if you drive by it, mgm national harbor is mind blowing. this is not a casino. this is an international resort. >> a year to go, mgm's ceo is clearly taking shape. >> imagine sitting here, having a nice dinner, looking through this reflecting pool out on to the potomac and over to virginia. >> and his attention to detail. >> this is the land that's sloping down the potomac river. >> and his willingness to spend money. >> we're building a $1.3 billion international resort. >> he says that's why mgm national harbor will be a problem for maryland's existing casinos. there are plenty of casinos in the united states like there are plenty of flavors of ice cream. >> a lot of the flavors of ice cream i just don't like. >

. >>> an incredible catch as a bull shark is reeled in on the potomac. we will tell you where. >>> i'm darcy spencer at the national zoo, where a man was able to climb the fence at the lion's den, so >>> images of a man caused quite a scare when he climbed over the fence at the national zoo at the lion's den. we asked if any changes need to be made to keep intruders out. >> reporter: a spokesperson says that happens very infrequently at the zoo, someone climbing over the first line of protection between the public and the lion's den. the spokesperson says the map had no access to the lions and they could not attack him and there are no plans to group date security or the enclosure. >> nuts. it's nuts. why even attempt it? can shred you to pieces in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: this photo obtained by news4 shows the man after he climbed over the protective fence of the lion's den and was scaling a ball. fortunately, authorities were able to get him out of there before he could be attacked. there's also a moat separating the public from the lions. >> t

. >>> check out these pictures of an eight foot bull shark caught in the potomac river. it was caught in st. mary's county earlier this week. the shark died after getting caught up in fishing nets there but bull sharks in that portion of the river are rare but not unheard of. we see at least one or so a year. >>> yeah, that's right. it's going to be a good fishing weekend for your labor day weekend for today and tomorrow. now, off to the tropic we are getting to the peak of hurricane season, september is a very active month, a new storm tropical storm grace has formed well off to just the west coast of africa and it will make its journey off to the westin the coming days. as it makes its way it is going to go through a pretty rough environment so similar to the storms we've seen so far in at least the atlantic they start to diminish and get ripped apart so by friday looking at a tropical storm approaching the lesser antilles, but not much is expected to increase the intensity of this storm. highs today will be comfortable 87 degrees near 90 for monday, for your labor day

we are in national harbor looking at the potomac area best measuring the humidity out there. the water vapor in the 40's and we are doing great. this evening it is actually turning chilly with suburbs into the 50's by nine and 10. weather at 76ke to the afternoon. we will let you know how far you bottom out. kelly: a security scare at the edge of the pentagon south parking lot. it brought out an arsenal of bomb protection devices. pentagon police tell kimberly suiters the driver that wasacted all the attention likely to jump to notice. kimberly: one car drives a hazmat, explosive ordinance device team, and then improvise explosive device robot, courtesy of the arlington county fire department. sunday was supposed to be a day for shocker, -- for soccer, shopping. police say a driver passed out in their car with something resembling a wire hanging out the driver side door. >> you don't know exactly what it is, that is why the ied robot was brought in. >> the driver comes to and dries -- and tries to speed off. believest-row resident they were lucky they were in shock. >> we cou

you know this was caught in the potomac. in st. mary's county. the fisherman made the catch thursday night. bull sharks can grow up to 11.5 feet long, weigh up to 500 pounds. no word on what it tipped the scales at. look at that. >>itis not the first time a bull shark was caught. they are there. >> maybe they are feeding off the snake eyes. >> can you imagine, they pulled him up. can you imagine? all of a sudden, you have a shark. >> a lot of people out fishing this morning. fishermen like cloudy skies. we have the clouds and the runners got the 5k under way in d.c. now. if you are about to head out the door, maybe go biking, hiking, kayaking, we have a breeze greeting you out of the northeast. it's a live look from the capitol hill camera. the flag in the northeast breeze. the skies beginning to brighten a little bit. sunshine trying to break out. humid afternoon and a rain-free weekend coming up. perfect timing for the labor day weekend. the last cultural weekend of summer. as we take a look at the storm team 4 radar, no rain around the region.

. >>> hundreds of bicyclists riding along the potomac. ride to recovery is hosting the first honor ride in the area. the group started a half hour ago in arlington. it's riding either 25, 50 or 75 miles to raise money for injured veterans. the hero's 9/11 5k begins at 9:00. it will honor the sacrifices of september 11th. you don't have to run, you can go, cheer, or donate. go to carl sandburg middle school if you would like to take part. >>> we are working to find out more about the man with a knife shot and killed inside union station. that man stabbed a woman after they started fighting at a nearby building yesterday. a security guard chased him near that mcdonald's inside union station. investigators say when the man went after the guard with a knife, that is when the guard shot him. the woman is expected to be a kay. >>> check with amtrak before boarding your train. a train hit and killed a person outside baltimore yesterday. the train originated hfrom here in washington an the way to new york. no one on board was hurt. they reported d

heavier downpours out of the northern stafford county across the potomac into western charles county. more still across the foothills and along interstate 81. this is just the leading edge of the weather pattern here that will move in tomorrow with a better chance of more widespread showers and storms. check out the numbers. 92 at reagan national airport. 90 in many spots. with the humidity levels rising because of the increased dew point temperatures around 70 degrees. here is what it feels like in the capitol. 97. it feels like 99 in fredericksburg. 94 in frederick. satellite and radar shows the storms. budging up. they should diminish later tonight. we'll have a better chance, 80% of the possibility of rain as it forms along a cold front, especially the areas south and west. low pressure moving along the front. the whole it can andca bloodal -- kit andca kabooddle tomorrow. leon: new at 5:00, an infant is alive in part because firefighters refused to wait for an ambulance. this happened monday night when a mother noticed her 1-month-old child was having trouble breathing. she calle

the other two victims were seriously injured. >>> new tonight, three bold break-ins in potomac, maryland, and police say the same man is responsibleor all three. the first one happened early friday morning at a sunoco gas station. according to police, the man broke into a window trying unsuccessfully to get cash from an atm. then early this morn, he broke into this same gas station again. police say that he smashed the cash register and this time managed to get out some money. ten minutes later, he hit the potomac express food and deli. when he couldn't get money there, he took cash from an open register. >> it has been a beautiful summer evening. good evening. i'm tom kierein. we're looking at beautiful temperatures and beautiful breeze. co-ing in from the east-southeast. live view at the capital camera overlooking union station. and we've got mostly a clear sky, temperatures right now pleasa pleasant, near 70 degrees in montgomery county, prince george's, mid 70s in washington. low 70s around the bay. around the mountains, it already dip the down into the 60s. storm team form radar, just a few showers and thundershowers way east

lies justook place across the potomac river from the capital city.e afghans know the meaning of bravery and loyalty, of service and devotion to one's country. we understand this respect for fallen heroes. solemnly he visits this place of the dead. he rests in honored glory, an american soldier known but to god. on behalf of all the people of afghanistan, his majesty places a wreath of flowers at the tomb of america's unknowns. hospital. children's comesjesty queen humaira to pay a call of her own. hundreds of children, wide-eyed with wonder, await her visit. children, a poet once wrote, come like eggers -- beggars, but each can find a room in a corner of a mother's heart. doctors from afghanistan's neighbor, iran, serve on this hospital staff and they are honored to act as her majesty's guides. during their second day in washington, their majesties receive the honors of the city. the capital holds a parade to pay its respects to our king and queen. his majesty rides slowly through the city streets with president kennedy. in scarlet tunic's, the unite

get fios. >>> crazy pictures tonight of an 8-foot bull shark caught in the potomac river. er if i brown's family caught it in st.-- murphy brown's family caught it in st. mary's county earlier this week. apparently the shark died getting caught up in fishing net. the dnr tells our news partners of the washington post that bull sharks in that portion of the river are rare but they're not unheard of apparently. >>> in tonight's consumer alert forget the labor day weekend. it is full force friday and disney hopes that it will jump start your holiday shopping. the company unleashed a massive marketing blitz to launch hundreds of new star wars toys and other related items all coming up to their new film the force awakens along with the light sabres and the legos, a droid called bb8. it's got an app this can make it roll, balance, respond to voice commands, even send hole graphic messages. -- holographic messages. it's expected this star wars merchandise will exceed $2 billion in sales. >>> watch out this weekend. scammers may try to steal your credit card information while you g

the mcgonigal, thank you so much of the potomac research group. the "bloomberg market day," college textbook prices are skyhigh and how some startups are helping students hit the books without breaking the bank. plus, the housing market seeing a recovery but how might the fed decision in fact the mortgage market? costs is trying to cut again. how the company plans to save another $2 billion annually. those stories and more, ahead on the bloomberg "market day." ♪ david tempest of that chapter winning the white house. trumpets surging even though his hard-line immigration stance is turning off latino voters. speaking that hispanic heritage event yesterday, vice president joe biden said that message will eventually fall flat. trump and that stuff you are hearing on the other team, this is not just about democratic republic in, it is about a sick message. this message has been tried on america many times but or. we've always, always, always, always, always overcome it. matt: the top 11 candidates in the polls will debate tonight on cnn. viewers will s

in washington, there is a bridge that crosses the potomac river, and right by where it is is a park where francis scott key used to live. in the park, there are exhibits devoted to him. there is one that says, francis scott key was active in antislavery causes. this is flat wrong. it is completely wrong. it would be more accurate to say that he was active in suppressing antislavery causes. this is to remind people of all the things that we really don't want to remember about our own history. this is also a book about the real francis scott key, but i don't want to get the wrong impression. this book is not a polemical book, not out to score points. it's to tell the story of these anding events in washington 1835 and 1836, which begin on the night of august 4, 1830 5, -- 1835, 177 years younghen a african-american man stumbles into the agile of his ministers, anna thornton, caring and a xe. she is sleeping with her servant , the mother of the boy. scream.women wake up, tells him to go out. he is shouting that he is going to be free. the neighbors gather. arthur runs away. the word begins t

described as a greenish yellow cloud in the potomac, moving slowly toward washington. it will soon reach drinking water intake for washington county. then it will be here for frederick county. >> the customers should be assured we are in preparation to make sure that the water system is safe as possible. >> the director of utilities says all indications is the chemical is non-toxics. he will order increase sampling. the spill happening last week. 10,000 gallons of a synthetic latex used as a paper coating flowed in the river for four hours before the spill was discovered. the plume being honored by the maryland department of the environment. depending how much rainfall, it could reach the d.c. area water intake in a matter of days. >> at this point, we will enhance our treatment process out of an abundance of caution. brad: spokesperson says the expected rain would dilute the chemical. >> it's extra water samples. it goes out of the treatment process the distribution system so we know the water is safe like it always is. brad: well, right here where we are, you can see

he owned land from the potomac river to nebraska avenue. we have to give sam props. he would not stop. i would love to see a movie made about him and how he was able to get away on the underground railroad. even when emitted to pennsylvania, one of the river crossings with here in the covered bridge and bounty hunters infested the other side of the bridge. it might be free territory but they did not care. we have a number of famous people connected one member of lincoln's storied team of rivals. this is lame henry stewart. we've only been taught that -- his eye spouts of his folly. but we know he was personally involved in working on the underground railroad. jamesd.c. person worriedly. the man who operated the wormley house that 15 and eight northwest. then comes the civil war. the nation fractures in the thel newspapers report that nation is at war. attack on fort sumter. >> black folks immediately began moving off of their places of confinement and on their way to freedom. since the 2nd street road. to get -- today we call it george avenue. the city would be protec

. >>> people who live along the potomac river are taking the first steps over filing a lawsuit over loudplane noise. according to the georgetown current, nine groups filed paper bork about the u.s. court of appeals against the federal aviation administration. the groups have been fighting with the faa for nearly two years over flight paths that they say disrupt their neighborhood, something news4 has covered in the past. >>> doug is here with another check on our weather. rain flowing down in those few location zbh. >> it is. other locations get rained on, most of the storms off to the best, showers in and around the metro region. let's take a look and show what you is happening now, see the dark clouds around the cathedral there. 81 at the airport now, i think that temperature may go up over the next 15 to 20 minutes. by 7:00, 7:30, 84 digress, get sunshine, 18 by 11:00. 91, rockville, 92, fort belvoir, 92, dulles, areas that did not see the rain today, we saw a high temperature today of 96 degrees, one of the hottest days we have seen all year and and the heat index around 100. here is

person hasnow, one died after being told from the potomac river. search teams found the person at 7:40 tonight. our reports that he or she went into the water near georgetown at 6:15, therk circumstances still under investigation. murdersre nearing 110 in the district just this year. now the police are zeroing in on the 50 most dangerous men in the district, and neighbors are doing their part. forght, a moment of silence victims, calling for peace. tom roussey has the message that is being sent. tom? tom: good evening, allison. unfortunately, we are at a very high mark for homicides in d.c. as of tonight, there have been 109. at the same time last year, there were 74. 47% overn increase of last year. people are very concerned about this, gathering in this vacant lot in northwest to try to take action and do something about it. they had a moment of silence, as you see in this video, for all of the victims. the organizer of the event, tony lived in this neighborhood when it was notorious for drugs, remembering days when the whole city was the murder c

lovely shot of the potomac. high temp of 81 in washington today, mid-to-upper 70's elsewhere.real-time temperatures are dropping off with dry air in place. that will allow temperatures to drop shortly before sunset. back to school for kids tomorrow morning. make sure they have coats handy. chile tomorrow morning. 55 is a middle of the road temperature. make sure they have the reindeer handy. for the rest of us in our three day forecast, it is about that rainy afternoon. that could affect the commute. nicer weather appears to be coming our way. we will cover that in the complete forecast. kellye: we continue to track the pope's historic trip overseas. today in havana, cuba. the pope celebrated mass. the pontiff met with fidel castro. the conversation was informal and that the two men exchanged gifts of books. >> it is a moment of healing. it is a moment of reconciliation. d.c.e: the pope will be in until thursday. you can count on abc 7 and wjla.com to cover the complete visit of the pope. we'll have 40 hours of coverage on abc 7 and news channel 8. five years late's and tens o

possibly in the deep long tunnel under the potomac river. >> i was wondering why they stopped the trains. >> reporter: suddenly a frantic scene, a moment of terror for a mother with her 2-year-old baby girl. >> i probably would have snatched my baby away obviously. >> reporter: metro transit police say a woman tried to take the toddler out of her stroller. >> the other passengers already had their eye on this woman because she was acting strangely walking up and down the aisle, muttering to herself. she walks up and reaches down and grabs the child. that is when one passenger in particular jumped into action. >> mother very alarmed, obviously, a male passenger got involved to intervene and we had an officer on the inbound train who made the arrest. >> i think he is a hero. >> reporter: the woman did not resist being subdued by the passenger. she was taken into custody at the next station, foggy bottom. >> at dc court, peggy fox, wusa 9. >> thatoman was arrested as jane doe, police trying to figure who she is by using her finger prints to see if they match someone with a criminal record .

metro area, a few showers around the potomac, moving in toward st. mary's county. s the area i'm watching now, making its way off towards the east, what you can see around winchester, front royal, lore ray culpeper the next half hour and on this track, they are making their way toward the i-95 corridor and will be there right around two hours, two hours five minutes or so, so, two hours from now right around that 8:45, 9:00 hour. so, that's when we will see some. so if you have some activities to do outdoors this evening, make sure you take the umbrella with you. that is the last of the rain. you can see it moving on through. our front moving on through, we have much different conditions tomorrow. tomorrow, a beautiful day, plenty of sunshine, nice and warm, a great day with low humidity. 82 to 87 degrees some, temperatures at or a little bit above average tomorrow, but that is it for those above-average days, 69 a great start tomorrow, sunshine, 28 by noon. 86 by 4:00, it's been way too hot the last couple of days, get lunch outdoors, tomorrow, get out there. 86 to

deputy clerks little have been ordered to appear in court on thursday. >>> a body was pulled from the potomac river last night. now police are trying to figure out what happened. the man appears to be in his 30s we're told but no word on who he is or how he died just yet. police say there are no obvious signs of trauma. boaters spotted the body in the water just south the woodrow wilson bridge. >>> d.c. police are also working to identify a person of interest in a sex assault and armed robbery case. they're looking for the man in this surveillance video. investigators say he walked into this convenience store shortly aft attack. the assault and rob -- after the attack. the assault and robbery happened on michigan avenue northeast. police believe the person responsible for this attack may also have soughted another woman on july 28 along riggs road. if you know who this guy is, call d.c. police. >>> some documents just released shed new light on a shooting that took place last year at a washington state high school. the report says the shooter, 15- year-old jaylin fryberg killed his victims be

they dove off their boat and into the water and pulled him out of the potomac about 20 feet offshore in the deep murky water there. he was in the water for maybe as long as 20 minutes. as we understand it now, they have taken him to a medic unit down there where you can perhaps see the blue lights and they are working on him now. we don't know whether they are going to be able to resuscitate him. that's a long time in the water. this is a busy scene. they have just reopened the washington harbour to traffic and let people walk on through this area at this point but a lot of people saw this, a lot of people freaked out by it. they do at least have him out of the water at this point. back to you. >> down there for 20 minutes, let's hope for the best on this. bruce, thank you. >>> happy update out of roanoke. the woman who survived the on air shooting of a tv news crew is out of the hospital. vicki gardner went home yesterday. doctors removed one of her kidneys and part of her colon. she was shot by vester flanagan. >>> kentucky clerk kim davis is out of jail but how long will she be out

this is the army of the potomac, this is a brigade. you can make out the various regiments marching down pennsylvania avenue. the army of sherman's forces marched the next day, but i like this quote. he said the glittering muskets look like a solid mass of steel moving with the regularity of a pendulum. you can see all these fixed bayonets. that ifet a sense applied properly, the bayonet could be an intimidating weapon. it certainly helped make soldiers appear more like. summation a grand that the advent of the percussion cap really makes the battlefield to deadly to adequately use the bayonet. this is sort of my first putting my toe into looking at all of this, but if you take something -- and often times we neglect material culture -- when we study the civil war -- if you need to take something seemingly monday as a bayonet and you start looking into it, -- mundane as a bayonet and you can , you canking into it look into the process of the battlefield. the united states army still issues bayonets. and at, and it is a multi tool. it is

. >> reporter: meet the potomac maryland middle schoolteacher who's now known around the world as thee kisser. coming up, what happened after the embrace. >>> and as we head into the break, another live look at the pope's mass at madison square garden. you're watching wusa >>> lamb and lobster on the menu for tonight's steak dinner at the white house as president obama plays host to china's president. earlier today the two leaders announced an agreement on fighting cyber attacks but president obama says words must be followed by actions. china has beenlinged to a handful of cyber attacks that targeted private u.s. corporations as well as government data bases. >>> at the national zoo, it was pandemonium. the first ladies of the u.s. and china had a more pleasant half. they announced the name for the panda born at the zoo. it means precious treasure. it sounded pretty good to the visitors at the zoo. >> i think it's a great name. i might name my kid that someday. >> i think it's cute. do you think it's cute? do you like it? >> she now weighs about 3- pounds. he's growing bigger everyda

>> it is at the heliport, the heliport which is as you sit in the pentagon, you have the potomac river and washington, d.c., on one side, and the heliport is located almost exactly on the opposite side of the building. along one of the highways. easily accessible, even though they have increased security here significantly at the pentagon within the past couple of years, that area -- >> i want to mention to you that we are hearing, again, unconfirmed reports that this was the result of a plane crashing in the area as well. >> reporter: i have no idea, katie. all i know is that people who were in the building who came running from that part of the building thought it was a bomb of some kind. according to chris brown, my colleague who just came in, it appears that whatever it was, and perhaps it was a plane, katie, if those are the initial reports, crashed into or the damage is on the roof of the building at the heliport side of the pentagon which is just opposite of the potomac river as i just said. >> we are looking at the white house, mik, because we're learning that there have been s

that ought to fill up the potomac. on friday and saturday showers around. atures in the low 80s. over to you. >> college football's return brings lots of smiles to people in our area. plus the doctor who diagnos ♪ hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! ♪ introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle. what did iran's supreme leader get in the nuclear deal? to start with, $100 billion. they keep their nuclear facilities and ballistic missiles. there won't be surprise anytime-anywhere inspections. and after ten years, restrictions are lifted and iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. . >>> you know, no matter how good yo your self-esteem can't feel good to know you're number two and take a seat. >> talking about the quarterback situation not me. >> take a seat. no, no. >> well i tried to get my self-esteem back. waiting on doctors but not a decision. redskins have already decided that robert griffin iii will be the back up to curt cousins. griffin nee

. >>> and a major cleanup is under way in the potomac after thousands of gallons of latex spilled into the water. why do officials think it's impacting water quality. >>> and i'm >>> welcome back, everybody. two more universities are cutting ties with bill cosby. ford ham and marquette have rescinded their honorary degrees. police have not formally charged him. both ford ham and marquette said this is the first time they've rescinded an honorary degree. >>> at the live desk we just got video in showing damage from an apparent tornado in south carolina. we want you to take a look at what we have so far. the twister tore sidings off of some homes, downed trees near the charleston area. just take a look at that. no reports of injuries and crews will have to go out at daybreak to get a better idea of just how much stuff was blown around and torn off. right now there is a flash flood watch for southeast charlson. power crews are out working to restore electricity to the thousands of people who lost their lives. back to you. >> molette, thank you. 4:41. starting off with the "weather & traff

the catch was made on the potomac in the area of colton's point. the family hauled the shark in using a net. and here's the scary part about this bull shark with those really sharp teeth. the shark can swim in fresh water. >> that's reassuring. jonathan: your kid is jumping in, there's no shark here. there's no shark. that's fresh water. >> scary stuff out there. they caught one. jonathan: one less to worry about. steve: the weather nothing to quore about to for this weekend. low humidity. slightly cooler temperatures. jonathan: nice. steve: it works out perfectly for holidays. so can't ask for more than that. but the heat and humidity is back. just in time as everyone heads back to work and school next week. we'll talk about that in the seven-day outlook. temperature outside right now, 11:00 reading. 79 degrees. at reagan national airport. it feels like temperature in the lower 80's. with winds out of the east at 8 miles per hour. yet another 90 degree plus day. queed 92 earlier this afternoon. our average for this time of year at 84. and the reco

. >>> more commute opportunity i near the potomac -- communities near the potomac river are taking stepso protect their drinking water. this after a spill at a paper mill. hagerstown, merchandise midwill enhance its -- maryland will enhance its water treatment process for about 90,000 customers. analysis shows the spill is not hazardous and poses no health threat. >> reporter: new information on the jesse matthew case. a judge hear in the fairfax county courthouse says that he received a letter from the ex- girlfriend of jesse matthew claiming that the accused killer is really a victim himself. jesse matthew's ex-girlfriend wrote the judge yesterday saying that matthew was repeatedly raped as a child by three different people in his life. matthew's mother also wrote that same judge in fairfax county saying her son, quote, has always shown respect to everyone around him. jesse matthew faces capital murder and attempt to defile. uva freshman hannah graham was killed in 2014, just weeks into her freshman year. virginia tech student morgan harrington was 20 years old when she disappeared in

she grew up in the washington area, attending the potomac school in mclean.he started climbing at age 6, ventured in competitive climbing when she was just 8 and she never looked back or down. >> i've never really had to question who i am and what i want, because i'm so happy with what i am that i'm most passionate about. >> reporter: her ascent took a month and included her climbing partner. the two spent nights making karcamp in the crevices. >> we are about to dig our beds. >> reporter: and had a few setbacks from weather. >> today was a smackdown. >> reporter: the greatest danger is storms that can ambush a climber. the other danger comes from within, fear. >> this climb was probably the peak of my fear. i was scared just about every day. it was focusing on not thinking about falling, really, and focusing on what i could control. >> reporter: while physical strength and agility gets you on the mountain, dejulian says your mind gets you to the top. >> your mind is overruling your body's exhaustion, so you're convincing yourself that you can keep going, whe

the way. west potomac on the board first, but lake braddock too much. kyle edward continued to move the chains, the quarterback doing a nice job here with a couple throws. who says field goal highlights aren't important? nicholas bruin here, these feet were made for kicking. the bruins staying undefeated, 24-21 bruins over the wolverines tonight. >>> ballou, dunbar, not a lot of offense on this one, just one score and this pick by woodson's deandre house of pain and a nice run back, but the knights score the only touchdown on the night. they win it 8-6. let's move on now. we got good council/st. johns late. good council down 16-13, but manning to pratt 40 yards to set up this field goal. pressure? no, i got it. 16-16 headed to overtime, bruce, first overtime. good council quarterback fakes out everybody and i mean everybody, takes it to the house for the score. this one would go to three overtimes, though. st. johns ryan vessels in for the score. st. johns wins 23-29 in triple overtime. >> first of all, to god be the glory, felt great, man, two great te

. >>> this morning, we're learning new information about the kind of latex that spilled into the potomac river in allegheny county. the company that creates the chemical compound says this kind of latex will not affect people who are allergic to the natural form of the rubber. the maryland department of the environment says this spill does not pose a health concern. >>> here is something we know you might like to hear. you could be eligible for a refund. the supreme court ruling found maryland essentially double taxed people who paid income taxes within another state between 2011 and 2014. maryland governor larry hogan says around 55,000 people may be eligible to get the county portion of their income tax back. be sure to check the nbc washington app to see if you're one of them. we tweeted out a link for you. >>> a new project is breathing new life into a community in southeast. the old sheraton terrace community is called sheraton station near the anacostia metro station. the new development has more than 300 new apartments and town homes. most are rentals, about 80 are set aside for a

so she ran away, she if he will off the bridge, fell in the potomac and droun. they got her body out and buried her. nobody did anything. so lundy wrote an article. look, here's what happened here's the name of the constable. and if the district attorney isn't going to do anything then congress should do something about it. so key hit the roof. he was furious. and so he immediately charged lundy with libel. and went on and charged him his printer, another white man who had helped him write the copies. key was trying to run the anti-slavery out of the cabinet. they wanted to get rid of the forces in washington. so lundy did the same thing as garrison. he was facing like a $1,000 fine which would be like, $100,000 in today's lundy. so lundy collected one last friends and took off and friends and took off and went to philadelphia. so the anti-slavery movement was very embattled throughout this time. kind of drive these people out and suppress them. >> was there at this time what you would call main stream press that was covering this hole thing including the aboliti

this is a two day event happening on the west potomac. we'll have much more coming up throughout the hour. >> hopefully, it's going to stay dry and i think it mostly will. >>> let's change gears now. conservative gifts are claiming victory after the resignation of john boehner. >> good morning. this is david at wusa 9. >>> your number one responsibility is to the institution. and having a vote like this in the institution i don't think is very healthy. >> reporter: the early favorite to replace the speaker is house majority leader kevin mccarthy who is from bakersfield. >>> pope francis is getting ready to depart new york city. he leaves the big apple at 8:40. his first trip ended with a message of peace, tolerance for immigrants, and love. he'll be attending the world meeting of families. he thought the family was being threatened from within and without. and that concerns him. don champion joins us now with more details on the pope's visit. good morning, don. >> reporter: good morning, mike. the pope is scheduled to arrive in philadelphi

is forw of the potomac washington. it was a commission for a that is whatavage led to this commission. i'm not sure where it hung. i think savage showed it and it was more -- i think it may have been something savage kept and allowed people to see and it was -- because people were so interested. it was the talk of philadelphia when it was being painted. george washington was so important and everyone wanted an image of him. every painter wanted to paint him and everyone wanted a company -- a copy of those paintings. this was popular and it was reproduced many times by print engravings. it was engraved before it was even finished because there are washons of it that show and nelly much younger than they were. then he went back and changed it because they had grown. they had grown is a few years time. rethink them, and so there are engraved versions that are different. we will see nelly custis again in another room data by stuart -- painted by stuart. there is another painting in this room by copley that i wanted to poin

. >>> crews in maryland are working to clean up 10,000 gallons of latex that spilled into the potomac. the maryland department said the latex spilled into the water. the cumberland times news said it happened as the latex was being unloaded from a car on wednesday. the mda says they don't believe there's any threat to water quality but they have notified people of the incident. >>> 11 minutes after 6:00. 65 degrees outside the studio. >> let's get look at "weather & traffic on the 1s." starting first with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> good morning to you, erika and aaron, good morning to everybody. you might get filtered sunshine in the front part of the day. but clouds are going to totally win it. 59 in gaithersburg. 64 in arlington. really not much. any rain chances don't come in until much later on in the day today but hit or miss rain chances could slow things down just a smidgen. dry roads this morning. temperatures in the upper 50s to near 60s and there's a chance south of washington by later on today and then lingering on into your weekend as well. we'll get more. >

the north potomac crash devastated the community, but neither the teenagers at the party, nor their parents were willing to come forward to police with critical information. >> we had nobody that wanted to come up and give us information and we had to use grand jury subpoenas to get the information. >> reporter: police also issued 12 subpoenas to social media companies including snapchat and twitter. those companies complied and provided snaps and tweets related to the party, even those that were later taken down. >> we know he was going at least 65 miles an hour and probably much, much more. he was on the wrong side of the road trying to go around the speed camera. >> reporter: the documents reveal that sam ellis was driving at a minimum speed of 65 miles per hour in a 35 mile- per-hour zone. in an interview with investigators front seat passenger cameron siasi said he saw the speedometer at 105 miles per hour. sam's eyes widened he told them. calvin let out a faint scream. >> and when parents are hosting parties and kids are going to drink, they're going to drink more and bad things occur

a 1.5 swim of the potomac river. it finishes with a 10k run this morning. >>> still ahead this morning, bringing up something special for the pope's historic visit to washington, d.c. >>> plus, students get their hands on some lab gear that's not usually found in the classroom. i will tell you what it is in our stem is cool in school report. >>> and searching for answers in several weekend plane crashes. the details coming up. erika. >>> need umbrella again, mike. another one of those quick passing showers moving across here in northwest d.c. but that's all they are. they are quick. they pass by. then you are back to some dry weather. so i wouldn't stay at home because of this. this is just a little quick passing shower. nothing like yesterday. today's temperatures between 70 and 75 degrees at the game. the burgundy and gold taking on the miami dolphins. you can watch >>> welcome back. a man detained in the arizona free shootings is not the prime suspect. but police are not saying what role, if any, 19-year-old oscar