because i think the smithsonians -- i used to go there as a kid. i think it is the most wonderful, wonderful place. the people of east london will have -- it will be part of a complex of incredible institutions on the stratford side where we held the olympics. in an area of postindustrial -- an area that's been derelict for a long time but now going gangbusters. if this thing comes off, we'll put the smithsonian in with a new victoria and albert museum east, v and a east will have a new ucl, big london university big new u.c.l. campus there. the smithsonian will be an anchor tenant in a new cultural hub. what i am calling an olympiccropolis in a word nobody else uses. we are very, very excited by it. i think from america's point of view this is a no american taxpayers money deal. very important point to get across to you sharp minded political journalists here. no american taxpayers' moneys is going to be compromised by this. i hope it will give america a window on the world in the world's most visited city, which is what london is. we had more tour

. >>> and scanning the smithsonian. we'll take you inside the incredible plans to beam our nation's archives to your computer. >> we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> if this rain continues, everybody here needs to get out. >> a pacific storm pounds the west as snow piles up out east. >> there's torrential rain slamming several states in the west. >> incredible images out of washington state. >> in new york 35 vehicles were involved in a major pileup due to heavy blowing snow. >> the parents of kayla mueller issued an open message to isis. >> we're hopeful that kayla is alive. the extremist say the american was killed during a jordanian air strike. >> putin sits down with two world leaders but the u.s. not at this table. >> president putin calls for new peace plans as his troops roll through the ukrainian countryside. >> cases of measles reported in 15 states. new jersey has officially joined the list. davis at the buzzer. and the pelicans defeat the thunder. >> that's n

and the smithsonian. it was an extraordinary exposition -- expedition. has to do with the outcome of the second world war, when australia recognized the vulnerability of its northern parts, and it was trying to increase substantially the populations of the north of australia. that was sort of a political sub set of the rationales behind it. it was also the rationale that the truth is you look at the consequence of the european settlement in australia, the areas where there were intense european settlement, there had been total social and cultural destruction. a 750 nations the settlers initially encountered being recused by the late 1940's to about 250, those 250, you could pretty well identify the substantial extent, where the areas, a large number of them, that this expedition covered. the expedition was extraordinary in the depth of its penetration of all facets of the s knology the geology of the area. about 30,000 new species were discovered during the course of that expedition. the expedition is encountered tribes living essentially as though there

this is where being part of the smithsonian is fabulous. lot of smart people who are leading the way in thinking about technology in art making and record-keeping, whether it is websites or blogs or anything else. i am very interested in -- there were a couple of ways to think about the portrait gallery. one is the collection. fairly recognizable portraits of men and women. let's look at who is in and who is out. then there is exhibitions. we have the permanent collection that tells the history of america and the president. but also about biography. we have a room where we will focus on a single person. about history, we did the war of 1812 as told through its people. also identity. hopefully, this was something you heard about. we created a six acre portrait on the national mall made out of 2000 tons of sand, 800 tons of topsoil. that was during october. you can see that the lincoln memorial is the world war ii memorial. on the corner would be the washington monument. the picture was taken from the washington monument. it was done by a cuba

what the smithsonian says about it. >> plus, it's being called an unprovoked attack. it has a neighborhood in fear tonight. plus the new push to prevent measles outbreaks lik >> new measles fears tonight after five children at a chicagoland daycare have been diagnosed with the measles. but what's not clear yet is whether these cases are connected to the 100 or so cases that are tied to an outbreak in disneyland in california. >> as john erlichman reports, what is clear is there's a growing push now to toughen the nation's vaccination laws. >> after a santa monica childcare center was diagnosed with measles, officials shut the doors. 14 babies are now in quarantine. >> it's so easy to catch. >> as california deals with its largest measles outbreak in more than 15 years health officials in suburban c are investigating a cluster of measles. across the country, now 102 cases of measles this year. some california lawmakers want to give parents no choice than to vaccinate. >> we should not wait for more children to sicken or die before we act. >> when that childcare center d

. >>> well you might have to find a different way to capture your next trip to the smithsonian museum. the new band that will make it just a little more difficult to take a selfie and they don't seem like they have anything in common but a small similarity has one of the world's largest companies suing a local brewery. don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. go bold with flavors that kick. (humming) oh yeah. (humming) they're magically delicious. ha! very funny, kyle. >>> it's one of the greatest mysteries in the history of commercial flights. where is malaysia airlines flight 370. the plane with hundreds on board still missing after almost a year. recent disasters have raised concerns about the ability to find commercial planes. angie goff shows us a local company created system that tracks those flights any time and anywhere. >>> news4 begins with breaking news. >> a jumbo jet is missing with more than 200 people on board. >> so far searchers have not found any wreckage of the plane. >> and the fact that they are now searching two mass

and then he went to africa for the smithsonian and got lost in the wild in the smithsonian. he loved to get lost in the wilderness. he found strength in that. living against the elements. i mentioned him in the dakotas in the wilderness years. but when mckinley was shot, they couldn't find theodore roosevelt, he was on top of mt. marcie in new york lost in the wild. and now as ex-president nobody knows where roosevelt is in the bush. not only did he collect a lot of species for the smithsonian as a hunter collector, man of science. but he also wrote a quite marvelous two-volume inventory of the species of africa. while he was there, his hand-chosen successor william howard taft, a man he admired greatly. i know you all are aware, doris kearns good win wrote a best-selling book largely on this. but taft gets the nod, t.r. wants him to be the successor he's the hand-picked guy for t.r. and taft ends up firing gifford pincho, the chief forester. and somebody who roosevelt helped build 150 national forests with. pincho republican for pennsylvania, gets fired. roosevelt's very ang

and really, what we think of as washington, d.c., today, an open mall surrounded by the smithsonian and other public institutions like the botanic garden, as well as the federal office buildings, really was a product of the mcmillan commission. and so, from 1902 until the 1930's, congress set about the work of appropriating funds in making the decisions necessary to execute the plan of the mcmillan commission. and l'enfant had imagined an open corridor from the capitol to the washington monument. and there were many encroachments to the mall at that time. and unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the u.s. botanic garden was one of them. so, according to the mcmillan commission plan, which can be seen to this day -- the models exist at the building museum in washington, d.c. it is fascinating. the botanic garden would have to be moved. congress cared about the botanic garden. they were not going to legislated out of existence. much, over the objection of the existing superintendent at the time, the decision was made to relocate the botanic garden just one block south. but the real casualt

narrator: stephen hubbell of the unirsity of grgia and the smithsonian tropical research institute is one of the pioneers of this study, which began on barro colorado island in 1980. man: when we first set out to plot, it took 12 people two years to tag and measure and identify all of the plants in the plot. and one of the remarkable things we found was that, even though this is a very well-studied island there were species that were unknown to science right here already under our noses -- some of them great big trees that had no scientific name, which was a big surprise to us. narrator: through their exploration, the team has discovered some unusual specimens. so this is one of those puzzling traits of trees that we're trying to figure out. it has spines on the trunk that are quite sharp and there's no living reason that we know about for this, though there may have been giant ground sloths in this forest that would have shinnied up this tree, and this would have been a very painful eerience. but this is not a tree you want to cut down today without some caution because its sap is to

them by having them in that storage bay on the airplane, it was not acceptable so we drove to the smithsonian, and we picked them up and brought them back home. when we did, in those discussions, we talked about that river and how important that was to us as a people and the water and what that means to us and we thought about, how is it that we will take them back across this river to their homeland where our brethren lived on the other side, what is now called canada? that border never existed for us , and for us, it still don't. we don't honor that. so it was discussed and decided that we would take them home in a birchbark and new the way we did hundreds of years ago. this canoe that you see was commissioned by the bachelor on a first nation, with the intent of bringing those ancestors back across that river. technology will fail you every time. again, you see that eagle staff central to our belief and always leads us in the way that we need. again, it is used, prepared, the spirit of that eagle, to guide us. you can see in the other side, that is sault ste. marie, canada . here we are cr

jacqueline olin is a chemist at the smithsonian. if, for example, you were to know an artist's work so well that you knew that artist neveused a particular pigment in all the paintings that have been studied, and there's a painting in question, one might analyze a painting to determine whether a pigment that isn't characteristic of that artist is present. x-ray fluorescence involves bombarding the atoms in the painting with x-rays, causing them to eject an electron. to see exactly how this happens, let's return to the electron team. here are the electrons in their energy levels for the element sodium. as an x-ray enters the atom, it knocks out an electron in the lowest orbital, the 1s. when this happens, some of the electrons in higher energy levels fall to lower energy levels, filling the gaps. as the electrons cascade down to lower energy levels, they give off an x-ray pattern that is characteristic of each element. instruments analyze these x-rays and identify what element is present. it's very nice to be able to quickly determine

. >> the smithsonian's portrait gallery has the nation's largest collection of residential portraits. join us as the natural -- national portrait gallery historian gives us a two or, including the paintings of andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, and harry lincoln -- harry truman. >> american history tv is featuring corpus christi, texas. in corpus christi in 1948, dr. hector p garcia founded the american g.i. forum, which advocates for equal treatment of hispanic veterans. posted by our time warner cable partners, we visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about corpus christi all weekend here on american history tv. >> welcome to the acm of science and history. the museum was started in 1957. it operates as a public-private partnership. we started as a general museum. today, we have more detailed topics. we talk about the city of corpus christi, including major business developments that we have shared with the world. we are going to explore the corpus christie history gallery. this area of the museum discusses the native peoples. they did not have a written languag

billionaire charles coke and submitted 11 papers to journals and didn't disclose these page. >> the smithsonian says it's concerned and will launch a re view. he has not responded to questions about the documents. the group says it's part of the face ill fuel strategy to sow seeds of doubt about climate change. >> the harm is the lack of transparency when the public is trying to decide if this is a problem. scientists are telling you don't worry, polar bears are fine. it's poisoning the debate >>> finally, rescuers in florida are racing to save as many as 15 m maniies stuck in a storm drain near melbourne. firefighters have been working for hours. the sea creatures were probably looking for warm water when they got trapped. a young calf and her mother were among the first pulled from the pipe. i'm antonio mora thank you for joining us. for the latest news any time head over to aljazeera.com. "inside story" is up next. have a great night. . >> hello, i'm ray suarez patients at a los angeles hospital - no telling how many - were exposed to a super-bug, and north carolina has confirmed a dozen cas

i miss the bustle of the city and i miss these kinds of events sponsored by the smithsonian. there is no way to replicate them. so it is good to see the spaces. you're not familiar to me but your programs are very familiar to me. -- it is good to see these faces. to follow-up on what peter was saying, i spent most of my adult life working for the central intelligence agency. i went to europe when i was 20. i went over there to be in my friend's wedding in germany. i never went home. home was kansas. we didn't have hills and trees and green grass in kansas and i stayed. i did start working for the cia overseas. came back to washington, d.c., works for them back here and that it was a series of overseas and back home and overseas and back home. it was a way to see the world. i highly recommend it. we have mentored a lot of young people into the cia. it's a profession, an honorable profession, a great place to w ork and dissipate to give back something to your country. i'm so proud at having served their. -- served there. having said all that, let's talk about some of the people

this session from the smithsonian associates and international spy museum is about an hour and a half. >> let me address our speaker today. she is jonna mendez. someone whom i've known for a number of years. i should mention off the bat, i see jonna regularly as she serves on the board of advisors of the international spy museum. and she and her husband, tony, whom many of you know from his fame in particular from "argo." tony could not be with us today but we are delighted to have jonna. jonna began her career overseas in germany where she was working and was recruited by cia. in 1966. at that time they brought her into -- she became a technical operations officer. tech ops, technical operations officers, often are crosstrained in a variety of things. in jonna's case, she was trained in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging. i will let her explain that if any of you are interested in that. but her really top specialties were photography and disguise. she was assigned in the mid-1980's, 1986 to what in the agency call denied area operations. they were called that

the actual lunch counter area that's been preserved. some seats have been taken out in other areas that are at thing smithsonian and other musics. -- and other museums. the four young men that sat in here have talked to us about around where they sat, so a lot of the things you will see here are the actual advertisements around the different menu items they offered and the prices. these four were franklin mccain, ezell blair, joseph mcneal, and david richmond. they were freshmen at north carolina a & c, a historically black university here. they came to the store, sat at the lunch counter and asked to order i believe some coffee and a piece of pie. the responses with really mixed. "you boys go on from here," i think another waitress was saying, "we don't serve colored people here. " the word spread quickly the next day that this was going to be ongoing and that other people were wanting to get involved. other adults were showing up there were other students that said we want to be part of this. students from bennett college and what is noy unc greensboro but was at the time women's college. other students who wanted to get involved and

the ig's investigation into smithsonian, we hope will look into a lot of things and we are posting onlimate investigations.org views about what they might ask, the questions they may ask internally. >> do you think you should be fired? >> i'm not the judge of that. if he wants to do his science if you wants to go back to studying plasma in the atmosphere and the sun's corona and whatever his next that, that is fine. if he discloses who is funding it, that's fine. we needed a paper in 2007 as that it was funded by exxon koch and saying polar bears are fine and the arctic is not melting, it is a pretty simple line. they don't want us to know that polar bears are in trouble in the arctic is melting. they want us to think the really about that. he can go on doing whatever he wants to do. i don't care if he stays there or gets fired as long as it is transparent and the world knows he's being paid by polluters. >> are also joined by kumi naidoo, executive director of greenpeace international. al jazeera reported tuesday it obtained the cables showing the number of foreign request to south a

this session from the smithsonian associates and historical society of washington, d.c. is about one hour. >> given the fact that the time -- even though that's added 11 years onto the time that i'm going to cover -- it starts about the start of the civil war. between that time and 1901, and we'll be talking about the city beautiful in washington, there is so much that happened in the city, to deal with the city, from the city, about the city, it was a next-door new and complex change. what i thought i would do, and i would ask you to -- i would recommend that in terms of developing a way of thinking about what is important in this city, in this time of change in the second half of the 19th century, that everybody has this little hand out. it's not an outline but i just want to put down a number of reference points for keywords, points because just so much was going on. if i miss or some don't talk about some of these things, feel free to question me at the end of the program. at the bottom line is the phrase , "justice versus beauty." i shamelessly cribbed this phrase fr

that's my -- >> the smithsonian is looking at coming to london. how is that going? hat are the hopes for that project? >> this is a fantastic project. we cannot count our chickens. did you know, 18% of the genetic material of every chicken in the world was developed in london? can that possibly be true? if you tempted to count your chickens, they almost certainly are from london. >> check your facts. >> we are not quite there yet. what happened was the board of regents of the smithsonian, one of the greatest cultural institutions in the world. 19 incredible museums. they decided in january at a historic vote they were going to explore, have discussions with us about making their first outpost overseas in our city. that is fantastic news for london, obviously. because i think the smithsonians -- i used to go there as a kid. it's a wonderful place. the people of east london will have -- it will be part of a complex of incredible institutions on the stratford side where we held the olympics. an area of post trillion -- an area that's been derelict for a long time but no

. >> the smithsonian kicks off a black history month. it starts at 11 this morning and the day will include family gal we tours and live music and geneiology workshops. >> leave your selfie stick at home. a spokes woman said the ban is meant to protect it from damage and visitors from hurting each other. it follows a similar ban and the smithsonian banned tripods and they are working on other attractions on the mall. >> marking one year since the murder that rocke now, how that community is keeping her memory alive. >> a teen walks into target to prepare for an interview. what happened next has gone viral. >> 50 is the magic number. we could feel temperatures around there. it g >>> i think we all need a pep talk. don't stop believing. unless your sdreem stupid. you need a better dream. >> that's 11-year-old robbie novak, the kid president. he's an internet sensation for his great pep talks. his you tube series gets over a million views. he will be in d.c. to talk about kid president's guide to being awesome. the book has ideas with celebr

is very consistent with what the smithsonian does in general. >> i think if they think it's necessary, do it. >> it's sad that there is so much violence that people are contemplating that. >> jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. >> coming up, a look at what is happening in the week ahead. what is next in the prostitution case against college basketball analyst greg anthony? >> a vienna woman is suing her town. why she says an act of god has nothing to do with why her basement flooded. >> and after record-breaking high temperatures today, big changes for the week ahead. >> the escalating terror threat will be the focus of a townhall monday night. "your voice, your future" will take place at 7 p.m. on news channel 8. sign up to be in the audience. tuesday, the montgomery county is expected to vote on whether to change the start and end times for high school students. right now they begin at 7:25 and end at 2:20. the school board is considering several options for just think the start and end times. wednesday,, sports analyst greg anthony is expected back in court. he is accused of using the in

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the cooper hewitt smithsonian design in new york city already has a self-y stick ban in place. >> you can just by looking at this imagine the havoc that a selfie stick might wreak in this kind of a space. >> for the record, smithsonian museums already banned tripod and camera stands. >>> you want to make a serious run for the white house? you will need yourself a body man. my cap download cover-host -- capital download co-host susan page talked to obama's former body man reggie love. >> make sure they eat meals and have the right attire and have a coat for the days it's cold. make sure they have all their proper paperwork, kind of like a walking office. everything from sharpees and paperclips to tie pins and hand sanitizer. >> heck, i think we could all use a body man. >> i need one. >>> also this week is the homeland security department suffering collateral department in the showdown over immigration. >> and presidential candidates weighing in on whether your kids' vaccinations ought to be voluntary. join us capital download sunday mornings 8:30 here on wusa9. >>> high temperature to

what you should know before filing online. >>> and scanning the smithsonian. nside the incredible plans to beam our nation's archives to your computer. >> we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener."

. >>> today there is a presentation you can see at the smithsonian honoring the first black graduate of m.i.t.. the u.s. postal service will dedicate a stamp to robert robinson taylor this morning. it's happening at the national postal museum at 11:00. taylor saw the design and construction of the muskogee institute. today you can commemorate the 206th anniversary of abraham lincoln. the birthday celebration ceremony will be held at his memorial today. it will be hosted by the national park service. you're invited to take part. there will be live music and guest speakers there throughout the district. >>> a special lon or forhonor for an nfl player who doubted his caught's fight as he battled for a spot on the bengals roster. last might he received the tracy's kids courage award. comcast sponsors that world and the executive vice president was there to present to still. he explained why tracy's kids is so important. >> it's art therapy for kids undergoing cancer treatment make it easier for the families for the kids make it actually fun to come. it can be a really scary experience. >

some of those items are now on display at the smithsonian's spare -- air & space museum. how about that? awesome. >> let's see how doug is doing and get a weather update from him. >> all right. doing fine. keepr eyes on the weather and the temperature. let's get to it and show you the areas under winter weather advisoryies until 3:00 a.m. those winter weather advisories last until 5:00 a.m. and possibility of freezing rain in the eastern suburbs and maybe a little sleet or few snowflakes before it ends fairly early in the morning. rain to the west and east. even more farther west and east. at the moment plain old fashioned rain because temperatures are above freezing. temperatures will slowly drop and already seeing some indications that north of could be a wintry mix already there. 36 at dulles and reagan national now. 32 reported at andrews air force base much that's going to be the story tonight. marginal temperatures and rain and freezing rain possibly mixing with sleet and a few snow flakes before it all ends around5:00, 6:00, 7:00 in the morning i was hoping it will

. >> it is all for the benefit of this -- of the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture. >> that museum is under construction, set to open in 2016 he's raised $37,000 and counting. >> this tells a story that has not been told by smithsonian since they've been a smithsonian. auto>>> every single minute of the 52 hours is being meticulously logged and calculated and witnesses are watching every single moment. volunteers are logging the time for guiness as the clock ticks by. >> hi linda from illinois. >> and madison will keep working until friday at 10:00 in morning. >> failure is not an option. >> in northeast washington caroline tucker abc 7 news. >> thanks. thanks, caroline. the same storm that brought a few inches of snow to this area also caused chaos to our south. in the norfolk, virginia area eight inches of snow are blamed for multiple car crashes including this one in which an s.u.v. nearly went off an overpass. in central north carolina between and nine inches fell. buckling the roof of some gas stations and the storm also knocked out power to 200,000

so far he has brought in $157,000 for the smithsonian's museum of african american history and culture, scheduled to open in d.c. next year. president obama joined those remembering after leonard nimoy this afternoon saying, "i left spock." abc 7 newsi -- minoy died after a battle with copd he blamed on smoking. he brought to life some of the most enduring phrases and symbols of science fiction including the vulcan salute and neck pinch. his fellow actors spoke today about his kind spirit. in a final message to friends, nimoy worrote that life is like a garden, live long and prosper. leonard nimoy did at the age of 83. next on abc 7 news at 6:00 -- >> a new training program is in the works for cabdrivers. we will tell you what it could mean for you. >> when we could see wintry weather and possible highs in the 60's, all ahead in the seven-day forecast. >> in sports, a couple of skins got the ax today. details on that. we are back in florida for spring training. i will show you part of my secretary shinseki -->> d.c.'s taxicab commission is looking to the future. it was to put together

and i was the smithsonian resident associate. i did so many programs with the smithsonian. once we moved out of washington, d.c., into the countryside, in -- an hour and a half from here where it is beautiful, where the blue ridge mountains are rolling, where there is no traffic, there are some things i miss. i miss trader joe's. i miss the bustle of the city and i miss these kinds of events sponsored by the smithsonian. there is no way to replicate them. so, it is good to see the -- these faces. you're not familiar to me but your programs are very familiar to me. to follow-up on what peter was saying, i spent most of my adult life working for the central intelligence agency. i went to europe when i was 20. i went over there to be in my friend's wedding in germany. i never went home. home was kansas. we didn't have hills and trees and green grass in kansas and i stayed. i did start working for the cia overseas. came back to washington, d.c., worked for them back here and then it was a series of overseas and back home and overseas and back home. it was a way to see the world

the items are now on display at the smithsonian. >> imagine that in the back of the closet.oh he went to the room i remember that. >> david an icy start but it's getting better? >> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing you that the precipitation we experienced overnight into the morning rush is now gone, as we look outside, the action cam is out earlier and down along the manayunk area along the canal you see ice along the water there some of that will melt away as we continue to see the temperatures rise a bid this afternoon. temperature right now in philadelphia 36 dew point at 26, the air is starting to dry out a bit and the wind northeast at 15 miles per hour, you'll want to get that coat and a couple of layers on if are you walking today. 35 is the current temperature in trenton and 33 in allentown, close to freezing up there and be careful of lingering ice on side streets as well as you drive around and things are in the process of improving. and winds coming down the north-northeast and giving you windchills in the 20s, bundle up a bit. as we look at the precipitati

the items fund in a bag that went into space are on display at the smithsonian national air and space museum in washington. cameras, brackets tethers, all on board the apollo 11 flight that landed armstrong on the moon >>> hacking impacted tens of millions of americans in the past year there's a worry cars could be next. hackers can attack the wireless systems of new vehicles. jacob ward has more. >> reporter: when you hit the brakes your foot is a small part of what stops of the car. a tiny electric unit is in charge. working with sensors to bring you to a stop. the problem is that system along with dozens of others are vulnerable to hackers. the report comes from the senator of massachusetts, and based on information from 20 automakers. the key findings - most cars on the market use wireless technologies that could be vulnerable to hacking. most makers didn't know or can't say if they were hacked. only two know of any hacking much less defending it. most car-makers collect a lot of data including where you drive, park and where your car sits. 50% transmitt it wirelessly and it may n

. >>> the smithsonian getting record breaking help today. the 52 hour effort involving aretha franklin and danny glover today to rae money for a . >>> and we're going to get above free yay. >>> welce back. radio host going for a world starting just a few minute now. joe madison is trying to pende longest amount of time ever hostina talk show. he's using it to raise money for the new smithsonian african- his museum. you may have seen the constr happening along the mall next t washington monument the museum will be devoted to plaque hk h. l be on urban view station on sirius xm. joe is a friend of the station here. he's often on the round table on the weekends. so good o turn to our weather. the fact that we're celebrating e freezing temperatures just goes to show what a sad state of affairs we're in. >> which you can bell is on the weather deck. centigrade 6 below. but temperatu will actually get above freezing for a brief time later on this afternoon. that wil nice. al ice on the side streets have a chance to melt before the next chance for s

the public square and the smithsonian hosted this event at the smithsonian. it is about one hour. >> thank you so much. it is a pleasure to be here and introduce our guests. i will jump into that quickly and get this started. sandra day o'connor is retired associate justice for the united states supreme court. the first woman to be appointed to the court, the first female geordie leader in the state senate. several listed her among the most powerful women in the world. she was awarded the presidential of freedom by president barack obama. welcome. [applause] >> there is one other item i want to mention in my history and that is that for a time i was president of the museum. and i really enjoyed it. i love the museum. i am glad to welcome you here. >> perfect. we have another phoenix connection. a phoenix high school graduate on a maria chavez, who began her career journey in the same movement she now leads, the girl scouts. since 2011 she has been the ceo of the girl scouts of the usa. she worked for the former arizona governor, janet napolitano. prior to tha

want is social mobility, and that is what we are trying to achieve in london whereby getting the smithsoniannstitution to come. >> thank you very much for coming. the mayor of london there. now for a story that would be deemed implausible even in hollywood -- scientists working to detect signals from alien civilizations are asking for public consent to actively contact intelligent life on other worlds. those opposed say that by sending radio signals to the planets most likely to harbor life, we'd be broadcasting our own presence and possibly putting our planet at risk. >> on top of a mountain in northern california, the dishes are listening out for signals from an alien world. we know that many of the stars have planets capable of supporting life, maybe even intelligent life. >> these are typical of what we get out of the antenna. >> otherwise known as a search for extraterrestrial intelligence institute seti is on a search to find them, and they want to take their search a step further. like some of us are interested in not just listening but broadcasting something maybe to some nearby star

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a live look now at the smithsonian castle on the national mall. all snow cov >> the animals like to take a little snow day. the national zoo opened back up at noon today. about 15 minutes ago. the animal houses are open and zoo officials say that a few animals may be outside but don't expect to see this. remember when bow-bow took a little tumble and out playing in the snow. this was the last time we got a decent amount of snow. the zoo says, though, the much beloved giant pandas will most likely be inside today. enjoy that video. >> must have rolled down the hill six or seven times. >> i know! >> having a great time. >> so cute. so cute. >> all over the place. kids home from school. hills nearby, that's all you need. >> this is the kind of snow day when it stops snowing early in the morning. >> it's crunchy and slick, too. perfect for sledding. maybe bring a little fresh coating of snow showers tomorrow. let's get started. couple of live images from the weather bug network. brilliant blue skies out there. chilly temperatures. 20 degrees right now

different to what many zoos around the country do in those circumstances and consistent to what the smithsonian does in general. everybody is used to having their bag checked going into a museum. >> it's certainly sad that there was so much violence that people are contemplateing that. >> now the director of the zoo dennis kelly did release a very lengthy statement. we're going to show you part of that statement right now. in it he says "this is the most feasible, cost effective solution with the intention of eliminating violence especially from individuals and groups with concealed weapons in and around the zoo during high capacity days." the public is sure to weigh in on this one. i'm jennifer donaldon, abc 7 news. >> thanks jennifer. a wild shootout and it happened inside a store with surveillance cameras rolling. how the store owner fought back next. >> this old house is one of the historic gems of d.c.'s anacostia neighborhood ignored for so long but now getting a whole lot of attention because the rest of the city is so expensive. i'm sam ford. story is coming up on abc 7 news. >> and nor

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. >> reporter: wright talked to the smithsonian institution. in only a small part of the collection and he doesn't want to break it up. so you do want to get it displayed? >> i have to getçó it displayed? >> how. >> we'll do exhibitions and we'll travel and hopefully get it digitally archives. >> reporter: honoring his father's memory by making the silly and serious of american politics available to all. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at "cbs evening news" all around the world, good night. >>> 70 miles south and west of d.c. this is kind of an early warning of what is coming to the d.c. area. not boston yet, but definitely winter. >> reporter: d.c. mayor muriel bowser has a record number of salt trucks on the roads tonight. she's asking that you him your travel to give them room to operate -- limit your travel to give them room to operate. >> reporter: motorists try to get home before the big part of the storm. this is hank silverberg on the loudoun/fairfax county line. >> good evening. i'm jan jeffcoat.