thurgood marshall was a good example of a hearing and an outlier in a sense he was asked a tremendously large number of question relative to those nominees around him and by and large what my co-author and i like to say the same rebuild like to more or less occupied all the time at hearings the time at hearings and he was asked question after question and what it amounted to was basically a quiz or test that has thurgood marshall's knowledge because he was the first african-american nominated to the court during the height of the civil rights movement. a lot of opposition from southern senators as well. just trying to trip them up asking a series of questions i'm not really stuck out in our mind has been one of the bigger moments of the hearing. it was fairly contentious out of a great marshall did a good job of answering questions in a straightforward manner and not getting too involved and being too candid if you will. contrary to the obvious counterexamples when robert orrick appeared before the court he thought this was an intellectual exercise for intellectual discussion about why

kellye: maryland governor larry hogan has fired the chief executive at bwi thurgood marshall. he ran bwi since 2009. replacing him is ricky smith. chief smith most recently ran cleveland's airport. hogan's office did not give a reason for the change. also tonight, gorgeous weather that will last through the weekend. monday, things will change. devon lucie is tracking it. devon: the belfort furniture weather center, we are tracking dry air working in tonight. the rain wrapped up midmorning, then we had sunshine, a great saturday. the stormscan shows everything is gone. we touched 88 briefly in washington, low to mid 80's dominant. these are real-time temperatures . 64 gaithersburg, 78 washington. i just looked at some of the observations at local airports. manassas, quantico, called for fredericksburg coming close to the dewpoint temperatures. there is some fog forming. the dewpoint temperature is the best measure of humidity. 59 is really dry air. it is still humid in fredericksburg, 68, 70. the warm front through tomorrow, the temperatures going back up, the humidity still lo

richard: we found this synthetic drug packet outside of thurgood marshall high school. these pcp-like drugs have names like bizarro k2, and scooby snacks. >> i've seen what they do to people. it's terrible. richard: d.c. fire and ems are transporting up to 15 people pay for bad trips. mayor bowser: these are nothing like marijuana. richard: friday, d.c. mayor muriel bowser signed a law making it illegal. it will allow the police to enforce a 96-hour shutdown order for any business selling the drugs. in ok residents showed us this man, high from synthetic drugs. the police believe that jasper spires, accused in the stabbing death of an american university graduate, was also high on synthetic drugs. but will the actions be enough? >> they are in it to make money. >> we will have to move quickly because people are dying on this stuff. richard: some stores apparently knew this was coming and had stop selling. one of the big concerns is dealers outside of the district will come in and sell the material on the street corners. live from d.c. police headquarters, richard reeve,

met last night to discuss putting together a petition that would propose changing the name to thurgood marshall high school. there's a counterpetition to keep the name. he was a confederate general. it started before it was prompted to remove confederate flags around the country. >>> today you'll have a chance to buy a piece of history. the barbara fritschie house. she became a legend during the civil war era for standing up to a confederate soldier and refusing to put down her flag. she was 91 years old. >>> time to get the forecast. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tells us about the brutal humidity. >> it's still with us. you can see it on the power cam. look at the thick haze in the air maybe a few patchy clouds. and that fog is getting thicker, so watch out for that, essentially any roads near open fields. by 6:00 a.m., we'll have that haze in the sky, temperatures in the upper 70s. near 80 by 8:00. this is in the metro area. still in the 70s in the rural area. by 10:00, in the low 80s, a quick jump in temperatures through the morning, and the clouds will begin to build as well. l

they will prepose changing the name to thurgood marshall high school there is a koyrnt petition to keep it as it is. the petition started before the south carolina church shooting that cause calls to remove confederate flags around the country. >>> the school says it's going to rearrange the order in which the schools will be renovated or expanded. school leaders admit the system that they used to create their priority list was flawed. it used outdated information unintentionally favored districts closer to the district, and overcrowding was not considered. montgomery county says a new list will be created by october. >>> neighborhood in a usually peaceful part of upper northwest d.c. find themselves suddenly coping tonight with a series of armed robberies. three of them happened early this morning as people were walking alone in the dark. first at western avenue at quesada, then at connecticut and military. finally at 35th and about aemarle. they stole wallets and wanted to know pin numbers. >>> make sure you follow first 4 traffic on twitter so you'll be the first to know when bradley

they will propose changing the name to thurgood marshall high school. there's a counterproposal. stewart was a confederate general. the students' petitions started before the church shooting. >>> and a council in leesburg voted to keep its courts downtown. this reverses an earlier decision that would have protected four older buildings from demolition. the vote followed months of back and forth, loudoun county will be able to expand its coursehouse complex in downtown leesburg. >>> and i'm really turning to you guys and asking for help. >> an emotional plea from a local golfer to help find his missing father. what we're learning about the disappearance. >>> and right now, some big backups on 66 inbound. we're talking about a four-mile delay. details coming up. >>> the window opening in about 20 minutes to land. >> i don't have 20 minutes. >> not the kind of conversation you want your pilot to be having with air traffic control. the investigation that's now under way. after a passenger flight is left dangerously low on fuel with nowhere to land. the time right now is 6:08. >>> bre

they discussed putting together a petition that proposed changing the name to thurgood marshall. stewart was a confederate general. the students' petition efforts started before the south carolina church shooting that prompted calls to remove confederate flag memorials from around the country. >>> today, you can buy a piece of maryland's history. the barbara fritchie house in downtown frederick is scheduled for the auction block this morning. it's a replica of the original home. she became a legend in the civil war era for standing up to a confederate soldier and refusing to put down her flag. she was 91 years old at the time. >>> keep a close eye on older friends and nanseighbors this summer. older adults are more likely to suffer from heatstroke. if your older neighbors don't have air conditioning, encourage them to go to a senior center or a shopping mall to stay cool. >>> also news4 your health. a phone call could help you control your diabetes. researchers found telephone counseling have been highly effective in lowering blood sugar. they found four phone calls a year to che

debate on the constitutional issues of marriage equality with evan wilson, who is considered the thurgood marshall, among others. we have nine minutes left. i'm going to throw out one possibility. the fourth in the mid-is much embraced by the right and the left. i can recite it by heart, but you can all get your copy, it is now available on amazon -- you can buy a there. the fourth of them is the right for people to be protected. the supreme court recently decided that police, when they arrest me, cannot take my cell phone and read my e-mails. a cell phone is not like a cigarette packet. the year before that, they ruled that police cannot put gps on our car entries are movements. any dissenters from the panel of the view that this violates the fourth amended? -- amendment? arthur: i will not stand up for -- what do you call a? like, let's hear it for extreme intrusion! walter: there is an interesting issue there, which is privacy. when people debate privacy, i often feel that we have not gone to the moral question of why do we want privacy. i know what i want it. i do not think we start with the f

. >> thurgood marshall, born in 1908. >> wouldn't it be great to get his thoughts on the historic rulingr all right, so, to holidays there is weekend a big one. dave warren says i don't know about the weather right? >> brill is it ' if zoom -- little if-ee in some areas. delaware beaches, down the shore, cape may up through atlantic city, rain moving through, little wider view sees it starting to fill in bit bit more right near washington, d.c. this area of rain will become bit more widespread, push east, but really not make much progress north. so just to the south today because that front that came through, stalled. it is staying to the south. but along it, getting these areas of low pressure, so we have to time these. over the next few days, that's key, it will try to push the rain little further north. this is the first one what we del with today. that area of rain just to the south, will push off by tonight. so, it is pretty much atlantic city down through cape may and delaware. now, we're seeing little break here. this is overnight tonight tomorrow morning clear especially north wi

they say they would like it named after justice thurgood marshall. he was the chief architect in integrating schools here in the country and by the way, if you didn't know this, he lives right here in this neighborhood. live here in fall church surae chinn, wusa9. >> thank you. and i guess i should mention i gave the commencement speech for robert e. lee graduates last month and the fairfax county school board is expected to take up a vote in january. d? >>> neighbors say it was something like out of an action movie. a house just blows up in st. louis, missouri, and badly injures two people. the two-story home exploded just before 10:30 last night and sparked a fire which quickly spread to two nearby homes. firefighters rescued two men trapped under all the rubble. the two men were taken to the hospital in critical condition, no word yet on what caused all this. [ knocking and sirens ] >>> police chase and shootout shuts down a busy kansas interstate for hours. it happened on i-35 where u.s. marshals were in hot pursuit of two robbery suspects. they

other people as in maryland where the chief justice is on one side of the capital and you have a thurgood marshallhe other side of the capital. that is the kind of thing that is okay with me. what's not okay with me is us using our official buildings like this big capital here, allowing the sale of these memorabilia at our national parks. these kinds of things -- especially when the people at fort sumpter responded by saying we are no longer going to do it. this resolution was saying to them, oh, yes, you are. you are going to keep doing it. so that's the kind of stuff that bothers me. if someone were to wrap that house in their flag, put it on their truck or automobiles, that's fine with me. i don't want it to have any official capacity and i would hope that in south carolina that the governor, the leadership of the legislature would take a hard look at senator clementa pinckney's favorite passion, and this is let's get health care for all of our citizens. put a committee together to sit down and look at what they did in kentucky and what they did in arkansas and if you don't want it to be done u

charles drew and thurgood marshall went to howard. is one of those things that i can't really separate from my career as a writer. amy: talk, ta-nehisi coates about prince jones. >> one of the people i met whose life was very, very different from mine, whose background was very, very different from mine was my friend prince jones. he was a child -- he was born the child of sharecroppers. deep, deep poverty. through her own efforts she raised herself up, became a doctor, went to lsu, served in the navy and became a radiologist. a chelated some amount of wealth. raised two beautiful children. one daughter went to upenn. her son had the ability to go to any ivy league school, tremendously intelligent, chose howard university. was attracted to this heritage and legacy. went there and one evening, at this point prince was engaged to be married and had a young daughter, one evening a police officer who was dressed as an undercover officer dressed -- he wasn't -- he was dressed as a criminal. he was in pursuit of some other suspected crimina

speaker with a few brief comments and quote from thurgood marshall and brief quote from mr. small. justice marshall came west to observe the case. he declared that this is not an individual case. this is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. this is not the -- this is the navy on trial for its whole vicious policy towards blacks. black americans are not afraid of anything any more than anyone else is. blacks in the navy don't mind loading ammunition. they just want to know why they are the only ones doing the loading. they wanted to know why they are segregated and why they don't get promoted. the future justice of the u.s. supreme court continued, he said, i want to know why the navy disregarded official warnings by the san francisco waterfront unions before the port chicago disaster that an explosion was inevitable. i want to know, why the navy disregarded an offer by the same unions to send experienced men to train navy personnel in the safe handling of explosives. i want to know said mr. marshall why commissioned officers at port chicago were allowed to race their mens and bets arran