his limousine headed out to walter reed. that was a great moment for nixon. in his speeches, he did write them himself. we went out to montauk, we were the only ones with him at the point. he went out to the end of long island and wrote it, and the way he would write the speech, he'd work on it. he'd say, buchanan, and he called me by the last name. give me three good paragraphs on "law and order" and the phone would hang up. he'd weave what you wrote into his speech, and that speech was a smashing success, as i said, after the two conventions, nixon was leading humphrey 42-29, which in those days was an insurmountable lead and television can change things. ed lead did mooen -- humphrey closed it up to 42 or 43 all. but nixon that night, i can remember him up -- reed was at the "playboy" hilton or something like that. i went up and after that we all did the talk on the daishg no, it was ease yerl than that. we did the vice presidential things. we had them all in there, and nobody knew what he was thinking as he threw out various names and there was a staff gr

you're saying a person can't bring a bible into walter reed? you're honestly saying that? >> they have since -- chris, i have the memo. the four-page memo. >> it was about proselytizing and use -- >> no it was not. it was not. it was not. i'll be happy to send it to you. >> okay. i want to see where it says i can't bring a bible into a military hospital. >> i'll send it to you. >> joan, this is getting absurd. he's talking from cpac. maybe it's the environment that's got him. but this absurdity that it's the french revolution. we're going to the guillotine. we're overthrowing religion. i think that's overreached like a lot of things today. >> chris, this is crazy talk. it's absolutely crazy talk. and i just want to touch on a couple things that tony said. first of all, this president has celebrated the national day of prayer. he's gone to court to defend it. that's one thing. second of all, he has expanded the office of faith-based initiatives, and he has also offended his secular base by continuing the bush administration policy that lets people who get that funding, taxp

you're saying a person can't bring a bible into walter reed? you're honestly saying that?he memo. >> i'll be happy to send it to you. >> i want to see where it says i can't bring a bible. >> this is getting absurd. this absurdity that it's the frempbl revolution. we're all throwing religion. i think that's overreached like a lot of things are today. >> chris, this is crazy talk. it's crazy talk. and i just want to touch on a couple things that tony said. first of all, this president has celebrated the national day of prayer. he's gone to court to defend it. that's one thing. second of all, he has expanded the office of faith-based initiatives, and he has also expanded his secular base by extending the policy who left taxpayer funding discriminate against people who don't practice that faith they can even not hire people like single moms or gay men who practice things against the church. obama went along with that. he issued an executive order. really deeply of fending his base. he also put stimulus money into churches through the office of faith-based initiatives. the cath

why they headed to walter reed for an emotional reunion. >>> i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. happy president's day. for many of you, schools are out and i want to thank you for starting you dare out with us many we dodged a bullet this weekend. >> how gorgeous for saturday. >> let's check on today and days to come with meteorologist lynette charles. >> i know you have smiles because we dodged the snow. to the south, a lot of people are unhappy they didn't see the snowfall. for today, we will get tons of sun. temperatures will be near 50 and warmer weather is on the way. showers are in the forecast. when i say showers, i mean rain showers because temperatures are going to be too warm to support some snow. so maryland's most powerful radar is dry. but the further to the south you go where we saw the snow, you are getting snow around parksly and into that area as well. so, this is out of here going through the remainder of the morning and then plenty of sunshine in the forecast for us. temperatures this morning, he yes, on the chilly side in the low 30s. let's check the traffic

the folks on the plane seem to be pushing walter reed. the folks down at washington at the white house and on the ground were pushing for beth then de. and whether that played any role in the quality of the autopsy, no one knows. but here on this tape, there are several conversations which were omitted in the previous public version. but which surface in this version. and then, of course, the tale of the tapes, the johnson tape was created in the waning days of the johnson administration. it's shorter. it's later. this tape was presumably created immediately after the assassination. and probably it's the closest we'll ever get to what is the original raw tapes, which have since gone missing and are very likely destroyed. >> one of the stories describes the events of november 22nd as chaotic circumstances, for understandable reasons. do these tapes capture that? >> much of what's missing actually is that chaos. you do get this on this new round. communications are not great. you're not dealing with a situation where i could text you immedi

joint base lewis mcchord who were affected by these doctors who are making these bad rulings to walter reed to be rediagnosed i hope she's taking a look at the rest of the program as well because i'm well aware there are other folks who have been affected the same way they've been downgraded their findings have been not line of duty been a lot of things to minimize the number of actual cases and that's more let's talk about that what are some of the ways you said this every now and then they just want to diagnose it as anxiety or what's the other thing they try to claim at this including prior service you know they can say that people came into the military and may have had something that existed prior to service that's ridiculous you know p.t.s.d. is a symptom based disorder if you didn't receive treatment for seek treatment for it before you entered the military you didn't have p.t.s.d. no matter what else happened to you so that's the kind of things should not come into account there are rules the military has that say you have to assume they were sound when they join the military and th

the folks at the allergy lab at the walter reed army medical center saw a high pollen count. 1064 trees. 61 degrees in fredericksburg. 57 degrees in washington. 52 degrees in boston. the colder air is going to sit to the north and west. we will get a taste of it by saturday and sunday. certainly not tomorrow. and not on friday as we continue with southwesterly winds. just little bits of low pressure fanning out across the mountains into the mid atlantic. a couple of shower chances. they will keep the temperature so warm 29 in the 40's. a delightful day as we head near 70 degrees. -- warm tonight in the 40's. a 30% chance of showers through morning and midday on friday. maybe by friday night, the mountains will pick up some snow showers. saturday we will get some chilly air. partly sunny and mild in the morning. warmer at midday. 70 degrees not out of the question. gusty winds on saturday. a new warm-up begins as we had it through the last few days of february next week. >> an update through the university of virginia murder trial. the jury is still out. they have been at it all day long

many of them are brought to walter reed medical center, they spend months in our area or even longer.poral mike mickelson is one of them. he's 22 years old, last year he lost both legs and an arm in afghanistan. after 23 surgeries and months of rehabilitation at walter reed, he went home to tampa, florida for the first time on sunday. nearly 1,000 people turned out at the airport to greet him. and that's not all. volunteers have been working for months to renovate his childhood home to suit his needs. corporal

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. >>> walter reed medical center threw a big super bowl party for our wounded warriors. lots of food and the washington cheerleaders showed up to take pictures. doctors say the annual party helps the healing process and gives wounded warriors a break from rehabilitation. >> ahead on "news4 today", a tragic story out of washington state. after a deadly house explosion. why police are saying this blast was no accident. >> amazing story of survival. the remarkable moments after this small plane crashed into a house. >> plus a chilly start to the give your loved ones what they really want! this valentine's day, the new color of love is... white! exclusively at verizon, get the white droid razr by motorola! thin. fast. smart. strong. more color. same droid razr. on america's fastest, most reliable 4g network. now that's value anyone can appreciate! get the droid razr by motorola in three new colors for $199.99. only at verizon. white is the color of amor! >>> good morning. time for weather and traffic early on this monday morning. good morning. tom kierein in storm center 4.

on these tails for example you hear them saying that the body is goi to go to walter reed hospital andf course it end up at thanko bethesda naval hospit. some people thought rose kennedy wanted it there bause she wanted to remind peoe of jack kennedy's service during world war ii. nevertheless we're hearin for the first time the call the assumption on the whole flight they would be heading to walter reed and you get the quick turn at bethes bethesda. for people who want to reconstruct it's important. >> charlie: any particular thing we're waiting to get. we've heard some of the things that mrs. kennedy said before she died. thing she told people in oral history at the time. and later. >> this may be be as good as yoe going to get because general clifton, when i say military aide he was in the motorcade when kennedy was killed and he was the person tasked with dealing with all of military arrangements after the, you know, he was shot. and so this is the fact that we're able n to get kind of an idea of what he had to deal with in coordinating just le you heard mrs. nnedy calling in and t

they came to visit 16 of their colleagues in combat or are being treated to walter reed in bethesda. the number of wounded marines are presented with purple hearts. >>> and let's get this rain out of here. >> and this is annoying, wasn't it? >> and some got less and a live look outside and it's dark. the showers have scooted down to the south and east and i think from this point on, skies are going to try to clear and what we're dealing with is some fog. first stop exceptel in radar and that is from d.c. points north and west and some light returns to southern maryland and the del marva and this is continuing to push away and that is not a bad rainstorm for us and as that is moving, mostly copphoned to the del marva and we're going to clear out tomorrow and we're going to focus on what is next in the pipeline. we talked about it the last few days and there is a storm that is -- and see this spin here. that is going to travel to the gulf coast over the weekend and this is going to be in this area saturday afternoon. and we believe that moisture is going to gather and, in fact, the gul

there were also some emotional reunions earlier at walter reed national medical center in bethesda. black iron marines as they're known visited 16 wounded war yars from -- warriors from their unit. it's the hope the marines will lift the spirits of the injured since not all wounds are physical. >> caught on tape, a woman is run over by the same hit-and- run driver not once but twice. donna adams knows she's lucky to be alive after the speeding car mowed her down last weekend throwing her on to the hood and there the ground. there you see it in this videotape n. is from fall river, massachusetts. it shows the driver getting out. there he is getting out of the car, looking down on to donna and then he gets in and runs over her again. the driver crashed about a block away and tried to run but a good samaritan chased him down. >> i just grabbed him by the shoulders and held him down and by that time the cops were coming around the corner. >> i'd seen my life flash by me. i thought i was gone. i'm thankful to be here. >> police arrested the 32-year- old driver. he told officers he had ha

however, following, as you may know, an independent review, at walter reed, a number of those diagnoses were change back to ptsd. that's really troubling. what's even more trouble to me and to many service members and their family members in my home state and a lot of people i've been talking to, issed allegation that the decision to strip those soldiers of a ptsd diagnosis, came from a unit at madigan that seems to have been taking the cost of a ptsd diagnosis, into account, when they were making their decision. now, there's an investigation going on into this. really to me one of the things is clear is that oversight within the army and the department level allowed this break from standard diagnosis process, to go unchecked. so i'm really concerned about how the services handle nonptsd behavioral health conditions, like adjustment disorder. where service members are administratively separated instead of going through the physical disability process. and i wanted to ask you, given that an adjustment disorder is kpensible by v.a. and d.o.d. is required to use the v.a.'s rating schedule,

. >>> walter reed medical center threw a big super bowl party for some of our nation's wounded warriorss here are just inspiring. they lift up my spirits. so it's a great experience to be here. regrettably with what happened. but i mean it's just great being here. >> doctors say the annual party is an important part of the healing process for these service members and gives them a nice break from rehab. >> outside tonight temperatures have already fallen below freezing in parts of the area. and that's just the start of the return of winter huh, doug? >> yeah i think we're going to see some more winter-like weather later on this week. a couple of nice days sandwiched in between. out there right now some of the coolest numbers we've seen in a while. 25 right now in manassas. 27 in gaithersburg. 37 right now in washington. and 28 down toward la plata. a very cold start to your monday. but then we're going to look toward maybe the middle of the week. we could see some more winter-like weather coming through. i'll show you what i'm talking about coming up in my full forecast. that in just a

he lost his leg in the blast and is recovering in walter reed hospital.hat plans were his response was, quote to, return to duty. joe, you are a true american hero. your attitude show that's you and other heroes make us proud gchl luck in your recovery. thank you for your service. that is it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. e mail us your comments and we'll leave you now with a clip of whitney houston, good night. ♪ [ music ] we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions, such

the pollen count, and this is from the folks at walter reed, this team for trees, meaning that is about what you breathe in would you were walking around. unbelievable for february. here we are. temperatures -- current temperatures in the '60s after many spots being in the low 70's at the middle school. was lend a middle school temperatures 71 degrees. here is the mild air not only over us, but a wide area of these, too. although it is getting a little bit cooler. 32 degrees. our temperature right now is only three degrees above where it was yesterday. things are changing. and there is a little area of ripple in the atmosphere. here is the area of rain to the south. and i have definitely search around for some snow. nothing for us right now. that is the one spot. you have to go to maine to see the winter weather advisory. here is the weather moving our way now. heading towards richmond and later on, especially you folks in southern maryland will see it. perhaps as much as a half inch of rain. here is future cast. tomorrow morning early in the morning there is the area of rain around the

this is from the allergy lab at the walter reed army medical center. they said this is not rare. it happens, not the usual thing to have high tree pollen amounts in february. the warm weather we have had, no surprises. let's test keep it right here for now. it is high enough. -- let's just keep it here for now. before we get into the cooler air, we have warm temperatures heading our way. that will be tomorrow. southwesterly winds in the upper 60's to near 70 degrees. it has been hot across south texas today in the 80's. jackson, mississippi at 73. some of that colder air will spill in here as we had through the weekend. you can see a pretty consistent motion with areas of low pressure moving across the great lakes and the northeast. areas of sprinkles. very little of this will reach the ground. maybe a sprinkle tomorrow afternoon. our best chance of showers come friday just ahead of the cold front. even that will be only scattered in nature. after that clears through, we will get one more day in the 60's on friday. temperatures back to the average range in the 40's as we had to t

of the president kennedy and we are planning on having the president's remains taken directly to walter reed. probablies in kennedy will also go out there. we will clear that later. >> oh, all right. >> it wasn't clarified. minutes earlier the secret service head called another official saying the remains should be taken to another military hospital. >> arrangements have been made for a helicopter for the bethesda naval medical center. >> the president was take tone bethesda. for decades they said his autopsy was incomplete, mishandle and part of a conspiracy. i listened to the tape. >> the government had no protocol for having an autopsy of the president. it was something no one thought would be necessary. they were unprepared. >> the tapes were discovered by the historical documents. they got them from chester clifton, a top aide to president kennedy and donated them to the archives. they were made by the communications agency and includes the radio traffic from the air force one. part of the recordings which are not new are riveting when lyndon johnson and his wife consoled president kenn

he lost his leg in the blast and is recovering in walter reed hospital. plans were his response was, quote to, return to duty. joe, you are a true american hero. your attitude show that's you and other heroes make us proud gchl luck in your recovery. thank you for your service. that is it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. e mail us your comments and we'll leave you now with a clip of whitney houston, good night. ♪ [ music ] [ dennis ] you should just switch to allstate, and get their new claim tisfaction guarantee. hey, he's right man. [ dennis ] only allstate puts their money where their mouth is. yup. [ dennis ] cla service so good, it's guaranteed. foreman ] so i can always count on them. unlike randy over there. that's one dumb dude. ♪ the new claim satisfaction guarantee. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate.

folks talking about their allergies from everything that i've read and talked to the folks ats walter reedenter, they say it looks as though it may not going to be a higher pollen count for this spring but it certainly looks like it may be starting earlier. >> ah! we're feeling that. thanks, veronica. >>> still to come on "news4 at 4," one of our favorite events. the top dog show, or at least a show to win top dog. take ♪ pierre! your fashion is so "right now," but your banking is so last season! earn more with high yield free checking at capital one bank. instead of some unfashionable rate, your checking could be earning five times the national average. and free atms anywhere. five times the interest? that's hot. oooooo! let's catwalk! you want more interest? open an account at a capital one bank. what's in your wallet? does this make my tuches look big? >> announcer: and now from washington's leading news station, this is "news4 at 4." >>> and welcome back, everybody, at 4:30. i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat law son muse. whitney house ton's family has decided against a public memorial for th

to the remain of president kennedy and we are planning on having the president taken directly to walter reedprobably mrs. kennedy will also be going out there. but we will clarify that later. >> oh, all right. >> but it wasn't clarified. just minutes earlier secret service head called another official with the president in dallas saying the remains should be taken to another military hospital. >> arrangements have been made for a helicopter for the bethesda naval medical center. >> the president was taken to bethesda. for decades critics said his autopsy was incomplete, mishandled, maybe even part of a conspiracy. i listened to the tapes with a historian who has another take. >> government had no protocol for having an autopsy of a president. it was something no one ever thought would be necessary. they were completely unprepared. >> the tapes were discovered by the rab collection. they get them from the estate of general chester clifton, a top aide to president kennedy and then donated them to the national archives. the recordings were made by the white house communications agency and inclu

having the president's remains taken to walter reed.ane had called another official saying the remains should be taken to another military hospital. >> arrangements have been made for the beth esdanaval medical center. >> i listened to the tapes with historian max holland who has a different take. >> the government had no protocol for having to get an autopsy of the president, something no one thought would be necessary. they were completely unprepared. >> the tapes were discovered by historical document dealers who got them from the estate of a top aid of president kennedy. the recordings were made by the white house communications agency and include recordings from the president's plane. >> i wish to god there was something that i could tell you. >> thank you very much. thanks very much. i know you love jack and he loved you. >> yes, all right. thank you very much. good bye. >> it leaves us all wanting to hear more but some of the recordings we may never here. officials say at least two hours of the raw tape are still missing. >>> tha

crews will be adding turn lanes to help move traffic along, especially with that recently expanded walter reedary medical center. crews will be forced to close lanes a times, turning six lanes into four lanes or even just two lanes. the construction of the rockville pike is expected to return early next month with construction set to begin at the end of march. >>> this morning a pit bull is being nursed back to health in anne arundel county for being used as a bait dog to train other animals to fight. the dog was rescued in electrici electricity a come last week. the dog nicknamed rocky road just underwent surgery and is being treated for free by the wa chapel hospital. he's expected to go up for adoption. >>> we have breaking news the tell you about right now. police are on the scene of a shooting in southeast washington. it happened around 5 chn 30 this morning on congress street. police are not releasing any information about the victim. so far, no arrests have been made. >>> all right 678 let's get another check of the forecast now. still icy out there. >> yeah. and it's cold too. we've go

. >>> walter reed medical center through a big super bowl party for our nation's wounded warriors.of food and cheerleaders showed up to take pictures. doctors say the annual party helps the healing process and gives wounded warriors a break from rehabilitation. >>> the super bowl means it's time for the super sweepstakes. you can win lunch with the news 4 11 team. go to our nbc facebook page, nbc washington facebook page. like us. you must enter by 10:00 this morning to win that lunch. >>> breaking news right now this morning a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the philippines. right now the death toll is at 13, but many in the country fear the number will increase. 29 people are reported missing. the quake destroyed buildings and created land slides but buried dozens of houses trapping many people. it triggered a brief tsunami alert. >>> today the the trial of a former of virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his girlfriend begins. chevy chase's george huguely was arrested in may of 2010 after his girlfriend yeardley love was found dead in her apartment. prosecutors argue he shoo

crews will be adding turn lanes to help move traffic along, especially with the recently expanded walter reed national military center. crews will be forced to close lanes at times, turning six lanes into four or even two lane. there will also be construction at connecticut avenue adding medians and right-turn lanes, and that work is expected to begin in late march. >>> be prepared to pay may for a cab ride. they approved a 66-cent-per-mile rate hike to $2.16 and a per-bag fee of 16 cents. they will include a flat charge for snow merges and $25 charge for every hour weight. all over surcharges will be eliminated. this rate hike plan does not include any service upgrades like providing a credit card option. the plan goes into effect in 30 days unless the commissioner alters it again. >>> executive editor mark wassing sent a memo and did not say how many buyouts he was hoping for among the 600-person newsroom. broccoli said the paper needs, quote, real savings in the buy outwould turn down volunteers if the departure would cause a problem with the turnout. >>> three applications are now in the

the tanking care of president kennedy and we're planning on having the remains taken directly to walter reedkennedy will also be going out there but we will clarify that later. >> oh, all right. >> reporter: but it wasn't clarified. just minutes earlier, secret service called another official saying the remains should be taken to another military hospital. >> arrangements have been made for a helicopter for the bethesda naval medical center. >> the president was taken to bethesda. for decades, critics say his autopsy was incomplete, mishandled, maybe even part of a conspiracy. i listened to the tapes with historian max holland who has a different take. >> the government had no protocol. it was something that no one ever thought would be necessary. it was completely unprepared. >> historical document dealers got them from the estate of general clifton, a top aide to president kennedy, then donated them to the national archives. the recordings were made and include tapes from the air force one. part of the recordings, which are not new, are still riveting. like when a distraught lyndon johnson