men moved across into the district line, moving into occupying ground now embraced by walter reid.t is now, he watches the boats and ships arrive with the members of the 6th corps, two divisions of them under wright and detachments of the 19th corps that have come all the way from louisiana to hampton road and have joined the troops up. and some of the troops could remember this tall man, seven foot tall when he has his top hat on, now if we knew we were going to have two 6'4" presidents, we would have had a better measurement of them. we have two 6'4" presidents, one is abraham lincoln, the other is lyndon baines johnson. you do not know which is the taller, because they don't go to have any such things as that. and they see the president nibbling on a piece of hard taft. they then move out throughout georgetown pike, out through georgetown, because the first reports the general received, the confederates are in the area of rockville. but they are going to be detoured, turn in and move out 7th street extended georgia avenue. there's a lot of excitement in washington that night as

. >>> maybe you have seen the walter reid bus stop. it was supposed to be a prototype for 23 other stations along the pike. they found they can make some design changes and reduce costs by 40% on the remaining stops. the cost for the new stations will be $12.5 million. construction set for late next year. >>> all right. let's turn our attention to the weather. it is fall. not too hot. >> we know rain is coming our way big time. weather and traffic on the 1s. >> yeah. we need the rain. it is going to be moving on in. a live view of the metro area. storm team 4 radar showing a few sprinkles north of richmond. the bulk of the rain is in the carolinas. it is heading into our area. increasing clouds through the take. here's the timing where rain will likely arrive first. southern maryland, eastern shore by 3:00, 4:00 this afternoon. 5:00, 6:00, through early evening is when lighter showers move in. after that we will get heavier rain by 11:00 tonight all the way into the morning commute on thursday. the bulk of the rain will pull off to the

we owe it to the men and women who serve, many of whom end up maimed and treated at places like walter reid military hospital. we owe it to them to have a political consensus and a specific vote on the war on isis. >> don't ask service members to risk their lives if there's not a political con sees consensus that the mission is worth it. >> the obama administration should come to congress with clear objectives and congress should immediately debate the use of force. failure to do that, he says, could given even more war powers to the next president and all the presidents after that. >> if congress allows the president to begin this campaign against isil and go on offense, without congress authorizing it, we will have created a horrible precedence. >> it is still far from clear what congress will do when it comes back after the midterm elections. in washington, bruce leshan, wusa9. >> now the white house did send a statement to congress today saying the president does have the legal authority to bomb syria under the congressional authorization to use force against al die al- qaeda and saddam

lack that and have it at a superbly high level went with the assistance of the united states and walter reid hospital. the next couple months leading up to the parliamentary elections will be very tricky. russia, i predict, will do everything in its power to undermine the elections. we've seep this already in the case of the presidential elections. it will try to destabilize the government in kiev and keep ukrainian forces from gaining ground in the east. we should be prepared for a tough several or month, month and a half. the next government, of course, that will be then -- will have the full legitimacy, comes with a new parliamentary elections must show that it is a clear and better alternative to the one that the people of ukraine ousted half a year ago, an i also see that making sure, ensuring that the elections are carried out in a free and fair manner will be a topmost priority for us, for the osce, th that, and i think one of the issues should be, in fact, the kind of interference seen in the presidential elections that not be allowed or be fully, fully addressed and recognized by th

walter reid was built as a prototype. it has gotten a lot of criticism for its $1 million price tag they have made design changes and can cut costs by 40%. the cost for all the new stations will be $12.5 million. construction set for late next year. >>> a massive data breach that put the financial information of tens of millions of home depot customers at risk. news 245 will have you checking your bank account. >> reporter: good morning to you. fraudulent purchases are starting to show up. reports say criminals have used stolen credit car numbers for electronics and groceries. in some cases, purchases have been tracked to several accounts linked by specific zip codes. home depot cards may have been infected by the beach, impacting stars in april as well as september. >> mary thompson from cnbc. thank you, mary. >>> a new bill in the strict would ban mascots like the redskins from d.c. public schools. kenyan mcduffy introduced the bill to erase all race-based mascots at schools in the county. the indians say the name is pa

i have visited walter reid, bethesda. i cook for soldiers around this country.ve the fact that these are my brothers and i have got one of my brothers being held overseas. he needs to come home. and we're about to send our soldiers again overseas. we're about to send them again in harm's way? this is how we treat our soldiers when they go and fight for america? >> greta, you knew me for two months. va. i'm sorry. i know i'm taking too much time. i was on the v.a. issue for the last four months. this is about egg taking care of our soldiers who give us the right to speak out this way. >> obviously the military has two really good friends in you gentlemen. thank you both 2ájz joining us tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, i will talk to you off-the-record are. i want to tell you what i think after spending time with the foley parents in their home. i also want to remind you tonight hannity 10:00 p.m. eastern. sean hosts an audience special on fighting radical islam. tonight at 10:00 p.m. on hannity. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on t

>> at my purple heart ceremony at walter reid. >> average joe is now a junior at columbia university.ew york. >> yeah. after i was wounded i saw that as a second chance. i wanted to make the most out of it, especially for my friends sacrifices. i wanted to be the best i could be until i die. >> reporter: the stories told here gives a line to george washington's words that nothing can be for mur distressing sight than to behold those who lost their blood or limbs in service to their country. >> harold russell lost both hands in world war ii said it could be the end of the world for me, or it could be the beginning of a whole new life. >> i'm lucky i have my elbows. some of the boys don't. >> reporter: his performance in the best years of our lives won him an oscar for best supporting actor. mitchald naranjo lost his eyesight and went to(k to becom a sculptor. what would your life be like? >> it would probably be much more dull. >> it's likely like a blessing to be wounded in the name of my country. >> reporter: plans for the memorial started before the wars in iraq and afghanistan bega

we owe it to the men and women who serve, many of whom end up maimed and treated at places like walter reid military hospital. we owe it to them to have a political consensus and a specific vote on the war on isis. >> don't ask service members to risk their lives if there's not a political con sees consensus that the mission is worth it. >> the obama administration should come to congress with clear objectives and congress should immediately debate the use of force. failure to do that, he says, could given even more war powers to the next president and all the presidents after that. >> if congress allows the president to begin this campaign against isil and go

we match the injured troops with professional musicians who come visit at walter reid medical center learning music, writing and perfo performing. >> wow. well you can nominate someone who goes above and beyond at cnn heros.com. >> and before we go we wanted to play you part of cnn's exclusive interview with diane foley, the mother of james foley killed by isis. >> and in that interview -- blasts her as they tried to get her son out of the captivity. >> as an american i was embarrassed and appalled. i think our efforts to get jim freed were an annoyance, you know. >> an annoyance to the government. >> yes -- yeah. and it didn't seem to be in our strategic interest, if you will. i was appalled as an american. jim would have been saddened. jim believed to the end that his country would come to their aid. >> diane foley also says they were not allowed to raise ransom money because it was illegal and they might be prosecuted and there would be no prisoner trade or military action. >> and she says they were told to just trust that their son would be freed. >> the foley family has set up a