in washington, in washington, washington had about 30,000 people then as a city, 12,000 of them were black. the majority of the black people in washington, actually, in 1830 were free, were not slaves. out of the 12,000 black people, slightly more than half were free. some were prosperous, and otherses were getting there fast. there was a man named lynch wormly who owned a big livery stable two blocks from the white house, and he heavenned horses to the city's -- he served horses to the city's taxi trade. there were two brothers, thomas and isaac kerry, they owned a couple of barbershops on pennsylvania avenue. they came from a free black family in virginia that had been free for generations. in fact, one of those black families had opened slaves themselves. the kerry brothers, also, while they were cutting hair, would also sell anti-slavery publications on the sly, on the side. and the hero of the book, beverly snow, was -- ran the city's finest restaurant called the epicurean eating house. he's really the hero of the book. i think of him as a barack obama, slightly ahead of him tim

was he in washington?>> what they did that nobody had ever done in american journalism before was go out and write about specific slave traders. nobody had ever done thisvvñ before. arisen with were publishing in baltimore which was a bigger slave trading town. they both wrote articles about difference led traders temecula, both of them. that is what they wrote about. beat they supplemented there and kim by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery. the woman ran away. two bella the potomac and drowned. so he wrote an article. here's what happened. here's the name of the constable. district attorney is in, to do something about it. congress should. he hit the roof. when on and charged him and his printer, another white man who helped him run of the copies. electronic drive. the anti slavery people up. one to get rid of the antislavery forces. he was facing $1,000 fine. $20,000 to $100,000. so collected one meal from his friends and took off and went to philadelphia. that was key. >> mainstream

washington politics.the newspapers where an abundant source of information because there were so many of them and there were different tendencies and they would look at things slightly differently and you could get a lot of information that way. spent a lot of time in the national archives and they fell a docket book for the circuit court at the time so you could find out who was breaking the law and how they were breaking the law and who was suing each other and how did it goes so that. you could get a real sense of the texture of daily life and the last thing was the property tax, big bound volumes and there i could track -- i could see beverly snow getting richer by the year. when he comes to town there is an effort -- the second year two hundred. the third year three hundred. making $300 a year at that time you're moving into the middle class. you could track characters that way. that was another way i've learned a lot about the characters in this book and there was francis scott key himself. everybod

in washington, come on washington had about 30,000 people then as a city. at 12,000 of them were black. the majority of them in 1830 were free. they were not slaves out of the 12,000 black people, slightly more than half were free. some were prosperous and others were getting there fast. there was a man named lynch wormley who aren't owned a big livery stable two blocks from the white house. and he was part of this city taxi trade. he was a free black man from madagascar. there were two brothers, thomas and -- thomas and isaac kerry. they owned barbershops. on pennsylvania avenue printmaking from reebok family. one of the free black families that own slaves themselves. they would sell anti-slavery publications on the side. the hero of the book, beverly snow, ran the city's finest restaurants, he is really the hero of the book. i think of him as a barack obama, slightly ahead of his time -- a clever, intelligent, mixed-race man who conkers in terms washington, serves the washington elite what they want, only to face a tremendous backlash. if you read the boo

standup: fernando pizarro, washington d.c.n el informe hay 3 formas en que se esta tratando de obstaculizar el voto hispano. 1, la limpieza de registros electorales en que se revisa si los votantes son ciudadanos o no. el otro, exigir que 1 votante demuestra con documentos si es ciudadano. y tercero, las leyes que buscan exigir que se muestre 1 identificacion con fotografia.l ganado varias demandas contra estos estados. katherine culliton-gonzalez, the advancement project y 1 persona que jura que es ciudadano, y hace todo los pasos para hacerse ciudadano no debe probarse mas para votar. eso es lo mas preocupante. 9 estados han propuesto exigir identificacion con fotografia. 16 quieren revisar los registros electorales, y otros quieren que algunos votantes comprueben su ciudadania. la liga de mujeres votantes es 1 de las organizaciones que demandaron a estos estados.. zaida arguedas, liga de mujeres votantes el hecho de que cualquier cantidad ya sean 2, 3, 4 o 10 millones de personas que no voten debido a esas leyes o iniciativ

michael is a major hurricane and is 22 miles away from washington -- 2,200 miles from washington. low 90's again tomorrow. some rain on saturday with a cold front. our 70's and low humidity by sunday and monday. angela. >> not bad in maryland in terms of delays or incidents. are seeing minor delays of 50 inbound through and over. on the b-w parkway southbound to the beltway, a few breaks lights. southbound 270 to germantown, seeing some pocket delays. on the beltway in virginia is where we have a problem with a broken down tractor-trailer. we were blocking a couple lanes. there's a live shot. it's taking up the shoulder and just the right lane. that's between the edsall road and georgetown pike. we are seeing heavy delays behind the broken down tractor- trailer. back to you. >> thank you. this is a fear of just about every airline traveler. you get on a plane and you end up in the wrong city,. a local woman talks about her unfortunate and frightening trip that she blames on the airline because she said the intended told her she was on the right lane. if instead of landing in the s

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transformed from the inside. >> i can change washington, i will change washington. we'll get the job done from the inside. >> iphone frenzy. long lines form as apple starts selling the next generation of its blockbuster smartphone. >>> national pride. the washington nationals clinch a playoff spot bringing post-season baseball to the nation's capital for the first time in nearly 80 years. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 21, 2012. good morning everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm anne-marie green. the first in person vote for campaign 2012 will be cast today. two states begin early voting. early voting accounted for a record 30% of all votes cast in the 2008 election. meanwhile both presidential candidates will be looking for votes in key battleground states today. program is in virginia, mitt romney is in nevada. he has a new battle cry. he's accusing the president of surrendering his ability to change washington. >> reporter: mitt romney jumped all over this comment the president made on thursday about changing washington. he's hoping to get hi

arnold. >> and then george washington shows up, and washington being a family friend, and washington, i've got the tell you, two years of reading about the american revolution, to me, only makes you like washington more. and washington, you know, is very sympathetic, shows up at her bedside, says what's wrong, mrs. arnold, and she'll have nothing to do with him. she says that's the imposter who's going to murder my child. and so she can't recognize this man who's a family friend supposedly. and she just, you know, she just goes just stark raving mad for the entire day. really alarming people. and do you want to talk about what you found in the historical society? >> well, we had the day with the mad scene where she wraps all the founding fathers around her little finger, and then one of my jobs in our research was to go through this colonel barrack's papers that are all at the new york historical society. and i'm in there one saturday going through my papers. the next morning after the mad scene in her hand, which is very strong and easy the read s is a letter from peggy to the colone

we ask you to do this by repealing the eight washington waterfront increase ordinance. thank you. >> president chiu: next speaker. >> mr. president, members of the board of supervisors, my name is lee radner, friends of golden gateway. you heard the first speakers talk about 31,000 plus voters who signed the petition to put the referendum on the ballot. you're looking at -- you're looking at the wall on the waterfront. this is not our concoction. this is the developer's. right along the embarcadero. you have the opportunity, today, to stop this kind of construction along the waterfront, where we will have to go to the ballot, which i don't think many of us would like to see happen. we'd like to have you change your mind today. also, a recent poll found that voters across the city overwhelmingly oppose the eight washington waterfront project, and the height limit increase by over 30 percentage points. we ask that you take this to heart. please listen to your constituents, and vote properly today, and let's all get on with doing a better project than what we see on your s

relar guests at “washington business report." pretty y good mitt romney speech thursday night. the ans he talked abobout have anchance of working?g? >> absolutely. it on trade, we have a huge decit, the reason mr. bernanke cannot get the economy going. if you don't fix the trade deficit, you don't fifix the american economy. mr. obama promised d to do someing about that on the stumump in 2008 and he has not delivered. >> when it talalks about creating 12 million jobs, the obama campaign comes back and says that 12 millio jobs would be created and whyhy -- anyway. it is hard to forecast, i think that people wewere looking for really solid policy descriptions from romney. i am not sure how specificic he really got. usually th cvention speeches about demonizing him, right? the question is, did that set -- about humanizing him, right the question is, did that side wo? i thinit did. >> a candidate who hashe name mittbot -- he did appear to be a real pson -- >> that's the point, hes ever a person, to say he is not is just ridiculous me

[cheers] i can change washington. i will change washington.e'll get the job done from the inside. >> for some reason my opponent got really excited. he rewrote his speech real quick. he stood up at a rally and proudly declared i'll get the job done from the inside. what kind of inside job is he talking about? gwen: get ready for a rough six weeks and just this week the debate raged from israel to gun running to campaign infighting to medicare and then today after a week dominated by a debate over who pays what to the government, the romney is released their 2011 taxes. we love fridays because that's when news sneaks out. they earned nearly $14 million in investment income last year, paid nearly $2 million in taxes and gave just under a third of their income to charity. this is what the president told the crowd in cincinnati earlier this week. >> i want to reform the tax code so it's simple and fair. i've actually done my own taxes. i don't know about some of these other folks. gwen: so why the information now and what do these returns tell us?

in defining moments like this one the change we need does not come from washington but to washington.my dis disagreement with the president. look we sent president obama to washington to be that change. but so often on issues whether it was negotiating with the republicans on taxes on budget deals, on spending, you name it, he said, oh, these nothing we can do. we can give you 5% change, change it a little bit here, a little bit there but over all the republicans twisted my arm. i stint have 60 votes. i didn't have this or that, and i can't bring you change from inside washington. my god, you are president of the united states of america. you have so much more power than you realize. you don't have to constantly give in to republicans. and the second part is, listen, when we push to the outside. when progressive groups push in the outside. when progressive commentators push from the outside, do you think the obama administration liked it? hell no, they hated it. rahm emmanuel went to a group of progressives who were pressuring the blue dog democrats and he called them f-ing retarded.

good morning, washington. >> good morning, washington. i will be over there tomorrow at for a live shot. think they will teach me a trick or something. the weather is great today, conditions. this is the best day of the week not enjoy yesterday. we have showers and ,hunderstorms headed our way arriving tonight. clear and cool in the meantime, 54 at reagan national, dallas. our forecast, mostly sunny, a warmer, 70-75 degrees. the clouds are back with a f rain all the way through the rest of the week weekend. it will not be raining all day day, but it will be gray. now to angela. >> we are seeing building volume on key routes. and in accident has been moved to the shoulder, southbound b-w parkway approaching 50. still slow going getting through carrollton and ginsberg southbound on the b-w parkway. building volume is on 95 virginia. in very slow through garrissonville to quantico. on the brakes on prince william parkway to the occoquan. early jam making he drive from urbana to clarksburg, you are on the brakes southbound into germantown. th

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i'm here in support of eight washington and the process they've been through.i think the repeal is not the kind of process the project should be going through. i'm a licensed architect in california, and that's one of the largest issues, is having some known quawn quantity when a project goes forward for development. and seven years i think they've been engaging the community, they've listened to the community, advisory committees, they've made significant changes to the project, to the betterment of the waterfront. my kids go to school here in the city. we were recently participants of the sunday streets that was held in chinatown, went down to the waterfront and took note of the development between the ferry terminal and rode our scooters up to the ferry, to the fisherman's wharf, and just -- it's a wasteland between those two points. and development really needs to occur at that point. and this project could be a catalyst for what needs to happen and certainly a balanced approach is important, affordable housing, retail, all those things are -- the the richn

this is "good morning washington," on your side. morning.ay the district has scored a hilllic victory on capitol senatethe house and legislation to put a of abolitionist frederick douglass in the u.s. capitol. now goes to president obama's desk. they also would like to put a in thent pierre capital. douglass statue has been at one square.y there's an investigation about e alarming threat of red-light running in the district. is the most disturbing are district employees. reviewed thousands of tickets to city drivers 4 red- light running. number of those tickets never .aid that story tonight on abc 7 news 5:00. >> in northern vermont a sports .tore is banning pennies they say it's not changing the way merchandise is bought and paid for. says customers still paid to credit card transactions. he says he does not want the register. his canada has already decided to production of pennies. i wonder if that idea will spread. >> we will see. >> find a penny and pick it up. this weather has been good luck. it is beautiful. it does get a litt

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"a good morning washington." >> thank you. the truck driver is save after an accident left is vehicle dangling over the edge of a bridge. officials in brazil said the man lost control of the truck after a car in front of them stopped. he hit the guard rail. the driver was thrown into the water but not injured. >> amazing. >> it is time to go to jacqui jeras. >> it is rojo start this morning. definitely want a jacket or sweater -- it is a chilly start this morning. 46 degrees at dulles, 45 in gaithersburg. 54 and reagan national very clear skies overhead but changes to the west. this mass of cloudiness and thunderstorms will had our way. clouds increase by tonight. vr traveling that will be the part of the country to watch the travel delays and arrival delays at san francisco and l.a. due to morning fog and clouds. it's such warmer, 70-75. the clouds increase for tonight and a chance of showers by tomorrow. let's check on traffic. >> on the road is going to be a tough drive for fox would normally travel maryland 5 through waldo

good morning, washington. >> good morning, washington. high honors for va's capital city. richmond was voted the best round ever. a magazine called it a surprise winner in the national competition. it was chosen for river recreation and environmental protections. it beat out asheville, north carolina and ithaca, new york, among other accounts. >> the nation's capital has been named one of the friendliest city for pedestrians and bicyclists. d.c. officials announced the pedestrian and bicycle information center is a walk- friendly city. . we are closing in on platinum. >> 6:11 is the time. check in with adam caskey. >> we have a lot of trails around here, so that should put us at the platinum level. 67 at dulles airport this morning, 72 in reagan national, 66 in gaithersburg. in the '60s to low 70's for the most part. a little patchy fog. partly cloudy today. we will have a few highs in the low 90s today especially south of washington. there is cooler air to our northwest. in rapid city and denver and omaha, in the 70's today. the cooler and drier air will make it to us by

this is "good morning washington." n your side. it is a guessing game every weekend. >> how can you travel through city? washington. to you, friday, september 14. e waking up with us. m cynne simpson. steve chenevey. start things off with jackie. another great day but approachingld front t bringing changes our forecast. how the cloudsee pushing in across parts of west. in d.c. . in dulles in gaithersburg. cloudy by this afternoon. at noon and 81 at 5:00. might see some sprinkles in tonight and cooler emperatures for the weekend. about what you again ect when i see you minutes.10 l take a look at traffic with angela. > thank you. good morning. e have made it to friday morning. for the d out the door day of the workweek, still for the most cely art. the belt way in county you'll see and outer loop traffic moving well. here at k live avenue. ut meantime, traveling in up to the 14th bridge, first your h.o.v. reopened after maintenance. is moving well from the all the way up to 395. activity in more northbound direction but no l wide op

. >> i can change washington. i will change washington. we'll get the job done from the inside. republicans and democrats will come together. he can't do it. >> jay, i guess the question is, when you hear mitt romney say i can change washington, i will change washington, i'll bring republicans and democrats together, it just seems like a totally -- doesn't seem -- that's not the guy that you necessarily think of in this sort of big like change like moment, you know. he has not been that kind of candidate. the other thing i thought was interesting, republicans and democrats will work together. there has been not a lot of doving of the hat to the other side of the aisle in this election cycle and certainly not in mitt romney. >> i think we all keep waiting for specifics. and, obviously, the debates will be somewhat telling. i can't imagine him getting through debates without saying something specific, but lowering taxes and cutting the deficit two contradictory goals are the only general points of policy that i can

proud to support "washington week" on pbs. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. just for you, we all stayed up a little too late last night. and every night for the last two weeks. and just for you, we'll spend the next half-hour explaining why. explaining bill clinton's role in the democratic party. >> if you want a winner take all, you're on your own society, you should support the republican ticket. but if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, we're all in this together society, you should vote for barack obama and joe biden. gwen: deconstructing how the parties' rising stars are being used to attack the republican ticket. >> we know that in four free market economy, some will prosper more than others. what we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance and the

for joining us for a look at business and finance in the washington region. i'm suzanne knedyillingng in for rebecca cooper. we made it through the political conventions and a new rou of jobs numbers. also another w closer to the auautomatic feral spending cuts. weill have more on those topics coming up in our roundtable. but first, a f few minutes on a sector of the economy that have done better here in the capital reregion than most other -- other placaces. real estate. hohomeowners took a later hit tha those and many of the market, and we were also o quicker to see signs of recovery. joining me isonna evers, a real-estate agent an expert. talk to us s a little bit about what is going on in the market in the washington area. >> we did not get hit like many others in the country but we did see some have been. the dollar volume of sales from the p peak to the bottom of the market fell about 50% that is bibig. prices only fell about 18% in the metro marketplacece. thhugely sucssfupart of the market. it was not so bad. now we are seeing is something a lot of pe

good mning washington at 5:00 a.m. starts now. >>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. it is of a clock on this monday morning, september 24. i am steve chenevey. >-- 5:00. >> i am greta kreuz. >> we have a couple of pickups in the forecast. a beautiful start this morning. a little cloudy. is helping to hold up a little. have some fifties out there morning. a few 40's as well. 52 at dulles, 56 in d.c., 48 in gaithersburg, 48 in winchester. gerber tours will be warming up today. out wes-- temperatures will be g up. high temperature around 72 degrees today. now let's check on traffic with angela. >> we love to start with good news. the prince william parkway northbound has reopened between dumphries road and clover hill road. the accident is gone. another accident, 395, . southbound. two left lanes shut down. two to the right getting by. traveling around the beltway in maryland, no early delays or closures. looking pretty good at the american legion bridge between maryland and virginia. 270 l

here in washington -- >> oh my gosh. that's horrible. >> reporter: visitors are still surprised by today's death. >> it does get to you, because, you know, you want your babies to be healthy. >> reporter: the cub didn't have a name, representing the chinese tradition to wait 100 days after birth. right now, the focus is on the mother panda. the exhibit will be closed. we should learn more about the cause of death in about two weeks. david? >> reena ninan at the national zoo in washington, thank you. >>> now to the raging wildfirms across the west tonight. the biggest fire spreading huge plumes of smoke hundreds of miles, as you can see, the smoke can be seen from satellite. and seens like this one are so common. a mother and her four children wearing protective masks, told they don't have to evacuate. what then are they breathing in? here's abc's clayton sandell now. >> reporter: where there's fire, there's smoke. a lot of it. at least 36 large fires are burning in nine states, the worth in central washington, where thou

standup: fernando pizarro, washington d.c.l final republicanos y democratas estan de acuerdo en dar visas o tarjetas de residencia a extranjeros con profesiones altamente calificadas. pero el metodo de lograrlo aqui en el capitolio, ya sea eliminando o no la loteria de visas, es algo que todavia esta por verse. desde washington, fernando pizarro, univision. familiares y amigos le dieron el ultimo adios al joven estudiante quien murio cuando estaba caminando a su escuela en el area de capitol heights.. marckel ross de 18-aÑos fue asesinado el pasado once de septiembre en la maÑana... el cuerpo del joven fue hallado en la calle con herida de bala...la policia de prince george continua investigando el homicidio y hasta el momento nadie ha sido arrestado en coneccion con la muerte del joven... a quien no le gusta la sal? es un condimento fundamental en nuestras comidas, pero el consumo excesivo de sodio estaria amenazando la salud de mas niÑos y jovenes... el elevado consumo de sodio entre los niÑos es alarmante. ..y esta tendenci

playoff baseball in washington. the fans were filed up, looking ahead to be an exciting fall here in town. >> that is almost impossible to believe. believe it. [laughter] >> it is about time. we are excited. f win of the nats playof not unexpected at this point. is the latest milestone what has been and a season that has far exceeded most expectations. >> autria godfrey is live outside the nats park. enoughe fans celebrated absolutelyh electric. fireworks in the sky. a die-hard fans are saying they waited wait too long to see this. take a look. , and that's were on full to toe here head tonight. fans were already -- g thoseare trying to sna playoof tickets. longtime fans say they were glad to be on hand to see the winning game. it was such an overwhelming for brought to years -- to tears. >> i waited 33 years. this is better than anything. >> first playoff. unbelievable. i am excited. >> you can bet these fans are their teamnt to see the playoffs in person. have to wait long. tomorrowo on sale g at 10:00. each perso

washington monument. beautiful morning in washington, very comfortable as well. felt comfortable -- temperatures since early june. we will see more of this later month as well. these are some of the coldest numbers. 47 across birds state university. all the cool side in western maryland. high pressure over the midwest increasing in to the mid- atlantic. that will keep as bright and pleasant all week long. low humidity all week long as well. byperatures will rise wednesday. here is the hourly forecast. high temperature of 78 for the metro area. there is a bump in temperatures by wednesday. 80s by that point. the humidity will be kept at bay. this is our next to its of rain. does not look like a washout, as ofn isolated showers saturday and sunday. checking in with the traffic. >> the good news, we will start with good news. we cleared the crash on the parkway. the delight is .xtends into laurel this starts at 197. in the meantime, traveling on 66, no accidents to report. still looking at a lot of eastbound delays. the drive from manassas to the beltway and continu

from the inside. >> i can change washington, i will change washington. we'll get the job done from the inside. >> iphone frenzy. long lines form as apple starts selling the next generation of its blockbuster smartphone. >>> national pride. the washington nationals clinch a playoff spot bringing post-season baseball to the nation's capital for the first time in nearly 80 years. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 21, 2012. good morning everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm anne-marie green. the first in person vote for campaign 2012 will be cast today. two states begin early voting. early voting accounted for a record 30% of all votes cast in the 2008 election. meanwhile both presidential candidates will be looking for votes in key battleground states today. program is in virginia, mitt romney is in nevada. he has a new battle cry. he's accusing the president of surrendering his ability to change washington. >> reporter: mitt romney jumped all over this comment the president made on thursday about changing washington. he's hoping to get hi

"good morning washington." starts right now. is ave and in hd, this washington," on your side. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- thursday,n this september 20. i am kendis gibson. steve and cynne are off today. --'s start with jacqui jeras it is fall out there. >> do not worry, it will be in the 80's by tomorrow. our had land today is that we have a chilly start. we are looking at 40's and if you 50's on the map. temperatures will rise as we into the weekend, but we do have a chance of storms on saturday. make your plans with that in mind. temperatures across the region -- $48, 46 in manassas, 50 in fredericksburg. 55 at reagan national. almost nothing but sunshine today. 60 at 9:00. 73 at noon. 76 at 5:00. jamie has traffic. i love this weather. traffic action is not so bad. we had the douglass bridge last hour. now it starts in good shape. it had been open to that a ship go through. taken care of. we're good to go on 395 if you are heading in. a one or ride on the 14th street bridge. no problems here. in the far distance, the lights, that is the

check out our website. >> good morning, washington. it is 6:10. we will get an update this morning on the work to repair the washington monument. the national park service closed the monument after last summer's magnitude 5.8 quake because of significant damage. part officials are holding a news conference this morning at the national mall. they are expected to announce the contractor they chose to begin the work. >> southwestern illinois have to clean up damage left behind by a tornado. check out this dramatic video captured by storm chasers as the twister moved through the town. are looking at the damage. a little town north of st. louis, missouri. the twister knocked over trees and damaged a number of cars and buildings, but no reports of injury. >> 63 degrees. let's check in with jacqui jeras. >>off to a much warmer start today. >> 15 or 20 degrees warmer in some areas. it feels good. unfortunately, we have a little rainfall. check out the satellite and radar picture. if it shows the moister moving right at us. if we will notwe will have rain

if they indeed have relations with washington. it seems like the chicken is going home to roost could this situation have been averted there was no reference to care of see it it's difficult to see how it could have been averted the people who made it easy designed this to happen. we don't have fire in a gravity as in the crowded theater is in effect the arab world the global south countries that have been devastated by centuries of colonialism of those decades of us imperialism and more particularly bombers policies in the past five years that have been so. debilitating to so many millions of people so it's ridiculous see how watching you respond the idea that obama's. loss is a do you hear that marines and drones are targeting. action we've lost lives are temporary but think about it with us now let me just pick up with another question for you yeah i can hear as well me during last year's western backed arab spring the protests we saw the masses there were trying to break free from authoritarian regimes we hear now those same n

believe it or not, washington listened. they got a lot done. part of it dissipated because in some ways there were so successful. people assumed once the legislation was there, once the vietnam war was over, defense spending would go down. it is much higher now than it was under vietnam. part of it is parcouch potatoes. we're sitting back county on someone else to do it. as long as you are talking about them doing it, as long as the pronoun that is going to take action is they cannot week, nothing will happen. tavis: this has to do with people feeling helpless, hopeless given the relatively weak choices they have had. you know what i mean by that. if your argument is in this election that we face is that obama is better than romney, you are not going to push obama because you do not want romney to get in. how much does this have to do with people being not willing to fight with their friends? >> the point is people are to focus -- too focused on elections. the point was he went beyond elections. part of the problem is people assume if they elec

, washington. we made it to friday, september 7. i am cynne simpson. >> i am steve chenevey. let's get started with adam caskey. >> 5:01. we do have patchy fog developing especially west and northwest of washington. anywhere that arraigned yesterday, you have a high likelihood of fog this morning. 65 in woodbrige along with waldorf. 70 in fairfax. silver spring, 68. 72 and reagan national. berdi uniform temperatures. 90 this afternoon. it's a coin to be warm and muggy. that will be short-lived. we have a big change is coming the pike this weekend. i will talk about that in the next couple minutes. now to angela. >> happy friday. 270 still looks very nice, especially southbound. 95 and the b-w parkway out of laurel both moving well. moving at posted speeds. virginia motorists are having a pretty easy time. we have lifted all the overnight work zones on 95 making your way up to springfield. you should not have any delays. 395 is wide open northbound and southbound. between the beltway and the 14th st

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