war to end all >> welcome to the president woodrow wilson house here in washington, d.c. finished in 1916 and was the home to which president and mrs. wilson moved day they left the white house on march 4, 1921. them live here the rest of their lives for president wilson that was to be three more 1924, butied early in his widow lived until 1961 in front seat had a really in american history during that entire time. here, we have on a large number of gifts of state that were given to president and wilson, one reason that we have so many of these gifts from other countries is because of role that president wilson played in ending world war i. 100 years ago this -- this month, right now, out and d war i broke president wilson faced two tremendous crises in his life. of war in outbreak europe, which began on august 2 belgium, ny invaded violating belgium's neutrality nations then other to declare war against each other and really begin the war. later, his r days wife ellen wilson died as first lady in the white house. suffered from a kidney ailment called brights disease that

and still woodrow wilson almost did not beat him. and one of the big differences was ohio, ohio went for wilson by 90,000 votes and that was 24 electoral votes at that time. it would have been a landslide the other way for harding. also a newspaper man running -- running in 1920. had harding been president in 1916, that he would have had a different question about whether we would have gotten involved in the war and what the peace treaty would have looked like and what it would have looked like. good what-if question. >> you think carrie had to do with his decision not to run? >> i think she threatened him. she wanted him out of public life and he writes and went over to baltimore and made the thing that made it impossible going after what she called his mad pursuit of honors. i think she definitely threatened him. if you do this -- i don't know what. perhaps she would disclose the letters. he was thought of as a real potential candidate, because ohio had had president after president since after the civil war almost in a row, all rep

ground troops are going to be >> senior scholar from the woodrow wilson center, thank you for your time today. >> u.s. president obama calling it a historic day in a partnership between afghanistan and the u.s.. >> the countries have signed a security pact to allow american troops to remain in the country has the end of the year. it comes a day after the swearing in of the president. today marks the 25th anniversary of the key moment in german history. on this day, thousands of east germans allowed to leave and travel to freedom in the west. >> the man that maybe historic announcement was among those taking part in the commemoration events. >> the man that played a pivotal role in the lives of thousands was back in prague. the former foreign minister now 87 was joined by a number of east german refugees. >> we're still extremely grateful for your efforts at that time. but not as much is you. >> prague 1989. hundreds of east germans sought refuge on the embassy grounds and have been holed up for weeks. soon, there were thousands of them with one goal, to travel to west germany and freedo

and then another interesting story that to me is kind of compelling is that fact that woodrow wilson from the white house sets off the last blast at the panama canal. you have, the panama canal itself is a celebration of american ingenuity and triumph of technology. and the icing on the cake that you have our sitting president pressing the button hundreds of miles away from the actual site. and successfully sets off the blast. some of the consequences i think of the panama canal is reflected in one item that we selected, because the same article that is talking about woodrow wilson sending off the blast, the actual headline is talking about an engineer that has worked on the panama canal and he is dying as a consequence of some of the work he had done. so, you get the pathos of what the hardships were down there. and this was an engineer. so he was out of fairly high level as far as compared with some of the manual laborers. >> it's like opening a window into the past. and you have to use your imagination to imagine, but you will be able to get what it was like to work and to live du

wilson led the nation in what was hoped to be the war to end all wars. >> welcome to the president woodrow wilson house here in washington, d.c. this home was finished in 1916 and was the home to which the president and misses wilson moved the very day that they left the white house. both of them lived here the rest of their lives. president wilson had three more years. edith,ly, his widow, lived until 1961 in this home and had a front seat in american history during that entire time. in our collection, we have a large number of gifts of state that were given to the president and mrs. wolff. one reason is because of the reason isole -- one because of the pivotal role that the president had an ending world what i. it was 100 years ago that world war i broke out. president wilson faced to crises in his life. one was the aroutbreak of war. hisjust four days later, wife ellen wilson died. she suffered from a kidney ailment. that today is curable. president wilson faced a nation and a world that was very different than ours. the united states had become the largest world economy by 1900. but still not

led the nation into what was hoped to be the war to end all wars. >> welcome to the president woodrow wilson house here in washington, d.c. this home was finished in 1916 and was the home to which the president and mrs. wilson moved the very day that they left the white house. march 4, 1921. both of them lived here the rest of their lives. president wilson had three more years. he died early in 1924. amazingly, his widow, edith, lived until 1961 in this home, and had a front seat in american history during that entire time. in our collection, we have a large number of gifts of state that were given to the president and mrs. wilson. one reason is because of the pivotal role that the president had in ending world war i. it was 100 years ago that world war i broke out. president wilson faced two crises in his life. one was the outbreak of war. whenbegan august 2, germany invaded belgium, violating belgium's neutrality and provoking other nations to declare war against each other, and really begin the war. and just four days later, his wife ellen wilson died. as first lady, in the white house. s

the story in the "herald tribune" said that woodrow wilson went to the house judiciary committee for an of thel discussion treaty of her side. but that is it. -- treaty of versailles. but that is it. did the house judiciary committee ask him to testify? >> he exit proposed to do so. -- he actually propose to do so. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding ,ossible motives behind this and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break and in facton become the first president since lincoln to testify before a judiciary committee. emember, this is after 25 years on capitol hill. there, andortable up the committee probably treated him less harshly than somebody they had not known and not worked with for 25 years. you say, he had spent 25 years on a hill -- stronge were lots of , and that was the committee that even i was rake nelsono rockefeller over the coals, they had asked some tough questions during the gerald ford confirmation hearing. so it was no pushover. >> the president saw the reaction to t

the story in the "herald tribune" said that woodrow wilson went to the house judiciary committee for an informal discussion of the treaty of her side. but that is it. -- treaty of versailles. but that is it. >> did the house judiciary committee ask him to testify? >> he exit proposed to do so. -- he actually propose to do so. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this, and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify before a judiciary committee. the reaction was much more negative than he had anticipated. all sorts of questions were raised, and not just from the usual set of political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this. uproar, heensuing decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify before a congressional committee. this is when 25 years on capitol hill paid dividends. he was, going in

woodrow wilson invited the foreign committee to the white house for informal testimony on the proposed league of nations and treaty of versailles. but that is it. >> president ford pardoned richard nixon september 8, 1974. he was ousted by the subcommittee to testify? >> it was interesting. let it be said, the reaction of the party was much harsher and more negative than i think he anticipated. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this, and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify before a congressional committee. this is with 25 years on capitol hill paying dividends. he was comfortable going into the lion's den. i think the record will show the committee treated him less harshly than they might have someone whom they had not known and worked with for 25 years. committee,iciary comfortable grounds for president ford. as you said, 25 years on the hill. of strongere lots nixon critics. tha

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my name is mae chang, research analyst at the woodrow wilson school of international affairs, princeton university. thank you for inviting me to testify. i have been asked to give an overview of single payer system and my written testimony into a few salient points. an overarching point in my testimony is that single payer systems are notes same as socialized medicine or socialism so often assumed in this country. in socialized medicine, government owns and operates the health care delivery system and finances it. the health system americans reserve for their military veterans and va system is purely socialized medicine. single payer systems are typically just social insurance, like the social security system, under social health insurance, the government merely organizes the financing of health care but the health care delivery system typically is private and can include for profit entities. medicaid, for example, the social insurance, it is social insurance but not socialized medicine. the main characteristics of single payer systems are the following. they are ideal platform for equi

woodrow wilson the answer: b. in 1906, theodore t american d nobel peace. rnsi in >> a difficult autumn. hard to believe we're in the countdown to the final days of october which ends after this friday. 69 in chicago. a rather on oct. like reading. mccall readings are falling out to the west. it is significant because that is what is coming our way. though be the one single daytime temperature in this whole month of october 2014. look at the low temperatures tomorrow night. daytime high temperatures near 50 by the time. here's a broader look at the cool down coming. there are the high temperatures tomorrow. tomorrow night a broad area of 30 is coming into the country with high temperatures only recovering near 50. that will be cut off before get to bicycled from the coast through thursday and brings the chill for thursday evening and thanksgiving dayand halloween d. the lotion hours tedder eastbound. not an immediate threat. they're still out to the west of us. a couple of scattered showers southern suburbs. here's the next batch. also the ones coming in to

. >> today at 6:00, we visit the president woodrow wilson house, which was home to the 28th residentife after they left the white house. and exhibit features a collection of world war i paintings and other artworks. they helped shape outlook opinion or three years that america remain neutral in the conflict. it was not until 1917 the president wilson led the nation into the war to end all wars. tv's weeklytory program that takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. >> author donald miller explores manhattan's transformation in the 1920's from an urban backwater to the cultural capital of the united states. miller is author of "supreme city: how jazz age manhattan gave birth to modern america." he describes ambitious individuals such as walter chrysler, who oversaw the skies bigger building boom. -- skyscraper building boom. we also hear about the creation of cultural and architectural feats that are now a comic -- iconic symbols of new york city. this event was hosted by the new york public library, and last about 90 minutes. it is great t

c-span: now, woodrow wilson was president, in his first term. this was 1915. >> guest: yes. c-span: he was reelected in '16. >> guest: yes. c-span: we went to -- when did america go to war? >> guest: in april, 1917. so you have a period between the sinking of the lusitania may, 1915, and the spring of 1917. many people, you know, are under perhaps a bit of a misapprehension that it was the sinking of the lusitania that immediately precipitated the united states into war. it wasn't like that, but the event -- it really -- it soured relations between the united states and germany. in the aftermath, all this business of spying and sabotage was revealed. you had all kinds of acts of what we would now call terrorism, though that word wasn't used at the time. you had, in the aftermath, bombs exploding in the capital, assassination attempts on jack morgan of j.p. morgan, who was involved in financing sales of american munitions to the allies. you even had an assassination attempt on the british ambassador in washington, all of these things in the background souring the relationship

woodrow wilson bridge, maryland virginia, wet both ways. a little bit of sheen on the roadway there. 66 into and out of town looking good right now. remember to follow us on twitter @first4traffic. >>> wow! take a look. that's dramaing cell phone video right there shows a three-car crash in pennsylvania. two men coming back from a delivery. notice the the woman swerving in traffic monday morning. that is when one of them grabbed a cell phone and recorded what you just saw. no one, though, was seriously hurt. >>> this morning two dozen students are recovering after a swarm of bees attacked them at school. 22 middle school students were stung by bees. they were playing soccer outside during p.e. class in fort worth. all the sixth graders were stung at least once. some of them stung as many as 12 times. >> there was a lot of screaming. coaches were trying to get everyone. every kid was screaming trying to get the bees off their backs. >> a spokesman for the school district says the bees built a hive inside the underground rear gas station cove

according to the book "first off the tee," woodrow wilson was estimated to play 1200 rounds while dwight d eisenhower played 600 rounds. enoughident wilson had time to build a bridge down there, too. let's talk about the drizzle around the area. that will move off tonight and tomorrow a sunshine in breeze. the next storm system and cold front causing problems in the midwest. it will bring us happy rain on wednesday. >>> welcome to "world news tonight." and breaking right now, the deadly or the nay doles touching down across several states. more than 20 million americans on alert for severe storms tonight. in the middle of this country and moving east. also, the tropical storm that just turned into a hurricane. >>> also this evening, the first case of ebola transmitted in america. the 26-year-old nurse from dallas and her little dog, both in isolation. and we ask here, how long does ebola last on surfaces, on your skin? and the new scare on the plane that landed in boston. the pictures coming in. >>> the 911 call just coming in from inside a school bus tonight. 80 students on board. they

the march down pennsylvania avenue the day before president woodrow wilson's first inauguration, they were jeered. they were shoved. they had things thrown at them. they were arrested, and when they were arrested, they were force fed, and some of them worsen to insane asylum is because of course, if you wanted the right to vote for women, you had to be crazy. also, the women suffragettes were the first to picket the white house, which has become a long-standing tradition in american protest. if there is something you do not like, there is a permitting process today, but you can go and pick at the white house. it was the women suffragettes who started that. also, the role of government -- certainly heritage is very active in debating what should be the role of government, how large should it be, and this is a very healthy debate, but the role of government has gotten larger. social security -- there's some beautiful murals in what is today the voice of america building. many of the departments that were created during the 20th century to address issues across the united states are open

shoulder with problems continuing towards the woodrow wilson bridge.the accident on the george washington parkway, the crash remains in the left lane, slow down northbound rubbernecking southbound with the baltimore-washington parkway southbound before 100 on the left lane and on the inner loop of the beltway towards virginia and georgetown pike we have delays on the left side of the roadway. brian, how about the forecast? now,al sunny right sunshine beaming in from st. louis over towards lower maryland. there, 30's in the suburbs, 40's downtown, comfortable with scattered clouds and a nice-looking day headed our way. enjoy it, we have changes with showers and cooler weather. >> thank you, brian. we should point out that early voting begins today in the district. at one cast your ballot judiciary square. eight other early voting locations around the city will open on saturday. the top race is the d.c. mayor's race. in the race for d.c. council chairman, chris cannon faces the incumbent democrat, phil mendelson. thank you for watching this morning. we w

never to see him again, under the influence of his important friends, which included president woodrow wilson's secretary, offered him a nomination to be consul in nuremberg, germany, which he was turned down for. his alleged impropriety back in china. he was then put into a lower ranking position which did not require confirmation. during this time serving in germany just before world war i, mcnally developed contacts in the german navy through his son-in-law. his son-in-law's father was an admiral and a personal friend of the kaiser's. mcnally passed this information that he acquired through these contacts. a naval officer attached to the embassy in berlin to be a military diplomat and to collect overt, non-clandestine intelligence. he passed this over and we thought his work was invaluable. for instance -- in january 1917, germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare which is a turning point for the united states but also for mcnally. in the next month, he comes back to the united states and gets a meeting with the secretary of state and delivers the briefing on the submarine situation w

this has caused the delays to get into the wood -- woodrow wilson bridge.up? >> yes, but it will be going back away. enjoy the dry spell, later in the day, 60 degrees as the temperature on the southwest, little disturbances moving around the upper low, making it through the mountains by midday. most of the rest as he rain showers after the sun goes down. mid to upper 70's. >> thank you. we want to get you to a story that is happening right now. the stolen school bus, news chopper seven flew up over the lot where it was taken this morning. 870 four has front-end damage and a rear elevator ramp -- eight 74 has front-end damage and a rear elevator ramp problem. hope to see you then. here's an idea. start shopping a new way. start maximizing. at the place where you alwlways get more than you pay for. t.j.maxx. brands you love, prices that work for you. maxx style. maxx savings. keep you standards high and your spending low. fashion, family, home. maxx what matters most to you. maxx life at t.j.maxx. ♪ ♪ chasing the sun ♪ i'm chasing the sun ♪ i'm chasing the su

in woodrow wilson, there is a huge effect on one of his election because of the series of shark attackseastern seaboard. there are strong findings over and over and over again about the changes in the vote when the hometown football team wins. when people are feeling better and when they're feeling worse it it really does change who they vote for and ebola whether they're specifically blaming it on the obama administration response or not, it's making people feel afraid and worse, and affecting the stock market. and its the party that is in power. it will hurt the democrats and i don't expect it to be a huge thing and i think that is true, com plately separate from the efforts to politicize it around questions of the border, around travel bans and even what is a more legitimate question and governmental competence and response. >> hundreds of thousands of people died of the spanish flu during woodrow wilson's presidency and no one thought to blame that somehow on the president of the united states and you had a polio epidemic that cut down 70,000 cases in the early 1950s when dwight, da

president woodrow wilson challenged the nation's farmers to dramacally increase food production.food will win the war," he told them. announcer: wheat will win the war. plant wheat. plant the cattle ranges. plant so they get lots. plant wheat. wheat for the boys over there. wheat for the allies, wheat for the british, wheat for the belgians. wheat for the french. wheat at any price! schoumacher: as their "patriotic chore," man and machine opened new lands. productivity and profits soared. farmer kenneth littorecalls his father's warti effort. during the outbreak of world war number one, there was a great drive put on to increase feed supplies and food supplies to feed not only our army and civilian population but populations in europe that had been overrun. and in so doing, he thought he was doing the patriotic right thing and bought another 900 acres. he felt he was just as patriotic and just as involved in that war as the man that was toting a rifle. schoumacher: even the end of the war did not end the growing demand for u.s. farm products, for the threat of famine hung over a

political tensions between the north and the south in 1911 and 1913, but then again, you have woodrow wilsonas president and he's a sournl president from stanton, virginia. and so his world, that world is already very different than what's come before. [ inaudible ] he does. he does. austin? >> quick question. when the klan was revived around the semisencennial, that's like when the flag was used wide llys there a reason the battle flag was used over the state flag of the government? >> i'm the wrong person to answer that question. i'll have to get back to you on that one. >> okay. >> any other questions? yeah, matt. >> the notion that a celebration of the semicentennial, but i know that a lot of veteran groups were meeting on a regular basis. always having reunions and certainly in the south. that was a big deal for small towns because they would get their local brigades or whatever volunteer units they came up. was that a way that the country was able to perpetuate the memory of the civil war? or do you think that's how the memory was sort of skewed, so to speak? >> i think memory is never

and that's, i think where woodrow wilson becomes very important in terms of how he frames the war as a war to make the world a safer democracy, kind of tapping into the democratic idealism of the united states and was quite effective in terms of mobilizing a country that was wholly unprepared for war, the united states had one of the smallest standing armies in the world, but by the time the war ended, you know, had emerged as a significant military power on the global stage. >> talk about public sentiment in that particular time in history, i don't think americans, were americans emotionally ready to go to war and how unready, as you mentioned they were not physically ready to go, how not ready were we? >> i was going to -- you ask an excellent question. i mean there's still animosity from the civil war, there was still divisiveness between the north and the south. so again, not everybody in this country said we need to fight for the united states overseas in a war, we certainly weren't ready, as dr. williams pointed out, we had one of the smallest standing armies, we had a regular

she spoke about her book at woodrow wilson center in washington d.c. >> welcome. we are, indeed, in for a treat today, and if you haven't got enough discussion on putin, well, i think we're going to, hopefully, satisfy your curiosity today. it is our great pleasure to have karen here to talk about her new book, "putin's kleptocracy," and i should add that the books are available on sale as well. karen is the walter e. havenhearst director of science for postsoviet studies at miami university in ohio. she is a former wilson center public policy scholar as well as a former guest scholar at brookings. she has taught at many universities including a long stint in the university of maryland. the author of numerous books, but i are a sneaking suspicion that this one really rises to the top of the list x she received her ph.d. from the london school of economics. karen will be followed by professor elizabeth wood for a commentary on her presentation. professor wood is the professor of russian and soviet history at mit, and elizabeth also will be joining us in january as

my name is mae chang, research analyst at the woodrow wilson school of international affairs, princeton university. thank you for inviting me to testify. i have been asked to give an overview of single payer system and my written testimony into a few salient points. an overarching point in my testimony is that single payer systems are notes same as socialized medicine or socialism so often assumed in this country. in socialized medicine, government owns and operates the health care delivery system and finances it. the health system americans reserve for their military veterans and va system is purely socialized medicine. single payer systems are typically just social insurance, like the social security system, under social health insurance, the government merely organizes the financing of health care but the health care delivery system typically is private and can include for profit entities. medicaid, for example, the social insurance, it is social insurance but not socialized medicine. the main characteristics of single payer systems are the following. they are ideal platform for equi

i want to welcome you to the woodrow wilson center. policy scholar here, associated with the global europe program. let me wish you a happy halloween. for those of you new to us, let theive you background about center itself. woodrow wilson was the only president who had a phd. president to be the of princeton, the governor of new jersey, and a two term president. congress wanted to honor him and decided against a marble statue or monument on the mall. memorialted a living to president wilson. what we are charged with is to bring together both sides of his life. policy analysts, he was a political scientist. peopler, with influencing policy here and around the country and increasingly around the world. our president and ceo, congresswoman jane harman, as we honed our mission and she emphasizes that we are the , nonpartisan partisan form, where we tackle global issues and we do it through independent research and will have 150 people that come here to do some kind of policy research, we do it with a set of programs that literally cover

falls church, headed for the woodrow wilson bridge as well near eisenhower avenue. dale city on interstate 95, the traffic is moving quite well. montgomery county and connecticut avenue we have volume to the east on the inner loop headed towards silver spring, nothing in the roadway. >> thank you, bob. the 7 on your side, toyota has recalled 7 million vehicles, most of them sold in japan. sedansalls involve lexis made between 2005 and 2010. at issue are potential problems with brake and fuel components. dealers will replace the parts free of charge for you. >> coming up next, a trip to the casino turns into a wild >> these are sharks just off the shore of the outer banks last week. an amazing site. about 100 sharks were in that water. and this nutty guy walked right up to them. >> what a site. my goodness. >> they will do anything to get on the news. recoverings are after a bus ride to a connecticut casino went horribly wrong. >> a passenger reportedly went on a rampage overnight, stabbing people in their seats. it got even more violent after that. karen travers has

he is currently a vice president and distinguished scholar to woodrow wilson. his book is called the end of greatness by america -- why have an doesn't want another great president. is it a pleasure to get away from the mideast for a moment? >> it is and i felt a certain sense of liberation. i started life as an american and i noticed during 20 years of negotiations that things happen. we are dealing with leaders that were masters of their political houses and prisoners of their constituencies. i understood the importance of leadership. it usually determines why things happen. when i began to understand about greatnessency, the three deniable he great presidents in 250 years. that undeniable greatness was personality, character, and capacity. but largely by circumstance. and the circumstance was a crisis. each is why i argue in the book that you don't want another great president because if you have one -- exactly. thate lamented the fact even though he is a consequential president, what i call the close but no cigar category, they are almost there. wilson, tha

capital wheel out toward the woodrow wilson bridge. smooth waters for now.g behind a cold front just now moving into far western maryland, mountains of west virginia. thk we're going to stay dry here in the metro. temperatures now 61 downtown. 64 leesburg, still in the 50s. later today, colder air arrives. enjoy it. in the 60s for the rest of this afternoon. it will turn very breezy and chilly tonight. be ready for that. maybe a sprinkle late tonight. on the west virginia ast, the mountaineers risk of a couple of sprinkles. breezy, cloudy. that should r the big team for a big win tonight. pat collins requested this one. he said it will be an irish land slide over the noles. a look the tomorrow and your seven-day coming up. >> chuck, thanks. >>> howard university plays its coming football game and then concert at the d.c. armory. you might remember these scenes from last year, people jumping over the fence to get in, which eventually led to a fight where nine people were hurt. there are a lot of things go og n this weekend. howard plays florida a & m universi

we visit the woodrow wilson house, home to the president and his wife edith after they left the white house. collectionfeatures a of world war i paintings and other artifacts. they help shape public opinion during the three years that america remained neutral in the conflict. it was not until 1917 that the president let us into the war that was supposed to end all wars. that is on american artifacts, a weekly program that takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. next, a class on the rwandan genocide and the response by the united states and the united nations. they put particular emphasis on the reaction to the crisis from the community. about two hours. >> as a kind of overview we started with an overview with the history of rwanda. becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion from uganda of the rwanda patriotic front. this violence escalated through the early 1990's. there were reprisal killings in rwanda. that brings us to our topic of genocide and the u.s. and international response to the genocide. ok, so we are going to talk tonig

america, albeit slowly man until there was put in jeopardy in our own century, the 20th-century by woodrow wilson's adoption of the notion that as he said in his address the february 1917 that the american republic existed for no other purpose, it had no other reason than to somehow improve the rest of mankind, not only to improve americans', lesser americans, but the rest of our kind. now, this, of course, this notion violated a whole bunch of principles. first of all, there must be a correspondence between ends and means, what possible means could affect the improvement of mankind? how in heaven's name, by what power on earth can any one improve mankind? is it, indeed, possible to change human nature? is it, indeed impossible to change anyone's culture but one's own or much less anyone else is? common sense says no. american statecraft in the 20th-century says yes. we can and we should try. we must be if we are not we are not an exceptional nation. one might add we are not an exceptionally stupid nation. but, in fact, so much of american statecraft had 20th-century was premised on that. examples

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long delays on that stretch of the beltway, headed south, getting past 5 and heading toward the woodrow wilson bridge. crash on 50 eastbound at 3 and 301. headedof volume, though, bridge. to the bay the beltway, moving out towards centreville, and eastbound heading into falls church on 66, there was a crash earlier. 267.stbound at that's clear. i-81,town, north bound with a longstanding crash. southbound lanes are open. 270, volume and lots of it, into county.rg and frederick >> thank you, bob. have a good weekend. next, wearing a protective suit. that's one thing. but how about getting out of it? challenges emergency responders and medical staffers are facing with those >> it is still a mystery tonight how those two dallas nurses wearing protective gear contracted ebola. >> well, now those cases are raising some new questions about the safety of that gear. jeff puts it to the test. >> you have a face shield. have two pairs of gloves. >> in the battle against ebola, the armor for those fighting the war. for is required wear medical professionals fighting ebola. at least two pairs of gloves, a

woodrow wilson bridge moving along in both direction. prince george's county side of the roadways, no problems. we are looking good at the beltway. no major issues. a live look at 270 in 10 minutes >> thank you, melissa. bullying from a far. the percentage of young people who say they are being harassed when they go online. >>> how you can avoid spending >>> your time is 5:16. developing news out of canada. a memorial with flowers is growing for the canadian soldier killed in a shooting rampage. the corporal was guarding the national war memorial in ottawa when michael zehaf bibeau shot him. we know the shooter's history has red flags. jay gray is live in ottawa with more on why he was labeled high risk. jay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. eun, we have learned overnight a bit more about his past. we know bibeau was actually arrested several times the last 10 years on drugs and robbery charges. once on weapons charges as well. his passport was recently confiscated by authorities because they feel he was going to fight wit

although president woodrow wilson had officially declared the united states neutral in the conflict, we were supplying the british and french with munitions and germans knew it. using a manhattan brownstone as a headquarters, several german spies organized an attack against america. at 2:08 a.m. on july 29th, 1916, an enormous explosion occurred near the statue of liberty at a place then called black tom island. >> plaqblack tom was an ammunit depot off the coast of new jersey in new york harbor and it had an extraordinary amount of explosives. >> richard powers is a history professor at city university of new york and the author of "secrecy and power, the life of j. edgar hoover." this was detonated with one of the most remarkable explosions in new york city until the world trade center bombings, shattering windows in new jersey, manhattan, over in brooklyn. >> the dark cloud of sabotage rose above the united states. though still neutral, america was becoming painfully aware of the enemy within. and everywhere the words "black tom" or within on angry nation's lips. >> the investigat

woodrow wilson bridge looking good as well. the inner loop, left lane blocked at university. bw parkway, 95 at maryland, moving along. i'm back in 10 minutes. . >>> keeping your kids safe when they head out for trick-or-treating. the tips you need to know to make sure the night goes off accident free. >> not the kind of encounter you want to have riding the subway. the construction mistake that the construction mistake that made for a close cal she did as a legislator, doors, hoping yobarbara comstocke. pushed bills benefiting her special interest client, then failed to disclose she was paid thousands by that same client, failed to disclose 85,000 in extra compensation. the washington post called comstock's behavior "an apparent breach of congressional ethics." we just can't trust barbara comstock. patriot majority usa is responsible for the content of this advertising. he's been called a super lobbyist, the ultimate washington insider. ed gillespie paid millions to lobby for the oil companies for a student loan company that overcharged taxpayers. his firm even lobbied for fi

. >> joining us from the woodrow wilson center, an advisor for the republican and democratic secretaries of state, helping to formulate u.s. poly and lass an author. erin, the president and prime minister long had a prickly relationship. as i said, they had different agendas. the president wanting to focus on gaza and the broader piece with palestinians, binyamin netanyahu wanted to focus on the iranian nuclear threat. what do you thing was going on behind closed doors? >> first of all, i think the president is lying about focussing on israeli-palestinian peace is a throw away. this president has been wary about getting involved in this issue for some time. by and large he's not prepared now. we'll see what happens after the midterms of 2015. at number two, the president has his hands full. some argued he's beleaguered with the recon figuration of a military campaign in iraq and syria, which will draw him in deeper to the internal politics of syria, not only with respect to i.s.i.s., but bashar al-assad as well. to a degree, you mite even org awe -- might even argue that the two men with

is aaron david miller, the vice president of new initiatives at the woodrow wilson center, he has served for democrat and republican heads of state and author of a new book the end of greatness why america can't have and doesn't want another great president. aaron great to have you with us. the two main points in your title, first why can't we have a great president? you talk about the three cs necessary for one, that they come to the presidency in a time of big crisis, that they need to have the character and then the capacity to deal with that crisis. you don't see that as something that's achievable in the future? >> well, you know, it may be. it's just the trend lines antonio are running against. 12 presidents and down including barack obama since our last undeniably great one, franklin roosevelt, the alignment of capability, presidential greatness, simply have not come together three undeniably great ones. lincoln washington and roosevelt, all had it. i'm not talking about manageable crises, hot inescapable crisis and that's the reason we don't want another great one because in our

with the view from prince george's county looking back to arlington and the district over the woodrow wilson bridge. cloudy skies. not much rain in the metro yet with a few sprinkles near laray and shenandoah county. but not a lot of rain out there. rain chances are low to 30% in the metro. 30% or better out to the blue ridge and shenandoah valleys. what do the kids need today? short sleeves. temperatures are near 70. you may want the umbrella to be on the safe side. mid to upper 60s on the way to school this morning. bus stop temperatures in the mid to upper 70s on the way home this afternoon. your seven-day forecast is just ten minutes from now. melissa mollet has a check on the traffic. >>> a new crash on-ramp 123 to 95 northbound. we are not seeing it on camera but we'll get more information for you. also in alexandria, eisenhower avenue and clermont drive is closed. your alternate is duke street. and working out from metro, take van dorn street. fairfax county parkway to the beltway on time. 95 quantity to to the beltway is a little behind. outer loop 95 to 270 is looking good. i'll be

woodrow wilson is elected in 1912. taft came in third. you think i'd have to not become the republican nomination that roosevelt would beat will send? >> guest: yes, do you think so. think roosevelt was still so popular then that i think yes, for sure he would have because roosevelt and taft together got 50% of the vote so i think it would have happened. the sad thing was because he did this i know, you and i know about this guy. the guy that got so into my emotional head when i was writing this book was a man named archie but who had been a military aide for teddy before becoming a military aide for taft and again for what you look for it as a historian or letters and diaries. this guy wrote letters to his his family of a single danny loves both teddy and taft. he was despairing when it turned out, he stayed on with taft and teddy thought it was fine at first and then went teddy started running against him he felt he was born into and he was so depressed he was beginning to lose some of his vitality so taft said you had better take a vac