let's go live to virginia beach and bring in cnn's brian todd. brian, how have conditions changed there since we last talked to you? >> reporter: boris, they've gotten a little bit worse since you and i spoke a half an hour ago. this is a very dangerous, life threatening storm. the fact that it's been downgraded to a tropical storm doesn't mean much when you get pounded with winds that feel like hurricane strength winds and rain. we just got a little bit of a rain ban coming in now. the rain has come and gone because of the churning nature of the storm. we did dodge a bit of a bullet earlier. a tornado warning earlier. it could have formed a tornado northwest of here in yorktown area of southern virginia. that has come and gone. we do not have any confirmed touchdow touchdowns. we have to get reports and hopefully we'll get those in a minute. that will be a danger in this area throughout the day. you are not going to see high tide here, boris, for another five hours. that's part of the problem. when high tide does come in any of the areas in sout

virginia union was great. but i should have been in the city because it was too much learning at one time being in the south and the mentality. >> so, what was that like? you talked about the ice cream parlor, but what was the indoctrination like? >> well, i didn't like anybody, the black people and the white people. it was -- first of all, i was young, and i thought i knew everything and i didn't. i didn't know anything. >> this is what year? >> in the '50s. '59, around then. but as a young person, you're very ignorant, but you don't know it. and i -- i thought i knew everything. and when i went there, i couldn't understand why the white people treated the blacks the way they were treated and why the blacks allowed it. i even got angry with some of the black people for not sitting in, the kids. and i didn't understand. i do now. if they had sat in, they wouldn't have had dinner on the table that night because their parents would have been fired. i had no idea, you know? >> so, what was virginia union like in

virginia leaves the union. during all of this, three individuals, three brave individuals -- baker, calson, mallory -- would steal a ship, row across the chesapeake bay, present themselves at the gate of the american soldiers, and say, we're runaway slaves seeking to be refugees and protection. they were invited into the fort. the next day, major general butler interviewed the three individuals, and he found out that these individuals were being used for the confederate army to build trenches and to do chores around the confederate camp. that same day, the owners of these individual slaves came to retrieve them, citing the fugitive slave act, which was the law of the land in the united states saying that if you had a runaway slave, you by law had to return them to their owners. benjamin butler being the lawyer that he was in his former life, said this. ah, so, you're quoting united states law. my understanding is that the state of virginia has left the union. the united states law no longer applies to you. now,

purists always say the uss -- css virginia. but there's -- how can you resist that alliteration, the monitor and the merrimack? it goes by both. call it the merrimack more often than not. you left it open, because the virginia was so slow and heavy when the tide went down it left. to leave the field of battle, that's losing. by another calculation, the monitor was able to prevent any further destruction to the outdated wooden fleet. so it was a victory by those standards, too. even though by winning the victory it spelled the doom of the wooden navy itself. everything was iron after that. >> back to the naming of the monitor and the merrimack. do northerners prefer to call it or does it just sound right? >> it sounds right. i think northerners prefer it because it sounds like it is a recovered vessel from the past that we had our way with, i guess. but civil war historians more often say the virginia. by the way, eventually, it's probably the only ship in american service to be burned twice. when the union army marched near nor

that >> i don't like virginia. i shouldn't say that on camera because virginia has many fine qualities. i was too immature to really appreciate what was going on. i was too immature. >> i do other experience other parts of the deep south? >> no. >> jumping around and that, but i want to follow this. you graduated and reggie go from there? >> school wise? city wise? >> i went to d.c.. my dad lived in d.c.. i had a little boyfriend, young man. my mother kept saying, kept come back to california. and i said when i go back to california, i'm not going back to san diego. it's two country. i said i'm going back to san francisco. she said up your way back and if you don't like it you go back to d.c. or san francisco. well, i came back and started partying. i'm a kid, i'm partying. and then i got a job. so i was stuck there for two years. another city i didn't like. and then i moved to la because i have friends there, this is during the summertime. i love the dancing. i thought i'll dance all summer and then i'll go to san

it was towed to virginia, by the way, in bad weather. it almost capsized, so erickson had the idea of calling it monitor because he said it would be a monitor against the southern leadership that wants to destroy the union. it reminds me of when the governor, the first governor cuomo used to greet audiences by saying i looked up the definition of governor, the second definition is something that gets in the way of machines and slows them down, so it's kind of an extra definition, monitor as a, you know, like a hall monitor who stops you from doing bad deeds. >> so, well, before you mentioned that it was towed to virginia, but before it could arrive there, the confederate ironclad, a wooden boat that was clad in iron, as opposed to to purpose built in this way, it was the virginia, which was also known as the meramec, was proven to be very formidable herself, doing, you know, damage on the union, which is very interesting, and of course that makes the whole incident that much more dramatic. >> well, it steamed into hampton roads, virginia

john asked about notes on the state of virginia. any color about jefferson knows the notes where he describes his opinions on race is the crucial element to understanding slavery. you made me think of this earlier as well, that it's changed the way we talked about slavery. even in my short time in the field, i've only done this for ten year, but the way we talk about race in historic sites and the public discourse has changed. these were not broadly known conversations ten years ago outside of at the academic discourse. let's talk about another point cash talks about how as public historics we can have an aance that finds it abhorns, but understands the context. can you talk about how jefferson would write about these things without justifying what jefferson wrote? >> if someone -- and they have many times -- asked mr. jefferson about hi notes on the state of virginia, you will certainly see remorse, to begin with. you will certainly see an effort to dodge talking about it. but he's node going to dodge it. he's going to approach it.

let's talk for a minute about notes on the state of virginia. let's talk about another point that someone brings up which is a complicated question, cash, talking about how as public historians we can help the 21st century audience who finds this as morally abhorrent and still understand the context for it. i think that's race, and i think it's clear in the notes of the state of virginia but can you talk a bit about how jefferson would write about these things without justifying what jefferson wrote. >> if someone -- and they have many times -- asked mr. jefferson about his notes on the state of virginia, you will certainly see a remorse to begin with. you will certainly see an effort perhaps to dodge speaking any further about the question, but he's not going to dodge it. he's going to approach it, and as he later does in life, he's going to apologize for it. he does this in a letter to henry gregoire who becomes a very well known french abolitionist. it is in a letter jefferson writes february of 1809, but even this remark is not meant to be a

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the further revelation is the fact that we know these now, we notes onerson's northern virginia. he did not write them to be published extensively. he wrote the notes collectively in answer to a questionnaire put someone to the colony of virginia and all the former colonies so that france could become better aware of the information, animal, vegetable, mineral, particularly to invest in the french revolution. -- in the american revolution. so jefferson had notes already and gathered them together when he went to and send in, he had them published in range privately and handed down to gentlemen of scientific curiosity. it got out of their hands, it got published, and there was. so there is a background. it is not a justification, it is a revelation of them. a further revelation within these notes, jefferson makes bold statements not only about race, but also religion. he makes bold statements about habits and customs. he makes bold statements about particular proper names that he alone has ascribed to elements of nature, flora and fauna. of the questions bay, he answers them with

and in virginia. so here's a question, do we know, someone asked, but the google asked about why she did not remarry and we talked about that a bit, do we know anything about her ever considering remarrying and she would help, did she have any other student or interested in anyone, we know it? >> we have no evidence whatsoever, i agree with martha, she did not speak about another man and what she had to give up but also there may have been evidence in it maybe, whatever it was at the large, she remarried. >> go ahead martha. >> there was discussion of a doctor who may or may not, he visited a lot but he also had professionally could do that. i think this is something that they suggest but nobody knows. >> charlene i want to ask someone else in question about women about slaveholders and what is the dynamic when a man is enslaving people and he has a certain level of authority, what is the situation of women, the question is which you have had to be harsher or tougher or something. we have some pretty

civil war historians more often say the virginia. by the way, probably the only ship american service to be burned twice. when the union army march near norfolk and looked about to capture the bogey are there, the confederates burned of virginia. that way cannot be taken over by the union. it vanished yet again. >> interesting. here's a question about the siphon. what is revolutionary about it? seems very simple to this person who posed the question. >> i think the whole notion of carrying around on ones person a wheel or a booklet that would allow you transposed letters and actually change the cycle or during the course of a battle or campaign, loathe both sides understood what the new color was with pretty revolutionary. there was in the real flag symbols, tort signals but that couldn't easily change because what constituted a letter was a. letter more scope was more scone. decipher enables you to switch out and you can change it every week. you could pre-arranged to change it every week. in the whole off of that shifts. i think it

virginia law permitted widows, unlike wives, to own property, but virginia laws in the judiciary worked to keep women's ownership of land both exceptional and temporary. in mary's case, the will left two plantations to his son by first marriage and divided up the rest of the land between his and mary's sons. he left a small amount of money to his and mary's daughter betty. he left mary the right to use the house and land where she lived only until george came of age. he left her approximately the same number of enslaved people whom she had brought to the marriage, and stipulated if she felt the need more more they would come from among people designated for her children. his will was stingy with her and set her at odds with her children, but in line with the legal goal of keeping land away from women and trying to reduce property owning window to dependency, considered the natural condition for women. and this was widespread friction between mothers and first born sons. and mary stayed at the family farm after his coming of age and he was already at mt. vernon and she failed to build he

i ended up at virginia union. which one of my great grandparents was on the board at virginia seminary. it was great to know my great great dwrp had helped to start the school. so talk more about your childhood growing up on the west coast. before you went to experience virginia, what were the sort of racial dynamics of life in both southern and northern california. >> growing up in san francisco, i lived in what is now called the west end. it was called fillmore back in those days. it's where black people were. you b probably don't even know. i guess it's where the black people lived. then we moved. and i went to saint dominics. it was all white. and every day i used to pray, i hope she doesn't slap me this morning. she would walk down as we were praying and slap me. i would pray to god. god, i have done something wrong, please help me. i didn't know what i had done wrong. never did. and i used to get f's. all my papers were f's. and i was in the second grade or third grade. and my mother said, you need to bring

then the tide changed, so the virginia retreated back toward norfolk. but the navy had no doubt that the next morning the merrimac would re-emerge around dawn, this smaller low-lying vessel appears on the horizon, enters the harbor and what happens next is the monitor engaging the merrimac in the most famous naval duel in american history. >> here's a picture of that incident, the most dramatic and unforgettable duel of the civil war. >> one is like a big stack. although of all the shells fired that day, no damage was done to the merrimac, really. some damage was done to the turret and one explosion blinded the captain, and he was out for the duration. the other thing that happened is this turret was struck early, and guess what, it stopped revolving. so for the ship to get -- actually, it didn't stop revolving, i beg your pardon. it lost control. it kept revolving. so the only times they could get off a shot is when it turned all the way around and somebody could shoot. it would keep turning around and it was agonizingly hot in the ship, maybe over 100

cullen of virginia to be united states district judge for the western district of virginia. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. cullen of virginia to be united states district judge for the western district of virginia, signed by 17 senators as follows -- mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 358. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the

jefferson about his notes on the state of virginia, you will certainly see remorse, to begin with. you will certainly see an effort perhaps to dodge speaking further about the question, but he is not going to dodge it. he is going to approach it. at his does -- and as he does later in life, he apologizes for. he does it in a letter to a man who becomes a well-known french abolitionist in 1809, but even this remark is not meant to be an excuse. it is a revelation of the struggles that mr. jefferson was going through, as we continue to go through when we read those notes. the further revelation is the fact that we know these now, we know jefferson's notes on northern virginia. he did not write them to be published extensively. he wrote the notes collectively in answer to a questionnaire put out by someone to the colony of virginia and all the former colonies so that france could become better aware of the information, animal, vegetable, mineral, particularly to invest in the american revolution. so jefferson had notes already and gathered them together when he went to and send in, he

and longstreet himself was still back in virginia. so things get a little confusing toward the end of the war. and actually on may 24th, longstreet asks permission to visit washington, d.c. on an important private business. and on may 25th, longstreet would take the oath -- would take the amnesty oath. but he was accepted by the president's proclamation, and he's referring to lincoln's proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction on december 8th, 1863. those who directly or by implication participated in the existing rebellion, the exceptions included high-ranking military officers and all who resign commissions of the u.s. army and navy to join the confederacy. both of which apply to james longstreet. longstreet would get grant his pardon in june of 1867, and all political disabilities are removed by act of congress on june 24th of 1868. longstreet is going to live lynchburg on june 26th, 1865, accompanying him will be his aide, his son jon garland, and jim, a negro servient. they arrive at the general's brother's house near cleveland,

he arrived in lindbergh, virginia on april 14th. that's where his family was staying in, ghana stay there with relatives. on june 1st of 1865, former general james long street will welcome james long street junior, one of his children. to give you an idea of how confusing things can get in a war especially towards the end of it, on may the 12th, 1865, colonel w. age dickie sent a message to captain w.h.o. clap from by you stare in louisiana. he wrote chip davis, benjamin, tran home, another prominent officers, of the confederate government across the river of mississippi one week ago today i'm 13 miles above for that. lieutenant general on-street accompanied, there's no doubt whatever the truth of this information. this message was sent may 12th. he was actually may 10th and near the mississippi. things can get a little confusing towards the end of a war. actually i made the 24th, he wanted to go to washington d.c. and important business. and on the 25th, you would take the amnesty off but he was accepted by the presidents proclamat

continueddealings with virginia but now they have to be more cautious. now it was illegal to trade with virginia. but they said they did not care. they kept doing it. and the troops that were stationed in the area new what was going on. they even knew in some cases who these men were that were spying and trading and carrying goods back and forth but they could not catch them. so, that was one of the reason the potomac flotilla was created. now we can go to this picture. ships of all kinds were brought it to the flotilla. the flotilla itself under command of the navy, but they took vessels from the locals and added them into the flotilla as needed in order to patrol the waters and to keep everything safe. then, late in 1861 after the flotilla got started, the " i'm convinced along the shores of the potomac there is not one in 20 true to the union." when lincoln was assassinated, southern maryland was the obvious place to look for booth and to focus the manhunt. ats like i said, bo were added to the flotilla. the quartermaster department. georgetown had to

virginia became the first state in the country to do that. the republican liability shield would not only give people liability protection, but it would take away the ability of the states to do what virginia did to try to create lifesaving protections for workers and customers. that's unacceptable. unacceptable. democrats offered to meet halfway. we knew when the heroes act passed -- we had been around the block a few times -- it wasn't as if the senate republicans would say that's a great idea. we will vote for it. that's not the way things work. the senate republicans would have their proposal just as the house democrats had their proposal. the two proposals had dramatically different price tags. the senate proposal together with the white house came in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars, and the house proposal came in the neighborhood of $3 trillion. so the democrats said -- and there is nothing magic about these numbers, but it is important to understand that willingness to compromise is something that americans expect of us right no

virginia slaveholders, these lessons included being obedient. and rules that helped distress and pain. she did not read novels, novels written in a friendly egalitarian turn to the reader rather than as a teacher to a student offered lessons in empathy and sympathy, sharing sorrows with others. mary because of her early losses and work loads developed little of these at the 18th-century came to value so highly in the process. >> it amplifies the point about thinking about her role and her place in society that is helpful. it is a significant reader that understanding her as a person of letters was important for your sense of rewriting the biography of mary ball washington. i will ask an unfair question if you don't mind. talking about how important it is, as individuals, not in the whole book but you mentioned this. the significance of understanding mary ball washington for understanding george washington. it is something you address but can you help us think about it a little bit? >> listening to the scholarship that i followed -- it is the sam

east coast is probably virginia. and you could see that they came from an english owned planation by names. edwin, perry, claim, jack, tom, sam. these are all english names. so they no longer have french or spanish names, not seeing as many african names and a lot of people from english owned plantations. so the domestic slave trade was an enormous movement of people across this country. so in total from after the conclusion of the international slave trade in 1807, 1 million people were moved from the upper south and the upper south is virginia, maryland, tennessee, north carolina, south carolina a little bit, but mostly centered in virginia and north carolina. and 1 million people were moved down the river to louisiana, alabama, mississippi. where there was large scale plantations. so to give you an idea of the difference in labor there, i come from north carolina, a lot of our plantations that we had in north carolina, tobacco plantations, tobacco is really awful for the soil. and the fields have to lay fallow for

. >> on thursday virginia senator tim kaine talked about the end of democrats want to see in the next covid relief bill. >> mr. president, here we, go again, another day has passed, nothing has happened, no incremental progress, no compromising. to some it might just be one day, but to too many americans and other dates fighting for your help or how you will pay your rent or how you will feed your kids is a brutal and terrifying thing. what's oneor more day to an average american? it might be a a day closer to e rent being due, without having the money to pay it. it might be another day with insufficient unemployment benefits while bills pile up. it might be another day closer to possibly needing s.n.a.p. assistance or help from a food bank. one more day could being constrain testing supplies don't pick up as many cases of covid-19 so the carriers can isolate and protect others. one day today means for one of my staffers it was moving day for his oldest daughter in college, but because she couldn't get her test results back quick enough that experience which is an exciting one for a y

, what is now west virginia. why did he order this kind of a weapon? because, and it's kind of ironic in a way. as much as john brown believed that slavery was evil, that people of color had a right to live in liberty and pursuit of happiness, he didn't harbor illusions about african-americans of the day and their abilities to use modern weapons, which were nonexistent because even where african-americans were free, they were generally forbidden from using arms for fear by whites that they would, you know, mount an insurrection. as john brown planned this incredibly daring raid into western virginia, he ordered dozens of these pikes because his idea was not only to raid the arsenal but to arouse african -- enslaved african-americans in western virginia at the news of his incursion to rise up against their owners and start a slave insurrection. so these are the weapons he thought african people would be using, you know, in the most primitive manner to secure their own freedom. and they're simply 6'6" wooden pikes,

helps rule virginia. her descendents will continue to help rule virginia. this is a woman of privilege in spite of many losses and many sufferings. she still gets to enjoy privileges that lots of other women black or white in virginia and elsewhere and not get toenjoy . she's a faithful, devout christian. and i do think we need to spend more time looking at the centrality of religion in women's lives in the 18th century, i don't think that gets enough attention so that's one good way mary ball washington illuminates more about 18th century women but while she's this devout faithful christian she is convinced in her right to own and control people. that she has a right to be in control of these other people and she has a right to own them even though she is this devout christian so i think she gets at some of the paradoxes of the 18th century in that way . her sufferings are sad they are also ordinary. lots of women lost parents. lost of women lost their husbands but she's unusual in the fact that she doesn't remarry. that is unusual in the 18th century. lot

they are set to richmond, virginia. you've got to understand, when lee isn't a foul mood, lee would meet you when you would get into a room, he would meet with icy cold formality. icy cold. if he was under a lot of stress, for example, like after a fanatics, he did not want to talk to anybody. you would be sitting there, pacing back and forth after the surrender and his staff officers were just stay away from him because they did not want to get near him. when they had to introduce someone, they've would bring him up, which was the formal part of it, and lee wichita himself up to a full height. and he would meet you with that icy reserve that would let you know that he was being courteous but did not have time for you. that is exactly what he did when george picket walked into that room. it was i see from the beginning. george picket probably went in there to try to bury the hatchet. but lee does not like people who do not perform their duty. so, the interview quickly concluded, and mostly quickly knew he should not hav

i'm still very conscious of the fact that i'm from the south, that i grew up in virginia. in fact, i used to go to bed at night with a prayer in which i thanked the lord for having me born in not only the greatest country in the world, but also in the greatest state in the greatest country because virginia had 8 presidents, nobody else came close. and in the greatest city in the greatest state of the greatest country, richmond, the capital of virginia and not only that in the best neighborhood and the best city in the best, in the best state in the best country in the world because from my bedroom window, you could see the fireworks at the state fair. [laughter] >> what was better than that? and, you know, state fair half mile away and i still -- because of championism, i still feel very, very close to the south although i haven't lived here in a long time. i will give you an example and i think many people are affected by what i call championism in this way. after the -- after 9/11, immediately afterwards, two clergymen, jerry and robertson announced that this was god's p

two quick stories from in virginia. whoserom a constituent 91-year-old mom had been waiting 10 days for her medicine. she was flipping out about when she was going to get it. another individual said he had been notified by his credit-card company that he was going to get a big late fee, even though he sent his bill in 10 days early. what do all these have in common? they all have in common that they all took place after june 16, when the new postmaster general, mr. dejoy, was appointed. this starts at the top. we have called upon the board of governors to remove mr. dejoy and put someone in who has basic competency. we have elections this year. in virginia, we changed our rules. voters can start voting as early as september 19. if they are not able to vote because you have a president of the united states that is trying to do everything legal and otherwise to impede mail-in or absentee voting, and you have seeing an effort to try to steal the election. chris mentioned, coming on top of the bipartisan report of the senat

. >> a texas painting in west virginia? does that make sense? >> these things just don't happen. >> did the legendary artist create another canvas also worth a fortune? >> i was flabbergasted. >> we were all literally on the edge of our seats. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby here in port orange, florida, just south of daytona beach. i'm here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in west virginia. when her grandson finds it, he's convinced it's a valuable piece of history. >> my name is betty bland. for more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. my husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. >> i'm john buell. i knew my great-great-grandfather was a famous artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. i had no idea i'd end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. >> i meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this "strange inheritance" t

her descendents will continue to help rule virginia. a woman of privilege and spite of many losses and suffering. a lot of other women black or white in virginia and elsewhere did not get to enjoy. she is a devout christian i do think we need to spend more time looking at this a trilogy of women. i don't think that gets enough attention. while she is the devout faithful christian she is convinced in her right to own and control people. she has a right to be in control of these other people. even though she is this devout christian. her sufferings, our sad but they are also ordinary. a lot of women lost parents and lots of women lost their husbands but she is unusual and the fact that she does not remarry. that is unusual and 18th century. a lot of women because of how hard life is. they did not make the choice to go it alone even though they have really good reasons to choose to go it alone. she's extraordinary in that. i think she demonstrates to us the limits rations -- limitations that they have. they control a large plantation. yet

nine different sourcing plants out of west virginia. the bottom line is, there is a process to this service and there is a cost and the private sector is not going to pick up and every note and cranny. >> bill: it's a tender subjec subject, 30 seconds left. what was in night one and night two of that convention for the people who were in west virginia? >> what was that? >> bill: what was in the first two nights of the convention for the people you work for? >> compassion, nor mostly, trying to return back to some normalcy. i believe that. people are looking at that. we can do better than this, we really can. there shouldn't be, every day there's going to be some kind of controversy and somebody's fault with blaming somebody. we are all in this together. i have never met a democrat where they'll have all the answers. whatever side you're on, we have to work together. the president can't be saying it's all the democrats. i told him one time, if it wasn't for the democrats he would never been elected. >> bill: that was the message. i have

oh yeah, he went to virginia and i grew up with people i can. even though, they were spouting gibberish, but that part of me was summoned up. so much of life is like that. just give you one quick example in the immigration area, at first it was assumed that those immigrants who come to this country are jiggling from less in the, legally had gone through all the steps we resent the fact that illegal aliens could pour in. and not at all. because of champion's, those here illegally were all for those who are now finding themselves under attack moralists as illegal aliens. and it is because they consider entire controversy as being a test upon the latin americans. boylston americans argue so repeatedly over this subject. but after carrie truman defeated thomas julian run up to the 1948 election odds and productions, a minimum sand meal, he went there to find out what happened in that election and came to town in minnesota that had been founded by germans. in fact the whole town is still in germans. internet they all voted republican. it was their du

brian todd live in virginia beach. brian? >> reporter: john, officials here telling people, do not underestimate this storm, just because it's been downgraded to a tropical storm. we're getting pounded with some strong winds here. gusts are going to be up to 85 miles an hour. that's hurricane strength, when you get hit with one of those gusts, and we're getting some rain bands now moving through the area right now, as this moves in kind of a circular motion, as tropical storms and hurricanes do. we dodged a bit of a bullet last hour. there was a tornado warning for the area northwest of here, yorktown, virginia. that seems to have come and gone without a major touchdown, but we're still going to try to chase any reports of any damage from that. you know, what is a big deal here is going to be storm surge later on. now, high tide is not for a few more hours, but what's going to be really a problem, as i kind of take you down here -- you can see the beach patrol here trying to get people off the boardwalk, as you can see some o

as author of the virginia statue on religious freedom. i didn't think it worth mentioning you can president twice in vice president secretary of state and ambassador to france. so we can well see the failures he put on this. and because he was in france, he wasn't present at the deliberations of philadelphia that resulted in the constitutional convention. i think it is obvious when you look at this studied on religious freedom that outranks if you like all the others which it can't be guaranteed is a secular state. and also guarantees the right of free expression. the extraordinary luck of having somebody who could come up part of the intellectual ferment, of philadelphia taken into politics and then into the law into a drafting committee and from their constitution is something i think would be certainly thin itself. so that's not all he want to say about that. i'll come back to buy another route. but the second area where he was preeminent was that of war revolution in the first place he dropped the manifesto. most of it in a rates. fai

he is from the hollows of west virginia. his older brother worked in the gas fields but the second world war came along and there was a program called the flying virgins because they didn't have enough trained pilots because they were college education and so forth. as it became is a parent. he shot down two german planes and was shot down but smuggled out of france and spain by the french underground. i was told having gone through this experience he wasn't in combat again. he said i'm going to fly in combat. you should have been spirited about it. you can only shoot to german side factors. after the war he was sent off. people then couldn't understand him. i look like sam shepard. in the end he would say of. instead of saying i disagree with something, you have different phrase. anything you did or said he looked at this and i got this from many people that were there at the time, it communicated the message will ge would get me one time and they will have four more holes in your nose. [laughter] finally, because of the ci

eventually three days later he was going to make his way back to richmond, virginia. and when he gets to richmond, this is the site which he beholds. he did not see this personally because he was down in petersburg, but the confederates set the town on fire when they were evacuated, when richmond fell. you look at the charred ruins, that's the virginia state capitol, obviously, and the old capitol of the confederacy right in the middle. three days later on april 15th robert e. lee is going to pull up at the james river and look across the scene of desolation. as he crosses over he's not going to have a big, you know, cavalcade with him, he's not going to have a lot of people. he's going to have one staff officer, he's going to have his son. he's got a wagon that's coming behind him that's stamped u.s. on the side, that served as his headquarters wagon for his personal baggage. eventually that wagon and lee on horseback and the rest of the party are going to wind their way through those rubble strewn streets of richmond, up main street, and then turned on to franklin s

virginia, massachusetts and connecticut? they all have, for example, a large number of electoral laws that provided barriers to many voters. they had pulled taxes. literacy tests. connecticut and virginia both had it. they had long registration periods. it's worth saying, i do not have any of those four states appear, but in four southern states, women did not vote in the presidential election of 1920. those states had six month long registration periods, at least six months if not longer. the 19th amendment was ratified in august. about six or so weeks before the election in november, those four states said, we are sorry, it is nice that you have been in franchise, but you missed the registration deadline. we will see you in 1924. other states, including massachusetts had similar restrictions. they found ways to let women vote. if you read the boston almanac, the report for electoral office in 1920, you can tell that they were a little put out. the state legislator meant when they first told him we're going to take all the

he said lance from atlanta a number of virginia officials and it was just a great start off to the week so it's going to even out 1st of all it's very busy and it's a great job of including all of us and there's some great swag that something. but you still has to believe that it's an important process to have a convention because it could be viewed certainly by an outsider as a coronation of everything builds up to the day when joe biden officially accepts the nomination we all know it's going to happen it's not so much like you know the old days where they could have been a challenge right throughout the process of the convention. yes it's still very important because especially now this this election as we all know is one of a kind and i think it's quite fitting to actually have a one of a kind convention leading up to this election is extremely important and keeping folks in gauged and keeping the energy and bringing new fresh faces to the convention and participate in volunteer could not be more and more and that it is right now. who would you suggest if i can put it that way that

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they meet the virginia regiment that has something silly on their uniform. and then there is a fistfight and george washington comes in on his horse and gets off and grabs to the big guys into shaking them and then to say stop we're on the same team if that's not a metaphor for today that is who we all are. right now we have leaders in politics to bathe themselves in the flag to tell you how american they are. there was the united states and no flag. he had to make it happen. who he was dealing with. all the rich people there said i want to be here i'm leaving. guess what they want to do? drink and gamble and go to the warehouse. but he is a proper gentleman and is horrified. his orders come out no gambling. stop drinking. do not go to the whore house. just like my rules growing up. [laughter] not joking. [laughter] but just the sheer will of the man to make the united parts of the states happen. we lost the word united. let's important to us to find something important first and foremost among that he see the depth of george washington's character. it's one

, there is your tornado watch, north of virginia beach towards richmond, virginia. that severe threat is going to be ongoing across new england as well so that the tornado threat through this evening. the risk for week tornadoes that could cause structural damage and several inches of rain in a short time are going to cause flooding, flooding is the number one cause of death when it comes to landfalling tropical systems so there's the forecast precipitation. north of richmond towards burlington, vermont, the flash flooding threat is going to be ongoing and tropical storm watches from the mid-atlantic to the northeast. we've not had a tropical storm warning or watch in new england in nine years. that's very significant and we watch it. we are not done with this storm yet. moving to the northeast and the power outages as well will be prevalent. >> is lawlessness erupt across the country a 7-year-old boy is shot and killed in west philadelphia making in the 20 fourth child to lose their life to gun violence in the city this year. joining me with reaction is doctor darr

office somewhere in virginia, all hell would break loose. people realized that is a connection to the rest of the country, the rest of their friends. let's do everything we possibly can to reverse those, not just to make sure every vote is counted, but make sure the american system, the american democracy is preserved through our postal service. with that, let me give you the distinct member of congress person -- congresswoman of virginia. >> i was elected to represent the people of virginia's 10th congressional district. while i was horrified at the changes to the postal i do in thesewhat situations, which is i went to my constituents to find out what they thought. so we sent out a brief survey to our list of constituents. up., our email inbox blew in a matter of hours, we heard back from over 3000 constituents who shared their stories. i heard from a woman who was in -- whose 95-year-old father relied on v.a. medicine to arrive in a timely fashion and it had it been. i heard from small business owners who cater to rural clients, who can on