they were used to actually shuttle coal. they would have been using those to transport many of these soldiers across and on those boats. he actually many of people would be standing up on those boats because they are so large and also to squeeze as many guys in these boats as they could one of the neat little accurate things the sword you see there hanging off. washington side that's an exact replica of the sword that washington carried later in the war. so that's actually on display at the smithsonian. but the sword he didn't actually get this until 1778. so previously at the actual crossing he had a different sword. he was carrying. there's a great book called the swords of george washington that shows you that sort still exists, which is pretty amazing. although it is in private hands. um, so yes this painting you see is not an accurate historically accurate representation of the crossing now that became you know other people are gonna try and do images of washing crossing the delaware after the extreme success that leitz

but, you know, what kind of boats were they actually using? they probably weren't using many of these little, row boats. they would have large what they call durham boats. they would have been using those to transport many of these soldiers across and on those boats, actually, many of the people would be standing up. on those boats. because they were so large. and also, to squeeze as many guys in these boats as they could. one of the neat, little, accurate things. the sword, you see there, hanging off washington's side. that is an exact replica of the sword that washington carried later in the war. so, that's actually on display at the smithsonian. but the sword. he didn't actually get this until 1778. so, previously, at the actual crossing, he had a different sword he was carrying. there is a great book called "the swords of george washington" that shows you that sword still exists, which is pretty amazing, although it is in private hands. so, yes. this painting you see is not an accurate -- historically-accurate representation of the crossin

weren't using the row boats. they were use the cars to shovel coal and most would be standing up because they are so large and also squeeze as many guys in the boats aase this could. one of the unique acrad things, the are sort -- that's an exact replica. on display as the his core yog. previously he had a different scored that he was carrying. there's a picture of george washington that shows the sword. that's pretty amazing, yeah, so this painting you see is not an accurate, historically accurate representation of the crossing. now, that -- that became -- other people are going to try to do images of washington cross the delaware after the extreme success that this painting had, even immediately. this was all painted -- that painting was painted in 1850 and the men crossing here and washing on horseback this day and -- we actually did a -- here he is on a material barge. so he may have crossed other and the problem is we don't have that many, on the. -- you'll be artistic and though this is notties or call accu

what kind of boats were they using? they probably weren't using many of the row boats. they would have had large durham boats to shuttle coal. they would have been using those to transport many of these soldiers across. on those boats, many of the people would be standing up on those boats, because they were so large and to squeeze as many guys in these boats as they could. one of the neat little accurate things, the sword you see there hanging on washington's side, that's an exact replica of the sword that washington carried later in the war. that's on display at the smithsonian. the sword -- he didn't get this until 1778. previously, at the actual crossing, he had a different sword he was carrying. there's a great book that shows you that sword stil exists. it's in private hands. yes, this painting you see is not an accurate -- historically accurate representation of the crossing. that became -- other people are going to try and do images of washington crossing the delaware after the extreme success that this painting had even immediately. that was painted -- that pai

there's no image of him, that's why i'm using this medal to represent him. a french officer with 35 years of experience in europe. like many other officers like lafayette, polasky, he volunteers to come and help the americans. the key here is, of the two brigade commanders, him and stone or who i think is stone, he's the senior brigade commander which means, if anything happens to sullivan, if sullivan gets killed, if sullivan gets wounded, if sullivan is given a different command for some reason, that will leave de borre in command of this division. why does that matter? he barely speaks english. the letter he writes to washington after the battle which is basically his report of the battle -- more on that later -- is basically a mixture of broken english and french. keep in mind washington couldn't speak or read french. the fact he's writing to the commander-in-chief in a mixture of a language that washington can't speak says a lot about this guy and he probably can't communicate with the troops under his command. keep that in mind. so where is sullivan th

to close us out welcome michael with general john tomsulain van, battle of brandywine. here in the bioi'm supposed to say go cats because you're a philly fan. as we all know washington capitals are not going anywhere but wizards are washington are playing 76ers so we'll have an nba competition which i think you guys will come out on top of. for those who are watching, i highly recommend michael's german town book which we'll put the link to and brandywine which he's speaking about this afternoon. i appreciate you being here. we'll let you get started. >> when i agreed to do this symposium my book wasn't out yet or else i'd be talking german town today so you will get brandywine not the new book. yes i worked there but when i was hired in 2005 and looked in the files there was really no research filed two books were out. one was not a bad book but it's expensive to find the book. the other is written in the year 2000, written by a local newspaper twrieter and i'll be kind and call the book folklore, it is chalked full of misrepresentations of what happened there. so i st

so -- well, james weldon johnson, tell us. i shall bring him up on the screen. >> yeah, i -- i developed -- as i was researching the book, i developed this man crush for this guy. >> here he is. >> he's an awesome dude. he's one of those people you start reading about, and it's almost like you don't believe it. like, he spoke fluent spanish. he was a diplomat. he was a lawyer. he wrote continue pan alley music with his brother. he wrote lift every voice and sing which is considered the african-american national anthem. he wrote poetry. he wrote a novel. he wrote amazing essays. he is doing all of this amazing work and deboy taps him in 1917 and says i want you to come to the naacp and work with me. and that organization had been founded after a riot in springfield, illinois. and it was dominated primarily by white do-gooders from in the new york area. mostly. it was not an african-american-led organization at that time. and james weldon johnson says, well, i might do it. but i don't know -- it might hurt my writing if do i tha

might you tell us a little bit more about that. >> yeah. well, i mean, this title of this talk is we returned fighting and that was w.e. dubois who was a great intellectual writing for the crisis at that time and he -- he made it clear, loud and clear, that these soldiers who had just fought for democracy and were told repeatedly you're fighting to change democracy were going to come back changed and were going to come back demanding a different situation than the one they had left. that, i think, played a key role in formulating people's views of what they were expecting when they came back. i think the african-american soldiers encountered -- i have numerous examples of these little incidents in my book, one -- they came back wearing their uniforms often because that's the only clothing they had, but when they would get back to the small towns in the south, they would be spit on, they would be yelled at, they would be threatened and in some cases they were killed. these sort of flare-ups were happening all the time. there was i remember i

they used overwhelmingly sort of traditional methods of constitutional interpretation. they spoke about originalism, they spoke about constitutional text, they spoke about precedent, they spoke about constitutional structure, they spoke about prudential considerations and they also spoke about tradition. these are today what constitutional law professors refer to as the modalities of constitutional interpretation with a tip of the hat to professor phillip bobbitt. these are the basic forms of constitutional interpretation and all of them appear in the southern manifesto. when i teach the modalities of constitutional interpretation i use the southern manifesto to ask the students to identify the forms of argument. the first in the sort of dominant mode is that they say that the decision in brown betrayed the original understanding of the 14th amendment. they say we've looked at the debates in congress and there's no reason to believe that they thought that schools should be integrated. after all, they say, the very congress that discussed the 14th amendment and that craf

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>> all right, matt gutman with us tonight. thank you, matt. >>> now to the growing concern over the tokyo olympics amid this coronavirus. there is news tonight involving members of the usa men's basketball team. at least one will be unable to participate in the games. james longman from tokyo tonight. >> reporter: tonight, olympic dreams over for at least one u.s. men's basketball player, as covid restrictions ahead of the games hit home. washington wizards' bradley beal will not be going to tokyo. >> bradley beal! >> reporter: and has been placed under health and safety protocols as the team practices in las vegas. jerami grant of the detroit pistons also put under protocols, officials say only as an abundance of caution. and it's not clear if he'll get to participate. officials aren't saying if they tested positive for covid, but the coach today said beal was devastated by the news, although the team does still plan to compete. >> our goal overall is trying to get everybody safely to tokyo. and at the same time, prepare a ba

blue origin, ready to use it again. our michael strahan, right there with jeff bezos and brother mark, after landing. how does it feel? >> greatest day ever. dsha just t >> it was really amazing. the views were breathtaking. i've never seen anything so beautiful. >> we need to get good at going to space so that we can save the earth. we can work on the problems we have here and we need to look to the future. that's always been the way and that's the only way. >> it was extraordinary to watch. right there with you this morning. gio benitez live from texas. gio, what comes next? plans for more missions? >> reporter: that's right. they have two more missions scheduled this year. we're talking about $250,000 per seat on virgin galactic. it's a very expensive space race. >> moving forward indeed. gio, excellent coverage all day. >>> history made today. and a momentary break from reality. but the surge in coronavirus cases, 83% of new cases are from the delta variant. sweeping through the unvaccinated, and now affecting the v

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>> rachel scott, who was on the air with us today. rachel, thank you. >>> now to team usa at the olympics and simone biles withdrawing from team gymnastics event today and her deeply personal explanation. james longman from tokyo. >> reporter: tonight, heartbreak and resilience at the women's team gymnastics. hearts stopping at star olympian simone biles stumbled on the vault. confusion as she's seen back in her track suit and then the 24-year-old shocking the world, pulling out of the rest of the competition. >> i didn't want to risk the team medal for, kind of, my screwups, because they worked way too hard for that. >> reporter: teammates suni lee, jordan chiles and grace mccallum stepping up. biles cheering them on from the sidelines, saying that she stepped aside to take care of her mental health. >> i say put mental health first. it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself. >> reporter: and japan's naomi osaka dealt a crushing blow. the tennis superstar, number two in the world, losing to czech r

joining us on this interactive show, getting answers. today we covered masks, variant 's, vaccines and th >>> tonight, the delta variant sweeping across the u.s. new covid cases soaring 400% in the u.s. in just five weeks. president biden set to announce mandatory vaccinations or face weekly testing for nearly 2 million federal employees. new york now requiring all state employees to be vaccinated or tested. and tonight, new york city now paying people $100 to get their first shot. all of this comes amid that new evidence that fully vaccinated people with breakthrough infections can potentially spread the delta variant. this was not seen before. dr. fauci tonight and how much of the virus a vaccinated person carries if they're a breakthrough case. parts of the u.s. pushing back against the cdc's revised mask recommendation. st. louis, for one, voting to end its new mask mandate one day after taking effect. and the mask battle reaching all the way to capitol hill. house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying this is not based on science. s

james longman with us tonight. james, thank you. >>> back here at home now, and dozens of fires in the west now forcing authorities to issue new air quality alerts in six states tonight, from washington state to wyoming to ar the alerts all the way to boston this hazy sunset in chicago from all of this. and we're tracking severe storms moving into the east by tomorrow. washington, d.c., philadelphia and new york. abc's will carr from california tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the governors of california and nevada getting a first-hand look at the aftermath of the tamarack fire. that fire straddling both states. the governors thanking firefighters and pleading for more resources. >> cal fire is the largest civilian aerial attack force in the world and it's not enough. >> reporter: the choking smoke from massive wildfires across the west forcing authorities to issue air quality alerts in washington, idaho, montana, wyoming, colorado and arizona. but even smaller blazes, like this brush fire in san jose overnight, caus

given us, me, some hope. thank you for watching, everybody, i'm cecilia vega, we'll see you right back here tomorrow. >>> building a better bay area, moving ws. isis an american tr. people are dying and will die who don't have to die. >> a passionate plea from president biden americans to get vaccinated. he is asking cities to help incentivize people as he requires federal workers to get the shot. good afternoon, thank you for joining us. i am dan ashley. >> and i am dion lim. you are watching abc news here live on abc7, who live or whatever you stream. >> we have team coverage as a part of our coverage as we build a better bay area. along with federal employees, many public and private sector employees are putting vaccine mandates in place. here is melody woodrow. >> reporter: president joe biden announced new incentives for americans to get to the 19 vaccination. the federal government will fully

jha, thank you for being with us. this new data from the cdc raises so many questions about returning to life as we knew it. the delta variant, more contagious than the common cold, so what does this mean for the future? do you see us returning to lockdowns? do you see people wearing masks, indoors and out, no matter the area? >> yes, thanks for having me back. the data i find mostly reassuring, and i'll tell you why -- yes, there was an outbreak. yes, many vaccinated people did end up getting infected. they did really well. very few of them ended up getting sick. very few ended up getting hospitalized. nobody died, and the outbreak quickly abated. this is the kind of stuff we should expect. these vaccines are not 100%, but all the data i'm seeing so far suggests that the vaccines are protecting people. as long as we keep vaccinating people, we'll be fine. >> we also have our eyes on this outbreak in provincetown that steve was mentioning. 74% of cases there among those who were fully vaccinated, yet we have been told

>> will reeve leading us off. will, thank you. >>> let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee with the latest track tonight as the storm now prepares to move right up the coast. ginger, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, david. that's why we raced up here ahead of it, because we will be feeling impacts. so, i started the morning in tampa and now worried about it here for friday morning. let me take you through the timing. tornado watch in place, just on the phone with my sister who is an officer in the navy at kings bay, georgia. looks like they had some damage from what was likely a tornado. that's sliding up. savannah is in the tornado watch. midnight to 6:00 a.m., charleston, you should be on alert. heavy bands of rain will make their way through myrtle beach, wilmington, even charlotte could pick up the back side of some of that rain. but up the i-95 corridor it goes, david, as you said, and into the atlantic again. and here's where it could wrap up and gain tropical storm strength again. f

police using barrier trucks to rescue stranded drivers. this tropical storm expected to hit new york city tomorrow morning. 50 million people all along the coast at risk of flood flashing. so, let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee leading us off again tonight with the latest track. good evening, ginger. >> reporter: good evening to you, david. i do think flash flooding will be the main threat for everyone going through tonight. however, elsa has caused a tornado in ever state that it has touched. so, we need to start with the imminent threat of tornado watches that extend through virginia, into the delmarva peninsula. maryland and delaware, you're next. now, i want to take you through the timing because you hav hhi . tonight, it will move into the jersey shore. the overnight hours. long branch, seabright. look at the rockaways, through long island. that's 5:00 a.m. 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., new york city, just watch. all the rain we just got is going to cause even more flooding as elsa comes through. and then, from providence to

the water used to lap up where those trees are behind me. that means aircraft -- >> signs say this is all evidence of climate change. we're seeing it in more lakes across the country. the dangerous heat wave moving in yet again. >>> in the meantime tonight to the chilling words heard in newly released body camera video from the attack on the capitol. this new video shows the suspect can be heard yelling at the officers, you're going to die tonight. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, graphic new videos showing just how vicious the threat was that officers faced defending the capitol january 6th. >> you're gonna die tonight! >> reporter: the new footage from police body cameras showing the utter fury unleashed on officers on the steps of the capitol as they protected a key entrance. officers beaten as they fought off the mob. in this video, one officer knocked off his feet. the mob preparing to drag him into the crowd. another officer seen here lying face down, surrounded, being beaten with a baton, in some of the most violent imagery

comes in, says, we want to use those statements, uses the statements and the pennsylvania supreme court ruled that the entirety of that was fundamentally unfair, so much so that they weren't going to just order a new trial, they were literally going to dismiss the charges and say that bill cosby cannot be retried again for these charges. >> and many people are now wondering if this is the end of the road. does this bar any future prosecution of cosby? >> reporter: it certainly bars any future prosecution with regard to these facts and this was the last big case, meaning, this is the one that came in right under the statute of limitations, so it seems that bill cosby will not be prosecuted criminally for any of these cases. >> dan abrams, our thanks to you. >>> we do move on now to other major news this wednesday night. the deadly heat wave on both coasts. 50 million people under heat alerts tonight. deaths rising from that historic heat wave in the pacific northwest. nearly four dozen people passing away in the portland, oregon, area alone. heat emergencies in d.c., philly and boston ag

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look at this, and you're getting a lot of animals today from us. we have new video of a mountain lion spotted in petaluma. this is in the backyard of this man. this is jo jo jo jo jo jo security camera footage. he said he spotted the mountain lion at his home on wednesday. he said he jumped the fence into the backyard and strolled around a little bit. eventually it left. local authorities were searching for the mountain lion. the police alert from wednesday said that it was last spotted in the hills beyond hayes lane. >> the animals, do you know what they are saying? we liked it better when you were in the pandemic and we had free reign. >> okay, dr. dolittle >> thank you for that. >> at least deer wise there coming out of the hills a few months earlier looking for food and water. almost hit one thth it's something i'm usually more cognitive of in august and september. i was driving down a two lane road getting to the highway that was tree-lined, and it just came out of the trees and started jogging up next to me. i like hi, good morning. thankfull

they haven't told us why. traffic is moving. >>> first lady jill biden now in tokyo for the olympic games. she is leading the u.s. delegation. she met with japan's prime minister and his wife. >> don't say shark attack. >>> ngma first look. scientists are using >> : e onal language with encou. should shark bites be cold attacks or just encounters? as caught on camera incidents rise and beachgoers witness scenes like these at survivors getting rest to the hospital. wildlife experts are rebranding apex predator, calling them bites, negative encounters or incidents instead of attacks. warning sensational language can be harmful to a species that is dwindling. >> when we paint any wildlife as interested in harming humans, we are reducing opportunity to see them protected and increasing the likelihood that people see them as villains or antagonists. >> some survivors are fighting back. we have the lessons shark bite victims said they have learned and their warnings. i am will brief, abc news. >>> coming up, travel

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most of the near surface smoke is nowhere near us. let's look at the upper atmosphere where you can see it in the central valley. a lot of the east bay neighborhoods and north bay neighborhoods tomorrow morning. that shifts then to the east. the forecast is for good to moderate air-quality for us. if you are going to be outside, may i suggest swimming. a good way to stay cool and get exercise. out and about? cars will be hard. if you have yardwork, put it off until it gets cooler. low to mid 60s through the inland and east bay neighborhoods. antioch 72. throughout today, we will have low clouds pulled back to the coast. high clouds will be a mainstay but will allow sunshine. 63 at the coast, 73 in the bay. 64 at the coast at noon. 95 inland at 4:00. the heat wave is almost over. i will show you the weekend forecast and give you the comfortable details coming up. >>> here is jobina with the commute. >> a nice start to the commute. no blocking issues to report. things are picking up in emeryville. those headlights are traveling westboun