Friday, Aug. 23, 2013

D.C. fire chief assures public enough staff on duty to keep city safe

Andrew Mollenbeck, WTOP


Great, inexpensive wines to enjoy a great weekend

6:40 p.m. Scott Greenberg, syndicated wine columnist


6:20 p.m. George Wallace, WTOP’s Redskins Beat reporter

Redskins starters won’t see much action against Buffalo


5:10 p.m. – Jeff McCausland, military consultant, CBS

Fort Hood verdict


4:10 p.m. – Rex Crum, tech reporter, Marketwatch

Steve Ballmer leaving Microsoft within a year


3:50 p.m. – Dan Kois, senior editor, Slate

New movie "The World’s End"


Dave Johnson, WTOP sports director

called "League of Denial: The NFL Concussion Crisis"


3:10 p.m – Gwen Ifill, moderator of Washington Week

Looking back at The March on Washington


2:20 p.m. – Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian and author of "The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement"

‘I Have a Dream’ sequence was ad-libbed


‘Shark Tank’ makes a stop in D.C.

WTOP’s Max Smith reports

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Invention presented to "Shark Tank" officials lets you clip phones and other devices to the dashboard and vents. (WTOP/Max Smith)


12:51 p.m. – Dave Ross, commentator

Must we all, eventually, lose our minds?


The state of inaction on D.C.’s Living Wage Bill

WTOP’s Megan Cloherty reports


March on Washington 1963 National Mall (AP)

The March on Washington happened Aug. 28, 1963. (AP)

11:10 a.m. – Marvin Kalb, veteran CBS correspondent

Martin Luther King Jr. reached for universal values in delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech.

10:10 a.m. – Marvin Kalb, veteran CBS correspondent

So many people who marched peacefully 50 years ago wanted their freedom from oppression.


10:40 a.m. – Clinton Yates, Washington Post columnist

"All out hatred people had for one another" doesn’t exist like it did 50 years ago.


9:10 a.m. – Mara Kiesling, the National Center for Transgender Equality

Convicted leaker Bradley Manning’s decision to live life as Chelsea Manning shines a light on the challenges facing transgendered people


8:20 a.m. – Candy Crowley, CNN’s State of the Union

Is the latest Syrian news a turning point?


7:50 a.m. – David Gregory, NBC’s Meet the Press

The president’s options regarding Syria


6:50 a.m. – Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of ‘Face the Nation’

What happens next for U.S. with Syria?


Two years later, landmarks still feeling D.C. earthquake (Runs 2:22)

WTOP’s Andrew Mollenbeck reports. <a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=865&sid=3429690">Check out the gallery for an inside look at the National Cathedral repairs.</a>


Embassy shutdown shows terrorists effortlessly achieved goal

WTOP’s National Security Correspondent J.J. Green reports.


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