Vandalism at one of dc s most famous landmark someone took red paint right to the base 

of the washington monument and the sentences they wrote strung 

together obscenities matt gregory is live at the monument this mornig  

so matt what can be dont is any cleaning staeted or anything overnight 

it s hard to tell allison i mean this is a delicate process the national park  

service will be doing the cleanup but if you remember like park of this 

monument was built at least the base was built more then 150 years ago 

so it s a delicate slow process to get the cleaning done and it s going to take 

some time to do that but here s what happened around 7 30 last night that s national parks