i-95 in virginia, had a work zone at lorton, also dale city. both are clear. travel lanes are open.5, two work zones remain. first we'll start southbound seminary road. as you travel southbound, just the left lane is blocked. you see light volume continuing southbound getting closer to edsall. you see the right shoulder lane. work zone in the final stages here. should be clearing soon. northbound absolutely clear. i'm back at 4:31. >> see you then. thank you. >>> 4:28. today d.c. police chief lanier will try to set the record straight about two recent scandals in her department. she's holding a meeting in southeast washington. this comes a month after prosecutors charged officer lynwood barnhill with pumping teenage girls. a week earlier police arrested officer mark washington on child pornography charges. he killed himself several days later. barnhill and washington worked in the police department's seventh district where the chief will hold the meeting. >>> julie carey will be in alexandria today. a judge will decide if a cabbie charged with shooting a police officer is competent

also mechanical and road conditions. pictures were posted on facebook of icy roads in dale city. this mom kept her children home. while the school system in prince william county alerted parents the night before, fairfax sent out an e-mail this morning. the moms we talked with say the frustration came with the e- mail that wasn't very clear to them. they weren't sure if their particular kid's school bus would be late or not and in some cases parents had already dropped their children off at the bus stop before getting the e-mail. >> it just said they're going to be late, could be very late and we're as moms reading into this saying or maybe not coming. >> either there is a bus or there isn't. like possibly not having a bus is not acceptable. >> it doesn't matter the number of buses, when you think about the square miles in this county, if it's your child's bus, it's a problem. >> reporter: the mother of four says at least three of her children's buses came on time including her youngest going to falls church did. your bus start okay this morning? >> it was okay because i came yesterday. >> it's a little frustrat

dale. she's a spokesperson for the georgia department of transportation. also with us is rebecca burns, deputy editor of "atlanta magazine." also the author of several books on the city of atlanta. natalie, let me start with you first of all. when did -- when did the d.o.t., when did the department of transportation first realize there was going to be a problem on the roads and highways? was it tuesday, the day it started snowing, or was it the day before? >> actually, tuesday morning when we had an update from the weather service that that weather front had shifted and would be hitting us early, we had our crews out pretreating all of our major overpasses, bridges, exit ramps, trouble spots in the metro atlanta area. what we depended on after that was car free roads in order to get that second wave of treatment down. we didn't have anything but that. >> why would you guys be depending on that? why would you expect that was going to be the case when we knew at that point there were lots of businesses that had not released their employees just yet and schools that had not done the name. >> well, as we rolled in with our crews tuesday morning laying down that pretreatm