see your visor for external affairs, kevin sullivan lays kevin sullivan this communication is the marketing effort across all areas of the bush center. he was appointed by president george w. bush as assistant to the president for communications in 2006 and oversaw message development and communications planning. since 2002, kathleen carroll has been executive director and senior vice president of "the associated press," the world's largest independent news agency. ap journalists have won numerous awards during her tenure, including this year's pulitzer prize for public service and overall for pulitzer prizes and six torch polk awards. a texas native we always like to point that out when we are here. our moderator for the discussion is marty baron, executive director -- executive editor of 2013. marty has been part of 10 pulitzer prizes during his time at the post or "the boston globe", "new york times," los angeles times and the "miami herald," but he may be best known for his uncanny nation of the actress leah schreiber. hope you enjoy the panel. [applause] >> thank you, mike. i'll try to

[laughter] >> mary's most recent book which she cowrote with her husband kevin sullivan also at the washingtonpost is titled hope, memoir of survival in cleveland in chronical the kid napping and torment of two of the women held captive in a home in cleveland by eriel castro, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome me in joining our panel. [applause] >> i really feel like i'm having dinner at three five-star restaurants tonight. we are sure going to have a fun time. [inaudible] >> it's a testament to working. it's a testament to all the work that you have done. i'm very proud to be up here. so i want to ask first before we get into other things, how did this happen? you know, other kids grow up and they want to run facebook. [laughter] >> why did you wanting to -- [inaudible] >> yeah, well i never wanted to be a journalists, i was an am deck emand i was doing my master's degree when in compared literature in russian and french literature which is completely different and i wanted to be a professor and write novels possibly and literary criticism and one day i saw photograph of israeli soldier bur

as senior advisor for external affairs, kevin sullivan leads to medication and marketing across all areas of the bush center. he was appointed by president george w. bush as assistant to the president for communications 2006. since 2002, kathleen carroll has been the senior vice president of the associated press, the world's largest independent news agency. wonournalists have on numerous awards, and putting the pulitzer for public service, and polk award. she is a texas native. and we like to point that out when we are here. our moderator for the discussion is marty baron, executive editor of the washington post since 2013. marty has been part of 10 pulitzer prizes at the post, the boston globe, the new york times, and the miami herald. but he may be best known for his uncanny impersonation of the actor liev schreiber. hope you enjoy the panel. [laughter] [applause] thank you, michael. i will continue with the impersonation. and thank you all for coming, thank you to the panel for participating. so, the title of this panel is "the presidency: coverage in the digital age" ." what i want to

kevin lewis, abc7 news. alison: okay. time for a look at the roadways. jamie sullivan is here on traffic watch for us. hi, jamie. are starting out in gainesville. we have been dealing with a serious accident. fatal crash. this is on route 29 closing you off in both directions. right at lake manassas drive. so just as a reference point. this is route 15, east of that point. a lot of people using route 15 as a bail-out. you see on the waze map. we are bumper to bumper here. same thing heading north. 66 is a good option as an alternate. but this may be closed most of the evening. let's move to the maps. 270 is bumper to bumper heading north from the split all the way to gaithersburg. that is now extended over a fi earlier accidents. which added to the congestion. a live look at falls road. this is a comparison. vomum on the northbound to -- the volume from the northbound to the southbound. chevy chase, this is not terrible but slow. a little sun glare delay outbound but heavy. no accident to report. back to you. jonathan: all right. thank you. trying to ease congestion. that is why they did this. check it out. it's