let's check in with julie wright to get a better idea as to what may happen. we had heard at this point no changes on 270 but you have to wonder at some point in the heat from those flames could cause enough structural damage or at least the threat it was to shut down 207. >> you got to think about it. 4 thing has been burning onfire. i witnessed myself big huge flames like we're seeing here. it has been on fire for about 40 to 45 minutes. we do know the local lanes are now closed northbound on 207. so if you are coming from democracy boulevard, from old georgetown road, you are denied access in those local lanes to exit at montrose road. if you are coming southbound through rockville and that is a common ramp, that is a ramp that continues to have traffic exit at falls road and montrose road, i can tell you that you can exit at falls road at this time but, of course, the ramp to exit at montrose remains closed becausehat is the eastbound ramp. that would take you right into the heart of what is going on right now. if you are trying to get over towards 355, yo

now, let's get an update on traffic from julie wright. >> you already have people ask you about friday night. >> about thursday night into friday night. >> no one has asked me about friday night in many years, julie. sorry to say. >> i was going to say, that social calendar has picked up. >> no. >> somebody had a good new year. all right. he we go. we are on the roads. we're kind of busy now. a couple of problems southbound along 207 as you work your w down towards the exit for the interloop. just underneath our sign there, we have the crash. it is tying up the right side of the road. it will affect your commute headed around to old georgetown road and in the main line. we've already got the main line slowing from montrose road headed out towards that split. the main line slows again on the spur continuing down towards outer loop but again, accident activity, southbound 270 right at the lane divide. if you are continuing around towards old georgetown road, you will want to stay to the left in order to get through. trouble in virginia. this is a live hot of northbound i-95. for those tr

now, let's get an update on traffic from julie wright. ome back, julie and happy new year. >> thank you. i thought about you when i was at home. >> did you? >> i went out and caught up with friends from high school and came in a little late and the front door to the house was locked. >> just like old times with mom, wasn't it? >> the problem was back in the old days, i could shimmy through the garage door window. these days, not happening. you're knocking on the door. >> that's funny. >> we are keeping an eye out for black ice. we do have some patches of it here and there on the neighborhood streets. sidewalks, you guys be careful headed out to the metro stops and bus sps. the little ones are back in cool stud so watch out for the yellow buses. southbound 270 out of hyattstown being already starting to see some delays here. lanes are open in virginia. easy ride northbound 395 across the 14th street bridge. southbound 5 at earnshaw road, they were busy clearing ice from the left side of the roadways. some icy patches out there. kind of a hi

up to 30 miles an hour today. >> that could kill that. >> thank you, tony. >>> checking in with julie wright a couple of trouble spots, julie. >> the latest crash before georgia avenue. they just moved back with a backup from college park. southbound 270. getting whipped around by the wind. delays from gaitherersburg all the way out to the split. if you're traveling inbound pennsylvania avenue under the bridge, accident activity gone. look for branch avenue headed in. 395 at the 14th street bridge. delays from the beltway all the way across the patomic. it's in the process of being cleared. and then virginia, route 1 from the first accident. that's where we had he crash. the outer loop of the beltway, at the split, for the incident, following police direction to get by. that's the check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> the writing has been on the wall for awhile now. now it's official. jim zorn has been fired as the head coach of the washington redskins. the ax falling after the disappointing season. now we have official reaction from the team, lindsey. what are you hearing? >> reporter: we

now general wright was a command effort of the six corp in july of 1864 when the confederates. about 14,000 of them swept across maryland and attacked washington from the north and the six-army a a local dismounted and any troops that d.c. could muster. and skirmish, if you go to fort stevens today, there's a marker on the so where lincoln stood during that battle. right on the par pit there? and there's a bronze barf relief on that monument. the design is by kelly as the described by general wright who was conversing with lincoln at that moment. but unfortunately he had no finished work. he never got to complete his dream of creating lincoln bronze. all right. thank you very much. have a good one. [applause] our final speaker this evening is sara who is going to relate to us a most wonderful story about her family and president-elect lincoln here at the willard hotel. this is one in a million. you will be so happy that you came tonight to hear this magnificent story from someone who's family has passed it down to her. and it will now be passed upon you and hopefully you will p

first one to go back to the jeremiah wright example and less on the similarities or differences of the rhetoric but the fact as you mentioned it is a snippet we hear of july right and that is at least in part because the world we live and now youtube and fox news and surveillance of the place could you speculate a little bit about whether or not a leader like king could emerge in the information environment we live in today? and then the second of a related question is a more personal one. you are writing a book about an iconic figure in the black community and you are white and you are also presenting this year as a really -- a real person with multiple purchase multiple audiences, false. could you talk a little bit about what it was like as you went through the process of interviewing people about this and what the reaction has been broadly and when the black community as to the politics of this? >> i will take both of them. well i think your question in a way contains its answer. it is impossible to imagine king sort of surviving in the current information age. because if you think about king in terms of the fancy academic theory but the post of the ne