there was smoke report somewhere between foggy bottom and roslyn yesterday. firefighters responded to both stations but didn't find anything. over the weekend, there were four incidents at metro stations one at l'enfant plaza with a he heck cal mechanical issue and woodley park had to be evacuated. >> it mackis mekes me want to get a car sooner. if so many people put in the hospital last time obviously something is not work. >> officials checked all stations and found no issues. metro says it does experience more mechanical be problems when it gets extremely cold. >>> we're track breaking news on the roads that could make you late for work. this accident on 95 at lorton road in virginia is already backing up traffic for miles. you can see here in the live picture, all those headlights. melissa mollet is helping you with alternates. >>> also icy conditions gripping parts of the south. winter storm making a big mess in texas. and it's being felt in our area. >>> and public schools in fred rick county, virginia are on a one hour delay. plus saving big without sa

so questions as roslyn puts it, imran, about how the american army will exactly be involved in this poethis mosul operation when it takes place. but leading up to that, what is the role the u.s.-led co since will be playing in the next couple of months to prepare the iraqi army? >> reporter: well, that's right, the iraqi army has had u.s. advisers embedded with it like in anbar province so a significant amount of training is going on, baghdad airport where some of the troops are based. they have had some success taking by the oil refinery a big success for the eye rally army in conjunction with the training they received from the american forces, we are in a very different situation when we were in june when isil took over huge parts of the iraqi army when they simply disappeared. they are taking the fight to ice and they are preparing the ground. we have heard last week since iraqi officials quoting their u.s. counterparts this offensive was coming. but the real fear here is what kind of offensive will it be? you are talking about 25,000 troops, that's what the americans are saying. th

roslyn jordan has more from the u.s.tment. >> reporter: the fighting in eastern ukraine shows no sign of ending and the u.s. and the even u. blame russia. >> i think russia knows what it can do immediately to be of helpful and we hope they will. >> reporter: in other words stop sending russian tanks guns and soldiers across the board tore backup separatist fighters from the south to donetsk luhansk. it's been a rear are year the turmoil of the fall of victor january coachjanuary covejanuary cove itch. the west's response, taking moscow out of the g8 and imposing economic sanction on his key politicians and businesses. the theory the economy will sufficienter and putin will change course, that hasn't happened. so far the u.s. has only given ukraine helmets body armor and other equipment. but on now they are considering giving them lethal weapons as well. >> we haven't taken options off the table. it's an ongoing discussion, we are taking in to account events on the ground but i don't have anything to layout in terms of in

yesterday there was a smoke report somewhere between foggy bottom and roslyn.were delayed, passengers left standing on the platform. over the weekend, there were four incidents at metro stations one at l'enfant that involved a at the mechanical issue, and woodley park had to be evacuated. >> it makes me want to get a car sooner. but as long as they have an evacuation plan which i think they need to work on it because if so many people were put in the hospital the last time obviously something is not working. >> crews found no issues. metro says it does experience more mechanical issues when it gets extremely cold. >>> fire atop a d.c. street car has prompted a reinspection of the entire fleet. the d.c. transportation dw says depa says the car started sparking but the fire burned out quickly. the vehicle operator was not hurt. street cars still run simulated service only for now. >>> it's 5:18. later this morning, another hearing will be held in a capital murder case against 26-year-old anthony roberts. he is charged with the murder of william bennett in 2009 in

apparently this train heading south to the city had just stopped at the train station at roslyn and had just left the station, not even up to full speed at about 40 or 45 miles an hour when passengers tell us they heard a big bang and the train sort of leisureurched and rolled to a stop. septa knew at that point the -- what they called the little scissor jack on the top of the train that touches the electrical line had been pulled off the top of the train and in order to get the 500 passengers on to a backup train that they brought up there, they had to make certain those electric lines were deenergized, and that the train itself was properly grounded. here is septa with more. >> lost power to the train, you know the passengers' safety was our priority because now they have no heat on the train. so we initiated several different prongs of attack to rescue the passengers once we were able to determine the vehicle was safe to let the passengers off. >> reporter: those passengers say they weren't really concerned, more concerned perhaps with being maybe an hour and a half two hours late to

yesterday there was a smoke report somewhere between foggy bottom and roslyn. responded to both stations. trains were delayed, passengers left standing on the platform. over the weekend, there were four incidents at metro station. one at l'enfant plaza and woodley park station had to be evacuated. >> makes me want to get a car sooner but as long as they have an evacuation plan which i don't think -- well, i think they need to work on it because if so many people were put in the hospital the last time obviously something's not working. >> officials checked all the stations and found no issues. metro says it does experience more mechanical issues when it gets extremely cold. >>> d.c. will now reinspect the entire street car system after this fire on one of the cars. the d.c. transportation department says the car started sparking on saturday night, but when the -- but the fire went out on its own. the vehicle operator was not harmed. the street cars still run simulated service only. >>> we're working to find out whether there is an issue with d.c. manholesco crew

roslyn jordan has more from the u.s.te deem. >> reporter: the fighting in eastern ukraine shows no sign of ending. and the u.s. and the e.u. blame russia. >> russia knows what it can do need there on be of helpful and we hope they will. >> reporter: in other words stop sending russian tanks guns and soldiers across the border to backup separatist fighters from the south north to donetsk luhansk. it's been a year of turmoil in ukraine, the ball of victor yanukovych. the russian invasion and annexation of crimea. the downing of a malaysian airlines jetliner allegedly bicep test fighters. the response, i can canning moscow out of the g8 and imposing sanctions on key politicians and businesses. the theory, the russian economy mill will sufficienter and president vladimir putin will change course. that hasn't happened. so far the u.s. has only given ukraine helmets body armor and other nonlethal equipment. but the u.s. reportedly is now considering giving them legit the weapons as well. >> we haven't taken options on or off t

roslyn jordan, al jazerra, the state department. >>> in the your honor, a man has been convicted of operatingd website that sold illegal drugs ross william was found guilty of seven charges including drugs and money lands irrelevanting, as well as a kingpin charge which is usually reserved for drug cartel leaders. he is due to be sentenced in may, he could receive life in prison. >>> the armed group which is based in nigeria attacked a town along the boarder between the two countries. the town's main mosque is said to have been torched. well troops from three countries have launch -7d the biggest offensive against boko haram in five years nigerian and chad jets have been bomb being boko haram positions. on tuesday chad's arm a taxed and destroyed boko haram bases in approximately northern nigeria. 200 rebels remember killed in the fight ago long with nine chad soldiers. >>> in the democratic republic of congo opposition groups are frosting against the president who they believe is trying to extent his rule. his government has blocked text messages and mobile internet services for more than tw

along the inside track of the orange line about 200 yards from the courthouse station heading toward roslyn. metro cut power to the third rail so crews could get to the fire. metro police using an extinguisher put the fire out. the arlington county fire department confirmed it was no longer a danger, but there was an electrical smelling burning and smoke filled the station. on orders from the arlington county fire department, passengers were evacuated from the platform. everyone was told to get out of the station. metro single tracked orange and silver line trains through the station. they didn't stop, however, here. the station was closed temporarily for more than an hour. passengers were directed to buses. >> clear the station, please. thank you. >> they just told me it's closed and just to go either from the other exit or this one. soy just came out. >> reporter: what do you have to do to get home? >> oh i'm going to -- and then i will see. >> reporter: how are you going to get home? >> on a bus. >> reporter: back live here at courthouse station it is reopened. trains are running in both

. >> there was an insulator fire on the track bed between courthouse metro and roslyn metro. our units responded. when we arrived we found that metro personnel had already extinguished the fire with an extinguisher. we went down to confirm that confirm that power was shut down to the third rail. there was light smoke conditions in the station so we closed the station to pedestrian traffic. >> reporter: passengers were evacuated from the platform, everybody told to get out of the station. metro's single track orange and silver line train stations through the station but the trains didn't stop. it was closed for more than an hour. passengers were directed to buses. we're back live, and, as you see, the station is open and trains are running on time both on the orange and silver lines in both directions. and the final note here is that no one was injured today. that's the latest live at courthouse station, chris gordon, news4. >> thank you, chris. >>> just minutes ago, d.c. police released this picture of a person of interest in the stabbing death of a lawyer at the donovan hote

that the station was closed right now and they're rerouting people and there's a bus to take us to roslyn. >> reporter: now, that was closed, the station was closed for about an hour. it is reopened now with tracks running in both directions, both on the orange and silver lines, and there were no injuries here today. that's the latest at courthouse station in arlington, virginia, chris gordon news4. >> now we're going to hear from transportation reporter adam tuss about a major revelation from the national transportation safety board about that l'enfant plaza incident and the impact nationwide. >> reporter: that's right, wendy. what we learned from the ntsb today is that the ventilation system inside the tunnels here at l'enfant plaza was not working the way it should have that day. in fact, instead of pushing the smoke away from the train, one of the fans was pulling thick smoke over top of the stuck train. >> why kbt you stop and speak to us? >> reporter: this is the scrum after a meeting at the region of council of governments today, everyone wanting to know from metro leaders why fans

roslyn gordon al jazeera the state department. >>> let's bring in writer graham wood with the atlanticrote an article what i.s.i.s. really wants and mr. wood thank you for your time and your story has a lot of attention and you heard our reporter talk about i.s.i.l.'s propaganda camp -- campaign and what are they selling that has so many want to be fighters flooding into syria from all over the world? >> the maintain element of the narrative is there is a fight between a crusader west and islam what i.s.i.s. thinks is happening and the message of propaganda that the world is a polarized place and lead to apocylipse. >> you argue that i.s.i.l. strategy has theological under pinnings and committed to returning civilization to a 17th century legal environment, ultimately as you said bringing about the apocylipse, how many supporters did you speak to for this piece that actually believe this? >> i don't know what one individual believes, i can only say what they tell me. i spoke in person to let's see, a handful of i.s.i.s. supporters in western countries, people prevented because their pa

donetsk and they are blaming the government in kiev for failed peace talks over the weekend and as roslynsays sending heavy weapons to help ukraine army is not the answer to end the crisis. >> contrary to published reports on monday that the obama administration is now considering giving leadel aid to the ukraine army they are suggesting that basically the administration is looking at all options but nothing has been either placed on the table or taken off the table. and he went on to say that the u.s. is still very interested in trying to achieve a political and diplomatic resolution to the crisis in eastern ukraine where resent days separatist fighters and what are believed to be russian soldiers carried out more attacks on citizens in that part of the country, the ukraine government is certainly looking forward to the up coming visit of secretary of state john kerry and hoping they might be able to persuade him and other members of the administration that the time is now for the u.s. and for eu nations to provide lethal assistance, it's complicated because nato does not include ukraine

roslyn jordan with al jazeera. >>> police in the u.s.f north carolina are investigating whether racial hatred played a role in the killing of muslim students and barakat and wife yusor and sister mazan-abu-salha and shot dead in their apartment and a 46-year-old man with an antireligious comments on facebook has been charged and we have more from north carolina. >> reporter: an incredible show of solidarity in raleigh, north carolina, so many people have turned up for the muslim community the mosque behind the camera is too small to take them and they are in the field behind me to pay respects to the two families and the three victims. despite this being a day of mourning muslim civil rights leaders are calling for law enforcement officials there to investigate this crime as a hate crime. they say that craig steven hicks picked on the three young people because of faith and the police investigation indicates this was an argument over parking spots outside the apartment where these three young people lived but clearly today it's not about

official said it could be ready to fight for control of iraq second largest city by april and roslyn me now from washington. jordan do we know why the u.s. is releasing this information now? >> well it's not clear why they decided to announce this apparent spring offensive, but it's not uncommon for the u.s. military to have done so in other conflicts. they talk about an annual spring offensive in afghanistan and they did talk about a similar action every year in iraq during the last war. so it's not unusual. but it does raise some questions about whether or not it's too soon to try to do this given that u.s. advisors started working and training these iraqi forces at the end of september. just about five months ago. >> any indication what kind of shape this assault might take? >> well, the official didn't get into specifics. but there were enough hints dropped during this conversation with reporters on thursday to indicate that it would be both ground fighting in the street fighting as well as air strikes which had been ongoing, carried out by the u.s. and allies in that part of ira

his office was in roslyn. the office he worked in. and they lived in falls church. they could be your next her neighbors. they might've been and you probably would not have known that. he worked for the cia from 1973 to 1975 in washington. and then later he is promoted. and they moved to new york city. now, one of the things -- peter is this hard for you to understand? he was granted a top-secret clear with sci access. that is a lofty security clearance. sci stands for special compartment information. it is one of the most sensitive compartment projects there is and karl had access to that. with that, he had access to almost everything. and he began work as a staff translator. he was working for se division, that a soviet and east european division. translating what you been all the eastern european languages brought primarily, i would say the emphasis would be on russian. he'd be listening to audio tapes, he'd be reading transcripts, he'd be looking at some of the photography of classified documents that had been gathered by agents working for the cia. he would be

we know that roslyn pope was the author of "appeal for human rights" which appeared in the papers in 1960's. it called on the state to respond to the right of young people. they say we will not wait idly by for our rights to begin men to us piecemeal, now is the time to take action. that galvanized the student action that was a part of the movement in the 1960's. there is a need for action and our students want to be part of that. host: who are the female leaders of the civil rights movement? who would you point to your students as role models today? guest: i think about the democratic whip in the georgia state legislature. the first time an african-american has held the role. she is a voice for her constituents and she speaks up on social justice issues. students can see themselves in her work. we might think of mary wright edelman. she has been a champion for the underrepresented. she is a spelman alumni. someone that we all admire greatly. host: we are talking with dr. tatum. president of spelman college. it is part of our c-span bus tour. there are 106 hbc yu's we are visiting. w

she's my will win, my should win is roslyn pike for "gone girl."ble in this film called "still alice," she plays a woman who's 50 years old, has a rare form of -- pike emotionally and physically transformed for the role. unbelievable performance. one of the scariestville villains in years. julienne moore's fifth oscar nomination. this will be her first win ever. >> for skt "still alice" and "gone girl" were books before they were movies. finally, best director. >> best picture is down to "boyhood" and "birdman." will win is is richard linkletter and should win is richard linkletter but the dga, they gave the award to -- and over the past 11 year, ten of those winners have won best director, so i should be giving it to -- but i have a gut feeling they might split it and give it to richard linkletter for shooting it over 12 years. >> that was an unbelievable transformation to watch him go from elementary age to college. >> that's why i think patricia ar quet is going to win, that amazing scene when she's sending him off to college to see a mother sen