among those that detained let's bring in lauren to what is a professor of history at the university of virginia and author of haiti the aftershocks of history joins us by skype from dharma north carolina in the united states learned to brought thanks for joining us here in odds are it is a confusing situation but what do you make of noise a story of this attempted coup. well everything i'm hearing from haiti and just gathering the strands is that this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round out opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices have been critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different and these arrests to what extent could they you know extract the power limit the power of the opposition movement. well it's important that today especially since february 7th and he said history is a very important date it's the anniversary of the overthrow of junk load of a in 1906 and also supposed to be the end of the president's mandate now there is a discussion and debate between

. >>> a big snowball fight on the campus of the university of virginia has prompted an apology. it was not in line with the school or local covid-19 protocols and they are rededicating to those policies, including social distancing and wearing a face mask. >>> and here in new york, more than 17 inches of snow helped a snowman. >> you have to love it. over in d.c., our white house team created their own little snowman, as well. so people getting creative. you know why? >> why? >> because there's different type of snows. i am figuring this out and it was like the nice hard snow that actually keeps the form instead of the light, fluffy snow. so people were like, oh. >> wait, our white house team has time to make snowmen down there now? they are like -- >> they took off the tweet alerts and so they have time. >> look, we are just -- oh, yeah, we've been covering a lot of news the past four years, but now we have time to make snowmen. no, they work very hard down there. it's an incredible team. i love them. i love them all. >> shout out to our white house, too. and the end of an era

of the university. he would be one of only three accomplishments >> -- the other two being the virginia statute of religious freedom. the university has been proud, treating his memory with such reverence that president taft once said after delivering a lecture that people still talk of mr. jefferson as though he was in the next room, and right over hither the age is not incompetent. one thing i am not much given to hear a warship, and professionally, i have always believed michael should not be to indoctrinate but enlighten and not to defy or demonize subjects. that said, the truth is that thomas jefferson has long held a place, too many, the highest placed within the pantheon of american political heroes. among the nation's founders, he possess the widest range of talents and produced the most diverse accomplishments. he has generally been regarded as the most intellectual, we're calling that quote by john f. kennedy who went offering a dinner toast to a group of nobel laureates at the white house said they constituted the most extraordinary collection of talent and human knowledge that has ever been gath

ebony hilton is a critical care physician and an associate of anesthesiology at the university of virginiar a special black history month edition of velshi across america. you'll hear from more birmingham natives, activists, and policy makers about america's civil rights history and its present, tomorrow 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. . earlier, former secretary castro mentioned how you can help the people in texas having trouble right now getting the basics like food and water. there are many ways to help, but you can start with feedingtexas.org. do not touch your dial. i guess you probably do not have a dial on your tv. you get my point. "the cross connection" with my friend, tiffany cross, starts right now. >>> this is worse than anything i've ever been through in my life. it should have been better than that. we shouldn't have had to be without lights. i know it's freezing, but somebody is responsible for this. >> a lot of people are dying from these conditions.

virginia, you will notice that there are three items on his epitaph. one it's that he was author of the declaration of independence, another was that he was the founder of the university of virginia, and the third is that he was the author of the act concerning religious freedom. he does not include that he was president of the united states or ambassador to france or any of the other enormously important things that he was. he was most proud, among two or three other accomplishments of the fact that he was the author of the act for religious freedom. and we know too that he was so proud of his office ship of the act for religious freedom. that when he was ambassador to france, have position of which he was serving when the statute was finally passed in 1786, he immediately arranged for the text of the statute to be printed, published and distributed in france and elsewhere in europe. he was enormously gratifying that the high culture, the flaunts of paris were impressed and moved and inspired by the example of that the state of virginia had set for the world. and it truly is something for which thomas jefferson should have been proud. let's just think about how diffe

." >> reporter: on the campus of the university of virginia, a new memorial to the thousands of enslavedlped build the school and then worked there-- craftsmen, construction workers, cooks, domestic servants. some of their names are known. most-- more than 3,000-- remain anonymous, honored by so-called "memory marks" in the stone. historian kirt von daacke helped lead the effort to uncover his school's past. >> this story has to be visible on our landscape in a way that the casual visitor will understand when they visit here. and we have to acknowledge the humanity, the skill, the life, the labor of the enslaved, and do it in a way that responds to current community concerns. and i think our memorial really does a fantastic job of that. but it's not an end. it's a beginning. >> reporter: it's a story often hidden in plain sight, as in this 19th century engraving, intended to capture the campus in all its glory. there on a balcony: an enslaved woman holding the child of a professor. the campus was designed and founded in 1819 by thomas jefferson,- drafter of the declaration of independenc

leave the streets before he has left power well laurent dubois is professor of history at the university of virginia he says more protests are inevitable. this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices and critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different it's important that today is february 7th a very sad and he said history is a very important date it's the anniversary of the overthrow of junk load of a in 1906 and also supposed to be the end of the president's mandate now there is a discussion and debate between opposition and president least about whether his mandate ends this february or next february because of the circumstances that the election that brought him to power which were themselves quite contested and so that's the kind of point i think today was meant to be a portent it was going to be a potential day of protest against him and the beginning of more protests so it seems to me this is a preemptive move but i do not belie

i was working still at the university of virginia. >> the college i started, the college of philadelphia, which i am told they now call the university of pennsylvania, when it became a university, we started the first medical school in america there. i wrote that a college ought to be, because other colleges were sectarian, involved with churches. i said we need something that's non sectarian and also offers the option of a very practical education. we were turning out lawyers and clergymen, but i thought architects and mathematicians, agricultural people, all sorts of people should have the access of an education like that. >> particularly, the two of us hold in kind of a desire to see the continued pursuit of natural philosophy beyond the realms of scientific investigation. >> are you a member of our academy? >> it has evolved into -- >> the american philosophical society. >> they say i started that, but the idea was one of our friends, the most imminent naturalist in america, so imminent that he was called one of the great naturalists of the world. >> are we still answering that quest

so the avalon project at yale the miller center at uva at the university of virginia also has a number of all kinds of presidential addresses including all of the inaugural speeches. the more recent ones they have you can actually listen to the addresses on the miller center's websites if you want to actually hear how the speech was given, which is also very helpful. so those are two really good resources. that i would consult. we have a question from edward who said colleen. can you tell us if any of your sources referenced richard nixon's address in 1969 seeking reconciliation and understanding i've always admired his seeking us to lower our voices. so all may be heard your thoughts. yes, it was it did not make any of the the top speeches a lot of times things are reinterpreted throughout history, but i do think that line is a memorable line. what are some of the other addresses that didn't make the top five but we're but we're remember the top five kind of were their own category and then ever all the other ones were further below or i would have included the top six in the top seve

the university of virginia did a study of 200 white medical students in 2016. 40% thought black skinhicker than white skin. the study also revealed that some doctors think black patients feel less pain. >> trevor: uh, excuse me? black people don't feel pain? i guess you've never met a man named michael jordan! he's been crying about everything for 10 years! i mean, black people invented the blues. nobody feels pain like black people-- except for adele. that woman has been through some shit. but this is why so many black people are suspicious of the medical community. because that community has betrayed them again and again and again. and you're not going to trust people who have betrayed you that many times-- unless you're mike pence. but, unfortunately, this mistrust hurts black people, because these vaccines are safe. believe me, white people would never let martha stewart get one if it was dangerous. if something happened to her, they would have no idea how to match their centerpieces to their napkin holders! it would be chaos! and because this anti-vax sentiment is hurting the bl

. >> joining me now, a resident scholar at the university of virginia. tara, great to see you, let's talk cpac, we have seen the six-foot gold statue of trump wheeling through the conference. what do you expect? >> i think it is going to be a rehash of his twitter feed for the last few months. he's been unable to express himself on social media, this is his coming out party. it is going to feel like one long twitter thread. i have to say that the country is exhausted. the fact that the republicans are allowing donald trump to continue to be ahead of the party after being a twice impeached failed president is remarkable. i don't think we have seen anything like it. >> you took the words out of my mouth. you got a one term president lost the house and the nate and lost the popular vote twice, twice impeached. why this continued -- why continue to this man? >> it is really a strange phenomenon. it resembles a colt. i have been saying it for years. the personality colt that donald trump built over the last few years is unlike anything we have seen in politics

smith national library for the study of george washington and at the university of virginia at the albert and shirley small special collections library, two institutions that i visited numerous times to utilize those portions of the family archive for my book project. in addition to keeping original notes, transcribing the conversations with britannia about the family's history, armistead, jr. compiled a handwritten version, seen here, where he anthologized a portion of the notes into a single document. around 1920, he created a typed script version. however, i learned during the process of my project that not all of the notes were included in this anthology that he made, so that was a great process of discovery, finding these additional notes that did not make it into these drafts he compiled. given that many of the reminiscences were committed to paper in or around 1894, when britannia was in her late 80's or early 90's, and was recalling events that had recurred 60 years earlier, her accuracy is impressive. in many instances, receipts or papers found in the tudor place archive or in th

and he and jefferson collaborated some of the buildings on jefferson's famous campus on the university of virginia and he designed barnes and he designed almost anything that you can think of always behind this was the idea that he was building in america that was permanent and that had important understandings of how significant buildings can be. you know, winston churchill once said and i think this was west minister was being rebuilt that we create buildings but then they shape us and to that extent benjamin henry latrobe had a great influence on the early republic and on our subsequent lives. >> thank you so much. i think this is just been really fascinating and i've enjoyed so many of your insights on latrobe as you have gone through the various moments of his life. reading your biography of him it almost feels like a series of cliffhangers as you go from one city to the other, you know one crisis to the next and what will he do next and how will he get out of this and then yet he doesn't come across as discouraged or like a curmudgeon but he seems to always be helpful in looking forward. >>

of that. well that default if you will in a formal education by degree have both founded collegiate curriculums and universal curriculums yourself the collagen philadelphia and i myself working still on a university of virginia very, well. it's these things are so important and one has to look toward the education of the future. you know, i start the the college i started the college of philadelphia, which i'm told they now call the university of pennsylvania. and in fact, i remember when it became a university we started the first medical school in america there, but i wrote that that a college ought to be there all of the other colleges at the time. yours were sectarian involved with churches. i said we need something that first of all a non sectarian college and also one that offers a the option of a very practical curriculum curriculum as well as just you know, we most of these other institutions were turning out clergyman and lawyers and i had nothing against either one, but i thought that architects and mathematicians and agricultural people and also people should have the access of an education like that. and particularly the two of us holding in kind a desire to see the continual pursuit of natural p

joins me, resident scholar at the university of virginia, center for politics. cnn commentator, republican strategist and former director of communications for senator ted cruz. ladies, good to have you here. >> good morning, christi. >> good morning. >> tara, talk to me about what we just saw there. this is a father that is infrast fractured, what is being done at cpac, if anything, to try to work beyond the base? >> oh, absolutely nothing. that was one of the most politically awkward moments, the body language is clear that liz cheney is not part of the trump boys club, within the gop. nor should she be. she took a heroic stance against her own party, in favor of protecting the constitution and our democratic process. what's happening that cpac, there's absolutely nothing being done beyond the base. they have decided that this is the trump party. and anyone who says otherwise is not paying attention. it was clear speech after speech that it was about trump. they might as well call it trump-pac, because that's what it's about. we saw a "usa today" poll this week

. >> joining me is tara setmayer, resident scholar at university of virginia center for politics and senior adviser for the lincoln project. great to see you, thanks for being with us. let's taub cpac. we've seen a 6-foot golden statue of trump being wheeled through the conference. but there has already been at the conference a worshipping of if not an idol, the actual donald trump. what do you expect him to tell the faithful? >> i think it's going to be a rehash of his twitter feed the last few months. he's been unable to express himself through his favorite medium on social media, so this is his coming-out party. it's going to feel like one long twitter thread. i have to say that the country is exhausted. you know, the fact that the republicans are allowing donald trump to continue to be the head of the party after being a twice-impeached, failed president, is just really remarkable. i don't think we've ever seen anything like it. >> you took the words out of my mouth. i was just about to say, one-term president, lost the house, lost the senate, lost the white house, lost the popula

the medical director, and director of an anesthesology at the university of virginia, the msnbc contributortion. dr. gupta, a lot of the cdc's advice for schools during the pandemic, which will be the biggest change for these schools? >> good evening. you know, i think what is notable about the guidelines is what is not present. let me first start by saying, mitigation is really difficult to do well. so if we're going to require schools once they get assistance in the form of the american rescue plan funding to implement testing, which is a key cog guidance, if we're expecting teachers to enter the schools safely, we want to make sure that they have adequately ventilated rooms and these guidelines don't really talk about that. 41% of schools, according to the gao, need updates on the ventilation systems and these guidelines don't really talk about that. so there is a dissonance between what is needed to keep schools safe and what these guidelines emphasize, there is a bit of concern and i worry that it will take longer for school districts across the country to feel like they're meeting cdc

next, the commissioner and i held a meeting with staff at the university of virginia center for tele-health, -- who was a early evangelist and the power of tell of medicine and one of its foremost practitioners today. more, ever where she works is the beneficiary of a recent grant for our pilot program, and her team was eager to show us how tele-health can make a difference for rural virginians, including those suffering from strokes and those seeking access from maternal care. those in washington, professor samantha and i witnessed state-of-the-art technology supported by the fcc that has approved provider to patient pediatric care to the region. but more than that we are able to peer into the future of tele-health, with the practitioners describing how connectivity combined with data analytics wouldn't tine mirth -- morph into new opportunities for care. so it was all, exciting merck that it was the following last year's 200 dollar grant program to boost telemedicine during the pandemic congress has provided the fcc with an additional 250 million dollars to further extend its reach. that

you can read about this work by looking at david brand at mit and gordon at the university of virginia and they found short reminders. just to consider accuracy while you're consuming news is powerful because a lot of people are good at using their got to say this is true, it's not true. using their prior knowledge but they just get overwhelmed with information and we just kind of remind them take a second, think about if this is accurate. you see some positive effects there. the second concept i've been working on is it called inoculation. it's a metaphor taken from you know, vaccines and all that but what it really means is teaching people to identify manipulative tactics online and spot back and when they see it to go i know what this is. this is a logical fallacy or whatever. and you know, seeing if that helps individuals navigate disinformation a little bit better. >> if i may jump in real quick, this education issue it can be useful if we look at it also from a broader perspective. so if you analyze let's say the growth in terms of productivity to different parts of the global ec

the election of 1800 and if you jump ahead another decade and a half, he runs into conflicts with presbyterian and central virginia over who is going to be the professors at his new university of virginia. and there were some presbyterian ministers and his own community that were not keen on some of the people he wanted to hire and again, he kind of lashes out at some very harsh anti clerical statements and so i think it's always useful to look at the political context in which he make some of the statements, to understand where he's coming from with that titular kind of expression from jefferson. >> thank you. this next question is for doctor kid. did franklin's knowledgeable but non-dock trundle faith make him a better bridge builder between various religious groups and today a similar thing work for lincoln? >> yeah, i think it did. he was on very friendly terms with lots of different kinds of churches and ministers. when he was in philadelphia, he most commonly would tend the cities anglican church, the church of england. his wife i think was more devout and she was an anglican so he would go with her to church and he gave money for the anglican church to be expanded so

associate professor of anesthesiology at the university of virginia. ounder by the way and medical director of good stock consultant. doctor, thank you for being here. appreciate it. you heard cori's reporting right there on the timeline of getting those 4 million doses shipped. explain, to me, how significant this will be for speeding up our country's vaccine rollout. >> as far as we know, you know, it's one of those things. any other, additional vaccine we can have is going to be a fantastic addition to our overall metrics how we reduce the spread of this virus, across our nation. but i think we need to start to concentrate not only numbers of persons we're vaccinating but who are we vaccinating? is it going to the populations or persons -- in the first place? because, if we don't, if we allow those populations to get reinfected again, we're going to have to start all over again because this virus will mutate, as we've been seeing in the south african and uk variant. and now, in california. this is -- we have to go about this strategy, and looking at

and melody barnes of the university of virginia's democracy initiative, miller center and law school.he was chief counsel to the late massachusetts senator edward kennedy when she helped broker the rules for president clinton's impeachment trial. it is good to see both of you. thank you for joining me. elizabeth, i'm going to start with you. the number kratz started the day calling president, former president trump the insight or -- inciter in chief. how strong of a case are they making? elizabeth: i think they are making a very strong case because the video, it is a disgrace. it is horrible. the loss-of-life is sad. i think everybody would agree, the violent trespassing of our nations capitol should never happen again. there i no doubt about that. to say that it all falls on the feet of donald trump, i'm not sure they are making that case really well. i mentioned this earlier, they are talking to politicians, they are talking to men and women in the chamber that seek reelection or election and they understand that campaign rhetoric can be just that, it can be fiery, it can be a lot o

and it was given to him because monroe is not alumnus and of course were in the backyard of university of virginiato which monroe also had a deep connection, they have been there since 1974. >> thank you brett very much, his air of good feelings of accurate description especially his first term, tim, what do you think. >> inaccurate description of his tours in the first three years until the panic of 1819 something which really is the first great depression and in our history and there is where monroe comes to the floor and he did a small tour of the northern states in his third tour aims to go south and west and this is not the first time he has gone into the western territories when they have been hit by economic, he did that as a congressman, basically the powers of fdr were two centuries away and he does bring with him and empathy in his remarks and i'll see what congress can do about this and his annual message to congress which is the state of the union address, he asked them to think a little bit about the box, what can we do people to say we're losing their homes in the savings and the lik

and melody barnes of the university of virginia's democracy initiative, miller center and law school,ef counsel to the late massachusetts senator edward kennedy, when she helped broker the rules for president clinton's impeachment trial. welcome again to both of you. very good to have you with us. melody barnes, to you first. how do you assess the overall, the strength of the case made by the impeachment managers and, in particular, this focus on not just on punishing former president trump, but on making sure that this doesn't happen again? melody barnes: well, first of all, it's great be with you, judy, and to be withlizabeth again. i think it was another very strong day for the house managers. they felt like that a student that was extremely well-prepared and wanted to get everything in the report that they shared with the teacher and shared with the class. but i think it's because they believe that they have a real uphill battle to persuade the number of republicans and make sure the democrats feel that they have the evidence that they need to convict the former president. i also

and melody barnes of the university of virginia's democracy initiative, miller center and law school.o the late massachusetts senator edward kennedy when she helped broker the rules for president clinton's impeachment trial. it's very good to see both of you. thank you for joining me. elizabeth chryst, i'm going to start with you. the democrats started the day saying-- calling president-- former president trump the "insighter in chief." how strong a case are they making to prove that case, do you think? >> well, i think they're making a very strong case, because the video was very-- it's a disgrace. it's horrible. the loss of life is sad. and i think everybody would agree the violent trespassing of our nation's capitol should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and it should never happen again. there is no doubt about that. but to say that it all falls on the feet of donald trump, i'm not sure they're making that case really well. and, again, i mentioned this earlier. they're talking to politicians. they're talking to men and women in the chamber that are-- seek reelection

commissioner starks and i held a meeting at the university of virginia with an early evangelist on the power of telemedicine, and a foremost practitioner today. where she works is the beneficiary of a grant from our connected care pilot program, and her team was eager to show us how telehealth can make a meaningful difference for rural virginians, including those seeking access to maternal care. at children's national hospital in washington, commissioner simington and i witnessed technology provided by the fcc that has improved pediatric care across the region. we were able to peer into the future of telehealth with a commissioner combining analytics into new opportunities for care. every discussion was eye-opening and exciting but more exciting is that following last year's $200 million grant program to boost telemedicine during the pandemic, congress has provided the fcc with an additional $250 million to further extend its reach. that means we can do more good by expanding access to these new technologies to assist with health care during this crisis and beyond. third and finally, w

she's been at the university of virginia, she was teaching at oklahoma state university. is that -- i can't remember? >> pete, i think you lost all of your friends with that. >> your big 12 football, correct. we are the oklahoma state cowboys. >> since i am in the end, who is your football fan? you can imagine that. my knowledge outside the big ten is limited, and it takes all my energy, and all my patients. although they've turned things around, are not oklahoma state, even remotely close to that. they are now watchable. as an indiana hoover fan -- one other important point is, jen's excellent an important book -- great battlefield in which jen mary -- complicate my summary of your book if you'd like. but it is a history of the evolution of the park from its very beginnings. all the way, really to the john that showed ministration. it's about hardaway was talking about all the good deeds, while he was superintendent here. this is a book, for those of you who think that -- timeless entity. it is not -- just in terms of interpretation. but physical landscape, in terms of ph

we have peter of the university of virginia, very distinguished historian of thomas jefferson and hisld. the author of more than a dozen books. the most recent of which was most blessed of the patriarchs which he cowrote with annette gordon reed. joanne freeman of yale university will help us sort through the difficult elections of the early republic, especially the election of 1824. she's also the author of many books. she has writings of alexander hamilton and most recently "field of blood." rachel of pennsylvania state university and alex will help us think about 1860 and 1876. i have also been writing about 1860 in recent weeks and have a book out about lincoln's very difficult train trip after winning the election and only yesterday -- time is going by so quickly i can barely remember -- but i wrote an op-ed in the new york times about a near riot that took place in february 1861 on the same day that congress met to count the electoral certificates much like wednesday. rachel is the author of recent book about popular sovereignty in the coming of the civil war. erik is finishing

learn how old models -- next commissioner starks and i held a meeting with staff from the university of virginiater for telehealth who was an early evangelist on the power of telemedicine and is one of it its foremost practitioners today. more over where she works is as a beenficiary for a grant from our connected program. and then at childrens hospitals in washington we witnessed state of art digital technology supported by the fcc that has approved provider to patient pediatric care across the region. more than that we're able to peer into the future of telehealth with practitioners describing how connectivity combined with data analytics would morph into new opportunities for care. every visit was eye opening, every discussion exciting. but more exciting still following last year's $200 million grant program to boost telemedicine during the pandemic congress has provided the fcc with an additional $250 million to further extend its reach. that means we can do more good-bye expanding access to these technologies to assist with health care during this crisis and beyond. now, third and finally w

of shots. this west virginia university clinic is one of several specialized clinics also in place.ty and staff over 65, plus younger clinical students are getting their vaccines. so here's the lay of the land here, basically at the table all the way in the back, the syringes are all being filled. they are distributed to six vaccination stations. organizers say from the moment people arrive to the moment they get a shot in the arm should take five minutes total. 64-year-old toni christian is getting her second dose, and looking forward to the protection it affords. >> i miss the social interaction more than anything, i think that's probably been the hardest thing. >> nawaz: 77-year-old paul lewis says while he's relieved to be vaccinated; he's worried about his son; a vaccine skeptic. what's that conversation like? >> that conversation is consistent but brief. you don't know what the long term health implications are of having covid-19. so if i'm going to take my choices, i'll take the choice with the vaccine. >> nawaz: here in west virginia, that vaccine arrives each week from the

we can speak to professor larry sabato, who�*s a political analyst at the university of virginia.expect _ additional republicans. what further evidence do you expect the - additional republicans. what further. evidence do you expect the democrats to produce today when proceedings start again? to produce today when proceedings start a . ain? , to produce today when proceedings start atain? , ., ., to produce today when proceedings start again?— to produce today when proceedings start aain? , ., ., , ., ., start again? they want to show that the insurrectionists actually - the insurrectionists actually support the case that the house managers had been making, that is many of these people have been arrested. the numbers are in the hundreds now, and i think there will be hundreds more who will be arrested and prosecuted on one charge or another, well, what are they saying to the judges in their legal briefs? they are saying they did this because the president of the united states had been calling on us to do it since november. we followed his instructions, he was our leader, we though

university of rochester and lawrence university. he grew up inan saskatchewan canada. i'm not certain but i don't recall another commissioner who is a native canadian. he became a us citizen of course and now lives in virginia with his wife and three children. before turning it over to the commissioner our #this morning we invite you is f s f simington. we will be able to chat afterwards and we will get to a few of those. so with that commissioner we are delighted to have you here. we are honored that you are given your made in address at the freestate t foundation and glad we can see you now so i will turn it over to you commissioner simington. >> hello randy and get morning to everyone it's a pleasure to be here virtually for my maiden speech at the freestate on - - freestate foundation with the long and thoughtful record on telecommunication issues it's an honor to take the stage for many colleagues have spoken before. this month marks the 20th anniversaryth of the landmark of 1996 would be a great model for telephone legislation going forward leading to a sustainable system that supported growth and the common good for a quarter-century of rapid qua change. so then to reflect how much of the modern regi

lead to a strike >>> a snowball fight in the mid-atlantic hundreds of virginia tech students held a massive snowball fight on the universityrill field. it's a campus tradition there. meanwhile, the washington, d.c. snowball fight association sponsored another fun battle on the national mall. more than 100 people joined in on that fight. washington, d.c. has not seen a major snowfall in two years. i don't know what's more surprising that it hasn't seen a major snowball in two years. or there's a washington, d.c. snowball fight association >> right all of those associations are going to be busy with the snow coming down. let's go back to times square with nbc meteorologist janessa webb and check in with her janessa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the element i haven't talked about this morning is temperatures it's going to start to drop. you'll start to seate the puddl that we're seeing of wetter snow you're going to have a black ice situation that we're watching out for. the winds have stirred up very cold conditions, but this will be a completely can different a foot northeast it's the perfect recipe for all of t

any member of congress sees this example at home, we had a ransomware attack on one of the local universities at virginia wesleyan university in my district. they were affected by a ransomware attack in 2019. looking for institutions of higher learning, are there any resources from the federal government? can we do more to protect them? also follow-up, requirements for reporting with institutes of higher learning. mr. krebs: i mentioned earlier the ransom awareness campaign -- ransomware awareness campaign, institutes of higher learning are in the top three of institutes of ransomware attack. we have to do more. again, some of these institutions don't have the resources. we need more resources out there, i understand they are working with the department of education to have a more targeted approach for k-12, college and postgrad. i will defer to mr. daniel anything else. mr. daniel: i think it is a good question. i think there are no general reporting requirements for private institutions. with respect to ransomware. now, there are resources available from various places in terms of expertise to how you

virginia tech hosted this online talk and provided the video. >>> today's event speaker is dr. caroline wood newhall. she graduated with her ph.d. earlier this year from the university of north carolina and she joined us just really a few weeks ago at virginia tech as a postdoctoral fellow at the virginia center for civil war studies. i'm certainly really glad she's here and i think you all be as well once you hear her talk. it's clear she's going to bring an awful lot to virginia tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. she specializes in 19th century u.s. history, including the civil war era, but also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally as well. her writing as appeared in "civil war monitor" and "civil war history journal", and her big project at the moment is converting her ph.d. dissertation into a book and that's going to be worth looking out for a few years down the line. it's on the same topic she'll speak about tonight. you can see the powerpoint is already up there, rebel lash, black prisoners of war. she's going to speak for 35-35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. i think advantage

of doses? >> we have no idea when we're getting our next dose. >> meaning the race to vaccinate virginia will be a marathon, not a sprint. judy: and a footnote -- th clinic at virginia's shenandoah universityay. they will be getting a new shipment of vaccines and are preparing to reopen their doors next week. ♪ judy: one of the biden administration's primary foreign policy challenges is how to end the u.s.' longest war. nick schifrin is back with a lookt a new bipartisan report that urges the administration to remain committed to afghanistan and peace talks. nick schifrin: a thousand miles from peace talks, kabul is haunted by despair and death, by a campaign of assassinations, by violence aimed at stealing afghanistan's future, like this attack on kabul university that killed dozens of students, including ali. his father shows a reporter his son's diplomas. >> i cannot see any benefits brought by the foreign troops. every day, there are suicide attacks, explosions, kidnappings, and robberies. nick schifrin: the country's on edge. last december, residents in easte afghanistan ran after a roadside bomb explosion. the violence is unrelenting. the u.s. military says attacks are up over last y