So far without issue for folks headed around the capitol beltway. You will find your lanes are open if you are traveling inbound around ken yilworthth avenue this morning. M no issues to report at this time. Traffic running smoothly on theo top side of beltway travelingrae from coalsville road headed to 270, both 95 and 295 without issue traveling inbound through laurel. Traveling inbound on 50 leaving 202 at speed there as well and no accidents to report northbound on 95. Guy set the start this morning leaving fredericksburg headed to dumb fridays. Thats a check of your fox 5 ono time traffic. Me later on this morning, Bradley Manning will learn his fate. The former army private could spend the rest of his life in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports and other top secret informatioi to wikileaks. It included a video in baghdad that killed nine people. Eopl the 25yearold was convicted cn last month on espionage and a other charges. He faces 90 years behind ba
650 trying to get through silver springs. Southbound vw parkway slowing 197 to powder mill road. Crowding the right lane, difficult to see from this camera angle. Slow traffic after 202 headed to new york avenue split. No problems to record downtown. Northbound 395 slowing out of duke street headed to seminary road. That is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. All right. Julie, thank you. Students in georgia will return to school one day after a man shot at the school. There are new talks and safety procedures across the nation. Fox a 5 Melanie Alnwick is live. Reporter this discussion has been going on more seriously than ever especially since the shootings in newtown, connecticut. Many schools are upgrading plans. In decatur, georgia, School Children fleeing for their lives from a gunman intent on doing harm. Brandon hill was dressed in black. Many schools are reviewing their security and upgrading where necessary. Prince georges county will put panic buttons around each school bui
Revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. The agency has the ability to monitor up to 75 of all u. S. Internet traffic. I mean, that is just incredible. 75 of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. Imagine that from the entire country. It can retain written content in emails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. Meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesnt know exactly how much information Edward Snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. Snowdens leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. The guardians Glenn Greenwald spoke about that last night. All the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. The pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. If you want to start criminalizing that, it means youre asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to allow
Hundreds by some estimates, more than a thousand are dead tonight in syria, and Syrian Rebels say they are victims of a poison gas attack that the Syrian Government launched on the suburbs of damascus. The government strongly denies it, but the pictures coming out of syria tonight tell a horror story even worse than what weve seen before from there victims young and old, dead, but with no marks on their bodies. The u. N. Security council held an emergency meeting this afternoon, white house officials expressed concern, and the president is warned before that widespread use of chemical weapons would cross a red line. Holly williams has our report, and we warn you some of it is difficult to watch. Reporter the videos show nightmarish scenes. Rows of lifeless bodies, many of them small children. Others appear to be dying. They are shown writhing in agony and in the grip of seizures. The Syrian Opposition claims this is the aftermath of a chemical attack on a residential neighborhood on th
Most recently known for his hbo hit the newsroom. He woke up to a harsh headline mother jones this morning. It says that sorkin said the Huffington Post sucks. He had this response to me. Im here in d. C. I did an event last night for the new republic at the Motion Picture association. We screened this sundays episode and there was a q a after. And mother jones, terrific outlet, posted a story this morning saying that i said the Huffington Post sucks. And i certainly did not say that. The headline writer didnt take me out of context. The headline writer didnt exaggerate. The headline writer lied. And i just want to make sure that david corn, everybody im sorry, that arianna and everybody at the Huffington Post knows that i did never and would never say that. Well, we reached out to mother jones to get a comment. I actually spoke with david corn, the bureau chief of the Washington Bureau and he said mother jones has withdrawn that sucks headline. Joining me now for our daily fix to talk