as we encourage you to to fund share on social media about today s program to help us spread the word we are streaming it on twitter and youtube so you can find it on the heritage speed on both of those channels and platforms. to introduce our guest today, marvin lasky is a prolific writer and an accomplished editor. we re proud to welcome him back to the heritage foundation where he is a former visiting fellow and somebody who s a) of our organization area author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism which he will discuss with us today. martin s political journey is quite unique. as he became an atheist and a marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the early 1970s area it was, he was at the university of michigan where he and his phd and he had a spiritual awakening and was baptized into the presbyterian church in 1976. he later became the founder of redeemer presbyterian church in austin texas in 1992 area college, he tau
around 6:15 including our latest totals in just a minute. thank you, doug. the mix of snow ice, and rainmaking it very difficult for road crews to prepare for this storm. maryland will have trucks out early saturday morning, but they can t pretreat because the brine would freeze in these low temperatures. virginia is calling in its crews by midnight tonight and says 1,400 trucks will be on the roads by noon tomorrow. and plows in d.c. will start rolling out by 7:00 tomorrow morning. a fleet of 200 trucks will be on the roads all day. broken water mains, they re popping up all over the area. this one happened today in prince george s county. there s been a spike in ruptured pipes out there. it was so cold inside one county school today that the students kept their hats and colts on. our bureau chief, tracee wilkins, is in bladensburg with more on that. tracee? reporter: coat hat, scarve they were freezing cold inside of that building and we re freezing cold outside as
more on how neighbors are reacting to this murder. r residents say it s disturg but nos surprising that they hear the sound of gunshots in this area with a certain frequency. early this morning those gunshots proved deadly. about 1:00 a.m. when a call for shots came in. when police arrived they found a man shot several times, and he died of those gunshot wounds. now, a ground-floor unit here at the complex in the 2500 block of 14th street was cordoned off with crime scene tape early this morning. residents say they heard about six gunshots. one woman we talked to says she thinks two guns were used because the sound of the shots and i heard two small shots, and four larger on. you know? and it s sad. it s sad that we can t live together and people judge and really take your life. that s not for us reporter: and police are looking for two men who were seen leaving the scene in a black four-door car. the name of the man who was killed has not been released and so far no