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Daniel speaks with Bob Marbourg, traffic reporter for the Washngton D.C. am news station WTOP. Marbourg explains the importance of driving slowly in snowy conditions and he has a few tips for drivers who dare to venture out when the weather's not at it's best.

Kansas City pianist-vocalist-bandleader, JAY MCSHANN. Last night he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation in Washington, D.C. We'll rebroadcast a 1987 interview with MCSHANN. (from 10

1: Veteran TV journalist DAVID BRINKLEY will retire this week. Brinkley is host of ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." He is also getting attention this week for calling President Clinton a "bore" and for saying the President "doesn't have a creative bone in his body." But for this archive show, we went back and found and interview with Brinkley that highlights what he'll be most remembered for and that is his half century of journalism. His book, Washington Goes to War, was a surprise best-seller in 1988. The book, based on Brinkley's personal experiences and reflections, told the story of Washington in the early 40s, and how both the government and town itself were transformed by the responsibilities thrust on them as a result of the war. Other books by him include "David Brinkley" published last year by Knopf. Also "Everyone Is Entitiled To My Opinion." also published by Knopf. Brinkley was born in 1920 and raised in Wilmington, N.C., Brinkley began writing for the local paper in high school. He soon graduated to the United Press and, by WW II, was working for NBC Radio in Washington, D.C. He slowly moved into TV and was paired with Chet Huntley at the 1956 political conventions. Their immediate chemistry led to the top-rated Huntley-Brinkley Report on the NBC Network. He left NBC and to join ABC to host This Week With DavidBrinkley. (REBROADCAST from 7

The United States and Vietnam are close to normalizing elations two decades after the end of the Vietnam War. NPR's Ted Clark takes a ook at the evolution of this tense relationship since the fall of Saigon, and eports on how the U.S. continued it "war" against Vietnam long after the April 0th pull-out twenty years ago today.

Charlie Mayer reports on the 1996 Student Auto Skills National Quality Care Challenge. The Quality Care Challenge was held this past Monday on The Mall in Washington. D.C. Josh Garrison and Josh Lamb of Paris, Texas won the competition, beating forty-nine other teams from the United States and one exhibition team from Canada. The Quality Care Challenge is an annual event in which the best high school automotive technicians in the country race against the clock to repair identically "bugged" automobiles. (3:30) ((ST

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH AN "ESSENTIAL" WASHINGTON D-C GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE ABOUT HOW HE'S ABLE TO DO HIS WORK WHEN FEW OTHERS ARE AROUND (IT'S SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, BRUCE BABBITT.)

NPR'S PHILLIP DAVIS REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON D-C. BLACKS LEADERS ARE LOOKING INTO ECONOMIC, HEALTH, AND POLITICAL INITIATIVES A MONTH AFTER THE MILLION MAN MARCH.

Robert Siegel speaks to Israeli minister without portfolio Yossi Beilin. Mr. Beilin is a close aid to Prime Minister Shimon Peres and is visiting Washington, D.C. today. He says President Clinton's call for an immediate ceasefire in Southern Lebanon would be fine for his country; but he reminds us that a few days ago Israeli shelling halted over night and Hezbollah fired on Israel's Galilee the next day.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that businesses throughout the area affected by the storm struggled to reopen today. Airports managed to resume operations, though officials warned it will be several days before the schedules return to normal. Meanwhile, more snow fell in the Washington, D.C. area, causing additional problems for commuters.

Linda talks to Ruth Faden, author of "A History and Theory of Informal Consent" (Oxford University Press, 1986), and director of the Bio-Ethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University . She is in Washington, D.C. to participate in the conference at the U.S. Holocaust Museum on "The Nuremberg Code and Human Rights: the 50th Anniversary of the Doctors Trials" (co-sponsored by Boston Univ. School of Public Health). published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She co-authored a paper about the Nuremberg Code, (published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association), which outlines permissible conditions for medical experiments on humans, as part of the final judgment by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. She tells how the Code guidelines for voluntary informed consent had not been formally adopted by medical establishments until the start of the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis performing medical experiments on prisoners. Faden also tells why the Code has not been widely adopted since the Trials.