Seymour. Im Steve Chenevey welcome to fox 5 news morning. First at 7 more breaking news out of stove ford. Vre train struck a vehicle and condition of that driver is unknown. Although we dont believe anybody was actually in the vehicle at the time. Thats what we just learned. The accident happening brent point and archdale roads involving fed ricksburg lane taken. As a result there are significant delays on the line. Lets check in with and for more you talked to the folks the vehicle was unb they were able to escape and there were no injuries to passengers on the scene however causing headache for vre passengers. And in the area around blue point road access is blocked off east side of that neighborhood because theyre unable to move the train. Mark doyle assistant fire chief with Stafford County told me there are Emergency Personnel out there and theyre able to move the train abit if theres are emergency situations in the neighborhood. Point road and arch dale road and it could be several hours mark doyle told us with rain moving in before they were able to clear that investigation out of the way. Well go ahead and sky fox as you see the long train there and fredericksburg line trains could be delayed over two hours this morning and train cancellations as well metro is setting up an option for you but plan ahead and may want to stick to the roads this morning and take 95 perhaps if you typically take the fredericksburg line if thats an option for you. Present road closed road and well follow this story for you north of brook station. If you have any questions erin fox5 d. C. On twitter coming up you can look at the rest of the roads around the dmv. Back to you guys. Erin, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Developing overnight, z dot made temporary respares to sink hole in norm west. Last night it caused major delays around the verizon september are. Things should be back to normal caused sink hole. Prince George CountryPolice Investigating too shoots and one was deadly. Last night a man was shot and later died in the 4100 block of southern avenue Capitol Heights and minutes later police reresponsibility todd another shooting curtis drive temple hills. The shooting in that incident is critical. Heightened security in los angeles this morning after Authorities Say they received a Terror Threat against the city metro rail system. The assistant saying the thread came from overseas warping the Los Angeles Mayor is urging people to carry on with normal activities. Expect to see increased security. Also in california dozens gathering last night for a vinlle for victim of the massive warehouse fire over the weekend the death toll stands 6 and more bodies may be buried prosecutors began investigating the tragedy and criminal charges may be filed including murder charges. Were learning also about the owner of the warehouse known as ghost ship. Residents say he wepted out pace spaces for people to liver in the building and was cited by the city for code violation due to piles of debris in and around the witness hour. Clutter helped fuel the fire and no sprinkles inside and very few exits. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is headed to to meet with president elect donald trump. Two discuss a number of issues including district growth infrastructure and push for state mood and last night she talked to fox about about the meeting. What we will share with him is ow the city operates and that its new neek in the federal system and were proud to be nations capitol. But its also important he knows were independent spend our money locally and take care of needs of d. C. Residents. The meeting is set for 11 this morning, steve. After a day meeting with Transition Team tendon continues his thank you tour in North Carolina tonight. Hell personally thanks thousands of surprise rters in fayetteville and president elect plans to visit two other states this week iowa and michigan and this comes one day after picking ben carson to be head of housing and urban development. Meanwhile vicepresident elect pence spo Indianapolis Colts taking on new york jets last night. He sat in a box next to jets owner Woody Johnson being considered for ambassador to great britain. He hosted fundraiser for trump during the campaign season. New administration has not taken over yet and vicepresident biden says hell run to president in 2020. He has not backed down. He said fate has a strange way in 2020. 7 05 now good morning mike thomas who says theres still rain today. It will be a rainy, wet, soggy day. Every now and then we need one of these the rain and dry out. There and even snowflakes flying out west. If you are seeing snow septd me a tweet and let me know what youre seeing exactly. Even if we see snow in washington wont be any to impact the roads. Temperatures far too warm for theres radar. You can seat white and pivrpingz popping out just out to the west over higherel vague and rain starting to push up from the south as well as Southern Maryland. Lots on the way. It will be kind of all day rain event here. And the evening commutes even could be compromised with a good amount of heavy rain around. Theres a look at Winter Weather advisories for high lands out to the west including cumberland maryland where you can pickp a coating of snow or sleet later this morning and freezing rain advisories in the 44 in washington. 7 gaithersburg and 40 dulles. And 41 degrees right now in nass. Your for ka cast for the day today 45. Temperatures not going far. Morning mix possible rain event today with temperatures staying chilly. Lets check the forecast. Erin como, busy morning on roads this morning. Thats rights were tracking this breakings in out of stafford right now. Vre trains struck a car opt tracks. Now the folks are able to get out of the vehicle before the train struck. Involved in the car or on the train. Well certainly keep you up dated this is causing traffic headache because of investigation and cleanup for those living near blue point and stafford. Lets switch to maps i want to show you how we can get around this brent point road closed arch dale road and assistant fire chief doyle with stafford letting us known folks in the naind will have trouble from the east side getting out you can always approach the scene in light of emergencies they do will be able to help you exit. If you live in stovr ford you may have a headache getting a around this morning. Delays of over two hours reported on frederick line and some cap selllations as well. You may want to car pool or drive to work if possible today. Any questions on blah planning commute on inner loop we had a crash. It is blocking shoulder as you approach the wilson bridge. Delays back to branch avenue. Back to you allison and steve. E story why prosecutors plan to retry a former Police Officer for shooting of unarmed plaque man after a mistrial of slager. He was charged with shooting a 50yearold walter scott as he ran from a traffic stop last year. Jury members said he were unable to come one a unanimous decision. Somber start to monday night football jets holding he played if the net it from 2010 to 201 theman man accused of the fight is not charged. The Murder Investigation up to 130,000 after gop lob just added another 5,000. Rich was gunned down in the blooming dale neighborhood after a botched robbery back in july. So far there have been no breaks in the case. And happening pingpong pizzeria said to shut down sunday when a gunman came in and fired three shots. He locked up without bond this morning due in court this week. Back with coverage in north wiingt. Well mel, good morning. Good morning, steve, allison, 28yearold Edgar Madison welsh will spend a few more nights in d. C. Jail than he planned top spend in d. C. Meanwhile you can see this here. Here they came together and painerd front of the restaurant with signs of support and love. Now according to Court Documents welsh told detectives he went to the pizza shop to see if any child sex slaves were harbored there and he was armed and prepared to rescue them. He surrendered peacefully from police when he found no evidence the children were alleged there but before firing off three shot. Its a crazy conspiracy thoory claiming the Clinton Campaign was involved in al the fbi and d. C. Police said its xlootly false. Rumors persisted online and d. C. Police are adding patrols and neighboring shops and customers say this unnerved them a bit. Im just a local mom from the neighborhood and my little boy and i wanted to show support to owners of comet and we feel theres a silent majority that respect and love neighbors and we wanted to show that and try to make it kid and babies its a fun place. Theyre super nice. Pea pizza is great. I cant believe this is happening here. I think its madness. Its just so obvious it something vague. Now, welsh faces 7 charges some felonies including assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging firearm unlawfully. Again he will be back in Court Thursday for another status hearing. Comet pingpong p on at 5 00 tonight. Melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Mystery solved we now know what caused oilly sheen on the potomac. Details ahead. And all right, plus the nationals finding themselves in two major headlines involving who may or may not be part of the team in coming years well you cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Now to a fox5 follow up we know what caused oilly sheen on Potomac River the Environmental Protection agencies is a power plant in dickerson, maryland is to blame. The sheen showed up at the river near point of rocks in par mar and at the end of last month thats oilly substance did not affect drivering supply thats what they that will be request news there. We get extra water supply coming from up above today. Mike thomas is here with the forecast as we look at the capitol. Steve. I think that was well done, steve. Well played, sir. Well played. And all right yeah we have a good amount of rain coming up our way today. Out to the west some snow and winter. Okay. Early december. 44 current temperature at Reagan National and dulles 40. Still0s north and west though in some of the suburbs and bwi, marshall, 41 at this hour. Theres the rain. Starting to push in from the south. St. Mary county starting to see rain over take the region now as well as southern charles and calvert ounty and now take a look west. You see the white appearing on map. That is staying over Higher Elevations today. I wont rule out a brief mixture in washington. Nothing that causes any sort of road problems. Were far too warm for anything to start causing problems yet. Future cast real quick. Here we are at 8 00 or 9 00 today you see rain pushing washington and by 11 just about everybody seeing rain coming down and through afternoon hours as well no outdoor lunch or outdoor activity. Really compromised today with rain over taking the region and as we work into the evening commute hour that would be a little rough with future cast showing heavy rain around parts of area. 45 the daytime high today. Drier, 54 tomorrow before real cold settles in and thursday night into friday temperatures falling 020s and0s all day friday and saturday. Checking in with airport seeing how the commute is going so far. Its been busy and mike tells me rain is moving in that doesnt do anything major to dmv breaking news out of stafford vre train crash car hit and no reported injuries to panes on train and we understand the people in vehicle have gotten out before struck by train. However this is delaying fredericksburg line of two accomplice hours and also train cancellations and because of the investigation for that archdale road impacting commuters and people that live in wide Water Community. Theyre having difficulty getting folks across the train tracks because train blocking it and in light of any emergency well keep you posted on that one and avoid intersection if at all possible inner loop crash before wilson bridge after 295 moved over to shoulder. Let me get out of the way, though, nasty delays extending stacking up to beltway towards 11 street bridge as well. 270 southbound jammed 27 to spur new crash blocking shoulder 270 by 80 other delays well take a tour of cameras notice area next. Steve and allison. Thank you very much, airport, appreciate. It heartwarming gesture for Brazilian Soccer Team involved in the deadly plane crash last work the team was awarded championship trophy they were on sure way to tournament final when the plane went down in players. The nationals sparking conversation today over who may or may not be part of the team and in a few short years. I find it unbelievable wisdom, wisdom is here with all the details. Really okay. I do. Let me break it down for you and see if you feel the same way. Lets talk about this first thing first. Well start out with who may be coming, white sox pitcher ace chris sale he would be a part of potentially blockbuster trade involving sale and nationals right happeneder victor robelees and red sox astros reportedly interested in the sale. Chris sale if you may recall had a temper tantrum this summer with the white sox and didnt like the uniforms and old School Uniforms they would wear. Went into the locker room didnt cut up here he cut up all of them. What. Thats the guy you want to bring her. I know he probably can pitch but he had a temper tantrum and cut up all the uniforms. What was the fine or punishment for that. Thats crazy. So thats one thing. All right the other thing. He may be coming here for big money. Okay. And the other thing is this guy you know be loved super star not this guy this guy here and other big nats headline may not sit well with fans and notes could be without all star bryce harper say it aint so over salary demand hes report lid asking for a record 400 million for ten years. His agent says there are only recent negotiations they have had have involved one year deal in 2017. Happen are made 5 million last season. He will be a free agent in 2018. Now, 400 million i understand its play money for Major League Baseball owners its not the big deal. But is he really worth 400 million. Did you just say it . He didnt do much last year at the end of the season. Hes young 400 million young thats the question. You can get a lot of players this is two years away 2018 built you can get a lot of players for 400 you could very vam the whole roster for that money. Would the fans like to see him stay. Has a super star and you can market him hes a super star. From that aspect maybe the 400 million is worth it. But if you put 400 million in him you can stack the team and win championships. He can win a championship. If youre the learn are you pay him. Yes, see what he does this season. You do, any circumstance wow let him walk. Yeah, if he doesnt do any better than last season. You would let him go. Yes. Hardcore. Steve is hardcore general manager. I call him mr. Snyder. Really al, took far wisdom. She os considered the line. Thanks little basketball now, Indiana Pacers taking on old goen state warriors. Kind of they were not in the game. Clay thompson almost beat him single handedly. Nba season high career best for Clay Thompson is only warriors player to score that many point in game. More than steph curry has ever done. Warriors dominate the pacers 142106 some son staying humble tweeting shout out to the squad forsetting me up tonight. More than five dribbles entire game and missed one shot for the field and put up 60 points. Was he on the team last year. Oh, yeah. Thats funny. They thought scoring would be down bringing kevin during respect on this year. Plenty of scoring to go auto round. Its red hot, right. They are. You could learn maybe we could learn together, major developments today in a vote that would make d. C. One of the most again res places in the United States for new parent. Well have details after the break. And were two from grand opening mga hotel and casino behind all that hype plenty of concern of traffic and congestion. How will they handle that . Well be live inside the National Harbor xhoond center and see how theyre ep most again russ nation for moms and dads. Theyre due to vote on family leaf act that gives 11 weeks paid for bridge or adoption of child and 8 weeks to care for sick child or parent. Now leave would be paid through new taxes on businesses. Mayor bowser is not total on board saying most of those should benefit outside the district and bill needs a second vote later this month to pass. Hour or so before rain. Mike has the details. It looks like all day affair. Rain moving into the region looks like soggy wet tuesday here. Again every now and then we need a day like this to help rebuild the rain supply given were in a drought situation in d. C. Theres a look at radar rain moving in from south and over taking Southern Maryland now moving through sental virginia and soon be on our door step in the next hour or so and then just about the rest of the day well be deal with rain. Bus stop forecast on 0s and 40s for pickup cold showery morning to the south north and east of d. C. Dry for the bus stop and definitely on way home just about everybody will need umbrella and rain jackets on. 45 degrees daytime high here in washington today. A chilly rain heading our way 41 gaithersburg and 41 frederick. Erin como has a check roads this morning. Hey, erin. Rain hit the area mike and its busy. We start with wide view of morning commute and you can see Prince William washing way to beltway. Big delays gw parkway and clara barton road in the district. Dulles toll road theres a crash eastbound side after Loudoun County blocking left lane as you head to the main toll plaza. That could cause big delays on parent. Crash 28 blocking lever lane minimum of delays already as you come to montgomery country you need fwet from 70 to spur this morning watch for that one. Theres 66 delay and delay pkz up solid. Lets go outside for a live look. Big slow downs on inner loop earlier crash moved to right shoulder after 295 upper loop as you head to wilson bridge. Phillies back to suitland parkway now and really big delays 50 inbound from beltway past this point 02 to 295 chefly. Back to you guys. Two days away from mgm grand casino opening. Theres a lot of traffic concerns about how all those vehicles will get in and out of there and beltway traffic too. Ill do ultra man jet pack to get there. Still working on it. Landing is tough. Fox5 has you covered including look at preparations underway. Right now. Allison, steve, a lot of cameras watching roadwaysnd traffic ways to mgm harbor were in the Traffic Control center and well tell you how it get there quickly, easily, safely. Well have Prince George county police chief hank with us here fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. In the 3. 7 seconds it takes ry watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Online for the first year. Getting little slow, itsng open. But slow go. We llitl gest detai ls from erin in a e couple of minutes. F tes. 7 29 right now. Ow. Happening today, final, f preparations underway at the mgm grand hotel and casino ato National Harbor all the soft tht openings out of the way now and we are just two days ahead off the grand opening. Ni doors officially open att 11 00 p. M. On thursday. Trs fox5 though already getting adyg sneak peek inside which featureu more than 3,000 slot machines,s, several new res nightclubs, lounges, plenty of shopping, too. Ng, too. Very fancy. The excitement also comes withoh some concern though about theceg likely traffic congestion. Gestio everybody will want to gety wil there, bob barnard. Barna no doubt about it. No its a concern weve been ben talking about for months now. Th. Bob is there this morning from m the Traffic Command Center at ct National Harbor. Naonal man i know theyre busy, bob, good morning. Ng report roar they are g morning,i guys. Ys yeah, we were there shooting tho video inside the mgm National Harbor. It is a beautifhaul place. Maybe concern wanting tock backk but the promise us when they say numbers like 20,000 people areea coming, the folks at mgm say buy thats during the course of thee day that doesnt mean theyll bl 20,000 people in the morningin e rush or in the afternoon rush r trying to get there at the same time. Time obviously a concern for prince c georges county police withith responsibility for this whole tw area. Joining us now chief hang is iti hank saw win ski. What have you a for th the folks who are saying i mighg like to go but i dont want to o deal with more traffic than wenw normal dollar to get there . He a couple of thing. Of thi. Number one, the Prince Georgesg county Police Department hasartm been preparing for this for twot years in conjunction with mgm and our partners at the National Harbor. Harbor secondly my advice tocondlyd residents come early, plan ton t spend a good amount of time ande avoid some of that congestionont but also understand that weha distinguish between rush hour hr and signalized control ofontr o traffic what were doing with opening, the reality well havev Prince Georges county policeolc officers at key intersections,et yesterday myself, the assistant chief, deputy chiefs we went ton everyone of those intersections to make sure were familiar with the roadway improve many, familiar with the signage and we know exactly what we want out of each of those intersections so s that we can manage traffic and d keep people in motion. Mio thats our goal. So you wont be just jus watching. Wa you might be helping totc direct and move things along . Hi its a contact sport. Cot s were going to be out there in those intersections activelyae moving traffic throughout this we just came down from thedof city down on d. C. 295 this morning, and noticed there was w separate exit now for the mgm National Harbor i dont believe we saw yesterday. R aw yesterday so are there Different Things tg happening this week to kind of move things along to get peoplel there whether youre coming froo Northern Virginia, somewhere soe else in Prince Georges countyny or from the district . Dis there have been a lot ofre roadway improvements and p hartp our planning has been to make certain those roadwayce impraiovements wern e in placeip before we incorporated them intt our plan but now that we know wo yes, were going to be using ala of those roadways and all ofll o those feeder roads to ourur advantage and we have relief f e we have an issue where peoplehee need access to public safetyafet personnel we can get thosean people in effectively as well. A reporter were talkingorter about people going to three casn for the folks who live and worka in the area, goingnd school, wow whats the advice for them, if i their normal and easiest commutc takes them around or through orh near this area . Area . Well, again, im not from n some place else. Lace e ths is my home. Im every bit as concern aboutoo the folks area for 10 or 20 or more yearsa and stay in tune with us. Withs. Well be communicatingmuniti throughout that process. Pce jenn is here with me today. Well have our team out there te constantly over the course ofoue this event talking about whatboa the best route is, what the t preferred route s my advice comm a little early and as with anyia event come a little early youll avoid congestion. Reporter even if youreour going to work or taking kids tot school or whatever give yourself extra time for that kind oftimea thing as well. T kil. Precisely. P also, lets go back for a seconn to when we opened fed ex field there were initial challengeshan with that we quick al dapped and quickly figured out how he wasg going to behave and peopleeo learned think way and in out. K y we do have new and roadways. Oaay once those things take placeelae over the first 72 hours well wl better this plan, and well a become more effective at movingn that traffic, and again our goaa is motion to satisfy both thoseo people coming to our new Hospitality Industry in prince i georges county but alsoso respecting our residents and red making sure we serve both groupp well. Reporter chief hang sawan win ski, thanks very much. Uc hell be back with us in thehe 8 00 oclo what police are doing in terms r of stokes who are going to go tt the casino maybe hit the jackpoc make a little money but want tow get out of there and get homende safely. Those are concerns as well and well lean into that in our in o 8 00 oclock hour. Ou no doubt about it. I a lot of money going to beng t changing hands there. Channg h yes. 7 35 right now. Now. Between get back to mike thomaso right now and get a check on our forecast this Tuesday Morning. Steve, so far so good outsidi just a few clouds overhead ineai d. C. But that will soon change g as rain is starting to push upi from the south and it will be aa early afternoon. Clouds over the capitol dome. Om. 44 degrees. Easterly wind make it feel likel 41 degrees outside. And kind of what you see what w you get for the day today. Od in terms of temperatures. Rares were pretty much going to hang in the low to mid 40s all day al long especially as the rainhe r finally starts to push into thei region its on our doorstep nown pushing up through southern s portions of fairfax county. Up through Southern Maryland asa well and you see the snowflakesa flying out to the west over theo hig Winter Weather advisories are in effect today. Oday. Right there where you see its i sleet and snow through about 7 00 p. M. Tonight. M. Ght. These advisories are in effectet freezing rain advisories down farther south of there towards elkins in west virginia. Irgini all right. Heres your tuesday forecast. Als radain today. Again, today kind of a soggy day. Only 45 degrees for day heim h high well bounce back andce bkd forthwith temperatures in theh e low to mid 40s by the tmpime wee get to late tonight taper off a few showers, clouds hang aroundo through the first part ofugh tomorrow. By tomorrow afternoon we should little bit of sunshine biteeit afternoon hours. Ours. High temps tomorrow in thein t middle 50s before bigtime coldc comes our way for the weekendeed well have that with your sevenu day forecast in about 10 a 1 minutes. Minutes. All right. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin como has the heck o busy roadsoa this morning. This morning. Thats right, mike. S ri mik 7 36. 7 were starting you off withstarg breaking n yews weve been bn tracking out of stafford. Vre train crash hit a car that t was stuck on the tracks. On ts. No reported injuries to those oo the train or those in then the vehicle. Vehie. However, fredericksburg line l delayed from two plus hours. Rs metro will be honoring train tickets. Ck find alternate transportation ao well this morning. Ni that train is blocking brief b point road closed at arc can a dale road affecting people who l live or travel through the wided Water Community they are the ones impacted. Mpte now there are First Responderser at that scene and investigatorso if theres an emergency they cae help you get through but thatt crossing is closed right now. Rn they said it could be throughouu the duration of the morningheng commute as they work to clearwor that train and investigate so ia well keep updated thon one. Hono rain hitting the area and slow s downs gray and gloomy along 2702 this is the southbound delay at 124. We have a crash south at thatt a point at 28 and delays arere extenting all the way into w int urbana. Really from 70 in frederick alll the way down to the spur. A lot of stop and go traffic. Rac mixed in with that accident bigt delays about 45 minutes sloww down. This is 66 out in virginia andnd centreville out at 29. 2 youre jammed all the way backac to 234 and delays continue astie you try to get towards theowar t beltway inside the beltwaydehe b through fall its about an hour delay fromaym 234 to the beltway. Metro on time except forxct f safetrack. Tr back to you guys. To yoy when it comes to being to addicted to technology, who is s worse, teenagers or their parents . So interesting. Eresng the surprising results are nextx later on a Holiday Light show for a prince. Ri where you can catch thishi spectacular light show in honorn of the beloved singer. Join all your child . 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Region maybe some snowflakeswfls flying up towards hagerstown,ow, comer land, maryland, as well wl and through the mountains ofunta west virginia. By the time we get to luncho lu time, we can be looking at waves of moderate rain that come c through from middle portion of the afternoono were dealing with a couple ofwl breaks where its just lighter g showers. But then it does look likeik another round of heavy rain gett here just in time for the the morning commute. Omte so that is something well havee to watch out for. Probably plan on spenting littln bit of extra time on spe the ros this morning as you head homeu e from work. Om w how much rain, well, about ann inch of rain it looks like inikn some spots around the region. Ro maybe up towards 1. 3inchesinc towards manassas. S nothing too heavy to causeause flooding issues. Iues. Steady throughout the day. Ay 44 degrees here in washington. I want to show you something. Et. I want to show you how colt aira is up in canada. Old crow right here. Negative 43 degrees. Grs. Negative 43 degrees. Grees. Thats cold enough if you spitoi it will freeze before it hitsit the ground. Gross, mike. Ross, its a cool fact. Fac it will freeze before it hits the ground. D. Youll hear it pop. Op google it. Fox5 seven day forecast. Ecas. The reason im showing that yout because some of that cold air is direct. No it wont be that cold. Ha col but it will be a first good shoo of winter cold coming our way wy friday and saturday when high hh temperatures will struggle tolet make it out of the 30s. 0s all right. L r thats a check of the forecast. Erin como you have been busy tht past several days and today isay no exception. Eption i v it feels like nan todayny weather out in the hallway itsl freezing i put my fox5 jacketck on. On youre ready tore winter. Adyn nice reminder to bundle upoep before you head out today. Oday. Rain moving in. You need yourar rain jack. Jac got the hood here and yournd you boots. We do have some breaking newsew vre train crash hit a car stucku on the tracks. Track no reported injuries to those on the train and we understanjuridt people in the vehicle got out go before the train struck. Uck. Now, this is causing big delayss to the fredericksburg line of two plus hours some trainsein canceled and turned around check your schedule ahead of time. Ulaa metro will be honoring those tho train tickets and keep in mind d if you travel in satisfy of stafford particularly in the t wide Water Community impacted brent road closed at arc ken dale road just north of thef brook station. Ook we do have First Responders outt ther crash they can help you get get through if you need to blockingn a lot of traffic in the arearaff making things a little tricky ii youre waking up in staff for. F. The rest of your Tuesday Morning commute, gray and gloomy im non seeing any rain impacting thetit commute around the dmv right now. 50 issue through cheverly slow. Earlier crash on the inner loopl cleared on the wilson bridge wio delays are back to suitlandd parkway. Park you can see right there and thee he also have crash on suitlandd bridge jammed back to silverver hill road. D. Metro on time except tourour safetrack. Tr tonight capitol christmas chm tree will be lit up 84 year oldo spruce from idaho will sparklerk on the front lawn of the capitol. House Speaker Paul Ryan will lead the lighting c eremonyke. R em the tree has more than 6,000 ornaments. Bittersweet night for president obama and his familynight. The last capitol Christmas Treee lighting for them. T as president and first family. M are we projecting the bittersweet status . I dont know. Now. Seems like it would be good andd bittersweet. Ersw [ laughter ] all right. Ll r how about all celebrationut l here when it comes to celn omes spectacular Holiday Light show. This is outside of chicago honoring prince. Pnce. In addition to the lights synchronized to medley of holiday song it includes purplee lights and a giant drum kit k bearing his love symbol. Big old guitar. Tar. Thats amazing. Very nice. Kime toalsday its time to tal about some of the stories thatfh are trending oh and line. Endih marriage be renewing your commit many every 10 years . Years . Our friend sarah fraser joini us for her take. Hi, sarah. Ar. Hi yall. For me this sounds great im a commitment folk so i love this. S 10 is too long. L how about two. Can we meet somewhere in thee middle. Five. 18 months. Six. Six. Give us details. Ive this is really really cooly c but a relationship therapist iss basically advising that we sortr of look at marriage in different and divorce rates continue toe t grow and still 50 for divorcece if we had this kind of rangege many where not only do you get g prenup but you set for for relationship goals. Goa and she basically is saying inan this article that most couplespl never really sit down and talk about they might hash outas finance they dont really talk a about like what they want in a career or emotionally from a partner. And. Right. Ll t that stuff. 10 years is hushly when the breaking point really happensy e can sit and renew it do that. Ta she also likes getting rid of the vow till death do us par. Pr people stop looking at a divorcr as failure. As f she doesnt like the word word divorce. This article is very vy fascinating. That it should just be we partbe ways. If it doesnt work its not a na failure. She sift says lots of timesf tim people grow apart theyre not nt really up front with what theyht wanted in the building. Ld was this person divorced that was writing the article. G the tl she doesnt say that. Doe thats a good question muchn thats a really good gd theres nothing wrong with ni sitting down and making sure,ur, where are we. Are w is this where we wanted to betee and how do we get to where we we want to be . Wa you think that we can ever ar a society get to that place, pc, though, where its look at morem of like hey, lets see if thishi works for six years versuss putting like this is foreverv i think its already changedd i think that now i dont think that people really look at if somebody says theyreyre divorced i dont think peoplehi look at that its ank failure. I think now its cemented fend things dont work out you findd happiness with somebody else. Sd its very kind of old school to think that hat its failure. Your marriage you didnt worr or you stick with it even if i youre not happy because thatst what youre supposed to do. Do i think shes saying for for people they say its a personalo failure. I think youre right. K yo society doesnt. Usociety do i mean i dont think anyoneesnd really judgehis anyone forgettig divorced any more, but i think k its more of a hey, did this thi fail . I feel like i wasted mydm time with this person and shesd like if you go into tha thinking this might expire, and, in fact most likely will expiree then it sort of changes the i dont know if you i agreewf with that i feel like thats ah cop out an setup. Set i feel like you go in wanting ti be with this person and if not, you wait until you find somebody that, you know, hits those realistic markers for you. Y forever is a long time, my friend. Dont get married. Exactly. Dont worry. Edont wor dont get married. Garried yes. If planning i if you feel like that going in in if that builds up the passioi in the relationship again then go 40 as reminder. Inr safer long time, do not get n g married period. That is very good advice. Ver what do you guys think about abo this guy . His name i want to get this correct mike rigs hesh a writer but he also recentlyeny loft 90 pounds, and he says that he has a very interesting i i guess trick if you will but its got some backlash. H to get people to stop offeringfr you food and alcohol. Especially in the office place p or now with holiday parties. Pas so he says that even when hellh tell people hey, look, i dont n want a donut, i dont want foodo people want you to b p it. It. Food push schers. Scher hell often tell people no, i used to be fat i just lost 90 pounds. Ounds. It makes people feel auctiono war enough they stop asking. Tha heres the controversy with thiv much he says it applies to other things that you should always ay say no and why and what he meana is, your credit card companyd calls and wants to extend your u limit or give you another credit card. Ca he uses no i used to have a a gambling addiction. Okay. Oka but is it that karma if you dont have a gambling addiction . It works with alcohol, too. ,t i used to have a drinkingnking problem. Lem do you think thats like e it depends if shes are serious push schers are like you know the kinds. He kinds you know the people. Ow t peo those people. Eople if there is something wherene youre just im liking for a plight no isnt going to work in the situation i have no problemm with that at all. Atll plus if he says that with theitt food thing, thats awesome. We you lost 90 pounds . Its a gooo conversation starters too. S too. It takes the conversation away e from the food. Look you dont have todont t explain anything. No thanks. Hank to explain and what fit doesnt work. Or it works. Works. Some people it doesnt work. No i is a no. Im just saying because if you,y you know, its my whole thing wi that i got from our colleague ce pat downstairs and i live by ity that jade rule. One of them is, i dont explaina i dont justify, argue, defend or explain. Xpin its not on me to do that. Dha no, thank you. No, ank no need to make the other person feel okay, you know, i lostos 90 pounds i used to be fat. Okay. Y. When you say no, thank do do im just saying if that doesntn work. I dont have a problem with it. W i wouldnt come out of the gatef with it. The if its somwiebody offering meig food 50 days in a row and ive v said no thank you 50 time thenee ill be like lik i have something that works. S you get real close and you say said no, thank you. Ou no, shes a threaten theyhe are. I like the threat. I like th thats better. E th in fact ill move over there. 7 00 vick. Vic lets check in with mike. Allison, that was kind of, tt scary. Be afraid, yeah. Set your boundaries and donn let people bust them and thatst just it. Just i love it. Quick look at the radar heret rain is now starting to yo of d. C. Of d. C. It will shortly be here. Her quick look at the fox5 accu a seven day forecast. Focast 45 a chilly rain today. Tay drier tomorrow with highs in thn mill 50s and we get cold by tht time the weekend. Ee 39 on friday. Ofrid 39 on saturday as well. L all right. Thats a check of your forecasts lets go to erin como witho w traffic. Affi getting everything all caugh up for you because weal have nev metro delays. Ay blue line as you make your way out theres train malfunction at Franconia Springfield because of that residual delays to largoo l and orange our first metro delal of the morning. Again, continuous singlein tracking orange and silver s between west and east fallswest church and because of earlier vre crash in stafford, fredericksburg line runninge ng upwards of two hour delays. Day moving over from the rails toaio the roads. A lot of green being covered byb red right now which is nice wayy to say we have lot of delays. D well take look at those problel spots on our roads as wese continue. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The north and the south are mine. This is fox5 news morning. Good Tuesday Morning to you. Im allison seymour. Mour. Im steve schenn z welcome te fox5 fuse morning thanks for joining us. It is 8 00 a. M. S 8 a. M its tuesday, december 6th. Ber t heres whats on the fox5 news w morning menu. Enu. First up d. C. Mayor bowser setss to mee donald trump today in new york. Its the first time the two havv met face to face since 2014. 2 well tell you whats on thes ot agenda ahead in live report. Ep and the d. C. Pizza shopp targeted by a gunman over ther weekend is set to reopen thisn s evening. Evening. How the community is rallying behind comet pingpong. Commuter train collides witl a vehicle in satisfy forwardorwd causes problems for commutersblm this morning. Ou need to knowto know before you leave the house. He he first though live lookt thol outside. Id grab your umbrella. Yet but rain is on the way. Way it will stick with us all day long. Long well start with breaking be news though 8 00 oclock this morning coming from the westg fe coast los angeles on alert nowln as security is extra tight along the la transit line. Light rail system the fbi says a call was made yesterda threatening a tack at a transi stop near Universal Studios today. Y. That threat came over the publiu safety line. Ine. Computers will see extra policec and police dogs at all transitit stations. Stat eighths quote unquote crediblere threat there. A federal judge s man to 30 years in prison for plotting to attack the us capitol. Capil he shouted allah is in control r as he was led away in shackless yesterday. The judge also ordered lifetimee probation for 22yearold Christopher Lee cornell. Inn including his monitoring his computer use and sharpnd s restrictions ba he can do online. Comet pingpong pizza set to reopen aft being shut down whenn a gunman came in and fired offed three shots. Shots. Much hes due back in court. Crt Melanie Alnwick live in le i northwest with the latest foresr us. Mel . Reporter well, 28yearold Edgar Madison welch faces serious champs including felony assault with dangerous weapon apparently he will spending a few more nights in dc than hen h originally planned. In we now know there were just four people inside comet pingponggo when welch fired off his ar1515 rival. According to Court Documents,oc, welch told detectives he went t the pizza shop to see for himself if child sex s being harbored there and he wash armed and prepared to rescue them. Them he peacefully surrendered to police when he found no evidence that children were being held there. Its a crazy conspiracy theoryhy claiming the Clinton Campaignig was involved in all of this. His though the fbi and dc police pic have said its completely falsee much the rumors have persistedsd liline. Now, d. C. Police are added patrols neighboring shops tellns fox5 they, too, have receivedved threats online and over the onone. Customers say this is unnervedne Business Owners and thehe employees and you can see out it front of the restaurant now throughout the day people werepw coming by leaving signs and flowers as well. Theyve been port of gatheringhi on facebook so far postingting messages and asking theirg tir communities to come to the restaurant either today orr tody throughout the rest of the week to show that visible show ofwf support. The patronage thats soo important to show the restauranr owner and the employees thatyeha they will not stay away theywayh will connu comet pingpong reopens at 5 00 oclock tonight. Ight live in northwest, im melanie e alnwick, fox5 local news. Ns all right. Back to the district now. Now disturbing discovery at at construction site in d. C. Electrician apprentice workingpn on the massive wharfsi construction project in southwest walk off the job lastb week after finding two nooses aa the work site one hanging over doorway. Doway. The other draped over a ladder. Terrell powell became concerned for his safety and he quit whenh his immediate e supervisor didnd it was definitely frightening. I done been through a lot of n th but being , being being tortured like that, hanging nooses around me,m you know, its several blackal a people that work there, but i bt was feeling like i was being targeted, because what are the chances one black man going tont find two nooses in one day onond the same job . Clark construction said itont identified the person who put up the nooses they say that persone is a subcontractor who was immediately fired. Dc police say they have not been contacted about the four minutes aft the hour tu and right now in this hour brana new video of the warehousearehou tragedy in oakland. Early this morning erie symbol o of this tragedy was removed frof the building. G a crane lifted a charred piano a out of the rubble. You see it righthand me there. Meanwhile, last night dozenl of people showed up for a vigil for the victims. Vti those attending carried signsns and burped candles to rememberem the 36 People Killed in oaklandd converted warehouse during auria dance party. Arty prosecutors are investigating the fire to see if any criminala charges should be filed. Oakland is not that big of aa community. When you tie in musicians, the artists, the dee jays thee bouncers, promotors, et cetera, et cetera nobody is more thannoi two or 3 ds egrees of separation away from anybody else. E i was very fortunate to not lose anybody i was particularly close to but i lost acquaintance and i think this was a very largey lar strike to our entire community. Some people booed the mayorhe of oakland when she tried to some say she needs to resign ren because she failed to addressade the lack Affordable Housing hsi thats caused some to seek outet non traditional living spacespae like old warehouses. . . Right now 8 00 oclock Prince Georges county police investigatinrges g two shootino of them was deadly. Hem wa last night a man was shot and later died in the 4100 block off southern avenue in capitolnue il heights and then just minutesene later, Police Responded toespo another shooting on curtis drivi in temple hills. Hil that victim is in criticalritica condition. Police do not believe those twoo 125 billion waisted thats what a new internal study of thf pentagon says it wasted on business operations. But that study originally done d almost two years ago was hiddenn by the pentagon fearing thatarit congress would use the findingss as an excuse to take away moneyn for the defense butch. Butch this all according to theng t te washington post. Post. Pentagon leaders requested thest study but then found that there was more wasteful spending thant expected. Peed we now know what caused oill sheen on the potomac las environmental protect agencyctgy says a power plant in dickerson, maryland, is to blame. Blame that sheen showed up on theon t river near point of rocks inks i maryland. The oily sheen did not affectfft the drinking supply. All right. Ight. Just about five minutes or so os after 8 00 oclock. Oc time for mike. Were close. Se. Yeah. Time for me. Coming our waygur today. You bring your umbrellas today . Good. Steve, sheaf is shaking his heaa no. No. I just sort of walk through t if only i can wish. Theres your radar thisar t morning. You see rain now starting to push in. Probably just lightly right nown in washington. Tn but very quickly should turn tur over to a more light to moderate rain. Southern maryland dealing withyl rain this hour and snowflakeskes flying out in the mountains tonn the west. Temperatures around the region right now chilly out north andnd west, 36 in martinsburg. Nsrg 36 frederick. 37 at hagerstown. Own here in d. C. Were warming wmi enough we dont have worry about snow. 44 degrees in washington. Hing 44 in quantico as well. W wh temperatures will sit throughour the day today. Yod Winter Weather advisories are in effect off to the north and wesn including the city of comer land. Panhandle of maryland, garrettrt county maryland, and upper or Higher Elevations of west of virginia. Freezing rain advisories therer in the pink. Quick look at future cast 10 00 a. M. Today dealing with a good g amount of rain as we scoots through the rest of afternoon here rain will continue and thed evening commute in particular pu could be bad. 45 degrees your daytime high. Get ready for a soggy tuesdaysdy afternoon. Kay. Kay. Commute erin even if its nottn nice out. Ce out. Thats right. Coming up on 8 08. 08. Gray, its gloomy, its dreary e and were seeing a lot of lot o delays. De gw parkway southbound jammedd from the beltway j down to the rows vessel bridge in thosesel h delays theres a crash by 123. 3 inner loop is jammed from suitland parkway all the way tot the wilson bridge. Earlier crash just passed 295 2 didnt help the situation. Uation about 25 minute delay there. 295 northbound slow towards tow lavatory road and then suitlandd parkway theres a crash blockinn two lanes at first st because of that suitland parkwaw inbound jams up any way thisay i time of morning and youre y seeing heavy delays back toack o silver hill road. Ill r in addition to that. 295 southbound 50 to the 11th Street Bridge jams. Once you cross the 11th streett bridge on the inbound side you y jam from the 11th street see bridge to the third streetrd see tunnel. 50 inbound through cheverlyhevey remains completely stacked and a some stop and go traffic on thet outer loop through largo towardt baltimore washington parkway. Wa and then fromsh rouinte 1 over o georgia you are dealing with wit about a 15 to 20 minute delay. Y urbana through rockville giveive yourself about 35 extra minutess see and allison. A mistrial declared in thecle case of South Carolina policein officer who shot and killed an a unarmed black man. An. Michael slager remains on housee arrest this morning. Orning he will be retried. Meanwhile, South Carolinasolin governor urging the state toe t remain calm aft the shootingin spark outrage. Foxs Steve Rappaport with thehe latest. Unable to come to unanimous decision versus Michael Slager, is that i correct mr. Foreman. Mr. Foreman. Yes, sir. All right well, the court therefore must declare a mistrial in this cases reporter South Carolinaarola judge declaring a mistrialistr monday in the case of Michael Slager. Former North Carolina stopolinap Police Officer accused of fatally shooting a 50yearoldyo black man name walter scott. Co. Slager had pulled scott over for having broken taillight in apria of 2015. 5 a witness cell phone videoeo as scott fled the traffic stop. Today im not sad and i know that justice will be served. Sve Reporter Video of thef the shooting quickly went viral anda sparked outrage. Now Community Leaders in the t charleston area are calling forf calm. I really dont understand,ndn um, the out come of today, um, u but given the evidence, giveniv the overwhelming evidence, the beef what your eyes see s evidence. Reporter after the jury was unable to unanimously agree on a verdic for slager. Agrelage our knowledge of whatge owhat happened is unwavering. Aver and Michael Slager will face justice in this. Hi its just been delayed. Del reporter the judge hadudge h told jurors they could considere a lesser charge of voluntaryluny manslaughter. Uger the fight isnt over. Over. That was round one. One weve got two more rounds to gog the solicitor is trying this case again as soon as she can. Doj is trying this case as soonc as they can. This morning more calls foras answers in nearly three monthsem after a d. C. Police officer shoo and killed terrence sterling. Tel last night a crowd protestedteed outside the home of mayor bowser demanding justice. Ce an officer shot sterling afterin sterling crashed his motorcycley toot side of the officerss cruiser in september but witnesses say sterling could noe avoid the cruiser because itrlss pulled right into his path. The protesters say the Police Department and the mayors and y office are ignoring theirin ther demands for answers. She got out schenn said sch she just look at us as if shehe was disgusted. The reason why we originally i initiated being here because terrence sterling just missedsed thanksgiving. Givi and he will soon be missing misi christmas. Ma and so its very important thata we we kind of like make her h as uncomfortable as his family is on a normalcy now to betoe losing and have lost a son. Fox5 was the first to reportp grand jury convened tod ju investigate the shooting lastthg be handed down. Dn still ahead dozens of teens targeting local convenienceonvei stores in flash mob style style robberies. Robberie latest one happened this weekend. Plus were getting you prepared for the opening of the new mgm casino we. The o fox5s bob barnard has a birdsr eye view inside the casino Traffic Command Center. Mman actually youre on the ground,rn right . Youve got ground view. E whats going on, would job goodg morning. Report roar we are. But allison, thereport cameras o provide that birds eye. Were not only talking aboutng crime. You were inn some money, you head to your car. Nn syo car what are you going to do . Wel have the perspective from therot Prince Georges county police pc have the perspective from therot Prince Georges county police pc chief coming up in a few. Few. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Have the perspective from therot Prince Georges county police pc chief coming up in a few. Few. The local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Sing along with Furry Friends and stomp your feet to a sesame street beat sesame street live elmo makes music clap along when elmo makes music playing eaglebank arena december 1618 tickets on sale now . . 8 15. Its time for little cuteness. Oh, we love it. Favorite time of day, mike. Favorite time of the day much its time for first five photo gfoot dr oubltee timtimefor cuteness. Ne. Its looks like ma can i toot the selfie. Sfi first selfie. Fst s my fox5 first five selfie. E such nice looking babies. Look at dimples on malaya. Alay so cute. What great smile. Mi and they enjoy guess what, they love waking up every up evy morning to fox5. Moing thats awesome. Awome so cool. I wonder if mekhi did take thatt picture. Ctur if not he could tell tel everybody he did and wed we believe him. Believim they look so happy. Look so hp to send us your childs child picture go to fox5 d. C. And posp your picture on there and welll find it maybe youll be the fox5 mares five of the day tomorrow. R very cool. As far as the weather did our airconditioner just come on oro is that rain on the roof. N oo probably the aircondition. Its not heavy outside just j yet. T. Were seeing green starting to pop up southern of d. C. Southern half starting to seein light rain. Ra nothing too heavy just yet. Y starting to push up through to Northern Virginia heavier rainnr and out to the west just aroundo the i81 corridor seeing some snowflakes flying early thisarly morning. Temperatures around the region i 44 here in washington. Hito dulles is 41 as well as bwi marshall, up from degrees thisue hour. Thats pretty much wherehhere temperatures will stay all day. Only 45 degrees for a huge lots of rain come your way this evening. Evening. Evening commute plan on littlent extra time. Tra roads will be wet. Wi it could be raining hard laterdt this evening. Ng tomorrow mid 50s, sunshine backb on thursday ill not worry aboua that too much. And then as we head towardsd toa friday and saturday sunshine iss back but temperatures aretures r hanging in the 30s. Bonechilling cold. Hill get that heavy jacket ready. I think i forgot what that w feels like. Be remained friday and saturdaya youll remember quickly. Uily thank you mike. Ouik check in with erin and get ae look at the commute 8 17 a lotot of problems on the road. Oa gloomy conditions notglooon necessarily rain right nowarilya taking a wide view of tinhe are. 270 still super backed up delays back to urbana this thi morning. Look at the beltway pretty nasty through largo on the outer loop coming up to 50. 5 inner loop from branch avenue to 295 slows and thee 95 park thekt entire stretch from the beltwayl to the 14th street bridge withet a 20 minute delay. Delay heres a closer look at thatt ta inner loop delay from suitland i parkway to the wilson bridge. Bg and also keep in mind suitlandun parkway dealing with big delaysy because of a crash at first sterling. Delays are sod solid back to bao silver hill road. Silv also the 11th Street Bridge is g ackeked up. 50 inbound through cheverly sorl slow in the district new yorknek avenue passed bladensburg jamsbj outer loop is dealing with a 202 minute delay from 95 over tor georgia. A and in addition to that 27070 south jams from 28 27 excuses mow to the spur. Spu big stretch of delays there. Also 66 from 234 through centreville slow traffic. Raffic off and on delays to the beltway i would say about a 45 minute m delay from 234 Prince Georgeses parkway up to the beltway theup inner loop jams throughthugh annandale and then theres a the closer look at that 395 delay. El blue line residual delays andely safetrack impacting orange and silver. Silver well take a look at those v. E delays next. 81 it 18 on this Tuesday Morning. Morning. Move on to National Harbor hbo countdown to the grand openingpe of the mgm now under gray twondo days away from the big day. Ay last hour we took a look at lk traffic concerns. S now well take look how people p who plan to visit the casinoe cs will be kept safe. E. Fox5s bob barnard is live there this angle. Thisngle i hadnt even thought about itbi before. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Orni absolutely. I mean, the mantra come early ey stay late if you want to avoid d the traffic impacts you also yos think i go early, i stay late, hit it big, ive got cash in my pocket here, am i going to beoit safe getting to my car . Well ol course a lot of cameras watching over almost every aspect of o National Harbor and the mgmgm grand at National Harbor butarr what are police doi make sure people who go and mayy be strike it quote unquote rich are safe . Its something thatht Prince Georges county policerg take very seriouslyco and joinig suss chief Hank Stawinski princp georges county police chief. Chief, i understand youve been to vegas. As yes. At the invite of mgm resorts. Tell us what your concerns arern and the advice for people who gg and maybe concerned for theirorr safety. Ty well, as you were juste jus capturing, a lot of concernsonce been brought to my attention you have active management andad act tough monitoring of all these garage spaces at the National Harbor. Terson company, gaylord, the national who are proper and mgm tremendous infrastructure invests. Again what were saying is, coms and be prepared to have an enjoyable time. Theres ample secure at are the all of a these facilities andac well be enhancing that with ouh police presence. If you win big, do you cego t an officer or security officerre and say, hey, can you escort mec to my car . I dont know whoo else is watching me or what do a so as always, be discreet. You dont want to be walk wig ai large am of cash or jewelry iney your hasnt. N youll want to move quick tollul your vehicle. You want to access your vehiclec get in and understand that for r anybody who may be contemplatina something all these cameras aree focused on every square foot of that garage space same thing t over at mgm. M going back two years ago myselfl and martin moore have had hav h relationship talking about how a we can make this a savon crew sc for folk. Were completely invested in that and aga inmple thal be a heavyea happen all of it will beit wl be captured on video. Capted on last thing before we go. Eo. For people who live and work in the area, concern that perhaps a casino would bring the criminal element into their backyards. R. What do you say to try to reassure them. Tm. Two years of planning. Rs opln weve had detectives andnd investigators going around the e country visiting these sights. Ig inter acting with the police the departments responsible for them and receiving official trainingn how you provide police servicess to hospitality environment casino environment as well. Chief stawinski. Wins something to think about not abt just traffic but your perm your safety as mgm National Harborl o opens in two days, guys. G theyll have to havee toe patrolling on overload there. Everything thats going on. Ng tn thanks bob. S bob. 8 21 right now. N vicepresident joe bidenesidn keeping the white house in his sights. What he says about a possiblee president ial run in the year 2020. It remains one of thenef dirtiest cities with the worldor levels leaving its citizensiten chronically ill. Ill. Where . Well tell you plus as a holiday greeting from one of ouo Service Members overseas. . . Season greeting ill carl smithi from Bagram Airfield afghanistan. Anis i just want to wish all mytoish family and friends in fredericki maryland a happy holiday and a a 8 25. Become a matter of death. Thick smog in that countrylution contributing to half a mil a mln premature deaths this year. The cause of a variety ofty o serious disease. Ea. My son was falling sick a lol with the pollution. He was getting a lot of these allergies, coughs and cold col at that time actually wealle realized the problem was reallyr a alarming. Manufacturers of air pureur fires and pollution masks sayony 2016 is the first year that t theyve had a serious number off indian families buying theirei products. 8 25. 44 degrees. Es. 44 degrees and starting toee lightly rain in a few locatios o within the metro. So it begins and were in for ar wet day today. Oday all day . Ay just about all day. Okay. Kay. But then well make up for tomorrow with a dry day. Ay theres balance in theres b universe. All is well. Ll is. Radar there showing the rainhean moving up from the south. From t. Again well be in it all day. Id take a look at your plannerplane today. 43 degrees at 10 00 a. M. With wt rain around 1 00 p. M. 44. And more rain and happens at 4 00 oclock . What . Me e rain. Ew. Soggy tuesday on the way. Okay. Y. I was waiting for a little, l you know know we got rain and rain and then re r rain. And more rain. N. No Silver Lining just moret m rain. Thank you. Hi, erin. More rain means more problems ea rnsoads. 8 26. 8 im going to help you get arounn the dmv. There we go. G all right. All as you make your r way oigut vre train crash happened just aftera 6 00 oclock this morning. Trains canceled. D. Metro honoring those tickets. Ics plan ahead if you take the fred burg line. Burg for investigation brent point p road is closed at arkendale road. Ro wide Water Community impacted by the traffic down there. Tr take a look at youafr hfieadseas siganid the bell way as wethbele continue back to you steve andvd allison. Allison all right, erin, thanks a a lot. Lo 8 27 right now. Next fox5 in the big apple as d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser getset ready for her oneonone with wt president elect donald trump. Rup dozen of teens rush into a a 7eleven and pull off a f first time. Rst tim join all your child . S sesame street friends as they discover that everything makes musc its sesame street live elmo makes music clap along when elmo makes music december 1618 tickets on sale now . . 8 30. Just a couple of hours d. C. D. C mayor Muriel Bowser will meetee with president elect donald trump in new york city. K ci. Fox5s matt ackland there ine new york to tell us what the twa are expected to talk about. Abo matt, good morning. Od mning. You made it safely, matt. Afet good morning. Good mning we can see you. W reporter i did. Eporte d i did and finally we got liveiv shot. Sorry about the trouble we were we were moving so quickly we we tried to get live shot on the train but sometimes technologyol doesnt work out. Nut. But were here at penn station. Just so you know whats whats happening think morning, i justj was texting with the mayorss chief of staff, and they are ono a train right now headed this way. The plan is once they get here,r theyll head over to trump tower. Towe the meeting is expected to take place at 11 00 oclock. Not really sure how long that tt meet log take mace but so many about. Out. First she wants to convince thee new president that d. C. Is a a good place. Pla there has been some talk in the campaign about draining the whaa and. Also, the president electntlect mentioned that there were issuee with crime in the city. It the mayor really wants to setoet that straight. T. She also wants to talk about sanctuary cities and tell the president elect, listen, d. C. Is going to stay a sanctuary city. Youll remember that the president elect has said thatait hell take away federal funding to convince him not to do thatoa and also to respect the d. C. Is a sanctuary city. Ity. Also, were told that she wantsn to talk about infrastructure. That means, metro, that meanstns the bridges. Dges weve been reporting on the onhe bridges that go into d. C. From m the Memorial Bridge to thehe Frederick Douglas bridge. Also, metro is a huge issue. Ssue so she has a limited am of time. Were told she requested this meeting. Once theme president electdentle come here and see him. Im as we all know, the mayor was a big backer of hillary clinton. L. In fact, the night of the t election she was at a party as a results were coming in and shehe was still cheering for hillaryia clinton and still hopeful that night. Nit. When you have over 90 of the t residents living in the districd of columbia that voted for hillary clinton, obviously sheue had to switch gears a little t bit. So shes here in new york city. I just saw hcier security detail here. They come before her. Here at penn station. Hopefully meet with him for about an hour or so and then she has scheduled a gaggle with alll the reporters coming up here and then also we should get auld oneonone interview with the t mayor at the bloomberg buildingg afterwards. So very busy day. Busy well have it all covered forvef you guys. Y steve and allison, back to you y in the studio. Inhe s all right, matt, weret, looking forward it to. Ino. Casm up with you later on. 8 32 right now. The Trump Administration hasntt even take over yet,over y vicepresident says hes goingsh run for president in 2020. 20. Will he or was he just sayinging that . Its still up in the aira he made the remarks to reporters yesterday and when asked him ifi he was joking he said while he not committing to anything hege says fate has a strange way of intervening. G. Biden would be 78 years old ifld he ran and won in 2020. Well, scenes like the ones s behind us play out all too often at Convenience Stores across the country. Uny. Including right here in ourt her area. Were talking about flash mob there was one last august ina the district another one over the weekend. E weekend. Fox5s marina more rocco hasocch more details. We have several units there because there was a large groupp reporter it ended as aendeda Police Pursuit in the metroheeto tunnels of dc this weekend after nearly 30 teens stormed this Barracks Road 7eleven and robbee it. Juveniles got on the trainn t possibly headed towards thehe archives. Reporter no arrests. Going into the 7eleven withlt from a store . Then there needse to be repercussions. Because thats not yours. Reporter flash mobsh m robberies are becoming all too t common. The Barracks Road 7eleven wasens hit by a pack of teens once o before this year, and this scenn played out at a 7eleven in northwest dc over the summer. R. This one earlier this year alsos in northwest. Right off the top a flash mob robbery caught on tape. Reporter its not a newnot n fad a similar scene at a was also caught on tape. N tap the question now is, how many of these cases are being purr. Ur im not saying you need toeet lock up somebody for stealing ag snickers bar, but i do believeve that if you have intent and youy are intending to go to 7eleven and steal something, and yound y have asked all of your friendsyi to come with you and you are a going to steal something, that,t something should happen. Hpe what 7eleven has told me is that nothing is happening. Peni that theyre spending a lot of o address the problem but that people keep feeling over andvern over stealing over and over o from them. He office of the attorneyice ofe general said suc ah a quote quo granular stat on the number of m robbery or theft prosecutions os 7eleven establishments could non be provided to accommodate fordr the storys deadline. You have to own up to what a you are doing. Doi you have to own to the fact thaa you are stealing from somebodyod else. Else why do you thi t prosecuting these cases . I dont know. Now i dont know. No and that troubles me, becauseece that sends the signal to the 7elevens of the world sends a a signal to the small businessesis that theft is to be tolerated. That youre just supposed to to suck it up as business expense much its no the a business expenses no t. Marone in a marraco reportingepi there. It should be noted theshouldb majority of these cases are nott classified as robberies insteadd theyre being classified ass lesser offense which carries a a maximum penalties of 180 days in jail versus 15 years should ithi be considered the high offense. Okay. 8 00 arthritic right now. Rtc lets check in with mike thomas. Hi, steve. Teve. Preparing dc for rain today. Toy now lots of rain coming our wayw this afternoon maybe an inchn here in washington. Washin now if this happened a month mth later with the track of this thi storm we could potentially bee looking at half a foot to a fooo of snow in d. C. C not the case. Maybe sleet and snow which ishi already flying over theady flngo afternoon well get a little lil influx of warm air and it willil be all rain for us later on o today and the evening commutec definitely looking pretty roughe out there wittth heavier rainern moving in. Movi all right. Satellite radar shows that rainr now overtaking the d. C. Region maybe mixing briefly with littlt bit sleet in Montgomery County t there. Northern portions of Montgomery County into howartidons county. Definitely snow naked flyingnoyi across mountains today those tho locate under a Winter Weatherter advisory. So temperatures in washingtonngon 44 degrees. 39 at hagues burg. B morning long. G l temperatures will not be budgind as we head through the course ou the day today. Lets get to the fox5 accu acc weather seven day forecast. Oras. 45 today. 45 chilly rain out there throughouh the afternoon. E afterno well dry it out tomorrow get back to some sunshine 54 degrees. Thursday rain, snow shower a w sh a possible. Ss no accumulation with that eithee for locates that do have happenp to see snow. Sw. High of 48 before the big cold l settles in for the weekend highg only friday of only 39 degreesde and with the win blowingin bwi probably feels like 20s most ofo the afternoon. No. Much of the same for saturday. A bright sunshine but cold at let me restart that. Ha clouds big back in on sunday ana then on monday we have the nextx chance for a few showers aroundn the region much thats check ofs thatheather. Erin como has traffic. I do. Do we have gloomy skies, but not n really wet roads yet. Et not yet. Ot yet. Ill let you know if thatt changes grab your umbrella andla your patience for your commuteeo later. 50 inbound through cheverly remains stacked this camera outo by 202 and those extend from thm beltway to 295. O 2 new york avenue heavy as you y well switch it over to our mapr right now from a look at ourur camera. Came. As you can see a whole lost redt on the map. The map inner loop is jamming coming ofg the 270 spur there too connecticut. Co outer loop is slow from back towards 95 over to the 270 spuru with about 20 minute delay thata was largo the outer loop jamsp s and the inner loop jams fromro branch avenue across the wilson bridge. Outer loop crash right now itss in the delays. Elay right lane blocked delays to to suitland parkway at 214 and then suitland parkway really heavyyea being block boy a crash atrash a sterling. Back to silver hill. Lvehi aside from that as you take aak look at northern maryland, we do have 95 delays from south of the icc to the inner loop. Oo and then 270 southbound througho rockville also slows. E also. We got you covered this morningg with your traffic. Withr tr metro on time except fore exceor safetrack. Feack v are. V e the fredericksburg line stilll dealing with big delays. Big steve and allison. Cool advance in manyce in may technology and shopping. Logy no lines, no a waiting, just gra and go at the Grocery Store. Sto sounds like a dream but therest plus late night host j immy jimmy kimmel going prime time. E. How do your Christmas Lights compare to this. Not even close. He ny goodness this is the nextr level. Take look at he. 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At ikea, we believe everyone should be able to afford a welcoming home for the holidays. And that nothing should get in the way of a good conversation. We believe that room for one more shouldnt cost more. Slow go. Slow yeah. A lot of folks trying to geti to work before it rains, too. Afternoon commute may be worse r than the morning. You ask . Keep those fingers upu well hit mike in just 10 seconds. Why . Because we got somecas rain coming our way later on tonight and it could bee in hg a do want to mention this morningi Winter Weather advisory postedoe out to the west including west d cumberland maryland theyre ty seeing snowfall according too Storm Tracker radar. Heavy snow on the mountainn peaks. Peaks. On skate hazardous travel there. Locally seeing snow possiblysi mixing in northern portions of Montgomery County again just ast you head up i270 there. Around town here, seeing someinm light showers starting to move here on New Carrollton radar not showing it according to twitter reports saying yes little bit of sleet New Carrollton, maryland. Again, dont be shocked if yousc see a little bit bit of it byt this afternoon it will be all a rain here. Rain here. You can see all moisture comingn up from the south. M thh. Long day of long soaking rain ri for us as we head through theroe course of the morning andse o afternoon hours. F here we are 11 00 oclooock. Rain just overtaking the regiono we head through the course ofh c the afternoon more and more rair and tonight, yes, more rai all these yellows and orangesndg you see thats heavy rain so doo plan on your evening commute take little bit of extra time ee before we wind things down as wa head into the late eveningte eng hours. Hours. Temperatures outside right now 44 here in washington. Ashingto some 30s north and west thats why youre seeing snowflakesla mixed in northern montgomeryomy county. 36. Hagerstown arthritic. Wn art colder out towards comer land theyre seeing snow at thisw at hour. Later on this weekend guessss what . Big cold blast comes ours by the time we get to friday afternoon temperatures struggle to make it out of the 30s. Th 30s well have sunshine. Sine. Rather deceptive sunshinesh because the winds blowing anddsi the temperatures as cold as theh are, it will certainly feel likl a cold winters day. Questions scream queen love that name there how am i going am i going to neither longjohns for Army Navy Game in charm city, gm baltimore, on saturday . Go g navy, beat army. Y navy fan here, yes, youllou absolutely need the sweatshirt, longjohns, Everything Possible to keep warm going to be chilly weekend allke around the region. Reg game Time Temperature probablyto mid to upper 30s up in baltimore. 45 degrees early mixes possiblel as were seeing across parts ofa the region. Thgion rape likely throughout the thro afternoon a wet soggy day. Gy day keep the umbrella handy if youao have to be out and about. 40 degrees later tonight, steady rain earl threw seven,ev, 8 00 oclock tonight. Showerssh linger a little bit. Linger a lil start to dry out ase we headeea towards the late evening andenia overnight hours fox5 accu settet seven day forecast here. Cast he. 54 degrees for your wednesday. Well keep it dry and get aet afternoon. Clouds back on thursday withhuh maybe a rain or snow shower that is reall sy not tooho big of a d at all. Big deal is the cold coming this weekend 39 for a high on fridaya and saturday. Satday. Before we moderate a bit and get 40s back heading into next weekw all right. Thats a check of your forecast. Allison, over to you. Ver y mike, thanks. Happening today major actionjoro that could make the district onc of the most generous places inn the nation for new moms and momd dads. The dc council is due to vote on family leave act that gives 11i1 weeks of paid leave for the for birth or adoption o it would also allow eight weekse to care for a sick child or parent. Pa the leave would be paid throughr new taxes on businesses. The mayor though not totally onl board saying most of those whohw will benefit live outside of the district. The bill would need a second woe vote later this month to pass. New this morning, ikea announcing it is offering longe parental leave to workers who wo are new parents. En the furniture chain says about o 12,000 of its salaried an to four months of paid parentaln leave. The policy will be effective january 1st. Nuar1st it will apply to mothers and fathers who are birth adoptive or foster parents. The best selling referencenr book of all time releases its 2017 edition today. The new world almanac takes a comprehensive look at the record year from the president ialial election to the war on syria to the cubs winning the world series. Sports in 2016 because there art a lot of firsts an lot of firstr in a long time. E. So, for example, the cubs wonub the world series for the first r time time in 108 years. English premier League Soccer s team went from last to first ana against all odds sort of Premiee League championship but no one ever seen before. E. Of course the olympics so muchh fun to watch got to see old stars like Michael Phelps have resurgence and new stars like the stage. The world almanac is out nown available wherever books are bks sold or go to world almanac. Comm that would be amazing job tob try to be the publisher of thatt yes, it would. Es, it would my goodness. Im an old history nerd andnd statistic. I used to love that. I ed t now i know what im gettingwg you for christmas. Ris thank you knew data showsta o Breast Cancer screenings shouldn not be stopped based on age but an individual decision with eacw patient. Fox mel teams dr. Mike d m morning. Good morning. Is this good or bad,good dr. Mi . This is great. Its allowing people to t determine what they want for their own bodies. S. And what this information and this analysis of data has come c out and said look if youre a woman and youre seventy ninese 75, despite what some organizations have recommendedo meaning no more mammograms, its consumer of health care. All right. Ison this is how it breaks down. If if someone youree certainly being only 21 you hav1 a lot of years to go. [ laughter ] ] when you hit 75 allison, whaw you will do is youll come in to my office and you and i will have a conversation. Vers well see how healthy you are. Well see how your longevity seems to be coming long. If y theres no reason not to, then e would say, hey, lets do it. And so a mammogram is simple, sm its not invasive. And could it lead to a biopsy oo further studies, maybe. M but it could also save yourou life. Life. I have all the reasons to to believe, allison, that at 75 yo will be long youll be way bw way ahead of the curve and a 110. I was going to say 100. As go why not do this . Thi i was going to say 100. Ay 1 ill take that. E that works. Love to have you around for 110. It empowers you to takeak control of your health care witw the guidance of someone like me who guides you threw the shark a infest waters of the hell care. Agreed. Thank you dr. Mike. Ike. I love it. Dr. Mike, i want to hear yourh take on this and break it down for meme lets get real when it comes to diet soda right now. Soda is not good for you or would possibly people dont want to hear this cause to you gainn weight. Why is that . Whats happeningap with diet soda . . So, steve, theres a phrasehr its not nice to mess withsit mother nature. Ur okay . And the bottom line is,s, that theres nothing for free ii this world. If you want to try to lose l weight you need to eat less calories. Caloes now the problem is that with that have no calories, there isi a problem here. H in this study they look at aspartame but theres been otheo studies what we call nonnew trw tiff sweeteners and they foundyu theyre actually is some biochemical side effects. Eec one of them in this study withyw aspartame it actually inhibits an enzyme called intestinalestil alkaline phosphatase. Who cares about that . Well,ell, that actually syndrome where you big old appla much its an apple belly. Youll gain weight and get and diabetes and stroke and heartndt tack. Ta all of those things leads to tht concept that you should avoid artificial sweeteners and thata what i tell my patients in my m practice. Prac good to hear. And my son who i gsoo eight,y son who is eight years old, old whats that . You lost me . No, no, no. N we got you. Y last topic. Thats all. Thatll wait. We didnt really feel there wass a study needed for this. But study has come out aboutut what you earn and how it impacts your health. Well, another quotation from mel brooks. L b its good to be the king. Ing. Okay . And what this studyy showed was that in the lower Socio Economic levels you have increased inflammation. Immune system and that leads tos about a 10 year loss of life. If and so its not just access to o health care that is not there. Its not just youre eating poor foods. Food but what it is is its a lack of control, the stress and the lower Socio Economic groups that leads to this problem. And so we need to focus on thatt group of people. Peopl better care. Be car makes a big difference. Ferenc Fresh Produce not just Corner Stores and all that stuff. Stu. Dr. Mike, thanks so much. Ks so c well be right back. Back. Love you. 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