Waking up at blair house thisirs morning. That is the guest residence right across the white house. He. This was donald trump and hisd h wife last night at union un station a vip dinner alongsidep somedin of his biggest donors. D the president elect speakingdent to the crowd reflecting one hih campaign on the election andn th looking ahead to the presidency. Now before that dinner the president elect and his familyoy gathered with thousands ofsandsf supporters at the lincolnhecoln memorial. It was an impressive fireworksos show capped the make America Great again welcomecome celebration last night. Ni a concert also that ran aran little more than two hours hours took place. Pl president elect trumpside addressed the crowd as wellowd s getting them fired up for todays swearing in. N. This journey began 18 1 months ago. I had something to do with itwit but you had much more to doodo with it than i d im just the messenger. If it really pours its okays o because people will realize real its my real hair and okay. The president electok speaking there a little selfhe f deprecating humor as well. Well the welcome celebrationelebrati included performances byces Country Music stars toby keith and lee greenwood. And wo and of course we here at fox5 have you covered all dayouc long for all of theov inaugural events. Live team coverageco throughout the day. All the folks on the sthcreenros spread out all across the cityhe from the swearing in ceremonywer to the parade tointtens ofs of thousands of people expectedxpet to attend todays events. Vent right now people alreadyple alry lining up at security checkuritc points around the district. Ist lets head out right now to fox5s ronica cleary live ative 12 and e northwest. Rt its one of those checkpointshes that we were seeing a littlei stalling there not quite sure why folks werent getting ge through a little faster but le you got a smile on your face. F. Maybe things are better now. Good morning. Good reporter im justm just smiling cause im talking toaui you two. m but ti actually think last time t i said that it had been openeden i think the securityecury checkpoint is still closed. Nt it is 7 o iclos ck, it is not op. Ned yet. These people have been waiting h out hereav a long time. Time. Were going to ask some pe can we chat with you live onlivn fox5. Sure. Reporter tell me what you guys just got here, right. R we d we got here lastgot hert night. Reporter oh, where did oh, you com ewh from. Fr as a matter of fact we gotttr here the night before and we oe came from california. Al reporter are you hereou her for your support of donaldald trump . Are you here for justoru seeing this inauguration. Ugura. No, were here for here f supporting donald trump and the inauguration. Au reporter now, youre yore from california you said right. Correct, southern c california. Or reporter is it lonely to be a trump supporter inrect r i fornia. Nia. It can be a little bit, yeah. I didnt walk around sayingyng that i was for trump all the time. Reporter do you feelor different out here on the east coast. I do. T he its theres a lot of i goodd energy here and were veryery excited and its like yeah, go,o trump. Reporter all right. Eporter t President Trump. P thats wresihdeat he is very soo thank you guys so much. You ys s well take you around the line e and were just askingsng people you see peoplepe respect selling things here,lli theyre adding more barricadesrs here to this. Can i ask you a question onk yo fox5 . Whats yourqu number one right now would be theld b hats. Reporter that ones . I see these boat hats too. Oat hat. These are the best ones anded the buttons are the bestsellers. Reporter keep up theor good work out here today. Teout t well take you insideod the line and you can seal crowds justw hanging out vcalm, veryery peaceful energy. Ene i mean in a way i dont even feel like its excitement,xc its just a very calm tranquiltr environment which ill be honest is surprising to me as t i approach today and came into c today so lets see, can i chat with any of you guys on fox5 . Y were live right now aboutow abu what brought you out today. Toda. Sure. Reporter tell me aboutr teo what youre feeling right now. Im excited. Xcit. Im happy. Ha im very were going to the inaugural Prayer Breakfast soako we want to help make americaa great again and get it on thehe right track. Reporter all right. Ig. Well, thank you so much. Than have a wonderful day. Fua there you go, a Little Energy e like i said, pretty calm outm ut here at 12th and e. E. Were sending it back to you. Yu ronica thanks very much. A thv hopefully they get theer lines all those folks inside atnsid least where they want to be at least inside the perimeter. Right. Lets check in with tomm fitzgerald live on capitol capil hill. He has one of the best vantages points of the day. Ints of th good morning, te om. Ning reporter , these areare pretty sweet digs unhere good morning steve and allison. All were overlooking the west we front of the United Statesstates capitol this morning and thisor is where the big deal is goingig to go down in just about fiveboe hours right now. N. Well step out of the way tryth to give you a little tour of tof what were looking at this this morning. Rning. Now, they are all going to bego filling in these seats ats little bit later on this morning. Those blue carpeted areas,areas, those are where most of the dignitaries are going to be,to b the former president s, thee outgoing president , president si obama and of course tdeherse president elect. Pr now, you see that plastic areaca right there, like right down do in the front. Fro those are actually leathere chairs that they just broughtjut out a few minutes ago ando and theyve set those up. U. Theyre covered in plasticpla right now because obviouslybvy the threat of rain that wereee looking at this mor nobodys really all down in those. Hose. Theyve got their own kind of like security guards keepingit an eye on them ny obody isdy allowed to sit down and take a e selfies. In front of that where you seere that man standing right with his back to you lined thoset kind of colonade area that iseas the president ial podium. Es they have a name idfor. Me for. That thats called the blue b falcon and that is thet president ial podium that you yu see year after year after year. Now, today these are custommade for eachommade ch president , so that blue falconu you can see them taking away the plastic right now, that is,s made for donald trump. Trumps a quite large man ivenv interviewed him about a half dozen times, probably about sixfour around that area. Ea. Black black was no slouch butnoc they have made a new podium everything is in plaelce. Ce. All we need right now is i president elect a president tel obama a and the chief justice os the United States and justed sta around 12 oclock everythingk will be in place eand well bebe here keeping an eye on it all al for you with this fronts rowthio seat. Steve and allison, got a little bit chillier out so weve thrown the coat on. Coat o. I see that. Th hey, speak of seeing tom, asas you so accurately describe thede area behind you whereea bind yoh everybody is going to beody is e sitting so much talk abouttalk a members of congress who willo not be showing up. Up. Their seats not replaceable. Plae where may those empty seats e be. Reporter thats a goodts ao question. We should talk about that ad taa litt bit. Tut. T were up to about 70 members, mostly house democraticouse demt members who have said now thatai they are not goid ng to attendad this inauguration. Ugurion. It started because of thef e comments donald trump madeald te about congressman john lewislews the civil rights icon who hadoh said that he does not viewvi donald trump as a legitimategite president. There. On from other reasons have floated in fn now from the questions ove 2016 election to some just general dislike of how donald trump has handled thisandled transition period. Tran what happens to those seats . S . Well, we spoke to congressmanngs Anthony Brown of maryland. A hes one of thorse who say hehe wont be here today. Ody. From what were told is brown br is providing tickets to any ofka his constituents that wanted wa to come here but thats ahats a special congressional area soreo unless youre able to kind of kd fill it in with your own n people on congressional hillresl staff those seats are probablyb going to stay empty but weveeve heard, steve and allison,alln, theres been a lot of horseof hr trading going on. Everybody says bipartisanship is dead but not when it comes co to these activities a lot ofctiv these republicans have been calling those democrats sayingpa hey, can i get some of thoseyint tickets. S right, yeah, the domem ocraticmocrat members of congress weveweve talked to have said that theid e tickets are in demand. Emnd. They just certain membersain mee todays choose not to go. Oose n. Right. Tom thanks very much. S very m see you again in little bit. Bit. Tom fitzgerald the chill in the area addingddig the tracks layer. The i dont think he can complain with those seats he has. Ontit youll feel the warmth ofh the people. Feel the warm exactly but it is chilly chil out there and rain is going to o move in. Temperature in the 30s. Ra im going to trtuyre to keep ths brief. Rain showers in the forecast. Ca. Unfortunately the timing isatelh between about 10 00 a. M. Ande 3 oclock. 3 ocloc so, wish we could push this push back a little bit further this afternoon. Af 41 now washington. Well start with the cool41 nstr temperth tatures. Mper most of the area in the 30s in here to start your morning. Orin. Nothing showing up locally on on our Storm Tracker radar butrb heads up here. Heads up here just off to our south and west the rain showers especiallyseci with the warm front are very quickly moving inform i wouldm expect showers as he willy as 10 00 a. M. And agweain wellrs l have scattered showers in the ie forecast right inside thee te beltway here includingncding washington through aboutgton tbo 3 oclock and then well turn wr cloudy with just some light lig drizzle for this evening butvent heres your forecast. Your fo youre going to want a jacketa as well as the rain jacket jat later today as temperatures will be in the 40s with wi showers around by noon. Y noo okay, plenty more weather. A well focus on the weekendwee lets do traffic now with erin. D. C. Police just tweetedtwetd that all nonticketted entryentry points security checkpoints tokp the National Mall are noware now opened so were hoping thoseng e large crowds will start tol stto move. If youre taking metro down d into the district to enjoy the Inauguration Day celebrations Metro Rail Service such andnd running kicked in at 4 00 rush0r hour service is in effecteffe until 9 p. M. Metro Service Operating until midnightl miight tonight. Tonight. Metro is one of your best betst because park sag problem and roads closed around the capitol, the National Mall as ss around the white house,ho archives federal triangle Mount Vernon Square pentagone ea and smithsonian all closed. Clos many designated as entry ortryr exit only. You can reach ouext to me onn twitter at erin fox5 d. C. Onc. N twitter with questions viationsv metro or traffic. R capital bikeshare also an option. They have corrals where youhere can rents or return a bike retue 17th and k, fourth and e for personal bikes 16th street and i street if you want to bik secure your bike there. Y metrobus operatingou on a ona saturday schedule and thele ande metro stops are all around theu outer perimeter of those roadd closures. Were keeping a close eye on everything. 270, 66, 9566 on and the beltway if youre justf trying to get to work this k ths morning. Steve and allison. Steve analliso erin thanks very much. Much. Some pictures right nows riw outside of Union Station where w there is some protest activity a that has already started thisrt morning so were going to keep k an eye on that obviously. Ily. We saw some activity last activ night and through thed througthe overnight hours and now just ju starting to pick up a little tle bit outside of Union Station. St. Right in the center theren of theth capitol. A last people coming in thatm way taking metro coming into int Union Station and workingation i their way to the mall veryhe mae close to the capitol. Capi however youre getting there t car, bus, metro rail foot thee crowds descending on the mall. Bob barnard is right in thei middle of it, hes now joining g us with a look at how manyat people have already arrived arid what the scene is there. Re. Hes with annie yu. U. As we take a protestors at Union Station sttn there, looks peaceful righteace now and that is a good thing. Th. But many of our colleagues areoe down of course in the commonc areas where most people will wl watch todays inaugural events unfold. Bob some distance away ate da about 12th street right nowt riw but as we have seen in inaugurations past bob itbob doesnt take long for the mall to fill up. Good morning. Reporter theyre on me. Toe hi bob. Reporter hey, guys. Uys sorry, theyre playing the music here so hard to hear you u here down at the 12th streeth st and madison here and look, i got a slice of america here. Am. Maggie and mike are here hre because they dont agree withw ld tld trump. I and theyre fromru philly. Hi. Leon is here from detroit andde you are wearing the trump makeme America Great president of thetr hat. Hat. Tell us why youre here andour what do you make of this day. Just here to experience the inauguration and celebrateelbrae with our new president. Res reporter and when youreh here with mike and maggie, whoho dont agree with thish well, its america. Ts ameri. Welcome. I mean, its a democracy. Theres winners, therestheres losers. I lost last two years. Ye. Two elections. And i stepped in line. Line i supported the last last president. Now i have my president inn line to see what we can do. Do. So, thats how it works. Wor reporter thank you veryyoury much. Maggie, mike from from philadelphia. Ph tell me, you ilbrought somet soe signs. I mean, there was no stopping sp you coming in, right . Youreyoe allowed to come in here and speak freely. Ely. Everyone was very nice. Ice. We came on the train and no n ones been, you know, bad. Bd. We just came to peacefullyacfuly protest the inauguration of President Trump and be heard. E reporter okay, guys, iguys, want you to listen to this. T explain they were on the very vr first train at 4 00 this 00is morning coming down from shady grove. At 4 00 a. M. A. Rter at 4 00 a. M they then took another train down to Lenfant Plaza. P when you got out at Lenfant Plaza what to get to where you are now. Nw. We walked about 2 miles mes around asking secret service see how to get here eventually to be where we could, you know, k hold up our signs. Reporter thank you. Let me ask you was it hard . Had were they helpful in gettinggett you here . Her . Not really. Ughter]ter] unfortunately nobody knewna what was goingte on or i guess g because we were so early, so, o we walked like my husband says almost 2 miles around the entire independence not, not, im sorry. Reporter around the hall arh mall. E ha the hall mall and then wee wound up here and were stillwel going to try to find a spota st near the parade so we can holdcn up our signs. I reporter very cool. Eporter o maggie, olmike, thank you very y much. Thank you. Y. Show them what were seeingseeig here. Here the sun is rising behind thende capitol here and i think mikeine and maggie had the story. Sto they basically took the rede r line down they were told to to take i believe it was yellowwas line train to Lenfant Plaza get out on Lenfant Plaza anda d they literally had to walk all the way around by the lincolncon memorial and down constitution where they could get in here cli then didnt get a lot of helpa l along the way withay wi instructions. So, keep that in mind. Mnd. For us as well, getting down here to the mall was prettyprety difficult. You really just kind of pick p and choosing where you could cod maybe get through where they w t had trucks and buses andand humvees and all kinds of heavy v equipment to try to keep this is area safe even though we just,u you know, showed a nice nie display there of someone whoe ho is for trump and a couple whocoo are not for trump and they can get along and everythingseryth fine. Not that there wont bet e trouble later on but at leastatt here early this morning asning s dawn breaks, guys, not so bad, the two sides mixing here one on the mall. All. Bob a couple things that you can look forward to. One is that spirit ofe is tha togetherness and understanding which is what we hopend u that e get from here forward. Rwa. And two, before the rain movesrv in, it looks like theresooks le going to be a bau sunrise over the capitol. A so, enjoy that view while weew have it, bob. Bo reporter yeah, lets t well send you off here. Send yo. You see some speakers betweentwn us and the capitol but theres s the sun rising over therisingvee capitol. It is a beautiful sight upght up there where my buddy tom t fitzgerald is hanging out. Ou. Fantastic. Bob thanks. Well check in with ith as little bit as bob barnardbaard continues to monitor theor t crowds. Hes on 12th street so hes a solid 12 blocks from the from te capitol. Weve seen in inaugurationsugurs past it doesnt take long tong fill up all that space withce the folks heading down. D we can see it today. I well be witht you all morningr long as we work our wayk ouay through the morning traditionta pomp and circumstance andums well be right here with you. Y. Our special coverageovrage continues right after this. Thi. 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 advis. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Our live coverage starts now. Now. Back. Kome you can hear chanting there thr and what were talking aboutal right now is some folks nots not happy with todays events. Evnts. We see there are people in theee streets. Line thereher earlier we saw Union Stationstt based protestors. Po im not sure exactly where this is, 12th and f is what wee believe where this is going on, 12th and f is what werewha looking at right here and ofandf course the protests that wevee seen ever since the electioneltn was called in favor of donaldvod trump, this is nothing new inhi the city iof washington and wee did expect these protestspr today. Security is also in place ton pe make sure things dont get outng of hand. Hand. Ronica cleary right theret in that location and shes been tet llinglo us that thehe gates, security gates have just opened so more and mor seee people now heading into theinto mall for the festivities laterae today. Now, this morning do Melania Trump waking up at blair house across street from m the white house. Wisdom martin live inlivein Lafayette Park and youreyoure setup there, can you tell us abouhiz. Whiz. Looks pretty comfortablismmfo good morning allison andorning d steve. I know you guys asked me earlier about how close peoplece could actually get to the get white house during this whole tg thing. This well, if you look over myook ovr shoulder right here, now if youre familiar with this andaml im sureia you two have beenve b down here in this area ara normally you would be able toouo walk unto the theres a fence right here in front of the white house you would bee able to walk up to thohiuss feni and take pictures in front ofurf the white house but because obviously because of theously bt inauguration theyve built alt a stand, this viewing area here, e the stands for the parade, the e parade is going to come rightomi down through here so obviously o you cant do that. Nt we cant show you behind ushind because were shooting thisting way but on the other side i sidi would say several yards theve other way iras where the security gate is to come incomen and thats over at vermont andnd h street. H street theres a big statue ofof thaddeus park so thats the distance people can walk around outsident there. Then you have to go througho thu security to get in here soo geto thats kind of the setupof the t thats taking place here. Hee. Also when the sun comes up an to little bit more well give youw a little bit ofll a better vieww of whats actually taking place out here about an hourut n or so ago i saw a bunch of bu limousines and a bunch off armored giant black suvsack sus here. They took off to get intot position to get ready to carry c out their duties for the dayhedy and were talking about about peaceful transition of powerf because thats what this days saul about the inauguration ofao the president of the unitedesid states, the en45tt hof presideno the United States. The unitedtes. Lots going on as far as moving one president out and theand th other president coming in. I donald trump we talked about tat this, hes going to be at be at church in church thisin cch morning with his family. In then hes gg oing to leave leave church with his family, theily, trump family then theyrefamilye going to come over here ton the white house, theyre going tooin meet with the obamas, theas, the current president , theyre going to meet with them. T, tto. Thats around 9 55 or so. Then around 10 35, theyrethere gog theyre going head to the capitol and theyre going toheao continue the inaugurationauratio festivities and then the the ceremony and swearing in ofny as the 45thwe arpresident of theide United States. St now flittle bit later on,li were going to talttk abouttaou this. I mentioned some of thisme of ts earlier about the wholee wle process of moving one familya out of the white house and and then moving another family into the white fhoause. House. Its a complicated process but u its done kind of like a military drill, if you will, wi, because all the planning is done befoarehand. Nfond its done off site. son there are lots of hands involved in it but its almost seamless while it is oclocks oo complicated it is almost aalmst zealless task because theresh so many hands involved to makedt sure that it goes smoothly. Smly. The official time for the newthw president to move into theinto white house is noon. N of course we know the swearingh in ceremony is going to bee oin around noon but while all ofhil that is going on everything thats going on today is taking place, there are goingg to be people that thereat have already been people andlead there will couldnt to be people in the white house tohouo get this place ready for theadyf new family to come in. Ly to well talk about thatll talk ao throughout the morning. Roughoute we got a lotof information about that so iatio can share that with youn are thw throughout the morning. Ithro steve and allisonug. Hout the wisdom,. Wisdom,. Reporter yes. Thaddeus cocziesko. Oc reporter i happened topenedo walk by that statue. Sttue. I knew you would love that and a fact allison. Ct allison. Why dont you tell theell the people why its important to ino both me and to you especially. Si reporter well, heresell, hs the story. Allison seymour is the only o one in the whole building thatng remembers that i am from koc7. Iesko mississippi. Issi ive seen statue for years andra when i saw that statue thishat t morning i thought about aout mississippi and thats why itust lance to be right there at the menst lan tree poie and steve asked earlier aboutliu the distance from where peoplepe can walk and see the white the e house and thats just a reference point. T. The prides of kocziekso mississippi not oprah winfr is the pride. Wisdom for us its you. Little town right there in te the same location. Loc got to love it. Lets take a look right nowow 7 23 as you go to break rightk t now well take a look at thek at white house starting to look pretty this morning, isnt it. S yes, it is. Yes, it is. Enjoy it before it rains. There is still the threat ofeatf unfortunately if yourertunatele heading down to the mall the mal today. Well check in with tuckerchk iw barnes and well itgh et you soe details about that coming up. Welcome back. Rejoining you now with one bigto thing thats going on today toda and its what we expectedxpcted protests and protests prosts happening here at thish location on in tell me te once again where we are. Re. Twelfth and f streets where wehe have been showing you thisn shou morning. T it looks like a peacefhiulaceful gathering of people there making their voices heard, their opinions heard before ioni could hear channing not my chany president. Security is there to make sureme things dont get out of handt g this morning. Et lets talk about thes talk e incoming cabinet nominees. Nomne sean spicer sounding off aboutft the ongoing confirmationonfmatin process of president elects of Donald Trumps cabinetrumps cit nominees. In an interview last night onn fox news spicer responded to critics of the picks sayinge donald trump chose thesep chosee nominees because each is uniquely qualified to move the e country forward in an area area their department overseas. Tm so far none have been confirmed. Confirmed. Been going on now for stiomen no time. We have much more ahead this morning as we continuesw om to ceoverhavening the inaugurat president elect donald trump. T please stay with us. Elecplease. Our coverage continues rightconi after the break. E br its 7 27 now on a fridayay morning. Morning. This. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its all of this, this, this, and this. Its the mother of all cereals. Its that, and that, and all of that. Its the most cerealriffic cereal. In all of history. Yeah, its that good. Honey bunches of oats. This. Is. Everything. Wow. Helicopter landing right there. E thats going to be ing to something you dont see evere day. The national parkside of the u. S. Capitol. S. Capitol so right down in the area by tht capitol. Pitol i tell was look at the sunriseui in the background. Boy, thats right not far fromar the library of congress. Oness. Steve, have you ever seen, vy that before . Not in person in that spot. Right. As far as landing. You always see the as m fly oe that part of town. Ow but not as far as actuallys aua i just want to seaeet wshhow going get off that helicopter. People lined up ready toneupo welcome somebody there. Ome somet l fil fine out. He beautiful shot right there. Ful h look at the rotunda you can seen folks Walking Around in therein and get a sense of the size ofoe the capitol and the dome as you just see the shadows of people p walking inside and u. S. Flag ong the left. Easy to take for granted the magesty of washington, d. C. And all of its important buildingsnd when you live here but that shot really does remind you and alsoa if you notice we have that hashh tag fox5 potus. Thats hash tag we want to yout use when you share some of your pictures today. Tay you probably got your cellr cel phones any way down there if you head out. Ad o. Hopefully youre hearing us ifya you send us pictures let us knok what youre seeing or if youre heading out make sure to take us along with you fox5potus. You know what i love aboute a this and seeing those picturests in particular so much talkuc t leading up to today. Today we talked abouth rain for later today and the lay timing the rain might fallal perhaps while the oath of offic is administered. Dmistere to be able at least start thistt day with beautiful sun rises behind the capital an awesomeweo view. Gorgeous much thats why they refurbish the capitol dome. Ome. Exactly. E so you get that reflection. Xo i forgot about it. T. Distant memory now. Memorw youre absolutely right. Ig lets get it to. L the rain is still on track here 10 00 to 3 00 prime time. E tim its not going to be heavy rain but it will be enough to benoug nuisance for if you youll beyol outside here headed down to thee mall or honestly across the aree here well get showers betweenen about 10 00 and two,nd t 3 00 oclock this afternoon. Lock lets start with coolart coo temperatures. 41 now in washington. Washto 37 in gaithersburg. Leonardtown checking in 37. N still freezing mark up there too our north and west in frederickk cool start to the day. O the cloud cover has moved in. Theres a bit of a breeze out o the south and south and eastanda this morning. Sis m and were starting to get some radar rain showers on ours radar there out towards front f royal along 81 and when i open i it up for i was little bitlile b youll see whats on the way rere. Looking back towards southwestst virginia that is moving veryger quickly so again i would expectc rain showers in the immediate ia Washington Area inside therea it beltway here by 10, 11 00 oclock in the morning ani well keep that threat aroundron here until mid afternoon andnooa then thing will just turn cloudy with little drizzle late this lt afternoon f youre going out gog tonight there might be a littlel drizzle around but no measurabla rain which is great news eye i e know theres a loft balls and that kind of thing. At kin t cloudy, mid 50s rain returnsn rr sunday and monday. Sunday and mo. Very active weather pattern here we temperatures above normal for the time being. Being all right. Ht ill be bk if youd like me to, f youd like moree information tucker fox5 illl tweet out radar here the nexthe couple of minutes. Le of nute okay. Erin has got your roads and rails. Hatts right. 7 33. 7 starting off way live look inoo the district this is seventh anh vermont where you can see policc directing traffic not traffif really pedestrian traffic iian should say around big crowds gathering were seeing crowdsing grow every time we check in juss seems like more crowded thoseedo shots. This is as you make your way out you can see a lot of militaryit presence and a lot of pedestrians milling arounds ar security checkpoints are open. O if youre trying to get down to the National Mall that lookt l behind me was the freeway, wmata letting every unwe know 7 00w 70 a. M. Parking is available atabla metro stations with lots of garages and spaces open no moreo than 40 full. Than if youre parking your car and metring down that is something to keep in mind service kicked at 4 00 this morning theyreni operating on rush hour serviceer peak fares until 9 00 p. M. Metrm service wrapping up at midnighti keep in mine the followinglowi stations are closed for security purposes, archives federal feral triangle, Mount Vernon Squarenqr and pentagon and smithsonian. Ni no metro delays right now. Well keep you updated a lot off crowded conditions theyreditis anticipating certainly everything covered for you hashv taerg foxed5 potus. Pot back to you allison and steve. E erin thank you very much. We just heard from donald trump he just tweeted tthanard hisfr g he says it all begins today. Ay i will see you at 11am for the t swearing in the movement continues. Continues. So donald trump waking up atp blair house this morning right across pennsylvania avenue from the white house which as ofs today will be his home. All right. We have a lot of people helpingl us, steve, this morning shareng the story of this president ialst inauguration, and the incomingon donald trumpco administration. An and were happy to say theay team is continuing to grow gw because we now welcome had a todays gold to our fox5 team. Politics reporter with politicot a fox5 political contributor. Ibr so we thought wed welcome in her by making her get right work. Shes with maureen joining usngu from capitol hill. Ol h good morning to you steve and allison. Good morning welcome to fox5. Thank you so much. You so m im so excited to be here. Ber were excited to have you het is special toll help us navigedg this political cycle were in. R. Youve covered politics for very long time. Long with this new incoming presidene it certainly been an interestini relationship but the media has h had with president elect donaldt trump. Let me start off by asking you, what do you think theth new president moving forward asd it relates to thes far as wel trump is true to who he is and a thats why he was voted into i office. I dont see him really changingc his tactics when it comes to t dealing with the media, i do i think things will get a littleit bit calmer now that hes ine i power we saw the first press prs briefing with the pressre secretary yesterday and it wasrt pretty calm and normal andl a typical. So hopefully that type of typ of relationship will continue butit im sure as with any pressny secretary as with any whiteh te house there will be sometherwill contentious moments again again between the media and the whitei house. Ho absolutely. Do gootalked about this on goo day d. C. Day d th. Ce relationship between thebt media and the president electsie and what roll the media has. Ia s how do we cover this holy unprecedented president who really knows how to manipulate the media and get hisip ownwn message out bypassingng altogether . How do you think the media needs to respond too this and be an effective tool t that we should be . Good i thin the media needs to go back too Journalism School basics andas just report the story, reportor the facts, show all sides sid becase two sides to any situation andua just try to get to the truth ash much as possible while alwayslw being fair and also being open e to all the other sides. Sid i think a lot of the media got kind of people got upset withett them over the campaign for whatw they thought was biased reporting over candidate they we in fafavor of. Anvod i think that the media nen to step back and understand thah its a big country out there ana theres lot of voices that wehaw need to hear from. Absolutely. President elect trumps speechte expected to be about 20 minutest i think thinking hes probably o going try to strike populous tone and in his message. Esge what do you anticipate hisipat speech being about . What do yow think the tone will be . The be . Theme will be . Well, i think he will touche upon some of his themes thatmest hes had from the campaign i fr think theyll be a lot of talk t about making keeping americae great as thats part of his ohi slogan, but also in terms of ins putting America First and being paying close attentiona especially to the middle class d hes going to be talking about them a lot theyre struggles how about he plans to help them. Hope to kind of bring the wholehole country together. I was going to ask. Does he really need toco strik k that tone of unity and letnd people know he is ready to govern and be the president forr all people . He said thatha certainly yesterday when he was speaking from the steps of thert Lincoln Memorial which i thoughi it was magnificentht in sayingsa listen im going to be ang president for all of the unitedd states. Thatu expect him to repeat same message today . Od i definitely do, because thi is a much bigger stage thanhan yesterdays was literally thelyt entire world is watchingatchin hundreds of thousands of peopleo are watching in person. N. And he knows that this is a verr big moment and its the first really tone of his presidency ii this moment writ here. Mt wr a lot of uncertainty going gi into today. Od. Cabinet nominees still notot confirmed. A lot of unknowns where are you going to go with health care . Are people looking for him toort make those decisions right outnt of the gate, are will there be leeway . Will people give him slack time youre new to this ts job. Take your time to do this. R timo what do you think will happen . Tl listen he and his team haveev said theyre going to hit thengt ground running immediately. And they say that o and on monday theyre going toog immediately start signing sning executive orders start putting through things and start evenine potentially swearing in cabinetn members today. S toda and so i dont really think theyll be waiting. Theyl i think its going get going right away. Ght i do think so, too. Had a todays gold thank you. Tk President Trump when hesn h inaugurated his First Official f date will not be until monday ma what im hearing but he mighteig hit the ground running a lot a l sooner than that. Oner steve and allison, let me sendts it back in to you in case youas have a question for hadas shes on a head set. S if you have question for youstfy jump right in. Rig in. When we look back at thek at coverage that was there for thea campaign i know unfortunately you got wrapped up some of the e divisiveness we saw in this thi nation and around the worldhe wd leading up to the election. Ect do you kind of feel like nowe that we are at this point wheree we are having that transfer of f power that divisiveness will get better or worse moving forward . I think that it will getet better. I think people realize thek peoi election is over and it happenet and now its time to movove a oo im sure that the politicalital throughout Donald Trumps t presidency as it did throughoutt Barack Obamas presidency. Si but at the end of the day, i i think everybody mostly has thehe same goals ive noticed n especially that a lot of thatt a rhetoric we saw online ore through email has calmed down d quite a bit. Thats good news. Hadas from us here in thee in studio, welcome. W we appreciate you joining joing maureen and we look forward to d seeing you i tn studio. All right. Hadas gold the newest member ofo our team going to help us out uo with political coverage ass transfer of power happenserappe officially on the mall laterly this morning. Righthta live picture now. No if you look now look it takes time to fill up a mall. Up m we know that but if you look upk in the front closer to theser to capitol you can see all thoseyo people who are already there. So it looks like its about a madison and third and fourth a f right now the crowds are there. E well see how they work their wr way back as we get closer viewrv right now of the vantage pointtp of where donald trump will takel the oath of office to become oue 7 40. More coverage next. Where does the time go steve. Weve been on the air since n 4 00 this morning. It seems like moments ago. A right. Its jam packed and busy dayd for everyone involved. A busy day ahead for president elect donald trump byy 8 45 this morning, he and his family will attend Church Service at the historic saintc Johns Episcopal Church justhus acro then at 10 00 a. M. , the trump familiar l join president baraca obama and the first lady at the white house for coffee and tea. 10 35 the president andnt and president elect will leave thevt white house and head to thetohe capitol where the inaugurationao ceremony will get underway. Take live look at union Union Station. That is one of the areas whereot we have a mix ohe af folks who e been commuting into the areath getting off metro because it isi pretty much the closest metroesm station to the capitol that is open. Open folks walking from there over to the National Mall but also an a area where we do see a number or protesters this morning. Ters th you can see them kind of in thet middle right of your screen right there with the white signs. They have been active for the last hour or so inbe thaent a aa around Union Station. Station of course, were covering all al angles all as specs of the inauguration today from thoseond who support president elect donald trump and those who are a not in favor of thehe president elect. Ent so as it happens, we will bring it to you around the city. C it is the american way. Canay well be right back. Welcome back. It is 7 47 on this inaugurationt day, and what youre looking ata now is a growing number of protesters. Protesters they are now at 12th and e streets and were told theirdhe strategy to try to block peoplel from getting through the checkpoints to go down witness the inauguration on thee National Mall. So there is of course a plan too this protest and thats whattht were seeing right now. E seei rg if you look above the signs s that yellow tent there you can just see the top of right behint those signs thats the actual aa security checkpoint at 12th2t and evident e thats where folke would enter into the secure aree around the mall it looks likeksl the protesters set up shotp s outside of it trying to stop too people from going into entrancec point. Poin they marched down a block or soo to that locate. To t just a heads up if thats thes 12th and e street entrance to t the National Mall protestersrotr trying block it and at this t point it does not look likek lik anybody is trying to break theme up. No. But we do know security isy i there. Ronica cleary isnt far from there. Be interested to know what the e plan is getting people peacefully around that group so that they can go and expressnd their opinion as well when theyt go to support the incomingncom president. En keep an eye on the situation there and of course on the mall and around t eheye mal oofl n ct where you go if youre outside o today youll feel a chill in the air and possiblyl a few raindrops. Airops Tucker Barnes, did you like that . Yes. Chill and rain. Interpretive dance. Your dramatic interpretation wondwonderful. Ti steve soil we got showers ini the forecast andl alongwe withc temperatures the good news wevw been dry so far so those peopleo that are already down there atna least are just dealing witht dlh cloud cover. Here are your currentrur conditions. 41 now in washington. Winds are calm. Calm wind chill not much of a factoro thats great because of coursees weve had very very cold days d here in fact looking back i b think we had temperatures in tht 20s back in 2009. 2 theres look at your storm you s tracker radar. Trackerada showers moving in here out toreo the west along yup. Yup light shower activity. Not so much inside the bell wayy at this point but things will bb changing here later thistethis morning. Rning. Again, were thinking that theie rain shower activity willl primarily move through betweenrh about 10 00 oclock thislo thi morning, two, 3 00 oclock ti terribly heavy but it will bet e enough that youll notice it ano it will be a nuisance. Ul be asa so make sure you plan p accordingly here for rain forai showers during the mill of thenl day. Whats happening . Warm front it will keep clouds in the forecast and the warmer temperaturesemrau wont get a chance to arrive tor today. To well keep high temperatures in the 40s heres future cast do cd really nice job showing you thee timing there we are at 10am wet1 are starting to see showers movv in by 10 00 a. M. There we are at noon. N notice the showers not terriblyl heavy but enough again youll y notice them and then evenn e through one, 2 00 oclock thisck afternoon well keep somell kee showers around i think by mid td Late Afternoon things will windn down quickly well be left with clouds and perhaps just littleul drizzle late this afternoon anda tonight. If you got outdoor plans tonight generally just be cloudy and temps will remain in the 40sin s heres your forecast again. Showers midday. Idy well try to get that number upp into the upper 40s boy 3 00 p. M. With leftover drizzle and your y weekend forecast, i know verynor very busy weekend across our area. Ar 56 tomorrow. Lots of clouds in the forecast. Perhaps little drizzle tomorrowe and then showers perhaps heavy at times returnn sunday and monday. Ony so well talk more about that a we get closer, but expect exp showers midday today. Ay and do your best to try to stays dry out there. The erin . 7 51. 1. Tucker, thank you for thatthyou weather update. Dat take a look at the key bridge. E. Really quiet conditions fromdi rosland into georgetown. G this is one of the bridges thati is remaining open so if do you y need to drive into the city to y get around that closed perimetem this is your best bet right noww outbound side very quiet asiet a well. Well as we move from our camera toero our map want to take a look at l all the bridges to let a you kno what is closed and what you cans use. Ed a us again, key bridge moving alongia just fine. Ine roosevelt bridge seeing littlebr bit of inbound volumeidge pickic up. Memorial bridge is completelyoml shut down that is why youreou seeing that red line there onlyo open to pedestrians this morning. And the hov lanes on the 14thho street bridglae arene closed mainly main lanes open. O all the red where the closure ce spanned from u. S. Capitol acrosr the National Mall to the white house as we prepare for the inauguration today. T aside from that taking wide vie of the map and very busy but the beltway itself, 295, 50, things acrosscr the legion bridge, the Woodrow Wilson bridge looking good. G problem free through annandale, 66, hov restrictions lifted ande that is moving along just finet problem free on 270 southboundoo from 70 down to the spur. S 95 looking good throughroh fredericksburg and stafford andd dale city. If youre taking metro this morning to a 10 the inauguration or get downtown for work metro t rail sup and running rush hourhu service in effect till 9 00 p. M. Metro Service Operating under midnight. Midnight right now i have no delays to report for you on metro butmeo b dont forget the followingolwi stations are closed for security purposes, archives, me triangle, Mount Vernon Square, pentagon and smith soap yann. Any questions erin fox5 d. C. Onn twitter. Twit no service on the camden line. An v. E operating on f schedule ande keep in mine these are some of f our major closures third streets tunnel all of your area tunnelsn in fact the ninth street, 12the1 street, e street and memorial mr bridge again only oe portions of independence giveeng yourself extra time to gete to t around those closures. Csu they hope to start getting roadr reopened tonight at 6 00 but 6 u then tomorrow more roads do close at 3am for the womens march that begins at third andth independence you can always useu capitol bike share they do havev some corals set up for bike b valet for personal bikes asnal well. Well. Metro bus an option. Bus anptio they have stops set outside thee closed perimeter. Ereter want to help keeping you movingu right now the beltway ande bewaa traffic outside the closures in the district looks okay rightyit now. Back to you, steve and allison. N erin, thanks very much. Muc mike thomas is one of our go tot guys for fracking weather todayr hes tracking trends. Tnd were asking you to help tell the story to share your sha y inauguration experience with use xpall day by using the fox5pots mike thomas is combing throughhu what you have to say so far. So. He joins us with the socialoc scoop. Oo i was, allison i love doingng this. This. This is your stage everybody atr home much this is your sme m opucportunity to stepped us youu messages and we will put you on air, your opinion, your thoughts wed love to see your photos, your videos whatever it is yous have. Heres the latest thoughtsug coming in linda, never in my life have i been so excited forf our country, im proud to be ann american today. Od of course using the fox5potus. We do ask that you use that. Se. The neck tweet now. Ckweet now see what else is coming in herer if we can do that, please. Leas if not, thats okay. Y. We do ask that you continue tooe send them in. Nd the as we work our way through the e day today well continue to keee bringing them to you later onn this afternoon and once again a later today sarah fraser will be joining us here and live on on facebook and well go through gh more this afternoon. Rnn heres another tweet that cameht in from anna marie. Mar she says, today i am sad. I pray for the safety of the United States. Edtates. It is 2020 yet . Good mix on mio social media. Med of course, in this area you getu some folks that are happy, somey folks that are sad. Are s do we have another tweet . Lets go to rick robinson. Fox5 potus i celebrate all inaugural events believing theyl politicians and some true wordss right there. Here. Steve, we have one more perhaps. From lynn h. People act like the bully neeble act like the act bully will now ask to sit at his lunch table since they supportet him. Hes still going to take your t lunch money fox5potus. Again, good deal good mix ofx emotion coming our way today onn social medial we thank you so much for all of your tweedetsia. Keep sounding off with us here at fox5. F5 use that fox5potus and we willl bring you more tweets coming upu in the next hour. H all right. I will send it back over to youu okay. And just to remind you our sarar fraser will pick up where mikerk leaves off this afternoonfteron leading up to the parade. Ar one to 3 00 shell be checkingg out what you share with us andhs what you just share on social ol mode ya. A so keep them coming. Om your thoughts, your pictures als that good stuff. We love it. U have not heime if you not left to head down to theowne National Mall you wanto lets check in with tucker. Tuc with thath tha seal behind you by the way. U byy you like it . Thats a nice look. Tha okay. Very nice look. Ill be the first the cabinet member for color coordination. Co absolutely. Thank you. Lets do the forecast. We got showers movinget isn don temperatures remain cool 42oo right now at reagan national. Na 40 dulles and bwi marshall 35 degrees. Expect daytime high tempe35ratue only in the mid 40s and a loft l cloud cover and rain showers moving in you want to make surer youre ready for a wet kind of d mid morning early afternoon aftr theres your Storm Trackertormcr radar. We are starting to get showers e developing to the north and wess and weve got additional rainai were expecting to move in here from portions of there you go, Central Virginia the not beforef long between 10 00 and 2 00 id expect the rain showers. Rs theres your seven day. Sen d cloudy tomorrow and rain returnt sunday and monday with possiblel heavy rain here by monday. Okay. Team work makes the dream work,r right, erin . How are the roadss weather and traffic teamnd tm today. Obviously a lot of closures inri pln lio bridge were quiet. Br were quit across the wilson bridge wereir quiet. If youre just trying to getid t work today and that doesntt involve going into t restricted area down i d. C. By. Y the National Mall, u. S. Capitol and house where the parade route is and getting ready for the inauguration ceremony today, coy traffic is looking okay on 295 and 50. An 50. Its just once you get into that restricted area closer to that a were starting to see a lot off volume on the outer lyingying secondaries. For the inaugural ceremony andla parade if you are driving hereee options to get around 14th street non hov bridges open. N. Roosevelt bridge open to traffif same with key bridge, chainin bridge, south capitol street bridge as well as sues is ais bridge and rock creek parkwayek north of virginia avenue. Vee. Metro sup and running within wit increased service. Allison and steve. And eve. Erin, thanks. E thank 7 57 right now. 57 rigow keep it right here. Fox5 news morning. Fox5 ns mo were to the going anywhere. Well be right here through all the events our inauguration coverage as we stay with us. E folks youre watching a specialre edition of fox5 news morning the inauguration of donald trump. Wp our. Life coverage starts now. N so this journey ago. Mptel taking it all in a day packedd with preinaugural events andnt celebrations, but on the streete of d. C. , protesters made their e voices heard. Ic hundreds of demonstratorstrat chanted and started fires in the streets and thousands more wills be out in force today as wes we begin a new chapter in americann history. We are going to make America Great again, greater than ever before. Be and in just hours, a day full of tradition. Dion president and president electdee will meet at the white house hoe before making the trip to thehe capitol together where drum manm will be sworn in as the 45th 4 president of the United States. We have live team coverageoverae across thed. Geoi thats a top the washingtonhingn monument and the top right boxit there. You do see the capitol where wee will see the swearing in of our next president at about little l bit before noon today and thenay on the bottom r aightnd weve be talking about it, the storyto really does go hand in hand thii morning. Morning. Were talking about thelkabout protester that is have also comc to washington on this o Inauguration Day. Good morning to you, im Allison Seymour g ive steve chenevey. Thanks so much for joining uso i this morning. Thorning. 8 00 a. M. January 20th, 2017. Of course, it is inaugurationugo day. Lets get right to what you neeh to know if you aret to heading n to todays festivities, celebrations ceremonies, metroio rail running until midnight. Keep in mind, from now untilu 9 00 p. M. Tonight peak fairs ara in effect. Ect. So youll pay the peak fares bu in exchange you will get rushus hour service and that shouldthod keep those trains running everye four to six min metro please let us know tweetne us and use the fox5potus. Several metro stations sti though are completely closedylo today. There will be no service aterce archives, federal triangle,ane Mount Vernon Square, pentagon pa and the smithsonian stations inn addition many stations entrancea will be designated as either eie entry or exit its to helpo h manage the crowds. S and remember you do needingo to through a security checkpoink if you are headed to the mall oo headed to the parade route. R there are several throughout the area that opened already earlyer this morning. Or now it has been tough forouh some people to get through thosh checkpoints this morning many oy them opened late now some are s being block by protesters letss start out live team coverageov with fox5s ronica cleary at cla 12th and e. Ronica, it was the problemblem earlier was that the gates werent open. N then they opened and now ithey n looks like theyre block. S likeb whats happening . Lo reporter exactly. Were here at 12th e a group g of protesters behind me that m t started about a block up. P were actually physically physill blocking some people from cominm through. They just made their way backdec down here. You can see them with their signs, cheering not my president , singing and again a item to go stop people from peo coming through. I spoke with Media Contact here. Says thats their goal. They believe that it is peacefuu and that is what they want tos o do. They want to stop people fromt e coming here, and you know, getting through to this event, and, um, take another look at the crowd. Reporter theyre supposedres to be continuing on the move. M that is something to keep ineepi mind as much as they are maybe e attempting to mock this righthig now win the next few minutesew s their goal is to move. M there will be a huge protest and gathering across d. C. Today witt a handful of different organizations and groups allroul fighting for issues and thingshi they feel are under at trump presidency. Resi so thats really the goal and ad mission here at each of thesefhe security checkpoints we areere under the impression there areir these smaller groups set up thet goal to stop people from gettini through. Make their voice be heard andd let them know they will not be quiet. Quie one of the signs back there bace says, do not go quietly intont that good night. D night. That is the attempt. Is the att. That is the effort. You can hear theyre getting the group together. Ethe well check back in with ron ann k a little disturb somethingdisu some ways to seerb what some of that signage says so worry justj showing you whats happening h around town this morning. Orng as we have literally all different flavors here in her washington, d. C. Today. Today let get back now to theo t capitol right now. Lets find out whats happeninge right where all the attention ai should be later on this morningi Tom Fitzgerald joining uss now. No it says from capitol hill but hb that doesnt do justice to youru position this morning, tom, morning. Mornin were up above cop toll hilll floating above capitol hill h about six stories up in the airt here right next to the president ial inaugural. Ina it was really remarkableug to js watch that right now, becauseec you know from where we are at aa this vantage point, this isnt really a tale of two cities. Itie upping, behind us on this on t inaugural stand is going to be b loaded with all the dignitariesa from the United Statesdta government, the president elect, president obama everybody hereo to watch this ceremony. But this general area here if hi you are a ticketed person, pso youre somebody who probably in these front rows is somebody wh is a very supportive person ofn the inn coming president elect. E lets show you that area. T a this is the seated area directly in front of the main stand here. Now, there are several levels o this seating. Ti theres some gray seating up inn the front. Ro and theres some black seating. I one of the things that you seeou those chairs on the right rightg there, thats where the marine r band is going to be placed. La music for the inaugural. Naur now, if we can go back out to where the lawn is, if we can c maybe kind of show that area, the other direction, that way, w there we go. G we want to show people thehe crowds that are coming in now. N. Now these people started kind of piling in here just arietta round dawn. Aw there are security barriersarrir here. These are all ticketed areas. Re and if we could go way out byut like where the fountain is, i whats really remarkable here ie what you see is these red hats, these make America Great againgn hats. Theyre almost dotting the t entire area here as you look ouo unsee these trump supporters. S. Person after person after person after person wearing these red hats. From up here in the air, its, i quite a remarkable sight and really stands out to a starko as difference as to what you just s saw on the streets oftreets washington, d. C. Right no indication at all of any off that going on where we are right now, because obviously we are we surrounded by supporters of the incoming president elect to thet United States donald j. Trump. Little preview what weretre expecting here today, theay t inaugural address. Address were told is probably going to be shorter than what youve heard in past years. Rs only about 20 minutes. Minut of course, all of this will be preceded by the ceremonies of the morning and also the inn vocations will be delivered here. We are also expecting a largege contingent of congress peoples l and senators but as you know, k, there has been this growingng boycott among house democraticei members who will not be here today. It will be interesttodaing to ss that stand fills in justnus exactly, steve and allison, hown many of those seats are actually empty as the president electdene takes the oath of office. Ffic well send it back in to you. Toy good it will be the key tom. Tom no doubt about it. No did you just call me bob. He did. Bob barnard was talng how Close Friends you guys areua earlier on the air, tom. Tom he kept saying my good buddy toy up at the capitol. Standup guy. P guy he is my good buddy. Buddy i love bob barnard. Bna you guys are one to all of us. Us. Youll never meet a betteretr person than bob barnard. B ill tell that you folks. Ou fol. Thanks tommy, appreciate it. I thanks fits. Hank hello. Hey, guys. Ey, have you noticed the mood ind here has become little moretleor serious. Were getting closer. Ere get right into it. Get r thats right. Rain getting closer as well. Rain showers 10 to 3 00 not 00 going to be raining every minutn definitely a period where wellw have some light to moderate mert showers move in through. Tou 42 now in washington. Ow in wash. Let me mention the coolt metiont temperatures. Youll notice one of ourllotic reporters wearing gloves. It is chilly out there. Uthe the cloud cover a bit of ait o breeze out of the south and eass this morning and were startingt to get rain showers on our radar. Ra see , say that three timesreet fast. Loudoun county, parts of parts Montgomery County towardsgomeou frederick and let me mentione mi temperatures up there quiet coot in the low 30s so its event e possible as you get newspaperetw pennsylvania theres a freezings rain advisory there could be aua few sl north. For us, it will be just rain r showers inside the beltway. And we expect the rifle betweenn about 10 00 and 11 00 and againn the threat of some showersho through two, 3 00 oclock thisoc afternoon. See the shower activity now breaking out into virginia. Gini thats actually associated withw a warm front which will give us clouds, showers and then drizzli late this afternoon ton night. T well keep the clouds arounds ad that was your friday evening. Y so heres your forecast again. N whether youre going downtown oo not, be prepared for showers foo between about 11 00 and 3 00, and then well turn it over tot drizzle late this afternoon. Thank you very much, tucker. My pleasure. My plre all right. Ight erin, you have a weighty joy this morning getting folks down to the mall. Thats right. I will say the good news the he beltway is quiet and if you areu taking metro, letting us know as 7am parking is available at alll the metro stations with lots and garages no station more than 40h full. So youre still in good shape theree st. Il now this is alert for you out oo Northern Virginia from vdot. T. Earlier crash huntington at telegraph road. El it is closed in both directionsr for the next six to eight hourst to fix a power pole that is doww as a result of that accident. Cc. Avoid the area. D the so if you are heading to thehe Huntington Metro station, useon kings highway and give yourselfs extra time there. A time the as for the wide view of our Inauguration Day commute, youtin see all the red downtown f dromf all the street closures aroundrn National Mall, us capitol,apit spanning over to the whitehe house. House. However, outside of that closuru area, traffic is actually aually looking pretty good and quiet oo the beltway, 295, 50 outside the beltway from annapolis, 66, hov6 restrictions lifted. Ted 270 and 95 from fredericksburgdr looking good. So if you are heading to workg k and youre not touching the note close showers downtown, you aree in for relatively quiet commuteu however, if you are trying totrt get down to the inauguration,ugo just keep in mind, key bridge ie your best option its actually l looking very quiet and good inod both directions right now. Right. Memorial bridge is only open ton pedestrians right now. Ans rightw its closed to traffic. Traic roosevelt bridge is looking loo pretty good and the 14th street bridge hov lanes arehov closed but the main lanes remain open. Open if you are taking metro, theyre ru actually extra increased servici rush hour until 9 00 oclock0 tonight and then metro serviceer does extend to midnight. Nit right now we are hearing reports of things getting crowded andwd picking up on the rail lines bus no delays slowing us down. Ow well let you know if that changes. S. The following stations areing se closed for security purposes as well archives, federal trianglen Mount Vernon Square, pentagon po and smith zone yann. E y aside from that, you can use marc trains penn and bus wick wc lines are operate nothinge ra service on the camden line andde vre operating on an s schedule. D metro bus stops are outside the closed per rim metter as welly w again any questions erin fox5 oo twitter. Tw we want you to get down therenhe safely and and joy the day. D allison and steve. D st we also want to know what itn is youre thinking and feet lini on this historic day were usinu a special fox5potus to help yop get in touch with us. U mike thomas is here with ah quick look at what youve beenee saying so far this morning. Orng whats up, mike . Me . Hey, allison more and more ar tweets. More and more people waking twuk more and more tweets are comingc in. We love it keep using the fox5potus lets read a couplepl qu excited for america and at the e real donald trump. Donald trump it is a wonderful day in the usa. People from all over d. C. Have h come to celebrate. Te all right. Lets see if we have time forimf another one from kathy. From today is k a proud day to be an american. Am now stop protesting and get back to work. K. Today is for us happy folks. Ks so, again, we love thehe tweets. Please keep them coming use the fox5potus were allowing you tu sound off today. Tod stick with us. Withs. Fox5 morning news on this thi Inauguration Day will be right l back. My hygienist told me to try. A mouthwash. So i tried crest. It does so much more than give me fresh breath. Crest prohealth mouthwash provides all. Of these benefits to help you get better dental checkups. Go pro with crest prohealth mouthwash. Checkup . Nailed it. She looks years younger than she should. Is it dna or olay . New Olay Regenerist helps take years off your skin age so you can look younger. Who needs dna when you have olay . New regenerist. Youre watching a special w edition of fox5 news morning. The inauguration of donald o trump. Our life coverage starts now. Nw we take a live look right lk now from the top of the Washington Monument as we seeon more and more people starting t come on to the mall right theree at first it was just the crowdsd there at third and madison nowiw were starting to see more andod more people at fourth andat fou madison that are starting totago come in, and of course those areas closest to the capitol cal those are the seated areas andnd the ticketed areas. You can see on the white tarp wp they put down to protect thect t National Mall the new grass thee put in there more and more ofndf the folks who do not haveo do n tickets who are coming in ton t stand on the mall today. Od one of the great things thi about washington so many greatgn things here, but one of thene oe great things on a day like todat some of the great leaders whowho are still here in the city thost who have been there, those who have lived Inauguration Day in the past lets take closer lookt aheadake what lies ahead for mr. Trump and his family and the presidency and the transition. Rt joining us now by phone Anita Mcbride shes been a frequent fn guest with us. She is the executive inve residence at the center forror congressional and president ialna studies at american university. T it is great to talk to you thisy morning. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Anita, as far as you can tell are we right on track here foror what we have seen in past inaugurations . Absolutely. [ inaudible ] absolutely. We have a little trouble witr the cell phone reception anita. Apologies. Hopefully we can get that thatta connect worked out. Work out well try to touch base with inw you just a minute anita. Ata let the control room talk with yoth get back in touch. Actually it sounds better. S. We can hear you a little better now. Wn ell let you go ahead andr ahead continue your thoughts and you hopefully we wont lose you. Weos okay. Oka thank you. K u. So sorry. Orry. Go ahead anita. Anita we have you now. Now. Lets talk about allison wasisos asking if were pretty much onyn track. Track. Great. I think everything mostthing mot definitely appears to be one track and following the templatl as it has in past inaugurationss the timing seems to be ready for everything to unfold as its it should. Should. Of course, remember, thatha everything backs up from that tt time at 12 noon where the oathhe has to be taken. Anita you were at the white t house for three administrations of course former chief of stafff for first lady laura bush. Us you have been there for the innn and outs literally of the whitee house. Ho what can we expect to beo b happening at the white house day . Y . Well, right now, of course,ht all of n the staff, the workingi staff of the white house havetee all left. All le yesterday was their last day. So offices are being preparedree and cleaned and ready for new fw team to start coming in and through the weekend. But in the residence portion,orn im sure its a bitter its bittersweet morning. Orning i mean this is the time right about entire resident staff is , saying final goodbye tode the family they had to take care for eight years. So that is a poignant moment, mn one that helps to bring great closure for the obama family tol say thank you. And the literal transition oo not just power but of residencee happens in a fairly short amounn of time. Absolutely. After this departure with theth residence staff and then thehen obamas will be ready to to stara to receive the president elect, traditional coffee and blue room and he is cored up to thehe swearing in. I the chief usher will give the command to everyone in that place and to prepare the house for the arrival of the new firsr falyly. And its a frantic kind off chaotic but also a very welll orchestrated process to get that white house ready. Dy anita i wanted to try to sneak this in before we lose tht connection but because you wereu there for both bushush administrations and of courserse the ronald reaganga administration, did you everdido talk with any members of they me first families afterward as to t what the final things they did in the white house, thehe residence perhaps before theypeh ftft . Ap sure. Well one of the great memoriest for me was on eight years ago oo the night of john 19th, two t thus sand mr. And mrs. Bushrs. H invite me to spent the white house so i can be there the next morning for the blue room coffee and for the departure, so i know the bush 41 as we affectionatell call them and 43s and the famill all that breakfast together. Oghe said goodbye you know to the staff and before they left. Yef i was a real witness to historyo to see moment but one thats muchuc easier at the end of an eightigt year term than when you are not reelected and the end of a of a fouryear term. Tm neat at a, we were justt showing video of former president bush 41 and yes. We just i dont know if ko you have update on their heawltt this morning. Something you could share withuo us. Yes. Actually, doing much better. Bt. Were all very grateful and in i fact i saw a message from president george w. Bush today d to the all the American People l that are praying for his father and his mother that the prayerss are working, and that they arete feeling stronger and they areyre feeling better and in fact whene secretary baker and his wifeande there are to visit the other night he promisedto v to come bc with some martinis for them. Aww thats fantastic. Taic anita we love to end it there ii totally understand the emotion of the first families as theyrsf leave the whiteilie house. For you on that last morningng were you like okay, im good,e this is enough already or was ii i g it was emotional for me as ms well, but i felt that there wass great closure for me, too, to bb able to end my career at ther at white house in such a historicri way. I really will never forget it. T. I was so tired. Tir i was ready to just go home ande sleep. I believe it. It. Youre continuing your careerour teaching others at american amei university. Thats right. Iate your time your time this morning. T thank you for inviting me. Have goodhis douay f. Or byebye. Bye. Before we take a quick breakk were making time to showcase so some of your thoughts and thougd feelings on air. Fe mike thomas back with look b what the fox5 family is saying s about this hitter are you day on social media using our special fox5 potus hash tag. Tag. Mike . We love that potus hash tag. T please keep sending them fox5 potus on twitter facebookk instagram well find your your message. Age. This one from may meg ashton on twitter, waited eight years forr this. Hash tag mag make America Greate again. Ag lets see if we have anotherve a one. If we dont thats okay. All right. Cameron san diego can we just ws tip to 2020 already . Mixed emotions on social media. D make your voice known this morning. Send us your messages using that fox5potus. Ot we get your tweets on the air. Ir all right. Thats the latest from thehees social media desk. Desk. Well be right back after thiset break. Live picture outside saintictu johns church. Theres the president elect vicepresident mike pence who just arrived. This is where the service will be later this morning. Were expecting donald trump to head over to the church from bout 10s the sident a er minutes. E latcting r tout0 really could be any time withine the next 10 minutes or so over r to Saint Johns Church and thata of course is where the servicece will be and this is traditional of inaugurations in the past. He. We saw president obama there att saint john the last twot tw inaugurations as well part ofonw what has become tradition. Tdi doesnt have to be at saint johns other president s have hat Church Services in othervis in locations president clinton was one of them but for the last l several inaugurations that has t been the case. We also have a camera right nowt on blair house as we are keepine an eye out for donald trump as we expect that he will leavel la blair house. Blai now blair house and saint johnh church really only a block awaya from each other. O however, as we have seen in thee past, its not typically a walkw so we expec just as we saw barack obamaacob years ago, four years ago and ao eight years ago walk it wouli have been eight years ago forago president obama because he was at the white house fourse h yeay ago, walk out of blair house,ou, then get into a vehicle for that short drive literally around tht corner around the block to Saint Johns Church. Chuh. Theres live look where wes expect to selie get our first of glimpse at donald trump on thisi Inauguration Day. On d. All the black suvs ready toy get folks where they need to beb thats right. Ts just starting to heat up. P welcome back to fox five fuse fe morning our special coverage of the inauguration of donaldra trump. All right. Wee welcome you back, w going to actually take short sht break and they will well do d another welcome in a couple of u minutes. We hope its a welcome to washingtono weekend. Sure s we hope you join usjoi online use the hash tag fox5ox5 potus and share your activities and thoughts throughout the dayt today. Today. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. 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. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. 8 30 now. Again, that look there at the blair house seeing folks folks hurrying getting busy getting gt out of there, of course, we aree waiting to see president elect donald trump. T kind of want to hang on to thist just to see who we see come out. We should in a minute. Allison we done inaugurationsugs passed come out and we saw a few a photographers come out as wellse many we were told that it would be sometime betweenth 8 30 and 8 35 we would get our first fir glimpse of donald trump thisof d morning now they are closing the do agagain. Clo so maybe well keep an eye onyen this. Lets do that. Ets as were do so well head around the corner to wisdom wdo martin keeping an eye on thingsi outside of the white house thisi morning. Morn wisdom . Wisd . Good morning to you. Mog to you know, weve been talkingtalk about this all morning theresng going to be a lot of activity happening here in washington, d. C. Today. You just mentioned thatt president elect donald trump is on at some point this morninr will be on his way to the whitei house after his morning servicev at church. Atrch. Hell be on this way to the to white house with his family to y meet with the obamas at thet white house. Hse so the outgoing president isrest going to be meeting with the the incoming president. Nt. Thats going to happen aroundend 9 55 then at 10 35, theyre, going to leave here and theyre going to head down to the, frese the white house to capitol hill for the inauguration ceremony, inauguration 2017, and usher inn a new president the 45th president of the United States. Now i want to ho since were here across from pennsylvania of a Lafayette Parr across from the white house. The i dont know if you can see thii but behind me you see the t viewing area. Aa there are people who are already here waiting for the parade toae come through waiting for theough festivities to start. Ivitie they got here probably a few s nutes ago. You might not able to see them m but they are trust me, they y are here. They have rain gear on, hats on its a little bit chilly outy o here warmer than it was about aa hour ago, but theyre actuallyua people who are out here in place in the stands already bright and early also a lot of policee officers already in place getting ready to do their jobs b to make sure that there are no o issues on this day when it comes to the parade and whent it comes to the ceremonies that will takk place in this area so just wantn to let you know there are policp officers out here and there aree people who are actually out herr for the event already bright anb early this morning. Mning now ive been telling you all a morning about the process ofroce moving one family out of thef white house and then moving mov another family into the white tw house. Edw this is a complicat Something Like a militaryo y strategy because all the planning takes place off sight for the new family to move in. I what happens is, theres a tre person that is in charge of of meeting with the okay. Y. Apparently i got to be done. On ill fill you in on that later. President direct donald trump is get prelect donald trump is p getting ready to come out. Out hes there now we seee now ws president elect donald trump and future first lady melan ya trump we saw them melania traumara come out blair house. Melania trump ve attractive, a blue suit. I defer to you in color. Yes. And we saw the president electse donald trump and theres one ofe his sons there eric trump walking in front. So the trump family of coursefou leaving the blair house on theit way now. Way now we see more and more of theo the family members those who had been in blair house who areousea coming out right now as we takek look at those black suvs. Al . Al . Seeing another one of donaldf trumps sons right there in thee gray and the i was thinking k those were the daughters but sos far the sons have come out. O donald trump in that blackt suv right now for the shorthort trip. I mean literally the trip takesk a minute to drive around the the corner and go to saint johns j for the Church Service. Ce which is for most president elects has become aels tradition. Tr there are some who have decided not to do so. O s some have gone to church the next day allah richard nixon. Some Allah Jimmy Carter decidedc to have Inter Faith Service atth the Lincoln Memorial seven saint johns but basically going backc to jimmy carter the onlyter president who did not have the Church Service at saint johns j was bill clinton who opt instead of his Church Service elsewherew at the metropolitan ame churchhc but most president s going back c over the years have decided to opt for saint john as block oro so from the white house. Te i remember that. Iemem that was a powerful moment in i former president clintons presidency opting to go to that histor church but this is standing onno tradition as we saw with the outgoing president , president obama doing the same thing goin to saint johns. So here it is. Little bit, i was going to sayay before schedule but pretty muchm right on time as 8 35 we see the future first family leaving onma the way to saint johns. Oh well follow them over totheo saint johns right now if you nw were with us a few minutes agois you saw mike pence enter theentt into the church probably five oe sick minutes ago, and he had h arrived ahead of thehe president elect. So mike pence and his family wew do believe already inside of tht church at this point. Oi final preparations right now of course for this armada of black suvs with secret Service Protection obviously to take the future president of the United States right around the corner to the serviceht a. Okay. Of course, at 10am, then the incoming president will join the outgoing president and the first lady at at the white househiteou theyll enjoy coffee. I suppose its coffee or tea. R a or really anything you wantgt because theyll be at house and love to beo that conversation there maybe m last words of guidance from the Outgoing Administration but weut will see that afterwards andrd a then ceremony begins steps off the capitol shortly after thatht at 11 15. 11 from this moment on, things sors rololl on. Its always one of thosef tho conversations that youreersa absolutely right you wish youti can be a part to hear what the outgoing president has to say to for the inn coming president re what the conversation is like Ct Washington the tone is likeion t washington the nerves areon then um, realization obviously, youlu know, president s have said hav thats one of the moments wherew they start to feel that powert p that is about to be be stowed so upon them because they knowhe these are the last few minutm bs before they take that oath ofy o office. F thats going to happen lateroing this morning as allison to shae service itself expected to be ao the church for the next hour or so. So. Once they make that short tripsi around the corner. As a proud episcopalian i can tell that you service will last for about an hour. An hou of course later today, we will join president elect donald trump as he is sworn into into office. Ofce the bushes will be there the clintons and also the cartersar and of course the obamas will be in attendance. Endanc theres ban lot of talk aboutk t lawmakers who are opting out for political reasons. Easo but we can say with certaintycei that we will see these threehr living president s and firstd fi ladies today. Ladi and you know and going by the message that was sent you know w former president george hw bushb wishes he could be here for thet day itself. Right. Otelt note that heartfelt n which was a little tongue andone cheek as well showing little bib of his humor even at his age ofe 92 years old to president electe donald trump just saying my jusm doctor said if i go ill end upu 6 feet in the ground. Of course he is in a houstons it hospital right now and we do d wish him well and one of our o r guests we talk to before bor obviously very close with thevet bush family said that they didhy get word this morning he isor doing well and we certainly wisw he and his wife who are both inn the hospital the best thisest morning. Little information about Saint Johns Church. Rc interesting to note the churchhc has a sanding invitation for the commander in chief as we see Tiffany Trump leave the residence there getting into ani car there in the white. W the church has a standingin invitation for the commander in chief. Its pew 54 its the president e pew its reserved for the the nations leaders and the church has kneelers embroidered in inde tribute to each president , ofnt course, locate the at h and 16th streets in northwest. We just across from lafayetteayet square. Squ you probably see it in many movies its very iconic locatee not but for driving by hollywood directors like to use the churcc as a d. C. As well. El look likes Tiffany Trump was thw last to get in and get on boarda theyll start to roll down pennsylvania avenue and thenande just right across the streettr should take literally about aalu minute and a half. Mi also note the wipers arenotep going, steve. G, s rain is falling. F i did see that. Id see tucker was noticing just a shoro time ago he actua one of the jackets i believe on wisdom martins jacket lookedke like there were few raindropsw r tiarting to fall. Wisdoms location right next door to where the vehicles are. E you see the old office buildingn in the background ford for perspective. Youre looking at it like yoo can see Old Washington on the left what it must have lookede o like since this tradition began. More beautiful streets in ourtsn nations capitol across from Lafayette Park. Tte p theres the overview ofe oveiew Lafayette Park on the right and its really its one of thoso moments, al, i think you start s to realize how fortunate we are to be here in washington and a just to be able to witness history as you see the history of old with the iconic and Historic Structures heres inuc the nations capitol now what cn will be the newest chaowpter oft history here in the nation notnt just in washington, d. C. With. T the newest president of the United States. Ste theyre on the move. And we of course are staying ong with you. With we will be here until n the coverage doesnt stop then. We will just be witness too history as we see donald trump p take the oath of office beforeef noon has to be before noonore n today. So right around that hour. Said to deliver remarks in his m speech that will last about 20 minutes. We have been told that he wrotew that speech himself. Imse so it will be interesting tog hear some of the campaignig promises, how they have now n become what he will do as president. All right. That was it. That was the drive right there. Fro was the commute mhe d brilair bla house to Saint Johns Church. Cc so there you see some of thee ot folks who are working thei t security detail right now, and , we expect to get our glimpse ofo the president elect as he getset out of the vehicle and will walw in and enter the church. Ch. There he is. Your next president of thent o United States, donald j. Trump. Future first letter melaniast trump there as walking one only has to imagine whatsts going through their minds ateira this moment. Omt. Its all very traditional. Tional we see him greeting the priestrt there. Th and walking in. N it almost seems like the air r it seems like everything is standing still besides them sti doing this because the securitlt of course is so tight in thatha area. You see secret service rightvicg there making sure that hest h delivered safely into theo t church. The who will becomee the first children if you willyl Adult Children but the firsthe f children ivanka and her husbanda going in. You would love to get insided their head right now and just rw think especially for donald don trump at this moment, are yout,y just going with the emotions ofn the day, are you thinking abouto whats going to happen in fewpen hours on the steps of thehe spso capitol as we see more membersem of the trump family now enterinn the church. Th are you thinking about thee inkn speech you have to give in a few hours . Are you soaking it in. Ti are you taking that chance tot t step back and absorb everythingy thats happening on theat momentous ds hay the family is going into thet church and we will of courseofos stay with this shot. Hot. Tiffany trump there. T Donald Trumps daughter with wih marla maples. Maple appears to be the last of thease family going in. So the service were told shoulo last roughly an hour as we take live look over the crowd thatwda waits for donald trump to comeom and address them later. At theres the outside of saintt johns mike pence of course c already inside he entered theret church about 15 minutes ago. Es o now donald trump is inside andne we do expect that service willvl get underway shortly. And allison mentioned it should be about an hour and then afterr that theyll go back to thet white house havent a chance to meet with the current president t and first lady on their lastir morning at the white house. G at always an exciting shot to wt see. The glimpse of when theyrehen e altogether and then they leave. A its that peaceful transition oo power that weve been talkingg about here and we are well aware. Were watching social media. Ia we understand that there a some protests heating up in some spots. But this is also going on rightg now in this moment, and we are endeavoring to cover all thatsl going on on this Inauguration Day. Wisdom martin right across the street. Th well check back in with him inn a couple of minutes and get ann idea what he was able to seebles from his pig. Fr what youre seeing right now of course is the crowd startinge so fill in a little bit more. What looks like snow the white space down there protectionrocto being put down to save the grasg of course a lot of mall has beeb redone just as the capitol domed had been redone with the targetr date of being finished forhed f todays momentous occasion. Jumbotrons up and running,ndi steve, in the front there. E fr thats what you see thoses ws dots of blue along the mall. So the area right in front ofn n the capitol it looks like therer are lot of people, a lot ofot of ticked area there. The and then in the areas where youu see that white material on the o ground protect the grass thosert are standing room areas. Re third and madison, fourth andnd madison, fifth street and onth back much so thats starting tog fill up a little bit more now at 8 43. Well take a real quick well be back with more coverage on this Inauguration Day 2017. 2 right aft this. Aft t we hope you stay with us. S. Youre watching a speciale wa edition of fox5 news morning. The inauguration of donaldo trump. Our life coverage starts now. 8 46. Thanks for staying with us thisi morning. Its getting crowded downtown. Rw people have been pouring in alll by car, bus, however they can get down to tht National Mall to see donaldond trump become our next president. Fox5s bob barnard is right in the thick of it. S t of he joins us from the national na mall. Ma how are you . Reporter doing okay, allison and steve. Its been spritzing on and off, so some of the national guardsld people here putting on their t foul weather gear and joining us very colorfully dressed niles nl lauren and beth they drove upp from richmond this morning. Mni i kidded. D. I said, niles you want to be onb tv and beth said, why do youo think he dressed like that . T . Tell me youre very patrioticic today good very patriot tick. T came up to here to this lasthis night we were sitting theree ttn watching the welcome ceremony. Very moving. Ov great show. Sw. Just incredible. E reporter you said you decided while watching that toht umome e up. You hadnt really bland beforefo last night. We had been planning on it. N when i saw i wished i came upamu yesterday. Reporter gotcha. R gota. Very cool. And beth, tell me, why did youhd want to be here . You coulde . O watch it at home. H t h person . Because this is history. Thih and we wanted to be a part of it. We followed the trump campaignaa all the way through and went tow the rally and what better placea to be today . Tod reporter ive been withve t people in the last week who supposedly in the know, and even the people in the know say that they were surprised that trump won. Won. That he didnt expect to win. In hillary didnt expect to lose. But there obviously is passion out there for this man. M how do you explain that, lauren . I just thinking he reaches hs out to all americans to me, and, he just he understands whatht its like for those of us havinv to go out and earn a paycheck py every day and provide for ourfor families. I just feel like when he says he loves us, he really does. Does reporter very cool. Nothing too stars and stripes sp except your glasses and you gots little flag here. H niles, tell me how was it getting into where we are right now, because its been somewhatt problematic for some peopleomeee today. How was it for you guys. The drive in fromwas richmod was not bad at all. A once we got here a few s were blocked but after aft maneuvering around got ourar got parking place, walked on down, w peace of cake. Ac c reporter about mile or so. R about mile. Mile and a half. Something like that. So t not too far to walk. T tor to wa. Reporter okay. Rep lod luck. Thanks for standing out in theg rain with us v great day, folks. Thanks very much. Uc look at this guy. S guy. Just walking by. Just walki can you say hello and the camerc is right over there. Re i like your hat. Hat what does it say. Ay. It says make America Great. Ac weve heard that before. Ve i like the button h. Ea button youre dressed up, man. Ure i am. D why did you come and where cm did you come from. Were from manchester, newr,n hampshire we came down here toet put president in power. Did you come from New Hampshire just for this. Id yst t just for this. T fo reporter go have some fun. E. Thank you very much. Th thank you. An there you goes guys. Here y people from all over. Ople fall we have seen those who have come here to protest, but peacefully. And about an hour or so ago wee had some pros and cons togethert and it was interesting they saiy this is america. And so thats why were here her showing it to you and thats why people have come here to witnese it themsel look, were about 12 blocks fror the capitol. So we are right in the middle of the mall at 12th street and asea you can see down there, not aot lot of people here. H one of the entry points is hereh and theyre heading now down toward my good friend deer mandr Tom Fitzgerald and our two president s obama and trump whorw will be down there shortly, thet guys, and well be here as wellw with the people. Peo so, bob, are you getting any sense to how the mall might betb filling up compared to t inaugurations past . I know that youve worked many of them heree in washington, d. C. I know youre still far awayou from the capitol but wre e have learned in the past that it isti easy to fill up that space spa rather quickly. Reporter absolutely. I will say this is my fifth president ial inauguration. Naugur the two bushes, two george w. Bushing two obamas and now this one. And its still early. We still have, you know, threewr hours till the official swearina in. We hear it will happen the the swearing in a little before noon. In the past, there have been itn but, again, were 12 blocks bacb and normally im up and weve a been up a lot closer. So maybe by show time, by noon, the numbers will kind of equatea but i think the first obama o eight years ago today was more m so than the others that iveha v covered and well see. D wel well see how it shapes up. Hape it doesnt seem as crowded hereh on the mall as it has been inasb the past. At least from my perspective. Spi one other thing, bob, i wanted to get your take on, you, had mentioned obviously some of the peaceful protests. Protests. We are hearing from people there are protests that areng n fot as peaceful outside and there areha obviously attempts to try to toy limit the number of people of pl coming into the mall or at least make it more difficult for people to come into the mall. O h from the folks you have talk tot who have made it through the security so far, any problems in that regard for them . Reporter not at all. T the people that weve been speaking to said it has been nob problem at all. Ll its just that som here well before dawn, and weree not allowed in until 6 00, 6 306 in the morning hadnt to wait at the checkpoint. N some of the media and the of me volunteers and the security secr people were allowed in sooner. But thats been the only thingng from where we are which isre whi 12th and constitution nearion na some of the smithsonian museumss at this checkpoint, the people o coming in saying, no problem rely. Y. But at some of the further outef ones, yes, were hearing anecdotally about those issuess now if there is nor troubleor tb theyre probably going to make k it more difficult for people to get in. But since dawn till now here noo stories of people not beingng allowed in or having anyny difficulties getting in, guys. Gy all right, that is some goodm news. We hope everybody is, you knowou arc loud to enjoy this day as a they see fit. So well take a short break. Rt when we come back weve seen thn rain starting down on the the National Mall and wherever our colleagues are Tucker Barnes will join us with a look at whew we can see it really startyta coming down or maybe not. Maybe theres a different i doubt it. Oubt well be right back. Welbe at dominion, were putting our energy to work creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Youre watching lifein continuing coverage on fox5 d. C. The inauguration of dona trump. Tr 8 55. Welcome back. Lclets continue our team coverr with the big event this afternoon at the inauguralhenaug parade. Hours away but thats whereye holly morris is battling the t elements and keeping an eye on n the crowd this morning. Crow you finally made it d ththroughg security. Thats good ste i wore my Indiana Jones hat a we did finally make the throughr ill keep it short and sweetnd e here and be quick. Buick. If youre coming down to then t inaugural parade, look, the t weather is bad. Its raining its starting to pick up even though its not aa real hard rain, youre going tog be wet. Its cold. So dress in layers. N ler dress in something thats goingi to keep you dry from head to toe. Toe. Because youre going to be out o in it and youll be out in it in for some time. T this is very important, though. O when we went through ourough our security checkpoint the ruleshes changed a little bit. First when we kim threw they t said no backpacks obviously they let us through with backpackskp for the media. Thmedi we had some gear we needed toeeo get in i specifically asked one of the security guards is its ii general public going to be ablel to bring in backpacks he saidkph no. He also said no umbrellas,as thats different from what wem w heard yesterday. D ye no umbrellas at all for thehe general public, and we had apples and snacks, they tookyoo those, too. E, too they said no solid apples. Pp they have to be cut in slices. Ce so theyre taking security very seriously here. Ere. Our life coverage inauguration 2017 on fox5 newss morning continues after theft t break. Stay with us. Strata hid history in thehid making. Donald trump a new york reall estate mogul turned reality tv star now just hours away from fm becoming the 45th president ofdo the United States of america. We are going to make America Great again, greater than ever before the next commander in chief c kicking off the celebrationraon yesterday with a concert on theo steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Late night for the president elect. Pr and an early start. Inauguration day now officiallyy underway beginning minutes agouo with a Prayer Service at st. T. Johns church. That means were just hours