Where this hour we will learn from the great ground hogat himself whether theres a lot of winter left or spring isl right around the corner. Its going to be a tough tgh call. Oh, look at that. Well get details aboutout your forecast coming up from tucker in just a few minutesecam atin 7 05. 7 good morning to you, imou, allison seymour. Allison ymour. And im steve chenevey. Im e welcome to fox5 news morning. Mo. Right off the top more out of that of breaking news inews Montgomery County. Conty. Another cvs in Silver Springcvs robbed this time on georgiagerga avenue. This hour several people are under arrest though. S hour annie yu ists t live in silvernr spring with the latest including whether this ising whs related to a string of other otr robberies quite similar in the area. Area. Good morning. Reporter hey, good repteve and a and allison. Well, we areison. Told byold b Montgomery County police that they are certainly lookingook into whether this recent oner today is linked to the string t of robberies that have taken tan place in Montgomery County as m of late. La there are several similarities s including the time of day, allyl of these happening in theappenie Early Morning hours and also the type of establishments th most of them 24 hour24 establishments so theyreli looking into it but rightsh noww its still too early to tell. O t we do know were told that th officers are inside right now still processing the scene. Ing. Theyre speaking with thewiththe staff that were hereere overnight. 4 15 4s happened around this morning. Or Police Responded to here to the 24 hour cvs. R c this is up at Glenmont Shopping Center right off of georgia avenue. They tell us multiple suspects enterd the store. Stre. They called 911. 91. Police arrived and police poice stopped more than one vehicle ve and took more than one person pe into custody. W manyll to us to us ho but we understand theyrehowders being questioned right now atig police headquarters. Po i want to show you realli quickly this man that was man t caught on camera. C this is the man that they havee been looking for inman connectn with in at least three armed robberies elsewhere. E two cvs stores in bethesda,b one at the riteaid off at eastwest highway and so that st is the person in connection to those three robberies. Robb but also being looked at forat r this one today. That is the very latest heree from Silver Spring maryland,a annie yu fox5 local news. Tensions remaining high at a delaware prisonons re as two w its employees are still beingl held hostage by inmates. Ntes. Several inmates took fourtok Corrections Department workers s hostage yesterday two of those original four hostagesostges released. In addition the hostage takers a have been Holding Dozens ofzensf fellow inmates but many ofmany f those also released includinging some we believe in the past few minutes. In an feintw erview miwith the t delaware newspaper thela n prisoners say theyre upset u with the way theyre being bing treated lack of educationalducal resources and also upset withpsh the current leadership of theadf uned states. S. Meantime developing m overnight inea california,lorn protests force the universityher of california at berkeley to to cancel a controversial guestovet speaker who was set to appear ar on campus. On caus. Hes a news editor fored Breitbart News and his hi comments have been criticizede as being racist misogynisticgync antimuslim and being whiteinte supremacist. It was canceled following aolloi campus lockdown caused by protesters throwing smoke bombs and flares. We have thebo right to defene ourselves. And so this shutting down d yiannopoulos and doing whatever is necessary to do necy that is our right to selfdefense. Ise support free speech. So, i decided to come to see to if i could get in, see what he had to say marketplace of freefe speech ideas come about and itat just got shut down by a buncha h of people in black cloth lot protesting that. That. The president of the United States now sounding off aboutof the protest tweeting justg moments ago if uc berkeley be does not allow free speech and n practices violence on innocentnc people with a different pointert of view no federal funds . F white house Officials Sayfi iran will be held to accountbe for this weetokends ballistic l missile test. The white house currentlywhite u looking for rrwenhat they say wy be the best way top respond too thte financial and economicd measures as well as providing ag support for opponents of iranof are also options being considered. The president tweetingpresin this iran is rapt idly taking over more and more of iraqf i even after the u. S. Has squandered 3 trillion there3 tl obvious long ago. This morning, australiasus Prime Minister insisting that instruct with the obamaobama administration which wouldn whid allow muslim refugees to be resettled in the United States t is still on despite president pit trump dubbing the agreementgremt dumb and vowing review it. Ewt. This announcement comes after ar the Washington Post published the story detailing attemptedmpd exchange between president be trump and the Prime Ministerimen during their first telephonetel call as national leader. Leder President Trump warning mexicos president hes ready to send u. S. Troops to stop bad hombres. On a thursday morning. Ng. On ground hog day. On ground hog. Yeah, big day. Its snowing up there righ yte t now. So, im not sure that phil ist s going to see his shadow soha that means winter is over,ov, right . You know, i always get it get backwards actually. Actuall yeah, i think i thin see your shadow dow oh. Its happening. Well, the pennsylvaniael party is reallygetting going. Go. Steve, im surprised yourprisedu havent been there. It wasnt exactly rigthtactlh next door not going to lie. Li look at him, though. Though. Hes getting it. It. Oh, my goodness, he is very serious. Bringing a little youth withtl the top hat. E enzy. Frenzy. Be a fr not sure. Will phil see his shadow . Sha well find out momentarily. Enta. Here are count numbers, run inn washington, 38, 36 up in8, 36 un baltimore. Balti thats the mocold front and tha cold front is right on top ofghf our friends in northwest pennsylvania with some lightom snow shower activity and a lotrc of clouds so, therefore, iher think the idea that hes going g s none but well see how itsee hot goes. Goes. For us, upper 40s to about aut 50. Turning breezy and partly sunny this afternoon as thatften that front comes through. Nt com should be a dry afternoon for us. All right. Thank you. Lets check in with erinwithn get a look at whats happening on the roads nowa. 7 07. Big delays top of the beltwayys t earlier c tropash out by georo and another one by route onerout so from bw parkway to georgia ge avenue as you head towards Silver Spring were just ust seeing a lot of slow moving traffic there. View from va wide skyfox and a whole bunch ofnch backed up traffic leadingd towards georgia avenue. Ven lets go ahead and switch itd ah over and show you a look atlo our maps. Our map thats not the only slowdown slw were dealing with. E de you can see all the red on thede map. Gw parkway dealing with really big delays as well. Big we have an inbound 66 crash ondn the ramp from 66 torom 66 to constitution avenue. Constitution thats causing some delays assis well. A gw parkway southbound therestho a crash just after 123. 2 and look at that, youre youre jammed all the way back to the h beltway down to past, excusestxc me, sorry, my hair is hittinghi the microphone, as you too itasu to get towards the key bridge. G. Key bri into georgetown. G southeastsouthwest freeway crash at the tunnel. Northbound 295 on and offd 29 delays to the 11th street bridge. Br red line residual delays nidoden longer single tracking by sin Judiciary Square. Ju and steve. Stglson thanks erin. Thanks er happening now, d. C. Police polie continue to investigate avestig deadly shooting in northeast. Or. This happened last night alonggt eastern avenue. Eastern avenu police say when officersof arrived they found a man unconscious, not breathing. Br he later died. Die police also found a woman hadwoa been shot. No word on her condition this cs morning. Also in the District Police still searching for the dr tiver who hit a 10yearold girl andg then just kept on going. Ging. Thats sionna. Si she had just gotten off a metrobus along eighth street and kansas avenue on etuesdayes evening and wdaas in the in th crosswalk when a car came downan the street and struck her. Sionna suffered a fractured neck multipleuff broken bones as well as swelling and bleeding in her brain. Bi now her mother is making anakin urgent plea for that driver toao do the right thing and turn themselves in. Emselves i when i got out the firstt e t thing i see is my street, just laying there screaming and crying becausebece shes hurt. Hu they just left her there. The. What kind of person leaves a child here in the street,street doesnt call the police, theye,y waited for everyone else toryone call the police. Ll thei they just left the scene. According to a policeccor report, witnesses described the car as gray in co, lor awind they saw two women in the car. A witnesses also claimed theses ac passenger did get out of thelari car to check the damage on thegh vehicle but never checked onr the little girl. Back to politics now. Ly in a surprising move, twomoe republican senators haveblan ser announced they plan to voteo t against President Trumpsnst prs secretaryid of education nominen betsy devos. Y de the vote to confirm devos now in jeopardy its possible Vice President mike pence aike p stamp devos supporter may beer e the were unto tilt the scalee se in her favor. Melanie joins us l hive from r capitol hill with more on themoe controversy. Good morning, mel. Reporter ly good morning, steve and ally son. Lets put this erin lstev perspe Vice President biden never wasdn breaking vote. V Vice President cheney usedresidc that privilege eight times. Tim. Slowly but surely trumpstrumps cabinet nominees are making m their way through thethrough e confirmation process but inmatit some cases republicans i are having to employ partisan tactics in order to get it done. No democrats plan to vote fore betsy devos as secretary off education. Now with two republicans Susan Collins of maine and lisa meris kowski of alaska saying theyay cannot support her either, itei will be a very tight vote. Voe. Devos is a michigan billionaire conservativeonservav activist although never a teacher she has worked with w the michigan charter schoolter movement supportingsc legislation thamotve redirected public funds since the early 90s. 90s. Opponents have many questionsano about her investments instmentsn private education businesses,bus her support for public schoolsss and her experience. I have heard from thousandsos truly thousands of alaskansalns who shared their concernsco about mrs. Devos asdevos secretary of education. Ducaon. Theyve contacted me by phone, o concerns center as mine do on mrs. Devos lack ofck o experience with publicpulic education and the lack of la knowledge that she portrayedh in her confirmation hearing. Reporter now, the fullthe ul vote on her confirmation inonfir the senate is scheduled for monday and that in itself is a tactic republicans moving itepub before the confirmation votehe c for senator Jeff Sessions tosioo become attorney generalral because they want republicanrep senator sessions to be able toi cast a vote in support of devos. By the way, secretary of statef Rex Tillerson was confirmedller last night and was swornso in as well. Live on capitol hill, imll, melanie alnwick, fox5 localocl news. News. 7 11 now. Thanks mel. It is a fox news exclusive. The new homeland securityew secretary john h kelly discussls issues with immigration and the situation at the u. S. Mexico border as well asels to why the proposed wall iswall essential in keeping drugs outik of the United States. Of thees take a listen. Take a lisen id like to think can make common cause with thewh mexicans because once again,gain all of this has a tremendous impact on their society, on on their people. Pe huge numbers of people thateth have been killed in the last 15 to 20 years over this, so i,o think its beneficial on bothcih sides and obviously i would woud really like to work closely l with the mexicans. Last week house speakerpeaer paul ryan and senate majorityjry leader Mitch Mcconnell said sa that the wall to build would cost between 12 and an 15 billion. Still ahead, a health 1stila alert for anyone hea wholt has r suffered a headache and reallyry whats triggering them andg then thats pretty much all of us,llo right. Yeah. Turns out it might be things were doing every day. Ur details ahead. Reng e like work . S ah like rk . Maybe. Ou could be. First ldth bouge. H mostly. Maybe burn off some of thatur stress maybe do a littn leo a lt exercise right now. Right no we can see the bar, mike. We can z, there it is. Is. Were gearing up for supergear bowl li. What would you do to score bigri tickets to the game. Is that wisdom. Is at wisd. Hes delegating authorityat in the how about some exercise. T some e thats the idea behind oneehione ticket gave weigh and weree a holding our own version of the challenge putting mike andike an wisdom to the test. Ts go ahead and handicap it for yourself. Well explain it all next. N the acting is supreme. Your path to retirement may not always be clear. But at t. Rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. So wherever your Retirement Journey takes you, we can help you reach your goals. Call us or your advisor t. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. You cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Punxsutawney again. P wow, were gettingun ready for the official ceremonies. Iale the Top Hat Society has takenakn the stage. Stage no more jazzercize or whateverwh that was. W whipping up the frenzy. Aww. Youngsters with the tophe to hat. Were probably about 10probly a minutes away from the announcement from punxsutawneypu phil. Well see what happens. Hapens not 7 30 yet. 7 25. 7 locally we are look little cloudy out there. Utt we have a cold front comingld fi through its actually cominging through northern pennsylvanianon as we speak and p bringing someg snow showers. For us 41. For us 4 we can expect a mix of cloudsof and sun today and a high a igh temperature about 50 degrees. 0 e so, were actually going toallyg warm it up again although it will turn breezy behind that front. Theres your front just off towards our north and wests. Yor it will slide through lateridet this morning during the earlyhr afternoonea. Quick look at that seven day. S. 50 today. I want to mention the coldercolde temperatures friday andmperaturn saturday, temperaturestu actually a feayw degrees beloweo normal, overnight lows belows bw freezing so well be chillychill sunday looks dry right now, super bowl sunday. All right. L ri ig all right. A little warmup next week. Week. Hi, erin lets get a look atookt traffic this morning. This mo good morning. Good morning. Oring. Right now were trackingtrcking delays. Inner loop a new crash on the on American Legion bridge. An legio. You can see some delays right d there growing. So make sure you ergive yourself extra time. This is on the wilsona bridgeb excuse me so as you make your yu way from branch avenue to branco across the wilson bridge,ride, thats where the inner loope inr crash is just past 295. 29 suitland parkway crash inboundin at stanton road. R delays back to silver hill h road. Dealing with thi hour. Delays there. De 295 southbound heavy alas you pass 50 residual delays on thesl red line. Del more traffic in a few. Former president george h. W. Bush and his wife barbara bush have acceptedmer an d an invitation to flip the coinip tn before super bowl li this sunday. It comes after president bushft was released from the herospital earlier this week after battling pneumonia. Pneu great news there. Th isnt that right speaking tha of the big game what would you do to get your hands on a pair r of super bowl tickets . Whatc about showing off yourout physical exercise skills . Skill well, mick lobe ultra the beeree maker is holdinger an ultra pullup challenge today. Tday. So one gym in boston, one gymst in atlanta hosting the event. Ev. Competitors will try to do asdos many pullups as they can doan o in 95 seconds, 95 secondsseonds because theres 95 calories inln their beer so thats their their marketing tie in. In so sa man and a womanand a n winner from each city willity w score tickets to sundays big game. So, we so well check in withth wisdom and mike a few minutesmii and theyll do some pullupsulls but lets get to punxsutawneyux first because shear phil. P here is phil. Phil is feisty. Fety. Hang on guys, hang on. Ladies and gentlemen,di punxsutawneye phil. [cheers and applause] we love you phil. Okay. Lets put phil on the stump. St. Phil didnt want to come come out did he. Doesnt look guys. Look gu phil was sleeping. S sle its early in the morning,e mor its cold out, itsutits wintertime. He does what ground hogs dohogs best this time of year, takee little naps. Lets put phil on a stump theyre going to put phil phl down. Phil. It dont look good, guys. Gu. Phil. Can you imagine feeling outnt a live thing from a hibernation spot. Ati i would definitely want toy w wear gloves. I would have on a face mask and some gloves, yes. Ves, yes. Okay, we got her. Kay, we t hr here we go. Here we go wake up a ground hog thisoun time of morning. Of ladies and gentlemen, he has made his prediction. E his p. Here we go. [cheers and applause]aplause do it right here. Hre ill hold it for you. Okay. Here ye, the 131st annualan trek of the punxsutawneyunx ground hog pub before one ofefof the largest crowds in the in he history of the ground hog day. Punxsutawney phil the prognosticator of all prognosticators was awakenedawad to the of faithful followers. Fol [cheers and applause]pplause] in grounds hogese heogeshe directed the president and nd inner circle his predictione hit scroll which reads att gobblers knob on ground hogr day we celebrate a. M. Worldwide holiday. Its mighty cold weatheraher youve been braving, is it isit winter or is it summer youreumm craving . Since weve been upee all night and starting to tatl evident i shall not dawdle. Notd my faithful followers ilowers clearly see a perfect clearfeclr shad. W of me. Six more weeks of winter itte shall be. [cheers and applause] what . Yeah, thats right, iea that called for sixri more weeks ofef winter. Im sorry. [ughter]r] yeah, but did he okay, he i to ask any an questions. Six more weeks of winter. Nter. Thats what punxsutawney nxs youre asking if he wroteaske it in his own land. Lan did we actually just see juse believe any of this. His. He looked into his little l ground hog eyes and they h believe when he said he sawhe sa his shadow. His im going to wait forshmng t Tucker Barnes so o well be right back. Well check in with wisdom. Check our top stories this week. Coming to a busy end the week is for president ur topsa bu sytu the president dooling withgit fall outover its warning toarn iran putting them on not test. One of the president s cabinet nominees could be denied herenih spot after two gop senatorsator announce they will not be not be backing her in a senate vote. Devos main hope is thats Vice President mike pence willci break the tie vote to swing in her favor. In the meantime the first trip p overseas for the new secretarysy of defense jim mattis arrived in seoul today set to meet me with south koreas Prime Minister. His visit comes amid concernconc that north korea may be north k getting ready to testor eaa m nw Ballistic Missile. Ballc missile. Mattis trip also includes aclua stop in japan. Pan. Developing overnight in california protests force theore university of california atfornt berkeley to cancel acancel controversial guest speakerrsia who was set to appear onl ear campus. His name is milo yiannopoulosans and he is a news editor foritfor Breitbart News. The comments have been been criticized as racist misogynistic antimuslim and proponent of white negotiations still underiati way in delaware at aon prisonpri where inmates are holding twold employees hostage. Two of the original fourginal fr hostages have been released inan a phone interview with aa delaware newspaper theware new prisoners say theyre upsetspsay with the way theyrer beinge yg treated lack of educationalducaa resources and the currentcurent leadership of the unitedship oed states. 7 25, 42 degrees. Egree. Yeah, down to 41 degrees. Dee little cool to start the day. Da will be about 50 thisout 50 afternoon. Cold front coming through. Th i dont know what quite quite happened with phil there. T can i just tell you you something . Methin yeah. Maybe im naive, maybe i naii want to believe but i reallyre thought that phil hadphil something to do with thisth t whole thing. E th turns out only shadow he might bee mige seeing is camera lights. Lihts. Theres not a lot of naturalnatl light there. Thre. Or shadow on the parchmentp that wasnt on my hand. Y han secretly i was hoping hehopie gave the guy a little bite, a little nibble on the tippinge there. Next hour were going down to dupontur we circle where wew going to c rat. Maybe well get a more clear look at whats we going. Maybe we should send youyou down to check in with reg andthd all his friends down thatds doht were. Were. The rat pack. Reg the rat. Reg the rat. Though i hear theyre very ty smart. Sm yes. Yes. Yes. I spent a lot of time in a lotnt a lhere are of rats down there and theyrehe friendly many of them. M. Okay. No, theyre not. Guess were not doing n weather any moreo,. Re ny mo r you spent your time talkingr about rats. T erin take itabou away. I feel bad for punxsutawney phil. Heph looked sleepy and wanted nn part of the crowd. The cro thats right. That we have a lot of delayss. De. Gw parkway super heavy fromeavy the beltway all the way down d to the key bridge. Ridge. We had an earlier crash at 123t3 that has cleared out of the way. Inner loop crash bottom of thera beltwaysh at 295 left lane is ls blocked. Bl look at all of that red from branch avenue all the way wa across the bridge. Bridge. Very slow moving traffic tr average speeds 10 miles pers hour. 295 northbound jams throughthruh the 11th street bridge. Ridge. Sout heavy from 50 on down to theto e bridge as well. Well. Inbound bridges seeing a lotei of heavy traffic. Traf suitland parkway crash this isri from awhile ago over an hour ho ago at stanton road. Road. Delays heavy back to silversilvr hill road. O pennsylvania avenue inbound in influx of traffic as well. Ell. Northbound 295 thats a closer r look at those delays off andlayd on to the 11th street bridge. Br. Bridge itself is very heavy. He. 395 northbound earlier crash crh cleared by 110, still rigidstild residualdelay. Delay still ahead a d. C. Familymiy continues to demand answersemana after they claim their dog wases shot and killed by police. Pole. Coming up what they were told od when they asked to see bodyeody camera footage of theootage othe incident. And ollie the bobcat, that, t pretty girl back where shehe belongs this morning afters missing from the zoo for for several days but, yeah, its i where she was found that mightat still be yeah, coughs mystery of where sheherhe was and why did it take sotake o long for her to get back too geo the custody of zoo keepers. Keep weve a lot of questions. Uestion well have the latest for you next. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Theres live look at the capitol this morning. S litol its m nice. Ic few clouds out there this tre t morning. Temperatures in the low 40s. Es i check in with tucker and get yoy your forecast. T. 7 30 right now. 3ght now. Lets head back to fox5 fox exclusive report. Ort. D. C. Family left heart brokenroe after they say police shot andtd killed their family dog. It continues to demand answers s this morning. Mor. Nineyearold fresh was allegedly shot and killed overdv the weekend while police weree r responding to a domestic call at the home. The ome. Maureen joins us this morningus with the very latest. Good morning allison andon ad steve. E. Freshs owner claims she toldold responding officers several sevr times that the pitbull was in i close the front door but was but never given permission to do soo thats when the owner says theay dog ran outside into the frontho yard and was shot by an officerc this all happened sundayunda morning. Fox5 cameras found a shellhe casing still in the front yard on tuesday evening. Veni the family says dc police cameee back to the house yesterdayterd morning to continue their their investigation. Investigat the family also went to the seventh District Police stations yesterday demanding to watch wah body camera footage from them t incident and heres what they wa were told. Its not going happen today d because its still in the in the investigative stages. E stages. Okay. Arentls is parently from a dog shooting. Y yes, sir. From a esterday. Yrred y sunday, yes, sireste. It goes through administrative stage first. Ge ft uhhuh. The administrative adminis investigation. D. C. Police released thisce h statement to fox5 saying our sincerest condolences go out tot the family who has lost their pet. Pe it is never our intention toono have to use force and we have hv implemented measures in an in a attempt to prevent these typessp of incidents. Ncidents this matter will be thor role investigated to determine use of force was justified under the circumstances. Fox5 has also put in an official request to view the body cameraa footage but has not yet heard back. Back. Steve and allison . Maureen, thanks. Hanks more details for you comingn up on that story. Tory. Now that the National Zoos escaped bobcat ollie back at th 62 many people asking whats ws next . Of course the big question, e so how b did this happen . We sn our bob barnard down to then t national zoo this morning tong t find out. Bob, good morning. Morning reporter good morning steve and allison. Ollie was found 4 30 yesterday afternoon right here back at the zoo. Zo they believe she got out to rocr creek park because its right next to the zoo. O. And she was out and about forbof while but was just determined to come home. Me we can show you video that thett zoo released yesterday of herer capture they actually set a trap, and she fell for it winwin about 15 minutes of first beingi spied by a visitor here at the zoo. Zo she was in the trap and gettingi an exam. Em. Shell have a full exam this they discovered she has an a injured front left paw but otherwise seems okay. They want to make sure sheure s didnt pick up respiratorypiraty illness she can pass on to thett other bobcats thats why the full scam today. T you know, there were reports ins the last couple of days in this area woodley park, clevelandvend park they believe were actuallyy true. That she was seen in this area. A there was one report mid afternoon yesterday that she waw seen up in bethesda. Obviously, that one turn out non to be true. Zookeepers say theyre over thet moon that ollie is back andk a seems to be okay. Okay people here on the streets are a happy, too. The first lady youll hear Fromm Catherine cane working worksng r here at the zoo. I, um, fabulously happy and i know that the keepers and a curators are exceedingly happylp as well. Reporter did you think itout was going to end this way . Ay i had a feeling that, n ollio would be found, yup. Because old system loved so much that it makes perfect sense toet hover by people that you love so much. Up this way today. Changed my route. Te reporter the past coupler of days . Ive been going mass avenue. A now im back on connecticut. Reporter what do you think i of this whole story. Publicity. Licity reporter publicity. In the zoo all the time. Tim. Reporter good publicity. Lity good publicity. City might get more visitors now. Reporter so great publicity n fact the cake pope p store across the street is making bobcat cake pops taking advantage of all the publicitycy here. Yes, maybe there will be more wr visitors coming to the zoo. Z you know this thing lit upit up social media the past few days, and some people having fun andgn actually creating a twitter account pretending to be ollieel the bobcat. Obcat. Here at escaped d. C. Bobcat reporting, well see how happyap the national zoo is in 60 daysay when my kittens arrive. Aiv i told you i enjoyed being onngn the prowl. Owl. Actually weve been told that ollie has been spayed so they guys, they are still working tot make sure that the bobcat enclosure near the big cats cat exhibit over near the lions anda the tigers that that bobcat bca exhibit is secure and safe. Se. Theyre in no rush to put olliel and the male bobcats back onacko display yet. T. Theyll be quite the attractiont once they are back out in theire display. , they found hernd near the birds exhibit. Exhibit no birds are missing just toreig make sure, j right . Reporter thats right. Rht. As far as we know she didnt dn kill any of her patriots here. Kill is such a strong word, bob. Really . You could have saidaved missing. In kill kill cake pop unwent dark on us. Thanks, bob. Hanks, b reporter okay, killed, missing. Thanks, buddy. Thankuddy 7 35. Im sorry, i cant help butelp remember that the zoo wasthe zos willing to say, oh, well v av a good life. Ife. We might never ever find her. Shes at the zoo. Okay. Y. Whats youre out in the in stealth in the woods. Did bob say thats an olliene pop. Pop. Yeah. Ea thats clever. T t lets go to the maps. Quickly. Quic 41 at reagan national. Io the deal is this. The al is this we are chilly to start the day. Y not terribly cold. C we should typically be in theine 20s this time of year for year r morning lows and were not. But it does feel cool with theht cloud cover. C mix of clouds and sun today. T that front you see just to ourtr north and west bringing snowing showers to parts of pennsylvanii as it drops down in our region n it will bring us some clouds ana winds behind it a little laterer today. So we are going to see the breezes back this afternoonfter gusting at times to 30. O0. Otherwise not a bad day. Ay clouds and sun and that hight h temperature a few degrees abovee normal. No. All right. Al weekend forecast coming up momentarily. Mentarily including your super bowlowl forecast. Lets go to traffic with erin. Ah traffic is really heavyvy especially the bottom side of s the beltway that is 295 2 northbound between the beltway y and the 11th street bridge. Thats a traffic looks like. Le we also have a crash on the t inner loop out by 295, and thent once you get on to the 11th1th street bridge you get out of ou this congestion traffic remainsi really heavy on the westbound ws side of the freeway all the wayt to the third street tunnel. Tune so its kind of a mess theres of the beltway. T beltway. Lets go ahead and switch ittcht over from that parking lot to ao look at our maps. Ms. A lot of other slow downs youowy flood to be aware of this this morning. Rn again the inner loop thats tha closer look by 295 with thatht crash. Cr delays all the way back too branch of a through oxon hillghl across the wilson bridge. B were seeing a lot of extraxtra volume on 395 northbound frombo the beltway to the 14th streethe bridge as well . This suitlandd parkway crash cleared to the the shoulder stanton road but delayl still very heavy on suitland inbound all the way to back too silver hill. Hil off and on delays 395 stacked as well. We. Red line delays from earlier ear single tracking at judiciaryudia square. Back to you guys. Bao yo erin, thanks very much. Thank we do health alert thiso hee morning for anybody who has has suffered a headache and thats s probably just about everybody. Y ever wonder what it is that tha triggers the headaches . It i turns out it could be thingseng that you can do every day. D. Well have the details next. T. Plus, we showed you fill but before he showed you the groundhog in pennsylvania giving his prediction we were ready toa put wisdom and mike tom nooseomo fitness challeng how many pull ups can be do in i 95 seconds. Ds take your time, fellows. Fellow. Pace yourself. Part of the super bowl tickett challenge. Fear not. E. Forporand mike are still up it. Well check in with them at at 45. 5. Rooster sounds honey, what are you doing . Watching a cow. Oh whats it doing . Rooster sound impressions. Rooster sound power up your morning with a 300calorie egg white grill. Only at chickfila. 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And Gilbert Gottfried stopses by to share a few laughs you la know this comedian on this thursday morning. Very cool. Coo very funny. Appearance or two from thenc one and only Tucker Barnes. Steve, they dont puppies nor cuteness. They got you. Aww nice. Very sweet. V sweet if only it was heartfelt. Fe 41 in washington. Hington. 36 in gaithersburg. Herur look at manassas down to 31. 31. Culpeper 32. 32. Again a Little Pocket here lasts couple of mornings weve hadmoi freezing temperatures just south and west in virginia. Ginia 36 in leonardtown. 38 in annapolis much its coolsc out there but obviously thishi time of year we should be goodd are i got your oriented hereente because up in pennsylvania ofena course we just saw phil hop outt of his hole in the ground. Gun if you can call it that. Tha i saw nothing but clouds and iti was snowing there around theg nd time he came out. Mee ca so how he saw his shadow, im not quite sure. All right. All locally weve got a mix of o clouds and sun here. Of course we have potomac phil akareg the rat 8 30. 8 30. Well see what happens with hnsw that. For the rest of us dealing withh cold front today. This cold front will sweep easts of us and wellweep watch highah pressure build in. Pres it will be a breezy afternoon ao but daytime highs should be up p near 50. 5 so let me mention a dry day as a well for us today. Today in fact dry friday and saturdaya just a light shower or maybe a few snow showers on sunday. As we wrap up the weekend butkeb were thinking we might have aie bit of a storm here kind ofkindf sunday night into early monday m that doesnt look like it willtl happen even if it does it will w be light rain temperatures too o warm to support any snow aroundo here. Will it snow in february, err are glenn i think so. Im in the a meteorologist,ro though. Th im just telling you. It doesnt look good her je thee next couple of weeks. Xt c ps we got a tweet of humanumn wearing a rat costume on the the metro train. Look what you started. Hayou star oh, good. Im hoping its not from thit morning. Im just saying check your y twitter. Right now southbound 295boun5 jammed from 450 to the 11thh street bridge. Street were getting reports of a crash down by eastern of a adding to the mix of slow traffic. Ic 50 inbound from just signed thed beltway to 295 super jammed upeu through cheverly and then newhee york avenue passed bladensburgns very heavy. Heavy look at the outer loop and innea loop right now. Inner loop residua nl delays frm earlier fuel spill out byty Central Avenue. L from 50 to central youre slow. From suitland parkway all thelle way up on the outer loop to bw parkway your jammed and typical delays in college park on the outer loop. On 95 to georgia. Outer 95 tge lets takeor live look outside i show you some other big delaysis that we are dealing with this ti morning. 295 northbound super parked fror the bottom side of the beltway l to the 11th street bridge. Ridg eleventh street bridge to thee t freeway crowded and freeway ease and westbound by the third the t street tunnel is also par residual delays on the red linen from earlier train malfunctionti at Judiciary Square. Ar back to you guys. So earlier we tried to checke in with wisdom and mike who area putting a physical fitness to fs the test this morning thanks tos super bowl challenge happening today boston and atlanta. The challenge asks, how manyn pull ups can you do in 95 seconds . So wisdom and mike are showing off their skills. Skill they walked right across theosse street from our studios to t crunch fitness to do this. T good morning, fellas. La got tired from the walkm thwk already . Yeah, weve been doing themnm the whole time. E whe ti yeah. But that road got in the wav our performance now we got to gt start all over. Mike, lets ask them right now. Put two anchors on the spot. Sp. How many put a number on mike and i right now. D i ght go ahead. Go aad put a number on it. It the am well do. O you guys. Uys how many youre going to dono and or how many you could do. Yo im going to guess you couldd do between 10 and 15 and youll do zero. We run out of time. They said zero near. N you could do 10 to 15 butut youll probable dolla zero really . Here we go. E g. Lets get right it to. T to. Steve says zero. I didnt hear what allison said. Lets go, people. Peo here we go. One, ugh, two, ugh, three, four, five, six, seven, eight mikek is not helping me. Hes right here. Thats amazing wisdom. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 theree you go. All right. That was fantastic. Ll rt wast that was fantastiicc. S fantc [ laughter ] ] i got something to beat heret there you go. U go there you go. Go if i beat you i get superup bowl tickets, right. R i got you covered. Youovered here we go. You got them excuses ills mike is doing this and hesnd hs counting them the top fivetop f reasons i dont liked to pull to ups or why pull ups stink. Sti number one, i have to put my suit back on today. Number two, i havent had breakfast. Ast. Number three keep doing themm mike. Mi two early in the morning to beot doing this. Mike, come on. , comen. Keep going. Number four, you can trash talkl when you are doing pull ups. Ps mike, get back up there andre a number five, reason why i dontt need t either, it actually ruins ourin makeup. I like that reason. At r how many do you think thenkhe groundhog could do. Grouhog none. N zero. Because he took too much ofem our time or we could do more. So allison and steve, you saw thought we couldnt do. Mike dud. If you count both i think ihi did 10. Well toss back to you. Yo. Ive already done a bunch of a f them already. Ill send you back inside. Weve been doing them theinge last 30 minutes. Here we go. Yoa ready . Go, wis. One, two, three hr there you go. Four. Four, five utoh. [ laughter ] good job. J [ applause ]ause were done. Wre d heres the deal. We were going to debut mike wins that one. Hat one we were going to debut a new segment call the bro block. Ck you eliminated themselves. Tucker through the flag on it. Lets seep the super bowl theme going right now. Eep e go we want to break somebody into who knows a thingg or two about football becauselse hes in the hall of famer. F fam chris carter now a fox sports n 1nfl analyst joins us live fromf houston this morning. Ton thng hey, chris, good morning. Orng steve, how you doing. , how ud doing well. I know its been were busy weeke already all the media deals, ala the pregame stuff. Stuff. Do you love that part of this ts week, the build up to it, the t week long pregame to the super bowl . Super bowl its amazing i probably been to 30 of them. The um, its amazing what they do. D the overall organization. N. Its a world event. Event its like a National Holiday ini the United States. Tates its culmination avenue great season. On we can see why nfl football hash become americas pastime. As its very very exciting. Excing. We actually have even though tht Dallas Cowboys had the besthe bs record we actually have the besb team from the nfc and in Atlanta Falcons as far as balance andcea also we have the new englandla patriots representing the afc with tom brady trying to get his fifth and unprecedented superedr bowl ring. Chris, we saw this withhis wh im curious for your thoughtss now when you talk about atlantaa such a highpowered offense, bub sometimes in the super bowl, aow good defense will shut down thaa od offenense. How do you see this one playing t . T . Well, of course, great defense, weve had match up of o number one offense and number ne one defense six times in thenhe super bowl. L. Five Times Defense has won those contests. Nt i think the last timese we saw that was when denver went w against seattle that game gotamg off to an awful start peytoneytn manning really didnt have a chcece. Defense does win championshipsis but now this is unique offensee in atlanta they scored 540re 540 points and the way they did it,i they did little bit differentfe than other teams that have scored 500 points. 13 different receivers gettingeg touchdowns. Matty ice i believe is under rated as a passer and ninthnd nh season he leads the nationalatna Football League or he is the t record holder most yardage in first nine seasons of the nfl quarterback he will be moated mvp in the next couple of days y so im looking forward to the t does have that number oneum defense, atlanta and theirir weapons and ability to run theie ball with two different runningt backs i believe will be a greata challenge for belicheck. Is it tough, chris, because,u as a receiver, i know you want t the ball on every single play,l, when you have an offense like atlanta, obviously julio jonesuj the number one guy you said twow running backs, all those t receivers, they spread it arounn a lot. Does that make it easier or does that make it tougher when youheo have that many targets out there . Well, as a wide receiver y,ir we happen to be divas, yes, i i happened to be have myy membership renewed recently,entl yes, we do want the ball every time. Time but theres also a great deal of sacrifice in trying to win. To when you have the type of talent, when youre in theenin meetings, when you watch theatce film, you realize that, man, we have a lot of different ways we can attack the defense, so everyone has to do a littleite sacrificing. Ing. Thats dante free man, sharing g some of the carries w coleman. Thats not getting of the mule yo being satisfied wh gets double teamed. Ble teed. The ball going elsewhere. He so its a collaborative effort r for an offense that has thatha amount of talent but, yes, uss refers we do want the ball all the time. So, yeah, youre right, steve. ,e but, chris, ill tell was,els you can balance that diva card i saw awesome video of you helpini out a young receiver whileeceir youre down there doing your you work. Wo as long as youre paying itt forward, then youre doing theee right thing. [ laughter ][ laughter i want to ask you real quickq because you also made a commenta about one of our guys here in washington. Shinon Desean Jackson. Ks. Youre thinking maybe back toack philly. Ph do you not think hell stick here in d. C. And do you thinknk philly would be a done deal forr him . Well desean is at crucialt cl point in his career. Carr. Hes made a lot of money. Oney first round pick. Rod pick started off in philadelphia. Delp made a great transition too washington. Shin has done a good jobgt there in washington. Ingt but any time you have familiarir faces and you have doug pedersor i think the eagles have have tremendous need for wide wid receiver, i believe that i mean washington has got to t make some decisions. Pierre garson, i know him, ivev been working with him in south u flidida. Probably for like the last eighh years so hes a quality quali receiver. Ce but i wouldnt be surprised if desean because he knows thekn te division, hes got some familiar faces that are running, you, you know, the eagles now, so i wouldnt be surprised at all if he jumps ship, stayed in the nfn east because he knows the east,s even sew though i would like hi to stay in washington. Tay i think they should signshouldin cousins, they should keep himim there. Hes worked the franchise tag. Ag he is your franchise quarterback. Thattso, save some of money and keep enough from f cousins to be able to keep to kp Desean Jackson with the redskins. I think a lot of people in washington nodding their heads h saying yes, lets make that happen. Ppen. Lets see what happens. Get through the super bowlow first, chris much its a much a pleasure. Enjoy the rest of your week andk enjoy the big game on sunday. Sa thanks for joining us. Ning u thanks, steve. Thanks for having me. Taving. Nfl hall of famer chrishris carter. Er reminder fox5 your home for the supebo seven and had a half hours of of pregame coverage beginning at 11am. Kick off at 6 30 p. M. Plan your sunday around it. We hope you sure do. O all right. Ig right here on the mighty fox5. I just want a good game. Goo just a good game. A googame. Thats all i ask. That 41 in washington. Ashington. Hey, well be near 50 this afternoon. N winds will pick up. Cold front coming through fromi the north and west here on the t move and that will bring us briu cloud cover you can see it righg there. And then the breezes will pick up we mentioned thell winds wilw pick up and be gusty around herr this afternoon behind the fronte but the bottom line not a bad bd looking day. Ay. Cooler weekend. Kend. Friday i include that as the t weekend saturday and sundayunda temperatures a little belowbe normal. Al sunday looks dry at this hour we thought we might get storminess sunday into monday that looksks like it will fizzle. L fzl look at your temperatures earlyy next week. Eek. 60 to 65 next tuesday anduesday wednesday we certainly could. C warm temperatures on the way. O. Hard to believe its february. Eb i know. Eel like were due for due for some winter, right . Ht . Yeah. Or not. Roads. Look at that. Look ha that doesnt look like an easy day, does it . I think thathi ta looks like a lot frustrated drivers 295 northbound coming c from the beltway to the 11th street you are just stacked. Ack so keep that in mind as you comm off the beltway. Eltway also, the bottom side of the beltway inner loop from saint ft barnabas road to the wilson wso bridge is jam pack. Eleventh street bridge inboundeu super crowded and freeway east e and westbound by the third thi street tunnel is not looking sos hot either. Eitr. As we forward our cameras bettet view here 270 southbound atund t Montrose Road delays are dealing with stop gone traffic fromrafff germantown to the beltway righth now. Earlier crash by montrose thatt cleared to the shoulder. Shoulde switch it over to our maps muchc seeing a lot of heavy trafficffc around the area. A if you are in fact taking metro all rails on time. Tim thing getting back to normal ona the red line no longer singleinl tracking but some left over delays between Union Station ann Judiciary Square from earlier ei single tracking. Cking thursday morning you can see a e lot of heavy traffic bw parkway 95 in the outer loop outside the beltway. Keep it to fox5. Ket back in just a we got you covered on this groundhog day. Always wins. Especially in my business. With slow internet from the phone company, you cant keep up. Youre stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. Switch to comcast business. With highspeed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. You wouldnt pick a slow race car. Then why settle for slow internet . Comcast business. Built for speed. Built for business. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Orng. Im allison seymour. Ur im steve chenevey. Cheve theres live look at the capitot this morning because well bengb talking with senator timec kaink in just a minute. Ine heres what else is on theone fox5 news morning. Ning chaos on campus. S. Violent protests President Trump reactioning inni tweet this morning. Morng ex today lating tensions fromsi overseas. The president taking onident kig australians Prime Minister andd iran in 140 characters or less. S tense standoff at delaware r prison continues. Nues two employees still being held l hostage at this hour as talks ts also continue. Get ready for six more weeks wininter. Officially that is the word frof Punxatawney Phil win the lasthel hour the groundhog saw hisis shadow or so we were told. Td. Coming up later this hour weree going to get a second opiniond o from our very own potomac phil l in dupont circle. Live look outside. Side. This is thursday morning. Thursdi its february 2nd, groundhog day, 2017. 2 weather and traffic coming up in just five minutes and of courseu as steve mentioned that includes whats going on with potomacom phil in dupont circle. Meantime, a minute after the hour now, ailettes check the top stories. Get right to some developingin news in Silver Spring. Eighths possible break in ak rash of overnight armed robberies targeting a phar stores in Montgomery County. Ry t now earlier this morning, another cvs was hit on georgia avenue. Police did get their quickly quk enough though and arrestedd several people. P it remains unclear whether those suspects are linked to severalel robberies at cvs and rite aid a stores in Montgomery County over the past week. Now to President Trumpsmps first 100 days senior white whie house Officials Say iran will bb held to account for this weekends ma list tick missilesi test. Test. White house is currently looking for what they say will be the best way to respond to cur theha tests. St that could include financial ana economic measures as well asl providing support for opponentss of iran all are options beingeig considered. Consed the president tweeting lastent t night, iran is rapidly taking tn over more and more of iraq evene after the u. S. Squandered 3 trillion there obvious longon ago. This morning the president ss tweet iran had formally be put on notice. President trump is slammingm the australian Prime Minister deals. Deal was work out during thek og obama administration. Io. It would resettle more than amoa thousand refugees detained in australia to the United States. E it would bring them here to thee us. In a phone call between the twoo leaders over the weekend,erhe wd President Trump accused ofus turnbull of trying to quote shii the next boston bombers to the us. Us senior u. S. Officials told the Washington Post that president id trump abruptly hung up on mr. Turnbull after just 25 minutes when the pair were meant to speak for an h wouerr. The pair was meant to speak forf an hour. And republicans on capitolol hill two of President Trumps cabinet. The Senate Finance committeeomtt yesterday with no democrats inri the room. After temporarily disable aab a Committee Rule requiring onengne democrat to be present for votev they used 214zero role calleal votes to approve steve monday m chin for treasure secretary andy representative tom price to be t although virginia senator tir kaine has voted to t approve sos of President Trumps appointeese the senator will not support sut senator Jeff Sessions forjeff sn attorney general and candis datn for vicepresident is also veryv much opposed to the orderhe ordr barring immigrants from certainc countries saying its contrary r to the first amendment. Senator cane joins us live from capitol hill with more. L hill good morning, senator. Enor. Steve, good to be with us. Bes so much to try to get to. Lets start with immigration. You were out at dulles air pottr the other day. First of all, i know word choicc has been thrown around as very y important thing here. Portan do you consider this to be a bab in your opinion . Absolutely. Absolut it is a muslim ban, advisers adr like Rudy Guiliani said hay s trump wanted to do a muslim bann and i told him how to do it anda make it seem like it wasnt, but basically, when you block folksk coming in from these predominantly muslim countries, seven, and then you say, but there will be exception fore ex religious minorities and he specifically mentioneden christians youre trying to to block people based on their tir religion. Region origin, blocking them on their religion, we shouldnt be doing that. That we should be only blockingg people if they pose a danger. Anr we can analyze everybody. Every. If they pose a danger theyangert shouldnt be able to come in. But stereotypes about their autt religion or country are counterr productive. It leads into what could beto done about it right now. Bout iti this is a chance rgheallyt forr democrats to rally behind thishi issue and to do something. Som what is it in fact that you canc do and what is it that you hope to do . O . Well, were trying to do ae number of things. Numbth i mean, were challenging thesee measures in the courts. Court were challenging them on the floor in congress. I have co sponsored a piece off legislation to rescind theesci t executive orders. S. Were encouraging the administration, remember some ob these are temporary ander theye going to think about what theyth ldould do. Were encouraging as you think that through drop any prejudicei against people based on religioi or country of origin and make it specific to the individual andia weve also seen, steve, just a a tremendous outpouring off peacefu when i was at dulles the other r day, it was so heartening to see virginians standing where peopll come off International Flights h with signs saying, welcome to virginia, were not against youu somebody had a poster of mr. Rogers welcome to my neighborhood. Hbor. Virginians are there turning ana positive face, which is the real face of this country, not the hard hearted, you know, attitude thats being portrayed by theede trump administration. At senator, i want to ask you, because weve i seenwa and thiss more executive orders orr president ial memoranda thatandaa weve seen in recent history inn such a short amount of time. Im i know all right democrat in tha senate right now, but i alsobuts know you reached across theos t aisle before to work with yourir colleagues. Co what type of response are youese getting from inside the halls ol the capitol right now . Ow obviously we hear whatsts happening for the administration. Happ iadt on it os we see twitter if nothing else. Ng else. What are you hearing inside thet halls of congress how to move tv forward and deal with theseh t issues that are being laid downw as either executive orders or president ial directives . Um theres a great deal ofee concern on the democratic andcnd in to my segment you werement y talking about the president and iran. Iran. Let me just give you an examplee were very worried about irans testing of anti Ballistic Missile and there should beand r consequences for that and wet aw hope to Work Together with W Administration to make sure s there are. But, President Trump is takingig actions that are strengtheningng iran. An when he says about iraq we may y be need to go back and take take their oil or when he bars iraqi citizens including those whose o have helped american troops froo coming into the country, iran is trying to take over basically bl the influence of the governmentt of iraq, and when we do thingshi like that, its irans dream basically, iran is able to goblo into iraq and say, see, theee americans want to steal your oil and they think your citizensitin arent even able to, you know,w, come into the United States. Ta you need to be our friend, notdt the uss so what the trumpru administration is doing isng i strengthening irans hand and everybody up here on our intelnt and security committeesmiee democratic and republican arelie very worried about this. T senator as well because therehe are some members of theer t Democratic Party in congress who are flat out boycotting hearingi who are saying were not going to even look into the possibility of approving any ofy the appointees at o this point. Do you buy into that . I know kw that there are no. N some appointees you said yess to. Some youve said no to. To. Yup. Yup. What are your thoughts onughn flat out boycotting the jobs. Hej i think its a bad idea. Look, these i think i have declared i voted for five of the cabinet nominees and ive either voted for or declared against aa six of the nominees so imo taking them case by case. Ce. Each of these departments areare important. Each ought to have strong song leadership, and im not a versea to voting for people who i thint will provide good leadership. Rs. But i think the notion of just complete boycott i think its as bad idea. Dea and actually, very few of myf colleagues are doing that. Now, sometimes theyll boycott a meeting, for example, there was going to be a vote in the be a i finance committee yesterday on two individuals. Ua. There had been news stories sto about both of them. Bothf t one suggesting that he had not t been truthful at the committee hearing, and another suggestingn that there was a conflict of interest that was new tha needed to be explored, and wheno the majority sreaid no, were nt having any more hearings, you y cant ask any more questions,sts some of my colleagues protestede and i understood why. Hy but we need to give people peopl individual consideration, andtin thats why i think the rightig thing to do, you know, if peopll are strong, like general mattiss for second of defense, i voted d for him, but Rex Tillersonillers yesterday i voted against himstm for secretary of state, and shockingly, hes been the ceo oo exxon mobil. I didnt think he could bed independent and put the us interests first over exxo mobil. Yesterday the same day we voted for tillersone same, the house d a law gutting the regulation that requires Oil Companies to disclose payments to foreigngn governments. Rnme right. Publicly in the United States. St wel s do appreciate your time. Reci we certainly thank you for you f everything that you do join us with. With its nine minutes past the hourt hopefully well talk to you again soon. Oon. Thanks, steve. You got it. Appreciate it. Thanks, steve. A happening now at 8 09, talks underway at a delaware prisone o inmates are holding twodingwo employees hostage. Two of the original fourginal fu hostages have been released. Ree in a phone interview with the delaware newspaper the prisonero sauce theyre upset with the way theyre treated. Th a lack of educationeyal resourcs and the current leadership ofde the United States. Tes in california developing dep overnight protests at the california berkeley force theerh the cancellation of a controversial guest speaker. Hes a new editor for breitbarta news who comments have been he criticized as racist, misogynistic, anti muss lickmusc limb and white supremacist. Uprei the speech was canceled afterafr protesters through smoke bombskb and flares. The president sounding offin about the protesters earlierer this morning saying via twitter, uc berk still not allow freeow e speech and practices violenc innocent people with a politicat view no federal funds . Unds . Police continue toonti investigate a debt deadlyeadly shooting in northeast. In nort when officers arrived they found a man and conscious. Conscious. Not breathing he later died. Die police also found a woman who w had been shot. Shot no word on her condition thistii morning. In d. C. Police trying to trackk down the driver who struck a 10yearold girl in a crosswalk and just center on going tuesday at eighth street and canndan northwest. Sianna bran any son was walkingi in the crosswalk when she was wh hit. She suffered serious injuries, r fractured neck, multiple brokene bones, swelling, bleeding in hee brain. A witness told police passengerr got out of the car, checked the damage on the vehicle but neverv check on the little girl. He lit then took off. Then the girls mother is now is n immediating for that driver tore come forward. She was crying moment me, mommy, my face hurts, my leg, my hurts. I couldnt do fog for her. Her ooh couldnt touch her becauseer high to wait for the ambulance. E what kind of person leaves ave a child doesnt call the police. Ll pol they waited for everyone hellss to call the police. To cal they just left the scene. Sne police say a witness alsoss s gave them a description of the driver and hearing now they gotg a license plate number. Num hopefully theyll find thatthl vehicle. Hopefully so. Hefully still ahead after several sl singers threaten to boycott thet grammys the producer of the shos is speaking out. Peg o well tell was they had to say. Y later on a competition at the at hands of tom brady that puthat p these shoes up for grabs muchabh this morning, the winner inne i love those uggs. Those uggs. Of that competition fessing up. Up well explain why. Its 8 12. 2 never waver. Because going around is rarely ever as enjoyable. As going right through. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. The bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Thats time of the morning. Absolutely. Cuteness time. Lets do it. First five. Wait one second. Ond. Wait one second. W i have to walaik out of studio. Because youll fin shaquille. Sometimes i cant do it. Im youre going to givees iou shaqruigolle, jr. Ain big old g ive got to find him. To fhim i think he would be cutenesss next to shaquille oneal. That would be hilarious. Great shot. Ho this is shaquille, jr. , he justs celebrate the his first birthdaa a few days ago. Ago happy birthday mr. Handsome m man. You see the balloons on his h face that is super cute. Cute. Gets up bright and early every morning to watch us here atet fox5. Fo so cool. All right. Super cute. S c look at his little outfit. Little fashion plate. Shn pla. Super stylish. Li i love it we hope you had a had great birthday and have great ge great year and we appreciate yoy getting up every morning toorni watch us. One of my big regrets in lifen li that i missed the social mediala trend when my kids were little. L you also know now i would be so irritating. G. I would be the most irritating person. Youd have 20,000 pictures oo the girls. Ls have you had to sit throughh all of it. Of shaquille, jr. , super cute. Real quick i go to our Facebook Page fox5 d. C. I see. S all the cute pictures posted pos every morning. Ever i want to give everybody a shoua out. I see them and well try to gett everybody up as soon as we can. N because we know there are lot or cute kids out there. Te sure do. Childs picture pictu go to our Facebook Page fox5eox d. C. Send it on in. I were 41 degrees now in washington. Thats a cold front off to thedn north and wt est. Off it will slide on through but kind of do it like this, hey, h im quietly sliding on through. Umhmm. Slide to the right. Deo th right. The winds will pick up youll know we got cooler air workiilng in about 50 today. Oday afternoon. And then well gore to go on the chilly side of things friday and saturday daytime highs low 40s s and overnight lows belowlo freezing. We were concerned about a stormo sunday into monday. O mo not going to happen. To hpen. Great. Gre. So when you going out superop bowl all systems go for good day. Look at 60s next week. Xt wk. Signs of spring. Daffodils. Crocuses. Olaf would love it. Wou lov umhmm. Thank you, tucker. Hey, erin. I dont know why tucker isckr extra funny today. Most days, yeah. Yea most days but todayut especially. Es he tickles the funny bone. On something to do with thehinge groundhog much hes giving him run for his money. Run r hi right now we have a lot of bad congestion. Esti. Inner loop jams from north of 5f to Central Avenue and thatss because of an earlier fuel spill and tractor trailer crash. Crash its still blocking the shouldel causing a slow down. Dow outer loop jams fromams f pennsylvania avenue all the waya up to bwy parkway. Ay top side of the beltway dealingd with some nasty traffic. Southbound 295 disable vehicle,h 197 from 32 on down you jam. Beltway all the way up to abouto 197 heavy traffic. Raic and unfortunately, 95 southbound also very heavy from about 198 1 on down. On as you try to get from the icc i towards the beltway, just heavyh flow of traffic there. Here 66 eastbound we have a crash att 234 Prince William parkway andad look at that. Look athat from 234 all the way through thu centreville as you try to get tt the beltway its about a 40 a 4 minute slow down with just veryr heavy volume as well in addition to that crash out by 234. 95 northbound dale city to thed beltway, stop gone traffic he ii specially from dale city to the objection what quon. N what things open up through newingtot towards the mixing bowl track tk heavier crossing 395 northboundh slow down towards the pentagonn and then towards the 14th the 1h st bet bridge. Heavy traffic extends actuallyll from the mixing bowl all the way across the bridge. Ss thedge. East and westbound side of thets freeway pretty nasty with w congestion. Im going to get out of the way because 2 g95 froetm o the bottd of the beltway to the 11th 1 street bridge, and then 295 295 southbound a crash by eastern. S metro is on time right now. Back to you allison and steve. E all right. Thanks so much, erin. Ch e take look at this. This. Its a stream of molten lavaa shooting out of a sea cliff inn hawaii. Something you dont see all thee time, right. Rht. No. The lava splashing into the pacific oceaspnla exploding upon impact. Pretty amazing i want to take ae look at it myself. Perfect little cylinder ofe o lava. Va. I mean the red, is that what it is . E red, straw. Straw its that really amazing that lava stream dubbed a fire hose. S the red is a perfect stream off lava hitting the water. A hole in the cliff itsli i coming down. Look at that. Ha its amazing. Ts aming. Never seen that before. You know what that means thats a trip we needing to to the big island. The biisla time owing. Lets go. Okay. Okay. Off the grid for a couple ofo eks. S. Lets talk super bowl. Former president George Hw Bushs and his wife barbara invitationo to flip the coin before sunday big game. Bi loveve this. My goodness. This is the former president s twitter and the t caption is getting fired up forf sunday pretty cool gift of the spinninn coin. Okay. Ing seegift im trying to see when it stops. All the technical people. Ple. Austin can you see is it on loop here . Isnt yeah. Yeah thats pretty awesome. Tyweso okay. Former president released fromda the hospital earlier this weekdk after battling pneumonia. Onia great news to be out of thet of hospital and great news now to n be on the field at energyy stadium in houston ready for the day day. Best use of a gift in an instagram or twitter postinger g that ive seen. N. By a previous president. Nt. It looks seamless. Eaml absolutely. I love it. Boston man who said that he lost a tooth while searching fof ugh slippers this is what weree doing right now. Doing ri i remember this. Gh this is what were doing right i now ris wha. Signed by new england quarterback tim tom brady. Yeah. Tim brady. Ra. Tom brady as part of a Scavenger Hunt now says he fake the story. We dont fake stories about losing our teeth or some pointeo our teeth will fall out. Thill fa his name a luke. Luke bore ross ski tried to k find one of three pairs of ugh h december he didnt have any he i luckdn. t he posted a picture showing himm with a missing tooth and the t post went viral. Ir brady saw it. W i because he felt bad and he sentn him a pair. A p did he blackout his tooth . S what happened . Appened . He said it was all joke andod he never thought his story woulw go viral and he plans to donatee one of the shoes to charity butb hes going to keep the other otr one. Probably keep the one that sayss to luke, good luck. L he post as picture withh blacked out tooth and then t or missing im not sure. Sure but he says he fake it. T because i think he may haveav seemed like it was looking for it and he had an accident andt a lost his tooth. Where did it go . Tom brady nice class move byb him thought he was doing a good thing. Only to be duped. Only e du he was duped. In the words of taylor swift, haters going to hate,ing, hate, hate. Ut loveut lwere all abo here at fox5. 5. But if you have to, how do you y deal with the haters . Hmm. Hmm. Tips from a zen master coming up. Up is that a real zen master. Masr i think so. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Which means we can deliver ual uploads and downloads. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Ithalf a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. Because they have fios, the only 100 fiber optic network, with uploads as fast as downloads, their half house has full internet. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their downloads. Now you might think its a little odd that the wilsons have a half house, but they think its a little odd to pay for uploads that arent up to speed. Get 150 meg internet with equal uploads and downloads, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for one year. Visit getfios. Com or call 1888getfios to learn more. Thats 150 meg internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 per month. Only fios can. Back with breaking newsck wr coming out of delaware this t morning. Rnin this what our partners up in up philadelphia at fox 29 reporting that one of the prison guards, d two guards left inside that prison held hostage. Ge. Fox 29 reporting one of those guards has died. Ds the other was rescued. The one rescue was a officer. Of reportedly taken to theport hospital. Ed female guard i should say reportedly taken to the hospitaa with minor injuries but a male m corrections officer was foundon inside that prisoofn earlier ths morning unresponsive. Esponsive and word now that thatt t corrections officer has died. So there was a breach made thisi morning to try to get to those o two correction officers who wer still being held. Two others had been releasedeasd yesterday and upon the breach te this morning of being able to get into the area where those ar guards were held they were abled to free the wom tanhe. Female guard but apparently then male guard has died. A prison in delaware. Its still developing. Evop getting more informationing more literally by the minute. Rall well keep you posted. Check in with tucker in thekn meantime. Me good morning, sir. Morninir hey, guys. Dowes do some weather. Weve got temps right now in tht low 40s. 40s 41 in washington. 30 in pittsburgh light snow s flying in northwest peps thiseps morning when phil came out of his cubbyhole there. He i saw lot of clouds but i guesse he saw his shadow. Haw. L riright. Front is dropping to the southth and to the east, and we arend we gointo bit of cloudiness this morningsi well get sun this afternoon ien do want to mention the windsheis will pick up behind the front, and were going to be in for i f breezy afternoon. No 50 this afternoon with someh s partial sun shy a little lateril today. Look at your cool weekend. Weend taking the rain and or snownd os chances out of sunday. Day. Maybe a little light shower or r couple of snowflakes sunday. Okay. Ay erin is back with busy roadways. Yes. How did you know they were busyb have you been paying have yon attention this morning . Pay my heart a warmed. Arme right now a lot of big delayy cabin john, clara barton inbound slow same story gw parkway fromo the beltway down to spout run. R 395 parked from outside the outt mixing bowl up to the 14tho th t street bridge and then theenhe freeway east and westbound a wed jammed by the third streetthe ts tunnel. Tr 295 northbound jams from theamst bell way to the 11th streettreet bridge. Southbound side from north of 50 down to the bridge as well. S w and then look at 50 inbound inb through cheverly. Rly. As we take look at the beltway through largo outer loop jamsous from pennsylvania avenue up ton bw parkway, and the inner loop o slow from 50 down to centralotr from earlier disable tractorct trai shoulder. Sh al outer loop in college park 20 minute delay from 95 to georgia. I would take metro. Metro thats on time, allison andallid steve. St earlier this morning, weg, w learned there will be six moree weeks of winter after a Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow. We wanted a second opinionond oo because we dont really buy it. No. We wanted to go our very own potomac phil in dupont circle,ir and we went there. Tre we will continue to go there. O e a live report coming up next. Punxatawney phil says six sx more weeks of winter much we ofi dont buy it nor do we want. Were getting a second pip fromm potomac phil in dupont circle. E well check in with bob barnard. Hes down there with a whole who bunch of friends this week were mixing things up. Rahmi fraser joining us withit thursday thrillers. Ursday thril. First of all, do you buy thursday thrillers. Do you buy into the whole Punxatawney Phil thing. Thi i dont. It im shocked how many people will be in dupont circle. Ircle. It will never be the same thm after i saw what happened todayy this morning we had ground hd hiv breaking moment we watchedat Punxatawney Phil never took aevk look at the ground. Round. Never did anything. Er didnyth never took a look at himselff they had problem getting him out. Hes feisty today. Hes they still said he saw his h shadow. That was it for you guys . Now we know its just its up. Okay. Oka. Its rigged. Rged. Cry foul. Cry foul. What are you talking about. Ek ot guys. Can you believe a zen master gets hate mail, too . Belimail, . Yeses. Does this make us feelthis ms better. The zen master handles ithant better than we do. Ern we exactly. Exa really really great article a from the power of ideas. Com andd zen master is giving everybody e advice for when you get hailet h mail. Bring it on. Good. Heres my thing because thisy is what im wondering if you thy guys think we should do or not. Right . So he says obviously obo dont feed the haters with morer anger. R respond with guidance and, empathy and warmth. Ar that will make them crazy. Aky yeah. I dont know that that worksthas though. You think giving themou t guhiidance i dont even i really i dont know. I donkno i do write back but i dont tryn to continue to engage. Enge obviously depends who thely e person is. Trust me allison and i had thiss conversation at least once a day. Had it yesterday. Ou dou did . Had i yeah. Yeah getting hate mail and whatat did you decide. Mau deci. My thing is, i dont like to engage. Gage i will i may respond initially. Itiall right. But i really feel and this is not blanket because everybody is different and there probably ary some people that want just a a conversation, but a lot of lot o they want to know that they can prove their pointer over you. R. If thats the case yourethe r already getting sucked intosucke losing argument if theirrgt if opinion. You know what i mean . I agree. Ntitheyll keep upping the antin no matter what you say, theyree going to come up with somethingh else to try to win the argumentn you didnt even ask for. Or. Right. Why engage . I agree. Igree steve tells me all the timeel do not engage. And i dont listen. I you dont . t . No. [ laughter ] [ she engages much shes morehm stubborn than i am. Let it go. It g i engage usually one round. Okay. And then, you know, ill let it go, because i always thinklwy about what that person can comee back and say and then yourenr right, steve, it ends up being b losing argument. Umt. Most of the time people just sort of back down or say, youay know, i didnt mean itnt personally or blah, blah, blah,a whatever but were real people, and you know dont think youreu going to just say nasty stuff and keep it moving for the mosts part. I like it. I think thats good. I ink thato s the thi thing. I always think when youre wn yo trying to give grid dance especially over email it can sound couldnt did he sending. Ii how do you respond . How d i do the warmto h i think most people have a goodd point. You know, and i understand thatt most people want to be heard,ea and were all very very lucky to have this amazing platform, plaf where we can say a lot. Right. Ight so most people dont havet this. What about the average personhat ab . Do you know what i mean whoo doesnt, hooks doesnt subject b themselves to this. Lves were talking and then you can just say whatever you want tontt say. Sa if youre the kind of personp that wants to win the argument n youll keep the argument going. G if you can take the higher road you can separate yours from it. O good luck. Luck we have time really quickly y this is all about self careelf c today. Theres also, you know, facebooo and social media feeds have been a lot recently this is a great e guide four ways to keep yourpou sanity amongst everything thats happening on social media,l ed right. Cool. Heres the advice. Heres d take breaks is one ofvi tcehings that makes the list. T. Really great article if you wanw to google and read more. Or but its easy to become addictei to social media. To sl give yourself some space. Pa i thought this one interestingni be healthy outside of your lifei on social media. Excellent. Exclent what the article means bythe that, you know, sleep well, eatt well, get some exercise tha will help you react betterter online. Feel your feelings this was gooo too. Too. Lots of times we get upset aboua whats happening in the world. E. Honor that. I thoughoht that one was great. E stay optimistic. Pt that can be hard to do if yourr on facebook all the time. E and then connect with others and i also thought taking action isn on this list which i really rea really liked. Ally lik i think we think we have to doeo huge things, right. If you can get to the march yout can make a small donation you t can help your neighbor. Neibor. I like small actions. Right. Yeah. R you know what, if all else all e fails, block people that aret ae spreading negative on your feede [ laughter ] number eight. Proactive that way. Ve t our therapy hour. Youre welcome. Before we get to tucker lett get back to dupont circle. Potomac phil just made hise h winter predict. Di bob barnard is live there in thn midst of all the action thishi morning. Hi, bob. Reporter good morning, steve. Orteg, yes, weve ot several dozenal folks here at dupont circlely cl you can see the crowd the backs of these tall hats here theseere are the folks surrounding jack evans the metro Board Chairman just declared this groundhog dag in d. C. , and yes, potomac philop you can see him, hes not a life creature. Hes a stuffed animal. Affed did see his shadow its a sunnyn day here in washington, d. C. C. Sunny day here in dupont circler phil as you can see phil saws his shadow and so six more weeke of winter. R and lets see. Council member evans is over ise there and aaron the guy who putp this whole thing together. Togee so many tall darn hats its hari to see. T im going come through the crowd and grab aaron. Anab aar hey, aaron, heres the proclamation. Live on fox5. Nox hey, thank you. Ank y how are you. Im very well. E we seee seesurpris the sun. E s phil saw his shadow. Do he saw his shadow. Ha its a little tricky how you ses a shadow with a temporarily taxx determined groundhog but youog b know you have to really look closely into his eyes and look at the glare and the gaze and wa can come to a prediction. Reporter people dont seemoe too disappointed here. We haven ski resorts are probably happyoy to hear this. To heathis i think everyone is happy. Ap the second part of ourcoart prediction the politicalital prediction, of course. E. Six more months of political gridlock according to jack evans. Aaron thank you as we leave youu guys turn around here and takee look at potomac phil. C phi where does potomac phil spenthin the rest of the year . Ea well, um, well have to checc with my wife on that. Fe t reporter okay. Kay. Obviously at aarons home. H back to you guy. G phil saw his shadow. Dow. The glare in his eyes. Hies i guess its unanimous amonga ground hogs this morning. Orning. Were stuck with winter. K with oh, boy, okay. Ay. Tucker barnes. Not quite Punxatawney Phil but t potomac phil. Potomac phi go mororning. Allison, you know about my, w proposal, right . Ig which is it . I penn down in dupont, whyt,w have a stuffed rodent when ween can have the real thing . . Rigight. I propose if we can go to the picture reg the rat. T r ere yoyou go. The real thing. He rea why not . Not the same cuteness or o sweetness but i dont know. Dono maybe so. Maybe thank you kristin for zenning in that picture somebodyeby tweeting me reg the rat. R hash tag reg maybe well have his nem year. Y got to be i was then tis likeisl d. C. Lets do the forecast 41 inn washington. 36 dulles. 35bwi marshall. Ar cold front coming in that will n bring us cloud cover here. Er then when it gets east of souths of us well clear it out and winds will pick up behind thed t front. So it will be a windy afternoono but daytime highs about 50 and it should be dry for you later today. So if you wantto to get out in i dupont and enjoy a Beautiful Day 50 degrees. Do bring a jacket it will feell cooler witness breezes. Breezes. Can you talk to me in reg thg rats voice. Voice we need allison to do it. T. He likes to smoke and drink. Rink i need add laugh today. Od this camera exactly the same itt was about 30 minutes ago. 295 northbound still a crawl from the bottom of the beltilltb to the 11th street bridge. B earlier problem on the 11th 11t street bridge that cleared. Ed east and westbound side of theeu freeway passed the third streets tunnel super heavy and 295 a southbound looks just like thisi coming down from 50 towards thes bridge as well. Asell. So both directions jammed. Jam as we move over to our maps. Ur m thats not down this morning you can see aa ton of red and yellow crowding o things up. The outer loop from pennsylvania up to bw parkway jams. The inner loop from 50 down to Central Avenue where we have ae disabled tractor trailer and earlier fuel spill blocking thet shoulder. Metro we have a train ha trai malfunction at landover sodovers orange line residual delays inel that area in both directions. Irn aside from that, pennsylvania pa avenue inbound crash nearnboundh minnesota avenue jammed backeddd to texas avenue. Huge delays on suitland parkwayr inbound with a lot of heavy volume to south capitol. 295 southbound jammed from 450 m to the 11th street. You can see that area in i bladensburg seeing a ton of slos moving traffic. Bw parkway southbound outsideboo the beltway jams. Ay j keep it to fox5 news morning. Mi were right back. T back. Rooster sounds honey, what are you doing . Watching a cow. Oh whats it doing . Rooster sound impressions. Rooster sound power up your morning with a 300calorie egg white grill. Only at chickfila. Thats pretty. Look at that. Nice skies today. 8 41 right now. In addition to sunshine for the win its never flicks for the win beating pets when it comes to value and original n to s n evaccorderg peinong to nentw sut year netflix will be releasing 1,000 hours of original contentt that means you would have to spend if youre the binge t b watching type and most netflix l people are you would have to spend 41 days of Binge Watching netflix nonstop just to see it all. Steve . Ill throw something out there. Row you want to do it. You me and you get a show. Want lets do it. If they have a thousand theyh can do 1,001. 1,001 no, were in the thousand. W add more to the thousand. Ore or do that, too. As long as were in. Ng as r. Thanks erin one person whoerw would watch. You want to take 41 straighth days. No. Of us watching netflix netflx together. Togeth i want us to be on thatt platform as well as this one net too. If we had a show we could hae watch our own show. Our ow s how about if we check in witn good day. They have a show. Aw. Holly and maureen. Ly aaure we got multiple shows. Multiple platforms. Laorms. Lets all be on it. Lets alb we got you covered. E ill pitch us. Ing up on the show the show today, ladies. Here you go. U we are following severalever developing news. New clues released in thecl kidnapping of a local collegeueg student. T. Also breaking details in that prison standoff in delaware. Super bowl of course few c days away well talk live to fox sports one Charles Tillman who n knows what its like to play t y under pressure. Beyonce, shes pregnant witw twins im sure youve heard yv about that. Hat. And im sure well tell you y something about what you need t know about that coming up att. 40. What now . This is a serious ser question. Qu a doctor is here toes tell us tu whats in store for the power tp couple expecting umhmm. Umhm no sleep much thats what i sayy is in store for them. R the ever. Speaking of no, at 10a, it is the no politics zone. E we know i dont have beennt veb inundated at every turn. Ur so heres what we have ahead. Hit it mo. It it lets get ready for puppies. Gilbert gottfried, yes, hes he live not a good impression, right . Sorry gilbert. Gilbert ears here any way. Here y w must see tv involving our mike thomas lets just say this one o might go viral. High probability and speaking on mike thomas. Ke tho. Lets hear it for the boys. All our boys get ready for new n segment on the 10a at 10 50. 10 we are welcoming in the bro block. Really . R uhhuh. They didnt ask the girls por that. I know right. What are steve, tucker and om up treo s now . I can onlyy imagine. Or maybe cringe. You will, too. Heres the thing. T. Well all find out at the sameua time. I know. [ laughter ] you dont know eit. Yes. The circle surprise. Surp its that the beauty it. T well see you at the top of o the hour 15 minutes away. After several stingers threaten to boycott the grammy the prow o deiser now speaking out. Er n well have details for you nextx stay with us. The bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. From 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Live look at the u. S. Capitoh this morning. Beautiful. In front of blue skies. Will they stay blew all day . Ooking seeront o morestay b sun. Six more weeks of winter phil says. Who is going to real the super bowl . Whats the realea deal with the groundhog. Some of these questions will be answered in just 10 seconds. Hey, all right, lets get tl it. Some p. M. Sunshine today. Phil did see his shado rs wget t means six more weeks of winter although reg the rat we never n caught quite up with him. Im. Were not sure if we have sixe more weeks of winter here in hen d. C. Thats why we cant have re. V good the rat. Breezy and cool tomorrow. Orw in fact both friday and saturdad temperatures a few degrees belol normal and we are going to seeo freezing temperatures around he at nighght. Spotty showers sunday. Rs sunda looks less and less likely thaty well get much of anything hereh sunday although there could be b few showers or a couple lightoue snow showers parts of the areaer on sunday and then mildern milde temperatures. How about 60s they might even be week. We tuesday and wednesday look veryv very warm. M. Around here early next week. Earw 41 in washington. N 37 west minster. Inster 33 manassas. 36 dulles. And 38 in hagerstown. Hagst cool out there this morning. Mo. Overnight lows this time of yeaf typically in the 20s. The so we are running on the warmn w side of things to start yourrt y morning. This front will be dropping doww shortly bring us cloud cover. Ovr it should come through dry butuy what youll notice the winds on the back side of it pick up, ana well be in for a breezyare afternoon. Oo daytime highs about 50 but withw the breezes it will feel coolero than that this afternoon. Otherwise all systems go for g nice couple of days starting stt with this afternoon. Friday, saturday look quiet. Uiet although chilly. Y and again daytime highs actualla a few degrees below normalow nor around here for the start of tht weekend there. Here. Theres your seven day. Ther theres your warmeer temperatus rlrly next week. Could we do 60 to 65 next65 tuesday and wednesday. Wedne we certainly could. Cld february typically a snowy month. Yeah. Will we get snow this month. N yup. Not on the the seven day. Even thanks, tucker. Not long ago there were l reports that Justin Beiber andad kanye west were going to skip s out on the grammys. Gra grammys executive producer ken k you recall lick says no. He says theyre stillec talkingt Justin Beiber about attend the event and as for kanye well he l says he hopes to see him there. Beiber has not said whether wheh hell attend he is nominated for record of the year, song of theo year and album of the year. Yea drake, though, is out. S hes performing in the uk that a tight. Hes out. Ut he wont there be. T the be is it a boycott or cott o hes got a performance. Okay. Ahead of the super bowlaheaf theres a petition out on theonn change. Org to swap out lady gagg as the headlining performer forr the hiphop group am me goes. Me g according to the petition, since the Atlanta Falcons are playinge in houston the super bowl needs music that reflects two of thesw hottest hiphop communities c atlanta and houston. On for the pre show. Ho the petition says they want w who is that. Who isha im showing my gucci goodie mob and young y cheesy to perform. H hull. So far more than 62,000 people0p signed the petition. Signed the t im sorry, lady gaga is yourou headliner. She ray shrimmer . Simmer . I get it you want music reflective of what yourewhat representing as far as the local. Thats always a great thing buth lady gaga signed the deal. E so shes going to be there. The im getting hiphop h intelligence in my ear rightht w. W. But, okay. Y. Basically, though, my thing,hing where were they when lady gaga was dont wait until the last minute. Yeah. Eye, kev. Good morning allison andt wa steve. St oo good d morningin. Ning just before i went on the air so i saw a bunch of photos that shawn yancy posted a photo shoos that beyonce did for her for pregnant. Were trying to fine out if these photos weree tr realyi orw they coming from. Theyre real. Re r theyre from beyonce. Com. Eye we will show them later on in o the show. I cant show them now becausew b some of them are a little bittl inn appropriate. I would assume for morningr mni television become put was wantww to see these go to beyonce i went on the air. I on any way moving on here this ises in regards to the beyonceds toe story. She now announced yesterday on instagram that shes pregnanp with twins. We like to share our love and ad happiness we have been blessed two timesso over. We are incredibly grateful thata our family will be growing bywig two and we thank you for your f well wishes. Ll ws. The carters. The carters. I dont know if our producer will hit us show these if you want to pull it on beyonce. Como you go down on her page a bunchb of photos of her in a very very interesting photo shoot for herh pregnancy. [ laughter ] this gets to a bi g questiono a big quest now in regards what will happene to beyonce in regards to thehe grammys as well as coachella the big talk this morning in regarda to whats going to happen. Ing h she announced in januaryry coachella shed be head liningeg two saturday shows in april. So if thats the case and shess pregnant, how is that going toh work . I mean theres also there have been people yes. We have one of the pictures. Can we show it . Lets show this. Th where is this posted on. S poed o on shawns page. A loft these are o beyonce. Com. Theres an entire photo shootanh she did. Theres even videos of her in water. Wate as pregnant beyonce. But the announcement for coachella was in january. Janry tmz says it seems beyonce is somewhere in the vicinity of vin four maybe five months pregnantn and this is a surprise to the producers of coachella. Prod ucthe big question is, will shes perform . I do want to ask you,y could she perform . Could sheoud just sit down and perform . I mean, shes amazing. Ng yeah. Okay. But a lot of her act is her really dancing. Ci. Dancing. D yeah. Honestly it could be kind ofd cool to see her sit sit there te and sink for two hours. H maybe shell do that. T the grammy are on grammare february 12th the questionua will she be therery as well . Ss let us know what you think but b also her photo on instagram isti now the most liked photo in thee instagram history. She surpassed this photo Fromm Selena Gomez which had 6. 3 million more than your wedding photo . More than my wedding photoanm youre correct about that. Reorre this has over 7. 6 million. 6 l can i ask a question. An ask t how did this picture get so popular . I dont know its apunnoits advertisement for cocacola. Selena gomez is an instagram queen. Quee this is beautiful picture. There wasnt any specialherea story. It was an ad. A. An ad for cocacola. Occo real quick ill be hypocrite iti mentioned this in thein t 6 00 oclock hour this morning. G ill show you this video onlyeo because it goes along with whygt im telling you the story. Hypocrite by showingy sh something that youre saying we should not be seeingth. Atshouotb we should not be showing thii but im showing it any way. W this is Melissa Mccarthy knew aa for kia this is a super bowlowl commercial. Shes saving the whales and thet trees and ice caps and rhinos. I but my biggest problem is, why y are they releasing these super p bowl commercials so early . Ily know theyve been doing this fot years and i get it from a from business standpoint. In youre spending millions of dollars to have an ad in thein super bowl. Ow. Why not get as much pay im showing your ad right now. Clearly you madineg a smart a business decision. But my problem is, it takes awaa from the surprise of the superur bowl. Bo for people who arent falcons or patriots fans, its another anor football game. Gam let me throw a counterw a thought there. I agree, kev. I ag i wouldre le,ove to just see e i watch the game for theamr t commercial. Co i dont. I would love to seate to seat commercials during the game. Ci let me throw this thought outalu there, because they spend allhel this money on the ads. Is monn right. I dont think theres a guarantee if its going to don n in the actual game or if itsrf going run before the game. G you pay for the slot. S you pay for the duringg game slot. Youre not choosing when iti going run. Ng dont run at a good gd time, then maybe this is theirbt way of saying, were going tongt put this out there at least in case this runs when everybody ii going to the bathroom or if it allows see game and people turnl it off. Or after the game. Tee game. Take this into break. Take ts well be back in just 30t 30 seconds. You guys go ahead. Wants to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. Any ways, i think that tha allison is right, kev, im, im really sorry. Sorry. 45 at reagan national. Atna dulles 39. Bwi marshall 35. Hey, about 50 this afternoon. Ern cold front coming through, andg, the breezes are going to pick up behind this front. Be this otherwise well be partly sunnyu and we should be dry today. But that front means business. U. Youll really notice the windsis blowing about 30 this afternoono much theres quick look at thehe seven day. Least fry andat saturday quiet. Uiet. Clouds on sunday. General trial. Ne we took the storm out for sunday anmondnday. Erin is back with the lasthes traffic still really heavy on the outer loop from bw parkway p over to 270 about 20 minuteut delay. Y. Things easing you can see thatet red zone turned yellow in largor outer loop still slow fromwro pennsylvania all the way up topt bw parkway. 50 inbound slows from outsidemsi the beltway around thee 01 thee0 through cheverly. Rl residual delays both directionsd on the orange line at landoverae if youre thinking of takingin metro things back to normal on n the red line as we move overeve this crash on pennsylvaniansylva avenue cleared but were stilleb dealing with residual delays by minnesota avenue and also keepoe in mind, 295 north andthnd southbound really heavy. Vy. Jammed on the southbound sidethd 450 to the 11th street bridge. E and then the southbound sideunid slows from the beltway to the tl 11th streettw bridge. Bdg other delays in maryland, 95an 9 southbound super heavy and bw parkway southbound heavy as well you try get from the baltimorere beltway down to the capitoldown beltway once you hit 32 youll2y hit all of that congestiongeio route 1 doing much better thiset morning and 29 still dealing dea with heavy volume down to then t top side of the beltway its is that outer loop delay delay overflowing all that extrathxtra traffi still jammed 370 to the spur. 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