Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20170216

All right. A we have cold temperatures tollee start your day. Even some lake effect snowse la off to our north andke west. E ill have all thes details onon the big weekend warmup. W steve and allison coming up inin a minute. A mi water main break in in alexania. A. The water gushing out of theushi ground in old town. To water main broke near theaink masonic temple at park roadk rad and the intersection near kinge street. Ne fox5s annie yu is now onnow the scene for us and we willwe that join her shortly. We will rejoin annie whennnie we were ready to go. E ready togo. Lets get to melanie in theeh meantime our other big storyg t, we do have annie. E. Annie can you hear us . Wes . We just saw you jump out of thet frame there. Well get back to annie in a in minute. Willhe other story impact businesses in thethe district. The day without immigrantsmms in support of its immigrant workers and to highlight theirlr impact on a daily basis. Ba Melanie Alnwick thiselan morning live in northwestie with more on this story. Is s mel. Y. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. So, lets put this in a little t this i perspective. Ersctive. Theres more than 2,000ha restaurants in d. C. Rants d we have about 60 right nowht that said that they are going gi to closes or participate ins or this movement. Adespreaot be a wid pespre impact but certainly many ofanyo these restaurants are being bei very vocal with their support so for this movement. Movemen one is busboys and poets. Nd poet all three locations being closed today. Clos the shops saying on facebookg ok that in solidarity with our immigrant tribe we will closee e for the day on thursday for a fa day without immigrants sayingsag that founder andy shalol is anin immigrant and a shining shing example of what immigrantsmi brought to the country. Oun immigrants are what make America Great. We talked to owners ofrsof other restaurants includingludin bar pillar that says thiss is restaurant will stay openedill d and staff hoop choose to workcho will donate their tips top coworkers who stay home o the movement is asking ing immigrants to stay home from frm school and work and not spend se their money either. Ither. The demonstration began as anan idea on social media meant asdis a tangible reminder of immigrants impact andct and contributions to americanti society and theon economy but iu is also a pushback touhb president Donald Trumpsent comments and actions blaminging unemployment on immigrationmm during the camigrapaign, his orr to build the mexican borderorr wall and his travel and refugee ban which is now on aowa temporary hold. Old. Actions are also planned also pn philadelphia boston houstonton Austin Chicago and new york. Yo we also know of one charter one school thats going to be tha closed today as well,t thats h the latin american montessori bilingual school. School d. C. Public schools alsoalo telling principals they couldncp see many more students out. Mor weve alsoud seen some pushbackk too. A lot of people saying look,ng o remember that Donald Trumpstrus actions are targeting illegalgal immigrants not legalegal immigrants and also some small l businesses who simply canty ant afford to have their criticalri that they maybe hurt hu financially by this movement. Y live in northwest,by t im melae alnwick fox5 local news. Es. Critics of the day withouty t immigrants say those takinga part are missing the point ofpof President TrumpS Immigrationmit policies which they say are meant to target Illegal Immigrants. O on our Facebook Page bruce says says donna says in part, so areo a these establishments employingtg Illegal Immigrants because be they are the ones that thist t country has a problem with. Otherwise, why protest . Theres a big distinctionstinctn between the two. Just some of your opinions. Please keep them coming on social media. Were talng busboys and poets himself animsf immigrant as we saw. Migrant we. Very cool. All right. Lets get back to breaking n bac alexandria. Ndria. A water main broke near theih masonic temple at park roadrk rd and the intersection near kingei street. Our annie yu is with us now. Annie, you might need an umbrella today. Reporter hey, goodumey, goo morning, steve and allison. Alli well, the good news out oft o this is that traffic is nots no being greatly impacted. Ipact in fact, this road behind meinde is the 2200 block excuse me ofse park road right next to the masonic temple and as you canasu see it is closed off toed off traffic obviously because ofy b that big water just shooting shg up in the air but no other oher streets are closed according to police scene. To police ene. Thats the other thing of then police are here on scene. However, the Utility Company coy is not and that is the virginia america waterca wat company. They are aware of the aware of e situation and they told usld us that they have crews on the the way but no one currently herecuy to shut off the water so you ou have this huge spray of water coming from this water mainth and its just if you looku l to your right, pat, all the the icicles th forming because it is very, ver, very cold out here and it was a windy morning. Or and so youve got these these icicles forming on theon branches of these trees. Tr were told this is an 8inch pipe and the water has beenthe shooting out for at least two hours now and we know fromn covering situations like this, i this is not a quick fix. Crews say it will take prettytae much the entire day. Da they are hoping to have ve everything back and repaired by 6 oclock this eveningenng right in the thick of rush t hour. Thats the very latest herelate from alexandria. Om alexandria. Back to you in the studio. The u annie thanks for the update. Date. 7 06 right now. 7 06 r n chilly out there today, too. T its cold. Most of the area at errablet era freezing. You saw the ice forming on theit trees and on the fence andon that kind of thing. E that k but ain d beofautiful sunrise. Ue it will be a nice looking day. N. It will be a cool one this afteoon. N. 33 in washington. Hingn. Bwi marshall 32 degrees. Degree. Winds are still with us. Are stih wind chills are in the 20s. 20. Bottom line, take a jacketjacke with you today. With you you probably heard a t lot about our big warmup. Warm not so much today. Much to that will be more like more ke saturday, sunday and mon currently winds out of they north and westwin at 10. A let me mention got a littleli bit of snow shower activity insh the mountainsow out along 81ong compliments of the great lakesoe which never froze this winter. I. Some winters they do, some som winters they dont. On this winter they did not. Ey didn you can see some of those tho streamers coming off the lakes t there off to our north andrth d west. For us it will be partly sunny y and seasonably cool althoughth wind chills will remain in the 30s so once again you want your jacket today. To seven day. St holidayrecast holiday weekend, i have all thethe details momentarily. Om should be a good holiday end. End. Yeah. All right. N. Hi i gooder morning. Od good morning. Goorning. I have so many crashes i have he to keep them straight in my in y head right now. Henow hot know how you do it. Well start you offw wyou he annie is. Its just aann incredible viewvw by the masonic temple. Teme. Park road 200 block closed. Clos. Water gushing out from a watera main break thats yet to beto placed under control. O its been out there for about two hours. S. Icicles on the trees. Trs. Watch for that slickatch for tha conditions along king streetlone as well. Even though king street this water could be impactingacg conditions on the roads. On tha. Again around king street parketp road please use caution thise ut morning. As we move things over for a fo live look we have a crash ase ah well that you need to be aware of. This is 50 on the inbound side at 202. At 202. Its moved over to the left l shoulder. It was previously blocking onece lane but youre jam packedackd from 410 to 202. 202 those delays actually extendxt to the beltway now. Bel as you get to the beltway fromyf bowie just anticipate a very vr slow ride to get to 295f aside from that well go ahead and d take a look at skyfox. We are dealing watith other othe delays right now. Ht n actually skyfox is down rightfo now but i can telril you 66 is s jammed up at the beltway. Eltw. Thats where they had beeny hadn showing us some trafficing us s conditions. Omtr 295 northbound a disabledrt vehicle blockinghbou the rightet lane at suitland parkway. Way. Heavier traffic on suitlandand parkway 295 northbound to the n 11th Street Bridge as orwellth a 295 southbound. U and theres a new crash on theon inner loop through annandalenaae out by little river turnpike. Tun youre jammed up from themed upe mixing bowl to 66. Mixing the back to you guys. Uys. Developing along the eastingl coast thison morning, the e russian intelligence shiplligeni continues to spotted off the coast ofoast of connecticut much remember it rem was along delaware just alawarea short time ago. Short time ago Officials Say right now aboutou 30 miles from a u. S. Navalu. S. Al base but its still considered to be in inttiellrnational wate. A spokesperson for the defensedf Department Said the ship haships not entered u. S. Er toker to t in the water and they respectot freedom of navigation exercised by all nations quote. Are u. S. Intelligence i officials holding out on o President Trump. Trump. Foxs doug luzader has more from capitol hill where both boh democrats and republicans areube already talking about a number of investigations. Reporter there appears to be a growing level ofvel mistrust between the president and the Intelligence Community that is supposed to serve him and both democrats and thects at republicans here on capitolhean hill want to s khenow more aboua series of leaks. At a press conference witheren h israeli Prime Ministermi Benjamin Netanyahu president anya trump to target, the u. S. Intelligence community. Papers are being leaked,s things are being leaked. Are be. Its criminal action. Ti criminal act. Iminal a and its been going on for aa long time before me but nowbut n its really going on. G reporter and the wall street journal this morningourn with an explosive headlinealosie that parts of the intelhe community are take on trumpt for the same reason. Rean. U. S. Intelligence officialsff have withheld sensitive intelligence from president en donald trump because they arecef concerned it could be leaked e or compromised. Or c theres no question that theret has been intelligence leakste that have hurtlligen trump, leap phone conversations betweenionse National Security adviser Michael Flynn and a russianrusan envoy led to flynns forced resignation this week. Week. Whos leaking . Some se republicans suggest it couldns s beug supporters of president resd obama. Some of whom are still working r within the government and theene chairman of the House Oversight committee is callingci on the Inspector General toeral launch an investigation. Vestig no matter where you are inin the political spectrum youtrum y cannot have information migrating out into a nonclassified setting. Et reporter democrats feel emboldened. Emboldened. Em theyre pressing forwardld on on possible ties between Trump Officials and the ruiesss ian government. I think as the public ceaseb whats going on theyre goingth to demand the kind ofhe bipartisan thoreaubipa investigation we are asking for. For reporter whateverhatever investigations take place itiona should not be led byke p u. S. U attorney general jeff sessions. In washington, Doug Luzader Fox newsily. Ewsily. Doug thanks. Doug th of course President Trumprs tweeting just a few minutes ago the spote ligprht j usht asy been put on the low life leakers. They will be caught. Caug that tweet coming out nineut ine minutes ago. Bed bugs found at yetbugs another d. C. School and that is not all. A live report is c. C soming up. Up. Plus, a truck fire caught on dashcam video. Ido. Police had to act fast to stopoo it from spreading. Stay with us. Ay with back after this. Ths. Wow. Another live look at the water main break in old townthen alexandria. That water just still gushingttg this morning. So, hopefully they will get a a cap on this soon. On this on. Always tough to figure outre ut which one of those knobs to knoo turn at the faucet. Fa is it the hot water . Cold water. Water. Theyll get it shut you have shf hopefully. Let the pressure build likede its going to blousing dont let it build up. Deep breaths. Youreeep welcome. Some good news about thatat emergency spillway. Spillw officials in orovillevill california say water levels lves have dropped more than 20 feet crews continue to work around tk the clock to make emergencyemncy repairs though. Irs there is rain inth the forecastt for today but officialsfficials areconfident the dam will holdmd up. Several people who were out of their homesral evacuatec you know, returned to find their home burglarized. Home bur. Arrests have been made. Water levels again dropped dr more than 20 feet. Good with the bad but thebutthe arrests have been made. Made. California has rain on theori way and thena the snow melt soo their challenges are not overver yet. Theyre saying theyrehey ready for it. Re read yeah, okay. Y yeah, okay. Remember yesterday they wereeste putting rocks in the hole. Hl im confident. Okay, i have a question. Yes. Whats up with all these, Little Salmon looking things. Th fish running off into theoffe ocean. With this map. Wit can you explain it to me. You oh, thank you,ex yeah. Ye i was not sure what you were whe talking about. Thats showing us our wind direction. N. Okay. Is it a difference with thewi colort variations on the map map like green is warm. Warm. Youre asking deepking dep questions here. He. Ra lighter blue is 30s, character purple means teensans ans. 0s. 33 now in washington. A everybody locally here here regionally what is waking upking to cold temperatures. P our wind chills right now are ci in the 20s. We have had almost noll snow. Sno weve had 1. 4inches of snow snw here in washington this year. But parts of maine after their third storm in the past week wek most snow theyve ever had inad february. Febrry. I know weve asked you thises before but have we hadd snowless winters entirelynt where we havent had any snow. O reminds me of like a a hairless cat. Ss i dont know. Don in the words of tupac shakur i aint mad at you. You. In 72, 73 and in i think 98th we had 110th of an inch of snow. Weve always had at least alw something. We have a little lake effectle e snows off to our north and west this morning. Orning. Tucker fox5 tweet me if youm have them and ill showshow pictures. And much mount to much most of our day will be partly t sunny, chilly. Wind chills in the 30s ands d still looking at that tat fantastic weekend warmup as iup mentioned earlier were goingrg to go right past the crocuses and the snowdrops intoow daffodil territory by next by nt week. Maybe some 70s by next week. We because of you i think iu i know what a crocus s its likes the little some littlesm greenery is popping up in myppiy yard. Yeah. Thats a crocus. And a lit ttleha tiny flowern will come up with it. Awesome. In truth erin its not my yard a its my neighbors but hey. Let them do the hard workthew and you admire it. An and exactly. Ex whenever i think of the of th word crocus for some reason i imagine like a frog on lillyl pad hanging out in the spring. S spewing water all over theg wal trees in old town alexandriatowa breaking news weve been been tracking active water maine wat break for over two hours now. N. 200 block of park road impact it predominant. Pr its shut down. Impact. Its thought as you can see the branches ofhe the tree looking beautifulb kind of complete iced overof c right now. Well keep you posted onom that. Annie yu is at that scene sce gathering more information. Rmao. As we switch things over from outer loop Winter Wonderland woe to look our roads. Ro clash on 202 cleared. Clea delays heavy back to the t beltway. Starting to ease. As we look at the istnner loop, out by little river turnpike we were tracking an earlierarler accident. He shouldover to the shoulder so things on the inner loopngs l looking good right nowoop fromwo the springfield interchange uprp to 66. Well keep you updated on your r commute. Right now metro is on time tme except for safe track surge 12 impacting the blue line. Allison and steve. Eve. Wow. sirens . Dashcam video capretured aura quick thinking officer in offern texas doing his part tos doing o prevent a car fire from spreading. This happened saturday night at a jack in the box drive through, its a restaurant. Aura. Officer chris womack used hisk truck away from the restaurant. Re there you can see pushing itshit right out of the drive throughvh to try to keep that fire from fm spreading. The driver was able to get outeg of that truck before it caught on fire and i think in partnar due to the officers actionscerc nobody at the restaurant orthe o the drive through was injured. J. New this morning, anotheringe d. C. School is reportedlyrep dealing with a bed bug problembm this comes after fox5 firstox5 f reported about a bed bug problem at savoy elementary. Fox5s bob barnard is livesive in northeast to tell us abouto this latest school thatsolts reportedly infested with theset pests. Good morning. Reporter good morning, ally son, yes, this is ormteiner Elementary School 15th and fan f streets northeast. Rtheast. School is opened today,toay, teachers are already arriving. Ar students wont be here forhere f awhile still but yes, we aree e learning mainly from dcs thatcst there is an infestation of bedod bugs. Gs. They also value rodent problem o as do other schools that havet h rat traps around the buildingsei or what have you butt have youut apparent three times in the past week pak students have been found to have bed bugs on their clothing. Theyre not calling it an re not infestation cabulltin obviously concern somehow these bed bugse got into the school probablyhe from a stu sdents home orome or Something Like that. Tha but the school is going tong stay opened as they work toy w clean it up and as you ou mentioned, we were the firstthet to report its been weeks nowksn that they had a similar problem at savoy elementary eley school in southeast washingtons so much so they had to closec the school for a couple days. D. Students are now at ats are at Different School and as youent o can see in ourol video there the school is undergoing a major cleanup, scouring of the the building inside and eventuallyn out to try to get rid of thed o bed bug problem there. Problem th but this one is just coming to o light this morning, again, agan, school here at minerminr Elementary School in sessionol n as they deal with another bed b bug outbreak, guys. K, my goodness, bob, thank youa very much for thatn report. Repo coming up aint so, joe. Aint sojoe. The White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer uses the wrong name when talking abouttai the canadian Prime Minister. Ini. But there is no love lostost on social media for the leader e from the north since his visit i to the United States, oh, heh, e has been trending online. E. [laughter] [laughter] z29kuz zstz y29kuy ysty this. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its crispy sweetened flakes, plus crunchy granola clusters, plus a touch of honey. Its like adding up awesome, plus aweyeah. Its the sum of the best of the best in a cereal. Honey bunches of oats. Its a great song. Sog. Especially when you look atn yot this next story. Story. Live look over the dmv this dm morning. Nice start to the d ay. 34 degrees. You want the tie in . Okay. Oky. Following President Trumps meeting with canadian primeian m minister Justin Trudeautrudeau earlier this week press Secretary Sean Spicer steak taking some heat. He. Spicer called the primer minister by theca wrong name. Yesterday the president the t sat had a incredibly productive at the time set of meetings and discussions withcui Prime Minister joe trudeau. Trde. Look, ive been there. The slip of the tongue. Slip t it happens. O followingha mr. Trudeaus visit to the u. S. Social media u is giving the ca. Snadian leaderl a new title mr. Steel your. Stey girl. It was inspired by ad by photograph of first daughtera ivanka trump appearing to admire trudeau at the white house. [laughter] shes just giving i looks like President Trumpik is doing the same thing. E prame. And look at kate middleton. Mid thats right. Across the pond and actor in beauty and the beast emmabeaa watson on the left there. N the e he gets the look. H he gets the look. E ge he hes a goodgets t looking man. Allison you probably sawbly this when you and tucker weree giving out doughnuts the otherso day. This is a look that tucker socko often gets when he walksgets whw around the streets of d. C. F d. I want to tell yout to tell u something. I know you all gave us griefg for giving people doughnutsg pe trying to get their attention. At im not quite sure we gave g you grief. You grie yes, you did. Tucker barnes went on a metrobus basically to give gi doughnuts away and i went toto give a napkin and our handsand almost got caught in the buse bs but when we do something we do o it a hundred percent. Erc were all in. N and they were mocking uskin back here. He we could hear you in the in t earpiece. This is a fake accusation. Cu. You guys are yelling atuys people to give them doughnuts. You dont rememberve tthat. Th i want to you go back anda they can voice, all right. Oice does it everybody does it. Ever oh, is that what it is . It i okay. Ok yeah, thats right. Witheah, that logic try not t screw the forecast up. St up. Allison is very accurateccate with this. We were given a hard time forr aggressively trying to give away doughnuts. Ughn sometimes in tuckersers attempt on tv to get somebodys attention it comestts across a little strong. Its tough love. Loe its doughnuts. s d i know the intention ouwgas there. Its called passion. S calledn 33 in washington. Shi winds and west at 10. Look at your twitchr twitch 25 degrees. 25 d no doughnuts for steve allison. Theres your satellite and radar. Ough your we got lake effect snows off ef to our north and west esnnoughen to coat the ground. Terry just tweeted me from damascus and said she hase ha enough to coat the grounds in gn damascus. Parts of the area are going to n be seeing some very lightr snows early this morning. This for the evident research usde partly sunny blustery andnt c rc today daytime highs in the lowet 40s and this is really the te last of winter for at leastt lst the next week. Wek. 10 to 15 days snow loversow doesnt look good here. Her if you like warm temperatures,p, mild temperatures youre goingtu love the weekend. Reeken saturday, sunday, monday look fantastic. Fantasc. 65, maybe 68 degrees byegreey saturday afternoon. Ernoon los greaeat. Erin how are roads. 7 27. Some updated information forform you out of old town alexandria. Water main break impactingcti king road. Road. Water no longer gushing outeg there. Park road and main shuti down. Down watch for slick spots on king kg street in that area. At area crews just got the water wr turned off. Of a lot of icy residue on the on e trees there so well keep you updated. Up committee 19 time dozens of restaurants businesses even assa d. C. School all closing todaycls for the dayin without immigrants protest. Otest. Supporters say president er Donald Trumps immigrations igrn policies cast a bad light onht n all immigrants. Igrant critics say he is only goinggoig after Illegal Immigrants. Migrs. So well ask one of thee participating restaurantating ra owners about that ne with many people with adhd. Adhd hope for new understanding andnn treatment. Trtment. Time right now 7 27. 7 7. Z2a0gz zi0z y2a0gy yi0y i lost my sight when i was 14 years old. So i really navigate the world by touch. When dove asked me to try out this body wash. I was excited that it was foam. It was so light and soft. Discover the feeling of new dove shower foam. Look right now you can see g the river in the background. Very top of the screen. The scr its chilly this morning. 34 degrees, slight breeze outres there as, slig well. Ell. Check with tucker in a couple ol minutes. Meantime 7 30 this morning. R someone thousand lobbyists,is business people, politicians riding amtrak trains from new f jersey into the district comingc to town for new jerseys 80thh annual chamber of commerce comme lobbying trip. Governor christie will deliver r the keynote address. E the event comes as president pri trump has vowed to quote drainue the swamp citing an order an ord restricting administrationtratn officials from lobbying american hate groups are onn the rise. Particularly anti muslim groups. This is according to the Southern Poverty Law Center then report says the hate groups in the United States nearly tripled from 34 in 2015 to 101 last ear year. The liberal leaning organizatiot says some of the rise is on i president Trumps Campaign and election. El a tributed to President Trumpsp campaign and election. Electio more now on todays dayods without immigrants protest thato will likely impact dozens ofsf restaurants in the d. C. Region. It was organized on social medim meant to highlight the effect that immigrant workers have onn ily b basis. Among the restaurant boy boys and poets much Melanie Alnwickln is live outside their locationio at 14th and v northwest withwesw why they decided to support thee movement with the owner. Vement good morning, mel. Orni reporter good morning,ng steve and allison. Andy has been so kind to openkit the doors for us we can come cam inside and talk with him. So his organization, how manyn,n reaurants s in all . We have six. Haveix six. Are going to be shutting downow today. To are shut down today for the day without immigrants. Joining from what we know atw a this point at least 60 perhaps r more other restaurants in thenhe d. C. Area that are participating in some way in the event today. T so andy, give me an idea of whyy you wanted to this. This is a day withouthout immigrants. Its an important day. Nt it started as Small Movement mov like so many things happen. Hpe started as Small Movement anden grew, and suddenly we realizedee this is something thats reallyl important for us as well. We wanted to be a head of it. I. We didnt want to show up and a have no staff. O im an immigrant, too, i am an immigrant, and as an immigrant,m i felt like i needed to stand in solidarity with my staff. Ta why did you feel that sot so personally . Whats happeninghae politically today that made youy want to do this because someause people are saying, hey, you know what, President Trump is pushing back against Illegal Immigrantsa and youre a legal ept grant. Al. Why do you care . Do y that rhetoric know during the election weelecn heard immigrants are rapists ana criminals and all of this, you know, that doesnt sit very well with many people. Peo it certainly does not sit well w with me. Me. Immigrants that i know arei kno people that are law abiding abi citizens. Tizens they have families. Ilies rooted here in the community and theyre not going anywhere. re we st tart talking people likeee that it gets very dangerous. And this late order he put out where all these legal immigrantg were standing in airports being unattended to, being lost, not n knowing where to go, we we understand these people have pel gone through tremendous hardmens ships to get here. To her and for to us just kind of say, okay, wait a minute, we have tow sort of get our act together act could be very dangerous andnd devastating to some peopleome because theyve saved their entiusre live just te o getth as here, and now theyre here, they cant wait at a four seasonsoure hotel while were making m decisions what to do. What to d so theyre lost. Hey l so its very upsetting when youn see n and then the raids. All these raids that people minds. We dont know where the raids r start and end, we dont knowonk what theyre looking for. Loo fr you dont know if youll be be brought into a net a group net g people you dont have anything a to do witch its very disturbinv time. Right. Have you had employees come to e you with fears andmp clooncerns . A lot of employs have hav expressed concerns becauses c particularly about the raids ani about things like that. Ike tha that i think are to lot ofoot people that come here, they comm from oppressive regimes, andegi, this just feels like a veryy oppressive way to do things. Thg there are better ways to do it. O there are better ways to improvp the way we do immigration. Igrati we need true immigration reformr where were not splitting upti mothers and daughters and husbands and wives, and familiel from their extended family andia have people wait ten to 20 yeary in order for them to get vettedv and be able to come here. Er thats not a good way to do w things. When you set up rules that arete ridiculous and very very ver complicated and difficult, people are going to break them. T thats the reality of human beings. Gs. Right. This has cost i was decentwas d amount of money. Are you paying them for the dayo they all have leave. Ha many of them have either sick s leave or theyre paid vacationdt or Something Like that. E tha theyre allowed to take thattoae today. And youre also i see put see some signs out in front of. O yes. Ou want p you want people to notice this. Eo to absolute. This is not a day that should gg without notice its an importani day for people to recognize that immigrants are all of us. Llf we are a country of immigrants. I came here in this country in 1966. And when i hear our president sit say make America Great againreat n1966 illegal for black person and white person to marry in tht state of virginia. The Civil Rights Act had justads passed. The voting right act had just js passed for to us say makeayak America Great again, i dont know what that again part is. Atr i think weve done a lot ofot o progress to come here and ier ad dont want to take that progress backwards. Andy shallal. Sha im sure by 8 00 oclock youlll have people bang and on the dooo waiting to come in. In and thats my j really to be at the door to sayy to people, this is why were why closing and weve had tremendoud amount of support im sot im appreciative of our community. Mu reporter okay. Ter thank you, end. , steve and allison, again, andy a is just one of those businessins owners taking part in thisg par today. Mel, im just curious lookino for clarification when it comes to this. To t if the employees are he saysy theyre taken care of in some s cases not getting paid maybe noe everybody wanted to take part in this. This. At the owners taking that decision to close down the restaurants or at the employeesn who said, theynts or d aidnt w here, they wanted the restaurans shut down today . Reporter well n andys and case he made the decision to go go ahead and close his restaurants, and give thoseho employees the day to participati in this. Inhis i suppose there may be somee individuals out there wherere w there are businesses perhapssesr that cant afford to close for f the day. The so from what weve heard fromead different businesses, some areee closing some locations and thost employees who dont have leavee or want to work can work at anothe theyre working to make accommodations. Odions another one said for thed for t employees that are not at work r the ones will be working decided they would pool their tips. Ir tp it seems like in many instancese is it sort of collaboration or o group dig to do it certainlyerta there could be employees and children here and there familiem who decide on their own to taket the day out. Thanks for the clarification. Mel annie down at bus boys and poets. Ets all right. All right. What you know good, Tucker Barnes . Not a lot. O. O. I do know about the weather. W cold temperatures. Utcold tempere wind chills right now in thein t 20s. Make sure you are ready for20 a february day. Ua d wont need the jacket as much mc this weeknd but youll want it w this weekend. This wnd. Thirtythree at reagan national. Dulles and baltimore 32 degrees. Wind chills out of the west anda north at tepp to 15 giving us wind chills in the teens and 2s 20s. Not sure these numbers will bere much above freezing later todayt as well still have breezes andd again good northwest flow going today. So wintry feel out there. He. Little bit of snow shower west. Close to damascus now you may encounter few flurries in the city most of our day will be oul partly sunny and temps in thepst low 40s. 4 wind chills in the 30s this thi afternoon. It will feel quite cool outl o there. Er seven day weekend forecast coming up momentarily. Ary. Erin, how is our geyser. Eyse geyser has been shut off. Hu o no more water flow. Flo so were just dealing withling leftover icy conditions in old n town Alexandria Park road at at king street use caution there. T wanted to show you this liveou i look at 50 issue. Earlier crash we were trackingek moved over to the left shoulders its still out there. Tre you can kind of see it in these distance there both lanes areota open. Were still backed up from the beltway toill 295. 2 but things definitely easing. E. Were just seeing heavy flow of traffic. Af outbound 50 really nice receiptp now. As we forward things along thelg inner loop as you make your wayy out through annandale this thi morning theres an accident ifid we can forward our camerasrdur c blocking the right shoulderight there involving a truck. T you can see traffic moving along okay just a little bit of stopfo and go traffic from thehe springfield interchange to 66ge your opinion across the legionn bridge as well. Well. Well take a look at our maps. M things are moving along just fine as you make your way out oo 66. Outer loop a crash at 202 landover road. Land so were seeing delays through t largo as you approach 50. Ac 5 and theres that red zone weede showed you on 50 inbound by 202 from that earlier crash. Sh for the rest of your thursdayrs morning commute dealing with usual congestion. Ngeson ninetyfive to Georgia Avenue. Ia a 20 minute slow down on the to side of the beltway. The beltway as you make your way in from f glenn echo were seeing delayshw on cabin john, clara barton and river road and then 395 jams upj a bit from the mixing bowl tol about the pentagon and thenn and things open up. 210 traffic lights are flashingh at Fort Washington so delays ar heavy through Fort Washingtonasn this morning in both directionsi have some patience there. E t well have more traffic in justo a few. Metro is on time except tour ex safetrack impacting the blue blu line. Line allison and stevely. Still ahead pushing back b last call. Well tell which you state wantw to change closing time from 2 00 late night. Nig neeble japan found a cool way to recycle their old cell phones. O what an opportunity it will beti for some. Youll understand when weu physical you the story. Ll uys itals 7 y 40. Heres why people in japanwh are donating old cell phonesy ps because theyll be recycled in to metals they can use for the t 2020 olympic games. The tokyo 2020 organizingizin committee hopes to gather as ghe much a8 outdated mobile phones and Small Appliances and then recycle that and turn them into medal. Med its the first time of its kinds for the olympics. Pics. Cool. Its a good idea, right. Idet right. The medals arent solid goldl any way. Ay. Right. Why not recycle. Get riffed your old phone,d o too. Win win. W win. New study found children with adhd have several brain regionss that are slightly smaller than usual. Now the study might provide proi clues for developing neww treatments. Doctors say if you know which wh region of the brain is involvede in adhd then doctors can possibly target that specificpei part with medication. The researchers add this is morm evidence that the disorder that should be considered a neurological condition. Dition. But those who want to partyt all night long iny california te states bar scene may soon soon accommodate your lifestyle. Le i was thinking this might beh something closer to home fome youre out in california go forr it. It it would let cities set theirete own last call times currentlynt last call in callie is 2 00 a. Mm call back as late as 4 00 a. M. In some areas. As. California is not real big on bo the late night bar scene. Scene i will say that. Ha really. Its not like new york where you can be out all night. Calilike nn befornia they donte that. Club at a nightclubs will but the bars rs thats the distinct. The stin yeah. Got it. G funny guy charlie day made md ada name for him is horrible bosses, its always sunny inny i philadelphia. Very funny guy. He teams up with v ice cube in new movie its called fistfightg charlie day sits down with ourio own Kevin Mccarthy coming up in the fox beat. The i hope he didnt pick a fight. Ht im guessing it will be a lot of talking in there, too. Oo they both like to talk. Theyre talkers . Theyre talkers. Yeah. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. 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. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years, we have received 6 times more awards than cable, including the jd power award for highest Customer Satisfaction r the fourth year in a row. Only fios has the fastest internet, on the most awarded network. Get this amazing offer 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. Were just about an hour and 12 minutes away from good day. Heres a look at our guest list for this tabhuouwarsy dak at oy. Kevin will sit down with charlie day. You know him from always sunny y in philadelphia. Philade now hes in new movie fistfight from ice cube. Ub we heard from ice cube the othet day. Today we get to hear fromro charlie day. Arlie. R and b singer anna lay had top 20 hit on the radio for months. H shes in the loft to perform her song roses. Well play fox5 feud. This morning our fox5 familyy takes on local family justus reached on the real family feudd so well see if we can match upu against them and im pretty surr the answer is no. Instead of well buzzers bze well have whistles. Whiles. Or clap our hands orr clur h something. Jump up and down and make noises cant wait. It wilfe today. Hasnt felt a whole lot likeotik winter for much of the winter. And looking forward this might i be the last day of wintry w february feel for quite awhile. Well be basking in the glory oo some early springtimeim temperatures here for theor weekend. Ekd. Current numbers lets see, we got 33 in washington. Hingto i was waiting for an update. Twentyeight in gaithersburg. Urg thirtytwo dulles. D no doubt about it. No d this morning. Those are your actual airlir temperatures wind chills arechie hanging out in the 20s for just about everybody. Bo thirtytwo leonardtown. Nardtown. Good morning. Good mning thirtyone in fredericksburg. Most everybody below freezing fe and thank you ive been gettingg tweets of light flurries even here in the city a flurry or tww has been seen or at least it waw thought to be a flurry. And you can see this is actualll lake effect snows kicking in ann weve got a very strong northwest flow. T flow. Enough to coat the ground in damascus thanks terry forry f letting me know and up near 81. 8 in fact in western maryland weaw had School Delays this morning as they got a couple inches. Es they do have winter weatherter t advisory out that. Advi you can see the lake is not frozen and you get those coldseh effect snows these streamersws s that were dealing with thish ts morning. Most of our day partly sunny,ny, cool, daytime lose in the lowhew 40s and wip chills in the 30s 3s today. Y. So make sure you bring yourng jacket if you head out thisf yoe morning. This is a weekend look. Loo warm front gets north of us anda were all systems go for aor couple of gorgeous days aroundro here. Im not sure well be perfectlyt sunny, but with temperatures 20 degrees above normal it willl certainly start to feel liketolk spring around here by saturday, sunday and for your holiday onio monday. Mond typically, president s day d weekend we talk aboutbo snowstorms. Not this year. T ear well be again looking att springtime temperatures. Rature right into next week. In nex all of next week looks temperatures above normal. Maybe near 70. Ar 7 i have an idea. Ave share. Shar since were working on president days we should a sd a president s day barbecue here. Ch i think thats a great idea. E dont you think thats ahiha wonderful plan. An. Yeah. You always say no to partiess and im always looking for partp unactually agreed this time. D ts thats exciting. s right now well take look ao traffic. Tr well switch over to our maps. Tr this water main break is underer control in old town alexandria. However, it was gushing water so were dealingr with a lot of slick spots. So. Park road remains closed right now for cleanup. Up even though traffic is getting i by on king street in old town, lot of water there could cause slick spots especially with with reduced temperatures even ins en that area seeing a lot ofrea seg icicles on the trees from the tm water that was gushing so high in thehe air. Ng so please use caution in old up to thats the motto that. T you can see slow traffic on callahan drive as well. Ell we may seeing additionaldditiona secondaries in that area witht h slick spots. Northbound 295 heavy volume frol the beltway to the 11th Street Bridge. E inner loop jams in the typicalc spot from branch avenue across u the wilson bridgee as you makeak your way through oxon hill. Route 1 heavier traffic thererat and 395 jammed from the beltwayy to the pentagon. Southbound 295 from 50 to the 5 11th Street Bridge i basically at a crawl. North at that point there ist ts some slow downs from the beltwal as you get into Riverdale Park and 50 inbound from about 410 to 295 still jammed earlier crash h by 202 at 50 inbound did clear. R new york avenue heavy by by bladensburg. Bladsbur suitland parkway inbound heavyea towards south capitol and then e the outer loop were dealingre g wi a shouter. Sh right by 202 and you can see s heavy delays on the outer loopuo through largo. Throug once you pass 50, they open up. U back to you guys. Thanks, erin. Kev, you hear this in your head at home. Hom i do when i go to sleep. I think about you guys, too. T y thats awesome. Before i get to my t interw package i want to show something because i have the excuse toxcuo show one of the coolest action o scenes of all time. T a reason for this. On forhis somebody tweeted you. Y. Just role this. Jus just role this for a second. Sec this is amazing. This monster is slapped by a a boat. Keep this in mine. Ke t look at this. T okay. Okay. Thats awesome. Some all right. That . I showing why . Why am i repeat wing it . I i dont know. t know. Hes dragging an boat and hes s slapping a monster with a boat. Okay. Im geeking out. An iym ways, you can stop rolli that now. Charlie day you might know himnw from its always sunny inwa sun philadelphia hes in pacific rim. Okay. Hes also filming pacific rir two but i sat down withim a different film. Ent film. They need a bigger boat. Need a i hope s bo. Hopeo. I hope he has a bigger boat inrn the new one. Ew. I like your jaws joke. Ok thank you. Thank you. We can just role that clip oneoe more time. Re time. I spoke to charlie day about hih new movie fistfight. Isight. In this film hes facing off against ice cube. Ice c you know him from its alwayslws sunny in philadelphia. Two teachers in the film ande fd theyre going to have a fistfight after school. R school. I spoke to charlie day about abo this particular movie workingori with ice cube and a particularll funny horse scene in the film. H. Watch this. First every allirst every all congratulations. Co thanks kev. Im a big fan of film makingn im wondering how the scene tne worked when youre being draggee by the horse and the paint was going off in your face. Are you on something . How doesd that work when youre filmingoui that moment . There was one take where a horse yank add stunt guy who who broke his rib into a like intoit whatever that was like a vent a whip him out. Ip hi out i couldnt believe it. Uldn oh my god. H god then theyre like youre not doing that. Li t. So instead were you a golf cart. Golf cart. [ laughter ][ lauger ] and so they dragged me by me golf cart down the hallway, and i think the paint the paint i think is me reacting as if im m being hit by paint. Ai we put it in in post. Os there might have been one actual exploding paint thing we added one. On im to the going to giveo anything away the scene is one of my favorite scenes in a longn time. It involves a young perp cursinc a lot. Thats all im going to say. Sa. Im wondering for people whenple they see this interview, thatewt scene in general, was thishi person really saying those wordr and was that persons parents onset while this person wasso ws saying this . Sahis . That person was saying thosee words. [ laughter ] as and that persons mother was there. Did it feel weird for you tot do that scene knowing. Wi. After 12 years of doing its always sunny in philadelphia, weve definitely done some stufe with kids where its a littleitl bit, you know, edgy in terms of lang yeah. So i was used to it but, yes, it did feel a little bit likeik hey, sorry about this. T mind if we get your daughter too say this . Say s . Obviously you worked on big action step pieces which iss ic awesome. Pacific rim, you know, is it sos different for you walking onset in regards to geeking out aboutt certain things im sure the sett are obviously much different. Fet what did it feel for to you walk on a set like pacific rim versus this. Is. The First Pacific rim the rie sets were huge and or 98 and crazy. Y. Theres one scene im runningenn from the monsters hes comes upp to me, like cars are going to bb flying over your head and i saii youre going to drop cars in. I. No that car is going to fly ovee your head. Ea so dont stop running or it will, um, it will crush you. You [ laughter ] really good impression. Mpreso thanks. Fortunately there were nolyno flying cars in this. Just one more time. T here we go. G look at this. Thi you had to wa i just want to keep watchingn it. Hes slapping him with a boat. A yeah. Y i mean that is the greatest action scene of allof l time. Time. Sorry. Pretty amazing. [ laughter ] it shows perspective. Ersp wow thats a huge pro bot. Oot for a full hour. L hour. I will say. Charlie day had a boat in i fistfight we know who would win. I can wait for pacific rimifc too. Hell be in that fistfight openn up friday that was the most addd segment ive ever done. On im sorry i had to roll thatll a clip for some reason. Im not going to pre purchase my tickets for pacific rim two. O ill let you watch it first. T f. I hope its a bigger boat. R a you get to review fistfightit tomorrow. Tomorrow morning and united kingdom. Morn a bunch of good movies comingd m out tomorrow. Ou thanks, kev. Kev 7 55. Lets check in with the one, tht only Tucker Barnes right afterht we do the facebook fan of then e day. My bad. This is young devon harley. Yay hey good looking. Like a young Tucker Barneskeb got his nats jersey on, cooll nats sunglasses. Glasse he watches fox5 every morning m with his mom monica before bor heading off to school. Soo hi monica to you as well. Hello. Today the big day for devon. Hes turning 13 years old. Old all right. Right. Teenager. Nage teenager now. T happy birthday, devon. We here at fox5 wish you the best day year live baseballasebl season coming up, springg training, whatever it is, haveae the best ever. Eve say hello to all your classmates for us. Fo make sure you study hard so one day we can watch you play forlay the nats. Tuck right there i think heh looking off saying i see a worlr series in the future. I hope he sees it this year. Im losing my patience. E. Thats a good picture. Cool one for us today. Wind chills 25 degrees what itst fee like out wind chills are ini the low to mid 30s throughoutou the day even light lake effect c snows reached the immediatechede washington area. So you might encountwaer a fewew snow showers or snow flurries early most of date partly sunnyy temps in the low 40s and we aree going to keep it cool today. Tay and then cold look at your weekend warmup. Temps in the 60s arounde saturday, sunday monday rightht into next week well keep it ra rolling. Tempe et get ready. Your yard is going to explode ee with beautiful flowers the nextn couple of weeks. Eeks right, erin . Yes, right. Wisdom martin walk in with an wt piece of pizza and im so distracted because it smells sme really good. Sorry to call you out. Isnt 95 northbound by fairfaxt county parkway moving alongin a fine. You can see the delays we hadad earlier easing about by stafforf dealing with little bit ofe bitf congestion lingering by 610 as0a we forward our cameras well dol a tour of the area. Area. As we approach 8 00 oclock nott seeing terrible conditions on cn our roads right now except foror 395 by the pentagon still jammee up towards the 14th street see bridge. Brid keep it to fox5. To fox5 back in just a few. Ew. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Ning. Im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. Ve thanks for joining us thisshi morning. 8 00 a. M. On this thursmoda, february 16th, 2017. 01 heres whats on the fox5 news5w morning menu. This was the scene ince i alexandria for more than twoia r hours. A water main break sending water shooting 100 feet in the air air turning everything it touched tt ice. Were live on the scene with the impact that its having on the morning rush. Plus a show of solidarity ast dozens of restaurants in the d. C. Area will be closed for a a day without immigrants. Mmig protest. Senator tim kaine will joinl us live in just minutes. Ines hell discuss the chaos playing out on capitol hill fromillfr confirmation hearings to repeal of Affordable Care act. Act also details about a metro billb that senator plans to introduce. And bon voyage boo boo d. C. Favorite panda one of them att least is leaving the nationalhel zoo and heading far east. Its whats every four years. I shall miss you bao bao. B on this thursday morning theg birds are flying. Not too bad. B 34 degrees on thursday morningy last chilly day before a big warmup starts to take shapeak se right in time for the weekend. Lets get a quick check onck traffic and weather. Traffic ande well start with youat tuck. Lake effect snow out therefe and wind chills in thect 20s. He2 so make sure you bring yourring jacket when you head out. Et wheo ill have all the details onu h todays forecast. Orec youll love the weekend forecast coming up. Up. Erin how are roads. Ds dealing with problems. Ith inner loop slow we have a crash blocking the shoulder by littlet river turnpik aside from that we are still atl tracking water main break scenes wrapping up icy conditionstions possible around king street andt old town. A look with your next look at lo traffic as well. In the news 8 00 sorry oneso developing right now, a russian intelligence ship continues towu travel along the east coast yout what spotted near connecticut. Nt Officials Say its about 30 miles from u. S. Naval basena there but it is still considered to be in international waters. Spokesperson for the defenseefen accept says the ship has notot entered u. S. Territory in the te water and they quote respectpect freedom of navigation, exercisee by all nations. Thats the official word. The ship is believed to be on its way to the crib bow yann. The the white housese declining to comment on possibll row mace many force labore labor secretary after president etary f trumps nominee Andrew Puzder withdrew his name the decision came among growing scepticismcec from republicans he could not bb confirm. Fast food executive faced criticism by democrats forts for allegedl workers and opposing minimum wage hikes, domestic a bus allegation from his exwife hadh also surfaced. Faced. She later retracted those claimc of claims. Of clas. Now, even though he fired hr National Security adviser Michael Flynn, president donaldr trump says that general flynn is a quote wonderful man who was treated very very unfairly by the media. Flynn was fired after reports that he discussed sanctions witt the russian ambassadorio to the United States before president or trump was sworn into office. Ff white house spokesman sean s spicer said tuesday that generar nine had lost the president s trust. Ust president going after thosee who have leaked information toei the press describing it as a criminal act. So lets continue talkingonu about politics right now. Liti rg well turn to congress some maym aerugo the current session isur off to rocky start for spats foa over president ial appointees to diss manned link the Affordable Care act and serious questions about National Security. D linkns anotheecrur issue to tackle affc commuters right here in the dcc area that is metro. So lets get right it to. Ht joins us live from capitol hill. Always good to talk to you. Ood o lets talk, first, we just mentioned good morning. We just mentioned about thebe russian spy ship and we talk sot much about these intelligence leaks. Le im curious what you know and ad your opinion on how much intelcl should be shared, should thed president in fact know everything . Evything . Um, steve im on the armedhem services and Foreign Relations committees and it is absolutelyy imperative that congress carryer forward on this investigation into ties between the trump campaign, the trump tmp administration and the russian government. Rn. General done forward the head of the joint chiefs of staff has said russia is the anniversary a we should most be concerned cced about in the world because ofldf their military capacity. And because of their intent ass evidenced by their cyber hacking u. S. President ial election and in the presence of this spy shih up off the coast of thef the connecticut not because theyreo our friend. T because theyreour fr an adversd that was why it was appropriateo now, ive seen reports aboutbout some intel agencies worrying woy about sharing information withim the white house. Hou it is possible that generalen flynns resignation will clearic up that concern. General flynn lost security surt clearance with one of the intelt agencies where he currently usee to work within the last 24 hours. Ho and maybe the fact that hes now out of the white house will houe eliminate that problem. But this this set of connections with a government that is an adversary is deeply y troubling, and weve got to gett to the bottom of it. If in fact theres some typep of break down between the Intelligence Community and the president what does that do forf what happens for those of in yo congress now to make sure thatke the right information gets tot the rightinfo people . Well, this is something were going to have to dig into againa it may be that the resignation of general flynn will open upn u more flow of information. Orti i have only seen published reports about inn agent seas to shareeas s information with the whiteationi house. Te you can be sure that the Intelligence Committee where myw colleague senator warner is the chief democrat and the armedhe d services and Foreign Relations t committees where i sit wellit w take this very seriously an were digging into the russian contacts as well as is there a, you know, an appropriate flow oo information from intelligencente agencies to the white house anda togrongress. Im curious, senator, on a o slightly different topic here, r based on what weve seen in thes last month coming out of theomhe white house, based on what weve seen in the last month comingth out oflast m capitol hill, whats changed as far as the dye dayhey life of a member of congressgres now . Whats different from itit was in the past for you just ono a day to day working standpoint . You know ill tell you, y, steve, and this will seemleem obvious when i say it, but itwhi kind of surprised me. Me. In my first four years in the senate, overwhelmingly calls into night office were peoplee l who were concerned about thingsi president obama was doing. Into my office are from peopleeo who are concerned about thingsbi President Trump is doing. Is doig and theyre very different groups of people. So, um, you know, it was one set of folks were concerned for theo first four years and now a and n completely different set ofet o folks are concerned. Rned have the yum of calls into our office about things has gone upp in some instances eight or nine times over what was the volume l we were used to just two orr three months ago. Especially around some of themef nominees. Not all of them but some of them especially. The russian cyber hacking of tht american president ial election e and then thing that i think is s the biggest that you mentioned i the effort to repeal thel Affordable Care act. So many virginians are telling i me that would be an absoluteute disaster. Fix it, improve it, repair it dont repeal it in way thatay ta would cause 30 million peoplee the combined populations of 19li states to lose health insurancen i want to switch ar bring it a little more local a l right now, senator, because obviously your constituents in i virginia need to get to work. Oor the folks in maryland and d. C. Absolutely. Lot of them rely on metroelyt right now. Its a tricky situation becausen we have multiple wheels ins i motion here because we have places like alexandria andndriaa places like Loudoun County whony are being hit now with more cosc expenditures perhaps theyerha te expected coming from metro. M we have federal officials and fta saying well with hold fundn right now. It doesnt seem like everybody e is on the same page here. Er so what can we do to makee everybody play nice together . Well, there is pressure on tn make sure that we are improvingg the safety so that all users can feel completely comfortable witt metro. Now, ill give the gm paulm wiedefeld credit. Credit. I think he came into a very difficult situation where thetit system had not been managed well either by the board or o management. Ge and he has really taken it by the horns and done a lot of a l things in the safety space somes which o to rider nos doubt. Nou he says safety comes first. Es ft when the fta announced they werr going to start to with holdh h funds over safety that was veryr unfortunate. That hurts the system but theyut are sending the same message mea that safety comes first. First so my virginia and maryland mard colleagues weve introduced anta Metro Safety Commission bill. N l weve work it out carefully with dc, virginia and maryland, andnd were simultaneously introducinu legislation in the district inic both states and in congress too set up a Safety Commission that can oversee the safety of the ot system. Hould give ftas some comfort that were takingrt this seriously and hopefully that hold on funds can be released sooner rather thanerha later. Late i want to wrap things uprap i senator with a bit of historicaa note right now i know thatha youre work wig colleagues inols have a is right now when we gogw down to the Hampton Roads areaoe and talk about history w it comes to places like pointe poi comfort a history that may bestm lost quiet frankly on so many virginians and so many amer americans. Im really excited about this, ste reallve. Im introducing a bill with bilw colleagues in the senate and house to have a federal commission to celebrate 400te years of african and africanamerican history in thin country. The first africans who came int the english colonies captured portuguese slave ship andnd brought ashore at point comfortf fort monroe in hamp, virginia in 1619. 1619 congress had a commission toiont commemorate the english routesou of the United States, the 400th anniversary of jamesam town. Congress char the a commissionos to celebrate the spanish routese in the United States 450th of saint augustine, florida. Rida if english history and lives matter if spanish roots and rooa lives matter, then african roots matter, too. Too. And we ought to be putting thene federal commission together that can prepare hedge occasional materials in advance of 2019 so1 we can celebrate four centuriess of the contributions o africanameric country. 400 years coming up right it i wasnt rot corner in 2019. Senator, thanks for joining usni as always. Lway appreciate it. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Great to be with you guys. Senator tim kaine fromto b te virginia. 8 10 right now. Now. Theres new information thiss morning about a gang related rat Murder Investigation of a 15yearold did he marius reyess rivas who went missing from gaithersburg. Rsburg its being linked to three t t missing cases of missing girls and one of those girls was found sadly dead in Prince William county. They have seen up tick in tick i violence from the ms13 gang in1n our area in the past two years. A he says 18 and 19yearolds inli high schoolwork to recruit younger students to help themp t carry out crimes because theyre aware changes charges arehaes less serious for juveniles. Mcps is not immune to gang proactive activity and weve been proactive to make sure weur are prepared and that we are keeping our schools as safe as possible. Poible we take plenty of steps to keepp our students and our communities safe. Total of ten people chargeded in connection with the death of reyes rivas. Several d. C. Restaurants sen to close their doors to to honoh whats being called a dayd without immigrants. Ignts. The movement calls forvemels for immigrants to not go to work tor today and protest president nt trumpS Immigration policies. S. Fox5 notice of about 600 restaurants that will either beb closed altogether, wont servee food, or will have limited menu. In addition the lamb publicbubli Charter School in the district will be closed today becauseed u staff and students are alsoe al taking part. Par coming up at 8 30 reaction fromo one d. C. Restaurant owner whoer opted to close his business bins today as a result. Esul still ahead this morninghi m were live from the national zoo where unfortunately the tear the drops will be following as wee begin to bid farewell to beloved baobae. From car to chopped the worldor fosses first flying car is ready for the public. Wait until you see the priceic. E tag. 8 12. This. Is. Everything. Honey bunches of oats. Its crispy sweetened flakes, plus crunchy granola clusters, plus a touch of honey. Its like adding up awesome, plus aweyeah. Its the sum of the best of the best in a cereal. Honey bunches of oats. [ alarm clock beeping ] weather. [ laughter ] cartoons. Wait for it. [ cat screech ] [ laughter ] [ screaming ] [ laughter ] make everyday awesome with the power of xfinity x1. Hi grandma and the fastest internet. [ girl screaming ] [ laughter ] hersheys miniatures. We pour em we pass em we pick em delicious fun for everyone. Hersheys miniatures are mine, yours, our chocolate. All righty. 8 15 tuck. Cuteness. You know it. Lets do it. Time now for my first photo of the day. Hi there. We got landon. It says be my valentine. Thats so sweet. Says bhat all right it. L righ landon is four years old and a this is his adorable valentinee day card he handed out to hiso h classmates earlier thi look at his shirt. Hi so cute. So ce. The curls get the girls. Ls gg do you see what they did the there, al. Th whats that. Wts th they took the picture and pup a hole in his hand to put a lollipop in there. Op in the handing them out to people. Oute thats so awesome. Asome been around for 50 years 50 s thats the best thing ive ever seen. Cool shirt. That is the coolest way tot give a valentine. Ti landon, we love it. Love love it. Take tip from you. Y somebody scored major pointss at school that day. That d. Yeah, did he. Steel that idea if youreideu still in grade school. Ill in that is awesome. Gras awsome right. Ig to send us your childs picture go to our Facebook Page fox5 fo5 d. C. And zen it in. If youre as cute as landon ala youll be on air soon. Soo im getting tweets. Tweets. Thank you my friends from forte washington who are sayingonho a theyre getting light flurries s got a tweet from reston, virginia, light flurries as as well. Well little bit of lake effect snoww has made it as far south and eve as our immediate area here. Rea h not expecting any accumulationso but something to talk about. A thirtyfour at reagan dulles 31 and freezing inez baltimore. Wind chills in the teens and 20s. Definitely jacket today will bel needed as our daytime highs airr temperatures will be in the lowl 40s but wind chills will behillb hanging out in the 30s for muchc of the day and if you look y l carefully there at they there ae satellite radar you can see that sort of northwestdar flow. F see the flow off the lakes and d the lakes are not frozen this ti year. Year and were still getting lakeake effect snows there. No there thats been giving parts of ouro area particularly westerneste maryland a light coating oftingo snow. All right. For us, generally partly sunnyun today. Toy. Low 40s. Billing warmup this weekend. Wed ill show it to you. Y im just going for it. For it. Do it. T. Saturday, sunday, monday looks fantastic. And tuesday and wednesday. Ill get the car washed. Uesdayd. Honestly right into the following weekend if you reallyy want to go distance we may hit y 70 by the end of next week. T we. Nice. Why are you so good to us,reu tucker s. Tuer. Umhmm. Hes so good to us. Es ood ill take it. ll ke i umhmm. That sound great. Thank u you t. 8 17 right now. Now keeping an eye on our roads watching tucker glide on outlid from the desk. From the d water main break this is under r control gushing water for overtr two hours in old town Alexandria Park road still closed. Cse king street traffic in old townw could be affected as some of your secondaries including incli callahan drive and thatst because so much gushing water w that the branches of the trees s because it was gushing about 10f and slick conditions on theick roads even though king street io passible, please use caution asa you make your way around oldun o town this morning. Town this for the rest of your thursdayrsy morning commute we have lot ofm delays includinglo in your opini branch avenue to the wilson aveo bridge. Br. 395 from south of the mixingix bowl to the pentagon. Ntan. Lets take live look outside ata some of our cameras this is as i crash blocking the right r shoulder the outer loop as you u make your way across the legiong bridge youll hit that crashha a seen heavier traffic from tysonm up to the bridge as well. Well. Aside from as we forward ourrd o cameras again show what else whs youre facing on the roads this morning. We went black i swear to youweau theres more traffic out there than what im showing you righti now. Well go back to our maps in ma that case. Th metro right now is on time. Te. Except for impacting blue line. Skip the roads and keep it to rd the rails. Back to you guys. To yoys. Erin, thanks very. Nks very. Thanks to contractors quick q instinct he may have saved app owls life. Owls life. Look at the little owl. Wl michael of arizona working on house look at the owls facec this is a meme in the making. Kin you know it. Eed to captureap for your morning meme. Ng mem that face, too. Ace, too. Okay. Im sorry. Im sorry. Thats all right. T that is so cute. Little owl was on the garage floor when he went to pick it he noticed the owl was sick orwas o injured. In the owl went to the animalimal rescue center and guess what,ene thr e owlan is now okay. Y nice move on the contractoro part. Too act little time out of thet work day. Make sure the owl got better. Gt look at him. Him is that little face is sos so expressive. Expres its like a baby when you try tt get something out of theiring te mouth. So cute. All right. Of cute little babies,s, all we have to do rewind a few years to go back to bao bao as a baby and we have to say goodbyee to one of dcs most belovedoved animals. Als. He stole our hearts over theea years but now bao bao has to go to new home. He. Thousands of miles away. Ay. Bob barnard is live at the a t national zoo. We center bob bob for bao baos goodbye. By hello. Reporter yeah, hey there, he guys. You see her. U shes just walking away she wass down here up front up on ton ofo the hill there. Having some bamboo for breakfasr and shes just walking out of ot our shot there. R shot there i dont know if you can seef yon through panda cam one which thet folks here at the national zoolo say will be trained on bao bao through february 20th. Ruary. She leaves next tuesday on a special Panda Express fed exx flight its too bad shes left t our view here from the viewing area. Area. Shes three and a half years. Ana will turn four in august andugua under a deal with the chinesese government, she has to go back. Shell be flown on a special fef ex flight leaves next tuesday aa 1 30 in the afternoon. But we still have bei bei her hr little brother and actually we can see her now. I dont know if you can see herw through. She locks like shes coming bacc here. Big goings on until next week. Ee in fact this morning, from 10 0t embassy of china will be givingn out homemade dumplings here at the zoo in honor of bao bao. The zoo folks will have postlavs cards that visitors can signn that will be sent back to chinese with bao bao i think yoy can see now we can see her facef as she is continuing breakfast. T there are snow flurries fallingg here at national zoo. L zoo. So a lot going on, and the factc that if you cant get here toeth say goodbye, you can log on to t the National Zoos panda cam one straight through monday and youll be able to watch herer 20 7. 20 so its a sad ending to three th and a half year love affaireff almost a four year love affair f bao bao was born on august 23rd of 2013. 201 shes almost four. R. Her big brother tyshawn was the last panda born here to bee accept back to china back in and of course some day bei bei i will have to go back. B he was born last august. Ugus so well say goodbye for now as you check out bao bao having hin some bamboo live here at the national zoo. Z adorable sight. Ht thank in guess still three othee giant pandas who will remainilrn here at the national zoo for zoo some time, guys. Guy breakfast time here at theere e national zoo. Zoo so cute. That is really cute. Cuis reat i think this is a good timeot for us to leave this picture upu as we go to break right now. Ht we cant get much cuter thanr th that, can we, al . Well see ine you a second. Son z29kvz zstz y29kvy ysty z2a0gz zi0z y2a0gy yi0y z29ksz zstz y29ksy ysty bao bao came back in. In. We cant quit her. Shes just chilling eating en her breakfast. Fa. She makes me want to eat bambooo isnt that crazy. Power of suggestion. I would go to lunch wit oh hr for sure. R s i dont know if id eat off thet same menu. Id definitely sit here and d watch her eat. Eat. Were celebrating our babyngb girl as shes about to head to o chin in a. Its an agreement we have. H we only have them for while. Hi now its time to say goodbye. Tomorrow starts weekend of goodbye festivities buy buy. B few snowflakes. S well check in with tuck in juss second. Before we do so, you can orderad the worlds first flying caring that is commercially approved now. A Dutch Company called pal v is accepting pre orders for the liberty model which looks like a helicopter on three wheels. Whe kind of part motorcycle, part pt helicopter. Er takes about ten minutes toinuto transform from car to copter. Tt if you want to buy it i hope yoo have the money because werese looking at costs between 400 and 600,000. You have to p00ut down non refundable 10,000 deposit now. Hopefully theres a guarantee. Hopefully they make it. If you can afford that, maybe 10,000 isnt that, you know, ullyaffoyo important to you. Rtant ou. Who knows where you couldws w even legally drive, fly it, we w shall see. See. We saw the snowflakes outkeo there this morning. Orni. Thats not all were about toutt learn its time to go to ring the bell gone to weather school. Class is in session. Si class is in session. Mr. Chenevey, ive not yetot y received your homework from laso evening. Ev where is the music. Mi i got allisons but i did not have yours. You teacher you look great for yu you and i have an app lle for y. A plus for allison. Ison. Because she sits in the front row. W [ laughter ][ steve it works every time. You two can bring me an apple. Sunshine today. Oday some later this afternoon. S afte clouds to start your day. To st i cant seare anything with thee classes. B. Winds are back. And 3wi0nd in the 20s todays. That will get a d. Wilt a afternoon temps a c. Paddle board yoga this erins e idea not recommended today. Tod thats d. Overall your grade a c. C we have snow flurries out therer right now. Righ not going get accumulation butu it sure is pretty. Retty. Thats a look at your weatherthr report card. Ard queue my music. Eue myic. Im hot for teacher thanks, teach. Ill clean the blackboardboad later. Anything for extra credit. Redit. You suck up at the beginning you suck up at the end. Ck up he at least youre consistent. Sten. Getting paid to drive youri could get rich around here. Aroe up next which drivers may bey thats paying you to be behind n the wheel. El a local Restaurant Owner responding to critics of todayy day without immigrants what he h says to people who point outut differences between legal and ad and Illegal Immigrants. Its 8 27. She doesnt want to go, steve. Shes trying to escape. No, no, dont say it. Im tellingt o, yous to, n. I think between rusty and oliver and bao bao there might little collusion going on here. They know the way. Th shes an acrobat. Now would you think that tha right. Would you think that that limbhb could, good bob is that reals r bao bao or a stunt panda. An be honest . Hont . No, thats the real bao bao. I think she climbed up there to scratch an itch. Tcch she was rubbing her back side od one of those branches and itt looks timelike shes got her h foot caught but this is this i something she does all the time. No need to worry. Wor i dont think shes going toth fall. In but shes just climbed up there and was scratching her back andd taking a look around from a a higher perch. Per. Aww. Shes, um, up and at themhe this morning. Th weve been watching her havinghg breakfast this is bao bao whoho leaves next tuesday to go back b to china, and starting today through tuesday the national zoa holding all kinds of events tost say byebye to bao bao and shes just perched up there saying is just going to entertain the troops here who are takingg pictures down alongside of you. O dog gone it shes going toheg make me go to the zoo i thoughtt i was going to be satisfied witi bob, tucker says in the 60ss6 this weekend. This w i think the zoo wileel be very busy place. Busy p reporter i think she like tk the cold and its been snowing a little bit this morning. Ni shes happy witness cold buttnet shell entertain in the sun asta well. Well just about the cutest thing. H if you cant get enough go to our website face bock page iage shall say we are streaming theme panda cam life. Bob, thanks. Nk bao bao thanks. Bao o th back to news 8 32. The day without immigrantsmmrant protest will likely impact dozet of businesses in our area. A its in reaction to the president S Immigration policiel as many as 60 restaurants or more will close, stop serving si food or have limited menu inenui support of immigrant workers. Supporter of the movement sa its goal to high lie the impact that such workers have on ao hi rkdailery basis, some critics sy its missing the point of the president s policies and thatnda would be a loss for them to shuu down. Thats all. Im not sure what kinddo of point of point theyre trying to make whenehe theyll be the ones losing outig on money unless they are Illegal Immigrants. Brows says immigrants are not s primoblem. Pr it is about Illegal Immigrants. S this only hurts the legal hardworking immigrants thatmm will not be getting paid that day. Yeah. Yea invite to you continue to shareo your opinion. G. Lanie, good mornin reporter good morning, mni ys. S. Bus boys and poets one of thoset making a very public and vocal l stance. You can see the sign here on th door people coming up a few of w them surprised seeing that it it closed this morning. Thiing. We talk with owner Andy Shallall you can also see along the t storefront here hes printed upp signs. Si he says that this is not justus about Illegal Immigrants, but b that legal immigrants are kindd of getting grouped into the harsh actions and tones that seems to be coming from the and administration. St the executive order travel banve he mentioned that. A lot of legal green car holders got caught in the nett and immigration raids. Ai shallal saying together all ofan this is leading to genuine feeling of uncertainty and feara among those who are here legal legally. A lot of mose have expressede some concerns because particularly about the raids ant about things like that that i i think are to a lot of people that come here they come fromm oppressive regimes and this jusj feels like a very oppressive wav to do things, you know, there are better ways to do it. Tters there are better ways to improvp the way we do immigration. Reporter and shallalhall saying himself hes an immigrana arc proud immigrant and really this is way for the restaurantsn who are being vocal about this t that this is award them to t really show immigrants have a large contribution to u. S. Butios society and also to the economyo many restaurants are lettingetng their employees off for the day with pay. P. Others are saying those who wiso to not work today are alloweded to. To. Other which is come to work. Icis some restaurants are havingg their employees themselves areea pulling together their tips fors the day to help out those whohoe are not coming to work today. So there really is a collective decisionmaking process these different restaurants andd groups choosing to participate in toshiins. Hi were also understanding that ta there are at least one school in d. C. Its closing down today. So its folks can participate ini this. Is it is the latin called the t lamb store latin american mon ii he sorey bilingual charter crt school. Its closed today. Dc pubitlic schools letting the principals know that there could be other student bodies affectee by this as well and remindingdi principles that they are save a place and a place of inclusiveness. So it really is, you know, outut of 2000 sand restaurants here ii d. C. , its probably not going tt be a huge impact. Ac seeing lots of places that aret still open, but this is a way wy for these people who rely veryyv much on immigrant labor to makem their voices heard. Voic back to you guys. I hope they can hear us. U they can now. Hen no okay. Would you like to get paid to drive . Well, we know of a job j just for Virginia Tech transportationa institute is looking for drivere of luxury vehicles in northernn virginia to participate in yeary long study that may contributetr to the understanding of the useg of future vehicle technology. So you get paid more than theee thousand dollars to drive your luxury car. Really . How do we get morem info. I dont know. Question. Ueio okay. I know where we dont get it. E. From tucker because hes gots g weather to talk about. Atr good morning, tuck. Okay. Okay. Reagan national that soundst good, sign me up, steve. , signu 33 in washington. N. Dulles, bwi marshall belowl be freezing here. H were getting snow flurries,rri, light snow showers workingorking through the city. Thank you im getting loth s ofs tweets of photos of flurries and light snow just saw it down atow the national zoo with bao baoo and a little more here just to the west of 270 as you get upet towards frederick. Deck. Bottom line we can have few snow showers in the forecast first half of the day. I dont think it will amount toa much. A few spots coating the ground d but that will be about it andil then well be partly sunny,un blustery and cool this with daytime highs in the low to mid 40s. 4 and wind chills in the 30 asas chilly afternoon. Noon big warmup this weekend illeeki have details on that coming youy most of your day partly sunnyny chilly and breezy with wind witi chills in the 30s. E 30s. Look at the winds northwest ates 30. Erin is back with more roads. Ra 8 37 right now. 7 righ keeping our eyes on the roads ws do have new problems and oldemso problems tracking outer loop neo crash before the legion bridgeni left lane is blocked so as you a come down 270 spur youll hit to big slow down causing delays onn clara barton cabin john, river v road inbound and gw parkway pkw inbound slows from the beltwayey as well. Inner loop jammed um from tysonn to the American Legion bridge. G outer loop very slow from 95m 95 over to Georgia Avenue as usualu on the in your opinion also shrug through kensington. Ngton 95 southbound from the icc a bia of stop and go traffic and bw parkway southbound by powderby d mill a little jammed up. 270 southbound slows a bit through gaithersburg down toow rockville few extra momentsxtram needed there and then 66he eastbound heavy volume from 2344 to 2 and that kind of continuesones passed vienna metro station this morning. Metro doing nicely except for safetrack surge 12 impacting thg blue line. Blue this water break water gushingas over 100 feet in the air forir f over two hours has wrapped up wp but cleanup still underway. Park road still closed. D use caution on king street andit surrounding secondaries. Ecdari slick conditions from thatcond earlier water main break in oldd town. Back to you allison and steve. Te i have more informationore because i think that perked ahae lot of peoples ears up. Up. Got my attention. Ttenon Virginia Tech Transportation Institute so you can go to theme on facebook or what have you ana find out theyre very specificfc about the kind of cars, what yoy need to do, what roads you drive. Gotcha. 495 is included. So folks around here could dd it. Northern virginia. Virginia tech transportation initutete. Theres ingredient 3,500 you can get paid. Bonus. Bonus theres ingredient you mighn have in your kitchengr that coul c do more than just help withelw pretty muching. Some say it can replace your deodorant, toothpaste, makeup,pk beauty products. Ty pro help you lose weight. W and youll want to stay tunet for this coming you much lose weight. We okay. Well wait a minute. Dr. Rose with us after the break. Se w break. 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. Just a trek through thea tr frozen tundra. She knows . Kws because i look. Panda cam every day. D she is so super active and extra adorable. Orle im bob barnard made a greate point. Look how little snow wineve had this season. Is you think its the snow. Hink when woodley park gets snowss and cold conditions thats whata shes used to as a panda. You know, bob is down there witw her and he seems to think shess just enjoying the weather wea conditions to be honest. O be he. I love it if you think aboutt how tucker would act if he washw out in snow. Out sno hed be doing a little tumble,u, too. Too. Look at her. Lk at h aww. Okay. Aww. Now youre just really rea hurt us. Dont show anything else,th s steve, keep it on here. Your boyfriend you know y knw youre breaking up and theyre extra sweet at the end and the e theyre moving to china. E movi youll miss me. lss m exactly. Now she is going to do littl run around. Run nd. Shes going back to the top off the lift line. Ine [ laughter ] shes going to go to the topt of the lift line and roll backob down the hill again. My gosh. Watch this. She loves the about. Little snow bunny. I mean thats awesome. Littl at cutesst thing. Aww. All right. So we have a choice we have to ith cho wisdom wdolk w and hold toll filed out whats s coming outpatient good day canac we leave this at the bottom of f the screen so we can still watct her play while we talk to them. O lets do it. s dit hopefully we can do that. Ly we dont want to see w us. In the entire time that thatt panda has been alive ive neverv seen it be that active. Ctive me either. In just those few minutes. In. That it is amazing. T ama you get what you ask for. Or there you go. T listen to us watch bao bao. Think about panda while telll you this. U jam packed good day on thisd dai thursday. Ay all new at 9a it may lookoo like ak simple shoe pad but it could help you next time your yr cell phone ties the creator ofor this hot start up is live with h us. Week of love continues with t one unbelievable story. E story meet a couple who has beenee married almost 70 years. Wow 70 years much thats a longmu time. Ch whats their secret. I cant wait to fine ohauttt lets roll that good day guestst folks. Lk in just a few minutes kevin sits down with actor charlie day. Ie y he stars in the new movie fistfight with ice cube. Later on good day d. C. R and b singer anhlae. A thumbs up. Anna lay she refers to go by anna lay. Heres what you need to know. Shes had a top 20 hit on thenhe radio for months and thishi morning shes life in the lofthe to perform her hit song roses. S and its time to play the fox5 feud. Eu this morning our fox5 familyl takes on local family who just t featured on the hit game showho and guess who is the host . Ht . Thats right. With your host wisdom martin. N i thought it was wisdomwas wo rvey. Y. Was that your best steve harvey. Hes got more money. Listen, and of course, welll continue to try to show off baob bao as much as we can from 9 00 to 11 00. Our time with her is limited gig day d. C. Just a few minutes the cutest panda ive ever seen. At dominion, were putting our energy to work creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Did you know 90 of couples disagree on mattress firmness . Fortunately theres a bed where you both get what you want every night. Enter sleep number and the ultimate sleep number event, Sleepiq Technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. For 5 days only, save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed. Plus 24month financing. Go to sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Oh, my goodness. O let me hear her chew. H c let me hear it. Right here . I cannot hear here chew. Our producer said you could d there it is. Ther there it is. [ laughter ] she is loving life today. Od ive been saying she doesnt d maybe shes excited about thetet trip and thats why shes so, se you know yo maybe shes just being realla cool to everybody in d. C. And saying, look, just because imse leaving im not going to run and hide much this isnt the end off a bad relationship or break up. K im going put myself out therere to give everybody their bestir view. View. What makes her so makeher what i can do good what makes her so cute really big head . The distinct markings . What dot we think it is. T is i think its the markings ann the face. Face. Feable i think its the actions too. Ao because she looks like a livingn teddy bear. Ea she really does, bob. Ob not just that its the playful nature, too. E, you see her rolling down the hill and playing in the trees. Et bob, this is a amazing just being a kid. Just bei i think thats what it ikids, b. Amazing vantage point. Ge poit holly was just confirminging whoever seen bao bao like active . Reporter i dont know if kno it was the snow flurries or shes got a smaller audience of faithful fans down here watchinh her this morning. Heng but, yeah, ive never seen anyea of them. Her parents are next door with w dad is in the next area down. Dw shes here by herself, and shee just having a ball. Ive never seen any of they of pandas with my own eyes doing somersaults and scratching her h back up a tree, you know, shes just shes loving life itg ft seems right now. Aww were loving her rightig back. Ba thanks for being down there. Here we are blessed to have her and like bob said blessed evensd when she leaves early next week were blessed to have threebles other china pandasse here in he washington. Shington. Hopefully well get that energyg level up too. I know wed love to have hav four. Three is pretty good. Tty god the baby. The little one. One speaking of numbers, well wl have to wait for your forecastos not three or four seconds but a full ten seconds. All right. Heres my take on this. I think arent they native ty the mountains of chin yeah. Im sure its weather relatede t ill bet the cooler weather ther get more active. Ge like me in the summertime. Rtm more active. M i went to visit her in the vr summertime. She barely movedsu. Right. It makes sense. Makesen all right. Llig feeling like february out theree you may if you lock carefully in that live shot see a few snowflakes. We had snowflakes down at the ze you can see them. Real light. Real l 33 in washington. Ton. Everybody cold to start the dayo it wldill feel like februarye f today, as well have wind chilld in the 20s and low 30s for muchm of the day eventual daytimel d highs only in the low 40s. 4 feel like im being out shined d big time here by the panda. Me he all right. Heres a look at your ill i get out of the of your way. Yourw Storm Tracker radar lookadar l carefully we have snow showerseo working down 270 right throughir the district and then off to tht south and east into princein georges and Charles County cout there, and this will continueilc for a few more hours. Hrs not going to be a snowy day herr but we are going to have lightoh though snow showers and snow s flurries for the next couple ofo hourups. This is all compliment of the great lakes which havent froze this year and you can really see the lakes into northwestwest pennsylvania and then stretching down into western maryland andyd into our immediate as well. Partly sunny day. Ay springtime on the way we gety wg warm front north of us, guesss, what . The the 60s are back anc in a big way. Ig saturday, sunday, monday, bonus temperatures 20 plus degrees d above normal, and a very quietet weather pattern for the weekendd we will have clouds around thiss weekend. Eken i dont want promise full f sunshine lots of bonus b temperatures talking about daffodils and forsythia here ini no time with temperatures wellts above normal into next week. To. 43 this afternoon. N all right. That bamboo looks good. Boo oks d im going to get some. S steve and allison back to youk y guys. Were talking with dr. Roo getting prepped for our little l experiment well do here. Rint w shes the expert. Expert. Allison, that you know. At of course. Youve heard of olive oil, vegetable oil, avocado oil, coconut oil. O i know youve heard of it. D i we know abo know its an edible oil extractt the from the colonel of mature cocoa nuts and gaining popularity because of itslaty b multitude of Health Benefits as many people try to live a l healthier lifestyle. Ty you can use it as toothpaste,st, furniture polish, deodorant,h, o make up remover and much more. Americas nutrition coach did ro ravine in a brock we call here l doctor ro is here with to us wio show you end he is ways that you can use coconutt oil. O good morning. Orning coconut oil. Oconutil isnt that this fantastic. Apparently were here toentl learn from you. He ive got an assortment ofsson things we can do with coconutoc oil. Why dont we start witness eggsg all right. 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