Two teachers im demanding answers. Why and how long did it take for them to realize he was suffocating and he wasnt breathing. Sterling is very loving. Hes very energetic. He loved playing with his brother, cousins. Hes a normal, a normal threeyearold. He was just my niece baby shower, he ate meatballs there, how big are these meatballs are that theyre claiming he choked on . And why are they feeding children and not watching them to make sure. Reporter now, fox 5 did receive a statement from the labor departments Child Development center, which reads, quote were shocked sad end as we grief the sudden death of one of our children, while eating lunch, the child showed difficulty breathing. We immediately called 911 and performed heimlich and cpr, the child was transported to Childrens Hospital per medics and passed away. Our hearts go out to the family. We do not know the cause of death but are fully cooperating with authorities following this tragic loss. Its unclear right now the status of those two teachers that were involved but fox 5 has learned that the staff at the center is required by law to be trained in both the heimlich maneuver and cpr, also required to have one teacher for every ten students. In this case, it appears there were two teachers supervising 13 students. For now, the case remains under investigation by both local and federal Law Enforcement. Live in northwest, Anjali Hemphill fox 5 local news. 4 32 is the switch gears and talk politics. And trump transition. President elect donald trump for secretary of Education Betsy Devos took her turn in the hot seat at her confirmation hearing. During the hearing, she seemed not to know much about the individuals disability act which provides Public Schools governor how states and public agencies provide services. During the hearing she told senators she locked forward to working with them to improve the nations schools the answer is local control and listening to parents, teachers. Three decades i was involved in education as an advocate for children and voice for parents. Betsy devos looking for decades to expand charter schools. A maryland democrat congressman says he will not attend the inaur ras kin said he doesnt want to be seen supporting donald trump the inauguration was his quote, constitutional duty. Comes after fellow maryland congressman Anthony Brown said would he not attend. President elect donald trump responded to statements from lewis. He does not consider him to be an legitimate. He also missed the 2001 of george wbush during an interview trump said lewis got caught in a lie. I think for him to have grandstanded because he just grandstanded john lewis, then he got caught in a very bad lie. So lets see what happens as far as other people not going, thats ok, because we need seats so badly. I hope they give me their tickets. Are they going to give us their ticket youre ok what happens to their tickets . I hope theyre going to give us their tickets more than 50 House Democrats said they will for the teen the inauguration. More trouble for donald trump days before the inauguration, a woman former television show. Summer z erbos said he defamed her when she said he semented her were false, she alleges trump accosted her in 2007. Shes being represented by Attorney Gloria Allred he will be making an panes at the madam max you museum. It will be unveiled today and that event starts at 9 00 a. M. 4 35 is the time. Lets call it warmish i could be much worse. Could be much better. Its not the 70s we had. Upper 50s with a little sunshine this afternoon will feel pleasant. All in all not such bad day. Still have to watch out for maybe a little bit of patchy drizzle here there. Culpeper cater mile visibility, gaithersburg three quarters. Dulles baltimore quarter in a while. I came in out of the north, leave yourself extra time as you hit the roads. Erin will be along. Washington up to 50 to strata the day. Fredericksberg, 55, 41 for frederick, 41 for westminster, satellite and radar shows thick cloud cover, low level fog, its not until the afternoon hours when we expect clouds to break up and see a little bit of sunshine and all we need is a little bit of sunshine to get the temperatures rising, leave an isolated shower or patchy drizzle in through 10 00, 11 00. Then clear it up in a bit. 54 by 1 00. Noticeable breeze this afternoon but a mild day, 56, 57 daytime high. Thats the forecast, erin como got the roads. Any fog out there. 4 36, patches of fog can be denser around water ways, bridges, use caution slow it down and just friendly reminder always use your low beams, never put your high beams on in case of fog. Right now, taking a wide view around the district. You can see inside the beltway. Traffic moving along fine despite foggy patches around town. Looking good, problem free in virginia as we take a look at 270, you may see more fog towards the north so far, so good on that major stretch of road. Things in olney looking good, problemfree on the outer loop as well as in virginia, to problems on 295 southbound, any questions erin fox5dc on twitter. Metro Service Picks up at 5 00. One of the countrys largest employers announces a round of lay offs. A group of to leave the president elect a special treat outside. Across the dc region, the time 4 37, temperature is 47. Its foggy. Back in a moment. Lets take a look at the stories, holly moore standing by. Reporter good morning. First up, a decade old race bias case against the secret service has now been settled. Yesterday, the agency agreed to pay 24 million to more than 100 black agents on a claim it fostered a racist culture and routinely promoted white agents. The secret service admits to no wrongdoing or institutional bias. Instead, they say the settlement is intended to ease the pain of the they say they suffered as well as the lost job opportunities. Next up, haul of fame baseball legend Willie Mccovey has been pardoned. He plead guilty guilty to tax fraud over 20 years ago, admitting he failed to report 70000 from memorabilia and auto shows. He was given two years probation and 5,000 fine. One of 273 people pardoned by the president yesterday. Home improvement giant lowes 2400 layoffs. Its providing severance and out placing resources to displaced workers. One group big plans for mike pence chevy chase neighborhood. Tends to statue what is being called the clear dance party at mike pences house. Complete w glitter. Work for peace says theyre exercising their First Amendment right to express the feelings that homophob ia is wrong. Dc Police Search for a lone gunman in the murder of a community matriarch. West virginia is now suing a new law regulating the cole Mining Industry a live look across the dc region. Beyonce this morning, hope gets you going a the 4 42 on this wednesday morning. Its going to be a nice one 47. Enjoy the day. Were here with you after t break. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. A number of you have to go to work in the district friday. This morning were giving you a respective of what your morning commute could look like temperatures rising outside. Warm day in the possible upper 50s. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Good morning to you. Thank you so very much for joining us today is wednesday, january 18th, were going to get to warm weather but first some news, erin como the breaks news here is were following this out of houston texas, George H W Bush has been hospitalized. Expected to go home in a couple of days. The reason for the hospitalization has not been disclosed but the president is reported to be at Methodist Hospital in the texas medical center. Further information expected to be introduced later. Hes the oldest living former u. S. President. Said to be doing relatively ok. 4 46 is the time. Lets talk about the weather. Little foggy. Beginning where coming in from, north and west is where im seeing lowest visibility. All in all we should have a pretty nice day, lets go to futurecast, this is 10 00 a. M. Watch futurecast try and pick up a going to include the threat for patchy drizzle and showers through about the noon hour, then just a mix of clouds and sun, the rest of the afternoon. And under that, were he should start to wonderful things up into the upper 50s, quick look at the fox 5 sevenday forecast. I will do some explaining, but i want to get over to erin. You notice the green, the beltway is quiet as you make your way out inner loop were not seeing any issues through largo. If you encounter dense patches of fog, be prepared to tap the brakes, 395 northbound right now, its a dream to the 14th instead of bridge, all of our area bridges right now moving at speed, key bridge into georgetown, 11th keep in mind, inauguration preps getting started. Park restrictions in the red zone will be in place as early as noon lasting through 1 00 a. M. Monday, road closures getting ready to go into place, team coverage, annie yu is at the mall with the latest on what you can anticipate. Reporter good morning everybody. We got hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the district this week and so, security will also be tight but theres a lot of road closures and parking restrictions going into effect for both cars and pedestrians, down here at the national mall, you can see theres a lot of prep underway. Its remarkable this transportation. Theres going to be many road closures surrounding the mall starting thursday. Today, at noon, as erin mentioned theres going to be a lot of parking rerestrictions. Lets take a look at this map, inauguration planners put together. They feel basically broken it down to red and green zone and starting at noon, the red zone that you and blocks off traffic in a large of downtown. Only authorized vehicles along these trees, if you are parked on these streets you will be towed. Tomorrow, the green zone will go into effect and lifted saturday. The green zone is open to traffic. However, its only open to those who live and work near those areas, so National Guard members are going to be checking your ids to verify residence and employment, then street closures begin on thursday. They include much of the areas surrounding pennsylvania avenue. The lincoln memorial, parts of constitution avenue and streets around Union Station and capitol hill. Downtown dc will be a mess. I also want to mention a handful of bridges and tunnels feeding into the district are going to be closed thats includes 14th bridge. Memorial and its third street tunnel. Getting around challenging, not only just inauguration day, the 20th but leading up to it and days last. Annie yu fox 5 local news. 4 49. Also in the news, an immigrant sanctuary bill is going through controversy, hundreds of people showed up at a council meeting. The bill would ban county employees including Law Enforcement to ask them about the immigration status to protect them from deportation. Dc police are searching for the gunman of vivian marrow as she was heading to the corner store in her wheelchair. Detectives believe the gunman got into some sort of dispute with someone and started shooting. She was an innocent bystander and a gofundme has been set up to help with funeral arrangements. Find the link, on fox5dc. Com. A growing list of states are Obama Administration driving along i 66 may look a little different this morning. Live look outside across the region. Still 4 50. Temperature still 47 degrees. Were back in a moment. Unstop right there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer with unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship ive ever been in. 4 53. Nigerias president said the government will help those affected by the military mistake. A fighter jet on a mission to take out terrorists mistakenly bombed a refuge camp. They were both refugees and aid workers. At least 200 people wounded and several buildings. Several states are suing the federal government on cole minings, the regulations are streets and water ways, added increase cost to cole mining companies, many struggling to operate. Im not sure what video were looking at but many critics argued that the regulations are too expensive and will lead to more layoffs in at the industry. Major milestone on reinstate 66. Overnight crews up up the first of eight entries for the toll lanes scheduled. The gantries will hold the equipment. Once it is complete, it will cost you to drive during peak trial, it will help be used to help improvement roads. The Montgomery County Council Voted to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour by 2020. Seminar rowly passed. County executive said he might veto the bill. The minimum wage is currently 10. 75 will go july. 4 54 is the time. How is the weather not bad. Its been worse, a little foggy, but temperatures are warm. Here we are approaching second half of january. Enjoy the mild weather. We do see signs of winter coming back. Late next week. Bus stop forecast for the kids this morning, 37 degrees to 50 degrees, cooler temperatures up to the north near the pennsylvania border, warmer temperatures to the south, mild start fredericksberg, manassas, temperatures, so to speak, are currently around 50. After school, a little better. Sun comes out. Most of us warm up above the 50 degree mark today. Which again for this time of year is not bad at all. Sevenday forecast time 57 degrees daytime high tomorrow probably the better day of the week. Looks like good amount of sunshine with temperatures remaining in the mid 50s. Friday start cloudy and by the probably after 1 00, showers start to push into the region. 49 degrees for the daytime high there. Weekend 50s, mid 50s sticking around but sunday does bring the chance of showers. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin como will check the roads. 4 56. If youre hitting the roads, use caution, watch for fog, put on low beams, so far were, outside and inside, looking good as you cross the mixing bowl, if youre planning to take the railings, all metro rail lines on tom. Safetrack surge 12 will begin february 11 impact impacting the blue line, well keep you updated. It should not be that dark out. Were having a little camera problem, 295 is moving just fine, 395 is cruising along, annondale nice on the inner loop, 50 seeing good, no issues on the wilson bridge on the heres a look at dale city. No problems through wood bridge as you cross. Quiet on route one through manassas any questions erin fox 5 on twitter. 4 57. Man accused of killing a Fire Department Police Officer is cultured. John kerry opens up about the role he hopes the Incoming Administration will have in revolving the syrian civil war. Heres a look at todays stock futures. Fox 5 news morning back after this. Is. Z27mlz z16fz y27mly y16fy. George h w bush rushed to a texas hospital. A child dies after choking on a piece of food at a day care it is warming up out there have not we could see temperatures inching very close to 60 degrees. Yes. Yes and more yes. What a gift in january. Good morning to you, thanks for joining us im holly morris im maureen umeh, wednesday, january
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