Administration. We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five year man on lobbying by executive branch officials. President trump pivoting to future policy proposals everything from tax reform to repealing and replacing obamacare. Im calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. In the president s box five guests including widow of the Late Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia and in the speech navy s. E. A. L. Rhino whens wife killed one month ago. Ryan legacy is etched into eternity, thank you. Delivering the democrats rebuttal former red state Kentucky Governor steve astrong supporter of obamacare and medicade expansion. Every he republican idea to replace the Affordable Care act would reduce the number of americans covered despite your promises to the contrary. Governor have a sheer went on to see the president is acting reckless when he attacks the intelligence actions, courts and press. Joe walden, fox news. Lawmakers on both sides are he responding to the president s speech. Democratic representative jerry conley and republican rob whittman. Heeshz what they have to say. He didnt give us much to work with. There were broad asker pir rational points that seemed like something we would quork with on infrastructure and on childcare. And on Womens Health issues and on family leave. But on the other hand, there was so little specificity i also think that what he is proposing as far as tax rehe form is going to grow our economy so Economic Growth helps on the plus side of Balance Sheet the ref upart of the Balance Sheet that has to are part it of it. Congress has to talk about all the area of the budget. Switching gears and going to a developing story the latest string of threats two letters sent to two separate mosques in silver spring. It talked about a violent act and offered money for muslims. It comes after a wave of threat to sdwru Wish Community centers and schools. The president condemned act of hate and evil last night in his speech. The search continues for culprits that vandalized Howard University campus. Walls and sidewalks were defaced reading lx to the trump plantation overseeing wayne a. I. Frederick. The vandalism happened one day after trump met with frederick and other leaders of histor three were charged with misdemeanor offenses. They put up a side saying resist. And lets talk football now 4 34 in the morning kirk cousins gets slapped with a franchise tag. This make cousins 1st quarter back to get the tag in consecutive years paid nearly 24 million this year. Fourth highest in the entire National Football league breaks down to 1. 4 million a game. Skins have until july 14 to work out a long term deal were kirk cousins he owe could be spread traded to another team that would be feigned a team looking to work out the long term deal. Not bad at all. Not bad Michael Thomas if we can get the warmth out of the rain. We might briefly get later on mid to Late Afternoon we have to watch for rapidly changing weather conditions. We have warmth and then thunderstorms in the forecast. Lets get right to it. Here are the numbers outside. Relatively mild start to the day. Near 60 reagan national. Dulles 55. Bwi 57 as well many waking to temperatures in the mid 50s this morning and temperatures up, up and away. Second half of the morning and therapy early portions through the afternoon. Were watching two areas here this first batch of rain sliding way through ohio may clip north west suburbs but the main event is sharp line of thunderstorms coming through indiana and portions of ohio this morning. That will be here. Oh, sometime it looks like between 2 and 4 00. Heres planner for the day today. Expecting clouds to break later this morning, 66 at 10 a. M. And by 1 00 we briefly turn mostly sunny and temperatures take a jump mid up toer 70s around the region and as soon as the storms hit, temperur rapidly fall this afternoon. Again, some of those storms could be severe with gusty winds and large hail and cant even rule out a spotty tornado. Thats a look at the forecast. Lets get to erin como now with traffic. 4 36 now if you wake in alexandria breaking news on king street at the intersection of bogard caution there. Watch for some delays as more folks wake up. Well let you know when traffic is back to normal. Treat the intersection like a stop sign. 395 flowing freely that represents all the majors around the district, maryland and virginia. No slow downs on 50 in through buoy this morning and 50 by bridge all the way back there nice and quiet as well. Same story outside the beltway. Washington parkway 270 coming in from virginia 95 and 66 in the clear and if you keep to the rails this morning Metro Service gearing up 5 a. M. And safe track wrapped up yesterday, 13 starts on march 4. Any questions erin fox d. C. On twitter. 4 6 is the time. Fox news morning education secretary betsy devos is back lashed for linking colleges to school choice. Lady gaga seems to be winning big in 2017. A live look outside across the region. 4 37 is the time. Back in a moment. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in stomer satisfaction jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. Go to getfios. Com or call 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. 4 39 time to look at social media. 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More than 70 parade go through the streets of new orleans with tens of thousands of board thrilling millions of feeds and other trivrping et cetera. And now threat begin. 4 40, metro preparing for safe track surge. And well tell you what you need to know to fill out a complaint. Were headed to break across the d. C. Region. Looking at the wheel at National Harbor this wednesday morning. 50 some de grows ready. 4 41 more fox morning news for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 150 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. Today on fox5 news morning President Trump delivering his first joint address to congress renewing his version for spirit and bipartisan unity. Live look outside mixed day of warm temperatures and some wet, Stormy Weather as well. Michael thomas has a check of the forecast coming up in a moment. Fist, good morning to you and thank you for injoing us im maureen umeh. Im wisdom martin. Today is wednesday, march 1, first day of march and were still feeling spring like temperatures for the most part. Marching into a new month. Thats right. Mike, you first. Lets do your quick look at your forecast here today. Now, look, were going to have a little bit of everything today. Suwi and will get warm and windy and storms rumble through later this afternoon. Lets get straight to future cast if you plan the day. Wont rule out showers especially those of you living morning and west of town as early as 7, 8 00. Showing rainfall activity in wester virginia and maryland han handles and 8 30, 9 00 shower or sprinkle here in washington. This is the key time, 11, 12 00, how much sun do we get and how warm do we get. Cold front swinging through and its getting faster and faster with every run. Sometimes between 1 0 and 3bg in the afternoon well have strong severe thunderstorms rolling through the area. And solve those could contain gusty winds, large hail and cannot rule out an isolated tornado. Thats a check of for the costs and lets get to airport erin with a look at the traffic. Our apologies for the technical issues well get back to erin in a bit. Lets talk about politics. Closer look at President Trumps session of congress in late ingt intos hour long speech they outed Campaign Promises he capped in the first month of office and out lining plans for boosting military spending, fighting terrorism and immigration laws and overhauling nations healthcare system. Mandating every american to buy government approved Health Insurance was never the right solution for our country the way to make Health Insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of Health Insurance and that is what we are going to do. The president also welcomed five guests last night including widow of Court Justice of Antonin Scalia and of the navy s. E. A. L. Killed in yemen overnight. And police areest having the Early Morning shooting of a woman in southeast. It happened wayne place. Annie yu is live in southeast with the latest, good morning, annie. Good morning to you, wisdom and maureen. D. C. Police are on the scene nowment. We have a couple of cruisers and waiting on detectives as well. Theyll be out quite sometime. As you mansioned this is 200 block of way southeast and were told shortly after 1 30 d. C. Police got the call for woman so the. Thiscy building right in front of me you can see crime tape. There a woman was shot and taken to a hospital. Police right now telling us she is in critical condition. So this is a very serious shooting happening and police dont know right now what led up to the shooting and they say they dont have any information on any suspects or motive right now. And they tell us again that detectives are due to be out here shortly to further the investigation. Now, the shooting is not far road which is where a woman was shot monday night half a mile from here and string of shootings from last week. Last week being there were a total of nine shootings in this area. Police right now telling us that theyre not shore any of the shootings are expected but we know no arrests were made at this time. Thats the latest from southeast d. C. , back to you in the studio. Annie, thank you very much. 4 48 is the time now and tracking metro the agency will host a News Conference this afternoon to talk about safe track surge 13 it starts march 4 and runs through april 9. Blue and yell will run less frequently. This is the final surge line on the yellow and blue in virginia. And also happening today metro new customer Information Call Centers news hours take effect. Monday through friday, 7 a. M. To 8 p. M. And weekends 8 a. M. To 6 0 p. M. The move will save metro a mill why a year and the move also comes as theres a steady decline kline in the call volume over the past five years. Embattled High School Principal steps down. And Michael Phelps talked about doping in olympic sports. A live look across the dmv. Time 4 49. Temperature 57. Bang in a home fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in stomer satisfaction jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. L for 79. 99 per month, r the first year with a oyear agreement. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. Go to getfios. Com or call 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. 4 51 developing in alexandria where High School Principal case resigning, case and michelle light were put on leave earlier this month. The district has declined to say why calling it personnel matter. It has nothing to do with students. Assistant prince paling remains on leave. Misdemeanor to smoke marijuana in public or driving is under consideration by law makers in maryland. She called it a quality of leafy issue and says the bill is especially morning for People Living in Prince George county. What we have currently as a law is civil penalty which means that our penalties will be lower than penaltys in washington d. C. And in virginia and again we find that this would put us at disvad advantage where the laws would get less protection to sit steps driving on roadways and or enjoying public spaces and so we want to make sure we provide the same protections for citizens who live here. And similar bill was introduced last year but did not pass. Meanwhile olympic great Michael Phelps urged to take action. The now retired u. S. Swimmer was on capitol hill talking to lawmakers hoy to improve International Anti doping measures. Stood up on international at international compition and the rest of the field han clean. I dont believe that. I dont think ive ever felt that. Representatives from the World Antidoping Agency and the International Olympic committee were at yesterdays hearing though the president of International Olympic committee declined an invitation to attend. All righty. Lets check in with Michael Thomas for a check of the forecasts. Warmer temps but not without any issues that is. Warmer tems come with a price. Were battling spring and winter and fighting it out and who will win out. It feels like witnesser at the end of the week and now flurries are in the forecast on friday. To get to that point it takes thunderstorm activity. Things to note today. Breezy through the afternoon and then there is severe potential for later on today. Swliingt risk kind of d. C. South and east. And off to the norm and west north and western suburbs looking at enhanced risk of Severe Weather this afternoon. Ki there is a its elevated tornado risk but i dont want to over blow that. Maybe couple tornado warnings here and there and main risk with the thunderstorms will be gusty winds. Large hail is also possible. Low is the flash Flooding Risk at least here in the Washington Area and north and west towards garrett county, maryland, theres a flash flood fwhach effect because they could see two rounds today up stayed of one. Your pickup temperatures at the bus stop this morning 48 to 58 i wont rule out showers especially norm and west of town as the kids get off to school and its between pickup and for the bus stop and pickup to go home today that the best weather will occur and break off into sunshine and heat things up. By the time we get to those after school hours the front may already be through and temperatures may be starting to drop around the region. Take a look at fox5 accuweather 7day forecast. 76 today. Early afternoon ahead of the storm line and then storms will come through. And again gusty winds, large hail, ruled out here. Tomorrow, 0 cooler, 56 for daytime high and breezy and were in the 40s. Both friday and saturday. And could be snow showers around on friday. Were keeping our eye on for now. One thing at a time well focus on the storms its and snow tomorrow. And then as we roll into next week warm things up again again. 55 surprised, by monday 65 and he up close to 70 next tuesday. So the up and down roller coaster of winter in springtime continues here, march coming in like a little bit of a lion. Lets check the forecast, erin como back with some traffic this morning. Thank you, mike, 4 55. Well start you with breaking news youve been tracking out of alexandria king street intersection of bowregard street and traffic rewires that at intersection causing traffic issues. Avoid that intersection. If you encounter any traffic lights on flash treat them look a stop sign. And the good news is for ride on 395 look at that youre wide on as you pass vandoren and king street. Pentagon or across the 14 street bridge. In fact all inbound bridges now are at speed. American legion, 1 street, memorial roosevelt, 11 street. We like what were seeing. Ill let you know if that changes. Green around the beltway. Problem free in mcclain and tysons as well. All inbound routes moving without any issues. Metro safe track yesterday wrapped up no longer impacting blue line and metro picks up at 5. All rail lines on time and next safe track surge will kick in march 4. Well keep you posted oween that one. A live look around the area. 270 now volume increasing as you make your way down towards the spur this morning. As you pass father hurmly beloved traffic moving at speed and light enough north by the truck scales were not seeing major congestion. Well show you what were up against around the dmv. 66, 95, no issues now as you make your way to 66. Well keep you updated. Any questions, erin fox5 d. C. Twitter wisdom and maureen back to you. Coming up on fox news morning the president removes one key country from his travel ban list. And President Trump two eldest sons were greeted with protest at a grand Opening Ceremony in vancouver. Headed to break a live look across the d. C. Region. 4 57 is the time and 57 degrees and more fax news morning after the break. True love for our people requires us to find Common Ground to advance the common good and to cooperate on behalf of every american child. Trump lays out his vision for future of america. The future he says will require bipartisan unity. Looking live outside were expecting temps to top mid 70s but temperatures come complete with a day of scattered storms and rain unfortunately. All right. Good morning to you you. Thank you for joining us im maureen umeh. Im holly morris. Today is wednesday, march 1. Its also, of course, Ash Wednesday which is the first day of leapt. All right. Michael thomas well talk about weatherhead line and erin como will have traffic and mike you give us that headline first. Little bit of everything today, march coming in like a