Talks to fox5 about he and his friend pulled to saferty. And redskins finishishing strong in philly. Lokay. Im lauren demarco. Were talking about the wet weather that came pact your morning commute. With rain and freezing rain moving in there could be slick spots on the road tomorrow. Thats why we two to meteorologist Michael Thomas here with what we can expect and that radar looks active. Its getting busy out here and it may be cold lets throw Winter Weather into the mix. Why not . This is meterological weather. It is. Were still ten days from normal winter. Okay. Its a little early. Were seeing Winter Weather flying off north here across portions of pennsylvania, ohio and where the concern is locally its going to be norm and west towards high lands. West virginia, pan haldle of maryland and han pand sir vr vir. Freezing rain and slick spots for the morning commute. Mainly looking at cities like hagerstown, couple better land, perhaps as far as south as frederick, maryland its looking more like rain event for you. Future cast we head to the overnight hours. You see the pink shading right here up towards hagerstown thats freezing rain. By the time we get to 5 a. M. In d. C. Its all rain. It looks like messy morning commute. Good news by the time we work our way towards noon hour should dry out a bit and by the afternoon we get a little sunshine here. Winter weather alert. Everywhere you see in purpose tll theres Winter Weather advisories around locally its close as Loudoun County and frederick county, maryland, freezing rain advisories and only in effect until anywhere from 4 a. M. And 10 a. M. This morning. Im sorry, tomorrow morning. And temperatures play a good role and current number d. C. And freezing rain, sleet and i rain here locally and north and west air is colder. 34 winchester avenue 36 hars looking at overnight lows and we have warming overnight. Quick look at planner tomorrow. Definitely waking up to rain and should end the day in 50s with a little sunshine. Big time cold coming your way later this week. Well talk more about that in i afew minutes. Back to you. Were following several new development with president elect donald trump. He appeared on fox news and some comment are raising eyebrows tonight. Mr. Trump says hes not interested in getting daily Intelligence Briefings and dismiing is that russia tried to influence the election. We hear more from fox. President elect trump made his first appearances on sunday morning little show since election sitting down with Chris Wallace on fox news sunday. One of biggest questions is pick for secretary of state. Exxon mobile Ceo Rex Tillerson is on the short list and he is he does massive deals in it russia and for himself and the company. I have tremendous respect for him. Mr. Trump dismissing cia report that russia influenced election so he could win. I dont believe it. I dont know why and i think its just you know they talked about all sort of things, every week its another excuse. Thats in stark contrast from other republicans. Members of Senate Armed Services committee including senator mccain calling for claims to be fully investigated saying the parties must work together. We would be working in bipartisan basis. You cannot make this issue partisan. Its too important. Fundamental of democracy is a free and fair election. This is form of warfare or. For vladimir put inhe be held accountable. The president elect made clear hes not interested in having daily Intelligence Briefings. I dont need to be told the same thing every day every morning sir nothing changed lets two over it again. I dont need that. Trumps Transition Team said we could expect announcement of secretary of state as early as this week. In new york, brian yennis, fox news. The president elect was also asked whether he would take a wrecking ball to president obama legacy he said that is not his intention. Trump says his interest is making changes that will make the government more efficient and responsive to business, jim. Meantime the president elect former virginia chairman turning to gun giveaway to stir up interest in campaign for governor. Hell giveaway ar riv toll supporter hes chair of Prince William board of supervisors and candidate for Virginia Governor give away is his surprise short of second amend m. People who sign up to get the gun are he courage todd donate to the campaign and well have to undergo a background check for the winner. An Apartment Fire that forced people out of homes and into the cold. The Fire Department says 67 people can now not return to homes because of the damage at the woodlawn garden parts. They believe it started due to mechanical failure of natural gas furnace pipe and ruled it an accident. And now to Prince George country where a major rescue took place today an 11yearold boy got stuck waist deep in mudd walking in the woods and firefighters were called to free him hyattsville this afternoon. Fox5 Lindsey Watts spoke to the boy got ordeal. Who would ever expect to get stuck to that degree just walking a round in the woods . This is where it happened. Back beyond the trees near sheriff road and belhaven drive. A group of boys was playing out here when they ended up oh, i was trying to feel cold and then i realized i wanted to stay calm. Cold wet and halfway burried in mudd Eric Henderson told himself not to papic and says before this, his friends feet got stuck here and he was trying to help. I finally got him out because i used my hands like a involve so i could be able to get him out so i tried to do the same to my legs but it didnt work. His friends ran through the woods to get help for him. A Police Officer responded first but had to call the Fire Department because eric was in so deep. A Technical Rescue Team was called in. They got some shovels. They covered eric with a sheet for warmth and took about 30 minutes to dig him out. Some neighbors saw the big response. Im just so sad to learn that this happened. Im glad they got him out. Eric says he has learned something from what happened. I changed my mind about what im going make my own right decisions. He has this to say to his friends and firefighters. Thank you for helping me get out. The only casualty today the clothes and shoes eric was wearing. His mom said she took one look at how dirty they were and they went right into the trash. Erics family says they are grateful to rescuers. In hyattsville, Lindsey Watts, fox5 local news. You know he sounded pretty calm there. That had to be scary. That the thing you know they teach kids nowadays if youre in distressing situations like that keep calm maintain and coop a steady head. They worked together and wept and got help. Everything work out there im glad hes okay. Now that hes okay mom can yell at him what were you doing there . Lets switch gears and talk football for you and the last four time the redskins played it to the employoffs they finished the regular season winning the last four games. That final four game stretch began in philly against the eagles city with burgandy and gold clinched east title on day after christmas nfc would be hopeful and kurt cousin to be the first to win since slay schaffer. Down 136 cousins fires to de Shawn Jackson former baseball player with tough over the shoulder catch makes it look easy goes 80 yards looks like he tossed it a little will there. Nonetheless thats what you want to see. Meantime early 4th quarter 213 cousins looking for desean and pick six 29 point and two point conversion failed eagles added field goal with five minute left to lead 2221. Then with just two minutes to go, cousins pitches to Chris Thompson and look who is leading way this time. Trent williams, thompson 25 yards touchdown and 2 point conversion there failed and skins up 2722. 21 seconds left eagles at the redskins 14 carson planted by Ryan Kerrigan and trent murphy recovers to seal the deal. Redskins win to improve to 7a51. Ryan was able to get around the edge and make the play. And i was just back there in jubilation like gosh, yes finally. We can get up out of here and go home, man. To watch us respond in crucial situational type things and overcoming pick six they got the lead and got the lead back and holding league was big time to watch. Guys made plays and contributed own showed character. These games will never be perfect. It was ability to keep battling was a sign for our team and theres a lot of football left to be played. Wildcard standings on the screen. Giants 84 theyre playing now against the cowboys trailing 70 and you have to kind of root for the cowboys here. Bucks defeated saints 85 they hold two wildcard spots three through you see it there. Redskins51 and packers with a win over seahawks. There you have it. This is home stretch sgle that was nail biter. It was. Good football. They won. Thats important part. Up next a crowded museum can be overwhelming for a child with autism. For one of d. C. Ees museums writing to help sensory dprendly event happened at the International Spy museum. And then a camel brought in for a local churchs Christmas Show goes rowing. Rogue. He gets a lot of compliments. He wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, thank you for serving our country and im like, thats my dad. Male vo no one deserves a warmer welcome home. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Im very proud of him. Male vo comcast. Z26i0z z17vz y26i0y y17vy you cant predict the market. Y26i0y y17vy but through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Welcome back was first today for spy umeem in washington d. C. They hosted autism access day to the delight of children and parents. We hear more from fox5 alexander im excited. From hidden cameras to secret weapons even the Aston Martin James bond drove the International Spy museum is filled with treasures waitsing to be discovered. I like the technology and action and james bond. But jit visiting a place like this is not always easy. From loud noises to bright lights and surprises around every corner, the International Spy museum can be a difficult place for penl who with on the autism spectrum. Its almost like youre running into mine fields every time. Which is why sunday morning the International Spy museum held first ever autism access day. So today what weve done is opened privately just for families who have children on the autism spectrum. Dimming light lowering volume and eliminating the crowds are small steps that make a huge difference. Any of the fear of maybe its not going to work and maybe well have within five minute thats all taken care of because free of charge today and were on privately just for this event. I think the aboutest key is having staff be aware and smiles on face and dont have to move a certain way and dont have to be in a line anything goes a little bit and makes the parents relaxed. A relaxed experience that allows everyone to enjoy fun, educational experiences the National Capitol has to offer. A little bit of fan of spy. Maybe i like to draw spies. This is my first time here as well and im very much everybody of a certain age you know loves the spy stuff and espionage. In northwest d. C. , alexandra limon, fox5 local news. What a great idea. And so many families are dealing with that and takes stress away and makes it fun. Youre seeing a lot of movie theaters too with Polar Express this time of year doing special as soon asry friendly event for kids. I had not heard thats awesome. Yes. Good job. Well switch gears and tell you about something Emergency Responders in our area rarely have to deal with. They got a call does that a camel had bitten happenedler. This happened during preparation of Christmas Show at the evangelical cathedral in upper marboro. Eye i i. Did i get a eye i i from you. And yes did you. Were told the handler was not seriously hurt. Good news there. That is good. Greatgrandmother from dallas scammed out of 1,000 has a recent smile tonight. Because the Community Rallied around ola donaldson. Days ago donaldson led a woman into her home and scam artist said he was inside to disks a new walker and stole nearly 1,000 a Corvette Club in dallas heard what happened and members banded together to bring donaldson money and joy. This could be grandmother and this is just something we just couldnt let go by without trying to do something. Even right now think about it kind of water in my eyes a little thinking about it. I dont want to breakdown in front of the camera. Were here for you. Thats why i seed youre our grandmother dont have to worry about anything. Donaldson says she was overwhelmed by outpouring of support. Meantime police are looking for the woman who stole her money. There could be other victims out there. No doubt about that. We want to take it outside and got a check on the forecast. Wet weather to worry about tomorrow and cold temperatures we saw this weekend. Cold. Theyre getting each worse in the week ahead. Mike thomas was in the Weather Center with a look what to expect as we kickoff another workweek and were two weeks away from christmas. You can believe it two weeks away from christmas and feels christmasy. If you remember last december it was disgustsingly warm before christmas thats was record setting in the 70s in washington and doesnt look like that will be the case this year and certainly not this upcoming week will be extremely cold. Lets get a little weak preview here look what you can expect later this week that word is coming back polar vortex. This is just what we call a piece ever the polar vortex. Dont want to get technical here. What you heard that world cold air is coming with authority and it will do so we head into the second half of this week. By thursday and friday its going to feel more like a mid january day as opposed to mid december day here in washington. Temperature trend next few days here, 5 tomorrow ahead of storm system and well get another cold front tomorrow night which will knock us back to 40s tuesday and more seasonal and by wednesday 45 for high with temperatures falling and thursday high of only 32 degrees an by the time we get to friday 0s, 20s for high temperatures with temps falling back to teens duringhe overnight hours. All right your forecast tonight stm metro area. That means its bringing warm air out along ahead of it. That means no freezing rain here in the district. Just rain for us. Maybe slick spots north and west and well go into details about who could have extra headaches for morning commute tomorrow morning. Coming up in a few minute. All right. Lauren and jim back up to you. Thank you, mike. Remember when we had 70 at christmas. So long ago. Can we bring that back. Do you really want that, though . Dont you want a potential for coating, little snow. Actual Christmas Day other than that yes. Uber considering a partnership with metro. If it happens could save you big on rides to and from metro stops and that proposal coming up next little dakotas nose was quivering in fear. The fiery tissue left her nose sore and red. So dad slayed the problem with puffs plus lotion, instead. Puffs have pillowy softness for dakotas tender nose. With lotion to comfort and soothe when she blows. Dont get burned by ordinary tissues. A nose in need deserves puffs, indeed. Now get puffs plus lotion in the squeezable softpack. What you gone do . And keep moving or let the paranoia haunt you . Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence i keep my feefifofum i keep my heart undone the strong in me, i still smile. Uber is considering a partnership ride korz save 70 to and from metro savings. Tisha lewis has details. Its still in the works but if it happens heres how uber Metro Partnership would work. Upper riders taking uber pool to or from select d. C. Metro rail station was receive 70 off trip thats 3 for 10 trip and theres more. Metro will allow uber drivers with their customers to use kitchen rides and taxi stands at more than 40 metro rail station. Fox5 transportation contributor martin decaro says this new Uber Partnership could be a game changer heres why. Twothirds of uber rides in washington d. C. Already start or end at metro station. Stations that have taxi stands like union station, stations in suburbs that have kiss and ride lanes they would be the stations on this yet to be released list of 4 stations that would be perfect for this partnership. I usually take the bus from metro to write work and back. But if im missing the bus i have to take United States of United States of americaer. If they were to offer 70 discount from uber pool and going to or from metro station would that entice you to take uber more. It would entice me to take uber im worried that may be a problem for the bus system. And the problem for the district taxi cab drivers including johann as cavite. How about 8,000 taxis in here who have families and mortgages and responsibilities. Uber is doing in the name without having any cars but its okay to work everybody. But its unfair for us. Uber spokesperson tells fox5 local news details are being worked out and theres no timeline for the rollout. D. C. Department of for higher vehicle spokesperson points out shared riding metro stations and reduced rate is already being done by taxis. Tisha lewis, fox5 local news. Up next, snow, yes. Snow. Its already piling up in other part of country. Well give you a look at conditions in the midwest and mike thomas back in to talk snow chances and theres a lot of you wonder about this in the 7 day forecast. Stay tuned were back after this. And tonight midwest dealing with serious Winter Weather and this is what the storm looked like in milwaukee, wisdom martin. Part of state got as much as 6 of snow this weekend and more could be on the way later this week and 6 f when you think about it is chump change. Its nothing. Theyre used to it. And in illinois the snow forced cancellation of hundreds of flight out of chicago ohare and midway airports and cities deploying hundreds of plows to combat the mess on the roads and crews will be out all night to ensure a normal start to workweek. And check out buffalo, new york, the snow was coming down as steelers beat the bills today. Snow blanketed the field during the game. Grounds clue cleared it at half time and left behind moupdz ever rubber turf pellets. Cleaning them up delayed the second half and again steelers won 27206789 we should point out that klawrence on our crew is a big ravens fan he was not happy about that. Ravens play patriots tomorrow. And steelers on Christmas Day actually. That will be a big game. Michael thomas. Sports. It all works together. I love to see the Football Games in snow. I do too. Thats the things think about a long time ago snow during a Football Game played now a days. We have crews and. There was a big delay in that steelers game because they tried to clear the field and pulled up all the rubber taken was piles of black pellets on the field. We ready for little. Len till. Let me try again. A little Winter Weather. Little taste of winter coming our way. First some of us tonight not for everybody and i do not think here in the district we will be experiencing any sort of Winter Weather. The commute will still be a mess. Hey you know what your monday morning commute rough sun or rain and little rain coming our way. Plan extra time in the morning because the roads will be wet. North and west of d. C. Im talking hagerstown, cumberland, maryland, maybe freezing rain for you overnight tonight. And it could lead to a little slippery situation tomorrow morning on some of the roads. Mostly back roads. Anything untreated. Temperatures will be really marginal with this things. If theyre able to get out and treat the roads morning commute should be all right. Mostly wet start for most of us monday. Good news is by tuesday were drying things out and were seasonably chilly temperatures in the 40s. Some 30s north and wets and generally speaking nothing too bad by december standards and however, later this week that changes well fwet a big arctic blast one more typical of say january and february and then mid december around here. Well talk more about that nay second theres storm system. You see snowflakes flying eastern portions or western portions of pennsylvania im sorry and eastern portions of ohio and great lakes, new york state, here in d. C. Close by in West Virginia and pan happenedle of maryland right on the edge where the warm air is meeting cold air. And because of that precip is frozen type not just snow and were not going to see accumulations either. Heres what you can expect. Areas in the pink thats where you may see freezing rain. Again cumberland, pan handle maryland and West Virginia and high lands further south if elevated could see freezing rain. By afternoon hours though that all kind of clears out. Decent deal amount of it by the afternoon hours. Although flurries will continue over the mountains norm and west. Here are Winter Weather alerts. We have Winter Weather advisories there in the purple well off north of here. Locally its mostly freezing rain advisories and late tonight through monday morning and again anywhere you see the pink here thats where there could be a few spotty kid of slick spots and if theres any delays out there in the morning well, of course, bring these to you starting 4 25 to the morning. Well north and west. Here at d. C. All rain event. Thats because temperatures are well above freezing in washington and came up over the past couple hours. 40 in d. C. And quantico at 41 and cooler sports north and west. Frederick 34, west minister 34. Still too warm for snow if we drop a couple more degrees thats when slick spots could develop as the precip moves in overnight. Winds starting to roar a little from down south. Quantico, winds going at 13 miles an hour, nine in d. C. And believe it or not that will bring us into the 50s tomorrow afternoon. 54 tomorrow afternoon here in washington and gaithersburg 5. Cooler north and west and little too warm for prolonged snow or freezing rain event. Its just Morning Hours that were concerned with. As we work into this week High Pressure builds n were seasonably chilly on tuesday. Looks like dry day. Minimum of clouds and sun. Then wednesday if we have any flurries at all that would be the day for it maybe a spot or two or coating and wednesday not that big of a deal at least it doesnt look that way now. Showers hours stay well south. Big time cold front comes our way Late Wednesday night and that will be kind of front edge of the big time cold that comes our way for end of week. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast 50 tomorrow. Rain likely here in washington and those north and west slick spot or two. Were dry tuesday and wednesday a snow shower or two here and there does not look like that big of deal and we get cold. Thursday, high of only 32. Look at friday we look at friday we start in teens. Maybe even a couple Single Digits north and west and highs in the 20s here on friday. Then next big kind of question mark that were watching is next saturday. Well talk more about that in the 11 00 hour. All right. Jim and lauren back to you. Well see you then, mike. In the meantime fox5 is in Montgomery County where Police Officers and High School Students face off in friendly competition. Officers from germantown and Montgomery Village and they played flag football on thursday. Its an effort to strengthen relationship between officers and community. Fox5 Sarah Simmons has more. Get organized well start in five. Starting in five. Yes. This is not any ordinary flag Football Game. This time cops are playing right alongside the kids. Were having a football mixer. Officers from Montgomery Village in germantown decided to mix things up a bit with thursdays game. The cost of what were trying to do is build baseline in Law Enforcement and community connection. Team is passional about Race Relations in the community and following in steps of Colin Kaepernick some of the players took a knee during National Anthem in september to call attention to social injustice. And the teams coach say the meetups are a two way street helping officers understand issues from the students point of view too. They are not up to no good or gang banger and because you have your hood on doesnt mean youre about to cause trouble. Thats important. Communication line seems to be on. Some of these officers were born and raised in Montgomery County and truly want to make a difference here at home. People feel like thats my Police Department and those are my teachers and my kids you know it seems to be something lost in the community and im hoping we can build that back up. Sarah simmons, fox5 local news. All right up next ikea knows products started fights between couples trying to put it together. T the dresser together in my room. 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