Family friendly new years event in the region. And that includes food, face painting, balloon animals and fire works show on the water front. Venues across old town hosted dozens of musical performances and bars were also bustling. Very cool way to bring in the new year. Tucker barnes is downstairs and has a look at this new years day forecast. Allison, welcome back. Cloud cover to start your day. Temperatures seasonable. Highs later today, low 40s. Wont be a terrible day but a lot of clouds in the forecast. Lets get to the numbers and right now 41 reagan national. Looking at high temperatures in town 42, 43. 30s here north and west. Overnight parts of the area in the upper 20s and low 30s. We are starting off on a very cold note here. Little bit of rain shower activity south of the city. Southern maryland Colonial Beach beginning light rain showers. Got a cold front moving in from the north and west. Look at all the clouds. Mostly cloudy today with the possibility that we could see a few more showers. A few sprinkles. Maybe a few snow flurries. Most of your day should remain dry for you. Just kind of cool with high temperatures in the low 40s. Colder weather on the way. Heres your forecast for today. High temperatures will be in the low 40s. Heres future cast showing you things remain quiet here later this afternoon. More details on the weather in just a minute. Back up stairs to you. Thanks. Now to a developing story. The senate has reached a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Stands in the hands of the republican controlled house where future remains uncertain. Will john boehner and other house members approve of the plan as well . Melanie is live this morning to tell us more about it. Sure hope something can be reached. Good morning. Reporter good morning, allison. Weve just learned the house is going to convene at noon. But they are under no obligation to put this bill up for a vote today. We believe they are going to start picking apart pieces of this legislation to see exactly what is in a senate deal. Could schedule it for a vote or decide to kick it back to the senate. There is hope there will be some action on it late today or early wednesday. The deal was approved by the senate after 2 00 in the morning on new years day. Income tax rates will remain the same for most americans. But individuals making 400,000 and couples making 450,000 will see their taxes go up. 109 billion in spending cuts, those have been delayed. Also included in the package were fixes to the alternative tax and a compromise on the estate tax that will prevent dairy prices from spiking. Senate leaders said its a less than perfect plan but the best deal they could forge at the last minute. We dont think taxes should be going up on anyone. But we all knew if we did nothing, theyll be going up on everyone today. We werent going to let that happen. Each of us could spend the rest of the week discussing what a perfect solution would have looked like but the end result would have been the largest tax increase in the american history. Im disappointed we werent able to make the grand bargain as weve tried to do for so long but we tried. If we do nothing, the threat of a recession is very real and passing this agreement does not mean negotiations halt. Far from it. We can all agree theres more work to be done. I thank everybody for the patience today. Reporter one tax bit will be going up for workers is the Social Security payroll tax. There was a 2 payroll tax holiday enacted two years ago and putting that back in this bill was not part of the deal. So that tax holiday allowed to expire. About 20 a week from workers paychecks will be going back to the Social Security trust fund instead of into their pockets. Back to you guys. All right. Thank you very much. Happening now, gay marriage ceremonies in maryland. Same sex couples some of them started taking their vows at the stroke of midnight. Marriage licenses were given out on december 6th. But the new law didnt go into affect until the new year. Dozens of same sex weddings are scheduled for today. This day would not be possible if not for people like patrick. For nearly ten years hes been in the fight for ten years. They were one of the first couples to sue maryland for Marriage Equality. Patrick joins us by phone to talk about this historic day. Good morning to you. Happy new year. Good morning. Happy new year. How are you feeling today . Im excited. Its a new year. New opportunity for same sex couples in maryland. You have been with your husband dave since 2001. This journey, could you tell us about it for all of the viewers and folks listening today . What has it been like . You were part of the couples lawsuit in maryland for the equality lawsuit in 2004. Its been a long road. Yeah. Its been a long hard struggle. And dave is a native for maryland. It was important to him to have full equality. And weve been part of this struggle for a long time. We wanted the state to recognize us and give us full equality as a married couple and we finally made it. Lets go on the other side without full equality what are some of the hurdles or stumbling blocks you would run into as a couple been together since 2001 as long or longer than many married couples out there. What are some of the hurdles . Its a lot of the things many married couples take for granted. If one of us were to fall sick to visit each other in the hospital. To take care of each other and have the rights to consent to medical care and things like that if Something Like that happens. But really, what it really comes down to is being recognized as full citizens in maryland and thats whats most significant about this day, i think. Voters went to the polls. This is one of the issues there on the ballot. How did you feel that day . Were you confident maryland would vote in your favor or did you have apprehension . I knew the polls were in our favor but also very close and i know that the opponents to Marriage Equality were out there spreading the misinformation about what would happen if marriage rights were granted to same sex couples. But we were cautiously optimistic the voters would recognize that this is really just a matter of fairness. This though does remain controversial and one of those issues that tends to be divisive as far as the entire country goes. What is your message for those who look at this with disapproval . I think that the time is changing and really this is just a matter of love and recognizing the love that two people share for each other. And more and more people are recognizing that and i think that this year was a real turn in the tide for Marriage Equality and i think its only a matter of time before more and more states are recognizing it. Before we let you go, you did marry legally in the district in 2011 but now make maryland your home. How does that feel on this day . Well, you know, weve always had maryland as our home but we took the metro ride down to the district to get married and this means that really that maryland the state that we live in and have lived in ive lived here for the past 9 years and dave has lived here his whole life. That this is the state we call home is really going to give us full recognition of our relationship. Were excited about that. Happy new year and send dave our regards. Hope you have a wonderful day and this is a historic day for all of us. Thank you so much. Some of the new laws that went into affect, the banning of arsonic in chicken feed and the right for parents to freeze their childs credit in an effort to freeze identity theft. Over in virginia Insurance Agents will have to inform if policies exclude earthquake damage. Back open after a 7 car crash shut it down for several hours overnight. Police say 17 people were involved in the wreck outside of the Washington Times building. None of those injuries considered life threatening. No word on what caused the crash. Also new this morning no sign of a man who stabbed a woman around 2 30 this morning in southeast. Police say the man got into an argument with the woman and stabbed her. She is expected to live. Another woman suffered some sort of head injury. The suspect ran off. Still on the loose at this hour. Police are looking at security footage. Still ahead at 9 00, the president is throwing a party and good timing and the right price, you can make the guest list. Well tell you how coming up. Update on secretary of state Hillary Clintons health. What doctors say about the blood clot in her head. Tickets for sundays game between the redskins and seahawks are sold out. Some are available on sites like stub hub but standing room only seats are selling for 150. You want to hurry up and get the divisional champs tshirts. Coming up in less than 20 minutes, david ross is going to come in david. I went formal. Hes going to talk with lorenzo alexander. Well be right back. all right. A new report by the senate claims the cia and fbi and other groups made changes regarding the terror attacks in libya. That is what led to the obama administrations confusing public explanation of the attack. A report by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Says the Intelligence Groups have been avoiding the panel and delaying explanation of the changes. U. S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the attack. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton is still hospitalized after a health scare. She is being treated for a blood clot discovered during a follow up visitor a recent concussion. David lee miller has more. Reporter Hillary Clinton remains hospitalized after the discovery on monday. She is under observation at new york presbyterian hospital. Releasing a statement saying her doctors will continue to assess her condition including other issues. They will determine if any further action is required. Medical experts say the seriousness of a blood clot depends where it is. With the previous head trauma may make her at risk for developing a bleed in her head because they are thinning out her blood. This is classic in a very smart move to bring her in to the hospital and observe her carefully. The top u. S. Diplomate is expected to return to work this week. But she suffered the concussion after fainting. Her illness forced her to cancel overseas trips and her plans to testify on december 20th in the connection to the deadly attack in benghazi. Secretary clinton has stressed she remains ready to testify before she steps down next month. David lee miller, fox news. Nato troops serving in afghanistan got the chance to party on new years eve. They danced the night away. Many of the soldiers say the partying is fun but wish they could have celebrated with their family. More than 100,000 troops including 66,000 american troops. Baltimore one of the many cities to ring in the new year with a fire works display. Capped an evening that included a party with live music. The fire works display was the largest in the whole region. Everyone associates new years with resolutions. But for many families its a day of deeply held tradition. We asked you to tell us how you mark the occasion. The most popular tradition seems to be around food. Amy says she eats pork and sauerkraut every january 1st. Sandy says she eats blackeyed peas for good luck, Collard Greens for money, rice and riches, corn bread because its the color of gold and ham. Nothing wrong with that either. And michael says hes just learned a new tradition of eating grapes and Walking Around the table with luggage. Going somewhere. I guess. Okay. Grapes and luggage. All right. Put that on the list. Never heard of that one. Speaking of the new year, coming up later, we are taking a closer look at one of the most popular resolutions which is getting fit. Show you ways to get the body you want. But first, partying with the president. How you can get your hands on a pair of passes to the inauguration ball. Tell you all about it. Its 9 19. Be right back. All right. Check this out. Scary moments on a beach in brazil when a helicopter crashed into the ocean. It was caught on tape. Fire officials blame engine failure and everyone on board and in the water escaped with only minor injuries. Final preps are underway for the 124th rose bowl parade. The tradition is expected to draw 1 million visitors. This years theme is oh, the places youll go. The parade kicks off at 11 00 eastern time and stretches about 5. 5 miles of pasadena which is a suburb of la. Are you familiar with that group . I sure am. Celebrating the centennial this year. Were you a part of that sorority . There it is 21 horse units and 23 bands and one delta symbol or float or whatever it was. Okay. Just stop talking. All right. The president ial inauguration just a few weeks away now and this year you may be able to attend the inaugural ball. The president ial inaugural committee offering a limited number of tickets. 60 each and first come first served basis. This year the ball is on january 21st. We posted a link to the president ial inauguration web site on our page at myfoxdc. Com. A very special end to 2012 for a set of twins in florida. Look at those lovely ladies. Yesterday they turned 103 years old making them the worlds oldest living identical twins. They were born in chicago back in 1909. Neither using hearing aids nor glasses. Their families say both are very healthy and only use a cane to walk. Another thing they have in common, they both had one son each. Credit their long lives to eating healthy and smoking a lot when they were younger. What . They spoked a lot . And they are still alive. Look at them. Wonderful. Happy birthday. Good skin. You are right. Smoking a lot is relative. Whats a lot . They said sixpacks a day each. What . Im just joking. Happy birthday. Still ahead. The man behind this instrument. Sit down with paul reed. Music played by some of the greats. Im going to interview him. Im excited. Another holiday with the one man gang. A look at the big win on the sunday in between and whats next for the burgundy and gold. Youre watching fox 5 morning news. [ fingers tapping ] [ rain pattering ] [ heels clicking ] [ female announcer ] yoplait light tastes great now. And feels great later 20 delicious flavors of yoplait light, now at 90 calories each. Yoplait, it is so good Generous Group of people in canada deciding to ring in the new year by helping out unsuspecting strangers. For three hours at a coffee shop, the chain of people picked up the tab for the person behind them. Lasted for 228 orders. And mark your calendar s because april 25th is International Pay it forward day. I love it. Very cool. Somebody did that with me when i paid a toll at the bridge. I love it. I dont know how far it got. Did you pay for the person behind you . Yeah. Thats very cool idea. Ill have to keep that in mind. Nice little thing to do. Lets do weather. Not going to be a bad day at all. Cloudy skies and people have plans to watch football. There are big games today arent there . Yes. I think the rose bowl is today. I dont know who else is playing. Rose bowl biggest one. No camera. Bring dave on in in. Never mind. Lets get to your highlights. 2013 starting on a chilly note. High temperatures only be in the low 40s and fall back near the freezing mark later tonight. Colder air works in towards the north and west. Temperatures should top out in the low to mid 40s. 41 degrees. Pretty close to our forecasts high temperature. We did get clearing overnight and that helps temperatures fall back into the 30s like manassas and dulles. One or two sprinkles to start your day. Might see a sprinkle inside the beltway. Most of your day will be cloudy just like yesterday with the threat of rain. Most of the action already to the south and east. Earlier rain into the southern maryland. Heres whats going on. A cold front and much colder air. This morning, temperatures in chicago in the teens. This whole mess of activities to the south and east. And well be in for a lot of clouds today. Most of the moisture here remaining far to the south and to the west. That continues to fade away, we should remain dry today although cloudy. Later tonight the cold front will pass through. Our clouds will gradually clear late tonight and sunshine returns tomorrow. It will be on the chilly side wednesday, thursday and friday. Daytime highs only in the 30s. 42 today. Close to where we should be. Snow shower possible. Winds west 5 to 10. Snow flurry north and west. Temperatures back near freezing tomorrow morning. Plenty of clouds. Sprinkle early with winds out of the north at 5 to 10. And sunshine wednesday, thursday and friday with high temperatures only in the 30s. Next weekend redskins right now 42 with sunshine during the afternoon probably falling back into the 30s at game time. The forecast looking at dry conditions. Thats weather, allison, wisdom and dave back to you at the desk. Thanks, tuck. All right. Were all here. The gang is all here. The one man gang is here too. Lorenzo alexander. Weve done this now 6 or 7 weeks. Theyve won 7 in a row. How are you today . And i know you had a big new years last night. Tell us where you are coming from today. Im doing pretty good. Happy new years everybody. Im in reston town center. Had a good new Years Eve Party to help raise money for african orphans. So i came out last night to help support him and his cause. Had about 5 or 600 people. Did you rock a mask and everything . I didnt have a mask but this pretty cool red velvet smokers jacket on. We need facebook and twitter pictures of that though. Ill definitely put them out there for you. Let me ask you, we talked over the course of this winning streak 7 in a row now. Week in and week out defense steps up. 15 in this 7 game winning streak. Was that the key to rattle romo and make him be the tony romo of old . The biggest thing we wanted to do is keep him in the pocket and make him feel heat. When tony is able to get out of the pocket, thats when you see the magic happen. The coach and also all the team did a great job as far as containing him. Hitting him as much as possible and keeping him off balance. Never able to adjust to what we were doing. And the result of that was three turn overs. What does it mean to you being one of the guys the longest to beat nfc champs . Means a lot. Just a great sense of accomplishment. Being 4 and 11. And now to be able to turn this season around and see the fruits of your labor, its a great feeling. The team came together. Performing up to the talent level and have an opportunity to achieve a superbowl. We got to worry about the seahawks. They are a great team coming in here. Russel wilson and marshawn lynch. Talk more about seattle in a minute. I want to put you on the spot here. Weve been debating here the 16 week regular season is over. And now the voting for rookie of the year comes into play. If you had to cast a vote, is it for rgiii or alfred morris. Thats a hard one. They both playoff each other so well. But in this league , its a Quarterback Driven League and without an elite, got to go with robert. It is what it is. Nothing against alfred but if you look at all the great teams, they have a Great Quarterback and so the notch goes to robert on that one. Cant wait to hear the locker room banter after this word gets back to alfred morris. I want you to listen to something. You are always playing in the game. You dont get to hear what we hear when were watching you work. Take a listen to this. One here after a slow start. On the run here , blustered at the 23. Lorenzo alexander applying the wax. You got out there. Thats why you are going to the pro bowl my friend. What is that feeling when you blowup a returner like that and you get up and you are jacked up . Its great. Nothing else like it. Hitting a guy you dont feel it. You kind of run through him. To create that energy and excitement and change momentum of the game wherever were at in it, its awesome. Were the tone setters and thats what i try to go out and do. You have a lot more of this season to go. But you were voted to your first ever pro bowl. I think its been longly over due. What does that mean to you . Are you taking the kids . Im taking my mom and my uncle as well. Its going to be a family affair. Everybody thats played a huge role in my success throughout the years starting back to where i was a baby. Im taking everybody. Its very humbling and gratifying to be recognized by your peers, the fans and coaches. Its a lot of hard work that goes into it. A lot of stuff people dont see to get to that type of status and raise your game week in and week out especially when people are game planning. A lot goes to danny smith, my teammates guys in the past that have helped me develop into this player i am today. Were going to talk to you this time next week, that means you will have beaten seattle. You have a busy week. Get it done and see you next week. Appreciate it. Happy new year. You too. You can follow him on twitter as i do. The pro bowl representative of your washington redskins. Pregame show on sunday for the seahawks at 3 30 and 4 00 the National Boys in la takeover. Kick off is at 4 30 right here fed ex field. We got home playoff football in the nations capitol. Pretty darn cool. Happy new year to us. Really. Man we deserve it. Weve been waiting a long time. Dave ross, thank you. Time for our last oh, we already did that. And dave ross in the new year got to help us out. Still ahead in the buzz bin. Extra day to decide who should deserve hollywoods top prizes. Right back with more of your sports breakfast. [ male announcer ] there are plenty of reasons to be jolly at the chevy yearend event because chevys giving more. More efficiency with sonic and cruze. More function in equinox and traverse. More dependability with the legendary silverado. And more style in the allnew malibu. 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Register for the 3day now. woman its just been an amazing, amazing journey. I love these people. And its beautiful apparently the academy is having a little trouble with the switch to online balloting. The academy of Motion Pictures arts and Sciences Says its extending the nomination deadline so voters have the deadline to figure out the new system. First year balloting is all online. Voters are now duo owe votes rather are now due friday. The nominees will still be announced thursday january 10th. The queen of pop. Is that her title now . Madonna proves once again why she has earned that title. Grossed nearly 30 million in tour revenue during 2012. Unbelievable. Also top on the polls are bruce spring teen. Roger waters claims third and cold play taking 4th. Rounding out the list lady gaga. The new madonna. I didnt realize madonna was still relevant. Still ahead, this morning Paul Reed Smith joins us live in studio to talk about his craft. Plus hes going to play music for us. Well tell you why hes in town also. First, get fit in 2013. Up next were going to dance. Im heading over to studio b to learn aerobics to stay healthy in the new year. New year. share everything. Share brotherly love. Share one ups. Mom . Mom . The share everything plan. Lets your family share a pool of data across 10 devices with unlimited talk and text. Get a spectrum 2 by lg for 49. 99 im halfway to your heart you have to let me know so i dont make my worst mistake turn around and let you go [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. Made with sweet, smooth Peanut Butter and salted, roasted peanuts. Sweet and salty nut bars by nature valley. Nature at its most delicious. Welcome back, everybody. We are talking about an annual dotson walk. New york has its crystal ball drop. This is happening in key west florida. Little help from four legged friends. Sunny key west rang in 2013 by strolling down the street for the dotson walk. Many of the pooches were dressed to impress. Some folks getting a hitch there too. And time to say hello to our pet of the day. Got to do it quietly. He is really relaxing. This morning we say hello to gunner. Two year old boxer. And his owner says he is such a treat to have. And i dont doubt that at all. For your pets chance at being our pet of the day, email their picture at petpix wttg. Com. All right. For many the new year means new resolutions and that means getting healthy were going to talk about getting your body right and exercising. Were going to talk about people that do do it right now. Were going to talk with the experts. You are an expert right . Pretty much. She is with beautiful me aerobics school. Thank you for coming in and talking with us. Youve been doing this for four years . Yes. How did you get started . I used to take a salsa aerobic class. And half of the class would follow me. They were like you should get your own class. If you want to be a part of the class, what do you do . Learn the routine or go with you . You just give me a call. Ill schedule you to come in. You can walk in or make an appointment. And bring yourself and a good attitude and well work with you. Were like family. Theyve been traveling with me for the last four years. So whats the benefit of this . Tell me how it works as far as exercise. People always say they are going to get in shape. So tell us whats special about this. The special thing is you should get started early. Not wait until january the 1st. You should be doing this all year round. Its a commitment. And the way i look at it, you can be interested in something and that means that you just come into class maybe once a week or Something Like that. But if you are committed to your Fitness Program you are going to be there when you need to be. Like the people who get ready to go on vacation and show up for a couple weeks. Tell us how the routines go and some of the things you do. Well, this is beautiful me dance aerobics. I teach hip hop cardiohip hop and international dance. Thats belly dancing and some other things. And i also teach zumba. And we also have line dances. We incorporate that. Its like a fun atmosphere. We got about a minute 30 left. Give us example. We got to give them face time too. You are working it out. Tell us what you are going to do. Were going to do a routine to super base. Its a total bodywork out but working on your arms and legs. So you are going to take us to break with the routine. This routine is four minutes. We only got about a minute and 20. Give us about a minute and 20. That will work. Take it away. Its all you. Keep it low. Work it. Come on. Work it. Closed captioning brought to you by theres a live shot. A lot of clouds across the area. Mostly cloudy day today with cool temperatures. Highs only in the low 40s. Bring a jacket. But typical weather for the 1st of july. Sunshine in the forecast tomorrow but cold with highs in the 30s. Theres your 7 day. And you can see that for the remainder of the week temperatures on the cold side. Thanks, tucker. Well his guitars are played by the worlds most famous musicians. And this morning the founder and the owner of prs guitars Paul Reed Smith joins us in studio. Made his first guitar in college. Thanks for coming in. Happy new year. Thanks for having me. Are you local still . I want to say welcome home. Gosh yes. Im a maryland boy. Happy you are here today. When i was reading over this big impressive bio, my question was how cool is all of this for you . If you could just stop for a minute. Once in a while, there are really special moments like youll see somebody youll play music with do Something Special or the kids well teaching will do something extraordinary outside their age group. You well up a little bit but concerned by 280 employees still have jobs. And you say that and it sounds very humble but we talked about st. Marys but when you look out there you have to see the influence you have. I think were aware of our position. If Carlos Santana takes a guitar and takes it on stage, my first concern is its not been played more than 15 seconds, i want to make sure it works right. Theres a magic to guitars. If you sit on a couch and playing a guitar you love, you are in no pain. Almost like the most sophisticated way of being in a good place. Right. How did you know youd have a love for this . When anybody starts that, they dont realize im going to be super successful and my name is going to be synonymous. I had no idea. How did you say im going to build a guitar and sell it to somebody and they are going to want to play . I had a dream if i could make Carlos Santana a guitar, everything would be better. And i remember he played late night and it was nothing of closeups of the guitar. Of the the guitar the whole time and i walked downtown and nobody treated me any different. Nothing changed. Something had shifted but nobody knew. That was the beginning of trying to start the company. When rock stars like that give their name to your products, you have a chance to go out and compete. And it got me an appointment. If you build one, i know you take it out there and you play. You have a band. But are you ever like this one didnt write. What do you do . All the time. Whats the method there do you go back and perfect that one . Do you start over . We want to get into the mind. All of that. All that. You are compared to the guitars that were great in history. Compare to the most recent things. You compare in your mind to the way it sounded and felt or played. Its an ex tees expertise. I know you are here to play just a little bit. Oh, sure. [ guitar ] all right. And so we said youre local and you are here but you are paying it forward this new years day. The master classes. You have two of them this weekend. Can you tell us what folks can get in on . One on the 5th is the buoy town center. And the next one is in annapolis. But anybody in the dc area is invited no matter what age group. Originally it was designed kids could come and get lessons from some of the greatest musicians in the world. Debate some of the best. Were going to teach and let the students play in the band and slowly were going to take ourselves out and let them become the band and at the end, there will be a concert. Love it. We want to teach. We want to give back all these great gifts weve been given. And teach these kids. Weve done it before. But now were starting this process of getting all these musicians together. That warms my heart. There it is. All right. Of course this is Paul Reed Smithrl the information on our web site. It is going on
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