Circuit court where the case now sits could stand. The new education secretary took historic confirmation vote in the senate. Two republicans made the vote 5050. Mike pence cast the deciding vote called for in the institution. The senate is equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and nomination is confirmed. The first time the Vice President has been needed to break a tie in a confirmation vote. President trump has plumped to redirect 20 billion in federal funds to expand School Voucher programs and charter schools. No shortage of opinions on the wusa 9 face book page. Thousands of you told us you do not think devos is qualified for the job including a retired teacher. She says i watched the she cant answer questions teachers should be able to answer. And another says time to take back the schools. From lindsay, it should be about our children and appointing someone to look out for their best interests. Devos is not the answer. Weve got an active conversation going on on our facebook page. Wed love to hear your thoughts too. Senate turns attention to the attorney general, jeff sessions, president trumps nominee. Vote counters on capitol hill says he has enough support to win con my con my facing. The vote is confirmation. The vote is tomorrow night the new york democrat says he has serious concerns. He stopped short of saying how hed vote. Yesterday the Top Committee says she was impressed by him but declined to say how he would vote. Joe biden is going to take more time on the train. It was announced hell accomplish a new Domestic Policy Institute at the university of delaware and hid an institute at university of pennsylvania. The former Vice President will have an office on the penn campus in philadelphia. The army cleared the way for completion of controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline. Its notified congress that it will allow the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River reservoir in north dakota. That crossing is how theyll work on the project the Standing Rock sioux tribe worries they will lose water. Theyll keep fighting the project in court. The developer says the pipeline is safe. Well show you video. We want you to take a quake look. Police need to identify two people caught on camera damaging vehicles during the Inauguration Day protest. One person threw a flair into the limousine at that went up in flames. Heres that video. A second person damaged an suv. This was along the 1300 block in the northwest. If you can help identify those people, contact police. Were learning more about a 65yearold woman killed simply trying to cross the street. Ellis was struck by an alleged drunkn driver last night. The woman was leaving a meeting of her eastern star chapter where she had just been honored for her 30 years of service. Unbelievable. Under arrest was jones. He was speeding, drinking, and he didnt stop after he hit ellis with his vehicle. Terminal could soon go but its not for humans. Its for horse. Hit could cost millions but also bring money to the area. We report now from loudn county. People come from around the world. It gets busy in the summertime. Its part of a 1 million business in the county that could grow. Stephanie has a vision forhol this thousd acre farm. International level horse shows all the time. Now her hopes have cleared a big jump. Its a really big deal. Horses from overseas must be guaranteed before competing. A must be quarantined before competing. Now that could be completed. A Feasibility Study shows new york and miami do this now. Having something there have will mean they can easily compete. We know that meanst toll attract many M International riders to the park. That means money. County administrators believe this could bring in 18 million a year regionally. About as much as the final bill for this project. Its good for tourism. It attracts people to stay at hotel, eat in our restaurants. Its good for overall economy no matter where riders are coming from. It helps the entire community. To stay here, the sooner the better. Things ramp up here in frill. In louden county, wusa 9. The project could be finished in some two years. The Elementary Students stuck home for two days after bed bugs took over their schools. Those students start classes tomorrow in southeast washington after being vacant for years. They underwent an energy overhaul to bring it up and be ready. They will be bussed tomorrow morning. Classes will be held up to eight days until it passes thorough inspection. Its winter of course. We know mild temperatures cant last too long. Chief meteorologist is on the carrot. New year, time to get rid of stuff. Key. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. My name is tammy plumlee, and i raise honest, simple turkey for shady brook farms. 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. Taking a look at stories making headlines across america. Police in alabama, florida are on the hunt for two suspected killers. William boyette and mary are wanted for attempted killing of a young mother in pensacola. Kaylas 2yearold son was in the car. One of the suspects physically shot her and stole her vehicle. The child was not hurt. New allegations of sexual assaults on campus this time at North Western university in illinois. Four female students were given date rape drugs at Fraternity House last month. Two of those women say they were sexual assaulted. Both University Police and fraternity have launched normal normal investigations the houston dad is get ago tension on social media for taking his getting attention on social media for taking his son on a spin on the lawn mower down the free way. Police stopped him riding the lawn mower on hov lane. They had to lift him off the ground and carry him to the squad car. He had his son tied to him with a leash. Okay. Orlando police say this armed customer claimed he started shooting because he thought the suspect was reaching for a gun the man who died was among a group of thieves that ran from the store with two carts of stuff. Police are looking for other suspects involved in the incident. Coming up, a possible tornado touches down in new orleans leaving plenty of damage in the chance to perform with to of the worlds most renowned. Now at havertys furniture, its our president s day event, where you can create the perfect home. From now through february 20th, everything is on sale. 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Beautiful. This is part of the program called turn around arts in partnership with the kennedy center. That supports art in d. C. Schools. How fun. Authors of a best selling book are using their novel to talk about police, Police Brutality. He spoke to an auditorium full of students about all american boys. The book inspired by the Trayvon Martin case about a basketball player wrongly beaten by a white police officer. It goes viral. Reynolds is black from university of maryland. He says the solve is start of a conversation. I dont think we enter into this thing as selfrighteous duo. Thats not the case. For us, its we created to add to the pack. Racism is a big Police Brutality is the topic as well. Its not going away unless we talk about it. A presentation for public at 7 00 p. M. Tonight at the Arlington Public LibraryCentral Branch on quincy street. Madonna was in a courtroom where a judge granted permission today for her to adopt two more children. She came under scrutiny in 200609 when she adopted a boy and girl in the same country. Many say she was allowed to skirt the laws. You dont see this everyday. A spacecraft sitting on the side of the road. Arizona state troopers pulled over along a casa grande interstate to check out what looked like an old nasa spacecraft with a parachute attached. It was an old rusted mixer that an artist turn into an attraction. He says land owners plan to keep it. Chest pressure, shortness of breath, cold sweat. These are signs of a heat stroke, as asthma or emotional event. Know the signs of a heart attack. Heart disease is not an old peoples disease. It can strike any age. Wusa 9 reporter now. Reporter we call her mickey. This is the program from her Memorial Service ive kept in my car last two years. Its a bit worn. She was diagnosed with a rare heart disorder when she was in her 20s and experienced a rapid decline. Our prayers were answered and she got a new heart. She knew that was her Second Chance at life. She lived hard and loved hard. She went back to school for a second degree, traveled the world. Met the donor family and fell in she lived 10 years with the heart but lost her life at 37 years old. I show my heart love in memory of this amazing woman, my cousin mickey that taught me to live hard, love hard, love yourself, love others, live life to the fullest. We call the initiative heart love. Free screenings. First one tomorrow at 4 00. Goes until 8 00 p. M. Were partnering with the urgent care at five locations. North arlington, manasesus you get to meet our andrea. Screenings 4 00 to 8 00 p. M. Go to our wusa 9 app or heart love. Right now crews are searching for more people that might have been injured by seven tornadoes that hit the area today. Dozens of people have been hurt. Tornadoes ripped through buildings and foundations that tore down power lines. One tornado ripped a two mile pass through the area. Government declared a state of emergency. Its quite another thing to see nit motion today. See it in motion today. Have you seen the debris around the tornado. I guess the good news is it happened during the day during the day, better chance of a warning. For us, more record highs tomorrow. We saw record highs in the airports. Numbers tonight at 1 1 00. Right now temperatures still in the 60s. 64 downtown. Winds out of the south at 16. Were all going to hold tonight. Going to be warm with temperatures in the 50s. Bus stop temperatures 53. Maybe a shower. Mainly dry and record highs possible tomorrow. Probably not as many. Not quite as warm tomorrow. Thursday, colder with snow showers. Roads okay even though we may see a period of heavy snow thursday morning. Dont want to scare you. Models predicting snow. 1. 3, 2. 6 inches. Thats all going to be on grass if were to occur. Going to be warm on roads. Mainly heavy rain wednesday night. Midnight to 7 00 a. M. Service temperatures going to be above 32 all day on thursday. Roads are just going to be wet. Rain to snow north and west before 7 00 a. M. Thats a good bit. Period of heavy snow possible if you wake up in the mornings. Again, service temperatures 3536, 37. Not going to cause problems. Snow showers and flurries continue all thursday. So, tonight no real problems. Temperatures in the 60s, tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the 50s to start your day. We get to lunchtime below 60s. Few clouds tomorrow night. We take you now to thursday morning 6 00 a. M. Future cast does have snow falling most places. Look at the temperatures. 37. Even 42 downtown. It can snow when 40. Upstairs cold enough, downstairs doesnt matter. Melts on contact. 63 by 1 00. Snow showers thursday, temperatures falling. Had to put 50 as the midnight temperature. 39 by friday. Winter rolls in and rolls out just as quickly. Milder on saturday. Low 60s on sunday. Showers monday, low 60s. Back in low 50s on tuesday. See that game last night. Washington wizards go toe to toe and defendant champs. Talking about the take aways from the overtime loss coming up. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. Tives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great pric on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. A lot of people call last nights gaming best of the nba season so far. Ive never seen one play out like that. Wizards and defending champs, cavaliers at the verizon center. Wizards up by three. Three seconds to go in regulation. Full court pass to lebron fading out of bounds. Everyone is like how did that happen . Theyre like no. Washington could go onto lose to cavs in overtime despite lebron fouling out early in the session. Look at that dude. Hes numb. They lost 140135. Wizards winning streak is over. He said this game is about respect. I respect the guy now. This is a game weho suld have won. Lebron made a heck of a shot. Give a lot of credit to him. We had opportunity to go to double overtime. We fought, didnt ever quit. I think got to keep this momentum going even though we lost a tough game. They cant hang their head. They thousands battling bad weather downtown. Here to celebrate the fifth super bowl win. Even played catch with a reporter during the victory parade. Looks like the duck boat is slowing the down. Oh. Steve burton with the pass to brady. There you go. Perfect throw there. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declared today new England Patriots today. Were going to declare it georgetown day. They take on villanova, number two in the country. Good game. New year, time to get rid of stuff. Simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. 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