Lets get Team Coverage. We want to tell you more about that breaking news story on i50 in annapolis maryland. Theres an overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 that could put a halt to your morning commute. Annie yu is live on the scene with the latest. Hey, annie. Reporter good morning, holly and maureen. Thats right, Maryland State Police tell us just after 2 oclock this morning, a tractortrailer somehow overturned and so its causing quite a disruption along route 50 here this morning. Since that time, there has been a heavy presence of Police Activity straight ahead. Accident is on the westbound side of 50. This is just after Saint Margarets road. All lanes on the westbound side are closed and so for those of you traveling from the Eastern Shore headed back to d. C. Youll be forced to get off at exit 29 which is Cape Saint Claire road. Eastbound cars are approaching. You are getting by with one lane on the right side because of all the large debris thats scattered from the westbound side, they arent allowed to open up the other they have one right lane getting by apparently this truck was carrying Meat Products. The department of environment is also on scene assisting to clean up the diesel fuel spill from the tractortrailer before they even begin to upright the tractortrailer. So, obviously this is going to take a few hours. Maryland state Police Warning folks to avoid the area if they can or find an alternate route maybe before or after depending on which side youre on. We can also tell you that there are no injuries, so that is the good news coming out of this this report coming out of along route 50 here. So, check back in with us and well bring you the very latest as soon as we get it. Back to you all in the studio. All right, annie yu on the scene for us this morning. 5 02 is the time. Want to take you to this right now. Huge question here in the nations capitol. Will senator al franken resign today. A chorus of calls for him to resign grew very loud on wednesday when more than 30 senators said their colleague must go. Hill for this this morning. Mel. Reporter you may remember it was november 16th when Leann Tweeden spoke publically about frankens inappropriate behavior toward her before he was a senator. Well, now two more women have accused franken of unwanted groping and kissing bringing the total number of accusers to eight. Frankens support in the senate has now vanished. Dozens of Democratic Senators men and women, are calling for minnesota senator al franken to resign. After the first accusation, franken apologized and said he would cooperate with any Senate Ethics committee investigation. Then more women came forward with stories of franken groping or trying to forcibly kiss them on the mouth. After the rebuke from colleagues on capitol hill, frankens office said the senator will make a public announcement, then followed up with this tweet on wednesday, 6 00 p. M. , senator franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in d. C. Tomorrow. Any reports of a final decision are inaccurate. Now, we should tell that you only one of incidents happened while senator franken was actually a sitting senator. A group of staffers in his office also signed letter of support for the senator. Hes also denied the most recent accusation of forcible kissing calling it preposterous. He did tell minnesota media that he is a warm person who likes to hug people and he is now learning that some of those interactions he may have crossed the line. Live on capitol hill, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Melanie thank you. 5 04 is our time. The other big story on capitol hill today, action to avoid a Government Shutdown. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tomorrow. House leaders theyve planned vote for today on a bill to keep the government running at least through december 22nd. The senate is due to take it up after that. Avoiding a Government Shutdown will likely be a big topic when President Trump meets with Democratic Leaders nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer later today. Lets get the latest on the California Wildfires now. Ventura county Officials Say toward the town of ojai. At this point the flames throughout the l. A. Area have prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people and have destroyed hundreds of homes. 5 05 right now. You know, just feel so bad for those people out west. Incredible images. Theres no natural relief coming. Those winds are supposed to stay strong. Did i hear this morning, i thought i heard someone say there are even like Hurricane Force winds some of them. Oh, yeah. Thats crazy. The santa ana winds are something out there. From a forecast perspective that usually brings heat, a lot of warmth to the area but if theres fire going its just fuel. Oh, goodness. Very unfortunate. Well hope for the best and hats off to all the men and women out there who are doing their best to stop the flames. Indeed. Outside here at home we have some clouds out there. Showers down to our south, theyll stay there. No rain in the forecast today so some good news there and we should see more sunshine and our winds will be out of the west today which will help warm us up. I guess you could say that to right around 50 degrees. Which is about average for this time of year. 43 right now in washington. Manassas, though, look at you, youre cooling down to 29, dulles 34, gaithersburg 37 degrees. Its jacket weather once again in december and there is a bit of a wind chill. Winds will not be as bad as yesterday but they will be breezy from time to time and feels like 37 as you step outside here in d. C. , 34 dulles, 32 gaithersburg. Frederick good morning to you, 27 for you, 27 at winchester is your current wind chill. All right, take a look at your forecast for today. Its not awful. 50 degrees, mix of clouds and sun but i think unlike yesterday, i think its more sun than clouds today. Winds a little gusty from time to time but this is generally speaking right about where we should be. All right, thats weather. Over to erin now for a busy morning on those roads. Hey, erin. Thats right. 5 06. We have Team Coverage out here on 50. As you head from the Eastern Shore big delays this morning across the bay all traffic is being diverted to maryland 179 Cape Saint Claire from 50 westbound. You can see that backup a few mile backup and the offramp is completely jam packed. We have an overturned tractortrailer, a fuel spill that needs to be cleaned up. We have reports that the tractortrailer was carrying Meat Products so it could be out there for quite sometime. Eastbound debris has one lane getting by on the eastbound side. One lane is getting by so delays there as well. As we take a look at the camera beneath that is the top side of the beltway. Traffic is cruising just fine. We do have another issue. Eastwest highway at fairview avenue road closed because of low hanging wires from an earlier crash. Please use caution as you head out on that portion of maryland as well. Outside the beltway another crash 95 southbound after powder mill road. No delays just yet but 295 is wide opened if you want to keep it to that instead. Metro service did pick up. Metro rail lines on time except the red line. Ongoing delays from holly and maureen. Coming up. Has Corey Feldman been vindicated. Looks like actor Corey Feldman may have been telling the truth about sexual abuse 25 years ago. Its 5 08 right now, 42 degrees. Were back after this. 5 09. Were following breaking news out of annapolis, maryland. Theres an overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 in the westbound lanes at exit 29. This is a live look right now. Crash happened just after 2 00 a. M. Drivers are being routed off at exit 29ing, routed off at exit 29 and there are lane closures in the eastbound lanes. Happening today, the michigan sports doctor accused of molesting dozens of gymnasts will be back in court. Larry nasir will be sentenced for having a collection of child pornography. Federal prosecutors are seeking a 60 year sentence for that crime. He admitted molesting sev gymnasts. Look like Corey Feldman may have been telling the truth all along about sexual abuse 25 years ago. The Santa BarbaraSheriffs Department says it has found evidence it claimed it didnt have. An audio tape of feldman naming names back in 1993. Feldman has been saying for years that he and other child actors were abused as minors by a pedophile ring in hollywood. The Sheriffs Office says the recording is being turned over to the Los Angeles Police department. Victims of the mysterious invisible attacks on the u. S. Embassy in cuba may have more than just hearing loss. Doctors say they are showing signs of brain abnormalities. 24 government officials and their spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and hotels in havana. The United States calls them specific attacks but says it doesnt know who is that behind them. Cuba has adamantly denied involvement. The u. S. House has made it easier for gun owners to carry concealed weapons lines. Democrats say it will endanger Public Safety by overriding states that allow concealed weapons but with much tighter restrictions than some other states have. Coming up on fox5 news morning,. Do you like where you work . Find out what company is the best place to work. Any guesses . I probably know more whats not the company, right . Okay, well just leave it at that. As we head to break, lets take a live look across the d. C. Right now. 11 minutes past the hour. 42 degrees on this thursday morning. Fox5 news morning coming right back. 5 13 and we are following breaking news out of annapolis, maryland. There is an overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 in the westbound lanes at exit 29. Heres a live look at it right now. That crash happened just after 2 00 a. M. Drivers are being routed off at exit 29 and westbound lanes are closed. And all three eastbound lanes are also closed. Officials are waiting on the department of environment to clean up a diesel fuel spill from the overturned big rig. We do have a crew on the scene. Well bring you updates and erin will get you work arounds. 5 14. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making news this morning. Southern california under siege. Raging wildfires out west have scorched more than 100,000 acres. The wind conditions are expected to be extreme today making it harder for firefighters of course to battle the flames. 200,000 people are under evacuation orders. So far no deaths to report, only a new injuries. Senator al franken will hold a news conference. There are reports he may announce his resignation. Several Democratic Senators say franken should step down. This happening after a sixth woman came forward yesterday accusing franken of sexual misconduct. Happening today americans will observe national the day is dedicated to honor the americans who died during the attack on pearl harbor. Here locally we will remember and honor those who died at a special event at the National World war ii memorial. Wreaths will be placed at the freedom wall. More than 200,000 americans died during that attack on pearl harbor. 5 15 on this thursday morning. Taking a live look outside, things looking pretty calm, 42 degrees your temperature. Mike thomas talking about whats in store for us the rest of the day. Yeah, it should stay calm, thats the good news. We saw some high thin clouds in that shot there if you were staring int intently enough. We should get a little bit more sun today. Feeling like december should with temperatures around average, 49, 50 degrees is your average daytime high today. We should be right about 50. Stalled out frontal boundary off the coastline. Thats why we had the clouds most of the day yesterday and some of us especially those that live south and east of town will continue to see some clouds as we roll through the afternoon. You live north and west, youll see more sunshine today. Temperatures all around the country now really for the most part air moving in. Look at the blue that just overtook the map here. 43 in washington and were one of the warmer spots on the eastern seaboard. 27 in cincinnati. Buffalo 32 and they are measuring snow in feet up around the great lakes today cause all of the lake effect snow they had yesterday. Fargo north dakota 4 degrees, casper wyoming 9 degrees, Denver Colorado 13. So chilly air in place. Certainly winter is at least trying to come into play here. High pressure out to the west filtering in a nice northwest flow. That core of the cold is still up to the north and west for now but its going to be heading in our direction as we head towards the weekend. Also mention this stalled out front. This will play a role in what ill talk about in a second but for today its more just some clouds down to the south and east, more sunshine off to the north and west. All right, snow chances, maybe a little bit of light snow off to the east tomorrow, 43 degrees. And well keep a flurry, just a flurry in the forecast for the weekend. No accumulation locally expected. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin for still talking with my producer tammy trying to sort out the information. Annie is at the scene giving us Team Coverage. Great to have a fox presence out there. There is a tractortrailer crash overturned tractortrailer. Theres a fuel spill. The tractortrailer was carrying Meat Products. Right now all lanes of 50 westbound are completely shut down at exit 29. Thats Cape Saint Claire road. Julyoull have to detour there. This is a live look from the scene. Just to clarify you can see one lane is in fact getting by eastbound. We did have some conflicting reports but one eastbound lane does remain opened past the scene. If you want to avoid getting stuck in any delays you can always take two over to College Park Way. Now for the detour on the westbound side Cape Saint Claire overto College Parkway down to and back onto 50. It will add a lot of extra time to your commute and back up secondaries. No word on when theyll be able to open all of those westbound lanes and eastbound lanes are impacted because of all of the debris from that westbound crash. Now aside from that we have this morning. We have a fire in the district. Second street between d street and e street in northwest. Fire is blocking all lanes and just keep in mind traffic exiting the third street tunnel southbound at d street you have to turn west onto d street. Something to keep in mind for your morning commute in the district. Aside from that one we also have a crash on eastwest highway at fairview avenue. The road is closed because of low hanging wires due to an earlier crash. Keep that in mind if youre heading out towards takoma park. Another crash on the southbound side after powder mill road. No delays there. Metro is on time except for that ongoing red line work. Back to you. Lets take a look at the stories you were engaging with the most this morning on social media. Wisdom is back with our realtime news tracker. First up this morning the city of tel aviv has a message for jerusalem. No harsh feelings well kind of following President Trumps announcement of using the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. Australia passed a bill allowing samesex marriage across the nation. It changes the definition of marriage of a union between a man and a woman to a union of two people. Five lawmakers have registered their opposition to australias bill. More than a million lower income children are at risk of losing their Health Insurance next year if congress doesnt act soon. Federal funding for the childrens Health Insurance program ran out at the end of september. Chip covers about 9 million children whose parents usually earn too much to qualify for medicaid but not enough to afford private health coverage. Switching gears new chipotle taking a cheesy approach in an effort to lure customers into trying its queso. Theyre offering a free side of queso to customers who wear a cheesy sweater. The company didnt say specifically what a cheesy sweater means but they encourage customers to just surprise them. Finally, this is strange. A sky diving santas grand entrance when horribly wrong. He was flying in an elf on the shelf to a little girl on a Florida Beach but he ended up crashing into a tree and the a light pole. Now, santa broke his leg in that accident but hes expected to make a full recovery. Afterward, the young girl received a note from santa and her elf joking about the situation. It said as we were about to land, this big tree jumped right out in front of us. He also wrote that hes resting in a hotel a that everyone keeps calling a hospital. Those are your trending stories this morning. Santa should leave the flying to the reindeer. Get in that sleigh and cruise. Thanks whiz. Coming up. Want to give the perfect gift for the millennials in your life . Details ahead. A live look across the d. C. Region. It is 5 20 right now and it is 42 degrees. Were back after this. Hi. My name is saturday first class robert rows borrow stationed at Bagram Air Field in ago. Happy holidays to my wife kenya and to all my family and friends in washington, d. C. 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The companys roughly 17,000 employees say working with smart people and an abundance of food, those are really huge pluses. [laughter] you know what you feed your crew. And theyre happy. Exactly. Thats all you need, snacks. Snacks make the world go ground. I got a couple cousins that work at google and thats the number one thing they say is lunch is provided. Im telling you. And they were number five so whats facebook doing. Can you imagine if they gave us lunch here every day how much happier not that were not ecstatic as it is but how much happier we would be. Oh, yeah. Can you imagine. Just coffee and breakfast i would be happy with. Thats why good day is such an amazing show. Because we got the food. Eat and drink, were merry. Im going say again, mike, you fly, ill buy. Today is the day. Oh, yeah, you teased me yesterday. Not today. Im going. All the way. All right, guys 43 degrees outside. Its chilly though. Feels like 38. Still a little today. Mostly cloudy skies but i think we clear to a little bit of sunshine unlike yesterday where clouds kind of held steady especially around d. C. , baltimore. You can see the drier air trying to push. Watch the last few frames there. Trying to push those clouds south and east of town. If you do happen to live south and east of town i think you end up with more clouds today, though. So heres the planner for here in d. C. By 10 oclock partly cloudy 43. Partly cloudy until early afternoon 47. Clouds start to bubble back a little bit tonight, 49 degrees by 4 oclock which is seasonal for this time of year. Erin como tracking a busy morning. 5 26 right now and we are just a mess. We have this new fire in the district right now. Second street between d street and e street blocking all lanes. Traffic exiting must turn west to d street. Big story we have been tracking all morning it will impact your ride heading to and from the Eastern Shore. A crash involving an overturned tractortrailer, a fuel spill. Tractortrailer was carrying Meat Products. Now luckily no injuries but right now look at 50 westbound a few miles of backed up traffic being forced to detour at exit 29 to Cape Saint Claire road. From there you can hook onto College Parkway down to two and back to 50. One eastbound lane is opened with this tractortrailer crash. No eastbound traffic getting by right now. Its very slow pace so you may want to to detour on the eastbound side of two. Heading to and from the bay bridge allow for a lot of extra time especially westbound. Well start to see those detours really causing slowdowns this morning. You can see eastbound traffic making progress with one vehicle getting by. Annie yu is out there tracking the latest. We also have another issue right now. Were dealing with an overturned car, 1400 block of longfellow street northwest. It is blocked. D. C. Police traffic letting us know to follow Police Direction around that crash scene. Aside from that eastwest highway an earlier road closure low hanging wires from an earlier crash. In virginia typical building volume. Back to you guys. Thank 5 27 is our time right now and coming up on fox5 news morning. Southern california under siege whipping winds and raging wildfires continue to scorch the state. We have a live report from california after the break. As we head to break right now, a live look across the d. C. Region, theres National Harbor ferris wheel all lit up. 5 28 is our time right now. Were at 42 degrees. Youre watching fox5 news morning. Dear suspicious snackers, we get it. We know it can be a texture thing, and there are lots of brands to choose from. But its time for you to pick up your big spoon and try new hood cottage cheese. Its the brand people have trusted for more than 170 years. A whole world of sweet, and savory combinations, like pineapple, cucumber dill or classic country style. And since its packed with satisfying protein, youll want to try all of hoods amazing flavors. Dont miss out on delicious. New to your local dairy aisle today on fox5 news morning, the growing calls for minnesota senator al franken to resign from members of his own party ahead of a major announcement today. She vanished eight years ago. Now the man who murdered Pamela Butler may finally lead police to her remains. Mayhem on metro. Exclusive video surrounding the arrest of two during the evening commute. Fox5 news morning starts right now. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for join, us. It is thursday, december 7th. [laughter] erin como, theres mike thomas weather and traffic. Good morning to you both. Hey, guys, good morning. Weather is pretty quiet today. Should see a little bit more sun than yesterday afternoon. Temperatures near seasonal. A little bit of snow in the forecast for parts of Southern Maryland and off to the east. Well talk about that coming up. Hey erin. Normally i love being surrounded by bright lights but not when its 5 31 in the morning are traffic. Tractortrailer crash. Fuel spill. A huge mess. Eastbound side crawling by in one lane, guys, its just a lot to talk about. Yeah, in fact were going to talk about it more. Thanks erin. Its breaking right now out of annapolis, maryland. An overturned tractortrailer on u. S. Route 50 in the westbound lanes at exit 29. So, this is a live right now of the scene. The crash happened just after 2 00 a. M. This morning. Drivers routed off at exit 29. All three westbound lanes are closed. Officials are waiting on the department of environment to clean up a diesel fuel spill from that overturned big rig. Well bring you any updates of course as we get them. Now we want to talk about those wicked wildfires out west. This morning a state of emergency is in effect in Southern California as those massive wildfires continue to burn. Fire crews are battling several different infernos and the raging flames are causing major problems for people who live there. Fo terrace california this morning with the very latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, wisdom and holly. Were just learning just a few minutes ago that the fire, the thomas fire jumped the 101 freeway just north of us. Fire on both sides over there and that freeway is shut down in that area. Where we are closer to creek fire in lake view terrace, thousands of homes are threatened. This fire is still far from over. Some of the strongest winds are [inaudible] today. The 90,000acre thomas fire in Ventura County now spreading its fiery wrath onto the popular vacation town of ojai wednesday night. That fire already torched 150 homes. Now many evacuating fearing the fire could reach theirs. Earlier this week, embers from the fire jumped over the 101 freeway nearly touching the pacific ocean. A series of southern California Wildfires also hitting the heart of los angeles. The inferno stretch of the 405 freeway during rush hour. Nearly 500 acres crowning the hollywood hills. Homeowners of some of the most Expensive Properties in the country desperately trying to save anything they could with garden hoses. Four homes were destroyed, nearly a dozen more damaged. The creek fire grew to over 12 acres and the rye fire is 7,000 acres. Flames briefly shutting down the five freeway at one point. Now, over here many schools in this area are closed today including u. C. L. A. That canceled all classes. Wisdom, holly. Aall right, thank you very much for that report. 5 34 is the time. Also in the news happening today, senator al franken is expected to make a statement sometime today t lawmakers are calling for him to resign as another woman has come forward with Sexual Assault allegations. Now senator franken is dismissing reports that he will resign. Franken s talking with his family and has not made a final decision t the latest allegation against franken comes from a former Democratic Congressional aide who tells politico that franken tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006. More than a dozen lawmakers are calling for frankens resignation. If you normally drive on 95 through stafford county, you may see some activity tomorrow aimed at solving a painful mystery finding the remains of Pamela Butler. Fox5 has learned that investigators will be searching wooded areas along both sides of 95 and woods in the medians between the north and southbound lanes. Butler was an an analyst for the Environmental Protection agency who went missing back in 2009. Earlier this year her boyfriend, Jose Rodriguez cruz admitted to killing her. As part of a plea deal Rodriguez Cruz agreed to tell detectives where exactly he buried butler. I hope that hes telling the truth. I believe that the District Attorney and him pretty good before we actually made the deal, so im hopeful but i do have mixed emotions about it. Even though we know what happened to my sister shes still missing. She didnt have a proper burial. She doesnt have a proper resting place and thats what we want for her. This is the d. C. Police case but with the body possibly in virginia, state police will be the point agency on friday. 5 36 is the time right now. Time to talk weather and traffic. Busy morning out on route 50. Yeah. We got lots to talk about. We have a few more crashes that are going to be a big impact this morning as well. All right. And then theres weather. Yes, theres weather. Weather is always doing its own thing. Good news, its pretty quiet today. Satellite and radar showing just a few clouds out there. Temperatures chilly. Where in d. C. At 43 degrees, 37 in gaithersburg. Compared to this time yesterday in town its about 6 degrees colder. Manassas at 16 degrees colder than this time yesterday. Fredericksburg lever degrees colder so jac remains here in d. C. In washington. Mix of clouds and sun today, but i think more sun than clouds. Maybe light snow tomorrow evening off to the east of town. Dont think we see too much here in town. Well go through that in detail coming up in about 10 minutes. It is a busy morning on the roads. Lets get right to erin. Well start with the biggest problem this morning which is heading to and from the Eastern Shore. Annie yu is out here offering us Team Coverage. An overturned tractortrailer a fuel spill. Luckily no injuries. Tractortrailer was reportedly carrying Meat Products. All 50 lanes remain blocked. You have to detour at Cape Saint Claire road. Offramp is parked. Take that over to College Parkway. One eastbound lanes is opened. You can always exit at two and take that same alternate. Well keep you updated on that but right now its at least a 3090 delay coming off the bay bridge trying to get into annapolis past that closure. Now aside from that we also have big problems on two be 70 southbound. We have a crash involving severa that is 270 southbound before 85. One left lane blocked. We have 2mile delays. Its going to take you 33 minutes just to get from that 70 to 121. And that 33 minute delay is really from 70 down to 85 there so be prepared for that one. We also have a crash in takoma park in maryland eastwest highway at fairview avenue. A crew on the way there where a car hit a pole. Back to you guys. Thank you very much. Coming up on fox5 news morning. Find out what the top facebook moment of 2017 was. Any guesses . Good question. Very good question. Well pontificate. Upon return. [laughter] what do you think . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Im serious, i never know what to get him. Just tell me you got him fios too. Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Today is thursday, it is december 7th. As we take a live look outside rather calm look outside right now. Well talk about what the weather has in store for us in a few minutes. Meanwhile a former radio deejay ordered to pay a symbolic one dollar payment to pop star taylor swift over an alleged groping incident says he actually mailed it to her last week. David muller says he sent her the payment a sacajawea coin and provided a letter to the Associated Press to show the she november 28. Mueller sued swift claiming she had made up the story. A judge fueled in swifts favor last august. Top facebook moment was International Womens day. Event was the most discussed moment of the year. International womens day started in the 19 hundreds. The annual day celebrates womens achievements. Some other big moments super bowl li the Las Vegas AttackHurricane Harvey the total solar eclipse. Nike get something new digs in new york city. The company is shutting down its Flagship Store on 57th street in the spring and its new location will be located on fifth avenue. Its expected to open in early 2019. Nike says the five Story Building will have what its calling a hyper live Retail Concept space. There also be a dedicated nike plus members only floor which will feature personal shopping advice and exclusive products. Happening tomorrow, Spacex Falcon nine rocket scheduled to launch from cape canaveral. The dragon spacecraft delivering cargo to the International Space station. Its the 15th Spacecraft Mission for dragon and its the 13th cargo delivery launch. Launch time set for coming up. Well find out how tom brady is getting speeding drivers to slow down in massachusetts in one community. Weve got details on that straight ahead. Something to do with that pretty face of his i think. Lets go ahead and take a break right now. Live look across the d. C. Region, 5 43 is our time. Were at 42 degrees. You cant predict the market. 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. Whatever you were about to do just became whatever youre about to do after you get coffee. Nothing comes before coffee. Thats why were introducing a new line of cafequality espresso drinks from mccafe. Get a small peppermint mocha for just two dollars. Check out video from the midwest after windy weather toppled stations canopy. This happened in illinois. The chunk of metal fell onto a persons car. Luckily no one was hurt here. Wow. 5 46 is the time right now. Oh, come on, mike, you know what you need to do. Mike thomas. Strike a pose. Is that what you do . What song is this . Did you just hear madge . She just told you to strike a pose. Come on, this is vogue. Theres a specific dance to it. Do it. I dont know it but i know theres a specific dance to it. Is that it no, that would be pulp fiction. V for vogue. Nice try, nice try. Were going to work on that one. Oh, my gosh, hilarious. I give it a c minus today. Seasonally cool for december this afternoon. Chilly to cool. 49, 50 degrees for dayti high. Not awful. Clouds are going to mix with some sunshine today but i do think the sun wins out. Maybe some first flakes of the season for a few of us as we head into friday night. I think best chance of that is going to be east of town. Even Colder Weather arrives as we head through your daytime hours tomorrow and then through the weekend as well. By sunday daytime highs likely in the 30s for just about everybody. Satellite and radar showing a few clouds down south today. Right kind of above the d. C. Line for now. Do expect drier air will win out for a little while this afternoon and then clouds start to return later on this evening but again, i think compared to yesterday we do see the sun a little bit more. 43 right now in washington. Clouds kept temperatures up a little bit last night. Beckley 30 degrees, pittsburgh 32, 20s moving in out to the west. 27 columbus, 22 for chicago. We will see our own dose of 20s as we head through the next several days here. High pressure still in control out west. Nice westerly breeze here. Core of the cold still north and west of town. Thats going to be moving in again over the next several days. Surface today, we have some clouds are goi the forecast down to the south and east of town. More sunshine here and areas north and west. 52 for quantico, just upper 40s north and west of town where its always typically a few degrees cooler than here in the city. Tomorrow real close call. At one time it was looking like we could do a little bit of accumulating snow here in d. C. Well be lucky if we squeeze out some flakes but down south and east of town there could be a period of light snow late tomorrow night into the very Early Morning hours of your saturday. A couple of our models want to put down maybe a little bit avenue grassy coating. Heres one of them just barely gets a little bit of snowfall into Southern Maryland. Again, thats saint marys county, charles county, calvert county. It would be very, very light and again it would only stick to the grass if even and i do think thats going to be a very spotty kind of coating there. Heres your local forecast here. 50 degrees. 43 tomorrow. Maybe a light flurry tomorrow night but again i think most of it stays east. Saturday sunday flurry as well. The big story for the weekend is the cold. 39 sunday. A check of the forecast. Erin is back with traffic. 5 48. Unfortunately a lot of traffic to talk about. Out in annapolis, this is 50, all westbound lanes blocked, traffic being diverted right now to exit 29. Thats 179 Cape Saint Claire road. From there take College Parkway over to two to hook back on to 50. At least a 30 minute delay coming off the bay bridge because of a tractortrailer crash involving a fuel spill. Tractortrailer was carrying Meat Products. That debris spilling overto the eastbound lanes so one eastbound lane getting by. Eastbound traffic may want to exit at two and take your way around to College Park Way and hook back onto 50. Coming to and from the Eastern Shore this morning is going to be a mess. Annie yu is tracking the cleanup process. We have an earlier crash. This is 270. Its involving several cars and injuries before 85. Its moved over to the right shoulder but delays remain tw trip. Now normally i would tell everyone to hop off and take 355 but you dont want to do that right now. We have ongoing construction work right now 355 at mon knocks see river bridge closed in both directions. That will keep that congestion on 270 very heavy. Make sure you leave early. 355 not a option over the monocacy bridge. 410 eastbound and westbound at fairview avenue all lanes blocked. Theres a pole down. Follow Police Direction to get around that. Thats an extended closure. We have a fox5 crew on the way to that scene to check it out. Watch for delays there. As you make your way out in the district we have a disabled car 1400 block of longfellow street northwest. Police directly traffic around that location. As you make your way out in the district as well in northwest we have a fire impacting traffic third street tunnel traffic southbound must at d street turn westbound. Metro is on time except the red line. What a mess for this early in the morning, busy busy. 5 50 is the time. Americans will observe National Pearl harbor remembrance day. The day is dedicated to honor the americans who died during the attack on pearl harbor. Locally we will remember and honor those hoop died at a event at the National World two memorial. Wreaths will be placed at the freedom wall. More than 200,000 americans died during the attack on pearl harbor. The first lady will be at Childrens National hospital in northeast d. C. To read christmas stories to the children there. Melania trump will be there this afternoon. No word yet on what book shes going to read to the children. Ride sharing apps are a popular way for people to get around. Lyft is sharing its most popular and pickup and drop off spots in the d. C. Area. The most popular restaurant busboys and poets. The most visited university is georgetown. Other popular places include nats park and mgm National Harbor. Nine minutes before 6 00 were talking on the web. The stories that youre engaging with the most this morning on social media. Maureen is back with whats trending. Maureen. Good morning to both of you. First up hall of fame quarterback warren moon being sued fosued for sexual harassme. A woman accuses the former houston oilers star of forcing her to wary vealin clothing and making her sleep in the same bed during overnight trips. The woman says on one of those trips she woke up with moons hand between her legs. She also claims that moon slipped a drug into her drink during a trip to mexico and then pulled off her bathing suit. Moon has not yet responded to the allegations. Meanwhile more trouble for harvey weinstein. Six women are now suing him and the studio he cofounded. 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This years tree is an engleman spruce which was chosen for a forest in montana. The tree is decorated with thousands of hand crafted ornaments from communities across montana. The annual lig been a washington d. C. Tradition for more than 50 years and seems to be one of the few things uniting both sides of the aisle. You know, you could say that convenient was lit. Hey, lit. Badabump. Ill be here all week. Thanks mo. Six minutes before the hour right now, lets say hello to our facebook fan of the day and today its jessica. Jessica was nominated by her mom saundra thompson. She says jessica is 15 and she has made the honor roll for four straight years. Thats what im talking about. Great accomplishment for you jess today. Mom says that you also want to become a veterinarian some day. Thats some awesome aspirations. Great work and we hope you have a fabulous day today. So are we going have a fabulous day, thats the question, mike thomas. I think so. I think shes got a pretty good one. Congratulations by the way. Satellite and radar out there showing not snow here but look at the lake effect snow, its been cranking for the better part of the hours up there with cold air moving in over the lakes. This is snowfall totals just in the past day. Theyve already done six to 12inches just north of buffalo and north and east of watertown in new york. And again, several areas in there waking up to snowfall of over a foot. So you want winter thats where you go for now although wintertime temps moving in around town slow but steady. Chilly. After school 46 to 52, thats very seasonal for this time of year. And colder air is on the way. Right now the core of the cold remrerains off to our north and west. Strong northwest flow going to continue to bring in the cold. By the time we get into the weekend, sunday highs only in the 30s by sunday afternoon. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast, a couple of snow chances though nothing too extreme. 50 today. 43 tomorrow. Tomorrow night into saturday morning theres the chance of a little bit of light snow down east of town especially Southern Maryland but mostly the Eastern Shore will have the best chance of that. Passing flurry each of those days but the stories again the cold, 44 on saturday and only 39 on sunday. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back with traffic. Its chaos out there this morning, erin. Absolute chaos at 5 56. Unfortunately this is a look at a huge delay on 50 westbound. Annie yu getting more information as well. Theres an overturned tractortrailer, a fuel spill. No injuries luckily. Tractortrailer was carrying reportedly carrying Meat Products. All traffic westbound as you cross the bay bridge trying to get to annapolis forced to detour at exit 29 to Cape Saint Claire road. Hooking onto College Parkway back to two to get onto 50. At least half hour delay of standstill traffic there. One lane eastbound gets by. Several lanes blocked because of debris. So give yourself extra time in both directions. This is a new crash. This is 95 and northbound at Prince William parkway blocking the right lane. Were seeing big delays picking up from dale see through woodbridge. We have other delays on 270. Its improving because of an earlier crash involving injuries and several vehicles moved over to the right shoulder minute commute between 70 and 109. 355 dont take that as an alternate coming out of frederick. Long term closure in both directions over the Monocacy River bridge. You have to keep it to 270 to get around that. Keep it to fox5. We got you covered. 6 oclock hour coming right up. This is fox5 news morning. Right now at 7 00, trouble onhe a traffic nightmare in annapolis. An overturned tractortrailer causing a big mess and all sorts of problems. Were live on the scene with what you need to know. Also another tough night on the front lines of those California Wildfires. Southern california. Crews trying to save as many homes as possible as a new fire enters the heart of los angeles and the worst could be yet to come. Live look outside in our area on this thursday morning. Its december 7th. Weather and traffic on the 5s at 6 05. Christmas tree all lit up now. What a pretty sight. Just a little less than three weeks until christmas day. Lighting for the capitol Christmas Tree yesterday. We take the good with the bad. Started with the good with the Christmas Tree. Now breaking news out of maryland this morning. An overturned tractortrailer. Lane closures to tell you about along u. S. Route 50 in annapolis. Annie yu is live on the scene with the latest. Whats going on there annie . Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, steve and allison. Well, for about four hours now traffic basically on the westbound side of route 50 came t