Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 20171208

This is tomorrow morning. No issues today. Ill have all the details on your friday forecast and your weekend forecast. Well talk more about the snow coming up in just a minute. Erin. Friday morning commute traffic is light in the district. Looking good on new york avenue so far. We have a problem in prince georges county. Utility work 214 at brightseat road. Watch for those closures in the left lanes. Well keep you updated and take a look at a crash on 29 out by timber wood on the top side of the beltway next. 7 01. Following breaking news from gaithersburg maryland where police are searching for three armed men. Were told the suspect stole weapons before they left or they fled. Fox5s mel i wa Melanie Alnwicks us live with the latest. Reporter good morning steve and allison. Still no information from police in terms of was this person targeted or was this completely random. But it was definitely a very scary situation here at the gaithersburg station apartments overnight last night. It happened about 11 30 and the Victim Told Police that he work, there was a knock on his door t he looked outside and he saw a man who looked like he was in distress so the victim opened the door and then three men burst inside. They all had handguns and they demanded property. The victim said take what you want. They took off with the victims wallet, a laptop, cell phone and two guns, a long gun and a handgun. Now, we dont know exactly what type of what model of weapons those are at this point but were working to confirm that because there were earlier reports it could have been an ar15. Now, no injuries in this. That is the good news. However, still some very dangerous guys out on the street right now. Lets show you their descriptions according to Montgomery County police, one is a black male 6 feet 2inches tall with dark skin. A short haircut and what they describe as a day old beard. The second suspect is a hispanic male and they called it a chinstrap beard so i guess thats something thin somn underneath his chin. The third suspect we dont have any physical description of other wearing dark clothing. Now, here is the vehicle that you want to be on the lookout for. It is a 2004 to 2006 police style White Ford Crown vic with tinted windows and a spotlight. Sort of like what yu would see on a Police Vehicle or a taxicab, that sort of chrome light on the side of the car. One more thing. Very distin distinctive. Take a look at the license plate. The words maryland proud ignore those because thats just the example that is on the mva web site. Its got that maryland flag along the bottom, thats the important thing you need to look for so if you see that car with the maryland flag, please call Montgomery County police or the city of gaithersburg police. Very important that they are able to make an arrest in this case as soon as possible. Live in gaithersburg, im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. Thank you very much, melanie. Also developing this morning in firefighters worked to put out flames. This is at a hotel in jessup. Crews responded to the red roof inn on washington boulevard just after midnight. That fire was under control in about 10 minutes. Were also told there were no injuries. That investigation is ongoing. Investigators will resume their search today for the remains of a d. C. Woman who went missing back in 2009. Earlier this year pamela butlers boyfriend Jose Rodriguez cruz admitted to killing her. As part of a plea deal he agreed to tell detectives where he buried butler and this morning at 10 00 a. M. A small portion of the 95 express lanes in Stafford County will be closed while Police Search for butlers remains so you wont be able to access the express lanes at garrisonville road for several hours. Talk a lot about the pending snow. The threat of weekend weather has road crews out and about crews treating the roads trying to get a jump on whatever snow heads our way. Fox5s bob barnard is driing along 495 in Northern Virginia. He joins us live with more. Theyre busy the roads, right, bob . Reporter yeah, you can see it, guys, were on the inner loop near Tysons Corner and i dont know if if our go pro camera will allow you at home to see it, but there are white lines where you can see the roadway has been treated with this brine and liquid magnesum chloride. They actually hit this part of the beltway last night vdot did. Theyre working kind of around the rush hours getting ahead of this Winter Weather advisory which takes effect at midnight tonight until 4 oclock tomorrow in the district. And basically vdot is saying you can expect some snow, slippery Road Conditions and so theyre getting ahead of it. Here on the major roadways like the beltway but also some of the secondary roads. And clearly as we always say, the ramps and bridges those surfaces that tend to freeze first are also being treated. Vdot says, you know, around the different rush hours, if you see their trucks give them a little bit of room. Theyre going to be working, you know, throughout the rest two things of advice for you guys. If you have to be out tomorrow and theres going to be snow on the road, gas up and go slow. The two pieces of advice. And right now, you do see the road surfaces are treated. Conditions are absolutely fine now. This afternoons rush hour could be a little different, though, guys. Oh, boy, all right, bob, thank you very much. Well check back in with you later. Better to get ahead of it. The big question two Big Questions obviously everybody wants to know how much snow were going to get. Thats question number one. Question number two has it been mild enough that if it does snow the roads should be okay . Certainly the major roadways. I dont think well have big problems on the beltway or 95. But. Ground is not frozen solid at this point. Right. As we get into the secondary roads i think thats where well have more challenges. If the snow can be heavy enough it can sort of overcome the fact that it doesnt have temperatures cold enough at the surface to have it stick but that takes some time. This is not going to be a major event but it will many cases well have our first inch of snow of the year. All right. That would be nice. Yeah, and the timing couldnt be better i mean as far as the weekend. A practice storm, this is a good one. Right. But do recall we only got about 3inches of snow last year. In toto. In total. Real. And parts of the area could do 3inches of snow by tomorrow afternoon. Okay. Im enthused every time we say this. I know. Yeah. Bob mentioned the Winter Weather advisory. There you go. That issued about an hour ago. Includes d. C. Baltimore all the counties in and along 95 and Southern Maryland and i think Southern Maryland south. East as you get a little closer to the ocean there will be a sweet spot there where youll likely see the most snow. Well talk accumulations in a couple minutes. Today no issues. 38 at reagan national. 35 dulles, bwi marshall. It will be a cool day. Low 40s and a mostly cloudy day. Ive just been looking and im absolutely impressed with how far south this snow has gotten. Its down to houston this morning. Wthey have a w last time houston had measurable snow 2009. Parts of alabama mississippi under winter storm warnings. Atlanta expecting an inch of snow and we, too, will get a couple or potentially a couple of inches of snow around here late tonight and early tomorrow. Well talk about the timing and how much coming up but today 43. Thank you, tucker. All right. Hey, erin. Good morning. 7 08 its friday. Yay and we have snow tomorrow. This is an exciting day. Right now unfortunately we have a crash. New hampshire avenue and ednor road caution there blocking the right shoulder. Thats not the only problem. 29 colesville road southbound at timber wood avenue a crash blocking the right lane. Looks to be cleared now but we have that residual slow down past New Hampshire avenue toward the beltway. Give yourself about 15 extra minutes. Outer loop top side of the beltway jams up with about a 30 minute delay. 27 minute total right now 95 to the 270 spur. Earlier crash after georgia of a cleared. As we look at the outer loop youre looking great coming up toward 50 from that point to bw parkway. Inner loop jams through oxon hill. 270 has been really pleasant this morning. I dont want to jinx us. 70 to 12116 minute trip and then as you can see through gaithersburg into rockville seeing a lot of green. 270 much quieter so if youre heading down to the beltway, youre in pretty good shape there. Now keep in mind we have those typical delays on 295. Kenilworth avenue from the Maryland Line down to the 11th street bridge, its a 13 minute trip. 11 Miles Per Hour average. Ill metro is on time except for the red line. Fingers crossed were starting to get a break in traffic rather than what weve been seeing all week guys. It would be a nice little start to the weekend erin. Yeah. Lets get out to the west to the latest on that wildfire emergency in southern california. Now six major fires burning the newest in san diego county. Its ripped through a Retirement Community burned two people and killed horses at a racing facility. Ventura area teams are still working to contain the largest fire in the state. Since monday the thomas fire is so b burn until christmas. Some good news. This morning in Los Angeles County fire crews are reporting some progress. Some evacuees were even allowed to return home last night. Harassment claims led to another resignation in congress. Republican representative trent franks. This came hours after al franken was forced to give up his seat. Our holly morris joins us now live from the news room with the latest. Holly. Reporter list just keeps going right. Arizona congressman trent franks says hes resigning. Arizonas trent franks has been in congress for almost 15 years. A career that came to a crashing end yesterday when he announced he was resigning effective early next year. Hes been accused he says of discussing pregnancy and surrogacy issue with his staff conversations that led to a complaint. In a statement franks said he became insensitive as to how the discussion of intensely personal topic might affect others. Its not clear what, if any, other factors came into play, but House Speaker paul ryan wasted little time asking franks to step down on a day when another resignation was dominating the headlines. I will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Reporter minnesota senator al franken announced he was leaving after at least eight women came forward complaining of inappropriate behavior. He used the floor to deny the allegations and took a shot at the president. There is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office. Reporter the House Ethics Committee meanwhile is ramping up its investigation into texas republican congressman Blake Farenthold who faces harassment allegations. One of which appear to have led to an 84,000 payout. He all be resolved. And next week we will find out whether Alabama Republican Roy Moore will be joining the senate. If he wins a special election on tuesday, gop Senate Leaders will have to decide how to deal with the numerous allegations that moore now faces. And that alabama race is really coming down to the wire. The real clear politics average gives moore an edge but hes just a couple of points up over his challenger democrat doug jones. Steve. Al thanks very much. Congress temporarily passing a bill to keep the government running at least until december 22nd. The stop gap legislation aimed at giving negotiators more time to settle budget differences. The gop wants an increase funding. The white house indicates the president will sign the bill. Holiday grinches targeting stores. The tactics thieves are using this year and how police are working to protect your cash. We all have that thing inside. You can keep it chained. But i say, smash the lock, and set it free. Thats the brotherhood of muscle. Crazy seen down in texas. Amazing. Something they dont see very often especially this time of year a rare winter storm moving across texas. This is video from College Station home of texas a m. You can tell they dont get it very often because thats a very weak snowball. Snowball shaming. You can see his lack of experience. Tucking it like a baseball. Perhaps you need to make a Youtube Video on how to make a proper snowball. Maybe its light and fluffy. Corpus christi texas expected to receive 3inches of snow. First comparable snowfall nc mentioned atlanta expecting up to an inch of snow. Wacky weather continues. Its not even winter officially, you know. Wacky preWinter Weather. I do recall we only got 3inches of snow last year. Its possible we could get more this year. Just three. Yeah, 3. 2 i think. Okay. Yeah, its time. All right, so its ground hog day with this snow conversation. I know. Been at it for some years. After midnight tonight. Lets get to it. Lots to talk about. Temperatures right now in the 30s. 38 degrees. That pittsburgh i dont know it keeps coming up one. Its 24 degrees right now. Plenty of cold across the region. This will be the factor in the makings of our snow event. Again, i would characterize this as a medium event for our region. Its not going to be major. Were not talking about a lot of snow but it will be the first one of the season and i think in some cases there will be enough that youll be able to get out there and shovel and move it around a little bit. Working against the snow temperatures have been a little marginal. I think at particularly it may not stick to roadways and that kind of thing as, you know, temperatures around here really have not been terribly cold for the last couple weeks. Snow right now reaching down into parts of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, you can see it down there, winter storm warnings for that part of the world. Were under a Winter Weather advisory which goes into effect after midnight. Youll have no issues whatsoever today. This will mostly move in after midnight early tomorrow morning. I think most of the region wakes up with snow tomorrow morning or a wintry mix if youre off to the south and east and will be with us for the first half of our saturday. Things should taper off in the afternoon. How much snow . I was just about to tweet this tucker fox5 if you want to hit my twitter account or my facebook account, ill put it on there, too, but looks like the heaviest of the snow will be off to the south and east where well be looking at more of three to 6 inches. Up and down 952 to four. Lesser amounts further west. Youre further away from the storm system which will be off the coast. Some snow during the daytime hours tomorrow. Theres your sevenday forecast. Ill have more coming up but it looks chilly as well. Daytime highs only in the 30s tomorrow. All right, the trend is here. The good news its a saturday morning so its mostly a fun event. Fun to love and enjoy. The masses not worried about getting to work like today, erin. Yes, thats true. 7 18. Taking a look at that friday morning ride. A few problems lingering including a utility problem in wprince georges county. 214 at brightseat road. Two left lanes blocked because of a water main break. You can get through in the right lane. Just watch for some delays building in both directions. We have a crash New Hampshire avenue at ednor road blocking the right shoulder. Traffic is get buying in both directions. Pete piringer letting us know about that crash. 66 love what were seeing there. Eastbound 27 minute trip from 234 all the way to the beltway. Minor congestion through fairfax past the vienna metro. Inner loop minor delays through annandale right now and youre looking pretty good through tysons, gw parkway at speed. Dont forget you need the ez pass if youre driving through those hov lanes on that stretch of 66 eastbound inside the beltway into rosslyn. Ez pass flex if you have two or more people in your vehicle. It is free if you have the ez pass flex. You only have to pay the toll if youre a single driver. Seeing nice conditions 395 just a yellow zone 16 minute trip from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. Majority of the traffic from the pentagon to the bridge. Freeway is a little sluggish from the third street tunnel and to the third street tunnel. Metro is on time is on time. This is a nice break compared to what weve been dealing with earlier this morning. We will take it. Erin thanks. Breaking news right now a large s. W. A. T. Team response at a walmart in Stafford County, virginia. Our annie yu is live on the scene. Annie, whats going on . Reporter hey, allison and steve, we just got here not too long ago to a serious situation that Stafford County Sheriffs Office along with the s. W. A. T. Team are working. Just so you know, we are about a hundred yards away from this. We are standing have positioned us so that we are safe and im standing in front of our suv here but this is an ongoing situation. Theres a woman inside this silver car where they have a huge spotlight on, shes sitting in the drivers seat and she is threatening to take her own life. She is armed with a gun. We understand there are no hostages. However, just minutes ago, the s. W. A. T. Team went in and was able to pull out the passenger in the tractortrailer thats behind her vehicle. So, we saw a passenger from the tractortrailer getting out of that side with the s. W. A. T. Team, so he is safe. Whats interesting, and sort of unsettling to me is that this walmart is a 24 hour walmart and it is still opened. I spoke to an associate who just came by to talk to me and she said we got the announcement around 5 oclock this morning that this was going on and its business as usual inside this walmart here a happened a little after 5 oclock but of Course Police and Public Information officer remaining tight lipped about what is actually happening. But we can tell you i see multiple officers surrounding the vehicle in different parts of this Shopping Center and we saw some additional officers pulling up just now and theyre gearing up, but theres an officer to right in front of the vehicle where he has his gun drawn. Hes standing right behind the door here. Im trying to get a glimpse. The door is opening right now. This happened once before, so lets see if if they have negotiated with her and shes able to get out safely but again, this happened just before you guys came to us live. She did open the door once and then shut it. So, we were thinking that maybe, you know, they were able to negotiate with her and get her out safely but looks like shes opened the door again. But you can also hear them trying to speak with her over the loudspeaker there. So, she just closed it okay. So, were going to send it back in you to all and well keep you posted on what happens out here, guys. All right, annie thanks very much. Its 7 21 now. 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Widen your world. Turkish airlines the towering Christmas Tree was lit in saint Peters Square last night. The 65yearold tree excuse me had to sneeze, lost its tip when it was struck by lightning some years ago. A large nativity scene was also lit during the Tree Lighting ceremony. There it is. Pope francis didnt attend the ceremony. Beautiful. Very pretty. Uhhuh. 7 25 right now. Lets check in with tucker get a check on our forecast. Looking at the possibility as you see Winter Weather advisory right behind you. I would say its almost increased to a likelihood here now the Winter Weather advisory. This is going to be fine tuned and its not completely set yet but looking more and more likely well have a period of snow around here after midnight tonight. I think it will really get going early tomorrow morning and be with us for the first half of the day tomorrow. Winter weather a Weather Service and the general thinking is perhaps two to 4 inches of snow in the area that you see here in purple. Higher amounts will be kind of south and east but well have some mixing issues and it may fall for awhile and not stick as temperatures are going to be in the mid 30s so this is not going one of those january or february storms where its been very cold and then it snows. I think well see some melting on the onset. 38 now in washington. Winds out of the north here at nine. No problems today. Thank you. Im getting lots of tweets. Tucker fox5. Tweet me your questions. But as far as milk you always want some milk and some toilet paper in the house. Thats just a general rule of thumb. Snow back to the south and west. Thats my advice for the day. You always want at least a roll of toilet paper and some milk in the house. It will move in early tomorrow morning its already snowing snowing this is extraordinary back into the deep South Alabama mississippi getting snow as well. Plenty more on this coming up and ill show you the expected snow totals in a minute. 36 tomorrow with snow likely. You know what makes me happy. Jam cam. Youre wearing your Cherry Blossom tie. That means you secretly miss warmer temperatures. Right. Hints of spring. Yes. This is how quiet it is today. Right now its a 31 minute trip between 234 and the beltway. This is a jam of the area. Enjoy the commute. Much lighter volume than we were dealing with. Outer loop top side of the beltway college park heavy my overto Georgia Avenue. Police activity looks like its moving toward the beltway there. Well keep you updated. Keep it to fox5. Well be right back guys. Two more lawmakers go down announcing resignation over harassment claims. Republican arizona representative trent franks the latest to step down just hours after minnesota democratic senator al franken said hes giving up his seat joining us now with a look at what happens next kate martel political reporter with the hill g to see you, kate. I think al franken wasnt so much a surprise yesterday. This appears to now have yet another ball rolling. Exactly. This is Snowball Effect that weve been seeing in congress. That just in a master three days we lost three members of the congress, and were hearing new reporting that behind the scenes senator al franken had been hearing pressure from colleagues to resign, but we saw yesterday when an eighth accuser came out a Snowball Effect that 30 Democratic Senators came out against him and told him that he should resign. And then he followed up didnt that yesterday. So its interesting to see how this is being affected. I think the next step that well be looking at is cements. Were hearing a big effort from congress that right now taxpayers will pay any cements that go between a staff and a congress member. And yes, it does kind of cause controversy but i think also interesting to note, yes, it does kind of not smell taxpayers pay. If not they would require victims to have to chase down these Congress Members into their home district goss through local and state proceedings and then have to go through Debt Collection proceedings which may often come out dry. Lets go back to the resignation, though, by senator franken. Did it on the senate floor, also, put it on the record that it doesnt escape him that two very highranking republicans including the president have been accused of Sexual Assault rreally. Is what he said. How far does that go and why would he do that politically . Politically looking at what he said on the senate floor that was a very defiant speech. It was not the remorseful apologetic speech that you would expect from a senator that was resigning. But it does have this effect that, hey, were looking at roy moore is going to be is going to be, um, in a special election in four days and President Trump is going to be campaigning not now in alabama border in pensacola, florida. But does it have these political effects like you were saying, that, yes, the president may not be seeing the ramifications of this access Hollywood Tape an kuser that is have come out but the story may not necessarily be over. Now, some experts have been talking to what would, n would move the ball forward would be to have some of these accusers file lawsuits. Whether or not that will actually play out is kind of the big question, but thats what al franken was hoping to hear. He wants to know this was not necessarily a one off it. He even said that some of these accusations arent true, and want to do bring the other party into it. Surely will be fascinate to go see where this goes from here with al franken such a high profile position position wise to step down now and of course follow up by trent franks announcement yesterday nothing has been proven there but hes saying hes going to step away as well. And now were hearing behind the scenes there could be dozens of others whos stories may soon be told and may come out. I mean this is a huge percentage of congress that could be so lets just say if roy moore gets elected which its looking that he would at this point obviously what has happened in the past allegedly may not keep him from getting elected what if something comes out after hes sitting on the hill. Weve had precedent thats been set with al franken and others stepping down. At what point does this end and is there really that much happening were not aware of . Thats whats going on behind the scenes that we are hearing that this could be such a Snowball Effect like you said. If roy moore ends up winning, takes the Alabama Senate seat, al franken had resigned, i think what were hearing right now from republicans and from some lawmakers that, yes, the alabama voters no, and yes, they are using this information to really to come up with who they want to represent them, that should we be able to remove them from office. But this really comes back to the ethics committee. They have mounting number of investigations and those can be fairly excruciating they can be long, they can be grueling process cease come up with an effect and may not remove them from office, but, yes, you can expect to see with roy moore if he wins there will be investigations and he will not have a fun time in the senate if he does win. Lets talk about in the seconds we have together the balance of power here and you hate to bring politics into this because were talking were talking bad behavior, and that we have seen as bipartisan here, but what does happen to the power shift now next minnesotas governor will appoint someone but then in the general election. What does it mean for democrat to be out and also conyers as well . Yeah. So lets start with the senate. Were looking at now, um, the governor will be, um, putting in replace many looking like it will be Deputy Governor whos a democrat. Minnesota is a Democratic State but it is interesting to note that President Trump only won by a few Percentage Points in 2016. So thats not necessarily a safe seat for democrats as it once was. Now, if were looking at the house side, yes, representative conyers who is a democrat but we also lot of representative franks whose a republican. Both of these seats i think are, that is correct, sir both going to be interesting elections. It matters more in the senate i think especially now that if we look at the general election lets say republican won and roy moore has just won the special election, the balance of power will be shifting. But, um, its going to be interesting to see. We will definitely have a democrat for the next year but 2018 is every more important i know thats what you keep here politically. Its all going to be back down to 2018. I hate to think it from that standpoint. Me too. If youre in a assaulter or abuser it doesnt make any difference whatsoever. Right. Kate, thanks for joining us. Lets check in with Tucker Barnes. Get ready for snow no matter where you are who you are. Tuck weeks not exempt from it. At least locally, steve. Again this is not going to be today. This is going to be tomorrow. So the good news many of us dont have school and work tomorrow but the potential is there. Lets go right to the maps that wean for good part of the area here by tomorrow afternoon, yeah, first snow for d. C. Looking more and more likely. Again this is set to this forecast will change up a little bit over the next 24 hours. Were getting more confidence that we are going to have a period of snow around here early tomorrow morning that will be with us for much of the day tomorrow. 38 now in washington. Going to be a 11 today. Daytime highs only in the low 40s take jacket. That one in pittsburgh is not accurate by the way. Last look it was 23 degrees there. Okay. There is our system developing off to to our south and west its snowing in places that dont typically see snow an entire winter. Alabama, mississippi, all the way down to houston we have a winter wet advisory atlanta expecting an inch of snow. Extraordinary. All of that will be pushed up into our region later this afternoon ton night. We can expect period of snow around here generally nine, 10 00 oclock tonight if youre in Southern Maryland and after midnight here in the immediate washington area. Ill have plenty of details on both our Winter Weather advisory and how muc snow we can expect here coming up in just a minute. But theres your forecast for your friday. 43. No problems today. If you want to, you know, make a run to the store or you have any concerns this is not going to be major storm. Couple inches of snow expected. Ill have more details in just a minute. Erin. 7 37. Taking a look at your morning commute. And we are track something problems. 66 eastbound unfortunately new crash before nutley street blocking the left lane Left Shoulder. Volume is light enough that its not causing any major delays. Well let if you know that changes. You can see just 34 minutes yellow zone from sudley road to the beltway. Inside the beltway we are pretty quiet right now. 95 northbound wide open. 14 minute trip from dale city to the beltway or from the act quon river bridge to the beltway. Southbound side quiet all the way down through stafford and fredericksburg. 39519 minute trip you can see the 14th street bridge crowds a bit but overall much lighter volume than what we usually see during a weekday commute on 395. This is a look at utility work. You can see the left lanes are blocked. 214 at bright seat road there is utility work from an earlier caution there. Red line only metro line dealing with delays. Steve and allison. Erin, thanks very. F youre in the market for an apple product this Holiday Season, well you might want to head to best buy this weekend. All righty. Plus, the skins taking a trip to the west coast this weekend. Tailgate ted is here. Well check in with ted a little later. Smells so good. Hey. See holiday tradition in a whole new light. 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Best buy running threeday sale on apple products. That means you can get pretty good discounts on i phones, i pads, imacs, accessories, et cetera. The threeday sale runs through saturday. Also includes headphones beats by dre wireless head cone only available at participating Stores Nationwide not online. But if you have abet buy near you and you need some apple products they say this is the time to go. All righty. Today marks one year since the Mgm National Harbor opened its doors in prince georges county. Since then the casino and resort has brought in some of the years best entertainment, shops and celebrity chefs. All while employing 3700 people. Its an asset and were happy i cant believe its been a year already. It feels like longer to me like its always been here. That means theyre doing a good job. Absolutely. 7 42. Someone who does a great job tailgate ted. Well check in with him as we get set for another skins matchup. Skins are on the west coast. 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Lets talk about we will not be concerned with any snow tonight late tonight early tomorrow morning snow moving in. Looking more and more likely Winter Weather advisory in effect here for all the counties in purple that includes here in the city. I think at the onset here well have Serious Problems with sticking on the roadways. Im not expecting major problems on the beltway and 95 and that kind of thing. Some of the secondary roads with couple inches falling we could start to have issues tomorrow morning. Keep that in mine again i think the bulk of the activity tomorrow morning into early tomorrow afternoon. Probably out of here before 4 0. Okay. 38 now in washington. We are going to be in for chilly day. Much of the area will be in the upper 30s and low afternoon. 37 in fred burg. 35 dulles. That is a look at your satellite radar. Been absolutely extraordinary were seeing snow this early in december or really ever in the wintertime in places like alabama, mississippi, all the way down to houston. We have a Winter Weather advisory at this hour atlanta expect an inch of snow. A winter wet advisory. You get the idea i smell really good food right now its. Amazing. Thats all pushing in our direction. And we can expect that again after midnight tonight well see a period of snow around here for much of the day tomorrow. Why . Area of low pressure and it looks like its tracking just a little further west and because of that well see more moisture in our area and it will be cold enough to support know here all the way down to the surface. I think theyll be some mixing issues particularly across Southern Maryland lower Eastern Shore that may hold down on the snow totals. Thats your sunday look. I quickly want to get through a few more maps by sunday back in the sunshine this is the euro one much our more trusted models and im not sure this will be touching the ground at 9 00 oclock tonight by in. There we are at 3 00 oclock in the morning its snowing across much of the area. It may come down at nine or ten at a moderate clip that may cause briefly some travel issues and then there we are at 1 00 oclock and whole thing wraps up here by early afte afternoon. Again, i think tomorrow morning we could have some travel challenges. Well leave it at that. How much we looking at . I just tweeted this tucker fox5 if you have questions about party youre throwing or that kind of thing or exact timing or how much snow id be happy to answer them. Heaviest of the snow will be south and east of town. Two to four in the washington 95 corridor and lesser amounts north and west. Off to the north and west you should get, you know a period of snowfall or dusting to an inch or two. Theres your seven day forecast. Snowy day tomorrow. 36. Notice how cold it is next week, wednesday and thursday, 30s. Yikes. Your turn g i need dance pointers for this evening tu tucker. Julie kent is coming in im very excited shes going to bring dancers in as well from the nutcracker that will be coming in our 8 00 oclock hour. For your traffi eastbound before it in nutley street crashes blocking the Left Shoulder left lane. Were not seeing heavy volume so thats good. This isnt causing additional slow downs. Inside the beltway hov lanes looking good right now but dont forget this is First Official full week where you need that ez pass single drivers have have to pay the toll and have it on hov on the next side of things if you are traveling with two or more in your vehicle to drive for free there. Outer loop typical delays 30 minute ride 95 to the 270 spur. Crowded past New Hampshire avenue. Typical volume on bwi parkway and 95. Over the legion bridge still in green zone inner loop and outer loop looks smooth right now. Key bridge backs up a bit from rosslyn into georgetown. Typical volume building gw parkway 123 down to the 14th street bridge. Outer loop is quiet out by 50 same story on the inner loop but the inner loop does slow a little bit as you pass branch avenue. Utility work 214 at bright seat road. Caution there. Otherwise everything is on time metro wise except the red line. Capital Improvement Project does rap up on december 10th. Ba erin, thank you. With the Holiday Shopping rush well underway now, there are also some people out among the crowds just trying to take advantage of stores and customers. Now to fight those would be thieves Fairfax County police have placed christmas anti theft or cat teams across the county for the past four week. Now these plane clothes officers are trained to spot shoplifters and pickpockets just this week they busted two women trying to steep merchandise from the Springfield Town Center. Take listen as Police Describe the lengths some criminals go to. We have seen more cases right now of individuals where they get their billfolds stolen out of their purse or gentleman gets his wallet lifted and then the credit cards are used very quickly in short order. Generally in the same Shopping Center or a few businesses away. So far christmas anti theft teams cat has recovered more stolen property than in all of last holiday be careful out there. Steve, over to you. Al, thank you very much. Chargers and redskins on sunday the redskins will be playing out on the west coast. The question is, do they still have a chance to extend their season . Joining us to handicap the game and serve up a special treat as only he can tailgate ted with the hail bbq crew. I want to hear the sizzle. Throw something in there. Throw it in the pan. You are. Were doing a little pork belly special this morning. Listen to that. Oh, my goodness. It is sizzling this morning. This is fantastic. All right. Before we get to the food lets talk about the game right now. So i went online this morning trying to look up, i said, let me find every play off scenario possibility that is left for this the skins. I will make this very easy. What i found was, if the skins lose on sunday, theres a 0 chance they make the playoffs f the skins win on sunday there is a 1 chance that they can make the playoffs. Of course that depends what other teams do as well. Theoretically as they say so chance. We do have a chance. We do have a chance. Mathematically theres a chance. Mathematically, yes. Unfortunfortunately this year ty the nfc is going nineseven wont get in you. Especially what happened last night with at hasnt at a lo looking stronger and grabbing another win and new orleans on top. The fight for the wild card spot will be really really tough maybe that takes the pressure off. You can go out to the west coast and take on the chargers out there and just say, hey, lets just go for it much see what happens. They really need to just kind of finish the season out. I mean there are 19 unrestricted free agents. So these guys are playing for a job. Not just the season but theyre futures whether its with burgundy and gold or different team. They do have something to fight for. I would think especially in the obviously every position is up for grabs. Off running back position up for grabs right now nobody claimed that yet. Nobody has claimed it. Aside from james any son crowder nobody has stemmed up in the receiving game. So it look like theres still an opportunity for somebody to say hey, look i number one next year. There definitely is. Ryan grant will be unrestricted free age. Is he going to be with the team next year . Sean lavoy on expiring contract same with with spencer long. This offense line could look drastically different last year. Its been drastically different each week this year. Health wise how are we looking. Jordan reid will be out again unfortunately. Of course. Why . Why can he not stay healthy hes so good when he play. Really is. Last year he had 90 plus catches and he didnt play the whole season. He missed six weeks in a row coming to this week. Offensive line anybody back . Trent and morgan are 50 50 depends on how they do in practic today if theyll take that flight out to la. We have pork belly. What are we doing with it. Today weve got a steamed pork belly bun with a brussel sprout and green apple kim chi slaw. Fantastic i also did a quick pickle of some cucumbers here and scallions on top. Ted you are amazing. Is this the kind of thing we could potential dollar at i know that youre the pro here. But do you have any hacks here for folks that want to try this at home. You definitely could. I was talking to a couple of your producers this morning. You get a crock pot, slow cooker throw that inside there the beginning of the day. The game this weekend at 4 00. Get up in the morning watch redskins game time throw it in the crock pot. Come back in the afternoon before the game starts, pull it out, ive got a little bamboo steamer here you can get any regular steamer to steam these pork buns. Throw that inside there. How long does it typically take. Pork buns about ten minutes in a steamer. Doesnt take long. Something you could start in the morning but easily finish up before kick off. Good deal. Then you say did quick pickle want did you put in the kim chi slaw. So its brussel sprouts, green apples, some ginger, theres a korean spice that they use for kim chi i through that in inside with sesame oil and olive oil. This is fantastic. On the non game days, the non home game days when youre not cooking for 300 people do you do this at home or just relax . It d feeling that day. Sometimes well try and do it up like i said before in the past well have people over and ill kind of them out before the game starts i need to be at peace when the radio is on and tv is on mute. Just really this weekend like the team not a lot to play for. I just want to relax have some pork belly. Drink nice beer and enjoy the show. Phenomenal as always. For us its breakfast. Hopefully for the skins its the fuel that they need to get the job done on sunday. Fingers crossed. Hoping for a good run. We left last week pogs game in the rear view mirror. Were looking forward now, tucker. Hopefully wee get a good game on sunday. Continue to look forward. Not over yet, steve. Thats right. Still chance. Lots of weather to talk about. Look at this. Winter weather advisory issued in the 6 00 oclock hour by the Weather Service gaining the Weather Community more and more confidence that well get a period of snow around here early tomorrow morning that will last for the Morning Hours tomorrow of the probably into early afternoon and a couple of inches snow expected ill show you the forecast snow totals coming u across the area by tomorrow afternoon. Some of that thats not going to stick at the onset well talk about the details. 38 now in washington. Winds out of the north at five. No issues today. It is snowing back down into texas this morning. Talk more about that but for us just cloudy skies today. And theres your seven day forecast. 43 today. 36 tomorrow. It will be snowy day tomorrow. And then chilly on sunday. All right. Plenty more. Fox news morning coming up after the break. Well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . It feels good to be back. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning and thanks so much for joining us this mor morning. It is 8 00 a. M. On friday, december 8th 2017. Violent Home Invasion in Montgomery County overnight. Were live in gaithersburg as Police Continue their search for three armed suspects. Plus will a murder mystery be solved. The search continues today for the remains of a missing d. C. Woman along a busy virginia highway. Holiday grinches targeting stores and customers. A look at the tactics thieves are using this year and how police are working to protect your cash. First though live look outside. Hey, did you hear . The d. C. Region is gearing up for some snow. Little weekend snow. Weather and traffic coming up on the 5s. Get all the details from tucker in just few minutes. First at 8 00 following breaking news in gaithersburg the search is on for three heavily armed men who teachers way. They stole weapons from the home before they fled. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is there and she joins us live with the latest. Mel. Reporter steve and allison, serious situation here in gaithersburg. Those three men armed and dangerous and on the run. It happened in this apartment complex gaithersburg station apartments last night about 11 30. Detectives still investigating at this hour. But lets tell you what happened here. The Victim Told Police that he got home from work and he heard a knock at the door. He look out and he saw that there was a man standing there who appeared to be in distress. Now, the victim opened the door and then three men burst inside. They all had hand guns and demanded property. The victim said just take what you want. The suspects took the victims wallet, laptop, cell phone, two guns long gun an handgun although police have not confirmed the models to us we had early indications that one of those may have been an ar rival. No injuries in this case, but again a very serious situation heres a look at the suspect descriptions as given to the police department. One suspect a black males 6 feet 2inches tall, short hair an day old pan. Second suspect hispanic man with a chinstrap beard. No physical description on the third suspect other than to say that he was wearing dark clothing. Heres a description of the vehicle that they were driving. It looks like a police car. A white one. 2004 to 2006 Ford Crown Vic with tinted windows an spotlight on the side of similar to a police car or taxi cab. One more distinctive thing. Take look at this new maryland license plate with the flag on the bottom of it. Ignore the words there maryland proud. Thats just the example that is on the mva website but the tag does have that maryland flag across the bottom. So a distinctive clue there. Police say that this was secure the building, and they just again theyre not blaming the victim here but they are just giving a reminder to have one please if you dont know someone whose at your door do not open it if they seem hike theyre in distress certainly you can always call police department. Call 911 and have them come and give that person assistance or check it out. Just also to let you know if you see that vehicle it should go without saying dont take any act. Please call police immediately. Live in gaithersburg, Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. Lets go to Howard County developing overnight over 50 firefighters worked to put out flames at a hotel in jess tup crews responded to the red roof inn on washington boulevard. That fire under control quickly. Nobody was hurt. The cause still under investigation this morning. Elsewhere investigators will resume their search today for the remains of a d. C. Woman who went missing in 2009. Earlier this year pat hem la butlers boyfriend Jose Rodriguez cruz admitted to killing deal he agreed to tell detectives where he buried butler. This morning at 10 00 a. M. A small portion of the knife express lanes in Stafford County will be closed while Police Search for her remains. There wont you wont be able to access the express lanes at garrisonville road for several hours. Police in dc still searching for the suspect who stabbed a man to death in southwest Late Wednesday night much this happened on forrester street. The victim identified as up fromyearold Ricky Williams died at the hospital. Well nearly three week after a deadly incident in Fairfax County involving u. S. Park police, family and friends gathered to remember the life of with sean gazer the 25yearold was shot and killed by Us Park Police after allegedly leading them oh and chase that began in arlington and ended in Fairfax County. His family claims that the 25yearold was unarmed. Hundreds gathered for a vigil at the Lincoln Memorial the fbi is now investigating this case much his sister spoke about her brother to the crowd of mourners mourners. He was everything to so many people. He was so full of life. We used to joke he actually swallowed a microphone when he was younger. He was passionate about everything. He was caring, he was kind, he was so fun and he loved to dough bait. The shooting incident was captured on a dash camera. However that video is not being released during the investigation. The identity officer who fired the shots has not been released. The dc region gearing up for snow. It is looking more and more likely most of us will wake up to some snow on the ground tomorrow morning. Saturday vdot crews in Northern Virginia already started the process of pre treating roads, ramps and bridges with anti icing materials and will continue to do the same today. All right. The big question is how much snow will we get . Yeah. Potential al couple of inches certainly the id say likely that well get first inch of the season for much of the area. All righty. Not going to be major storm. Timing couldnt be better on a saturday morning. You know, kind of a practice run for the wintertime snows we might get this year. Okay. Okay. That is the big change when you went to bed last night. Winter weather advisory in effect all the counties in purple that includes both here in washington and up north in baltimore now under Winter Weather advisory and in general that area in purple were forecasting right now about two to 4inches of snow potentially. Some of that will be a bit of a mix. Some of it wont stick at the onset particularly on the major roadways. So im not sure how much in the way of travel headaches well have tomorrow. As temperatures will be a little marginal for this event but potentially there is that it looks likely well get a couple inches of snow around her by tomorrow afternoon. Okay. Reagan national currently 38. 35 dulles. Bwi marshall 35. It is just extra all morning long looking at the snow into Texas Houston this morning under a Winter Weather advisory. 32 degrees. Thats just incredible. Louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, Winter Weather adv advisories and wint storm warnings atlanta expecting an inch of snow later today. All of that trending tracking up in our direction and we can expect snow around here i think if youre in southern mayor lower Eastern Shore it might be this evening. For most of us after midnight the bulk of the activity will be during the Morning Hours tomorrow. There could be some travel difficulties tomorrow morning. 43 today. No issues whatsoever today. If you have questions tucker fox5. Thats my twitter handle. You can tweet me and i also just tweeted out our forecast expected how much snow we can expect. You can look at it more carefully there. Ill also have that map in just a minute. All right. Thank you. My pleasure. How is the commute for the friday morning, erin . Its not terrible. How does that sound. Sounds great. Better than the rest of the week, right. Ten minute excuse me, 19 minute the 14th street bridge. Heaviest traffic from the pentagon to a across the bridge compared to what we were dealing with earlier this week ill take that jam up. 695 a little krouted crowded. 95 white opened from dale city. As we forward things along 6614 minute trip thats it from fairfax cup tee parkway to the beltway. Inside the beltway looking pretty good as well. Dont forget we do utility problems westbound Central Avenue at bright seat road in prince georges county. Two left lanes block and thats because of a water main break recent pairs you can keep it to the right and watch for some delays picking up aside from that metro is on time except for the red line. No Train Service limited Shuttle Service between Silver Spring and fort totten tacoma closed. This capitol Improvement Project is set to wrap up on december 10th. Watch for adjustments this weekend as well. And save travels as the snow moves in the area tonight overnight tomorrow morning. Any questions eric fox5 d. C. On twitter. There are also some people out among the crowds that are just trying to take advantage of stores and take adv customers. To fight those would be thieves Fairfax County police have placed christmas anti theft or cat teams across the county for the past four weeks. These plain clothes officers are trained to spot shoplifters and pickpockets. This week they busted two women trying to steal merchandise from the Springfield Town Center and take listen as Police Describe the lengths some criminals unless will go to. We have seen more cases right now of individuals where they get their billfolds stolen out of their purse or gentleman gets his wallet lifted and then the credit cards are used very quickly in short order. Generally in the same Shopping Center or a few businesses away. So far the christmas anti theft team has recovered more stolen property than in all of last Holiday Season. Were still a couple of weeks away from christmas. I will say, yes, of course, there are always people looking to take advantage of unsuspecting people were so busy but we got to be careful, too. Yesterday quick story. Im at the s somebody left their credit card in the slot. In the meter. Witness reader. And the cashier rang up my and tire order and in your mind it might have already swiped i looked down the card is still sitting there. Had i been somebody else they would have paid for your order. You know what i mean . The onus is on us to got to be extra vigilant. The Holiday Season too. A lot of times you lose that focus for second. Try to keep the. Turning now to the wildfire emergency in southern cali california. There are now six major fires burning. The newest one in san diego county. It has already ripped through Retirement Community. Burned two people and killed horses at a racing facility. Meanwhile, in the ventura area, teams are still working to contain the largest fire in the state. That one is the thomas fire. Its destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings and Officials Say its so big it could continue to burn until christmas. Wow yes. Thats horrifying. It really is. Still to come this morning look at the latest developments involving harass many on the hill including two resignation announcements within hours of each other. 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To whatever awaits tomorrow. Carefirst blue cross blue shield. Live fearless. All right. 8 14. Bring on the friday cuteness. Friday before our first snow of the year. Oh, my goodness. We get the perfect picture. So cute. Looks like aiden and olaf. Olaf this is hayden, everybody. Look at the great big smile. Look at him. Hayden is 19 months old. Mom says hayden loves loves loves snowman. Theres snowman in the back ground too. Ground too hey depth has been busy watching fox5 to see when hell have enough snow to build one of his own. Youre in luck. Hayden this is your luck company day. Hayden, this is your day. Its really first one hell really, you know, remember last year he was way too little. Hayden i have request. Can you ask one of your family nobs send a picture of you successfully building a snowman this weekend. Yes. Were not going to get that much. It can be as small as you are. It can be miniature snowman. Yeah. Were okay. That is just the cutest smile. Love the smile. Great picture. That is joy. I think this might finally be our chance. I hope so. Tomorrow might be the big day. Look at his little romper. Little onsie. Little romp him. Remember when the romp him craze. Babies were on the forefront of the romp him craze. Shower were. Let me just mention i wont be able to get this song out of my head for the rest of the day. Youre welcome. You carry this song with you often. Ill be singing it later today. Hayden we love your picture. To zen us your pictures go to Facebook Page fox5 d. C. Lets get down to business. 38 here in washington. Pittsburgh is not one. 23 degrees. Theyre stuck today. I dont know. Columbus 16. 19 up in detroit. Cold enough we get across our region should generally be snow. There may be a bit of a wintery mix particularly south and east. And we are going to have some challenges having it stick roadways hasnt banter rebelly cold here lately i think some of the snow rates should overcome some of that. Were not talking major snows but its all the way back into texas this morning thats pushing up in our region, and by overnight tonight, early tomorrow morning, we can expect a period of snow around here. Those are our forecast snow totals two to 4inches. Less towards 81. More like a dusting to an inch maybe 2inches up there. Again i dont think major roadways will have problem with this one. But tomorrow morning well wake up snowy. No problems today. It will be snowy day tomorrow. Particularly first half of the day. Out of here by tomorrow afternoon. Thats it . Thats it. Out of here by tomorrow afternoon. Yeah. Enjoy it quickly. Okay. Not lot of time for hayden. Three or four in the morning until noon. 1 00 oclock in the afternoon. Okay. Wake up. Play in the snow. Carry on life as normal. Snow over. I know tuck is excited about the forecast because he shared his morning chocolate with me. Niece good mood. Right now traffic is not terrible. Its under 30 minutes outer loop from 95 to 270. You can see its a little heavy by New Hampshire avenue no crashes right now. In your opinion smooth sailing. No problems to bw parkway. 270 just 19 minute trip 70 to 121 and pretty quiet down to the beltway south at that point. Wide open on the inner loop between pennsylvania avenue and the wilson bridge. Enjoy few days ago we were seeing delays of over an hour. Aside from as we take look at the outer loop just seven minute ride from 50 to bw parkway. Light volume there. And were seeing nice conditions on 395. Dont forget caps taking on the rangers capitol run arena. Puck drops at 7 00. Watch for crowded metro trains as well as congestion on the roads, guys. Time right now 8 17. It is certainly been a busy week of politics from temporarily avoiding Government Shutdown to harassment on the hill and more lets get insight joining uswith more Fox News Sunday anchor chris wallace. Good to see you this morning. Another busy week here in washington. Yeah, it is indeed. And you know all kinds of subjects as you point out sexually harassment pretty maze yesterday two members of congress announced theyre going resign al franken democrat in the senate trent franks house republican. The question is, where does it stop at this point because, you know, this is just whats out at this point, chris. You know the more that comes the scenes theyre more that may come out. Thats where were starting to see that push now to the point we can see many more members involved in some way in the near future. I have heard estimates as high as 40 members of congress that could be subject to these kind of allegations and could be subject to pressure to have to leave. This is going to this is a dramatic moment and, yes, there are a lot of other issues that are out there. Obviously government funding, tax reform, international issues, but in terms of, you know, all politics as local as tip oneill famously said up on capitol hill the idea that you could be out of your job and for women on staff that is they could finally get a moment of justice pretty dramatic story. And the Big Questions then that come out of this include, politicizing this because you hate to see that. If someone is an abuser or assaults someone it shouldnt matter what their political affiliation is. But yet here in washingto yeah. I think this is going to become a political issue. Democrats feel that by getting rid of franken quickly. Getting rid of john conyers quickly and conversely the rpublicans may be about to elect roy moore who is hes denied it but is the target of a number of allegations in ala alabama. Pretty good contrast for them and allegations against donald trump that hes ignored. I could easily see this becoming an issue in the 2018 mid terms. I think one interesting way to look at this to see which way it goes or follow it, look, you have people like Roy Moore Supporter whos say, look, if the people of alabama want him there, thats on the people of alabama. But then you have the al frankens who the people of minnesota didnt vote to have him removed. So its going to be interesting to see how that theory maintains. Sure, the people could elect someone, but its not going to be those same voter whos take them out of congress or ask that they leave. Thats right. Also i contrast that here in congress with franken youve got, what, over 30 members almost all of the democrats in the senate demanding that franken leave, and you have President Trump going down to pensacola, florida, and which is right, across the border from alabama and endorsing roy moore. So democrats are pitt tow comfortable with that contrast. Its become fascinating so much so when we talk to you on fridays we dont knows were going to happen between now and sunday morning. We do at least youll have us covered when we watch on sunday well get the latest. Thats right. Even though theyll theyre going to be snow and non search personnel wont have to come in, i will be coming in to work. You are as search as it gets, my friend. Chris well see you on sunday morning. Always good to talk to you. See ya. Chris wallace of course anchor of Fox News Sunday. We know that honor. We come in regardless. It makes us feel search. 8 20 right now. Pope francis stirring controversy for prayer. He wants the Catholic Church to adopt lead us not into temptation. Churches across france they now say do not let us fall into temptation and the pope indicated hed like something similar applied worldwide. All right. Interesting there. Umhmm. Still ahead apple out with its list of 2017 best apps and well tell you which app got the most down loads in 2017. All righty. First though a message from overseas. Hi my name is sergeant a mean ma smith im deployed to bar gram airfield afghanistan. Id like to wish my family a happy holidays and to let them know that i love you guys. Ill be home soon. Zoey, i miss you baby. Baby. There are those of us who like to venture to the unexplored. Those of us who go out there with a sense of wonder. Bridging worlds,finding delights in our differences. If youre one of us, and you want to explore more of this great planet, were ready to take you there. Widen your world. Turkish airlines when it comes to Holiday Shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter . She just loves horses. Dont you just love onestop shopping . I do. Ring in the holidays with buick. Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats over 7,100 on this Buick Envision essence. Experience the new buick this Holiday Season. Apple unveil its list of the most popular apps of 2017 for your phones are, your devices et cetera. The honor goes to the custom emoji bitmoji. Everybody wants to look like their cartoon version. The app lets emojis that look and dress like them and can be sent within the snap chat app or through text messages. Snap chat took second place this year. And in in hand after taking the top spot in 2016 the youtube app took third place followed by Facebook Messenger and instagram which kind of some of those surprised me people were just now downloading them. One, two, three. I guess i have i dont know that i have messenger on my private phone. Instagram is the only one i h have. Ill throw a caveat. Break it down. Snap chat, youtube and instagram take up the most memory. If you remove and lee download it keeps your phone from cas cashing. It still counts as popular. As for the popular paid app of 2017, top honors went to face tune. Thats selfie editing tool which allows users to touch up their photos. If we photo but if somebody else photo shops us, thats a bad thing. Without our permission. Okay. Yeah. Fair enough. Thats thing. Without our permission f i did a magazine cover and they tried to make me a size two and im not because im not, then thats right. If i do magazine cover you want to make me fall of sma smaller,. Lets do it im flighted with it, younger, smaller all good it. Lets go to school on this friday. One more day of school. I Pay Attention in class. Wait, this isnt our normal class r setting. Are you guys ready for class. It look like snow class to today. Well you know, on the side im an amateur meteorologist. Umhmm. I want to let you kids know youll probably wont have school tomorrow. Jeez on saturday. Come on, dagger. Pretty good material, right . Real quick this your Winter Weather advisory for the region. Well talk more about the potential for snow around here tomorrow morning. All right. Lets get to our report card, kids. Sunshine. Not going see much of that. Thats big old familiar with. But i know you are, mr. C mr. Chenevey. Winds out of the south and west thats b. Afternoon temps low 40s thats a c. Hey, prepping for our first snow day, a plus. Overall i give 8b really ill give it an m us its also fr friday. Queue my snowplow sick. A plus for friday. I was trying to transfer classrooms but its too late. Download your bitmoji. Download, tuck. I mean teach. Teach tuck much thats too familiar. Teach. Hes a hip teacher. He wanted to change it. True story. Hot for tucker. Im hot for tucker. That would be cute. All right. We can improvise on that one. Well think about it. Well sing vocals me and e erin. Maybe for the holiday well change that for him. We have delays from the Maryland Line to the 14 the street bridge. 22 minute ride from the beltway to the bridge. Keep it to fox news morning. Well be right back much its friday guys. Im so excited. Snow is coming. I dont believe it. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. So how do i make the efforts of 8 employees. Feel like 50 . How can i share new plans virtually . How can i download an efile . Virtual tours . Zipfile . Really big files . In seconds, not minutes. Just like that. Like everything. The answer is simple. Ill do what ive always done. Dream more, dream faster, l. Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Hows it going down there . Thats good. Lica misses you. Im over it though. laughter thats fine. I miss her more than you anyway. Hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Top stories 8 30 this morning Montgomery County resident robbed by three armed men in gaithersburg apartment. This happened on teachers way just before midnight. Police still looking for thee suspects but they only have descriptions for two. One a blackmail with dark skin, short hair and a day old beard. Second suspect hispanic man with a chinstrap beard. Police say they stole guns from the house and they used a White Ford Crown victoria with maryland tags to get away kind of looks like one of those unmark police vehle absolutely. All right. Meantime in Stafford County investigators will resume their search today for the remains of a dc woman who went missing several years ago. Pamela butler was her name. She was federal worker. She vanished from her northwest dc home in february of 2009. As part of a plea deal, her boyfriend has agreed to tell detedetectives where he buried. And finally, look at this. This is snow but this is not in upstate new york. This is not lake effect snow. Its not new england. Its southern texas. A rare wint storm moving across parts of texas this is College Station, texas home of texas a and m university. Even further south korea pus christie texas all the way down at the bottom expected to receive 3inches of snow. First comparable snowfall since 2004 in that region. Houston will get some too. Here in our area crews pre treating roads in anticipation of some snow this weekend. Still up in the air how much we might get. But possibility of a couple of inches. Im i am, too. Yeah. Check in with tucker 8 35 for those details. President trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosted the hanukkah reception at the white house last night marking the continue ways of annual white house tradition that began in 2001 under then president george w. Bush. This year the event was special significance earlier this week the president declared jerusalem the capital of israel. Meanwhile some early christmas wishes for young people in the district. First Lady Melania Trump visited patients at the Childrens National Medical Center here in washington. Greeting young patients as carolers sang mrs. Trauma many addressed the group talking about the importance of christmas and took questions from the children. What did you ask santa for christmas. Thats a nice one. I asked santa for christmas piece on the world, health, love and kindness. Thank you. Mrs. Trump also told the children her favorite thing to eat for christmas dinner was healthy food. All righty. Speaking of this morning the toys are going to the boys. Are you still shopping for the men in your life . Fox consumer guru Steve Noviello has some gifts for the guys. Its all about the guys today and its easy to give a great gift especially when weve done all the hard work for you starting with his right here. This is the edison amp gram mow phone. Modern Technology Meets classic vintage style. You take your iphone you pop it on in here actually works with any device and it will auto automatically amplify the music for your phone through this hand spun copper bell. He will love the sound. Everyone love the look. Speaking of his look how about this . Go from office to awesome in just minutes with the lapel project. Work with me here. Take look. Were talking about switching out the lapels on your jacket. In fact take look at the video you can see exactly how this works. These will actually be able to be transformed his look in just a moment they stick on or so on super easy to use. All right. Not copper but tools each one hand forged in boseman montana. They are as beautiful and classic as they are durable and function. Really beautiful heft and weight to this stuff. Hell love them especially for that yard work. All right. Guys who are headed to the gym they dont want to forget this is the ogo locker bag. Heres what makes it so cool the entire thing sits in the locker and when it opens up, its an Organization System so youve got shelves, maybe got his shoes down here, his work clothes or afterward his gym gear. Everything he would need in h here. No more fumbling through that old school dufflebag. This one has got you covered. Next up, never miss a light bulb moment again with aqua notes these are actually waterproof pieces of paper in a note pad you pop it in the shower. You can jot down all of those great awesome ideas that suddenly come to you when you dont have anything to write with and finally how about the perfect fitting shirt this one from teddy stratford. Now, guys, the problem we have sometimes you like something thats nice and fitted but then the buttons not any more take a look at the video. The secret here this shirt actually sips up before it buttons up meaning that you will get a nice flat and tight fit every single time. Links to all these great gift ideas for guys plus 150 more in 15 categories my annual fox holiday gift guide. Youll find links right now facebook. Com save me steve. In dallas, im Steve Noviello, fox news. All right. Lets get right to the weather forecast. Thats your Winter Weather advisory issued in the 6 00 oclock hour. All the counties in purple that includes her in d. C. And baltimore under Winter Weather advisory this not for today. This is overnight tonight, early saturday morning. Through the daytime hours on saturday. I think the whole thing wraps up by early saturday afternoon but the potential is there in this area of purple we can get a couple of inches of snow. Two, three, 4inches of snow best chances of an accumulating snow will be washington and points south and east where it looks like the heaviest of the precipitation will be. More on that coming up. Right now 38 in washington. 35 dulles and up in baltimore. Wont be a warm day fours. Low 40 force daytime highs. Again, dont worry about anything today. Well just keep the cloud cover around but look at all that moisture and snow all the way back this morning into texas. Houston mentioning all morning under Winter Weather advisory right now. And its that degrees there. Atlanta expecting inch of snow Winter Weather advisory there. Winter storm warnings for alabama and miss ms. Just extraordinary. All of that headed in our direction and again gets in here after midnight well be with us tomorrow morning and tomorrow looks like snowy day. First half of the day. 43 today and well talk more about this winter event coming up in just a minute. Erin big smile. How are roads. My best friend just had her baby welcome to the world emery elizabeth. Congratulations. Isnt that exciting . That is. I just saw the first photo its just an exciting time. Aw. Im in the necessarily smiling about the traffic behind me but you know. Got to share the personal happiness, too. Right now 395 northbound at washington boulevard unfortunately we have crash blocking the right lane. Coming up past the pentagon give yourself 15 extra minutes there. From the beltway to the 14th street bridge 22 minute trip total but you slow the most headed toward washington boulevard at that crash scene. Aside from that one we do have Police Activity in the district Georgia Avenue northwest at elder street. Caution there. That area is blocked off right now you have to detour around it eastern half 16th street dealing with a little extra volume because of that. Outer loop still 26 minute ride 95 to the spur but it looks like that red zone will quickly clear as that congestion quickly dissipates. 270 really pleasant on time. Metro on time except for red line delays. Back to you. 8 37 right now. Still ahead starbucks creating a social media craze over the latest limited edition drink. A holiday drink. Okay. Its not dont say the bad part. Its limited. Okay. Its got more sugar than a king sized snickers bar. I thought we werent going to talk about. Its got fruit in it. Festive flyers one airline has a big perk for travelers who are well explain after the break. See holiday tradition in a whole new light. Join in the joy of Christmas Town at Busch Gardens. With over 8 million twinkling lights. More than anywhere else in america. Enjoy coasters and thrills. And celebrate with Holiday Shopping and shows. Bring your family to Busch Gardens ows. Christmas town. Where christmas shines brightest. Steve, hit it. Like christmas. Come op you can do it steve. Steve, you can do it. I cant. I sound so much like you these days. You can do it. Just try. Stop pushing me, al. All right. One day. One day dmv. Im going to get Steve Chenevey to sing on camera. Its happened before. It just has to be organic. Com a lot not you tuck. [ laughter ] im ear is ringing. Beautiful here at the district. No doubt about it much speaking of the holidays if you are flying next friday unique particular airlines dont forget your socalled ugly holiday sweater. Alaska Airlines Offering a one day promotion where if you wear your ugly christmas sweater on friday, you can get to board before everybody else. Except those who are wearing ugly christmas sweaters. Have a virgin air and horizon air can get on the deal. National ugly christmas weather day celebrated on the third friday in december. Okay. December 1st was a friday. Im trying to look at the 15th. Next friday. Stars bucks is now serving a limited edition drink called the Christmas Tree frapuccino. Can i be honest . I dont like the strawberry on top. I would have preferred a cherry. Strawberry to me says spring. What about you . I think more to look like a Christmas Tree type thing like okay. The drink is a pepper minute mocha flavored drink and its cream based meaning theres no coffee in it the kids can have it. Its topped with a green whipped cream caramel drizzle cranberries and that dried strawberry as the tree topper. The grande has more than 400 calories and double the suggested daily intake of sugar. Okay. Its limited. We know its not health drink. Theyre trying it. They put them out every season people take pictures and put them on instagram. There you go. I know ill probably be,ing. Trying that one out. Yeah me and the girls for sure. No if you have not tried out good day d. C. We stronging suggest you do so because every day is a winner here. Who would be that be. Who is the person who has not tried out good day . Theres always that one person. That one person that lives under a rock. Okay. I have a quick question. What if youre flying and theyre like oh my gosh thats great you can get on and youre like but im not wearing an ugly christmas sweater. Exactly. For that purpose grandma made this. Bury your feelings the preferential treatment. Get the overhead bin space. Ahead gone day d. C. You know it. We are on snow patrol this morning. It may not be a biggy but we could see a few inches. Our Tucker Barnes is going to give us update on on what could be our first snow of the season. Also i was 9a and developing right now theres a frightening Home Invasion in maryland. Plus, well get new clues in the search for pam butler were live on both of this stories. All right. Holly you know what time it is. This time friday put up that good day guest list. Could you be stripped of everything . Im talking about your clothes, your phone, everything. Thats the promise of a new show on bravo one of the stars of this new reality show is going to join us live and, okay, spoiler alert he is going to have on his clothe. I might give up my clothes before my phone if im being honest. I think youre right. Right. Any way also ahead on good day kevin sits down with Octavia Spencer and the cast of the critically a claim movie the shaye shape of water. Former master chef is cooking it up in the good day cafe plus camp supposed to be one of the best work outs in town. If you havent heard about it you will this morning. Plus, how do you take the perfect holiday picture. Like this. Okay. Pop of color, solids nothing distracting. Hip out. More tips, more than just that coming up oh on good day d. C. Few minutes away. Strike a pose. That is very important. Holiday picture will last for long time. Look at my girls. You lies guys are looking cute. One we took last year is on our instagram pages. Take gander. Its pretty good. If this year Social Security not a good well use that one. Were a year younger. Changed the hair. Christmas classic at the warner theater. Washington ballet artistic director julie kent will join us live in the loft with some very special guests for sneak peek of the nutcracker. [orchestra tuning up] with a medicare supplemental plan from carefirst medplus, the name you know and trust. Here for today, and whatever comes next. Medicare supplemental plans from carefirst medplus. Live fearless. Find a medicare plan for you at carefirst. Com gomedplus there are those of us who like to venture to the unexplored. Those of us who go out there with a sense of wonder. If youre one of us, and you want to explore more of this great planet, were ready to take you there. Widen your world. Turkish airlines all right. Admit youre a little bit excited. First snow of the year. It looks like it gets here by overnight tonight earl tomorrow morning. Thats a Winter Weather advisory issued in the 6 00 oclock hour by the national Weather Service here. The thinking well get a couple inches of snow in the area here in purple this may be expanded a little bit depending on our guidance later this morning. You get the idea snow is looking more and more likely here across the region for the day tomorrow. Not going to be major storm but i think it will be significant enough that some spots theyll be a little shoveling or theyll a few travel issues. 38 now in washington. These are your morning temperatures again gates burg up in west minster now 32. Hagerstown 32. Within chest so chilly over overnight. Leonardtown 37 degrees. This is extraordinary stuff. Ive been mentioning it all morning look at that band of snow all the way back into texas this morning. Places like atlanta, Winter Weather advisories. Theyre expecting an inch of snow. Winter storm warnings for parts of alabama, and mississippi and louisiana dont see that very often even in the heart of winter certainly not in early december. You can kind of see thats tracking up in our direction. What well be lack looking at an air of low pressure had that will develop off the coast and throw moisture back on us into cold air. Well be looking at a period of snow after midnight early tomorrow morning. Heaviest of the snow will be south and east of town. Im going to quickly show you the sunday set up. This is our euro one of our guidance models 10 00 oclock tonight i think it may onset start as mix change to snow. There we are at 4 00 oclock in the morning. Then well have period of pretty moderate snows around here tomorrow morning before it gets out of here by two, 3 00 oclock tomorrow afternoon. How much snow . I know this is what you want to see. Were think along the 95 corridor higher amounts south and east. Lesser amounts north and west. But all of us will get at least our first snow showers of the year tomorrow. 36 degrees for daytime highs. 39 on sunday. All right. Im out of breath. Erin ill toss it over to you. Thank you very much, tucker. 8 49. Our next guest has incredibly impressive resume. Shes a longest searching ballerina having danced foyer their years. Starred in 1987 film dancer named one of peoples 50 most Beautiful People and starred in center stage. Julie kent is in her Second Season as artistic director of the washington ballet and she joins me this morning to chat about the nutcracker and give me some tips before i take the stage as the merry widow this evening and brought some beautiful dancers as well. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you. Were thrilled to be here again. So tell us a little bit about the nutcracker and what we can expect from the show i had the pleasure of being the merry widow last year i was a little nervous. Right. Tell everybody if they havent sn its all about. Were thrilled youre going to join us this year. Washington ballet nutcracker is, um, set in georgetown in alter mansion. Its filled with local charm, off and on in a and flora, and it just has distinctive washington quality and filled with these characters right here that are just clearly american and represent our capitol city. I always say the nutcracker feels to me like the kick off to the Holiday Season. You have to start the Holiday Season with the nutcracker. You have self shows running all through the month. Yes, we have performances from now until Christmas Eve. We have two performances Christmas Eve and we have we just love to welcome the community to see us, and we have many opportunities for local celebrities like yourself to join us on this stage. And were thrilled to the merry widow once again. Im so excited. John roberts is on the 23rd from fox news will be making an appearance and youve had several local people out. Now the merry widow i was so nervous my first time on the stage because im not a trained dancer it what tips do you have for knocking it out of the park this evening. I think scarlet ohara at the ball. Okay. I can do that. All dressed in black. All the help swooning, swarming around her. I like the sound of this. Yes. Go check out that clip of that part of the movie and you got it. Deal. I know you want to over animate and bring a lot of stage presence, right. Sure. Timing. Timing is everything . There you go. Good to know. Those are good quality tips. Id love to introduce the dancers before they get started. We have so much young talent at the washington ballet. And whats so impressive is they not only are grown here, they have like olivia dugan from the community, shes been in the Washington School of ballet for years. Shes been a part of the nutcracker s little girl. Shes been a mushroom and snow angel and a mouse and a butterfly and now shes clara. This is so exciting. Such an exciting season for you. Yes. And then we have victoria rea. Shes from costa rica and left home at a very early age to follow her dreams to become a ballet dancer. And here she is at the washington ballet this is her Second Season with us, and then we have liam hogan whose from houston texas. And he is starting his professional career here at washington ballet after studying in florida and again these young people many of them leave home at a very early age in order to pursue their dreams and they are really what is happening at the washington ballet. The rise of this new talent its very very exciting. Lets let them dance so they can show the audience a taste of the nutcracker. Yes. Thank you very much for giving us a taste of the nutcracker you did such a wonderful job. Reminder for this weeks fox beat friday you can enter the nutcracker to win some tickets we are selecting one lucky person to vouchers rather redeemable for a performance of the washington ballets nutcracker running from december 13th to december 22nd at the warner theater. Tickets are subject to availability at the time of redemption and cannot be used forge any matinee shows. Each prize has proximity retail value of 360 and is provided by the warner theater. Just go to fox5 d. C. Facebook page now through 11 59 p. M. And enter for chance to win. One winner will be selected by random drawing on decemb december11th. All entrants must be 18 or other. Complete rules available at foxdc. Com contests. 8 54. Were going to be right back. Julie kent thank you so much for coming and joining us on fox5 news morning. Thank you. Well be right back, guys. Trending this morning mishap involving an elf on a shelf in florida. Oh my guess in sam the elf needed emergency surgery because the family dog got a hold of santas helper and rimmed off his right arm. The sevenyearold girl who lives with the elf was understandably distraught fortunately her mom is a nurse at a Childrens Hospital in orlano and doctors use special surgical gloves from the north pole to operate on the elf since you cannot touch him with human hands or he loses his magic. The good news hes on the mend. Can i irrelevant inquire this very quickly questions i thought to myself. Dont do it. Mom is a nurse. So they were able to use all these resources to fix him. Everybody is okay. I would prefer if the elf didnt spy on me is what im saying. Of course. Maybe the dog doing the kids a favor. Maybe so. Maybe it was fed to the dog. All right. [ laughter ] lets say good morning to our facebook fan of the day instead. Lets do it. Ran thai britain is huge fox5 fan. Watches every morning had a chance to meet erin and kevin the other morning right before they interviewed wrestling star john cena. Laugh. [ applause ] he says he was more excited to take a picture with kevin and erin than he was with john cena. He says kevins movie critiques are dead on and erin does awesome job with the traffic. Thank you so much. [ applause ] we hope that you have a fabulous and save day today, ron thai. Absolutely. He was awesome. Thats great. Okay. How would you like to help make a Childs Christmas. Brighter . You can join fox5 and dc area hyundai dealerships to stuf drop off unwrapped toy at any of the 19 hyundai dealerships in the region from now until did he say 20th much those toys will go to Childrens Hospital. All right. Lets get a final check on weather and traffic. Looking better at out there today. Many improve. We have Police Activity 6900 block of Georgia Avenue northwest overall much lighter volume but heres a crash as well. This is thee 95 at washington boulevard. Tuck, you have the s word in the forecast. Get to it. Just saying i dont want the elf to spy on me. S will not you dont want anyone to spy on you. Theres your Winter Weather advisory. Well talk all about this coming up in just a couple of minutes. Thats in effect after midnight tonight. Couple inches of snow in the forecast. Come see mow at the nutcracker tonight. Im so excited. Good luck to you. Im no dancer, guys. Good day is neck. Straight ahead, fire and ice. The west coast continues to b burn. Those fastmoving flames fueled bite ra raging santa ana winds. Down south the first major snow december brings texas to a a standstill. Now were bracing for our first visit from old man winter, too. Well have the very latest. I will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Al franken out of the u. S. Senate. The minnesota democrat announced his resignation yesterday. But not without some parting shots at the sitting commander in chief and the republican party. Hes not the only congressman out of a job this morning. Well have details in the morning briefing. Family in Law Enforcement and trying to solve painful