Temperatures middle 40s but winds gusting over 30 is going to help it feel like the 30s all day. Hey erin. Plenty of green on the road. Metro is on time. Well get you around the red line problems. If youre just getting up with us now, well start with breaking news. Its from rockville. A pedestrian was struck overnight near the intersection of 355 and east middle lane. Rockville pike was closed for several hours but it has since reopened. Fox5 is still waiting to hear from First Responders on the victims condition and also what may have led to that accident. And were also following a developing story from annapolis. Around 11 50 last night fire crews responded to a 911 call to find this, a driver who had plowed their pickup truck into the side of a building. Happened on eagle wood drive. Two people were taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. No word though on how they were injured. One victim was that found outside the building, a second had to be removed from the damaged building. The Anne Arrundel county Fire Department has not said if the driver was among those 5 01 right now and house and Senate Republicans have reached a deal on their tax bill and it could have it to the president by next week. President trump says if the bill is done by christmas, americans could actually see tax cuts by february. Critics claim the plan will heavily benefit the rich. Chuck schumer wants the final vote delayed until alabama senator elect doug jones is sworn in in january. Meanwhile President Trump wants to pay for the border wall by trimming surveillance costs and freezing the pay of federal officers at the department of Homeland Security in 2019. The president wants to offset some of the costs of the 1. 6 billion border wall by having the dhs decrease its funding for technology by 175 million. The exact report details are uncertain because the information is coming from a whistleblower. Lets get the latest on the russia probe now. The Deputy Attorney general taking the hot seat. Rod rosenstein grilled on 90 papers of Text Messages between two fbi officls criticizing President Trump who was campaigning at the time. Rosenstein appointed special Counsel Robert Mueller who is overseeing the investigation ever since attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself. Some lawmakers say its evidence the investigation is biased against the president. Time now is three past the hour. In a followup this morning the two off duty First Responders killed last week a deadly crash along i270 will be laid to rest today. Traffic delays along Montrose Road in rockville should be expected starting at 7 oclock during the funeral of deputy chief state fire marshal sander cohen. State troopers will be present in the area of woodfield road in gaithersburg. D. C. Police need your help finding some bold thieves. Theyre wanted for a string of burglaries happening at Stores Across the district t melanie live from northwest with the details. Mel. Reporter good morning, guys. Here on f street, this is one of the locations where the burglars hit twice. Theyre looking for items that are very valuable during the holiday season. Were talking about clothes, were talking about jewelry and watches what else is another hot holiday item . Just across the street, the Verizon Wireless as well. Those two locations right here were some of the most recent hit. Lets take you to the video. Were talking about here at the benson jewelers wednesday at 3 16 in the morning youre going to be able to see here that they break through the glass then jump through the door. The suspect here has on a door but no mask. He stuffs items into his pockets and then takes off the suspects in a dark colored van. Then in a Verizon Wireless store just across f street there, monday, 9 25 in the morning, you can see that the suspects walk in and then they make off with several boxes. Theres another store here this all december 1st. This is 9 19 in the morning they should have someone as they nuke that store on benning road once again taking large items out and putting them into a trash can taking them out of the store. On december 3rd, 11 48 in the morning they walk in told the people to get downloading items into boxes and trash cans and then also 4 55 in the morning on h street, this is the Clothing Store, that was december 5th. This is a Clothing Store on h street. Again, they walk in, walk out with several boxes. Here there was an identifiable van here, this is a van that were told was stolen from youngs Memorial Christian Church in garfield heights. That van has since been recovered. Police were able to isolate some pictures and enlarge them of the suspects. You can see in some cases theyre wearing hats and hoods but they may be identifbl police are still looking for this crew. Theyre looking for items they can probably resell during the holiday season. Anyone with information is asked to call d. C. Police and there are rewards in each of these cases. Live in northwest, im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. All righty. Lets do this. Okay, so, were all excited especially about the opening of the wawa today. Yeah. Im so excited. I like wawa. Did you like wawa. Admittedly. Ill go on a wawa run if you let me. Oh, let you . I totally endorse it. I endorse it. Lets do it. They open until 9 00 right. Until 9 oclock. A whole lot could happen by 9 00. Maybe we should send mike out. If were heading out earlier what should we wear . Well its december 15 layers. Yes. Lots of clothes. You need it. It wont be as cold as yesterday but we do have some snowflakes flying out there in some of our northwest suburbs. A couple flurries try and come across in d d. C. I hours. Best chances between 6 oclock and 8 oclock. Good news nothing is going to stick. Temperatures still cold out there this morning, 36 degrees. Thats about our high yesterday as well. Not nearly as bad as yesterday morning. 34 gaithersburg. 30 frederick. 26 martinsburg, 28 cumberland. Winds still blowing though much like the temperatures not as bad as yesterday. 25 in washington is what it feels like, feels like 18 in hagerstown, 19 in winchester 23 at dulles. Heres your forecast for the day today. Morning cloud cover and a passing flurry possible through about the 8, 9 oclock hour and then we should start clearing things up. More sunshine by the afternoon. Staying breezy though. Winds later on today will kick up once again with gusts up towards 30 miles an hour. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back with traffic. 5 07 right now keeping our eyes on the roads. Beneath us in the camera this is a look in the district in the northeast new york avenue at bladensburg road. Volume picking up. Not enough to cause any slowdowns. Keep in mind red line delays. There will be a segment shut down. Theyre, woulding on repairing a cable issue so just be prepared theyre running trains at a little bit slower than normal shady grove to glenmont every 10 minutes. Grosvenor to noma every five instead of every four. One train at a time by the takoma station. Well keep you updated on the red line. Let me know on twitter at erin fox5 d. C. If you have any questions about the red line. Things looking good in virginia. Looking good through lorton. Problem free route one northbound. Well take a look at your maryland majors next. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Maureen and holly back to you. The new u. S. Embassy in london is nearly complete and it took only 1 billion. Fire crews are forced to deal with wind and dry conditions in their continual effort to tame californias wildfires. As we head to break were going to take a live look across the d. C. Region. Its 5 08 right now, 35 degrees. Back after this. All right. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Today is thursday, december 14th. Time right now is 5 09. It is cold. Wind chills are still a factor but here is the silver lining. It will be a lot warmer than it was yesterday with temperatures expected to reach the low 40s and with in we say good morning to those in the white house. Lights s all right, guys, lets do this. Lets do thursday. Feels down right tropical out there in the 40s. Santa ana winds and dry conditions are strengthening those california wildfires. So far the largest blaze called the thomas fire has burned nearly 240,000 acres. 900 buildings have been destroyed, many of them homes and th at least 50,000 people have been evacuated. Reinforcements are being called in from across the country. 8,000 firefighters are now on the front lines. Pennsylvania Police Investigating a possible murdersuicide at a penn state satellite campus. Police found the woman and her estranged husband dead and they believe he killed himself. Terror suspect akayed ullah faces a judge wednesday he did for his arraignment. Ullah tried to explosives at the bus terminal. He cla isis and often viewed the groups online propaganda. The few people injured in the incident are expected to recover. Akayed ullah faces life in prison. Hes not eligible for the Death Penalty because no one died in the attack. Police investigating the death of dan johnson. Officials say johnson was that found dead yesterday days after allegations surfaced that he had molested a member of his church when she was 17. Authorities discovered johnsons body near a bridge in Mount Washington kentucky and believe he most likely killed himself. More details are expected to be released today following a completed autopsy. Senator john mccain back in the hospital. Officials at Walter Reed Medical Center say hes being treated for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy. Officials say mccain missed work on monday and tuesday but is set to return to the u. S. Senate floor as soon as possible. No word on how long he will be hospitalized. The new u. S. Embassy in london is a fortress and with a 1 billion price tag its become the most expensive embassy ever. So heres some highlights. In an age of terrorist attacks the walls are blast resistant. The glass is shatter proof. Theres a 100foot wide moat and the new Embassy Opens on january 16. Its going to be dedicated to President Trump next year. 1 billion. Right. Amazing. Sign of the times. Coming up, def jam founder Russell Simmons facing multiple rape allegations. A man catches uber to go a few miles winds up with a five figure bill. Lets head to break. As we do well take another live look across the d. C. Region on this thursday morning. 5 12 is our time. Were at 35 degrees. Not quite as bitter as yesterday but its still cold out there. Were coming right back. Heard about eucrisa for mildtomoderate eczema . It can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. The arm of an arm wrestler . The back of a quarterback . The face of a fairy . Prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. The most common side effect is application site pain. Time right now is 5 14. Heres a look at the stories were following for you today, thursday house and Senate Republicans have reached an agreement on tax cuts. The revised legislation would lower the Corporate Tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. It would drop the individual tax rate for the richest americans from 39 to 37 percent. Democrats are critical of the plan. Many wondering how it will help middle and low income families. Today is the big fcc vote on whether to repeal obama era Net Neutrality rules. It requires equal foot to go all web traffic. More than a hundred republican lawmakers sent a letter to the fcc applauding the rules. Wawa will celebrate its first location in the district. Its on 19th street northwest. It opens at 8 00 a. M. The grand Opening Ceremony begins at 9 00. Looks impressive. Uhhuh. Specifically that coffee bar. He little more high end. Theyll have indoor and outdoor seating so it should be fun. 8 oclock to theubc. What street is 19th street. Well let you know. Indoor or outdoor seating guess which one you should choose today. Indoor. Indoor seating recommended. Its going to be breezy again later on this afternoon. Winds arent terrible right now but well change wind directions later today with a cold front coming through and thats going to kick up the winds. Gusts over 30 possible as the kids get home from school. Tracking snow flurries off to the north this morning. Hagerstown seeing a few coming down, down the. I 81 corridor and then some of these are going to try and move across as we head through the next few hours here. Even if we do get a few snow flurries here in washington whatever falls shouldnt be sticking here. Temperatures above freezing this morning. And again, its going to cause much of an issue with are morning commute. Theres our clipper system. Its starting to fall apart. Low is going to reorganize itself off the coast and head off to the north and east. Behind it well start 36 degrees in washington. Quantico 38. Manassas good morning 35 for you as wie as culpeper. 37 for fredericksburg. Martinsburg 26. Hagerstown 27 but again those locations were in the teens yesterday so just about everybody on this map at least 10 degrees warmer than they were at this time when we were waking up yesterday. Winds again not nearly as bad as yesterday morning, either. Only sustained at nine. 14 in quantico, 15 in fredericksburg. See these arrows, coming out of the south and west so that will help temperatures get a little warmer later on this afternoon but again once that breeze kicks up today, not really going to feel like it with it probably feeling like the 30s all day with the wind chills taken into effect. 25 is what it feels like as you step outside here in d. C. Right now, 22 in gaithersburg, 25 in baltimore. Yes, not warm enough that you dont need a jacket. You certainly do this morning. 19 degrees in frederick is what it feels like, 18 in hagerstown. Heres your setup again. Clipper will push itself off the coastline. Well start to pull in flow out of the north and west. We will turn breezy later cold front swings through later on today. And that will help cool us down for your day on friday. Highs today upper 30s north and west. 40s low to mid 40s closer here to d. C. In fact well go 45 here in washington, 44 for leonardtown, 44 for fredericksburg. Want warmer temperatures you say . 37, passing snow shower in the second half of the day but that shouldnt be a huge deal. Saturdays mostly sunny, 46. Warmup into next week. Look at monday, 57. By tuesday nearing 60 degrees in a few spots. Dont worry that wont last. Well get cold again later again next week. Thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin for that traffic. 5 18 on have we made to it thursday. We have. I got lost in the week. We made it to thursday morning. And unfortunately waking up to some metro delays. In addition to the red line adjustments as they fix a cable problem in the at a, ma area yellow line expect residual delays. Orange line late clearing track work. Expect delays. Fi Clear Conditions at the 301 split. Proproblem free in fort washington. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Holly and maureen. All right thank you erin. It is 5 19. Lets take a look at the stories you are engaging with the most this morning on social media. Wisdom is back with our realtime news tracker. Hey whiz. Good morning. First up three women are accusing Russell Simmons of rape. The women say they were t too scared to report the sexual assaults but have come out because of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Selma hayek is the latest to come forward with allegations of Sexual Harassment against weinstein. Weinstein has released a statement saying all of the sexual allegations as portrayed by selma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account transpired. Switching gears now to another shakeup in the trump administration. Omarosa has resigned. New reports are out that say with her departure comes an even more lack of diversity in the white house. Omarosa was only one of two black officials among trumps more than three dozen cabinet members and senior staffers. Uber comes across with another uhoh. The popular ride hailing program uber charged a man more than 18,000 for a 20 minute ride. This incident happened in toronto. First claims say that uber was sticking to it but after complaints, uber officials said that the fare amount for the ride was incorrectly put into the meter and then they provided a full refund. And finall, meet a last minute holiday gift, cause the original watergate lock that burglars picked opened picked opened during the infamous break in that resulted in president nixons downfall is that available. The starting bid of 50,000. Bidding begins today. Holly, maureen. Thank you. Coming up, two Ride Sharing Services are now the subject of a federal probe. And target introduces a new service to compete with amazon. Heading to break, a live look across the d. C. Region. 5 21 is the time and 35 degrees is the temperature. This is the sherman shame. Family. Merry christmas from germany. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. See more greetings from our troops on our fox5 facebook page. 5 23 and the department of justice is investigating allegations that a former uber executive stole selfdriving Car Technology from googles self driving spinoff wemo. So far the Justice Department declined comment. Uber stays it has not seen evidence of fraud or misuse of data. Microsoft rolled out a new feature on its Search Engine bing. It will give a demonstration of new intelligent searches. Microsoft says the demand for more sophisticated seven engines has grown among its users. The company says these new features support that demand. Marriott international set to debut a string of Luxury Hotels next year. Marriott is planning to open nearly 40 High End Hotels across eight brands in 2018. The move is part over to the target affluent travelers. The brands includes the ritzcarlton w hotels saint regis and jw marriott. The coop Company Operates hotes across 60 countries. The move looks to match the services rolled out by amazon and walmart. Shipped uses thousands of contractors to buy products at Retail Stores and delivers them to customers. Cust , 5 25. Lets go ahead and chat about this weather. Its still cold outside but its going to feel markedly warmer than yesterday morning. Yes, yes, that is true it is feeling much better. Our current temperature is what we reached for a High Temperature yesterday. Now it is exactly what our High Temperature was yesterday. 37 degrees outside now in d. C. Westbound out of the south and west today. Highs today should be right around the low to mid 40s across the immediate d. C. Area. Satellite and radar showing snow falling though even at 37 degrees. Yes, snow can fall but it wont stick. That clipper system is moving through. It will start to fall apart here and redevelop off the coast later on today and it will be out of our hair. Not expecting any more accumulation with that clipper. Well clear it out this afternoon back to sunshine again highs middle 40s turning breezy later today as well. Thats weather. Over to erin for traffic. 5 26 right now. Just walking in the studio thanks to melissa for the tweet. She just let me know theres a new inner loop crash right at the 95 split in college park causing some big delays. So well search for that in the cameras but thank you for the quick social media update and well keep you updated on that. Aside from the inner loop crash by the 95 split, 270 southbound typical delays from 70 to 109. 14 minutes. Were just in that yellow zone because congestion is just starting to slow us down. Once you g youre quieter. Lets go ahead and forward things along and show you what else youre dealing with on the roads. Aside from 270, were seeing nice conditions on 70. We do have construction closing 355 both directions at the Monocacy River bridge. Keep to it 270 or buckeystown pike. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Well get to metro delays. Back to you. The nations Opioid Epidemic is forcing Insurance Companies to rethink their approach to addiction. Learning more about the mysterious death of of a High School Senior from bethesda. Well take a break with a live look outside at the washington monument. 35 degrees is the temperature right now. Youre watching fox5 news morning. 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. The family avenue Maryland High School student is demanding answers after police admit to talking to the teens hours before his death. President trump promotes the gops tax reform bill. He says it puts the country on the verge of an economic miracle while democrats call it a disgrace. And we are just a few hours away from the grand opening of d. C. s first Wawa Convenience store. Fox5 news morning starts right now. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning to you. Thank you for join and us. It is thursday, december 14. Erin como is watching the roads, mike thomas talking about weather. Good morning. Good morning. Dont be shocked if you see a snow flurry or two this morning. Its not going to be a big deal. It will clear out this afternoon. Sunshine back. Warmer than yesterday highs in the middle 40s. Erin. 95 southbound in college park as you come down towards the beltway theres a seven car crash blocking the right shoulder right lane. Seven cars involved in a big crash. Well get you around those delays. Sounds good. Thanks erin. Thanks mike. Right now if you are just getting up on this thursday morning 5 31 is the time. Well begin with breaking news from rockville. A pedestrian was struck overnight near the intersection of 355 and east middle lane. Rockville pike was closed for several hours but has since reopened. Fox5 is still waiting to here from First Responder os thes one victims condition and what may have led to the accident. Fox5 following a developing story from annapolis. Around 11 50 fire crews responded to a 911 call to find this a driver had plowed their pickup truck into the side of this happened on eagle wood road. Two people were taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Theres no word on how they were injured. One victim was that found outside of the building. A second had to be removed from the damaged building. The Anne Arrundel county fire has not said if the driver was among those hospitalized. Amazing picture there. 5 32 is our time. House and Senate Republicans have reached a deal on their tax bill and could have it to the president by next week. President trump says if the bill is done by christmas, americans could see tax cuts by february. Critics claim the plan will heavily benefit the rich. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer wants the bill delayed until alabama senator doug jones is sworn in in january. A followup this morning the two off Duty Officers killed last week in a crash along i270 will be laid to rest today. Traffic delays along Montrose Road in rockville should be expected beginning at 7 00 this morning. During the funeral of deputy chief state fire marshal sander cohen. State in the area of woodfield road in gaithersburg for services for special agent carlos wolf and an investigation into their death is still ongoing. Fox5 continues to follow the latest developments in the mysterious death of a 17yearold walt whitman senior. Now this morning Montgomery County police say they could have done a better job. 17yearold navid sepehri was found dead sunday night several hours after his father had reported him missing. Police say they should have taken the missing persons report when navids dad first let them know his son hadnt come home. Now, the Department Says it is reviewing their officers actions and say anything they learn may affect future policies. And developing right now at 5 33, d. C. Police need your help finding some bold thieves. Theyre wanted for a string of burglaries across washington, d. C. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick joins us now live from northwest with the details. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. F street is the latest location that these burglars have hit and you can see the street from where they broke into benson jewelers but this wasnt the only one. They also went just across the street to the Verizon Store there. These two, the most recent places that were hit. It looks like theyre trying to get clothing mobile phones jewelry and watches in order to perhaps sell them for the holidays. Lets take you to the video here. First one is from just im sorry, just from the wednesday, yeah, the suspect just breaking the glass door. Three 16 in the morning. Hes going to stuff some items in his pocket and then they tell us that they fled in a dark colored van. Now, two days earlier as mentioned the same block busy f street northwest several men walk into the Verizon Store. Here they just make off with stolen goods. We dont know what they said to the people there and then, again, just got out. Then it also started on december 1st. 9 19 in the morning the robbers shoved somebody as they hit the Electronics Store on benning they filled trash cans with stolen goods and walk out. December 3rd, 11 48 in the morning, they walk into another mobile phone store, tell everyone to get down. This is in the 1300 block of pennsylvania avenue. Again, they make off with trash cans full of loot. And then finally, on december 5th, this is a Clothing Store on h street northwest, this is where Police Notice that the suspects were driving a stolen church van taken from youngs Memorial Christian Church in garfield heights, that white van has since been recovered. Now, police were able to isolate and enlarge individual images of the suspect. Youre going to see those here. They are sometimes wearing hats or masks but Police Believe they may be identifiable to anyone who knows them. Call detectives. There are rewards in this case so weve seen them using a white van. Weve also seen them using a black van. The black van was the most recent and theyre telling everyone that please be on the havent caught these guys. Live in northwest, im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. The brazenness is amazing. That video is crazy. Yes. All right. Time to talk weather how cold it is with mike thomas. Now, last night or in the afternoon because its so dark so early, there were some snow flurries. Oh, yeah. Up in my neck of the woods. Making sure it wasnt just me. Here in civilization there was snow too. Started about 8 oclock last night. Snow did come down for aered aperiod of time. 37 here in washington now. 34 in gaithersburg. 30 at dulles. Still chilly and winds still blowing a little bit and that helps it feel colder. Feels like 25 in d. C. , 28 for leonardtown. 22 in culpeper. So, good morning, everybody. Youll still need a jacket this morning. We have that clipper system off to the north but you see its starting to fall apart a little coastline. Still could be a passing snow flurry this morning but that threat diminishes mid to late morning hours. Then we get sunshine back this afternoon but winds start to get gusty with gusts over 30 miles an hour possible. Cold is back tomorrow only 37 with maybe a passing snow shower in the afternoon but no big deal there. Not expecting any accumulation. Thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin for traffic. Okay, 5 37 right now and some breaking news. 95 southbound just outside the top side of the beltway as you head into college park, we have a serious crash. Were hearing seven cars involved as well as injuries. Its 95 southbound after maryland 212 and before the beltway. Right now just that Left Shoulder is getting by so as you take a look at the bottom camera you can see quite a bit of a backup already picking up. Your best bet, exit well north of that point and take 295 baltimorewashington parkway suthbound to get around this mess. Well send skyfox there in just a little while and well keep you updated on those delays but as you head to the beltway 295 a much better bet. Thats your traffic. Back to you holly a sounds good. Thanks erin. Coming up on fox5 news morning, the nations Opioid Epidemic is forcing Insurance Companies to rethink their approach to addiction. In Arlington School leaders warn parents about a illness being passed from student to student. Were going to break right now with a live look outside across the washington, d. C. Area at 5 38, 37 is the temperature. Fox5 news morning is back right after this. Welcome back. A live look at the white house. Still early, early as you can see s it is dark out there. Wind chills, theyre still a factor though so its cold. Its going to be a lot warmer than it was yesterday. Temperatures are actually expected to reach the low 40 40s. All right. More Health Insurance fighters join and the fight against opioid addiction. Care first is marylands Largest Health insurer. They plan to build a network of clinics that can treat Substance Abuse and Mental Health problems on demand. Starting on january 1st aetna patients will no longer have to make a copayment on narcan. Affordable care act is up compared to this time last year. The numbers are expected to fall short because of a compressed enrollment season. Overall signups are nearing 4. 7 million people. Most of the country has just three days left to buy coverage for 2018. If your kids are sick, keep them home. Thats the message from arlington Public Schools. Mckinley elementary sent a letter to parents notifying them about to a stomach bug after more than a hundred students called out sick. Officials say they disinfected shared Services Daily and absentee rates have returned to normal. Stay away. Dont bring it with you. Coming up on fox5 news morning questions are swirling around talk show host tavis smileys suspension from pbs. Native American Advocacy Group trolls the Washington Redskins with name change hoax. As we head to break well head outside across d. C. On well have your full forecast on the other side. Dont go anywhere. Fox5 news morning coming right back. Im a small business, but i have. Big dreams. And big plans. 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Nice warm cup of wawa coffee opening later today in d. C. You know what are you like a paid wawa spokesman. I know. They love wawa. Im hoping that someones watching and i get a gift card. Oh, my gosh. The solicitation will not be permitted. They do have banana moon pies. When i travel on the road and i stop at the wawa. I like their sandwiches. They make fresh sandwiches. They do. Just because they have them ocean city and they have it in bethany i always thing of it as a beachy thing. Welcome to the city friend. Its wawa day in d. C. Can and wait. Dont, surprised if you see a passing snow flurry early this morning here in washington. Do have a clipper system still moving across the north. Anything that falls should not stick around here were not expect, it to cause major problems. Turning breezy later this afternoon. We could have gusts of 30 miles an hour plus. On this afternoon as well. Tomorrow clouds return with a chance of a passing snow shower especially late afternoon. Shouldnt be a big deal. Were not seeing any accumulation from any of our weather models. I think just kind of a passing snow shower is the biggest risk there. As we head towards the weekend temperatures warm a bit. As we get into the next work week temperatures getting a little close to 60 degrees in a few days. Youll see the sevenday in a second. First there are the snow flurries headed for the city of frederick. Looks like they passed through hagerstown. You can see generally speaking that piece of energy is trying to head off to the east here. So, well see if we as we go through the next, say, hour or two, if some of those snow flurries dont start firing up around the immediate d. C. Area. Even if they do not a huge deal. 37 degrees here in washington right now. Pittsburgh at 25, columbus 25. Detroit and chicago 21 and 19. Theres a cold front off to the north and west thats going to swing through later today. That will drop our temperatures for f probably wont make 40 degrees tomorrow. Current wind chills out there, winds are too bad, 25 in washington is what it feels like. 23 manassas as well as dulles, feels like 19 in winchester. Clipper is going to end up moving off the coast going off to the north and east. Cold front moves through later on this afternoon. It will be a little breezy from time to time today. Highs in the 30s north and west of town, mountains but locally should make it into the 40s later on this afternoon so a little bit warmer than yesterday. In fact were going to go 45 again a passing snow flurry early and then more sunshine later on this afternoon. Tomorrow clouds are back, 37, chilly, passing snow shower. Saturday, sunday, drier. Saturday is the sunnier day 46. 49 on sunday and theres those highs near 60 monday, tuesday, 57, 58 respectively. Erin is back with roads. Seven car pipeup. Yes, seven car pile up. 95 southbound before the beltway. Just the Left Shoulder squeezing by. Delays of 2 miles and they are continuing to grow unfortunately as we move things forward lets see if we can. Ill see if my producer can do that for me. 42 minutes right now just to get from 32 to the beltway on 95 southbound. Your best bet, take 32 over to 295, take bw parkway southbound. That will save you some time getting to the beltway but that will see bailout traffic. Just give yourself extra time. Late clearing track work at huntington. Orange line no longer single tracking but delays because of late clearing track work. Red line cable problems theyre trying to clear things up. Well take a loo look ba back al right roads. Forward things along once again the good news is you can see the gw parkway is nice and quiet in both directions. We have delays starting to build five at the 301 split. Still seeing a gre north of the split youll see that congestion. Keep it to fox5. More traffic in a few. Holly and whiz. Time right now 5 49. New study finds extreme weather is getting more extreme because of climate change. 2017 was marked by several natural disasters Hurricane Harvey maria and irma and wildfires out rest. Two Research Teams released data saying Hurricane Harvey dropped more rain because of global warming. The boost in rainfall ranges between eight and 38 percent. Scientists say whether events like Hurricane Harvey are becoming more likely because of climate change. Former nfl hall of Famer Warren Sapp has a message for those accusing him of Sexual Harassment. Youre not going to put in on me. Thats what he said in a radio inteinterviewest. A stylist accused him of giving her sex toys as Christmas Gifts and using the restroom in front of her in the bathroom. Sapp says he never did sex toys but denies it was in any way Sexual Harassment. Former university of louisville basketball coach rick pitino facing a count suit from the school much it claims pitino damaged the universitys reputation when he was named in an fbi investigation. The university wants money from bonuses he was paid and money for damaged business relationships loses of team records losses or championships that may occur if the ncaa penalizes it over the scandal. He was fired. Hes suing for breach of contract. Commissioner Roger Goodells extension will be his last. The League Spokesman says he plans to retire in 2024. Hell work with nfl team owners to have a successor in place by the time he leaves. In the meantime hes expected to make as much as 200 million over the next five years. Not id retire too. Thats in addition to what hes already made for the whole time hes been. Id retire and live large. Good work. Lets talk about the stories youre engaging with the most on social media. Maureen is back with our realtime news tracker. First up, okay can someone help me. Pbs late night talk show host tavis smiley was indefinitely suspended after multiple credible allegations had of misconduct surfaced about the host. Reports say some believed the victims jobs depended on a sexual relationship with smiley. Smiley has not responded. Frankens former suit goes to tina smith who is a fellow democrat. The announcement follows frankens resignation. Theres an elaborate hoax going around about the burgundy and gold changing their a native American Advocacy Group has created fake urls to mirror espn and sports illustrateds web sites and. Oprah winfrey will have one more award expected to be honored with the cecil b. Demille award. Shell receive it during the golden globes. Cheese lovers youll be able to get your hands on another cheetos creation. Regal cinemas and frito lay partnering to roll out cheetos popcorn. Its going to make its debut at Regal Cinemas tomorrow. Back to you. On board. Id eat them. Real. Yeah. Me too. Never met a cheeto or popcorn i didnt like. The green actor guilds award nomination are out. Among the stop three billboards outside ebbing missouri. Led with four nominations. Never heard of it. Lady bird received three for film and tv Big Little LiesStranger Things and glow. All of this years presenters will be women. The executive producer says its a salute to the women who spoke out against sexual misconduct. New years eve is officially on the horizon so check out what arrived at times square. The numbers one and eight wich will go on the new years eve ball. The 7foot numbers will remain on the plaza until december 22nd so people can take pictures with them. Then theyll go on top of One Times Square and complete the 2018 sign that goes up on new years eve. Oh, see, there were some bulbs that didnt light up, thats what maureen was talking about. Not the whole eight but some of them. Theyll get it fixed by new years i have no doubt. Good morning Tonya Fletcher and jodi breezy. Ey months of wedded bliss. Tonya and jodi have been watching fox5 for many years and they really wanted to be fans of the day. Were glad we could make that happen. So heres to three months and many more months and years to come. Can i just say breezy, if thats his real name thats a great name. Let me know if thats your real name. This is coming from someone named wisdom, by the way. Thats right. It is breezy. It is breezy. Not as windy as it was yesterday morning, though. Yeah, but well get there a little later on this afternoon unfortunately. Well have wind gusts up and over 30 later today. Yeah, this morning is not awful. Yesterday Reagan National 37 degrees, one of our coldest days so far. 34 at dulles. Bwi 32. Normal highs 47 trees. Still dealing with a clipper system across portions of pennsylvania. Its falling apart pretty quick. This area of low pressure redevelops off the coastline here. This will be out of the woods here shortly. Did bring some snowfall last night. Frostburg got baltimore, portions of Howard CountyBaltimore County got half an inch of snow late last night put a coating down on some of the roads. There could be a slick spot or two off to the north of town. After school 38 to 46 degrees. Lots of sunshine. Weekend lots of sunshine saturday more clouds on sunday, 49 and then look, near 60 as we start the next work week. Thats a check of the fore forecast. Over to erin for traffic. A tractortrailer overturned on its side. This is the southbound side before washington boulevard. Its blocking the left lanes. Now the right lanes are getting by. This is going against normal morning rush but if youre coming from the 14th street bridge down toward the pentagon keep in mind youre going to hit that big accident scene. Again, crews are just starting to arrive. This just happened. They just got some cones out. Well keep you updated. We have a crash involving about seven vehicles. If we could forward things along. 95 southbound beforco park, again just the left lane, Left Shoulder squeezing by and were seeing some very heavy backups. Full look at your traffic as we continue. Keep it to fox5. Well be right back. Already up to close to an hour from 32 to the beltway. Well be right back. 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. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Heard about eucrisa for mildtomoderate eczema . It can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. The face of a fisherman . The hand of a ranch hand . The knee of a needle pointer . Prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. The most common side effect is application site pain. Ask your doctor about eucrisa. Caught on camera. Brazen burglars hit a number of local businesses to carry out one of their crimes. Also President Trump said he wanted tax reform for christmas and congress appears to be on the verge of giving it to him a few days earlier. When you could see more money in your paycheck. Live look outside on this thursday morning. Its december 14th. 11 days until Christmas Day you guys. Weather and traffic coming up on thon the 5s. A School Closing in maryland. Garrett county Public Schools no classes for students today in western maryland. Believe it or not thats due to overnight snowfall in that area. Again Garrett CountyPublic Schools closed today. Get your weather details in a couple minutes. Breaking news out of Montgomery County overnight. A pedestrian struck in rockville. Rockville pike closed for several hours. Now it just reopened. Fox5 still waiting to hear from First Responders though on the victims condition and also what might have led to that accident. Were told the pedestrian was in the crosswalk when it happened and the driver did stay on the scene. Also d