Head home for the holidays. Our Anjali Hemphill is live in centreville with the breaking news. Good morning. Reporter good morning, yeah, as you said busiest travel day of the year and were already off to a bad start. Take a look behind me here. This is what were dealing with. Lots of flashing lights here. This is on route 28 southbound just over on the overpass of i66 here. They just recently started letting northbound drivers come through here but southbound you can see is still completely stalled. Again, most of those trucks involved here, the response as well as the trucks and multiple vehicles in this accident still blocking a majority of the roadway here. And thats why traffic is being completely diverted either back onto 66 or in other directions as they try to clear this crash up. We dont know how this crash started. We do know its involving an oveturned big rig as well as several other cars. And we are hearing luckily, the good news is that there are no serious injuries at however, we do hear theres a fuel spill as well as some wires down and some debris in the roadway. So, its going to be quite awhile as these Police Officers and crews, rescue crews clean up this accident. We did hear them talk about how theyre working to open the left two lanes shortly. As you can see it is still stalled. Like you were talking about this is a busy travel day, actually one of the busiest of the year and they are expecting not only the roadways to be congested all morning long but also the airports. This is a main thorofare to get to the airport. Both directions of the road were shut down and airport travelers were being diverted. It looks like as of now you are able to get to the airport from here but it is slow going. If you are trying to make a flight this morning, youre going to want to live extra time, possibly even try to avoid this area altogether. If youre driving, make sure you pull over excuse me, make room, excuse me, for the rescue crews that are pulled over here still trying to get the roadway cleared route 28 near 66. Ill send it back to you. Anjali thank you. Now to other breaking news. This from overseas in australia today where more than a dozen people were injured after a vehicle rammed into a crowd in what Police Called a deliberate act. It was an area busy with christmas shoppers and weve learned that there have been some arrests. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live in the news room. Reporter Victoria Police have finished an evening briefing. This is considered an intentional act. Police say they do not have any evidence right now to connect it to terrorism. It was just before 5 00 p. M. On a busy street in Melbourne CentralBusiness District people were Holiday Shopping and waiting at a cable car stop. The region has been on high alert since an attack that killed four. A white suzuki suv ran a red light sped up then crashed through pedestrian barriers and into the crowd without braking. At t injured, many in critical condition. One of those is a small child with serious head injuries. Now, youre looking at pictures from our sky news affiliate of one man being arrested by Victoria Police. He appears to be unconscious and officers were seen trying to revive him. Then we have video for you of another man who was seen sitting on the ground in handcuffs and calmly talking to investigators. There he is right there. Now, Victoria Police say the driver of the suv is a 34yearold Australian Citizen of afghan descent. They say hes known to police with a history of assault, drug use and Mental Health issues. The other man who was taken into custody apparently was seen filming the incident on his phone and was carrying Knives Police said they do not believe he has a connection to the driver. Prime minister turnbull called it a shocking act and sent prayers for the victims. And first responders. Well be following all the details here. We know that theyve also sent homicide investigators to the scene because ty again, some of these injuries may not be survivable. Well keep you updated from here in the news room. Back to you guys in the studio. Melanie thank you very much. President trump is celebrating a legislative victory following final approval of the gop tax reform bill. Now, the president called it an Incredible Christmas gift for hard working americans. Once signed into law the Corporate Tax rate will drop 14 percent. Small businesses are also due to see a big reduction in taxes. Standard deductions for individuals as well as couples as well as child tax credits will double. Also this morning, theres not a lot of time for lawmakers to celebrate their legislative victory because the clock is ticking to keep the government opened. Congress needs to pass a spending bill by midnight tomorrow. Otherwise, the government will shut down. Right now the house is, wouworking on a bill funding the government through mid january. It could cap spending at from levels and push fights into 2018. Now to a political race in virginia. The outcome of a house of delegates race in newport news has been ruled a tie now. Now, on tuesday democrat Shelley Simmons was named the winner by a margin of one vote. A gop election official said a previously discarded ballot was actually a vote for the incumbent david yancy. A three judge panel agreed yesterday and declared the race a tie. The head of the board of elections said the winner will likely be chosen by drawing a name out of a glass bowl. How archaic is that . Going old school. What do you do when you got a tiely . Any of never heard that in my life. Ive never heard it. In my voting life. With all the technology and all the advances weve made in society the best we can do is put a name in a fish bowl and determine who is going to be a government representative. Got to go old school sometimes. Everybody has to make sure the names are one to one. We dont want this to turn into the nba draft l thats honest. Oh, of course it is. There arent enough ties in life. Football, you hardly ever get ties. Right. Lets go to the forecast. Hey, winter starts. Cool today. Sunny bright and beautiful but quite cool. Daytime highs only in the mid 40s here but jacket weather but it should be a nice looking day. Were nice and quiet for the next couple days. I think today is a big travel day, right. Oh, yeah its huge. Terrible travel thursday. And tomorrow will be frantic traveling friday. We always but terrible travel whatever. Yeah. Reagan national 34. Look how cold it is dulles 24. Most of the area below freezing to start your morning. High pressure to the north and that builds in and delivers a nice afternoon and again a quiet afternoon for us. Temperatures will start to rebound tomorrow back into the 50s and then well be in the 60s with rain on saturday. More on that in just a moment but theres your forecast for this afternoon for your terrible travel thursday. 48 and sunny so weather will no b thats a thats good. Thank you, tucker. Lets talk more about this terrible traffic day with erin como. I still miss the sound of terrible turkey traffic tuesday. Erin we moved forward. We dont go backwards. Weve moved forward. Come up with something else. Onward and upward wisdom. Okay. We do have skyfox for you. Theyre over this big crash that Anjali Hemphill was telling you about. This is 28. All southbound lanes blocked at 66. Youll have to detour around this. Messy scene out there involving an overturned tractortrailer a fuel spill downed power lines. Luckily no serious injuries involved. All northbound lanes of 28 reopened, all southbound lanes remain shut down for some time with a big cleanup out there. A lot of Emergency Responders there, so please use caution as you head on the northbound side as well. Lets switch it over right now for a look at our maps. This is causing a backup on 66 dipping do unto 29 Miles Per Hour as you head from 234 sudley road to 28 and heading northbound a rubberneck delay as as you make your way out in maryland this is closer to the bwi area, 97 northbound before 32 a crash blocking the right lane. Big Police Presence there as well. And then branch avenue at temple hills, this is just north of the beltway and auth road after auth road we have a crash blocking the shoulder. Watch for slowdowns. Inner loop and outer loop look good and all metro rail lines are on time. We got you covered for this terrible tuesday traffic day guys. 6 09 is the time right now. Pack your patience if youre flying out of the holidays out for the holidays. Hundreds of contract airport workers will hit the picket lines today at dulles airport. The strike involves a baggage baggage handlers wheelchair attendant Customer Service agents contracted through huntley u. S. A. Theyre protesting what they say are poor working conditions mistreatment and low pay. Theyre also demanding the right to unionize. 6 09 right now. Coming up, a u. S. Gymnast mikhaila maroney suing u. S. A. Gymnastic. She says they silenced her in order to protect the organization. Were back in just 30 seconds. Z2momz zi0z y2momy yi0y 6 10 is the time. We turn to a developing story out of mexico where fox5 has learned that members of a local family are among the dozen People Killed in a tour bus crash. Anna behar of lorton virginia along with her mothe 11yearold son were on a bus headed to the mayan ruins when it flipped over. Friends of the family are devastated and they remember anna as a strong adventurous woman and her son as a sweet boy who loved learning about space and playing soccer. 11 years old and ive watched the kid grow up his entire life. Entire life. Always quick with a joke and makes everyone laugh at times. A very sincere kid. Always tries to find the best in people. Annas husband and teenaged son were also hurt. 31 people were on board the bus on monday and Officials Say driver negligence and speed were to blame. Two confederate statues were removed last night from a park in memphis, tennessee much the statue of Nathan Bedford forest was taken off its platform and lowered onto a truck. 112 years after the confederate general was first memorialized. A second statue of confederate president Jefferson Davis was also removed. The Memphis City Council decided to sell the parts which they were located to a private organization. Alleging officials covered up the sexual abuse she suffered with a secret settlement. Maroneys Attorney Says she signed a confidential 1. 25 million settlement in december of 2016. To resolve claims related to her alleged sexual abuse by team doctor larry nassar. Maroney is now seeking to nullify that agreement. Earlier this month nasar was sentenced to 60 years in prison for sexually assaulting dozens of gymnasts and possessing child porn. Time right now is 6 12 and coming up. We have all learned that people complain about their slow iphones, right, some just stop working when the new ones come out. The tech company says those slowdowns are intentional but its not to get you to new phone as some speculate but first a holiday message from overseas. How is it you going. Im stationed u. S. S. Kearny. Shout out to my mom bonnie clemons. I want to wish you happy holidays. See more greetings from our troops on our fox5 facebook page. At the d. C. Lottery, we not only love this place as much as you do, we heard you loud and clear when you voted for six new neighborhood scratchers. Dont forget to enter the secondchance drawing. You could win 500,000 that may be used towards buying a home in your favorite neighborhood. Back now at 6 15 on a thursday. We have breaking news. A ferry that capsized in the philippines, the boat carrying 251 passengers, there are reports that four people have died, dozens of others are missing. And rain lashed the ship at the ship for about two hours into the journey. Thats when it started when it began taking on water just two hours into the journey because of the winds and the rain. Passengers rushed to one side which is when the ferry began to sink. Well share more updates as soon as we get them. Were following breaking news on the roads. A big crash on route 28 on centreville virginia near i66. Aaast tractortrailer and one other car involved. All lanes of southbound 28 near 66 are closed. Tucker, good morning. Good morning. Lets get right to it because weve got lots of weather to talk about. We dont have much time. So, yeah, lets cue lets get going here. First traffic. Its winter. [laughter] yes, winter is here, winter solstice. Peaceful, right . Uhhuh. Makes erin and i want to do a little ballet. Thats so pretty. Win morning. Party starts in the Weather Center in about an hour. Bus stop forecast, hey, its cold out there. Temperatures in the 20s. After school today mid 40s, so definitely jacket weather. I think this is the last day of school before most of you before you get a break. 32 leonardtown. Notice almost everybody exception d. C. And annapolis at or below freezing. Lots of 20s out there. Make sure youre dressed appropriately. Should be a beautiful day. Sunny bright beautiful. High pressure to our north and that will deliver a chilly afternoon but a nice afternoon with a lot of sunshine. Again first day of winter later this morning so for our first day of winter not a bad day. It will be nice and dry out there with temperatures in the 40s. Warming it up into the mid50s tomorrow. Late tomorrow night. Saturday looks wet. If youre traveling saturday its going to be wet up and down the eastern seaboard. 64 your daytime high. Cold front comes in sunday. This we got to watch a little bit. Looks like there might be some rain showers. It might transition to a few snow showers or snowflakes b Christmas Morning to give santa some help here as hes out delivering presents. Well keep our fingers crossed we get a few snowflakes on monday but thats going to be a close call your turn. Its been brought to my attention today is thursday and not tuesday. Excellent. I kept wanting to call it terrible traffic tuesday but its thursday. Just doesnt have the same ring. As i said you to a minute ago you got the t right. Thats important. Thank you. Always need that friend who makes you feel better when youre wrong. 28 all lanes blocked at 66. Were dealing with an overturned tractortrailer fuel spill wires. Anjali hemphill tracking. Delays on 66 eastbound towards centreville. You can continue 28 and northbound towards dulles airport. Southbound side blocked. 66 eastbound from sudley road to the Fairfax County parkway yellow zone, 14 minute trip. We have congestion. A crash before Fairfax County pork way and then we are also dealing with a crash involving an o agaiagain this is 32, the southbound ramp to 97. Give yourself extra time. Back to you guys. 6 18. Coming up all right, how is this for finger licking good . Okay. Kfc is offering low smell food so that people can eat the chicken in Public Places without worrying that it smells too strong. Not to mention the fact that theyre holding it and eating it eating a piece of chicken. And licking their fingers. Theyre worried about the smell. Im not judging. I understand. Okay. Okay. 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Joining us from the Fox Business Network studio our friend tracee carrasco. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Good to see you this thursday. Good to see you, first off lets talk about this terrible traffic thursday. It really is a thing. Reporter yes, yes. So, waze, the driving app, the people over there have been busy crunching numbers analyzing driving data and theyve found that tomorrow, friday, december 22nd will be the busiest time to be out on the road from 3 00 until 5 oclock so definitely plan accordingly. Theyve also found that Christmas Day will be the light test day of travel on the road. A few other things that might help you plan your trip. On new years day, you dont see any more or less traffic than a typical sunday. So, you dont have to worry about beating the rush. And another interesting thing about christmas, waze says that theres about 130 percent spike of people driving to movie theaters. So, maybe do yourself a favor, stay at home, stream something on tv. So, a few things to help make driving a little easier. Right. cause who needs the frustration. All right, lets talk about frustration when were trying to use our devices. I hear this complaint all the time, tracee when a few phone comes out my old phone is going to slow down so i buy a new phone. Kind of, right . A little bit of that is true. Reporter it is. Apple is confirming what a lot of people have speculated, myself included that is my iphone getting slower after you do you install that Software Update or, yes, as you said a new phone comes out. Apple says that this is a deliberate move on their part because these lithium ion batteries inside the phone, they do start to slow down as they get older, so by slowing down the phone, it helps last a little longer. They also say that these older iphones, they will tend to shut down unexpectedly sometimes. Right. Reporter so, by slowing it down, thats also keeping your phone alive a little longer. I know last leg and ive been saying this for so long. Is my iphone getting slower because a new one has come out . Right. Well, it is getting slower but not for the reason why we thought, right . Theyre doing it for our own good. Reporter exactly. Yes. Kfc chicken smell. So, theyre saying overseas anyway in japan if its not as fragrant you could take it to go. But my thing tracee is how is it fake smell . How do you tone it down . Thats my question. Reporter so, this is theyve found a way through the cooking process to kind of make it a low smell kentucky Fried Chicken. That you know smell. Oh, yeah. Reporter its pretty strong. Its iconic. Reporter theyve found a way to make it a little less strong so that these people in japan can take their kfc onto the subway, onto the trains and eat it without offending the other people on the train. Isnt that so polite . It is so polite but its weird, do you know what im saying. Like if they could smell down. Reporter it is weird. Is it fake smell . Is it less spices. Reporter i think its just the way they took it. Right. Reporter so, they call it Fried Chicken home type. Home type. Reporter i dont know what home type means. cause we never get that kfc smell at home when we try to fry up ours. Thats cool. Reporter exactly. Its in japan. Well leave it there and well talk to you tomorrow. Reporter sounds good. See you tomorrow. All right, see you tomorrow. All right. All i know is if i cant smell it i dont want to eat it. You can keep my commend my friend luis says popeyes is the best fast food. Ill go kfc over that, though. I like the im going pass on both of them. No bojangles for you. Absolute no bojangles. I like to think of myself as a no smell person. If im on metro. The less smell the better. Just a touch of smell. A hint of Fried Chicken. 34 in washington. [laughter] yes, well be in the 40s today so its going to be much cooler than the last couple days but it should be sunny, bright and beautiful so more sun. Well get more sun today. First day of winter. Make sure you celebrate with your friends. 11 29 this morning. Oh, great ill still be here. Youre invited to the party in the Weather Center. What time now. 11 29. We have all kinds of goodies. Weve got cookies, cake. I got some cake and pies. Everything left over from our holiday party. We have some low smell chicken. Im going to pass on all of that. I got some cakes and pies in my house. Maybe ill bring those in and share them. More on the forecast in a minute. Yes, i want to follow up on our white christmas. Erin good morning. I have to drive on christmas. This is a big deal. Oh. I know. Allison is like ill be cuddled up. Im sorry. Its fine. Look at this mess Anjali Hemphill just tweeted. Looks like three big rigs involved in this crash. Two overturned. Are blocked. Northbound traffic is opened but it looks like theyve contained it to the shoulder. Looks like theyre letting a lane by on the southbound side. Ill verify with her. The ramp from 66 impacted as well. Lets sort that out and well get back to you but northbound side is opened. We have a lot of other crashes going on in maryland and the district so a full look at your traffic as we continue. It is 6 27 right now. Coming up. All right, weve got the latest on the tragedy in mexico. A virginia mother and her son are among the victims of a deadly tour bus crash. More details about the family and what happened. 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 . Right there, that picture, yeah, young michael, it doesnt sound like terrible traffic thursday when you hear michael and look at the dmv. And id like to say bruno mars if youre watching this morning, cause hes in town at the mgm, hence the picture, welcome back to the dmv. And if you have two tickets, call me. All right. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Weather and traffic coming up on the 5s at 6 35. We begin, though, with serious news at 6 30. Breaking news out of centreville virginia where police are on the scene of a multi vehicle crash that shut down parts of route 28 at i66. Officials are asking drivers to avoid that area. The crash which involved a tractortrailer also brought down some power lines. Right now of 28 are closed at 66. Were told there arent any serious injuries. Thats the Silver Lining there. Now to breaking news out of australia. At least 14 people are injured after an suv plowed into a group of pedestrians outside of a station in central melbourne today. Police were quick to say that it was a deliberate act but they add that they have no evidence that it is a terror act. One of two suspects taken into custody is now no end to police with a history of drug use known to official with a history of drug use. Republicans basking in the glow of their tax reform victory. It was a legislative love fest at the white house yesterday. President trump and Congressional Republicans threw a party. It remains unclear though when the president will sign that bill. Theres not a lot of time for lawmakers to celebrate that victory though because the clock is ticking to keep the government opened. Remember this . Congress needs to pass a spending midnight tomorrow. Otherwise the government will shut down. Right now the house is working on a bill funding the government through mid january. It would also cap spending at current levels and push fights over items like obamacare, the Affordable Care act subsidies connected to that and Legal Protections for dreamers into 2018. Some corporations say they will use the tax savings to invest in their workers and their companies. Thats what the republicans want. Employees at several major u. S. Companies will reap immediate benefits of tax reform legislation. Moments after Congress Passed the measure at t announced it will give more than 200,000 of its Union Workers a 1,000 bonus boeing comcast and wells fargo also plan to hand out bonuses and raise their minimum wages. Good news for you. All right. Allison, holiday travelers and commuters be warned. This could put a dent in your Holiday Cheer t today is expected to be the worst day on the roads. 7 Million People will be traveling by car to their christmas and new years eve destinations in the Washington Area this season and its supposed to peak this afternoon between 3 00 p. M. And 6 00 p. M. Delays could be up to two and a half times longer than us usual. So, keep that in mind if you have to venture out. 6 33. We are following developing stories this morning out of mexico where fox5 has learned members of a local family are among the dozen People Killed in a tour bus crash. Anna behar of lorton virginia along with her mother and 11yearold son they were on that bus headed to a mayan ruins site. Family members are devastated and they remember anna as strong and adventurous and her son as a sweet young man who loved learning about space and playing soccer. Ive watched the kid grow up his entire life. Very energetic very happy. Always qui makes everyone laugh at times. Hes very sincere kid. He also tries to find the best in people. Annas husband and teenaged son were also hurt. 31 people on board the bus on monday. Officials now say the driver that driver negligence and speed were to blame. Californias thomas fire might soon become the largest fire in the states history. Scorching more than 270,000 acres so far, Officials Say its 60 percent contained and its growth has slowed. Crews caught a break in in weather conditions this week but winds are sadly expected to pick up today. Over 1,000 structures have been destroyed but another 18,000 still at risk. 6 34 is the time right now and that means its time for the morning line. Heres the deal. No charges will be filed against tennis star Venus Williams for a crash that killed a man back in june. Now, police in palm beach gardens, florida, cleared the tennis star of any wrongdoing. Investigators say video shows she was not at fault for that deadly crash. Meanwhile, the head of the nfl network has resigned david eaton is leaving amid accusations that the nfl network is a hostile place to work for female employees. Eaton is also accused of engengaging in sexually explicit conversations on twitter. Eaton was in charge of news operations at the station and on the web site. Now, get this. A former Dallas Mavericks basketball player is on a mission to find his toilet and some stolen appliances after burglars raided his dallas, texas home. Charlie villanueva took to twitter over the ordeal and he tweeted im still tripping. Who steals a toilet . Like why a toilet . The basketball player was also upset over the Police Departments response time. They ended up coming the next day to take a report. So far no arrests. I think that toilet cost like 1,700. Was it like a gold toilet or something . I dont know. I think that i saw that it was like pretty but but who wants a used toilet. Can you imagine if you break into a ball players former ball players house and what you think about is the toilet . Right. And toilets are heavy, too. Toilets are heavy. Okay, thats weird. And what are you going to do with it . You going to put it on ebay . So and sos toilet. Food for thought. Just wondering. Im going to get myself in trouble if i comment at all. What about a white christmas. We dont have time for your toilet humor. 34 right now in, what. Most of our region in the 20s this morning. Make sure you take the jacket its cold this morning. First day of winter arrives at 11 29. Satellite picture nice and quiet. Heres the tradeoff. Cooler today, highs in the mid 40s but lots and lots of sunshine to look forward to. A nice quiet day. High pressure to our north will keep things generally sunny around here. Nice quiet afternoon. Today will be a cool one. First day of winter. 48 will be our dayme make sure you got your winter jacket ready. Allison has been mentioning the possibility of some snowflakes for Christmas Day. Only because my friend tucker mentioned it. Well revisit that in just a minute. Oh. So, youre saying theres a chance. Ive been saying it for a couple days theres a chance. You have been saying it for a couple days there is a chance. I just like saying that. Good movie line. Is that a movie line. Yes. Good movie line. I almost ran directly into allison in the hallway. No, i almost ran into you. I had cake in my hand. Luckily we didnt. Unfortunately were dealing with problems in centreville. 28 southbound at 66 updated news for you anjali just tweeted and you can see it on skyfox traffic is getting through this area right now. 28 southbound theyve reopened some lanes. Northbound side is opened. But look at the southbound side. We still have a crash scene blocking at least one lane in the soldier. Its involving at least two big rigs, possibly three, two of which are overturned. Some downed wires an fuel spill so a lot of congestion in both directions right now on 28 at 66 even though traffic is moving in both directions. Lets switch it over show you what else youre up again problems on the roads this morning. Aside from that a slowdown leading toward 28. Right now its a 31 minute trip from 234 to the beltway this morning on 66 eastbound. Also all lanes closed on 32 eastbound at 97. Use alternate routes. You can see a very big slowdown there. It looks like theyre actually starting to let traffic through on the shoulder and then as you make your way out keep in mind we have a disabled car 295 southbound at benning road. That just cleared but we are seeing some residual delays. Back to you guys. All right, thank you, erin como. 6 38 is the time and coming up. Are you looking for love . Well, youre not alone. Well tell you the most popular time to find your soul mate. And whats the hottest dating day of the year. Oh, boy, for me it was back in the 90s. Okay, um dont do it . Dunkin sweet black pepper bacon sandwich is back. With twice the crispy caramelized peppered bacon. Experience a breakfast sandwich made for bacon lovers. America runs on dunkin back now with whats trending on the web on this thursday morning and it was a costly year when it came to mother nature. Natural and man made disasters caused about 206 billion in damage in in 2017. The 2017 Hurricane Season is the second costliest season after 2005. Wildfires in california also contributed to the total damages produceed this year. Today meanwhile is national regifting day. Day. Christmas appears to behe parties nationwide and a lot of coworkers get each other gifts according to a survey. 14 percent of office party regifting is becoming more popular at these events. Regifting is defined as taking a gift that has been received. You know what regift its regifting. You take a gift and then you give it to somebody else. Its a gift meant for you you can skip that part, whiz. For those of you outside of allison and tucker, i was just trying to explain what regifting is. I dont want no regifts. Thats what i was get to go. All right. And finally check this out. If you are looking for love, this holiday season, youre not alone. You are not alone. Because match. Com says that we are approaching peak dating season. The Online Dating service says that it begins on december 26 and runs through valentines day. During that time match. Com says it sees 50 million dates taking place. Now, the busiest dating day of the entire year is january 7th. cause they get hooked up at that point. Like they get their match. Now, i dont know if this factored into the research but back in the day, back when i was in college we used to break up with our girlfriends around christmastime so we wouldnt have to spend any money and make up in january. Cheap was never in style. That was back in the old days. And you have daughters. Thats i was im going to say. The rumors are true. Theres going to be another kardashian. Yay Khloe Kardashian expecting her first child. Details ahead in this mornings fox beat. Poor khloe. She cant even get her own picture. 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. The old upper right window. We know whats going on there. Its like these Early Morning shots of the white house through the last administration and this one, that upper right window that light is always on. Did we find out what it is. We think its the president ial bathroom. Steve actually because hes smart corrected us. Its a kitchen. Yeah, its an upstairs kitchen. The white house on a thursday morning, 6 46. Perhaps some Christmas Holiday cookies are cooking up. Wouldnt that be love. That would be lovely. First day of winter today. Lets here we go. Winter. Uhhuh. Nice and peaceful. Is this kenny g. This sounds like charlie brown. Charlie brown. Winter just reminds me of kenny g. Charlie brown, kenny g, its all the same. Nice and peaceful. A beautiful day. One of the shortest days of the year. First day of winter. Very peaceful. Okay, it feels like it this morning. Weve got cold overnight. Look at all the 20s off to the west here. 24 dulles, 20 manassas. 25 for you in frederick. Winchesters 25 degrees. 32 in leonardtown. So, everybody with the exception of annapolis and here in the city Reagan National i bet even most of the city is at freezing this morning, 34 degrees. Its going to be a chilly day today. Even with bright sunshine and we are going to get a lot of sunshine. High temperatures in the upp High Pressure off to the north and this will deliver a cold one for cool day for us, a chilly day for us with highs in the upper 40s and well start getting clouds back in here tonight and that will hold the temperatures up. Winter begins. Nice quiet afternoon for us and a nice couple days. Tomorrow looks nice, too, clouds and sun. Notice the warmer temperatures. Want to mention saturday is a wet day up and down the eastern seaboard just rain but it will be wet. Look at your daytime high in the low 60s. Sunday were going to get a frontal system through here. This is an arctic front. It may, theres still some question marks it may end as a brief period of snow early monday morning just about the time santa would be arriving. Well keep our fingers crossed we can get some snowflakes on Christmas Day. I think its been several years. Meme coming up. Erin. We have a lot of bad traffic to get through. A view from skyfox where all lanes on 28 northbound and southbound have reopened at 66 in centreville. We still have a tractortrailer crash scene there, however, so please use caution. Police directing traffic. You can see its dark ou there. Lets switch it over to our map and thats because as a result of those downed power lines we are dealing with right now this morning some Power Outages in the area so again, police directing traffic. Northbound side looks great. Southbound side still dealing with some pretty heavy delays. So, allow for extra time there. As you make your way out in maryland 32 eastbound the ramp at 97, traffic prior to this was completely stopped. Right now they are letting you through in at least one lane but some big backups in maryland this morning. Now, as we switch things over, 270 still wide opened. It looks like a lot of people have started their holiday vacation. Were not seeing the typical delays through gaithersburg and rockville. Good news for those drivers. We have typical delays the outer loop, looks more like a Christmas Tree 95 to the 270 spur. Metro is on time. Yeah, metro. Ready for the meme . Yes. Lets do it. Morning meme. I want to mention quickly weve got a lot of Holiday Christmas memes f thank you all viewers for sending them in. Okay. Today were going medieval. Were going renaissance. Were going old timey. Thanks susan. When you walk into the room and instantly realize everyone was talking about you. Oh, ive been there. Oh, so when it hey, john. One time i was in the bathroom in high school and two girls were talking about me and i could hear. And they stopped talking. I heard and when i walked out they just looked at me. Ooh, shade. All right wisdom i know this happens you to all the time. Okay. When you think your style is unique and somebody else shows up in your same outfit. Look at her, so tacky. What . I have the same thing on. That is a thing, right. Its not a good feeling when youre at a party in a unique dress and someone is wearing the same unique dress. I feel like guys dont have to worry about this too much. Yeah, we dont worry. Because black blue and gray. Some guys do. Not us. Okay. All right, a youre halfway through a game of monopoly and someone insists on reading the rule book. Come on frederick. Can we just get through. This game takes seven hours anyway. Im going hope. Wrapping it up with this one. This often happens with the men here at fox5. Yeah. When your crush texts you and you and your boys try to figure out whether or not she likes you. She says youre funny right there. I was just talking to a friend about this whos who is dating and its hard to read an emotion in a text. Whats wrong with calling people. Nobody has time for that. Thank you. I appreciate the phone call. Im old school about that. Pick up the phone and call me if you want to ask me out. That parts true. Yeah. Thank you. Those were good. Morning meme. We have holiday ones for tomorrow. Love it. Cant wait. Deal. All righty. So, it is time for the fox beat. And kevin mccarthy. And i see our man kev right here so im not sure how were going to do this. I can exit and let kevin take my seat. Youre just going to walk in. Okay. Were talking about Khloe Kardashian. Hm. Yeah. Okay. Good to see you guys. Whats up kev. No fox beat introduction today. Okay. Lets take a look at Khloe Kardashians instagram announcement of her pregnancy. Can we take a look at it. Do we have it . I dont know if we have to. Anyway shes expecting. There will be another little kardashian. Do we not have the picture. It should be in there. I dont think we do. Well move on. I did just put it in there about 10 minutes ago. Were getting it. [laughter] its the holiday season. Do i do i continue to you can x im trying to fill some time. What are we doing . I dont know. Khloe kardashian is having a baby with Tristan Thompson who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers whose career is on the decline cause he hooked im just saying he won the championship and he got with a kardashian and they lost last year. Im just saying. Okay. Im just saying. Anyway her pregnancy picture is like the best ad ever for calvin klein. There we go. Do you think that calvin klein was there purposely . Do you think she knew that was theres no way that a kardashian would self promote. That is a hundred percent a calvin klein advertisement in my opinion. Look at the likes. How can you you guys are burying the lead. That doesnt even matter. So what she got some money. Greatest dream realized for having a baby. I had been waiting and wondering but god had a plan all along, calvin klein. Look at tristans invictus watch on his wrist. Thats you will planned. Beautiful nails. Shes also got a ring on that left hand. Tristan is doing it real big. Im happy for tristan really. Hope he saves his money. I didnt know who tristan was until this story. He was starting center for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Cleveland. You do know that i know lebron james is there. You know a guy names lebron james is there. Once he leaves you can turn off the lights but hes there. They have a really good football team. What else is happening on the fox beat. Arent they undefeated. I demand my entertainment headlines. Allison has spoken. Mall wahlberg is in a new movie called all the money in the world. Kevin spacey was originally in this film he was replaced by Christopher Plummer because of sexual allegations but heres the interesting thing. When Mark Wahlberg shot the film initially he was 30 pounds heavier. When he did the reshoots he was 30 pounds lighter. How do they fix that . Heres what they said. You say 30 pounds lighter. You change physically all the time for your roles. I was carryus ious how you kept the continuity if you were 30 pounds lighter. I couldnt. What did they do . Tightened up they just altered the suits. Altered all the wardrobe to other one fit i mean, literally came to my ridley came to my hotel room and said were shooting next week so i didnt have time and i couldnt go and start putting weight on again because i promised pete for the first time in this is our fourth movie that ill actually be in shape for the character and so they just altered all the suits. I had to shave my beard, that was the one thing. Wow. But i couldnt and you dont really notice unless youre aware of it. Yeah. But if you go back and watch the movie any scenes im in with gail im a little more plump than the scenes with j paul getty. At 7 00 wahlberg talked more about the idea of hollywood trying to get this message out and get rid of this culture of Sexual Assault allegations in hollywood. Stay tuned for that. Thanks kev. Good to see you guys this morning. That was great. Good to see you as well. That was amazing. [laughter] kev our viewers are calling. I know, i know. I want that three minutes back, too. Trust me. All right, lets do the 34 in washington. Were looking at daytime highs only in the mid 40s. Most of our region is in the 20s at this hour so definitely be prepared here for a cold winter day because todays the first day of winter. Arrives at 11 28 and change this morning so this afternoon it will be wintertime. Sunny bright beautiful. Heres a look at your sevenday. Were going to warm it up in the 50s on friday. 60s around here with some rain on saturday. Sundays cold front is an arctic boundary that may end as a brief period of some snow showers just in time for santas arrival monday morning. Still some question marks about that but at least its a possibility. As wisdom says weve got a chance erin. Thats g ill take a chance. 6 56. I want to pull up skyfox if we can. Theyre over 28 right now. Take a look at this. Right now 28 traffic is moving south and northbound at 66. But you can see a huge crash in the distance still blocking the shoulder. Power out in that area because it was involving at least two tractortrailers. Some injuries as well as a fuel spill. So, were seeing delays in both directions. Were also getting reports of a new serious injury crash in this more information so ill have the latest on that with your next look at traffic. What if more of the energy we used came from Renewable Resources . 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Were soaking up every last minute. Well talk weather and traffic. Tuck well start with you. Doesnt feel like it this morning. Temps in the 20s. Low 30s here in the city. Its going to be a chilly day today. Ill have all the details for not only today but of course as we get into the Holiday Weekend in just a minute. Erin. 7 oclock straight up. Serious injury crash out in centreville. Power is out. Police directing traffic. 28 south and northbound dealing with delays out at 66. Traffics getting by in both directions but some huge delays there. Were also getting reports of a second crash in that area. Anjali hemphill is live at that location with the very