Westminster and twelve leonardtown and five fredericksburg and everybody off to cold start. No high temperatures above freezing. Ill have the details on this cold blast here to stay believe it or not next weekend. Coldest air yet arriving saturday and sunday. Details on that coming up. 13 this morning. High temps in the mid 20s. More weather back to you. Thanks, tuck, a few School Systems west of districts opening late today because of fridgeit temps, clark county, virginia schools on one hour delay this morning andal gapey and garrett countrys in maryland on two hour delays. And hampshire and West Virginia also delayed two hours and Orange County virginia schools you are on a two hour delay as well. Developing right now fox5 on top of major problems because of this major cold. South east d. C. A burst pipe flooded gas leak. Theres no electricity and theres no heat in crimeer middle school on q street in southeast and Melanie Alnwick is there. Shes live with the latest n now. Mel. Reporter good morning, steve, allison. I got confirmation of the burst pipe a little while ago. Hazmat on the scene earlier and theyre dealing with this hour with a gas leak. As you can see here Washington Gas crews moved to a second location. First they doug hole under the concrete. Turns out that was dead pipe. Thats not where they needed to go. They were here grassy area of school. Theyre working to try to shut off the gas. What happened was this bust pipe in basement apparently just unleashing a lot of the wear down there. An that compromised some of the gas structured in and that is what caused gas leak. Every once in a while you smell that sulfury s gas fumes in and around the area here it dissipated when it fist arrived and i can tell you i was told and seen video of it that theres a lot of water in that base m. We were told up to 4 feet. Somebody told me it looked like aquarium in that basement there. I can guess that its probably going to be quite a bit of cleanup here. We do understand that hear theyre trying to get crews to pump water out of basement here. I have no idea where theyll put that water. Obviously if they bring it out on to the street or sidewalk it will freeze on contact. So they have a number of different issues theyre having to deal with this morning all of it caused by cold snap fortunately there was no school today here in d. C. Winter break continues today. The kids scheduled to come back tomorrow. We dont know whether they can do that at crimeer middle school. Live in south east, im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. The other because of frigid temperatures is water main breaks. Theres a lot throughout the region this morning and that could make for a rough morning for commuters and work and homeowners. Rhode island avenue in hyattsville forced to coes cross some lanes. Its causing problems for resident Montgomery County, bob, good morning. Yeah, hey, allison, steve, were in the perez family basement heroic view off New Hampshire avenue silver sp spring. Look how high the water came up here down here into their basement. Its subsided now. Theres a lot of murky water here. Its in the basement. In the bathroom here. Theres a bedroom you can see just this is carpeting. There are people because of all the water main breaks across the area that have to deal we this in the bathroom here theres an inch or so of water here. This is caused by main that has broken up on New Hampshire avenue just inside the beltway. We he can show you the picture that photographer dave rysak is providing now. Lanes coming off the beltway blocked and he they say 12 customers are affected by this particular water main break. Max is at another scene in hyattsville you showed that picture earlier route 1 rhode island avenue southbound near 42 place in hyattsville and that the 8 water main break and w sec crews are also working to fix that as well. Thats causing all kinds of traffic issues there on route 1 in hyattsville. This will be story this week as everybody goes back to work and school. Its freezing outside. Doing a number on pipes and wssc says if youre trying to save money thats not bad idea dont set theyre guest records the the Water Utility in montgomery koutsy and Prince George county of peoples pipes breaking inside their homes. This is because of water main break on streak. All kind of troubles for cute aernz homeowners and businesses and schools in district. I will tell you that the street out if front of this house is frozen as well. People are trying to get out of the neighborhood and theyre having a tough time this morning, guys. Not the way to start the the new year. Bob barnard thanks very much in montgomery couldnty this morning, 7 06 now. Some of the ripple effects that you dont automatically think about when you have the cold. Couple months after water we have pothole problem. Yeah we are. It will be warmer then. It will be. It will be warm owner he on the so were trending. Were trending now. Bottom line its relentless and uncore giving as it is here with the weekend. In fact its a possibility we dont get freezing until early next week. Okay. Is 3 Reagan National and 10 dulles and 12 bwi marshall and culpeper 1 and most or much of the area here in the lower teens or upper Single Digits to start the day. Satellite and radar should be quiet, sunny and bright day. Still breezes. There will be a wind chill. Will make it feel colder. I want to revisit 7 day forecast. A lot of people are running off to work and school and i wanted to show you the cold is relent les through the weekend. Warmup next monday. Al moingt a week away. Lovely. All right. High caitlin good morning traffic is pretty good right. I guess. You dont park a garage you have is to heat it up well outside with canal road heres the accident pushed off to shoulder. Left lane is blocked that was moving that caused delays as you get off now use caution in that spot. Looks like 95 northbound coming up out of virginia we have an accident after route 610 i can see it here. This is also on the shoulder not blocking any lanes just left most shoulder. We were notified by d. C. Police traffic last time we were on 295 southbound the vehicles with rushed to to right shoulder. Slow traffic there on 295 southbound down to you 17 and delays building. These water the big story this morning. And melanie and pod on bowling of these. This happened 11 p. M. Boydz maryland off Old Baltimore road a car crashedbe into waters of ten mile creek. Three people had to be recued. That water cold. Air temperatures at the time felt like zero. Ems crews evaluated cold not there was wicked Winter Weather hello. It was down right cold everywhere. You can feel the arctic blast. They were not the only ones feeling the frigidaire. Topeka kansas was minus 14 monday. 17 below in indianapolis and 30 below in montana. Thats nothing compared to how it was in northern north dakota up to of minic clocked in 40 below zero even deep south is feeling deep freeze. Fountains froze solid in arkansas and cold conditions in Central Texas hampered efforts to put out house fire. Ice accumulated as firefighters slipped and wept thats not something we worry about. In Washington State thousands were left without power in heat after freezing rain covered power lines with ice causing dozens of polls to snap. Wisdom martin milwaukee the annual Polar Bear Plunge went on in negative 20 degrees. Paramedics railroad on hand to make sure all participants were safe. Meanwhile officials in indiana made call to cancel annual plunge because of chill and i think i heard the same to chicago as well. In potomac terrace fire that started in the basement and they believe it may have been burning sometime before detected and family of five and family dog all able to make it out safely and theyre displaced now and red cross is trying to help assist them and cause of the fire is electrical. Police in Prince George county investigating their first murder of the year. January 2 happeneded in a home 38 place in brentwood and a man stabbed a woman inside the home during argument. She later died at a hospital and that man is in custody and family and neighbors say the the couple had a child together and their names have not been released yet. Still to come viral video backlash fans of popular viral star becauseing fo for i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. Live look outside right n steam will be easy to spot today. Because temperatures are so darn cold. Youre purposing pushing sungle digits how is the wind. 0 to minus 5. 13 city culpeper currently winning cold spot. Tweet me the temperature at your house. I want everybody to know i was on record with when it would be winter and cold thing with saying i did not enjoy it im on the record. We wroy it down. You did cool. 13 washington. Boston less than 5 this morning. One incredible thing about the air mass is extent of the cold and how far south sdm new orleans . New orleans, 26, houston 30, tampa is 41 and you have Winter Weather advisories down through florida. Well be cold today. Generally sunny. Mid to upper 20s. Add two to yesterdays eyes and will remain below freezing later today. Im afraid well have problems with freezing pipes and that sort of thing. Wednesday nights and thursday were watching a storm system off the coast and it will be one heck of area of low pressure and good news looks far enough east of us to get and what i really want to emphasize hupd the storm another blast of cold air. Look at daytime highs friday and saturday. I may be optimistic it may be mosh like 19 in the single dits dates morning please go. Well, caitlin looks like everybody took one have day off. Who could blame them its freezing cold hard enough to get moving on normal tuesday. After prolonged holiday break harder. Ill tell you what theres issues out there you might want to side step. Beginning New Hampshire avenue southbound. Wouldnt want to be on this road. Water main break oak view drive has it for past few hours as a result look at this speeds bell past the water main break. Long line of traffic New Hampshire and that extends to the spur. Heres a look what youre dealing with on New Hampshire. You see the taillights not moving. 6 miles an hour speeds. Outer loop, better. This is what i overall. Unless theres an accident traffic is okay. Inner loop flying freely. And this one topside of outer loop 16 minutes from 95 to spur. Which is not terrible. If you can avoid one of the water main sites or crashes locally the majors are not terrible. Well have a look at local crashes coming autopsy at 7 25. 7 18 developing this morning u. S. Custom system outage affecting airports across the country stalling for hours. Spokes spern said the agency two our delay. And custom and Border Protection officers forced to process arriving temperatures using backup procedures at some airports. Still the delay left travelers fwruingt rated. We come here and customs is backed up. By the time we arrived two hours the system was down. Hundreds of people were waiting. Were told the o not believed to have been malicious in nature. Developing oaf seas south korea offer todd hold negotiations against next month winter olympics. And its in high alert due to the nuclearesting it programs. Kim jongun said he is willing to send delegation. To olympics and repeated Nuclear Threats to the United States. North korea has into the responded to latest proposal. 7 9 were learning details about the family that crashed over the weekend. Steinburg family that died once lived in the d. C. Region. Bruce and irene steinburg and three sons william, zachary, matthew, lived with North Potomac 15 years ago. They were on board a single engine charter plane that crashed shortly after takeoff. A family from florida died and no word are what causeded plane plane to go down. Senator al franken final he said he would resign january 2 after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. Franken will not announce what he will do next. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor tina smith will be sfwhorn as his replacement tomorrow. Virginia man investigated by the fbi for possible dies to isis is expected in court. Fbi ud raked early home over the weekend. Shawn, ang drew drunken of pittsburgh. They one of the suspects connect todd a double murder of two maryland taken age aimers due in court. He will go before a judge later this morning and yanaz is one of four suspects connected to the shooting deaths of two boys in germantown found shot this death a day before they were supposed to graduates from high school loingp and now criticized for posting avideo showing botdy of upp this the was taken at the base of mount fugi. 4e came across the body when shooting and made jokes. Many viewed it before it was taken down and some of the comments called it disrespectful and disgusting and he issuesp ep and it wont happen again. Gretchen carlson surprise named new chair woman of Miss America Organization board of directors. She resigned last month after sending sexist emails about former contestants. It marks first time panel aunt winner served in this role. Three other past winers are joining carlson on the board. This week she said she is hon toward to move the p forward. She later seted with the Cable Network after a Sexual Harassment ceo room are ails. Thats what you saw in the video earlier. Prominent leader of new York City Ballet amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Peter martins wrote a letter yesterday announcing his retirement. Just last month new York City Ballet announced martin was set to take a leave of absence during an investigation into sex assault allegations. 7 22 now ahead. Pet lovers listen up. New name for pup may soon be added to the dikts ericy. Details next. First if one of your goals is to get shape this year its national personal train area wareness day. The holiday created to remained people we just had Information National stick to it did. Well be back it is 7 25. Welcome back. Word dogo may become part of official english language. Right now twitter is loaded with photos. Dogos thats internet speech for dogs. Takes non word that became so popular that diction are at webster has taken notice and theyre calling dogo word we are hello wester word were watching in the new e era. I must have been completely sleeping life. Dogo. Like tem of affection like pupers or when he we say hey tuckers, tucker barnes. You dont remember when were out some people refer you as doggo. Maybe i block that out. Tucko. Can we have tucker talking and video of puppies again. It makes me feel better and more relaxed. Maybe tucker not talking and videos of the dogos. Tucker fox5 tweet me temperature at your house. Rond hill virginia report of 4 in bailton virginia thanks for sending it in 5. Look at wind chill. Feels like 2. Winds north and west at 8. Sunny, bright, another cold afternoon. Daytime highs only in the mid to upper 20s for us today. Little better tomorrow. This time frame here wedn wednesday, thursday, coastal storm look like main impact missed us and we may get fringe impacts with light snow early thursday and another around o the weekend. Friday, saturday in 20s. When we go back to the 40s feels like summer around here. Absolutely. Big difference between Single Digits and 40s i think. Jam cam time and believe it or not a lot of major are okay. Must be a delay here. Everyone is going back tomorrow. We have one jam cam leading up to water main break. New hampshire avenue southbound push it away. Taillights we dont see Much Movement whatsoever. This is at 6 50 shindler drive were taking the view as we go to maps ill show you delay on New Hampshire southbound in Silver Spring about route 129 to adelphi road you have speeds down five miles an hour. It it takes you some sometime to get past this stretch approaching that water main break at oak view drive down to one lane new shamshire avenue southbound one lane thats the area to avoid. Full report at 7 35 steve and allison. Still ahead 7 morning new year means new laws on the books in our area and well break them down. Massage excuse me. Message massage sounds good but thank you steve message from d. C. Police after residents take distaste for dockless bikes too far. Time now is 7 28 wellen small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. Verizon doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Verizon, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. Verizon, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. First up at 7 30 this morning lets get you caught up on the top stories around the area. The cold weather may to be blame for a flooded middle school in the district. Also, dealing way gas leak much this is in southeast d. C. No electricity or heat at Kramer Middle School. That could impact hundreds of students who will head back to School Tomorrow after the holidays. At least theyre expected to head back tomorrow. Scheduled to. The trouble there could be connected bigger water main problem in the weve seen through few throughout the area. Daring overnight water res new upper Montgomery County in boyds on west Old Baltimore road near Shiloh Church road. Police say a car crashed into the freezing waters of 10mile creek. Three people had to be rescued. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt. And today is minnesota senator al frankens last day in congress. He resign from his seat after multiple women accused of him of Sexual Harassment. Tina smith will be sworn in as replacement tomorrow. Franken now announced what hell do next but he does plan to remain in the public eye. 2018 ushers in a slew of new laws that went into effect on new years day both in maryland and in virginia. As fox5s Tom Fitzgerald tells us they range from the curious to the deadly serious. Reporter okay. Heres the deal. We know with hustle and bustles of the holidays it is very easy to lose track of exactly what new laws are being kicked into gear when remember what you need to know well start in maryland with very important change about how you protect your home. Were talking about smoke detectors here. On january 1st, maryland residents are now required to replace those old nine colt volt battery smoke detectors in their place this new law says they have to be swapped out for longer lasting smoke detectors with sealed in batteries. This is not only a new law but also pretty good idea. Smoke detectors with sealed in batteries they last about a decade. Youre not going to have to remember to swap out batteries twice a year. Also, in maryland, 2017 pretty big year in cyber attacks. Personal information being stolen. Well starting january 1st, all Maryland Businesses now required by this new law to protect the personal information of customers, employers and former employees. For now on, any maryland business that does get hacked theyll be required to notify individuals in a more timely manner. Now over in virginia, there one of them involves Birth Control. Birth control. Before today, a woman in virginia wanted to buy Birth Control she could only get now last few months. Today that will change. Women can now purchase a year supply of Birth Control. On the opposite end of that spectrum, 2018 brings some very good news to coin collectors in virginia. Thats right, coin collectors. Thats because starting today, a new law in the commonwealth gives coin collectors the ability to no longer to have to pay sales tax on any transaction more than a thousand dollars. Theres another sales tax break also on gold, platinum and silver, that is being extended until 2022. Finally, you know, weve been telling i was lot about how 2018 meant a lot of people were trying to prepay their property taxes. Well, the irs is now weighed in on this apparently those p prepayments may only be deductible for a portion of your federal income tax in limited circumstances. Im Tom Fitzgerald. There you go. [ laughter ] all you needed to do about coin collecting laws and tox. Coins. To come apart police welcome agnew police chief dont duvall will be sworn in tonight. He work with the maryland force for nearly 23 years, his position comes after loom Alan Goldberg resigned for personal reasons last year. Congratulations to the new chief in takoma park. Dc police want residents to stop calling 911 when they see bike share bicycles left around away from their docks much its been so much of a problem Police Actually issued a statement saying, refrain from dialing 911 to report suspicious activity for merely utilizing bike share services. Police plan to work with dock less bike operators in an effort to deal with frustrations about where users have been leaving the bikes. 7 34. Also new this morning, pro protecting pets during these frigid temperatures. An important reminder to not leave your pets outside for any extended period of time. Animal experts say ears, tails and paws are the most vulnerable to frost bite and dogs and in cats and pet owners make sure theyre dogs have sufficient shelter. Dog houses must have solid walls and a roof. A flap to block out the the wind at the entrance. Anyone who cease a pet outside for and extended amount of time season concerned about its wellbeing call animal services. Take care of your dogs. You know what else i saw, too, sometimes the cats to keep warm tucker they stay on the top of the wheels. You know what i mean. Of the car. To just check or make a noise before so you can, um, make sure theyre not trying to get a little warmth. Outdoor cats. They like the heat of the engine glock right. I watched three or four squirrels yesterday out they seem like theyre having they were fine. Fur is all puffy. Big dogs like it, too, if they have all the fur and everything. Sure. Just like allison and i prefer the summer and you prefer the winter, i think all breeds of animals that what makes us all wonderful. Were all a little different. Y we are. Lets dot forecast. Its cold no no doubt about it. Cold that many people will not appreciate. 13 in washington. Si columbus checking in at minus 11. Hey, columbus. Minus seven in chicago. We are going to be in for another cold day today. Blow 32. In fact, i think upper 20s will about do it with plenty of sunshine. The good news is it will look like a Beautiful Day. Although still be breezes as well out of the north and west at five to ten. All right. Cold one today. Cold tonight. Cold tomorrow. Cold for the neck seven days. Well look at the forecast coming up but lets concern ourselves with todays forecast and temperatures will be in the mid to upper 20s this afternoon. It will be a dry afternoon. All right. Got a little snow in the forecast as well. Well look at the seven day in just a moment. Caitlin in. Good morning. She has roads. I do, good morning. Erin extending her holiday vacation i suppose for one more day. But we are actually looking at kind of a delay on the roads. There are some accidents ill get to in a minute majors havent been too terrible looks like not everyone rush back to work and school for today. All right. Leonardtown road this is southbound at billingsly road a youre familiar with route 5 if you take it here in this portion of Southern Maryland watch out for this one crash. I believe chopper headed to the scene. One lane gets by on leonardtown road southbound as you approach that crash scene at billingsly road. So it might be a more serious accident. Well find out. Chopper on the way. Lets go back closer to the beltway New Hampshire avenue southbound remains a parking lot with speeds of 4 miles an hour from about route 29 southbound to adelphi road. This is due to a water main break right in the middle of that at okay view drive, and its just caused a horrendous traffic as that one lane is trying to squeeze by. Notice the beltway, though. I got to point out, you know, the top side, really free and clear from 95 until right after New Hampshire avenue. A little slow getting to the spur but not terrible and inner loop looks good. Heres picture of that delay on New Hampshire avenue southbound. Our worse jammed spot of the morning. Use caution in that area if you can as long as that water main break is out there. Weve got several others. Its a cold morning. This happens takes awhile to clean these up. Thats a look at traffic. Steve and allison. 7 37. Thanks caitlin. Still ahead, new year, new you. Experts say theres one word to ban from your vocabulary if you want to keep your 2018 resolutions. Ditching alcohol. New research that might have you thinking twice before participating in dry january. Its seven cot 38. 7 38. Enamel is the strong, white, outer layer of your tooth surface. The thing thats really important to dentists is to make sure that that enamel stays strong and resilient for a lifetime the more that we can strengthen and reharden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients teeth are going to be. Dentists are going to really want to recommend it helps to strengthen and reharden the enamel. It also has stain lifting action. Its going to give their patients the protection that they need and the whiter teeth that they want. Well if you want to stick to your new years resolution theres one word, just one in your vocabulary that you need to stop using ban altogether. Lifestyle experts say getting rid of the word should can help i was chief your goals and resolutions. They say the open endedness of the word should can hold you back. For example, instead of saying i should go to the gym, change it to i am going to the gym. Make it a definitive instead of a possibility. Like i should say steve its your town read. No, new york steve its your turn to read. I should accept that and i will. There you go. Many people kick off the new year participating in dry january. 31 Straight Days without a drink new york city alcohol. But it turns out ditching the drinks may not do much for your health. Experts say taking one month off from drinking will not turn back the clock. They also say it can be considered a green light to drink more than usual the rest of the year leading to things like weight gain, high Blood Pressure and high cholesterol. Everything in moderation. New iphone in 2017, you werent alone. According to usa today report, the iphone was the best selling Tech Products of the year. Experts say apple sold 223 million new i phones last year. Second place on the list didnt even come close it did go to samsung for combined sales of the galaxy s8 and note eight with just 33 million sales. Thats crazy. Still lot of phones. Thats a lot of phones. Its now become an update to our lives i suppose. Still ahead it is tuesday and that means its time for tuesday talkers this morning well reflect on 2017. We should look forward but we will well look back. Well talk about everything from the worse trends to the worse and phrases that should be banned. Its 7 42. It will be banned. We will be right back. Thats right. I like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you speaking of la vegas well be talk wig the crew, get flight crew. Yeah. From the show. I need kevin. Coming up later on good day d. C. Actors Dylan Mcdermott and kim star in the new fox comedy la to vegas it appears tonight. Theyll join us live on good day. Plus, what can you expect in your live in the new year . Well have some fun with a psychic who stops by the loft. Im not even sure if she calls her zest a psychic, more clairvoyant much shes very very serious and if the new year a want to look good while youre there. Our fox5 fashion 96 at a will be here with clothes to help you your work out be a confident one but youll be looking good. There you go. All right. 7 00 flicks. Our psychic scares me because shes been in the past and tells you the way its going to be. Dr. Wynn is amazing. I dont think you should be negotiating with the psychic. I like to negotiate with my psychics. Either youre going to talk to one or crew not going to talk to one. If you talk to them you got to deal way what they say. Shes been right on so far. Shes had good things for you. I know she has. Lets go to the forecast. Just surprising, thats all. Im excited to see her. Hey, cold. Keeps oncoming and coming and coming. Keep coming today. Daytime highs in the mid to upper 20s. Lots every lots of sunshine in the forecast today. I mean, you know, it will look like Beautiful Day just wont be a warm day. Weve got the storm system possibilities of snow generally dc east and south late wednesd thats going to be a real close call. Show you why in a second. The coldest air can be believe we even got another round of even colder air likely by friday and saturday. Well take look at that as well. Current numbers, cold, 13 in washington. Seven manassas. Culpeper youve doubled since half an hour ago. Now up to two. One last hour. 12 in leonardtown. Six in fredericksburg. Eighth in gaithersburg. Mix in winds out of the northth west feels like wolf this is dangerous cold. Please make sure youre dressed appropriately. Gaithersburg zero. Minus five to minus ten along 81. Hagerstown feels like minus six right now. Minus eight in winchester. Satellite radar, nice and quiet again nice looking day was just looking at the great lakes starting to freeze up pretty quick with this extreme cold, and well start to see that lake effect snow start to shut off over the next couple of days. Otherwise were nice and quiet. Wednesday nice, thursday time frame area of low pressure off the coast. This is really going t we call it bombo genesis deepen rapidly it looks like it wants to throw moisture back along the eastern seaboard. Generally washington and points east were looking at the possibility of a little bit of light snow around here. Overnight nearly thursday. Whatever falls will stick. Its going to be plenty cold 40 but it doesnt look like we have a lot of moisture to work with behind that storm system another blast of very very cold air. Winter storm watches salsbury lower Eastern Shore ocean city thunder as well. Well see some of these advisories expand westward over the next 24 hours but as for now, lower Eastern Shore under winter storm watch. Theres your seven dave lots and lots of cold. Look at friday saturdays highs around 20, and i think well even do Single Digits in the city by saturday morning. Warmer on monday. Caitlin, 45 will feel like heat wave. I have no doubt. Considering we just keep getting cold with each blast of arctic air. Thank you, tucker. All right. Big problems this morning have been water main breaks no surprise its so cold, and it takes while with that frozen water to clean it up. Rhode island o charles. Weve had this water main break all morning. Now weve got one lane that gets by. Originally it was all lanes both roads were blocked but but weve got one lane on rhode island of a open. Thats good news hopefully getting relief in hyattsville that. Lets take a look at travel times. Ill tell was, aside from our water main break spots the majors have been fine. 66 eastbound eight minutes it will take from 234 to the Fairfax County parkway. 95 northbound coming out of northern virginia, 14 minutes in the green from dale city to the beltway. There are not that many cars out on the road for a day after a long holiday break where you think there would be. Northbound 395 free and clear, 12 minutes from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. And finally 270 even this is amazing. 18 minutes from 70 down to 121. If you are about to commute and you use any of these majors, enjoy the fact that it almost looks like another holiday. Maybe everyone is staying home. Maybe its too cooled cold. Well see what happens tomorrow. Thats the way it look out there on the roads. Another update at 7 55. Steve and allison . Caitlin, thanks. So it is tuesday that means it is time for some tuesday talkers. Dive right into the first topic the words of 2017 that just got to go in the new year. Sarah fraser is back with us this new year. Good morning. How are you phrase. Hi, you guys. Im great. I get to stay. Yeah. These words need to go. Okay. At least according to university in michigan that every year and this is of course tongue and cheek but they sort of surveillance 58 words that are over used and people are annoyed by. So switch switch it up for the new year. Company fee fee. Our president used. Thats one. Maybe people were mocking it and so it became a fee. Everything made a mistake. Its a whole lot about nothing. I kind of like that one. Fake news lead the list. Id like that to go. They say most people riley realize what fake news is. They can tell the difference between fake news and real news. And the word is just full of propaganda so people want to see fake news gone. Dish gone. I like that. Were going to dish. I guess its annoying. I like that word, dish. I like that one, too. Whole segment called celebrity dish. Now it will be just be celebrity. Let that sink new jersey also made the list let me ask you this. On board and off boarding considered highly annoying and words that they want to ban. From 2017. What do you think . Who are they . This is Michigan University in michigan. Okay. Just over use. Yeah. Exactly. Theyve had like a long standing list. Im sure that they try to ban like and whatever like seven years ago. They did. And whatever because it wasnt. By the way fake news ranks up there as right under whatever as the most annoying word of all time. I believe it. Fake news is second. There you go. Im with that list. Okay cool. Except for dish. Were keeping that one. We have a celebrity dish segment. We can lose that. Right. What do we have next . So also did you guys what did comedian being sued she did show in la called girls night in, and its a liza schlesinger, i think im saying it right, any way shes comedian youve heard of shes very very funny she did girls night in and two men bought tickets to this and they were put in the back of this comedy club because at least they felt that he will liza wanted just women and it was marketed towards just women as like a fun night in. So they put these two guys in the back. They say they were discriminated against havent since filed a lawsuit against the comedian saying that they were really not welcomed there. What do you guys think. I think it it sounds like they contrived the whole thing they wanted the attention lets crash the girls night and see if it becomes a big hubbub. The guy suing has this lawsuit guy named George Saint George and he has multiple lawsuits out in the state of california against sort of girls night, womens light, ladies night. Does he this for reason. They didnt want to some laughs and enjoy a funny comedian. They wanted to make a statement. Exactly. Do you think he has on the rail against being political correct. Do you think he has any point in the sense this was marked as basically a wins only show. Do you think you can do that . Womens only. I mean did it say womens only . It said girls night in. T didnt say women only. True. Give me a break. Okay. He has no point. Thats what i feel. It wasnt marked its like when people try to say, okay, well, this, you know, theres an organization thats predominantly this or that. If you do not have language that says you are not allowed in, then its that fine line f they want to go im sure they would have been welcomed as joke get in the back, guys. But not to like be, you know. I agree. You see what im saying. Trying to be a little snarky person. George saint george has multiple lawsuits. Right. I cant really take him seriously. You know what i mean . This is going to be another one. Girls night n it doesnt say no men allowed. No, im serious no men allowed discrimination and you cant do that. But yeah. Yeah. Sorry, George Saint George. Lastly most annoying these are the worse trends of 2017. Words that should be banned but here also the things this was from an line forum of the worse trends that people want to go away. I love it. Unicorn anything. Are you guys over the unicorn. Cupcake the unicorn. Over it. Hair. Youre over it . I mean i think its cute. I dont have a problem. Im saying this unicorn frap make it taste better. Okay. Im over trying to use unicorn and everybody gets united and then it tastes like sour patch dust. It was really bad. I think, hooks is to get like angry at unicorns . Do you know what im saying. Unicorns represent fun and whimsical. It should not be something that is the whole magic of the unicorn is that its illusive cream. Illusive creature. If you make everything a unicorn then suddenly now youve lost the concept of the unicorn the. Overwhelming theme, too, of this is that people online have a real i guess strong dislike for adult that is participate in this. So they really didnt like adult women having unicorn themed parties or eating unicorn cupcakes. Steve, what do i hate most in the world, people who tell me what . What to do. What to do. Okay. I love that. So right. If i want to eat a unicorn cupcake knock yourself right. Yes. What difference does it make. Adults using snap chat filter like the animal filter. These are things that obviously thats so funny. You go really. Theres a fine line between adults having fun like kids and taking themselves, you know, not taking themselves seriously. Vapeing also made the list. Designer gin. Gin drinkers do not want high end craft the gins. That was real annoyance. Okay. I think that was why are people gin of all things people are we have so much more to be upset about right now. We do. That seems crazy to me. Like if you want to have joy in unicorn, onsie what difference does it make . [ laughter ] ps, i dont have one. I swear i dont. Highend gin and unicorn onsie sounds like a tucker birthday party. I like vaping. You dont have to smell everyones smoke. Those are good, sarah. Tuck, lets join tucker. What do you think. You lost me at the very beginning of that whole conversation. 13 now in washington. We are looking at very very cold temperatures to start the day. Mid to upper 20s later this afternoon. That is it. So another day with unfortunately temperatures below freezing. Look at that wind chill right now. Fine us in one winds out of the north and west at 12. Sunny and bright beautiful looking day. Wont be a warm afternoon. It wont be a warm seven day. In fact its probably monday before we can get the temperatures above the freezing mark. I do want to mention tomorrow night early thursday, possibility of some snow for parts of the area. Particularly east and south south of the city. Warm storm Eastern Shore of maryland. More on that coming up as well. All right. We got ate caitlin here this morning. Yeah does can we agree it would be a waste not to have snow with all this cold air . Can we agree . I feel most people who like winter want some snow. If its going to be this cold at least do something much thats how i feel. Tucker we could be in the minority. I want to show you Tuesday Morning after a long holiday week, and not many people heading back to work. Maybe theyre just too cold. Like i cant do this. Citywide we are looking pretty good. Southbound 270 you are at speed from 70 to 121 down to just 18 minutes for that stretch. Also on the outer loop youre seeing a little bit build. This is from 95 to the spur. Down to 18 minutes. All right. Thats look at traffic. Fox5 will be right back. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. It is 8 00 a. M. On this Tuesday Morning, january 2nd, 2018. Heres whats on the fox5 news morning menu. Cold weather causing all sorts of problems. Big mess at one d. C. Middle school. Were thirty five southeast where crews are dealing with major flooding an gas leak. Frigid temperatures leading to water main breaks causing issues for workers, commuters and homeowners this Tuesday Morning. Plus dramatic new video overnight showing three people rescued after their vehicle plunged in an nearby frozen creek in maryland. Live look osi at straight up 8 00 oclock. The temperature really taking center stage now. The lead story on this cold Tuesday Morning. 12 degrees here in the district. Bitterly cold temperatures gripping parts of the United States a big chunk of the us including right here at home. Lets get right to tucker for quick check on todays forecast. Steve, extraordinary. Freezing temperatures down into new orleans parts of florida under Winter Weather advisory. Lets go right to the map. 13 now in washington. Look at all those Single Digits. Culpeper back down to one. Gaithersburg is eight. Nine out in winchester. Six in fredericksburg. Very very cold start to the day. It will be another extraordinarily cold afternoon. Daytime highs only in the mid 20s. Ill have all the details on your weather and let you know when we get a break from this arctic outbreak coming up. Allison and steve, back to you. Developing right now, fox5 on top of major problems because of this cold weather. We begin in southeast d. C. Where a burst pipe has flooded a school and led to a gas leak. Theres also no electricity. In heat at Kramer Middle School on q street inou with the very latest now. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and allison. Looks like d. C. Public School Students here theres about 193 that go to kramer junior high school. I would say its going to be a tough haul if they plan on getting them back into class tomorrow. They still have one day left of winter break but a lot of work still has to be done here and it sounds like significant damage in the basement from that burst pipe. You can see here, Washington Gas crews still digging in this second area trying to locate the pipe here that they need to get to. There is still a slight smell of gas. It sort of wafts up every once in while. Were still smelling that here in the neighborhood. A couple of streets here along surrounding areas of q street are also shut down by crews. D. C. Fire hazmat crews are still here. Theres just standing by in wait and see mode in case they are needed since youre dealing with gas leak here, but its Washington Gas has been here on the scene. We can tell you as far as the water in the basement goes, i got confirmation from that it was a burst the pipe that caused all that water. Dc water came out here on the scene and shut the water off. But it is still sitting there. Several feet of it in the basement many some of it intruded into the boiler room and that is how or the reason why i dont know exactly how it caused some of the damage to the gas line as well. Weve also seen in the last hour or so d. C. Public school folks coming here going into the building. I think theyre assessing the damage and got to figure out a plan for trying to pump all of this water out which entrance are they going to pull it out of. Where are they going dump because its oh so out here literately even the condensation dripping off the tailpipes of cars that is freezing on the street, too. So they dont want to create even more of a mess than they have here. Certainly going to be a full day of work as they try to caused by the incredible cold here. Live in southeast, im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. Mel, thanks very much. 8 03. Another major issue in the area due to frigid temperatures water main breaks and there are a number of them out there this morning. It might make for a rough morning for workers, commuter and some home own owners. Owed island avenue in hyattsville crews force to do close the northbound and southbound lanes there. Fox5s bob barnard is live on the scene with another water main break in Montgomery County. Bob . Reporter hey, allison and steve. Were in Silver Spring thats New Hampshire avenue up the street here where an 8inch water main break is being dealt with by wssc this morning. Issue here has been a lot of this water coming down this is okay view drive here creating very dangerous conditions. It looks like slush. Its really ice. And while there are no cars coming up the street right now, weve been watching cars getting stranded those with bald tires going nowhere having to turn around, school buses going in the well. Its been creating treacherous conditions in the neighborhoods around these different water main breaks this one here this is okay view drive in Silver Spring if you look to the left here, you see the sidewalks are also covered in ice. Weve seen kids slipping on their way to the schoolbus, and in the perez family home which is right here, we were in there basement during the 7 00 oclock hour showing you that flood waters from the water main break got all the way into their basement. Something theyre going to have to dealing with all day today. The cleanup, the mess here because of this water main break. We want to show you a live picture up the street here. This New Hampshire avenue just inside the beltway. Lanes are passing both northbound and southbound. But there are backups because of that. Again, 8inch water mape break here. We have another live camera positioned down in hyattsville. That is on route 1 near 42nd place. Where wssc says theyre dealing with an it inch water main that has ruptured there as well. Were hearing reports virginia in the district as melanie just reported so all kinds of issues. Wssc says in your home, keep your thermostat to at least 55 degrees and you can open up the faucet a little bit to have water trickle. If you want to avoid pipes breaking inside your house which wssc is telling us this morning theyve had number of reports of those as well, guys. All right. Bob, thank you very much. Stay bundle this morning. Six past the hour its chilly out there. Yeah, unfortunately its going to go on and on here. Problems will start to compound as we get into days of this. Right. Another day with daytime highs not expected to get above freezing mark. So bob has good suggestions. I got to remember the faucet turn on. Outdoor ones. Cold relentless and were looking at extremely cold temperatures. Thank you tucker fox5 im getting lot of tweets of temperatures everybodys houses six in arlington. Umhmm. Seven up in germantown. So it is just been impressively cold the last couple of days, and there are your morning numbers at the airport. Ten dulles. 12 up in baltimore at bwi marshall. Culpeper winning our sweep stake at 1 degree. Were nice and quiet. Lots of sunshine today. Wont warm up a whole lot. Well be 2 degrees warmer than yesterday. Hoping for mid to upper 20s. Still going to be wind chill out there as well. So obviously if you have to work outdoors try to take lots of freak breaks. Let me give a quick reminder dont leave your pets outside for long periods of time. Just kind of hang in there. Its just not going to warm up any time soon. Although i think by tomorrow well get up near the freezing mark. 28 today little bit warmer than yesterday at least it will look bright and sunny. Thats good news. With sunshine today. Little snow on the seven day as well. Talk about that in just a minute. Thanks, tuck. Snow to go along witness bitter cold. Thats nice. Hi, caitlin, good morning. Real nice, right . Just for a fact, yes, its a very cold morning and i think a lot of people just didnt want to leave their warm homes because we havent seen too much commuter volume out there. Where we do have issues theres backups much this crash just came in georgia southbound in roll feature this is at emery lane the crash blocks the left lane and shoulder. Theres the crash site. Theres the blocked left lane. Theres the jammed traffic. In the other three lanes trying to squeeze by. So thats going to be choke point Georgia Avenue southbound again that is in the olney area. Big story of the morning where bob is water main break New Hampshire avenue southbound at okay view drive its been here since the overnight hours. We have incredible traffic leading up to that on New Hampshire avenue southbound in fact its basically a p parking lot swedes down 3 miles an hour from route 29 that will take you all the way to and now it looks like past the adelphi road. That is one long stretch and looks like the top side of the outer loop there is getting very heavy about New Hampshire avenue over towards the spur. So thats not great and heres that backup as a result. A lot of sun glare out there,. Basically sitting New Hampshire avenue southbound so you will want to avoid that in your opinion track traffic picking up here. 495 in virginia, 95 to 66 youve got speeds down to 15 miles an hour. So you can see that stretch of inner op otherwise we havent had too many problems on the majors thus far. Well keep up it updated on the accidents. Steve and allison back over to you. Three people rescued after their car crashed into an icy creek late last night. This happened in 10mile creek in boyds maryland around 11 00 p. M. As you can imagine that creek water was frigidly cold and the air temperature at that time felt like 0 degrees. All three people were checked out by ems crews. Thankfully, they were just very cold but not seriously hurt. The dangerously low temperatures stretch across most of north america this morning. Another blast of cold air is expected to show up later in the weekend. Many areas are experiencing subzero temperatures. A town in northern north dakota reached 40 degrees below zero. Even the deep freeze is affecting the south cold conditions in Central Texas hampered efforts to put out a house fire. Ice accumulate on a couple floors. Had firefighters sl a down from the ice created much its not normally something we even worry about. In Washington State, thousands left without power and heat. Can you imagine . Freezing rain covered power lines with ice causing dozens of poles to snap. Some folks, though, not minding it you see them still getting in the water. Milwaukee say subzero conditions are, um, blamed for sadly two deaths. But some folks are still doing the polar bear challenge even in this weather. Usually theyre attached to good causes. Back here at home large home in potomac caught fire on brush wood terrace last night. Fire Officials Say the fire started in the basement. Family of five along with the dog were all able to make it out unharmed but theyre now displaced. The red cross is a assisting them. Officials believe the cause of the fire was electrical in nature. Police in Prince Georges county investigating the first murder of the year there it happened yesterday morning inside a home on 38 place in brentwood a man stabbed a woman inside that home argument she later died at the hospital. That man is in cut deem family and friends say the couple had a child together. There names have not jet yet been released n Prince Georges county Metro Transit Police officer on administrative leave following a deadly pedestrian crash. This happened yesterday afternoon on crane highway in brandywine. Officials say the officer was driving northbound when a teenager was crossing the street near chadds ford road. The officer was not injured. Red cross helping more than a dozen people forced out of their homes because of devastating fire that broke out of the just before 3 00 in the morning yesterday along bound in Vista Terrace in southeast. One firefighter was hurt after falling through the floor. The cause of that fire still remains under investigation. Still to come, travel troubles at the epidemic of holiday weekend. Well tell was led to the issue. And the end of a longtime ban on transgender troops in the military. Details on the change when we come back. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you 8 14. We need warm up today, tuck. We need cuteness. That will work. Its our second one of 2018. We got harley, everybody. Hi, harley. We love it. All right. This is harley. Great big 18 months old. Shes a big girl. Yup. Harleys aunt tam sent the photo in and says harley was all smiles welcoming in the new year yesterday. Why wouldnt she be. She should be. The world is so so cute. Heres some harleys favorite things. Lets hear it. Harley loves to read books. Good. If you listen carefully to the song thats a clue. She loves to watch sesame street. Love it. Lets watch sometime together. Finally shes been known to dip in and watch a little fox5. She has. Yeah. And then said, turn back to sesame street. Right . Yeah. I want to know what oscar is doing. Harley, all right adorable many i love that name, too. Harley, strong. Great picture. Umhmm. Great smile. Pretty girl. To send us your childs picture go to our Facebook Page fox5 d. C. Thanks aunt tam for sending that in. Lets go to the temperature. Too end in washington. All right. In our sweepstakes of where can it can be really cold sue city iowa mew record minus 28. Ew. Minus eight in chicago. Minus ten minneapolis. Im going south today i want to show you how extraordinary down along the northern gulf. Atlanta 13 this morning. Five in nashville. 25 29 in houston. 42 in tampa. They believe it or have Winter Weather advisories and winter storm watches posted for parts of florida for the next 24 hours as they could get some snow and ice with developing storm system were concerned about. Just incredible air mass across much of the country the a this hour. Were going to be very cold again today. We shall get sunshine mid to upper 20s. Again dont be fooled by the sun you look out the window it will loo great but wont feel great as daytime highs will be 20 degrees below normal. This is our wednesday night, thursday time frame real quick big area of low pressure this is going to be historic storm it will be offshore and for us that means fringe impacts. Well have period at least the possibility of some light snow around here wednesday night and thursday and then a lot of cold air rushing behind that system. Still a little early to call how much snow we might get bev chances for accumulating Southern Maryland, lower Eastern Shore the best chances for accumulating snow with this event but again we r theres your seven day. Look at friday and saturday highs around 20. Ew. As i said earlier i got to go. As we said earlier, byebye. All right. Not even sticking around to own it caitlin. Catch you later i guess. Exactly. All right. It is cold out there this morning. Its tough to be outside weve seen a lot of people say, no thanks and theyve stayed in. Not commuting teleworking whatever but where we do have issues they are significant. Georgia avenue southbound at emery lane here in hole knee theres your crash. It block the left lane and the Left Shoulder this whole scene right here. Traffic is squeezing by on the next left two lanes but you can see the left most is not moving and then the closer one to the right is kind of moving but this whole squeeze play causing big traffic backups Georgia Avenue southbound in Montgomery County. Remaining in Montgomery County we also continue to follow this massive backup on New Hampshire avenue southbound heres New Hampshire at schindler and this is going to take you straight southbound all the way past the beltway towards adelphi road. All due to during the overnight hours. And not getting much better and that bailout traffic is right there on the top side of the beltway. So heres our two issues here. Heres New Hampshire avenue speeds down to 3 miles an hour approaching that water main break scene. Bob barnard has been on the scene this morning. Due to everyone saying ill take the beltway instead what was pretty easy commute on the beltway has been jam pack with traffic from New Hampshire down through georgia again theres that issue on georgia which will probably take you all the way to the spur with some pretty heavy traffic. So try to avoid that whole area if you can. All right. Thats a look at traffic. Another update at 8 25. Allison . All right. 8 18. Thanks caitlin. Virginia money being investigated by the fbi for possible ties to isis. Expected in in court. Fbi rate raided a sterling home they found Sean Andrew Duncan of Pittsburgh Police believe duncan is linked to supporting isis and researching how to conduct an attack. Duncan faces several charges including obstruction of an fbi also learning new details about one of the fam families wo died plain crash in costa rica over the weekend. The steinberg family kill in the crash once lived here in the d. C. Area. Bruce and Eileen Steinberg and their three sons lived in North Potomac about 15 years ago. They are on board a charter plane that crash just after take off. A familiarly from florida died in that crash. No word on what caused that plane to go down. International travelers went through some delays as they were arriving in the United States last night. Outage briefly affected the us customs and Border Protections processing system. The two hour delay began around 7 30. Customs officers forced to process arriving passengers using backup procedures at some airports that outage though isnt believed to have been malicious in nature. The new year mark the end a longtime ban on transgender troops in the military. Openly transgender people can now enlist in the Us Armed Forces the detractors will always find a reason to avoid change. Delays are made in well do more research. Were going to develop better policy or Something Like that. And its a stall tactic. The main requirement calls for certification from a medical provider. Supports say its a landmark movement for american equality. The big sports news this morning, alabama already a fourpoint favorite over georgia for next weeks National Championship game. Alabama crews cruised to win over clemson. Georgia oklahoma game turn into an instant classic very high scoring. First the rose bowl ever went into overtime. Final score georgia wins 5448. The National Title game will be played in atlanta next monday. Bulldog fans briefly crashed the tickets for the big game because its right there in georgia. Hometown advantage. All right. 8 20. Still a ahead a cold weather Marriage Proposal to warm our hearts during this deep freeze. A main full of passengers can now say they traveled back in time on new years eve. Who would have known a time machine was really a Hawaiian Airline plane. Tell you the details coming up. Its 8 21. Let huey lewis play out a little bit were talking about going back in time. Now some here in d. C. Might wanting to back in time even a week or two to get it way from the biting cold and wind chill out this morning right around 0 degrees. Wind chill 12 degrees for the temperature. Heres how it worked with the new years weekend Hawaiian Airlines flight has passengers living in the past. The plane took off in 2018 and landed in 2017. Heres how it works. The flight scheduled to depart auction Land New Zealand before midnight on december 31st for honolulu would have taken off in 2017 and landed in 2017 because of a ten minute delay it actually took off at 12 0 5 00 a. M. January 1st. Hoon lulu is 23 hours behind auct International Date leap. The eight hour flight took off just after midnight 2018 and landed at 10 00 a. M. On new years eve. They got to celebrate new years twice. Story that might not melt the cold but might melt your heart. New hampshire hiker hikes all the way up the mountain in minus 34 degrees weather and then proposes to his girlfriend. The couple planned the hike about week ago. Then the frigid weather hit then decided, lets brave the cold any way. As soon as they got to the top he dropped to one knee and she said yes. You know that saying theres someone for everyone. Yes. There truly is someone for everyone. I think if they could be in agreement on hiking minus 34 thats what im talking you. Theyll survive just fine. Congratulations. Congratulations guys. You know whats back, al . School. We have taken twoweek break from school for the holidays. I thought d. C. Was out on monday, tuesday i mean. Back in session and the teacher promises to be back with a new happier more accepting attitude in 2018. We must have new teacher. My kids need extra time in the classroom. Were going back to school today. Great. Al, im glad to see you got your seat. Same teacher same results. Lets get to the report card. The substitute is only half a studio away. Ill be very honest im happy to get away from my family after spending a week from them. The bitterness is real. Nice. Sunshine a b. You know what i give it an a but im im going to gift it a b. I dont think youre in mood to give anything a an a. Win get a d. Afternoon temps big fat f. Unless you like high temperatures in the 20s or youre polar bear. First day back at school i give 8c. Some of you not so happy to see. Queue my music. Im not quite sure what to make about that. He didnt name names so were good. I guess. Were both on the good list. Hey, caitlin. I guess but he just said he didnt like some of his stu students. He seems worse in 2018. Is that possible . Cranky over the holidays. New year new you not applying to our teacher i guess. C for cranky. Where you at a cranky eighty three version. Yikes staying cold and as we go outside take a look at our accidents this morning. Canal road at fox hall road earlier accident there has started to clear. Were seeing movement there on canal road as you approach fox hole. Southbound 270 traffic is picking up. It didnt look like we were going to have many issues on the majors a lot of people staying home. Some people are leaving their home much its cold. Hard to get an early start. Southbound 270 talking about 16 minutes between i70 and ro route 109. Thats look at traffic. Fox5 will be right back. I like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Welcome back. 8 30 right now. On this january 2nd. Beautiful look if the white house this morning. Although it is cold. That is the story of the day today. Bundle up. Its very chilly. Not just the air temperature. Wind chills around 0 degrees. Stay warm. Well check in with tucker in few minutes i wish we can say he has relief for us but about a week away from possibly getting a buff freezing. Right. In the meantime the new years always a time to reflect on the accomplishments. Past year and look ahead what work still needs to be done as we enter 2018. That is certainly what is going on in theal Wilson Building in d. C. A lot to be happy about. Still though big issues need to be improved or solved. Lets talk about it right now. We welcome dc marmose Muriel Bowser back to fox5 for the first time back in 2018. My pleasure. My first stop. Happy anniversary beginning year three. Thank you. As mayor of the city. Hard to believe but my facebook all of the pictures from my swearing in started popping up. Its my anniversary. For you this day in your history. Yes. A day you get sworn in which is great. Congratulations on that. As we look forward now to this year for you and this year for everybody here in washington, d. C. 2018 what are you prioritize now as far as your goals what we want to a could accomplish the most in this next year. Certainly were very grateful for going into our fourth year in our administration. Really is a strong city. I think last year was a test in many ways. We had something unexpected happen with a new president and our fight for statehood marching on, but we decided that were going to be proactive with our city witness f so we had very good year. Strong fiscally. The investments that weve made in Affordable Housing are taking root. The invest many manies were making a schools are taking root and people are very happy. Also know that we are in a position to deal with the challenges that all big cities have. What do you see as those top challenges mayor. The biggest one Affordable Housing a lot of people want to live here. We still have more than 800 people a month moving to d. C. Wow. We will eclipse 700,000 we think this year. So that means things are more expensive. Housing the thing that concerns people the most. We have doubled in my three years every year 100 million it had been 50 million our investment in Affordable Housing. We will create 8,000 new units. We know in the next four years well be able to create another 10,000 units. But also making sure people can af so how do we get the minimum wage increased and were on our way to 15 an hour . How do we make sure more people are in good paying jobs we double down on apprenticeships so that people are in good paying jobs. Its great to see more and more people wanting to live in the nations capitol. Absolutely. The challenge is for them to live comfortably in the nations capital. Absolutely. I want to talk about a couple things here. You mentioned education which is always key. Yup. We saw this morning unfortunately kramer junior high theyre having some problems with the heat. Yup. Thats one of many schools. Ballou story at the end of the year got a lot of traction as far as whether its a question of just making sure the resources are there for students to actually have the opportunity to graduate, is it a question when it came to attendance rates of changing the, what constitutes missing a day versus missing a class. Now that weve had few weeks that let that sit in where do you sit on this issue. You hit on a number of very important things. I think first thing is that its very serious issue. We take it very our office of the state superintendent is conducting evaluation investigating all of the allegations that ballou and all of a our policies citywide, and so we expect that report in i think two weeks and so that will give us a good road map the things that need to be picked. Chancellor wilson is already looking at things specific at ballou and things that need to be change you talk about resources. We endeavor to support families to make sure kids are there. Few years back, i started kids fright free on metro because it was it used to be the case that families were paying 30 a month to get their kids kid to school. Now they can ride free on metro rail and metro bus. So thats very important. So were going to look at attendance policy. Make sure its not an out liar in the system which it sounds like it may be even in the region. And make sure its clear for every school and across the district. So at the end of the year, every family and every child knows where they stand. You said you put in i think it was a sixweek time period for this investigation. Pretty aggressive. 45 days, yes. Okay. Let me ask you then. What will the real result be if theres found if people have been found passing kids or, you know, marking the days that were absent not absent . What do you hold hope to do to really root it out . Well, we have to know what happened and all of the adults if there were mistakes made were going to make sure they know what the rules are, and that people who made serious mistakes will be held accountable. And thats the bottom line. And then we also want to look at the policy to make sure the policy makes sense. Relatively new. And sometimes you have have a new policy its not always applied as it is intented. So we want to make sure that happens, too. You have a big day ahead as far as dealing with crime news about that still. If youre the victim avenue crime youre like i dont care about the overall numbers. You got it. Theres good news overall. 11 down with overall crime, right. Absolutely. We always want to drive it down. We have good news pretty much public safety. I want to be at our Forensics Lab which is just done a fantastic job in assisting the police in wiping out the rape kit backlog i found when i collected mayor is down to 0o were going to hold any perpetrator of crime responsible in our city. We seen Violent Crime take a bit dip including homicides and crimes with guns and robbery. Significant decrease in the number of robberies. A number that has gone up which is also very good is a number of police. We hit as upping when i became mayor there was a bubble of officers that could retire there were eligible for retirement. And they were retiring. So we have a bundle of retention programs that keep officers in a track program to a traction knew one weve seen that number go up for the first time in three years. Al is right you never want to really celebrate reduction in the homicide rate because you dont want any idea. Zero is the target. Correct. A number of major cease have done the same as washington and seen that number lower. Chicago hired more police officers. New york has said they stopped stop and frisk programs more community policing. What do you see for 2018 as far as washington and some plans or changes we might see to keep that rate as low as we can. I mean, we kind of throw everything at it and make sure that something is sticking and thats what weve done in the last three years with crime. I will tell you that our big focus, however, is illegal guns and repeat offenders. Theres actually a small number of people that are, thats correct create violence in city like ours. And so we want to give them a lot of Different Services hopefully to prevent um, committing crimes but we know people who are most likely to commit a crime with a gun and we want to attack them with this as Many Services as possible. Let me say this. It doesnt really parallel but in some ways it is connected weve seen in dc over the past few years decriminalization of things from marijuana to the pros spec of prostitution and other things. Does that work when we do that as far as any correlation between reduction of crime or not . Well, see fewer arrests for what most people in our city think are petty crimes. And thats possession of marijuana. Distribution of marijuana. We will continue to make sure were going after with all that we have. What a positive response is, is that you dont have negative Police Community interactions over petty crime. And so the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults has helped with that. What do you say to the critics who say, you know, zero whats your answer to realistic answer . Good weve seen what that does, and it doesnt make communities safer and in the long run in fact i believe that it really turns communities upside down when you have a lot of people young people that should be productive that are going to jail for, um, crimes not against people that theyre going to come home and theyre going to come home with less pros specs. Right. I have to ask about how this tax plan benefits or does not benefit d. C. It doesnt benefit us. Can you talk about moving forward and what you can say to citizens . Well we tried allison and we, of course, work with our congresswoman. We tried to work with all of the Congress People who vote in our region who are similarly affected to d. C. Where we have people a lot of high earners in our city. We also have people that are paying a lot of property taxes. Not just this region. And they are negatively impacted by this cap of 10,000 thats deductible for your state income tax and for your property tax. So they wont be able to take those deductions. Now, what were waiting to see in our cfo who will do a whole analysis that will be people in our city that get income tax reduction, and were hopeful thats going to help them with savings, with college, with home purchase and all of those, but we are a jurisdiction where a lot of people itemize and its the itemizer that are negatively impacted by this bill. Well have to wrap things up mayor. Before we let you go since the brought up the National Impact of washington, d. C. Here we were just talking about the fact and the studies that came out and the stories that this is the first time in awhile weve had president who doesnt really spend a lot of time in washington, d. C. Now not going to the restaurants, et cetera. Do you take that personally when we have this the whole city for the white house . O i dont. Everybody knows that we are foodie capital. Plenty of people are going to our restaurants, to our theaters to our new wharf. Were still having record visitation to our city from people coming from around the nation and around the world, and thats all good stuff for our city. So one person wont stop that. Happy new year to you. Happy new year allison. Look forward to the progress of the district and thanks. Happy anniversary. Thanks, fox5. Mayor mur eighty three bowser. Well be right back. Novec holds the record for the most Reliable Electric Service in the region. And has for almost two decades. Novec also uses Proven Technology and roundtheclock response to maintain one of the highest Utility Customer Satisfaction ratings in the nation. Novec. Keeping you connected. Big show coming up in 15 minutes. Of course were talking about good day d. C. Today actors Dylan Mcdermott and kim star in the new fox comedy la to vegas which happens to premier tonight. Theyll give you a preview when they join us live. Plus what can you expect in your live in the new year . Well have some fun and some look ahead with psychic who stops by the loft and if the new year has you headed to the gym youll want to look good while youre there, right . Our fox5 fashionista will be here with clothes to help your work out confidence level go up up up. There you go. All right. In the meantime, dc police want residents to stop calling 911 when you see those bicycles the bike share bikes left around the city. Its been a big problem and so much so that Police Actually issued a statement saying, refrain from dialing 911 to report suspicious activity for merely utilize bike share services. Police plan to work with dock less bike operators frustrations about where users have been placing those bike. All righty. Live look outside. Cold cold cold. Tucker really is like our lead story today. These temperatures. It hasnt budged in the last four hours. Im afraid with Long Duration of the cold temperatures were going to have more weve lot of water pipes breaking that kind of thing. More issues along those lines here as the cold just keeps oncoming including think afternoon. Unfortunately we wont get above freezing. Should be plenty of sunshine today. Watching this storm close call later tomorrow night and thursday. The worst of it stays to our east. And then believe it or not another round of this cold arctic air perhaps the worst yet to come as far as cold temperatures by friday hard to believe i can be saying that by friday and saturday. 13 now in washington. Eight in gaithersburg. Nine in manassas. Culpeper big jump for you many you were 1 degree last hour. Youre now up to nine. Ten in fredericksburg. 14 in leonardtown. 15 in annapolis. Mixing winds out of the north and west about ten. And these are your wind chills right now minus one what it zero gaithersburg. Minus three dulles you get a sense. I mean probably dont need to tell you how cold it is for you to know feel coming in through the windows early this morning. Going to be very cold day. Daytime highs mid to upper 20s it should be a good looking day. Lots of sunshine and dry afternoon well goat a few clouds later today, and this arctic air mass is just, you know, the big bully out there will not let up and its going to be kind of unrelenting around here for the neck several days. I think next monday will be the next time we really get a chance to get it above freezing this is our wednesday night thursday name frame theres going to be very very strong area of low area developing big noreaster and its going to undergo bombo genesis the storm had deepen rapidly. Lots of wind expected. For us, a snow line right through the immediate washington area. I think best chance for accumulating snow washington south and east lower Eastern Shore staning the best chance for accumulations and then another blast of very cold air around h you nothing locally immediate locally lower Eastern Shore salisbury, ocean city under a winter storm watch. We got to watch this forecast carefully. Tune back in tonight at 5 00. Well have the latest tomorrow morning with our thinking with this storm system. But the other story the cold here to stay. Friday, saturday daytime highs around 20. Overnight lows in the Single Digits. Allison and steve, back to you. All right. Thank you, tuck. Kevin mccarthy is here. Im here. Of entertain. We have a huge story about youtube blogger named logan paul. Wee have the controversy story coming up. Women in hollywood are wright fog a Brand New Movement thats going to be huge story. See you after this. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. Now through january 10th. Ikea. Hey. Good morning steve and allison. Thats kevins music. Hello kevin. Well start off with controversy story. Controversy video that went viral and now for all the wrong reasons if youre not familir with a gentleman named logan paul a massive youtube star, blog star, before we get into this story, let me just set up and give perspective who this person is. Take a look at recent video he posted about recapping his 2017 year. Watch this. Good morning. Whats popping. Oh, man, the 2017 year in review video where do i begin . I guess i can start with this. 22 years old i bought my first house for moved by two boys in with me. All right. So obviously hes 22 years old bought 6. 5 million house. Thats who he is. Hes massive online. But life seems pretty great there but that all changed on new years eve. Logan paul posted a controversial video to his 15 million subscribers on youtube where he found a dead body in a japanese forest which is commonly known as the suicide forest. Now the video allegedly shows a body of a person hanging from a tree in apparent suicide. Now, the video titled this is the actual title of the individual has been taken down we found a dead body in the japanese suicide forest. If you do want to see this particular video theres reactions of it. Tmz has portions of the video on their website as well it has been removed from youtube after having over 6 million views. The clips do still live online. Theres lot of reaction videos around youtube. And essentially the beginning of the video from what i watch clips of it now. It says this is not click bait. This is the most real blog ive ever posted on this channel. Theres Youtube Comment kvvos he posted reaction video you can see parts of the video logan paul is filming the dead body. You can see him laughing at times. You can show very close to a parking lot when they find the video. They can have clearly called for help versus making a video out of this which is very strange. This is as Youtube Channel with 15 million views. So after the backlash was posted on new years eve with the negativity logan paul did release an apology yesterday saying where do i begin . Lets start with this. Im sorry this the first for me ive never faced criticism like this before because ive never made a mistake like this before. I didnt do it for views. I get views. I did it because i thought i can make a positive ripple on the internet, not cause a monsoon of negativity. Thats nest intention. I for suicide and Suicide Prevention. I made 15 minute tv show videos essentially ever single day for 460 plus days ive almost reminded how big of a reach i trial have with great power comes great responsibility for the first time in my life im regretful to say i handled that power incorrectly it wont happen again. Before we get to reactions from steve and allison, theres a lot of different reactions to this. Specifically one thats getting a lot of viral attention aaron paul no relation to hogan paul but he tweeted this how dare you, you disgust me i can believe that so many young people look up to you so sad. Hopefully this latest video woke them up you are pure trash plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell. We chose to to not show the video here. Its very disturbing. I watched enough to understand what it is now. They walk in the forest and see this dead body. Its absolutely horrifying. Some of its blurred out. But he just continues shooting the he laughs. Theres laughing involved. Thats completely inappropriate. It seems very overly pro produced. If you see Something Like this why are you putting this on Youtube Channel . The kid is 22 years old. He made a mistake clearly. But this kind of raises the question of how much power these young kids have with the Youtube Channel specifically like this. And no filter. I think what i said earlier i think that in this time were living in especially with this person who i guess makes money, you know, with his house with all the subscribers and what have you to say, wait a minute, this is an actual person here who had a life who was hanging, you know, stirring to even say from a tree. Its awful to say it. And so, you know, that thing didnt come on that said, no, no, no, this is not for your viewers. Right. And then to see him laughing is very disturbing. The laughter is the worst part. If youre truly doing it to raise awarenessness for Suicide Prevention dont mock the person who took their life. Theres moment in the video where he mentioned he was joking about dying a couple weeks ago in regards to being sick. Oh, no, i shouldnt joke about that. Dude, youre aware of what youre doing wrong. I think the thing is no filter. In that moment and hes been reminded this is very serious. This is all over the web. If you want to take a look at the reaction videos you can see the clips were not going to show them here on tv. Thanks kev. Can we talk about movies next time. Id like to. I dont like this kind of stuff to be honest. More after this. [ laughter ] michigan dad is getting a father of the year award for his rendition, okay, sometimes you got to adjust for his rendition of beyonces Single Ladies. Steve hadad gave his daughters the best Christmas Gift ever when he dressed up in his black leo and tights to perform an epic rendition beyonce Single Ladies as part of the family lip sync tradition. The trio they have already been this video already been viewed more than 14 million times on facebook. I think id let him keep the title. Im not going challenge that one. I think his choreography is not at this time. Ill get the uniform and well just work on the rest later. I love a fun dad. Its pretty light traffic out there again today. Shockingly so. I dont know if everyone decided to take another day off or its too cold to imagine going out there. Extent the holiday one more. Who wants to leave their house . The majors have been okay. We do have a couple of accidents, though, one that just came in rockville beers mill road viers mill road eastbound. There are accident crashes youve got jamups and so this one block the center lane it will take you some time on viers mill road in rockville. Also still have that water main break out in Silver Spring. Fits because of the weather nobody is going to work this week. 28 today. Various levels of cold but message is cold cold cold. Little bit on our snow thursday morning snow possibilities coming up. See you for good day next. Byebye. I like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. 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