Dark this morning. Few clusters of Power Outages. Northern virginia where dominion has more than 5,000 customers in the dark most in Fairfax County also scattered in alexandria falls charge arlington Prince William and stafford county. Blown transformer at a substation in fairfax is to blame. Pepco reporting outages in the thousands. Some 31,000 outages in d. C. And a few hundred in montgomery and Prince Georges County. There you go as far as power this morning. The big story this morning though comes from the white house. The white house standing by vulgar comments made by President Trump that set off a firestorm. At a white house meeting on immigration, the president reportedly used an expletive to lash out at immigrants coming into the u. S. From certain countries. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick llive outside the white house with the latest more us. Mel. Reporter good morning, guys. The president apparently dropped an s bomb in the oval office as you mentioned. This just a few key lawmakers.
The all the money controversy made the a lister a target at last nights critics Choice Awards. Well have the latest. First though the friday warmup after weeks of subfreezing temperatures Mother Nature giving us a a break. Dont get used to snowflakes and winter like weather could be right around the corner. Good day at 9a starts now. You know what else is right around the corner . The weekend. Yes. Wisdom the weekend has not yet begun. But you messed it up. This is your chance much. I was going to give him the phrase doesnt fit you cant say it. Im not going to steal wisdoms line. Oh, my gosh. [ laughter ] its friday. This is a mess. Its friday its friday. It is january 12th. Glad youre here for good day. Its good to see everybody. Ahead this morning protecting yourself from the flu. The virus is hitting the nation hard this year so this morning were finding out why its so severe a anything you can do besides that flu shot that you might want to get to help avoid getting the flu. You kn
Facebook news feed. Changes that will impact you. Plus, teenagers putting laundry detergent pods in their mouth. Why a government watchdog says theyre taking a deadly risk. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. This remark smacks of blatant racism. The president s comments damaged us greatly. Its offensive. I dont like it. Both sides blast the president S Immigration comments. The Washington Post reported the president asked why are we having all these people from [ bleep ] hole countries coming here, referring to african countries and haiti. Is it little offensive . Of course it is. A dangerous storm now heading east. We want everyone to be prepared for the worst. Its a race against time to find survivors of a deadly california mudslide. I lost completely everything. Theres nothing left. The st. Louis Prosecutor Says shell be launching a criminal investigation into accusations surrounding missouri governor eric greitens. He tried to blac
Hello im with aljazeera live from doha also coming up. Flames from the sky activists say rockets are being used to spot fires across syrias eastern ghouta. A forgotten crisis five years into the conflict in Central African republic and hof the population now needs urgent humanitarian aid. And Andrew Thomas in the gun is a strong views outs will be explaining plans to turn those mountains and water its one of the worlds biggest rich doctorates. But first officials in northeastern nigeria have apologized for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters have been rescued the announcement turned out to be false and to spot outrage the girls were taken from the school in the town of touchy thats in your base state and it happened on monday aljazeera zama dangerous was the First International journalist on the ground and sent this report from. Disappointment inductions i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the State Government apologized
Someone picked me up that was the last time i saw her she was taken. On the ground a Northern Nigeria as officials try to establish what happened to nearly one hundred schoolgirls. Flames from the sky activists say rockets are being used to spot fires across eastern ghouta. And a crisis five years into the conflict in the Central African republic half the population now needs urgent humanitarian aid. Im joining the sport where the olympic athletes from russia have got their first gold medal in pyung chang but just hours later a Second Russian athlete is confirmed to us at these winter games. We begin this news hour in northeast nigeria with her. Apologize for telling the parents of dozens of missing schoolgirls that their daughters have been rescued the announcement turned out to be false and has sparked outrage the girls were taken from their school in the town of your boy state on monday aljazeera our interests was the First International journalist on the ground and has this report