Karsashian. The surprising announcement on kim and kanye with how they went public with the big news. Fox 5 morning news starts right now. This is fox 5 morning news. Good monday morning to you. It is december 31st , 2012 new years eve. This is a live look outside right now. Hustling and bustling the closer we get. The crowds are coming. Good morning to you again. Im wisdom martin. And im sarah simmons. Lets say hello to Tucker Barnes barnes. The wind is out and the cold is here to stay. Cold moved in overnight. Yesterday was a chilly day. Much colder overnight with temperatures in the 20s. Were now at 30 here in washington. Wont be a terrible afternoon. Got a lot of clouds moving in from the west. Right now at Reagan National i mentioned temperature below freezing. Overnight low in town 29. So one of the first times this month weve been in the 20s. 25 at dulles. Bwi marhsall 29 as well. A little filtered sunshine today. Heres the good news, were going to remain dry even later this aft
Martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Chilly indeed. Lets bring in Tucker Barnes again to talk about it. Is it new years eve already . Time is flying by, man. Youre questioning it i feel like it is still the night before. No, it is officially the 31st. Its just our life, you know. Yeah, kind of sad. Lets get to the temperatures. It got cold. It was cold yesterday but at least the wind have let up. 30 at Reagan National. 4 at dulles. Bwi marshall, 29. We should warm up in the mid 40s today. The clouds will increase tonight but we are not expecting any rain and or snow shower activity. There is a better chance well see one or two tomorrow. The pattern generally going to be try. There is your satelliteradar. Some storminess out to the west but well out to the west. You can see there is plenty of clouds out to the west. Well see the clouds but wont see the storminess today. Highs today, mid40s in washington. Well go 45 degrees. 44 in leonardtown. A little colder there north and west. It w
Already the new year in new zealand where you can see the fireworks going off there. This is a live picture right now. Were there ringing in the new year. Hard to believe. We are just waking up everybody here in the d. C. Region. They are already partying. There may be people already partying here too. Im sure there are. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Speaking of party, here is a oneman party, tucker barnes. I wish i could party tonight. Have to go to bed at 00. You can party. You just have to suffer the consequences early. I might get started early. It will be cloudy this afternoon but we should warm up and well is have a lot of less winds than yesterday as things have gotten much quieter overnight. Right now, reagan national, 30 degrees. Much of the area has fallen back into the 20s. Dulles is 24. Temperatures in the mid40s later today and more comfortable although well have a lot of clouds around particularly this afternoon. Satellit
Supported by senators from both parties. But bipartisanship will go on the back burner. In the fight ahead on defense spending, entitlement cuts and the debt ceiling. Republicans warned president obama you got your tax hikes on the rich. Its time for deep spending cuts. The first step is for democrats to get over their fanatical commitment to guarding every single time the government ever got its hands on. Reporter in the senate and house action no big changes in the democrat republican balance. Thats a guarantee of continued gridlock. Soon this could shuffle down government and imperil the u. S. Economy. Im Steve Handelsman s. News4, capitol hill. Senator mark warner now becomes virginias center senator after just four years in office. Well hear his thoughts off immediate budgetcutting challenge facing the congress. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton is expected to return to work next week. Her spokeswoman says details are still being worked out. The secretary was released last night
For example, the president is going to announce an executive order that will raise the minimum wage to 10. 10. He is also expected to announce executive actions on job training, retirement training, and help for the longterm unemployed. Rather than sit and wait for congress to take action, were going to go ahead and roll out on our own. I think as we have seen over the last several years now, Congress Sometimes is a little slow to action. Were not going to wait for that. We believe the American People are looking for concrete, realistic proposals to see the progress and opportunity for everybody. You could ask members of both parties to help them make 2014 a year of real action. Rather than just a talking point. If he does, hes going to find he has a lot of support from republicans. Because we want to work with him to get things done and we always have. Now the one bit of good news for the president , of course, is that most americans will not need a lot of convincing when he brings up