Good morning. Straight up 5 00 on Christmas Eve. Its monday. A cold one. We take a nice clear shot of u. S. Capital zone. Good morning, everyone. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. There is tucker barnes. Good morning. Its a cold one. You will be waiting in the lines too later, wont you. Yes, i am. You look so excited to be out and in the mix. I went to one store and waited 45 minutes in line. Wow. You finished . Last time you went you turned and and left. Its all business from here on out. Hopefully the stores will be open a few more hours. Lets get to it. Lets do weather. If you are going to be shopping at the last minute like a few other people, hopefully just a few of us, Reagan National 32. Dulles 26. Bwi marshall 27. Here is the deal, i already got gifts so now i can figure out what i need to get in return based upon what i have seen. You are judging what you get other people based on what you have received. You dont want to that is so shallow. Oh, my goodness, you are so shallo
Just days away from the fiscal cliff right now. Can lawmaker reach a last minute deal in time . A live report from capitol hill coming up. Plus, a u. S. General way memorable military career has passed away. A look at the life and legacy of desert storm commander Norman Schwarzkopf. A redskinscowboys preview with dave ross a little bit later. Fox 5 morning news continues right now. Right now. You can see how clear it is. Clearly. Friday, december 28th. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. H simmons. Lets talk to Tucker Barnes about the weather. We are looking fine. It is chilly out there. Kind of seasonbury chilly. Temperatures back in the low to mid30s and well be in for a decent day. About maybe 40, 42 today, partial sunshine. So friday looks good. Tomorrow, things get a little more interesting as weve got this winter event on the way. Not a huge event but it is an event. It is an event but not quite an event. Okay. Im just excited about it. You are allowed to be excite about it. We dont
If you have got travel plans today, nice and quiet as we get into late night tonight and saturday, that is a different story. Well be talk about that all morning as we have more snow in the forecast. Lets get started with Current Conditions and wear nice and quiet. Do have some clouds rolling through. Kind of a partly cloudy overnight period. That is helping to hold the temperatures up a little bit. We havent had any freezing temperatures yet. What is going to happen today . Well see partial sunshine. We should be nice and quiet. Storminess off to the south and west will be developing. Monday and wednesday, it hooks like well be doing a snowrain it looks like well be down a snowrain mix. More on that coming up. Forecast for today, partly sunny, highs about 40 degrees. Soon, only hours will be left to reach a come nice in the fiscal cliff talks. President obama is holding a summit at the white house today with congressional leaders and members of the house have to be back to work by 6 3
Nuclear option. The historic move will help end the grid lock on president obamas judicial nominations. He hailed them this afternoon. Todays count of obstruction, it just isnt normal. Its not what our founders envisions. It is a deliberate determined effort, no matter where the merits just to fight the results of an election, is not normal. And for the sake of future generations we cant let it become normal. Libby casey joins us now with more on this grid lock busting vote. Lick by, there is plenty of reaction. Yeah, a big day on capitol hill. The rest of the country is scratching their head saying what is this situation, it can sound very dramatic. And in some ways it is, because it is the fundamental change in the way business is done in the senate. Usually it takes 60 votes to overcome a threat, but what senator reid did today is he said nope, we are going to go with just a simple majority. The woman after the heart of this, patricia millet, she was a judge that was a nominee for t
During the day tomorrow. Reagan national now 36 degrees. Dulles 33. Bwi marshall 34 degrees. Quiet start to the day. Cloud cover at the moment. And as you look to the south and west, look into western tennessee and northern parts of mississippi and alabama, shower activity. Thats our next storm system. Will be moving in our direction. Ill have more details on what time it might arrive and what we can expect tomorrow coming up. For today, partly sunny conditions and should be relatively quiet for you. Winter weather advisory goes in effect early tomorrow morning for Northern Maryland and parts of West Virginia, and virginia as well. Winchester under the advisory. Likely will be expanded. This is where were most likely to see accumulating snow in Northern Maryland and certainly a possibility even here in the city tomorrow we could get light accumulations. Im going to give you the seven day forecast, might as well give it to you early. Snow, rain for saturday. And quieter weather into the