Overnight a state of emergency declared in california as wilffires sweep across southern california. Dozens of homes destroyed and firefighters already saying many more will be lost before they get a handle on these flames. Abcs Kenneth Moton has more. Happening today a major shift in us happening today a major shift in us foreign policy. President trump is a major shift in us foreign policy. President trump is foreign policy. President trump is preparing to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Today the expected to instruct the state department to begin the multiyear process of moving the American Embassy from tel aviv to the holy city. Jerusalem has religious significance in islam, judaism and christianity. And both muslims and jews claim the holy city as their capital. The president calling five arab leaders to inform them tuesday. And the news was not warmly received. The king of jordan saying the move will provoke christians and muslisms alike. No other country
Any better . Im annie yu and ill have all the details coming up. And later, a Sports Illustrated surprise. Beyonce making a special appearance at last nights sports person of the year awards to honor colin kardashian. Well have all the details coming up. Good day at 9a starts now. 9 01 is the time. No surprises here g day d. C. Good to see you. Good for to you see us hope hopefully. It is wednesday, december 6th. Allison seymour, Steve Chenevey welcome back. Hope youre feeling better. Im kind of surprised maureen is home getting better. We hope she feels better. Right. Its revolving door around here. A sickness once it gets inside the fresh air inside this building it kind of lingers for while. Its get trapped in petri dish. Also ahead this morning times person of the year honor this year goes to the silence breakers who helped launch the light decades of Sexual Harassment and abuse by powerful men a cross the nation. More thon decision coming up as well. First, though, transition day
Complaints and intense pressure from capitol hill colleagues forced a popular senator to resign today. Senator al franken resigned today. He pushed back against his female accusers today. He took a swipe at two republicans accused of sexual misconduct, President Trump and senator roy moore. Some of the allegations against me are not true. Others i remember differently. I know in my heart that nothing i have done as a senator, nothing has brought dishonor on this institution. And i am confident that the Ethics Committee would agree. I of all people am aware there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a has bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office. And a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. F0 there is a good chance well see snow around here tomorrow or saturday. Topper is on the terrace to tell you to calm down. It may be a conversational snow. Heres our american model. Th
Very scary moments last night for someone who lives in the gaithersburg station apartments here. Its a very large apartment complex so to be honest we really didnt get a pinpoint from Gaithersburg Police as far as exactly where the apartment complex this happened. We can tell you it was 11 30 last night, the Victim Told Police he had come home from work, he heard a knock on his door. He looked out and saw a man standing there, thought he was in distress, so he opened the door. Then the man and two other men rushed into his apartment with handguns. They demanded property. The victim told them take what you want. The suspects took the victims wallet, laptop cell phone and then two guns described as a long gun and handgun. We havent been able to confirm the models of the guns at this time and the man was not injured. The three men then fled and we do have their descriptions. Well show this to you right now. One suspect is a black male 6 feet 2inches tall dark skin with a day old the secon
A deputy chief fire marshal and fbi agent are killed in Montgomery County. And President Trump make as controversial stop in mississippi. Raging wildfires continue to burn out west with no end in sight a maryland girl wins big in a nationwide cooking contest. The news at 10 00 starts now. And we begin tonight with the Winter Weather across much of the dc region. It really was beautiful. Most of us got to see it come down several hours, lets take a live look outside now at this hour, the snow it has stopped for the most part the concern tonight is the possibility of slippery roads, especially ramps bridges and overpasses. What can we expect when it comes to sunday . We want check in with gwen it is really going to be a windy day on sunday. But as matt mentioned most of the snow for the most part is out of our area. Take a look at radar, you can see its moving all the way up to the northeast as that low pressure system pulls away, and we are just really on the very back end of it now. Ar