You fun to be here on a sunday. Well have a good time talking redskins. It is a meaningful game around christmas time. Also keeping tabs on the weather, bothn our area and in philly as well. This is a live look outside at the National Christmas tree. Got your Christmas Shopping done . Of course not make sure you move my name up to the top of the list a look at the National Christmas tree near the white house. Fox 5s gwen tolbert is in the Weather Center right now. How are things looking right now . Its a little chilly right now. I hope the both of you have my name at the top of your lists as well. I could change that weather up for you we had a very windy day yesterday. Temperatures close to seasonal. Lets take a look at numbers. 45 degrees at reagan national, 42 at dulles and bwi. Winds were extremely gusty, up to 51 Miles Per Hour at dulles yesterday, unbelievable. Today, a much calmer day. Temperatures right now, 29 in the nations capitol, 32 at annapolis, 19 at manassas, 21 at dull
Chevy chase resident and science correspondent speaks to our surae chinn. Reporter pbs science reporter miles obrien dives right back into work after returning to the United States a few days ago without his left arm. Everybody it talking about polar vortexes. Reporter the former cnn anchor who specializes in science, technology and aerospace is moderating a panel on Climate Change in northwest, a commitment he made well before his accident. Sometimes the best tonic is to stay focused on work. Reporter he told the world about the mishap in his blog. I wish i had a better story to tell you about why im typing this with one hand. A shark attack would be interesting. An assassination attempt would be intriguing. Skydiving mishappens always make for good copy. No, the reason i am now one handed is a little more prosaic. Obrien was on a shoot in the philippines reporting on the aftermath of the fukushima disaster. It was a seemingly minor accident. He was packing up tv equipment when a case
Nations largest gun lobby with extreme influence and deep pockets and although this peals in comparison the demonstrators hope to keep an already fiery debate going. Opposition to the National Rifle Associations Press conference yesterday we absolutely do not believe this is the solution to the problem which exists. And that we need to move forward. Come up with serious plans to change this. Reporter yeah, these demonstrators received a Police Escort as i mentioned earlier. They marched down 14th vote holding a candle light vigil as they call it. They went down to the Episcopal Church not too far from here where we understand thats where theyre gathering now to continue trying to spread their message. Ken molestina, ken thanks for that. A shooting ad a Manassas Park at a Manassas Park Convenience Store sends two people to the hospital. It happened in a sheets store in the 8500 block of the road. Two people were taken to Prince William hospital. One suspect is in custody. Police have no
National park service the monuments and so on. They will feel the impact of this. That also includes the Smithsonian Institution museums and the national zoo. I think they ought to find some way to solve the countrys problems without causing so much chaos. I think that its wrong that theyre using the visitors and citizens and shutting things down for us that we pay taxes for to be able to enjoy. Federal workers and Government Contractors say with their paychecks hanging in the balance theyre nervous. We have no idea whats going to happen. Were basically at the mirrors si of congress right now mercy of congress. Its frustrating but its been frustrating for years watching congo what they dont do. Now critical Government Services would continue in the event of a shut down so air traf fiktraffic controllers and some would stay on job. Our coverage continues at myfoxdc. Com. A lot of you tweeting me at will thomas. Well update you on our facebook page. Huge for my fox d. C. Look for my fox
Frankly about what the science is showing on ebola. The virus was operating on virus time. And all the rest of us are operating on programmed time. And the virus is winning hands down. Harsh criticism from dr. Michael of the university of minnesota calling for more openness in talking about ebola. We have a problem with the fact that we think were going to scare people. Certainty does not exist. We have to start being honest about that. Introductions in developed countries are likely. Johns hopkins Predictive Modeling expert, dr. Joshua said, efforts to screen travelers are not foolproof because ebola takes an average of ten days to emerge. It doesnt entirely contain the thing because of this incubation period, during which you can pass screening. It will not go to zero. There will be an endemic cycle. There is a longterm prospect of ebola persistence and a long term management question that needs to be faced. A consensus is the development of a vaccine will be the only way to stop ebo