Much happy veterans day. S day thanks for your service to our u country. Tr it has been a tumultuous nights across the country as protestsst continue in cities coast to coast. As while most demonstrationsemss president barack obamapr peaceful in one u. S. Cityess. Y things took a violent turnn overnight. Overni Melanie Alnwick joins us livens from the Trump International hotel with more on protestsro taking place. Lace mel good morning. Reporter good morning steve and allison. Ow yo wd to show you w rephaort looks like a size Police Presence here thatet converged on the hotel thisoteli morning. Rn definitely a difference in the security stance than what we w saw yesterday where it wast mostly just Hotel Security sec guards and then they put up u these barricades here but evene if you swing over thisbu way, w you can see here this is the side into the hotel not even n e the front entrance and all the l Police Officers that are standing there. Ffic we dont haveding any hav information to
All had a wonderful holiday holy and youre anxious to get out o this weekend work off some offfs those calories. Cor looks like there are peopleeh on the roads already trying to get those good deals. Alrt thoso there are. Yeah, i know, thats truei kn shopping as well. Such aowshop busy weekend family Holiday Travel shoppingvel thanksgiving, its so much and m we are looking at clearing skies outside early this morning. Pretty mild temperatures. D tee youre right annie, the past pt couple of days have beenve bee pretty nice. You know, we started off this ot work week so incredibly cold. D. Short work week at tha luckily travel weather held w out for us and right now its i not too bad as were all above freezing. Frzing 42 at Reagan National, 40iol, 4 dulles and 40 as well at bwi marshall. No problems coming in out ofn o the airports early this thi morning. Elsewhere were seeing temperatures mainly in the 40s, a couple owhfer uuresppers and a cold front did come did ce through last night s
Our very own Matt Odonnell heads our Team Coverage from the Wells Fargo Center in south philadelphia. Well have more on whats happening today. And former president bill clinton he was the big speaker last night. He also got a taste of philadelphia night life. Well give you details on what was the hottest ticket in town. First up lets find out just how hot its going to be. We sent dave murphy outside in a suit jacket and karen rogers is inside taking a look all right traffic. Good morning. Its actually not terrible this morning and its not going to be that bad later this afternoon although it does look like heat wave day six is on tap. First of all light shower activity in south jersey and delaware. This is pretty light not having major impact on roads butter in some cases s in salem come lands counties New Castle County delaware and now Gloucester County there is the chance of some roads being slightly wet and it looks like most of this stuff stays to the south of philadelphia today. T
Falls church. And on the orange, blue and silver line, at potomac avenue. This came along with some new details today about actually how bad this problem has been, consider this, says in their letter today in just the last two weeks, from april 23rd, to just yesterday, probably include today, as well, fda officials have investigated 15 safety events, nine of those have involved smoke and fire incidents. Anthony fox said he would shutdown metro if it did not adhere to these fda directives, earlier today, well, Board Chairman jack evans, he was out at the meeting, the council of governments, trying to get them to understand the severity of this problem. When it was over, we asked evans about secretary foxs words about shutting down. Evans says, he agreed with the secretary. If secretary fox degrees it is un safer, i agree with him. As you saw before, myself and the board have no reservations about shutting down the system if it is not safe. We not sending trains out there. And putting pe