December 18th 2017. Glad youre with us. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday to your daughter sidney ton all you statue tanners out there. Happy happy birthday. What time is the party . Well, you know the older you get the more parties dont mean that much. So were not invited. Right. [ laughter ] in other words. Thats the bottom line. Were not invite. What happened was ing. Still empty mix. Maybe next year. 9 01 is the time. Also a ahead a teenager with local ties made us history becoming the first ever black woman to made the olympic Speed Skating Team well introduce to the 17yearold talk to her coming up next. All right. Thats exciting. Very exciting. Im getting exciting. I love the olympics. I do too. Im an olympic junkie. I like all the stories. Im mad if i miss the opens stories. I like it all. Lets take live look outside right now because its pretty mild. Gorgeous morning treat to do beautiful sunrise. Mike has a lk store for this monday. Hey, mike. Hey, guys. I saw w
Southbound 50 inbound residual delays. And next. 7 01. And we learn that deadly train sdmaent Washington State may have been caused by speed. Later fox five Melanie Alnwick is live outside head qu5r9ers. Mel, good morning. First full day for ntsb go team which left here in washington d. C. And headed to Washington State for that crash. When they arrived at the seattle tacoma area quick briefing gave jaw dropping information and 80 miles an hour in 30 mile an hour zone. One of the trains then data recorders. Interests state 5 there in Washington State this is about will be closed for a portion of the day. Still today while volingttors landed on to interstate five. Train was making its inaugural run on fast iter root from see at toll port long, horror. There were 08 passengers on boards. Theyre looking at many factors including spied. And the speed limit is known to operators and and the speed limit and that is will help show us. We can tell you that crew members have not yet been interv
You know what . You are. Im like the good santa. Yeah, im a santa. You really are. You really are. So, this is the time of year where were going to each others houses, were going toto parties. I know ive seen videos of you and your friends around the piano singing. All right, thats true. Having a good, old time. Yesterday ooh somebody loves you, baby ooh oh, oh, oh somebody loves you, baby you know it is you know, its all about the heart, right . Its about the heart. Because everybody means something, no matter how high or how low, and you dont have to be on my level, your level is fine with me. Because some superstars, or whatever they call themselves, they look up like this and they look down on you. And youre not to make eye contact with some of those folks. You know, its crazy. Yeah, and youve never lived that life. I never could. If i did, i want somebody right. Okay. Come back, patti, come back. Come back, patti. No, i cant do it. I cant do that. And around and around no, no and
But this is directed by a gentleman named rian johnson, who directed films like looper as well as brick. Hes a phenomenal filmmaker. Now, the positives of this movie i love the cinematography. Its shot gorgeously. Every single frame is incredible. I love John Williams score. The performances in this movie are brilliant. Adam driver as kylo ren, the whole concept of the light and the dark side of that character is amazing. I love the new characters as well, played by kelly marie tran. Also laura dern has my favorite arc in this entire film. Now, on the negative side, i did not like the direction that Luke Skywalker was taken in this film. I thought he was unnecessarily comedic and very grumpy, and in my opinion, it felt like the director was making a mockery of the big scenes the fans were looking forward to, specifically the end of the force awakens, when we see rey handing that lightsaber to luke. We were wondering whats gonna happen in episode viii, and in my opinion, the version tha
And later, Redemption Song. Mariah carey returning to the times yeah stage last night. A second shot at ring in a new year and this time she nail it. Good day at 9a starts now. Why do i have to sit on the hump in the middle. Because im sitting on the hump here. We wanted to spread it out. I feel taller than wisdom. Here we go. Good day everybody. 9 01 on this monday, january 1st. What was that. I was trying to do a different voice. It didnt come out right. Welcome to america. Whats going on . Goodness. This is how were starting new year, everybody. Surprise first day of january, 2018. Are we saying 2018 or 2018. Whatever you want to call it. Im more 2018. Okay. We lets go with it. Its also National Hangover day. If you were out kicking it last night and drank too much. You probably sound like i am hung over. The only real cool for that post part headache is time. But there are ways to manage the pain and suffering. Well have those details coming up a little bit later. Okay. Let me tell