Rifle because of a fake newsf as story. His name is edgar whelp. Lp. He spoke with the new yorkw times about the incident. Incide. Meanwhile another pizzeriaria caught up in that a similarar situation. Si more on that in a bit. First lets head tout bobhead barnard who is lie inbarnwho is northwest with more on theoron charges welch faces. Faces good morning. Reporter allison and steve good morning to you. Cometeporgoodde c pingpong here on connecticutonc avenue. It has reopened and you canan see here a lot of their loyalhe customers have left notes of noo if you look to the left this d. C. Police officer says thise is now a temporary assignment am to be here to make sure all goes well here moving forward. A we can tell you about maddisonn welch. According to the New York Times heing goes by his middle name Maddison Welch. Nelch you see him arrested onn connecticut avenue on sunday. Hes 28 years old have Salisbury North carolina arrested charged with firing aig gun inside the pizza p restaurant. Restaura he says he drove up from North Carolina his home there onther s reports. Orts well, in that New York Times t interview conducted yesterday ye Maddison Welch says quoting here i just wanted to do someom good and went about it thehe wrong way. The second quote here is the intel on this wasntas 100 percent and i regret how i h handled the situation. Tion now, he is due in court at 9 oclock this morning. D. C. Superior court. Ou its a preliminary h hes being held without bond. Itb the question today, guys, will w be whether he is released tose t go back home to North Carolinart to be with his two children while he awaits trial. Bob thank you very much. Muc another pizzeria has become m the latest victim of that same s fake news conspiracy. Iracy. This time in new york city. Robertas a brooklynoklyn restaurant known for its wood iw fired pizza received callsreceil social media users connectededia to the restaurant to the pizza p gate hoax centered on d. C. s comet pingpong. So far nog arrests have been madely. Also happening today, d. C. C council is expected to confirmoi the appointment of the citys ct newest schools chancellor. Chanc mayor bowser north 98ed 9d Antoine Wilson fill the position following the resignation of henderson. Hende here was wilson greeting wilsonr students and families aties at tubman elementary in northwest e d. C. Of course he comes top c washington frooum california cai where he had been the bee t school system. Ys a lot of developing storiesgo from overnight. Om o first up at 7 03 a car at a gaithersburg exxon stationbu destroyed after catching fire at the pump. This happened just after 4d af 0 fter 4 0 this morning on muncaster millcl road. Crews william able to safelyab a put out the flames and wereande told no one was hurt. In Tennessee Police arrested two juveniles now whoul they suspect started the fires f in the great smoky mountainsount damaged a whole bunch ofleun buildings and seriouslyerly injured 50 other people. Oth peo a judge will decide whether todt hold or release thosethose suspects. Su they could be tried as adultstru for aggravated arson. On. Disturbing video to showo s you out of the district afterice a man was brutally attacked bytc a group of people. Feo warning here, if you want touano turn away but it happened last s month along morris street int in t. Rtheast. Thats not far from trendyrotrey union market. Union mark now police say after knocking kg him to the ground the suspects t took the mans phone, h debit card his i. D. And took off in his car in this in t carp. The 10,000 reward thatshas being offered for information if leads to an arrest and conviction. Is that a Police Vehicle in c the background we ith the lights flashing . Massive manhunthunt under way in georgia for this man. Officials say 32yearold Minguell Lembrick shot the officers while responding to apo domestic dispute call. Mestic dic the surviving officer is said just about 7 05. A thursday morning big day in the dmv with the opening ofpeng the mgm. Hoping for good weather. Yeah, its going to be coldel later this afternoon and this at evening but otherwise also weatherwise well be fine. Fin great. We dont need anything to add to the traffic basically. Right. Nothing falling from thelinge sky. Supposed to be going downsedn to the opening party. Party nervous about traffic. Tff 42 at reagan national. Dulles 37. Es up in baltimore itsaltimore it 38 degrees. Cool start to you dipping down below freezingez but in the past couple hoursle cloud cover has moved in and ina thats going to allow temps to at least temporarily get pushed up. Maybe a snowflake or two early this morning. Owflthis morning i have no reports of any ofno ro that touching thef ground. Un bottom line is our arctic arcc boundary is starting to movee in and later today the windser n pick up and that cold air a rushes in tonight and daytime dy t 30s to about 40 so colder air a on the way. The more on t what coming up. T comi. For today well turn partly to l mostly sunny this afternoon. Thi it will be cool. S coo highs near 50ly. Near 50 i like that. I lthat. Highs near 50. Nr dont think of it as 47, thinknk of it as near 50. 50. Right, near 50. Uhhuh. Positivity. Yes. It helps. Baby steps erin. Baby steps yes and a really warm jacket this morning. Eps jc right nowket this 7 06. 0 skyfox still over the top ofthe the beltway. El. The inner loop betwe connecticut we had a crashrash involving an overturnedur vehicle. Police Activity Still blockingit the left shoulder. E even though all lanes ares opened delays extending pastdinp old georgetown road now to bradley boulevard. D. Really heavy traffic on the inner loop. Heavy in also overflowing 270 southbound up the spur were sp seeing delays all the way backab solid through rockville. Ockvill. Outer loop looks good at thatkst point but 95 to georgia geoia theres about a 15 minutes5 m delay so be prepared for that t one. As we forward to our cameras cer 95 on the northbound side is sid of two right lanes blocked atocke franconiaspringfield parkway. The spcrash riis causing thoseso huge delays to extend acrossendo the purple heart bridge. Ri solid jam packed back to dale dl city. About a 40 minutes delay rightug now to get from stafford up toop the beltway so be prepared forrr one. Well take a look at our maps. Aside from problems on theems roads we have metro delays. Ay train malfunction nationalatio airport early this morning. Mori residual delays yellow andw blue line in both directions. H. Earlier metro issues we weres wr dealing with on the silver sve orangein outpatient but we have safee he track surge 11 single tracking between west falls and east fals falls church on the orange ande selling very. Very minnieville road closed out inut dale city. Northbound side at elm farm e f ro. D. Causing big delays leading lea across Prince William parkwaykwy so please be prepared forr delays in that area. At area. A lot of other slowdowns. Ther well take a wide view of theief dmv next. Ex thats your traffic. Erin thanks very much. Ry its that time, al. Well, and the wait is almost als over. Tonight at 11 00 p. M. The. M. Th grand opening of the mgm the National Harbor. Hbo the process to get to thiso t point has been ao long one andgd morning many this morningin well take a look at the journey for the first ground break to todaysg mal tafor bi. . . Ill go. G on sit in the traffic, too. [laughter] i would come just for the atmosphere and excitement. . . The mgm harbor to proud to be will you come . Yes, i will. L. Neney. Theres a lot to offer inside mgm National Harbor. . . Music is called sail and itsa looks like a big old ship withp garage. Gara Team Coverage continues rightesi now. Live from the mgm nationalal harbor. Annie yu is literallyha right here giant annie because thiseci is a giants opening. Annie, good morning. Morning. Reporter im take, itor im all in. It is grand as you sayou say lisoson. That music gets me going. Look, there are a lot of excited people here working around the clock to get this ges all ready for you. A lot of tlc going into it. I local people. L brought to the area. Are theyre bringing in big headliners as far as entertainment goes bruno marsgom boys to men, lionel richienel rc cher sting, big, big people. G p. So its a real cool thingool happening right in our o backyard and you saw the package, its been years in y the making, a lot of talk, the e groundbreaking, so exciting. Ext weve been following it allbe the way up topen f today and so tonight at 11 oclock theock the doors will officially open ton the public. Just so you know if you wants to drive here, the garage ise going to open at gives you 30 minutes to snag a g parking spot and get inside i here. There are multiple levels ofelsf parking. Park i think theyre saying about 5,000 spaces. Theyre encouraging ride sharing. Thats hyland encouraged. It will bring you up to thel bro u front door where youll be yol greeted by everybody. Verybody. Some of that you like to testth your luck this is a 24at y hour casino. Sino mike lets show the casinoets over there. There it is. E its. The star. The and its a 1. 4 billion casino resort. Than one 20s table games andgad then for all you will high wilhi rollers theres a special room o for the vips. Ips. Annie gambling isnt my thing mt what can i do . How about you at make it a dining experience. Entertain. Tertai experience. 15 different restaurants torentr choose from. Ro we spoke earlier with the executive chef of mgm national o harbor jason johnson. Joh they have over 15 different dfet rest opportunities choose fromti and the deal is you have people coming from allthe overo not just here o region but across the country, T International travelers aretr going to be here so they bre s really collaborated with theh different chefs from all around to satisfy thosend t different palates includinglu celebrity chef jos . Andres, are and so a lot to choose from. Os f after you eat you can get aeat e ticket to a show. A s you can do some shopping. Shoppn theres just a lot to see guysuy and so were sort of getting get this little access pass to the behind the scenes up until thent which by the way hm gather hm th some important vips right here for the opening ceremony. Maryland governor Larry Hogan Rushern bake as well aserke a important folks with mgm allt fk here ready for the opening oforg the mgm National Harbor. Back to you in the studio. Annie thanks very much. S if you want to share youroua thoughts about the mgm grand opening you want to let us know what you think go aheadea and tweet us using fox5d. C. X5 will you go . Is it great fort the area . Is it the kind of worried about traffic. Raff. Whatever it is, did you it is, o already go and win a lot ofnd wo money maybe . Maybe . I think yes, yes, yes and no. Yeah, thats probably they way its going to go. Feel free to share. S we would love to hear frome to m you. Cold night for everybody but for some d. C. Residents an g extra chill in the air. Ir a little colder. Why a dozens of people camped out outside of a local loc apartment complex in in southeast. Sout melanie has that story next. Ne. . . All right. Hard to see right there. Apology for the blurry d to spologyt can tell that some folks are stopped and a theres a lot of taillights. Thats the important part. 95 northbound. Franconiaspringfield parkway. Erin will be alorancng right aft tucker wit good morning tucker. Ing tke hey, good morning. Go you ready for some big weather changes . Okay. I mean its going to ito hasnt really felt like the like holidays yet. Start. To startto all right. Okay. Okay. Uhhuh. Lets get to the maps, talke about that cold air which isir i on the way. In fact, this is my favorites time of year. Ti you want to know why . Why. The hounds of winter will beound unleashed. Primary. [laughter] thats a hound i could get behind. Good winter. All right, clearly im having an issue withll rig ourto friend in sound. Sou is that max . Max probably. P i asked for. Hilarious. A barking dogs and thats what i got. 42king in washington. Washing there are your hounds of o winter. Denver is minus two. F is inus look at casper. Minus 28 this morning. [laughter]laug minute news three greatute falls. All of thatat is. howling . howling . Thats a little better. More likets a wolf though. F gh crow. Yes. How are they doing . Even colder. Minus 46. You get the idea. Get thide these temperatures by the way t even in canada are not seasonable. Random trivia up there thatie they cant ever turn theant etu trucks off. O. Really. Have to keep the engines keei running 24 hours a day. Ours d you kidding. Ding. How do you sleep steve. Ste. You sleep when the truck is i rolling on i guess. Gue could you just get a uber driver. Driv too many questions. Eroo my qu just bail out. Out bail out. Go ahead. Whats next. N later today. Well be about 50 up ahead ofute the front and tonight cold airgc gets in here. Not looking at any negativeeg numbers but colder air. You could should call it the kitten winter because its a little less intimidating. Imidn daytime highs around 40un friday and saturday. Friday and a overnight lows in the 20s. It will be cy. Olght dlo here tot kitty cats of winter erin e just how you wanted it. Meow. Meow. See. Doesnt have the same ringt as the dogths of winter or ther ground. Hounds. As tucker says. Right now tra as ff i 95 northbound. 95boun crash at franconiaspringfield parkway. Parkway. Theres two right lanes blocked, a tractortrailer involved. Delays extend pastere ps urplda st pur heart bridge back to dale city c with at least a 30 minuteute delay. Jammed up on the northboundd side through stafford as wellghs as you pass courthouse road sors get an early start coming from westminster or fredericksburg this morning. This well take a look at mor our map thats not the only bigbi problem. We had an earlier crashlierra involving an overturnedrtne vehicle on the inner loop. He ino it had been out by excusey e me 355 from that point tom thatt to bradley boulevard and then a coming off the spur yondu canu see some delays as well. W so even though its moved to mov the shoulder and cleared, hugeed delays there. Lays outer loop jammed from beforefrr 95 over to the spur as wellpur l with about a 35 minute delay. El. 95 northbound we told youd about that crash blocking the two right lanes and look atght that delay. Its extending evenla past daleasda city right now and thenight n ae theres a crash route one nearne giels run road. R both directions blocked in lorton. Thats traffic. Traff back to you. Back tyou. 7 18. Need your help finding two missing 15yearolds. Take a look allo right screen. R on the left thats reginaegin christmas who was last seentee nearly a week ago on minnesotane avenue in southeast. Southet. Thats on the left. Now on your right jenae davis d last spotted on november 27thbe7 on reynolds place ins ac southeast. If youve seen either of these young ladies, please callleca police immediately. Ediately. In Loudoun County nownty n police need your help finding fi friday. Celine nap frequents the areas of ashburn fre village shoppingn center, the dulles town spentpe and potomac falls. Fal if you have seen this seen is 16yearold, police ask thatol you give them a call. Cal worried parents there. Ar overnight in the districther pursuit of Affordable Housingeou keeps people out in the coldold overnight. Here with where thats happening and why those residents spent theere nwiigppn camping out is melanie it leaving officers opens at 9 oclock opened until 12 for u the first 200 people to try to t get their name on a waiting list. List take a large the line now goeseo all the way down w to the end od the block here. Her all of these people, some of o them showing up early this morning but were going tobut eo come up with, this, way lane. W. Some of these people have beenee here since 4 oclock 4 oc yesterday. Y. Lets see what some of theme te are doing. Ng this so important to you . Why y are you standing in line. Inine. So i can get me an affordable house. Reporter whats your situation. Have i my own place right now but i would rather havei mya something that go according to n my incomplete how hard is ite hr to find good place to liveo liv that you can afford. Ff its very hard at this t point in time. You just got to take what you w can get i guess. Reporter and everyone is just kind of standing in lineof taking their chances right. Ig ymaam. Reporter what about you, whats your situation. Right now im currently itenn a homeless slt trying to find my own spot so. Reporter what do you think . You think youre going i to make it. To mak oh, i am. Oh, i a i am. A i got out here 5 oclock thislot morning. I was making sure i got outgot t here. Reporter and what would that mean to you if youorte finally get through ther at meah process and get theroug application and geh ttheproces . God is good. Oo god is great. G you know, im just going to be t very happy, you know, thatw,ha its actually, you know, anow, opportunity for me to get my place. Im glad they have stuff likeik this. Reporter all right. Luck and heres the situationti steve and allison. Allis you know, folks here, theyre all in good spirits which iswhii great but it is a very serious tuatation. D. C. Says that theres about a 42,000 people on its list its ls right now for housingsi assistance and Affordable Housing is shrinking in thehe city. Mayor bowser has put 1ma00 million into anyo00illi initiative to try to keep k developers who have affordableol Housing Units give themthem incentives to keep those units as subsidy agreements expire and theyre trying to give them t none do property upgrades theyue need. A lot of things really kind of workhiing againsngt affordablebl housing in the city but like l we said this is one of those oft just really visible examplesle here of how important it isimpot for people toan get a place thaa is safe, where they can livey cv that they can afford. Caafford. Ck t to you. Mel, real quick obviously obs the volume shows the need that is there way couple of hundredah people in line. L is there a finite number ofmb people have a chance of getting . Reporter from what were told, this particular lotteryote today so to speak is the first f 200 people, thats it. I there was another group gup yesterday, another linee yesterday for another complex. So, this particular developerel wc smith has a number of complexes around the city then hold these different waitingferw list events. It doesnt mean steve andstevnd allison theyre going to getg tt an apartment