como is talking about roads and mike, man, we're all ears for the forecast. >> it's winds that will get you this morning and it's taking 0s and teens and making it feel like single digits in suburbs. going through all numbers and letting you know how long it will last, hey, erin. >> we have wind advisories in effect over the bay bridge and look at overnight construction lingering. >> all right, thank you both of you. if you just get up with us now 5:01 let'set get you started on the news. shockings in a democratic victory in alabama democratic doug jones besting roy moore to become the state first democratic senator in more than 20 years. >> jones he election is a huge win for democrats nationwide and traditionally red state. his victory was aided by voter disgust with accusations against roy moore. >> roy moore accuse of sexual misconduct of teenage girls during his time as a prosecutors. they believe the accusations could be true. >> and to build those bridges within across with those that deposit vote for us to try to find that common ground. i am pledging to do that tonight. >> and my god mess you as you go on and may give you safe journey and thank you for coming tonight. >> here's a look at latest results. it was a tight call with roy moore coming in 48.4% and democratic jones 49.9%. >> shortly after the race was called president tweeted his congratulations to doug joe's and reminded republicans they'll have another shot at another senate seat soon. and meanwhile former president bill clinton tweeted congratulations saying jones deserves the win and ran a good campaign. >> it does not change the balance of pour in the senate and puts democratic block on a more powerful position. they will hold 49 to gop 51. in and time now 5:02 virginia house of delegates 40th district recounts begins and fairfax countrynd rooms at the fairfax courthouse. elections officials must recount 40,000 absent tee ballots and if recounts or other election khenkss to do not change results republicans would continue to hold on to control in the house of delegates. >> and this morning we're following latest developments in the death of walt whitman high school senior. >> 17-year-old navi navid sepehri was found over the weekend his body found in a wooded area in bethesda. melanie alnwick is liver at police headquarters gaithersburg with the new details, mel. >> reporter: good morning, and we learned late last night that police had a few more pieces of information for us. one, is that there was no indication of foul play at this pointment and that the young man's body was found in a stream at the bottom of a ravine nearly 14 hours after his father first wept to the local police station to find out why his son had not come home. and now 17-year-old navid sepehri also was one of the kids that apparently encountered when they responded to elgin lane saturday night for reports of disorderly conduct and teen drinking and it was 10:30 p.m. and navid sepehri and five other boys were in the street and some in the group scattered and navid sepehri appeared to be under the influence and they confirmed with his friends that he would leave with them. and classmates told "fox5" they lost saw navid sepehri on ban ty ck burn driver seven blocks from party and offered to get him uber and he declined. we also learned navid sepehri father went to bethesda police station at:0 in morning to say his son had not come home. no missing reports report was taken until 12:46 sunday afternoon. they pinged his cellphone when led to wooded area and his body was discovered:58 . all reactions were recorded on body worn camera. when police arrived and that's how they looked at the notage navid was one of the kids they talked to. as far as the parents and that party goes tlees tell us they talked to the parents and found out kids arrived at the parent who were uninvited and they brought alcohol and when they learned this was going on they told everyone party is over call parents and go home. and police also said during that encounter with navid they deposit feel there was anything they would have charged him with and that's why they said hey you guys need to disperse, go home, and one more thing, the medical examiner's reportel iting us manner and cause of death is pending. live at montgomery county police headquarters, melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> 5:05 is the time now and "fox5" is talking about developing news out of baltimore. woman and 4-year-old child lost lives in fire early this morning. 5-year-old child is listed in critical condition and cause of the fire is under investigation. >> and new this morning, if you're amo you're among the nation's highest earning household then you're one step closer to enjoying lower tax rate. senior negotiators are pushing for reduced rates and it needs support of house and senate and democratic leaders expressed outrage at the move. 5:06 right now. heaters blaster in the cars. >> yes. >> and seat warmers on. >> gosh yeah. >> everyone is focused on arctic blast. >> it's here hanging for a day. that's the good news. it won't stick around through the course of week. >> what about the holy cow are those gone. >> they make it worse. >> and baton down the hatches that's for sure. >> and they'll be better but breezy throughout the day today. get ready. one day wonder here. and i cannot wait to see the dashboards -- dashboards of how low the temperatures dropped. i'm sure we'll see a few of those later today. tweet them in. 23 degrees is where we held steady last hour in washington. g mannasas and 0 dulles it's wind chills that's what's getting you this morning feel lining 10 in d.c. single digits north and west feels like 7 gaithersburg and nine dulles and five winchester and feeling like degrees you step out the door. if you watch cumberland, maryland this morning that's cold air in place. satellite and radar showing nothing much around town. we have a few clouds time to time and decent amount of sunshine today which helps makes thing a little better. that is a clipper system up towards minneapolis and we watch that as we head to the overnight hours tonight and could put isolated coating here or there. details in ten minutes. first starting with today, 36, partly cloudy, windy, cold, it will never feel like 6 with the winds blowing. let's check the forecast and over to erin for traffic. >> it's 5:07 keeping an eye on roads right now and starting off with a look at outer loop we're at speed past new hampshire and minutes, 95 to 20 spur i'll let you know if that changes hit the road. green zone clarksburg as you head from frederick. i'll let you know if that ink chas as well. and what you see across the legion bridge use caution. whipped advisory in effect over the bay bridge. plan to slow it down. you can see 50, bay bridge aside from whipped advisory traffic malasia flight ago long fine to and from annapolis. i'll let you know if anything changes. slight adjustments to the red line. we'll look at that next and no major slow downs on metro, back to you. >> coming up on "fox news morning" the thomas fire in california grows larger overnight. >> and high school student from north virginia says a teacher got physical when he refewed to stand for pledge. >> headed to break a live look across the d. r. region 5:08 now and 23 degrees. back with more news, weather and traffic on the other side other side test test test >> welcome back to "fox news morning", wednesday, december 13. 5:09 is the time. bitter cold 23 degrees. but don't listen to that temperature and dealing with windchill out there and makes it feel like the low teens. some areas single digits. had this is one of the days when finding warm air is a priority. mike is back in six minutes with a full frigid forecast. >> in the meantime let's tell what you is happen aening in california. that fire burned acres overnight increasing total to 34,000 acres and firefighters say it's about 0% contained and still threatening several communities in santa barbara country and more than 800 buildings are destrid and a lot of buildings are homes. >> man arrested for the botched suicide bombing in new york city subway is expected in court later this morning. akayed ullah is accused of detonating a pipe bomb strapped to body in subway in times square monday and device mostly failed and akayed ullah suffer ised burns to hands and torso if conflicted he could get life in prison. outside counsel is calling for appointment of another conflict looking at justice department and fbi officials in the russia probe. this request follows repeal and reports that the wife of demoted doj official bruce or worked for a firm behind the anti-trumpp das si something where real evidence and proof of wrong doing and this looks pretty bad. >> president legal team has not made a formal request for counsel and attorney general sessions who talked to gibson off camera said they had is an attorney in case to review cases. >> a teacher won't return to the classroom eric tramle claimed the teacher physically removed him from class and put him out in the cold because he would not stand for pledge of allegiance. it happened a month ago in driver's ed class during pledge he remains seated something he has done since 8th grade. mr. faric told him to stand up and he again said i'm not going to do that respectfully. he was not making a scene or anything. and then mr. faric grabbed him and shoved him outside and made him stand in the cold and somewhere along the line made a commentp this is n >> and faric hired a lawyer and since apologized got family. his lawyer says the allegations against him are misleading and lack merit. >> and the national park service is reducing the number of days they allow visitors to get for free in 2018 and free days will drop from 10 to 4. they're scheduled for martin luther king junior day the first day of national park week and national public lands and veteran ares day. park service gave no explanation for those sgluts coming up on "fox news morning". m bam senator elect doug more thanks supporters and walks off stage to do the drugy. >> and apple ceo tim cook announces plans to make sure public school students know how to code. >> and looking across the d.c. region this morning, 5:12 is the time now. 3 degrees. wind making it oh, so much colder. 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the first time in 25 years a democrat pulled off a victory in the deep red state. >> today the virginia house of delegates 40th district count begins and fairfax country and william county will number different courthouses and election officials recount nearly 40,000 ab sent tee bat lots ft. recount or other election challenges do not change any results republicans would continue to hold on to control of the house of delegates. >> and we have new details about the death of walt whitman high school senior and police say they respondeded to reports of party and under age drinking in bethesda 10:30 saturday night and the party was broken up with adults that live there. officers spoke to teens outside the house headed hospital and among them was 1 17-year-old navid sepehri. around 3:30 later this morning the father reported he never came home the the next nimingt he was found deal in a stream hadn't a neighborhood swim club. >> and 5:16 is our time now. and the picture just doesn't really tell you how cold it really feels out. there and this morning, you were not lying when you said arctic blast was coming mike. >> not at all. we try not to as much as we can. but, winds came in this morning and you really won't -- the picture does not do it justice. he won't know null open the door and you'll regret it honestly because it's cold outside. cold and blustery because of the winds and especially about the evening hours we will be out of. it through the morning at least winds will be gusting 0 to possibly 40 miles an hour if a few locations and temperatures outside freezing coldest morning so far. and washington is at degrees and game urzburg 19 and martinsburg, westminster all checking in at 19. so you're i see a lot of 23s on the map. winds gusts are a big deal gusting up and over 30 miles an hour in a few spots including d.c.. dulles, winchester, call better land up to 26. frederick 29 mile an hour gusts and leonardtown. annapolis, 0 mile an hour wind gusts and factoring in cold temps you feel that different. 37 degrees in gamers burrs and 10 washington 11 mannasas and 9 dulles and martins 5 hagerstown 4 and cumberland, maryland, feels like 2 degrees. you wish you were not winning this contest. satellite conditions across the even after half of kupty for now we're not watching this. later on this evening what's it going to bring. possibly snow and although really it looks less and less likely here in d.c. best chance off west and off to some of our northern counties and we'll put the isolated chance of thursdayy or passing snow shower through the late night slash overnight hours tonight and 1 to" of snow through high lands of mountains and off through central portions of pennsylvania and won't rule out a spotty dusting northern counties and every snow flake that falls will stick. so do be aware of that thanks to cold temperatures we'll have around today. says 51. and bethesda 6 you see the 30s elsewhere and with winds never going to feel like that. 36 degrees daytime high today. partly cloudy skies. chance of passing snow shower overnight. and into the early morning hours tomorrow. we clear it out tomorrow afternoon back up to 4. friday chilly again and we can do a late snow shower and once again this does not look like big deal and doesn't look like significant accumulation. headed to the weekend we dry things out and temperatures back to where they should be. redskins game sunday average for this time of year. 4 7. a check of for the cast and erin is back with traffic, how does it look, erin. >> roads quiteet right now around the dmv and i'll let you know if that changes inner loop across the leemingon bridge at speed and same story outer loop. heads up if you all metro online except red line by tacoma as you make your way in the area. replaceing a cable and rather than running every eight minutes trains running every ten minute and you may see minor delay with red line this morning. 270 looks good as you make your way down 11. no major delays or slow downs yet and as you make your way past 66 on eastbound side gainsville you're looking good. questions, erinfoxdc on twitterer and i'll fix this hair statistic because i feel like pieces moving from the dry air guys. >> it is dry out there. yes. >> erin, thank you. 5:19 is the time and let's look at stories you're engaging with most on social immediate yeah. >> wisdom is back with the realtime news tracker. >> democrat doug jones won over roy moore that faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct with minors and after victory speech something incredible and unexpected happen and jones walked away from podium to the tune of callly swag district anthem teach me how to dougy. twitter called it a beautiful moment in american history. meanwhile president trump back on twitter and president lashed out against new york senator kristin gilbrant asking he resign in faces of sexual inpropriety and in a tweet light weight senator kristin gilbrand of chuck shoourl shumer and someone c caming to my office beg for campaign contributions not so long ago and would do anything for them. >> and also, hot on the web. apple ceo tim cook want to teach every chicago school student cope. effort in chicago which has more than 450,000 elementary high school and junior college students marks company's most ambitious effort to introduce coding curriculum to students yet. >> switching gears now. grammy winning singer wanez made history on late show following perform on on monday. columbia an super star performed estarde from award winning album and performance was first all spanish language history. >> and finally, it is the age old festive debate for fa families fighting over which song to but on at this time of year. i think mariah carey gave us official answer. nine year statistical analysis taking in charts and streaming has revealed mariah carey is in fact the most popular with her song all i want for christmas is you. not a surprise here. >> 'ia i don't think anybody will argue that. >> one of the greatest singers of all time. >> remember when she looked like that. >> all riht. >> thanks, wis. >> coming up on "fox news morning" two of the largest media companies agree on the 60 billion buyout price. >> and get ready for cherry cola oreos. they're about to come to a a store shelf near you. >> okay. we'll hit the break. live look across the d.c. region, 5:2 1st time. 23 degrees. >> this is is better. yes, exactly. >> and 'tis the season love it, love t. back after this snrvr on thursday, disney is expected to announce a 60 bill don't dollar purchase of 21 sergeant century fox tv and movies. it could extend term of ceo of disney and put james murdoch online to be successor. >> you may have noticed holiday packages arriving later and later you can thank signer monday. influx. purchases is testing shipping companies limits ups anno announcedsome deliveryes would be delayed one or two dayson the company. the load has been increased 5% to 750 million packages retailers encourage to buy online and peck up at the store. >> oreo is rolling out three new flavors in the new year and here they are. cherry cola. kettle corn. and peenia kol add a. and the new cookies will be on shelves in may and dmraivrz are oreo creations contest. >> that's what fans came one. >> maybe i'll try kettle corn one. >> none sounds good. >> i like classic if i had to pick between cherry cola, kettle corn and peenia kol add asdmru may be right about the kettle corn. >> salt and sweet may do something. >> peenia kol add asounds okay. >> khrly cola. >> and chocolate though? >> don't fruit the beer people. >> exactly. >> i like original oreos perfect the way it is. >> we're talking cold outside this morning. that's for sure. 3 degrees with partly cloudy skies. and look at wind chill though. feels 11 winds west at 14 sustained and wind gust just this past hour up and over 30 and when blowing over 30 you feel it out. there bundle up. extra layers this morning as you get off to work and school. satellite and radar showing a clipper system w we'll watch that through the overnight hours tonight and could be a couple scattered snowflakes. and quick look at planner, temperature slowly rising through the 30s and won't feel that way because of wind. that's weather. over for attorney traffic. >> is and 5:7 now and if you take the red line the crews are working to install new cables this weekend they plan to shut done a segment of the red line out by rhode island avenue and have shuttle service replace that for weekday commute for rest of week you may see delays. red line right now between shady grove and glenmont and trains running every ten minutes instead of eight and gallaudet every five instead of four. erin como fox d.c. twitter and we'll look at roads next. >> researchers may have found way to improve lives of food allergy sufferers, and those driving near dulles got the fullmont he tuesday. >> i heard about that. >> as we head to break looking live across the d.c. region. you don't want to do monte this morning you want to put arizona many clothes as you can. wind chill makes it feel like teens. some places even single di digits. "fox news morning" coming right back. >> today on "fox news morning" stunning vk torrey for the first time in decades a democrat whim represent alabama in the u.s. senate. >> and new information about the hours before walt whait man high school senior disappeared and was found d dead. >> and dangerously cold temperatures along with strong winds waiting for you on the other side of your front door. "fox5 news morning" starts right now. >> and this is "fox news morning". good morning to you and thank you very much for joininging us. >> it's wednesday, december 13. >> we're watching roads with erin como and talking weather extremely cold weather with michael thomas good morning. >> extremely gusty wind. single digits in northwest suburbs, good news it will get better as we get towards end of week. details on all of that ahead. hey, erin. >> in mcclain dealing with repairs on 123 and we'll help you get around that for the morning rush coming up. >> all right. sounds good both of you we'll check back in a few. right now 5:31 if you're wakingp a stunning democratic victory in alabama is the day's top story. democrat doug jones bested republican roy moore to become the state first democratic senator in more than 0 years. >> jone for democrats nationwide. annie yu squoyns us live from call tap hill with the latest in the huge upset for democrats. annie, good morning. >> a huge upset for republicans wisdom, not the democrats. and we have last night some video that we want to sew you and get to right away. and roy moore was beat out by doug jones in a huge victory on behalf of democrats. and this is a big win for alabama and because it's tradition allegely a red state and doug jones is now ala alabama's first democratic senator in more than 20 years. and he will now fill the senate seat vacated by now attorney general jeff sessions and that term expiring in 2021. now, roy moore he says despite you know what he's faced throughout this campaign and numerous allegations of sexual misconduct he still had the president's support and republican party in a brief statement last night. he said he wants a recounts and he is vowing to keep fi fighting. and meanwhile you have this election not about right versus left but rather right versus wrong. take a listen. >> to build those bridges within this state to reach cross with those that didn't vote for us to try to find hat common ground. i'm pledging to do that tonight. >> my god mess you as you go on and may he give you safe journey and thank you for coming tonight. >> and now this was a tight call with moore coming in 4 48.4% democrat sduing jones arounding out and shortly after the race was called many people saw this president trump tweeted congratulations to jones and reminded republicans that they'll have another shot at the seat soon. also sending congrats laiingtss was former president bill clin top. he tweeted out "you're a great u.s. attorney and you ran a terrific campaign and you deserve this win. it's a whip for the people of alabama. now, moving along head, the democratic victory narrows slim over democrats 51 to 49 that means gop has even less wiggle room moving forward in senate. which means when it comes to sharply dive ideaed issues and partisan issued like obamacare repeal and entitlement reform it's tougher for the republicans. that's the latest own capitol hill annie yu "fox5 local news". >> thanks, annie. 5:34 is the time now and today the virginia house of delegates 0th district recounsel begins election officials there can recount nearly 40,000 absent see bat lots fairfax and prince william. if recount does not change results reasons would con it to hold on and control the state house. >> this morning new details about the death of a walt whitman high school senior. police say they respoped to reports of a party in under age drichinging in bethesda around 10:30 saturday night. party was apparently broken up by adults that live there. officers outside of the house who were headed home. now, among them was 17-year-old navid sepehri. now around 3:30 later that monk his father reported he never came home. the next night's navid sepehri was found dead in a stream behind a neighborhood swim club. meanwhile bizarre moments on a northern virginia highway during evening rush. a man caused a crash and ran into traffic and jumped on to a truck all while completely naked. it happened route 8 near frying pan road near dulles airport. he was eventually detained by airport police. and i don't think anybody will pull that today. >> oh, no. >> way too cold for any of sglat way too cold for that tom foolery. >> we're not going to get into details there but you're right. we have cold temperatures outside right now that's for sure an we have winds blowing and it's making them feel colder. let's get straight to the numbers. 20 d.c. and 19 gaithersburg and winc chester and martinsburg. factor in the wind and this is what it feels like. 10 degrees outside in d.c. and feels like 1 quanitco and 11 mannasas and just 9 for dulles and five martinsburg and winchester and four haagers down and two degrees for couple better land, maryland. satellite and radar showing generally speaking quiet conditions locally actually a decent amount of sun sheen and lake effect snow going off north and clipper system will approach the region later tonight. future cast shows chance of snow shower through the overnight hours and maybe in by 6:00 brief little snow shower here in d.c.. and then it's out of here. what falls may stick and not expecting too much in up to. 36 today and 43 tomorrow. let's check the forecast over to airport for traffic. >> all right. 5:6 now problems in mcclain as you make your way out around a crash scene. mcclain vdot letting us know. crash took out a signal box. crews on scene and signal dark fairfax directing traffic through rush hour. watc alternate if you can. we have red line delays because of cable issue they work to fix. metro next. questions erin d.c. on twitter. >> coming up "fox news morning" there may be new help for allergy food sufferers on the horizon. >> they help certain under age cancer patients get medical marijuana. >> as we look live across the region time a5:37, 21 cold degrees. back in a moment. dl. dl sdot >> welcome back to "fox 5 news morning". it is wednesday, december 13. and the time is 5:40. the sun trust clock down at dupont is two minutes fast. it's just making sure you don't get there late. right, set your class a little fast so you get there on time. the actual time 5:40 now no debating this it is cold out there and 1 degrees. down there they say it's 21 we say 23 we're off to no matter what we look at right? here's the bottom line before 6 a.m. and cold. bundle up. actually potential potentially harmful low temps in the teen and great you today and don't expect a warm-up. today's high expected to be below the freezing mark. mike comes up five minutes or so with the full arctic forecast. >> and all right, in the news than one dangerous food allergy may one day be able to be near the foods which trigger reactions. researchers combined asthma drug with immuno therapy on group of children with multiple food allergies and drug appeared to speed up the process ever desensitizing kids to trigger toodz without sack is fising safety. study author says they hope this one day helps kids with food allergies safely be around foods that trigger a tacks. >> healthcare providers that treat kids with cancer are willing to help parents wet medical marijuana. survey of pediatric oncologists find 58% of those that provide access to the drug would help children get it and 95% of those who could not provide medical marijuana say they would help patients get. it and providers with access were less supportive of kids using it by smoking or oral formulations and they were also more willing to support children's use of the drug as child's disease becomes more advanced. >> and well the man flu may be a real studies find that men may have a harder time fighting respiratory illnesses than women. one found evidence that younger women's white blood cells had a stronger response to cold virus than male counterparts and another showed female hormone estrogen had anti-viral affect against influenza and other studies said testosterone suppresses immune system and men have risk of hospitalization from flu and death. findings appear in the british medical journal. >> all that to say women are the stronger sex. >> you get no arguement to me if you give birth to another human being you are in my b book. >> amen. >> and a campaign victory is not the only thing alabama senate elect doug jones was celebrating last night. >> dwayne the rock john son appears to be moving closer to presidential run. >> life look a region, 5:42 is the time. it is cold out there. i mean like dangerously cold. take it seriously and bundle up when you head out heard about eucrisa for mild-to-moderate eczema? it can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. the arm of an arm wrestler? the back of a quarterback? the face of a fairy? prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. it blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. and it's steroid-free. do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. the most common side 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with the hero. the cheeseest thing i seen along with his career move on, move on. >> that is line of the morning. >> worth the watch is you're bored. >> hilarious. >> you know what we're doing aid voing talking about the real weather and real problem today. >> okay briz why and cold today. obviously. you'll feel it when you step out the dpoor. some sunshine and clouds will build in back later today and we'll talk about the rest of it as this goes on. 3 degrees in d.c.. look at pittsburgh, 1. columbus 14. lexington 18 wind are blowing and wind gusts last hour up to 30 in d.c.. 31 dulles and 35 annapolis and that's the most i've seen so far this morning gusts over 40 yesterday. 31 mile an hour winds gusts in winchester and factor winds in with the air and it's cold out there. feels like 10 in d.c. and 9 dull he's 7 gaugeers burges and feels like 5 martinsburg and 4 frederick and feels 10 in annapolis as well. chilly all around the region again feeling like single dimming its through the morning hours with winds blowing, later this afternoon winds get better and we're keeping it breezy through the day today. highs this afternoon only in the upper 20s off to the knowledge and west of town. here in d.c. low to mid 30s around the region when winds blowing doesn't feel like. it satellite and radar showing area and should be accident amount of sunshine and we're keeping close eye on what this it does as it's a fast moving clipper system coming down into the general region as we head through the overnight hours and depending on just how it tracks will depend on whether or not we can squeeze out snowflakes or not. there's a potential that few of us especially north of town could get maybe a light d dusting or coating of snow through the overnight hours tonight and whatever falls will likely stick here because of how cold we are overnight tonight and then through the daytime hours today. 1 to 3" of snow and more significant accumulations will be in high lands west and well off north of town. don't think it will be a major problem today and we'll keep an eye on it because of again how cold the ground temperatures are. 36 today and 40 tomorrow and friday chance of late snow showers and this doesn't look like too big a deal. storm system is nearby and looks like it sfaiz off the coast. is it a and sunday drying things out and get things back to normal with temperatures mid to upper 40s. let's check the forecast. erin is back with traffic this morning. >> 5:48 some delays because of volume building now this as you make your way dale city to beltway and slow down yellow zone 0 minute trip once you get to beltway and cross inging bowl and 35 at speet speed and twelve minutes mow beltway to you 14 street bridge and all areas brims are nice and quiet now. key bridge rosalyn to georgetown and ar ling tone memorial. keep in mind if you head across the bay bridge wpd advisories in effect and heavy winds. use caution. volume picking up at 66 green zone 9 gainsville and prince william parkway. as you make your way out tonight wizards taking on the memphis grizzlies app call one arena tip off at 7 watch for crowd conditions downtown. metro rail lines are on town and because of cable issue we'll get to that next back to you. >> right now. 5:49 and new this morning a warning for pet owners and wild animal appears to be have is killed a pet dog in a family backyard over the weekend. officials say theyav of calls regarding coyote sightings over the past few weeks in annandale neighborhood. up provoked coyote attacks on humans are rare and if you see coyotes behaving aggressively or appear sick or injured call county animal control. >> mean while virginia state board approved water certification for dominion pipeline environmental groups calling the move a win. developers plan to call for the 600 mile atlantic coast pipeline to cut through 11 virginia counties on way to north carolina. this does not include extension to the chesapeake. >> ten minutes before 6 and developing story from kentucky a state law maker refusing to resign sign following sexual assault of a minor. she says johnson was drunk following a party at the home and says when she woke up soap he groped her stuck tongue in moum and put hands in private areas. done john is denying allegations. >> federal judge says former house speaker dennis haster could got be left alone with anyone under the age of 18 unless an adult is present and aware of his history of sexual abuse. >> 75-year-old has ter is three months into two-year period of supervised release from prison. he serve aid term in a hush money case that said he sexually abused students from 1965 to 1981. >> and nine minute before 6 right now let's look at stories you're engaging with most on social media. >> maureen umeh joins us with the the realtime news tracker maureen. >> first up, alabama democrat elect doug jones december 1, 2017 was big day. not only did he win special election becoming state first democratic senator in more than 20 years it was also he and wife's 25 wedding >> and also trending robtai hall of famer wife of luke robtai. she tweeted president trump told me i was coming home with him and that happened more that two decades ago elevator madison square garden and once she revealed who her husband was the president insited luke didn't make as much money as he did. moran a dozen women akousd trum of of sexual harassment. >> hot topic in the web. police in michigan happened cuffed 11-year-old girl and held her at gun point after walking out of her house for a searcg for a stabbing suspect. 11-year-old is black and officersry veeld they were look for 40-year-old aunt who is white. authorities are now conducting intinel investigation into the incident. >> and all right. want to switch gears now weekend update anchor michael khai added a new title to saturday night resumes and weekend update duo have been named cohead writers show. and finally, hey, do you smell what the rock is cooking. dwayne the rock johnson announcing a run for presidency is now a real possibility. he made that announcement alongside jumanji costar kevin hart i'm not sure if he would run under independent or choose one at all. it doesn't matter the party. i think we're all on board. >> you know what i think kevin mccarthy may get post at the white house if the rock got in don't you think they're it best buds. >> something. >> nerd tears. >> thanks, mo. >> absolutely. >> 7 minutes for 6 now and secret santa in arizona made christmas season mayorier by paying for several items at toys "r"us. toys on hold for a single month the that thought he would have to forgot it. and after missing a few days from work the mom says pay for ul the the items. >> i want you to know from the bottom of my heart how rule think grateful it and you gave me he this gift not just for me but pour for my son. >> the mom says she always thought things like this happened only in the movies and she cannot actually believe it happened to her. >> virginia girl scouts are shipping treats to troops on tuesday. troop 680 arlington put together 10 0 care packages with help of dhl express. it includes coffee, magazines and protein bars. and only a local child on afghanistan. and 6 minutes before 6 that means oh, wow time to say hello to facebook fan of day. good morning, wanda. >> we're not sure quhaz going on with this photo but we're going to guess that it's safe ta say wanda has a very colorful personality. and she probably used chat filter. >> and wanda is turning 0 wraerz old today and happy birthday to you. savannah says wanda is a biggest "fox5" fan and being a fan of the day would on her birthday mean wold to her. wanda wish wish you day a full of wonderful rainbows. >> and wanda, he she is 70 and using snap chat i'm all about her. look at her being hip. >> very clever. >> that's fun. >> yeah. >> well she's going to have a cold birthday. whatever festivities she's doing she has toel operate indoors. >> rainbow puke. one of my favorite snap chats. feels like 1 with wind blowing and again single digits in suburbs. satellite and radar quiet conditions for the morning through the early part of afternoon and cloud build back in ahead of clipper system that will try to move through the overnight. and could bring light know and chances are greatest off to the north. here's future cast dry. we head to late evening overnight hours and that's when best chance pops you see right around 7:00 this morning and out of here real quick. we have to be careful because the ground is cold and anything that falls may be slick. it doesn't look like widespreadsh u. 36 today, 43 tomorrow. another chance of snow showers friday but that doesn't look like huge deal we'll warm up to the weekend a little. let's go to the forecast. erin is back with roads. >> how do they look, erin. >> i just passed holly in the holloway and i feel like we should go to eye holiday party. shady grove and glen point between areas trains running every ten minutes instead of eight between grovemer and gallaudet every five instead of four. there's a cable they need to replace and this weekend she'll shut down a segment on the red line slowing you down a little and keep in mind only one train at a time can run out by brookyln today and and red line ajust before that segment shut down this weekend you may experience delays. we'll take a look at roads me. next. keep it to "fox5" we'll be back next back next >> straight ahead at 6:00 a shocker in the south. alabama accepteding a democrat to the senate for the first time in and but while doug jones is celebrating major victory roy moore says not so fast what he told supporters and also taking a look at chances of recount. >> and new details in death of bethesda teenager what police now say about what happened to the hours leading up to his disappearance. >> bundle up. it's so cold out. a live look outside on wednesday morning, december 13. yeah, trust sun trust bank saying 21. feels cooler out there. weather and traffic on the fives at 6:05. >> and well breaking news overnight. alabama goes blue in a raise or thin margin. democrat jones beat out roy moore. only 1.5% separating two. >> jones says victory fueled women and voteers in alabama and as for moore he could not overcome the allegations of sexual misconduct even after a hard push by the president to get him near to whi