D. C. Fire ignored obligations to took to undertake. D. C. Is going to file a similar motion filed by riders. Happening today the u. S. Senate begins confirmation hears for president elect cabinet nominees. General john kelly homeland and Jeff Sessions for attorney general and a number of grumz are opposing sessions and want to make their voice heard. Live on capitol hill with the story, mel. Reporter good morning, guys, that hearing will get underway 9 30 this morning and usually depending how pop lor a hearing is theres 40 Seats Available to the public. Theyre first come, first serve so you have a number of groups that will be vying to try to get one of those very precious public hearing spots. We know sessions will be questioned on his record and views on things such as community policing, immigration, womens rights and of course, civilig well. And now the day before president elect Donald Trumps nominee for attorney general heads into what promises to be contentious hearing Jeff Sessions says he has full confidence but in 1986 he was nominated to become a federal judge and that turned into bruising unsuccessful battle and the same allegations of racism are leveled this time around and others say sessions has been unfairly criticized. To put him in charm of the department of justice is like putting the buck in change of the hen house. Theres an attempt to deemonize people and call them racist when theres actually no proof for. It let me say clearly, senator sessions is not a racist. Now, one group that will be trying to get a few seats is d. C. Marnl marnl justice. They are planning on having a few people come out and line sit this morning tryinto well. Theres still a federal ban on marijuana and sessions says he opposes marijuana and opposes states that have gonna head and legal liesed it and one of the things d. C. Marijuana justice is trying to do is call attention to that though they do say president elect donald trump has been a strong supporter of individual states right. Live in the capitol, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Melanie alnwick reporting. Thank you, melanie. 4 3 is the time and president elect trump aiment positiveed his soninlaw as a white house senior adviser. He will be haevly involved in domestic and foreign policy. His eligibility could be challenged given a 1960 law abaring officials from hiring relatives. Meanwhile if you want to ait the upcoming inauguration today could be your ticket. Eleanor holmes held a lottery. Tickets member of of the d. C. National guard. Today president obama will deliver a farewell address in chicago. The tickets were given away no cost but we saw them on craiglist up to 5,000. Thats no joke. President obama speech is expected to last 30 minutes. You can catch it here on fox5tonight at 9 p. M. Followed by fox news at 10. D. C. Council member vincent gray will introduce legislation to increase the city police force to 00. Just a few weeks ago former chief kathy linear says if the number every he drops below 4300 the force would not be able toy cope the city safe. Since then the population has grown by 100,000 and the Current Police force is 3700 officers. 4 35 this Tuesday Morning lets check he in with mike thomas for the still another cold day. One more cold day and milder air as early as tonight. Temperatures will rise during the overnight hours. Let me start you with temperatures. 23 washington and north and west were not seeing single digit. We had them early yesterday. Not seeing it this morning. Call pep per 19, one of the chilly spots with all the snow on the ground, 16 degrees at this hour. You factor in a little wind it feels like 14 here in washington. And 13 dulles and 10 gaithersburg and heavy jacket needed and its a cold morning in washington c. Satellite and radar shows you energy swinging through the mountain. Whatever falls freezing opt grass in a couple locations. It wont be anything that is any sort of concern for the roads or delaying any schools or anything like that. Sorry, kids, no luck there. 9 mostly cloudy at 10 a. M. By 1 00 in the 0s and temperatures kind of keep hours. Maybe a shower later on tonight. All right. Lets check the weather. Erin como has traffic this Tuesday Morning. Coming up on 4 6 now. Taking a wide view of tuesday, not monday part two but tuesday and you can see traffic inside the bet way looking good. Want to hop side for a live look 6 gleeb road. We had earlier construction between the beltway and gleeb road. Right now its queue quiet and traffic is moving along long without any issues. No slow downs there. Outside the beltway same story 234 on through ill let you know if that changes and as we take a look 395 northbound etsell to the 1 street bridge looking good. Old town also at speed. Not seeing any issues. Use caution, temperatures cold. Watch for slick spots leftover from snowy conditions. And well see if we can take a live look outside and show you some cameras around the area. Right now this is a look at 66 before you can see con zone cleared and traffic flowing freely. Forwarding cameras same story 270. 270 southbound wide on as you make down from gaithersburg to rockville north of that point also seeing quiet conditions and beltway through college park is also looking good. Really light volume on outer loop. Tweet me erinfoxdc if you have any commuter questions. Coming up on fox news morning gop efforts to repeal obamacare may have hit a late night snack. And anger has nothing to do with what meryl streep had to say about president elect though. Live across the d. C. Region. Temperature 27 degrees. Back in a moment. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder, get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. Its time to check whats whats hot on the web. Republican plans to reveal obamacare may come to a halt. Republicans need a House Majority 50 senate votes and soon to be President Trump to approve that appeal. Senators in addition to all democrats are backing delay until at least march before considering a repeal of obamacare. Break away republicans says this gives committees more time to come up with ideas on what to replace obamacare with. Next, controversy surrounding president elect nominee for setting of state. Rex tiller son was ceo of exxon mobile and exon mobile did business with iran, syria and sudan through a european subsidiaryy while tirlson was a top executive. Those countries that he did business with were understate sanctions of terrorism. That business connection will surface tomorrow during a confirmation hearing before the Senate ForeignRelations Committee blobe speech they took a small dig at football and mma fighting, which actually didnt sit well with everyone. Ufc president dana white called streep upety 80yearold lady and wouldnt expect her to love mixed martial arts. She is only 67 and was invited by mma president to watch a fight in person. And iconic tree in california couldnt make it through a storm over the weekend called the Pioneer Cabin tree known for huge gap that looks like a tunnel. Its a she quoy quoy aand toppled over during a storm. It is more than a length of a football field. I heard this story coming into work. They built that tubel in the late 1800s cars used to drive through it. Then they stopped it and people walked through it. They think the tree was 1,000 years old. Youve been there. Ive been there. And i was planning on taking the kids there this summer. Oh, my those red woods are majestic the openeders of the world honestly. Sad to see that. Yes. Holly, thank you. 4 41 another School Closing to tell you about baldwin in mannasas will be closed because of water problem. Baldwin almost in mannasas city and still coming d. C. Mayor bowser taking steps to make d. C. Into a sanctuary city. And leaders in Loudoun County debating policy on lgbtq discrimination. Were headed to break across the d. C. Region. Looking clear out there another cold morning. My goodness, 2. Warmer than yesterday morning. 23. Still cold, more fox news morning after the break. Ive spent my life planting a sizesix, nonslip shoe into that door. On this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. But these days its phones before forks. They want wifi out here. But behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. Wifi pro from comcast business. Public wifi for your customers. Private wifi for your business. Strong and secure. Good for a door. And a network. Comcast business. Built for security. Built for business. Today on fox5 news morning facing tough questions senator sessions donald Trump Nominee to be attorney general prepares for a tough confirmation process. Once again were dealing with morning temperatures in the teens and warmup is coming. Thats good news. Its coming. Hold on one more day. Good morning to you thank you for joining us. Today is tuesday, january 10. Weather and traffic in a moment. Before we get to mike actually heres a list of closings and delays you need to know about before you head out this morning n virginia King George County and Spotsylvania County schools closed today and fredericksburg city and Madison County schools on two hour delay. In maryland Caroline County and Dorchester County and queen anne country and Calvert County schools closed. Calvert county and st. Mary county schools all on two hour display. You can find a complete list of closings and delays scroll ising on bottom of your screen and fox d. C. Com and news app. I cannot tell you how frustrated i was yesterday and the temperature was 1 outside. It was frustrated man we were like get back inside its too cold. Wisdom werent you off yesterday im sure you slept in later than that. I got up and took the kids to school. He did his part. What a good father. They appreciate me i hope im old. They positive probably wont. Lets dot forecast here. We have some snow shower activity just off to the west across portions of west virginia. I wont rule out a nice little snow flurry slideing across as we get closer to sunrise sometime between 8 and 10 a. M. A snow flake or two from the sky. Its no big deal im not leaving accumulation anywhere. We will be cloudy today. Lets do fruit fewer cast 8 00 in the morning clouds over taken the region. 21 in washington. Watch temperatures by the noon hour were still cold around the freezing mark and southerly winds pick up this afternoon and watch this. 8 p. M. Tonight surprise set. 34 washington. By the time we get to 11 00 temperatures may start to come up. 41. Just ahead of shower activity that looks like it will push in from the west during late evening and Early Morning showers of your wednesday. By 2 00 in the morning it do be warmest point of the past self days. 4 degrees with rain overhead. Those kind of all move out during the overnight hours and maybe another round of showers wednesday. Theres fox5 accuweather 7day forecast. Believe it or not 60s on horizon thursday. Dry day. Good news there. However by the time we get to weekend colder air runs and maybe wintry mix possible saturday. Thats something were watching. Thats a look at the forecast. Erin como has a look at roads this morning, hey, erin. Right now, 4 48 were looking at your morning commute. Breaking news out of centerville. 28 northbound crash blocking right lane between new braddock road. Caution there. Causeing a little bit of slow down as you make your way towards 66 this morning. And speaking of 66 lets go outside and take a live looking sutly road. 66 eastbound volume is increasing and were not seeing any major slow downs yet. Take a look at maryland ride next. Back to you maureen and wisdom. 4 48 happening today u. S. Senate begins confirmation hearings for frez elect donald Trump Nominee. John kelly is up for Homeland Security and Jeff Sessions is up for attorney general. Theres a number of groups opposing sessions nomination. Melanie alnwick is live on capitol hill this morning with the details. Good morning, mel. Good morning, reporter so it all kicks off 9 0 this morning in the senate sxwrishry committee and its expected to be a packed house for two day contentious hearings. Normally theres 40 Seats Available for the public first come serve serve and you bet theres a lot of people vying for those sheets including those who have something to say about sessions record on community and civil rights and womens rights as well. And the day before sessions said he had full confidence. But in 1986 sessions was nominated to become a federal judge. The same Judiciary Committee turned into a bruising unsuccessful battle and once again allegations of racism are leveled this time around. But others do say that sessions has been unfairly criticized. Now one other group trying to get into the hearing today as well as d. C. Marijuana justice, they are certainly advocates of states and right to legalize marijuana but they say sessions really criticized stwhits have legal liesed marm marm and theyre concerned about what his record may do especially in d. C. Where you dont necessarily have states rights even show they say president elect donald trump has been a strong supporter of state rides and theyre planning online sitting this morning trying to get in to aget a fresh use seat for the hearing. Back to you guys. Melanie alnwick reporting. Thank you, mel, 4 50 is the time. A new administration will takeover the federal government and mayor bowser introduced a new she committed half a billion to help d. C. Residents and help issues pertaining to immigration. Fbi is looking into a dozen bomb threatsen including one in our community. Somebody called in a bomb threat Jewish Community center rockville. They evacuated and resumed operations an hour later. Today in Loudoun County the school board will consider when to update antidiscrimination patrolty taken to include Sexual Orientation and gender identity. Theyll take up the issue tonight at 6 30. For those that want to speak at the meeting sign up by calling Loudoun CountyPublic School office sfwlz we have a construction to report after tallying numbers we realize star wars rogue one has been detlond. And certain situations mammograms may do more harm than good. Live look across the dmv the time is 4 51 and temperature 7 degrees. Fox news morning back in a moment fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 different versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder, get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Hurry offer ends january 21st. Only from fios. 54 is the time now. Happening this morning daipish study find one in three women by Breast Cancer detected by mammogram received unnecessary treatment. They didnt need certain treatment because their tumors were slow growing and it raises concerns over mammogram and women that under go radiation and chemo and surgery when they dont need. It doctors tend to err on the side of caution. We have an error to tell you about star wars rogue wun was winner with 29 million and during the day the typeal tally came in and Hidden Figures was actual winner with million. Hidden figures is story of plaque women who worked at nasa in the 1960s it was there their collective work that employed launch of john glenn into orbit. It is a huge deal considering this is largely after can american cast and a lot of times those movies dont debut in first place. This is a big deal. Lets make that correction. All right. Interesting viral video over the weekend. Unlv in gray hosting utah state. Katie powell throws her shoulder into an toneia robinson and two start throwing hey makers and the bench cleared. In all eight players ejected. Team dedication awards goes to Nikki Wheatly shes in the spot shadow hopping on to the court. She suffer aid season ending knee injury three weeks ago. Sweetie not the brawl thats dedication right there. What a great teammate. Is it really though . I think its dedication. You hop over on one throwing support your teammate. To get possibly beat down. Okay. All right. Okay. Oh, goodness. We dont know how that ended. True, true. We do know hopefully how this will end. Cold weather spell with warmup of the horizon. Youre absolutely right, maureen, we have a couple more days here before 60s in the forecast. So a lot to look forward to in the the 7 day. Not so much the bus stop this morning temperatures 17 to 20 after school we can warming up a bit. Still chilly, 45 to 41 dre geez and keeping it dry later this afternoon. Theres the fox 7 day forecast. Maureen is right by the time we get to thursday, look at cloudy and mild, 63 degrees right around the corner. Lets check the forecast. Erin como will check the roads. 4 56 now a crash in cent centerville 28 northbound the crash before new braddock road as you approach 66 causeing a slow down. You can see the yellow line leading to the crash. Right lane blocked. Once you get to 56 traffic moving fine. Moving it up to a look in leesburg. Gas main work east market and plaza street we were dealing with yesterday and just in from Leesburg Police this morning will remain impacted by gas line repairs through the morning rush hour drivers should use alternate routes. Watch for delays there as well. Well look live in maryland. S