News from iran where state st media is reporting 30orng firefighters are feared deadrs a and 75 others injured after a highrise residential buildinguil in the capitol city of tehranehn collapsed after a massive fire. Take a look the shocking scene unfolding on live television. Le. 200 firefighters called to thecl scene of the burning 17story building. Buil officials fear many people are e still trapped inside thatped ina burning rubble of the highriseh which is among the first built in the city. Former president georgeside h. W. Bush still in intensiventnv care this morning at a houstonin hospital. The former president form recovering after a procedurea p to help clear his airway wasy s successful. Su the former president had the hat procedure yesterday afterh having been in the hospitalre ya since salturday battlingbatng pneumonia. Former first lady barbara bushrh was also admitted yesterday as a a precaution after sufferingffei fatigue and coughing. D local news at a minuteal n after the hour noeww. Hour n skyfox over the scene of af building fire. This is on flower avenue inue takoma park. Rk. About 75 firefightersirefig currently on the blaze ignited at manna restaurant. A day to go until the inauguration. President elect Donald Trumptiup and Vice President elect mikees pence preparing toide make theet rounds in washington. Was two of the days mainain Public Events taking place atplt the Lincoln Memorial which isn i where we findch i our melanieure alnwick this morning. Nwic m whats going on mel . Goodl . Oo morning. Reporter lots going onteg steve and allison. Eve and al i mean, constitution avenueitute very, very busy this morning. M not only with traffic butfic weve seen motorcades of golfdel carts with people who arewith pe getting ready to set up for for this event as well as security y barriers going in flashingashing lights all over downtown d. C. Tod this morning. So, here at 10 30, it is the t first celebration, an event evet called voices of the people ats the lincolnof memorial featuring bands and performers fromand pes local schools f and civicand groups. Last night there were twore wee official dinners. Al di donald trump flew into d. C. Ew i. From new york last night for on theelec nt ational portrait gale another dinner featuring cabinet nominees at theees he library of congress. Grs. Later today, 3 30 this30 afternoon is when it all getse under way in earnest. Ea well have mr. Trump and mr. Pence with a wreath laying ceremony at arlington nationaltl cemetery. Ce the pair will then head to theot Lincoln Memorial here for the te make America Great again welcome celebration. Bration. Mr. Trump is expected to make me a short speech there and thanktk his supporters but i dontbut it think hes going stay for theta tire event. T. The concert itself will feature toby keith john voight o Lee Greenwood three doors downoo as well as military bands rsanda a fireworks display. Is then a private event 7 30 this evening. Weve heard about this. E he its candlelightar dinner for very wealthy donors that bothat president elect trump and vicead president elect pence willtel attend and then we understandndr that theyll be staying at blair house tonight. Last night trump made aade pennsylvania avenue after those dinners, he was greetedwa by some applause fromse from supporters there. Pportersre. He took his private plane back to new york last night york la t probably for his last night inin awhile at his home at trumptrup tower and then he makes his maks way back to washington thishingn morning for the duration offo his presidency. R thency. Live on constitution avenue,on v im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local l news. Mel, thank you very much. M Police Officers fromliceffi around the country traveled to o the nations capitol thishis week. Week theyll help patrol the largero crowds for the inauguration. Ugur today at the d. C. Armory u. S. U. Marshall service will swear inar more than 3,000 officers fromr more than 200 departments andpa at fedexr field 3500 nationaln guard soldiers and airmen willm take the oath of duty. Dut they will help d. C. Policep manage traffic and crowde traf control. Fi in a show of support for fr lgbt rights hundreds of protestors held a dance partypa in the chevy chase area inea n d. C. Neat rented house of vice e president elect mike pence. Tel the group was supposed to holdec the event house but his his road wasoad ws blocked off by police. The organization disrupt j20sru2 helped to organize the partyor and the group isga planning mora provost this weekend. Is donald trump expected toexpe name his final cabinet memberemr today. Fox news has confirmed hefirmede plans to nominate georgiageorg governor sonny purdue to serve as agriculture secretary. Ecr purdue will be the firstl be th southerner to lead the te Agriculture Department in moree than two decades. Ecades. Confirmation hearingsnf continue on the hill todayirmatl with president elect secretary y of Energy Nominee in the hote ht seat former texas governorgoverr rick perry expected to faceo fa tough questions about thehe Keystone Pipeline which hewhichh supports. A report in the new yorke ne times says when perry wasw first nominate henominatee misunderstood the job not realizing his biggestis responsibility would be tobi oversee theli countrys nuclear arsenal. His team says hes educating himself. New york good morningw yo tucker barnes. Hey, good morning. Rk. Hey, go. You okay. Okay. The weather is nice. Is nic. Feeling a little congested. Personally. Otherwise im great. Weather is going to be going to beautiful. Be today will be the nicest day of the week. Still forecasting rain showersgs for tomorrow. Well talk about that. Ifl ta only we could is a swp yeah, that would be a lothato better with everybody outsideoue tomorrow but today will turnl into a beautiful afternoon. Fter. Well be right back into theighc mid to upper 50s. 50 yesterday we hit 60 degrees. Ree. Who knew . We only hit it foritr a few minutes. Ew 43 at reagan national, 44 dulles and 44 up in baltimorebam at bwi marshall. Those temperatures already warmer than our averageege daytime highs this time of timef year, so oh. Oh. You know where wereu know e headed in a warm directions. Rec. Temperatures will be a goodd almost 15 degrees above normalen later this afternoon. R this aft a little cloud cover out toernoo the west. The wes we will not be concerned with. W that well be in for a partly sunny day and it should be ae dry afternoon for us. So, if you want to go out and practice your lets see se activities for tomorrow orro okay. You can do so with sunshine today. You sunshi tod dress yes. 57 this afternoon. Ft partly cloudy out there. Clo should be a nice day. D ill give you the timing on t the rain tomorrow, how muchorr were going get. Going ge bottom line is its not a biga g deal but enough that it willgh l be a nuisance. Okay. I bought some ponchos lastcha time i was in new york if wasnek anybody needs to borrow them. No umbrellas gloam theyrelam already spoken for. Ady spen for. Very nice of you. 6 07 now. W. Hi, erin. Hi, erin. Hey, good morning, steve. Ning right now we have somet now hae breaking news out of takoma park. This is a big building fire at i the manna restaurant closing cl piney branch road right near flower avenue. Ve flower avenue closed as well w so that intersectionrsection definitely affected. Affecte cry tri to keep to iti to university boulevard. I got a tweet a quiveerssition s this big fire is causing anyaus beltway delays. Asbe of right now just typicaltp volume on the outer loop loop through university boulevard area but noiver major delays but again as you can see a huge hue fire and Police Presence. Ce ce. Tracking this breaking news ns and youll need to add extra ext time to your commute in silver r spring and takoma park thistakos morning. Mornin as we switch to our maps ap in crash. Because of there we have a ha disabled vehicle blocking theleb right lane. Lo right 295 northbounlad backing up from suitland parkway to the 11the 11 street bridge as you crossu ss that scene. That s also just dealing with somewithm other problems aside from thatit fire that were dealing with. Wi. Southbound bw parkway crash at a 175. The left lane is blocked there. Backed up to 100. Take 95. Take 9. Morning commute typical delays on the outer loop thro ughhro college park and again parking restrictions and street and str closures in place throughoute tu the district. So much to get through. Tr we have Team Coverage thiso morning. Morning. Fox5s annie yu shes outes out there by the capitol tellingpiti us the very latest. St. Reporter hey, good h, good morning, erin. E good morning, everybody. E ill tell was downtown areaown r around the Lincoln Memorial,mri, independence avenue,dependence , constitution avenue, the national mall, basically theica swath of downtown is bright br lights and flashing lightsand ai everywhere you lngook and if yof take a look now at this live shot, this street view, whatw youre look, at is one of thee Security Check points right bypn the Lincoln Memorial and so blocks or so and theyrehey setting things up gettingp get ready for the big day. Day. Thousands of personnelersnnel involved with this. So, security is definitelyitely super tight. Ight. No matter if youre attendingtte the inauguration on friday oridr if youre going to the concerts tonight or the galas gs and things like that, just be prepared for long lines ands nd tight security everywhere you go. If you can avoid the downtownown area for the next few days, dys, even into the weekend, that would be a good idea becausea not only do you have theou havee events going on today, thee inauguration tomorrow but also the big womens march ong womenn washington where theyregton w expecting hundreds ofhecting huf thousands of folks to come to the nations capitol. P what youre looking at now is no a list of the major closures. Os. The red zone area, thats thest perimeter where no one isis allowed to enter. E that is for authorized authorizd vehicles only. Hicles you will be towed. Ow you will be denied. Will be de. The green zone is opened tod to traffic. However, youre going to beyooi asked to show proper i. D. Ford. R residency as well asell employment. Employme now, this list is a list of list things that you are not to bring. Brg. List which weve gotmore listedl for you on our web site fox5dc. Com but selfie sticks,ies drones, obviously firearms orear weapons of any kind. N you want to avoid those big bg signs and back packs and bags and also umbrellas. Mb while the rain is coming down which is unfortunate we should be thankful that were not were dealing with the blustery coldhr like we did in inaugurationsaugr in the past. Back to you in the studio. The u president obama holds hisnt a final press conference and h takes aess scoubtle jab at dond trump. Thats coming up next. Ne plus the story thatsory that getting a lot of attention a a lot of backlash this morning. Or a too much here is refusing toro let his students watch donalds d trumps inauguration speech. Pee. Were back in just 30 seconds. With just one day now from the inauguration to gjuo,st o te new Trump International hotel hl in d. C. Is off limits to all members of the media. Memb the ban will stay in perlacein c through sunday. Rough sunday its to protect the privacy ofaf guests. The hotel first opened in september after donald trumpmp won a lease from these government to renovate the oldtl post office building. Uiling Hotel Officials say the banhe does not violate their leaseeire or any city laws. It laws. Meanwhile new questions thise ns morning about atio conflict offf interest surrounding theng the president elects plans to expand his golf course resorte t in scotland. S this morning some lawyers whowye specialize in governmentiali ethics say theyre not convinced the expansion is nothe a conflict of interest. In donald trump has vowed thatp hav his company will do no new foreign deals while hesigdeals president. A spokesperson for the resortres says the expansion is not aansii new deal though, just another phase of construction that hadna already been approved yearsear ago. President obama held hisd final press conference at thees white house. S co whe ho the president us e. Touching onou several things that haveral happened over the past eightasth years also talked about recent headlines from russiasussias involvement in the election tooo his decision to shorten the sentence of chelsea manning. Ma he was asked how he thinkshe president elect Donald Trumpt will do and heres what willre he to say. I dont think well know know until he has an actual chance al to get sworn in and sit behind that desk. And i think a lot of his views are going to be shaped by hisshy advisers, the people aroundarund him which is why its its important to Pay Attention ton t these confirmation hearings. Tior president obama says hesi plans to do some writing anddese spend time with whiris family f the meantime when he leavesaves office. A Michigan Teacher causing the stir this morning after hehe reportedly center an top parents telling them thatnt their children would notth be allowed to watch thelowed toatce inauguration of Donald Trumptiot in his class tomorrow. Class they have school. Parents with students in the stt class, the fourth grade class cs and other classes at explorerxor Elementary School in williams williamston sounded off sayingof he was wrong banning. Ba i think its for parents tor handle political things withpoli our kidsti and decide whether or not they watch it. The teacher here is alsos a facing major backlash onklash social media over his controversial decision. Eisio next metro is changing itshi plans for saturdays womensurde march on washington. Ashi live look over the scene ofte a building fire in takomaire ina park. This is on flower avenue. On floe much more on this coming upthisg after the break. After the break. Its now 6 13. 6 weather is neck. Is n well talk about if its goingis to rain on inauguration day. Its go time at dunkin with two wakeup wraps for 3. Enjoy two freshlymade oventoasted wraps with bacon, sausage, or ham, and keep on all day. America runs on dunkin. Live picture right now from takoma park. There is a fire there at api businessct ane d wise had s akyfox up had x overhead a few minute ago. W mut there you can see some of the te crews on the ground. Gron theyve been working to knockg this down. Well getot more information fof you coming up just as soon asust we get a little bit more butre at this point thats all wehatw know. There you can see the ladder lar truck is up and the folks arefoe still working there, the t firefighters still working toghe try to rsknock down some smoke that is remaining. Remaining. Tuck. Thank you very much, city. Mu lets get going. Steve. Little chilly this morning. Le c temperatures overnighthi fllallg back into the 40s locally afnd theres some 30s north andsomed west. After school today, to temperatures are going to go soar. Right back into the mid toback o upper 50s, may touch tou 60 degrees in a few spots. Sps. So should be a very, very nicey thursday afternoon. All right, heres your 43 ino the city. Manassas 31 degrees, 30 in0 in culpeper. 43 up in frederick thisedeck morning. Were getting cloud cover. Oud ce 37 in leonardtown. Eo should be a mix of clouds and cu sun for you day today. Today but a nice afternoon. Ce af we do have some clouds alreadysd to our south and west and the origins of our next stormt storm system which will likely bringkg us some shower activityus somowt starting to get bettert organized here off to ourganizee south and west. Red west. Theres the big picture andcturd again were far enough awaywery from any rain showers thatt remain dry today we should shuld just be kind of partly sunny. Ki as we get into thend overnight hours, pardon me, well clearer up and then we should get some rain showers moving inoving i unfortunately the timing looks l to be late morning early ea afternoon. Ternoon. Obviously i know tomorrow is at big day to be outdoors and asoor far as timing this tit looks like we could have some rainhave showers again by late morning early afternoon. Af i fast forwarded it. I this is friday morning at 7 00i0 a. M. So watch what happens here. S here we are at 11 00. 1 00. Everybodys gathering andringand right at about noon to 1 00, were get something lightre ge showers across the army itsoer will be a quics k mover. Acro i think in time for the pwiallre by 2, 3 oclock the rain mayloce be out of here. Hee but were definitely goingfi have a period of rain showersof again late morning early eary afternoon. Quick reminder. Rem you cant bring umbrellas downtr to the mall so packo pa accordingly if youre be outdoors for any period of time tomorrow as it looks like e those rain showers will bee ra with us right during intheg the middle of the day. A not a heavy rain. Rin. But well have a couple hours during the late morning, earlygr afternoon tomorrow where werrowe have some rain showers around. W. Saturday looks great and thenndn rain returns on sunday intonto monday. Temperatures in the 50s. Did i mention today looks beautiful . Temperatures inl . The upper 50s. s. Im busy. I tell me whats going onmes with the look. Lk because im wearing wea sneakers with my dress . Arers w you going to tell everybodyevyby about that. That im very comfortable. Om wowucker. R. Im just asking. T i thought maybe she wasybe wa fashion forward. Fow he shoe shamed me. Oe shame. Im the one who walkedhe onee around in bare feet. Ound in ba its okay. s she can wear whatever shecan weh wants. Youre right. Fine, i desee itve it. Right now theres a ho. Use firee breaking news were trackingtr out of takoma park maryland. R flower avenue closed at piney branch road. R huge scene over mannane over maa restaurant. Fire trucks on scene as well as a lot of First Responders. Es. Notice a lot of extra traffic tc on piney branch road. Roa in addition take university taky boulevard to get around and and lot of traffic picking up onffin the top of the beltway on the outer loop already throughea college park so be prepared for that. Dy ege aspa w move over from thisveris house fire to our maps not the only thing going on around theue area right now. Now. Inbound 11th Street Bridgeth disabled vehicle blocking theckt right lane so thats causing a a lot of backed up t