Pick for the epa. And Melanie Alnwick is live on the hill with the latest for us, mel. Good morning, guys, democrats had hoped to delay this confirmation rot until tuesday when pruit under court order has to release is email changes he had with gas and oil scuffs and it appears the efforts will fail. The senate stays up all night aheading uv upcoming note nominee scott pruit. This is another nomination dem rats are worried he will cut the standard for fuel company. We need administrator to help us with congress not to cut but increase the use of oil. And this comes as President Trump to see if media and democrats thursday been attacking him and his administration. His supporters will love this. And those skeptical about it are wonder about how hinged he is. Analysts say he is only try to reach out own supporters with this message. Hes speaking to the people republicans are expected to introduce plans for obamacare and taxes in the coming weekends as House Speaker paul ryan says theyve been working closely with President Trump. We put together a 200 day plan for president to get agenda that we all agreed on through the system and were exactly on track and on our timeline with that agenda. And now after the confirmation vote for pru its which is lukely to come this afternoon republicans are trying tee up a few more confirmation votes including wilbur ross for commerce secretary and rick perry and ben carson for hud secretary. Alnwick. And despite long delays by democrats approving tom price repeal and replacement of obamacare is moving fast. President has named Alexander Acosta as pick for next labor secretary following Andrew Puzder fallout this week. If confirmed acosta would be first hispanic member of trumps cabinet. And looking elsewhere for security advisor. Robert howard turned down the offer to fill the position and declining due to financial and family issues. He would have replaced retired general michael mrin that resigned earlier this week. This Morning Police in one Maryland Community are asking residents to be on alert after a string of robberies last month. And annie yu live with hyattsville and who police are looking for. Steve and allison. Hyattsville city police are putting out an important warnings to residents and those that work city of hyattsville. They say a man over the last three months is targeting people on streets between specifically hours of four and six a. M. And mostly on fridays. They say that there is a string of robberies that began in december. And since then there have been a total of eight reported incidents to date. So lets get to the map that shows you where and when these are happening. Police say theres a clear pattern and they do believe the cases are all connected to the same man hes hitting people up between areas of queens and chapel road and hamilton street and edgar road and theyre monitoring this specific part of town and all victims report similar stories held at gun point early in morning between 4 and 6 and if you notice on the 9 plg december 9 this person robbed two people within 30 minute at two different locations that are a locations that are a mile apart. And so detectives also do mention which is interesting that all victims so far are non english speaker speaking and they believe there are more victims out there and want to hear from anyone who has been affected by this or might have information. Thats the latest from hyattsville, annie yu, fox5 local news. 6 05 now and time get a quick check on the forecast this morning, high hi, tuck, good morning. Very cold. Tgif. Ha happy friday. Everybody below freeing this morning and today get this as far as we can see plus days these will coldest temperatures youll see. Oh, yes 29 at Reagan National this morning and 20 dulles and in fact i dont think well be below freezing for another week as we are expecting mild temperatures to start moving in this afternoon. And few clouds out there early and yesterday morning few snow flurries not the case this morning but clouds are out best. Partly to mostly sunny this to near 50. Warmer than yesterday and less wind that yesterday as well. Heres friday forecast and you know what, i know you have to go to work and everybody is getting ready for school stick around and dheng out the 7 day youll love the forecasting. See you in a few minute. 6 06 now if you head out through vienna breaking news for you this is 66 eastbound as you approach the dealt way and big crash scene blocking ramp to upper loop and left lane getting by you can access ramp to outer loop. Be prepared for big delays. Again with one lane getting by 66 eastbound as we head to usual morning rush jam packed parked 12 to beltway and factor in a lot of extra time to get through the area and get a good work around if you typically hop off to upper loop. Aside from that breaking news we take a look at maps. Were also tracking metro problems this morning and dealing with a track Problem National airport yellow line single tracking International Airport in both directions and Early Morning flight at International Airport and be prepared metro slows you down on the metro. We have blue line surge work. You know the drill. Give yourself plenty of extra time and if you take yellow line or yellow rush from virginia keep in mind single tracking from the airport and things looking nice on 395 and 95 and 20 no shock here delays building from 70 to truck scales and about a 5 to 7 minute slow down there and outer loop in great shape through college park. 95 northbound through dale city getting heavy volume as well. Back to you allison and steve. Nfl star charged with felony assault and what jerrell reves attorney is saying about the upcoming prom has students at one Pennsylvania High School fuming this morning. Were back in 30 seconds happeneding over 75 suspect hanging out in could be youll. It killed 80 worshipers the deadliest terror attack in a man under arrest in los angeles after explosive devices were found in a hotel room in colorado where he was staying earlier this week. That plan flew from denver to la wednesday and was arrested there yesterday. Sources say the suspect is u. S. Citizen aand former marine. No explosives were found in the los angeles area. A stare meanwhile in feign exdeparting frontier and arriving south west clipped wings. At the time the southwest mraep was taxiing towards gate and just arrived from oklahoma city. Both planes were saferly evacuated and no one was injured. More rain could threaten orville dam. Right now its been drained enough to handle more water. They believe the dam is safe. Theyre dealing with erosion downstream because of massive water release and creator in the spillway continues this morning. Travel this morning for new york jets quarterback jerrell reves for his alleged involvement in a fight in pittsburgh this weekend and a group of men were recording interaction with reves when he took the phone and trying to interact with video. Witnesses say the two men were unconscious and he received medical attention and attorney for reves said he feared for safety. Rutgers Business School apologizing people for turning students away because of what they wear. Blue shuts, colored shirts or brown shoes. The school says it was created in response to students not dressing properly in the past and online petition by the students against the powellcy reportedly prompted an apology. Speaking of dress code couldnt versus yeah students and parents at Pennsylvania High School say theyre outraged over what they call strict rules for prom coming after School Officials announced students would have to get their prom attire approved. Parents say the school is it impeding on their parental responsibilities despite the backlash the school says its sticking and at the end of an era is where we find ourselves after 82 years the latest monopoly piece gets a boot. And as we head to break this friday morning, its friday, weather and traffic on the fives next. Cbeneful healthy weight because the first ingredient is chicken. riley man, this chicken is spectacular jessica i feel like when he eats beneful, he turns into a puppy again. You love it, dont you . You love it so much vo try beneful healthy weight with chicken. With real chicken as the number one ingredient. The bakery flavors you love. [ ding ]. Now available in your dunkin coffee. Sip in the happy with a medium vanilla cupcake, or new fudge brownie macchiato or latte for 1. 99 from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Who would it be during the early rush with some type of incident that backs everything up. Commuters its your turn unfortunately at the beltway. Traffic now back to 123. We know how quickly that can go to 50 an dwrond the thats the situation right now well academic with erin. Two days tlovts check a fwlims of boaboa at the national zoo tuesday is the day the giant panda leaves for china. Zoo is celebrating with special events every day leading to her departure. Today 10 a. M. And 1 p. M. You can watch her with the daily treats and tune into the Facebook Page to see giant panda crafts to make at home. Tucker with boaboa i am happy i was retweeted by boaboa. It was an honor. Ill have to step up my boaboa game its a little cute. Lets get going. Bus stop forecast. Well start with that. I want to mention cold temperatures. Its cold out there this morning. Overnight lows back in the low 20s outside the beltway and here in the city 29. Chilly out to start the day. After cool today a little warmer than yesterday heres the best part. Lets wind than yesterday and wont be windy if you go to the playground and that ipd kind of thing. High temperatures 50 this afternoon and low 50s for a few spots. Theres satellite and radar. We missed temperatures. But theres not a lot happening here locally. Norm west flow you see that in the cloud movement. Northwest to southeast. Morning hours chilly. See winds out of southwest and thats going to allow gradual warmup around here. Cold start for the day. High pressure south. Gradual warmup this afternoon. High temperatures near 0 and let me mention nice and dry this afternoon as well. Lets talk weekend plans. Well well talk perhaps later saturday, surprised, monday, lets talk about Holiday Weekend forecast and well get temperatures on the rise around here. 50 today and then temperatures really surge behind warm front for both saturday and sunday. And tomorrow daytime high 20 above normal and well have clouds around tomorrow and surprised and maybe drizzle early sunday morning and tradeoff will be bonus temperatures around here not feeling like february as we keep temperatures really mild. I mentioned earlier i dont see freezing temperatures for at least the next week after early this morning. Look at that. No snow in sight or Winter Weather its just nice. 6 5 saturday morning. Youre feeling generously kind this friday morning, represent you. So far. Unfortunately sky fox is showing frustrated commuters this a crash at the beltway blocking ramp to upper loop from 66 eastbound. Traffic now able to access inner and outer loop as well. Delays heavy. Well switch to cameras and get an idea of the delay. 1 to beltway completely parked and looking at half hour of extra time added to commute from 50 to beltway. Please give yourself plenty of extra time to head out the door and seeing tip kaing volume building sutly road as well. As we switch up it over to our maps i need green tea this morning its that cold morning truck problem at the airport and watch in delays for both directions and check schedule if you have Early Morning flight to catch. Roads on way to dulles and reg app an international. No Train Service because of safe track work. Blue line. You can use yellow or yellow rush plus for virginia and maryland and use silver line and 66 crash seeing delays through vienna and annandale looking good problem free 295 and volume building on southbound side past east capitol. Be mind full of that. Suitland parkway inbound volume building silver hill and 270 southbound building delays to truck scales 5 to 7 minute slow down 70 to montgomery county. More traffic in a few. Allison, steve. Terrifying plot filled this morning after a man threatens to blow up target sports on the east coast. Lets talk about the strange motive. Staivrping and self certaining. Russian model facing criticism of a photo shoot having her hang from a skyscraper. Some praised her for her bravery a just to get attention. Why would do you that. Millions watched it since posted on instagram last week thumbs down for iconic monopoly piece the themble. First joining us lauren simonetti. Hi, lauren, good morning. And i bet you a lot of kids dont know what a thimble is. Probably not. Yesterday flat. Today flat. Where is the big push weve been seeing. Its been phenomenal week. Market up. Dow up 1. 7 this week hit new record high yesterday and other markets fell back. Its pause right how much higher can it go and theres a sense of anxiety felt among investigators its called fearts making last two days and when is fix from obamacare and tax he form coming. Down 1,000 down after hitting 19,000 seems. Amazing. Silly. Wonderful. As i mag i like that world peter. Phenomenal. They keep you rolling off the tongue. Its not often we hear about a unfajable crime that is market based somebody tried to manipulate stock shares. A stock by bombing a store. Theres this guy his name is Mark Charles Barnett and he paid another gay informant essentially 10,000 to make bombs and put them in target stores up and down the east coast. He thought sxloptions would make tk go down and he could price. Anyway that man he paid the 10 k to turned him in. Im thinking if hes really up vetting that 10,000 could have been better used somewhere else. And lets talk about air planes now. We give air planes a hart timed when they food serve food and then complain because its airplane foot in quotes and give delta props to listening to what the customer wants. Face it whether the foot is good or bad it give you something to do on a flight when little else to do distraction and get it for free. We like the food. Delta is bring ago back in coach, bade, certain coast to coast flights and basically flights between new york jfk and west cook, la, seattle. Starting next month. Some of those flights are getting free pood. Thats what he wanted. I like that. Lets lets get monopoly now the themble you said you could take it off the board and stick on pvrpingy or finger or whatever people youre right they dont even know what it is why it is used for and why it exists. To protect your fingers when suing i believe. I believe that is accurate. Good. So, hasboro is getting rid of the thimble in monopoly for the first time in 32 years. , he homey, signs is of the times tiep pieces and they have to do this next month. Thats the other problems when it comes to monopoly. Agreet. And i with there were like 80 options for people to choose from. I im not a big fan of he homeyes but whatever. But you are fan of emogi. Not as game piece n i like and flip flop. I can live with that. I cant tell you the last time i played monopoly. Remember the iron piece they got rid of it couple years ago good and replaced with cat. Who would replace a flat iron with cat. They have a dog right. I like the iron. She sell the dog. Im inkloopd to say they do. I could have thought of so many different placements aside from cat. I feel like youre a money bernie would lose that gamefy played you i give you an advantage. I fall asleep you would begin, byebye. Bring back the doll dog. They retired tired the dog maybe hes back with scotty. Remember we looked it up a long time ago. We got you init intelligence. They need to bring back the party stretch in back of game. It was a that was not favor annual i understand it was look a party scene. When i fly now im afraid to get up and do anything anymore its all changed now i get it. You can leave the charge there. Okay. And you can be ill campaign for that. You can be the party patrol. Ill try. Its 29 washington and everybody well below freezing and some of the numbers look like 20 or 22. Make sure you are dressed for a cold morning. This is a sad for me to say. This is our last freezing temperatures for at least the next week. Say it again. Its february. And waking one clouds out there still north west flow wind shift norm and west milder and windy highs 50. Dry today and then we really saturday, surprised, monday, clouds around and particularly saturday afternoon into early sunday you have temperatures 20 both normal im not sure it bothers you. Beautiful. I love it. I feel erin like tucker gets anxiety when he feels like 70s and 80s are here soon. I know whats around the corner 95 and humid. You like that though you get to do few things outside. I feel better when its hot. Me too. Steve likes for outdoor jogging. I love it with built its well documented tucker does not. Thats okay. Thats okay. Well get you an umbrella. Im concerned about the zika virus. Thats your que whats going on outside. Well talk about tuckers anxiety during the commercial break. Well the inner loop is moved to the shoulder and all lanes on except one lane blocked partially and seeing heavy delays back want to avoid getting stuck in the backup your best bet hop off fairfax and take 9 in and be mindful you hit congestion there as well and best bet leave the house 30 minutes early gainsville, mannasas or centerville. Well show you what you are up against. Good news for metro on the yellow line no longer single tracking we had earlier track problem it reinterrupted in both directions and i have safe track surgical i son still to come this morning new details about the gang investigation in fairfax and expert shares bottles live. Spring training for pitchers and catchers underway in florida and this morning talking about Matt Scherzer why the ace may not be ready for on day. The morning line is next. 6 30 on friday morning. Hey we welcome you back to fox 5 news morning weather and traffic coming up on the fives at 6 35. First now at 6 30 a live look at capitol hill where Senate Democrats are in midst of all nighter and this time he protesting donald trump pick to lead the epa and final vote on scott pruit will come this afternoon. Democrats denied request in the confirmation until they can review exmails related to conversational controversial ties with