A hole host that the russian go. Was planning to blackmail the president elect. Its phony to stuff. It didnt happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know because you reported it and so did many of the other people. It was a group of opponents that got together, six people and put that crap together. Reporter so who was this that did it . According to trump, it was his political opponents who he says have a vendetta against him and are trying to take the luster off his election victory in november. Listen to what he says. I told many people be careful you dont want to see yourself on television, cameras all over the place. Again, not just russia, all over. Does anyone really believe that story . Im also very much of a germ fobe, by the way. Reporter the most telling example of how heated this got today, one of them buzzfeed. Com actually published online that 35 page document, trump calling them a piece of garbage and cnn, at one point, a cnn reporter sitting right in the front row tried to ask the question in this news conference, the president elect refused to take that question. Since youre attacking our News Organization not you can you give us a chance youre talking our News Organization youre talking us can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir . Sir, can you state, mr. President elect, can you state categorically, can you give us dont be rude. And that was just a taste of it. As for the business supposed to be at hand, how donald trump was going to extract himself from his businesses like the trump hes leaving. His adult sons will be running the business, also leaving will be ivanka trump. Trump says he will have all of this in place by Inauguration Day along with an executive who will monitor any hint of any ethical problems for the new administration. Live at the trump hotel in dc tonight. Tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. And fox 5 is your station for politics. Were going to break down what the president elect said and much more coming up on 5at630 and use the 5at630. President elect said the only people that care about seeing the tax returns are us in the press, tell us what you think. More protests today on capitol hill against the confirmations pick for secretary of state. Demonstrators took to the in full dinosaur costumes to protest rex tiller son. They were a play on words in reference to his name. Lawmakers grilled the former exxon mobile ceo over human rights and his close business ties to russian president vladimir putin. How will you recalibrate your priorities as secretary of state, your shareholders are the American People and their security and interest first i have never lobby against sanctions personally the company did. To my knowledge, exxon never lobby against sanctions. He said he hopes to tackle both issues if confirmed as secretary of state. A quick moving fire broke out on the 13th floor of the newly renovated Watergate Complex this afternoon, firefighters moved quickly that could be seen at points coming from the windows. Crew evacuated the while putting out the fire, investigators are searching for a cause a put it stop, dc may be the next major city across the nation to provide public rest rooms for the homeless. Matt ackland tells us not everyone is on board with the plan. Reporter happened to so many of us, youre you out and about you got to use the bathroom and you go to a local business and you see a sign like this, you got to buy something in order to use the bathroom. Council member brandon dough is proposing legislation to basically make it easier to use the bathroom by is incentive. The Council Woman referred us to this website, portland lu, small rest room that is can be built on the sidewalk in the core of the city. She said she heard about this idea from homeless advocacy groups who say theyre really needed. I spoke to a h today in clienttown. Its like youre going to places, you have the in order to get, out of the cold you go to the bathroom, even getting to the bus drivers, and were not just speaking of homeless people. Were speaking of people that work every day that cant even pull in to buy something to use the bathroom. Reporter this is not a regulation, businesses we only have to comply. The Council Member wants to create some kind of an incentive maybe pay businesses to open up their rest rooms this bill actually asks the tax force to come up with an Incentive Program similar to what london has, where the businesses receive a certain incentive for opening their doors to the public, and they would put a sign up that says, you know, you can go here or something clever like that. Reporter how much will this cost . And where will the bathrooms be placed . The Council Member said she wants core part of the city where you have a lot of foot traffic. One complaint they did get from people on the street was theyre concerned about the costs and also how will they be cleaned and maintained . Still up for discussion. In Adams Morgan Fox 5 local news Anne Arundel High School officials will meet with parents and students to discuss the racist petition celebrating white sue premsi core stewart made good on one of his well publicizeded Campaign Promise weeks ago he promised to give away a gun and sponsored a contest. He awarded a new ar 15 semiautomatic rifle to a navy vet from wood bridge. Vet is a member of the loves the Second Amendment its important that somebody who wants to be governor leads. You have to demonstrate that we need constitutional of the commonwealth of virginia to be pushing for it. When people at first are going to say whats that then theyre going to hear about it and i hope to lead on the Second Amendment issue, not follow behind poll he hopes the latest stunt calls attention to the need to expand on Second Amendment rights in virginia. Accused of pocketing taxpayer dollars, five people have been arrested out of Prince Georges County liquor board, one lawmaker is live in studio he says he has a plan. Jim and shawn, tracking a little bit of light rain getting ready to move across the area, mainly western suburbs, well get a little taste of it as we go through the night. Ill put it in motion and luckily for us, temperatures are very mild, unusually mild, not going to drop much overnight. No concerns that this is to end up doing turning into anything icy, we got a big warmup and well talk about that and whether or not the rain will get out of the way. So you can enjoy a mid october feel to thursday. Back to you. Loving those temperatures. If you have a tip or story idea give us a call. You can also send us an email to fox 5 tips to wttg. Com. Well be right back. My daughter wants to stay organic. My husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. Whole family nts to stay free from artificial preservatives. And my debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 organic and freefrom items. Eat well for less. My giant. Z27mlz z16fz y27mly y16fy lawmakers could face criminal charge. Abruptly resigned citing health reasons, vaughn has not been publicly named but officials said a member of the maryland house is accused of accepting bribes. William cam pose, a member of the Prince Georges County council plead guilty yesterday charges. In turn for their support of loosening state liquor laws, specifically allowing for more permits for sunday liquor sales, and the u. S. Attorney general said the investigation is not over. More charges could be coming. Anthony knew was the only lawmaker to say no on the bill and join us for the controversy. Why did you vote no if youre the only person to vote no on this because i understood was what they were trying to do and let me say 99 of the men and women i work with in annapolis state law makers are good honest hard working people. They had intentions of try and move whether whether or not well have sunday sales, i thought they went about it in way i did not agree with that was to have a certain number of licenses that you would give it kind of being a king maker over an industry that you should not have that kind of power meaning there would have been certain businesses that had sunday licenses not everyone thats correct were you aware or did you think these bribery deals could be happening especially as it relates to the liquor board not at all. 99. 9 of the men and women i work with are good hard working person, a propensity for that to happen . Yes, we have all kinds of laws in place, ethics, conflict of interest, but if persons decide to violate those laws theres nothing we can do except to root them out. Look how that occurred and do what im doing with my bill and so look at how we can now strengthen it so its more difficult for that to ker let me ask you briefly. I want to talk to you about your bill. Have you been contacted as the fbi reached out to you with regards to any of this no. Absolutely i dont have that much to do with the liquor board per se. I decided to just move back from for the bill. Let me ask you, so youre proposing what a bill that would do the following, repeal that liquor, sunday sales. I voted against it. We need a straight out yes or no, are we going to have sunday sales . If so, everyone participate. If you only have a few participating you set it up for that kind of, of intrusion. For that kind of competitiveness that can lead to these corrupt situations. I want to repeal and address yes or no across the board for everyone when it comes to sunday liquor sales, secondly we got to set up a team that will go in and look at this so we can better regularity it. It should not be in the hands of senator. This happened long before our time. We inherited it. We should not be the ones determining what happens with the liquor board inspectors, liquor commissioners we hire them. We certainly cant be the ones to when do you plan to introduce this next week. You heard it right there. We appre thanks so much for coming in. My pleasure indeed. Well be right back joanne to create your perfect home. Plus youll get twentyfour month, nointerest financing. Hurry, the new year Savings Event ends january 16th. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. The new year Savings Event at havertys. Life looks good. 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Lee january thank you for john joining us, youre mainly gearing up for the dress reverse rehearsal were going to be standing in for the president elect and his wife and the Vice President elect and his wife and were going to be up at the capitol taking taking their place, so we can reverse and rerehearse and know exactly where everybody will be on that day. Neil youre playing mike pence, whats that for . So everything can be blocked out and choreographed . Thats correct. Our primary qualification was we were the right height. The reason is they will be setting all of the camera angles, they will be setting the microphone heights and the lighting based on our positions so that everyone everything goes seem lesley on the day of mr. President elect, sir, do you have to recite the oath . How specific are they getting on this well stand in the exact places, raise our hands and deliver the oath like they we do on the actual inauguration ceremony. Its a, its as close to the real ceremony as they possibly can. Reporter mr. President youll be riding in the parade absolutely were going to take a ride from the capitol down to the white house. And follow the parade route with the band and the ceremony units. Reporter what did you have to do to prepare and do you know why they picked you well, yes, i am her general height, and i was told i was chose because of my excellent military bearings. R for sunday . Is this going to be somebody you portrayed the Vice President how many people get to say they were sworn in as Vice President of the united states. Reporter thank you for coming out. Its something that i guess we all have to be aware of in this area that if youre going to be down along the mall on sunday, be prepared theyre doing a full dress rehearsal, there will be impacts here to, not just next friday, but this weekend as well. Rehearse it is fascinating to see how they put it together. They use stand ins to block that out i noticed they have a big electronic, you cross the Maryland Line coming into dc, warning people get ready, we got the closures coming up when theyre practicing sunday, the weather is not particularly nice. We have a little bit of a wintery mix on saturday that could linger into sunday and its going to be cold it wont be like today wont be like today, Inauguration Day could be a little bit warmer. Starting to see a nice trend for next week, for all the people that have to be outside. If youre heading on out, grab the umbrella because its mild but there is light rain just getting ready to push across the to northeast, and its not going to last very long and good news, its also not going to freeze because temperatures will stay mild. We got up to 57. Its still in the upper 40s in many areas and well start with a look at the radar, you havent seen much in the Eastern Suburbs but more is coming, ill put this in motion and you can see this beginning to push in your direction. More moderate rain towards the mountains but it is all liquid and thats a bargain in january. As we look at everything in a bigger picture. Big shrug of moisture going up to western pennsylvania. You can see the back edge moving along quickly. We think by about 11 00, the bulk is over but there could be straggling showers, overnight but will be gone by morning. Do you want it to be warmer tomorrow . Thats doable. We think it may be as much as ten degrees warmer tomorrow across this whole area and this is all above average for this time of year. Back and forth we go after our several days in deep freeze, were going to feel mid october a couple days. It is 47 now, not bad. Dulles is 50. Cumberland 41, you were so cold there yesterday, with a little bit of ice overnight. But that temperature change has been pretty dramatic today, ten 15 degrees warmer than yesterday and well do better than that tomorrow. Were going to call it a taste of spring in the middle of winter. Heres how things are looking. Our warm front will push through and well be headed for the 60s. Would not be shocked if theres some sunshine th a few areas to our south especially might be able to touch 70 tomorrow. Now, what youll also notice is that between High Pressure off the coast and a big area of low pressure that will bring our weather in for the weekend, we will get a little bit gusty so winds could gust between 20 and 30, thats noticeable at this time of year, definitely makes you feel it. For sure. As we look for futurecast, taking this forward its got a good handle where the presip is now, by 8 00 raining in the the heavy rain has pushed up towards baltimore to hagerstown to the beaches, we got straggling light showers. By the time you wake up tomorrow morning, well be seeing that rain out of here, there could be a touch of fog but even the fog will be going away and we should have sunshine tomorrow afternoon before the sun goes down, that will help those temperatures get nice and mild. The opposite weather coming in for the weekend. Look at saturday. At 37 degrees. A mix of snow, light snow, maybe a little bit of ice to rain, not a lot. But enough that we could just have a couple of slippery problems on saturday. It could linger into sunday. Were keeping an eye on these temperatures because we may need to drop them just a little bit. So this is something to watch. Saturday, a little bit of a messy mix, and maybe a light mix sunday that would change over to rain if we can get that to 42. Overnight, will be warmer than the weekend. Temperatures will stay in the mid and upper 40s. Temperatures tomorrow, how about 67 degrees tomorrow for the district . Fredericksberg, 61 for hagerstown, 63 martinsberg and winchester, enjoy your fox 5 accuweather sevenday forecast. We can see after we dip down over the weekend and friday we think will be fairly cloudy, saturday the messy mix, tried to come out a little bit on sunday. Next week in the runup to the inauguration were above average. We like that. Stick around for awhile. Wed say likely for the inauguration, were going to be in the 50s with a lot of clouds, warmest ever inauguration 55 that was reagans first. This could be warmer fingers crossed because i remember that first obama inauguration. And cold outside, i got back to the station, i couldnt see anymore. Completely dehydrated. You never know, if you dont need them now, you need them down the road. Back after this. Trump is making changes, hes swapped out long time president ial inauguration announcer charlie broughtman. He announced every inauguration parade since Dwight D Eisenhower in 1957. A freelance radio announcer will be front and center on the big day. Is one of those political favor, its really a volunteer position. Charlie never been paid for it. I wont be paid. It is truly volunteer and its one of those things thats an honor to be asked. The trump team says the president ial inaugural committee will be proud to honor c