With the exclusive dc spent 7 million on a rec Center Renovation but some work wasnt completed up to code. Where was oversight and will more money be taken away particular other City Projects to correct the bad work. Marina marraco is live. Reporter 6. 7 million to undergo renovations for nearly a year. The playground still incomplete. Former mayor vincent gray now Council Member said he approved that budget but he did not approve the design and he says he would never have signed off on the are you the i dont think how anybody a cr or architect to prove this. This is the beginning. Reporter approved and open to the public, not officially yet. The Citys Department of parks and recreation says there are things like a playground that still need to be completed. But the areas that have been received, at least not by the most vocal in this community, including ward 7s newly sworn Council Member, former mayor vincent before a there are no lights down there. You got lights behind basket here and that you go behind basket here. Reporter he does he approved the budget but was under mayor Muriel Bowser that changes were made. I dont know about the details about the Recreation Center but im happy to have my director respond. Reporter are you aware of complaints. Im happy to have my director respond. Reporter less than a half hour after fox 5 spoke with mayor bowser, Current Deputy director of the department of parks and recs showed up. Who is this . How are you doing . Im Deputy Director for recreation services. You dont find this anymore acceptable than we do. Do you have no. These, all of the concerns we got, weve addressed, were working long before now, brother. Reporter gaps on the basketball court, uneven ground to some eyes, cracks on the lobby cement and a stove out in the open accessible to any child walking through. Just some of the concerns for gray and several ward 7 advisory neighborhood commissioners. What does this say about the quality of the materials used to put a cover on this building . We also dont know the force of what happened right here. Reporter concerns over a natural gas meter and pipe adjacent to the main activity area for children, with no cover and in the way of a bathroom that should be accessible to disabled visitors, its very clear, its not. Whats happened when the kids start swinging on these pipes . So, again, this was this is a Washington Gas project no, its your building its my building, but were looking to do is were going to work with dbs to figure out best way why wasnt it figured out . First of all, imor in the middle of this but you are. Why wasnt that figured out before it got to this point . So, i know that one of the concerns this within a initially brought up in our engineering phase. I think its its something that can be taken care of fairly easily. What is the solution if its that easy to me is to figure out a covering, a solid covering that can be negotiated that would allow excess ability to that bathroom you can see the gas running, you see a lever right there. Curiosity . Are they foot going to pull that. Theyre going to be swinging on it you can be sure of that. Im concerned about the health and welfare of the children and adults. Its unacceptable. Reporter washingto is that cause for concern still gray says it isnt cause tore concern the perception is sometimes true they get the shortened of the stick, to pun intended but this is a good example of something being done in way that nobody would find acceptable. Reporter next tuesday there will be a meeting at the rec center to address the issues, Council Member dray and Deputy Director for department of parks and recs, say they will be here and dpr saying theyre hoping from someone from the department of General Services in charge of the contracting as well as the construction here will also show to this meeting. We reacheded out to dgs but still waiting to hear back. Live tonight, Marina Marraco fox 5 local news. The lights are back on at the washington monument. It lost power around 6 00 p. M. You may recall happened last tuesday. National park Service Tells Us the cause of tonights is different. Electricians say wiring may be to blame. Workers will be back out to find out what went wrongs. Frigid temperatures and snow still on the ground in places that mean changes for tomorrow, spotsylvania schools made the decision to close tomorrow. Fredericksberg city schools are delayed. Maryland, schools are delayed two hours. Lets check in with sue. The question is, when is the warmup . I know you got one on the sevenday. We sure do, its going to be a gradual process. Temperatures havent been above freezing since friday. Now, we are going to go above freezing tomorrow but its cold tonight and were going to go see temperatures dropping a little bit more. These were the highs today, not to 32 today. And we got a little bit of cloud cover out there. Notice the win of the south at ten miles per hour. We still have a windchill of 12 degrees. But that south breeze will begin the process of bringing gradually out of the deep freeze. Temperatures are in teens, north and west in many places to about 23 degrees in the district. We dropped another degree in the district. Were not going to go see a whole drop tonight. Maybe a few more degrees, windchills you can see in the mid and upper teens to 12 degrees here in the district. Heres whats changing. Were going to have a little cloud cover come in. That will help a bit. A thin insulating blanket. Some of the snow through ohio could affect places like cumberland in a light fashion tomorrow morning. That south breeze means were not headed for Single Digits like so many places hit last might and the gradual warming trend will begin tomorrow afternoon as we see our temperatures near 40 by the time we get to about 3 00 or so. Hearing you for the tomorrow morning in the commute, a lot of clouds around, 18 to 24 degrees for the kids at the bus stop i after school its going to feel better. There will be a breeze. Those temperatures ranging between 38 and 43 first time weve been above freezing since last friday. Many more warmer days on the sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutess. District is preparing to go headtohead with Trump Administration over immigration. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced today, city will not only be a sanctuary city, it will also help undocumented immigrants pay legal fees to help them stay in the country. Fox 5 Lindsay Watts spoke to the mayor, shes live with latest. Lindsay . Reporter shawn, today, the mayor pledged half 1 million to this new fund that would help undocumented immigrants living in the district. This is just another step to show that dc will be defiant of the new president , should donald trump make good on his Campaign Promises to deport millions people here illegally, and cut off federal cities like the district. We caught up with mayor Muriel Bowser at a forum she was holding today. She says this new initiative will give 500 zati lawmaker legal work for immigrants in the district. Fund will help people fight deportation. It could be used by those who are here legally with green cards who want to become citizens. It could help young people brought here by parents who are trying to stay in the u. S. Dc not alone in setting up the fund. La is considering spending ten ke mbows n on 50000o d ashtsior on po s mor wewaon th a if 500,0it thats where it will be. Well look at what we need moving far. Reporter i asked Mayors Office how many Illegal Immigrants are currently living here, i was told they do not have a number. That kind of data is hard to come by. Its for the about the number. Vaf dcaini anve is about the inclusive city. We wanted to know what. N got a huge res aasnegative. Im going to read two comments here. Jack said not an appropriate use of tax dollars, government pays equals tax payers pay, i have not for mass deportation but that has to balanceded approach to legally dealing with this situation. A lot of people weighing in saying they would like to see the money go to the homeless or veterans or people here in dc legal citizens living in dc. If youd like to weigh in, conversation is still going, head over to the fox 5 dc facebook or twitter lindsay watoxal ne a lot of people will have thoughts in common. A tree that had had been standing hundreds of years fell. 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Reporter flooding forcing thousands of people to evacuate parts of california and nevada in the reno area alone, more than 400 homes have been et a flood s ri stage. ve tidere 18 years. Reporter the rough weather causing crashes a downing trees. We here boom, boom, on top. And what the heck is that going g storms outside sacramento we to topple the thasamous for iiv right now hol its trunk in 1800s. While north of diemonday, a driver was killed when an oak tree fell on a minivan. It appears at this time that its just a tragic unfortunate accident. Reporter its not just the west. Cold weather has been blasting people as far south as houston, they were dealing with frozen pipes, in the Carolina Black ice has been a ken on a number of roadways. Back here in the golden states, storms in in just the last week brought as much 15 inches of in pack. Adam housely fox news. Thats rough stuff. Im even going to complain about the cold here. They have a new batch coming in tomorrow night and Central California that the going to really punish them. We talked about this drought. We thought theyd get more last year and they didnt. They may wipe out the drought but it comes with so many other problems, landslides and melting snow. The flooding of the river as we heard our correspond saying. Were getting off easy. About to start a little bit of a warming trend after we get through another cold night. California were going to have amazing pictures coming out of there i fear im going to explain whats a going on there that has caused them to get overwhelmed with this moisture we got generally clear skies that will see clouds roll in shortly and those will help to blanket us. While were not going to head for the Single Digits, well still see upper teens and low 20s, at least were not dealing with this. Whats going on to create all of this heavy rain for california and the southwest is a strong moisture tropical in oine apple express because itrom hawi california and the pacific northwest, an interferic river tremendous moisture transported in the coast line and they may see seven to ten inches of rain across Central California, three to six inches north, even los angeles could get one to two, it could be heavy mounting snow as well. And this is what were seeing, six hours of radar, you can see so much moisture still on shore from round one with the second round get to go ready to which assure tomorrow and tomorrow night. Meanwhile, the next two days, starring to take edge off that terrible cold, 41 tomorrow with a little bit of a breeze in the afternoon and more clouds than sun for most of the day. You may not need the sunglasses very much at all. Wednesday, 52 degrees. Were still looking at a mix of clouds and sun, temperature of 52. Tomorrow night it is possible we could have a few showers around, its no a huge chance but we do think they will be liquid, not frozen because temperatures are tomorrow night. Its 23 degrees now. Here in dc, boston is 17. Buffalo, 19, theyve had an awful lot of snow. Chicago 31, nashville, 42. And as i give you the bigger picture. You can see where were start going to warm up across the deep south and we see some low 60s. So that will work its way in our direction by the middle of the week. For tomorrow, doesnt quite get here but better feel day than today, we should be able to climb to 41 in the district. Maybe stay in the mid 30s north and west and certainly down to the south where you the snow on the ground and places like st. Marys county and fredericksberg, you might not get quite as warm. The warm front will be getting closer and it could squeeze out moisture, early in day, maybe flurries, north and west, later, possible as temperatures cant to rise, we could see late day showers, should be fairly spotty. Moisture does not appear getting overdone. Combination of radar as well as future temperatures for Tuesday Morning and you can see a little bit of snow out in the mountains with everybody generally in the 20s. Early in the morning, by time we get to 6 00, were back down near freezing, maybe mid 30s for annapolis and a lot of clouds around. Later at night. 11 00, 12 00, we could see a couple of showers coming through. Also, temperatures have warmeded up. Even were at 11 00 or 12 00 than it will be at 5 00 oh or 6 00. Showers will chase away and wednesday by 8 00 in the morning went they will be out of here. Let me show you the sevenday forecast. 41 to 52 on wednesday, then another 11 degree jump on thursday up to 63 degrees. 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