House as the first familyamy celebrates their last christmas at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Ve and later, your first lookfs at legendary actress Phylicia Rashad from empire debut. Eb good day at 9a starts right now. . . Its raining outside. De its wednesday but look on theot bright side. Ight its the end of the month. T were closer to christmas. Istmas its the beginning of good daydy all good thing. T all good thing. Notify 30th. Tify om mom martin. Holly morris, maureen umeh, Steve Chenevey were ready to to go. Go we are ready to go. To ahead this morning kanye west is crisis unfortunately. Te the rapper has now beenn hospitalized for a week. Well go live to tmz for updated on his condition and were alsoe going to talk to a local l psychiatrist about the stigmati that surrounds Mental Healthl ha issues and the black communitynk and whether two high profile cases could lead to changes. Mother nature throwing a littlei bit of everything at us. In u weve got rain, we had fog early this morning. Mni humidity. Really made it a mess out there on the roads this morning. Morn. Y you can imagine. Ouwell now guess what,t, thunderstorms could be on the way. And more changes after that. Fter tuck is back now with all thehe details but we dont often talkl about thunderstorms onout thund november 30th. Er west dont. Dt but often dont talk aboutk abot 70 degrees either. Her so thats in the cards as well as were looking at warmm temperatures and almost someos m tropical moisture out there waie until you step outside. Side reagan these are warm temperatures. Ras dulles 57. Lles 57. Up in baltimore 56. Re 5 i do want to mention were menti getting heavy rain now right across parts of the area here. Just to the west of the city. E c in fact looks like northwestorth d. C. Up towards bethesda in aa i Little Pocket of pretty good pre rains im getting tweets tuckerc fox5 tweet me what youre seeing. Ought along 66 pretty good rain up to 70on ig n66 london andondn Montgomery County up towardsds frederick pretty good rains ases well you get the idea what wert featuring today. Yesterday of course we had they clouds and some showerof activit approaching an inch by late thii afternoon ton name let me add ta the rain chances will stay in cl the forecast along with that tha thunderstorm threat through latt rnoornoon. Through the evening rush hourthu well have some showers aroundsd heres the Bigger Picture and very vigorous atmosphere. Tm we havent talked much about rain up and down the easternhe e seaboard in weeks and months. M. But today we have it unfortunately Severe Weatherat overnight back in alabama andamd mississippi up through two dozen tornadoes reported down thereow and several fatalities. Fatalit activity here but this front iso Strong Enough that we can be ent looking at the the potential for thunderstorms later today. R t in fact under a marginal risknar for some Severe Weather around a here i think the primary threatt is going to be gustyhe winds p h any thunderstorms that developtl but heads up. Buhead there could be pretty good g downpours during the course of s the day here best chance ofnce those thunderstorms will be this afternoon. Ternn heres your forecast for your yu wednesday. 70 glorious degrees. Dodging rain storms and storm potential thunderstorms. Erstor ill have all the details on tht seven day. It will feel more like december just in time for december. D ill have details momentarily. Oa look forward to that. Look fr thanks tucker. Th that rain as you can imagine causing very slick commuteery around the dmv. He d the outer loop has been jam been packed with traffic for most ofr the rush hour. Fox5s annie yu has been out inn the mess all morning and shend s joins us live now. Ow what a frustrating morning,ornig annie. Reporter oh, no doubt,oubt, holly g morning, everybody. I traffic in years working thathat Early Morning shift, and i do do not envy those who have to sitat in this of day. We have been stuck in traffic like all morning long except fop the early early hours. H but here we are. We were on the inner loop of the e beltway we finally made it hereh for awhile we were stuck on o route 28 then got on 29 and thet jumped on the beltway. Beltw we did this because we werese trying to bypass all that traffic on 66. N but im in the sure that this is any better as you can see. S somewhat lifted. If it looks like its starting tot sort of come back believe it orr not. Visibility isnt so great. G but its still just a very difficult morning commute due te the rain the rain is definitelyi picking up creating slick spotss and slowing everyone down. Evernd i mean its legit rain coming c down right now. Now. The dense fog advisory a technically was lifted at 7 00 but i know the warning wasw extended in other parts like lie Carroll County howard and anne arundel until 9 00 oclock orclr so. Guys, one of those morningsse mr where visibi weather because of the fog orogo because of the rain, um, and it sounds like its going to be gng this way for the rest of thehe day. So even your afternoon commute m might be a bit of a mess. Mes it is just a messy morning. Ning running into a lot of stop and p go traffic everywhere. Rywher drivers just use caution. Cauti keep those eyes on the road andd just go light with that foot. Hat dont accelerate too much andnd keep your distance. R diste but i mean really weve beene b just crawling throughout theout morning for the last like two lk and a half hours. Ours. Guys, back to you in the studio. Be careful out in. E ca much of the area. Are thank you. Not just us dealing with mother nature, of course. Ot juo a mucf h worse scene down southu at least five people dead, fourf others critically hurt after aha line of storms possiblyy tornadoes slammed into alabamana early this morning. Most of the northeast part of pr that state. At state. Officials say 20 buildings weree level in that storm you saw somw tractor trailer flipped overillp there. One of the buildings destroyedus was a 24 hour daycare center. Ce also a baptist church. Crc entire shopping plaza. Laza. That system now moving our waygr parts of georgia, tennessee thunderstorms until just minutes ago there were tornado worriesnr as well in those areas. Those storms continue to rollnut across the south. Sou all right. 90 00 sick is the time rightsis now. We have breaking news from thest president elect this morning. Donald trump tweeted that heedh will be leaving his businessesin in order toes focus on running e country as president. President. Trump took to twitter this morning to make thatrning announcement which will be madel formal next month. Next month he said quote in part ill be leaving migrate business in total in order to fully focus os running the country in order tot while im not mandated to henceo legal documents are beingareei crafted which take me completell out of business operations. Tion. The presidency is a far more important task. Tas meanwhile the anwh president elect still hard aten work on his transition and heiod continues to announce new new cabinet members. Members and despite dinner with mittm romney last night we still donl know if the former gop president ial candidate is anyday closer to a job. J Donald Trumps administration. Io Melanie Alnwick is down in thent newsroom with details on that on and how the president electdele al promise. Mel . Reporter maureen, for all, a the talk of disarray and chaosos early on the trump transition tt team has now filled half its cabinet positions with 11 to go. Most closely watched of course is secretary of state. S this may not look like the mostm comfortable dinner in the worlde but there was president electsie donald trump and his incoming in chief of staff breaking bread with mitt romney last night. Astg we had another discussionothd worl reporter romney wouldnt wot say much afterward but this iss the second time hes met with mw trump a mid speculation thattiot hes being considered for cdere secretary of state despite opposition from many trump tru supporters. Ter at trump tower in new york,w y meantime the parade of job candidates continues. Con georgia congressman tom pricen o selected to head health andea ad human services. Human servi former goal man sacks steveacks minute new chin pick for for treasury secretary. Ecta and elaine chao. All nee s her husband is senates s majority leader mitch mcconnell. Somebody asked stew if i was going to recluse myself. Mysel lie not be reclusing myself. Trump preparing to head outoh on victory tour this week with w rally planned tomorrow in ohio. Another stop in indiana wherehee carrier airconditioning juston announced a deal with trauma taconypalmyra keep 1,000 jobs 0 in the united states. State and then theres nancy pelosi. Shes up for reelect today as y House Minority leader facingin real scepticism from some of hem including one tim ryan from ohio who is running against her. What ive been telling him, h lock, in one vote, your going to rebrand our party. R party youre going to have newve messenger. Me youll have a new message andnd youre going to have a guy likel me who will run all over the ove country and campaign for us. Reporter also nominated nom this morning billionaireng blion businessman and investor wilburr ross to leave the commerce commc department. The 79yearold is a vocalocal critic of free trade deals. Ea. Homeland security, epa, e among the cabinet positionsns still open. Pe steve . Mel, thanks very much. M lets get quick uelpdates, n stories around the nationsatio capitol. First up a man wanted in manante connection with shooting deathow of a 16yearold girl the dayl e after thanksgiving has turng hat himself in. Detectives say evans was caughtt on surveillance camera firing an gun 16yearold Brianna Mcmillan was killed talking to friends fn outside the potomac gardensar apartments in southeast whenthen those shots were fired. E shed investigators believe the teen was not the intentedator targeto that shooting. G. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser bow councils plan to offer paido oi family leave to dc workers. Council will vote on tuesdayay whether to impose attacks on businesses to fund 11 weeks of s paid leave for the birth orr adoption of a child. Hi it would also provide up toovidp eight weeks of leave to care fof a sick relative. New payroll tax on businessesuss would fund that program if it i passes it would make d. C. One of the most generous cities in thet nation when it comes to family l leave. At the same time the mayorer wants city council to approval a proposal placing tighternge restrictions on homeless servics under the proposal people woulde need more proof that theythe previously lived in the districr before they ended up on the streets. Re opponents say it bill would make it difficult for homeless peopls in the city to get the help they had need. Thousands of women havethou booked their flights to d. C. Fo. A womens rights march. Ar supposed to happen the day aftet the inauguration. Inaug but a paper work snap snafu s could have them changing plans. G well have all the details a little later. Ater a promise to rebuild after ar devastating wildfire tearsildfis holiday ever for group of Metal Workers who just struck gold ana cash gold. 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Eless but he has promised the community will rebill. To brazil now overnightig soccer fans gathered to mourn tn the players killed in a plane pe crash in columbia. A. Vigil was hell at the clubss stadium just six of the 77 77 passengers on board survived. The team was traveling alonglo with reporters to compete in the finals of tournament in columbia. Authorities in columbia are hoping that the recovered black ities covere boacxesk will help figure out ww to cuba this morning an procession has begun carrying cg Fidel Castros ashes from havana for a fourday journey acrosss the nation. Nation. Hell be laid to rest on sunday in santiago. The route traces in reverse thee victory tour that castro and his bearded rebels took after overeo throwing the forces of battista in 1959. 95 last night thousands of people p lined the streets of havana to t pay tribute to fidel castro. Well, speaking of lotterytey newest multi millionaires. Ai look how happy they look. Y l a group of 20 coworkers from a metal shop in tennessee claiming their 420 million Powerball Jackpot yesterday. Ay the payout for each person, about 12 million bucks. Uc not too shabby. S the group says they buy lotteryt tickets twice a week and have h done so for years. Theyve been named tennessee 20. Congratulations to them. Tm and talk about an epic blunder with under three minutes the side lines dabbing up a veteran jason terry while thehie man he was supposed to be guarding tony printed to theed o basket and recorded the easiests two points of his career. S cee smith admits he wasnt payingayg attention saying quote i didntd even know i was in the game. G my bad. Really, wait a minute. Mut professional player you donn know youre in the game. Our you didnt know you were inn the game . T you didnt sub out. O he says, my bad. B. I didnt even know i was iniw the game. Ame for a second that that look like my rec team. Youre the coach ch nothing. Nothing because he gets paid any way. 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Dove, your daily beauty camera behind us lurking. Rab there it iseh. Hereis i thought that was great shots. Ho i thought that was anht t ornament for second. Sec thank you. Just continue. Tinu 9 20 is the time. Are you getting into the holidad spirit just yet . From hipstermt nativity scenes to beard b ornaments. Or or are hipsters going too far . F thats the question thishe morning. Are they going too far . Thats goodare th question. Ue well answer it right now. T t n we tweet us let us know what you y think. Were calling all hipsters onero good day and apparently theresy a fair share in the dmv. Have you seen the latest holidad trends . Its from our artwork for your beard to toilet paper. P now we showed you this one y t actually a couple days ago welw bring it back. K hipster nativity scene. Y scene gone are the robes in is mary is holding a starbucks. Joseph complete with a beard ana man bun taking a selfie and cann you see the solar panels op top of the manger . No because righr segues delivering amazonerinazo packages and if you look at the shepherd hes a 100 gluten free organic cow that is and hes instagraming the birth of jesusj this is from the website modern nativity and is available for 130. Are we buying it . It . No. Absolutely not. No. Goingtheven going to the house that has it for fear that itha will be struck by lightning. And lets talk about hipsterer toys, though. Legos advent cal lengths are let back for 24 minnow models come in the star wars city and friend themes. Themes. The star wars Advent Calendar is 39. The other two versions are 29 bucks. Bucks. Theyre available on amazon andd the lego shop. S i dont have problem with thosee right . Righ Advent Calendars. A how are they, whdvat are they a doing with the Advent Calendar. R i dont understand. Nderan there must be figurinesre mug countdowns the days till days t christmas. Stmas it kind of gets your kids intook the advent thing. Thi i dont necessarily have arilyav problem with that. Tha im not spending a dime ong that either. If you dont want to be a tool for yule there are less l expensive decorations likeatio these. Places like amazon actually sell beard ornaments if you rock a yc beard you could really get intot the mood with glitter or someor festive ornament balls like that guy. Gu the glitter beard kits are being sold on et cetera see. Seriously i feel like you have the fee beard you dont need to makliken additional statement. Nt were you date up to you with a balls on hisis beard . Bear [ laughter ][ hter no. Thats why well move on to isis. Cameras in the bathroom. Her mouth opened. Opened. Tend to be a little creepy,le right . Not this one, though. This is polo role toilet paper p makes that bath rom break little more fun. See it looks like a polaroidd ramera. The tp holder actually dispenses a sheet of tp just like its a piece of film. One warning. Ng dont shake after using this. T you can snatch one of these bade boys online. Boys oine do millennials know what a polaroid camera. Theyre back. Theyre hot right now. T they are. Th couple kids cpley berth today parties theyve dony the till little tin knee ones. E ive been to adult birthday h parties they have them. They hem. I have question for chris. Qur hipsters have been around forend much longer than cell phonesl po have been around. Eeoun what is the definition off hipster then . Is it somebodyt d who is adverse is on top of trends . How do yoo define it . Defi that works for me. Honestly i