After a brand new interview. Well tell you why. W. Good day at 9a starts now. . . We hope you stick around fof the full two hours we havee special surprises for you onr y this thursday morning. An hour past a minute past p hour. Ur. Im steve alongside maureen anda wisdom. Allison here today. Allison re t holly has the morning off. G o good to see you my friend. En hello. Also ahead this morning sis of the season and the end of ann era. Tonit celebrate their last White House ChristmasTree Lighting and juss like in years past there will bb starstudded event. Ed event. Well take you there life. Lif first though lets talk aboua the weather, lk ashall we, becae it wont feel much like decembem down on the ellipse. Llip. Temperatures little bit warmer than form normal for this timehi of the year. S tucker is off this morning. Mike thomas in in the game right now and hes talking all about o the weather. Weaer did everybody thought it was aot little warm,. Warm,. It was nice. Compared to years past,toearp right . Its warm. See if you feel that wayf yol but yeah, wisdom is right. Ht i mean december starting off non so bad. We should be dropping back in dg the 40s and 30s we were in theet 50s to start the day. Day tomorrow much more december likk and december at least starts srt sunny and breezy here on december 1st. Er 1st. So not such a bad start. Satellite radar showing that tht rain that moved through last night has push off the coastlini were left with lots of sunshinn out there already. Eady just some clouds over the ovethe mountains now if you do live in the maryland panhandle westhandw virginia you will have a mix off clouds and sun throughout theout day today. Da but here in d it mostly sunny. Y sunny. Theres your big storm system still rotating up over the great lakes all the way kind of wrapsa back around through maine mne theyre getting a lot of snow this morning and then the cold fr aont down off thend coastline so again were in the clear cler here. No rain for the day today. R thto well keep it dry and sunny with temperatures not as warm as yesterday. 69 degrees here in washingtonhi yesterday. Da. Were 53 right now. Now we wont go too much further,urr about 58, 59 degrees for daytime high today. Gaithersburg already in the 40si 48 degrees for them. The 48 for frederick as well. 52 for manassas at this hour. Sou winds are starting to pick up pp just a bit as well. Wel we gusted to 21 miles an hour last hour here in washington. 25 for gaithersburg. G 24 for martinsburg. Nsrg isolate the reports of gustsusts over 30 that will kind of be th case as we work our way throught the afternoon winds will w occasionally be a little bit ont the breezy side. Id so much cooler today. Tay sunshine is back though tug 58 degrees for daytime high. Hig what about the weekend . And . What about that Christmas Treeme lighting later tonight . I havee the answers coming up in just au couple of minutes. Minut all right. Th back t of o you on the good dayd couch. Mike, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Traffic moving smoothlyoty now we dont have thent the prompter. Okay. Its moving smoothly now pardonp as i look away it has been a nightmare for most of the the morning rush. Ing rush. This was the scene aroundund 6 00 this morning along 295 in northwest d. C. D. Police and rescue crews responding to a mass casualty incident sadly after a multi cac pile up 10 people had to beo be taken to the hospital luckily li stuck in the big backups policee had the road reopened shortly after 7 00 this morning. And a little earlier anotheh mess out there on the roads this one on the clara barton parkwayw a crash and fire overnight left one person dead and shut down dn all lanes from train bridgeri to chain bridge to glenn echo. Police still investigating this one. Invess also on fox5 thi morning former vicepresident ialid candidate tim kaine opening upon about a bruising president ialdea campaign. Cagn the shocking loss to donalds to trump and how he transitionsnsio serving the people of virginia. This was his first local tvv interview since the election ane he spoke with usct candidly aboo his partner Hillary Clintons cs lon and what he felt was working against her during the 2016 election. Heres part of it. Hillary was trying to be thee first woman president. President that cannot be under sold. Sd. Its very very difficult to do. In congress right now just to js give an example, 19 women. That ranks us 75th in the the world. Afghanistan, we have made ite hard for women to get elected to federal office and thati t wo as head wind she was running rni against. Hard to win three terms in a row. Very difficult in recent history to win three terms in a row for the same party. Arty. Right. For president obama twossitw terms to be followed by democratic. Only two democraticemocratic president s have done the firstae democratic president andrewndw jackson and fdr. F so were kind of a channelnn changing nation after two termst we tend to say hey, we want toto see all of those are factors. As a efforts underway in several states, senator kaine says that was an effort started by Green Party Member jill stein but thee Clinton Campaign is on board tot make sure that everything iss done fairly. Kudos to him for coming in and talking to us. D taing we were the first local mediaeda hes talked to since the election and we know him becausu hes been here over the years is got to say he is again win al goodman. Goodman what you see on air how he how h presents himself in person. Pso. He is one of the politicians who and i hope we see that more asoa we go forward. Forwa. Because its just become too contentious, too crazy you ma it not agree with lets grow hes disagree with in a respectful at manner. Ehind theaking moves behind the scenes reaching out to others ii congress. Ngre. Right. And he says, you know, there are things that he agrees withgh the president elect about andbo hes willing to work. To agree you say someone youu fought against, because again an weve come to place if i dont agree with you youre dead toe t me. That is just so wrong. He went against the current absolutely. Absolely. At lot of people want to hava politician no matter what side i you believe that is willing tott work with everybody. Not choose one side and have anh blinders on. Av i agree. Meanwhile, president elect drumu is that heading out on his long anticipated victory today. Ay stopping first in indiana wheree hes taking credit for helping save 1,000 jobs. Foxs doug luzader has those the details and why four for democrats it more of the same in congress. Ss. Reporter the president elect hits the roadoad ohio part of whats being callee a thank you tour with an a emphasis on jobs. . . . Reporter this was president elect Donald Trumps u last big public appearance,eanc, Election Night but today he wilb emerge again heading tout indiaa where carrier airconditioningtn just reversed its plans to closo a plant and send the jobs toobso meco. O. A trump tweeted, look forward tt going to indiana tomorrow in order to be with the greathere workers of carrier. Arri they will sell many airconditioners. It its not entirely clear what Parent CompanyUnited Technologies were offered buterb trumps anticipated nominee forr treasury secretary was elated. I think its terrific. Ri the president elect and thehe vicepresident picked up thekede phone and called ceo of united technologists and told them welm wanted to keep jobs here. Obs h i cant remember last time a president did that. Ent reporter it brought a sarcastic response from thefromt white house. If he is successful in doing that 804 more times, then hehene manufacturing jobs that bebshate created in the united statesnits while president obama was inid office. Reporter another electio nctio fronts recount begins in r wisconsin todayec the first off perhaps several. Everal. Led by Green Party Candidate jill stein working in conjunction with officials from Hillary Clintons campaign. Still considered unlikely toely overturn the results of the election. Elec emerging from her own election yesterday, nancy pelosi who fought off a challenger toger retain her job as House Minority leader. Leer promising to fight against thegt trump admintr so i would trade anything no to have this opportunity of opposing an administration wherw we can engage we will, where we can we oppose need too oppose, we will. W reporter as far as theas Incoming Trump administration,tt this is how its shaping thesein are the cabinet picks so far. Fr still a lot of blanks to fill in here. As the interviews continue in trump tower. Ower. In washington, doug luzaderr fox news. Preliminary vote on a schedulecl for late night Metro Service. Se it needs to reduce hoursou starting to summer to allow timm ferrety repairs and maintenancee but not everyone agrees witheesw that plan. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick live witt more on this story. To mel. Reporter good morning, ter guys. That Committee Meeting is mee getting underway at this hour. Or and theyll be looking at thiss proposal. The one that is on the table iss the one that the majority of o people who weighed in on the proposal sai willing to accept. T. Look, nobody wants to have these service cuts and heres the situation. Tuion when safetrack began, generalerl manager Paul Wiedefeld said we s got to cut back Service Hours hs because we need more timed to maintenance and inspections on the rails. So those 3 00 a. M. Closing times on fridays and saturdaysurys disappeared. And everything went back to to midnight closings. Longs. Now the safetrack is almosts aos done, the question becomes, what is Metro Service going to lookoo like . Everyone thought it woulu go back to what it used to bed o really cant have that. E that. He needs eight more hours for maintenance and inspection and that means that those service si hours are going to be cut. Cut take look at the proposal here. This is the one that the majority of people who responded said that they liked and it is i the one that again they saidhe theyd be willing to accept andn the committee will be looking at today. It basically means that mondayy through friday metro will monday through thursday metroy t would close at 11 30 instead ofo midnight on fridays and saturdays open until 1 00 a. M. So restoring some late night nit cuts and then on sundays closing at 11 00 p. M. 11 00 p. M. Could have a big impact on restaurants, bars, ho workers. People who might work eveningsk evenin and need to take metro to and a from their jobs. That is what councilman jackk evans is concerned about. About. He is also the Board Chairmanma and has said he only wants any a one year while Paul Wiedefeld says hed like these cuts toutst last for two years. Ears that becomes the big questionst today. To what is the Committee Going to i do about it . Committee could cd vote it in or they can try to to make some changes. Chaes what you really dont want to have is a situation where the Board Chairman and the d. C. Delegation ends up vetoing the bill altogether and then youyou have to go back to the drawingng board what paul wed field going to do trying to restore metroret back to good working order. Rder. Again, this is just a first fir vote, a committee votee would have to go to the full committee but there could be some, l could be changes today. Y matt ackland is inside and hell be following this for you guysss later today. La back to you guys. O you guys mel, thanks very much. The fear if you do itfearf yo temporarily would you ever goy o back to extendinguld the hoursu again or would it just be the t kind of thing, okay, were usedw to it now, why change. C once you let it out thats it. It. Cant dial it back in. The nations capitolt a dis Rodney Dangerfield might say getting to no respect from the Holmes Norton to the rescue. Rcu she has d. 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Like hearing the sound of your own voice. softly like hearing the sound of your own voice. It is december 1st. I it means its time to get into the holiday spirit. S the what washington is kici things off tonight with theith t lighting of the nationalthnati Christmas Tree near the whitehee house. Here with preview of the w h starstudded event is annie y. She joins us live this morning. G shes got all the details of thf big event. Big hey, annie. Chance the rapper rightper behind you. Reporter hello. [ laughter ] reporter i love you guys. S. Okay. Look, i have been on star watch. So far no stars have made m appearances but i know they hadd to do some sound checks lasthect night but because of the rainusr thing got little tricky as farcf as the schedule goes. Gs so well see who shows up. But theres a lot of activity going on this morning behind me. You can see the beautiful stagee ready for all the big stars whos are going to grace that stage te later today along with the firsh family, but this is a wonderful taking mace here has alwaysaa taken place here on the ellipsee president s park a big big deal. Its going to go down atownt 5 00 oclock. That is when the president andse First Lady Michelle Obama willl illuminate the tree and were w going to be live here as well. Sw so be sure to tune into fox5to x news at 5 00. A 5 0 we have video from last year ana i just want to do kind of showoi you that this lighting ceremonyy is truly a unique experience ana it began as a community eventtye back in 1923 with president dent ca its grown into a big event. Nationally televised event with celebrity hosts performers, and of course the first family, and, get this, every president since Calvin Coolidge has participatei in the lighting celebration. Elea of course, this year will be the final one for president obama. And the countdown so what typically happens is the firsthe family comes up to the stagehe s here. Theres a countdown and thenn theres the flip of the switch at 5 00 oclock. Theres some remarks takingakg place. Pl this year there are some big big bring in will with the nationalt park foundation. Oundation. Good morning. The president of the nationalheo park foundation. The man in charge and reallyea this event cannot go on without you. Thats right. The National Park service askeda us to produce this event for e eve every year. So we have to go out and raise the money, recruit the talent,en produce the event, and talk toak people like you to make sure s everyone knows about it. Yone reporter thank you soor thak much. Mu and lets talk about the starstudded event. E theres a lot of people in townn here for longoria who will be hosting th event. Event. Shes fantastic. We were so excited to hav fane v here. He shes great energy, enthusiasmns shes going to be great with all the artists. The artists reporter can you mentionou n some of the artists . Thtist yes, we have this is bests lineup ever annie im just i j saying. Its amazing. Last year. That was true last year evene more true thisast year jameses taylor, chan the rapper, garth brooks and at a pa tricia yearia wood, Kelly Clarkson, markson,ar anthony amazing lineup. Leup. It really is. Yolanda adams. Ams yes. Reporter when she singshe ss its going to blow everyone away. 20,000 people are supposed to bo here tonight. Onig thats a lot of people. Ple and i know some of you areu wounding how can i go down, it not open to the public. Li it was a Lottery Ticket situation. But can you talk about the aut people that are going to be here and really the agencies involved to make this big event happenap every year . Yeah, like you said 20,0000,0 people have gotten a chance file for the Lottery Ticket. Tie the re here. The National Park service and the rangers you see around herer are the ones that really makey m this thing happen. Reporter yeah. Ter they are dedicated public servants. Se they make sure this happens they provide security. Ide sety they provide sort of the Overall Organization of this thing, anda we couldnt do it without them. O reporter am i going to seet any stars . Tonight, yeah h reporter no, this morning. Or im sorry. Im the stars will be out tonight. Because clear skies, it will be cool. But the stars will be filteringg in and out of here. O her Amazing Group of people here ana let me also say that werete really grateful for hallmark tor be our sponsor tonight and alsos for the opportunity for the viewers to purchase some great t White House Christmas treere ornaments as well as somee commemorative coins. Oi go to our website nationalna park. Org to find those greatat momentos for your grand childrel report thank you so much, will. L my neck hurts from looking up al you. We look up to you. Thank you very much forweank yo everything do you. Everythi i forgot Kelly Clarkson will b