Made by President Trump that have set a you have a huge firestorm. The president reportedly used an expletive to lash out at immigrants coming to the u. S. From certain countries. Melanie alnwick this morning live outside of the white house with the latest on the growing controversy. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning,. Reaction coming from lawmakers and also from across the globe. The president apparently dropped the s bomb in the oval office. Lawmakers were having a meeting trying to hash out an agreement on protections for immigrant children. We talked about this earlier in the week, the daca protections, right. Well, thats when the president reportedly said why are we having all these people from shole countries come here. Sources inside the meeting say trump was referring to countries in Africa Central America and the caribbean. He also spoke specifically about haiti. Now, according to in that same source the president said the u. S. Should bring in immigrants from nations like norway. Democrats and republicans have they really are very unhappy about the president s language. But were also getting reaction now from haiti and from the African Union. Lets show you some of those comments from them as well. First, the haitian ambassador to the United States saying in the spirit of the people of haiti we feel the statements, if they were made, the president was either misinformed or miss educated about haiti and its people and the African Union said that they are alarmed at the statements by President Trump when referring to migrants of african countries in such contempt wuss terms relating the historical reality of how many africans arrived in the United States during the slave trade. The white house did not deny the president s remarks but in a statement said that President Trump supports immigration that welcomes people who have something to contribute to this country. Live outside the white house, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. 6 02 is the time and new this morning, the nation of turkey issuing a travel warning to its citizens planning to travel to t caution or revise their plans. The move is seen as retaliatory after the u. S. Issued a travel advisory on wednesday naming turkey among countries with an increased security risk. In its warning turkey cites a recent increase in terrorists or Violent Attacks referring to several deadly incidents over the past few months. President trump will go from the oval office to the Doctors Office for his first medical exam since becoming president. The commanderinchief will get a physical at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center in bethesda. The exam will not look at the president s mental fitness, though, as it comes as the white house continues to fight reports in a new book that he is mentally unfit. Theres no requirement for a president to have a physical. Local news right now. New details this morning in a school stabbing. Happened about this time yesterday morning Prince Georges County county. 19yearold Edgar Martinez charged with two counts of attempted murder assault and a weapons charge. Happened yesterday morning. Police say three men got into a f stabbing. Both students in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery. D. C. Police investigating a murder. 22yearold Marty Mcmillan disappeared in april. His body was found on the side of suitland parkway in october. No arrests. Police are offering a 25,000 reward for information in the case. Deputies in Charles County need your help identifying a woman whose body was found last night. Detectives overnight tweeting out pictures of the victims tattoos that you see right there on the screen. They are asking anyone who recognizes those tattoos to contact them. The womans body was found on Old Washington road near smallwood drive in waldorf. The case is being investigated as a homicide. And d. C. Police this morning looking for people of interest involved in a shooting. Take a look at newly released surveillance video. Happened in the 5200 block of Fourth Street northeast on wednesday. Police also looking for a suspect connected to a bank robbery yesterday morning. This incident in bank branch on k street northwest. You can see him walk up to the counter there hand over a note before the teller passes over a bag of money and then the suspect runs out of the bank. Search efforts continue in Southern California following this weeks deadly mudslides. 17 people so far have been killed 43 remain unaccounted for. Local authorities are crosschecking the missing against open missing persons cases and calls theyve received from people who cant get ahold of someone they believe to be in that mudslide area. 6 05. Well, hello tucker barnes. Not quite yet. All right. There you go. Hello tucker barnes. Good morning to you. Sometimes i dream about that, you know, that little chime. The music. I was like what do you dream about. And then i start running. Yes. Good morning. Rain showers, theyve moved in and the theyll be with us throughout the day. Im not minding it. Come on, tropical air. Come on. No complaints. And its a one day special at this point in the warm temperatures. I like that. Right, steve . Yup. Lets enjoy it. Have to get permission from steve. Mid 60s this afternoon. Yeah, in fact, were already off to a very mild start t look at your temps right now. 58 at reagan national. Dulles is 61. Bwi marshall 59. So, no cooling overnight. Pretty extraordinary to think we were in the teens just a couple days ago for morning lows. Theres your rain shower activity. Pretty steady for much of the area. Will impact your morning commute. Ill let erin tell you whether or not thats causing problems on the roads. Good news is it will just be rain. Not looking at any frozen precip. In the midday it will probably let up and well have a period of time this afternoon where its just kind of breezy and cloudy, mostly cloudy and the probably not raining so get out and enjoy the warmer temperatures for a couple hours you can. Bigger picture there you go. Snow on the backside of it. That is indication of the colder air that will be moving in after the cold front comes through late tonight and early tomorrow. More on that coming up but there you go. 66. Yeah. There will be on again off again showers throughout the day. Take the umbrella. On right now though. On right now. All right. Good morning, erin como. How are the roads besides wet. Wet and we have some crashes and issues. Down in alexandria route one richmond hi way at glad son lane a crash blocking one lane. Please use caution as you make your way out south of the beltway. Aside from that one taking a look darnestown road in gaithersburg closed right now with downed wires. A blown transformer between kent oak way and tishefly square road. You may experience heavier delays than usual making your way out through that that neighborhood. As you make your way out on the outer loop right now by 202, youre at speed. Look at all that rain kind of clouding up the camera. Watch for fog conditions as well as you make your way out across the bay bridge. Low beams. Take it slow. If you encounter any rainy fog right now. You can see a live look and denser fog on the bridge again impacting your from annapolis to kent island just be prepared to take it slow this morning. Aside from that one, the potential to hydroplane just use caution. Watch for slick spots. 95 looks good to and from bwi. On the way to metro just grab your umbrella but all metro rail lines on time. Back to you. Still to come this morning,. Allegations of bullying harassment, hazing at a Prince Georges County high school. What a Cheerleading Squad said their coaches did to them in a story youll only see here on fox5. Were back in just 30 seconds. O. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it happening today, the Prince Georges CountyPublic Schools grade fixing scandal will be the subject of testimony in annapolis. Schools ceo dr. Kevin maxwell scheduled to testify before a state Committee Investigating that scandal. Fox5 was the first to break this story and in the last few weeks weve Learned School officials knew more than a year ago that some students were graduating without meeting the requirements. The superintendent has longden need any wrongdoing or knowledge of wrongdoing when it came to graduating seniors. Todays testimony also comes days after Maryland Governor larry hogan announced plans to create a special unit within the state Education Department to investigate wrongdoing in schools. Now to another exclusive report here on fox5. There are new allegations of bullying harassment and hazing involving the squad at a Prince Georges County high school. Parents at Charles Flowers High School contacted fox5 alleging that several coaches have mistreated the girls on one of the cheer teams. Our annie yu is live in the news room with more on that story. Annie. Reporter maureen and steve, good morning. This is a story youll only see on fox5. The serious and disturbing allegations coming from a group of at least a half a dozen parents and fox5 has confirmed that the School District has now launched an investigation and the principal of charles h. Flowers high school is also meeting with parents to address their concerns. Now, in a six page letter to School Administration and Prince Georges County schools ceo dr. Kevin maxwell, parents outlined allegations of cheer coaches calling students profane names, mismanagement of program fees as well as their daughters being pushed to exercise to the point of absolute exhaustion. Along with this letter, parents attached statements from their daughters who said they are treated very badly and that coaches would always curse. Parents say they want coaches replaced a full refund of fees as well as a their daughters can cheer and be protected. Parents chose not to speak on the record with fox5 for fear of retribution aimed at their daughters but they did choose Community Activist and Maryland State Senate candidate Everett Browning to speak on their behalf. We all understand tough love, understand coaching but calling a young lady who is coming for a Cheerleading Team constantly calling her a bleep calling her dumb stupid and telling her that shes not good enough to be a part of the program is unacceptable. Pushing some of these young ladies pass the point of exhaustion where theyre throwing up physically sick and ill and threatened not to tell their parents about it because if they do theyre threatened to be thrown off the team. Reporter according to Everett Browning the cheer coach disbanded the squad because of complaints. They have started to interview students as well as staff to find out exactly what is going on. And so we will that continue to stay on top of this story and bring you the outcome of the School Districts investigatn. The news room. Well send it back up to you steve and maureen. Annie thank you for that. 6 11 is the time. The university of maryland Medical Center midtown in baltimore is taking full responsibility for its actions after this video surfaced this past week. It shows a woman in a thin hospital gown left outside in the cold at a bus stop earlier this week. The hospital says it believes it provided appropriate medical care for the patient. But that it failed to demonstrate compassion. The Hospital System is investigating the incident and reviewing its discharge policies. All right. Still to come this morning,. Youll like this one. The force is strong on the east coast. A pretty cool dad getting creative to surprise his son. Were going to show it to you when we come right back. There it is. Can you guess what it is . I need wisdom. Im not going to lie maureen i need wisdom for the darth vader voice. A boston man built his kids a life sized darth vader out of the snow. How cool is that. He spent four hours on tuesday night building it so his son would be surprised as he left for school the next morning. Did a really good job. He did a great job with it. The snow vader caught the eyes of passersby who stopped and took a selfie. You know what i think is the nicest thing is people left it there. Nobody destroyed it overnight. No word on whether the dark lord is still around or the force melted him away. Can i make a quick observation. Of course. Sidewalk snow is some of the hardest snow to mold. Seriously. Thats just chunks of ice. He had to really put his heart into that to make that happen. Dad goals. Thats a great job. Hes quite the artist. All right. Closer to home crews on the move surveying the area. Wet roads as you see right there but, hey, ill look at the bright side. Its warm today tucker we got Power Outages. Yeah, im sorry i didnt mention that but yeah youre right. I dont know if thats weather related. I assume it is. Maybe its from the winds we have but nothing terrible out there at the moment. Bus stop forecast. Before school, temperatures around 60. Rain showers. After school, the theme today rain showers. Although i think theyll be light this afternoon but the temperatures as maureen mentioned were in the bonus category. Mid 60s around here for one more day. Yesterday we were in the low 60s. Today mid 60s. All right. 59 now in washington. I cant believe that, you know, i said a few days ago we were talking about teens because now were talking about 60s to start your day. 61 at dulles, 62 in manassas. It wasnt so long ago that we were talking about temperatures near zero here. 61 in leonardtown. Got to love this area. 54 in annapolis. Little cooler by the bay with the cooler waters of course along the bay. All right. Rain showers. Moving through. Going to be a wet rush hour here unfortunately. Wet couple hours. The rain is not terribly heavy although theres a little batch ther j county now pushing up towards annapolis its a little heavier. Well keep showers in the forecast for the next couple hours and then this afternoon we may get a bit of a break. I cant promise it will be completely dry but it wont be raining all afternoon as this whole mess works south to north. Whats going to happen is a cold front is back here and as that drags through later tonight that will give us our best chance of more rain late tonight and early tomorrow morning and then the colder air rushes in. Mid 60s today. Area of low pressure rolls on top of us later today. Erin if you look out later to the sky you might see an l. Why. You can actually see the l out there. Seriously. No. Dont do that to me. Couple light sprinkles and showers at 1 oclock and then again as we put this in motion, i think the evening commute will be much less rainy than the morning commute. Theres the front actually coming through overnight tonight. 1 oclock in the morning. And it may end as a few brief sleet pellets early tomorrow morning. Let me mention the cold air really rushes in tomorrow. Our 50 that were tonight so it might be in the low to mid 30s by the time you wake up tomorrow morning and then cold, cold weekend but sunny and bright right through the holiday there. Martin luther king day looks cold 32 for the parade. Boo. It will be sunny though. Good. Just bundle up on monday if youre headed out to the Martin Luther king day parade. Flashing lights behind me. You know what it happens when it rains, tuck, a lot of crashes and slow moving traffic. Pete piringer letting us know at the intersection of New Hampshire and East Randolph uses caution. Were getting a long list of traffic lights that are out in the district especially in northeast. So, please treat those intersections as though you would a stop sign and take your time. I grabbed the wrong clicker. Lets see if we can forward things along to our next element this morning. 66 eastbound the good news is were still at speed from manassas into fairfax. Inner loop through annandale quiet. 95 northbound in virginia we have volume picking up. Lets forward things along once again show you what else youre dealing with. Excuse me this morning. Inner loop volume slowing but still at speed from mclean as you cross the legion no problems on cabin John Clara Barton parkway this morning. You can see were seeing brake lights because of the wet roads. As we forward things along once again things slowing down on 270 southbound from 70 to 121. And the 14th street bridge starting to slow as well. Watch for foggy conditions over the bay bridge out in annapolis. Use your low beams. Take it slow. Thats your traffic. Thank you erin. Coming up. How would you like a high Tech Experience in the bathroom . 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