New cabinet positions picking aa fight with a union boss and heading to ohio state. Ste well have the latest from the countdown to inauguration day. And later, going rogue. Rog. We are just about one week away from the new star wars spin offo and this morning, the cast telll us why theyre not worried itori wont live up to the hype. Yp good day at 9a starts now. Welcome to the loft on this thursday. It is indeed our house and we we love when youre in it with us. U good day d. C. Just aftert aft 9 00 oclock on thursday,n thrs, december 8th. De im holly morris alongside off maureen, steve and wisdom. Wisdm all right. Countdown officially underway right now. Offici now were down to just a few hours. S less than 14 at this point forif the National Harbor mgm grand opening. What this morning we are givingn it will be exciting. Excit first know at 9 00 lets talk t about this weather. Eather. It will start feeling a lot more like christmasel. Kehristmas just in time for the weekend. Eed for de
Announcer news4 midday starts now. Im barbara harrison. Im eun yang. Everybody is getting ready for changes. The cold arrives first. Saturday, we could see a mix of ice and snow. Road crews are getting ready. Ddot has already started antiicing treatments. More from storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Hi, tom. Only hours away now. A live view on capitol hill. Were basking in sunshine. Enjoy this while you can. Big changes are on the way. Temperatures already up to 44 at reagan national, low to mid40s around the chesapeake bay. Its hovering in the low 40s as well in the shenandoah valley. The cold air is still pretty far away from us. It will begin to move in. Hour by hour temperatures for the rest of the afternoon, well be hovering in the mid to briefly upper 40s by 3 00. Then it starts to drop by, by 6 00 back do then by dawn tomorrow, well be down into the 20s with windchills near 10 degrees. Ive got the timing for snow for the weekend. Thats coming up in a few minutes. All right,
Wind chill of five in hague ertztown. Hagerstown. Highs in the 20s, but dress for the Single Digits and teens and try to hammer it home for the kids. 15 wind chill at 1 00. It gets colder through the day. 4 degrees in hagerstown also by 1 00. By evening, its Single Digits pretty much across the board. So, good news for tomorrow. Wake up weather not bad. Just chilly across the board. 30s to start. 3442 at 9 00 and 4246 by noon. Well come back and talk about not one, but two chances of seeing snow with this arctic air. Thanks, top. We have sad news tonight about the beloved father on the hip sitcom growing pains. Actor alan thicke has died at the age of 69. A publicist for his son, singer robin thicke, sayses he diedz of a says he died of a heart attack in los angeles. Alan thicke played dr. Jasonreceiver in growing pains and appeared recently in how i Netflix Series fuller house. Well share some thoughts later. Lets take a live look at a big crash that has shutdown i95 in both direction
December. Maybe even november that there was a bed bug problem here, and should feel whats happening now should have happened immediately. We just talked to the dad who gave us those photos of the child. Heres what he had to say you all to get here nor them to show up. Really shouldnt have took that long. My daughter hasnt been in school since tuesday. Bit you all saying. Reporter heres what we know about the timeline of this. As i mentioned some parents said they heard weeks ago that there was a bed bug problem in addition with rats. On january 16th the school said. There is no a bed button if he is intimidation single isolated incident with one adult unand one child has been cited. As i mention i new school chancellor. Just started on the job this week. He didnt have answers to my questions about exactly what School Leaders here knew that there was a bed bug infestation. But i did talk to him about parents feeling that whats happening now is too little, too late. What do you say they
Montgomery county, his familys home covered in olympic flags, wishing him well. Nobody was talking at the swim club today. But otherwise, in rockville, a lot of people had a lot to say about this, as they say brazil should let conger come home. Theyve got to let him come home unless they have some serious, you know, evidence against him and all that. Im swim team mom. And between phelps and rideki and him, were really happy. So of course everybody will be worried about him, and everybodys been worried about the whole brazil olympics. Brazilian decide, they can call them back. Now, as for ryan lochte, his attorney tonight is double down on all of this saying that lochte is a victim and hes standing by his in washington tonight the Us State Department tells fox5 news that the consolate in brazil has reached out to the 2us olympic swim tears make sure theyre being treated fairly. Theyre conflicting reports tonight about whether or not charges have been filed in this case. The police chief