Attorney general sued epa a dozen times he believes regulations are too burdensome and best left to states. He told senators he disagreed with past statements that Climate Change is a hoax. Environmental grurpz and hundreds of former epa my ease have been fighting the nomination. They fear he will put politics over science and try to gut the agency. Illinois senator Tommy Duckworth iraq war veteran explained while shell vote against him. I seen firsthand the price we pay for dangerous dependent oil imported have adversaryyes i fought a war over oil already. And now, a state judge in oklahoma ordered pruit to release thousands of email changes he had with oil and gas executives. People want exactly the sort of dealings hes had and what promises he made. We dont know. But those emails are supposed to be released on tuesday. However, it appears this confirmation vote will probably go through today. Live on capitol hill im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Thank you you very much, melanie, President Trump has new knowledge any for labor secretary former Justice Department alexander costa after the first nominee puzder withdrew on thursday. He would be the first hispanic member of trumps cabinet. White house has to look elsewhere for National Security advisor. Robert howard turned down an offer to fill that position. He declined due to financial and family commitments. Names are mentioned for the position including acting National Security advisor Keith Kellogg and Trump Administration is causing a legal fight over a ban on travelers from 7 predominantly muslim nations. He plans to issue replacement order. Details are due out next week. Lawyers for administration say in Court Documents that rebound would focus on foreigners that never entered the united states. Today mike pence defend secretary jim matt is and other u. S. Officials will meet with top World Leaders in berlin. Theyre in germany for mupic security conference and the meeting comes amid Global Concerns over Trump Administration to nato. And the president also stressed the need for nato members to all pay a fair share for defense. Something secretary matt is repeated this week in a speech before nato. Top House Republicans have unveiled a rough sketch of Massive Health overhaul. During the closed door meeting yesterday gop leaders described vision to repeal and replace obamacare. But the ideas reportedly lacked detail and cost estimate. They include he revamped medicade. Tax breaks to help people pay for bills and federally subsidized state pools to help people with costly medical condition buy insurance. Fox5 continues with latest on gaithersburg teen ekt asked to gang vool violence in norp virginia. A Northern Virginia task force that tracks gay activity says theres an increase in violence related to gang and increased violence in elementary aged children. Theres many different clicks in the areas and they have their own local leaders and yes they get a lot of guidance and orders that come out of el salvador and a lot of these individuals are from el salvador and involved in the gang life before they came to u. S. Fox5 learned custom officials have de tapers against two suspect meaning theyre in the country illegally or in violation of legal status. Six of them are minors. T minus four days and counting in boa, boa celebration today. As we say goodbye to the giant panda cub. Today you can visit the zoo or tune into the panda cam. Later today the zoo will live stream on facebook how you can make giant panda inspired crafts vrn the 3yearold will move back to china on february 21. You have tomorrow get your baobao on. Take pictures. I will. No winner for this weeks Powerball Lottery the jackpot is now 350 million. Next drawing is tomorrow night and jackpot is expected to climb between now and then. You won all that money and you can go to china all you want. You i have to get a l ticket on my way home today. Yes, on your way to see boaboa. You could buy him and keep him from going back to china. Maybe. Probably worth more than that. Temperaturewise cold air around the region. Feels like february when you step outside. Byit time we get to the afternoon slightly warming it up. It will have a cool feel for it this afternoon. Mainly the weekend we see warmer air surging in. Satellite and radar showing clouds south and west. Some of those may head to the Early Morning. Cloudy and mostly sunny to start the day. By the second half of the morning getting back to sunshine. Temperatures 30 in washington and0s elsewhere. Again bundle up if you head out the door. Theres the planner for the day today. Dry, chilly morning, through the afternoon we get to 50. Again cooler 50. All right thats a check of the forecast lets go to erin airport. 4 6 mike, its friday morning my favorite day of the week and metro picks up 5 and safe track surge 12 final weekday of first week of safe track no Train Service on blue line rosalyn to pent gop and arlington is closed and use yellow he are or yellow rush flush and for maryland use silver. Our roads are quiet. Well look at those next. Any questions airport fox d. C. On twier. Coming up on fox news morning theyre in shock after President Trump asked black report others to set up a meeting between they will app the white house. And you will never believe what two women were tryinging to bring through dulles airport. A live look outside across the dmv. 4 37. Temperatures 30. Fox news morning back after this. Well number the 60 tomorrow. Is that right . Thats right. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. 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Some members are bavrled and dismade after president Donald Trumpp asked a black reporter to setp a meeting with him. There was ael the of disrespect to april ryan during yesterdays News Conference when the president asked whether ryan was friends with cbc members and set up a get together. Facebook founder Mike Zuckerberg revealed his vision for companys future in the midst of world changes in long manifesto posted to his facebook paying. He wants to develop a social infrastructure to give people the power to build a Global Community and wants facebook to encourage Civic Engagement and ep inform people as well. Heres something you dont want to see at airport. Two women caught with 42 pounds of horse meat including animals again tallies after flying into dulles from mongolia yes that mongolia yes thats what i said. Meat. Were taking it all in. Meat in juice boxes. One of the women said that the horse genitals was for medical purpose. Parents listen up more than 700,000 strollers by britta were recalled they can disengage and injury children theyre sold at toys rus and byebye baby and a woman 64 gave birth to twins her second successful pregnancy at advanced age townships a boy and girl and the woman became pregnant after invitro fert laix in the united states. Congratulations to her. Very cool. Infestation problem within two d. C. Public schools that could be a sign of more widespread problems. Three people remain hospitalized after being shot while driving on route 50. As we head to a live look across the d. C. Region and time now is 4 41. Reapp ataking us out. Did you know 90 of couples disagree on mattress firmness . Enter sleep number. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. You can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. Save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed, plus 24month financing. Assault and prison time after breaking the law. Its another cold morning but theres silver line on the way. Warm air is returning its expected to feel spring like this weekend. Thank you for join tion us im wisdom martin. Im erin airport. Today is friday lets enjoy this friday. February 17. All right. Michael thomas is here and hell talk about weather. Youll talk about traffic. Got you covered. Well get it altogether. We have you covered in fact lets start right now with motorcycle mike on the big board. Lets do it. Lets do weather here. We have good news to talk about as we get into the weekend. Lets see the 7 day forecast after future cast here. Chilly to start i day here. Lets go over to you know traffic its green all around the region because its 4 35 on the roads and nobody is on the roads yet. And now we get over to the weather maps here and ill show you exactly what we can expect this afternoon. Maybe i wont. Maybe you know if you are travel around the beltway this morning you have clear, sunny skies. Morning 7 30 in the morning clouds comeing across and then look as we get into the afternoon. We break out back to sunshine and work our way into saturday afternoon. We can see those clouds starting to roll back in. Saturday starts with sun and end with cloud cover. Regardless we should make it up into the 60s. 51 today. 66 tomorrow. 65 sunday. One hickup we now are to watch for is future cast showing a little drizzle late saturday night into early sunday morning before we get back to the sun. Sunday afternoon. All right thats a check of the forecast. Erin ill accepted it to you for traffic and ill guess were probably doing okay you. Know what you did a gate job. Beltway quiet now. This a live look at 66 sutly road eastbound side and taillights barely any making their way towards the beltway in great shape and if you head westbound making your way to gainsville youre in great shape and no problems fairfax and i like what were seeing 95 thro well move to the maps where mike is doing a great job telling you how it is on the beltway. No issues through capitol heights. Hyattsville and buoy any questions the erin fox d. C. Twitter. 4 37 is the time and police in one Maryland Community are asking residents to be in alert after a stripping of robbyes. They could be connected with many happening now early on friday morning. Fox5 annie yu is live in hyattsville with what we know and who police are looking for, annie. Hey, good morning, airport, wisdom, thats right this is the time police say a man is targeting his victims in the city of hyattsville and this all dates back to early december the string of robbyes began the first one reported december and since then theres been a total of eight armed robberies or attempted armed robberies in this area. And i want to show you a map that out lines all the areas were talking about. So you can pretty much see between Queens Chapel road, Hamilton Road anding aer road and detectives say the victims do not speak english and robber is striking during the week as you mentioned lily fridays and all victims reported similar stories of being robbed at gun point between the hours of and 6 a. M. And because of the pattern officials believe this is involving the same suspect and fortunately no one has been hurt in any of these cases and thats really good news out of this and can you imagine residents are unsettled here on this edge as this person continues to strike his victims. And so, police definitely want to hear from anyone who has any information. And they want to hear from victims if you are a victim of one of these coymz they want to hear from you as well and again this is city of hyattsville. Thats the latest back to you in the studio. Thank you very much. 4 48 is the time and Prince George country three are recoughing after the car they were riding in was hit by gunfire yesterday afternoon along route 50 chefly past 295 a gray kia sedan was hit with as many as 13 bullets. Three men in the car were shot. They do not believe it was random. Police are searching for a suspects. Prince George CountyPolice Officers could face jail time after misconduct in office and one officer is accused of assaulting a homeless woman last year and second is member of the departments Prostitution Task force and is accused of helping prostitute avoid arrests by alerting them when the task force were conducting stings and both officers are now suspended with pay. Meanwhile, Public Schools deny bedbugs are widespread issue after bedbugs were found at two schools in recent weeks. Save elementary in southeast is closed so the school can be cleaned and minor elementary northeast is on after Pest Control Service is called in and there are reports of bedbugs at stanton elementary in northeast and d. C. Ps at this point that. Department of Forensic Sciences found issues with lab testing for the zika virus last year. More than 400 test were conducted and a pregnant woman may have been told they did not have mosquito born viral and two women tested positive. They expect to have all results with retests within three to four weeks. Coming up on fox news morning a new analysis says Nuclear Waste at fukushima plant in japan is still spilling into the ocean. Alleging Marijuana Legalization movement has turned several new supporters on capitol hill. App a live look across the region. Temperatures 30. Back in a moment. Its a chilly, chilly morning, bundle up. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years, we have received 6 times more awards than cable, only fios has the fastest internet, on the most awarded network. Get this amazing offer 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. We care about using cagefree eggs. And we care about azing taste. Because at hellmanns, were on the side of food. Back now at 4 5 with troubling news out of japan amid the ongoing cleanup at the fukushima plant. Robots that were september to contaminated vessel failed while going through radioactive debris. This is Key Information for how to best remove it from the reactor. There was damage fol the 2011 earthquake and its sxengts todd take decades. U. S. Ambassador Nikki Haley Says the u. S. Supports two state solution to israeli pal stipulateian conflict. Haley said the solution to the conflict has to come from israelis and palestinians themselves and u. S. Supports a twostate solution. Nato plans to boost naval presence in the black sea. It will step up war games training and surveillance in the black sea. Ship was spotted off east coast and after russia deployed a missile in apparent treaty violation. D. C. Local marnl marnl laws have new defenders up on capitol hill. For the First Time Ever a group of republican and democratic congressmen joined together to form a new cannabis caucus and their goal to keep federal policies from interfering with states as they enact laws that allow for recreational or medical marijuana. Know well do our part to continue progress of making sure that people have a right to live their lives and adults have a right to freedom and should have the freedom to basically consume cannabis for medical purposes or otherwise if thats what they afree to in the states they reside. Majority of people we work with think its hypocritical for advocacy for rat cannabis policies for 50 states and not for districts of columbia. Eight state and District Of Columbia legalized small amounts of marijuana for adpult Recreational Use r use and 8 states legalized medical marijuana. And were talking about cold started. Warmup is on the way. Do you you like the mild february or no . I love the mild february. Ill say bouncing back and forth between the warm and cold days is a shock to the system. Okay. I dont care i like warm weather. Im fine with warm weather i wish we had snow from time to time. We had some the other day remember the flurries. That will do it. Im sure your kids were happy about that as they headed off to school on time. Ill take the warm over the snow anyday. Im getting a the lot of that this winter. People dont seem to be disappointed. This morning you need to bundle up. Cold temperatures across the region. Feels like february morning. No snow in the forecast. As we get into the weekend a warmup coming our way. 20 school and partly sunny to mostly cloudy early in the morning and second half the of the morning into afternoon we warm it up. Well call it cool 50 later here in d. C. And because we briefly touch it this afternoon. 66 for saturday. Well start with good amount of sun and get to cloud cover in the afternoon. Sunday spotty drizzle early and by the afternoon hours of sunday the sun comes back and were warm once again. 60s stick around in the holiday weekend. Back to you for traffic. 4 56 its been a pleasant start to friday morning commute and that trend continues. Take a look at green on the map. Whether youre coming in from the bay ridge on 50 making your way to chefly were in great shape and same story gainsville to beltway coming from virginia. And i like what im seeing all across the beltway inner and outer loop no slow downs to report and if you have Early Morning flighting to catch well forward to the maps. Reagan national and dulles moving without issues and service pigging up with five with safe track work slowing us down. Well have more traffic in the 5 00 hour. Any questions erin fox d. C. On twitter. 4 56 is the time right now. Coming up on fox news morning a disgraced tv icon is dismissed. National zoo fare well tour for baobao includes itinerary of what to do today and over the weekend. A live look across the dmv. 4 57 is the time and 30 the temp. Warmup is on the way. Hang on. Get up and get moving its friday. Today on fox news morning all night session a live look at the senate floor right now as democrats voice opposition to scott pruit nomination to be administrator of the epa. And live outside youre in for another cold morning and but there is Silver Lining warm air coming back and this weekend is expected to feel spring like were saying were hoping. Fingers crossed. Good morning to you thank you for joining us im maureen umeh. Im holly morris. Study friday day date february 17. We have erin there working traffic and mike looking so spivy in a brand