Right off the top this morning if youre just waking up at 5 00 a. M. No surprise it is cold outside and were talking frigid conditions. But the bone chilling temperatures werent enough to keep many people from ringing in 2018 out of town. Fox5s kristyn leon live from Dupont Circle with more. Happy new year to you, kristen. Reporter hey, happy new year, maureen and wisdom. Let me tell you something first and foremost, im a california girl and this california girl does not do cold very well and believe me, you guys, its cold outside. Can you see that . Yeah, thats my breath. Thats how cold it is. I want to show you how cold. Right behind me, you could see that sign on Sun Trust Bank, 13 degrees, you guys. We are in the latents but it feels like subzero temperatures here so way below zero. If you dont have to be out and about this morning, dont. Believe me. I would love to be in bed where you are cause it is so cold and im told you guys that this new years, this new years day, 2018, this is the coldest years. Mike correct me if im wrong but thats what im told. I believe it being out here. Last night though none of this, the cold, the frigid temperatures. It did not stop anyone from partying, having a good time. Check out everyone all bundled up in alexandria. This is video again from last night. People were out and about just enjoying and rocking their new years eve essentially. So, hey, good for you guys. I was bundled up watching Ryan Seacrest out in the cold thinking, hey, im lucky, i dont have to be out there like Ryan Seacrest in new york city but i guess you a wrong this morning cause im standing right here and, hey, if youre going to be like me this morning standing outside, this is what you guys got to know and im sure you already know this, so no need to tell you twice. Make sure you dress super warm you guys. Wear that scarf, your gloves, your beanie, your your what is this, my coat, i cant even talk right now, cant even think its so cold outside but make sure you lather up you bundle up this morning if youre going to be out here coming hom whatever it is and, you know, experts say that it takes seconds just to get frost bite for you to get really, really cold out there so again just make sure youre wearing these right now and just stay warm. If you dont have to be outside, dont be outside. Were going to try this little test. Im going to show you what were going to do. I want to compare to see how cold its going to be in the next hour or so if its going to stay 13 degrees. Were going to see just how quickly this bottle, this Crystal Springs water bottle will freeze out here in the cold. Im going to guess maybe within the next, i dont know, two hours well start to see it harden up a bit but thats just my guess. I dont know, what do you guys think . 45 minutes it will be frozen solid, 45 minutes. Im going to give it by 8 oclock. Reporter maureen, im right there with you. Im thinking a little later. Wisdom, i dont know, man, its cold but i dont know. I dont think it will freeze up that quick. Youre a california girl, i am not a california guy and i so we have that in common. We all have have that in common. Reporter im going to fist pump you. Find someplace warm. Youre doing great job this morning. And get you a scarf cause your neck is exposed right there. Reporter i need to find a scarf. Thank you guys. Stay warm inside. Thank you kristyn. Okay, yes, do keep warm today. In other news this morning President Trump he spent new years eve at his maralago state in south florida. I can talk. President trump spent part of the day golfing. He also invited about 60 members of the coast guard to join him on the green. Last night before the ball dropped he tweeted happy new year. We are making America Great again and much faster than anyone that was the possible. We now know the identity of a man involved in a officerinvolved shooting in the district saturday night. Kevin tally of northeast. Officers were called to h confronted tally. Police shot tally. He survived and hes being treated at the hospital. Police say the weapon youre looking at turned out to be a bb gun. New this morning, investigators are on the scene of a house fire in northwest d. C. The fire was first reported around midnight in the 4500 block of fifth street northwest. Firefighters say one resident was safely removed from the home and the two alarm fire is now under control. Firefighters say it was so cold their ladders became frozen solid. They had to use flares to thaw them loose. Right now investigators on the scene are trying to determine a cause. Its been an unusually weekend for Montgomery County firefighters. They battled eight major fires in the past 48 hours. Last night they were battling a house fire in silver spring. Flames out about 8 30 on dennis avenue. Were told a woman was taken to a hospital in stable condition. One firefighter also was hurt battling the flames. Hes expected to be okay. Investigatorsel started in the chimney and flames shot through the attic and roof. The fire caused about 400,000 in damage. Now to a Public Safety announcement from the city of laurel. Officials have updated an existing smoke alarm law and it goes into effect today. Residents need to replace their old smoke alarms with a city approved alarm. Officials hope the updated law will lead to more reliable coverage in older buildings. All right, 5 06. Mike thomas good morning to you. Good morning. You are the man of the hour because man, this cold goodness gracious. It is brutal. You said its coming but now that its here, oh. Its not fun outside. No. Even though its not snowing, even though its not doing anything just the cold itself is just brutal. Although it was a lot of what would you call that this weekend, flurries. Light snow showers cause its going to be sticking around. We didnt get that much but its not going to melt. Its not going to get warm enough. Well have a decent amount of sunshine early week. Maybe we have to deal with a little bit midweek. Well talk more about that in a couple more minutes but that doesnt look like anything major at this time. 14 degrees Crystal Clear skies out there. Winds out of the north and it feels like uno, 1 degrees if youre waking up early on this first day of 2018. Heres temperatures around the rest of the region much its nine right now out in winchester. 11 in manassas, two, just 2 degrees, thats air temperature there in culpeper. Eight in fredericksburg so Single Digits have moved in across portions of the region. You factor in the winds it feels like negatives in a couple locations there, winchester feeling like negative degrees. One here in d. C. , one manassas. Two for culpeper. Winds shouldnt be awful today but its not going to take much to get those wind chills down so wind chills advisory in effect until 9 00 a. M. This morning. Going to feel like zero to negative 10 in a few spots from time to time today, so again, bundle it up if youre headed out. Theres satellite and radar. Nothing but a few high thin clouds out there and were expecting a good amount of sun today. Your forecast 25 degrees, lots of sun. Okay. Thank you, happening today at 5 07 d. C. Mayor bowser is expected to kick off the year with year of the anacostia. The 5k walk run is part of the mayors 1 billion steps challenge which is a city Wide Initiative to encourage residents of all eight wards to make more Healthy Lifestyle choice. The event is free opened to the public. Registration starts at 9 00 a. M. Following by the kickoff at 10 00 a. M. A deadly plane crash in costa rica. Several americans are among the dead. Details next. North korea sends a disturbing message out to the u. S. Ahead of the new year. Time right now is 5 08. Were taking a live look outside first day of the year first newscast of the year. More news and weather coming up fox5 news morning is back right after this. 5 09 is the time right now. Youre looking live at a this is a picture of times square. You know they had the big ball drop last night. This is the clean up its a big surprise, right, first day of the year. Theyre doing a cleanup right now taking all the stuff down. All the people are gone. I dont understand how people coastcan stand out in the cold r all that time. The warmth of others. Ive been in new york city i christmas tree. I know. With the warmth of others and ill never do it again. I know. All right. How did mariah carey do . Shall we discuss later on good day. Im seeing some gifs about mariah. I know thats your girl. Stop hating. I didnt say it. They did. Thats times square. Good time had by all. The good part is nobody celebrated and no issues. No issues. That is the good news. That have been reported to us at this point. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Today is january 1st, 2018. The time right now is 5 10. A Deputy Sheriff is dead several others injured after a shooting in colorado. The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance in a denver suburb early sunday morning. The suspect reportedly fired more than a hundred rounds. Four deputies were injured and Deputy Zachary parish was shot and killed. Two civilians were also shot. Theyre being treated for nonlifethreatening injuries. The suspect who is not being identified at this moment was shot and new details about that deadly plane crash in costa rica. A family of five is among the 10 americans killed in that crash. Two costa rican crew members also died. It was heading to san jose when it crashed and caught fire. Witnesses say the plane appeared to have problems shortly after takeoff and then it crashed. Rescue teams struggled to get to the site because it was in a remote area. North korea sending out a new years warning to the u. S. Leader kim jong un claims the country has completed its Nuclear Weapons arsenal in 2017. And the u. S. Should be aware that these weapons are a reality and not a threat. The message came during kim jong uns annual new years day address. He says his country achieved. Hassan ruan knee said people have the right to protest but violence is not comments come as the iranian government blocks social media. On saturday at least 200 antigovernment protesters were arrested in tehran. Coming up on fox5 news morning, 2017 was full of bombshell reports. Were going to take a look at some of the biggest scandals uncovered this year. And as we head to break a live look across the d. C. Region, that trusted clock in Dupont Circle, it is 5 14, it is well, that one says 13 degrees. Either way you cut it, its cold out there, folks. If youre going out please bundle up. Some of the coldest temperatures weve seen thus far this winter. Back after this, more news weather after the break. Small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. Verizon doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Verizon, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. Verizon, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. It is cold outside. Were talking frigid conditions, air temperatures in the teens and Single Digits. The wind are making it feel subzero in many spots around the one of the coldest new years in decades. The bone chilling temps werent enough to keep people from out of town. Bone chilling temperatures weve already talked about it. In alexandria the party didnt stop. One of the several venues in old town offering live music dancing festivities followed by fireworks. Also this morning firefighters are investigating a house fire in northwest d. C. Fire was first reported around midnight in the 4500 block of fifth street northwest. Firefighters say one wheelchair bound resident was safely removed from the home and the two alarm fire is now under control. 5 15 is the time right now. As we take a live look outside, 14 degrees is the temperature. Mike thomas, good morning to you. Good to see you good end. Yeah, good morning, wisdom. You asked me a question earlier which was how cold in new york. Looked like to me it was about 9 degrees when the ball dropped feeling like negative four with the wind chill so absolute is bitter cold new years eve. Coldest one up there i think in about 10 years but down here it was our coldest new ill have to doublecheck that but since the 1960s at least for new years eve. Today could potentially be the coldest new years day since 1940 here in washington, d. C. So, some extreme cold in the parts of the region. Extreme enough we have Single Digits out there. Westminster Frederick Gaithersburg lucky sevens i guess you could say this morning. Winchester good morning, 9 degrees. Eight for frederick. Look at culpeper at 2degree air temperature at this hour. Leonardtown is at now. Here in d. C. Were hanging onto the teens for now so were actually one of the warmer spots believe it or not. Wind chills though feeling like 1 degree here in washington. One in manassas, two in culpeper. Feels like negative one in winchester, zero for martinsburg. Again brutally cold. If you dont have work, dont have school stay at home under the blankets keep warm today. Thats kind of the theme here. Wind chills zero to negative 10 degrees at least through 9 oclock from time to time. Winds arent going to be that bad but doesnt take much with temperatures this cold to get those wind chills down. Satellite and radar quiet around the region. Plenty of sunshine for your new years day. Arctic High Pressure in control pushing in all that cold air. Thats going to help keep things in the 20s today so if youre heading out for any sort of holiday plans, happy new year everybody but bundle up cause youre going to need it. 25 today as we ring in the new year. 28 degrees for your day on tuesday. So, cold kind of sticking around here. Warmest day actually will just be freezing on wednesday with clouds building, maybe a little bit of light snow. We kind of have to watch this here. Little bit of light snow thursday morning, 28 degrees. Look as we get towards friday and saturday, even colder, highs only in the low 20s with some Single Digits possible by saturday morning. Thats a check of the weather. Ill send it back to you. Thank you mike. 5 17 is the time. When it comes to scandals 2017 has seen its fair share from politicians to celebrities. Ainslie earnhardt takes a look back at some of the drama that unfolded this past year. Lala land. An epic blunder at the eclipsed moonlight as best picture but moments later. Im sorry. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. Reporter the mixup was corrected in the middle of lalala lands acceptance speech with the cast of moonlight going on to accept the award. Kathy griffin creating a bloody mess with her holding a mask of President Trumps bloody said. Said. Video shows two Security Officers violently dragging a passenger off the plane when the passenger refused to give up his seat to an airline crew member. The ceo of the company oscar munoz issued a public apology for the incident. You might want to call him pill cosby. The legendary actor accused of drugging Andrea Constand befo acts. A judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict. The new trial is set to begin in the spring. Dove featured a black woman removing her shirt to reveal a white woman. The soap company saying it missed the mark and thoughtfully representing women of color. Dozens of women come forward accusing director Harvey Weinstein of harassment assault and rape. He dismissed from the Weinstein Company and expelled from the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. In addition to several open investigations by authorities, weinstein denies the allegations. The weinstein story creating a Ripple Effect with dozens of men accused including kevin spacey, louis c. K. Jeffrey tambor ben affleck Dustin Hoffman nick Carter Sylvester stallone and former president gorge hw bush. We are devastated. Reporter matt lauer terminated from n employee filed a complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. Nbc news chairman andrew lack says it was the first complaint lodged against lauer but the network has reason to believe it was not an isolated incident. Charlie rose was fired from cbs and his prominent interview show was dropped by bloomberg and were. Bs after several women accused him of harassment including groping and lewd phone case. Harassment oceans are shaking up washington as well. Alabama Senate Candidate roy moore accused of dating and in some instances sexually assaulting teenaged girls when he was in his 30s. He denies all of the allegations. The people of alabama have more in common than that divide us. Reporter moore ended up losing the seat in the december 12th election against democrat doug jones. Al franken shown in this photo placing his hands over Leann Tweeden in 2006. Several other women accused the senator of touching the events. After mounting pressure the senator resigned. This just days after Democrat John conyers favoring his own allegations announced his retirement. With 2018 right around the corner no doubt there will be more of these scandals in the news and well be covering it all for you right here. In new york, ainslie earhart, fox news. Coming up on fox5 news morning, the top 2017 words that should be banished from 2018. Were going to tell you what made the top of that list. Were going to break right now. Heres a live look outside across the region. Temperature 14 degrees. Back in a moment. Music i was diagnosed with hiv in 2016, but i didnt want my life to just. Stop. Would put my life on hold. My doctor and i chose triumeq, it seemed like the right fit for me. Triumeq is one pill a day. Any time of day. With or without food. Now, im moving forward with triumeq. Triumeq treats hiv1 in adults, and does not cure hiv or aids. Dont take triumeq by itself if youre resistant to any of its ingredients. 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For the next 12 months it will swap out batteries in customers iphones for just 29, 50 cheaper than it was before. We know hollywood actors make the big bucks. In 2017 fast and furious Actor Vin Diesel topped the charts. He made an astounding 1. 6 billion. Wait a minute. Just beating his fast and furious costar dwayne johnson. Wonder woman star that of movie gal gadot rounded out the top three. Hold up. 1. 3 billion is what he earned. Thats what that script said. Has vin diesel done anything else besides f fast and furious. He does a lot of commercials for dodge or chevy. I have to reevaluate my goals this year. Lake superior state released its list of words and phrases that should be banished from 2018. From misuse or overuse. Can you guess whats number one. Yassss. No . Okay. The phrase fake news topped the list. This is the 43rd year that the university put out a list of words that should be banned in the new year. Others on the list include impactful, hot water heater and the president s infamous typo cofeve. Can we say friyay the word yasss and slay, slay. The yassss. I like yaa. Tweet us what you think to be banned and be nice. Can we ban wintertime. One word youre going to get sick of hearing at least is going to be arctic blast. Already sick of it. Yes, i know. Ever cold. Im sorry. Got to deal with what we got. Satellite and radar, lots of clouds off to our north. Here we have some high thin ones that will break up and were back to sunshine this afternoon. Should be a bright and sunny new years day. 14 degrees is all were managing right now at reagan national, dulles eight. Low spot right now is culpeper checking in at 2 degrees at 5 26 this morning. Whew. Absolutely frigid out there. 19 by 10 oclock. By 1 oclock 23. By 4 oclock, 24 degrees. Todays high only 25 degrees. Happy new year everybody. Stay inside. Sit by the fire. All right, thats a check of the weather. 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Now, ill dream gig. Now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy coming up on fox5 news morning, deep freeze. Bone chilling temperatures across the country. Is this arctic weather here to stay. The world rings in 2018. How people are celebrating this year. And fires in freezing cold weather. Firefighters respond to dozens of calls over the weekend. How they battled the flames and the elements. Fox5 news morning starts right now. Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us at 6 not at 6 00, its not 6 00 anything its 2018 2018 thats what it is. Today is the first day of 2018. Happy new year. Good to see you mike thomas. Good to see you. Wish it was warmer though. Finished our coldest new years eve since 1962. We could have a our coldest new years day since 1940. Well go through the numbers coming up here. Sounds good. It is very, very cold outside. Were talking frigid conditions. Its one of the coldest new years in decades but that didnt stop people from ringing in 2018 out on the town last night. And it didnt stop fox5s kristyn leon from joining us live at Dupont Circle this morning all bundled up and ready to go. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. I wish it would have stopped me from joining you guys right now outside because its you right now. I mentioned earlier how this california girl doesnt do cold. Well, this california girl also doesnt know how to dress in the cold, either. I dont have a scarf, wisdom. You told me to go get one. I dont have one. Im waiting for a tj max to open or something so im using my hair and kind of bundling up right here around my neck. Thank goodness for my photographer. He gave me these awesome ski gloves. Take a look back there, 13 degrees. That Sun Trust Bank sign right there, 5 33, 13 degrees this morning here at Dupont Circle. Im telling you, it doesnt feel like 13 degrees. It feels like zero or below zero this morning. But you know what, you guys mentioned it. There were people, doesnt matter, 13 degrees, 0 degrees, whatever it was, people were out on the town. They were painting the town last night celebrating, rain, shine or cold in this case. Take a look. This is video from alexandria, virginia, people you know, they right there. Theyre enjoying, rocking out, dancing the night away and hey, thats actually a pretty good idea if you want to dance outside to stay warm. I may just start busting out some moves. No, you dont want to see that. Long story short, you guys, it is really cold. I saw a girl out here she looked so cute coming out of the bar, club, whatever but she was in a mini skirt. She had no pants. I dont know what she was thinking. Looked adorable but you know what, guys, experts say, im not an expert here, but you all know thats not a good idea to to bare it all like that when its so cold outside. So, if you can, bundle up as warm as you can, get that scarf, get that hat, get those gloves, beanie, you know, get that jacket and stay bundled up. It takes seconds to get frost bite and worst cases hypothermia and i learned something, too, this morning, you guys that being out in the cold increases your risk for a heart attack, so thats scary enough in itself. So, again, if youre going ob out here this morning, just please stay w up watching fox5 news morning instead of being out here. I promise you something though. I told you we were doing that experiment on the water. So let me see. Nothing yet, right . Reporter its cold on the face but its still pretty liquidy you guys. It hasnt hardened up. What do you think. 8 oclock. Im still sticking with 45 minutes. Youre almost at your 45. It hasnt even crystallized. Kristyn stop shaking it. I have a scarf for you. Im going to leave it at my desk. Its red. Im going to leave it for you. You can have it so youll be ready. Well cobble together some winter gear for you. Reporter come down here and do the news with me right here. That sounds great but i think im going to pass. Kristyn youre new, right, cause wisdom wait, wait, wait. Reporter i know maureen. One more thing. She didnt have on any pants . Reporter hey, dont be telling everyone. Dont be telling everyone that; no, no, the girl from the club. The girl from t yes. I thought you meant in the news room the other day when i didnt have pants on. Were not talking about that. Thats a conversation between you and me. That has gone left quickly. Reporter good, good, good. I was going to say. No, the girl did not have any pants. She had a cute little mini skirt going on doing her thing but no pants, nothing. Brave girl, hm. I hope she found what she was looking for, thats all ill say. Kristyn bow out gracefully. Reporter well see you. All right, love, see you later. At least were making the best of it. It is cold out there. Laughing to keep warm. 5 34 is the time right now. In the news this morning Montgomery County detectives need your help finding this woman, 55yearold ednal Virginia Green was last seen by hospital staff around midnight on saturday. Police say thats when she was released from Washington Adventist Hospital in takoma park. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to Contact Police immediately. In the District Police are analyzing new surveillance images connected to a robbery on benning road in northeast. Detectives say yesterday morning a man business then pulled out a gun and demanded money. An employee handed over the cash and fortunately no one was hurt. Police want to hear from you if you know anything or recognize that man. A community in reston comes together to honor two neighbors. This comes after they were brutally murdered in their home. Hundreds of people turned out for a Memorial Service in honor of Scott Fricker and his wife Buckley Kuehne fricker. This weekend. Now, the couple was that gunned down last week. Investigators say the boyfriend of their daughter is responsible. Family and friends tell us the frickers had been trying to break up their daughters relationship because the 17yearold boyfriend reportedly held neonazi views. Its been an unusually busy weekend for Montgomery County firefighters. They battled at least eight major fires in the past 48 hours. Last night firefighters were battling is house fire in silver spring. Flames broke out around 8 30 on dennis avenue. Firefighters ared queued a woman from the home and she was taken to the hospital in stable condition. One firefighter was also hurt expected to be okay. Investigators tell us the fire started in the chimney and flames shot through the attic and the roof. Fire caused about 400,000 in damage. Mike thomas were talking about how cold it was in new york for times square, coldest in what you said, decades. At least a decade. We had the coldest since the 60. 1962. We only reached 23 degrees today. We havent done less than that since the 1960s. So, and were starting off its brutal out there. Thats kind of the gist of things here. 14 degrees outside in washington. We got Single Digits north. Gaithersburg checking in at seven, baltimore at eight. Annapolis is the warm spot, there you go, 17 degrees this morning. Leonardtown is up to tenement fredericksburg is at eight. Culpeper, congrats you came up a degree from two to 3 degrees early this morning. Wind chills out there right now, theyre theyre down i mean, it feels like 1 degree but winds arent that strong so theres some good news. Negative one for winchester. Feels like three at culpeper which is the same as the air temperature there. Just in case winds do kick up from time to time wind advisory in effect until 9 00 a. M. Today. Well feel between zero and negative 10 degrees. Satellite and radar quiet. Were expecting a good amount of sun today. Heres your twoday forecast. Its a cold one. 25 today. Only up to 28 degrees tomorrow. So, the arctic cold is kind of in and guys, bad news, its going to get even colder late this week so details on that coming up later. Okay. Thanks mike. Coming up on fox5 news morning were in for a bad flu season this year and one state is already getting hit pretty hard. Well explain. Time right now is 5 37. Fox5 news morning back after this. Today is january 1st, 2018. Time right now is 5 40 on this monday morning, 13 degrees. Man, it is brutally cold out there. Bundle up if youre headed out. All right. In the news this morning, Health Officials have been saying that were on track to have a bad flu season this year. California hospitals are already starting to see a lot of serious cases. According to the state health department, 52 counties are reporting widespread flu cases. Hospitals have put policies in place to keep the virus from spreading but so far five flu related deaths reported in california. Listen up ladies your beauty salons could be making you sick. Recent salon clients more than twothirds of salon customers said they have had Health Issues after visiting a salon including skin problems fungal infections and respiratory systems. Researchers say its because Many Services at salons involve exposure to chemicals that can be hazardous and many of the tools are reused from one client to another. Its new years day and this may be a surprise for some people but its also National Hangover day. Maureen its National Hangover day. Is it really. Yeah. Why are you telling me. I know you werent out last night. You went to bed about 7 oclock. 8 30. This comes after new years eve. If youre waking up a little hungover unfortunately the only remedy is time and lots of fluids but we are going to be talking about it more on good day d. C. Because we have an expert coming in who is going to teach us what to do if you unfortunately have a hangover. Next on fox5 news morning, President Trump took to twitter a lot this year. We have the top tweets of 2017 from the oval Office Coming up. And heading t live look across the d. C. Region, it is 5 41 right now. 14 degrees. Back after this. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. With a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. Verizon doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Verizon, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. Verizon, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. Trending right now the Cleveland Browns found a way to lose every single game in an nfl season. They lost 28 to 24 against the steelers yesterday becoming just the second team ever to go winless in the 16 game nfl season. Last time that happened was the Detroit Lions back in 2008. The browns lost in two countries, two continents eight states nine stadiums all of it this season but there will still be a parade after a perfectly awful season fans will still parade around the stadium in their finest browns attire. That kicks off saturday at noon. Over 4,000 fans have signed up to attend. Looks like a participation trophy right. [laughter] worse franchise in sports. Yeah. Theyre celebrating. This is what i fear. Lets not have a parade for our team to be like the losingest team. I dont think you have to worry about that. Do you know how hard it is to go to zero and 16. The browns have mastered the art of losing. They really have. They just dont have the talent on the team or maybe theres a lot of missing components there. Theyve been that way since jim brown retired. I know who jim brown is, okay. And you know, one more thing about the browns. The interesting part is when they actually got good, baltimore and became the ravens won the super bowl and then they had to start all over and now theyre losers again. Kind of a curse there. For cleveland. At least they got that nba championship. When lebron james leaves tough times. Anyway. Enjoy him for now. [laughter] all right. Weatherwise. Weatherwise, i mean, the headline is its cold. Its been the headline for the past week. Its going to be the headlines all week this week. Sorry to tell you but that cold air is not going anywhere fast. Coldest new years day in decades here. In fact, since 1940 if we hit the high were thinking. Some maybe midweek light snow possible. Well talk a little bit about this. I think the best chances going to be east of town. Ill show you why in a minute. Colder than this believe it or not. Temperatures 14 degrees right now. We could do Single Digits in the city by the time we get close to next weekend and maybe the pattern finally breaks a little bit beyond next weekend into next week. And then well get a little bit of relief from the arctic chill thats going to overtake the region. Kind of have to watch that over the course of next few days here. 14 degrees outside right clear skies. One is what it feels like in town. Winds are north and west at 10 miles an hour. Again, theyre not, its not overly windy but it doesnt take much when temperatures are 14 trees. Temperatures right now across the region look at pittsburgh three, detroit five, chicago negative 6degree air temperature this morning. New york city temperature was about nine at ball drop. Theyre sitting at 8 degrees right now. Boston is at zero as we check in with everybody on this new years day. Satellite and radar across the region not too much going ton. Some lake effect snows kicking up off l lake erie. Well keep it nice and dry, sun filled but wont be one of those days where you want to go outside and enjoy the sunshine cause this area of arctic High Pressure just powering down a lot of cold air out of canada and its going to keep up us locked in the arctic chill for the next few days. 20s is all well manage today. 25 in washington, 22 for gaithersburg, 27 for fredericksburg today so again, its just going to be a cold one. How cold . In the record we wont reach well do better than 17 degrees but if we reach 25, that would tie us right there with 1940 for one of the coldest new years days weve ever had. All right. We have a very near miss as of right now. Well continue to watch this storm the next couple days but right now it looks like its a very close kind of shave of the east coast. Enough to maybe give us a little bit of light snow thursday morning. Were not sure if that will be a problem or not yet. Stay tuned. We should have more details on that by the time we get to tomorrow. Behind it another arctic blast comes our way as that storm travels off to the north. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast, doesnt want to pop up for me right now but i will show it to you in just about 10 minutes. Guys, back to you. 5 48 is the time and whether its to battle his critics or promote his administration President Trump has made headlines almost every day of his first year in office though through a nonstop series of tweets. Foxs kevin cork has the near Impossible Task of breaking do you think the president s top tweets of 2017. Reporter thats the number of postings from President Trumps twitter account since he took office back in january. His most popular of the year, this one, retweeted almost 370,000 times about cnn. And with that in mind we have fashioned our own top five trump tweets of the year checking in at number five,. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a bleep off the reeled right now out, hes fired. Hes fired. Reporter the president s war on the nfls anthem protest boiling over both on the stump and online. Mr. Trump tweeting if nfl fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our flag and country youll see change take place fast. Number four, the transgender ban. President tweeted that the u. S. Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the military. But some Senior Pentagon officials apparently didnt get the memo. How did you president s decision . Well,. When he sent out the tweet. Same way everybody else d i saw it on the news. Reporter number three beleaguered. Thats how the president referred to his attorney general Jeff Sessions back in july. Session whom the president has repeatedly ridiculed for recusing himself from the russia probe seemed to take the hit in stride. Well, its kind of hurtful but the president of the United States is a strong leader. Reporter number two, lordy tapes. Ive seen the tweets about the tapes. Reporter jim comey testified he orchestrated the leak of the accounts of conversations with the president because he thought it might lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor to lead the russia investigation. About which the president tweeted james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Later the president admitted there were no tapes. Number one, wire the twitterverse back in march. Terrible just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Though critics howled at the suggestion that the Previous Administration wire tapped trump tower evidence later proved the government did in fact intercept a communication of some trump team members. And what would a president ial tweet countdown be without mentioning covfefe. It was that just after midnight tweet from back in may the one that spawned countless internet memes and theories and the truth is like so much else in life, we still dont know what that was all about. In washington, im kevin cork, fox news. 5 51 is the time right now. Making a new years resolution is easy. Sticking with it and actually achieving your goal is hard. Here are some tips from the experts on how you should keep your resolutions. First they say identify behaviors you can control rather than lofty goals without knowing how them. Also, take advantage of the timing. A lot of people will be doing the same so youll feel like youre part of a worldwide self improvement movement. Be realistic, create a plan, make a public declaration. Experts say doing this will make you more reluctant to abandon your goal and if at first you do not succeed keep on trying. That can prove effective. Dont even. Dont do it. No. Im going to recruit me some better basketball players for my fifth. Sixth grade basketball team. Im going to get some more. Speak it into being. Speak it into being. Youll win the lottery, mega millions. Forget the basketball players. I want some money. Were rich. For 2017 in the books we have a fresh new year ahead and were looking forward to it. Thats right and there are a lot of things to look forward to in 2018. Foxs Lauren Blanchard has a look at what lies ahead. Reporter the ball has dropped confetti has fallen and heres a quick look at some of the things you can look forward to in 2018. The big easy celebrates a big in february, new orleans will mark its 300th birthday with special events fireworks and concerts. Thats a month the world will unite to watch athletes from all over the globe compete at the Winter Olympics in south korea. The games taking place amid heightened tensions with north korea and with russias Olympic Team Banned from competition. This decision should draw a line on the damaging episode and serve as a catalyst for more effective and more robust antidoping system. Reporter in may, well get an american princess, sort of. Actress megan markelle is set to wed prince harry in Saint Georges chapel at windsor castle. Reporter that will be shortly after Prince William and Kate Middleton welcome royal baby number three. William and i are absolutely thrilled at such exciting news and its really happy time for any couple and we wish them all thees moment. Reporter in case the last election cycle wasnt enough all eyes will be on President Trump in his second year in office. His agenda is expected to play a large role leading up to the midterm elections in november. We have more legislative victories than any other president. Reporter well be here to cover it all as the year unfolds. In washington, Lauren Blanchard, fox news. Mariah carey got a doover headlining this years dick clark new years rocking eve and it looks like this year the vocal power house redeemed herself in times square. She took the stage minutes before midnight to perform a medley of her hits including hero. If you remember last year she blamed dick clark productions. As for this years performance carey enjoyed a starstudded lineup including Britney Spears kelly clarkson. I dont know i heard that she didnt do t of being harsh on her probably. Thats the thing. Jump on the bandwagon. To come back though i give her kudos for that because its tough to say i made a mistake let me come back and try to do it again. Mariah carey is awesome. 5 55. Time to say hello to our facebook fan of the day. Good morning, tatiana. You were nominated by your mom agnes. Agnes says tatiana celebrate add birthday on december 27th. She turned 10 years old. Happy belated birthday to you tatiana. Mom says you love to sing and dance and also that you have a big heart. She wants you to know she lovers you very much. Agnes says they watch fox5 every morning and they love the morning memes. Happy new year to both of you agnes and tatiana. Thanks for waking up with us. First one of 2018. Thats a honor. First fan of 2018. Many more to come thats for sure and unfortunately many more cold days to come in this week kind of ahead here. Temperatures outside this morning if early now at 13 degrees. Feelings like 3 degrees with winds out of the north and west at seven. Again, winds arent too strong. But it doesnt take much to really get those wind chills down. Brutally cold new years day. Were forecasting a high of 25 degrees. If were able to do that, then that will be the coldest new years day since january 1st 1940. Will also tie the sixth coldest new years day on record here in that washington, d. C. So, a cold one. Whats going on rest of the week . Heres your futurecast. Were watching one system thats going to make a close run at the eastern half of the United States. Wednesday morning storm getting organized off of the coastline here, far enough off that the big kind of moisture and your big snowfall totals would actually stay off shore here but maybe enough to throw a little bit of light snow back our way early thursday morning. Will this be a problem or not . We still need a little bit more time so keep tuning in. Well have more details on that tomorrow. Hopefully we should know more by then. Fox5 accuweather 7day forecast, 25 today. 28 tomorro on wednesday. Its that thursday morning where were watching out for a little bit of light snow possible in the morning. One thing that storm will do for sure, kick down more cold arctic air. Look at that. 22 degrees on friday. Only 21 next saturday. All right, guys, thats the weather. Back to you. All right. 5 57 is the time. Hey, were just Getting Started on the first day of 2018. Much more fox5 news morning after the break. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. And i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. This is fox5 news morning. Straight ahead at 6 00 bitter cold. Many people braved that deep freeze last night to see the ball drop. Is that cold weather here to stay . Also fighting fires in frigid temperatures. It was a busy weekend for firefighters across the dmv. They battled flames and the chilly elements. First though a live look outside on this first day of 2018. It is monday morning. Happy new year. Weather and traffic on the 5s. We can tell you this, it is cold. Its 6 05. Yes, it is. It real is. Happy new year whiz. Happy new year. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to be here. If youre just waking up with us at 6 00 this morning enjoy those warm covers because as allison just mentioned freezing cold outside. Frigid conditions. Peak your little big toe out you know what were talking about. Bundle up all the way