January 18th weather and traffic of course coming up on the 5 in a couple of minutes at 7 05 im Allison Seymour im steve chenevey. Lets get to several major stories, a health care for George Hw Bush. The 92yearold is apparently been in a houston hospital since saturday. Mr. Bushs spokesman said the former president was taken there after shortness of breath over the weekend. This morning he is said to be stable and doing fine. Expected to go home in a few days. Mr. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush previously announced they would not be attending fridays inauguration of donald trump due to the former president s health and age. We are also following breaking news right now out of europe. Three earthquakes hit central italy this morning about 90 minutes ago. Hit a region of italy recovering from devastating quakes over the past two years, so far we have not heard reports of damage or region which got a lot of snow recently. We do know the shaking was quite intense and that the city subway system was close so the damage inspections could be done. A warning to americans in the resort city of cancun mexico. The consulate activate add code red after gunfire broke out several downtown locations, leaving three dead. This latest attack comes after a deadly shooting at a Music Festival. One american among five victims man accused of killing an Orlando Police sergeant is under arrest this morning. Mark keith lloyd was arrested last night ending an intense nineday manhunt. They found him inside and an abandoned home. Lloyd is accused of gunning down Deborah Clayton outside of a Walmart Store last week. Lloyd is also wanted in connection with the murder of his exgirlfriend. In the hot seat the nominees ambassador and the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency. Hearings come a day after a Heated Exchange for education secretary, betsy devos. More on that coming up in just a couple of minutes. Also in dc, some of you will start to feel the direct impact of fridays president ial inauguration. Parking restrictions begin this afternoon. Annie yu on the National Mall with what we need to know. Good morning, annie. Reporter this is just the beginning. Starting at noon today, youll start to see a lot more signs going up around the National Mall here. This is one of many areas that is closed off, parkingwise, if you look behind me, theres a lot of work thats already been done. The transformation is pretty remarkable with two days off from the inauguration but a lot more needs to be done. The National Mall is where how tos are going to gather friday, did not only will security be tight but many roads will be closed around the mall and parking restrictions do go into effect starting today. Shows the perimeter of both a red zone and green zone. Starting at noon, the red zone goes into effect it will lifted monday, any cars parked in this perimeter will be towed. Its parked off. The downtown area, the National Mall, capitol, white house only authorized vehicles will be allowed on those streets. Now, outer, the outer layer, the green zone starts tomorrow on thursday morning, that goes into effect and it is open to traffic. However, it is restricted to just those who live and work in those areas, and National Guard members will be checking your id. Keep that in mind. I want to show you another list of major street closures. They include the area surrounding pennsylvania avenue, the Lincoln Memorial including parts of constitution avenue. And streets around Union Station and capitol. Basically, its just going to be a big mess. If you have to go through the District Of Columbia. Also on thursday, a handful of bridges and dc will be closed. Major bridges, the 14th street bridge, memorial bridge, 3rd street tunnel, 9th and 12th street will be closed. A lot to think about. Hopefully we can get those closures for you on our website, fox5dc. Com. There are a number of street closures there. It will be a big mess leading up to and not just the day of. Annie yu fox 5 local news. 7 05. Donald trump is gearing up for his swearing in, two days away. Trump was in dc last night at a black tie dinner to introduce foreign diplomats to the incoming administration. 500 guests in attendance. Today he will be in new york with a meeting with andrew cuomo. Chelsea manning will be released after president obama commuted her sentence in 2010 then Bradley Manning laked state secrets to wikileaks, a soldiers killing iraqi civilians. Sentenced to 35 years in prison for the crime. When released in may shell have served less than seven and we should learn more about why it was commuted when he holds his press conference at the white house this afternoon, aired live at 2 15 on air and online. Lets get our first check of weather in the 7 00 hour. Good morning. Were going to clear it out and dry it out get sunshine something we havent seen in a few days, temps in the 50s later afternoon, it is january. Were not talking winter weather. Low clouds hanging in there, a nice picture of somebody driving down 270 mountain driver seat beautiful cloud deck and clearing to the we have the. We will get sunshine later. Breezy milder wednesday, temperatures should be good ten plus degrees above normal. Relatively mild, 46 at reaga 41 dulles, bwi marshal, 43, looking at the satellite picture. We got the last little piece of energy to the west got to come through, well keep the clouds around the next couple hours and could be a sprinkle or quick moving shower north of dc then by afternoon, i think well turn partly sunny, youll notice the winds picking up out of the north and west and well get sunshine around here. 57 later. Most winds breezy out of the north and west gusting to 25 thanks. All right. Lets get to. Take a look at the fog behind me, this is the 14th street bridge coming up from gw parkway across 395 northbound theres a crash beyond that point. Please use caution, you can see traffic use your low beams take it slow. Were seeing a local lot of slow moving traffic backing up from the pentagon across the 14th street bridge and a lot of stop and go traffic. Lets go ahead and show you our maps, thats not problem, southeast, southwest freeway, crash on the westbound side bill clintoning two right lanes, causing big delays, let me get out of the way. 295 on the southbound side from 50 to the 11th Street Bridge. Jam packed, 295 northbound is packed. You can see the 11th Street Bridge super crowded. Use a lot of caution and give yourself extra time. Theres a closer look at the 295 delay and 50 inbound from the beltway. Slow new york avenue jambs keep in mind metro is on time. Well take a look at the inauguration closures coming up next. Back to you. Top stories now, the other ones, the Texas Police Department mourning the loss of one of their own shot and killed in the line of duty. Jerry walker was killed while responding to a call about a man with a gun outside of a house. Happened just outside of dallas, the suspect later found dead inside the house after a sixhour standoff. Closer to home. Qu threeyearold choked on a meatball at his Day Care Center and died. It happened inside of the department of labor, Anjali Hemphill is live with more on this devastating story. Anjali, good morning. Reporter good morning, guys, this is a story thats both concerning and terrifying to parents. A mother, takes her healthier threeyearold little boy to day care here at the place where she works for the Us Government. And he ends up choking to death while shes in the same building upstairs unaware of whats going on. The family of that young little boy threeyearold Sterling Moore is demanding answers, his mother is an accountant with the Labor Department and yesterday dropped sterling off at the Child Development center where he had been going the last two years, the family said while mom stepped away from her desk. Day care called and left her a voice mail. By the time mom came downstairs, her son was in an ambulance ununresponsive after choking on a meatball. The family wants to know how this could have the supervision of two teachers. Im demanding answers why and how long did it take for them to realize he was suffocating, wasnt breathing, where the teachers were, sterling was loving, energyic, loved playing with his brother, he played with his cousins. Hes a normal threeyearold. He was just at my niece baby shower, how big are these meatballs saying claiming that he choked on . Why are they feeding children and not watching them . Not protecting them to make sure. Reporter the day care released this statement to fox 5, we are shocked and deeply saddened as we grief the sudden death of one of our children while eating showed difficulty breathing, our trained staff responded immediately to call 911 and perform the heimlich maneuver and cpr. The child was transported to Childrens Hospital by paramedics and passed away. Were devastated by the tragedy and our hearts and condolences go out to the family during this unimaginable time of grief. We do not know the cause of death at this time but are fully cooperating with authorities following the tragic loss. The case remains under investigation by both local and federal authorities, meanwhile, the status of those two employees who are involved is unclear at this time. Thats the latest in northwest, Anjali Hemphill, fox 5 local news. The search continues for whomever shot and killed a 68yearold grandmother, vivian morrow was her name. Gunned down on monday morning in her wheelchair on the way to the corner store. Police initially believe she was caught in the cross fire of a gun battle but now believe there was only one gunman in this case. Gofundme page has been set up to help her expenses, you can find the link, on our website fox5dc. Com. A former George Mason University professor facing serious charges accused of recording intimate moments with a woman without concert. He was arrested back in november charged with unlawful filming. She had a consensual relationship but then discovered he recorded them. The Supreme Court set to consider a case that could impact the redskins. Those details ahead. Donald trump pick for education secretary taking heat on the hill during confirmation hearing, bob. Allison well show you one of more Heated Exchanges between senators and betsy devos. It was a rough night for her here on capitol hill. Well be right back. K. Its go time at dunkin enjoy two freshly made oventoasted wraps with bacon, sausage, or ham and keep on all day. America runs on dunkin. 7 14. Massive wide receiver wildfires wildfires, an emergency warning in place for residents as fire crews continue to try to battle the flames, water bombing planes and helicopters to try and put out the fire, no word on a cause. Remember it is summertime down under. Youre in the hot season. I think its dry there much of the country gets pretty dry in that area. Out here were doing ok great for this time of year. You can see were trying to get clearing. Theres a great picture of the fog on the river. Right along the river, cooler temperatures, and once we bring the fog off and get some clouds out, we should be in for a partly Sunny Afternoon and pleasant day. In the 50s this afternoon. Nice, beautiful. Beautiful. Morning one of our viewers, morning memes lets tweet out the one that you did 46 in washington, dc, mid to upper 50s this afternoon, should be again very pleasant afternoon here once we get the clouds and fog out. Hang in there few more hours of this then we should get the drying trend as winds pick up. He heres a live look. Left over sprinkles. Energy to our north and west. Once that gets east. You really start to notice the clearing and pleasant conditions. Theres your sevenday. Tomorrow looks fantastic. For all things getting ready for the big day friday. It does not look great. It would not be a washout but we will have showers around especially during the afternoon and it will feel cool with the cloud cover, highs in the upper 40s and then a big, bit of a bounceback there. All in all, a lot of people coming to town. Colder and more brutal conditions . We sure have much more difficult i think it will be just fine good morning. 7 16. It is really foggy out. Look at this camera, this is across the 14th street bridge coming up gw parkway, elevated fog in some points but denser in others, please use low beams, extra time from the pentagon to the 14th street are backed up. This is actually 295 northbound from the bottom side of the beltway and you cannot barely see the taillights trying to make their way towards the 11th Street Bridge. As you get on to the wilson bridge right now, the outer loop looking good, inner loop heavy traffic, coming down from prince george. Dense fog causing visibility problems this morning for sure, especially the bottom side of the beltway. Lets switch it over to the maps. We have a crash on the freeway. This is a new one you need to be aware of, 270, left lane democracy boulevard. Northbound b w parkway, take northbound to avoid that delay and the freeway westbound by the 3rd street tunnel another crash. Metro on time. Back to you guys. Happening today, the Supreme Court will consider whether a law barring departure riching trademarks violates free speech. It cld have implications for the redskins, involving a trademark for a banned name because it was considered offensive to asians. Back in 2014 the redskins had the trademark cancelled after it was ruled it was derogatory 10 offensive. Heated moments during the education hearing for education secretary nominee betsy devos. She had several including tim kane, bob barnard is live at the capitol live now with more. Reporter good morning. The michigan billionaire here in washington for one of these many confirmation hearings just this week, betsy devos was questioned on the hill. Here last night about on the federal student loan program, the civil rights of Public School students with disabilities, school vouchers, you mentioned the exchange she had with our Northern Virginia senator tim kane. He is a member of the Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee here now that clip. Public chatter private k 12 schools, if they receive taxpayer funding they should meet the same accountability yes, transparent with the information and parents should have that first and foremost will you assist on any Educational Program that receives federal funding i support accountability for all schools that receive federal funding i support accountability is that a yes, your honor i support accountability do you not want to answer . Taxpayer funding should be equally accountable do you agree with me or not . Well, no. Because you dont agree with me . Well, the Committee Chairman is republican senator Lamar Alexander of tennessee, he said there will be no vote until the office of government ethics completes its review looking into her Financial Investments and potential conflicts of interest, there may or may not be a vote before Donald Trump Takes Office later this week, guys. Thank you very much. Well, we report often on president elect Donald Trump Tweets but his use of twitter didnt sit well with most americans a wall street journal said 69 of people say Donald Trumps twitter use is a bad thing because it could have untend intended implications. 26 say its good. Nine strongly support the president elect on this and the continue to tweet in the white house but tells fox and friends he wishes he didnt have to. I dont like tweeting. I have other things i could be doing, i get a very dishonesty media and press, its my only way i can count direct. When people make statements about me im able to say and call them out. Im going to close to Million People including facebook and instagram and different things, im going to be close to 50 Million People the president elect says hell keep his twitter handle and not be switched which had been used by president obama and his personal account has more followers so hes sticking with the followers. 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