Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 6 20170118 : vimars

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 6 20170118

Those quakes happening within the last hour, they hit a region of italy is still recovering from quakes over the past two years, we do know the shaking was intense in rome and that subway system has been closed so that inspections for possible damage can take place, we havent heard reports from damage or injuries yet. Updates as soon as we get them. Kelce manning will be released in may after president obama commuted her sentence, she leaked state secrets to wikileaks and video of u. S. Soldiers killing civilians, he was arrested and charged withes mean nach and sentenced to 35 years in prison. When shes released she will have served less than seven, well learn more about when he holds his press conference at the white house, well have live coverage of the News Conference set to begin at 2 15. Watch it on air and on line. The work to get the Trump Administration in place goes on. There will be four more confirmation hearings today for the president elects nominees, they include health and Human Service secretary, commerce secretary, u. N. Ambassador and the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency. Donald trumps nominee betsy devos took her turn on the hot seat last night. The michigan billionaire told senators she looks forward to working with them to improve the nations schools. Several democrats, took time to talk to her, to give her hard questions over her qualifications. Have you ever taken out a student loan from the federal government to help pay for college . I have not. Have any of your children had to borrow money in order to go to college they have been fortunate not to. Have you had personal experience with the program . Not personal experience, but certainly friends and students with whom you have no personal Financial Aid or management of Higher Education . Lets start with thats betsy devos there and trump nominated her to lay out the Education Plan which included vouchers for families. As you find your commute over the district. We got a respective of what it might be like annie yu live with a look at closures already getting ready to begin. Good morning, annie. Reporter good morning, steve and allison, were two days away from the inauguration on friday. And its going to start to get real tricky. Parking and driving around the district. Now, were live at the national mall. Weve seen the no parking signs up on a lot of the posts but theres a lot of work underway, a lot needs to be done but this, of course, is where thousands are expected to gather on friday to see president elect donald trump get inaugurated. Many roads will be closed to cars and pedestrians, so it district tough starting today. Now, i want to show you this map, inauguration planners broken things down to a red zone and green zone perimeter and starting today at noon, the red zone goes into effect. It will be lifted monday, the red zone basically blocks off traffic in a large part downtown, national mall, capitol white house, only authorized vehicles. The green zone goes into effect at 7 00 a. M. Lifted saturday and this is open to traffic. However, just open to those who live and work there. National guard members will be checking your photo id. I also want to show you a list of street closure that is will go into effect starting tomorrow, thursday. You can see its pennsylvania avenue, lincoln memorial, constitution avenue and parts of Union Station and capitol hill area. Live, if youre heading out, there are five stations near the mall that will be closed for security reasons, metro at square, smithsonian and the pentagon but metro is opening up at 4 00 a. M. Which is an hour earlier than normal to accommodate the big crowds and it will close at midnight. Thats the latest here from the national mall. Annie yu fox 5 local news. Today, president elect donald trump will sit down with andrew cuomo, wellknown democrat, possibly a 2020 white house contender. His agenda plans to upgrade and rebuild bridges train stations and airports in new york city and elsewhere around the state. Last night, the president elect was here in the district for a black tie invitation only dinner at the andrew melon auditorium held to introduce foreign diplomats to the incoming Trump Administration, about 500 guests in attendance for the evening. 6 05, ever so closer to the big day. Oo friday, not a rainout but it will be cloudy and rather cool. Lets try to clear out what we did yesterday. The fog are you all right there . Over these past 20 years, you cant do this before work. 47 at reagan national. Dulles 44 degrees. Bwi marshal 43. I got the hick cups. Were going to be in the 50s. Fog and low clouds are out there its a cold front coming through and once we get that through, the wind will shift out of the north and west, temperatures will eventually be in the arrows. Through here, well eventually get sunshine this afternoon and it will feel a lot drier around here. Enjoy the afternoon sunshine and mild temperatures this to him of year 47 degrees thanks. A lot of fog out there this morning if youre heading out. Please use caution, slow it down, we also have a crash southbound gw parkway after the key bridge blocking the ritalin so problems there in addition to that four inbound that upper marlboro, crash as dowere house road. Please use caution. For overall wednesday morning commute were seeing slowdowns top side of the beltway. Lets take a live look outside. That is the outer loop by New Hampshire avenue. You can see elevated fog but brake lights, theres a crash beyond that point blocking a lane from 95 to New Hampshire youre in for about a five to seven minute delay. Inner loop looking good, if you encounter dense er patches of fog, use your low beams, were getting reports. Again, outer loop crash by New Hampshire where we have light fog. Lets move it back to the maps. If you are headed out to Union Station today, there is an event scheduled for tomorrow, parking restrictions begin at 1 00 a. M. Thursday and also as of right now, and the main entrance Union Station closed, a lot of extra security to get around through Union Station you can use the west port co entrance, where metro is on the west side or h street, allow yourself to get around, you told us about the red zone closures and parking restrictions today at noon. That will cause issues for people, only approved vehicles allowed inside that re zone starting at noon around white house, capitol, green zone begins 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, the outer perimeter of the maps, only folks that live and work in that area. They will be checking for registration, give yourself extra time if youre heading into the district. Youre going to have to park far away. Any questions at erin fox5dc on twitter. We wanted to give you a good respective so you know what youre up against this evening and lasting through inauguration weekend. More closures after inauguration on saturday for the womens march everything you need to know a gunfire eruption at a resort town in mexico. The latest one in cancun. The suspect accused of killing an Orlando Police officer behind bars this morning, next, how he was tracked down, back in 30 seconds. Warning to americans in the cancun mexico, the u. S. Embassy activate add code red. Gunfire broke out at extra downtown locations leaving three dead. This latest attack comes one day after a deadly shooting at a music festival. An american was among five victim of that night club attack. The manhunt for the suspect accused of shooting an Orlando Police officer to death is over this morning. An your husband mark keith lloyd behind bars found in an abandoned house last night wearing body armor and carrying two guns. Lloyd was originally wanted for shooting and killing his pregnant exgirlfriend in december. He was set to make his First Court Appearance today. The police chief said they used the late officers handcuffs when they arrested him a Police Officer in texas was killed responding to a call about man with a gun outside of a house. When officers arrived, the suspect ran inside and opened fire on the officers hitting walker in the in contact. That suspect dead inside the house after a sixhour standoff. Former Homeland Security secretary janet la paula between know is in hospital due to complications for treatment with cancer. Shes expected to be released this week. Two sister since the 1980s have been found alive and their mother is behind bars, elaine yates is said to appear in rotate island damage accused of taking off with the two more than 30 years ago after an argument with her husband. The girls were ten and three months old at the time. Kelly and kimberly were located in texas. A tip led them to houston where they were found living under different nails. Justices will consider whether a law violating disparaging trademarks violates free speech. It could have implications for the red trademark for a name because it is considered to be the Washington Redskins had their trademark cancelled after the trademark trial of the u. S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled the team name was drag tour and offensive. A virginia woman is turning to her passion to help raise money for Cancer Research and her inspiring story is next theres a lot of fog out there. Heads up there. Well get the details tucker after the break. And traffic were starting to see those inauguration closures around the district. Its go time at dunkin with two wakeup wraps for 3. Enjoy two freshlymade oventoasted wraps with bacon, sausage, or ham, and keep on all day. America runs on dunkin. I will never wash my hair again. New pantene doesnt just wash your hair, it fuels it. Making every strand stronger. So tangles dont stand a chance. Because strong is beautiful. Milestone on interstate 66 inside the beltway. Crews put up the first of eight gantries for the told lanes scheduled to open they will hold cameras and equipment to communicate with ez pass. Money collected from the tolls will be used to help. Time for me to get an ez pass. Virginia woman is preparing for an race that expands the entire world. Shell run seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. Think about that. These been battling brain cancer more than a decade. It served as an inspiration, she hopes this race gets her to 1 million. Were behind you ill bet it does. Were behind you. If youre in good enough shape to do that youd probably continue on the next day. I dont know what a gantry is i didnt know either. The things that go above the highway that measure yo sometimes you learn things when you stay with the story. Thank you. Breezy, mild, and actually sunshine to look forward to, take a little time getting here but i think by afternoon, well start chance, good chance to start drying out. If we put the prompter, that would be fantastic. 47 now in washington. 45 in gaithersburg, 46 leonardtown. All of us, we got Cool Conditions and still dealing with fog, especially washington points north here early this morning as a warm air kind of stuck in place here and with the cold front coming through, that will mix up the atmosphere enough. We should get the fog out. Satellite and radar quiet condition, there are a few showers up, a little lows will come through and its possible there could be a spotty shower across the northern part of the viewing area, but otherwise clouds, fogs will start today and gradually as High Pressure builds in from the west well be able to clear things out a little bit and get sunshine in here later this afternoon, with High Pressure building in, a mild afternoon, well be in the mid to upper 50s a little later today, it should be a beautiful and even more importantly dry afternoon, theres your sevenday. Focus on friday, looks like we get clouds and shower activity by late morning, early afternoon, looks to be light but any time, you know, forecast showers on a big day like that, you probably want an umbrella or something to protect yourself, there will be rain showers on friday. Temps in the upper 40s. Enjoy the afternoon sunshine. Erin is here and has the roads. 6 17, because of that light fog and kind of misty commute. I want to give you a tour of the cameras. This is 66 on the eastbound side by dudley road. A lot of brake lights, from 234 to 28, jammed up with about a 20minute delay and stop and go traffic inside the westund side looking really nice, as we forward the cameras, i got the only area in virginia dealing with backups, 95 on the northbound side by Prince William parkway, if youre getting to the mixing bowl youre slow and south of to point and slow in stafford by courthouse road. A ton of morning volume picking up. Dan north route one seeing congestion. Here we are traffic is moving, no major delays just yet from the beltway to the 14th street bridge but we do have volume increasing for sure, slowdowns later. An earlier crash on New Hampshire avenue and the outer loop cleared, from 95 to georgia about a tenminute delay. Light elevated fog. Take a look, you can see elevated fog along 270 as you come down from clarksberg, heavy traffic from 70 to urban in a and towards the spur, its about a 25 minute delay beltway. Northbound side quiet and problem free on secondaries through rockville. Ill let you know if that changes, metro on time, well be talking inauguration traffic and road closures throughout the morning, things kicking in as early as noon today. Couch potatoes. More great programming coming to netflix. President elect donald trump takes his oath of office. Talking about the wax figure that will be unveiled later this morning. What is going on with walmart . First job cuts now word of a big hirings, first a check of the markets joining us from the Fox Business Network simonetti. The Home Improvement chain is slashing 2400 positions. It was rumored now official. Theyre doing so at their distribution centers, their Customer Support centers, even the corporate office. And theyre going to do this as they start to move some of the back Office Employees to the front of the store, to help people coming in with their projects and the like. Lowes has reported slower foot traffic. Competing with home depot and others, and unfortunately, we got job cuts i have to say job cuts is a rare term to use these days as donald trump is getting set to become the president. Interesting, just quickly, that he makes a statement about the dollar, and we see the reaction right after that. Its kind of fascinating. It fell sharply yesterday to the lowest level in about a month and a half and the reason would be donald trump told the wall street journal he thinks the drugs or alcohol strong, with that the dollar falls, yesterday it was down 59 points, the nasdaq lowered by 35. It had been on a string of record closing highs. Today is about banks, more banks reporting, Goldman Sacks speaks this afternoon on Monetary Policy in california lets talk about walmart making changes. We just told you lowes was cutting and walmart is hiring workers 10,000 of this year. This is the thing to do to get in the president elects good graces. Walmart says these 10,000 jobs will be added to the new stores, the current stores theyre expanding and their online operations. That is a little good news. How about good news if you just wants to stay home and bin. Watch something . I was watching west world but finish that day too soon, now im watching the mariah carys mariahs world very good. I could see your girls really liking that one, do you watch with them no ok. Ok. Im shocked. Guilty pleasure, what netflix is adding 1,000 hours of original programming this year, thats how they suck the subscribers in, you can only see this on netflix and everybody is talking about it. Theyre upping it from 600 next year, also inc inc. Ing a deal with Jerry Seinfeld. Did you ever watch comedians getting coffee ive seen a couple of episodes i havent seen it but ive tried all morning to remember the name of that show and i have to look down every time. Comedians and cars getting coffee. Anything Jerry Seinfeld is good. I think the first one was comedian george were roommates in new york, something really weird. Really good. Honestly im missing tv these days. I understand. No time just the baby well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Its fun im watching mariahs world nothing wrong shes very likeable on the show. Not that we know any of these celebrities, but you might not think that likeable, that she led with that maybe . I dont know but shes i saw a little clip when her Christmas Song came on and she started singing along to it. That was very nice. True story. Yes. Lets do the forecast. Were going to clear it out. Were going to dry it out. Both good news here after fog and rains yesterday, 47 in washington, windchills 45 feels like 45 out there. Winter light out of the south southeast about five miles an hour, the clouds hanging tough. Fogs through parts of the area, coming through as we speak. It may kick off a sprinkle or shower, what it will do is allow High Pressure out to the west to and the bottom line is were going to clear it out and keep it nice and mild. Most of your day at least your afternoon should feature sunshine, tomorrow fantastic, friday not so much, clouds and a few showers by early afternoon. Its not going to be a washout but we will have scattered showers on friday, and again on sunday. So plan accordingly. Thank you dress warm on try, its going to be chilly probably going to be if youre outside at the inauguration, youre going to be out there a little while hours and hours. Lets get a look at our roads this morning. 626 right now and were taking a live look outside, 95 on the southbound side. This is just outside the beltway on the top side as you come down from the icc heavy traffic down to the beltway. Light fog as well.

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