Thanks for joining us tonight, im lauren demarco. And im jim lokay. Lo off the top were talking about the powerful winds that have led to damage. We have Team Coverage with wi the weather. And Lindsay Watts with a look at the damage. Reporter jim and lauren, there has been a lot going onn today with those fires tree branches falling and even an entire tree coming d ceasing ton. That tree snapped power linesnap putting the utility crews work to tonight and leaving a few hundred people without power oni such a freezing night. We heard what sounded to me like an explosion and a of course ouf lights went out and then a couple of seconds later there was another large bank. After hearing the strong wind all day people who lived near kensington parkway got to see utility poles snapped like twist and tangled wires all over road. It knocked out power at two apartment billings. S. They have elevators stopped. So they had to get people evacuated from those. Hos far from the only square from heavy wind and dry conditions, a tree branch crashed down on a on car in bethesda and this is one of several fires today, a barn up in flames in clarksburg. I was empty at the time and no one was hurt. The firefighters say nearby homes were i was fully involved in fire. Obviously the windy conditions were creating a situation where the nearby brush and woodsoods caught on fire very quickly, pretty rapid spread of that fire. Before this, Montgomery County fire was called in a brush p fire in gaithersburg, marked byh a brush fire. A gentleman was operating the lawnmower, started a fire and ad rapid spread into the woods areo and fortunately we were able too it probably spread about a abo hundred yards or so. Yard a busy day for fire and utility crews and a frosty evening for those without power. Wi its going to be a cold night at our place. Pla back here live these utility crews youre seeing will likelyk remain overnight. Power isnt expected to be be restored until monday. Mon we do have some safety tips for you from firefighters. Yo they sayu fr if you should lose power, steer clear of candles ca because of the fire danger. So any kind of outdoor grilling or burning in this kind of weathera also, be sure to properly dispose of cigarette butts and d also fireplace ashes. This is a perfect night to ligho up the fireplace, but the ashes left behind can retain heat for up to a few days so you do want to make sure to put those in a metal continue with tin with a a secure lid. We want to get you to gwen were also talking about the cold. It is bitter out there. We saw lindsay with her scarf. Definitely. This all began y esterday in the afternoon hours when we had a very strong cold front blow through and with the gusty winds and cold conditions. A reinforcing shot of cold air. Wened up with the winds having some significant wind chills. Threats lets take a look at a l some of the peak wind gustswind today and a good example of what wind situate was referring toefr hazards that happen. Bwi55mile per hour and d. C. 49, dulles 51, leesburg, 56mile pee hour wind gusts today and and manassas 45678 thats just somea of our neighborhoods. Ds. Now, there is still a windind advisory in effect. The high wind warning was over the appalachian. That has ended. The wind advisory is in effect right through until midnight. Were talking about wind gusts night. Sustained winds are currently from 7 to even 26 Miles Per Hour across our region and heres a look at current wind gusts forus you gusting even up to 40plus across the region as well. Well see a little bit of improvement tonight but tomorror its still going to be pretty breezy. The temperatures into the 30s. Wind chills in the 20 s and ad thats what its going to feel o like when youre heading out tho door tomorrow morning, also. So be prepared. Rep satellite showing you a few light north of us. Im going to have the full seve day forecast coming upth in jusa about it. But cold and waindy we start the week that way. Back to you. You turning now to developing to news out of texas where San Antonio Police are mourn theo po death of one of their own. Detective Benjamin Marconi was a shot and killed this morning while he was writing out a traffic ticket in his squad car. The gunman is still on the lose. Fox 5s Marina Maracco joins uss with the very latest. The san and tone owe ow metropolitan area to find the shooter. Just a few hours ago, the police have identified a person of interest. Reached in and fired a second round. This man now being a considered a person of interest after San Antonio Police detectivetoni Benjamin Marconi was murdered while on duty. A person pulled up behind the patrol car in a black vehicle. It appeared to be a run of the million traffic stop directly outside police headquarters. He the 20 year veteran was inside a squad car writing a ticket when his killer pulled up behind him, walked up to his window, shot wn him once in the head and then a second time before flowing. Its always difficult, especially in this day and age where police are being targeted across the country. Police also searching for this car as the man hunt continues for detective marconis killer. L its always difficult,iffi especially in this day and age hopefully well solve this one real quick and if thisf individual is a danger to more police or anybody else well try and get him off the street as quickly as we can. Sources say in the immediate aftermath of the shooting here h at home d. C. Police have put out this internal tell type reminding officers to remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings. This is threats against law enforcementw this comes less than five months after a gunman killed five officers in dallas and three other officers were killed justu days later in baton rug. Rug just this month two iowa officers were killed in separata ambush attacks also sitting in n their patrol cars. Lauren. A search will resume tomorrow re morning for a missing fish man whose boat sanged in the potomac river. This happened last night in st. One of them survived. Searchers recovered the bodies of two fisherman earlier today, but had to end their search se forth fourth man because of of rough sees, high winds and the d dark. This could be a big week wite for president elect donald trumd as he continues to fill out his cabinet. Earlier today mr. Trump held court at his golf course in newn jersey. Interviewed a number of people including Rudy Guiliani and chris christie. Reporter President Donald Trump is moving full is steam ahead on building his Administration Meeting with a slew of high profile people this weekend. John bolton the former un a. M. Bass or. Bolton and guiliani are unrependent for the iraq war. On saturday trump and pence met with retired marine generalene james madison. Mad and mitt romney who is being considered for secretary ofid state. Ered it was a great first step and way things are going here in in president elect trumps operation. Some of the picks are a shift from the appointments announcedo last week. Donald trump in his campaign echoed the views of democrats, not republicans, massive transportation bill, trade,l, t getting rid of the carried interest loophole, cleaning up e the swamp. Us. Hes not draining the swamp. Sw hes filling it up more and theres going to be more swamp creatures than ever before. Lobbyists and big p timebbyi investment bankers. S neat doing what he said he was going to do for average working americans. Theres definitely a possibilits morph cabinet will be made this week. Bryan llenas, fox new. Donald trump will have a the white housee all to himself whn trump told reporters his wife melania and their ten year old son baron will stay in new yorke city and then they plan to moven to the white house. They decided against switching Barons School in the middle ofi the year. E he goes to a private school in p new york city. The president elect has add alec baldwin to the people he feed with on twitter. Twi i watched parts of saturday of night life last night it is a nothing funny at all, equal timq for us, question mark. Alec ball within fired back with a string of tweet equal l wall time, election is over, there is no more equal time. L you try to be president and pr people respond thats pretty much it. T. Baldwin went onto tell trump ifp he were president elect. And ended with, i could go in. N me. Ill be at s l. Keep italy here at fox5 for allo the latest. Lat jessie burns from the hill will join us to tell us who the nextx cabinet choices may be. Be. You can catch that at 7 30 00 a. M. President obama flying back to d. C. Wrapping up is foreign trie of is presidency. He met with limb a peru after the economic summit ended. He plans to give his successors space to govern, but said he wont necessarily be silent if donald trump policieso violate what he believes are americas values or i deals. Eals as an american sits who cares deeply about our country, iff there are issues that have lesss to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal or battle l, but go to core questions co deals, and if i think that itst necessary or helpful for me to defense those i deals, then ill examine it when it comes. The president will stay in d. C. For a couple of more years after he leaves youngest so iss youngest daughter can finish school here. Coming up, the cost to cook thanks giving. Ivin hopefully you can take a little l break from politics and enjoy the food, but you should actually be this year compared to last. Thats some good news. We are crunching up the numbersm coming up next. Robots that can kill without human controlling them. Heres something you can talk about at thanksgiving dinner, he gets a lot of compliments. He wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, . Thank you for serving our country . And im like, thats my dad. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Im very proud of him. You cant predict the market. But through good times and bad. At t. Rowe price. Weve helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Fairfax county. Police are looking for this man, lewis reader. Investigators say early yesterday morning he got into an argument with a woman at hisis home on keeler court in alexandria. That argument escalated and the woman was set on fire. Police tell us she was taken to a hospital with live threatenine injuries. Investigators are asking anyoney who may know readers whatread abouts to give them a call. Ll. Crews battled a massive fire at Howard County golf course. Rse. It caused major d word on what led to it yet. Fox5s Alexandra Limon with more. Reporter the Howard County fire and Ems Department says itt appears this billing is a totalt loss. I is a clubhouse at the Willow Springs golf course here in the city of west friendship. The fire was reported early in the morning and you can see it caused extensive damage to the building. Now, luckily First Responders say the building was vacant so there were no injuries. Urie with the fire whipping upping several times because of thesef very strong winds. Ds. At approximately 6 00 a. M. A passerby on route 70 had saw the flames and called it in. Were told that thewe investigation is stillr ongoing and they still dont have a cause of the fire. Reporting in Howard County,d Alexandra Limon, fox5 localloca news. To the fox5 followup now, police made an arrest in a dog mapping case in the district. Isr youve seen us cover Surveillance Video captured a man stealing a golden retriever puppy named cruz out of a yard. Police have idead the man who took the p puppy as lewis von delve southwest. One dell says he took the puppy because it was mistreated. Last week we asked the dogs owner what he wanted to see see happen in this case. Mitrally is happy. Closure now that hes save and hes back. We dont want anything like thie to happen again. You commit a crime you need to be held accountable for thatfor crime you committed. Von del turned himself in on thursday. Tu the other person in the videorn was notht charged. Harg lets switch gears now, taking i live look outside. Side its pretty nice out there. A little bit windy. Weve been seeing the cameras shake. It is feeling like it is a lot of gusts out there. Re. Gwen is in the weather center. Were still talking wounds and l we still have a wind advisory iy effect and thats right throught until midnight. Those winds are still pretty strong and we have some windwind chills to talk about, also. O. Lets take a look at our maps and show us what is happening. Wind gusts up to 30 miles anan hour in d. C. And 44 for martinsburg, thats a pretty we will get a little bit of a breakin the overnight hours, but theyre still going to be strong. And tomorrow as you get ready to head out for work and the kids get ready for school its going to be cold animus think. Wind advisory in effect until midnight. Were talk temperatures that t going toem be in the 30s. 0 right now 38 at d. C. 35 at dulles, 36 at culpeper, 35 at martinsburg and the windd chills will be kicking in. Its goi only in the 20s. 32degrees your overnight low. Westerly winds, mostly clearar skies. Heres a look at the next couple of days for you. Temperatures still into the 40s. We are going to head into the 50s into the week. Well see a little bit of ait o warmup at least. Over all the week is definitelyt starting cold and windy. Make sure youre dressed warm for the Morning Hours and make sure those kids have lots oflots layers objection to the formbjec ill have more details in the seven day forecast coming up in just a about it. Travelling thanksgiving yousgiv might want to give yourself a little extra time. Aaaa predict 48 million peopleel will hit the road. The top four destinations this thanksgiving, las vegas, san fran cyst dough, san diego and orlando and new york city which is the home of the macys thanksgiving parade ranked fifth. If youre staying home, thiss year it will a 10 person dinner. Ner. That is ten cents cheaper than 2015. These numbers are according to the American Farm burrow federation which costs the cost to cook thanksgiving dinnerner every year. A 16pound turkey will run you about 2 this year. Ear. By the way, the fox5 morning m team will get you readyead tomorrow. Later on, choose the right duanes for youo thanksgiving meal. That is tomorrow morning right here on fox5. Did you ever do the fried turkey ive never had it. D do it outside, dont do it in the garage. Do it away from your deck. Every year you get one of those. A good remind. Ood its tasty if you do it right. It straight ahead there are a staple in science fix. Ence here we go from turkey to row bombs the technology couldt be closer to reality than youthn think and theres debate onbate whether this should be allow. The idea of robots who cana killof r humans on their own. It sounds like more like science fix than realitiment it may noty fox5 lucas. Reporter robots acting ong their own hunting down humans and killing them. Whats only been seen in hollywood could soon be cominge to a battle field next to you. Machines that could one day kill on their own and now the big question, how much independent to give them. Were convinced that fully autonomous weapons, better known as killer robots would cause they turning life and Decision Making over to machines. Over 30 countries already possess defensive weapons which use autonomy to shoot down aircraft. The pentagon would insist that humans will decide when toen trying. When it comes to use of force on behalf of the American People there always need to be a human being involved in making those decisions. Critics dont want to take any preemptively banned. They dont exist yet, but theyre coming down the pike rapidly. A system which incorporates a high degree of autonomy shot down two friendly aircraftaft killing the pilots. We dont think it to be perfect and pristine. Theres going to be i be correct information, there may be accidents. There may be ways we can make it more precise. Autonomy can reducece casualties on the battle fieldle experts say the pentagon is only interested in using the technology for Logistics Operations or other tasks such as refueling aircraft. Others see the value in an underwater drone. Rone today ought missing is being used for Driverless Cars and ona wall street, but its nott perfect. Stock trading today its highly automated and there have been situations where these algorithms that companies havemp they interact in unexpected ways flash crash. I dont think youfl want to see the military equivalent of that. Top pentagon Officials Say the us must stay ahead in the us arms race. Chin United States won the cold war in part due to its innovation prow less, something it hopes tole maintain. Ntai at the pentagon lucas tomorrowly son, fox news. Lighting up Dupont Circle. Rce the new green project has people today were gonna be comparing the roll formed steel bed of the Chevy Silverado to the aluminum bed of this competitors truck. Awe. Yeah first, lets check out the aluminum bed of this truck. Wooooow holy moly. Full on crack here. Now lets check out the steel bed of the silverado. Id expect more dents. No holes. You dont have to wait until black friday to make a strong decision. Find your tag and get 20 cash back, or, get 0 financing for 72 months. This is fox5 local news at 0. Right about now theres thousands of people over in landover over at fed ex field freezing tonight or at least trying to stay warm. Rm. The temperature dropped sod so quickly yesterday and now itow its just an indication, folks, of the season of whats to come. Thats right. I posted on my Facebook Page of the picture of my canadian mights and said is it time to post this . I dont think anyone is ready for it. I know im not ready for it. If youre in the stores you are hearing the Christmas Music andc the decorations. Lets get past turkey day first. Yes, very