Transcripts For WTTG Good Day DC 20161214

Gets ready to welcome him intoo office. Fice. A look at the inaugurationnaugun preparations underway right now. And later, tipping troubles. In the season of giving, the t dos and donts of gifting gng everyone on your list. Lis good day at 9a starts right now. Youre missing the best shots right behind you. Y tucker was breaking out his bruno mars dance got to be readr for anything on this show. Show. Come on in, al. C come on in. E i never late to the party. Party i just wanted to dance brunou mars on the way in. On thway you want add full entrance. A thats right. I see you. Thanks everyone pour stayingur with us. S. 9 01 on this wednesdaynesd december 14th. De 14th. Im maureen umeh alongside holly, steve and allison. Is wisdom taking the day off. A little frog in his throat. T were going to shed nerd tears Kevin Mccarthy back but from his i have a key card podcast with sarah fraser landing mega celeb interviews to married live heedh does not hold anything backg bak thats coming up little later ir this hour. Th but first the big headline todaa the weather of course. Crse. Enjoy today. It will get super after this. Tucker barnes standing by after getting his boogie on a littleit while ago. Its older way. Ay. Maureen pay careful attention. Eo special effect. Spial you see that . Wow my monitor is shaking. King thats how cold it will bet b around here. Nd here. Not today. Ay. In fact today the mid 40s with w plenty of sunshine. Unsh later this afternoon the front will move on in. Ll m well get clouds and burst of bo snow. Thursday and friday things areye really going to be really really plummeting and bitter coldte col around here. Nd 40 now in washington. Hi mention the wind chill 33. Windl. All right. We got sunshine the first half h of the day. Of today will be dry day. The dwi mid 40s for your wednesday wedsd forecast. Not a d our frontal system is out hereer and very very quickly drop downn into the region this evening. There may be some our modelingin is trying to indicate there mayy be a burst of snow showerw showe activity as that front moves m through tonight and then the the winds pick up. Temperatures plummet and we aree looking at overnight lows back c in the low 20s but the wind chills by tomorrow morning are a going to be Single Digits, and a throughout the day tomorrow evee tomorrow afternoon i dont thini the wind chills will be muchuc above five, 10, 12, 14 degreesds around here so it will feelil f really really cold. Today not so bad. Ad 45 still a cool day. Day. Winds out of the north and wet t here at five to 10. O 10. I mentioned the snow showers as that front moves through tonight. Stay tune. Ni ill have the seven day forecast coming up. O talk about. Aut we got bidder cold thursday ands friday and the possibility of our first light test snow sno accumulations around here. Tuck you are missing an epice shoe covering. Im not going to cov lie. Class in session. Essi you guys are talking shoes. Shos we were trying to see which shoes what keeps your feet the moss warm. Some people want to be aboutb sunny and 45. Sunny 45 some people want to know about t shoes. Hes its gone. Dont leave mad. We try to give you a little e bit of everything. Ing. Sorry tucker. Sorryucke preparations underway aheadua of that bitter cold we were alll listening to tucker talk about. T in virginia, state workers begag treating the roads in fairfaxaix county yesterday. And they plan to continue contiu through rush hour tonight. Now, they are most mostly using brian thats assault andsu water mix to protect nearly 5,000 lane miles ahead of the expected arctic temperatures. Tu. All right. Getting ready for it. Y fo. 9 04. Turning to politicing toitic president elect donald trumpelto nominating yet after cabinet another member to his cabinet cn tapping former texas governorerr rick perry to be secretary of energy. Of course flashes back to 201201 when perry was running forng for president and he forgot the t exact agency tosses name duringg a debate. President elect set to pete witw big tech ceo todays at trump p donald trump continues whatnt he calls his thank you tour in wisconsin. Wiscon but even he couldnt ignore thee lets say unusual combination oo people who have been showing upg at trump tower head lined by performer kanye west. Bill gates, anna winter, kanye, thats right. [ applause ] like kanye. Anye so what was kanye really rea doing at trump tower . He said i on twitter that the topics tic ranged from bullying to violenco in chicago. Now at the other end of thend oe spectrum there was bill gates. A. We had a good conversationrsn about innovation. How it can help in health, education. And gates and other techer th leaders from apple, facebook and google among others will meetilm with trump today to drill downln on issues affecting that t industry. And the overall domestic economy will loom large dation well. El with the federal reserveeser expected to hike interest ratest and the markets continuing toino imb. B. The dow poised set a probably crossing the 20,000 200 thresh hod. Trump returning to language fron the campaigngu trail. My administration will beiowl focused on three very importantt words. Words. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Exxon mobil Rex Tillerson asa secretary staff it. Ar there are more calls for russias involvement in then t president ial campaign. Ign all right. Meanwhile, president elect dumbb drum many still not respond topo do celebrity chef jose andresre following his proposed truce in oh month long feud with the president election. Len. Yesterday andres suggested viasi twitter that the two settlewo se their differences with donations charitable organizations saying can we enter lawsuits and wes de dont donate money to veteransen to celebrate. Ra why keep litigating lets both b of us win. W. With just over month till mn the president ial inauguration,uo preparations are in full swingfi and today the big groups inups off their big plans. Pla so big big big. Fox5s bob barnard is live ats t the d. C. Armory in southwestwest with the details. Ails earlier, bob was big on a map of the area. A good morning to you, bob. Good morning. Morning. We were down on the map earlierr were now up here in the raftere to d. C. Armory because some of o the commanding officials who will be here for the next fewexf weeks from around the country to make sure this inaugural goesgus off without hitch or here o here standing you see this lady herer standing on top of a giant map m of the district. Ic the capitol is off to the tritei in the middle is the donaldald Trump International hotel. El the white house and lincolnlco memorial far off to the left. L. Were hearing from the officialo who are basically briefingriin police and other Law Enforcement and personnel who will be here e helping to make this thingis tng happen. I want to show you some video allison, we were down on the map earlier during our 7 00 oclockc area. Ea. Its basically a flat map with w models of the different keyre k place and s walking through and seeing whatg theyre roles will be. re its basically a chance for the police and the army, navy, airsr force, marine corps and coastndc guard to kind of see what theirt roles will be to make this thinh go off and we spoke earlier with the man in charge of logistics for the inauguration dayugationa festivities lieutenant colonelon malik free man of the d. C. D. C National Guard. Onal guard. Imagine you have to get get almost 8,000 soldiers into into washington, d. C. In a 48 hourou period go and perform a missions down on the National Capitol geg them back out and back home to o their home safe and you got to g feed them, house them, make surr they have transportation, makee sure they have all thell the requirements they need. Massive undertaking. Ertaking reporter like super bowl. Ow this is the super bowl forowr the Dc Army National guard and National Guard for pride and a support for the president ialdel inauguration. This is our keystone event andnd we have the best planners and organizers come out to ensuree its a success reporter of course, cours theyve been rehearsing for somm time. Theres the inaugural parade inr route along pennsylvanalia avena we were there with the air force drill team. T so lot of the elements that wila be performing the marine band bd have already been rehearsing and this here today is a chance forr everybody who is going to have logistical role to get togetherg and as you see here theyre the breaking up to go listen to thet two commanding generals who wilw be in charge to make sure theyet get their final marching orders, guys, so that over the coming cm weeks everybody is on the sameam page and that this thing goes ge off without a hitch. Hitch so many different movingfe mv parts. I know. Right now. You know all that planning thatt goes in. Es it seems like youre still aways away. Away i know. No all come together quickly. Uiy well unfortunately sad newsls from hollywood yesterday boastat known for dad on growing painsai alan thick passed away afterer suffering a heart attack whileti playing hockey with 19yearoldd son. He was rush to the hospital in burr banks california where hehh was later pronounced dead. D celebrity reactions have been he poing g in. Paula patton his son tweeted 8 41 last nightt a quote from Mother Teresa whili she doesnt mention mr. Thicks specifically we could assumeuld this was for him considering ofo course she was married to hiso son robin thick. John legend tweeted rest inti peace alan thick i grew up watching him and got to know hih through robin. Ugn. He was always so kind to me. O m so sad to hear about his passing. Ellen degeneres took to t witter to twitter as well to say, america loveded alan thick. Al im so sad hes gone sending sos much love to his family. Just one of those peoplef se that you know. Like a household name. Television i think especially used to be appointment watchingn you sat down, and you fell in love with some of thesehe characters hes one of those o o american dads. He was one of those peoeone o that this morning like iike i didnt not hear any newsny n yesterday afternoon i didnt dit know until this morning when ine getting ready for the early news. He wasnt sick. Was i heard he passed it stopped mem in my tracks. In my track like what . What . Right. Out there playing hockey,ht u know. Know with his son. Byebye 2016. Ye 26. Yeah. All right. Right now to fox5 exclusive we have h obtained new video of the former chairman of the prince georgess county liquor board failing ang field sobriety test last thursday. Schultz charles called showso charles called well strugglinged to walk a Straight Line wel comn the heels yesterday news hess resigning as chair of the princr georges county liquor control board. D. Police did charge the formerharm chairman with driving untheith influence and the video seems to confirm what investigators are telling us that caldwell failedi a field sobriety test and hend h also refused a breathalyzerhaly test. Te caldwell told fox5 he had two ht drinks over a twohour period. O lets get to the airport to rit nonow. Reagan National Airport andirpoa dulles interNational Airportirpt workers are strike to go protest low wages. W wages. With more on who the workerse are and what they are strikingin for, were joined now by foxs x annie yu. Anniyu. Good morning, annie. Reporter hey g morning toort all of you. Al you right now, at 9 00 oclock,ocl, there was a Board Meeting that a the Airport Authority was holding aa regularly schedule meeting. Eetig dozens of dc Airline Workers wke outside of reagan national, they all went to that meeting. Ting so they are downstairs trying tt put pressure on the officials tt bring this to discussion for a vote. Vo they are asking for a rate hikek or a pay hike, excuse me, rightr now many of them get about 6. 15 an hour theyre having for 15. 5 this protest started around 6 33 this morning. But we spoke to the airports and they tell us that its normal n operations inside you can see cs its relatively slow today. Tay this protest is going to go on for the neck 24 hours weree talking about hundreds of d. C. Airline workers from both reagaa national as well as dulles. The workers striking today theyh are mostly contracted wheelchaih attendants as well as baggagegae handlers. They all work for company callec huntly usa. Huntly u its a Texas Based Company and a they contract directly with thee airlines and ploy about 400 workers from our airports and so these workerske are coming together for the t greater cause. Se. Theyre asking for 15 an hour. U you know many of them workor multiple jobs to make ends meete some are forced to sleep in sepn their cars. We actually spoke to one one protester marvin lynch who hashs worked as a baggage handler andd security for 14 years now. Now take a listen to what he has to say. Sa really what he was sayingas n that he does have to work two ww jobs to make ends meet in this t d. C. Region, and hes work heree for 14 years, has not seen ann increase in pay and so its very difficult. They dont see their families se because ofir f the short turn ao and so a lot of heartbreakingbrg stories, but a lot of people pel asking about what about the tipi that theyre making. Y mak well we asked about that, andha were told that the baggageagge handlers do not make tips. Ip they only mak and ever since you know the companies airlines startedtart charging for baggage fees andsnd luggage fees and that sort off thing theyve seen no tips whatsoever. Whatso the wheelchair attendants dos do except tips, however, many dond know they can tip them. Cap th so they dont really rely onn those tips. T so thats the very latest heretr from reagan national. N National Back to you in the studio. Annie, keep your eye on it. Imagine this youre woken uu in the middle of your night toit your home shaking. Ng thats exactly what what some d. C. Residents are dealing withw and theyre blaming metro. Metro details next in a live report. V. Later the wait is over. Apples airpods are excuse me are able. Im so used to apple selling ouo before they get on the mark. Ar you can get them act quickly ify you want a pair. Pai theyre kind of cool. F c all right. Ight unpleasant christmas greeting ge may show up in your mailbox thii holiday season. Ea if youre caught on camera speeding by new speeding camerar in southeast. Hmm. Hm cameras were installed almost 30 days ago which means the the mandatory grace period coming t an end. An e. Cameras are nestle in the the suburban like neighborhood of o mayors where the speed limit isi 25 miles pe neighborhoods. Od the threshold for triggering tht speed camera is traveling trali 10 Miles Per Hour over the posted speed limit. And speed camera citations range from 50 bucks to 300 in the district. Rict wow. Im saying the briefly. Ri i hate when im trying to drivet the speed limit in d. C. And and people are right on you becausec they want because it doest de seem slow in most spots. Pots im its 25 everywhere pretty much. Much im sorry, i wont do itndot again. Thank you. When people are speeding through and slam on their brakee because they know theres camerr there. Ere. One of the biggest concerns with them are theye bigg really safety, you know, enhancer or dd they create these problems by b people wanting to avert theav te ticket and slamming on their the brakes and hence causing ance cn accident. You dont realize 25 is writi testify slow. It is slow. It is slow i. T it is w any wearing lets not do thaa for the new year. For the neye tracking metro some residents in pet worth can barely sleep atlet night and they say its metroso fault. Thats because they say the trains are causing a majorcaus i problem even damaging some ofino Melanie Alnwick live with thatit story for us this morning. Or what time of night are we talking here, mel . Reporter bakely theyrehey saying it is whenever metro isei running. Ru so from 5 00 a. M. Until 1 000 a. M. When they say theyrey thee hearing the disturbances andancs imagine during rush hour that ih when it is most prominent. Happening sometimes every seveny minutes. Mis. They say it is causing so muchuh trouble that they had a meeting with d. C. Officials and also with metro officials to try to get them to pay moreayor attention to the problem. The commissioner saying theyay have to just keep keep kee hammering this problem becausese it doesnt seem in their opinion that metro giving it attentionei they would like it to have. To h and it does seem they say to coincide with some changes ofngf late to metro. Metro now it appears to be happeningag in the neighborhoods the streetr surrounding the pet worth metroo station so were talking about o New Hampshire avenue, but little further up from the station. Ta so taylor avenue, fourth and and seventh streets northwest. Thst. Upper around the circle tha prominent. And theyre saying that itst i definitely a different kind ofid knows noise than theyve heardva before. They described it as deep lowp w trembling a low rumble that at times occasionally even shakesha things off of their walls. F of r listen to how she described ited to us. S all night and all day. Day definitely has been kind of n low rumble. Every time it trembles atrem night, i hear it and i wake upae sit up in the bed, i say, oh,h, thats a train runningunng underground. Reporter so it does seem see to coincide they say with the riflely 7,000 series rail cars l going now on the green line andd the yellow line which run from here at the pet worth station up the street and there are tunnele that is run underneath their the neighborhood votes so they sayys they believe it has something tg do witness 7,000 series railail cars, and our information those 7,000 series rail cr heavier than the old cars and a possible that could beible happening. Metro says its looking int o thehe problem but so far has not not connected it or confirmed thated it has anything to do with wit metro. Back to you guys. Back all right. At m thanks for that update m tn time major honor for the ran responsible for one of thenef t biggest recent viral trends. Tnd details coming up. And tis the season foreason tipping. When the comes to remembering of one from your hairdresser to tht male carrier to the schoolteacher, all part of thehe holiday season. The question is how much shouldu you give . Weve got the dos d and donts still ahead. A. Stronger is blasting her tumors. Without risking her bones. Stronger is less pain, new hope, more fight. Its doing everything in your power, and everything in ours. Because we dont just want kids to grow up. We want them to grow up stronger. And with your support, they will. Make a gift today at childrensnational. Org givenow nip 24 00. Lets get a check of the otherah stories making headlines on this wednesday morning. Well start overseas right now new developmentngs hwest coo of syria this morning. Morning zero fire deal fell through in n aleppo many active visit sayay bombing raids resume over theree eastern part of the city and ofy buses meant to take rebels andes civilians to safety sit emptyite waiting to evacuate the peopleto still left in that city. N thatit the delay is being blamed blamem on the Syrian Government whichie now has complete control over or the rebel held districts. Heartbreaking to see thoseeat buses just sit there. The 15 minute moment of silence held today in newtown, connecticut, to mark four yearsy since the sandy hook schooll massacre. 20 children, six teachers andchs Staff Members all killed the victims will be remembered inwil just a few minutes b between 9 0 and 9 45 the time when the shootings took place. More than 20 years later, lr new dna testing is planned in the jenn bnai ramsay case. Y fbi database that includes genetic profiles from more than 15 million known sex officer ato the present times. E presti sixyearold jonbenet was foundu dead in the basement of her familys home the day after christmas in 19 nick. Music legend dolly parton pr stepping up to help the victimsi of the devastating tennesseess ldfifires. Periston from the county whereew the fires happened. Hd. 14 people were killed andnd thousands of homes andnd businesses were destroyed there. Last night she actually host add telethon called smoke tee tee mountains rise to raise moneyaim for the victim. Vicm a big honor for the man who started the ice buck challenge. The former boston collegege baseball captain was supposed tt accept the award next yearextea because because of the of progression of his als he willi not be able to make that trip. I he was diagnosed with the diaost disease in 2012. 2 raised more than 115 million to the Als Association since ittioe took off on social media two met years ago. Ago and finally just in time fort the holidays good news forews iphone users if you wanted the airpods introduced a couple of months ago the wirelessires headphones are available for shipping at least you might even get them in time for theleasme e holidays. Holida you can make your orders online now and actual in storetore availability is slated for nextx week if you want to get them the cost is 159. 15 i think they look a little weire but a lot of people have beenavb lining up virtually oh and 39 3 get them. It will be on both sides. I propose little skin pocketc so you dont lose them. I mean n thats my big thing. 159. Youll lose them. Yo can you make themu look likk hoops and theyd look like earrings. Thats a good idea. A c tlehaar cord. Learor just a clear one. I mean i wouldnt dare get g them. I would definitely lose those. O but they are cool. Reool. The season of g daunting task especially when it comes to remembering everyone iy your life. Yo so when it comes to givingin people like your hairdresser,rdr your door man, your childs teacher hes got a door man . Any who what are the rules . Res well break it down next. Hollywood mourning the loss of s another tv icon alan thick hethh passed away last night at thehtt age of 69. Age what we know about the suddenn loss. Lo well talk with tmzss coming. Om ahead at 10a we hope youreop in the holiday spirit but if not the frosty phollies will surelys help. Help. Theyll join us live in the loff an very special guest going tong join them as well. Whom. Wh who could that be . First thoug a holiday message for a local Service Member overseas. Wishing my family inamil maryland a happy holidays. Holi. With Furry Friends and stomp your feet to a sesame street beat sesame street live elmo makes music clap along when elmo makes music playing eaglebank arena this weekend only tickets on sale now through ticketmaster latest player to blatt the nfl. This happened with the skins when they had to play back to bt back games. Back g you play sunday night and play p again on thursday this timehis Seattle Seahawks defensive backb Richard Sherman had choice wordr about the tight playing schedule schedule. Poop fest. Terrible. You know, you play we playedyed frigging got home likeeik 1 00 oclock in the morning,heor Something Like that on monday ty and play again. A. I mean, congratulations nfl. N did you it again. They been doing it all season. Ea i guess were the glad ones tods get the middle finger. Inger. Yes, did he call eight poop fest. Fe the players dont like it. I get it they have theave freedom because they have thesea amazinguse cracks. Everybody getting everybody getting a part ofei the fest. Everybody a 10 the poop fests at some point. Ome point. If you have one team that a say you have one team that hasas less Practice Team than the ttht other time its not fair toot f those teams. You have to be on the equal e because like when the skins dids it and they had to go fromgo f sunday night game to thursday ts afternoon game, they didnt get any practices in that week. Wee they had to practice for twoor t games in one week. E wk. Where is the Players Union . R theyre making a lot of waves right now. Ow the nfl is thinking about it. Tv contracts are so much money. Y excessive celebrating or anda damage on these peoples bodiese for our entertainment andnd whatever. What. While Richard Sherman did use the word poop fest he has a h stanford education. On hes very smart. Extremely smart football players. He could have call it elmething else. E co he made it family festival. A Blood Pressure festival. D pr were talking arctic weatherh heading our way. G our y. Tucker barnes standing by withdi thetdetails. Ng what are you doing . Oing any ways i like a handand stitched shoe and, i like like something with a nice heel. What . What in the world . What are you talking aboutu remember at the top of theop hour we talk about a shoe aho conversation during his weatherh hes been going for 30 minutesin trying to hold on to the samee bit. I did bring eggnog in. For those of you just joining us. Us its 9 32. Thanks steve for playings fo along. I tried to talk about shoes you have no idea what im to o w talkhaing about. You went a long with for that. Ive had half hour ive been har sitting on it. Washington. Washington. Well be in the mid 40s thishis today is not the day of he can treatment cold weve beeneve bn advertising all week but it will be cool one today. One today 36 in gaithersburg. 37 frederick. Reri 39 in leonardtown. Nardwn so heres the deal. Eal. Arctic front north and west oftf chicago will very quickly rolllr down into the mid atlantic later this evening and we are going tt be in for very very he canery he treatment cold around here byreb tomorrow morning. Ndto chills forecastecas im going to show them to youemu momentarily Single Digits byitsy tomorrow morning. Morrow m seven, 8 00 oclock in the 00 o morning. Up a it head of it not so badhet toda ny. Mid 40s this afternoon and we aw should keep it dry. Dry. Arctic express on the way. Not just here in washington butb we just looking at some forecast lows in minnesota, maybe minus m 20 by the weekend. Very very cold our actual airuaa temperature upper 20s to about a 30. Cold around here but the wind tn chill will be the real bigealig story. Theres future cast. There looks like its comes through tu nine, 10, 11 00 oclock tonightc maybe a quick burst of a fewst a snow showers with a front. Fro then well clear it out this t future cast not showing you those extreme winds. E winds ill show you the winds. E look whats going on tomorrow thats at 10 00 a. M. Wind chill at 7 degrees. 7 degrees. Tomorrow afternoon 12 degrees. E. So extreme cold around here botb thursday and friday and we may y end it as brief period of winten weather saturday morning beforeb it transitions to rain saturdaya afternoon. Keep that that time frame ine fr mine. We can have winter wet aroundd here saturday morning. Ning all right, guys are thats thest latest. Te back to you. Fox5 d. C. Cares is partneringtnn with make a wish atlantic fortlr shaping up to be amazing day tba this friday. For a little boy named kaheem. E he loves super heroes just checc out his room. R got batman shoes, supermann backpack a super hero mask and spiderman on the walls. Walls super heroes are big part of kaheems life. If especial knowl that hesci kno battling leukemia. Ttlingeuke he wants to be just like them. H. Strong, brave and courageous. Ra so thats exactly what werere going to do for kaheem on friday. His wish day will be filled with super heroes wil and local hero. Kaheem doesnt know this yet but the area with local firefighters and Police Officers and at eachh stop hell do something to help someone out becoming a real rea super hero. O you can follow along all day ony air and online on our facebookek page and website. Page aebsite. Be sure to use the hash tag kaheem safes d. C. Es. C got it . Kaheem saves dc. C. It all starts on fox5 newsox new morning on friday. Fda so be sure to join us and make e this little boys wish come true. All right. Good day for all of us here. Er holly and allison over toon you. Werent indicate for it. Fo. Thanks mo tis the season of giving but checking your list yl can be a daunting taskg t especially when it comes to coms remember those who provide a tho service to you all your yearr yr long. Ng were talking about folks tko like your stylist,ut right, babysitters, your postall workers, all of that. Hat trash men, okay. Okay what is it appropriate gift to give them. Miriam staff a staff writer at king lip personal finance whoso just wrote about whona to tip during the holidays and morend e importantly how much. She joins usim npoow. Rt hello. Hey. Ey all that list theyre all they all should be tipped theule ones we mentioned. They should all be tipped. Ip so the chances that youre going to employ all 16 people on thatl list are pretty lowl 16. Youve narrowed it down to 1 people you must tip c can youn u give us an idea exact wholl exl that is. Usually Service Staff whovico provided some sort of service s throughout the year. Ea from your postal deliverypersonn to your newspaper deliver row dr person to your daycare providere senior care aid, massagege therapist, the whole range ofane people there. Hopeugh. ,hough. E key, t people who did a service for you. Pretttty much. Probably more than once. Mohan not just once. E. Right. Regularly give you service. Regularly. Like here in the washington areo i know a big one obviously woulu be a child care provider. Umhmm. M so where do you begin . Iseg it do you actually givey giv someone a gift or do you give y them money . I guess thats aha question. Depends what sort of child oi care provider. Daycare facility you have toy yo check the rules to see if they y allow to you tip cash. C in ter two nights pay is a good amountn he is special physical theyvelt really come through for you in a nch. H. In terms of the nanny at least weeks pay. Weekay kayokay. And all of these, though,ho instead of doing the money,oney could you do a gift or do folks really just prefer the money . . In most situations you can substitute a gift. Tituteif in some cases you actuallyll cannot give cash. So a gift is a substitute. Stitu. What about just like regularr teacher at school because bause sometimes strike me odd to m give money to teacher at schoolh for sure you cannot givenot e money to teacher at school. Soo that could be misconstrued as aa bribe. Instead of a small giftmall gt including say a drawing fromrawf your child would be really sweet. Or if the school allows that you can get together with all thehol parents in the class and get adt gift card. I had vision of teacher like 40 years, great, another picture. Where do i put these . Heo let mei put it in this pilel i can understand. An ustand. If your youre talking aboutre a your hairdresser, massage massae therapist, somebody that you pay an amount to basically its likc the am of a service. Servi what if you dont pay someone aa certain amount . Its postaltss carrier, its the trash t t collector, you know, how do youd decide how much to give that tha person . Thats where our slide showus comes in. It can be really trick tee toeet know for trash person a range oo tone 30 is a good amount. Mo always include a card, too. No matter how much youreou tipping. Let me say this. M here in the l morning ioi dont know my trash collectors. I know they do it. Im thankful for them but im b dont even know how many peopley are on the trash truck. Shru you see what im saying . I say . Wouldnt know where to begin with that. Call your municipality or the company who handles your trashra collecting and ask them who to t tip and where you should sendhos the note and the check to. Heck t and to be honest i dont evee have a regular postal person. Po the same person all the time. Im you dont. t i dont. But i dont want like, you know, joe who first day that day totay get what i left for carl. Right. You see what i i mean . Thats a little tricky, too. T in tha couple times in december to wakt up early or make sure to catch your postal person. Perso good note with the postalos carrier if you can theyre t not allowed to except cash. Oh. You can put them p awkward ak position. Instead you can get them a giftg worth up to 20 in value. Another one that people may e not think about is like your dog groomer or your vet or somebody somebody like that. E the vet you wouldnt tip. Ldn t but the dog groomer would be upb to the cost of one session. I love my vet. A gift at a good idea. D ide i love mine, too. Shout out to you doctor. Doctor. Heres the thing. Thing i think the biggest thing youhiu dont have to give a lot but if you just acknowledge these people. Le they feel appreciated. At. Yes. Theyre very grateful thatre you thought of the verm, right. T yes. When do you need them, in a i pinch, theyll be there. E there you go. You just sum it up. Mayor yam anybody you dont obligated to give money to . Fulltime salariedaried professional such as doctors and lawyers would be completely innt appropriate to tip them. Never mine. Ine. Coworkers. Work yes. Hanknk you. Thank you so much. Thank youu happy holidays. Clida all right. Rig my list just got longer. Lge back to you. You shall we team maureen for mauref reading this next . Im still stuck on somethingi i looking on the screen. Landscaper, gardner 20 to 50 per person on the crew . Yeah. Y oh. Oh you can also if you haveuh tipped throughout the year yout dont have to do as high. Maureen, we get paid ond friday. Frid i was going to say when is w pay day . Pay . Over to you. Good about to get very expensive this season. Okay. Ay Merry Christmas to you all. A happy holidays olid all right. Al yet another tv parent seriouser business here lost this morningi still ahead what we know now kw about the sudden death ofeath o growing pains star alan thicke. I well check in life with tmz for the latest. Time to geek out with mccarthy back with us dishingis about his i still have a key a k card podcast with sarah fraser. Thats all coming up. 9 41 now. Shouldnt cost more. Spend your holiday overjoyed and under budget. At ikea, we believe that making room for one more shouldnt cost more. Spend your holiday overjoyed and under budget. Not just great tv show but great tv show theme song as well. Wel of course hollywood continuesonu the mourn of loss of alan thicki he passed away while playing wha hockey with his son. Gary trock joins us live froo los angeles la with the latest l mr. Trock, how you doing today,d sir . Doing well. El doing well. Obviously, this is, you know, very very sad this came in yesterday afternoon when weernon started working on it. So he was playing hockey with his son carter at a local ringon near their home, apparently around 11am and ad apparently he had some stomachsh problems. Le. He said he was feelingeeling uncomfortable and then hemf stortaarted psalming while he w out on the ice and so theyey immediately called nip 11. Paramedic came and transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead it appears its a massive heart attack. So very tragic and very suddende and everybody weve been talkink to this is clearly a shock. Interesting gary. Y. It will be interesting to see ig what else out about this. Some of the symptoms i guess yos described dont really sounddons like your typical heart attackak symptoms. Toms so i wonder if folks are fks wondering if theres more to it than that. Hat. Absolutely. Very fresh. And you know pending, you know, autopsy toxicology whatnoty what whatever happens the family decided to will shed more light, but its so sad. S and the outpouring from celebrities, you know, immediately came from, you know, old old stars from shows he was on even bob saggot fromt frm fuller house he just did like ak little cameo on the new reboot o of full house. And his son robin thicke insta i gram this morning talking abouta his father was the greatest mant he ever knew and how sad he isae that hes gone. In the la times theyhe interviewed robin thicke aboutct that. Is it true it was in the articlc he said nice shot to his sono hs right before the whole thingho happened. I believe like he made a goal oe Something Like that and justnd j being really positive and happyy at that moment. Thats what reportedly i i believe some people spoke to rink and, yeah, thatsh,ha everything we were hearing, tooo this was regular game that him t and his son went and played. Pla he loved hockey and he was a a regular at this ring and thisngi was a normal day just, you know, playing around before this t happened just, you know, out ofo the blue. No doubt about it. T. Gary, lets switch gears and go from the morning of alan thicken to trying to understand kanyestk and his latest moves now. Es n really not just kanye but a number of big names beingeing paraded that was trump tower. Yeah. Eah kanye was one of many. Bill gates also showed up. Jim brown was there as well. Wel you know, it was it was pretty cool. Ool. Heres the thing. Ng kanye was hospitalized two weeks ago i believe and, you know,now, with a severe nervous break bre down, danger to himself andnd others, and then he scores a h e meeting with the president ele president elect. Im that was very odd to see h there. Him and truthmp came down and did a bro hug together. T they are talking about life. Ng a were told that kanye wanted the meeting with trump to discuss chicago. Obviously where kanye is from and he apparently wants to wants establish relationship withh ren trauma topship try and clean upe violence and trying and bring b peace in chicago he thought thit was the best timed to it and hee reach out to trumps people ande they said sure, come on by. Pretty interesting seeing himeen especially after what hes beene through and kind of what heshah personally going through rightot now. Gary, if you look at kanyes twitter account as you mentionei he tweeted about why he was last there. The last tweet is hash tag 20242 is he indicating you thinkhi hes trying to get in there nowe so he can start running at thata point. He said that before. Clearly hes clearly clely saying eight years of trump. Before he said he was was remember he was going to be kanye 2020 so now clearly hesa so maybe, you know, conway isys serious maybe that is just j showing his admiration and hisnd kind of, upping, respect for trump and his confidence in him as a president. Nt isnt right. Vnas he said 2020. Said 2 i thought that was interesting he added another four years onye to it. Thanks, gary. Gar always pleasure. Ways pleasure. See you real soon. 9 48. 9 48 tmz runs twice a day here onereo fox5. X5 more details later today and of course online. Back to you. Thanks, steve. Te age old battle of the sexes ses batete. Do women handle getting sickti s better than men . I think i saw yes. I saw yes i saw your post on that. That. Well turns out man flu may actually be a real thing. Isnt see. Ee. Man flew. Do not feed the beast. Not fe. Well explain what it is coming up. Ll exp co it getmis very sick. Ic ea yeah. Very sick. Whatever. Plus Kevin Mccarthy sticksthy ic around for preview of his ifis still have key card podcast. Kev, dont go anywhere. Nywhe. We asked woman to smell two body washes and pick their favorite. They both smell good. I like b better. I prefer b. B. I would like to smell like this every day. But what was body wash a . 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Its key card or google play bea sure to leave us a review on iw tunes. Ne thank you for having me. It was honorednk to you it. O it was like therapy. Ike erap oh good. Like a therapy shession i fef like i learned a lot about myself. Se that will be 175. Thats cheap. S aredared to yeah. Therapy session you got paid for. Yeah, yeah, exactlyt. Ph, ecy exactly. On copy time. Im just going to make thee point i would do kevins job fob free if you include all of thelf travel. Tr eight years. Ht y everything else. Very honestly, dont tell my bossb but i would still do it for free. Free. I would stl ildo it for free. L o i would. Wld i would still do it for free. Sometimes he says too much. Yt you have a wife now you havey to care of. E of. Stop talking. 9 56. Before we go to break great shoo coming up at 10 00 oclock. clok a lot good stuff for you. T goodf it is coffee time if you for waw mug, listen up now is the time m to get in on it. 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What great way to start 10a. A happy holidays everybody. R were gyetting in the spear thee spirit with the frosty pholliess youll hear more from them late on this morning. S mni thanks for joining us. Im steve along width sigh withg maureen and holly and allison. Wisdom will be back with us u tomorrow hopefully. Ul great to see you al as always. Ls dont give him the side eye. E we hope you i thought we were getting ofg to good start. Srt we are. Lets check whats trending. D big story this morning,his r, arctic blast thats headed our way. Like it or not so lets getetsg right to our tucker barnes. Bne. Tuck, what are we talking about . Hey, steve, when i heard your voice i thought you were frosty for a second. I heard your voice much thatsn. Not steveoice. Ste you have your love for olaf a im not going to fringe on youru snowman territory. Erriry. Excellent much thats myle territory. Nt m lison, atebsolutely right. Ig the reason im here because we have got to talk about weatherer and were talking about extremet cold moving in tonight and a during your daytime hoursme hou tomorrow. That wind chill will be neareea zero for parts of the area a during the daytime hours hrs tomorrow. 42 right now in washingrrton. Look how cold it is offto to the north and west. Chicago 12 degrees this morning. Columbus 10. We have arctic boundary to ouryo north and west sweep down into d the region tonight and then well be off to the races windsw will pick up and temperaturesems plummet overnight tonight up ahead of the front for your you daytime hours were in goodoo shape. Cool out there. Utre. And well have tempe afternoon the clouds willill increase. Maybe a quick burst of a fewicku snow showers with trst ofhe a fa then overnight temperaturesratue really start to fall off. Fall of i want to show you wind chills s for tomorrow morning just kind of fast forward this. Ast forwarh its goingis. To folic 8 degrees tomorrow morning at this timehi work in gaithersburg, minus twot in hagerstown. N. You get the ready. Rea. Make sure youre prepared for hh can treatment cold around heredr for thursday and friday and thee by the weekend, we may have wintry mix that were contendi g with. More on that coming up thereson your forecast for today. G up 45 degrees. Re that cold gets in here tonight. G all right, guys, thats ththe. Latest from the went center mucc back to you. Thank you tuck. Thaou t in the news this morning andorna 10ing we remember famous tv dad alan thicke. Hie. Best known for playing jason jan sever on growing pains in therog 80s he died suddenly yesterday. Thicke had a massive heartad a i attack while playing hockey with his 19yearold son. Son he had been on tv and behind the scenes before growing pains mostly note its notably as a jingle and theme song writer. It most recently he was on fullerle house on netflix. He was just 69 years old. Ld thicke is the latest highh profile celebrity die this yeary Florence Henderson she died juss two week ago. Leonard cohen in early novemberr golf legend Arnold Palmer in late september. Ep of course, prince he died backdc in april among many others, off course, who sadly we lost in 2016. 2016. So just a tough year all around but, alan thicke the latest l celebrity to pass away this year. This is the third person in, um, that i know of one person i know personally another i hearda of that passed away just from ao sudden heart attack. Aac like nothing was wrong with them. Everything was fine. Eryt just going about their businesss and then next thing you knewounw they fell over dead. Dead very scary. Scary it is. I is. I know it happens but but people i think forget that tt like Heart Disease is the number one killer in this country. Nt. Right. Because i dont know if the message is out t rhe donre eng i know people work hard doingd d that but just reminder, get yourself checked out. Out you might have a blockage youag dont even know about. T en know. You dont know about. Someone posted bellis zen get check out. Ut it can happen to you. Pen to you. I was so scared i wept and gottt check out. Checout. Luckily was okay. Ilwas oka you think youre too young orr healthy. You eat well. Number one killer for women. Yes. My good n. My good n. Alan was on the ice with end 19yearold son. Rold son if you look at him picture of health. Health. When you see Alan Thicke Nott on tv talk to him on the streete on a show or anything he wasnts in character, really was the same character he was on fulls house. He was. Medle see those people see the same as the acting dad and a the real life dad. Radio commercial forio c something about your money. On he did a lot for crush sirius xm radio. Rio its your money. It he would say Something Like,i the irs has your money. Mey every time i hear it, ooh, oh okay. Turn it off. He was effective. Rest in peace, alan thicke. K all right. Right well it is the most wonderful time of the year they say but ii turns out its also one of theee mosttr if really . If rll this just in. I a new study conducted in wales l found that 15 of people are unable to cope at christmas. Isas thats it . Only 15 . . 70 actually feel loan leeoan eighty three at this time than t any on the part of the year. Par im not surprised by that. Yhat i believe that. Ievehat. Part of the problem is overll high expectation surroundingroug Christmas Holiday as well as the finance precious many peopleanye face when trying to get lovedngl ones the perfectov gift. If speaking of loved ones one researchers found that familythy commitments are a major stressoo this time of year. Tollly agree. You get pulled in so many man different directions. Ti you spend so much time trying tg make everybody else happy andynd then you lose that, you know in spite te trying to take care ofg toak yourself plus what the season is for. Its an extremely stressful timt of year. Of y has anyone family institutedd the whole no gifts policy . Ic somebody always ruins it. Rusi really . Eally . No gifts and then it turnsrn into, well, maybe a little lit something and then now wereowe back in it. My grandma tried to do it on year. She anybody any gifts. Any any gifts. She was too old she couldnt dod it any more. Thats type. Yp grandma go ahead and do it she e was miserable her worstorst christmas ever she didnt giveiv anything anything. Shes weiss enough to know that you get theei joyss giving. Im torn right now. My fiveyearold daughter i mean she thinks themres a t claus, well there is a santa aaa claus she thinks santa claus isi giving her gifts and mom and dad are giving her gifts. I feel she thinks christmas isti only about gifts. Ts im disturb about that. But the whole thing she t s doesnt get the whole baby jesus message and im itst bothering me that this to Heo Christmas is a bonanza of giftsg and thats it. Tst. Shell learn. Shes young. At this age summer get theres more to it than just consumer i as spec. Spe i think thats on us. Nk thasn it is. Is. Well what im saying. Aying. I failed a little bit because being catholic and everything. M oh, look oo Christmas Pageant. In full disclosure we missedd a couple thats tollly oh and me. Tol i do take that to heart. Heart you know what, i talk aboutbout being a christian sometimes anda i real havent walk that walk a much as i said i have. Ave im blaming myself for notorot getting christmas. Istmas. Y oh, my gosh. Girl, lay down on the couch. Thats my mott woes. Oes. Google questions to us. It does raise a question. Uei. Christmas is on a sunday. Yes. This year. And so if youre christian dotid you go to church. Huh you go to church, midnightgh mass were going. Maere going. Im going christmas eve. Chre were going christmas day. Because my child is in thes t Christmas Pageant which is onnto christmas eve. Last year go ahead. Spencer was mary last year. Wow okay. I got to find a pageant nextt year. Well cram into the basilicaas this year. You can come to our pageant. We need extra sheep and cows. S. Thats what hayden is being. I you want my child to be ao sheep or cow. P or i was always the third sheepe on the left. Im kidding let yourself off the hook. K life is long shes five yearr old. Old i do one part of that story o im super guilty of this you trt so hard to have the perfect christmas you want it just to bb perfect sometimes you dont juss allow yourself to experience it. Right. Youre so worried aboute so making it perfect. Okay. Poor, steve. Oor, sve its only 10 00 oclock. The ladies show. Retaliation for what i saidor at the top of the w hour. I got you. Lets gang up on tee moree me because men,ing. Bring it on. Ing like cryr act babies when theyre just aeyrea little bit sick. Sk. But do they have a reason . So turns out they do. Researchers who are men foundend that viruses want to kill menl m more than women. Oh. Come on. O men. Es have it out for yes. This is the study from not the t United States of america but b royal hold away university theyy found that pathogens had adaptet to target men and cause less l sere for example, when. Men come doww with virus like hpv hpv [ laughter ]laught ] steve this is not about you,u steve. Say what . They are five times moreare m likely to die from it thann women. Women. This is serious business. Much are hers believe becauss women are valuable hosts tos pathogens. Okay. Ka. All i know like all i kno are you done yet. Are im like coughing up a lung. Right. Ht my blood is coming out of myy ear or whatever im still still working and doing everything. This is not a gender thing. Rg this is about peoples ability i to deal with discomfort. Coor thats all it is. T i the men deal with discomfortor better, some women deal withl wh diss comfort better. Ss com if youre with somebody whofowi doesnt deal with it better, yoy got to take it up with them. Th. Thats all im saying. Ll im san it seem to be a lot of men. Om he seems defensive. Sive. I dont know. Im saying therest timesims where ive dealt with sicknessis better than others depending how it makes you feel and been withw people of the opposite sex who o dealt with it better tha others. I think its i thit s pathogens, welcome. Steve is saying sayg bring it on pathogens. Pgens well fight it out. Ut bring it. It. If you like hunks and who doesnt thank you al. We have them for you this morning. Theing. Right here. Besides steve. Rte besides steve. Most wonderful time of thf year ye two super stars i mean one of the local show brings you alloua this. 10 30. Empires Jussie Smollett dishes. One of the nicest guys ins i show business. Ess about tonights season fall finale. Yes. Es but first, al, its thes t special premier tonight of star. Yes. Right after empire and one of its stars Benjamin Bratt hes so fine. Long time hotty. Ot. Life next. Ife umhmm. Mm. 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It is a thrill to be talkingl to you today. So the last time i saw you s y regularly on tv you know youu ko were doing some little cop showo we wont say its name here on ho fox. Fo but now youre back as this hi dont say it. Ay dont say it. We want to hold true to fox. Fo. Now youre playing this notot really a skieve see agent typeet but a different character forhaa you here. Think newsnkew character on star. We can go squeeze see orqu skieve see. Skieve see. Yes, squeeze see. Yeah. Ah that was really the main draw for me actually to sort of stepf out of the good guy, you know, badge carrying uniform wearing, um, pro tag any of the i generan the get, and play someone who a a lot more complicate. The gay i play is down on hisn luck manager and straight upgh u hustler. He will do anything to claw hisa back to the top. E when he meet these young lie he immediate recognizes their re talent their ability and thinksi this is his meal tick. Tic so his moral compass is a little bit off. But, you know, what was the rear draw for me was lee danielsan shared with me some level thisel character was based on him inn i his own live when he was aas younger man in los angeles and a Talent Manager to actors. So, you know, while i get to to behave in a way thats that reflective of someone whose awhs little bit morally compromising, theres always hope foror redemption much thats what imi looking for. Now that youre part of thete lee danielle empire ill call il no pun intented theres a lot ot pressure lee daniels doing thist sw show star. A lot of people saying is itg is going to live up to what empiree became. Became. Do you feel that pressure and if so how are you handling thatandt yes. I dont, i dont think we feel pressure at all. I dofeel p i think were excited by trehesy fact that they t share a kind o, um, you know, a kind of musical dna. A. If empire in all of its successe is reflection of lee amazing and fabulous life, you u know, with trappings and gifts f that fame and fortune bring, bng star is also music centric buttb more of reflection of the early struggles he had as young man. N you know, theres always going to be drama. Lee is a provoke couture. Oure thats inn disputable. Putae he loves to explore subject sube matter that will push buttonshuo end does with this show. H this. Its about a dysfunctional kindk of family really but its alwayy going to be polish off withsh of music. Music as well all know aroundw o the world will be up lifting and compelling. Elling. We saw that during empireg ee obviously and well see it agaia with star. Sr benjamin i want to take stepp away from the story lines for l second. When you do a show like this ana put all this time and energynd e into it. Into the big debut is tonight on foxx are you going to watch ityou g o tonight or do you try tory distance yourself from watchingm the episode . Are you critical a of yourself when you watch . Hot do you get to enjoy the show . Good question. St typically ill sort of close my eyes and pick up a book or bookr something but tonight wereght e excited about it i think we feel we feel like theres ahe bit of momentum behind it we i know all the viewers from empire will be checking it out. Ut. A lot of eye balls on the show s tonight. Here in atlanta well have small get together, the cast, lee, theres going to beoo live tweeting going on. And you know, were just hopingg and remain fairly certain thenhe audience tune in and like it. Iki if youre a fan of lee danielsan and what he did with empire e youll love star. Theres no doubt about it. No do. Im a fan of Benjamin Bratt. A i watched the infiltrator i was oh an flight. Light. Aming g movie. That character also was a littlt off on his moral compass. But, hey, do you have ave but you rooted for him, for h didnt you . You rooted for him. He was a bad guy you loved. Ov youre right. Re rht. Youre right. Right do you have a preference betweee the big screen and the small screen . What are the challengel that are different between theme both . You know back in the dayay there used to be between film actors and television acts. A the good news is, theres sos o much content thats being produced that you have movie, mv tracks additionally movie staria actors now clamoring to do tv shows, because the quality has s improve so much. You know, for nearly 30 yearsy s now ive been jumping back and k forth to both and ive been verr blessed in that way to do that. T and for me its always about abo finding the next challenge. Llene that was the main reason for reo taking the role like this on. Lee daniels is a creates just as exciting 59 in many television9e and his bring his whole cast ant friends to play in thislay in ts environment, too. Why not . En why not indeed. Why n ind Benjamin Bratt were looking forward to seeing you tonight oo star which premieres right hereh on fox5 9 00 oclock afterk aft empire. Empi we love you on the big screen, s small screen, any way we canayec take you. Take in between. We love you. Lo you Benjamin Bratt thank you soap ya for your time this morning. Orng everybody tune n it will be ay great show. Gr i appreciate it. Well be watching and see you next time if on in. In. Well chat about star in thetart d. C. Lost. C. Lost. Sounds fun. Thank you. Thank you. Byebye. Oh, man. Hanged in 3030c years. I know. I k can we fond about him now. Do you live in atlanta and if so where . [ laughter ]hter ] the list of tease from backro in the day. He was on there for sure. Sur he never ages. R age no. Right . He never ages. He nes amazing. Thats good. Thats a good get for star beenn star tonight of course you dony want to miss out on the fall fal finale of empire that we mentioned. Ntio weve got a sneak peek from jamal lyon himself. Al and i we sat down and talkedl with jussie smell will he. H yes, we did. Ask Benjamin Bratt how heow handle as cold. Ha as we got to go. Go first get ready for blast ofo winter. Frigid temps oh the way. Ps othe well check in with tucker next. Hell show up way tissue a thermometer ther its okay. We found santa. Santa right now is in northern virginia. His helpers making the season bright for kids bright for kids in the hospital in novt ano faix ers ma kids f horfspital. Ut toys and tsg o items donated during camp davidv Fairfax County police pice department. You might remember they stoppede by the lot of lastme wmbeek to k about their toy drive and wholew to go seat impact. O imp youre getting to watch it, toot live pictures from santa and some of his helpers there rudolph and frosty and of courss mrs. Claus and lots of smiles. S. Santa will be very busy. Busy hes got a lot of stops to makem this morning. Morning. Never too busy. N thats right. Thas ri hope you feel better soon. Sn thats why we love him. Well, bitter blast of winten reality is headed our way. W so how cold will it get and howh long will it stick around and what about that old nasty wintrn mix that tucker continues tonu talk about . He has the answers. Hi. Allison im thinking aboutnk trying out for frostys fst phollies. What do you think. Do i think youreyo long in thet for it. Fo i lets see your jazz hands. H [ laughter ]laer ] right. Lets see your jazz hands gz there you go. Go never mind youre perfect fot the job. J [ laughter ] hes got that down, though. O. Lets do the forecast. The f i love it. Ive had a lot of coffee. C were looking at temperatures te right now in the low 40s. Ow0s 42 in washington. Ashito 39 in gaithersburg. So heres the mid 40s. Well be fine today. Tod its tonight and tomorrow thatrh the cold arctic air force intont the region and it is going to bo bitterly cold around here. Er our wind chills by tomorroww morning at seven, 8 00 a. M. Ver. Close to 0 degrees. Es so make sure youre prepared fod it when you head out early tomorrow and both thursday 49rs day our daytime highs the actual air temperature doesnt get doet above freezing but up ahead ofhe that well get sunshine today. Od hey, i want to focus on the late friday early saturday timey t period. Heres the deal. Heresea were going to have a lot of aot arctic air in place thursday and friday then approaching storm so system from the west by early e saturday morning likely bring us a period of wintry weather around here i think before day break saturday into the first tr hours of saturday morning. Orning and there could be some light accumulating snow for parts of o the area her our first of the season by saturday nine,in 10 00 oclock in the morning mog before transitions to sleet. Le eventually it will change to all rain. I know allison has a Big Birthday Party saturday night. T well be fine by saturdayurda saturday morning if you have plans, i think steve mentioned the wreath laying, there could be some issues across the area with some of that lightig accumulation of winter weather. R all right. Heres quick look at the sevenos day. Wrap it up for you. 45 today. Ay ears that arctic air thursdayirs and friday. Wind chills near zero tomorrow and wintry mix of rain onn o saturday. Thats the latest. Allison, maureen, wisdom, steve . Wisdom is not here. Is not one more time. Nee ti its holly. I thats okay. Y. [ laughter ] hes so fussed on his littlel thing. He thought wisdom was still here because in hisght head heh all frosty phollies right now. Hw thats what it was. T w. 10 26 right now. Now did one super star diss t swifti on her birthday . Say it isnt t so. So the social media message thatha has fans on fire. Celebrity dish coming up next its. Its much watch wednesday right here on fox5. T hen fox5. The its the fall finale of Empire Special time an hour h earlier tonight. Rlieg the show starts at 8 00 and weve got a preview neck from jussie smell will he. Sing along with Furry Friends and stomp your feet to a sesame street beat sesame street live elmo makes music clap along when elmo makes music playing eaglebank arena this weekend only tickets on sale now through ticketmaster completely off the pills. Ely im good. Thats good to hear and you to ar a can give them to me then. N. Give was . E w give me what . The pills, boy. Boy. Dont act stupid. All right. Ight all right. Ig you off, done, give them to me. I mean all of them, dont make e me come back i will ransack this place. You aint ransack nothinghi place. Yes, i would. Yes dont play with me. , dont ay w thats everything . I know you got some in your u purse. Rse. Its murse. Tmurse dont play with me, boy. Pla this is not funnyy. Not nny [ laughter ] one thing about cookie shess a hand on mom. Isnt she. Yes, she is. Is. Sneak peek of tonights falll finale of empire. If you can wait unti tonight, allison and i got even more inside scoop from jamalamal himself check out our intervieww with Jussie Smollett i cannot even believe were already at the point of like tht mid Season Finale and its called a furnace for your foe. Oe we started three months ago. Who is the foe in th furnace . Furnace . Who is the foe in the fun nass . Um, yall know lucious ii always the faux. F [ laughter ] no new york city, no. No. I dont know. Thats a good question. Who iss t ahe g foe in the fun we have so many, you know, the lyon has so many dag gone foesef you never know. No could it be boubou kitty . To it be tariq . Who knows . What i w will say no one dies this episode. E oh, man. I can give that away. E thaty thats okay to give away. Away. I can give that away. Thaaway no one dies in this em sewed. Sw but its going to be itss juicy one and its really to me its great when its ensemble episode and this is such an em seem bell peace everybody gets g to live fearlessly lines its a fun one for me toom plasm its really a difficult time for jamal and hes reallysr got to come to terms with, youi, know, he has a very very reall problem along with the ptsd but now the pills. Pls so we see cookie and luciousnd s kind of join together in a way that you wouldnt expect them te and its sad but its also really its really powerful. You are really just gettingei to stretch all of those little,l you know, acting fantasies outta because its a very differentnt jamal when were used to the t peace loving middle child jamall youre dealing with real demonsr much whats that like for yous t acting out this role . Role . As an actor, its very v rewarding. Reward its an actors dream. Dream the an artists dream. Dam you look at where i was with tht character of jamal episode one season one, you know, its so far from that. T. Now that we are in episode, what, nine of season three. Tee and but you r journey and the process and the progress of jamal from where heh said he didnt want to be in episode one season one when he e set there with cookie and saidd its not for me, ma, i donton want to be star. Want to be s it changes people, change the music you look how much hes changed, he really kind of o ivory predict the all of this beforehand. So, um, but its reallyay interesting its fun to may as y an artist theres nothing moreyy warding than to be able to playp one single character that has ss many layers in it. Maayer all right. Rig. Enough of the issues. Ough i want to know which cute boye y you choose. Ho [ laughter ] [ laughter ] oh, you know what, jamalam needs to sit down. N. No, hes hissing list life. If hes living his life. Ng h he needs to take some inner thoughts like he needs to fix ti his life or something. Omething i dont know who hes going toen choose but, um, but what i willl say is be easy. It never is. T never is. Hell come to terms. Ellome nevever is. It never is. It never is. S. Jamal just got it like that. A he can help it. Were used to all the celebrities dropping in and the lyon universe we dot to say Felicia Rashad yes, yes, putting it down. Own i was hoping you were goingue say that. Sa what is it like to act with w her . You know. And you have to act so coolat with her. Yes. Es best part for pee we get to were get to act a fool. Oo i know miss rashad since i wasci 15 years old. Old. She took me to see along with my little sister and her daughter u couldnt dole la we went to see marcel march sos lastast performance in new york and she would take us to all of these Amazing Things so finally bein able to work with her is isi so special and shes such sh shes such a light. Lht shes just you feel like youo you know, and she just comes in and just kills it and just and s knocks it out the park such a a professional but so much fun ata the same time. Sam t shes wonderful to work with. Yall have had so many highih profile guests already. Dy i mean its hard to top. But is there someone out thereue right now that literally youeray would just fall over if they ty were a guest on empire . Um, actor wise, like, Robert Deniro or, you know, like a a Denzel Washington would be dope. Yeah. You know, singer wise, i guess like Janet Jackson or like usher or somebody i loved for fr really long time. Y yeah. That would be awesome but, yeah, i also, f im being real i love when we have guest stars gs that are brand new artists. Art. You know what im saying . Isa . Love that about this show is i that empire spotlight an platform to so many artists we may have never had that same platform before. B i am one of them. You know, trai byers is one ofef them. Them yaz the greatest is one of theme and i love when knew artists ars come on and they get to show ana do their thing and get a spotlight and get some newnessos out there its really exciting on all fronts. Ronts. Jussie smollett. Love it. E it empire tonight. Ig. Empire tonight 8 00 oclock. K. Hour earlier. Arlier i just love him. I do, too. D too. Right. Right hes so nice. S so n hes seems so real. Rea he does. Well, now well really servy it up good. Celeb are the the before theoree dish. Are you ready. I am. Arrst day ever. T dado you you think it is. Taylor swift on her b thiirnr you getting slammed somebody. Nailed it. Thats what john maher said. He said taylor swifts birthday at johwifts which is december 13th b byirtht way is the worst day ever. E he actually put that twitter. Itter. Why . Hy . Well, carly theres stillrei bad blood between the two. Two they dated for a hot second. Son that was like six boyfriendss ago. O. I know. Tver clearly hes not over it. 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Now, heres wendy [ cheers and applause ] ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh [ cheers and applause ] wendy thank you so much for watching our show