And how long did it take forak f them to realize he was suffocating. Threeyearold dead aftereaol choking on a meatball while in n daycare. Ycar now family members want to knowk what happened. Well have a life report. And later, bottoms up. Up. The hottest new trend for yoga fans. Fa might have lot more guys gettint in on the action. Actio good day at 9a starts right now. All right. Bottoms up. Up. Tv is on. Tv i good day d. C. Welcome. Welce. 9 01 is the time. 9 it is wednesday, january 18th. Wisdom martin, holly morris, Maureen Umeh Steve chenevey. Hene first at 9 00 lets talk about the weather a lot oft of people getting ready for theor t inauguration and theyre hopingd the rain will hold t off. O we are too. But first we have to make it through today. Hoday. Youre taking live look now at madam tussauds there is newests wax museum the donald himself president elect donald trump wax figure unveiled there at the t northwest location of madam tussauds very live like. Ve l we saw them doing it making that wack figure earlier and some of the video we showed you but herh it is in full glory. Mr. President elect himself donald trump with a familiaramia look on his face. Face is that a scowl . Sco is that a a i think thats just his resting face. Resting the face he has. T i dohe. Its very live like. Li like. It is. Literally was just unveiled v like at the top of the hour. Hou so these life pictures prettytt mazing and they always impress e me down at madam tussaud. Ussa they do. They d if you havent been down you b o have to get down there they do o great job with every single waxw figure unveiled the latestates unveiled president elect donaldd trump. Im sure it will be a big hit leading up to the inauguration i and beyond. Na i will say this. Iis we showed a couple of weeks agoa the work in progress when they were showing how they were wowirkinngg on the final faciala features. Fe the hair was a little bit of ata mess a couple weeks ago when w they were first putting knitter. The hair looks good. He hair can they get that under controlc looks like they did. Did it looks muc now. Of course the big thing about madam tussauds you can go there put your arm around him, getim your picture taken with him youo can do whatever pose you want. Tastefully. You can do whatever pose youu want. But i have a feeling every nighy they have to go back and retouch them. I have a feeling theyll have tt retouch that quite a bit. B. Probably. Extremely popular this weekend. Yes. If you can get there. You right. Tucker barnes, youre alwayss perfectly coifed and people cann walk up and. And touch you too. Ch youoo touch you too. T [ laughter ] hi. Im speechless. Peec im frozen. Lets do the weather. Eather. Were looking at temp right now 52 big jump in the past 15 past minutes or so. As were starting to get thateta air that warmer milder air in cold front has come through. Winds shifted out of the northdf and west at 15. The thatd iwes great sign that we a going to, a, dry things out and, b, get sunshine around here thii afternoon as cold front has beee moving through early thisly ts morning. Leftover sprinkle it looks likee North Central maryland, thatss the worst of the forecast todaya otherwise parly sunny thiss winds out of the north and westa about 15 to 20 gusting to about 25. 25 but no complaints about thatnts afternoon high temperature. Thats almost 15 degrees above normal. So enjoy beautiful afternoon ana it should be dry wednesday forsf you. Coming up well look atlo at thursday. Of course well look at friday noon our weekendll. I heard we got some activitiesy here at the end of the week. E well talk about it. Aut it. Back to you guys. Bao you guys. All right. Sounds good, tuck. Thank you. Sounthan new this morning, formerr president rushed to the hospital. George w. Bush reported in stable condition after suffering from shortness of breath over. S the weekend of breath o. Ve the 92 year old has beenas bee hospitalized since saturday butu the news just was reportedor overnight. Ght. Mr. Bush is expected to return r home in just a few days. The 41st president and former fr First Lady Barbara Bush had h previously announced they will not be attending fridays inauguration of donald trumpdona because of the former president s health and also his age. We are of course just twose days away now from the 58th president ial inauguration. Ugur and today president elect donaln trump hes in new york. Or he plans to sit down though witt new york governor and at trump tower. Ow the two are expected to focus on issues concerning new yorkcog including cuomos ambitiousmbits plans to upgrade and rebuild bridges, train stations andtatid airports in new york city andn around the state. Last night though donaldight trump was here in the nations o capitol kicking off the the inaugural festivities b attending black tie invit onlyny dinner. Nn he told a room filled withit diplomats, donors and soon to bb white house staff he ise i assembling a cabinet quote theuo likes of which has never beenn assembled before. About 500 guests attended thatd event last night. N. Tomorrow hell be back h went to new york after the evene last night he should say. S hell be back in washingtonhiton tomorrow along with Vice President elect mike pence to participatt e in wreath layingg ceremony at Arlington National ceremony and deliver remarks ats a concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Hell spend the night at the the blair house across the streetsss from the white house. W some of you willhi start tort feel the direct impact of the security measures in place forlr fridays inauguration starting today. Toda parking restrictions actualll begin this afternoon but thats really the beginning of traffica tr our annie yu is on the nationala mall this morning withng wh everything we need to know. Tono which is dont go down, right . T reporter right. Rig just dont even bother. It could be a complete nightmarg if you have to travel throughe o the district but, guys, wereuye just two days out as youou mentioned i want to show was the scene is looking like down hereh at the National Mall. Nati mall. The transformation is remarkable. There are crews out here still working, of course, ews seeingg security folks coming in herener and installing what they need td as well. But this is sort of media village where thousands of youfu will gather on friday for the inauguration of president electt donald trump, and as yous y mentioned, down here at theat te National Mall youll see a bunc of these signs here, the noe, te parking signs. They are up on all of the postss up and down this road hereer warning drivers about the changg happening today. It goes into effect at noon, and basically what this means is, ii want to show you the map. Organizers for the organization they broke up the sections intoi two zones. Two z the red and the green zone. One. Starting at noon today the red t part that you see the enter those areas. Areas any cars parked in thatd t perimeter will be towed. Ow its pretty much the nationalat mall area, capitol, white house, only towardsed vehicles areles a allowed on those streets and tht green zone thats where you havv the traffic will be able to getg in and out, however, you have to be a resident or work in that wt area. So National Guard members willrl be checking your id. D. Keep that in mind. In now, the other map that we havev for you are just some othere o closures that we have as well. Were talking pennsylvaniania avenue, of course, constitutionn avenue, Lincoln Memorial andlnd parts around Union Station astis well as capitol hill so i knowsw this is a lot of information and what weve done we put togethert a Survival Guide for you on ouro web side at foxdc. Com. Go there. There. Weve got all the metro closingg as well in addition to the t the street closures, and metro willl be opening at 4 00 a. M. Onn friday which is an hour earlierr than normal. Ormal. Theyll be closing at midnightih as well, and you know there will be five stations that are goi reasons on that day. Hat day. So if you are headed down herenh on friday, be sure to check our website foxdc. Com and plan yourr route ahead of time. Ofim thats the very latest here fro the National Mall, annie yu, fox5 local news. Ocal n thanks annie. Tha 9 08 right now. Now. Happening today another round of confirmation hearings on capitot hill. Lawmakers will hear from southro carolina governor nicky haley who is trumps pick to be the te next un ambassador. Scott rue it his pick for Environmental Protection agencye and tom price who is up to be te the next health and human han services secretary. Ecre you also have his confirmationrt hearing today. Lastly wilbur ross will appear a before the senate commercemmer committee he is trumps pick too be the next commerce secretary. Y meanwhile, trumps pick for education secretary betsy devosv took some heat from lawmakersmae yesterday during hersterduri confirmation hearing. Student loans from theoans fe federal government to help payep for college. Llege i have not. Not have any of your children hah to borough money in order to goo to college . Ol . They have been fortuna have you had his personalis r experience with pell grant . Not personal experience but certainly friends and, um, students with whom ive worked. Do you have now personalea experience with collegeollege Financial Aid or management of higher education. Mrs. Devos lets start with thee basic. Trump nominated devoss to t help lay out his Education Plan including providing vouchers for familiar tolls choose private oe charter schools. Tradition during the waiting days of the administration thett president ial pardon yesterdaysta president obama released finalin list of pardons and commutationn and two names stood out. Ut. President obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning thet tran gender army privaterivate formerly known as bradleyey manning. She was supposed to serve 30r 3 years in prison for leakingking military secrets to wikileaks. I. Now shell be released in may im about serving about six years. Ia the president also bar pardonede general james car write who w plead guilty to lying to the fbf about leaks of classified controversial moves some critics say dangerous precedence when it comes to punishing those who threaten americas nationalatio securities. Riti we turn to greg rin key militart defense attorney he joins us non live from new york via skype. S good morning to you. Good morning. Morning so i want to start withart wh chelsea man pogs commutation. Ti. Whistleblowers obviously hailini this a victory but politicians on both sides criticizing it. What is the inherent danger in i this commutation if there isatit one . I think the inherent danger in this commutation is the facte his manning jeopa frdized natioa security. The amount and volume of of information that was leaked wasw did he tri mental to national mo security. And the fact that the amount ofo information that was leaked anda the amount of the sentence has h now been reduced to about sixuts years theres a lot of people on both sides that are very areer outraged about that. Abo tha the white house has made thes argument that people whoopleho committed similar crimes gotrimg lesser sentences than chelsea does that make a difference . Ferc i dont think in this case is does, because of the amount of information, the damage that was done. Diplomatic cables were leaked,e, information from sources wasours leaked and also miss manning atg the time who was an active dutyy soldier. Ie so the sentence i believe waselw appropriate. Lets dig deeper into this Julian Assange the founder ofour wikileaks. He had tweeted last week i wk believe that he would turnur himself in should Chelsea Manning her sentence be commuted. Mm. Hasnt quite said he would. Ui but is there a problemte s now,w should Julian Assange turn himself in and prosecuting him p given that chelsea man pogs sense tense is being commutedted can he in essence go free, assange . Assae we have the new we have thw administration coming in on fridayration. So i dont think thats likely l that hell go free. Free. I think hell make that argument, and i think he had hed hoped this was going to happen p lot earlier than two or three oe days before the newhe N Administration comes in. General james cart write ther pardoned which essence means his record gets wiped clean in a i very lay persons term. Er what is the Bigger Picture herer with general cart right . Ht Bigger Picture that he gets e what we call the officer offer discount. I mean the fact that, you know,k hes general officer, and and because of his position he got a pardon because of that . As whew you have a lower enlistednlis soldier committing the same typt of crime and they have the bookb thrown at them. T i think thats the bigger issuee and bigger concern from militarr ice ice side. President obama the most commutations and pardons of anya president at least through the last 12 president s. Sidents. Its raising eyebrows. Ow should it . Or is this perfectlt within his right . Perfectly within his right. H i mean, he does have a highig number as the president that iss within his right. I understand that more mor pardons expected on thursday. Te. Are you hearing the same thing . Absolutely. Any big names that you mightt think might be on that list . Potentially hillary clinton. I oh that is a big one. Okay. Well end it there at the mike k drop full. Greg rin key. Gr thank you so much for spending g time with us this morning. Ng my pleasure. 9 12 is the time. Tim president obama will likely facc tough questions about that commutation decision today anday also explain why he did it. Did i he holds his final white housete press conference this after foxf will have live coverage of the new Conference Due to beginegin around 2 15. 15. You can watch it on air andh it online. In other news this morning tn family trying to make sense of a tragedy threeyearold choking i to death while at a daycare in a government building. Uild well have live report coming up next. Next later on it is the politicalc party of the year but there aret still a lot of unansweredwe questions. Questi coming up well go live to tmz z for a look what they have h learned about some of thesehe inaugural balls. 9 16. A story every pans nightmare. We say that a l this is disturbing you drop your child off at daycare and something horrible happens to them. That is exactly what happened to one mom whos son died aftert choking on meatball at daycareay and it all happened at a daycare inside the department of labor. R thats where we find our Anjali Hemphill this morning with on this heartbreaking story. Ry anjali. Oomorporter good morning, guys. Its really hard to imagine thei grief that this family ishis fay feeling this morning. This mornig this is all after a motherot dropped her healthyealt threeyearold boy off att daycare something she does evere day here at the place where shee works with the us government. Ovm only for him to end up chokingpo to death while she was upstairsa in the same building the entiret time. Ti now the family of threeyearoll Sterling Moore is now demanding answers. An his mother is an accountant with the Labor Department here andme yesterday she dropped sterlingrl off atin the Child Development e sent here where hed been goingr for the last two years thee e st family says while mom hadly saya stepped away from her desk, thee daycare called and left her h voicemail. By the time mom came downstairsr her son was in an ambulancece unresponsive. Si this is all after choking on a meatball. Me the family now wants to know hoh could this have happened underpe the supervision of two adults. He was just at my nieces he ate meatballs there. T we even have video there. Re how big is these meatballs theyy saying or claiming that he choked on . And why are they feeding children and not watching them . Reporter the daycare didaycd release a statement to fox5o f saying we are shocked andnd deeply saddened as we grieve thr sudden death of one of oureath f children today while eating lunch. Lunc the child showed difficulty dif breathing. Ing. Our trained staff respondedespod immediately to call 911 andnd perform the heimlich maneuver and ch pr. The child was then transported to Childrens Hospital byl by paramedics and passed away. Wa we are devastated by this tragedy and our hearts and a condolences go out on the family during this unimaginable type o grief. We do not know the cause of death at this time but are fully cooperating with authoritiesuthi following this tragic loss tha it this case is being is bng investigated biophage local and federal Law Enforcement and iti not clear right now the status of those two employees who werer both involved. Th thats the latest here ine i northwest. Rtest. Anjali hemphill, fox5 localal. Ews. 9 18 is t time. Isime. Coming up, earthquakes rockk italy. Y new proof that dads might also s suffer from postpartumtptu depression, and bottoms up. The new trend that could get alt lot more guys into yoga. Well have a check on what elses is making headlines next. N you got my attention there. Also later on heading home. H going to sit down with sarah fraser new podcast. Ca im on the hot seat today. Toda. Utoh. We talk about that, thats correct little time ire disappeared from all you guys gy for short amount of time and tie then came back for the reunion. N we missed you, steve. Sve. Coming up at 9 50. 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