Transcripts For WTTG Good Day DC 20170208 : vimarsana.com

Transcripts For WTTG Good Day DC 20170208

You to weigh in. And later, hang it up . Tom brady fivetime super bowl champion now his wife says its time to retire. So should he quit at the top off his game . Good day at 9a starts now. Yup its time for to us getg to work giving you all the newse and information you need today. Good day dc. 9 01 on this wednesday february 8th im maureen umeh along hollyth im morris, Steve Chenevey and the wisdom martin. N President Trump and is not it missing life president barack obama not missing live in themii white house. Ve in wh what he was finally able to do d that hes not commander inn chief. Joe biden with a newie job as wl former vp choosing a different e path in his post white house career. Career first, though, we have got tt talk about weather. Eather big changes are on the way. Yesterday topped 70 degrees. S today were still in tomorrow it will snow, folks. Fs how much could fall . When willl it get started and which partscs of the region will get hurt worse . I didnt know if i wantw Dunkin Donuts say hit worse oro hurt worse. Orse tucker is back. Not going major event here in d. C. D. Off to the north and west. Es did you ever ever try kite et surfing. Its really hard. Ry it i heard that video was on the potomac yesterday. Te it could have been. T [ laughter ]co dont go into sharks domaini and play in the water. Play i just me. Just the hater in me didnt want tott get in. Ere ere we go. Mark it down. 9 02. 02 [ laughter ] its a long day. Reagan national 59 degrees. E dulles 58. Bwi marshall 59 degrees. S that is already extraordinaryora temperatures. Tempatur our average daytime high shouldu be in the mid 40s 15 degrees5 dr above normal already. Lrdy. Well be in the mid to upper 60s dada. Lots of sunshine right now. E ri. Another mild one to look forward today. Its hard to believe wered bee talking about winter weatheroutr weve got the origins of outut here. Thats the circle you my bad diagram. Iagram. What will be happening coldpenig front coming through late this morning bring us cloud cover and then it sets up just to thesto e south and east. H this will be the track of our area of low pressure over the next 24 to 36 hours. Hrs and it looks like it brings us a period of rain late tonight probably around midnight andt ad then that will transitionrans northwest to southeast to snow s during the Early Morning hoursrs tomorrow. Ow. Our biggest concern not so muchc snow sticking to roadways. But the fact that well be be getting perhaps heavy snow for r parts of the area during thehe a morning commute tomorrow thatomt could cause some travel delays. L speaking of travel delays ifays youre traveling tomorrow newore york up towards boston theyllhe get the jackpot with thish thi system. They could be looking at upwards to six to 12inches in parts ofo southern new england by tomorrot afternoon. All right. Winter weather alerts nothinglte here locally. Off to the north and west that a winter storm watch. Ch ill have plenty more details oo this forecast coming up i want i to quickly show what weret wee expecting in the way of snow tho totals. Tota again this will be very slushy u couple inches off to our north r and west. And kind of a slushy coating to annt inch here in the immedia Washington Area by early early tomorrow morning. Or ill have plenty more details oo the forecast but the furtherheuh north and west you get out towards the ski resorts steve se mentioned thats where the snoww jackpot will be with this thi particular system, guys. Back to you. Can we do the show from there tomorrow. Too bad it wouldnt stayad i around for one more week fork fr president s day when everyoneven will go skiing. The long weekend. The you never know. Y nev its february. Ruar might get snow next week. Get snx thanks tuck. 9 04 is the time. He time. First up at 9 00 another allherl nighter on the senate floor. T this time around democrats arehe protesting the president ssidens attorney general pick senator jeff sessions. Hours before confirmation vote t gets underway. Way Senate Democrats did the samehem thing yesterday before betsy devos vote to become education secretary. Cr it didnt work. Tk. She was confirmed after price president mike pence cast amikec historic tie breaking vote. V todays stand probably wont work either. Irework feworen some f after leading republicans publicly rebuked one of its owno lleagueses. Melanie alnwick back on capitolt morning. Mel . Reporter good morning. Or Senate Republicans invoked a pretty archane rule. Ne r ill read it to you its rule re 19. It says, senators are not are nt allowed to directly or indirectly by any form of wordss impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming ag senator now under this rule 191 senator Elizabeth Warren ofref massachusetts was basicallyasic handed a red card last night. Nt she had to sit down. Dow not only did this give rise to the hash tag let lizzie speak ii also set off what one mighte gh guess is the biggest spike in internet essential force the the word impugn. I sons and brothers,. Mr. President mr. President , the majoritynj leader. Senators impugn the motives and conduct of oivur colleagueog from alabama as worn by the the chair. R. Senator warren quote said awesome power of his office to chill free exercise hr of of tht by black citizens. Izens i call the senator to order ord under the provisions of rule 19. Mr. President ing. Senator from massachusetts. Rs mr. President , i am surprises that the words of Coretta Scott king are not suitable for debate in the United States senate. Reporter well that is how h senator warrens turn at the mike ended. End. They started off her anti a session speech reading statements from senator kennedye and Coretta Scott king. Kennedys speech referred toferd sessions as disgrace to theracet justice department. Dtment. Kings letter as you heardou hea accused sessions of using hisis power as alabama attorneyne general today disenfranchiseanch black voters. Warren called for a vote in the senate on her sanction and she lost on party lines. Lin she is not allowed to speak a more on the senate floor duringg this debate over sessions befor his confirmation. Firmatio she did, however, not let that silence her completely. Plel she took to twitter and facebooo to finish reading that letter lt from Coretta Scott king. In all of these tactics democratsec say theyre continue to employ for each and everyone of o President Trumps nominees as for sessions today, senator, ser sessions, i should say, he will probably theres really nosr doubt that he will end up being confirmed and probably sworn ini some point later today. Tod live on capitol hill im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. S. Thanks for update, mel. El appreciate it. T. Three judge general appeals a court will likely issue its warning on President Trumps tru travel ban bite end of the weeke yesterday they heard argumentseh from the department of justicece and the states suing theuing the government over thegovernnt o controversial executive order. Rd the Trump Administration wantstr the court to reinstate thenstate temporary ban on immigrants and refugees from seven majority muslim countries. Ntes lets go back to thet district right nows receive bed bug and rodentnd r problem is underway. Underwa in the meantime, class resumesss today for the students. Y for th theyve been bussed down tstheud road to nearby ferebee hope hop elementary school. Ta thats where annie yu is this yt morning with more. Morninth mor its been a busy trip for you and for student this morning. Thi annie, good morning. Gooing. Reporter yeah, no doubt. Ou i mean, inconvenience for someom parents if you ask them. M. Others say that things went verw smoothly and theyre pleaseded with what d. C. Ps is doing soo far. Classes are in sessions atsess ferebee hope elementary schoolnh which is about 3 miles fromro savoy elementary. If you look right behind met ind theres a big sign theresign tre welcoming the students for theie first day here at ferebee. Fereb this is sort of their new norman nor the text few weeks. Weeks. And we shot video i want to youu look at of students arrivings a around 8 20 this morning here aa rebee. E. All the students were talkingag free k through fifth grade fromo savoy were bussed over here to ferebee. Fee. Over all things went smoothly. Ml we spoke to some parents whoen w say, again, that they are pleased with this part of thehe process and they were notifiedrt by phone or text a information. I also got off with d. C. Ps ands they told me they also sent homm hard copies of the schedule anda the bus information for parentss to really follow until thishis ordeal is taken care of. Now busing the children from frm savoy to ferebee again will bei the routine for now. Routinnow. No official date has been set oo when savoy will reopen. Pe but the district told me thise i morning that they are hoping byb the end of this month. Meantime, pest control willol continue to treat the school and hopefully work to fully get ridt of the remaining bed bugs and bs rats that are in around thed t building and the families who w are concerned that bed bugs mayb have come home with their children, the department oftm health is letting us notice nic theyre providing justus information not a cyst tans with removal. So the doh says that families should notify their landlords or directly contact pest control professionals. You know, we spoke to the schooo district this morning and theyiy told us that ferebee was closedd several years ago due to low enrollment but center for this area they tellha us that one portion of the rec c center will remain open to the kids in this area. Area. While the School Resumes and the other section. Its a big building. Ing. They also want to just get theet message out that kids should sul drink just bottled water overere the next few weeks. Ks and, you know, theyre testingng the water here to make sure its safe, but those results should o come in later this week. S wk. Although theyre not sure, butet we did speak to some parentsen this morning who say they packed those bookbags with waterbookba bottles. Thats the very latest from southeast dc, annheie ver yu, fx local news. Annie, thank you for thattha update. Stick with schools now. N today it is actually celebration for the principals. The Prince Georges Countyount School System throwing them ahea series of surprise parties. School officials traveling on an party bus visiting all the highe schools in the county that couny achieved a 90 or higherer Graduation Rate. At bob barnard actually has been oe the bus with them. E bus th t hes just arrived at their firsf stop. This is a life picture of Bowie High School as you can see theye are very excited. Xced th theyve got the pom poms. Ps. Who knew this was what was going to happen on wednesday for themh right . Awesome. Aweso. It real sal whole lot of funf i love the positive em em burst many. Many. Principal answer party bus. A well check in with bob a little late for more on the celebration. Heres the best part. Een i was on the busns everyboo wass eve cheering ryandbo happyd theyre now in the schools andit the students and the other oer teachers everybody popping their heads out and all excited, too. O any time you can celebratete educators, you know, its welltl worth it. They do not credit they deserve. It feels like more. We want it to happen again. It t thats the whole point off positive reinforcement. The party bus rolling onollin through Bowie High School and sh two other schools today. He weve been talking about thiu one. Hes taking advantage of womenan looking for love and line ande a found yet another victim righttg here in our area. A well now shes hoping to helpop police put an end to his cassanova con. C her story thats coming up nextx later the show must go on. O we are going to go live to tmz t because there are new details ds about how beyonce is, yes,es preparing for change she did have to makee tok after announcing her pregnancy. N its 9 14 this morning we have update on a fox5 exclusive. Its4 ath sto a fry that certan a man conning women he met on dating apps across the country. T now targeting victims right herr in our region we first told youy about cassanova criminal earliei this week and since then weveee heard from handful of other women who were apparentlyary victimized by the very same mann yesterday we told you about a at Montgomery County woman who sayy she fell victim to his scheme hm and now fox5 has learned of af Howard County woman who saysan s she, too, was victimized by thee same man. Fox5s Marina Marraco broke thii story and has the very latestatt again. You know claims he went tow l college he never has been to college. He has notai eve nnev graduated high hig school. Ho but dont let that fool you. He comes off very intelligent, very confident which i think that is what makes thatakes tt professional con artist. A reporter you heard fromou h this woman in Montgomery Countyy she says she was romanticallyy involved with who she thoughthot was devon glaze for two months. She ultimately realized helizedh swindled her out of 700 and disappeared. Until her friend discovered heh resurfaced on a dating app this time as charles. Charles it was on that same app known an tinder where another woman whoth reached out to fox5 met charles davis. Davis this latest victim is fromrom Howard County. Y she and the Montgomery Countyy t victim have been texting the same phone number communicatinin with the same man who is pretending to be two different people. Pe. Hes neither, hes trevor devonn thornton. On a con man arrested and convicted in states as far as florida with a rap sheet that dates backatesc decades for fell honey theft, forgery and fraud. Ra. The phone number both theseoth e local victims have beene communicating with appearsppears listed as the business numberr for numerous escort and massagee sites in the state of georgia. I would hate for a woman toao become engaged to this guy orsuy have a baby with this guy tuy because i believe he hasi belihe multiple kids across the u i believe hes also married toai at least five or sick womenkomen right now with differ names. Nas and hes telling them all thesel different stories of himsties traveling the world for work or for family and its not thes not case. Hes conning you. Conning y reporter this montgomeryntgy county victim has texts with criminal cassanova dating back k to august of 2016. 01 selfies of him in luxury cars, pictures that claim to be of hih arriving at ronald reaganga National Airport from supposed e business trips. He could be taking someoned e else out to dinner and im pretty much funding it. Ding i another woman is funding thenghe next date, and its just endless cycle that needs to be stopped. P reporter thats exactly exay what has been happening. Ni. Just this past month of january, the same tales were told to hish most recent victim in howardow county. Same selfie from last year, same airport picture, same lies. Just this time in 2 pretending to be someone else. E that was marina latest victim says she gave 1,600 in cash after he claimedd his assets had been frozen. N. She says he promised to pay herh back. Ba police in montgomery and how waw counties are now investigating. G thornton has multiple arrest arr warrants for forgery and fraud a and fox5 also spoken to peopleoo who say theyve been conned by b thornton through business dealss so again this man if youan ifou recognize him be aware because c he certainly seems like hes h been on a role for years now and taking advantage left and rightr its tough. If you fall for somebody and sed its fresh you guys are excitedd about it and then somebody askss for a favor. For a far exactly. T to d want to do them right. And clearlyo hes charming. I exactly. He wouldnt be able to do this time and time and timebe able. I read yesterday someone wass saying we were being ensigns ens sensitive and say how cot womanm fall for this. If youve never been in this hos do you fall for it . As you saii if someone is charming ands youre in a place where youverv met someone, youre excited. Ex. They have good intentions. Ge it could happen. However they spin it. It. Right. Rig hes out there. sut there yeah. Eah. Theyre still loo him. Theyre thinking hes across the country doinghi tnkhiins. Who knows there are arrest warrants ous for him,t right . Multiple apparently according marina. Theyll find him. That music gavethey me like stress. That took it to another level. I felt like we were halloween. Like the id channel. Weigh in. What do you think youve been talking with us about this. Ike h connell to do so. In u we appreciate that. Ab all right. Ouconnpp 9 19 is the tim ae righllt now coming up Severe Weather tears through parts of the south. The. 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Ti Allison Seymour back with check of what else making headlinesakl this morning. Ng allison. Good morning to you, wisdom and to all of you. Rninllyou first up, major damage in louisiana as severe storm systes continues to march across thes t south. So governor of louisiana saying say there are seven parish hit byity twisters. Hes decla

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