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WTTG Good Day DC February 13, 2017

Talk about it all on a goodad day. Its monday, february 13th. Y 13 im steve alongside allison,is maureen and wisdom. Ureen an holly is off today. Hollis o well have much more foreor musics big night all morning. Ong. Guy lambert will be here with us favorite moments and performances well dish al about it and share some of ourmf favorite looks from the red fror carpet. Who is that . O ishat my yo. Home girl. Wow. D. C. s own. own ones that stole the show, ones e you might not know of. This lady shes not even notve nominated. Who is that . Whos th her name is villa. La shes had interesting illnti say interesting outfits the last three years. I think sheth just shows up to e noticed. No her record sales have goneore through the roof apparently since that outfit. Ut that was smart. Jill scott. Jillly from philly. Jlly okay. Okay. All right. Aboutalk a00 lets talk this crazy weather. Man, the winds waking up a lotul of people last night and causini some big problems this morning m downed trees, power lines, les school delays, lets hope itsoi all over. Check of the forecast. Forec are we still e we s not over yet. Et high wind warning untilar 6 00 oclock tonight. c tonig you feel the rate 48 train of whipped hit the side of your house last night. Oh yes. Last n o over and over. Er woke everybody up about 11 0. Winds gusting 60, we 72mile per hour wind gust down at joint base andrews at about 11 30 last night. So just extraordinary winds win almost Hurricane Force windsor across the area during the the overnight hours and winds willd be back. 50 perhaps 60 miles an hourou later this afternoon current winds gusting 38 in washington. G 40 in gaithersburg. 39 in hagerstown. 40 in manassas. Unfortunately, here, were, we caught between two systems. My pressure out to the west and departing area of low pressuresr thats really bombing out hereur to our north and east. E and thats causing a lot ofot wind. Wi theres your high wind warning w in orange that includes i washington until 6 00 oclock 0c tonight. Wind advisory if youre furtherf out to the west but the bottom b line winds for everybody coulddu gust at times to 50 to 60 miles0 deepening area of low pressureoe here off to the north and eastnd of boston and hig eh pressure or to the west. Again, were getting strong pressure gradients winds out ofa the north and west and the bottom line even tdihough itses sunny and bright and looks nicen out there those winds thats the real deal. Look at that gusting to 60 latel this morning early thishi afternoon very strong windsg temperatures in the 40s. Atures e all right. Guys, seven day looks quieter. T and sweeter for valentines day. Aww. Back to you. How nice. Hes such a romantic guy. Cuy isnt he. t he hopeless romantic. S roma hopeless is the word. Opel all right. Thank you tucker. Owow 9 03 is the time. Is tucker is talking about thelkg b winds and the whipping windsppii causing some significant damageg overnight in our area including the roof partially torn off d. C. Apartment building but thehe weather issues are widespreadidr this morning. We have Live Team Coverage cg across the area. Re bob barnard is in germantown. Nt Melanie Alnwick is live in in southeast d. C. D. Well start with mel because you have the bulk of the damage b tm right behind you. T behi you reporter thats right. That. It looks like theyre really liy getting a lot of this cleaned uu the street as much as possible. C you can see the crews here and one of things we also noticed wd felt as well, if you lo closely, p. M. Of these people are Wearing Masks respirators. Po when the wind picks up, theres a very fine gritty debris in the air it gets in your eyes, iteyei gets in your mouth. M it is probably from some of the that foam material soam r much of it that that is now in n piles. Not only in front of theont ofhe Apartment Building but alsout a spread across the street here. Ee theyre also having to worry tow about some of the power line pol that is are still hanging from f the industry trees here. E. Now, dave will swing over to ouo right and you can see thehe corner, the top corner of thef t Apartment Building here. Ng her the Woodland Terrace apartmentss here on bruce place southeast it looks like some of that materiaa has come from this corner here. R but were also seeing people upp on the roof inspecting some of the damage. Dag a few people have emerged from f the apart not clear at this hour how manyw people are actually displaced dc but, boy, it was crazy here lass t. Ght. We ran into ronald lee early this morning who experienced iti i was standing right here. H. Im trying to get close, andnd couldnt get too close becausese debris coming out the roof, youu know, and i didnt want nobody,b you know, get hurt or nothingr i like that but we trying to keepk people away from it. But that piece right here, thata came off first. You know, um reporter was it like at l tornado. Yes, yes. Y felt like a tornado. What was your thought . Thoug reporter back out live o l here now again you can see somee of the inspectors here up on tht top roof top of the roof. R just trying to see exactly whata the extent of the damage is. Thei what theyre going to have to d to get it repaired. Fortunately, guys, red cross was out here. D. C. Fire was out here last last night as well helping anyone who need add quested assistance bute the good news despite all thishi damage here nobody was hurt. H thats the latest from here inmr southeast. So now lets go to bob barnard in n germantown. Reporter yeah, melanie melan same thing. Big old tree part of it fellt f here in germantown. Okay. Well go back to bob in just a minute. Fair enough . Fair enough. Fenou didnt mean to interrupt. Whipping winds sparkedhippnd widespread Power Outages mostagm until northern virginia. Ira. Dominion is reporting more than 14,000 customers without power. Pepco is reporting about 1,000u0 people in the dark. And bge customers the company reporting 1700 outages. Now well check in with bobb barnard hes also tracking windw damage over in germantown. Bob, sorry for the miscue backec then but let us know whatsha happening in your neck of thein woods with the wind dama reporter yeah, were on hot tin ger sir quell inue i germantown maryland. Aryland. A big old tree that has fallenn here in this townhouse communiti and it may not look like much. This thing is really, reallyll heavy. You can see its falling on a oa car and a pickup truck much thic happened just before bor 11 00 oclock last night n according to the people who livh here. And take look at this. Fire department came out last ot night and cut it back a littleat bit. Nobody else has been out here to do anything about this tree. T the only one neighborhood allbo these trees are very similaril lining this big subdivisiondisin here. E that fell ttly on last night. Nht someone who has been living here for 25 years tells us despite past hurricanes want have youhae that can have come through theyy never lost a tree before. Befor. This one is down. Down. Nobody hurt. Did not knock out power in this area. Ar but the lady who lives in this i townhouse, miss stephanie, sayss it was a harrowing night living here. I was actually sleeping andlg then i woke up because i heardai winds, and then um thats when like a short time laterl i heard like a big thud and i t knew it was a tree because a loa of trees around here. Ad h i tried to open the door but itt was like we were locked in. Like we couldnt open it and wee called 911 and they transferred us to the Fire Department and dd they came and cut a path for tot us get out. Repusorter is that your carc over there. Yeah, its my moms car. C is it bad . Is it b [ laughter ] yeah. Yeah we have to like call the Homeowners Association ands aso stuff to like get it fixed and a stuff. Reporter what do you make of this . Ter w i dont kofnow. T d really scary. Realcary i couldnt sleep last night up p to like 2 00 and i have school o this morning. M so scary. Reporter this is it. S i the car is just kind of like le buried underneath this verys ver large tree that fell here, guys. Talk about whipped chill. Pped ci i mean it is windy and chillyy rere. There have been several trafficf accidents around here. Here. I dont know if the wind is juss causing problems for people, bu, quite a few car accidents. Ccen but in this area, they did not n lose power and despite this ids say half of a tree that fellt fl hot tin jer circle last night. Ig good news there. Tre thanks a lot. Mother nature wreaking havoc ina the northeast newki wngave of wn weather is threatening upstateps new york to main. Winter storm warnings are inre effect with the possibility of blizzard conditions up to 2 feet of snow. No this comes just days after theft biggest storm of the seasonso dumped up to 19inches of snowfo in that region. N parts of connecticut, boston, bo New Hampshire and maine could c also see several inches of up to 2 feet of from in severalal inches to 2 feet of new snow. You might imagine the downedw branches and power lines causing big problems for drivers this. Rt metro riders got off to slow slw start too due to safetrack workk busy morning thanks to highks winds. Heavy winds causing debris and issues. Want to keep up to date whatse going on currently as thingss t have been clearing up throughouu the morning. The Fairfax County police letting ug know vdot and virginia powera pr aware of the to clear them. Le them. Lingering locations impacted. Mpc theyre thanking power companiea for their hard work overnight, g and maryland state highway highw administration letting you know if you come across a trafficra signal that is out, treat it ast though it is a fourway stop. Yto a lot of Power Outages fromes f those winds so very good adviced to keep you safe. Keep u saf in fact one of the areas are impacted right now traffic lighf is out on the key bridge at 29 thats causing big delays still in place right now even at ourur 9 00 oclock hour. Oclo so extra time to get across thes key bridge there. Tre Melanie Alnwick is out at the 2700 block of bruce placerucela southeast that is where a roof f partially blown off an apartment complex. Dril causing a lot of debris. They need to get cleaned up and downed wires as well in glenn hl can Dough Company massachusettst at mohican place did he brew hee because closing theecau clo intersection. Now. G to Metro Safetrack surge 12 no traino tra service between rosslyn and thed pentagon on the blue line. E. Arlington cemetery stationon remains closed. Shuttle service betweenen Arlington Cemetery and pentagonn coming from virginia coming from transfer at lefant plaza. Pla this could cause additional add problems. Earlier malfunction in braddockk road. Yellow line delays to huntingtog out there as well. Any questions erin fox5 d. C. Ono twitter. Well be tracking this allbe t morning. Back to you guys. Backyo erin thanks. Nks. Missing the message perhaps. Protests popping up all over thr country in recent weeks like wee saw last week with the newk witn education secretary too manyany times they are turning violent. So is the point of the protestst getting drowned out . Well take a closer look. Lk and later, helping you setet the mood this valentines day. Celebrity event planner andrenne wells is with us with littleitht tricks to make your home a lot l morrow man tick. Let me get my pen. P [ laughter ]er ] 9 11 now. An ordinary jar of vaseline® jelly. Its something we dont think about much except when weve got chapped lips or a small cut. But for People Living in areas of crisis, simple skin conditions can turn into serious issues. So we created the vaseline® healing project. A partnership with direct relief to help millions in need heal their skin so they can go back to work, or school. Join us to help millions in crisis heal their skin. 9 14 is the time right now. Happening today, President Trump will meet with canadian Prime Minister justintiy, pwi that yor for the first time. Theyll take part in around a table discussion about women inw the work force and launch a new task force focusing on women o m business leaders. First daughter ivanka trump is i expects expected to attend thehe round table. Able from you dough will meet withoul lawmakers on capitol. It President Trump will beat withtt israeli Prime Minister netanyahou on wednesday. Top white house adviser seemed s to side step the question thiss weekend apparently while thehi T Obama Administration was stillll in power flynn reportedly had phone calls with the russianussn ambassador to the us. Us. If they discussed new imposed sanctions it would have been breach in diplomatic protocol. Flynn denied the sanctions talks ever taking place but now spokesman for flynn says he ss e cant be certain the topic nevev came up. Multiple members of congress ara calling for an investigation tht president has said he ishes troubled by the situation but bt has not said whether he plans to ask flynn to step down. D. C. Economy in jeopardyeopy again at the hands of congresson this time over the tr shaat death with dignity act. D. C. Council approved. Rod theyre moving to congress to strike down the law passed in d. C. To allow terminally ill people to end their lives. Representative jason chaifetzha from utah is the chairman of the Us House Committee and against d. C. Death with dignity law hes beens bee facing backlash for insertingtig congress into d. C. Politics. Death with dignity advocatesat will be at the Rayburn House Office building House Oversight Committee Meeting at 5 30. 5 3 several will be there as Dan Diaz Brittany Maynard made headlines after she was s was diagnosed with terminal cancer n and moved to oregon where she a choice in her death. Ea as d. C. Transitions to newo E Administration in the white whie house on on capitol hill a fairi share of protests recently opposing various policies by the trump administration. Io. Intend to be peaceful atful a times they turn violent andnd chaotic this past friday outsidi of Jefferson Middle School inidl southwest d. C. Secretary of o Education Betsy Devos was due tt make an appearance there. Protesters blocked her way to wt the door. It began by as a vigil by the teachers union. Nion. Those who block her were noterot from the union. On. So where are these protestersrot coming from . Earlier thiser t Police Assistant chief to geto g little more insight. When you go back to theo t events that took place on january 20th, those individuals were very smally sma percentage of those individualss were from the district ofict columbia. Around six or 7 near know totality. Tolity most of those individuals werelr from as far away as new york, california, baltimore, various philadelphia variousus different states across and up u and down the eastern region. It was a planned activity, and a those subjects came to the city to conduct those acts. So how, chief, do youdo you characterize who these people po are . I mean are these people who are part of a paid unit ortr paid group to come and just essentially cause disruption . Are these people who are justpea very passionate perhaps overly l passionate about their cause . Ae how do you characterize those to who are ca problems . Well, some travel to different regions to demonstrata over various issues as i statedd earlier. Ea some are peaceful. Eace of course, on that day, therehe were a lot of individuals thatlt traveled to this region to to conduct criminal activity and id was apparent by their actions, apparent by some of the items is that they had in their tir possession during their actionss here in the city. We see demonstrations on ati daily basis here in washington, d. C. , and as i stated earlier, the majority of those demonstrations are peaceful, law abiding people that come too voice their first amendment. We are preparing our civil disturbance units on an ongoinn basis to deal withh demonstrations of this type and following the trends weres wre seeing throughout not only the e United States but trends we seee abroad as assistant chief making thatht point at end theyre followingoi whats happening not just here r but around the area and working with other Law Enforcement to find the best way to do it. I get it in a big best scale lt inauguration where you havetionh people from all over the worldow literally coming here. Theres not organization but iit will say this. If i organized a smaller peaceful protest and then and tn bunch of people show up that upt arent invited to the party and caused physical harm or damagehm you Better Believe im going toi be upset with you. H you. Oh yeah. Putting our organization oran my organization in a bad light. Right. Ill tell you that the people blocking betsy devos, youou couldnt disagree with people. Ho but when you act in that mannere that is just wrong on every ery level. You know, theres no reason tost block her. Er. Right. From trying to do her job. Ob what are you proving . Youreoup making the other sidroes pointi youre ure exactly. You cant be reasoned with. Be , you know, youre one of these people who agitating the e situation. Tuat its so wrong. song. Protest but do it in sensibleenl way. Dont put your hands on r has on anybody. Right . Or destroy property. R tased and taken down by her secret service detail. Emergency evacuation innn california, saying goodbye to jazz legend busy weekend at thee box office. Box ofce who won out on valentines dayd weekend . Weve got a check onto what else is making headlines next. Little bit later another anoh contender hitting the screen scr this friday. Kevin sitting down with thehe fistfight star ice cube, yea, yea good day. Its a good day. Od d well be right back. Z27mlz z16fz y27mly y16fy 9 22. Welcome back to good day. Erin is back with a check of the other stories making headlines this monday morning. Erin . Thank you very much, allison. Good morning to you. 9 23 right now. We begin in northernome

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