How long you have left to see le her and say so long. And later, making good on a bad bet. Tennis super star making a twitter fans dream come true t with the date of a lifetime. Lim good day at 9a starts now. Yes. S. Okay that is one lucky fan. Luc ill tell that you. Ll telthat y. Good day d. C. It is 9 01 on this thursday, february 16th. 1 im maureen umeh alongside holly morris, Steve Chenevey and thent wisdom martin. Softening the nations energg needs one step at a time. Steata coming up later the founder of soul power will join us live tot show us her invention that willl charge your cell phone simply bb taking a stroll. S thats great idea. Ts grid awesome. Well test it out. W first aet 9 00 lets talk aboua the weather. Some ice in alexandria thiss morning. This because that big water mair break. Eak just sent a geyser into the airo right near the masonic temple tl crews finally got the leak unded control about 7 30 this mornings but the row pair work willl likely last awhile. Wh also if youre watching ourchino coverage of bao bao at the zoohz you saw snowflakes around thero region. Regi including at the zoo where the,t um, suddenlily energetic pandaan has been playing all morning long. Now, apparently no more snow oro ice in our future. Ure sudenol more bao bao. Bao because were looking ahead to t spring like weekend. Weekend so for details tuck is back witw first check of the forecast. Tug tuck, i think it had it h something to do with the fact that the pap today loves muchesc like tucker the cold weather and suddenly found energy. Nd i think so too. I tnk s never seen bao bao so active. The great. Re snow showers continue for partse of the area. Of the ill show you the r aadarre here coming up but lets do the d t temperatures first. Mp 34 in washington. N winds northwest here. West northwest 15. St wind chill 24. Chill 24. Headed down to the zoo are outside for any period of time f make sure you have a jacket it t feels chilly out there. There theres your snow showeres your activity most of it very very s light. Ligh. Th minutes ago was very quicklyuicy streaming down into charlesto county. Unty southern prince georges countyi got a few additionancle snow sw showers upstream here up 270. 70. It certainly a possibility that you could encounter a few ofcoue these in the next hour or two. Very strong northwest flow todad for us, and the great lakes nott frozen this year. Been a mild winter for just about everybody eastern half of the country here and because ofe that weve got you can seean streamers here coming off theinf lakes with a cold temperaturess across the open bodies of the t lakes and bottom line partlyar sunny for us today. Ay. Temps in the low 40s wind chilll in the 30s well see a few snows flurries and snow showers thisws afternoon in one or two spots enough to quickly coat thet t ground. Gr temperatures in the 40s lateresr today. Ill give you the weekend forecast because i know yourene busy and running out the door. Ok at t that. 60s around here saturday, sundan monday for the holiday. Ay a lot to look forward to weatheh wise. Unless you like the cool cl temperatures like myself and bae bao. All right, guys, back to you. Aco all right. Thank you tuck. Ank headlines we have Traffic Alert to share with you this morning. Inner loop of the beltway before braddock road. Do a lot of emergency vehiclesicle erere. A crash that is blocking severav nenes. The left lanes. An. So traffic is backed up to thehe springfield interchange. No word right now on anyny injuries in this crash but justb be aware if youre on the lower side of the beltway 495 area by braddock road thats where theow crash is and the backup goihengi well beyond that. T. Goodness. Look at that. Nip 04 00. Our beg story this hour athisa showily solidarity dozens of Dc Restaurants will be closed belo showing support for the sohe called day without immigrants in supporters of the movement sayov its goal is to highlight the impact that immigrant workersor have on daily basis. As Melanie Alnwick is live inve northwest now with more. Hw mel. Reporter good morning,orng guys. About 2,000 restaurants in d. C. D hard to say exactly what impactt this would have but it may also Impact Service businesses as a elll. Some gyms, delivery companies, really any business or service that employs immigrants. Ignts we know here at busboy and poetp of these empty tables and veryer still kitchen on a thursdayhuda morning. So this is just one of those ofo thats making a very Public Statement here. Atemenre d. C. Celebrity chef jose andreas closing many of his restaurantsr too. We also talk to bar, they willl stay open but for staff who areo choosing to work or choosing the staff that choose to come to work today actually deciding to pull their tips and donatingon those who decided to stay homeym from work. Sweet green closing all 18 locations today giving employeee impact hours to use howeverseowr thawed like. Thaw the movement is askingsking immigrants to stay home fromrom school and work and not to spenp their money in the economy econo either again this is kind ofs ki started on social media andnd grew. Ew. Really to remind people of the contribution that um have made d to American Society and thehe economy. Bus boys and shallalley told me its approaca he felt very personally heerso needed to support. Started as Small Movement mov like so many things happen. Pe started as Small Movement andnd grew and suddenly we realizedzed this is something thats reallys important for us as well. We wanted to be ahead of it. Ofi we didnt want to show up herewh and have no staff. No sta we want to do actually take roll to say, im an immigrant, too o i am an immigrant, and as an immigrant i felted like i needee to stand in solidarity with myh staff. Reporter again, this is, thi not just about illegal i immigrants as many critics haveh been pointing out but legal immigrants tend to be getting gi grouped into the harsh actionsst and tone that seems to be comino from the administrat bion. He mentioned the adm executive r that travel ban, the refugee ban, caused a lot of green cardd holders and immigration raidstin all of these together leading to feeling of uncertainty and fearn among those who are heree here legally. Lega we also know that there areer actions planned in many cities c across the country today and at least one school the lamb publii Charter School in d. C. Isis closing today so its staff and d students can participate in this but, again, some small businesss owners are saying this is ais burden for them as well. El Big Companies can afford to givg their employees the time off tot do this. Do this. Others are trying to figure outt whether and how theyll be impacted today. Tod live in northwest im melanieane alnwick fox5 local news. Ew all right. Ight 9 07 is the time. E tie. Mel we want to talk more about a this because critic of the day y without immigrants say those t taking part are missing theng t point of President Trumpsresidp immigration policy which theycht say are meant to target illegall immigrants. Immi on our face bock page donna sayy so are these establishmentsshnts employing Illegal Immigrantsg il because they are the ones thatl this country has a problem withh otherwise why protest . There is a big distinction between the two and as an immigrant whoseraw mother risked her life to get tg away from war so that i couldiou have a chance in life and an education, im saddened to heart about this protest. T th pro nothing good comes out of doing something with malice like thiss protest an should work hard and show theord great things that we are capable of. Also happening today face tt face meeting between secretaryea of state Rex Tillerson sonic had russian counterpart that. T meet log take place in germany. N tillerson will be joined boye jb representatives from the worlds other Major Economies andmi developing along the east coastt this morning a russianusan intelligence ship continues itse travels last spotted off the ofe coast of connecticut. Officials say it is stillsay it outside of us waters that makest itegegal. The ship is believed to be onveo its way back to the caribbean. Mistrust between President Donald Trump and the Intelligence Community continues to grow unfortunateust lybedonay the president has accused ofsedo intelligence officials ofce offs holding out on him and leaking l information to the mode ya thatt has hurt him. Him meanwhile, mr. Trump has nothini but good things to say about s a fired National Security adviserr michael flynn. Ael he was fired after reports heorh discussed sanctions with thesanh Russian Ambassador to the usadoh before trump was sworn into io office. Michael flynn, general flynnf is that correct, sir wonderfulrw man. I think hes been treated very,a very unfairly by the media. Um, as i call it the fake mediad in many cases. And i think its really a sad ad thing that he was treated so badly. President donald trump isdent going after those who have information to the press describing it a as criminal actt President Trump now has arump ns cabinet position to phillies ple after his pick for labor f secretary Andrew Puzder withdred his nomination that decisionnaot coming a mid growing scepticismc from republicans and after andfr Domestic Abuse allegationsions surfaced from his exwife fromwf the 1980s. 980s. Specifically a tape of her o her appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. Show exwife later retracted thosehoe claims. Ai the ceo of Cke Restaurants thatt owns hardees had also been criticized by democrats for allegedly mistreating histr workers and opposing minimum wage hikes. Hik sticking to politics turning to Congress Today we talked wita wevirginia s tenator tim kaine a concerns with russias influencn on the president ial campaign. Iap the day to day work under thendt trump administration, and anatia issue that is affecting manyaffy commuters right here in the dmv. Metro. Introducing a bill to help h improve metro safety and this ai comes as the federal Transit Administration is pullingpul funding from metro over the delay in setting up a long a l promised metro safetyy commission. Mmison the senator wants to make sure a lawmakers make good on thatood t promise. My virginia and maryland mard colleagues weve introduced aese Metro Safety Commission bill. N. Weve work it out carefully with d. C. , virginia and maryland. An and were simultaneously introducing legislation in the district in both states and inn congress to set up a Safety Commission that can oversee thee safety of the system. S we think that should give fta some comfort that were taking this seriously and hopefully that hold on funds can can be released sooner rather thanraert later. Later. Another interesting thing wei talked about with the senatorntr which is especially pertinentlyt during his black history monthto and he other members of the t virginia delegation wantn wan congress to establish a commission to prepare forre the 400th anniversary of the first africans coming to america andme of course that happened virginia. Right. Ight districts paid family leavee bill is now in the hands ofan o congress. Who has the final say. S this comes after mayor murielur bowser decided last night not tt veto it but says she will note n sign the legislation either. The bill gives new moms and dads eight weeks of paid leave. Lea six weeks to care for a sick s child or parent. And two weeks of personal sick time. Time the leave would be paid for with the new payroll tax on all d. C. Businesses. Bowser hopes to work withrkh lawmakers to address issues that she has with the bill. Well, all things good must t come to an end. Nd and that includes bao baos timm in washington, d. C. D. C today the farewell celebrationss begin for the beloved panda. An well take you there live cominm up next. Nex and later, too late to say sorry . Justin beiber named ined an assault investigation for a f fight that happened eight monthn ago. Ag why it took so long, what it wt could mean for the sorry singer. Hmm. Hmm thalo yeah. 9 11. Back after this. Z2a0gz zi0z y2a0gy yi0y fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house th 150 meg internet. In the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. Get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Aww there she goes. Come back here. Ere my god. D. This is quite a spectacular show. Show. In the past hour, bao bao has h smittenned us again withh m. Shes been playing in the snow. Eating bamboo and really eall trying to escape. To esce. Yeah. Eah. Exactly. Youre going. Youre going back to china. Toa listen enjoy your last few daysw here. Shes really just been having ag good time this morning. Orning im giving yall a treat noww that im leaving. Im lng look at her dancing now. Ng n shes doing a little side action. Our days being captivated by bao bao are comin g tbeoin ag close. Cse its coming to an end shes moving thousands of miles awaywa on. N. Fox5s bob barnard our own cutee little panda panda [ laughter ]laught ] is the s at the national zoo as we get ready for this final farewell. Rewe cuddly. Cuddly panda bob barnard. B bd reporter youre so sweeto se but i can be tough, too. These pandas can be if youreanb not careful. Carefu i think shes got some itches ic shes scratching and shes alsoa been looking in that trap door r there maybe she wanting toantint inside. I tell you she loves the. Weve watched her nest last houh doing somersaults down the hillh here. Eating her bamboo. Because on tuesday, she is she i leaving her home of nearly thehe past four she was born in the summer of 2013 and next tuesday shes heading home in a sense to china. Her parents on loan to the United States mei xiang and chic chin in compounds adjacent. Dj the mom is with bei bei the the little brother but weve been b seeing and shes just doing tog emerge here i think again in a minute bao bao and today the Chinese Embassy is going to be t giving out free dumplingslings starting from now until noon, and theyre actually asking askn visitors to fill out post cardss that will go home with bao bao. Cynthia is visiting from a mesa, arizona she and i are both off o camera as you watch bao bao. Ao o what do you think what shes s seeing. Shes so much fun to watch. O. She look like shes having greai time. I just feel like its a great ae experience to see her before she heads off to china. Ads off to ci reporter yeah. Ter ea were fortunate that her littlee brother and parents will stillt be here. Bee. Her little brother for another three years. Ears. And then well have to head bacc because they got to go backgo before theyre four years old. D did you know we had pandas here . I did. I watched them on the panda cam before from home in arizona. But its really a neat a n experience to be able to see too them in person. Reporter absolutely. Thor abs cynthia and her husband inn meetings here in washington soto shes here at the zoo and basically if you cant get downw here the panda cam, the smithsonian folks here at theat national zoo, tell us the pandan cam will be trained on bao bao o panda cam number 124 7 from nown through monday and then she is scheduled to board a tuesday afternoon flight. Shell be flown boy pandada express as they did with tyshawn her older brother back in 2010. 2 bao bao will be put on boeing 77 Federal Express flight that will leave tuesday afternoon at 1 30 and take her to china for thehe first time her ancestor treetore yall home her real home at the national zoo. And there have been a lot ofa lf people like cynthia here guyse y this morning watching with their own eyes and taking pictures ofs bao bao doing her thing, again, shes just playful, little older than a toddler i guess but having fun and enjoying her last few days here in our nationss capital. Putting on show for sure. Bob bob, someone snuck hernur mountain dew. Im just sayining. I actually think she has sheh headphones on we cant tell. Shes grieving to her own tune right now. Shes got ear buds. Bud ear buds, exactly. Ely. Okay. She is just too cute. Shes saying youre going too miss me. Oh, man, thank you bob. Ob. Appreciate that. Bob bob, byebye. 9 18 is the time. Time. Another case of bed bugs in d. C. Schools. Scho yup. Its happened again. Happeagai facebook freedom dilemma after a series of crimes posted on thedt social network the future of fue google looking good. Allison has details when we w check out what else is making had he line next. The scene of stealing a star. Fight star charlie day coming ig in the fox beat. Oxea well be right back. All right. Were back at 9 21. Taking a live look at bao bao. W. She does a little dance. Ance look at that. That. That bear has got some rhythm make herring farewell i guess gs round around her enclosure at a the zoo. Oo saying byebye to bao bao onaon tuesday. Da were sure going to furry ball of fun. Im curious bob has been doww there with bao bao many timesy t and talk with the keepers. Kee is this the first time weve we seen her act this animated. Im wondering if this happenss when the cameras are off andffnd people arent at the zoo. T at to for the zookeepers, is this thi normal behavior . Is thisshi Something Different for them f e too . Too . Im going to give you theng show of t my life before i get t of here. Of here. They say the morning issa always the best time. Y test animals active in the morning ti and they do like the colderheol weather. Very true. Mean . So hat i aww. The full on somerset earlierr was like right out of central casting, right, for those animaa trainers in movies. Ie yup. Up amazing. Ama 9 22. Well get to allison right now. G shes got a checkht of some of e other stories making headlines. S saw you smiling along with us as we were looking at bao bao. Bao bao needs a good belly bl b. B. Got an itch that cant getant t scratched. Hed