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WTTG Good Day DC March 2, 2017

Going airborne. Well show you what happenedappe next. Good day at 9a starts now. Right. That was quite a scene. Cant wait to hear all aboutat o that one. Ut details for coming you. R in the meantime good dayco d. C. The 9 01 on this thursdayhursda march 2nd. Im maureen umeh alongside holly morris, Steve Chenevey ande c wisdom martin. Also ahead this morning, ann, early start to the madness. Northwestern the wildcats wild winning a wild game over game o michigan and possibly making ncaa history in the process. Pcs well have much more on thatt buzzer beater will we check the good day sports report. Ept. Looking into wisdom martin memory bank right there. He thats right. Could be the first time i think theyre in. He no frtirhwestern ever makes the ncaa tournament. Hence the celebration. Lock at that. En likece t the l already won the alr w championship. I know its a big deal. Im all in. Alln i like when smart kids do kso well. I love it. Im all in with northwesternr me too. Im a big fan of theirs. Heirs. All right. Lets talk weather, right . Wha temperatures yesterday pushingtp into the 70s, near 80. Before those strong storms stos pushed through. This morning, though, were dowe in the 40s. T and it could get even colderr tomorrow. Mo so for all the details mikeailse thomas in for tucker today. And he has the latest on the focastst. Winds still blowing outds s there. You can feel the difference ase soon as you step outside this oi morning. Morn winds continue to gust. S inue tu they will be gusty as we heads a through the afternoon. The tern if you havent headed out and od about just yet grab the windhe n breaker youll need it this i ti afternoon. Winds right now gusting to 31gh here inon washington. Ashington. 36 up towards burg. Douglas 40 miles an hour. N hour. Temperatures here in dc48 degrees but with those t winds factored it feels like 433 and heres what it feels like ie your neighborhood. Rh as we look at wind chills around the region. Unfortunately that winter feelaw is back. Its sticking around for thehe weekend. Weekend forecast coming up justu a little bit. Ttle b satellite radar shows clouds have cleared. Ha from d. C. Off to the east as well. We north and west few more cloudsed and even some snow showers in the forecast this evening for Higher Elevations of the fartioe north and west. Wt. Believe it or not here in d. C. C we can cease some snow showersrs coming just north omaha here and iowa we have that little bit ofo snow shower activity that will l move into our neck of the woodsw as we get into tomorrow morewor details again on that coming ini about half hour. Your forecast for the day todayy 56 degrees. Mostly sunny skies. Remain very windy and ill let l you know how long that cooleroo winter like feel will stickck around coming up in just bit. B all right. Sounds good, thank you mike. E. The big story today at 9 00 growing calls for attorneyt general Jeff Sessions to resign. Sessions spoke with russiansr ambassador during the durinhe president ial campaign but thistt morning the attorney generale ag insists he did not discuss theit campaign with the ambassador. E r Melanie Alnwick live on capitolp hill with the very latest foratt us. Mel . Reporter hey, guys, so thes, controversy goes back to januara and what then senator session said under oath during hising h confirmation hearing. Ea as the president ial campaignsl s were heating up last year, on at least two occasions then alabama senator Jeff Sessions spoke witi russians ambassador to the u. S. Sergei. Sergei. No evidence of any campaign c collusion during hisn ring h confirmation hearing when he was asked about possible contacts,ct sessions said this. I have been called aled a surrogate at a time or two intw that Campaign Even did not haveh communications with theuons russians. Tic houseousedemocra Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pounced in statement saying after lying under oath tongh congress about his ownngress a communications with theith t russians, the attorney generalen must resign. Sessions was an early trump supporter but he did noise any i wrongdoing suggesting thegdoist meetings were part of his job aa a Senior Member of the senateen Armed Services committee. Omttee. I never met with any russianan officials to discuss issues ofus the campaign, he said ind in statement. I have no idea what thishi allegation is about. Aut but whatever role sessions may have played, onssio capitol hill investigation is churningchni forward into allegations ofd in russtoian interference in theerh campaigns with the republican ia charge blaming the obamabama administration. Year ago i went out andent od called the failure to understand putins plans intentions theons largest failure since 9 11. Largest intelligent failure sipp 9 11 and last administrationinio didnt do anything about it. O reporter and there arehere e calls for attorney generalal sessions to step away from that federal investigation into that alleged russian Interference Inc the election and growingrowi bipartisan support for perhaps a special prosecutor. Live an cop tal him, melanieie alnwick fox5 local news. Lets turn to president trumt first one hun days. Fi the commander in chief heads too newport news virginia hell meet with sailors and sip builds. Bui its part of a mission to a promote his plans for majorhiano build up in the nationsatios military. Mitary hell deliver the speech aboarda the uss gerald r. Ford. For okay. Have you checked on yourheed o they light look good because ofo the soaring stock market thist morning the dow is still lookino strong after making history. Yesterday it closed above 21,000 for the first time gaining 300ni points. S p did well 500 index gainedaie one point 4 . Nasdaq also added one point 4 . President trump tweeted abouted the good news saying sincee november 8th election day then e stock has posted 3. 2 trillionii in gains and Consumer Confidence is at a 15year high quote jobss. Hard to argue with that. Ith t now to developing story inpiy Fairfax County police and fbi are searching parks in the areae for human remains and they a t believe those remains areai related to ongoing ganggog violence. Fox5s annie yu is live ins e Fairfax County with more on thii story. St annie . Reporter hey, good morning to all of you. Y i can tell you that were seeine more vehicles showing up here on the search thats underway att Holmes Run Park. Ar this isnt the first tim this neighborhood. Borhd. Back in 2014 in may theyy actually found two gang membersr that had been dee tap at any timed and buried in holmes runms park. We do know that this is gang related, however, fairfax countt police remaining very tight vy lipped about the information that they are giving out. So still at this they hour we k theres another day of searchini going on. G on we have seen all sorts ofor equipment being brought in, itn, look like tools used for excavation and they have stillel limited this access to the thist culled did he sack on craterratr place. This leads to park lawn poolla p just down the road an area thata leads to Holmes Run Park whereae much of this activity s iss taking place. Youll not be able to access this area unless you live inou l this culdesac. Desac this video youre seeing iss video we captured yesterday of y lot of the activity going on. Ng you can see investigators they t roped off a large section of the park set up a mobile commandilen posted a jay sent to the park pr lawn pool and tuesday when theye got the tip that there could bec area and since then, the fbi,bi Fairfax County police, theyvehe taken over sort of this sectione with all sorts of k9 teams and equipment. Eq they also set up a tent in theee woods in the middle of the woodw about 200 yards from some Single Family homes. Hes we still dont know exactly howh that comes into play. P what exactly is inside thishis tent. Tent but it is being protected byct some crime scene tape there. The we talked to neighbors. Bors they tell us that one neighboroe told us she actually heard gunfire in the park sunday nighg as well as tuesday night but wat not concerned enough to call the police. Poli we do know that this is gang igg related a least Police Believe it is and soe we asked about alt the recent activity, recent gana related murder of a 15yearoldr girl from gaithersburg. Ersb her body was found not too longn ago in a wooded area inn springfield, virginia. Irginia. Take a listen to what policeolie told us. We dont know of anyf a connections from the previous case that is weve recently beer investigating, however,g, h preliminarily we do believe thie it. We dont know what type of crime but the information that weree receiving is there may be a gang involvement. T we walked down there, you know, we go hike on that side. We go on the other side and kids normally outside every day whenw its a nice day. So i dont know. Really kind of worries me. Im scared because, you knowk im home all day and with the dog but shes not going to goo after anybody. Body i always leave the door open. Reporter so you know, anow,a lot of residents here feelingli uneasy unsettled about all ofllo this activity going on, and thee possibility of human remainsemns being found, you know n theirthr backyard here. E. And so the we know that the search will connell for a fewcof more days. But at this hour, still Fairfax County Police Telling us theyngh have not found human remains but continuing the search. Eah. Thats the very latest here from the land cone ya section of cons Fairfax County anni local news. Governor hogan declared a dla state of emergency in responseme to the states heroin crisis. Ri the governor announceded 50 million in new funding overr five years to help address thatt problem. Prob the been will be used to supporo the states prevention, recovery and enforcement efforts. Effts hogan says the heroin problem is increasing at such an alarming m rate the state must a law for rapid coordination with state se and local management team. Heroin and opioid problems. Prescription medications peoplec become addicted to not jusatt jt heroin. Democratic congressman facinn some backlash this morning aftea some really uncomfortable jokesj during a press dinner includingi one targeting white house hou adviser Kellyanne Conway. Fox5 political contributor hadah gold was at that dinner. D shell join us live next withe w the details. Thdeta later, a family affair. Well have more on that biden family bomb smell. Sll former vicepresident s son now and apparently he has his famous parents blessing. Lessin mmm. I cant believe its so delicious. I cant believe it has 40 fewer calories than butter. I cant believe its made with real, simple ingredients. I cant believe were on a whale. I cant believe my role isnt bigger. Oh, its real. Real ingredients. Unbelievable taste. Go ahead, enjoy. Real ingredients. Unbelievable taste. Muum dinosaurs only eat meat actually, the biggest dinos only ate plants and country crock is made with plants. Country crock has always been made with the goodness of plants. It has real, simple ingredients. Fresh taste you love. Welcome to crock country. Democratic congressmancr getting some backlash this morning after making jokes about a recent photo from inside the white house, inside the Oval Office Last night at the Washington Press club foundatios dinner congressman said trickerk pond took a shot at Kellyanne Conway stemmed from the pictures this week of conway sitting fron her knees on a couch in the ovaa office. Offi richmond told the crowd yall l seen that photo of kellyanne ono the couch. Ouch. She look familiar in that tt position. Fox5 political contributoron and political reporter hadadad gold was at that dinner and tweeted representative richmondr making a lot of uncomfortablefoe jokes about kellyanne on thehe couch also about white house strategist staff ban i dont know wearing a white hood inng a reference to the ku klux klan. Un this morning hadad joins us livv on skype with more on thepe wite comments and the backlash. O a e good morning to you. Y my first question is, when you heard this, its cringe worthyny just repeating i would imagine e that that room was probablyrobl stunned as well. Right. Rht senator scott who went beforeefr congressman rhm edgy jokes he made jokes aboute race. He made jokes about donald trumt and russia. Us and while they might have been uncomfortable i think everybody thought that he kind of came upm to the line maybe put a toe ovee but sort of stopped. Toed. When congressman rich mannedichn came up a lot of people were actually you uncomfortable. Ab they clearly saw the sexual nature of the joke he made about Kellyanne Conway, and the joke he made about steve bannon wasa also a little bit gasp worthy. H definitely landed a little bit uncomfortable thely in the roomo people werent necessarilyrily laughing outloud at some of those jokes. I think people just werent really expecting them. People i was curious is this a is dinner known to have sort of racy jokes alfalfa club roast r and digs are appropriate. Is this a dinner you hear thesee types of comments or jokes thatt may cross the line come up . Yeah. Its not like a white houseou Correspondents Dinner broadcastt more widely not many people outside the washington bubbletou will even know the dinner experts. Everybody after the dinner was sort of talkingter like, this i sort reminds of Donna Edwards es the year before she also gavelsv some sort of uncomfortablefortae speech. I do believe that with the tenor and tone the election and the t first few weeks of the t presidency theres been a lot oo ranker between democrats andocrs republicans that a lot of peoplp saw some of the jokes that were made to really have sort of crossed the line into unnecessary territory. Hearing jokes that are racist and sexist and one wondering, you know, what is this allll about . Is this completely off f the pale now or is this thehihe environment we live where thesee sort of things now can be said d and people laugh them off and say, hes just being him . Right. Think everybody whene youre trying to be edgy its aa fine line that anybody speaking has to kind of make for themselves over whats edgy andd funny which makes everybody kind of laugh and blush a little bitt but laughing at the joke versus veru jokes that just make feelkel uncomfortable. I think some of the jokes lastjt night landed really well reallyy funny senator scott his closingi joke about how hell go to the white house to watch a movie he her it was going to be from froo russia with love and everybodyry laughed. Some of the other ones a lot ofa people were just clearly even if they thought they were funny mam be inside they werent going to be seen laughing outwardly about them. Haskillly an conway the whiti house has anyone responded to these jokes . I know we startedt by saying theres been backlash. But how much backlash has theree really been . . From the people in the roomoo that i spoke afterwards a lot oo people found it uncomfortable. Journalists and members of congress. Emma rosa was sitting at my at m table. She got up before senator ator congressman richmonds speech ic heard she was standing in thedit back of the room. Ck of m. Im in the sure if she somehow related to the white house or t the president. Iden i think she probably left rightg as the news was break attorney general sessions. Sessn but it was i believe she wasw the only adminasistration offica i saw in that room at that timee but i wouldnt be surprised ifb we start hearing about it or maybe not, maybe they want to tt just go away. A. It was a shock to all the people there. Im wondering how much legowm this has. Are you writing more about it . T will you follow up or is thisisi sort of are you letting it gou g with the tweets that you put out about what happened and yournd r reaction to it . Right. I think it depends a lot on, umu what everybody what otherha o peoples reactions are if if kellyanne reacts then thats th something we would write about. I think things have been writtet about the dinner itself and a lot of depends the white house e will react, kellyanne will reaction, congressman or senatos say anything more about theirutr remark from last night. Rk this is pretty fro busy news day already. Al so therere madight be some biggr things that are kind ofin o overshadow what happened at the dinner congressman richmond anda senator scotts luck. s l this is holl i is a quick question imstn im listening to it, and youre saying, you know big news day nd and just depend on the reactiona is it a little bit of a doublebl standard or hypocritical if donald trump, President Trump would have said a comment aboutt a woman like that, wouldnt thaa have gotten reaction everywhere and i know has a history so, yoy know, it would be built on thatt but it seems a little bit hypocritical this would just gog away. Well, i dont think that it a will necessarily go away. Wa it will just be probably overshadowed by the other news today. Also donald trump is president pt versus a congressman who a lot t of people dont know very well. So theres obviously differencec in name recognition and knowingo the person. E peo i quickly looked through thed th coverage this morning and it waw covered by a lot of differentift outlets and i know that probabll more is coming later today. Tod all right. All r had todays gold politico and a fox5 political contributor. Ibutr thank you so much for that. Foat. Well wait and see what allhall happens with that. That. Certainly always interesting int when you go to had todays thank uhuh neveruhv know the most benign commentsnt you might think end up having legs and sometimes ruiningesui political careers. L careers. No doubt about it. O doabou theres always that in the ah name of comedy. Whats okay. O were just kidding versus when were being serious. Ous is this day and my age, my am whole thing if you think it might cross the line dont do dd it. Clearly, this guy probablyy thought im on fire with thesehe jokes. Now were talking about and it being tweeted about it andout ia reaction coming. Dont do it. Ont do be responsible what do you ii the name of comedy. 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