Tractortrailer somehow overturned along route 50. We have made some progress so thats good news. It also will they have the tow truck on the scene here with the tractortrailer back upright so that is good. I want to show you a little bit of a closeup here as close as we can get. The accident is on the westbound side of route 50, its right after Saint Margarets road. All lanes still blocked. Those of you traveling from the Eastern Shore headed back to d. C. Youll be forced to get off at exit 29, Cape Saint Claire road. A few miles of backup so please factor that in your commute. If youre traveling eastbound you can see one lane is getting by there on route 50. Youre getting by with just one lane to the right. And just in case, if you need to get to the businesses including this gas station, the service lanes are opened. I know some of you were wondering about that. Now, crews shut down part of the eastbound side because of large debris that basically scattered and flew from the westbound side as a result of this crash and police that this truck was carrying a bunch of Meat Products so, in addition to a fuel spill, you had product scattered across the roadway, so they are working to clean that up. You also have the department of environment out here assisting with the fuel cleanup. So, this is going to take still i think another hour or so before they can fully reopen the lanes, but once they do, miles of backup from the on the westbound side will be able to finally get through here on route 50. Thats the very latest here from annapolis. Well send it back to you all in the studio. Annie thanks very much. In the meantime also developing overnight here in the district smoke inside of a homeless shelter forced residents out into the streets. This was northwest d. C. Fire activities say they traced that smoke back to a small smoldering fire in one of the ducts. No injuries reported and that building has since been deemed safe. So right now theyre working to get all the residents back inside. Also in d. C. , Police Investigating a deadly shooting in southwest. This happened around 11 oclock last night on forrester street. Officers on the scene found man chest. Now, he later died. At this time theres still no word on a suspect. Also in Montgomery County overnight, firefighters investigating a possible case of arson. Crews responded to a townhome on cedarwood drive in rockville just after 2 00 this morning. They say that someone was taken into custody. That incident is under investigation. Lets get to the breaking news out of Southern California overnight. Fire crews battling strong winds try save as many homes as possible. More than 100,000 acres of land corch mostly from the thomas fire. Another fire broke out threatening belair just outside of l. A. Its the getty museum right there. Look how close it is. Evacuees found plenty of company on the road last night driving by the flames swallowing the hillside and back in Ventura County some people digging through the rubble of what used to be their homes. The photos mementoes family heirlooms theyre gone and theyre not coming back. Thats all that mattered was that. We were okay and our d now we just have to we got to start over. Start over. Makes it sound simple but you know its not. Toxic smoke from the fires forced the closure of nearly 300 schools in Southern California. And the believe it or not, Hurricane Force winds up to 80 miles an hour expected in some areas later today as those flames are continuing to spread. Back here in washington, we are hours away from a huge announcement on senator al frankens political future. A chorus of calls for franken to set aside in the wake of Sexual Misconduct allegations grew very loud yesterday when more than 30 senators said their colleague needed to go. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on the hill this morning with more. So, what do we expect from senator franken this morning . Reporter hard to know because we received mixed signals from his office and from people surrounding him. Yesterday two more women accused franken of unwanted kissing and groping bringing the total number of accusers now to eight and with that, the senate has vanished. Now dozens of Democratic Senators men and women are calling for the minnesota senator to resign after the first accusation, franken apologized and said he would cooperate with a Senate Ethics investigation. Then, more women came forward with stories of franken groping or trying to forcibly kiss them on the mouth. Senator frankens conduct was wrong. He has admitted to it and he should resign from the senate. I do not feel that he should continue to serve. Everyone will make their own judgment. Reporter now, after that rebuke from his colleagues on capitol hill, frankens office said that he would make some kind of an announcement today, then they followed it up with this tweet about 6 00 p. M. Wednesday saying senator franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in d. C. But any reports of a final decision are inaccurate. Now, we should mention that only one of these alleged incidents occurred when franken was a sitting senator. A group of staffers in his office also signed letter of support for franken. Senator franken did he did deny the most recent accusation of forcible kissing saying that it was preposterous. He also told a minnesota Radio Station that he is a warm person who hugs people a lot and he has since learned that in some of those encounters, he has crossed the line. Live on capitol hill, im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. Mel, thank you very much. Six after the hour now. The other big story on capitol hill today action to avoid a Government Shutdown. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tomorrow. House leaders have planned a vote for today on a bill to keep the government running at least through december 22nd. The senate is due to take it up after that. Now, avoiding a Government Shutdown will likely be a big topic when President Trump meets with Democratic Leaders nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer later today. Tuck is back with us and its not too bad this morning, 42 degrees. Yeah, some cloudov holding the temps up a little bit but its going to be chilly today. You know, cold again tonight. Maybe a flake of snow by tomorrow. So, the wintry pattern is here to stay. Okay. Okay. Yes. Nothing too extreme though. Feeling like december early this morning. Again temperatures back in the 30s and 40s. And we wont warm it up a whole lot today. Upper 40s to about 50. All right, 43 warm spot reagan national, look at whats going on at dulles where weve got some clearing skies, 31 now and 35 up in baltimore, bwi marshall. Mix of clouds and sun today. A lot like yesterday although i think well get a little more sun than we did yesterday. Well see some high clouds, what what was call cirrus clouds moving in from the south and west and that will help keep things kind of partly sunny around here but otherwise well keep the northwest flow going here. Places like syracuse, rochester, lake effect snow so were firing that up so snow off to our north. For us, chilly this afternoon. Take a jacket. Mix of sun and clouds. And breezy there. Winds out of the west at 10 to 15, gusting to 25. Speaking of breezes, i was just looking at some of the winds out in l. A. Overnight, 85 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in ventura. Sasasanta anas. First flakes of the season in the forecast coming up. Good morning. Good morning. Already a mess on so many of our roads. This is a look from skyfox our first view of the actual tractortrailer crash. As annie mentioned, it was overturned, just got turned upright. Theyre getting ready to try to tow it out of the way. 50 westbound all lanes closed at exit 29. Traffic being diverted to Cape Saint Claire road. Because of that crash. One lane is getting by on the eastbound side. Debris spilling into those eastbound lanes. So you may want to exit at 28 to get around that. Otherwise, continue in that one lane. Just have some patience. Big delays a few mile backup on that se westbound side. Luckily no injuries reported. You can see that backup in the offramp to Cape Saint Claire take that over to College Park Way hook onto two to get back onto 50. 95 northbound crash in virginia. This is coming up through woodbridge at Prince William parkway. Its blocking the right lane and we are seeing a lot of crowded conditions in the main lanes because of that. Now, aside from that, as you make your way out in the district in northwest, earlier crash excuse me earlier fire 400 block of Second Street northwest. That has cleared. That road has been reopened so things getting back to normal on the third street tunnel as well. Now we have a crew on the way to this scene. Eastwest highway at fairview avenue all lanes blocked. A pole down in the road from an earlier crash putting buses on delay. Keep it to fox5. Well have more in just a few. Back to you steve and allison. New pushback this morning over the president s decision on jerusalem. Plus, can a new extreme diet help fight type two diabetes . The results of a new study next. Were back in just 30 seconds. Ing. Tension high in there middle east this morning as the fallout continues from the president s move to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. Several World Leaders calling for an emergency session at the United Nations to discuss the asian. The United States issuing warnings to americans abroad about the possibility of protests and just hours ago the leader of hamas has called for a new uprising against israel in the wake of the president s decision. As the pentagon prepares to accept beginning in the new year pushback from the department of justice. Last night the agency asked a federal judge top put on hold her order requiring the military to begin the process on january 1st. While the department of justice appeals the ruling. Now back in august youll remember President Trump ordered a ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military. Shortly afterwards defense secretary james mattis said he would work to determine how to implement this policy change which is expected to be announced by march. Today marks 76 years since japan surprise attack on pearl harbor. More than 2400 americans lost their lives in that bombing. Today remembrances will take place across the nation including here in d. C. There will be a wreath laying at the world war ii memorials freedom wall. Redskins president bruce allen will speak at that ceremony. He will be joined by veterans and pearl harbor survivors. More fallout this morning in connection to Sexual Assault allegations against harvey weinstein. Six women and the studio he cofounded. They claim weinstein and his company functioned like an organized crime group using agents producers and others to prey on young women and cover up weinsteins actions for years. Now since the New York Times big report on weinstein in october, more than 80 women have publically accused the former movie mogul of and Sexual Harassment and assault. Big health news this morning when it comes to fighting type two diabetes. About 27 million americans suffer from the disease. A new study says some of them could beat that disease by a radical change in diet. British researchers divided patients into two groups. The first stopped taking medication and went on a strict liquid diet consuming dig thats it. They underwent behavioral therapy. The other patients stayed on a conventional treatment plan including medication. The results, about half the patients who went on that diet saw their diabetes go into remission. 86 percent who maintained a weight loss of about 33 pounds achieved remission. Calling it a cure if the weight goes back on, the diabetes will return. Proof that if you get yourself healthy when it comes to Weight Management might help out with the diabetes as well. Thats extreme but somewhere in the middle. Still ahead. Details about who uber played to keep last years massive data beach secret. First though a holiday message from overseas. Im lieutenant jack georges. Want to wish all my friends and family back home a happy holidays. Holidays. Well, another day another traffic update for you, another closing this time on eastwest highway is closed between fairview avenue and New Hampshire avenue. This is in takoma park. They have a downed pole right now so there you can see they have the big trucks out there blocking off the road but just a heads up eastwest highway shut down between fairview and New Hampshire avenue. Hopefully this one doesnt take as long as the closings we had yesterday but thats the latest. Well check in with erin in a minute. First heres tucker. Thank you steve. Bus stop forecast. Temperatures getting chilly early this morning back in the 30s for much of the area and low 40s here in the city. After school today its going to be a cool december afternoon, daytime highs about upper 40s to about 50. 50 will be here in the city. Much of the area doesnt get out of the 40s so it will be a chilly afternoon. 43 in washington. Leonardtown 37. 37 in fredericksburg. Manassas, youre now in the 20s. 28 for you. 31 dul 32 culpeper. Winchester 36 degrees. 38 up in hagerstown. And you can see temperatures correspondingly chilly overnight. Want to take you quickly to los angeles. The reason why i want to show you some of these winds. Steve and allison were just talking about the wildfires out here and they have santa ana conditions. Look at some of these winds that are currently blowing out there. This is at about 1 oclock in the morning for us. 85 Miles Per Hour wind gusts and all of these are wind reports over 50 Miles Per Hour so unfortunately thats just fueling the fires as theyre going to theyre expecting or forecasting winds to continue to be that strong for another 24 hours or so. All right, locally we got a little cloud cover off to our south. Very strong jet there and you can see the lake effect snows kicking in and our northwest flow will keep things cool around here later today and kind of partly sunny. I think some of these clouds will kind of come and go across the area a little later this afternoon. So it will be partly sunny and kind of cool. All right, this is the setup for not today. This is tomorrow, late tomorrow night and early saturday. Area of low pressure, our old enough precipitation will get close enough that we may have a few flakes. Best chance will be south and east of town. Southern maryland im thinking you guys, lower Eastern Shore it may be a very light bit of shower activity and a couple snowflakes. Not talking about accumulations. Perhaps our first flakes late friday early saturday. A clipper system could bring a couple snow showers to the rest of us during the day on saturday. Cool temps here to stay. 50 today. 30s by the end of the week. That is the weather update. Wow. Erin, your turn. Oh, let me just tell you, traffic is a nightmare this morning. Already. This is a view from skyfox out toward Cape Saint Claire in annapolis. 50 westbound closed. All traffic diverted to 29. Cape saint claire road to College Parkway back to two because of a tractortrailer crash initially overturned. They got it upright. Carrying Meat Products. Theres a fuel spill. One lane gets by eastbound. So big delays standstill traffic leading to the exit where you have to detour at 29. On the westbound side to and from the Eastern Shore this is a nightmare. Lets switch it over to our cameras. This is a look at that delay building where youre forced to detour at Cape Saint Claire. Again just one lane get buying so eastbound volume looks light because its bottlenecking past that closure. Not the only big problem. As we look right now at 410, that is closed in both directions at fairview avenue. Lets take a live look out there. We have a fox5 photographer dave just got to the scene. You can see those cones set up. Theyre diverted traffic. Eastwest highway closed in both directions between fairview and n New Hampshire avenue. You can see the closure and police activity. Big problems aside from that bw parkway northbound by 197, a crash on suitland parkway inbound at stanton road and we also have a disabled tanker truck reported on new york avenue inbound after bladensburg. Back to you. Thats a mouthful. That is a mouthful. Lots going on. Thanks erin. 6 19. The Winter Travel forecast is out. Airlines already busy of travelers. First though its christmastime at the u. S. Capitol. A tradition for more than 50 years, got a quick glimpse of this earlier this hour. Hundreds of people attend the last nights Tree Lighting ceremony where House Speaker paul ryan hit the tree. This years tree came from a National Forest in northwest montana. Back with more after this. Its 6 20. Well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . 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