A massive search underway for the search of pamela butler. Im annie yu and ill have all the details co coming up. And later, light finds way. Jeff goldblum returns to jurassic park. Well have your look at the new trailer for fallen kingdom coming up. Good day at 9a starts now. Saw that trailer during the Football Game last night they ran it for two and a half minutes. Unexpected. I have some thoughts. I will save. I will share. Share. Trailer. I mean, next time is going to be the commercial for the commercial for the trailer. I do love the music, though. So majestic. Chills. Trailer is probably all ill ever see of that film it. Doesnt come out until june. Even so. You have plenty of time to make your decision. Is kevin doing the interviews now . [ laughter ] well see. Seven months of them. Two hours of good day starting right now on this friday. It is december 8th as always were so glad to be here with you. We want to right to our big story at the weather. Old man winter could make an early appearance in our region this weekend. In the form of a few inches of snow, and much colder temperatures. But which would you what you will see depends on where you live. For details tucker is back with a first check of the forecast. Good morning. Allison, good morning. Yeah, we got lots to talk about. Kind of unbelievable here. Still fall, you know. So we dont typically see storms this size or at least pote potentially this size this early in the season. Not going to be a major storm but enough that i think in some cases we can get a couple inches of snow by tomorrow afternoon. All right. Theres your Winter Weather advisory. This was issued a couple hours ago by the weather service. That does include right here in the city includes d. C. , surrounding counties kind of up and down the 95 corridor up towards baltimore and then down into Southern Maryland. All under a Winter Weather advisory after midnight tonight. Again, youre not going to have any issues today. So going to work, school, after school today going out for dinner tonight youll be fine. This will be after midnight tonight early tomorrow morning when the snow moves in. Okay. Washington. 35 gaithersburg. Manassas 37. 38 in fredericksburg. It will be a chilly day. I think well be lucky to get the low fours. 42, 43 for afternoon high and mostly cloudy conditions expected. That is snow all the way back into texas this morning. Weve been showing video of places like Corpus Christi getting snow. Houston under a Winter Weather advisory. Atlanta under a Winter Weather advisory. Expecting an inch of snow. So this is just extraordinary stuff for this date in december. That is all kind of riding along a frontal system and up into our region we can expect snow around here in some cases if youre along the lower Eastern ShoreSouthern Maryland this evening. For most of us after midnight night. It may start as a wintery mix and transition to snowier night. Quick look at the snowfall forecast. Ive been tweeting this if you have questions for me tucker fox5 send me your questions. I think by tomorrow afternoon we will pick up the equivalent of couplisms of snow around here. To to 4inches. Roadways as temperatures are pretty marginal but particularly in grassy surfaces see a build up and highest amounts will be off to the south and east this whole thing should wrap up by early tomorrow morning if you have plans later tomorrow afternoon tomorrow night you should be fine. This will get here on saturday which is good news. Okay. 43 today. Mostly cloudy skies this afternoon. Could be a bit of a mix by early this evening south and east of town. More on the wet coming up in just a minute, guys. More on the forecast and the weekend and the cold temperatures here to stay, guys. Back to you. Sounds good. In fact you just mentioned this now we want to show you pictures snow already falling down south. This is the scene actually in texas yesterday. The rare winter storm dumped two to 3inches from san antonio to east texas Winter Weather advisories also up in houston for some parts of the state its the first snowfall in more than decade. Unbelievable pictures. So while the rest of the country deals with ice and snow, Southern California still engulfed in flames. Look at that video just amazing fears new wildfires tearing through golf course communities in san diego country this comes as the regions largest fire destroyed more than 400 homes and buildings. 200 miles north near los ang angeles. Ellison barber is monitoring the latest developments. Reporter at least six major fires are now burning from north of los angeles down into the area of san diego. Be prepared to leave immediately. And that means making sure that you have your car gassed up completely. Reporter people throughout Southern California are still being warned to be on guard. With numerous fires now roaring. Embers are flying. Sparking fresh flames engulfing homes and threatening thousands more. A lot of my friends are telling me that i should just leave on the evacuation. Reporter in the ventura area teams are still working to contain the largest fire in the state. The thomas fire started burning monday. It is now destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings and hundreds of square miles. The magnitude of the winds and the fire storms and how fast things change, you just have to really have to be alert. Reporter crews are also fighting large fires around los angeles. Are now reporting some progress. San diego a fire thats quickly burned nearly ten square miles is still moving west. Destroying dozens of homes and triggering evacuations. Already ripped through a Retirement Community and killed horses that at a racing fac facility. Santa ana weakening is going to cause the fire to be much less predictable. Its going to move different directions. Going to be train driven. So there are crews gore to go to have very careful. Report roar this weeks fires have put tens of thousands of people under evacuation orders. In ventura, california, im ellison barber, fox news. Right now we continue to follow developmenting news out of gaithersburg, maryland here in our area. Where heavily armed men who broke into an apartment home on teachers way and were told the suspect stole weapons, before they fled. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is there. She has the latest. Reporter yeah, quite a scary evening for one person inside the gaithersburg station apartments here. Montgomery county police tell us it was about 11 30 last night when they got a call the victim says that he got home from work. There was a knock on the door. He looked outside and saw a man who looked like he was in distress. So the victim open the door and then three men burst into the apartment, all of them had hand guns then demanded prompt. The victim told them, take what you want. The suspects took the victims wallet, a laptop and cell phone and two guns, a long gun and a handgun. Now the good news is, there are no injuries in this. However, police do tell us that those men are armed and dangerous. Lets give you a look at suspect descriptions. According to is black male 6 feet 2inches tall with dark skin, short haircut and a day old beard. The second is described as hispanic male with what they called a chinstrap beard. We dont have physical description on the third suspect other than that he is a man wearing dark cl clothing. Also important is the vehicle that they were riding in. It look like a police car. 2,004 to 2006 White Ford Crown victoria with tinted windows and a spotlight on the outside of it. So that would look like one of those Chrome Extension lights thats on the outside of a police car or a taxi cab even. Also, important take look at the style of tag. This is just the style here. So it doesnt just ignore the words that you see there on the license plate. Pay attention to that new style that maryland flag across the bottom. Very distinctive there. One other thing. Gaithersburg police tell thus this was a secured apartment building. They want to remind everybody, please, if someone knocks on your door and you dough not recognize them, door, if you feel like theyre in distress or theres a threatening situation, just call police. Live in gaithersburg, Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. 9 08. Lets check the morning briefing first up this morning shut down averted. Congress pass add bill to keep the government running until dee 22 and. Stop gap legislation aimed giving negotiators more time to settle their budget differences. Now, the gop wants increase in defense spending. Democrats say any increase in pentagon funding must also include increases for other domestic programs. White house indicated the president will sign the extension. And the other big story of course this morning harassment claims have led to yet ano resignation in congress congress. This time trent franks and it came just hours after minnesota democratic senator al franken was force to do give up his seat. What may actually set his case apart from the others the sheer speed at which it all happened. Arizona a career that came to a crashing in end yesterday when he announced he was resigning effective early neck year. He has been accused he says of discussing pregnancy and surrogacy issues with this staff, conversations that led to a complaint. In a statement, franks said, he became incentive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others. Its not clear what, if any, other facts came into play, but House Speaker paul ryan wasted little time asking franks to september down. On a day when another resignation was dominating the headlines. I will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Reporter minnesota saturday al franken announced he was leaving after at least eight women came forward complaining of inappropriate behavior. He used a floor speech to deny many of the allegations and took a shot at the president in the process. There is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office. The houseage they can Committee Meanwhile is ramping up its investigation into texas republican congressman blake farren thaw who faces harass many allegations one of which appears to 84,000 payout. He says hes confident it will all be resolved. Next week, we will find out whether Alabama Republican Roy Moore will be joining the senate f he wins a special election on tuesday, gop Senate Leaders will have to decide how to deal with the new allegations that moore now faces. And that alabama race is going to come down to the wire. The real clear politic average gives moore an edge but hes a couple of points up over his challenger democrat doug jones. Dont hear a lot of doug jones news though. Royal name dominating the headlines. Well see what happens next week. Depending on the out come like they said this story is far from over. Thats my point. Thank you, holly 9 11 of the search for d. C. Womans remains resumes today after new information from her confessed killer. A nina joining us live with those details neck. Later another football sunday right around the corner. Has the game gotten too vile let me. Thats what fox5s brody logan wants to know. What fans of the gap told him coming up. This year, start a new holiday tradition. Delicious recipes made with nutella the holidays never tasted this good. Discover holiday recipes at nutella. Com. The things that matter most happen one morning and one cup at a time. I may be resigning my seat but im not giving up my voice. Overturn tractor trailer. Were back at 9 14. In just about an hour the search will resume for remains of a d. C. Woman who vanished from her home several years ago. Its been almost ten years now. You can run into road closures this morning along i95 in Stafford County because state police and investigators are still trying to solve this tragic murder mystery. Annie yu has more on this mystery now. Shes life in down in Stafford County with the details for us this morning. Annie, good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and maureen. Good morning, everybody starting at 10 00 oclock today, so just about in an hour, you will have Virginia State police as well as the Stafford CountySheriffs Office and dc police all out here along the i95 corridor specifically a portion of 95 thats close to the garr garrisonville exit that is where the focus of this massive search will be. And so of course the family Law Enforcement all trying to solve this painful mystery in our a area. Pamela butle february of 2009. She was just 47 years old and she was analyst for the Environmental Protection agency and earlier this year in objection, her boyfriend at the time, Jose Rodriguez cruz, he admitted to killing her and then told investigators that he strangled her during an argument in the basement of her home and she lived on Fourth Street in northwest d. C. He then drove her body to wooded area off 95 in this section of Stafford County. Rodriguez cruz plead guilty to Second Degree murder and as part of a plea deal, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison and he agreed to lead detectives to exactly where he buried pamela along 95 and so thats whats happening in just about an hour. So at 10 00 oclock today, many of you who live around here who take 95 through stafford youll see Police Activity some heightened activity in this area of course theyll be shutting down the knife express lanes near the garrisonville road for a few hours. And the generalur 95 in stafford or Prince William will not be impacted so its just the express lanes. Both northbound and southbound. Again, three agencies d. C. Stafford, Virginia State all involved in this theyll be focusing in the thick woods and one of the concerns that they told us they have the terrain has changed over time of course and theres been construction and so it may. some challenges, however, we did speak to pamelas brother derek butler earlier this week. Even after eight years their family still has high hopes that they will finally be able to put closure to this case. We shall also mention that Arlington County police, they still have an open case on Rodriguez Cruz first wife who men missing in 1989. Pamela butlers family has long suspected Rodriguez Cruz of the murder of their loved one pamela butler. So in just about an hour or so this massive search getting underway here. Were told by police that its unlikely Rodriguez Cruz will be out here with police per court order hes not to leave the district of columbia. However, derek butler some and family members will be here. Thats the very latest here from Stafford County. Back to you yall in the studio. Thanks annie. 9 18 is the time right now. The shape of water is shaping up to be a major awards content. Coming up a little late kevin sitting down with two of the stars. First though erin what are you working john. Protests across the middle east after that major dip employee empty tick move in israel earlier this week. Plus, the november unemployment numbers are out. Well have a look at the latest economic snapshot. And later, if student loan payment isnt the perfect gift for the millennial in your life, we may have found a very good backup plan. Well tell was that is when we check what else is making headlines next. Im from virginia and i wish everyone a happy holidays. Cinnamon fans, your date with destiny has arrived. Lets do this new cinnamon frosted flakes are finally here. Sweet cinnamon and the frosted crunch you love. Well . Tastes like victory t. Tastes like victory. Theyre great erin is back with a check of the stories making headlines this morning. Good morning. Good morning to all of you. First up former South CarolinaPolice OfficerMichael Slager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Thats for the deadly shooting slager was found guilty of shooting and killing walter scott back in april of 2015 after cell phone footage surfaced showing the entire end count. A swift reaction from the muslim World International leaders after president Donald Trumps decision to officially announce jerusalem as israels capital. Protests erupted in iran hundreds of people took to the streets of tehran the historic move by the president reverses decades of us policy on one of the most volatile issues between palestine and israel. To the latest on the us economy. The november jobs report rel released this morning shows verree bust growth. Us employers added 228,000 jobs. Thats a sign of the job markets enduring strength. Unemployment rate remain 17year low of fourpoint 1 . The data shows the economy is expanding at a very healthy pace and many cases employers are scrambling to higher enough qualified workers. Well bit coin pushing deeper into record territory. Its the 19,000 yesterday before falling sharply. This less than day after blasting past 14,000 and 12,000 on tuesday. Meanwhile the wall street journal reports nearly 70 million worth of bit coin has been stolen as the result of security breach. And finally, if student loan payment is not the perfect gift for the millennial in your life, how about a seed less avocado. Apparently they actually exist but only for a limited time. Theyre being sold in the uk as way to cut back on painful 95 cutting injuries. Wer