Late well tell you why. And later even the force cant save hollywood. Star wars is on pace to be the number one movie of the year. But it was a bad year at the box office. Well tell you why and what theaters want to do to turn things around in 2018. Good day at 9a starts now. Oh yeah g great music today. No doubt about it end this final work day of 2017 with a bank. It will be a party in the loft. Steve you miff it. Not that. The other song didnt mean to turn you on. We want to you turn us on and watch good day d. C. Thats the link. I got it. It is friday. Better mind sink in 2018. We just did get paid today. See. And it is friday. You know what, t tucker was talking last hour about weather songs and you write a song about one thing. Johnny chem many genius g right. You throw that song out and guess what, everybody from 20 years ago when it came out to 20 years from now youll want to get paid. Why not. Hopefully we leave in you good mood for 2017 our final good day of 2017. Thank you so much for being with us this morning. Yeah. So nice to join you guys for the week also ahead at 9 00 trip back in time to celebrate the start of 2018 this morning dj geo metrics is down tracking good day and give us a sneak peek of what fans can expect when they hit the new years eve rewind taking place at the Mgm National Harbor sunday night. I think that sounds like a really fun party. Who doesnt love the 80s. Should be fun. Got paid produced by ted deed riley. I do hear that. Teddy riley produced everything. Did he produce the entire 90s from 89 all the way out. Wasnt he knew jack swang. Yes. And rick rol dont do that just yet. Does we have to explain that one later for wisdom and i. First at 9 00 lets talk about this weather, right, because the bitter chill still what everyone is talking about especially heading to the holiday weekend. For details tucker is back with a first check of the forecast. Good morning to you, mr. Tucker. Maureen, good morning. Another cold one overnight temperatures back in the teens. 20 last hour at reagan national. The overall theme very very cold temperatures for this time of year will continue right through the end of 2017 into the first couple of days of 2018 but today should feel and it should actual be a touch warmer than yesterday. Forecasting daytime highs in the low to mid 30s. Yesterday our daytime high was 25 degrees. 22 now in washington. So it is still cold. Winds are light out of the South Southwest at three. Quick look at the satellite radar. Little cloud cover early weak little disturbance move through brought us cloud cover overnight well get that out of the here in the next few hours and turn partly sunny and a quiet afternoon for us afternoon. Later tonight little clipper system will move in. That will bring us a chance for brief period of some snow showers or snow flurries or even light snow for parts of the area light tonight and early tomorrow morning and then round number two or three of some bitter, bitter cold air arriving of rice for the end of the weekend well look carefully how much snow we can expect and those temperatures for new years eve and new years day coming up in just a minute. Theres your forecast for fr friday. 34. Remember yesterday we were at 25. It should feel little better. Still want to bring jacket. It wont be a warm afternoon. Okay, guys. Im goiing to to get some more coffee. Back to you. Bring some over. All right. 9 00 severe in the time. Deep freeze weve been talking about all morning long its set in across half the country. Mother nature worse is giving us incredible images. Parts of erie, pennsylvania, continue to dig out after that r this week and satellite images show most of great lakes have frozen over from boston to st. Louis weather advisories are in affect d hibing minnesota broke a cold weather record that stood since 1964. In chicago, city officials have set up warming shelters for the homeless who are particularly vulnerable to hypothermia and frost bite and like Tucker Barnes just said more cold weather is on the way. Forecasters say it could be two weeks or so until parts of the country make the transition from brutal weather to plain old winter. Okay. We know around here its not typically this time of year the most brutal. Still have more can up to. All right. Lets get on to other news this morning. Well get away from the cold and snow to other headlines developing in new york city. Deadliest residential fire in the city in decades. Killing at least 12 people. Four others still critically hurt this morning after flames through tour every floor of a fivestory building. Robert moses brings us the latest. Reporter police tell us at least four children including a oneyearold baby girl are among the dead here in this fir residential fire to hit the city in more than 25 years. It just look like hell coming out that amount. Reporter firefighters ra raced to 2363 pros spec avenue and arrived within three minutes of the first fire call just before 7 00 last night but even that Quick Response was not quick enough. People were on the fire escape already trying to get down on their own. Thats how fast it was moving. Reporter the fire started on the first floor and quickly spread upstairs. The fivestory walk up proved no match for the wind whipped flames. Those inside like this man had almost no time to get out. I just woke up to bunch of smoke and thats it, man. Whole building on fire. A witness showed us cell phone video of a firefighter working frantically to save one of the victims. The dead range in age from just oneyearold to over 50. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city century. In department thats certainly no stranger to tra tragedy, were shock by this loss. Reporter at least 12 people were rescued. Survivors and firefighters alike had to brave bonechillingly cold weather. This is the worst fire in the city since the 1990 fire at the happy Land Social Club in the bronx that killed 87. Hold your families close and keep these families here in the bronx in your prayers. Reporter theres still no word on what caused this fire. The mayor says the sad reality is that the death toll which currently stands at 12 could still climb. In the bronx, robert moses, fox news. 9 07 is the time. Police in the district are hard at work trying to identify a body found inside a burning car last night. Viewer zen us this video youre about to see of the fire on ridge road in southeast. Witnesses say they heard gunfire shortly before that blaze erupted. Fox5s a and meow is following the story for us this morning live now with the latest. Annie . Reporter good morning, maureen. Good morning, everybody. We can tell you that the investigators have now left the scene. They left just moments ago along with forensics. The car has been removed as well. But they are still working to identify who this person is that was found inside the burning vehicle. Theyre also working to identify who is responsible for such a gruesome terrible crime and i want to get right to this video it really shows just intense and how, upping, up tense this fire was in this alleyway in between homes take look at that big flames coming out of this vehicle here. Certainly leaving neighbors feeling unsettled and concerned because its literally right either behind or in front of their homes. This is ridge road in g street southeast. Inside that car, police found a body. Its not clear whether the person discovered inside the car was airmail man or woman. But neighbors tell thus they heard a blast of gunfire upwards of nine gunshots just after tec. Then they heard a loud explosion before they saw flames engulfing the car. Now the video with us says she was inside her home with her family when it happened. Sound like big gunshots, four or five gunshots and then a big explosion. We all hit the floor for a moment. Then my son ventured out and there was a car in the alley exploding. But it wasnt a car that they recognized from the neighbor. No . Not at all. Police believe that car is an older model lexus. They say its charred and hollowed out. But again they are still working to identify who this person is that was found inside the vehicle as well as whose responsible. So theyre asking for the publics help. Thats the very latest here from southeast. Annie yu, fox5 local news. Thank you very much, annie. Time right now is 9 09. And President Trump is still in working vacation in florida but he hasnt stopped making headlines. Yesterday he signaled his patience start to go with with china. New reports helping north korea. The president visited china last month. He praised the president for his help in cracking down on north korea. But now President Trump seems to be changing his tune. U. S. Spy satellite Images Released by the treasure rear Department Reportedly showing chinese tankers transferring fuel to north korean ships sparked strong reaction from the white house. The president tweeting, caught red handed, very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea. There will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen. Clearly chinese have been busting sanctions and now its up to us to do something. In an interview with the New York Times at his Florida Golf Club the president says hes been soft on chin in a and that his administration trade policies witness chinese have been tied to the countrys cooperation in helping resolve the north how many ways do you have to put it to get it to understand he tried to washington with them and they havent done it. China denies the reports yet President Trump went on to tweet a video showing himself warning against north Koreas Nuclear threat 18 years ago. We shouldnt be surprised that the chinese are busting sanctions. Theyve been doing this for decades. The Trump Administration has stressed that if global sanctions dont work on north korea all options are on the Table Including military ones. President trump is also making some headlines online with one of his latest social metimyd ya posts. From sunny florida. He tweeted, in the east it could be the coldest new years eve on record. Perhaps we can use little bit of that good old Global Warming that our country but not other cup trees was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against. Bum up. The president didnt acknowledge the difference between weather conditions during a shorter period while climate is a longer view of weather patterns. The president is a sceptic about Climate Change science calling Global Warming a hoax created by chinese to today. American industry. It look like buzz feed under fire for new article critic called bigoted called 37 things white people ruined in 2017. Well share what it includes and some of the backlash coming up a little later. First though apple outrage, too, the tech giant trying to make amends after it admitting it slowed down your old iphone. Is it too little too late . Lets just focus on the music. Dj geo metrics with us this morning. 9 12 on this friday morning. Start the car start the car the ikea winter sale. Wooooooo get up to 50 off select items. 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One of the problems when it comes to moving in the opposite direction seems to come from apple. Apple apologized now for slowing things down on your phones which it says was necessary to avoid unnecessary shut downs due to battery fatigue. Well, now its trying to make amends by offering steep discounts on replace many batteries. Apple says it will now offer new batteries for 29 down from what they were which was 79. So 50 discount. Is it too little too late for outraged iphone users . Foxs Hillary Vaughn has more on what 2018 could hold for the tech giant. Reporter it looks like apples tim cook has recovered from his epp embar afghanistan pay cut in 2016 raking in a massive bonus this year. The tech giant gave its head guy 74 bigger bonus after slash his pay last year when apple failed to meet its own targeted goals and iphone sales hit a decline. Cook takes home a basal receive 3 million bonus of ninepoint thee million and adding his share awards cooks total pay tops 100 million for 2017. But his pay raise makes headlines as apples most expensive luke warm demand headed into the new year. Apple cut back their iphone 10x shipment estimates for queue one of neck year by 30 Million Units as tech analysts is softened their expectations. Sales performance from its first month show the iphone x didnt boost demand like investors initially anticipated. Tech analysts sat connell schumer Intelligence Research partners found iphone x sales account forward 30 of iphone sales in think theirs month. Even with three new phones on the shelf apple saw its lowest first month Sales Performance in the past four years. With fewer people opting in to pay for the it phones fosses newest generation theyre facing controversial surrounding their older models. Theyve been throttling battery live on older i of iphones nine classroom actions filed around the country want to see apple in court. Apple is defending their decision saying theyre goal is to deliver the best Customer Experience live actually helps old iphones live longer. In los angeles, Hillary Vaughn, fox business. All right. There you go. Thats a look ahead at 2018. 9 18 right now. Youve got all the money in the world theres only one way to travel for Tim Cook Apple ceo thats private plains. Apple says the ceo cannot use commercial air travel because of his high visibility. His trips cost the company about 93,000 in the 2017 fiscal year. Cook now joins Facebook Mark zuckerberg and disney bob igor. Most recent recent filings both also used private plans for their personal travel this falls unthe category of no surprise. They are ceos of multi billion dollar corporations if youre going to spend 90 grand on air travel earlier when one we do this story. Theyre using their companys money. Im not surprised. Tim cook if he walk in this room right now, if you can take his picture down. I would know who tim cook is. You would i would only because hes been in the news so much. Chris says he was at a time Georgetown Apple store. Let me tell you something. I know hes the guy. But if he was on plane sitting beside me i wouldnt give him if he cook off his glasses i probably may i dont care if he took off his glasses and wore a name tag. I would not recognize this guy a lot of famous people if they were on plane without the glitz and gap you wouldnt necessarily recognize them. You know how much of a prince fan. You are people too are apple fan like youre a prince fan. To them tim cook rock star status. Its only 93,000 i thought his airfare would have been more for one year. Maybe hes got a budget. Hes like ill give you an iphone, ill give you technology you give me a flight. Thinking about it, wisdom should partner up with him because if apple wants a way to save some money there you go. Wisdom might be the man to talk to about that. I could cut some costs now. Good cutting costs with wisdom. The new segment. P world. Director of cheap. Fiscally responsible. Im sorry fiscally responsible. My bad. Director of chairman of the department of fiscal responsibility. Thank you. Thank you. I like that. Name tag. For 2018. I think might be the head of the i dont know. Spend so much. Impulse spending department. Spent of central. Speaking of money since were talking about money hollywood, well they didnt make as nearly as much they would have liked in 2017 and coming up later well talk about what went wrong at the Box Office Star wars and what tinseltown can do to fix it stop making remake. Its making money. Dough cry for me argentina theyre not broke. 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Bright eyed and bushy tailed. 8 00 oclock will be late night. [ laughter ] check in and find out whats making had he lines this morning. Erin. All little speechless. Happy youre having a fun night. First up new york police are promising a bigger security detail than ever before new years eve celebration in times square. Officials say there isnt a specific or credible threat but that they arent taking any chances. Spectators will have to walk through one of a dozen access points. Theyre going to have to go through metal detects as well dogs trained to detect explosives and have bags searched will be out there as well. Officers will also have portable r