Status. Reaction has been unsparingly. The language, the racial implications are reprehensible and deserves the criticism. Flip side of this a lot of his supporters will agree with that tone and elected him because he uses from time to time that tone. Reporter and lawmakers from both sides are speaking out. Democrat Luis Gutierrez says as an american i am ashamed of the president. Another tweeted the comments were unkind divisive elitist calling the president s behavior unacceptable at that time the white house did not deny the comments in a statement but did say trump supports immigration policies that welcome those who can contribute to society. Live outside the white house, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Melanie, thank you very much. 4 31 is the time right now. Theres just one day left in Virginia GovernorTerry Mcauliffes term and he isnt holding back. Mcauliffe said he would punch President Trump. The governor made the statement during an appearance on msnbcs hardball with chris matthews. Mcauliffe was describing how he would react during a hypothetical debate with the president. The governor said if the president tried to loom over him like he did with Hillary Clinton you have to pick him up off the floor. Time now is 4 32. The senate will now take up a bill on whether to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or fisa. The house voted yesterday to renew it. Its a controversial law thats let the government spy on the text as well as email of foreigners even those in communication with americans. President trump tweeted early yesterday morning questioning the program saying fisa may have been used to snoop on the trump campaign. That set off confusion on capitol hill as lawmakers asked why the president was undermining a bill the white house had been pushing for. His support for fisa. New this morning turkey issued a travel warning to its citizens planning to travel to the u. S. It advises them to act with caution or revise their plans. The move is seen as retaliatory after the United States issued a travel advisory on wednesday naming turkey among countries with an increased security risk. In its warning turkey cites a recent increase in terrorist or Violent Attacks in the United States referring to several deadly incidents over the past few months. Meanwhile, back here at home today the Prince Georges CountyPublic Schools grade fixing scandal will be the subject of testimony in annapolis. Schools ceo Kevin Maxwell is scheduled to testify before a state Committee Investigating the scandal. Fox5 was first to break this story and in the last few weeks, weve learned that School Officials knew more than a year ago that some students were graduating without meeting the requirements. Maxwell has long denied any wrongdoing. Today days after Maryland Governor larry hogan announced plans to create a special unit within the state Investigation Department to investigate wrongdoings in schools. A d. C. Man who went missing after arranging a date online last spring was found dead in that october. For months his family pleaded for his safe return. It wasnt until this week that Police Identified his remains and revealed hed been murdered. Police say Marty Mcmillan was shot multiple times inside an apartment along mlk avenue. His remains were later found on the side of suitland parkway. A local man behind bars accused of assaulting a woman on a maryland trail. This happened on capitol crescent trail in bethesda back in november. 24yearold William Opare reportedly told officers he thought part of the encounter was consensual. Police say the victim was able to fight off the suspect with pepper spray. He faces charges for assault and sexual contact without consent. The university of Maryland Medical Center baltimore apologized is that taking full responsibility for its actions after this video of a patient abandoned went viral. It shows a very disoriented patient discharged only wearing a thin hospital gown and socks left at a bus stop outside in the freezing cold. The hospital called this an isolated incident. The Maryland Department of health is now investigating. Prince georges county Police Arrested and charged a Central High School student for stabbing and injuring two other students at school yesterday morning. This is the suspect 19yearold Edwin Aguilar martinez. The stabbing reportedly stemmed from an argue between the suspect and victims over a female student and this morning martinez faces attempted murder assault and a weapons charge. Loving the warmer temperatures but not so much the heavier rain coming down. You could see it in melanie alnwicks live shot. Its in pockets. Our whole region is not seeing it. Thats good to hear. That should help a little bit with the commute in areas coming down lighter. Ill take it. How about those temperatures . Feels amazing. I almost didnt need a jacket when i stepped outside. I didnt. It was amazing. The good thing about the rain washing all that salt and stuff away. I got my car washed yesterday. Free car wash. Free car wash. Bad timing, mike. Heres storm track radar showing heavy pockets of rain. Hopefully this continues to progress off to the north. Maybe its out of here by the time most of us start hitting the roads for the big morning commute. Bigger picture. Strong cold front out to the west bringing a winter storm to cities like saint louis. Chicago last night headed for cincinnati this morning. Its going to be on and off throughout the day with the heaviest steadiest rain holding off until late tonight. 61 at Reagan National dulles, 51 at bwi marshall. Heres your forecast for the day. 66 degrees again on and off rain showers. How about the weekend . We may start with a brief mix, no concern not going to stick at all here early tomorrow morning but temperatures will tumble all day long. Much colder on sunday with highs struggling to thats weather. Erin como how do those roads look. Coming up on 4 37 and you can see some sheen on the road from that rain coming down. Just be prepared to slow it down and watch for slick spots. All green all good through manassas into fairfax this morning. Things in arlington are quiet and 95 northbound looks great. South of dale city and the north of that point to the mixing bowl, were not seeing any problems in the district right now and 267 looks great on your way to dulles airport. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Coming up on fox5 news morning, Mark WahlbergMichelle Williams page gap controversy put on blast at last nights critics choice awards. Some major changes coming to your Facebook News feed. A live look outside at 4 37. Temperature 60 degrees. Were back in a moment. Theyre playing some m. C. Hammer for you. My healthy routine helps me feel my best. So i add activia yogurt to my day. With its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. Activia. Now in probiotic dailies. The time now is 4 39 and we are back with theto this morning on social media. First up the u. S. Commission on civil rights weighing in on unequal funding for the nations Public Schools. In a list of recommendations released yesterday the independent bipartisan agency suggests congress should increase federal funding to supplement state funding for the goal to provide meaningful Educational Opportunities on an equitable basis and promote the collection monitoring and evaluation of School Spending data. Something researchers say should be fairly easy to accomplish. Well, also trending this morning the stir President Trump caused with his announcement that the United States has had delivered f52 fighter jets to norway. Its a bit of a problem because its not possible. Turns out the f52 is a fictional jet only available if youre a gamer at the calls of duty. All the money in the world star Mark Wahlberg from the stage at last nights critics choicewa give a toast to the good men in hollywood. Now, munn then mentioned Mark Wahlberg saying i want to thank you to the producers for paying niec niecey the same amot and Mark Wahlberg a Million Dollars. The comments come after the massive pay discrepancy between wahlberg and Michelle Williams to reshoot scenes in the movie. Wahlberg paid one and a half Million Dollars while williams received less than a thousand dollars. Well, the big winner at the cyst six choice award was the shape of water. It won best picture best director and two other awards last night. So congratulations to them. And finally you should soon see some major changes to your facebook feed. The of social media giant says it plans to alter status updates t the move will allow you to see more updates from family and friends as a way to spark meaningful social exchanges as opposed to news or sponsored content that i love seeing pictures of my niece and nephew. Coming up several native american nations in virginia finally receive a federal recognition. And were following some shocking allegations of abuse against coaches at a local high school. As we head to break lets go ahead and take a live look across the d. C. Region. Time now is 4 42 its a wet morning. Grab your umbrella and your patience as you hit the road. Say want to if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. This is fox5 news morning. Welcome to fox5 news morning. Search and rescue efforts are ramping up following deadly mudslides in southern california. 17 people killed, 43 others are unaccounted for. The town of montecito a wealthy seaside communities was hardest hit. Many of the homes there belonging to celebrities. Well, deputies in Charles County need your help identifying a woman whose body was found last night. Detectives tweeted out these pictures of the victims tattoos. Theyre hoping the tattoos can help identify the woman. Now theyre asking anyone who recognizes these tattoos to please contact them. The body was found on Old Washington road near smallwood drive in waldorf. No word yet on how she died. Well keep you updated with any new information here on fox5. President trump will today undergo his first medical exam since becoming president. It will happen at walter reed medical center. The white house is expected to release a short statement after the exam is 4 45 and fierce backlash towards the president after he used an expletive to lash out against immigrants coming to the u. S. From certain companies. President trump reportedly said why are we having people from comple expletive come here. The residents have come to the u. S. With temporary protected status. Good morning to you and thank you very much for join and us. It is friday january 12th. Lets start things off by talking about weather. Weve got rain out there but its really warm so. Feels almost tropical outside. Not bad at all. Mike thomas. Tropical out there. Its feeling almost like a little springtime morning with temperatures in the 60s as were waking up. Guys, heres the big kind of picture here. We have a cold front out to the west right kind of sliding through right around indianapolis at this hour through indiana. Out ahead of it were getting a whole lot of moisture coming up off the gulf, coming up off the kind of gives you an idea that through the daytime it will be cloudy and well have clouds and showers on and off throughout the afternoon. This is a very big storm system. Here are your alerts. Check out all the Winter Weather advisories and winter storm warnings off to the west. Lets zoom in here on our local area cause we do have some heavy showers around parts of our region. Were seeing up through Prince Georges County right now, now in northern portions maybe towards the bowie area getting a little bit of heavier steadier rain, rain rates of about a quarter inch an hour so take it easy on the roads if youre hitting them early this morning. Well have live updates through the rest of the morning as well. Thats a check of your weather forecast. Up to erin now for traffic. 4 47 and i admit tropical may have been an exaggeration but 60 degrees definitely feels better than the cold weather weve been facing before, wisdom. Hes just laughing at me. Look at all the rain on that camera. The outer loop pretty slick commute right now. Route one between pennsylvania avenue and 50. Give yourself some extra time there. You can see even though volume is light, speeds are reduced. My advice grab your umbrella get a take it slow. You know what happens when rain hits the area. Well keep you updated on any crashes that may pop up. 4 47 is the time right now. In the news this morning, were talking about an exclusive report here on fox5. There are new allegations of bullying harassment and hazing involving the Cheerleading Squad at a Prince Georges County high school. Parents at Charles Flowers High School contacted fox5 alleging that several coaches have mistreated the girls on one of the cheer teams. Our annie yu is live in the news room with more on that story. Annieism erin and wisdom these are some serious allegations from a group of parents, at least a half dozen parents and fox5 has confirmed that the Prince Georges CountySchool District has launched an investigation to look into this. In a six page letter to School Administration and school ceo dr. Kevin maxwell important outlined allegations of cheer coaches calling students profane names mismanagement of program fees and their daughters being pushed to exercise to the point of absolute exhaust letter were statements from their daughters who said that they are treated very badly and that coaches would always curse. Parents say they want the coaches replaced a full refund of fees theyve paid as well as a guarantee that their daughters can cheer and be protected. The parents did not speak on record with fox5 for fear of retribution aimed at their daughters but they did choose Community Activist and Maryland State Senate candidate Everett Browning to speak on their behalf. We all understand tough love we understand coaching but calling a young lady who cheerleading constanting calling her a bleep other words to her face calling her dumb stupid and telling hersheys not good enough to be a part of the program is unacceptable. Pushing some of these young ladies past the point of exhaustion where theyre physically sick and ill and theyre threatened not to tell their parents about it because if they do theyre threatened to be thrown offer the team. Reporter browning adds as a result of parent complaints the head cheer coach squad. They have started to interview students as well as staff to find out exactly what is going on so well continue to follow the story and bring you the outcome of the School Districts investigation. Thats the latest here from the news room, erin and wisdom, back up to you. Annie yu thank you very much for that report. Time now is 4 50 and the u. S. Senate has passed a bill to federally recognize six Indian Tribes in virginia. It ends a nearly 20 year fight to acknowledge their place in u. S. History. This step also makes federal Funds Available for Housing Education and medical care. And lets the tribes take back the remains of their ancestors stored at the smithsonian. The bipartisan bill now heads to President Trumps desk. Coming up, time magazines new cover is trending and its all about President Trump. And the nhl and the u. S. Army are preparing to go toe to toe in an impending legal battle. Were going to break right now. 4 50 is the time, 60 is the temperature. Back in a moment. Rainy well be back with more on that. My healthy routine helps me feel my best. So i add activia yogurt to my day. With its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. Via. Now in probiotic dailies. Live look outside right now at the u. S. Capitol. Time right now is 4 53. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. All right. Its friday morning and we are following a developing story this morning. Its a developing battle between the nhl arent the u. S. Army. It all concerns the nhls new expansion franchise the u. S. Golden knights. The army has filed a chall