Traffic affected by the wet roads. Mike lets start with you first. Temperatures some 20 to 30 degrees warmer than they were this time yesterday. Does come with rain but i dont think it will rain all day. Well time it out for you in a few more minutes. Hey erin. 5 01. Rain this morning you know what that does to the commute in stafford. Little bit of a mess from a crash by 610. Thank you much. Right now though at 5 01, lets go ahead and get you caught up on the mornings top stories. President trump will undergo his first medical exam since becoming president. This will happen at Walter Reed Medical Center in bethesda. The exam will not look at the president s Mental Fitness though it comes as the white house continues to fight reports in a new book that he is mentally unfit. The White White House is that expected to release a short statement after the physical is complete. The white house this morning is standing by comments made by President Trump there have set off a huge firestorm. At a white house meeting on immigration, the president reportedly used an expletive to lash out at immigrants coming into the u. S. From our Melanie Alnwick is live outside the white house this morning on this she has more on the latest growing controversy and it is growing indeed, mel. Reporter thats right. So many people just its one thing after another and this really is one of those comments that people are just more than shaking their heads at. Some people are even saying that its time for congress to perhaps take action when it comes to President Trump and his comments, his statements, his fitness for office. All of this happened in the oval office as you mentioned during that meeting with lawmakers. They were trying to negotiate an agreement on daca. We talked about that this week. When the president reportedly said why are we having all these people from shole countries come here. Sources inside that meeting say that trump was referring to countries in africa, Central America and the caribbean. According to that same source, the president then said the u. S. Should bring in more immigrants from nations like reaction has been unsparing. The language, the racial implications are reprehensible and he deserves the criticism hes going get. Flip side of this is 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 of the aisle are speaking out. House minority whip tiny hoyer of maryland says President Trumps comments are racist and a disgrace. Republican mia law whose parents are immigrants says the comments were unkind elitist. The white house did not deny the remarks but in a statement says President Trump supports immigration policies that welcome people who contribute to this country. Live outside the white house im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local news. Thanks mel. 5 03 is the time. Theres one day left in Virginia Governor terry isnt holding back. Mcauliffe said he would punch President Trump. The governor made the statement during an appearance on hardball with chris matthews. Mcauliffe was responding how old react with a hypothetical debate with mr. Trump. He said if he would try to loom over him like he did with Hillary Clinton you would have to pick him up off the floor. The senate will 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 that lets the government spy on the texts and emails of foreigners even those in communication with americans. Four and minutes past the hour right now and new this morning the nation of turkey issued a travel warning to its citizens planning to travel to the United States. It advises them to act with caution or revise their plans. This move is seen as retaliatory after the u. S. Issued a travel advisory on wednesday naming turkey among countries with an increased security risk. Its a warning turkey cites recent i or Violent Attacks in the u. S. Referring to several deadly incidents over the past few months. Time right now is 5 04. Today the Prince Georges CountyPublic Schools grade fixing scandal will be the subject of testimony in annapolis. Schools ceo Kevin Maxwell scheduled to testify before a state Committee Investigating this scandal. Fox5 was the fist to break the story as you well know and in the last few weeks weve Learned School officials knew more than a year ago that some students were graduating without meeting the requirements. Maxwell has longden need any wrongdoing or acknowledged any wrongdoing when it came to graduating seniors. Todays testimony also comes days after Maryland Governor larry hogan announced plans to create a special unit within the state Education Department to investigate wrongdoing in schools. 5 05 is our time right now on this friday morning. Erin coming in to the picture busy this morning. Unfortunately. Because of the rain. And so then i guess well start with the rain, mike. Rain is moving through but its bringing the warmth. How about those temperatures we do like the temperatures. Its feeling good. Dont get used to it. It wont last. Lets enjoy the moment, shall we. 19 degrees warmer than this time yesterday here in d. C. Look out to the west though. Winchester 32 degrees above where they were this time yesterday. Martinsburg 31 and that puts us widespread 50s and, yes, 60s out there this morning. Were 60 here in washington. 61 in gaithersburg. Look at culpeper and fredericksburg the warm spot, 64 degrees as you start your day. Thats going to feel pretty good. Martinsburg and winchester checking in in the upper 50s. The warmth comes with rain unfortunately and were seeing a steady light rain across the baltimore and d. C. Metro areas extending down 95 through northern portions of virginia as well. Is the rain going to last all day . I dont think so. I think well get a break in the afternoon where youll be able to enjoy a little bit of the warmth and the rain returns maybe even heavier later this evening. Ill show you that in futurecast coming up. Today clouds, on and off rain showers, very warm. Enjoy it. 66 degrees. Big changes tomorrow. Well go through those in detail coming up. Thats a check of the weather. Erin is back with its 5 06 right now and mike said rain, you can see a crash down in stafford 95 northbound by 610. Left shoulder left lane blocked. Center and right lanes getting by. Watch for delay coming up from fredericksburg. Leave early. Take it slow. Key bridge has very light volume. You can see there heavier rain falling so speeds absolutely reduced whether youre heading to or from rosslyn in georgetown. Well show you what else youre up against this morning. We also have a downed wire situation in gaithersburg. Its eastwest highway from blackberry drive to sheffield please use caution this morning. Aside from that bottom side of the beltway you can see some heavier rain there. Traffic is moving along okay. This is actually 50 through annapolis. Reduced visibility due to fog on the bay bridge. Little harder to make out there. Actually thought it was the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Caution there. Metro rail lines on time. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Coming up on fox5 news morning, police need your help finding a missing woman. And police in france search for two thieves who made off with m of jewels. Heading to break right now, live look across the d. C. Region on this friday morning. 5 07 is our time. Its wet out there but, man, the temperatures are just amazing. 60 degrees already. Back with more fox5 news morning after the break. Welcome back. It is friday. It is 5 08 right 60 degrees looking live at the u. S. Capitol building but man before you head out grab the umbrella because its coming down out there and its going to be a wet morning. Welcome back to fox5 news morning in the news this morning d. C. Police are looking for this missing woman. Take a good look at your screen right now. This is rebecca wynnefield. Shes 54 years old. She was last seen this past tuesday january 9th. Rebecca is about 5 feet 5inches tall 200 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. Police say she was on Georgia Avenue in northwest and may be in need of medication. New this morning, d. C. Police are looking for the people in this video. They are concerned persons of interest in a shooting in northeast. This is newly released surveillance footage. It happened on wednesday in the 5200 block of fourth street. And police are looking for this suspect connected to a bank robbery yesterday morning. The incident happened at a Capital One Branch on k street northwest. As you can see he walks up to the counter and hands over a note before the teller passes over a bag of money. Then you see the suspect out of the bank. In paris two thieves on the run after stealing more than 5 million in jewelry from a store at the ritz hotel. Three of the five have now been arrested. Police say the group used hatches in the robbery. Some of the jewels were recovered at the crime scene. Others were found in a bag that one of the robbers dropped when the motorcycle he escaped on actually hit a pedestrian. Police say that person was not seriously injured. A luxury Lingerie Company lost its Royal Warrant after a tell all book reveals details of bra fittings. The high end bra maker is no mao longer a fit. June kenton released a tell all book called storm in a d cup. Buckingham palace has not commented on the firing. Girl scout cookie time is here. The cookies for Heroes Program will let Girl Scout Cookies from a local troop to donate part or all of their purchase to the First Responders who supported those in the Houston Community during the hurricane. Thats a good idea. My first year selling cookies for my daughter. Please buy some me. You must ask. Im a novice at this. All these forms to fill out so im a little overwhelmed. Im a veteran and im here to tell you im a good customer. Please hold my hand. Im a good customer. Coming up on fox5 news morning just ask wisdom. More women are accusing actor james franco of Sexual Assault. Closer to home. Not closer to home, Prince William says he has two problems with his younger brothers spring wedding. Its 11 minutes past five. You can see just how how wet is this morning. The rain is come do you know in different areas. 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Time for a rich, creamy afternoon pickmeup with a 2 medium latte from 2 to 6 pm. America runs on dunkin. Welcome to fox5 news morning. Here are some of the stories were following for you today, friday january 12. Search efforts continue in Southern California following this weeks deadly mudslides. 17 people have been killed so far. 43 people remain unaccounted for. Local authorities are crosschecking the missing against open missing persons cases and calls that theyve received from people who cant get ahold of someone they believe to be in that mudslide area. 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. Theyre asking anyone who might recognize 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. Today President Trump will undergo his first medical exam since becoming president. The physical will happen at Walter Reed Medical Center. The white house is expected to release a short statement after fierce backlash towards the president this morning after he used an expletive to lash out at imimmigrants coming into the u. S. From certain countries. President trump reportedly said why are we having all these people from expletive countries come here. He was reportedly referring to countries in africa, Central America and the caribbean whose residents have come to the u. S. And have temporary protected status. 5 15 on this friday morning. It is the talker out there. Beautiful temperatures, 60 degrees but the wet weather is also along with it. Mike thomas, okay, bring us up to speed. Yeah, its one of these things where this time of year especially if youre going to get warm usually comes with a little bit of rain unfortunately. Could be a lot of it in some places. So far this morning mostly on the light side of things. Big powerful storm system. Winter storm advisories and warnings. Its going to be rain for us maybe ending as a brief period but that wouldnt be of any concern here d. C. Baltimore. Heaviest of rain around the Baltimore Metro area moving pretty quickly off to the north. Here in d. C. Its steady but its of the lighter variety, its more that misty coming with a little bit of fog, too, reducing visibility. Again just take it easy on the road. Just about everybody waking up to a Little Something this morning. Heavier steadier rain may hold off until late this evening. 60 degrees in d. C. , 66 in richmond. The warmth has settled in around the region. 65 degrees new york in raleigh. Theres your cold front. Pretty easy to see. Look at detroit dropping through the 40s this morning. Chicago at 22 degrees. Sorry to tell you this but that cold air is on the way its moving back for the weekend and things are going to feel much different around here by tomorrow afternoon. Today though mid 60s up ahead again this very strong storm system. Its going to push up some moisture, too and as it gets at its closest approach which will be later on tonight rain could be a little heavy at times but i think thats late evening hours, nine, 10, 11 oclock tonight. I think most of today is kind of the cloudy kind of variety of rain showers. Heres futurecast. 6 00 a. M. Today, there we head into the afternoon and were starting to see some clouds mixing in. Clouds thin enough that maybe some sun breaks through. Nothing widespread. Just hit and miss scattered showers. Its this evening and i think futurecast is under playing this when the steadier rain could move back in and as cold air wraps back around it as we head into your saturday morning especially if you live north and west of town could start with a little bit of snow or sleet, not expecting any accumulations here locally ball ground temperatures going to be warm. 66 degrees today. Again, temperatures falling. That 50 is not an afternoon temperature, thats a morning temperature. Temperatures drop all day as cold air spills back in. Martin luther king day sunny but 32 and then snow chances back as we head into next tuesday and wednesday. All right, thats a check of the forecast. Over to erin now for traffic. The rain is causing some problems already mike unfortunately. 5 17 and 95 northbound coming up from stafford through triangle getting the worst of it. 95 northbound after 610 in stafford crash shoulders. You can see those flashing lights on the left side there. Traffic is moving but this is causing about a 10 minute backup from fredericksburg into stafford. Once you get a little bit farther north we have a second ya machine triangle 95 northbound at 619. We are seeing green on the map because volume is light enough that this isnt causing any major delays but please anticipate bigger slowdowns to develop as more people hit the road. You can see once you get into dale city traffic slows a little bit. Metro rail lines on time. If you have any questions for your ride at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Back to you holly and maureen. 5 18 is the time. Lets take a look at the stories you are engaging with the most this morning on social media. Wisdoms back now with our realtime news tracker. Hey, whiz. Good morning to you. First up the list continues to grow after allegations against james franco hit twitter following his Golden Globes win on sunday. Five more women have come forward in a article. Franco was alleged to have engaged in inappropriate behavior with women. Four were students and another said he was her mentor. Bill cosby made reference to the antisexual Harassment Movement me too on wednesday. It was during one of his first public outings since his 2017 Sexual Assault case ended in a mistrial. The comedian telling a reporter please dont put me on me too. The comment comes after cosby accused cosby of Sexual Assault. Prince william expected