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on myfoxdc.com. >> i was a little surprised to see the white stuff. it was pretty. >> yeah, i like it like that. just a little bit at a time. not impacting much. we're seeing partly cloudy skies. there is the snow which has dissipated now north of the washington area. just a very narrow band of snow and that's wrapped up as we speak. some snow across eastern portions of maryland and in delaware. now wind advisory in effect for today until 10:00 tonight.

winds are going to be blowing strong throughout the day. gusting up to 45 miles per hour or more out to the west. and even in parts of our viewing area. so a very blustery day with cold temperatures, going to give us significant windchills in the single-digits for much of the day. current temperatures around the region, it's cold, 23 degrees in -- [ lost audio ]

>> reporter: the crews are salting and sanding. the d.c. area has crews out. and the storms seem to stall

here over montgomery county. perhaps that's why it was a little bit worse here. but all of that to say, just take your time and go slowly. it's better than the fender- bender and sideway cars we've seen in the early morning hours. let's get the latest on the morning commute with julie wright. >> it's been busy out there as stacy has been talking about because we have a lot of slippery road conditions. allow extra time on the highway. southbound 270 leaving germantown, heavy, slow and steady this entire trip headed toward 370. more delays out of rockville headed for the lane divide. crash reported on the inner loop at old georgetown road. pace improving toward bethesda. no problems reported on the outer loop. it is slow from 95 to georgia. they just cleared a stalled car off the inbound 14th street bridge.

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we have breaking news from baltimore right now. an early morning fire has killed six people. that happened in a row home on holmwood avenue in east

baltimore. firefighters say the strong winds made the blaze hard to fight and firefighters had to be evacuated at one point. we don't know the identities of those deceased. we'll stay on top of this and bring you updates as we get them -- [ lost connection ] [ disconnected from audio line ] ♪

>> just call 911 and call us. we'll be there in a few minutes. we have meters to check for carbon monoxide and we'll get you to the hospital as quickly as we can. >> well let's hope you don't have to do that too many times this year. hopefully you spread the word and folks will stay safe. stay safe yourself this holiday season. >> thank you, sir. 7:21 right now. it is 23 degrees out there. will she stay or go? new reports about the status of d.c. police chief cathy lanier. the latest is coming up. plus cold and flu season is here in virginia and we are getting hammered already. how you can fight back against getting sick. that's next. and holly is tempting our sweet tooth with the owners of

dipped and delicious making the holiday goodies. we'll check in with her coming up. 

making headlines at 7:24. cathy lanier's future still in question but word is she's expected to keep her job when vince gray takes office. according to the washington post, gray will not replace lanier come january. right now she has 80% approval rating in the city and crime is down. gray hasn't made an official announcement yet but said he will name more cabinet member this is week. hundreds of thousands of federal workers will not see the tax break that most of us would if the tax deal on capitol hill goes through. we're talking about workers that pay into the civil service retirement system. the president's tax cut deal calls for a 2% reduction in payroll taxes but csrs workers don't pay into social security. several unions and tax advocacy

groups are calling for these workers to get a 2% credit on their income taxes or get a 2% cut in their pension contributions. it is apparently that time of year again. flu season. virginia's health department reports flu-like illnesses are up statewide. this year's vaccine is available at local health departments and doctors' offices and pharmacies. it protects against h1n1 as well this year. and president barack obama has signed a new nutrition law. looking at what is changing in the cafeteria and the impact these healthy choices will have on students. also the latest weather and traffic updates on this snow and cold morning. that's coming up next. it's 7:26.

[ music ] ♪ johnny mathis for you this hour. time to add another ornament to our fox 5 christmas tree. this comes to us from craig fielder from greenbelt, maryland. so we say thank you, craig and to everyone who has sent in ornaments. we'll deliver the tree to a charity before christmas. and we send the ornaments and all so they enjoy a holiday treat courtesy of our viewers

here at fox 5. >> that's super pretty. i love it [ chuckling ]. >> what's the matter, tony? >> not your color? >> share it. >> i think earlier when we showed it, it was still wrapped. now that we see it. >> we think it's prettier now. >> yeah, it's funny. okay. what do you want to talk about. >> you have the giggles. >> just because of that. the snow to the north has dissipated. we have new snow. take a look at hd radar. let me show you out to the west now, seeing some snow showers. out toward reston, virginia, herndon, eldon, sterling, places like that. now getting light snow that has popped up out there. so we'll continue to watch this. again, all of these snow showers that we're seeing are light in nature. now we had a band to our north that was pretty much staying in

place for a long time. so you got a little light additional accumulation in portions of montgomery county. but now looking out at fairfax county and perhaps into loudoun. i suspect not quite into loudoun county. so a few snow showers popped up well to the west of the district. let's go through the advisories that are in effect. there are a number of them. we go to the graphics now. first of all, winter weather advisory in effect for this region until 9:00 this morning. the snow has dissipated but we do have slick conditions out there and the blowing winds blowing what snow that did fall around. so winter weather advisory, including the district of columbia, prince george's county, montgomery county. out to west, that is a winter storm warning for western maryland and portions of west virginia and virginia. a wind advisory. we also have a wind advisory in effect. that is in effect until 10:00 tonight for very strong, gusty winds. it does include washington, d.c., all of the surrounding counties, out to the west winds

gusting up to 45 miles per hour. there's even a possibility here closer to the district. so very strong gusty winds. we've seen them gusting up to 36 miles per hour. windchill advisory in effect out to the west. this windchill advisory in effect until 7:00 p.m. we've got significant windchills here. it feels like it's 10 degrees in washington. out to the west, it will feel like it's 5-10 below zero because of the strong winds and bitter cold out there. current temperatures around the region, we remain at 23 degrees here in washington. 18 in gaithersburg. 21 in frederick. manassas is at 19 degrees. annapolis is at 20 degrees. your forecast for today looks like this: windy, cold, a few snow showers possible, we're seeing that right now out toward reston, 30 degrees and there are the strong, gusty winds up to 35 miles per hour. five-day forecast, tonight bitterly cold. overnight lows in the teens. it will feel like the single- digits, or close to zero. tomorrow, breezy and 32. temperatures remain below normal for the remainder of the week. could see some snow showers on thursday. that's what is happening with

the weather. now here is julie wright with an update on traffic. tony, still very busy out there on the highways this morning. we have a lot going on. especially traveling out to the west coming inbound off of the dulles toll road. that's where we had the stalled car at the main toll plaza. that has cleared. delays inbound in from hunter mill road. also finding delays if you are traveling on the other side of town coming inbound along 66. slowdowns working in from fair oaks toward 123. slow traffic continuing at nutley street to the beltway. the inner loop is congested from braddock up toward 66. a live shot at river road from the beltway towardgoldsboro. and a dusting, i don't want to it that but enough to have slick spots on the road. but better than this morning so we can see pavement. so don't take anything for granted. icy patches out there to look forward to it. this is inbound south capital

street across douglas bridge and all lanes are open here with no other problems reported. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. we want to revisit the breaking news from baltimore where six people were killed in a fire. firefighters were called to a road in east baltimore and they went inside the home to fight the fire and they had to evacuate and fight the fire from outside. again, six people dipped in this house -- died in the house fire. ages and names of the victims are not known. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. another big story we're following this morning, the menu at schools may be changing. president barack obama signed a new law that will overhaul the way our kids eat at school. it happened yesterday -- it happened at tubman elementary school on 13th street in northwest d.c. >> though we may sometimes have our differences, we can all agree that in the united states

no child should go to school hungry. my husband worked very hard to make sure that this bill was a priority in the session and i am grateful to you. >> because i would have been sleeping on the couch. [ laughter ] >> the $4.5 billion bill spans over 15 years and will provide 20 million additional after- school meals and 6 cents per meal to cover the cost of healthier choices. currently one in three children in the united states is considered over weight. joining us marla kaplan, a dietician and director of food and nutrition for d.c. public schools. you're from montgomery county, i want to say good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> how big is this for the health of our kids? >> this is wonderful for the health of our kids. in montgomery county we're lucky that a lot of the initiatives are already in place.

and there are areas in the country where the after-school supper program is not in place. the summer meals program is not as expanded as we are. this is huge. in many cases the meals that students receive at school or during the summer meals program are the only meals they receive during the day. >> that's heartbreaking to hear. and i want everybody to hear what we are saying, this might be the only meal that the child gets. and at schools nowadays there is breakfast and lunch and then the after-school meal you are talking about. >> we have after-school snacks. and then we were lucky in montgomery county or the state of maryland to have an after- school supper program last year where we piloted in six schools and it's expanded this year. we feed at the various sites up to 200 and in some cases more than 200 students aday. and we know in many cases what they receive at lunch is the last meal they will receive until the following day and so we're providing the suppers to so many hungry children.

>> part of what the president's proposal or the plan is, this is a little bit more, i believe it was 6 cents to cover the healthier foods and we're talking about foods that aren't heavy laden in sodium and fat. speak to the challenges that that might bring up and how a county like montgomery county will meet those challenges. >> well the 6 cents is huge. to receive 6 more cents for every child that participates in the meal program is huge. it's very difficult with the cost of the meal and the amount of reimbursement and the charge to the students, it's very difficult to meet those costs. in spite of that, every cafeteria has fresh fruit on the line. over 15% of the grains are whole grains. in fact the pizza crust that we serve on friday is a whole grain. so the 6 cents helps us to continue our endeavors and make sure the meals maintain and stay and continue to be healthy

and the sodium is by far the next challenge that we're going to have. in montgomery county, we currently limit the amount of sodium, however their products with cheese that are naturally high in sodium. so where we are going with this is orking with -- working with venders and reformulating our recipes to reduce the sodium in the meals. something we have to do. >> you might think kids aren't going to be resistant to these types of changes or this milk doesn't taste right. but you found they are not? >> no, we had a problem with a hot dog roll. we tried a whole grain hot dog roll and the kids didn't like it and we found one that was white and they are fine with it. if you give it to them, they will eat it. and our milk is only 1% white milk and our flavored milk and chocolate and strawberry are fat-free at the current time. >> at the end of the day, we

hope this goes a long way to making more healthy adults and we heard the statistics about kids being over weight. this is part of the plan for the first lady's plan to get kids in shape. >> i applaud the first lady's plan. it makes our country aware. and the new initiative with focusing on the community allows us to expand the summer meals program because hopefully we'll be able to reach children that are in programs in these organizations and even feed more children during the summertime. >> marla kaplan is from food and nutrition services in montgomery county public schools. thank you for coming in today. >> thank you. for the latest health alerts and headlines go to myfoxdc.com and click on health under the news tab. steve? a huge free agent shocker in the baseball world and it might have a big impact on the nationals. that is coming up. plus the botched extra

point was bad enough, now we're learning it could have a lasting impact on the special teams. who ended up injured after this play. and if you're headed out on the roads, be careful. the roads could be slick. we'll get the latest traffic for you. this is 395 at the pentagon. we'll check in with julie and tony has your forecast coming up next as well. hi. this is alana. >> jacob. >> max, abraham. >> and we're living in germantown and we are wishing our family and friends a happy holidays in potomac, maryland. ♪

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real shocker coming out of baseball free agency and the news is that -- not that great for the nationals. the phillies have reportedly landed pitcher cliff see, said to be the prize of free agency. there was a report of a five year deal in the neighborhood of $500 million. he spent part of the 2009 with the phillies and helped them get to the world series. and we're seeing a trend here. or they could go to the yankees

who are ready to throw big money and offered him more money and a longer contract. but with the phillies he joins 2010 winner roy halladay and hopefully jayson werth can give the nationals help. redskins out of the playoffs now. landry out for the season. the safety now put on injured reserve. and the skins trying out some kickers today. not because graham gano missed the kicks but because he got hurt. mike shanahan said that gano's job is safe for now. for all of the coverage of d.c. area sports from pros to college to high school, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the sports tab. >> did you say $100 million. >> $100 million for five years.

>> that is the figure now. >> not everybody. >> not for everybody. not in the television world. >> well apparently cliff lee is willing to play in the 3-4 so that sealed the deal. >> good for him. >> now gano having the season that he's had, having the day that he had, does anyone believe shanahan when he says his job is safe? or we just happen to have some kickers here today, but we just like looking at kickers. >> right now. let's take a look at the satellite radar composite. >> better make this a good one because there are three meteorologists standing outside of the door. >> that's for bringing up the $100 million contract. things -- i don't know if they are clear. tucker, have you been outside lately? no? have you been outside. we'll check it out before the next weather. we are seeing a few snow showers out to the west. so it can't be that clear in

reston. we are in a cold pattern. you know that. why, do you wonder? well look where the jet stream is. real far down to the south. we have freeze warnings as far south, allison and steve, as miami, florida. >> unheard of. >> freeze warnings down there. there are reports of crop damage in the area. >> that's too bad. >> yeah. cold and snow to the north and west. windy conditions across the east. here is a look at the five-day forecast. for us today, high only in the 20s to 30 degrees. 30 downtown, windy today. maybe a few more snow flurries. tomorrow 32 and breezy. thursday you've heard about a clipper system, it could bring us snow showers on thursday. we'll have to wait and see how that develops. friday and saturday, highs in the upper 30s and 40s. that's the latest on the weather. >> thank you, sir. let's check in with julie. freeze warning in miami. what do you think about that? >> you can believe it? say it ain't so. >> where are you going to go

now? >> mexico. [ laughter ] >> the equator. i went out to dinner the other night and i said you can put me in the oven. it's fine. i won't break a sweat. on the roads, in bound south capital street toward the douglas bridge, heavy, slow and steady across the anacostia with the lanes open. eastbound 66 on the brakes, fair oaks toward 123 and again slow traffic from nutley street bradley. and toward goldsboro. we are seeing pavement and so be cautious of black ice. cabin john reports problems from the glen echo turn around. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. well our facebook fan of the day is tayea austin. and today is her birthday. so happy birthday to you. to be tomorrow's fan of the day

search fox5 morning news and then post a comment under tayea's photo f. you're not a fan, become one. let it be your gift to us. your christmas gift to us. become our fan. our goal is to have 10,000 by the end of the year. and we're also on twitter. to follow us there search wttgmorningnews, all one word, and there you will get the heads up on breaking news, weather, traffic alerts and upcoming stories. check us out on twitter too. holly is checking out some tasty treat this is morning. >> good morning, friend. >> reporter: good morning to you. they're called dipped and delicious. need i say more? actually, coming up, we're going to tell you what dipped and delicious is and how it came to be and how you could have some this holiday season as well. everybody needs a little dipped and delicious during the holidays. it's all coming up next. stay with us. do

we want to say a big old thank you to everyone who pitched in for a sufficient -- stuff-a-truck food drive. this year we set a new record for cash donations, taking in nearly $127,000. we also collected more than 54,000 pounds of food. so thank you. >> that's great. thanks for helping out. what a great turnout this year. speaking of great, holly is tempting our sweet tooth this morning with beat -- great things. >> she's with the owners of dipped and delicious learning how to make treats. the name alone was great. >> reporter: the name got us here. dipped and delicious. and it doesn't disappoint when you find out what it is. and without further ado, let me introduce you to the two brains. this is julie and robin. good morning, happy holidays to

both of you. >> thank you. >> reporter: so tell me about dipped and delicious and how it came to be and what it is. >> it is chocolate covered pretzels, oreos and we make bite-size ones. >> reporter: you had me at chocolate covered. >> we'll leave it at that. basically we made things for kids parties and made all sorts of things and we got more creative as time went on and then i called robin up one day and said do you want to start a business. >> reporter: you said do you want to make money since we're doing this so often. >> we started making bouquets and we did them at kids' parties and we realized how much the kids loved eating them. they look adorable, they love eating them, and they became this big thing. we started as the bouquets and they've become party favors for weddings, bar and -- bat and

bar mitzvahs. >> reporter: i think my face is as long as my body. and i have to say, is this dave feldman? >> it is. >> reporter: that is hilarious. i love it. so you're going to give us a little insight into how you make these wonderful treats. >> we are. >> reporter: so let's head into the kitchen. when did you really know that you were on to something. you have the idea and i'm going to do the business but at what point do you realize this business is a good idea? >> we started seeing customers calling in and asking us for all sorts of different creative things. we have a cry atetive side to us -- creative side to us. >> reporter: and the customers helped you be creative. >> yes. >> reporter: so let's get to it. >> this is our happy snowman bouquet which is the most popular for the holidays and we'll show you how its done. so the first thing you'll do is

get your white chocolate. >> reporter: so you use white chocolate. and i find you have to be careful not to burn it. >> and once you burn it, it's not any good. so don't burn your chocolate. so mix up your white chocolate and make a snowman, which we've done for you so it doesn't have to dry. so you take your black chocolate and give your snowman, you give him eyes. >> reporter: now maybe this is a silly question, but how do we get black chocolate? >> it is melted into the tube. >> reporter: okay. you've already put it out. >> you can do eyes, a little mouth. and buttons. eyes, mouth -- hey, you're good. leave room for a nose. >> reporter: if you need seasonal help, i'm available.

>> we might. >> reporter: and that brings me to the point. so this is not your full time job. you do this on the side? >> we do. >> reporter: that's pretty amazing that you find time to do that as well. because we'll do a whole session on time management with you. >> you're going to put on his little nose. >> reporter: and we only have about 30 seconds left. >> so dip your pretzel real quick in that chocolate. >> reporter: any trick to this? >> no. just dip in. >> we like to try and get about three quarters of the pretzel. and put it down. put it down. put your snowman on. >> put it down, holly. >> give him a hat using -- give him a scarf. >> reporter: and how long would it take for this all to dry? >> probably about 10 minutes. >> reporter: that's not too bad. so here is the deal. myfoxdc.com is our website.

we have a link to dipped and delicious. if you would like to place an order yourself, they do actually deliver all over the country, do you not? >> we do. >> reporter: this is one treat they do. they have two more coming up in the next hour. hey look, i can't move him. he's drying. in our next hour we'll move on to the cookie pops. back to you in the studio. he's cute. >> he's adorable. >> great job. >> it looks delicious. >> and i like her ring too. >> but that you can't eat. 7 con 57. coming up after the break, a video of the day involves a snowman and the bus driver, and the bus driver that is out of work because of what happened to the snowman. we'll fill in the details coming up. and we'll look at a new documentary. colin powell says that you will be rivetted by chosen. it tells a story of one of the most savage battles in american

history. >> one of the film producers us talk about that. stay tuned. fox 5 morning news continues at 8:00.

winter weather not just in the form of cold temperatures either. snow did fall in parts of the area overnight, leaving behind a bit of a mess on the roads. this is what it looked like this morning at reservoir and fox hall roads in northwest washington, just outside of georgetown. it is 8:00 on this tuesday morning. good morning, i'm steve chenevey. >> and i'm allison seymour. we found a good amount of snow in montgomery county. enough to coat the cars. this photo snapped around 2:30 on the streets of the gaithers >> well tony perkins with us this morning. he and tucker have been working hard to get us through the morning. are we done with the snow now? >> not entirely. there are snow showers off to the west. but whatever we see today is light snow shower activity, maybe some flurries and that's it, little or no accumulation. this morning we had accumulation because it was a narrow band of snow just kind of hung over the same part of montgomery county so we did get a little accumulation but for

the most part it will diminish. >> it looked like prop snow. it came off of my windshield. >> it was prop snow. >> it was convincing. >> it takes a lot of work to get out everywhere. >> wish you hadn't blown it. looking at temperatures at area airports, 23 at reagan national. dulles is at 20. bwi marshall 21 degrees. here is the other part of the story. wind conditions. we have a wind advisory in effect until 10:00 tonight. 10:00 tonight for the wind advisory. and that is good for pretty much the entire viewing area. not so much down to the south, but it will still be breezy down there. and off to the west, our winds could gust up to 40 miles per hour at times today. here is a look at the satellite radar. and you'll see some of the snow. the snow this morning has been lake effect snow that we saw over montgomery county. yes, lake effect with the strong northwesterly winds pushing the snow down into maryland. this morning, currently there

are a couple of snow showers around the reston area. 30 degrees for your high today in washington. 31 in annapolis. 32 in fredericksberg. 28 in frederick. 29 in chantilly. very, very windy. more details on the forecast coming up shortly. >> bundle up. tony, thank you so much. let's check in with julie wright and look at traffic this morning now at 8:00. hi, julie. >> very much a busy ride out there on the highways this morning. you'll find the lanes are open. if you are continuing across the wilson bridge. however we do have delays working along 295 headed inbound toward the d.c. line. stalled car out of the roadway so the lanes are open with the activity left on the shoulder. we do have delays traveling northbound. about a 10 minute ride at this point leaving the beltway toward the d.c. line. and again al lanes are open -- open. no accidents to report north of 270. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. following breaking news now

out of baltimore. an early morning fire has killed six people. this happened in a rowhouse on homewood avenue in east baltimore. firefighters say the strong winds made the fire hard to fight and firefighters had to be evacuated at one point. we don't yet know the identities of those killed. we'll stay on top of this story. we'll bring you updates as we get them. more now on the cold, windy and snowy weather. it is slow-going for commuter this is morning. >> salt is down in many places but till proceed with caution. stacy cohan is live in silver spring this morning. stacy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and the roads are improving. you can see the traffic has helped wash off what was the black ice and the snow. on the far right lanes you still get a little bit of it but most of it has pushed off to the side and traffic seems to be moving at speed here on georgia avenue. if you are traveling, watch your sidewalks and parking lots and the side streets because as cars are coming and going, we still see a few slick spots but

it looks like, for the most part, the work of the cars and the work in some places of the road crews is taking effect and things are going to be better, if only this were the last such day. it's just the beginning. back to you. >> stacy, thank you very much. also new this morning, d.c. police chief cathy lanier may be keeping her job. vince gray will not be replacing her when he takes office in january. right now the chief has an 80% approval rating in the city and crime is down. gray has not made an official announcement but said he will name more cabinet member this is week. former maryland lieutenant governor michael steele announced he wants another head of the rnc. he kept his plans quiet to see who else wants the job. he was been criticized not to move the party forward but presided over the elections last month. the rnc will select the next chairman in january.

richard holbrook has passed away. he collapsed on friday during a meeting with hillary clinton. he went through more than 20 hours of emergency surgery on friday to repair a tear in his aorta. on sunday doctors did surgery again but he never recovered. he died last night at george washington hospital. he served as the special on voy to pakistan and afghanistan he was 69 years old. the white house is confident that the new health care law will preside in court. the federal district court judge shot down the provision requiring most people to buy insurance in 2014. the lawsuit was brought by about virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli. two courts have upheld parts of the law. bob mcdonnell is pleased with the latest decision. >> this is a great, positive step for federalism. i think this is what the founders would have applauded,

a limit on government and in favor of individual liberty. >> cuccinelli is in talks with expediting this case to the supreme court. there are reports the high court is divided on the issue. a vote on the tax cut bill is up today. after today's vote, the bill will go on to the house where resistance has quieted down. president barack obama has said the bill will protect middle class families, make businesses more stable and give the economy a boost heading into the new year. the bill would extend the bush era tax cuts and unemployment benefits. 7 minutes past the hour now on this tuesday morning. former secretary of state colin powell says you will be rivetted by the new documentary. >> it tells the story of one of the most savage battles in american history. one of the film producers will join us when we come back. and also under several weather advisories this morning. tony is back with our forecast and we'll find out if there is

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we continue to follow breaking news out of baltimore. an early-morning fire at a rowhouse in the eastern part of the city has killed six people. reporter and you rea fiji is live on the scene now. good morning. >> reporter: allison, six people are confirmed dead and neighbors believe the victims are just young children. this fire started just before 5:00 this morning in east baltimore. and when firefighters arrived the winds were so heavy they had to evacuate. when they went back inside the home they found the six bodies. now investigators are on the scene trying to figure out how the fire started. it's not clear if there were working smoke detectors inside. neighbors say an elderly couple own the home and their granddaughter and three great grandchildren often visited them. the firefighters haven't identified the victims. neighbors believe it was those

six family members that perished in the fire. back to you. >> andrea fiji in baltimore. thank you very much. >> they said they were having trouble because of the high winds and we've seen the wind gusts here. it's 8:11 and we'll check in with tony and look at the forecast and brighter news. >> we've continued to see strong winds through the day todayment let's start with hd radar and come back to this. i want to start with hd radar and show you the precipitation we're seeing right now. it's light precipitation and a lit bit of snow out towards reston, sterling, virginia, herndon, places like that. that is it. most of the region is dry. but we can't rule out stray snow showers during the day today. let's talk about the winds. the winds have been gusting in baltimore to 26 miles per hour. here in washington, 29 mile-per- hour winds. 33 at manassas. so very, very strong winds. 32 miles per hour out in

winchester. these are some of the higher wind gusts that we've seen. not in washington. we had a 36 mile-per-hour wind gust last hour. here are your windchills. it feels like it's 8 degrees right now here in the district. 8 in baltimore. so frigid cold out there. 5 in gaithersburg. 4 in manassas and in fredericksberg it feels like 11. your actual air temperature in d.c. is 23 degrees. five-day forecast, we're going to look at a high of about 30 degrees downtown today under windy conditions. many of you will top out in the 20s. very cold tonight. overnight low in town 18. so colder in the suburbs. tomorrow another cold day and breezy. some snow showers possible on thursday, friday and saturday. temperatures are around 40 degrees. that's a look at the weather. time now for the my first 5 photo of the day. take a look. this is 13-month-old

lebaron. he was caught taking ornaments off of the christmas tree. you know how that goes. he's a cutie pie. 13-month-old looking forward to christmas. we wish you a merry christmas. we hope it's a great one for you. to send us your child's picture, go to myfoxdc.com and click on mornings. allison and steve, back to you. >> tony, thank you very much. the cold weather stretching to the midwest and up and down the east coast and we're talking the entire east coast. >> farmers in south florida pulling out all of the stops to save crops which are threatened by the cold weather. if they are not successful you'll be paying more for produce. greg berman has more. >> reporter: looking at the video if you didn't know better you would think it's raining. however this day in southwest miami-dade there is relatively clear skies but a fresh batch of fear. when the sun sets, the bitter cold will begin again. >> to us, it's devastating.

>> reporter: joe and his son joseph have 300 acres of money in the ground. they're beans watered for hours, this is the scene in field after field. the water provides warmth and with a freeze warning and windchill warning in place, the pumps are in overdrive. this gives you the scope of everything going on. right now there are three different fields we can see and in just three fields we see 10 machines pumping water. >> it's supposed to give us a couple of degrees protection. >> reporter: joseph and his father have been spending $10,000 for some special crop- warming fertilizer. >> do you think it will help? >> we hope. we'll spray it and you'll see it in the morning. once the sun comes up at about 10:00 or 11:00, is when you see what the frost sat on. >> reporter: at bob roth's new river groves, cold weather is welcome. it helps ripen the oranges. but this blasting cold could

also lead to a losing battle. >> if it goes below 27 for 3 to 4 hours with no cloud cover, it could be a disaster for the whole citrus industry. it could wipe out these honey bells just coming in. >> reporter: south florida farmers able to escape last week's temperature dip unscathed but the freeze from this past january cost miami- dade county growers more than $200 million. tonight joseph has this warning if things get ugly again. >> if this hit -- if it takes a big hit, what we're expecting it to do tonight, not only will you see farmers close their doors but you'll see vegetable prices that you've never seen before. >> that was fox's blake berman reporting. let's check in with julie wright and look at traffic around the d.c. area. hi, julie. >> good morning, steve and allison. still very much a busy drive on the highways. we're starting off on the inbound stretch of the dulles toll road where we've had the latest crash at the inbound reston parkway. second lane of the left tied

up. and keeping you on the brakes. a 6 minutes drive from 7100 inbound toward the accident scene and back out toward the capital beltway. now on the other side of town, delays traveling northbound 395 at duke street. heavy, slow and steady is the flow toward seminary road. more slow traffic from washington boulevard across the 14th street bridge. south capital street slow across the douglas bridge. eastbound 66 from business 234, below speed out of manassas into centreville. more delays approaching vienna toward the capital beltway. still finding yourself on the brakes outer loop of the beltway leaving university boulevard toward georgia avenue. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. 8:17 right now. it's 23 degrees out there on this tuesday morning. well after 297 consecutive regular season starts, brett favre is sidelined by injury. we'll hear from him when we come back. and then later we'll check in with holly who is hanging out with the ladies from dipped and delicious today.

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since the first george bush was in office. minnesota vikings brett favre sat out last night against the giants. it was a long night. the giants running game won 21- 3. favre had played in 297 consecutive regular season games. and 321 games when you add the playoffs. the iron man of football, the record is the greatest sports streak of all time. >> i won't say it was time, it just has probably been long overdue. there has probably been a lot of times that the streaks have ended, but it wasn't a flood of emotions. it just -- just couldn't play. >> insiders suspect that favre's season and career is likely over because of the injury. >> the good news is that his streak of retiring and unretiring continues at this point. so that one might go longer. >> the viking giant game had to be played in detroit because of the roof collapse at the

metrodome. >> experts there trying to figure out how long it might take to reopen the facility. hydraulic lifts are being brought in today to look at the damage. of course part of the roof collapsed from the weight of the snow 7 hours before kickoff. fans could have been injured by falling debris and a subsequent panic to get out of the dome. so fortunately it did not come to that. 8:22 right now on this tuesday morning. up next, the video of the day. a snowman -- a bus driver and now out of work bus driver. we'll show you when we come back. and a look at our forecast, with a chance of even more winter weather. stay with us. fox 5 morning news will be right back. 8:22. [ older brother ] hey, that's the last crescent.

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here is our video of the day today. it shows a hit-and-run involving frosty the snowman. this happened on the university of illinois campus.

video up loadond you -- up loaded on you tube. he see the bus plowing through. one car drives around it and there is frosty and now the bus comes into the lane and takes out frosty in the middle of the road. the creators of the video could be heard screaming no in the background. now the bus driver resigned but hear is the deal. if somebody builds a snowman right in the middle of a road, don't you have the right to hit it. >> but he came over to hit it. >> no, he didn't. >> but the other car went into the other lane too. >> to not hit it. >> bus driver resigned and frosty is gone. >> why? >> i don't know. that's my point. >> is that a city bus? >> maybe it was a university bus. >> but they built it in the road. he should be able to hit it. >> but you shouldn't purposely hit should you? >> if it's in the road it's fair game. >> it's snow. >> well frosty the snowman came alive and then -- >> it's not like a 5-year-old built that and if they did in

the road, there is bigger problems. >> he resigned for some reason. >> we didn't have enough snow here to build snow men this morning. >> not today. just a light dusting. temperatures have been cold overnight that everything is sticking right on the surface. and a lot of problems across the northern side of the beltway. now it's windy. and windy overnight. but the winds will pick up even further during the morning hours and we have a wind advisory in effect until 10:00 tonight as it will be blowing around here. and when you are blowing around 20 degrees temperature it's feels colder than that. let's take a look at the current wind gusts and at raft look -- last look, gusts now over 30 miles per hour. manassas, 35 mile-per-hour wind gusts in the last couple of minutes. here in downtown washington, 29. gaithersburg, 26. hagerstown, 24. and out in winchester, look at that -- 37 miles per hour. wind gusts up to 45 miles per

hour. and we have a wind advisory until 10:00 tonight. counties to the south, toward fredericksberg, you are the exception. still breezy but not as windy as it is off to the north and west. and a windchill advisory for the mountains. temperatures combined with the winds will feel like minus 5 to minus 10 during the course of the day. and old man winter back with a vengence for the next couple of days as temperatures will be very slow to warm. a little band of snow through montgomery county during the overnight hours and stretching down into prince george's county. all thanks in part to lake erie. the winds are blowing so hard across the lake that the lake effect snow able to make it down into the washington area. it happens once or twice a year but should be a fairly quiet day. partly sunny conditions and very cold. our high temperatures later today will struggle into the upper 20s to about 30 degrees. and again, it's not going to feel that warm. winds out of the west and north, 20-30, gusting to 45. we'll feel like teens and single-digits for much of the day today. partly sunny skies, winter weather advisory will expire at 9:00 a.m. we have that for counties off

to the west and to the north with the morning snow. windy and cold afternoon and as mentioned, upper 20s to about 30. winds gusting to about 45 miles per hour. here is your five-day forecast -- cold tonight, 18 and 32 tomorrow. a gradual warmup. could be more snow. we have to watch a clipper system very carefully on thursday. it looks like it will be south of us. more snow showers, 36 thursday afternoon. that's a look at the weather forecast. let's get to on-time traffic with julie wright. on time this morning is wishful thinking. i have to be honest, tucker, it's very busy on the highways. inbound on the dulles toll road, the accident activity occurred toward the reston parkway still tieing up the second lane from the left. so anticipate delays eastbound, a good 10 minute ride from 7100 past the accident scene. and other side of town, 395 slow across the inbound 14th street bridge. heavy and steady across the potomac but here the lanes are open.

expect the h.o.v. to slow out of shirlington. and delays on the top side outer loop leaving university boulevard toward georgia avenue. no accidents, just volume delays. reving it up along 270 with traffic still heavy, slow and steady out of germantown. more slow traffic waiting for you leaving 28 and headed for the lane divide. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. this holiday season we're featuring a charity or organization on our show every day. friends of homeless animals. they rescue and find homes for pets in washington, d.c. area. >> the director of marketing brought along two friends to tell us how to help out this holiday season. good morning. >> thank you for having us this morning. >> tell us all about your organization, friends of homeless animals. >> we have a 501 c-3 nonprofit located in loudoun county no-

kill animal rescue, currently housing over 100 dogs and 65 cats two of which are ease ill and peggy sue. >> tell us about easel. >> we rescued him from a home in virginia. he is a stray. he is missing a leg. we have no idea what happened to him. he belonged to somebody at an earlier point in life. he can't be bothered by missing anything. he's the most loving and affectionate dog. would be a great addition to someone's home. >> and peggy sue? >> she's like one of many shelter animals that we have who found herself the victim of the downturn in the economy for her owner. she had lost her home. so like so many of them, we bring them into our shelter and she's a little 2-year-old

female calico. and again, just absolutely sweet and in dicktive of the animals we have out there. all of their bios and information can be seen on our website at sohi.com. and one of the things we rely on during the year is contributions from individuals and business owners and community organizations like scout and church groups to provide donations to our organization throughout the year. that's done online again at our website. and it goes to cover the -- the care and the medical of all of our animals there at the shelter. everybody up for adoption, we make sure they are current on their shots, spayed and neutered and all microchipped prior to being adopted out so any of the guys that come in, we treat them no whatter what

the med -- no matter what the medical conditions are. >> and we have a ornament, a little dog and kitty as well. we'll let you put that one up. our tree needs love on the back side as well. and we'll put information online at myfoxdc.com to learn more information about the charity of the day and the two wonderful pets we have this morning. >> we'd love to see that anybody wants to give the gift of love that sponsoring a pet for $20 a month, which is simply a pizza, a week at the coffee shop, but for $20 a month provides them the basic care and medical and that can be done online at our website, sohot.org. >> what a wonderful gift idea. >> and for people looking to make a huge difference. >> we're looking for volunteers to come help with the adoption events. our shelt certify a 40-acre wooden shelter out in loudoun

county that we have the only open communal which means we don't keep them in cages. they get to live with other neighbors and socialize on a day to day basis. we're always looking for fosters and we would love for people interested in helping give some of our animals that don't function well in the shelters situation. >> that's great. >> thank you so much. >> friends of homeless animals. >> great gift ideas as well. very well behaved. >> you can go ahead and finish. >> you're going to play with easel. he's a great dog. coming up, how to save $10,000 on the price of a new car. and if you are looking for work, check out our job shop. our job of the day, tc associates looking for a system analystsp you must have experience working with cold fusion and a u.s. citizen. for more on this job and many

others go to myfoxdc.com. we'll have more after this. you see the big turkey for thanksgiving? ♪

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another recall for toyota. the automaker recalling some of the 2011 siena minivans. toyota needs to replace a switch bracket. there have been no accidents or injuries related to the issue. toyota will contact owners of vehicles involved in the recall starting in mid january. well it's a sweet deal from volkswagen. the automaker is offering $10,000 off one of its models. starting tomorrow three 2011 jettas will be sold for $6,000 through the discount website guilt.com. one car will be sold each day beginning at noon tomorrow through friday. only guilt.com members can participate tomorrow. but by thursday everybody is eligible. donations for the charity dress for success into and it might just be the perfect present for the person who is hard to buy for. maybe a photographer on your list. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

you have the perfect gift idea, then i have the perfect hostess gift idea for the day. what can you do with an oreo cookie, chocolate and creativity. it's called dipped and delicious and we'll clue you in next. stay with us. i

seasons greetings. i'm colonel mark delong stationed in republic of korea. i'd like to give holiday wishes to all of famy and friends in arlington, virginia. merry christmas and happy new year. we continue to celebrate the holidays right now. and every day this holiday season we're featuring a gift of the day. this is today's. it's a unique way to let someone know they light up your life. >> you could have sang that. >> i didn't want to. >> do you send a photo to a company called light einfection. they create a copy of the picture in resin. you can see it right there. then they mount it inside a picture frame that also serves as a lamp. now when you turn it on, there is a lighted sculpture based on your original photograph. this is -- this is what it looks like if it's off. there is a lot of light in the studio. >> and this is not plugged in.

>> and we had the shot for you to show the full effect. and this is the gift of the day when it's in a darkroom there. the photo you send them is not damaged in the process. it's returned to you. and there you can get a good look at it. >> the picture frame lamps start at $89. night lights are available for $45. usually takes about two weeks to get your picture but they can put your order on the fast- track if you of course pay more. but there you could see in a darkroom what it looks like with the light. it's kind of neat. >> that is neat. now for more information go to our website at myfoxdc.com and click on web links. and steve is our resident photographer so i would like to say merry christmas to you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. i don't know who these people are. i'll cherish these strangers. thanks for thinking of me. >> i didn't think about that part. it makes no sense. well now to a tasty holiday treat. >> today holly morris is with

the owners of dipped and delicious. no offense to allison, but i prefer to what you are having to what she just offered me. >> reporter: well i was thinking that that might have been her calling and making an order because as soon as we got done, the phones started ringing and i was like that's just allison and steve placing their orders. but listeners -- but listen, i can understand. we're in the kitchen with the two co-owners of the company. so last hour we did our dipped pretzels. >> we did. and this time we're going to do the oreos. so we wanted to find -- >> reporter: aren't these cookie pops. >> i wanted to make sure i got the jargon. >> they are cookie pops, but they are chocolate covered real oreos. >> reporter: so that's a trick of the trade. that's the secret. >> right. you have to use oreos. >> so we would like to present you with a dipped and delicious

trainee t-shirt. >> reporter: look at that. >> so you can help us out today. >> reporter: there we go. >> so you open up the oreo. >> don't eat it. >> reporter: i'm refraining. >> and here is your stick. glue it in. i promises that chocolate and not elmers glue. >> reporter: i was wondering if it was that royal frosting, like they use for gingerbread houses. but this is all chocolate. >> we are all chocolate. all chocolate all of the time. nothing wrong with that. >> you will have to pack it down to make a little -- a little hole in there. there is a learning curve. there you go. now stick it on top. and then take these -- these take about 10 minutes to dry. >> reporter: so this is a little bit of a patience game when it comes to doing these. >> that's right. and you take your dried oreo

now, and you can do it and dip it in and cover it all up. look at that. and twirl it. and then let it -- twirling chocolate. >> we premade some decorations but you can put anything on this. >> i got chocolate -- brown chocolate in the white chocolate. that's why my shirt says trainee. >> we premade a candy cane. and we'll put more snow on. >> reporter: these aren't too, too difficult. >> but try making about 500 of them. >> reporter: all right, all right. i got it. so do you do like a big assembly line to get it going. >> we do. we are just giving you a sampling here today. >> reporter: and we're done? >> that's what it looks like. >> and then you have the different options. >> you can eat it if you want. >> reporter: okay, if i have to. so my question is, normally you

don't work out of a kitchen? >> no. we're out of a kitchen in rockville in a nursey school but we figured with the kids there this morning, this would be better. >> reporter: i am interested in how -- you could provide inspiration for people out there wanting to start a business. how you go about coming up with your business model and working with like a nursey school in order to find a place to -- a nursery school to find a place to do this. >> you just have to be motivated. when we started it, we started as a joke. we thought we would do it for family and friends and then when we got orders from people we don't know, we realized, now we have to go for it. >> and these have been referred to as heaven on a stick. >> reporter: i was hoping you wouldn't ask me questions. i asked you that question so you would talk so i could eat it. but it is, indeed, heaven on a stick. and you order these by one? >> you can order them by one or the dozen. >> we used to do a lot of redskins, but we don't get that

much any more. >> but we're moving on from the redskins. >> reporter: myfoxdc.com is our website. we have a link to dipped and delicious. to find out more, they do ship anywhere. our last treat of the day, we'll show our belly buttons. no, i mean we're going to do these things called belly boughton -- belly buttons in the 9:00 hour. after 60 years of survivors, those from the korean war take us through a journey through one of the most savage battles in american history. the new documentary called chosen tells about the fighting at the reservoir and tells stories about survivors. and the coproducer joins us, bill anton. >> thank you. >> what made you decide to do the film? because of the time you spent in the service yourself? iraq or was this some other passion that you had that led

to putting this film together? >> well it's a combination of things. i have a film degree from the -- from the university of pittsburgh but after graduation i went into the marine corp and i learned about this battle when i went into the marines because they tell you about three battles. world war ii, iwo jima from world war 2 and chosen from kariya to understand what you -- korea to help you understand what you need to be a marine. the odds were stacked against them but they came out on top and they won, they accomplished their mission, they teach you that so that no matter what your mission is or how bad things get there is never a reason to quit. >> before we talk about the film and what went into it, talk about the battle, because when you talk about it, and you mentioned the marines should have lost, marines were outnumbered i believe something in the neighborhood of 10 to 1 in that battle, right?

>> overall, about 10 to 1. 120,000 chinese soldiers versus 15,000 marines and american soldiers. on some hilltops it was as much as 100 to one. and temperatures got as cold as 40 below zero at night. 25 below zero in the middle of the day. so a lot of times the guys were outnumbered, weapons are froze ebb and they can't -- frozen and they can't fire them and it was 10 to 1 odds in hand to hand combat. you can't imagine how horrific was. they were 78 miles outside of enemy lines and there was only one way out on a road with a vehicle and it was fighting every inch of the way until they got there. >> and you said it had not been documented to this point so you took the opportunity to document the battles the marines bought 60 years ago and you found many survivors who were finally willing to talk about this. what was that like, hearing their stories firsthand? >> that was incredible. there was -- we ended up

interviewing 186 veterans from 27 cities and 14 states. we traveled for eight months on and off the road. staying at vfw's marine corp legions and with veterans and we were just amazed that we had done our research that it had been 60 years and nobody had done a documentary about that battle and it meant so much to us as marines that we figured if we don't do it now, it won't happen. >> when you read about this in bootcamp and research it and when you hear from the men who not the battle, what was that like? how did that change or enhance your vision as to what happened 60 years ago? >> that was pretty amazing. we didn't anticipate the response we go from the veterans. because my producer and i were both marines and did two tours in combat. it's not very comfortable

talking about. there are very few people we feel comfortable talking about combat experiences with. and so many told us time after time, listen, the stuff i just talked about, my wife and my kids and my friends don't know and this is the first chance in 60 years i talked about it. so that was an honor for us, because we know how hard it is to carry that weight ourselves. >> not only that but as you said, this is always a tradition to talk about this battle at bootcamp and now future generations can see this and learn more. the seeing is unbelievable. you found this video somehow. i know you did the leg work yourself. how were you able to find the video that goes along with this from the actual battles? >> the stuff that we found from korea, we spent about 300 hours right near here in college park at the national archives, digging through hours and hours of korean war footage until we found what we needed. there is not much that exists because it was 40 degrees below zero, film stock will snap. it doesn't work.

so we were able to find what was in existence, still there for use today. >> it's fascinating. it's a wonderful documentary. it premiered at the gi film festival here. colin powell said you will be rivetted and a deeply-moving film. you have a chance to see it for free tomorrow, right? >> yes. showing at the navy memorial, 701 pennsylvania avenue, doors open at 6:00 and show time is 7:00. brian and i will both be there. and we'll have two chosen veterans from the film that will be there for discussion panel afterwards as well. >> it will be great. anton, congratulations. best of luck in the future. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks, steve. coming up, the snow has moved out for the most part but the winds are sticking around. the updated forecast ahead and we'll take a look at the best in the d.c. area. i'm not talking about road conditions because they are rough this morning, but some of the best places to go in the d.c. area. aol has ranked the best restaurants and nightclubs and

we'll see what they have to say coming up at 9:00. tr rtiontui

want to say good morning to our facebook fan of the day. tayea austin, good morning and happy birthday. today is her birthday. to be our fan of the day tomorrow, find us on facebook by searching for fox 5 morning news and post a comment under tia's photo. and if you're not a fan yet, our goal is to have 10,000 facebook fans within the end of the year and we are within a couple of hundred of that. we're well over the 9500 mark now so we're almost there. the nominees have now been announced for the 68th annual golden globe awards, recognizing best motion picture, brack swan. and the fighter, incision, the king's speech and allison's

favorite, the social network. best in motion picture musical or comedy, alice in wonderland, burlesque, which kevin didn't like. the kids are all right, red, which can't didn't like, and the tourist. best actress, halle berry, who tony likes, nick ode killman, jennifer lawrence, natalie portman and michelle williams. and best actor, jessie he'senberg. who allison likes, colin father, ryan goessling and mark wallberg. and glee did well. glee was nominated for best tv comedy. it stars matthew morrison, jane lynch and many others received acting nominations. the golden globes, hosted by ricky gervais. and now we turn things over to

tony and allison for the 9:00 hour. >> here is a look at real stories we are working on for the 9:00 hour of fox 5 morning news. we are following tragic breaking news out of baltimore this morning. ape deadly fire there claimed the life of six people. the latest on that story in a few moments. and it is no secret, it is cold out there this morning. how do the extreme cold temperatures effect your health? we'll take a look and let you know what you can do to prepare for these temperatures. and wings, maybe barbecue. we get a craving for good food but how do you know the best place to satisfy the cravings. aol is here to help. they have released a list of best of d.c. we'll go over that with an editor of aol. can't wait. >> best wings and best tattoo parlor. >> that's what is on the top of your mind. >> well, you'll seic very good. tucker barnes probably has a