sunrise in just a few minutes. it is 7:00 right now on this friday morning. it's december 16th. good morning, thanks for being with us this morning, i'm steve >> and i'm allison seymour. what a pretty way to start the day. >> really nice, isn't it? >> tony perkins is standing by with the details which i hope is as pretty as the shot we just showed the folks. >> it is a pretty start, breezy out there, comfortable temperatures for much of the area as you step out the door this morning, but those temperatures are falling and they are falling first to the north and west and then through the d.c. area and then off to the south and east. it's going to end up being a rather cool, chilly day today, right now mild. let's take a look at hd radar. want to show you something. this is the cold front that's sinking through our region as we speak. that's why the winds have picked up and that's why the temperatures are dropping. now here's what's not happening, we're not getting any rainfall with this front as it comes through. we got a little bit yesterday, but down to the south there's some rain associated with the southern end of the front.

that may pass by later on today across southern portions of the viewing area. i don't think, for example in colombia, gaitersburg, leesburg, i don't think you're going to get showers, but down to the south, fredricksburg, richmond, culpepper, salisbury, maryland, you may get some showers later this evening. here's a look at temperatures across the region, right now 56 degrees, but it was 61 degrees two hour ago -- two hours ago and temperatures dropping off to the 40s north and west, hagers town 41. currently winds are blowing about 13 miles an hour in the district, 20 miles an hour out at dulles airport and they've been gusting higher than that. forecast for today, some sunshine this morning, partial sunshine at least, more clouds later on, breezy to windy. temperatures falling through the day. we've already been at 61, so we've done that. we're in the 50s, headed to the 40s. we'll have more details on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. right now let's go to julie wright and get an update on traffic. hey, julie. reporter: tony, again, we're

talking to the crew in sky fox who are above the scene of the accident along 15 at new valley church road. this will put the accident activity north of leesburg and right now the southbound lane is all that is available to you at this time. again, i know a lot of folks use this 15 stretch as the work coming around from the point of rocks headed down towards leesburg, that's not going to be very helpful to you this morning. again, we're down to one lane getting through on the southbound stretch, that's it. a lot of activity on the scene, the northbound side blocked right now, so you guyses traveling out of leesburg, no help for you here at this point because no one is able to get by on the southbound side. only the northbound lane is open. a lot of folks traveling out of fredrick this morning will be used to force -- will be forced to use 270. we'll take a back inside, we'll update the ride on the inner loop of the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on

time traffic. our big story this morning, a deal to avoid a government shutdown again. congressional leaders worked all day on negotiating an agreement. last night they signed off on a deal. >> it is nearly $1 trillion of the federal budget to keep federal agencies going. we get more on that and the latest on the payroll tax cut extension live from sherree lee, she's live on capitol hill this morning. reporter: good morning, steve and allison. congressional leaders have signed off on an agreement, it's the rank and file who still must approve that spending bill. the house is taking it up today and then must pass it on to the senate all by midnight. republicans and democratic leaders on capitol hill agree to a $1 trillion bipartisan spending bill. it would keep the government running through september. a separate deal on extending the payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance is also in the works, but that one could end up being only a short- term solution with a plan to extend those for just two

months. >> no reason the government shut shut down over this, and i expect all of us to do what's necessary in order to do the people's business and make sure that it's done before the end of the year. >> we're confident and optimistic we'll be able to resolve both on a bipartisan basis. reporter: now, if no deal is reached on the payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance, those benefits would expire on january 1st. now, a number of tax breaks are also on the chopping block, one that is important to our area. it's a subsidy for federal workers who use mass transit. that could affect thousands of people. metro is warning that many of those riders may decide to hit the road instead and that would just increase the traffic congestion. that's the latest here on capitol hill, back to you. >> sheri lee, thanks so much. people pushing for autonomy in the district voting

later today. the house voting on the way the district can spend local tax dollars and ban funding for abortions for poor women. organizers are planning to protest outside one of the house office buildings. they say some local district leaders will join them. a defense bill also on its way to the president's desk. the senate approved the measure after the wrangling over terror suspects. it also reflects a decision to get tougher on iran and tighten u.s. limits on overseas funding and spending. now for our check of this morning's other top stories, a chefy chase village police officer is out of the hospital this morning after doctors treated her for injuries she suffered in a car crash. the officer flipped her cruiser last night at brookville road and thorn apple street. it's not clear still what caused that accident. a police standoff at a local college ends peacefully. police put northern community virginia college on lockdown yesterday after a suicidal

gunman barricaded himself inside an apartment building. this was near the alexandria campus. police and s.w.a.t teams swarmed the scene, eventually taking the armed man into custody. no one was hurt. health concerns at george washington university where a case of meningococcal case has been confirmed. it is a potentially fatal infection. they're saying the person lives off campus, but not saying if it's a student, faculty or staff members. they say the 35 people coming in close contact with that person have already been notified. new this morning, a new way of monitoring students in fairfax county. last night the school board allowed indoor surveillance cameras in all of its public schools. maureen umay is back with more on this controversial move. reporter: since eight of the 12 school board members joining several other school systems in our region who already use video cameras. the hope is to improve school safety by making it easier to

identify schools -- students that cause problems. this came to light earlier this year after several food fights like the one you're seeing here, this one involving as many as 100 students. the cameras will only be allowed to be installed in cafeterias, hallways and other public areas on a school-by- school basis, that means to classrooms, no rest rooms. some school board members believe it is an invasion of privacy and worry about the long-term costs. the superintendent defends the idea. >> well, a couple of the things that we're trying to do is, first of all, prevent any kind of inappropriate behavior on the part of the students and we did have some dangerous food fights last year where some of our special needs children, in fact, were pettreyifyed and afraid to reenter the cafeteria. we cannot tolerate that kind of behavior. reporter: even though the proposal was approved by the school board, each school that wants the cameras still needs to reach out to the public for

a hearing on the issue which means it will probably not go into effect until the next year. the cost for all the cameras in all the high schools, $880,000 with a yearly maintenance price tag of about $100,000. steve and allison. >> maureen, thank you. the alleged white house shooter will head to court for the second time today. a federal judge wants to hear more about the mental health status of oscar ortega, ra miles an hour a hernandez. he's charged with attempting to assassinate president obama. also due in court, the man accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the antisecrecy website wikileaks. private first class bradley manning will appear in court at fort meade, maryland. the pretrial hearing is to decide if manning will be court martialed. if he does go to trial and is convicted, manning could face life in prison. a few fireworks in iowa. the republican presidential candidates faced off last night in their final debate before

next month's first in the nation nominating contest. doug luzader wraps up all the action. reporter: newt gingrich walked into this debate as the frontrunner, but as we saw last night, iowa is still pretty much up for grabs. the debate stage itself shows how the race in iowa has changed. the former house speaker newt gingrich front and center, leading the polls and oftentimes last night taking heat for, among other things, his work for mortgage giant freddie mak. >> you don't need to be within the technical definition of being a lobbyist to still be influence pedaling with senior republicans in washington d.c. to get them to do your bidding. >> and then to go to work for them and get money from them, it literally -- it's literally coming from the taxpayer. reporter: gingrich kept his cool. >> i sometimes get accused of using language that's too strong. so i've been standing here editing. and i'm very concerned about

not appearing to be zany. [ laughter ] reporter: for his part, former governor mitt romney held steady too. >> it's president obama we got to be talking about. he has unveiled himself as a president that's not -- [ applause ] >> that's not the right person to lead this country. reporter: he didn't attack gingrich, expecting the surge to end on its own. but some here can't wait much longer. while jon huntsman may be able to count on a stronger showing late ner the new hampshire primary, ron paul, rick santorum, michele bachmann and rick perry need iowa badly with perry looking for an nfl inprirration. >> let me tell ya, i hope i am the tim alkhateeb of the iowa -- the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. reporter: this is shaping up to be quite a horse race and not just for the republican nomination. a new ap poll out this morning shows the president's chances of reelection are at about 50%. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. 7:10, 50 degrees on a

friday morning. coming up next a developing story out of pennsylvania. the sex abuse case heads to court for the second time this week, but today it's two former school officials on the hot seat. this game all the way back to the beginning of the season, week number one, redskins beat the giants, so how about a repeat? we'll break it all down in preps of sunday's game. and as we take you to the break, a live look outside. we'll get the latest weather and traffic from tony and julie. that's coming up next. 7:11. 11. 

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making headlines today, to former penn state officials facing a preliminary hearing involving child sex abuse allegations against jerry sandusky. gary schultz and tim curley both accused of lying to a grand jury and failing to

report the allegations to police all the way back to 2002. former assistant coach mike mcqueary testified he told schultz and curley he witnessed sandusky raping a boy inside of a penn state shower. mcqueary is expected to take the stand today. it is sentencing day for barry bonds, the home run king convicted of obstructing justice for trying to mislead a federal grand jury investigating sports doping. now, bonds could get anything from probation to 21 months behind bars. good news for japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. the country's prime minister says it's reached a stable state of cold shutdown and is no longer taking substantial amounts of radiation. the march 11th tsunami sent three reactors at the plant to a nuclear meltdown, the worst nuclear crisis since chernobyl. tony is here to talk about the friday weather. >> you don't rise quite as early as the rest of us. >> no, i do not. >> but we have dropped a good

10, 11 degrees since we went on the air this morning. >> from my perspective, it's kind of nice. >> you should have been awake early this morning. >> really? balmy. >> very, very nice and a little bit of a breeze. now the winds have picked up and the temperatures have dropped and they're going to continue to drop. i'll say this, we're at 50 now, that's a little sooner than i expected, so we'll be in the 40s earlier than i expected. >> oh, boy. >> let's show you the weather headline for the morning, colder air, hey, you know what, it's no longer on the way, it's coming in right now. the colder air is here. check it out, 50 degrees right now in washington. you want to know where we're headed, just look to your west, detroit 32, cincinnati 33. we'll see overnight lows in the 30s tonight, so we'll get there as well. much of the nation colder now, as you can see a wide swath of cold air has come down from the arctic and from canada. 21 degrees in denver, 25 in wichita. dallas is at 44 degrees.

18 in minneapolis. los angeles 43 degrees and miami 73 degrees. >> nice. >> here's a look at the national satellite radar map. we have a cold front that's coming through. those rain showers are associated with the southern end of that cold front and those showers may pass by near to us later tonight or late this afternoon and tonight. i think primarily south of washington. i don't think so much in the district, but south of here could see some rain showers late this afternoon and tonight. here's your five-day forecast. today's high, we already saw it. we're at 50 now, we'll drop into the 40s soon. over the weekend highs in the 40s. hey, if you're out late saturday night, you may see some snow flurries, some snow showers saturday night overnight into sunday. nothing to worry about, he said laughingly, and by monday -- in fact, sunday is going to be mostly sunny. monday and tuesday highs in the low 50s. so there you go. >> all righty, tony. thank you. >> my pleasure. >> sounds good, thanks. let's check with julie and

get a look at traffic this friday. happy friday, julie reporter: happy friday. allison, that's tony's way to get me to come home early saturday night but saying if you stay out late you may see snow. i didn't mean it like that. >> got it. reporter: i'm just doing traffic now. that's not my point. the beltway checking for a car fire at route 7. things are really heating up now. inner loop of the beltway route 7 checking for the car fire. already a slow go because of a crash before 123. that's out of the way. average speed at route 50 in virginia now down to 10 miles an hour. on the other side of town, you guys headed into southeast washington, you'll find lanes inbound headed inbound to the 11th street bridge, average speed at south capitol street 30 miles per hour. inbound traffic slow at 410 and riverdale. that's a check of your fox 5 on

time traffic. >> julie, thanks. 19 minutes now past 7:00 on this friday morning. if it is friday, that means we're just two days out from the redskins game. >> we did well the first time. maybe we'll do well the second time. >> who sang "the way we were"? >> barbara stries and. >> i thought it was barry manilow. >> was babbs, wasn't it, tony? that's my final answer, yeah. >> i'll take your word for it. >> i know that allison is correct, just trying to humor you. >> we're hoping we can go back to the way we were, week one. i know it was a long, long time ago, but how do you work barbara streisand -- it's a stretch. >> the way we were >> good for you. >> as i was saying, let's hope that we can get back to the glory days of week one because everything looked so good, looked so promising and they

started off so well. >> memories from the cast. >> i will not sing. i know my limitations. the redskins have had a lot of limitations since week one, but in week one everything was so good the way we were . here it is ryan playing his first game ever as a member of the burgundy and gold, breaking off a 14 tie with that great tip, interception, rex grossman to jabar gaffney, can't feel his face he's so hot. >> is that what that mean? >> i can't feel my face. 28-14, everybody is happy and, well, sadly -- shortly after this game -- i told you rex should have been the quarterback in training camp. i still thought rex should have been the quarterback, i still think rex should have been the -- should be the quarterback. we now have some serious injury issues to discuss because landry, we don't know if this guy is ever going to play again as a member of the burgundy and gold. >> what? what are we saying? >> they have shut him down for the rest of this year. it's been told by dr. andrews

that he's going to need surgery again on the same achilles he had repaired a year ago. he's a free agent after this year and so people are asking the question do you want the 30 to come back, do you want to invest that much money, he's not healthy, he's missed 12 games over the last two years. i don't know. i think it's a fair question to pose to redskins nation today, do you want landry back, an impactful player when he can't stay on the field anymore. i don't know how you answer that question. >> what do you do in the secondary against a red hot eli manning. what happened to o.j.? >> he's been injury prone as well this year. >> we call him by his full name. >> he said he prefers ashimgo over o.j. we prefer to see him on the field because he's been very injury prone this year as well. tough for he and landry. they've not been able to get out there on the field at the same time. yes, everybody has injuries, we're not using this as an excuse, it's a fact it's been a banged up team and a banged up

secondary. steve, you make a good point, how do you stop eli manning, again, you can't spell elite without having eli. >> wow! >> i might go with it. >> allison and steve, next hour, we segway to lamont peterson and new lightweight champion, here it is. >> congratulations. >> right there. what a moment, a shining moment in the career of lamont peterson. oo es' going to join us live next hour in studio, but not without controversy this morning at all, amir kawn has officially protested this fight. >> can you do that? >> you can do that. this has happened in boxing as recently as two weeks ago. things are getting crazy. we're going to go right to the source and talk to lamont next hour and figure out what is going on. >> how long is the review period? >> it can last five to seven days, it's done rather quickly. we'll find out where they stand, what conversation they've had with golden boy oscar de la jolla. i'd hate to see lamont's belt

taken away. >> let's hope it stays that way. thanks. let's go back to barbara streisand. it is 7:23 right now on a friday morning and you might want to think twice before picking up that shovel this winter. we'll explain. good news for you guys. [ overlapping talking ] we're going to head to rehearsal, annie yu standing by with some of the cast members with the broadway musical, it is a good one and annie will get a dance lesson from the core ago rafer of the show. you want want to miss this one. ?

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"the x factor" is now down to three. it's the end of the road for local "x factor" contestant marcus canty. the buoy, maryland native was voted off last night. the final three will compete for the $5 million prize starting next wednesday night

right here on fox 5. exciting. >> congratulations to marcus for making it this far. >> that's right. he is absolutely right. please. we all know his name, we'll see him again. just a nice guy. >> he's a great entertainer, great performer. we'll definitely see him again. here's my prediction, going to come down to melanie and -- >> josh. >> coming down to the two of them. i'm not sure how it's going to go. i think melanie is going to win. i think she's a favorite, right? >> because josh was in the -- you know, josh was on the bubble last night and melanie never has been. >> i gotta say i like the show. you know, before it started i thought, oh, another one of these? i like the show, it's different enough. i like it. >> if you don't like it, "american idol" is coming up next month. >> that's right. won't be long, right? big kickoff in january. let's take a look -- >> marcus, come see us when you come home. >> absolutely. >> are we talking to him?

>> today? >> yeah. >> that's a good question. >> as far as we said in -- as far as it said in the computer, we had an issue. >> we'll catch up with him. he told us before he couldn't tell us how long in the process he went, but it's been fun to watch. let's find out what's happening with our weather. we got stuff going on. i'm going to start with wind gusts, how about that? these are the most recent gusts, 21 miles per hour here in d.c. in quantico 28 miles an hour, so significant. check out dulles airport, 33, tucker, 33 miles an hour out there, so very gusty winds. we're going to have this certainly through the morning hours. i think they'll gradually diminish as the afternoon goes by, but this as that front comes through. right now as we speak the front is coming through the washington area. how do i know that? take a look at our temperatures. that temperature right there, 2 1/2 hours ago was 61 degrees. now we're at 50 and these temperatures are dropping steadily. 43 already in gaitersburg, 48

in manassas, dulles at 47, winchester 43, but still where the front hasn't made it through yet, 55 in leonardtown, 59 in salisbury, your temperatures are going to drop too. here's a look at the satellite and radar composite. you can kind of see the front there. we have kind of nice sky conditions, clouds mixed with sun. we'll get more clouds building in as the day progresses. this area of precipitation will come through portions of our region. i think the bulk of that precipitation stays to the south of washington. but if you're south of washington, you could get some showers later this afternoon and this evening i think north of washington you will not. so the forecast for washington for today looks like this, early sun, afternoon clouds, quite breezy, down right windy at times, temperatures falling through the day. we've already done 61. we're at 50 now, we're heading for the 40s. then for tonight we're heading for the 30s. tonight mostly cloudy, a few showers, best chance of that is south, 34 for your overnight low in town. five-day forecast, big difference, your highs saturday

and sunday only in the mid-40s. but that's normal, actually. 46 degrees is our normal temperature for today. back into the lower 50s, so back to above normal for monday and tuesday. that's a look at what's happening with the weather. now let's go to julie wright and get an update op traffic. hey, julie. reporter: we asked the crew in sky fox to check the drive on the inner loop of the beltway. they went back over the scene, did not find the accident, did not find a car fire, but unfortunately we found the delays. this is the commute on the inner loop headed up towards 66, and, yes, it is bumper to bumper as you work your way in from braddock road, gallows road, headed up towards what was our accident scene. you can see 66 coming inbound towards the capitol beltway and it too is quite slow, not only in manassas traveling between the 2, 234 interchanges, if you look at the top left of the screen, you can see the traffic working inbound leaving nuttily street trying to merge onto the 495. wall-to-wall, bumper-to-bumper traffic right now, eastbound 66 headed back in towards the capitol beltway. great shot there.

on the other side of town you'll find your lanes are open traveling on 295 headed into southeast washington. however, it's a slow go at south 295 at west capitol street. you guys are headed inbound across the 11th street bridge. coming into northeast washington, southbound bw parkway, making your way past 410 riverdale road. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. facing pressure from the white house to avert a government shutdown, negotiators have agreed to a compromise on a $1 trillion spending bill. now it heads to a vote in the house and senate. what's going to happen now? joining us is dan houser, writer for roll call. good morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> what's going to happen? >> that remains up in the air. the senate will probably pass the measure as there's been a handshake agreement between republicans and democrats on it. they still have to do that. there's been a lot of arguing back and forth this week and we'll see what happens today. >> if they pass it, it's not the first time, obviously, that this has been making headlines in the last year or so, but if they do go along wt leadership

and they do pass this, what impact does it have? and a lot of local interest in this as well. >> well, of course, nationally this would avert a shutdown. passing this keeps parks, the entire government open. locally there was a contentious fight over certain policy riders that republicans wanted to keep in, one of them being the provision restricting abortion in d.c., restricting federal and local funds spent on abortion. that's already the status quo as it was passed in a previous spending agreement and it seems like this is going to maintain and also federal funding for needle exchange programs, also, again, the status quo seems like it's going to carry over. there'll probably be protests at the capitol today, some of the d.c. vote activists said they're going to come down to the capitol. at the end of the day, though, you just can't take out this provision, you have to vote on the whole package or nothing, and it seems like this is a bargain democrats are willing

to make. >> certainly going to be a big issue throughout the rest of the day today, at least until that vote is made. another big issue that's out there, of course, that we've talked about so much recently, the payroll tax extension, due to expire at the end of the year. latest we're hearing is instead of possibly getting this done by the end of the year, working through the vacations and holidays like we heard, maybe working on some kind of an extension. >> well, that's right. it looks like they may work into the weekend, perhaps next week, but the latest talk is a two-month extension of the payroll tax, unemployment insurance benefits and this shores up a way that doctors are paid through medicare. you know, there's no talk on the house side whether or not this could be supported. they're still looking at the details. but it seems there's at least a deal of some sort on the senate side to extend it for two months and maybe have this fight again in a month and a half. i don't know if the controversial keystone pipeline provision is still going to be in there or not, but we'll see. >> is that one of the biggest

sticking points so far is the addition of that into this bill? >> it really has been. the obama administration has opposed putting that in here. they say it's not relevant to the matters at hand, but republicans have been insissent on getting it done, democrats earlier in the week said, okay, we'll go ahead and drop the surtax on millionaires that we want, but republicans said, well, you never had that in the first place, so, you know, what does that mean to us? we'll see. i haven't heard the latest on what's going on with keystone, but congress is going to meet in about an hour and a half and, you know, start it all over again today and hopefully by the end of the day they'll have some sort of -- they'll be closer at least to some sort of an agreement. >> how much of a sense do you get on capitol hill as to when a lot of people are saying maybe is happening which is the fact that people on both sides just want to push as much as possible beyond the elections next year if at all possible. >> well, that certainly is always the case in an election year, heading into every

election year. you don't see as much get done as you do the years before. so that seems to have been the strategy on the keystone pipeline to push it into the next year. certainly with the spending agreements they said they want to get everything back to regular order, they want to get the spending worked out so that they can go and focus on other things and then next year actually work on each bill individually instead of having these bigom any bus packages which is -- omnibus packages like we're getting now. you've got to do it by the end of the year and everybody's taxes is going to go up. that's not going to look good for elections either. >> we need a deal or an extension in the next couple of weeks. >> they're going to have to do it. >> dan niehauser from roll call, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much, steve. still looking for something to do this weekend? well, our annie yu has just the thing. and a mystery in las vegas

after hundreds of marathon runners came down with the same illness after a race. first, though, holiday greetings from members of our military stationed overseas. coming to you from germany. >> hi, greetings to our son, darrell baker, jr. in centreville. we miss you, we love you and hope to see you soon. 

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making headlines today, the death toll continues to climb in eastern india from a bad batch of booze. officials say the moonshine contained toxic methenol which and is so far linked to 150 deaths. police arrested 10 people in connection with making and distributing the tainted homemade liquor. the indian government has promised to crack down on illegal liquor vendors.

a little closer to home, the health department looking into what caused over 500 marathon runners in las vegas to fall ill after the race. it was first believed the drinking water may have had something to do with it, but that's been ruled out. they're still trying to figure out what the cause was. and a wish list to santa for the record books. a shopping mall in romannia is trying to create the world's longest christmas list and so far it is more than 132 feet long with more than 1,000 requests and it's not just for the kids. adults are also sending in their wishes to the north pole. one man says he would like a 365-day vacation. a woman says that she'd like a new husband. >> oh, come on. >> i don't know if santa is the right place to go for either one. >> right. you can dream, can't you? is >> santa is going to get that list and go, what, you gotta be kidding me. we shouldn't be taking up his time. he's busy. >> he won't even worry about it. he's got all those elves anyway. >> a talk show in row mania,

that's all -- in romania, that's all. listen, our temperatures are falling, falling, falling. take a look. n. me show you the current look, you'll be able to see the line. look at that line, you can see where the cold front is. >> the dark green. >> yeah. >> the 50s and then -- >> oh, yeah, interesting. >> and then the 40s. it's like a straight line. >> wow! >> 50 degrees now in washington, 55 in leonardtown, 59 in salisbury, but up to the north and west, gaitersburg 43, dulles 47, winchester 41. yes, tucker wants to say something. yes, sir. no, not on this one. >> we need to mic tucker at all times. >> there i can see the cold front. >> yeah you couldn't see it last time? >> i'm just saying that you're right. >> 32 in binghamton. beckly, west virginia is at 38

degrees. chicago 28. >> we've never seen it that distinct before, have we? >> we have, but it's not often that we get it coming through during the morning. >> where did we peak overnight, 60, 61? >> well, it was 61 at 5:00 a.m. was it warmer than that earlier in the morning, tucker? it was 62. 62 was our high. >> we're already down 12. >> yep. here's your futurecast. now, watch this, this is interesting. that's 9:00 tonight. remember i mentioned rain to our south, you can see it there. we've got clouds. let's keep it going. as we go into saturday, a nice, clear day, but a cold day. look at saturday night. hey, hey. >> is that snow? >> that is know. this does not mean that it is guaranteed but we could see snow showers overnight saturday into sunday. >> it looks like a little drummer boy, that first thing is up his leg and the back is is down. >> i see where you're going with that. >> thank you, steve. >> really? i don't see that at all. >> that front near dover, it was his knee. >> it's like looking at those 3- d pictures. >> five-day forecast, tomorrow we'll be in the 40s. how come i'm getting the wrap?

they're talking. 40s for the weekend, low 50s for monday and tuesday. you couldn't see the cold front, but you saw the little drummer boy. >> he was, like, dupe, dupe. have i told you me and my drum >> it is definitely friday. >> it is friday and whatever allison seymour has had for breakfast this morning -- >> let me tell you something, julie. i actually had a very good breakfast. i think that has helped me. grits, turkey bacon and coffee. i did it all here when i got here. >> really? >> you gotta share with your friends. >> >> i'm eating twinkies. >> go ahead, julie. reporter: i haven't been able to eat this morning, so how about them apples? >> sorry. reporter: i know. it's a rough life. hey, on the beltway inner loop, activity approaching 123, all of that activity gone. 66 is still a slow go coming in from fair oaks headed towards the beltway, you're now down to

28 miles an hour as you approach 123 chambers road. you're also going to find delays if you're traveling in to southeast washington 291 headed towards the bridge. on capitol street now down to about 20 miles an hour headed for the 11th street bridge. coming inbound on route 50, an earlier incident near riverdale road. that's cleared. 35 miles per hour as you work your way down towards prince georges hospital. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> julie, thank you. hope you get some breakfast soon. time now to add a couple more of your ornaments to the fox 5 christmas tree. take a look at this train ornament, it was sent in by norma of hyattsville. >> that's a very nice ornament. we'd also like to thank the cokelin family from buoy, maryland. they sent us this beautiful star. so thank you. sharon, shelby and sidney. great gift from that family. >> once the tree is all decked out with your ornaments, we're going to donate it to a worthy group in the d.c. area. well, it has been dubbed

the most thrilling and inspiring musical of the decade. >> this morning our good friend annie yu is behind the scenes of the broadway musical "billy elliot." annie, good morning. reporter: good morning, steve and allison. i'm learning my tap moves. i never took tap, but they're throwing me to the wolfs here this morning. we are live at the kennedy center where the award-winning musical "billy elliot" is here until january 15th. you don't want to miss this show, it's spectacular, inspiring and moving. we're going to meet some of the cast members coming up in just a bit. let's do it one more time. ♪

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no space between fox and the number 5 and then post a comment under this photo of doris and her husband, ron. >> happy birthday. >> you both have a great weekend. congratulations too. 7:52 right now. the multi-award winning musical "billy elliot" is now in d.c., not for long, though, only through january 15th. >> our annie yu is live at the kennedy center to learn more about this fun show. annie. reporter: good morning, allison and steve. we're here at the kennedy center. already i'm out of breath because i got a lesson in tap. joining me now is the resident corog rafer allison levinburg and you play billy's best friend, right? >> uh-huh. reporter: allison, tell us about the story line for those who aren't family with the billy elliot story. >> billy elliot is set in a mining town. it's the story of billy who, you know, it's a very oppressed community at the time and they're starting a strike with the union and billy finds this

love of dance. he finds himself in the middle of this ballet class and he suddenly develops this passion for dance. and we really follow billy through this amazing journey as he discovers his passion and also how that affects the community around him. it's really a story that i think touches everyone in different ways about, you know, going against the face of adversity when you have a real passion for something. reporter: the family initially did not want him to take on dance, right, because he wanted -- >> exactly. reporter: his father wanted him to box and be a manly man and he comes across this ballet test. tell me about your character michael. >> michael is joey's best friend and he pretty much comes along in which billy is stuck between deciding if he should listen to his dad and not do ballet or if he should continue with the classes, and so he goes to michael for advice and michael pretty much tells him to just express yourself and you want to be all your dreams. reporter: allison, you work

with everybody in the production as far as dance goes and there's a lot of dance technique, it's really hardcore. what is it like for you having worked with the rockettes and "dancing with the stars," working with these kids ages 12 to 15, what's it like and what impresses you most about their dedication? >> oh, my goodness. there's such heart in the show. everyone gives their all out there on the stage. it's all about the storytelling. so that's what i love most about the show is that every single dance progresses the story. everyone has their own different character. all the ballet girls are so different, and it's just amazing to see them all come together. reporter: how grueling is your schedule? >> it's tough, but it's worth it because, like, we'll have tutoring because we all have to go to school, tutoring in the mornings and every once in a while we'll have tap class or acro class and then usually we have rehearsal. then we would get a dinner break, and then we do the show. reporter: and you're also from d.c., so what's it like coming

back here and how did you get start inside all of this? >> yeah. i live in morton, virginia, and so i got started when i was about 8 years old. i was taking dance, and my tap teacher said, oh, you should try acting and audition. and so my first audition was here at the kennedy center and i awe sitioned -- auditioned for a showed called "alice in wonderland." reporter: the rest is history. you are delightful. i understand you're going to teach me some moves from expressing yourself. >> yeah. reporter: late jump right into it. we've been practicing in full disclosure, but i've still never taken tap. >> five, six, seven, eight. one and a two and a three and a four and a five and a six and a seven. reporter: my favorite move. i feel so official. if you'd like to come out and check out this award-winning musical "billy elliot," log on

to myfoxdc.com. you gotta hurry and check out these talented kids. back to you in the studio. >> annie, thank you very much. coming up after 8:00 -- nice moves, by the way. newly crowned welterweight champion of the world and d.c. native lamont peterson here live in our studio. first chance we've had a chance to talk to him since the big victory last weekend and talk of a possible rematch already. congrats to the champ. we'll see him in about 30 minutes. also coming up next hour, steven spielberg, our movie reviewer kevin mccarthy sits down with the movie director to talk about his latest film. we will be right back.

congress will avert a government shutdown tonight. they could have impacted thousands of workers in our area. we're live on the hill this morning with the latest overnight developments. then lamont peterson, well, he will be here live. he's the d.c. native who surprised the sports world last weekend by beating british boxer amir, kahn.

there is some controversy as kahn is appealing the score. steven spielberg has not one, but two movies opening this holiday season. that means kevin mccarthy didn't interview him once, but two times in the last week. first out, "the adventures" of tin-tin." good stuff coming up. good morning. we say good morning to our friend tony perkins. he's got all good for the weekend. >> yes, i do, and we'll talk about that in just a little bit. i'll tell you this much, for the weekend it's going to be cooler than what we've had the last few days. i'll start by showing you hd radar, not because we are tracking any rain, although there is rain on the radar, but not here around the washington area. it's off to the south and west. some of that rain is going to cross portions of our viewing area south of district. that would be late this afternoon or this evening. let's -- there's your cold front, it's coming through right now. here's a look at temperatures around the region, currently 50 degrees here in washington.

that's likely to change during the next couple of moments, 49 in baltimore, 47 at dulles airport, ocean city still at a mild 58 degree. winds are blowing about 13 miles per hour, but look at dulles airport, sustained winds at 25 miles an hour. so a very breezy start to the day. we've had wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour, so it's going to be quite the breezy to windy day at least for the first half of the day and then those winds will diminish. forecast for today, some morning sunshine, lots of afternoon clouds, breezy. temperatures falling through the day. we've already seen our high which was 62 degrees. it was 61 three hours ago. now it's 50. we'll be in the 40s soon. that's a look at the weather. more coming up in just a little bit. >> thank you, tony. let's check in with julie wright and get a look at traffic now. good morning, julie. reporter: good morning to you. for a friday drive, it hasn't been that bad. we've had some problems out there on the roads, and, of course, we do have delays. people hitting me up on twitter

telling me there is a stalled car eastbound 66 approaching centreville. center lane of the roadway blocked. average speed at beltway and chain bridge road now down to 10 miles an hour. inner loop slowing braddock to 66 with accident in tysons gone. south capitol street now up to 29 miles per hour headed towards the 11th street bridge. this morning's top story now, lawmakers on capitol hill may finally have an agreement to avoid a shutdown that would have happened at midnight tonight. negotiators spent all day yesterday meeting and congressional leaders say they have a deal on a $1 trillion compromised spending bill.

we get more now on that and the latest on the payroll tax cut extension from our sherry lee live on capitol hill. sheri, good morning. reporter: allison, yeah, we have been down this road before and once then again this budget showdown is going down to the wire, but both republicans and democrats are signaling they will get this deal done to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. congressional leaders reached an agreement on a $1 trillion spending bill, the bipartisan compromise would keep the government running through next september. lawmakers must still give their approval. house republicans plan to bring the spending bill up for debate today. a deal is also in the works to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, but there is not much time left to get it done. >> we're better than all of this. congress is better than this, and we've gotta prove it. and this is going to be an opportunity. so let's all join hands and do what we know needs to be done for our country. >> we are working hard to

figure a way to resolve the remaining differences on the payroll tax extension and the related issues that are important to both sides, and we're confident and optimistic we'll be able to resolve both on a bipartisan basis. reporter: the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits would expire on january 1st if they can't come to an agreement. now there is a plan b in the works to extend those unemployment benefits and extend that payroll tax cut by just two months. of course that would put us right back here again and that's something that lawmakers may find risky given the election cycle. that's the latest here on capitol hill. back to you. >> sheri lee, thank you. steve, over to you. the last gop debate before the january 3rd iowa caucuses was not without a few fireworks. craig boswell wraps up the action from sioux city, iowa. reporter: coming into this final debate in iowa, newt

gingrich is leading in many national polls, hoping to stay atop the leaderboard, gingrich says his record speaks for itself. >> i have a 90% conservative voting record for 20 years. i balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $4.5 billion in debt, pretty conservative. i think people have to watch my career and decide. reporter: michele bachmann lanlded several punches on the former speaker of the house. >> one of the concerns that i have is that when speaker gingrich was speaker of the house, he had an opportunity to defund planned parenthood and he chose not to take it. that's a big issue. reporter: mitt romney suggests he's better equipped to put americans back to work than our current president. >> this economy has every potential to continue to lead the world. our president thinks america is in decline. it is if he's president, it's not if i'm president. reporter: according to ron paul, any republican will serve as a better president than mr. obama. >> fortunately for the republican party this year, probably anybody up here could probably beat obama. reporter: rick santorum says why he believes he's best suited to be commander in chief.

>> we present a contrast of someone who's been a strong conviction conservative. reporter: jon huntsman says americans deserve better. >> time to fix this country's trust deficit because we're too good as people to be in the hole we're in and we deserve better. reporter: now less than three weeks until the iowa caucuses, the first major gauge to determine who voters believe is best equipped for the white house. in sioux city, iowa, craig boswell, fox news >> craig, thank you very much. a new associated press/gfk poll shows president obama basically has a 50/50 chance of being reelected. that poll finds 52% of adults saying the president should be voted out of office, 43 say he deserves another term. of course that's built in with a margin of error. in hypothetical matchups against gop frontrunners, the president does come out on top, however, his overall job approval stands at a new low of 44%. al. steve, the alleged white house shooter will head to court for the second time today. the federal -- a federal judge wants to hear more on the mental health status of oscar

ra mero ortega, hernandez. he is accused of using an assault rifle to fire at the white house in november. a psychiatric screening found him competent to stand trial, but prosecutors are asking for more expensive testing to make sure they can proceed with this case. he is charged with attempting to assassinate the president. a police standoff at a local college ends peacefully. police put north end virginia community college on lockdown yesterday afternoon after a suicidal gunman barricaded himself inside an apartment building. this was near the alexandria campus. police and s.w.a.t teams swarmed that scene, eventually taking the armed man into custody. no one was hurt. jumping off of towers with a parachute has become a popular extreme sport. but as one woman found out in arlington on wednesday night, base jumping can be dangerous. 48-year-old kristin stewart of connecticut rushed to the hospital after parachuting off the waea tv tower in arlington. her parachute, as you see there, ended up in a tree, not far from power lines, by the

way. she tried to cut herself free from that chute and ended up falling out of the tree. >> it's a foolhardy decision to do, one, without property owners' permission and also dangerous in a residential area where there's power lines and trees. >> stewart should be okay. four others with her did not jump, but they did climb the tower and were arrested for trespassing. turns out they're all members of a base jumping group that travels around the country looking for tall things to jump off of. nine minutes past the hour now on this friday morning. he is a legend in the movie- making world and he has two movies out this holiday season. our good friend kevin mccarthy sits down with the steven spielberg when fox 5 morning news returns. >> we might be talking about the kevin mccarthy, we don't know. check it out, the fox 5 christmas tree is really coming together. we want to thank everyone at westgate apartments and townhomes in manassas, virginia for sending us these ornaments. we will donate the ornament --

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8:12 now. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines this friday morning. two former penn state officials face a preliminary hearing involving those child sex abuse allegations against jerry sandusky. former vice president gary schultz and athletic director tim curley are charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to report the allegations to police back in 2002. mike mcqueary testified that he told those men, shult and curley that he witnessed ex- coach sandusky raping a young boy in the shower inside a penn state football facility, but shult and curley both told the grand jury that no such detail was ever offered. chicago bears coach lovey smith says the arrest of one of his wide receivers is a disappoint to him and to him a complete surprise. sam herd is charged with setting up a major drug dealing network in chicago after being

arrested on wednesday. he had one kilo of coke on him. authorities have been investigating him since the summer. they say he was attempting to purchase much more than that. barry bonds, one of baseball's greatest players is heading to court today. a judge is expected to sentence bonds for obstruction of justice. bonds lied to a federal grand jury during an investigation into steroid use. his lawyers hope the judge will go easy on the former san francisco giant, asking for probation and no prison time. now some news for parents in prince george's county. students who go to william w. hall academy in capitol heights are being relocated this morning from the academy to sueland high school. that's happening right now because of a water main break. so just a heads up there. it is 8:14 now. let's check back in with tony perkins who's ghot the weather and -- who's got the weather and so much more. >> bonus factor. >> we'll start with the so much more. time for my fox 5 photo of the day. check him out. ahhh. a little baby. well behaved baby with santa

claus. >> great photo. >> interesting looking santa there. interesting look for santa. old school as tucker says. yes, this is jaxon, this is his name, like the spelling there. this is his first-ever visit. >> what a sweety pie. >> that's a great picture. >> just a little gum drop. >> so cute, and not at all put off by santa claus. >> look at santa holding him like that. like in the cradle. >> i like jaxson's little hat too. he looks like a little one, four or five months, maybe? >> he's next to santa, remember. >> that's true. he is so cute. >> happy -- or merry christmas to you, jaxson and thank you to his family for sending in the photo. if you want to end us your child's picture, go to myfoxdc and click on mornings. >> look at his little hand, tony. >> so tiny. >> sorry. let's take a look at your headline for today, colder air,

it's on the way, it's been moving in all through this morning, folks, and, in fact, our temperatures dropped again. right now we have made it into the 40s. it's 49 degrees now in washington. boy, that didn't last long. overnight 60s, they're gone. 49 in washington, 33 in cincinnati, 59, still got the mild air down to our south, wilmington, north carolina. lincoln, nebraska 16, chicago 26 and out west it's pretty cold there too. denver is at 19 degrees. here's a look at the national satellite radar composite, some rainfall moving across portions of the eastern united states. some of that rain could make its way in here late this afternoon or during the evening hours. not so much in washington, but i think points south of washington could see that. here's your five-day forecast. our high today was already in the 60s overnight. temperatures are falling during the day. so don't believe that 61, that was early. our temperatures are now in the

40s, that's where we'll be through the day today, into the 30s tonight. 40s for your highs saturday and sunday midz 40s. saturday night cold with maybe some snow flurries or snow showers saturday night into early sunday morning. that's a look at the weather. more coming up with tucker barnes in just a couple of moments. steve, allison, back to you. always talk about the holidays as being a big time for films and a big time film director, perhaps the biggest, steven spielberg with not one, but two big movies opening this holiday season. first out of the box "the adventures of tin-tin." >> it's based on the popular comstrip of a reporter and his little dog. spielburg talks with our reviewer kevin mccarthy about why he made "tin-tin." >> two weeks in a row. i'm excited. >> we had a good time. >> the 3-d in this movie is so beautiful, the immersed

experience you've created. i felt like i was right there with the action sequences. i wanted to ask you hypothetically if you could have had that 3-d technology and shot one of your earlier films and used that depth, what film would it be and what scene? >> i think the only movie that i've directed that i would have liked to have made in 3-d was the first "jurassic park." that was such an immersive experience and the dinosaurs were so -- we played with space and depth, just with lighting, especially when the t-rex comes into the rear-view mirror of the jeep that's trying to escape it. i mean, there is such 3-d opportunities. i always shoot my movies with the idea of bringing the characters into or the events into the face or into the laps of the audience without using 3- d. so i use 3-d techniques in 2- d, i've done that throughout my entire career. up to the movies now, "jurassic park" would be the best for 3- d. >> this is so amazing to me and

knowing there's a human being behind that performance and watching that take place, as a filmmaker, where is that balance? >> the balance for me is when the lights come down in the theater and the audience starts to watch the film and they get involved in the story and the characters and they forget how we made it. and that becomes the least important thing for that audience and they come out of the movie talking about the film, not talking about the process. that is my fervent hope and desire and i know peter jackson's as well that that is the result we're hoping for. reporter: the whole theme in this movie about hitting a wall and breaking through it and overcoming any type of failure, what was that moment for you as a filmmaker? and maybe a specific film where you felt like you hit a wall and you broke through it and you succeeded. what was that moment for snu. >> i think the moment for me hitting the wall was in "jurassic park" again, because i was happy with the old- fashioned technique of clay

medication dinosaurs dinosaurs. when we discovered a brand new median which is to create dinosaurs on the computer that would be smooth and real and not jerky, that was the biggest hurdle because i was gambling a lot of universal's money on a brand new technology that had never been tested, to create leading characters, conceptually leading animal characters to launch a film and that was the greatest risk i think i've ever undertaken. reporter: i always wanted to be on set and watch a movie get shot, always wanted to be a filmmaker. if you could briefly walk me through the boat scene when andy and jamie are on that boat, what did that look like on set? >> well, the boat scene on set looked like a white room with a huge glass window with 30 computer techies behind that glass, each at a work station generating real time, kind of

like saturday morning level world, a 3-d world, so we were actually able to put my actors on the television screen only into kind of a 3-d world of the boat. so you would have seen nothing in the performance capture ball. you would have seen the actors walking down. carter is marked by orange and green tape, corridors in orange or red and that's all you would have seen. you would have seen an abstract environment. but if you just let your eyes wander over to the monitor, you would have actually seen a very rough real-time generated animated world of the quarters and subdecks and main deck of the boat. reporter: that had to be thrown away and then had to start from scratch and render every single inch of that world. >> when do we get to see the first spielberg/mccarthy production? i think it's on its way. >> three years, five years. >> could be a couple. kevin will work his way up eventually, buy him out.

>> and we'll say we know him. we don't know steven spielberg. >> he'll say who. >> oh, man. 8:21 on this friday morning. kevin would never do that, would he? >> no. >> i didn't think. tony award winning best musical now playing at the kennedy center for your enjoyment. >> we will check in with our own annie yu who's giving us a behind-the-scenes look at "billy elliot." stay with us, fox 5 morning news will be right back. [ male announcer ]  for andy, tracking his spending with citibank

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the stories making headlines this friday morning. a new report finds serious gaps in security in city hall and other buildings. state bombs have made it past security guards at the wilson building and at judiciary square, despite x-ray machines and metal detectors. only at police headquarters did guards catch the fake bombs. deadly menin jiets confirmed at george washington university. they say students -- the student infected does not live on campus. but 35 people have been notified who came in contact with that infected person. the fairfax county school board last night voted to approve indoor surveillance cameras in public high schools. principals can install them in cafeterias, hallways and other gathering places but only after getting community support. fairfax county estimates it will cost $800,000 to put in the system plus another $100,000 a year in maintenance fees. tucker barnes is with us right now with a look at our forecast. one of those weird days where we already peaked after

midnight and it's kind of -- >> topsy turfy. when i headed out this morning, it was 62 degrees. >> right there with you. >> things are changing in a big way. let's kick it off. we got a lot to show you here because we've got a changing forecast beginning in the afternoon. first thing we mentioned, the cooler temperatures moving on in, as mentioned. overnight the temperatures were in the 60s, now falling back into the 40s. you know what? it doesn't feel that warm because we've got some very gusty winds out of the north and west to about 30 miles an hour. so it doesn't even feel like 49, it feels like upper 30s when you factor in the wind chill. 49, as i mentioned, here in washington. still holding on to that warmer air in southern maryland. 55 in leonardtown, 42 in fredricksburg, but now 30s breaking out. hagerstown, 38 degrees and 43 in martinsburg. that will be the trend around here. these temperatures will really be held down by a combination of some pretty gusty winds out of the north and west and some clouds moving in from the south and west. i mentioned the winds gusting 25 miles per hour, that's pretty good.

33 out at dulles, 28 in quantico. the breezes will be with us for at least the first half of the day. i think they'll start to lighten up here a little bit by this afternoon. but it will be noticeably cooler around here during the course of your friday. clouds on the increase and the reason why our frontal system is coming through as we speak and then like train tracks this storm is going to ride like a locomotive right along those train tracks just to our south. so viewers in colonial beach, fredricksburg, lower eastern shore, you could see some shower activity. some of those showers could sneak as far north as washington later this afternoon. this will slip out to sea later tonight and kind of reenforce the cool behind it for the weekend. let me mention real quick. i'll show you in the five day, we could get snow showers around here late saturday night and early sunday morning. there's your five-day. never mind the 61, we're done with that one, but you can see the weekend generally dry, 46 saturday and sunday with sunshine. could be a weak disturbance here passing through early sunday morning, could bring us a few snowflakes, a few snow showers even here in washington as early as 2:00, 3:00 sunday

morning. keep an eye on that for you. steve, allison, that's a look at weather. let's toss it back to you. >> we had to because we can't keep the champ waiting. if only he knew then what he knows now. check out what d.c. boxer lamont peterson told fox 5's dave ross before last weekend's super lightweight title fight. >> it's a big deal to fight in your hometown, to take those belts and keep them here in d.c., as you've been telling me the last three months. what will that mean to you saturday night? >> saturday night, they raising my hand, decision, knockout, regardless what the city going to be like. >> and guess what happened, allison. >> of course peterson ended up beating british boxer amirakahn. he joins us in studio. >> this is a treat. the trainer extra order nair and the new welterweight champion of the world, lamont peterson.

gentlemen, thanks so much for coming in today. >> thanks for having us. >> you said, imagine what the city is going to be like. what's it been like? >> i haven't been out much to see, but yesterday i just, you know, just getting out of the house and people, a lot of people notice me, they were really excited about the fight. people think they can box because when people see me they start throwing punches. i was just really happy, you know, with the turnout, and i was really happy with the victory. >> and, barry, you guys are d.c. guys, we know your story, it's a great story growing up in the southeast. lamont, you met when you were 9- year-old when you met barry. here you are at 27 and the junior welterweight champion of the world. barry, could you see then what was -- could you see what has happened now? how incredible has this journey been? >> i can't even describe really. it's crazy because the first day that i actually had a chance to train him, i knew

there was something different about him. the workout that i put him through was hard, as if he had been there -- hadn't been there for years. it was his first day. normally you put somebody through something like that, they never come whack again. he -- they never come back again. i actually asked him that day a world champion standing here. >> he is a world champion. take a listen. i know this never gets old for you. take a listen to what michael buffer had to say. >> and new welterweight champion of the world, lamont peterson. >> the judge called the fight and the last line, just kind of taking the time, and i'm, like, man. you know, he finally announced

to me, it's exciting. >> it looks like he went oh, my, i can't believe it. i'm champion of the world, right? >> all the hard work for the last 17 years, you know, it's finally paid off. >> let's talk about the fight itself because you and i, we were all talking in the green room beforehand and to me it was easily the fight of the year. let's take a look at some of the action, guys, the ebb and flow, give and take, the back and forth, whatever you want to call it, i was about four rows behind you, i could hear what you were saying to lamont. lamont, when you're in a fight like this, do you know it's close? barry, i'm sure you do from observing it. but what do you feel going through this? >> you know it's close. i know i was pushing hard the whole fight, you know, trying to win the fight, but, you know, towards the end of the fight i was, like, these rounds are important here, i have to win these rounds. it was tight, but i knew i couldn't stop fighting. i knew i had to keep fighting. >> let's talk about, of course,

the controversy today, gentlemen, is that kahn is basically protesting the fight, saying he wants his belts back. first of all, does he still have the belts? you should have those belts. >> the way is goes is once you win the belts, it's your belts, just like a trophy. the thing is now, you know, wba have to make belts for me and so i'm waiting on those. they'll probably be here next week. >> he doesn't have the belts. >> he can keep those belts. >> let's take a look. a lot is being made about the point deductions in the 2nd and 12th round. but also in the very first round, they called a knockdown on you that was clearly not a knockdown, right? >> in the 1st round the referee was in my way, i kind of tripped over him, he almost fell himself. and the second time, as you can see, watch the video, i was the

one that landed the shot. and i was trying to leave out and his leg was in the way and kind of tripped over it and then he kind of gave me a little push to help me down. >> we just saw the two pushes in the 7th and that's the last one in the 12th round there. barry, have you seen that before as a long-time trainer? i know he'd been warned throughout the fight, but to get two points for pushing? >> well, in that case -- see, this is not something that amir just started doing, it's the first time he'd ever been called down on it and he had a point deduction early on in the fight and he chose to ignore what the referee told him. i mean, how many warnings do you need? if i get a point deduction, it's taken away and i go back and do the same thing that i had the point deduction the first time, nine times out of 10, it's going to happen again. >> i gotta wrap it up, is there going to be a rematch in march, could it be in england, in d.c.

or or we looking at vegas? >> right now i'm just enjoying the week. i'm the champ. let's make em sweat. >> we've got something to prove you're the champ. i got this on fight night. this is -- when they compiled the scorecards, so no matter what happens with this protest, you have a card that says lamont peterson 113-112. so in our book it's official, the new junior welterweight champion of the world, lamont peterson and barry hunter. >> thanks, dave. >> it's been a great ride watching you guys accomplish what you accomplished together. we as a city couldn't be more proud. >> thank you very much. >> we go back to the desk for now. just an honor to have the champ and the trainer in house, guys. >> congratulations to champ. barry, congratulations. these guys are all wrapped up in the middle. to be there as an outsider and ere for , they're right, the d.c., it's fantastic. well deserved. coming up on this friday morning, believe it or not, you

want to know what the christmas countdown is now? nine days. >> i'm good. coming up how you can save on your online shopping today. but, first, a special holiday greeting. hi, i'm lieutenant colonel cowington, serving here in kabul, afghanistan, i'd like to wish my wife and daughter a happy holiday there in arlington, virginia. ruby, jasmine, happy holidays and i'll be home soon. love you guys. bye.

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click on the job shop tab. you'll find that at the top of our home page. >> i'll read on monday. >> thank you. virginia governor bob mcí donell wants to give a 3% bonus to workers next december. the announcement came yesterday just hours after the governor unveiled the largest investment ever into the public employee pension fund. mcdonnell says he hopes to save enough money next year to provide nearly $80 million for the bonuses. state workers have gone years without a permanent pay raise. so you still have some time to do your christmas shopping and if you're not done yet, today might be a good day to do some online. it's now what's being called free shipping day or free shipping friday. more than 2300 stores have agreed to waive any shipping fees today and that includes some retailers like norrdstrom, best buy and toys r us. even if the weather is not so nice, stay indoors. >> that's pretty good. 8:44 right now on this friday morning and the 2009 tony-award winning best musical is now playing at the kennedy center.

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. the 2009 tony-award winning best musical is now playing at the kennedy center. >> annie yu joins us now with a behind-the-scenes look at "billy elliot." >> annie, i saw this movie, it was inspirational, emotional and at the end when you leave the theater, you just feel good. i can't wait to see the play. reporter: exactly. it is a story of a young boy with a big dream. his dad wants him to be this manly man and box but he trades in his boxing gloves for ballet shoes. speaking of ballet, i have here ty foreign, one of the young men who plays billy and max who plays the older billy. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. reporter: thanks for coming out this early in the morning

for us. ty, if you could tell us about your character and your role in the whole thing. >> well, billy is a little boy, and he goes and he's going to boxing class because his dad makes him. then he's asked to give -- a dance teacher is coming in to teach a ballet class in the gymnasium where the boxing class is, he tells him to give the keys to her. and so he's, like, okay, gets the keys, and so shine is kind of the number where he's trying to get mrs. wilkinson the keys and it's the number where he stumbles into the ballet class. reporter: and discovers that's what he wants to do, right? >> right. and joins in. reporter: max tell us about your role. >> i chime in in the second act. at this point billy has almost given up, he's had a lot of problems with the family. they say why are you dancing, there's so many more social issues going on in the community, and michael is kind of, like, dance for me, he's, like, no, no, i'm done with it. and he plays a stereo with

"swan lake" playing and he's sitting there, thinking dancing, dancing. everything disappears on the set and i come in and there's fog and smoke a and all this stuff and it's him having a dream of being a grownup dancer and we begin. reporter: ty, i understand you started dancing when you were 9, right? >> yeah. reporter: you started learning ballet and technique. how old are you now? >> 13. reporter: that is really impressive. what is a typical day like for you? >> we usually have tutoring in the morning, and then we get a lunch break and then we'd have a little bit of rehearsals in the earlier evening and then we go do the show. reporter: what is the -- when you have -- you have a special number, it's the dance ballet sequence. can you set that up a little bit and the story behind that? >> so as i was saying earlier, he's kind of given up at this point and it's just him in a room visualizing what it would be like to be a grownup dancer and that's when i pop in and we start with a basic chair spin

and we're imitating. we'll show you shortly, and after that we start dancing together. he starts on the ground and then he's being partnered by me and eventually there's a whole flying sequence where he's going 40 feet in the air. it's pretty impressive. reporter: that sounds very impressive. you're going to show us a tidbit of it. >> yes. reporter: let's get out of the way. >> let's rock and roll. >> it's a chair, billy. following you. reporter: if you would like to come out and see the spectacular show, it's going on now at the kennedy center until january 15th and tickets start at just $25. log on to our website, myfoxdc.com for all of the details. back to you in the studio. >> annie, thank you so very much. time for our fox 5 friend segment, all december leading up to christmas we feature local organizations and charities that support great causes. and this morning our friend joins us. it's been a while, chartize,

the board member for the leukemia and lymphoma society, not only that but also a survivor. good to see you. good morning. >> good morning, steve, thanks for having me. >> tell us a little bit about what you're up to and what we need to know this morning. >> what you need to know is the mission of the leukemia and lymphoma society is to career leukemia, lymphoma, hodge kins and myeloma and to improve the quality of lives for patients and their families. we have 2500 patients in this area that the national capitol chapter serves in terms of educational programs and outreach and first connections. so we're doing a lot of work nationally as well as here in the national capitol area chapter. >> it's one of those things you don't hear a lot about, when you do hear it, you think, oh, boy, this sounds pretty heavy, which it is. how prevalent is it? >> people need to really need to understand, first of all, blood cancer has no ethnicity, no age, no gender. they also need to understand that every 10 minutes someone is diagnosed with -- or every four minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancers,

but every 10 minutes someone loses their battle. also leukemia is the number one cancer killer among children and among young adults under the age of 20. so it is a devastating disease. it touches everyone. you look around and you will meet someone who has been touched by blood cancer and/or someone who's lost a loved one. >> we talk about the losses, but we also need to talk about the good parts which is the survivor stories, you are a perfect example. how important is it to get this early detection or the treatment and what kind of chances do people have if it's detected early? >> well, the good news is that because of the research that's done, because of the contributions and the donors, they're so generous to the society, we have made tremendous strides in survival rates and we have made tremendous strides in therapies. for instance, there are three drugs, groundbreaking drugs that have been funded by lls researchers that are really making a difference in the way that cancer patients are treated. also these drugs, including gleback and ritoxin are being researched and investigated for

use in other cancer treatments. for instance, steve, as you said, 12 years ago this week i was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor in my chest. i'm cancer free after 12 years. however, the thing about the research and everything that's being done and the new protocols, the same cancer that i was diagnosed with which was nonhodge kins lymphoma, large b cell 12 years ago, these days it's being treated with targeted therapies, where, for instance, if someone has to go through chemotherapy, they only attack the bad cells or the medicine only attacks the bad cells so you don't have to lose your hair like i did, and people are getting well. they're taking pills and thanks to the research done by lls researchers. >> nice to see some of the advancements that are out there. real quick, how can people way, what's the best way people to learn more or to help out? >> of course they can go to the website, the national capital area website is lls.org/nca to learn more and to donate. >> we'll link that to our website.

we'll let you put your ornament on the tree. what did you bring today? >> so we have an ornament that was made by one of the folks at lls, shelby and she did a tremendous job. it's got a little snowman on it. it says happy holidays and it says the leukemia lymphoma society fighting blood cancers because we want a world without blood cancers. >> chartiz, thank you very much. you can either visit their website or ours at myfoxdc.com. allison, back to you. >> good to see chartize. happy holidays. tis the season for holiday galas and new year's eve parties and buying outfits for every occasion. that can be very expensive, so coming up after 9:00, how you can wear the latest runway trends for a fraction of the price. stay with us.

coming up on 9:00 right now. that does it for this hour of fox 5 morning news. one more hour, though. tony and allison will take us up to 10:00. >> steve, thanks very much. right now it's down to the wire on capitol hill. >> senate leaders say an agreement should be reached in time to avoid that government shutdown. fox 5 is live with the latest. and a fabulous and trendy look does not have to break the bank. >> coming up at 9:30, easy and affordable, how you can rent the season's hottest styles. and dave ross is here. >> i'm sorry, i was going to say women now can do that. men always rent their tux. >> we have he a always been able to do that. >> dave is here with the redskins and the giants, the football forecast coming up in just a few minutes. coming up on 9:00 right now. tucker barnes is down there, tucker is so giddy. >> is that right? >> because we got some weather going on, it's changing weather, and it