january 31st. good morning i'm tony perkins. >> i'm wisdom martin in today for allison seymour. the flooding left behind by last night's rain has caused two school districts to make changes. will be closed today because of high water. culpeper public schools are on a two hour delay. >> there are numerous roads closed because of high water and in some cases that has led to water rescues. we showed you this live as it happened in the last half hour. a driver rescued from their vehicle on riffle road in maryland. this scene has been repeated several times this morning. >> downed trees and power lines are a problem as well. this is video from porter street northwest. this is closed from connecticut avenue to beach drive. >> we want to go back to the situation with the water rescues. joining us on the

phone is montgomery county fire chief scott graham. >> good morning. >> thanks for joining us. can you bring us the latest information. first of all, how many water rescues are underway? >> right now we have two that are underway. throughout the night we've had a total now of 7. and most of them have been in areas or on roads that are prone to flooding that are known for that flooding. the brighton down road area, davis mill. currently we're at the berryville road area and brighton dam. we have a vehicle that was stranded in the 16,000 block of riffle road. quite simply put, we've published roads that are known to flood in montgomery county. if there's any water covering a road, don't take your vehicle. your vehicle can stall out and

caused you to be stranded. the time you think you are saving, you are going to be waiting for somebody to come rescue. the misconception is it's not raining so it must be okay. we still have a lot of runoff from last night's rain. we've gotten over two inches of rain. and that will probably continue for most of the morning and throughout the day today. we're just asking folks to take their time. go slow and don't put yourself in harm's way. if you see it, turn around. don't drown. >> scott, i know it varies on locations but in a situation where these roads are flooded, how difficult of an effort is this from search and rescue teams? >> there's many factors and a couple you mentioned is downed trees, downed power lines. the location is it on a bridge? a low level area where the water is rushing through?

so the variety of difficulty is different for each one. sometimes we can put on personal flowtation devices. other times we have to put our boats in the water to go pick people out of their vehicles through their windows because the water had gone over the bottoms of the door. it varies in difficulty. all of which are dangerous . never recommend anybody hop out of their car and start walking through water. it can sweep you off your feet and there lies another problem. >> i know we have to let you go. do we know the conditions of the people you've rescued? and secondly, is there a web site or someplace that people can go to if they are leaving their house they can check their

phone to find what roads are closed? >> i have provided to you all through our twitter feed the roads that are prone to flooding. and the best thing you can do is assume those roads have water and they are very distinct in the areas we know through our past experience are flooding. you can check montgomery county web site and the montgomery county fire rescue web site. and the department of transportation web site is updated. the first question you with the conditions, most of the people are unharmed when we get there. they are just stuck. fortunately and we're blessed that throughout the night last night we had no significant injuries as a result of it. but the thinking again, it does put the firefighter rescuers at risk for something that truly could be avoided. >> very good information. assistant chief scott graham with the fire and ems. thank

you for taking the time. >> thank you. have a safe morning. >> all right. you too. >> lots to talk about in the weather department. run the gamete of all kinds of different things. >> and there's more to come. here's tucker barnes with all of that. >> hey, tony. good morning wisdom and everybody. the rain last night to the winds today and really picked up overnight. wind advisory in effect. 45 miles per hour plus this morning. do be concerned about winds today. let's get to the numbers and start with temperatures that have been falling overnight. when i arrived early it was 60. dulles is down to 43. and bwi 45. expect a much more wintery day than the last couple days. temperatures yesterday near 70. temperatures today will only be in the 40s. you mix in winds gusting to 40 maybe 50 miles per hour and it's going to feel a lot cooler. here's your wind advisory in affect until 6:00

tonight. already experienced those overnight and the winds will be with us all day today. and again, if you have loose objects on your back deck, might want to consider trying to secure those as the winds will be potentially on the strong side during the course of the day. snow machine kicking in out to the west. we should see sunshine today. snow showers in the forecast late tonight and early tomorrow morning. more details on that. there's your forecast. sunshine and temperatures falling back into the mid 40s. more details on the weather. let's do traffic. >> just to piggy back on what scott was saying, you should follow him on twitter. detailed information on what's going on. sky fox happens to be in route to another water rescue along bright on dam road. we are waking up debris on the roadway

blocking porter street and beach drive. standing water between military and wise road. and tree debris reported between mills and connecticut avenue. again, live to our cameras. we have accidents reported southbound gw parkway. 395 looks good as you continue from the beltway to seminary road. suitland parkway open for business. no problems there. southbound 5 at allen town road cleaning up the tree debris with one lane getting through. you will find if you are traveling inbound heavy volume that continues over the douglas bridge over to the freeway. we have pictures from another water rescue. this is brighton dam road. as scott mentioned a few moments ago, if you find standing water, turn around, do not drown.

this is something you can avoid having happen to you. this is the one vehicle struck out in the water. hopefully everyone is okay. this is the third water rescue this morning within the last hour. and of course up in german town. again, if you encounter water, don't drown, turn around.. >> thank you very much. metro officials will be discussing the aftermath of the green line mess during last night's evening commute. >> some stranded riders left the train and walked close to a live rail. melanie alnwick is live outside the navy yard station with the details on this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. some passengers we talked to said they stayed on the walkway and they felt they were able to exit the tunnels safely. metro says you can be killed even if you come close to that third

rail. it was the kind of situation where passengers felt like they had to take matters into their own hands. dc fire trucks and ambulances converged in the middle of the rush hour because there was smoke in the tunnel. checked on anarching insulate for. that's part of a third rail that smokes because a current goes astray. firefighters cut power to two trains instead of a small section and that left thousands of riders stuck. passengers were sitting on the hot trains for hours. once the conductor told them there was a fire on the track so when the lights went out people panicked. >> we were on there. women started passing out . somebody had an asthma attack. >> actually hit the emergency exit button and the center door and i proceeded to walk down the tunnel. >> about 100 upset riders

actually followed him out. and then there was also firefighters were able to get some people out of another train. but there was a lot of confusion on the platforms and outside the stations in terms of getting passengers to where they needed to go. a lot of chaos that lasted for three hours yesterday. metro says they will hold a debriefing today with staff and with emergency personnel to try to get a handle on what happened yesterday. what went wrong and make sure they can do a better job in the future. >> all right. thank you very much for that report. the firefighter injured in yesterday's crash on the beltway continues to recover this morning. the fire department says part of lieutenant ryan emmon's right arm was suffered. but doctors were able to reattach it. he is listed in guarded condition at union memorial. three other firefighters were injured but have since been released. >> now to that developing story

out of alabama where a hostage stand off continues this morning. 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes has been holding a boy hostage since tuesday afternoon. boarded the boy's school bus, killed the driver and kidnapped the boy. they are now locked in an under ground shelter. there is no reason to believe the boy is hurt. dykes was scheduled to appear at court. >> it is now 7:11 and we want to talk about the man behind the manti te'o hoax breaks his silence. his motivation behind the hoax is coming up. >> the ravens and the 49ers hit the practice field for the first time this week. sports breakfast is next. >> plus, we have speed cameras and red light cameras. today begins another crack down on the roads that could get you $100

ticket in the district. what you need to know to watch out for. >> and as we head to the break, another live view of that water rescue taking place in montgomery county. one of two water rescues going on right now. they've had 7 during the overnight and early morning hours. more about all of this in a few moments. fox 5 morning news will be right back. it's 7:12. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome.

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committee begins confirmation hearings for chuck hagel. the man the president picked to lead the defense department. the only witness at the hearing which could be crucial in determining if he gets the go ahead. members of hagel's own party has criticizing his nomination criticizing his past comments. >> time now to talk more about our weather. >> yeah. obviously, things got crazy last night. flash flooding. one to two inches of rain. and we don't have any flash flood warnings. we have flood warnings. all that water drains down into the rivers and the creeks. so they are overflowing their banks this morning. >> wind up with this situation. >> right. so even though the rain stopped 12 hours ago, we're still dealing with the affects of it this morning. we're going to transition from the rain we had last night to the story today will be the wind which has been blowing overnight to 45

miles per hour. we could see gusts around here today up to 50. be prepared for a very windy day as the cooler air working in here during the last couple hours. let's do temperatures, 48 in washington. much of the country much colder in the past 24 hours. 18 in chicago. negative numbers up in fargo. minus 8. minus 1. you can see that chunk of cold air. we're not looking at negative numbers around here but much cooler air moving in later today and that will be with us through the weekend. high temperatures won't get out of the 30s. rain out of here pushing east to new york. heavy rain up in boston. we're looking at sunshine today. a weak little clipper like system is going to move in later sdpont early tomorrow morning. could do a period of light snow with temperatures dipping below the freezing mark. question marks about how much we might

get. might get light accumulations. this will not be a major storm. the timing is not great. with temperatures below freezing, there could be travel issues. there's your accu weather 7 day forecast. do it again saturday night with another round of snow showers. and believe it or not, it's february and temperatures about where they should be. mid 40s early next week. >> all right. there you go. thank you, tucker. now we turn our attention to the roadways. julie wright joins us with that. >> sky fox live over what is the third water rescue of this morning. this is taking place along brighten dam road. they have the stick in the water. three feet of water. this is what scott graham was talking about. once that water gets above the doors, they have to go out there in a boat and rescue the victims. makes it very difficult with more water reported out there on the roads.

again, if you see standing water, don't drown, turn around. that's what we keep telling you and we still continue to see people that get stuck out there. this happens to be a portion of brighton dam road. three foot of water here. all right. live to our cameras around town. accident activity. southbound gw parkway at 123. delays building. 3 25 inbound along the suitland parkway. the ramp to branch avenue. south capitol street and the douglas bridge. brie debris also a trouble this morning. beach drive between knolls avenue and connecticut avenue blocked off. interstates don't look too bad. 270 wide open but slowing

out of gaithersburg. top stretch of 270 below speed. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> thank you, julie. new this morning a warning to drivers in the district. starting today, you will get a $100 ticket for crossing into the bike lanes. mayor greyish ued the emergency order months ago making u turns illegal in an effort to cut down on accidents. up until now police had only given out warnings. >> all right. coming up next, the man behind manti te'o's fake girlfriend comes clean about his sexuality. >> and later chinese history hits the catwalk. holly will show us the fashion. 7:20. we'll be right back . 

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all right. in sports the ravens and 49ers will be back out on the practice field for a

second day in a row. >> up until yet, promoting the game and facing the media in new orleans. former turp star and the rest of the ravens are practicing at tulane university. cleared up by noon. as for the 49ers, they worked out at the saint's practice facility. much has been made about this being the first time two brothers have coached against each other. here's what their father had to say. >> the one thing that i do think about is after the game. there's going to be one winner and going to be one that's going to be totally disappointed. and my thoughts go to that one that will not experience the thrill of victory. and that's where our thoughts will be. >> in other news this morning, the man behind the manti te'o girlfriend hoax is speaking for the first time to dr. phil. he

admits he made up the fictional girlfriend. manti te'o dated kakuha for several years even though the two never met. he claims he continued the hoax because he fell deeply in love with teo. the man behind the hoax decided to end it by faking the girl's death. >> i wanted to end it because after everything i had gone through i finally realized that i just had to move on with my life and had to get me ronaiah, i had to start living and let this go. >> he claims teo had nothing to do. teo and his family have not commented on the interview. >> still ahead in our next half hour, made a living supporting the troops. the music world

says good-bye to patty andrews. >> a look at why is he kwes sequestration might just happen. here's a look at the water rescue. this is at brighton dam road. weather from tucker, traffic from julie. 7:26. you're on timeout leo!

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thank you very much. we are getting a look at stunning photos taken by the stro naught. note note. >> another picture shows the wildfires burning in australia. and you can barely see the flames if you look really close. >> astronaut snapped a photo of san francisco bay. and if you look closely you can see the golden gate bridge. we're seeing what the city of boston looks like at night from the international space station. those are great. i love the first one of the full monday

rising. great photos. >> tucker barnes. >> right here on planet earth, things are rocking and rolling last night. a lot of rain. more rain in a few hours time last night than the month of january. that's why we have the issues this morning. two inches out of dulles. and these rain totals very impressive. 1.14 inches at reagan national. over an inch and a half. the good news the rain is out of here. the winds have moved in and that's the next part of our story. seems like we've had one weather story after another. 48 in washington. it was 60 when i arrived. 30s breaking out to the north and west. mountains in the 30s. hagerstown 38. these air temperatures never going to feel this warm. make sure you have a jacket. winds blowing out of the west

approaching 40, 50 miles per hour today, the actual air temperatures will be back in the 20s and 30s. 32 in washington. earlier had a wind gust close to 40 here. 40 the current wind gust in frederick. 45 in martinsburg. wind advisory in affect for the entire region until 6:00. winds will be ushering cooler temperatures. next couple days much more like winter than the 70s we had yesterday and the day before. rain out of here, off to the north and east it goes. still heavy rain up into new york. snow machine kicking in out to the west. not expecting anything other than mostly sunny skies. little upper level lows going to drop down and that's going to bring us a brief period of light snow. with temperatures below freezing and a little light snow in the area, we could have a couple travel issues early tomorrow.

47 today. very windy. much cooler than yesterday . winds here again gusting to 50 later this afternoon. the wind advisory will be in affect later today. increasing clouds. late snow showers. closer to day break tomorrow. there's your accu weather 7 day forecast. we could do another round of snow showers saturday night and early sunday. even though we're turning the page to february, wintery around here. that's a look at weather. let's do some traffic and get the latest from julie wright. >> we're still live over the seen of brighton dam road. one of three water rescues underway. love these pictures from sky fox. unfortunately this car is stuck waiting for help. so again, don't drown, turn around. best advice we can give you when you are out and about and encounter standing water. sky fox is heading over to maryland city where we have reports of

another water rescue. that would make the 4th water rescue. let's go live to the cameras and let sky fox head over. suitland parkway. what we're noticing is secondary roads where we're finding tree debris, that seems to be the trouble spot. no accidents on 395 leaving the beltway to the 14th street bridge. however, southbound on the george washington parkway, the lanes are closed at 123. expect to find heavy volume delays on the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> thank you very much. former congress woman ga bby giffords returns to capitol hill. she was one of the speakers at a senate judiciary committee meaning. also heard from the rifle associations. joining us now to talk about

this and more, former democratic congressman and former republican congressman robert walker now executive chairman of wexler and walker. good to have you here. >> let's start with yesterday's hearing. gabriel giffords. her testimony striking, moving . what's so affective about having her testify. is it the content of what she's talking about or is it her and seeing how she is now? many of these people knew her when she was serving on the hill. tell me about the impact her appearance will have on these congress people? >> well, i think what's going to happen is that both her and her husband have made a decision they are going to keep the pressure on to make sure some kind of gun control measure is passed to congress. and she's a great example of what happens

when somebody has a high capacity magazine weapon and caused all the damage they did in tuscan. she describings a core of people she's shot in the head point blank and still there. >> she strikes the emotions of people about the harm that guns can do. but also a prime example of deranged people who carry out these acts and the problem we've got to deal with. the thing that really concerns me is if you look at the gun statistics across the country, much is related to gang activity. i don't hear anybody out there talking about the fact that until we get the gangs under control we're not going to do anything about guns. and the fact is that they are not going to respond to anything that's

out there that legitimizes licensing of guns. these are people that could careless about those kinds of things. >> that's interesting. 92% of the american people believe universal background check is important. 89% republicans, 93% democrats. even the nra over the last ten years passed a greed with that. at least we ought to get the guns out of the hands of people who have them. >> we have laws and not enforcing them. 70,000 people basically failed a criminal background checks and didn't do anything at all prosecuting them. you can't continue to pile on the laws. >> one of the problems you face when you continually cut the alcohol, tobacco and firearm

agency, you make it difficult for them to enforce laws. they don't have the people to do it. they can only do so many things. shouldn't be a gun control debate. it should be a law enforcement debate. haven't been a prosecute for in chicago for several years. but again, if we put some kind of restriction on high capacity magazines, should be able to come to some kind of understanding on that one. >> let me shift gears here. you mentioned cuts to the atf. let's talk about cuts across the board with sequestration. now, all of a sudden i read an article in the washington post yesterday where it's looking like this is probably going to happen on march 1st. why the change all of a sudden? they delayed it and there was this big humbug about it. >> i think on both sides, they

have decided for their own political and policy reasons that allowing this to happen and working out the details after this happens is the right way to go. the republicans want to be assured the spending cuts that they signed up for take place. the democrats believe this is their chance to get defend spending they've been going after. both sides have some reason to say let's let it happen. the thing is you have a continuing resolution coming a few days after that. and the continuing resolution may be the way in which you begin to work through how you make this work without doing stupid things. >> if it does happen, what are the ramifications? and is it bad for congress? democrats, republicans? >> a lot of people are going to get furloughs. the problem with sequestration is it cuts across the board. good programs that are actually working suffer.

and those inefficient programs get a cut but ought to be eliminated completely. the problem from a democrat stand point i talked to several of my colleagues in the congress. based on the cuts that republicans want to make because they don't want revenues, they say well, it's better to take across the board cuts than get the cuts me want without revenues. that's why the democrats are in a position saying let's let it go through and as bob said, maybe in the resolution, we can try to fix it. it's going to be a tough chew. in the meantime, these slips will be going out to all these agencies. >> but from the republican stand point, they believe the cuts in the digressionary programs that will come hardest will cause the democrats to begin to look at whether or not there are reforms and titlements that should take place other than doing only in the digressionary budget whether or not we ought toto look at

reasonable kinds of activities to make the programs work over the long time. >> one last thing here. >> you are doing great. >> i'm trying. immigration. john mccain has come out quite strongly and said look republicans we got to get our act together on immigration or we're going to continue to lose elections. can the republicans get their act together. and do they have to change their stance on immigration or does there have to be a change in their hearts in terms of how they look at issues important to hispanics? >> there's not going to be unanimity. some of us who have been trying to do this. newt gingrich got beat up. ought to figure out a way to deal with the immigration problem in a compassion nate way. and so there have been republicans out there leading republicans who have looked at this issue as something where the party does need to have a stand.

there needs to be strong boarder security as the place where you start and then you begin to be able to deal reasonably with the rest of the problem. >> marty, i apologize. >> one of the things that's lost in this whole discussion is legal immigration. we trained the best and brightest people in this country in our universities and they leave because they can't stay. we need to deal in reforming legal immigration. we want the best and brightest to stay in the united states. silicon valley wants it. create a lot of jobs. so we just can't deal with just illegal immigration. deal with immigration on a whole front. and that to me is going to be the challenge. >> great to have you here as always. thanks for coming in. got a lot in . 7:41. we'll be back in a moment. 

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died. patty andrews passed away yesterday. she and her singing sisters were best known for supporting the troops in world war ii with music and movies. they appeared in 17 motion pictures and sold more than 80 million albums. patty andrews was the last surviving. she was 94 years old. for a certain generation, they were the cat's meow. >> i do remember that. >> yeah. >> very nice. >> i want to say weather is improving as far as the rain. now we're dealing with wind. >> we're dealing with a lot of water. we want to show you, these are live pictures of vehicles attempting to drive-thru standing water. >> that looks like a parking lot. >> that might be a parking lot.

>> these are stopped vehicles but with the helicopter, we've been watering. some vehicles attempt to negotiate this high water. a couple of the pick-up trucks have made it. i don't encourage people to do that. >> no matter how many times the fire and rescue people tell people not to -- there's a car right there moving. they tell people not to do this. your car will stall out and get stuck out there. this is exactly what they say do not do. this is what you are not supposed to do. >> good luck to you. >> they made it through. thank goodness. >> one to two inches of rain. all that water getting drained quickly and the basins can't hold the water.

the story today, temperatures and winds. temperatures have been falling overnight and the winds have picked up. we are 60 degrees at 5:00 a.m. how much the temperatures have fallen. 18 in chicago. 30 in binghanton. much colder air in the way. you mix in wind s gusting to 30, 40 and 50 miles per hour. it will be a chilly thursday for us. here are your current winds. 22 in washington and 25 in frederick. 40 plus gusts locally. wind advisory in affect until 6:00 tonight. want to point out a couple features. should be a bright looking day. no issues like we had yesterday. look what happens late tonight. a weak little upper level locuming through along with a chunk of cold air and by 6 or 7:00 tomorrow, light snow across the area. temperatures should be below freezing. may have a

few issues locally tomorrow morning with light accumulations across the area. i'm watching my words carefully. that will not be a major deal. but potential to be a minor deal. do it again saturday night and february with temperatures in the 40s. that's where we should be. >> thank you very much. let's go to julie with more on traffic. >> i believe the chopper is in maryland city with our 4th water rescue of this morning. this happens to be the portion of brachridge road at whiskey bottom. we saw the one car continue to drive-thru this. again, 4th water rescue has already happened. and that's why we have this portion shut down because of the flooding in each direction over at whiskey bottom. a lot of the standing water is what we're seeing out there on our secondary roads and neighborhood streets. if you encounter standing water, don't drown, turn around.

we cannot emphasize that enough. but as wisdom said, people still do it. it's putting a lot of folks in danger. be careful on the roads. show you what else is happening. a portion of the southbound gw parkway closed. now only the left lane blocked. heavy slow and steady. that's the flow. you will find route 5 at allen town. still tying up the right side of the road. 66 open for business but slowing out of manassas as a portion of 15 that remains closed off. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. back with more after the break on fox 5 morning news. 

welcome back. tomorrow a collection from the world's largest silk museum makes his mark from china. style and silk is one of a kind exhibit show

casing tradition, innovation and fashion. >> holly morris has more from northwest. good morning. >> reporter: this is incredible. i want you to understand what is going on here. this has never before been seen in the americas and you are getting the chance to see it a little bit ahead of time. doesn't open to the public until tomorrow. it's going to be free. we're all getting this opportunity because of the maridian international center. he is the president and ceo joins me. >> good morning to you. great to have you here. >> there are places where these wonderful works are going on and a lot of people don't realize it. >> this was captain graham's home for decades. powerful people came together and now countries come together. we're thrilled the chinese government and the u.s. government view maridian as an asset. >> the exhibit you have going on, some people say it's just a

fashion exhibit but it's so much more than that. >> this is rooted in the idea of what's an expression. the silk tradition in china is important. we also send art and culture in the united states over to china. this is part of an on going partnership that we have with the chinese to get a best sense of who each other are. >> how do you gauge things are getting better? >> there are initiatives that under pin these kinds of exhibitions. educational exchanges. language programs where we're learning languages and cultures and it's about affecting the perception that people have of the united states and china and vice versa. it's not about who is right and who is wrong. we disagree on a lot of things. but during the cold war of course we had a lot of programs that were with russia better understand and going when things opened up, there was that foundation there in the relationship. >> it's about creating that

ability to communicate. thank you so much for the work you are doing. >> thanks very much. >> i have another wonderful gentleman. this is dr. curtis sandberg. and more specifically about why this exhibit is incredible. >> great. welcome. great to have you here. we have been working with china for 13 years. 120 countries over the 30 odd years we've been around. but who is count sng. >> let's walk and show at the same time. >> the national silk museum what they are responsible for is teaching their public about the history of silk, it's archeology, how silk is made and because it is china and trying to emerge as a player, reaching back into their 5,000 year pool of history and cultural traditions, merging these with things from the west and things

from china and creating these hybrid things. >> like this beautiful model we have. >> like our beautiful model. and a very good example of what's going on here. victoria is waring a two piece out -- wearing a two piece outfit. it's from the yuo dynasty. if you look, they are bird and medalian motiffs. meeting people, culture change, very much like what maridian does. all of these things are tweaked and woven. that's exactly what's going on through the entire exhibition. >> we're talking about some of these fabrics being seen. on loan from the largest silk museum. >> exactly. there was a competition about 20 years ago

from the three silk places. and what we're doing here is showing sort of from silk worm to contemporary fashion. >> trying to cover 5,000 years of history in 4 minutes time. it's a whole lot of fun. the exhibit style and silk opens tomorrow free and open to the public here. and it will be through april 14th wednesday through sundays 2 until 5. until be free. since we are covering 5,000 years of history, we'll continue to do just that in our 8:00 hour. >> thank you. still ahead at 8:00, squaring off over the surplus. former mayor joins us live to talk about his plans for dc's extra cash. how his plan is different from the mayor's decision. it is 7:57. >> we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome.

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water rescues underway. some are going on right now. what you need to know before hitting the road. plus, could snow be behind all of this rain and wind? find out in your fox 5 accu weather forecast. >> and a clash over cash. dc stockpiles millions of dollars. coming up counsel man tells us what he wants to do with that extra money. >> plus, botox, it isn't just for frowns. proving to be an affective treatment for overactive bladders. our health medical team shows us how it works. i'm tony perkins. >> i'm sarah simmons. allison seymour is off today. causing quite a mess this morning. first off, two virginia school districts have had to adjust. culpeper county schools are on a two hour delay because of flooding.

>> the high waters are leading to rescues around the region. sky fox captured three of them in a 40 minute span. you see them there. all of these were in montgomery county where there have been 7 rescues since last night. remember, do not drive-thru standing water. that's how these people are getting stuck. don't drive-thru standing water as it often is more deep than it appears. the road could have collapsed under there. >> absolutely. due to an area wide power outage, georgetown east elementary school will be closed for students and staff today. all kinds of things impacted from overnight. it's scary when you see this kind of water coming up over the hood of the car. >> tucker barnes is with us. this is happening despite the fact it is not raining now and we won't have rain today.

>> we'll get a lot of sunshine but picked up between an inch and two and a half inches of rain last night. and if you are up last night, the rain was ter enshl. all of that getting into our rivers and creeks and can't hold water that quickly. so we're having the flooding issues. even with the sun out, dealing with flood issues. want to transition the big story for most of us, the winds. they are going to be gusting throughout the day up to 50 miles per hour. and a wind advisory in affect until 6:00 tonight. temperatures have been tumbling. 44 in washington. 41 at dulles, b wi. mix in winds out of the west here gusting to 35 at times 45 miles per hour. it is not going to be a terribly warm day. prepared for a more january like feel to your afternoon. wind advisory until 6:00 tonight. most of the

region under that wind advisory and again winds gusting 45 to 50. good news rain out of here. sunshine today. later this afternoon and tonight, another little upper level disturbance. almost a clipper around here last week and late tonight early tomorrow morning. could bring us a period of light snow. i'll have more details coming up. today, sunshine, windy conditions. temperatures in the 40s falling back below freezing later tonight. >> all right. thank you, tucker. let's check in with julie wright for a look at your traffic. >> on triem r time traffic brought to you by toyota. >> all right. sky fox has had a very busy morning. they've hovered over four water rescues. the latest on long brachbridge: this happens to be the outer loop of the beltway headed over towards connecticut avenue. we're not really finding any

times. we also had tree debris southbound 5 at allen town road. accidents include southbound gw parkway at 123. the left rain is still closed. slow traffic for those traveling on the inner loop from saint barnebus road. continue from the beltway out towards king street. each direction between 50 and 704. again, that's due to standing water. if you come up to an area where you find standing water, don't drown, turn around. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> thank you very much. today, metro officials will be discussing the aftermath of the mess on the green line during last night's evening commute. >> stranded riders left the train and walked dangerously close to a live rail. emergency responders cut the power because of electrical problems.

stranding hundreds of passengers. officials say only the one side of the track should have been taken off line. >> we'll do a complete and thorough debrief that will include all of the emergency responders that were involved. if we need to take actions to ensure folks know where to turn off the power so this situation doesn't happen again. >> some riders complained of a lack of direction from metro. riders should only leave trains when their life is in immediate danger. >> the firefighter injured in yesterday's early morning crash on the beltway continues to recover in a hospital this morning. prince georges county fire department says lieutenant ryan evan's right arm was partially severed. doctors were able to reattach it. he is listed in guarded condition. three other firefighters were injured but since been released. 7 people were hurt when a

tractor trailer slammed into a fire truck and suv. in our other big story gun control on capitol hill. the debate took center stage since last month's shooting massacre in newtown. gabby giffords was a surprise witness. still recovering two years after being shot in the head in another shooting attack called on congress to quote act now. >> speaking is difficult. but i need to say something important. violence is a big problem. too many children are dying. >> the white house is pushing to reinstate a ban on assault weapons. limit ammo clips and want universal background

checks. >> president obama's choice to get a grilling from senators this morning. chuck hagel is a former republican senator. but no republican is supporting his nomination. and only democrats are defending his record on iran and israel. the hearings are due to start at 9:30. >> new this morning, a reminder to drivers in the district starting today, you will get a $100 ticket for crossing into the bike lanes on pennsylvania avenue. mayor greyish ued the emergency order months ago making u turns illegal in an effort to cut down on accidents. police had only given out warnings. >> a warning to metro riders from transit police. protect your electronics. 31 devices were snatched between january 13th and the 26th. that's up from 19 steps. the figures are down from the same time last year, they are urging riders to

be proactive and keep the devices out of sight. >> the insurance institute for highway safety released list for the top five safest vehicles. the gmc sierra 1500. the four door porsche is second. and gmc yukon denali. the least safe car is the fiat 500. >> tiny little thing, i believe. >> sounds like it. >> coming up, holding out hope. a hostage situation enter s a second full day in alabama. caught in the middle? a five year old boy. the latest on the negotiations coming up this hour. >> also ahead why a member of the san francisco 49ers is having to apologize for remarks he's made ahead of the superbowl. 8:09. we're back after this . 

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this has been our main story this morning. more water rescues are underway at this hour. sky fox is now live over rocky gorge dam. let's see if we can see what's going on there. another water rescue taking place. hope it's not on that side of the dam. we were just told three water rescues have been performed by annarundle county. >> right. and you know, as you watch, you can see the sunshining right now on the dam there but this is the after affects of all those storms. so, yeah, we'll continue to follow that. but, let's take a break and lighten things up. shall we? >> tucker barnes, you have that responsibility. >> thank you very much. and i think we might have to do the warmup factor today. temperatures on the chilly side.

my first 5 photo of the day. this is kennedy. >> she looks so happy. >> check out the beautiful smile on her face. >> like she's grabbing for the camera. you can tell. >> that is a great looking face. here's the deal. she's very stylish in her pj's with her mom's hat on. >> playing with mom's stuff. she's cute. >> she's got the cute little -- what do you call that? mobile. >> still like to play with them don't you? >> well, you know. late on fridays, sarah. >> she loves to bounce in her bouncer. >> great activity. that's fun. >> i like to do that too. >> she is a cutie. >> tony likes to do that in a rocking chair. to send us your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com and click on

mornings. we love you bringing a great big smile to the fox 5 family this morning. let's do weather. and colder temperatures moving in overnight along with the heavy rain locally. now we're dealing with sunshine. 44 in washington. 29 in pittsburgh. 25 in columbus. freezing temperatures headed in our direction later tonight along with more storminess. here are your winds. these are sustained winds. these are not your wind gusts. and at times over 50 today. wind advisory in affect until 6:00. current winds 21. 8 in baltimore. you get the idea. very windy day today as that front has moved through overnight. lots of sunshine expected. we're done with the rain and most of the area looking to clear skies. do have clouds off to the north. partly to mostly sunny day. later tonight a little area of low

pressure going to drop in with just enough moisture that early tomorrow morning we could be looking at another round of light snow across the area. not going to be major accumulations. but with temperatures below freezing could cause a few slippery spots out there. there's your accu weather 7 day forecast. highs only in the 30s forecast showers of your thursday friday night. >> very busy. roads. i think you mean river. not a laughing matter. we've witnessed four water rescues take place today. and we have a number of closures coming in with folks reporting flooding. 15 is blocked off between 704 and 50. that remains closed off because of standing water. a portion of beach drive blocked off again due to flooding. this is the american legion bridge for the interstates look great.

traveling between montgomery county and fairfax. slow exit off of both loops at the beltway. the problem there is an accident at 123 that continues to block the left lane. in fact, so bad northbound rubber necking delays. eastbound 66 coming inbound leaving fair oaks leaving 123 your lanes are open. traffic backed up through manassas. 395 leaving the beltway crossing over the inbound 14th street bridge. continues across the potomic. inbound suitland parkway. earlier wreck we had mentioned near route 5 has cleared. bw parkway. this happens to be the outer loop of the beltway from college park around towards the exit for 270. all lanes are open. heavy volume from tech road headed to the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> time now is 8:17 on this thursday morning. an emotional send off. senator john kerry

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welcome back. making headlines this morning, a hostage stand off continues in alabama. jimmy lee dykes has been holding a 5 year old boy. he killed the driver and holding the boy. scheduled to appear in court yesterday on charges he shot at his neighbors. >> a team who performed at the presidential inauguration was shot to death at a chicago park. with 11 other teens when a man opened fire. the 15-year-old was hit in the back. so far no arrests have been made. she was in a high school band. >> a makeshift drug lab explodes in a san diego hotel injuring three people. police say a 21-year-old man lit a

cigarette and ignited butane. the explosion knocked down three walls and blew out windows in several rooms of the three story building. three people suffered burns. charges are pending in the game. john kerry gives a fair well speech to the senate as he prepares to takeover as secretary of state. the emotion for kerry was clear in his send off speech to his colleagues. >> standing here at this desk that once belonged -- at this desk that once belonged to president kennedy and to ted kennedy, i can't help but be reminded that even our nation's greatest leaders and all the rest of us are temporary workers. >> massachusetts governor duval

patrick has named replacement. william callen. he is serve as senator until a special election in june. with his appointment there are two african americans serving in the senate for the first time in u.s. history. >> maryland governor makes his 7th state of the state address. calling on state law makers. a long list of priorities for the general assembly which included taking on traffic congestion and eliminating the death penalty. >> it cost three times as much as locking someone up for life without parole. and it cannot be reversed if an innocent person is executed. >> there was mixed reaction to his address. democrats praised it as a blueprint to move the state forward. more like omalley had his eye on a presidential run. >> in virginia three top

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8:27. welcome back. the man behind the manti te'o manti te'o girlfriend hoax is coming clean. notre dame linebacker manti te'o

thought he was dating kakuah for several years. tuiasosopo claims he continued the hoax because he fell in love with teo. he decided to end it by faking the girl's death. >> i wanted to end it because after everything i had gone through, i finally realized that i just had to move on with my life and had to get me, i had to start living and let this go. >> san francisco 49ers corner back chris culiver is apologizing for gay marks. he said he would not welcome a gay teammate particularly in the locker room. he said quote the derogatory comments i made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head but they are not how i feel.

the 24-year-old plans to address his remarks formerly later today. >> all right. thanks. let's check in with tucker. >> colder temperatures moving in overnight. make sure you are ready for a wintery day. what's the big story today? >> wind. >> yeah. a lot of wind. wind advisory in affect until 6:00 tonight. i'll show you wind gusts here in a second. 44 in washington. when i got in, the temperatures were in the 60s and been falling here during the last couple hours. 48 in leonard town. 45 in annapolis. gaithersburg 39. and 37 out in hagerstown. wouldn't it be nice if it felt this warm? it really doesn't because of these winds. and very gusty during the first half of the day. here are your current winds out of the left. 40 in baltimore. check out martinsburg. 48 mile per hour wind gusts.

it will be a very windy day. wind advisory is mentioned. until 6:00 this evening. again, if you have any loose objects out there, make sure they are secure. the rain is out of here. 1 and and a half inches of rain. it will be cold tonight. we'll watch the clouds increase overnight and by early tomorrow morning, we could do a brief period. a brief period of light snow around here. temperatures during the overnight hours likely to fall back below freezing. there we are at 6:00 a.m. future cast indicating a period of light snow in time for the morning commute. that will push off to the south and east. tomorrow's daytime highs won't get out of the 30s. if we get anything at all, it will likely stick around during the day tomorrow. 38 tomorrow. could do snow showers saturday night and sunday. sarah, tony, back to you at the

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interrupted in the middle running to the bathroom or having to leave because i've had an accident and wasn't prepared. >> in women it occurs more after childbirth, after menopause and occurs over associated with prostate problem. it tends to happen as we get older. >> overactive bladder is the muscle squeezing too often creating an urgency to urinate. treatment have ranged from drugs to surgery. but now botox is changing lives. >> one of the doctors on the ground floor of the botox bladder research. >> and i'll put the needle into the bladder lining and inject the botox and do that in 20 spots in the bladder. >> and once that bladder muscle is relaxed, 90% of the time, the overactive bladder goes away for

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welcome back. you've heard many of us talking about the district having a budget surplus of $417 million. city officials plan to put the money in the district's reserve funneled. one member of the council says some of the funds should be spent now. joining us now is ward 8 counsel man. >> the traffic is tremendous coming back up here. >> not good but glad you made it. >> let's talk about your plans. there is a law that allows you the council to use some of this money instead of putting it into surplus. why do you think it's better to not store it all away? >> the district has one of the most complex financial matters.

controlled by the congress ultimately. 417 million. i'm very critical for not letting them know early we were going to have this kind of surplus. i found a law that nobody else found. my staff did yesterday. and it allows the council to put up $100 million without going to the congress. and can you imagine what's happening to somebody who is homeless, somebody who can't find a job. somebody who can't have other activities going on by the government? and $417 million surplus? so what i plan to do is we divide that $100 million up. $40 billion for affordable

housing. another $10 million for recreation. and a whole bunch of money for human services. i just announced this yesterday. so i'm going to go work on these council members. >> do you have the support? >> the idea, i want this $100 million spent on people and programs affect people. the district still have over $300 million to put on the bottom of the line. dr. ghandi is playing to the bankers. how could he do this with people going hungry? people are homeless? . a mother having three children only get $450 a month. that's $15 a day to try to live off to get food stamps. so i'm going to work hard on this. if i lose it, i feel good about myself and i'm going to ask the

public. and once i ask what they are going to do. >> do you have the support of the other counsel members? >> i haven't talked to them yet. the way we work down there, you introduce an idea, then you go around and lobby for it. i'm fairly confident. >> does the counsel have the authority? >> the mayor don't want to do this. this is dr. ghandi. there in the controlling function. he should have told us long ago that it looks like we could have had it. i'm going to talk with the mayor about it and see if we can get input from him. i'm going to push for the help. the people of washington will support me on this. doesn't make sense to send it to

wall street bankers to use. >> while i have you here, i have a very important question for you. we all know you are a red skin's fan but you are choosing to root for the ravens in the superbowl. >> it's obvious. the redskins didn't get there. i got to the playoffs. fan of rgiii. so the ravens got there. they beat atlanta. i used to be a 49er's fan. but this is regional. baltimore is about 40 miles from here and i have regional pride. neighboring pride. i'm rooting for the ravens. >> that's good. stick together. right in the same neighborhood. >> red skin's first. if they don't get it, ravens. and i predict the ravens are going to win. >> really? you heard it here. thank you so much for coming in today. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> tony, over to you. >> thank you both.

it is 8:41 now on this thursday morning. still ahead. 40 years of fun on tv and the internet. find out how gore de vol plans to mark his anniversary with his fans. plus, holly is taking us behind silk designs. >> reporter: good morning. i love gore de vol. how wonderful. he has good stories to tell. we have a good story this morning and it's all about silk and history and connection to china. and you are only going to find it at the maridian international center. giving you a behind the scenes look. show you all about it live next on fox 5 morning news. stay with us. oh!

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and we will reiterate these have never before been seen in the americas. this is the first time and happening right here. really just explosion of color. he's the director of exhibitions and he knows all about it. good morning to you. each room is more beautiful with the next. >> we cover over 2,000 years of production. all the way to the late ching dynasty. different social influences ranging from changes in politics, culture and society. really it's a driving force. >> the things they brought here are amazing. when i say explosion of color, take a look at this scarf. >> a lot of these architect actual elements are from the

summer pallets in beijing. this is provided by the silk museum. >> i don't want to let a good scarf go to waste. i might as well try it on. as we continue, tell us some of the things we are looking at. >> great example being used to exhibit. the lower half is sewn together. we have a goose and ribbon motiff worn by high ranking officials by men and here we have 20 motiffs of the goose and ribbon. the other side, we have a beautiful bright

yellow emperor's dragon robe. only worn by the emperor and only delegate this robe for someone else to wear. >> you are involved in a lot of exhibitions here. how much did you learn for this exhibit? >> that's interesting. we have to learn everything for every show we do. for this particular show, we've been learning everything about culture, the history of the silk road but more importantly how all of these influences have conditioned the fashion in china. >> and in fact, we have fashion right now. tell me about our model here. >> our model victoria is wearing traditional ching dynasty worn by wealthy married women. the lower garment is referred to as a fish scale skirt. the head dress strangely

was worn for informal occasions. >> because it's so casual. >> you can only imagine what the formal look like. >> exactly. >> how should people take their time and make the most of this exhibit. >> what we're trying to instill here is a real history from silk to fashion. and particularly the sarah culture and how silk is made 2,000 years ago and how important it was. in coming to the gallery you will learn about contemporary fashion but learn about the history of the silk road and how that has influenced many of the styles. >> as much as i want to take this scarf home with me, i can't. so much enjoyed borrowing it. >> you look great. >> thank you. and listen, you need to take the time and emersed yourself in this exhibit. it's free to public. wednesday through sunday is the days it's open. 2 to 5 p.m.

come out and learn about the history of silk and its beauty. silk and style is what it's called. we're going to continue to talk about more in our next hour. right now, hand it over to you and i'm sending with us a big hug to gore de vol. happy anniversary. >> one of your friends. believe it or not 40 years ago tv personality introduces his alter ego on wdca channel 20's bozo the clown show. he was given his own show called creature feature. moved from television from the late 80s and continued to entertain with live performances and today with internet programs with fun and surprises. count gore de vol is with us live this morning. >> thank you. >> happy to have you here. >> so good to see you again, yes. did they know you used to work? >> i used to work at channel 20

briefly. we would cross paths. i would be on saturday afternoons and you'd be coming in saturday evening. but i got to ask you, can you believe it was 40 years ago february 3rd? >> february 3rd, 1973 i went on the air to bring washingtonians the house of frankenstein. and i don't remember it a bit. but i do know that we're going to do it again tomorrow night at the afi. >> big celebration at the afi. >> my understanding this has just been moved from a smaller venue into a bigger venue because of ticket sales. >> they reached 200 capacity and said no more tickets. no, no, no, no. we have to have people. so they moved it to the big theater. we have lots of room and tickets are still available. >> tell me a little about 40 years of this. you did it on

air for almost 15 years. you still do it for those who don't know, you do a weekly show. >> and i've been on the internet longer than i was on television. 15 years this year. yeah. it's incredible . this was kind of a thing as an alternative to the kid's programming. i wanted to have fun with adults on saturday night. first thing i did was make sure i owned the rights to the character. and then we went on to the internet in 98 and it's been fun ever since. with the internet i have a global audience. i deal with filmmakers from around the world. we have contests that we have. we have a winner from florida to see the show. i don't get to deal with jammers.

>> at least the coffin was open. are you on your third or fourth coffin? >> fourth coffin. and the set is when we came on in 05 we went to an hd set. so now in hd streaming. we are now showing both pd movies and independent films. and i should mention warning people that tomorrow night we're going to actually interrupt the movies like i did on television. no commercials. well, that's not true . there's two phoney commercials. play some games and give away prizes. going to be fun. they were an excuse to have fun. >> so many people in this area grew up watching you count gore and some of your friends we have to mention captain 20. do you see captain 20 much? >> not as much.

actually, i see both captains. i have both costumes on mannequins in the green room. >> i'm going to ask you to come out of character for a moment. dick dyszel. my dad worked at channel 20 for a brief period of time and brought my brother and i to see you. this might have been early in your tenure and we walked on to the set. and it was of course half a space ship. we were so stunned. we just thought you were in a space ship flying around. and it was a little disappointing. >> television is all make believe. when i arrived here and brought in to the room. seriously, television is make believe. and internet television is make believe. and that's what people watch. they

don't want reality. reality is not reality. but i'm glad you had an experience that led to a career. >> it very much did. >> i've got something for you by the way. this is the first time anyone's seen this. this is the brand new t-shirt. >> that's fantastic. >> and it is an retro t-shirt. and we've reproduced it . new t-shirts in honor of tomorrow night's performance. this is yours. >> i will wear this in good health. thank you very much. 40th anniversary tomorrow night . some tickets are still available. go to our web site myfoxdc.com. >> holly was delicious. >> we'll be back with more. maybe. ♪ [ female announcer ] at yoplait, we want you to feel even better about your favorite flavors. so when you call, tweet, and post, we listen.

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