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♪ >> straight ahead, breaking news. morning mess. a tractor trailer crash shuttint down both sides of the beltway. traffic at a standstill. local roads pack as drivers lool for ways to get around the gridlock.lock we'll have live report.. final ruling.final r saying goodbye to a supreme court giant. g today the body of justicece antonin scalia will lie inn repose in the high court chambea the president and the public thi getting a cans to pay respects e but the fight over who will suck cedar him still raging. >> religious leader to questionq a per
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>> the pope versus the donald. the gop presidential candidate firing back after the head ofafe the catholic church calls him cl not christian. now this morning a possible olive branch.ranc but first, the break we've beene waiting for. for a taste of spring just 24 hourss away.. but say it ain't so.. another chance of snow could beb right behind it.eh good day at 9a starts now.. ♪ mother nature can be so cruel. give it and take it away. away good day d.c. d.c it's just aft 9:00 o'clock on this friday, february 19th.ary h i'm holly morris alongsidesi wisdom martin, maureen umeh and jim lokay. lok >> i'm up early. e >> good morning to you.rnin you good to see. >> good to be here.>> g >> we are really happy thatt you're in the loft with us.the w steve is enjoying the rest of e the morning off.e rning
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we do have news.we do have n a lot of it this 9:00 o'clock:0' hour. ho breaking news in fact from thesr beltway. both sides of 495 shut downt dow early this morning after a deadly overnight tractor trailea crash. >> all right. the rig overturned dumping fuel and its cargo all over thethe highway and that is that has les to major backups and delays and clogged local roads as driverslo they basically tryca to find awy ndound. >> team coverage for you will yw all morning long.morng long. fox5 melanie alnwick on thewi t scene let's get over to erino e como with the latest on all of those backups.acku erin you've had a morning and so are have the drivers. drirs >> unfortunately everyonenfor heading out in montgomery county dealt with a traffic headache ha traffic on the inner loopfic getting by in three lanes. les still the outer loop remainsai shut down between connecticutnec avenue and wisconsin. inner loop jams even thoughn traffic moving from old o georgetown through this point an far as your backed up traffic on the outer loop, you are, ou a basically parked from newy parko hampshire all the way to that ta closure at connecticut wherectiw traffic is being detoured.etou i know there's been at least twa crashes in that backup frombacku georgia avenue on through.hr let's take a look right nw
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i want to show you some workhow around toss get around that.rout since the outer loop is closedso and we're dealing with jamup in both directions alternates fors you this morning however theyeve are moving very slow options for you inbound connecticut which it heavy from weller road to joness bridge.brid inbound colesville jams from tht beltway to georgia.ia beach drive west is very iser congested inbound cedar lane iss pack.pa. and 410 eastwest highway whichiw deals with backups every morniny is extremely jammed fromamme fro colesville to connecticut.ne we've also seen minor fenderin n benders on a lot of alternate at routes this morning.uthis 270 southbound still jammed upul and i can tell you fox5 melaniee alnwick has been dealing withlig this traffic headache all a morning long.ing are things improving out therent for you, melanie? >> reporter:.ter:. (inaudible). >> it looks like we are havingav audio problems there.em there melanie did tell me she got got stuck in about 2 miles worth ofo traffic for 4
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she passed numerous secondary sa crashes as well.ell. and from the shot we just showes you you can see traffic outaffic there is not easing. e so we'll be tracking this for t the rest of the morning we'lle i let you know when the outer looh does reopen. rpen. taking a look at that shot writt there. you can see the outer loop isroo just not a place you want to bee right now. so try to find one of those of alternates even though they're t congested they are betterr options and any questions on on twitter at erin fox5 d.c. i'll . toss back to you in the loft. >> thanks erin. 9:04 is our time right now. annan scalia's body is lying ing repose inside the supreme courtt chamber. be the nation prepares to sayo goodbye.goodbye. >> thousands of mourners tho expected to pay respectspeed t throughout the day. fox5's meghan dice joins us livs from the supreme court withremec more. good morning, meghan.od m >> reporter: good morning, gd mn ladies.ladies. scalia serve as associatess justice of the supreme court from 1986 to february 13thebrua when he passed away in texas ats the age of 79. he was appointed by ronald ronal reagan.agan now, let's take look at eventst
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next 24 to 48 hours. to h a private ceremony will be helde today at 9:30 to 10:30 after0: a that public viewing will be open from 10:30 to 8:00 o'clock thiss evening.ev the viewing will take place inwl the great hall of the supreme sp court right behind me. tomorrow saturday there will bea a funeral mass for scalia at 111 a.m. that will take place at the basilica of national shrine ofli the immaculate conception.on meantime the debate continues how to mace justice scalia oftet called the court's conservative heavy weight.ght president obama promised torosed nominate a suck sore soon. mitch mcdonnell leader of thenno republican majority says no onen should be appointed until after the inauguration of the nextaugo president. now the president not expectedte to be at the newspaper funeral r tomorrow.torrow. white house press secretaryuse e citing the reason the potentialn fort extensive presidentialdeia security detail as that reason.r we'll zen it back to you.. >> meghan thank you the mank u charged with cruel and heinous c murders of prominent dc familyiy and their housekeeper makeseperm another appearance in court aeaa today. toda darron wint a rain many hea
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savapolous savapolous, his wifef amy their son philip andlip a housekeeper.. earlier this week a grand jury charged with wint with more thae a dozen fell loss niece, first,s degree murder, burglary,ar kidnapping, extortion, arson and theft.th the other big story thise oi morning a spring fling comein tomorrow we could see someome interesting temperatures topping 60 degrees.rees >> yes! >> whoop whoop! >> everybody gets a big thumbsdg up, gary. wee push it up throw it down. you have to take the good withd the bad. we know that.wenow >> are you singing the facts ofs live theme song. the >> you have to take the good ant the bad.d. >> stop, stop. >> he just revealed this age.ge. >> was are you talking about tha bad, right now or today? >> no. >> peek to next week.ex >> well, professor, we'll allowl to you pontificate on this. t >> i still have no clue what iss the heck is going on here.n temperatures out there thishi morning we check on the big chek plea.ea reagan, dulles, bwi marshallsarh temperatures a little chilly ouc there. 31 for reagan
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bwi marshall is 28 as well. w temperatures have come up.eom we started off this morning wesi were in the teens and now we're upper 20s. 2 so we've added about 10 degreese to frederick gator's you are y a added about 10 degrees, too.greo then here in town we're juste're below freezing but we'll come up for highs today.for let me show you why. show you hook back to the west.he one of the reasons we're talking 60s for tomorrow and maybe evene some areas on sunday, look atoo the warmth coming up.ingp. louisville right now 54 degrees. chicago at 5:00 o'clock thiso'ks morning chicago was 45 degrees.r that's crazy.that's that's nonsense for them. them. but they'll be up in the 60s ass well. and then you got we're back herk on the east coast doing the 30s. weekend forecast looks likeast k this.th. 61 degrees tomorrow.row. some places tomorrow south, sth southwest, with all the sunshine, you're talking 64, 65, maybe 66 degrees in places.ces. sunday more clouds. a chance of some showers so it s looks like and most of those ofo showers on sunday will be in the afternoon and into the evening.e
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showers coming through, we haveh to dial the temperatures back at little bit on sunday so we'rere only going to be mid to upperpp 50's. i hope 58 isn't a stretch. a but if we get no sunshinesh whatsoever on sunday, we could w be only in the mid 50s for highh and some of you will stay in tht lower 50s but again you'ree talking february.ebru that's still bonus weather. wea beautiful today with the muted m sunshine still on the cool sidee we're dry through today.ay we're just really nice tomorrowr tomorrow is a super day and thed we get into sunday and here'snd' where things change a littlethis bit. clouds come in.ds c hopefully a little morninge mor sunshine.nshi the newest modeling now is holding some of the showers bacc to the west pretty much all dayy long. so if that trend continues,tinu maybe late this afternoon oron tomorrow we take the showers oue of the forecast for sunday. suna but right now it looks like thee consensus is that we'll havehatw some around here.d 45 today.45 we'll get there.we'll t th winds out of the south southeass at about five to 15 miles perlee hour. more clouds not so cold you kno the drill and then enjoy thethet weekend and then i guess the bad
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news, wisdom the bad news may bb next week when you'e -- you're-- thinking of snowstorm. >> this. >> i thought you said you weren't going to say. >> we'll talk about that mondayn i'm going to wait until monday.l >> all right. let us enjoy it and live in thet moment.me. >> exactly. >> weekend reprieve.riev >> thank you for pontificatingoi on that professor.ss >> any time. any time. come to my class any time.ny tim no problem. pro >> i'm going audit. ait thanks, gary. still ahead, terrifyingerfy moments for a family on an sightseeing trip.gh we'll show you more of the dramatic helicopter crash caughh on tape and get update on the on investigation.stigion first, though, why the popep questioned donald trump's christianity and how thend h presidential candidate respond responded. 9:09 right here on good day.ay. ♪
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>> you're looking at a lifelooke picture now from the supremew court where people are waitingop for the casket of the antonin scalia to arrive. his body will lie in repose today there and the public haveo ala chance tol th pay their rese and the president and the firstt lady also expected to attendto n this afternoon. i don't think it's much of a surprise to see the big linethe outside of people wanting to send their well wishes.l whe drum many is toning down his d reaction to the pope's criticisi of his religious faith. trump says he's great respectats for pope f
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he's got an awful big wall atigl the vatican hill self.ill all started yesterday aft theft pope questioned trump his chan c in the while flying back to they vatican from his visit to theist mexico. it stems from his plan to buildh a wall between mexico and theice united states.. >> a person who thinks only onl about building walls wherever we they may be and not buildingin bridges is not christian. >> somehow the government of mexico spoke with the pope, thee spent a lot of time with theithe pope, and by the time he left hl made a statement.made a stateme. i don't know --don' >> you think the government ofnt mexico got the pope to say thist >> i don't think they said thatt way but i think they probably po talked about isn't it terriblebl that mr. trump wants to have t h border security, et cetera, ete, cetera. and the pope made the statemente and i think it was probably a pl little bit nicer statement thant was reported by you folks in the media, because after i read it d it was a little bit softer. sof but the bottom line, we've got g to have a border.to hava border. we've got to have security. we have tremendous illegalal immigration in the country
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>> back and forth joining us non to break down the politics fox5 political reporter ron nikkeii cleary. would who've guessed we would see a fight between drum manyrum and the pope. >> but the way this politicalay season has gone i'm not ge i' surprised.surpri >> really it's not a surprise. r i mean, i think we were all a little surprised initially. >> i'm a little surprised that t the pope brought it up. you see what i'm saying. i'mayi. >> i didn't bring it up.. >> he made the statement and non trump is reacting. rct i'll not have been as surprisedr for trump to initiate. iti >> that's the thing about thesen stories, though.s, though. that's why i am very hesitant ht when i report on them and i sayy these things have been reportede okay.ay the pope visited mexico. o he spent six days there.s tre on the flight back a reporter reportedly asked him, you know,k what do you think of drum many?f and then the pope responded nott mentioning trump by name but nae saying that, you know if you'rey focusing on building walls and d not building bridges then you'rr not a christian.ristan now, i think perhaps that quoteo is shocking and i think it did i
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>> it surprised trump.rprised tu >> it's not shocking at all. >> let me say this. me say thi i'm not surprised at all as a catholic the profoundly at the cornerstone of our faith as ath christian whatever, you know, whatever denomination you claima as christian you are to build bi bridges and not fences that'sen' what the bible says and so forsf the pope to say that, i don'tt,n think he was attacking donaldasc trump at all.. he's merely state wagon we wagow believe as christians that inhai order to ab good christian youan love your brother, your sister,r and you build bridges, notes, n make -- not put up fences.pen and that's what he was saying.as i didn't take the offense. off what i did find interesting drui many who should have a thicker k skin would reaction in this wayn to the pontiff of all people. >> i'll tell when i got thehei e-mail this happened verys ha suddenly when it broke yesterdas i got this e-mail it said in the headline donald trump responds r to the pope. the p i'm literally thinking what is i going on -- how,, what iss happening? >> you know, and did he have and some, i'd say, harsh words inori that initial response. respons he said, you know, questioningui someone's faith is distraughtish full.
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when isis attacks the vatican, i mean, there was some very somer surprising things in that e-maie i will say last night at the cnn town hall i think donald trump tone it back little bit and it a was perfect example of how thest things initially reported completely blow up.low u donald trump said maybe some ofe it was miss repped maybe he mbeh wasn't as harsh as i firsts hari thought. he called the pope a great guy.t he said he had high energy.nerg i mean and that's how -- withatw the way media covers thingsshins today with how quick it is, youu know, i mean these things spiral out control. >> basically we can't believe anything that reporters say? >> well -- >> just report it. j >> hope you can believe what iai say.say. >> such a crutch it's becomeome such a crutch to blame thetch e media. i want to ask you, the one thini that donald trump said about adt leader of questioning somebody'd faith, keep in mind donald truma is also said ted cruz callsz ca himself a christian but he's as liar, liar, liar. liar, l >> that's very interesting.ve that was the first thing that it thouhight of.. and then it's been very very interesting to watch all theg th candidates respond to this. tths jeb bush not getting in it.ng i
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between donald trump faith isth between himself and god. john kasich last night kind of funny unexpected i'm pro pope.e right. >> he sort of took the pope'sf p cidar of it.ci this is a conversation that is i uncomfortable i think for lot oo people to have. he and watching the reactions in think is very telling of aing o candidate. even it's actually been quite q informative for the voter who is still undecided or swing a votea to see how some of thesehe handling something like this lik that is so personal. p >> i think it hugely unwise ofno donald trump not to top down his rhetoric fur going after peopleo of faith one of ways you can alienate them by completelyomet taking on leader of the catholic church. >> especial until south caroli carolina. >> exactly. in south carolina. al bible vote here. bible vot >> here's the thing.>>e >> we're talkin talking about te here. is this really going to affect the people bible toting whatever you want to call them in southh carolina or in where else inhern this country there are lot ofret people who are not catholics. nt i understand we'rta
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religion and faith. faith is this going to have an impactn because we are after all talkinl about the pope? pop >> you know, i think that peoplp a lot of people respond the and say the pope should stay out ofo it. >> i don't think the pope ise is innocent.in i think you're right maureen heh was just basically touting what his christianity -- >> at the same time i don'te sa think he is as and in in thed ih fact i think he knew what he wae saying when he said it and who it was referring to no differend than what he addressed congressc and talked about differentut things there.he did it under the christiantian umbrella but very poignantlygntl without saying specific names. s >> if you're a hater and you --- leader and you don't take leadee what kind of a leader people arr you. you lead billions of people. you're asked a question nouestio matter how uncomfortable it isli answer it in a definitive wayay you have done a disservice.e. >> that supports my originalor argument of the pope bringing ih up. he was asked the but he enteredt into the arena as a leader toeat
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>> i don't think it was political. i think again the basis of basio humanity. >> i think that a lot of peoplep do think the pope should stayoua out of it you can say all you ay want about catholic recent livei john and this kind of stuff.kin. he's not over here.'sve all right a lot of penal area p going to see this as why are wee talking about this. t he should stay out of it. of i you're right.ig >> i think clearly this panelhip disagrees as you see.ees as you i think we're representative off the american people.ple >> that's how it goes.toe that kind of year.. >> ronica will keep us coveredse with all the results andes reaction from tomorrow southroso carolina primary and nevada nad caucus. tune into fox5 this sunday morning ronica will be joined by bob cusack. >> 9:19.9. tucker barnes is take thee th plunge. not the way you think. think the polar plunge. p all for a very special cause.au don't miss this.s thi >> helicopter falls from the sks and it's all caught on tape. t we'll tell was went wrong whenrw we get a check on what else isli making headlines this
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steps much that's break fromchhr tradition actually the it used t to be former justice that is tt that did that. this time the justices will be inside. >> i understand casket be brought like in repose his funeral tomorrow in northeastst d.c. president and mrs. obama expec expected to pay their respectsee today to justice scalia at somes point this morning but again bua very somber scene outside the oe supreme court as their waiting i the rifle of justin antoninin scalia's casket.as once the casket arrives we'll dl our best to bring that live toh you during our show.yoduring our time now 9:23.3. allison is back with a check ofk the other stories making had he lines this morning.line >> hey, al. >> that's a moving picture.t'moi >> very very very moving.erry vo >> good morning to you everybo everybody. good morning to you. first up a teenager in criticali condition this morning after a a private helicopter crashed intot hawaii's pearl harbor. h now the accident caught on tapep the teen was one of five of five passengers on board this private
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chopper. hard to look at. the helicopter crashed about 20 feet offshore bystanders welw they jumped into the water to wr help rescue the people on that a chopper.oppe federal investigators are now an examining what went wrong. meantime, new developments e in the standoff between applef n and the fbi. yesterday federal agentsalge searched the home of saaed farook's brother.ro farook and his wife are responso al for carrying out the deadly l san bernardino attacks. meantime, facebook and twitterkt are now showing their supportirp for apple. ale this comes just days after aft court ordered apple to unlockk the iphone investigators say iss crucial to the san bernardinona case. apple has until tuesday to formally challenge this ruling.r there's a debate involvingng schools in politic.ol fairfax county school board boa weighing in by deciding to closo schools for the presidentialdenl primary. record voter turn out in other state's influenced the board decision. prince william county schools are closing for super tuesday.
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settle down this is about the t zika virus right now. rig pope francis weighing on theingn threat of virus responding tond reporters questions that he says women threatened with the zika virus could use artificiall contraception.ception and that avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil in light of this global epidemic.bal however the pope rejectedd abortion as a response to the crisis.is and finally, thenally, philadelphia police departmentoc has come up with way to helpp kanye west with his debt probl problem. he doesn't have debt problemsbts that's not what it is.at any way he's raising money to help his id. his they want him to join the force. um-hmm. yesterday philadelphia policehi department philly pd tweeted out this photo saying quote we arete hiring kanye starting alvei $47,920 and you can be debt fref by the year 3122.2. (laughter). >> the tweet even includes an is link to their career site and, yes, that's kanye's head photoea shopped on a
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body. i'm no genius but i bet kanye is not going like that. t they're making fun of his tryint to raise the money.oney he's raising money for his. he just wants help from otherth big boys. >> the numbers don't add up fore that job for krsanye. fan they just don't add up you stili got to have a lifestyle that you're can custom to.tom >> can you imagine kanye on theo streets. >> no. >> back to you guys. back >> thanks, al. >> singer chris set michelle ise joining us life.if her new album due out in about two months but first we'rest getting a sneak peek and w and special performance. >> first though gary will be thg back with a look at the weekende warm up and our next chance fora the word -- >> jim, don't say it. >> we'll kick you right out of t this loft.this loft. >> i won't say it.>> >> blame him not the new guy. 9:26. back after this.
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>> back now 9:29 on this friday9 morning and you're looking livel tick pictures of the supreme sue court where justice scalia's casket has just arrived. arrived live pictures from the supreme e court where his cassette hasse arrived.ri his casket will be carried up the steps and the former supreme court justice clerks will be be lining the stairs you will see o that in just a moment. men of course he'll bearried into the great hall there of the of supreme court. c. there's going to be private pvae viewing from 9:30 to 10:30 for0f friends and family and theny a e after that it will be open to the public.the publ >> all right. once they do carrying him upg hu those steps they'll put the
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coffin on a raised platformd plm draped in black.ap that's part of the history hereh what happens.at h it's been used since thisce t platform has been used since 1865 for services on capitol on hill. the last time it was used 1993 9 that you are good marshall and 1995 for justice warren berger.. platform was conducted for thecd coffin of abraham lincoln.co of course the last time that we saw supreme court justice diecee while on the bench was justin ji rehnquist back in 2005. 2005. this very solemn ceremony youy y see them pulling out the flag tg draped casket from the hearse ta carrying the body of justice scalia. al i believe these are clerks wholh are helping to carry the caskete >> i think this is actually thet supreme court -- the policehe pc carrying him up and the justices will follow behind as honorary r paul bearer. >> a lot of pomp and lot omp circumstance and tradition thatt goes into something like this. justice scalia dying at the agee of 79 on saturday. saturda his funeral will be tomorrow ata the basilica of the national nto shrine of the imam mack queuem c
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live pictures here of theture supreme court as the basket iski now arriving and being pulled into the building.intohe buildi. >> isn't it a when you think tnk about this society we live in we today but this is still a very v basic very simple solemneol ceremony and the number ofumbero people who have lined up so farf to pay respects he was revered v in the legal community no matten what you thought of his rulingss >> right. courtremeou the supreme for three decades. >> right. >> and ruling obviously on many influential cases and in matterr where you fall on either side of the aisle, the bottom line is, there's a family that is buryini their spouse, that is sayingt i goodbye to their father.toheir >> nine children. cld >> he has 36 grandchildren.dr >> wow. >> so you know, it's a sad day for his family obviously andus a those closest to him.im it's a sad day for the supremeue court in general obviously asioy they have lost one of their the members that is very tight knitk group and a very obviously eliti group as you can imagine. >> historic today's as well ast' you do see the number of people lined up to bear witness
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moment right now. n president and mrs. obamas. a expected there at the supremeree court to pair thinmek respects s well at some point today. tay but again these live pictures taking in the solemnity of theto moment right here as we'ree as watching the casket of scalia be taken into the supreme court.me >> you talk about the tone oft the moment.th this is sort of what youe expet to see immediate aftermath ofer his passing.pasng it was so political so quickly so now we kind of dial the rhetoric back and do what justice scalia deserves is a fair and solemn tribute. >> yeah. >> now as part of the traditiono we talked about the traditionf and how it doesn't matterat politic don't matter at this at very moment because someone hass actually passed away but about a the tradition of what's happening here now, this is, t northern with the supreme courtp tradition. the courts doors they've beeny'e draped in black following scalia's death as has the benchb in the front, n front of his seat.seat. the tradition dates back as farf as the chief justice solomon p chase
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the flags will be flown at halfh staff 30 days.ays. so it is traditional.. politics not involved in itot i right now.now monday as a matter of fact thea justices will take thema bench r the first time since his death. >> there are 12 former lawr clerks that are serving as the honorary paul bearers ratherrers that we mentioned before and iea believe those are the peoplee a that are walking behind the casket there and then the former law clerks of him will alsoill a stand vigil at the casket ast lies in repose today through tht day and night.ig >> carrying the casket those aro all members of the us supremesum court police force they're thect ones carrying the casket in andn as we mentioned just the peoplee who's lives were touched bye tou scalia who work with him new him who studied under him, you canan see them on the steps a lot oftf the clerks there of the supremee court.urt >> as you remarked jim it is i heartening to see that we arese now at this point were we realla can celebrate and honor this man who again despite whatever you thought of his rulings reallyy was instrumental in sh
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and whose legacy will be long lived.ve. so wherever you fall on the political spectrum you have tosp reecspect the tradition you have to respect the customs that we as americans hold to when it comes to honoring someone whoomw has served in this capacity. >> scalia funeral mass will bewb celebrated on saturday. surda it's only open to friends andena family members. members. it will be followed by a private burial father paul scalia antonin's scalia son will be the celebrant of this.of t the person who will lead theea mass for his father's funeral mass and -- and - >> that's the information is th hadn't heard. i didn't realize one of hisze o children had gone into the priesthood.st >> um-hmm. >> not surprising. >> exactly. >> strong catholic family inde indeed. but it is very big honor as youo can imagine to be a supremere court clerk, you know what i wht mean. mean. >> absolute it is.>> a >> you see all the former clerke the current clerks lining thelek steps ther
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casket in and we already mention the 12 of his former clerks aree the ones serving as the honorarr paul bearers.paul b this we're seeing today iseeingy actually a break in tradition it used to be the justicestis themselves would line the stairs as the casket was carried in. i they've not commented on whyed w that tradition has changed or why they chose not to do it thii year but we know the justices js obviously will be on the insided to be there and welcome andcomea honor the casket that is broughb into the supreme court.upreou >> you mentioned father paulr pu scalia his son is actually delegate for diocese of arlington.ton >> very good.y od >> all right. we've been talking quite a bitka about what we see in the lastas couple of days.upleys. started this week out absolutell miserable.ble. >> we try to forget it jim.orgej >> this is like the pot of goldl at the end of the rainbow rightt now. now. >> i guess you're what the honeh pot? >> hey, hey. >> leprechaun.>> lepre >> i didn't want to call i was little green troll.en troll >> you knew it was going there.t you lift me up and bring meri m down.
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upper 20's north and west.es we're cool today.e oday. dry. we'll be dry tomorrow as well.l. 45 where we'll top out.. winds will be southeast five toe 15 little bit of a chilly breeze out there.here no doubt. not much sunshine.in still cool along the east coastc but look at the warm air surging up from the south. sth texas this morning in the 60s. chicago is 49. i st. louis has come from thefr t upper 50s already into the mid h 60s today. they'll be well into the 70sel there was 80s yesterday in the texas panhandle just so you knok all that warm air is coming onon up about the best we'll be ablel to do with that get up to 61 degrees tomorrow. torrow. i don't really hear any complaints.comp sunday 58 degrees. more clouds some showersho possible and it should be late e in the afternoon that we'reha w dealing with the possibility ofy a few showers.feers. so sun and clouds today. obviously mild tomorrow we'rero' close to 61.1. 62. 62. and then we end up pretty goodty shape basically here.e don't look at this.s. i put it in the wrong seven dayv forecast n what? >> i did. i >> had one job, gary.y >> it was so wrong i didn't even
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want to try and fake it.ak i i just --- >> is it snowing and 66. 6 >> this is actually better, b though. >> i know. >> a lot better than what we're' thinking.thin >> it's a lie, gary. it'li >> you can blame tucker. >> no, i can't blame him for this.this. i'll take the blame. bla >> nonetheless thank you gary. t >> i'll show the real onehaow comi tng.coming. >> okay. it's been obviously a very veryy busy morning on the roads.oa we've been dealing with the witt overturned tractor trailer tiler since, what, about 4:45 thiss morning, erin.ri >> that's right.s ri since about 4:45 this morning wg were doing the early show thisht happened both sides of the o beltway initially shut down.hutd right now at connecticut avenueu inner loop lanes getting by butb you're still jammed basicallymel parked from old georgetown andrw taking a look at outer looproo there's still underil investigation right now allow a lanes blocked traffic being tffc forced to divert on to connecticut avenue and just jamj pack. i'll show i was look at our mapm really quickly because we arelye dealing with a really rough rou commute in maryland thisarylanhi morning. two serious crashes thatriou happened. bw parkway at 32 involvingvi injuries.ries carroll county 27 at kate wagneg road and then three deadlyee dea
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in frederick county on harp hilp road and then in prince george's county the 10200 block of lake l arbor rate way and latest crashc we just showed you the beltway w deadly crash involving that tt tractor trailer betweener bet wisconsin and connecticut.nectu. there are plenty of alternatesfe to get you around that beltway w congestion as holly mentioned mi has been out there since beforef 5:00 o'clock this morning.'cloho still secondaries in montgomeryr county jamming up as folks seeks alternates.alternates connecticut inbound is heavy, colesville road jams from theoad beltway to georgia.ia beach drive west is congested. inbound cedar is packed and unfortunately eastwest highwaytg dealing with very slow-traffic.i melanie alnwick has been out inn this mess all morning and thealo last tweet i got from her saidai she had been stuck in that traffic 5 miles took her an houu and a half on the outer loop l coming from georgia towards that scene at connecticut wherectut w they're diverting traffic. trafc let's get outside to melanie. anything improve for you out there? >> reporter: well, you know weoo finally made it here to the accident scene. sce take a look here. he this is all that's left o
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cab and the debris. take look at upper corner theree we believe that's sort of wheree the cab ended up on its side. sd so they're making very good vy progress in trying to open upp the outer loop of the beltway bl here but really just jus catastrophic in terms of the damage here. h we'll try to carefully bring the camera back around. you can see part of the payloade is left here. it looks like from what we can c tell on the boxes, many of the boxes are marked with ross.e maw there are home goods.ome g there are shoes.h and blankets and comforters anda other sorts of household items all over they're picking those o up.up not too long ago, if you see where the overhead sign is, that's pretty much where we whee believe the pointer of impactmpt was.wa so from what i understand fromam fire and rescues it appears that it started to slide and ended up here and that is where -- the unfortunate fatalit
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here on the inner loop of theneo beltway. they do hope they'll get thishis open probably win the next hourh or so. so, again, really really terrible commute.mute it's still bad out there.he but be patient.. because i would say by noon iy think all of this is going to bt back open.ba back to you guys.. >> mel, thank you soar thatu ta update. has we head to break we wanw to take you inside the supremehe court the great hall where there was a prayer service now underway for justice antonin scalia as we mentioned his sonis will be leading the services ses over the weekend much that ish t not his son there but everyonevy of the supreme court justices ji are inside the great haul rightg now paying their tribute this ii a private service that will gotl on before the public viewingie which begins at 10:30 this 10:3i morning and it will continue cti until about 8:30 tonight and the numbers of people outside as wee have seen before just amazing to see the people to show up and ad pay their respects.espect >> at least to be hundreds ofuno people i should say. i shod say these live pictures of the o t private ceremony getting g underway inside the gre
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of the supreme court. supreme cu we will have much more of thishi coming up in the newscast. newas but as we again looking at the t pictures as the camera pulls out, as jim did you mention, wee do have all of the supreme coree justices right there on the topt of your screen.cr their colleague antonin scalia. >> if you listen i know they are saying the lord's prayer. pye very private somber personall ceremony that's going on now.n n this is obviously just for friends, family inside is -- is this is going to go on until 10:30. it will open to the public. t they are anticipating thousandss will come out today to pay theie respects. the president and first lady ofd course will be there this t afternoon and then vice-president joe biden and his wife will be at the actualual funeral ceremony tomorrow taking place at the basilica. basica. the burial is private. pvate we don't know where he will beeb buried but it will be a privatei ceremony much this is a chanc
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right now -- 10:30 for the public to pay -- this is only chance to pay your respects. ret >> of course his death coming ah a surprise.issu no one really anticipated this.t those closest to him knew he hah some health problems, but wee have learned that supreme courtu justices do not have to disclose their health status, so he was away at a ranch in texas and died of natural causes suddenly and really through the political arena too disarray with his passing.ssing. nonetheless today is a day to to remember and say goodbye. >> it's interesting you had int mentioned the word friends.ends some of his friends and fends co-workers one of his best buddies he said in the past onas the court was ruth baderde ginsberg then serve together ont a lower court.ourt very emotional time for her. >> it is. we'll have much more of this o t coming up on good day d.c.. but for now we'll send you to break anding back on the otheron side.side.
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the weekend much that's for sue sure. >> here we go. we're coming out of the winterti deep freeze a little.ittl this weekend supposed to be verr spring like.sp >> but that's probably isn't going to be get most of to usf u put on bathing suits and go jump in that a cold body of wateryf like tucker barnes is going tong do. so tucker barnes is out there ot out and about right now. tucker, you still have your y clothes on as you're getting get ready to do this plunge. plu >> what going on. >> wisdom i'm living in fear ofo this moment that's coming up bup it's for a great cause. cause let me set the scene here foror you. i'm in downtown washington andao i'm joined by and please give mm your title. tit >> chair of the board of speciai olympic dc. >> d.c. special elimation your name.name >> craig, ceo special olympic d.c. d. >> let's set the scene and explain exactly what i'll ben ex doing next hour. hour >> i understand you'll be'll be plumping in a little bit. >> you're be taking the testhe plunge. you ge
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polar plunge for special olympip third annual. polar plumps major fundraiserai for special olympics around thet country.country. >> where do we come up with the idea of polar plunge. plu air temperatures in the 20sra right now. the folks are just starting to t fill up the water you tell me il in the low to mid 30. >> that's true. why -- you wouldn't want to takt to plunge in 80-degree weather e don't think. >> i'm going to be plunging outn here but you've got a lot ofot other people plunging. plungin tell me about the idea behinda the plunge and how it helps itel raise money for the special s olympic here in d.c.n d >> today we're kicking off ourur polar plunge season with the power lunch plunge the first plunge in the district columbial downtown area.do a we've had plunges out atut a catholic university, american university but we wanted toty bw bring it into the heart of the t district to really encourage the corporate community to gettyo behind special olympic and helpl raise fund and awareness. a hundred plungers coming outg t today.toda they've raised a hundredrais a h thousand dollars for this plungl a lone today.a ne t >> that's fantastic. not just corpo
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want to get involve in theol in plunge a lot more information on the internet, right. >> correct.>> we have a website craig can give you better.u bet >> plunge d.c..org you can stils sign up we have a plunge onlunge february 28th at catholic c university open to the public. register op line or come oute o that day and plunge.e >> i'll be next hour to do thebt actual plunge. tell me about the dc specialcial olympics and how important it is to the community.he cmuni >> we've been involved i'm withh brook field and we've beenfielde involved with special olympicsic dc for 12 years and i can justas tell you my experience with that they do wonders for intellectu intellectually disable children if you go out and experience one of the events the sports eventse you'll really see what it does e for the community and for thesee kids.ki. >> fantastic.antast aisles to it back inside but ast you can see there that is thets platform i'll be walking up andd then i'm going to be jumping jpi into icy cold water here withe w another parts pan. p right. >> we have an athlete coming a from woodson high school takingk the plunge with you.ith y >> all right.>> a
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that will be next hour. will be >> you can hold each other. oth >> i'll go change right now andn get ready. get >> you're a brave man.brave it's for a good cause.se. got to keep telling yourself fof a good cause.d c >> he's looking at it like it'si the green mile.the gree it's just water.it's >> would you do it. j>> >> no. >> neither would i.>> >> there you go n. >> 9:49. 9 pack your bags it is time toe to take trip and we're getting id ideas on exact where to go in 2016 from someone who knows a ko thing or two about traveling. tg we're sitting down with the author of a thousand places to e see before you die.see before that's coming up next. ♪
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♪ welcome back at 9:52. most of us have our favorite vacation spots. spo one travel expert says it's as s great idea to expand ourxpand o horizons and try nouveaury n indication destination once in n awhile. patricia schultz is the authorr of 1,000 places to see before bf you die and 1,000 places in the u.s. canada to see before you die.e. she's at the d.c. travel and.c.r adventure show this weekend bute first she's live with us in thet loft to share her topics toicso visit in 2016. good morning to you.ng t you. >> good morning.>>morn >> it's a big wide world oute wt there and i want to see every e nook and cranny but wife wiltedl it down to five places.ces. how did you
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>> eyewitness telled it down ton thousand.nd >> for our purposes five today.t >> impossible choice.ce 2016 really important time i te think to visit these five in particular. you're good to visit at the sama time.time but 2016 for example i chose cuba.ba. >> really. y yeah. >> we're hearing a lot of cuba now that relations have that ret wassed. >> this week we just signed ae s special deal between u.s. and.nd cuba to normalize commercial aia traffic. so the us market is huge it's i going to inundated infrastructure there is actually quite feeble to the numbers tha could be happening in the nexten year or two. see it now. one of those places to see -- se >> you get deals in terms ofn to when you get there hotel rates.t >> really these people, theeoe, people programs are the best wat to go. they have the best organizationn they have the best hotels.otel it's not unlikely to arrive if go independently and find this d would be reservation for hotel h doesn't exist. >> you don't want to leave the country. stay w
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united states. the national parks are treasur treasures. >> one hen death anniversary of the centennial. >> i didn't know that. ath >> 100th year woodrow willl dough signed the national parkak service. we have 58 national parks but ww have hundreds of mill tartar battlefields, recreational are areas, monuments but the parksun in particular. there's --there's -- >> you can do that with your family nominal cost there. >> yes. >> we're trying to breeze through these.. you said mean march. >> for southeast asia an area ii especially love.lyove. it's a neighbor of thailand butb it's kind of like thailand 50an years ago and they had elections in notify.otif so they're fast and finally on a real track towards democraticti nation. >> if you're concerned about a instability or your safetyy or u you're saying that's not something you should worry sou h much about. >> no.>>o it's very surely becoming asu thing of the past and they'ret e encouraging tourism and it's a i very very special place to be. >> i skipped a c
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prague which i've been to. been beautiful place.. why did you pick prague now. >> 700th anniversary, didn't, you know. >> well, i should have known. >> for charles who was born 7000 years ago much he's much loved. >> i just put mock on the charles bridge.s br >> named after him. n there's a lot going on. >> whaa t i love about it's sots romantic there. there >> it is. it's beautiful city.ul cit >> it's like being fairy taleaiy all the castles.e ctl >> it's becoming one of the moss visited cities in all of europe. >> awesome. >> the last on your list japan.. >> yeah, because -- >> i was surprised. i thought this workplaceorkpce everyone goes to.o >> last year they finallyin reached their 1 millionth mli american tourist and of course c they're doing after the brazil olympics summer olympics in 2022 japan is doing the summer sme olympics so see it now before br there's too much construction ot activity going on.vity going and it's a magnificent country.t >> it is. >> we have about a minute left.l you're here because of the
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travel show at the conventionven center. >> yes. >> give me in a nutshell whyell it's so important to visit thest places and explore and get out p of the of our comfort zones.rt . >> get off the sofa. washington we have so muchhave s international influence.nfluence i was at georgetown.rgow i understood early on the world is huge our bubble is beautifull but only to -- only if you thent explore the world and come backc and your home is twice as it's a win/win situation. situation. >> travel helps you understandlp people and i think it leads to better relations between peoplel >> yeah.>>eah >> i think everyone shouldon s travel.el students, politicians.politicias >> my goodness especiallyy politicians. >> patricia schultz author of a thousand places to see beforeo e you die and the thousand placesa in the us and canada to seeo before you die.ouie thank you. >> thank you. >> you make me want to pack myam bags right now.. hopefully other do's as well. hopefully.lly >> the information is rightti there on our screen.n. oh, man., i needing to somewhere.omhe we'll back our bags and go a g
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how about that patricia.th pat >> you're on. let's do it. back to my colleagues on the couch. couc >> my bag is packed.y bais p >> y. w listen it is coffee time on gooe day d.c. da if you've ever been eyeing our cool good day mugs listenug because we now have new good day d.c. dunkin' donuts mug to givev away. aw pefect cup for that greatreat dunkin' donuts coffee. head to fox5 d-c/contest or ouro facebook page at facebook.com facebook.com/fox5 d.c. to enter. one lucky winner will be wil selected by random drawing.wi hurry you only have from nowow until 11 a.m. to enter. 9:57 is our time.urim good day at 10a coming up next.
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>> jam packed good day at 10a.d the only place to be this fridao morning. >> talker at 10a the donald takes on the pope. the $100 bill debate and trouble for kimybee0a. kimye >> live in the loft, the one ana only grammy winner chrisettehrie michelle and, yes, she willl perform. >> all right.>> plus get ready to laugh. popular comedian miss pat is in the house. hse >> and wait for it. wait r it ladies --es- >> ut-oh. >> tucker is going to change the polar plunge. live at 10a. hmm. shirt or no shirt? shirt >> i say shirt. s >> what a way to end the week.. the 10a starts right now.. ♪ ♪ >> yup. that's one of her hits. >> you know what, iff tucker wl leave his shirt on jim you havee to take yours off. sorry.y >> oh, no.o >> look at this. >> you don't have to fall for this jim.this >> i'm still the new guy here.e. i do what i'm told. tol >> we like that you follow directions though. >> you don't have to take that come on jim.n j >> this is what i like about jim joining us in the loft.e >> what is that.>> w >> he's seriously upping the t sock game on this show.how
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>> give them a little somethingg something jim. >> i just read a study on guy who's wear zany socks.ks >> we're brilliant.iant >> your intelligence is quite u there so they say.erhey sa >> i want to point i'm a very v clumsy person when i learned i i had to walk on life tv i was w really nervous until the momentn i sat down.n >> we wanted to you fall. y f we were hoping we'd go viral. v >> we all made it.>>all made i it's friday!! >> good day d.c. d.c. that's what we say to that. heim holly morris, alongside maureen, wisdom and jim lokay. y >> how long have you been with h fox now. fox now. >> three months. three months. >> three months. >> you've made --ou'v >> it took you that long to find the loft in the morning. >> in the evening. just not in the morning.the >> um everywhere.>> u i was here last night. gnaw tour tony last night and here this morning.orni the truth was i started here ane i met everybody on the morningog crew. >> i remember that. r i went to nights and never sawen any of you again. ain >> now we're even more beautiful than you remember.ouembe >> you look -- >> like fountain of youth oveai
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>> a lot of whining drinking.g . >> contents spilled out into tho inner loop and we know that thet driver was killed.le want to give you live look in l the area right now and the goodo news is, all lanes of the innern loop are back open. ope traffic is moving and just theue last few minutes finally they ty got one lane of the outer loopul back open but still backups forr miles on both loops. boo want to get out to bob barnard.. bob, you've been talking withit drivers caught up in the mess ms and right now you're in chevyy chase much there's got to be aoe lot of frustration out there.ut >> reporter: can you see theouet faces reflect of the -- they'ree waving to us.ng to us. boy, they are not happy thesenos folks here.fos he yeah, this is jones bridge roadd here.he this is one of the cut
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people who are on the outer looo had to get off at georgiaeorg avenue. they just had a green light upht at connecticut avenue.ve that's why they're starting tort move here. they are backed up for miles and as you pan to the right hereer you'll see all the way up to t connecticut avenue they getavene about a 302nd green light andigt then it's red again and here foe a couple of more minutes.es. it's been slow going and we'll show you why. we can show you skyfox shots sts from earlier this morning.orning just a total mess. tractor trailer lost controlton went through the injury see wall.ll. it lost its fuel tank, the cab c was separated sadly the driverr was killed.. both the inner loop and outer o loop were shut down all lanesll for a time at the start of therf morning commute.ommu and they've slowly gradua gradut some lanes open but the residual impacts are still being felt att this moment.is moment. we'll come back and show youhowu again a life picture here all al these cars just waiting to get either here in bethesda or o somewhere else to get to work iw the city. we've talked to people. p it's ban nightmare.ma here are a few of the people
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>> terrible.. i took two back ways that i knok and they're both backed up and i just decided to wait the out.ut i'm going to bethesda. i've been in the car for about 45 minutes already just going tt kensington.. (laughter). >> 2.5 hours much it's crazy. i live by andrews air force ba base. supposed to be at work ato be a 7:00 o'clock. >> 2.5 hours..5 hrs. it's after 9:00 now.:0 you were supposed to be to workw two hours ago. >> i detoured and ended up beine in the mess. >> reporter: how would youow woy describe this morning? >> upping, you have to leaveeave home with your patience that'sh' all.l knowing what's ahead of you or o stay home. hom >> reporter: have you had to listen to this all morning?ning >> yes. it's awful.ul >> describe the traffic for me. >> absolutely awful.. we've been on the road for abouo two hours now. just going down university and back.ck. horrible. >> reporter: listening to thisns guy? >> yeah. any time he sees anyone
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>> reporter: i know how you howu feel.fe it's been that kind of morning. we all be barking right nowt if we can. if that's how that dog, that family is -- has felt and look the at e these folks lot of long faces fs many of these people on the roaa for more than two hours tryingry to get to a appointments.nts. the one lady who said pack yourr patience or stay home was goingm to suburban hospital to visito her father who's in the's t hospital. so she really had no choice butb was keeping a good attitudeude about it.abou it's just been a rough morning,, guys.ys clearly, there's a person who was killed and his family andnd friends will be devastated by b this for the rest of everybodyvy it's just an inconvenientnconven morning what way to start yourr weekend here going to worko wor friday and wherever else you'rer going and not getting there anya time soon.oo guys it's been business meg out here. >> at least it is the weekend though.ough. >> right? >> that's true. tha bob is that kujo by the way? are you caught up on your shots. >> reporter: is that what?s thaa >> was that kujo the dog?
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(laughter).augh no. but you know what i lost a finger.finger >> there you go. youo. >> nice. >> quick.uick >> i have to go to suburban too. see you later. later >> bob closed out the week. earlier on the week he was on pothole patrol.. he closes out the week byth b interviewing a dog stuck intuck traffic.af you're the man, bob muchfi that' all outbought to say.ough >> reporter: thank you.te >> you deserve the weekend asr:a well. all right. 10:07.10 let's go ahead seen what is 10ing.g donald trump toned down hisow reaction to the pope's criticisi of his religious faith duringing last night's gop town hall. trump says he has great respectr for pope francis. but and that the pope was likell being influenced by members ofro the mexican government.oven now it all started yesterdayteay after the pope questioned trumps chris chan will the in the whili flying back to the vat fran hiss visit to mexico. it stems from for his proposall for wall between mexico and thee united states.
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awfully big wall at the vat andv should the pope be weighing ingi on american politics? and whatt did you think of trump'srump response? go ahead comment onmt our fox5 d.c. face bock page orr tweet us let us know at #fox5dc. >> this one is a sad sorry.ad sr may have seemed like a fun harmless photo op but turned into a premature for a babyy dolphin.hi a crowd of beach goers discovered a baby dolphin. it wash up on the shore. s they pick it up they started passing eight around. aroun they also took selfies and one o of them took this video of the incident. that dolphin died short after ar the baby franciscan dolphin label vulnerable to he can tingt important fact not be dismissed. wildlife experts say the baby tb dolphin can't survive for long outside of the water and rapidly died from rapid dehydration inon that hot water.ot wat >> so sad. so d >> very sad story.d story taking pic
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sudden it dies.ies. >> they probably didn't have ane idea. >> they clearly didn't.earl sad. >> also this morning here's aor question for you. should we get rid of theniti $10 bill citing new harvard study sy former treasury secretary saysas the $100 bill should beld be eliminated to make life difficult or tack cheats andr ta other criminals.crimins. the study argues that eliminating larger did heid nomination bills will have little downside for legitimate commerce. >> we've already decided earlied this week that this really only affects maureen because jim shes admitted she had a hun dode h dollars in her wallet. walle >> i had to pay someone aom a hundred dollars bills.ills. high one left over. ove >> she had them in ones, jim.im >> making it rain.ain >> i like to make it rain on myo nanny.nann yeah.ah >> takes my baby to school.l. >> wow! >> horrible turn around. a >> oh, man. m >> it's friday.day we're all loopy crazy.zy boy are we bringing the guests s in this friday morning.orni still ahead grammy winningng artist chrisette michelle ishe
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♪ >> you know what time it is.now >> we know what time it is. w >> we are switching it dawn because we're still sitting onht the couch but it's still goodtig day celebrity dish time. t >> that's right.t't yup. okay. >> you asked for it, maybe not, you're getting it any way. kanye news keeps oncoming folk.f rumors are now flying that kim kardashian has drawn up divorce papers.papers >> what? >> told you the tea is hot today. aft kanye' atlanticing ranings n and behaviors she's ready to rey pull the plug on her marriage ig thing don't get any better she'e putting him on notice folks.ol radar online is reporting thatha kim k had a long talk with herhr lawyer and has repeatedly warned kanye of the possibility ofbi divorce.rce. now this would be kim's third divorce. member her short lived marriage to -- to -- >> no common denominator there. >> kim humphries and damonum thomas she married when she wasw a teenager. again kim supposedly thinking tk about divorcing kn
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you need to tell me a man with t kardashian is about to come to a dead end.dead end. >> is that what you're saying?yn >> it happens. >> we had said it's not going to end well. it's just not going to end welll >> it ever end well. w >> we can predict it right heree on the couch with jim as our witness. that is going to be a badto be d custody battle. >> he divorces her and has aes h full on melt down like --ik >> my gosh.h. it will be epic. >> completely. >> it will be great for the b celebrity dish.e brity dish. >> can i add at least sportsasto angle. angle. the wizards traded away chris cr humphries yesterday. >> they sent him away toto phoenix?ni >> phoenix now. >> okay.. >> bye-bye, chris. >> he comes off the bench.en >> he's decent.ecen >> okay. if you missed, p imagine themant tweets between kanye and kim tht rants that we'll have celebrity dish. dish >> oh yeah.yeah. >> i'm sure they'll share withha us. >> bring me back on my easy. eas if you missed the tiny window tt reserve your yeas see boost 350ss you call
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another shot.anot on tuesday adidas offereded reservations for the kanye westw designed shoes through confirmom app for customers in chicago, ca new york and la. reservations closed in just 2222 minutes the shoe which sells fof $200 went on sale today and they're available at anothert retailers. finish line, foot locker and champs handled out rafflee tickets for the shoes earlieroei this week.ee you can pry to purchase them thm online on a did he today'se da website or e-bay but you got tot be really careful some selling l for over thousand dollars ondols e-bay so good luck to you shoehe lovers out there who would pay p thousand dollars for y easies.s. >> these are not y easy. >> they might go with thoseithhe sock. >> possible. >> yeah. no. oneeoving on from kanye to direction.ion. >> better. >> zane malik. zan because we can get enough zane news eat.at. 23-year-old unveiled the artwort for his upcoming debut solo album titled, mind of mind.in in the big
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media users wondering whetherhe zane does indeed have a mind ofd his own.own. many call out zane for lacking originality. zane was receipt peteedly remained that rap lil wayne used a childhood photo of himself hlf with tattoos for his album already and y easy did so not sn once but twice. tce you don't get originally willnal the points for this. he tried.he >> it was cute.t was cute. >> he was trying to catch --o ch cash in on the wave. >> why not. >> 10:16. is that it? celebrity dish ishi over. >> i think that's it. i t >> we left a little bit on the l table. we didn't give them a hundred%e% today.. >> i feel like we over soldver s celebrity dish today.brity dish >> we gave them appetizer. >> that was the only reason iy i came in today.can to >> i know, right. i know, r >> we let you down, jim. >> yeah. a little celebrity dish and we d weren't kidding. >> 10:15. still ahead tucker takes the the plunge.un we're just minutes away from tucker's stripping down
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in all for a good cause.se >> all right. all but first though we'll head bac to the supreme court public pli viewing for the late justin an n tow any scalia about to begin at 10:30. of course we'll be back here'l with more. you're watching good day at 10a. >> yup.>> yup.
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♪ welcome back.ck. antonin scalia body is lying ing repose inside the supreme courtt chamber in which serve forerve f nearly 30 year
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thousands of mourners expectedse to pay their respects to theo late supreme court justice j throughout date.ate meghan dice joins us live from u the supreme court with more.t wr meghan the lines are amazing to see so early on outside. outsi >> reporter: it really is.t re s you know it was -- we've been -b out her since 4:00 o'clock thiss morning, and just mostly the media but now everybody isw ebo starting to line up. private ceremony going on inside right now current clerksnt clerk standing around the casket as as honor guard. guard private ceremony starting at a 9:30 ending at 10:00 their thist morning. after that you be pick lick pk viewing. you're seeing the lines of theth people kind of wrapped around ao the block really if i'm lookingg down there ready to go in. to this will last until 8:00 o'clock this evening. then tomorrow saturday theurda e funeral mass for scalia at 111 a.m. that will take pla at the e basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception.pto scalia serving as associatess justice of the supreme courtme c from known 86 until februar february 13th where he passed3t away in texash
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he was appointed by ronald r reagan. meantime the debate continues on how to replace justice scaliaa often called the conservativervv heavy weight on the supremere court.urt obama has proposed to nominate a successor soon. s that person would be confirmedon by the senate but mitch m mcconnell the leader of thedeoft republican majority saying no sg one should be appointed until after the inauguration of theof next president.sint now, president obama notba n expected to come to the funeraln tomorrow but will be here today. the white house press secretarya citing the reason the potential for the extensive presidential security as that reason. we'll zen it back to you. >> all right, meghan. megn thank you meghan. listen to this. thi the wait is almost over o chrisette michelle is live righr here in the loft.e lof there she is right there. the she's going to be performingfoin right after the break.reak. ♪ ♪ >> she's going to tell us where she got those shoes. ♪
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♪ >> all right. welcome back.we our next guest is a grammy winning artist about to kick off a world tour in support of her new album. now it's called mlcilestone ande it's due out in april. april she's in town for show at thew t fillmore this weekend. first she's joining us lives li right here in the loft for a sneak peek and here to perform p her hit single "steady" please welcome chrisette michelle. ♪
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♪ (applause). >> chris sell michelle in thel i house. >> good morning to you. >> good morning. >> thank you for coming in and hanging out with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> welcome to thine loft.
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>> good to meet you. >> perfect. >> in the house.use >> we're talking about the shoeo but then we also can't help but notice the fingernails.. >> lots of fun stuff happeningap today.da >> chrisette michelle, i'm i sitting next to you and seeingdg the rock, too.ck, too. congratulations.s. >> thank you.>> thank you. >> newly engaged. eaged >> thank you very much.nk you vr >> how exciting is that.ing >> too exciting.g. >> everybody is excited and i'm excited.exte party every day. >> absolutely. >> tell us about your new music. >> milestone, it's really girly, really fun, really dance worthy sparkles everywhere. >> definitely. d >> can you imagine i justef neee to just make music for myself ml this time. t and so hopefully everybody likes it and from the sounds of it everybody does.ever we sold out the fillmore this weekend and we'll have a good ao time with this album. alb >> the thing i love this is your music much these are your words much these are your feelings. yl we don't see a lot of that in music much these days. >> hear that often and sometimes
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about just dancing and forget forgetting everything.etti >> sometimes it's really deep.s i do both. the deep stuff is exhaustingin stipe.ip this time i decided to be be completely shallow. >> sometimes you have to relea release. you've been on such a journey s and you've nota been shy aboutt owning up to every step of there way. way. why is that important to you too be so open with your audienceudc and with your fans.r fs. >> i have a feeling part of long jeff is the is about being genuine. genuine. i think that a lot of times whee you do something just for that moment and you don't explain it, you don't talk about it yout forget the people who brought to you where you are. they say goodbye.. >> part of it is i want my fansy to know i love them and care a r about them and in part of iss it's authentic klee me. >> i think your music brings ans lot of comfort to people.eopl you know, it's moving to a lotot of people.pl what do you listen to when you u want to find comfort or be inspired? >> rihanna, lady if a good,, dyi beyonce'.e' leanna
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mixture between that sort of, um, oh that alternative sound su and pop.op i love the extremes of both of those type of music. really fun stuff that's a little quirky.irky >> that's what i like about youb music.c. i don't think there's category.y i think even watching you, i'mom sorry i forget the real had thee show you were on --- >> r and b divas.ivas >> watching a little bit ong a t there what i love about uh-uh uh really embrace all sorts ofts music all sorts of cultures anda you want people to explore that from the way you live your lifee even. i think that's so important toio show people a different side.id not just what they think this myopic view they have of what an r. been singer is like.r ik >> i'm a little bit of a flowero child. i got made fun of that a lot onn a tv show.ho one time i wore angel wings tois climb the mountain. i just wanted that wear angeld wink.. sorry. sometimes it's fun to just play at every age.atvery age. that's important to me. imp >> you're on this tour. t what are some of your favorite v thing when you're out there onhe the road you go to differentfe cities.. what do you like to do.u like t. >> we love to taste crazy thingi stuff we c
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then i love to explore museums.. i love to go shopping.hopp i always like to see what each city has as far as makeup. makp if there's a local makeup, youeu know, store that they don't havv in new york they don't have in'n la i love to test that out and d see what about. abo >> what's your favorite spotur p here in d.c.otheren d. >> one of my favorite spots herh in d.c. is ben's chili bowl. bo. and the place next door to it. >> awesome.. >> well, we appreciate your music and we know the fans will appreciate it as well. >> thank you. >> fillmore tonight is it?or >> tomorrow night.e omorw ni it's sol out but we're giving an few tickets away on facebook ano twit i'm doing that right now. n >> oh, good.d. >> if you can sing me a song. >> do you still get nervous atvs all. >> no but this next tourextour milestone tore i will get wil nervous because i'm bringing ini dancers.das >> oh really?ly >> first time. >> why would that make youha nervous. >> because i've never daned onve stage. >> you'll dance with them? gooh i'm going to dance with them. >> now i good it. >> and they're professionalre dancers. pda >> wow.. >> two step and arm movements,,
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>> i'm going in.>> i >> i'm going in.oi i >> all in. >> i love to dance.an i just wanted to do it on stagen and i want to be nervous. nervos >> you know what, i want you tou to be safe out there. there leave your shoes here. >> right.>> rig >> that way -->> >> i don't know what shoes i'mw going to wear to dance in.ancen >> leave those here.ve t that way you don't have to worry about tripping or falling. falli >> if you miss a dance stepss ae strike a pose and show yourw y nails. >> just own it.>> >> i'll be safe. >> you're a lot of fun. j a >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you.ou >> love having you.havi >> thanks for performing.fo really enjoyed it.allynjoy still ahead at 10:00 the perfece weather for polar plunge, rightt we're checking in with tuckerr neck as he gets ready to take a dip. >> oh, my goodness.s. (laughter).ter) >> hat and all. >> oh, my goodness.s don't put your toe in.ut yr to don't do it tucker.ucr just go in full bore. bor it's all to help a good cause. e we'll talk about it coming up next.
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>> when i look outside and see this weather, do you know what y think about. >> what do you think about. >> i wish i can jump in that cold water. that's just a thought.tht. >> question.n >> random thought.m t >> we were kind of wondering kin when you see the temperatures what do we got right now it's i like 20, 22.like0, it's cold. i'm reamly curious just randomdm curiosity in my mind, the effect of maybe exposed skin in this temperature in the, energy maybn water. does really. does >> i'm just wondering who iserii bringing sexy back. i'm wouldn't hook is sexy enougg to do it out in
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weather.weher. >> huh? a lot of questions onss good day 10a today. today let's see if we can bring bng someone who can help answer these questions. oh, gary? g >> i'm supposed to set this upep so i can let everybody know jusj how darn cold it is right now. >> exactly. >> that's the whole thing.th okay.okay i think i can accomplish that.pt >> let's show you real quick.ui. it's 32 degrees.2 tucker will jump in the watern w and he might warm up a little ll bit actually getting in the in t water.te 32 degrees right now here in thn city. clouds are keeping temperaturesm camden just a little bit.ttleit. so we're not warming up in apn a hurry but we have come out of c the teens. which is where we found oursnd o this morning. this m it does look like it will beoreb mostly cloudy.loy. hopefully a little bit ofle bito sunshine poking through and thaa will help the numbers up a bit.b still hanging on trying to get up to 42 to 43 to 45. now look northwestern area stils going to stay in the 30s.. okay.okay don't get too greedy with thisyi it does look like we continue te seat warmest of the air reallyel arrives overnight tonight. it is building down to the soutu and to the southwest andst tomor
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here in town and it still looksl like we're on track for that. t so very very -- almost warm here and then you're mild all the waw up to the north and to the northeast.ast so we'll go 61 degrees for asor high temperature tomorrow. torro a little cooler on sundayy obviously.ob temperatures on sunday will onln be in the 50s and the reason being that we'll have more clouds now on sunday and adand chance for a few showers as a well. guys, i'll tell you as i send it back upstairs still looking likk at least the trend is here latel to early evening showers on o sunday.ay so it is definitely not going ti be an all day washout on sunday. enjoy this unfebruary likee weekend.d >> we will do. >> big thumbs up. >> it is the weekend.t is the w. >> that's true. >> after all.>>ft >> what's not to like.not ik >> thanks gary. thas ga 9:00 o'clock hour we check in ce with tucker at the carnegie library at mount vernon squarenu getting ready for the specialfos olympics power lunch plunge.nge. where is your hat? h >> the hat would have made alla the dis
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>> the boss didn't like the hatt although i fit my completed my outfit. >> okay, guys.y, guy set the scene here again d.c. polar plunge i'm joined with onn of the people most important tot the event sir. s >> craig the ceo for specialpeci olympics d.c..c tucker thank you for coming oh it. >> this is a celebrity jumpelebm today or the power lunch, right. >> for corporate community comei out and support special olympic. >> and you're you're going tooig have how many jumpers today.oday about a hundred.oua hu >> just over a hundred helpededl raise over hundred thousand dollars just from this plungeth alone. we have two other plunges cominc up next week.ext wee >> i love it. all right.all right. quickly tell me about your eve event. i'm shivering right now by thein way.g ndt just standing out here. i haven't gotten in there yet. y tell me about your even the ende of february.ruy. >> sure.e. actually we have the open to th public dc polar plunge and youey are shivering.are shiver >> oh yeah. >> open to the public catholic university, university you can, fine informationun for that plug at plunge dc.org. >> all right. gr
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i'm joined by a fellow jumper je first of all i want to thank tha mark whose a police officer.e o he's here to rescue fuss we havv any problem.y pro you can see he's dressede' d appropriately.riat mark, what do you think theyou water temperature is?? >> he says it's below 30. 30. below 30.lo all right.l r i want to introduce to my fellow jumper. your name is? >> cornell. >> where do you go to school. >> a u.s. u >> do you want to give a shouteo out. out. >> to my teacher.er. >> want i want you to do cornele keep talking until the segmentee is over and we don't have to'tat jump in. just keep talking.ng have you ever jumped before.verb >> yes.>> y >> what am i going to experien experience? >> cold. >> oh, yeah.>> >> cold for time.>> c you'll be cold. >> real.>> all right. >> i'll be cold too. il be >> cornell will go first and show me how to do it. cornell, you're up. u get thon ladder go fast you canc man. give me a hug.give me a all right. all ri man, good luck.d lu >> all right.>> all do it.do it >> all right. rig cornell, round of applause for cornell?l?
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>> yeah. y you go, man you're on. >> oh! >> good job, cornell. cne >> guys, i'll hand my mike off.f i guess it's my turn. tur wish me luck.euc i'm freezing. frein i really don't want to do this.. okay. here we go.go. >> tucker, tucks kerr tuckerr tucker. tucker.. >> come op tucker! (applause).. >> way to go king tuck. >> king tuck making it happen gn job, tucker! >> go get him. him somebody give him a towel.owel. >> look at that.. >> he's like give me towel.ow >> duck kerr you win.in employee of the day at least.t >> employee of the year.loe of >> oh, my gosh.. >> poor gu
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i'm not going to lie that is noi exact al pleasant experience.iec >> no.>> n >> tucker, i've always a wouldn'ted when you jump right in what is that first feeling? g is it shock do you folic you blacked out? o >> it literally take your breat away. your body doesn't know how ton'h reaction to it. i but you know i feel really goodo right now.right no now that i'm out of the pool. >> i'm not going to lie.oie i feel great. >> tucker your arms are steaminm you the camera lense. len. >> we lost him. >> he lost his earpiece. there he is. again, great cause.se. the polar plunge here it allll benefits the -- i can even talkl special olympics here in d.c. get involved. you guys on the website i'll gol run inside.run thank you for coming out and o cheering us on.ri us (applause). >> yeah, right. rht >> crazy person. per >> there's the hat. >> that's caitlyn.. >> we saw caitlyn in the hat. >> thanks to cornell for jumpinf with me. >> the hat will be back.he
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>> oh, no. n. >> there she is. there she i look at her posing. >> tucker -->> >> caitlyn. go put a shirt on.n >> put all the stuff down andnnd put a shirt on and dry yourselfs off. >> thank you tucker barnes.ou >> he's a great sport t.spor >> he is a great sport and he'sh in great shape.ha can we acknowledge tuck sixty tt four in great shape. in eat >> he's a work out beast. >> he's the one. o don't tell him when he gets he here. >> he's the one. o >> good job tucker. >> listen we we have jokesave ke coming up.comingp okay? that might be a real jo joke. >> she has a knack for telling l stories that will make you laugh for sure.r sur miss pat from last comic standing on bettv guide network and popular pod cast her rise r has been quite the journey and a inspiration she's in town for ar show at the d.c. improv.. first of course we to have her e join us here in the loft withouw further a do miss
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>> how youing.>>ow y >> hey. >> good to see you. goo did they tell you you're neckoun for the polar plunge.lung >> no, no, no. >> you don't want to see me witw my shirt off. (laughter). >> oman. tucker look better.cker >> how you doing. >> i'm doing fine. h'm doing first time in d.c. >> really? >> awesome.>>some ever. er >> first stop? >> no.>> no. >> first big stop.st b s first big stop. >> my field trips didn't take mm this far.is far >> it didn't.idn' >> as a polar bear plunge havela you ever done the ice bucketce e challenge. >> no, i don't do that i wear a weave.weav. >> i'm not messing up my hair.ar >> you can't mess up your hair i for cause.. >> you'd rather give money. >> let me give you money. y mon you talk too much.uch >> i her that.. >> when people do comedy get into comedy sometimes the humorh comes from a certain place you e talk a little bit about inspiration.ion. what inspired you to do this? >> um, my caseworker.or my welfare worker
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bill clinton changed the laws l and i i had to get a job. i'm a convicted felon and theyne don't take your background. b i went out and became ae a comedian. my caseworker encouraged me.ged. you're funny.you're i was like no i'm just trying to get extra help. h no, you got to talent.. >> that's real. rl. you're putting it all out theree >> i put it all out there.l outt if you come you cannot judge me because i toll you everything.v. you walk away you either like mk or you don't or you feel like,ll hey, my life ain't as bad as iaa thought it was.thout it >> i find so amazing in readingg your story, did you have a veryv hard growing up.p. >> yes. >> and a hard existence.sten the fact that you were able too find comedy in that. t >> you know what just telling -g i had all of these stories buili up inside and once i moved to annapolis somebody was you shall really talk about your life anda i started to let go and io a started to talk about my lifeife and hey, i get paid to talko about my life. le. >> how do you find humor on humr someth
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painful?fu >> well, i try to fine the humor in everything.. like i got, you know, fat kids d at the house.ouse i try to find humor in that. (laughter).ter) >> you got fat kids at the hou house. >> i to the fat kids at thefa house i would like to put out,t girlfriend. i mean because -- that's justs t me. i have two sets of kids. high a set of kids high when ihw was young at 14 high my first f cade and when i got married.i go i call them my medicaid kids and blue cross blue shield kids.s. they grew up different.ifferent blue cross blue shield will notw pay for college. my medicaid kids know how toowo reserve. my blue cross blue shield kids h leave the lights on and go to school. they come and tell me, i don'tli have lunch money so i'm not mon going to school today. tod i was like you going to get up g out of here with a frying pan o something up side your head.ea you going get up out of here. >> is there any part of yourrt y life you don't take to the stags or that you won't take to the t stage.stag >> no. i tell it all.i te it >> wide open.>> wide open. >> wide open. what i can't really m
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have a book coming out sometimes this year supposed to come outps in june. they just push it back because i spelled few words wrong.w rds (laughter).. >> those editors i'll tell youd hopefully it will come out soon. i tell everything in the book. o so i just try find humor becausu i mean if you can't -- if you-f don't have control over why why dwell? i could stay at home ane cry about it.cry i'd rather laugh about it.r la >> do you find your sense ofu ny humor is a coping mechanism?sm >> yes. yes it freed me. because i was ashamed when i got older to realize, oh, wow, i, i have two kids by the time i wass 15. i drop out of school in eighthig grade.gr you know, but i work really harl to make sure that these thingssg didn't happen to my kids. so i was ashamed and once i started doing comedy, i was able to say, hey, it's more peoplee l out there like me but they're t' scared to talk about it.t. >> finding success on the comedd circuit especially for women ise hard. >> it is very hard. it is they don't like us. >> is that it. >> is that that. t >> comedy a loft people thinkpl it's reserv res
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>> they think we're going to dot women stuff.wo i talk about everything.veth i was a drug dealer. dle i did a -- i made a lot of mistake in life that men make ss i think that is why people -- i- have a lot of young guys thathat like me. i don't smoke. i don't do any type of drug butt i talk about my life when i wass in they life he i try to bringob all type of people together. toe >> you're an april spur laying. >> i call eight job that don't n check my background.acro (laughter). >> they said inspiration.tion sometime i look back and i don'k know how i made it because i was shot twice in the same year.ea >> my goodness.oess. >> really.>> i remember the story from las rt comic sharing you shared thatd t story. story. >> i was shot twice and hit by y dump truck.ru. >> wow.>> >> things you go through.hr >> all of that hammed on the way to the grocery store.. >> still smiling. sli >> i'm still smiling, yeah.h >> whether you want to admit oro not you are an inspiration.nspii >> i think so.>> thi >> in many different ways.many >> yeah, yeah.>> >> the show is when. the >> the
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tonight, two tomorrow and oneord sunday. please come out.se com it's black history month. m come out and i'm going drop arop little knowledge on you. (laughter). >> a little ged notch.ot >> there you go.here y g >> you can take off your shirtr if you want to. t >> she's talking to wisdom. to o >> you don't have to get -- get dunked. dunked. >> you tell the jokes. let's not have thi ts right her. >> that's why you sitting overte there.e. >> you want me to slap thisaphi lady.la she might hit back.. >> whoa! on that note, okay. >> it wasn't funny. >> leave the jokes to you. joket >> you trying to get me arrestes in d.c. >> i like going to jail downl d south. they give nice sandwiches.s. (laughter). >> and biscuits. bcuit >> all right.>> a miss pat, thank you very much for coming in to the loft. l >> thank you really appreciatepi it. it. listen coming up next from missm pat to grannies on safari.i. >> we'll explain who they arelan coming up.co >> and why you'd want to go. tog all coming up next on good day g
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♪ little rusted roof to gette you started we've been talkingki travel.trav. the next time you're too tired r to get off the couch consider ci this one. our next guest publish three t books the contributor to theib huffing ton post and speak atat international conferences onfe travel and host their own show s on public television known asknn the grannies on safari and herer in town for the d.c. travel and adventure show. s regina, pat joining us now. >> good morning, ladies.s. >> good morning. >> grannies on safari invokes so much. the story of how you got intoout traveling is really interestings tell me about that. me ab t >> you're not saying that sayint because we look old, right. rht >> no.>> not at all.t at. >> we don't look old.ld >> grannies.ie what does it evoke.vo >> it evokes another venture and movement, experience, right? e,g and that's who we are. were >> you're right. >> right.. >> how did you meet? >> well, all right. r can i speak?i sp >> yes.>>es speak.
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40 years, and she -- because i i always say 30 but you add 10dd years more. more. it has to go up i knew her inw r los angeles. angel she was a friend of my very good friend, and when i moved toed chicago and she was here iaser retired and i wanted to travell around the world with somebodyom that knew a lot about art and aa knew a lot about culture.ulre and so i asked her, you want to go with me?h m >> and basically she was going g to reinvent herself. you heard about people reinven reinventing themselves after retirement. >> absolutely g that's bake wal she did. e she stole me from a great job.ob >> she had great job.reatob >> really excellent job.eally ee >> you can't say no to her.er >> yes, you can sometimes.etes >> no you can't. no >> sometimes. that's how we got started ande o we've been moving around theou world for 10 years. yea >> what was the first bigotedigt venture together?oghe >> south africa.outh >> my favorite place. >> yh. yh. >> almost our favorite place.la >> one of our favorite placevotp glass that's where we got our gt name grannies on is a far reachr our company is call the artthe explorers and we were going to o this village with zulu guy. g
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>> he was cute. he made me eat a worm. remember.memb >> she didn't really eat it.al >> i ate a worm. wor a slug. a s and he said, wahoo, grannies ons safari and it stuck.tu >> hots how we got our name. n >> since then we moved aroundro five continents, okay, and we do a lot of different kinds ofin things.th go places that people don't knoo about.t >> yeah.>> >> yes. >> including some place we're going soon. right. >> you want to they will themllt about that. >> which place are we going soon.soon >> there's so many.here >> which place are going wela soonce. >> we're going to explore theext mississippi river on authenticit river boat.riveboat >> oh that trip. t >> yes that trip. y that trip. >> it's not international.not tn it's receipt right in ourig in country.coun >> that's amazing because soazin many adventures you can takee here win the u.s. >> y indeed. ind we're beginning to think about that.at >> have there been anyplaces yos both were excited to check out and you went there and you saids this is disappointing.inng >> no. >> you know why, because every e place is interesting you canouan find something there have been places for instance there's acet difference in how we
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places, too.too i must admit i'm the adventure someone, i'm going climb theng i mountains and eat the bugs i'mug going look around the bend and a she's going to -- t >> i like comfort.e comfo i don't always sit but i likeik comfort.ort. >> yes. >> which is why we sat down in these chairs. these are not comfortableomfoab chairs. these are not comfortablenor chairs. that's okay. i'm fine. i'm fi >> you fine something that youny maybe felt might be hoe hum.e hm we were at a place pottery placp in morocco, and pat we were walking through and they wereugh making pottery.otte i found if i took off my shoesyo and put my feet in the clay -- a >> in the mud.>> in the mud. >> in the clay it was kind ofcly exciting. >> yes, she invited me.d m i didn't really want to do that. not really. but we have been to fabulouso fl places all over the world.orld what we do is experience the culture, we get to know thehe people. >> and the food.>>nd t >> and the food. >> were we dot food.e foo >> yes, we do.es, >> so you're here this weekend travel and adventure show.enre o what are you going to do. t >> this is our third year. >> we'll talk about inter jent t
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part -- she more than me.han and we'll talk about -- - >> i'm adorable granddaughterdag that's 12 years old that we toot to cuba and i was camping with her a forest in canada lastast year.year. >> right. >> in a tent with a moose thatoo chased. chas >> she did.>>. i haven't taken my 10 year granddaughter any exciting placp yet but there's time film we'll get people tips on, upping, it's really more fun to go with youru grandchildren and to go withit aunts and uncles and we'll talkl to them about make sure you do budgets. make sure that everybody agreesa on where you're going to go.ng t there's something for people to do. make sure you also acknowledge l that people need their space. sa i mean there's nothing worse wor with being with someone all thee time and you think i can just cj get away for a little while. whi i can do that.n do and to make sure that you haveue fun, you know, fun yourself.f. >> it's a collaborative. and the world is your oyster anr as long as the children aren involved in the planning, that's the key element.
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to.to. >> exactly. >> thank you both very much forh join ugh.in. regina and pat granny safari ari here for the travel and a adventure show.e s in the meantime -- >> come see. >> check our website out web grannies on safari.com..com >> we have breaking news right now west confirm pulitzer winner harper lee passed away at the ae age of 89.age >> best known for writing theint book to kill a mocking bird oneo of the literary cannons of ouran culture here.e harp if he three dead at the age of 89. harper collins the pub lib cherr couldn't philadelphiaul international airporting that.dn we'll have more on her life and legacy tonighton on fox5 news aa 5:00.5:. meanwhile, everybody is workingr for the weekend.eekend gary. >> we are. we're work fog the 60-degreedeee weather.. >> yeah, man.>> let's show it. real quick.ui 45 today.45 today. today is kind of cloudy andd ofy cool. . >> that's okay. 61 tomorrow.omorrow. that's what i'm talking about. >> 58 on sunday. sunda >> jim lokay we enjoyed you.oy y >> great to be here.atbe h >> please come aga
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>> thank you. we paid him to say that.t. >> have a great weekend everybody. see you monday.
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