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and shared surfaces arefaces a dealing disinfected daily and after any illnesses at the school. there are no plants at this time to shut the schoolare no d. one parent told us therent to norovirus first surfaced heres f just before the christmasaced hs break. break. here's what two parents ands a one uncle are saying tonight to about the virus at the school.s. >> i spoke to the school nurse o too and she also sent a note ote and says she was just cleaningjs the clinic as many times a day y as she could and working as hard as she could so i just -- j i know our staff is doing theinh best they can.be >> a lot of people are getting g sick. it's spreading real fast.f a lot of people vomiting andan stuff life. nasty stuff. >> reporter: are you concerned the school is doing >> r enough? >> i think we're -- i think thik they've been doing a pretty aty good job of keeping the kids -- they've been giving givn good advice by keeping the kids home if they're sick so iii think we'll be okay.wel be o >> reporter: yeah, a lot of nastiness involved witholved w
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whatnot.whatno so, what we know system 80ystem0 children so far have eithereithr left school or stayed home ine recent days because of the t norovirus reason they're justy't advising the parents to keep the them home if they're showingow any signs of symptoms at allat l and they're doing someoing som cleaning here inside the school but again, no plansning shut it down. down. live in arlington, paul wagnerwr fox5 local news. ws. >> the owner of a d.c.d.. restaurant recovering tonighto after being shot during an attempted robbery. the man accused oftempte shootig pinkie who owns the eatery one north capitol street was found o dead tuesday morning in morningn northeast. northe police issued a warning for chaval reed.reed. police say pinkie recognizedreco the customer.custome a nearby camera captured that assault. the search continues in e se fairfax county for aarch con mis teen and five month old son last seen in mid january.jay. police believe 16-year-old liz z see rivera and
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may be with the baby's father.ae investigator says the fat hasats gang ties and the a judgeand thg ordered him to stay away from liz see and their son.eir so >> parts of the northeastartsf h getting e a direct hit from oldd man winter.man wi >> as much as a foot of snowot w could fall by the time the fast moving storm moves out of new york city. >> let's check in with sueth su palka with what's going on inngn our area. nothing like that, that's forhas sure thankfully.tha >> we are so fortunate.or the last time i checked central park was 9-inches danbury connecticut 13-inches.3. >> wow. >> 11 and a half in fairfieldfad connecticut where it was it thundering and lightning. ligni. >> thundersnow. >> what they call thundersnowhu exactly right but we did getdidt off easy although i have to say sarah and jim we're getting isn't snow squalls that are causing a coating andtd almost an inch of snow getting t dropped from the snow squall.no. they're showing up in the the darker purple. purp there's a pretty good one down w towards southwest d.c. anduthwe. into charl c
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the last couple of hoursf ours mainly west of the district,ric, these have been very vigorous. i'll get in a little bitvlittle closer on that one just downjust to our south.u i'm sure you're seeing that on 95 near burke between burkeweenr and mount vernon they'remo moving from southwest tounng fr northeast. many of them have been able toeo put down anywhere from a half inch to maybe .8 of an inch. in. down towards charles countyarley got a lot of pictures ont of pie twitter for those of you seeing these little minie blizzards come through with combination of gusts close toose 40 miles an hour. it's quite impressive as theys e come on through.hrugh. but of course this really has been pounding new york. yo it's just about out of newout york now but boston stilltill getting it and guess what, wht, boston might get a second snowstorm in a few days. das. so, we're watching thate watchit closely but on the backside you can see coming off theff lakes we're getting some ofing s these snow squalls movinge sn through our area on theowugh oue backside of that huge nor'easter pounding new pundingn england. but listen, obviously it'sly i's been quite a dramatic changemate in our temperatures and whileanh we didn't get quite as much mh snow clos
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show you some of the snowf the w totals. we'll get back to that if we can. 2.2 in taney town. chantilly picked up .8 of an ofn inch this afternoon and dulles d .6 of an inch. i we are obviously getting offingf easy. we talked about some of theboutm big snow totals up in theals up northeast. let's get more right now from fox's rob schmidt.x'ob he's in new york city. >> reporter: a massivemas winter blizzard hitting much of the northeast on thursdayst y making for a slippery commuteert as folks headed out thishis morning. morning. airlines have canceledcele thousands of flights and roadsds are a mess from maine all the way to washington, d.c. withn, h boston among the hardest hitdest cities more than a foot of moref snow is that predicted there.die >> he were want people to stay a indoors as much as possible,po dress in layers when you're outside. we're not encouraging peopleg pe to take cars. we're encouraging that it'scour going to be hazardous travelagea so we want you to st
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roads. >> reporter: here in new york we're expecting eight toepo 12-inches with bundled upled p commuters navigating snow s covered sidewalks.cove there was also the usual rushus to the groucery store people p doing their best to stock upstop before the snow starts to accumulate. cumulate. >> i come in at this time a lot and it's usually much muh quieter. so, it's cranking today.today. and i just look -- i don't -- n want to go out in it. >> a lot of bread, milk, water. >> reporter: it will drop two to 4-inches per hour tapering off late this evening though new englanders shouldndel expect snow into the eveninge e commute and with temperaturesems plunging into the singlegi digits inng many areas plowny drivers say they're in for athea long night. nht. >> once it stops we'llopse'll probably get another 10, 12 1 hours after that and then backek at eight the next day.t >> reporter: in most major maj northeast cities schools areool closed today including here inei new york boston and philadelphia. in lower manhattan rob schmid
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fox news.ws. >> fox5 in montgomery countyin tonight. maryland state police are investigating vandalism foundund on a csx train overpass. ov you can see the phrase bridgesbr not walls written on the side wi of the overpass.ovass. it happened over 495 near5 near seminary lane in kensington,sit, maryland. police are asking anyone with wth information about thenftion abot vandalism to give them a call.l. >> ♪♪ >> president trump's pick for attorney gdeennte tral officiali sworn in in the oval officeoval today. the senate confirmed formerr alabama senator jeff sessionsses 52 to 47 after a contentious confirmation process.conf long timeir alabama lawmakerwmar confirmed despite criticism crit from democrats over his record r on civil rights andts d immigration but before hisfore swearing in, the presidentresidn called sessions a man of integrity and principle andrincd someone who has devoted hisoted life to the cause of justice.jue meantime tonight manyht man cities and counties in the and n d.c. area are callingtiescang themselves sanctuary cities toi and o pose thee he administration's moves onon's mn immigration. the top county official in offin prince william county thoughill says the administration should d go even further
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some crucial informationruci they've been seeking for fo years. here's fox5's tom fitzgerald. >> reporter: issue is the eporte i chairman of thessue is prince l county board of supervisors,perr republican corey stewart isewar calling on on the trump tmp administration to revealreal information about how manyationy people who are arrested ford fr crimes in this county arenta still in this country.untry. corey stewart tells fox5 fo police have report odd moreort e than 7,000 individuals to the immigration and customsd ctoms enforcement but so far icearice won't say if those criminaliminl suspects have been deported oror remain in the u.s.remain i >> it's important for our police department and it'ss imes important for our jail. jail. if our police see a -- ana individual who was deportedo wat and is now back in theck ihe country, it's a felony andny and that person should bee arrested. that's why it's importantar fort our police department.ce >> reporter: but they're not telling you that now.ter:u that. >> they're not giving us us information about whether wther these individuals wereese in deported odir released.el
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also running for governor ofrteo virginia says he's requestedeque the very same one he's beeneen making during both the obama o and bush administrations, totrao have ice let jurisdictionsrisdic know if they took any action ac on individuals who were w referred to them.hem now, with the trumpith the administration in office, the te chairman says he is pushingpuhig the white house to push ice to reveal what happened to theenede people who were referred.re refd but critics will tell you even n if the county had thatnthad that information, it is not clearnot what it would do with it.. democrat supervisor frank persipi is calling stuart's immigration demands politicalmai theatrics. >> clearly what's motivatingmotg him is his run for governor,ov not what is good for prince william county.co you know, if he really wanted wd to do what's good for prince pre william county old support suppt a.m. tax increase that wouldat w get us the number of adequatea number of police officers andd sheriff's to fight crime.ht c >> reporter: so, there's a
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difference of opinion.erence pi. the one thing that is clear, cl, though, this issue is note is going away any time soon. son. in fact, the chairman's officeoe says ice has agreed to thateed send a representative when thewe board holds a hearing on this ts topic.to in prince william county,county, virginia, tom fitzgerald fox5 local news.l news. >> now, a spokesperson for ice i immigration and customsd sto enforcement responded tosponded fox5's request for fr information saying they aresayie "looking into that situation."i" fox5 is your station for isi politics. tweet us your thoughts onughtson anything political usingg #5at6:30 on twitter and look and for your tweet on ouret onr political show which is comingsw up at 6:30 tonight here on fox5. fox5 >> new tonight at 5:00 dozensdos of police officers are alleng rampantnt discrimination within theriminai department.n >> and this one gotht a lot oft a lot buzz in the news room. rom who do voters trust more theoree president or are they trustingtt the media? >> hm. >> and slow down.>> and slow a new proposal to reduce speedrd limits across the dmv also has h a lot of people talking.taing.
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matt auckland is live withkla more information on this. inf matt. >> reporter: hi, sarah i'mormati here with my photographer and pd we're driving around town.nd t you're right there's a lot ofer discussion here in thesc district of columbia alsous in montgomery county about lowering the speed limits.he spi we're near a park 190 in the0 ie district is to lower the speedhe limit to 15 miles near parks,a near rec centers even near evenr senior homes. that als ho comes with concernss about fines. there's also a lot of talkal about raising fines as much as a $500 in some cases. well, one council member herembe in d.c. is saying she believesnh in safety, she wants everyone e to be safe but she wants to to take a close look at the fineste she says in some places atesat some times the fines canfines an simply be too much. mch. new rules could crackdown onra most i was of us. new proposed fines for driversf bikers even pedestrians.rsde the ultimate goal, safety.saety. d.c. council member mary cheh ch says she's a
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not arbitrarily hiking penalties and lowering speedowei limits in some places atn some e certain times.rtain time >> it strikes me as a way ofof increasing our revenue becausebe it goes to the operating fund. >> reporter: cheh this speed limits should be low in areasthl where kids areow in ar nearby bt raids questions about lowering l speed limits in many otherlimiti areas across the city. she refers to senior centers where late at night going 41 miles an hour will get you a $500 ticket. t cheh fought against an around the clock speed limitck s reduction outside senior centers. >> it's kind of crazy, right,r 50 miles an hour in the middlen of the nhoighurt going past thee senior center or past a recreation field.fied. but what they've done now isow s they've cut it back from 7:00ro0 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. pm that's still strikes me as, you know, a reach.reh. so, again, i want to know showww me some data. >> reporter: some sayy lowering the speed limit to sedi 15 miles an hour in many partsn of the city isho simply too slow. ow. joe, how fast are we going?
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>> reporter: 24. look. look we're right next to this bicyclist. we're going how fast now.e go >> 16, 15.in and he's and h, 15 passus. us. so we did that earlier todayer o and we wanted to just show you u how, you know, fast bicyclists can move and also how it could d also slow down traffic.ffic. everyone talks about how bad ba traffic can be in the districtit in montgomery county reallyomery all over the r place so there i a concern also that it wouldld slow down traffic, it would increase traffic congestion traf but i got to tell you a lot of f parents are very passionateps about this issue.about they say, listen, our kids are e going to be out. be o we want people to slow down. do sometimes people are cuttingre g through neighborhoods, they're h going too fast. l you mary cheyou mary chehey made ith clear today when kidses are nearby, she wants thosestho speed limits reduced but she he says it should -- they shouldldh look into when there aren'tey et kids around, when it's late atat night, why should we lower thert speed limit when there w
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injured. so, anyway she's going have aoi hearing on this coming up ins cn just a few weeks.weks. she wants to ask a lot of of questions. qu she says, okay, if you want to o lower the speed limits, if yout want to raise the fines, then h justify why you're doing so.so. live in the district tonighttoit with joe, matt ackland fox5nd x5 local news. [laughter] >> he didn't use his leadseis ld foot. >> that's an eye owner toon when you compare it to the it bicyclist. staying on the theme of driving in fairfaxaying countyt where police are cracking downak distracted driving.distracted they're teaming up with localh teens to do it.t. officers with the trafficraffi division talked with student stt delegations from the county'scou 25 high schools today. high sco. they talked about the dangersda of distracted driving and theynt told students to take a pledgeap to put their phones down their n behind the wheel. the w >> our high school kids are developing habits now. this is when they learn howpi no drive and start developing thee skills and the habits that areh going to carry with themthe forever so what we want to doo is interact with the school's ss leadership body and have themanm engage all the high sc
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public schools and help us and u spread this message becauseage e distracted driving is dangerous and if we can -- ifn-- we can get the students touden help us spread the emssage,ess we're going to make our roadways safer. >> in fairfax county last year more than 550 crashescrashes involving teen drivers were attributed to distractedo driving. >> okay, so did he cross the line? the president is getting a lot of flak for f for defending his daughter after several retail ertz pulled herpr clothing line.clng line. and we are on the case. areh the latest on that prized missing tom brady jersey.brady j >> and if you have a storyf youy idea, give us a call here at het fox5. the number on the tip line 202-895-3000 or e-mail those the tips to fox5tips@wttg.com.5t >> maybe they know where the the jersey is.jersey is >> that could be. you neve>>r know. [laughter] >> ♪♪
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>> ♪♪ >> okay, so we have another twist in the ongoing mysteryy, s overte whory took tom brady'soms jersey.
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jersey was noty stolen likee previously thought.eviousl no one has seen the jersey jersy though since the quarterbackin says he put itce inside his bagg after sunday's big game.game. now according to tmz it may it have been packed away on a a team equipment truck.truck. officials said the trucksaid th wasn't thoroughly searched before it left nrg stadium.stadm it's supposed to arrive in boston and be unpacked unp sometime today so i hopetime there's a camera there tohere catch it when they arere reunited. >> thank goodness. >> our long national nightmare. so worried about tom brady's jersey. >> i know. >> the texas rangers were onwer the hunt. >> by the way i got to share e way i go this. this was a gret atot one. shat . governor of massachusettssach charlie baker on a tv stationstn in boston today talking aboutl the snow 'cause they got a lotty of snow up there.of sno he saidw about -- well, they couldn't handle an inch inn't le atlanta and they also couldn'tcu handle a 25-point lead. >> oh. >> good burn. >>ing.g. >> poor atlanta.atlnta. >> falcons fans they're likeansl come on, man, again. >> i know, they're like let'slis just not tuck about
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anymore. >> we'll talk a little we'll tal baseball.baseball right around the corner.round t. >> falcons are like good.ike goo >> let's move on. >> let's moveove on, yeah yeaha done with this.th we're less than a week awaywa from pitchers and catch escheate reporting in west palm beach. prognosticators selling the nats short.h they have the nats finishingfi second in the nl east with 87it7 wins. that's the exact prediction when the natsxact won 95 games d the nl east crown.crwn. the nationals play the red sox x exhibition game at the naval nal academy. academ today the nats along with w teddy and bill the goat announced that was reached aach three year agreement to payt toy games in annapolis. the game is not opened to the public. public. complimentary tickets will bentk given to navalets academy midshipmen. crazy event last night asas knicks legend charles oakleyh got heate
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quarter of the knicksir game ass the clip... with the clippers and got hauled off the floor by security after shovingshoving security guards. now according to reports oakley was heckling knicks k other than james dolan anddl dolan had security remove him .oakley was arrested andd and charged with three counts of assault. he only averaged nine pointsoins and nine rebounds for hisfor h career but was known as one ofon the game's great enforcers forr his intimidating play.p last night the saint louis bill cans basketball team was bm stranded at the w careen n theee team bus and equipment stolen and tracked down using gps insig an ipad left in a bus. bus. the bus was 35 miles weigh 35 where the driver had beene drive pulled over and failed a fieldd sobriety test.f she was arrested for a dui dui with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit.it. >> what. t
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they had been arrested.een arr the team took a new bus to thete old bus got all their stuff and was able to get back to saint louis by 2:00 a.m. m. >> i love how comfortable theybt looked like while waiting. was that massage chairs orhat something. >> they lost by almo st 20almot 20 points so she needededed something.some >> the coach should have putac themh through a couple drills.p >> you're not getting off thatta easy. >> thanks brody.>> t >> it is national girls andirls women in sports day and d.c. dc. public schools and marked theard indication by recognizing itsits female athletes. aetes. they spoke to the group with a i special luncheon to talk aboutlo why sports respect important ta for female students.tudes. >> i want our students toudentso understand that anything worthwo achieving is worth workingth wog hard for. fr. and whether that's in the that'e classroom or whether that's in'n the world of athletics and competition that sometimesitio what you have to do is you isyou have to be willing to put, you w know, youril heart and soul onns the line, you have to beve to willing to put yourself outg toy there and aloul ofrs these youne women do that. >> other pan
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executive director of therec redskins charitable foundationfi and sara vaughn the women'se wes soccer coach at george ger washington out. >> you looking to move. >> you trying to get me out of here already. you l >> no, you can sintay as long a he you like until y sou tannoyay . [laughter] >> so the district is full offul transplants but there'sanspla another side of the cntity mostt people rarely see.arely >> a symbol of the confederacyoc divides one town but one localol lawmaker says thelawmakerays th controversial statue herestatuee should stay put. pu. >> first though strongh strong allegations from some princesoe george's county policeeorg officers about their treatment on the fore'ce.bout t foce. the news at 5:00 is coming c right back.. >> ♪♪ >> ♪♪
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>> ♪♪ >> welcome back. kind of feels like there's a>>ka daily battle between the trumphe white house and the media soaso which side does the public p trust more? a recent emerson college poll think the trump the administration is truthfultruthl 48 percent think it's it's untruthful which is a pretty even split but when it comes whe to the men dia only 39 percentnt of those polled think theink th media is truthful, 53 percent3 r think the media is untruthful.l. fox5 reporter ronica clearyleary with a look at what thewhat the numbers mean, she's live tonight at the newseum. newseu hey, ronica.he >> reporter: hey, jim, yes,s, fascinating numbers to take tae away from that emerson collegees poll and to help make sense ofef it all we're at the place that a looks at media in a more meaningful way i'm with gene, g, the ceo of the newseume news institute and you've had ae chance to look at these numbers. nu do you think they wouldou surprise people. tell me what your take away is when you hear thisu y outhat. t >> neither side should bether s particularly pleased becauseidee only half the country believesnt them under any circumstance but i think if you look at theif numbers a little ydeeper youyo
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one highly polarized more m republicans almost nine out ofe 10 say they don't believe thebee media, almost nine out of 10 democrats say they do soatth you've got that split again that gets us tosp about half buu there's some deeper questionsues here. if you're in the mouse and you o think half the country doesn't e believe us we're the white're house and if you're the press i think the question has to bese are those people saying youayinu were too soft on thee administration or are you too y hard on the administration? isti so, again, like all surveysu very tantalizing numbers but nut we need to look a littleli deeper but i think we need todo ask ourselves how good a jobood are the media doing and whatingt do we expect out of the whitecto house.ut >> reporter: that makes me to the second question.ter:que probably makes it hard to it hao answer because we're not exactly sure where that frustration came from whenion ch we're just looking the the looke media because that's all we's can really control.n is there something we can doomeo to maybe make viewers trust us more? >> well you know what i thinku the issue of particularly knbows in media has been around aound longer. we do a survey 20 years andye that number about concernumber b about bias in theou media keeps climbing every year. y i think it's essential a lotesse
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themselves we need to do ao do better job of telling people ppe what we know to the best of of our knowledge keep opinion outge of it kee and cite a source ou whenever you can so you're notrt leaving the reader listener orst viewer saying where did theydidh get that.t th i think it's in a way just do or jobs better is the messagees to journalists.ourn >> reporter: great message gene. thank you for your time.r your . jim and sarah we took to thek te streets with the results of of these polls to ask you whatto ay you think of it.ouyo take au listen. >> oh, i would agree based agres over the last six months ofonths what i've been seeing comeme through between facebook and ad twitter and flipping on theippie tv. >> well, i would say the media a has lot of, um -- it's a lot lot of criticism but i wouldn't say the media is more truthfulrr but i would say that basically it's not a hundred percent.pe >> i really don't want to want o comment on that one.t on t i can'that give my opinion.
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truthful than the media? iia? i mean, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.n opinio. [laughter] [l >> i don't know about that.t i think they're both liars how about that?t >> reporter: well, there youtheu have it from the people and i an want to finally show you thisu map here in the newseum iteum it looks at world press freedom,fre the countries in green, theye are believed to be and markedanm as free and obviously thesly t united states is in there so so certainly as we do ourdo r coverage and we attempt to be fair and balanced for you, youou know, we have the right to dodo that pretty special and anand important thing to think about u and remember for us every dayvey as we do our jobs.jobs. so, we would love to hear fromea you. what do you think about those te results? you can tweet us any time. we'd love to hear from you.r fr. reporting live at the newseum,v ronenica cleary fox5 local news. >> the white house says tops adviser kellyanne conway hasonws been counseled after promotingpo first daughter ivanka trump'str fashion br
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conway encouraged people to goo buy ivanka's stuff on fox newsne this morning. mor she made the comments a day ay after trump attacked nordstromks on twitter for dropping his his daughter's fashion line. lin white house press secretaryecre sean spicer addressed the controversy at today's press pr briefing. >> kellyanne has been kel counseled and that's all we'relw going to goe' rewith. she's been counseled on that t subject and that's -- that'sthas it. >> house oversight chairmann jason chaffetz says conway'scn comments were clear over theclee line unacceptable.nac he says the matter must beter me referred to the office of government ethics for review. >> symbol of the confederacyconf will be removed from downtown charlottesville.arlo att statue of robert e lee. councilman bellamy says s community members felt thehe statue was culturallyulturally offensive and a symbol of o white supremacy.
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[000:33:58;00] pr >> today we urge you to avoidavd a divisive decision that willt l not build any bridges and willll likely generate a.m. divide inin our communities for years tors o come. >> just because we disagree one an issue does not mean that anyone pooh who disagrees withos me is my enemy.eney. the only way to move forward fod to understand each other liver e with each other and talk abouttt the difficult issues.sses. >> two republican candidates cae for virginia governor opposed the council symbol. they said they would act to prevent initiatives that they think are an attack on virginia her.inia >> a warning for metro ridersris who use the blue line.ue line. get ready for longer commutesngr this weekend.we safe track surge number 12ge nu begins on saturday. on satuy. the work being done is between n the pentagon and rosslyn metro stations but officials say all a of the blue line will beline wi affected for 18 days. this as continued rider shipi declines respect impacting thene fialal budget.
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the chairman adjustments that will affectill customers will need to beeed to made. >> if i had my druthers i wouldn't raise fares iis wouldn't cut service.ervice. that's how i feel on that but i think there may come a pointan in time in these discussionsisus where some of that has to gively. 'll ease'als say they some of metro's fiscalo's fi troubles by cutting hundredsndes of jobs and by not fillingf vacancies throughout thehrougho system. metro general manager paul wiedefeld says his firm iss firs working to retire all 40004000 series cars by the end of the oe year. >> what a difference a dayfferey makes. >> no kidding its cold andg its windy out therean.ere. what's going ongiri.ngri. >> super windy out there.out th look at the gusts, 40 milests, 4 per hour gusts for frederick.ed. we've had gusts up to 50 pluslus around the area today and it'sds still up over 20 miles perr 20 i hour here in the city.ity. give it a couple of moremoe hours. won't be so windy tonight.toght. that does not mean's not going o to be real cold though. i have the complete forecast into the weekend for you
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until then. >> ♪♪ ♪♪ >> sorry to say this but they queen of soul says 2017 is herts last year of hmeraking music. i >> that's it. >> aretha franklin plans toin po retire at the end of the year. franklin hoop turned 75 this year plans to record a final tol studio album of original composition featuringosit production help fromio stevie s wonder before taking a bigeforeg step away from m au sic to spend more time with family.fai but she adds that there may be some select things on her he calendar like some once aom onca month performances so she'so s not totally going away. >> how many times has cher said she was don he and everyd y cher tour is oh look cher isloos back. oh, look -- >> well. >> don't talk smack about cher. i did that one time on tv anondt i got like 20 tweets about it.ta >> i'm not saying it's a bad bad thing but what a career miss
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franklin has had plus her back. >> she'll still be around.'ll >> ist think cher and i have the same birthday so we're w're birthday buds. >> random. >> i'm just saying.>> i'm jt sag i'm trying to forge a relationship with the cheronsh fans that may have been taken aback. >> sarah i'm almost sad i mentioned it.it. >> gary and i are going to open a real estate firm withfir these ties. >> i always wanted a picturewand on a business card.c it was windy outside.o there was one particular snowrtl squall that came through andhroa it put down as much as a half a an inch to a little bit moreit than that in some places.places. cold tonight. we finally get a little tastettt of winter coming in so then so e real, real cold stuff stays to o the north and on the backsideba of the nor'easter that'she coming in but tonight we'll nn w have clearing se'kies it looksis like. you can see from our to your tor camera. camera
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as this high pressure gets ahige little closer toss us, as th you end up with clearing skieske and one thing that's going tog g make it real cold for us forus tonight is the winds will diewii down just a little bit so just we're talking the possibility po of some high teens out in theut suburbs. here in town i think we'ren towi basically going to be middle 20's. 24 hour temperature change. it is 29 degrees colder now than what it was last night at 5 o'clock. and at noon today, it wasit w it wa almost 40 degrees colder thant it was yesterday at noon, so a a real, real cold air mass. m is it a super cold air mass oras is it just that yesterday wasess so warm? i think part of thatot is that yesterday was just so s one. e. temperature 31, gaithersburgiths 27. it's the wind that's really real whipping out there so windso wid chill factors fromorsfrom gaithersburg to westminster tosi my dulles winchester it feelstet like it's in the middle teensmis there, feels bad enough herenoue in town at 20 degrees but look what i put in here for theor he weekend. 60 degrees on saturday.t sunday we're going to talk about temperatures approaching 70 degrees.70 i think we've dialed that back just a little bit.
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there could be a little've juer shower.e a 70-degree in-de in the area on sunday if we get aea little bit of sunshine, okay. oa association it's something tomeg ho for.r. one little last significantgn wave of snow moving through.thr. this little snow squall butall b it's putting down good snoww now south of waldorf headed head down towards the south and soutd southeast coming throughhe charles county and this aswillsl hold together so northernnorther sections of saint mary'st county this is coming yours is n direction so and expecgt maybe a good dusting of snow fromsnow that if you're in the path. pa we'll see a snow shower in at 7 o'clock, still windyock, stiln temperature of 31 but the windh chill values are in the teens ah and the 20's.e and the 20's still breezy at 9 o'clock, no snow. temperatures will be droppingbeg down into the low 20's here, 25 tonight.onig notice some teens out in the suburbs. clearing skies. ski light wind.light w that means we're going to get t real cold.real cd. tomorrow afternoon sun someun se will stay in the 30's but we'll's be about 41 degrees ord so for a high temperature so a a little warmer than today.oday. big nor'easter is moving out'eau quickly. the snow has come to an endn for new york but most of these s places here picking up a foot fo or more.
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or me. snow is still flying in boston and the wind is still blowing.o tomorrow morning i think weow m wakeor up winith a lot ofth a lf sunshine. as we get through the dayda tomorrow, expect clouds topcloud increase and that will keep p our temperatures in the uppern r 30's to the low 40's.w 40' we stay dry. dry as we get on into saturdaysatrdy morning, kind of a mix ofix of clouds and sun. su. saturday we stay dry. d. clouds and sun on saturday. satu we get up into the lower 60's. . on sunday, it looks like nowik most of the rain on sunday suda stays well to the west of us ofs and to the north of us but we be could have a few showerss coming through and i'm telling't you right now, sunday's temperature is dependent onatur how mue ch, if any, sunshine wee get. little bit of sunshine, of sunsi temperatures will jump way upjuy into the mid to upper 60's. 60' maybe a 70-degree reading.reain. and if we stay cloudy, we'lldy,l probably stay more like the lower to mid 60's so it all it a depends on the sunshine.s here's your planonner for today,, for tomorrow pardon me. real cold start 27 degrees wear cloud up in thet afternoonftrnn upper 30's low 40's and's and there's a picture of your seven-day forecast.foec hard to believe as cold as itld is today look how warm we arerme
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on the weeke saturday 62, 67 on sunday,n su spotty shower. we cool off a little bit nextttt week but not super cold and on valentine's day high will bee 52 degrees. 52 deg so, still not are real coldl cod february showing up.p. guys. guys. >> we've got to snuggle up snugl with your loved one stay warmstm on valentine's day.tine's day. cuddle alert.l. thanks gary. g we'll be right back. back not you. >> ♪♪ crest complete presents sugar shield sugar is everywhere and crest complete has a sugar shield to protect teeth from sugar found in everyday foods. crest complete. shield your teeth from sugar.
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because strong is beautiful. >> ♪♪ >> welcome back. fox5 d.c. cares is working to help promote a very co>>olcarest happening next month.m special olympics d.c. hostinghog a polar plunge at nats park. pr. the organization holdsn ho different plunges to raise raise money for its programs butg this is the first time one ise i happening inside the ballpark.
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we'll talk about you can gett yn involved in a minute one of the ways your donationatn helps special olympics.olycs. >> mike thomas visited some som speed skaters getting readytingr for the big event.evet this time he's hitting theing te lanes to look at the most popular sport in the specialorts olympics, bowling.pics, boing. check it out. o >> reporter: last week wek brought you ice skating from skm the special olympics.ial olymic. this week we're bringingbringing things inside a little bit.tle t of course there's a big fundraising event going on this weekend at nationalsationas park. we'll give you mupach moremor information on that in ahat ina moment. we'll show you what a ll thoseth fundraising dollars gorais towards. to tell you about i have nicole preston ceo out ofout of special olympics here in d.c. d. thank you for having also outino again nicole. >> thanks for coming.n nihanks . we're glad to have you.t >> reporter: so, it is onete thing i see inr: s here, it is s packed. i mean wall to wall there are all sorts of students here. tell us a little o f bit aboutto this particular event for and fo special olympics.o >> right. this is our bowling, so we've got as you sr aboidwl we fillede lanes with kids from all thell e
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d.c. public schools who are whoe here with us today and they're e doing practice workingwe up to theo te championship that's in a fewin w weeks. >> reporter: all right.epor and this is one of theter: a evt that some of the funds from funf the fundraiser this weekendek will go towards.towads. >> absolutely. >> reporter: tell us a little bit abouteporte that tha fundraising convenient thisin weekend. >> all right. we're having a polarg co as nge you can see, it's our event at national stadium nationalsna tparent everybody can come outro you jump into a colddy pool of water jump out and then have an great time with the party.th >> reporter: i looked at the forecast. this weekend it might be innd the 60's on saturday. i on satd. we and want to bring in some of thei featured bowlers here. e this is devon colston.olston. >> hi. >> reporter: how long have you participating in specialterl olympics with the bowling. bowl. >> i've been participatingr seven years ago.se >> reporter: oh,ve wow. w. >> yeah. >> reporter: okay. so, is this like>> r your favore sport? >> all of them are my favorite sport. ice skating volleyball andall an bowling they are my favoritehe because i like to do thy emar aa
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>> reporter: ex you know what i got a littlei sneak peek at what you wereu w doing back there.doing back t i sawhe you bowling someowling e strikes. you want to give it anotheranotr shot, see if you can bowl one b for the camera.m >> yes, sir. >> reporter: all right, goodht,d luck. luck meanwhile i'll bring in reginara wood at the same time.. you're one of the bowling coaches here, correct. one o >> yes, hd wootson high schoolso d.c. >> reporter: tell us -- thiss -s is a competition getting readyre for the end.ad how do we getthe the studentstn prepared. talk a little bit about that process. >> we take some of thee som activities that we do in i bowling and we create sessioness activities for them.th. basically how to interact onterc the team, how to work togetheroe with each other. othe even as far as, you know, what t to get in the snack bar, how, ho to spend your own money, how,how to count money so we make it a life skills event, you know.no >> reporter: even more than than
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just the physical activityical which is equally as i is also about themp mental and social kind of stimulation ofo the whole thing.f thing. >> exactly. love and specialand special olympics because it allows orsr children or our students to learn new sports.ors. some kids have never boldve nevd before on a team. team we played doubles tennis tennis earlier this year, basketball, a soccer, track and field is coming up and a lot of kids ks have never participated inrtic that environment before soiron it's really a great experienceae for them. >> reporter: absolutely. allorte right, devan stepping uu to the plate here. devan is, let's z you ready? e let's see what she's got.got. here we go. . down the lane we go. the anticipation is building. and devan bowls, oh, eight outet of 10. she's going for the spare.he all right, i think you guys g are doing great work here.rk he it's a big event this weekend wd at nationals park.ark come on down.n it's from noon until 4:00.4:00. support your local chapter ofl e
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y27mky y16fy >> the u.s. news & world u report released their.s list of best places to any of 2017.ces d.c. metro aretoa was number four on the list.list. >> including things like thingsi income housing cost educationedn and healthcare but fox5'sfox5's alexandria limon took a closerlr look at what it's really like to live in d.c. and as you you might guess it all depends ono where in the city you might mig live. >> reporter: yeah, we all all know in general that areas inasn d.c. east of the river tend tove have much lower incomes. looking at the numbers nu specifically it's truly eye opening.
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those numbers show that in ward three, for example t-the-t annual income surpassesur $200,000 a year.r. while here in ward eight, the, e median income is only $24,0000 a year.ar. the job market cost of livingivg education and healthcare werecae all factors that went into placing the d.c. metro as thet fourth best place to live in i 2017 according to u.s. news & world report.reprt. >> d.c. is a great place ifla you have an advanced degree ifrf you're young and you're single e but if you don't have an advanced degree you're having a lot of trouble in the jobhe market. >> reporter: this chart fromi the kids count data centera uses data from the census andusd shows that in 2015, the medianmn income for a family with kids k in ward one was about $61,000t 0 a year. year. ward two, $189,000.$8 ward three, more than $216,000,0 a year. meanwhile, in ward seven, it se was just over $31,000. and in ward eight, own orangege
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line $24,000 a y you're seeing poverty rates r around you at 40 percent where w in ward three it's less thanss n 10 percent and so the progressrs we're seeing in the city isn't t spread throughout. >> reporter: a report bysp rethe d.c. fiscal policy institute published in d.c. called al broken foundation affordable housing crisis threatensg cris h d.c.'s lowesret income residents, states that that 26,000 extremely low incomeincoe d.c. households spend morep than half ofen their income onmn rent. >> we see families togetherther maybe 12 people in threen t different families sharing a two bedroom apartment.pament. parents have a hard times a h getting their kids to the doctor. d they can't afford the metro,m for example, they can't affordyd the bus.the b. and lots of medication is overi the counter that we take for granted. if your child has a fever andhaa want to give her tylenol youtyln have to pay for that yourself.u >> reporter: white says thes t issue isn't a lack of jobs itssi a lack of education.eu >> we have tens of thousandshous of people unemployed in themplo
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district. the good news is that weews iste openings than we have ha unemployed so we do a betterbetr job at educating people andle ad connecting them to jobs, wejob e can bridge these divides.e d >> reporter: while newter: while developments stimulates the economy, it also drives theo drv prices of housing up in the h dirictct. and that means some residents rs are getting pushed out ofout f their neighborhoods altogether. inal southeast d.c., alexandriaa limon fox5 local news. n >> that is it for the news at i 5:00ne twsonight. >> the news at 6:00 starts now. >> ♪♪ begitonigin tonight with breaking news right ofghft thef top at 6:00.00. the ninth circuit court ofrtof appeals is that expected totedt give its ruling to reinstatein that travel ban.that the ruling is expected beforecte the close of business on theines west coast. co the president signed thethe executive order back on january 27th. it bans citizens of sevenseven mostly muslim countries fromunt that entering the u.s. for 90r days. now the order quickly led toto massive protests at airports nationwide.
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a last friday. again it is now in the hands thh of that three judge appealsapeas court. we will keep you updated asp soon as we get thehe information.info >> and we thank you forrmnd we joining us tonight atthank yo 6. i'm tony perkins.eri we begin tonight with a i complaint about discrimination within the prince george'she prs county police department. dt. >> the police chief wrapped upfd a press conference a shortence a time ago to address thatdre complaint. >> fox5's lauren demarco is s live from police headquartersli withce more. lauren. >> reporter: windy policeorte headquarters, yes. this press conference justr:hea wrapd up.p. now, there are reports that th more than 70 officers pardon me, filed this complaint with ci the department of justice backnt in o march. now, chief hank stawinski saidis he's been talking with the department of justice orstice o attempting to talk with themtal to get more details about thiss inquiry, these complaints endpin has not received anyed a information -- and he has nothat received any information fromnf the department. .th owaiting on that in then th meantime he's formedd panel with the fraternal order
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of police, thehe f hea trying to lookni into whetherwh there are any systemic ansystemc problems within the police thlie department. some of eu to see some of the pictures that they just showedst at this press conference.e. the first, there were severalevl of a dummy, a training dummy. now, that picture apparentlyly taken sometime around 2015ound 2 because the chief says thathief that is the last time that tat those dummies were used.used. you see that there's a black lak face painted on the dummy and an afro wig at its feet. again, he is just now receiving these photos inotos light of these reports andand these complaints, but he saysinu that these pieces of equipment n have not been used since 2015.2. so, he's had some difficulty diy looking into exactly what ledatd up to that.t. there's also a license plate reading gfy and then what w looks like obama. stawinski said these were were legal license plates on an officer's car.'s

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