hi, everybody thanks so much for joining us tonight at 5@6:30. certainly politics is what we like to talk about, but let's get started with the nail biting cold that's coming our way. >> it's here. it's coming. gary mcgrady was out there saying it was a chilly night. caitlyn roth is here. winterser 's revenge venge. >> winter hasn't started yet. it's officially not winter but it certainly feels like that outside. did it get windy and cold in a hurry. as an artic colt front came through. we're talking wind chill values in the

it will be nice and sunny tomorrow afternoon, that's where it stops. some of us won't even make it to the freezing mark. let's add onto that a flu flakes are possible. i think most us don't see much snow with this. future wind chills already seeing values in the mid 30s in d.c. right now. by later tonight, 11 p.m., single disij its showing up north and west. by the time you hit the commute tomorrow morning, your first step outside to get kids ready for the bus stop we're looking at low teens. this is borderline dangerous cold. you don't want to be out there too long. it will remain very chilly throughout the rest of the day. forty-six is it for tomorrow. some rebounded thursday, back to the chilly weather on friday much that's a look at your seven day forecast back over to you. >> it is election day in alabama . this year's most bitter and controversial race coming to an end and a the final moments are expected to be a nailbitter. this is what

talking about tonight at 6:30. this is an important race for our country. voters are casting votes in one of the most watched senate races. roy mower and doug jones are battling it out for attorney jeff sessions' vacant seat. alabama is heavily republican. donald trump beat hillary clinton 636 to 37. chief just stis of the alabama supreme court for refusing to enforce rules, the constitution that he felt violated h his christian beliefs. the write in votes are a big deal with the somebody else vote reaches 5 percent or more it could be critical to the outcome of the race. black voters are also important because they make up 25 percent of the population. the only democratic in congress has been pushing to get voters to the polls to vote for doug

jones. evangelicals, their support of him has not waiverred in the wake of the sexual allegations. cliff young leads poll ster for thomson reuters. thanks so much for being with us . where do the polls stand right now? we know they can go up. they can go down. what's the situation as it stands right now in. >> it's always a rough one. the polls have actually been all over the place. some have shown moore up by ten, others have shown jones up by ten. we have mower up by two. this is remarkable in as of itself because alabama is a very red state. indeed no democrat has won at the state level in the last 30 years. the average victory for republican around 25 points. very much a nailbitter because mower is a controversial figure. we're going to hear flurry doug jones in a second. being at the white house, what's inre

moore was a guy at the white thus distanced themselves from. you would never guess that judg ing upon the fullen dwors ment donald trump has given him since. he has come around emphatically towards roy moore. if mower were to includes that would be seen as a very clear rebuke to the p particularly as my friend there said in such fervent eventually conservative state. let's listen in to hear what roy moore had to say. we've got doug jones. >> sorry. we feel very comfortable with where we are and how this is going to turn out. more importantly we've more what we've done to the people of the united states. if indeed doug jones wins this what will this mean for congress? >> well, it will obviously mean that the republican majority, which is already very

will be cut to a one seat ma are the jo. that will make things like passing \tax\tacks reform and other legislative items more difficult forth republican party but many republicans feel like they're in a lose-lose situation . cliff, we heard from 2016, don't trust the polls. the situation looked at going into election night 2016, a totally different outcome. do you think there's a concern with people who may not be forthright down in alabama who may muddy the results a little bit. we should always be careful. this is a tricky election. set elections are local turnout, maybe in the range ever 20, 25 percent. those are tricky elections to actually poll objection to the form what i would say is the followng. when we're looking at the night as it unfolds, jones as a chance if african-american turnout is high and he's doing well in the suburban areas of the large cit ies like b

more about the white house' response to bringing in roy moore. we know that they've given him the ringing endorsement simply because they don't want democrat doug jones twhr. are you hearing that if indeed roy moore wins we know we heard from some capital hill republicans who say they immediately want to get him into this ethics investigation, possibly expel him. what was the white house saying about this. >> the white house hasn't gotten into this, but this is clearly another example where donald trump and the quote, unquote republican establishment are on different sides of this. people like mitchell mcconnell have been very, very skeptical of roy moore. we've not seen any of that skepticism from the white house. we know that alabama loves president trump. when people go to the polls how much of this is going and voting for roy moore or voting for the trump ageneral danchts that's

great question and really b this election is about fitness for the office and trieblism or partsism on the other other. to keep the seat in the senate. they don't believe the news coming in about him. on the flip side independent, favor waiverring moderate republicans and obviously democrats are look ing at this in term of fit. they believe that jones is more fit than mower specifically and we'll see which side wins out. let me ask you, i know a lot of times we've seen this back at the presidential election, leading up in the actual election are you going to vote for a certain canned date and maybe they aren't necessarily telling the truth. do you that i could be a factor here? >> there's some of that. on the margins we may have people being embarrassed on who they are going

to show up on election day? that's really tricky in this specific case because it says a low turn out election and we don't know what's going to happen with differential turnout . are there a certain sort of republicans that don't have a good choice and they want to stay home? that will really define the ultimate outcome. this is the sort of thing where polling has challenges. glad to have you guys in tonight to talk about this. i'm sure there will be more to talk about in the day s and weeks to come. >> let's get a thing for things on the ground. lauren blanchard is in alabama. arriving on horseback to vote tuesday, roy mere alabama's embattled us senate candidate. insisting the time has now passed for questions about sexual misconduct allegations against him involving teenage girls. i'm not

we're telling you -- moore has denied the allegations but they have plagued alabama's special election race with more of chief justice now backed by president trump squaring off against democrat doug jones a former us attorney supported by former president obama. f we feel very good about what we've done. what we've accomplished. up for gaps, jeff sessions vacant seat the polls show a race that could either way in this conservative state. after national media attention alabama voters are casting their ballots. i voted for conservative judges, traditional family values, second amendment and against a bompleghts if everything that is going on with the other canned date and being a teacher i just feel like doug jones is the right choice. >> alabama's secretary of state estimates about 25 percent of

alabama will have turned out on this election day. jim, shawn. >> let me ask you, we are hearing reports that there was a little trouble at the polls today, that some people are saying they were we go turned away because their state ids didn't match what was on the voting roles. what were you hearing about that. >> this state has very strict voter id rules. just walking twitter, talking to folks, there has been a big push to make sure people had the right ids. the candidates made sure their wives had their ids. not only if that was tongue in cheek on doug jones' part, but there are a lot of republicans who say they have their ids. they're going to legally vote. a little bit back and forth there.er now we're just about less than an hour and a half until the polls close. a lieutenant of folks if they haven't turned out, leaving work to head over, we'll

doug jones and roy moore i knowledge roy mower was the only one that ed sho up on horseback, right. >> that he was, he and his wife both showed up on horseback. it is a tradition they say. they've done every electin. >> lauren blanchard, it's going to be a long night. i'm sure we'll see you a little bit later . she's going to show up on the final five. a group of women who say the president has sexually harassed him has come forward. the women want congress to investigate and now six senators are asking the president to resign. the president is tweeting about the sexual harassment allegations and took shots of one of those senators, keer stin gill brand. what's notable that the president did not tweet once about the terror attack yesterday, but kir steen gill grant, they've gone back and forth. there's so much that we can say. you know you guys have been talkingbo

twitter. let's bring in tom fitzgerald. every day we see something different. i should not see when i see a tweet like this from this president of the united states. i just think it is beneath the office. go to your report now. >>reporter: i will tell you that this particular tweet did unleash a furry up here on capital hill and it came on a day just hours after some 59 democratic congress women today sent a letter to tray gout ticketed event demanding that an investigation be opened up into these allegations, this renewed focus of sexual assault that allegedly had been committed by donald trump before he was the president of the united states. we spoke to some of the leaders of this movement here today. this is what they had to say. to date more than 17 women have publicly come forward to accuse donald trump of sexual misconduct. foorsed kissing, un wanted tusmg and groping

airplane, in a corporate office, in a pageant dressing room. history has shown and demonstrated that this is an impeachable offense. so what we are saying today is that we must get to the facts. now that history they're talking about of course isoformer president bill clinton who was impeached for lying about his sexual relation ship with then white house intern monica lieu instance ski. the congress women say tonight if the house oversight committee can prove these allegations and president trump has repeatedly denied them that in their view that would constitute an em peachable oh fefns lying. the president was not silent on this topic today and seemed to draw into focus new york senator kir steen guilt brand. in that tweet he said she was a \flunk\flung i of democratic leaders and then went onto what many believe was a

brandt would have done anything to get a campaign contribution from him when he was a new york businessman. what exactly did he mean when he said by do anything? >> the us press secretary struck down any suggestion in her view that there was a sexual motive to that tweet. he's not alleg ing anything. he's talking about the way that our system functions as it is. that politicians repeatedly beg for money. that's not something new and that comment frankly isn't something new. if you look back at past comments that this president has made he's used that same terminology many times in reference to men. >> i can tell you the reaction to this was a furry today. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren accused the president of trying to her words slut shame the senator from new york. senator gill brand said she would not

reach out to the site over house committee said they stim did not receive the letter. we're going to keep you up to date on the terror attack in new york city.

>> wealth come back, stepped up security on the streets of new york city this morning after that attempted terrace community ofer attack near times square. twenty-seven year old akia ul lawmaker is in custody after trying to set off a homemade bomb. the bomb only partially exploded. five people were hurt , including the suspect. he's originally from bangladesh this is sparking debate about tightening immigration procedure s. he was inspired by watching isis videos online. it's unclear if he had any direct ties with the terror group. a society

and many backgrounds can work and we show a democracy can work and our enemies want to undermine that. the suspect's family put out a statement along with the council saying we are heart heartbroken by this attack and the allegations being made by a ebb in of our family but we're also outaged by members of law enforcement during this investigation. calling it a cancer on our society they're promising to launch a crack down on ms13. attorney general jeff sessions and new homeland security secretary met with reporters in baltimore today. they say there are now now thousand members of ms13 in the us. they're allowing poor immigration policies. they need to build a wall to stop border crossings. on the way we're talking about a flag fievment a high teen says he

class for not standing for the pledges of allegiance.

>> a northern virginia high school student says he was physically removed present class for not standing up for the pledge of allegiance. angelica lee hem anjali hemphill is live with more. >>reporter: 15 year olderric tramly and his family have been speaking to a lawyer after all of this and she tells us this is the first time eric has ever received any backlash for something that he has chosen to do for more than a year now in school. take a listen to what she says happened. he accident stand up. mr. ferric told him to stand up and he again said i'm not going to do that respectfully. i mean he wasn't making a scene or anything. and then mr. ferric grabbed him, shoved him outside, made him stand in the cold and somewhere along the line made some comment this isn't the nfl. i understand this is a hot topic right now

and everything, but our country is built on values that allow you to surprise yourself as you see if it within reasonable limits obviously. but choosing to sit during the pledge of allegiance is about as benign a show of your personal values you could possibly ask for. not raising a scene, not yelling, not protesting anything with a picket sign, just sitting down. so the constitution recognizes that right and i think that that is going to trump what the political topic dangerous deliveries user is. this attorney says this was done by eric's teacher on the morning of november 24 at driver's ed class in event serville.er igic was the only student who chose not to stand forth pledge of allegiance that day. it's something he has been

when eric who is an african-american student says he was inspired by the black lives matter movement. now fairfax county public schools has also weighed in. they've called this incident unacceptable behavior by the instructor and what he did violates a fairfax county public school solve situate that i can read to you in part. no student shall be subject to un fairvelg comment or stigmatism to participate or abstain stain from the reabstainization of the pledge of allegiance. non participants are expected to sit quietly or stand silently if they want. he was in the return returning to any fairfax county school and he has apologized to that student and their family. h teacher, his name is richard ferric he also lawyered up for now. mr. ferric has been a teacher with

record for service. the allegations against him are misleading and without merit. guys, so far no lawsuit has been filed. that's the very latest here in event serville. back to you. stay warm out there, girl. >> we're back after this on 5@6:30. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way.

>> former white house secretary sean spicer is writing a book about his time at the trump administration. the book is called the briefing. it will go out in july. he reportedly plan s to share details as his ten-year position as press secretary. spicer left the white house over the summer. he has been doing some fellowship work over at harvard. there you have it. what do you think the title the book is spicy? >> i'm just curious. you normally have something real quick. you have to work on

one. the briefing is pretty poring. it should be something a little more spicy. >> fifty shades of spice. go. >> no. we'll find something else. >> we know it's been a year fill ed with buzzwords and miriam webster is out of for the word of the year. femme nice am, because the word is often misunderstood. there was a 70 percent spike in people look ing up the word especially during the events like the women 's march in washington, d.c. tonight also marks the first night of hanukkah. the jewish holiday lasts ate days and earlier this evening thousands of people gathered on the ellipse for the lighting of the me nora. the national lighting ceremony dates back to 1979 when president carter was in office and it has been lit every year since. i just got a name for the title. here we go the spice

objection to the form that wasn't me. whoever told you -- that was the voice in my ear. i liked it.

announcer: today on "tmz" -- >> no doubt everybody has a lot of love for keaton jones but suddenly the murky issues with his mom has $60,000 swinging in the wind. somewhere there was a gofundme page put up in keaton's name and they had to put it on hold. hey, we need to see where this is going. >> people saw the gofundme and said i'm going to give $5. why? >> they saw a kid crying. you know what, i would donate to put him in like kung fu classes. [laughter] >> we have swae lee leaving papi and he buys an entire bouquet of roses from this guy. all of a sudden out of nowhere, ose ladies rush to swae lee. [laughter] he tries to give more roses to the rose lady. >> i'm going to