time let's head over to gary mcgrady. gary, yesterday wasn't a total washout. few hours of sunshine there. >> i know. it was actually pretty good, too, until tom mentioned earlier until about 4:00, 5:00 o'clock when the rains moved in and stayed with us most of thet. little more than half an inch for dc. look we need the rain. we'll take the rain this time of year because it sets up nicely going into winter. 55 degrees here in town. now, it's cloudy, it's drizzly, it's gloomy, it's dang and i think most of the day today will stay this way. 55 in dc. annapolis 56 degrees. fredericksburg 52. culpeper 51. look over in winchester. 48. that's the only temperature coming in in the upper 40s around the region now. so it is kind of again chilly and raw. we warm up a little bit today. but we don't warm up a lot. 65. i'm that's the best we're going to be able to do in d.c. give me little latitude on this too some places may stay 60, 61 degrees. we may only touch 63 or 64 here in town. but it does loo clouds, with the drizzle, it will warm up much at all. no sunshine. i d

"fox5" gary mcgrady has more. >> okay so guys listen up i've been in a lot of creepy stories here one i'm in the yale the old lorton prison and it's been here a long time has not housed prisoners since 2 2000 or so they're not going to get rid of it they're making it a development here. i want to bring in jack perkins with elm street development. it's kind of your vision on what you will do with this prison and it's really kind of a cool community you're creating out here. >> we're very excited to be creating a new vibrant mixed use community and adaptatively reusing these prison buildings and historic structures and new ways for office and retail and restaurant and apartments and town homes and it's exciting time in fairfax county and fairfax country is our partner on the project long with alexander. we're in old prison and we have bars and cells and i know you already worked on some apartment as long the way and there's single family houses going up here as well. what are are the plans dwhash do you do with something like this how much do you keep intact and what's the plan. >> you

gary mcgrady, it's 8:29.ind gusts this morning. >> there's not really a gustiness to the wind this morning. kind of a gentle breeze out there but of course when you're in the teens and low 20's that gentle breeze -- >> yeah. >> -- can make it feel colder. just looking at that picture you wouldn't know it's really cold out there, if you just stayed inside, you would be okay. >> that's true. >> step outside and say -- everybody is tweeting me their current neighborhoods. keep doing that. i'll retweet them. gary fox5 d.c. feel free to do that. most of these neighborhoods coming in are in the mid-20's. we have the freeze warning in place. this goes until 10:00 a.m. this morning, i think after 10:00 a.m. most of us should be at or above freezing but it's been a real hard freeze out there with teens this morning. you can see where we are now, lower 20's westminster is 21 degrees. frederick is still 21. here in town we're 28. so we warmed up just a little bit. we did get down to 26. i haven't -- that ties the record

mcgrady. here we go. look keep that tree lit. don't let gary off that bike, guys, just let him queep pedaling all night long. i want to go see it. it's very creative. keeping employees happy and safe during extreme weather. the new perk offered by one ceo and why he's urging other companies to follow his lead. lead. >> i'm guessing you've heard of paid sick leave, even paid personal days, how about paid climate leave. the ceo of software wants to keep employees safe during extreme weather. his company is offering up five days of paid climate leave. his company took care of employees during the recent hurricane policy would help. even if we know you would do a right thing during a storm, if you put it in writing, would give people piece of mind. it's the best thing you can give your employees if you want them to be happy, and healthy and productive. he's urging other companies. come on , fox5. across this d.c. region we'd get a half of an inch of no. i have not taken a no day in 32 years. snow days -- they come pick us up when there's too much n

from the old lorton prison, gary mcgrady back to you guys in the studio. >> if you don't live in a jailis a jimmy buff feat themed community geared for people 55 and older. yes, buff fit is one of the developers, it will feature technique key bill, bars, restaurants, many other amenities, first open in february. >> apparently townhomes that go from 230 to 340,000, when you think about dc. >> right. gay lynn lorton, daytona beach. >> give me a tin cup, i'll think about it. see what's up. they are definitely looking forward to having some nice weather in february in daytona, we got a little taste of december we've been running a little chilly. >> just a bit >> it's not horrible. low 50's, we'll kind of hang there a little while, i love how everything balances out. october was so warm. october was chilly and comes out in the wash and we end up average as we head to the fall. love this picture that we got in on twitter from william cornish. he spends a lot of time getting great photos and this was taken on the trail, it's a trail in montgomery county near aspen hill. hangings out. i don't k

thanksgiving and tuesday expected to be the busiest time for travel ahead of the holiday fox5's gary mcgradythe roadways and gary, how is it looking in. >>reporter: it's very, very busy. i want to say this, aaa says between four:45 today and 6:00 tonight is the busiest time for travelers out there for the season. i'm just going to tell you right now we left northwest at four:45. we , headed towards fredericksburg. we set up our waiz. it should said we should make it to fredericksburg by six :45 or so. the waiz literally went backwards. we did get to 95 south. we've pulled off 95 a. we jumped on black like road, kind of taken the back roads so to speak moving north along i95. i95 is off to the right of us right now and we're moving pretty good on back like road. just a suggestion, maybe you take a couple of back roads. let me show you there's so many travelers this thanksgiving season. some numbers from aaa here we have a little page here for you so you can see, millions and millions of travelers from the area to virginia and maryland and surrounding states 90 percent of the travelers for tha

gary mcgrady has a great assignment today. he's at redskins salute to service event working with former redskins and kids, gary. oh, my gosh we've been working out 60 minute straight. all the kids finished and taking a break now. we'll till what this is about salute to service, stay with us we'll continue with news and right back from for the belvoir. stay with us. will have power over your health care. adams supports letting insurance companies deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. seniors would be charged more for health care; premiums would go up. and adams supports giving employers the power to block birth control access for female employees. john adams: wrong on health care, wrong on birth control, wrong for virginia. disclaimer: i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad. >> again we're following breaking news in texas shooting investigation. >> korey cough man is in the newsroom with the latest details, korey. >> we're just learning that officials with the trump administration are sayi

gary mcgrady shows us some of the eye gary, looks great. >> reporter: it sure does. we finally got it to cooperate. look how cool this is. i mean, this is a huge globe, probably about two stories high. and this is called the moon garden. i've learned all about this stuff. now, in the moon garden it puts up these great festive scenes act little bit like a super large snow globe, and every now and then it snows in there as well. lots of different scenes, there's four total globes down here. and we're really between the district winery and marine ia. it's another restaurant. by the way, the yards has become quite populated with great food and things to do. this last globe i want to show you is incredibly unique, because it's interactive. and we have kenny here, kenny is kind of the technical whiz down here, the master, if you will, and so really, when i say interactive, it means that you on this. >> it's kind of like a camera. picks you mean the same speed quick, when you shine the light, the reveals quickly, what you shine the line on >> and gives people a chance to co

nice, gary mcgrady >> i know and yesterday was in the 60's. today is in the 60's.h temperature across the region was super nice, i can see where two more days will be in the 60's, tomorrow and again on wednesday, we'll be back so this is really nice kind of unprecedented. if you will, today's high temperature officially for national dc was 62. how about that? how nice. dulles 60 for a high temperature, and bwi almost made it up maybe wednesday, does look like the next couple of days we'll be in the lower 60's, some places as warm as the middle 60's especially tomorrow with good sunshine. what is going on with all these incredible numbers? 45 now here in the city. binging to my 25. look at chicago, 55 degrees. now, look. all this is because of high pressure, that's what's causing this and it's reaching up on back side of the high, there's a big area of high pressure. we're getting this kind of northwesterly flow, which keeps us comfortably coolly but on the back side is bringing up all this moisture and warmth out of the gulf of mexico. lincoln nebraska is 63. far g

isn't that right, gary mcgrady? >> it really is. how about that gorgeous sunshine. the sunlight bouncing off the crowds. big travel day. we all know that. the front has moved threuvment the winds are going to start picking up. here we are now with a temperature of 47-degree these are all well above normal for this time of year. the ' much warmer out this morning than where we were yesterday morning. forty-seven here in town. now you get a 44 for gaithersburg, baltimore 42. winchester 43. the wind is kicking up just a little bit. so in spots. not necessarily so much here in town, but in spots the wind chillies a little bit lower than the tpe going kind of marginal for even the wind chill factor kicking in . it's a it ll cooler out there. the trend will be for these winds to really kick up. we'll have gusts 20, to 5 miles an hour. think about up and down the east coast no travel worries. we're talking about in the car and pesly in the air as well. way out west, pacific northwest, northern california there could be some concerns out there as a fairly strong storm syste

. >> i love it when it's warm like this gary mcgrady. >> thank you. >> on the way 5@630 binge watchers beware siteyes are looking to tax services like netflix. who is calling for the change and will be you affected. back after this hey! yeah!? i switched to geico and got more! more savings on car insurance!? they helped with homeowners, too! ok! plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance! geico's got you covered! like a blanket! houston? you seeing this? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >> welcome back. this is kind of crazy d.c. city council wants to rename the street in front of russian embassy for a murder aunt a google reformer. >> people are buzzing about this on social media. let's check in now with tom fitzgerald at the russian embassy tonight. fits i know you spoke with d.c.'s council president who is actually sphere heading this idea. what's this about? >> well, he teamed up with a couple of members of the u.s. senate. chris counsels and mark owe rubio on this one. and where we are right now is hemundz and davis street and the idea is this.

we'll start off right now 7:01 right over to gary mcgrady with a lock at weather this morning. >> you made a good point. it seems like it was not long ago temperatures were in the 70s and here we're struggling for 40s for high. that was yesterday. we will be warmer today. we showed you a picture. muted sunshine. that's why we are most of the morning with mostly cloudy skies and gets better and brighter this afternoon now which bit of change in the forecast. opt miss tkly thinking sun later this afternoon. and then perhaps what we'll have this morning. temperatures this morning, a lot warmer, still cold. but a lot warmer than where we were yesterday morning if had you to be up and about early, temperatures upper 20s unstayed of teens and low 20s. 35 in the city. and we'll continue to warm up a little bit today. it looks like today will be warmer than where we were yesterday. regionally pittsburgh is 30. i think yesterday morning at this time pittsburgh was 17. so we're trending warmer. new york city right now is 4 you can see the clouds on top of us now. muted sunshine at best. during

our own gary mcgrady is live at the childrens institutef bethesda with more on this giving tuesday.s is now a beehive of activity. earlier at 5:00 they hadn't really started yet, but just look at what they're serving here. if you don't know, i mean the nih, it's a wonderful health organization and people from all over the country come here. people from all over the world come here and when they get here with their children they do these pediatric clinical trials they need a place to stay. this is what the children's n at nih does. you can't let people not get their food. this is a special dinner tonight all being served by volunteers and they do this whenever they can and volunteers are so important for what goes on here. don, you got to show this. this is beautiful down here. what's your specialty when you're cooking turkey like that? you want to did make sure that you've got the perfect brian. time is perfect and just some love. can i have bite? >> absolutely. i'm going to taste it and talk to a couple of the families here. brian is the key. that's what i didn't do with my turkey

very cool story and we hope gary mcgrady was able to get himself out of lockup. >> yes. >> because he'st story for us and you'll see a little more i'm sure later this evening but we have that seen or heard from him we don't know what's going on. >> i'll >> check in or gary for us. >> live over d.c. it's dark and gets what we're still lidz losing daylight. no surprise. total daylight 10 hours and five meant and surprise tomorrow 6:0 and you know the is unis going down before 5:00 now. it's that time of year where we geted in a little earlier and at least we didn't have to deal with the proceedsen tough today. we had a little light rain early today and there was a mix-up through pennsylvania and that snow you see norm of boston into maine first measurable snow for them and maine oum of boston. for the rest of us this is the weather head line, dry, cool, quiet most of this week and light showers early on thursday and brief interruption. but temperatures will be running a little below arm as we continue through this week. averages 59 degrees. we were below that today copping in 50. dulles a

gary mcgrady live at den in more and gary dairy say that's a great place to be right now. >> it s look it's pact a lot of folks enjoying it. people do it all the time all over the state and virginia is, the district up to surrounding states as well and that has maryland worried because they feel like so much restriction on local craft breweries and this business with this current legislation. what we wanted to do is open it up. they made up the reduced on form. and what they're trying to do is make it easier for these craft brewers to make money and introduce tourism into the state. i doesn't realize what a big business this s you go back to 2016 they did a study and overall economic impact for the state of maryland is more than 800 million dollars. so it's big bucks for the state. fat translates to big tax money asel make that number larger and employ more people. i want to introduce you to somebody, brett snide senior a local craft brewer. >> woor a farm brewer. >> we're in leighton'sville maryland and open since 015 celebrating second anniversary this coming december. you're aware o

find out what's happening outside, because it doesn't feel like christmas >> no, it doesn't >> gary mcgrady>> and tomorrow, and 60 on wednesday. and we can just keep this thing going on for quite a while >> celebrate. >> i'm glad i have your approval. >> yes, you do. it's good, it's pretty good forecast. let me show you out there, temperatures because here in town, numbers have been dropping off. we're in the 40's, i think eventually we'll get down to 40's for a low, if you're in manassas, you dropped to freezing, winchester is 34. leonardtown is 41. over in annapolis it's been cool but gorgeous there. with a temperature of 44 degrees. how about overnight? no worries just a few high clouds continue to pass on through. 1:00 a.m. 43, drop down out in the suburbs though, much colder, temperatures will get down below freezing, at freezing or below,ing in most cases, so a chilly overnight. i'll have a pretty good looking last week in november forecast, if i don't say myself coming up in a bit. guys? >> thank you, garry >>> let's talk about it beginning to look had a little bit by christmas at th

gary mcgrady started in northwest going down 95. it took you forever to get to the beltway. fill us in. he foot yet? >>reporter: it's not been all that bad. just so you you know we're still traveling south on the beltway. we're approaching gallos road. we just went under 50. we've been in the car from the station an hour and four minutes. we're still not even to 95 south yet. if we're look ing forward, the lanes to the left, those are the hot lanes. now we're not rich people. so we wanted to do this the right way. you know what, jim and sarah, if you get out on the hot lane right before tie sons and take it down to 935 would either of you care to guess how much you had to pay to do that? >> six dollars. >> i'm going to say 7.50. let's go 21.30. are you serious? >> that's right. >> we couldn't get you some money from petty cash to put you in those lanes? >> we're doing this like the common man. >> i just gets you to 95. if you get on the hot lanes again from 95 and take them down to stafford, which is an incredible joke point i don't know how much it will cost you. we'll prob

gary mcgrady shows us eye catching elements, take a look. >> come here. we got it to cooperate. look how cool this is. this is a huge globe probably two stories high and this is called the moon garden actually. i've learned all about this stuff. and in the moon gavrden it puts up all these great festive scenes. it's a little like a super large snow globe and every now and then it snows in there as well. so lots of different scenes and there's four total globes down here and we're really between the district winery and mariny i hope i say that correctly that's another restaurant down here why by the the way the yards has become populated with food and things to do. this last blobe i want to show you is incredibly unique because it's interactive. and we have kenny here. kenny is kind of the technical wiz down here the master if you will. and so really, when i say interactive can project pictures of y yourselfthon correct? >> it's like a camera it picks up same speed of camera quick when it shines the light it reveals very quickly what you shined the light on. >> it gives people a

fox 5 gary mcgrady is live -- look, i used to work in upstate new york and the worst place i felt likeld be on thanksgiving eve was at wegman's but that's where he is in alexandria. gary, is that the belly of the beast or what? . >> reporter: well, you know what? i kind of thought like you think, that this place would just be a mad house, but to my photographer's chagrin and great surprise, there are 28 aisles, checkout aisles, that includes the self check too that is going strong and a lot of folks obviously they're here picking up -- there's a lot of catering meals being delivered. let's see if we can talk to somebody. hey are you picking up last minutes items >> we are indeed >> what's your name >> p jay >> what's your name >> what are you picking up here >> we picked up stuff for casserole, pumpkin pie, some cal flaur, we're going to kind of make our own >> where is the turkey >> we're vegetarian, there will be rice or something >> but you feel good, gotten everything >> i think we've gotten everything >> let's just keep walking. do you mind? it's ok. that's ok, if you don't want t

i'm here with jack road with gary mcgrady last night and he sedentary i believe tuesday did live up to its name. last night as they went south towards frederickburg which we do as soon as we're done here it was pretty bad. even getting out river road to the beltway from northwest washington and bethesda last night was bad. so far this morning what we're seeing is traffic moving at speed looking good so far fingers crossed to get going if you want to take advantage of this. for more on this how things are going at the airport we'll go to colleague annie yu at reagan national. good morning, any. >> you got good news i have good news and nothing but smiles and we saw a line go past the american flag and i've been using that as my gauge. average weight time minutes because tsa this year enforcing k-9 expedited kan p ing. when what it means you have by the time you get to the check point you don't have to remove your shoes. that saves a top of time. hello, hello, what time did you wake up today. >> 5:30. >> today not the best take to test luck. good news things are moving along long just ty

the sun let's head over to our gary mcgrady with the first check of our forecast. ry is it a day that we can get away with a light jacket or do we need that big parka. >> well, maybe a heavier jacket this morning or light jacket depending on how you are but maybe a raincoat before it's all said and do >> what. >> you didn't hear? rain in the forecast. >> i'm usually paying attention to weather. >> sorry about that. you see the live picture there just next to you. there's a little glimmer of sunshine this morning. that may be about all the sun we see. the very early morning hours this morning we get a little sunshine. then the clouds will come in, thicken up for everybody and there's a chance for some showers, too, coming on across the area so that really is the headline. i think mostly today we're talking about clouds and some showers around the region. it does look like most of this rain should hold off until late today, this evening and during the overnight as well. frontal system will come through and it's going to get pretty gusty out there before it's all said

gary mcgrady of course here and he's going to have the full forecast in just moments. >>> first let'set to some headlines. heads up for metro riders. a major shut down will affect part of the red line. we'll have full details ahead. >>> it's a big weekend full of shopping. yesterday was of course black friday but today is small business saturday. so, we're going to have details ahead on the deals awaiting bargain hunters at mom and pop shops in our area. >>> good morning and welcome to fox5 news morning on this saturday, november 25th, i'm annie yu. let's begin with a live look outside. looks like your typical fall day, gary, temperatures, what, in the 30' looks kind of gray. >> no, it's not all that gray. i don't know why it's looking like that but i think we got a good amount of sunshine out there. i agree with you annie it does look gray in that picture but look behind you. there's. >> i see some blue. >> it's a blue sky. it can be deceiving depending on which camera you're looking at. >> yeah, okay. then is the sun going to fully come out today. >> it's not going to be as fulbrigh

here to show us how it all works is gary mcgrady. >>reporter: i think i will before it's all said and done. it's kind of cold out here. i'll just say this, too, before i introduce you to lori, there are a lot of people out here on the bicycles, as soon as we turned the tv cam a camera on they just ran away. since i really don't know much about it we're going to learn. lori and gow ski is here. she does all the marketing for downtown sill silver springs. i'm not going to call this a christmas tree. i'm going to call this a holiday art in stags stalings. as you can probably tell downtown sill silver springs is anything but ad we give back to the community with a tree structure that represents the holidays, represents giving, represents community. very interesting. i got to ask you, where did the idea come from? i know you have ideas every year, but this is really interesting. again, you know, we are looking to come up with something new every year that's really going to drive people to the property to talk about it to take pictures of

liver at the military base with more, gary mcgrady. >> i have to say there's a lot of working outgoingt is by me at least not yet. i'm breaking a sweat watching them. you mentioned it washington redskins charitable foundation play 67 0 salute to sxts i have the man right here. maybe some of you recognize him. you were in the league 90s. >> yes i was. >> and washington redskins win. >> 95, 96. >> dion fox. die on, this is a great program. we all know about play 60. what are these giing doing here they're working hard. >> they're working very, rehard it's a salute to the troops and also play initiative to get the kids out of the house to go ahead and actually stop playing games and get over the cell phones and be active for 60 minute a day. >> they're moving right now for solid 60 minute. >> they are and they'll be sleep going tonight. because some of these drills got them going top speed and continuously moving the entire time. >> dion started this evening working out with kids. i pulled him away temporarily. how many of these did you do when in the league. come on. >> really play 60 wa

i hope it continues, gary mcgrady. >> just like that. >> it just changes. >> i love it. gary we have to keep reminding our viewers that it's time to fall back tonight. >> tonight. so, set the clock back one hour. it's the good kind because you get an extra hour. it's the spring the jump forward that always -- >> that's the >> we've got clouds and it won't take much because the last couple of days we were in the 70's. yesterday almost 80. right now -- annie just mentioned it 51 degrees. this is reagan national temperature. it's mostly cloudy out there. i hope this morning we get a little bit of sunshine. don't expect much. it's much cooler back to the northwest too. frederick is still at 41 degrees. suburbs there in loudoun county 47. manassas 47 degrees. fredericksburg is 51. there's a front moving through okay so the winds are changing, becoming north and northwesterly and even northeasterly later on. we're going to get this wedge of cool air coming here on these easterly, northeasterly winds coming here. rain is moving in our direction

first what's going on, gary mcgrady >> i'm down in alexandria, i want to drew introduce you to theses, end enrique and sammy and they're trying to help just do their little thing after hurricane maria. i want to introduce you to them and tell you what their plan is they're going there soon >> a reminder considering maria hit over a month ago and still so many in trouble. we'll look forward to seeing gary after the break and also your seven-day forecast which will feature a warmup. the 70's are in sight as early as tomorrow, how long will it last? i'll have a look when fox 5 news at 5:00 returns. at 5:00 returns. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. narrator: they call him enron ed. because washington, dc lobbyist ed gillespie represented the worst of the worst. lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. corporations sending jobs overseas. and of course the enron scandal. now, enron ed is lobbying for donald trump's agenda. and taking away healthcare from thousands of virginians. enron ed gillespie. he's not lobbying for you. every tv

want to start off by checking in with gary mcgrady this morning. , this was accompanied by rain overnight as well. >> my goodness. the rain is gone. the wind, unfortunately, still us with. and it looks like the wind will stay with us through the day today and into the afternoon hours. wind advisory is in effect. that's what we start with this morning to quipd of give you an idea. what it basically means we're expecting sustained winds 30 miles an hour. this goes until 3bg today d.c. and surrounding metroment and parts of stafford county, spotsylvania county, not in the spot of southern sections of fauquier and culpeper you're not in this but it doesn't mean it's not windy. we can see before all said and done gusts done gusts of 50 miles an hour. matter of fact a kim hours ago gusts of 4 miles an hour at national airport. higher elevations out to the west we have stronger winds. wind gusts have come down a little bit. it was gusting close to 0 in town. 4 mile an hour wind giingts westminster there and carol county. baltimore, is gusting to 33. i want