>>> this is fox 5 local news at 6:00 >>> i'm jim lokay. lauren demarco is off. and let's take it outside. you may wanted a white christmas. also didn't feel like christmas. temperatures reaching to 50's. mike thomas is here. the question is got the work week ahead of us, what's on academic >> warmer temperatures believe it or not, even though we're talking about christmas and merry christmas to everybody. holidays to everybody. so here's what we're dealing with on christmas night. pretty much a nice night. it was a beautiful day. in fact, one of the warmer christmas eves, rather christmas days. 51 high temperature for this afternoon, christmas day last year, remember that? 69 degrees. it was wet and raining. i'll take the 51 and the sunshine that we had. record high for christmas is 72 degrees set back in 1964. temps right now on the cooler side. 45 in washington. 37 in gaithersburg. 41 in baltimore. 39 at west minnesota as well as hagerstown.

aga >> reporter: george michaelha gone at age 53. >> ly. >> jim lokay reporting.>> l.erther entertainers reacting to thengot loss. michael's wham band made andrew ridgely tweeted heartbroken at the loss of my beloved friend. frien >> sing are brian adams tweeted rest in peace george michael. i can't believe it. such an incredible singer ani c' lovely human being. bng far too >> james cordon wrote i'vewro loved george michael for asor as long as i remember.long he was an absoluten ablute inspiration. always ahead of his time. again, sing earl george michael dead at the age of 53. 5 >> today is a national davel dav mourning in russia whererussiahe rescue teams continue toe t search for victims of a military plane crash. it happened after takeoff from f sochi. the plane was carrying 92rying 2 people to syria. they were redding to russia'suss air base in syria to performo pm for the troops. >> now to the district this morning. family members of a man shot and kfoilo lethde bybe d.c. porslice are still looking for answers.ing fr >> it began with holidayolay argument. the ma

inside of a maryland school that sent threet students to the hospital.spit i'm shawn yancy and i'm jim lokay in for tony perkins. the video was by a central highh school student. fox5 lindsay watts live tonight in capital heights.ts. any word on what could haveve started all this?d >>reporter: all jim, them, investigation is ongoing but we're being told by school sch officials that race may have hav played a role in this horriblesh clash, that it was a group of african-american studentsn-am fighting with a grouper of hispanic students. the parent who provided us the e video says he kept his daughter from school today. she wasn't involved in the fight, but he says it's the's racial element that really hasly him scared. here's another look a video. high schoolers out of control in a lunchroom sprawl.aw this happened on friday. students punching, kicking each other. three students had to be hospitalized after a fight that school officials acknowledge mae have been racially motivated. a spokesperson for princesper george's county schools says the african-american students werese the aggressors a

i'm jim lokay and i'm ' sarah sip once. we start with your weather as yoou get ready to head back to the workweek after the holidayla weekend. get ready for a winter warmup and that's not all. caitlyn roth to get us started.r it was cloudy, pretty chilly. it's hard that by tomorrowomor afternoon it will be feeling like the middle of spring.spri it actually will be as we are anticipating a one-day warm up. that one day will be very nice.y if you're lucky enough to be off again tomorrow you'll enjoyoy that. if you have to head back to work it's going to be at leaves a nice drive home. we have been sitting at the same 45-degree mark in washington sense we were on earlier this evening at 5:00 p.m.00 p really temperatures have note gone anywhere with the thickthe cloud cover and an approaching cold front. i do expect that they will risewill during the overnight hours. 45 in annapolis, 45 in 48 in culpeper. winds have been increasing slightly out of the southwest. areas west of washington overnight should get pretty breezy. wind

i'm jim lokay. we're talking about the frigid weather. if you stepped outside, you felt it.pent most days indoors, it is phraseing out there have not officially freezing at this time. gwen is not, 30 degrees certainly feels like it. >> it does. and also, we're talking about windchills that made us feel colder than that. it's been that way all weekend. and it's not quite over just yet. so, let's take a look at the map, we'll show you what our highs for today, here's the numbers, mid and upper 30's in all three airports, not very pleasant. the good news, on the up side is that it wasn't quite as windy today as it was yesterday. so that at least made a bit of a difference for you. but in the meantime here's a look at the temperatures, kicking in at 30 in the nation's capitol, 21 at gaithersburg, a chilly 21 at frederick. 23 at winchester,9 for an air temperature and 25 to the south at frederick. the winds now calm, not a lot happening there at all, but still, creating windchills, let's have a look at those numbers and see where we stand. feels like it's only 22 right now in dc.

and work in a way we might notot do on today.oday today she's sitting down with fox5's jim lokay to talk aboutkt friendship, fox5 and the momentm that change his family forever.r they join us now live and good g morning to you sarah.ar. okay. >> hey you guys.ou guy >> jim is an end anything ma to some people you have crack thisi code. >> you are a little bit of end anything ma aroun ad l here.d h >> am i. a >> you're like a mystery guy.key i feel like everybody on keyn k card you're the one that peopleo have the most questions about. t >> t that concerns me a little bit. >> why?>why >> i don't know. it just -- that's the way it's i always been. bn i'm boring, sarah, come on. >> no. i feel hike you're a man of manf mystery. and here's the thing. tng i do feel like because what we e talk about was lot of personal l stuff which we'll get into.l g i but also i didn't realize this, essentially your dream was to bo a game show host. >> at one point i wanted to be. it was one of those things i tng didn't know what i wanted to be for a long long time but iimeut remember in pre-school remembere p

li live at president's park, i'm jim lokay fox5 local news. new >> this is always one of those a things that we wailwt, we waitew and then it always happens when we're not on air. a >> i think we're going to do it this year. what do you think guys. >> yes, we have it on screenat d though.o we h >> i will say it'sthou rgheallya incredible the weather sue. i think the last time you wereea down there it was rainingst t cs and dogs and cold. cd. >> yes. >> cold, cold, cold.>> cold, coc >> i was the only one there as e [laughter]a >> but jim has a great vantage n point because he can see when se the motorcade levers the whiteer house and you know that you'reh probable five minutes awayle fiv from the tree lighting at thatat point.t. >> right. >> so, i don't know if he's seen the motorcade leave yetor but we'll likelcay see that s ta happening here in the nextg herh five or 10 minutes and if it10 m happens while i'm doing theng t weather we'll make sure we letee you know about it but you heard jim mention it's getting chilly.ly. sun went down at let

. >> or friday night with jim lokay >> what kind of milk is that >> that's is organic that, we stir thear egg mixture with the milk >> whisp, it together >> five minutes to get them nicely incorporated. you don't want to do it until they're a pale yellow color, add egg whites to stiff peaks. it ads nice texture to the egg nog. >> i like the taste of egg nog but to me it's heavy, the goal was to get the same flavors but for it to be lighter so that you can actually enjoy more of it >> you got the richness with the four alcohols >> absolutely. >> we got about 90 seconds. >> then we're going to go to add heavy cream that has been whipped >> that's the good stuff >> and we stir this together. and to finish and the benedict ine. you can substitute anything but it reminds me of the holidays >> benedict like a monk >> you can stir it to to incorporate or leave it like this. >> visually i know we kind of not necessarily see it. dare we try? >> gosh. there we go. >> ok. >> fortunately, michael told us ahead of time and we had it poured out. tell us where we can find it >> bib iana. >> cheers. ch

thanks for staying with us tonight, i'm shawn yancy and i'm jim lokay in for tony. a school at central high schoolo recorded the video.he a parent sent it to fox5x5 demanding action from them th school. let's reach out to fox5's lindsay watts who is livee tonight with that story. hey, lindsay. >>reporter: hey, jim and shawn, the investigationnt ongoing, but race may haveave played a role in this awfulawfu clash, that it was a group ofrop african-american studentscan- fighting with aam group ofof hispanic students. stu the parent who provided us theu video says he kept his daughters from school today, that she wasn't involved in the fight, butts eat racial element that really has him scared. here's more of that video. high schoolers out of control in a lunchroom brawl. this happened on friday. students punching and kicking each other. three students had to be hospitalized after a fight that school officials acknowledge may have been racially motivated. a spokesperson for princeok george's county schoolsespe saye african-american students wereec the aggressors and bec

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. >> it's nice and fruit forwardnd so it's not going to be anything too tank jim lokay.moree fruit. otherwise it's going to be bitter. super easy. we mix it up. you can heat it up with all the fruits in there or serve it that way. obviously the longer that itlong sits, the more it's going to get in there. you won't want to get it sit too long. i'll let you guys work on that. do you usually like to keep fruit in there or do you like the fruit to pour. >> the fruit becomes a gash issue. plus, when it's soaking with the wine. not a problem at all mr. we have a minute left. let's go to the white. i've also thrown some yellow tail chardonnay in there. i've thrown some parking lemmen n.a.d.e. instead of using prosec, use sparkling lemonade. even though diy yourself is a the mr. of fun we have especially a, which is a eppa that says blueberry, it's all organic. that stuff has come a long way from what it was before. to say the very least. let's say diy was the only way. the fact that it's all organic, comes right off the shell this way, you can sort of warm this up. we have six

i'm jim lokay and tony and shawn off tonight. caitlyn roth is here with what we can expect. most people kickoff a short workweek. jim and sarah, good evening to you both. this is the type of changes that you hear about in december that you want to hear. not talking about cold air, not talking about any within the weather, but a spring-lining water for your tuesday. if you're lucky enough to have tomorrow off, enjoy. temperatures outside right now, we just jump three degrees in the last hour. we're on the rice after what was a seasonable afternoon. 51 already in fredericksburg. we've got a push out of the south before this cold front comes through. it's back off towards our west and winds are expected to increase a about it overnight. right now not too gusty, but especially areas north and west of washington we could gust to 40 miles overnight where there's a wind advisory through frederick, fact quarter county and off the ridge tops. just some clouds around right now. there's your cold front. by the time it arrives just a shower or two in the morning. clouds quickly give way

jim lokay is in the holiday hid spirit down at the lighting ofat the national christmas tree. tre jim, the tree looks beautifulutl as usual. >> reporter: it really s michelle obama does the night before christmas in everybody ey year joined by simone manuel mal who won olympic gold becoming the first african-american to win an individual events some e inn swimming over the summerr tr during the rio games. ges to give you a sense of what wehw saw earlier. earlier we had the tree lighting l happen just a little bit afterbt i would say 5:30 tonight.. just a few moments ago this is being taped for latering ped broadcast, there was a bit of wf a break in the action and overno have a longoria the actress who is emceeing the events tonight acknowledged to theac crowd this of course is president oknowbama's fourtd thh christmas tree lighting. there wastree app, i-wouldn't say -- there was certainlyreas c matterrings of four more yearsoe aussie the christmas tree tree lighting o we got out here about 2:30ut:3 started to see traffic see building up started to see the lines build up aroun

scary moments on the seven river.even thank you for joining us, i'm'm lauren demarco.dema >> and i'm jim lokay. nearly two dozen people had toel be rescued from the water.er. lindsay watts joins us with the story. >>reporter: the boaters set out to take strang of mid 60-degrees weather in december. but then the weather took a turn. # 2 people ended up from the river. we talked to a all happened and said this coull be much worse. sudden wind gusts of 40 miles an hour and those ominous clouds made for a nightmare scenario for a group of sallors. cellphone video shows the struggle after the small boats called lasers start cap sizing. maryland natural resources police say people in the watertr were 16 to 70 years old. there was a huge, it must havehe been a huge cold front that really created a huge weather windstorm that came in and literally knocked over 90 percent of the lasers. stuart white captured the video. what you could see was justin any little black specs of a person in their dry suit tryingy to get out of the water. he says even with those suits oi he knows present his experience salin

h as jim lokay reports george michael's death another enormous loss in the music losse world this year. >> ♪♪ >> reporter: one of the hitsne i we'll always remember georger michael by his 1987 hit one off >> ♪♪ >> reporter: but it was histe run with the group wham along with hisr: bhe gro best friend w ridgely that put michael on the map. map >> ♪♪ >> reporter: he was an icon of the 80's anter: h artist thaa pushed the boundary for maleale musicians, the hair, the beard, the style.d, t that's s along with unmatchedh a talent made him one of the top british acts of all time alongim with dozens of awards alongrd ao the way. >> ♪♪ >> reporter: a well w publicized incident in an l.a. bathroom returned him to them headlines in 1998 but eventually the folk was backk wk on music as he toured five years ago also around christmas a tearful michael mic spoke after a nearly fatalrly fl bout with pneumonia. >> i spent my -- the last 10 days since i woke up literally thanking people for saving myg life which is something i'veetne never had to do befor never want to do it again.t aga >> reporter: ge

i'm jim lokay. wham hit last christmas and we're remembering legendary pop star george michael dead at the age of 5 and his death an enormous loss in the music world so far this year. >> because faith♪ >> one of the hits we'll always remember george michael by his 1987 hit win of the first solo outings. >> and it put him on the map. >> he was icon of the 80s and pushed boundaries of male musicians, beard, hair, style, along with unmatched talent he was one of the top british acts of all time and along with dozens of awards on the way. ♪ caseless whisper♪ >> and a well publicized incident in la bathroom returned him to the headlines in 1988 and the focus was back on music as he toured five years ago and also around christmas a tearfull michael spoke after a nearly fatal bought with pneumonia. >> i spent the l since the world cup literally thanking people saving my life. which is something i never had to do before and never want to do it again. >> george michael gone at age 53. >> other musicians and

good evening or for the last time of 016 this is "fox5 local news" at 6 i'm jim lokay and we're checking on the weather. a lot of you heading outside going to new year's festivities spending the night at someone else's place and welcoming in 2017. what can we expect as we count down to midnight. mike thomas is down in the weather center with more on that, hi, mike. >> hi, jim, we're watching radar on new year's eve. hopefully everybody packed well in terms of winter coats. it's chilly out there. good news we should keep it dry in most locations tonight. let's get it straight over to radar here. there's satellite and radar and it looks very busy dereceivingly busy to be honest with you. you see the system spilling into mountains the one location dealing with showers and snowflakes as we head to evening hours toward the midnight hour. it's mountain tops to the west. the mountains act like a shield and keep it safe. stormtracker radar you can see not much of what you saw hitting the ground. maybe area light drizzle or two north of baltimore and in d.c. cloudy. we should keep it dry and as w

our own jim lokay waa there for all the festivities.ft this was a big deal because it was the obama's last one.e. eva long gory was the missing obama. ma lee a was not the recurring theme was one of finality. the 94th christmas tree lighting was the eighth and final one for barack obama. this year was especially worthsc the wait. a star studded lineup on hand at president's park tonight.ight in the cold temperatures obviously at president's park in the front row, the obama familyy and there were other celebrities on hand. kelly clark son. year wood sitting on stage. the rapper, a special reading of was the night before christmas involving michigan he obama. james taylor once with his wife and another time with trish year wood. eva rongeursry got the crowd inn a political mood because she got the crowd chanting f years. the president taking a highigh approach to the holiday. a message of december even i and a message of hope t dhatec never goes out of style and it's one that we all need very much today. after eight years as your president i still believe that there is so much more that

now it's over to tony, sarah and jim lokay♪ >> ready as i'll ever be. >> and that time of the year.t's time for, what the facts? >> and it's a busy time of year of course sorry was not prepared for that. too help yelling on each side of me. holiday parties and holiday hosting all that fun stuff going on. >> of course nobody wants to look look a pig with no manners when it comes to the dinner table, tony. >> i know i don't karen how well of the sterling women of d.c. comes in and doesn't she look wonderful. >> she does. >> she looks fantastic. >> thank you you are saying that to calm me down. >> no we mean it sterling women you guys host a networking luncheon every month. when's it all about. >> sterling women was founded in virginia. it is a monthly networking lunch and gives women an opportunity to make meaningful connections to grow businesses and grow on personal and professional level. >> excellent, fantastic. we'll talk about a partyet cat and you have questions all the ans are true or false. >> they're true or false and this is really a mattering regardless of the time of year

. >> i'm jim lokay. >> sarah and tony are off tonight.ormation about a missing montgomery county man. john was seen earlier this month at the home of a family member. >> they have released a video of a woman using his credit card. marina morocco has more. >> this beauty supply behind me here is last known connection it a missing man from bethesda. 36-year-old john donnaho went missing from his parents home onel more lane december 12 and here in hyattsville his credit card was used a went missing this woman walking into the store with a young boy is who police wants to speak would it see how she gotta hold of his card. >> what's not normal is his credit card was used and we have not seen him since the 13th and we need to find out the link and how those people or that person got swron's credit card. >> donaho lives in downtown bethesda and his family runs well known real estate developing company donahoe and he left the home in 2011 black chevy equinox tag number 2 ak 8853. if you have any information regarding his disappearances or recogni

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