the new clarksburg premium outlet. they said they enjoy the black friday rush and for some shoppers, black friday is a marathon, not a sprint. >> i'm on my way to tyson's corner and then i'm going to the outlets in maryland and then if i have time probably go further. >> she's going to make time. the outlets will be open until 10:00 p.m. tonight. friday -- >> right. >> -- you might think about getting some shopping done from your desk. >> a lot of people do this, and not even using the desktop, using their cell phone. a lot of your co-workers have the same idea. career builder says 53% of american workers going to spend time at work searching for gifts. that is up 3% from last year. according to the survey, they're not only going to use the personal phones but some tablets to do some shopping at work. if you're headed to the stores hours for some of the biggest retailers. this is the day you want to have that nbc washington app with you. it will be your guide to all things black friday. you can search black friday to f

people who live near the new clarksburg premium outlets say there's not enough room on the road for all of this, especially during rush hour. darcy spencer is in clarksburg with more. hi, darcy. >> hi, people living, working, and commuting in this area. also folks heading out to the mall. it wasn't as bad today. this is the road leading into the mall right here behind me. because it's a federal holiday today, so traffic was a little bit lighter. now, some folks are talking about some solutions, including adding some police officers here. 40,000 cars a day were expected during the opening of the clarksburg outlet mall. residential traffic and commuters to produce at times gridlock on i-270 and surrounding roads. >> it's been quite a bit of traffic coming up this way. we have been avoiding. >> not everyone can. some are offering suggestions to make it better. >> maybe a better exit to filter the people off the highway quicker, because we noticed once you get off, there's a light basically right there. >> others have given up. done? >> um, nothing really. they have to finish the bridge ove

turning your sites onto black friday shopping.shop > lauren demarco is live withve the brand new clarksburg premium oat lets.g let we start off with mike thomashoa who has your friday weather report. >> we're getting you ready for thursdays nowadays. many of the stores opened up at 6 this morning. i actually heard they weren't that crowded. they were watching the cowboys/redskins game beforere theyds headed out. 47 your current temperature herp in d.c. that's near the river.rive sweater weather. chilly out there. look at the 30s just north and west. gaithersburg 39, dulles 38 park manassas 41, culpeper 39, chilly, most of us are dry. we this have a couple showers move through early today, very, very potty, very light mostly north of d.c. generally speaking it's justt's going to be clouds tonight, not worried about any rain so need for the umbrella tonight. tomorrow maybe a couple more. let me show you on future, midnight tonight just clouds out there. we continue to go through the overnight hours.ov mix of clouds and clear skies, sun comes up, clouds start to peaks of sun, you a little bitu

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jonathan: well, the new clarksburg outlets continue to draw crowds of eager shoppers this time of year. as our amy aubert explains some neighbors who live nearby describe the added traffic as a nightmare. amy: for some neighbors who live near the clarksburg always smooth sailing. >> bumper to bumper for hours. amy: john lived in the area for 11 years. >> just going anywhere is difficult. time consuming and frustrating. >> since the outlet opened he described the weekend traffic as a headache. >> our commute now instead of just seconds to 270 can be 15 or 20 minutes on saturday or sunday. >> this used to be two lanes the whole time. >> jeremy says on black friday, the traffic wasn't the only issue. >> we had so many on our doors saying can we give you $20 to park here? >> across the street from the outlet mall signs are posted warning outlet shoppers not to park here. others say so far they haven't had a problem. >> they are lane closures but right now it's okay. >> they are handling it. >> they released a statem aboutnologying traffic congestion -- statement and saying in park -- we ar

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earlier officers handed out shopping bags to people at the new clarksburg premium outlets which are very busy. message on the bag, look out for each other. and look for pededs in parking lot or crossing the street and urging people to pay for more attention to their surroundings. >> and looking for the perfect holiday gift for you political junky on your list. >> "fox5" political reporter ronica cleary live. hey, ronica. >> hi, sarah, jim, we cannot dive right into shopping. very important political headlines first. and there's many people looking to the united states to see how they will react and see how this will affect u.s. and cuba relations and white house confirms today president obama and vice-president joe biden will not ab tending his funeral however today the press secretary josh earn whole left on the possibility that other top u.s. officials may actually attend the funeral on december now president-elect trump took to twitter to just give us a taste of the future of u.s. cuba relations where he tweeted if cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for cuban people the cuban ame

news 4's amy cho went to the new clarksburg outlet where shoppers were out bright and early today. >> reporter: this morning, the sun may not have been up but these shoppers certainly were. >> i've been here since around about -- >> i'm feeling pretty tired, yeah, we've been here for about five hours now. >> reporter: on this black friday, many found those perfect reasons to shell out. >> how much did you spend >> i spent 2000. >> reporter: purchases weren't light. a lot of shoppers all schlepping huge bags that came at bargains and others got a different kind of workout, exercising their patients. >> she will do it all day. because she is that type of person. she like to shop. and she pulled me out of my bed -- i didn't even want to come. >> reporter: another shopper, anna, had no qualms about bringing her husband along today. under armour store. and could you see the shoppers lined up all trying to get a part of theath leisure craze. >> and i figured i would come out and enjoy it. >> and if you are looking to hit the stores today, you have plenty of time. they are open until 10:00 p

throughout the holiday season.as >>> it is -- that it is good g news for local stores includingu the new clarksburg outlets. lines earlier this morning at one high end chain offeringff pretty steep discounts. discoun. >> annie yu has been out there t all morning long and joins usnsu now live with the very late this constantly involving storys annie, last time i talk to you y you were at a store, high end store where they were sellinger key chains and some otherchaind trinkets where people wereke who standing in long lines just tout get to those key chains and a trinkets. >> now she's by that fireplace t said i would f go to right awayt try to stay warm.m >> hunker down. h >> reporter: i found warmth. war i found warmth by the fireplacea i also made some new friends.w n i'll introduce you to them ino e just a second but the chain then store you're talking about about tori birch they were offering ar goods so we're talking their shoes, their key chains, wisdoms their purses, wallets, everything was 60% off, and off, people were in line for as longo as three hours to get their ther hands on those good

stores are offering plenty of deals.de our shopping guru annie yu anniy tout check out the new outlets e in clarksburg, maryland. mar got some good deals out there,r, annie, right? the stores aretoe opened and people are out shopping maybe, right? rig >> reporter: yeah, absolutely.tely wisdom, they opened theirhe doors last night at 6 o'clock'c for those eager shoppers and ie happen to come across a family, they're local then the ventured out here at 3:30 in 30 the morning so about an hour aho and a half good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: how was thanksgiving dinner. >> great. >> very good.>> r [lthan aughter] >> reporter: everyone is stuffed, we're burning we're calories this morning.orni natalie you got here at 3:30.:3 you're kind of exceptiond of things out. are there good deals. are th >> yes, everywhere we go we w see like 50 percent off,t o 70 percent off.ce it looks like a really good g deal here. h >> reporter: is this a tradition or why the rep outlet? >> every year we all get all g together, we'll plan our plan we wanted to come here. h we switch it up every year where we want to go

couple that with thousands of drivers heading to the new outlet in clarksburg. one resident says the traffic is so bad right now, she's thinking darsa spencer is live with a look at the traffic trouble. >> we have been talking about this for the last couple weeks, ever since the outlet's open. with the holiday season approaching, a lot of people are concerned it's just going to get worse. what you see behind me is the road leading into the mall. not bad today because it's a holiday, but like you said, we talked to one resident who lives nearby who said she's thinking of putting her house up for sale. >> leta lives down the street from the newly opened clarksburg outlet mall, but she says maybe not for long. >> it's so bad i'm thinking about moving. >> how long have you lived here? >> eight years. >> she and others say traffic backs up on i-270 so much they avoid it all together if they can. >> on the weekend, forget it. i don't want to go out. >> there were huge crowds when bottom line, as the holiday season approaches, there's concern it will only get worse. >>

news. horace: shoppers also lined up at the clarksburg premium outlets for its first-ever holiday shopping rush. anna-lysa gayle has be t she joins us with what is popular so far. anna-lysa? anna-lysa: horace, just take a look at this line outside of the stores here at the clarksburg premium outlets. this is just the beginning of the line. it continues over here. we are told the parking lot is lots of people trying to take advantage of these deals. first they gave thanks. >> my family is healthy and we are together. anna-lysa: then they started spending. >> longsleeve shirts, ties, and my wife got a wedding dress for a friends wedding. anna-lysa: about 100 people were in line even before the toy store opened. teresa and her the store about an hour early. >> this year it happens at my mother's in-laws house in germantown, so we are very close. anna-lysa: lines also formed at the uggs store and a few others. as much as pat enjoyed shopping for shoes with his wife, he felt a little guilty. >> i wish they would not have a thursday evening because then the employees have to come in long as the

in clarksburg, lindsay murphy lauren demarco, fox5 local news. > thanks giving is one of the home fires and as fox5's lindsay watts tell us firefighters across our area were pretty busy today. >>reporter: we got some numbers from two of the major fire departments in our region and between montgomery and prince george's county, firefighters responded to 25 to 30 kitchen fires just today. i talked to d.c. fire, they didn't have exact numbers, but said they have been very busy as well. luckily none of the kitchen fires resulted in any major damage. this is one of the most siif today. this is in northeast d.c. on 24th street. it didn't involve cooking, though. the family believes the fireplace is to blame and possibly something went wrong with their chimney that caused flames to spark in the roof. you can see that worker up there right now tonight. we'll show you what it looked like when we got here earlier. the family in the home did get out safely. they said they had finished eating their turkey, they lit fire in the fireplace and then off. they came out to see thick smoke coming from the

news. michelle: the road to the white house has been anything but ordinary. here is just one sign. literally a sign. abc7 viewer sent to us this picture from clarksburg. at the brand new outlet mall. it's the second pro-trump sign in the area. it has some voters annoyed. pinalmontgomery county reporter kevin lewis explains how it happened. kevin: tens of thousands of outlets. the mall rented electronic signs to help control the traffic flow. the thing is they never locked the control panel. one twist of the arm shows you can access the computer and keyboard and look here, the password written in plain sight. this morning, sarah was driving to work with her daughter in the car when she passed the sign which read "trump 2016." irritated she took a photo with her smartphone and it h sun belt rentals which owns the electronic signs told us it supplies all of its renters with keys in turn making the renter's responsibility to keep the control box locked. when we stop by the mall management office an employee told us we were trespassing and needed to leave immediately. >> on some level that is not a it's irresponsible of them in general to leave it with no s

ultimately they would like to provide a $2,500 scholarship to a graduate each year from clarksburg high school. >>> we have good news for a local student. a howard university student just received some major recognition. cameron clark was named a 2017 rhodes scholar. the new jersey native who lives in virginia is one of local students to receive the prestigious scholarship. he was currently double majoring in biology and community health education at howard. >>> president-elect donald trump names the first woman to join his administration. up next, we'll take a look at who she is and closer look at her resume. >>> speaking of politics, we have some holiday survival tips from the children's table. that could help keep the conversation civil at the grown- when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ? >>> president-elect donald trump is filled another high level cabinet post. as weijia jiang reports from the white house, mr. trump has tapped south carolina governor nikki haley to be the u.s. ambassador to

. >> in clarksburg, ryan hughes, abc7 news. >> covering metro now. orange and the silver line trains are single tracking between the westfalls church and the east falls church station. they will be doing so until december 21. as a result, the metro latest safetrack surge has the potential to be one of the most disruptive so far. bad news. orange and the silver line be more crowded than usual. >> time for a check of the roads. >> jamie sullivan is on traffic watch. so far so good or backups? jamie: backups. last tame we had a closure on 270. it's roped but still bumper to bumper heading north to clarksburg. this is near father hurley boulevard. through gaitr volume. this is a good idea. this is northbound. southbound is flowing well. but northbound is seeing the bumper to bumper traffic. that is what will happen when you have a crash. in the middle of rush hour where we see the slowing. there slowing. in virginia -- beltway. you can see the volume. continuing north to cross the american legion bridge, the same thing. a lot of slowing. earlier crash on

clarksburg. over to the map, new trouble spot northbound 210 10 at's one creek road. -- swan creek road. another accident blocking the left than pushing everybody over to the right. back in the next 10 minutes to update your ride at the wilson bridge. larry: let's get in the now. >> remember last two in the world went crazy because starbucks released just a simple red cup with no design for the holiday cups? do you remember this? well, the coffee giant heard you. this year, they will not only feature -- it will feature not just one, but 13 different cups. countries come including the u.s., indonesia, dubai, canada, russia, and south korea. this morning, i went out early and got you guys some coffee. i dig it is at 5:00, so it may be a little cold for you. >> is this aventi low fat no whip? >> 13 different designs. designs. i believe crowdsourcing voted on who the top 13 were. how cool is that? you should know if you like the nondenominational, the simple red cup, they will still have those as well this year for those people. they are making everybody happy. >> i just want the coffee. >>

news 4's aimee cho is live at the clarksburg outlets there. people are going strong. some shopping since dinner time last night. that is impressive stamina. on top of that, they have to carry all the purchases around with them. people are looking to get in some shopping, the outlets will be open until 10:00 p.m. live at >>> good morning, i'm susan li at cnbc headquarters. walmart is hoping to lure some black friday shoppers but with high end luxury goods. "the wall street journal" reporting that the retailer is pitching $18,000 watches, other pricey gifts on its website. walmart.com has vastly included it could attract an elusive group, the higher income shoppers. with your cnbc morning business report, i'm susan li. >>> 6:5 is your time right now. four things to know before you head out the door this morning. the powerball jackpot, that would help you with all the shopping a lot of people are doing today. 137 million people to take part in black friday shopping. they say most of that shopping will be done online with retail foot traffic dropping by 3.5% this year. >

new york and western pa very mild. cleveland still 76. pittsburgh at 74 and clarksburg, west virginia at 72. this is the warmth in the southwest that's going to be moving our way. high pressure builds off the coast and allows what we call a return flow on the back side of this and that means southwesterly wind ahead of this cold front we will see temperatures surge to near record warmth by thursday. the front moves through with cooler and drier air behind it and temperatures will be at least 20 degrees cooler behind it but still november promises to be a fairly mild month. that is the new outlook. so overnight 49. in the city. 42 in the suburbs. movely conclude dee and cool. gradually clearing during the day tomorrow becoming mostly sunny the high 75. which is unseasonably warm for this time of year considering the average high is about 62. here are the numbers to beat by thursday. we're talking about 80. the record in philadelphia. reading 79. atlantic city 81. trenton 80. allentown in wilmington upper 70s for records these numbers will be challenged and some of them may be broken. of cours

clarksburg and gaithersburg. this is going to wreak havoc on the evening commute tonight. it is going it be bad. the good news, as we look to tomorrow and friday, road conditions will be okay. we're looking at mainly dry weather. now, coming up at 4:40, doug's going to take another look at storm team 4 radar. really taking you down to street level, what you can expect in your neighborhood. >> thanks, amelia. >>> there's no word on whether mitt romney will be the next secretary of state. donald trump's transition is making news in other ways today. he's planning to take a victory lap of sorts tomorrow in indiana. he revealed that on twitter today. a lot more. brian mooar is life now with details about it. hey, brian. >> reporter: yeah, pat, the president-elect notably snubbed the media in recent months but says he will be holding a news conference on december 15th to in his latest twitter blast, president-elect trump announced he'll hold a news conference with his family in two weeks, outline plans to get out of his business and focus on running the country. the question, will he divest from a global empire sy

clarksburg premium outlet says the traffic in the area was already a headache. now, some say it's downright unbearable. and there's not enough room on the road. news 4's darcy spencer is taking a look at the traffic trouble. darcy. >> well, pat, we've been hearing about the traffic problems for the last couple of weeks, and i can tell you, it's not getting afternoon. traffic not as bad today, but today is veterans day. a federal holiday. but people who live in the area and those who have been coming to shop here certainly have noticed a big difference in the traffic and the gridlock, especially on the weekends. there is road construction under way outside of the outlet mall, but some are concerned that it's not going to be enough. >> clarksburg is not really built for this you can see it, 355 is a one-way road, springtown is not done yet. there's not enough infrastructure to support something like this right now. maybe in a couple years but traffic is going to be bad for a little while now. >> that was someone who grew up here in clarksburg, so he knows the difference. i touched base with simon properties which owns the mall today. they say they a