good morning to all of you at home and
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the next few hours time here on the east
coast is about 8 47 in the morning we of
course are following the situation
between russia and ukraine but we want
to take you out to this live look of the
white house another top story we are
following is that federal authorities
say that they are actively monitoring
plans for a large trucker convoy heading
to the nation's capital and we also want
to head out to our fox 5 dc's bob
barnard who is covering this story for
us bob thank you so much for joining us
this morning we do know that uh this
convoy is expected to happen ahead of
the president provided to state of the
union
address hey mackenzie good morning to
you uh we are just outside the us
department of energy headquarters this
is independence avenue at 12th street
southwest if you're at all familiar with
uh the capitol where uh between the
capital and the washington monument
which you may see over my shoulder here
and parked behind me is a dc snow plow
we're expecting 70 degrees today here in
the nation's capital on this uh february
afternoon but the city working with the
u.s capitol police the secret service
the dc police department have stationed
some trucks around the downtown area and
blocked off a couple of streets very
close to the capitol ahead of next
tuesday night state of the union address
the pentagon has authorized the
deployment of up to 700 national guard
troops
400 from the dc national guard another
300 from surrounding states they will be
unarmed and they'll mainly be here for
traffic control now there are a number
of different reports about a number of
different convoys this is not just one
large convoy although they are preparing
just in case uh we see here in our
nation's capital what the the canadian
government saw in ottawa which was just
kind of like a you know a stalemate in
the downtown area where those truckers
just kind of parked and and closed
business and street and and the economy
from from moving forward for a few days
none of the the groups that are planning
to drive their trucks here
say they'll do that here in the nation's
capital some in fact have said they're
not going to do that what they're going
to do is basically cruise the capital
beltway which was which is an interstate
495
around washington and maybe slow traffic
down uh during the course of the day uh
on the capitol beltway making room for
emergency vehicles and that kind of
thing not necessarily parking their
trucks on the beltway but none have said
that they're targeting the capital the
downtown area or the state of the union
because there's actually a trucker from
pennsylvania who says he's coming down
to the dc area today others say they'll
be coming march 4th 5th 6th which is
after the state of the union which is
next tuesday march 1st
so
a lot of information about potentials uh
what the the authorities here in the
corps of washington are doing are taking
some steps here
ahead of the state of the union just in
case uh the truckers bring their protest
into the downtown area there's even talk
this morning of perhaps erecting once
again a perimeter fence around the
capitol like we saw last year right
after the uh capital riots on january
6th uh so
that hasn't happened yet it's just talk
we've cruised around the area this
morning and haven't seen any of that
fencing going up but that is
one of the the the potentials uh going
forward more of an inner perimeter
fencing not an outer perimeter as we saw
for for weeks after the riots here which
did block off some city streets kept
some people from running onto the
grounds and around the capital as many
do on the mornings here so we'll have to
see they're preparing they're just not
sure what's going to happen
all right fox dc's bob barnard bringing
us that live report from the nation's
capital thank you so much for joining us
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