at the vmas but it's another star behaving badly that's grabbing attention. more on kanye west's outburst during taylor swift's acceptance speech. to say that he stole the show? that might be an understatement. we'll look at those stories. odd and ridiculous. first, let's check in with tucker barnes for a look at our forecast. good morning to you, tucker. >> hey, guys. beautiful morning. we've got sunshine across the area and aring high temperatures going to be summery, high in the 80s. very quiet conditions expected out there as high pressure is building in from the west and the north. you can see the clear skies. not only here in the mid- atlantic but right out into ohio valley there are lots of quiet conditions. this nice weather will stick around a few more days. if you like summertime temperatures in the mid-80s, you'll love this forecast as we get into the afternoon. 67 now at reagan national. humidity is 73%. winds out of the north at 6 miles per hour.

there's that pressure, 30.02 inches. sunshine expected, lots of warm temperatures with an afternoon high here in washington about 85 degrees. aisle return in a couple of minutes and we'll look at the five-day forecast which features some showers and cooler temperatures on the way. >> so we should enjoy today and tomorrow and take them and enjoy them while we have them. >> i would agree. thank you, tucker. our top story this morning, the search for a missing yale university student has turned into a murder investigation. >> police think that they have found the body of annie le. she disappeared last week and police possibly found her corpse sunday, the day she was to get married. julie banderas with the latest. >> reporter: the missing persons case taking a grave turn, now officially a murder case with no word on a suspect. >> connecticut state police of the western district, the major crime squad, located the remains of a human secreted within a wall inside a wall. >> reporter: low new haven police have not positively

identified whether the remains found are the body of missing pharmacology student annie le, authorities are in contact with her loved ones and say our sympathies are with the family at the time. as her parents and fiance's worst fears have been confirmed. >> detectives and investigators right now have a large amount of physical evidence at the scene that we're going through to determine if it's linked to this case or not. >> reporter: investigators are examininsurveillance video around the lab building about a mile from the main campus where she was last seen entering on tuesday morning. but despite some 75 cameras that cover the complex, there was no record of her leaving. le's keys, cell phone and purse were left in her student office three blocks away. over the weekend, investigators extended their search from the lab to dumpsters outside, to a garbage at an incinerator in hartford one hour north, looking for clues or, as the fbi investigators put it, following the trash. 24-year-old le was set to marry

jonathan wadalski, a got student from columbia university, who police say is nall a suspect. annie le's family have said all along she would never run away from her family and looked forward to getting married. instead tragically her body possibly found on her wedding day. >> police are reviewing a large amount of physical evidence left with the body. some of the big stories we're following this morning. there's an alleged new terror tape from osama bin laden. in it he says president obama is powerless when it comes to stopping the wars in afghanistan and iraq. al-qaeda released the tape two days after 9/11. it shows a still picture of bin laden while the audio plays. the u.s. has not confirmed if it is indeed bin laden on the tape. president barack obama is using today's first anniversary of the lehman brothers collapse to make a renewed push for revamping market rules and protecting consumers.

he will give a speech at federal hall in the shadow of wall street. an associated press jfk poll shows seven out of ten americans have no confidence that the government has taken safeguards to prevent another meltdown. president obama still confident congress will pass a good health care bill despite claims that some republicans are trying to block a reform bill for political gain. he talked about it this weekend on "60 minutes." >> there are those in the republican party who think the best thing to do is just to kill reform. that will be good politics. and then there are some people who sincerely want to see something done, but have very different views and what i've tried to do is make sure those in the latter category, who don't just want to kill something but actually want to get something done, that we are bringing them in and are as open to their ideas as possible. >> and a show of support for health care reform. this is a live look at a town

hall meeting hosted by republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham. the long-time friends are at the citadel, the military college of south carolina, pushing for a bipartisan reform bill to move forward. the men are fielding questions from both cadets and public as you can see. no more apologies. congressman joe wilson says he's done saying sorry. during the president's joint address to congress last week, you'll recall wilson shouted "you lie." now house democrats are preparing a resolution of disapproval to formally rebuke wilson in the chamber next week if he doesn't apologize to his colleagues. speaking on fox news sunday, he said no way. >> i am not going to apologize again. i apologized to the president on wednesday night. i was advised then that thank you, now let's get on to a civil discussion of the issues. but i've apologized one time. the apology was accepted by the president, by the vice president, who i know. i am not apologizing again. >> congressman wilson sa a

resolution against him only show that say some democrats want to play politics. local insurance sales executive leo alexander says he is running for mayor of d.c. the ceo of alexander solutions and former tv news reporter will officially kick off his campaign tonight on the southwest waterfront. in the meantime d.c. mayor adrian fenty is holding a reelection fund-raiser at a home in southeast. we are following a developing story out of d.c. a violent weekend in northeast. another shooting was reported in the sixs district late last night. this in addition to two other shootings over thweekend. both deadly. fox 5's stacy coha nervous system joins us live on the scene of the latest incident with details. stacey. >> reporter: i've been reporting all morning about two homicides in the district, this weekend in the sixth district. take a look at what we found here. this is just off of hayes street in northeast washington. cars riddled with bullets. residents told us that it happened around 10:00 sunday evening. they heard a flurry of

gunshots. some of the residents tell us they were diving under their beds. when they finally came out and the dust cleared, numerous cars all up and down this row had been shot up. now, fortunately nobody that we know of at this point was injured. but residents here are terrified. this of course comes on the heels of the all hands on deck being suspended during labor negotiations and a problem with whether or not officers are being adequately compensated. some residents here are willing to talk to me, but they understandably are afraid and do not want to show their faces. first, i would like to talk to you, ma'am. now, you do live around here. tell me what you heard last night. >> we just heard gunshots, a whole lot gunshots, and so i told my granddaughter, i said jump on the floor, jump on the floor because there was so many gunshots. we just -- and then everybody come running to my door and said your car has been all shot up. everybody's car out there has been shot up. >> reporter: and you, ma'am, you heard the same thing?

>> i didn't hear the gunshots because i live in the front. but she came. >> reporter: she told you what happened. >> yeah. >> reporter: what do you think looking at th? >> this is ridiculous. we need to have some kind of security out here. suppose somebody was coming out at 10:00 at night and somebody would have gotten shot or the kids. >> reporter: and i know that you are both saying that you would love to see all hands on deck or just more police out here. >> more police out here. we have children here, we have families that live out here, even some kids ve been out here this time of night because we have the ice cream truck sitting right there that the kids go to all the time. >> reporter: thank you, ladies. i know that it's very upsetting. once again i called the sixth district police to find out about what happened. there were two murders in the sixth district. all hands on deck not in effect this weekend or any weekend until this overtime issue is worked out. an arbitrator said the chief must pay officers overtime when they perform duties on all

hands on deck. the chief is appealing that decision. live in northeast, back to you. meanwhile, a d.c. police officer is under investigation for allegedly opening fire on a man he says was tampering with his personal vehicle. it happened yesterday morning on nicholson street in hyattsville. the d.c. officer was off duty at the time. the man who was shot is expected to be okay. so far no one has been charged with any crime in this case. nine minutes after 9:00 now. if you haven't heard by now, a bit of a rough start to the season for the skins, but what does it mean for the next game? we're always looking ahead here. we'll play monday morning quarterback next. and sir elton john wants to be a father. the details behind this story after the break. don't go anywhere, we are just getting started this hour. >> father or grandfather? >> he wants to be a father. 

well, it's 9:12 now.

not the way redskins coach jim zorn wants to start his second season with the burgandy and gold. his future and that of jason campbell perhaps on the line this year. >> the team that they led -- basically they lost to the giants 23-17 at the meadowlands. fox 5's dave ross was at the game. we talkedo -- he talked with the players about the inability to dig out of a big hole. >> another year, another loss and another case of history repeating in the meadowlands. last year the redskins fell behind 16-0. this year 17-0. in both cases, the deficit was too big to dig out of. >> it's very tough. especially playing against a team like the giants. you're 17-0 in the hole, it's tough to come back. 16-0 in the hole, it's tough to come back. but we found a way to get back into the game so we've got to some way somehow keep those leads early in the game at a minimum. >> i'd like more victories.

i take it for what it is. we got beat. we wasn't the better team. we have to show ouelves something. >> the good thing like the giants, you don't want to give them anything. we know it would be tough coming in to open the season. when you dig a hole and spot them 17 points, but we felt good about ourselves at halftime, being we got back in the game. our offense was getting the ball back. unfortunately, we scored a little too late. >> today probably everybody turned their tv off early and it came down to the end of the game. the way jason moved the ball in the two minute drill, we're in position. >> reporter: the bad news is, this marks the seventh time in the last eight games that the redskins have lost here in the meadowlands. the good news, they never have to play here again. the g men will be moving to a new facility next year. dave ross, fox 5 sports. the other major sports headlines coming from the

tennis world. kim clisters won in straight sets. it's an amazing win as she was unseeded in the tournament having taken two years off from tennis to have a baby. she's the first mom to win the open since 1980. how she got to the final is the story everyone is still talking about. she faced serena williams in the semis saturday night. serena was down a set 6-5 in the second when she was called fr a foot fault putting her down two match points. the defending champion then boiled over, loose with a profanity-laced tirade at the lines person. the tournament referee was called and serena was given a poi penalty. end of match. serena williams was later fined $10,000 for the outburst. well, our dave ross is -- he was in the meadowlands to see the game. we want to bring him in now on that serena misstep or what happened? losing her cool, dave? what did you think about that? >> reporter: allison, it's

ironic because we were up here for the giants and redskins but all the talk yesterday in new york city and surrounding here in new jersey was about serena williams. i've got to tell you, allison, you see it every day, unfortunately, with pressional athles. this thing happened. she was -- >> we had dave there by skype. it looks like we've lost that signal. we'll try to getim back. i want to hear his thoughts and hear what people are talking about in new york. >> it cost her big-time. >> she lost e match and the game. i do want to point out that she did apologize, but still, it was quite a tirade. i understand th passion of the moment. we can't show it to you because of the profanity and the threat that was actually made to the linesperson, but she did apologize and kind of blamed it on her passion for the game. but obviously this is something, you know, you've got fans there, a woman's 18-month- old baby was there, it was on national tv, so you've got to try to control it. >> all right. it didn't stop there.

>> no. there was no shortage of drama on the men's side either. >> it was mother nature behind the scene of some thee at ricks. rain forced the men's final to be pushed back to today. roger federer going for his sixth straight u.s. open title. that's the stuff that they have talking about, right? he beat djovic in the semis. amazing. >> between the legs. >> federer will face juan martin del potro. but that's athleticism, tony. >> that is cool. >> show business and athleticism. another talker this morning not in the sports world, though. sir elton john and his partner, david furnish, want to be parents. >> the couple met a ukrainian toddler during an orphanage tour and now they want to bring that child home, but they know it might not happen. england and the ukraine don't have formal adoption proceedings, but the pair is

hoping that furnish's canadian citizenship may help. but another part of that story is elton john is -- >> he's about 60 years old. >> right. >> people are doing it. >> there you go. i've seen some documentaries on elton. i'm not sure he has the temperament to be a father to a little toddler. >> sometimes kids mellow you out. >> hopefully. can you imagine running next door to borrow a cup of sugar from the first lady? someone may have that punt opportunity. this home could be the key to making it happen. holly is out shedding light on a fun weekend activity. let's start planning now. how you can celebrate maryland's birthday and see some of the state's most picturesque spots. here's something we think we're going to do every day. it's time for today's trivia question. here it is. what was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventer william james morrison. was he a chocolatier, a baker, a blacksmith or a dentist? the answer coming up later.

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♪ ( child giggling ) ( both slurping ) ( laughs ) ( giggles ) why just make a snack? make fun. jell-o. hey, do you want to be president obama's next-door neighbor? now's your chance. the how next to the obamas' chicago home is up for sale. the 6,000 square foot eight

bedroom home is located in the windy city's kenwood neighborhood. >> no word on the listing price but other homes in the area are going for around $2 million. somebody said it's the safest neighborhood probably in the country. >> especially right now. difficult recovery efforts are still underway in new orleans after hurricane katrina ripped through the city four years ago. >> but a group of students there are now playing instruments, trying to keep the music and the culture alive. mary ann silver meets the young musicians. >> reporter: among the abandoned homes, beyond the scared neighborhoods and throughout a city struggling to recover from hurricane katrina, that medley you hear drifting through the french quarter is actually the sound of revitalization. they are middle schoolers, mostly seventh and eight of the graders. many of them still living in temporary housing. >> i can go on youtube and play the piano. it's a lot of fun and it just

helps me cope. >> reporter: their families focus on rebuilding homes while they focus on playing jazz. a personal revitalization of sorts through music. >> when i play my horn, it like speaks for me. it's like my voice but it's louder. >> reporter: many of their instruments were lost in the storm. buying replace minutes wasn't possible. >> the fact that he played runs from $1,700 to $5,000. so right now there could be no way that i could afford that. >> reporter: 15 band directors scrambled to find donations. what he got in return was enough to keep the music alive here in the heart of new orleans. >> brand new instruments, not the used ones, not the refurbished ones, but brand new instruments. the kids were so excited that someone thought enough of them to provide them with instruments that they might learn how to play. >> reporter: making sure these kids have musical instruments is actually helping move the recovery effort along.

it's going to be up to them to revive the rich music history and culture here in the french quarter as the city rebuilds around them. in new orleans, louisiana, mary ann silver, fox news. >> those kids are great. >> they are. >> fantastic. all right, another talker this morning, it was quite a night at the mtv video music awards. there was a tribute to michael jackson by his sister, janet. and some drama, courtesy of kanye west. >> that's unusual. plus dr. phil, he's on the move. he'll be on fox 5 starting today and we are talking to him about the new season. what he has to say about the season 8. stay with us. 9:24 now. 

♪[ music ] >> is that her voice or michael's voice? they're so similar. that is janet jackson there pang tribute to her brother, michael, kicking off the mtv video music awards last night. she sang and danced, what you're seeing here, to their 1995 duet "scream" which is still the most expensive music video ever made. it will probab remain so. madonna opened the ceremony with a poignant introduction to a tribute to jackson. very cool. janet looked good too. >> my goodness, she is -- oh. >> obviously michael jackson was a huge part of that show over the years. some great performance on the show. there were a lot of surprises at last night's mtv music video awards, the biggest one coming from rapper kanye west. >> he stormed the stage as country singer taylor swift was accepting her award for best female video. >> thank you so much for giving me a chance to win a vma award,

i -- >> taylor, i'm really happy for you. i'm going to let you finish. but beyonce had had one of the best videos of all time. one of the best videos of all time. >> who gave him the microphone? he just came up on stage? >> that's a good question. >> okay. i felt so bad for that young lady. >> she's like 17 years old or something. >> i felt so bad for her. that was so tacky. kanye later apologized on his blog, apologized to swift and her fans and said that he regrets taking that moment away from her. >> right. it's her first vma. you know, you don't get that back. now, to be fair, beyonce won the big award at the end of the night and brought taylor swift up. >> that was a nice moment. >> that was a very nice moment. but kanye -- >> enough is enough with that guy. i saw him in concert last year and he wouldn't allow anybody else on the stage with him. he was the only person on the stage the entire two hours.

>> well, you need room for his ego. >> he's got a big ego. >> oh, he does. he does, yeah. all right, tucker barnes, welcome once again. >> thank you very much. >> we have a fine day on tap. has hour temperature gone up at all? >> it has gone up 3 degrees. it's 71 degrees. it's going to be beautiful out. we have a lot of sunshine across the area. low humidity. i think it will be just about perfect. that perfect fall weather we get for a couple of days. >> that's a kanye west song. he and beyonce, which is interesting. let's do weather. temperature trend, we're doing the temperature trend. let's look at today and tomorrow. beautiful. 85. sunshine both today and tomorrow and then things will quiet down -- well, they'll cool down and get more interesting by wednesday and thursday. i think our best chance for rain showers will be on wednesday. our average daytime high is now about 80 degrees so just a little warmer than that today. it's warming up. 71 at reagan national, 69 in baltimore, 68 in winchester. winchester was down in the low

50s earlier today so they have plenty of clear skies and a lot of cooling overnight. hagerstown is 57. let's see if we can find a warm spot. ocean city, maryland. 74 degrees. it will be a nice day from the beaches up into the mountains as we're expecting a lot of bright sunshine across the area as this high pressure that's building in from the west will be very slow to move on through. here's your satellite-radar. great-looking day ahead. high pressure out to our west in the ohio valley and that will push on through today, tonight and during the day tomorrow so the next couple of days, lots of sunshine. vie quiet weather with temperatures a little warmer than average. lots of sunshine today. a warm afternoon expected. that's nice. 85 degrees. winds out of the north and west at 5 to 10 miles per hour. five-day forecast, all right. we mentioned tomorrow, sunshine. then wednesday, thursday and friday a back door cold front will slide into the region and introduce cloud cover and a chance for showers each day. it will be noticeably cooler too about afternoon highs only in the middle 70s. all right, that's a quick look at your forecast. allison, tony, back to you at

the desk. >> all right, tucker, thank you very much. well, he has a no-nonsense approach that's given him seven successful seasons on the air. >> that's right. now dr. phil begins his eighth season today right here on fox 5. earlier i had a chance to catch up with dr. phil. >> dr. phil, it is a thrill to have you on the show, a thrill to have you on channel 5 starting later this morning. it's the kickoff of your eighth season and you're starting off with something new, a live show from the streets of new york city. tell bus that. >> well, tony, we are. and one of the things we wanted to do this year is get as close to the viewer as we possibly could, find out what's going on because let me tell you, i think this world is changing right now at a pace that i haven't seen before. i mean in the last year, this economic crisis has jumped up on us. families are being impacted by that so much. the technological changes that parents are dealing with with their kids, all of these things. we said what we needed to do was get out of studio, get out on street an talk to the real

people about what's going on in their real lives. we thought no better place to start that than new york city. so you'll see us here in just a bit right here on 5 and you'll see us on the streets of new york. we're going to be in philadelphia later in the week. we're shooting a show on a train on friday, taing to commuters on amtrak. so we're very excited about all that. >> you've been doing this for eight years now. are there any changes that you've seen over the years in the types of problems people are coming to you with? >> oh, boy, have i ever. you think back, when we started doing the dr. phil show, you didn't hear parents and families talking about mspace and facebook and twitter and kids that were accessing internet content. you didn't see those sort of things. you didn't have the pressures that families are under right now. so we're having toeally change with the world as it changes. and one of the things that i've always said, you know, i've talked a lot across seven

years, i got so much to say that i hav't said, i just can't even begin to tell you. >> let me ask you about some of the things you say. the little homespun pieces of advice that you give or the analogies do you come up with those off the top of your head or does someone else write them for you? >> you know, there's no writing to it. i glue up in texas and -- i grew up in texas and that's just the way people talk in texas. people will hear me on a national interview and somebody is saying, well, dr. phil, you say this or that and the people in texas are like yeah, so? so i guess that's the way i grew up and the way we talk. >> dr. phil, it's great to have you again on the show. you're always good to us. hopefully we'll see you here live in washington, d.c., sometime. >> i'm counting on it. i'm counting on coming to see you guys. >> come on by sometime. again, the show kicks off later this morning live in new york city. thanks, dr. phil. >> thanks so much. >> he's a nice guy, enjoyed talking to him. >> just how he seems is how he is. >> as i said, you can catch the new season of dr. phil here on

fox 5 starting at 11 a.m. if you miss that, it plays again at 3 p.m. >> good advice too. i watch it sometimes and you can learn a little something. >> i have to say are and i know david letterman takes shots at him all the time, apparently they have a good relationship, but i like those little homespun things. some of them are funny to me. i laugh have laugh at them. >> dr. phil today. coming up in just a few moments, an amazing rescue caught on camera. two men pulled to safety from this fiery scene off the coast of texas. unbelievable. the details are coming up. plus we are sitting down with miss black usa. she's going to join us in studio a little later. stay with us for that. first here's another look at today's trivia question. what was the occupationof cotton candy machine inventer william james morrison. was he a chocolate ear, a baker, a blacksmith or a dentist? i think that would be funny if he was. the answer coming up later. we're back in a moment.

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welcome back. we are following some breaking news out of bethesda this morning. police there are investigating a body found in the 7400 block of woodmont avenue. that body was found in the doorway of a parking garage stairwell. police are not sure how this person died. we will continue to follow the story and bring you more later today. dramatic pictures caught on camera from a coast guard rescue. two men on a burning boat off the coast of corpus christi, texas. crews first noticed the smoke billowing into the sky and then saw the fishing boat engulfed in flames. the men were forced to ditch the boat for a life raft. one the men was burned over 20% of his body. both, though, are expected to be okay. fighting the swine flu kicks into high gear. >> the h1n1 vaccine is on its way and it's ahead of schedule. if all goes well, the

vaccinations could go out in just three weeks. researchers conducting new trials using the h1n1 vaccine now say a single shot may do the job instead of double doses. also, the vaccine may take effect within 10 days. >> we're looking in all likelihood at one dose, not two, for healthy adults. that's great, wch means we'll have a lot more vaccine. >> the government plans to distribute the first doses of the vaccine to high risk groups like health care workers, pregnant women and young people. health officials expect the vaccine sometime around the first full week of october. a dalas newspaper reports the fbi is investigating a stolen condolence letter written by jackie kennedy to ethel kennedy after bobby kennedy's assassination. authorities believe someone stole the letter from a kip el in virginia. the note has changed hands several times selling for as

much as $25,000. in 2006 it showed up at a dallas auction house. well, words sometimes just arn't enough to take a look at this video. the story behind this unique race. yeah. and holly is shedding some light on some area treasures. how you can experience them firsthand. we'll be back in just a moment. it's 9:41.

a new week, a new round of voting for the high school game of the week. go to myfoxdc.com and click on the sports tab to vote for the high school game of the week. you can pick between: >> go mount vernon. >> a little different this week, tony. you have only until wednesday to vote. we used to do it thursday at noon but it's wednesdays now. we'll be live at the winning

game thursday and have highlights on myfoxdc.com. here's some odd video. take a look. and they're off! and we're not talking horses at these races near reno. tourists from all over flock to the small town of virginia city, nevada, for a little camel racing. the riders wear a saddle in between their humps and then take off. there were also ostrich races, pretty much the same concept with a satellite, only some of them even pulled carts behind them. the 50th annual event commemorates the use of camels by the u.s. army in the 1800s. and what a way to honor that. >> that's a strange story indeed. washington has some hometown bragging rights. the new miss black usa won her title in august competition. >> she is a teacher at a school in southeast washington and also has started a nonprofit group to help underprivileged girls. steve is talking with shayna rudd this morning.

hey, steve. hi, shayna. >> reporter: shayna, congratulations. you might not realize that you are the first guest on our new 9:00 a.m. show. >> well thank you much for having me. >> reporter: recently named miss black usa. yosay you're not a pageant girl but going back to your time in howard university you won miss howard university, you won miss d.c. and now miss black usa. congratulations on all. where does this rank among everything? >> this is the grand finale because i' been to miss america. i started out miss black and gold at howard university. then miss howard university, then miss d.c. so this is the grand finale and i plan on ending this one very big in a very tremendous way so this is great. this is a nice way to wrap up a healthy pageant career. >> reporter: we should say that you competed as miss black pennsylvania but we're going to claim you as our own since you won at howard and you do work here in the district. you also say you're not a pageant girl but you've had great success so there must be more in this for you. >> it has a lot to do with my

love for my community and also my love for god and the fact that i know this very early on in doing package ants that when i would dance for my talent, people wod be moved like to tears and people would write me letters and e-mails and say when you dance or when you speak i feel empowered and i thought maybe i can use this to help people as well. so that's kind of been my niche in doing package ants. >> let's talk about doing that because a lot of people wonder what do people do after the pageant thing. you're a step ahead of the game because you started working on that now. you started an organization called lady diva to help young people here in d.c. and across the country, hopefully across the world. tell us about that. >> well, the lady diva corporation was founded in 2005. i was a sophomore at howard university. it was actually my first platform for the first pageant that i had ever did. and the lady diva corporation is about empowering young ladies from impoverished communities to have the audacity to dream and think

bigger than where they are and think bigger than what they have experienced. and coming from a personal experience, i'm from a community very similar to the girls that i work with and i had to have a vision for a lib raid future. so that's all we are trying to do with our girls, just empower them to think bigger and to love themselves more than they do. >> reporter: it's such a challenge because so many people feel closed in by the world around them that maybe they don't have that fight to go do what they really want to do. what advice to you give to the young people today? >> well, the first thing that i do is i expose myself. i expose that, yes, i had low self-esteem. yes, it took me a long time to realize that i wanted to be more than what my parents were and what the community that was around me was doing. however, i had to push. and when they realized that i'm a black woman and i had to push, they say, you know what, i can do that too. so we start there and then we deal with the root issues. we are all about holist

particular healing so we have to do the healing first before anything else. so my message is it's time to get real about who we really are, let's embrace it and let the process begin. >> reporter: and you have a chance to do that every single day. tell them about your day job because you work full-time. >> i'm on my way when i leave you. i am an english teacher at a charter high school. this is my first year there. i teach enish. they're reading the diary of anne frank right now. and just great students. right on my desk, tons of papers right now to grade. >> reporter: and the potential is across d.c. and the city. >> absolutely. a hidden treasure south d.c. is. >> reporter: you've had so much success already and i know there's so much more out there for you. we'll put the information about your corporation on our website. back to you.

>> thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> your students are lucky. they're lucky to have you. >> thank you. well, do you feel like a challenge this weekend? >> how about going to some new heights while learning a little something at the same time. holly is at fort washington park for the maryland lighthouse challenge. holly, what is that all about? >> reporter: well, i'm always up for a challenge, you guys know that. this has to do with a two- weekend event and a big birthday. maryland is turning 375 and they are having a lighthouse challenge to get you to travel the state and see some of the more picturesque spots that maybe you haven't. so we're starting our challenge where you can can at fort washington, where we're live this morning. this is how it would work. you would come to the park, check out the fort and look for the lighthouse. so you see the lighthouse. come down, it's usually near the water. come down to the lighthouse, this one happens to be a white house and you will see a wonderful table set up just like this. a here you will run into tony

and alma. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> reporter: and they're with the chesapeake chapter which also happens to be celebrating our 20th year. >> 20 your birthday. >> reporter: and you've been a part like 12 years. >> that's right. i've been a chapter member in a long time. >> reporter: why are you guys so passionate about lighthouses? >> it's kind of like america has lighthouses and europe has castles and they're a structure that no one can find fault with. you can't be mad at a lighthouse because they're only meant for good. you learn about the keepers and the history, all the lives that they saved, the duties that they did, the loneliness and the memories. we want to keep that going. >> reporter: every lighthouse has a story. >> greetings, welcome to the lighthouse challenge. we're glad to see you. thes our first lighthouse, we'll give you your complimentary trading card, which is souvenir.

this is available at each of the sites participating in th challenge. this year we're doing trading cards and back has a timeline that gives you a history of the lighthouse. this year we are incorporating state symbols. for this lighthouse it's the white oak and we're having a special handout to give away to all the visitors in connection with the state symbols. and your handout is the full dollar bill with the white oak in the background. it shows the white oak because it's in a park setting. also the largest one in the united states, there's a seedling from this white oak that's planned in mount vernon. mount vernon is down the road. >> reporter: what have you got, alma? >> this is the national -- our united states lighthouse society passport book where we

get stamps wherever you visit a lighthouse. we will put a stamp on it that is on it and we will stamp. >> reporter: like that? and i take this with me? >> yes. >> reporter: how cool is that. >> all the sites will have a special stamp. and/or they can stamp a piece of paper and you can fill p your book. >> reporter: toney, i want everyone to understand sips we've been at fort washington all morning long, where all around the state they'll be traveling and what they'll see. >> this is the challenge. these are little models. these are showing all the lighthouses that are participating in the event, including the chesapeake light ship which is a floating light ship. these are in the inner harbor in baltimore. this is one of the northern ones called concord point. has a great deal of history. turkey point is the highest lighthouse. there's a bonus lighthouse not included in the challenge but we do have a souvenir for that and you don't have to visit the state park to get the souvenir but the baltimore sight. >> reporter: i've only got 30

seconds. >> friday there's an early bird special. this one is hope point near calvert cliff and i'll have you put fort washington and its site right there. >> reporter: that's where we are. very distinguish. my faulk d.c..com is our website -- my fox d.c..com is our website. we also have a link to the 2,009 lighthouse challenge. get your passport, celebrate the weekend and maryland's bit day and enjoy this wonderful state. >> i love lighthouse. >> i don't know where the time goes but tucker has your final forecast for the day coming up. >> what? >> yeah. and we'll answer your trivia question. 

all right. time now to reveal the answer to today's trivia question. what was the occupation of the cotton candy machine inventer, william james morrison. was he a chocolatier, a baker, a blacksmith or a dentist? well? he was actually a dentist. can you believe it? >> i was right! >> what is this about? he was also a lawyer and an author. but why would he try to hurt kids' teeth when he's a dentist. >> he didn't want to hurt kids but he wanted to increase business. this is my speculation but it's a convoluted plot. if i can just get some kids to eat this candy and if they

happen to come to me... >> well, i must say, doctor, it's delicious. it's not a newscast without an animal doing something bizarre. >> i thought we had that already. you don't see this often. canines hanging ten or four in this case. they put their paws on surf boards and hit the ocean for a good cause in del mar, california. the event raises money for a san diego area animal shelter. winners got trophies and of course doggy treats. you know, i see that every now and then when i go to the beach. >> if you think that's a little crazy, check this out. shoppers have to steer clear of a few steer in washington state. a cattle run for a fair takes a detour into the shop and it's all caught on camera. surprised customers watch as the unexpected visitors walked around the aisles. now it gets really weird. a cowboy rode in on his trustee steed and herded the cattle out. >> there was one guy buying liquor who gave it up immediately. >> five-day forecast, this afternoon beautiful, 85. more of the