coming off an embarrassing loss to the lions, the redskins game against the buccaneers this weekend has that must-win feeling. we'll talk with the junkies from 106.7 and get their take. you know him from the big screen but he's got a pretty local following for his music too. we're talking about kevin bacon. he will join us and his brother in the 8:0can see them tonight performing. > coming up in the 9:00 hour we'll talk with controversial movie director michael moore about his latest documentary entitled "capitalism, a love story. ." in the meantime straight up 7:00. first things first. we want to get the forecast from our man tony perkins. >> across the region this morning we've got cool temperatures primarily in the 50s. let's take a look at what's going on out there. we'll start with reagan familiar airport where it is currently 57 degrees. relative humidity 74%. winds are light out of the east

at only 3 miles per hour. here's a look at the satellite- radar composite. we do have clouds in over us this morning. it's going to be a fairly cloudy morning, i believe, as you take a look at the satellite. no rain showers. you still might see a sprinkle or two here or there during the earl morning hours but that would be it. we haven't seen anything like that so far. later on today we'll get a little sunshine working as a warm front makes its way through here. the forecast for today looks like this. morning clouds, then becoming partly sunny later. a warmer day. we think highs low to mid-70s the way things are shaping up now. we'll have more details on the forecast including a look ahead at the weekend in just a moment. stay with us for that. right now we go to julie wright for an update on the morning rush hour. >> busy ride out there, especially along southbound 270 where we still have lingering delays out of germantown. that's where we had an earlier accident involving a motorcyclist. 355 is a good alternate ride for you as well as sticking with 118 and 28.

here we are live eastbound along 66. for those working their way east of vienna, the pace is below speed continuing in towards the capital beltway. the ride on 66 out of manassas, it's not so bad right now. the pace really doesn't slow until you reach 50 fair oaks headed eastbound. the top stretch of the beltway is definitely below speed out of college park. inbound 50 traffic slows at 202 leaving cheverly headed to the northeast. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. we are just a couple of hours away from knowing where the 2016 summer olympic games will be held. >> president obama and first lady went -- want the games i should say in the chicago. earlier this morni in denmark both got the chance to convince the international olympic committee that the windy city is ready to play host. >> reporter: president obama is making an olympian effort to bring the 2016 summer games to his adopted hometown of

chicago. the president arrived in copenhagen this morning where he was met by the first lady. both are making presentations before members of the international olympic committee. >> i come as a faithful representative of the american people. an we look forward to welcoming the world to the shores of lake michigan and the heart land of our nation. >> i never dreamed that the olympic flame might one daylight of lives in my neighborhood. but today i can dream. >> reporter: michelle obama has been in denmark since wednesday where she's been leading th attempt to win over the committee, but the president wasn't the only heavy hitter the first lady brought along. >> i've been in the city now for 25 years, 24 and 8 months. it is one of the best places in the world to live. >> reporter: chicago is competing with tokyo, rio de janeiro and madrid for the games. the final decision if set to be announced today. but in the windy city, people are already feeling pretty confident.

party preps are even underway. >> i really am excited. i really hope everything goes through and we bring the olympics here. it would be pretty cool for the city. >> president obama's decision to fly to copenhagen was met with some criticism from some republicans who opposed the trip. however, the president does have some supporters from the right, including former massachusetts governor mitt romney. romney says the president is doinghat needs to be done. well, we expect the winning city announcement to happen between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. our time and we'll stre that live on myfoxdc.com for you. earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons all creating chas in the pacific. first we head to indonesia. look at the damage here. it is believed that 3300 people may still be trapped under rubble sips two earthquakes hit on wednesday. heavy equipment to help crs comb through the shattered buildings will arrive today.

rescuers pulled a woman from underneath her collapsed college. they estimate at least 1100 are dead. military convoys have dropped off food and water to the samoan islands. a tsunami crashed ashore killing up the search for bodies could last another three weeks. a government official announced plans for a mass funeral and burial. restoring power could take at least a month. in the phillipines evacuations are underway as typhoon parma is set to hit tomorrow. it has sustained winds of 120 miles an hour. islanders are weary and not willing to take any more chances after the storm that hit a few days ago which triggered flash floods and landslides. that system killed at least 300 people in and around manila. new this morning, montgomery county police are asking you to be on the lookout for a missing 10-year-old boy. noah robert kaiser was last seen at row bettero clemente

middle school yesterday. he is 4'11" tall, he weighs about 90 pounds with a short crew-cut sty brown hair and brown eyes. this case is considered critical. if you have information you are asked to contact police. to prince george's county where police are investigating a deadly shooting. it's at least the fifth homicide in the county in less than a week. >> police were called to the scene around 9:30 last night. that's where matt is this morning with more details on what has been a busy week for homicide investigators. >> reporter: steve, allison, good morning. it has been a deadly week here in prince george's county. like you said, five homicides since last saturday and we are just getting new information about the homicide here in capital heights. the victim's name was released to us just within the last couple of minutes. it's 26-year-old john lee scott. we have some video to show you taken not long after the homicide last night.

police say they responded to the sound of gunfire. when they got to this area, they found an adult male victim, that wasjohn lee scott. he had been shot. he was taken to the hospital, but died a short time later of as we were talking about before, there have been a number of homicides here in prince george's county. if you look back at last saturday, there was one on bankrun terrace, sunday there was a home invasion and tuesday on buchanan street and then yesterday you might remember two teenagers were shot, one of them a 16-year-old was killed and then we have this latest one on walkers mill road. that was last night. authorities still looking for information about this case here. they tell us they have no suspects in custody and they have no motive at this point. live in prince george's county, matt ackland, fox 5 news. steve, allison. >> thanks so much. workers in prince george's county hope for the best as

they brace for the worst. today is the day many well find out if they're losing their job. it's part of a plan to make up for a budget cut from the maryland board of public works. if they do get pink slips, they will go on paid administrative leave starting today for one month, giving them time to find ear job. the layoffs will take effect on november 1st. meantime many d.c. teachers are on edge this morning. the mayor's and school's chancellor say a $40 million budget shortfall will force bigger class sizes and an unknown number of teacher layoffs. is this really necessary? the d.c. council chair says he's crunched the numbers. federal stimulus dollars should make up for any shortfall. he says for 2010 the school system is set to receive more money with fewer students. chairman gray says that he believes the layoff may be a way to oust critics of the mayor and school's chancellor. the match over at the southeast tennis center ends with berry. mayor fenty changed his mind and decided not to evict the

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it's been just over three months since michael jackson passed away and today we are learning more about his death.

the l.a. coroner's autopsy report claims that jackson was mostly healthy and none of his medical issues contributed to his death. according to the report obtained by the associated press, jackson died from the powerful enthusiastic the doctor gave him to sleep. the coroner's report says that jackson did have chronically inflamed lungs, but his heart was strong. a lot of buzz this morning concerning david letterman's late show last night, not because of any joke that he told but because of a confession. >> this comes anafter employee of another cbs show, "48 hours" is accused in an extortion plot against the late show host. we're joined live from outside the theater where letterman tapes his show. >> reporter: good morning, steve and allison. we've gotten exclusive access to the search warrant that was executed yesterday in this extortion plot case. take a look at some video here. the accused, 51-year-old robert halderman sent a package with a

letterman that referred to him as client number 1. according to this document, it referred to, quote, client number 1's great professional success and his, quote, beautiful and loving son. it goes on to say that client number 1's quote, world is about to collapse around him as information about his private life is disclosed, leading to a ruined reputation and severe damage to his career and family life. listen to how david letterman came clean last night about his sexual affairs. >> now, my response to that is, yes, i have. i have sex with women. and would it be embarrassing if it were made public? perhaps it would. perhaps it would. especially for the women. >> reporter: now, david

letterman did not reveal the names of the women involved, but according to the search warrant, the name of one of the women is stephanie brickette. now, apparently she is the live- in girlfriend of the accused extortionist. now, according to this search warrant, it gives time lines of what was included inthis package, how the meetings went down in the sting operation. now, apparently some of the items that were contained in this alleged plot included personal correspondence of this woman and also portions of her diary. in this search warrant it also talks about how the accused extortionist was planning to write a book and he said he had, quote, a lot more information, details, incriminating evidence, including photos, letters, e- mails that he was ready to divulge if he didn't collect that $2 million. that's the very latest here in outsigh the ed sullivan theater in manhattan, new york. back to you. >> thanks very much. that seems to make sense a little more. the personal relationship between the parties involved. >> comes together now.

>> starting to. that's the latest from david letterman. here's the latest with tony perkins. >> are you okay? >> i'm fine. it's just a sore did story. let's take a look at what's going on as far as our temperatures go. we remain at this hour at 57 degrees. it's a cool start to the day. and it's going to be a warmer day by the time wwind up later on this afternoon. 57 degrees here, 58 in cincinnati. boston is at 46 degrees at this hour. we'll take this out and show you across the country there are some -- well, now look at denver now. it was 32 degrees a short time ago. now it's 28 degrees in denver. so some cold, wintery air making its way into the mountain states out west. all right, here's a look at the satellite-radar picture for the nation. the most active weather in the eastern third of the nation with a frontal system. it's got a warm front. the warm front will come through here today. and a cold front. the cold front out to the west

and that's where we see that line of rain showers and even areas of heavy rain down to the south. so keep your eyes on this. the cold front comes through tomorrow and once it does, it will bring some clouds and trigger some rain showers around here too. five-day forecast, high today we think 74 degrees with a warm front coming through. crowds this morning, a little more sun later. tomorrow some periods rain, maybe a stray shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon. high of 78. sunday looks to be a decent day for the redskins game. high temperature in the afternoon 74 degrees. monday not a bad day, tuesday more rain showers move in. >> should be a good game sunday. good weather for it. let's hope for the best. 7:17, let's get to julie wright. what's going on, jules? >> reporter: 88 for the redskins but you've got to talk about the caps, steve, the caps. >> they had a big win last night. >> reporter: they get one win and that's it? >> three points for ovechkin.

>> reporter: it's all about the slap shot for me. >> rekindles that romance. >> reporter: rekindle? it's been going on all summer. where you been? all of your lane are open, no accidents to report all the way out toward the 14th street bridge. we check out 66 and again it's not too bad in manassas. a brief slowdown between the two 234 interchange. live shot of southbound 270 still on the brakes from that earlier crash that we had down before 370. although the activity is cleared, the damage is done. delays from germantown headed into gaithersburg. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. seven years ago she was abducted from her home and held for nine months. until now we knew investigate very little about what happened to elizabeth smart but in a utah courtroom yesterday she shared some chilling details about her ordeal. >> reporter: more than seven

years after her alleged abduction, elizabeth smart tells a judge about her ordeal. flanked by family members, the now 21-year-old walked into a salt lake city courthouse thursday. psychological tests have not been able to prove her alleged kidnapper, brian david mitchell, is mentally capable of standing trial. prosecutors and elizabeth's father hope her testimony will convince the judge mitchell is competent. >> if this doesn't clench the issue of competency, our nation is in really, really bad shape. >> prosecutors say smart's testimony shows mitchell is manipulative, not mentally incompetent. >> his intentions are to do what he has done before and that is to get away with his behavior and to walk away from his actions. >> reporter: for about two hours smart recalled the nine months she spent with mitchell and his now estranged wife, wanda barzee. smart said mitchell kidnapped her from her home at knife point in 2002, kept her tied up

in the mountains, drugged her, raped her aily and threatened to kill her family if she ran away. >> i had no idea what she had gone through so much out there. >> reporter: she remembered the day she was rescued when a woman saw smart on the street with mitchell and barzee and called police. smart called mitchell evil, wicked, manipulative and selfish and said he used religion to justify the sexual abuse. >> is he somewhat malingering or faking something or does he believe what's in the book of the manual david isaiah. >> reporter: mitchell was not in the courtroom at the same time as smart. he listened to the testimony from a holding cell. elizabeth is currently a student at brigham young university. next month she enters a missionary training program and will soon travel to paris to spread the word of the mormon church. she said she's excited about her mission. >> all right, rick, thanks very much. the time right now us 7:21.

security efforts heightened for a local high school football game after a fight between students is taped and posted online. also just ahead, a swine flu vaccine plan is set for schools in the district. also a fungus among us, as they say. well, more than one. holly is taking us to brookside gardens where they are searching for mushrooms this morning. >> is there a fungus among us?

a stabbing at the springfield mall earlier this week, we told you about it, turned out to be a hoax. a man who claimed two men approached him and tried to take his wallet and one of them stabbed him, but police know that the man actually cut himself. that story came to light after investigators found inconsistencies between his story and the evidence found at the scene. he's been charged with filing a false police report. a local high school is promising better safety measures following a brutal

beatdown at a football game that was caught on tape posted on facebook. this happened friday night at john f. kennedy high school in silver spring. a 17-year-old and a cheerleader had just stepped off the field when she says two girls jumped her. several witnesses stepped in before security arrived. others took cell phone video. the principal says the girls responsible will be suspended for at least 10 days. some d.c. public school students will be able to get vaccinated against the swine flu this month. the program is expected to last six weeks going first to schools with staff nurses. during the final period beginning on november 1st it is available to all students. at that time d.c. high schools will serve as mass vaccination clinics. the shot is free and voluntary. it is now 7:25 on this friday morning. october has been named cyber security awareness month. >> coming up next, we'll talk with the former director of central intelligence about how

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welcome back. it's 7:29. this news just in to fox 5. president obama is doing something pretty heavy on his short trip to denmark. the president summoned his top afghanistan commander to copenhagen for a quick meeting aboard air force one. the president in the danish capital to get chicago the 2016 olympics. the meeting took place before the president flew back to washington. between talks with iran, the war in afghanistan and that olympic bid, foreign policy continues to dominate washington and that is the big topic this weekend on fox news sunday. brett joins us now from capitol hill. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the latest. we just talked about stanley mcchrystal meeting with the president once again. afghanistan certainly on the minds of many people, trying to figure out what works here. the general saying perhaps some things that the white house might not necessarily have wanted to hear but everybody has to work together on this one. >> this is a big issue.

the fact that the president met face-to-face in denmark aboard air force one before taking off to come back here with general mcchrystal is significant. it also at least takes a little bit of the sting off of some of the critics who say he made this trip just for the olympics. he is going to meet with his commander face-to-face. this decision is a major thing for this white house. whether to increase the level of troops and actually answer the call of general mcchrystal to step up the number by some 40,000. that's the going guess of what they want on the ground. although they're not talking resources yet. it is a big decision and one that the future of the war really will be determined by this decision. >> of course the other big talk internationally, we had the talks dealing with nuclear issues in iran. no surprise that this weekend ou'll be heavy on members of the armed services commit easement who's on sunday to talk with you. >> we have a group of senators,

republicans and democrats. lindsey graham, senator bob casey and also senator evan buy all very well versed in foreign policy and they'll be talking about iran, the decisions that were made with these negotiations that happened. what exactly came out of those meetings, and also about the tough decision on afghanistan as well and of course we'll have an answer about whether chicago did not get that olympics bid. we'll have that as well. >> thanks, brett. good to see you. we'll see you gaion sunday morning. let's get to tony for another check of our forecast on this friday morning. >> all right, thank you very much, steve. let's take a look at the current temperatures around the region. we're at 57 degrees here in the district. dulles airport is 53 degrees and frederick 52. the air station is coming in at 60 degrees at this hour. here's a look at the satellite- radar composite for the area. got quite a bit of cloud cover moving across the region, more clouds off to the south and west and well out to the west as well so we'll get that

moving through here during these morning hours and then it will start to burn off and move out and we'll get sunine working in as well a little later on today. so the forecast after morning clouds, skies become partly sunny. warmer temperatures. 74 degrees for your high. mostly cloudy tonight with a few showers possible during the overnight hours. not as cool. 62 for your overnight low and then your five-day forecast looks like this. tomorrow 78 degrees, but a lot of clouds around. some rain in the morning. maybe a couple of spots of heavy rain as well. then later on in the afternoon some scattered thunderstorms are a possibility. it's not going to be a washout day saturday but there will be rain showers hanging around. sunday 74 degrees, monday looks good at 73. that's the latest on the weather. now we get more on the rush hour traffic from julie wright. >> reporter: all right, tony. busy ride right now. for starters we had problems along southbound 270. that's where we had the crash before 370 that, one involving a motorcycle. traffic on that southbound

stretch of 270 sill congested out of germantown. along the beltway at 214, all of the lanes are open, no incidents to report but any the slowdown. outer loop of the beltway jammed before you reach route 4 pennsylvania avenue to the crash at allentown road. accident activity involving an overturned vehicle with the left side of the road blocked. there's also slowdowns from branch avenue. inbound stretch of the dulles toll road doesn't look bad. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >> all right, thank you very much. the time right now is 7:33. we're headed into week 4 now, the skins sitting at 1-2. >> okay. thought exactly where the team or the fans want to be and coming off last week's embarrassing loss, can we have any confidence? looking forward to a win over the winless bucs. we shouldn't call names. i called them the lowly lions and they lost. we shouldn't say the winless bucs. >> well, the bucs team that has not won. >> not win. >> we'll see what the junkies have to say about it. we'll check in with them coming

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dedicated to cyber warfare called weapons of mass disruption. we are joined by the former director of central intelligence and board member james woolsey. it is an honor for us to have you here, sir. good morning. >> thank you. >> we're going to talk about that new exhibit but first i've got to ask you about some of the news of the day. let's talk about afghanistan. we saw some high level talks at the white house where the white house now seems to be a bit more reluctant about sending tens of thousands more troops to afghanistan. tell me, how would this affect what's going on there in this now eight-year-long war. >> well, we've recently had an example of what when you fight an antiguerrilla operation right in iraq. we tried the so-called certain and destroy, just killing the bad guys for three and a half years. it did not work. it was all coming apart. and then we finally got it together with the anbar awakening and the surge and general petraeus taking the right direction. now general mcchrystal is trying to do the same thing

with afghanistan after we fought afghanistan wrong for eight years and i think general mcchrystal deserves support frankly. i hope the white house forgets about its reluctant. if we lose afghanistan, we may well end up with a pakistan with nuclear weapons in the hands of the taliban and islamist radicals and that whole part of the world could go very, very sour indeed. >> some are calling this a clear defining moment in this young administration. this could, as you said, mean worldwide implications. >> well, the president started out exactly right on this. he appointed general mcchrystal, who's a real expert on counter insurgency. he said this was the war he wanted to essentially have fought right. and for the first six months of -- six, seven months of the administration, it looked like they were going to work on repeating the success that general petraeus had had in

iraq by going general mcchrystal's route. now it looks like maybe they're getting cold feet. i hope they're not. i very much hope the president stays with what he said he was going to do for the first number of months of his administration. >> we just heard the breaking news that indeed the president did meet with general mcchrystal on air force one in denmark, so we will see. more to come on this of course. also want to get your take on the recent terror plots we've been reporting about. it seems there were a large number of groups in a small amount of time over the last two weeks or so. what should the public take from this? >> well, all of these are islamist plots. i mean none of them is tamel tigers or irish republican army or any other groups, they're islamist plots of the and i think it shows a continuing effort on behalf of radical islamist organizations to try to plan terrorist operations here and otherwise. now, happily, some combination of the fbi, cia, other national

security agency work and so forth was able to turn these up and needs to get stopped. but where there's smoke tere's fire and there are probably a numberof others out there getting planned. we need to be pretty vigorous in trying to penetrate these with agents, spies, informants and intercept their communications and do the things we need to in order to keep them from eating something like 9/11. >> another big threat is cyber strikes and the new exhibit deals with this. very clever title, weapons of mass disruption. tell us about this new exhibit. >> well, that's the good news. if they're just mass disruption, then we have some of the problems we have now with cyber spies for other governments or nongovernment organizations or just hackers stealing information, stealing money from the financial system, creating mischief, creating problems, committing crimes. but it could be worse than

that. for example, a cyber attack on the electricity grid could leave a large number of americans out of electricity for very substantial periods of time. there's a big outage in 2003 that started in cleveland and took 50 million consumers out of electric power in the northeast u.s. and eastern canada. and there was some speculation in the press that that might have been intentional, foreign, chinese was mentioned, attack. the senior people in the government now say, no, it wasn't. but what's interesting is that conceivably it could have been, that that sort of outage, taking out a number of states for perhaps considerably longer than a few days could be done by hackers or foreign governments, and that's very, very troubling. >> the new exhibit is weapons of mass disruption. we really appreciate you spendg some time with us today. >> great to be with you. >> p james woolsey, former director of central intelligence and board member

at the spy me seem. over to you. we want to talk a little football right now. if we learned anything from last week's loss to the lions, it's that there are now no gimme games this year. can't think of a better transition than going from the former head of the cia to a bunch of skies who we aren't sure who they were. hard to tell with the bags on your head, guys. >> yeah, we're imposter. >> how do you guys take your job seriously? you're interviewing the former director of the cia and now you're interviewing four elephant men. >> it's the beauty of the variety. you never know what you're going to get when you watch. so here's the deal. first of all, explain the bags on the heads. is this what you're really going to wear to the game? >> fans should wear this. they should be embarrassed. the redskins just lost to a team that hadn't won a game two years. >> the lions had lost 19 in a row. what was sad is a lot of the

experts around the country were predicting it. that the team the lions would snap their streak against was the redskins. the redskins fans need to cover their faces. >> can i just say something steve. i feel stupid. >> you look stupid too. >> and i look stupid, right. but fans should go out there and express their disconnt over the team ownership. >> it's not just based on last week's embarrassment, everybody loses a bad game. it's a decade of frustration all during dan snyder's ownership, his reign here in d.c. the fans are upset. i think this says it all. we hate the owner, we love the team. >> you get the idea. >> you can get the frustration -- i give you points. the baseball hats definitely add to the outfits so a little style going with the bags. here's my question for you guys, though. u guys have great listeners out there so we say hi to everybody that's listening to you guys this morning.

what are they saying, though? we know what you think, we know what we think, tony an i talk about the frustrations every friday, every monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. what are the fans saying? >> it's been a decade of futility with daniel snyder at the helm of the washington redskins. they're sick of watching a mediocre product out at fedex field. this is a perfect way to voice your frustration. >> our afternoon host said it earlier this week and i think he's right. for the first time ever, 100% of the calls have been anti- redskins on monday after a game. for the first time ever. >> is it too early for that, though? i know it's been a lousy three weeks, but it is only three wks. >> but it's a decade, steve. that's what i'm trying to say. >> it's acceptable to be 0-3 in cleveland. maybe it's acceptable to be 0-3 in st. louis. it's not acceptable to be 1-2 and struggle against some of the worth teams in the league here in washington and it's the way they do it. they just look ugly. maybe it's only within three

games and most of us think they'll beat tampa and they'll be 2-2 and you might say fine, they're 2-2. but the reality is they don't look good. >> steve, i don't even know if you can hear me but i will say this. when you spend the money that dan snyder spends on this roster, there's no excuse to be 1-2, to lose to teams like the lions, to struggle against teams like the rams. they should be performing better than what they are performing. that's why the fans are so frustrated. >> that's an excellent point and it's a very serious point to make. a serious point for a bunch of guys wearing bags on your head. but you know what, you're doing what it takes. jp, i'm sorry, yours is a little -- it's not looking so good right now. >> it's a terrible bag. >> it's a little on the weak side. but you know what, you're getting your point across. thanks. we'll see you soon. it's the junkies on 106.7 the fan. fox 5 the place to be with your coverage of the redskins starting at 11:00 on gameday, 11:30 is the geico redskins

pregame. 1:00 is kickoff with tampa. let's go to tony for a check of our forecast for the weekend. >> thank you very much. get right to it and show you how things are shaping up. we'll start with our temperatures across the region. right now here in washington we're at 57 degrees. 58 in norfolk, virginia, and new york city is at 50 degrees. pittsburgh, p.a. , 49. here's your surface map for today. clouds are with us this morning, pretty good cloud cover out there as a matter of fact. later on today we'll get sunshine working. yesterday we topped out at 66 degrees. five-day forecast, today high downtown we think 74 degrees. tomorrow warmer, 78 degrees before a cold front makes its way in here. we could see some -- in fact i do think we'll see some rain showers during the course of the day tomorrow, particularly in the morning and then maybe a couple in the afternoon as well. the chance of rain from the weather service officially is 40%. there's a look at the rest of the five-day. enjoy the weather, folks.

now let's find out if you'll enjoy your commute to work. for that we go to julie wright. >> reporter: oh, the pressure of a drive into work. thanks. yeah, not going to be an easy ride at all. right now we've got major tie- ups on the beltway as you travel towards allentown road. a wreck on the inner loop blocking the left lane. you can see some flashing lights. big delays from route 4 and of course we've got slow traffic off of the beltway leaving route 5 trying to get past the scene but all lanes open on the outer loop. no accident outer loop of the beltway continuing from college park headed towards 270. 395 north coming across the 14th street bridge, all of your lane are open right now crossing over the potomac. new york avenue traffic slow. and northbound i-95 not so bad right now in springfield but traffic does slow in woodbridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >> thank you so much, julie. just about 7:48 on this friday morning. holly if having fun with fungi this morning. >> i was just wondering, is it

fung guy or fungi. we are with the mycological association of washington as they gather for the 8th annual mushroom fair. we're all about mushrooms this morning. it's going on at brookside gardens where we are live this morning. how you can get in on the fungus fun, i'll just say that, life next on the fox 5 orning news. stay with us.

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there's a fascinating fair going on at brookside gardens this sunday. >> and holly is there to learn more about the event and the study of fungi. >> i'm going to ask the experts and two of them are with me this morning. this is ray lasallea and connie dermond. so is it fungi or fungi. >> i say fungi. >> i said both. >> who knew. there we go, fungi. but if you say fungi you're not

totally incorrect. so tell me a little bit about the mycological association of washington. >> we're members of the mycological association of washington. it's the local affiliate -- it's the local club for amateur mushroom hunters in the washington, d.c., area. >> so how many mushroom hunters are there? >> 206 people are members. >> that's why we bring the membership chair on. she knows it. how does it work? you guys go out on weekends? >> whenever the mood strikes us. we do have organized forays on saturday and sunday mornings. once a year we even have a mushroom retreat. >> get out of town. >> no, seriously. it's wonderful. >> i know there's a lot of people at home going why. but this is why, i guess, right? how does one become so passionate about it? >> i love going out in th

woods so for me mushroom hunting brings it all together. >> these were all found in our area? >> yes. just within the past week. >> now, are these all safe to eat? >> yes, but. see, the thing is there's more than just knowing what it is. you have to know what to do with it. for example, this one is poisonous raw. this is called chicken of the woods. you've got to eat it when it's young enough. if it gets too old it toughens. these are honey mushrooms. they're great for pick ling but you want to get them when they're young and you don't want to eat them raw. in fact you want to blanch them. >> what about the mushrooms that are poisonous? what's the percentage of how many are okay to eat and how many are not okay. >> you know, it might be something like maybe 25% will cause you one sort of problem or another. 25% are wonderful, really tasty, and the other 50% won't hurt you but you wouldn't want to eat them because they don't necessary a nice taste. >> they truly are just fungus.

>> yeah. >> so why does the word mycological come from? >> that's greek. knowledge of mushrooms. >> all right. there you have it. so you guys are a part of a big fair that's going on. i would never have believed that the fair would be eight years and running. what does one do at a mushroom fair? >> we're going to have a display of all the mushroom that say our members can collect tomorrow and saturday and sunday, and we're going to lay them out and identify them. i would expect t see over 200 different species of mushrooms identified. we'll have cooking demonstrations, wel have people talking about how to color fabric with mushrooms, some people would say die with mushroom. >> yeah, we may not want to use that phrase. i know there are some jokesters out there going, yeah, shrooms. obviously we're not advocating that but there are

hallucinogenic mushrooms that you need to be of. >> yes. in some societies mushrooms are considered sacraments. they enable people to communicate better. >> now, do you sell these to some of the top chef in the area? >> no. no, but they do use wild mushros. at the fair on sunday, we're going to have mushrooms donated by phillips mushroom farms and they are cultivating many of the varieties, like this one. oyster mushroom, they cultivate that. >> all right. we'll talk more about it in our next hour. myfoxdc.com is our website. we have a link so you can find out more about the fair that's going on here this saturday. in our next hour, we are indeed going on our own mushroom hunt. you want to know what a mushroom hunter looks like? right there. that's the man that's taking us into the woods. we'll see what we can find in our next hour. back to you guys. >> hope you dress

appropriately. and fungi. we got it. thank you. >> thanks, holly. it is now 7:56 on this friday morning. the president and first lady have already had a busy day. >> yes. they campaigned in copenhagen to bring the 2016 summer olympics to chicago. highlights from their pitch when we come back. also david letterman dropng a bombshell on the show last night. coming up, what he confessed. and take an award-winning film composer, add his movie star brother and what do you have? the bacon brothers, of course. michael and kevin bacon will join us live in our next hour right here on fox 5 morning news. stay with us, four minutes before 8:00. ♪

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i never dreamed that the olympic flame might one daylight of lives in my neighborhood. but today i can dream. >> the president and first lady campaigned in copenhagen. they are trying to convince the international olympic committee to select chicago as the host city for the 2016 summer

olympic games. good morning and thanks for joining us this friday. >> chicago is competing with rio de janeiro, madrid and tokyo. doug luzader joins us now from capitol hill. doug, the decision now just hours away. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, just a few hours away here. chicago is considered a favorite, but it's certainly not a lock. the president is hoping that he's able to convince the international olympic committee to select chicago to really kind of seal the deal. so this was a concerted effort on the part of the president and the first lady, even oprah winfrey was involved in this. kind of the final message here for the chicago team that's been trying to sell that city. they're up against three other

major contenders here, tokyo, madrid, rio degentleman narrow and rio may be the real challenge. chicago is coming pretty cheap and that could help them. they do have a couple of strikes against them, though, one of which being a fair amount of public opposition in that city to having the olympics there, surprisingly enough. but given all of that chicago is still considered a front runner, especially having this high profile team going there to try to win over these ioc voters. now, they're going to have about half an hour of voting or so and then the results will be announced shortly before 1:00 today. steve and allison, back to you guys. >> you can't get much bigger than the president, the first lady, oprah winfrey, michael jordan all there. doug luzader, thank you very much. let's bring in tony perkins to look at our forecast for this friday as we look forward to the weekend. >> not a bad forecast. we've got some clouds out there this morning, some cool temperatures as you have gotten used to but we think it's going

to be a warmer day than yesterday. yesterday only got up to 66 degrees. we were thinking it would be around 70 and only made it to 66. today we think we will break 70 and get into the low to mid- 70s. let's take a look at what's going on right now. reagan national, temperature now 58 degrees. relative humidity 78%. the winds are calm, barometric pressure is steady. here's a look at the satellite- radar for our region. again, you see those clouds moving through. no precipitation for us this morning. it's all well to the north moving across pennsylvania and ohio, places like that. the forecast for today looks like this. morning clouds giving way to partly sunny skies later. warmer temperatures. high in town about 74 degrees. we'll have more details coming up in just a little bit. stay with us for that. >> thanks so much, tony. now we head over to julie wright to see what's going on on the roads. julie, good morning. >> reporter: -- >> we'll check in with her in just a second and find out

what's happening on the roads. not quite ready to go but we will in just a second also want to talk about what's happening in montgomery count. the police are actually looking for a 10-year-old boy. his name is noah kaiser. he was last seen 11:30 yesterday morning at roberto clemente middle school in germantown. he was last seen wearing jean shorts, a black penguins t- shirt and white nike shoes. if you've seen noah, contact montgomery county police. they are trying to find him. to the district now, an early morning shooting has turned deadly. this happened along 18th place and p street southeast. police say a man was shot in the head and back and died shortly after. the victim's age and identity have not been released. police are now searching for suspects. in maryland, prince george's county now, police are also investigating a deadly shooting there that happened around 9:30 last night along walker mill road in capital heights. police say a man was found suffering from a gunshot wound, was pronounced ted at the hospital.

so far no word on a suspect or motive. this is the fifth homicide in prince george's county in less than a week. one local high school promising better safety measures after a brutal beatdown at a football game that was caught on tape and posted on facebook. it happened last friday night at john f. kennedy high school in silver spring. a 17-year-old and a cheerleader had just stepped off the field when she said a couple of girls jumped her. this was the result. several witnesses stepped in before security arrived. others took cell phone video. >> they were hitting me, they were punching me in my face and stuff, grabbing my hair. >> i think the youth need to know they have alternatives and choices to violence. >> the principal says the girls responsible for this incident will be suspended for at least 10 days. now to the latest on the swine flu. we are just learning that d.c. public school students will be able to get vaccinated at

scho. the program is expected to last six weeks. now going first to schools with staff nurses. during the final period beginning november 1st it's available to all students. at that time d.c. high schools will serve as mass vaccination clinics. the vaccination is free and voluntary. the senate finance committee is set to send health care reform legislation backed by president obama to the full senate. just after two this morning, senator max baucus announced the panel had finished work on all sections of its version of the bill. now a final committee vote won't be held until next week. joining us live from capitol hill, dr. ken thorpe, a former deputy assistant secretary with the u.s. department of health and human services. dr. thorpe, good morning. >> good morning to you. >> well, you certainly are no stranger to crunching numbers for this health care debate. this started with you back in the clinton administration. how much -- i think it comes down for a lot of people, how much is this going to cost me. can you give us a clear bottom

line and clear speak about how we all will be affected by legislation to promote health care for all? >> well, if you have health insurance today, the hope is you'll pay less for it. and not only that, you won't be denied coverage. if you get sick, your health plan won't be able to throw you off the policy. so there's a lot of protection in here that are really important for people to understand and it provides a lot of security for people who are really concerned about getting access to health care in the first place. if they do get sick, whether an insurance company will refuse to pay the bills. both of those would be prohibited under this legislation. >> you were on the board during e clinton administration with this fight. if you could get a message out to the viewers, people who are watching us this morning, americans watching us, what would you tell them as far as easing fears or as far as the questions to raise with their lawmakers concerning this legislation? >> well, we have a couple of

choices here. the choice one is that we don't get anything done here in washington, that we continue having a disagreement that's political. i think that's the worst outcome. the status quo is really not an acceptable option because if we do nothing, we know that the cost of health care is going to continue to skyrocket. and we'll have upwards of 60 million people who don't have health insurance within a decade, so that option is not a very attractive one. we need to keep working at this to see if we can't continue to find ways that are bipartisan to make sure that we make health care more affordable, and we get on the path to getting more americans covered with health insurance. >> how much of this, sir, is a question in your opinion of compassion for those people who are really hurting, those of us with health care insurance maybe no big deal if we get sick, but those of the working poor and the underprivileged in general, how big of an issue is this when you don't have health care? >> oh, it's a big issue.

we know that over half of bankruptci in this country are linked to the fact that people can't pay their bills. let just put a face on it. a typical person who doesn't have health insurance who works for a small business, that business doesn't offer insurance because they can't afford it, that family may make $30,000 a year. and a health insurance policy that they could buy may cost $15,000. so that's just not affordable for a typical middle income family. we've got to find ways to get that health insurance package to that person who's working full time but just can't afford to get the coverage. >> last question, dr. thorpe. as the executive director of the partnership to fight chronic disease, how does chronic disease play a role in this fight? >> well, chronic disease is a key part of this discussion. three-quarters of what we spend on health care in this country is linked to chronically ill patients. people with diabetes and high blood pressure. part of reform has got to be

really directed to doing a better job of working with patients so they can manage their conditions to keep them out of the hospital and keep them from being readmitted to the hospital. the second point is about a third of the growth in health care spending in this country is directly traced to the doubling of obesity. so to the extent we can prevent disease in the first place and to a better job of managing chronic illness, both of those reforms would make a big dent in making health careless expensive for all americans. >> dr. ken thorpe, former deputy assistant secretary, u.s. department of health and human services, thank you so much, sr. >> thank you. >> steve. we are following some breaking news right now from montgomery county where a boy who police say is around 14 years old has been struck by a car in germantown. this happened about 7:45 this morning. we know the boy was flown from the scene to the hospital. we do not know the exact extent of his injuries, but police say this is a very serious

situation and we hope to get more as far as the traffic impact from julie coming up in a few minutes. the time right now 10 minutes past the hour. coming up next, an update on recovery efforts after those earthquakes in indonesia and a tsunami in samoa. and funny man david letterman drops a bombshell. coming up, what the comedian confessed to. also we're excited this morning, we have the bacon brothers in our studio so we're going to sit down with kevin bacon and michael bacon and talk a little music and acting coming up in our next half hour, so stay with us for that. it's now 10 minutes past the hour. e 

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it's 13 minutes past the hour as we look at some of the stories making headlines. a glimmer of hope two days after the earthquakes rocked sumatra. they pulled a teenager alive out of her collapsed college. she spent 40 hours trapped under the rubble. it's estimated that 3300 people are still missing. already 1100 people have been

pronnceddead. to the samoan islands, a tsunami ravaged the islands giving at least 169 people. a mass funeral and burial is planned for next tuesday. the united states, australia, new zealand have all sent in supplies and troops. the president of toyota has apologized for this deadly crash. it's believed the car's driver's side floor mat got stuck on the accelerator. the crash has sparked a recall of nearly four million cars. toyota's president says it is tragic that four lives were lost. well, it's 8:14 right now. tucker is joining us. >> he's got the forecast and a little bit extra. >> it's that time of day. >> let's see it. >> let's get right to it. time for our my first 5 photo of the day. this is kalen with a big smile on her face. as you can see, she is still a

huge die hard redskins fan. >> and she should be. she's too young to give up. >> you've got to admit we've got some of the greatest fans in the entire country around here. >> oh, yeah. >> no music today. to send us your child's picture, go to myfoxdc.com and click on mornings. let's get to the weather forecast. guess what, high temperatures later this afternoon back into the low to mid-70s so it should feel pretty good. right now 58 at reagan national. both dulles and bwi marshall reporting temperature of 55. lots of clouds to start the day. as you can see here on our satellite-radar. you can probably pick up the cold front. see the green on the map out to our west, that is rain shower activity. best chance for rain will be later tonight during the overnight hours and first part of our weekend, first part of saturday. maybe a thunderstorm too. but it's not going to be a washout weekend so that's really good news. for today lots of clouds to start the day. i think we will see sunshine

later this afternoon. it will be a warm day with high temperatures back in the middle 70s. tomorrow 78. could be some early shower, maybe a thunderstorm during the afternoon. sunday looks fantastic, 74 with sunshine. monday and tuesday back to the fall weather but generally nice conditions expected. a quick look at the forecast, let's get to on-time traffic and julie wright who's been very busy all morning. >> reporter: absolutely. we're talking about an incident involving a pedestrian over in germantown. that's what's tying up your commute in each direction. if you are traveling out of germantown this morning, i know a lot of folks like to sneak around and use the backroads such as 117 as an alternate. that's not a viable option because it remains closed off right now. all right, let's go out to the roads and we'll start off by showing you what's happen ago long the top stretch of the beltway. 95 around the georgia avenue,

if you are near route 4, pennsylvania avenue, the accident occurred up atally intown road. all lanes are open. big delays off of the beltway at route 5 branch avenue but lanes are open in each direction. 395 remains heavy and slow coming across the 14th street bridge with no accidents to report. 66 still on the brakes out at manassas and we've got delays heading towards the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. we do have some advisories to pass along if you're hopping on metro for columbus day weekend. >> there will be some route changes on the green and yellow lines and john hanrahan has more on that. >> report: in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellow line trains over the potomac, metro plans to replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails onto the ties. the bridge will likely be out of service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro has decided to reroute yellow

trains onto blue line tracks. so yellow trains will run all the way from huntington station to stadium armory. another part of the project, replacing the switches that will effectively stop continuous green line service into prince georges county. they will have to use shuttle buses between gallery police. when metro shut down the national airport station on labor day for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> that 45 minutes extra. >> reporter: but metro officials say it makes more sense to schedule major maintenance over a three-day weekend and get it done all at once. >> if we do it normally, it takes four weekends to do. so it is a measuring the customer impact if we do it over a three-day major holiday weekend where ridership on that holiday is about 60% of a normal weekday, then we're affecting less people. >> reporter: on columbus day weekend, the archive station and the waterfront station will

be closed completely. free shuttle buses will take passengers north and south. john hanrahan, fox 5 news. >> metro says trains could run every 4 minutes along the blue line to the stadium armory to help with the crowds expected at a planned gay rights rally. the time right now 19 minutes past the hour on this friday morning. david letterman dropping a bombshell on his show last night. coming up, what the comedian confessed. then it's a first for holly and that's not easy to find. she's been to all kinds of fairs. never, though, a mushroom fair. we'll check in with her a little later this hour. here's a look at some of your fox 5 weekend events. take a close look. we'll be right back. it's 8:19.

well, here's a tlker for sure. david letterman poked fun at politicians, stars over their

sexual terrorists and now his own sexual past is out there. a man tried to extort $2 million saying he knew david letterman slept with his staffers. david letterman admitted that the guy had had terrible evidence to prove that. >> and the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. i have d sex with women who worked on this show. >> well, he was black mailed. letterman went to the police. he wrote a bogus check to the guy and that's when police arrested him. did you see this one coming, jon gosselin says he wants to keep the kids out of the reality show "kate plus 8." tlc reported it was moving forward only focusing on kate and the kids and jon sent a

cease and desist letter forcing tlc to stop filming the kids. he said it's not in retaliation. he said he had an epiphany and realized his eight kids should not be filmed during his divorce from kate. now, tucker says that he's going to do a show with lindsay lohan's dad. jon is doing a show with lindsay lohan's dad wh being divorced fathers. >> 8:24 right now. speaking of continuing, we have a bunch more still ahead. of yes, we'll check o stories making headlines, and... >> the bacon brothers. you heard me right, folks. kevin and his brother, michael, are here. don't worry, we've already figured out your six degrees of separation. >> you did? >> kevin bacon was in mystic river with tim robbins. tim robbins made an appearance in tenacious d in the pick of destiny starring jack black. >> that's two. >> jack black had a cameo as a biker who hunts baxter in

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following breaking news right now. here are the live pictures, a boy who police say is around 14 years old was hit by a car. this happened in germantown around 7:45. we know that the boy was flown

from the scene to the hospital. we don't know the extent of his injuries, but police say this is a very serious accident. again, live pictures from germantown where a young boy, 14-year-old boy, was hit by a car. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines this morning. we start out west with elizabh smart, the girl that was kidnapped fr her home in utah seven years ago, now testifying about the harrowing ordeal. the now 21-year-old said that during her nine months in captivity, her alleged kidnapper, brian david mitchell, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg, threatened to kill her if she tried to escape and raped her three to four times a day. psychological tests have not been able to prove that mitchell is mentally capable have standing trial. a 15-year-old girl in an annandale may face legal trouble. her claim that a man tried to abduct her was all made up. charges are pending against that teenager. also investigators say a man in fairfax county apparently stretched the truth about getting stabbed at the springfield mall. he did get caught, but police say he did it to himself and

now he's charged with filing a false police report. he claimed the two men approached him on tuesday night, demanded his wallet and then stabbed him. >> all right, it is 8:30 right now of the let's get another check on our day from tucker barnes. >> thank you very much, allison. we've got a lot of clouds across the region but hang in there, i think there will be afternoon sunshine. currently in the 50s. 58 here in town. 55 is the winning number in fredericksburg an dulles. yesterday we were in the mid- 60s. mid-70s later today so it will be a lot more comfortable. warm front moving through right now. you can see some rain showers across the central sections of pennsylvania and then back out to the west we've got a cold front. that will get in here starting later tonight and during the morning hours tomorrow and give us a chance for scattered showers to start the weekend. maybe an afternoon thunderstorm too. but the good news is it should be well off the coast by saturday evening. right now sunday looks fantastic. i think even much of saturday. much of saturday should feature dry weather. no rain expected for today. here's your five-day forecast.

again, this afternoon warmer temperatures, 74. showers, maybe a thunderstorm during the day on saturday and sunday looks great. 74 with sunshine. monday and tuesday temperatures back in the low 70s. all right, that's a quick look at the forecast. let's get to julie wright. she's been very busy in the traffic center. >> that's right, tucker. unfortunately as allison had just mentioned, there is a very serious crash involving a pedestrian that remains under investigation up in germantown. this is going to close down a i again matini remains closed. all of this activity back in the cinnamon woods area behind the shoppers food warehouse. that's where you'll find that portion of the road shut down. out to the beltway, the outer loop will slow leaving 95 college park trying to work your way past university boulevard and continuing toward silver spring. northbound 95 looks great out of springfield. 395 still tied up for those leaving the beltway headed towards duke street. also dulles greenway and the

toll road light traffic approaching 28. a bill that would extend unemployment benefits for some has hit a snag in the senate. the bill which already passed the house would give another 13 weeks of benefits to people in states where the jobless rate is at least 8 1/2%. but lawmakers who states would be left out are bogging down the measure. they say unemployed workers face equally severe challenges no matter what state they live in. if passed as is, d.c. would be included in this extension. virginia and maryland would not be. senate leader are trying to come up with a compromise. it's going to be a tough day for some princegeorge's county employees as today they'll find out if they're losing their jobs. it's part of the county's plan to make up for a more than $22 million budget deficit. the employees will be placed on paid administrative leave for one month with layoffs taking effect november 1st. now to the budget batting in the district where the mayor

and school's chancellor say a $40 million shortfall will lead to an unknown number of teacher layoffs. is it really necessary? that man said federal stimulus dollars should make up for any shortfall. he says for 2010 the school system is set to receive more money with fewer students. councilman gray says he now believes the layoffs may be a way to oust critics of the mayor and school's chancellor. it is now 8:33 on this friday morning. coming up next, the bacon brothers will join us live. if you're looking for work check out our job shop on myfoxdc.com. our job today is at laurel adjustment bureau. they are looking for a tow truck driver. this is a repo company. they pay between 40 and $50,000 a year. if you'd like more on this job and many others, go to myfoxdc.com an click on the job shop tab. you'll find it right near the top of the home page. it's 8:34. back after this. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected.

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>> it's good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> what's going on? >> well, fall is festival season. we've got a couple of this season. the big one is taste of bethesda. this is a tremendous event that goes on every year. every single restaurant in bethesda participants. what i love about this is there's a great place for the kids, there's face painting and fun things for them but you get to walk around and try restaurants like the burger joint and all the restaurants you love in bethesda and there's actually free parking. it's a great way to enjoy the day. >> that's great because this is always a really fun way to check out all the great restaurants in bethesda. the parking is always the key. what else is happening? >> well, right up the street is like a little gem. they are doing a festival. this is a huge indian festival. there will be lots of delicious foods. and there's fun things like henna painting for the hands, artisans, crafts, a fun and

interesting way to spend the day. a little exotic. >> you know i love that. indian food, always good. they have the felt festival of lights, which is fabulous. okay, a lot of people have the traditional date night. >> i think dinner and a movie is over. i think if you're dating somebody or been married for 15 years, try going out and doing something new. the first saturday of every month this new yoga studio called past tense which is in mount pleasant, they are doing yoga and dinner. so you go with your day, roll out your mat. >> wait, no dinner and a movie? you want to exercise first? >> think nice it is to stretch out, get a nice exercise in and then head over to radius pizza afterwards. you get 50% off your bottle of wine and you can have a great new york style pizza. so i like that for a fun date to do. two -- cool things. there's always cooking classes and tastings going in on andante city. so i picked two. first there's a bourbon tasting and this is going on at

acadiona. the beverage manager will walk you through a bunch of bourbons. it's a fun thing to do with a date. if you want to do a little cooking or hands-on stuff, head over to adore. this is in the st. regis. but this is not a very expensive class and you can get your hands dirty with your new partner or a date or a friend and learn how to make some pastry with the chef. >> that's fabulous. what's nice is that it's a variety and a lot of different things you can do. >> lots of ways to go out and have a great time. >> nikki, thanks so much. it's great to see you. we put all of this information on our website, myfoxdc.com as well. one other thing people might want to check out, we've got the bacon brothers in studio here and they're going to be at this birchmere this weekend so this is also a great -- >> who doesn't love bacon. >> especially this bacon, kevin and michael. they'll be joining us very soon.

>> excellent. >> thank you, nikki. back over to you. it is now 8:40 on this friday morning. and the bacon brothers are in studio. >> we're going to talk to them on the other side of the break. first here's holly. >> reporter: guys, i'm tired. you caught us at just the right time. we are just back from our mushroom hunt! how did we fare? we'll show you the fruits of our labor coming up. we are live at brookside gardens this morning where they are gearing up for their mushroom fair, which is sunday, by the way. we'll tell you why you and your family might just want to come out and have a little fun with fungi yourself. it's all next on fox 5 morning news. look at all these mushrooms we found. 

take an award winning film composer, add his movie star brother and the result is a successful band called the bacon brothers. their sixth album in stores now and the duo will be performing tonight in alexandria. before they do so they are here at fox 5. welcome, guys. >> than for having us.

>> thankfor being here because you did a show detective birchmere last night. how did it go? >> it was good. >> great club. >> we played here a bunch of times. i don't know how many times we've been there. >> six or seven times now. >> we know everything that's on the menu. >> we always give extra credit for guys that come in the morning after an appearance. it's one thing to do it the day of a show but you guys are doing it both ways. talk a little bit about the bacon brothers. if you look at it, really you guys have been performing since you were kids. you took it to another level. it's been probably 15 years now. >> yeah, 15 years. it's very natural for us. we grew up in a household that really encouraged creativity. ever since we were kids, i was probably playing a guitar, kevin was banging on a can or something. same deal. >> and the audience too. >> and the audience too. >> is it fun for you, though? michael, you've been doing music your whole life.

you kind of split when you were kids. you went the music route and you went the acting route. >> actually they were very supportive. especially i think i had it real easy because i'm the youngest of six. so by the time i came around, they were so busy. you know, you get less and less worried as your children go down so you've had six, i often joke that when i left home, they didn't even notice that i was gone. they didn't have an issue with going into the arts. >> you both made it successful for your careers, though. tell us a little bit, michael, what can folks expect if they come down and see you tonight in alexandria. >> well, we have a six-piece band. i've got to tell you, the band is amazing. just every one of them. superprofessional. we can learn a song and they'll play it for everybody that night. it really is great. and we have a lot of harmony and most of the songs kevin and i write. it's all over the place.

some are really delicate, folks see things and some rock things. >> one of your cds and your label just a stake-off on some of the styles of music, folk, rock, soul and country. you put a little everything out there. >> when we were first naming our cd, everyone says what kind of music do you play? what kind of music d you play? so we thought it's folk rock soul country so we came up with a new category that's forosoko. >> i harry every now and then you bust out a little "foot loose." >> it hasn't come up in a few years. when we first put the band together, i said i think we need to embrace the beast because it's going to be our free bird. even though i wish i'd written free bird or "foot loose." but still that's what people sometimes wanted to hear. we started playing it kind of in a tongue-in-cheek way and eventually like any other song we've had in the set we just

got tired of playing it. >> have you embraced the acting and singing aspects of it? if people want to come see you perform in the band because they know you as an actor, you're cool with that? >> i'm cool with that. i always knew that would be the way it is. i think our job, once you get people in the seats, is to put on the best possible show and have them enjoy the music and hopefully, you know, leave becoming fans of the band. >> i want to mention because you guys are philadelphia and i know you're real proud of your hometown, hopefully you get a chance to go back home. you hope to get up for the mummers parade. >> yeah, last year they lost all of their funding which is a lot, three-quarters of a million dollars or something. but the mummers have always been a part -- we weren't mummers but it's a very much a part of anyone from philly. so we took our song and did a

remix of it and it's a wild combination of styles. >> that's great. >> so we're helping -- we're going to do a show december 5th helping them fund raise and hopefully put the whole mummers parade on some sort of an even keel where every year they can function without help from the city of philadelphia. >> it's got to be good knowing you're helping out the folks back home. kevin, everybody seems to joke about the whe six degrees of kevin bacon thing. were you adverse to that at the beginning? are you okay with it now? >> i thought oh, boy, taking my life and making a game out of it and i thought it was kind of a joke at my expense. but not only am i okay with it, it's great. i have an organization called six degrees.org which is a charitable website. we've raised millions of dollars. it's become, you know, something that i actually kind of enjoy and embrace. >> you're part of folklore now. michael, we can give you a direct degree of separation to d.c. because you won your emmy

for your music that you did on the kennedys and you can't get much more d.c. than the congratulations for that. good show. folks, check it out at the birchmere tonight 7:30 in keexandria. n, the bacon brothers, thanks for joining us this morning. let's get over to tony with a check of what's happening later this morning. >> very cool to have them here. good morning, everybody. i'm down in the newsroom. we are following breaking news this morning. a shooting in green belt has a prince george's county elementary school on lockdown. we'll have the latest at 9:00. then controversial movie director michael moore will be with us live. his latest film, which takes on corporate greed and the government bailout hits theaters today. also, peter yaro of pe paul and mary will perform live right here on fox 5 morning news. he's out with a new children's book and is working on a memorial concert for his long- time friend and band member mary travers. check out a pillow-wielding granny.

you won't believe what she used that pillow for. it probably saved her family's life. steve, al sub, that an much more ahead at 9:00. we'll see you in a couple of moments. have you ever wondered where wild mushrooms, the one that say we eat come from? today holly morris is finding out as she spends the morning with the mycological association of washington at brookside gardens. i'm learning all these new words today, holly. >> reporter: just throw that around at a party the next time you're out. we are with the mycological association of washington. i want to make a big correction. the mushroom fair that's going on at brookside gardens is happening on sunday, not saturday. they're very happy about that since the weather is supposed to be better on sunday. when it comes to mushroom hunting, they do it rain or shine. how do i know that? because of mitch. heaves the indiana jones of mushroom hunting. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> reporter: how long have you been hunting for mushrooms? >> five or six years now. >> reporter: how did you get

into it? >> i've always been interested in mushrooms. once i joined the club and was able to identify much better and having others there to help me out, you know, it just expanded from there. get the books out and learn as much as you can. >> reporter: and then head on into the woods. >> that's right. >> reporter: which is what we did. you don't have to go out far so let's go ahead and go on our mushroom hunt. we went over near the nature center. and let's talk about going on a hunt. what do you need to look for? what are the things to keep in mind? >> well, you know, mushrooms can be growing on the ground, on the wood. they're one of our primary decomposers to wreak down the trees and branches so you'll find them growing on fallen branches and things like that. some have an association, a partnership with the trees and so if you know what trees are in the area, you might know what kind of mushrooms could be growing there. >> reporter: do you usually find a single one or a group of mushrooms? >> it depends on the type of mushroom. sometimes they grow in clusters and sometimes they grow in little troops next to each

other. some grow like in giant clusters like this. >> reporter: right, right. when you're out, do you go in a big group, a small group? >> it depends on the day and the season. there are a couple of seasons that mushrooms come out, the moreels are only out in the spring so we might have a large group, 20 people to go. sometimes we'll get three or four. if it hasn't been raining and peop think it's going to be -- it's been dry so you may not find much, you may not see many people. >> reporter: so you want to go when it's moist out so you're happy to see the rain. >> definitely so. mushrooms are about 90% water. >> reporter: where are some good places to go mushroom hunting in our area. >> you can go in your own ckyard if you're lucky. some of the parks allow picking. check with the park management and make sure they're okay with it. the woods. you like going out into the woods because they decompose

the trees. >> reporter: they serve a purposor than just a good pizza topping. so let's talk about what you take with you when you go on a mushroom hunt. >> some people like to bring baskets. that way your mushrooms don't get too beat up when you're walking around. take paper bags. wrap them in wax paper. i like to have a small guide. >> reporter: this is a mushroom guide? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: oh, wow, look at that. lots of mushrooms in there. some people like to bring a whistle. >> reporter: what do you need a whistle for? >> in case you lose your place, blow your whistle and find some others that you're with. a compass if you know how to use one. >> reporter: and we want to stress again, you talked about some places you are allowed to pick, some places you're not allowed to pick. take a basic knife, cut at the base? >> that's right, yep. it's definitely good to have a knife. some like a little brush where you can clean them as you put them in the basket. >> reporter: but get permission, that's the key. and then if you really want to

a heartymushroom hunter, you need the walking stick. how long have you been hunting with that stick? >> i've had this one about a year and a half now. >> reporter: wow, that's a good one. myfoxdc.com is our website. thank you. it was my first official mushroom hunt. that i can talk about. no, just kidding. and we have a link to brookside gardens and a link to the mycological association of washington. what are we going to do next? cook themup in a wonderful dish because they have cooking classes here, did you know that? >> maybe saving the best for last. thank you very much. our 9:00 hour just around the corner, but we are far from done on this friday. new details on the alleged extortion plot against david letterman. >> fox news has an exclusive look at a search warrant in this case. the details of which caused letterman to fess up to the entire nation. more on that coming up next. 

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that's going to do it for the 8:00 hour. we have a lot more to go. time to turn things over to tony and allison for 9:00. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. here are some of the stories we're working on. talk show host david letterman makes a surprising on-air admission during his show last night. what he's confessing and why he's opening up now. plus startling details about a young woman held captive for nine months. elizabeth smart takes the stand to testify in the competency hearing of the man accused of kidnapping her. and the president and first ly make their pitches for the 2016 olympics to come to chicago. how did it go, what comes next? we're talking to a former d.c. olympic committee chairman. fox 5 morning news continues right now. good friday morning to you. it's october 2nd, a nice- looking day shaping up there right now. you can see it from a live piure at the capitol dome. we thank you for staying with

us. i'm allison seymour. >> and i'm tony perkins. more on the top stories in just a moment. first a look at some of the day's big talkers. just mention his name and politicians get nervous. michael moore is talking to us live this morning about his new movie "capitalism: a love story." >> imagine walking in on on unwanted house guest. now imagine she weighs hundreds of pounds, fur and clause. how one woman managed to fight ff a big ole bear with a pillow. and he is a music legged. peter yarrow of peter, paul and mary, joins us live to talk about the passing of mary travers and he'll perform for us as well. a whole lot going on. we want to start with some breaking news. an elementary school in prince george's county is on lockdown as police investigate a shooting. fox 5's matt acklunnd is on the scene with more. >> reporter: you might be able to see some of ose aeri