daughter sits in the back seat. we are live with the latest. a massive health care reform bill has been signed into law but the fight against it ramping up including a lawsuit filed by virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli. he will join us to explain why he thinks it is unconstitutional. a chiropractor claiming he was a team doctor for the washington capitals is arrested as part of a steroid ring. now, the team is speaking out. fox 5 morning news at #: -- at 7:00 starts right now. >> it is wednesday morning, march 24th. a little cool out there as well. it should be a nice day. it is wednesday morning. glad you are with us this morning. i'm steve chevey i can't i'm allison seymour. we'll check weather and traffic in just a moment. first, a look at what else is ahead this morning for you. washington wizards star gilbert arenas will be sentenced friday after pleading guilty to felony gun charges, this stemming from an incident in the wizards

locker room. ahead, how long prosecutors want arenas to go to jail for plus a closer look at what he faces next when we talk with the former federal prosecutor. also ahead, idol's top 11 will become the top 10 tonight. first, our panel of judges will weigh in with their thoughts on who should head home in idol chatter. >> i'm sorry? >> paige. >> we'll hear allison's pick coming up. new rules about gift cards designed to protect you. and scheme at the atm that could cost you thousands. it is now one minute after 7:00. let's check in with tony perkins and get a look at the forecast. it will warm up today. >> yeah, it will. it's cool start toot day. temperature in the 40s and low 50s across the region. that is not bad. we will see the temperatures warm up. yesterday, we topped out at about 54 degrees. we'll add about 10 degrees to

that for our total today. currently, it is 50 degrees in washington. in baltimore, it is 45. dulles airport, 48 degrees. ocean city, 47. and in winchester, 48 degrees at this hour. here is a look at the satellite- radar. wave got mainly bright skies out there. not much in the way of cloud cover. there is a little bit of haze as steve mentioned. but for the most part, things are clear. ments a bit breezy and will continue to be through a good part of the day. here is your forecast then for today. lots of sunshine, warmer temperatures this afternoon. highs above normal about 64 degrees. those winds could gust up to about 20 miles per hour. that is the latest on the weather. now, we get an update on this were morning's rush hour traffic. for that, we go to julie wright. >> all right. been busy out there the freeway. that is where we had the crash westbound before you reach sixth and seventh streets southwest. center of the road is what is locked right now. that is what is tying up your commute coming inbound off south capital street and the suitland parkway.

295 coming across the 11th street bridge, it remains bumper to bumper slow across to sixth and seventh streets southwest. we have delays coming out of the the third street tunnel. crew in sky fox, they are with us checking out your ride on the beltway north of 66 but before you reach route 7. that is where we had the accident activity with only the left lane getting through. if you are traveling off the inner loop, you will found delays leaving braddock road heading up towards 66. eastbound 66 traffic now slow as you work your way in from manassas head over towards centreville. 7100 to 123 and before you reach nutley street trying to merge onto 495. the accident activity was tying up all but the left side of the road headed up towards tyson's. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. our big story this morning, something commuters should know about today and keep in the back of their minds when gridlock gets to them. >> a frightening case of rush hour road rage on i-95. we are talking about a car and dump truck going at it with one

driver allegedly pull august gun while his daughter was in the back seat. sarah simmons is live in woodbridge with this story. scary stuff out there. >> a very disturbing story. >> reporter: this happened, started at about the mile marker 159 which is another direction from here, not too far from here and they traveled several miles south on interstate 95. police are telling us this all started about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. they tell us that a dump truck was merging onto southbound 95 from route 123 when it encountered a jaguar. some aggressive driving happened between the two, police tell us, and they drove about a mile down the road and the two drivers pulled off to the side of the tratd. police say the driver of the jaguar, 25-year-old gabriel potentude of woodbridge, got oust car and started firing at the dump truck. the dump truck then allegedly pulled off into traffic and was hit by four of the 1 rounds that police say were fired by the jaguar driver.

the two vehicles continued south until a virginia state trooper ended up pulling both of them over. surprisingly, out of all of this, no one was injured. the jag we are driver's 2-year- old daughter was in the car during the entire ordeal. he is facing several charges right now including child endangerment also attempted homicide and a couple of other charges involving a firearm. the dump truck driver has been charged with reckless driving. now, police want to get the word out there about some tips in order to avoid a road rage situation if you are out there. they are encouraging people just to get out of the way, not to try to engage and challenge an aggressive driver. they all tell people to avoid contact and ignore any rude gestures. also, they encourageeople not to block the passing lanes in case somebody is wanting to get around. if you ardriving slower than traffic, they encourage you to get over. they want people report any problems with aggressive drivers by calling pound 77 in

order to report them. at this point though, charges, of course, are being -- the driver of the jaguar is still facing charges as well as the dump truck driver but police say this is still currentl under investigation as well. we're live here on interstate 95. sarah simmons, fox 5 news. back to you. >> thank you. other stories making local headlines this morning. police on the hunt for a person who opened fire in adams morgan last night. the shooting on kalorama road sent one man to the road. no suspect at thispoint. in prince george's county, police looking for suspects in a deadly shooting there. a man shot and killed just before 1:00 this morning on capital heights boulevard near guenther steet. students in northwest say they feel like targets after a series of break-ins. the most recent yesterday morning on 36th street in georgetown. a student woke up and found four men in her bedroom. in three break-ins in just the past week, crooks have taken tvs, ipods, computers and social security cards. they've targeted mostly off-

campus housing and they've said to have been moving pretty quickly. >> it was a shock. i heard one of roommates went to bed at 4:00 and he woke up at 7:00 and everything was gone, tir tv, their playstation, their ipods, their laptops. >> i think i think a lot of students haven't been practicing the right kind of safety. a lot of it we hear is unlocked doors, things left unattended. that is just a way to get yourself burglarized. >> howard university, one student woke up to find masked men in her home threatening her with golf clubs, knives, bricks. police don't think the georgetown and howard incidents are linked though. luckily, no one has been hurt so far. just one day after signing the landmark health care reform bill, president obama will lend his signature to an executive order restricting federal dollars for abortion. it is what whitehouse's way to apiece anti-abortion lawmakers. federal money can't be used for the procedure except in cases

of rape, incest or when i woman's life is danger. here is the president signing the health care overall into law inside a packed east room in the white house. the senate still has to approve the fix-it bill which eliminates special deals for individual states an increases subsidies to make insurance more affordable. democrats say it will improve the health care law but republicans are promising to change or delay the bill in the senate. >> while the senate still has a last round of improvements and these are improvements i am confident they will make swiftly. >> we will offer substantive amendments an hopefully some will pass. it took just minutes for more than a dozen states including virginia's attorney general to file lawsuits. they claim in part that the health care bill is constitutionally questionable mainly because it mandates people get insurance arrest pay a fine or a tax. the lawsuit filed in virginia not sitting well with some residents including those without insurance. >> we're in a big budget crisis

in virginia now and this is going to cost money. >> they have overreceive reached their power under the constitution in this bill and therefore, while usually a federal law trumps a state law, virginiaance law should actually trump the federal law in this case. >> legal experts say the lawsuits filed by attorneys general from 14 states don't have much of a chance of succeeding large by because under the constitution, federals laws do often trump state laws. other attorneys general may join the lawsuit later or sue separately. coming up at 7:40, we will talk live with the virginia attorney general on the lawsuit. a chiropractor with ties to the washington capitals has been northward a steroid ring. dr.douglas nagel is not the team chiropractor but has taken care of some players. one. shuts in the sister reid i think that was busted up in florida last year claims he provided steroids to dr. nagel. investigators say there is no

proof that the doctor gave the drugs to any professional athletes. the capitals have releesd a statement which reads the washington want talz are not the target of this investigation. we are satisfied that law enforcement, the nh lpt and our own internal investigation have not led to any links of steroid use by capital players. the doctor is not the team chiropractor but he has seen? of our play forces standard routine kiro track tick services. at no time in our histories have a capitalels player ever tested positive. wash wizards star gilbert arenas is set to be sentenced friday on his felony gun charge. prosecutors say a lack of remorse, his guilty plea and an inconsistent story is enough to put arenas behind bars for three months. butt judge could sentence him to up to five years. arenas admits bringing four guns to the verizon center locker room in december after a heated argument with a teammate. both were suspended for the season. coming up in just a few

minutes, we'll take a closer look at his sentencing when we talk with a former federal prosecutor. also coming up being what is behind a population boom in the d.c. region. toyota telling dealers what to do if car owners don't like their gas pedal fix. a live look outside now. we'll get the latest weather and traffic. it is all next.

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welcome back. a look at the forecast once again. >> there is a promise of a little warmer weather, did i hear that? >> yeah. i think today will be about 10 degrees warmer than we were yesterday. >> oh, good. >> yesterday, a little bit below normal. today will be above normal. not bad. >> isn't that how life is. >> yes, it all balances out.

>> just hang on. >> reagan national airport, our temperature remains 50 degrees. relative humidity, a comfortable 54%. the winds at this moment are calm at reagan national airport. we have seen them gusting earlier. barometric pressure is on the rise. he is a look at the temperatures around country. in the eastern u.s., it is a mixed bag. we are at 50. elwhere it isin the 40s. 42 in raleigh and in boston. even the 30s, 39 in cincinnati. 35 in detroit. across the plains states, there is some warmer air in place down to the south. dallas is at 60 degrees this morning. and across the mountain states, check out denver, 27 degrees. we showed video early early, parts of denver have gotten about 16 inches of snow, are expecting up to 16-inch of his snow today so they're not done with wintertime yet there. there is your satellite-radar picture. can you see that snow in colorado. some rain moving across the plains. things are quiet here. forecast for today and the next fivedays, high temperature today about 64 degrees.

lots of sunshine. a little bit breezy though. tomorrow, not bad but clouds build in during the course of the day tomorrow. high 65. we'll get some rain showers in the later part of the day. i think tomorrow night. friday looks to be fairly wet. 50 and the weekend will be cooler. sunshine but temperatures in the 50s. your daytime temperatures in the 50s. that is a look at the weather. more is coming up in just a little bit. >> when you see today is going to be the nicest day if a while, you want to take advantage of it. that is what i like about the five-day forecast. you won't feel like you missed out tomorrow when it is cooler. >> good morning, julie. >> that is why you got to step outside the box and rock the red tonight. it will be red-hot for tomorrow. steve, are you going to the game tonight? >> i had tickets but imheading out of town instead. so you let me mow how it goes. >> he is a jet setter. you can't try to pin him down. >> get it, get it, he's fly. that is my one tony perkins joke today. all right, guys. it has been nothing but awe

laugh are matter out on the roads today. we've hay share of problems, inner loop of the beltway as you approach 66 and head nohbound up towards route 7. we had an accident there. it is clear but delays are stacking up from the robinson terminal headed up to the west side. robinson terminal headed up towards tyson's, eastbound 66 one continuous delay from 7100 trying to merge onto northbound 495 and head up towards that accident scene. if you are traveling on the outer loop, lane are open from 270 head back down towards tyson's. downtown, the trouble is an accident westbound on the freeway before sixing and seventh streets. two lanes get by to the left. that is what is tying up your ride off the south capital street. 295, the 11th street bridge and inbound pennsylvania coming in off the sousa bridge. this is the crash southbound georgia avenue before you reach connecticut avenue. accident activity along the right side of the road. that is jamming up your ride coming inbound along georgia avenue. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic.

prosecutors say the wizards star lack of remorse and a gullety plea enough to put him behind bars for up to three months but he could face up to five years. we join you had by former federal prosecutor jake -- jacob frankle. such a big difference between the three months and the five years that the judge could give. what all comes into play when it come to deciding. >> even the zero that the defense is asking for. it really is from zero to five is the poteial here. what the judge has to do is look at all the factors. i think what it is really going to boil down to is gilbert arenas is a public figure and regardless of what anyone believes would be the individually believes would be the most appropriate sentence, what everybody has argued for, what the judge is going to take into account is the fact that every basketball fan, every kid on the street would wants to be a professional athlete is going

to hear what sentence was imposed. and if the judge follows the defense recommendation of no jail, it is essentially going to be a message that it is open season. if you are a professional athlete, it is okay to run around and flaunt guns. so i think, because of that, because of the public profile that attaches to this case, the judge will impose a period of incarceration. now, in terms of how long, what you have is the government agreed in the plea agreement with mr. arenas through his counsel to recommend nothing more than the minimum under what are called the sentencing guidelines that would apply. so the government agreed they would not argue for more than six months in jail. but the judge can go anywhere from zero to five years. when you read the sentencing memorandum that the government set out, they basically said, he didn't really accept responsibility beingively.

this was dangerous conduct. there is a lot of information in that sentencing memorandum for the judge to say, defense may have argued for zero. the government is saying three. i think the message that needs to be sent as the judge is far more substantial than the three months. >> does that create a bit of of a conflict then if a prosecutor ends up putting out the memorandum that lists these problems that are there but tells mr. aras and we're really only going to push for three months here but we're going to make sure we list all of these other things including showing no remorse to the judge. does that say we'll bush for three months but keep all these other things in mind? >> that is a great question. it highlights how that entire process works. the june is entitled to consider all the facts even though the guilty plea was to one count of carrying a pistol without a license. the fact that the judge is entitled to and is pretty much

charged with looking at the corks that go into the conducted that underlies the guilty plea. that is really what the judge is going to do. i think the other thing that is interesting dynamically is no matter what sentence the judge imposes, you could go it a different judge and n. that same courthouse and a different judge could impose a different sentence for the exact same facts. >> the flexibility that the judge has there. you know, one of the things that got a lot of attention after this happened, we saw the photos of gilbert pointing and make the gun poses with his fingers, kind of led to the thought of him joking around, not taking it seriously. does that hurt him whether it comes to this? can the judge look at that in the sentencing? >> not only can the judge lo at that, the government addressed that in the defense memorandum and the defense tried to plain t i think the defense did a very good job in its memorandum to the court trying to explain the personality quirks or issues

that really figure into how gilbert arenas was conducting himself. but it really comes back to where we started in terms of the judge looking at how effect that gilbert arenas does and did is really subject to this high level of public scrutiny. so so too will that sentence fall in that review. >> i know you are not a judge and as we wrap things up, you said any judge could impose any sentence but knowing what you know about judges as a former federal prosecutor, what do you think? do you think he'll get the three months? >> i really do think it will be more than three months. i would be surprised if it is as few as three months because i think the youngs would recognize that even three months would come across as too soft a slap on the wrist. there is really no way of actually predicting what it is going to be. i'm confident that there will be a term of incarceration imposed. i do think it will be more than three months. how much more betwe say three and 4, it is hard to tell you about it could be i great day for gilbert arenas as well

mentd it could be as few a three, as little as zero. >> we'll find out on friday. thank you for joining us. appreciate the insight this morning. also coming up, claims after cover-up soaked with the massive recalls made by toyota. the latest trouble to the automaker plus a new option for owners of recalled vehicles next. and ahead, idol's top 11 becomes the top ten tonight. our panel of jumps weighing in during idol chatter later this morning. holly checking out the talent at the duke ellington school of arts in northwest and she has more on the d.c. tap festival in 30 minutes. 

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as the 48 degrees at this hour. our winds have been a little bit gusty. right now, things are calm in the district but we have seen winds gusting up to around 20 miles per hour or more. 2-mile per hour wind gusts recorded during the last hour in manassas. 18-mile per hour wind gusts in gaithersburg. 25 in martinsburg but again, in washington, at the moment, things are calm. i do think it will be a rather breezy day for the bulk of the day today. here is a look at the satellite- radar composite for our region. we've got mostly clear skies. we showed you that brilliant picture outside. there is some cloud cover up to the north. ling aring precipitation in upper new england. much of that in the form of snow. forecast for us for today does not include any snow or anything like it. let me show you the surface map and show you why. high pressure in control. a sunny day and again, our next weather event really not until tomorrow. you get some clouds moving in here thursday afternoon and some precipitation gets close by tomorrow night. i think some of our viewers will start to see some showers

move in then. so the forecast for washington for today, sunny skies, warmer temperatures, still breezy. high though about 64 degrees. not bad at all. five-day forecast, we'll show you after tonight, clear skies, quite cool, 43 degrees. your five-day forecast, tomorrow, not bad, the clouds start to build in. rain showers develop at night. friday looks to be a cool, rainy day. saturday and sunday, good amount of sunshine but cooler temperatures. that is what is happening with the weather. now, let's get an update on traffic where julie wright jay lot happening right now downtown. >> that is where we had the crash westbound on the freeway. before you reach maine avenue. the activity cleared but delays are stacking up coming inbound. 295 jammed from the beltway headed uto the air force base. now, pennsylvania avenue delays wig one pran. avenue across the anacostia and coming across the sue bridge. we also have reports of slow traffic coming out of the third

street tunnel to merge on to the west freeway. inner loop blast, accident activity at richey marlboro road tying up another right side of the highway. not other long ago, we would a crash on the beltway before route 7 in tyson's. that accident activity is cleared. this is what you are left with. big delays from the springfield interchange trying to get past braddock road past tysons corner awful good seven to eight-mile backup on the west side of town as you travel 495. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. with health care reform now signed into law, democrats are celebrating but most republicans vowing that is there plenty of fight ahead. joining us now with a political look at awful this, the stories of the day, democratic political strategisteter fib, good morning and republican political straft james lee witt jim innocenzi. good morning. >> good morning. >> you got to be tired. this has been a long road. i feel like i've been on the

floor of house with this whole thing. let me start with you, peter. what have you been feeling? >> i think there is a great sense of relief, a sense of relief that jim and i don't have to talk about this every single week. >> exactly. >> i think this is monumental. this is huge for the country. i went back and looked at the impact of medicare when it was passed and -- >> read your article. >> peter has written a series of articles on the history an where we are now. can you find them? >> the hill pundits blog and also the political areason actual the thing that surprised me was that 35% of senior citizens lived in poverty in 1959. by 1970,s that juan do to 20%. it is now down to 10% as of 2000. we will see i think and there is an arm today in the paper in the times, a a real change in the way americans live because of this. and look, are there kinks that

have to be worked out? are there things that will be changed in this as the years go by? yes. it is huge, it is big. it is important. >> jim, i'm going to get to you right in just a second. i want to being you about a major sticking point that we are hearing a lot. and that is the medicare is going to take a hit because of this. can you explain this once and for all for us? you know, somebody said it me, don't we already have medicare. isn't that what this would do? >> i am in the the greatest policy wonk on some of this. it is abot $500 billion that we are talking about here over the course of over 10 years. but what they are trying to do is control the cost. and to make sure that the medicare costs don't continue to go upgo through the roof. so this is an effort to save money on medicare. there is a lot of -- as everybody knows ache lot of fraud abuse about people

filing. hmos filing for reimbursement when there was nothing to reimburse for. this is a big effort to kind of get that under control. >> now, i'm going to let you weigh in. just a reaction to what is happening. where does the party go from here as far as trying to get some amendments passed in this thing. >> i think this the short term, i think this is good news for the republicans in some ways. they now allow to amend the pill and make some changes the way they should have been able to do a long time ago. we've been watching this for the last year. it has been a fight among the democrats. republicans haven't been allowed it participate. now, what we're going to see are some changes. short term or long term, depending on how you look at it, the november elect will play out what america really thinks about the health care reform. i think in this case, all the national polls are showing that the democrats are in a lot of trouble. peter said this. they were in a rock and a hard place if they don't pass this, the basic stit weansy is upset.

if they pass this, america is upset. they passed it. america is upset. we'll see what happens in the next six, seven months and something like that. i think right now they are in a hole. we'll see what happens. i don't think it is good news for the democrats. >> but i think, if it had be defeated, it would have been terrible. i think there would be have been a bloodbath for the democrats. i mean you're going to lose some seats but here is one thing i think is interesting. we may end up talking about this for several months but the latest gallup poll shows that by a marriage inof eight points, people are glad this thing passed. that is very incident rhetting right after. maybe some euphoria. but i think one of the things that is going to be shown to be untrue is the continuous pushing by boehner and others that the public hates this, that they don't want it, that this is terrible. there is a small group of very vocal people that don't like it. but most of these polls are fairly, even some of the folk that don't like, it we talked

about this before don't like it because itis not liberal enough. >> jim? >> most of the people in america, peter, are against this thing. there was some euphoria. but just because some people are against it doesn't mean it is a small inner on the. remember when the a rack war, all those people that were against it, was that a small minority? there are an awful lot the independent voters that don't like this legislation. you see it in every poll. there are this much in the poll that say they are against it. and maybe these polls that say they are for it. >> and one thing that is key is this administration, member of congress will have to sell this thing. they will have to pointed out the specifics in this bill when they go through the polls being especially the kaiser poll, they like this. they like the fact that they can't be denied health care because of preexisting conditions. they like the fact they can't get kicked off health care. >> they don't like the fact

that there is a a $500 billion tax increase in there. they don't like the fact that there are $500 billion in cuts we'll have that debate. >> we are going to have that debate. >> we'll tk about $138 billion off the deficit. >> yeah, right. >> this is going to be an ongoing debate and probably will be for on going for years. >> let's talk about joe biden. lets take a look to end it on a lighter note here. >> this is a big [bleep] deal. >> president obama saying oh, okay, joe. >> if you didn't hear about all this, that is the vice president joe biden saying this is a big blanking deal.

what is going on? >> there is i mike there, allison. >> i love joe. >> this isn't the first time he has done it. >> won't be the last either. >> that is exactly right. the guy has to wake up and grow up a little bit. he is the vice president of the united states. come o mr. vice president. you can say what whatever you want behind the closed doors. there is a microphone. shut up. >> let's leave it right there. thank you so much. >> we promise in later weeks, we'll be all one happy team, won't we? >> yes, with will. >> sure, we won't. >> virginia's attorney general ken cuccinelli has filed a lawsuit. this is what we have coming up claiming that health care reform is unconstitutional. mr.such neely will join us live coming up next. plus, don't miss this local teenager's inspiring story we'll take you inside his quest for cancer awareness. it is automatic coming up -- it is all coming up in our next hour. stay with us. mmmm

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history at the white house yesterday. ken cuccinelli has filed a lawsuit challenging the health care reform. the attorney general joins us now live from capitol hill this morning. good morning. good to see you once again. >> good morning. how are you? >> very well this morning. talk a little bit about your particular lawsuit that you filed on behalf of folks of virginia because we know that 13 attorneys general foiled a lawsuit together but you off thed t to be a part of that. why so? >> well, in virginia, this general general assembly session, republicans and democrats got together to pass a bill that we call our health care freedom act and what it did was protect virginia citizens from being forced into a health care mandate. so on a bipartisan basis, we passed a statute that we have to defend in virginia. we can't go to florida to defend a virginia statute. we are defending it in federal court in virginia and because

of federal law now, there is a conflict between those laws and normally the supremacy clause would have the feds winning that. but because we believe the law is you be constitutional, virginia's law should stand and federal law should fall. >> the constitutional question seems to be universal, whether it is in the lawsuit that you have filed or the ones that the other states have filed. will you approach that aspect of it the same way as far as what you believe is unconstitutional about this? >> we are focused narrowly on the commerce clause part of the constitutional debate here. and the reason is that is the basis aaccording to congress for their legislation and we are saying that they have gone beyond what the commerce clause allows. if you buy health insurance, that is an act in commerce. but if do you nothing, don't buy health insurance, there is no commerce. there is no effect on commerce and it is beyond the scope of

the commerce clause. that is the narrow focus of our case. if buying health insurance and not buying health insurancare both covered by the commerce clause, then there are no limits vier clail to the commerce clause power and surely the founding fathers wanted the constitution to impose some limit. >> is there a fear because of that and that commerce clause, do you worry that perhaps the government might enact further issues on the folk of virginia and try to stretch this beyond health care t some point? >> absolutely. health care is what we're talking about today. if they can order to you buy health insurance, what else can they order you to buy? can they order you to buy a chevy. they have a strict investment in chevy and they don't want you buying forces fords these days because they don't own any part of ford. the government motors, we have to support them too. a different example but hardly seems farfetched when they are trying to make people spend thousands of dollars a year by mandate or fining them, giving them penalties to buy health

insurance. >> i think the one issue that stands here that those obviously who don't agree with you would say is that the challenge is proving that and the challenge is getting this at least to the supreme court to make an argument there because there is not a lot of precedents set in this case or a case similar to this. >> no, there is no question there is not. i would suggest that the reason there isn't is the federal government has never tried such a massive overreach of power in this area in health care. they have never ordered americans to buy a product or service from others. and in fact, if you look at our complaint which is available on th attorney general's web site, we go back all the way to the first constitutional law case and just chase in that case said -- was talking about our form of government and said there are just some things can't do like ordering person a to buy something prosecute person b. that is 212 years old now and here we have our government ordering person a to buy from person b, in this case an insurance company. we don't think that is

constitutional. >> you certainly personally have got ain't lot of attention, a lot of success in your very short time on the job so far. you're continuing to gain more and more popularity. you are also conning to hear more and more from those who may not agree with what you are saying. what do you say to the argument where people say that what you are doing may fob your personal conviction but may not be the best thing to the eight million residents of virginia? >> my first obligation as an attorney general is to defend the constitution of the yait and virginia and that is what we are doing in this lawsuit, period. whether it is good policy or bad policy is a far distant second question to whether or not it is constitutional. and policy decisions are made through elections, constitutional decisions are made through courts although i will say the legislature and the president should have a role in that and they either think they are on the right side of constitution or they don't care. >> virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli, thank you for

joining us. keep us posted. >> my pleasure. will do. >> let's check in with holly morris. i little loud where you are. >> it is a little loud. forget about griggery hines because right now luke spring is on the stage. take it away, luke. he is a six-year-old tapping sensation and he is just one of many featured dancers that will take part in this week's second annual tapfest going on this weekend. we are giving you a preview and tell you how to sign up for a workshop yourself and maybe get a quarter as good as luke next on fox 5 morning news. stay with us. 

isn't that a pretty view this morning. it is wednesday morning. we are seeing some young artists as well this morning. >> d.c. tap festival this weekend going to bring together dancers of all ages and skill levels. >> holly is checking out some of the talent at the duke ellington school of arts. he is channeling sammy davis,

jr. as a child. >> when is the last time you saw something that cute and that impressive. totally amazing. he is not the only one that is extremely talented. there is not just a little bit of tap talent in the d.c. area. there is a plethora of talent and if you don't believe me, take a look at this. work it out, ladies.

that is just part of a special tribute to michael jackson that they will be doing this weekend but there is a whole lot going on whether it comes to the tapfest. the two women behind it are right here. this is maude and chloe arnold, the brains behind it all. sisters, totally amazing. what a difference a year makes. >> we were so thankful for last year, we had so many

wonderfully amazing talents from armed the world and featuring many of. the talents here in d.c. we have a second annual tap sfeft value featuring four generations of tap dancers from little luke all the way to dr. harold chromier who danced with duke ellington and will be performing here. >> for moment who want to take part, what is the best thing for them to do. there are a lot of different things. >> this try, we ki off feival right here at duke ellington school of the arts at 8:00 p.m. with our all-star concert. saturday and sunday, we have classes for all levels, all ages, beginners, please come on. we have history talks, panel discussions a jam session and a cutting contest which is a tap battle. it gets pretty intense. >> you guys say when civilization arts fleuranges under, souls flourish. what do you mean by that? >> i can say for us, we grew up here in washington, d.c. artists came here and inspired us and enabled us to have a

life that wave been able to share this art form globallily. just got back from shanghai and brazil. we have cancer coming here from tokyo, the netherlands. >> you are going to posm with live musicians here. we are rying to do our best to hoe it all off this morning. >> we have aaron clay from the mesa school and ben williams who is a world reknowned bass player and just got no, ma'am fated for a grammy and they are both duke ellington alums. >> all right. without further ado, take it away.

>> here what is you need to know if you want to be a part of the tapfest. tickets are $5 you can get them on-line. go to he myfoxdc.com. as far as the classes and workshops and all that and more, it is going on at d.c. dance collective at 4908 wisconsin avenue. that is saturday and sunday. so much to show, so little time. coming up in our next hour, we'll see if we can get a tap lesson sore two. i think it is fair to say i'm learning from some of the best. what do you think? >> you got a lot of instructors to choose from there. that looks great. following some breaking news involving a recall linked to the deaths of three babies. the details straight ahead at 8:00. we'll see you then. n ] you all right?

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dangerous case of road rage on one of the area's busiest roads. a truck allegedly hits a car twice. police say the car driver responds with gunfire. all the while his 2-year-old daughter sits in the back seat. >> plus, we'll take you inside

one local teenager's quest for cancer awareness with a basketball and a hoop. >> we're also on top of breaking news. more than a million slings that parents carry babies around in are recalled after a few deadly tragedies. first, it's wednesday morning, we're happy you're with us. >> seeing some blue skies out there this morning. >> a little bit of that haze on the horizon we talked about earlier, but other than that things look great outside. a little bit breezy, but other than that, not bad at all. our skies are mostly clear, as you can see here the cloud cover well to the north, well out to the south and west. we have predominantly clear skies this morning. today will be a sunny day. current temperatures at the airports, check i on those now. we've dropped down to 49

degrees now, 50 at dulles, 48 at bwi. your forecast, lots of sunshine, warmer temperatures this afternoon. today the mid 60s is what we're looking at. those winds could gust up to about 20 miles per hour. more coming up in just a little bit. we may have some sunshine delays out there this morning. we've got them on the inner loop. we also have them on the outer loop south of town, leaving van dorn street in the direction of the wilson bridge. looking better in germantown, we have these delays here. 29th jammed up as you make your way in from new hampshe avenue. here's that sunshine delay. if you're traveling the eastbound side of 66, we have the slow downs all the way in towards the capital beltway. the problem on the inner loop

was an earlier crash on route 7 in tyson. we still find delays on the inner loop from braddock road headed out towards tyson's corner. we're on top of some breaking news. a recall of a very popular baby sling. it involves more than one million sling riders. the slings, the consumer products safety commission says babies could suffocate in the soft fabric. parents are being urged to stop using them for babies under four months old. we've posted all the information on our website. gridlock can certainly push you over the edge, but is that reason enough to pull out a gun and start firing? >> that's what happened on i-95 yesterday. one man faces some serious charges. we have more on the story. >> reporter: a woodbridge man

faces some very serious charges. police say for pulling out a gun during a road ragens dent and started firing at a dump truck. this all started at mile marker 159 yesterday afternoon and traveled several miles south of here on interstate 95 where we are right now. police say that it happened just aft 4:00, during rush hour. there was a dump truck that was merging on to southbound 95 from route 123 when he encountered a jag wire. police are telling us that there was some sort of aggressive driving, something that happened between the two. police tell us that they traveled about a mile down the road where the two drivers then pulled over to the side of the interstate. police say the driver of the jaguar got out of the car and started firing at the dump truck. then the dump truck pulled off into traffic. at that time he was hit by 4 of the 13 rounds police say that

were fired from that gun. the two vehicles then continued south where a have have state trooper eventually pulled them over. nobody was injured during this, no other cars were even hit from those bullets, but police tell us that the man's 2-year- old daughter was in the car when all this all went down. he is facing several charges as well as child endangerment, also for attempted homicide and firing a weapon in this manner. the dump truck driver we understand is also being charged with reckless driving. still a lot of questions coming out of all this and police are continuing to investigate this morning. >> thank you. we're following some more breaking news, this time out of fairfax county. we're getting word of a murder that's happened in just the last hour. a person was shot and killed in

the 8400 block of orinda court. that's in the mount vernon section of the county. another big story we're following. health care reform, now the law of the land, but the battle that's been a part of the reform process has not ended. republicans trying to put democrats in a tight spot. doug brings us the latest now from capitol hill. >> reporter: the republicans are putting up some final roadblock. vice president joe biden was pretty coloul when he drove that point home. >> reporter: the white house had hoped that this would be the enduring image, signing health care reform, the culmination of the president's signature domestic priority, but it was joe biden who stole the spotlight. a little over the top maybe, but even republicans probably agree with biden, it is a big deal and they are still duking it out with democrats in the senate over the final details. >> i can't imagine why anybody

on the other side of the aisle would be against eliminating these sweetheart deals. >> reporter: republicans are trying to get democrats to make some uncomfortable votes as they offer up amend on amend -- amendment after amendment on the health care reform. democrats will have to -- and there there are any amendments approved by the senate, this last step starts all over again in the house. >> while the senate still has the last round of improvements to make on this his storage legislation, these are improvements i'm confident they'll make swiftly. >> reporter: the process is moving forward. the prospect of more debate didn't seem to dampen the president's victory lap. to add to the drama as expected yesterday, the first lawsuits were filed by a number of states saying it's unconstitutional for the government to force people to buy health insurance.

virginia among the 14 states to file lawsuits because of the mandates for people to get insurance or pay a fine or tax. virginia's attorney general talked about why he thinks the bill is conditionally questionable. >> in virginia, this gneral assembly session, republicans and democrats got together to pass a business that we call our health carefreedom act, what it did was protect virginia continues from being forced into a health care mandate. if they can order you to buy health insurance, what else can they order you to buy? can they order you to buy a chevy? they have an investment in chevy and they don't want you to buy fords these days because they don't own any part of ford. >> federal laws often trump state laws. our job of the day is coming up next. >> also going to break down last night's idol performances.

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are you looking for work? our job of the day is at alternative experts, inc. in bethesda. they are looking r an account manager. for more on had job and many others go to our website, you can find the tab near the top of the home page. let's check in for a look at our forecast today. >> the cuteness fact. >> let's start with that. officially it is called the my fox, my first five, yes, photo of the day. oh, wow. look at that. she's a baby elton john. i'm guessing this was last week when it was 74 and sunny. >> very cute.

and she has got a gorgeous, what are you pointing out there? that's cute, that's cool. ava out enjoying the nice weather last weekend. she is adorable. love the sunglasses. just send us your child's picture. >> i love this caberet version. it fits ava. >> here's what's happening right now. our temperature has gone down to 49 degrees, relative humidity has gone up to 59% but the winds remain calm in the district. elsewhere they're blowing around a little bit. we are at 49, rochester is at 33, dallas 61 degrees, san francisco 48 degrees. it's cold in denver, i think it's snowing there, too. here's your national map. it's snowing in denver, rain in the plains states, in our area,

mostly clear skies. going to be a nice day today. a little bit breezy. here's your forecast for today and next five days. high today about 64 degrees, sunshine, a little breezy. we could see some rain showers tomorrow night and certainly on friday the way things are shaping up right now. clouds cool, 50 degrees. saturday and sunday look to be dry with highs in the low to mid 50s. right now let's go to julie and get the latest on the morning rush hour traffic. >> i have a quick question for allison. to me last night, i'm just happy no one butchered a mariah or a whitney song. to me that's the highlight of the evening. >> it's not good if the highlight is that someone didn't butcher something. >> i wasn't feeling it. you know what i'm saying. >> neither am i. >> okay. on the roads we definitely have

sunshine delays. leaving 95 headed around towards greenbelt, southbound 27 out of rockville heavy and steady as you leave false road. even the local lanes are still below speed. we're going to find delays 95 to georgia avenue. 66 still having a tough go at it trying to work your way in towards the capital beltway. inbound stretch of the dulles toll road, crash reported just before you reach the >> hello. i didn't hear exactly what july di asked, but we're -- what julie asked, but we'll get back to her later. what is going on this year? good morning. >> good morning. >> and our morning man, do you have the fanny pack on? >> i do not have that this

morning. i thought the fanny pack has come back in style because of marsupials and i just refuse to wear one. >> i just wanted to give you a hard time on that. okay, why? >> worst american idol performance show i think phaps in the history. >> what's going on? >> everybody is trying stay under the radar, a few too many balance adds. i actually give lee credit for coming out and doing, the letter, the original song is 1:52 seconds. they give them two and a half minutes to perform. he actually had to stretch the song. >> i thought he was good last night. >> one of the better ones last night. i don't know what's going on with idol this season. i have connected with no one. i'm looking, i'm searching. >> well, let's start with crystal bowers first, because crystal's always good, but still the connection. singing janice job lien. >> of course, she was.

>> i mean the girl can sing. >> i love her. i think she's the only artist on the show or artist if you will, i expected the janice to come, i got to be honest with you. this is part popularity contest, part talent contest and i think she's tremendous. i just love this girl. but next week when when he do billboard number one hits she better choose a beatles or a chicago, something rock based, because she is pigeon holing herself. >> i'd like to see her put the guitar down, like the artist did last night. she needs to be challenged a little bit. staying power, i just don't see it. >> melissa etheridge, bonnie raitt would be safe for her next week. they're great artist, but not for the young voters on american idol. >> how about miley cyrus?

>> you know what, everybody was giving her the card like hannah montana. she was good. >> i thought she executed well. >> i thought she looked like a star. >> you know she's one of the wealthiest young tist, in fact she's the relettiest young artist recording today. her advice was dead on to a lot of the contestant. >> here is young aaron kelly. >> okay, he's going, and i don't want to miss a thing. >> what did he have? laryngitis or whatever. >> he rose to the occasion. >> he is listening to the judges and he's executing on a better level now, and he has the nerve last night to have a little flag there. >> you know he did. >> he did. he tried. he tried.

>> i love your -- he wasn't dancing. it's called restless leg syndrome, that's what he was suffering from, i guarantee you. >> this one is also i think a ringer. superstition. ♪ very superstition >> i thought she looked good. >> what did you think? >> she was one of the better contestants last night, and when it comes to that marketing they think that i look for in the artist, she gave it to me last night. >> she's a dark horse cotestant. and that's one of the reasons i think she is unique, i think she is appealing. i think you remember her. a lot of the performances last night were forgettable for good and bad reasons. some of them were okay performances, they weren't special. >> could you forget tim urban

sliding across? >> the only reason urban is on the show is because of the young girl vote. he has improved, but come on, tim urban. >> i wanted to slide right off the stage. >> he almost did. we got to move into the bad now. >> your guy, al. >> i don't think it's working anymore. >> the end of the sentence was all dang, dang, i hated it. >> i still want to psh his glasses up on his nose, his glasses are sliding off. no mass, no mass. >> what song can he sing? jose feliciano. that's what his voice reminds me of. >> that would be in his wheelhouse because of the quality and texture of his

voice. >> he just, he is like the anomaly, he's like he's -- >> whati want andrew to do is stay acoustic. something about him that gives you an intimate feeling. then last night, marvin gaye, grapevine, he was just like a raisin with legs. rememberthe california raisin commercial, that would be him. >> let's end with what's going on with page? page miles. >> i didn't understand, it was like, it's like me singing trying to find t note and i couldn't find it and she couldn't find it. >> she couldn't. >> and she won't. >> she with some supports and vocal training may one day be a star. she's a lovely young women, our popularity contest, she's getting the teenybopper vote.

we're knocking better performers off the show. i love ellen, i love ellen's television show, i think ellen is a wonderful entertainer, b it was a problem for me her just saying you were pretty tonight, then deferring to the judges to give her the bad news. if you're going to be a judge on the show, ellen, you got to pony up a decision. >> attractive, i'll give her that everything else, it's not working. i don't know who her sponsor is, what's going on, stop it. >> please come back here. because we didn't mention just -- >> now, who is going home, marcus? >> no, come on, marcus. >> you know my girl, eight. by the way, i'm sorry, i commuted this morning from paris, that's france. >> i was wondering if you were going to get back. >> right in the corner. >> bye-bye, page.

>> yeah. >> page has got to go home. >> we'll find out tonight at 9:00. joe. >> on fox late night. >> nice job getting here. >> we'll see you next week. back to you. >> thanks so very much. coming up, are you headed to ben's chili bowl? pretty soon there will be a mack for that. we'll explain coming after the break. 

welcome back. taking a live look at traffic on the dulles toll road. many of those cars coming in from loudoun county. loudon is number five on the list of the fastest growing counties. in fact, it leads the population boom in the d.c. region. our area has picked up 163,000 new residents in the past two

years. analysts say that they're coming looking for jobs because the d.c. area continues to have a relatively low unemployment number. the greater washington area now boasts nearly 5.5 million people. soon there be an app for one of d.c.'s favorite restaurants. the washington post reports ben's is working with apple to create the application. starting next month the restaurant will ask for the public's help in designing the app. we are cashing in on a new coin. the director of the u.s. minute will join us just ahead to comment on the latest quarter. cashing in on a virtual economy. how people are making real money on a pretend life in cyberspace.

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the cast of glee will perform at the easter egg roll

next month. cast members say they're looking forward to spending time with the first family. >> easter eggs? >> yes! >> hundreds of those students will get to go for the annual easter egg roll. 1200 students will get the hottest ticket in town. principa will pick which students get to go. >> you've got to be a student. >> looks like fun. >> does look like fun. >> hopefully have good weather for it. >> i hope so. it's hard to tell. >> today would be perfect. it's beautiful outside. sunshine is back. we have warmer temperatures on the way pore the next couple of days. today will be nice, one of those spring afternoons where our temperatures will reach the mid 60s. it is a little cool out there because our winds are still blowing out of the north northwest. but not a bad start.

54 in annapolis, 46 in leonardtown, a little cooler here in fredericksburg. we have a cool start. bright sunshine throughout the day today, quiet weather over the next couple of days. looks like a nice forecast again, more spring-like today than yesterday. 21 in manassas, winds got going yesterday afternoon. we've still been dealing with some winds overnight. it will be a little breezy at times out there today. i think our winds will start to really let up during the late afternoon, but the next couple of hours things will be on the breezy side. look at that, clear skies across the washington area. very impressive torm system, there it is cranking up to the north and east of boston, but another very impressive area of low pressure for the month of march along the east coast. we have very quiet weather for the next day and a half. notice the clouds out to the

west, out towards chicago. that's a cold front. we'll watch an area of low pressure give us some rain along that cold fnt. friday doesn't look like a great day at this hour. 64, sunny skies, warmer temperatures. the breezes, they'll be gusting to about 20 miles per hour. most of tomorrow should be fine. friday, that's a gloomy one, friday's high 50 with the rain showers. the weekend looks dry but cool. this weekend in the low to mid 50s. we'll take with a we can get. that's the forecast. back to you at the desk. the u.s. mint putting the nation's most beautiful sights right in the palm of your hand by releasing 56 quarters featuring desof parks and other national sites. joining us now from the museum, the director of the u.s. mint, ed moya, thanks for being with

us is morning. >> great to be with you. >> this comes on the heels of the very popular u.s. states quarters programs which has to be one of the most collectible coin series the mint has put out. >> 147 million americans were collecting state quarters. but more importantly, a whole generation of children learned about geography and state history. so congress authorized the mint to come up with a this new program celebrating america's parks and historic sites. >> tell us a little about that and what we're going to see. i think you're going to unveil these kind of like you did with the states, a few at a time. >> yes, it will be an 11 year journey, we'll visit 56 iconic national parks and sites, it will start in april with hot springs, arkansas, and will end in 2021 with the toc kiki air men historical sites. >> are we going to see anything relative to here in the d.c.

maryland virginia area? >> sure, i'm sure your viewers want a little nique peek at what's going to happen in this area. >> of course. >> that will be for washington d.c., the frederick douglas national histic site and for those viewers in virginia it will be shenandoah national park, for those in maryland it will be fort mchenry. >> it's great to see the local area represented. what was the process like to try to decide how many were going to make it on to the backs of the coins? >> this is a very collaborative effort where we got recommendations from the governor of each state, bth the departments of agriculture and department of the interior working with treasury and the mint. we ended up selecting those sites that were iconic and could be done well on a coin. >> is there a way they can bu mint sets of these or get their hands on them that way? >> yes, for most people they'll be able to get it the same way they got the 50 state quarters which is look through your pocket change or you can go to

a local bank and ask for them, but if you want collectors versions of these you can go to the u.s. mint website or if you want more information, go to america the beautiful quarters.gov. >> we'll put some links on our website as well. can you talk about the five that are coming out first? >> the first five will be hot springs, yellowstone, yosemite, the grand canyon and mount hood. all magnificent. going to be great sites. before we let you go, do you think just because of the success you had with the states and the success you're having here, is this kind of changing the face as to how we look at coinage and money here in the u.s.? might we see other learning experiences and great sites depicted or great people depicted on coins in the future? >> there's no question that the primary purpose behind coins is for commerce, but there's a strong secondary benefit and that is it can be used for

educational purposes, particularly to remind americans of what their values are and reconnect americans with some of the great things in our country. >> i think you'll do just that with this new series. thank you for joining us this morning. >> you're welcome, steve. good to be with you. >> we're going to put that information on our website. that's the mint director. coming up, keeping your calories in check, going to be a little easier when you eat out. we'll explain. also, why not earn some money for all that time that you spend online? maybe they seem like games, but for some savvy web surfers there's ways it make some real cash.

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more than 200,000 chain restaurants to put calorie counts on the menu. the provision applies to any restaurants with 20 or more locations. he's just 13 years old and he's battling a brain tumor. >> but this local teenager isn't letting it slow him down. we're going to share his great story. >> good morning. we are sharing great talent this morning. we are live at duke ellington school of performing arts. we're getting a preview of the second annual, coming up we'll talk all about the show you don't want to miss. and workshops you can sign up for.

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every day 13-year-old justin freedlander finds a way to stay positive, despite the fact he has an inoperable brain tumor. we have more on just how justin uses his love of sports to make

a difference. >> official representative jersey of our team. >> reporter: this is justin, his favorite sports are basketball and soccer. he's good at both. >> pull it, pull it. >> reporter: today he met with members of the maryland soccer team andtheir coaches, a great day for a young boy who had to learn way too early that no day is guaranteed. >> going upstairs and i was sitting on my mom's lap and she was crying. i'm like what's wrong, mom? she said i have a brain tumor. and i was just so worried, but my dad said it would be fine. i wanted to go ahead and help on awareness and help fiend a cure for brain tumors. >> reporter: what freelander is going through is alet. in march of last year he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor which sits on his optic nerve. any type of surgery would

almost certainly result in blindness. i does not affect his day it day life saveor the fact that most 13-year-olds don't have to worry about their own mortality. >> when we told him that he had a brain tumor, he asked me point blank, daddy, why did god give this to me, and i thought to myself for a split second. said, listen, god gave you this brain tumor because he knows you're going to beat it and you're going to make a difference. >> reporter: justin is making a difference, by shooting hoops. 40,000 hoops. the number of people in the united states diagnosed with a brain tumor ea year. he also has his own website which tracks his progress. it's called justin's quest.com. >> i just want to go help other people and whoever gets diagnosed with a brain tumor, you know it's going to be difficult for the first couple weeks, but then you're going to understand that you want to help everybody else who has a brain tumor. it feels really good.

thursday justin and his family will travel to the cancer center in new york, he'll undergo another mri. they're hoping to put off treatment and surgery until they can find a cure that does not affect his quality of life. today holly puts her dancing shoes on as tap dancers are getting ready for the tap festival this weekend. what's up next? >> well, we've got a whole lot more talent to showcase here this morning. right now you're watching what's called a cutting competition. kind of imagine street fighting if you will, only the weapon of choice here are your feet and the skills that you have when it comes to tapping. you can really see the dancers personalities coming out and really is a whole lot of fun. the competition just one of many things going on this season as part of d.c. tapfest. the second annual, nancy newel is standing with me, she's the brains behind d.c. dance collective. it's good to see you. >> good to see you.

>> if you weren't talking to me, i know you'd be tearing it up out there. >> absolutely. >> how long have you been dancing ? >> i'm going to be 6509 the end of april. i started teaching when i was 12. >> good for you. you are proof that it keeps you young, fit and alive. >> i'm either in a rut or i'm incredibly stable. >> when you talk about tapfest, what do you think the message is about this artform? >> it's an american artform like american jazz. it's something that anybody can do. the tap festival, we have tap shoes, there's nothing to scare anybody. and i've been telling my students if that they're going tosee one -- if they're going to see one tap show in their lives, they should come to duke ellington. this may be some of the best tap dancers in history. >> that says a lot. you know i'm not scared. i'm a beginner. >> go do it, holly. >> i'm going to get right in the circumstance is he will.

no, but i will tell you the guy you're looking at, he was in the original company of bring in the noise, bring in the funk. ladies, it's our favorite tap sisters, maude and chloe. so we're going to do a little lesson. >> yes. >> because the last time i had a lesson. >> yes, you did. >> was last year when i did the tap-fest. >> and you were awesome. >> what are we doing again? >> we're going do an excerpt from this traditional tenally dance. >> the key to being good at this no matter the level? >> is to have fun. >> that i can do, sister. and i have even more fun when i have this sweet sensation standing next to me. luke, i'm going to kind of watch you and see if i can learn from you, too, okay? a slight nod of the head there. >> here we go. >> shuffle step, shuffle, everybody try it with us. shuffle step. again. shuffle step, shuffle step,

shuffle -- he's a pro. shuffle step, shuffle step. >> now we take to the break. >> step, toe, toe, toe, hop toe, now we take it to the side. a little hip action. looking good. this could be you. >> go ahead, holly. >> so much fun. >> now to the break. >> here we go. and. okay, so luke is like, i'm so over this. just tell me a little something, luke, just real quickly. do something real fast. >> this was unplanned, by the way. luke didn't know he was going to do this right now. i just had to show him yet again. improve is one of his things he's best at. now, i want you to look at luke. i want to bring in jason, because jason jamming, let me tell you a little about jason.

get jason going here. jason is 28 years old. he didn't start tapping until he was 14 and he's just back from taiwan, france, russia, germany, that's just a few of the places he has tapped as of late. now he's tapping for us. so let's watch. and learn. >> i tell you, i love all forms of dance, but tapping is just so cool. so much fun. so here's what you need to now. if you want to come out to the show on friday, at the duke ellington school of the arts, show time is 8:00, tickets are

$25. you can get them online, we have a link to theirs. they're actually having a red carpet at 7:00, and this is of interest. mercedes ellington, the granddaughter of duke ellington is coming to the show on friday. as the workshop and the cutting competition and all the other things that are going to be going on saturday and sunday, that's going on at d.c. dance collective on wisconsin avenue. sign up, you will have a whole lot of fun, i guarantee. back to you guys. >> wow. >> this is a jam session. >> you got that right. thanks so much. >> that's some good stuff. you know they're loving it, too. there's so much talent here in the d.c. area. two big consumer concerns. >> new rules about gift cards designed to protect you and the scheme at the atm that could cost you. the director of the montgomery county office of consumer protection will join us. 

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china hitting back against google's move. chinese users were being redirected to google's hong kong-based website. chinese authorities have blocked access to that. chinese state media accuses the company of violating written promises. it is a world many people just continental just don't understand. real people spending real cash on virtual lives. making some big money in the process. real money, not the virtual cash. >> reporter: you know, virtual worlds have been around for years where avatars or virtual personalities buy virtual goods, build virtual buildings, engage in virtual relationships, but now some gamers are cashing this big

time for real. it's got a lot of folks saying, hey, why not? >> bored with life on earth. >> reporter: we've all seen and heard of the virtual reality that's got some players hooked, worlds like second life. according to forbes, an australia paid over 26 grand for his own virtual island which earns him more than a hundred thousand a year. it works like the re world where people have goods and services others want to buy. it may sound crazy to some. >> my first instinct as a director at the entrepreneur center is to say kudos. >> reporter: bernard is with stsu. >> here's an entrepreneur who set up a virtual space and he's come up with a premise and an idea. >> reporter: you may be wondering why people are willing to pay real money for a good or product that isn't actually real. for some it's just plain fun. >> people can get lost definitely in a virtual reality place like that, because t's definitely addicting.

i could definitely see how it's adicking, especially if you're being successful. >> reporter: jonathan had to research virtual worlds as part of a class at scsu. he says the virtual reality offers an escape without all the risks that coms with real life. >> if i want to do like an ice cream shop or something like that, i can potentially make money off that in the second li instead of ticking the risk, the potential fall in real life. >> reporter: and for some lucky enterprising gamers the virtual world is making them actual money. creating a teachable moment. >> you don't need to build a building to sell something, you don't need to go get land. you come up with an idea armed with a little bit of technology and the right group of students, you can create something like this very rapidly. >> reporter: and this is a booming industry. we're talking about over a billion dollars a year. but to build your own little avatar like mine here, it's free. that's the latest from the newsroom. now back to you. let's turn things over now

to tony and allison to take us up until 10:00 this morning. >> good morning. coming up this hour, we've been alking out this. it's a dangerous case of road rage. it ends in gunfire. and inside one of the cars, a 2- year-old girl, right in the back seat. we're going to have the latest on this story. >> plus, we have an important alert for new parents this morning. a popular baby product being recalled. we'll tell you everything you need to know. and we are talking about all the plastic in your wallet. brand-new rules concerning gift cards. well, some of the plastic. and some of the atm cards. discounts when you go to supermarkets. there are. important tips for atm users coming up. >> the gift cards, the atm's as well. he was the first person to go public to admit the cia was using water boarding methods to gain intelligence. now he's