>> wow. >> good morning i am tony perkens, alison is a little under the weather i can imagine you wouldn't want to go outside in this weather if you are sick like she is. let's get to tucker and get the lathest on our weather. >> still some light showers, across the area we will get rid of those and once again, enjoy high temperatures upper 60s dare i say a few low 70s later this afternoon. if we can get any sunshine at all in here. another nice looking forecast as we get into wednesday. light shower activity south and east of the city across the south and eastern side of the belt way, anne arundel across the bay out towards stevensville and chester town. still be with us another hour then we should be rid of the showers eventually clouds should break up partial sunshine expected this afternoon. mild temperatures regan national, 50 degrees, yeah, 50 at regan national, 55

frederiksburg, we are starting off our morning with temperatures in the 50s. 56 hagerstown. 54 ocean city enjoy the afternoon should see some sunshine build in after morning clouds warm temperatures highs mid- to upper 50s and a few 70s late this afternoon cooler from here, let's get to traffic and julie has your latest. travelling in virginia, working your way northbound along 3 5, inbound across the 14th street bridge that is where we have the stalled car tieing up the right side of the road. southbound, 270 before route 80 we had accident activity in the right lane since moved over to the shoulder, 295 congested, up towards the naval research lab down to 23 miles per hour no problems on the outer loop, below speed, 15 minute commute downtown it is northbound, mexico avenue, where we have an accident involving a pedestrian. that is a check of your fox 5

on time traffic. julie thank you rebounding from a defeat in south carolina, mitt romney emerges as the man to beat on the race to the white house. good morning jennifer. >> reporter: good morning sarah well, mitt romney got his campaign back on track last night here in the sunshine state scoring an impressive victory he now has two big primary wins under his belt, newt gingrich points out there is a lot of contesttime between now and the convention and there is no way this is over yet. >> i stand ready to lead this party and lead our nation. >> reporter: fresh off a land slide victory mitt romney promises this hard fought primary will only make him a stronger candidate when he scares off against president obama. >> mr. president you were elected to lead you chose to follow now it is time for you to get out to have way.

>> reporter: supporters are hoping this decisive win will carry romney all the way to the gop nomination. >> i think we will push him ahead in the other primary especially coming towards super tuesday. >> despite his loss, newt gingrich is vowing to stay in the race. >> we are going to contest every race and we are going to win and will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> reporter: staying in is what supporters say is needed. >> he is on a roll. when most people know more about him they will vote for him. >> reporter: the bickers and attacks is something santorum says this campaign can do without. >> let's focus on the real issue feeting barack obama. >> reporter: while ron paul is focussing on non-primary states. >> if you have an irate minority you do very well in the caucus state. >> reporter: romney now has 87 delegates a little more than three times his rival, 28 more

will be up for grabs this saturday when nevada holds its caucus. sarah back to you. >> jennifer numbers pretty good for romney any indication he is being treated more as the presidential nominee? >> that is a good point yes, we are getting word starting this week he will get secret service protection his campaign requested it and secret service decided it was warranted because of the size of his crowds and the fact that his campaign says they need help with security. >> momentum behind him. jennifer davis thank you so much. meanwhile, president obama is tackling an issue key to his re-election zeroing in on the housing market today mr. obama will visit a community center in falls church he will outline a plan to help all homeowners with their mortgages it could

save the average borrower, $3,000 a year. fox 5 monitoring metro is south entrance of the dupont circle metro station is closed and will be shut down for the next 8 months. stacey cohan is there live she joins us with more details. >> reporter: good news bad news sort of story the good news this is repair work the bad news, if you travel through here exit dupont circle south side this will be closed for about 8 months this is the 19th street dupont circle access point. now, you can use the north dupont circle access point or fair gate north they are demolishing and replacing three esculators that have given the system much trouble it is part of a 7 year, $150 million project to replace 94 esculators system wide earlier

today metro spokesman, explained to me why this is a particularly difficult project. >> our goal is to keep it to 8.5 months we will do everything we can to meet that schedule it is a tight space this is an entrance designed for two esculators, the third was installed in the 90s that is why they had to use nonstandard esculators at the time which lead to problems in the years since. >> reporter: this is a very busy metro station they are keeping that in mind folks are hoping will split evenly between dupont circle north metro exit and fair gate but they have set up a minipolice station to monitor flow of traffic they have set up some emergency exits in case of emergency and need for an evacuation. working with dc fire ems and emergency preparedness on those. back to you. all right new this morning, we are taking a live look right now at mcpherson square where a

camper was arrested overnight police say the suspect was arrested on an outstanding warrant, and the incident was not related to a crackdown on camping rules other protestors told police the suspect is not an active member of the occupy movement. >> park police say protestors must take down that tent thrown over the statue of general james mcpherson yesterday all comes after a heated confrontation that broke out between demonstrators and neighbors. >> we had a discussion and ran ideas and reached an agreement that we would ask the cops, say we will take it down ourselves, if they agree to not enforce this outrageous, no sleeping law during our 24 hour vigil. >> police are still enforcing the law prohibiting protestors from sleeping in tents or keeping belongings there thanks to a ruling yesterday by a district judge the government

must notify protestors prior to evicting them. some of our other top stories a suspect accused of murdering, lenny harris is behind bars, 49-year-old lynnwood johnson confessed to murder after he was arrested yesterday, he is charged with 1st degree, harris went missing in september, his body was found last week johnson and harris knew each other and johnson had a motive. >> we knew it occurred on old fort road, fort washington maryland. that motive is robbery we have recovered what we believe to be the murder weapon, the murder weapon is a firearm. police say as the investigation continues they expect to make more arrests in this case, johnson is scheduled for a bond review hearing this afternoon. governor o'malley will deliver his sixth, state of the state address at noon he is

expected to talk about the economy and his legislative agenda he personally lobbied the state house yesterday for same-sex marriage there is push for a bill that exempts churches and church organizations. they maintain it is an attack on faith. last year's gay marriage bill stalled in the house. 7:09 a.m., a warning coming up for women who take birth control pills. >> windows and glass shattered by rocks vandals target a mosque in fairfax county causing major damage. reaction from the man who helped bring the place of worship to the community. the first lady's late night appearance what she got jay leno to do and her thoughts on mitt romney's singing voice. as we head to break a live lookout side, clouds out there, this morning a little bit of rain left over, weather and traffic and julie coming up

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welcome back, making headlinings the war -- headlines the war in afghanistan will be the topic on capitol hill they hope to get a better understanding why afghan security forces are firing on u.s. and coalition forces this has happened two dozen times since 2007 killing 70 soldiers in most case it is afghans acted on their own and were not controlled by insurgent groups the latest happened today killing a coalition soldier. retired cardinal, has passed away according to a spokeswoman, the spiritual leader who had cancer dementia died in his sleep last night. he served as head of the roman catholic archdiocese of philadelphia for 15 years,

before retiring in 2003 the death comes days after lawyers battled in court over his competency to testify in an upcoming church sex abuse trial he was 88 years old. >> pfizer recalling about a million packets of birth control pills because they may not prevent pregnancy take a look the names involved are on your screen right now they were shipped nationwide. phaser says the pills pose no health threat -- pfizer says they pose no health threat but those using the pill should use another type of contraceptive immediately. michelle obama, answered serious questions from jay leno. two sides that are not supposed to like each other how do you mentally gear up for that. >> you know there is really no way to prepare for it you just take each day as it comes.

i think barack and i we try to do the best job we can do every single day the hope is that will speak for itself. we wake up every day thing about what this country need you know i've got two great issues, many great issues but let's move working on childhood obesity and health and working with our military families. now the first lady made leno eat vegetablegot laughs out of the audience calling mitt romney's rendition of beautiful america beautiful. >> she was very diplomatic. >> she was. >> song for all americans to sing. >> that is true. >> natural in front of the camera. >> she really is i saw her she was a guest star on i carly a kids show, on nickelodeon and she was very good in the show really very good. >> yeah.

all right. tucker barnes. >> good morning. >> hello. >> hey, we got light rain showers working through as we speak we will get those east of us once we do we should be in for another beautiful day temperature wise more clouds than yesterday, upper 60s. once again in the comfortable range, if not flirting with a few records, showers continue south and east of the city light showers here across southeastern portions of the district, and then down towards waldorf and la plata. pushing off to the east it will be out of here next hour or two. most of the day should be dry for us let's open it up to the national satellite radar and just show you here out to our west is a cold front we are sort of between systems yesterday the warm front came through the morning cloudiness and the beautiful afternoon yesterday now waiting for the cold front that will get through later tonight and will cool us down starting tomorrow one more warm day expected later this afternoon if we get

any sunshine at all we are thinking we should see partly sunny conditions later this morning and afternoon. temperatures mild start, 48 now washington, and our average ditime high is only mid-40s we are already warmer than our average daytime high. we expect averages here, upper 60s maybe a few low 70s. 68 degrees new orleans and 56 in dallas, so there is plenty of warm air off to our south and west. a live look at sunrise 7:15 a.m. and you can see here, once the sunshine starts to break out we will warm up quickly nice looking afternoon expected. >> looks like an eye looking at us. >> cool shot. >> there is your five day forecast cooler tomorrow highs only upper 40s to 50 by the weekend it will be closer to february,. i know, give those flowers up a shock. >> i think so. >> thanks tucker. >> julie wright with the latest. hey, julie. >> all right well, we have been

kind of busy volume delays just about everywhere, guys coming inbound new york avenue, find traffic slowing, getting there from route 50, leaving 410 out of river dale a 13 minute commute, lanes are open, congested from eastern avenue headed towards pennsylvania avenue, travelling up the west side, definitely below speed here northbound 395, leaving the belt way across the 14th street bridge heavy, slow and steady, 17 minute commute there and inner loop commute again stacking up out of an non-dale average speed, 21 miles an hour. lanes open as you continue along the top stretch of the belt way, working along college park, bethesda, heavy, slow and steady, work your way 7100, 123 vienna. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. julie thank you all bets may be off for online gambling in the district. some city council members want to repeal the program before it

starts. it was approved two years ago as part of a budget bill many say they didn't realize what they were voting for. jack evans says he plans to send a repeal bill out of his office today. final vote expected in virginia house of delegates on legislation that would repeal the state's one handgun a month law the 1994 law was intended to eliminate virginia as a major source of guns used in the northeast but the republican delegate behind the bill said a national system for checking the background of gun purchasers has made the limit unnecessary. sarah, civil liberties group is calling on the fbi to investigate a case of vandalism at a virginia mosque the new mosque was slated to open in weeks but that is going to be pushed back several months because numerous windows were shattered overnight sunday. police thing a group of people gathered there, partied and went on a destructive rampage. it is a mosque, a house of

god, house of worship, and we should all respect the houses of worship. >> any time you get an attack of this type on a house of worship whether it is a mosque or synagogue or church you have to be concerned that is why we approach law enforcement authorities to at least keep the possibility of a biased motive in mind. damage there is estimated at $60,000. mosque officials say they haven't received any threats or had problems during the construction process. all right time now, 7:20 a.m. on this wednesday navigating the beautiful landscape in virginia just got easier with the touch of your smart phone. >> details up next. >> the day kicks off black history month coming up, we will show you a cool website dedicated to the culture and history of african americans. >> you might want to set your alarm early this saturday finest boutiques in alexandria are gearing up for a monster sale, designer brands will not break the bank for once can you

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welcome back, 7:24 a.m., a new smart phone ap available for nature lovers called virginia state parks pocket ranger guides visitors to the park nearest them it helps with navigating trails and other attractions, virginia is one of a dozen states to release the high tech guides. today begins black history month the focus this year is on women. >> fox 5s. wisdom martin is gown down in the the net center. hello wisdom. >> hello sarah and tony the theme for the month is black women in american culture and history, honouring the contributions of african american women who they have done in society to get us to

this point. all right. there is a cool website down here in the net center the name is african american history month.gov it is a collaborative between smithsonian, library of congress, national archive and others, there are links to various historical collections around the area including the exhibit about slavery at thomas jefferson's estate on display at the american history museum, there is a section marked for teachers to click on. anyone can click on and share that information with young people there are details about events, they include the black history month family day this saturday at the national portrait gallery between 11:30 a.m., to 3:00 p.m. eventually such events will happen at the new museum of history and culture construction is set to start this year completion slated for 2015 built acrthe national museum of natural history. one more thing to tell you

about, dc lottery will unvail its 2012 black history postposter called lifting a nation, black women in politics features the lives of truth, mary mccloud, patricia roberts harris the first woman to run for mayor in the district. lots of things going on, on the first day of black history month check out the website got a lot of cool information back up to you. >> certainly do wisdom thank you. now 7:26 a.m., this morning a campaign to stop a super bowl ad from airing. >> what chimpanzees have to do with that. >> florida in the rear-view mirror gop presidential candidates are heading for their next stops on the campaign trail the very late waste is looking more and more like a two man race. as we head to the break another live lookout side, some clouds, some sun, tucker will tell us how much sun we will

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featuring chimpanzees premiering during this weekend's super bowl this is similar from last year the career builder ads feature mischievous suit and tie chimps playing jokes on coworkers, they fear the images accurately portray the animals as harmless pets and can prove dangerous to save the species. >> actually it doesn't portray them as harmless pets. >> no, it is just funny isn't it? >> i guess -- >> it is kind of fine. cute. >> either way the ad is getting play early. >> it is. >> this one is from last year. >> right. >> but they are continuing the theme this year i thought that ad was funny last year >> i don't remember it. >> i don't really either. career builder ad? all right. >> you will see them maybe unless they get them pulled. >> all right. >> what is going on tucker. >> another beautiful day more cloud cover and showers moved through overnight once we get to showers east and south of us we should be in for better is

better day by that i mean upper 60s maybe low 70s. incredible. >> we hit a record yesterday at dulles. >> what was it? >> 66 degrees. >> wow. >> beat the record, i think from 1993, so, of course the records don't go as far back as dulles as regan national. sentinel radar, the beam picking up light rain showers east and south of the city these moved through in the past hour or two. many roadways wet out there, but as far as expecting more rain showers not expecting more rain showers in washington. we are done with it. south and east as you get down to southern prince georges county and charles county, you will get showers shortly. so annapolis, a light sprinkle as well. north and west, done with the rain showers cloud cover going to watch it break up, and we should be in for a decent day. that being said, not as much sunshine as yesterday. yesterday was a bright and just a beautiful afternoon, today we will have more cloud cover but should get breaks in the clouds here periodically from time to

time particularly during the afternoon hours there is a cold front out here when it gets in later tonight it will bring us another round of showernotably cooler temperatures starting tomorrow clouds around highs tomorrow only low to mid-50s. 10 degrees above normal for daytime highs currently temperatures in the comfortable department, 48 washington, 50 gaithersburg, 50 baltimore, check out the mid-50s and mountains hagerstown 55 degrees, leonard town, a shower soon, 54 for you what a great start to the day afternoon high temperatures once again upper 60s might be a few low 70s later today mix of clouds sunshine, one more warm afternoon and we will start to cool down later tonight winds out of the west, breezy, they will be breezy at times gusting to 25. chance of light rain overnight early tomorrow 45 your overnight low your 5 day forecast, coolertomorrow as rain showers move through, 54, peek of sunshine, and then cooler by friday, saturday and sunday closer to where we

should be highs this weekend in the upper 40s to 50. got to watch sunday could be a little storminess. that is a look at weather let's get to traffic. >> all right tucker problems in northeast washington accident involving a pedestrian, tieing up west virginia, and now sky fox over the scene of an incident as you travel out of german town, to gaithersburg this will be the portion southbound, great seneca highway, coming out of german town, leaving the dutch market, heading down towards long draft that is where we had the accident activity sorry just lost that shot for you take it back inside coming southbound, leaving king view and continuing out towards long draft this is the activity that will tie up your commute no one is able to get by on the southbound stretch out of german town headed into gaithersburg, northbound your lanes are open. you will find your lanes are open right now travelling top stretch of the belt way between college park and bethesda, traffic down to 23 miles an hour west of new hampshire

avenue headed into silver spring. 7100 trying to get past 123 more delays at the belt way you will find it is slow going southbound 270, lanes are open out of rockville definitely below speed leaving mva, montgomery village avenue headed out towards the split. all right julie thanks mitt romney the big winner in florida's gop presidential primary. take a look these are results, romney 46% of the votes, 32%, for newt gingrich now poor turn out for santorum and paul who both abandoned the sunshine state for campaign stops out west for a recap we are joined by peter and jim, thanks for coming in. >> good morning. >> seems like and i wonder if this is what turned the tide mitt romney really unleashed his inner bill dog it was like it came out of nowhere, but i guess they had been worning on this in south carolina

>> i don't know if bulldog are necessarily in the same sentence but two things really happened here number one, debates mattered almost two thirds of the voters showed that they watched the debates and they were one thing to help them change their mind number two, negative ads, 90 some percent were all negative ads no one wants to talk about it. peter will admit it. the obama campaign went after romney a little bit surprisingly enough in this campaign but debates were really the thing and newt gingrich's lacklustre performance last week and romney's good performances in last week's debate, turned the tide. absolutely look, you know, i think gingrich going see south carolina, was ram bow, going into -- ram bow, going into into florida he was marry poppins he didn't -- mary

poppins he didn't deliver in those debates. >> 99% of mitt romney's ads were negative the only positive ad he had on television was his son in spanish endorsing his dad that was it when you do that, it has an impact in two ways first of all the good ads yowie voice rate your opponents but raises your own negatives, there is a question among some people you got a victory but where does this put you going forward. i think look, jim and i were talking mitt romney is the likely nominee here but he won and won ugly in florida no question. >> but did he have any other choice? considering how hard gingrich was coming at him. >> no, he had to win south carolina, he had to win that, -- i mean florida after south carolina, but the interesting poll number in the exit polls, 38% of voters want some body else. maybe they want jim.

well, rick santorum is still out there the chances of him coming up are slim because he doesn't have a lot of money he stays in this thing, those two knock it out and you just don't know. >> peter is right, rick santorum is the guy if numbers were flipped and santorum finished second you would have a close contest but the fact of the matter, he didn't have the money, gingrich had the money florida is an expensive state to campaign in they spent 25 or $30 million over a period of two weeks that is an awful lot of money. i think that precluded santorum from getting into the fight there he is down to nevada where he will look at it next. >> the interesting thing february is a slow month there is only one debate scheduled february 22nd not this two debate as week thing we have seen maybe some folks will step into that breech they will say we need to have some debates. >> what do you thing about

moving forward from here gingrich is saying i am staying in this, how long will it take the longer he stays in, and it still looks like romney is the winner, does this hurt the republican party the longer he stays in? >> a lot of people thing that would be the case but with this field of candidates right now i think the longer you get vetted the more contentious it is to a point, is good. the number they are throwing has a billion dollars worth of advertising, i think the eventual nominee coming out will be much stronger than they did going in. it didn't hurt much. >> i have a different take i think jim is right up to a point but if this were to corn tin you for several months gingrich -- continue for several months gingrich has shown he doesn't need a lot of money to stay in the game he could be the pat buchanon in

this race. if he creates, heartburn with romney, it could be a problem the only other candidate this point in time to have a net negative, was john carrie, didn't work out well for john carrie. >> no, all right let's move on and talk about something else back here at home in congress today, the house is set to vote on the bill to freeze pay for federal workers and of course, this congressional budget office report just came out, just before this, talking about how, you know the federal workers do pretty welcome paired to private sector counter parts what do you thing this will do for the debate for this bill in the house and this vote today. >> well, first of all i think it is a mistake, the federal workers have had their pay frozen for the last two years what president obama was calling for, was a half of 1%, doesn't even keep up with the cost of living, with inflation. i think it is only fair in terms of how they do, the

problem with these kinds of analysis, is even the report acknowledges, is that, for those with college education or post graduate education, actually you do better in the private sector, than you do, in government, a lot of these folks are not in it for the money i mean they are in it because they care and they are committed, so i think beaten up on federal workers is a fun thing to do, right, republicans just love it let's get beat up. >> it is the cool thing to do. >> tax millionaires and billionaires. >> let me use the outside the belt way perspective most people have been tightening their belts a lot of people don't have jobs a lot of people would die to have those jobs i don't think you will get a lot of sympathy for the federal workers inside this room people watching the telecast, would probably lynch me for saying that. >> i can write your home

telephone number. >> i don't think so peter we will leave it at that. but it is a good move and frankly, they still have a job, no body is going to cry over these folks. >> thank you both for coming in. peter fen and jim, thanks we will talk to you next week. >> tony. >> thank you we appreciate it. it is now 7:41 a.m., coming up next one of hollywood's finest receives a big honor in haiti plus get ready to shop until you drop, we will tell you about a local event where you can walk away with high end brands at bargain prices we are talking up to 80% off. speaking of a good bargain, take a look, this is a look at today's my fox half off deal of the day comes from arlington virginia, $10 buys you $20 worth of food and drinks, this newly opened cafe, bakery and restaurant serves an assortment of breads, pastries, latin

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the u.s. army corps of engineers is wrapping up a huge project in new orleans. sea brook flood gate is now operational. the core says that this flood gate could have protected much of the city from flooding during the storm surge of hurricane katrina. >> sean penn has been named, ambassador at large to haiti. the only problem is he can no longer call the actor by his first name now penn will be called ambassador. >> wow quite an honor. >> i recently saw a story about him he lives in a tent he has been there since the earthquake. >> amazing. >> this is what he is dedicated to. >> >> he earned that title. from what i understand he

has been pretty good about bringing money into haiti to help rebuild, so they have a long road ahead of them. >> they do. >> keeping that story in the news too. >> yeah. >> all right >> around here light rain showers, worked through overnight hours, a few spots enduring a shower later today, cloud cover, which will give way to sunshine, sun breaks out sarah, happy days will be here again. >> happy days are here again. >> that is beautiful. wasn't that great. >> shower activity off to the south and east, and you know what, generally, washington area hey, if you are watching -- area, hey, if you are watching, washington city, southern maryland, you will get a few showers, across the bay a few showers clouds should give way to at least some sunshine, a little later today, and here is the best part one more warm day highs upper 60s low 70s.

let's go to the map, high pressure we call it bermuda high pressure in the summer time offshore pumping in unseasonably warm air it will lose the battle yes, the highest battle we will have a cold front come through tonight and be replaced with that area of high pressure less temperature friendly. in other words cooler starting tomorrow. >> thanks. >> yeah. >> there is your five day forecast, 68 today, still above normal for the weekend. >> still. >> nothing extreme. it is february. >> i know. >> all right. let's check with julie wright get the latest on traffic julie. well, we've got problems out there, ramp on the inner loop of the belt way, 214, central avenue where we had reports of a vehicle fire, tieing up part of that ramp. route 4, another crash reported southbound 270, out of rockville heavy, slow and steady working your way out, mva to the lane divide

southbound stretch, great seneca highway, southbound lanes are closed off with accident activity northbound lanes are open you will find coming on the inner loop delays brad dock road, 66 southbound stretch of the stretch of great seneca highway, and traffic has been diverted at the scene of that crash on the other side of town 66 still bogged down with delays manassas, into centerville, leaving 7100 more traffic as you approach the belt way, no problems for those travelling the belt way as you work your way from college park to 270 inbound new york avenue getting there from 410, 16 minute commute that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> thanks. designer brands at deep discounts those are two things you don't hear in the same sentence together usually some of these up to 80% off. >> that is extraordinary. annie yu is in old town. >> good morning this is a big deal to women in the area

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n ista listen up alison will be so upset she fessed this. >> i know >> -- missed this. >> i know. annie yu is getting the inside scoop on the big event and deals you can snag she joins us from the masonic temple in alexandria virginia, my question will there be anything left after you get through this morning. >> i have already picked out like four items. they are so great i mean we are talking about designer brands 70 to 80% off michael kors shoes for $39 that is a size 6.5 they have great prices and still a good variety of sizes so people from all over pennsylvania, virginia beach come out here and line up really early kicks off 9 but from what i understand hundreds are wrapped around this temple starting 7, 8:00 a.m. this the morning you can make this a fun girl day and joining me now is elizabeth, the

cofounder of this sale. good morning. >> good morning. >> you are also the owner of shoe high. >> yes. >> so, did you ever thing when you started 7 years ago this would become such a big event. >> we had no idea it has been such a great success we have been so happy with how much support we have gotten from the community, but we started the center in old town and moved to the ma sonic memorial which is alexandria's great landmarks much more space we started with 7 stores now we have 20. >> it is just a beautiful place lots of space from what i understand you will have all these tables set up all forms of payment accepted. >> yes, more stores, take credit card, check or cash. >> talk about the items what will we find. >> all different sorts of things. i have a shoe store lots of shoes, great fashion home goods, jewellery, this is a great nicole miller dress from hysteria, my neighbor in old

town usually $300 it is $100. >> my gosh what size is this. >> a 2, it will fit you. >> awesome. >> i see a lot of accessories here this bangle is $10 normally $30 you have a lot of choices, scarves, purses sarah wanted that handbag down there from tree this is like heaven for women. >> so many great finds, tonnes of merchandise i tell people even if you don't get here at 9 at 3:00 p.m. there is plenty of great deals to be found not like we run out of things to sell. right. >> in addition to clothes and accessories you have home decor which we will talk about in the 9:00 a.m. hour. >> a lot of great red barn and lackey seen. >> now do you find, that mostly women come out. >> a few brave men come and help carry their wives or girlfriends bags but it is primarily women it is a great day come shop at the masonic

memorial and take the trolley down, have lunch all our stores are located down the street as well. >> it is a fun day. >> let's talk about spring what are son-in-law colors and trends for -- color what are some colors and trends for spring. this is normally $375 at the sale it will be $75 this is spring colors. >> this is a gorgeous corral, salmon color. >> all about brights, floral prints this will fit into your spring wardrobe. the big one day shopping extravaganza going down this saturday, masonic temple, log on to myfoxdc.com for details, and they are even going to pick four lucky shoppers who receive early entry you have to log on and sign up for that. >> skip the shoes and bag i want that blue dress on that mannequin. >> okay. >> no, seriously if you want

something, let me know i will hook you up. >> i will squeeze into it if i have to. controversial vote in the house, involving a federal pay freeze proposal top of the hour ed o'keefe from washington post joins us live with more on who this bill would impact. >> after 8:00 a.m. who doesn't love freebies companies are really stepping up the swag to attract your business will a free gift catch your attention or not. you will be the judge in 30 minutes. 

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today salaries could be frozen even though the president wants to hand out raises. then a heads up for metro riders three esculators at dupont circles 19th street entrance shut down for repairs. we are live with a look at your options. major recall involving one million packets of birth control pills turns out they might not actually prevent pregnancy. what women need to know, ahead this hour. good morning everybody i am

tony perkens. >> i am wisdom martin alison is off again today. >> yep not feeling well. we hope she feels better, tucker barnes feels fine especially delivering good news. >> yes, yesterday i saw cherry blossoms blooming. crocuses and i mean, yeah, we are jumping ahead of schedule. >> we are today won't help. >> yeah, today right back at it, upper 60s low 70s enjoy it while we got it we will have changes in the form of cooler temperatures arriving later tonight and tomorrow. >> it is not going to be anything terrible but notably cooler tomorrow. >> let's start with a look at radar, showers continue to push through the area, south and east of the city crossing the bay out towards chester town, stevensville, cambridge, salisbury, you might see a left over shower, southern maryland, st. mary's city, once it gets east of us we should be in for a brighter day not as sunny and beautiful as yesterday but sunshine peeking through the clouds from time to time that

will help warm us up later this afternoon. >> temperatures in the comfortable range 48 regan national, close to the river cooler but look at 50s. 53 ocean city, 55 right now, in frederiksburg, mountains, win chester, hagerstown mid-50s when you start in the mid-50s not hard to get into the upper 50s and low 70s that iwe will do this afternoon. >> sentinel radar, highs upper 60s to 70 later today partial suned. >> okay. >> all right sir thank you very much. >> let's turn our attention to julie wright. hey, julie >> all right guys good morning to you all. right now if you are continuing your trip around the capital belt way you will find the inner loop is bogged down with delays as you travel between brad dock road and 66, the outer loop of the belt way, where we have delays due to a stalled car tieing up the right lane. southbound 270, sunshine tucker was talking about as you work your way south 117 headed out

towards the exit, 370, towards rockville remains heavy, slow, steady, great seneca highway, south of crawford continues to be blocked, accident activity, outer loop of the belt way below speed making your way past university boulevard, southbound 95, to the belt way we have delays on the parkway leaving 198 to powder mill road. congested from the belt way north of landmark headed up and around the 14th street bridge there all lanes are open meanwhile other side of town you will find the accident activity end of the ramp from tinner loop -- from the inner loop of the belt way, suit land parkway lanes are open westbound, before the suit land parkway authorities are out with that crash. headed northbound, 11th street bridge, sterling down to 25 miles an hour that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. julie fox 5 is continuing to monitor metro this morning, there is a big heads up for

commuters south dupont station is closed and will be shut down through october. good morning stacey. good morning tony, it is good news though, at least they are making progress here they are shutting it down, so they can finally demolish these broken down esculatorreplace them. it will be a long project you do have alternates you can use the north dupont circle exit q street or about a 5 to 10 minute walk a few blocks up there, fair gait north metro station, those are your options from using this dupont circle south station which is at the 19th street side of the circle. this is all part of a 7 year plan metro has, spending $150 million to replace 94 esculators, they have been a system wide problem for years they are dilapidated out of style old some are original and this is the beginning there are three esculators that will be

completely gutted and replaced i spoke to a metro spokesperson earlier this morning, and i asked if they thing this project will provide some relief to frustrated metro riders. the solution to those problems, are projects like this you know in this case of these esculators repairing them is not an option. though it is inconvenient in the short term will yield to more reliable service in years to come. >> improving the system comes as quite an inconvenience if this is the station you are accustomed to using it is fairly obvious it is shut down they have erected an enormous blue wall around the station it bares repeating don't walk around it and find an open it is not they have made provisions if over flow is too great at either of the adjacent stations they will readjust their plan monitoring they have installed a temporary staircase here in the event of a real e her yep ski folks can be evacuated on this -- evacuated

on this side of the circle in all other cases dupont circle north or fair gait north metro station through the fall. stacey cohan back to you. thank you wisdom. >> all right tony after 10 days of a war of words mitt romney decisively won the florida primary. doug luzader has a wrap of the presidential contest and what is ahead. >> reporter: this all moves to nevada, mitt romney had time last night to savour a big win. thank you tonight for this great victory. whichever >> mitt romney did what he couldn't do four years ago won the largest state, so far in this contest florida, and walked away with all of its delegates assuming the stance of a front runner he turned his fire to president obama. mr. president you were elected to lead you chose to follow, and now it is time for you to get out of the way. >> as many polls predicted, it was a double digit win, 14

points overnight gingrich, who stood behind a banner that said, 46 states to go how many contests remain and gingrich promises to stay in. >> it is now clear, that this will be a two person race, between the conservative leader newt gingrich and the massachusetts moderate. two others may disagree, ron paul and rick santorum were not competitive in florida but last night they were a step ahead in nevada and santorum is airing tough new ads against gingrich >> big government mandating politicians. now you know. >> reporter: that may help boost romney's chances, to race ships west with several contests that play to his strengths newt gingrich may be all in but may be looking at a february drought. something that may drive home mitt romney's front runner status, later this week he will have secret service protection.

>> in washington, doug luzader, fox news. president barack obama will be in falls church today he will visit a community center where he will outline a new plan to help homeowners refinance their mortgages this expands one already in place and would allow all homeowners to refinance at lower interest rates including those who owe more than their home is worth the cost would be covered by a large fee on banks. >> wisdom as we have been telling you this morning the house is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would freeze salaries of federal employees lawmakers congressional staffers for another year this morning ed o'keefe of the washington post, federal eye joins us to talk about the latest, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> thanks for joining us you just wrote about this, first, give us a summary, who is for the pay raise who is against it. >> primary lay, congressional republicans are for this, at a time american families are cutting back or facing pay freezes at their office the government should be doing the

same. not only, republicans but some moderate democrats who track federal personnel stuff and told federal employees yeah, you should get one more year. >> in general democrats say including the president, the white house wants to give a minimal raise a half percent to federal employees many democrats say let's do that they have been stagnant some time. >> .5% would give phones $20 extra every -- give folks $20 extra every week. the white house says we don't want to use government pay as a way to pay down the deficit we saved $60 billion over the next ten years not paying it out, that is a good start let's look somewhere else for more significant cuts. hower in maryland is not in favour of the pay freeze he says this is about politics. >> part of it republicans are looking for all sorts of ways to cut back they look at numbers to tell them, the size of the federal work force has

grown. since president obama has become president because of the final years of the bush administration lead to more hiring department of defense, veterans affairs on the flip side obama administration says look if we expect to have well qualified, talented hard working people we have to pay a decent wage and these types of pay freezes, make it very difficult to recruit people who work for the government. >> speaking of decent wages yesterday we had the congressional budget office come out with a new report, that says, on average, federal workers make 2% more than their counter parts in the private sector, that number goes up to 16% when you factor in benefits and the like, do those numbers help bolster the republican argument? >> they help bolster, both sides of the argument. >> really. >> it is a very thorough look this is the new gold standard in this debate if you look at federal employees who have a

high school education or min ma'am college education yes, compared to private sector employees they are making more as much as 16% more but go to the other end of the spectrum, highly skilled surgeons, scientists lawyers compare what they are making in government compared to private sector, private sector beats them 23%. this is the argument the white house has made if we expect the best surgeons best lawyers best scientists and accountants and defense experts we need to pay these people more otherwise they will work for the contractors in northern virginia, bigger university. we are out of time what happens next. >> this vote will happen today unclear how it will go because there is a pay freeze for congressional pay it is likely not a lot of lawmakers will vote for this then in november they will say you voted to give yourself a pay raise. >> ed o'keefe thank you always good to have you. wisdom. >> thank you it is now 48 degrees, 8:11 a.m. on this wednesday morning

coming up an important story for women, 1 million packets of birth control are recalled because they might not prevent pregnancy more on that when we come back. then one of the authors ofhealth first, black woman's health guide. find out the secret to happiness from the longst married couple in the united states more on why they missed celebrating this honor with president barack obama, we will be right back i can't stand these spots.

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review hearing this afternoon. >> montgomery county police think the same suspect is behind two armed robberies in the community of gaithersburg. monday night, 8:00 p.m. a masked suspect entered a salon, the employee was forced into the bathroom, where he put a gun to her head and touched her inappropriately. occupy dc protestor in police custody after overnight police action at mcpherson square. the suspect was arrested on an outstanding warrant the incident was not related to a crackdown on camping rules. meantime a u.s. district judge ruled yesterday the government must notify protestors prior to any eviction, he also said protests will have the chance to contest, evictions planned. protestors will have the chance to protest, eviction plans.

>> okay. time now to check in with tucker and see what is going on with our weather. before we do that, you know what it is time for, time for my first 5 photo of the day. we will get cute everybody. hey, this is 4.5 month old olivia. love that name. guess what she is up to. >> obviously, at a playground. >> enjoying the unseasonably warm weather we've had around here >> that is the nice thing about this weather kids are outside playing and you know, shirt sleeves it is cool. >> just having a great time. she is very cute >> hi wisdom. all right, how about cutelicious. >> will that work? >> and they say we don't miss alison. >> [ laughter ] >> all right olivia we think you are adorable. >> okay. >> wisdom finds you cute.

>> she looks cuddly. >> very happy. >> what a beautiful smile. to send us your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings, all right here is the only headline you need to know in the weather department. one more warm day temperatures expected to sore once gain like an eagle into the upper 60s maybe low 70s. so enjoy today, cooler temperatures on the way kids get a chance to get to the playground, go for it as we go back to upper 40s and low 50s for daytime highs towards the end of the week. right now 48, regan national, that being said much of the area waking up to temperatures mid-50s. cool spot close to the potomac. winds out of the south, 8 miles per hour. sentinel sat rad, a few showers moving through during the early morning hours, east of the bay, pushing across the eastern shore we should get a nice break here if we can get any sunshine at all partly sunny skies this afternoon, temperatures will once again jump into the upper 60s and a

few low 70s across the region. don't be surprised later today if you don't see a 70 or 72 in some spots south of the city off to the west and north that is a cold front that will get in here later tonight increase clouds bring us a few late showers early morning showers tomorrow and cooler temperatures behind it with highs tomorrow only in the 50s still, 10 degrees above normal, 68 today, 54 tomorrow, and there is your cool down for the weekend mechanics of sun and cloud -- weekend, mix of sun and cloud, high upper 40s by sunday there is weather let's do traffic julie has your latest. good morning tucker unfortunately we have had problems to report on the roads this morning we still have our hands full with accident activity northbound 29, franklin you will find coming out of downtown silver springs some traffic can squeeze by only to the left as you work your way northbound on 29, southbound the lanes are open but expect a rubber necking delay trying to get past the scene. other side of town, lanes are open pace is slowing as you

work your way on the brad dock, route 66. inner loop of the belt way, central avenue, in play, follow police direction to get by making that trip inbound along route 4, suit land parkway accident activity there, as well, police, fire and rescue units are on the scene slow downs, inbound 50, 410 out of river dale, northbound, 295, down to 25 miles inhour as you continue up past sterling and then inbound 50 down to 14 miles per hour continuing, west virginia, montana, south of new york avenue where we reports of inbound west, 66 heavy volume continues, out of manassas. 36 minute commute that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thank you julie. a health alert, about birth control pills that may not prevent pregnancy. pfizer recalling about a million packets of the pills because they may not contain enough contraceptive, they were shipped nationwide look at the

names of the drugs involved on your screen phaser says they pose no health threat women effected should begin using another form of coat that representation immediately -- contra representation immediately. a las vegas couple getting national recognition they have been married 78 years and recently claimed the title of the longest married couple in the united states and caught the attention of the president. >> this is a real good picture. >> reporter: looking through old photos will burr can't help but smile about his wife, and best friend, theresa >> you are in love and that is all you thing about you know,. >> reporter: she wasn't feeling well enough for this interview but willbur doesn't mind doing the talking he is 100 years old and learned recently the worldwide marriage encounter bestowed a very high honor >> i had no idea, of us ever

winning the oldest, longest married couple. >> they married in april 1933, their oldest son bob entered them into the contest. >> i nominated him and he did all the rest. >> it was so special even the president offered to mention the 78 year marriage during his recent stop in las vegas. >> how often does an ordinary guy, get such recognition by the president of the united states? it is one of these things that is once in a lifetime >> but there was a slight problem on the day of the president's speech. >> you must understand, that i am over 100 years of age, and i am a lot slower than i was at 90 >> they were late, too late to be allowed in and the president dropped the mention from his remarks. >> we tried the get there and we fought the crowds and all.

>> the couple was disappointed but not deterred the white house promised to return and give them their recognition they deserve. >> the president as busy as he is and with the pressures he has to take time to salute a couple, and through them salute the solidarity of marriage in the united states is remarkable. >> as for the 78 years of wedded bliss, wilbur offers a tip. >> it is very simple, it is give and take, and compromise. >> that is wonderful. >> that is wonderful great advice. give and take and compromise. >> that's right. >> that was matt reporting wilbur was a nevada state senator in the 70s and 80s. >> very good for him. 48 degrees, 8:23 a.m. on wednesday morning, we are talking about freebies that entice consumers to take action and believe it or not this is a

multibillion dollar industry. well, foxes consumer reporter joins us live from the 2012, advertising specialty institute's promotional products convention if you can believe there is such a thing when we come back. >> later we are live with more on how you can get boutique fashions at a bargain. stay with us h us 

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the book you see it right there, health first a black woman's wellness guide provides today's african american women, with a comprehensive guide to her number one resource, herself. this morning the coauthor of the book joins us live to talk about this message good morning thank you for coming in. >> good morning thank you for having me. >> we appreciate it tell me what the inspiration behind this was. >> i think the inspiration is the organization, the black women's health was founded in 1983 with the mission to improve black women's health and begin talking about what we could do this is just an extension of this the great time to do it, after the health reform act, affordable care act and black women continue to

suffer, disproportionately we think this guide, will be one of the major resources, to help black women, develop a wellness plan. >> tell me about some issues addressed inside this book. >> one of the things we try to do is to make sure that black women understand that self- help, self-love and self-care are important, to anything that you do, and it is just not health, it is the way you live, how you think, the relationship that you have, but what we do do, is identify, ten leading health conditions that black women should be most concerned about. >> now you talked about, physical aspects of this and the men at that aspects as well -- mental aspects as well is this a combination of both you are talking about the relationship and eating right and trying to live right is this coming together and saying this is a blueprint. >> this is we thing a blueprint but not a recipe, not prescriptive but it is a resource.

we try to talk about who black women are, and how we are doing. we try to cut through the myths and stereo types, we try to ask black women to get out of denial and neglect and begin, not only loving their husbands and their children and their church, but to begin loving themselves so they can be around to continue taking care of not only, their husbands and children, but themselves. >> now you talked about myths out there talk about myths you are addressing. >> one of the major ones we labor under is the super black woman. we are very resilient we consider ourselves strong if you poll women they say i am strong i am a strong black woman well, really? what does that mean we are dying at a disproportionate rate we suffer almost all of the illnesses and diseases we have a high rate of depression, we are entering into domestic relationships that are not

always affirming and so we are cutting through the whole myth of being strong and can do anything. >> what about some response from the people who have either read the book or heard about the book already and heard the message. well, last night i had an interview and the interviewer said wow this is a wow book i think that is it it is compelling, it is funny, it is readable even though it is a resource guide we give you the facts tell you what some of the issues are and this is the first book it seems that addresses black women's lives across the life span we begin at a lesson and go all the way until the elderly years. >> right last question real quick biggest surprise, from doing this book. information you fathered and put together. the big -- gathered and put together. >> the biggest surprise as authors but also for our audience is that black women really do want to be well.

contrary to the myths and the stereo types and the opinions in the general community. >> all right. well, thank you very much for coming in and talking to us we appreciate it see the book there on your screen, again it is black history month and you have a book signing. >> we have a book signing today at 12:00 p.m. at the national education association building and tonight join us the coauthor, hillary and i will be having a conversation with the audience about the book and the issues. >> all right very well and you are in baltimore as well appreciate it thank you for making time for us we appreciate it tony and tucker over to you. >> thank you both very much. >> listen we have fine weather conditions today again, maybe not as pretty, not as much sunshine, but we do have changes coming. >> cooler air. >> yes. >> cooler temperatures on the way not so much today, get out and enjoy today, temperatures will return closer to normal

upper 40s. we will enjoy it while we can. >> yeah, hey, a little spring preview. >> regan national, 48 degrees, and these temperatures, as i probably don't need to tell you are well above our seasonal daytime highs for the first day of february, we are already starting off warm and going to be off and running here shortly with temperatures expected to top out upper 60s maybe a few low 70s as frederiksburg and quantico later today, 55 frederiksburg, 52 for you gaithersburg off to the north and west warming up martins burg, hagerstown, 56 degrees, left over shower to the east, cambridge, currently 52 and lea in order town, 54 degrees. all right a few showers moving through early this morning got those out of here to the south and east, and now, we are between systems warm front to our north this is a cold front which will take the better part of the next 24 hours here, peeks of sunshine as we get

into the night time hours, that cold front will come into the area. high pressure bermuda high, very unusual pattern here, one more warm day and then that cold front comes through with high pressure building from the north and west we will be in for a cool down. your 5 day forecast, 68 degrees, any sunshine at all, tomorrow we cool down early showers friday, saturday and sunday, mix of clouds and sun and cooler temperatures upper 40s around here by sunday haven't done that in a couple days that is a look at the weather tony and wisdom. >> thank you. forget the water bottles, the free pens they are upping the ante in the world of freebies. >> fox consumer reporter, steve joins us live from dallas with a look at the promotional products and companies this hope they will attract your business steve good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you guys believe it or not promotional products are an $18.5 billion a year industry,

more than 750,000 different promotional items each one em blazenned with a different logo all this stuff begin away for free to consumers every year, you are right in the hopes of atacting keeping and -- attracting, keeping free advertising for your business this is the institute trade show where the next generation of freebies gets their start and i will tell you there is some pretty cool new stuff this is the knit cap okay this is some sort of mgd promotion head phones built in you take it and plug it into your ipod or mp 3 player not a bad deal this freebie, great for mardi gras or st. patricks day parade, this took us a second to figure out what it was it goes around your head then you pop your golf visor over and keeps your neck from getting sun burnt. this i think is fantastic late night walking the dog out hunting you pop this button there is an led light built into this cap and they saw us coming this morning this is the

fox news channel, sportula a spatula one side, bottle opener on the other. >> perfect. hey, listen, obviously this year is a big election year is there a big presence of political swag? yeah, you know there is believe it or not we have politics to thank for all of this. the first freebie was given away in 1789 during the election campaign of george washington little brass buttons they gave away that said gw long live the president. this year there is all sorts of political stuff as well, $350 million will be spent, giving away free promotional items for this year's federal elections romney water bottle obama has his own spatula. for us here in texas they can't give these things away this is the 2012 rick perry for president t-shirt, you know he cancelled that campaign. so you've already given us some highlights at this point anything else down there stand

out? i like the spatula slash bottle opener. >> those are cool. yeah, you know it is all ability giving away something -- about giving away something people will use not tuck away this is cool it is a simple birthday card you open it up there is an led light on the inside ready, you can actually blow it out i don't know how they do that but that is the deal okay. talking about things people will actually use, all very high tech these days this is very small and simple a screen cleaner for your ipad they have this little brush on the inside to help clean out your laptop or computer key board talk about this who doesn't want an ipad case that doubles as a bluetooth key board not a bad deal my favorite is one that was custom made this morning for us, there is only one like it in the world that is the steve noviello super hero,

solar powered backpack take this along and charge your iphone or any of your mobile devices. >> very cool. >> i can't ever use it right could you imagine? your bag. oh, steve that is great stuff man we appreciate you showing it to us >> i never knew there was an organization or convention like this thanks a lot. >> oh, yeah. great stuff. >> yeah,. >> you never know. >> you just don't. 8:37 a.m., wednesday morning there is a surprise shake up within dcs homeland security agency. more in a moment our job of the day when fox 5 morning news returns stay with us does your cable company keep charging you more...

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it is apparently more fall out from the corruption investigation into former ward 5 councilmember, harry thomas junior. west used to over see the dc children and youth investment trust corporation, thomas recently pleaded guilty to stealing more than $350,000 in city money some of which came from the children and youth trust. west has not been charged with any crime. if you are looking for work don't forget to check out our job shop our job of the day is with sears looking for a retail manager at its springfield store for more on this job and others go to myfoxdc.com click on the job shop tab top of our home page. >> it is 8:41 a.m., wednesday morning add beef to the list of items that will soon cost you more. >> we will tell you why the price is going up when we come back first let's check with annie >> good morning tony and wisdom for one day only this saturday come out to the big old town boutique sale and save

70 to 80% off designer brands this coat, originally $145, you won't believe it, $39 now. those are the kinds of deals you can find here on saturday and you can get a lot for $100 that is why we are going to have our minifashion show coming up after the break you don't want to go any where stay with us fox 5 morning news 

have you noticed the price of beef is on the rise jumping 10% the reason, supply and demand last summers drought in texas drove up feed prices and forced some ranchers to sell or slaughter their herds. there is also a rise in demand for beef from overseas. many restaurant owners say they had to increase their prices. we sat on it for 6 months, needing to and didn't, and we finally had to raise the price. >> requirely do we see prices go back down. >> don't tell me that i want my steak. >> everybody does. department of agriculture expects prices to rise, even higher. >> if you are looking to save money you may want to thing about stopping by the 7th annual, old town boutique district warehouse sale, this saturday.

>> that's right annie yu joining us live from the masonic temple, virginia, what is up annie whichever. >> hey, wisdom and tony, that's right you can save a lot of money on great items, and here is my advice if you want to come out make sure you dress comfortably first of all you are going to stand in line but wear something that you can easily change -- try something on because they don't have dressing rooms out here i suggest tights and a tank top and hood di, something you can try on real quickly we will do our minifashion show first off i will start off with jill from treat, so jill what are you working with today. >> okay so mary is wearing a strapless dress in a shop that would have been $410 at the sale it is $75 the real show stopper the see sequinned vest would have been $370 at the sale $75 we put it together with this little red shoebelt

>> i really like this belt accent it pops. >> you can change the color, metallic if you want. >> this is the perfect valentines day outfit you look lovely. >> we have here elizabeth todd the cofounder of this whole big sale the brain child what do we have here. >> from hysteria, diane von furstenberg dress normally $348, at the sale $100 the shoes normally $125 they will be $38 at the sale >> holy cow. >> then we have this is a clutch normally $120 it will be $45. >> great and that will go with anything. >> yeah, this is great to have in your wardrobe. >> mm-hmm. this is a dress that is actually by per perry wrinkle,

it will be $132. >> you paired it with nude pumps. >> can't go wrong with nude. i will make my way down to susan the owner of zoe boutique i love this. >> yes, this dress is regularly priced $290 on sale for $58. >> oh, my goodness. >> exactly and she paired that with shoes from the shoe hut, regularly they retail $250, $50. >> okay that is ridiculous. >> it is. >> tony henderson and tony there is from your boutique. >> yes. >> super cute. >> thanking you and then we have the tibby top retails $365.78 at the sale, the jeans usually $180 retail, $42 at the sale. the shoes $80 retail, $28 at the sale and great michael kors

sunglasses $98 retail $32 at the sale. >> $32 sunglasses doesn't get better than that believe me. we have to thank the west potomac fashion academy for the beautiful models today and the entire sale is going on this saturday, masonic temple, kicks off 9:00 a.m. you want to be the first 20 in line it is a controlled environment only a few people are allowed in at a time remember wear something comfortable back to you in studio. >> amazing. bargains. >> great deals. we have to -- >> annie you realize you are working you have to come back annie. >> no, you can't shop the whole time. today february 1st, marks beginning of black history month this year's official theme is black women in culture and history. >> that is part of what is being featured on this particular website african american history month.gov a joint venture between library

of congress smithsonian, national archiveothers it is a great resource to learn about black history and highlights events you and your family can take part in this month check it out we've posted a link to this site on our site myfoxdc.com you can look under the morning tab. all right. remember this, go ahead. make my day. >> yes. >> all right. >> that's right. >> well, the actor i am sure you know who did it, behind that famous line will be honored by the smithsonian today,. also coming up at 9, we will check with dax holt to get the latest on the latest hollywood gossip stay with us ♪

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avenue. all right smithsonian institute is honouring clint east wood for his six decades of work in american film the 81- year-old will be awarded the james smithson buy centennial medal and cut the ribbon to open a new warner brothers neat their will show case film at national museum of american history warner brothers donated $5 million to renovate the old auditorium. singer john legend wants to inspire young people the get involved in social issues he appeared at kennedy center yesterday afternoon, kicking off a new campaign called what's going on. ♪ [ music ] the campaign helped commemorate marvin gay's 40th anniversary of his album and his performance at the kennedy center one year later it helped inspire the anti war movement,

his campaign encourages teens to create art how things have changed in the past 40 years and what is going on now. we want to say good morning to our facebook fan to have day it is donald king, there he is there our facebook fan, donald is a school administrator with the prince georges county public school system and says he is a life long learner who likes to help others. we like to hear that. congratulations. >> all right. >> we are in store for another nice day how high will the temperature go we will check with tucker straight ahead at 9. >> getting the inside story why simon cowell, fired paula abdul and others from the x factor. 

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>> good morning i am tony perkens. >> i am sarah simmons, alison is off. mitt romney takes florida, packing up and getting right back on the campaign trail a look at last night's primary numbers. >> americans shelling out big time for the big game the money we are spending on super bowl keeps getting bigger and it could be a good sign for the economy. so what is cooking for you on sunday? all the flavour without all the fat. just salt and pepper are here with tasty treats you won't know they are healthy for you. >> that is the key. >> tastes good and healthy? how is that possible. the king of junk food is down stairs ready to give us the weather. >> yes, perhaps he has stopped snacking to focus on today's conditions hey, tucker. >> hey, that is so sweet of you sarah by the way. let's get to it and let you know light rain showers continue to press east we will brea