about this. this is friday, february 17th, 2012. good morning, everybody. i'm tony perkins. >> and i'm sal son seymour. tucker barnes joining us. i had a little preview, tucker. i need more details. >> are you referring to the sunshine and temperatures in the 50s later today? good weather today. >> i'm talk about today. >> i'm talking about snow disaster on sunday. >> we're going to talk about that later. that's not going to be a disaster, allison, don't panic. we're going to talk about the advisory in effect here in the district and areas to the south and easement just be ready. the fog should burn off quickly. let's be concerned about today first, beautiful afternoon and bright sunshine. there is the sat rad. still leftover clouds from the rain yesterday. that will be getting out of here and we're going to talk about a much, much brighter day. winds out of the west.

41 in washington, 38 in baltimore. 43 in winchester. lot of sunshine, mild breezy, high temperature, 53 degrees. in a couple of minutes, we'll focus on that weekend forecast and the possibility of a winter storm. allison, we'll toss it back to you. >> thanks, tucker. now to a traffic alert. a deadly accident caused a a traffic alert. >> it's two left lanes getting by on the inner loop and right now they have temporarily stopped some traffic here at the scene. hardly anybody moving but, again, this delay is coming from 270, kind of like an afternoon rush hour drive is what you are expecting here on the inner loop as you head

towards silver spring. north of the highway, randolph road, good atative route for you. that could save you some time. the outer loop, the lanes are open, slow traffic coming around the curb much. aspen hill road at connecticut, accident moved it into a parking lot. accident activity squeezing the right lane. 395 is slow as is the h-o-v lane. 66 remain slows. expect delays from manassas heading towards the capital beltway. that's a check at the fox 5 ontime traffic. >> thank you, julie. new this morning a two-year- old girl is fighting for her life after being caught in a house fire. the fire broke out in the kitchen of the family's townhouse. it quickly spread. three adults and a nine-year-

old girl escaped but they were unable to get to the little girl. firefighters rescued her from a second floor window. she was taken to the hospital in critical condition. there have been even more street robberies and robbery attempts in downtown d.c the latest, a holdup that happened on 16th street and massachusetts avenue, northwest. then a gunman held up a store at l street just after midnight. these robberies come after a series of robberies in dupont circle and downtown. a casino on the potomac and our other big stories. sharon baker want to bring in high-end gambling. it will cost about a billion dollars to build and could bring a lot of economic activity. sherry li is live with more. >> tony and allison, if casinos are coming to prince george's

county, thinks where county executive rashon baker wants it. we are talking about a one billion dollars high-end las vegas style casino with what they envisioned as the black jack and roulette, live shows, hotel and dining as well. it is an about-face for the county executives. he calls national harbor the perfect location for such an upscale development over a place like rose croft, the race track which has also been mentioned as a location for slots. the billion dollars facility could create 5000 new jobs, boost tourism and provide revenue to the county of $29 million. now, the county executive says that the revenue would help schools and public safety. he would like to see a split on some of that revenue between nonprofit housing needs such as

foreclosure issues in the county as well as economic development. of course, thinks all part of a bill still pending in the general assembly. baker would like to see some amendments to that before it would pass but if there is casino style gaming, they want it to be here at national harbor. that's the latest here. >> thank you, sherry li. >> let's get more to the big casino proposal. prince george's county executive is here. if i could start by saying that our prayers go to the young girl and her family and we're going to do our best for her and her family. >> extraordinary work for the firefighters. let's go back to slots. when you were a delegate, you were opposed to slots.

what has made you change your mind? >> well, a lot has changed. when i was in the house, we didn't have the national harbor. we didn't have anything to attract people. but from across the -- it has changed my mind. it will bring in a the of revenues. we rest mate about $50 million could come no prince george's county. that will go help with our housing stabilization money, help with our nonprofit, help do some of the things that we want to see in prince george's county while providing expanding our tax base in the county. . >> can you clarify the numbers for me because i'm here 29 billion, i'm hearing 49 billion, close to 50, you say. are we talking about two different things? there two different pots of money that equal between 40 to $50 billion coming in. to build the casino, we want a

billion dollars facility there. when we say las vegas style, we say that because we are talking about bringing shows here that you normally can't get in this area or in prince george's county, having the shopping inside the hotels, having the type of restaurant. that right there makes it a destination point for people outside of maryland and, quite honestly, on the east coast. this right here is an economic development changer for prince george's county. it will change our area. >> what about concerns that, you know, prince george's county -- or people in prince george's county, the last thing they need is a place to gamble away their money. that's one of the reasons i went for the high-end casino and not the slot bars that i opposed in the past. that right there is when people come in on the last dime on the slot machine. this right here is more of an en tantamount where you see people with disposable income and not drawing from prince george's county. what we found in our study is that this is going to draw

people from virginia, d.c. and across the east coast. so it's not relying on people in the county. in fact, it helps us get the revenues that we deal with in the county. >> you have at rose croft, those guys want gambling there, more gambling there and there are plans for some gaming in anne arundel county. won't this kind of jeopardize those developments or perhaps negatively impact those is this. >> i said i would be in favor of one facility in prince george's county. the place it should be, i things is national harbor. nothing against rose croft but the amount of money that we would have to put in at rose croft for infra struck tiewrks the fact that it's around a residential area, for me, the best site is national harbor. it's away from the national harbor, up on the hill. the amount of money that we would have to spend is minimal.

>> there is a map there, a plateau area where you are proposing this. you are talking about revenue. what about jobs? >> we estimate it's going to create about 5000 permanent jobs, union jobs paying between 5000 to $55,000 a year. it will pay for about 1500 jobs in construction. we weighed all the options. this is the best option for us to go through. as we are looking for revenues over the next many years, this is a way of having continuous revenue come into the county. >> i know voters will have to get their say in all of this as well. we'll be hearing a lot more from this, thank you for coming in, county executive roeshern baker. the uva murder trial

resumes today following a break after one of the defense attorneys got sick. the trial has been extended to next wednesday with an added session tomorrow. fox 5's paul wagner is live in charlotte ville following the trial until the very end. we have a preview of the today's testimony and you can check out his blog updates at myfoxdc.com with a link and the hot topic bar. spotsylvania county police are looking for a pair of gunmen. this happened yesterday morning. surveillance video shows the first gunman surprised the store manager from behind and the second gunman later appeared. the manager was tied up but not seriously hurt otherwise. the gunman got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. >> to the campaign trail now. president barack obama raising millions as republican

presidential candidates set their site on the great wake state where rick santorum is riding high. according to a detroit news poll, he is almost four points up over mitt romney but the average poll shows a wider 8- point santorum lead. a romney loss in michigan would be a stunner. that's where he grew up and where his father was governor. >> real change, big change is hard and it takes time and it takes more than a single term. and it takes more than a single president. >> this is a president who is suffocating this economy. this is a president who does not care about you and the cost of living that you have to deal with. >> today, president obama will outline new steps to boost exports as he visits an

assembly plants a boeing assembly plant. and we'll take a look at the important role that women voters will play and an american journalist dies while overseas. plus. bobby brown singing for whitney. he is taking time to honor his ex-wife whitney houston. more on his performance and new details about his funeral coming up next. and we have a live look outside as the sun has come up this morning. that will begin to burn off some of that fog. tucker barnes is here. he will tell us all about the weather including the weekend forecast. and julie will tell us about the mess on the beltway. stay with us. fox 5 news will be right back. it's 7:12.

making headlines this morning, still no clear motive in that deadly shooting at a federal building in california. the fbi says the immigration agent shot and injured another agent and was then killed by a third colleague who intervened. this happened last night in long beach. at the united nations, 137 countries voted to condemn syria for the brutal crackdown on civilians. meantime, the state department says that al-qaeda is operating in the country and if the syrian president is kicked out of the country, they could pick up na vacuum. activists inside syria say that over 7000 have died since the crackdown on civilians began last year. an award-winning journalist has died in syria while on assignment there.

new york times reporter anthony shadid suffered an apparent asthma attack. he slipped into the country this week to report on the uprising against the president. his photographer was with him and carried his body to turkey. he wokd for the post-between 2003 and 2009, won a pulitzer price and won awards for his coverage of the iraq war. >> that is very tragic. >> our thoughts and prayers with his family. >> switching gears and there is no easy way to do so. he has news of trouble for sunday. >> perhaps some trouble on sunday. >> tomorrow is pretty good. >> yes, today and tomorrow. >> yes. >> i have a theory that that snow is not going to find any cold air and that's going to be a big fizzle out. >> coming to my side. >> i noticed that you showed up

the weather guy, by the way. i know the segment. [ laughter ]. >> old fashioned showdown. >> i'll have a word with you later. >> okay. >> there is some cold air out there. let's focus on, first, today, as mentioned, sunshine after we get rid of this dense fog this morning and it will be breezy. take a jacket with you as you take out the door because even with temperatures in the 50s, it's going to feel cooler with the winds out of the northwest. see the showers breaking out. air of pressure will break down there. we have not done that at all this year. it's going to push into the deep south and off the carolina coast late sunday and sunday night and bring us a period of what looks to be-- here is the thinking. looks like we're going to start

with a period of rain, quickly transition to snow and that show will be with us sunday and sunday night the storm system will be moving relatively quickly but it is looking more and more likely like the storm will be able to drag in enough cold air, will manufacture cold air. what it does basically is it reaching up into canada and grab that cold air. looks like enough cold air will be in place so we will see a period of snow here. there will be moisture available so accumulating snow still not out of the question. still too long to call how much we're going to see. suffice it to say that we will have picked up more than two inches. it's not going to be snow ma -maggedon. >> and it's on sunday, the day

before a holiday. and that will have a minimal impact. that is good news. >> uh-huh. >> thank you, tucker. >> yes. let's go to julie. we had major problem. >> fatal crash that remains under investigation on the inner loop of the beltway as you work your way between connecticut avenue and georgia avenue. two left lanes are getting by. delays are stacking up as you work your way into 270 heading eastbound. northbound 395, crash as we mentioned earlier. big delay coming out. we had problems now as we travel northbound 28 after willard. overturned vehicle. nobody is going to be able to get by. 66, a lot of red right now. definitely slow going coming out of manassas headed towards fair oaks and into sorry jenna. fairfax county parkway down to 22 miles per hour. that's a look at the check 5 ontime traffic. >> thanks, julie.

in just over 24 hours, whitney houston will be laid to rest. we are learning more details about how she will be remembered. >> we are also hearing from her ex-husband, bobby brown who performed in our area last night. >> wisdom martin is back now with that and more on tomorrow. >> bobby brown, his group, new edition, they made a stop here in our area show place in upper marlboro. lots of fans were not sure if bobby brown would show up and much less perform. and he did. he even opened up with a tribute to whitney houston: >> i like to say thank you for your prayers. i like to say thank you. >> brown appeared to be in good spirits. he told fans that life is life and sometimes you have to move on. many who came to the concert

came with heavy hearts but was glad to see brown with new edition performing in a difficult time. brown will make his way to newark, new jersey, for his ex- wife's funeral. there were reports yesterday that houston's family did not want bobby brown there but houston's publicist confirmed that he did get a formal invitation from the family yesterday. people reports that he will attend and then head back on the road a few hours later for another performance with new edition. as for the singer's funeral, her final good-bye, it promises to be a very musical service, aretha franklin and stevie wonder are slated to sing. there will be stars like clive davies and her co-start on the body card, kevin costner. fans without invitation will be kept far away.

they plan to shut down all streets six blocks around the church. saturday, of course, marks one week since houston was found dead in the bathtub of her suite in beverly hills the night before the grammies. tony and allison, back to you. >> a lot more information than we had. >> yes, keeps coming out. >> thank you. time right now is 7:23. 39 degrees. still ahead, a recall that could potentially be dangerous to children and twitter is competing to become a major player in the world of online marketing. why you will see more advertising. 

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managing campaign without dealing with sales representatives the at first, they are only going to be available to advertisers who accept american express cards. later this year, it will be open to haveryone else. a recall alert. the consumer product safety commission is recalling the slalom glider. the agency says it lacks a platform at the top and side on the chute causing children to fall from the ladder to the slide. so far, 16 children from been injured some with fractures. no sides on the chute? >> that's very dangerous. >> yes, it would be. >> it is now 7:27. snickers bars are going on a diet. we'll explain. and being closer and closer to this year's presidential election, the electoral map is

changing, thanks to a certain group of people. coming up, the race for a group of votes that every-up wants to win we have seen some real traffic nightmares this morning. this is 270. we have julie and tucker who will be here in a moment.  whatcha lookin' for hon?

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welcome back. it's 7:30. a new exhibit at mount vernon shows how the first president had his meals. the exhibit is called hospitality, cooking with martha washington. the exhibit shows how george washington ate, with details and the role that slaves played in colonial. that living history and reenactment is great. >> love it. >> want to make thinking that they used to eat, like 240 years ago or whatever it was. >> right. right. just for history sake to kind of taste it. i think i would. >> not on a regular basis. i don't need ho cakes. programs i would make up a batch for everyone. >> we have our own version today. >> we do? >> don't you think so?

>> i don't know what you are talking about. >> it turned into something. >> let's talk about weather. >> i'm offering some cakes and you don't remember. >> i want to remind you of february of 1983. you guys remember? >> i do. >> we had a very, very mild february and out of nowhere, mother nature. >> but you said that we don't have the cold air really. >> we didn't have it in '83 either. see what happened? i'm not saying it's not going to happen but everything is possible in the month of february. we are not looking at blizzard or potential for blizzard. but i think there is a potential for accumulating snow. >> kids will love that. >> and most of them have the day off on monday. >> yes. >> so wax off the sleds. >> we still have dense fog across the area, dense fog

advisory continues until 8:00 this morning. once we mix that out in the atmosphere, sunshine should build in, should be a beautiful day four. high temperatures, as we mentioned, in the oohs, and a bit of a breeze here out of the north and west. here is the set of radar. we're going to get the cloud out of here. should be a nice afternoon as the pressure builds in. clouds will start to move in from the south and west during the course of our saturday. and the makings of our next storm system now taking shape down there in eastern texas and northern golf. looks like it's going to go across the south and then off the mid-atlantic coast. by late cup day and sunday night. should be a quick mover. anybody that watches washington weather, any time there is a deep edge, we have the risk of deepening winter weather here. there is the possibility that that will be the case. let me give you some headlines and changing in thinking here. we are getting more and more

confident that this storm will impact the washington area during the day on sunday and sunday night yesterday, we thought the storm would arrive late saturday early sunday. now, i don't think it gets in here until sunday. you have plans saturday nights go for it. should be just fine as we won't get any rain and/or snow around here until early sunday. looks like it will start as rain and then change to snow. we'll start to rain as then change over to snow. accumulations all depend on that track. as mentioned, it looks more and more likely that we will get some accumulation across the washington area here by sunday night and we only had two inches of snow here so it won't take a whole lot to make it the biggest storm of the year in washington. sunshine, mild, breezy. clear and chilly, 34 degrees and the weekend forecast, mentioning the storminess, we'll get out of here on president's day. temperature on monday, 39

degrees. that's weather. let's do traffic and julie wright has the latest. >> on the inner loop of the beltway, still dealing with accident activity from early in the morning. unfortunately a fatal crash remains under investigation, east of connecticut avenue but georgia avenue, two left lines are now getting by. on the other side of the town, thinks where we have some problems around north bound 28. northbound side of 28 remains closed at this time. eastbound 66 coming out of manassas, heading towards your exit in fair oaks. ever green mills road, reports back that could be closed there because of the crash. that's a look at the fox 5 ontime traffic. >> thank you, julie. according to the 2010 census, the latino community is now the second largest group, over 50 million strong which

means that the latino community will have a major impact. we'll have more on the impact of this mega goating block. 50 million, now the nation's largest minority group. how important is it to go out the latino vote? >> very important. they are the fastest block, they have the potential to swing a lot of states, including swing states, florida, colorado. some of the ones that are on the fence right now. candidates know this -- sorry. go ahead, just doing a little microphone adjustment here >> the candidates know this. there is a reason you are seeing a lot of spanish language tv ads, a lot of facebook ads in spanish, a lot of uni vision interviews that they are doing in florida and things like that. a couple of numbers i will give you. 1988, latino voters made up

32.6%. in 2008, it was 7.4%. more than doubled in 20 years. this year it is supposed to be even bigger, more than 12 million latino voters are supposed to come out, more than 12% hop. they are energized, energizable and that's why everybody is going after that. >> we are seeing president barack obama with the video. this block aim out in favor of president obama in 2008. since then, how has his record been on issues of importance to the community? >> it's tricky for m because he campaigned so strongly, was such a pro reform candidate in 2008, comprehensive immigration report, dream act. none of them have been done. that's not quite his fault, he still has to pass congress but latinos are very weary of that. weary of his deportation record. he has been much stronger on

enforcement than george bush. 400,000 deportations alone last year. they are looking at the numbers and looking at nothing is passing in congress. they are saying, is this the guy that we thought we elected? he is in a tough position and what you see is now him pivoting back towards the left on this issue, just in the last couple of months. you have seen he has sued arizona over their tough immigration law. he has changed the deportation policy now so that they focus only on hardened criminals and those sorts of things, won't go after students and house wise and people less threatening to you and me. more recently, they have also named l.a. mayor antonio villarogosa. >> and mitt romney and rick santorum have called the dream

act amnesty. >> a typical floridian looks at this and what message is here and what message needs to be conveyed for them to get votes? >> like so many issues, they attack very far from the right. you mentioned amnesty. they are also against the dream act. romney said he would veto the dream act as president. that's a tough way to speak to latino voters who support that bill by a rate of 90%. they are not quite as far to the right as herman cain who wanted to electrify the border fence but wanted to secure the border fence even more. so they're going to have a tough time in the general, whoever wins it is going to have a tough time coming back to the left. you see that it has worked in the primary. they beat up on rick perry, governor of texas who has allowed illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition rate and that was in one of the first debates. they hammered him on that. he never quite recovered.

the message at least in the primaries, this is an issue that's a winner. they went after it but that's going to be tough to tack back to the center and attract the latino voters. >> earlier, we saw mitt romney pushing the fact that his father spent time in mexico. how does that come across, something like that, you know, governor ofs thats that, raised in michigan but my dad was in mexico as a missionary. how does that kind of thing play? >> depend on the voters. some might say, he does have a connection with us. he is not totally foreign. he has been there. he has a connection and others might say, it's like, you know, somebody saying, my best friend is a mexican. does not mean a thing. it's voter specific as well. la tip yos are also socially conservative. they tend to be catholic and so that bears well for republicans. but, again, on the more legislative is side legislative

side, they're going to have a harder time. >> thank you both very much. it is now 7:40 coming up. coming up on 7:41 this morning, mexico's president is sending a strong president to the other side of the border via a billboard. we're going to take a closer look next. and the colbert report is currently on repeat. we're going to explain why after the break. land o'lakes spreadable butter with canola oil

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the president of mexico has a message for the united states. no more weapons. president felipe calderon put up a huge three-ton billboard near the u.s. border. it says, no more weapons. he says that the u.s. must stop the flow of weapons into mexico. the message was put up with weapons seized. the colbert show has been suspended as of wednesday.

several reports suggest it is due to a family emergency possibly involving his 91-year- old grandmother who is reportedly seriously ill. the show is expected to resume production soon, possibly as early as next week. on a lighter note, your candy bar -- although this might be serious to some people. candy bars are going to get smaller. mars will stop making the giant size of candy bars. the larimer bars are expected to disappear by the end of the year. good for me. >> now that i see what they are doing, that's okay. >> who needed the king size? who really needed it? >> i bet the price will be larger, smaller. >> regular size. like a pock of m & m, 200 calories >> they are delicious, by the way. >> anyway, what's up? >> forecast is going to be

absolutely beautiful. sunshine will break out after the fog. you will have no sense that we might have any issues this weekend if you get outside today if you get outside. 42 fredericksburg and 41 in haggerstown. no issues today, a little morning fog will burn off. winds out of the north and west. bring how the jacket. i put it into motion here and now we are into saturday about 6:00. clouds will be increasing and then our focus will turn to that area of low pressure down in the northern gulf of mexico and that will be lifting towards the washington area. notice i forwarded that at 7:00 a.m. look at what's creeping into the washington area by early on sunday. looks like we will see a period of rain transitioning to snow. it is a quick mover so it will be out of here by late sunday night but thinks going to be the bigger storm of the year. not saying much but potential

out there for enough coastal air, we could have some accumulation. >> how much at reagan national? >> don't say it. >> just do it. >> no, no, no. >> you do >> it's we don't have a lot of time but let me tell you something. here is what always happens because i have come through this. how much people say? i don't want to say how much. >> allison, i have a good sense of how much because too much can happen. >> there is a milky way on the line. i say less than two inches. >> i say at least two inches. >> better be king size. >> julie it here. >> making the trip along 95. this is where the trashing was shut down. now they are making some

traffic to get through. again, they just reopened this just a few moments ago. mean while on the other side of town, northbound 28, as you approach willard, the roadway has been reopened. coming in from the fairfax county parkway, down to about 25 miles per hour, again, lanes are open on 66 headed towards the beltway. accident investigation continues between connecticut avenue and georgia avenue. two left lanes get by. delays on the inner loop from 270. that's a check at the fox 5 on time traffic. >> i can taste that milky way now. >> looking for things to do with your kids? annie has the thing. >> she is where your kids can become a rockets scientist for a day. >> thinks going to be a lots fun, discover engineering day. it's completely free and going on tomorrow and you're going to come out here and learn how

engineering is involved in everyday life. we'll in act with some electricity and talk about how this goes hand in hand with engineering. you don't want to go anywhere. 

we wanted to say good morning to laurie myers in markum, virginia. she is a mother of two. if you want to be our facebook fan of the day, find us on facebook and friend us fun and education for the entire family. discover engineering family day is going on tomorrow. our annie yu is checking all the neat activities. >> thinks one of the several popular events.

last year, 14,000 people came to this one-day event. that is a lot of people and the goal is to get kids all jazzed about engineering and that is really cool. the woman behind it all, joe crane selig joins us --joanne selig joins us now. thinks fun to make kids involved. >> it's a fun event. kids of all ages come. we want them to see engineering, come out and discover the mist behind it. we have over 28 hands on activity from lego robot to a tsunami wave tank. >> a tsunami wave tank. that's been getting a lot of buzz. i posted it on facebook and people are thinking that's fun. >> it's learning about structural activities. kids make little lego brace.

kids put it in a tank and learn about what keeps buildings standing. what is the range specifically? you still need maybe four or five years old, right? >> the majority of activity are ages 5 to 13 but for the little ones, curious george and cat in the hat will be here. >> there are things for the little ones? >> right. >> reporter: talk about some otherring a it the that they can get their hands on. >> sure. we have an activity called the science of popcorn which teaches about aero dynamic. we have a wind tunnel. you can make slime and a giant dance pad which we will be doing in the eight hour. thank you very much, joanne. >> thank you, annie. >> my second guest asked me if i had a pack of gum. i said why? he says there is a neat experiment. and chris joins me now from

triple usa. earlier, i gave you a gum pack. what's that about? >> this helps children learn what conduct electricity and which don't. this paper, you don't think, would conduct electricity but if we put it here to get the gap, it has aluminium in it. now we take this dvd and you can see it's got that metallic look to it and we'll see if it does work. the buzzer does not work because it is -- although it's metallic, it's really plastic. >> kids think that's very need. >> especially little children. >> here, we have a lighting display and this is important because these traditional incan

incandescent light bulbs can no longer be imported or manufactured here in the united states. >> only ones that you can buy are on the shelves. >> the thing about these, these are very energy inefficient. about 90% of the energy they consume are lost to eat. that's why they are hot to the touch. >> and here? >> we have cfl bulbs. these are 75 more efficient than an incandescent dull be and lost about eight times longer, but they do have trace amounts of mercury in them and so they can be dangerous if they break >> and the bulb that a lot of people can go into and it's probably the best on the market now is an l ed. these are 90% more efficient than your incandescent bulb. >> thank you, chris. lots of useful information. it is completely free. discover engineering family day.

come on out and have fun with your family. back to you in studio. >> thank you, annie thousands of people die each other as a result of distracted driving. the transportation department wants automakers want auto manufacturers to change therein- board design. next, the national safety traffic administration breaks down the guideline and we'll take a look at a sixth grader working to get a stamp of approval to honor black history. we're going to learn more about his efforts coming up later. 

this morning, a prince george's county toddler is fighting for her life after being trapped in her burning home. more on the rescue ahead on 8. >> there is an effort to curb driver distraction. we'll take a look at the

distraction that could distract you. and this youngster is pounding the pavement. we're going to sit down with this young man. jackson davis his his name, ahead this hour. wait until you hear about the work that he has done. >> good morning. i'm allison seymour. we say good morning to our tucker barnes who is looking at the weekend weather which is like a roller coaster ride. >> yes, we'll start with today. a little breezy this afternoon but, you know, 50s in february, nice. >> good day. >> tomorrow looks great. sunday looks challenging. >> challenging is a good word. >> let's do it right now, 40 degrees at regan fashioningal. humidity up, 97%. still dealing with the fog. the national weather service just extended this fog advisory until 9:00 this morning.

so one more out with it, particularly areas south and east of the city vision trbility in some spots, less than a mile. we should lose that fog shortly and be in for a bright and sunny day and with high pressure building in from the west and nice breeze here to the west, should be a nice, refreshing afternoon. i want to give you the five-day forecast because i want to talk about sunday quickly. we're going to cloud up, and then sunday transitioning to, yep, snow. more on what that fog will look like. >> more on this morning's rush hour traffic. >> good morning, tony, good morning, you guys. downtown 16th street, authorities are checking for a crash there. inner loop of the beltway. as a result, the investigation

is ongoing. delays are improving from 270 heading eastbound into silver spring. on the other side of the town, the inner loop is bogged down leaving aneighbor date toward merrifield. 395 towards duke street, going to seminary road, earlier problem there is have cleared. traveling along eastbound 66, delays headed in bound this morning coming in before nutley street, heading into the accident street. the pace improved approaching the best way. that's a check at the fox 5 ontime traffic. >> julie, thank you very much a look at some of the top stories this morning. even more street robberies and robbery attempts in downtown d.c the latest, a holdup that happened just before 112 at 15th street and massachusetts avenue northwest. then a gunman tried to rob someone at 21st and l streets just after midnight of the these latest crimes come after

a series of robberies early yesterday morning in dupont circle and downtown. a two-year-old girl is fighting for her life after being caught in a house fire. i happened on the 6100 block of mill mar drive in district heights, maryland. the fire broke out in the kitchen of the family's townhouse and quickly spread. three adults and a nine years escaped but they were unable to get to the two-year-old. the boy was also taken to the hospital. he is being treated for smoke inhalation. another big story this morning, a crackdown on distracted driving. how would you like it if you could no longer change your gps while your foot was on the gas and your phone no longer

worked. there are dramatic proposals in for us. let's start with the big picture. we heart transportation secretary ray la hood talk about the dangers of distracted driving. paint this picture for us. how dangerous is that? >> it's one of the most dangerous things you can do behind the wheel. we lost over 3000 people in 2010 to distraction related crashes. it is a huge toll on the american public and this is something that the secretary has focused so hard to make sure that all of these preventable deaths cease. >> now might be some real answers as phase 1 it looked put actuality into place. >> thinks actually the in- vehicle technologies integrated into your car. i is your gps system, your communication system, if there is inputs there. it is information gathering systems, for example. even a very fancy radio, basically what we want to do is make sure that your eyes are on

the road, hand on the wheel at all times and these guidelines keep all of these devices within the zone of safety. >> what would be the charge be for automakers. we saw the trend for pace why cannily, okay, all of this is in our car. what does that mean for that type of automobile and what is the charge for automakers? what do they have to do. >> these are voluntary guidelines. these gives rules of the roads so to speak that the automakers can look into. a lot of automakers are will taking a number stems already. a lot of guidelines issued by the department of transportation have been taken from industry's voluntary guidelines but we added more facets to it because there is a variety of strategies. we believe that we're going to get 100% voluntary compliance and the automakers are ready to step up to make sure their cars

are safe. you talk about some of the voluntary things that are going on. while the foot is on the gas pedal. >> you can still use your phone if you have a hands phoresis tell that you can operate with both hand on the wheel. it's things like think about when you are going 65 miles per hour down the road and trying to type in a gps address, you know, 2121 mcgillicutty highway is not something that you should be doing. your car should be in stop and park. anything like if you are posting on facebook and bitter, that will be locked out unless you were stopped and in park. things like gps guidance, already have your input, already on the way, that's the worst. basically, anything that takes your attention away for two seconds or more, that is outside of the zone of safety.

things like that is what you want to to frame use this equipment. >> what's the timeline here? what are we talking about? >> these are guidelines as i said before, allison. the automaker will take it. a number these things are already this vehicles and hopefully the other mavs, as they are going through their redesign that they will incorporate these new guidelines into the new system. >> for the drive public listening to this with a half ear, the headline again is all to make it safer out there on the roadway. >> absolutely. one of the things that the american public has made clear is that they want these new capables and these devices in the vehicle. this is a real way for us to provide these things. david from the national highway safety traffic administration. this could be a game changer for those of us on the road. >> that is our expectations >> thank you, tony. >> a high-end casino is the

vision of the future for the national harbor. that is the desire prince george's county executive wants. this is a baker who for years as a maryland delegates opposed slots laid out how his plan is different when he joined us earlier this morning. >> that's one of the reasons i went for the high income, high- end casino and not the slot barns which i opposed in the past. that right there is where people come in using the last dime to use it on the slots machine. thinks where you see people with disposable income. >> age analysis found that it could generate around $50 million a year for the county it is 8:09 now.

mclen-based mars is cutting some of the kaipped did i and bobby brown in town a week after his ex-wife's death. what he had to say about whitney houston.

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8:12 now. time to look at stories making headlines. reverend jackson said that the producer of soul train had strong characters. we are learning details about the funeral of whitney houston. areth franklin will sing along with stevie wonder. her costar in the bodyguard, kevin costner will be there along with oprah winfrey.

clive davis, her mentor, will also be there. and bobby brown has been invited to the funeral. he made a stop here in town. >> i would like to say thank you for your prayers. i like to say thank you for everything. >> bobby brown acknowledged whitney houston's tragic death during his show in upper marlboro. brown gave houston a shoutout while performing with his new band. the singer is expected to perform with the group again in greensboro and will make his way to newark for the funeral. >> let's talk more about the weather. >> let's see what we got as we get into our favorite segment of the day. thinks --

>> oh, what a picture. >> yes. >> thinks makaya. get this, how old do we think she is? >> two? >> good, allison, very close. she turns three this week. or next week. and she's going to celebrate -- this is how i want to celebrate my birthday, too, with a dora birthday party and a special sell station at chuck e cheese. >> i've been to those chuck e cheese parties. they are fun. >> they are fun. >> i get into it, too, i start playing those games,skee ball. >> you have to be careful not to give them too much soda. >> that's her birthday. >> she is a doll. >> she is very cute. happy birthday. >> to accepted us a pic, go to fox. >> thinks so important. just a few short years ago. >> that's amazing how they go

through the stages. >> right now, she loves dora. >> dora is a great show. not that i watch it by myself. >> uh-huh. >> let's go to the map. 38 in baltimore, 39 in manassas. we're going to be in for a nice looking day. we have fog across the region. a little breezy this afternoon. winds north and west, 10 to 15 and high temperatures in the 50s. so enjoy today because we have changes in the weekend. washington fine today. tonight, even into tomorrow, just an increase in clouds but our developing storm system now taking shape in eastern texas and the northern golf. eventually, area of low pressure will emerge down there and post a pretty good storm system up towards the north atlantic. timing on this, i hit it first rain and/or snow will arrive early sunday morning, be with us sunday and be out of here. quick mover by sunday night. so the second half of the weekend, things certainly deteriorate. rain will transition into snow. how much snow can we get, still

a little early to call but we are gathering more and more confidence that we will have an accumulating snow across the washington area by sunday afternoon. still a lot to figure out where that rain-snow line will be. when we fine tune that for you, we'll get a better sense of how much snow we get around here on sunday. >> 53 today. 50 tomorrow with increasing clouds. 38 tomorrow as that cold air rushes in. president's day looks promising, 39 degrees. let's do traffic and julie wright has a look here. what's going on, julie? >> we still have lanes open on the outer loop of the beltway. that's good movements inner loop, still dealing with accident activity past connecticut where the right lane is closed. heavy on 22 from nutley to the

beltway. finally, north bound along 3925 as you work your way from the beltway toward duke street, heavy volume. authorities are now checking for the crash northbound on the george washington parkway along 123 the republican presidential candidates have two important primaries before the big super tuesday test. newt gingrich will be on fox news sunday this weekend and host chris wallace joins us now from capitol hill with a preview. good morning, chris. >> good morning, tony. >> you have heavy weights on this weekend. tell us about it. >> we're going to be talking to newt gingrich. this is the darnedest presidential campaign. two weeks ago, newt gingrich won south carolina and the front runner. now for the third time in this campaign, he is being counted out. does he have another matching trick to rise back up? we'll talk about it.

you know, he was, back then, talking about the fact that this needs to be a two-man race. romney and the conservative alternative, namely gingrich and that santorum needs to drop out. now people are saying exactly the same thing but about the same thing, let him drop out and let it be romney and santorum. >> if i were any of them, i would not drop out because it challenges from week to week. >> i could not agree with you more. >> absolutely no reason because it's clear that this republican electorrate cannot settle on these guys. one week it's gingrich, one week it's romney and another santorum. it's like whack a mole. the other big guest is eric cantor. they made a deal with the tax cuts. even though this is february, a country with $15 trillion in debt and 10 million unemployed,

people are saying the legislative agenda is over, congress is done for the year. we're going to talk to eric cantor about that. and power play player of the week is someone who is helping breaking ground at the future site of thenational african american museum. >> i knew this was a museum being built. i was unaware they had been working on it for five years. this guy has been the director, lonnie bunch, director for five years. it will be on the mall between the american history museum and the washington monument, really great location in three years. in the course of our interview, he takes out -- i'm going to tease you with it. he takes out an extraordinary artifact from one of the

central figures in african american history. it was as if i had seen lincoln's stove pipe hat. it is extraordinary. you will see it on sunday. >> wow, you got me there. we'll see you on fox news sunday at nine right here on channel 95. >> some of the arti facts that they are getting, unbelievable. >> i can't wait to see what this is. >> time right now is 8:21 we have a health alert about a hidden danger in some baby formula and organic food. and a little bit later, we're going to be live with a look at some free -- yes, free fun taking place this weekend at the national children's museum. 

welcome back. we have a health alert about a hidden danger in some infant formula and/or nick foods. a new study finds high levels of arsenic in some infant formula and in some cereal bars made with organic brown rice syrup. the government does regulate the amount of arsenic in all our drinking water but not in food. dr. oz says that needs to change. >> this study from the

dartmouth folks reveals levels that are several times higher than we allow in drinking water. really high numbers were reported. i think we have to get a national standard to protect us from arsenic. >> brown rice absorbs natural arsenic from the soil. researchers recommends that people who eat a lot of brown rice should vary their diets. and parents who have children getting toddler formulas should vary. your candy bars are expected to get smaller. 8:25 now on this friday. scary video that you will only see on fox 5. watch what happens as armed gunmen storm into a virginia check cashing business.

and there is an effort underway to get a commemorative stamp issued in honor of an enslaved man who worked on the lewis and clark expedition. you might be surprised to hear who is heading up the effort. he is just 12 years old. we're going to sit down with jackson davis v when fox 5 returns. stay with us. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable

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making headlines this morning. this is video you will end see on fox 5. spotsylvania county police are looking for a gunman who robbed a check-cashing business. the surveillance video shows what happened once the manager of the business opens the door. a first gunman surprises him from behind. a second gunman appeared. the manager was tied up but not hurt. the gunmen got awhich with an

undisclosed amount of cash. a judge is giving aid to former governor robert erlich, a one-yearly suspended sentence paul sewerk has to do some community service for tell voters not to vote on election day. maryland delegates say they are ready to consider a handful of amendments to consider gay marriage. two committees can review and commit amendments. several delegates committed their support to the bill. tucker is back with us. important news for the weekend. >> something that bears watching. today is going to be fine? we keep skipping over today and tomorrow. >> people ask me all the time, why don't you talk about good news. >> good news rarely make the news. >> no, the good news is --

>> if the good news is we won't be here on sunday. if not, we'll be here on sunday. >> that's the time. >> people should be concerned. >> we'll talk about that in the 30 seconds i have left. reagan national, 41 degrees. 43 in quantico. it will be good news. >> go to the supermarket and get your milk and bread. >> allison is in rare form today. air afterlow pressure here developing. thinks going to be the stormness for the weekend. it's looking for a better and better bet that we will be impact the. still have to design where that track is going to be as it jogs here or there, that will change our forecast. but i think by the sunday, particularly sunday afternoon and sunday evening, we'll see rain transition to some snow and we could see some accumulating snow.

let me give you some changes since you last tuned into your weather forecast. we're going to get some kind of storm around here, confidence improving. look like the time is changing. first, we thought it was saturday night and sunday we ar thinking sunday morning. so if you have plans for saturday night, go for it. when exactly the snow takes place, we don't know that yet. that will impact the accumulation. much of the area here will get some accumulations by sunday afternoon and sunday night remember, we only had two inches of snow this year. not going to take a lot to make this our biggest storm of the year by late sunday night and early monday. here is the 5:00 day forecast. the storm system arrives early sunday. by monday and tuesday, sunshine returns. president's day looks great.

get your overnight lows, by the way, 26 degrees sunday night. these temperatures are really expected to fall sunday afternoon. that does it for weather, allison. i hope you are ready. i'm tossing it to you. >> always ready. jackson davis v is on a mission and he wants your help. he is working to get a commemorative stamp issued for a slave who worked on the lewis and clark expedition. it is a tough battle and it continues. jackson is here with his mom. how are you? >> good. >> you must be so proud. >> we are both very proud let's talk about this. what has got your interest about this map named york. >> well, he was only of a can american man on the trip. that's one way that he got my

interest. he was part of the lewis and clashing expedition. i was working on the project for lewis and clark and that's how it started. >> and i read you took a trip to the post office for black history month. you saw the people commemorated with the stamps and thought, hey shall new york should be on the stamp, too. how did you get to that thinking? >> well, sakiajewa got a stamp and coin and lewis and clark had postage stamps and i was like, where was york? >> what did you find out about york? not a lot of people at the lewis and clark college knew who this person was. what did you find through your research? >> i only know what lewis and clark wrote in their journal. some interesting things i found out was that he was the only african american on the trip.

he saved lewis' life from a grizzly bear and helped with racial relationships on the journey, like native americans. >> they had never seen an african american. these were things that were really intriguing to jackson. when he was reading through, just trying to understand what a slave's life could have been back then. and he was the only person who went on the trip, worked hard, did not get paid. most of the men that came back were kind of considered rock stars when they came back but york was the only person who came back and had to go back to a slave life. those were difficult to explain to our son what that would be like. so these are the things that i think just had him dig a little deep in terms of soul searching. >> i read that great grand dad was a post worker in d.c >> yeah.

>> maybe that's where the love comes from, as a way to honor this man. you reached out to some very powerful people. tell me about that. >> i wrote the president for the whole month of august. and maybe just like a week past september, he wrote me back. he said that was a great thing that i was doing. on one man that's been helping me a lot is congressman chris van who holland. >> support from mark moral from the national urban league. >> professor henry gates at harvard. there is your picture with congressman. were you surprised to know or get the response? it seems to mow that you knew you were doing a good thing and you expected the response. when you started getting the

letters and responses back what did you think. >> i was ex-sigh sited because i never had people bride me back, i guess the first letter -- >> congressman van holland, he wrote you back in three weeks. van holland stepped in and got the letters secured to the others. you know, just the extreme interest that jackson had. >> this is a letter from vice president joe biden, too. pretty neat stuff, i would say. >> where are you in this whole effort? what happens next? and mom, if you need to jump in, where are we as far as getting the stamp? >> well, tomorrow -- yes, saturday, i'm going to be at the national postal museum and talking about my york stamp campaign and i will be answering questions with my friend alex. >> what we don't know is how long it takes to get a stamp made. that's the most difficult thing that people asks us. jackson is on a journey.

seems like monthly, he keeps having opportunities to speak about it. i'm glad that he mentioned the national post museum e be there from 12:00 to 3:00. they are having something called african american family day and they invited jackson to speak about his campaign so hopefully other children can campaign. >> also a free event. >> you were saying that not a lot was known about york before. now i understand you are planning a trip to the lewis and clark college in portland where there is a statue now in that area, if we can show that picture. maybe, what he deserves is now coming to light. i have to say i'm sure you are a big part in all of that. you might be a history maker here. how do you feel about that? >> what do you feel about that? what's the most important thing you want to share. >> i think stamps are the most visible piece of art. and what better way. >> there is another statue of york. >> when you see a stamp, it's

going to peak people's interest. that's something that you started. that's very awesome. thank you. >> what do you want to do when you want to get all the way grown up? >> i think i want to be a historian. a man after my own -- tony is giving him an applause. i got goose bumps. >> also a york bracelet. >> and look at that >> and a little explainer in there, too. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thinks jackson davis v, please, remember that name. you will be hearing a lot about him and his mom sin davis. thank you so much for coming. >> that is just great. >> thank you very much, everybody. it is 8:39 on this friday morning. the so-called linsanity continues in the nba. the sports industry is playing

close attention to the knicks' jeremy lin we are here at the national museum and they are rolling out an event that is completely free to the entire family and we are talking about dance pad mania. you see these two evening nears stretching it out. they'll do a little demo for us. 

sad news from major league baseball. gary carter, the hall of fame catcher who was a hero for the mets has died from a brain tumor. his single helped the mets rally in the 10th inning in the 2nd game of the world series and then past the red sox. now to the hottest sensation. jeremy lin has become the had thest item. the newest nba star, jeremy lin

whipping up. the new phenom nicknamed les insanity has stocks o madison square garden reaching high. >> it's kind of like hot stock or ipo right now. everybody is looking at him and want to be part but they are wondering where the ceiling is, if there is a bad game or two, how far does this drop back down? everybody is watching cautiously. >> chinese interest in the nba declined follow the retirement of houston rocket yao ming last year but lin's exploits on the court is causing big sensation. >> china does not have that much nba stars on the tv. >> the effect throughout the

entire league, you see a lift in all kind of revenue matrix. you see lift in ratings, attendance, license products, endorsements. so sponsorships for the knicks. that's what's going to lead to the economic stimulus package that everybody gets a story line around. >> lin is the first american born taiwanese born players that has many television stations rushing to add the knicks to their broadcast. >> i would imagine so. >> yep. well, soda straw rockets, leg quo robots and straw gliders, some of the activities that kids can enjoy. >> our own annie yu is there look getting a preview. looks like fun >> it is a lot of fun. >> this event has been going on for the past 20 years. it's been here at the national museum and it is one of the best indoor places for the

kids. great thing about this festival, it's growing every year. they are constantly coming up with new things. this year, they have this giant dance pad. the creators are here. thank you for coming out. before we talk about the dance pad, i have to ask both of you. you are engineers? >> yep what >> what really inspired you to get you into this field? >> getting to make stuff that matters to people. a chance to combine things that i was already excited about like everything from music to dancing like dazey is into and i added some engineering content to make things that mattered. >> what but, daisy? >> i love to build things and have fun and engineering is a great way to put both things together. i love to dance and that's where the idea of the dance pad is. >> you brought in a little demo here. >> they can come over here and can see how we've made this. this is just a simple version of the the big huge dance pad

and it is a small circuit where in you close the circuit lights turns on. >> what are some of the materials that you use? regular cardboard. toilet paper roll. >> battery. >> that's a great project for kids to do, to get these supplies together and get really excited about making a dance pad. >> exactly. only about $5 of material. yes the cool thing about me is it's a way to recreate at home using engineering that cooley affect where you have a rock concert and all these dancers in the background and going wild and the lights are going off. >> okay, nate, calm down. >> just kidding. you have the real deal here. let's hop on up and this is a lot of fun, nate. let's talk about how this.

>> engineering in the make glg what is that noise? >> we hooked up a couple of sensors, fancier version of what daisy built at home. they react to your dance moves. when you step on here, a big light turns on. when you stomp on that to the beat, it turns on. >> thinks like our own little rock concert. >> let's cue the must yikes and do a little demo to show them how it works here. >> this is a good choice. there you go. stomper pad. okay. you clearly can get the idea. there you go. that's a lot of fun. so when kids come out, are lucky kids going to be chosen up to come on stage? yes, they're going to check the pats and we'll teach them how

to do their own pads at home. >> thank you very much. for nor, log on to myfoxdc.com. i'm 29 years old, people. this is a lot fun to come out here. back to you in studio. >> very good. >> looks like fun. does look like fun. >> thanks. >> we want to say thank you for watching and good morning to lowery myers from march markum, a mother of two and she loves our show. look at lori's photo. search us. don't forget it is the number 5 with fox 5. well, most restaurant diners would agree, unrulely kids, they can ruin a good meal. >> we are not talking about your own children or our children but those of fellow customers. why never our kids. >> yeah, never our kids. an atlanta restaurant is doing

something. after getting a number of complaints, the owner of grant pizzas said that to ensure that all diners have an enjoyable diners and lunch, we respectfully ask that parents tend to their crying tots outside. >> listen to comments about that, but, beyond, that we had a child hit a customer in the head with a toy who was not that customer's child or toy. >> it's pizza play. it will get loud in here sometimes. >> the restaurant owners say they are not banning children or planning to throw anyone out. they want to remind anyone to be on their best behavior. they have not received any complaint about their behavior. >> most interesting. when parents, if it's crying -- >> most do, but not all. that's who that is addressed to. >> well, it is 8:50 now on this

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♪i'm so in love with you >> still makes me laugh when i see it. a month after president obama sang an impromptu version of al green, he joked that they will go on tour. he was joined by the soul singer that raised 29 million- dollar for his campaign. president obama did not sipping this time but did joke that after reelection he can go on tour and be green's opening act. he did not sing because he said he did not want to lose any vote because of his singing voice. some white house tourists got the shock of their lives yesterday. >> guess who was home? first lady michele obama and greeted some of them. look at their faces.

how cool is that. even bo was, there the first dog. but mrs. obama put a little scare into some of these kids when she told them there would be a pop quiz about their visit and they could not go home unless they passed it. she was kidding, of course. imagine, that you are going on a tour. >> never think -- man, that's cool. young black americans making a difference for the future. >> a group is being honored by the some. and your cell phone could make you a more selfish person. we'll be right back at 8:55.  people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! get high yield free checking at capital one bank. why earn bupkis, when your checking could earn five times the national average!!

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taste of las vegas in maryland? lawmakers have yet to legalize table games but one county

executive says he is ready to build a lavish gambling resort. roeshern baker talks about his plans and we'll talk to two young adults who help the world by being named young futurists. >> in you are not ready to help others, why your new cell phone may be to blame. a university of maryland study says that your cell phone may make you selfish. one of the professors will be here took about that. >> we're going to talk about the weather coming on sunday. >> you are not going to let go of that, allison is it. >> well, it was written for me to say that. >> fog across the region. nice sunny day, breezy, highs in the 50s. let's do it. tera