out west and he is here to tell us what we can expect. >> let's get right to it show you that thunderstorm activity, produced out to the west, right now we have a resport of yet another tornado on -- report of yet another tornado on the ground central kentucky. let's start with hd radar, again as we get into the afternoon evening hours, this cold front will approach washington, lots of lightning, pushing east 50 miles per hour as tony mentioned earlier during the overnight hours, 12 separate tornadoes on the ground. this has a history of producing tornadoes and will likely do so for several hours to come. >> let's switch gears, rain moved in an hour ago as we go to viper and you will be able to see the rain showers spreading across the area, there you go, moderate rain for the late morning early afternoon and then, things will quiet down and rain will start

up again later tonight as the cold front moves through rain will come through in two phases later today. >> regan national, 42 degrees humidity 29%, quick look at your forecast lots of clouds, showers potentially a thunderstorm around here as well highs upper 40s and low 50s. more details on the forecast, want to remind you of the fox 5 weather ap, get the latest information including showers we got moving through the area at the moment fox 5 weather ap back to you upstairs. >> thanks. >> we want to update you on serious breaking news we brought last hour on a school bus accident in white oak montgomery county school officials say none of the students onboard was hurt another bus would pick them up and take them to school where they will be evaluated for injuries. we are told a car crashed into the bus and the driver of the car was taken to hospital the cause of the accident is under

investigation. new this morning a traffic alert in prince georges county to pass along there is a massive sinkhole on 450, annapolis road westbound lanes remain blocked route 1, baltimore avenue, near keith's cross here is a look at video from earlier this morning, there was a water main break at the same location two weeks ago that flooded the area check out the sinkhole it appears to be the result of that. one of dcs guardian angels being credited with helping catch two alleged criminals in northeast. he was off duty last night when he saw two suspects steal an ipad from someone near the road island avenue stop. during the chase he was able to contact police, officers have ken lullly caught up with the -- eventually caught up with the suspects. king loves being able to fight crime >> i like what i do i have been doing it for 16 years

here, it is dangerous and someone has to do it. we do it 24/7 we are on duty, this is what we do. won we get out in the community, we -- when we get out in the community we are ready. >> charges against the two suspects are pending. >> prince georges county fire chief will announce the cause of that raging house fire on 57th avenue river dale heights, a news conference is set for 1:00 p.m. this afternoon we hope to get an update on the two firefighters still in hospital, high winds helped fuel that fire. there is outrage over the mishandling of remains at dover airforce base. >> new report from the pentagon found some victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were cremated melanie alnwick is live with details. melanie. >> good morning tony the pentagon has been look into problems, at the dover airforce

base mortuary since they came to light in 2009. some 9/11 remain that is went to dover may have been improperly handled as well the report says the unidentifiable fragmented remains of 9/11 victims were cremated, put into biomedical waste containers, they were disposed of in a virginia landfill this is one practice that lead to the investigation into the mishandling of remains of fallen soldiers from iraq andafghanistan at dover airforce bases mortuary. not strongly exercised by the army the chain of command and command oversight was not properly conducted. technical oversight was almost nonexistent rules regulations, et cetera, were not properly

understood. >> the report did say operations at dover have greatly improved, still, some members of congress say they want to know why the family members of the 9/11 victims were not notified allison. >> do we know for sure which 9/11 remains are involved. you know there is a big question surrounding that, i looked at the report and it really -- there is a memo in there detailing a memo from 25, july 02 that directs disposal of group s remains described as from the attack on the pentagon, the executive summary makes a one word mention throwing shanksville in there as well but the associated press talked to the coroner from shanksville pennsylvania and he says all remains of victims from flight 93 remained in pennsylvania he has no idea how they could or if they did make their way to dover airforce base as you can see questions like these are leading to these calls for a complete accounting of exactly what happened with those 9/11

remains. >> indeed melanie alnwick for us live thanks so much. crucial victories for mitt romney last night he beat santorum by a small amount in michigan where he was born and raised. rom know won 41%, santorum 38%. romney had a bigger victory in arizona newt gingrich took 16%, the new contest is washington state's caucus that happens saturday and then on to super tuesday next week. allison a new report from theg . accountability office says -- from the government accountability office says billions in tax payer dollars are wasted because many agencies are looking at

identical problems and several systems for doing routine jobs such as conducting background checks on new job applicants more on the report, ed o'keefe federal eye reporter with washington post >> i read your story it is mind boggling i think we said earlier there is an outrage factor money is tight taxes are being raised on all of this and the government is wasting money is there a ballpark figure how much they are wasting? >> the only figure they would put on it is potentially 10s of billions of dollars because they look at this and say gosh it looks like there is duplication here, overlap there if it were to be further studied or justified by these agencies, then perhaps the figures would be different they have been criticized in the past for trying to put a specific dollar on it, but that is a huge chunk of change especially now days. gao found this, now will these individual agencies have to do some investigations and

try to straighten this out? >> it started happening on two tracts the beautiful thing about this report, not only find the problems but says here is what you can do to fix them a lot of these things have to be taken care of by congress the rest by administration they noted they put out a similar report last march, 172 different suggestions they had those done by administration, most of them done, congress lagging behind. >> surprise. >> exactly things like you know, merging agencies together eliminating administrative overhead and rethinking the way some of these programs are run. >> can you give us some of the more agregious examples. >> one is -- one i think people around here can appreciate is the fact it cost as billion dollars to do background checks on people applying for federal jobs at least seven agencies are building their own data base even though in most cases it is supposed to be done by

opm argument there is look at this do you need to be doing it can most be done by opm another example agency called federal protective service, basically be in charge of security for most federal security across the country. turns out the agencies either own urolase them are oles doing security -- own or lease theme are also doing security assessment. many federally run research dollars or programs are scatter shot you list nih, va, vod, other groups all conducting separate research some times on the same types of things. >> this is an example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in this case it is the idea va, vod, nia all hand out money for medical research in some cases gao said it could be the va is handing money to research the

same thing the naa asked another group to look at again the idea there is do we need two different groups looking at the same exact thing could we save a few million dollars and perhaps one data base where they can look and say who is doing breast cancer research and if they are don't hand out any more money. >> is this one thing reports issued, there was a report last year 172 recommendations reports issued congress will look at it i assume. >> congress always says they will look at it whether they vote on something that remains to be seen, increase leg as thee reports come out, -- increasingly as these reports come out, now that there is a list being drawn up almost every year think closer we are getting closer to the point where something will be done even if it is just a liver, you can save 2 billion. ed o'keefe good to see you. >> all righty. coming up new warnings for people who take statin drugs

and more on that study about sleeping pills and their link to possible early death. neurologist is here to talk about those results. >> time now 9:10 a.m. we will be right back on this rainy leap day 

we are back now with a health alert new safety warnings about the most widely prescribed group of cholesterol lowering medication it is making labeling changes to some statins this after some patients complained about memory loss and elevated blood sugar some of the most popular statins you see them on your screen, phasers lipitor, crestor. the life saving benefits of statins drastically outweigh the risks. we first told you yesterday

about a new study on sleeping tablets and their adverse effect on mortality researchers found people who took as little as 18 doses per year had an increased risk of dying early. joining us a neurologist and sleep expert from the sleep lab at washington adventist hospital and clinical sleep advisor national institute of health thanks for being with us. this raised eyebrows what is your reaction to this sleep study i guess. >> it is an important finding a real finding research which ares who did this -- researchers who did this have been working on these problems for a number of years and raises more questions than it answers however. >> interesting we will talk about that in a second first we want to know what are we talking about, over-the- counter, prescription sleeping aids? >> these researchers looked at medical records for a large group of people, 4% had been

prescribed sleeping pills they couldn't verify the people took the medicine but looked at people who were prescribed them 2.5 years later there was a higher chance of dying from all causes those who were prescribed sleeping pills, generics, valiums, and anti histamines a wide variety of medicine prescribed seemed to put people at risk for dying faster. >> there are more natural remedies that a lot of people use, like melatonin or things you can go to whole foods the health food store and buy were those studied as well >> they were not this is specifically limited to prescription medications and people tempted to stop those medicines go out and buy something over-the-counter, it is not simple.

the melatonin helped only a few people to fall asleep it is good for controlling our clock but not good for helping people sleep most of the over-the- counter medicines are anti histamines that is a class of medicine in this study that specifically also elevated the risk of death. >> these have been prescribed this is nothing wrong with being prescribed a sleep aid, why if -- were they always dangerous? why have we now started to study this and look at this. >> if you look back 10, 20 years medical research establishment was studying more obvious dangers high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease we have more information, expanding into the field of sleep it is a newer field we know there are some dangers to having insomnia, one study also in central pennsylvania showed people who had insomnia, had a four times higher risk of dying it is not clear it is the pills that do the whole problem some has to do with having insomnia, the lesson from that is doctors

need to take insomnia, more seriously people who have trouble sleeping need to take it more seriously. >> okay so the question would be then, if there are some people who are going to say i will take my chances with insomnia, what would you say to those viewers versus taking a sleeping pill that might reduce my life span. >> we all take our chances but people who are not sleeping well have a higher risk of having a car crash. people who learn self-hypnosis, relaxation, guiding your mind to certain relaxing patterns people need to be willing to put in the psychological effort and time to do those exercises there are good books on the market to help people do that good psychological professionals who can teach that to people who have insomnia. >> you said at the top of this interview it raised a lot of questions now that need to be looked at what are you talking

about specifically? >> i am going to meet with my patients one by one and discuss this study with them and say how bad is your anal some mia one patient told me one -- insomnia, one patient told me i am so sleepy after one night, it hardly pays to take my foot off the accelerator and put on the brake. what is your message for those watching who said i am going to put all these medications down not going to deal with this. >> before you make any big changes talk with your doctors absolute risks of death in this study were relatively low so it is more when they were prescribed medicines than not but absolute risks are still low there is time to talk with your doctor or other health care professionals make a plan look over the dangers of not treating this problem. the sleep specialist at the sleep lab washington adventist

hospital and works at nih on sleep and very important sleep and some times evasive sleep thanks for being with us >> thank you pleasure. coming up would you pay an extra $200 for your car to help save lives why the government isn't giving the green light yet for new cameras ahead here is a story some leaplings could relate to, a push to have george washington's birthday recognized on february 22nd. congress will hold a hearing, to decide if washington's birthday should be observed on its date pgh >> speaking of birthdays a special happy birthday to all the leap day babies here are some more names from our facebook fan page. man we had no idea there were

this many also i don't know that first one but we wish you a happy birthday and also ... we will share a few more later this hour 

back now an update on proposed requirements, government proposed most new cars and trucks come equipped with cameras in an attempt toprevent drivers backing over small children but they have complained about the cost up to

$200 per vehicle they are suggesting offering car makers the option to expand car mirrors instead. ray la hood says he needs more time for research and data analysis. 105 miles per hour how fast a prince georges county council woman was driving on the belt way and walked away with only a warning. council woman karen tolls was pulled over and ticketed for making an unsafe lane change driving a county issued vehicle at the time law enforcement say she was travelling 105 miles an hour in a 55-mile per hour zone but all she got was a written warning for excessive speed. >> dcs chief of police expected to testify on a host of issues with the police department one is sure to be the district not prosecuting drunk drivers. prosecutors are not taking dwi cases to court right now officers have been been able to use breathalyzer tests for more than a year and records show

drunk driving requests have fallen since 2009, the chief disagrees with critics who say it is making dc less safe. >> don't drink and drive in the district we are out there making a lot of arrests i think over 900 for dui last year. >> we have diminished enforcement capables, diminished prosecutorial capabilities that is now how you deter a crime like drunk driving. councilmember phil mendhelson. tracking that dangerous storm system that spawned tornadoes west. >> meanwhile take a live lookout side here see the rain is coming down here in dc our weather condition haves deteriorated, what we can expect later today will we see severe weather stay with us, 9:26 a.m. 

a live lookout side, boy this picture is not as nice as they were earlier. it is raining in the district this is the same storm system that brought severe weather to portions of midwest and the mississippi river valley. kind of. >> part of the same system. >> obviously, severe line of thunderstorms brought severe weather overnight. not directly related. >> that picture looks like it is raining all over the world doesn't it. >> all over our area. >> our world. >> dreary looking day. >> not too many days you can guarantee rain but we can next couple hours. the entire region is under the spell of this warm front. >> tell us about out west too. take a look at that as well. >> yes, sir. >> let's get to it. >> how many bosses do you have

tucker. >> let's get to radar, what's going on out there as we are doing weather right? there it is. >> there is the map. >> the rain is picking up, the live shot it is a dreary day it is a dreary day rain is getting more intense here with each passing hour, the belt way you can pick it out and we've got some moderate rain just off to the northwest, see yelloworanges, got one of our radars, so you know, potentially, heavy rain here maybe a quarter inch, maybe three quarters of an inch, a few spots, later today again this is the warm front at the moment later today that cold front associated with the tornado activity, get in here later tonight. push off show you satellite radar, the warm front as we speak, should get a little bit of a break and later this afternoon into the evening hour that is cold front will come through and give us more showers at any point today, you

could see or hear lightning, thunderstorm active as well we are not expecting severe weather our atmosphere too stable for that. not far away, could be more subtle. 43 washington we are cool, 39 gaithersburg, 37 fredericksburg. chilly rain north and west 35 at the moment leonard town our highs only upper 40s warm air trying to nudge north i don't thing it will get in here remember last friday we thought we would see temperatures sore. all right here is the future cast put it in motion 12 noon still getting rain showers, break up out to the west, south and east, heavy rain then we will get a few hours of quiet, 3:00 p.m., cloud cover, and then the rain perhaps thunderstorms will redevelop by 9, 10 tonight as the cold front comes through once you watch that to the east we will clear it out and kick off first day of march looks beautiful around here tomorrow high temperature

s with sunshine mid-60s right back nice weather starting tomorrow cloudy skies of course showers, back in the forecast likely 49 your daytime high winds out of the south 10 to 15, move in cloudy early showers could be thunderstorms as well then after midnight i think really quiet down start to clear out tomorrow morning 47 your overnight low your 5 day forecast 66 degrees tomorrow, hard to believe first day of march cloud up again second day of friday, more showers maybe a period of rain right now, second half of the weekened looks great highs low 60s nice and mild as we get into the month of march that is a look at your weather forecast updates in a couple minutes allison and tony. all right tucker thank you we are following breaking news out of washington. the state department says north korea agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and put a pause on

nuclear and long range missile tests the country will allow international atomic energy inspectors to monitor suspension and confirm disablement of its nuclear reactors. police here in dc have arrested a number of occupy protestors this morning officials say dozens of demonstrators tried to enter a building 13th and i streets northwest several of them were taken into custody, two lanes along i street were shut down drivers were asked to avoid the area new york avenue or k street can be used as alternates. coming up target pulls a card off its shelves,. >> greeting card. >> thank you very much because of a message inside that refers to whitney houston what it says. michael jackson's daughter says another some body whomever sang on some of the songs on her dad michael's cd. checking in with tmz for

answers. >> i have that cd i am not shocked by it. >> unfortunately but first anyone with a special leap day birthday can get on good deals, how does a dozen free cupcakes sound? that is like gold these days that comes from sprinkles cupcakes m street georgetown all you need to do is show a valid id with your leap birthday on it. and delicious treats, a dozen of them will be yours. >> fantastic. >> before you eat the cupcakes how about chowing down on burgers and fries, z burger man they got the best deal. >> yeah, they do. >> giving not one free birthday meal but four to anyone whose birthday is today. that is four burgers, four fries and four wonderful milk shakes show a valid id proving your birthday is today. we will be right back. 9:35 a.m. 

featuring whitney houston a greeting card was pulled from store shelves and michael jackson's daughter says it is not her fathers voice on a recent cd. >> shocking. >> you know we are going out west to l.a. to talk to my friend dax holt with all the hollywood news good morning dax. >> good morning dax. >> how are you guys. >> doing all right let's talk about the greeting card first what is the problem here. >> okay basically there is a greeting card sitting on target shelves it says if you ever thing about dating the bad boy consider whitney houston and that is all i am going to say. yeah, it is just you know before she died, people probably laughed at it thought it was a funny card once you bring death into the mix it is not so funny so target was alerted to the fact they had these cars in their stores and once they were aall righted they are going through all their stores pulling the cards from their shelves they don't

want any hassle and don't want to be disrespectful that is what they are doing and saying sorry, but they were on the shelves before she passed away. >> that is a good move. classy thing to do from target. l you i like your shirt secondly michael jackson is he singing or not on his last album. >> all right here is the bomb shell paris jackson broke basically, there is a video being shopped around a video chat session between her and a bunch of friends back in 2008 after her father passed away, and someone said look the new michael album that came out, one of the songs in there called hold my hand it doesn't sound like your dad and she said it is not it is a guy named jason who does sound alike voicing and sounds like my dad but it is not him trust me i know because my dad sang to me a lot when i was young and i know his voice and that is not his voice. well, back when this album came out there was a lot of speculation it was a voice

sounding guy and sony said no jason himself said no to it. but this puts a whole new kink in the system. >> wow. >> but not surprising though, to try to finish something to get out for fans. all right dax. >> it wouldn't be surprising at all think how much money they made off that album >> exactly. we will check you out later today on the show. >> thanks dax good to see you. >> do you know that song? >> i have heard that cd but don't know each cut i wasn't attached to that last offering. >> tony will you bring it in? >> that is the song with akon. >> okay well, i have heard that song i have to listen closer. >> yeah, there are parts where it doesn't quite sound like michael. >> thank you both. coming up all eyes on wall street this morning after the dow hit a major milestone closing yesterday, a look at numbers straight ahead. >> annie yu hanging out at ywca

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all right we have breaking news from the united kingdom we are learning james murdoch son of news corp. chairman is stepping down. james murdoch and his role have come under scrutiny amid-

britains phone hacking scandal. news corp. is the parent company of fox 5. back with a live look from wall street the dow is currently a little over 13,000 that is up 42 points, now it is 43 points this after closing above 13,000 yesterday for the first time since 2008 earlier this morning the government issued its report on the fourth quarter gross domestic product turns out the economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the final three months of 2011 and americans earned more income than previously reported. >> good news. what is it now 41? okay. up that is a good thing plus. show down between yahoo! and facebook just as facebook is planning to start selling shares on the stock exchanging, yahoo! is threatening to sue facebook unless it agrees to license

some of its patents on several online services the demand is giving facebook problems as it completes an initial public offering facebook is likely to work out an agreement. ywca offers a variety of services to women as young as 17 years old. >> not only do they have low cost fitness classes but they offer low cost screenings. annie good morning. good morning allison and tony that is just the wonderful part about this place everything is free or very low cost we are talking $6 a class pay as you go no commitment except coming to these classes and making friends just a wonderful place they offer a lot of great programs to help women get on their feet one is bridges to work joining me now, tamara smith ceo. good morning again. what a great program. >> we are so excited we have phenomenal young women

exploring career options getting ready to get jobs we help place them in internships, employment and they are just making phenomenal strides >> they come from all walks of life, give examples of some cases here. >> we have women interested in computer science, women interested in cosmetology, women working on academic skills when they get that first job they can do really well we are really looking for employers to help place some of our women in internships as well as place them in full time employment. >> wonderful. a lot of matching with career insight and interest and then we help them find opportunities. >> we are talking about young ladies as young as 17. >> that's right this group of women 17 to 23, they are all young women recently finished school or wanting to finish school and looking at potentially going on to college as well and then actually looking to get employment opportunities >> i met some of the ladies

off camera they are jazzed and passionate about this place we appreciate the work you do for the community. >> we appreciate your support too they have loved coming here and they are excited about their careers. >> it is a fun and exciting morning for everyone. >> it is one of the things they offer here obviously like free health screenings, bmi testings, that is why shea joins me the health and wellness director, what exactly do you offer here as far as health screenenings and bmi testing. >> what we do for everybody that takes our health and wellness classes and personal training they receive free fitness assessment that is ongoing what we like to do is like to track people's progress we like to know if we are making a difference with what we are offering as opposed to having people come in we offer bmi testing and blood pressure screenings and when they first start the classes we ask them if they want one. >> that is interesting because then we have people that actually are excited about what they have done so far.

>> you have taken this mission to the streets. >> yes we have something called empower the community part of our mission where in wards 7 and 8 providing free fitness alternatives for people in those wards we have a partnership, with the u.s. soccer foundation who funds us for a program called soccer for success in ward 8 launches march 13th that is our new program launching there. >> real quickly before we go we have been show casing some fitness programs here the classes, talk about how they can sign up and how much it costs. >> only $6 to drop in part of our mission is empowering women having a great price point no membership fee you can get a 10 class punch card for $55 or monthly unlimited card for $40 a lot of people are taking advantage of that they love all our classes. >> it shows dedication is clear this morning. >> thank you. >> you have a great following just a great place i encourage all of you to check them out myfoxdc.com we have a website,

the ywca located here northwest dc back to you tony. >> all right thank you very much. washington post called our next guest the head banging harpist i will find out if that is a complement or not she spent last year on a world tour playing with lady gaga and recently released her latest single called play my heart she joins us to talk about her music and perform for us i should welcome her back to the show she has been on before good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to make sure where are we standing? is this a good place to stand. there you go. we are happy to have you back. >> thanks for having me back. >> head banging harpist what is that about? >> chris richards of washington post gave me that title when i was on tour with lady gaga and it is exciting because i am taking the harp and doing something different with it i sing too, i have a new single coming out. and i do a little head banging in that. >> traditionally people think

of a harpist sitting down there is the harp. >> long black dress. >> yes, but you are moving around doing all kinds of stuff tell me about the lady gaga tour what was that like >> amazing opportunity to travel the world japan australia, new zealand, paris london all these places i wanted to go and do music there was a life long dream. >> you are featured in the dvd >> yes. >> hbo dvd as well as her book. >> very good. >> that is wonderful. >> good for you play my heart that is a new single. >> yes. >> you've got a video there is someone people in washington may recognize. >> yes, hip hop star from the dc area, directed by jean jones. >> i did not know. >> an amazing job up on youtube and my website my single, play my heart is on itunes. >> what is your website? we will link it to our

website at myfoxdc.com. >> thank you. >> i am excited we have partnered with starbucks, the play my heart chai tea and american heart association, working with them as well my father passed away from heart disease, so being able to give back, through the heart association is wonderful. through this song. >> well, you are going to do play my heart now. >> yep. >> very good happy to have you back and happy about your success here she is. ♪ [ music ]

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>> yeah, a lot and we have up to 4 people reported killed now in tornadoes so this will continue to develop >> around here thunderstorms moving in, see the flashing out west towards manassas, inkating thunderstorm -- indicating thunderstorm activity lots of rain, a bit of a break, showers redevelop later tonight the 5 day forecast and once you get the rain out tomorrow sunshine and kick off your march temperatures in the mid-60s. >> we have one more leap day birthday to share happy birthday to miss vincente and miss ni ni and barbara an holt and tab that, ... birthday wishes also to ... >> thanks to all of