>> arguments before the supreme court wrapped up or have wrapped up what will happen to the president's health care plan now. we will take a closer look now. drivers in northern virginia may have noticed something unique, a jazz legend immortalized the massive statue of duke ellington gets a new home. we are there live as it happens. fox 5 morning news at 7 starts now. there is your live look at the sunrise, a pretty start to the day should be a decent day as well this is thursday, march 29th, 2012 thank you for joining us good morning everybody i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour looking forward to another nice day tucker barnes has all the details. >> good morning going to be a beautiful day temperatures in the 60s cooler than yesterday and a little breezy, should be

a dry thursday. current conditions 57 washington now, cooling off here last couple hours, 58 baltimore, let's see ocean city, 61 degrees, 53 hagerstown. winds picking up out of the north and west a breezy day as mentioned, with breezes, up to 25 miles per hour, sentinel radar, the beam going around and around and looking at clear skies should be in for a lot of sunshine for your thursday. forecast, good one, 64 daytime high in washington, 65 and 61 martins burg, breezy conditions more details on the forecast. in just a minute let's do traffic with julie wright. if you are travelling inbound pennsylvania avenue trying to work your way through southeast washington accident activity involving the over turned vehicle significant tie ups, rolling down the hill from branch avenue again that will be your major tie up in southeast washington but the accident according to v dot cleared better news there. on the other side of town the

inner loop coming from tyson towards the american legion bridge. accident activity heads up heading back into bethesda. accident activity with fire and rescue on the scene blocks the road anticipate a rubber necking delay. 450 on the shoulder, big back up eastbound 66, slow traffic, 50 to 123, nuttily to the belt way. new this morning the search is on for suspects who rammed a police car before taking off, prince georges county police say two officers were trying to stop a vehicle, wanted in a robbery instead of stopping the suspects hit the cruiser, then sped away. this is at eastern avenue and riggs just after 1:00 a.m. officers briefly chased the suspect who eventually abandoned their vehicle and ran

away. the officers were slightly injured. supporters of trayvon martin's family believe newly released police surveillance video is another smoking gun it shows george zimmerman taken out of a police car in handcuffs in the hours after the shooting a second camera shows him walking into an interview room some footage is grainy and shot at a distance he does not appear to be bloody or hurt like he reportedly stated to police. >> there is no medical documenting of a broke nose or anything in the first police report they didn't mention any injuries at all. >> we started off fighting for justice for trayvon we believe now it is a bigger picture now, it is for more than trayvon martin there are other kids other adults have been unjust done to we will keep up our

fight we are never going to stop. we will keep pressing forward. a grand jury will convene april 10th and decide if george zimmerman will be charged. >> we are learning more about zimmerman's side of the story from his father, mel good morning. >> good morning florida law says police can investigate but may not arrest a person who has a reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm last night george zimmerman's father 64-year-old robert said that is exactly what his son feared he spoke exclusively to our sister station in orlando. robert said there had been break-ins in the neighbourhood and george thought trayvon martin was acting suspiciously because he was walking between the town homes on that rainy sunday night instead of on the sidewalk or street he claims his son lost sight of martin and was walking to his car when he was confronted by the teen. >> he went to the next street realized where he was and was

walking back to his vehicle, it is my understanding at that point, trayvon martin walked up to him, asked him do you have a bleep problem and george said no, i don't have a problem and started to reach for his cell phone. at that point he was punched in the nose, his nose was broken and he was knocked to the concrete trayvon martin got on top of him and just started beating him. in the face, in his nose, hitting his head on the concrete after nearly a minute of being beaten, george was trying to get his head off the concrete, trying to move with trayvon on him, into the grass, in doing so, his firearm was

shown trayvon martin said something to the effect of you are going to die now or you are going to die tonight, something to that effect he continued to beat george and at some point george pulled his pistol and did what he did. >> police in sanford said they did want to arrest zimmerman but the state's attorney denied the request pending further review of his self-defense claim a special prosecutor has been appointed by florida's governor. thanks melanie. a check of this mornings other top stories at 7:06 a.m. investigation continues into a police involved shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead this manned yesterday afternoon on 51st street in southeast dc officers were responding to a call about drug activity, when they came across a group of men they say one of the men pulled out a gun and started shooting.

two veteran dc police officers then returned fire they are on routine administrative leave pending the department's review of the case. friends and family students and teachers mourning the death of a prince georges county public school student 17-year- old takaya was a senior in clinton maryland she was jogging on a track during gym class yesterday when she collapsed the school nurse treated her on campus until an ambulance was able to take her to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead. another sign that the gop is starting to rally behind mitt romney former president george h w bush is expected to endorse the republican front runner later today the two will appear at the former president's houston office this barbara bush backed romney last week their son former florida governor jeb bush gave his endorsement.

president barack obama continues his call for congress to end tax breaks to oil companies later this morning he is giving a speech from the rose go garden to urge congress to put an end to the what the white house calls billions in taxpayer dollars handed out to oil companies every year his address comes as the senate vets on repealing oil tax subsidies. foxes doug luzader has more on where things stand this morning. >> reporter: this is now completely in the hands of the u.s. supreme court as we wait a decision and the white house is defending the case and their lawyer. one final day before a court that showed a deep split, what if the justices rule the federal government can't force all of us to obtain health insurance would the rest of the massive plan still stand. ruth beginnings burg suggested it would. the more conservative

approach would be salvage. >> designing what to salvage could be difficult, one of the most complicated and lengthy pieces of legislation congress ever passed. what happened to the 8th amendment you rally want us to go through these 2,700 pages? >> the 8th amendment is a reference to cruel and unusualpunishment the court heard from 26 states who say they can't afford the huge expansion of medicaid spending the law requires the final issue the court will have to decide the white house meantime went to unusual lengths to defend the performance of their primary attorney who at times stumbled his way through answers. >> for health care in this country. [ clearing throat ] >> what he delivered was a solid performance before the supreme court. >> the fact remains we won't know for some time how the court will rule on this and the

white house admits there is not a contingency plan. in washington doug luzader fox news. 357 degrees on a thursday morn -- 57 degrees on a thursday morning an update on the airline pilot who had a mid- air melt down what prompted his copilot to kick him out of the cockpit. >> opening day just one week away, believe it or not nationals make adjustments to their starting loster dave ross is back with more on that and controversy over a baseball game in japan yesterday. >> as we take you to break live lookout side latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie. that is coming up next q what's my secret for sunday lunch?

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it has zero calories for me, and a taste my family loves. making headlines new details about the soldier accused of killing 17 afghan civilians, his lawyer says staff sergeant robert bales suffered a traumatic incident

in iraq that triggered tremendous depression and anxiety he did not discuss details but expects the details to become the focus of the case. a jet blue pilot faces federal charges for a mid-air out burst earlier this week. he has been charged with interfere being a flight crew, his copilot said he started acting weird after the flight took off saying that quote things just don't matter after he was locked out of the flight deck he was running through the cabin screaming about terroristiran he was tackled by passengers and remains hospitalized this morning. >> it was my understanding he had a medical break. >> yes, that is what it sounds like. >> right so then -- but he -- >> is charged. >> okay. more to come on that story. >> i suspect so. >> tucker barnes is here. >> good morning. >> hey, rather breezy. >> is it? i haven't been out in hours but the forecast is calling for it

to get breezy so i am flood that -- >> the -- am glad that -- >> the instruments don't indicate that? >> yes,. >> 58 washington right now, 38 buffalo, warm weather out to the west will move in, as we get into the weekend here. our temperatures will be kind of seasonal next couple days to be honest with you and sunshine, both today and tomorrow sat ride radar, lots of quiet our front from yesterday off to the south and east see the left over clouds in north carolina, that is about it otherwise sunshine, both today and tomorrow breezy, high pressure will build in and winds out of the north and west it might feel a little cool for you, with winds gusting to about 25 today, other than that, nice couple days, looks like our next chance for rain will be late friday early saturday, timing is not great but i don't thing it will be a lot of rain and i am hoping to get it out of here by saturday

afternoon if you want guaranteed sunshine, saturday will be the better of the two weekend days. >> fair enough. >> sunday is the good one. >> thank you. >> here is julie wright with the update on traffic. >> some body had giggle juice this morning. >> which one of us? >> you are both going like this. >> exactly. wasn't me. >> on the roads, problems earlier, we had accident activity on the inner loop of the belt way as you go across the american legion bridge confined to the shoulder our lanes are open traffic remains heavy, george washington parkway to the bridge inner loop well below speed, leaving annandale, 66 struggling to get on time fair oaks to 123, check out my ride northbound 395, delays on the belt way, traffic close again. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. boy just a few games away

from the playoffs and the capitols fall apart and in baseball changes to the nationals loster, dave ross is here with this -- loster, dave ross is here. it has been a rough one for the caps. they are on the outside looking in it was a disastrous situation they have five games left to right the shift but when you see a lacklustre performance losing to the team you need to beat out at home 5-1 it doesn't inspire confidence tonight a huge game at boston now boston, right now, they are better, if they can win this game i think they have to go 4 and 1 over the next 5 to make up the two points i think 3 and will be really tough -- 3 and 2 will be really tough. they have to be from here on out almost perfect for a team that has been far from perfect for the majority of the season.

>> if they don't make it to the playoffs there will be a lot of tinkering. talking about baseball too and roster changes, one guy that is not going to be in the opening day roster is bruce the closer out with elbow issues i wonder if allison likes the beard on jason worth >> i do not enjoy it. >> you don't like it? looks like a mountain man. >> grizzly adams. >> he is hitting home runs with it. if it helps we will take it henry rosary guess will be that closer, -- rodriguez will be that closer a fake game doesn't count but still >> while you guys were working while the rest of the country was sleeping there was a baseball game that actually started the beginning of the major league season in japan, this was yesterday, this was seattle and oakland in tokyo, tokyo dome it was great over there they were going crazy in japan they saw iciro they were

charged to see him play seattle won 3-1 my question is who knew about this in the united states and how is this not on tv? this isn't like the 20s when they listened to boxing matches on the radio you got to have tv to make it count >> i do not like this practice now, the nfl does it too we play in europe if you want to do that make it an exhibition game now the baseball season has begun. opening day was in japan. >> oh, by the way there is another game going on right now in japan that counts same two teams going at it you get teams playing fake games in florida and real games going on in tokyo. >> makes no sense. >> crazy going to get crazy next hour chris of d.c. united will join us and he is the d.c. united mid-field era lot of people might -- mid-field era lot of people might remember this in cosmopolitan 2010 he

was the hottest bachelor for this area. >> is he still a bachelor? >> we will talk about that next hour called a tease. >> i didn't know some of those parts of the body had muscles. >> i didn't either. i would like to find those. >> so exciting. you always bring the eye candy. >> i do what i can. 7:20 a.m., thursday morning, still ahead video that a whole lot of folks are saying eww. >> yeah, students needed more reason to resent homework turns out hitting the books too much after school might be doing more harm than good. >> a lot of kids could have told you that. local sports club getting in on the hunger games craze how you can train like a tribute, our holly morris has all the details about the fun and intense work out based off the bookmovie.

welcome back 7:23 a.m. a survey from fairfax county schools show half the kids from grade 8 through 12 have been pulllied 54% of students were bullied in the last year, 43% report bullying other kid14% say they were cyber bullied online or through text messaging. this story will definitely make your kids happy a study out of australia finding homework offers no benefit to elementary school students and limited results to kids in junior high the report says high school seniors should get at most, a couple hours of work per night. a video making the rounds online continues to create a whole lot of buzz in the video actress alicia silver stone shows herself chewing her food and spitting it directly into her baby boy's mouth it is a practice called premastication and it was used before commercial baby food and blenders made it easy for parents to break down solid

food for babies it boosts a baby's immunity and digest but others says the an easy way to transmit disease we are talking about this with the chief of general pediatrics for children, dr. russell livy. >> certainly, controversial is getting a whole lot of talk. >> yes. >> okay. yeah. >> coming up, 7:25 a.m. i will stay out of this one. >> okay. >> after the break, a district welcomes a jazz legend. >> coming back home. >> plus now that a bipartisan budget proposal is off the table house republicans will try to push through their version. next two former congressmen join us live. an update where the president's health care law stands this morning g >>. as we head to break another beautiful start to the day. tucker barnes here with weather, julie wright on

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famous around the wormed for his three finger picking -- world for his three finger picking style and had a profound influence on modern country music he is known for recording the theme song for the 1960s tv show beverly hill billies he died at the age of 88 of natural causes. >> my goodness. >> now the another music legend a native son of the district of columbia today will be immortalized in a cool way you are looking live at a huge statue of jazz great, duke ellington delivered in the last hour to a spot next to the howard theatre in northwest, where it will be placed permanent he, the 28-foot steel and granite statue was made by a dc native sculptor, you can see some time lapse video of the project coming together, now the statue this morning made its way from manana sis to northwest on a -- manassas to northwest on a flat bed we will learn more about this all throughout the morning will thomas is headed out there now for a live report.

>> cool. >> mm-hmm. >> great. >> can't wait to see it in person. >> yeah. >> all right. >> speaking of musical greats, van hailen was in town. >> did you go. >> no, past my bedtime. >> i never thought you would -- >> i haven't seen them since 1984. >> right >> i read the review not of last night's show but an earlier show that was a good review. >> i saw the set list. >> you should have gone. >> it is past my bedtime. >> you are a young man you should have tried to suck it up for one day. >> i try to once in awhile but it is tough. lots of sunshine expected, breezy side, winds pick up to north and west, 25 later today, sunshine clear skies, here for thursday and your friday, 58 now in washington cooler weather, moving on in from the north and west, 50s here, off to the north and to the west,

54 frederick, let's see, 57 manassas, 50 still manassas, 60 leonard town. looking at satellite radar, in a minute, winds out of the north and west, 15, gusting 20, 25, even though the actual air temperature will be in the 60s it will feel cooler than that. all right now we will look at the satellite radar and we are doing fine frontal system, brought us showera few thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, fading towards the outer banks and high pressure building for the next couple days nice, beautiful day, sunshine, fall back upper 30s, low 40s. as we get into friday night and saturday, clouds will roll in here could bring a period of shower activity late friday night early saturday kick off the weekened on the cloudy side, huge forecast today, 64 nice day, winds north and west gusting to 25 as mentioned clear and cold tonight

overnight lows, upper 30s low 40s. tonight looks great, upper, lower 60s for your daytime highs and saturday, could be some few clouds and showers early right back up near 70 sunday and monday, sunday looks great lots of sunshine highs in the afternoon 73. traffic julie. i can picture you in like striped pants like david lee roth. >> with the kick? yeah. >> you just pulled something. >> yeah, i did that hurt. >> i think i split my pants too julie. >> my god, 395 coming across the 14th street bridge heavy and slow from the belt way headed up to seminary road, over the potomac lanes here are open we've got big delays on the outer loop into the sunshine springfield headed over to van dooren lanes are open inner loop of the belt way springfield past the robinson terminal, headed to 66 crash at the american legion bridge cleared from the shoulder

delays gw parkway towards bethesda delays on the outer loop headed towards georgia avenue that is a cheque of your fox 5 on time -- check of your fox 5 on time traffic. a day after rejecting a bipartisan deficit cutting plan the house will vote on a $3 trillion budget calling for revamping medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation but reflect it is president's desire to raise taxes on the rich. marty russo now head of russo capital and bob mccue won senior fellow with united and purpose, thanks for being here. let's talk about the budget republicans will pass in the house, 3.5 trillion dollars, it is a budget that is going to arrive dead on arrival, in the senate, so my question, what is the point? bob let me start with you. what is the point? >> budget act says the president proposes a budget

first of the year house and senate supposed to pass one all preparations will be done by october since mr. obama came to town, they have not passed a budget at all. they are not doing what they were called to do. responsibility the very minimum the national debt has gone from 40% of gdp to 100%, and in europe, there are only three country that is have a worst debt to gdp ratio only three, greece 120% of gdp we are going the blow past that, before next year, the budget is completely out of control primarily because of the lack of presidential leadership and congress being willing to pass a budget. >> is it primarily because of lack of presidential leadership or lack of congress wanting to do anything. >> the biggest problems we are not working together that to me is critical the country is in trouble the debt is getting way out of control and we sit down

and do these partisan arguments now you are going to pass a budget i call the gift that keeps giving to democrats again what it does is it cuts all the safety net programs and at the same time, extends the bush tax cuts and also reduces the rates. so, center for budget priority said based on the current analysis of what the ryan budget even worse than the one last time extension of bush tax cuts plus reducing rates gives upper income people $250,000 tax break at the expense of food stamps, medicaid, safety net programs, medicare, and i just think that is not the way to go. i mean, i think bob and i would agree the best thing to do is work together because there is some very tough decisions we have to make on the social side and revenue side if we can't have a balanced approach, the country is going to suffer and you have to remember, the last time we had a balanced budget, was with a democratic president

in a republican house in a republican senate. >> it can be done. >> we know it can be done we ought to go back to that. when the republican house and senate and president got their $500 billion surplus they just dissipated it. >> bob your reaction? yep the last republican budget 2007 had a 1.2% deficit almost balanced those of us who believe in balanced budget are offended by that when mr. obama came in the first 17 days they passed a bill using a term no one ever used before, a trillion dollars, not for defense, not for agriculture or interior just walking around money they called it a stimulus borrowed another trillion dollars jumped that up to 11% deficit in the history of the united states of america we have only been over 10% three times in our history once during world war ii, -- once during world war 1, twice during world war ii the last two years we have been at over

11% deficit as i said is blowing a hole and we can't continue another four years like this. >> but the ryan budget, even if you enact everything about the ryan budget, it still increases the nash fall debt by $4 trillion -- national debt by $4 trillion in 10 years that isn't the solution we have to do something that reduces our national debt,. >> spending. >> well, we have to do spending cuts and revenue raises everybody has to have a balanced approach otherwise we will never accomplish what we want to accomplish. >> this is a recurring team we talk about bipartisan ship we need more, so we had a bipartisan budget came up yesterday and rejected. what is it going to take for there to be some sort of agreement and some ability for congress, people or both sides to work together on a budget and everything else? >> i wish -- i think that is a $64,000 question how do you get congress to -- look, the day

barack obama got sworn in as president, mitch mcconnell, senate minority leader, republican basically said i will spend the next four years making sure you are a one term president that is not the way to start off working together. so it is contentious for all this time remember how we got this first 1 trillion he is talking about in deficit was because of the bush administration republicans in the house and senate who blew open the budget by bush tax cuts not paid for the wars not paid for, medicare part d not paid for in fact one of the most interesting things when he and i were in congress we had pay as you go we fought to get pay as you go it was in during the clinton years republican house. >> newt gingrich as speaker. >> you can push that in, but so they had pay as you go the first thing the republican house republican senate and republican president did when they had the so called trifecta their dream operation we have

all three branches right? they got rid of pay as you go so they didn't have to pay for the bush tax cuts didn't have to pay -- i bet you if we had to pay for the wars we never would have had those wars. >> bob is chomping at the bit here. >> no, he is absolutely right when bush came in they had four years of balanced budgets never happened since college when newt left, we have never had one since it would have been nice if they continued the first thing he said, when talking about the ryan budget and how it is cutting, and the second time you started talking you said but the ryan budget increases the debt either we've got to -- >> it duds. >> but he says -- it does. >> but he says if you can't cut and can't get rid of the debt you continue doing what we are doing are we going to control spending everybody will howl and complain but foot stamps are up 70% over three years ago et cetera. we will have to control the spending in the process lower the burden of government because people don't have to go

to great factories they can go to places where they don't have all this burden every time they talk about let's put more taxes on people one more factory is going to some place else. >> this is not fair to do to you two but we are out of time one more question just yes or no answer does the supreme court are they going to reject the president's health care plan. >> i -- my feeling is that they will probably strike down a mandate but keep the other good things in there. >> if they do that the whole thing will fall apart. >> gentlemen thank you we love having you guys in here hopefully you come back some time soon. 7:40 a.m., still ahead an elderly florida couple planning to sue director spike lee over the trayvon murder case we will tell you why what is the connection there. actor will farrell gets back in characters for a big announcement details on that, first, time for today's my fox half off deal just in time for

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film director spike lee apologized to a florida couple for a twitter posting that listed their address as that of george zimmerman the neighbourhood watchman who and month. elaine and david mccain are in their 70s they have a son named william george zimmerman who lived in their home in the mid- 90s they plan to sue claiming they received hate mail and death threats, last night lee said i deeply apologize it was a mistake please leave the mclanes in peace. tebow mania, nike is suing reebok putting tim tebow's name on jets clothing a week after he was traded from denver. nike claims it has an exclusive licensing deal with the star

quarterback, sunday nike replaces reebok as the supplier of nfl uniforms but insisting all unauthorized tebow products be recalled or destroyed now last night a temporary restraining order blocked any more sales of reebok tebow merchandise interesting. >> they should just give them all to schools. >> this is an interesting thing because if reebok has rights until this weekend,. >> why can't you buy it. >> interesting point. >> america. >> can i do a quick shout out. >> shante moore familiar name. >> really? >> shante moore the viewer who loves the show i was doing a little research in nordstrom rack yesterday just to see how the economy is coming back. >> right. >> i ran into shante she says i watch all the time i said well, what time do you watch she said from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., a little shout out good morning. >> good morning. >> did you help spur the economy at all.

>> just a little bit. >> it is important. >> quick look at the weather forecast an easy one lots of sunshine breezy, you know probably bring along a jacket, temperatures in the 60s, winds out of the north and west at 25, cooler than the actual air temperature 58 washington 60 annapolis cooler off north and west, detroit, currently 41 degrees, 36 and lovely binghamton new york. >> it is a lovely community. >> i have never been there. >> big college town. >> look how quiet it is. 7:00 a.m., nice sunset tonight, get out and check out that moon a little sliver with jupiter. looks great look what happens by early saturday morning showers to start to move back in and i am afraid the showers will hang out here early saturday morning forecast, falls apart for at least the first part of the weekend hopefully we will get afternoon

sunshine by saturday afternoon can't promise it right now your 5 day back near 70 by sunday and monday. >> that time of year where we need rain. >> thanks tucker. >> stick with us in a second we have some good video from one of the late night shows right now here is julie with traffic. >> what about my good video. >> your video is great. >> julie you have good video. >> well,. >> that is relative. >> i guess depends who you ask. >> exactly. >> all right. here is a live shot i like this camera shot this is the belt way georgia avenue, this is the inner loop below speed right into the sunshine as you travel connecticut headed east to silver spring the outer loop leaving 95 around prince georges avenue, this time of year we have sunshine delays to accompany your commute inner loop flowing out of bethesda, 95 to green belt metro. headed towards the bw parkway, truck lost a couple of buckets of paint in the highway busy

cleaning that up from the left side, big delays out of buoy, 395 tied up belt way, headed across the inbound 14th street bridge, springfield to van dooren headed to 66 that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. there will be a sequel. yep that is music to the ears of many journalists and fans, will farrell made a surprise appearance on conan o'bryan to announce yes, there will be a 2004 follow up to anchor man -- a follow up to the 2004 anchor man. >> i wonder what that will be like. as the business has changed so much. >> that is true. it will be interesting to see. >> will farrell is so funny. >> he is. >> hunger games is a big hit in theaters as you know now fans can train like a tribute.

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there is a brand new work out inspired by the pop culture craze the hunger games. >> holly is in bethesda to learn more good morning. >> good morning hold on i am reading. this -- look i really have read this much i just got the book

on tuesday i wanted to be in the know when it came to hunger games it is intense that is what the hunger games work out is as well before we get to that i want to get to some fans of the hunger games you guys can see i am only half way through but i have to ask you what is it about this you like so much. >> it is just entertaining and it always leaves you guessing >> i love catness hair. >> side sweep. >> were you a big reader before. >> not really. >> this got you reading and you went to see the movie. >> yes. >> how did the book and movie compare. >> when you watch the movie the book went in with it it helps you better understand >> i should read it before i see the movie. >> good i am a fan of that as well you made your own shirts. so what -- like who is your favorite characters. >> pita. >> why? >> she is very like romantic and nice to catness. >> that is like a boyfriend you would like to have one day. you are connecting that way

since you are our one dude here what do you like about the hunger games. >> it is violent and it is what i needed. >> see that is what is concerning i find this book a little disturbing you don't think it is a little too violent. >> not really it is just seems like if you compare it to the video games now it is like -- >> all right you know what touche good point. >> very good i will touch back with them a little later but right now i will check in on this work out that has indeed been inspired by, this craze and so, it is a themed class and it is led by the game master herself, libby who is in the middle of the room with her hat and pin on and everything good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> the concept of this work out washington sports club created train like a tribute work out inspired by the hunger games book. what it is, upper and lower body as you can see these are called pita presses we are

doing good good everyone, and back to beginning, go to your bow and arrow. >> sorry. >> no, keep it going. >> so what we are doing is getting ready for the hunger games we are now in the capitol training center getting ready to go for the games. >> take each other out. >> i am really hoping there is not just one person standing when this class is over right. >> right but only one person will win and that is when they get the mocking jay pin. >> we will talk more about that, but right now i want to talk about what it takes to win the hunger games in terms of the work out. >> five quick tips, we have stay focused whether you are training for a marathon or the hunger games, keep your eye on the prize. and second of all hydrate remember what hammish said, find your water source you keep energy up and stay focused

third is be well rounded not just cardio not strength combination of both and train with your partner, there was -- catness and pita were together have a buddy always go to the club and work out, and then, speed it up. fox face quicksy ahead of the pack with those five tips you will get physically fit, and hopefully, win the game. >> that is the real prize. >> right. >> you will get -- >> survival of the fittest. >> this is intense myfoxdc.com we have a link to washington sports club they are only doing this themed work out for 4 to 6 weeks now is the time the come out and sign up we will talk specifically about the different exercises i will check back in with my hunger games fan club back to you in studio. >> craze indeed thank you so much. >> are you having trouble sleeping if so, your cell phone might be able to help in

today's smart phone zone lauren tells us about an ap that claims to help you get a better night's rest waking up more energized in 20 minutes. also after 8 unlocking the mysteries of autism the fox medical team explains why our children's eyes may be a window into how the brain works. we will be right back stay with us, 7:57 a.m.  okay, people, let's get started.

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>> an update on the death of trayvon martin the father of the man accused of killing him is speaking out. for the first time police surveillance video recorded in hours just after the shooting. a shocking tragedy at one local school, students mourning the loss of a classmate the full story coming up. latest on the health care overhaul, arguments have wrapped up in supreme court what happens to president obama's plan now good morning i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour. tucker barnes sitting right over to my left he has all the

weather dets. >> good morning. sunshine in the forecast, temperatures in the 60s. breezy. >> as long as you give me some sunshine i can make it work. >> you will love the next couple days lots and lots of sunshine, spring pattern getting to the next week or so. >> mm-hmm. >> try to remember what day it was i couldn't remember kind of sad. 58 washington 60 ocean city, 51 hagerstown, 52 winchester, cooler temperatures working in overnight behind our frontal system that came through during the afternoon yesterday. sentinel radar not much to show you, i just stepped outside just to verify what tony told me earlier, the breezes have picked up and they have. it will be a breezy day winds as mentioned out of the north and west gusting to 25 miles per hour, dry thursday and beautiful day, temperatures just about where they should be a few degrees above normal low

to mid-60s. >> thanks tucker. mm-hmm. >> all righty to julie wright and get the latest on this mornings rush hour traffic. >> all right you guys, very much a busy ride out here on the highway, 395, coming across the inbound 14th street bridge heavy, slow, steady from the belt way across the potomac all lanes are open significant tie ups as you continue on the outer loop leaving springfield, no accidents just volume delays sunshine in your face doesn't help at all. travelling from the inner loop of the belt way, up towards hea delay will carry you up towards the american legion bridge an earlier accident cleared, the damage is done. that will carry you up before you shake loose. inbound 50, a truck lost a couple cans of paint on the highway, westbound 50, 704 they continue to clean that up left side of the highway, delays inbound from buoy gw parkway as you head out, lanes are open,

38 minute commute leaving the belt way headed out, that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thanks newly released video causing quite a stir in the trayvon martin case. >> abc news exclusive is from police surveillance cameras, george zimmerman taken out of a police car, in handcuffs walked into a building the video is grainy, not completely clear he does not appear bloody or hurt the martin family says it is another smoking gun. >> when you look at that video with your eyes and listen to the 911 tapes that we had to sue for, everybody in america now sees that police report was a fabrication, george zimmerman doesn't exhibit a broken nose he doesn't exhibit blood on the back of his head he doesn't exhibit his clothes messed up, so america can judge for

themselves. >> martin family lawyer says the video bolsters their claim george zimmerman was not beaten to the point he feared for his life as he indicated to police. another new development the father of george simmer panel is speaking out for the first time -- zimmerman is speaking out for the first time. >> he is laying out what his son said about the shooting melanie. >> florida law says police can investigate but may not arrest a person, who has a reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm. yesterday, his 64-year-old father said that is exactly what his son feared he spoke exclusively to a fox station in orlando zimmerman said there were break-ins in the neighbourhood and george thought trayvon was acting suspiciously because he was acting in between the town homes instead of on the sidewalk or street the elder zimmerman claims his son lost sight of martin and was walking back to his car when confronted

by the teen. >> he went to the next street realized where he was and was walking back to his vehicle, it is my understanding at that point, trayvon martin walked up to him asked him do you a bleep problem. at that point he was punched in the nose his nose was broken and he was knocked to the concrete, trayvon martin got on top of him and started beating him in his face, nose, hitting his head on the concrete after nearly a minute of being beaten, george was trying to get his head off the concrete, trying to move with trayvon on him into the grass, in doing

so, his firearm was shown trayvon martin said something to the effect of you are going to die now, or you are going to die tonight something to that effect. he continued to beat george and at some point george pulled his pistol, and did what he did. >> police in sanford said that they did want to arrest zimmerman that night but the state's attorney denied the request pending further review of his self-defense claim a special prosecutor was appointed by florida's governor. >> thank you very much. in other news, can the president's health care law survive without the individual mandate supreme court battled over that question on the final day of oral arguments though some thought the law looked dead after the fierce questioning it is premature to put any final nail in the

cofin. the justices considered whether the law can survive if the court decides to strike down the mandate. starting in 2014, every american has to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, justice ruth bader ginsberg expressed concern. so why shouldn't we say, that the choice between a wrecking operation which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job, and the more conservative approach would be salvage. >> it is likely the supreme court will not release its decision until june. >> late last night the house defeated three budget proposals that rival republicans budget plan one was from conservatives who wanted deeper cuts than the republican plan they also unanimously defeated president

obama's budget and bipartisan plan. later today, republican leaders are expected to push through their massive 3.5 trillion dollars budget. to the latest in the race for the white house republican presidential candidate newt gingrich shared some big ideas during a visit to georgetown university he touched on his plan to privatize social security, secularism, judicial power and domestic energy production it was his first speech since letting go of a third of his campaign staff and canceling some appearances. >> one of gingrich's rivals made a stop here in our area ron paul spoke to a crowd at university of maryland, college park he touched on campaign themes, under scoring the need to shrink the federal government. mitt romney is expected to get a big endorsement former president george h w bush says he will formerly announce his support for romney later today.

the endorsement may come at a good time for the gop front runner, washington post poll, only 34% of americans, hold a favourable opinion of mitt romney the lowest for any leading presidential candidate in a abc washington primary poll in 30 years, 53% of the people polled gave president obama a favourable rating. new this morning, the search is on for suspects who rammed a police car before taking off, prince georges county police say two officers were trying to stop a vehicle, wanted in a robbery instead of stopping the suspects drove their car into the cruiser and sped away at eastern avenue and rigs road just after 1:00 a.m. this morning the officers briefly chased the suspects who eventually abandoned their vehicle at 41st and southeast and ran away the officers were slightly

hurt. >> investigation continue into a police involved shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead this happened yesterday afternoon on 51st street, southeast, officers say they were investigating a drug call when they came across a group of men one of the men pulled out a gun and started shooting two veteran dc police officers then returned fire they are on routine administrative leave pending results of the investigation. >> sad story here as tragedy strikes a prince georges county public school this morning friends and family, students and teachers are mourning the death of 17-year-old takaya. school officials say she was jogging on a track during gym class yesterday when she collapsed and later died in honor of the high school senior students and faculty are expected to wear pink today officials say there will also be counsellors available to help those grieving. we are following breaking news just in to the newsroom right now this is right out of philadelphia, our affiliate

there is reporting tsa agents arrested a man this morning, they say he was trying to board a plane with what appears an explosive device looking at live pictures now from the airport in philadelphia, the bomb squad is on the scene, some reports say the 29-year- old man had a bottle with explosive powder, and m-80 type fireworks in his carry on luggage was gate was closed 20 minutes otherwise airline operations seem to be moving along at philadelphia international airport as we get more on this story we will bring it to you. a man arrested with apparently some type of explosive device trying to get on a plane. 8:11 a.m. >> sorry tony. >> that's okay an update on traffic and weather coming up next. >> feeling sleep deprived there is an ap that promises to analyze your sleeping pat salesperson tell you the best time to wake up but -- pattern and tell you the best time to wake up but does it work.  [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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welcome back everybody fox 5 morning news on a thursday morning. >> it is coming up on 8:15 a.m., tucker barnes has the latest on our weather, but he has something else for you too. >> yes. >> something very special. i mean seriously special today, let's get to it time now for my first 5 photo of the day this is no ordinary baby everybody >> i know that baby. >> you know that baby. >> yeah. >> this is 16 month old i am hoping i get his name right goesma. >> he is very special to us. >> are we not saying >> i think we can say allison >> this is our own sam's little boy he is responsible for the content on the web in many morning myfoxdc.com this is his sweet little baby >> adorable and looks a will the like him. >> he does look like sam except he has a full head of hair. >> so what you are saying is -- >> wow. >> i am saying that was love we

adore sam. >> adorable, goesma. >> beautiful baby. >> goesma. >> is that better? >> proud little baby. >> what if the baby is watching right now he is probably going crazy. >> yes, yes. >> he is very cute. >> to send us your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings all right i hope you have a great day have a fabulous day we like your dad a lot too. 59 washington 59 annapolis, 59 leonard town cooling off overnight temperatures had a chance to fall back hagerstown 49 degrees, going to be an absolutely beautiful day cool off off to the north and west moving in on a brisk northwest wind a lot of sunshine promises to be a good looking thursday and friday sentinel radar quiet conditions expected today and tomorrow out to the west, rain

showers out towards st. louis that looks like that will get in here late friday early saturday, right now looks like our next chance for rain showers, will be overnight, into early saturday right now, weekend 50/50 saturday will not turn out to be the best day although i think we might salvage the afternoon, 64 today, 63 tomorrow and the best bet this weekend sunday highs 70 degrees. all right that is a look at the forecast let's do some traffic and julie wright. all right tucker on the roads this morning, they are busy we have a lot going on here let's map out a couple problems westbound 50, cleaning up paint dropped off the backside of the truck find this activity westbound 750, 704, big delays inbound buoy, bw parkway, traffic headed out of laurel and you will find delays southbound george washington parkway as you work your way inbound, about a 38 minute ride there, inner loop still grid

locked with delays as you continue annandale toward the american legion bridge, long standing crash finally cleared, up towards the bridge, work your way in towards maryland, leaving springfield headed over towards van dooren, 270 tied up out of rockville headed for the split that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> are you getting enough sleepis that a ridiculous question? regularly getting good nights rest can make a world of difference. >> you can use your phone now to analyze your sleep patterns and get your body clock back on track. lauren demarco is here with more on that. hey, lauren. >> good morning the sleep cycle ap costs 99¢ claims to be amok the top rated ap -- among the top rated aps in a dozen countries i spoke with a local sleep expert for insight. >> reporter: those sounds can

be painful, how about something a little more soothing. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: the sleep cycle ap helps you get a better night's rest wake more pleasantly and feel more energized place your iphone on your mattress and its built in accelerometer senses your music, using easy to read graphs. medical director at northern virginia, sleep diagnostic center takes issue with that last part. to determine whether you are in light sleep, moving has nothing to do with the stage. >> reporter: even if the ap cannot determine which stage you are in it could be a decent gauge when you are asleep and when awake. >> if you are frequently waking up you may end up close to the same amount of sleep someone that is sleeping well, but you

are not cycling down into deeper stages of sleep. >> the pattern may be helpful how come i am tired you are waking up a lot. >> that could be a sign of sleep apnea, or maybe you just need to change your daily routine when it comes to what time you exercise, ingest caffeine or have that last cigarette. >> smoking is a stimulant some people smoking close to bedtime nicotine can stimulate you you can have trouble with your sleep. >> it could help determine whether or not you have insomnia you may learn you have a delayed sleep pattern a common enough problem with a solution. >> people that are night owls, their melatonin goes up later in the night and comes down later in the night is generally where you sleep the best if you can apply bright light early to wake them up, and then what you do is utilize a very low dose of melatonin, 8 hours after you wake up that can get your melatonin curve

going up earlier, so you can shift people using that and a device like this ap may help you, define if this pattern is present. >> we all know lack of proper sleep can impact overall quality of life it can lead to diabetes, increase cardiovascular risk and a number of psychological conditions. >> hopefully as we go along we will have very simple devices to look at you, in your own environment, which is very helpful thing, in patients that are not sleeping well when you go in a lab it is artificial environment. pretty interesting hopefully we can help some people at home the one thing we were saying again i am no doctor but always freaks me out when you are sleeping with a phone so close to you i like the idea of just using it for a few weeks and getting your sleep pattern and enough is enough i don't know i would use that alarm clock all the time.

>> a way to figure out what your pattern is and how to tweak it. >> if you have an issue we just have issues no matter what on the morning show i am sure many people have that. listen there is another thing i want to tell you guys about quickly a new thing we are doing at fox 5, a my fox ap for verizon feature phones what is a feature phone it is not a smart phone but a cell phone, tony you know about all that. >> my regular phone. >> two dozen verizon phones you can use this ap with even if you don't have a smart phone get access to great information tacked into our smart phone ap breaking news wealther entertainment, -- weather, entertainment, celebrity gossip, all that, switch from local news here in dc to any of 17 u.s. cities where there are local fox stations we all have this ap to get it you text my fox to 2777 and find the link on myfoxdc.com. >> thank you lauren. >> appreciate it that is good.

>> stay with us, coming up first of all let me tell you 8:22 a.m., remember that mid- air melt down that led to federal charges for a jet blue pilot details coming up next. >> later this morning an interesting way to get into shape one local gym is offering hunger games classes holly is learning to train, like a tribute. fox 5 morning news will be right back 8:23 a.m. 3 a.m. 

the lawyer for the american suspected of shooting two afghan villages says his client had depression after serving in iraq, jon henry brown says traumatic incident caused depression and anxiety in sergeant bales and left him with symptoms of ptsd now military investigators in afghanistan say bales returned to the afghan base in between the shootings of two villages. after a mid-air melt down a jet blue pilot is now facing federal charges on interfere being a flight crew. this is new cell phone video of the chaotic scene onboard flight 191 enroute from new york to las vegas, the captain is sprinting through the cabin

screaming about terrorists, jesus and september 11th. the captain was eventually detained by passengers and crew as the copilot made an emergency landing in texas. >> lyndsey lohan could truly be a free woman today she will be back in l.a. courtroom to give her final update on progress of her probation the judge said she would end it on a 2007 trucken driving case if she come -- drunken driving cases if she completed requirements she has been doing clean up duty at the county morgue and doing regular psycho therapy sessions and she is looking ahead at new projects including guest starring on glee. >> all right. there is a very special tribute going on to honor one of dcs most famous sons up next a new lock at the statue to honor duke ellington where you can see it. >> from what i can see it is good looking. >> dave ross is back talking

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>> 8:31 a.m., a jazz legend will be immortalized in the district a live look at the new 20-foot statue of duke ellington, the statue is dubbed encore, being erected in ellington plaza near the historic and recently revamped howard theatre northwest, dc native zachary oxman made it out of stainless steel and granite it will be hoisted on the platform during the next hour. >> we will be there our will thomas went down. great shot of it. can't wait to see the whole thing >> i can't wait either. >> what a wonderful honor. >> very nice. >> wonderful. >> tucker barnes is here they have a great day for doing it.

>> you saw the live shot, another bright and beautiful day i don't think you will see more than a cloud or two again today. >> another one of those days. >> when your statue is erected would you like to be in front of fox 5 or your high school. >> i can only hope so. >> we will work on that, i am part of the planning committee >> it will be made of clay. >> all righty tony might get a statue one day. >> yeah, mine will be made of play doe. >> oh, not at all. not at all >> i could see that. your forecast, as we get into the day, looking at temperatures 60s. low to mid-60s cooler than yesterday a lot of sunshine should be a great looking day 57 washington, 63 degrees in quantico, off to the north and west that cooler air settling in here, and temperatures cooling off overnight frederick 52 hagerstown, 59, why a lot of

sunshine? let me mention the wind out of the north and west, washington most recent gusts 24, gaithersburg 26, the winds are going to pick up it will be a breezy day as that cooler air settles in from the north and west, bring along a jacket even with air temperatures in the 60s it will feel cooler than that with the wind here is your sentinel sat rad high pressure building across the region that will give us a lot of sunshine today and tomorrow and a crisp night tonight overnight, temperatures will fall back into the upper 30s low 40s our next weather maker, out to the west, out towards st. louis clouds and rain showers get in here early saturday morning most of your friday, dry but early saturday more showers back in the forecast, 64 today don't forget about the breeze north and west 63 tomorrow clouds and early showers saturday, hopefully we will salvage the second half of saturday with sunshine, sunday and monday, sunshine back near 70 degrees, all right let's look at the forecast allison, and tony, let's talk soccer. >> all right tucker.

yes, time for a little sports breakfast. >> yes, our dave ross is in house with a very special guest. >> good morning allison and tony a very special guest indeed d.c. united forward, chris is in the building to talk all things black and red they have a big big game tomorrow night against sc dallas and maybe allison you might want to pay attention to the end of the interview some ladies might know him for different reasons, chris is in the house and chris good to see you welcome back to fox 5. we caught up a couple weeks ago at media day and talked about excitement over this year's team not just with you coming back, off the broken leg but also, with some of the new guys and with the scoring leader, dave rosario coming back this year and a full season with him how excited are you as a player. >> so excited, you know we had a rough start but i think that is expected when you bring in a bunch of new players you have

bronco coming off an injury too me and him are not 100% yet but we will click eventually and i don't think anyone is really worried about it, we had a tough couple first games against kansas city and l.a. >> you travel a lot but get the one point against vancouver last saturday night that has to make you feel good. >> very good our defense stepped up and played extremely well now we just got to put some goals in the back of the net. >> you talked about you and your health how are you physically close to 100%. >> getting close, i get closer every day, you know, big thing coming back from injury confidence, and so it is tough as a player to get that, but with more playing time you get more and more confident. >> let's talk about tomorrow night's game with sc dallas big game coming back home you want to get that first three points in front of the home crowd, black and red i know the screaming eagles will be out in full force how important is it for you guys the first three games didn't go exactly as you wanted it to go to get that

first wind. >> very important one of our goals, starting off the year was to take off rfk and so we lost our first game there unfortunately but i think tomorrow is a great point for us to step up and kind of get three points at home, i think it is -- >> too early in the season. >> yeah. >> you don't want to push the panic button. we will throw out information chris it is not sold out yet probably will be by the ebbed but it is college night. tickets $20 with your edu e- mail address or 22 at the gate with college id chris i think a lot of the college -- you are 24 years old. >> right. >> in 2010, at the ripe age of 22, you were in cosmopolitan magazine right tell us about this here is the famous picture right now. >> yeah, just i think someone in the office put me up for it,

i got chosen did a photo shoot, it was a good experience, it was fun got my friends to rib on me a lot. >> i am sure you did a little ribbing in the locker room what was it look as you were named one of the hottest bachelors in all the country. >> crazy life did not change much at all. >> come on. ever use that as a pick up line. >> no, but my friends have brought out their cell phones and been like this is a picture of him you know. >> trying to get a date through you. >> yeah, using me. >> unbelievable. >> what people will do these days. >> tony was wondering, are those spray on abs? i have like one aband that is it. >> definitely photo shopped. >> not what you. >> absolutely not. >> all right, after this you leave this to go back to practice. >> correct. >> and ben olsen we thank ben for having you out here early this morning what type of morning practice should you expect today. >> pretty light one more of a quick possession and maybe a

walk through. >> not going to work on the abs. >> you know what i might get in the gym a little bit. it is getting to beach time around here. >> we will keep the security to a minimum i know people are excited chris, thank you, good luck tomorrow night against sc dallas, 7:30 p.m. game time yes, fan off allison please. >> yes. >> this is what the show needs more of, i cannot stress it enough. >> more -- >> yes. >> i am a fan. >> how long can you fan tony. >> who is in the booth? why is that up so long. >> i want to congratulate you chris on your physique. >> no body ever -- >> no body complements me or tucker or tony for our physique. >> a piece of meat. >> no, he is not. >> a talented athlete. >> very good tony. >> thank you chris for everything you do. what does he play? >> all right. >> joking on thursday morning the fox 5

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just before nike replaces reebok this sunday as the supplier of nfl team uniforms, the lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. it is a couple tickets away from 8:43 a.m. on thursday morning researchers in atlanta, believe that they may be closer to unlocking some of the mysteries of autism. this all has to do with the eyes believe it or not and how children see things we will get the latest when we check in with fox medical team straight ahead after the break. >> holly. >> well, tony, right now i am trying to make sure i don't get attacked by tracker jackers you know those killer bees in the hunger games that is because i signed up for the hunger games work out, going on at the washington sports club coming up why you might want to come and get fit, for survival yourself stay with us. look! here she comes!

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are you familiar with the hit the hunger games, holly morris is training like a tribute. >> she is at the washington

sports club learning about their new hunger games work out. >> i am reading and i am training at the same time whatever happened to nancy drew and judy blume that is what i read. >> hardy boys. >> or hardy boys, hunger games takes it up a notch post apocalyptic world where teenagers fight to the death they love this story this is my hunger games fan club i told them i am right at the point where the games begin you said to me. >> really good part you won't be able to put the book down after. >> they said you shouldn't read this morning because i won't get my job done if i start the games one of you told me you would read like five hours >> i read all night and i kept hearing turn off your light. and i just couldn't put it down it was so good it was amazing. >> i am going to get your running commentary libby is our game master she is leading the class here this morning or the games i should say, and so

libby you were telling me there are four skills that you need to have to make it through the tribal tribute work out. >> to survive. crucial and right now they are doing the archery, catness killers and right here, timothy is doing the bow and 15 on each side, and joanna here is modified with the tubing. >> so as we are being inspired here to do catness like things tell me what you like about catness. >> she is really brave and she saves the life of other people. >> what do you like about catness. she is pretty and core ragas and goes out of her way to save other tributes. >> would you like to date catness. >> yeah. >> if you were taller and older i got it. what is our second skill. >> tree climbing and that is capital crunches got to have a good core to climb the trees we have joanna here she is doing

capital crunches her legs are extended, flat on the floor, coming all the way up, and all the way down chin to chest feeling each and every vertebrae. >> let's talk about this whole capitol thing what do we thing about the capitol. >> i don't like the capitol. >> they are not nice people >> did you think in the movie the capitol looked like you thought it would look like >> i thought it actually exceeded my expectations it was so futuristic and interesting to see. all right from capitol crunches to jabber jay jacks. >> so here everyone is doing jumping jacks, and crossing the angles, for speed and agility but you need to get ahead of the pack. >> let's talk about the jabber jays. >> they are very talkative. >> they are very talkative >> anyone else? >> it helped them communicate.

>> the jabber jays because i just learned about them they can fly in and remember adult conversationgo back and tell. >> i think if you don't want anyone else to hear your conversation you don't want it spread by birds. >> yeah. >> exactly. okay. last but not least, we have our peta presses. >> this is for strength, strength training you do a nice squat and shoulder press. have your legs parallel to the floor, squeeze your buttocks, lengthen the arms. >> pita was able to be so strong because he lifted those bags of flour you are in love with pita. >> yeah. >> peta. >> yeah, i guess. >> you are not in love with him i know you are not but. >> you think he is handsome. >> yes. pretty looking dude. >> you are okay with your masculinity. >> saved catness and helped her. >> so sweet and a nice person

just so nice. >> if we could all just find a peta the hunger games work out is free to members. there are disasters as well we will talk about that and then actually crown a winner from this class back to you. >> there is your headline it is free. thanks holly. we mentioned this a couple moments ago autism effects 1 in 110 children in the u.s. but still don't know what causes it or how best to treat it. >> researchers in atlanta, believe they may be closer to unlocking some mysteries of autism. beth good morning. >> and good morning allison, and tony, and autism researchers think children on the autism spectrum may grow up seeing the world a little bit

differently than typically developing kids, where typically developing kids may pay attention to faces and eyes they may pay attention to objects and things in the background research which ares are using a new eye tracking technology to pinpoint exactly what kids are watching when they watch video, of social situations they are hoping this can help them unlock some of the mysteries of autism. >> a typically developing 18 month old but if you put her in a special lab. turn on her favorite elmo and then watch really watch what she watches, the autism center research which arers say you can get a glimpse how her brain is working. >> what they are looking at is what they are learning. >> marcus autism center director says babies instinctively look at their mom usually right in her eyes. >> typical babies, they fall in love with the eyes and maintain that love for their entire

development. >> researchers believe babies on autism spectrum may lose that natural connection to the eyes. >> many of them by the time they reach the second year of life have become in love with objects in their environment. >> research which ares study typically developing and awe test children as they watch twod to alreadies in -- autistic children in an argument. >> the whole meaning of the scene, the little fight they are having. >> typical children like tama lock on to the toddlers facial expressions but many autisting children, focus on the -- autistic children focus on the door same thing watching a woman interact with a puppet non-autistic children follow give and take kids on spectrum may get lost and lose their chance to learn from the encounter research which ares say getting a window into how each child view it is world may help them develop individualized treatment plans taylored to that child's needs.

>> the goal with all of this is to eventually get to the point where they can diagnose a child on autism spectrum as early as 6 months of age they are not quite there yet but just about on the brink tony and allison. >> so, this is so important to a lot of people, is testing likely to wind up in your pediatricians office. >> one day we are not there yet, this research is still in early stages but may be very realistic to one day bring your child in for a well baby visit and the child sits and watches a video with eye tracking technology and that may help pick up, on problems, much much earlier in life. >> tony and allison. >> beth galvin reporting from atlanta thank you good to see you. >> thank you. all right it is time now to say good morning to the fox 5 facebook fan of the day, she is caroll brown sugar butler and a loyal fan regularly writes in congratulating fan of the day

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