athletics at a local college. >> this is a serious problem because you have people here on scholarships. >> a probe into possible ncaa violations at howard university have some players sitting out this spring what is behind suspensions sherry lee has the latest on this investigation she has a live report. >> did president obama's statements about the supreme court go too far. >> that is not what he said or meant. >> it was not clear enough now the white house has more explaining to do the latest straight ahead. >> and the drama continues over maryland's mega mystery who really has the winning ticket lottery officials are about to step in and hopefully put an end to all the rumors, fox 5 morning news at 7 starts now. >> good morning, thursday april 5th live lookout side as we get

things stirring on thursday morning, day before friday, one day before the weekend. >> friday eve. >> all right 49 degrees welcome to fox 5 morning news i am wisdom martin in for tony perkins. >> glad you are with us today tucker barnes not going to feel too much like friday eve however, chilly out there. >> it is a little cool allison temperatures 40s low 50s and we can expect a cooler day with highs only in the upper 50s to about 60 later this afternoon so might want to bring a jacket as you run out the door. let's get to it and take a look at current conditions regan national falling back to 40s. 49 degrees washington 46 baltimore, 48 this morning ocean city and 42 hagerstown. cool start to the day, all the sunshine in our live shot we should be in for a mostly sunny afternoon although we've got storminess just off to the south and west of charlottesville the front that came through yesterday is hanging up down across virginia

carolina border and will do so during the day some clouds will have a tendency to roll north if you are watching south and southwest of washington you will be dealing with more cloud cover but should remain dry. for the rest of us bright sunshine highs on the chilly side, 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. there you go, 60 degrees by 4:00 p.m., and the trend as you get into the weekend looks good details coming up in just a couple minutes. >> traffic and in for julie, robert has the latest on on time traffic good morning. >> good morning tucker i do indeed have the latest we will start you on the 14th street bridge traffic is moving smoothly heading into the district inbound bridgetunnels looking okay for the moment we will show you delays at the moment this is a shot of south capitol street, suit land parkway on south capitol street expect delays between the suit land parkway and south capitol street bridge just reported to be volume in place in the

district 295 southbound, slow traffic bedding road to east capitol anacostia, northbound, delays, to the naval research keep that in mind travelling to the district maryland, top side delays in place you can see the sunshine mostly effecting the inner loop outer loop and delays leaving the 95 interchange college park heading over to georgia avenue which you are used to seeing the you make your usual morning commute. inbound 50, delays maryland, 202 to the bw parkway. all right big story this morning possible ncaa violations at a local college howard university is launching a self-imposedded investigation claims temporarily suspending some student athletes from competition, sherry lee is live with details how this could effect the students good morning. >> good morning wisdom in fact, the suspension of some student

athletes from competition is a lot better than howard universities initial reaction which was to suspend all of its sports programs from competition it has backed away from that and says most teams will compete as scheduled the university announced yesterday it launched an internal investigation into ncaa violations but isn't giving details, several students tell tong 5 it has to do with misuse of textbook vouchers athletes who bought extra books with vouchers returned them with cash or used the vouchers to buy other items in the bookstore such as ipads and supplies. some worry any future sanctions could hurt a lot more people. >> if there is no football game, i am on scholarship if there is no athletics for the band to support are we still going to have a band program next year? >> it is unclear how far

could be whether it is isolated to one team a few teams or across the board university now says it is working to quickly resolve this matter wisdom. >> well, sherry, what is the ncaa have to say about any of this? have they commented at all? >> so far the ncaa remained mum on this, referring calls back to howard university, typically what happened in these situations, it looks good for the university to take these proactive measures we've seen this in cases of university of miami recently involving some issues there, at the university if it comes forward shows it is taking action to clean up problems they have it could help down the road if ncaa were to impose sanctions. >> thanks. meantime more trouble on

another local college campus police at university of maryland are investigating two separate hate incidents in one case anti semietic vandalism was found in an elevator and in another case a noose was found. punishing the people responsible is only part of their goal. >> university police will continue their investigation at the same time we need to take a little bit of a longer view and talk about how we can get to a place where this university is comfortable with equity, inclusion, diversity core values to this university. school says it had five hate incidents last year that is down from a high of 33 back in 2003. jury in maryland is awarding $620,000 to a frederick couple, whose dog was shot by a sheriff's deputy the jury says it violated the couples rights, dash cam video

recorded the entire incident the dog is seen bounding towards the sheriff's deputy and appearing friendly the dog survived the shooting but may need a leg amation. >> the woman known as the blond bandit is charged with 6 counts of bank robbery during a two week long crime spree in northern virginia she was arrested after a chase on the belt way in november she is expected to enter a guilty plea. all eyes are sure to be on this next story the white house is in the hot seat has explaining to do some say obama administration has to tell a federal judge today whether the president believes the u.s. supreme court can review his health care plan. doug luzader takes a look at what set off this fire storm and what's next. >> reporter: so far the white house struggled to explain the president's remarks this week about his health care plan and the power that the u.s. supreme court has to over turn it.

>> in this political. >> reporter: the president sounded resolute. >> i am confident supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step. >> reporter: it was a remarkable statement from a president and former constitutional law professor, seeming to question whether the u.s. supreme court has authority to over turn his health care plan his kittings pounced saying he was trying to -- his critics pounced saying he was trying to intimidate the court a federal judge in texas ordered the justice to explain. the supreme court has over turned law passed by congress 159 times. the president has since tried to clarify he meant specifically laws that deal with economic issues citing a case from 1906. >> the court traditionally

exercised significant restraint. >> reporter: even that led to a number of heated exchanges at a white house briefing. >> for the sake of argument we will say he didn't mean that. >> also when you said to nora or me maybe we didn't know those cases do you think most average americans know about a supreme court case from 75 years ago. >> reporter: eric holder will respond to the texas judge today yesterday he said the president's comments were appropriate but the court's decision will be respected in washington doug luzader fox news. president obama is signing the jobs act into law today part of his jobs initiative that congress passed last month he will sign it in a rose garden ceremony this afternoon later tonight the president will speak at a couple of fundraisers in the district one at jefferson hotel the other at mandarin oriental hotel. well, now back to the story i think everybody is really talking about >> a big one.

>> mega. >> it keeps growing. >> the bizarre mega millions mystery in maryland. >> we hope to get answers when lottery officials hold a news conference over the weekend merlon wilson said she had one of those tickets to the drawing but now she and her lawyer won't acknowledge the claim. >> do you believe your client is the winner? >> i believe in my client i always do, the deal is, that i practice law long enough to know that you never say that it is so until you have seen it for your own eyes >> all right now if you are not confused enough, by what we just told you about mississippi woman now says her son who lives in glen bernie bought that lucky ticket in maryland now at this point no one has come forward with the winning ticket that is worth about $218 million before taxes.

>> wouldn't this be cleared up if we could just see the ticket? >> seems like that would be an easy answer but you know what do we know. all right. >> not a lot. >> here is something we do know it is opening day for the nationals they will take on the cubs this afternoon straws burg gets to start they were 12 and 17 during the preseason won 80 games last season optimism and expectations are riding high in part because of the teams pitching staff and zimmerman and gonzalez. first round of the masters expected to start in 40 minutes, players got in some final practice yesterday tiger woods comes in as the favorite in las vegas, he wont his first pga tournament since 2009 last month there is a of 0% -- 60% chance of rain today and more expected tomorrow morning. >> hmm. >> tiger woods back on top. >> sounds like he is trying to make a come back. >> we will see what happens 49 degrees right now 7:11 a.m.,

coming up, free speech or a crime. why a local grandfather is being sued for his stance on abortion. >> do not be alarmed if you see airplanes flying low around our area what that is about. >> plus an out of this world honor nor the longest serving woman in congress, more on that coming up next pgh >> if you take it lookout side latest weather and traffic, from tucker and robert, in for julie  you're the best mom ever. thank you, sweetie. oh...

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a house fire. >> happening in the district firefighters are on the scene of a house fire in northwest it broke out 6:30 a.m., 1300 block locust road, three people were inside they all have been rescued one of them is being taken to hospital at this time the 1300 block gain of locust road is shut down we will bring you the very latest as it comes into the newsroom. merchant of death sentencing making headlines his real name is victor and he is facing a minimum 25 years but could get life in prison when he appears in federal court in new york this afternoon the russian arms dealer was convicted last year of trying to kill americans and was extradited from thailand in 2010 to stand trial for terrorism charges. two years after a local coal mine explosion killed 29

men in west virginia the process to seal the mine begins today. it will use concrete to seal the tunnels of upper big branch mine the old owner was sued by the relatives of one of the dead miners yesterday. texas governor perry will take a tour of the devastation caused by the tornadoes as many as a dozen ripped through the dallas suburb of lancaster destroying more than 600 homes another 100 were cam imagined in the town of -- damaged in the town of forney. no one was killed. wow. >> severe weather hard to see those. >> that is a miracle when you saw the footage of the tractor trailers tossed in the air. >> even footage we saw yesterday and early this morning of areas hit and some not hit, it is amazing no one was killed. >> thank goodness. >> around here we had a front come through on the dry side a nice live shot for you,

beautiful start to our day a littleton cool side temperatures upper 40s, -- a littleton cool side temperatures upper 40s. low 50s notably cooler than yesterday but we are talking 60 degrees, sunshine. >> i like the sunshine. >> nice warming trend and nice dry trend into the weekend. >> that is good news too. >> 47 right now washington getting a little cooler by the hour, 32 in buffalo, 41 boston. cold chunk of air here, warmer out west once again we will focus in on portions of texas and oklahoma, 55 dallas, 60 little rock. cold in rocky mountain states, and 28 in reno. a lot of action just out west but most of this will slip to the south that is correct front that came through yesterday -- that front that came through yesterday is across the carolina, virginia border most

of that will drag the rain you see out west out to see shouldn't be directly impacted by it but we will deal with cloud cover with it. off to the south and west, cull pepper charlottesville you will see cloud cover. for the rest of us, 61 degrees, lots of sunshine highs by sunday near 70 degrees our next chance for rain and i know we could use it on monday just a couple showers in the forecast. >> been a long time since straight 60s across the five day. >> we are in april now. now time -- >> tuck. >> i call tucker. >> you look at me. >> robert, good morning. >> good morning we will start you off on the belt way in maryland montgomery county outer loop delays, slow traffic to the left-hand side of your screen, normal volume delays to georgia avenue on the inner loop expect delays heading from 95 opposite direction over toward it is green belt metro station jammed up all lanes reported open virginia, 95 still seeing slow traffic see the prince william parkway

going to be jammed up from dale city to 123 earlier accident in hov lanes cleared rubber necking in place and delays continue, 395 delays have moved northbound there as well you will see slow traffic on 395 northbound, to seminary road, that is a look at duke street in the district a little better south capitol suit land parkway not much expect delays northbound from the suit land parkway to south capitol street bridge 295, delays from bening road to east capitol that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. all right well, planes from nasa will be flying really low over the dc area this morning don't be alarmed nasa planes, two t-38 training jets will be taking pictures of the metropolitan area this is all part of the program with the faa to capture photographic images of the dc region jets will fly between 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. this morning. lawyers meeting today to see if they can reach a deal on a lawsuit involving an elderly

anti abortion advocate, government lawyers claim 80- year-old dick physically blocked a woman from entering a downtown dc clinic last year and shouted at her to quote not kill her baby they also say he routinely followed patient into the building he is being sued under a 1994 law that makes it a crime to intimidate or interfere with someone obtaining reproductive health services. >> maryland's senior senator is getting a super nova named after her senator is known as a supporter of space exploration this morning the space telescope science institute in baltimore is holding a dedication for her, the super nova was discovered by the huble telescope earlier this year a distant exploring star more than 8 billion light years away the senator will be on hand for this mornings dedication. very cool stuff. >> it is. >> 7:21 a.m.

thursday morning coming up a sky legal car makes its debut. >> we are going to the international auto show next. >> also still ahead holly morris is getting a lesson in rowing hanging out with the george washington women's crew team they are preparing for a big race this morning we will check with her a little later 7:22 a.m. 

health alert to tell you about this morning painkiller sales are soaring in the u.s. and experts worry it is creating a wave of addiction. 2010 hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, dispensed enough pure oxycontin and hydro codeine to give a 45-milligram of percocet and vicodins to every single man, woman and child in the united states. associated press analysis shows

circulation of these two drug drugs is booming from new york to mexico. new census numbers suggest high gas prices are one factor driving americans back to cities it shows historic suburban growth in 2000 is sizzling americans are moving closer and staying put in big cities the ongoing housing crisis also to blame for this trend. >> record gas prices are also a driving force behind a push for more fuel efficient vehicles, chrysler will introduce its 2013 ram pick up at the new york international auto show the auto maker says it will have the best mileage of any full sized truck one new future it comes equipped with technology to stop the engine down at stoplights it isn't due in show rooms until september. do you remember that flying delore january in back to the future now you can fly a car in real life jet sons had one too.

meet the terrafugia transition a car american makers say is the first legal car of the sky consumers will be able to get their arounds on one as soon as next year if they have close to $300,000 as we mentioned before, it would seem you would also have to have a pilots license i would think. >> yes. >> and your regular. >> and fuel has to be crazy because you can't just pull up to a gas station and put regular unleaded in that. >> can i fill that please. >> of course i would rather have a lamborghini. >> for that money. >> but that is just me. >> still ahead president obama celebrates the golden anniversary of a classic film at the white house. >> republican plan to cut the nations deficit facing harsh criticism by the commander and chief. >> two former congressmen join us after the break to discuss the top political headlines of the week. >> as we head to break a live lookout side latest weather and

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classic at the white house family theater some kids from dc schools are invited alts on hand, will be mary batham who plays the little girl scout in the movie. if you don't have an invitation to either vouchee >> i left mine at home. usa network cable channel will show the president's introduction saturday night. >> gregory peck in there. >> i never saw that movie >> i must have seen it because i love old movies that surely is a classic. >> i have heard of it >> i also think i read the book but as i age. >> right i understand >> it all fades into one >> all right. i have the same issue. >> what is going on tuck. >> nice looking day, sunshine expected another dry one, we can use the rain. >> i heard there was no dew on the ground >> to dew today, yeah, a lot of people you will get questions about gardens and that sort of thing. >> all those green thumb

people. >> yeah. >> and wisdom too. what a beautiful morning did you see holly's shot? >> gorgeous. >> should be a bright sunny day for us here in washington, a little further south and southwest, you will deal with a few clouds during the course of the day let's talk about yesterday and what a nice day, mid-70s your daytime highs, regan national, 76, 77 dallas, bwi marshall, 75 not warm any time soon our trend here will actually be temperatures a little below normal, yeah, haven't done that in a couple months, 47 washington falling back still, 37 in gaithersburg this morning that cooler air working in from the north and northwest overnight, the cloud cover and few showers we had with the cold front that moved through, 43 manassas, afternoon highs, low 60s that is at best, upper 50s low 60s sentinel radar nice and quiet i mention cloud cover, you can see the rain showers south and west of charlottesville when i open it up a little bit, you can see we

have plenty of action off to our south and west what is happening our front that came through yesterday is hanging up here right across the carolina, virginia border and area of low pressure going to drag rain just to our south clouds will spill into parts of the area here south and west of washington but our general trend with high pressure north will be to keep things nice and dry for us not expecting rain otherwise just cool out there, this afternoon 61 plenty of sunshine notably cooler than yesterday winds a little breezy at times here this morning out of the north 5 to 10 gusts to 15, nothing terrible clear skies chilly overnight, 40 overnight low, winds 5 to 10, as we get into the weekend plenty of sunshine friday, saturday and sunday nice warming trend, upper 60s near 70 by sunday, let me mention our overnight lows next couple mornings on the chilly side by saturday morning we already have a freeze watch issued north and west of the city, we got to lookout here next couple mornings your tender vegetation is covered up or taken indoors that is a look at your

forecast, robert had your latest here. thank you tucker we will start you off with belt way delays in virginia, outer loop closest to your screen expect delays, van dooren to eisenhower avenue, travel lanes open, taking a look at the inner loop virginia, farther away from the viewer at this point, route 50 virginia you see delays between braddock road and i-66 maryland, also jammed up delays on schedule, outer loop 95 interchange college park inner loop slow, to the green belt metro also watch for delays 50 inbound, 202 and the bw parkway, 270 southbound, pretty well just a delay on the spur watch for break lights as you head down to 495 that is a check on your fox 5 on time traffic. another busy week in the world of politics, sit ever a slow week. president obama is wasting no time ripping the republican

budget written by paul ryan painting it as a series of cruel spending cuts on the campaign trail, mitt romney, is looking ahead to november. joining us now with more insight on all of this former democratic congressman of illinois, marty russo now head of russo capitol good morning to you marty. robert walker former republican congressman from pennsylvania now executive chairman of wesler and walker. let's start with presidential politics it seems mitt romney has now with this surge he just has three more primaries under his belt more delegates inching closer to what he needs seems he is not talking about rick santorum, taking on the president more. >> he is about half way, where he needs to get, but what you always have to remember about the republican primary there are two huge primaries right at tend of the season, texas and california, it is possible, for either rick santorum or newt gingrich to get the kinds of

votes that would be necessary in order to challenge mitt romney still, if they got all of those votes out of both texas and california now is that a realistic possibility no, pretty much an outside possibility but the possibility still exists romney believes he has it wrapped up there is a lot of the establishment believes he has it wrapped up he still has yet to connect with conservative voters he has got to find a way to connect with conservative voters if he is going to get this nomination. >> is it smart he is looking forward to november in your opinion? >> i think so. one of the things he has to do is not tell people what he is going to do he says i can fix this i have the experience but he never said how he would have done it differently at this particular point he will have to lay out a program what he sees for the future of america, president obama laid it out now republicans don't care for it but this will be a really difference of opinion this is really going to be a right and left view of what is going to

happen for the country, so there is a clear cut distinction where the president is coming from where the republican party is coming from american people have to make a choice it will be an interesting choice. >> if rick santorum stays in it until the end what does that do for perception for the party? i will ask you bob what does it do for the republican party going into november? >> right now, both rick and newt are saying they are going to stay in, until tampa, what i think it does is as sures conservatives continue to have a choice but at the very least what it means is the republican platform will have to reflect some of the conservative values, that both newt and rick bring to the campaign, and so, one of the fights even if romney has wrapped up the delegate count, is likely to be over the question of how do you shape the platform in a way

which is satisfactory to voters. >> interesting. we learned last week your connection with the newt gingrich campaign let's talk about the former speaker where is newt gingrich now what is the next hope for him to sort of come back and get his head back -- name back in the headlines? >> we are campaigning in delaware, we think that that is a state where we have a chance of breaking through, he was getting huge crowds yesterday in north core lie that, that is a state that would -- carolina that is a state that would be good for him, and we are looking forward to texas and california there is a game plan we think that we have the resources available to us to be able to go forward. >> okay marty want to ask about the president's sort jumping into the debate over the ryan budget what does it say when the president comes out now talking about the cuts and they are drastic >> i think the campaign is a campaign of a third choice do

you want the ryan budget which its theme is that the poor people in the country get too much and the wealthy don't have enough to paul ryan fixes that problem cuts the programs for the poor takes that money and give it is wealthy another $4.2 trillion tax cut on top of the extension of the bush tax cut so the choice will be do you want a balanced way of dealing with the deficit, i think social security medicare, medicaid, social programs are going to be on the table. well, revenues have to be on the table you can't just say i am going to cut all these programs take 19 million people off medicaid make sure seniors pay more money for medicare and say well, we will take that and so called job creators will get another $4.2 billion revenues, the ryan budget still has $4 trillion to national debt over 10 years it is a clear choice.

but the real point here is the president's budget was taken before the house and so on it got zero votes no democrats voted for the president's budget in the senate the president has not required democrats in the senate to come up with a budget he has not pressed them paul ryan made the tough choices if we are going to get the deficits under control bring down the debt we have this this country you have to make tough choices democrats don't like the tough choices he has made fine bring your tough choices before the congress, and have some votes. there have been no democrats who have been willing to support what the president brought forward. so the president on this case is a president that is talking about some body else's budget but not presenting one that is credible on his own >> i think he did. >> it is not a credible budget. >> sure it is a balanced choice where are we going to go with america are we going to do something for public education

something for infrastructure, something for safety net programs are the wealthy going to pay a fair share >> your colleagues weren't willing to vote for it. >> the budget process makes no sense to me but the president laid out his vision his budget is his vision he will run on that budget just like mitt will run under ryans budget american people will say do i want this budget or that budget that is the vision for america. >> american people by democrats congress this is the first time they have agreed on anything zero voted for the president's budget. >> sorry marty you didn't get the last word today, former congressmen, marty russo from illinois and congressman robert walker thanks gentlemen wisdom to you. >> thanks allison 7:41 a.m., 47 degrees outside official results from whitney houston's autopsy up next this ad caused up roar among some of marry j

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>> making headlines, whitney hue stop sign's autopsy has been -- houston's autopsy has been released to the public. she complained of a sore throat, an assistant suggested she take a bath. cocaine was found in her system and a spoon with white residue in it, in the room where she died. >> burger king is apologizing to mary j blige after an ad led to serious fan backlash she was singing about the new crispy snack wrap. they say the ad is stereo typical blige said the commercial didn't come across as planned burger king said it was released prematurely they hope to have a final version on the air. >> that is an interesting

situation to be in you would have thought they would have run it by some body apparently not. >> hey, this is a good idea. >> okay. >> weather will co-operate. >> with what? >> us. >> with eskimos? >> i am bitter because it was warm and now chilly. >> cooler all right. we are not talking eskimo weather. gee between you and wisdom and julie. >> we have seen 80. >> i don't have tony here this week. i know we have seen 80 no one is offended. it is cool out there but this is where we should be this time of year,. >> we just got spoiled tucker. >> i know starting january 1st we got spoiled there has been no let up, 37 washington 39 gaithersburg. 50s out in quantico, 54 degrees right now. >> no, i want 60s now. >> you want 60s. >> come on now. >> cape hatteras. >> that is where i need to go. >> it is raining down there. here is your deal a cold front

came through yesterday cooler weather today allison is not quite as happy that will settle in for the next several days lots of sunshine nice and dry this afternoon, so you know what, when all is said and done this is a nice forecast for april nice warming trend near 70. >> nice day for easter. >> should be perfect. >> time now to check with robert, with traffic. >> good morning start you off with a look at 395, seminary road where some of your earlier delays are starting to ease up, watch for the brake lights 14th street bridge a bit slow no major delays slow heading on to the freeway and third street tunnel no accidents to report just the crowded roadway slowing you down elsewhere in the district, slow, bening to east capitol northbound 295 find delays in place as well as you head north of the 11th street bridge taking a look now on the belt way where the jammed up traffic is still in place on the outer loop from 95 to college park to georgia

avenue on the inner loop delays from 95 and college park to the green belt metro that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> thanks robert. you might notice something different on the georgetown waterfront. >> holly morris is standing by with a group of ladies on the water, holly good morning. >> good morning to you. forget any coffee shop in town i am at the business jest spot in town look at the activity we are on the dock this is morning at thompson boat center because dw is gearing up to host the dw rowing invitational going on for 25 years they have invited 12 teams to come take part but they have invited you too, it is a fabulous spectator sport we will tell you how to come out and enjoy it all live next fox 5 morning news stay with us time to say good morning to our facebook fan of the day sam reason true she says she is getting ready to celebrate her

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>> fox 5s holly morris is down on the water. >> at thompson's boat sent we are the george washington university rowing team as they get ready for their invitational later this week good morning. >> good morning you know what i love about these rowers they are early morning people just like us i tell you this is the busiest spot in town this morning it will be busy this friday and saturday as well they are gearing up for their special invitational, tom is

the coach of the men's freshman team. >> yep >> i guess you do women as well. >> just men. >> just men freshmen. >> yep. >> good i found the right person this is the 26th year for this invitational it is a pretty big deal. >> largest collegiate race that starts during the spring season crews all over the country in the past we have had international crews come in it is a great event for dc, for george washington university and rowing in general. >> so i know it is 12 teams how do you decide who gets to come. >> we just pretty much poll the other crews, a small world and look for crews from the west coast to come out here otherwise it is top level crews from the u.s. >> aren't the best rowers on the east coast. >> i a lot of them are although there are strong crews on the west coast. >> how will it work on friday and saturday? >> three shifts of racing that go on friday afternoon 1 to 4 and saturday morning, 8 to 11:00 a.m. and saturday afternoon 1 to 4:00 p.m.

and pretty much, every crew that is here is going to race once in those three shifts so there is three races over the weekend head to head. >> you know what i like about this sport is the practice field it is pretty spectacular. >> very nice location good water, you got greet scenery and a great place to row. >> who is here this morning. >> crews from high school crews from dc bethesda, chevy chase, single scholars in their own boats, georgetown, george washington a range of people. >> it is big in our area. >> huge thousands row in dc it is one of the largest rowing cities on the east coast >> i guess if you are going to get involved in the sport you need the know the basic strokes. >> yes. >> not only is it cool that they can actually practice on the water but they can even practice overlooking the water take a look at this. this is pretty nice here. >> these are the indoor rowing machines,. >> indoor rowing machines you

put outdoors. >> or you can move them in. >> yes. >> you will give me a little instruction. >> just strap your feet in there. >> okay. >> as i do that, i know, from just being in the gym this is tiring. >> yeah, it is a full body exercise. i will get this for you. >> full body exercise if you do it correctly. >> that is our goal we will try to do this correctly we use these to warm up grab the handle here, and we will start from the back end of the stroke flatten your legs bring your shoulders back handle up here. >> yep. >> wrists are flat nice and relaxed. >> nothing about this that is relaxed. >> exhale relax and then so what you do first your hands will go away then your shoulders and then bring your legs up and then you just pretty much press. just like that, perfect form. >> right out of the gate perfect form. >> yep. now try to do it in time with matt here next to you. >> well, matt pick it up. >> oh, pick up the pace matt.

>> pick it up matt come on. >> very good form. >> now are the kids at gw on scholarship? >> a few of them are, we have limited scholarships with rowing in general it is not a scholarship sport. >> now, is it kosher for the hosting team to win. >> we would like to win yeah, that is the goal. >> how many do you have on your team? >> 40 people, men and women a couple female coxons and 35 guys. >> very good, myfoxdc.com our website we have a link to the gw rowing invitational website so you can find out more if you want to come down and see the races friday and saturday from 2 to 4 each day. >> 1 to 4. >> 1 to 4. three hours to come enjoy it part of it is to do it in time. >> yeah. >> matt you are slacking come on. >> matt is going at a nice easy pace. >> you smile but you got to pick it up. learn more head down to the docks at our next hour back to you. >> he really did pick it up too

you shamed him into it. >> thank you so much. >> coming up at 8, fresh off his big win tuesday night, democratic business man john delaney joins us live. >> also next hour we all experience stress at home, at work most of us can brush it off a new study finds certain every day stress can lead to a very serious problem. fox medical team will fill us in on that in about 20 minutes. probably something that all of us can use. we will be right back stay with us 

following breaking news firefighters rescue at least one person from a fire in northwest sherry lee is live on scene with the latest. >> good morning i am allison seymour. >> i am wisdom martin we will start off talking about what is happening in the weather department with mr. tucker barnes. >> good morning. >> sweater weather. >> it is not -- okay how about this. light jacket weather. >> no? >> always vest weather. >> okay. >> for you wisdom. >> stylish vest. >> like the professor or something. >> right to the radar let you

know we are in for generally a nice day, cooler than yesterday bring a light jacket or vest or sweater, because high temperatures will only be upper 50s to 60s a little cooler than yesterday but should generally be sunny there is your radar rain showers south and west of the city headed down to carolinas, southwest virginia you will likely encounter rain and a few clouds will spill into some of our southern reaches of our viewer ship, so, colonial beach charlottesville, culpepper you will see clouds sunshine cooler day temperatures regan national we are currently, 47 degrees, 45 this morning baltimore, 41 hagerstown, next couple days lots of sunshine and a nice trend here into the weekend we will have details on that, dry afternoon high temperatures 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. >> thanks tucker. >> my pleasure. >> time to look at -- take a look at the roads. robert has a report on that good morning robert. >> good morning to you we will start you off with the outer

loop delays still in place as you leave 95 college park head over to georgia avenue, colesville road jammed up here with all travel lanes open inner loop, slow opposite direction, 95 college park over to the green belt metro station watch out for delays on the inner loop as you head to georgia avenue to connect cut and travel into the sun just a light delay there. 270 southbound a look at clarks burg road around 121, travelling at speed but watch for the accident reported to be 109 that has the left lane blocked in virginia belt way delays in place here, inner loop over to the further side of your screen there, you will be slow from braddock to i-77 on the inner loop watch for the outer loop delay still in place as you travel van dooren to eisenhower connector that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. robert thank you we continue to follow breaking news out of the district dc firefighters are on the scene of a house fire

>> it broke out locust avenue northwest, sherry lee, live to give us the latest detail. >> good morning wisdom, allison we now know this fire started in the second floor of this home here on locust road northwest dc, it started in a rear bedroom, three people had to be pulled from a house and taken to hospital right now for the very latest information we have deputy fire chief, tell us about getting the call this morning and what you found when crews got here. >> the 911 center, officer unified communications only received one 911 call for this house fire we believe it came, originated from this house we believe reported the house on fire with people trapped of course, dc fire and ems always deploy a lot of resources to these types of incidents this was no exception our closest units came from our fire house on georgia avenue south of missouri avenue engine 22 and truck 11 they arrived within 5

minutes, dispatched 6:35 a.m., arrived 6:40 a.m. went on the scene with the fire with a lot of smoke, fire second floor bedroom, two occupants, two elderly occupants were found on the first floor, conscious, and alert, suffering from what we believe to be smoke inhalation we escorted them out of the house as soon as possible one of the occupants told us that a relative was still upstairs. rescue squad two from georgia avenue went right upstairs and found an elderly unconscious occupant in a bedroom adjacent to the bedroom that was on fire, we immediately brought that person down and outside, where ems was awaiting that patient was transported priority one to med star with us performing advanced life support measures i don't have the condition of that patient i can tell you the other two patients that we found on the first floor they may have been upstairs and got down on their own we escorted them outside we

took them to gw priority two for observation. >> so what can you tell us as far as the fire is concerned any idea on the cause and was it contained within the house. >> yeah, the fire seemed to be contained to that one bedroom there may have been a little bit that got into the attic through the exterior soffits of the house once again crews got up real quick and put a real quick knock on it this is more of an issue where we are concerned about the residents we believe we did a great job putting the fire out extinguishing it, very quickly and effectively, of course getting that one occupant if not all three of those occupants out of there our main concern is the one we transport pride yourty one we don't know at this point what the status is. was there any indication smoke alarms went off? >> i did walk through there, and i spoke to a couple of our first two units who did not hear any smoke alarms activated when they got here. >> thank you very much deputy fire chief for dc fire.

thank you so much again, that is a fire here, on locust road in northwest dc, three people taken to hospital one had to be revived no word on that condition of that person two others expected to be okay that is the latest here back to you. thanks. some of our other top story possible ncaa violations at a local university. >> howard university is launching a self-imposedded investigation into the claims the school took extreme measures initially suspending all athletic competition. they told fox 5 misuse of textbook vouchers is at the center of the investigation but the university has not determined anything they are worried about the possibility of future sanctions. >> it is a serious problem you have people here on scholarship as far as athletics you are basically telling students they can't continue at howard

because they won't be able to get their scholarships through athletics. >> there is no word yet on whether the ncaa will launch its own investigation. lottery officials will hold a news conference this afternoon to address the mega millions mystery in maryland last wear merlond wilson said she had one of the three winning tickets but her lawyer won't confirm the claim. her coworkers at mcdonald's believe if she does have the winning ticket it was purchased with pool money. also, complicating matters a mississippi woman now says her son bought the lucky ticket in maryland that is now worth $218 million before taxes however, her son has not made that claim. we are learning three american soldiers were among ten people killed in afghanistan yesterday, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle drove up to a nato convoy and blew himself up it happened in

a relatively peaceful part of northern afghanistan. also making headlines jerry sandusky the former . state assistant -- penn state assistant football coach is due in court. among other issue it is hearing comes two months before he is scheduled to go on trial sandusky denies charges and currently is on house arrest until his trial in early june wisdom. all right allison business man john delaney has gotten the democratic nod to challenge, bart let in mare lend, today he -- maryland today he joins us live to talk about the victory and looking ahead to november's elections thank you for coming in and talking to us congratulations. >> thank you. >> you are a business man. >> that's right. >> what inspired you to jump into the race. >> the skills i have in business creating jobs created thousand here many maryland is relevant to our country right now, not only in terms of

dealing with the unemployment situation we have but thinking about what the future work force trend is i was inspired to bring that expertise to congress. >> now you weren't the favorite by some in your own democratic party although you did get the backing of bill clinton and donna edwards but some were backing your democratic opponent in the primaries. >> yeah, i mean, democratic primary and it was a hard fought race but there is terrific unity in the party now, we won the other day i have been talking to all the other leaders in the party everyone is behind me we are all focused on winning the seat for the democrats in november. >> the sixth district has been redrawn, bartlet long time holding that spot how much of an impact do you think redrawing this district will have in your favour or not in your favour. >> i think the voters in the sixth district which as you said includes montgomery county, west earn part of the state they care about my message about jobs and about

someone with an outsiders perspective coming to washington who is going to focus on getting things done what i heard during my campaign is voters are actually asking a very simple thing of congress they want action want results want to pass laws to make the country morecompetitive create jobs raise the standard of living of americans i think that message plays very well in the new sixth district quite frankly it would have played well in the old sixth. >> what about relationship between democrats and republicans they are not always all together on the same page all the time but have to work together have you heard from some of the people who support you hey, we want more working together instead of working against each other. >> yes, you hear that from voters i think the tolerance the american people have for level of partisan ship particularly the negative par san ship is wearing thin people want their elected officials to work together con destructively toward creating solutions for this country that is one of the

mac dates i have going in i hear -- mandates i have going in i hear that from voters my business career has been defined by that, work i have done in business and nonprofits has been about working constructively, people who have different views coming together for the good of whatever the cause is i think what american people thing is lacking is congress is not putting people's interest first they put partisan interests first but not prioritizing the interest of the people i want to clearly put the american people's interest first and work to do things we all know need to be done >> we talked about jobs as well your perspective on jobs because you are a business man creating jobs is there anything else as far adds your agenda -- as far as your agenda is concerned that needs to be addressed when it comes to that district or in general. >> i think in general, what i think this country needs to do is focus on deficit reform, i think that will help the whole country and help the sixth district i think one thing i want to focus on in particular

is making it more competitive doing what i can to help attract businesses retain businesses and create more on of an entrepreneurial culture needs of montgomery county are different than the needs of the west earn part of the state what has been missing is an advocate who can help them stand up it is a number one issue of this country it is important in terms of not only economic matters but their human dignity, a job defines how we see ourselves and it is the safety net without jobs without good employment without good tax revenues we can't pay for the things we care about. >> thank you very much for coming in. all right. we will send it over to allison now. >> 8:12 a.m., 49 degrees on thursday morning coming up, the warm winter could create problems for you and your pet plus chances are something has you stressed out lately, every day, we all deal with it but those little day today

annoyances could take a it will on your health, dr. joe explains in today's health alert we will be right back çzo%

well, the weather and clear in our area today, chilly out there tucker. >> a little. >> just a touch. >> i am not ready yet. >> ready or not here we come. >> that was smooth. let's get right to it, warm up factor of the day, that is what allison is referring to. time for my first 5 photo of the day layla everybody. >> hey, gorgeous. >> if you look carefully underneath her name you know what she is up to. >> roller skating. >> showing off her first pair of skates. >> nice. >> i went like a year ago up in laurel it was so much fun. >> yeah, i went with you it was not that much fun. >> her mom says in addition she likes to crack a pose, she has a gift of gab so allison lookout in a couple years, she is going to want your job. >> i will move right on over for her she is adorable. >> according to her mom.

>> go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings. >> she is so gorgeous with that pose. >> beautiful. >> 49 now washington 51 annapolis, let's see, 43 hagerstown cool start to your day notably cooler than yesterday our afternoon highs will be 10 to 15 degrees cooler. 32 binghamton, 30s in detroit, 37, 37 pittsburgh our temperatures will remain on the cool side for the next couple days we should generally look at sunshine today the rain you see in west virginia, southwest virginia, generally stay to our south as high pressure from the north our trend will be mostly sunshine today not perfectly sunny day but mostly sunshine and dry for your thursday. here is your 5 day forecast and if you have weekend plans outdoors, absolutely perfect saturday and sunday, a little cool, warming up near 70 by easter sunday maybe a few showers mond rain that is weather let's do traffic. got the latest in on time traffic good morning. >> good morning tucker we will

start you off with a look at 270, southbound, 109, traffic running smoothly unfortunately that is not really good news the traffic is all backed up in the delay, pretty much stopped leaving 85 southbound heading to the accident just before 109 that has the left lane blocked and southbound lanes of 270 elsewhere in maryland jammed up, outer loop of the belt way, ending over to georgia avenue on the inner loop leaving 95, college park heading to the green belt metro, delays south capitol street, suit land parkway off and on slow traffic watch for delays on south capitol northbound 295 to the south capitol bridge, northbound 295, delays from suit land parkway to 11th street bridge that is a check on your fox 5 on time traffic. well, a health alert this morning about stress we all experience it right but we deal with it in different ways most of us can brush it off by the end of the day a new study

finds certain every day stress can lead to a very serious problem, the fox medical team's dr. joe is looking into this for us good morning what did the study find. >> well, good morning allison what they did was looked at 911 dispatchers that had never been done before again they are remotely involved not really on scene but when asked about the trauma they suffered after or during these phone calls again about 15 out of every 21 calls, had potential trauma involved, they said that they did not fair that well and in fact, three and a half% probably qualified for diagnosis of ptsb. >> okay they deal with these life and death situations all the time emergency workers, so, how do those emotions play into this. >> well, you know i think it is the fact again they are kind of helpless when they looked on a scale, they asked police officers, they asked 911 dispatchers about different

emotions they found increased levels of frustration, helplessness, sadness being horrified and again it might be because they can't actually act you know if you are in an emergency situation you have to act that adrenaline slowing and you are doing something but these dispatchers are just sitting there listening the most traumatic calls did come when a child was involved maybe the death of a child or a trauma, also, the other thing was suicides being on the other end of the line someone who wants to end their lives and the third thing was if a fellow office era police officer, or there was a shooting of someone, in the emergency group that was another big stressor for them. >> in 20 seconds what does that mean for the rest of us not in that particular field? >> it means that we can be effected significantly even if we are not there if we are not significantly present, even if it is indirect exposure again we thing about a lot of these interventions that occur say in

an elementary school when a child dies there is a traumatic event in our community we need to pay attention to that and don't think you know, just it is very important i think that is the bottom line. >> my goodness i will call you later to see how we can get rid of it at the end of the day you deal with it i will report on it. thank you so much. >> thanks allison. >> wisdom over to you. >> thanks well, painkillers sail sales are soaring in the u.s. experts worry it is creating a wave of addiction. enough oxycontin and hydro codone were dispensed to give enough to every single man woman and child in the united states the circulation of these two drugs is booming from new york to mexico. now if you would like to spend more time outdoors, listen up, the extra mile went -- mild winter and early spring means you could see tickets sooner than expected experts say tick season is usually may

to august but because of the warm weather the eggs may start hatching earlier than usual. >> gross and nasty. >> at the same time all together. >> all at the same time, 8:21 a.m., 49 degrees on thursday morning chilly out there google testing its augmented reality glasses, a look at the design and what we can do ahead. >> holly morris is learning about rowing coming up a look at the annual george washington rowing invitational, we will be right back ck 

don't be surprised if you see some planes flying low, very low over our area this morning starting in an hour nasa will begin taking pictures of the dc region using two, t- 32 training jets, nasa and faa want to see if the 747 bringing the space shuttle here can fly around the metro area, before landing at dulles. >> google is looking at bringing augmented reality to the masses. >> look at these glasses you

can call, surf and text the web all on the screen in front of your eyes, yes, right in front of your eyes and get constant updates as well as you are walking around town not paying attention. glasses are still in the testing phase no word when they will actually hit the stores. >> let's move along. >> 8:26 a.m., perhaps i was born in the wrong era. >> maybe so. or we are a little slow. >> 8:26 a.m., thursday morning new problems for that nuclear power plant in japan. hit hard by last year's tsunami. >> escape from camp 14 a new book tells the story of a man born in a north korean prison camp and escaped he also -- the book is here to tell us to tell the courageous story ♪

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stories making headlines now, five former new orleans police officers have been sentenced to prison, for their roles in the deadly shootings of unarmed residents days after hurricane katrina terms range from 6 to 65 years officers shot 6 people killing 2 on dang zinger bridge in 2005 they then conspired to plant a gun fabricate witnesses and false fie reports to make the shootings appear justified a federal jury convicted the officers of several rights violationcover up last year. >> more problems at that japanese nuclear plant damaged from last year's earthquake and tsunami tonnes of highly radio active water may have leaked into the ocean but maintain there is no immediate health threat now the tokyo electric power company believes workers have stopped the flow, there have been several similar leaks since last year. also the u.s. coast guard plans to sink a fishing boat

that was swept away by the tsunami off the coast of japan the rust stained vessel was discovered in the pacific last month and now 170 nautical miles from sit coo alaska considered a hazard for navigation vessels in the area. >> tucker joins us. >> amazing. >> that even turned up so many months later. >> there is a whole field of debris moving across the pacific incredible. >> okay. here, nice. >> no floating debris. >> none that we know of. >> none in the forecast we should be in for a nice couple days the trend will be to warm things up particularly for easter sunday, lot of sunshine next couple days cooler air overnight temperatures have fallen back a little bit regan national, 49 degrees, 45 in gaithersburg 40s here off to the north and west and you know what we will be in for a slow

warm up as winds shifted north, and locked in the cooler air for the day, 54 quantico, 52 fredericksburg and right across the bay stevensville, 50 degrees as you start your morning looking at satellite radar i noticed the cold front hanging out just to our south area of low pressure developing, rain showers, you will get close but stay just far enough south nothing but a few clouds here immediate washington area. look how clear it is pennsylvania, noses down into the region a close call, some viewers particularly south and west, dealing with a little more cloud cover as rain pushes south, otherwise nice looking forecast, mentioned the sunshine not only day but the next several days, should be nice and dry warming trend as i mentioned by sunday our highs back in upper 60s near 70, cooler today front will keep things on the cool side, a few degrees below normal and very cool nights in fact, cold, tomorrow morning and

particularly saturday morning we have freeze watches north and west of the city for saturday morning your five day forecast, sunny trend, again our next chance for rain will arrive monday just a few showers, we need rain showers, next best chance monday a few showers at that. let's look at your weather wisdom over to you. name of the book is escape from camp 14 tell it is rivetting story of one man's escape from a north korean prison camp. he is the only known person born in a north korean prison camp that escaped and survived to tell the tale. it is a tale of endurance and courage here to tell us more about this is the author of escape from camp 14, and journalist, blaine harden thanks forgetting up and coming in and talking with us. first of all with a inspired you -- what inspired you to get involved? what attracted you to do this book? >> i was in northeast asian working for the washington post writing about north korea trying to find a way to tell the story how kim jong il the

leader at the time kept the lid on this country with people were steadily getting poorer and everybody else was getting richer, and american journalists can't go into north korea or only go on very guided tours where you don't see anything i started working interviews with the defectors who live in seoul, about 23,000 of them have come in the past decade but shin is the only one of these defectors born in a camp and got out. >> how did you find him? >> he had come to seoul, about a year and a half before i met him and he had written a short book that no one pays any attention to, and he was running out of money and worried about being homeless and when i interviewed him i did a story on the front page of the post, got an enormous reaction, a real human reaction you don't normally get that for newspaper stories and went back and said look we just scraped the surface can you tell me all about your life it took him 8

months to agree and then it took about 2 and a half years of interviews to get the full story. >> a year to make -- the actual work took longer than it did to get -- >> writing was easy once i got the story the story is amazing his parents were chosen by guards in the camp, in a reward marriage and he was bred like a farm animal, to be -- his life trajectory was work as a laborer when he died in his early 50s. most people do in the camp. >> i am sure a lot of people in the book -- do you feel you want to share how he managed to escape what his life was like after that. >> sure. he managed to escape, because he met a new comer, who was sentenced to life in the camp he had lived in the capitol and europe he knew the outside world. shin was raised in the camp he

was 23 he didn't know the world was round. he told him china existed, he told higot to china, he could eat grilled meat, shin had been hungry his whole life he began to dream about that they tried to escape together going through one of the electric fences that surrounds the camp and park got to the fence first and was electrified and -- electrocuted and shin crawled over his body and ran out of the camp. >> amazing story. how did this story effect you? you were dealing -- talking to him for a long period of time, before he even got to public the book. >> i have been a journalist for a long time its effect on me was not that important i was trying to find a way to make americans understand these camps exist they have been there more than five decades there are six of them, plainly visible on google earth if you go to google earth you can zoom in on them and a lot of them

have been annotated by former residents of the camp many people go into the camp for a few years and then are released and have found their way out of north korea and into seoul and south korea, but there are -- the u.s. government says there are about 200,000 people in these camps now and amnesty international said last year some of the camps seem to be adding population, because of the transition in north korea from kim jong il to his young son his son is almost exactly the same age as shin the hero of my book and they represent sort of the antti pose of privilege and kim john un was made a four star general based on the qualification his dad was the boss and shin was born in the camp his life expectancy was to live 50 years before he died of malnutrition and disease. >> fascinating story, information in your book we

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signs of economic rebounds, americans are moving closer and staying put in big city it is ongoing housing crisis is also to blame for this trend. >> 8:41 a.m., thursday morning coming up you don't need to be a wine con suffer to pick out a great bottle some times the more expensive ones are not even the ones that taste the best. lauren shows us a new ap that will help wine drinkers make a selection. >> let's check with holly morris good morning. >> hey, good morning guys you know what i am not part of the fox 5 morning crew i am part of the gw women's crew we are live at thompson's boat center where they are getting in last minute practicing before they gear up for a huge invitational going on in washington harbour this weekend there is the coach giving some last minute tips coming up i will learn how to be the a coxen plus see how you can see the sport for yourself stay with us i can't stand these spots.

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potomac river. >> holly morris is with the george washington university team as they get ready to compete. >> good morning i am hanging out with the varsity women's team the top 8 competing in weekend getting ready to go out on the water and have a little practice i will be accompanied by megan kerns because megan, hello megan. >> hi how are you. >> you look serious. >> is the coxen so tell me about this role of the coxen. >> basically as the coxen i am expected to steer the boat and i also make motivational calls during the races and tell the rowers where their competitors are, for the entire duration. >> motivational calls like the cheerleader. >> kind of >> i got her to smile >> i wanted you to loosen up a little bit tell me what i need to know what we are doing how this works i hear it is ceremonial. >> yeah, it's pretty standard

what we say we tell them get hands on the boat instruct them to get it out on the water. >> just hey, put your hands on the boat we are going to head down to the water >> right well,. >> no. >> let's do the commands. >> you would tell them hands on. >> hands on. >> and say lift it up and out. >> lift it up and out. >> and then you want to tell them to split the shoulders split. >> split shoulders split. >> tell them walk it out. >> walk it out. >> i got them to smile too. how heavy is the boat. >> like 20 to pounds. >> -- 200 pounds. >> it is split over 8 people it is not that heavy. >> no matter whatever crew i would be a part of if i used those same commands that would work. >> they are all standard. >> so how good is your team? >> um, we are having a good season so far. >> mm-hmm.

>> pretty excited looking forward to this weekend. >> who will you be taking on first? >> our first race friday will be against st. joes one of our competitors. >> do you have to win that race to go to the next race. >> no, the races are all set you want to tell them here to weigh enough. >> weigh enough. >> that means to stop. >> so say heads ready up. >> heads ready up. >> and then say wave stroll. >> then say push it out and in. >> push it out and in. >> i guess obviously, this whole rowing thing is all about timing everything has to be together. >> yeah. >> as they gear up, how do you become a coxen. >> um, you just you know express interest in it, you know. >> i mean what -- why were you interested in it. >> i played sports in high school so i wanted to continue to play sports, in college, and

this is a brand new sport to try out,. >> what does this sport afford you? what experiences have you had you enjoyed being part of a crew like this. >> being a coxen you learn a lot about how to be a leader communicate and work with others and you know, the sport of rowing is like a team sport so everyone on the team, really learns how to work together. >> and how hard is it to motivate them once you are out on the water. >> um, you know as long as you know your girls and your crew, you will know what to say when the time comes. >> looks like they are waiting for me to say something. >> yes, you just say water side out. >> water side out. >> and say all 8 one foot in, down in. >> all 8 one foot in, down and in. >> that's it they are ready to roll. >> yep. >> now you have to get in there too. >> exactly. >> they can't go without the cheerleader. >> you get in and plug in and

then? you head on out how long would you stay out on the water practicing. >> usually two hours. >> wow that is a pretty long time can we see you shove off. >> mm-hmm. >> as she gets ready i will tell you the gw rowing invitational is this friday and saturday, right down here in georgetown, the races are from 1 to 4 each day so if you want to come out and see all the collegiate teams taking part, you can do that beautiful setting,. >> all right and one hand on to the duck into shove one, two shove. >> there they go gw varsity women's team getting ready to do practice here this morning, myfoxdc.com our website we have a link if you want to find out more about the invitational coming up next hour we will see if i can get out on the water myself back the you in studio. >> i don't doubt that you can holly see you next hour. >> just because a bottle of wine is pricey doesn't mean it is the most pleasing to your

pallet an expert in food and wine former top chef all-stars contestant sitting down with a intern to see if they can detect the difference between cheap and costly wine. >> a virtual wine guide all in today's smart phone zone. >> if you are heading out to a friends house celebrating a special occasion you want the get a really great wine but don't want to spend a lot of money to do that, we are in northwest dc mike isabella is the owner and chef here hello. >> hello. >> thank you for having us in here this is great. we will do a little bit of taste testing i know you have a few restaurants opening up here. >> yes, we have been open a year i am opening up my second place in georgetown, a mexican concept over the next month or two and then after that we are opening up a greek concept, later on in the year on 14th

street. >> a lot going on. >> yeah, i'm a little busy. >> thank you for taking the time we have our intern here aerial who will also be helping us we will put some more expensive wines against some wine that you can get for a little bit less money these are all on mike's list but you know there is 60 wines on your list here, you guys try these wines two sparkling two chardonnay this is the wine coach radio host author extraordinary. >> good morning this is fun what we are doing is putting a savvy wine, less explane sieve against the -- less expensive against the splurge i am from jersey where wine came in a box and was usually pink it is my mission to get people more comfortable and tasting it doesn't have to be is note and that is what we are doing here. >> the reason we are doing this you have a brand new ap

>> i do the wine coach ap it has lots of resources wine picks under $20 clips from my radio show a great guide of important grapes and so much more like being able to send me your questions directly. >> talk to me a little about the grape guide it is awesome you check difference whether it is chardonnay. >> i have the main grape varietals, and even how to pronounce them so you don't make a fool of yourself at a business dinner, chalk full of great value and 100% free. >> take a photo and send it to you and you will tell them what you are drinking. >> like a wine coach in your pocket or purse. it is for iphone and android it is free. >> let's get back to our testers how are you doing? >> good i guess the second one was my favorite personally i actually thing that is the less expensive one i think the first

is more expensive. >> of the sparkling. >> number two. >> all right mike. >> yeah, i agree i like the first one better than the second one i like more bubbles and i like the flavour better and i think it is more of an expensive sparkling than the first one. >> these guys are good, because the first is the rotter estate made in california $56 on mike's list that was the splurge the second one is a persecco a bubbly he has on tap in a keg even in a bottle in a store it is under $20. >> chardonnay. >> this third one was sweeter i like it more i think that one is more expensive and the fourth one was good too but i think it is the less expensive one. >> mike >> i agree with her the third one was my favorite, i like it a lot i usually tend to go to

more expensive, types of wines i do think this one is more expensive than number three than number four i like it better. >> you agree with the top chef. >> really? my goodness. >> all right well, this one is great because it is a little opposite here number three is our josh sellers on the list $36 per bottle from california the other one is from brick house and that is in oregon it is $96 on the list. >> my gosh. >> you love the less expensive one by $60, so although i think the second one might be a food line that would come alive when eating food and that is the way to judge wine. >> you need lauries ap. there are all kinds of delicious wines out here thank you so much mike arielle and laurie everyone at home if you would like to check out this ap for more information here head to myfoxdc.com click on the mornings page for the smart

phone zone and i am going to sit where you guys are sitting i want to try some wine back to you in studio. thanks. >> too bad i don't drink wine at all, or i would have learned something but i don't drink wine. >> nothing ventured, nothing gained. >> when they have a sweet tea thing i will get involved. >> 49 degrees, coming up next hour, a local chef cooking up mexican pass over dishes. >> top 8 idol hopefuls, took on the 80s last night jennifer lopez even predicted who would be the top two, she is not one of them a look at performances coming up in idol chatter 

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