election campaign. one year after the raid, that took out the al qaeda leader the new york city skyline will mark a milestone world trade centre back on top. live report from new york in 30 minutes. fox 5 mornling news at 7 -- morning news at 7 starts now. >> looks like some clouds will make their way in here not a bad start to the day. going to be a pretty decent day, today is monday april 30th, 2012 good morning i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour. the end is here, enjoy april because it is gone after today. it will feel like july later this week tucker good morning. >> good morning yeah, 80s starting wednesday and right through the end of the weekend into the week. live shot and relatively cool temperatures particularly

north and west, dulles and baltimore 47, 50 here in washington, fredericksburg, 54 degrees mix of clouds and sunshine, partly sunny day, as we've got a warm front off to the south and west, allison mentioned the warmer air on the way, cloud cover and possibility of a few showers i think the best chance of showers may be a thunder storm later tonight and during the day tomorrow as that warm air starts to move in clouds will start to move in, in anticipation of that warm front arriving later tonight. partial sunshine, 66 washington, 65 la plata. let's see how traffic is flowing on your monday morning julie. >> all right tucker on the roads, you will find the accident activity tieing up your road along suit land parkway, pennsylvania avenue, no problems to report 295 but goes from 210 to the they vail research lab and in bound, on 50.

you are down to 40 miles an hour 202 land overheaded in towards northeast, no problems along new york avenue as you continue in from northeast to northwest, southbound 270, route 80, down to 31 miles an hour and father hurly boulevard headed out towards mba. our big story the death of osama bin laden, one year later. our nation prepares to mark this week. some are wondering if the white house is using his death. osama bin laden killed a year ago tomorrow, republicans are accusing to white house of trying to turn it into a campaign issue. president obama on the hunt for money last night at a private virginia campaign fundraiser hours later came this. >> and then there was the

victory no one saw coming. >> reporter: a 7 minute campaign video on youtube, out thing the president's accomplishments including the navy seal team attack on osama bin laden's headquarters last year administration suggested likely republican nominee mitt romney wouldn't have made that same call. white house and campaign officials are making the rounds. >> the president made the decision, to carry out that raid on osama bin laden when he was presented with circumstantial evidence osama bin laden was there by all accounts it was a gut ski call. >> here i am sitting here. >> reporter: republicans say all this, including later this week on nbc where the president grants access to the situation room, smacks of politics. >> he has managed to turn it into a devie sieve, partisan, political attack, former defense secretary, called sad john mccain called shameful

most americans will see it as the sign of a desperate campaign. >> but the president's campaign knows this could be a potent national security issue, helping build the president's resume while he argues for a second term. >> doug good to see you thank you. u.s. officials know of no active revenge plot to coincide with osama bin laden's death but one year later al qaeda is still strong with increased global presence they say their strong hold is now in yemen. counter terrorism officials identified top five al qaeda leaders they are going after, including his number two man, also, owe mar, leader of the taliban. new this morning a bystander stabbed after stepping in to help a person being robbed after 2:00 a.m. this morning 1500 block pennsylvania avenue southeast the suspect got away the

stabbing victim went to hospital, in stable condition. other top stories a series of sexual assaults targeting women in prince georges county. >> they have happened in or near a popular park trail. melanie good morning. >> reporter: good morning allison yes, we are here at the northwest branch trail in hyattsville maryland this is where some of those attacks have happened, there are several flyers posted one over here, is referring to an attack that happened on this section of the trail march 27th there are other ones posted around talking about an attack that happened friday, april 20th, gain, a little different description each time we will get to those in a minute but they are really in both english and spanish warning people about the attacks in all five women have been assaulted either on streets that are leading towards the west hyattsville metro station not far from where we are standing and thee here on the popular

hiking and biking trail of the women attacked on the trail all were accosted by an armed man dragged off the trail and raped, one victim was in her 30s one in her 20s the most recent victim 14 years old this past week several local police departments got together and compared notes and thy realized they probably did have a connection here between some other attacks and incidents which had happened in january and march, again, the trail has been just pasted over with flyers suspect sketches the victims reported also in every case they were threatened with either a gun or a knife. >> i am happy to see the signs everywhere but as soon as i pulled ahead of my family and told people i didn't know in the past, i turned around and decided to go back, i felt like yeah. just don't feel safe here. >> reporter: three different sketches have been produced from three different incident

where is the victims were able to give enough description of their attackers in all cases describe the attacker as a male hispanic in his 20s. 5'5", and 5'7", with a stocky build and so, allison and tony police are saying they are really just not sure if they are dealing with only one suspect or more than one suspect, the warning of course, to everyone, who is using this trail, make sure you are not wearing head phones when out, whether you are going to the metro station, biking, hiking and also make sure if you come out here to travel in pairs back to you. >> thank you. meanwhile new details about a man charged with first degree murder in the death of a pregnant woman, prince georges county police say 22-year-old nathan rogers sentenced to home detention for an assault conviction last year the district heights man is the father of the child, 23-year- old jasmine moss was carrying, saturday moss was found stabbed

to death in rogers district hikes neighbourhood. a crash involving an ambulance and tow truck sends four people to the hospital. police say the ambulance had all its warning devices when hit by a tow truck no word on the condition of the patient inside the ambulance at the time. police investigating a devastating car crash near the bronx zoo that left three generations of a family dead. the accident happened after the driver lost control of the suv landing in a nonpublic area of the zoo. police say the vehicle shot across several lanes of traffic before plunging more than 50 feet off the side of an elevated highway. the victims ranging in age from 3 to 85 were all pronounced dead at the scene. some times you come upon event that is are horrific and this was one of them when you see young kids that have been hurt or injured or lose their life it is always harder than

if you find someone in an older age. >> police say the victims were all wearing seat belts they were headed to a family party when the accident happened. and in tokyo a bus carrying dozens of vacationers to disneyland crashed on a highway killing 7, 38 others and the driver were hurt, the bus, sliced in half, after it smashed into a roadside wall police don't know yet what caused that crash. 9 minutes after the hour, monday morning still ahead what is on tap for week two of the john edwards criminal trial. >> one of china's most wanted men could be hiding in u.s. custody. details after the break. >> new face of the red skins franchise makes his washington debut more on rg 3s welcome weekend, next ext as we head to break a live lookout side, a little cloudy right now, the latest weather and traffic coming up tucker and julie stay with us, we will

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a chinese human rights activist who escaped house arrest is reportedly in u.s. custody in beijing. chen wan chang was held for his role in exposing forced abortions and sterilizations in china's one child policy the hope is to reach a deal before high level talks with hillary clinton and other u.s. officials begin thursday. john edwards criminal trial resumes in north carolina the wife of an exaid who falsely claimed paternity of his baby, is expected to retake the

witness stand. sherry young says her husband told her, he would do whatever it took, to work for him. the youngs are now crucial to making the government's case edwards master minded the scheme to use wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the white house in 2008. that human rights activist, chang. well, heads may roll tucker. >> how's it going. all right guys,. >> i will wait. that head phone is not connected to anything. >> high temperatures mid-60s partly sunny day, not perfectly sunny like what we have around

here, for most of yesterday. 51 washington, there you go, 35 buffalo, 44 boston a lot of warmth, south and west, 80s this week and sure enough, we are full of warmer air south and west, moves in temperatures will warm up, warm front moves in later today that will bring us a cloud cover and eventually showers and thunderstorms i think that chance will be later tonight and during the day tomorrow we will have scattered showers and thunderstorms then we are off and running warm, humid air expected around here for the rest of the week highs in the 80s starting wednesday, thursday, friday, sentinel radar, generally quiet, cloud cover moving in mid-atlantic t action out to the west, st. louis, chicago will stay out west today, some of that energy, will get in here mid- week. your 5 day forecast, 66 today, partial sunshine, there we go, 80s wednesday, thursday, friday, probably saturday and sunday too, around 80 degrees. >> get ready for a warm up.

just in time for may. >> thanks tuck. >> let's find out what is happennology on the area roadways for that julie wright. >> all right you guys on the roads right now you will find lanes are open no problems to report off the outer loop of the belt way it is below speed, van dooren towards eisenhower avenue, with lanes open, 395, below speed, headed out towards duke, lanes open on the outer loop of the belt way starting to slow west of university boulevard, coalsville road police still on the scene of this crash, tieing up suit land parkway inbound before you reach route 4. rg 3 meets his new fans and you know what? >> it's okay. >> the nats welcome price hopper. >> it was a very eventful weekend. >> i am curious to here y'all's

thoughts on the debut of hopper take a listen to los angeles fans. [ booing ] >> all right. >> raining down the boos on our young 19-year-old fee not in l.a., here is the deal he does come with a bit of an early history for a 19-year-old a lot of people think he is a hot head he plays with a lot of passion he has a pro hawk this was his major league hit we know he can rake as the kids say. he flips off the cap i don't know if he runs faster or likes to show off the hair. >> dramatic flair. >> that hip quality he might rub some people the wrong way but there is the baseball they throughout for his historic hit. he had a great catch yesterday, also a great throw on saturday night. while many people might have thought is he ready, well, the future is now, he is here, i don't know if they will send

him back down if zimmerman comes off the dl. he may be here to stay >> i did not want to disturb you but why did you have to blur out behind -- >> there was some people in los angeles decided and i guess good or bad timing, they mooned the camera, literally right as bryce was mid-swing that is why we blurred it out. >> good question allison very astute observation on your part. you only blur something out when you don't want to talk about it. we don't have to blur any thing out here. any way it was great literally thousands of fans, all the cheerleaders were out a great afternoon, at feddics to welcome in -- fedex to welcome in robert griffin the third. we are all banking this is the

guy for the next decade no pressure. >> right. >> then what they do is, basically on rg 3 day they draft this guy, curt cousins. >> what is that about. >> tony andry going to debate this the rest of the morning and maybe the next 10 years, i get it he was the best available player, when the red skins drafted at 4, and allison, the thought is, like tony and i were saying off camera, that is what a lot of people do, hey, if he is the best player no matter if it is a need for your team that is what you do. other people say take the best available player that fills a hole for you this wasn't necessarily a hole. >> strategy. >> well, only the shanahans truly know mike came out and said, he was too good to pass up where we were drafting at that spot. while it is a head scratcher for me you can understand the logic and tony, i know you are thinking in case rg 3 it is an insurance policy in case he

gets hurt you have another hooky. >> if i am rg 3 i am like what? i am not good enough? >> but this guy is not the franchise here is the thing if the red skins had not drafted any other lineman then i would be like what are you doing. >> they did fourth round another in the sixth as well i think what it does do. some people say, boy, is this competition is this the way to maybe prod rg 3 to say hey, you are going to be the guy but get pushed we got another guy that comes in, remember back in 1995, keith shoer, 4th overall pick. i don't think curt cousins will be the future quarterback but maybe there for insurance. >> okay. >> i don't have a problem with it. >> i one can only hope. >> hopefully we don't have to blur anything else out. >> 20 minutes after 7:00 a.m. changes are coming for pit bull owners in maryland. we have details on that coming

up next. he made history this month sailing around the americas, coming up, we are going to meet, matt rutherford and get a glimpse how he made it all happen 7:20 a.m.,  thanks.

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a virginia beach military gear contractor and dc nonprofit are suing each other over boots the dualing lawsuits centers on a state department contract for african troops, fighting al qaeda militants in somalia atlantic diving supply alleges the nonprofit bancroft accepted 19,000 pairs of boots but only paid half of the order they have counter sued claiming the supplier provided fake military boots >> chef >> in maryland pit bull owners

could face new rules, in the past victims planning to file a lawsuit after a dog attack had to prove the owner knew the dog was dangerous now showing that the owner or landlord knew the dog was part pit bull is sufficient for a claim. >> should public schools allow outside groups to distribute material to students. tonight the board of education policy committee is expected to recommend they do away with the policy the debate grew earlier this year when a group that claimed gays can change their sexual orientation, passed out flyers in montgomery county high schools several weeks later a gay support group handed out its flyers in classrooms. 7:25 a.m., still ahead 10s of thousands packed nats park for spiritual inspiration. >> virginia gop senate candidates battle it out over the weekend for the first time

a recap of saturday's debate is next. >> as we head to the break the latest weather and traffic coming up from julie, grey looking out there right now, the latest for you in just a couple moments we will be right back óñ

god said he would give you beauty through your ashes. evangelists, joel osteen, delivered to the masses it was originally set saturday at nationals park but pushed back to sunday due to rain osteen urged the crowd to be like a big sponge and soak up god's goodness. a milestone to be marked on the new york city skyline. >> construction on one world trade centre will today make it to 1,250 feet once again making the world trade centare tallest building in new york city. live in new york now with more robert good morning. >> reporter: allison and tony good morning to you and good morning everyone this is a historic day here in new york city let's show you the star of if show just over -- the star of the show just over my

shoulder, one world trade center it is interesting because this milestone comes nearly, a year after we learned of the death of osama bin laden. later on this afternoon the installation of steel beams at one world trade centre will propel that building, into rare fied air here in new york city it will become the tallest building in the city's skyline as you guys said, eclipsing the empire state building right now standing at 1,250 feet tall, a little bit of accounting here that does not count the broadcast tower on top of the empire building which adds 203 or so feet to the top of the empire state building but most people don't factor in antennas when figuring on the height of a building but there it is, one world trade centre many years in the making as you guys know and once it is all said and done that building just behind me will stand at 1,776 feet

tall. >> robert must just be a mixed feeling as you see that coming to completion there. any sense on the street how new yorkers are feeling about this? >> reporter: well, this is really as d a symbol as in about the rebirth of lower manhattan because sounds obvious, but the twin towers once stood there and now they are gone and even still, as i ride the train into the city, you see people looking out and seeing a gap in the city skyline well, that gap has been replaced, somewhat, by this building just behind me it is a majestic building it will have 3 million square feet of office space when all is said and done but i think more importantly than those numbers lower manhattan is coming back and that is what will be significant about today, we should tell you the port authority which controls that site in lower manhattan will have a certificate me know to park this -- ceremony to mark

this his tore cake day at 2:00 p.m. when the beams get lowered. >> robert moses from new york city appreciate it. tucker barnes joining us once again, what is it now almost 7:32 a.m., the mildest of the days looks like this week. >> well, today, right the coolest of the next 5, only hit mid-60s but enjoying 80s before long. feel like may. >> all right. >> just as you turn the corner into may. >> or march. >> oh, allison, good point. >> yeah >> i know it is a little tricky. >> or wintertime. >> right. >> in dc. >> hey, your warmers temperatures on the way not so much this morning, but next couple days 51 washington off to the north and to the west, 41 now frederick, there are cool spots gaithersburg 46 degrees, quantico, 67, 55 this morning in fredericksburg and leonard town, 52 for you as

well. satellite radar, cloud cover working through at the moment, so not going to be a perfectly sunny start, partly sunny afternoon expected high pressure off to our north keep us dry winds out of the north and east, and warmer air trying to push in on some southwesterly breezes, so, bottom line, clouds in the forecast, eventually, as the warmer air starts to move in later tonight, during the day tomorrow chance of showers and scattered thunderstorms around here and then off and running, big pool of very warm air off to the south and west, mid-80s that will move in for the duration of the week one more relatively cool day then here we go, temperatures at or near 80 for the remander of the week. 66, partly sunny skies, mild afternoon should be dry generally, shower well and south and west of the city down towards charlottesville, winds out of the east, scattered showers storms back in the forecast late tonight overnight into early tomorrow 55 the overnight low a few showers even a thunderstorm around for

the morning commute and they will hang around during the day not going to rain all day a few periods where we could get a scattered shower. thunderstorm high temperatures wednesday, thursday and friday back into the 80s humidity around here bad hair not far away, all right let's toss to julie wright in traffic. about the bad hair or the temps? >> the banana boat. >> i am excited about the banana boat. >> tucker. >> tony is not too excited about it. >> tony is not excited about a lot of things. all right. on the roads right now, going to find your lanes are open if you are traveling the belt way, between route 4, and of course your exit inland over accident activity, travelling out bound, route 50, 704, according to state police left side of roadway blocked headed back in towards the belt way, 44 miles an hour, rubber necking past the scene out of buoy, outer loop of the belt way below

speed, leaving 95, college park trying to get past university boulevard all lanes are open if you are traveling the outer loop, slow again leaving van dooren towards eisenhower avenue that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. all four virginia, republican candidates squared off in roanokes. metro columnist with the washington post, robert mccartney was there and joins us with more insight. hi tony. >> i mentioned all four candidates unless you are in virginia and paying attention to politics some people may say i didn't know there were four george alan and all the others tell us about how this all breaks down. >> right well, most of the coverage of this race is focused on the likelihood george alan the former governor and senator will get the nomination, to run against tim cain the former governor and it will be one of the most closely

watched senate races, in the fall, in the country, but george alan, has a primary challenge that he still has to get past and he is facing three challengers all from the right, all pretty much espousing the tea party's opinions, and he has to get through three debates before he presumably as most people expect, wins the nomination and then goes up against cain this was the first of those three debates. >> in this debate you felt he acquittalled himself well. >> yes, i thought he basically escaped pretty much without any serious damage, in a couple ways, first of all there were no gap, you know, he didn't say anything that will get him in trouble. remember he lost the senate seat, in 2006 after the famous, comment which hurt him a lot in the general election there was nothing like that but then also, i was rather surprised actually i mean these tea party people you know are usually pretty aggressive and george

alan someone they really have their eye on, i mean they see him as an example of what is wrong with the republican party, because when he was in the senate from 2001 to 2007, he voted for a lot of spending increases and a lot of increases in the depth debt and this is exact -- debt and this is exactly what alien ates the right wing and super fiscally conservative wing of the republican party these challengers in this debate weren't that aggressive two of the candidates, didn't even mention him by name, and then the other one, jamie who is the former head, of the state tea party, federation, she was more aggressive but even she only mentioned him twice by name and i thought he basically, had a defense, of his past position, and i thought he basically got away, pretty much on scathed. >> his defense was, a lot of those spending increases that he voted for, came in the wake of 9/11. >> right defense and security

and also he said the deficit is much bigger in the house, and so he couldn't possibly vote to raise the debt ceiling now, unless there were really strict spending caps, really strict spending controls, then he might be willing to do it. before when he voted to increase the deficit it wasn't as bad as it is now. >> the fact that the other three candidates in the primary against him are more to the right, more conservative, more physically conservative is that going to force him to move in that direction somewhat? >> i think it has pushed him to the right, already and i think that was evident in a couple ways not in the debate so much but last summer when you know the big debate over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling, the huge crisis in washington last summer, george alan was under a lot of pressure from the tea party people to say what he would do if he were in the senate he said basically he would have voted against the

compromised package that ultimately ended the crisis and prevented the united states from going into default a lot of conservative republicans voted for that compromise, eric cantor the house majority leader from virginia, he voted for that compromise but george alan because of the pressure from these primary challengers said he would not have voted for that compromise i would expect we will be hearing about that, in the general election, from -- general election from the democrats when they criticize alan assuming he wins in june. >> now folks who may have wanted to watch this debate were not really able to. it was limited -- it wasn't really on tv. >> it was live streamed by one of the roanoke television stations there are strict limits on this debate and i think part of that was because the republican establishment wants to down play attention, because they don't want -- they

are basically expecting alan to win and don't want alan to get beaten up too much in public, before he goes for the main event against cain it was live streamed by this one roanoke tv station we only learned it would be live streamed fairly late then copies of the tape, were given to all four campaigns and they can do with the tape as they like, so maybe one of them will release it and everybody will be able to see what happened but i thought the main problem from my point of view with the debate was that the questioners, only one was from the media the rest were republican party officials. the questioning was lame they asked a lot of softball questions they asked questions on issues where they all agreed everybody sort of agreed they were against same-sex marriage they all agreed they had to do something about social security but had to protect it. there wasn't enough probing of

what the actual differences were except in the first question, which was about raising the debt limit and another interesting thing none of them would openly enthusiastically endorse mitt romney, as the republican nominee because you know the tea party they are very luke warm about romney he is too moderate so the three tea party people none of them said they were ready to endorse romney yet and alan said he wasn't ready to formerly endorse him although he looked forward to working with him he was awkward about the romney thing. >> robert thanks. >> good to see you. >> allison. >> 7:41 a.m., 51 degrees on monday morning a divorce case turns ugly more than a decade later details of a murder for hire plot. >> festival celebrating children's day went terribly wrong in mexico why hundreds of kids ended up in hospital. we will be right back 

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food blamed for sickening 200 children, near acapulco mexico. the state health department is analyzing the food to determine exactly what caused the illness. 70-year-old mississippi doctor accused of hiring two men to kill the lawyer, who represented his ex-wife when they divorced in the 90s. saturday night two men entered the office of attorney lee abraham but agents were waiting, during an exchange of gunfire police shot both suspects killing one, abraham was not hurt. >> in waters off the pacific coast search suspended for one sailor still missing from a racing yacht accident the boat was found in tiny pieces after apparently colliding with a freighter or some other large vessel saturday the bodies of the other sailors were found along the race route. >> in alabama, the coast guard rescued six people including a 13-year-old boy from the water

after their 32-foot boat sank, everyone was wearing life jackets. did you adjust your tie because of tony's? >> yes,. >> tony your tie is a little esky. >> perhaps in traffic i will help you out. >> you are fine. >> thank you allison. >> that is the least of my concerns. >> it is a cool start to the day. >> you are a handsome man. >> yeah, he is. >> go ahead >> i only have 10 seconds left. >> right to the forecast, cool off to the north, 32 allison, in binghamton. >> well, i love you binghamton i don't love the temps. >> chilly north, warmer air going to move in today that is the cloud cover you see there at the moment future cast partly sunny conditions expected, highs in the mid-60s under the cloud cover and once that warmer air gets in here later tonight and tomorrow, a few showers, around here, maybe

a thunderstorm, 8, scattered showers and thunderstorms and warmer temperatures, but the trade off is we will be in the upper 70s and then into the 80s wednesday, thursday, friday and even right now the weekend looks nice and warm as well. so nice warming trend, as you get into may there is your 5 day. >> binghamton real quick i got an e-mail from a little boy i interviewed, he won a spelling bee in third grade he is now 27 and a reporter he said because his family watched the tape of me interviewing him when he was just in third grade grade like 1400 times he thinks it inspired him to become a reporter. >> great story. >> so binghamton rock on. julie wright standing by you are probably influencing a young person right now to become a superb traffic reporter like yourself. >> dear god i pray for them. >> or a beach bum. >> what is up with tony hating on the banana boat and beach bum. >> no, i am not hating. >> tony. >> the beach is wonderful.

>> you get one more and then you get the horns and the bull. >> okay. >> monday julie. >> yeah. >> next time we will do better. >> right know, you are going to find your lanes are open 395, coming across the 14th street bridge no problems to report across the potomac you will find your lanes are open travelling from the outer loop, van dooren towards eisenhower avenue, lanes open westbound 50 as you approach the capital belt way, that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. i was just adjusting tony's tie we are good. a trip around the america's in a sailboat. >> holly is standing by with a man who did it all by himself. >> 309 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes. but whose counting right? i tell you who, matt rutherford he is back in annapolis where we are live this morning after setting his record setting

voyage i should say, we will tell you about it he will tell us the story how he did it and why live next fox 5 morning news stay with us 

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>> 7:52 a.m., holly morris is spending the morning with a real adventurer. >> she at the national sailing hall of fame docks, in maryland with a sailor who recently returned from a record setting voyage around the americas unbelievable good morning. >> it really is unbelievable i have been thinking about this as you said it, there are people that are adventure and i would say i am adventure and but then people that are true adventurers and i think this guy is the essence of both matt rutherford welcome him to the morning show welcome him back. >> thank you. >> from your amazing voyage the

only guy ever in the history of america, to sail around the americas, by yourself, nonstop. >> yep. it was a 27,000-mile trip that took 309 days and i left out of the chesapeake bay and came back to the chesapeake bay that was the trip. >> so, how does one all of a sudden decide, this is what i am going to do. >> well, i wanted to sail alone around the world nonstop and i also wanted to do the northwest passage up in the arctic this way i combined the two trips to do a long offshore nonstop trip and see the arctic. >> what is the big thing about doing it by yourself wouldn't it have been more fun to have someone along. >> you can come with me on my next trip if you like. >> i will take it. that is a long time to be out there by yourself. >> people think of loneliness, they think of loneliness on land in the ocean, there is no one to talk to any ways, it

doesn't bother you quite as much. >> how do you fill your time. >> you have to be the captain, cook and swab and maintenance and you try to read as much as possible. >> you must not get sea sick. this is your boat here. >> yeah. >> this is the st. brendan. >> mm-hmm. >> and how does he fair out there. >> well, it is a 40-year-old boat that is probably originally worth about 5,000 bucks so it wasn't really the boat you would imagine taking on a trip like this but built in scandinavia, sweden well designed boat and faired pretty well except everything inside the boat of course. >> what were the biggest challenges what were somethings you came up against you maybe didn't expect. >> there is a lot of fog in the arctic combination of fog and ice is incredibly dangerous when you don't have radar, because we couldn't afford a radar, so that was something that i didn't expect to run

into, which was incredibly dangerous but you know the bering sea was bad >> i watch deadliest catch i know about the bering sea >> i was a thousand miles north of those guys for a couple months. >> was there ever a time you were like i am not sure i am going to do this. >> well, i was going to give it my best and i was too determined to ever think about quitting or giving up but there were times i wanted to throw my arms up and say i want a hot shower, clean clothing, fresh food but i never actually took the idea seriously >> what was your most memorable moment. >> cape horn was memorable you know, i think every blue water sailor wants to sale cape horn at one point in their life butnorwahls and whales and giant icebergs. >> we have seen a couple pictures this morning were you able to take a lot of pictures or you just had to capture it in your memory because you were busy.

>> right yeah, well, i took pictures as often as possible but i lost cameras and things broke and so, the last camera i had, a lot of pictures were taken was a cheap $90 digital camera is all i had left. >> so when you came back into annapolis and received this heros welcome what was going through your mind. >> yeah, i stepped off the boat and stepped on a stage there was a lot going on real quick it is nonstop ever since i got back. >> are you surprised at the reaction? is it what you expected? >> i guess i didn't know what to expect it was very nice i thank everybody for coming out who was there, and showing support. and so yeah, it was great but also like my head was spinning, solitude solitude solitude and then a thousand people and all looking at me. >> all of a sudden you had to talk again. >> right yeah. >> matt is not going any where thank you very much for spending your morning with us, there is perhaps the most important reason why he did this trip that has everything to do with the boat behind me

crab, chesapeake, region, accessible boating we will talk about the good cause behind that trip in our next hour. >> thank you so much. >> coming up 8:00 a.m. this morning students in debt, even though interest rates on federal student loans will not double this summer, still the debt keeps piling up we will tackle this issue in depth next hour >> ahead, the longest running court program, divorce court judge joins us live to talk about relationship issues in her new bookmaking marriage work ♪

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divorce court judge, lin toler has heard it all she will join us live with advice how the keep your marriage healthy i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour. >> that book seems like a no brainer. >> we will talk to her about it. >> and tucker barnes talking weather. >> a little cool to start your day cloudiness moving through and it will be a partly sunny day today and i guess a little cool mid-60s chef >> a little cool. >> a little cool when you look at the cloud deck 80s most of the beak. >> compared to -- week. >> compared to that cool. >> this may the last of the cool we are going to turn a corner it will be summer time soon. 51 in washington humidity, out of the the north and east, that barometer is on the rise if you are keeping track of that kind of thing satellite radar a little bit of cloud cover moving through, warm front that is approaching from the south and west and that will bring us

cloudiness and chance for showers and some thunderstorms, later tonight and during the day tomorrow. >> didn't come out right. >> okay. sounded like peter brady. tomorrow. >> pork chop and apple sauce. >> you are welcome. >> exactly what i was thinking. >> partial sunshine mid-60s, and there should be showers. details in the 5 day. thanks tucker. >> hey, julie. >> good morning you guys on the roads right now you will find, a little better than expected at this hour if you are travelling along 395, 14th street bridge you are slowing duke street to seminary road, but again lanes are open no problems to report on the gw parkway, southbound from the key bridge headed out towards 395, lanes are open top stretch of the gw parkway this is the outer loop of the belt way,

leaving van dooren. towards eisenhower avenue, the crash we reported eastbound, 704, southbound 270, below speed rockville, south of montrose road headed towards the split that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. all right julie thank you very much new this morning dc police are on the hunt for a suspect who held up the georgetown five guys restaurant at closing time yesterday a female employee was going out the back door of the five guys, 1300 wisconsin avenue when a man forced her back inside at gun point the suspect stole money before running out of the restaurant, the worker was not hurt. another big story police need your help cracking a series of sexual attacks in prince georges county. >> at this point investigators are not sure if there is one or two suspects. the assaults happened in or

near the northwest branch trail in hyattsville. melanie alnwick is live at the scene with more. >> reporter: good morning tony yes, there are flyers posted all along the entrances to the northwest branch trail wherever pedestrians are able to come in and get on that trail we are here in hyattsville not too far maybe three blocks from the west hyattsville metro station, in each one of the signs there is a little bit of a different description of the suspects but they all bare some similarities which is leading police to wonder whether they have the same person or more than one. the assault by police, happened in the most recent one happened in mid-march. the last one april 20th, three of them, along the northwest branch trail, but two others in the area, they believe may be connected, hyattsville metro station, police say the women attacked here on the northwest branch trail, were all accosted by an armed man, dragged off

the trail s raped, one victim was in her 30s one 20s and most recent victim just 14 years old. so the past week, several local police departments got together and started comparing notes and started to connect the dot s with the other attacks with the incidents that some of them went back all the way to january and early march, and people, we talked to this morning, who use this path, either for recreation or to get to the metro station, are now giving it a second thought. >> cautious makes me aware even during the daytime now that i know i am kind of skeptical, makes me kind of just worry about the environment. >> now all of the victims have reported they were either threatened with a gun or knife again three different sketches have been produced victims in all cases describe the attacker as a male hispanic in his 20s. 5'5", and 5'7", tall with a stocky build again police not sure yet if there is just one

suspect or two, and it is interesting because, there was looking at the hyattsville police department weekly crime report, for the incident that happened march 20th, someone was abducted from the trail here and then taken just about 1 street up to a vacant building and that is where she was attacked and raped and police said on that weekly crime report, they had made an arrest in that particular case we don't know at this point if that suspect was released or actually charged but did note one suspect had been arrested i think that is why there is some question whether we are talking about one sus% or two. >> than -- suspect or two. >> thank you. >> very frightening. prince georges county police are looking for the suspect who shot two people in blattensburg. around 7:00 p.m. last night, both men were taken to hospital one with serious injuries a neighbor who heard the gunshot said she heard a tow truck speed down the road

and thinks it may have been related to this. a crash involving an ambulance and tow truck sends four people to the hospital this happened 5:00 p.m. yesterday, at the intersection of branch avenue, in clinton, the ambulance had all warning devices activated when it was hit by a tow truck no word on the condition of the patient inside the ambulance at the time. just a horrific crash at the bronx zoo at least four adults and three children dead, this after the vehicle carrying the victims swerved out of control and landed in a nonpublic area of the zoo. the suv shot across several lanes of traffic before falling more than side of an elevated highway victims are all part of the same family. here is a look now what is happening on the campaign trail this week, newt gingrich is expected to officially drop out of the race for the republican presidential nomination wednesday republican front

runner mitt romney will be campaigning in new hampshire today the latest real clear politics average shows president obama leading mitt romney 47% to romney's 44%. former president bill clinton wasting little time come paining for president obama despite past differences the former president began a summer fundraising blitz in virginia last night long time clinton backer and democratic strategist, hosted the event which is the first of three planned joint appearances for the two. >> meantime tomorrow marks one year, since the death of osama bin laden, a high point of the obama presidency his re- election campaign is using that moment in history to its advantage >> he took the harder more honourable path and the one that produced in my opinion, the best result. >> now republicans are slamming the white house for this new

ad, ahead of tomorrow's anniversary concerns are being raised al qaeda could use the date to launch an attack of some kind although there is no specific threat. >> generally al qaeda is not in the game of symbolic attacks but, the tit for tat killing of osama bin laden is something special i think they will keep their eye on a tooth for a to the, eye for an eye and try to aim at the president. all affiliates have this for anniversaries where all the pieces come together for them they will take it. to mark the anniversary, they recently allowed, news media into the situation room. president barack obama

showing off his comedic talents got a whole lot of laughs at saturday's white house correspondents dinner and jimmy kimmel closed the show nothing was off limits not even recent scandal. >> i know the administration has been cracking down but if this happened on president clinton's watch you can damn well bet those secret service agents would have been disciplined with a very serious high five. palms would be beet red. >> look at this party, men in tuxes, women in gowns, fine wine, first class entertainment, i was just relieved to learn this was not a gsa conference. >> nothing is off limits. >> no shortage of celebrities at the annual event just saw reese wither spoon also kim kardashian, lyndsey lohan, george clooney among big names in attendance. first lady looks beautiful. >> beautiful gown >> i hasn't seen the whole

look yet. >> all right. >> it is now 10 minutes after 8:00 a.m. on monday morning a major milestone with the construction at ground zero in new york details coming up next on fox 5. >> then millions of us struggle with it every month, student loan debt a growing problem nationwide what is being done about it, fox 5 morning news will be right back, 8:11 a.m. 

>> today is world trade centre will once again become the tallest building in new york city, workers will erect steel columns making it taller than the empire state building, one world trade centre is being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 it is expected to become the tallest building in the u.s. some time next year. turn our attention back to tucker and the forecast. >> and cuteness factor. >> thank you. >> what is wrong?

>> i looked at you to pick it up. >> sorry yes, tell us who is cute today tucker. >> all right tony i thought you would never ask. >> cute. >> this is 5 month oldxavier. >> he is already working. >> oh, he has those cheeks. >> paying the family bills he woke up at 5:00 a.m. the other day so what do they do put him in front of the laptop where he quickly pulled up myfoxdc.com. >> smart and handsome. >> probably wanted more information on a segment he had just seen. >> can we just look at those cheeks for a minute those are delicious. >> yes, they are. >> some delicious cheeks. >> look how intently he is looking at the screen. >> he is playing close attention. >> all right, to send your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings and we appreciate you getting up early with us and whopping at 5:00 a.m. i just -- and watching at 5:00 a.m. we are cool, cloud cover

moving overhead, locking in the cool temporarily, 48 baltimore, 49 dulles, 54, the current temperature in fredericksburg. kind of a mixed bag, we've got, a warm front off to our south and west and area of high pressure north, we should be dry but as that warmer air tries to move in south and west we will deal with clouds partly sunny day this afternoon should be a dry one for us and then as we get into the night time hourduring the day tomorrow, i think we will have some thunderstorms back in the forecast. but the good news if you like temperatures in the 80s hang in there by middle of the week we will touch the 80-degree mark and well into the 80s by thursday and friday there is your five day forecast cool, partly sunny thunderstorm in the forecast tuesday and wednesday and 80s a little humidity as well it will feel summary by the middle of the week. that is weather let's look at traffic and there she is, julie wright rocking the red. >> go caps. >> there you go.

that is all about it, go caps. >> need a win at nyc this night, on the road lanes are open travelling the outer loop below speed as you come around from university boulevard headed towards georgia avenue no problems to report inbound 50, leaving river dale and cheverly. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. julie thanks a little positive news for millions of americans dealing with student loans lawmakers voted to keep interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer now while this is good news no doubt student loans are a huge financial burden that could have an economic impact on your life joining us now with more information is economist dr. cliff rossi from university of maryland, nice to see you. >> so what exactly did congress do friday? i will not ask whether it is

political what did they do how does it help. >> they voted on friday, to provide an extension, to keep the cap at -- for interest rates on student loans to 3.4%, they would be going up to 6 .8% on july 1st, if they didn't do something about this, but again it needs to have the endorsement from the administration who had basically said they may veto this because of the way, in which congress was lookin to pay for this by lowering that cap. >> okay so what still might happen? how devastating would it be if it did double? seems to me that would break the backs of a whole lot of people trying to pay back their loan. >> 2340 doubt this is reaching almost -- no doubt this is reaching almost epidemic proportions to the largest segment of students out there, $1 trillion worth of student debt is there, what the average debt burden somewhere in the neighbourhood of $23,000 it is significant keeping those interest rates down, is very significant.

>> so this is something we still need to watch. >> not a done deal. >> not at all p. in fact, i think, you will see compromise somewhere between now and july 1st on this issue because it is so important but more fundamentally there needs to be long term reform on this in general to make sure the debt burden doesn't grow beyond epidemic proportions. >> how do graduates cope with this without going into default, what is happening out there. >> well, right now, i mean, there is really not much, that they can do, other than to put these burdens on, we have seen it over the last decade for example, tuitions have been increasing, i think over the last decade, 67%, so they have to keep up with this some way and the way they do that is bypieing up the debt. >> we need an educated work force but then you have a burdened work force and now days who knows if you will find a job in your field can you

help us understand this. >> absolutely the way it is looking right now, is because of the unemployment picture so bleak for new graduates coming out it does pose a lot of concerns for the overall e con my in addition to students what i mean, is folks going out and buying new homes first time home buyers are going to hold back and prolong that, simply because they have this excessive debt burden they can't get new loans can't qualify for other kinds of loanwhat not it creates a real burden for the economy in general and competitiveness. >> this does effect all of us. >> it does but the trade off is that in which makes it very difficult, is that at some point some body has to pay for this is it the taxpayer, student, some share being the universities themselves. >> asen economist what makes sense to you. >> actually, i think it is a little more efficient to kind of distribute that money across to students that need it the most by demonstrated need as

opposed to allowing the program to grow. >> we will watch this thanks for making sense of where it stands now, dr. cliff rossi university of maryland. thank you very much 820 now monday morning a philadelphia man solving his own missing person's case after 34 years straight ahead after the break the steps that led him to his long last family. >> then, later this hour, holly is learning all about one local man's historic voyage he is back on land after more than 300 days at sea and did it all for a good cause we will check with her, coming up stay with us call her.

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making headlines this morning, the hunt for war lord joseph kony u.s. special forces paired up with local troops and ugandan soldiers in central african republic he is believed to be hiding out in the rugged terrain wanted by the international criminal court since 2005 for war crimecrimes against humanity, kony and his forces are accused of going on a bloody ram pain across several -- rampage across several central african

nations. chang was held for his role in exposing forced abortions and sterilizations, the hope is to reach a deal before high level talk s with secretary of state hillary clinton s other u.s. officials begin thursday. john edwards criminal trial resumes today in north carolina, the wife of an exaid who falsely claimed paternity of his baby is expected to retake the witness stand. sherry young said her husband told her he would do whatever it took to work for edwards the youngs are crucial to making the case edwards master minded a theme to use wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress, as he sought the white house in 2008. philadelphia man solved his own missing child case. 34 years steven barnes was adopted when he was 4 he was looking at a

missing kids.com -- that website when he came across an age progression that looked like him he went to his adoptive mother turns out he ended up at an orphanage after authorities took him from his birth mother she gave police fake information making it impossible for police to find his biological father. dna testing, confirmed he was that missing child he has since reconnected to his biological father and half sister. >> amazing story. >> 8:26 a.m., washington caps resume their playoff series in new york, dave ross will join us for a little sports breakfast later this hour. >> straight after the break, does your marriage need a little tune up? divorce court judge lynn toler joins us to tell us how to avoid ending up on her television show

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some body did you wrong last week last month, 20 years ago, don't let it ruin the rest of your life let it go. god said he would make your wrongs right. joel and victoria osteen delivered a message to the masses at their america's night of hope event in dc over the weekend. it was originally set for saturday, at nationals park but was pushed back to sunday due to rain. osteen urged the crowd to quote, be like a big sponge, and soak up god's goodness. all right. >> weather was perfect yesterday. >> nice day. >> low 70s, for daytime high yesterday. today, transition, clouds out there at the moment hang in there, partly sunny this afternoon and as we get into the middle week, 80s. low to mid-80s for daytime highs. >> summer time. >> humidity too. >> bad hair days right around the corner allison. >> i don't want to go that far.

>> temperature reagan national, 52 degrees, just had one of our camera men come inside he said it is cold out, temperatures 40s off to the north and west, 48 gaithersburg, 45 this morning out in frederick, generally, 40s north and west of the city warming up, 57, and let's see in fredericksburg, 56 degrees looking at the satellite radar, cloud cover moving through, at the moment, and believe it or not this is the leading edge of the warmer air and we will see kind of partial sunshine i think we will see more sun than we are seeing at the moment and there could be a sprinkle south and west, down towards charlottesville otherwise as we get into night time hours during the daytime hours tomorrow, real surge of that warmer air, and as that arrives i think we will kick off a few showers a few thunderstorms, during the day tomorrow once we get into the warmer air, during the week, we get that return flow get ready for a big warm up as we turn the corner into the month of may.

>> future cast, a few clouds around at the moment, partly sunny, 7, partial sunshine should be dry later today, showers move in later tonight by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow a shower or two, and a few more, more numerous shower activity by tomorrow afternoon could be a thunder storm as well. here is your 5 day forecast, later this afternoon, 66 degrees, cool for this time of year and comes a big warm up 78 tomorrow scattered thunderstorm, wednesday 80 and then here we go, 82, thursday, 83 on friday, looks like the weather this weekend holds warm as well. that's weather tony and allison. >> all right i will take it thank you sir. married couples split up for any number of reasons from financial difficulty, problems with inlawdifferent parenting styles, judge lynn toller presides over divorce court airing here in washington 5:00 p.m. on my 20, and judge toller joins us live from los angeles

with advice how to keep your marriage healthy and out of divorce court always a pleasure to have you on the show good to see you this morning. >> thank you so much it is always a pleasure to be here. >> listen let's talk a little bit about you know, some of the trends that we are seeing now, when it comes to marriage and sadly divorce one of the interesting trends it seems to me is the fact more and more people over 50, even well beyond 50 are getting divorced now, that wasn't always the case right? >> no, it wasn't always the case it is a new thing they've termed it the grey divorce, and i think it has a lot to do with one, we are living longer and healthier and we are also living lives where you say you've got another 20 years after retirement and you look at the person next to you and say is this the person i want to live it with. i think, it is like the poster children for grey divorces al and tipper gore, 40 years they

were done. since you are living longer, and healthier, you have to make a decision how to live at that last quarter. >> it is scary did people just used to put up with it. i have been in it 20 years now just keep at it. >> absolutely it was the golden years you were holding hands hanging on to each other, you weren't feeling as well as you are now but now we are just able to have more fun in those last 20 and want to. >> tell us some of the reasons you see people who wind up in your court, some of them are traditional reasons some are odder. >> okay, the number one thing that is new and is really scaring me is the digital dynamic that facebook and twitter all of that, i rarely hear a case where i don't see some woman breaking the guy's pass code to get on his facebook page and see what he is doing that key board is interrupting you can cheat virtually without leaving the

home. >> it is very tempting to people. >> social media, facebook, even texting on the phone all that stuff it is opened up a whole new realm of temptation right? >> yeah, it is a whole new level of silly people can get into because it is easy to fit right there, and just send it you used to have to leave the house to cheat now that is no longer necessary since you are really only touching a key board and not some body else it doesn't quite seem as bad as it is until it gets involvement, it is a slippery -- gets there. and it is a slippery slope and convenient something we as a human race don't do too well with. >> pretty much no marriage is perfect you have been married well over 20 years now, you have a new book out making marriage work what are some keys to making marriage work and keeping people out of your courtroom. >> i think the one key thing that i would really like to say about making marriage work you have to be consciously married now. back in the day when there were a lot of legal and socio-

economic fences around marriage because it was the only game in town women were at home we weren't out at work now, everybody has options and everybody has a lot of distractions so you have to consciously feed that marriage every day, 15 minutes, do something not just progressing your life, but progressing that union and if you are consciously married you will be able to stay married longer. >> all right judge toller some very good advice again a new book out in september, making marriage work and of course divorce court can be seen here in washington 5:00 p.m., on our sister station hopefully we see you again some time soon. >> good to see you too. >> she is always wonderful when on the show. >> yes, she is. >> i will text her later. >> kidding. >> it is 8:36 a.m., coming up a ban on happy hour? yes, a move to restrict those

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>> it is 8:39 a.m., happy hour could be a thing of the past in the big apple there are reports the department of health in new york city is discussing a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants the agency's commission tore is behind the push, he has been very public about his goal to reduce risky alcohol use and number of alcohol related hospitalizations in the city. australia's iconic koala is on the threatened species list australian environmental minister got advice from the committee before adding cowall las they are -- cohall las on that list they are only vulnerable in certain areas miners will now have to prove koalas are not endangered what is he doing. >> i think just scratching.

>> cute. >> okay. >> two texas parents are taking to the internet as a way of coping, with a devastating diagnosis for their baby and to spread awareness about her disease. >> 5 month old avery lynn has spinal muscular atrophy or sma doctors don't expect her to live past the age of 2. her parents have made a blog, detailing her bucket list here are photos of avery attending her first baseball game, throwing out the first pitch she got her first kiss from another baby diagnosed also with sma and received a let fresh the first family her goal this week is to be a guest on the ellen degenres show to raise awareness. >> doing all this will raise awareness. >> i hasn't heard of it i will research it more now. >> 8:41 a.m., now, topping sports news here in dc, nats

fans get their first look at 19- year-old fee not, bryce harper. >> dave ross serving up sports breakfast after the break holly. >> talk about a fee not, this guy right here, this is matt rutherford we are spending the morning with him here in annapolis on the hall of fame dock because he circumnavigated the americas nonstop all by himself but not just for himself he did it for a great cause so others might be able to experience the wonder of sailing, we will talk about crabs what it means and the difference it is making in people's lives next on fox 5 morning news stay with us i can't stand these spots.

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two we remember in the first series against boston they lost game one against a hot goal tender and found out a way to beat him in the series, henry lind quest is that same deal for the rangers in game one it was close. 1-1/3 period, 90 seconds, two goals happened here is the first one coming up. braden who is so good against boston, a little shaky on this one a couple soft goals at least for him he is a rookie so it is hard to really say well, hopi was bad. he has to play better if they are going to win. >> rangers didn't even take that many shots on goal. >> they played a very defensive style and just got enough, in this bang bang sequence to get two goals in 90 seconds. it will be a low scoring series i just don't think this will be that many goals, so therefore,

hopi has to elevate. >> we got to keep playing. >> speaking of waking up nats woke up, they said you know what we got to bring this guy out. tony, doesn't play a lot of outfield look at this yesterday. tell me what you thing back to the wall back to the wall, up against the wall. >> very nice. >> for a guy who hasn't played center field, obviously hasn't played. >> sacrificing his body, he played left field debut, center field yesterday we will find out very quickly what position he will play if he can play center field you got a kid for 15 years that can man that important position good to see bryce harper up. >> red skins talk about rg 3 first of all how excited were you to see, this kid has so much poise and demeanour, the way he carries himself, we saw at fedex field saturday, so polished for a kid. >> thousands of fans turned out a lot of excitement about him,

i think he has it all going on. >> and again, this is the guy they are banking on because when yogi up you make the first round pick this year -- when you go up you make the first round pick this year. you have to be right to make sure they were right, they took kirk's cousin. >> another quarterback. >> another quarterback with the fourth round pick this is where, and we have been debating throughout the newsroom, this morning, you go on the streets, what is going on, people were puzzled by it, again for the record i like him i think he is going to be or could be, a good quarterback but you don't want to see him ever play, in dc that is a paradox here, we hope he is good but you never really want to find out because that means something happened with rg 3. >> that's right. >> so curious pick at 4 when you have a lot of other needs, remember, halu was a fourth round pick he is your starting

running back you can get value red skins i don't think were in a position to get a guy and stash him away for three years >> i understand what you are saying but they did pick -- wisdom martin just came in he wants to argue >> wisdom you are off the air now. >> here is the deal they did get a couple linemen which they really need that is the main thing they need. >> but i would say take a third lineman and that third lineman, maybe one of the three become as diamond in the rough. >> here is the only thing god forbid something happens to rg 3. >> rex grossman. >> yeah, but rex is a nice guy. >> yes, he is. >> we don't need rex any more. >> he has a one year contract. >> one year. real quickly, he had a huge win tony, bad up chad wither spoon stole the card on hbo, down

goes wither spoon third round, seth undefeated 25, 0 and 1, even in slow motion this has got to hurt people. >> yikes. >> we will try to get seth to come in later on this week, next up it could be almost time to take on one of the cletch toes. >> seth was hurt first round. >> i have never seen him hurt before. >> kind of like i hurt wisdom martin in off the wall >> he is coming over here. >> and wisdom really is in studio. >> local sailor matt rutter ford spent over 300 days on a solo silvi yak around the americas holly is with -- sail voyage, around the americas holly is with him. >> the stories this guy can tell, matt rutherford spending the morning with us rightfully so on the hall of fame sailing dock annapolis, thank you for

doing this. >> thank you for having me. >> this is the guy that sailed around the americas just so you have a visual, here we go, this is what we are talking about all the way around north america, around south america, by himself, nonstop, and it took over 300 days do you ever look at that map and go that was really far. >> looking at it before i left was worse. now i can look at it and it was den what do i have to do i have all this territory to cover and places like alaska and cape horn freak you out before you get there. >> here is the boat he did it in, looks like it held up well but looks beat up >> it is beat. pretty much to death but you know the mast is good sails are good but all electronics are broken and batteries don't charge engine is broken. >> you pretty much had nothing in the end. >> yeah, everything was gone. >> you truly were sailing. >> oh, yeah. >> and there were many times where the boat was literally

almost upside down. >> in the bering sea i had it almost upside down a giant wave hit, bering sea, deadliest catch, giant waves, what you would expect for alaska. >> that is so amazing and so, i am thinking okay, this is a guy who really loves sailing clearly, but, you did it for more than just getting in the record books. >> sure this was a fundraiser for a nonprofit, crab, chesapeake regional accessible boating gives sailing opportunities to people with mental and physical disabilities. >> we have a clip of video when you completed your voyage which i am sure was sewer real. >> oh, -- surreal. >> oh, yeah. >> pulling in here, april 21st part of the cheers were for setting the record but part were also for this cause that we are talking about how did you get involved with crabs. >> i was doing volunteer work for crab and jokingly said todon the founder why don't you let me take one of these boats

up to the arctic and we will raise some money. >> and don said, that is no joke. don becky. >> i gave it to him at that point. >> talk about crab and the difference this makes in people's lives. >> well, crabs with a we try to do with crabs is repeat the same thing that happened to me in 1988. i got out of rehab, and i was a sailor beforehand, but they talked me into trying out one of these boats after i had got out of rehab and it was so remarkable, that it changed you know, i had come out of rehab i was going to be a good soldier, but i thought my life was going to be grim and getting into a sailboat and taking control of it, made me -- everything became possible any way, so to make a long story short, i

volunteered and before long i was head of the organization, that i volunteered for p. my goal has been -- and my goal has been to have people have the experience i did. >> you have a couple other people here you are saying life is worth living again because you have something like this. >> you got it. >> that can mean a whole lot this is tom you are part of crab as well. >> it is just fun you know, there is not really a lot for sail goals individuals and to have something like sailing, you know, i live and to be able to get out and get boating i love it >> it makes you very abled which you are indeed. >> i want to make sure i get you in. >> i meant for me really, the end of five years of depression, because i had never even sailed before i got involved with crab and

everything, and learning how to sail at age 50, was a big accomplishment for one, and then the rest of it is just, the interaction, the club members and the clients that come and go out sailing with us, probably one of the most rewarding things i have ever done. >> this is one of the most rewarding conversations i have had in a long time thank you for letting me be out here the good news they are not going any where you have one more hour. myfoxdc.com, our website we have a link we will talk more about the fundraising efforts and how you can help out crab too and get more saw many storys from matt's trip more fox 5 morning news when we come back make sure you stay with us  great. so, you're all setet up. what's going on? installing cable. you know this is an ikea, right? yes, but look at this sofa! it's so comfortable.

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