some parents might be shocked when they hear the findings of the latest studies on teens and internet use. there is a whole lot of hacking and hiding mom and dad don't know about. fox 5 news at 7 starts now. there is a live lookout side a bit of haze out there, this morning. going to be another warm one. tucker barnes has details on our forecast that you will want to know about. this is monday, june 25th, 2012 good morning i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour. the weather is dominating our headlines this monday morning we will get you all caught up on tropical storm debbi and tell you about the continued clean up and power restoration from the wicked storms that blew through our area friday night and the latest on a huge brush fire that forced evacuations on the eastern shore. >> welcome back. >> nice to see you. >> tucker barnes for the latest on our own forecast today.

thank you very much. welcome back allison. glad to have you back. satellite radar we will talk about showers and storms you will see them just off to the northwest. this is radar but you can see the flashing into central and southern pennsylvania, all associated with a cold front which will be working into the washington area by late morning early afternoon. this timing on these unusual they will arrive earlier today. we will cloud up here shortly and deal with the possibility of those storms. temperatures regan national the current temperature is 74 degrees. 74 washington, 59 baltimore and dulles, 76 this morning in ocean city be ready for a period of showers between 12 and 3:00 p.m. high temperatures mid-80s behind a front weather looks fantastic, the 5 day, i will have that for you in a couple minutes, julie wright sweating

all morning. julie. well, the current sky fox hovering above 395 northbound, they happen to be above what was an incident you will find your lanes are open travelling north you will back up leaving the belt way northbound 395, taking it back inside a live shot 66 into bright sunshine heavy, slow, steady, out of vienna, you will find the belt way starting to slow before you reach gallows road, southbound 270, slow moving as you work your way through the interchanges and german town that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thanks julie. we begin this hour with wicked weather. stretching from our area to florida, even out west clean up continues today from friday night's storm. brook land, northeast dc hit hard a micro burst hits belatens burg maryland just 86 pepco customers remain without power at the height of the

storm there were 45,000 outages. investigators are looking into whether fireworks sparked a 38-acre brush fire it. started on a densely planted tree farm. the blaze was contained in about 12 hours. a wild fire near fort collins colorado continues to rage that blaze scorched more than 130 square miles now destroyed nearly 250 homes. colorado is having its worst wild fire season in a decade. now to tropical storm debbi sitting in the gulf of mexico, almost stationary. >> that is bad that means the rains will keep drenching the florida gulf coast over and over. flood waters have swamped streets in the panhandle. folks in low lying areas are encouraged to get out. debbie is proving dangerous in its ability to spawn waterspouts and tornadoes. look at this waterspout

captured yesterday off the coast of jupiter florida. online dealing with tornadoes including a suspected twister in naples. no one was hurt although a tornado elsewhere in florida is blamed for one death. our big story this morning the supreme court expected to rule on two major cases this week. >> one is arizona's immigration law the other president obama's health care reform. our sherry lee here now with details on when those decisions may come down. well, the health care overhaul with president obama's signature achievement and the fight to over turn it began the day it was signed into law now this comes down to the supreme court potentially this week. for two months the court hasn't given the smallest hint which way it will rule. republicans and democrats are getting ready to hear the supreme court's ruling on the federal health care overhaul the justices could rule as early as today. >> well, it is a very big deal stakes are very high for the

president, high indeed for everybody involved in this issue, which includes all of congress and most presidential candidates. >> democrats are confident the law will be upheld. the best case scenario, it is upheld in its entirety even though there are political down sides they can work some of it to their advantage if they work it correctly. >> republicans are preparing for plans for a number of rulings if it is upheld. >> just energizes repeal and replace. >> >> republicans have already said they will pursue step by step reform to replace the law no matter what the court decides. >> seems to me both sides need something constructive to say, i don't think blame casting is going to work. >> both sides of the aisle are looking to keep some provisions. >> i believe most americans will say we will never go back to those days where my child could be denied access to my health insurance because he or she had pre-existing condition.

>> something democrats never thought they would have to have an answer to. the supreme court is expected to hand down a ruling on arizona's immigration law and just like the health care ruling, this decision could have far reaching effect it is state's law is controversial because it allows police officers to ask about a person's immigration status if they suspect someone they pull over is not in the u.s. legally, even on an unrelated offence but it does have anti profiling provisions the court could act as early as today. allison and tony. >> thank you. they are also gearing up for more dramatic days this week on the university of virginia campus. tomorrow the board of visitors will meet to reinstate theresa sullivan she was forced to resign two weeks ago after the head of the board told sullivan she had enough board votes to fire her. the effort since called tomorrow's meeting and

virginia's governor said they better make a final decision board members do not make a decision the governor will ask for resignation of the entire board wednesday. 5 month investigation ends in arrest of the director of the reston zoo. 26-year-old megan is charged with animal cruelty and possession of a controlled substance accused of improperly treating a sick wallaby an investigation began in january when allegations surfaced, animals were improperly euthanized and injured animals not treated correctly. tony. police in montgomery county are asking for witnesses to come forward to help track down people involved in a giant brawl. this all started with an argument between two women at a gaithersburg club on muddy branch road early sunday morning not long after, 100 people got involved in the parking lot, one person was shot and five others stabbed. none of the injuries are said to be life threatening so far police have not made any

arrests. a woman injured after being stabbed onboard a metro bus. it happened yesterday when the woman and another woman got this was on the living stone a- 8 route the bus was at chesapeake and 6th and southeast when it happened. investigators say alcohol contributed to a crash that killed a 7-year-old girl in charles county. 73-year-old jackson tuck was driving north on route 210 yesterday afternoon, when his suv veered into the median and hit a trailblazer from behind. police say tuck then sideswiped the car the child was riding in. the little girl has been identified as janae woodard her mother was transported to hospital with life threatening injuries. tuck was hurt but is expected to survive. latest now from the campaign trail, today president obama will campaign in new hampshire and massachusetts. over the weekend, romney held a

retreat in utah rewarding some of his highest dollar donors and fundraisers. he will campaign in virginia tomorrow with a stop in se lem. president obama and former massachusetts governor are pushing for every vote possible a new associated press gfk poll shows one in four voters are still uncommitted. from elections here to historic election in egypt hundreds of thousands gathered sunday in cairo's square to celebrate after a member of the muslim brother hood was declared president but what power will he really have in marry ann rafferty reports. >> reporter: mohammed morsi speaks to his people. >> i am determined with you to build a new egypt a national state with a modern democratic constitution and will spend all my time on this big project. >> reporter: he faces a struggle for power with a

country's still dominating military rulers. constitutional amendments stripped the president's office of most major powers including right to appoint defense minister. the ruling generals gave themselves the final power over pressing issues still complicating the transition such as passing the state budget but tens of thousands of morsi supporters want to reverse those rules. >> we will turn over the page of the past and not encourage corruption were president obama calmed him to congratulate him on his victory saying the u.s. will continue to stand by the egyptian people as they fulfill the promise of their revolution. the president owe elect welcomes the u.s. support. >> we will preserve the internasial i cords and treaties. >> reporter: he faces -- international accords and treaties. >> he faces opposition. time is ticking away for congress to act so the interest

rates on hundreds of thousands of student loans don't go up. can lawmakers strike a deal this week. ahead this hour we will check with bob cusack from the hill.com. also more national and world headlines including the collapse of a roof at a mall in coo that cap. why rescuers are still -- canada. why rescuers are still having trouble getting inside. >> battle of the belt ways, won by baltimore. where do nats stand now. dave ross joins us in just a few minutes. as we head to break a live lookout side a little hazy out there, we could see a thunder storm or two later on today. we will get the latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie up next, stay with us, 7:11 a.m. that fridge in your kitchen may have crossed

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making headlines a jazz concert in denver colorado turns deadly. police say an officer was shot

and killed trying to break up a confrontation last night. this happened during a free weekly concert at a city park where hundreds of families were gathered. the victim was a single mother. three freight train crew members still missing after two trains collided sunday, this happened in good well oklahoma, 300 miles west of oklahoma city. two engineera conductor are unaccounted for. teams from ntsb is on the way to the scene and will investigate. one person still unaccounted for and feared dead in the collapse of a roof at a mall in canada. the collapse happened saturday in elliot lake ontario not far from the border of northern michigan. crews are still working to stabilize debris so it is safe for rescuers to go inside. 22 people suffered minor injuries. >> that is horrifying. >> it is.

>> 7:15 a.m. tucker barnes joining us once again with a look at our weather. >> changes today. >> dicey. >> yeah, we generally had a nice weekend. >> mm-hmm. >> yesterday a few showers late in the day. >> still hot. >> yes, 93. >> running around and all suite sweaty. >> -- sweaty >> i thought you were running too. >> out playing football. >> with con nor. >> yes. >> playing with his little boy outside. >> you know con noris putting the moves on him at this point. >> yes, he is. >> 70s now in washington, warm, humid start to your day, 75 degrees, wind out of the south, just off to the north, timing on this, about noon and 3, 4:00 p.m. today, our best chance of showerstorms and then we will get some clearing late this afternoon, notice the winds pick up and we are going to be

in for a really nice one tonight and beautiful tuesday as we get refreshing air in here for a change. it will be really nice later tonight, tomorrow. here is the bigger look again see most of that rain shower activity off to our north and east. all right, let's look at the 5 day forecast, 85 this afternoon, warm and humid, ahead of that front, nicer behind the front, tuesday and wednesday look great by friday, upper 90s. >> all right. >> thanks tuck. all right, upper 90s in julie's studio unfortunately air conditioning not working there but she is still hanging in there julie >> i thought you were going to say she is still dressed. >> that too. >> i just asked our executive producer they said no, you got the keep the clothes on. >> you got to do what you got to do >> i know, right? luckily you can't see me from the waist down. to be roads now, out -- on the

roads now, all lanes open, 95, 2 -9d 5, no problems to report out of laurel. 50 looks great from annapolis to buoy, inbound new york avenue, on the brakes approaching blatcheens burg road. delays 95 across the occoquan, 395, from the belt way, toward duke street. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. guess who is also back from vacation >> is it dave ross? >> my five year high school reunion, in virginia beach. >> your five year? [ laughter ] >> keep going. >> is there video of you and con norplaying football? can we get it? >> seriously there is not. >> there might be. >> didn't you get injured the last time you grid that. >> we play weekly -- did that. >> we play weekly.

>> you are off the -- >> 8 and 9-year-old kids that is a work out >> i played whiffle ball this weekend, very tough. >> what a man. i know. >> whiffle ball. >> good weekend for nats and os great three games almost 130,000 people, they were not playing whiffle ball they were playing actual baseball we talked about this, with the kid you got to make a stand. >> he is a little baby. >> not going to go over well in school. >> virginia beach, he gets the big base, two hits yesterday. bryce harper, whiffle ball, baseball, doesn't matter he just hits it and runs for game, look at that routine single for anybody else and he legs it out to a double, challenging arms of adam jones, good to see bryce doing his thing there. matt wheater has been doing good he has come of age now.

big shot, 8th inning, matt up 1- zip, 2-1, fire up charm city, back to bryce, doesn't matter where you put him the guy makes plays in the sun, battling it and the wall, glasses down. >> yeah. >> that is a great catch there. here we are top of the ninth, next chance ofest pianos, 2-1, baltimore wins, ask walters he will tell you nats are no easy out. i am glad that part of it is over they are a very good team and very hard to beat they are one of the best teams in the national league. davie does a great job and you know they spent their money well. you know i am not -- they have done a great job of scouting and doing things right. so you know, it is a young team, only going to get better and they will get a couple

people back here i am glad they are some body else's problem. >> nats still 3-point and a half games up. >> it is a series now. we saw it with the metbaltimore. september, october would be nice to see those guys again. >> allison go ahead. >> no, go ahead. >> we tacked about this with tony a couple hours ago in boston something you didn't see in other sports what happened to kevin, one of the most popular players at least in the last decade for boston played nine year s with the red sox helped them win two world series, 7th inning his last at bat ever as a member of the red sox, gets a triple knocks in a run because they told him you have just been traded to the white sox. how about this, the crowd there in boston knew this was it. there had been trade rumors a classy move to let him get that

in boston. >> next time we show the clip of buckie, give me a little phillips seymour hoffman. >> it is buck i don't know if he goes by buckie. >> what did i say. >> buckie. >> thank you very much. >> a new settlement to help victims of the bernie madoff ponzi scheme. dave listen to this. how much will swindled clients get. >> that was private >> sorry. >> then the latest on game show host alex tremendous baek tremendous baek he had a heart attack over the weekend. >> local students racing their way to success stay with us, 22 after 7:00 a.m. ♪

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in afghanistan. marine lance corporal eugene mills the third was killed friday in hell man provinces his body is being returned to dover airforce base where his parents will receive it. he was based at camp la jeune north carolina. new yorks attorney general secured a deal in which hedge fund manager will reimburse clients $405 million lost in the bernie madoff scam. pay offs will be made over a 3 year period. he managed four funds with hundreds of clients and invested more than $2 billion with madoff. long time game show host alex trebeck is recovering after suffering a mild heart attack. this happened saturday, the 71- year-old is expected to make a full recovery and be back to work when jeopardy resumes production next month he also suffered a heart attack in

2007. 7:26 a.m. on monday morning up next with college costs skyrocketing a growing number of graduates are left to deal with a mountain of debt long after they get that degree. >> if congress doesn't act by the end of this week millions could owe more. also ahead what is your team doing online find out -- teen doing online what a new survey says they may be doing and hiding. >> as we head to break another live lookout side this picture doesn't look so bad. latest weather and traffic from tucker and jury lee up next, right now -- julie, up next right now 27 minutes after 7:00 a.m. ♪

oh yeah, this is what a weekend getaway should feel like. and does. if you're here that is. feel the fun. feel the hamptonality.

welcome back 7:30 a.m., a live shot from sky fox, over kent island maryland, you can see, we are talking about those brush fire this is weekend still smoldering, still some smoke. 30-acres investigators think it might be a firework they are looking into whether that is what sparked this. safe evacuations, 60 people were taken out of their homes yesterday, and firefighters involved from 7 counties, it is still smoky out there. smoldering a bit. >> i guess they will be back out later today. >> parts of the area very dry, hit and miss this time of year,

plenty of rain but still brown. they haven't had rain in weeks. a couple sprinkles that is about it. >> tough. >> obviously don't play with fireworks. >> hit or miss again today. >> exactly. scattered showers back and forth. to our weather forecast first tropical storm debbie likely a big story over the next several days, stationary right now, not moving and there is a live look at it, you can see, seems to be very heavy rain across central florida, northern florida, the florida panhandle and unfortunately, looks like we will measure, the rainfall in feet here by the end of the week. they are expecting up to 2 feet of rain in the florida panhandle rains, with debbie, 50 miles per hour i mentioned not moving at all and your pressure 992-millibars, check out your movement over the next five days, northern florida by saturday that is a slow mover it will spin up and bring moisture into the southern state for the next several days

i don't think it will impact us here in the mid-atlantic but question marks about the eventual path. locally, temperatures 75 washington, nice mild start to your day 74, at the naval air station, 71 baltimore looking at our forecast tony mentioned scatters showers and storms back in the forecast. you can see those off to the north and west, cold front moving through between noon and 3, 4:00 p.m. today. our clouds will quickly increase and we have a pretty good chance of scattered showers and storms as this front moves on through. behind the front, cooler and dryer air, much cooler and dryer air, it will feel great around here later tonight as temperatures fall back into the 50s daytime highs, upper 70s to 80s. becoming mostly cloudy front approaching showers and storms likely, 85 daytime high winds behind the front gusting to 25. winds will pick up behind the front later today. a couple evening clouds clear out overnight, comfortable, 69 the overnight low, tuesday

fantastic highs upper 70s to 80s. low how mid-ty wednesday looks good, -- humidity, wednesday looks good, friday not as good, maybe we will be flirting with triple digits again. julie wright has your latest. >> what was that, step on a cat. >> pow body looks forbeg your pardon to -- no body looks forward to 98 degrees do they? >> not at all especially if you have to be in full make up. tucker, northbound 395, headed out towards duke street lanes open below speed here no problems reported travelling the top stretch of the belt way between college park and silver spring lanes are open you are slowing down there. inbound new york avenue, blattensburg road. thank you very much. if lawmakers fail to act by this weekend student loan interest rates could

automatically double. education secretary arnie duncan accused them of dysfunction. joining us for a look at why the student loanish jew is still in limbo in -- issue is still in limbo in congress, bob cusack. >> very busy week. >> let's talk about this, i have to admit, this is one of those issues that makes me fairly furious because, it seems to me easy you hear politicians on both sides saying oh, yeah, this has to be done we don't want to impose this hardship on our young people, why isn't it getting done? >> going down to the wire again. both party leaders certainly there are some tea party republicans that don't want to do this for the most part they want to get it done. senate democrats came up with closing a tax loophole to pay

for billions the school will require that was called a tax increase by republicans they tried to slash a health care fund, nonstarter for the white house. here we are, another deadline, going down to the wire i think they will get it done but we are in the heat of an election year we will see. >> i understand it has to be paid for somewhere but when you hear some of the solutions that, you know people are coming up with, it smacks of politics let's go after health care. >> and they knew there was going to be a nonstarter so there is a lot of positioning here but in the last few days, there has been progress made on coming up with totally separate offsets to pay for this i think it will happen but this is a real world what congress does, definitely it will effect so many people and the bottom line what they are paying in student loans. >> do you thing it will get done before the week is out. >> yes and i do not think they will go up until friday i think they will get something done

mid-week but you know it is not a sure thing. if it was a sure thing it would have already happened. >> if they don't get it done and those rates go into effect, can congress later on come back and do something retroactively to knock the rates back down again. >> on other issues passed in health care they have done retroactive. >> republican leaders want to get this done they don't want president obama bashing congress. it is now at 20%, which is double last year not high but that is what republicans want president obama has been running against congress, they want to get this done last year was such a debacle with all the deadlinedebt deal. congress' approval rating went down to 9%. >> still doesn't look good when they have to take everything up to the wire. >> that's right. >> let's talk eric holder and that situation another political hot potato, the recommendation from the committee, has been to vote for contempt of congress charges for him, do we think that is going to happen or can a deal

be worked out there. >> i don't think so. if there was going to be a deal it would have happened before the committee vote a straight party line vote you are going to see a vote in the house once again, it is going to be mostly along party lines what does this mean though? can they arrest eric holder is that going to happen? probably not. it will be referred to the justice department are they going to arrest their top guy? no. a lot of politics but see an entertaining and partisan debate on the house floor. >> more than anything else it is an embarrassment for holder and for the administration. >> that's right and republicans, over 100 of them want holder to resign. a lot of this is pressure and you know, holder gives it right back to members of congress. so this is a relationship thing. >> very good bob cusack managing editor for the hill. it is now 7:37 a.m., coming up in just a little bit, just how honest is your teenager when it comes to surfing the

web. we've got a new study that show as disturbing new trend. comments on this? >> i might weigh in. >> we are stuck on this side. also a car rigged to catch would be auto thieves nabs an unlikely suspect wait until you see who police in new mexico caught behind the wheel after the break

7:41 a.m. a new study about teenager internet use is uncovering the dark truth of what is going on on the net. >> a large number of kids are hiding their digital habits from mom and dad. >> reporter: 70% of teenagers have hidden their online behaviour from their parents this is up from 45%, only two years ago. nearly half of all parents believe their kids are honest about what they do online but, the numbers paint a different picture. >> one out of four parents are oblivious to how the digital devices in their lives work and the kids, you know they grow up with this. this is what they know.

it is that lack of information on the parents. >> reporter: it is what teens are apparently lying about that is a concern, more than half surveyed admit to illegally hacking into social network accounts and get this over 60% of teens claim to have witnessed digital bullying. something that is getting a lot of media attention in recent years. >> you see cyber bullying, it has grown and changed overtime the fact that there is a cyber environment, has made it so something that happens maybe as an isolated incident is now something thousands or millions of people you don't even know can react to. >> reporter: it seems pornography has become the new play boy under the mattress with more than 30% of teens viewing the graphic videos on a weekly basis. >> 13 to 17-year-olds in general are curious, as much as half of them are viewing pornography once a week. >> reporter: kids are out smarting their parents doing whatever it takes to pull the wool over their eyes the five

most popular, cleaning browser history, closing or minimizing browser when a parent walks in, hiding or deleting ims or videos, lying or omitting details about online activityusing a computer their parents don't check. >> it is imitant they have -- important they have dialogue and it is their job to protect the child until they leave the nest and beyond having that dialogue not everybody is as nice as mum and dad. >> reporter: parents need to talk to their kids and explain the dangerrers they could face and points to a number of software products that let mom and dads keep a closer eye on their kids in new york, fox news. just like anything else. >> so the message i get out of that you have to be very proactive and involved this is a whole new world that didn't exist when i was a child. >> sure. >> kind of scary. >> yeah. >> all right. here is something else scary an 11-year-old boy in albuquerque new mexico in trouble with the law. >> after police say he stole a

bait car which is used to catch auto thieftook it for a joyride. yes, he is 11 years old. investigators released this video which i can't really make out shows the 11-year-old getting into the car and driving off, he stopped at a friends house and picked up two other boys. >> come on tony. >> each 10 years old according to police. the boy is heard bragging to his friends about what is good driver he is authorities tracked them down at a chuck e cheese no, i added that last one. they are now facing criminal prosecution in court. not good. >> what do the other boys think when their friend pulls up in a car hey, come on. >> parents this is another thing. >> what sort of parents didn't know. >> exactly. >> really weird the whole thing. >> all right, weather wise, going to get interesting, maybe a few showers and storms in the forecast. later today. >> maybe i didn't want to talk

about that. >> yeah, i mean, -- >> pretty active. >> very active thank you tony. >> showers and storms, this you go, into central pennsylvania, western maryland, cold front moving into the area, you can see much of the energy here, off to the north and east, pretty good thunderstorm complex west of new york city, will be moving into that region shortly. >> future cast together put it in motion and see if we can cook up any showers at all later today. we will quickly cloud up with a little sunshine. 1:00 p.m., indicating a couple showers more showers in future cast, and then clear out quickly this afternoon probably see late day sunshine breezes will pick up north, northwest and in for a great night and great looking tuesday, temperatures falling back into the 50s tomorrow only topping out upper 70s to 80. get ready for a nice tuesday and then a nice warm up if you like upper 90s you will love this forecast, friday and

saturday. >> open windows tonight. >> not the end of the week. >> very good. >> thanks tuck. >> now to julie wright. >> good morning to you. travelling inbound new york avenue our lanes are open no problems to report, coming past blatcheens burg road -- blattens burg road. south capital and the douglas bridge lanes open other side of town no problems reported top stretch of the belt way leaving 95 past colesville road, southbound 95, 295 out of laurel. southbound 270, you will find lanes are open out of german town headed for the split. southbound, bw parkway accident activity near 32, inbound on 50, still an easy go from annapolis, to buoy headed for the belt way. thank you still ahead, revving up local kids empowering them to learn life and job skills. >> yep, holly is spending the morning with a special group of

students hey, holly. >> it is a special group of students i don't know what you guys did after school or summer vacation but these kids, they are building race cars, all part of a program called kaleido links coming up we will talk about the cars the race and the careers this could all lead to all live next fox 5 morning news stay with us pgh >> thanks holly time for our facebook fan of the day good morning to john owe withins he earned the honor with flattery telling us we have the most beautiful group of newscasters in the business. thank you so much. tony say thank you. >> i am sure he is mainly talking about you. >> the women that is all right too. for a chance to be tomorrow's fan of the day leave a comment under john's photo that fridge in your kitchen may have crossed

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welcome back protestors will stage a hunger strike in the halls of congress in support of the u.s. postal service. demonstrators are concerned a 2006 u.s. national mandate, is causing massive debt, facility closures and other cuts. they are expected to hold daily vigils today through thursday outside of the rayburn house office building. >> some good news for anyone planning a road trip july 4th, gas prices nationwide continue to go down, and triple-a officials believe they will drop another 5 to 20¢ before the independence day holiday this morning the national average is 3.32 for a gallon of regular in our area, less painful at the pump in virginia, prices dropped 6¢ in the past week average now 3.22 in dc it is 3.5 3 and maryland,

the 3.35. >> thousands of visitors are expected for the annual smithsonian folk life festival it kicks off wednesday and goes until july 8th, this year, the festival will feature a series of evening concert tons national mall starting 6:00 p.m., the first performance will be a group of steel drum players, i hear they are popular from west virginia, university. world class. >> interesting. holly morris is learning more about a unique after school club this morning. >> it is a nonprofit, that aims to empower and engage, underserved students through engineering education. holly joins us from rockville maryland with more good morning. >> reporter: good morning i don't know what kind of projects you guys did how cool would it be to say yeah, i build race cars. that is exactly what they do here and in the process you know what, they also build life skills, which actually of

course is even cooler it takes a whole lot of people to help pull this off. he is on the board but also the event coordinator for tire rack, one, lap of america good morning. >> good morning. >> tell me about the program. >> it is inner city dc at risk youth program that kids build race cars and -- or a variety of other things it is a great program, taking off gm is now involved and one lap. >> why race cars? how can that be a vehicle, pun intended, to drive better things. >> well, it is the experience of what goes into the race car people just think race cars are kind of dumb they will pass but there is quite a bit of physics, math involved and professionalized skills and creativity trying the get the car to where you want it to be. what can you do with it. and without knowing, without

having a hands on experience it doesn't make sense. >> one thing to learn how to build a car and another to have it race that might be helping fuel these kids desire tell me about your race. >> it has been running 29 years we take the fastst streetcars in the country put them on public highways and race tracks racing against the clock and each other and these cars run 180 miles an hour daytona, road america, they run 90 race tracks around the country. >> this car just ran in may. >> ran in may. >> how did it do. >> it did very well, they had some issues this year, hopefully next year it will be sorted out but these cars are fabulously equipped >> how fast did it go? >> i would imagine just on the order -- i don't know 160 probably. >> give or take. >> yeah, act. >> miles per hour 160. so you had some teething issues

but they had challenges but had to overcome them. >> they did that is the spirit of one lap the spirit of having the kids involved. >> and the spirit of life. >>th inning is ever easy. >> but they came in third. >> they did very very well. and again, this year was challenging we had race tracks that were incredibly fast, auto processes that were slow and technical difficulty on other race tracks you had to drive eight days straight up to 600 miles a night. >> that is a lot. >> it is. >> i want to check in with a couple of these brilliant minds i will check with my man josh how is it going >> going good. >> how did you find out about this program >> through my school counsellor she told me about the program and referred me i was interested and came you know, came wither will,. -- came with her. >> what do you love about it. >> i love the hands on experience i want to become a

mechanical engineer. >> high five on that. >> basically i took it and said i would like the try this out. and basically i got all the contact information signed up for the program and been here since. >> here you are working up a sweat my man josh is working. >> earnest tell me about why you became part of the employee gram. >> because -- program. >> kelly told me about the program it is a great program when i got in i thought it was a great program to get into as well i mean like josh said you get hands on experience get to meet new people get new friends just great. >> if you weren't doing this what would you be doing? >> i don't know. >> that's right. see the good thing is now you know myfoxdc.com our website we have a link to kaleido links. i don't know where my man brock went but you know cannon ball run that cross country race and movie, you know that? are you there? >> yes >> his dad wrote that movie. >> really?

>> yes. started the race and wrote that movie i think that is a cool piece of trivia. >> cool. >> i know the things you learn here back to you in studio. >> looking forward to it. also next hour it is not too late to plan a fun and affordable summer vacation whether you want to go international or stay close to home. ways to save after 8. it is now 3 minutes before 8:00 a.m., 7:57 a.m. we will be right back [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen

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straight ahead at 8, deadly debbie a slow moving tropical storm takes aim at florida's panhandle. supreme show down by the end of the week high court will rule on two of the most controversial cases in years. we will have a preview in a live report. >> later the must see video of the morning a lost bear's acrobatics stuck in someone's garage. >> oh, no. >> what is he doing up there. >> see that is a mom looking for it. >> is that true? >> with the baby. >> okay. >> good morning i am tony

perkins. >> i am allison seymour. >> tucker was here commenting on it. >> sorry. >> expert analysis. >> two bears a baby bear and a mother bear trying to get in. >> i will stay tuned obviously. >> you have a vested interest in it. >> now i do. >> what is going on out there tuck. >> showers and storms approaching north and west, middle of the day showers and storms and then nice cool air behind it. >> between 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. >> welcome back. >> looks like in new york they just issued a severe thunderstorm warning up there, i can see the yellow underneath there. showers storms see them on our radar, we just popped a pretty good thunderstorm south and east of cambridge down across the lower eastern shore watch that one as well. for the rest of us showers and

storms move in later early this afternoon, cooler and drier air, working in from the north by later tonight, the front will be out of here and looking at a great looking forecast for tuesday. temperatures right now 75 washington, nice, warm, humid start, humidity 76%, winds south 9 miles per hour. showerstorms middle of the day then might see a little late day sun highs mid-80s cooler than yesterday, still warm and humid out there, ahead of the front late they are morning. >> thanks tucker. let's go to julie wright she will tell us what is happening on the area roadways. >> hey, you guys good morning once again on the road, heavy volume outer loop, leaving 95 past colesville road typical this hour, southbound 95 below speed, leaving 198 down towards beltsville, lanes are open in german town, 355 to 118 no problems to report along this stretch, 270 in better shape leaving german town headed out towards the belt

way, falls road near river road for accident activity, 66 headed eastbound, below speed headed in from vienna, that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thank you julie. the gulf coast is bracing for more heavy rain and flash flooding as the deadly storm called debbie makes its way over land. right now it is parked 90 miles off the coast of florida tropical storm warnings are in effect as far as alabama. over the weekend the storm spawned a series of tornadoes that killed at least one person, another person is still missing. >> closer to home the clean up continues in blattensburg after severe storms poured through friday night. dudsens of -- dozens of families are still homeless and living in a local high school.

our big story a busy week for a supreme court justices expected to hand down the rulings on two major cases. >> one of them is president obama's health care reform the other is arizona's controversial immigration law. our own sherry lee joins us now with details. >> good morning tony, allison. the court's decision on health care and immigration have been highly anticipated and however the justices rule, could play a big role in the presidential race. for two months now no word from the court how it will rule on president obama's landmark health care law. both democrats and republicans are bracing for whatever the court decides the key issue is whether the government can force people to buy health insurance or face a penalty. there are some provisions both sides believe should be saved. i believe most americans will say we are never going to

go back to those days where my child could be denied access to my health insurance because he or she has a pre-existing condition. >> doing something about health care is something democrats and republicans have to have an answer to. >> opposition has given a boost to gop presidential hopeful, mitt romney if it is not unheld the court's decision could be damaging to president obama's campaign although some democrats believe it could help the president rally haze base. the other buck -- his base. the other big issue being decided, the nine justices will decide whether arizona's immigration law is constitutional, similar laws have been passed in other states across the country. what makes arizona's law so controversial is ability to question anyone pulled over, about their immigration status regardless of the offence. both decisions are expected this week adds early as today, all eyes are on the supreme

court as of now there has not been the smallst hint from the court or insiders which way the justices will rule. thank you very much. taking center stage on capital hill this week, house lawmakers could vote to hold eric holder in contempt for his response to a failed federal gun smuggling operation. student loan rates could double to 6%, and party leaders in the house and senate are working on a compromise to extend funding, for the surface transportation bill provides federal money for highway construction projects. president obama begins his week on the campaign trail in new england today he will fly to new hampshire to deliver an address at a durham area high school. tonight he travels to boston for a series of speeches and a private fundraiser. presumptive republican

rival mitt romney will make a trip to the common wealth tomorrow according to the former governor's public schedule he will speak tuesday at center machinery company in se lem his fourth trip to virginia since early may. >> hours after he was declared the winner, egypt's new president elect addressed his people. in a speech early this morning, mohammed morsi says he is determined to rebuild the country with a modern democratic constitution he is the muslim brother hood candidate and faces a power struggle with the country's military rulers. president obama called morsi sunday to congratulate him and pledged u.s. support. grounds university of virginia will be ground zero for more drama. the board of visitors will meet to discuss reinstating theresa sullivan. she was forced to resign two weeks ago after the head of the board told her she had enough board votes to fire her.

virginia's governor said they better make a final decision. governor mcdonald said if board members don't he will ask for resignation of the entire board. >> police in montgomery county have not made arrests in a giant brawl. it happened between two women gaithersburg club, muddy branch road early sunday morning it didn't take long before 100 people got involved in a parking lot. one person was shot five others stabbed none of the injuries are considered life threatening police are asking witnesses to come forward with tips. director of the reston zoo now charged with animal cruelty. she is 26-year-old megan of silver spring accused of improperly treating a sick wallaby at the zoo. investigation began in january when allegations surfaced animals were improperly euthanized and injured animals not treated correctly. 8 minutes after 8:00 a.m.

on monday morning coming up the future of national security. wtop reporter jay jay green joins us live with a sneak peek at his exclusive sit down with the intelligence director. >> search for answers after a huge wild fire burns through queen ann county. the update what you will need to know about this investigation coming up next ñ

headlines in the day ahead investigators will try to determine if fireworks sparked a weekend wild fire that burned more than 30-acres it took emergency crews from seven counties 12 hours to contain the blaze. 30 homes are still evacuated. also today a special emergency crew will try to stabilize a roof collapse at a mall in ontario, canada. once it is secure rescue teams will begin the search for victims at least one person is feared dead, 22 people escaped the collapse with minor injuries. army private accused of

leaking u.s. secrets to a whistle blower website is due in court for a motions hearing. lawyers for private first class bradly manning will ask prosecutors for documents they say will aid in his defense and ask a judge to delay his september trial. 13 minutes after 8:00 a.m. time to go the tucker for the weather and -- >> a little something extra how i have missed it. >> all rightment down to it then the coolness factor of the day, summer time, time for my first 5 photo of the day today, we say a great big hello to 3- year-old nicklas. >> love that baby face. >> yes, bright outside. >> you know what, looks like he is doing an impression of gilbert godfrey. >> i could see that. >> i think he is doing something else. >> here is what he is up to in reality, this is a picture of him waiting for the ice cream man, in manas sauce park during

last week's heat wave -- manas sauce park during last week's heat wave >> it got hot >> i heard. >> to send your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings by the way, the ice cream man, they are missing a bunch of flavours. >> that's right. >> toasted almond. >> yeah. >> they have a shortage. >> the trucks. >> nicklas does not -- that will make him very unhappy. >> don't worry. >> julie is not happy either. >> right to your numbers here in washington, 75 degrees, warm and humid to start your day, 74 north and west hagerstown, winchester, 68 degrees. showers and possibly storms back in the forecast. one pop up just east of cambridge and a few more north and west hagerstown, north and west of frederick. all associated with cold front, you can see it there, moving in during the middle of the day, look for clouds to quickly increase a couple showers, thunderstorms middle of the day

and then cooler and dryer air behind it. let me mention real quick, headed up to new york city shortly they are getting severe weather very strong thunderstorms moving through likely travel delays air delays up there, over the next couple hours our five day forecast, 85 today nice and dry behind the front, 59 tonight, 80 tomorrow little in the way of humidity and a nice warm up upper 90s perfect for ice cream end of the week that is weather let's see traffic and julie has the latest. where is the nutty buddies >> i don't know, there is a chronic shortage because you eat them all. >> i just saying you can't have ice cream without a nutty buddy >> i couldn't agree more. on the roads tucker you will find your lanes are open, no problems reported along the top stretch of the belt way, college park and bethesda, eastbound 66 unfortunately slow moving, vienna, headed to the capital belt way lanes are open, belt way slow leaving

braddock road, headed out towards gallows road. we are slow moving from the belt way, headed out towards dukes and leaving the pentagon, lanes are open gw parkway leaving 123 headed out towards our potomac crossing live shot, southbound 270 better than expected, rockville headed for the split that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. a laurel family mourning the loss of their son in afghanistan. marine lance corporal eugene mills the third was killed friday in combat operations in hell man provinces his body is being returned to dover airforce base where his parents will receive it. he was based at camp la jeune. according to excerpts from little america, vice president biden warned president obama that the military rational behind a troop surge in 2009

was flawed. also accused commander and chief from ignoring a grim cia assessment that found little benefit from adding more u.s. troops that book hits store shelves tomorrow. earlier this year, the director of national intelligence testified before congress about the top potential threats to the u.s. at the time he said iran, offshoots of al qaeda and cyber threats are some top things intelligence officials are monitoring. james clapper has now given an exclusive interview to wtops national security correspondent jay jay green who joins us now. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> your overall impression sitting down with james clapper. >> he is not happy there are two reasons for him not being happy at this point number one on the list is a lot of folks have been point at his professional men and women in the intelligence community as being the leakers of top secret information going back to some

recent newspaper broadcasts, and other articles, talking about top secret programs and go back to the situation where we found out about new and improved underwear bomb. also, situation where the details about the president's so called kill list, details about those programs were exposed and he has been in the business for 49 years, it will be 50 years next year that he has been in the ill tell where she knows community, -- intelligence community this goes back to the vietnam war, then, cold war, every conflict in between he has never in his words seen anything like it and a lot of other intelligent community professionals have expressed that same kind of thing he is concerned about people pointing the finger at the intelligence community not saying they have a leak but saying there are others. >> i was going the say so this is a hot topic, what does happen s has he come out and

said well, we haven't done it, but you know, it is tricky. >> no, he hasn't said that because he can't say that because they haven't -- there is no investigation that has proven as he said in his words imperically that it wasn't one or the other and we've got an extensive investigative piece on the wtop website about this, but there are folks that don't work within the intelligence community proper, that do have connections to the intelligence community people from various organizations, congress people that work with other agencies, that work with the intelligence communities, that have access to that same information s we often confuse who the intelligence community are. executive order 12333 explains it, if you google it, it gives specific definition of who the intelligence community is, he kind of took me to task about

that when i asked about these intelligence community leaks it shows how concerned and upset he is about one the leak and two the finger being pointed at the intelligence community. >> we started saying he talks about some of the big threats as he saw it has that changed any, al qaeda offshoot still in what does he say about that. >> cyber is still rather -- al qaeda is still on the list but cyber is the big concern especially for dni because the national counter intelligence executive part of the dni office put out a report last october talking about how the cyber warfare issue has escalated in terms of importance and at that time we don't know about stuff necessarily where it came from. one of the reasons why it is so important now, because it is out and likely either going to be retaliation, and or the

organizations and nations that have been hurt by the programs, may try to retaliate, and may have knowledge about how to reverse engineer or build their own to attack the u.s. but you still have al qaeda, you still have organizations that may be engaged in or countries, nation states that may be engaged in activities like north korea and iran and the lone wolf on down the list. all that is pretty much the same. >> again for that interview it is up now on wtops website. >> you can read about it. >> read about it. and i can't let you go 10 seconds or so mohammed morsi elected as new leader in egypt is this ultimately a good thing? do you see this as peace now? what is your word on that? >> one source e-mailed me over the weekend and said one thing needs to be pointed out what is his agenda and explain what it

is. supposedly he has been -- people say he has an islamist agenda. what is an islamist agenda. that will make the most difference, what is his agenda what does it mean for egypt. there is going to be strife and struggle based on the folks i have talked to who know about this because they are moving in a new way but also, the military, which runs that country, has put some limits on this president, so will people out in the streets, take issue with that. will they force the military to release all of those controls they put on the president, and let him be the president and then what will he do if that does indeed happen. >> a lot of questions still >> that is all out there. >> jay jay green with wtop, thank you very much tony over to you. 8:22 a.m. monday morning coming up calling in the cavalry to save a would be soda thief what happened when a sticky fingered

teen tried to save a buck. a hands on lesson in automotive engineering holly morris live with what these students are working on now. we will be right back [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more and more for cable -- and enjoying it less?

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8:25 a.m. like a scene out of an episode of the toms but didn't -- symptoms but didn't end funnily. >> a 17-year-old, facing charges after trying to steal a soda. he stuck his hand into the machine. got seriously wedged a trolley rider saw the boy in trouble and called for help firefighters police, paramedics, security all responded to the scene when retrieving the keys didn't work, a rotary saw did the job. >> mm. and a tv crew arrived on the scene >> you nota did. >> wow. >> that is not good and embarrassing. >> okay. still ahead, fox 5 morning news dave ross joining us with a look back live at the os. >> more good news about gas prices, 8:26 a.m. we will be right back you are watching fox 5 morning news 4@

today's top stories, jerry sandusky remains on suicide watch after he was convicted on dozens of counts of child sexual abuse. the former penn state football coach learned his fate friday night. his lawyers reportedly are working on an appeal. >> at least 8 wild fires continue to burn across colorado flames forced 11,000 people to leave their homes over the weekend now some have been allowed to return. the fire has already destroyed 250 homes in northern colorado. here is some good news gas prices continue to fall they have dropped nearly 24¢s in the past month and expected to dip another 5 to 20¢ by july 4th holiday national average 3.41 for a gallon of regular, 3.5 2 dc, 3 president 35 maryland and

3-point -- 3.35 maryland. >> we drove down to orlando florida,. >> fun? >> we just talked about the gas prices we sounded like two very old people. look, look honey, 3.20 >> can i save 2¢s a gallon. >> it is funny the things that become important. >> did you stop midway down. >> we did but we drove 11 hours. >> wow. >> yeah it was fantastic. >> i wouldn't find doing that. >> it was great. >> the girls didn't complain >> i like the video of the gasoline going in the tank. >> i love that too. >> you don't see that angle often. >> it was special. >> doesn't take much to make us happy. >> people that are not happy right where you were, northern florida panhandle tropical storm debbie. the rain will continue to sit here and spin for the next several days the latest

information, and again, it is not moving, winds, 50 miles per hour winds are not going to be the real story extremely heavy rain that keeps getting trained up into central and northern florida, southern states, over the next couple days look at the forecast, that is over the next 5 days, only expected to track 90 miles to the north and southern florida. this will likely be a big story next several days they could measure the rain in feet believe it or not. maybe a couple feet of rain in the next week or some sentinel radar, -- sentinel radar showers of our own off to the north and west. between 12 and 4 lookout for the possibility of showers and storms across our area, cooler and dryer air behind it. warm and humid, 73 in frederick, your 5 day forecast later today showers and storms and cooler behind it 80 tomorrow nice warm up end of the week maybe 98 by friday. that's weather, tony allison

back to you guys. >> thank you. orioles came out on top in the beautiful the belt ways but the -- battle of the belt ways but nationals may have lost more than a couple games. an update on ryan zimmerman. >> down in virginia beach more people asked about zimmerman's shoulder and status to have nats overall than the red skins -- it is good the see because people are interested but they are like hey, what is up with him. we need him back nats have to have that back. he has a bad shoulder no other way around it what happened yesterday before the game with the orioles he gave him a cortisone shot it worked for the day. he had one of his best days, he has had in some time. his first hull tie hit game since -- multihit game since june 8th. not only that, batting .223 when he is healthy he is at .270, .280 hitter probably 20,

25 home runs, plays a great glove, third base. they have to have them back the problem is if his shoulder doesn't heal now, okay they might have to go and thing about the disabled list if they don't do that, they have to keep doing these shots to get him through the season and after the season determine whether or not he needs surgery here is david johnson on the situation. i know he got some treatment before the game he was looking really good, trimmed the bat with authority he did get a shot before the game, and the last treatment he had, two weeks off that didn't seem to work, so, we are going with this new treatment hopefully he will stay healthy. the code there is the rest didn't work, two weeks of resting didn't work. >> to the game itself there are some fans almost 130,000 people

for the three game set and orioles fans were happier than nats fans because wheater is in the 8th inning of a 1-0 game, becomes a 2-1 game and nats still had the shot in the 9th davie johnson going to strike him out and wheater out, desmond to end the game what a game for wheater but again, 0s. one 4-6 but all four they won, it was good to see the fans, now going up to baltimore. also a lot of fans in new york hating on our d.c. united boys what is up with that new york. relax a little bit right? the fastest goal in d.c. united history 30 seconds in, everybody loves chris around here especially allison watch this move here, oh, undresses the goalie. >> yeah. >> if you will. and he will. later in the game down 3-2. great control here, right

footed just over the top of the cross bar d.c. united loses, 3- 2 but still playing very good soccer right now. later on this week we will all be at tiger wood's tournament he has a 1:30 p.m. press conference tomorrow. talking about thousands of people he will be out at congressional. >> he is doing better >> playing better kind of weird because we want him to be back for the sport, but he doesn't seem to be doing it at the majors but has at other tournaments he has won twice on tour already this year try to win again here. >> all right. it is now 36 minutes after 8:00 a.m. a little later saving money without skimping on your summer vacation. >> plus, not quite smarter than the average bear, we are going to show you how that little guy ended up stuck in a garage. first a health scare for jeopardy host alex trebeck the update on his condition in a couple minutes stay with us

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a popular game show host recovering this morning,. alex trebeck suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend. that was the music to long

standing game show. >> jeopardy. >> thank you tony. >> the long time host of jeopardy was admitted to hospital saturday, the 71-year- old is expected to make a full recovery and will be back to work when jeopardy resumes production next month, trebeck suffered a heart attack in 2007. 29 years in the emmy award winning game show. and imagine going out to your garage and finding a bear. well, that is what happened to one homeowner instead of freaking out the person videotaped it that is what we do these days check it out a baby bear stuck on a beam in the garage, you can see him struggling to hold on, when all of a sudden the garage door opens guess who is there tony, yep, mama bear. after seeing her, the baby bear gets a little courage manages to pull himself over to the ladder and climb down smart little guy. >> what? >> yep check him out. >> look at that. >> smart guy. no word whether the two left together or how they got in there in the first place.

>> first of all he climbs down a ladder and mom opens up the garage door. >> they are smart. you know the song call me maybe well, it has been out for awhile but arguably the song of summer for the teenage crowd. >> it has inspired many to record themselves singing the song making up moves to go with it this is a local one on the left of your screen, nora williams, deanna craft both heading to local high schools in the fall but little did they know while shooting this, nora's dad comes home from work, that is him in the background and watch ♪ [ music ] >> that is so fab. >> isn't that great. >> they had no idea, until they watched the video. >> look at papa go. >> he is getting into it. >> that is the best.

>> isn't that great >> daddy used to have moves. >> i love that too. >> very funny. >> cool dad. >> coming up next, saving cash during your summer get away financial analyst, jennifer streets joins us live with what you need to know. >> first holly morris getting a crash course in building a car. holly good morning. >> you are right guys we are talking shop. we are live at an auto shop in rockville not just any awe though shop because as we are talking about building cars we are talking about building life skills we are learning all about, this program how it got started and who the big supporters are. all live next fox 5 morning news stay with us

well, on this monday morning all about cars and engineering for holly morris >> you know she likes that. she is learning more about kaleido links which empowers students through hands on experience and education. >> when you get your hands dirty that is when you learn

things right? they are doing just that this is an maizing program that made a great difference in many young people's lives in just a short amount of time really. these guys are worker bees they have been working since we got here this morning and it is all because this play dibelieves this -- lady believes in them, kelly the executive director tell me how this all got started. >> it all got started with my very first experience on a race track we noticed there is a very lack of -- a large lack of diversity, in understanding and providing this type of opportunity for young people because it just provides such a solid foundation, for them, just to pursue, all of their passions whether it is engineering or college or trade school or anything else. >> even more about helping them find that passion. >> exactly. >> some times you don't even know unless you get the experience. give me an idea who the kids are, who has been effected and how much it has grown.

>> well, in 2009, what you are looking at here is a very very big difference, in 2009 we were working out of a 500 square foot storage unit in gaithersburg maryland. and because of the generosity of general motors and our other partners like trans western and ps business parks we were able to move into this massive 2500 square foot space we can actually move around the vehicles now comfortably without having any sort of run ins with one another or the wall it has been a big progression and the kids have grown so much since we first started working with them. some of our kids are college bound next year we are excited to have them come back. >> what is the age you target? >> students ages 14 to 21 we grab them as early as we can. >> keep them as long as you can. >> we pride ourselves in this the fact even though they may graduate out of our program we still have that cyclical effect we continue to work with them as they define their careers

>> i tell you you can see, if you don't have to be with these kids long to know you are making a difference. >> they have another car they are going to work on that is where heather comes in with general motors good morning to you. >> general motors can support a lot of different initiatives but you choose this one. >> in our community it is so important for us to first of all give back secondly, wonderful to have kids in an engineering program who is learn. it is important to have our next set of designers and engineers for the automotive industry. >> tell us about the sect car. >> they have been retro fitting this, there is an engine on the way. they will be racing this soon. we are thrilled to give back it is important these kids are not only learning here in the classroom but in life and it is a really good start for them. >> i know they are thrilled to have you be a part of it as well i tell you who else is thrilled this guy here, andy,

he is the raising program director and also perhaps more importantly the principal driver so how does this baby handle andy? >> it is pretty fun. definitely had some very fun moments on some very fast and some times frightening race tracks all across the country. >> give people an idea what the kids do with the car specifically. >> well, on a car like this, one of the first things they do is just get everything out of it we don't need, get the weight down, we work on suspension, trying to get the car to hand it will way we want it to, aerodynamics, kids have done a lot with wings and down force on the front we have got an awful lot of engine work on this car >> how good are the kids. >> they are pretty good you would be surprised at what even the 14 and 15-year-olds are doing, so it is pretty impressive. >> i always ask this, what are you learning from the kids.

>> some times i think it is how much the world is changing and -- >> kids are making you feel old. >> oh, god, yeah. very very old most days. >> very good. well, i thank you for the time that you are taking with these kids as well myfoxdc.com our website we have a link and all good nonprofits tony have a mascot look at that, leonardo is the official mascot here. we will talk more with the kids, about the difference this program is making. he is the star he says it is too hot to stand up. >> thank you very much. whether going overseas on a road trip here in the u.s. or staying home there are ways to cut your costs and still have a great vacation. financial analyst and author jennifer streets joins us with ways to conserve cash, yes, which we all need to do these days, and you know, that is one

of the things when you thing about a summer vacation you thing boy, this is going the cost a lot of money but doesn't have to. >> doesn't have to tony if you plan, and if your goal really is to save cash your destination the time you leave even the time of day that your flight may take off you have such an opportunity to save money because i learned just going on and making my own travel reservations that if you leave early morning the first flight out 6:59 a.m., that is the cheapest rate that the airline has. >> i didn't know that >> it may be inconvenient but if you can save $100 why not. >> that is great. we are breaking this down into categories, we just showed the first one i want to go back the planning stages you are talking about booking reservation and all that stuff. customer loyalty programs. >> definitely, air miles, triple-a for car rentals you get a lot of discounts because right now people are not flying and they aren't travelling as much as they used to so if you

are someone constantly consistently with a hotel and car rental agency they are going the want to keep you loyal to them give you extra discounts. >> they do seem to be making more of an effort to do that is it easier to use some of those mileage programs now, because for the longest time it seems you have collected all these miles then two flights per seat. >> that's true some do have black out dates still but that is where planning is very important if your goal is to save money start planning trips 60, 90 days out. >> all right let's talk about transportation, there are somethings we can do to keep costs down. >> transportation can be very expensive airline to car rentals to trains. but you have to basically break it down and say what is going to be the best way for me to travel. so once again we are talking about customer loyalty programs but also not being wedded to airlines or car rentals if you can take a train, try that as

well. >> all right. and you say booking online you do save money. >> definitely if you go to a travel agent they have their surcharge and even if you call in, they are charging you now a convenience fee because the operator is helping you with the trances action. go online and book it yourself. >> once you get there. >> once you get to your destination, use public transportation as much as possible cabs, cars for hire, limos those will cost you so much more money but subway, you know trolley cars, like if you are going to new orleans or something like that is going to be so much more cheaper so i mean, it is just a no brainer to use public transportation. >> one keys, don't make internash fall phone calls when -- international phone calls when you -- buy prepaid cards. >> skype, google plus, really great ways to save on international calls any calls

you need to make at all i try not to use the hotel phone at all. >> me too. overseas turn your cell phone off. >> those roaming charges will kill you. >> that's right. >> let's talk about saving on food you have tips on how to save on food. >> well, you know we all want to go on vacation and have a great time if you eat out every night or a couple times in a day that is really going the wrack up quickly if you can get a hotel that has an inroom kitchen, cook your own food go out for a special meal end of the week and take advantage of the local fare that will save you so much money if you are staying in town and barbecuing in the backyard traditional way we celebrate 4th of july for example, head to costco they have huge discounts on everything you are going to put on the grill if you can't get to costco, make sure you get those sunday circulars, map out what you are doing with giant and safeway. >> it is interesting, when you are travelling a lot more of

these hotel rooms now have these in suite kitchens. >> exactly that is a great way to save money just for little snacks they cost money too. >> jennifer street thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me >> making it more affordable allison back to you. 8:55 a.m., thank you. our next hour a special pet project learning how adopting pets from shelters can teach some great lessons to kids also coming up after 9:00 a.m., eating healthy all summer long share some great ways to prepare all the fresh fruits and veggies grown right here in our region we will be right back ' [ male announcer ] are you paying more

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hours away from a historic ruling on health care and immigration. then how you can help local farmers, add fresh produce to your table and keep it healthy. and the battle of the belt ways goes to the north and os see turn outs they haven't seen in quite some time. dave ross is back with a check of sports headlines. a lot of bear talk this morning but this one isn't so cuddly. imagine walking out of your front door this is what you see. two bears big bears, fighting. find out who wins this battle. a little later. we do have a lot of bear talk >> i heard a report, from a national news service, said the same thing. >> okay. we begin this morning with tropical storm debbie's slow march through the gulf, the storm is bringing torential rains causing flooding and spawning isolated tornadoes, at least one person has died. >> tucker barnes is keeping a close eye on debbie