designer wine. we have dramatic scenes to show you. these are from northwest dc last night as a line of rain storms moved through, very heavy rain, parts of rhode island avenue were under about two feet of water at one points. the water picked up some cars that were parked on the streets. wow! >> that is dramatic video. for some of us last night, tucker barnes is joining us with what is ahead today. >> quieter weather after last night, two to three inches of rain in a short period of time is what caused the problems. but let's get to local weather for your day, and looking quieter. temperatures still on the warm side, but we're not dealing with any extreme heat, and i don't think we'll see much in the way of rain showers, wind from the north and east at 5, and winds off the ocean that we think will keep things dry, stabilizing the atmosphere for us. there's your radar, generally quiet.

there are sprinkles out there. but the trends will be keeping things dry. i think even later this afternoon, just partly sunny conditions. could there be a rain shower? yes, but that will be well to the west as you get into the shenandoah mountains. you have the best chance for a shower. partly sunny skies, highs near 90, winds will be shifting from the south and south and east at 5 miles an hour. more details on the weekend forecast in a couple of minutes. big story, corruption allegations being waged against vince gray's 2010 campaign. >> a former aide admits to funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars of concealed money to help him get elected. melanie is here with the latest. melanie? >> reporter: with the plea yesterday, this web is starting to unravel. conspiracy, falsified donations cover-ups, plans to flee the

country, part of an off the books campaign. 75-year-old jeannie harris worked as an aide to gray's 2010 campaign. the plea agreement says an unnamed co-conspirator funneled $653,000 through her public relations firm that she then spent on campaign materials, consultants supplies and other expenses. she admitted to shredding documents, and also that her co-conspirator offered to pay for her to leave the country for five years to avoid the investigation. she also pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy for concealing the source of other donations about $44,000, to gray's 2010 campaign, and also federal campaigns in 2008. harris is the third person to work on the campaign to plead guilty to some kind of illegal payments. gray has refused to address it so far. >> $653,000, that's the minimum from recorded mexico that were not recorded. that is there was a campaign

that spent $643,000, they never reported the contributions of that magnitude. how could the mayor not know? and the u.s. attorney all but said there was coordination, so his denial of cull pa picture seems top. >> two people familiar with the investigation identified businessman jeffrey thompson as a source of the funds. his managed care company has the city's single largest contract worth $322 million a year, in course, harris says her -- court, harris said her co-conspirator did not want to know about thomas. harris and her co-conspirator have been making straw donations together since 2001. >> thanks, mel. in capitol hill, republicans in the house are set to vote, hold a vote on repealing the president's healthcare law. as doug luzader explains, it is

a symbolic vote. >> reporter: republicans in the house are probably just hours away from making this happen. even if democrats say it's an exercise in futility. there may be nothing really new happening understand this dome today, but on the house floor, republicans will do what they have done many times before, knock down the president's healthcare plan, and democrats don't like it. >> we're not trying to may law, we're making political points. >> reporter: just making points, because even after the house votes to kill obamacare, the effort will stop with democrats who control the senate. and if it makes it to the white house, the president will veto it. >> if the facts that we now know today about this law were available when this law was being debated, there's no way this would have become law. >> reporter: and to drive that home, a house panel asked a group of medical professionals about a claim the president made

back in 2009. >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. period. >> that's obviously completely false. >> in kansas, you will not be able to keep your more affordable plan under the aca. >> reporter: but even after the vote, the aca, affordable care act, or obamacare, will still be standing. one thing this does do, is get some moderate democrats on the record just ahead of the november elections. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. today, president obama and mitt romney are talking about tax cuts. the president is meeting with top democratic leaders in the oval office. they are discussing the president's plans to extend the bush era tax cuts just for the middle class, and mitt romney is in houston this morning, the presumptive republican nominee is making his pitch to

african-american voter at the naacp's annual meeting. president obama is not addressing the group, he is sending vice president biden to speak tomorrow. a house committee is to vote honor a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. that's based on claims that fetuses can feel pain at the 20 week mark. the national right to life group is pushing the bill. dc leaders oppose the bill, calling it anne trust on the strict's self rule -- calling it an intrusion on the districts self rule. opponents of gay marriage have been fighting against this matter since governor owe mall signed it into law earlier. authorities told him yesterday they had succeeded in getting the number of signatures needed on their petition to put the issue on the ballot. some of the other storyies

making headlines. >> 48-year-old sarah greenhalgh's body was found in her home burning, her burning home, mob morning. investigators say it is a homicide case. greenhalgh worked at a freelance reporter for years, in addition to her job at the winchester star, writing about horse racing and county government issues. police, however, do not believe her work was connected to her death. in maryland, prince george county police are looking for a man who shot a cab driver in landover hills. this happened in 3800 block of cooper lane yesterday afternoon. the cab driver picked up the gunman at the new carrollton metro station. the man asked for a ride to the cooper lane elementary school. when they got there, the man pulled out a gun and tried to rob the driver. police say the driver's injuries are not serious, are serious, but not life threatening. underground power lines may be coming to the district. council member jack evans

introduced legislation to form a group to find out how to fund it. the project is expected to cost about $5 million. pepco customers in montgomery and prince george county may have to wait a bit longer to learn if their bills will increase. following last week's devastating storm, the power company is requesting a delay in issuing the final decision. pepco originally requested a 4% rate hike for its maryland customers. the decision was expected this week, but could be pushed back an extra 7 days. when the storm that knocked out power hit our region a couple weeks ago, people in northern virginia who not call the 911 for emergency for three days. now, the fairfax county chairman wants answers. she is calling for a task force to call out for verizon facility did not work. later this morning, she's asking the metropolitan washington council of governments to create that task force. fox 5 is monitoring metro,

and a new safety report that is raising eyebrows. the report on metrobus fatigue s were 12 hours or more during july of last year. of those drivers, they worked 20 or more hours without 8 hours off 50 times. in some cases, drivers worked more than 80 hours a week. the rules allow a maximum of 16 hours a day for drivers. >> bus drivers should have more time to rest if you're driving, you need to have time to, you know, relax and you pay better attention. >> it's not really safe, but we don't know if he's working 20 hours, the guy who is driving. >> metrobuss average 6 accidents a day. metro will present the report to the safety and security committee today. metro awe near -- metro's nw

safety campaign is getting person. employees would get id hold terse for family photo. this is the second phase of the campaign. there are quizes and safety messages. phase 3 focuses on personal responsibility will launch in the fall. still ahead, the high-tech way you can trace your every step through the smithsonian. >> uplifting women of all ages. the if -- the god's glamorous women event. [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road, lightning strikes ]

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full potential, the conference host is dr. freeman, also attending will be her daughter, a force had her on right. they join us this morning. good morning to both of you. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having us. >> you know, we're excited about god's glamorous girls, this movement, really, this is the third one. we were talking about it. >> and what a positive message in your stilettos, of course! >> tell us about the conference. >> it's a conference that i have just to encourage, to inform and to empower women. i love it, i love bringing women together and letting them know that they are somebody that we are a force to be reckoned with. nobody can stop us, i love doing it, i'm not just focused because of the name, god's glamorous girls, i guess people in the

church community -- >> we're saying you can be, you know, you can be all of you in all of your glory and still recognize -- >> exactly. i don't want to take any attention away from who we are bring glory, but we share, fascinate people with who we are so we can ultimately give the attention to god himself, so that's the only reason we use that name, but we should be able to look good on the outside. god is concerned how we look and how we present ourselves, we teach whole life prosperity. >> and talk about what participants will see when they go and see the speakers. welcome. now, you are still a teenager, but a business woman, too? tell us about your message and what you hope to bring. >> being a 19-year-old virgin, loving god, living right, owning my own business, i want to teach

teens it's okay to be -- so transforming your thinking, you don't have to go to party, or do this, do that to have fun, but you can live a good life and still love god. just transforming your thinking and living right and having fun. >> your theme is transformation. >> right. >> what's the main message? i want to call you dr. dede. i life to do that. -- like to do that. what's the main message? a lot of us are feeling like we can't do this one more day, this economy, this job i'm in or what have you. what's the message? >> my message is like she was saying, electronics form your thinking, -- transform your thinking. most of us are locked into what media has presented across the television, and allowed us to conform to, i guess, the world

system or the economy. we want to stretch the capacity to think on a different level. >> tell us about some speakers that will be there. >> you'll be there. you'll be a participant. what are some other names? >> my husband, pastor mike freeman. he'll be ministering tonight, he's an awesome teacher, just real simplistic in his style. he will be there to transform our lives again, and suzy is going to be there on tomorrow night, and i have a young lady named donna persauni. she is from this area also, and wendy treat, from washington state, from seattle, and then i have if td jakes. he will he be there friday. it's going to be awesome, an

awesome lineup, i love the diversity, i love what god is doing, bringing everybody together, whether you're white, black, whatever, i believe we are living in a time where people are not concerned about color, razor whatever, but we are pea coming together as one to know that we are one unit, and we can move this society if we come together. >> i wanted to ask you about raising kids, you sit here with your daughter, your beautiful daughter, what's the message. let me ask you. what do you want to hear from mom, dad, or what have you when you're an adult now, but coming up, how, you know, they say you can't be your child's friend, you can't get too close, what is the message that young people can take home if you would like to pass something on, and for parents listening to you. >> my mom, she learned how to be my friends, it wasn't she wanted to be my friend or just started talking to me, but she taught me

how to balance between being a friend and being a daughter, as well as my dad. it's like there's boundaries i i cannot cross, i know she's my mom, but as parents, you have to learn your child, as a friend, and not just a daughter or son. and really, to teach them to go home, you want to, okay, what can i do to be there this? how can i be their friend? what do i need to say? let me learn things about them, to really learn how to be around them and be in their environment, and get down to their level. she's like my best friend. i don't have anybody else but her, but really, just to really teach them inolith everything out. -- and live everything out. they could talk all about what they want to say, but they are not living it, if you're not living it, it's not going to mean anything.

show me how to be a good friends, how to love god and how to honor god. >> i love her! >> i know you do. >> mother daughter team, we are talking about the god's glamorous girls, it is today through friday. at the convention center. you can not go online and register anymore, but you can go there to the conference, convention center, and register. and the line-up is wonderful. go to our website. we're going for link the information from the conference there so you can know what you'll miss out on. i'm going to read tony's part. sorry. over to you. what's going on? >> are you feeling empowered? you're taking over? coming up, how to cool down with a free slurpee.

>> we're making some important decisions, we're deciding what candy we want to put where on our castle. let me make sure it's candy first. i wasn't supposed to eat that! i was to put it on there. you can have fun just like this with you and your family at the gaylord national. we will give you all the end foe you need to know

a. it is july 11th, and that means 7-eleven, and that means it's their 85th birthdays they are celebrating with free slurpees from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. they expect to give away about 7 million. >> just so happens. >> google is teaming up with the smithsonian and mapping it out room by room. visitors can trace their steps

through 17 museums, including the aaron space museum, the portrait gallery and national zoo. the map can be, you can get to those with google maps for android. $3.2 million yacht is now partially submerged in water. one end of the rose is touching the bottom of the south lake tahoe marine. more than a dozen people are on board this luxury boat when it sank monday morning. luckily, no one was hurt it, had graduate anyone counter, ma honk any floors, -- granite counter, mahogany floors, a private contractor is expected to remove the yacht. we know what happened though it, it was too heavy! granite counter top? and that many floors? they stay women are better drivers -- they say women are better drives than men. in bun town, women get -- one town, women get better parking

spots. what is behind this mars/venus parking situation. >> last night's all-star game was a giant blow-out. you'll find out why we say that. it is 9:26. 

turning into the battle of sexes in one germantown. the mayor says he thinks men want to be challenging more than women, so he designated 12 easily accessed, there is that word again! access parking spaces in the garage for women, while the two spots for men are much more difficult to get into. the mayor said he pulled a stunt to get people talking. it worked. both men and women are now driving to the town to put their driving skills to the test in

the two men only spaces. >> so we promoted that the wrong way before the break, saying some people say women are better drivers than men. what he is saying is men are better drivers, that's why he gave them the challenging spaces. >> why do they get 12 and the men get two? >> if you did that here, there would be 10 lawsuits. >> that's interesting. what a small parking garage. is it a garage? >> they didn't say that's the whole garage. >> that was my sense. okay. >> i think we said it was a small town. >> and none of us have expressed an opinion who is the better driver, so don't write to us. >> we can keep our opinions to ourselves. >> you can say it if you want. >> i think women are the better drivers. >> i'm going to do the weather

now. 77 in washington, temperatures are gradually warming up, it's going to be warm, humid, you know, this afternoon, it's going to turn to one of those nice summer afternoons with highs in the upper 80s to around 90. should be driver than around here yesterday. 72 in manassas, most of the mountains were back in the 60s, so a nice start to the day. 77 in leonard town, let's go across the pay, salsbury, 83. all right, looking at hour first loop radar, look how quiet it is, quieter than yesterday. yesterday we had lots of storms and showers. not the case today. the frontal system we were talking about yelled in southern virginia, was pushed into the carolinas. they need the rain there. and they're going to get it later. this front will hang out down here for a couple days, and eventually start to work back towards us as a warm front, so the bottom line, partly sunny,

highs about 90. i don't think we'll see rain originally requested a 4% rate thunderstorms like yesterday, -- we'll seen rain showers or thunderstorms like yesterday, surface features. there you go, front today sags further to the south, deep into the carolinas. it will push back towards us friday and the weekend, the weekend forecast is not perfectly dry. we will scattered showers in the area, this front will not move a lot further north, and be sticking around the area this weekend. partly sunny skies, nice afternoon, 89 degrees, winds from the southeast 5-10. later tonight, partly cloudy, calm and comfortable, 70 the overnight law, and 5-day, temperatures the next couple of days, hang out where they should in the mid- to upper 80s, and into the weekend, better chance of scattered showers and storms friday, saturday and sunday, it won't rain all weekend.

if you have outdoor plans, go for it, but we will have some temperatures in the low 90s by saturday and sunday. let's look at weather, let's see if we have results on who the better driver is, tony and al so. >> men and women are equally good drivers. all-star game seen on fox 5 last night was a blow-out, and a pitching expedition. there are major implications to the game. the winning league gets home field advantage in the world series, that could be important to the nats. all three players sent from the nationals ended up seeing action. >> from the washington nationals, bryce harper. steven strasbourg. and gio gonzales. >> the national league wasted little time getting on the board, scoring five first inning runs. highlighted by a 3 run triple by

pablo sands value of the giants. bryce harper went 0-1 with a walk, but also lost a fly ball in the lights. national league won 8-0. mel can i cabrera won the mvp with two hits, including a home run. talk about hitting a home run, a man from ohio found more than 700 baseball cards bundled up in his grandfather's attic. among them, cy young, ty cob. they were issued from a rare series in 1910. they are pleased -- they have believed to be worth $3 million. they will be auctioned off. >> and what a find! that is incredible. still ahead, demi won't tolerate auditions on the, her

show, the x-factor about drugs. >> who would do that? >> you'll see. some people do. >> and american idol eyeing charlie sheen as a possible judge. he may be on board, but there are a few conditions. find out what they are when we check in with tmz after the break. that would be the definition of jumping the shark.  matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters.

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judges next season on "american idol." we don't know if jennifer lopez is coming back, we don't know if randy jackson is coming back can if steven is going to be there. everything is just up in the air. it was like who would you want? he threw out charlie sheen, jerry lewis, and i think he may have done it as a jock, and charlie sheen said yeah, i'll do it. there's just a couple conditions. number one, the management on your current show has to sign off. number two, paycheck has to be right, and part of paycheck, they have to match 20% of his paycheck and give it to charity every month. so i'm thinking "american idol" is not going to want to go through and jump through these hoops to get charlie sheen because, in reality, who really want to watch charlie sheen on "american idol"? i think everybody likes is craziness, and stuff about him, but it might be much watching him twice a week on a live show.

>> what does he have to say about the music industry? that's that part, too. >> exactly. we'll wait and see what happens. in the meantime, so tom cruise and katie holmes announces they were getting divorced and boom, boom, it was done. suri might was the one -- might be the one that get it done. lawyers sat down all day saturday hashing it out, but the main part was because of physical is your -- suri. the mother nuclear this gets, the more dakota on their daughter. so it's -- the more damage on their daughter. so let's get it done. so, i mean, good for them. it was mature and adult-like for them to do it.

>> great. last but not least, the judge on x factor, she threw a couple contestants out? >> auditions going on in north carolina, and apparently there were two guys rapping on stage and they were rapping about getting high on bath salts, and she talked about how doing drugs as a kid, and she just went off on them, saying how inappropriate it was for them to rap about getting high in front of an auditorium full of children, and the second she blew up on them, of course, the audience took her side, started to boo them off the stage, and they will no longer go on that show. standing up for what she believes is right. >> good for her! all right, thank you. >> i'm looking forward to see how the new judges, britney spears, and demi, that's interesting. >> i hope so, yeah.

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are. >> let's give it up for kung fu panda! all right. a little rumba, shrek! there he is, and from -- and tell me about the parade. it is free and open to everybody, every friday and saturday night from 6 to 6 is 15:00. the characters parade through the atrium. the really cool thing we have is a character meet and greet. it's actually a character dance party. >> nice! >> let's see your dance moves. kids pay for this experience. they get that one hour dance party, and after that, they go on the puss and boots quest for

the beans scavenger hunt. >> show me your moves. >> this is the guide, and the kids will take this guide through the hotel, and they follow the clues, we have clues throughout the atrium, and they follow the includes clues, and then they get a free prize at the end. >> reporter: this what happens when you give kids chocolate for breakfast! they are too cute for words. too much fun is what we're having. and it doesn't stop here. over here, we have cookie castles being created with the help of fiona. >> good morning. >> what's going on? >> we have to make them all alone. >> how does this work? >> they take their cookie cattles with them. i see we have boys at this table, so they have green castles, right? what are we thinking? where do we put the candy?

and what candy do we put on there? >> we should put the jelly beans in one spot. >> we need to group it together? have you tested it to make sure the candy is good. yes. >> you should test it again. go ahead and test some candy. now, i see the girls have a different castle over here. >> look at the butterfly. you get to take the cookie occasion he wills home? -- castles home 1234. >> of course. >> reporter: is it all edible? >> yes. >> so you can make it and eat it? yes. >> let's talk about the girls' castles. what do you think would be the prettiest thing to put on the castle? you know what, i think prettiest thing is making the castle, that would be you two. we have a link to the gay lard national if you want to find out more -- gaylord national if you want to find out about

everything. it is a way for your family to come out and have good familiar time. and you might be able to get your christmas pictures done, just an idea! thank you. it looks like fun. marcus johnson, our old and good friend. >> i'm very old. >> is playing at blues alley, and spreading his wings into a new venture, wine. >> we go too far back. >> apparently. >> old marcus. >> good to see you. fascinated by what's going on with you and the wine. let's talk about the music first. you have performances coming up? >> now -- four nights of blues. shows at 8 and 10:00 p.m. >> it's neat. i'm one of i think four artists that does that twice a year from all over the world, so dc definitely supports me. >> i know a lot of artists come in and they can, they just do

one night, that's all they can sell. i'm not saying anything bad, but that's great. >> what a great venue, too. >> when itches -- i was at blair high school, it was like great to be there. and every summer, it's still exciting to get. >> was it the marching band or regular band? i was the all-county jazz band,. >> ensemble. >> we have lots of jokes. >> old marcus. >> what are you doing musically now? i've seen you do all kinds of music and transform this into any genre. what are you into now? >> one of the things we have, if they show over there, is the flow chill cd. that's with my buddy young pro. he came here, spends time and interned with us, and we put out cd flow chill volume 2. so we're touring under that, it's a dj thing, and the band

plays along, so it's neat. we have a new one of those. >> i see the cds everywhere, on the charts, doing very well with that. >> each of the flo series made it into the top 10, and two in the top 5. >> you have flo wine. how did you get involved? are you a wine connoisseur? >> i'm going to be like the nascar driver. yeah. yeah. like i'm here at the flo keyboard. i love wine, and as the music industry has has -- has changed. i thought in business school, what can i do to brand? knowing that i have fans around the world and around the country, opened my eyes because i see like my target demo, women. with a glass of wine. how do we figure this out? i talked to a buddy of mine who worked with a vineyard in

northern virginia. i said let's go to napa and see what we can do, we did a deal with the vineyard, and now we're in ten states, and continuing to grow. you can catch us, and flo means for the love of. my mom says you're always trying to help people, you're too nice. so i thought about making it a business, for the love of others. >> you can get this in dc, at giant, total wine and more, harris, and sips and sounds series, you can get it at blues outlet if you see it. >> what are you going to play? >> this is tune off the naacp awards, the journey. >> cherish the journey. thank you, marcus.

we're going to warm it up this weekend, showers by friday night, and again into saturday