controversial comments on his trip overseas. we'll hit the campaign trail as fox 5 morning news continues right now. there you go, hazy, out of focus view of the washington national catherdral. >> it looks like an old post card. greetings. >> we're going to find out what we have in store from tucker barnes in just a moment. this is tuesday, july 31, the last day of the month. good morning, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm alison seymour. happy you're with us on this day. we say good morning to our good friend tucker barnes. >> good morning. you saw the fog, the mist, little cloud cover to start your day. should be decent afternoon. partly sunny this afternoon, with temperatures only topping out in the middle 80s. humidity 84%.

winds out of the north and east at 7. pressure hanging out 30.01 inches. shower activity to our south and east. ocean city has had thunderstorm activity, beththy, dealing with cloud cover. mix of sun and clouds closer to washington. later this afternoon the possibility, like yesterday, of popup showers and storms. much of our day will feature at least partly sunny conditions and temperatures expected to be in the 80s. here's your planner for today. bring along an umbrella in case. won't rain all day. highs about 85 at 4:00 p.m. decent day temperature-wise. more details on the forecast in a minute. let's do traffic with julie wright. >> good morning, tucker. on the roads now, outer loop of the beltway slow past van dorn headed to the incident on the shoulder before you reach

telegraph road. no problems on the inner loop. northbound i-95, lanes open, slow moving out of woodbridge. delays continuing north of newington. 395 on the brakes to seminary road. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you very much. new this morning, the ground shook overnight, but you probably didn't feel it. the u.s. geological survey confirms a 2.4 magnitude earthquake hit near mineral, virginia before 12:45 this morning. that's the same location as last august's 5.8 magnitude earthquake that was felt up and down the east coast. that quake caused significant damage with the national cathedral and washington monument. not so this one.

police investigating a deadly shooting in the district. >> three shootings in less than 30 minutes in different locations. our own sherri ly is live in northeast at one of the scenes. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. just in the last half hour -- [ no audio] -- in northeast. we have the officer who -- [ no audio] -- on this side of the street looking around the car, in the bushes and the area, really focusing over here. we know the victims in two of the shootings overnight did survive. but this one here was deadly. police say the man was shot at 47th and brook street in northeast. the bullet hit him in the back, killing him. this morning an investigator returned walking the crime scene, taking measurements and photos trying to figure out what happened here. what we do know is the shooting happened around 11:45 last night. it was the third in a string of

shootings across the city. no word on what led up to the shooting or whether police have a suspect. police say it is being investigated as a homicide. the shooting on brook street happened less than 30 minutes after two others in southeast d.c. the first one was around 11:15 last night in the 4800 block of alabama avenue southeast. police say a man was shot in the leg and a male juvenile grazed by a bullet. no word on the age. 15 minutes later, another male juvenile was shot, his age also unknown at this time. police say he was hit in the shoulder and is expected to survive. at this point police do have vague descriptions of vehicles in those first two shootings that they are looking for. two different vehicles from each of those crime scenes. investigators are not really releasing much other information, but they do say that at this point they have no information that would connect these three shootings. it seems to be just a coincidence that they all

happened all around the same time, but are random. investigators back out here in the daylight, looking over this crime scene here at brook street. this shooting here, the only one that was deadly last night. they are going over it, looking for more evidence, trying to figure out what happened. that's the latest here. back to you. >> rough night in d.c. sherri ly, thank you very much. in the meantime, over the d.c. line, detectives in prince george's county are investigating a shooting that happened around midnight. they say they found a man injured in the 1200 block of bening road in capitol heights. he had been shot about a mile away on jansen avenue. it's unclear how he made it to bening road. possible link between the deadly jewelry store robbery on friday and another robbery at another d.c. store earlier this month.

surveillance videos show a man wearing a reflective vest and hat. tommy wong was killed during friday's holdup. the man who robbed benson's jewelers in the district got away with $20,000 in diamond rings. the man accused in the colorado movie massacre is now formally charged with murder. james holmes faces 142 counts, including 24 counts of first degree murder, and 116 counts of attempted murder. he's accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others during the midnight premier of "the dark knight rises." allison. thanks, tony. turning to politics, in the race for the white house, republican presidential candidate mitt romney wraps up his overseas trip. he finished a speech in poland. in the meantime, the political landscape is changing back home. fox's doug luzader has the latest from the campaign trail. >> reporter: national polls

continue to show a very tight race. but some of the battleground states may be shifting. mitt romney trying to end his foreign policy trip on solid footing. his visit to pole and included what sounded like an endorsement for the former polish president. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: that is the kind of backing that could play well in the midwest. and it's there president obama will try to plant his own flag this week with a trip to ohio, one of three critical states that is moving in his direction. >> colorado, michigan and ohio representing should be 43 electoral college votes moved into lean barack obama and one

step to romney. missouri and minnesota and new mexico move from obama to lean obama. >> reporter: the democratic convention is in september, and they're calling on former president bill clinton to visit a speech and formally nominate president obama. and the platform will include support for gay marriage. >> reporter: that will help motivate the party's base. but it could alienate independent voters in swing states that both campaigns are fighting for. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. something that romney said before leaving israel is causing outrage among palestinians. the republican candidate for president seemed to suggest arab culture is inferior to israel. while speaking at a fundraiser in jerusalem, he quoted a book which theorized that culture makes all the difference between the economic vitality

between israel and palestinian. theypoint out that palestine is under israeli occupation. another big story today, a bill that would ban late term abortions in the district is up for a vote in the house. the bill is sponsored by republican arizona representative trent franks. it would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. supporters say that's when a fetus can begin to feel pain. opponents say the bill is part of a campaign to overturn roe v. wade. >> we afford more protection to farm animals to keep them from having to go through unnecessary pain. >> they're trying to eliminate reproductive choice. >> don't come at us to make your ideological points. we are not your pawns. >> groups on both sides of the debate will be scoring the bill, or tracking lawmakers'

votes. the democratic party is set to include support for same-sex marriage in its official platform at this year's convention. this is seen as a major milestone. president obama will officially accept the nomination at the convention. the president supports same-sex marriage, but adds it is an issue for states to decide on. nine minutes after the hour now. it's a tuesday morning. still ahead, what's going on in india? for a second day, that country's power grid failed, leaving millions in the dark. >> and pepco is defending its response to last month's storm. coming up, why they say some residents were in the dark for more than a week after the storm. >> plus, d.c. based hip-hop artist hits up redskins' training camp. his thoughts on rg3 and the rest of the skins coming up. >> this is a live look outside. 95 at the springfield interchange. not looking too bad now. we'll get the latest on traffic from julie and weather from

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another massive power outage in india is making headlines. yesterday 300 million people lost power, then about two hours ago, 600 million were left in the dark. it's the second time in 36 hours that india's grid has failed. this morning half the country is without power. closer to home now, one month after the storm, pepco is releasing a report trying to explain why so many people were left in the dark for so long. it says pepco was ready, but the so-called derecho wasn't expected to be so strong. pause and continue. the report also says pepco was staffed on a 24/7 basis as of

6:00 a.m. june 30th, the morning after the storm. that's essentially the issue, because who knows what mother nature is going to throw at you? >> right, right. >> interesting. tucker barnes is here. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. >> good morning. do you know what we can expect today? >> i have a good sense, but you never can quite tell. >> i see. take it away. >> be prepared for anything. >> that's true. let's get to the numbers. reagan national starting off on a warm and humid start. but not terribly uncomfortable. temperatures now in d.c., 74 degrees. much of the area upper 60s to about 70. want to show you the rest of the country, because that big area of high pressure has pushed slightly further to the west the last couple of days and temperatures out here just extraordinary. lots of record-breaking heat in oklahoma. oklahoma city yesterday 109 degrees. little rock later today 110 the forecast high. good news for us, we're enjoying a bit of a dip in the jet stream. here the heat will continue to

be extraordinary and many records will fall over the next couple of days across central sections of our country. for us, lots of rain showers south and east of us, across the lower eastern shore. thunderstorm activity earlier. this is hanging tough here. i think if you're down at the beaches you're going to be enjoying showers for the next couple of hours along with plenty of clouds. little closer to home, we've got a mix of clouds with sunshine that should be mixing in shortly. partly sunny afternoon. we too have to be concerned or be ready for showers and thunderstorms kind of bubbling up a little later today. not going to be a washout. like yesterday, scattered showers ask storms later this afternoon. towards chicago, cold front will get in here tomorrow, giving us another round of showers and storms. little cooler today. 86 the high. tomorrow, 88 with scattered storms. behind the front the temperatures warm up, but we lose the humidity for thursday and friday. i don't think the 90 and 92

will feel all that terrible. >> that's good. >> great. >> yeah. we get into august. >> tomorrow, yeah. >> all right, tucker, thanks. >> let's go to julie wright now, she's got the latest on the traffic. >> on the roads now you'll find it is a little complicated. delays to report in the district, traveling along h street and 3rd street and northeast. southbound 270 below speed, down to about 31 miles per hour. gaithersburg, the pace is improving, a little bit below speed approaching 370. top stretch of the beltway, lanes are open, pace is slowing about 25 miles per hour west of i-95 working in towards silver spring. no problems to report at the wilson bridge. traffic flowing freely there. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you very much. could this be the beginning of a mass exodus? former penn state starting

quarterback rob bolden and backup safety tim buckley have become the first players to leave the team in the wake of the ncaa sanctions following the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. star runningback silas rib visited southern california over the weekend. the team returns for preseason workout today. also hitting the practice field today, the redskins. >> it's day five of training camp and dave ross is live again this morning at redskins park in ashburn. dave, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, allison and tony. we're up early every day, right? robert griffin iii was up early and he just tweeted, "ready to get better. thought for early starters, don't be afraid to go out of your way for others ." offensive line going out of their way to protect him,

that's an aside. we'll get to that later. the rapper from d.c. was here at redskins park yesterday. how many entertainers of his stature make a point to come out to training camp? he's a big redskins fan. not faking it either, take a look. >> reporter: we are here with one of the giants in the rapping industry. d.c. guy through and through. welcome back. been a couple of years. how you been? >> good, man. >> reporter: tell me what you been doing? >> stalking my redskins roster. basically waiting the arrival of our quarterback. making music, man. just learning a little bit. trying to learn the things outside of music and working on a couple of interests. >> reporter: let's talk about rg3. i know you talk on twitter, right? >> yes. >> reporter: your thoughts so far? >> i'm excited, more so about his character. not to throw anybody under the bus, but sometimes you get figures, we bring figures to

our city and they're not necessarily -- d.c. is a bad, bad blend with them, because of the entertainment. he wants to win, and play football. >> reporter: you mentioned it, wale, this is your city, this is our city and he's part of that city. how do we keep him, everything he says is a breath of fresh air, how do we keep him in this mode for a decade or more to come? >> the morale, man. when i saw d'angelo's interview the other day, he's a star, man. like you love to hear that. >> reporter: he'll tell you he's not, yet. he's one of the guys. he's just robert. >> he don't want to be, like, you know what i'm saying, the level of humility he possesses is unreal, arguably the best player in the draft, it's amazing. >> reporter: as you're

traveling around the world, do people give you flak for as bad as the skins have been? how do you deal with that? other rappers get on to you? what does jay say? >> he's a cowboy fan. so he's the worst. >> reporter: what's he talking about? >> he'll just, he'll like, if the cowboys score a touchdown, open bombs away touchdown, he'll e-mail me -- >> reporter: he's right on point when it happens? that's jay-z. >> not again, though. >> reporter: as a fan, how do you temper your expectations for robert? we're excited, but can't get ahead and think playoffs, right? >> got to be realistic. obviously, nobody goes into a season thinking they're going to win such and such games. you play to win the game. >> reporter: there you go. >> play to win the game.

got to be realistic and understand like, peyton manning was -- >> reporter: terrible rookie year. but he grew. >> you grow and learn. dedication to learning is the most important thing. >> reporter: how about that, dedication to learning is the most important thing. dedication to get better. wale is a rapper, he's deep. i wrote that down. 3:00, open practice, go see rg3. i don't know if wale will be here. he was giving out these cool wrist bands yesterday that says wale and ambition. his tour. he dropped the album. i'm up on my street lingo dropping knowledge like that. >> i'm less a fan of jay-z. didn't know about the cowboys connection. >> reporter: he threw him under

the bus. >> thanks, dave. >> reporter: thanks. still ahead, help is on the way. a big boost today in the fight to combat the district's growing hunger crisis. >> and the latest fashion trends at bargain prices. goodwill is teaming up with a local architecture firm to design its first popup shop. holly is in the district to tell us all about it. we'll check back in with her a little later. [ male announcer ] where did all the obama stimulus money go?

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transportation officials are taking a closer look at a devastating bus crash in virginia. four people were killed last year, dozens hurt when a sky express bus heading to new york overturned on i-95. this happened near thornburg. court records show the driver told police he fell asleep at the wheel. today the national transportation safety board will discuss the crash and consider safety regulations. a new food bank distribution center opens in

the district this morning. this one is huge. the new center for the capitol area food bank is the size of two football fields. it has a teaching kitchen, warehouse space, and 13 loading docks for grocery trucks. plus, there's enough office space for 100 workers. the food bank is the main supplier for more than 700 food pantries. it opens on puerto rico avenue in northeast later this morning. it is 27 minutes after 7:00 now on this tuesday morning. the countdown is on. in a few days lawmakers in congress head home for summer break. what can we expect them to accomplish before they leave? we'll check in with roll call after the break. >> plus going for the gold in london. we'll get an update on the summer olympics next. >> let's take another live look outside. not a bad start to the day. we have all the latest from tucker barnes, julie wright is here, too. stay with us. fox5 morning news will be right back.    those ads taking my words about small business out of context --

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and what i said was that we need to stand behind them, as america always has, by investing in education and training, roads and bridges, research and technology. i'm barack obama and i approve this message because i believe we're all in this together. time for this morning's olympic recap. american teammate matt greavers won the gold in the 100-meter back stroke in record time. another american took the

silver. 17-year-old missy franklin earned her first gold medal by winning the women's back stroke. meanwhile, a big disappointment for the u.s. men's gymnastics team. oh, yikes. they failed to win a medal in the team competition. they were hoping for tare first gold medal since 1984. tonight the women's team tries for a better showing. now for the latest on the medal count. u.s. picked up two more gold in swimming last night. this morning, the united states and china both have 17 medals each. china has nine golds and team u.s.a. has five. they both have the same amount total. japan is in third place this morning with a total of 11 medals. >> tonight michael phelps hopes to add to his total. he'll compete in two events,

his signature, the butterfly, and a relay. he would get a total of 19, which would be an olympic medal if he makes it to the podium. wish him the best. >> if i were a swimmer, i don't think so i could wear a cap. i want to look cool when i come out of the water. >> they look cool. >> in some of these races, it's about a 16th of a second. it's crazy. >> maybe you have your hair out. you'll go forward and you'll win at the olympics next time. >> allison -- >> sounds like a good plan. >> one side or the other. >> not too late, tucker. >> i think curling might be my future. that's a winter sport. >> you have more time. >> let's get started with a look at your forecast.

some guys in archery are in their 40s. >> what about archery? >> 60ies in parts of the area. 70 martinsburg. 73 leonardtown. it's a warm humid start to the day. expecting highs only in the mid- 80s today. more cloud cover in the forecast than yesterday. that will hold temperatures back a little bit. we'll take the break. because we have more 90s on the five-day. waking up generally with cloud cover. i think we'll see breaks shortly. will be a partly sunny day today. one or two showers in calvert county and more significant showers towards ocean city. not a great looking start at the beaches. cloud cover and showers will hang tough for the morning hours. i think later today might get a few peeks of sunshine. here's the bigger picture. quiet atmosphere, though it's warm and humid and unstable. not going to take a lot to kind of drive showers and

thunderstorms out there later this afternoon. other weather feature, that's a cold front, which will get in here tomorrow. could kick off a few more showers and thunderstorms and behind that front the air will be noticebly less humid here as we get into the end of the week. futurecast, one or two showers to start your day. by noon, showers start to bubble up across east of the bay here, and out to the west. by mid-afternoon, we'll see widely scattered showers. much of the day should be dry. i would probably bring along an umbrella in case we get a downpour. and doing it again tomorrow as the cold front approaches. partly sunny skies. scattered afternoon showers back in the afternoon. wind out of the south and east 5 to 10. partly cloudy with an early shower or thunderstorm tonight. 72 the overnight low. here's your five-day forecast, temperatures tomorrow in the upper 80s. with the passage of the front, temperatures aren't cooler, but we move the humidity thursday

and friday. these temperatures won't feel terrible. could be another scattered storm saturday afternoon. that's a look at weather. let's do traffic and there she is, julie wright. she knows all about the olympics. >> i still say if tony did the canon ball off the high dive, he would win the women's -- the men's platform. >> i am not touching that one. >> i meant to say men. [ laughter ] >> on the roads now, southbound along 270, not a bad ride this morning. it is starting to get busy to about 46 miles per hour in gaithersburg. i have an accident activity along 117 at game preserve road. outer loop of the beltway below speed, working westbound around from 95 college park to 20 miles per hour, headed over to new hampshire avenue. back up to 50 miles per hour at georgia. no problems reported now

traveling northbound on i-95. traffic slow in springfield. outer loop of the beltway in the sunshine. van dorn street to telegraph road. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you. including today, lawmakers on the hill have 17 working days to schedule before the november elections. they're shorter on time, but a lot of issues jockeying for attention. will members of congress be able to get anything done before they head back to their home districts ahead of the elections? joining us for a look is meredith shiner, a staff writer with roll call. happy you're with us today. >> happy to be here. >> we wanted to show, to illustrate this, eric cantor's house calendar. in brown, you will see, until election day, just 17 days highlighted there. that goes through december. just 17 days. realistically, meredith, what can get done in that time? >> as you might imagine, not

that much. i think if congress really hunkered down and was able to try to push through legislation quickly, you might see a little bit get done. 17 days isn't a long time. i think you have people who are at home looking at that thinking, it's not even august right now, and they only have 17 work days left. i think that leads to consternation and unpopularity of congress. but they have to be home and campaigning. this is an important election cycle. and democrats and republicans are fighting to keep their chamber and a big fight for the white house. i don't know exactly what you'll see done. obviously you'll see a few things talked about, perhaps tax cuts, perhaps deficit reduction. but most things that will happen by the end of 2012, will happen probably in that segment of time between the election and the new congress. >> you hit on something that seems to be the big elephant under the capitol dome is the tax issue, the so-called bush era tax cuts.

how important is it that does get pushed through? what happens if there is no movement on that come january 1? >> the funny thing about this, you see both sides agreeing on extending 98% of the tax cuts. democrats want to see 98% of that tax cut extended. it's the top 2% of earners they would like to see them expire. meanwhile, the republicans would like to see all the cuts extended. they expired the last time in 2010. they were renewed by president obama and democrats in full strength. democrats think they can make a case that everyone should be quote, unquote, paying their fair share. and the higher earners should be contributing more. republicans will say, you shouldn't raise any taxes in a recession, and those top 2% of earners, for them to have more

money, is to have -- create a stimulative effect on the economy. >> a lot of talk about that fiscal cliff. how severe a fall is that cliff, and might we get to the end and then not go over that cliff? >> well, congressmen have had a flair for the dramatic. i think they like having terms to sort of scare people who are paying attention. >> you can hitly see it. i can see it in my mind's eye. >> they enjoy that. there are issues that need to be resolved. the budget control act that was passed, we need to be able to borrow money to make sure our government doesn't go into default to pay our obligations, they extended that. it will need to be extended again. part of that deal was to create $1.2 trillion worth of across the board economic and military discretionary cuts. now you have a lot of people who are worried about those

cuts and would like to see them replaced with something else. but you're seeing a fight that's been relitigated over and over again, about where the cuts should come from. democrats would like to protect medicare, social safety net type programs. but they acknowledge that $500 billion worth of defense cuts aren't necessarily going to be good for the military. >> right. >> defense secretary leon panetta has said these would be bad for the armed services. there will be a large debate how to replace those cuts, the so-called super committee will have to find a way, negotiators between the president and speaker and majority leader failed to do that last summer. it's a very tall order for them. and it will really depend on who wins in november and how the politics shake out on how the issues will shake out. >> a lot to think about. 17 days to get something done and maybe so, maybe not. this is meredith shiner, staff writer with roll call. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me.

>> tony, over to you. >> who else has 17 work days between now and the election? >> not me. >> amazing. 7:40 now on this tuesday morning. it's been a hot topic for years now. president obama's family tree. coming up, a new twist as a team of genologists trace his roots. >> now two technology giants are going head to head in court. more on the big apple/samsung trial after the break. we'll be right back. yode me a sawich? no, dunkin' did. but i wrote the note. dunkin' bakery sandwiches are freshly made just for you. grab a turkey cheddar bacon sandwich today. america runs on dunkin'.

opening arguments are set to begin this morning as apple takes on samsung. apple claims the world's largest technology company's smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of its popular iphone and ipad products. apple is demanding $2.5 billion in damages. lawyers for samsung say that the company has been developing mobile phones since 1991 and that apple jumped into the market just a few years ago. president obama could be related to the very first african slave in colonial america. but he is apparently one of the

president's ancestors on his mother's side. she was a white woman and the president's father was from kenya. a team from the -- how do you say it? >> jeanology -- >> thank you. used marriage records to trace his ancestry, and say he could be the 11th great grandson of an enslaved virginia person. >> okay. >> okay. >> i don't know what we're supposed to do with that. 7:45here. tucker barnes is here with more. >> you see some words all the time but can't say it. of course i know genealogy. >> you'll get it next time. >> hang in there. might be in the 8:00 hour. now we're in the 70s. top out in the 80s later this afternoon. so the good news with this

forecast, temperatures for much of this week will be trending a few degrees below average. we'll take it here in july, one of our hottest julys ever. 74 in washington. 69 in ocean city. 68 this morning in winchester. let's talk jet stream. big heat this week is out to our west. remains out there. the numbers astonishing. 110 yesterday in tulsa, oklahoma. little rock later this afternoon forecast at 109. parts of texas and louisiana under extreme heat warnings. that heat will stay to the west and we'll be enjoying a bit of a dip in the jet stream, giving us a chance for storms later this afternoon and tomorrow as a cold front approaches. we'll take the break, because we have more 90s on our five- day forecast. here is your five-day, 86 today. warm and humid. scattered storms redevelop. we'll do it again tomorrow. thursday, friday and saturday, low 90s. but not a lot of humidity out there. so it should feel reasonable good, even though the temperature will be around 90.

>> humidity is the game changer, isn't it? >> we'll take it. >> julie wright is here with us now to tell us what's happening on the roadways. >> we're busy now. we have problems reported traveling westbound along route 4, working in towards wood yard road. beltway is running smoothly traveling to the exit for the wilson bridge. no problems reported at this time. meanwhile, making your trip along 270, lanes are open, no incidents out of germantown. accident activity in gaithersburg and georgia avenue and 108. fire and rescue is responding there. northbound 395, delays stacked up traveling north of the beltway. 32miles per hour headed north of duke street. slow traffic again approaching the # 14th street bridge, down to about 25 miles per hour. incident on the 14th street bridge was crowding that left shoulder causing the delay. of course the inner loop of the beltway out of annandale, 16

miles per hour with all lanes open.a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. julie, thank you. good news here, a western maryland boy with a genetic disease will be reunited with his stolen tricycle today. e than paul is 7 and he has little muscle tone and gains weight very easily. the $8,000 tricycle was specially designed to help him. but it was stolen from his hagerstown home last month. recently someone saw a news story about the tricycle and recognized it from a craigslist ad from a shop in suburban baltimore. that tricycle is now in the hands of police and they will return it to ethan this afternoon. >> that's the best news today so far. >> yes it is. still ahead, fashion at your fingertips. >> holly is live in d.c. with all the details. hey, holly. >> reporter: you're really bothering me now, because i'm trying to get serious shopping done. i'm having a wonderful time. look what i've found. this would be a brooks brothers

dress, and i think it's $9. burberry shirt, five dollars. amazing finds and for a limited time. we are live where the first ever goodwill popup shop is about to open. why it's opening and when you can take advantage coming up on fox 5 morning news. don't go away. over the next four months, you have a choice to make.

not just between two political parties, or even two people. it's a choice between two very different plans for our country. governor romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. roll back regulations on big banks. and he says that if we do, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit. but you know what? we tried t that top down approa. it's what caused the mess in the first place. i believe the only way to create an economy built to last is to strengthen the middle class. asking the wealthy to pay a little more so we can pay down our debt in a balanced way. so that we can afford to invest in education, manufacturing, and home-grown american energy for good middle class jobs. sometimes politics can seem very small.

but the choice you face, it couldn't be bigger. ♪ i'm barack obama and i approve this message. popup shops seem to be well, popping up everywhere. they sell everything from cold ice cream to cool clothes. >> the latest shop seems to put fashion first, but it's for a good cause. holly morris has the details on the new trend taking over d.c. and aren't we going to be stylish? good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. like i need a reason to shop,

right? this is shopping for a good cause. it would be a disservice if i didn't shop. see how i rationize all that? this is a win/win situation. you can find amazing thing here at amazing prices and help the mission of goodwill in the process. i have two special guests with me. brendan is chief marketing officer and lisa is goodwill fashion blogger. i bet you didn't know goodwill had a fashion blogger. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: i thought this was the first one in the d.c. area, but first one in the country. >> that we're aware of, yes. >> reporter: give me background how it works. >> goodwill's mission is to provide job training and services to people with disabilities and disadvantage. people donate their goods and we resell them. we've been having successful trunk shows and the popup shop is an evolution of that. >> reporter: we want to see

what kind of savings we can do this morning. you have your pad, lisa? >> i'm ready. >> reporter: i'm going to pick out a few things and you'll write down the price and we'll continue to talk about the mission of goodwill. how does this one work, this popup shop? keep talking, we're listening. we can multitask. >> incredibly talented beyond what you do on tv. people can come into the store tomorrow, thursday or friday, between noon and 7:00, shop the racks. you can buy it. simple as that. it's a retail store moved to a more convenient location. >> reporter: only for three days, noon until 7:00? >> that's right. >> reporter: this is a precursor to a bigger event happening in the fall, right. >> right. we have our annual fashion show. this year at the italian embassy. it's going to have an italian theme. tickets are available online. they can go to fashiongoodwill.org. it will be a great show. >> reporter: lisa, you're here

other than just keeping track of what i'm spending, to talk about, because you're cigging off tonight a big design competition. >> we are having a competition, because we know we have a ton of fans with a lot of creativity. why not put that to work? people get stuff from goodwill and put together good outfits, but we're encouraging them to get out the scissors. >> reporter: those will be at the fall event? >> you'll see them live in person. >> reporter: how do people enter that? >> we have instructions on our web site, and you can enter starting august 8th. we'll show them on our blog and facebook and people can vote for their favorites. >> reporter: i have faith in you, too. should i go for this bag or this bag? >> this one. >> reporter: can you put that on my tab? >> yes. >> reporter: i have a skirt, a dress, a pair of shoes, and a bag, and how much have i spent?

>> under $35. >> reporter: under $35 for all of this? >> yep. >> reporter: the key here is bring someone with you to keep track and to help you pick, right. it can be overwhelming. >> it can. >> reporter: a lot to choose from. who knew they had so much fashionable things to choose from. only this wednesday through friday. doors open tomorrow at noon, noon to 7:00. only three days. come early, is what i would say. because people will get the early finds at the earliest times. myfoxdc.com is our web site. we have a link to theirs. coming up in our next hour, two things, very super cool design space. i love to shop in shops that are well set up and organized. we're going to talk to an architect that set up this office space. and lisa isn't going anywhere. what are you wearing? >> top and shoes i got from goodwill. the skirt, i got it for five

dollars goodwill on sunday, retails for almost $200. >> i have a quick question. tony was talking to me when you were talking. anyway, are they going to restock it or when it's done, is it done? >> reporter: are they going to restock it, or when it's done, it's done? >> we'll be restocking over the next few days. >> reporter: i thought that was the answer, because i saw more clothes in the back that aren't out here. allison, this is news you can use. >> got that right. thank you. >> good stuff. good prices. >> good prices. >> i wasn't talking. ahead at 8:00, maryland's lieutenant governor joins us live instudio. he'll break down some of the state's pressing issues. >> also, from serving as the assistant secretary of labor to a successful author, david george bell has a pretty impressive resume. he will be with us today to talk about his book. it's called "a marked heart." stay with us. we'll be right back. 7:57now.

if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. my father's hands didn't build this company. my hands didn't build this company. through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? it's time we had somebody who believes in us. someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded not punished. we need somebody who believes in america. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

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deadly end to a violent night across the district. we'll have a live report. >> plus, taking the fight against big defense cuts to the areas that will be hit the hardest. the latest back and forth over the multimillion dollar spending cuts that could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. >> later, team u.s.a.'s teen swimming sensation with the million dollar smile. how missy franklin made history. good morning, everybody, i'm tony perkins. >> i'm alison seymour. if you woke up to shaking overnight, it wasn't your imagination. confirmed magnitude 2.4 earthquake hit near mineral, virginia, around 12:45 this morning. we are too familiar with that site. >> luckily, it's not likely anyone felt it. but some are sensitive, so maybe they did. >> all righty. >> here's tucker barnes with the latest on our forecast for today. >> yeah. not going to be a terrible day. good morning. warm, humid start. 70s to start.

then mid-80s this afternoon. we'll take it. relatively cool. >> sounds good. >> yeah, after 100s and 90s, ending on a quiet note. could be a few showers and thunderstorms later, so bring an umbrella. ocean city, rain showers and thunder and lightning earlier. slowly pushing off the coast. improving conditions down there gradually. morning showers with clouds around for midday. around here, mix of clouds and sun. early afternoon, i think showers and storms pop up. with the cloudiness around, temperatures in the mid-80s for afternoon highs. relatively cool for this month. temperature now at reagan national in the 70s. 74degrees. humidity up 87%. will be a humid day. winds out of the northeast at 7. pressure steady. partly sunny conditions. high temperatures actually 2 or 3 degrees below normal and 2 or

3 degrees cooler than yesterday. 86 in washington. 83 winchester. could be a popup storm later this afternoon. >> popup shop is better than a popup storm, just saying. >> we need the rain. >> holly is beating you today. >> popup storm. >> okay, thank you. i like that spin tucker put on it. >> here's julie wright with traffic. >> i kind of like that. if they're going to restock, i'm with you. >> i know. >> i can't wait. >> you and allison shop together, julie. >> that would be great. >> that would be fun. pick something up for those two sitting beside you, maybe. >> maybe. >> inner loop of the beltway, our wazer checking in saying heavy volume now leaving braddock road continuing up the west side, towards the exits from braddock road and continuing to gallows road. slow traffic as well closer to 66. no incidents to report. just volume delays. we have problems to report on the beltway. slow moving traffic north of

town, leaving college park headed to 270. that's not a surprise. delays continuing westbound along route 4 at wood yard road. accident activity reported here. slow traffic traveling inbound along new york avenue coming from 410 leaving riverdale. all of the lanes here are open. slow traffic 117, because of the accident activity and the crash reported georgia avenue and 108. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. police investigating a deadly shooting in the district, part of a violent night. >> it started shortly before midnight. three different shootings, two in southeast and a deadly shooting in northeast. that's where fox 5's sherri ly is live at the scene with more details. sherri? >> reporter: tony, police are back out here in the daylight, going over this crime scene. you can see them right over here. there's actually a metal detector here on the ground,

possibly looking for shell casings. we've seen the officers taking measurements, taking photos, looking for any evidence that might have been missed last night. this was the third shooting in d.c. last night, the only one that was deadly. police are keeping this area blocked off at brook street in northeast, as they have all night and all morning, as they try and piece together what happened. investigators went over the area inch by inch, going through the grass, combing through the bushes, looking for more clues. a neighbor tells fox 5 the man was shot and killed in the driveway of a home at 47th and brook street. police say he had been shot in the back. this happened around 11:45 last night. within 30 minutes of two other shootings in southeast d.c. that wounded three people. the first one at 11:15, the second about 15 minutes later. investigators say they have no information that would link these three shootings. no word on a suspect in any of the shootings or whether police have made arrests. police tell us they are

investigating the brook street death as a homicide. a neighbor tells us he did not recognize the body that was in the driveway of that home. he said it was not one of the residents at that home, and believes it m who was in the neighborhood. so far police have not released the identity of that victim or any possible motive in the killing. that's the latest in northeast, back to you. >> sherri ly reporting. thank you. meanwhile, the suspect in the colorado theater shooting could face the death penalty. yesterday prosecutors formally charged suspected gunman james holmes with 24 counts of murder, and more than 100 counts of attempted murder. that's two counts for each person killed and hurt. one for premeditation and one for what they call extreme indifference to the value of human life. experts say the additional charges open up more sentencing possibilities if convicted. in response to the colorado

tragedy, some hospitals have canceled visits by a maryland man who dresses as batman to cheer up sick kids. he left on a cross country hospital tour last week, but as the "washington post" reports, hospitals in st. louis and chicago have backed out of the visits. they said they were concerned the visits could upset patients and parents. in a statement to the newspaper, robinson says he understands the decision and will still move forward with his mission to brighten days and help the healing process for sick kids. mitt romney is in poland this morning. the republican candidate for president is wrapping up his overseas tour with a major foreign policy speech in the polish capital. he did not directly criticize president obama, but praised poland's government as a model for free enterprise that other countries should follow. he paid tribute to the thousands who died in world war ii, and more recently in iraq

and afghanistan. >> your bravery inspired the allies in the second world war. you helped bring down the iron curtain and your soldiers fought side by side with ours in iraq and afghanistan. we share a common cause. >> before leaving israel yesterday, he said israel's culture allowed it to surpass palestinian's. big story this morning on capitol hill, the fight over late term abortion in the district. today the house will vote on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. supporters say that's when a fetus can feel pain. opponents of the bill say it's an attack on rights protected by roe v. wade and an attack on d.c. home rule. the bill is sponsored by

arizona republican trent franks. meanwhile, major defense contractors including ones here at home are bracing for the possibility of massive layoffs. understood a plan to reduce the federal debt, the military would lose almost $500 billion over the next 10 years. unless the president and congress reach a deal to spare the cuts, the first $55 billion gets chopped in january. before the deadline, some republicans are campaigning in battleground states speaking out against the automatic spending cuts. they say they'll take a toll on the military. >> no uniformed military leader who we trust agrees that these cuts would do anything but devastate our national security. >> to have an indiscriminate cut of $500 or $600 billion without a really reasoned plan on how that cut is going to be made and who it's going to be affected and what weapon systems or vehicle systems or

personnel are going to be affected, it's just not the right way to do things. >> for its part, the white house says it's open to talks to avoid the planned cuts. employers of companies with 100 workers or more are required to provide notice of 60 days in advance of layoffs. that means hundreds of thousands of americans may find pink slips in their mailboxes only a few weeks before election day. fighting rages for an 11th day this morning the syrian army is renewing bombardments on rebels. the clashes started over a week ago and despite armed with light weapons, the rebels are holding many areas. they overran an army base last night, and that opens supply lines with the turkish border. the free state is getting ready for another special

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starting tomorrow, drunk driving laws in the district will be tougher. the new penalties double jail time for some offenders and triple the fines. any commercial driver busted with a blood alcohol content higher than .04 will be prosecuted. tomorrow the house could vote on a bill to expand sanctions against iran. house and senate negotiators reached a deal monday night, in the hope of stopping its push for nuclear weapons. let's take a break now and get a little cuteness in our lives. >> yes, indeed. for that we go to tucker.

not for the cuteness itself. for him to present the my first 5 photo. >> not going to do it anyway. let's get to it. time for our my first 5 photo of the day. we say hello to 19-month-old matthew. >> hi, matthew. >> matthew is from bethesda, maryland, everybody. >> all right. >> he likes to laugh, chat, play, and most importantly, flirt. >> you can imagine him batting those eyelashes. >> is he driving? >> also he likes to drive. >> and right in the driveway. >> recently he wasn't happy about his first haircut. but who is? >> right. looks fine, though. >> he's handsome. >> haircut looks great. >> no one likes the first haircut. >> i would imagine they think

it's going to hurt a little bit. >> scary, too. he is adorable. >> go to myfoxdc.com and click on mornings to send in your child's picture. reagan national we're in the 70s. 77degrees. 70 ocean city, where you're getting showers and earlier thunderstorm activity. 70 winchester. not a terrible day. temperatures this afternoon will top out in the middle 80s. there's your radar, shower activity continues along the lower eastern shore. the rest of us, partly sunny start to the day. little haze and fog in a few spots. later today, good cloud watching weather. clouds building in and bringing us a few scattered showers and a few thunderstorms this afternoon, just like yesterday. cold front off to the north and west gets in here tomorrow. here's your five-day, cooler than yesterday. 86. mid-80s for highs. still humid. tomorrow, too. then back up into the 90s for thursday through saturday. but without much humidity.

so it shouldn't feel terrible around here at the end of the week. let's do traffic and there she is, julie wright. >> on the roads now, northbound 395 still struggling from the beltway up and across the inbound 14th street bridge. now with all lanes open. problems to report on the beltway, working on the outer loop. it is definitely slow moving leaving 214 headed to 50. westbound 4 at road yard road, accident activity. inbound 50 quiet coming out of bowie. 13 minutes from riverdale headed to northeast. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thank you very much. the maryland legislature returns for a special session next week to talk about expanding gambling in the state. that's just one of the issues on the agenda. maryland's lieutenant governor anthony brown who joins us now to talk about that and more. thanks for coming in. >> great to be here, tony.

>> let's start with this special session. what are you hoping comes out of that? >> well, we're asking the legislature to come back august 9th to consider whether or not to expand gaming to another location in prince george's county. bring the total to six in the state. by doing that, we can create jobs in the short-term, construction jobs, in the long- term permanent jobs. add additional revenues to the state so we can continue to invest in law enforcement and our schools and cleaning the environment. that's one of the things. the other piece will be table games at all the locations. it's not an easy issue. there's a lot of spirited debate. we're going to bring the legislature in and debate this one and really get this one behind us and resolve it. there are other issues we need to be taking up in maryland. >> what about the concerns that this will simply draw people who don't really need to be gambling into a casino, it will be easy to get to, and people who can't afford to be gambling money during these tight times and the other issue of whether or not it will draw away from

the other casinos. >> one of the attractive features, and this is what an independent study looked at, with a site at national harbor, it's a destination for out of town visitors that come to the region. these are people usually who are spending a lot of money on entertainment and restaurants. so we're going to capture a lot of these out of state dollars to fund our schools and law enforcement in maryland. whether or not it takes from existing revenues, we've looked at that. and the proposal will have some offsetting provisions to compensate for that. >> one more question about that and we'll move on to other things. senate minority leader pip kin has criticized this. says really this doesn't rise to the level of why you should have a special session. usually it's an emergency reason. he said we're really only talking about a few thousand jobs when maryland has been losing jobs in other areas at greater numbers than that. how do you respond to that

criticism? >> a few thousand jobs certainly in this economy, that's a lot of jobs. but it's also estimated to be about $200 million of revenue to the state of maryland. we won't get the revenues necessarily tomorrow. but by doing it in the special session, we can get it on the ballot. because it's important that the maryland voters get to weigh in and decide this issue. if we don't do it in august, we won't be able to put it on the ballot for this november. >> couple of other things we want to get in, recently you were talking about this new mortgage program to help veterans and their families get the houses at a lower rate. can you telemore about that? >> we have a mortgage program in maryland for first time purchasers. we've taken that program and modified it to support our veterans and active military families. what we're doing in that program, it's called the maryland homefront, we are reducing the interest rate by a full .5%, or half percentage point, and providing $10,000 in closing assistance.

we think it's something we ought to be doing for the men and women and have served our country, made sacrifices. >> you served a tour of duty in iraq yourself, right? >> 2004 to 2005 out of new york. >> people who want to take advantage of that program, how do they do that? >> go to the department of housing web site, and there's plenty of information available. >> health care reform, something you've been spear heading in maryland. the supreme court decision came down a couple of weeks ago, saying it's constitutional, we can move ahead. tell me what's happening in maryland to move ahead with that law, and how do you address the concerns of the people who feel like obama care, as they call it, is a negative thing for them? >> so we're moving forward with the third state that's established the health benefits exchange. it will provide this market

place for individuals who small businesses, many whom have never had access to affordable health insurance. they can go to that market and prepare equal, affordbly priced insurance products and be able pick the right one for their families, for their employees, the businesses. this is a big step forward. you know, health reform has been a big debate. affordable care act. one thing i notice in maryland and when i travel around the country, there isn't debate around the core issue, which is should we expand health care to more americans? the answer is a resounding yes. we have the health benefits exchange. we no longer can ban children, we have pre-existing conditions, from health insurance. we're going to expand medicaid by 2014. now there are 700,000 marylanders without health insurance. under the affordable care act, we're going to reduce that number in half by the year 2020. >> all right. lieutenant governor anthony brown, we thank you for coming in. good to talk to you. on a personal note, i

understand you just got married? >> yeah, six weeks ago. wonderful woman, and we're blending our families and spent eight nights honeymooning in spain. >> very nice. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. we appreciate you being here. allison, back to you. thanks, tony. couple of ticks away from 8:23. just into fox 5, live pictures from i-495 and i-395, the exchange in springfield. look at that mess. that is where a tractor-trailer as you can see is on its side. details are still coming in. but you can expect huge backups in that area. we'll have more details just as soon as we get them in. we'll be right back. wow,

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the united states and china are all tied up in the medal count. each has won 17. china still has the gold edge. so far, they have earned 9 first place awards. five for team u.s.a. japan has moved into third place with 11 medals. big day today for baltimore's own michael phelps. the u.s. women's gymnastics team as well. >> phelps is trying for his

18th and 19th medals today. plus, gabby douglas and the women's gymnastics team go for their first gold since the atlanta games in 1996. >> america's missy franklin added to the u.s. gold with her win last night in the women's 100-meter back stroke. the 17-year-old did it in less than 15 minutes after qualifying for another race, the 200-meter free style. many say the back to back races would be difficult, if not impossible, for most swimmers to handle. but she's 17 years old. >> a rough night for the u.s. men's gymnastics team. they failed to medal after three mistakes. they finished in fifth place. but it was a great night for great britain. princes william and harry were there to cheer on their team, which took on the bronze, their first medal ever in team gymnastics. >> very cool. princes there for that. still ahead, why a doctor

prescribed a viagra-like drug for a 3-year-old girl and how it may have saved her life. dr.jo joins us live with this story. >> our own julie wright will join us live with breaking details on a tractor-trailer on its side in springfield. now it's 8:28. we'll be right back. there are live pictures for you there.

back now to the breaking news from the springfield area. you see it there. a tractor-trailer which is overturned near the mixing bowl. traffic is always bad there anyway. it's going to be horrible. happened just in the last 15 minutes. >> julie wright joins us with what she knows. what a mess. good morning. >> absolutely. on the inner loop of the beltway where this occurred. coming from the wilson bridge in the direction of the springfield interchange is where this happened. some traffic is able to squeeze

by to the far right. coming from maryland into virginia, this is the direction that's going to be impacted here as you try to work past the springfield interchange. you'll notice the back end of that tractor-trailer is hanging across the jersey wall towards the outer loop in that work zone. the outer loop already was slow from van dorn to telegraph road. because of this eye sore, if you will, rubber necking delays leaving springfield in the direction of telegraph road, due to rubber necking delays. we're not sure what is inside the tractor-trailer, if anything at all. we're waiting for police to give us that information. what we do know is the inner loop of the beltway coming from maryland into virginia, you are squeezing by single file to the right headed back over to i-95. back to you. >> do we know if anyone was injured? do we know about the driver? >> no, not at this time. we're still waiting to hear back from virginia state police. >> thank you. switching gears a bit now,

welcoming tucker back with the latest on our tuesday weather. >> kind of a warm and humid start. got clouds to start the morning. i think you'll see some peeks or periods of sunshine. partly sunny afternoon. i'm not going to call it cool, but cooler than what we've gotten used to the past several weeks. highs in the mid-80s. currently 77 in washington. 80 quantico. 73 leonardtown. let's see, 72 winchester. overnight lows upper 60s and low 70s. not a terrible start to our day. right now we're quiet. not much going on close to town. south and east across lower eastern shore, leftover showers into ocean city. the beaches, cloud cover and rain showers for the first half of your day. area of low pressure that's riding out to sea. this is pushing out to sea. won't be a big player later this afternoon. we are still enjoying the southeast winds. that will keep the humidity around today, as well as the possibility of unstable atmosphere of a few showers and storms popping up later this

afternoon. be ready for that. this cold front will be our weather maker tomorrow, bringing us a possibility of showers and thunderstorms. behind that front, temperatures won't cool down, but losing the humidity. 110 in little rock later today. late day thunderstorms in the forecast for us this afternoon. 86 in afternoon. scattered storms redeveloping. 88 tomorrow. we'll dry things out and take the humidity out with highs of 90 by thursday. back over to you, allison. thanks. viagra has helped millions of men in the bedroom, but what if a doctor prescribed it for your 3-year-old child? it happened to a florida family

and they believe it saved her life. dr.jo has the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, allison. we've been following this little girl for a couple of years. her name is elizabeth. two years ago elizabeth was on oxygen 24/7. she had a feeding tube. she was getting infections to the point where she was in the hospital for about half her life. they put her on a drug, it's the same active ingredient as viagra. when they did that, the pressures in her lungs came down. when that happened, she was able to undergo a life saving surgery. >> this condition is quite serious, right? >> reporter: it is. in her particular case, she also had this hole in her heart between the major chambers. it was a back flow area, because the pressure would get so high in her artery, that was a relief valve for her.

so it was critical the pressures come down in her lung before they can close the hole in her heart. that's what happened. she ended up going to boston children's, having the surgery. and i got to tell you, we visited her a couple of weeks ago, and she is taking swimming lessons. >> wow. look at her there. >> reporter: she is actually going to start kindergarten and her mom, obviously was telling us about all these infections she had before. now she's a little bit worried, i got to say, a typical mom, but they think she's strong enough and well enough to go to kindergarten. >> my goodness. >> reporter: still has to take the pill. this is a life long problem she'll have. but what a turn about. >> i think we all fell in love with her, by the way. thank you for that. also, just before we end, the reality here, could viagra help more than just ed patients? how big is this? >> reporter: you know, if you

think about it, it was actually developed as a blood pressure medicine. they saw this unintended side effect of erectile changes in men, and thought maybe we should develop it for ed. it took a back seat, and we forgot about the other benefits. it's fda approved for pulmonary hyper tension. a lot of people didn't know it, because we hear so much about it for the other use. >> sure. dr.jo thank you so much. great news out of tampa. thank you. tony, over to you. thank you very much. it is now 8:37 on this tuesday morning. he's credited with helping champion the 401(k) plan as we know it. still ahead, former assistant labor secretary and author, david george ball joins us live. we'll be back in a few moments.

it is day five of redskins training camp in ashburn, virginia. but they are dealing with major injuries today. >> yep. and they only have about five weeks until the season opener, believe it or not. starting left guard had to get

surgery yesterday. he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove loose particles from his right knee. but the team says he'll be ready september 9th when they play new orleans. brett farve is back on the grid iron. >> what? >> let me you where he is. he isn't the star quarterback, but defensive coordinator for the oak grove high school football team. isn't that great? monday was his first day. he is working for the high school for free. >> how about that? >> that's really giving back. switching to baseball now, nats begin a series with the phillies tonight. strasburg will get the start against cliff lee. first pitch is set for 7:05. coming up next, author david george ball joins us live with a look at his new book called "a marked heart." details his journey from civil rights to wall street to working in the bush administration and helping to create the 401(k) plan.

how about that? >> a debt of gratitude is owed to mr. ball. and later, redesigning your wardrobe with a little help from goodwill. our holly morris is live at a new popup shop. good morning. >> reporter: you're going to love this. good morning to you. if you love high fashion but don't necessarily have the budget for it, this goodwill popup shop is your paradise. first ever popup shop they've had. coming up, we'll tell you when it's opening, where it is, and how they came up with this concept. oh, and we have a special person helping us shop the racks, it's all next on fox 5 morning news. stay with us. 

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we are back now at 8:45. to that breaking news we brought you from springfield. you see it here. a tractor-trailer right there in the middle of your screen overturned near the mixing bowl. this happened in just the last 30 minutes. we are just being told there were no injuries. no injuries here. emergency crews are on the scene, however. one lane is getting by on the right. we'll have more details coming up at the top of the next hour,

at the top of 9:00. tony, over to you. thank you very much. from the time he was a teenager, david george ball has followed interesting paths at that led him to unexpected places. in his new book he tells about some of the forks in the road that led him from europe to the united states, to yale, to dr. martin luther king, jr., to the creation of the 401(k) fund. david george ball joins us now to talk about it. he's also a former assistant secretary of labor in the bush administration and the author of "a marked heart." thank you for coming in. nice to meet you. >> pleasure to be here. >> your life has taken so many interesting turns. it's going to be hard to get to a whole lot of it here in this interview. let me start with, you know, you put on the cover the picture with you with dr. king, who you invited to yale university. tell us about that encounter and how that impacted your life. >> well, when i was an

immigrant, i grew up in war town, england, and a scholarship student at yale, i invited martin luther king to come as my guest. he was my guest for three days. he inspired me to try to help make the world a better place, and at first i thought my calling was civil rights. i became a lawyer. i worked on wall street. but i discovered my calling wasn't civil rights. eventually, i discovered my calling was pensions. >> pensions? >> yes. >> that's interesting to me. before we get to the pensions, when you say dr. king inspired you, but your heart was already kind of in that place. your early ambitions were to be a pastor, right? >> yes. i went to the moody bible institute in chicago to take the pastor's course. after being at moody two years, i won a scholarship for yale,

for someone intending to enter the christian ministry. that scholarship got me to yale, because my parents could not have afforded to send me to yale. when i got to yale, i was in for a big surprise. the students seemed different from the students at moody, and i felt as a baptist i should do something. i organized a lecture series. the first person i invited was a baptist minister from alabama, who organized a boycott of segregated buses. >> this was early on in his career. a marked heart, what does that mean? >> my heart was marked when i was born, my mother dedicated me to the lord's service and i carried that impression when i was a child. i intended to become a minister. when i spent my time with martin luther king, he inspired me to help make the world a better place. so he marked my heart in a different way and led me in an

unexpected direction. >> to pensions. we're talking the early '80s now. >> yes. >> tell me how you were instrumental in helping create and really champion the 401(k) as we know it. >> well, when i -- i became concerned about two big problems with the traditional benefit system. first of all, was the vesting problem. if you didn't vest, if you let to get a job with a higher salary, and you didn't vest, you got nothing. secondly, there was a huge funding problem. pension benefit guaranteed corporation used to publish a list of the 10 most underfunded companies in america, big companies like general motors on that list. i wanted to do something about the pension system i felt was headed for trouble. i championed the first 401(k) plan adopted by a large industrial company.

i hoped other companies would follow. but they didn't. they were afraid -- management was afraid if you gave workers control over their investments, made a bad investment, they would sue management. there needed to be a federal regulation to deal with that issue. in 1989, president george h. bush nominated me as -- >> let's talk about what is happening in the ensuing years. pensions are top of the news these days and there are many problems because of the downturn in the economy and the like. where do you see us as being now and how healthy is the 401(k) now? >> well, the funding problem has gotten worse since then. at the end of last year, the s&p 500 company defined benefit

plans reached a record underfunding of $354 billion. for state and local governments, it's even worse. theirs was $4 trillion. companies and governments are desperately trying to shift from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans, especially 401(k) plans. that's what's happening. in 1981, there were 30 million participants in defined benefit plans. today there are less than 18 million. the good news is that the road map is working. today more than 70 million workers have 401(k) plans. >> so despite some of these numbers and the numbers that sound scary, the 401(k) plan is healthy -- >> yes, it is. >> all right. very good. we can do justice to your story

here. i would encourage people to pick up a copy of the book. we're glad you spent time with us here this morning. >> thank you, tony. it's been a pleasure. >> good to have you here. allison, back to you. >> thanks, tony. first food trucks that go over street corners enticing hungry patrons out of their offices and now popup shops where you normally wouldn't expect to find a bargain. one local organization wants to get you shopping and for a good cause. holly has the latest details in northwest d.c. >> reporter: it's called edited for goodwill. only open for three days, wednesday, thursday, friday. it has wonderful clothes, home accessories, all at bargain prices for a good cause. it's taking place at pepco's edison place gallery. lisa, give them a wave. she is a fashion blogger for goodwill and she's shopping the racks to see the cute things we can find at bargain basement

prices. meanwhile, i have bonnie with me. she's an architect. they helped put together this space. good morning to you. >> hello. >> reporter: what a fun project. >> it was very fun. we loved it. >> reporter: where do you begin? >> we were inspired to help people edit their lives and we gravitated to this word, edit. we found a white vase and added the orange accent color and that idea led to the design of the store and we organized the store by colors to help give it this boutiquey look. >> reporter: how much difference does it make when a shop is set up nicely or by color? >> i think it's the difference between something that you think of as cheap versus something you think of as boutiquey and special.

we are huge fans of the trade shows goodwill does. it's sort of barreled out of control from there. >> reporter: it's a fun space to say the least. what have we found on the pink rack? >> i found this great leather skirt, which is in a classic pencil cut. it's real leather. you can get it for $5.98. >> reporter: she meant $5.98, by the way. >> under six dollars. if you pair it with this calvin klein sweater and tank, which still has the tags on it, rocker chick look, for under $12. >> reporter: i'm not often speechless. that has left me speechless. let's come over here. >> on this rack i found, we have some purples and blues here. i was drawn to this great

sleeveless top for summer. purple is big for the fall. you can have a simple casual outfit for the weekend. >> reporter: love it. how much? >> i think the shorts are $4.98 and the top as well. ten bucks. >> reporter: amazing. i want to ask you, what can we kind of learn in terms of designing maybe our own fun space at home from this, what you have done here? >> the simpliest thing is color coding your closet makes a difference. >> reporter: a woman after my own heart. how do you know i do that? >> i don't know. a bird told me. >> reporter: i read your never fail source of inspiration -- >> i don't know what i wrote. >> reporter: coffee. >> coffee, yes. it's true. >> reporter: we're sisters, i think. before we go, last item you found? >> great to mix, so a basic neutral pant. paired with this vintage sweater from woody's department stores. you remember it downtown. mix of old and new and classic

look you can put together easily with goodwill. >> reporter: price point? >> six and four bucks. >> reporter: ten bucks again. myfoxdc.com is our web site. we have a link to goodwill's. the popup shop opens tomorrow at noon. noon to 7:00, wednesday through friday here. coming up in our next hour, we're going to learn more about this wonderful space. but we have more fox 5 morning news coming right after the break. stay with us. [ male announcer ] where did all the obama stimulus money go?

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