effect today. and enafter a big las vegas scandal, the gsa may be at it again. details about another lavish conference under way this one in tennessee. fox 5 morning news at 7 starts right now. the summer and the year continue to tick by. there is a live shot outside as we scan the horizon a lot of clouds out there this is wednesday august 1st. >> no. >> 2012. good morning i am tony perkins. >> i am allison seymour i am sorry i just love summer time. it is slipping by us. tucker barnes, what is making it feel like summer is this heat. >> heat and humidity. that is a bonus around here. we will be in upper 80s to around 90 a few scattered showers. bring an umbrella. later this afternoon we will see showers and storms pop back up. there is a live look at radar

shower activity, left over thunderstorm crossing the bay just across the bay bridge, stevensville, approaching chester town left over shower activity. clouds and then breaks might be a sprinkle or two down to the south. we will see at least partial sunshine before the showers and storms redevelop this afternoon. current temperature regan national 73 degrees, humidity up, 81% winds out of the south and west 6 miles per hour. here is your forecast today partial sunshine by midday and then the clouds will once again start the lower and thicken, as the showers and storms redevelop highs upper 80s humid 89 washington 90 fredericksburg and 87 gaithersburg. more details on the forecast including the weekend, let's do traffic. julie. all right on the roads right now the crew in sky fox have been hovering above an accident southbound 197 before

you reach powder mill road the southbound stretch of the highway was blocked off police were alternating traffic one direction at a time right now i don't see anybody getting through. again southbound 197, south of 295, before you reach powder mill road. we will take it inside and update the ride, northbound 3 5, duke street towards seminary road heavy, slow and steady traffic flowing across the inbound 14th street bridge. the incident has been moved out of the roadway, traffic heavy and slow from van dooren lanes are open outer loop, georgia avenue, in the back up, two separate incidents, cleared to the shoulder that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. all right thank you. we continue following breaking news out of herndon virginia where police are investigating a deadly hit and run. officers say they discovered a woman's body in a parking lot on center street early this morning. >> fox 5s sherry lee is live at

the scene with the latest on the search for the suspect good morning. >> good morning allison. good morning tony. police tell us they got numerous calls from people who heard this deadly hit and run accident it happened right over there, you can see the markings there in the parking lot of these condos the driver apparently ran the woman down and left her to die. this all happened just after midnight herndon police say witnesses told them, a vehicle struck a woman in the parking lot of the condos, the driver and vehicle was nowhere to be found. a block or so away police found an abandoned black toyota camry. it was smashed into several parked cars and it appears the driver never tried to stop. >> looks like it was fairly high speed accident into the last vehicle in the road there that drove all the cars parked

along the side there, one into the other. investigators are trying to locate the owner of the vehicle to determine who was driving it. they are trying to identify the adult female who was deceased once she is identified we will try to notify next of kin. >> where that woman was killed there are no signs of skid marks on the road or evidence the driver tried to stop suggesting the vehicle hit that woman and kept going investigators spent several hours out here this morning as well as an accident reconstruction team trying to piece together with a happened police have not release add name of a suspect or description, they are still trying to identify that woman and we will have more for you throughout the morning the latest here in herndon back to you. >> thank you very much. also new from overnight robberies at two different 7 elevens, it is unclear where these two are related the first happened before 4:00 a.m.

at 7 eleven in 2,000 block east west highway, hyattsville, then 4:40 a.m., south and yew was held up. the robbers in the dc case were armed. no one was hurt in either robbery. some other top stories, an apparent murder suicide in calvert county. details are disturbing. 32-year-old frank hayward killed his wife cindy and their 2-year-old daughter then set the house on fire and took his own life. the couples 12-year-old son was found alive, with cuts to his neck, and his body was burned. he is in critical condition. we are told there was another adult inside the home who was able to escape police are investigating a possible motive a neighbor says they were having marital troubles. montgomery county woman recovering after she was shot in the head with an arrow. this happened moxly road

damascus. police believe she was shot with a cross bow it appears to be an accident. she is in hospital with serious but nonlife threatening injuries. frederick maryland, friends and family of robin gardener are holding a special event to mark the 1 year an verse i of the the 35-year-olds missing in aruba. her travelling companion reported her missing to aruba authorities august 2nd, 2011 saying she didn't return to shore after snorkeling. he spent months in an arue ban jail but was released because prosecutors didn't have enough evidence. millions of women nationwide will have access to new preventative health care benefits under president obama's affordable care act. estimated 47 million women will now be able to get basic services including mammograms, prenatal care, hpv testing,

contra representation and domestic violence councilling at no extra cost. women will no longer have to decide between their medical needproviding for their families. >> being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition in this country. now for too long insurance companies have stacked the deck against women forcing us to pay more for coverage that didn't meet our needs. and thanks to the affordable care act a new day for women's health has finally arrived. new requirements apply to women who have private insurance plans as well as those covered under medicare and medicaid. fiery debate on capital hill a controversial abortion bill aimed at women who live in the district was defeated in the house of representatives it need add two thirds majority to pass. we will speak live with dc delegate earl norholmes norton in the 8:00 a.m.

hour. gsa spending scandal developing this morning the general services administration is under the microscope for another lavish conference and it is going on right now. many will remember the famous picture of top gsa administrator living it up in vegas on the tax payers dime that conference cost nearly a million dollars, sparked outrage and ridicule on capital hill now new pictures taken at a prime resort in oprey land near nashville that showed another gsa conference gain currently under way. the oprey land conference going on now and wraps up tomorrow even has its own government website saying the program is designed in part, to prevent misuse and fraud. one lawmaker said this is just the tip of the ice burg >> i hate to tell you this but the number i have gotten there may be as many as 77 conferences that we are going to have to look at. we have investigators on it right now we have heard about

two and they are appalling. timing for the gsa couldn't be worse perhaps. lawmakers are holding a hearing today to examine the agencies spending habits. 9 minutes after 7:00 a.m. still ahead virginia's governor speaking out about the chick- fil-a debate as customers are urged to show support for the chain. remembering the life of the celebrated playwright, politicians commentator, made his living call linking power. >> red skin -- challenging power. >> red skins back to work a closer look at the offensive line. as we take you to break, a live lookout side of course we will get the latest weather from tucker and julie, next. almost threw you in there tony. we will be right back

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i am property thesing people who egg on other people who shoot others. >> all you can think about is yourself. >> the last gentleman there, in a debate about vietnam with conservative, william f buckly injury your he died last night from pneumonia in los angeles he was known as a cantankerous commentator in the 60s and 70s. the author also outraged mainstream critics as one of the first americans the write novels about openly gay characters. one of our best known writers of the 20th century. >> a force. >> absolutely. >> a force. it is 7:13 a.m. tucker is here with us, checking out what is going on on this wednesday. >> a new mom but same old weather plan. >> but not the same old --

>> but this is what we expect. >> right but honestly, typical weather for washington for end of july early august. dog days of august. cloud cover, -- you are waking up to cloud cover warm and humid, it will be much like yesterday, a decent day. periods of sunshine and then showers and thunderstorms will redevelop this afternoon. 74 washington 60s if you are outside the belt way. want to mention this heat again off to the west boy oh, boy records continue to fall. 85 currently dallas. remember it is 5:15 a.m. for dallas, 80 little rock, tulsa oklahoma. forecast high, 115 degrees. that is actual air temperature so records are being shattered here and they will continue to do so as that dome of high pressure that honestly has been responsible for much of the heat we saw last month continues to sit here across central portions of the

country. other weather feature locally a weak cold front off to our north and west can't even see it but trust me it is there. that will get in here later this afternoon and we will move into a very warm and humid atmosphere, likely to see showers and additional thunderstorms develop later today a frontal system and area of low pressure along the carolinas that won't impact us directly. here is your 5 day. 89 this afternoon first day of august scattered showers and thunderstorms, tomorrow less humidity hot, highs low 90s friday hot and humid by afternoon highs mid-90s scattered storms for the weekend not going to be a rain out weekend, those storms will be kind of your summary afternoon thunderstorms each day. >> pop up variety. >> right. >> friday is looking good i like that day >> you are into that. >> yeah, got big plans. >> okay. >> great. >> thank you very much. >> tucker and i get our invite at some point. >> sure you can come and babysit. that will be great.

see you on thursday at the pool. >> sorry tucker. >> julie what's going on? i have a pool day planned the boys are coming to help out with the girls >> i hear ding ding ding for allison seymour. wow tony. >> big wave park everybody is going. >> on the roads, wazing around the belt way. virginia outer loop of the belt way, outer loop of the belt way, heavy volume as you work your way over towards what was the problem at telegraph road. police activity here on the belt way outer loop again headed toward the wilson bridge that is where you will find all that activity allow extra time on the roads slow moving for those travelling on the belt way leaving springfield headed into the direction of the wilson bridge. other side of town busy commute, two separate accidents on the belt way university boulevard, colesville road both cleared now your average speed on the outer loop, route 1

ikea, look at this, it too is below speed as you make your way from 212, 16 miles per hour down to the exit. delays as you travel north on 395, 30 miles an hour, north of duke street the pace improves a bit as you make your way out of shirlington belt way virginia, below speed. braddock road to 66, below speed. that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. at red skins training camp the focus shifts to the offensive line which is already having to resort to back ups. >> oh, boy. dave ross live in ash burn with a look who is stepping up to protect robert griffin the third. dave. >> reporter: well, allison and tony that is the million dollar question out here red skins park as we enter day 6. i mean what are we going to do? we are already not even a week in and two fifths of the offensive line are not going to

play for the rest of the season. that is not good people. yesterday, the stud full back, young that blocks for all those running backs is out with a hamstring injury. probably two weeks and josh morgan your new wide receiver he has a hamstring issue too. the question remains who will protect rgp. yeah, that owe feen -- rg 3. yeah, that offensive line it is an issue. big hits everywhere we know the starting tackle is on the list, corey is out with arthroscopic surgery on his knee he will not play for rest of the preseason. yesterday the red skins brought in free agent lineman jordan black number 60 luring him out of retirement he is 32 years old entering his 7th season in the league appeared in 80 games, starting in 40 he is surprised to be back. >> to be honst i wasn't expecting a phone call i was all but retired.

but you know a lot of me still wanted to play a lot of me still knew i could play i am just thrilled to get the opportunity. >> i actually started losing weight becoming a normal person gain so i am a little under weight right now but i can put the weight back on. >> how about wide receiver for this, leonard hankerson has been all smiles. last season he was emerging as one of the team's go to guys until he suffered a torn labrum in his right hit week 11 now he is fully recovered and ready to pick up where he left off. >> this year is totally different from last year because i know what they expect now, you know, i know i have been through it last year i know what the coaches expect i know what i need to do. i am more confident in the playbook i know it a whole lot more. i am going to go out there and be confident in what i do and

have fun. >> we are hoping hank time 85 can be that big receiver. i love what jordan black said when he said i was getting back to being a normal person until my phone rang and they dragged me out of retirement. i don't think he expected that call here he is. this is the state of the red skins you got to get anybody some body to help block for rg 3. next hour tony and allison a special treat one of my favorites out here red skins park, lorenzo alexandre the one man gang as he calls himself the guy played pretty much every position there is to play he is playing a new one this year insideline backer next to london fletcher we will catch up with him and he takes shots at me and lyndsey murphy. we will explain that coming up next hour. >> hmm. >> should be fun dave. >> yes. >> thanks dave. >> you got it. 7:20 a.m. on this wednesday morning virginia governor bob mcdonald weighs in on new calls to ban

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thousands of people are expected to head to chick-fil- a. mike huckabee declared it chick-fil-a appreciation day showing his support for the ceos recent remarks in his belief in the biblical meaning of marriage. virginia governor mcdonald is weighing in on new calls to ban chick-fil-a restaurants across

his state. >> if we start having governments issue permits or issue zoning changes or withholding those, because of someone's political or religious beliefs we are going down a very very bad road. >> comments from chick-fil-a's president prompted criticism nationwide including this protest last week at the food truck in the district. mayor grey said he would not endorse the expansion of chick- fil-a in dc. and other cities have said it is no longer welcome. starting to day drunk driving laws get tougher maximum sentence is 180 days in jail for first time offenders, double the previous maximum the minimum will now be 10 days if your blood alcohol is .20 or higher or if you are a repeat offender and the higher your blood alcohol level the longer

you say in jail. the new -- stay in jail. the new law provides oversight for the breath testing program but no time table when police will start using those tests again they were suspended last year in the wake of revelations the devices produced inaccurate results. it is likely that we will hear from former dc council chair kwame brown he is set to give a lecture before the washington development industry council. it would be his first public appearance since pleading guilty to felony bank fraud 7 weeks ago and comes 7 weeks before he is due to be sentenced brown resigned from council just before entering the plea. 7:26 a.m., an olympic feet never before achieved now belongs to an american. a look ahead at michael phelps big night and his twitter exchange with the president. campaign trail, heating up today, mitt romney refocuses on the home front. big political headlines in

depth next. >> another live lookout side i believe this is down near springfield showing you what is going on on the roads we will have the latest on that from julie, tucker has the latest forecast in just a moment. fox 5 morning news will be right back coming up on 7:27 a.m.

well, a proud moment for the united states, [ applause ] >> yes, tucker go ahead. maryland ocean own michael phelps makes history -- maryland's own michael phelps makes history becomes the most decorated olympian of all time. phelps now has 19 medals breaking a record that stood for 48 years and he could still stand to win three more. it is a possibility. phelps historic medal haul is getting attention. president obama tweeted congrats to michael phelps he says you have made your country proud signed bo. >> he needs to rework his initials. >> phelps tweeted back thank you mr. president it is an honor representing the usa the best country in the world.

the u.s. women's gymnastics team also lived up to the hype. yes. they won gold you go girls, in the overall team event for the first time since 1996. the u.s. and china are currently tied for first place in overall medal count with 23 each. wonderful. >> can i tell you, i have a problem watching some olympicsparticularly gymnastics like in winter time the skating, the ice skatings. >> why? >> i get very nervous for these young people. >> they have trained many hours, every day for most of their lives to be in this moment. >> some times you know it doesn't go well. >> some times it doesn't some times it does. >> i know. >> the other issue is the judges discretion not just a race how fast you are going the judge -- it is like a random call. >> it is a lot of pressure >> i tip my hat to them and you

guys too because michelle whom i met yesterday with her lovely daughter in silver springs said especially tony tucker and julie that power block she said, you all are her morning cup of coffee. >> that was so lovely. >> very nice. >> wonderful person i wanted to pass that on. >> thank you. >> you are my olympians. >> i run a marathon every day on the morning show. >> and it is appreciated >> i am told you have to get running now >> i better. off to the month of july take a look at historic numbers yep 100 degrees, 7 times, in the month of july, if you thought it was hot, not your imagination, 22 days 90 or better and for the month we average in the high and low temperatures average temperature for the month, regan national, 84 degrees second warmest on record the warmest july in history was last year, 84.5 degrees. there you go. another very warm july in the record books here across

washington area. right now not terribly warm, i mean we are comfortable, 74 washington 60s off to our north and west cloud cover h hold temperatures down temporarily, 68 gaithersburg, 64 out in winchester, 66 cull pepper, 70 leonard town, showers and thunderstorms are now pushing east. yep, there you go sentinel radar showing shower activity one or two sprinkles around the belt way not going to amount to much but off to the east showers and thunderstorms pushing well north and east i think we will get a bit of a break this afternoon in this very warm and humid air mass cold front a weak one too. not very impressive at all it will try to move in here, as it does so it will like hi fire up more showers and storms, as it moves on in. behind the front, air not honestly any cooler but a little less humid. we get into tomorrow temperatures right back into the 90s but not as humid as

thursday. partly sunny skies, scattered showers and storms, some downpours could be torential winds out of the south and west, heavy downpours, showers and storms partly cloudy overnight 71 degrees, you will notice humidity is giving us a break tomorrow we will be warm, 92. friday, hot and humid, 94 degrees, mid-90s saturday and sunday cooler, scattered storms return each afternoon again scattered not a wash out this weekend. that is weather let's do some traffic and ... >> you are talking about olympics, everybody loving michael phelps congratulations on his success but a big shout out to the girl wrapping the 757 gabby douglas from virginia beach. >> and what does she do? >> won the gold -- well, she and the team won gold. >> gymnast? >> yeah. >> big shout out to 757. >> thanks tucker. >> all right. on the roads right now, american legion bridge. traffic flowing freely but we

are checking for the car fire reported on the outer loop near the georgetown pike keep your eyes peeled for that if that is your direction into work other side of town you will find your lanes are open no problems to report on the outer loop continuing towards the wilson bridge earlier problems have since cleared for those travelling on 95 maryland this morning a slow go for you coming down to 16 miles an hour out of laurel, headed down toward the capital belt way, accidents we had contributed to that delay have cleared, belt way closed route 1, colesville road, bw parkway down to 37 miles an hour making your way south to 197, that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. on the campaign trail mitt romney gets back the work here in the u.s. after returning from a week long overseas trip president obama makes another campaign stop in battleground state ohio today, joining us to talk about that and other political headlines republican political strategist, jim innocenzi and executive director of young democrats of

america, emily sitting in for peter feen thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> she is much better looking than peter. >> here we go. let's start with this. this is breaking news, latest poll results just out, looking at some to have battleground states, they've polled to see who is doing better obama or romney and obama hit the 50% mark according to this poll in florida, ohio and pennsylvania, doesn't mention virginia that i see here. obama florida 51, romney 45, ohio obama 50, romney 44 pennsylvania obama 53 romney 42 starting to see a little movement there. emily your take on that first of all. >> well, these are absolutely must win states for whoever is going to become president. so i think you know this far out it is true we still do have some time there is a lot of campaigning to be done, but i think to see leads this far out

is setting a very good stage both candidates have launched their aps in the past two days obama campaigns will be field related getting people into the field which was the strong place for the president the fields game in 2008 mitt romney's ap will announce his vice presidential pick, so you know i think the lead in these polls is really setting the game moving forward. >> jim. >> i think that's right. what you will see and what we have to pay attention to as we go into the fall isn't really national polls but what we are doing in individual states these are three states that are going to play a role whoever wins them in the fall will especially florida i think more than any three that you mentioned will be a pivot state in terms of wins or loses. >> all right let's talk yesterday. we had a moment we don't see very often some bipartisan ship, a deal of sorts was done on the budget so that we you know the government is going to keep running at least for another 6 months or so. could we be entering a new era,

of bipartisan ship >> i doubt it. >> i am being facetious. of course there is a hope but this is an election year so i think what they have done is decided that you know i hate to use this term it has been so over used but they have pushed this thing past the election and deal with it after the election because right now there is nothing but political posturing going on on both sides. it was nice to see some body came -- they had a meeting of the minds at least through you know the election. >> they at least mentioned each other you know in kind ways. >> yes. >> and that is something i will agree on they are just pushing it past the election >> it is a decision but really a decision not to do anything. >> exactly right >> at least we are keeping the government running at current state. >> do we have any reason to be hopeful we might see some bipartisan ship on the farm bill or any other things? there is not a whole lot of time left. >> sure so we did see bipartisan ship in the senate

we would love to see in the house doesn't look like the bill is coming forward. >> jim >> i think look how much you talk about time how much time do we really have they will be out most of the month of august, september they will be in but they got to run for re- election. you know you are only talking about a 6, 7 weeks, can't get much done >> i think it is 15 or 16 days. >> 15 or 16 days they barely know -- >> crazy. >> let's talk about romney overseas. >> right. >> he was on fox news and he complained he said you know the media over here, all they really talk about is you know the little stumbles here and there he may have made the media mischaracterized some of things that happened over there. does -- is he making a good point? was too much of the focus on oh, this misstep that misstep? emily. >> he was showing himself in diplomacy. showing he can be in this role

for america, for coton trim mediately shows up and -- this country, immediate shows up and offends the country. i don't think he accomplished what he meant to accomplish. >> was the media attention too much. >> no, if we are electing a commander and chief that is what they should focus on can he speak in tough situations. >> he was very frank and honest what he said in london and probably shouldn't have said it but having run an olympics in salt lake city he probably spoke his mind you know, so really what you have to ask yourself does it really matter at the end of the day? frankly i don't think it does because this is really elections in a come back economy. election is about jobs, is it about economy. by september, we wonton remember this trip. -- we won't even remember this trip. >> i agree with that but we are

in a global economy our president will represent us. >> right but he did a great job in israel. he had other things he did well you know it just so happens he stubs his toe first off and all of a sudden they are like here comes romney. >> in israel was the subtext of that visit, hey, this current administration hasn't been particularly warm toward you all? my administration will be. >> i think that's right. having gone over there last year one of the thing that is surprised us over there, was there was really a division within the country, within the israeli parliament of how great president obama is if you look at it from when you are here they thing he is doing a great job over there they are not as happy. >> in israel. >> although, israeli defense minister said obama has the best administration for security. >> he may have said that but they are still split in israel. i think romney was well

received. >> we are out of time i apologize but please come back and we will do all of that again another time emily and jim thanks. >> thank you for having me. >> see you back here stay with us 

welcome back quarter to 8 now. it has happened again another passenger onboard a plane found a sewing needle in a catered sandwich this time it happened onboard an air canada flight from british columbia to toronto. police are investigating the incident this comes 6 weeks after people onboard flights from amsterdam to the u.s. found needles in their sandwiches. another air scare, this one called a flight from newark to switzerland to turn around and land in boston last night i. it was all because of a camera left behind in a seat pocket from a previous flight the camera was x rayed determined to be safe passengers were rescreened as well. also in the sky, check out what a bird strike did to this

jumbo jet? it put a hole in the nose the united plane from dallas to denver was able to land safely yesterday morning, no one was hurt. but the bird may have been. >> except the bird. >> i am not laughing about that. for goose lovers, was it goose? >> we don't know. >> all right let me do weather. >> thank you. get to your radar show you shower activity. >> birds have feelings. >> i know i am not laughing about it i am sorry. >> light showers, let's see, southern maryland, waldorf, shower activity, across the bay, chester town, east of baltimore, so i think much of the morning will be kind of cloudy, and we will see the rain showers redevelop later this afternoon. what is happening a couple things going on area of low pressure south and east the front hanging up there for days offshore and a weak cold front. the weak part of this one, trying to move in from the

north and west later today we have a warm and humid atmosphere in place as that cold front approaches it will likely trigger additional showers and thunderstorms it falls apart, no cool air behind it slightly less humid air as we get into tomorrow hot and dry highs back in the 90s. so, yep, here we go, august, temperatures running close to where they should be for the next several day, 89 today, warming up mid-90s by friday. a few scattered storms this weekend. >> here is julie wright with the latest on this mornings rush hour traffic. >> good morning tony. on the roads right now, the bel the wilson bridge this is where we have problems reports of debris in the roadway tieing up the second lane from the right as you approach st. barn bus road. outer loop of the belt way earlier problems in the work zone, near telegraph road. down to 16 miles per hour, headed in the direction of the wilson bridge. inbound route 50. lanes open, down to 31 miles an

hour as you make your commute out of cheverly. other side of town, lanes open, south side, german town, not a bad ride, leaving middle brook road. no problems on the belt way, leaving college park around georgia avenue. inbound 66, heavy, slow and steady as you work your way vienna to the belt way. one thing we found on the outer loop of the belt way was a stalled car. that was moved over to the shoulder. thank you still ahead a trip to spy camp. >> holly is live with details hey, holly. >> reporter: good morning i am learning all the secrets of the trade. are you looking for me? i am up here. you never know what lurks in the duct work. this is just one of the many things kids get to do when at the international spy museum, partaking in the amazing spy camp. coming up we will talk about the training of the little agents and find out about all the fun you can have yourself

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like that. awesome. good morning. >> not crawling in our ducts with the station. >> yeah. >> at least not wearing that. >> i will have to watch you a different way. i am in training. move over agent 007, because 005 that is what i coined myself is learning the tricks of the trade. this is one of the coolest camps around, spy camp you can only do it here, international spy museum where we are live. we are doing our daily briefing from the top. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> thanks for having us here. >> we are delighted to have you here. >> it is always so intriguing to be here. let's talk about how spy camp works,. >> i think that is your -- you are the creator. >> spy camp is based on real spy trade craft which i have learned from the best right over here and the kids run missions through the week, we run a story line, through the whole week i cannot divulge to

you the classified secrets they are working on but suffice to say -- [ overlapping voices ] >> the kids run missions throughout the city you see any children with mustaches, it is probably our recruits. >> got you. >> and they are working very very hard on this mission, and hopefully, they will accomplish their goal by friday. >> if you want to give a camp cred that is where peter comes in. if you are not familiar with peter he spent 35 years cia, 25 clandestine services mostly europe and middle east. the things kids are learning how real are the tactics. >> actually what they are learning is very real we just bring it down to their level. in other words the whole thing spies do is communicate with one another in a secret way. that is why you get into things like these dead drop sites,

signals, wearing disguises, that is all real stuff. i was cold war. if you look at the arrests of the russian illegals, and they were using the paraphernalia of espionage. they were using signals, they were using codes, they were using secret ways of communicating and they were using dead drops. so these -- the principles of what you see here, and what you see the kids doing are very much the same principles that have been employed and espionage for centuries. >> real quickly tell me some of the things the kids -- some of these spy gadgets they might be using. >> sure they do a lot with concealment devices they are unloading dead drops around the city. for instance they may go to a park and know exactly where their dead drop site is and this is like no other rock this is a spy rock they may unload their dead drop inside here may

be a coded message they might then use a decipher wheel once they know the key and they are receiving communication from a missing agent. they cannot meet with this agent personally so they are using impersonal communication threw dead drops and messages. >> this whole time while you thing i might just be wearing -- looks like peanut butter but something special is inside you might think i am wearing a regular watch, this is really, a secret watch, look at this, if i do this, can you see in there? i can record them and what they are saying, right there. look at that. pretty nifty. >> you are spying on the side >> does that make me a double agent? >> not quite. >> that is spy camp week two. okay myfoxdc.com is our website we have a link to international spy museum and listen spy camp is only this week and next week

very limited space but just a wonderful example of all the great kids programs they have here at the museum we will have more fox 5 morning news when we come back. stay with us. i got all of that on tape wow,

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. straight ahead at 5:00, golden moments. michael phelps proves he's king of the pool and the summer games while the women's gymnastics cruises to the top of the podium. we'll have a live report. >> plus the house hands down a defeat to a controversial bill to ban abortion in the district at a certain point during pregnancy. we'll have reaction from d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. a deadly hit-and-run on the streets of herndon now police need your help finding the driver. >> good morning. welcome to "fox 5 morning news." happy you're with us thank you. >> we're happy tucker barnes is with us to tell us what's going on. sounds like another hot day. >> it's going to feel like summertime although it's not scorching hot. let's go to the radar.

show you the shower activity. hit and miss. one or two showers out there this morning but definitely umbrella weather this afternoon as we have a better chance of showers and thunderstorms. popping up on you like yesterday so be ready for that. out to the west a few very light showers just a moment ago leesburg shower activity and east of baltimore so you get it there. scattered nature of the showers this morning. it will look like this later this afternoon but it will be more impressive so again, we have a frontal system approaching from the north and west sparking off additional showers and thunderstorms later today. let's do temperature. currently reagan national it is in the 70s. 74 degrees. 67 in fredericksburg. holding on to the cool temporarily with the cloud cover. i think we'll see some breaks and periods of sunshine today. that will warm things up

quickly. upper 80s, lots of humidity, and scattered showers this afternoon. >> some of those clouds yesterday afternoon were huge. gorgeous. >> vertically stacked. >> big cotton balls. >> yeah. all right. let's find out what's going on with traffic. >> they look like cotton balls to me, julie. >> good morning. >> i was thinking like big schools of vanilla ice cream on top of a sugar cone. >> all right. looked like clouds to me. [ laughter ] >> to each his own. >> that's so boring. [ laughter ] all right. here we go. on the roads right now outer loop of the beltway still trying to get in on time. we have had a couple of accidents on the beltway this morning. university boulevard at colesville all which are cleared but slow from 1 to georgia avenue. 95 and 295 still on the brakes out of laurel down towards the beltway. southbound 197 the crash still in play before you reach powdermill road. eastbound 66 inbounded leaving vienna no incidents to report but below speed towards the capital beltway. the dulles toll road close to

the beltway and inbounded new york avenue. heavy through bladensburg road through the tunnels. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffi traffic. herndon virginia, a woman's body has been found in a parking lot possibly a hit-and- run victim on center street. that's where sherri ly is live with the latest in this ongoing investigation. sherri. >> reporter: tony, police are still here on the scene of where that deadly hit-and-run happened. they are at the condo complex. you can see an officer stationed out there here, as well. the woman was actually run down right over there. you can see the markings on the road where she was found dead. police are still trying to identify that woman. they found her in the middle of the parking lot in the 600 block of center street. it is right outside the lifestyle condos. police say she had been hit by a vehicle and left to die. at the same time, the car may

be responsible for the deadly hit-and-run was found a block away abandoned. police say the black toyota parked into parked cars. no sign of the driver. police believe they may be connected. police got numerous calls reporting the deadly hit-and- run. >> i don't know if they saw it happen. i think they heard it. but the investigators are speaking with those people trying to track them down but that's how it was brought to our attention. they called the police station. >> reporter: police appear to be focused on a lower level condo here. it's unclear why that condo is of interest, whether it could be that victim's or the suspect's. investigators are trying to track down the owner of that black toyota camry as well to question them about who was driving that car at the time. so far, though, no arrests have been made. that's the latest here in

herndon. back to you. as of today women nationwide can say good-bye to a copay for the pill. >> it is one of the most controversial parts of the affordable care act. but as of today, insurance companies are now required to provide fda-approved contraceptives at no cost. the obama administration says the changes will help as many as 47 million women. the free pill is just one of eight health benefits for women insurance companies must now provide for free including mammograms, prenatal care, screenings for cervical cancer, and domestic violence counseling. in the meantime a gop- backed bill criticized as an attack on women's reproductive rights died in the house. it would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on data saying that a fetus feels pain at that stage. it failed by 220-154. d.c. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton was an outspoken

critic of the legislation calling it an attack on the right protected by roe v. wade. and an attack on d.c.'s home rule. and she joins us now live from capitol hill with her reaction. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> tell me how you're feeling today. >> i tell you, it was hand-to- hand combat from the introduction of the bill in the hearing when they refused my request to even testify on a bill that affected only d.c. residents so in the end the victory was very, very sweet. they fell 30 votes short of what they needed to pass this bill. we in the district feel like this was a victory for home rule. it was certainly a victory for women in the district. and it was a victory for physicians in the district. but this bill had nationwide implications. the d.c. label on the bill

didn't fool anybody. and we had lots of allies. planned parenthood, naral pro- choice america, women's groups who all over america had this bill front and center. in the end pro-choice america won for d.c. and we won for the woman who would have been affected because if you think you can get roe vs. wade here, you will get it everywhere. it's a nationwide decision. and this bill was about the national right of women for reproductive health. >> needed that two-thirds majority to pass, didn't do that. so my question is, you see this as an attack on home rule. how do you move forward and making sure that provisions like this don't pass for d.c.? >> well, we have already done that for this bill. but we do have one rider on an

appropriation and that's one we're still trying to get off that keeps from us using our own local funds -- local funds now for abortions for women the way states and cities all over the country do. but understand what a departure this bill was. this wasn't your usual, let's do a rider on a d.c. appropriations bill that will affect d.c. women and usually low income women. this was the first stand-alone bill in the history of the country where the district was attacked and where the attempt was made to take out of the specter of constitutional rights that everybody enjoys. it would have said roe vs. wade constitutional right to reproductive choice announced almost 40 years ago applies everywhere except the district

of columbia, an unprecedented bill. we had to pull out all the stops to defeat this bill. >> switching gears for a moment, congresswoman, talk about these defense cuts these across the board reductions to the tune of $110 billion slated for january. this affects a whole lot of people here in the district. the president has said that uniformed military personnel are exempt from this. but how does congress go forward with this? what's your position on these defense cuts? >> well, you're talking about a sequester. and that's the sort of damocles over the heads of the congress, particularly republicans who refuse to compromise and get anything done. so everybody agreed unless there is some -- an offer that we can't refuse, we're not likely to get very far. and i predict that the sequester will do it. it's not just the defense cuts. they would have terrible effects in the district and throughout the region. it would have equal effects for

the domestic side. so the defense people are speaking up because they have better lobbies. but the other side, the nondefense side, which is spread across virtually every part of the budget of every state and locality, is in equal jeopardy and i predict that that jeopardy will fade as everyone faces what nobody wants to happen and actually correct something you said earlier. you keep saying that mammograms and contraceptives and what the healthcare bill allows to go into effect today is free. free. women have paid for this with their health insurance. but insurers were requiring copays for that kind of care without providing copays for the kind of care that, for example, men get.

all this does is to say, look, women and men are going to be treated equally. when you pay for health insurance, and almost everybody pays for some insurance themselves, employer pays for some of it certainly federal employees are like that, they won't be able to say, you can get your contraceptives and your mammogram but you will have to pay extra for that. nothing is free in america. nothing is free in the healthcare bill. we all pay for it. >> very well said. thank you for that indeed. thank you very much, congresswoman. >> my pleasure. >> all right. tony. >> thank you very much. it is 11 minutes after 8:00 now. another big story on capitol hill, the future of the post office. barring any help from congress, today the u.s. postal service will likely default on a $5 billion treasury loan. the mail service owes the money in healthcare prepayments. the default some would say is largely symbolic only because it won't impact employee pay or mail delivery.

14 weeks until election day and the candidates are hitting the campaign trail. president obama heads to the battleground state of ohio later this morning and speaks in mansfield. that's just north of columbus, ohio. he will be in akron this afternoon. tomorrow the president comes to virginia for events in leesburg. and mitt romney is back from his trip to europe and israel. he arrived in boston last night and just as the president speaks in ohio today, romney is launching a new attack ad blaming the president for the closure of car dealers in the buckeye state because of the auto bailout. tomorrow romney is holding campaign events in golden, colorado. well, he was an author and a celebrity but now the writing world and also hollywood are mourning the death of gore vidal. >> still ahead at 8:00 we have a look back at his life and the works that he leaves behind. >> plus, michael phelps making olympic history. and is he not even done yet. a look back at his big night. it is 8:12. we'll be right back.

making news in the day ahead the search for robin gardner. tomorrow is a year since the frederick woman went missing during a trip to aruba so tonight her family had hold a vigil in her memory. gardner report livan i should while swimming with a traveling companion, never charged in her disappearance. d.c. cracking down on drunk drivers. it doubles the mandatory jail terms for drivers with blood alcohol contents of .2% or higher. it also establishes a blood alcohol limit of .04 for commercial drivers and provides new oversight for the breath test program. today is the unofficial chik-fil-a appreciation day the brainchild of mike huckabee. it celebrate the fast food

chain's opposition o gay marriage. several people have exposed expansion of the chik-fil-a franchise in their city, including d.c. mayor gray. 8:16. it's time to get a little cute. >> i have previewed this picture. >> today we say hello to justin. >> thought he was a model. >> looks like a model. >> he could be in a catalog or something. >> he is a very well-dressed man, isn't? he his family reports this is a picture of justin in his first linen suit for family reunion. i'm impressed. >> i'm still waiting for my first linen suit. >> can we take down the banner so we can seat whole suit? -- so we can see the whole suit? he needs to be a model.

put some college money in the bank, do a little modeling. >> if he models, he can earn money for college. he has the look. >> congratulations, justin. in weather, we are kicking off the day warm and humid. 74 degrees at reagan national. humidity 82%. north winds at 6 miles an hour. looking locally at our radar got a few showers across the area. one or two showers here now pushing into prince george's county and a few more showers developing off to the north and west. there you go. repositioned out towards winchester. these will be creeping into parts of our western suburbs here shortly. later today, showers and thunderstorms become more numerous as a frontal system approaches from the north and west. not really going to cool us off but it will dry out the atmosphere a little so tomorrow

even though we are going to be hot, i think it won't be terribly uncomfortable with less humidity. here's your five-day forecast. upper 80s with plenty of warmth and humidity. decent chance of showers and storms bring an umbrella. tomorrow and friday dry but hot. hide in the mid-90s by friday. saturday and sunday a few scattered storms highs in the low 90s. that's weather. let's do some traffic. and speaking of well dressed, julie wright has the latest. >> you like the pink, huh? >> you look good. lanes are open around the capital beltway although slow- moving from route 1 college park to georgia avenue, inbounded new york avenue below speed at bladensburg road. delays on the top stretch as you make your way from college parks 95 and 295 congested out of laurel to the beltway. 197 reopened in each direction between 295 and powdermill road. earlier incident with the tractor-trailer cleared. on the inner loop of the

beltway, slow towards mayor field average speed west of the springfield interchange down to 16 miles an hour. pace improves closer to 66. up to 46 miles an hour towards the interchange. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. a huge honor for michael phelps in london. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. and in gymnastics, the fierce five live up to the hype. is that what they're called? sarah is back now with the latest on the 2012 olympic games and a look ahead at what we can expect going forward. >> reporter: they are called the fab 5. >> that's what it is. >> not the fierce 5. >> supposed to be one of the best teams they are saying at least in history or something like that. but once again, let's talk about swimming for a bit. >> reporter: maryland swimmer michael phelps has made the record books. now his name will be attached to the title the most

successful olympian in history. the feat came yesterday during the summer games as the u.s. won gold in the four by 200- meter freestyle relay. phelps now has 19 career medals spanning three olympics breaking the record held by a soviet gymnast. for the past 48 years she held that. there is a chance he could expand his record even further since he has three more events coming up. the 27-year-old historic medal holder is getting big attention at home. president obama tweeted congrats to michael phelps for breaking the all-time olympic medal record. you have made your country produced. signed bo for barack obama. phelps tweeted back, thank you, mr. president. it's an honor representing the usa, the best country in the world. >> reporter: even more good news. the women's gymnastics team won their first olympics gold since 1996, the score 5 points better than russia. for years the magnificent 7 the team that won in 1996 is the

standard by which every american team is judged but there's now debate over whether the fab five may be the greatest team of all time. teenagers jordan weaver and gabby douglas, mikhail la maroney and two others are basking in the glory. congratulations to them. overall medal counts: there is a story about badminton that's coming from the london games now. eight players have been disqualified from the doubles competition for trying to lose to get a better draw in today's quarterfinal match. badminton not normally the sport you would expect to be hearing about in a controversy like this. >> no, not cool. >> reporter: it's not. >> thank you. >> reporter: all right.

badminton, that's all i'm saying. >> coming up, well, a serious story here. mourning the loss of a literary giant who helped inspire a whole generation. >> we'll have that and later a summer camp fit for 007. >> little 007s. there we are. holly morris is live at the spy museum with the top secret details on spy cams. sounds cool. 8:23. we'll be right back. those ads taking my words about small business out of context --

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gore vidal died at his hollywood hills home last night. he is the author behind the best selling novels lincoln and myra breckenridge and he was the last writer who was considered a great celebrity and great writer. he was a regular on talk shows and gossip columns. his book the city and pillar was one of the first novels about openly gay characters. younger people got a glimpse of his work when the best man play was revived on broadway this year. his nephew said he died at his home outside l.a. from complications from pneumonia. he is survived by his has

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making headlines now at 8:29 here at home and around the world, two local 7-elevens held up overnight the first at 4:00 a.m. in the 2000 block of east/west highway in hyattsville then around 4:40 the 7-eleven at 12th and u northwest was held up. unclear whether the cases are related. more worries for airplane passengers. first a bird possibly a goose punches a hole in the nose of a united airlines 737 from dallas to denver yesterday. no injuries. newark to switzerland had to be attended to boston because of an unattended camera found in a seat pocket. and a sewing needle discovered in a sandwich served on an air

canada flight this week. and the power is back on for more than a half a billion people in india. more than 600 million people lost power in a second massive blackout this week. traffic lights stopped working, trains clogged cities as the country struggled with stifling heat. yesterday's was biggest blackout on record when 1/10 of the world's population was left in the dark. 1/10! that's amazing. >> apparently the power is back on. >> two days, 600 million people. tucker barnes has a look at the weather. >> all right. warm and humid start to the new month. our temperatures later today 80s to 90. you will notice the humidity and bring umbrella because we have showers and storms in the forecast particularly this afternoon although we have one or two out there at the moment. there is a live look at the radar. we have a lonesome shower here looks like in northwest washington.

showers on the east side of the beltway towards 50 very light but probably enough to wet the road and a few showers in fact this is a thunderstorm not too long ago now just south and west of leesburg and more showers to the north and east of baltimore. earlier that was some good thunderstorm activity that pushed across the bay in the early-morning hours. the bigger picture warm and humid air mass in place and it's not going to take a lot to fire up more showers and more thunderstorms later today. and we think the trigger today will be this weak cold front that will be pushing in from the north and west. the front is going to fall apart before it moves on through. and behind the front the air is not cooler but it's slightly drier so tomorrow, we are going to be hot but the humidity will be in check so that's good news but you can see the cloud cover at this hour there will be some peeks of sunshine during the course of the day like yesterday kind of a partly sunny midday and showers and thunderstorms will fill in later this afternoon. current temperatures, not terrible. 74 in washington. 73 this morning in quantico. 70 in leonardtown, showers and thunderstorms overnight.

76 in annapolis. and then 60s off to the north and weapons. 66 degrees currently in winchester. here's your five-day forecast. upper 80s to 90 say with scattered showers and storms returning some drenchers with brief heavy downpours. tomorrow 92 but not humid so tomorrow will be a nice one. friday hot and humid again, mid- 90s. cools down for the weekend with scattered storms saturday and sunday for the weekend. that's a look at weather. allison i think i'm tossing to you. >> thanks, tucker. in health alert a suggestion on how to relieve some of your stress. just smile, folks. in a recent study, more than 100 university of kansas students performed anxiety inducing tasks under three conditions. not smile, being instructed to smile and being forced to smile by holding chopsticks in their mouths. researchers measured stress levels and found those who

smiled during the task had less stress. forcing a smile makes it easier to take. teen years are rough but harder for girls than boys to get through adolescence. according to a survey the rates of serious depression are skyrocketing among girls aged 12 to 17. the survey states nearly a million and a half girls reported a major depressive episode in the past year and a new report says that risk increases with age. while boys do experience depression in those same years, researchers say they do so at a much lower rate. as the threat of west nile virus continues to spread across the country, many people are doing whatever they can to combat mosquitos. but there are many cheap fixes to battle the bugs which may not be on your radar. fox consumer reporter steve november yellow is dive in dallas and will tell us what should be on our radar.

you have a lot of stuff there. >> reporter: the conventional wisdom says use a bug spray with deet, wear clothing with long sleeves all works great but chances are, you're already doing that stuff. so let's talk about mother nature as it relates to mosquitos. planting things like rosemary or catnip, marigolds or citronella grass in your garden will help to naturally repel mosquitos from your landscape. also when you have bushes and shrubs it's important to keep them trimmed back nice and tight. that helps to eliminate the standing water by exposing it to the sun and wind and helping it to evaporate. also talking about wind this is obviously a much smaller scale than what would you use but did you know that mosquitos don't like flying through any sort of steady breeze? so adding some outdoor fans to your outdoor living space will not only help keep you cool, but it will help to keep them away. >> i like that, very good. let me ask you, because i see you have there on the table light bulbs. what about these outdoor

lights? we have those yellow bug lights but they are not the most attractive thing in the world. >> /lot of people say they have to get the outdoor yellow light t works because it has a frequency to which mosquitos are not attracted. well, thank god for technology. l.e.d. lights have a natural element to repel mosquitos. standing water, you have to get rid of the standing water. that's where mosquitos breed. but some folks have things on their property that they can't get rid of the standing water like a rain barrel or birdbath or fish pond. so what you can do is add a product with something called bti in it. it's a natural bacteria. here's how it works. pop the disk in the standing water and the mosquitos are attracted to it. they eat it and then it kills them reducing the number of pests on your property.

>> love it. very helpful stuff. thank you, steve noviello, good to see you. >> see you soon. it's a wednesday morning and still ahead, one on one with linebacker lorenzo alexander. our dave ross is live at redskins park with what's coming up. >> reporter: you nailed it on the head. there are a lot of question marks around this team with the offensive line and the secondary. never was a man called the one man gang lorenzo alexander, he plays every position and does it well. we'll catch one him on the other side of this break.

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so far, we have spent a whole lot of time talking about the redskins young offense. >> yup. today though dave ross goes one on one with veteran linebacker lorenzo alexander. dave is live in ashburn with more. i like lorenzo alexander. >> he is one of my favorite guys in the locker room and the impressive thing about zo, the one man gang, he played on various lines, defensive, outside linebacker last year, insideline backer this year, the captain of the special teams, what can he do? i don't know that there's anything he can't do. i went one on one with the man.

we call him a one-man gang yesterday before practice. we talk about inside linebacker. how does that feel when you hear that? >> feels good. you know, just another position on my resume' this year trying to help the team. i'm running from london every day. so i guess it's been a big experience so far. >> what's the biggest adjustment outside to inside. >> reporter: the route recognition. understanding what receivers are trying to do with tight end and receivers and i have to call the defenses get everybody set. those are probably two of the biggest things so i have to know everything and where everybody is at and being a cal guy isn't that hard. >> cal guys are smart guy. >> so you can handle it. i enjoy it. it's probably the most natural position. >> what position haven't you played? >> right. >> it seems like you have played almost every position. >> quarterback is probably the only one i haven't played. >> can you play quarterback? >> hand it off, yes, give it to roy. i can do that. [ laughter ] >> that's great that you're that versatile. i talked about it the other day

on the air that you're one of those guys that will do anything to help this team win. >> definitely. you have to understand great teams have star players, you know, they are backup players and role players and you have to understand where you fit in the scheme. i know where i am. my job is to be able to move ve this roster be flexible and i love doing that. been playing in the league eight years now. can't too many people say they have done that. i don't have a big ego. i'm very humble and i understand that it's a blessing to be here so i'm going to stay here as long as possible. >> you're one of the guys the young guys can look up to. what would you say, talked to robert griffin iii, about being in the league first year a rookie. >> i haven't talk to him per se. other guys like marcus white who sits right next to me, you control what you can control. work hard, put your head down. a guy like robert has pressure. it's two kinds of pressures,

that you create and that you feel. play within yourself and it's up to the guys around yourself to make you look good, as well. so this is an ultimate team game. it's not a one-man snow even though he is dynamic but, you know, just continue to do what you do and be yourself and you'll be good. >> do you feel like it's a better team and better product? >> i think it's more depth. anytime you have continuity and guys understanding what's going on you're going to play better, you feel more confident not second-guessing yourself and that's young guys all the way up. the biggest thing for us is just finishing. i think we lost a lot of games in the 4th quarter last year. could easily have been 8 and 8. that's a what if. that's our big thing is finishing games playing a complete game and not letting things get away from us in the end. >> besides losing to me and lindsay murphy in bowling what else do you in off season. >> i never lost to you in my life. i called out and dave, you got out of here before he could get him too.

anytime you're ready to bowl, i'm opening. golf. >> lindsay beat you in bowling? >> no she didn't. she can come out, too. i'll be everybody in the newscast in bowling. everybody. the whole media. media versus the one man gang! let's take it. we'll line up 10 different lanes and i'll go down each lane and play 10 different games. >> okay. >> like bobby fischer in chess. >> we appreciate your time! [ laughter ] >> like bobby bobby fischer chess! he threw out the whole media and fischer. he is a pretty good bowler? i don't think he can beat all of fox 5 i bowling. he takes on all comers. this guy does everything that this team asks him to do and that's why he is the special teams captain and that's why he is playing insideline backer this year. very entertaining and smart. he's cal guy and lets you know.

>> that's hilarious. >> thank you had 52 more lorenzo alexanders you would never lose a game. we'll stick with sports for a moment. the philadelphia phillies were looking to play spoiler last night and they did. steven helped them out unfortunately. the fighting phillies racked up six runs in four innings on the nationals' ace. it's his worst outing of the season. it happens. jimmy rollins had and in the park home run for philadelphia. 8-0 nationals lose. but they still lead the n.l. east. edwin jackson takes the mound tonight. a shiny ring a message of a lifetime. but no one it share it with. take a look at this guy who planned to propose to his girlfriend at wrigley field. when the message came across the scoreboard, oops, she was out getting drinks. look at his face. oh. i planned this whole thing. he says he actually encouraged

her to leave for a bit so he could talk to the people around them and have everyone prepared to take photos. but the concessions line you guessed it they were so long she didn't make it back in time as you can see. he was eventually able to pop the question on camera and erica said yes. >> very good. coming up next on "fox 5 morning news," an undercover summer camp. holly morris is at spycam. >> i'm getting a briefing on our mission that's coming up but you know what? we are going to talk about code names and coming up with a disguise. it's all a part of special spy camp going on at the international spy museum where we are live. coming up next. if you are good, we'll let you in on the mission. [ harry umlaut ] that's one creamy muller.

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agents in the making! good morning. okay. can you guys give me your agent names. >> agent sparkle. >> the leprechaun. >> agent knuckle head. >> like it. >> agent silence. >> reporter: that's all he will say the rest of the morning -- just kidding. this is jackie the youth education director here at the international spy museum where spy camp is going on right now. so clearly, one of the things you do is the art of disguise. >> yes. >> we do. >> and i think we need to get you undercover. >> you do? >> yes. because i think we need to recruit you. >> reporter: okay. so as you're working on my disguise, can you tell me the importance of a disguise? >> to hide your identity. >> reporter: so what's the thing you need to think of when you're coming up with a disguise? >> you need to think that nobody could possibly know. >> reporter: you need to really make yourself not recognizable. so you have for me a hat. glasses.

these are special glasses. they will enable to you see behind you. and facial hair. >> reporter: all women want facial hair. >> okay. >> reporter: if you said i should be unrecognizable i'm hoping that no one recognizes me. there we go. what are some of the things you guys have reverend at spy camp that i need to know as an agent? >> keep yourself ready for somebody to be there [ indiscernible ] guys that are going to be watching you they are not going to like you. they are on the bad side. >> reporter: all right. i got it. now, before we start out on our mission here, i need an agent name. what do you think? do you have any ideas? >> uhm, agent green day. >> green day. >> green day. >> green day. >> reporter: the end of the world as we know it. how did we come up with it? i won't ask this. >> i think with your new recruit you need to take her on

a training mission and proceed to the operational zone. i believe that a dead drop is loaded for you. you need to unload that dead drop. i believe that there is a secret message waiting for you that will give you instructions for your next mission. >> let's go. >> do you think green day can do this? >> i think i can do it. >> okay. let's go. >> somebody tell me their favorite thing about spy camp. >> i like catching the bad guys. >> oh, yeah? >> reporter: is it clear? >> agent silent, we're clear. let's go. >> the missions are always fun. you need go outside and walk all over the streets. >> oh, cool. all right. >> reporter: is it hard to be a spy? >> yes. >> reporter: you have to learn all the right skills. do you see something down there that's not supposed throb? >> yeah! >> who left their dr. pepper in the museum? can we open it? >> yeah. >> reporter: let's open it. see you train spies you know how to open these pop cans. what's in there? is there a message? what's it say?

>> mission accomplished! proceed to ninja training. >> reporter: is that what we are going to do next? we have to learn how to escape an evade the bad guys. i hear someone coming, oh, my gosh! destroy the evidence! eat the paper! eat the paper! oh, my gosh. eat the paper! whew! it's a good thing whoever left that wrote it on edible paper. let me tell ya. if you want your kids to be involved in spy camp check out the website, myfoxdc.com. we have a link. if it's filled up they have lots of good kid programs throughout the year. i think my moustache is coming off. but i'm pretty sure i saw a spy at the capital yesterday. i think she is about 10 years old. and i heard her say she is from san antonio, texas. and look at this picture right here. she looks awfully happy to be in front of the capital. [ laughter ] >> reporter: i have some intel on this little spy. this little spy happens to be related to me. this is actually my niece from

my husband's side claudia making her first trip here to the nation's capital doing a special trip with her grandmother, my mother-in-law, and they are having a great time. i wanted to make sure that everyone in d.c. got to see how beautiful she is and really i wanted to show this picture i love it because i hope everyone has a moment today that makes them feel like just jumping up in the air and being happy! so here's to claudia espy moments everywhere in the nation's capital. more spy training in our next hour. back to you. >> she just made me happy. that picture made me feel so alive! holly. >> that would be a good goal every day. >> thanks, holly. it could be the most pressing foreign policy facing the united states. and it has been the frustration of five presidents. >> we are talking about the situation in iran and our relationship with iran. still ahead in the next hour we are going to take a closer look at the twilight war with author david prince. stay with us. it's 8:55.  i got the chance to start my own business.

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