>> and on the campaign trail the president's latest target, paul ryan's po posed education cuts. the attack comes as the new poll in the swing states show trouble ahead for the commander in chief. good morning to you. it's tuesday, august 21st. a live look outside right now and it looks foggy or hazy or something. something's going on out there on a tuesday. as we get things started this morning again at the 7:00 hour. it is tuesday, august 21st. good morning to you. >> tony is off today. you know who else is off? barns so we have to go to given, we do that with pleasureo t find out just what is going on out there. >> well, a little bit of patchy fog in some of our neighborhoods but today is the day, second day of school where we'll give our students a little more sunshine than yesterday.

right now it's 66 degrees at reagan national airport. humidity is at 84%. a light wind pushing in from the north and the winds will shift from the south and that's going to help boost our temperature. and elsewhere it is currently 69 at annapolis. the same at quantity coe. a little cooler at 59 and 63 degrees at cull pepper. we're on the back edge of some clouds but we'll get some good breaks into the course of today so a little bit more sunshine than yesterday and i don't think anybody will complain about that too much. as we move into the forecast today expect our highs into the 80s. 84 degrees for d.c. 80 at frederick and 86 degrees at fredericksburg. so a niece day on tap. i can't rule out however a popup shower or thundetorm so keep your eyes to the skies. how are we doing traffic wise?

>> better now. we were talking about the emergency road work over on m street. all of that has left behind. it's going to be bumpy as you work your way across the key bridge and working your way into virginia but all lanes have been reopened. we've got problems to report on the other side of town. four-car pileup. still there tying up the left side of the road. big delays working your way inbound up toward that scene. another crash has occurred as the exit for first sterling. that accident activity tying up the right side of the road. westbound on the dulles toll road. this is going to impact your ride. eastbound all lanes are open. you are below speed and at the beltway that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. more now on the breaking news out of ellicott city. and the for more

potential victims. a csx train derailed on a bridge and fell on to a parking lot below. >> two people were killed as several cars in that parking lot were crushed. melanie, what's the litest? >> wisdom, we have a little bit more information at this hour on those two victims. howard county police spokes people say that there are reports that there are two teenage girls whose families are very concerned that those girls are missing and they believe they may have been playing or playing around or on the bridge about the time that this accident occurred, but we should also caution you that howard county police have not confirmed their identities nor even the gender of the victims. we do know however that that train tress el is an area where teens are known to climb up on so there's a possibility these two could be connected but that has not been confirmed. it was around midnight when the

csx train carrying coal from west virginia to baltimore, maryland, crossed that main street bridge that crosses frederick road in ellicott city. 21 cars derailed or overturned. at least one flipped off the bridge and landed in a municipal parking lot. there were about a dozen cars are the reports that we've heard that were damaged. there are searches of the damaged vehicles have not turned up any other victims. it has taken all night for crew to secure the scene, shore up the bridge and try to remove some of that spilled coal. main street and frederick road are going to be affected for a while. >> this is going to be a long operation. we're not talking about a couple of hours here. we're talking about probably a couple of days to get things cleaned up the right way. the roads are going to be closed, we don't know for how long, but there's quite a bit of coal on the roadways and we've got a lot of work to do. >> we understand that there were

two train operators on this csx train and they were unharmed. we do know that csx investigators will be talking to them trying to figure out exactly what happened, what they say in the moments before this derailment occurred. the county executive, we talked to him early this morning. there have been other csx train derailments in the county and in the area but nothing like we've seen here through a town on main street here in a very populated area, so we're still again working to get identity of those victims. we understand the bodies are still on that bridge and we'll give you an update when we have it throughout the morning. thanks for that report. folks at a home in prince george's county, police are on the hunt for the suspects involved in a deadly car crash that took the life of one of that you are own and september another to the hospital with minor injuries. 20-year-old officer was thrown from a police cruiser when it

ran off i-95 south yesterday. morris and his partner were pursuing suspects reportedly trying to break into a car at a gas station earlier in the day. the on scene officers were interviewing witnesses at the gas station with when the suspect's car was spotted and the chase was on again. the suspects cut off the police cruiser and it fell into a ditch. >> as the vehicle got to about where that truck is right there, they cut him off. cut off the police car and at that point the vehicle -- the police car tried to avoid hitting him and they swerved and lost control and they came down and they started turning and flipped over into the em bankment. >> now, authorities released pictures from the gas station surveillance cameras showing one of the men believed to be responsible for this cash. the suspects were driving a silver acura with temporary

tags. there is a $25,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. you're asked to call crime stoppers at the number on your screen. fairfax police need your help finding a man who sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl. that happened in the 4900 block in alexandria. the man walked away with the little girl who have who was playing on a playgund between 7:00 and 8:00 sunday night. he took her into an apartment building and assaulted her. police are urging anyone to give them a call with information. a man is accused of touching a young girl after climbing a ladder to get into her home. he's charged with assault, sexual crimes and burglary. he entered the home early sunday morning. the girl's mother heard her screaming, ran to the door, then saw the man leaving. police found west wallace at the bottom of the ladder which led them to his house which was on the same block.

in politics this morning despite increasing costs to abandon his senate run he's still in the race. he spent money trying to salvage his campaign and he understands he has recorded a tv ad asking for forgivess. the deadline for akin to withdraw is 5:00 p.m. today. if he does not leave the race, a court order could be needed to remove his name from the ballot. top republican leaders have told akin they will pull funding from his campaign if he stays in the race. mitt romney is spending the day raising campaign cash while president obama head to ohio and that's where he'll start picking apart all those sections of paul ryan's budget proposal. and the visit to the swing state comes as a new poll shows

trouble ahead for the president. >> the president had come under more and more pressure to answer questions about his campaign and he came out swinging. >> jay tells me that you guys have been missing me. >> it's been about two months since the president fielded questions like this. he again took mitt romney to task over his refusal to release more than two years of his tax returns but he also had to answer questions about ads run on his own behalf. including one that connected romney to a woman's death after he lost his job. >> i don't think governor romney is responsible for the death of the woman portrayed in that ad. >> it also gave the president a chance to weigh in on comments about abortion by todd akin. it's something democrats tried to link to the romney campaign which it quickly condemned them. a new poll of a dozen battleground states shows voter unease. just 40% of registered voter es

think they're better off than they were four years ago. 56% say they're not. mitt romney arrived in louisiana last night. earlier in the day he and paul ryan campaigned together in new hfrp shir. >> the first victim of an obama campaign is the truth and it has been -- it has been said and disappointing. >> the more fund raising numbers just came out for the obama campaign which spent about $10 million more than it took in last month. in washington, fox news. maryland governor will be a speaker at the convention in charlotte north carolina next month and current u.s. senate candidate will also have a speaking role. the democratic national convention begins september 4th. the republicans are showing

off what their convention will look like. the state at the rnc in tampa was revealed. it features screens around the stage for presentation. a visual which will be used to criticize the obama administration. the republican convention begins next monday. back to school season continues. it's the first day today for students in virginia. in cal vard county, maryland. prince george's county went back yesterday. we invited you to share your picture from the first day of school. so let's take a look at some more now. his little sister who went into kindergarten and they attend judge sylvania woods elementary in glen arden. if you would like to make your child's photo part of our first day gallery you can e-mail pictures to the address on your screen. thanks for sending those in and you can continue to upload

them on to our facebook fan page. >> all right. cool. everybody's getting ready to school. back to the business of learning. time right now is 7:11. it is a tuesday morning and developing overnight a u.s. space in afghanistan comes under attack. the latest details coming up next. and a scene that some residents won't forget. heavy rains flooded these streets three times. >> plus a motorcycle rider will get a special blessing next year at the vatican. we'll explain why after the break. >> and a live look outside. we'll get the latest in weather and traffic from julie coming up next. >> where's tucker? this is his jam, i think. this is the plan that revolves around you.

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making headlines this morning militants fire rockets at a u.s. base in afghanistan and it hit the plane of a top u.s. general but the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general army general was not hurt. and he has already left afghanistan. no one else was injured in this morning's attack but the general's plane was damaged. defrp see was meeting at the airfield. finally a little progress out west in battling those trying to contain the wildfires. aided by a ship in wind direction firefighters made a stand against a huge fire burning on the edge of three small california towns. the ponderosa fire is still threatening thousands of homes. pop will bless harley davidson next june to mark the

motorcycle's giant 110 anniversary. in 2013 the company will produce limited edition bikes in honor of the milestone. >> you could do much worse than get ago blessing from the pop. >> that's right. and be around for 100 years. that should be an accomplishment for that. >> looking wonderful if your white today. i think we're on the same mind set. i was trying to wear all my white stuff before labor day. >> i thought that rule was out. >> i think i'm too old school. >> i say go for it. exactly. >> well, we want to keep the summer thoughts going even though we're not in summer. you know what? today a little more sunshine than yesterday, so that's not going to be too bad of a thing. here's a look at things right now across the area. 66 degrees officially at reagan national airport. northerly winds that are light and we'll see the wind shift to the south a little bit later

today. it's 61 at gaithersburg. the same at baltimore. 63 at dulls and 59 degrees at frederick this hour. we're on the back edge of some cloud cover. some of you seeing a little bit of fog this morning. very patchy fog in nature. that's going to help to give us some sunny breaks before it's all said and done through the course of the day. i can't rule out a chance of a slight chance of a popup shower or a popup thunderstorm later today and into this evening. 82 degrees by midday today under mostly sunny skies. so it won't be all bad and our temperatures overall in the course of today, we're talking 84 degrees for our daytime high. winds from the north but we'll get a southerly wind flow by this afternoon and tonight the same story. we have a chance maybe of a popup shower or at least a rumble of thunder, but tend of the week, my five-day forecast calling for some higher temperatures for you. >> excellent. >> time now to see what's

happening on the roads. julie is still busy? still an active morning on the roads? >> ablute salutely. we've got the accident activity cleared at stanton road and after that the crash at first sterling all that activity now out of the roadway. southbound 270, lanes are open. not too bad right now headed out toward the split. lanes here are open 270 on the top stretch approaching and passing slow. the morning work that we had here at the key bridge and m street has cleared. the lanes are open. still a bumpy ride as you work your way toward the key bridge and back out toward rosland. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. thank you very much. a close call for a silver springs family after a bus crashed into their house yesterday morning. police the bus trying to make a right turn hit another vehicle and crashed into the front door

of this house. luckily no one inside was hurt. but some of the people on the bus were treated for minor injuries. a new task force will work to address the problems of flash flooding in two d.c. neighbors. members will find ways to fix flooding in the areas of bloomingdale and the park. last month they were hit three times by floods over a two-week period. in some cases raw sewage backed up into homes and businesses. 7:20 right now. it's a tuesday morning and coming up, a special treat for some local moms. we'll tell you what's in store for 100 of those moms today. >> plus, as the first lady continues to push her let's move campaign, ever wonder how she finds time to work out? mrs. obama dishes about her daily trip to the gym. >> and holly is taking us on a journey through a magical world

this morning. cirque du soleil to tem. it's all exploring the evolution of man kind. >> that's pretty easy. right? >> we'll check back in with holly a little bit later. he's made his choice.

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all federal funding for planned parenthood and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control. and both romney and ryan backed proposals to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest. for women... for president... the choice is ours. i'm barack obama, and i approve this message.

d.c. workers forced to take an unpaid furlough last year will begin to bet get some of their money back today. a surplus will allow nearly 22,000 city employees to be repaid. workers will receive a one time lump sum payment in their checks. workers will see the money either today or friday or august 31st. 100 new and expecting military moms are having a baby shower. virginia first lady mcdonald and

heidi mur cough, the author of the book what to expect when you're expecting is hosting the celebration in springfield today. for moms and spouses from port, official says the baby shower will include a question and answer session with the author and a special viewing of the movie, what to expect when you're expecting. i love that. proof that the first lady walks the walk and backs up the talk. >> more on how mrs. obama keeps in shape with such a hectic schedule. she typically gets up at 4:30 in the morning to work out before her kids wake up. i wonder if she watches us on the news. >> you know it. >> the president strolls in during the middle of her workout or at the end. he's working as guest editor for the i village.

the theme this year is rev up your routine. >> you think she watches us? >> no. >> she watches espn. somebody told me she watches espn. she's not watching us. all right. it's 7:25 now. still ahead, a late night thriller at the park and rg 3 is put on the spot about his latest performance. >> sports is coming up next. >> another bad day for facebook chair as the company hits an all-time low. coming up, an inbept look at the future of the company and why some big time investors say they aren't taking any more chances. >> and as we head to break, a live look outside. you can barely see out there. we'll get the latest wet r and traffic when we come back.

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a-a-r-p says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors... and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retirees costs more than six thousand dollars. get the facts. the nats kicked off a huge series with the second place braves. one off the end of his bat. nobody can get a handle on it and no one is covering third allowing espinoza to get there easily. then tracy gets a grounder and

espinoza scores. the nats win 5-4 and now have a 6-game win over the braves. the team go back at it again tonight. the redskins are getting ready for a big preseason matchup against the colts this saturday at home. and just two days after his up and down performance in chicago, griffin addressed the media after practice yesterday taking the blame for the things that went wrong. >> we had three sacks and i told the offensive line today kind of joking, we just got to work on a few thicks and throwing the ball away. we don't have the screen so we don't get those sacks because you never want them to feel bad about those kind of things when it's your fault so we just got to get the ball to my hand and when to say not make a play. >> now, do they apologize to him if they let him get sacked? that's the question. the battle of the top two draft picks will kick off on saturday.

it's just a preseason game. they're selling t-shirts at a preseason game? between these two? >> i heard the question asked yesterday on a popular radio show, should we be more excited about the nats who have already proven themselves now or the red skin who is are just, you know, trying to get there. >> but the nats this would be historic if the nats even get into the playoffs so they would take priority. >> so we should shift our enthusiasm. >> right now, yes. the real football season hasn't started yet but the nats, this is it. this is like 70 years they hadn't been -- well, you know they hadn't been here. >> the sad thing is it feels like 70 years for the redskins. don't comment as not a fan. >> i'm going to comment on the weather. >> what's going on out there? that last shot looked a little foggy. >> we do have some fog. we have a fog advisory i'm going to talk about in just a second.

a little more sunshine so the fog will be burned off before too long so it's not all bad but in the meantime here's a look at our current temperatures at the airport. 66 degrees at reagan national airport this hour. 60 at dulls and 61 degrees at thur good marshall. so starting out fairly mild. 63 at cull pepper. we have 60 at hagerstown. 61 degrees for martinsburg and we've got 64 degrees and 69 at annapolis. so not all bad. we're getting there. dense fog advisory in effect and this includes cull pepper where the visibility is less than a quarter of a mile. so do be careful if you're driving out there. just be aware of this. this is going to expire at 9:00 this morning. in the meantime we're on the back edge of some cloud cover. that's going to give us a few sunny breaks as we head through the course of the day, but we are still dealing with a slight

chance now before the day is over into this afternoon and tonight i'm seeing maybe just a popup spotty shower or even a thunderstorm is possible, but very spotty and isolated in nature. nothing that's just going to be dragging on or sticking around for the entire day or evening at all. so another upper level disturbance and this system to the south pushing its way off the coast. by tomorrow a little bit more sunshine for you. the skies will end up being a lot brighter. for today a high of 84 degrees, mostly sunny skies. once again chance of an afternoon or evening popup shower or thunderstorm is possible. same story for tonight at 66 degrees. look at how those temperatures are rising headed to the mid to upper 80s by the time we hit into the end of the week. let's check in now with traffic. >> all right. well, we've got delays right now if you are traveling along georgia avenue working our your way inbound. talking about the delays headed out from forest glen headed out

toward the capital beltway. traveling along randolph road headed over toward i-95 over at cherry hill road that's where we're finding the stretch of slow traffic. southbound 95 still below speed for those headed down toward the beltway. the baltimore washington parkway, the delay continues again with the backup leaving 198 to green belt road to 410. new problem reported on the inner loop of the beltway. left side of the roadway blocked off there. outer loop remains slow out of silver spring. traveling eastbound on 66, no accidents to report. just volume delays to 123 and again at the beltway. that's a check of the fox 5 on time traffic. well, apple is now the world's most valuable company ever. on monday, its surging stock propelled the company's value you to $623 billion beating the record set by microsoft back in

1999 during the internet boom. reasons for apple's stock market success, the impending launch of the iphone 5 and possibly a smaller and cheaper ipad. well, a company not celebrating this morning, facebook. for the first timeshares fell below $19. that happened yesterday. less than half the $38 a share price of its initial public offering or ipo. the stock did end up rebounding to the end of the day closing at just over $20 a share, but that number has many investors and insiders wondering about the company's future now. joining us now is someone closely monitoring this situation. dr. david cast at the robert h. smith school of business at the university of maryland. good morning. >> good morning. >> you know, facebook, that's something that everybody's plugged into whether you want to be or not t. it's just what's happening now and now the stocks though, not

necessarily reflecting that popularity. what's going on here? >> well, what happened here, there was, let's say excessive amounts of enthusiasm at the ipo three months ago. the initial offering price was at $38, and in fact, during the first hour or two when it initially traded it actually bumped up to 42, then 45, at which point it started coming down as it has steadily over the past three months. the problem there, again, these prices are determined by demand and supply and a lot of supply has come on the market at the ipo certainly there was some early investors who sold some of their shares, and since then, there's been perhaps more careful analysis for the outlook of the company. the valuation initially was excessively high, unrealisticly high in my opinion and even

today at today's price for example around $20 a share, with the shares having come down this much, the valuation based on a price earnings ratio still appears to be quite high. and roughly a price earnings ratio should be somewhat correlated with projected growth rates for the company's earnings per share for example. and right now based on looking forward one year, or estimated earnings, projected earnings for facebook it is still selling at 41 times projected earnings over the next year. by contrast google is currently selling at 20 times projected earnings, and apple and microsoft at 15 times earnings. so the market p even at this price is projecting a much high r growth rate than these other very successful companies. >> we did the story right before

we began our talk about apple and how it's the most successful. with apple though, you see the lines, people going to buy a physical product. when facebook a lot of people wondered well, how does facebook make all this money anyway? did that play into this? >> well, in part it certainly did. on july 26th, facebook released its second quarter earnings report, and it actually reported a loss for the quarter. its revenues were still growing but the growth rate is slowing down and it's costs are increasing. facebook derives its revenues -- 84% of its revenues are derived from advertising and the question being raised going to the future, what percentage of internet advertising can facebook attract. it does have 900 million monthly users, it's very popular, but what is the projected revenue

going forward? >> >> and does this have any reflection on the popularity of facebook itself? people logging on, checking out what their friends are doing that day, does that have any direct correlation with what we know as facebook? >> yes, i think users with facebook continue to be very happy with it. the one question that's being raised and should be raised is will there be competition for is in angoing forward? excellent situation, but looking out three to five years, will there be other sites that could effectively compete against facebook? and that's really an unknown. we don't know that. >> right. i guess my last question is, is there any take home message? so you didn't jump into the facebook ipo. is there a message going forward, any warning signs that investors could look at and perhaps stay away from if they're worried about the same thing happening? noo i would recommend a look at recent ipos for the company you're considering in your

industry or similar industries, what valuations were applied to those ipos, how did those ipos perform and look at the comparable valuation for the ipo you're about to invest in. >> in the mean time may i friend you on facebook? >> yes, you may. >> it's been a pleasure talking to you. well, coming up, just miles away an update from the straits of florida as diana closes in on a world record and the comedy world has lost a legend. as the word spreads of her death flowers were placed on her hollywood star of fame. a look back on her humor as her trademark next. wow,

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i don't need dirty words and i don't need clinical humor. i can get that at the doctor's office. >> well, the entertainment world is mourning the loss of a comedoic legend.

phyllis diller passed away in her sleep yesterday. she started performing back in the 1950s when she was in her 30s and went on to be a comedy staple at venues all across the world. phyllis diller was 95 years old. >> she is just is. >> we've been talking about it all morning. her laugh was infectious. it was -- she was great. >> and she will always be like when we were young watching on those variety shows and she was always there and you know, she's just -- >> didn't she have a tv show as well? noo i don't remember that. >> i think she had a tv show. i'm going to google that when while you're talking about the weather. >> does that mean you're not going to pay atextomy weather? >> no, i can multitask. >> just checking. okay. let's take a ook at our current temperature right now. it's currently 66 degrees at reagan national airport, wisdom.

humidity is at 84%. a light northerly wind is going to switch to the south before the day is over. and our neighborhood temperatures, what do we got here? 69 at annapolis. 59 at frederick. a little cooler there. 60 at hagerstown. fredericksburg at 64 degrees and we have 55 way to the west in cumberland. so sky conditions, well, we've got just a back edge of the clouds that are affecting us across the area right now, but also can't rule out the chance of a popup thunderstorm or shower. very, very low chance of that happening but i want to let you know. fog advisory in effect until 9:00 a.m. visibility in these areas less than a quarter of a mile. it does include cull pepper and counties to the west. so for today, by midday at least about 82 degrees. by the #35k hour we'll be at 83 and our daytime high today expected to be about 84 degrees or so. this is not correct. this is not what i wanted to

show you. but anyway, 84 degrees for a daytime high today and to the south a little warmer, but warmer by the weekend. >> i do like that. >> time now to see what's happening on the roads. >> do i have your undivided attention? noo you always do, julie. >> you'll never know if you don't. >> until i quiz him after the report. >> that's right. >> all right. on the roads right now if you are traveling tinner loop of the beltway this is where we have accident activity. two cars involved in the crash before georgia avenue. tinner loop is already starting to slow as you work your way around 270 down to 5 miles per hour. earlier we mentioned the crash at stanton road. it had cleared but now authoritys tell me the police are still wrapping up some paperwork tying up the right side of the roadway. 395 with lanes open, you're down to 17 miles an hour traveling from the pentagon to the 14th

street brinell. accident activity near montrose road. and 66 no change here. still well below speed from fair oaks headed in toward 123. that's a check of the fox 5 on time traffic. back to you. thanks, julie. some stories making headlines this morning. an online travel company is fined by the department of transportation. other bit has been ordered to pay $50,000. the warning that or bit displayed was too far down on its website. on the first day new passenger protection rules went into effect. mars rover is extending its arm for the first time and it used its navigation camera. all right. now, it used the camera to view this. curiosity has not stretched its arm since before its launch in

november. now, it's loaded with tools including a drill, scoop and a camera. now, the arm will be used to inspect samples of rocks and dirt. >> the picture was out of this world though. >> diana pushing toward the florida keys, swimming at a pace of about a mile an hour. she made it through a third night in the water while her lips and tongue continue to swell due to the salt water. if all goes as planned the 62-year-old will become the first person to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage. overnight diane's team tweeted that she has just more than 40 miles to go. >> 40 miles? >> swimming in the water. with no shark cage. >> i hope she makes it. between the stings and now the swelling of the tongue and all the other things, let's hope she makes it. >> and her birthday is tomorrow so it will be very nice. >> happy birthday to her. hope she makes it.

>> a trip to the national harbor. >> holly is live on stage of a fascinating show now playing. >> i'm two or tw this week in terms of being on teenage, but this is no ordinary stage. watch as i talk. we are under the big top. the cirque du soleil big top. the latest show is totem. tell me that is not the coolest thing you've seen in a while. coming up, we are going to talk about how they make the magic and why you and your family should come see the show. stay with us. [ male announcer ] since e 1996 welfare recipiens were required to work.

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they would beat out all the other countries for the medal at the olympics. so it's just that good. >> okay. this morning we'll get a glimpse for ourselves. holly morris joining us now live from the national harbor. >> i'm impressed by that stage thing. i don't know if my heart can take any more of it. >> i know. what's amazing to me i was coming out here and i was like another cirque du soleil show, they can't possibly top themselves. oh, but they do. every single time. that's what's so amazing behind the brilliantly creative minds behind this show. they've done 28 productions and they will all leave you asking how do they do that? we'll answer some of those questions. francis is here on teenage with me. let's talk about this theme which is totem. >> yes, the show sabt the evolution of man kind. each show presents an aspect of

the human body or the evolution that each of us go through our lives. each has their own setting because we use a lot of video so you're traveling around with us around the world for two hours and a half. >> we have some video of this show and it is highly acrobatic. we're just off the olympics and we think they're the best gymnasts in the world but non. >> the skills that you'll see a performing will blow you away. you're sitting so close to the action, walking next to you, you're really immersed in that experience that we're creating for you. >> and you know what people probably don't know as well, it's just the logistics of making this all happen as you move from city to city and what it takes to pull this off. >> it's 64 of my trucks to move from city to city and we're only

talking about 18 trucks for this structure. >> it takes eight days to set up the tent, two and a half days to take it down. and you guys will be here through october 7th. >> exactly. >> i love to talk to you more but i've got to get back to this stage because right now it's the star and on it with me. >> this is a whole element and a start of the show in and of itself. the projections and infrared cameras and how this all works. >> out front we have three video projectors similar to the ones at a movie theater and back in the control booth we have some video servers which are kind of like superhigh end tivos and they control the content and also keep track of the video cameras that are mounted above us. >> so let's walk and talk. the fish that are swimming in the different scenes you guys went around the world to shoot

this. >> during creation in montreal we were with the creators for a couple of days because the volcano was erupting and filmed some real live lava that was happening. >> real video. they set out and spent many hours filming content. >> i find it interesting that the theme is evolution yet we can walk on water. so how does it detect like where i am and what we're doing? noo above us up there kind of up in the bright lights there's an infrared camera and it can see us in a black and white image and it will take our movement and apply a water effect on top of it or a sand effect or some other -- >> it's taking it to the next level as it always does. so you can look on the boat and see the effect of that. >> or if you're someone special you can walk on water.

>> exactly. >> totem will be here at the national harbor until october 7th. i think they have like ten shows a week or so. there are some saturdays where they do three shows a day so check those out. coming up in our next hour we'll go backstage. we have one of the ring artists here and he's going to show us what it takes to be part of the show. bye, back to you. >> all right. ahead at 8:00 advice for college students still undecide about a career path. a look at the top ten majors that lead to a healthy income. also coming hotel hell. in fox's premier episode, chef and hospitality experts travel to what's dubbed as one of america's worst hotels. we'll hear from the owner of that inn coming up in the next hour.

ed. coming up, two people are dead after 23 train cars flip off the track in ellicott city crushing cars in a lot below.

we'll have a live report. >> the words i said not in the heart i hold. an on air apology for starting a national firestorm. what congressman todd akin is saying and why it may not be enough for party leaders. >> and coming up later, a historic end to a little league world series game. good tuesday morning, i'm allison seymour. >> and i'm sarah simmons. tony has the day off. let's say good morning to gwen tolbart with the latest on our weather today. >> hello, gwen. >> very patriotic right now. >> aren't we. >> so true. color blocking. >> we are. we have done a very good job today. >> yeah. you know what? we're going to have more sunshine today than yesterday. it's going to be warmer today than yesterday. but this morning we are dealing with fog. that's one of our issues. here's where our temperatures are currently at the airport. 66 degrees at reagan national airport at this hour.

we have 68 dulles and 61 dwi. a couple of 50s on here. 55 cumberland and that's about it actually. 64 for fredericksburg, annapolis 69 degrees. 70 at quantico and 63 at gaithersburg. we are on the back edge of some clouds, having a little problem along the coast you see all that wet weather where we have the projects. upper level trough as well affecting us. but we will see some sunny breaks today at least a lot more than yesterday. fog advisory to our far west. it includes fauquier cumberland county and rappahannock. that will expire in the 8:00 hour. highs today 84 gaithersburg and 77 degrees for hagerstown. so today isn't going to be too bad. i can't rule out, however, the chance of a pop-up spotty shower or storm later on today or this evening. >> we have been warned. let's check in with julie wright with the latest on

traffic. >> hey, you guys, gals. [ laughter ] >> we're still finding troubles on the roads unfortunately. this happens to be northbound along 355 as you work your way from middlebrook road past 118. accident in germantown. they temporarily blocked all lanes to get a tow truck there at the scene to remove the accident vehicle so heads up traveling northbound on 355. you could always bail out, take middlebrook road west over to 270. and southbound lanes no trouble out of germantown to gaithersburg towards mva. 395 below speed toward the pentagon. no accident. delays across the inbounded 14th street bridge. crime scene investigation continues to block the right lanes. big delays from ban. to southeast. that's a check of your "fox 5 on-time traffic." breaking news from ellicott city. a csx train derailed on a bridge and fell on a parking

lot below. two people who were on the tracks were killed. >> and several cars in the parking lot were crushed. this is all happening just off main street there. fox 5's melanie alnwick has been following this all morning. what's the latest? >> reporter: we understand that the ntsb is now here on the scene taking a closer look at the details in this accident trying to figure out exactly what happened. here's a little information that we have about the victims but i do caution you that it's early information. it appears there are family members here who say that their teenaged college students were out here last night, that they were on the bridge, they think they may have been drinking, they may have been tweeting from the bridge, again, according to family members, and those girls have not been heard from since. howard county police spokespeople said they are looking into that information, that there are two victims whose bodies are on the bridge

but they are not making a positive identification of the victims. just want to let you know about what is out there at this point. kids are known to be down here on the bottom of main street several blocks below where i am and climb up on that tressel sometimes. let's show you video from earlier when we got on the scene. it was about midnight when that coltrain from west virginia to maryland crossed the main street bridge over frederick road in ellicott city in the historic district. 21 cars of the 80 car trains derailed or overturned. at least one flipped off the bridge and landed in a municipal parking lot. they have been searching damaged vehicles. those searches so far have not turned up any other victims. it appears there may have been 12 cars or so that were damaged by the falling freight car and also by the coal. it has taken all night for crews to secure the scene and shore up the bridge to remove

some of the spille coal. main street and frederick road in ellicott city will be closed for quite some time. there were two train operators running that freight train. they were unharmed. investigators will be able to talk to them and find out what they say in the moments before this derailment trying to figure out exactly what caused it and whether indeed these two teenaged victims were part of the cause of the derailment here. that's the latest from ellicott city. we hope to have an update for you in an hour. >> thank you. the attack on u.s. personnel in afghanistan, they just keep coming. the latest target the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. military officials say militants fired rockets into a u.s. base near kabul damaging general martin dempsey's plane. he wasn't on it at the time and no one was hurt. dempsey was in the country to discuss the disturbing raid of

afghan trainees on american troops. police in prince george's county continue to investigate a crash that killed one of their own. and they are now asking for your help looking for two suspects involved in the deadly wreck. 23-year-old officer adrian morris died after he was ejected from his cruiser during a pursuit on i-95. now, a fellow officer riding in the passenger seat is recovering at home. the situation began when the officers responded to a laurel gas station for reports of two men trying to break into a car. the suspect one of whom is seen here fled in a silver acura. a $25,000 reward is offered for anyone who has any information leading to arrest and conviction. turning to the race for the white house now, president obama is traveling to columbus, ohio for campaign events this afternoon then tonight he will be campaigning in reno, nevada. one of the things he will do is

attack budget proposals by the republicans vice-presidential candidate. one part of congress paul ryan's budget plan calls for tut's to education something that the president will say is too extreme. his republican challenger mitt romney attends phrasers in texas. under fire from all sides for the comments that were made about rape and abortion, conservative missouri congressman todd akin is take to the airways to apologize. take a listen. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that i apologize. >> he sparked a firestorm with comments he made about women's bodies being able to prevent pregnancy in the cases of, quote, legitimate rape. gop leaders have called on him to resign by 5:00 p.m. tonight so they can replace him on the ballot but he vowed to keep fighting. new this morning, some headway in the fight against a northern california wildfire. a shift in the wind means the nearly 2,000 firefighters on the ground have been able to

improve their firelines. but the flames are still threatening more than 3,000 homes and the fire has grown to more than 25 square miles. a little to the north in washington state, firefighters hope to finally fully contain the blaze that burned dozens of homes near seattle. even though the united states is still dealing with tough economic times, the majority of americans say that won't affect their labor day holiday. labor day travel is expected to be at the highest since 2008. aaa says holiday travel will be up 2.9% from last year. they expect 33 million people to go somewhere. that's 50 miles or more from their home. according to a survey, 85% of those people will travel by car, 8% will take to the skies. >> all right. coming up at 8:00 breaking news from diana nyad's attempt to swim from cuba to florida. >> and later an all-night fight for first place in the n.l. east. we have the highlights from the battle between the nats and the

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just in to fox 5 an end to swimmer diana nyad's attempt at the record books. several news outlets report she abandoned her quest to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage. this was the third attempt and the most recent was cut short

by jellyfish stings. she was more than halfway to her goal when she was pulled out of the water this morning. still no word what was behind the decision to end the swim. but oh, just too bad. she has been trying so hard to do that and how determined she is through jellyfish stings and everything like that. oh, my gosh. >> she is still a hero in our eyes. >> happy birthday tomorrow. she will be 63. >> you got your health. >> all right. gwen tolbart has her health and the cuteness factor of the day. >> i do. it's time for our my "first 5" photo of the day. >> this picture is two months old and they show him making funny tastes.

his parents say he loves fox 5 and julie wright's traffic report. >> is that the face he makes when julie is on? >> oh, no traffic jam! he is adorable. send us your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com and click on "mornings." look at him! bright eyes for sure. awww, really cute. kehl, we have a fog advisory in effect for today that expires at 9:00 for areas to the west that includes falkier, cumberland counties, visibility is less than a quarter mile in these areas. right now 69 at reagan national. light north wind at 5 miles an hour. other temperatures in the area, at annapolis, 69. the same at d.c. 70 at quantico. 63 at culpeper. we have frederick at 61 rstown here's a look at satellite- radar composite. we are on the back edge of some clouds trying to get out but that system along the coast

just not allowing it to. weak ridge of high pressure building in will set us up for at least sunny breaks into the course of today. by midday expect to be about 82 degrees. i can't rule out a pop-up stray thunderstorm or a pop-up shower late this afternoon or this evening so just be aware of that. we're talking 84 degrees for our daytime high today. winds from the north and then switching from the south at 5 miles an hour but not a bad day overall and a lot more sunshine today than we had yesterday and also a rise in those temperatures. >> am i going to allison? >> julie wright, i'm sorry, julie, how could i forget about you and that little precious baby, your biggest fan. [ laughter ] >> i feed him lots of lollipops. >> i bet. >> or i will when he gets bigger. he is too small for that now. on the roads now, gwen, very much a busy commute. on the inner loop of the beltway, 495 towards pennsylvania avenue accident

tying up the two right lanes delays from marlboro to the accident. and again crime scene investigation block the right lane inbounded suit land parkway stanton road heavy from silver hill. top stretch of the beltway inner loop and outer loop slow between college park to 70. and inner loop slows to the exit for georgia avenue. 555delays northbound leaving middlebrook road. that's a check of your "fox 5 on-time traffic." the current job market can be very intimidating for students heading off to college. but to make it a little easier, kiplinger's personal finance put together a list of the top 10 best majors that lead to lucrative careers. joining us is the editor of the story and a producer of kiplinger.com. my friends told me to study what you love. you still want people to do

that but you also want to make money. unemployment is so high, that's an issue for recent grads. lets get into it. how did you make the decision on the top 10? >> we actually looked at two factors. we were looking at salaries, both starting and for graduates as a whole more experienced ones and look at the unemployment rate for recent grads and for more experienced grads. >> let's get into the list. we'll start from 10 and work our way up. medical assisting services. >> yeah. you'll notice on the list there's a lot of health professions here. >> right. >> medical assisting definitely falls into the realm. basically is a really low unemployment rate when you graduate almost guaranteed a job so that's obviously a huge plus. >> management information systems. what's that? that seems like very technical title. >> it is. those are the people who run computer systems for big corporations and the like so that's a great starting salary both out of school and more long term. >> construction services.

so, you know, there's -- i guess there's been a lull in that area though. is that expected to be building as the estimate in the future? >> you would think so during a recession, you wouldn't expect this to be a career that was necessarily a sure bet long term but actually the bureau of labor statistics is forecasting good growth there and these are people who see low unemployment, good salaries out of school. >> when we say good salaries like for instance construction services, median salary for recent grads $50,000 out of the gate. so not bad. >> great, especially when you consider that the median salary for recent grads is $37,000. so those people are really at an advantage. >> what about medical technologies? the medical field. >> unemployment is 1.4% for medical technologist. you're just guaranteed a job even though the salaries aren't super high, it's a safe career. >> what kind of jobs are there? >> working in a doctor's office

or lab. basically whenever you have like a test or sample taken, those are the people who are running it. >> we need to speed it up but we have some engineering as well on here, electrical and chemical. gosh, you look at that and think, lots of math. i hope you're good at that. and science and chemistry, as well. >> yes. >> so it pays off big salaries. >> treatment therapy professions. this is another one of those, it is nursing or what is this specifically? >> things like recreation therapy, occupational therapy. nursing medicine again. >> pharmacy and pharmacology number one. >> absolutely. that's really the way to go if you can stomach the sciences. median salary there is $105,000. so six figures pretty incredible low unemployment rate. the way to go. >> now, obviously, we didn't see anything on there like communications. we were joking around about that. things like in the english field a lot of kids, maybe that's where their strength is. i know you did a companion

piece on this. what are recommendations for kids who want to get into that, other options to look at? >> when we were looking at the worst majors for lucrative careers we see things like liberal arts and fine arts. i would encourage people to channel those interests into more practical professional careers. you might want to get a prelaw degree or something like. >> if you can handle the hours of studying. think about at the end maybe i can make some money. caitlin dewey, thank you so much for coming in. we appreciate it. kiplinger.com. >> thank you. >> allison, over to you. okay. thanks. i think. coming up, remembering the queen of comedy. we are going to look back at the life and work of phyllis diller and later the lord of the rings, our holly morris is behind the scenes at cirque du soleil's new show at the

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celebrities are speaking out about the loss of a comedic leading edge end.

phyllis diller died in her sleep on monday in los angeles. >> she makes you laugh when you hear her. she was known for her laugh, her wild hair and making herself the butt of the joke. she made her debut in the 1950s when she was in her late 30s. her decades long career in stand-up paved the way for comediennes like joan rivers. rivers called diller a great role model who filled up the room. actress vicki lawrence says she was a pioneer in a male- dominated industry. diller was 95. what a laugh. love it. on another note from hollywood, rosy o'donnell says she is lucky to be alive after a heart attack last week. the 50-year-old former talk show host and comedienne made the revelation on her blog yesterday. she says a trip to the cardiologist showed her coronary artery was 99% blocked. she has since had a stent

inserted. a new warning for men about how you cook red meat and the impact it could have on your risk of developing certain types of cancer. still ahead in our next half hour, fox medical team's dr. mike shows us live -- joins us live with the details for us. >> and as we head to break we're showing off some of the pictures you posted on your facebook page of the first day of school. ready to go in their cute little uniforms. we'll be right back. you're watching "fox 5 morning news." time is 8:26. 

a csx train derailed on the main street bridge in ellicott city around midnight. two people on the tracks were killed. at least one of the cars flipped over into a parking lot

and crushed several vehicles in that lot. the cause of the derailment is still under investigation. fairfax county police need your help finding a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl. this happened sunday night sometime between 7 and 8:00 on the 4900 block of manitoba drive in alexandria. police say that little girl was playing at a nearby playground when the suspect took her into the basement of an apartment building and sexually assaulted her. president obama declared that the threat of chemical or biological warfare in syria is "a red line" for the united states. at an impromptu press conference he said he would use military intervention if the weapons were even moved. fighting continues near the capital. army soldiers stormed a town near damascus overnight killing 23 fighters after a house-to- house search. 8:30. 69 degrees. >> feels like fall is on the way, doesn't it? >> sort of a little when you

step outside or into our studio either one. >> i looked in the studio. it's warmer than that outside definitely. >> and we'll get a little warmer than yesterday and guess what. a little bit more sunshine, ladies. >> all right. >> you can see the sun out there now. looks like it's breaking through the clouds a little bit so brighter skies in my forecast today for you. right now, it's 69 degrees officially at reagan national airport. humidity at 81%. very light northerly winds. we'll see the wind shifting to the south before the afternoon is over. and temperatures elsewhere we have 69 degrees at annapolis. 61 at hagerstown. that's the same for frederick and for martinsburg. 70 degrees at quantico warming up already. 65 for fredericksburg to the south. 66 manassas and 66 degrees also at dulles this hour. we do have a fog advisory in effect now. this expires at 9:00. and it includes fauquier county, rappahannock, visibility less than a quarter mile in these areas.

so be careful. patchy fog closer to d.c. earlier this morning but with the sun coming out it will be burning off. so we're on the back edge of some clouds here but a ridge of high pressure very weak will be building in. that will be us into some sunshine before it's all said and done. i can't rule out a pop-up shower or a storm into the course of today so we'll keep our eyes to the sky very slight chance of it happening but the jet stream is leaving us with warmer air later into the week. we'll be doing well later in the week. today midday 82 degrees, daytime high today will actually be about 84 degrees, once again with a bit more of the sunshine. let's check in now with allison and sarah. >> thank you. men love their red meat but can the way that you cook that meat have a bad effect on your health? dr. mike cirigliano is here to tell us about how pan frying

meat may increase your risk of prostate cancer. >> how are you? >> good. what did the study find? >> basically, what this new study shows was that if you took especially ground beef or hamburgers, you put them in a pan and you cooked them up real hot, the temperatures really hot, and you gave them to men and you gave them 2.5 serves per week, their risk of prostate cancer went up by 40%. >> wow. why? >> well, we have known for quite a while that if you take red meat or even any kind of protein even fish and you super heat it, for instance, you take steak and you put it on the grill and you have those flames licking the red meat and you see that charbroiled edge, now what i'm talking about. >> sure. >> that super heat, that

heating of the fat, leads to the production of these carcinogens called tricyclic amines and they cause cancer. this is another reason why you want to limit the amount of red meat that you eat but also the way you cook it. you don't want to super, super heat it. i would bake it, do things like that with your don't end up having that much heat, especially like on a grill. >> scary study but good advice. let's stick with food. so you say that a handful of walnuts could be helpful for anybody trying to start a family or have a baby, right? >> one of the neatest little studies showed that if you are a man and you have some infertility issues that means some doctor told you that your sperm count is not what it

should be, the motility is down, have a half cup of walnuts every day. this new study showed a dramatic increase in fertility. so it's a no-brainer. it's very, very easy. if you are a couple out there listening, you get your man to eat walnuts every, single day. not only does it increase your chance of having a baby, it will lower his cholesterol and hopefully make him lose some weight too because it's protein and makes you feel full, lowers your cholesterol. >> how about if your man says i don't want to eat any walnuts. are there any other foods that can help with this? >> well, anything that's high in omega-3 fatty acids, fish, fish oil, things like that. but what's great about this food is that it's very easy to do. you don't have to cook it, you don't have to do anything. just have a little cup there every, single day. and instead of snacks on some

unhealthy sugary food, why don't you snack on walnuts? great idea. makes you feel full. and it will increase the quality of your sperm. now, what guy doesn't want that? >> i can't think of one single guy. >> dr. mike, you know that i love you. thank you so much. see you next time. >> okay, allison. love you. >> thank you. how's that going to go over here? let me have some walnuts. >> say dr. mike said it. >> thank you. coming up, celebrity chef gordon ramsey opens the doors to hotel hell. we're going to sit down with the first owner to face his wrath coming up but first an historic move by golf's most famous all-male club. why it will finally let women play and who received the first invitation to tee up. we're back after this. he's made his choice.

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that's the ballgame. >> there it is. tad tracy with the walkoff infield hit to give the nats the 5-4 win over the braves in 13 innings. they are battling for first

now. the nats have a six-game lead over the second place braves. game two of the series tonight. the road to the little league world series is heating up. connecticut eliminated indiana 4-0 last night. will lucas pitched a no hitter to get the win! he did it with 13 strikeouts. connecticut moves on to face california later tonight. and it's an historic time for one of the country's most famous and exclusive golf clubs. yesterday, augusta national golf club announced its first female members since opening 80 years ago. former secretary of state condoleezza rice and darla moore will be the first women in green jackets when the club opens for the new season. for years, the club that hosts the masters tournament has come under fire for its all-male membership policy. congratulations to them. that's great. >> only took 80 years.

there is just a few weeks of summer fun time left and fox 5 is teaming up with busch gardens in williamsburg to help you make the most of it. we are giving away a pack of four single day tickets to busch gardens. for a chance to win you can enter this week. go to our website, myfoxdc.com and look under contests. you must be 18 or older and be a legal resident of d.c., maryland or virginia. if you haven't been, it's great. >> i have not been. >> i love williamsburg and busch gardens. coming up next, gordon ramsey turns his eye to success for the nation's hotel industry. we are going to meet his first victim. hope you're okay. >> he is still smiling. >> then later ringing in an all new cirque du soleil show. >> if you have been missing the gymnastics at the olympics i have something even better. it is the show that's playing right now at the plateau at the national harbor where we are live. it is called totem and we are not just under the big top.

we are behind the scenes under the big top watching the artists and the athletes train. coming up next, i want to see firsthand how hard it is to be part of this show. if it requires that i'm going to be very dizzy. we are going to find out next on "fox 5 morning news." [ male announcer ] you paid in to medicare for years. every paycheck. now, when you need it obama has cut $716 billion dollars from medicare.

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>> it does smell. [ bleep ] >> that is horrific. oh, my god it smells like sewage! >> love the dramatic music. he was ahe is degree robert dean owner of the juniper hill inn in vermont. good morning, robert, have the bruises healed? >> they have, actually. [ laughter ] >> how did you get involved in this? did you volunteer yourself or did someone else volunteer you? >> well, i heard there were over 1,000 inns that applied because obviously, they say, any publicity is good publicity as long as they spell your name correctly. we talked with our staff about it because we knew what would happen and we knew we would be the villains in this. and, you know, basically, they did a lot of skype interviews and we have a unique staff. one of our staff members rescues pot-bellied pigs and we rescued them so... >> what was it that your inn

was being picked apart on specifically? i mean, obviously there was a stench there that -- but what were the big problems? >> one of the -- room one, the maxwell suite at the inn and it's a lovely property in vermont -- did have plumbing issues. the plum, actually didn't seal the toilet exhaust properly. so we never would check. we couldn't use that room for nine months but they asked us to check him into room one. >> oh, gosh. >> of course we wouldn't do that. but it's subsequently been fixed and rachael ray has stayed there and cloris leachman and when gordon comes back he is going to stay there. >> what was it like? what was he like to work with? was it pretty -- was he pretty vicious? i mean, on you? >> vicious is not maybe the right word. he is tough as nails. >> okay. >> and he gets right to the point and, you know, it is reality tv. so, you know, there's a lot that's dramatized and it's edited. remember, there are 200 hours of tape down to two 37 minute

segments. >> i want to show more of that. there is a part there where you kind of have an interaction if you will with gordon ramsey and he kind of pushes your buttons a little bit it seems like. let's watch it. >> excuse me. excuse me. >> go on, you pompous [ bleep ] >> excuse me! don't talk to me like that. >> what's wrong with it? i want to know what's wrong with it. >> don't speak to me like that. >> [ bleep ] start getting a little [ bleep ] real. you still haven't got it! now this place is sinking. start paying a little bit more attention to the guys on the ground, understand how hard it is out there, forget your [ bleep ] antique road show and start from the bottom running this business. >> now, you look pretty mad there. did he really kind of get to you and were you thinking he was a little bit over the top or did you know this was just part of the show? >> oh, no. you get it. you -- you become emotional. if you don't, you're not human. plus, we basically wanted -- i

mean, we were there to be fixed. so we knew there were issues and we wanted to get them fixed. but i don't like people, you know, swearing like that at me, constantly, you know. it was like being -- i now know what boot camp is like. they rip you down and build you up. >> i wanted to read a few things they mentioned. they were -- before they came in and ramsey came in they were saying besides the raw sewage smell, that they say he meets the inn's wealthy and arrogant owner robert dean ii. do you take a little bit of you know -- is that kind of stinging a little bit to hear that? >> yes. first of all, i'm not wealthy. [ laughter ] >> so that doesn't sting and i really hope i'm not arrogant. i'm proud of our property. i love our reasonable. we are proud of our employees. >> and you feel that everything has been fixed and it was good that he was there? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, you know, what they don't realize is yes, we were

slow in paying our employees as was brought out in the show and there was a lot of complaints about that, but, you know, we have had a lot of support and people saying well good for ari and robert who actually kept these people employed. we haven't taken a paycheck so, you know, it's -- you have to look behind the scenes too. >> robert dean owner of juniper hill in vermont we appreciate your coming in. you're really a good sport. i want to mention, too, you have some coffee from juniper hill. i don't know if we can get a shot of it. he redesigned your logo and everything, he did top to bottom everything on your inn. >> he really helped us a lot. this promotes the historic preservation trust at juniper hill and that's our new logo so we're pleased with that. >> thank you so much, robert. >> road trip. i would totally stay there. thanks for coming in. "totem" is the latest cirque du soleil production to hit our area. it's a cosmic mix of tribal costumes, high-tech set designs and a host of characters to make it fun for the whole family. holly is with us now to tell us more.

holly, are you really going to try some stuff? >> reporter: let's see. single ladies yesterday rings today, it's only tuesday. whoo. this is a tough workout. but it's a fun workweek and it's always a good impressive time when you're hanging out with people from cirque du soleil so when they're in town we like it go behind the scenes. francis jalbert is joining us. >> it's training area, where they do their makeup and 45 minutes to an hour depending on the complexity. >> is this what you did? how you warmed up this morning? >> no. [ laughter ] >> what people may not know is most of the people come from a sports background so they were competing in gymnastics before coming to cirque du soleil and then we train them how to become artists, so to dance, to sing to play with the crowds and to give emotion to the crowd and not just be perfect.

>> reporter: that's a whole different world or another level. >> it's a completely different mindset. you perform 10 times a week instead of 10 tips a year so it's different as the preparation that goes into sports. >> reporter: i'm glad you brought that up with 10 times a week versus 10 times a year. you have a full staff that takes care nd the artists in terms of massage and physical training and -- >> yes. we have 50 people that travel with them making sure they're in shape and to prevent injuries but you have a pilates coach and others that help them to maintain their quality of performance on stage. >> reporter: so are they in here every day? >> the [ indiscernible ] are here every day and the pilates come at different times during the week. >> reporter: are the athletes here every day? >> every day. so the cast of "totem" performs six days a week. >> reporter: why was it important to have acrobatics? >> this is based on circus.

it's 10 amazing acrobatic acts that come from traditional circus or the gymnastics tradition and you'll be blown away. >> reporter: i'm going to be blown away here in a second. >> we'll see. >> reporter: when ollie puts me into his act. this is ollie, ladies and gentlemen. when i say the show never looked so good... [ laughter ] >> reporter: look at this face. so ollie, i want to understand something. you were competing on -- for finland in the gymnastics. >> yes. >> reporter: and cirque came to you? >> yes, that's what happened. it was european championships twine-wright before the creation of "totem" started and they were look for one more guy on rings and i talked to one of the scouts by accident and that's what happened. >> reporter: you know what's different is we were talking about this, francis and i. when you compete in, you know, like the olympics or in men's gymnastics in general, the rings are stationary. they are not going anywhere. but here in cirque they are moving up, down, flying all around. how hard was that for you to make that transition? >> of course it's a hard thing like -- we had eight months of

"creation," we created the act, tried different things. for me it was most learning out of gymnastics for getting all the rigid moments of gymnastics and learning how to perform. >> reporter: did you get dizzy? >> a lot. >> reporter: i just want to make sure. okay. so what are we going to do? >> let's try it. a little sequence. had. >> reporter: this is going to help me hold on. not that i don't have huge upper body strength. >> it's for safety. >> reporter: right. >> so right hand and then turn. and we hold hands. couple of steps for spin... good. slow hang...

>> reporter: are you going to catch me as i stand up and try to stay standing up? i'll get my hand out of here later. fox 5 is our website. we have a link to "totem" cirque du soleil here at national harbor running through october 7. you heard francis say there are 10 shows a week, 3 on saturdays. next hour we have a full act in makeup, costume, we're going on stage. you will see it live right here. back to you. >> perfect! good job! >> that was impressive! >> what is going on? holly is in the cirque show now! >> thank you. the first lady's quest to get kids to eat healthy has always relied on a little star power and yesterday she got some help from reed alexander. >> still ahead in the next hour we'll sit down with the teen actor to talk about his

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