malls in need. how cute is that. >> i want to say -- you brought it to my attention. i said 529 design. it's 529 consign. you'll find designer clothes at consignment shop.co >> easy to dons that. tucker barnes is in the weathera center with the latest on our forecast. hey, tuck. >> good morning, tony. it should be a beautiful day. a little cloud cover and once ad again the marine layer has moved in off the ocean. parts of the area are waking upp gray. by late morning or early ear afternoon we'll mix the afternoosunshine.. a beautiful afternoon expected. it's cool. reagan national, 50. dulles, 50. bwi marshall, 52 degrees, and we should see temperatures wellratu into the 60s or at least in

the low 60s by the noon hour. h here's your satellite and radar. watch the last couple frames. you can see a bit of gray working through the city into ct parts of montgomery county, pushing into virginia and then some clouds down in the southeastern part of the viewing area. and the clouds will burn off. we don't have anything to worryr about as far as any rain today or any thunderstorm activity. should be a nice, quiet q afternoon. the nice weather trend continuec for the neck several days. 71 the daytime high expected in washington. a little cooler by the bay. bay 62 in annapolis, about 70 out at dulles. lots more in the forecast in just a couple minutes, and i'm going to talk caps and caps craze with some big fans in a few minutes. allyson, back to you. >> can't wait. thanks so much, tuck. in the meantime this morning, mr maryland governor martin o'malley will sign a beal repealing the death penalty. there are currently five men on death row in maryland. the governor can choose too reduce their sentences or reduce

them to life in prison withoutio parole. >> supporters of the death penalty can petition the bill to a ballot for voters to decide next year. governor o'malley will also sign grace's law.e's that is to prevent cyber bullying. the maryland health progress act as well as legislation to improve voting access in the free state. in the meantime, a former culpepper county police officer will bety p sentenced this aften in the fatal shooting of a 54-year-old woman. a jury has recommended a three-year sentence for 33-year-old daniel harmonarmo wright. he was convicted of several charges including involuntaryry manslaughter in the death of patricia cook. now, cook was unarmed and una driving away from wright when he opened fire after investigatingi a suspicious vehicle call in february of last year. a maryland man faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to a deadly hit-and-run. joel bromwell admits he hit andd

killed 71-year-old ruby whitfield as h she crossed floro avenue northeast back in march. he also said he was drinking prior to the accident. he will be sentenced in august on involuntary manslaughter charges. a diplomatic compound is at the center of a human trafficking investigation. >> records show the property is owned by the kingdom of saudi arabia. melanie is live outside that o home in mclean with the details now. melanie? >> reporter: good morning, tony andoo allyson. federal shorts say and this is in their words, that they rescued two women from thiss compound in mclean tuesday night. it's got a couple of buildings i behind a locked iron gate. there's also a guard shack here. neighbors say they've noticed at lot of people living and working here, with yo but really no sigf unusual activity. so far there have been no arrest. the feds are not identifying the two women.

federal ice agents encountereded two potential victims of trafficking. they did not say if the women contacted them or if someone called ice on their behalf. sources familiar with the investigation indicate that authorities do not believe they were talking about any sort off sexual abuse here but that the t women did say they were being held against their will. one woman apparently tried to t escape by squeezing through a a gap in the front gate as it was closing, upsetting as you can imagine to neighbors. >> i was shocked. i live down the street. things like this don't happenape here. i'm surprised and feel so bad for the women if the story iss true. >> this is really strange. i mean, we've never heard anything. >> and again, no charges yet.

again, authorities also spoke to people using the words possibly human trafficking case. c no charges or no arrest yet. a spokesman with ies does ice cs as the investigation is in thein early stages.y we were able to contact someone from the saudi arabian embassy.. they said they had no comment and said the embassy and this complex are two separate operations. back to you. >> melanie, thank you very much. a guilty verdict in a high profile beatin beating case. 22-year-old tommy branch wasas found guilty on four charges. c his victim was capitol hill resident t.c.maslin. he was walking home from a netsa game when he was attacked. he suffered severe head injuries and continues his recovery. branch will be sentenced in july. two other men were with branch t the night of the attack. att one pled guilty. the other is awaiting trial.

well, three friends of bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev are under arrest this morning. they face charges of trying to help tsarnaev. >> two of the friends are from kazakhstan. they appeared in a boston court yesterday. investigators say dzhokhar sent them text messages on the nightt of april 18th. 1 they went to his room to watch a movie. that's when they saw a backpack and fireworks with the gun powder reit wa removed. they later allegedly threw the backpack and the laptop into a dumpster. the third friend is charged with lying to the fbi. an american man is sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in nortnorth korea as tensions cone on the korean peninsula. >> kenneth bay is a korean american from washington state. he was convicted in a trial on tuesday, but the u.s. state sta department says it's not aware n of the charges.ha north korean media are only saying that he was charged with

plotting to overthrow the government. bay regularly took small groupsp of tourists to north korea. kor he was arrested last november after entering the north on a valid tourist visa. the district of columbia isa moving closer to issuing drivers license to undocumented immigrants. later today mayor vincent gray and other city leaders will announce the introduction of thf 2013. >> it's a new law that would let dmv issue licenses, permits, or id cards to residentses of the district. >> now, in other local news, the mayor will be with the dc department of health to launch the city's first campaign against synthetic marijuana. it's aimed at helping kids and teens understand the dangers off the drug. the dc prevention center reports the use of synthetic marijuana among youths has significantly increased in recent years with t the average age of users around 13 years old.

there are new developments in the move to make the morningi after pill available without a prescription. >> justice department iss appealing a ruling that lifts age limits. l the federal government said thed judge who issued the ruling exceeded his authority and hisis decision should be suspended while the appealbe is underway. on tuesday the fda ruled anyone 15 or older could buy plan b without a prescription, twoion, years younger than the current age limit of 17. all right. turning now to some better news, really, news for the non-profit trust in charge of upgrading the national mall. >> german car maker volkswagenn will announce a $10 million donation today to that trust. t the company's ceo said he was shocked to see such poor conditions around the national mall and that he plans to to encourage other organizations to get involved as well. the trust has raised just over $27 million of the $350 million it says it needs for major

renovations. a somewhat grisly discoveryo at the jamestown settlement in virginia.inia scientists found the first solid ararchaeological evidence that some of the earliest settlers returned to cannibalism. >> it happened in what's known o as the starving time. here's more on what is really aa phenomenal discovery. >> it'som anen amazing discovers it's fascinating on a number of different levels. we know whatdi times were like k back then. we read all those stories. there was a 14-year-old girl whw was clearly cannibalized. she was discovered in jamestown last summer. sum the bones reveal marks that tha indicate they were chopped. c that refers to the deadly winter of 1609 to 1610 when settlersetl arrived from england during thee worst drought in hundreds of years. experts said that led people too commit acts only done under thee

most desperate of circumstances. >> it is within the context of this starving time, very dreadful 1609-1610 winter whereh they lose over 80% of the people people. at the epidemic, there are onlyo 60 individuals surviving,urvi totally dire circumstances, completely backs up against the wall, and people, someone or somebody doing what they needed to do in order to survive. >> now, before this discovery there had only been unconfirmedc reports of starving columnng nifties who resorted to eating t dogs, mice, snakes, and shoe leather to survive. the remains will be placed on display at jamestow jamestown eg the starving time prd and the pe horrid conditions. they will tell visitors that vis what they're about to see is pretty disturbing. >> i've been there. i love it. love all the historical,l,

archaeological finds and all fin that. i've been there. that really will -- i mean, i know it's a very moving tribute to those settlers and the native americans. >> you have to kind of tell tel people all right, this is history. you kind of have to get your mind wrapped around this. >> right. >> this whole cannibalism thing. it was a different time.nt it was a desperate time. >> you might say i could never n do that. >> it's easy to say that now, ii would never do that. we don't know. kn we only know what we've beeneen told. >> remember, this is hundreds on years ago. they're the first europeans over here trying to make a country of this, and they run across thishs desperate time where there's nothing there, and this bad time period as far as like the temperatures and everything, no food, so they were desperate. >> right. >> you just never know. kno again, you have to wrap your mind around it when you get ready to see this exhibit. to find that skull almost intact, it's amazing. >> it's amazing. >> the stories they tell us about history are truly amazing. >> thanks, wisdom. >> well, it can be a tough

transition for wounded service r members who return home, but a local marine learned thathat support is everywhere. see his amazing survival storyty ahead. and a big night ahead for the caps. some of their biggest fans are n here to cheer them into thehe playoffs. >> yeah. >> look at that. >> hanging out with tucker in tc the virtual lounge. >> the virtual lounge. we'll check in with them next at 9:12. >> it's not real? the day i understood that it woululd be impossible

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>> we talked to the three of you at the beginning of the season. >> the strike shortened s you guys were optimistic. of course, the team got off to o what i would call a terribleerri start. >> yep. >> that was a little tough to t take early.ou ear some of us were falling off the bandwagon early. ea you guys hung in there, and lo and behold, wow, what an ending to the season, right? >> yeah. y it was good in the last six weeks or so.eks >> more than you could ask for. >> a terrific turn around. >> anybody in particular yoular want to credit that to, that things came together?am >> everybodye and the coach particularly. i think he galvanized it all. i believe a 23r what from whate that everybody worked hard. it was magic in the last six weeks. >> the real season starts tonight. again, are they arch rival rangers? >> well, sort of, particularly

in the playoffs because we we played them what, this is the is fourth time in five years. >> the fourth time in five years. last year what, got to game gam seven and heartbreak. >> right.>> >> lost by one goal. >> the year before it wasn't the rangers but it was heartbreak. h are we to believe this is our year? >> this is the year. >> all right. what's going to be different b this year?th >>is the team, okay. oka we're not looking to two or three guys, we're looking for the whole team to come together. >> and you think we're going to be able to take the rangers thie time around? >> absolutely. abs here we go.e i like that. >> any surprises with thehe season? i mean, i know it was a short season, and of course, the touge start there, but with a new new coach and sort of new attitude. >> yeah. i think so.thin the coach, i think, you know, first time, you know, oates was an assistant coach.ssis this is the first year for him to be like, you know, the main coach, i think he's done an excellent job, rocky start, they had to all learn the new system. there was no training camp, so

obviously it appears since witht their last season success thatue he knew what he was doing and d he's got the team behind him, so hopefully that makes a difference. >> right. and with the caps being in town for a long time now, still no stanley cup. >> right. >> do we think this might be thertheir year? >> let's hope. >> all the teams are really even. you get the breaks, and you gett a hot goalie, you could go all l the way. w let's not rule it out. >> does home field advantage adv make a big difference in hockey? >> oh, absolutely.bsol absolutely. >> you don't think so? >> not especially. >> anything with the fan clubhe that you guys look forward to in the playoff? you guys get special vip accessc to whatever people are doing on the weekends?e >> we wish. w we wish. actually, the best opportunityny the fan club had this year was s they shot a commercial with ovie at the verizon center playing pa street hockey and the caps invited the fan club to

participate in the commercial. that was super. w >> so we're painting the town t red later this afternoon. a the game is at 7:30 tonight. >> 7:30. >> everybody get out there and support the capitols. cap this is our year. we're taking it all the way and finally bring the stanley cup back to washington. >> yes you bet. we'll check in with you guys as we get fort along in the playoffs. >> we're going all the way. >> that's it from the living room here. >> go caps. >> hang out here. this is the place to be.to >> i love it. >> i will. a local marine gets a heartwarming surprise.mi we're going to show itng to you knicks. first, holly is learning about the 35th president of the united states.un good morning,it holly. >> reporter: good morning to you. this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassinatioa of jfk. here at the museum one of the new exhibits the they have is cd three shots were fired. it only only tells about a significant historical moment for all of us, it also talks about the significance in changing how news was told. we're going to talk all aboutl

that and show you firsthand why you should come see this exhibit live later on fox 5 morning news. 

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love it. tuck your will tell utucker wilw will get. first, it's a shake that would t make the king proud.ro sonic is out with a new, wait for it, peanut butter and baconb shake. any reaction, tucker? >> i'm astounded by it. >> the large size packs more pac than 1700 calories and 118 grams of fat. 118 grams of fat. even the king would be like no way. no way. >> it has bacon in it. you can get the mini. 700 calories, 47 grams of fat. that's gross. i'm sorry. >> at a certain point it gets to that old is it irresponsible?

i know this is light talk, light banter, but 1700 calories. >> yeah, right. >> that's your allotment prettyt much. >> never mind the calories and d the fat. fat it's a stomach ache right there. >> it's got a nice cherry on top. i'd like no, hold the cherry, too many calories. cal half the whip cream and hold the calories. >> i would be laying on the the couch the better part of the day after i drink that. >> yeah. >> guess what i'm doing? >> exercising. >> are you really? good for you. >> it's swimsuit season. i have a big college reunion col coming up, i'm two weeks stronge right now. >> that inspires you. good for you. >> the weather has been encouraging. everybody outside running and doing it outside. it feels great. >> yeah. >> i feel good. thank you, tucker. >> good for you. you 51 at reagan national. i do want to mention in the live shot we have a deck of clouds that's just hanging out hereu across the city and points particularly south and east, ane it will take another hour or twr

to kind of burn that off. for parts of the area, it hasn't started off with full sunshine. there you go.e yo you can see the live shot. sh you can see the cloud cover. c we'll start to get breaks in thn clouds shortly, and it should i turn into a mostly sunny afternoon. we'll be nice and dry laterer today. this is some of that air off the ocean that we're dealing with da monday and tuesday that's giving us this little layer of cloud cover. 51 in washington, the cloudh cover holding us back a little bit. we bounced up into the mid 50s for viewers to the west. we're getting full sunshine already. 59 in culpepper, 54 this morning in martins burg. hager town. 52 in annapolis. starting to get cloud cover clo popping up in the last couple frames, particularly washingtonw and points south and east ace mentioned. that's about it. that's the only player in ourur forecast other than high pressure which has beeneen controlling our weather for the better par part of this entire e which is off to the north. that will continue to dominate things. notice the storm out to the west. that's winter weather.

yeah, winter weather in iowa and nebraska and kansas, and that start will have to steer up andp around this area of high o pressure. we're not going to be featuring any rain in our forecast any time soon. i think it will be early nex net week before we get a chance fora shower activity. act here's an area of high pressure. i mentioned it. because the winds dip out of the east, we're getting a bit off cloudiness to start the morning. it will retreat and we'll getet more clouds tomorrow afternoon.a we're not going to be perfectly sunny today or tomorrow. tom it should predominantly be nicen a beautiful afternoon for most of us today with highs about 700 sunshine. we'll go beautiful, winds out oo the east at 5 to 10. either way, we're dry. here's your 7-day forecast. 70 tomorrow, saturday and sunday, the weekend look great o with generally sunny skies and i there will be showers next week, probably late monday or tuesday. we'll get showers moving backck in. that's the latest on the weather. now let's toss it out to tony to who is outside. we're doing some gardening. >> thank you, tucker.

i know it's going to be great day today. to it's chilly out here right now. i'm with derek thomas of thomas landscape. we'll talk about attracting birds, butterflies, bees, and ad some other insects to your garden. hi there. good to see you.se >> good to see you. i've got the hat and the sweater on. its chilly this morning. >> you've got to dress appropriately. birds, i understand, butterflies, they're beautiful.. bees. i really don't want bees in the yard. >> well, you do want bees. it's the natural -- you want ton have a balanced ecology in your home garden because that's goini to help balance the neighborhood garden and so on and so on. on you know, the bees, the thinghe about bees, people are afraid of bees. a honey bee has, and particularly we're talking about attracting honey bees.on they've been on the decline. they're making a comeback, but t you know, if we didn't have

honey bees, we wouldn't have food. honey bees are the pol pollinatr for most of our food. we want bees. when you see a bee in your garden, and if it comes around, it's usually coming around like this flower. mother nature's got this all right. the whole flower, all the petals, the things we think are really attractive to us is is really about getting that bee right into the center of that flower. if it's a fruit tree, we'll gett fruit. if you see the bees in your garden and they're honey bees, b try to 1 leave them alone. a they don't want to mess with you. they're just about theirut business of collecting food. the same thing with the birds, you know. a lot of people say oh, my god, the birds are so messy. m there's some really -- there's a really big decline in some of o

the song sparrows and the wrenns in our area. this is a gourd which is very, very interesting. int it's been made out of a natural gourd. it's been hollowed out, and it's just the right size to get somet of the song wrens. this is a really good one. it will be attractive to song sparrows and some of the othertr smaller song birds that yo thatt to hae in the garden. g they're on the decline because d they tend to make very tiny nests in our shrubs and thingshg like that. cats and other things like that can actually find them because they sing, s but putting somethg like this into your landscape will also help. now, how do we -- why should wew think about this right now.smala even the sagege we can see the sage is getting t ready to flurry.to

this will attract hummingbirds m in your garden. g when it blooms in late summer, it will attract the monarch butter fly that does the migration into the garden. gar you'll provide food for the butterfly and the birds. it's like a rest stop. what you want to do, you want to plan it. bright colors. we'll make a container, tony. i'll give you this container.ont i want you to take it home, and i want you to report back to mee by -- you've got to take care of it. you've got to water it. i want you to let me know by thy end of summer how your gardende grows. >> do i put this outside?utsi >> you're going to put this outside now. what i'm doing is i've added lantana. the yellow flowers on the lantana are going to attract butter flies.bu they're going to attract bees. >> colors attract.ol >> theor bright colors, they loe it. mother nature has got that all planned out. we're going to add that in for a little bit of decoration. d the red of the salvia will bloom all summer. s let me know how this container n gross. as the summer goes along, you yo

can prune back the lantana if it gets too big. too you want to think about things that will attract native finches. they're beautiful. if you have cone flower or black eyed susans which is a native a flower in your garden, it will attract them. >> very good. v >> this is butterfly weed, another great thing. there are other great points. if you have any questions, look @thomasgarden guy.masg follow me on twitter for pointers. get the birds and bees back in the garden. >> it makes it pretty. >> look at that. it's amazing. >> that's gorgeous. >> i won't ask you about the t butter fly weed, what they get from that.from thank you very much. we appreciate it.we >> thank a you. tha stay with us. u holly is at the new seem with a

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>> it's 50 years since the deatd of john f. kennedy.enn the newseum is marking his presidency with a couple of special exhibits. holly is there this morning. good morning, holly. >> reporter: good morning to you. we spent the last couple years downstairs in what was called creating cam lot. you can feel the energy behind the magic of that time. when you come to the sixth floor, the exhibit is threeee shots were fired.re it's a decidedly different feel when you come up here. it's almost as if the grief andd the heaviness of that time is really palpable.pabl the curato rch of thr of the exs here. you know what is so amazing a about this exhibit? not only do you feel a sense of history, you start to understanr how history changed for news

gathering. >> absolutely. it was really a moment in time when we had just gone from 15 minutes to 30 minutes in ourn evening nightly newscast, and aa moment when television was t really onel the rise. it really solidified itself with the coverage of these four daysr where the networks went to commercial free which was unprecedented. >> wall-to-wall coverage for thh first time. >> absolutely. abs we don' didn't actually see than this country until 9/11. >> let's take people through the exhibit. there are some very special things that are part of the exhibit, and just like on anyny day when tragedy strikes, it starts out as a normal day. >> absolutely. one of the things we have that sort of speaks to that is the first lady's day. the schedule of things she would or would not.

on the top of the page you see the start of the motorcade. after that, the rest of the schedule is gone. also it helps to tell the story you have acquired some objects that have never been publicly displayed before. >>spla absolutely. we had a great opportunity to borrow some items from the national archives and have these items on display for the veryy first time publicly. pub there's a jacket that was worn by lee harvey oswald that was part of the chain of evidence for the law enforcement folks. he was wearing this jacket andnd then tossed it aside after he shot the officer, and then theye trailed him to the texas theatex where heas was arrested and he s wearing this shirt when he was arrested there, and he was carrying the wallet that you see along with these contents, and it goes everything from a fro picture of his wife to his card. there's a real range of things found in the wallet. >> interesting.

he's wearing that shirt, you know. >> you see him in that shirt for sure. >> now, there's more items over here. why do you think it was so important for them to release rl these items at this time, to put them on display publicly? >> i think that it was just -- we have a good exhibit that they were able to hip u help us brino life a little more for the gentle public.le >> more of the story. what's so amazing is there'shere still is this thirst for information about the kennedys. >> absolutely, you know. they were a young, exuberant family who da captured the imagination of americans at that time. with someone cut down in theown prime of life like that, they continued to be of interest.f >> you know what else i find interesting about this exhibit in termst th of telling the stoa someone in news is that you see different things.ff there are times whener you needt tited to be a good journalist tn tell the story. there were times when you wereh just a lucky jumperrist an luckd

got the story for being in the right place at the right time. >> that'sri for sure true.rue. then there were those who might not even have qualified as journalists who were citizen journalists. now everybody takes video onn their phones or think of all the information they got just in the boston bombings from regular people taking pictures. >> we sue th see the camera whit the film where he was just on a parade route, really. he thought he was just there toe see the president and shoe his enthusiastic support, and he captured probably what is the 26 seconds of the most famous homee movie footage around. >> you know what?t? you couldn't even grasp what he was filming at the time. >> absolutely not. >> it's sad he had it after the fact when i was reading about it. even thougthank you so much for,

for your insight. myfoxdc.com is our website.. there's a link to the newseum website. there's creating camelot. they have an originally documentary called a thousand days. back to you all in the studio. >> i can't wait to see that exhibit, holly. thank you very much. >> you will you really, really y it. allow time. t it's one piece that's more fascinating than the next. t >> thank you veryhe much. all right. switching gears, we're doing a wild swing. >> yes, we are. >> talking about some fantastic felines. >> they are entertaining andnter they are raising awareness. sarah? >> i know you guys will laugh at me because yes, i've already pretty much gone off and joinedd the cat circus. cir you know my loves for cats. we've got tuna here showing us her skills. what an amazing cat this is. it's all bee about an event come up this weekend. you can see these amazing ac row

cats. more of that coming after the break. you're going to join me, too. tomorrow i'm bringing in disco dog. dog we need fair time in here. not really. rea don't forget to send your questions for ask allyson tomorrow we have a grace segment segment. we have a life coach and a career coach. we talk about switching careers a lot.ot. this is what's happening.ng we're reinventing ourselves. we've got it covered forered tomorrow. if you want to send a question, go ahead and do so. head to myfoxdc.com and click oo the morning tab. we'll be right back. ♪ 

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>> they are smart, amazing. >> the amazing acro cats travel all across the nation, but they are meowing to our area for the first time this weekend. >> you do not want to miss outs on this opportunity to see these felines in purrson. joining us live are the amazingi cats. they're amazing. >> kelly is here. >> hi. >> helping with the cats. >> how in the world do you do this? >> it's all positive reinforcement.re we find things the cats doin on their own. we shape their behavior into ano few tricks. excuse me, sarah.arah rumor is that cats don't like to be told what to do. you have managed to -- is that -- some people say that. you've managed to not only train them but also have them do these amazing tricks. >> well, actually cats reallyats like the interaction.

people underestimate cats. they do really like to learn. cats get bored and that's why wy they develop behavioral problemo because they don't have a job. they don't have anything to do. they want attention. they want something to do.o >> that's true. >> interacting with the catshe just a few minutes a day andnd teaching them is really beneficial for the 'cats mental health. keeping them physically activity. 10 minutes a day and you canou have your cats doing all sortsos of amazing things.zi >> theyng like the interact. that's all true. do the a cats know how to play? they have different instrumentss and different activities. give us an idea for what these cats can really do. >> it's actually a 6-piece band. this is part of the band. >> very fancy. >> they held up traffic last night. it's the first time in our arear and we're going to give the audience information about the show. can you brag on basically the humanitarian aspect of all this, too? >> it' it really is.

you partner with shelters. >> we partner with shelters when able, and you know, we tour around the country and we educate people on the importanta benefits of, you know, working with their cats and also relationship with your cats, and then also encourage people to adopt from local shelters. cats are forme former orphans ad rescues and strays. it's kind of a popular method to the showop but aul lot of fun to watch. you never know what the cats will do. they're cats. >> you're in the background, right? >> i've been training animals since i was 10, and i went to school and got a degree in animal services, so it's opinion my calling to be an animal trainer. >> what do they do in the down time? do they like to hang out and bathe? do they take a rest? >> oh, yeah.eah. actually, they ar play with toys and games and you know, they

have quite a life. lif they work like five minutes a game and they take the rest of the time off. >> can you give us a sample of what they will do and what we could see? >> we have an hour show. cats playing cards, rolling barrels, jumping through hoops, walking a high wire. some of the cats do a little impromptu meet and greet with the crowd. cro the timey is th finale is the bn they do three pieces of our six-piece band.si we have ax- cat on drums and wew have a cat on chimes and a chicken on si crim cymbal and to >> it's all original materialera written and performed by cats. >> this is the cow bell, right?

>> in april of 2009 i got heavily involved in fostering. s i found homes for 106 cats and kittens during that time period. >> you see the keyboard player. i don't know if we've really seen that one yet. >> do a solo here. >> let's tell everybody whereve they can come out and see the show. it's at the theater, 508 charles street. we've got a kitten running around. friday to sunday, friday at 7,

saturday at 4 and 7 and sunday at 1 and 4. tickets are still available, bub they will sell out. yeah, absolutely. they are adorable. thank you so much for coming in today. tod we appreciate it. this has gone to the cats. >> i love it. >> pet of the day? can we just do this for the next 10 minutes? we've got some other pets we want to introduce as well besides the lovely cats. cat we have the special pets of the day. what are their names? lucky and rocky rocky rocky on . if you think they would be great addition, these two, to your family, visit them at the charles county humane society. dogs are $70 and cats are $30. >> wow. that's a good deal. >> aren't they cute? >> we've got a cat and a dog. >> love it. the amazing acrocats, everybody. we'll be right back. [ dog growls, barks ]

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>> breaks in the clouds. i know we've got a few clouds fw out there. it will be a beautiful bea afternoon. mostly sunny. mostly sunny. 73 and we're going to give you a nice weekend. w friday, saturday, and sunday,una lots of sunshine and dry. just a beautiful weather pattern. >> how can you really be down on anything when the amazing acro a cats are in the area. a >> thatre was an impressive siti >> love it.t. >> yeah.>> >> love it. our website for all the details because we know you don't want d to miss the show. >> thank mis you for watching f5 morning news.g n remember, the news is always ono alt myfox idc.com. >> wendy williams is next. >