drivers on the beltway in virginia will need to watch for construction crews at virtually all hours all this week. cost-cutting moves. a program which provides dc youngsters with summer employment could be on the chopping block. committee confirmation. the first round of senate confirmation for judge sonia sotomayor is about to get underway. good morning, everyone. i'm andrea roane. thank you for joining us. it is tuesday, july 28th. denny burns is in for angie goff. he will have the traffic in just a moment. but we say good morning first to howard bernstein. >> good morning to you. it is humid and muggy out there and with the sun out it will be

worse. it will be a hot and humid day out there. the saving grace is not much in the way of thunderstorm activity. no kicker or trigger to fire off the storms this afternoon. we had a couple ryer ovof showerght.s gh r ryveve light onig and e htcloud with them are starting to break up. 81ix of sun and dscl ouout rfolk 7. and we are on ol7. and we are an locally now i ind than locally now i think as the 9:00 numbers come in we will be pushing 80 degrees in a few spots. going 78. we'll see what happens in a moment when the 9:00 temperature comes in. 85 by noon and 91 for the a high with a slim chance of a thunderstorm. as you said, angie is off so kenny burns is watching the traffic for us. >> thank you very much, howard. we will start in downtown silver spring. georgia avenue and wayne avenue is closed because of a building fire. the fire trucks are on the right side of the screen. there are a little minor delay

in the area so take extra caution as you travel through. over to the graphics and show you southbound 95 leaving laurel to the beltway. you are having a little bit of a delay and it joins the outer loop of the beltway where it is generally jammed from college park to silver spring. 270 southbound as you saw in the this graphic. we will take it to you live. slow leaving germantown continuing to the beltway. and in virginia, 395 northbound slow duke to seminary road d an end in dc. inbound new york avenue is slow from the times building to bladensburg road. here's andrea. the hot lanes project could leave drivers hot under the collar this week. vdot crews are working overnight and during the daytime at some locations on the beltway. armando trull is live in annandale with the story. armando? >> that's right. right behind me two humongous cranes that are right now taking a break and in a half hour they will go hot and heavy at this part of annandale.

this scene will be repeated throughout the northbound and southbound inner and outer loops. hot lane construction is hot and heavy this week as crews begin to replace bridges, overpasses and interchanges along 14 miles of interstate 495 between the springfield interchange and the dulles toll road. all of this week there will be construction and construction- related activities between 9:30 in the morning and 3:30 in the afternoon at a half dozen points. >> we will be here a few weeks putting steel up on this side and then go and do the other side and at the same time throughout the summer we are at 5 -- 50, 123 and 66 so a lot of work to do before the november time frame. >> that means you will need to be prepared for lane and shoulder closures. >> reporter: closures taking place at the oak street overpass. the lee highway overpass and little river turnpike eastbound

exit. on the southbound outer loop, oak street overpass and the i- 66 exit at 49 and westbound on the inner loop expect closure on the franconia road side and the 395 north exit. you can see how the traffic is backing up and some crews are already out there getting ready to get their work underway beginning at 93. andrea, this will all happen at the evening side as well beginning 9:30 until 5:00 in the morning so getting busy in this part of annandale. reporting live, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. there's a lot to know about these delays on the beltway project. to learn more go to wusa9.com an visit the 9 news links page to get more information. a little relief for your evening commute across ilaiu e while you slept crews created a

new turn lane for people making a right turn on to 123 on the virginia side. the bridge has been down to one lane for nearly two months and caused huge backups in the morning and evening rush. the virginia department of transportation is issuing pink slips to hundreds of workers this week. 600 people are looing their job -- losing their jobs this time around. it is part of the cuts in an effort to close a $2.6 billion short fall. dc's summer jobs program is doing so bad the dc council is considering shutting it down early. the washington examiner says ending the summer youth employment program ahead of schedule is one of many ideas which surfaced during a session aimed articling looming deficits in 2009 and $150 million in 2010. mayor fenty has asked for $23.4 million to finance the last week of the program.

heads up to montgomery county workers, furloughs and layoffs could be coming your way. in a letter to the county council, county executive ike leggett put the option on the table but no specifics have been given. the county already cut 400 jobs rate is rising fast in meungomoco tycoit jumped from 2.7% in 2007 and now is 5.7% this year. the education assistance program in montgomery county is facing scrutiny. the inspector general will investigate whether ethics rules were violated. the office will look at taxpayer funded payments made over the past three years to applied sciences. during that period, 330 county public safety officers enrolled in classes taught by the company. once they completed the courses the officers were offered handguns and sniper rifles sometimes at a 90% discounted rate. montgomery county executive

ike leggett has introduced a pedestrian safety campaign. it targets teen and inexperienced drivers who are at a higher risk of being involved in collisions. >> listen to the testimony of the people who are involved in this video and it is my belief that emotional contact and emotional feeling that you have expressed will be conveyed to future drivers and current drivers as well as pedestrians who are trying to be protected as well. >> the new psa videos will be featured in montgomery county schools. alexandria's police chief is scheduled to appear in court as the defendant tomorrow after his dui arrest over the weekend. officers in arlington say chief baker smelled of alcohol and failed all the field sobriety tests he was given. they determined the chief caused a crash along i-66 ramp near fairfax drive. tests show he had a blood alcohol will have of .19, twice

the legal limit. he is on leave while an internal investigation is underway. budget constraints in prince georges county are have led to a reduction in man power at some fire houses and now the question remains has this led to a closure of some of those fire houses. at station 41 in calvert on the, no firefighters bedu otyn for threblsefotue ea. fu spe itth e lackof man lapower, county officials say it doesn't mean the station is closed. >> it is not in a -- isn't that in a sense closing the fire station there. >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> because the personnel is moving down the street. >> reporter: so there is a reduction of service at those locations, correct. >> there is no reduction of service. they will be covered by surrounding companies. >> the firefighters will be based out of the beltsville station. no personnel means to some residents that the fire stations are closed. firefighters are trying to figure out what caused a fire

in prince georges county. it caused $1 million in damage to a knights of columbus hall. this is in oxon hill, maryland. no one was hurt but you can see the damage is extensive. it took firefighters nearly an hour to knock it down. today the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on judge sonia sotomayor's nomination to the u.s. supreme court. only one of the committee's republican members says he'll support sonia sotomayor. that is south carolina's lindsey graham. his republican colleagues do not believe she will be able to set aside personal biases and prejudices to decide cases impartially. sonia sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation by the full senate. also in the senate, secret talks on health care reform are now public. a bipartisan group admits it's been working behind closed doors trying to come up with a compromise bill. the associated press says the deal would not require large employers to offer insurance

and would not be a government insurance option. however, there would be a tax on health benefits. it would stop insurance campaigns from denies new coverage. what will it take to present a consensus bill before the congressional recess? with me now is role call newspaper's erin billings. thank you for being with us. we heard a little bit of the details but this with max bauc auction us coming out and telling us about a bipartisan secret meeting. who is involved? >> there are six negotiators. they are all on the finance committee which max chairs. they have a meeting for some time. there are three republicans and three democrats including the chairman and a ranking member of the republicans they have trying to forge a compromise that may get through the senate. even though the democrats have 60 votes in the senate nothing is easy over there. there is a diverse democratic caucus and some conservative members that don't like a lot

of the things the liberals like so this is a complicated matter. they are trying to come up with something at least a few republicans can support. they think they may have gotten somewhere. however, liberal democrats are probably not going to go for this. >> you get one group to go along. >> this is such a balancing act. they are talking about not doing the public option, which is allowing government to offer, having some government- run insurance component and that is is -- liberal and majority democrats favor that and think that is the way to achieve real reform. i'm not sure if the deal will go far but you never know. >> chairman baucus was holding that secret session and you had in the house john boehner and his counterpart governor

powlenty of minnesota. >> they were working on something as well because john boehner is concerned how much this will cost state government. >> republicans one of the argue. s against the democratic plan is the cost. everything we have seen so far is we are looking at over a trillion dollars. that's obviously a lot of money and there's concerns how to pay for it. democrats have concerns as well but that is one argument that republicans are having and typically as states are grappling with tough economic times i think they can use it to their political advantage and make the case this is not the way to go. certainly the governor is a potential candidate for president in 2012. i don't think that any of this is by accident but certainly republicans are looking for opportunities to critique the democrats proposal. >> you are not saying politics will play a role in coming up with health care reform. never. >> speaking of politics, role call is reporting that chris dodd is in trouble in his re-

election bid. what's happening? >> he is one of the most targeted, if not the most targeted democratic senators in 2010. republicans think they have a chance to take him on. polling in that state shows he is not in good standing. you know, he's suffering a lot of criticism because he ran for president. obviously unsuccessfully. he did not really measure the mark. he got less than 1%. he moved his family to iowa. you know so connecticut voters are having trouble with that and feel he wasn't paying enough attention his senate duties and paying attention to other things. >> some ethics questions. >> there are ethics questions. this is back in the news again. the countrywide mortgages, whether he got special preferrial treatment on his home mortgages. that is obviously leading the headlines again. that does not help him and also his relationship with lobbyists keep coming up. is he too cozy with him.

he seems to be still going to fund-raisers with them, et cetera. so chris dodd has to do some making up with the people of the connecticut if he wants to secure his seat. he has a tough re-election. >> reporter: we said earlier that so far on the judiciary committee only one republican, lindsey graham, said he will support -- because he said there is obviously nothing wrong the president should be able to get his nominee. when we get to the full senate, will it be strictly along party lines again. >> no. there are five republican senators who said they support her. lindsey graham is obviously the one in the judiciary committee which votes in less than an hour. they get together at 10:00 this morning. that will be a party line vote. lindsey graham will be probably the only republican to support sonia sotomayor in committee. however, the full senate is going to vote probably next week. there are at least five, i'm guessing there will be more. the number guessers are saying it is probably going to be 70 votes for her.

she will pass by a comfortable margin. >> she will be seated before october. >> yeah. there's no reason. if the senate votes to confirm her next week no reason why she can't go be ready to get on the job when the high court reconvenes for the next session. >> thank you very much. good to see you. texting while driving is a lot more dangerous than many of us would like to think. and a man federal investigators say is at the center of a multibillion dollar ponzi scheme has to be -- asks to be moved back a ofcool air. fafab@fafa

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think twice before you text behind the wheel. a study says it is more dangerous than previously thought. researchers at the virginia tech transportation institute found truck drivers who text were 23 times more likely to get in to a crash or a near crash. right before an accident, drivers took their eyes off the road for nearly five seconds. at 55 miles an hour, that's plenty of time to cover more than the length of a football field. >> people like -- not paying attention to the highway and they could hit something or you or i could be hit. >> reporter: researchers say the finding should be applied to all drivers. the district and 14 states currently ban texting while driving. the attorney for accused texas swindler allen stanford says his client should be moved

to another facility. there's been no air conditioning in the cell where his client is held. he faces criminal charges related to an alleged $7 million ponzi scheme. how hot is it out there? here's howard bernstein. >> warming up. the humidity, as well. today in the low 90s. slim chance of a thunderstorm. tomorrow better chance of storms and cooler, upper 80 and on thursday lower 90s with a chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. in writing the forecast first, partly to mostly sunny. a stray thunderstorm. most of us will stay dry, low 90s. the vast majority of us will be dry today. south winds five to ten. mostly cloudy. a chance of a shower tonight, slim, 66 to 74 and then tomorrow, mostly cloudy with scattered afternoon thunderstorms mid to upper 80s. south winds 10 to 15. a couple of showers, brief ones overnight and then look at this, clouds have really broken up by the way, we are seeing not just sunshine but hazy sunshine out there. here we go. looking back from 6:15.

you can see how the sun is come out but this summery haze feel to it and temperatures now in the upper 70s at reagan national. southeast wind at six. and the dew point measures how much moisture is in the air almost 70. that's a tropical feeling air mass. and sticky outside. 79 cambridge. 78 andrews air force base. i spoke to the folks at leesburg airplane a few moment ago and said what is going on with your therm. he said right now they are doing construction so the sensor is in an area that reads warm but when they finish construction they will move it and get it recertified. the temperatures will run warm for the middle of next year hopefully sooner. nice warm start to the day. going to get hot. big time showers and storms across arkansas, louisiana. some areas here three-plus inches of rain over the last 36 hours. more showers and storms in to

mississippi, tennessee, alabama and deep south. for us the weak front is falling apart. so no real trigger. with no real trigger we are looking at a chance for little to go on around here. south of us and out west a better chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. for us the next seven days look like this. hot today. slim chance of a storm. scattered storms tomorrow and 87. as we head to thursday and friday, up around 90 with mainly afternoon storm chances and even in to sunday and monday still warm with a chance of thunderstorms. >> andrea? >> thank you, howard. if your hunt for a job has nd end t n'do vegi do website you ma. y bsityou may of could land itd arofulcod land you the job of your dreams. it is called geebo.com. and with me is the ceo. pleasure to meet you. >> going on the website it proudly hails it was created to be more than regional

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announces to twitter job searches. it has 800 twitter accounts. they retweet the jobs we send to them and then hopefully if a job seeker doesn't see what they are looking for, it is not what they want they can retweet it on and it keeps going and going. >> the you talk about the services offered, rhymemies and rentals and things of that nature but the job site has taken off but i said at the beginning it is a job site that you have probably never heard of. how long has geebo been up and running and why do you think more people haven't heard about it. >> we have been around years now. i start the company. quite honestlystarted it to co etwia te e etwith a local newspaper website. at that time i was ling in sacr pa crcramento. local paper was the "sacramento bee." i dink't thito ey twe re doing a good job of it. and anme ca d ancame up with geebo. it happens be a childhood

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>> you also, the visitors to your site, you don't just see as users but you call them neighbors. why does this distinction matter to you? >> i think we need to look out for one another and it is real important to me when somebody comes on the site and interacts with the site they feel comfortable and that they are as safe as they can possibly be. you know, the law doesn't make us do certain things and monitor the site but we think it is the right thing to do. we want people to be safe. we don't want to make headlines -- >> as part of doing the right thing you are giving back to the community and supporting children's charities. >> we started that from the beginning nine years ago. it has carried forward. most recently we donated programming services to a local nonprofit and we want to do that. we hope to announce big news here with a local organization in the greater dc area. >> we look forward to hearing that news, as well.

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inspired by the deadly crash on met tremendous' red line. montgomery county public schools is giving away 15,000- pounds of school supplies and going to children in need. it began yesterday in rockville this is the tenth year of the school supply drive. the giveaway continues today from 10:00 a.m. to noon. here's kenny burns with an update on traffic. >> we will start with the graphics as you leaf laurel on 95 maryland. you will experience a slow delay continuing to the beltway. switch over to the outer loop. this is the outer loop at new hampshire avenue. that delay is jammed up leaving college park and route 1. over to the morton temple. 270 southbound is jammed at the frederick montgomery county line. it continues to the split. a delay also continues on to the spur. inner loop of the beltway in virginia slow from little river turnpike to i-66. northbound 395, delays in the clearing stages between duke

and seminary -- duke and seminary. for traffic anytime, log on to wusa9.com. >> they log thousands of miles every summer rving and this year they are doing something special. this isn't an ordinary rv but the first hybrid rv on the mark and brad is here to tell me about it. >> you do this every summer. >> ten summers in a row we do it. >> our kids have gone to 45 states. >> there is something on the side of the bus, hybrid. tell me about the technology and how it differs from other rvs you have been on. >> if you want to go inside. >> yeah. >> they create motor home and better gas mileage and suvs an solar and wind power kits you can adapt to your rv and this is sort of the next step.

this is winnebago industries which is at the forefront of technology. it has an concept rv. it is not on the mark yet but they are testing the viability of it. it has a diesel engine an electric motor. >> the kids are here and they have the morning yogurt and breakfast going. >> it is comfortable in here and it is hybrid. they work in conjunction according to the driving conditions. >> not much different than hybrid cars. >> but you don't have to plug anything in. a lift in battery powers the vehicle and we collect refrigerator magnets have a schedule of our trip to let the kids know where we are going. >> a side by side fridge. no ice and water in the door but pretty comfortable. >> yeah. the kids sleep in bunk beds actually which is new for us this year. and that's a lot of fun. >> do they like it? >> they love it. every day is a new adventure. it is the adventure of the open

road but we have comfort. we do children's museums and beaches and every attraction you can imagine over the summer and my kids get education disguised as entertainment. >> we are back in the master suite where you have a little flat panel on the wall and a dress and queen size bed. >> two flat screen tvs in here, shower, toilet, everything convection microwave oven and it's really, it is the best way to travel. i can't imagine traveling hotel to hotel and airline to airline with my family. we have the home with us. we have room for our comfort items. >> what is the disadvantage. where to park. in a city setting sometimes it is not that easy. >> you would be surprised. first of all you get a great view of the road. so that is more comfortable and more safe and everything is increasingly rv friendly whether, cities have signs that say rv friendly.

and you can drive most places and we feel comfortable. we are not towing a car and we feel driving wherever we have to go. >> supermarket, laundromat, wherever. >> and there are 65,000 rv camps and there is a book three inches thick and they rate how clean and how environmentally friendly and what kind of space you have and so you can pick and choose and there are many choices. that's the great thing about rving you travel at your own pace and terms. >> to do you have to plan where you are going to go. >> you can do it any way you want. you can be spontaneous but i tend to be me tick tick louse. that we we can maximize the experience and leave room for spahn nayty. we have done so many things we went parasailing in key west, kennedy space center. the civil rights museum in memphis. all sorts of things. every year is an adventure. >> a comfortable couch.

i have to tell you. how long is this thing, driving something like this versus a car had to take some time to figure out. >> it took a few days. it is 36 long this one. it is different but not difficult. you get a better view of the road. you get used to it quickly. you take wide turns. don't rush things but beyond that is it is not difficult. you don't need a special license or anything like that. >> i like what you were telling me that even though there is a couch here when they are moving the kids are buckled in, safety is important. rv hybrid. this is fascinating. >> we feel great we can have this adventure and be eco friendly at the i am time. >> a true way to go green while you are rolling green. >> coming up free parking at a local airport is a thing of the past and a popular auction site is reduced in fees. we will tell you all about it when 9 news now returns.

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especially if you travel with the family it adds up each way. >> that's each way. >> a. >> each way. >> if you are three people. >> 75 out and back. >> for one. >> so you found us a story about united dropping a last- minute fee. >> there's good news. for frequent flyers we have a lot of united frequent flyers in the area because of their presence in dulles. they had been charging booking fees if you were booking freak flyer tickets in the last minute and so the free tick wasn't free. yesterday they said they will drop the fee. so if you want to go and redeem 80,000 miles to go to rio tomorrow you can you can do it. >> go back to the baggage fees a couple of tips to avoid paying baggage fees all together or minimizing. what do you suggest for us. >> in this area we are fortunate to have a presence

with southwest. as of yet southwest does not charge a fee. that is one way to avoid fees for checked bags, fly southwest. two this is time intensive. fly frequently on the same airline. if you earn elite status they waive fees. and pack a carry on. you may not like to carry on but. >> it is so difficult to get all the shoe and toys and items in there. >> you can put a value on it at this point. >> another idea is if you are traveling with a group of three or four people try to spread out your luggage so everyone has one checked bag instead of two. may not get you out of a fee but instead of paying a first and second bag fee you are paying first fee so it will eliminate cost and some airlines don't charge for the first but the second. that's another way out of it. another way that doesn't help you avoid paying but avoids you in the lean at the airport if

you plan to ship your goods overnight or three or four days ahead if you are going to the beach and you have beach toys or things you only need for the beach send it to your friends where you are staying you don't want to lug it through the airport and still going to pay for it but at least it is insured if it gets lost. that's one big advantage. >> reporter: on my vacation i'm going to buy toiletries there so i don't have to lug them there. talk about fees. they are here to stay, aren't they? >> a lot of people grumble. they were added when oil went through the roof last year and the airlines said they needed to add the fees because they couldn't raise fares fast enough and passengers may grumble about it but airlines have shown that passengers are willing to pay for the fee whether they like it or not and one interesting thing is southwest. they have been a holdout saying we want to be perceived as the

airline that dud not nickel and dime customers but if they don't make some money some are suggesting that they may change in 2010. right now a big differentiator for us. especially in dulles and baltimore they have leverage over delta and american that charge for bags you think of southwest from frills but at least you get free baggage. >> thank you for your advice. speaking of travel, howard has the update. >> if you are traveling locally fine but if you are going to the mississippi valley or the plains or great lakes you have some issues with thunderstorms. a disturbance passing through chicago. a lot of rain. low mississippi value alen ' deep south and across the plains we are dealing with showers and thunderstorms. as we look at the forecast for

today, detroit, chicago, thunderstorms are possible there. same story in atlanta and new orleans. even orlando may see a thunderstorm. but north and east of us, new york and boston dry. temperatures in the 80s. out west we got some serious heat. in phoenix and even parts of the northwest are dealing with triple dig heat. areas that don't normally see it. they have the air conditioning like other parts of the country. denver and minneapolis comfortable and storms are possible from kansas city to dallas. all things considered our weather is pretty good compared to the rest of the country. a cable network is credited with being one of the most diverse networks on television. and next we're in the kitchen preparing a healthy meal that can tobenefit your heart. keep it here. activate over 100 hd channels? program his remote? it's like you've been watching him all day. have you been watching me all day?

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our kitchen. good to have you with us. >> great to be here today. >> happy anniversary to you. >> 20 years. >> it's a business that is hard on small restaurants. about 4 -- 40% fail. what do you attribute your success to. >> before i start can i give you a hat. we have a new diner for the new generation. i'm old generation. >> part of the new look for the 20th anniversary. >> oh, god. is that me over there. look at that. the secret to our success is that we have food and great price ranges. you can come to the diner for 3.999 for breakfast and 5.99 for lunch and 9.9 for dinner. i will show you a dish that is one of our heart healthy dishes the diner is known for heavy food. >> meat and potatoes, comfort food. >> we have a flounder also over

here fried. the fried one is just as popular as the pan fried. i have pan fried fraud i. i take the flounder fillets. i think this is a great dish for mom on the way home, soar cook something quickly because you can cook it quickly. and if you want it faster you come to silver diner and it is 9.99 and even better. you take the flounder fillets and cut it in half. you can use sole, but we use fluider. i take a little milk, buttermilk and mustard and marinate it for 15 to 20 minutes so it picks up the flavor and the acidity goes to the fish and s b@kemait nice an moist. seasoned flavor. if you don't want to use flour if you are allergic use rice flour or cornstarch gluen free and over here like i did, i pan fried in a little oil and you

can use smart balance or olive oil and once you flip it over, take a littler the yak i can sauce, any brand you want to have that's your favorite. i have this great actually hebrew company that make a greater the yak i can. >> i notice your seasonings are either in your milk or in the flour orer the yak i can sauce. >> little silver dining season in the flour. this is great. when we serve at the diner we have brown rice and wild rice mix and a fan louse dish but coming back to what you were saying before. our success has been -- the dinner -- the diner is an old- fashioned concept and we updated ourself with new uniforms and new food and new menu. >> and new music. >> madonna is vintage because now we have that music in the diner. >> season that amazing and big

plans for 2010. tell us about that. >> in 2010 we will put the diner at the pentagon location. bennigan's didn't do so well. they should have come to us for the 3.99 and 9.99 dishes. over here this is what we serve you for dinner. look at the value. >> and 9.99. we top it with a it will mango pineapple salsa. make it any way you want to make it. colorful, take mango and pineapple and scallions and banana peppers. you were saying you like hot peppers. you change it and put hot peppers in. do whatever you want to do. >> we willankeste taba and tast as he puts the also that on top and we will have the wall street number and howard has the seven day when we come back.

a downer on wall street this tuesday morning the dow is off 60 and the s&p 8.10. and nasdaq 8 1/2. is the correction everyone has been predicting? we will see by the end of the day. a landmark hearing on lyme disease takes place this week. we will hear from a key witness tomorrow. the mayor of ocean city stops by on thursday and on friday mind over money. experts helping you get out of a mortgage problem or out of debt. >> and help you find more money. >> yes, they can. 91 afternoon. hot and steamy but i don't think we will see much in the way of thunderstorm activity until tomorrow when we are in the upper 80s. the rest of the week, optimistic about saturday, isolated storm and on saturday

keep it dry and sunday i will be at the leg guess g mason family day on sunday and there is a chance in the upper 80s and i want to eat this fish. >> 20 years of the silver diner. >> 60 locations one at the airport and two new concepts, metro, one annapolis and fairfax. >> and you say good food and good prices. >> oh, yeah. >> i'm going to finish it. >> you want more money come to the diner. we will give you more money. >> see you bright and early tomorrow morning at 4:55 a.m. happy anniversary silver diner.