an ironic twist. a fire at a local fire house highlights the problem of not staffing firefighters because of budget problems. g.i. bill overhaul. president obama and senator jim webb celebrating the new improved g.i. education bill. uncertain future. lawmakers appear unable to reach a compromise what to do with terror detainees at guantanamo bay. good morning. i'm audrey barnes in for andrea roane. thanks for joining us. today is monday, august 3rd. the gang's all here. >> it is august. >> it is august. howard has weather. angie has traffic. >> audrey goes it is only june. why are summer clothes out in the mall? it is august, audrey.

>> four weeks until the 31st. get the weather going even though it is august it will feel good for this time of the year as the humidity levels drop with a northwesterly wind. this afternoon we are talking warm temperatures. almost hot. tomorrow when weget time lapse isrn g. in love the picture here where the buildings are lit i and it light a lot of haze a lot of ha ofthaiair. e sun off ee a litt lithe river and a little haze o e.er erncut rre.temperatures 74 reagn national. northwest wind atand and direhula mity humidity 74%. 65 . whwe lepot ft when we left you on friday it was 72. so that number isniur t ngur in e ren.ctdi direction.in the in the in ernd, in cumberland, martinsburg and culpeper. 77 cambridge and fredericksburg and 75 in fredericksburg.

when the 9:00 readings come in we will be closer to that 77. and 83 by noon and 10% chance of something popping up thunderstorm wise. time for angie's traffic. >> happy monday, everybody. thanks for joining us for this 9:00 hour. talking about the traffic. begin with route 5, branch avenue where it meets woodbridge road. crash activity. turning on the cameras and take it outside. the outer loop in more. a ten minute commute from 95 to georgia. what we are looking at here is a disabled vehicle to the left should -- shoulder. possibly a crash scene. blocking the left lane. this will add to that jamup. live from new hampshire here waiting for a response to arrive. to he the map, a water main break at 7th and taylor in

northwest dc. crews are out there working hard. in virginia 395 one slow ride from duke to seminary and new crash activity near the shirlington area. to wrap it up 66 eastbound, happy to report between dulles and the beltway no incidents or accidents at this time. over to you. >> thank you. bug constraints in prince georges county have left some fire houses unstaffed. case and point, this morning a fire broke out at the boulevard heights department. the response could have been more timely. armando trull is live in capitol heights to explain. >> audrey it happened around 2:00 this morning. firefighters from the boulevard heights station had just returned from a call and they parked their fire engine inside the station. that's when they noticed there was smoke coming out of that fire engine and they started to check to see where it was coming from. they determined it was in the

engine compartment. before they could deal with it, it basically ignited in to heavy flames and smokes and basically engulfed the entire vehicle. that's when the only three firefighters inside the station at the time called for reinforcements. they asked for reinforcements from the capitol heights station and district heights station. the capitol heights station responded here two minutes later than they should have. they should have gotten here in six minutes and got here eight minute at the call amy the district heights station got here within the time frame. while no in one was injured and the damage to the vehicle was severe it didn't damage the fire house much. but what firefighters are saying is this could have been a lot worse had it been at a home and they are hoping the staffing effects instituted will not affect the safety of the population but for now they are not sure. back to you in the information center. this week we expect to get answers behind the fire that

destroyed the home of former dc school board member peggy cooper. firefighters could do nothing but watch as her house on chain bridge road burned down. the reason is low water pressure. fire department investigators are trying to figure out why the pressure was so low and they should issue report this week. dc officials say a new psychiatric hospital will not be big enough to how's the anticipated number of patients when the facility opens next year. dc council member says the $157 million, 293-bed facility on the campus of saint elizabeth hospital will be about 70 beds short. dc officials say when the female was designed several years ago, it was thought more people would receive treatment at community hospitals, but that does not appear to be the case. the cost of public school education is skyrocketing. the per student expenditure in our region this year is

$14,240. it is up from $9,800 in 2002. however, while we are spending more, it doesn't appear we are getting big improvements. education officials say there have been only minor improvements in standardized test scores and the graduation rate. the $19 cap on taxi cab rides that beganned and in the district has been lifted. the dc council has phone away with the cap calling it arbitrary and unfair. it was originally put in to place after the zone fare system was replaced with meter cab fare. the new rule goes in to affect in october 1st. in just under an hour, president obama will attend a celebration on the campus of george mason. the president will join virginia senator webb and others to mark the start of a new g.i. bill. the bill will be the largest expansion of benefits for veterans since world war ii. it officially began on

saturday. unlike the previous g.i. bill, active, reserve and military who served three years in iraq and afghanistan will join the same benefits as full- time members. the benefits include tuition and housing and a $1,000 annual text book allowance. the family of a missing navy pilot have some answers nearly two decades after his disappearance. scott speicher's f-18 was shot down in the first hours of the persian gulf war. remains found in the iraqi desert are those of scott speicher. his family and friends pressed the military to continue to search for him and they say now they have the closure they have been seeking. diplomates are working to find out the status of three american tourists reportedly detained in iran. the missing americans were at a hotel in northern iraq before going for a hike along the border between iraq and iran. state tv reports the three were

arrested after they allegedly crossed the border in to iran. federal authorities are considering a plan to move suspected terrorists held at guantanamo bay to prisons in michigan and kansas, but the ranking republicans in the u.s. house said that plan is ill conceived. ohio congressman boehner is calling on them to go back to the drawing board. they have struggled for months how to close the navy base in guantanamo. white house officials are not ruling out the possibility of raising taxes to fund the deficit and fund the health care reform plan. timothy geithner says the deficit must be reduced for the economy to prosper long term. economic council director says funding must be found to pay for overhauling the health care system. the president's economic team says the administration will work with congress to extend unemployment benefits.

the popular cash for clunkers program may be suspended unless the senate approves additional funding. the obama administration says the program, would give americans up to $4,500 to the purchase of a new car and it will be halted week. the house of representativeses approved an additional $2 billion to keep the program going but the senate is yet to act. >> reporter: congress is setting its sights on big banking bonuses. the house voted to restrict controversial compensation packages after nine banks who took billions in federal bailout money paid thousands of employees millions in bonuses. members of congress will take their case for and against health care reform to their constituents this month and the president is looking for a way to keep it from falling apart. joining me now is johnathon allen from the congressional quarterly politics.com. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> we will talk about health care. already it seems like the

president has been dealt a couple of blows with this health care reform idea. >> they set an objective of getting a bill passed through the house or senate by the all recess. that didn't happen. you have seen difficulties in the house getting the bill through committee. the senate hasn't gotten a bill through the finance committee so they are further behind than they would have liked to have been. when you don't set deadlines nobody works to beat them. >> so what will happen now? >> this is a critical period because all of these members are going to the district and will hear from their constituents and an opportunity for anti-forces to rally, seniors and others who may have concerns about the bill coto come out and give a hard time to the members of congress. you will see a lot of advertises on both sides and i think it is an important point for the president to push the message in a more specific way, otherwise he won have anything for them to defend when they go

out to talk to constituents. >> seems like he is doing a little bit of that. going out on the stump and talking about that what it means and what the plan is about. >> while the president has been talking about the general principles on health care, he dunn really make any specific choices out of the various plans. so that's been frustrating i know members of congress who want to know what the white house envisions in a final bill. right now they are talking about broad sets of principles and the provisions that go in to three or four or five versions of the bill, which makes it difficult to talk about specifics with your their constituents and easy for opponents to pick out the things mosses easy to ridicule. >> reporter: is it possible that there are so many pools out there this will be watered down and not effective at all? >> absolutely a possible the president will be forced to scale back from what you would look at as a major health care

reform bill to something that tackles insurance industry practices. puts a few more people -- i should say millions more but less than they want to. but i don't think the white house will order -- we start to talk about subsidies for larger pools of people that don't fit in to this category. >> you have had a chance to examine it. what do you think the key things are people aren't getting as we decide how we feel about it? >> the basic question hasn't been answered yet by the public or members of congress or by the president is whether the government should have a role, a larger role in the health care system and ultimately what is battled over here is public option that you hear a lot about. which i think rightly the debate is whether that is

something that you go on-line with, whether the government should have an insurance program for not just the elderly or poor. some believe in that. some believe in a nation health care system and others don't. but i don't think the debate is really being had over here as far as the public option but we are not talking about what it would mean to the government providing subsidies for a lot of citizens. how is that going to bring down health care costs long term and how does it have a better outcome for people with various diseases and immunizations. the millions of statistics you would see on various health care plans. >> do you think the president will ultimately get it through. >> i think he will get something but details are in

play. >> thank you very much. >> well, that hand sanitizer you are using could make you sick. plus, parts of northern maryland are cleaning up after a weekend rough weather. stay with us.

harmful bacteria found in sanitize other products led to a recall. the food and drug

administration says the tainted products claim to treat open wounds, damaged skin and protect against infectious diseases. the fda is warning the public not to use any of their products. the happiest place on earth is proving to be one of the at least family-friendly visits for unnow. a one day visit will now cost adults $79 up from 75. the same ticket for a child between the ages of 3 to 9 will increase from 63 to $68. prices also increased for the multiday ticket past passages. severe problems led to problems in northern maryland. in cecil, residents said it looked like a tornado touched down in their counties. hopefully things have settled

down. on wednesday we have a chance of more thunderstorms. i have post a complete report from the national weather service on the storm survey. you can read that at my blog at wusa9.com. for today looking at upper 80s to near 90 degrees. tomorrow it will be hot. 90 to 95 even under mostly sunny skies with a chance of a thunderstorm. here we go, we are watching showers from yesterday but today a few clouds here and there. a quiet morning out there. all beit a warm morning. 77 reagan national. 73 winchester and we have lower 60s. did you notice to the east we have 80 from georgetown, delaware to 79. saint indigos, 79 degrees. officially 77. a northeast wind at ten.

northernly to northwest we breeze. expect the humidity to drop off a bit. while it is a warm afternoon should be a fairly pleasant afternoon. across the country not only the storms but watching this area of showers and storms across michigan near chicago right now out of wisconsin and down through iowa. this whole line is moving east and southeast. i think there will be some delays in detroit and chicago throughout the day due to that. in between the two lines, there is a weak area of high pressure that will be building in for a day and a half. by the middle of the week things will change. the computer model is showing a chance of an isolated storm. not so much today but say tomorrow afternoon we will see something bubbling up. and then you will see a green blob or two here and there. for the most part not going to see more widespread activity until wednesday. so temperature-wise, warm

today. upper 80s, even near 90 degrees. tonight in the low 70s in town. 60s north and west. look at pittsburgh around 0 -- 60. a comfortable night in the mountains. and then tomorrow, 92 for us. but locally 94, 95 in a few spots. here's the seven day, upper 80s today. low 90s at least tomorrow. slim chance of a thunderstorm. by wednesday more thunderstorms and 91. cooling off on thursday and friday with mainly isolated afternoon thunderstorms and by the weekend looks good with temperatures in the mid-80s. audrey, back to you. >> thank you very much. the economic outlook might be getting brighter but some economists say it will be a jobless recovery. and the pain for people who are unemployed is likely to continue through next year. dc delegate eleanor holmes norton is joining us to talk about this. unemployment is such a big part of economic recovery. pretty bad out there, isn't it?

>> it is may major priority. it is the so-called lagging indicator does not mean we will have a jobless recover. it means the last thing to come back are jobs because people would rather put people on overtime because you have new expenses with new employees like health care. however, as cautious as the administration and the economists are, we can't help but see what is happening. everything in the housing mark is improving, except on very unpleased to say foreclosure. they continue to go up. they are being strengthened if you will by the fact that people are losing jobs, but housing starts are up. people are beginning to buy houses. you see the economy is going up with cash for clunkers. with people getting bad cars off the road and substituting cars that have more mile

efficiency and more energy conservation. but the difference, which already has something like 10.7% unemployment, 11% probably by december, the council just extended unemployment. what we really need is congress to give us 20 more weeks. we gave 33 weeks at the beginning of december and you see how that has run out and guess what, it is going to run out again because the last thing to come back is employment but some people in congress will see to it that people are not left would unemployment insurance while we wait this out. >> reporter: are there other things congress should be doing to get people back to work? >> well, we might well need another stimulus. the stimulus, remember, has only now -- it is a two year matter and we have only had six

months for this to the economy. so don't pay attention to the republicans who are saying the stimulus doesn't work for the first six months it has worked well because it has been a startup period. we will begin to see real effects from the stimulus within the next four to five months. >> how critical is it to extend the unemployment benefits. what would be the impact if they didn't. >> it is so critical even the republicans will go along with it, put it that way. we will not have much of a fight when people are left without nothing. when there are six people in line for one job. >> i had 5,000 people at my job fair last month. it is not that people aren't looking for jobs. it's that they can't find jobs because there are know jobs coming back in the economy. >> we have to get the benefits longer. >> and we have to get health care. that's what we will be featuring when we go home.

people don't see because it comes out of their checks but what many others do see is the cost is going up so some people are forgoing health insurance. heaven help you if you have some kind of preexisting condition. people are finding health insurance more uni fordable. not to mention the militaries that don't have health insurance. that's one thing we have to get done before the end of the year. of course extending unemployment insurance is what we have to do within days of getting back. because it is out there. we know that is one of your favorite projects but so are dc zoning rights. any news that you can share? anything? >> yes, i'm having to do it the

hard way. they tried to plaster a very leafy gun amy. i said wait a minute. before i say go with this, with this huge wipeout of all dc gun laws, big city, with no dc gun laws before we say that let me do more due diligence and i'm very pleased that the speaker of the house working with me and i'm pleased we are going to get either the guns off or some compromise that would be easier to live with than throwing up our hand when we couldn't get the votes saying let's go with it. we are seeing brakes. we have had the first defeat on the nra with a bill that the senate rose up and said no. >> so you are feeling hopeful. >> certainly feeling hopeful and that it has been worth waiting and working with the leaders to try to get something

better than the elimination of our gun laws. >> sounds like a work in progress. thanks for joining us. >> mishears sure. back to school shopping is about to get easier in the commonwealth. and metro riders should expect a slow commute if they plan to ride through parts of montgomery county. stay with us.

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liquor stores, and cash checking outlets. riders should continue to expect delays on the red line. they said they completed the testing of train control equipment at the site of the fatal train crash. however, metro will now begin to replace track circuitry in the area between takoma park and the fort totten station. that work should take a month. just in time for back to school, virginia shoppers can save with tax-free shopping day. starting on friday, shoppers at virginia stores will be exempt from the 5% sales tax on school supplies on items that cost less than $20 and clothing items that cost up to $100, incluing shoes. the annual sales tax holiday ends on august 9th. dc and maryland cancelled their tax-free days because of budget short falls. audrey, do most men really want to get married or are most

kicking and streaming to the alter? alex is here now to talk about his research about this. it has nothing to do with politics or maybe it does. and he's the author of a new novel called love sick. start with the research. why do most men get married? >> well, let's start off with the premises they do want to get married. >> i wanted to get married. not even 23 and i just knew. >> were you a love sick teen. >> no high school sweet heart. >> so many men are like that. you see in movies and books. men portrayed as resisting or delaying marriage or trying to be single as long as they can or being depressed when the other person got in gauge -- engaged but after i got them in a room and broke it down they talked about the same reasons women want to get married. they want the same things and this sounds like i might be making it up to some of the --

>> familiar. >> i they want family, commitment, a relationship. >> because they are lonely. >> no one wants to be lonely but because they are not getting married right away doesn't moon they don't want to get married. men talked about a light switch moment, the moment that occurred to them. >> what's the trigger. >> sometimes it was money. sometimes it was security. they wanted to be their own person. they want to be able to afford the ring and lifestyle. there were other times that they were sitting across from the table and thought this could be a good thing and something that we do together. other men talked about educational or spiritual awakening where they were saying if i don't get my act together i'm going to lose this wonderful woman and i need to be with her. when three men are together they have their woes about are together. but when two men get in a room

i mind it is different. >> why did you want to get married? >> i got married over a video game. we were at a penny arcade playing the ' 80s games pacman an frogger and she was whipping my butt and i thought this is the one. this is the one i need. >> an atari moment. >> we were in the arcade actually playing and that machine, that big standup machine. it is in our home right now. we bought it. >> love sick, you are a novelist. it is not fiction -- it is fiction. >> that's right. >> how did you come up with the idea for love sick? >> it was initially pitched as nonfiction and the publishers said it wasn't their thing. i had written a book as nonfiction before and we talked about this book and my publisher said, well, the theme is important but the conflict answer characters we could do

so much more. so i addressed the notion of men wanting to get married and i wanted to chronicle that window of when you get engaged and then married the metamorphosis we go through. >> what do you find that people are eternally engaged and don't set the date. >> people have to do it the way they have to do it. the question is do men want to commit? the many men that i came across do want to commit to a long- term relationship. there are a lot of reasons to go in a traditional way. asking the father, does he or doesn't he ask the father and he knows he needs to and we talk about how valuable that can be. how valuable it can be to have an alie to have that dad on your side. it can be a cool thing. did you ask by the way. >> i knew them so long i felt -- five years we dated before that happened. you have 30 seconds.

>> it is set around a small town pharmacy and the commune depends on the father in law and they want to do the right thing. >> the book is love sick and if you don't already know why men want to get married. angie, what's happening on the roads at this hour. 35 minutes after the 9:00 hour, howard, i would like to tell you about good news here. branch avenue at woodward road. crash activity is now cleared. great news there. to the outer loop, tracking a slow ride from 95 to georgia. we have a camera shot for you. it isn't pretty. ten to 11 minutes to make it through that. it is volume. the accident at new hampshire looks like it is cleared. moving to 66. hey, virginia. here's the deal. delayed dallas -- dulles road to the capital. on 395 things are cleared out

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are searchers discovered a new strain of aids. the three previously owwere all chimpanzees. a study finds most children in the country are at higher risk of developing bone disease and high blood pressure. they say it is because 70% of them have low levels of vitamin d. they recommend a vitamin d supplement. a study finds injuries in feoffment class are jumped 150%. the most common are sprains and the most likely to get those injuries are in middle school. some high energy sports include valley ball, basketball, soccer and running. there's a push on to save you money on medicine used to treat a host of conditions ranges from cancer to

arthritis. the key question is why can't you buy a generic brand? with me is the senior editor for biocentury and first of all, steve, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> we want to be clear. we are not talking about generics but biosimilar drugs. what's the difference. >> there are two processes of making drugs in the first place. there are small molecule drugs those are aspirin or lipitor. those are made through chemical processes and if you give a company a formula for one of those drugs they can make a copy of it. that's a generic drug. you can be confident it is exactly the same as the branded drug. there are other drugs that are made through biological processes, in bark tear ya or living organisms and it is not possible to make an exact copy of them. it is possible to make a copy that is similar that is expected fact the body the same as the copy of the drug so they

are biosims. >> i would imagine that drug manufacturers want -- don't want to see them on the market because it will cut in to their business, right? >> it will lower costs. in europe where they have biosimilars on the mark they have lowered the cost 30%. and generic can lower the cost by 80% or even more. they can lower it in some cases to pennys and the reason is it is not likely there will be many companies making biosimilars. for an a generic eight you may have eight, nine or ten companies making a drug. for biosimilars is likely two or three companies competing and it will result in the prices going down by 30% but that could still be a big savings for the government that purchases them under medicare

or health care system because these drugs cost tens and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> europe is way ahead of us, aren't they? >> they have had biosimilars on the mark for six years. they created a process to do it and they have a half dozen products that are already on the market. >> is there an effort in the united states to bring some of these biologic and biosimilars to our market as well. >> the house committee passed a bill last week that will authorize biosimilars to be marketed in the united states. it is part of the bigger health care reform package and a senate committee passed a similar bill recently. >> reporter: what's the holdup? it is because of the competition aspect, lobbying against it or are people still on the fence of whether or not we should be flooding a market with biosimilar medications. >> the holdup is there is a tremendous amount of controversy of how to go about doing it. one of the biggest issues is what kind of protections to

provide to the innovator of biologic products. in the generic drug world, a manufacturer of a small drug has five years exclusivity. during that time there can't be generic competition. biosimilars need a longer period of time to protect them from competition because it costs to much more to create a biologic than a small drug because the pa tens may not be as strong and so on. the bills that were passed in congress give 12 years of exclusivity before there can be competition. the white house, the aarp and the generic drug companies have argued for a shorter period of time of exclusivity. that's the main point of contention. >> reporter: in these economic times people want cheaper drugs. let's hope they get it. >> i think it will happen during the health care reform

debate this year. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. the serious side of a beloved comic wins this weekend at the box office. and how you can taste the gourmet food and sttae the wine of local wineries. stay with us. ta moms know kids need calcium...

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actor kevin costner escaped unharmed as a stage collapses at a canadian music festival. his stage manager says he and costner were caught under the stage but managed to wiggle out. one person was killed and 75 was hurt. mark wallberg has tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend. according to "people" they were married on saturday in an intimate ceremony at a catholic

church in beverly hills. they have been together since 2001 and have five children, ages 5, 3 and 10 months. the more serious side of the comic adam sandler was a big hit with audiences this weekend. funny people claimed the top spot bringing in $23 million. the movie stars sandler as a terminally ill come median. rounding out the top five, harry potter, g-force, the ugly truth and alien necessary attic. close your eyes and picture you are sipping fine wine in virginia's wine country. it could be the tick for a hot summertime evening and here with details on how to make it is reality is chef and owner of the inn and spa and joe david the author of gourmet getawas. 50 top spots for gourmet

getaways. >> how would you define a gourmet get away? >> they are where the focus is the food of course. usually a romantic place. and where you have an opportunity to also work as a chef. so there you are going to get two things. you will have good food. an opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade and have a vacation at the same time and having it close to home because this covers all the little places in new york, chicago, whatever that are close to home. so you can make it a quick getaway. >> this is where howard comes in. you are not that far really. >> we are an hour from dc. 200-acre property. we offer spa, hotel, fine dining and beautiful setting. >> today you have some mustard you are making.

>> today we made a rabbit tureen. a nice summer item. we put it all together for you. >> there is a way to make mustard. >> we have mustard seed and you grind them and it is easy. we have yellow mustard, and we leave a few holes to give it texture. >> looks like corn meal. >> we will use champagne vinegar. you can use a different vinegar if you want. i like champagne vinegar a lot. put a little water and dee john mustard in to give it a little exthat from. >> the dee january you made ahead of time. >> we purchased it. >> a little fresh dry tear gone and red pepper flakes and from there you want to -- you want

to stir it up and for it to absorb. and it is going to be kind of a wet mixture. >> is that something that is ready as soon as it is mixed or lie in the fridge and sit. >> we like it to sit 24 hours and the seeds will make it drier. >> so you have joe in. working with him. >> we have working on an event where we will be pairing pairing different foods with and without sauces with different wines to see what the difference is. >> these pairing things seem to be popular, educational sort of events. >> i think people like it and the educational arm with the food is important. and that's one of the things we try to do at p.o.w. already springs is get people interested in food and make it different with the ambience as

well. >> where's the favorite place you have been to. >> oh, given the fact that i made the faux pas. >> we will let it slide. >> very good. >> we have homemade mustard. >> and we play -- plate it up differently. we make our house pickles here and they are on the plate here. we make our own pickles which you can taste in a moment and we plate it up differently with mustard and tureen and like i said the light summertime dish. you can do it all different ways. create it at work and -- home and work how you like it. >> thank you, gentleman. back with tasting this stuff and see what wall street did when it opened and i will have the seven-day forecasthen 9 news now this morning returns. academically gifted,

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