ahead, new information about water pressure issues impacting fire hydrants in northwest is due out today. we will bring you the latest. more financial support. u.s. lawmakers throw more money behind the cash for clunkers. it is friday and that means our mind over money segment is back. we have five experts on hand to take financial questions. they are smiling and ready but not on the phone. so they want you to give them a call at 202-432-9045. be the first to call and what do we have for you -- free advice. >> yeah. >> good morning. i'm andrea roane. it is friday, august 7th. we are mere and angie has the

traffic for you and howard starts us off with a beautiful august forecast. >> get outside today? >> no. >> i have been outside on the terrace a few times, stunning. >> it is rare you hear the weather person put me outside and let me do the live report from there. >> when we have a day like this in august we have to take advantage of it i know what is coming especially by the weekend. it mr. get warm tomorrow near 90 and sunday and monday, upperh es for so oynjhioythe beautifu satellite and radar. a front off shore. upper torms ine inthr upthpe mississippi valley and in between high pressure controls the weather. other than a few high thin ones lo nda okg day. otspto ths to the e ng to the stike culpeper, it is 68 frederick, 9 last report we got in from

reagan national. when the 9:00 number comes in i'm thinking closer to 72. noon near 80 and for the high, 85 degrees. we sit at 9:01, i throw it to my friend angie with traffic. >> thank you so much, howie b. tgif for everyone out there. begin with the update on 270 northbound. we had a car fire out here. they have the fire out. they are taking aart are way part hoff the exit ramp here at old georgetown road and the right lane but at least traffic is getting by now. so looks like the delays will break apart shorely. southbound thumbs up. to virginia we have been watching out in woodbridge, we have an accident that continues to block all lanes at the intersection of route 1 and featherstone. we know northbound traffic is diverted to opitz boulevard. what's up on 395? under sunny skies looks like we

are below speed from i would say edsall to seminary and then using the brakes from boundary channel channel drive to the 14th street bridge. to the maps we head and from a 0 -- 50 to 66 in the yellow, city slow. on the outer loop a little congestion from van doren to telegraph and wrap it up north of the district, this time in maryland. drivers are zipping by from new hampshire to georgia. moving without incident. that -- that's the traffic. this morning our mind over money segment is back. we want to introduce our experts. jon josh klein and barry hall are taking questions. and rene can help you break habits costing you money. jennifer streaks is here and she can help if you are wereried in credit card debt and help you read the fine flint those credit card agreements. the number to call is 202-432-

9045. a developing story in northwest washington. we are expecting new details about a fire that destroyed the former of a form per dc school board president. mayor fenty and city officials will release a report on last week's chain bridge road fire. the mayor and council called for a review of water pressure issues following the fire in northwest. it took firefighters a couple of hours to get adequate flow to douse the flames. we are following another developing story in to the 9 news now information center. it is one angie just told you about. police are searching for answers after a fatal accident along route 1 in woodbridge. it happened 5:30 this morning. it happened when a man was struck 0 crossing the street. details are unknown at this time. we know the driver stayed a the scene and we will update you on this story at wusa 9 and

wusa9.com when more income is available. a career firefighter in montgomery county is facing charges for trying to solicit sex from what he thought was a teenager girl. police say 44-year-old wayne mothershead answered an internet ad posted by female police officer posing as a 16- year-old girl. mothershead has been suspended from the fire department with pay. he faces up to ten years in jail if he is convicted. a little-publicly sided perk is coming come. a property deal between the city and its workers. one example a custodian living rent free in a building owned by the city and ott another is a public works supervisor who rented a home on dogwood drive for $350 a month for nearly 30 years. >> it was done with a hand shake to begin with. this guy's been living here almost as long as we have. >> if we have you are -- if we

are offering properties at below market value that is considered a benefit and as such we should be treating it that way. >> reporter: jones says she is launching an investigation in to the properties. she hopes to report the findings to the city council by the first week of september. new this morning, the labor department is out with the latest unemployment numbers from july. and we're expecting wall street to respond positively. according to the report, 247,000 jobs were lost last month. that's much less than had been expected. the overall jobless rate fell to 9.4%, significantly better than the 9.6% that had been predicted. some economists say it is a sign the recession is ending. the senate pumped $2 billion in to the cash for clunkers program just in the nick of time. the popular rebate program would have run out of gas without new funds. president obama plans to sign the measure today which could

allow you and 500,000 of your neighbors to trade in your gas guzzlers for more efficient cars. rebate offers should be good through labor day. a back to school sales tax holiday is underway in virginia. shoppers can buy supplies up to $20 an item and clothing or shoes up to $100 an item without paying sales tax. dc and maryland cancelled their holidays because of budget short falls. sonia sotomayor is scheduled to be sworn in as the supreme court's first hispanic justice tomorrow. the senate confirms president obama's first choice in the nation's highest court in a 68- 31 vote. the judge will be the third women to serve on the bench. she replaces david suiter and is not expected to change the court's ideological split. >> reporter: the president is back on the campaign trail. or he was for a few hours yesterday. he stumped for deeds.

deeds trails republican bob mcdonnell in recent polls an the gop is hoping to make the election a referendum on the obama white house. what is congress doing spending millions for private jet setting during these tough economic times? that's the question on the minds of taxpayers after the news of the spending surfaced this week. roll call newspaper broke the story. with me is the associate editor paul singer. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure, good morning. >> we hear about the jobs being lost. the economy is not bouncing back so whose bright idea was it to buy these jets? >> it is clear the military wanted one of them. they have a fleet of jets. >> the air force. >> yeah. they have a fleet of jets they asked for one and the appropriations committee decided if you are going to replace them, speed up the process and they asked for two more. >> they city it -- i think it

is a stimulus. >> they are $65 million a piece and they are for v.i.p. travel but members of congress are among those who use those planes. >> why didn't we hear more about those planes. i thought transparency is the hallmark of congress, as well. how does this get under the radar. >> the rules are if you have an earmark and request a spending measure you have to have a letter disclosing it. they are not considered earmarks but increasing the existing program. they didn't see any reason to disclose that. in fact, it appears there are a lot of things in this spending bill that were in programs that were not declared as earmarks. the bigger the program the less like licited called an earmark. >> was this bipartisan vote. >> yeah. >> one thing they could get together on. >> the whole bill passed the house and it was -- four hundred and something to 30.

this is a big defense department, and this is a tiny line. i don't mean to sound like i have been in washington too long but it is a rounding bill for a bill in the billions. >> the speaker of the house is supposed to travel with a private plane. she is not supposed to travel publicly. the armed services committee tends to fly a lot but we are going to try to figure out who gets too ride and how it is decided. >> how luxurious are these are they military-issue or something a cut above? >> this is a cut above. this is a commercial gulf stream jet we are talking about. $55million a plane for a 12 seater. how, it is probably not leather interior you can get on the top line gulf stream but these are very nice jets. no two ways about it.

this is not wooden benches and the guys strapped in like the military usually flies. >> you talked about this is a drop in the product, for a $2 trillion deficit. is it something americans should be upset about and go here's congress. >> it is not my job to judge whether people should be upset. we think they are interested and we think readers are interesting and frankly people are feeling like their members of congress shouldn't get access to a perk that other regular citizens don't have. but the flip side of the question is, don't you want your most senior leadership to be traveling. they don't want the president of the united states waiting in line at the airport counter using air force one. how far down the list does that go, the speaker of the house, the leaders of the senate? a number of our top officials

travel under a military escort. >> and they are domestic and international travel and it is not my job to tell you where the line should be drawn but we thought it was interesting that congress was asking for more planes than the military wanted. the planes are dedicated to transporting v.i.p.es. >> wow. >> there's a fleet out there already. every plane comes not only think cost of purchaseing but staffing and maintaining it the military said when they heard about the additional planes we will have to pay more to keep them alive. >> wow. wasting the taxpayers ' dollar. we'll say that as a taxpayer. thank you for bringing it to our attention. thank you for being with us. more beds will be available if for our region's homeless population and mayor fenty signs a bill which he says will

keep you safer in the district. you are watching 9 news now on this mind over money friday. the number to call for expert advice is 202-432-9045.

beginning november 1st the city will offer at least 75 more family beds and hundreds more beds for individuals. the "washington post" reports that although the move is being

applauded some homelessed a stray viveses say it is not enough to accommodate all of the homeless. the mayor signed a crime bill which he says will make life tough for criminals but making the district safer for you. it increases penalties for repeat offenses for violent crimes and expands hate crime laws to include homeless as a protected category. and it requires the mayor to create a gang and prevention crew national than average hurricane season is the prediction from noaa. it is the calming effect of else neo. they believe the quiet start does not necessarily a guarantee a quiet weather period. we are enjoying a great period right now. here's howard with an update. >> too bad we can't make it last the rest of the month. we will make it last a day, day

and a half. we are talking temperatures 85 humidity levels are comfortable and a wind ten miles an hour. tomorrow, we will warm up to 90. could be a late day or night time thunderstorm, and on sunday here's the heat in a big way. mid-90s at the beach we could be warmer than that. we will see if the new datas in and we need to up things but today, beautiful, pleasant, mid- 80s. clear to partly cloudy and comfortable tonight. keep the windows and enjoy mother nature's air conditioning and for saturday, partly sunny and around 90. a chance of a storm up north tomorrow night. southwest winds at ten miles an hour. here we go on the big picture. a couple of clouds but orwise a gorgeous day with temperatures ranging in the 60s. to our fanorth winchester and hagerstown. mid-70s. webster field 80 down there and water temperatures are around 80. some air comes to the airport

down there. no surprise. easton is 70. andrews is 70. 70 in frederick and in washington we are enjoying a nice 71 degrees. a cold front off shore. northwesterly flow behind it. the next thing we are seeing up stream is in minnesota and iowa. these storms will be going like this. otherwise a hot seven-day forecast. in the middle 80s. tomorrow we get up to 90 and then here's the heat for sunday and monday. mid-90s at least, maybe an average thunderstorm by the time we get in to tuesday and wednesday. and thursday 87 with a chance of thunderstorms and the next front. let me ask you this, is an $8,000 tax credit enough to get you to jump at the chance for homeownership? that's one incentive offered for first-time home buyers. meet joshua klein from coldbell

banker. and bernie hall president of the hall group. the housing market an $8,000 incentive. tell me about that. >> 8,000 dollars tax incentive only for first time home buyers. somebody who has not owned a home in the past three years. they would qualify they are the 8,000 dollars tax credit. >> you get that at closing or deduct it from your fact income taxes. >> deduct from your income taxes. >> i know things have stabilize with the housing mark but this financial, this housing storm is far from over. >> we are seeing a upsurge in home sales and sales coming back on the market. prices are stabilize and the mortgage industry has tightened up bepeople are getting mortgages. and we are seeing good business. >> some foreclosures. you deal many more with the mortgage side of things.

you had a call where someone said i'm in the foreclosure process but i don't have legal representation, is there anything i can do. >> he started to try to modify his mortgage and got put through the hurry up and wait paperwork and talked to them and went through the whole thing and the bank says instead of modifying we are going to foreclosure on you and your date is mid september. >> do you think a homeowner should work with themmer get representation. at what point do you say i need an expert on my side. >> i think would be very smart at anytime to start the process of finding someone to help represent you or answer questions. there are a lot of people that ask you for money up front before they help you but a lot of people are out there an check in the local army and ask them for help. they will give you questions and if you decide to take them on then you will discuss fees and so forth. >> i have noticed short sales. one pending across the street

from me. you were telling me that may not be happening as much. >> this week i had read some article and passed articles on and one concern is that the banks are seeing it in their behalf more to foreclosure than hold the short sale. i have dealt with a lot of customers in the process of trying to buy short sale homes an the banks except the ratified contracts but they are also looking for a better offer up to the time of the closing and sometimes coming back and saying we decided to go to foreclosure instead of taking your offer. >> you have been taking people out and selling fine. what are you seeing the short sales are not as many as they were. >> the short sales process is very, very long process. it takes much longer to buy a home through short sale than a home on foreclosure. >> why is that? >> because there's negotiation that has to go on once the initial offer comes in, depending how many liens are on the property you have to negotiate and whether the banks are willing to write off. and homes are foreclosured on

in the middle of the short sale price -- process. >> if i make an offer on a short sale and the owner who is trying to get out without going through foreclosure, has to deal with the bank, first, second and third mortgage holder. >> and during that process the bank could foreclosure the home. >> interest rates seem to have come back up. where are we going. >> they are on the roller coaster that we see often. and the problem is that a lot of banks are flooding themselves with refinances an they are subject to interest rates. they are sensitive their pipeline will be sitting there and all of a sudden be inactive and not have any source of income coming in. there are a lot of first time home buyers out there that are trying to qualify and buy houses. the one thing though the mortgage process is much longer than it used to be. we see people trying to buy or take advantage of the short sales or foreclosures and that extends the process even more.

the rates will fluctuate and go up and down. we had a blip this past week and rates went above the 5 1/2% but they are relatively -- especially in conjunction with sales prices, outstanding. >> i want to talk to you before we go. i was reading an article some folks think there will be more housing pain over the next couple of years. this is not encouraging thing to read especially with what you do an the rest of us who are seeing home values go south, not north. what's the future hold. >> no one can really predict the future. the economy is cyclical and we'd need a crystal ball to do that. however, in dc we have seen stabilization of the home prices and people are starting to put their homes op the market again because they can get out from under their mortgage without losing money necessarily. >> but that same article was talking about people just walking away. they say that's it, i'm done. >> i think one of the big things we have seen is people who have been making their mortgage payments find out by

going to a website or something what the value of their home and they say that $2,000 a month payment i'm throwing it away because my house is worth $100,000 and even though your house is never supposed to be an investment it is hard to look at. >> hang in there, folks. we will get through it together. the district is a hot bed for tourists during this economic down turn. we will have more on that and if you plan to ride on metro you better prepare for delays. more coming up. mind over money friday. our experts are standing by. 202-432-9045. take advantage of this free service. 202-432-9045.

welcome back. a live look at the jefferson memorial. the district has become a favorite destination for many of you during this economic downturn. our friends at the washington examiner have a new report that talks about the influx of new tourists to dc because of the many free attractions. one example is the smithsonian museums and the zoo which welcome 3.5 million visitors during the first six months of this year compared to the same time period in 2008. you better be prepared for delays if you plan to ride metro this weekend. a spokesman says the transit agency needs to replace a switch in the tracks at pentagon city over labor day weekend. the repairs will require prep work that will slow down yellow and blue line trains after 10:00 p.m. starting this sunday. the work will continue through each of the next two weeks. and red line riders are advised to add 30 minutes for travel this weekend. workers will make tunnel repairs forcing trains to share one track until midnight on

sunday. you are not out of the woods if you are on the orange line. add 30 minutes to your commute. crews will replace cross ties which support the tracks. a bowie, maryland couple claims their bank approved a second home loan knowing the couple could not afford to make the payments. now the couple has filed suit. and consumers are told to take a close look at the credit card statement. you may notice some new fees. jennifer is helping people with credit card debt we welcome you back. >> thank you. >> you are always one of the first on the phone as soon as we give the number. credit card fees. we have new laws. >> does not go in to affect until 2010. i have been getting calls from individuals saying i have been a couple of months late and they are raising the interest rate. the credit card companies can do that. they can raid your rate and look at information your report and say you are a poor risk and

raise your interest rate. so that's why you have to look at your credit card statement and be sure of what you are getting in to. i'm advising these consumers, call the credit card company and say i can't afford the new payment with the higher interest rate and we need to work out some other sort of arrangement. >> can you modify your credit card. >> i got a call about that. under the obama administration they have a new law coming out in 2010 that i can modify my credit card debt. no, you can not. what you owe on your balance you have to pay at some point, whether it is over a long period of time or short. the new credit card bill that is going in to effect in 2010 makes the credit card companies be more honest with you. it covers their disclosures how they can and cannot raid your rate but your balance is your balance. if you ran it up you have to pay it. >> there are so many people who are so deep in debt, personal debt they are doing bankruptcy.

if the credit card has gotten you in that kind of trouble is personal bankruptcy an option. >> it is an option but not one that i'm going to advocate. it is a last-ditch effort and i got calls on that. i can't afford to pay my credit card bill, i just want to go in to bankruptcy. try to pay the bare minimum. keep it going. try to call them and work something out before you do bankruptcy because you are doing so much harm to yourself. i feel like we are in the upswing of the economic downturn. if you can hold on for the next two to three years and do what you can do to keep yourself going you are going to start to come out of it. >> we have been hearing about certain bills you have to pay, the roof over your head and the utility. is there is a pecking order of bills that you make sure you pay and others that you at least acknowledge with something. >> yeah. of course you have to pay your mortgage. anything associated with your home, food, insurance, health

insurance, car insurance, very important. but once you start to get down in to the gas cards and we talked about that. the pecking order pay the minimum payment. gas cards you can't get a gas card today because people are blown them off in the past. it is very hard at this point. >> what about the couple planning to sue because their bank approved a second home loan. the bank knew the couple couldn't afford. my question is it seems like the couple knew they wouldn't afford it either. how does the suit play out. do they have a chance of getting relief. >> they may have a threat that they can basically beat the bank with over the head but i don't think it will go that far because you have to read your paperwork. you submitted the information. the bank can put your name on the loan. you took the money. you submitted your information, your w 2s, tax information and everything to be approved for this loan. so you say okay i'm going to pay for it. once you sign the documents it

is hard to get it out of it. >> i thought the risky loans were part of the sub mortgage crisis aren't available anymore. are they still available. >> there are some still out there and you have to be careful. you have people still pushing bad loans whether adjustable rate mortgages or mortgages that have 10% interest rates. you as a consumer have to be informed now. you can't say you don't know. this has been on the radio and tv for years now. so it is up to you to be informed and make the best chance for your financial services. >> buyer beware and if you need help give jennifer streaks a call. there she is, 202-432-9045. you don't have to go blindly in to traffic either. angie has an update. >> that's what i'm here for, andrea. we are half way through the 9:00 hour and want to keep you posted on the situation in woodbridge, virginia at the intersection of route 1 and featherstone we have a continuing investigation involving an accident and a pedestrian. northbound traffic is using

opitz boulevard. moving along, 270 southbound good news. that delay is starting to break apart approaching the split. going northbound the car fire situation has cleared at old georgetown pike. great news out there. on the outer loop. we are slow from connecticut to 270. that's thanks to an earlier car fire on 66 eastbound. it looks like approaching the beltway we are doing fine, if we can get there. maybe not. how about 395. i'll take that. that drive is okay as drivers make ware they toe the 14th street bridge. a number of national guardsmen maybe at risk for identity theft. and security analysts say it is time for a popular website to increase its security. you are watching 9 news now. it is mind over money friday. our phone lines are open until 10:00 a.m. our experts are taking your calls at 202-432-9045. try the new subway big chipotle cheesesteak.

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twitter's tech experts are scrambling to make sure there is no repeat of thursday's break down. they shut down the message several hours by commandeering a huge surge of traffic to the site. security experts say now that twitter is so popular it is time to beef up security. irving piccard and his law firm are receiving $14.7 million for 14 months of work. a bankruptcy judge approved the payment. some victims argue that isn't paying victims fast enough and is wasting money that should go to them. free financial advice is a mouse click and phone call away with us. once our broadcast ends, tim from the financial consulting incorporated is here to talk about what is billed as a special webinar series and vanessa is back with tips. >> it will take place the first

friday of every month starting today. so today you can go to a website napfa.org. it is an association of financial planning realm of financial advisers who only take fees, no commissions, they don't sell products, okay. so this is a free education webinar where the first friday of every month you can go to napfa.org and you can log in to the webins a d a r. >> what will i learn. >> basic financial planning advice, then kids and money in september and i will be teaching the course on financial planning generically in october. >> talking to people about retirement and can they afford to retire. that's a big concern for people with what is going on. >> a woman said i am 64 1/2 and i want to know if i can retire right now. it is hard to answer that but her biggest question is will i keep health coverage and i said

you can get cobra until medicare kicks in at age 65. she has a plan. the toughest thing is what will you do after, kick your feet up and the brain starts to rot and your body doesn't move? no. she has a plan to go back to school and do a lot of charitable stuff. >> you must like to hear she has a plan. because a lot of people don't have a plan and they are wasting tons of dollars. >> it is interesting. one of the trends we are seeing is people are getting tight fisted with cash which you would think makes sense but it is not always best. here's what i mean. folks are taking funds an say i have an auto repair, or get the oil changed or a leak in the toilet or what not and it is not a major expense or a priority so put it off for a few months and save the cash but what could be a small expense or a small repair, weeks and months down the line now is a giant monster of an expense because out of fear people are afraid to let go of

their cash. >> if they don't fix a transmission leak that is cheaper than replacing the transmission. >> exactly. >> they are doing the same thing with the bills. you have rent, electricity, so on and so forth and people have the money at the beginning of the month to pay it, but they hold off, and find either they forget to pay it on time so they have late fees or rush charges expedited to make sure it is done on time or charges, 10, 20, $30 here and there they are throwing down the toilet. it is not going toward the bill now but money being wasted. >> you are pretty good and you get a late fee can't you call and say, look, i have been a good customer. will you waive this one? >> you can do that. often times banks and credit cards and so forth if you have demonstrated a great payment history will do that for a good customer. >> at least once. >> at least once. but the bottom line is, it is a mind set of fear peace and that's driving and motivating people. >> it is carry when you see the

news about the houses going down and the prices of foreclosures and the markets going down, and they look at the 401-k and it is not nearly what it was. >> the problem is you don't have very good choices with 401- ks you may have only five choices we had a federal government government employment saying the tsp has been going down and they have only five funds so if you don't know which one to pick you could be in trouble. >> thank you for coming by. when we come back, we will talk about a hollywood giant remembered for his hit film. and in the kitchen showing you a way too cook with beloved mid-atlantic spices. don't forget our mind over money panel are here and want your phone calls. 202-432-9045. it is 9:42. you are watching 9 news now.

today hollywood is remembering a director who captured teen anxiousst in the mid ' 80s. hughs died of a heart attack on thursday. he was the writer behind the vacation movie and home alone. through the ' 80s he captivated the teen market with films like the breakfast club, 16 candles and ferris bueller's day off. he is dead at the age of 59. if you live in southeast dc you will have a new option for emergency care. ground was broken for a pediatric emergency unit at united medical center. it is part of a government push to bring better medical care to under-serve neighborhoods. the completion date is march of next year. if you like to save with a few thousand of the closest new

friends the world's longest yard sale is underway. it runs from cincinnati, ohio to gadsen, alabama. that is 685 miles. the four-day event is known as the 127 core core sale. it attracts bargain hunters from all over the nation. in its 22nd year. it turns homes along the route in to vendor and runs through five states a national park, a state park and a world war i museum. right now we are following a developing story out of northwest washington. in a few minutes, mayor fenty will be live along chain bridge road. here he is answering questions, is there sufficient water pressure to fight fires in every quadrant of the city. >> as the reports come off the printer one of my staff will bring them to the members of the media. we didn't want to hold a press conference up any longer. i'll summarize from the report and you all will get it as

quickly as they come off of the printer. i think it is important to say at the outset that we were here a week ago and we committed to looking in to the fire, do an investigation of the fire at 30 chain bridge road and coming back with as much information as humanly possible to answer the numerous and myriad questions that had come up. let me just say from a nonfire, nonwater expert and even think the experts would agree with this, there is much more to the system, the operation, the geography, topography, age of the system and everything else that has an impact on fires in district of columbia. and specifically the chain bridge fire than i ever could

have imagined. i say that to say that we have put a word in our report which i hope everyone pays attention to. and that is this is a preliminary report. to do a real analysis and investigation of everything that goes in to the preparation and fighting of fires and where the city stands, to be able to put out any type of fire, requires a much more thorough investigation and it's going to require even more time. but i want to say that having the -- having been mayor 2 1/2 years now, not only is the investigation necessary. not only will we do it but it is really apparent no investigation of this nature has ever taken place before. what has happened and evolved over time is that the fire department responds fast, does

an amazing job getting to the fire, but all of the resources that come out of the water and sewer authority and how they connect to the fighting of fires really has not been studied and worked on in close collaboration. all right. the review itself, dated today, out of the government of the district of columbia starts out with a summary. and the summary, of course, gets right to the point. at 8:15 p.m., july 29th, 2009, district of columbia fire and ems department received a call for a fire at 3030 chain bridge road. it was a essentially a two- alarm fire. however, as cheech shultz will explain, because of the ladder trucks, specialized units and the number of firefighters it ultimately grew to the equivalent of a four-alarm

fire. what was most striking to the fire department upon arriving at the scene is that the first floor was almost entirely engulfed in flames. the estimate from the fire department is that 890% of the first floor of the rose -- residence was engulfed in flames. i want to depart from the report for a second. i was here last friday. i talked to some neighbors as has been the custom in the 2 1/2 years i have been mayor. one of the neighbors said the fire department looked like an army. that they -- within minutes were so omnipresent on this scene that the resident could not thank them enough. after the trucks started to arrive on the scene, wasa and

fd worked together and after arrival on the scene the two closest fire hydrants were tapped in to. as the trucks arrived and as more time went on, the trucks moved down chain bridge road. we will get to that a little bit further and then as more time went on, as more trucks arrived, they also went in the other direction and backtracked over to the greater part of spring valley. we are also in this report touching on tom of the things that happened since some other high profile fires in dc. the two most notable high profile fires where there has been discussion about water pressure or about fire hydrants are the georgetown public library fire, on april 30th,

2007, and the four-story condominium building on afamiliars mill road on october 1st 2007. both of those fires resulted in the mou -- the unprecedented collaboration between the fire department and the water and sewer department. there's a lot of things -- >> we have been watching and listening to dc mayor fenty give us a summary of a review that is still ongoing. the review is still being printed and hasn't been given out to the reporters around the circumstances surrounding what started as a two alarm fire on chain bridge road on july 29th that ultimately grew in to a four-alarm fire. it was at the home of a former dc school board president. questions about water pressure, was there enough. we will have more on this at noon. right now we will take a break and get back to you after that. o

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