president obama hits the road in an effort to reassure americans that his health care program will work. we are previewing a local event in honor of the 40th anniversary of woodstock. that is happening this weekend. >> did you go? >> no. no. mother and father, no way. good morning. i'm andrea roane. thanks for joining us. today is wednesday, august 12th. my little brother's birthday. frederick, happy birthday. no way jose and plus, i don't like mud.

>> no. >> straight up at 9:00. we are watching the cloudy skies and we are cooking today. the chef didn't want to cook out on the terrace. he saw the claudes and i said we are going to stay dry for the 9:00 a.m. i don't think he realized what i do. we will be cooking today. wait until you see what we are making. ho in ully you will get rain our garden. isoler alady found me isngcrpiee in byfrpiont royal and a couple in wi heerst where the teeserurater are nice lower to lower to mid- 70s. guess weates it atis not going be as hot itesas yayas yesrd te. the ergg. b bch of rain on the wider view. it is raining across southwestern virginia and north carolina. this batch is going to move and we will be on the northern periphery of it but pretty sure we will get some rain drops today. have the umbrella this afternoon. eastern suburbs have a shot of cracking mid 890s today. we will be working on that,

too. in dc 76 right now. to the west cooler this afternoon with 70s to near 80 for the high out there. we will be taking a step to 85 at noon. by 5:00, showers are creeping in and thunderstorms are possible. nothing too widespread severe but a nice soaking rain would be really good. chris kris is in for angie. he has the traffic. how are things looking? >> looking pretty good out hoar. still have some rough spots. one is 395 northbound in virginia. still slow from edsall road to seminary. and then again you start to back down from the pentagon to the 14th street . bridgef overall drive time 20 minutes. moving to the inner loop in virginia from braddock to 66. taking 15 minutes as you see the cars here slowing down approaching little river. moving to 66 itself. we are still jammed from 123 to 495. once you pass the beltway you are clear as you head to the district. that drive time is 15 minutes

there, as well. moving in to maryland. we will check out the outer loop here at -- sorry, that's the wrong shot. switch over to university and you can see cars are starting to move. the delay has cleared. no problems as you make your way from 95 to georgia and finally to the district. all of those earlier accidents we had, those are all cleared now. you are still slow inbound new york avenue from the timing building to bladensburg. >> thank you, kris. president obama is personally taking his case to the american people to convince them of the need to reform health care. other forums have been interrupted by opponents to the white house plan. >> for the chatter, yelling, shouting about and the noise, what you need to know is this, if you don't have health insurance, you will finally have quality, affordable options once we pass reform [

applause ] i don't think government bureaucrats should be meddling but i don't think that insurance company bureaucrats should be meddling. that's the health care system i believe in. >> reporter: the crowd was fairly civilized for president obama, angry critics made their voices heard at health care forums an the country. >> hey, hey, hey. ma'am? okay. everybody sit down. >> not only did the debate get physical in missouri at mccast kill's forum, look at arlen specter's town hall meeting in lebanon, pennsylvania. >> you want to be led out of here, you are welcome to go. now, wait a minute. >> back to the president. he has two more health care

town hall meetings this week. one in colorado and the other in montana. tickets have been will be available to the general public so the president may see angry outbursts in the crowd he faces. who's likely to come out on top once the shouting is over. with me is erin billings. this is usually a boring time for us covering the hill but this has been anything but. >> these town halls are typically snoozers, people go home, few people show up and it is civil and now hundreds of people, you saw claire mccast kill. there is people coming from owl sides. i think both sides are appropriating the fomenting thage station. so this isn't necessarily just cropping up. having said that people are passionate about this and clearly members are hearing it.

>> you saw arlen specter and you were saying what we didn't see is he's called in capitol police for reinforcements. >> he did. and the capitol police last week the sergeant at arms said be wary, mindful, diligent and vigilant when you go home because there were already protests starting up and arlen specter of pennsylvania as you saw the footage, he asked the capitol police to sent officers. they said they thought the threat was fairly low, but even so you have people getting in the faces of members of congress and some physical altercations a some town halls so security is on alert. >> there's a georgia congressman david scott who's black and he has received racist letters. they are denouncing health care reforms. he's been shouted down at others in the past. are lawmakers taking different tactics to how they go about

these forums, get people in, orthan calling for police reinforcement. >> a lot of members are holding instead of direct town halls are having teletown halls which they do over the phone which is more structured and they are tweaking the format so they don't have to face angry constituents. but the democratic leadership is saying don't back down. you need to have the town halls that's the only way to get the message out and the democrats in particular feel they have been misrepresented and their plans are misrepresented and if they back down they are letting the opponent, and specifically the republicans win the debate. that's something they don't want to have happen and i think that's why you are seeing the president take such an active role. his 0 are obviously a little better scrutinize newsed and police everywhere he goes. they are not going to allow for congressional. >> even though tickets are given out to the general public in colorado and montana secret service will be watching and

controlling. >> absolutely. that's not to say there wouldn't be opposition but they are not going to allow the type of disruptions we have seen in other places. >> you saw the president saying i i don't want all softballs give me tough questions. his town hall was fairly civil yesterday and fairly, sneaking of snoozers compared to the others a snoozer. >> the poll for the president we are talked about this in the past they are showing slippage but not seeing an uptick on the part of the gop. why aren't they capitalizing on this? >> i think the american people public doesn't like government in general right now. the numbers for congress have been in the tubes for a long time, democrat and republicans. democrats are an edge over republicans but they don't like the republicans much either. i think what you are seeing is he is trying to regain momentum and congress is out of town and he is trying to get his profile up. get in the middle.

use his bully pulpit to advance his momentum so when they come back in september he can use the last three or four months to try to get the rest of his agenda, the 2009 priorities accomplished. can he do it? i don't know. health care is a heavy lift. cap and trade reforms pretty heavy lift. he has kicked immigration in to next year. he knows he can't do all three of those things. >> erin billings. thank you very much. police are looking for suspects in a number of shootings. a total of seven people were shot in five shootings. a man was found dead of a gunshot wound in the 1800 block of gainesville street southeast. two of the remaining six victims suffered critical injuries. the other four are expected to recover. all but one of e thidshootings as t.in sout also new this morning investigators may have made a break the murder of an acupuncturist in her home. she was found murdered in her home in the 4100 block of hummer road last month.

this is surveillance footage released by investigators. for the person en getting out of sethe dark- colored car and walking toward the victim's home. if you can identify the person or the vehicle call fairfax county police. investigators in loudoun county are on the lookout for a rapist. a woman went to check on a relative's cat on friday night. in the area the homes are spread far apart. it was day light still when the two men attacked her. >> she was approached from behind by two unknown subjects who assaulted her, one of the men allegedly held her down and another man sexually assaulted her. >> reporter: the woman told police the attackers took her cell phone. she drove herself to a hospital while they hope the victim will soon be able to recall more details, detectives are hoping anyone who saw something suspicious will come forward. a family spokesman says funeral arrangements for eunice kennedy shriver will be

completed and announced today. the family gathered in massachusetts for a private wake following the death of eunice kennedy shriver yesterday. she was 88 years old and had suffered a series of strokes recently. you can hear more from special olympians and a slide show of ee eastern's life and legacy at wusa9.com. look under our water cooler headline. today feels a lot better than yesterday's near record heat but kim has rain chances coming up. and police make a daring rescue in the blue ridge mountains. and a military offensive is underway in afghanistan. we will have more on that and what it means for just weeks away.

paramedics put their lives on the line to injure a hiker in shenandoah national park. this is video of the rescue. the paramedics lowered a stretcher to the edge of a cliff to get to the man. another hiker helped the rescue team point the injured man back in the helicopter. he had broken his ankle. some environmental activists have new reason to be encouraged about the future of the chesapeake bay. obama administration officials met with bay advocates last night in annapolis. they heard presentations about what clean up actions seem to be having a positive effect and how much more needs to be done. president obama hazarded a first draft of a new bay cleanup plan be completed by

september 9th. and the kids got a little extra time to cool off last night. the reck department extended hours at the seven outdoor pools ever the rain made for messy commutes on tuesday in the seattle area of all places. that is because it had been 28 days since the city recorded any measurable rainfall. you may remember as we enjoyed cooler than normal temperatures last monday, the northwest was setting records with highs around 100. in seattle, where there are few air conditioners, that was a problem. here's kim. what about our problem? >> well, i wouldn't call this a problem, andrea. the good news what looks like is a problem is welcome news. that's the rain on doppler 9000. you can see it coming up here on the errtwestn pon ioof n 66 toward front royal and trying to creein one thwestern thside of leesburg. the cloud cover is helping to keep things tame. our temperature outside 78

degrees and the winds from the north northwest at seven miles an hour. a decent day. humidity 67%. here's how it looks on the satellite and radar combined the clouds will conspire with rain drops to hold temperatures in the 80s today. two days ago we broke that record at dulles with 97. right now at dulles it is 76. 79 fredericksburg and the weather across virginia rather cloudy with rain showers moving in. we will be hard pressed to get to the upper 80s. a few low to middle 80s before the rain moves in. as we focus on maryland, cool westminster, 78. waldorf you will be the last to get rain today and the temperatures in the lower 80s as welt. right now leesburg is 79. 75 at manassas and 72 in gaithersburg. how do we compare to the rest of the country for highs? cool compared to denver, 91 and we talked about the rain in

seattle, only upper 60s today. if you are catching a flight to minneapolis, look for upper 80s there, mid-70s in boston and 90 in new orleans. we will focus on the mid- atlantic. this is where we have an old frontal boundary starting to die. as it stalls out on top of us there is no winds to push it in to the ocean or back it away from us. the next several days it will be here to focus on rain. briefly tomorrow it will be south of us. if we see any rain that is probably where it will be. in to the weekend, some more moisture will travel along the stall dying front in to the weekend and that's why a few rain chances as we head to the weekend. you seal ' -- you'll see it on the seven day. in the 80s instead of the 90s the next seven days. in to next week, that bermuda high will pump 90s in here. i'm keeping my eye on tropical depression number two. it is at least 12 days away from being any type of threat

to the u.s. but i want you to know i'm watching it. over to andrea. this morning an offensive is underway against the taliban and afghanistan. means and -- marines and helicopters back by harrier jets stormed in to the southern town held by the taliban. the associated press, traveling with this first wave said marines were met with small arms mortar and rocket- propelled fire. the "los angeles times" calls this month's presidential election in afghanistan "an election in peril." the key concern is violence and there could be large-scale voting irregularities. the local firm, democracy international is the only small business of its kind to tap to monitor the elections. with me now is the firm's president. eric, thank you for being with us. you are leaving tonight for afghanistan. what are you taking with you?

>> we have had a team in afghanistan for several weeks now, since july, trying to engage in the process and a larger group of so-called short- term observers are leaving on the and over the next day or so and will be in afghanistan for the polling and the accounting of the election there. >> reporter: as i said, you are one of the smaller firms going over to monitor the election. which means there are others going. are your missions the say? do you have a specific mission your firm will be performing there. >> a relatively small number of organizations in the world that do this, only a hand nfl the united states and most of them, about three of them will be involved in this election process. and we will share responsibilities for sending observers around the couldn't and collecting information and sharing it with the afghanistan public and the international community. >> reporter: how soon after the elections would we expect to hear the information you are sharing. >> we will give it a preliminary report shortly after the election. we will give a formal report two days after the election but

probably provide some findings of our teams from around the country maybe the day after. and then we will continue to monitor the process for the weeks after that through a possible run guff and issue comprehensive report later on. >> reporter: on your website you have podcasts going on right now letting people know almost in realtime what is happening. we mentioned people are worried about the violence. the taliban trying to stop the elections from happening. and voter irregularities. have your observers already sent back word of any kind of tampering by taliban, violence of taliban against them? >> i think we are still trying to learn what's going on. we are trying to report in realtime what our mindings are. this is something a little new. you want to be careful not to prejudge the process but sharing what's going on. we are certainly concern and there are parts of the country where there is concern whether the voting can even take place. it remains to be seen how this

will unfold but we hope to get good information and be able to share it with the international community. >> you have done this in the past and in fact you have written a book called free and fair. you make the case that international elections and democratizations should not focus on short term end. do we see that place with this election or is that a hope of yours. >> the elections tend to be an event that get attention in the international community, among others. but just collecting information about what happens on election day isn't that helpful to afghanistan as it develops its own democracy. it is natural that they show support of the democracy in the elections and reinforce local efforts. there are society efforts and afghanistan -- we need to use this as an tune to reinforce their efforts and continue our

attention and engagement with afghanistan. >> have a safe trip and thank you for being with us. an we can follow democracy international's progress on the website. we'll provide a link to that at the end of our newscast. look for it at wusa9.com. the debate is on over a plan to widen a local interstate. we will talk to one of the officials involved coming up. plus, learn about a local tribute tomorrow to celebrate the 40th anniversary of woodstock. and researchers find ma aspirin may provide a have some benefits. g

welcome back. opens of a plan to widen part of i-270 in maryland call it shortsighted and destined to failure. supporters say it will help reduce congestion. what about the montgomery

county council? with me now is council president phil andrews. thanks for joining us. clearly 270 is an issue that affects a lot of people. a lot of people take it to work. congestion is a major problem. how bad is it for 270? >> congestion on 270 is very bad. depends how bad it is day to day but lighter on a day like this. but most of the time it is close to a parking lot and congestion has to be addressed on it. i think there is broad agreement it has to be addressed in a way that reduces it and we have a number of options to recommend or advise the state about. we are reviewing state recommendations regarding the project which looked at what should be done between shady grove road and frederick on 270. the options range by widening by four lanes, two each way, or perhaps two, and maybe having them reversible to they go

toward washington in the morning and out to frederick in the afternoon. it will be expensive regardless and we need to make sure we minimize amount of single occupancy traffic and maximize car pooling and express bus and we are looking at a transit way, a bus or light rail that would run to the shady grove metro. that has to be a big par of this -- part of this, too. >> widening has been a local issue on 495. it is controversial. a lot of environmentalists look at the 270 project and say this will only bring more traffic to the area. what do you respond to that? >> well, the traffic is already there is one response and the second is if you limit the expansion of the lanes to high occupancy and express lanes you get the most out of it and encourage people not to drive alone and would if they were

the only option create more sprawl. something needs to be done. let's do it in a smart way and as cost effective as we can and make sure transit and car pooling and express buses are a big part of it. >> you had a vote planned before the council in july. you decided to postpone it to give people more time to think of the proposal. what's your thinking now? >> my thinking is you need a combination of expansion of lanes on 270 and you need more transit than has been considered until now. we need more a full service rail line. it would take several hundred million dollars to do be that but in you put that money to widening the marc rail, i think that would be an better alternative than putting so much money this toe the lanes on 270. >> i want to ask you about money. where does the money come from

to, you know, obviously the widening lane project is incredibly expensive as most transportation projects are. >> it is $4 billion project or so, maybe a little less depending on the proposal. the money will have to come primarily from the federal government. it is an interstate, highway, that's where it should come from. >> in terms of adding light rail or new bus or marc service where would that come from? >> that would be a combination of funding most likely. a smaller split of transit than highway. the state would have to find a way to fund part of it and what we probably have to see at some point in the state, if not at the national level is some kind of increase in the gas tax to keep up with inflation at least. >> well, we will continue to watch this issue and see how you vote in a couple of weeks. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> good to see you. now over to kris sneed for an update on traffic. >> thank you.

luckily the roads are looking really good at this hour including 270. we will start on the outer loop. as you can see here at new hampshire. that delay is completely gone now. no problems 95 to the split. going over 270 we are live at montgomery village avenue. you can see northbound and southbound traffic is just going really smooth both ways. finally head over in to 66 and this is in rgviinia. eastbound, you are still seeing a delay here from nutley over to 495. once you get past the beltway and make your way to the district, you have no problems. now we will go to our graphics and looking here on the inner lap in virginia. you can see from little river up to 66 we are slow in the red there. that means you are going 20 miles an hour on average. on the outer loop prepare to slow down van doren to eisenhower as they wrap up construction. a detour is in place for the eisenhower ramp. you can not take it. please remember those signs out there and be careful.

finally finish 395 northbound with no problems here as you make your way from edsall to the 14th street bridge and before this on 95 northbound you are all clear as well as you make your way from fredericksburg all the way to the mixing bowl. jessica, back to you. i will take it, thank you. one associated press reporter says 40 years later it would have been a disaster. instead he says it was a symbol of the happy hippy side of the 60s spirit. there will be a tribute this thursday evening. with me are ronnie and danny gentlemen, thank you for being here. ronnie newmeyer, you were 15 years old. you were there. this one wasn't probably a twinkle in his parents ' eyes he knows nothing about it. 15 years on the other hand, didn't your parents have doubts to let you go to this.

>> i don't know what they were thinking? they probably should have been arrested. they were busy and had just opened a sandwich shop, i told them i bought tickets for a festival in new york and they reluctantly allowed me to go and i would have never let my children go. >> reporter: you were going with an older sibling. >> no, i actually worked with kids that worked at the shop. they camped and i had a good spot by the stage and stayed there the entire three days. >> we are looking at video that someone had taken from that day. what did you think woodstock was going to be. you told them you were going to a festival but did you know that it was going to be what it had become? >> no one knew the scope of it and no one knew it would turn out as well as it did. the initial news reports that it was a disaster area, in fact it was all going well. it wasn't they planned it well,

there was a spirit that made it work. >> someone wrote on a blog that the world has never been the same and neither have we and we wanted the change. you were 15 years old, were you thinking that philosophical that you were part of a change movement, in the older kids there wanted to be part of the change? >> i was there for the music. i think a lot of people were there for the music. there were political leanings of many people there but it was essentially a half million people that wanted to go and listen to the music. >> danny the music for you. >> as they grew up seeing the music i grew up listening to the grateful dead and santana and jimi hendrix and the spirit of woodstock is embraced by us and what we do. tomorrow is our ninth production in five years and never before has the show been so-well suited because we put this together for the music to get the best of the dc musicians together and put on a

tremendous show for the people of dc to celebrate, whichever artist, we have done bob dylan, joanie mitchell, neil young but this time it is like a tribute to 20 different artist. every artist is doing a different band and wonderful artists. eddie from ohio will be doing crosby stills gnash and young and mary chapin carpenters band, john jennings. mar bow p.a. go mcdonald who is a local singer. eric scott from baltimore is a great singer. >> and our local musicians have done really well. i have been at some of the awards shows. they are fantastic. it will be a great sew. so great that prepare for number 41 because the 40th anniversary tribute is basically soldout. you have a preshow celebration, as well. talk about the spoken word that will be going on before the show. >> this is actually ronnie's idea but that getting a bunch of people together -- usually

we have music before the show, people with guitars in the hallways, entertaining with a little music we are not covering on the show but this seems too appropriate to have people who went to woodstock come and share some of their memories with a small crowd and we will be showing pictures. some of the pictures are friends of ours. people who will be joining us. so it should be a special period to listen to some of their memories and ronnie, will you be speaking tomorrow? >> i will be telling my story. quite a few of us attended the festival. john jennings attended, as also a 15-year-old and people will be telling their stories and there are amazing stories surrounding woodstock. >> and a lot of people remember the stories to tell because there were other groups that say i don't remember what happened but i felt good afterwards. thank you so much for being with us and have a great time on thursday night. >> they would have been popular at woodstock and if you spend

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in living well, a study finds aspirin and iburpofen can prevent colon cancer but beware it only cuts the risk when taken a few times a week for more than ten years.

they conclude the risk outweighs the benefits. the study comes from the journal of the medical association. also in the journal, doctors may have a new weapon the fight against osteoporosis. it is an experimental drug and they say it not only helps women with osteoporosis but men to avoid bone loss during prostate cancer treatment. flip flops could be a summertime flop according to one study. the problem is flip flops can expose your feet to potentially dangerous germs. microbiologists found a layer of bacteria including staph. it can cause a blood infection if you have a cut in your foot. those tanning salons may help you get good look but are the results worth the risk? with the is dr. howard brooks, medical director of georgetown skin. doctor, good to have you back with us. we reported on a new housing

facility at the university of louisville. sounds exotic, posh, even includes tanning beds. >> we don't want to hear that. >> i was going to ask how would you grade that as a school option. >> absolutely not. tanning beds have the same hazards as arsenic. >> does is that extreme. >> we have been telling patients this for years. >> what do tanning beds do that make it so toxic. >> they are not regulated by the fda. you don't know what you are doing when you get in to there and you have an intense short- term exposure to uv light it can cause skin cancer. >> we are talking able an increase in young women. we see women in the 20 something that their risk is 75% higher for skin cancer. >> absolutely. there's been studies done that show even when small surge in

tanning beds can increase the risk so much. people want to look good and have that summer glow. there are so many other options out there. >> tell us about them. we have been out in the sun so we know we have our glow on. what do you do to make it good and safe? because the sun light is dangerous. >> i'm not telling everybody to stay indoors and go to the beach and pools because nobody would listen but there are so many products on the mark now, there is spray tans, self tanners and sunscreens with tints in them. people say i don't want to look like a carrot but there are those that give a natural appearance. >> they don't have any side effects at all. >> they are less side effects. the main risk with overthe couldn'ter product is contact allergies but not the extreme risks of skin cancer. >> talk about skin cancer. it is growening among the younger set but it is one of those cancers that if we took

care we could prevent. >> that's the point to the story. if there is any one take home point this is preventable. if you limit your sun exposure, i'm not saying don't go out and have fun but absolutely no tanning beds. that's the take home message, no tanning beds are they seeing -- are you seeing patients with exposure from tanning beds. >> it is for men and women. tanning beds are popular people want to have that summer glow and another myth is i want to go in the spring to prevent sun burn but it is not true. >> i hasn't heard that one. >> people say i just want to get my base tan so i won't burn at the beach. >> and to that he says no, no, no. >> have a good rest of the summer and a safe one, too. an iconic scene from early television is going through the

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jennifer hudson has a new role. it is mother. the gave birth on wednesday. she had not confirmed her pregnancy before announcing the birth. >> after 72 years and 69 daytime emmy awards the cbs soap opera guiding light shot the final episode on tuesday. the final episode airs september 18th here e th> co

the woman who played ethel on the tv series i love lucy has her own postage stamp. the stamp was unveiled yesterday and actor vivian vance's place of the birth, kansas. i shows the memorable scene with lucille ball in the chocolate factory. >> i love that and the vitavetavejamen. i love that. this has nothing to do with thanksgiving but this stuffing is for burgers. welcome back. we have photograph you don't have to make the burgers outside. you have a grill pan here. >> i love using a grill pan, yes. >> we are talking about stuff we will stuff in the burgers. >> a little twist on the average burger. kicks it a little bit. and not only that i brought gluen free buns with me. >> tell me what it means.

honestly i didn't know. >> when you have an intolerance to wheat so these buns are made with tapioca flour, rice flour. they are delicious actually. >> you can get your flour other ways. >> uh-huh. >> what are we stuffing in the burger. start with the ground beef. any particular kind. >> it is a special blend. it is a special blend, a secret recipe but it is a 78/22 and the grind is our secret. >> is that lean. >> so one i will stuff with blue cheese. this is a opinional favorite of mine and very popular at the restaurant. we put a tablespoon or so of blue cheese. >> does stuffing the burger help them to cook faster? >> they don't cook faster just makes it more flavorful. more fun than average burger.

some cheddar here. >> may i? >> absolutely. >> here's the thing about these if you have bee in the refrigerator, whatever you have at home. >> what's the strangest thing you have stuffed a burger with. >> we had a contest at wildfire among the cooks and one came with a pineapple and ham stuffed burger. >> it was delicious. >> you hesitated a little. was it really that good. >> it was good. >> what did you come up with. >> onion soup stuffed burger. >> that sounds good. >> it was good. >> you start with two hamburger patty and so we will kind of get that going. we will push down and crimp down on the edges so it doesn't open up. you have had this heating up. anything in it? >> it won't stick.

we will have a little seasoning with salt and pepper. >> we give our viewers a home the recipe. are you going to give us secrgr secret ingredient for the burger. >> sure. >> okay. that one too bad. looks good. we are going to cook this for however length. do you ever use a thermometer to get the temperature on the inside. >> i would not recommend, when you put a thermometer in to stuff to take the temperature you kind of open it up for the juices to come out. so it is better. >> just go by sight. >> we have a little trick. >> we like tricks. >> a little trick. if it is just like that, that's rare. we have medium rare, push it over and you close your fist and it is well. >> you are going based on the texture the secret hand rule. and then gluen free buns.

and so we will toast those up. >> are they easy to get. >> they are. you can go on-line or you can go to any health food store, whole foods. i also brought with us our pie of the month which is peach and blueberry. how did you know? it is my favorite and a salad over here. and spinach salad tossed with bacon dressing which is gluen free as well. >> we will let this cook up and you know the drill. when we come back we will check in with wall street and i will have details on the rain chances in the seven-day forecast and some breaking traffic news right now with kris sneed. >> thank you, kim. we are heading over to the outer loop where we have an accident at route 50 blocking all lanes right now. delays back to 214 and building. if you must travel the outer loop, we are suggesting you take an alternate route to get around this or give yourself an extra time up to an hour. all lanes are blocked at route

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we have breaking traffic information and a major steven on the outer loop. as you can see here at route 50 we have medical as well as emergency vehicles on the scene. all lanes are blocked at this time. delays are stretching back all the way up to 214 and building. if you are taking the outer loop. if you have to go this way, i would suggest an alternate. take 295 or try to head on the inner loop and come back around. right now we are not sure when they will open it up. as you can see they have plenty of medical and emergency vehicles here if you are taking it be advised you will be about

an hour delay as of now. back to you. >> thank you for that update. let's look at the opening numbers on wall street. things are looking good there. dow is up 63, almost 64. nasdaq up 22 and a third. s&p up almost seven. we hear the sizzle in the background but kim says the heat isn't as sizzling outside. today's weather will not make you sizzle. no 90s. we will be hot next week and in to the week a few scattered ut this looks delicious. >> uh-huh. all right. let's look at what is on tap before we start to taste. tomorrow how to get your children in shape for the new year. recipes for success including simple meals your children can prepare at home. and debate over whether michael vick should be given a second chance and the mind over money panel will be here with free financial advice on friday. >> oh, chef, what are you adding on top of your stuffed

burgers. >> blue cheese dressing. >> love this. >> what's your favorite burger. >> romanoff. >> that has blue cheese. >> blue cheese, caviar and half- boiled eggs. >> my goodness. >> thank you, chef. check out wildfire and their gluen-free menu they have and we will be wrapping it up. i will be back at noon with j.c. >> and we are back tomorrow morning at 4:55. join us all then. have a great day. (announcer) back to school means back to busy mornings.

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