people across the country expressing sympathy at the death of ted kennedy. the death of the senator led to a new push in the health stem. and police involved shooting. a man accused of pointing a gun at an officer dies at a local hospital. good morning. i'm andrea roane. thanks for joining us. today is thursday, august 27th. angie goff is here. she will have the traffic update for you. we say good morning to kim martucci and how's the weather? what's danny canning. >> danny boy is in the atlantic ocean churning up a storm and we are keeping one eye on him

but i am watching with equal importance a front and i think that will be the thing that brings wet weather this weekend. that is actually good news. i think danny will be too far out to sea to take a direct hit here or get too close to the coast. here's a look at the day at a glance. temperatures in the middle 70s and upper 70s and that was our target at nine. it is happening. mostly sunny skies. approaching the mid-80s. instead of the 90s like yesterday afternoon we will put on the brakes around 88. more clouds will be approaching the area. a frontal system is on top of us but the rain attached to it is behind the front. we will hold off on the rain likely until tomorrow. this is what danny looks like. an enhanced satellite loop. brighter colors indicate high cloud tops. show emu what we are expecting as danny takes a swing to the eastern seaboard this weekend. right now winds are at 60.

still a tropical storm. notice two a.m. on saturday it is sitting off of the virginia north carolina line. yesterday it was a little closer to the chesapeake forecasted around this time. if it stays out here, we shouldn't get any rain from it but certainly the beaches will. there's going to be some rough surf. details about the weekend weather forecast here and in ocean city when i see you next. i just wanted to show you this at the top of the show to put your mind at ease. here's angie goff with the traffic. >> hello, everybody. such a pleasure to have you join us on this thursday morning, one of our favorite days of the week. weekend is almost here. unfortunately bad news for you. a lot of activity on the roads beginning with the inner loop past the toll road. crash activity is taking away the left lane for drivers. as a result of this we are looking at a jam up that is taking 15 minutes and growing from braddock to 15th. another accident in silver

spring. this is georgia avenue southbound. that is where we know this wreck is keeping all lanes blocked. we will let you know when things open up. chevy chase, the situation on wisconsin, we have crews working a scene out here. on the outer loop a 16-minute drive. we are below speed from 95 toga gar. back to the graphics and show you southbound bw parkway at 193 greenbelt. more crash activity and another accident on eastern avenue and kenilworth in northeast dc. be careful. a lot to watch for. over to you. we begin this morning with a developing story out of northeast washington. a man shot by police officers early this morning has died. it happened around 3:40 at a shell gas station in the 3300 block of benning road. officers responded to a report of a man with a gun at the gas station. when they arrived the suspect allegedly pointed the weapon at officers and then fired on him.

police would not say if this was a robbery attempt. >> at this time i have been told the subject had a weapon and he was tapping on the window of the shell station, cashiers location. >> reporter: no officer was injured in the shooting. stay with 9 news now and wusa9.com for the latest information on this story. we now know the name of a man stabbed yesterday martin was stabbed 2:30 afternoon in the 200 block of q street. mac was taken to the hospital where he died. the second victim is expected to survive. his name has not been released. almost after century edward kennedy served his country as a publicker is van and now the public will be able to pay their respects to him. a public viewing of his body will last through the end of

the week. >> reporter: the ground sendoff for the late senator ted kennedy will begin with a procession through the streets of his beloved hometown. >> that is what we will do the next few days, celebrate his life, a remarkable life. >> his body will be taken to john f. kennedy library and lie in repose until friday night when a private memorial will be held. mourners have already begun to show up. >> i have come because i have admired the family from afar for a long time especially senator kennedy because he was about helping people. >> reporter: thousands are remember the popular senator, even the sports world ♪ [ music ] ♪ at last night's red sox game kennedy's favorite baseball team honored their number one fan. this morning the kennedy family is meeting here where the senator spent his final hours. they will have a private mass were accompanying his body to boston. >> people around here revered him and i think he was worthy of that. >> reporter: on saturday president obama will speak

during a private funeral at our lal heal perpetual health a basilica. they had a special meeting for kennedy who prayed there every day when his daughter was battling cancer. kennedy will be buried next to his brothers john and robert at arlington national cemetery, a resting place for heros. the brain cancer which killed senator kennedy is a particularly aggressive type. survival following surgery averages 15 to 18 months. the senator was diagnosed in may of 2008, 15 months ago. cancer specialists say the cause is a mystery. even though they don't spread to other part of the body, the tumors grow rapidly and it is almost impossible to get all the cancer cells with surgery. >> they infiltrate the brain tissue around the tumor and it is a lifetime vugle with them.

they are incurable. >> the plan included chemotherapy, radiation and pro on the beam therapy. the senator campaigned for health care reform as long as he could. during his rivetting address of the democratic national convention in denver last year, kennedy said this is the cause of my life. new hope we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every american will have decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not as a privilege. now colleagues hope to overcoffh their dierdifferences and reali condition di's dream. you can watch the entire speech at last years' democratic national convention on our website at wusa9.com. once there head to the news section. it will be under a new section called remembering edward kennedy. there you will find a slide show of ted kennedy's life and written and video statements from president obama and other politicians about the senator's death. as we said, senator kennedy was passionate in his fight for

health care reform. he also fought tirelessly on behalf of people left out and left behind. here to talk about his legacy on the prospects for achieving kennedy's goals is maryland congresswoman donna edwards. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, andrea. >> on the issue of health care, jim moran says let's stop the fighting and do this in ted kennedy's honor. do you think there is any chance they will stop the fighting on captiol hill and there will be health care reform passed this year? >> i share that vision and the same passion that senator kennedy had for health care, and i think it really is time for all of us to step back, take a look at where we are and where we are going and really honor his memory and commitment to the american people for health care reform. >> reporter: where are we? and where are we going on health care form sometimes the noise is louder than others at the health care forums. but everyone say the system is

not perfect. what do your constituents tell you they want. >> i have had a couple of town hall meetings and have been traveling throughout my congressional district to talk about health care reform and i think part of the difficulty here is each of us has our own unique experience with the health care system. we are not talking about policies not connected to us. so people share a vision about that and want to see some change and we know the system isn't perfect and it doesn't work for so many people, so what i hear from my constituents is please go back to captiol hill. work with your colleague and get this done, because even those folks who have health care coverage now worry they may not have it or their children may not have it tomorrow. >> reporter: getting it done, does that mean a public option? i know the congressional black caucus the chair said there is no reform without the public option. governor howard dean, former dnc chair said you have to have the public option if you want true reform. >> i think many of us recognize

the public option component of health care reform is an essential lynch pin to lowering cost, increasing -- and the transparency the president talks about and senator kennedy knew had to happen in this legislation. so it isn't just the public option just to have it. it is because it really is essential to achieve the goals we have set out. >> is this harder because the administration did not give you a bill to work with. maybe they within focused enough to help to lead this debate. do you feel the administration has let you down as a lawmaker. >> i really don't. our job as legislators is to make laws and i think part of the process is both hearing from our constituents and also wrangling among ourselves about what the best policy is for the american people. so i have used all of what has happened in august, the vigorousness of the debate is

part of what we need to get to an end product that americans understand that we are satisfied with and willing to live with. and, you know, today when we look back on 44 years of medicare k i talked to my seniors an not a hand goes up if you ask if they would rather give back their medicare. i think we can achieve the same results with their health care reform. >> you talked about workers that may be without health care. the brunt of the cuts are happening in the state's health department. how concerned are you about the way the cuts have been made and the fact that the health department is so adversely being affected in light of the report to the president from his special advisory council that h1n1 could possibly result in 30 to 90,000 deaths across the country, happening mostly among young people? >> i am concerned. although i do think that our centers for disease control and our state department and health have laid out a plan for

handling h1n1, making sure those who are the most vulnerable get vaccinated early in the process. we are all concerned about the cuts that have to happen at the state level. i think the governor has really had the challenge of dealing with a tough national economy and a tough state economy. we are trying to wrestle with that. we have seen some glimmers of hope as the president describes in the economy. new home sales are up. we have seen leveling off of the unemployment losses and we will look to see more of that and i think we are beginning to see the workings of a strong economic recovery from the stimulus package that we passed earlier in the year. and in the meantime, though, all of us have to share the sacrifice really of trying to make sure that our state budgets are straight and we are able to move forward. one thing in maryland, we are not going to see cuts in

education which i think is really important in terms of where those cuts are spread. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. budget cuts, as we said, are coming to the free state but some upper echelon state workers won't have to worry about losing pay pay. we will talk about that when wen come back, sy ta with us.

bob mcdonnell says if elected he will take a pay cut. and he promises no new taxes and will veto any tax hike sent to him by the legislature. yesterday we were joined live in the studio by democratic candidate creigh deeds. if you missed my interview or want to see it again, go to wusa9.com. the entire interview is on the virginia news page. pink slips are on the way after the board of public works approved a slew of budget cuts. they are intended to save taxpayers $454 million. the 202 state employees will lose their jobs. those layoffs include, 160 jobs at the state health department and counties will lose $211 million in state funding money used for everything from police salaries to road repaving. the board approved a five-day shutdown of state government and widespread furloughs but not all state employees will take furloughs like lawmakers

and judges. some say they should have to share the pain. darryl brown is one of them. he prints refund checks at the treasury office. >> they make way more money than we do and we do the work in the trenches and keep the state rolling and we always have to take the hi iitirfa . ink it is fair. >> >>reporter: the speaker of e house of delegates mike bush saying he will voluntarily take a pay cut and he expects other legislators to do the same. the heat hits keep coming, but these hits are budget cuts causing pain across the state of maryland. with me now to talk about the program is peter franchot. thanks for joining us. i know it was a long night last night. >> it is sad because we are dismantling a lot of important programs. meantal health programs are being severely affected by these cuts. the governor, treasure and i had to step up and make these decisions for the public -- board of public work and i

think it is appropriate to get our fiscal house in order but it is not pain free. >> reporter: look at the long view of this. you have worked long and hard to avoid job cuts in the state of maryland. now the cuts and furloughs are coming. what was the tipping point? why now? >> i think we finally have seen the recession will be a long- term issue and that is something that has -- we have realized that now we really have to bite the bullet and make not just furlough decisions. that's a loss of ten days ' pay and by the way, all legislators in the judiciary and constitutional officers like myself, i'm sure all of us are going to -- i'm certainly going to -- voluntarily give back ten days ' of pay. but the terminations are just i think the tip of the iceberg. i think we will see, unfortunately more budget pressure on the state as unemployment and other consequences of national

recession flow over the state of maryland. >> reporter: so you voluntarily will take a ten-day furlough from the job. >> yes. and i anticipate all judges and members of the judiciary and legislators and constitutional officers will do that too. it is just the right thing to do. >> governor o'malley said with these budget cuts it will hurt some programs, for example it could make it more difficult to deal with h1n1 this fall if an outbreak happens. could be harder to deal with crime, if a crime spike happens. how will the state deal with these issues if we see problems occur. >> let me say this is an ongoing issue with the budget. we are going to continue to cut because the revenues will be negatively impact by the unemployment and commercial mortgage crisis, by the personal credit card crisis that we see. we have a lot of debt that we have to wring out of the state economy and it's going to be -- when we are doing that -- before a recovery. we will see a continued

downturn in revenues. so these cuts that we made yesterday, unfortunately are going to have to be repeated until we get our fiscal house in a situation where we are not spending more than we are taking in. >> reporter: when do you expect that fiscal situation to improve? when do you think the economic recovery will start to help the state of maryland? >> i think we have at least two years of tough sledding to go, as far as the revenue situation. and that lags a little bit behind the actual economic recovery. but, you know, people say we're out of the woods, i'm not sure we're anywhere close to being out of the woods. i hope that i'm wrong and that the recovery kicks in, but i think we will see the impact at the state level for several years. let's talk about another program that will start on september 1st, that's monday. you have a tax amnesty program going on in maryland. why don't you tell us about it? >> i'm the tax collector so i'm

not a huge fan of tax amnesty because i would rather enforce the tax laws as is. but they said let's have a two- month tax amnesty so i'm implementing that and we're allowing that people for whatever reason haven't paid their taxes, lie awake at night, here's your get our of jail free card. come in and we will not charge any penalties, and only half of the interest that we normally would and we will give you civil lie liability and protect you from prosecution if that hasn't been on our radar screen. it is an opportunity for people who have either either because they couldn't afford it, just a small number of people or small number of people who cheated on their taxes, which i'm not a fan of. i think we ought to put tax scoff laws in jail but it is a

two-month period if you have defrauded the state and in the paid taxes you can come in and get amnesty. go to our website mdtaxes.com or call my office. it is not a sting operation. it is for real. this is a statutory amnesty program. we think it will generate 5 to $10 million. >> we appreciate you telling us about the program. >> thank you. good to see m a u,o.a kim has a look at the weather but a quick op at my to to go there. go back to 1980. this is what i looked like on the first day. of course i had to show my hamsters off. if you go to my blog at wusam.co i have a way where u m.can send meback to school pictur for the kids adheing ckbathis week and next and we will get them on the air. look at a group of kids that. babs sent this in.

she's a regular in the chat room. you are looking at breanna, ryan and cameron and she went to my blog and viola, there are the kids. thank you for sending them in. a ingreat day to go back to school. the weather is cooperating. 78 degrees at reagan national. 81 leesburg, 77 annapolis and it is 76 at quantico. a front is just headed in our direction ever so slowly but most of the could cover and rain showers are behind the front. yeah, they are up across pennsylvania. it is technically called an anna front. we will get showers in tomorrow and especially over the weekend. so, on the satellite-radar loop we can see where things are at. heavier rain is moving across cleveland and buffalo. around here we will look at partly cloudy skies an we will take our temperatures up instead of in to the 90s to the 890s and i like that. we are looking at highs around

87 winchester. 90 many leesburg. 87 leonardtown. next couple of days looks like it will be a stormy weekend, everybody. and kind of breezy around here. that would be one of the affects of danny, which right now is still out here in the atlantic ocean. it is a tropical storm. winds are blowing at 60. gusting to 69. notice the path curves it keeping it off of cape hatteras by saturday morning it is expected to be a hurricane, category one. take it farther to the east and yesterday's guidance, so with that said the farther away this is from us the less rain from danny we will get and wind. but the beaches will be rather stormy and windy from danny around here. we will be getting rain from a frontal system. that will be on top of us. heavy surf at the beaches again. friday night until 3:00 on saturday. if it hugs the coast more it could be more of a concern here but at this point not looking to go that way. lows in the lower 70s. highs tomorrow around 80. cooler with rain moving in and

there's the seven-day forecast. over the weekend, wish i could say it is going to be better but it is looking stormy but nice weather moving in next week with 70. >> thank you, kim. former atlanta major andrew young says there is nothing almost related to civil rights that ted kennedy did not have a hand in. washington's afro american newspaper is remembering his contributions in a special tribute to the late senator. with me now is the paper's general manager. good to have you with us. the kennedy family has had a long special relationship with black america. how are you remembering that in the newspaper? >> we went to our archives to determine how to cover ted kennedy in terms of various civil rights legislation and there is everything from the voter rights act of ' 64. several that followed on the disabilities act and so forth. housing and so forth. >> each time we could find he

was prominent that that effort, introduced the bill or promoted it strongly. he made a speech, first major speech on the senate floor in ' 64 in support of the support of the civil rights act. so mrs. francis murphy, former publisher of the -- owner of the afro is deceased. >> have you heard from readers as to their memories of the senator. what his legacy means to them. >> the calls have been coming in from folks locally and nationally in terms of their memory and particular things he did that had an impact on themselves or their family and their commune and so forth. so the minimum i have strong. the legacy is there. and this guy was a lion in the civil rights arena besides a lion in the senate itself. he did so many things if they

are peer, elderly incarcerated, et cetera that had an impact on the citizens life. they were collect i have in nature. >> you are hearing that from members of the congressional black caucus and the members of the naacp and urban league talking about his involvement in major pieces of legislation that affect people of color. >> absolutely. we had a call yesterday and a comment that -- [ inaudible ] [. >> laid the ground work and set the path for having the first black 39 of of the united states, president obama. >> and nor kennedy in endorsing president obama at american your called civil rights the unfinished business of america. >> he said this is a continuum, it continues and even as recently as this year, in fact, named the american services act

was named in his honor. so his legacy will live throughout his various legislation that is in place and is yet coming down the pike that he had played a role in getting it passed or introduced to congress. >> if people would like to read more what do you have to do. >> call 202-332-0080 or check the website afro.com. us edgar, good to have you with we right back.

welcome back to 9 news now. this is a live look at national airport. checking your bag at the airport will cost you even more on u.s. airways if you buy a ticket today it will cost you $25 to check the bag at the airport. it is $20 if you check it in on- line.

both of those are a hike of $5. one bag is still free on transatlantic flights and frequent flyers. u.s. airways operates the most flights out of national airport. who's getting around on the roadways, here's angie goff. >> i have been keeping my eye on it all morning and some issues could slow you down. let's get started in silver spring, maryland. southbound georgia avenue. we have an accident taking away all lanes. avoid the area. opening the cameras, clearing out between new hampshire and georgia. right now no major problems. going to the realtime graphic to chevy chase. we have crash at activity at the intersection of wisconsin and dorsett avenue. watch for crews. on the inner loop in virginia a pretty bad jamup from braddock road to route 7. that is partly due to the accident we have past the dulles toll road causing drivers to lose one left lane. finally finish it up with a good note under sunny skies.

we are traveling and free flowing here on 395 northbound from the beltway all the way to the 14th street bridge. back to you. >> thank you. could some dangerous bacteria be lurking in your kitchen or in your favorite restaurant's kitchen? we have some answers. he is a former associate commissioner for food at the food and drug administration. doctor, good to have you back with us. >> thank you. >> the answer is could something dangerous be lurking in our kitchen or the restaurant kitchen? >> yes. it certainly could. so you have to be careful. >> so we talk about food borne illnesses and usually e. coli and salmonella. is that all we have to worry about. >> no. >> i was afraid you would say that. >> when you talk about food borne illness there are 200 or 300 different microorganisms we hear about salmonella or e. coli. there are viruses, noroviruses as an example. that's actually the commonest cause of food borne illness in the united states.

cdc estimates 23 million of us get sick from noro virus a year. >> we have heard about the schools where someone is sick and you have to clean up the entire school. >> this is the bug that is famous for cruiseships because it spreads really quickly. it has a low infection dose which means it takes very few virus infections to make you sick. as few as ten could bring you down with the illness. it gets in to food and it will make you pretty ill for 24 to 48 howevers and you can move on to parasites and worms and we could get pretty deep. >> how do i protect myself? i have control in my own home. what do i do in my home. >> that's a key message to everyone out there is control what you can control. in the home that is critical. one of the good things about food borne illness it is virtually totally preventable if you do the right things. what do you do at home? the first thing is wash your

hands before you start, absolutely. thinking of what food you have out there in terms of a meat versus a fresh produce item. keep them separate. don't cut them on the same chopping board. store them in refrigerator in different places. make sure the meat is not dripping on something you will cook. make sure the temperature is right. buy yourself a little temperature thermometer. pop it in those burgers or that chicken and make sure it is properly handleled and keep things clean and wash your hands. >> going out to the restaurant i don't know what is going on in the kitchen and i mentioned about a lunch i had yesterday, something as something simple as squeezing lemn in the quarter to flavor the water but the bad thing is i dropped the lemon in to the water, rind and all. that could cause you problems. >> it could potentially because

you don't know who handled the lemon. >> i never thought of it. now just the thought of it is like oh, no. >> you could drive yourself crazy with these things. >> that's not what you are intending to do, just to deep us aware. >> absolutely. when you go out to eat, let's look at the statistics. you are more likely to get sick in your ohm home. one thing the food industry realizes it is bad when people get sick in their restaurant and they end up on your show and that is not where they want to be. >> one person was eating when the health inspector came in and closed the restaurant down. >> that's a clear message. >> when you go to a restaurant you have to use good sense. does it look and smell clean? one of the things that i often advise people is check out the restrooms because you can get in there. you can not get in the kitchen but if they are a mess, paper towels all over the place. >> or no paper towels or no

soap you have to think, well is the kitchen run in the same careless kind of way and think twice. >> we have to go. what is the status of the food safety bill moving through on the hill. i know the house has passed it, has the senate done anything. >> when they come back in september i think they will dig in. it moved and passed in the house. i think the next stage of this is the house and the senate get their heads together around the conference and figure out what is the middle ground that will move this forward. hopefully we will get legislation. >> it will help to make our food safe? >> i think it will. it is needed and overdue and will need resource and leadership. but i think at the end of the day it is a great thing. >> good to have you back with us. the agency which ensures america's banking industry could soon run out of money. and final numbers show the cash for clunkers program fared far better for import cars. we'll be right back. g

the regulator that ensures the banking industry could be running out of cash. later today the fdic will reveal how much it has left following 81 bank failures this year. one banking expert thinks the fund could go negative at some point. it happened once before during the savings and loan crisis of the ' 90s. the cash for clunkers program generated 700,000 new car salessed anded below the $3 billion budget. however, japanese automakers

out performed, capturing 41% of sales. american vehicles accounted for most of the clunker trade in. here's angie. >> thank you, andrea. how does a 38-year-old father go from teaching the bible to 7th graders to winning a super bowl ring. new york times best-selling author jeffrey marx tells the story of a man who did just that. it is called the long snapper. a second chance at super bowl. a lesson of life. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> good morning. we see a lot of books about football players but this one is different because instead of focusing on the star quarterback or the star coach it focuses on an obscure but vital player. >> brian is not exactly tom brady or bill belichick when he was with the patriots but his story was remarkable. here he was 38 years old, baton rouge, louisiana teaching a 7th grade class and his cell phone rings in his pocket while he's

teaching. he had no idea who it was but it was the new england patriots with two weeks left in the season. their long snapper had been injured and bell check wanted him. >> you talk about these seventh grader and he announces it to the class. they are ranting and raving, going crazy and the whole time he is thinking in the back of his mind, in a world of blindness, that'ses this line from the book, he can't see himself how others see him. this story really transcends sports and teaches life lessons. >> there's sports narrative which is the story of a guy who goes in seven weeks from being a 7th grade teacher to a super bowl champion and being part of the winning play with nine seconds left. beyond that, as you are saying it is really a story of the true measure of a man. brian was chasing something.

>> as a writer as a nonfiction writer i came up with a description many years ago of what i thought a great story is and that is what happened. if i made up the story it is with the twists and turns along the way probably get laughed out of the publishing houses. as a writer i have to ask this, it is a story anyone a sports junkie will know how the super bowl ended. what were the challenges of writing a story where you knew what was going to happen. what did you find, holes or challenges a all or just incredible. >> there are always challenges but the story carries itself. for me the key to telling the story is we are taking off the mask, both literally and figuratively of an nfl player.

they wear that football mask but we, as men, most of us walk with another mask of some kind, not just the football mask. brian was one of these rare athletes willing to open up and share with me in a way his vulnerabilities and the spiritual journey that was going on. >> even though spiritualty was such a big part of it he struggled. he kind of had issues with his issues and it was frustrated and he didn't act in such a spiritual way. >> he was filled with anxiety. you have to understand the job of the long snapper. it the most obscure position in sports you earn your living upside down in the world. >> i know. i was the long snapper on my football team and people laugh. >> if you mess up it is fine but if he messes up in the super bowl he was having a lot

of stress. he had thrown a lo of bad balls in practice and literally praying on the sideline. tom brady is taking the patriots down the field. they are playing the panthers it is tied 29-29. here's a guy. you would think the professional athlete wants to be in on the winning play in the super bowl. brian is playing he gets in the end zone so it doesn't come town down to a field goal. everyone knows the name adam vinatieri and no one knows brian's name so that is a good thing. when you are a long snapper, anonymity is good thing. >> they know it now. >> thank you for sharing this book. >> he has a book signing at noon at the barnes and noble here in downtown washington. we'll be right back. fafa

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italian work or go to italy and bring her and my husband and start a new life there, which is what we did. >> amazing. well, you brought with us three of your recipes today. not every recipe in the book is italian but the three you brought today are. tell us what you are making now. >> this is a dish -- be careful it is splattering a bit -- that every tuscan housewife makes when you come to their house. i started it actually with panchetta which is a bacon like product, chopped onions and chicken livers to it. those will cook. my secret ingredient is apple. >> oh. >> so i a little bit of apple. >> we are heading to the fall season. this is a perfect meal. >> a homey dish. it reallile is and the perfect appetizer that you can prepare ahead of time. and then have it ready and put

it on a crusted bread. >> so you are sauteeing them with the rest of everything. >> i am going to put it together because in the end it goes in to a food processor so it gets chopped up and pure rayed. >> the tool i love to use at home is a food mill. you grind like this and that holds back the skin i'm leaving on here because i'm a lazy cook [ laughter ] >> and also the little fibers and tendons and so forth get held back in a food mill the way it doesn't in the food processor. >> makes a nice way to eat it. >> you cook it like this first and then to the food processor. we have a finished one over there? >> right. in the meantime i have added herbs, some rosemary, a little thyme. and this all kind of seasons it up with some oaromas. at the end after i pure ray it a use a little bit of capers in it. and one of the things i like to

do when i present a dish is the garnish that i put on it is an ingredient that is inside. because a lot of people have food sensitivities now. they can look at this and say there is apple in here. >> how nice. >> otherwise you wouldn't know. >> i will hold this over the head camera can get a shot of the plate. we have less than a minute. what else do we have on the table? >> we also have the polenta. it is one of the easiest things to make with corn meal and a little broth. i whisk them together until it thick didn'ts and a sheet pain pan that is slightly oiled and let them to firm up. and cut it in to different shapes. >> i want to have time to pug your cooking class. finally a great way to secure. can you though show them quickly. >> this is fun. my husband is an artist and you

secured these with a green bean. i love it. >> if you are interesting in attending the cooking class it is dupont circle tomorrow night and she has a few spots available. we will update wusa9.com with information on how to sign up. thank you for coming in. we will taste test on the other side of the ea yo u are watching 9 news now. good morning.

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