died last year. arness was 88. good morning, welcome to 9news now. today is monday june 6th. i'm andrea roane. i'm mike hydeck, happy monday. here's angie, with traffic in a moment. howard will have weather right now. angie is as bright as the sky will be a good looking monday out there. mid-80s, whatever your plans are, if you have outdoor plans get them done today and tomorrow. wednesday and thursday, it's going to be really hot once again, get the code orange air quality and heat advisory again. here's a look at the day planner, sunshine today, temperatures getting into the upper 70s by noon. topping in the mid-80s with a 5:00 p.m. temperature of 83. it's 68 under partly cloudy skies. the sun's up at 5:43. we have isolated showers and thunderstorms yesterday evening off to the east. there they go. mainly across the bay. they're

long gone now. temperatures 50s well up to the north across pennsylvania, western maryland, upper 60s, 70s toward raleigh, 71. 63 in manassas, 62 haymarket. 65 in fairfax and bethesda. 64 columbia, 63 bay den and now in alexandria 66 and a warm but pleasant start in the mid-80s today. angie, happy monday. >> back at you. thank you. halfway through the 4:00 hour, not much on the roadways. we have the green light on. taking you back to construction we're monitoring. outer loop at i-95, drivers will lose a couple right lanes. keeping it going over to the inner loop at georgia avenue, we have a left lane blocked until 5:00 this morning. 270 drivers are all clear out of urbana, past father hurley down towards the split. in virginia 66 eastbound is checking out without incident as drivers make their way from haymarket, past

manassas to inside the beltway. we are looking at prince george's county roadways coming up at 4:40. andrea, mike. suleman brown is expected to testify today. he claims he was promise add lucrative job if he campaign against and publicly bashed adrian fenty during last year's campaign. the one time mayoral candidate himself, brown says he received money from vincent gray's campaign for those actions. the according to the washington post brown has copies of money orders he says he received from the gray campaign. until now brown had refused to testify before the city council. fire investigators are searching for the cause of a light night fire in southeast. the two-alarm fire started in a three-story apartment building in the 5100 block of f street. one person was transported with serious burns but not life threatening injuries. police in prince george's county say speed and alcohol

caused crash that killed three people sunday evening. they say an suv slammed into the back of the car, running that car off the road and into a tree near the intersection of indian head highway and wilson bridge rode in oxon hill. >> there were two passengers in that vehicle, two females ejected from the vehicle. they were pronounced dead on scene. the the driver was also pronounced dead. the remaining passenger an adult male was transported to a hospital. >> the driver of the car, and passenger were kid. the name of the third victim has not been released. the driver of the suv has been charged with driving under the influence and he could face more charges. there have been wild street celebrations in the city of yemen's capital. this after the departure of the country's president sallah. a government spokesman says he will return after his treatment in saudi arabia. he's been treated for

injuries he suffered in a rocket attack friday. medical officials say he underwent successful surgery on his chest. 20 people are dead, another 325 wounded in syria. syrian officials say israeli forces opened fire on palestinian protesters as they approached an israeli border fence. it happened in the occupied golan heights as protesters marked the anniversary of the 1967 war. israel is accusing syria of orchestrating the violence. roberts gates is wrapping up his final trip to afghanistan. he spent time with troops and spoke to reporters about the timetable for withdrawal from the region. gates says pulling back from afghanistan requires a delicate balance. the secretary also told the troops he thinks about them all the time and feels personally responsible for their safety. president obama has nominated cia director leon

panetta to replace gates. dominique strauss-kahn is headed back to court to answer charges that he sexually assaulted a housekeeper in new york last month. he is expected to plead not guilty. towns in missouri river are waiting for more flooding. a 14 gait dam was gushing into the missouri river. in iowa hundreds of residents were ordered to evacuate after a breach in a levee. in joplin, missouri three more people have died from injuries they received during the massive tornado two weeks ago, so far 141 people have died as a result of the tornado. about one-third of the city was destroyed. city officials plan to meet today to try to get more help clearing debris. firefighters in eastern arizona are trying to gain control of a massive blaze near the new mexico border. authorities ordered a new round of evacuations.

sunday as flames crept closer to more homes. the blaze is the third largest in arizona history and has already charred more than 200 square miles. time is 4:36. coming up at 4:41. the military means big bucks for the region, but will it stay here? >> a possible source for a recent e. coli outbreak. we'll be right back.

4:38 this monday morning. let's get going, people. lots to do this week, today weather will be fine. low 70s by 9:00. upper 70s at noon. we get to 84, 85 with a drive home temperature of 83. high heat by

mid week. i'll tell you about that in a few. here's angie to tell us about your monday morning time saver traffic. we are looking at prince george's county, the fort washington area, everything is all clear. coming up in my next traffic report at 4:48 an update on road work around the region. thank you, angie. it is 4:39. time for the first your money report of the morning. >> jessica doyle, i like where you were headed with that. >> beautiful jessica doyle is here with today's business headlines. >> i wish i had sunnier news to bring you guys. >> stay positive we'll try. >> the weather is nice. the stock market really hoping to snap a five week losing streak. that's the longest since 2004. part of the problem for stocks, believe it or not is the dropping price of oil. traders fear that a weak job market will cause demand for gasoline to keep falling and this week they're going to watch opec's meeting in vienna. most belief

the oil producing nations will agree to leave output unchanged because there is surplus oil on the market. opec has not raced the ceiling in four years. stocks, if we have to check the numbers let's do it together, the dow stands at 12,151, finished the day down 97 points, nasdaq off by 40. s&p 500 off by 12. first the playstation, now the wii, the same group of hackers that attacked sony say it's responsible for a recent attack on nintendo. the japanese tech giant says no personal or company information was lost. that wasn't of course the case in the sony attack. more than 100 million users personal information was compromised. the group tweeted that it likes nintendo's game console too much to really damage the company. can you imagine? remember the military roll back in december? the washington examiner reports that the economic output of washington's annual college football bowl game doubled between 2009 and 2010.

a new report shows it pumped nearly $18 million into the local economy. all that spending came in large part from the 26,000 out of town attendees. more attendees out of town than the total output of attendees the year before. it's exploding in popularity. >> that's excellent. the other thing what's good for us, isn't good for wall street when it comes to oil. >> isn't that interesting? >> jessica, thank you. a man diagnosed with h ivaids says he is cure. the head of apple makes a brief return today. we'll be back. it's time for united airlines travel cast on this monday morning, temperatures in the mid-60s at dulles, visibility 4 miles. fairly comfortable taking off out of here today. if you're going toward chicago, there could be thunderstorms a little later on. temperatures around 90. so it's going to be hot there. middle of the country 90s, mid-90s kansas city, denver 92, could see storms.

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man: we need a sofa. something i can stretch out on! woman: ooh... that will go with those lamps my mother gave us. or we could get some new lamps. or we could get no sofa. negotiating, eh? you got it! 4:43, howard bernstein is here to get our week off to a good start, good morning. >> i had the pleasure of seeing both folks over the weekend. the race for the cure was great. weather was fine. saturday evening, i think she looks fantastic. you should have seen her in the green dress. >> i saw the pictures, stunning. looked gorgeous as well. i had

her picture on my facebook. britney morehouse and surae were there. we want to see good pictures, join me at facebook. my facebook page. i should put them on wusa9. weather wise, momslikeme.com bus stop forecast after the busy weekend, and get it going, not bad at all this morning. it is mainly clear, comfortable. temperatures in the mid-60s, low 70s at the bus stop with a 5:43 sunrise. we have a week and a half left of school in most spots. day planner on this monday morning, 8:00, upper 60s by noon upper 70s, a great day to be outside and enjoy your lunch outside today. we won't be as fortunate i don't think. tomorrow gets toasty by midday, especially wednesday and thursday. you will not want to be outside. 83 by 4:00 with a north wind at 6:00. by 8:00, upper 70s with a northwest

wind at five. a good looking day. a sign that things are changing. dryer air tried to come in. the dew points, the green is more moist, the darker green is deeper moisture and the dryer wind is with us. we have a northerly wind, southerly ones will take over. increasing humidity by mid week. some 50s in the mountains in cumberland and oakland. this is where we've seen a touch or two of fog. most are in the mid to upper 60s like here in washington, we sit at 68 under partly cloudy skies. the winds are light. so with high humidity and light winds and especially north and west, that's where we've had a touch of fog. dew .64 and the barometer sitting at 29.98. i want to show you what's happening national satellite and radar. houston, texas was 105 degrees. that is an amazing temperature for them. there's a lot of heat here. we'll tap into that bringing it north and

east by wednesday and thursday. right now we have storms in the middle of the country and you can see the severe thunderstorm watch. these storms moving east-southeast. chicagoland in a few hours could be getting storms. you do the math, that the not good for the monday morning flight status here. a lot of planes go through chicago. high pressure is building now, so we'll have a good day today and stay relatively quiet. the future cast, we had a shower or sprinkle last night. not much action expected today. by 5:00, mostly sunny. at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, it's quiet. through the day we'll pop showers potentially in the mountains by midday into the afternoon and then one or two of those, we'll try to come south and east toward us. north and west tomorrow, a better chance of that, mainly afternoon storm, let's say d.c. south and east. we'll do the same thing on wednesday with perhaps a few more showers and storms in spots. the heat is building.

today 85, tomorrow 89. the isolated storm especially north and west. look at the temperatures by wednesday, mid to upper 90s with a chance of an afternoon storm, thursday with 97. friday, saturday period we'll the cool back down toward normal. this weekend celebrate fairfax. i'll be out there saturday during the day. >> will you be out there? >> the leg warmers. >> great 80s cover band. they are awesome. >> are you going on stage? >> no. but i do like leg warmers. hey, everybody hope you're off to a great start. green light stays on. have some construction to tell you about. all this should be clearing in the next 15 minutes or so. outer loop on 95 we're losing a couple right lanes. inner loop at georgia avenue we're losing a left lane. 267 eastbound, it looks like at 123 we have the ramp closed, should open by 5:00. same goes for inner loop travelers that want to access telegraph road.

that should be back open as well. in my next traffic report, we're looking at route 50 in maryland at 4:56. thank you, angie. the gop campaign for the white house starts rolling, republicans may have found their most potent reupon. >> friday's disappointing jobs report has energized the party and gop members are blasting president obama and his policies. >> reporter: republicans hope they have found president obama's achilles heel, a sputtering economy, already fueling a gop fire for 2012. >> president obama tried to explain to the public the other day that this is just a bump in the road. but you try telling that bump in the road analogy to those families out there trying to keep their homes. >> reporter: only five # 4000 jobs were created last month and unemployment rose to 9.1%. economists fear a double dip recession. but the president's advisors say he inherited the problem. >> we were losing 780,000 jobs

a month when the president comes into office. fast forward to now we've added 1 million jobs over the last six months. >> and democratic lawmakers are pointing fingers at the republican house majority. >> they set the agenda. we have said every day that they're there, another day goes by and there isn't a jobs agenda or a jobs bill that has come to the floor. >> a weak economy helped the gop win the house last fall and republicans are hoping it will sweep their nominee into the white house. in pole after pole americans say the economy is the single issue that matters most. >> i think the economy is terrible and i don't think obama is doing a good job at all. >> what could anybody else have done better? >> even without a clear front runner republicans say they can do better. mr. president, you've had your turn, it's now our turn. we're the ones that are just getting started. >> the white house hopes the recovery picks up before the campaigning gets serious in iowa.

now the gop field will likely grow this week. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is expected to announce he will run. would you believe securing a city will earn more money than running the state? metropolitan police chief kathy lanier is the washington region's highest paid top cop, pulling in $253,000 a year. and in second place, montgomery county's tom manager, with 216,000. richard because is the area's highest paid firefighter drawing $190,000. d.c.'s fire chief, is close behind at 187,000 at 175,000, fairfax county fire chief ronald masston. >> i think that's outrageous. obama gets less than that. >> lower than they should be. i'm an elected official.

>> my reaction is pay the school teachers more. what's more important? teaching our children? >> if you don't pay a decent wage, you will not get a decent person in the job. >> some may criticize high salaries but officials say they're critical to attracting top talent for difficult jobs. virginia governor bob mcdonald earns $175,000 a year. martin alley makes $150,000, less than all but one public safety official in the washington area. german grown beansprouts could be the source of the deadly e. coli outbreak that's killed at least 22 people so far. officials say the sprouts from an organic farm was traced to infected people in five different german states. the farm has been shut down and all of its produce has been recalled. a 45-year-old timothy ray bound may go down in scientific history as the first man to have hiv completely eliminated from

his body. scientists gave him a stem cell and bone marry transplant as he was struggling with hiv and leukemia. the results were apparently astounding. >> i quit taking my hiv medication on the day that i got the transplant and now i haven't had to take any since. >> leukemia and aids? gone? >> right. >> sure? >> yeah. >> wow, well, brown received stem cells from a donor who has an immunity to hiv. one percent of caucasians are immune to hiv. some say it goes back to the great playing. people who survived that playing, developed an immunity and that immunity was passed down to descendants today. doctors are hoping to develop a less invasive treatment based on what looks like brown's cure. researchers are stopping short of calling a new drug a

magic bullet against skin cancer, but they do say the medication called zana fernib shows a 67% reduction in the death rate of melanoma parents. scientists say the drugs targets mutated genes which makes it more effective with fewer side effects. melanoma kills an average of one person every hour in america. this weekend more than 800 couples celebrated love, gathered at the national shrine of the immaculate conception, cardinal donald whurhl prosided over the mass. >> lord, bless and conhe is great these married couples in their love for each other, may these rings be a symbol of true faith in each other and always remind them of their love. >> 387 of the couples have been married for 50 years or more.

one couple has been married, mike, for 73 years. god bless that couple. before we take a break, it's time to look at the question of the morning. 67% of all u.s. currency has this one thing in common. what do you think it is, a, it is worth less than face value; b, currently out of the country; or c, it's mostly counterfeit. go to our facebook page and we'll reveal the survey answer in a little while. i'm a dancer. and until now, my feet showed it.

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welcome back, 4:56, this monday morning. heather has your weather first. we're looking at mainly clear skies. temperature wise upper 70s, low 80s showing you will this afternoon. highs around 85 or so, staying mainly clear and the heat is only going to be building for the next several days. enjoy today, before it gets too hot, especially wednesday and thursday. angie goff? >> take a look for yourself 50 westbound, from the eastern shore through annapolis, bowie, to inside the beltway. if you're washington bound, nothing is along the way. we'll have a look at more maryland roads in my traffic report at 5:01 back to you. some of the biggest stars in hollywood were out for the 20th annual mtv movie awards. candace gibson has the highlights.

>> reporter: with quirky swits. >> you know him for crushing james franco's arm in 127 hours. bob the bolder. >> reporter: off beat award categories. >> that very ran. the mtv movie awards alms to set itself apart from traditional awards show. >> where is my king's speech fans at? >> this year a comedian presided over the two hour show that kept sensors busy and featured unusual acceptance speeches, but in its 20th year now it's what fans and celebrities have come to expect from the show. >> it's young, fun. you just be yourself. this is one of those awards shows you never know what will happen. expect the unexpected. >> reporter: for the awards? the mtv crowd seemed enchanted by twilight eclipse, it won five golden popcorn trophies including best movie. >> it may not have the prestige of the oscars, but every year the mtv movie awards are able

to get some of hollywood's biggest stars. >> steven spielberg previewed super 8 and reese witherspoon was given the generation award, the equivalent of lifetime achievement honors, proving what this award may lack in stature. >> you look nice in my downstairs toilet, thank you. >> reporter: it makes up for in star appeal. >> and the awards show -- here we are, the awards show featured the latest from the twilight saga, breaking dawn. >> what a quirky award. good morning, thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m., with butter. i'm andrea roane. i'm mike hydeck, i feel so old watching that. angie is here with traffic in a moment and telling us about the leg warmers, we'll explain that in a minute. howard has weather first. >> you remember mtv before the awards. >> i remember the first mtv day before it was on the air. >> we were in high