on this morning, little fog. and it's a little chilly in spots. so you'll need a jacket early but mike oystrige. it is going to be gorgeous this afternoon. with temperatures by noon in the upper 60s. a lot of long lunch hours or maybe a two hour lunch today. 74 5:00. with a high about 75. here in town, some upper 70s south and west. and then we're going to get a little unsettled for the weekend especially later saturday and sunday. visibilities only a quarter mile at andrews and frederick. we got some fog there. leonard town as well as in tappahannock. patchy dense fog early. your temps they're in the low 40s. look at manassas and culpeper and martinsburg now. frederick 43. there's a chill out there. on the bay that's keeping you warmer annapolis 56. 55 at the pax river naval air station and we sit at 53. our forecast highs today oh it's going to be nice. later this afternoon. mid if not upper 70s but some showers, storms even plain old rain this weekend. details in just a few.

right now here's monika with timesaver traffic. good problems there? you know i was talking to authorities there to figure out why this tractor-trailer fire has been there so long on 270. or i-70 near 270 as you come off of i-40. and the reason is, it was a fedex truck and some of the contents are still smoldering. they want to wait it out for a bit and it's causing a lot of heavy traffic. it's been there for over an hour coming in from frederick on eastbound i-70 watch out for the activity there. once you're on 270 you're absolutely fine. there are no issues there. in fact a live look at 270 and here's what it looks like at father hurley boulevard. normally this is slowing down at 6:00 but right now just fine out of jermantown and down to the point where the lanes divide. your lanes are open there. i'll keep you posted on the situation up in frederick. in the meantime, southern maryland looks great. no problems on route 4, route 5, route 30 #. everything looks fine through andrews air force

base and down to oxon hill. north it's going to be heavy and slow from lorton to springfield and then 395 just a teeny bit in landmark. coming up in my next report,en update on frederick at 6:12. back to you guys. problems with concrete work have halted the construction of a new $100 million transit center in downtown silver spring. >> work on the center is already a year behind schedule and now they're wondering if it's ever going to open. many people. our delia goncalves is live in downtown silver spring with the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning mike. a lot of folks frustrated after the last hit. in the last half hour. a gentleman came over and started talking about the fact that this thing has just been sitting here and no one's been working on it. so everyone's curious and wondering when is this going going to get done. you know the new opening schedule is four months away. but there is no concrete solution anywhere in sight. about a year ago, inspectors

discovered the concrete did not meet standards. it was too thick in some areas, simply way too thin in other areas. it is not a safety hazard but this transit center is simply not up to code as is. and metro says they will not use it in its current state. one option coming from the county tear the $100 million structure down and rebuild. >> will this last as long as it's supposed to last? is it a 50 year structure or now a 30 year structure? >> that's pretty ridiculous, i know that i have been spending a lot of -- they've been spending a lot of money on it. to tear it down seems like taxpayer money going to waste. >> that's really a bad possibility. i -- but i guess if it can't be fixed. i mean it's better than taking a chance on somebody being hurt. >> reporter: all right, so even though we don't know how or when the transit center will finally be complete good news taxpayers. the contractor will pay for any

repairs, not you. coming up at 6:30, we'll take a look at another possible fix that doesn't involve a demolition. mike, back to you. >> all right, delia. thank you. delia goncalves reporting life from silver spring. newly released toxicology reports show three young passengers who died in a car crash last career in olney, maryland were all legally drunk. prosecutors say the driver of that car, kevin coffay left his three friends to die in the wreckage. he eventually pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and a judge gave him 20 years behind bars. coffay is due in court today after he requested a judicial panel to review his sentence. a howard county man is in jail accused of killing his wife more than 21 years ago. in 1991 rather robert jarrett of elkridge said his wife christine simply walked away from their home and never came

back. police say they recently received information from jarrett's current wife. the remains of a body believed to be that of christine jarrett were found in a shed on the couple's property. police have arrested a man they say sexually abused a young boy at a church day care in northeast washington. officers took randolph king into custody in hyattsville. the alleged abuse police say happened last week at the zion baptist church of eastland garden. parents tell us that church's day care looks adducessens of -- after dozens of children. a 2-year-old girl who was killed by her mother six years ago will be reunited with her father soon. in 2006, the father who lives in los angeles reported his daughter missing. and since then detectives believe the girl and her mother maria cano have left the country. well, earlier this week, investigators found cano and the 12-year-old -- the girl who is now 12, living on west nettle tree road in sterling. coo faux is facing charges. four u.s. troops were

aboard a blackhawk helicopter which crashed in afghanistan yesterday. it happened in the southwestern part of the country. no word on the condition of the troops. early indications are that weather was a factor in the crash. a defense department official says enemy fire has not yet been ruled out. the united states is calling on the security council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against syria. the trackdown has resulted in 9,000 deaths, despite the call for more sanctions u.s. leaders are stopping short of calling for outside military intervention in the country. 6:06. jessica doyle is here with another your money report. >> and your choice of airlines could be getting smaller pretty soon. >> that's right. get ready for toot possible merger in the airline industry. cbs news reports u.s. airways is actively seeking a deal with american and it could be a hostile takeover. the airline is in bankruptcy

proceedings right now. they are also lobbying lawmakers on the hill to win approval. it's the largest carrier out of national airport. people are starting to fix up their homes again. home remodeling is expected to pick up in the second half of the year making 2012 the strongest year since 2006. that's according to a study out of harvard university. but these are not the supersize remodels of years apast. driving the market will be mid size kitchen and bath projects, maintenance work and energy efficient upgrades. if you want to live near a good school, prepare to pony up about $200,000 more. a new report from the brookings institution finds that home values are $205,000 more on average in neighborhoods with high scoring public schools. versus schools with low scores. costs work out to be about $11,000 more a year and the homes are bigger too and tends to have one and a half additional rooms and 30% fewer are rented. now you know. >> that's interesting. >> now you can run the numbers of buying that bigger home

versus private school potentially. >> thanks jess. well, today the parents of trayvon martin and the man who's accused of killing him will come face the face for the first time. >> and redskins fans prepare for the rg iii era. >> we have a gorgeous day coming your way. much-needed rain in the forecast too. howard with the details with your weather first in about two minutes. good morning mr. president.

we've got some patchy fog out there this morning watch out for that. otherwise a really good day with plenty of sunshine, near 70 by noon with highs in the mid- to upper 70s,. so rain though is on the way for the weekend. full details just ahead. thank you howard temperature big story this morning has been out of frederick on eastbound i-70 near route 40. with a tractor-trailer fire. the clean-up continues there and it is causing some major delays. coming up in my next report, a look at area roads at 6:18. mike back to you. thanks monika. it is 6:11 now. here's some of the other things making news now. the man accused in the shotting death could walk out of jail today. george zimmerman's lawyer is going to and for his release in

a bonds hearing this morning. he was charged with second degree murder. zimmerman claims he shot trayvon martin in defense back in february. the fbi and police are now searching new york city basements for the remains of a child who disappeared in 1979. they are expected to dig up a concrete floor in the basement of this apartment building that was poured just days after etan patz vanished. he was one of the first missing children ever to be featured on a milk carton. the cdc has compiled some numbers across the country linking to human papillomavirus to diseases across the country. cervical cancer was the most common. throat cancer was a close second. officials say many of these could have been prevented with the hpv vaccine.

andrea? thank you mike. the growing rate of childhood obesity has led to a new push for healthier food being sold inside america's public schools. later this summer, the department of agriculture is set to issue new rules limiting the amount of sugary salty and fatty foods which can be sold to school children. joining us to talk more about this issue is registered dietitian jessica black from the kids safe and healthful foods project. these are the kinds of food we find in the snack machines. i thought we were doing better with what we were putting in those machines. >> well, the good news is that there are lots of schools that are doing better. the challenge is, there are still lots of schools that have a long way to go. and the kids safe and healthful foods project just released a poll that shows the vast majority, in fact 80% soft voters support there being nutrition standards from vending machines, school stores, snack bars all the places on the campus.

>> why they're sporting it is because of what we are learning about what they're doing to our children. again, illuminative. what do these snack foods that are sugary and salty do as far as exacerbating the problem of obesity? >> one of the other things the poll showed is that over 80% of voters are concerned about childhood obesity and over 50% are very concerned and given that children spend over half of their waking hours often in the school building and consume over half the calories in that space, it's a critically important environment in terms of have versing that trend. and actually having healthier children. >> do we have to make a choice between funding academic curriculum-type programs versus healthier snack foods in the -- in the school buildings? >> schools can do very well within the restricted budgets that they have. and improving the school nutrition environment. one note is that it's a win/win. i know that healthier students with better students and that's important to schools but we also know there are schools out

there making the changes and they are including students and offering taste testing and introducing products that are healthier to students in a fun way so they can maintain revenues or compensate for any lost revenues and still be able to achieve the academic goals. >> the children will eat the options. >> absolutely, if what we put in front of children are multitude of healthy options they choose among healthy options, is advantage to offering healthy choices is that those are in fact the choices kids will make and the foods kids will eat. >> anything else parents and kids themselves can do to encourage dh find of healthy -- this kind of snacks in our schools? >> absolutely, parents play a large role. we actually encourage them to come to the website and learn more about thousand they can be involved in the process. and also get to know their local school environment. see what they're serving there and see if they can help the school make healthier choices. >> all right you get into the habit it becomes natural. >> absolutely. >> jessica, thank you.

howard? we've got a good day today. little fog this morning. but as our bus stop forecast is pointing out, we got otherwise partly cloudy skies. and chilly. 40s and 50s, some areas low 40s and jacket weather. sun is up in few minutes at 6:24. today, we can have at a lot of sunshine and going to be another nice day. yesterday was very, very pleasant in the afternoon and we'll repeat that and actually be a little bit warmer. 73 by 3:00. some areas in the upper 70s and lunchtime at 68 you might want to eat outside today. flush flush going to the nats game tonight, marlins are coming into town. the miami marlins, 71 first pitch and it will dip into the mid 60s though as the game progresses though yeah, probably need some sort of jacket or sweatshirt with the southeast wind about 9 miles per hour. visibilities this morning, frederick one quarter mile. visibilities in fredericksburg over to andrews to leonardtown and tappahannock about a quarter mile. warrenton and culpeper one-half mile. gaithersburg look at that just

dropped to three quarters and stafford to one-half. so patchy dense fog. and chilly. we've got readings in the low 40s. culpeper is 41. gaithersburg and easton are 45. while 55 in southern maryland. no fog there from jan and 53 here in washington. looking outside on the michael & son weather camera; just a few minutes before sunrise. that's this partly cloudy skies and little haze calm winds can the dew point sits at 50 degrees. cold front out to the west of us will head our way ahead of it today though no problems south winds are going to bring in 70s and keep us generally sunny. there's that front tomorrow in the morning hours into ohio. as we get in toward lunchtime looks like areas maybe in the northern shenandoah valley out to hagerstown could see some showers. mid to late afternoon, here comes the shower and thunderstorms 3:15. we're going to watch this because that will get past us tomorrow night. however into sunday, low pressure is going to come up from the south bring more rain back to us. and some of the rains on sunday could be on hefty side

especially east of i-95 but might get back to the metro. tonight upper 50s to around 60. 78 tomorrow but only 58 sunday. with the rain, monday, some showers still possible. low 50s. mid 50s tuesday with the sprinkle and still unsettled through the meddle of next week. it is now 6:18. monika samtani, how are things looking here for people? some major problems in virginia and our sky 9 is headed to one of them. route 123 is shutdown out in fairfax between route 50 and route 236 and as i said sky 9 is headed that way. we'll be able to give you a better view of what's going on there in a few minutes. but in the meantime, there's also an accident on the outer loop of the beltway just after broad hack road but before the springfield interchange. only the right lane is getting through on the outer loop. that's going to be southbound 495 as you are heading for springfield. look at all the red. live look in springfield and this is also going to slow down for you exiting to the inner

loop of the beltway with everyone stopping on the other side of 495. so the major problems in virginia at this point this morning. let's go over to the beltway. north of town. the beltway is fine as you head west from college park into silver spring. no problems here. ongoing activity with the fire in frederick eastbound i-70 near route 40. we'll take a live look here at georgia avenue just normal delays on the outer loop. coming up in my next report, i'll update you on the situation in springfield at 6:25. back to you. thank monika. time for the question of the morning -- >> one of our viewers wrote to us to say he liked the song and wasn't sure what one of the lyrics were, we made it the question of the morning. listen. ♪ come rise up, come give love, what are you waiting for ♪ ♪ the song is "brand new day" by trevor hall. what do you think he's saying

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welcome back. 6:23. your weather first. patchy dense fog this morning in spots, that hay just come up on you really quickly coming in and watch out for that. otherwise a really fine friday ahead. we've got the day planner and got sunshine expected once we get rid of the fog over the next couple of hours, by noon 68 and 3:00 73. highs in the mid if not upper

70s south andest. unset -- southwest. unsettled for the weekend. thank you howard, in sports the series with the capitals and bruins is now best of three. >> they are back in it. washington tied the series soot two games -- at two games apiece last night thanks to hard work by the man between the pipes, 22-year-old goalie braden holtby made 44 saves last night. in fact he's made nearly 150 stops in the series already. game tied at 1 in the second period. alexander semin scored on a power play and caps win 2-1. game five tomorrow afternoon in boston. the nationals' three game- winning streak is over. the astros scored fife runs in the 1st last night and score five more in the 6th. d.c. loses to houston 11-4. ryan zimmerman got the first home run of the season in the loss. the nationals host the marlins tonight. and the skins' fans are getting ready for the rg for era. according to espn, the colts have told luck he is their man with the first pick. they will take him which means

baylor quarterback robert griffin iii who already is circling around d.c. is going to be here indeed. the skins will have the number two pick and they'll grab rg iii and draft him next thursday in new york city. more secret service agents caught up in the colombian prostitution canal could soon be -- scandal could soon be fired. >> we are expecting a warm and stunny friday. -- sunny friday. highs in the 70s but what to expect for the weekend? your weather first when we come back in about three minutes. monika? >> here's a live look from sky 9 in fairfax city where on route 123 between route 50 and 236 only one lane is getting by in each direction. at an accident. there's also an accident on the beltway in springfield. i'll have more on that coming up in my next report. you're watching 9news now. stay with us.

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6:29. glad you're wake, up with us, this is the place acaulose get your weather -- always get your -- you can always get your weather first. live look at the capitol. temperatures in the 50s but it's going to be a beautiful friday. >> thank you for starting where your friday with us, i'm andrea roane. >> and i'm mike hydeck. howard bernstein on the weather terrace. >> patchy dense fog in spots, that's the one downside this morning and this is tillically in other areas in but it is going to be as mike said very nice friday before an unsettled weekend. showers and storms arriving tomorrow afternoon and evening. and then sunday, could be rather wet especially east of town. but right now 53 in town. 68 by noon. and 74 at 5:00 with highs in

the mid to even upper 70s. fog a problem. frederick quarter mile visibility along with leonard tournament stafford and warrenton reporting zero right now. those are the areas with the worst reported visibility. temperatures chilly. frederick 42. the mid 50s along the bay. some sort of jacket likely needed this morning. but you won't need it long. again we'll be in the upper 60s to 70ish by noon with highs in the mid 70s in town. as far as the weekend those details coming up in just a minute. right now monika with timesaver traffic. lots of information to give you this morning. aisle going to start off with -- i'm going to start off with a couple of accidents in virginia. good morning everybody. the first one is on the outer loop of the beltway as you leave braddock road for springfield. stay to the right to get by. let's take a live look first at the beltway. near the robinson terminal and you can see how heavy the traffic is actually both loops of the beltway taking a look at that accident.

well also take a look in springfield on the northbound side of i-95. these people exiting to the inner loop that's the block as you head on the northbound side of the beltway as well. the accident is southbound 495 before the springfield interchange. back over to the maps, and an accident also in fairfax city. right now on route 123 between route 50 and route 236. i'm going to step out and show you a live look from sky 9. we're only one lane is getting by right now in fairfax city on route 123. it looks like we lost that shot but just be aware of that south of i-66. back to you guys. thank you. delta airliner was forced to make an emergency landing after striking a bird moments after takeoff in new york. >> and america's oldest ballpark celebrating an historic birthday today. just few of the stories our friends at "cbs this morning" working on this morning. erica hill joins us live now with a i from view. good morning -- preview. good morning erica. >> the video you've seen it. the birds colliding with the 757. a bird strike as it's known.

ahead on "cbs this morning," sully, the man who of course pulled off the miracle on the hudson after a bird strike with his plane, will talk to us about the concern over growing bird populations near airports and what can be done to keep you safe. plus as you said mike the home of the green monster celebrating 100 years of baseball drama today. a perfect if you want for a lit -- doesn't for a lit -- opportunity for a little trip inside fenway with denis leary, that's all ahead at 7:00 and i maintain by the way one of the best stories was one i did in college on vendors at fenway. >> great place to see a game. cramped but it's magic. okay, lawmakers who have been briefed on the secret service prostitution scandal expect more agents to resign or be fired within the next two days. >> two and a third agent have been forced out of the agency already. the secret service and military are investigating reports of 21 americans hired prostitutes in

colombia prior to president obama's arrival for the summit of the americas last week. secret service director mark sullivan is promising a very thorough investigation. maryland congressman cummings says this is critical time for the agency. >> i think the secret service will be harder on themselves than the congress could ever be on them. >> all of the accused agents are undergoing drug testing but there's no evidence they used drugs. polygraph tests have also been conducted on the agents. metro is now inspecting all of its defibrillators after a man had a territory attack and -- heart attacked and died on monday afternoon. officials say it wasn't working and wasn't charges. the 51-year-old man from alexandria was at the pentagon metro station when the heart attack again and he was pronounced dead at virginia medical center. they say the defibrillator didn't work because the battery didn't have enough charge and

mote resays the inspection will be complete sometime today. the $101 million transit center is supposed to link downtown silver spring. but cracks in the concrete and other faulty work by the contractor have halted progress. >> and now montgomery county lawmakers forced the deal with what some say may be the easiest solution. tear the whole thing down and rebuild it once again. delia goncalves is live with more and it's already creating a traffic mess with the cars much less the commuters. good morning delia. >> reporter: absolutely, commuters are really frustrated mike and you know you mentioned it. it may be the easiest but no doubt it is the most costly. and the most painful of solutions. especially for folks who've been seeing this construction going on for two years now. the main problems we're talking about is on the second and third floor, that's where the concrete problems exist and those levels are meant to hold more than 30 buses and cars each. the county says while tearing down the structure is a worst

case scenario, the only other option right now comes from the contractor. the contractor says the structure is certainly strong and sound. all it needs is a coat of sealant and any repairs will come out of his pocket. >> we became aware of the -- the thickness problems when some cracking of the concrete occurred over some areas where reinforcing bars were under the surface. which would indicate that there was not -- there was insufficient concrete cover over the rebars. >> i think there's sufficient evidence now that you can provide the mediation without having to tear it completely down. >> reporter: no matter what they decide, one thing is for sure -- this project will certainly not be done by its new rescheduled opening of august. that's just four months away. there is no fix in sight. so it is going to be a lot longer than that. and get this -- if the county and contractor can't come up

with solution, they'll likely head straight to court. mike back to you. 6:36. jessica doyle is here with another your money report. and you're spending some tunes jess? >> that's right. we are dropping the needle this morning. ♪ vinyl is back in style. sales of new vinyl albums are up 20% since last year and saturday is national record store day. gary forman owner of blue group sounds in arlington is joining us now this morning. >> thank you for having us. >> exciting event on saturday but first, there is this renewed interest in vinyl and i'm just going to turn down the sound ever so slightly not that we don't love earth wind and fire. what do you think is behind the renewed interest in vinyl? >> oh wow. the young generation you know. they're interested. you know the physicality of having the album. the -- the artwork.

the you know the better soundsment than something different from your ipod or your you know -- >> you know, the sound is so different and the thing that i love about vinyl too is the culture that goes along with record stores and you have one. this is blue group sound in arlington. and you're planning some special events for saturday. tell us about that. >> wow, it should be a zoo. we're going to open at 9:00. and it's just going to be a crazy day. great fun day of celebration of music, that's what record store day is all about. >> what kind of stuff will you have going on at the store? >> we'll have a lot of promoes and give aways, food, drinks refreshments and yeah, come on over. it's going to be a great event. >> now i was told that your business for existing customers this is a good opportunity for you to bring new people into the store too right? >> this is awesome. hopefully just spread the word more and bring traffic out to arlington. have the great west area and some great restaurants and shops around.

>> how did you get into vinyl and owning a record store? >> the love of vinyl from probably when i was about 5 years old from my dad dropped the needle on record and i was fascinated by that. took it and ran from there. here we go. >> it's not just -- you know earth wind and fire. the records that your parents may be gave you or you collected as a youth. now new artists are releasing their albums oen volume as well. >> all new artists releasing their vinyl and in a lot of ways they're including mp3 downloads and you have the best of both worlds. >> i have the t-shirt. blue group sound and i'm going to be wearing this. it's a great looking t-shirt. gary, thank you so much for coming in this, mo. >> thank you. >> over to andrea and mike. >> we like to see music too. there's some good news for maryland's crab industry and the people who are looking forward to eating the shellfish all summer long.

>> and virginia e city pass holders could be forced the pay a higher fee. monika is going to explain why coming up. stay with us.

welcome back. monika samtani here with timesaver traffic. i've got a couple of things to tell you about. first of all, the accident in fairfax city. the clean-up continues on route 123 near route 50. so watch out for the police direction in that area. 56 has been incident-free this morning. no issues to report coming out of manassas toward the beltway. now there was an accident on the outer loop of the beltway here near the springfield and interchange. everything has been cleared up and delays clearing quickly as well. first live to the sky # on the outer loop as you can see things are much improved here traveling toward the robinson terminal and the springfield interchange. let's go over to the northbound side of 95. this has been slow on our 50 camera leaving lorton into springfield. pretty much since the 5:00 hour. it's been pretty heavy this

morning. heading on to 395 and a last live look at to the 14th street bridge. in my next report, another look at the big picture but first virginia commuters and ez pass commuters, vdot is posing a $1 fee. the highway agency needs the extra money to support the expansion of ez pass use on new electronically tolled roads, bridges and tunnels by the end of 2012. there will be a period of public comment before any fee goes forward and if approves a monthly fee would take effect on july 1st. howard you have some better news than i do? i do. it's going to be a fine day today and then we get some much- needed rain this weekend. your bus stop forecast some patchy dense fog otherwise mostly sunny to partly cloudy. it's cool though. temperatures in the 40s in some cases low 40s to low 50s out there with fairly light wind

this morning. sun came up 20 minutes ago and setting at 7:50. a good deal of sunshine and light winds this morning becoming southeast at 5 to 10 this afternoon. nice lunch hour. a fine afternoon. and then this evening partly cloudy skies. 69 by 8:00 p.m. and with the nationals in town. the marlins coming to town, should be fine for the ball game tonight. visibilities down to a quarter mile in frederick and look at warrenton down to southern fauquier into stafford zero. culpeper a quarter and very dense fog down there. still have ten mile visibility in d.c. and easton. temperatures mainly in the40s although 53 at national. it's 42 in bladensville. look at northern loudoun town coy. 40s same there. springfield is 48. outside on the weather camera what do you see? the sunshine. 53 degrees in down with calm winds and the humidity high at 89%. we have a can't that's coming

-- cold front that's coming tomorrow afternoon. ahead of it winds will be so you were tonight and you'll notice by 6:00 p.m. still generally clear over us. overnight, skies becoming partly to mostly cloudy and by tomorrow morning some showers in ohio and pennsylvania. they'll head towards the shenandoah valley toward midday. they'll head to the met relater in the afternoon and evening the way it looks now and the morning plans look okay. running in the clarksburg 5 k with mrs. bernstein tomorrow morning should be dry. then in the afternoon and evening there are the showers and storms, they'll pass us and a break overnight. sunday morning though low pressure south of the wilmington, north carolina will ride up i-95 bring rinne back toward us on sunday and some of the rains on sunday may be locally heavy with a 5-inch rain deficit since january 1st here in d.c.. we'll take as much as we can. 75 today. tonight about 58. 60 a lot milder than the morning. tomorrow the showers and storms main hi in the afternoon and

evening, 78. sunday upper 50s with at least showers if not potentially some heavier steadier rains. monday still a few showers especially early. look how cool and unsettled we're going to be through the middle of next week with temperatures only in the 50s for highs through wednesday. university of maryland students are urging governor o'malley to call a special session of the legislature. the current budget stalemate in annapolis could cost millions of dollars in cuts and drastic tuition increases at the university. the governor says he'll only call a special session if both the state senate and the house of delegates reach a consensus. if it doesn't happen that doomsday budget would go into effect which will mean $50 million in cuts for the university and maybe a 10% hike in tuition. wow. maryland's crab population has come back in a big way. and that means cheaper prices at the market. authorities say blue crab population is now at a 19 year high. they estimate there are at least three quarter of a billion crabs in the chesapeake

waterway. strict conservation measures imposed two years ago appear to be paying off now. >> fortunate that the scientists did -- >> one of the clearest indications that the health of the bay is not a hopeless cause is the rebounds bound of late of this blue crab population. >> now in addition to the lower prices for consumers local watermen stand to profit because it means fewer crabs will be imported from elsewhere. it says it's already in the process of replacing all the lights along the mall with energy efficient bulbs. and it's almost finished with the $33 million rehab of the reflecting pool. >> we host 280 million visitors year. so these are teachable moments to talk about sustainability, care for the planet, and investments that these visitors can do back home as well.

>> the renovated reflecting pool is set to open this summer and it holds two million gallons less than the old pool. okay, it's time for the question of the morning once again. if you are home at 7:00 every morning you probably saw the great knew "cbs this morning" show and it has a great theme song. >> one of the viewers wrote to us saying he liked the song but wasn't sure what one of the lyrics were. take one last listen. ♪ come rise up, come give love, what you waiting for ♪ >> the song is "brand new day" by trevor hall. what do you think he's saying there? what do you think. >> here's a look at a response you posted on the wusa9 facebook fan page. he wrote --

>> so what's the answer? >> here's our friend gayle king from "cbs this morning." >> hello to you mike and andrea. believe it or not, the answer is not cold eyesore. who said that? it's actually letter c., come rise up, come give love. we'll see you in a few minutes. >> all right. i thought it was cold eyesore. [ laughter ] here's jess with your daily deals. >> thank you so much. we've been combing through the day's daily deals emails and retailer websites to find you some deep discounts. and here are some of the favorites. viewer robert has this deal for you. if your computer on the fritz? you can get $40 off the one hour labor rate for computer repair from total computer solutions. regular price for the service is $99. you can find the coupon on -- how about a new hdtv? this is best buy's deal of the day. you will pay $199.99 for a 32-

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sunny here in town. 54. upper 60s by noon and another beauty today with highs in the mid even upper 70s south and west of town. talk about the weekend rain in few minutes. right now here's andrea. here's some things you need no know before you head out the door. more secret service agents are expected to resign or be fired in the next few days. three have already been forced out of the agency. the secret service and military are investigating claims the agents hired prostitutes prior to president obama's aleve in colombia, south america last week. starbucks says it will stop using extracts made from dried insects to color the drinks red. they got negative feedback from customers and they will begin using tomato based extract in the drinks instead very soon. it is 6:55. we'll be back right after this. stay with us.

well, we've got some patchy dense fog this morning but we're going to have a great afternoon. mid 730s some upper 70s south and west. tomorrow some hours and storms -- showers and storms mainly in the afternoon and evening and then wet sunday. could be a very wet sunday and temperatures only in the 50sment monika? serious accident just being reported on the dulles toll road near hunter mill. our sky 9 is headed there. also want to show you a shot downtown. this is pennsylvania avenue at 19th. 19th street will be closed now between e and pennsylvania for the imf world bank meetings for the next few days. so be aware of that. quick look at duke street northbound 395 just heavy traffic here. same story on the outer loop north of town heading into silver spring. jess? well, as for wall street looking higher this morning which is good. >> sounds good. >> hundred things happened -- a hundred years ago a lot of things happened. girl scouts, the titanic. and fenway park. "cbs this morning" is talking about fenway park. >> all right, have a great weekend. we'll see you back here at 4:25 monday morning. [ captions by: caption co