very light drizzle, at least here in northwest. other areas are dry. other areas have more drizzle but that's about t. 72 now. we'll be 79 by noon with isolated showers and storms this afternoon. a lot less than we've seen the last couple of days. highs in the mid-80s. so, yeah, this could be a day wearing the short sleeves or the sleeveless. we're looking at the shower this morning moving up toward pennsylvania. there's nothing on radar locally. fog a problem in cumberland. quarter-mile visibility. harrisonburg as well as tappahannock down to zero. we've got 10 miles at national and temps running in the 60s to low 70s. let's check in with monika santami and find out how the roads are running. >> they're running just fine actually. things are looking great. we have a bit of volume now form are on our major thoroughfares but nothing major in terms of incidents or accidents. if you're heading to dulles airport, you'll be just fine, looking great both directions of the dulles toll road toward the airport.

same story out of 66 in manassas. if you're planning to head across the river, look how nice and light that is. i think people are just packing up and gearing up to get out for the weekend. usually it slows down a little later in the rush hour and into noon and the rest of the day. let's take you back over to the maps. this time we'll head out east. looking good out of annapolis and the bay bridge. route 50 no problems as you head towards cheverly and northeast. let's take a live look outside first to the south side of town. here's what it looks like out of waldorf or out of annapolis and route 50. no problems to report out of bowie as you head for the beltway and now we'll go down to waldorf. no problems to report here as you head near bwi airport, i-97 and route 100. no problems out of waldorf, route 5, 301. all the southern corridors are great. in my next report, we'll go to 270 at 6:12. the memorial day holiday weekend is here. you heard howard say it's going to feel like summer. >> so it's a perfect time to

hit the beach. delia goncalves decides she was going to get an early jump. she's right near the bay bridge just off route 50 in stevensville, maryland. just keep going, delia. >> reporter: well, you know, i'm not too far away and i'm sure my photographer is game so we could probably head over if you really want another -- well, maybe i'll do a live shot from the beach. lon anderson from aaa is here. when he pulled up, he said goodness, these are like july temperatures. it's probably going tone courage more folks to head out of town and head to the beach. >> can you believe it 90s, hot, humid, possibly afternoon thundershowers. sounds like july 4. oh, no, it's memorial day. >> reporter: going to abvery busy weekend. lots of folks on the road. and we think the gas prices have a big part in that. >> i think so. we've been talking for a long time about how high gas prices are but the reality is they

have fallen for seven weeks straight. they've been falling every week since easter and right now they're over 20 cents a gallon less than they were last year. and last week i filled up in harrisonburg, virginia for 3:25. can you dig it? glb stop bragging, lon. you're the expert. you had a little prediction about gas prices maybe continuing to fall for the rest of the summer. that bodes well for a lot of travelers and vacationers. >> they're always unpredictable. we have some economists telling us $3, below $3, it's a possibility. we got to remember just a little while ago crude was like $110 a barrel. now it's $90 a barrel. where will she go? we don't know but it's right now looking like good news for motorists. >> reporter: let's talk about real quickly about safety issues. obviously with all these cars on the roads, we do have to be concerned about safety, especially on the bridge here. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, you know, unfortunately the national safety council is

projecting we could have as many as 420 fatal crashes over this holiday. we're earning everybody to please, you -- urging everybody to please, you know, make safety -- we hope at some point in the future they will barrier separate the traffic flows and make the bridge safer. so everyone please remember, you know, holiday weekends are a time when we always see the number of crashes going up. the safety council is also saying we could have as many as 42,000 personal injury crashes across the nation. so please don't be a statistic. be safer this weekend. >> reporter: you have your beach balm. i be can't let you go. >> it's a aaa beach ball. can you say party? >> reporter: you're ready to party heading out to the mountains? >> you bet. i'm going to try to avoid the heavy traffic and obey my own

advice. >> reporter: head out on the off peak hours. >> that's it. if you haven't left yet? uh-oh. >> reporter: heed the advice. he's the expert. back to you. >> i'm thinking lon has had a double shot of espresso or something this morning. >> reporter: he said you had a double shot of espresso this morning. [ laughter ] >> thanks, delia. let's check the gas prices if you are headed out. across d.c., metro area, regular $3.65 a gallon. ocean city, maryland $3.57. up the road if rehoboth you'll pay $3.54 and virginia beach $3.48 a gallon you'll be paying. and atlantic city $3.53 a gallon. in other news, fairfax county police are investigating a complicated situation from overnight. two men hurt in chantilly but found miles away. police tell 9news everything started at sully's restaurant and lounge in chantilly.

one person was shot and driven to the courthouse in fairfax. that's where they called police. the second person was stabbed and walked into fair oaks hospital. they're both expected to recover but they aren't cooperating with police in the investigation. the former financial advisor, one of them to d.c. mayor vincent gray could face up to six months in prison. he pleaded guilty thursday to another campaign corruption case. howard brooks admitted to sending money to gray's -- excuse me, from gray's campaign coiffeurs. it's believed brooks will likely become an informant for federal investigators looking into what happened to gray's 2010 mayoral campaign. there has been another shake-up in the general services administration. it is tied to the lavish las vegas convention. jeefry neely and four others are now gone from the agency. neely is the gsa commissioner who planned the $800,000 vegas junket with taxpayer money. no word whether he was fired or

quit. they are seeking to oust four additional employees linked to the scandal. jessica doyle is watching your money. if you're in the market for a car, she has good advice and news. >> here's the typical scenario. you go to the dealer. you pick out a car and then you head to the finance department where they come up with a loan package for you. but if your credit is not so hot, you're going to pay more through higher interest rates and you may not even know it. that is changing. a federal judge says auto dealers who use consumer's bad credit histories to charge them more must now tell the buyers they have negative information on their credit report. this rule works even if the loan is farmed out to a bank or a finance company. google apparently working hard to protect copyrighted material online. the search company says it receives upwards of 250,000 requests to remove links to pirated content each week. and then it investigates and

usually removes the search results that link to that website. really, that's a lot of work. the end of the road for a local institution. barry's magic shop in montgomery county. after 38 years, the famed local magic shop is closing its doors july 15. with financial help from the county, the shop moved five years ago from a small space on georgia avenue to a store twice as big near the white flint mall. barry's is holding an immediate liquidation sale but the owners aren't giving up the ghost completely. barry's magic shop.com will launch to show of newly created magic tricks. time for a commuter alert. a bad weekend for metro green line riders in northern prince george's county. starting at 10:00 tonight, there will be no service between greenbelt and fort totten and that part of the green line will stay shut down till monday night. there will be free shuttle

buses connect be the stations but it could add up to 50 minutes travel time. metro is closing this part of the line to do safety work recommended back in 2007. time now 6:09. coming up in four minutes, a local school system dumps middle school sports. and the reason has some parents fuming. >> howard says the chance for storms is a lot lower today. up next your weather first as we kick off the holiday weekend. stay with 9news now.

once again we're going to start out with cloudy skies. even a spot or two of drizzle but the sun will return. it will be a warm day with highs in the mid-80s. only an isolated thunderstorm possible this afternoon. we're going to take a look into maryland, southern maryland in fact. route 5, route 301 out of waldorf looking great as are all the southern maryland corridors heading up to the beltway and across the wilson bridge. in my next report, we'll go over to 395 at 6:18. middle school sports are rare these days. most places cut them years ago because of budget problems. >> in one part of our region, the decision to cut competitive sports is not about the budget. the controversial decision is taking place in fauquier county, virginia, and peggy fox

reports on why this is the case. she's in warrenton. >> reporter: this is warrenton middle school here in fauquier county. fauquier has competitive sports programs in their middle schools, but they won't next year. in part because the superintendent is not a fan. competitive middle school and freshman sports in fauquier county schools include soccer, softball, football, volleyball, basketball, cheerleading and dance. but the school board has cut funding for all those programs. >> they're very upset. i feel that we're promoting more of a qom place sent -- complacent versus an environment for excellence. >> reporter: these parents are trying to get the decision reversed. they believe parents would be willing to pay for their kids to play at the competitive level. but the decision wasn't just made because of budget issues. >> they want everyone to have a trophy and i don't believe in that philosophy. i think it's a lesson that needs to be learned starting in middle school that not

everybody wins and get as trophy. you have to work hard and try hard. >> reporter: superintendent jonathan lewis says he and his staff have been wanting to cut out competitive sports in middle school for some time. the need to cut $3 million out of the budget presented a good opportunity to do it. >> i think when you're 11, 12, you want to be included, you want to be valued and you want to find out more about who you are. when we begin to exclude students from programs, that doesn't happen well. >> reporter: he wants to start an after school intramural sports program that all students can join. >> there are many opportunities in our community for students to engage in these same sports. >> reporter: but parents say enough opportunities don't exist in fauquier county and they think doing away with competition in middle school sends a bad message. >> they may feel bad about not making the team and that's also a life lesson as well and that you don't get everything you like in life. >> reporter: the parents of the athletes say an intake mural program won't -- intramural program won't be about the

sport but more of an extended day care program. the superintendent says wait till it gets started before criticizing it. in warrenton, peggy fox, 9news now. thank you for being with us at 6:15. howard is here if you're out doing any kind of sports, you'll want to stay hydrated because the temperatures are high and the humidity is getting higher. >> we're muggy this morning. we may not see less moisture but as the temperature rises, humidity comes down. it seems a little more comfortable. mike is a runner. you know whaim' talking become the -- what i'm talking about. here's the bus stop forecast. a lot of humidity, the muggies as i like to call them with a little bit of drizzle even in spots and a patch of fog. temperatures 60s to low 70s. we're 72 right now. sun came up in about 25 minutes or so ago. we're going to see some sunshine. we'll burn off the low cloudiness and that will take a few hours. the midday sunshine. near 80 at lunch time with some spotty thunderstorms this

afternoon. we'll call them isolated so that's less than even what we saw yesterday afternoon and evening. high about 86. by 8:00 we're back to 79 degrees. somewhere around 4:00, 4:30 is where we've been hitting the high temperature lately. we're looking at one shower early this morning up -- there it is, mouth of the river and mouth of the bay excuse me going up 95 and falling apart. so quiet. we don't really have much on radar thankfully. visibilities are an issue. we've got dense fog toward the tappahannock airport out across delaware and dover. also in the mountains. cumberland at a quarter mile. shenandoah valley down toward zero in harrisonburg. patchy dense fog. even culpeper down to a mile. temperatures muggy, mild. upper 60s. mid-60s in haymarket. that's the cool spot at 66. but 69 for rockville. 71 in alexandria. college park 72. it's 69 over at andrews and also in arlington and here in washington this morning, we've got the cloudy skies on our michael & son weather camera.

72 degrees. humidity high, 88%. look at the dew point in the upper 60s so feeling real sticky this morning if you're going outside. a couple of things to talk b. all sorts of unsettled weather central part of the country to the northwest. in the southeast we might be looking at a little tropical development here over the next couple of days potentially could get something to go. there's nothing right now. it does look like this band of moisture that's us with and the triggers, they're all weakening. so for us temperatures are going up. rain chances coming down. temperatures today about 86. a couple of storms this afternoon. we'll call them isolated. maybe a stray evening storm. we'll be in the 60s tonight. upper 60s in town. low 60s north and west. upper 80s tomorrow. stray storm in the afternoon. sunday and memorial day look hot. temperatures around 90 and the beach forecast real quickly will be in the mid-70s right through the holiday right along the ocean. temperatures by monday still in the low 90s. upper 80s tuesday with spotty storms returning. let's go to monika at 6:17 with

time saver traffic. >> good morning everybody. if you're gearing up for the holiday weekend, i'm happy to say we don't have any major incidents to report right now. that's good news for folks trying to head out early on to the highways. 395 looks great leaving duke street up to the 14th street bridge. no problems to report right around national airport, dulles airport the same story. we'll take a live look outside right now and here's what it looks like first in springfield, northbound 95. you've got your usual slow spots out of dale city, woodbridge and a little bit here as well but actually really not that bad right now heading up to the belt ware. let's go a little further north and here's what it looks like at duke street. brake lights really more -- closer to seminary road as you head up toward shirlington and the 14th street bridge. let's go back over to the maps and this time north. no problems on the beltway. just a bit of slow traffic forming into silver spring and a last live look southbound 270 looks pretty much like this add state ji grove road as -- at shady grove road as you head down to the point where the lanes divide. in my next report we'll go out

west. still ahead, some banged up redskins try to get back in shape while the nationals prepare for a pretty big weekend series. >> but first time for another check of our question of the morning. signed, sealed, delivered who receivers the most mail in the world? is it the pope, an take clause or the president? -- >> santa claus or the president? >> one friend posted since i'm a big kid at heart, i say it's b, santa. >> post your guesses on our facebook page.

welcome back. 6:22. your weather first on this friday morning. cloudy skies and there's a touch of drizzle and fog, especially west of d.c. this morning. as far as today is concerned, we are going to see some sunshine. i think by lunch time pretty nice lunch hour, upper 70s. this afternoon 83 at prosecute. -- 83 at 3:00. there will be a couple of storms but we'll call them isolated to spotty with high of

86 and 6:00 p.m. temperature 83. keep the umbrellas with you but most of you won't need them. in sports the redskins organized team activities or the otas are over for now. there are a lot of players trying to make a comeback this season. >> guys like san santana moss showed up in great shape. chris cooley was hampered by a knee injury last year. he says he feels great, wants to be none one again -- wants to be number one again. then there was jim hightower, he came back to the redskins this week but he says he has to take things frustratingly slow. >> i'm not used to going half speed, you know. that's not really a natural concept for me. i'm an all or nothing kind of guy. i'm trying to listen to the training staff and trusting them when they say hey, just do this and don't do nothing else. >> another interesting side note, robert griffin iii got his locker assignment at redskins park. he's right between london

stretcher and -- fletcher and brian arapahoe. he will be staying in check. the nationals are in atlanta tonight for the beginning of one of the biggest series of the year. they face the braves for a three-game set. the nats are in first place with a one-game lead over the same braves. first pitch tonight at 7:35. the miami heat are going back to the nba's eastern conference finals. it was game six last night against the pacers. dwyane wade dropped 41 points on indiana. miami wins 105-93. they win the series 4-2. the heat will now face either the celtics or sixers in the conference finals. it is just about 6:25. straight ahead, good news for people spending the weekend house hunting. >> d.c. councilman marion barry while apologizing for putting his foot in his mouth, he puts it right back in. hear what he has to say now. >> it's getaway friday before the holiday weekend. before you grab the keys, monika has the information you

need to know. >> here's what it looks like on the dulles toll road at route 28 near the airport. you're good to go right now both directions of the toll road in and out of the airport. coming up in my next report, another look at area roads at 6:30. you're watching 9news now.

good morning. welcome back to 9news now at 6:29. this is always the place to get your weather first. we want to go to the ocean,

hon. a live look from ocean city, maryland. 67 degrees there right now. they are ready for the holiday weekend. lifeguards are looking good. the boardwalk is looking even better. it's going to be good. >> very funny. thanks for starting your day with us. i'm mike hydeck. i'm andrea roane. meteorologist howard bernstein is live on the weather terrace with our forecast. >> you are loving this. i'm from long island. we've got sunshine and heat that will build over the weekend. this morning, however, it is cloudy and drizzly. a little damp out here. certainly sticky. the humidity is way up. looking at our day planner for you this morning. we've got the clouds outside the capitol. temperatures in the low 70s now. near 80 by noon. should be sunshine by then. a so they, isolated afternoon thunderstorm or two with highs in the mid-80s. showers and storms last night once again. not as much as we've seen. stuft has all fizzled -- that

stuff has all fizzled out this morning. we're left with drizzle and a patch of fog or two. a mild visibility in winchester. zero in cumberland. so watch out for those areas as temperatures out west are in the lower 60s. here in the metro upper 60s to low 70s going into the mid-#s on. it's friday morning holiday weekend. -- mid-80s. it's friday morning holiday weekend. let's check in with monika santami. good morning, everybody. look at all the green. that means everybody is still packing up and gearing up to get out for the weekend and heading out a little later in the rush hour than normal. so that's good news for you if you do have to go to work this morning. 66 as i just said, look at all that green. no delays to speak of. centreville no problems all the way into fairfax and the beltway. we're going to go over to 95 on the northbound side and it's the same story. i would say that that's lighter than normal for this time of the morning heading on to 395 or the 14th street bridge. just a little slow around landmark.

let's go back over to our maps this time to the south side again as i said 95. i did hear there's a bit of slow traffic in lorton but then in springfield as i said everything is fine and now we'll end with a live look up in maryland. here's what it looks like on the beltway in silver spring. outer loop really not bad leaving the 95 interchange into silver spring. in my next report we'll go to 270 at 6:43. it is a 33-year-old cold case which changed the way police handle reports of missing children. now possible closure in the etan patz disappearance. >> it's the top story on cbs this morning. era hill -- erica hill joins us live. an amazing coincidence it's on the anniversary of his disappearance. >> it really s. almost erie in some ways. as you mentioned 33 years ago today etan patz disappeared. now a man who worked in his new york naikdz is due in court to face murder charges. john miller has covered the case since the very beginning. he will take a look at the

challenges investigators had in terms of tracking down more evidence. we're taking the look at what could be millions of pounds of garbage starting to wash ashore on u.s. beaches. we're finding it in alaska. we're taking you there this morning. it looks like best guesstimates are that this is debris from the tsunami in japan a year ago that has a lot of people concerned about the beach thrz in alaska so we'll -- beaches in alaska so we'll see you with that and more. happy holiday weekend. if you are indulging in the weekend. >> i hope you're doing something fun this weekend with the family. >> hanging out with my boys, yes. >> sounds good. have a great weekend. >> a little time in the park. it is going to be a perfect beach weather this holiday weekend. if you're heading to delaware or ocean city, will you not be alone. >> sunscreen, bottled water, patience among the things you should be packing. delia goncalves beat most of the traffic. that's because she's live on the other side of the bay bridge in stevensville, maryland. look at you chilling. good morning. >> reporter: well, you may not

see me back in the newsroom today because we're so close mark and i just might hop on over and, you know, maybe do the rest of the show from the beach. i was given a mandate if our producer dan to return back live since lon anderson was so lively for our last shot. dan asked me to come back with a lawn chair and umbrella and a drink in hand. so i have a water. i have a chair, no umbrella but it's the best i can do at 6:30 in the morning. hey, we are here live at helpingway's. -- hemmingway's. i'm told this is one of the best spots to check out a summer sunset here in maryland. look at this view. there are a couple of clouds obviously on our horizon this morning but it is just pretty spectacular. this will be a jamming place some summer and certainly this weekend as folks are preparing to head over to the bay bridge and over to the beaches. just a stone throw away from this location you can see the bay bridge. and we can see some traffic

heading over the bridge now. guess what? that is going to be packed with cars this coming weekend. aaa is estimating a spike in traffic over the memorial day weekend. 34.8 million travelers nationwide who are traveling over the holiday weekend and they say -- they credit it to the lower gas prices. they're saying aaa is estimating they'll continue to lower a bit and we're actually going to see them bottom out around $3 which would be great news for the rest of the summer and for all the beachgoers. and another i guess word of advice along with all the extra cars of course we know there are going to be some more accidents and we know the bay bridge has been the scene of a couple of deadly crashes in the past. so aaa is advising folks not only to have some fun, maybe have a drink or two besides water, but really to drive safely when you're on the road

and drive slowly and safely and be careful for all the other drivers and the motorcycles that are on the road. andrea, mike, i'm going to hang out here and i'll see you on monday. how's that? >> on monday, oh, excuse me, miss delia. >> we're more than a little bit jealous. you look great. have a great weekend. she's live in stevensville, maryland. after you hit the road, go to -- before you hit the road, go to wusa9.com. there's a wealth of information. you can check out traffic cameras up and down itself east coast, gas prices weather forecast, too, and you can download our free app for your iphone or android device and take all info with you. d.c. councilman marion barry is out of the frying pan and back in the fire. thursday he publicly apologized to the aryan american -- to the asian american community for offensive comments and used some terms polish citizens

consider offensive. >> america has had -- [ inaudible ] -- the italian -- [indiscernible] the jews called -- the polocks -- [indiscernible] the woman charged with running over and killing a u.s. senate candidate with her suv could get up to ten years in prison. 43-year-old christy littleford will be sentenced in august. she was found guilty yesterday. she told the court she thought she hit a deer on route 202 in largo the morning she hit natasha pettigrew in 2010. her bike was still wedged under littleford's suv. pettigrew was a green party candidate for u.s. senate. maryland republicans are opposed to july special session to discuss gambling expansion in the state. they say special sessions should only be called in times

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it's 6:43. 72 degrees friday, memorial day traffic. i kind of knew that traffic would be a little bit easier than normal this morning with everyone kind of gearing up for the weekend and heading out the door a little later than normal. you can see the proof right here. green all around the beltway. we're going to zoom in first to route 50 looking great. i don't know if you just saw delia but she says everything is good at the bay bridge as well. she's enjoying herself out there coming in on route 50 in from annapolis and cheverly. everything is running smoothly. let's go outside live. taking a live look at the beltway at route 50 and new carrollton. both loops of the beltway look final. very light on the eastern stretch of the beltway in prince george's county. and let's also take a look if you're planning to head here on the north side of town utter loop really no delays into silver spring leaving the 95 interchange. let's go out west now coming in from the airport or out to dulles airport, dulles toll road is great. no problems on 66 and a last live look if you're planning to

head northbound 395 just a little slow in landmark. coming up in my next report, another look at the big picture at 6:58. the big picture means heat today. >> we're going to warm up. yesterday 83. today 86. over the weekend pushing 90. the warmest spots will be near 90 but sunday, monday into tuesday. >> sounds like ippedz ens day-- >> independence day. >> it is. we're running ahead of the schedule as it's been most of the spring. the bus stop forecast, it is a steamy one. we've got a sticky, steamy morning with a little bit of drizzle in spots, a little bit of fog. temperatures in the 60s to low 70s out there. sun came up a while ago, about an hour ago now. our day planner clouds early. we're going to get into sunshine. spotty thunderstorm here, midday. won't be like that but sunny skies, partly to mostly sunny with the isolated storm this

afternoon. mid-80s should do it for highs. 83 for the drive home. had showers and storms yesterday evening especially once again northern virginia. that stuff is now lifted up toward central jersey and pulling away from us. fog, got to tell you about that, especially south and west of town. tappahannock airport zero visibility. cumberland zero. warrenton a half mile. we'll see how much of this area can expand off to the east before we start to burn it off over the next couple of hours. again sunshine i think by mid- morning here. look at the temps. they're in the low 60s west. that's where we've had some of the fog. the area condenses better with the moisture. we're sitting at 72 here andle at the pax river naval air station 72. outside on our michael & son weather camera cloudy skies. i was on the weather terrace at 6:30. drizzling a little bit. southeast winds at 7 and humidity way up. a muggy, sticky morning. 88% on the humidity. we'll put our future cast in motion. partly sunny. a few showers and storms for

the afternoon hours. things will settle down tonight with the loss of the daytime heating. we get into tomorrow and we think it's going to be in the mountains that we see the activity. maybe up into pennsylvania as well. from d.c. south and east, generally a dry day and a warmer day. temperatures are going in this direction. we've got a high today about 86. a few isolated thunderstorms. tonight 60 to around 70. tomorrow 88 with a spotty, stray afternoon storm. near 90 on sunday. it is really going to be another warm one. as we head to memorial day, 91. maybe 20% chance of an afternoon storm sunday and monday. better in the mountains. by tuesday an afternoon storm, 88. here comes the front by mid week dropping our temperatures. increasing the thunderstorm chances once again. andrea, over you to. preventible injury deaths come from things like accidents at home, car crashes and prescription drug abuse. a new report ranks our region compared to the rest of the nation. with a look at how we are we stack -- how we stack up, we're

joined by can't executive director of the trust for america's health. thank you for being here with us. where do rerank in the d.c. met -- where do we rank in the d.c. metro area? >> d.c. is slightly above average. maryland slightly below average in terms of fatalities associated with preventible injury. but average isn't good enough. we still have a long ways to go. >> when i read this and talked about preventible accidents like car crashes, that's what we usually think about as preventible accidents but you say there is a new, greater threat. >> what's been interesting is over the last several years, prescription overdose poisonings have accidental poisonings from prescription drugs has really overtaken motor vehicle accidents throughout the country and in maryland and d.c. in particular, that rate is now higher than motor vehicle fatalities. that's partly because this is a new problem. more and more prescription drugs are -- dangerous prescription drugs are being prescribed and there's a tendency for accidents and

misuse. but it's also because we've made a lot of progress on preventing deaths from motor vehicle accidents. but what's interesting is that d.c. is one of only three jurisdictions in the country that does not have a prescription drug monitoring program which helps public health authorities monitor how drugs are being prescribed, make sure they're not being misprescribed. that's a simple common sense policy that we could put in place. >> so that's something a government agency could do. the other things that have happened that keep us at least average, all the laws dealing with driving, texting while driving, the seat belts. are they really making that much of a difference? >> the improvements in motor vehicle accident rates i think are really attributed to things -- attributable to things like primary seat belt laws, stronger drunk driving laws. again in our region virginia does not have a primary seat belt law sow you can't be stop -- so you can't be stopped if you're not wearing a seat belt unless there's some other violation the police have seen. maryland and d.c. still don't

have ignition interlock requirements after a first drusk driving conviction. each jurisdiction have different policies that they could adopt that could make it even better. >> anything else we can do to keep ourselves safe? >> our report talks a lot about the policies that ought to be in place but we also need to take personal responsibility for this. whether or not there's a law, we know we should be wearing seat belts. about 15% of americans still don't do that. those are common sense things and particularly on a holiday weekend when more people will be driving. >> jeff, thank you for being with us. you be safe this holiday weekend, too. >> thank you. since it is a holiday weekend, we've been combing through the day's daily deals to find you some stuff to do. here's some of my favorite deals today. hurricane season starts in about a week. so virginia is holding a sales tax holiday on supplies. starts today and runs through the end of the month. this means no tax on things like flashlights, tarps, bottled water, that kind of stuff. much, much more. how does a barbecue lunch today

sound? living social's live event space 918f street is now serving lunch. the pop-up lunch box this week is featuring the winner of the national capital barbecue battle. this is pork barrel barbecue. $12.95 plus tax. you get a pulled pork barbecue sandwich, a side and soft drink or sweet tea. today is the last day to try it out 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. from lunch to dinner, gilt city d.c. has this deal with pearl dive oyster palace. for $76 you get a dinner for two, half dozen oysters, to anne trays, dessert and drinks or a bottle of wine. if you're a merchant with a deal for our viewers, i would love to hear from ow facebook. a check of the news is next

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good morning. today is friday, may 25. here's a check of the news before you go this morning. gsa executive behind the $820,000 vegas conference is now gone from the agency. we're not sure if jeffrey neely was fired or quit. he had been on administrative leave since april when video from that expensive 2010 conference went public. tim kaine leads in a new poll in a matchup for this year's senate race in virginia. he has an edge over republican george allen. allen is the favorite in next month's g.o.p. primary. just in time for the holiday weekend, d.c. will open its public swimming pools today. mayor gray will do the honors at 11:30. there are 19 outdoor pools and 11 spray parks in the district. time to answer our question of the morning. it was the person who gets the most mail in the world, was it the pope, santa claus or the

president? >> the answer is b, santa. >> of course. >> of course it is. big red man gets a lot of mail. one more check on traffic and weather right here on 9news now next.

early clouds. sunshine today, mid-80s with a chance of an isolated storm and the heat through the weekend. we're just going to go to our traffic camera and show what you it looks like through the chesapeake bay bridge. nice and clear. no worries to report. we're not sure delia goncalves is coming back this way. she definitely looks comfortable comfortable. we wish you a happy weekend. bye-bye.