there is no connecticut nursing association.he state says she made it all up, covering the $3,000 affair on her own dime. >> this is going to be all a wash. all a wash. >> we want to point out while the award was from the connecticut nursing association, there is a legitimate professional group, the connecticut nurses association. >>> people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. reporters from the national hurricane center say it will be downgraded to a tropical storm or depression by the time it reaches the island. it's become a category 4 storm. it's been losing strength while traveling over colder water. a typhoon dumped heavy rain on taiwan. it's blamed for the death of ten people including three french tourists swept away in flood waters. >>> check out this video. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own get away car. he led police on a three mile chase. he got tangled in his seatbelt and the car kept rolling. >> that frequently happens that they do, generally, they stop the car before they get out and n

properties in connecticut. they are democratically controlled. he's a popular republican governor and he's getting into these democratic cities and how is he doing this without the cooperation of these democratic governments. that's one issue. number two there's a global pharmaceutical giant, pfizer, that is building a headquarters next tore to susette's neighborhood. and next is the new london development corporation who hire the people who use the bulldozers to plow the houses down. those three parties come together. who's first? i mean, who started this all and what i discovered was the governor wanted to go into new london and he didn't know how to get in. he looked for someone who could open the city for him and go around the local government. he used a lobbist who was a democrat but who would be happy for money use his connections to help the governor bet into the city. and the governor gets in the city and how do we develop here? there's a vehicle we used to have called the new london development corpora

. >>> connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the pro notices could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities say the 56-year-old betty liechtenstein had worked in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed she was a registered nurse, you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but, that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say liechtenstein spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. >>> people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters say the storm will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm or tropical depression by the time it reaches the island. at one point felicia had become a category 4 storm but has lost strength traveling over colder waters. meanwhile a tie even if dumping heavy rain on taiwan. this storm is blamed in the death of ten people in the ph

gerald weiss in norwalk, connecticut, on east avenue. and she was there for about two years before this whole thing started to unravel. >> two years? did anybody get injured because of her -- come on, she didn't even know what she was doing. >> yeah, it was something like that, mike. basically what happened was that there were a number of patients who said that the injections she was giving were very painful. supposedly when you use that needle, you're supposed to do it very slowly, and she was doing it very quickly. and someone eventually made a complaint in march of this year to the department of health here in connecticut, and that's sort of what got the ball rolling. >> when was she finally arrested then? go ahead, len. >> she was arrested in may on a different charge, actually, for forging a prescription. she was trying to get ox i could doan. she was arrested just in the last few days in this recent case. >> do we have dr. william mo ron ne with us? good to have you back, doctor. okay. once you kind of get a heads-up in march, aren

that's connecticut avenue.hat's a north/south artery that runs in effect from the white house up to maryland, crosses massachusetts avenue at dupont circle. that's the radial access of the city. due west there is california street. and this is columbia road curving around to adams morgan district. there's the russian trade mission. i'm told that there is still an apartment in this building run by the national security agency to monitor the goings-on there from the days of the old soviet union. you probably can't see it behind me but on the horizon is the russian compound. and those domes you see in the woods are the naval observatory buildings on the grounds of which, of course, lives the vice president and you see the british embassy just west of that which is the extreme west end of massachusetts avenue on embassy row. it's a good reminder of the small size and the centrality of the district of columbia and then there in the middle on his horse is general mcclellan, president lincoln's worst general the man f

>> en un centro comercial de connecticut se enfrenta un grupo de coyotes con las familias que aparentemente intentaban chantejear. >> discuten en el senado el popular destino del programa "carro de viejos. >> con gases lacrimógenos aliados del presidente chávez atacaron la sede de la televisora globovisión. >> no skar tdescartan demandar presidentes de ecuador por tener contacto con la farc. >> este es su noticiero univisión. >> comenzamos el noticiero con algo que no tendría que haber ocurrido, generalmente cuando los coyotes o contrabandista entregan a los indocumentados les pagan y eso es todo, pero muchas veces los coyotes pid a las familias más dinero de lo que habían acordado, como nos cuentan la entrega de indocumentados terminó a golpes y con la participación de la policía. >> en este pueblo en el estado de connecticut la noticia ha sorprendido a tos. >> esto comenzó a correr y fueron a correr y la policía también. >> en este video grabado por uno de los testigos se puede ver el momento en que la policía... >> para cerrar los tres, pero en vez de pedir dinero con vinieron con palos

let's go to bernie in connecticut. bernie. connecticut dominates. >> caller: connecticut, boo-yah!ttering boo-yah back at you. could be western. >> caller: my portfolio is up 20% in just the past few weeks. >> well, first of all, thank you for saying that, second, you did the work, you picked the stocks, you did the homework, i say congratulations to you. what's up? >> caller: thank you. i want to know aim diversified. i have m for macy's. atvi, activision, c, citi, ba, bank of america, and tsm, i'm thinking about getting in. >> i just have to be sure here, bern ni you said ba, which is boeing, did you mean bank of america or boeing? >> caller: boeing. >> okay. we're set. connecticut guys rock. citi i told you would pull back. moving up too fast. we still like it. 4.60, kind of interest, let i got to $4.50. activation game stock and macy's, the house wears and bed doing well. gmc, boeing, retail and banking, yes, connecticut rocks! our players rock! "mad money" rocks. back after the break. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and

coming up a connecticut woman convinces thousands to convince people she's a nurse. we'll tell you how she was caught. >> and chaos broke out at a town hall meeting in florida. >> update on your weather and traffic when we come back. >> welcome back to 11 news today, it is 68 degrees downtown. it feels so much better because dew points have dropped and it's only about 60 at the airport. check out that nice, dry channel of air over the mid-atlantic and over the state of maryland. mostly sunny skies today and high of 84 degrees. what a way to wrap up the workweek. more on your weekend ahead. >> and town hall meeting turned into a riot. florida state representative betty reed and another held a meeting to discuss the proposal when a crowd of almost 300 people disrupted the forum. police had to be called in. they barricaded the doors and at least one person was attacked. after the disruption it is meeting was canceled. >> a woman who claimed to be connecticut's nurse of the year has been arrested for not even having a nursing license. betty liechtenstein had been working

to bernie in connecticut. >> welcome to connecticut. boo-yah!ttering boo-yah back to you. could be western. >> caller: thanks to you, jim, my portfolio is up 20% in the last few weeks. >> you did the work. >> i want know if i am diversified. m for may circumstance atvi, acksivision, c, city, ba, bank of america and csm, i may get back in. >> did you mean bank of america or beauing? >> boeing. we're all set. take look at this. interinterinter. >>> welcome to the only time of the week i sit down for "mad money." when i tell you i think you should own a stock, doesn't mean you should throw all your eggs . database gaming and banking, yes, connecticut rocks! our players rock, "mad money" rocks, back after the break. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) si

exploding in growth since first restaurant opened in connecticut in 1965.ast year they sold two billion sandwiches. and it's not just the convenient restaurant size. yes, there's that ad again.. subway does a lot of ads. >> withgreasy fast food, what are you really getting? try a low-fat subway insteadad. >> whihich means any discussionf the subway success goes back tt knight in shining armoror. not a sword, but a pair of very big hands. jarrod. >> count the calories. well, that's how i became half the jarrrrod. >> i i di't expect to be doing this. you would havesaid, hey inn ten years you'll be the face of susubway and become the fe e of the brand, i'd have aid you were crazy. >> jarrod fogel is the stuff of advevertising legend. he claims he lost more than 200 pounds on a diet that consisted o of subway sandwiches so subway put him on tv and hasn't taken him off. that wasas ten years ago. and you have the pants here? >>>> i have the pants, of cours. these are the infamous jeans that became much more famous if i don't make an event that's okay, as long as

from the connecticut nursing association. that is bold. that's how she got her job at the doctor's office. if the doctor checked he would have found out the connecticut nursing association doesn't really exist. the fake nurse betty faces five years in prison for recklessen danger and criminal impersonation. >>> going once, twice, sold. in arkansas a woman is so desperate for cash she is auctioning off her unborn baby's name on ebay. i guess the right to name the baby. she has six kids already and a year ago her life was good but her husband suddenly walked out and their six children and number seven on the way and there was no money. so she had to get creative. >> it came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought this is crazy. no one is even going to look at it. but i prayed for a miracle. i just prayed for a miracle. >> it seems the prayer maybe being answered. the bidding started at $100 and up to 3,000. the boy is due on september 16th. >>> check out the new snack that is a big hit

that is today 100 people in the state of connecticut will lose their health care coverage. for a person who loses health care coverage that physical may not be something you can afford. if you can afford the physical, you may not have the resources to help you deal with the problem. i'm fortunate to have those benefits. so one of the things we've been fighting for and continue to fight for is get this national health care reform passed in the congress. i know it's controversial, it's hard. and while things fell apart a bit this week, i'm confident we'll get back on track. i've received a lot of calls this morning, from friends. i made the decision last evening about the course of action. and made a decision to be here this morning to tell people about it. why now? why tell you now. first of all, we can talk in abstractions about health care. but in some ways, what i'm going through, many people do. it's important that this gather here that an annual physical can make such a difference. if you can detect it early, i strongly recommend men over a certain age to get this done

what do you do in connecticut to restore industries that have left connecticut decades ago? they have to come back. we've been living in a fantasy economy to say that we don't have to make stuff. we do. what we have to look at is how is it that we lost our industry? why did we become so uncompetitive when we used to be the most competitive nation in the world? >> so how did we? >> well, what we did is encumbered our businesses with regulation and taxes that made them uncompetitive. we need to deregulate the economy and lower taxes but we can only do that if we dramatically decrease government. sut some of the spending. >> you say deregulate the economy. critics will say isn't that what we did on wall street? isn't that what got us into this mess? >> no, it is the opposite. the reason we're in trouble on wall street is because of regulation and moral hazard. the federal reserve set interest rates. not the market, the fed. the fed made a mistake putting interest rates much too low. as a result we had too much borrowing, not enough saving. >> cheap money. >> yes. then you had f

storms from south carolina and connecticut and tornadoes possible as well. meteorologist rick reichmuth is at the fox weather center with more. hi, rick. >> a really rough day across the southeast and stretched across maine. a lot of rainfall. some of it will come in

senators roland burris of illinois, kent conrad of north dakota and chris dodd of connecticut and new jersey's robert menendez. house members being investigated include john murtha of pennsylvania, linda and loretta safn chez of california and charles rangel of new york. the politico reports that rangel has now spent more than $1 million in his defense. the u.s. commission on civil rights is demanding an explanation from the justice department about its dismissal of a civil complaint against three members of the new black panther party accused of intimidating voters last november in philadelphia. commission chairman scwerld reynolds tells the washington times, quote, if you swap out the new black panther party in this case for neonazi groups or the chu klu klux klan you likely would have a different outcome. the only charge that stood was a weapons complaint against the leader. the justice department says the evidence did not support the case. the times reported last month

crashed on the narrow shoulder after connecticut avenue. heavier volume on 66. 95 and all of those twinkling lights in a backup from the prince william county to lorton and up to the beltway. now to the news desk. >> thank you. >>> swiss diplomats are trying to figure out what happened to three americans who strayed over the border into iran. >> the swiss embassy in tehran is inquiring about the whereabouts of shane bauer, sarah shourd, and joshua fattal. the family is worried about the safety of all three hikers. >> ry onlconcern is about o the health and welfare of jos shane, and sarah. >> back here, delays will not be easing anytime soon on metro's busiest line. critical repairs could slow down your cmute. kathy park joins us with all of the details you need to know. >>> you cannot expect this same amount of delays you have been experiencing since the deadly collision back in june. testing is now open between the fort totten and takoma stations. those circuits have been the focus of this ongoing investigation. for the next 30 days, the t

>> the lead connecticut citizens over 60 who refuse to pay for their own health care. >> don't put words in my house. if the government hadn't taxed the hell out of these people while they were working, they would have their own money, we need market dynamics and enforcement. just like government-subsidized student loans have driven education through the roofs. just like subsidized mortgages drove the market through the roof. there are no solution that involve more government. the only solution involve the free market, they involve capitalism. health care is important, just like food. we don't want the government growing our food. >> you think the massive subsidies to college students to go to college for free, you think that explains tu igz. >> yes, of course. >> you're in new york city right now. you know what a private school tuition is for a high school? new york city? it's over $30,000. there's not one penny of government support. how did it get to $30,000? how do you explain that? >> you're talking about elite private schools in new york city. >> you explain every rising price in t

alec baldwin is quoted as saying maybe i'll move to connecticut. i.d. love to run against joe lieberman. >> first, when you started with the playboy reference i'm glad you ended with alec baldwin and not with one of the center folds. second, make my day. i respect him as an actor and a comedian. if he wants to run, that's his right. lieberman says major health care reform should wait until the recession is over. congress should get started on things like reforms for the insurance industry. he told cnn he doesn't want to force a bill through congress without any republican support. >> i think it's a real mistake to jam through the total health insurance reform health care reform plan that the public is either opposed t ed to or very passionate mixed minds about. it won't be good for the presidency. >> some democratic leaders would prefer a bipartisan bill but don't think the country can afford to wait to see if the two sides can reach an agreement. >> ten years ago we were spending $6,000 for a family health insurance policy. today it's $12,000. by 2016

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. >> they were part of a race from long island all the way to connecticut but their main goal was toa lot of money for cancer patients. it was a pristine day across long island sound when they started getting into the water. jan johnson, just 1 of the 15, here to swim for her family. >> i know my brother is going to be saying, you know, get your butt in gear. get going. can you do it. >> reporter: with her brother in her heart and husband by her side jan began the grueling 15 1/2-mile swim she has been training four to six hours a day to finish. for 22 years swimmers just like her have taken part in swim across the sound but few have been so personally affected by cancer. >> i lost my father and my brother to cancer and my mother and i just am i breast cancer survivor of two years and i just -- i feel so good today. i mean in this year after going through all that, i just feel strong and ready. >> reporter: unlike other races the money they raise, more than 2.5 million today alone, is not going toward cancer research. rather it is going directly to cancer patients. with the midday su

it is that connecticut ave. the accident was between connecticut and 355. it was moved to the right shoulder. the lanes are open. the inner loop those past connecticut and toward northbound 95. there's more to lay with the traffic coming towards university boulevard. there is a crash between the beltway and rte. 212. on 270, there was the earlier crash in frederick county. everything is gone now. it is still slower than normal up to north of 121. let's head out to 395. from seminary road to duke street, the pachas been slow. there's a big delay from the belt way down. a broken-down truck is in the right-hand lane. back to you. >>> coming up at 5:00, a boycott against wholefoods is in the works. see what is making some customers so upset. >> there is a new way to fight phobias. virtual reality is helping people live a better life. >> there is a lot of confusion about a beltway exit ramp that is closed for construction. we're on y o a at your chevy dealer. a witmogire elible models to choose from than anyone. i urf nk cyo lu qus alieifto be recycled, you can

a norwalk connecticut woman who was dubbed nurse of the year by the connecticut nursing association is now being charged with pretending to be a nurse. it turns out not only is betty liechtenstein not a nurse, but the connecticut nursing association does not exist. she spent $2,000 of her very own money staging the fraudulent ceremony. >> think of the fun she had, though. >> we'll live that there. up next, don't let the pretty round numbers at the top of the screen distracter. we were up big, but the index you have to keep your eye on is the vix. >>> welcome back. times for some options act. the first week of august catapults stocks to the highest level of the year, but what is on deck for next week if things start slowing doub? joining us is scott nations, scott, what do you see in the vix? >> it's surprising given the price action we saw on the s&p this week we didn't see it come in any more. it's way below its recent low, and that shows healthy skepticism. put call ratios for the ones out on parole like jpmorgan and goldman sachs were healthy. but there's some indefensible giddiness

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he's in mystic, connecticut this morning. us to amazing dogs. >> pooches. >> right. but you'll talk about that disorganized storm out there. >> let's talk about danny first, yeah. business first. then danny is certainly been pestering us for a couple of days now. disorganized, organized, now barely holding on to tropical storm status. latest run from the hurricane hunters says, yeah, this thing has 45 mile-per-hour winds at this point. not organized at all. 400 miles or so south from cape hatteras. the movement is north-northwest at 8 or 9. that's movement expected to accelerate. notice it's not forecast anymore to be a hurricane but remain a moderate to strong tropical storm. there's a chance for strengthening here. and passing cape hatteras, there are tropical storm watches out for that area. but only if this thing strengthens and continues the movement moving a little closer. but right now, even new england at this point might well be spared. give you the update on that at 11:00. the tropical wave out there in atlantic. we

let's move over to 495 and show you the jamup from new hampshire to connecticut. that's where we have crash activity to the right shoulder. now over to andrea. >> thank you. >>> a new controversy is swirling around ward 8 councilman marion barry. a review of spending has found that barry spend more money on outside contracts than any other member. six times more. 9 news now digital correspondent, armando trull is live outside of the wilson building in downtown dc with more. good morning. >> good morning, andrea. well, look at the headline, it reads, barry tops peers in contract spending. some work seems to have little to do with city business. for those who dislike barry they will probably say it is more of his shenanigans and those that love the former mayor say it is no big deal. >> the post article says he spent $252,000 of taxpayer money on contractors in the past two years. that's almost six times as much as any of the other council members. the article claims there's little record of what the taxpayers got in return for that money. barry's contracting activi

to the outer loop we go, at connecticut where we have an accident blocking two ritalins. atch room saying the delays n start around the georgia area. it is slick and slowing down from the times building to bladensburg road. 395 no delays edsall to the 14th street bridge. that's a look at traffic. over to you. >>> it is set to be an historic day on capitol hill. susan roberts has the latest. >> reporter: the nation's highest court is on track to get the first hispanic justice. >> i'm confident that judge sonia sotomayor will make an outstanding justice for the united states supreme court. >> reporter: the senate will vote this afternoon on judge sonia sotomayor's supreme court nomination. the 55-year-old bronx new york native is almost certain to win confirmation. she has solid backing from the democratic majority and a growing number of republicans now say they will also vote for her. >> i will support her. i will be proud for her. the community she represents and the american dream she shows is possible. >> reporter: despite a handful of gop yes votes, three quarters of

the road work interloop of the beltway between connecticut avenue and georgia avenue keeping traffic slow object the interloop coming over from rockville pike. back to you. >> thanks, jerry. >>> 11:22 is the time right now. 81 degrees, the temperature. today is president obama's birthday. coming up next, find out how you can cash in on his special day. >> what happened at a school's brand-new field that could end up costing a lot of money. >> a search for the naked that's not t aat's not thetrhe sangest partf >> latook om te s>>ofop look al stories ghtom.ng >>> today the full senate is expected to weigh in on sonja sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court. the senators are expected to begin debating today and a final vote expected on thursday. sotomayor receive add profl from the senate judiciary committee last week, but the confirmation must be approved by the full senate. if confirmed, sotomayor will become the supreme court's first hispanic and third female justice. >>> president obama turns 48 years old today. it's his first birthday in office. mr. oma will spend part of his d

traffic in this area of connecticut avenue is being impacted. we'll have an update on traffic a little later. again, this is happening in kensington, serious accident on connecticut avenue near beach drive. >>> family of navy captain scott spiker say they are relieved that his remains were found but they're still looking for answers about what happened to him. spiker's plane crashed on the first night of the persian gulf war back in 1991. he was originally classified as dead, but evidence was found that prompted his case to be reclassified as a missing or captured case. spiker's remains were found in a grave in iraq last week and confirmed by the defense department. his family has hired its own investigators. >> they are our remains. the remains can be tested for what happened to them. a lot of information even in old remains. and look at all of that. we do have our only sources on ground. including the ones from the u.s. government. and we've come this far. we'll get those answers. >> spiker's relatives believe he ejected from his plane. >>> a

let me give you a big connecticut ba, ba, ba, boo-yah!nutmeg southern boo-yah right back at you. >> caller: all right. let me get -- can i get a check on sony? i'm looking to get in around $24, $25 -- >> no, no. as much as i like sir howard stringer -- fabulous article today, by the way, how they got their butt kicked by apple. he probably hates to see that because there's so many of them. i'd rather do taiwan semi, if i want stuff that goes into sony. i like corning, gow if you like the glass. i am not a buyer of sony. i am a seller of sony. let's take another. ooh, let's take a caller! let's go to new mexico. >> caller: cramer, big albuquerque boo-yah! >> man, that's a nice one, mr. enchantment land. what's up there, partner? >> caller: what do you think of sbp, southern tech power? >> man, come on, you're making me reach down. you're making me reach down. now, it is absolutely true that with oil going this high that ying lee and stp, they should all be moving. when i say ying lee, i don't confuse it with yuengling, which is a darn good

independent senator joe lieberman of connecticut and democratic senator benjamin carter. welcome. i want to get to afghanistan but i want to start where i ended. your reaction, the three of you involved so much in our international policy, to what happened. the scottish court first releasing the gentleman convi convicted of the lockerbie bombing. and then we can show our viewers the heroes welcome he received in libya after a very direct message from the united states to put him under house arrest and to not do just this. senator luger, what should the united states do now in the context of, a, relations with libya which had improved and in fact on the table for some proposed military sales? >> well, i think we ought to continue our relations with libya. but we ought to condemn strongly as possible this release as the president indicated. he felt it was obnoxious. i think it's important to note that he has a constituency in libya for which we is not appealing and the rest of the world is engaged. >> you were there and you delivered this same message. you hoped he was not

. >> nascar sprint cup making a stop in bristol -- that's tennessee, not connecticut.in won the pole. starting his 1,000th race. lap 11, this was the view from joey logano's car. reed sorenson in the 43 car fighting for position with logano, bumps logano from behind, logano spins out and bumps into the wall, he would head to the garage for repair. lap 256, kurt busch on pit road, his crew can't get the tear-off off the windshield before busch drives away, then it comes off and starts blowing in traffic, blows away before doing any damage to the other cars. lap 317, jimmie johnson battling with mark martin for the lead, johnson passes martin on the outside so johnson is the new race leader. lap 423, johnson's crew having issues in the pits, they drop a jack while adjusting his right-rear tire. johnson a bit wobbly coming out of the pits, almost collides with david reutimann. johnson would have to repit and falls to 21st due to the mistake. two laps to go, kyle busch in the lead but look at martin. tries to pass him on the inside. but busch holds him off -- fourth win of

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death valley is the average size of connecticut and the average temperature is 106 degrees. >>> check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. he opened the door to ditch the ride and run, but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. that frequently happens. generally they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe ten miles per hour. still, he went up on a curve. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. >>> people in north texas are learning their homes are not on secure footing as they thought. severe heat and heavy rain are causing some foundation homes to crack. that's leaving homeowners with an expensive problem to pair. some say their windows are now out of alignment and their doors won't lock. experts say the soil has a lot of cla

beltway outer loop at connecticut avenue, just before connecticut and outer loop at river road, coupleof beltway crashes to be aware of. they should be over to the shoulder. inbound on new york avenue, looks like we're doing okay so far to the 3rd street tunnel. downto downtown, 395 northbound looks pretty good. lanes are open but slick this morning headed across the 14th street bridge. back to you. >> thank you very much, jerry. >>> time right now is 5:42. how you can use your facebook account to help you book your next flight. >> plus, some police officers in northern virginia under investigation. next at 5:45 a.m., what they're accused of doing on the job that ul td ndlahem behindnd >>> our time right now is 5:44. updating our top stories of the morning. >>> the senate will vote on a plan today to pump life into the cash for clunkers program. the popular car incentive program could get another $2 billion in funding if all goes as planned. the white house says the program could fund another 500,000 new cars. >>> judge sonia sotomayor is poised to become the nation's first hispanic su

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. >>> connecticut senator chris dodd is resting following surgery to remove a cancerous prostate. a spokesperson in new york says the surgery was successful and the senator is comfortae. the senator expects to stay in the hospital for a few more days and return home to connecticut. >>> more trouble for metro this morning. coming up next, a train operator tested positive for drugs on the job and may have put passengers in danger. >>> purchasing a home in foreclosure may seem luke a pretty good idea but buyer beware. some hidden damage could gut your bank account and also harm your health. >>> we'll have details on today's weather forecast. i think you should take an umbrella with you just to be safe. julie wright will be along it tell us what is happening on the roads this morning. stay with us. fox 5 morning news will be right back. it is 5:11. what is it to lead? p, it's doing what most benefitour customers. whether that's building more certified green buildings than anyone on earth. creating online banking tools for the next generation. or making a 10 year, $100 min investment i

crash activity at connecticut. but off to the right shoulder. everyone is at a great pace from new hampshire to georgia. 66 eastbound slow nutley to the beltway. that's just volume. we will check on the inner loop. going to a live shot from 95 to 66. a little below speed on the outer loop using those brakes from van doren to eisenhower. finally wrap it up with 395ened sunny skies from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. i'm going to give it a wink because everything is a-okay. before we go a 9 news now click to share with you. say happy birthday to loyal viewer chris thompson and we will have that click coming up later. perhaps at the end of the show. back to you. >>> it is restaurant week in the district. starting today close to 180 area restaurants are participating in thog edthe dicontou three course fixed price meals. lunch $ a-- di ernndier $35. to get the most bang for your buck pick what is typically a very exance pave birthday. dc is a good place to see a concert. the city has broke machine to sub hub's top list. dc's best selling act

it happen order the inner loop just past connecticut avenue. at least one of the tires hit an suv going in the opposite direction. a man and woman inside the suv were taken to the hop with what police described as minor injuries. >>> d get a load of what commuters in tysons corner saw this morning. this guy says he cheated on his wife so he had to wear this homemade sign at the intersection of leesburg pike and international drive. the sign says i cheated. this is my punishment. almost taylor of centreville says his wife found evidence of an affair on his cell phone and she came up with t creative payback. taylor stood at the busy intersection for about two hours before his wife texted him and told him he could head home with his tail between his legs. >> i think he got -- i think he got off easy. if you ask me. >> pretty big letters. there's a lot of traffic, lot of people saw that. they are hearing it now. >> recall affecting millions of blinds hanging in homes across the country. >>> why your drinking habits may have more of an impact on you

carolyn in connecticut. >> caller: hi, jim. big old connecticut boo-yah. >> man, fancy boo-yah. >> caller: those are my kids in the background. >> love the familia boo-yah. put them on. put them on. let's get them in the market. >> caller: okay. say boo-yah. >> boo-yah! >> there you go. yes! how many other shows have got -- do you think any of those shows like csi got the kids watching? okay, go ahead. notice how i just knocked a cbs show because i'm not too stupid. go ahead. >> caller: i don't think you've got a boo-yah lately. jim, this is my question. people in the news keep talking about a double bottom. qul look at my chart, i see a double bottom. i see a bottom in october and another one in march. and i feel like we're good to go. i don't know whether to -- and then they talk -- some people go farther and say there will be a 10% krekcorrection and i say we that already. >> the 10% correction, i'm going back and forth. my friend doug at realmoney.com, he's saying nobody is sure. he's looking for the market to go down. i li

we begin in washington with senator joe lieberman, independent of connecticut, knew senator kennedy in the '70s. he became close friends when joe became to the senate in '89. senator joe warner, longtime friend of senator kennedy'. he did advance work for nixon. >> that's true. >> larry: longtime friend of the senator. and on the phone. bill frist, and a good friend of senator kennedy. what's your first reaction, joe lieberman to all of this? >> first reaction is that this was -- this is the end of an era, certainly the end of a generation of a great american family. president john f. kennedy' inspired me and a lot of others of my generation into public service. ted kennedy carried it along. i also thought with a kind of gratitude that unlike three of his brothers, though his passing is sooner than any of us who loved him, served him would have wanted. he died of natural causes and he lived a full and wonderful life and inspiring, ultimately irresistible person. i guess my other reaction was just plain personal. i felt lucky, blessed to have come to know him personally. and to have lea

. >>> police say connecticut man stole a 32-foot boat and tried to get away with it in broad daylight. in this police car video see police officers following the boston whaler up i-95. several miles in to the pursuit the suspect starts weaving and the boat flips off the trailer and is dragged along the road. the officers have the suspects in custody and the boat as well. >> got to secure the boats to the trailers. >>> your complete first warning forecast 2.5 minutes away. >>> this is a look at today's midday stocks. >>> shih-tzu, they are great dogs, they don't shed, zero. they do get up and leave. this is poochie, she is 3 years old. i got one of these dogs. they are really relaxed dogs, i mean big time. they don't shed and particularly smart. she needs a home. 235-8826. area code 410. >>> we got a ton of weather to talk about. tim it's so humid out there it's to say that it's humid is a insult to the current conditions no way to describe it. >> we have showers popping up already, a front is going to be pushing through here through tomorrow and that is going to be kind of colliding c

towards the exit for # 70, we have the crash which popped up on us before you reach 355 so after connecticut avenue, we had the two left leaps blocked. now, the activity is con feigned to the shoulder. the lanes are open once again on the outer loop as you work your way westbound 495. we have some state troopers responding on the left lane of the inare loop as well. the activity confined to the shoulder with state highway on the scene. as you can see, delays on the outer loop of the beltway slowing as you come aroun the curve from georgia avenue headed around into bethesda. allow yourself extra time other along the top stretch of the beltway. northbound i-95 out of virginia, the lane are open with no accidents to report leaving newington through springfield back onto 395. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> you might notice less congestion on the roads in virginia today as part of governor tim kaine's program for telework today. employees and businesses are encouraging to find out how teleworking can help them impre ovproductivity and business operations and benefiting the envi

>> larry: joining us now, one of the senator's closest friends, senator chris dodd, democrat of connecticut. when did you last see him, chris? >> i saw him, larry, i think about -- i guess in july. i was at my niece's wedding. it was in massachusetts. we stopped on the way back, my two daughters, my wife and i. had a wonderful visit with him. he was so funny. i recall we spent, vicki and i and teddy and i sat and chat for an hour or so. i told him in passing, vicki said ahead of time he really couldn't have children around. his immune system was so vulnerable. but when he heard the children -- i didn't tell him the children were in the car. they were in the car with their babysitter. and he said please bring them in. vicki said, no, you can't. he had them outside the window making rabbit faces at him. this is a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old, larry. i know this may sound trite. but my two daughters, i was explaining to that 7-year-old yesterday that teddy was gone, it was very hard. he was very good to them. he had a wonderful ability to connect with people, including very young children. in a

the chase lasted 15 minutes, all the way to the house in danbury, connecticut. canalli parked in the driveway and waited for the can cops to show. by the time they finished filling out police reports in two states, they missed the wedding. canalli says he is sorry he missed the wedding but said he was worried the drunk guy was going to kill somebody. had had to do when he had to do. that's our broadcast for now.