let's see what is happening on the roadways with lauren cook who is in for candace dold. fic edge. lauren. >> reporter: as we take a live look at 95 at 32, you can see no problems to report, cars just zipping along those lanes at this time, that is the same case as we make our way to the northeast corridor of 95. if you're traveling on the southbound lanes from mountain road to 695, you're looking the a quick, 10 minutes. if you're cruising through the tunnels this morning, it will take you 5 minutes to get through the fort knack henr mchd only 6 to get through the harbor tunnel. that's a look at the morning commute. patrice, back to you. >>> first on fox this morning if you can't beat them charge them to combat parking problems in baltimore big rate increases could be on the way. the new proposal is meant to help businesses but some think it will drive consumers away. joel d smith is live this morning with more on the parking concerns. explain it for us. >> reporter: here is what we have right now. at this place is $1 to park per hour, $4 maximum, but people are not doing

is coming up in a few minutes. right now we're turning to lauren cook who is standing by with the traffic edge. lauren. >> reporter: thanks, steve. you want to keep in mind that the light rail is operating on a half an hour delay due to the mechanical problems. better news at we take a look at the beltway at liberty road. cars are -- it's smooth sailing if you're traveling the inner and outer loop lanes. if you're using the jfx to get into the city, you're going to be in the clear, you will be in the green. it will only take you 11 minutes to get from 695 to east fayette street and things will continue to be in good shape as you make your way from the beltway from the jfx to 70, you're looking at a 12-minute trip. once you are on the beltway, from 70, to 295, you're looking at a quick 6 minutes. patrice, let's send it back to you. >>> lauren, thank you, 6:01 on baltimore morning news. >>> new violence on the baltimore inner harbor. there's new concerns after two men were shot inside of a restaurant before hundreds of tourists. joel d smith is live from the inner harbor including what the mayor h

let's see what is happening on the roadways. lauren cook is here with the traffic edge. uren. >> reporter: thanks, steve. as we take a live look at 695 at liberty, you can see there's going to be heavy delays on the outer loop lanes. be prepared for a heavy and not so steady ride. if you are using the jfx to get into the city, you do want to be aware of a little more congestion starting to build in this area. from 695 to east fayette street, you are in the yellow with an 11-minute drive. things get better as we make our way to the beltway. from jfx to 270 you're looking at 12 minutes. once you get from 70 to 295, you're looking at a quick 6-minute trip. that's a look at morning travels. let's send it back to you, patrice and megan. >>> here are the stories we're following this. howard county police are looking for an escaped inmate. 20-year-old devon champagne was being transported to the howard county detention center after being convicted on felll felonyt charges. when he assaulted an officer. police believe he is still in the jessup area and they continuing the manhunt

joining also is maggie and lauren. >> just to follow up on that. would it be a fair assumption to say that over 2 million, 5 million americans already have been infected? >> one of the things that we will do in the fall is to track more closely than we have till date the number of people who have the infection based on telephone surveys. that will help us get a national number. right now we're confident it's more than a million. the fact is that what the number is isn't so essential. what is essential is that we prepare we will prel for having potentially quite a few cases in the winter. >> this is going to be hard to track. can we talk about some of the challenges in tracking it. i understand some of the reports that people who are infected don't have a fever sometimes, that their symptoms are a little bit different. people are asking questions like well, if i think i was infectd this spring, does it mean i don't need the vaccine in the fall? isn't this input a little bit important in judging how to react besides just being prepared with lots of h

is a good one here. ready? there's a stranger in the house, lauren, and he's walking around. >> oh! an, really good acting. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: really, really phenomenal. but now, you know, we don't want to be on the show anymore. you don't want to be an actress so much? >> mm-hmm. >> jimmy: what do you want? you want to get into -- what? producing or writing or what? >> both, actually. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's great. >> i really enjoyed the writing. the first one was very challenging. i just finished the first draft of my second one. and it was a lot easier the second time around. >> jimmy: and this book is based on a girl who -- >> moves to l.a. >> jimmy: and gets a -- >> a reality show. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. this is -- okay. i am seeing -- yeah. i'm seeing a little -- some, kind of, resemblance of something else i've heard about. >> similar. >> jimmy: yeah, it's a little bit similar. but it's not about -- it's not about lo. it's not about whitney. not about speidi. >> no. >> jimmy: no. and the last chapter, they don't -- no one goes to co

. >> joining us is lauren with the associated press and maggie fox of reuters. thanks for coming in. maggie fox, you get the first question. >> dr. friedman, i will start off here. this week, the president's council of science advisers issued a report on swine flu, h1n1 flu. it gave a clue as to what the impact of the united states would be. can you tell us how the cdc to seize the various aspects of that report and whether you think some of the numbers might have been overblown or exaggerated? i think one of the numbers was that 90,000 people could be expected to die this flu season. . . >> how can we plan to surge up when those plans are underway? what can we do to vaccinate people as quickly as possible when vaccine becomes available? how could we make sure people have underlying health conditions like asthma, diabetes, and you might get very sick from the flu get rapidly treated if they did sick and fluid circulating, at the same time making sure that when the flu comes this year, we do not overwhelmed emergency departments with people who are not very sick

this is chef lauren sorbet and the general manager for the restaurant and this is nancy martinez. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> you are located at the west end arlington gateway, beautiful hotel there. so tell me about the establishment. >> it's a beautiful hotel. we have a beautiful restaurant there too. which is considered a modern italian cuisine. >> and you are the executive chef for the hotel. >> for the hotel. >> under the chef -- >> chef bombardino. >> and you were saying? >> we have wine events, basting, cooking class and excellent services and a wonderful culinary team. >> and today we are doing a roasted pork chop with the butter -- >> it's the squash. >> with the spaghetti squash. so we look forward to this and we'll join you in 20 minutes to do the demonstration. >> thank you for having us. >> that's what is cooking today. tucker and gurvir, back to you. >> it reminds me of fall, but it doesn't feel like fall out side. >> it's still summerme out here. we have plenty of heat and humidity. a chance of a scattered shower and thunderstorm. and i'll give you a tr

. >> jimmy: all right, very cool, all right, lauren. now isembarrassing in your purse there? >> maybe -- >> jimmy: all right. well, before you empty your purse, what question will i have to answer about lauren? >> steve: what is lauren's favorite genre of film? >> jimmy: okay. all right, good. you want to empty your contents? >> sure. ♪ >> jimmy: another purse. there you go, wow. big clown car of purses. okay. i think i got -- how much time do i have left? queen elizabeth jimmy carter? i'm going to say -- [ clock ticking ] you love romance. higgins? >> steve: you know what? i'm going to give it to you. romantic comedies! >> jimmy: yes! thanks for helping us out. here you go. you got a hot pocket. >> thank you. >> jimmy: you can put that in your purse as well. it will probably fit. it's gigantic. they don't let you carry that on airplanes, do they? >> not usually. >> jimmy: not in the overhead. it doesn't fit. come on down, buddy. how are you? >> good, how you doing jimmy? >> jimmy: great, what's you name? >> jared. >> jimmy: jared, where are y

is positive it canning. let's check in with lauren demarco and find out how the rain is affecng the commute. >> off to kind oflow start. northbound 95, we usually have the delays heading up towards lorton. that began early this morning. we had a wreck just before lorton. it is off to the side of the road. here are your delays heading across the occoquan. you will be on the brake. it begins at dale boulevard. both the main lanes and the hov lanes slowing at this point to get past that accident scene at lorton. further north, making your way across the mixing bowl up toward 395, you are looking good. no problems crossing the 14th street bridge. in maryland, we were working two accidents on the beltway beth on the outer loop, one after georgia avenue and then another after river road. those have both cleared out of the way and your delays there are easing. inbound 270, a bit of volume here as you head down towards clarksburg and then off and on from germantown past rockville to the split. no accidents reported just some heavier volume there. same story on 66. east of town, route 50 looks good inbound heading thr

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her name is lauren fix. she's the author as well, if people should turn in their clunkers this weekend or should they wait? >> if you owe money on this vehicle, just so you know, you can't trade in that car unless it's a clean title. it can't have a loan against it. that's another thing people aren't aware of. so if you still have a loan on your car, some sort of ucc filing, you're not eligible. another thing to find out if the car is eligible, go to the cars.gov website. be forewarned, hundreds of cars that's were eligible when this program started are no longer eligible. that's the other thing -- >> that's the next -- maybe -- brother grimace says, don, what is a description of a clunker? if my clunker's paid for, what is the incentive to get a meager down payment for a new car? >> right. that's the other thing, your car is worth more than $4,500, you're better off trading it in or selling it on your own. it would be silly to take $4,500 on a car worth $6,000. but if you can trade that in and get that $4,5

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president obama is south of the border -- i'm lauren sivan. aders of mexico and can that. the mexican president and canadian prime minister are expected to work on trade, administration, drug trafficking, security issues and clean energy. the three are expected to hold a news conference monday. >>> newly released records show a system designed to prevent crashes in washington, d.c.'s metro malfunctioned months before a deadly accident there. nine people skilled and more than 70 injured in june when a train slam inside another one stopped on the track. a potential accident in march was avoided when a train operator used an emergency brake. ntsb investigators learned of the close call while looking into the june crash. i'm lauren sivan in new york. we now head back to "geraldo at large" on fox. e fox news chann. >> we have a big at large michael jackson exclusive coming up, but first on the 40th anniversary more from my dramatic confrontation back in 1988 with charlie manson from san quinton. >> i admit i take responsibility everybody out there a

now, let's found out what is happening with traffic. for that, we go toe laurenemarco. >> we've got some newenings working. 70 eastbound, the ramp to southbound 29 is shut down. also, 270 as you head southbound leaving route 80 urbana passing 109, we had seen some delays stacking up. looks like it is getting a little bit better as you head down towards clarksburg but prepare for volume there. it is a smoother trip in through germantown and then rockville. in virginia, we are dealing with a new accident report on the inner loop after route 50. here at little river turnpike, no delays here so not stacking up too badly at this point. keep in mind inner loop just after route 50 heading toward 66. car reportedly off the side of the road to left shoulder. a rae scherr serious accident reported there. also, 66 eastbound at route 28 in centreville, accident is off to the shoulder. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffi >> thank you. >>> business beat is up next. we are take august look at what is bminsa d ixed day on the market. >>> as we go ar okloe g ina u r or yo

is open. sorry. >> well, lauren bloom is in. she's written a book "the art of the apology." she says you can apologize to just about everybody and how you should. we'll find out the inner workings of an apology. >>> coming up, doc cheatham will be here, the naacp chairman. he will give us a big challenge to save our city. he's got an important message and he'll be here in a couple of minutes. and hal sparks, funny man. you've seen him on "the soup," "talk soup," "i love the 80s." he'll be in our sued studio in a couple -- of minutes. >> we have a group from anne arundel county. the storm trackers. i know, they just came out here and they match the weather wall. with the green shirts. we take it outside. yeah, we were looking at some rain. right now looking at light showers pushing to the south of columbia. around laurel through glen burnie, spotty showers will linger across the area. wide view radar highlights the fact that they had heavy rain on the eastern shore, easton getting clobbered. the rainfall totals are well over an inch, they had thunder before dawn and more rain

now julie wright is away. laurendemarco is here and she'll tell us how thingsare hipping up -- how things are shaping up across the area. >> i was just thinking it's a good beach week. >> i suspect julie is one of them. >> i'm sure she's having a great time somewhere in the sun. well right now we have several accidents that we're working. southbound 95 in maryland afte 216, a car fire on the right shoulder. everyone slows down to look. southbound bw parkway after 197, we've got an accident that is in the right lane. you're dealing with delays from route 32, northbound with rubbernecking as well up toward the baltimore area. on the beltway right now, on the outer loop, in montgomery county you're looking great. to delays there. but on the op in prince george's county you're on the brakes past central avenue 214. also the wreck after 202, land over road. good news is it's been moved over to the shoulder. so hopefully the delays will ease out. right now they begin at route 4, pennsylvania avenue. in virginia, right now,

lauren fix is the author of lauren fix's guide to loving your car. she joins us from rochester, new york. thank you so much for joining us. what's not to like about this, lauren? >> i this not fair. it's a favoritism program. think about the fact first off, if you always leased vehicles, you you have nothing to trade n so you're ineligible, if you've been smart about getting good fuel efficient cars, you're not el jichblt the reason people have clunk eers is because they can't get credit or can't afford a car payment with additional insurance payments. you forget, you buy a new car, your insurance payment will definitely go up. isn't that how he got here in the first place, buying more than we can afford? >> right. this one is from twitter. if i'm not ready to buy a new car, should i still turn are in my clunker for the voucher now before the cash runs out? or do i? and that was it. do i wait i imagine. only 14 character and ran out. >> well, i think that's a big question. if you owe money on this vehicle. just so you know, you can't trade in that ca

ourood friend lauren graham is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] i love lauren grah. in a new movie. a new movie called "the answer man." 's hilarious. the hilarious bill engvall is stopping by as well. [ cheers and applause ] and, like i said before, jonas brothers will be he. [ cheers and applause ] a ally good show tonight. we've got a great show, everybody. as y guys may have heard, the new "harry pottermovie came out this week. [ cheers and applaus ] it's a huge phenomenon. gigantic. it made a ton of money in its opening night. most of the pss about te movie has en really good. but not everyone is happy about how well it's doing. you guys know that guy robert pattinson, the star of "twilight"? [ ches and pplause ] check out this video he posted on youtube last night. just check it out. >> the "harry potter" film came out recently, and me a lot of money, didt it? made a lot of money. people are saying, "are you bothed?" by it well, no, i'm not bothered. i eaavn, i hy e my own movie, don't i? i so i'm t bothered by him. am i bothered by him? no. not bhered. people a

is 6:18. 20% of american homes have only a cell phone, no land line. and that can be a problem in an emergency. the headline in "usa today," cell phones problematic for 911. managing editor laurenashburn is here to tell us about the growing problem. >> good morning. there is one thing for sure, if you call 911 from a cell phone you are less likely to get a fast response to your emergency. >> why? >> because the system was created in 1967 and isn't built to handle cell phone calls. and what happens is when they call in on a cell phone, the location only pops up as a number, phone number. and a cell phone tower and it doesn't say where you are. and in urban areas that's a big problem. it gives you within 300-meters but if you are in a high-rise in a specific apartment it doesn't help. >> but if you have a land line it will give you the address. >> exactly the address and the apartment because that system was designed to be for land nes. lo at the numbers. u as yomentioned at top of the segment, cell ph e ononly households are e on the increa only .5% of people use cell phones only in the house. and now 13 to 16 to 20% and that number is growing and that is a big problem. who are

is relative. >> thank you. >> thank you, troy. >> lauren is in today for julie wright. what's going on? great question from tray garrett. the only thing i understood there was the picture and it was really pretty. tucker the science man. i didn't know he had a nickname. i like that. we are tealing with some delays 270 as you head southbound leaving clarkburg heading towards rockville. and then once you get past that, you will be having a smooth trip towards the lane divide. you can see you are on the brake there. that will continue off and on until you get to rockville. in virginia, dealing with some delays northbound 95. you will object the brake from the prince william parkway up towards route one. this is yo delay right here heading up through woodbridge. you can see the hov lanes are wide open for you. if you use that, that is your best bet. you will be on the break once you get past woodbridge. and we are still dealing with that accident westbound 66 making thetrip toward the inner loop of the beltway right here. your ramp remains blocked so as you head in westbound from roslyn tow

all right, now, what is the name of the person you took to the prom? >> lauren. >> jimmy: lauren? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: who are you checking with? >> my best friend, andrew. >> jimmy: you remember it, andrew? >> yeah. >> jimmy: did she never want to see m again? [ laughter ] >> maybe. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, so, we have josh greenburg who thinks every bad date ends with a "i don't ever want to ever see you again." and that's probably what they heard when he took lauren to the prom. so, this first song, roots, i'm in a disco mood. how about you guys do it in a style of disco. is that cool? [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ it's all right it's all right yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ i say josh mr. josh greenburg ♪ ♪ i say josh what's the worst thing to hear on date ♪ ♪ he said i don't want to see you again let's be friends ♪ ♪ all right ♪ he asked lauren out to prom and she said no ♪ ♪ you're just too boring mr. greenburg and i won't go ♪ ♪ so, listen i got, i got, i got something good ♪ ♪ i got, i got, i got something going good ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very good. who else? who else wan

is in marlo heights, maryland. good to see you. >> good to be back. >> and automotive expert lauren fix is in buffalo. ys, great to see you. >> great to see you, too, tony. >> jeff, i'll start with you. i got to tell you, i think you've been really balanced in your conversation about this program. you said the program has been wildly successful, but the bureaucracy has been an absolute nightmare. let's break this apart here. explain the wildly successful part from your point of view. >> well, the program has been very successful to the consumer. this has been -- they've responded. i think the last four weeks our industry has sold about 750,000 cars under the cash for clunker program. so, i would say wildly successful from the consumer standpoint. somewhat of a frustration from an administrative standpoint. >> tell me why. what's been the nightmare, the headache for you? >> well, what should be a pretty simple process, trading in the old car for the new car. the regulations are 160 pages. we had great difficulty submitting claims in the first week of the program. it would take two hours or more to submi

that is a nice little jump, 87 to 92. >> you will feel it. >> we're prepared for it. >> a good pool day. >> let's check in with laurenco and see if it's good traffic ay. >> good day for august. it is a pretty good traffic day. we do have an accident in maryland as you head southbound on 95 after 198 efore 212. police responding to that. you want to watch out for that as you head southbound out of columbia down towards college park. once you are on the beltway, the out are loop looking great right now leaving college park heading past new hampshire avenue into silver spring. you are crossing the american legion bridge without a problem right now. 95 northbound in maryland, we do have some delays on the prince william parkway to route one, just volume there. a smooth trip up towards springfield. no problems on the beltway heading up towards 66. here we are at the toll road. smooth trip in from loudoun county on the greenway toward the toll road. 28 is at speed between 66 and the toll road. that's a check of your fox 5 on-me traffic. >>> we are staing on top of a developing story out of bridge county where four people w

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. >> this is america's news headquarters, i am lauren sivan. the space shuttle discovery is on its way to the international space station. it launched just a little over half hour ago. the discovery celebrate his 25th anniversary. three earlier scheduled launches were cancelled this week, twice for weather and once because of a faulty fuel valve, but friday night, all systems were go. the astronauts will deliver supplies and equipment to the international space station. there are six people living on the station and it will be pretty crowded. jose hernandez's was a migrant worker when he was growing up, so you can bet they were watching tonight's launch. we now had back on the record rector on fox. greta: and north korean ship carrying weapons bound for iran has been seized by the uae. this violates a resolution by the u.n. and included rocket propelled grenade and missile launchers. the items were destroyed. bernie madoff's mistress is talking. he is behind bars. apparently he told lies to his wife. his mistress has written a book. earlier, she

that is a look at the weather p we'll have more coming up in a little bit. >>> let's say good morning to laurenco. >> it is kind of busy but because of the light volume, not causing much of a did he lay just yet. you do want to head outdoor because with the slick pavement, we are expecting there could be some more accidents and incidents this morning, more than usual so give yourself some extra time. heading inbound on route 4, we've got a wreck here at wood yard road, car spun off to the right side of the roadway. the lane are open but something to look at while you pass by. we have two accidents, a little bit of a did he lay here passing colesville road. it is off to the side of the road, i'm told. hopefully, won't be too much of a problem for you. further along on the outer loop, we have an accident just after river road. that is blocking the left lane so stay to the right to get by. heading out here to the mixing bowl in springfield, a little bit of volume starting to build northbound 95 as you head up towards the beltway. we have reports of slow traffic leaving aquia harbor. that's a check

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is providing a lot more jobs than ever anticipated. >> that's what the stimulus package was supposed to intend. very good. lauren, thank you. you can read more in the "usa today." >>> a check on sports is next. and an old friend rejoins the nationals and the skins get ready for the patriots. >>> but first the signs of now. all morning long we have been telling you about the death of senator edward kennedy. he served on the hill for 47 years, the third longest tenure in history. this which senator holds the record. is it thurmond, byrd or dirkson. you think you know the answer find out if you are correct when we come back. fafafab@fab@@ (announcer) "new simply cookies from pillsbury. mp wfalesome ingredients and nothing more." how do you decide between crunchy and soft tacos? why don't we have both? old el paso. hard n soft tacos. true genius. mexican style. >>> back with the signs hoff now now. -- signs of now. the west virginia democrat spent 50 years the capitol and is still serving today. >>> in sports the nationals take on the cubs on the in chicago, and starting for the nats an old friend. the team resigned

dollar tree is going up, too, but family tree, ralph lauren, tiffa tiffany, this is too braoad.urning. >> and everybody expects nothing from the back to school trend. people will be going to school naked. >> the there are local newspapers believe that no one will go back to school. they're all truant. so i think it's important to recognize the same. housing, retail, these are both better than expected. >> you have a trade on coin star which i love. >> i did a piece last week about whether this thing was a bull or a bear and coin star's red box, i compared it to netflix. the problem with coin star, and why i liked it, some of the movie companies don't like it, but paramount just made a big deal with them. i think it's the template for warner to fall in on to place. i think that this is basically a bargain, these court suits could be bargaining chips. the parent company of us and owned by ge is also involved in this back and forth. and i don't know whether -- i don't have any context, but this coin star, if they get all the movie companies to go along, it's a big deal. this will r

is blocked involving multiple vehicles. at least four vehicles. so stay to the left to get by. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. steve, back to you. >> laurenu. >>> the district is expanding it's sexually tracon mitted disease testing -- transmitted disease testing program to every high school. students are required to attend a lecture but can decline a test. 13% of about 3,000 students tested positive for an std during the program last year, mostly for gonorrhea or chlamydia. >>> the mayor is sending his twin boys to public school, pullof private school. he hasn't said which public school they will attend. reports say it's been eaton, murch, key, janney or lafayette. there is no word on an official decision. west elementary is the closest to his home. we'll know soon because classes begin august 24th. >>> time now is 8:19 on this wednesday morning. it might be too late to plan a vacation this summer -- >> but you shouldn't have a problem pulling a staycation together. and we'll share some ideas on doing that later on here on fox 5 morning news. holly is up working on that for us. >> reporter: toasting marshmallows. (announcer) when verizon