the banks did deals in america, too, in places like birmingham, alabama, seat of jefferson county. >>they came down here like sharks to raw meat in the water and... took advantage, full advantage of the opportunity that was here to make a lot of money. >> narrator: jefferson county had a problem. in 1996, it had squandered $2 billion to build a state-of-the- art sewage system. people were left with sewers to nowhere and huge monthly bills. >> if my bill is $30, i now have to pay $90. most of the people in this neighborhood are on fixed income. so even if you're paying $70 a month for water and sewage, and that $700 a year, that's pretty much the sum of their checks for the month. >> narrator: in 2002, the county was looking to refinance their sewer debt by issuing $3 billion worth of bonds. wall street bankers came knocking. >> the jefferson county sewer financing in $3 billion worth of borrowing over a two- or three- year period would be a huge financing at that time in the marketplace. it would be a huge financing today in the marketplace. those numbers gets wall street's attention.

if you listen to some of the residents of jefferson county, one of them said certain precincts in this county are not going to vote for obama. i'm not going to say it, but we all know why. there is that underlying reason why they're saying it. the update, because he's black. further than that, it's like here i am, i'm black and i'm proud. black people voted him in, that's why he won. it was black ignorance. >> okay, i'm black and i'm proud. what is so stunning there, he was running from race the whole time because he knew full well not only of these constituencies but how uncomfortable people might feel. the idea that he's black and proud. we'll never have a second black president if he's basically james brown in quotations. >> yes, it's true. he does talk about his blackness and he has more recently. in the trayvon martin, listen to it. we've all heard it before, but listen to it. >> you know, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. >> jayar, when you hear the president say something like that, when you hear about him talking about his own blackness do you fell feel that helps him

washington county and frederick county and jefferson county and loudoun county under a severe thunderstorm warning until 6:45. these are the storms we have been following all afternoon. pushing off to the south and east headed toward fairfax. headed toward parts of the d.c. area. we'll let you know when they'll roll through. >>> but first, get ready to ditch your ride. a new survey puts d.c. in the top ten worst cities to own a car. we'll talk about that. >>> we are back with a traffic alert for anyone heading into the district from virginia. starting at 8:00 tonight, the d.c. department of transportation will close the right northbound lane of the 14th street bridge. that is heading into the city. d dot is warning you about delays from the nationals and caps playing in town tonight. that lane will reopen by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. >>> sitting in gridlock, a will the of us have done that each day. may have you wanting to ditch your car. a new survey says there's a reason for it. according to d.c. ranks as the ninth worst place to own a car. the ranking is because the roads are so confusing. sa

thunderstorm warnings, including southwest and frederick county, southern washington county, jefferson county and northern loudoun county until 6:45 and we'll show you radar. some could be dropping hail and we'll have the full forecast coming up and feldy, another huge night for the caps. >> and absolutely. they're on home ice, sue and may not be a great thing. and each winning one game and that is the theme throughout the play-offs. that will change tonight and we'll hear from jason chmura. as the news edge at 6 from the ice rolls on.  what's the best gift you can give mom ? a powerful connection. with this droid razr by motorola on verizon 4g lte stay in touch with your loved ones on skype. plus, enjoy verizon's 4g lte network in more places. the droid razr you want, one powerful connection on america's largest 4g lte network. that's real value. give mom the droid razr by motorola. only 99.99. the lowest price ever. verizon. hola, mama. it's my mom. . >> cancelled the show at the howard theatre 10 days ago because he was ill. the show is rescheduled for june 20th. >>> appl

berkeley county and jefferson county, west virginia, over into frederick county, maryland, and washingtonounty maryland. those are the warnings right now. you need to get inside and take cover and do not cross a flooded street by car or by foot. there's also flash flood warnings out as well. a live look outside. downtown is nice. there's nothing going on inside the beltway in terms of weather. this is brought to you by michael and son. it's hot because of that. we haven't had the cloud cover and showers. we are still 89. winds are gusting at 17 and the pressure is steady 29.76-inch of mercury. here is live doppler 9,000. here are the storms we are concentrating on in the next hour. but these are the storms we are watching for the next few hours in the immediate metro area. these storms are a threat in harrisonburg. these storms are a threat for us in the immediate metro area, maybe around 8:00 or 9:00 tonight. these storms are hammering our friends to north and west. good sized hail from hagerstown southward, almost to sharpesburg. we have big time hail and this is west oak ridge, you are

. >> this is corporal tim whitney with the jefferson county sheriff's office.eading out today to go knock on doors of suspected meth labs. >> we deal with a lot of method labs. we continue to lead the nation as far as a single county for meth lab seizures. >> reporter: it's a high priority because meth labs can easily catch fire. especially with the new one pot method they call shake and bake. among the ingredients, liquid fuel. drain cleaner. immode yum nitrate from cold packs. lithium from household batteries. they're plastered with warning labels. but they can turn sue do e fed rin, the active ingredient in some decongestants, into meth. >> if you take your time, shake and bake comes out better. >> reporter: but it can backfire. this is a demonstration by sheriffs deputies from neighboring franklin county. they shake it up and the chemicals react. it's soon a flame thrower. that's how joe was burnt. >> i haven't slept a full night since i've started cooking meth. because you're always scared no matter what. the bottle blew up. flipped me over. i had third-de

it also includes fauquier county and a little portion of jefferson county until 6:00 in the morning. that's because while you don't have rain now, if you were to get rain, could start flash flooding and we had big problems overnight last night and a will the of high water rescues. let me take you over to radar. we have a stationary boundary and a slightly different position tonight. so as you look at radar here, there are two areas i want you to see up to our north and west and down there south of front royal. notice how these are barely moving. so we are watching areas, especially up here to our north where we have lightning and heavy rain. we have not had flooding yet, but i am concerned that as you look at this in motion, it has barely been budging. i want to warn you folks that be very careful when you are driving and again on to our south, where we have had a couple flood warnings down toward rocking ham, those have moved out of there. these regions once again, while not directly involved in the flash flood area, have potential to get hit as that boundary is moving toward the ea

but light activity through berkeley and jefferson county, west virginia, and into frederick county, maryland, across 70. that's really just about it. everything is light for the time being. now temperature wise, still 73 downtown and 72 in manassas. but 68 in gaithersburg and also in leesburg and only 66 up in frederick. so for tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy and mild. got to keep the chance of a shower or thunderstorm in. especially later tonight. winds southwest at 10 to 15. we'll come back and talk about the showers and thunderstorms. a cold front will roll through tomorrow. we'll tell you what that means for your commute and the weekend. >>> new hands go up at georgetown, but no thanks to those suspected thieves. we'll explain what happened. but first, a twist in the lawsuit over displaying the ten commandments in virginia as the judge proposes a very unusual solution. we'll tell you what that is, too. a smokin' new $6 footlong™ special! slow cooked chicken in tangy, sweet bbq sauce on freshly baked bread. it's a barbeque-licious $6 footlong™ special! come and get it! subway. eat fresh. >

the jefferson county coroner has identified the man whose body was found in the stable area of churchilldowns on saturday. police say there were injuries on the man's body that led them to believe he was involved in some kind of altercation >> the investigation also what may have led to his death >> an autopsy is scheduled later today. more testimony in the perjury trial of roger clemens. he is accused of lying to congress in 2008 when he denied using performance enhancing drugs. last week in man describe the physical evidence yet collected from his former strength coach and prosecutors say that it proves that clemens did use steroids and human growth hormone >> energy drinks and sports drinks might be hurting your teeth. a new study finds that they can damage to see enamel and cause cavities. critics object to the study saying it was not conducted on humans. the copenhagen city heart study finds that jogging regularly add a little bit more than six years to life expectancy of men the study found that running between one and two and half hours per week at a slow pace would do the job. wa

severe thunderstorm warnings include frederick, washington, loudoun, jefferson counties. a flood warning issued for parts of frederick and washington county. lancaster also under a warning, same thing with adams until 8:00. from the northwest of baltimore, watch out for this for the next hour. it has been reluctant to move into baltimore. it is striking southwest to northeast. the strongest cell is in frederick county. this is showing some signs of rotation. moving northeast at 33 miles per hour. there's the potential to produce 60 miles per hour wind gust and hail the size of quarters as the tracks to northwestern carroll county. the potential to reach as in baltimore in the next hour or two, so we will keep an eye on the radar and check the seven- day forecast in a little bit. >> are weather coverage continues all the time on line at wbaltv.com. in addition to the intractable raider come you can sign up for weather alerts all online at wbaltv.com and click on "weather." >> it looks as though the maryland same-sex marriage law will be heading for the ballot. they deliver

. >> would you put jefferson county into bankruptcy? >> there's a lot of ways to go bankrupt, and there's a lot more than plain vanilla interest rate swaps out there and involved in bankruptcy. >> but who's looking after the taxpayer on that one? >> people -- >> there are all sorts of smart people selling derivatives to hayseeds and state and local government, and they unfortunately are taking advantage of. so she would just let it continue? >> we've got in place a system that has protection in terms of safely representing what product you're selling to to people. it's really the sec's bailiwick, and unit, i see, it's obvious that sort of better communicate and is, and clear communications and lack of fraud, i think in the long run more healthy than just a blanketing, blanket prohibitions on a particular financial, broad principle. >> i know we could go on. >> we sure could. >> but thank you very much. >> my pleasure of. [laughter] >> president lacker, thank you very much. a great discussion. a great way to end our morning right now. lo

they will move into jefferson county of west virginia. ening up a little bit as they move into loudoun county and fredericks county. this will be moving through hagerstown. get ready for big storms up here around clear springs and also around martinsburg. and the rest of us here, it's quiet. it is very nice outside. in fact, here is a live weather cam. you can see the sun is brought to you here by michael and son and temperatures, 78. high was 81 today. the winds are out of the south at 8. that's one reason why it is warmer. we don't have the easterly component to the wind here. and right now we're looking at upper 70s downtown and arlington and bethesda. 80 in great falls. 81 still out in leesburg and manassas and college park as well. so now a little unsettled, but it will be okay. isolated thunderstorms tonight. yeah. warmer on friday with a much better chance for thunderstorms here. now, these storms, they could make it into the immediate metro area. we'll keep you posted on that. a few showers on saturday, but right now we're thinking

was a monster as it rolled down the river in portions of upper frederick county and also into jefferson county. but now, just a little bit of rain with it. not a tremendous storm. it looks like it's rolling off to the south and east. p temperatures are so much colder on this side that it's going to keep rolling down on the west side of 270 and gaithersburg, but you know what? i don't see anymore severe weather right now. we'll come back because we have the same front that is bisecting the metro area. we'll let you know where that will be and how warm it's going to get. >>> thank you, topper. take a look at this lady. she's the mother of the national zoo's ten-year-old elephant calf, but still ahead, find out what else this elephant can do. the words stevey wonder mean anything? then, later on, you saw the flames last night. now, find out what started that fire at a local apartment complex. but first, new video of the moment of impact in that deadly crash from two years ago. >>> today, the national transportation safety board released video that captured that deadly crash in philadelphia two ye

that warning including frederick county as well as washington and clark county toward jefferson and eastern berkeley county and then western portions of loud oun county. watch out in this area. this severe thunderstorm warning in if he can until 5:45 tonight. the areas here in purple. that's a severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight. and i would not be surprised if this was extended off toward the east to include the i-95 corridor. we're going to be watching this very closely. this line of storms extending from upstate new york all the way down into the tennessee river valley. we'll watch as this moves through our area throughout the evening. i'll continue to keep you updated. >>> today thousands are dismissing the heat and standing in lines that at times stretch for blocks all for a chance to say so long to chris brown. chris is outside the howard theater where the viewing is still taking place at this hour. >> reporter: good evening. it is hot. it has been sunny all day. we've had a few problems with the crowd. a couple people overcome with the heat. the ambulances transported them.

. >> it's important to point out when chase is being hailed as good baker they had destroyed jefferson county alabama and a big rigging scandal for which they paid over a $100 million fine. they haven't had this kind of gigantic public scandal but they have been caught doing all kind of things. it hasn't gotten as much attention. >> you can't have $360,000,000,000 in excess deposits deposits which have been given to you by people to lend out into the economy and then refuse to lend those outed and send them off to london and call yourself a good banker. >> in a way, that may be the most important point. if we come back to what really matters, getting our disney going, you are saying they have taken this huge pipeline of deposits and instead of doing what we want and need bafrnlingdz to do, which is to lend to businesses to hire they are playing in the cansino. is there an answer to them? can we force them to lend? >> another important point. they aren't just taking the deposits but the cheap or almost free money they are getting from the federal reserve in the window as banking institutions a

also we saw this around jefferson county and berkeley county through west virginia. finally moving out in toward washington county. right along 70. and notice this coming into frederick county. a ton of lightning associated with this. extremely heavy rainfall. this whole area under a severe thunderstorm warning throughout the rest of the 6:00 hour. but notice the green. this is now a flash flood warning that is in effect including martinsburg, over toward the hagerstown area. not only severe thunderstorm warnings but extremely heavy rain. watch out. never drive through flooded areas. the flash flood warning in effect until that area, continuing for that area and here's that line across our region. i speck it to make it through rest of the area overnight tonight. i'll continue to keep you updated right here. >>> republicans voting in texas today are almost certain to give mitt romney the delegates he needs to wrap up the presidential nomination. but there is a distraction. steve handelsman on capitol hill with more on this. >> reporter: a distraction named donald trum

sold the company short into oblivion they did it in ireland they did it to montgomery county jefferson county in the united states now the headers are doing it to them they're the they're the pig and the pope they're the ones getting beaten up and they deserve it and it's going down like a ton of bricks and it keeps selling it short keep buying physical silver and you force max at it here first on the kaiser report you told us hedge fund guys out there you said short the sucker the suckers going down operation go go go the money is easy to make you so j.p. morgan stuart your buy silver is just a trade of the year you're already outperforming warren buffett by five hundred percent make it another five hundred percent so here's another headline on this topic of j.p. morgan max hedge funds i further profits from j.p. morgan last. ten years a police helicopter by the way and i think you are in danger i mean seriously on the run as well as having the run on its balance sheet but actually that's the latest shipment of silver i'm having taken out of the country and we've got about ten or fifteen of

their business models kicking people who are down whether it's bear stearns or whether it's jefferson county alabama where they kick the county to the ground and then continued kicking them and now sell them food stamps because they're all broke and desperate thanks to jamie diamond fraudulent you know interest rate swaps sold to the town you know who provides the capital for those food stamps again ben bernanke is lactating both of them give them all the money they need to issue food stamps to the people that they just disenfranchised with their attacks on their municipalities whether it's in the u.s. or abroad people in greece blowing their brains out because jamie dimon is an arrogant selfish pig yes ok and now the other important thing to note about this is that we've seen blythe masters saying they take no prisoners single trade they're just hedging out of london they're hedging client positions so she and in particular refer to their massive silver shorts she said we're just hedging positions for a long silver clients and here we have a situation where if it were ahead as called senato

the jefferson county coroner has identified him as a 40 year-old premier from guatemala. in the churchill down saturday and police say there were injuries on the man's body that lead them to believe he was involved in some kind of fight. several hundred people paddled in southern california to pay tribute to junior seau. he committed suicide, he was an avid surfer that was often seen riding the waves. his family is revisiting their decision to donate his brain for research. family members are talking with a group of small and elders before making the final decision. >> a british newspaper now says they found a serious flood during a security check of the stadium and for the summer games. they say security worker was concerned about potential flaws that systems of the newspaper says that actually gave a fake explosive to the worker who actually got it inside. he smuggled in. olympic organizers say they are investigating out, the opening ceremony is july 27th. >> a big birthday celebration at at&t park. >> #24, celebrating it #81. willie mays wishing for a big win against t

a lot of active severe thunderstorm warnings out there and this evening, loudoun county, jefferson county and in virginia, west virginia, the heaviest of the rain and thunderstorms that moved through winchester right now and on top of charlestown and is that real, real strong and severe thunderstorm and let me give you an idea and we get some pink showing up. and they're moving to the north and to the east at about 15 to 20 miles an hour and they will move in to point of rocks, frederick county, western sections of loudoun county and may clip the western edges of leesburg, too and that is what we're watching. this is to the west and northwest of us and we can zoom in and look how high into the atmosphere the towers are growing. the movement is to the north and east and they continue to travel up around 7 there and highway 7 and that is getting closer to the metro. we have to give this time. look at the lightning in these thundershowers los angeles and that is extending to the southwest and until we get the front through, we'll have a chance of showers and some thunderstorms. better weathe

this includes washington county in toward virginia, frederick county, virginia, jefferson county, and also around loudoun county in through northern virginia. these are the storms right here moving on in. let's take a look at that storm system right now. that storm that indepennt cell moving across the potomac right now around harper's ferry just to the north of harper's ferry where we're seeing this storm. we'll zoom in even further and you can see what i'm talking about along harper's ferry road just down to the south here where the two rivers meet, shenandoah and potomac. this will continue to make its way down to the south and east. augusta, you're starting to see some of the heavy rain along 67. the heaviest rain though is just to your north and west. we are seeing some -- a lot of thunder and lightning out of this. the other storm we are watching is now really dying out here and i expect the rest of the storms to die out, too. even the one that's severe as it moves into cooler air. cooler air and easterly winds helping to stabilize the atmosphere just a little bit. you can see r

the flood watch includes some of the same counties that got hammered last night. loudoun, jefferson, clark county, prince williams until 6:00 a.m. this is a flash-flood warning. so if you're in this area, you don't want to cross a flooded street by foot or by car. last night we saw the heaviest access of rain essentially right about here. now we're seeing a tremendous amount of heavy rain south of hagerstown back west of fredericksburg. this is the same area that got hammered earlier this evening. it has pushed off to the east a little bit. we're looking at the potential for more flooding tonight. very heavy activity between hagerstown and winchester. we'll zoom out here. this is talking about rainfall rates one to two inches per hour around winchester and charlestown. and up toward martinsburg. in some cases even a little bit more than one inch per hour. so some very heavy rainfall going on. the good news is nothing in terms of hail or anything. no reports of hail anyway. and no reports of some strong winds. so we'll come back, we'll talk about where these storms are going to move

the jefferson county coroner has identified him as a 48 rolled group are from guatemala. his body was found and the stable area of churchill downs on saturday. police said there were injuries on the man's body that lead them to believe he was involved in some kind of fight. >> 6:38 a.m., a video released by al qaeda, in the video, a 70 year-old says that he will be killed unless certain demands are met. he was kidnapped last august from his home in pakistan. al qaeda has demanded an end to u.s. air strikes in afghanistan and other countries and the release of al qaeda and taleban suspects all over the world. >> election day in california is not until june 5th although voting does get underway today. absentee ballots for the primary are going out in the mail and some early voting sites will be open today. the race for the major party presidential nomination is locked up but there are plenty of other races for congress and state legislature as well as statewide and local ballot measures. a new poll shows republican mitt romney in a dead heat with president barack obama in a

this line of storm along 255 moving over toward portions of jefferson county. that is a very strong line and down toward middleburg, and then we go down to the south. more storms to the south and west culpepper. this is a big storm here. a lot of lightning. but more importantly, very heavy rain from these storms. never drive across flooded roads. we saw that happen the other day. all of these storms rotating around a much larger area of low pressure. we're going to continue to see that low pressure around the region for tomorrow, too. we could see a repeat performance as we move through day tomorrow. here is that frontal boundary. that little stationary front and the area of low pressure. once again we'll continue to watch it during the day tomorrow. but then things get a little bit better. what i mean, we dry out but we also get warm. there's one thing you want for memorial day week. you want it to feel like summer? this memorial day weekend you've got it. 89 on saturday. 90 on sunday. 92 on monday. memorial day. a heat index between 95 and 100. maybe a little

and the jefferson county sheriff's office. i actually even requested assistance from the colorado national guard. of course, they're an hour and a half away. >> in the meantime, the four to five bulldozer is destroying the town. and there's nothing the sheriff's department can do to stop it. >> hear shots fired. >> our primary purpose at that point was to try and just evacuate the town so that nobody got hurt. because we knew that our armament was very ineffective against it. >> while the residents flee, trainor tries to determine who is unleashing this wave of destruction. >> we were notified that the individual who was driving this bulldozer was most likely marvin heemeyer. >> marvin was a commoner around town. he was well known. people knew him. many people considered him a friend. >> i met marvin heemeyer back in the 1990s. he ran a muffler shop in the town of grandby. and knew him just as a businessman. >> the motive is becoming clear, heemeyer's been harbored deep-seeded grudges against some prominent town members. this

, clarksburg and we continue to watch as showers around winchester make their way in through jefferson countycoming up over the next half hour to an hour. as we widen out, this rain associated with a cold front will move through the area overnight tonight. a few more areas of showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. we'll see some shower activity. tomorrow, however, we're going to turn our attention to the south. an area of low pressure is going to make its way along this cold front, and that area of low pressure will help in the addition of some rain during the day tomorrow. 5:00 tomorrow, take a look. pretty good amount of rain, i think, especially right around the i-95 corridor. south and east. so the areas that did not see the rain today will have a better chance of seeing the rain tomorrow. and into tomorrow night as that area of low pressure makes its way on out of here. thursday, looking a little bit better as far as sunshine is concerned. and rather breezy with winds upwards of 20 to 30 miles per hour. this evening, continued cloudy with areas of showers. breezy and mild. we'll see those n

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heavy rain the other day and we're watching in this region in frederick, washington county, portions of morgan, jefferson and berkeley until 7:45, and we're getting reports of flooding in those regions. can you see the updrafts with the storm and that is giving us an idea they have some gusty and damaging winds and up to 60 miles an hour and transporting some hail inside those and, again, still a distance from our region and they might be getting closer to the metro area as the hours go on and this is that line closely and there is the potential and that is in motion and the bulk to the north and west and that is going until 10 and 91 degrees and there is some fool. some of the croaks flooding are quite -- creeks flood yank quite dangerous and we're hearing that the water is coming out of that creek and be supercareful. >> see you in a bit. a remindder, check the weather any time. download the fox 5 weather app, the android market and search d.c. weather and that is on our website. >>> a metro rail worker seriously hurt. after being hit by a train and he was at the shady grove rail yard when the accident