john henrehan has the news edge. >> reporter: traffic designer martin molten loves his $4,000 buick letter but he gets nervous parking it at a regular bike lot. he has a new option for parking the bike. mayor andre yan fenty and other dignitaries cut the ribbon at the mostly glass structure shaped like a huge bicycle helmet. there are about 135 indoor spaces at the new bike station available to rent for $2 a day or $96 a year. attorney david bono immediately purchased an annual space in the indoor bike rack adjacent to amtrak and -- >> i can park it here. >> reporter: tourists can rent bikes and drop in customers can get their bike tuned up or repaired in a small shop on the premises. >> people that rent the slot on an annual basis can get to their bikes any time they want because they will be given an electronic key card. they can get to their bikes 24- 7. >> the biggest, best and coolest bike station in the entire country. >> reporter: well, it's certainly the newest and most expensive indoor bike facility in the u.s. the project's price tag $4 million. >> with the cure v and glass, ever

in rockville, john henrehan, fox 5 news. >> the u.s. government is distributing the doses state by state based on population. >>> a student beat on the death after school and the whole thing caught on tape. civil rights attended the funeral. >>> speed cameras popping up everywhere you look. we'll show you how to beat a traffic ticket and it won't cost you a thing. >>> the bucs come to town with a new quarterback. >>> couldn't ask for a better day, the first saturday in october. but what will sunday be like? we'll have the forecast on the rest of te weekend after the break. >>> keep it right here your 90- minute power block of news is just getting started.  >>> a beating on and off the field for the redskins after last week's loss to detroit. but can they recover? that is the question of the week. tomorrow they ta on tampa bay. >> it is a big game for the skins. can you remember the last time this early in the season this much was riding on a game? >> dire straits. >> let's talk about the game lindsay murray is on tap with more

fox 5's john henrehan has more. >> reporter: rockville pharmacists are selling a lot of tamiflu and are not surprised the numbers show a pandemic in maryland. >> it's an update in the last few weeks that we have more and more marylands. >> reporter: the university of maryland school of pharmacy convened a session at shady grove and 100 pharmacists from around the state attended, learning they are all short on children's tamiflu. >> i said we do not have this available but we can make it available, it will take me a couple of extra minutes to make it up but we'll compound it for you so your child can have the right medicationism the pharmacists were told that maryland has some vaccine but it will be distributed first to priority populations like health care work -- workers to keep them on the job. when it becomes widely available, health workers strongly urge the public to get the shot. >> and it's showing a very robust immune response so it shows that it really can work and vaccination is the best defense against the flu. >> reporter: carol jordan, registered nurse, knows more about the

john henrehan, fox 5 news. >> it appears an illinois woman of digging up buried gold will remain just that, a deem. patty sent out after finding a note in an antique gold chair. now the subsequent dig at a vacant lot turned up nothing. but it turns out she may have been the victim of a prankster who died more than 30 years ago. or perhaps somebody else dug it up first. who know >> it helps. >> she tried. >> and it didn't work out. >>> from a treasure hunt to a safari without animals. >> holly is in alexandria this morning to explain that. it sounds like a riddle. >> reporter: it doesn't necessarily not have animals because they could be artistic animals. animals being painted or paper mache. they're going to have 11 different activities for the kids to do here. it is in the 14th year. and each year they add for do something new. lauren mikeo is in studio 325 at the torpedo factory and you're doing what kind of art? >> block printing. >> reporter: and so the kids can -- and you've done this before at the smithsonian? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: and the kids get to do what? take us thr

fox 5's john henrehan explains. >> reporter: in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellowe trains over the potomac river, metro plans to replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails tonight ties. the bridge will like i be oust service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro has decided to reroute yellow trains onto blue line tracks. so yellow trains will run from huntington station to stadium armory. another part of the project, replacing the switches at the l'enfant plaza station. that will effectively stop continuous green line service into prince george's county. metro passengers will have to use shuttle buses between gallery place and anacostia. when metrshould shutt down the national airport station on labor day weekend for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> 45 minutes extra. >> reporter: but metro officials say it makes more sense to schedule major maintenance over a three-day weekend and get it done all at once. >> if we do it normally, it takes four weekends to do. it i

fox 5's john henrehan has more on the rules of the road. >> rerter: it was a tale of two conferences. in one room scientists, researchers and policymakers. in another room family members of the victims of distracted drivers. >> he did not make it and i knew then and there i would never see my dad again. >> reporter: an inattentive driver killed his father while riding to work. jennifer smith's mother was killed by a distracted driver. >> first thing the driver did admit when he got out of the car was that he was talking on a cell phone. >> reporter: the researchers at the conference stress it's not just cell phone talking while driving that's unsafe. it's any secondary activity while driving like programming a gps. >> or repeatedly changing radio stations or operating a music player. texting, however, appears to be the most dangerous driving distractions. virginia tech profess ooh john dingus oversaw a major video of truckers that dialing a cell phone makes a driver six times likelier to crash. trying to read a map makes a driver to crash seven times more likely but texting on a cell

john henrehan, fox 5 news. >> it's going to be busy out there. metro says trains could run every four minutes along the blue line to the stadium armory to help out with the crowds expected from a gay rights rally the same weekend. >>> an ordinary guy being hailed a hero tonight after pulling a child from a burning building, and it is all caught on camera. >>> plus, the u.s. going for gold in the final hours of the olympic push. tonight we know how it all goes down. - i'm in. - we're in too. i'm a part of it. colonel, i'm in. more than 60 million americans have tried kentucky grilled chicken. an entire grilled nation of believers... in that fall-off-the-bone taste. and now you can be part of it too. try a two-piece meal with 2 sides... and a biscuit for just $3.99. and taste for yourself why 60 million people unthink alike. make it 60 million and 1. unthink... and taste the unfried side of kfc. the quality of our lives depends on our connections. access to high-speed internet, at home and on the go, is no longer a luxury. it's how our children acc

john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> swine flu vaccine should start arriving in our area next week. but less than half of americans say they'll definitely get the h1n1 vaccine. a new cdc-sponsored study finds 40% of adults are absolutely certain they'll get it. 41% say they're absolutely certain they won't. the main reasons people are on the fence, safety concerns and they believe they're at low risk of getting the flu. one group that's at high risk and needs the vaccine, pregnant women. cdc says at least 28 pregnant women have died from the h1n1 virus. they are at greater risk especially later in pregnancy because an unborn baby puts pressure on the lungs making it difficult to deep breathily, important in fighting off rspiratory illness. >>> people with heart disease are also at risk. catching any kind of flu can trigger a heart attack. >> a lot of things trigger heart attacks. >> reporter: dr. charles lambert says along with risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking, stressful situations can land you here in the cath lab. >> if you have earthquakes, people ha

let's go to john henrehan at the yellow line ridge over the potomac. >> reporter: once a year metro takes the yellow line bridge from d.c. into virginia out of service for inspection and repair. that will happen on columbus day weekend. but because of a large crowd expected for a gay rights march on that weekend, metro is now planning on adding more train service into the district. in addition to inspecting the bridge that carries yellow line trains over the potomac, metro plans to replace the hundreds of fasteners that hold the rails on to the ties. the bridge will likely be out of service for the entire three- day columbus day weekend. but rather than end yellow line service at the pentagon, metro decided to reroute yellow trains on to blue line tracks. yellow trains will run from huntington to stadium armory. another part of the project, replacing the switches at the lane fant plaza station metro passengers will have to use shuttle buses between gallery place and anacostia. when metro shut down the national airport for similar maintenance, some passengers complained. >> 45 minutes extr