lauren green explains why many want to put hotel porn to bed. bed.tly-authored letter, christian and muslim scholars are calling on hilton, hyatt, marriott, choice and starwood potels to ban adult entertainment in rooms as "a commitment to human dignity and the common good." george says, "instead of trying to move people by protest and demonstrations and threats of boycotts. we make a simple appeal to the conscious of the corporate executive whose businesses have gotten into pornography."ismail says, "it would show that people are willing to take a stand against something that is morally wrong, despite the affect it might have on their profits, despite the affect it might have on whether or not people would uh go to theee hotels." steve hirsch of vivid entertainment, one of the largest producers of pornography, says if people don't want to watch they can tune out.hirsch says, "these groups, these sort of self- proclaimed morality police uh they come in and want to tell you what's the best for you to watch and it never works." we contacted all five ho

lauren green has more. >> in a jointly authored letter, christian and muslim scholars are calling on ban adult entertainment in rooms at the commitment to human dignity and the common good. >> instead of trying to move people by protests and demonstrations and threats of boycotts, we would make a simple appeal to the consciouses of the corporate executives whose businesses have gotten into pornography. >> it would show that people are willing to take a stand against something that is morally wrong. despite the effect that it might have on their process. despite the effect whether or not people would go to hotels. >> steve, one of the largest producers of pornography says if people don't want to watch, they can tune out. >> these groups, these self- proclaimed morality police, they come in and they want to tell you what is best for you to watch and it never, ever works. >> we contacted all five hotels requesting interviews. in a statement, hilton hotel said all adult content is only accessible to adult guests who request access and choose to view it. hayat says it takes steps to ensur

in new york, lauren greene, fox news. >>> joe paterno's family plans to appeal ncaa sanctions imposedenn state in the wake of the sandusky sex abuse scandal. they say penn state acted hastily without due process. the report found that paterno and other top officials covered up abuse allegations against sandusky. >>> the ousted pastor of a prince georges county megachurch is apparently planning to return. the church fired past are peebls back in april. he says he's planning to return to the property and expand its ministry to virginia and southern maryland. peel's family founded the church. >>> making the grade. still ahead, the tables have turned on d.c. teachers. new tougher standards for the city's educators.  >>> more controversy surrounding d.c. public schools the day after 98 teachers with are fired for poor performance standards. the washington teachers union says it's raising the bar too far too fast, but the school's chancellor disagrees. fox 5's matt acklund has the story. >> reporter: it is a bold plan aimed at greatly improving the students learning at d.c. pu

not going to have any come back home but change is going to stand in on the great lauren green calls that are going to be all sorts of contracts involving non-green this is where there's going to be a lot of legal argy bargy because let's say a german creditor for the sake of argument is not going to want his asset converted into drachma and he's going to argue that the contract was framed in euro's it should still be in euro's and in greece they're going to say oh no it's now in drachma and so they're going to be arguments the courts could be heavily involved but the scope for that could also be reduced if you were his own government's reach an agreement on all this which i think they probably would then have to lay down guidelines under which. a contract would be interpreted and dragged in which would be in your rose and that would minimize the scope for legal argument the other major issue is not just complication it's a reality is that initially this is going to be very far from a magic wand when the drachma falls on the exchanges the price of goods and services in greece is goin

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. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm lauren green.mars rover, cureiosity beaming back photos so detailed, you can see where dust was kicked up in the rover's landing. they are -- scientists are comparing the pictures to majavy desert, calling the pictures earth-like. they are beaming back pictures that are expect to show part of the rover's landing. in the philippines, two weeks of almost continuous heavy rain and flooding have claimed at least 23 lives. the capital city of manila got more rain in 24 hours than it normally gets in 6 months. 300,000 people are in evacuation centers. at one point, half of manila was submerged. the weather is expected to improve on thursday. now back to "on the record."resd governor romney are trying to court the ladies. the women's vote will be critical in november, especially in the swing states. how are the candidates doing? president obama seems to be the ladies choice. according to the latest rasmussen poll, president obama is leading governor rom romney, 52% to 39%. why is that? and is that poll re

religion correspondent lauren green is live in our new york city newsroom with a closer look at this. >> reporter: true to his promise, cardinal dolan steered clear of politics last night while delivering the closing prayer at the republican national convention. he mentioned to hit the high notes of the catholic church's main issues, mainly religious liberty. >> renew in all of our people a respect for religious freedom in full, that first, most cherished freedom. make us truly free by tethering freedom to truth, and honoring freedom to goodness. >> reporter: dolan and the catholic church have been battling white house over a federal mandate that requires all employers including churches to provide access to birth control. critic it is of dolan, the head of conference of catholic bishops. accused him of being a shill for the republican party. >> while i don't doubt his sincerity he wants to be a good priest to cover prayers it made sense to offer a someone ennot engaged in being so vocal against the white house. >> reporter: catholic league's bill donahue sate essentially the catholic

religion correspondent lauren green live with more. >> many don't know about the sikh religion as you pointed out and the religion was founded 500 years ago in the punjab region india. it grew out of mostly hindu and some muslim traditions but he belongs to neither. it is the fifth largest religion with the majority living in india, about half a million in the united states. like the abrahamic faiths of judaism, christianity and muslim it is monotheeistic. believing in one god. observant men do not cut their hair and cover their heads with turbines and refrain from shaving their beards. their temples mean doorway to god and the say croat tex is called the granth is a heeb. after 9/11 attacks the sikhs were often mistaken for muslims and sometimes tear -- retaliatory actions taken against them. in december 21 a sikh was shot and killed outside of his mesa, arizona gas station. the shooter reportedly wanted to kill a muslim in retaliation for the attacks on september 11th. since then there have been more than 700 attacks on sikhs in the united states according to the sikh coalition of w

lauren. >> reporter: 695 at green spring avenue i will let you know how traffic is shape up on 95 and 38 coming up on good morning -- 83 coming up on good morning maryland. well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't you make that call? see, the only thing i can think of is that you can't get any... bars. ah, that's better. it's a beautiful view. i wonder if i can see mt. rushmore from here. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> you're watching the station that works for you. >> news time 6:39. seems simple keep your kids out of hot cars but a new report says more and more parents are doing it. according to a report for the national highway institute the first week of august 8 children died in hot cars. this year 23 children have died of hypothermia. there are 33 cases in 2011 and 49 in 2010. 8 deaths from august first to the 7th are believed to be the highest one wee

lauren: a lot of green in the energy refineries today.omponents in the green as is oil. tracy: we have some big tech names as well. on such a decline. lauren: definitely annual lows, but overall tech wasn't that

we are at the marina green with the latest. hello, lauren. >> reporter: hey, diane. it was another great day of racing at the america's cup world series in san francisco. just down the way at at&t park, the skippers were treated to something very special. take a look. before the day's racing, the giants bringing together their skipper with the skippers of oracle team usa. the teams took part in pregame festivities for the ceremonial first pitch. >> it's a sport like the giants. it felt cool to have them behind me in case thing gos wrong. backing me up the whole way. had a fantastic experience. i'm very, very honored to be in the giants house. >> reporter: they headed immediately from at&t park to the green. he took out the swedish team before they staged a comeback to new zealand. both oracle team usa crews going head-to-head in the match racing final. >> it made the final. we are happy with that. you know, probably after the events of yesterday, i expect it will be fairly aggressive. >> reporter: in the competition, the french energy team took the first race, then s

let's go over to lauren at the new york stock exchange. dow trying to go into the greenually it's right near its session highs believe it or not, up by 11 points. we are seeing green on this monday morning. and i guess that's the good news. of course volume remains very low. i'm watching particularly shares of aol right now. they are pretty close to the highest level this year. they're returning 1.1 billion dollars to shareholders and buying back 600 million dollars of stock announcing a cash dividend of $5.15, and one more thing on the markets, dennis, this hasn't been spoken about a lot today, charles evans, the chicago non-voting fomc member basically saying that the market could use immediate easing now, but for some reason no one is picking up on this today, and it is certainly not moving the markets too much. back to you. >> thank you, lauren. >>> and it's time to make money with charles payne. charles, what do you have? charles: carnival cruise line, they were in the news last week. it is a pilot program, i'm thinking about the guy who piloted the costa concordia.

lauren. >> reporter: we have a new accident to tell you about in baltimore city. it's going to be right on lombard street at green street. watch out for that. now, if you are using the jfx, there's nothing to get in your way from the beltway all the way downtown to east fayette street. 895 that's not going to be the case. that construction is going to be in full swing approaching the harbor tunnel. expect heavy delays 95 will be the best bet and here's a live uke at that right now. just north of 395 traffic picking up but steady. no delays getting through the fort mchenry tunnel. megan and charley over to you. >>> the results from a crash test are released today. and if you think you and your family are safe in the expensive suv, think again. >>> and it happens every year. new wordsaed to the dictionary. we will tell you what's new for the english language and see if you are familiar with any of them. when good morning maryland continues. we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don't know where to start. glad you found us. start by test-driving nearly every make and model, all in one place. carmax. start here

lauren cook. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well we have a crash to tell you about in downtown baltimore. it on west lombard street at south green street. watch out for that. now, if you are using 95 to get into the city, this is what it looks like at eastern avenue. there are no significant delays and that continues through the fort mchenry tunnel. pulling up other drive times, no problems on the jfx. 11 minutes traveling southbound from the beltway all the way downtown to east fayette street. 695 is going to be in great shape 11 minutes on that outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83 and west side nice and clear 11 minutes as well traveling that outer loop from 795 down towards 95. megan and charley over to you. >>> they say they were loyal hard work employees who didn't get what they deserred. -- deserved. they say they are out of a job unable to support families without medical benefits. so in two hours, former workers at rg steel will protest. >> sherrie johnson is out there live and they feel like they made sacrifices for the company and they didn't deliver. >> reporter: that's right. sacrifice with no pain pay. you can se

and that will be the best month ever for that green hybrid car. and so laurenn the floor, where is gm stock? >> the stock is up. general motors shares are above $21 for a gain of nearly 1%. stuart: whoop-de-doo. i threatened to buy a volt in august, i did not. i'm not part of that market. and move on to ford, specifically the focus, it's close to overtaking the toyota corolla as the number one selling car in the world and that's a big deal. i can't remember a ford model being number one in the world before. it's not made much difference to the stock though, lauren. >> no, it's up 3/4 of 1%. but in the first half the year, worldwide, the focus was the number one seller and now they have to do it in the second half of the year as well. here there are a lot more focuses than corollas. >> in the first half the year focus was number one. >> best seller in january, 490,000 sold. stuart: on track for a million for the year. lauren, thanks indeed. your attention to facebook, hit a new all time low and what exactly was that? i'm trying to check and up on the screen one

tobacco giant of so you turn australia nancy to bottle lauren this means that from december first all cigarettes in australia must be sold in plain green packets without any branding british american tobacco and philip morris graeme the new claim the new rule breaks their intellectual property rights britain norway and new zealand are all considering similar measures to help fight smoking and are watching the. standard chartered its was the biggest gainer in london more than four percent added as it has admitted to breaking u.s. sanctions against iran the british learned there's a greater three hundred forty million dollars settlement with a new york watchdog which accused it of hiding operations with the islamic republic and threatening to take it a u.s. banking license however the bank said the amount of illegal transactions totaled only fourteen million dollars instead of the claimed two hundred forty billion. and saying with financials austria's forbes bank has become another european then to just stop speculating trading in food commodities that's up to corn and soybean prices surged to all time highs on u.s. drought the decision

lauren scott joins us live. quite a day, huh? >> really nice action today here at marina green. they wrapped up not too long ago. the teams did. all of the teams in action today. let's show you the boats docked here at marina green. we pick up all that went down and it was a day that was action-packed. take a look. hosting two kinds of racing on the skba to start thursday's action, the oracle team usa advanced to saturday's semi-finals. the art muss white team moving forward as both teams fallout. this before they are finishing thursday and one and two in the fleet racing standings after splitting the first two races. >> it's not obvious what to do and it changes all the time. that's just a really cool track for the sport and great for the spectato spectators. >> we were happy with them. good results. good racing. not what i expected. >> that's the scene and the momentum is building here towards the 2013 competition. the cup itself is full of a ton of history. we want to you see a little bit about that. take a look. the legacy of the americas cup is full of mini firsts. the important history books to the day. >> it's the oldes

green, turn on. connell: thank you, lauren simonetti at the new york stock exchange.men known to be the life of the party. the breaking news this hour will be the closing of the european market. ashley: european market dropped initially after ben bernanke initial comments. at "the closing bell," we sell the ftse up. meanwhile in paris, the cac was up about 1%. there you go. the ftse actually moving slightly lower after "the closing bell." as you can see, they are getting some gains. the spanish government is creating a bad bank in which homeowners can be offloaded. there was a theft of value of the assets and then the banks will either receive cash, debt or banks and return. it could last ten-15 years. angela merkel has asked an italian prime minister hold off on any reports. also claims that merkel will make the same request of spanish prime minister when they meet next week to the reason is to call and our internal crisis. the two -- persuaded to stay by the government. that is the very latest. either way, it is a soap opera, connell. connell: and you are prepared t

lauren demarco and traffic. >> before a power problem affecting things as you travel on the green line. we have no elevator or escalator service at the georgia avenue station. there have been bussed requested but the station is open. also, some residual delays on the red line because of an earlier track problem between the noma gallaudet station and fort totten. sky fox is now flying over 66. this is right here route 50 fair oaks. we've got heavy volume there. everybody off and on the brakes. no issues reported as far as any lanes blocked with accidents or incidents. it is just the volume. you will find things slow out of manassas to head into centreville as well. looking good here as you head down past falls road. no issues on the beltway ifself in maryland or virginia. 95, the bw parkway running well between beltways. i do want to mention in manassas, lamont drive at 234 remains closed with a wreck. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. >>> coming up income, we'll go live to fox business network in new york. >> there is a whole lot of hype surrounding nike's newest

lauren at the new york stock exchange. we will get to her in a few minutes. independent review of $23 billion given to green minimizing the risk of those loans. two weeks later, began donating to the obama campaign. this was supposed to be an unbiased and independent review. what do you say, charles? charles: if they get a handful of people and they all get the same jobs over and over again, this guy was involved with tarp. he was involved with fannie mae. he even worked with mccain. they buy favoritism. independent -- there is no such thing as independents. guess what, you put up 52 grand in the next time we need an independent review the game begins. this is not an indictment against obama, it is an indictment against the system. sandra: to be fair, he has a history of giving to both parties. it was his job to look at solyndra. multibillion dollar companies that went bankrupt. that was on his watch. for us to think that this was a nonpartisan look at those companies is ridiculous at this point. stuart: somebody who is running in independent, nonpartisan investigation should not be giving money to either s

lauren demarco has the traffic report. >> quick note about the rails. metro customers may find some minor delays on the greennd yellow lines as you head toward greenbelt because crews are removing a disabled train. live look from traffic land see what else is going on. we have -- thought it was an accident. it's a stalled bus off on the side of the road eastbound 66 after 123 this part of nutley street. watch for delays from 7100. 395 slowing from the beltway toward seminary. we have reports of a minor wreck at the 14th street bridge but not in the way of delays there. inner loop heavy leaving springfield toward gallows road. no problems on the outer loop -- it slows at 95. that's a check of your "fox 5 on-time traffic." >>> our big story this morning at 8:00 now, the future of gambling in maryland. today the senate reconvenes in annapolis for a special session. the two big issues, whether to allow table games like poker at the casinos that already exist and whether to build a new casino at national harbor in prince george's county. voters would have to approve the expansion. governor o'malley says expanding

green arrow. >> and i never satisfies to be amazed how much money is involved in some aspects of the american economy. 4.9 billion on car paint. who knew? >> all right. lauren, thank you very much indeed. i'm looking for amazon, can we get a quick quote on amazon? i was interested in the news that they've got 20% of the tablet market. a new high, by the way, they've sold out of the kindle fire, they've got 22% of the tablet market with the kindle fire. new high. 248 on amazon. now, the latest poll on rasmussen on the election, dead heat. obama and romney tied at 45. the tracking poll from rasmussen, do it every day. time is money, 30 seconds, here is what else we've got for you. if you're an early riser like me, you have trouble staying awake for the late speeches. who gave the best speech at the rnc so far? a lot of people say condoleezza rice. we'll renew all of them. several companies are coming out with new tv's and the high def set we have now. wait until you hear how much they cost. e-mail us, please, any time, any subject. varney@foxbusiness.com. and seven early movers, and made jenkins the new ceo, no effect on the stock. and vera bradley lowered gu