with us today, is jesse dela cruz, with the american diabetes association and lisa chan is a nutritionistvolunteer with the american diabetes association and soon to teach growiyoga, i' learning. welcome to the show. let's talk about in depth about diabetes itself, because you see the numbers, you work with the folks. how impressive lent prevalent is it? >> diabetes is quite frightening, as you know. we're looking about overall in this country, nearly 24 million people with diabetes in the united states. as we sit here today. every 20 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes. so think about that. if we were to sit here right now and count to 20, by the time we reached 20, someone in this country will be told by a physician they have diabetes. so every 20 seconds. if you look at that, you're looking about 1.6 million people per year. get the news about diabetes. so as for prevalence, nearly 8% of the u.s. population has diabetes. so i would consider that to be an epidemic in this country. >> doesn't matter if you're latino or asian or african-american? >> no, it does not discriminate, un

lisa meyers. >> reporter: the two mare chan of the administration's oil spill commission expressed skepticism about the government's claim its response was not hamstrung by glossily inrack at estimates of the size of the spill. >> it's a little bit like custer. he underestimated the number of indians that were going to be on the other side of the hill, and he paid the ultimate price for that. >> reporter: initially, bp and the government estimated only up to 5,000 barrels of oil a day was leaking from the well. scientists said it was 62,000 barrels a day. incident commander thad allen insists he would not have done anything differently. >> and the reason is, we assumed at the outset this could be a catastrophic event. >> reporter: an oceanographer challenged another estimate the white house declaration that 75% of oil spilled into the gulf had been cleaned up or degraded. ian mcdonald says more than half of the oil remains in the gulf and will not dissipate quickly. >> it was the most concentrated and sustained deep water release of oil we've ever seen in human history. >> reporter: a local officia

chans chances of isolated thunderstorms. we'll have summertime air back in place that could create instability. i know we could use the showers. back to lisa now with a look at our commute. >>> traffic at 109. we're going to news chopper 7 to look in the geico camera at a crash. at enterprise road. traffic getting by. central avenue down from six flags and near enterprise road, 193. always a busy road this time of the morning. alison starling? >>> we begin at 6:31 with another heads up for drivers. starting today construction on the dulles metro rail means major changes at tysons corner. natasha barrett is live from route 7 with what you need to watch out for. i understand you got caught up in it a bit last night? >> yes, i was making my way home from the redskins game, and i didn't know about this change, and i think a lot of people will be in the same boat. i'm basically talking about off international drive near tysons corner mall. if you are heading in the direction of reston, wolf trap. these are major changes. all the changes on a daily basis and the traffic all because of what's going on with the new metro rail with the dulles proje