could mother nature help out?here's meteor out gist might mike masco. >> it will get worse starting today and going into the weekend. on radar this morning, we have a little pocket of maybe thunder and lightning moving through northern carroll county. nothing severe. that's the good news. at least -- and these bands of rain showers will be quick to move through. starting out at 5 in the morning we are at 76 and that's a launching pad for upper 90s today for that reason they have heat advisory excessive heat warnings north and east of town. we are at 92 degrees with the lunchtime hour on the way to 98 degrees. that the two degree guarantee but it could be a gusty late day shower or thunderstorm and that threat would linger into 8. good news for this forecast is not anticipating weather problems going into the festivities for tonight for the fireworks. that's going to be good news but 100 degree weather. we will talk about that coming up in a bit. >>> bge is hard at work this morning trying to repair power to more t

. >> they're pitting themselves against mother nature. mother nature wins sometimes. >>> a massive wave washes the captain and the crewmen into the frigid water. >> there were about three others that came through just boom, boom, boom. we're sitting there like, what are we going to do now? >> when "caught on camera: extreme rescues" continues. heart of every innovation. wow. that feels really good! and now, sleep number introduces our new memory foam series-the only memoryoam beds with exclusive dual-air technology that adjusts on each side. memory foam just found its better half. sleep number. enjoy introductory savings of $500. plus, two free coolfit pillows. only at one of our 400 sleep number stores, where queen mattresses start at just $699. >>> yes, i have an emergency at the green point bridge construction site. >> what's wrong? >>> a crane arm snaps, leaving three people dangling underneath the danes point bridge nearly 150 feet above the st. john's river in jacksonville, florida. when fire division chief randy napoli arrives just

. >> i'll tell you how teens are using mother nature to help protect mother nature. >> in sports, we'll see why young pitchers need to play it safe. >> coming up, i get to spend the day with some knights. i'll tell you all about it. >> and we're just getting started, so stay tuned. >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm livia. here's our top story for this week. >> teens are often under a lot of pressure to do well in school, but that doesn't mean it's okay to copy someone else's hard work and pass it off as your own. teachers call it "plagiarizing," but, as we see in this report, you can also call it cheating. and don't think you won't get caught. >> you've probably heard the word "plagiarize," but what, exactly, does it mean? >> when you take somebody else's words or ideas and you use them as your own. >> that's exactly right. in fact, the word "plagiarize" comes from the latin word for "kidnap," only instead of stealing a person, modern plagiarizing means stealing someone else's work. now, most of us won't copy another person's work exactly. we know that's cheating.

so we'll talk more about your fourth of july fireworks, mother nature fireworks, coming up. danella? >> good morning. veronica, i'm checking the roads. if you're traveling on i-66 inside the beltway at glebe, not looking so bad. nice and clear on i-66. as well as outside the beltway, no issues to report. and also if you're traveling locally this morning, be careful. still seeing some lights out. i can tell you a lot of progress has been made on local roads. again, if you're coming to a dark intersection, treat it as a four-way stop. i-66 at the rest area here making your way eastbound. looking wet here but making your way eastbound, as you head to the beltway, as well as westbound heading out from the beltway toward the rest area. no accidents to report at this time on i-66 or i-95 in virginia. back with a look in maryland in about ten minutes. for now, back over to you both. >> thank you. >>> to help drivers coming into d.c. this morning vdot is relaxing hov restrictions on i-66 eastbound once again. that means anybody can use 66 during the morning rush hour. >>> hundreds o

for thousands in the area this is the third smack by mother nature in recent weeks, by far

what should we expect from mother nature this week? >> you know what's back, hazy, hot and humid conditions. i'll have all the details on your weather. willmar has a look at your traffic too. we'll do it -- lauren demarco has a look at your traffic too. we'll do it right after the break. >>> welcome back to fox 5 morning news. it is monday, the start of another outstanding week with a lot of weather trials and tribulations. >> you're optimistic. an outstanding week. >> every week is outstanding. just a matter of what we have to deal with as we get through, it hot, humid, rain, dry, cold. >> we've got it. >> it was very different this weekend from what we've had. >> it was a nice week. >> it rained a little bit. >> i know, it did rain. a nice change of pace after hazy, hot and humid conditions for the past six weeks or so. but they're right back. let's move onto something else and more of the same. high temperature yesterday at reagan national, 82 degrees. it was 84 yesterday at dulles. so third day in a row with temperatures trending a

your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and speaking of mother nature, we'll check in on her plans for monday afternoon. you're watching "early today." >>> very good morning to you. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports last night against archrivals in boston, the yankees finished off the first half of the major league season with the best record in baseball. here's nbc's bill seward with a look at all your sports headlines. >> hi, everybody. no better way to enter the all-star break than with the best rivalry in the game. yankees and red sox at fenway. new york clenched the best record in baseball with another win over boston. seems like another player steps up for yanks. last night andruw jones. a couple hits, a homer and three rbis. they win 7-3. >>> cards and marlins. miami up one in the ninth and furcal ends it. line drive to left. here comes matt carpenter. david freese right behind him, beats the throw to the plate. cards rally to win 5-4. >>> wild scene in texas. middle of the fourth between the twins and rangers. when this happened. a b

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how your wallet may benefit from mother nature. >> i'm meteorologist mike masco, active radar. we had 104 degrees today. it's 76 right now. there's still some gusty storms to the east of us. we have this get through showers. we'll have the full forecast on the news at 6:00. >>> all right. kent island, can you feel it? there's annapolis. we have dropped 28 degrees in an hour. the bay bridge was shut down a little while ago. now you see it's slowly moving. they will be closing the bay bridge on and off all night long. we'll keep watching this. we'll post the closings as best we can on our website, abc2news.com. >> all right. this heat wave may be over but five more people have died. state health officials said that makes 23 deaths. harford, washington, montgomery and prince george's counties. >>> well, it might be a good idea if you can to cross the bay bridge to the farm, buy up their corn, come back here, put the corn in a can. abc2's roosevelt leftwich has more. >> reporter: wall street analysts predict the drought will make food prices go up. it's always good to buy local. pr

>> storms and wild fires -- what has mother nature have in store this fourth of july? >> some financial relief for recently laid off employees at the steel mill. >> will mother major rain on our parade? -- mother nature rain on operate? the forecast as 11 news today continues right now. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> to many questions, lisa. >> i am in fort mandy -- in for mindi. >> i'm in for me. >> will re this morning, but this at the night -- what was the other one? >> fireworks. >> relief from the heat. let us talk about what is happening. a little rain and some neighborhoods to start the day. not talking about severe weather. these were fairly big thunderstorms early this morning in pennsylvania but they are dying out and just producing light to moderate rain showers in the northern suburbs. some of these may hold together and drifted to the annapolis area later. our forecast -- a chance for a few showers and maybe a thunderstorm to start today and then it will clear rep

if there's a negligent issue or maintenance issue, well, certainly we can't control mother nature. i would stay starting back in 2010 and moving into eye reap -- irene last year and the microburst, and i'm sympathetic, but we manage these issues. we didn't bring down the wires and trees. what we do is restore the power to our customers and that's what we are focusing on. >> and now [ indiscernible ] -- >> sure. >> parents and it's a whole [ indiscernible ] at what point is it too much? at some point [ indiscernible ] >> i'll say this, i was born and raised in dc and my family and friends are here and the same thing with this company, you know, we live in these communities too. these are our homes that we're working for and our neighbors and our families that we're working for. we can't control the weather. what we can do is we can control the response and we control the execution and the manner that we bring back service. and that's what we've been focused on. the last couple of years has been putting in improvements that will make this process go along quicker and smoother and als

. >>> coming up -- mother nature raises the roof. >> it sounded like an explosion. >>> and later -- ae cord tightejaround a jumper's neck. >> it seemed like the most vivid nightmare i've ever experienced. >>> and a baby carriage rolls right into the path of an oncoming train. >>> kawai, the fourth largest of the hawaiian islands, is well-known for its sparkling waters and serene landscapes. but, in 1992, the seas are anything but calm on a day mother nature wreaks havoc in paradise. 62-year-old surfer tony has lived in kawai for almost 40 years, attracted by the picturesque shoreline and plentiful rainforests. >> great surf, great beaches. it's beautiful. >> but, in september of 1992, a potential threat to the state of hawaii develops in the pacific ocean fed by warm tropical waters, hurricane iniki swirls and intensifies, a dangerous storm system but one forecasters first predict will bypass kawai. >> it was gorgeous, sunny, calm. to think that there was going to be some devastating factor in your life within a few hours was kind of pretty far off in the distance. >> hurricane warnin

however some russian scientists are taking mother nature one step further their cross breeding domestic life stuck with their wild cousins generating new species like this cow yak hybrid . and here at the institute of animal husbandry just outside of moscow there's a whole range of hybrid animals that they're experimenting with these new species are designed to offer certain advantages over their purely domestic cousins by varying the gene pool their immune to common herd diseases that means more survive to maturity and potentially more meat on our tables in addition to this is vance form of selection they're also pushing ahead with cutting edge genetic engineering . and complicated process. instead of mixing the genomes of closely related animal species more distant taxonomic. families share genetic information with each other. transition gnosis is a process by which a specific gene is taken from one animal and insert it into another for example russian scientists have managed to take a gene from a spider and insert it into a sheep unlike with artificial selection traits can be incorpo

. >> you were talking about that when it's man versus mother nature mother nature will win. >> those stour about 60 -- those start towering about 60,000 feet in the air and brings the air straight down and out. and that's what happened i didn't see any reports of tornadoes. >> okay. >> all right. straight line wind damage big storm south of us. we have a little storm action and things will dry out today. lower humidity also as well. let's look at what's going on. and recap the heat wave. 12 days guys, two, 100 degree readings setback a little under 2 weeks ago on friday rather at 103 and then the hottest day was saturday. 104 we have a heat index of 118. so we will forget this all happened and move on. 12 day heat wave is impressive. and in terms of thunderstorm activity south of frederick we are seeing on maryland's most powerful radar and that may drift through parts of carroll county and baltimore county and that's going to produce good downpours of rain. we will look at maryland's most powerful and this is the sweeping radar. still showing a tremendous amount of rain from white m

. >> you can't control mother nature. >> right.ou can't control mother nature and the corn is in the ground at the right time and they can go to market at best price but you better be sure they have the corn to deliver or you are coming up short. we will take this and this weather thing is the only monkey wrench in it. >> reporter: the weather is maddening and the highs and the lows. lisa sylvester she's inn. >> we get rain throughout the course of the weekend and think there's relief in sight but we are so far behind and as lisa talked about in the piece, the trickle down effect of the crops being sacrificed corn specifically that gets into your grains and breads and things we eat on a daily basis and also feed for cattle. now the meat provides also go up. it's a chain reaction. >> you are right. and it will hit us hard. maybe not yet but as we continue in august, we have to get through august out there. and that's the driest month. >> traditional on the calendar year. >> and then things change been you this -- but this is going t

. >> is the contact with our mother nature. >>nature -- >> (speaking spanish). >> that will live us food, take care of us and receive us before we die. >> (speaking spanish). >> we also have this and movement of work. >> (speaking spanish). >> or conversation. >> (speaking spanish). >> which is the key to receive love. >> (speaking spanish). >> and all these type of movements were followed by this style of dance with its own co n coring on gravy. >> >> (speaking spanish) (music). (applause). >> can you play the music please? >> i want to dance with everybody. >> well, he's not there. (music). >> okay do you have any questions? we need to have some minutes and would like to answer some questions. yes? >> (inaudible). >> is it hard to dance? >> (speaking spanish). >> it's not difficult. you just got to put a lot of effort into it. and okay so we're teaching classes at the cultural center on saturdays from two to three we teach cajon and three to four we teach dance. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >>

now we're beginning to look at how do we rebuild and begin the recovery, but we also know that mother nature. so we're chekeeping ourselves v alert. >> i know you have probably flown over a lot of these fires. i imagine you have visited some of the scenes of the destruction, if you can get close to it. personally, can you give us through your eyes what you saw? >> well, it's been difficult. devastating. the waldo fire down in colorado springs when we flew up there tuesday night and it was like your worst nightmare of a movie set trying to show what the apocalypse or armageddon would look like. we helicopters in. this is as the fire was going on, the fire storm going on, and i thought it was trees burning. as we got closer, the was homes. basically almost 350 homes burned in a couple hours. it was that fast. >> seven wildfires in all, i think. are they all of them under control? or any of them out? give us the current situation. >> well, almost all of them are under control. we have one out in grand junction in western colorado that's not completely under control, but the largest one that was

. >> that's mother nature. mother nature did its thing. rather be safe than sorry. >> safety's important. >> reporter: this entire project is going to cost around $15 million. a combination of a personal donation from the founder -- or co-founder the carlisle group to the tune of $7.5 million, as well as a bunch of congressional funds, ali, so a hefty price tag there. >> 2014 is what we're aiming for. for those people you talked to, if they want to come back and get that tour, that's when they need to do. good to see yous as always, sandra endoon the washington mall. >>> coming up on "starting point," christine roman is in for soledad and will speak to superintendent of the national mall and parks about the efforts to save one of the great symbols of this country. >>> 16 minutes past 5:00 on the east coast. time to get you up to date on top stories. >>> president obama calling for extension of the bush-aorta tax cut but only for middle class americans. the house republicans are already crafting a plan to extend those cuts for everybody. ri

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but we also know that mother nature will be fickle out here.e're keeping ourselves very alert. >> governor, i know you have -- you have probably flown over a lot of fires. i imagine you've visited scenes of the destruction if you can get close to it. personally can you give us through your eyes what you saw? >> well, it's been difficult, devastating that the waldo fire in colorado springs, when we flew up there tuesday night, it was like your worst nightmare of a movie set of trying to show what the apocalypse or armegeddon would look like. from a distance we flew in. this was as the fire was going on, this firestorm going on. i thought it was trees burning. as we got closer, it was homes. almost 350 -- almost 350 homes burned in a couple of hours. it was that fast. >> seven wildfires in all, i think. are all of them under control, are any of them out? give us the kind of current situation. >> almost all are under control. we have one out in grand junction, western colorado, that's not completely out of control. but the largest one that was alm

mother nature is dealing as another bout of extremely hot and humid weather.s man works out his daily jog earlier than usual. >> you don't run to train. you train to run. you've got to get in shape. if you're not in shape, you go out in this heat, it will kill you. >> more than half the month has been 95 degrees or higher threatening to be the hottest d.c. july on record. workers at this construction site have decided to work through the heat. after 25 years, this man has learned how to survive in july. >> i'm wearing long sleeves to keep the son of me. it is not bad, you get used to it. >> with temperatures expected to get into the triple digits today, many are looking for ways to stay cool. these tourists in florida feel at home. >> i think it should be more timid in florida now. >> aaa has sent out an advisory this morning warning drivers to keep a close eye on the lights and gauges on your dashboard and make sure your fluids are top of and you have a full tank of gas. you want to make sure you have the right air pressure in your tires. on a hot day like th

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mother nature surged temperatures into the triple digits. >> it is extremely hot. >> reporter: volunteers from the maryland defense force teamed up with the city to go door-to-door with hot weather supplies. >> we are bringing them water. were bringing them food. if they need a ride to a cool our area we are doing that, too. we are making sure everybody is okay. >> reporter: state leaders put an excessive heat warning in effect in maryland. >> you have effect of the heat on people. >> reporter: peter from the howard county health department said the heat warning should not be taken lightly. five heat-related deaths have been recorded in maryland. >> we are asking everyone to check in on their neighbors. once a day. twice a day. three times a day. see how they are doing. particularly elderly. those not as mobile. >> reporter: pge and other utility crews are working to restore service to 5,000 customers. state leaders are urging residents without power to reach out to cooler isn'ters -- centers until repairs are made. stay out of the sun from noon to 5:00 when the sun is the strongest. >>>

mother nature is dealing with another bout of extreme weather. this man is jogging a little earlier than usual. >> you don't run to train, you train to run. if you are not in shape it will kill you. >> more than half a month has been 95 degrees or higher, and threatening to be the hottest july in d.c. on record. workers at this construction site in alexandria have decided to work through the scorching heat. j r has learned how to survive outdoors. >> i wear long sleeves because it keeps the sun off me. it's not bad when there's a breeze. >> with temperatures expected to get into the triple digits, many are looking so ways to stay cool. it is made these tourists from florida steel and home -- feel at home. >> its units in florida right now. >> we are not dealing-- it is humiidd in florida. >> go to our web site for a complete list of cooling centers -- wjla.com. >> check the weather any time on our website. type in your zip code to get the forecast in any city in the country. >> let's check on traffic with lisa baden. >> let's start with metro rai

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." >> coming up, we will tell you what this means for your holiday, and good mother nature bring her own set of fireworks? >> and carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plantan >> carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. always good to see you. it has been awhile. >> this is a perennial. it gets huge, can spread out to 3 or four if th. -- 3 or 4 feet. >> is it like to the he -- does it like the heat? >> it likes it just fine. generally, it is 8 type of fungus. make sure your plants get plenty of air movement. do not put too much mulch on. you might have to treat it with a fungicide. there are organics you can use. >> it is at treatable situation. >> it is, but i would get rid of old leaves in the garden. generally, most of us fertilize when we put our gardening. it is good to give it another shot. plenty of organic places out there. there are a lot of good products out there to use. generally, black read these are good. for annuals, the old standbys, marigolds and geraniums. there is plenty to choose from. >> thank

mother nature serves up another one-two punch to parts of our region. high winds and heavy rain caused more damage and power outage. good evening. i'm will thomas. tonight's storm nowhere near as devastating as last week, but it did bring trees and branches into power lines causing some outages. here's how things stand right now. dominion customers got hit the hardest it seems, dominion reporting just under 10,000 outages this hour down from nearly 15,000 about one hour ago. pepco is reporting more than 1,800 outages all from tonight's storm. bg and e is reporting just under 100 outages in the washington area. we are tracking the trouble. let's head right to gwen tolbart in the fox 5 weather center. >> things have taken a lull in some areas, but the problem is our dew points are still very high and that has caused some more storms to start to kick up. let's look at vipir. we'll show you what we're talking about. you can see there is an area of storms just moving across the bay from annapolis and that's a pretty strong band right there. then we just rece

the president took on both mother nature and republican mitt romney in a speech that is looking like a key fall battleground. >> they have been called pioneers of outsourcing. >> that is the ad attacking mitt romney. >> ♪ both beautiful for spacious skies >> the romney camp says that the outsourcing claims are untrue. >> the president claims have been outrageous. i think the kinds of attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. >> romney says that he left bain capital in 1999 to head the winter olympics. but documents list him as the ceo for two years after he says he left. meanwhile, president obama is keeping up the attacks, rain or shine. >> u.s. olympic athletes have clothing name in -- clothing made in china. now the big name designer has taken the heat. ñ' >> and joe paterno renegotiated his contract while he was testifying before the grand jury over the jerry sandusky investigation. that contract include a $3 million bonus if the turner retired after the 2011 season. it also included -- it paterno retired after the 2011 season. he was fired in november. he died of lung c

ultimately, it will have to suffer through whenever mother nature dishes out. >> british weather is a fact of life. that to compete in nearly all conditions. it is london, after all. >> and now, you're a 11 insta- weather + forecast with the meteorologist. >> what would be worse? the rain, the children are getting there? or the heat and humidity we're getting here as far as the olympics are concerned? if we leave that up to the speculators. take a look of the radar. all clear here. we have some haze. it is a baking us right now. a couple of isolated showers along that. running into the high pressure. the air is relatively dry here. it is not as humid as it was yesterday. temperature is, well? we were barely comfortable, at or just below in a bit normal yesterday. boom. we are going to be up there as temperatures fall below this normal line of 87, 88 degrees or so. if we take a look at the pollen count. another set of numbers here. trees are not counting at all. grass in the moderate range. 569 for the count. temperatures at the noon hour. indianapolis, 93. at 91 on the boardwalk at oc

. >>> to say mother nature came out in full force is an understatement. the woods yet? >> you know what that means. tucker, we had some weather rolling through earlier. what is going on now? >> reporter: quiet conditions right now. most of the area is in the clear for the time being. we'll so what happens late tonight and tomorrow afternoon. we can do it all over again. can't call it clear with the heat wave. at least right now, things are quiet and let me get to yesterday when i showed you the winds and the wind gusts out across the area and these are hurricane-force winds in some cases and the peek wind gusts last night out of dulles. restin, virginia, 79 miles an hour and to reagan national, 75 and with on and generally a quieter afternoon and had some showers develop and a good thunderstorm complex developed south and west of the city and that is late this afternoon and a good echo there pushing south of the washington area toward richmond and moving southeast into southeast virginia here and this is during the late- night hours. i don't think that th

. >> reporter: it's the sound of relief, desperately needed water that mother nature isn't bringing lately. >> the last few years our peanut drop was a -- crop was a total loss. >> reporter: with crops drying up and baking in the heat from the deep south to the midwest, farmers are not just hoping for rain but turning to technology. after years of destructive droughts, irrigation systems are popping up in fields across the nation. for farmers these artificial water sources are the difference between a robust crop or a devastating loss in the fall. elton sharp can barely keep up with the demand. farmers all over georgia are calling irrigation installers like him as repeat droughts rip the state. >> 20 years ago we were trying to convince people that they need them. now we have to try to convince them that we have the right pivot for them. >> reporter: the irrigation business is booming nationwide. in 2008 farmers spent a whooping $2.1 billion to install, maintain and upgrade systems. >> the trend seems to be that we are having more and more driers. so, yes, i think irrigation is becoming mo

the be ge spokesperson says there watching mother nature closely as more storms are in the area. >> thetime we will have to do this, we will be better prepared than this time. >> 748,000 customers in central maryland lost power. tom tasselmyer is your keeping an eye on these new storms. what do you have? >> these will stay mostly south of baltimore, good news for those who have been out of power for so long. not so good news for those in the d.c. area. he advisory still in effect in these areas where the heat is sticking around. the frontis lighting supple baltimore. we are seeing slow improvement while it is still 100 in richmond. 79 in bradford, pa. temperatures will cool off. a much better forecast coming up in a few minutes. 90 degrees was apparently cool enough for people to take part in the new york city triathlon. take a look at this. temperatures were expected to top out around the lower 90's. in indiana, the heat was too much for a 4 month old baby boy. temperatures climb to 105 degrees saturday. the 18-year-old father is now facing charges. it was too late. just a few towns ov