clear to we will see cloud lingering south and west of the potomac a little longer than everyone else, so keep that in mind. cloudyrecast, partly skies and 56 degrees at 9:00. partly cloudy and 66 by noon. mostly sunny and 70 degrees by 5:00 this afternoon. it's going to be a great day. seven-day forecast coming up. >> we will see you shortly. >> that's a nice change. >> it was long awaited. and it's nice that there's a change in the traffic. we had amanda running yesterday. >> definitely. we had an accident and had all lain closed on 95. that's not the case today. along a little activity 395 northbound. moving at the limit. very light conditions across the board. 395, 95 interchanged, coming into prince george's county, beautiful so far. no big problems or delays. at the very light traffic all the way around the beltway, the inner loop and outer loop. there may be some problems on 95 with a disabled vehicle. we have construction going on, also, 395 southbound headed away from the city between seminary and an duke street. be prepared for that. looks like we have a disabled , socle in

fire ata vehicle potomac. still running smoothly on the beltway. >> cooler. >> we think of this weekend as the beginning of summer. it will be in the 60's. there is a chance for off and on showers. temperatures close to freezing in the mountains. frost and freeze advisories'. >> build a snowman. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25. >> have a >> this is a wbal-tv 11 editorial with president and general manager dan joerres. >> we have all seen the pictures. the loss of life alone is overwhelming. everything -- their homes, their personal belongings, and their livelihoods -- is hard to comprehend. that's why wbal-tv is partnering with the red cross to do what we can to help. earlier this week, volunteers manned our phone bank and happily accepted your calls and more important than ever, and your chance to make a difference continues today. perhaps the easiest way is by making a donation. you can do that by texting "redcross" to 90999. or you can log onto wbalt

.>> west of the potomac the clouds will hold lot a little longer. and sunrise time for today.ok at the satellite picture. clouds have rarely cleared out but we are going green to the south and west. a little slower to burn off throughout the morning hours. the low area of low pressure. that is a lot of cloudiness to places like atlanta, georgia. the busiest airport in the world may have some delays today because of those clouds. forecast around here becoming sunny and warmer. high temperature between 65-70 degrees. back to you. >> time to check on the roadways. the road starting to get a little bit busy up there. >> things are getting very dicey and 95 northbound. is it a morning problems through the same stretch of roadway. it looks like another accident. only the right shoulder getting by on 95 northbound. this is at quantico. please avoid this area if you can. we are getting reports that the mid back -- medvac is on the way. that is exit 148 heading in from stafford. very heavy traffic. only the right shoulder is open. one would be the alternate but that will build very qui

some spotty clouds lingering especially to the south and west of the potomac.g guerrilla a little longer. as we look at surface conditions and what's going on in the atmosphere, high-pressure to our north has been sitting there all week, but it has not been strong enough or far enough to the south to clear us out. its harbor is starting to do that today. i saw the moon and stars this morning in between the clouds. low pressure enough to our south that we will be ok today. ,louds lingering in winchester manassas, la plata, fredericksburg, culpeper, lire a, everybody south and west still holding on to the clouds through the better part of the morning. -- and luray. it will be a sunny afternoon and very pleasant conditions. that will allow temperatures to warm into the upper 60's to about 70 degrees. warmer conditions expected today. looking at the forecast for tonight, mostly clear, 40 to 47. more sunshine and 72 tomorrow. that will last through the weekend and into early next three before the clouds bring a chance of a couple showers, which we could use more rai

he was shot near the potomac yard shopping center. he was shot after a confrontation with arlington sheriff deputy. the two changed words. seeing lying down in the grass. >> he stayed on the scene after shooting dawkins, he was questioned and released. he has not been charged. >>> a bold robbery involving a taser. unsuspecting victim. it happened three blocks from georgia town university campus. the victim was not seriously hurt. the suspect got away with his cell phone and wallet. >>> a sinkhole, repairs won't be finished until the end. 15 feet wide, 20 feet deep. it opened up at 14th and f streets, shut down. a second sinkhole, and the aging fraufr down there. >>> tr, after a man stopped breathing and waited 20 minutes for help to arrive. >> iweeken >> tonight, that man's memorial day weekend. >> the goose on the attack. residents running iéç+8f she has been res >>> a d.c. woman mourning the death of her husband said paramedics took @ long to respond.!jc3cff8has been lookinç battled his kidney disease andaz match. >> married 23 year

i want to show you a strong wind up around the green belt area and down south in the potomac river moving into western charms i suspected that one there as you put it in motion has pea-size hail with it. more showers and storms for thursday. i'll have details on the news edge at 11:00 continues. >> heartbreaking details about the magnitude of monday's mace sieve -- massive tornadoes. people were killed, 13,000 homes were destroyed, costs could top $2 billion. nicole close to 13,000 families, that's a drastic figure. what are people doing get by? where are they living? >> good evening to you. it's astonishing that only 29 people spent the night in the shelter. there are several shelters set up. they stop by but they are not sleeping there. that tells us they are staying with friends and family. this is a tight-knit community and some families are camping out in their front yards because that's what they can do at this point. we know process is working very well. insurance adjusters have been on the ground from the get-go and they've been cutting checks as early as yesterday getting people

we're in good shape on all of the potomac and anacostia river crossings coming up on 295 and inboundroute 50 and bw parkway. guys? >> wish we were there. that's all i could say. the president and first lady showed carol king she has lots of friends at the white house. she won the gershwin prize for popular song, the first woman ever to win the award. there was a musical tribute. gloriaest van, tricia yearwood were all there to honor her. >>> well, apple's c.e.o. tim cook faced some tough questions from lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday about the company's tax affairs. >> but senator john mccain had one question he really wanted answer. if you own an iphone, you probably have this question, too. >> thank you. i'm out of time. what i really wanted to ask you is why the hell i have to keep updating the apps on my inn phone all the time and why you don't fix that. >> we try to make them better all the time. >> a better camera. >> work on that and don't change the little plug-ins for the batteries because you have a new phone. thank you for watching wusa9 at 5:00 a.m. an intelligent cho

yellows and reds for the heaviest activity and some sprinkles out toward olney and river road past the potomac. we'll zoom out and pretty good rainfall. we had some report in loudoun county and round hill and percyville over 2 1/2 inches of rain. so these storms really were intense when they moved through. again they're not as intense now. they're on their way out really. muggy start again tomorrow and we had to add the chance of a morning thunderstorm tomorrow. the bess chance will be in the afternoon, though, yell -- the best chance will be in the afternoon, though, yellow alert day in the afternoon, during rush hour, and much cooler friday with showers ending in the afternoon. we'll struggle to get to 70 friday. overnight 65 to 70 for lows, lingering showers and thunderstorms and we're looking at winds out of the southwest 10 to 15. tomorrow morning again a shower or storm possible, 60s and 70s, better chance by afternoon, some of these storms heavy winds southwest 10 to 15, highs 75 to 80. again yellow alert tomorrow, green on friday, but only 69. sunshine on saturday, again only in the 60

right now just a few scattered sprinkles in prince george's county and charles and across the potomac into prince william and fairfax and montgomery county. most of the district and arlington don't have sprinkles. temperatures are in the 60s to right around 70 degrees. as the day progresses, not nearly as warm as it was yesterday. we got into the mid and upper 80s. today we'll make it into the upper 70s by mid afternoon. a chance of a shower this morning. likely showers and maybe thunderstorms from noontime today all of the way into this evening all of the way into midnight and some of those storms between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. could be severe. only a small chance of that. a look at your holiday weekend in ten minutes. how's traffic? >> good morning, tom. in the district we still have that sinkhole 14th street northwest between new york avenue and pennsylvania avenue and it's also affecting f-street northwest shut down. here's a live look at the construction crews on the scene. elsewhere looking at 95 northbound in virginia, no problems reported as you travel from fredericksburg up throu

. >> the chief political strategist at potomac research group and the editorial director of the national journal, gentlemen, welcome to the program. greg, it is not off i get to see teapot dome scandal on television. we're trying to put this in perspective. really trying to put this really into perspective. you say the scandals could push democrats away from the president this summer. put it in perspective for me. how does it hurt our economic recovery or does it matter? >> i think it is going to hurt barack obama's ability to spin a pretty good story with the economy improving, with the budget deficit plunging, and i think that would be a slight negative for him. as you mentioned at the beginning, i think that one thing that is a little bit like watergate is that republicans started to flee from richard nixon. i am going to be watching democrats in the next few weeks to see if they start to peel away from barack obama. >> ron, what's the move here for republicans? >> on the one hand there is no question that this confluence of scandals, particularly the irs issue is going to help them m

and 14 street bridge in good od shape coming across the potomac headed across the southeast sout freewaythat's a check of fox 5 on time traffic. >>> thank you very much. >>> gone but not forgotten. a minnesota teen continues toto touch thousands of lives after he passed away earlier thiser ts week. >> take a look at this. ♪ ♪ >> a little higher ♪ hig ♪ depo yo go up in the clouds ♪u ♪ because of you ♪ it won't be long now >> zack turned to writing music when he learned that he washe le dying of bone cancer. he recorded this song that songt you're hearing right now "cloudo to say goodbye to his friends fe and family.d it shot up to the number one onn the itunes on wednesday twoesda days after he died. the proceeds to the song "clouds" will go to a fund fu bearing his name. >> amazing t shot up to number one. on >>> he endeared himself to the e world for his candid speer views. >> and now the man being hailed as a hero in the rescue of three women rescued in ohio will neve be hungry again. more than one dozen restaurants in cleveland have offered charles ramsey a card giving him free burge

the storms will be coming out of virginia, across the potomac and into maryland. the rotation mets some of cells out there in northern virginia. all of this developing as a strong cold front comes in. 79 at the airport, 70 in oakland, 51 in cleveland, 46 in detroit. that cold air will come rushing in here late tonight and tomorrow morning. shares in storms at least until midnight oso. -- showers and storms. clouds extend all the way back into the great lakes. tomorrow might turn out to be a cloudy, windy, cool day with may be left over shower. the storms are on the warmer side of that front and that will be offshore by tomorrow. a few sprinkles linger into midday tomorrow, then the skies clear tomorrow night. sunny skies anticipated for saturday through monday. even with the sunshine, temperatures will be running significantly below normal. and northwest wind gusting to 35 miles an hour. a small craft advisory on the day, ways to 3 feet. the mountains will get quite cold. 30's.me lows in the eastern shore locations, a leftover george amar, 68 in sunny saturday. bu

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calling you. 395 coming across the 14th 14th street bridge, so far quiet start making across the potomac, light traffic volume on the tos. inshould coming out of laurel,f no issues reported on route 50, southbound 95 as you work youraw way from 32 it's a quiet start.r 40 at 132, no issues reported ad this time.me. traffic flowing freely south off the town at the wilson bridge. r that's a check of fox 5 on time traffic. >>> all right, julie, thank youn very much. very >>> this morning we're leashinge more abou-- learning more about. two fbi agents killed off of the coast on friday. good morning, melanie alnwick. >> reporter: the fpi's rescue s team is based off of quantico, virginia and it's an elite squad. squad. it takes eight months of train and total emergence in the worll of tactics firearms and teameam work. you are looking at another video. friday something went wrong offg the coast of virginia beach.bea. sprech agenspecial agent lawrenw were killed.killed. no other details were given. we mourn the loss of two brave and courageou courageous men. they accept the risk when onwhen tra

roving behind the lines with the potomac army, homer produced a series of closely observed studies of camp life. homer's paintings of this period have an anecdotal or literary quality in keeping with the traditions of magazine illustration, but he also places new emphasis on pictorial design and the purely visual character of a scene-- qualities typical of the photographs of mathew brady and others. like the photographers of the civil war, whose equipment made action scenes impossible, homer preferred static group formations, and yet the feeling of directness in recording the ordinary lends to his work a special force. prisoners from the front, with its profound sense of the resignation, exhaustion, and human cost of war, evoked the admiration of both critics and the public and brought homer his first recognition as an artist. paris, december 1866. homer arrived for an extended visit and to see prisoners from the front and another of his civil war paintings that had been selected for showing at the universal exposition. enjoying the celebrity of an artist whose work was well-received,

you know, this suite behind me, the tarmac at reagan national, the potomac river and points sweeping further north of here, this is an area where a lot of helicopter traffic mixes in with near-constant jet traffic. and recently they didn't mix so well. just how close did a regional passenger plane come to hitting a military helicopter in the skies over washington? listen to the plane's pilot on air traffic controllers audiotape minutes after the incident. >> they had a helicopter right there, and we nearly collided with it. >> reporter: the faa and safety board are investigating the close call that occurred this past friday afternoon. a us airways flight operated by republic airlines with 73 people on board was approaching reagan national airport from the south toward runway 33. a military helicopter based at nearby andrews air force base was in the air flying toward the incoming plane. at one point, the two aircraft were at the same altitude about 400 feet off the ground. air traffic controllers warned the chopper pilot going by the handle muscle 9 at least three times. >> mussel 9,

there is the dawn sky over the potomac.ol hill and we have temperature right now at reagan national of 49 degrees. by 8:00 should be near 50 much of the region and a few clouds in and out. noontime low 60s. a sunny afternoon. temperatures reaching the upper 60s by mid to late afternoon. a look at your weekend into next week. that's in ten minutes. here's a look at traffic now with danella. >> good morning. first 4 traffic office tom looking at the situation on i-270. normal volume from frederick, maryland, down to clarksburg where you are just a bit slow. trip in germantown not bad. father hurley boulevard connecting to the beltway, no reports of accidents or major delays in that area. i'm back in ten minutes. over to you. >> thank you. >>> hold off on that lipstick. the study calling out some of the unknown ingredients next. >>> the request more employers are asking of their workers. >>> a very family shares their story after a bear broke into their home. >>> i'm melissa mollet at the live desk. the lower mayor in banglade

kind of a neat looking cloud bank hanging out over the potomac this morning here just looking north notar from reagan national back toward d.c. but breaks as well. yellow alert day because showers and thunderstorms around at times, more so this afternoon. i don't think we'll go more than two, three hours without something falling from the sky where you are. some of those could be on the heavy side with locally heavy downpours. last night we had some of the locally heavy downpours. this morning the showers are scattered around. nothing going on in the immediate metro north and west. you head d.c. east, now we have showers. on the hour we had some drizzle in places like dulles and andrews. you see the showers from bowie north there. a couple of light sprinkles here on the east side of d.c. then down to our south, look at all the rain here from culpeper down through charlottesville moving over toward warrenton. let's send it over to monika samtani early on this thursday morning but that doesn't mean there aren't problems for you. >>> there's always something going on in d.c. this time it's

to our south a few sprinkles on the potomac here from just south of mount vernon to quantico. look at this from warrenton south, this is the biggest area of rain at the moment. all moving toward the north, northeast. so haymarket, gainesville headed your way. trying to come up 29 from culpeper. that is a wet ride. temps to start in the 60s and low 70s. let's go to monika with your latest timesaver traffic. >>> randolph road east of park lawn road. wasn't to watch out. the signal lights are on flash. you want to treat that intersection as a four-way stop out in rockville. over in the downtown area, yup, that sinkhole repair remains. 14th street is closed between pennsylvania avenue and new york avenue. this is all just east of the white house. it's been there for a couple of days. i think it will be there throughout today as well. i believe they're going to try and fix it up by tonight. in the meantime, let's go to the northbound side of i-95. that was final. here on the beltway north of town, just past colesville road, there was an accident sitting on the shoulder. luckily it

we're talking from the area near harpers ferry, right across the potomac river, into central and western frederick county for the next 35 to 40 minutes. that storm headed in your direction. east of the mountains really not much going on here. may see a shower later on. but right now, looks like we'll probably stay quiet. the main focus will be tomorrow afternoon, as our frontal boundary out across the ohio valley will move into this warm, humid air mass. showers and storms already out to the west of us. they'll re-form tomorrow with that front coming through. cooler and dryer air will be running into this warm and humid air mass. and it's just a matter of time before we see showers and storms. could see heavy downpours and small hail tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. and turns significantly cooler, particularly friday and into the weekend. only in the 60s. most of the time this weekend, believe it or not. south winds, 10 to 15. and gust at 20. bay temp around 66 now. it has come up. ocean temperature is 58. low tonight of 68 with a shower and storm possible. mainly west of us. 82 de

nice and quiet across the potomac river. >> thanks, monika. >>> a cracked rail made a lot of metro red line customers late yesterday. >> and coincidentally, metro held one of its riders advisory council meetings last night. delia goncalves is live in northwest this morning with more on how metro responded to the top complaints you, our wusa9 viewers sent about the transit agency. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning, andrea. good morning, mike. we took to twitter and asked you what bugs you most about metro. we took and gathered all of those complaints and gathered about the top ten or so. and we took those right to the mouth piece of metro. dan stessel at that meeting last night. here are the top two complaints that we gathered, lack of accountability and reliability. metro admits there is a lot of work to do to get the system up to speed. the oldest trains are approaching 40 years old. they're about original to the metro system itself. they are in the process of being replaced and the system upgraded in a $5.5 billion investment project. while everything on metro they say i

all your potomac and anacostia river crossings are incident free. >>> arlington county public schoolsill be sending a letter home with high school students this week after more than 40 young people were arrested. >> county police broke up a party over the weekend and they say they charged 43 teenagers with underage drinking. police say when the officers got to the home on nottingham street, some of the partygoers started throwing cans and bottles at the officers. the homeowners do not face any charges since they're not there but most of the teens attend yorktown high school. school officials worry there could be more parties with alcohol like this as the school year winds down. >>> an investigation is under way into a deadly pedestrian crash in waldorf, maryland. it appears the victim, a man in his 20s, stepped into oncoming traffic on southbound route 301 near vernon road just before 1:30 this morning. the driver who struck him remained at the scene. the highway was shut down for a while but all lanes route 301 are now open. >>> it's been eight months since thomas maslin was nearly b

potomac river there. under the cloud cover temperatures are chilly here. wintry cold but certainly a chill in the air. it's only near 40 degrees in the suburbs. some rural areas dipped into the 30s including prince william county, fauquier county and north and west of washington it's only near 40 degrees. right around the metro area low to mid 40s. reagan national in the foreground at 49 degrees. we'll have these clouds in and out here for another couple of hours and then a sunny afternoon. temperatures hitting the upper 60s by mid to late afternoon. your weekend forecast, a look in a next week, seven-day outlook in ten minutes. >> we'll start in virginia. this is just coming into first 4 traffic office. suspicious package has south fern street closed between army navy drive and 12th street. police are on the scene. avoid the area. let's head back to the beltway. chopper 4 is in college park and look at the delays here. this is because of an early morning accident. temporarily blocked all of your lanes while crews moved the accident from the left side of t

. ♪ >>> right now on the cycle, along the potomac, the capitol is quiet while players chris cross the ball. what's in a name in the redskins have the attention of congress, and not just because of rg3. that's your sports minute. let's low it over to toure. >> all right. this is a basketball krystal. maybe you're thinking of president obama who is in chicago tonight. home of the bulls and bears. s.e.? >> i'm s. e. cupp. how did i end up teasing the segment on revenge important? is it a crime? >> it's wednesday. which means the work week is half over. unless you're congress. they are gone for the week and returning monday. tea party darling michele bachmann, as you might have heard, is quitting. she announced that decision in a pretty bizarre eight-minute youtube video last night. perhaps her stint as presidential candidate inflewened her decision. maybe she thought she won? >> the law limit anyone from serving as president of the united states for more than eight years. and in my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specifi

down on the potomac basin and 84 over toward easton. that 86, well, that's just a little bit less humid and a little bit cooler than this time yesterday. it was actually a little warmer. in the area yesterday. 4 degrees warmer, in fact. we registered temperatures up around 90. what we're going to see over the next few days, a bit of a disturbance moving from the west. there's a front in our direction, triggering ahead of and right alongside of the front, all of these showers and thunderstorms. and they could be moving in our general direction. we'll talk about how that may play into your thursday and the end of your week, coming up in your complete first warning forecast. >> okay, tim. thank you. let's check in on our roads now. here's kristy breslin at traffic control. >>> well, no big surprise here. a lot of activity along northbound 95. beginning at 32, past 100. average speed, still only about 27 miles an hour. the delays on northbound 95 continue there, from the 895 split past the beltway. actually, up to whitemarsh boulevard. and

greg is the chief political strategist at potomac. and ron is here with us. gentleman, welcome to the program. greg, it's not very often i get to say teapot dome scandal on television. we're trying to put this in perspective, really put this in perspective. you say these scandals could push democrats away from the president this summer. put in perspective, how does it hurt our economic recovery, or does it matter? >> i think it's going to hurt barack obama's ability to spin a pretty good story with the economy improving, with the budget deficit plunging. i think that would be a slight negative for him. as you mentioned at the beginning, i think one thing that is a little like watergate is that republicans started to flee from richard nixon. i'm going to watch democrats to see if they start to peel away from barack obama. >> ron, what's the move for republicans? how much political capital do these scandals build for republicans, and how does this affect other reform like immigration that the president is pushing for? >> it's very much of a two-edged sword i th

any breeze off the bay or the tidal potomac will keep it cooler. as well at the beaches, the water temperatures are still only the 40s. a chill at the beaches with the east wind coming in. evening hours after we reach upper 60sthis afternoon, clear tonight. back down into the 50s this evening as we get into the evening hours and, as well, throughout the day today, we'll have the pollen count back up high. not the extreme highs we had last week. pollen counts are going to be a little bit lower but still in the medium high range today, tomorrow, and again on saturday. sunset now, 8:02. and we're going to be having sunsets between now and into august after 8:00 p.m. all of the way until august 18th. we're getting these long days. and as we look here going into the weekend, some delightful weather for tonight into tomorrow morning. the upper 40s. friday afternoon, the upper 60s. and as we get into saturday, it's going to be another chilly morning in the 40s. afternoon highs, saturday in the upper 60s. some clouds in and out. great weather for the apple

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. >> i'm from potomac, maryland.palestine's membership in united nations as a state and arab has a role in it so far. >> voice of america. following obama listening to her and the subsequent diplomacy by secretary of state, do you envision the u.s. to launch a peace initiative? and if so, would this be constrained to the commitment? >> let me start again with the last one first. i have a set of questions that were just e-mailed to me by one of your colleagues together and you i don't have to answer her i, i don't know. i don't know what's going to happen. i have no pipeline to this administration. do not now, never have. i have no idea what they are thinking. my reading of the same kind of open sources that you have access to is that the president is unlikely to be very adventurous on this issue but that the second estate seems to want to try to do something. secretary kerry seems have an interest in this. i think the situation is highly unpropitious myself, the palestinian division, this israeli government. and, fra

. >>> the trouble for the white house echoed across the potomac this weekend in virginia as republicans produced a surprise pick to run with their nominee for governor. some are calling it a tea party ticket. >>> and a deep dive this morning into the final hours of the race for the second largest city in the country. l.a. mayor will a famous last name hold on to what has been a steady lead or the second largest city put a woman in charge for the first time. >>> good morning from washington for this monday, may 20th, 2013 edition of "daily rundown." one week from today memorial day weekend and start of summer. >>> triple threat of controversies threatening to further erode the america's confidence in government and the white house is aggressively trying to hit back at republican critics. on sunday, white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer defended the president going on all five sunday talk shows calling accusations of mismanagement offensive and absurd. >> we've seen this playbook from the republicans before. what they want to do when they're lacking a positive agenda try to drag washing

and [ inaudible ] on the potomac is already finding him dreamy. >> but i get people um support. >> check>> yeah. >> stephanie: charlie great stuff as always. talk to you next week. [ applause ] >> stephanie: randy in connecticut, you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, randy. >> hi, how are you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. as far as the irs i was under the understanding that if you are a nonprofit group, you are not supposed to become political. like the tea party is a political group. >> stephanie: right. that's why i was saying that again there is nothing wrong with investigating. i'm sure left-wing groups get investigated too, but they didn't take any action against them necessarily. they were just inappropriately flagged. >> but at some point the irs changed the definition from exclusively social welfare to primarily. >> stephanie: right. here is senator kelly ayotte talking about benghazi. >> the administration has been stone walling us and we know from the testimony last week that those on the ground had very different information offered than what we saw even in the ac

filipino women at this compound ovened by the saudi military in mclane, virginia, just across the potomacngton. the women told agents they are household workers brought to the u.s. legally but they complain they've never been alolowed to leave the compound and feel like indentured servants. it's being called a possible case of human trafficking. >> the women are safe and they are being interviewed by a number of different people including our agents and witness victim coordinators. >> reporter: cases like this in which foreign workers complain of being virtual slaves here in america are not uncommon. advocates for the victim say the state department and homeland security are investigating more cases than ever. the prop is diplomatic immunity. >> it's very difficult to process someone who has full diplomatic immunity. >> reporter: martina says the justice department can attempt to process traffickers who are diplomats but over 15 years and dozens of cases, she said, that's only happened twice. >> you're saying the administration needs to make that decision to prosecute more often. >> that'

is due to the large sink hole. 395 comes across the 14th4t street bridge.dge light volume from the potomacin issues on 270. 2 a lot of folks may be leaving town later on this evening. e now is the time to go. it know it doesn't look great. it's cloudy but tier said it's going to chain and it's going be great. what is happening on 50? so far so good headed to the bay bridge but the naval acade my commissioning graduationdu ceremony is taking place this morning. slow traffic off 50 and 97 until 1:00 this afternoon. a lot of folks are heading out there for the ceremony and celebration. that's a check of your fox 5 ontime traffic. >> the holiday commute will be snarled in the pacific northwesn after an interstate bridge collapsed. >> it happened last night on 95 north of seattle, washington. the bridge is over the. t >> skaget river. r >> it came down sending cars and people into the water. three people went to thehe hospital but should be okay. ♪ >> we were very fortunate thatou when this call initially came in some of the deputy boat operators were on duty andnd within minutes of being able

they also appeared in the potomac in florida and michigan. out of the big apple and with three rows of teeth at that. >> there's nothing in this pond that could chase a 3-foot snakehead away except for a human being. >> signs like these started popping up. >> i just saw a long snakehead like this long. >> reporter: this has been kenneth's fishing hole for 61 years, usually he's catch and release, now it's search and destroy. >> before they take over the lake and eat everything in it, we're going to try to catch them. >> and fishery officials won't mind if he and others take it a step further. >> if they happen to catch one, keep it out of the water and if they want to youthut niz it, th fine. >> that fish could easily crawl back into the water. >> that's creepy. >> yeah, literally, they do creep. >> reporter: so, guys, they're awfully ugly, but officials stress, there's absolutely no danger to humans. >> okay. we'll leave that in matt's office. thank you so much. we're back after your local news. iginal recipe? dad, i think you ate the bones.

rain showers moving from louden county over the potomac into montgomery county.teadier rains down to the south of town. so there's your four-day forecast. a 70% chance that you're going to get rained on both today and tomorrow. won't rain all day everywhere, but don't stray far from umbrella. >> another update in 25 minutes. now let's go back to "the today show" in new york. >>> that is former victoria's secret kylie bisutti when she won this contest to be a victoria's secret angel. she walked the runway until she walked away from her dream job. now a war of words with the lingerie giant. she released a book about her decision to leave modeling. she will talk about what drove the decision to quit. leave int a live interview, just ahead. and here in new york, we would like to thank the folks who stopped by the plaza this morning to share part of the weekend with us. out in just a little bit. spend some time with them. and learn some new dance moves. >> a line dance we'll do. >> safety in numbers, what i like to say. i'm erica hill arc lolongside l holt. can orb ma

arrived in washington the day before yesterday, i went to the korean war memorial near the banks of the potomac. read the words eached in granite. our nation honors her sons and daughters who answer the call to defend our country. they neefer knew and a people they never met. time and again, i'm moved when i read those familiar words. [applause] >> let me express on behalf of the people of the republic of korea our profound gratitude to merica veterans. they are -- their blood, sweat and tears helped safeguard the freedom and democracy. [applause] heart felt fer my appreciation to four men in particular. they served in that war and now serve in this chamber. heir names are congressman mr. conyers:or. [applause] -- congressman john con years. congressman ring ell. -- sam johnson. [applause] >> gentlemen, my country thanks you. when the guns fell silence in wereummer of 1953, koreans surviving on $67 that year. six decades later, korea is one of the top five car producers and the eighth largest trading nation. some call this the miracle on the river. [applause] in korea, it was anything but a mir

. >> reporter: military, police and other helicopters are constantly flying over the potomac river.crowded? are there too many helicopters flying over the river or near it for it to be safe? >> i don't think it's too crowded. it requires precise procedures followed. that's what we have. >> reporter: another key factor is whether the plane's pilot and helicopter pilot had visual contact? did they see each other. faa says they had each other in sight. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> a new start for lady liberty. was she a prime target for a terror attack? [ female announcer ] now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. for full strength sun protection. i missed a payment. aw, shoot. shoot! this is bad. no! we're good! this is your first time missing a payment. and you've got the it card, so we won't hike up your apr for paying late. that's great! it is great! thank you. at discover, we t

still a few clouds lingering to the south and west of the potomac.hat is going to hold on for another couple of hours. but all of us stood see some sunshine by this afternoon. temperatures will be warmer in the upper 60's to around 70 degrees. that beautiful weather is going to last through the west of the weekend even through the weekend. >> coming up in the next half hour strong storms in central texas and central oklahoma. we'll look closely into that. >> yesterday you gave us a heads-up about that. okay, sam, thank you. >>> now to a troubling custody battle out of california pitting a young couple against police and child protective services fighting for their 5-month-old son. it started with a routine visit to the hospital for their baby. he seemed to be you have suffering from the flu and abc's cecilia vega picks it up from there. good morning, cecilia? >> reporter: robin, good morning. boy, the allegations here are pretty incredible. two parents say their baby was taken from them because they wanted a second medical opinion. they still don't h

it almost every year, commemorating memorial day at arlington national cemetery, just across the potomac river from washington, d.c. since last memorial day, we lost 234 fighting men and women in the war in afghanistan. but as the president noted, none in iraq. for america, that war is over. >> last memorial day i stood here and spoke about how for the first time in nine years americans were no longer fighting and dying in iraq. today a transition is under way in afghanistan, and our troops are coming home. fewer americans are making the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan and that's progress for which we are profoundly grateful. this time next year we will mark the final memorial day of our war in afghanistan. >> cnn's barbara starr is live for us now from arlington cemetery. barbara, it's always a moving scene there on memorial day. >> reporter: it absolutely is, joe. you know, president obama, after giving those remarks, came here to section 60, to visit with some of the military families and friends who have come to visit their fallen comrades, some 800 troops have fallen in battle in

you are going to reach the potomac pretty fast. >> if you don't take off them then, you don't take offight? is there -- isn't there something going on that like we saw the do you and the s & p. right? five days to keep setting new records. on one end, the economy is going but is it a jobless recovery that we are seeing? and have companies figured out they can still make a lot of money without hiring people? >> well, it is a jobless recovery in the sense that, yes, companies have figured out how to be profitable at this level of output. so we are stuck. you know economistses talk about the equilibrium. it has high unemployment. >> right. >> that means that there is nothing going on at the moment to get the companies to the next level, which would really be hiring. tises level, they've kind of plateaued. they are very profitable and they are being rewarded on the stockmarket with very high value of their companies. >> bill sprigs is our guest, the chief economist for the afl-cio. here is what i don't understand is: why is why is the president and the congress -- maybe the congress, i get

i go to the wall, vietnam wall, across the potomac in washington, d.c. -- it took me a long, long longe frequently just on memorial day, because as the president says, i think i'm obligated to it and i can't help myself, from thinking every day of the same thing i think of on memorial day and that as -- those are my friends that didn't come back. >> and those who we will never know, but who -- whose families have been affected, not even necessarily those from the wars in iraq and afghanistan, but the legacy, parents, grandparents, who never knew their grandchildren or their children. and you said before, jason, you, too, have far too many friends you remember going to their funerals. >> yeah. >> have you spent time at arlington? >> i have. i actually have spent the last three memorial days out in washington, d.c., two of them at arlington and it's incredibly moving place to be, especially on memorial day, and going down to section 60 where a lot of the families that have, you know, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters buried in section 60 are there all day to spend some time with t

the president hops in the car to go over to the national defense university right over here on the potomacspeech on at 2:00 this afternoon on drone policy. according to "the new york times," the president is going to say we're limiting our use of drones. we're going to transfer authority, most of the authority for the use of drones from the c.i.a. to the pentagon. and eric holder announcing yesterday that, in fact, the united states has killed four americans overseas using drones. so this is the drone policy the president promised in his state of the union coming up a little bit later today. we'll be back with steny hoyer in the next hour. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: hey, good morning everybody. what do you say? it is thursday, may 23. this is the "full court press" coming to you live on current tv. we welcome you to the program. and encourage you to really be part of the program by not just watching not just listening but joining in the conversation yourself. you can do so by phone at 1-866-55-press. maybe easier, pick up your iphone. give us your comments on twitter at bpshow or join us on fa

host: mary from potomac, maryland, a democrat. real quick. caller: i worked for companies where voting is ultimately controlled by the board of directors anyway. the fact that he was reelected to both positions is basically because people turned over their voting shares to corporations to vote for them. host: i will leave it there. sorry about that. we will have nick summers jump in on that. is that true? guest: there were many different actors in this vote. you had really influential shareholder advisory firms telling people which way to cast their ballots. you had jpmorgan lobbying fiercely in the other direction. big groups that could have tilted the balance against dimon were ultimately persuaded and casts large numbers of votes against the proposal that would have split up his role and demoted him as chairman. host: bloomberg business week cover story, why jamie dimon is water street's indispensable man. nick summers, we appreciate your time. guest: thanks for having me. of theext, live coverage house, a vote today on the keystone xl pip

and that's the chicago shakedown brought to the potomac.at are you going to do about it? >> i've written a letter along with two other members of the appropriations subcommittee asking them to explain and provide records of who's been spoken to, who's been solicited. we're going to wait for a response. if not, i'm sure our oversight committees are going to bring secretary sebelius back to the hill. >>steve: interesting h & r block would donate a bunch of money to this. we know the woman in charge there at the i.r.s. and cracking down on the 501-c-4 organizations like the taoepts and stuff like -- like the tea parties and stuff like that now she is in charge of the unit that is going to implement obamacare. what do you think about that? >> kind of scary. our worst fears have come to roost. the i.r.s. is going to be entrusted with your health care records, your health history, your family history. and now given that she just went -- literally she ran that division while this whole fiasco was going on. now she's going to run the obamacare enfo

arrived in washington the day before yesterday, i went to the korean war memorial near the banks of the potomac. i read the words etched in granite. our nation honors her sons and daughters who answer the call defend our country. they never knew and a people they never met. time and again, i'm moved when i read those familiar words. [applause] >> let me express on behalf of the people of the republic of korea our profound gratitude to america veterans. sweatre -- their blood, and tears helped safeguard the freedom and democracy. [applause] >> i also offer my heart felt appreciation to four men in particular. they served in that war and now serve in this chamber. congressmanare conyers. congressman rangell. sam johnson. [applause] >> gentlemen, my country thanks you. when the guns fell silent in the summer of 1953, koreans were surviving on $67 that year. six decades later, korea is one of the top five car producers and the eighth largest trading nation. one call this the miracle the river. [applause] in korea, it was anything but a miracle. and it wasn't just to build from win. koreans worked t