they enlarged to include other souvenirs, and later, sarah wilson joined them to operate a cafe. wilson saw the work with the national park service, so wilson and ortega were able to get concessions in the national monuments. the ortega's main business is souvenirs' with small cafe, and they have never run in full concession. stowe lake now serves mostly local people. we do not need a large souvenir concession that they would need to recoup their $250,000 concession. the small lake and limited parking is too small. if they gain the concession, the character still lake would change to concession. they would discourage voters, walkers, and joggers. they would replace the quiet beauty and nature. commissioner buell: thank you. >> [reading names] >> i am in san francisco resident, and i'm here today to support the upgrade act stowe lake. -- upgrade at stowe lake. i represent a four-year-old and two-year-old. just food and the environment in general, and i am also representing ron lang, who will not be speaking in front of you because the giants are playing in 20 minutes. he, too, wou

sarah points that out. i know it's directed to me. you will fine the lane are open. no problems reported right now. still an easy ride across the wilson bridge. kids in maryland, schools are out today for the voting. d.c. kids have to make that trip to school. no incidents to report right now top stretch of the beltway between college park and bethesda. southbound along 270 out of hyattstown, the gang is all here. we are starting to slow as you head down toward the truck scales. lanes are open as you continue from germantown headed out towards the split across the american legion bridge. traffic is still moving at speed. traveling eastbound on 66, this is a camera angle east of 234 trying to get past the virginia visitors center. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> vote are head to the polls this morning for the primary elections in d.c. an maryland. let's start with matt ackland in the race to the d.c. mayor. >> reporter: it has been a long couple of months of campaigning for both candidates and it will be a very long day for them today. we understand both of those gentlemen are up very early. mayor fenty held a rally a

wilson bridge this morning as your commute gets ready for the day. it will be a beautiful day out there again today on this thursday. good morning. i'm sarah simmons in for gurvir dhindsa. >> i'm steve chenevey. glad you're with us. welcome to fox 5 morning news on this thursday morning. let's get a look at that forecast for today. tucker barnes joins us with hopefully more good news. >> okay news. we've got more clouds than yesterday. not going to be picture perfect like it was. a little warmer than yesterday. a little more humid as well. we are going to have a gorgeous weekend with more details on that coming up. we'll talk about current conditions and we are in the 60s generally across the area here in town. humidity, 57%. wind are out of the east at six miles per hour. pressure is falling just a little bit. i mentioned cloud cover. can you see it streaming in here from the west. what this is is a warm front. it will be noticeably more humid. still not bad by summer standards but after the perfect weather we had around here the last couple of days, more clouds in the forecast. the rain should hold off until the nighttime hours particula