in regards to this stafford act?us -- legislative regrading a level for catastrophes or mega disasters are rich in holistic look at the community's needs to be taken, this is the feasibility of lump-sum settlements and mega disasters like that which was then decided to respond to the disaster of september 11th. shifting more responsibilities to end their by incentivizing states and localities to prepare better for disaster is so, for example building codes to another recovery dollars ultimately provided by the federal government, this is something that the ranking member has been working on the legislation and i am proud to support this. will revise and the management structure and other agencies to shift decisionmaking from the upper level management where bottlenecks occurred to the staff that is on the ground and meeting with local governments representatives on a daily basis. in the course of my conversations and with the tough part is, it has become abundantly clear to me that fema employees have been almost ind

it's not in stafford.i think that's something especially in the aftermath of a major catastrophe -- >> you might -- fema is not a cabinet-level agency. it's not like it was when it was independent. i gave the example of the swine flu so somebody has to say there's an affiliate to go to the cdc. you know, there were to be an attack involving biological  weapons. i'm not sure in the world would do that. but somebody would have to make that call. and, you know, for us to be pulled around with whoever is around in the federal agency and you're not going to tell the secretary of the x, y, x what to do, you know, presents problems on how democrats behave. that's why we're looking to see how far we go mindful of what mr. decker said. to broaden the statute and pull that in and we don't want here when a crisis occurs and nobody acts like they don't know what they're talking about. for that matter, general dunbar complicates matters for us but rightly so because you point out that -- if we're dealing with the nat

this is for stafford county, king george county, the next 45 minutes. we want to look at the storm scan. that shows a larger area, active whether -- weather throughout the day, the precipitation developing, causing the precipitation and 20 impossibilities to the south. -- and tornado possibilities to the south. each thunderstorm has the potential of producing damaging wind, hail, and possibly tornadoes. rainfall totals, cumberland, near old town, some damage earlier with a tornado, 0.7 inches of rain. 0.36 inches of rain brandywine. let's go to the map, showed the act of warnings and effect. all across, king george, spotsylvania, tornado warnings until 6:00 this wednesday evening, stafford county. very little in the way of sunshine. we do not expect much for the rest of the day. tomorrow, a lot more sunshine, warm temperatures, at least 90 degrees. all very cool to the north. lots of humidity and energy in the atmosphere. that is the key, you get a weak disturbance, frontal systems, pieces of energy rotating, and those are the triggers in the atmosphere

it is now moving into stafford county.may move right across interstate 95 perhaps to southern prince william county and across the potomac over the next hour or so. it is moving pretty slowly and just unloading a brief downpour there with like. near 70 for washington and fredericksburg and southern maryland near the bay. elsewhere, we are in the 6 0. 60s for montgomery, prince george's county. we'll have sunshine this morning with clouds building this afternoon. a weak warm front is coming through to trigger an isolated thundershower with highs in the upper 80s. partly cloudy bottoming out near 70 tomorrow morning. it will be more humid tonight and tomorrow. afternoon showers likely on thursday with highs in the mid-80s. how is the traffic and? our director keeps a strip of mayonnaise there every morning. it is part of his routine. >>> interstate 70 near the exit for i-270, light volume and traffic so far this morning. 95 northbound headed up from fredericksburg to the capital beltway, we have a report of no incidents. >>>

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massaponax, stafford, potomac creek and aquia creek. those are some of the areas you want to be watching for as this continues moving to the northeast at 30 miles per hour. also a lot of activity over on the eastern shore. we did have some severe thunderstorm warnings out there. those are no longer in effect. but again just to repeat, the newest information and we're going to keep this crawling above wit some of the t direction if you believe you are in the path of this storm. fris is the city of edricksburg, west central king george county, spotsylvania and southern stafford county, tornado warning till 6:00. there could be some hail in this. i was getting some indications in the central part of culpeper county there could be some hail stones an inch to inch and a half. if that happens near your house, you needo take shelter. we'll keep an eye on thiand have another update for you in just a couple of minutes. >>> a developing story we're following out of massachusetts tonight. a pregnant woman found murdered in her worcester home. the

storm racing through stafford county and spotsylvania and stafford. southern prince william county.some rain, plain old rain coming into the washington area. from here, here's the future scan. you can see that will move through, rain moving through in the next hour. some of those stronger cells may be heading once again into southern maryland. we will keep on top of things and stay here but no warnings right now. nonetheless, gusty winds as the line comes through. back to you. >> thanks, bob. >>> are you looking for some good bargains? they are out there. and you can find them with the help of a smart phone. there's a new application that's making it a lot easier than ever before to become a savvy shopper. christie nelson explains. >> i'm still ahead of them. >> reporter: just nine months ago alexander moue and rye land barnes launched shop savvy, application for smart phones. >> shop savvy is your shopping buddy. >> if you want to be more informed about the decisions you are make when you are shopping, shop savvy could be a great application for you. >> reporter: here is how it wor

there it is in southwestern parts of stafford county. you can see it here. let's go back in. by 17 and 616 we have this shower here moving to the northeast. it will eventually get west of garrisonville to the quantico base and continue to move off if it holds together in prince william county. that may take an hour or so but that is what we are watching this morning. temperatures, readings, a mild start. leesburg, dc, 70. same with quantico and fredericksburg. low 60s from the shenandoah valley and 71 on the bay. spoke to bill in neuland he has 68 degrees with a lot of dew down there. officially 70. dew point 67. a sticky morning out there with a relative humidity at 90%. we need more rain and it has been a dry month. plenty of rain across the midwest in to the ohio valley through the mississippi valley looks like that area of showers and storms will head this way, but tomorrow, as it gets closer that will enhance the thunderstorm chance and that's why tomorrow a better chance of storms than today. however, as we look at the seven-day forecast, still a chance of a storm or tw

mary's county at the military station. 0.41 inches stafford, 0.44 inches spotsylvania. officially, as measured on the scoreboard at reagan national airport, only a trace of rain, but a little more is headed there. 87 and 76 are the high and low. clouds and rain, temperatures below average, but the humidity is high. it is still humid. because of the combination. hot stuff is to the south and west. i think we will get a taste of that tomorrow, we are between the triggers in the atmosphere that will cause showers and storms, so tomorrow we get a break. cannot rule out an isolated storms, but generally sunshine. another weak cold front will undercut the warm, humid air friday, and the chance of thunderstorms go right back up late friday afternoon and friday evening. the weather map, today, the break tomorrow, and more widespread storms friday, the next system. what does not change over the next six days is the bermuda high over the southeast atlantic keeping us in very soupy weather. through the day tomorrow, hazy start, upper 80's, partly sunny, isolated storms. the next s

attacks from grocery stores to movie theaters, now the wal-mart in stafford. the question is if it's the same suspect captured here on surveillance video in pasadena or the work of equally idiotic copycats. now stafford police are investigating two confirm glue attacks at this wal-mart and at least one of the victims here is fully convinced the person she saw on surveillance from pasadena is the exact same man who attacked her here. >> i watched the surveillance video after someone sent it to me. and immediately recognized this person as the same person i had turned to see. >> reporter: 11 news confirmed today that stafford and pasadena detectives met this morning, are comparing notes, comparing evidence, comparing possible suspects. to whom sherry has a message. >> get a life. i mean, find something else entertaining besides disrupting peoples lives and their appearance. >> reporter: several police departments are now involved hoping to interrupt the work of an annoying attacker. with a fetish for glue. ceeive reese for cbs news. >> the teen attacked at the m

a trip to the grocery store for a stafford woman ends with a run-in with a bear. >> pepco announces plans to give money back to some of its customers. >> a cheerleader in hot water after police say she ran off with a cash box from a fund-raiser. >> a memorial to michael jackson and unveiled in his hometown of gary, indiana, today. >>> wall sting was off again with the economy still pulling itself out of recession. many consumers are gloomy about the future still. joining to talk about this is scott cohen. what's eating the markets why so glum? >> we are looking at an economy sluggish. consumer confidence numbers came in today well below the expectations and we are looking at consumer confidence now back to levels we saw earlier part of the year. con concerns the economic stimulus has not done its job and mao the debate coming up over the need for a second stimulus and how that should be fortunately lated, and we are seeing all of the thick of the corporate profit reports that they are not particularly great, and more profit reports to come, profit or loss reports, and that has investors n

stafford county deputies say this all happened after their confrontation with a senior citizen. the neighbors know what happened, especially those that have lived near here for a long time. the 89-year-old man fought off those who tried to take his money. >> i guess they were after money or whatever they could get ahold of. >> these four men face the barrel of the man's gun after they forced his way in and tried to attack him. >> he was able to get the gun from underneath the mattress and brandished a firearm, pointed it at them. >> they traveled and his red pickup truck. they had said they had been there row for -- before to repave his asphalt driveway. the victim paid them $2,000 in cash. they filed a report at the sheriff's office. the men had returned and were ransacking his house. that is when he pulled a gun on them. the scam artist left, but deputies caught up with them and arrested all four. >> watch out more closely. >> her driveway was resealed last month, but she was careful. >> nobody has stopped and tried to take our money. the >> the deputies believe that the elder

the 21-year-old, harris is from stafford, virginia.e 19-year-old behind the wheel was driving on suspended license. in spain, tragedy, running of the bulls. a man gored together. first fatality there in almost 15 years. the victim, a 27-year-old spaniard. he died almost instantly as he scurried for cover. the bull gored him in the neck. nine runners were injured. ceremonies will continue as scheduled tomorrow. >>> shoppers in northern virginia got a bit of a surprise recently when a hungry bear showed up at a grocery store. people in the parking lot backed up and reached for their cameras. people living nearby think they have seen the same bear as well. i saw what i thought was a rotweiller coming across the parking lot toward us. i thought wow, the weirdest looking rotweiller i have ever seen. when i got closer the sinking feeling came. i realized it was a bear. >> but she didn't runaw ay that fourth of july evening. she grabbed her camera and snapped the pictures. >> shocked beyond belief there was a bear there. >> black bear. walk

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a gross margin of romanian gypsies conned the stafford man out of $2,000 and came back the next day to rob him. that's when the elderly man said enough is enough. will thomas has the story. >> reporter: stafford county sheriff's deputies captured these four men friday afternoon. investigators believe they're gypsies from romania, scamming people in city after city. >> one of the suspects proclaimed himself to be a romanian gypsy. >> repter: investigators say the gypsies pulled one over on the 89-year-old stafford man who lives along this quiet country road. last thursday the four men are accused of conning the man out of $2,000 cash for a simple driveway recoating. some of the neighbors just had their driveway's recoated this year and paid a rfraction of $2,000. >> it was like $200 for him and $215 for mine. >> reporter: the four men came back the next day and one of the men convinced the man to come outside while the other three went inside to rip him off. >> he found the three other suspects inside rummaging through his personal belongings. at that point there was a scuffle between t

you keep mentioning stafford county.ight think gangs are only in the urban areas but more and more, they are moving out into rural areas. >> not just through virginia, through maryland. and we've learned there is a gang task force with all the major agencies. they take a lot of their top agents and investigators. they combine them and they are sharing information on gangs and now t is not just about the gang signs. they have that in their office at the secret location in this area. but you know, the gangs are evolving. investigators have to evolve with the gangs. and what they're finding is that they are going out to the smaller communities within our area and taking over drug-wise and whatever, car, robbing people, things like that. that in turn leads to murders. >> things like this which will be profiled again this case, saturday night. >> and next week, we'll drive back into the erica smith case also out of virginia. we're excited about that. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> the former director of virginia tech

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the delays, 610 north stafford all the way up past the accident.eyond that, serve stuck and the ride has improved. look at this ride, not so bad. outer loop delays begin at van dorn street through the new construction zone. box truck still sitting there northbound 395 past duke, sitting on the shoulder. this is just the volume anyway. it's a little distraction. southbound 275 down to falls or just south of it, that's the bulk of the volume. that is a of your fox 5 on time traffic. back to you. >>> thank you very much. 7:48 this monday morning. just ahead, we are elebrating continuing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the apollo moon landing. >> coming up, we'll get the special story behind these wax figures. two out of three are in the studio this morning. they are on loan to us. >>> we have something special as well. we are live at forest friends this morning giving you a preview of the capitol fringe festival. we'll show you first hand why you need to come out and be a part of it this week. stay with us. ,  >>> it is 7:51 this

southeast of the metro area, stafford, too. in the low 70's. northwest of town, we have lower humidity because of a front that is draped across our region. northwest of the minister day, not quite as humid. bowie, 70. let's break down the forecast. partly cloudy skies. showers and thunderstorms later today, especially around and after 3:00.mand throughout the evening hours. high temperature, 90 degrees. damaging winds will be threat. this weekend is looking better than previously anticipated. it will be cooler. less humid conditions. the humidity will drop off over the next couple of days. temperatures remain below average for the next few days. we should be in the low to mid 80's for highs. alison and greta, back to you. >>> starbucks is testing out a new secret store. vinita nair has the "money scope" report. >> earnings from tech giants will help set the tone on wall street today. it overshadowed the fact that google earned more money in the last three months than any other quarter in its history. youtube should become profitable soon. ibm i

numbers ranging from the upper 60's to the lower 70's. 68 in stafford. that one little storm has pretty much dissipated. there are some storms off the coast that the radar is not picking up. we're in a quiet so on. we could get an isolated storm pop up. nothing too wide spread. we use some rain to green things up. we're getting into a deficit for the month of july. today it will be a lot like yesterday. some sunshine come up some cloudiness. the rain will be few and far between. temperatures will be in the mid 80's out there. into tonight, a straight storm is possible. upper 60's to low 7's. -- a stray storm is possible. -- upper 60's to below 70's. we have the chance of rain. we will not seek a shower pop up every day. there will be more humidity into the mix on friday and saturday. right now think saturday overall should be dry. your plans should be ok on saturday. morris storms could move out on sunday -- more storms could move in on sunday. >> no surprises on the inner loop between 66 and route 7. we started the morning with a crash. it is now comple

stafford, 79 degrees. 77 hagerstown, high of 78. indian head, charles county, 81 degrees was the high. let's go to the score board ended the official numbers, reagan national airport, 81 and 66. this is the 11th day in a row with below average temperatures. sometimes it has been as low as 54. we will be close to that in the morning. at 81 degrees fairfax and fredericksburg, 79 winchester, 80 degrees frederick. delightful evening, cooler weather up in pennsylvania the continued trajectory of air moving of the great lakes has the pattern which has effectively cut off the flow of hot stuff into our area. it is like squeezing toothpaste out of the tube. the get a little bit out, and that is how the warm air has been coming. every time it comes, it gets cut off by the jet stream. that pattern has been repeating, repeating, kind of like me. there we go with the clouds. that is all we have. storms off to the south and west because the high pressure is building into the atmosphere, keeping us cool and dry. tomorrow and high. -- tomorrow and

the stafford county sheriff's deputies captured these four men friday afternoon.nvestigators believe they're gypsies, from europe. >> one said he was one. >> reporter: the investigators say they pulled stone over on t 9-year-old stafford man who lives along the quiet country road. last thursday, the men were accused of counseling the man out of 2000 cash for a simple driveway recoating. some of the neighbors just had theirs done this year and paid a fraction of $2000. >> we paid about 215. >> reporter: the four suspects accused of scamming the elderly man came back to his house the next day. investigators say one of the men convinced the man to come outside while the other three went inside to rip him off. >> he found the three other suspects inside, going through his personal items. at that point this was a fight going on between the subject. he was thrown down on the bed. his goal was to get to a handgun that he had under the mattress. and he was able to get that gun. >> reporter: the 89-year-old man managed to get the men to leave, then called 911 with a descri

the 21-year-old, tarence harris is from stafford, virginia.the 19-year-old behind the wheel was driving on a suspended license. former senator and presidential candidate bob dole is in the hospital. he was admitted to walter reed army medical center in bethesda last week. his office released a statement saying he underwent surgery for open sores on his left leg. he has a skin graft on hiseft leg. mr. dole is 85 years old. >>> a memorial for michael jackson turned into a celebration of his life and hometown in gary, indiana last night. thousands of people gathered to sing h songs and dance to his music as they remembered michael jackson and gary as the place where the king of pop got his start. >> this is where he came from. >> the world. >> reporter: thousands packed the u.s. steel yard stadium to pay tribute to gary's own michael jackson. it's the place where a kid became a king. >> i think he's here. >> means a lot just to say good-bye to him to see where he started out. >> i'm very honored to see people from all over come here. >> this is t

it is 90 degrees in stafford and woodbridge. it is feeling like summertime. we are in a high-pressure system, finally. let's get to the board. it was 92 degrees today at 3 in international. -- at reagan international. we will see how many more days we have. the average high as 88 grees. we will e the warm and muggy conditions continue through the evening. the cold front is the next factor in the weather that could give us a greater chance of storms tomorrow. as this front gets closer to more, we will see an area of low pressure develop along the front. but will be the catalyst in the atmosphere to fire up the showers. the better concentration of the storms will be just north to the metro area. it will be hazy in the morning. it will be partly sunny. it will only be 86 degrees. that is not a cooling trend. we will shoot back up on thursday, saturday, sunday, d monday. it is summertime, finally. >> finally appear. we finally got an answer from brett favre. >> he is not going to come back to play in the nfl. he will stay retired that leaves the vikings in an awk

heading into areas eventually around stafford and perhaps even spotsylvania county. meanwhile, of course, safety concerns, you want to keep that in mind. if you've got weather threateng in your area, get inside. the major part of our weather system, though, is off the coast. so just some scattered showers and thunderstorms only going to last for a couple of hours. not through the entire night as they did last night. 80 for the temperature, a big drop in the dew point temperature, but humidity will be a big part of your upcoming weekend. your fast forecast, a few strong storms, perhaps more for the weekend. and what about some heat and some steam? we'll talk about that in just a few. >>> closing nurmgs from wall street on this friday, the dow climb 25 points. remaining above the 9000 level today. the nasdaq lost a little ground, down about seven. and the new york stock exchange closed 35 points higher. paychecks for thousands of americans are getting a boost. the federal minimum wage went up 70 cents today, from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. and thanks to state laws

the other victims range in age stafford was killed. the other victims range in age. >>> startling comments from jackson's father today joe jackson. he told abc news he thinks foul play was involved in his son's death. >> i didn't know anything about the drugs. i didn't even know the name of them, you know, but i do know that whatever he'd taken it was making him rest because he has been working so hard and that drug was supposed to make him relax and sleep, but anyway, he didn't wake up. >> tmz.com posted pictures of drugs seized from the neverland ranch in the 2003 molestation tiit. on included in police photos a handwritten note comparing two drugs. >>> new tonight a former state department worker admits to snooping into confidential passport information. william sealy of d.c. pleaded guilty in the case. he admitted looking into passport applications while working as a state department contractor in 2004. those applications are protected under federal privacy laws. three other former workers have been sentenced to probation in the ca

and 86 in stafford and 81 out there. slight chance of an aáfrpb shower or -- afternoon shower or thunderstorm. downtown, 84 or 85. and 85 out there. not quite as warm as the bay, not a bad day to be on the water. that is not a small craft advisory. 83 for an nap los and -- annapolis and 86 out there. a slight chance of the shower, better chance out there northward as opposed to the bay or southern sections of maryland. satellite pictures, radar combined. generally clear, just a few clouds that are back out there north there towards pittsburg. and these will just move in tonight. essentially, clear to partly cloudy and dry tonight. next seven days? >> high temperatures, sorry about that. >> right. >> high temperatures tomorrow. that is 86. >> yeah. 78 in pittsburg. mid-80s for us, still a bargain. you can do it. next 7 days, just isolated showers, then that northeast flow, and we're talking about temperatures around 80 on thursday and friday and that might be optimistic. we might actually end up in the upper 70s on thursd

it is all of them, stafford plus, you name it. >> it is for student federal loan, so that would be stafford, grad plus and consolidated loans which can include perkins. >> so the loans that parents underwrote you can't take advantage of that. >> unfortunately no. >> you say it is income based but the whole idea is that a good education will get you a better job. does the payment plan change at all if the person who's taking advantage of this loan gets a higher income. >> it started because people were graduating from college or from professional schools with a lot of debt and were not able to afford to be in public service or lower paying professions. but this program addresses that situation and if your income goes up, it adjusts accordingly or you can go in to a different payment program. >> is it difficult to apply, get more information on this, where do people turn. >> go to kiplinger.com and get a break on tune loan payments and you can also find out if you qualify by using the calculators linked to that story. >> and bruce, one thing about credit cards we also get questions about that

then we have showers out of warrenton, culpeper, stafford, fredericksburg, drifting to the east. the weatherbug, oxon hill 70 degrees, the dew point measures the true monster value in the air. the closer the numbers are together, the more moisture, the more humidity that you feel. the temperatures will drop to near 70 degrees in most areas. the numbers for this friday, 86 and 68 at reagan national airport, 89 and 71 the average. the pollen count, mold spores are way up in the higher range. everything else is in the low range. 77 fairfax, 74 leesburg. it clear to the north, 66 gaithersburg in frederick. cold temperatures for a late july night. you go to the west, it starts to warm up. 73 detroit metro airport. some of the moisture and higher humidity will work back into the area, the temperatures more than we have seen. the showers move off and we see a turn and wind direction, southeast. and as the area of storms across northern illinois, moving to the south. potentially, some of the energy will come in in the form of a cold front. tomorrow, breezy, partly sunny, warm. the temper

. >>> a bear sighting outside of a stafford county gcery store thught on camer apthdis hpeneat sury s of giant store in the celebrate virginia shoppingteen cr in fredericksburg. animalents eerxp t4 l erwsnebea sightings are common this time of year. eun yang with that story. >> i saw this -- what i thought at first was a rottweiler coming across the parking lot towards us. wow, that's the weirdest looking rottweiler i have ever seen. as it got closer, that sinking feeling came that i realized it was a bear. >> reporter: colleen didn't run away that fourth ofws july evening. she grabbed her camera and snapped these pictures. >> i was shocked, shocked beyond belief there was bear there. >> black bear, you know, like that. i was like -- what? there is a bear here? >> reporter: she watched as the black bear climbed on top of the shopping cart to peek inside the giant store off route 17 in stafford county. all of that food was so close but he couldn't find the door. >> he was very purposefully heading right towards the giant. i mean, he knew where with you he was going. >> reporter: bears

these photos were snapped at a giant grocery on u.s. 17 in southern stafford county. witnesses say the bear walked down the front door of the door, pawed around carts and rambled away. no one was hurt. >>> it is where the food is. like the guy robbed a bank,. talk about the gorgeous weather we hope never ends. >> no kidding. it is beautiful this evening. partly cloudy skies. mild temperatures. no humidity. a couple of things you hardly ever say this litimeof the year tos let'y joen. it art pesn riwinot gh w. cond oweeke d thekenk ek inse toof the hour under partly he cloudy skies. a breeze from the south and southeast. 77 degrees officially at national airport. settle back in the 60s. it will turn slightly warmer and more humid over the weekend but wouldn't call it oppressive or anything like that and there is a chance of a couple of scattered showers and thunderstorms. for now back inside. >>> after three relatively free injury free runs the running of the bulls in spain has turned deadly. >>> president obama and pope benedict xvi discuss some . ugh issues during the

the 21-year-old, terrence harris, is from stafford, virginia. no word on whether alcohol played a role inhis crash. >>> supermarket surprise for some shoppers when their trip to the market took a walk on the wild side. >> and a refund for some power customers in maryland. >> here are four other stories making headlines in our area today. >> the court hearing for the suspect in last month's deadly shooting at the holocaust museum has been postponed again. 88-year-old james vaughn brunt is accused of shooting a security guard and he had a court date scheduled for today but his doctors said that he's still recovering after being shot in the face by guards at the museum. von brunn is in a lockdown ward. another hearing is set for july 30th. >>> manassas police are still searching for man accusedf trying to abduct blond teenage girls. police released this sketch of the suspect and he's described as hispanic and in his late 30s to early 40s. fliers have been handed out with the description of the blue minivan that was used in tuesday's attempt. the dr

additional sprinkle overnight, buloju cstudy c and damp ex ctpeed. 65 in stafford p.2 7in suitland. lots of rain chances this week. it just means whether or not those chances will materialize and whether we will get meaningful rainfall. we are not doing well in that department in the month of july. more on that coming up. >> new at 11:00 tonight, a group of ministers make a bold accusation involving d.c. marion barry. they say barry has been unfairly singled out for an ethics investigation because he's opposed to same-sex marriage. he was charged with stalking an ex-girlfriend. he has since been investigated for hiring his girlfriend at the time and using public funds. he also opposed a bill for same-sex marriages to be recognized in the district. >> a manager has been recognized for inappropriate behavior on the job. an employee at the washington examiner newspaper took a picture of the of a metro bus driver weaving behind the wheel. this comes a week after they instituted a zero tolerance policy for any driver caught texting to be fired. >> families of victims in the virginia tech

.  in parts of bill, 79 in stafford, 82 -- 81 in purciville. a partly cloudy start, but it could be heavy at times before -- a cool down for the weekend. and more coming up. >> all right, see you in a bit, brian. >>> police have identified a gunman who led police on the chase as 27-year-old kellen white. he had previously been in jail for issues including assault. they say that he took off when officers tried to pull them over, for a traffic stop at union station. sources close to the investigation say he climbed out of the window of his car with a gun in hand and then on to the front of a patrol car, and he shot at police at least once. they say that white tried to reach for the gun after he was shot. he died at the hospital. >>> fairfax county police have identified a gunman at the center of a standoff. they say that john valentini was holed up tuesday night. he shot himself last night as police try to enter the home. he later died. his son and another woman inside the house at the time, but they were not hurt. >>> new at 11:00, a discovery a

. >>> authorities in stafford county say an elderly man turned the table on burglars in his home. the 89-year-old pulled a gun from under his mattress and scared the suspect ace way. darcy spencer reports. >> neighbors of an elderly stafford man who pulled a gun on burglary suspects are calling him a hero. >> you think you should have done that? >> yes. should have got them. should have shot him for real, if you ask. i got -- wrong. ep rr:>>fforta c stedorounty sheriff'sep sutdsies an 89eamar-d ol cd onfronted these his house and thwarted a robbery. >> i think it was brave of him to do what he did and could have useddlea dy force. in fear of his lifeea. ep >> rorter: police say the man sealed the victim tim's driveway last thursday and charged him >> $2,000. the next day, they came back and as one suspect talked to the victim outside the three other snuck inside. when the man went back inside his house, he found three of the suspects trying to ransack his home and trying to steal his safe. that's when he pulled his gun from under therettmass.tt police say the man had thrown the el

authorities in stafford, virginia, they are calling this 89-year-old robbery victim a brave man.everal suspects tried to rob the man while he was in his house and he scared them away after he pulled a gun from under his mattress. darcy spencer with the story. >> i think the dait great depiction of the gentleman is very sharp and brave.y brave. verye.e.brav >> reporter: stafford county f' shf'ifers deputies s an if 9-year-old man confronted the fourpe wusscthit a gun inside his house and thwarted a robbery. >> i think it was very brave of him to do what he did, could have usedeadly force. . fear of his li. fe >> reporter: police say the man that sealed the victim's driveway and chaed him $2,000. the next day they came back. when the man went back inside his house he found three of the suspects trying to ransack his home and trying to steal his safe. that's when he pulled his gun from under the mattress. police say the man had thrown the elderly man to the ground and even the gun didn't seem to scare them at first. >> taunted him for a little while longer and making comments to the

thahs e atth e esidabacal n beuse of isthmo ire . 85 in glen bernie, and brandywine, '83, '84 and stafford and winchester, 87. looking for a high of the upper 80's 290 degrees. let us look at some of the other numbers. 81 in fairfax, at 81 in frederick and 07 dollars will continue to come up. 88 is the typical high and 87 is where we landed yesterday. extra shower activity and some storms were severe. the weather service is looking at them to see if the tornados were verified. the have to see if it really was indeed a tornado. as far as pollin, still low. the big picture, definitely tells the story. stormy conditions continue in the northeast and a wink and. t second wave of energy is in the southwest. a there was a little moisture in southwestern virginia. looking at it carefully, it kind of rounds into the region and is falling apart somewhat. diminishing as it starts to work into southwestern virginia. you see the higher clouds thickening, an overnight and isolated showers two. but i think the best chance of the energy swinging through tomorrow. today even though the cloud increase, a l

away and then activity pushing from the east side of 95 to the west side between woodbridge and stafford a little bit more to go before everything kind of fizzles out later on tonight. look at also to the north and west of us. this is not particularly heavy except between slainsville and down 50. eventually toward cumberland, will cross 68 as we get into the 9:00 hour. back to the computer. temps, because of the clouds and showers, cool. 75 in brookville as you go out 97, georgia avenue, 74 in chantilly. by afternoon, mostly cloudy tomorrow but still pleasant with a few showers, yes, but highs around 80. most of us won't see anything. the nine microcast shows a lot of clouds tonight, lot of clouds by lunchtime tomorrow, buty little in terms of showers. showers in the bay, heavier activity tomorrow night in the mountains, but a cloudy forecast with hit or miss showers for the next three days or so. zone forecast, low 80s, shower possible, manassas, 80, fairfax, 80, 82 in woodbridge. 81 or so downtown. next seven days, 81 tomorrow, thunderstorms possible wednesday and thursday. not a lot o

the black bear was spotted peering into a giant's in stafford county virginia.itnesses say the bear confidently walked to the front door fairly unfazed it was in the middle of suburbia. >>> twitter is suspending accounts to fight off a virus attack. shawn yancy is back now with your fox 5 top five. >>> there's a warning for twitter users. before you send out your next tweet the website is warning about the coupe based worm that sends out bogus messages when you log on. if your account is affected twitter will suspend it and notify you by e-mail. >>> no. 4, help make history this weekend by joining the world's largest skinny dip. virginia's only nudist camp is inviting people to the resort trying to make the guinness book of world records at 3 p.m. saturday. >>> no. 3, pack your patience if you're riding metro this weekend. the agency is expecting delays on all five lines. the elton john billy joel concert and nats game saturday night will clog up the green line and maintenance work will cause up to 30 minutes delays on the other line. >>> no. 2 , maryland's pep

heavier stuff between stafford and quantico moving back in to charles county and e thheaviest the northernndm huorvisttiac i tmethernd m oractivity with heavy randfaac all this should a be gone in a few hours and then ufstf stuff ufthis afternoon. angie has the day off. kenny burns is watching the traffic for you. >> good morning. you are looking at 66 westbound at centreville. right now no delays centreville to the capital beltway. moving to 395 northbound no problems to report from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. if you are heading to the district, 14th street and northwest is closed between constitution and pennsylvania avenue from a couple of minutes from now until 6:00 this evening due to an all-day affair at the reagan building. >>> i'll bet there are a lot of you who believe you can't live without your twitter or facebook. but guess what, those people who work in the white house will have to figure out how to do it. digital correspondent lindsey mastis explains. >> reporter: president obama is considered to be pretty high- tech. after all social networking helped him to get c

that may get over to stafford esju wstt in 30 orso . go wto . go to heotr sout. quarter cambridge to culpeper. we have pockets of patchy dense fog t stas amo nreotmo problem. temper60s fr winchester 61 to 72 on the bay in annapolis and 75 in saint indigos where the thermometers are fixed. >>> hello, angie. >> we are in the middle of the week. half way there an doesn't it feel good. talking traffic. we have one incident to tell you about in arlington. begin with our maps on george mason drive near arlington hospital. please watch for crews. we will take it to 66 eastbound through manassas. a clear commute and in maryland 270 southbound. it is smooth from 121 to the split. >>> it is one of washington's most prestigious and notorious addresses. the watergate hotel failed to sell and neighbors fear that it will continue to sit vacant. >> $25 million opening bid. >> reporter: the auction house was jammed, the bidding was not. >> get it? >> $25 million. >> at least ten people anti-ed up $1 million for a chance to buy the watergate hotel but the banks opening $25 millio

those folks have moved on and we start off with good news. 95 in virginia out of stafford, there is a motorcyclist in the roadway. the left lane out of triangle is blocked, leaving 610 to get into a triangle. it is beautiful in springfield, va.. here is a picture of traffic out of germantown. delays begin out of one of 18 and they go to be blinded by. -- lane at divide. >> we are talking about showers in stafford. it is starting to rain. you can see where the storm cells are moving to the north and east. la plata will see showers ove he xtnealxtf hour t 45ot minutes. the system works its way to the north and east. our forecasts of a calls for mostly cloudy scout -- skies with mostly cloudy skies. we are not expecting a lot of rain and near 80 degrees. tonight, our temperatures will be in the mid 60's. tomorrow will be a repeat performance. >> we will be back with local news. >>> an argument led to a shooting in prince george's county for it a group of men were starting -- were fighting on eighth street in laurel. both victims went to oslo and the injuries are non-life- threatening. >>

the stafford act is not the only solution when you are looking at large-scale disasters. we have to look at all of our federal programs and think about what we want to do and what we want to achieve and to find that so that we don't limit ourselves to what the stafford act does and recognize all whole host of federal programs that support your communities getting back to a sustainable tax base. is the standpoint of process and how come to focus and who are we working for in a disaster. ladies and gentlemen, that is you, the governors. the lo>> thank you for keeping s on this. i like to particularly thank governor barbour to make sure that this would be on the meeting agenda today. america's infrastructure is the backbone of our society. as the report states, our country's infrastructure has not kept pace with our country's growth and shifting demands. the nation's governors have been presented a unique opportunity for the american recovery in reinvestment act to address instructor challenges not only in terms of modernization and repair, but also in the areas of emergency

we'll put this into motion, and this is going to work its way up 95 on the west side of 95 through stafford up through gold vein and maybe heavy activity up in woodbridge the next half hour. most of it is light. couple areas are slow moving and they're more intense. to the west, showers and a few areas of heavy rain south of 50. this into motion. this is going to continue to move off to the north and cross 50 around to cumberland and it gets heavy as you get to the west of paw-paw. >> back to the compute we are go and look at temperatures. this is a bargain, 76 in wood bridge, and there's clouds holding the temperatures down. just nice and comfortable. mostly cloudy, shower possible in the morning. by afternoon, mostly cloudy but pleasant. some showers possible, winds out of the east at 10. zone forecast, we're looking at temperatures around 80, couple of showers possible, 80 in leesburg, 82 in woodbridge. low 80s downtown, 83 in waldorf. satellite picture, radar combined, everything is moving from south to due north. again, most heavy activity will stay just south of us. next seven days, 8

they ranged in age from 14 to 21 and included 21-year-old terrence harris of stafford, virginia. police say so far, no indication of drugs or alcohol as a factor in the crash. >>> congressman frank wolf wants governor kaine to reconsider plans to close 19 rest stops in virginia. those areas are scheduled to shut down on july 28th. it is touted as saving the commonwealth $9 million but the congressman says it will put the safety of hundreds of thousands of drivers at risk. >> the founder of the southern poverty law center is asking for a probe in to race anymore the military. they say researchers found 40 profiles of people who list their occupation as military. the site describes itself as an on-line community for whites by whites. the group that runs the site says it removes vile comments that are posted. >>> now an update for you on a story we brought you last night at 7:00. >>> dozens of protesters were marching outside of the philadelphia swim club accused of turning away a group of campers because they were black and hispanic. they say they heard racial comments when they we

ndculaer, 77. 88 in stafford. here is our forecast. we will drop to the 80's, and there will be a westerly breeze. what lies ahead? we will let you know shortly. >>> coming up, a local high school football player collapses and dies on the field. tonight his family's warning. >> and a dramic ending for a serial killer accused of killing five people in six days. >> you hear the diagnosis and everything shuts down. >>> important news about your health. a groundbreaking study released this afternoon says african- americans are more likely to die from certain cancers. >> researchers say poverty and fear health care are not the blame. maureen bunyan is now with the details. >> a large cancer study shows african-americans are mre likely that people of other ethnic groups to die from three gender-specific cancers -- breast, ovarian, and prostate. doctors are wondering why. when this woman was diagnosed six years ago, she was very worried. >> everything just shuts down. my mother and grandmother were also diagnosed with cancer at an early age a

seimei president clinton in october of 1998, of course you will recall that's only months after the stafford embassy bombing in august of 1998. i at that point in time, dick clarke was chairing the interagency committee group at the nsc. i was participating in that from the justice department. and it was back up to form a basis of the thinking for the policy behind pbc 67. president bush, reviewed the data again and added to that. remember now, when president bush signed the new presidential directive, 51, of course now we have a new department. we have the department of homeland security and things have changed. things have progressed. you can imagine him after september the 11th the president was incredibly frustrated by his inability to connect it with the american people, the difficulty of communications even within his own cabinet. and so there was an immediate turn to the issue of continuity of the presidency and supporting of the immediate courson and staff of the president of the united states. and that was the first real priority in the aftermath of september the 11th. of course, wh

stafford at 60. the week, up 58. comfortable start to our day. a great afternoon. a mixture of sun and clouds. we will stay cool today and on into tomorrow. highs will be in the low 80's. upper 80's back to where we should be this weekend. and a chance of a few storms. >> i do ve good news. newschopper 7 is flying over 95 in virginia. left side of the screen is the northbound direction. they are near. leaving dale city to get past the prince william county and up into springfield. we will take you to this picture of traffic further upstream on 95 where the headlights are twinkling out of springfield northbound onto i-395 -- northbound onto 395. on 210 northbound after two to wait, 210 northbound after 228, 5-car accident. only one lane open to the left. >> thank you. >>> 6:15. 66 degrees. you'll meet a senior citizen in our region who has lived a good, long life. he has outlived his savings. a community is reaching out to help. >> we will be checking ch >>> checking our top stories. a swine flu prepared this summit will take place today. the white house is sponsori

it is partly in to stafford county. this will continue to drift to the north. it is along 17. we will show you the bigger picture. we're kind of between two systems. one is off to the midwest. it is bringing rain into the tennessee and ohio valleys. isolated will be the nature of our storms today. let's get to the temperatures outside. 65 down and marshall. it touched warmer down in southern maryland. 66 in leesburg. the overall pattern is this influx of moisture from the south. it will be muggy for the next couple of days. the energy it will work its way across the area. we will see this repetitive pattern. today it will be like yesterday, partly cloudy, made 80's. tomorrow, a few showers and storms are possible again. i do think saturday will be near 90, hot and sticky. more storms into the back half of the weekend. >> thank you. >>> microsoft could be taking its possible xbox mobile. the ipod touch could be closer to an iphone. >> those stories and the soda machine of the future. >>> and electronic book reader that can match functions with kindled. a company is announcing a

stafford at 66. a lot of sunshine for today. a few clouds later on today. noticeably cooler and less humid. highs in the low 80's today. tomorrow, pretty much the same story. comfortable with highs in the low 80's. we will seek a brief return of the heat and humidity. high temperatures up to where they should be. whether looking great this week. >> -- the weather is looking great this week. >> there is a crash on the outer loop by the clara barton part way. this just in according to mdot. i just got off the phone. new york avenue is closed in both directions between bladensburg -- wait a minute. between west montana avenue after bladensburg wrote. this is after the old hecht company warehouse. they tell me new york avenue will be closed for 30 minutes. avoid new york ave. they are still paying a portion of 410 westbound heading over to route 1. only one lane is getting by. i will take you to the camera where it is quiet becausee needed to end on a high note. this is the toll road over 28. alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> 5:15 is your time. >> a well known