>> what's your question, tucker? >> reporter: yeah, if it's your birthday and you can have one sugar treat, what are you going to have? the dingdong? the pop tart? >> well, since you dingdongs will be with me, i will go for the nutty buddy. >> there you go. >> so the simple answer is, you snack, but some is an act we have fun with. >> right. >> are you eating carrot sticks and stuff like that? >> grapes. my favorite. but like i said, you know, i am human. i am going to take a snack here or there. but the fact of the matter, for me, when you eat the wrong foods, it takes aa toll on your body. -- takes a toll on your body. for the most part, we are in a healthy society nowadays and i try to make the choices not so often, but yeah, once in a while. >> dow take the grapes and put them in the freezer and freeze them? they're really good. >> that's a good idea. >> it's like it takes it to a whole other level. like a treat. >> i think what's funny is tucker giving you a hard time. and everybody should see what he's eating a

sitting next to me, the great tucker tucker carlson, fox news interest crer and editor in chief of the delightful "the daily caller" add a dot-com and you can look it up. and our new york times correspondent. good to see you, pinch. >> today art and leisure profile. the ifc celebrating the history of gay cinema throughout the month of april. on top for tonight, keep the lights on. , postcards from america and return of the jedi with an extremely graphic sex scene between c3po and r2d2 and the ewok. children and pets are not add split -- admitted during the first two minutes of this inter galactic hump fest. >> thank you for that. >> it is a tour de force. >> i'm sure it is of the. >> i don't know what they were thinking editing it out. >> yes. >>> does drinking booze improve your views? according to a study, getting drunk makes you more conservative. researchers at the university of arkansas decided to, quote, test the hypothesis that low effort thought, whatever that means, promotes political conservatism. no bias there, fellas. there was a test that found when the brain was pre occup

tucker barnes spending the morning outside. marathon with the other folks who are going to be arriving at rfk stadium. getting ready for the big event out there. tucker, how are you doing? >> we expect about 25,000 runners tomorrow. so for parts of the day, people

tucker barnes is here with us. cherry blossom stamp. it's truly beautiful. we're going to talk to him and see the stamp and the other items you can purchase. we'll talk with him and a representative from the postal service about the dedication of that stamp. >>> then at 9:15 we're going to talk about area rst

that young man has a great name. >> tucker. of course, he does. >> bold, strong. >> i i'm sure they named him after you. clearly. >> let's get to the weather. i'm thinking awful our coffees this morning should be iced with a big scoop of ice cream in it. >> on the warm side later today. temperatures later this afternoon right back in the upper 70s and lots of sunshine. we don't have the threat of a schorr or thunderstorm in the forecast today. >> like we're getting porched in a good way. >> we'll see what happens in june and july. satellite-radar, you know it is going to go up. we had a thunderstorm that developed late yesterday and some showers. you can see that well east of us. we have lots of quiet conditions out to the west. a quiet weather pattern here for our day in the washington area. we are comfortably cool, 56 in washington. dulles, 50 degrees and bwi marshall, 54. your forecast for today, lots of good stuff. sunshine, highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. i'm getting lots of questions about whether or not we are lookin

tuckers in the same bowl t boat.o beautiful out but boy -- tucker is in the same boat. >>> till ahead, it is meant to provide health coverage for millions of americans who don't have it. in 26 states, they say it is a big problem. now, the future of president obama's health care reform is being called into question after comments from the nation's highest court. first, the megamillions jackpot climbs tie record setting $476 million. no one had all the winning numbers in last night's drawing unfortunately. there may be a few people smiling in our area this morning. more on that as we continue here on fox 5 morning news.  >>> if you didn't get a ticket for last night's megamillions draw, not to worry. no one won the estimated $363 million jackpot t has soared to an estimated $476 million for friday's drawing and that is a record setter. we are talking a half billion dollars here. here in our area, there were a couple of $250,000 winners. those are tickets with all five numbers but not that megaball. one in d.c., tw

tucker is talking about a little patchy fog here and there. allow a little extra time out on the roads. this is the commute out of rockville leaving montrose road headed out to the splat. lanes are open headed out to the beltway. no problems to report across the american legion bridge. -- this is the commute out of rockville leaving montrose road headed out to the split. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> governor martin o'malley is expected to sign the same-sex marriage bill and it would go into effect in january. >>> the man known as the aspen hill rapist is due in court today for sentencing. earlier this week, 54-year-old timothy busby some pled guilty to three more rape charges. he is currently serving three concurrent life sentences plus 50 years. with these new charges, he faces another two consecutive life sentences. busby commited a string of rapes in montgomery county during the late '70s and early '80s. >>> the man suspected as the so- called east coast rapist will find out if he is mentally economy to go to trial this

so we will talk about it. >> tucker barnes meantime, down stairs recovering from his

tucker barnes is to our right he will tell us all about the thursday weather details. >> you've got it, good morning we are dealing with fog once again this morning in fact dense fog advisory now extended until 10:00 a.m. this morning for much of the area. let me show you the radar, what i am showing you is the fog that continues across the area the oranges and reds you see areas of dense fog where visibilities are generally a quarter mile or less. bwi marshall, visibility 1/16th of a mile. fog should be with us for the next couple hours let's push to our next map and then gradually see a return to sunshine later this afternoon kind of like yesterday mostly cloudy for much of the day and sunshine by mid-to late afternoon dense fog advisory until 10:00 a.m. this morning today it includes all the counties in northern maryland and much of virginia, south central virginia under that dense fog advisory, 59 washington humidity way up 6% -- 96% winds out of the south, and your pressure is up that will keep things on the mild side next couple days should be dry sunshine by this afternoon highs

tucker has to go google skeet.to head northbound leaving newington and springfield, the lanes are open. you will find delays on 395 leaving the beltway continuing you and across the 14th street bridge as you travel in from the pentagon. problems here on the inare loop. we had accident activity at braddock road. average speed on the beltway down to 37 miles per hour. westbound on the freeway approaching south capital street, the third street tunnel, truck lost avery large piece of cop crete in the roadway. stay to the center and right to get by. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. >> thank you. >>> a health alert for you this morning about a new study on balding. researchers say they have identified a protein that that can prevent hair growth. scientists hope the findings can help develop a topical treatment to block that resippettor. if so, that could possibly slow down or actually reverse balding. some good news there. >>> still ahead on fox 5 morning news, it's high energy event packed with pow

>> tucker, you got that uniform look going on.ies making enjoy that -- lady is might enjoy that. >> and then how about old school when we were younger. >> that picture is back again. i love this photo. >> that is tucker's hair. >> he had some serious hair. >> i guess we can figure out what crowd you hung out with. >> i bet. >> i look like a dj or something. >> that was the audition for miami vice. >> i love that. >> we figured i think this has been done some are before. >> something seems familiar about it so those are our choices. we're still working on it however, i have a surprise. finally lisa and lance, these are for real. here we go. updated picture for ask the weather guy. these are boring. >> they threw this together last night, actually. i don't know if i like that one of me. >> tucker that is a good shot of you. you look like a politician. >> tucker looks mischiefious. tony looks as friendly as of. >> i want wisdom to be my picture. there you go. thank you for the great question. we had a lot of fun with that if you have

a quick check of weather as tucker joins us. again, it was a weekend where you're like, is it really? >> you're just waiting, beautiful again. >> temperatures are going to cooperate today, a lot of clouds and maybe a shower or thunderstorm. not going to advertise it. >> okay, yeah. >> that spring thing when you know it's going to happen, the temperatures get warm. >> we need the rain by the way. maybe we will squeeze a little rainout. let's take a look at our temperatures. reagan national 57. dulles, 54. we got into the upper 60s yesterday. and the afternoon yesterday turned into a beautiful day with sunshine out. people will see sun today. the radar, one or two showers close to town. and then out to the west, that's a good thunderstorm complex. the thinking is that most of that rain shower activity will stay to the west and dip down to to the south and west. but the cloud cover will roll into the area. and some of, it's possible showers will clip the western viewers. you know, not a perfect day today, but temperatures in the 70

. >> let's say good morning now to tucker and get the latest on the weather. a nice warm day. hot for some, perhaps. >> yeah, i think hot. temperatures in the mid-80s. i know. >> that's ac weather. >> i think close now, yeah. definitely. >> i cranked it up last night. >> and especially many the car sitting in traffic. >> oh, yeah, you can feel it. >> reporter: the bus stop forecast. >> the windows down on the bus. >> reporter: it's always a perfect day. yeah, have to put down the windows on the bus. and should be a nice start to the morning here. comfortable temperature, mid- 40s to mid-50s currently. and again, this will be the cool time of day. we will watch the temperatures jump quickly over the next couple of hours. 58 in washington. humidity 65%. winds nice and light. in fact, no wind out of the north at 0 miles per hour. and forecast for today, more sunshine and warm temperature, highs later today in the mid- 80s. i think we will be about 83, 84 degrees later today. the record for the date, going back to 1990 is 81 degrees. and so you can see that we could be in record t

that is what she is doing julie what's up. >> all right on the roads tucker if you are travelling the outer loop of the belt way yes, indeed it is slow leaving college park headed around towards 270. accident at i-95 interchange possibly involving an over turned vehicle fire and rescue headed in that direction. meanwhile south side of town, before you reach route 5 follow police direction. northbound 301, billingsly accident activity on the shoulder. slowing to 30 miles an hour land over road headed into northeast washington delays inner loop of the belt way, annandale, down to 12 minutes between 95 and the exit for 66 that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >>> all right julie thank you we begin this hour with breaking news a strong earthquake has hit off the coast of northern japan. the 6 .8 magnitude quake prompted tsunami advisories to be issued including for the area heavily damaged by a quake and tsunami a year ago forecasters said a wave of only a foot and a half could be expected to come ashore there is no threat across the rest of the pacific. >>> to the campaign trail

. >> speaking of good stuff let's turn to tucker barnes he has the word on what is going to be a great forecast today hey, tucker. >> yeah, ice cream weather here to stay for the time being, highs upper 70s low 80s later this afternoon hard to believe it is middle of march let's get to it take a look at satellite radar there you go, quiet conditions, a few showers overnight, pushed south and east, low eastern shore now we are looking at more and more sunshine a few clouds from time to time but generally bright skies and we are expecting dry conditions this afternoon temperatures regan national, 56 degrees although you know what we will update in just a moment and suddenly going to be 63 here in washington 49 fredericksburg, 56 ocean city as you start today, comfortably cool, 59 winchester your forecast today and again we are expecting high temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s all right my map won't advance but take my word for it highs 80 later today more details on the forecast and a peek at the weekend in just a minute. >>> tucker thank you our big story a man accused of killing

so we sent tucker out. >> yes. he will tell us if it is going to last through the weekend. tucker?t minute preparations here. and i want to give a big thanks to elvis. aka, dan cruise. one of the organizers here of the event. rock and roll marathon. >> one for the money. two for the show. >> there you go. >> we will have a lot of fun out here tomorrow. and you promise the party is in the back of the race. >> we like to party in the back of the pack. the fun gets under way tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. and parts will take the metro. 6:00 a.m., parties will take the metro at 6:00 a.m. and get ready and be here early. the post race concert at 11:00. and happy saint patrick's day. >> and look what he has been hooking me up with all morning long, tony and allison. ready to get down to business. >> oh, whoa. >> the five-day forecast. a couple of shots. don't you like that, allison? >> thunderstorms back in the forecast. this weekend. we will bee,

westbound 32 reports of accident activity tucker.ate accidents popped up 198 and 295 the roadway is being blocked off as we speak. if you are travelling southbound 270, lanes open coming out of gaithersburg still heavy and slow headed down toward it is belt way, belt way outer loop remains congested work your way 95 college park headed around toward that accident scene we had near new hampshire avenue, inner loop below speed as well for those around the belt way. >> we will map out problems here if you are travelling -- well, maybe not, if you are travelling the belt way outer loop, slow headed into silver spring, inner loop slows, route 1 that is where we had earlier problems cleared to the shoulder that is a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. >> all right thank you very much we thing of dcs georgetown neighbourhood a picture of a thriving african american community might not come to mind these days but that wasn't always the case. >> as we continue our look back at neighbourhoods we learn the complex of the georgetown crowd has c

you just wait. >> bring it on, tucker barnes. >>.ucker barnes is talking about all the fog we are talking about. if you are traveling outer loop of the beltway approaching route one, the accident activity is what is tying up the two left lanes. delays from before the baltimore-washington parkway headed out around towards greenbelt. southbound 270 below speed as you work your way out towards hyattstown. no incidents, just volume delays. you will find slow traffic on the inner loop approaching 236. northbound 95 now starting to slow as you work your way north of the prince william parkway and continue across the occoquan. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> a parking change meant to make it easier for handicapped drivers to find a spot has been suspended. the red top meter program was meant to discorning drives would are not disabled from using handicapped smoots. it requires disabled drivers to feed the meter doing away with free spots. but the drivers are allowed to park for twice as long as the stated tim

. >> i am allison seymour looking forward to another nice day tucker barnes has all the details. >> good morning going to be a beautiful day temperatures in the 60s cooler than yesterday and a little breezy, should be a dry thursday. current conditions 57 washington now, cooling off here last couple hours, 58 baltimore, let's see ocean city, 61 degrees, 53 hagerstown. winds picking up out of the north and west a breezy day as mentioned, with breezes, up to 25 miles per hour, sentinel radar, the beam going around and around and looking at clear skies should be in for a lot of sunshine for your thursday. forecast, good one, 64 daytime high in washington, 65 and 61 martins burg, breezy conditions more details on the forecast. in just a minute let's do traffic with julie wright. >>> if you are travelling inbound pennsylvania avenue trying to work your way through southeast washington accident activity involving the over turned vehicle significant tie ups, rolling down the hill from branch avenue again that will be your major tie up in southeast washington but the accident according to v dot

a desperate tucker then wrote madoff. "dear bernie: we apologize.these redemptions are panic- driven. our firm is very dependent on its relationship with your firm. our mission is to remain in business with you." but it was too late. the scheme was up. on december 11, the morning after madoff had allegedly confessed to his sons, the fbi knocked on his door and asked if there was an innocent explanation. madoff said, no, it was, "one big lie." >> he confessed with pride. like, "look what i did. i mean, you're not going to believe what i did when you get to the bottom of this." >> here's a guy who thinks he got over on the world for the last 30 years and doesn't have a bit of remorse. and too bad. >> i have no interest in psychoanalyzing madoff. the man... the man is a monster, he's evil. i cannot fathom hurting every single person i met, every dear friend. it just doesn't get worse than that. >> there's nothing that i would like to say to bernie madoff that i can say on television. but this may be the only huge fraud in history where the government h

tucker looking rather manly. >> thank you very much tony.like i should be running for president or something they never wear jackets whichever >> at a certain point they don't. >>> right. >> they try to play it cool. good morning showers and thunderstorms moving through they continue here at the time being but you know what i think most of the day will feature a mix of sun and clouds. there is a live look again lightning associated with this storminess that has been tracking in an unusual way from north to south and now pushing into southern maryland as you get down towards waldorf or la plata you will have thunderstorms shortly you can see it moving through prince georges county as well. here is your bigger picture let's move to max 2 there you can see we don't have a lot of thunderstorm and or shower activity, just one band pushing through the city and points east here at the moment most of the day will be sort of mixed with periods of cloudiness and sunshine, it will feel a little soupy for the first day of spring high temperatures will b

is doing one he doesn't know anything about it. >> okay. >> tucker loses every year.the hoyas are in columbus getting ready for their date with belmont, you expect to win that when you fill out your bracket but once you get past these first round games really you can just kind of flip a coin. seatings go out -- seedings go out the window it was a high seed for georgetown i don't think many people thought this was a tournament team so congratulations for georgetown we will see how they do out in columbus. >>> president of the united states i want to take him to task he does this every year he does his picks every year the busiest man in the year yet he finds time to fill out a bracket. >> that's true i will do a bracket. >> he is doing this with andy cats espn. last two years he picked kansas and he says they have broken his heart two years in a row he told that to the head coach. hey, coach, i picked you two years in a row what is he doing? going back to his roots picking unc once again, to win the whole thing. >> okay. >> no love for georgetown? here is my thing with

tony and allison back to you. >> thank you tucker.tt romney wins yesterday's primary in the caribbean and former massachusetts governor is hoping to solidify his front runner status in tomorrow's primary in illinois he easily won the puerto rican primary with 80% of the vote allowing him to take all 20 delegates at stake yesterday the win might help with latinos who live in the state in november. he is already campaigning in the politically rough and tumble illinois. >> we appreciate the fact that you are going to be out voting on tuesday i need you to vote multiple times though. this is chicago right. >> polls show that romney should do well tomorrow but rick santorum is not far behind. allison. >> tony there are an estimated 500,000 black churches in america, and over 5 million unregistered voters inside the black church empowerment movement is a new initiative aimed at getting 1 million people to vote this is being led by a maryland pastor with more information is that pastor, reverend bryant pastor of empowerment temple in baltimo

a live lookout side, there is that shot gain, you can't see much we have a lot of fog out there, tucker barnes is going to give us the latest on the weather forecast and julie wright will be along, to show us what is happening on the roads fox 5 morning news will be right back [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any other provider. ♪ love can be so mystical ♪ my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool

tucker, perhaps rain in the forecast today, right? >> yeah, could be a shower or two. it's not going to rain all day. a good thunderstorm complex to the west this morning. >> sort of springtime or summertime pattern already emerging here. >> we needed the rain. maybe it's a good thing. >> yeah, we do. we had about .50 so far this month and a lot of plants need watering. >> they do. but i can't decide whether, the windows are open, shut, open, shut. >> i'm doing allergies now. so i'm closing things down at my house. >>> let's get to it and take a look at temperatures. 57 in washington. so relatively cool in spots. baltimore is -- is 49. and thunderstorms that are just to the west. the satellite radar, in west virginia, a good thunderstorm complex. most of the energy dipping to the south and west of of us. i don't think we will see the rain. well to the west, that part of the viewing area, you could see a few showers this morning. but for the rest of us, cloud cover and sunshine during the day. but it's possible we could get a few more showers bubbling up this later toda

>> nice hair. >> thank you. >> looking good, tucker barnes.outhbound 270 coming in from 109, no problems to report. light traffic volume there. you will find your lanes are open if you are traveling northbound 395 leaving duke street headed out to the 14th street bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. raffic. . >>> mitt romney picking up more endorsements. later today, the republican candidate for president will get an official endorsement from the senior president bush in houston. george h. w. bush unofficially endorsed romney last december. also, florida senator marco rubio has endorsed romney two months after the primary in florida. meantime, romney is now getting taxed by the white house. as fox's james rosen shows us, vice president biden called him out on the campaign trail. >> joe biden. >> reporter: campaigning at an engineering firm in iowa, vice president biden unleashed a scorching tax on mitt romney casting the gop frontrunner as an enemy of american manufacturing. >> as governor of massachusetts he repeatedly slashed

hi, tucker. >> hi. good morning sarah, good morning everybody. a lot of sunshine for the first part of your friday. we have quiet conditions out there at the -- home. temperature right now, we're cool out there. still got frost advisory north and west of the city. 46 in washington, lots of sunshine to start your day, mild afternoon highs in the 60s and we'll cloud up late here today and the rain will hold off until tonight. >> all right, tucker, thanks. >>> this the fox 5 morning news. >>> checking our top stories this morning, a fair fairfax county gang is being charged with sex trafficking for recruiting girls as young as 16 years old. >>> a special prosecutor appoints to oversee the trayvon martin case says she may not need a jury in this case. she said she might just arrest george zimmerman without presenting any evidence to a grand jury. >>> later today the nine justices of the supreme court are hold ago preliminary vote on the challenges of the health care law. i would venture to say this is one of the only stories people care about today.

curtis tucker was arrested at a va clinic. prosecutors say a dna match showed curtis tucker killed and sexually assaulted 13-year-old julie mcelhiney in her home back in 1974. some of julie mcelhiney's former schoolmates were that hearing. curtis tucker is being held without bail. >>> twin sisters who were found dead together in the house they shared have been laid to rest together. the ashes were together at a cemetery. there is no word on the causes of their death. the sisters were 73 years old. >>> scott olsen who was injured during a "occupy oakland" protest is closer to suing. his attorney says he filed a claim against the city and police on friday. it is seeking monetary damages for injuries he suffered when a bean bag fired by police hit his head. neither the city or the police department commented yet. >>> the bill would prohibit a spouse convicts offend a crime from receiving spousal support from a victim. a victim was ordered to pay $1,000 a month to her husband after he was convicted of raping her. >>> two men died

that is your forecast allison and tony back to you at the desk. >> thank you tucker.ng a spender or saver whether you realize it or not your kids are take irthey financial cues from you. >>> how do you make sure the message on money is the right message fox consumer reporter steve says it is all about their age good morning steve >> good morning to you guy it is nice thing about this, it is never too early to start and never too late to learn, so even if you don't have children you can still take something away from the conversation today let's talk about those kids children need to be taught about money starting as early as 5 years old in a way that can actually relate to. it is hard for kids to identify with delays gratification, set audio tape system that allows them to see progress -- set up a system that allows them to see progress start with a jar of change when the goal is reached saving a weekly allowance the kid gets the prize or purchase, the lesson you teach them needs to be as well this jar is cool it counts the money for your child as it goes in. >> wow.

we hold tucker up in our arms when we do the traffic sometimes. pavement and delays if you are traveling southbound along 270. lanes are open right now. no problems to report as you continue to work your way southbound making your way in from 109 headed out towards montgomery village avenue. the lanes here are open but it is heavy, slow and steady. the funeral procession is south of laurel, south of 212 making its way to the outer loop. authorities tell me they are doing temporary closures to allow the funeral procession to continue around the outer loop of the beltway to the southbound george washington parkway. expect additional delays on the outer loop westbound 495 leaving college park and continuing around towards 270. traveling eastbound on the freeway headed to the third street tunnel, accident activity here. some traffic is able to get by in the center of the roadway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> it has been closed to the public since the august earthquake but this weekend, the national cathedral's centra

tucker, you want to do the first one. >> okay.on't remember the question but it is from julie in alexandria. will it ever snow in alexandria this winter? >> answer. >> we got a minute. we have plenty of time. this is a short answer. >> it is game over. game over. >> sorry. >> winter officially ends the first day of spring is march 20th this year. it is not going to get -- it might get cold enough one night but we are he in the going to have any more snow. it will not snow if alexandria before winter is over. >> no indication of t. >> plane tickets to switzerland. >> our next question, actually, one posterior -- person wrote three questions in one e maim. necessities are from steven in maryland. he writes, what makes stars appear and why does it seem there aren't as many as there used to be? also, where do the big dip are and little dipper come from. okay. good questions. what make stars appear. well, tucker? >> here is the deal. the stars there are all the time. we just can't see them during the daylight hours because the sun is s

i was tweeting tucker yesterday.roads, lanes are open no problems to report as you travel as. >> the american legion bridge headed towards tyson's. accident activity reported along the gw parkway at the entrance for the cia. no problems to report at this time for those continuing their trip on the beltway between an annandale and merrifield. all lanes are open in each direction at the wilson bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> it is super tuesday. and it could turn out to be a crucial day in picking the republican candidate for president. >> voters heading to the polls later this morning in 10 states with over 400 delegates up for grabs. virginia is one of them and for more on today's vote, we'll turn to fox 5's melanie alnwick live at a polling station in great falls. any signs of life out there yet. >> reporter: yes, as a matter of fact, there are, care a the polls will open here in just about a half hour so the campaign workers have already arrived and they're inside getting thi

tucker barnes with us now. >> good morning cooler temperatures on the way. in the forecast, a live shot and you notice the camera is bumping around a little bit that is because the winds are moving in and the theme around here for our monday will be a lot of wind in fact winds will gust to 30 to 35 miles per hour, later today, all right comfortably cool, 56 regan national, 53 annapolis, colder off to the north and west this morning, 35 currently in detroit, chicago, 38 tomorrow morning we will wake up with upper 20s low 30s across the area as some of our coldest air this month, set to arrive later this afternoon and tonight, all right here are your winds starting to pick up west, 16 your latest wind gusts in washington, 23 dulles, 22 martins burg that front is moving through behind it there will be a lot of wind and temperatures moving on in. there is your satellite radar, off the coast a few clouds out there mostly a sunny day and again with the winds out of the north and west, blustery and feel chilly later this afternoon bring along a jacket, 64 we will d

. >> tucker barnes down here in the weather center keeping a close eye on what is going on outside. >> it is getting nicer and nicer, the mild temperatures are back we will be in the 60s later this afternoon, 43 regan national, 40 dulles, 39 in hagerstown, ocean city good morning 45 degrees for you, let's show you on satellite radar, just a few clouds moving through, from the west it will be a mostly sunny day, high pressure next chance of rain in here thursday and friday, sit back and enjoy the temperatures highs mid-60s that is enough from me tony back to you. >>> all right tucker thank you tests show a strain of the flu played a role in the deaths of at least two of three family members from calvert county. >>> the symptoms seemed like a cold at first and then suddenly turned deadly, melanie alnwick is live at washington hospital center where a fourth family member is being treated now. >> reporter: good morning allison maryland health officials say they do hope to have an update later this morning on exactly which strain of influenza we are talking about, they have not specified s

i'm thinking along with that sun there will be a little wind and possibly a little bit of rain, tucker barnes, depending on where you're at, right? >> will, you called it. >> but it's friday. would cares? >> i care. >> i know but we're glad it's friday. >> i get what you're saying. when all is said and done, we'll be looking at sunshine and cooler temperatures today. radar, and you can see the activity here south and east of the city. we are generally done with the rain. we've got wind that will pick up here out of the north and west and the cooler temperatures will settle in. still some height shower activity and then some sunshine here i think will build in shortly thereafter our sunrise at about 6:30 this morning. let's do color temperatures. 51 at reagan national. dulles, 50. and your forecast for today, we'll start the day with clouds. could be a leftover shower and then the breezes will really pick up later this morning. temperature in the mid- to upper 50s. noticeably cooler than yesterday. >> made for a run a little bit easier, right? >> anything that make my run easier makes m

. >> i heard tucker had vomiting. >> reporter: he ate something that disagreed him. >> what happens is that after the thaw there is a lot of good things out there for them. >> reporter: the doctor calls it a buffet. >> we treat that with in 24 hours, that will get the better. >> reporter: he is reminded of the other ailment that come along with the warm weather. >> we have seen fleas and ticks. >> reporter: dogs and cats treated as soon as possible. they should be protected against heart worm disease. >> a tablet you give once a month and it protects against heart worm and against parasites, round room and hook worm and whip worms that they can get through walking through infected dirt or mud that other dogs have gone in. >> reporter: as for tucker by the time he looked at him the problems had stopped. chances are given his nature whatever was out there still is and he could likely get into it again. >> look at tucker. that was sarah reporting. there is not a lot you can do to stop your dog from eating grass or sticks. if he is sycamore than 48 hours call the vet. >> now, maryland's mo

. >> tucker barnes is standing by now, tucker a great friday, can we? >> i can guarantee you a great friday. can't guarantee great friday weather allison. >> oh. thanks anyway. >> it is a -- and actually the first half of the day not going to be bad. plenty of sunshine and temperatures, a little bit above normal. but later this afternoon the rain showers back in the forecast. let's get to it and show you the satellite picture, cool start to the day and temperatures generally in the upper 20s and low 30s. if you're outside the beltway. so chilly start to your day. going to start with sunshine but look what's lurking to the south and west. cloud cover and some showers and thunderstorms. now pressing into eastern kentucky and tennessee. that will be moving in a little later this afternoon. so i think by 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 today, we'll have some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm moving back into the area here. we're going to time it out a little bit. temperatures, 42 in washington and lots of 30s on the map this morning. 36 in fredericksburg, ocean city, 33

bill kristol, tucker carlson and charles lane, opinion writer for the "washington post."is issue and how it's playing? >> the conventional wisdom is if you are president and the gas prices go up that's bad for you. as a conservative and wishes republicans well, i'm worried if you end up in a micro debate about gas prices the president lost opportunity to do little things, release oil petroleum reserve. make a lot of little gestures. republicans that i think need and the truth is even if we had done every policy for the last three years, gas prices wouldn't be that different from what we are today. the number isn't big enough to alternate. i'm for drilling, for progressive energy policy. if you get to a micro level debate, republicans could lose. if you get in a big debate about regulation and energy policy, and don't focus on, don't pretend, though, we can, that either party could effect the price of gas, very much in the short-term, the republicans would be better off. >> if his argument is supply is not the answer and lower demand is the answer. releasing from the strat

tucker barnes, you are out there. you got the punk tie too, my friend. >> good morning. -- you got the pink tie too, my friend. >> good morning. this is the pick. week weather-wise to get down here. i'll have all the details on the forecast and let you know what we'll be doing down here at the tidal basin coming up right after the break.  >>> welcome back. we take a bird's eye view of wisconsin avenue this morning and temperatures will be really warm out there. already kind of warm out there for this time of the day as well. but it will be a nice day if you want to get out and take in the cherry blossoms. >> i noticed coming in this morn, not as much fog. i had the top down in my car to sort of enjoy it while i could before i came inside the bunk are here for work. tucker barnes, you are outside enjoying this warm weather. i'm hoping you've loaded up to claritin today. >> yeah, you got that right. and you mentioned the lack of fog. i noticed stars just a minute ago looking out over the tidal basin. it is abso

. >>> all right tucker thank you. new this morning defense secretary is in afghanistan, leon panetta sat down with afghanistan's president a little while ago. >> the u.s. soldier accused of massacring 16 villagers, as nicole collins reports panetta was targeted as he arrived. >> reporter: the already tense unannounced visit by defense secretary leon panetta got off to an alarming start with a security breach though it is unclear if the attacker knew he was there. >> leon panetta met with karzai, to talk about a string of increasing violence an afghan interpreter died from extensive burns after crashing a stolen pick up truck in a ditch. >> at no time was the secretary or the secretary's delegation in any danger whatsoever. >> secretary panetta spoke with afghan soldiers and u.s. troops who in a rare move were both told to come unarmed panetta acknowledged recent difficult events and spoke of trust between coalition and afghan forces and afghan people. >> that is extremely important if we are to succeed in this mission

speaking of tucker barnes, let's agree there right now because it is so pretty out there. we want to get there immediately. >> check out the cherry blossoms this morning. tony and allison will join us in our next hour. i see you've got the pink tie flowing today. >> yeah, i save it up every year so i can wear it on this big occasion. today is the day to get down here. we are starting to notice a few petals down on the ground. i think with wind and rain in the forecast, today might be the peak as far as the blossoms go this year. should be a beautiful day. come down and join us. we are situated right next to the martin luther king, jr. memorial. it should be a beautiful sunrise as well. we do have fog to the north. a dense fog advisory continues across northern around central maryland. locally, let's get to it and talk temperatures. at reagan national, we are 61 degrees now. 50s there for the remaining airports. after a mild start, temperatures should very quickly jump without much fore today. ic we'll be well into the 70s by late morning and we are expecting high temperatu

it didn't work out. >> tucker. >> it is cold everybody.reos i have had a lot of sugar and coffee. >> that explains it. >> 31 washington lots of cold temperatures off to the north and west, 22 dulles, chilly temperatures let me mention one more time off to the south here where we have a snow pack possibility of ice. temperatures in the 20s it will take a few more hours to warm up the atmosphere, annapolis, 31 degrees this will be our coldest morning for the next 5 to 7 days guaranteed as we have a nice warming trend starting later this afternoon a little warmer than we were yesterday and then the real warm up starts during the day tomorrow. lots of quiet, one shot earlier, high conditions, high pressure, clear skies, one or two clouds off to the north and west, roll through the northern tier of our viewing area that will be about it, let's look at our surface maps and again just a few clouds expected later today high pressure will keep things nice and dry around here for the next couple days, this area will flip off the -- slip off the coas

it was a 3-3 tie, tucker told me folks are happy about it. >> who? >> salvador januarys.eam captain called the loss quote the worst feeling i have ever felt in my life so far as a pro athlete the u.s. needed to win to reach saturday's semi finals in kansas. >>> freddie adou you don't hear that name very much any more. >> one more maryland lawmaker is a big fan of the boss governor o'malley, loves bruce springsteen now the governor is having other maryland state lawmakers read up on a recent springsteen interview. >> washington post got ahold of an interview, where he highlighted powerful springsteen quotes. he gave his thoughts on the state of the nation one quote highlighted reads quote you cannot have a social contract with the enormous income disparity you will slice the country down the middle without jobs without helping folks with foreclosures regulating banks and without some sort of tax reform i don't think the country will hold together. >> quite the interview, a lot of politics in the interview the interview conducted by john stuart. >> that's right. >> very int

later on, tucker, maybe not so much? >> maybe a shower or thunderstorm. out the cherry blossoms yesterday. they are totally done. really? >> you were there last friday in the thick of the thing. >> it is terrible how quickly they flip over. >> we are looking for a warm-up today. >> it will be spring-like today with temperatures in the 70s. much warmer than yesterday. about 20 degrees warmer than yesterday. let's get to your radar. sarah mentioned the possible of a shower or a thunderstorm later and you do want to be ready for that. i think best chance of that will be any time after about 2:00 or 3:00 today working in from the west. we've got a weak cold front. it is so weak we don't have any showers associated with it right now. but out towards cleveland, if you see that flashing there just to the north and east of cleveland, that is actually part of that fronteddal -- fontal system that will be surging into the area later today. 48 in washington. winds have shifted out of the south at 13 miles per hour. we will be warm today, could be a shower or thunder

let's say good morning to tucker barnes now and get the latest. what a gorgeous picture that was. >> beautiful. >> oranges, red, all kinds ever colors out there in the sky. >> don't be fooled. it is cold out there with temperatures in the 20s and low 30s. you no whats time for. will has not seen it yet. it is time for the bus stop forecast. >> this is new for me. >> our big jolly bus full of kids. -- you know what it's time for? >> that is amazing artwork. >> thank you. we like to fake full credit for all the hard work we do in the weather center. kids headed to school, brr. ! cold temperatures. sunshine with temperatures generally below freezing. they will need a jacket, maybe even the gloves and hat today. >> the scarf, i think so. >> temperatures are on the chilly side where we've got the snowpack off to the south. we are now 30 degrees at reagan national. 23 in gaithersburg. 26 this morning in fredericksburg. if you hope it up a little bit, temperatures, look at that, we have teens to the north. 14degrees and 20 in boston. for a change, we are

i have one question, tucker barnes. >> go ahead. >> nutty buddy nation, where you at?we got to kick it into gear. >> it will be one of those days. we have to teach will thomas what nutty buddies are. he just learned banana boat earlier this week. 395 coming across the 14th street bridge, no problems to report as you cross over the potomac. this is still an easy ride and yes, the overnight construct on the inner loop approaching the springfield interchange has cleared. no sign of any roadwork up at 123 in the tyson's area. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. >>> eight additional cameras are in the police department as 2013 budgeet for arlington. there are currently four red light cameras and they have general rate nearly $600,000 in revenue just last year. skyrocketing gas prices could bring a plan to raise the gas tax in maryland to a screeching halt. the state senate's president says he is not sure lawmakers have the stomach to pass the bill and may save the issue for a special session later in the year. the money generated from the tax would help