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brings us a nice looking day tomorrow and friday. we will talk about he chance of showers and the low pressure center. sunny tomorrow and saturday, and acouple of thunderstorms moving through the weekend. candace dold is here. >> reporter: we are talking about a tranquil start to this checking on the main lines, at harford road, you can see why. the lanes are wide open both on the inner and outer loop direction. that's the same scenario all the way 95, toward 83. we are in the green, 5 54 miles per hour. as far as the commute through baltimore it's increasing with volume on southbound 95. fort mchenry tunnel, 8 minutes at 55 miles per hour and bee miles per hour with -- 53 miles per hour with an 8 minute clip harbor tunnel all the way down toward 95. ttat's a look at the morning travels. megan, back to you. 6:01 fox 45 morning news. he admitted he tried to have sex with a minor. now former middle river soccer coach charles frido will be sentenced today. the 33 years old was sending sexually explicit text messages to a 14 years old and asked her to send some to him. he didn't know who else was reading those messages. detectives say they were contacted last summer by the victim's parents who saw the messages that were sent to their daughter. the 14 years old is the sister of one of frido's players. he requested the graphic pictures from her, and asked her to meet for sex. they set up a meeting and arrested him at i convenient store. >> this is a soccer coach whose parents entrust. he has breached their trust and now we're concerned that more victims are out there. since he was arrested last summer, police have not reported anymore allegations but they're asking anyone who had inappropriate contact with frido to contact the baltimore county pleas department. a cult leader responsible for the death of one-year-old boy will spend by years behind bars. queen a antoinette was sentenced in court yesterday and told the judge she was not sorry or guilty. three cult members starved the one years old for not saying amen before meals. the baby's grandmother want a harsher sentence his her grandson was sentenced to death. >> if you kill a baby and say i did nothing wrong, what is wrong? just like jo van he lost the rest of his life. >> reporter: markus cobbs one of the cult members received a 15 years old sentence as did trevia williams, the queen's daughter. a baltimore county church was broken but parishoners say through little divine intervention their prayers were answered. on saturday night, thieves stole church papers, the computer and even the band equipment from the calvary church. it even forced the pastor to deliver his message outdoors that day. two police officers noticed three men outside of a pawnshop waiting to open. in their vehicle the stolen items from the church. the three men are charged with burglary at the detention center. a florida man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the brutal stabbing of a baltimore county woman. she was stabbed more than 60 times on thanksgiving day. rex wesley was sentenced yesterday for killing donna jean brown. in 2008 brown was found by her stepmother inside of this randallstown home. the judge said the public would never be safe if rex was set free. a man a indicted for allegedly strangling his cell mate. christopher white is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of cleerance myers junior. myers was sentenced and facing charges for having the girl's mother killed while behind bars. a towson psychiatrist loses his license for allegedly having inappropriate contact with young children. after an independent investigation, state board of physicians found that miguel frontera acted inappropriately with about a dozen preteen boys there in hhs care. the investigate results have been passed on to baltimore county authorities for a possible criminal investigation. frontera denies any wrongdoing. doctors in maryland voice their dissatisfaction with insurance companies. med kai the medical society released results of survey yesterday. doctors is said that the protocol has a negative effect on their ability to treat patients. and 45% say that insurance deny medication or necessary tests. we will talk with med kai ceo of about what the results of the survey mean for your medicare. that is coming up later this hour. it will be the most stressful 8 minutes of their entire life. joel d smith is live downtown where upstart business owners will have 8 minutes to convince investors to give them millions3 and millions of dollars worth of funding, good morning, joel. >> reporter: it all comes down to the pretious 8 minutes. good morning, to you. we have the two day's worth of folks learning more of their companies. it's called the capital connection. it's been going on for more than 20 years. a lot of pressure for the folks who are trying to secure the money from the millions of dollars that they have out there. i got ned here from notable solutions. what do you do. >> we take the steps to get the copier machines to eliminate paper. we're able to automate the paper processes and electronic documents for the companies and be more efficient. >> reporter: you have been here before. you presented before, how did that go. >> three years ago. we raised $5 million on first round. >> reporter: very good. someone might think, you got money before, why are you back? >> well, to raise more money. we are growing 2% over the last three years annually. >> reporter: someone may think, you're growing, why do you need more money since you're already doing well? >> it's to do better. we see more opportunities and more market developing and the situation is changing in the market. in europe and latin america, and north america, so the three geographies, are quite a bit different. >> reporter: he calm, cool and collected because he has done this before. but for a lot of people, 8 minutes to be in front of the investors and it could be a make or break for some of those companies out there. >> based on who is there you can tell what industries have the most promises of the does that say anything about the jobs and developments. >> reporter: you're talking about cyber security. education, but not just regular education, cyber education and it is a big deal. you're seeing that there's trends going on specifically within those fields that are with where the jobs going and where the money is going today. wish them all luck. coming up singing for the come, come and let me know ♪ ♪ i'll be home >> what the judges thought of crystal's first and second song. and i'm jessica starr coming up this morning on the hometown hot spot, i'm going it tell you about the free money fun day that will be celeerate your style. this weekend it is family fun day on the avenue at whitemarsh and that is where we find meteorologist jessica starr this morning with all the details in this morning's hometown hot spot. hi, jess. >> reporter: good morning, there's going to be so many he caexciting things going on here. it's free, arts and crafts and entertainment and to give you a preview of all of the exciting things. tell me about it. >> we have a lot of exciting things, live performances all day, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and we have our sponsors where you got as mmrshy point doing animal activities, and you get to meet the live creatures. we have fire engines, sheriff cars, sneaks in the library, the oriole bird. a home depot, and woodwork shop and lots of arts and crafts activities including any vendors for anyone who doesn't have children. a lot of fun for everyone of all ages. >> reporter: i'm go to come to winny who has a snake. tell me about the snake here this morninn. >> we have acorn snake and it's a native to maryland. it usually likes to be on the ground but it's a great climber. it's hanging out on my arm. you see snakes on trees. they're great climbers even though they don't have hands or feet. >> reporter: will the kids be able to get close and personal and touch the animals. >> we will be bringing a variety of animals, a opossum, turtle and the snake so the kids can get close up and have a hands on experience with them. >> reporter: you need to come and have your children. if you don't have any children, it's going to be fun and intertainment with a lot of raffles going on. if you want information go to foxbaltimore.com/morning. a little bit warmer, and a chance of a thunderstorm otherwise a pretty nice day. for a look at the forecast, to see if we're going toe se to see sunshine, we head to the steve at the sky watch center. >> reporter: i thought you were timid when it came to snakes. >> no, it's for cockroaches. >> reporter: no snakes on the map but just a couple of drizzle -- well maybe raindrops you can call it. a little drizzle, sky watch hd radar you get the point, a moisture in the area, what we're looking is generalldryy conditions, sky hd radar indicating showers to the south and the north. we don't have to worry maybe just a light shower this afternoon possible because there's moisture that is being circulated in around the low pressure. that low is moving away. bief degrees righ55 degrees rig3 55 is the temperature, d.c. is about the same. the low 50s, dein hagerstown. these temperatures will climb aa little bit. not impossible to get a shower. there's a trough behind it as it pushes through, but that low will move out of here. the good news is high pressure will move out of the way. it will bring sunshine for tomorrow and especially friday and it's going to look a whole lot nicer then. this low could bring us a shower or thunderstorm as jessica was indicating for sunday. 67 degrees for the high in the eastern shore today. can't rule out a shower chance with a northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. the central part of the state, mostly cloudy as well but warmer than yesterday, 66, 69 degrees, northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. further points west, looking for a high temperature of 68 degrees with a chance of a shower. tonight 54, mostly cloudy skies, it turns partly cloudy overnight, west northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour and a chance for an evening shower. as we look ahead over the next 7 days, we're going to look at let's start for today. how fast does it warm up, we will see a chance or a shower 60% chance of a shower pushing through. generally dry and mostly cloudy skies. 63 at noon, it's a lot better than yesterday when we were in the 50s all day long. 68 degrees at 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high temperature of 69 at 4:00 this afternoon. partly cluey skie cloudy skies . saturday and sunday looking at temperatures that are comfortable enough, dispef 77 aa on saturday a chance for a thunderstorm. it won't be an all day even, but it will definitely be a possibility. mostly cloudy skies on monday and partly cloudy skies on tuesday. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45's powerful doppler radar to see incoming storms. interactive tools will let you see when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com. you have to go there and click on iradar. now with a look at what is happening on the roadways, candace dold has the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we don't have much to complain out there on the main lines as far as 95 is concerned, we're looking good. 50 miles per hour on the southbound lanes traveling through whitemarsh and at 61 miles per hour on the 95 right at 395. there's, however, trouble in westminister this morning, a crash near mcdaniel college completely shutdown route 31 at route 140. you will want to use western maryland college drive as the alternate route. now once you get past all of that, right near 795, let's check it out this morning moving at cockeys mill. you will see that is favorable conditions, northbound and southbound lanes, that's the scenario all the way down toward the beltway. on the beltway so far so good. as far as incidents are concerned, but let's check in on the volume moving right at 70. can you see it's definitely increasing very quickly there on the outer loop lanes. buu then, a little bit farther down at frederick road, let's check it out there because the traffic is flowing freely and that continues to be the case. so it does ease up once you finally do hit the frederick road area and eventually toward 95. that's a look at the morning travels, megan, back over to you. coming up know your credit numbers, your next employer might, how it can cost you if you don't. come, come ♪ ♪, i'll be home >> and crystal gives it her all, hoping to make the american idol finale. jo jo and regular an from mix so, verizon fiosincludes like facebook, twitter, even access to youtube right on your tv, instead of crowding around your computer. hey -- have you seen the walking ham? walking... the ham's got boots on... i'm not sure i have. or the soapy monkey? oh, my 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[ male announcer ] introducing youtube, straight to your tv. only on verizon fios. this is beyond cable. this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. 0 i'll be home ♪ ♪ i'll be home ♪ i'm coming home ♪ >> it's the fight for the finale. last night on american idol it was singees and judges' choice. crystal bower sox chose "come to my window" for her song and it didn't ggt rave reviews. jo jo and regula reagan from mi6 are broadcasting live from our studios. good morning, guys. >> hi, patrice. >> we're down to the end of this and i think we both know who is going to be the final two. what did you think of crystal's per form answer. -- performance. >> i thought lee emerged as the favorite now. >> not just his singing, but the judges pushed him to top. >> they were cornating him. they were making it obvious that they should vote casey off. >> they sure did. >> when simon says your song sounds like the salad. >> salad for the final three that is not a compliment. >> what do you think about the fact that it may come down to crystal and lee. who has the chops to pull it out. >> i think right now lee is emerging. crystal last -- not that she was terribly bad, but lee looks like he really wants it. i think the producers will like him at an artist. they can mold him more than crystal. >> i like crystal and lee throughout the whole thing. this point, i do believe. >> suggestion with lee, can we do something about the weird facial hair? it's strange, is not it. >> we will work on that. guys, we do got to get back with you guys, we have so much more about the idol contestants and their singing and all of that. we will check back in. >> all right. >> you can find out which contestant goes home starting tonight at 9:00 here on fox 45. fox 45 will bring you live coverage of the idol finale all next week. you know candace always goes up to hollywood. she is going to be starting reporting live on sunday on fox 45 news at 10:00. here it morning you will find out who we are sending to hollywood. we will reveal the winner of the sing for your seats contest and who wins seats to the american idol finale. it's going to be a big morning. we want to know what you think about all of this. who should make it to the american idol finale, lee, crystal or casey? that is the questioo of the day. we will take your calls during our 7:00 hour. tell us what you think or send us a tweet at fox baltimore. coming up next, new home sales increase. what has more pounding the nai nails. what caused to crash that >>the senate passed an amendment that will give people free access to their credit score. the impending pink slips of pharmaceutical giant, fiesers pr plans to get rid of 6,000 positions and this follows the acquisition of wi wythe. good now news for constructn workers whose business took a beating during the housing crisis. the credit expired last month. i'm stan case. coming up next, bike racers wipe out. oh, what caused them to crash that could land someone in jail. i'm joel d smith at the baltimore hilton this morring where there are billions, as i said, billions with a b, billions of dollars in invested monee ready to go to folks who [wind rustling] [sound of waves crashing] [upbeat whistling in background] discover all that northwest florida has to offer. seventeen hidden beaches, one revealing destination. fly southwest's new nonstops from bwi airport to panama city beach starting at $99 one-way. (ding) you're taking a live look at our studios where 106 is reporting from here. it's sing for your seats. we have four finalist ho will be singing live on our air. patrice is going to bring the competition today. we want you to know that the winner of todaa's competition is going to go to l.a. for the american idol finale. a lot of exciting things happening this morning. good morning, i'm megan gilliland. and we have a lot of rain so we have been giving steve a hard time and steve has gotten help. hopefulfullyhopefully, steve, wt the help you need. >> reporter: it's all nicholas' fault. and you're from baltimore city? >> yes. >> and you're going to be doing the weather for us in a minute. excited? >> yes. >> i can tell. i will take care of the short weather here. we got a little bit of drizzle. point to a couple of spots here, drizzle areas but all in all a dry start, 55 degrees in baltimore right now. newspaper hagerstown, 52 degrees -- up in hague ire hagerstown, . should get up to 55 degrees for high. we will talk about nicer weather to come. what do you want to tell them now, nicholas? >> who is coming next? >> who is coming next with the traffic? >> candace. >> yeah, with the what? >> candace with the traffic. >> that's what i'm talkinn about. thank you, nicholas. very good job and of course i like the ravens shirt. all right, well, you're going to like what we have to talk about out on the roadways this morning. we are checking in on 895 scooting through the harbor tunnel. you can see there's nothing to impede the commute on either the northbound or the southbound stretch. and that is pretty much the same deal on 95 as well. those southbound lanes taking it from the fort mack henry tunnel toward the beltway an 8 minute clip, 55 miles per hour. as for the beltway, we're in the green from 95 up toward 83, 11 minutes at 54 miles per hour and the same speed with only an 8--inute drive from 83 up toward 795. that's a look at your morning travels, megan, back over to you. thank you be candace. 6:32 on fox 45 morning news. it is sentencing day for a former middle river soccer coach who admitted he tried to have sex way 14 years old girl. the state's attorney for baltimore county personally prosecuted 33 years old charles frido. he is expected to have the judge sentence him to jail time. he pled guilty to one count of solicitation of a minor. police say they were contacted by the victim's parents who saw the inappropriate text messages that were sent to their daughter. frido requested unappropriate ie pictures from her and asked to set up a meeting. they assumed her identity and set up a meeting at a convenient store. >> parents do need to have a grasp of what their kids are doing, in school, in sports, any of that. >> baltimore county police are asking anyone who had inappropriate contact with frido to contact them right away. the family of a man found dead in patapsco state park is now pleading for help finding his killer. the body of matthew martin was found this weekend in a shallow grave in a wooded area in the anne arundel county park. he had been missing for more than a month. martin's family is hoping that someone will come forward with information about who is responsible for his death. >> when you see a missing person sign take a minute, read it, because you might know something. you might not think it's important, but it is and if you can do that, if you don't know something, say a little prayer because they need it. this is devastating to the a family. >> his family says that martin was an avid baseball player who played at mountain high school and college. a jury returns a guilty verdict in the case of a man accused of killing a baltimore county homeowner. prosecutors say last october, james tanner tried to rob this home here in tte up scale granite community. he hit at lamont blackston. while the family was forced to come up with cash and valuable. tanner shot blackston in the back of the head when the family couldn't meet his demands. tanner now faces life without parole. a grand jury in an gale ally county returned the indictment against hall. hall from glen burnie is accused of fatally shooting brandon carol. another student was also hurt in that incident. hall and hart reg ma ridge may e been dating the same woman. someone threw tacks right on the racecourse and look at what happened, a wipe out. it happened during the race at leonard's town on sunday. this video was captured by one the competitors who was wearing a camera on his helmet during the race. it shows a group of competitors hitting the tacks and tumble on to the ground. steve, watth again in low commotion. bryan vaughn the cyclist who shot the video said they were traveling 25 to 30 miles an hour when they hit the tacks. about 45 cyclists suffered cuts and scratches and another one broke the collar intone. bone. whoever is responsible for spreading the tacks could face criminal charges. ehrlich says the state cannot afford the red line project which would create rail line running from woodlawn to john hopkins bay view. the same goes for the purple line project intended to connect montgomery and prince george's county. ehrlich supports expanded bus service instead. many adults list public speaking as their number one fear even above dying. imagine having 8 minutes to give a presentation could result in millions of dollars? joel d smith is live downtown at the capital convention wherein investors will be gathering to dolllout some of that cash. good morning, joel. >> reporter: what an important spot. all the pressure, 8 minutes too3 sell yourself to the crowd. a crude o crude crowd of peoplee millions of dollars to give out. tell me how long you have prepared for the 8 minutes that could mean so much for your company? p> about two weeks. we have two coaches and we do a couple of dry runs, but it's introduce the whole company through 7 slides. it's pretty tough. >> reporter: you have done it before. you ended up getting $5 million. how soon after did you know that you did well? >>actually pretty quickly. about two months afterwards i had two term sheets presenting to various investors. this is a great crowd. they bring in the right investors in and they're all quality investors a piece. >> reporter: how can you tell if they're not listening anymore. what do they do? >> blackberries. they all kind of zone out within a few seconds with you're not >> reporter: keep their. attention. and when it comes to the type of field that you're in and some the fields that are here, describe that a bit. >> we're in the software development so we have copyiers and our software is owned by xerox. >> reporter: a lot of digital technology. this is the capital connection 100 if you are walking around downtown and see some folks, smile at them, they have a lot of money to give out. most of it is going to folks like these. who knows. joel d smith. coming up it's almost time to sinn for your seats. ♪ ♪ my arms are open wide ♪ my arms >> the finalist that will compete for our free trip to see the american idol finale. we're talking about a trip on the beltway this morning. here is a live look at liberty road. that volume is building and it's building pretty quickly there. paper jam. i'm going in. troubleshooting runs on dunkin'. america runs on dunkin'. with our new iced dark roast coffee. it's a bolder blend of america's favorite coffee on ice. grab a delicious cup today. america runs on dunkin'. hurry in today and try the new iced dunkin' dark roast. we are sending someone to hollywood. it's the sing for your seats contest. we found four contest appears to correctly answered our trivia challenge. we had them sing for their seats for their trip to hollywood. jo jo and reagan is broadcasting live from our studios. hi, jo jo and reagan, can you guys hear me. >> you want to hear the clip. >> i said they're broadcasting, think they're broadcasting their show live right now. what we want to talk to them about is the singers, the karaoke singers. they performed karaoke and one of those four will go to hollywood. let's take a listen to some of them. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ something it's my head ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my arms are open wide ♪ i'm making it through >> all right. you just heard them and there they are now live in our studio. we are going to get them to sing again for us live in just a little bit. yes, that wws jim. jim wants you to call. there's jennifer and christine. i don't see shawn. shawn is making his way here. there is shawn. he is getting into his game mode. has to be separate a little bit. we're going to check in with all of them in a little bit and we're going to hear them sing and decide who is going to hollywood. for now we need to check in with meteorologist steve fertig. >> good morning. >> good morning, and nicholas is going to sing for a chance to do weather. >> uh-huh. >> you are. you don't have to sing. you are from baltimore city, right? >> uh-huh. >> do you want to say hi to anybody. >> hi. >> and you take it away when you're ready. right now at the inner harbor. >> right now at the inner harbor, 55. >> 55 degrees and? >> cloudy. >> you got it, winds? >> winds northwest at 3. hamilton -- >> the humidity is at what? >> 80, pressure 20.91 and rising. >> good. >> dew point 49 fahrenheit. >> excellent. what i about the temperatures right now? >> in hagerstown 53. >> yep. >> and baltimore 55. >> salisbury. >> 53. >> excellent. what about the satellite-radar, not a whole lot happening, is there? >> the rain has gone where? >> up to the north, right? >> into new england and let's take a look at the surface features. what is coming our way, though? >> low pressure is going away and high pressure. >> there you go. >> that's right. >> and high pressure is going to bring us what? >> a nice day. >> and the low pressure behind it is going to bring us what? >> a chance of a rainshower. >> for when? >> for saturday. >> thh weekend, saturday andd3 maybe sunday, too. >> here is the forecast, go ahead. >> today? >> today is 59 northwest, 5-10 warmer. >> yep, and just a chance for a shower under mostly cloudy skies, what about tonight? >> tonight 54. >> and mostly cloudy skies turn partly cloudy but what about the winds? -p>> yep. >> west, northwest. >> you got it. >> 5-10 evening shower. >> an evening shower. what about the reet of the week. let's start with today. mostly cloudy and 69 today. what do we have tomorrow? >> thursday 78. >> partly cloudy. >> partly cloudy and 83 is going to be friday's high temperature and mostly what. >> mostly sunny. >> saturday 77. >> it's a. >> rainshower and sunday. >> sunday 78. >> a chance for a shower or thunderstorm. what about monday and tuesday. >> monday 79. >> i'm messing you up there. 79 for both days. you're right. mostly cloudy and tuesday, partly cloudy, right sph. right. now we want to send it back to megan >> back to megan. >> nicholas you did a great job. we have been asking steve sunshine for days. you did it like that. did you have fun. >> uh-huh. >> what do you want to be when you grow up? >> i want to be a police officer like my father. >> very nice. thank you for coming in. you did a wonderful job. if your kid would like to be a weatherrkkd on our show just have a teach r or a principal d us aaletter to 2000 west 41st street, maryland 21211 or send us an e-mail at foxbaltimore.com. good morning, candace. good morning, megan. while it's indeed a decent ride on many of the main lines. it's a good morning. 47 miles per hour on 95 traveling through whitemarsh and at 395. however, not such a fa fantastic morning for people in westminister. that's because we have an accident at mcdaniel college t shuts down two roads. windsor road is shutdown at route 140 and route 140 is blocked at route 97. all in all you want to use western maryland college drive as the alternate route. a much better picture on 795, though, it's smooth sailing from the region all the way from owings mills and then eventually down toward the beltway. on the beltway traveling through the pikesville area, let's check it out at greenspring avenue and that volume is increasing, both the outer loop lanes and the inner loop direction up towarr the 83. let's check it out on 83 and see what is happening above the beltway. a pleasant drive, northbound and southbound lanes down toward charles street. that's a -thanks for coming back out. -sure. i think you might have hooked it up wrong, though. yea, we're getting way too many channels. no, no. that's -- that's standard. fios also comes with 11,000 free movies and shows on demand per month. ah, standard. gotcha. a certain somebody says "thank you." tell him "he's welcome," but it's still standard. he's happy to be back with his friends. is he? [ male announcer ] call now and get fios tv, internet, and phone for just $99.99 a month guaranteed for two years! this is beyond cable. this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. new this morning, antiincumbent fever has served up a defeat for 5 term senator arlen specter. he was defeated in yesterddy's primary race. they chose representative joe sestik. and the ken senne kentucky sena, rand paul won the primary. environmental sciences. last year the bay received a c minus, the improvement is thanks in part to water quality improvement from rivers feeding into the bay. baltimore patapsco and back rivers both received an f. maryland doctors do not like the way health insurers do business. in fact, they say insurance companies are jeopardizing patient's health. that is the result of a new survey done by med chai the maryland state medical society. the survey revealed 99% of insurance companies deny or delay treatment. the problem is so bad, 77% of doctors say they have even considered closing up shop or even moving out of the state. med kai ceo joins us with what this means for your medicare. >> good morning. >> when you did the study were you hoping to get the response that you did from all the doctors. >> obviously, you don't want to get a response where it's clear that the procedures and protocols that the insurance companies have set up are harming patients. >> why do they feel like that. when you look at the numbers all of them above 78%. >> i think they feel this way, because the insurance companies bureaucrats are making decisions that if a test is necessary or a procedure they should be able to order it and do it. the silly procedures are denying patients the ability to get the care they need. >> is this something that's a new thing or something that has been a progressive thing for a few years. >> it's something that has been going on for a period of time. we hear more growing and complaints as the insurance company becomes more and mormon poll iced and the controls become more prevalent. >> quite high, is this the first time you have done a study like this one. >> this is the first time we have done a study like this and the response is strong. >> and the concerns you have gotten before. >> easexactly. >> thank you. coming up later this moment, we're getting clse closer to thr big moment. >> watch our finalist sing for their chance to see the american idol finale live. i am sandra endo in washington be tar balls are the appearance of tar balls in the florida keys has many wondering if the oil spill in the gulf is washing up on the pristine beaches of florida? sandra endo joins us with the latest on this story. good morning, sandra. >> good morning, every day there seems to be a new development on the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. there's optimism here in washington that in fact, the leak lab capped. that is coming from interior secretary kent sals cza salazart the possibility of mud being injected to the leak could close it up for good. he is trying to anticipate some kind of resolution coming up in the next few days. he says that the efforts to tie enregulation -- tie tie 10 tighs in the oil industry. and tar balls are beginning to surface in other beaches along the florida keys and despite the coast guards efforts to try to contain the massive oil spill along the top surface later of the water, still these tar balls are approaching the shore and being found. have a listen. >> tar balls are normal. i mean that happens from that coming up, and i grew up as a kid, and they will go into the beach. so they're normal and now folks are outlooking for them and so they're going to find them. >> reporter: these new tar balls are being found and tested in laboratories. these samples should come back by the end of the week. interesting to note. as hurricane season approaches starting june first, scientists say that the amount of oil mixed into the water could make the impact of these hurricanes less severe. so an interesting side note, but again everything is just speculation at this point. we will see what happens in terms of how this oil slick affects the environment. megan? >> lawmakers want bp to pay up and they want to raise the liability cap to exceed the current $75 million. so what is bp saying about all of that? >> very interesting argument and a big fight going on at capitol hill. lawmakers want to increase the liability cap which is $75 million to $10 billion. and bp for its part is saying, look we will pay more than $75 million but how much more is the big question and that is the question they did not answer. sandra, we will have to stay tuned. thank you very much. >> sure. coming up later this morning, they're getting their vocal chords warmed up. ♪ ♪ let's give them something to talk about ♪ >> watch as our finalists sing for their chance to see american idol finale live in l.a. and i'm joel d smith live at the town downhill to down town s are hentin representing millionf next on phoenix 45 morning news. >> this is a soccer coach who parents entrust. he has breached their trust. >> sentencing for a man who add admits he tried to have sex with children. how much time he could spend behind bars. it's an alternative to a purse. we put the rack trap to the will it work test. ♪ ♪ >> and singing for their seats. who we're sending to the american idol finale in hollywood. good morning. you are taking a live look in our studios and you're seeing that they're waiving to you. 106 live reporting live broadcasting live. this is our sing for your seats contest and right now we have four finalists in the house. they are preparing to sing live on our show this morning and they're excited. they have been warming up the vocal chords this morning. it's a big show because the winner of this contest is going to win a flight to see the american idol finale live in l.a. we're going to bring that to you all morning live. it's going to be a great show. welcome to fox 45 morning news. today is may 19th. and we said it's going to be a great show with singing with meteorologist steve fertig who is going to take it away right now. >> no, i am not. >> let's see what you got. >> the name of the tune is drizzle. >> i don't like that, either, voting you off. >> you will be voting me back on this weekend, friday, saturday and sunday. look for more sunshine then. don't ask me to sing. cloudy skies, and sky hd radar indicating cloudy skies with a chance of a little bit of drizzle in spots this morning. 63 at spots as we warm it up to 52. 67 at 6:00 p.m. but again the chance for a light shower in spots even this afternoon. we look for better weather for the next couple of days. i will tell you about that in a few minutes. right now candace dold has got the traffic edge. candace railroads thank you, . >> reporter: , thank you steve. and good morning. we're checking in on the 95 corridor for you this morning and you're going to like this picture. here it is south of the beltway traveling in the northeast corner through rosedale things are looking good, northbound and southbound lanes. and that continues on the southbound lanes from the fort mack henry tunnel toward the beltway. looking at an 8 minute clip right now 55 miles per hour. and calm on 895 this the southbound lanes from the harbor tunnel toward 95, a 9-minute drive, 54 miles per hour there. and only 47 miles per hour with a 13 minute clip from 95 up toward 83 taking the outer loop lanes out of that beltway. that's a look at your morning travels, megan, back over to you. thank you, candace. 7:04 on fox 45 morning news. it is sentencing day for a former middle river soccer coach who admitted he tried to have sex with a 14 years old girl. the state's attorney for baltimore county personally prosecuted 33 years old charles frido. he is expected to ask the judge to sentence him to jail time. he plead guilty to one count of sexual solicitation of a minor after being caught last summer by undercover detectives. police say they were contacted by the victim's parents who saw the inappropriate text messages sent to their daughter. he requested graphic pictures from her and even asked to meet her for sex. undercover detectives set up a meeting and arrested him at a convenient store. >> parents need to know what the kids are doing in school and sports. >> police are asking anyone who had inappropriate contact with frido to contact them right away. the family of a man found dead in patapsco state park is pleading for help to try to finned his killer. the body was found in a shallow grave in the wooded area of the anne arundel county park. he had been missing for more than a month. the family is hoping that someone will come forward with information about who is responsible for his death. >> when you see a missing person's sign, take a minute, read it, because you might know something, you might not thinkú it's important but i it is. if you don't do that, say a prayer, because this is devastating to a family. >> martin was an avid baseball player who played at mountain st. joseph high school and at college. a marine who was killed in the line of tiewtly wil dutily d to rest today. the funeral services will be held at the federal christian complex. the 21 years old died on may 10th in afganistan. the cause of his death has not been released. governor o'malley has ordered all u.s. and flags to be flown at half-staff in his honor. board members will vote on a settlement in the case this afternoon specifically they will be looking at $200,000 worth of attorney's fees due to the plaintiff. the plaintiff sued back in 1999 claiming that maryland's regulations violated federal anti-trust laws. the federal appeals court found in their fai favor. for many folks in baltimore it will be the most stressle 8 minutes of their entire life. joel d smith is live downtown where upstart business owners will have 8 minutes to convince instant investors tinvestors tos of dollars in funding. >> reporter: good morning, joel. every year new people and new businesses trying to get to that next level and the investors are out there in the audiences. we are on the stage where the pressure is cooking. we have joshua. tell me about your company. >> we are a platform for video collaboration. it makes it easy to collaborate inside of video moments or sales sports train or information analysis. >> reporter: you're a local company. >> i'm born and raised in baltimore my self and a company out of columbia. >> reporter: how long did you spend on these 8 minutes. >> we spent 22 hours and a couple of coaches and gave us terrific feedback getting ready for this opportunity. >> reporter: how much are you looking from these investors. >> we are looking at $1.5 million as we go around the market to perfecting the product. >> reporter: that will take you to the next level. let's take you up here and a little run dry for you. i won't judge you too much. if they gave you 15 seconds to go for it, what would you tell them. >> thank you very much for being here today. we plac make it easy for enterps to collaborate on video to get the best return on vvdeo which powerful media we have. >> reporter: the check books rig, we can't tell. a lot of pressure, and how do you think he did? >> i think he did great. that's certainly a lot of pressure. he has been practicing for a while. how many people are expected to be filing in there today. >> reporter: we will have 50 something people out there and at least that many out there representing millions of dollars. they could give him 1.5 mel 1.5n and still have more left for more people. >> we will give you two minutes. i will look at it. coming up the voters have spoken. this tea party movement is a message to washington that we're unhappy. whht the results at several state primaries could mean coming up november. >> reporter: i'm going to tell you abouu a free family fun day that is bçw ♪ ♪ i like your messy hair ♪ i like the clothes you wear ♪ i like the way you sing ♪ and when you dance with me ♪ you always make me smile ♪ don't know why i love you [ male announcer ] we believe you're at your best when you can truly be yourself. and at holiday inn express, you always can. holiday inn express. stay you. have fun with the family. selcelebrate your style. family fun day is coming up. that is where we find meteorologist jessica starr with the morning hometown hot spot, good morning jess. >> reporter: we have a lot of activities that are going to be free on sunday. arts and crafts, animals and entertainment to get more information i'm joined this morning by lisa. good morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> tell me about this event. >> it's from 11:00 to 5:00 this sunday. we have entertainment all day featuring neli's echo. we have a genius area where we have free crafts for children, nature center is coming out, fire engines, and sly' sheriff's cars, we have homm depot coming and doing wood craft with children. learning and therapy corners, doing community art murals. we will need help from the kids to do that. and also they are making the children as well. so it's a great event for the family or just if you you want to come shop. the vendors, we have a lot of interesting exhibits so everyone can come out. >> reporter: thank you, lisa. i'm going to run over and talk tto weanne. >> this is one is called the virginia opossum and this one is a girl. she has a pouch where she can have 13 babies. >> reporter: so many fun activities going on at whitemarsh. for more information log on to foxbaltimore.com and the weather for sunday it's going to start to warm up and feel more summer-like by sunday. 78 degrees mostly cloudy skies and a slight chance for an isolated thunderstorm, but for a look at the full forecast to see when we're going to see the sunshine, let's head to steve in the sky watch center. >> reporter: we will see the sunshine today not a whole lot. a better chance for tomorrow and especially as we get toward friday. let's take a look at the sky watch hd raddr. rainshowers mostly north and south of us. we could see a light shower in the afternoon and that is about it. 55 degrees the temperature in baltimore. pretty much where e ended up for the high temperature. 54 in washington d.c. and salisbury as you can see and up in hagerstown the same. temperatures begin today where they pretty much finished off. we're going to look at temperatures warming up today. the northerly flow as the low pressure that brought us in the last couple of days to get us move further points and east. as it does, makes room for the high pressure to move in. thht is what will bring us the nice days ahead. that is thursday and friday with more sunshine. by this weekend, not a wash out but a chance for a pop up storm with the next ow pressure center and again for saturday and sunday. here is what we're looking at today, 77 degrees, otherwise dry and cloudy skies for the most part. the central part of the state, 69 degrres with a northwest wind at 5-10. a high temperature of 68 degrees. cloudy skies and chance for a shower, but just a lit one there as well. tonight 58 degrees, turning %-a northwest wind at 5-10 miles pee hour. just can't rule out an evening shower ven if it's a light one. 78 degrees with partly cloudy skies that become mostly sunny in afternoon. mostly sunny on friday with a high of 83. 77 and 78 for the saturday and sunday with a chance of a shower. soard and a thunderstorm on sunday. 79 for both sunday and tuesday, mostly cloudy monday, tuesday, partly cloudy skies. we need to check in with candace dold now to see what is happening on the roadways. she is here with a look at your traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we're now talking about trouble on 295 and it's all because of an accident on the southbound lanes. that is at route 197. now a little bit farther up on 295, let's check it out and see how things are shaping up at 32. take a look at this, already a straight stack of cars through the area because of the acciden3 scene. so you will want to avood this route, use 95 instead. in fact, traffic is flowing freely on 95 traveling through howard county all the 28 way down toward 495. once you approach the beltway, let's cheek it out at frederick road for you this morning. we haven't had any issues to talk aboot and that continues to be the case inner and outer loop direction as well. that's a look at yyur morning travels, patrice, back over to you it's all righh with me. some things are left to be ♪ ♪ it never comes ♪ to win it 'cause i'm already gone ♪ ♪ more like to move on here ♪7i continue to -- >> last night was judges and singer's choice, each the final three on american idol sang two songs, one they chose themselves and one the judges chose for them. casey's song he chose didn't go all of the judges said it was his wrong song, but the second song struck a much better cord but was it good enough to keep him in the running with lee and crystal. jo jo and reagan from mix 106 are broad of th broadcasting lir studios. good morning, guys. >> say hello to sarah, we haven't said hello to her yet. >> good morning, patrice. let's talk about the personal song choices tarting with casey since everybody said it wasn't a good one? >> yeah, it wasn't. >> i thought he tunedded all right. i kind -- sounded all right. i kind of liked it. >> when the judges picked a song for you, i thought he would come out rocking. he kind of sat there. it's kind of good enough for the top 3 of american idol. >> that's the problem. >> but you do yo do you that rad kara gave him a good song to try to push him forwaad, because even they ggt a slack about the song they chose. >> no, i don't think they did. >> when i saw it, what are they doing to the guy. >> we are all in agreemmnt that casey is out tonight? >> somebody, yeah. >> lee. >> we will have to see. guys, we will keep talking with you in just a minute. %-contestant goes home starting tonight at 9:00 here on fox 45, fox 45 will bring you live -overage of the idol finale all next week. %-starting on sunday at fox 45 news at 10:00. later this morning, you can find out wwo we're sending to hollywood. we're going to reveal the winner of our sing for your seats contest and who gets he tickets to the idol finale coming up later this morning.3 we want to know what you think? who should make it to the american idol finale? lee, crystal, casey? >> it's the question of the dayú we will take your calls later this hour. tell us what you think, sound off through facebook or send us paper jam. i'm going in. troubleshooting runs on dunkin'. america runs on dunkin'. with our new iced dark roast coffee. it's a bolder blend of america's favorite coffee on ice. grab a delicious cup today. america runs on dunkin'. hurry in today and try the new iced dunkin' dark roast. new this morning, a towson psychiatrist loses his license for allegedly having inappropriate contact with young children. after an independent investigation the state board of physicians found miguel frontera acted improperly with about a dozen preteen boys in his care. the investigation results have been passed on to baltimore county authorities for possible criminal investigation. frontera denies any wrongdoing. doctors in maryland voice theii dissatisffction with insurance companies. med cai the american medical society release the the survey results yesterday. they said that insurance protocols have a negative effect on their ability to treat their patient. 98% believe that insurers deny the tests and prescription. the report card comes in the university of maryland center for environmental sciences. last year the bay received a c minus. the improvement is thanks in part to water quality improvement to rivers feeding into the bay. baltimore's patapsco and black rivers both received an f. voters have spoken and they are sending a strong mmssage to washington. the strong wins yesterday, may forecast how the november election playy out this fall. sandra endo with the results. >> reporter: a victory for three themms that played. antiestablishment, antiwashington, and antiincumbent. >> first with the fall of long time pennsylvania senator arlen specter to congressman joe seski. >> a win for the people over the -stablishment over the status quo, even over washington d.c. >> reporter: specter the republican turned democrat conceded by thanking supporters after nearly 30 years serving in the nation's capital. >> [applause] >> a great prig to be i privilen the you the senate. >> reporter: a win for the rand paul. the grass roots movement flexed it is message. >> this tea party movement is a message to washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. >> reporter: in arkansas no clear winner winner emerged betn lincoln. neither candidate garnered more3 than 50% of the vote forcing a run off next month so the campaigning continues. >> washington isn't working, but i believe, i'm a part of the solution. >> hree weeks from today we're going to finish the job. >> the results from jest's election shows just how tough it will be for incumbents, come the general election in the fall. voters sent washington a strong message that the candidates better be up for a fight. in washington i'mmsandra endo. several cyclists take a major tumble. take a look at that. a trap set along a maryland course senn these riders flying. next pay loans, why -thanks for coming back out. -sure. i think you might have hooked it up wrong, though. yea, we're getting way too many channels. no, no. that's -- that's standard. fios also comes with 11,000 free movies and shows on demand per month. ah, standard. gotcha. a certain somebody says "thank you." tell him "he's welcome," but it's still standard. he's happy to be back with his friends. is he? 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[ male announcer ] save up to 20% off all appliances and floor care plus up to an additional $250 instantly with sears appliance trade-in program. sears. life. well spent. you are taking a live look in our studios here this morning where our four finalists are getting warmed up for our sing for your seats competition. they have come this far and today they're going to sing live in our show. the winner is going to o to l.a. for the ameeican idol finale. very exciting ssow we have for you this morning. patrice is going to be talking with them this morning. and we have mixx106 who is live in the studio. they are broadcasting live with us and it's going to be a great thing to watch and certainly entertaining. welcome back to fox 45 morning news. meteorologist steve fertig is steve, we have been saying, huge night on american idol. we all think that casey ii going home. >> we do not know that we don't ú%ow because we have seen the best not hang around in the past. >> that's true, we will have to wait and see. >> the best is yet to come. improving weather today but much nicer conditions tomorrow and friday. right now 52 degrees and cloudy skies. we're not seeing the sunshine yet at the bus stop. we won't today see a whole lot of it. shower chances, they're out there, shower chances and slight showers, 63 degrees by noon and 76 by 6:00 p.m. after hitting a high temperature of 69 near 4:00 and 5:00 this afternoon and evening. again, better weather ahhad. once we get past today especially but i will tell you about that in a few minutes. we need to know what is happening on the roadways. candace dold is here with the track edge. >> reporter: we have seen the volume quickly increase on the beltway. now we're checking in on the harford road. you can see a lot of cars that are congregating there but at least we don't see any brake lights. that's the same deal from 95 up toward 83 looking at a 13-minute ride, right now 46 miles per hour. conditions do improve, though, on southbound 95 through baltimore. fort mchenry tunnel toward the beltway, 8 minutes, 55 miles per hour and at 54 miles per hhur with a 9 minute clip at southbound 895, harbor tunnel all the way down toward 95. that's a look at our morning travels, megan, back over toú you. thank you, candace. 7:34 on fox 45 morning news. former middle river soccer coach who admitted he tried to have sex with a 14 years old girl. the state's attooney for baltimore county personally prosecuted 33 years old charles fridol. he is expected to ask the judge to sentence him to jail time. he plead guilty to one count of solicitation of a minor after being caught by undercover detectives. police say that they were contacted by the victim's parents who saw the inappropriate messages senn to their daughter. he requested graphic pictures from her and asked to meet for sex. undercover detectives assumed the girl's identity set up a meeting and arrested him at a -onvenient store. >> it's nothing you want to hear at all with any of the children. parents need to have a grasp on what the kids are oing in school and sportssany of that.ú >> baltimore county police are asking everyone who had contact ú%th fridel that might be inappropriate to contact them right away. -p a dangerous trap aloog a bike racecourse here in southern maryland. take a look at that, is sending bikers skidding off tte course and into the grounn. someone threw tacks on the racecourse and take a closer at what happened, just a wipe out. it happened during a race in leonard town on sunday. %-the competitors who was wearig a cam a on his helmet. it shows a group of ompetitors hitting the tacks and tumble on to the ground. watch again here in slow motionú brian vaughn, the cyclist who shot the video says they were traveling 25 to 30 miles an hour when they hit those tacks. about 4 or 5 sick lift 5 cyclisd cuts, jashz an scratches and ane broke his collar bone. whoever spread the tacks could face criminal charges. ehrlich says that the state cannot afford the red line project which would create a rail line running from woodlawn to john top kins bayview. the same goes for the cu purple line. ehrlich says he supports expanded bus service instead. many adults list public speaking as their number one fear even aaove dying. imagine having 8 minutes to give a resentation that could result in miilions of dollars and change your life forever. joel d smith is live at the capital downtown convention center wherein investors are gathering to get some cash. joel, you have two minutes. >> reporter: the folks are going to be up here at the capital connection. they're going to be selling their company theebest way they know how in a short period of pf time trying to impress people like john sitting over here right now.ú john is one the investors. what are you going to be listening for? you ave a certain amount that could go anywhere? >> we look for innovation, leaders that don't say no. >> reporter: okay. how much competition is out here. let's say someone is ggeat up here and you all want a piece? >> that happens. often time we look at different sectors and different types of companies. we go after the entrepreneur and we try to sell him just like he is selling us. >> reporter: at that point it become negotiation. have you been to one of these where you didn't like anybody, has that happened. >> no, we like everybody. there's always something heree3 that you're goinn to like, always. >> reporter: what kind of industries are we focusing on >> it's primarily technology. information technology, science technology, all inds of things that are nnovative and can grow really fast. >> reporter: between john and the rest of the folks out here in the expensive seats, billions of dollars ready to go out to the folks who have the industries worth investing in. we're live downtoww, joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. coming up one of these lucky people you see here is going to olhollywood. there they are. first they have to sing live at our show. up next we will see which songs they take on? 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[ male announcer ] introducing youtube, straight to your tv. only on verizon fios. this is beyond cable. this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. welcome back. 7:40 on this wednesday morning. we're looking at a nice, dry picture at the sky hd radar, however, a little deceiving because there's misty skyyin spots. there could be a little drizzle. generally not a significant rainfall. a shower at best 20 to 30% chance. otherwise showers north and south of us. as we look at temperatures this morning. we at 55 degrees in baltimore and 54 in d.c. the same for salisbury. the same in agerstown at 54. the temperatures ended up there 56 for the high and today we will see the temperatures climb a little bit more. moderating conditions as the low pressure moves further toward the north and get more of a northerly influence. that will bring in drier aar. as the low moves to the north, the high pressure builds in. that will allow for the chance to see brakes of sunshine later today but the chance coming tomorrow certainly and for friday as well. meanwhile, there's a trough that is going to push through will bring us the shower chance for the afternoon. the high pressure is going to win out in all in the next couple of days.3 a shower on saturday maybe a thunderstorm by the time we get to sunday, not a wash out this weekend just a chance for an afternoon shower or two. 67 degrees for the the high temperature today in the eastern shore. mostly cloudy skies, a chance for a light shower, northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. the central part of the state climbs to 69 degrees, certainly better than yesterday 66 and we will see a chance for a light shhwer around. northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. the central part of the maryland we cllmb to 68 degrees, a better chance of seeing a shower there than anywhere else. tonight mostly cloudy skies will turn partly cloudy, 54 for the overnight low with a northwest wind at 5-10 miles an hour. tomorrow, 78 degrees, partll cloudy, look for mostly sunny skies with a high of 83. nice temperatures then. temperature wise not bad saturday and sunday, and not a wash out jjt a just an afternoon shower or thunddrstorm on friday. mostly cloudy and partly cloudy for your tuesday. we want o let you know what is happening on the roadways as you head out ttis morning as far as your commute is concerned. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we continue to monitor the actual conditions out there and taking a look attthe actual speeds, it's a slow go on 95 traveling through whitemarsh 22 miles per hour. then doing much better at 395. look at that 60 miles per hour there. there's big time trouble on 295, though, it's all because of an accident on the souttbound lanes at route 197. now delays re stacking up from route 32. so we will want to avoid this corridor and use 9 95 as the alternate route. we will show you what the area looks like on 95, a lot of cars there but no delays to talk about. this is definitely the way to go. that is the same deal on the northbound lanes, all the toward the beltway. once you're on beltway,let check it out at the triple bridges at 70 this morning for you. you can see that is a definitely reduced speeds on the outer loop lanes coming do you want pike from liberty road down toward security boullvard..3 that's a look at morning travels, patrice, back to you. p>>we are sending someone to hollywood. it's our sing for your seats we found four contestants who correctly answered our american idol trivia challenge and then we had them all siig karaoke for their chancc to win those two tickets to the american idol finale in holllwood. we're going to reveal our winner later on this morning, but you know uu here. we have to have some fun with this, first. we have all the contestants this morning. good morning to all of. >> good morning. >> you have been judged on your karaoke performance you did the other night. we are going to have you sing for us, that is for sun so all of our viewers can see you sing live, are you ready for it. >> i'm ready. >> this isn't for the prize, that has been performing. what is more nerve-racking perrorming then or performing now. >> i was okay then buu i don't know my song right now. >> that's right, you don't know your song. >> christine saii it very well. >> that's what we like so have you nervous and anxious. it makessit fun for us, but of course, you will have fun, too. jo jo and reaaan is here, and they're broadcasting live. we will check in with them as well. right now let's figure out the order that you are going to sing in. and joey mcann has th the music man has the order right now. >> tell us what it is. >> 3. >> 1.ú >> oh. >> 2 [ laughter ] >> all right, so now we know the order that you guys are singing in. are you ready to pick your song? >> okay. let's give the other half, thank you joey. we do try to make this not as bad as it couud be. we are going to give you the chance to pick out two songs and thennyou get to choose which. two you will actually sing. yyu don't ave to tell us now which one you're going to sing but we do want to hear. you picked 12 songs out of there. >> you want to sing all of them. we will stick around. which two did you choose? >> justin timberlake, sexy back and michael jackson beat it. >> so you think which one of those you are going tt do. he got good choices. >> now it's jennifer's turn. jennifer is going to tell us what is your choice. >> under the boardwalk. >> that's a classic. >> don't stop believing. >> another good one, it's aú popular song. do you know those songs. >> yes. >> that's always a good start. >> excuse me, christine, let's see what you get? >> devoted or um brai umbrella. >> pop star rhianna. >> there's plenty so choose from. >> if you don't like what i pick? >> no putting back. it's one of ttose two songs. >> love shack. >> that's fun. jim i want to see you do that one, actually. we may not give you another choice. >> thank you. only he good die young. i don't have my glasses. >> you got it right. billy joel, only the ggod die young. >> let's see. one of those will be what you have to sing. they all got good choices i think. good luck guys. our ssng for your seats is brought to you by fox 45, mix 106, value city furniture. stay tuned to see who gets the trip to l.a. for the big show. we want to know what you think about american idol. who should make it to the finale. should it be lee, crystaa or it's the question of the day. our phone lines are open at (410)481-4545. you can also go to our website at foxbaltimore.com and tell us what you think. sound off through the american idol top three performed for a spot in the finaae last night. each contestant sang two songs, one they ickkd themselves and the other was the judge's choice. at the end of the night, kara, simon, and randy seemed to favor crystal and lee. ú%at brings us to the question of the day. we want to know what you think and who should make to the american idol finale. should it be lee, crystal or. >> who do you think should go to the finale. >> i love crystal bower sox but lee has come out as a strong contender. >> do you think that crystal is starting to feel that pressure. p> i hon off honestly. she has been wonderful week after week. >> what do you thiik aaout casey, dd ou think he is the one going home tonight? >> i think so, but i have been wrong before. i could be wrong this time, too. %-lines where we have tony on te line from baltimore. good morning, tony. >> good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm from owings mills. ú% you're from owings mills. good morning, we're going to get it right and let us who you think is going to go to the finale. >> i think crystal is going to go to the finale because she is the bomb. >> think she is pretty good, too, she is my pick. he is picking up speed. >> he has my hopes, but he is just not holding up. he just can't compare to her. >> tony, thank you very much. >> online, we got a lot of responses already. carroll wrote in our website, i ffel that will be a lee and crystal finale. both had a good song and won okay. lee should win, crystal should be the runner up, caaey just doesn't have it. >> one of our twitter responders agreed, lee should win. in my opinion i'm a huge fan of lee. >> thank you all for your responsed today. remembering times gone by. we are here to inspire. so whenever we come up with ideas, here is a library on my wriest. wrist. >> now one website tells the stories of families across the world. next, removing a purse from the equation. a product that whhther we're running a marathon or just around tte town, it's not always convenient to have a purse with you. now a product says that it can give you the freedom to go purse less. we put the rack strap to the >> no matter how functional or fancy, a purse can still be a bulky burdee. >> and the seamstress who designed dresses t jill gowns in hambden are abreast of that bag. >> we get that, a lot of people are interested in having pockets in their gown. >> what can you dooto keep your belongings near and dear to your heart if you can't costumize your coul coull cotour. >> it's claims to be a holds all pocket that holds things like cash and credittcards and slides viet intright into your bra. >> but is the strap a bargain or a dud. >> we put it to the test. >> here is the real challenge. twieniwanttto see if i can get e stuff in the trap and fit it in the bra. >> we put the business cards and the starbucks card. disorganized cash. some receipts. %-ladies the biggest essential f all for a night on the town was a deal breaker. >> the phone doesn't fit. >> you have to be discrete at getting the money out of your bra. >> but at $16 it's not a big investment. >> 3 for $16 it sounds reasonable. >> i think you could put more in the way of the product. >> it's on its way. for more information on the rack trap, log on to foxbaltimore.com/newsáñ in is a soccer coach who parents trust. he has breached their trust. >> sentencing for a man who admits he tried to have sex with children. how much time he could spend behind bars. turn picttres into memories. how you can hold on to the kodak memories in a whole new way..3 singing for their seats. who we're sending to the american idol finale in hollywood. you are taking a live look at our studios where our four ú%nalists on for the sing for your seatsscompetition have arrived. they're warming up their vocal chords. patrice is going to be with them and it's going to e exciting to see who wins, because that winner is going to hr l.a. for e american idol finale. mix 106 is broadcasting in the studio. very exciting show we have prepareddfor you. >> i'm megan gilliland. meteorologist steve fertig is here to let us know what we can expect weather wise through this day. many people looking past it into the american idol show tonight. >> big stars coming our way. we saw a cameo from the future star coming up. >> that was your jog. >> yeah. >> doggy idol coming up. >> we will see what is happening out there. it's a bit of a dog weather it's kind of get rid of the ú%izzle, dragging its feet. take a look. here is what we got, drizzle out there this morning, but you know what? we have a chance for a light shower as the pressure moves up north and east. what we're looking at is warmer temperatures today rather than the 56 we got for the high yesterday. we will climb to the upper 60s. we will rule out a shower but look for better weather ahead. i will tell you about that in a few minutes. right now candace dold has thee3 traffic. >> reporter: i'm entering my simba for doggy idol that is for sure. we're checking in and entering conditions on the roadways. the beltway is looking clear at frederick road. you can see the traffic is in fact that's the same deal on average from 795 down toward 95 looking at a 14-miiute ride, right now 46 miles per hour. we're in the green on 95 this morning, the southbound lanes and the fort mack henry tunnel ú%ward the beltway minutes at 55 miles per hour. a nice and clean 9-minute ride on southbound 895 harbor tunnel down toward 95. that's a look at your morring travels. a former jiewght soccer -- h soccer coach will be sentenced today for ttying to have sex with a girl. he sent sexually explicit messages to that girl and asked her tt send him graphic pictures and have sex with him. they set up a meeting and arrested him at a conveeient store last summer. >> reporter: the capital connection at baltimore where this morning they're going to connect together entrepreneurs, and investors rea ready for bige investments. thehavthey have to hear these a8 minute chuuks. they should a small amount ofú timm to convince thhm to give the millions of dollars that will take their business to the next level. that is what happens.ú that's pressure.n 8 minutes. the chesappake bay gets a c on its environmental report card. the report card comes from the university of maryland centerú for environmental sciences. last year the bayyreceived a c minus. the improvement is thanks in part to water quality improvement from rivers feeding into the bay. baltimore's patapsco and black rivers both gottan f we are sending someoneeto hollywood. it's our sing for your seats contest. jennnfer is hoping it's her that is going to hollywood.ú we have four finalists and they have already been judged on a karaoke song that they performmd at fatty's the essex last3 friday..3 that is where they were being judged to win the trip for two at american idol. sing live at our show.ing them jennifer foster is theeluckk first singer. >> good morning again. >> good morning. >> you have already sung. this should be easy for you, this is nothing. >>piece of cake all the way. >> tell me about the two songs that you chose. >> should under the boardwalk and don't stop believing. >> which one are you going to sing. >> don't stop believing because it's a fun song. >> we will let you take it away and see what you can do. jennifer foster. ♪ ♪ ♪ this small town girl ♪ living in a lonely world ♪ she took the midnight train going anywhere ♪ ♪ just the city boy ♪ going to raise ♪ he took the midnight train ♪ going anywheee ♪ a singer? a smokey room ♪ ♪ the smell of wine and cheaper fume ♪ ♪ speak night it goes on and on ♪ and on ♪ strangers ♪ waiting ♪ uu and down ♪ tracking in the night ♪ >> jennifer foster. >> [applause] >> you got a biggvoice there. >> thank you veey much. >> that is what you did this morning just for us, for the fun of it, but we want to see what you diddfor the actual competition at fatty's so we're going to roll some tape of jennifer in action -- i'mú comparing you to ccystal bowwr sox, that must mean gooo things. ttings. ♪ -7 >> well, that was jennifer foster singing for that trip to l.a. that was last friday. we're going to reveal our winner? just a little bit..3ú but coming up, this is what she sounded like a few days ago. ♪ ♪ >> will she sound like that today. christine is up next. she is singing again for us live hoping to make it through the american idol finale.., and low pressure is moving off the northeaat. as it goes, it's taking some of the ugly weather with it. improvements to come. i tell thank 8:10 on this wednesday morning. dry scan right now a on the ssy hd radar. this doesn't mean there's a little bit of drizzle andú moisture out there. that is going to continue to be the case as we get breaks of sun, but a better chance tomorrow and beyond. here is what we're looking at as far as temperatures right now. 56 degrees and yesterday we topped out at 56. and 55 in salisbury. 56 in hagerstown. as the low pressure moves to the north and east, another low coming up the coast it will move off to the east. the high pressure moves in and we are looking at a much nicerr3 scenario, tomorrow and friday. that ha high pressure brings usú chance of a shower. even a thunderstorm possible for sunday. for today, high temperature in the eastern shore. 67 degrees, mainly cloudy. we won't rule out a shower chance but a remote chance of that. it's a 20% chance of a shower, back to the west we go. 68 degrees here with a lot of cloud cover and chance for a shower, but a small chance at that. 54 degrees tonight for overnight low, mostly cloudy skies are going to turn partly cloudy tonight. wind out of theenorthwest at we still can't rule out the evening shower but drier air is moving in. by tomorrow, partlyycloudy and mostly sunny later in the day. 83, mostly sunnn on friday and 77 on saturday and 78 on sunday, niceetemperatures but the chance of a shower in the afternoon maybe even a thunderstorm sunday. keep in mindd though, this won't be all day long. it will be an afternoon possibility of a shower or thunderstorm. 79 foo sunday and monday and tuesday, partly cloudy on tuesday. for a look at roadways once again and how your commutee3 looks, here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> reporter: thanks, steve. we're talking about new trouble on 95 this morning. there's a medical eeergency at the fort mchenry tunnel. we want to show you what the area looks like. we can show you the 95 corridor. here it is. you can see the flashing lights on the southbound lanes. this activity does shutdown the two lanes there. %-to talk about on 95 in thele northbound direction. there's an acciddnt right at mccommas street so you want to use 895 as at alternate route. let's check it out on 895 for you aad we don't havv any delays to talk about on either the northbound or southbound lanes all the way down toward the beltway. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, back to you. ♪ ♪ we are sending someone toú holllwood and it could be christine, handle, she is ur next singer innthe sing for your seats contest. >> a little nervous. >> you had to perform on friday. first of all, are you a big idol man to put yourself through this, friday night and again today. >> i am. i'm a huge idol fan. >> so the nerves don't matter if you win. >> you're right. >> if you don't, you will be watching idoo at home with the rest us. >> exactly. >> you were down to two song choices, what were they? >> umbrella and hope will be diverted. >> what are you singing. >> are you ready to take it away. >> i'm ready. >> all right. christine. ♪ ♪ ♪ get my meesage first hot heartbboken ♪ ♪ might hearttcannot afford to cry ♪ ♪ there's no getting over you ♪ so baby ♪ ♪ can't you see ♪ there's nothing else to do ♪ i'm hoping we go through ♪ but now there's nowhere to hide ♪ ♪ since you pushed my love aside ♪ i'm out of my head ♪ to you ♪ hopelessly devoted to you ♪ ♪ hopelessly devoted to you ♪ ♪ that was christine, hopelessly do voted. >> it wasn't that bad. >> it was okay. >> let's listen to he song that you were judged on because again this was all for our fun. ♪ ♪ let's ggve them somethinn to talk about ♪ ♪ look at you thhre getting the crowd into it, dancing a little. you were having fun with that it looked like? >> i was had i had a lot of fun. >> she will have even mmre fun if she was the winner. we don't know that yet. we will reveal the winner later this morning. coming up fill your children's lives with memories fooever. >> the website that will turn picturessinto memories. my eyes are open wide ♪ i'm making it through ♪ >> and our next finalist is singing to see the american idol finale live. you will be the all right. it's time for the next contestant in our sing for your seats contest. something tells me that shawn evans is ready. you're already dressed the parr, you're ready. >> i'm ready. >> shawn, what is your day job. >> i work for the state government. >> how does a government emppoyee go to this singing live on television for a chance to go l.a. >> any chances to travel and enjoy the world, i'm down for it. >> state employees, he will see you later. >> i'm coming to washing -- work afterwards. >> what were your song choices? >> sexy back and beat it. >> i can guessswhat you are going to do but you tell me. >> i'm going to do beat it. >> that's what i thought you would do. shawn, take it away. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ they told me nonet don't ever come around here ♪ ♪ they want to see your face ♪7you better disappear ♪7just beat it ♪ you better run ♪ you better do what you can 73 ♪ don't want to see no lood ♪ don't want be caught ♪ better do what you can ♪ so beat it ♪ just beat it ♪ beat it 73 ♪ beat it ♪ so someone wants to beat ♪ it doesn't matter whose wrong or right ♪ ♪ just beat it ♪ just beat it ♪ just beat it ♪ don't want to be your boy ♪ ♪ you don't want to be a man ♪ you want to say your line ♪ but you better do what you can ♪ so beat it ♪ just beat it >> and there you havv it, shawnee van!!shawn,evans channel jackson. >> you didn't know all the words but the dance made up for it. >> that was for funn we enjoyed watching that. the viewees liked it. let's listen to the song that you were actually udged on. ♪ ♪ i've done the best i can ♪ this is my life ♪ i hope they understand ♪ i'm not angry ♪ ♪ ♪ >> shawn in action last friday. you said this is the first time you have seen that video. >> what did you think about it? >> that's me every day. >> we didn'' show the air drum breakdown. that is what makes it fuu. we're going to reveal the winner of our sings for your seats contest just later this morning. coming up next as much as we'd like to be we won't be with our kids forever. >> i won't always be there to tell him the story. >> the website you can use pictures to create live time stories for your kids and theirs. plus, we still have twoomore finalists that will sing for their seats. no, we just have one more finalist ta will sing for -- that will sing fo the kids first day of school, gradgra grandma's eighth birthday. how we tell those stories is determined if they will be remembered. -p>> i won't be able to be there to tell him the story. >> lori is the mom of three boys. >> my mom passed away in 2003. %-stories.isten carefully to the i didn't want my chiidden toú have the same experience. >> so she started stories by me it's a website.3 >> i want my grandchild to understand that she was a real person. >> reporter: from decorations to calendar. >> i have a birthday and take off the day. >> the software is free. it's called the photo wizard. you're going to ccick on the get started button. >> reporter: it's yours too3 create. i couldn't resist. >> here happens to be your pictures. >> reporter: there's my little girl annie. >> reporter: a little resizing and just like that. >> oh, my goodness. look at thatter. i remembethatter -- look at her. >> you probably don't have all those pictures out right now. >> our ancestors used to make the puzzles this way. we are here to inspire. whenever we see an idea, here 3 a library on my wrist. >> reporter: just a few ideas helping a family remembering where they came from. they live in utah but lori's website she connects with families across the country. >> you have hairy moments, and goose bump moments. weehear all the stories, they're incredible. >> reporter: a picture is worth 1,000 words. >> absolutely. i hope ii touches their hearts. i hope the story is shared that needs to be shared in their life. >> reporter: my little girl annie which i call my daughter but so many other projects you can do there. if you need help researching ú%ur ancestors and researching other stories, we have attached search engines to our website at foxbaltimore.com. there's more story on informations by me. they wwll be offering free shipping to all of our viewers toward the end of the month. if you have an idea for the family 411 segment, send me an e-mail at foxbaltimore.com. coming up could it be fox's next hit show? >> we give you a sneak peek of good guys before you can catch plus, we still have one person left to sing. which one of these four people is going to win tickets to see american idol finale live in %-we we'rwe're going to announce coming up can a smart phone see light years into space ? can it pinpoint your location to find any star in the sky above you ? trace constellations ? even identify other planets you're currently not on ? droid can with google sky map. one of thousands of apps that run with other apps. from the ever-expanding android market. when there's no limit to what droid gets, there's no limit to what droid does. when there's no limit to what droid gets, welcome back to fox 45 morning news. i'm megan gill lan. w!!gilliland.we got a big show t first we will go to meteorollgist steve fertig to3 tell us about the weather. not a whole lot in the way of rain drizzle, and low pressure moves off to the north and east. 67 in baltimore. temperatures innthe midd50s and we're head foo a warmer day today, 59 degrees for the higg. tell you when to expect temperatures to warm up and see more unshine as well in a few %-candace has the traffic edge, candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. not at all a bad ride. here it is at the key bridge and the traffic is flowwng freely, a few cars scattered here and there. 95 up toward 83, 11 minutes at 54 miles per hour and the same speed with only an 8-minute drivv from 83 uu toward 795. taking it from 795 down toward 95, that volume is decreasing, 12 minutessright now 52 miles per hour. that is a look at your morning travels, megan, bbck over to ú%u. here is a look at our top stories. antiincumbent fever has served up a defeat for 5 term tensor arlen specter. he was rejected by voters in pennsylvania. they chose repreeentative john seski. and in pennsylvania they have held on to john's seat. and rand paul won a big race delivering a blow to the democratic establishment. >> reporter: this time they're going to connect ttgether entrepreneurs, both the businesses ready for big time investment with the investors that have all the money. investment money here ready to go. talk about the pressure, public speaking at its best because they have a short amount of time to convince them to give them the millions of dollars that takes the business to the next level. it all hhppens in 8 minutes. that's pressure. someone throws tacks on a biie racecourse is wipes out several cyclists. it happened during a race in less than larleonard ttwn on su. the cyclists were traveling 25 to 30 miles per hour when they hit the tacks. 4 or 5 cyclists suffered kowts s and jashz an scratches and anote brokeehis collar bone. the one who is responsible for spreading the tacks could be facing criminal charges. all right, we're down to our final contestant jim ferrero is about to sing for his seat. how are you feeling? >> all riggt, i guess. i'm here. i will tell you later. >> after it's all over. what were they?song choices, ú% i knew you were going to ask thatt only the good die young and the -hack thing. >> i'm guessing you're going to go with only the good die young since you don't remember the love shack. that's because we have been singing it around here. are you a big idol fan, jim? >> yeah. >> let me ask you. who do you think is oing to win idol? >> you never know. there can always be surprises but my favorite is crystal. -p>> you want to be out there ad see it all happen. >> absolutely. i want to rub some elbows and meet some people. >> simon maybe. >> with y little cd. >> we will let you take it away. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ come out virginia ♪ ♪ don't let me wait ♪ you catholic girls ♪ start much to late ♪ in comes down to fate ♪ i might as well be the one ♪ they showed you to pray ♪ they built you a temple and locked you away ♪ ♪ they never told you the price to pay ♪ ♪ of things that i might have done ♪ ♪ onll the good die young ♪ that's what i said ♪ only the good die young ♪7only the good die young ♪ oh, you might have heard ♪ i run with a dangerous crowd ♪ we weyand we ain't too pretty♪ ♪ we ain't too proud ♪ come on virrinia ♪ show me a sign ♪ i will show you a line ♪ never left in the stone ú%woo ♪ oh, yeah >> jim, how about you come over here to me. i didn't see any nervous. you looked like you were having fun with that. >> you gave me inspiration. that is what we were here to do. >> this isn't the song that you were judged on. how do you feel about frrday's song. >> thank goodness for that. >> take a look and see what we think about it. ♪ ♪ rock it ♪ rock itt ♪ ♪ >> seeing yourself for the first time. what did you say?ú >> you thought you did all right. >> he is pressie impressed. >> that's good. and hopefully it will get you to hollywood. >> we so. >> we're going to reveal the i don't know.this mmrning. i don't like to know until the last minute. we will find out altogether. coming up it's a brand new fox show with the son of a famous actor. p>> we talk to tom hanks son ab bçw welcome back. it's 8:44 on this wednesday morning, a nice dry scan on the hd radar though we have a lot of clouds out there. salisbury, 55 and 55 in hager town. we are looking at low pressure moving toward the northeast. we are looking at high pressure that will bring us clearing skies more so tomorrow and on friday. a couple of nice days then. we could stilly still see a shn as the upper level trough moves in then. it could bring us a chancc of a shower or thunderstorm later ttis week. 67 degrees with cloudy skies, an outside chance of a shower. when i ay the outside chance, 20 to 30% chance the saae for the centrrl part of the state climb to 69 degrees. the for the western part of the maryland 68 degrees for the high also with a chance of a shower. in fact a better chance for the west. 59 is overnight low with mostly cloudy skies. they will turn partly clou clouy overnight as the high pressure center mooes in. 78 degrees and partly cloudy skies starting and 83 on friday and mostly sunnyy or sunday definitely a chance for an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. 77 and 78 and both 79 for monday and tuesday with mostly cloudy skies on monddy and partly cloudy on your tuesday. here is candace dold with a look at the traffic, candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we're wrapping things up for the theeactual numbers you're going to like them out there, especially traveling on the beltway. right now 57 miles per hour through catonsville and at 58 mmving right at security boulevard. we do need to talk about trouble, though. it's on philadelphha road, an accident completely shutting it down at fatte fastee way, that s scooting through the region. a pleasaat ride only continues toward the whitemarsh boulevard exit. we can show you what the area looks like. here the coast is clear in both directions. once you finally do approach the beltway this morning, let's check it out moving at ha harfod rood for you. and that continues to be case as you are zipping along in both that's a look at the morning travels. megan, back to you. ú%> he has been showing our songs what they've all had a chance to sing for their seats but they couldn't have done it without the help of joey mchann. hi, joey, it's good to see you again. >> it's a ppeasure to do this again. >> this isn't new or you. you have done this in the last couple of years. >> i think this is the best talent of every year that we have one it. >> you do karaoke with people day in and day out. once they get up there, they're a whole diiferent person. >> some of the places we usually do this, they have some help with he alcohol there you, know. i haven't seen anybody have that today. >> i promise you we didn't supply alcohol for our contestant here. i have the winner here. >> i'm glad i didn't have toto judge. theyywere quite good this year. quite excellent. >> for anybody who wants to find -ou and do karaoke? >> they can go to joey jam mmther.com oo call 410-219-band. for more information go toú our website at foxbaltimore.com/morning. it's down to our four brave finalists. we have hand tapping over here and arms going on. we're not nervous, the siiging is over. you should be okay, right? >> we should be. >> right.3 >> who wants it more? who wants the tickets to idol? >> well, these hands didn't go up down heree so man -- >> well, just meeting you today was enough. >> oh, too bad i'm not the judge of this. >> all right, so you guys really want it. >> i want it bad. >> you already know who you're going to take? >> yeah. >> you know, whoever doess't win, maybe you all could bribe the person who does win to take one of you. >> i do have the winner in this envelope. we're going to find out. i don't know if the light you ú%n see through it. i don't want you to see that. coming up will ittbe another hit fox show? if you're looking to let loose and laugh a little this week, then check out the preview episode of the good guys. it's a new fox show that follows a duo solving one petty crime at a time. fox broadcasting is making actors collin hanks and broodwood available to talk with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> all rightt guys, the problem on -- prom ons os have been rung for weeks. it looks like a hysterical action show. >> it's a hysterical action show in which bradley and i have play cops that have been par at any d together. i'm sort of the young ask arrow -- and arrogant by the book coo. >> if it took place in ancient rome his name would be feign ph. >> for us baltimore folks who are not talking about the wire or anything like that, right? >> no, but to the baltimore people, i think they should know that both -- i think i speak for both of us, we both think that "the wire" was the greatest show ever made. p> it was, this show that we have absolutely nothing like "the wire." >> all the depth and ne nuance t they found in" the wire ." >> we're alllabout the laughs. >> thank you about tte phrase about "the wire." p> i understand that there's a scene toward the end of it, is that true? >> a chase scene, yes. >> oh, yes. >> the chase scene in the first episode was -- you know, the stunt guy comes up and goes, you know how to drive, right? [ laughter ] >> take it up to 60 miles an hour, we will be a foot 1/2 from front of you you and bradley you drive at 60 miles per hour. collin you just stand in the car like you'reegoing to jump on to the other car. >> oh, right. >> and see what the camera gets. >> exactly. >> that is an average day on the set. >> there's a lot to look forward to, so we will definitely catch it tonight and throughout. thank you for joining us, guys, take care. you can watch the good guys tonight at 8:00 here on fox 45. coming up next who will it be? i have the answer right here. flying to l.a. to see next week's american id 3 it's been a loog road for our four finalists. the end of the road is right now, though, but not quite. i'm going to make them wwit a little longer because before we reveal the winner here, we want to talk to the folks froo mix 106, jo jo and reagan have been broadcasting live from our %-you saw them perform the other night and this morning, what do you think about our contestants. >> i wish we could judge by outfits, because i think that shawn would win. >> yes, i would have to give it to him, too. >> how about the singing some. p> it was impressive just to hand them a song and not have a prior rehearsaa for it. they did a fantastic job. >> agree with joey, this is the best group we have had in should >> any group that can sing where we don't haveeto sing is good. >> the winner of the sing for your seats contest and the a trip for two to the american idol finale in hollywood is. they're all holding on over there. there's a lot of love going onú ú%ght now. %-very nice!s christine hendel. [applause] >> aad see, there's still love. this is what we like about our conttstants. >> thank you. >> you are going to l.a. you get to see the american idol finale. >> i'm in shock. p> was it all worth it. >> i had a blast. it was fun either way win or lose. >> you have to make should connectionn out there you can be on the american iddl next year, what you do you think? >> it sounds good for me. >> you haae to put in a word for all the contestants. i think they won a shout out, also. >> you know who else is going to hollywood? that would be candace dold. she is going to be out there live all week. she is going to start reporting candace has been following american idol all this season. it's going to be fun to watch her there. >> guys, what do you think? we have the winner christine. >> a true idol fan. >> there we go. weather whic wise we have a warmer day than yeeterday. cloudy skies, look for more sunshine tomorrow, high of 78, and 83 on friday, a couple of nice days, thursday and friday. showee chances for sundayyand ssturday maybe a thunderstorm here but it won't be an all day event. 79 for both sunday and tuesday. >> i looked at the l.a. forecast next week. the idol coverrge is going to be ú% the 70s. it's going to be warmer here than l.a. they're going to heat it up on stage. >> tonight it should be a good night.3 stay tuned and see who goes home tonight. >> we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ you won't believe it

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