gorgeous day yesterday. let's get over to gwen who is in for tucker. >> here is where we are at temperatures. 78degrees at dulles. on the weekend being we had temperatures into the 90s. not quite that warm and the good news is that the humidity will stay away. no complaints there. sky conditions for you. as i said, things are clearing up quite nicely with the ridge of high pressure so we can expect to see the sun sticking around through outthe course of the day. current temperatures are at 64 degrees at national. we've got 60 at baltimore. 57degrees at dulles. as we take a look at the forecast, a very sunny day, pleasant and a warm, pleasant 80 degrees. back to you. >> thank you. we begin with breaking news. suspect in the 2005 disappearance of american teenager natalee holloway has confessed to killing another young woman from peru. 21-year-old stephanie flores was found dead in a lima hotel room last week. police say joran van der sloot admitted to murdering her during an interrogation. voters in virginia will go to the polls to vote in five congressional primaries. two of the races are in northern virginia. the cap on the leaking oil well in the gulf is now capturing a half million gallons a day but the massive oil spill has broken up into hundreds of oil patches floating around the gulf. president obama is defending his response to the spill. in an interview to air later this more than, the president used some strong language to say that he has talk wade number of people in the gulf region not as an academic exercise but so he knows whose, quote, butt to kick. the wait is almost over. stephen strasburg makes his debut tonight. the game a sellout. there will be about 2,000 standing room only tickets available this afternoon. full body scans are about to become a lot more common at bwi airport. as of today, many more passengers will be walking through the scanners. jennifer davis has more. >> reporter: beginning tuesday morning, there is a greater chance than ever before you could have to go through a security scanning machine that could see right through your clothing. 7-year-old deshan dsh is about to take his first airplane ride with his grandfather. >> what are you most excited about? >> going to texas. >> i don't think it would be a problem. safety is more important than anything. a lot more that is going on than just being able to see an x-ray through somebody's clothes. >> starting tuesday, the screening will be a primary method in four of 28 lanes at the airport. the government says the x-rays help them detect threats. >> what it is like to go through there? >> nothing. you just stand there. they are not really seeing through my clothes. they are just seeing objects that i shouldn't have maybe. >> so you think -- >> no problem at all. >> reporter: the first advanced screening position will be moved to the primary position at bwi tuesday. three others will follow this week. critics say these machines amount to an electronic strip search. the government points out the images are permanently deleted when the screening is over and travelers will have the option to pass on the new technology if they want to. >> i would probably opt out. where you fly through a regular airport, they should know you. it is a little bit invasion of privacy, definitely. >> reporter: there are currently about 80 of these advanced imaging machines around the country including one at reagan national. at bwi, jennifer dais, fox 5 news. >> we have much more ahead at fox 5 morning news begins at 4:30. good morning to you. it is tuesday morning, june 8th. a live look at your nation's capital. if i may say so myself, it is downright cool outside. >> we had the cold front that moved through yesterday and brought the drier, cool air mass. drier, operative word, no humidity to worry about from yesterday. we are going to warm up today. a little bit warmer than yesterday. wave got plenty of sunshine today so i think it will be really pleasant by the time the day progresses a little bit. you might want to grab just a light sweater heading out the door. it is # 4 degrees officially at national airport right now. humidity down to 50%. a very light northwesterly wind at 10 miles per hour. our sky conditions are great as well outside. we are just talking about a ridge of high pressure that is in control. we have a few clouds out there earlier this morning and over last night but that will be out of the way. we are talking no shortage of sunshine and i don't have any precipitation to talk about in terms of today's forecast either. so here is a look at our current temperatures right now. we are at 64-degree at national airport. 60 at baltimore. 57 at dulles and # 0 degrees at fredericksburg. as i said, things are going to warm up into the course of the day and it will be very pleasant if you have anything to do outside. perfect decision because we'll head to a high of 80 degrees. you will see the warm-up pushing in by mid-day. it will be really comfortable, very light wind and humidity is something you don't have to worry about. >> thank you. we'll begin at 40 this morning with breaking news. there has been a stunning confession from the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway. dutchman joran van der sloot has confessed to killing a young woman from peru. police say he admitted to killing 21-year-old stephanie flores. today, police are taking him back back to the lima hotel to help them reconstruct the events leading up to the murder. it is said he became angry when he found out flores reached him on a laptop. there has been an arrest in the beating death of a toddler in annapolis. 22-year-old kira smith discovered her two engineered daughter dead in her bed. police say the little girl had suffered a fractured skull, broken leg, cuts an bruises and had been sexually assaulted. monday police arrested smith's boyfriend, 17-year-old timothy hite. he is now facing multiple charges as an adult including second degree murder. a daring daytime heist at a maryland grocery store. police released the dramatic video hoping you might be able to help them catch the people would do this. a gun put a gun to a guard's head and took the money and ran. if you recognize the people in this surveillance video, police would like to you give them a call. voters in virginia will go to the polls to vote in five congressional primaries. two of those are in northern virginia. in the eighth district, republicans matthew barry and patrick murray are facing off to take on 10-term democratic incumbent jim moran in the fall. in the 11th district, fairfax county supervisor, pat harrity is going up against keith simeon. d.c. schools chancellor my sell rey is coming under fire again. the city's office of campaign finance is investigating whether she broke the law by soliciting donation private foundations that reserve the right to pull their funding if there was a change in the school system's leadership. roo. rhee who raised more than $64 million is accused of trying to protect her own job by accepting the leadership clause as a condition of that private funding. her office release a statement saying that the chancellor did not violate the law and says any suggestion that she received some personal benefit from private funding of the teacher's union contract is, quote, nonsense. and now to the latest on the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. the cap on the broken oil well is capturing more oil now. this is a live look at the leaking oil right now. on the political front, the who you is facing growing anger from the loss of jobs and income from a ban on oil drilling. the obama administration is now saying that it will allow some oil an gas exploration in shallow waters. british petroleum has paid out $48 million to companies hurt by the spill but the government's paint man says the process could be better. >> it happens it might be a little cumbersome right now so we'll have a meeting with british petroleum and try to simplify their ability to handle the claims business abouts. >> the coast guard says the massive spill has broken up into hundreds being maybe thousands of smaller oil patches. another big story, the nationals under the national spotlight. all eyes will be on rookie phenom stephen strasburg when he makes his major league debut tonight. beth parker has more. >> reporter: t. j. brockwith brock-- brockway has a dream. >> i'm working my butt off, always returning around doing what i have to do to get better and help my teammates out along the way as well. i expect him to do a good job. >> reporter: while tj will be clued to a tv set, jason la rock will be -- >> headed to the nats game. >> people don't really think about the effect that a pitcher of that caliber has on the whole game. defensive players on their feet. they are anticipating quick innings. they are not lazy bet getting back on their heels. >> this is pretty special. >> there is an electricity in the air. you go to a typical season being you might get it in the eighth, ninth inning. there will be a bus bus one through nine in the innings tomorrow. >> expiement and pressure. >> i think it will be fun to do but it will be hard because what if you don't live up to the expectations they have for you. i think that is where the pressure is is being effective and getting the job done. >> reporter: david bodd says strasburg seems confident yet humble. >> you love the stars to be the kind of people that you want to have on your own team and be the kids you want to coach. i think he is one of those people. >> reporter: tj says the best thing about baseball is enjoying it. he hopes stephen strasburg is having fun too. beth parker, fox 5 news. a frightening scene in texas. an explosion sends a massive ball of fire into the air. coming up next, new developments on the search for missing workers at that scene. helen thomas is retiring following her controversial 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[ male announcer ] the volkswagen cc. award-winning design starting under $28,000. it's a whole new volkswagen, and a whole new game. making headline this morning, a missing utility worker was found dead just hours after a natural gas line erupted in north texas. his body was recovered once crews were able to put the fire out and make sure conditions were safe again. officials say utility workers accidentally hit the gas line sending a massive fireball shooting into the air t took firefighters about two hours to tame that fire. six people were hurt. an historic career comes to a screeching halt. helen thomas, the woman known as the dean of the washington press corps is retiring. her controversial comments unlieshed a fire storm of criticism. she has covered 10 presidents. fox 5's tom fitzgerald has more on her tea part your. >> reporter: at the white house, helen thomas was famous for ask tough questions. >> what do you mean you regret when something should be so strongly condemned? >> reporter: now, the 89-year- old veteran journalist is facing condemnation of her own after this remark regarding israel. >> tell them to get the hell out of israel. they should go home. >> where is home? >> poland, germany. >> this is antisemitism on the front lawn of the white house. >> the rabbi recorded the video. he said he welcomed thomas' retirement and planned on releasing more video of thomas being sharply critical of israel. >> it picks up where she left off. >> reporter: at helen thomas' d.c. condo, the woman famous for asking tough questions wasn't answering any. the person who picked up thomas' phone said she was unavailable. here at the white house, visitors who have watched helen thomas in action for a year had a bit of reaction to her retirement. >> she seemed to be very brutal in the way she asked questions. sometimes she was very good too. >> i think she is a great journalist. >> i was disappointed at the last one when she made the comments she made. >> reporter: but in the briefing room itself where white house press secretaries both past and present have felt helen thomas' wrath for decades, her seat was yety as the current spokesman talked about the end of an era. >> those remarks were offensive and reprehensible. i think she should and has apologized because those remarks obviously do not reflect certainly the opinion of most of the people in here, i assume, and certainly not of the administration. >> tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. coming up on fox 5 morning news, apple unveils its highly anticipated new iphone but it didn't go off without a hitch actually few uncomfortable moments for steve jobs. we'll check your weather and your early morning commute. in our health alert, some little known symptoms of heart trouble that might help save your life. we'll be right back. big news! we have another way to help you save. oh, really? how? by bundling. if you get your homeowners and auto insurance together, we give you even more savings. ooh! big bundle. [ chuckling ] home and auto together. it's like peanut butter and jelly. oh, or like burgers and fries. or pickles and ice cream. unicorns and glitter! no? bundling to save you more. now, that's progressive! call or click today. welcome back. 64degrees outside early on this tuesday morning. beautiful weather for us but unfortunately, not the story out in the midwest. fema will begin surveying the damage across the midwest today left over from the storms over the weekend. five people died in ohio. in illinois, at least 15 tornadoes touched down. in michigan, a twister touched down. gentleman the fox would lost their homes and loved ones, normalcy will probably not return ever or at least if a long time. >> graduation at millbury community college in ohio is just one of the schools that had to be rescheduled. that graduation is handling tonight. wow, a difficult situation out there. >> yes, they had some bad storms. we had our share over the weekend. today, we had a really nice perfect day too. so you will enjoy it if you have anything to do outside, very good decision. happy to say plenty of sunshine today out there. we're not talking by nia clouds. if you are a cloud salesman, not making any sales today. -- we're not talking about any clouds. today, gorgeous, warm, low humidity. it will be a very brief break. fair warning because things are changing as we head into tomorrow. we have a very unsettled wednesday ahead for you. we'll talk about that as well and tell you what can you expect. in the meantime, here is a look at the temperatures yesterday. we left the 90s from the weekend. we headed to the 70s yesterday. we're actually getting a little closer to where we should be temperature-wise. 78degrees yesterday at national airport. 75 at dulles and 78 degrees at baltimore. and the humidity was low so it was very comfortable. ridge of high pressure in control for us so we've got clearing skies doing very nicely. that will hold us for the sunshine. to the south, a few more clouds are rolling in. some to the far west. other than that, not doing badly at all. current temperatures, 64 degrees at national airport. a little cooler at dulles at 57. 54 at gaithersburg. 5 # degrees at frederick and 60- degree at baltimore. and that nats game, as you are heading out for game time today, expect to see fair skies. it will be beautiful for baseball. we are talking only the low 70s. you will be able to sit back being kick up your legs. a ridge of high pressure in control. we've got this system rolling its way in for wednesday. that is going to set us up for some rain showers and even a chance of a thunderstorm for tomorrow so keep the umbrella handy. you're definitely going to need it. as we take a look at our five- day forecast, we'll see that we've got that very short- lived. we are back to dry conditions for you on wednesday. friday looks luke a great day too. by the time we get to the end of the week, just a few clouds with sunshine on saturday. we are warming up to 85 degrees. today is a great start to it all. let's check in with traffic and see how things are rolling out there. here is our own julie wright. >> you are talking about strasburg and the big debut and i do believe gates are opening around 40 this afternoon for those headed out to nats stadium. plan that trip accordingly if you are headed down towards southeast washington this afternoon. so again, allow extra time down there. typically, the rush hour commute is jacked up if you are traveling across the 14th street bridge so you want to allow extra time there as well as coming across the wilson bridge. northbound, i-95 below speed with only one right lane getting by as you continue northbound on i-95 trying to get past lorton headed up to newington. all lanes are open headed out to towards rockville. five metro employees have been removed from duty after a 10-car train was mistakenly put into service. the platform is only eight cars long. metro says the green line train left the branch avenue station about 5:15 yesterday morning. about 0 minutes later, the ridered were asked to get off and returned to the rail yard. full body scans will soon become routine for passengers at bwi. the four machines scan passengers by using advanced imaging technology. starting today, they will become the primary method of screening passengers. a district attorney lay in the making of the martin luther king sculpture set for the national mall. greek officials offered to transport for free the stone needed to finish the sculpture but they now say they cannot do that because of the country's economic trouble. the king memorial foundation is now working to line up a shipper to move the pieces. we have a consumer alert for you this morning on a major recall. chrysler is recalling almost 700,000 jeep and minivans. the 2006 to 2010 jeep wranglers are on the list for a possible leak in the brake fluid. dodge minivans and chrysler town and country minivan 2008 to 2009 are also on that recall list. they have wiring problems that could cause a fire inside the sliding doors. for more details, can you go to our web site, myfoxdc.com, and click on web links. the new le redesigned iphone is finally out. the apple's next generation iphone has a lot of new features, higher resolution screen, the thinnest smart phone made and a front-facing camera for video chatting. but the unveiling in san francisco didn't go off out without a hitch. steve jobs ran into a little bit of trouble making the presentation. you know, you could help me out if you are on wi-fi, if you could just get off, i would appreciate it. we're having a little problem here. i don't know what is wrong with our network. >> a little glitch there but you see he just sort of rolled on. >> it will set you back about $200 but for more momentary, there is another one for $300. this latest, greatest iphone will be in stores on june 24th. a health alert. if you have lost your temper, just let it out. researchers say expressing anger increased blood flow to a part of the brain believed to be involved in feelings of happiness. psychologists say it is important to vent in a constructive way so you and the people around you can make some positive changes. don't just let it out there. more benefits of green tea. researchers suggest it contains a component that could serve as a treatment to chronic lymphotic leukemia. a hike in cigarette taxes may help you kick the habit. ucla researchers found that cost may influence people struggling about bring drinking, drugs or mental disorders to quit. they found a 10% hike in cigarette places led to a more than 18% drop in smoking rates. would you know if you were having heart trouble in maybe not. sometimes a heart attack might happen without that pain in your left arm. did doctors say there are some little known symptoms of heart trouble that might help save your life. scott wasserman spoke with one heart tax survivor who thought his problem was heartburn. >> reporter: it is business as usual no john riebel. he believes he is still here today to help improve and save lives. >> somebody is up there looking out for me. >> reporter: for the past 10 years, he sphraiferred burning acceptization in his throat, even went to a doctor about it. >> he said oh, it's probably just heartburn so i just sloughed it off. >> reporter: until recently when he attended an educational conference on heart attack. >> i said what had about this flaming sensation i got in my throat. he said that could be heartburn or it could be symptoms of your heart giving out. >> reporter: he woke up at 3:00 a.m. >> a burning sensation. >> remembering the conference, he went to the hospital. >> he says you're having a heart attack. i said holy mackerel. >> reporter: john was thrown to abbott northwestern hospital where he was operated on. >> his symptom wasn't typical and that is why no one picked up on it quickly. >> reporter: dr. john lesser is a cardiologist. >> a common symptom for a common problem which is heartburn, which is acid reflux t can be the heart although much less commonly. >> other less common signs include pain in the right arm, and an ear lobe ache. >> if you feel that symptom when you are running or walking and it goes away when you stop and it comes back when you do something, that is an indication that the problem is your hurt. >> you never hear bay burning sensation in your throat. you hear about chest pain. >> >> reporter: he said before the conference, he would have blown off the pain and probably seen a doctor the next day. >> it doesn't cost you anything and it doesn't hurt you one bit. it may save your life n my case, it did. i'm really happy. >> scott wasserman, fox news. a bit of a controversy at a local high school graduation still ahead this morning. d.c. mayor adrian fenty cheered and booed. and another local leader simply left early. we'll slain what happened. up next though, one of the most famous music videos in history. we'll tell you which member of the washington redskins got on stage to try to reenact this thriller. we'll be right back. 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[ baby cries ] ♪ [ male announcer ] febreze air effects actually eliminates odors caused by bacteria and leaves a light fresh scent. febreze. it's a breath of fresh air. redskins linebacker london fletcher put on his dancing shoes at the washington episcopal school in bethesda. 13-year-old elizabeth kramer wrote the winning essay in the contest and the grand prize was fletcher joining her on stage for a dance routine to michael jackson's thriller. for the second consecutive year, the washington nationals own the first overall pick in the player draft. last year, they took stephen strasburg. it was no surprise when the nats selected 17-year-old power hitting catcher bryce harper. he has been called the lebron james of baseball. he concluded his season last week with the college of southern nevada, a junior college. he batted .442 with 29 home runs and 89 rbis in 62 games. he is expected to playout field. another no brainer for the first pick. >> i can't remember where back- to-back years there has been two players that have separated themselves from the rest of the field the way that strasburg did in 2009 and harper does in 2010. in that respect, it is very unique. i think it is a lucky time to have two number one picks. >> anywhere they need me, i'll play. i'll play third, outfield, center. anywhere they need me, i'm there and i just wanted to make it and we'll see what happens when i get there. >> let's go to tennis now for the troops at army-navy country club. thanks usa held its third annual pro-am yesterday. that event was founded in 2005. it has already awarded 2,000 scholarships to children of our active duty personnel. >> for military families, they sacrifice for us so much, we'll sacrifice for them. it is great to see some of the old guys back although it is