super tuesday showdown. in hours voters will head to the polls for primaries that could redefine the race for the gop nomination. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm shawn yancy. >> i'm brian bolter. here is how it will all play out. 10 states are holding primaries and caucuses tomorrow including one in our area, virginia, and the vital battleground state of ohio, the payout, a total of 419 delegates. fox 5's laura evans with everything you need to know. >> super tuesday offers the biggest payout of the republican presidential primaries and tonight many are watching ohio as the critical state. mitt romney said today he believes if he can win ohio, can he win the nomination. greeting supporters in ohio at a town hall campaign event mitt romney hopes to catch in on his momentum. >> this is the best place again for entrepreneurs and innovators and job creators because i want more good jobs and i want rising incomes again. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: rick santorum also campaigning in the buckeye state once had a comfortable lead here, but going into super tuesday he and romney are polling in a practical dead heat. >> this is an opportunity for ohio to stand up for the values that made this country great. >> reporter: santorum is also hoping to wrestle away some conservative vote from newt gingrich. meantime gingrich is enjoying a double digit lead in his homestate of georgia and says the poll numbers and of supporters are growing in other states -- and supporters are growing in other states as well. >> the poll came out in tennessee saying we are surging and gained 17 points in a week. >> reporter: ron paul hopes one or more of the three states holding a caucus on super tuesday, idaho, alaska, north dakota, will finally hand him a victory. >> these last 10 years have been a disaster for a lot of people. we have not had economic growth of. >> reporter: in tennessee a recent poll by the american research group has romney and santorum tied. this state has an open primary allowing independents and democrats to cast ballots in the gop primary. experts say figuring out how to win here could serve as a blue print since it's about appealing to more than traditional republicans. >> you have conservative democrats that switched over to the republican party and a tea party element in nashville in the suburban areas. so you have to appeal to this broad base. >> reporter: let's bring in major garrett, the white house correspondent for the national journal for super tuesday previews where the candidates stand. let's look at the delegate count. mitt romney has 203 delegates, rick santorum behind. there's 1419 up for -- there's 419 up for grabs tomorrow. how much impact will super tuesday have actually? will we see the field narrow after tomorrow? >> i think super tuesday is about two different aspects for mitt romney. he can seize effective control of the nomination, not mathematical, but effective if he wins ohio, tennessee, virginia, vermont, massachusetts and idaho. if he doesn't win ohio and tennessee, he's favored in the others, it won't be effective control but a long grim march. romney would still be the frontrunner and the one most likely to win the nomination, but a week from now you go to bam and mississippi, those states do not set -- alabama and mississippi, those states do not set up well for him and then illinois and then the delegate rich states in pennsylvania, illinois. ohio and tennessee, if he wins both tomorrow, i think you'll see a lot of republicans saying this is mitt romney's nomination now. >> you mentioned ohio and i said it at the top of this and we heard romney say very confidently today if he wins ohio, he can win the nomination. can he do that? >> reporter: the momentum is all in romney's direction. what he's counting on in ohio is republican voters there thinking about ohio's legacy, which is picking presidents, picking nominees. ohio doesn't like to have a reputation of picking wildcards. they want to pick someone they can see as the next president of the united states or certainly the nominee of their party and you have to believe that's more likely to be romney than anyone else in this field. as you see newt gingrich rising in tennessee, he's probably tak santorum. i think those two states are the crucial stories tomorrow night. >> what's the deal with virginia? gingrich, santorum not on the ballot there. romney and paul got the required signatures. what kind of showing will we see from paul going up directly against romney and if santorum has a chance, how much does it hurt him he's not on the ballot? >> it's devastating for gingrich and santorum. there's 49 delegates at stake in virginia and i think mitt romney will win almost all of them. i don't expect ron paul to poll very well in virginia. his foreign policy and national security does not play well and especially plays poorly in the southern part of state. i think mitt romney will have a huge night in virginia. >> thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. looks like d.c. council chairman marion barry will be a delegate at the democratic national convention this summer, after all. barry tells fox 5 he was elected and received the most votes during a party vote this weekend. last week political commentator chuck thees argued barry should be disqualified because of his past behavior and tax trouble. barry said he shouldn't have to make a case that he deserves to go. another big story tonight, another blow for neighbors near fort detrick who say they're living in a cancer cluster. tonight a new independent report says two previous government studies are unable to show wet people were harmed by pollutants that con tap -- whether people were harmed by pollutants that contaminat ed groundwater in the fort detrick area. >> a new report says even though studies are inconclusive there's no point in future research. that's because there was little or no water sampling done before 1992 when toxic waste was discovered in those residential wells. so it would be impossible to reconstruct people's past exposure to the chemicals. debbie blank lives a stone's throw from fort detrick. her mother dotty has cancer. according to her, no matter what anybody says, the damage has been done. >> the government's never going to say they screwed up. >> reporter: she's frustrated that the national research council report says further studies are unlikely to answer lingering questions about the effect dumping toxic chemicals might have had on people who drank from residential wells. >> the wells that did have contamination as recently as five or six years ago, what were the levels years ago before they even started testing the water? >> reporter: the panel of independent scientists who did the latest study said there's no way to find data from back then and that's why they think it makes no sense to do any more studies. >> i didn't know what it was. nobody knew what it was. >> reporter: gerald cole also lives in frederick and has suffered from thyroid cancer and gastrointestinal cancer. did he get it because he grew up next to fort detrick? he says he doesn't know for sure. >> as far as living close to the grid area, maybe. >> reporter: he, too is not surprised. the newest study results are inconclusive. >> you would have to have a smoking gun to probably link it to fort detrick and no one is going to say that we were remiss in how we disposed of our chemicals and toxins. >> reporter: study opponents have taken their protest to the internet. the organization fighting for frederick launched a petition drive asking the obama administration for help demanding a congressional inquiry. debbie blank says she just wants an apology. >> we don't want any money out of it. i mean money can't buy people's lives back and their health of. >> reporter: at last check the petition had more than 200 signatures. another leader in the fight against the government in this battle, the christian renee foundation calls the report shape in the face to frederick citizens. a spokesman for the army says it's a good report by the supreme court of environmental and research academies. maryland senators barbara mccloskey and ben cardin are demanding speedy clean-ups of the toxic waste. the jury pool is down to 17 in the wrongful death suit brought by the parents of two virginia tech students killed in that 2007 shooting massacre. they want a full accounting from the university on why they delayed warning students the day the gunman opened fire killing 32 people and himself. university officials are standing by their actions. once attorneys find seven jurors and two alternates, opening statements will begin. a man accused of murdering his neighbor over a dog appeared in court today. police say ellsworth colbert stabbed robert wright's when the dog came too close to colbert's yard. fox 5's paul wagner with the details. >> reporter: this is ellsworth colbert testifying in front of a city council hearing just last thursday. the 56-year-old was a frequent visitor to the wilson building and had twice been barred in recent years for making threats, but that's a whole other story. according to a court affidavit sunday morning around 10:00 colbert left his house on polk street southeast and confronted robert wright about allowing the dog to get near his yard. witnesses say he was holding a knife. after learning who owned the dog, colbert walked a half block to this house on high wood with wright and the dog following close behind. witnesses say the two men argued before colbert hit wright in the head. wright then retrieved a shovel and the two men got into a tussle before wright was stabbed to death. >> i know him well and it's just a tragedy and no matter what you just don't resolve any conflicts, you know in, that manner. >> it's very, very sad. it's shaken our community. >> reporter: that's kevin chavous who has tried town seat yvette alexander on the city council. ellsworth colbert work ford him. >> it's outrageous. the world is -- worked for him. >> it's outrageous. the world is coming to bad. the dog doesn't know any better. so i just don't understand it. >> reporter: coal better has a history of run-in -- colbert has a history of run-ins with the law and even his own family in. 2009 an elderly relative who may have been his mother took out a protection order against him writing in a court affidavit colbert was mentally unstable and physically aggressive. sive. in this penn branch neighborhood today many people have told us they knew both men and both of their families, but declined to comment on camera. colbert appeared before a judge here at d.c. superior court and was ordered held without bond. one other note, last night yvette alexander, the council member who lives in that neighborhood and represents that neighborhood, told reporters that this all had to do with a dog defecating on the man's lawn, but there's nothing in the court 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[ male announcer ] for the road ahead, the all-new subaru impreza. ♪ experience love that lasts. the fallout from an nfl scandal continues tonight. former redskins defensive coordinator gregg williams admitted and apologized to running an illegal bounty system while he was with the new orleans saints. sports director dave feldman is here with more on the fallout. >> the nfl is accusing the saints and its defensive coordinator williams for maintaining a bounty pool of up to $50,000 during the last three seasons. payoffs were made for inflicting game ending injuries on targeted players including quarterbacks brett favre and kurt warner. knockouts in which a player was knocked out of the game could be worth 1,500 cart-offs in which a player had to be helped off the field were worth 1,000 payments allegedly doubled or tripled during a playoff game. gregg williams was the redskins defensive coordinator from '04 to '07. former redskins matt bowen and philip daniels have said a bounty system did exist during williams' tenure with the burgundy and gold. today former colts' head coach tony dungy said he believes payton mannings of a victim of the bounty system. october 22nd, 2006 manning took a brutal help from fill dip daniels. the beginning of -- hit from philip daniels. the beginning of manning's neck problems. quarterback shawn springs played four years under gregg williams and said the incentive for cash program was more of a friendly wager thing among players and he said this defending his former defensive coach. >> i wouldn't necessarily say it was a bounty system. i think like i said before, a bounty is a shock to me. i think that's a negative connotation that everyone keeps saying a bounty system like bounty means like we were paid to go out and kill someone or maliciously hurt an opponent. i don't think that ever was the case. it was never really the case. >> bob barnard joins me now. i should add that gregg williams met with security nfl people today, did not meet with the commissioner, no word on the results of that meeting, but he met with the people in new york, but this story has gone viral. >> it's the talk of the town and dominated the air waves on sports talk radio today and tonight as well. >> when you're telling somebody i'm going pay you money to hurt somebody. >> reporter: we visited the studios of 106.7 the fan in maryland with afternoon host chad dukes and lavar arrington. >> i wasn't privilege toy that. i didn't know about it. i didn't see it. >> reporter: -- privy to that. didn't know about it. i didn't see it. >> reporter: arrington played linebacker and was a three time pro bowler for the skins. >> there's a written bounty on anyone who was good. i wanted to take on and take out the best players of. >> reporter: arrington did that to troy aikman in this game against the cowboys but said i was never offered cash incentives to hurt anybody. >> always greg talked about being hard nosed and hitting guys and going out there and playing all out, but as far as exchanging of money and sitting in like the meeting room and he's passing out the money to people, i never saw that. >> reporter: but another former redskins player matt bowen has said it happened here. >> he painted a picture of the defensive players meeting at the greenbelt marriott right before a game and the prices would be laid out for certain players. >> reporter: former packers great and later vikings quarterback brett favre got beat up in in game in 2009 when williams was the saints d coordinator. >> i moved here from milwaukee, so there's a little pride in brett favre that he's that good that they have to go after him that way, but it's still a rail bad way to run your game -- really bad way to run your game. >> reporter: on the streets tonight football fans tell us they're outraged by bounty gate. >> they make enough money as it. is what was the extra incentive? that's crazy. >> reporter: cash. >> wow. i think it's ridiculous. >> reporter: williams will certainly be punished some way or another. >> i think goodell is going to come down hard and make a statement about what he thinks football should become and football shouldn't become killing the offensive stars that make your fantasy leagues, that usher your sport into the new millennium. >> mike weiss says he doesn't believe the bounty program was as systemic in washington as the saint. he doesn't believe dan snyder or joe gibbs knew anything about it. >> we spoke with joe thiesmann earlier today, the former redskins quarterback who in '85 was knocked out and ended his career from a hit from your giants lawrence taylor and he said if you didn't have a bounty on you, you weren't any good. it happened all the time. >> but it's a different time now. >> as of now no punishment, but we expect one. brian, back to you. take a look at this video, some pictures from some of you guys out there taking shots of the snow that you saw south of the district at least. you can see some of the significant snow on the ground today. sue palka down in the weather center now. looks like we kind of dodged the bullet here, a good swath of pretty heavy snow just to the south. >> no kidding. i think it took some people by surprise, too and the bulk of it was in west central virginia, places like spotsylvania, 1 to 5 inches of snow. let me show you some snow totals picked up today. in the metro area we saw flurries but nothing accumulated and most of these areas saw the accumulation on grass like st. mary's county about an inch, barbersville, virginia, 10 inches of snow. can you believe that? spotsylvania the courthouse measuring 5 inches there, stanton, virginia, 6 and winchester a trace. so heads up in those areas where you got snow. watch for black ice tomorrow morning. we'll have a real serious refreeze. it was a clipper system that deposited that snow and it was passing just to our south. we got kind of the wrap-around, some light rain and snow showers passed through the area before, mighty cold. everybody felt that. our high was only 46. we are down to 36 now. some places are already in the low 20s and upper 30s. just want to give you an idea as high pressure builds in tonight, it won't be a warm one. we're headed to the mid-20s in the suburbs and probably right around 30 degrees in d.c. that ought to keep those cherry blossoms nice and tight for the time being, but if this is a little too cold for you, i spy a warm-up on the five-day forecast. that's coming up. the tiny towns devastated by a monster tornado is now dealing with a layer of snow. coming up the latest on the clean-up as investigators reveal new details about those killer twisters. chili's $20 dinner for two has a bold new favorite -- steak. first, share an appetizer, then choose two entrees, like our 100% usda choice sirloin, available for a limited time on chili's $20 dinner for two. the deadly twister that hit the south and the mid-west claimed its 39th life. 15-month-old angel babcock was found alive in an indiana friday. the twisters killed her parents and two siblings, but by sunday she lost all brain function and her grandmother agreed to remove all life support. >> reporter: mother nature not giving the folks in henryville, indiana, a break. a blanket of wet snow covering the rubble left behind after a tornado slammed into the tiny town. the twister packing 170 mile- per-hour winds flattening homes and businesses, the clean-up in pinier, kentucky, is underway, folks sifting through piles of debris they used to call home, neighbors coming together to help each other. >> it makes me want to cry. at the same time it makes me happy knowing that there's this many people reaching out to those in need. >> reporter: the national weather service confirming an ef2 tornado touched down in this tennessee town. at 300 yards wide and spanning 7 miles, the massive twister covered plenty of terrain. >> very unfortunate that it came through the middle of the town, but very fortunate that it didn't intensify until it got past the downtown area, the most populated areas of. >> reporter: a tornado blamed for the damage sufficiented in mecklinburg county, carroll -- suffered in mecklinburk county, carolina. in alabama governor robert bentley touring the damage, talking to affected residents and praising how the community is helping each other out. >> how the people in alabama care about each other and they come out and they help each other and that just makes me proud to be the governor of a state where we have people like that. >> reporter: the national weather service says that one tornado that struck central alabama was more than 1,000 yards wide, the length of 10 football fields, and it traveled more than 30 miles. in harvest, alabama, elizabeth pran, fox news. president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu face to face in d.c. today. plus growing list of advertisers leaving rush limbaugh due to his controversial comments. ♪ [ male announcer ] being welcomed into someone's garage is a lot like being welcomed into their home. ♪ sure, the decorating isn't always as nice, but the sentiment's the same. 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>> israel clearly is worried whether iran has come close to that red line where action is going to be needed or else they're going to gain nuclear weapons. the issue is how do you know when they've crossed that point before they've crossed it and i think that's both what the president and prime minister talked about a lot. >> why is there such a disparity in what benjamin netanyahu thinks and what president obama thinks? >> this is a complex country and it's difficult for us to know everything they're doing. they've spread out over hundreds of sites and have a lot of activity underway and we have a limited amount of intelligence. so there's a little guesswork going on, but there's other actions underway. it's not just diplomacy or even sanctions. we know there's covert actions, cyber actions underway. we've seen evidence of that in the last year or so. >> is there a way to take the united states perhaps out of the middle of this? are there other countries that can act as mediators to work the back channels and ease the tensions? why is it always the united states taking israel's side? >> two reasons. we tried the intermediary approach for a number of years and it hasn't gotten the results we need and we want to make sure we're coordinating with israel better than less well. >> thanks for coming in tonight. >> thanks. rush limbaugh's verbal attack on georgetown university law student sandra fluke is cost limbaugh. nine advertisers have pulled their ads from his show. limbaugh offered up a weak a poll. aol and tax resolution services are the latest companies to pull their ads. fluke testified on capitol hill about the need for employers to cover birth control expenses. an outrageous story at an elementary school. several 10-year-old boys found bound and gagged in a restroom, the details still ahead tonight. >> reporter: it's just steps from the white house and it's been around for almost 100 years, but it may still be one of d.c.'s best kept secrets. i'm beth parker. i'll tell you all about it coming up. but first here's fox business network's neil cavuto. >> filling up with natural gas to save a whole loft cash, general motors announcing it -- lot of cash, general motors announcing it will start selling its heavy duty silverado pickup trucks with an option to run on natural gas. those prices are currently more than $1 a gallon cheaper than regular gas. prices at the pump keep jumping now up for 27 straight days and it looks like the service sector is gaining momentum expanding at its fastest pace in a year and that is a big deal since the service industry makes up nearly 90% of the economy. putting the dunk in dunkin' donuts, the chain scoring a marketing deal with basketball superstar lebron james with a focus on asian markets. james has a huge following in china. dunk in also planning to create new treats to boost its asian business including pork donuts. don't ask. that's business. i'm neil cavuto. >> this is fox 5 stock market report is brought to you by your ex husband dealer. live life here -- by your lexus dealer. live life heroically. ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band. there's a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? 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[ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. a local coffee shop that's almost a century old is getting national attention tonight thanks to the most important people involved, the customers. fox 5's beth parker takes us out for a cup of joe. >> reporter: sometimes it's not all that lonely to be the little guy. >> we're the underdogs if you think about it. >> reporter: 96 years in m.e. swing company is doing pretty well. facebook users voted the d.c. business one of america's best coffee shops. >> the atmosphere, the coffee, the people, it's a great place to spend a few minutes, relax. >> reporter: it started in 1916 when m.e. swing and his son edward set up shop on e street. here's a line out front during the second world war. >> i hear a lot of stories about people going downtown and getting fresh roasted products with their parents and grandparents. there's kind of a love affair with the company. we've meant a lot from a legacy perspective. >> reporter: mark warmouth was a whole sale customer at first. in 2005 he bought the company. >> i got to know the product and fell in love with everything with swing. >> reporter: this is the facility in alexandria where swing's roast coffee which you see here is the key or part of it to their success, freshness. >> all the products served here is roasted within a 24, 48 hour window. >> their coffee is delicious. it's dark and it's rich and it's i think the best coffee in town. >> reporter: how much money do you spend in this place? >> oh, my goodness. i don't even want to estimate. >> reporter: they're at 17th and g across from the old executive office building not far from a starbucks either. it's a company admired for its consistency, the same reason some customers say they'd rather be at swing's. >> i was in a starbucks on thursday and it looks exactly like a starbucks in d.c. or bethesda or wherever. >> now that people are understanding more about coffee and appreciate it for its virtues, a lot of customers are looking for something better, something fresher, something with a little more hand on attention to the product. >> reporter: a watchful eye during every roast, but as always, the test is in the taste. beth parker, fox 5 news. >> i guess that's good news for coffee drinkers. >> especially with today's weather, right? bet they made a lot. >> i'm driving through on that edge between potomac and bethesda and i'm like is that snow out there? >> are my contacts filmy? that was snow falling very light fluffy stuff locally, but can you believe some of these snow totals? north and west of richmond 2 to 6, but we had a batch right around the albemarle area and 10 inches of snow in a few hours. it's still very windy in the wake of that clipper system that produced that snow to our south today it. is out of here, but it left the wind. there it goes departing dropping that very heavy snow out here to the virginia piedmont especially closer to 64 and then we had the wrap- around from the cold air coming in across the lakes bringing in the snow showers. there are still a few going on up through the mountains. it's certainly made it feel like early february again and even early february was better than some of these temperatures, 46 degrees at reagan today, dulles and bwi 44 and it's pretty chilly out there tonight, not only do we have temperatures at or near 32 degrees here in the district it's 36, but we still have a pretty good wind gusting out there at 10:00, the gusting wind measured at 33 miles per hour at reagan national. so you take these winds and those cold temperatures and you get your wind chill and i almost thought i could retire this map but not quite yet. it feels like 24 degrees here in d.c. and dulles 25 in martinsburg, 20 degrees in playingers town and 30 in annapolis. -- hagerstown and 30 in annapolis. a little bit of a wind chill tomorrow. on not only are we going to have a cold night dropping to 30 in the district, but it will be breezy overnight and the first part of tomorrow. we'll highlight the fact it's going to be on the chilly side, in the 40s tomorrow, some sunshine but not feeling like some of those early weekdays we. had it will be a dry day. so if today and tomorrow sound too cold, feast your eyes on the temperature trend. average high is 52 degrees. we'll be below it tomorrow but wait for this, 60 on wednesday. some indications from our late night guidance it could be warmer than this on wednesday. thursday looks like a terrific day at 67 degrees, friday about 60 and the only one of these days that features any moisture would be friday, looks like a possibility of some showers then. so it's a cool day tomorrow with a few clouds that we're advertising, high pressure going to be building into the region and during the day and overnight hours it will start shifting off the coast. so we get that south wind then and that will mean milder days coming for us with this frontal system on the map bringing the showers in here on friday. it will push warmer air in here again for thursday. so it's all about the jet stream. this is what the jet stream did not do much this winter, take that dip across the mid- atlantic, but it did so with the clipper system and today we see that cool air around again for tomorrow, but then we'll see it ridging and that brings in 60s and yes, even some 70s for the end of the week. it looks like cooler temperatures will be back in the forecast for the weekend. here's your planner for tomorrow. 33 at 8 a.m., by noon only 44 and by 5:00 46 degrees. so tomorrow is the chilly day, but we wait till wednesday and thursday to get the good stuff in. on friday that's not bad either at 60. we cool off a little saturday dropping to 56 degrees and again the only one of these days featuring a little moisture will be friday, some light showers expected. just a quick reminder, you can check weather 24/7 when you download the new fox 5 weather app at apple's app store or the android market on your smartphone. 7 for d.c. weather. fox 5 -- search for d.c. weather. fox 5 sports is brought to you by acura. >> the nationals have positioned themselves for the long haul signing 10 players through the next season. >> one of those players danny espinosa. sports director dave feldman spent some time with the first baseman. >> the nats have a pretty good idea who will take the field when the season opens, no surprises in the starting lineup including second base where danny espinosa played 158 games last year. i asked the 25-year-old who goals he set for himself for the -- what goals he set for himself the upcoming season. >> i definitely want to win gold glove. that's the biggest thing i've always wanted to win since i was a little kid. i always look at defensive shortstops and defensive second base. that's who i looked up to and wanted to do. definitely i have my mind set and goal set on being gold glove, but offensively i just want to improve my numbers. i think my average could be so much better than what it was. there was so much fluctuation last year with my swing, losing my swing and not staying in the right timing, not stay negotiate right slot, everything about it. i'm just -- staying in the right slot, everything about it. i'm just looking forward to this year. >> reporter: that's what davey johnson said he felt last year there wasn't one position player that couldn't do better, that didn't reach their potential. he goes i know we can be better because i don't feel there was one position player last year that played totally up and consistent to their potential. >> i agree all the way around except for maybe mike morse had an unbelievable year. outside of mike i agree. wilson had a good year, but could be way better. desmond had a way year but could be way better, whether werth, zimmerman. we had to make adjustments because so many guys were hurt. >> reporter: are you as optimistic as everyone else is around here about what a good season you guys could have? >> i am. this is such a good ballclub and we have so much talent on this team. what people don't see is we get along so well. the chemistry in our ballclub is great, even for the new guys, gio is a nice guy, walks in, shakes everybody's hand, seems like he wants to be great teammate to everybody, but to look at the chemistry and talent there's no reason we couldn't do something big. >> the nats could be our winning team this year. >> i hope so. we need one. >> i say that because they haven't played any games yet that mean anything, although they won their first spring game today, 3-1 they beat the mets. bryce harper went 2-2 with a walk. >> optimism in march. >> but look, they got great pitching. that's a good reason to be optimistic. coming up american idol is down to the top 13, the finalists weighing in on the media spotlight and the challenges ahead. on the news edge another local county may soon add a bag >> this fox 5 sports update is brought to you by acura, acura advance. chili's $20 dinner for 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-- had this to say about the star treatment they got last week on the blue carpet. >> all the lights. whenever they were taking pictures of it, all it was, i was blinded. >> i did love it. it was awesome. i felt like a celebrity with the lights flashing and the whole time i'm saying my feet hurt. >> reporter: idol also has a way of making you famous in a hurry. >> we were walking down the street and people were waving at us all crazy and somebody was going crazy like oh, my god i can't believe and we were looking around like who in the world are they talking about and they were talking about us of. >> reporter: as the show shifts the song focus is on song choice. the girls will honor whitney houston and the guys take on stevie wonder. >> we have so little time to work with it and pick it. so song choices is the hardest part of this whole experience. >> the song choice, you have to sing a song that you know you're going to feel and you can put emotion into it because if you don't, nobody will really feel what you're feeling. >> reporter: with little room for error each week taking advantage of ad rice and experience may be the key to -- advice and experience may be the key to winning america's vote. >> my advantage is i don't really know everything i have to do and part of that is because one, i haven't really had cable in the last three, four years, so i haven't watched the show, plus i'm always working during that time. >> it will get a couple more times to get fully in the swing of things, especially the live audience. that's something we're not used to, having tons of people screaming your name. that's so strange.