we won't be done with the rain. mild, 50 degrees. humidity, 100%. wind out of the south and east at 12. flood watch, the entire area under a flood watch through this evening as we're expecting rain totals when all is said and done, perhaps 2 inches, maybe 3 inches in a few spots if we get thunderstorms this afternoon. rain, thunderstorms, heavy at times, and a mild high temperature of 59 degrees. more details on the forecast in just a couple of minutes. back to you. thank you so much, tucker. our top story this morning, d.c.'s mayor hires a big time lawyer. he's retained bob bennett. he's the famed lawyer who defended bill clinton during the monica lewinski scandal. this is another event in a very eventful week for the d.c. government. the exchange between sulaimon brown has kept the d.c. council busy. joining us is councilman and former mayor, marion berry. thank you for coming in this this driving rain. >> it was kind of messy. i know the back streets and i got here. >> you know the city inside out, for sure. tell me what's happening in your ward now. what would you say is the top priority? >> first of all, i'm going to give the state of the ward tonight at 8:00. my whole approach is going to be different this year. i use a lot of statistics, but i'm looking at the state of marion berry. how am i doing, mentally, emotionally. >> how are you doing? can you give us a preview? >> health point of view, i'm doing very well. celebrated two years of a kidney transplant. 15 years of prostate cancer. i was born a black boy in mississippi, in the delta, to two sharecroppers. lived in a house with no running water, no lights. had outhouses. and i grew up in those kind of conditions. i went to a school, a one-room school, 15, 16 students in it, in mississippi, segregated. and i overcame a lot of odds. the story, how i overcame so many odds, first in my family to go to college, first in my family to get a masters degree, et cetera. and also surviving all the ups and downs of being mayor of our great city. i'm an overcomer. i'm a trail blazer. i represent the same feelings people have in ward 8. >> that's what i was going to ask. do you think you represent what's happening? >> absolutely. part of my theme is us and transform us. transform us into a city where people are eating healthy, people are doing things positive. liberate us from jealousy and lack of courage. the kind of speech are people are to stand tall, help their neighbors out, to participate fully. don't let anybody turn you around. don't do any of that. just go forward and do that. you can be the best that you can be. i'm very critical of our school system. it's let us down tremendously. >> let me ask you about that, since you're talking about the school system, because there are reports it looks like henderson will be the new chancellor. do you like her and think she's a good choice? >> i'd rather not comment on that until i see what the mayor is going to do. >> do you like her? >> i like her. i had good set of conversations with her. the scores today, it's going to be an awful thing. high school at 17% reading. 18% in math. >> right. >> compared to wilson, which is 63, 64%. >> we had the issues with our former school chancellor who let the teachers go. a lot of those teachers, were going to get their jobs back. if she is confirmed or appointed as the new school chancellor, she'll inherit some of those things. do you think she's capable and the right choice? >> the choice is the mayor's first, not mine. >> right. >> but my relationship with her has been positive. she knows she has a heavy load to lift. we're last in everything in terms of education. the only school district behind us is detroit, there's no comparison. we ought to be able to educate our children, and the disparity mayor fenty spent $225 million on fixing the schools here in ward 3, and spent $57 million in ward 8. >> we have a lot to talk about the next couple of minutes. you mentioned that this is, whoever is going to be the chancellor, is the mayor's choice first. he's got a lot on his plate now, especially with the sulaimon brown business going on. i want your take on what's happening with the mayor hiring bob bennett and sulaimon brown's claims. >> first of all, when you're in a crisis, if you dig yourself into a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. stop digging. the second thing you do, is not be distracted. with all that i've gone through, i never let any of that stop me from doing my job at the highest level. >> what are you saying? >> my advice, i give this advice to brown, anybody who asks me, is to stop digging, you know. try to contain the situation. >> have you talked to him about this? >> talked before, and i talk to vincent almost every other day before now about various things. he and i go back 30 years. >> right. >> but you got not to be distracted. i get the impression, looking outside, looking in, that he's doing his job. that's what is important. if you get distracted, you don't do your job and people criticize you for not doing your job, as well as the act you allegedly did. we're a resillent people and we'll make it through. >> you have been a big champion of udc. it's there for the young people of this -- of the district. of course, the president is under a lot of fire for what's going on with this travel expenses, our own tisha thompson exposed that. you sort of spoke out in defense of the president. >> i think there's more to udc than the travel. again, i said, that's the concern of all of us. don't let that be the tail that wags the dog. let's don't forget about the tremendous challenges we're facing at udc. we have a community college off and running. let's not forget the fact the university's budget has been decimated by the control board, cut in half, and we're the only state in the nation that spends piddlings on education. if i spend my time talking about that, i won't talk about the great things that happen at the university. >> how can the university move forward and when you've got these sort of clouds hanging over the president's head, do you think he ought to resign? do you think the board of trustees out to say, president, look, you need to step aside and let the university move forward? >> i'm not going to get into that at all. again, let's not be distracted. it's building. it will become the greatest university in the country. that's what has to happen. so let's look at the challenges, let's pitch in and help. >> okay. >> give money to fix these buildings. costs over $200 million just to do the hav system down the street here at the campus. we got a great program, one in southeast and northeast. people are learning. students are eager to learn. one thing about education in the black community, i grew up dirt poor. i chopped cotton at 30 cents an hour for 10 hours a day. one thing my mother always said, get your education. there's a zeal and zest for education. whereas now, the great majority of public school students go because they have to go. i wanted to go because i wanted to go. >> that's a good place to leave this conversation with you, on that positive note. we thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> always good to see you. >> i understand you worked in mississippi for a while. >> i did, so i know. i know the delta. and they know you. just plantations back in those days, with black people working for slave labor. >> you look great. it's good to have you here. >> i knew allison's father, too. >> i know that. >> graduated from the same school. same year. >> thank you, councilman. we appreciate you coming in. >> thanks. now to a big story we're following out of wisconsin, governor walker and republican state senators successfully voted to strip almost all collective bargaining rights from ununionized public employees. this move comes three weeks after more than a dozen democrats left the state to avoid voting. but republicans found a loophole in state law, allowing them to vote as long as a bill doesn't spend money. so they have stripped the financial dealings out of the bill. democrats say it is not over. >> clearly, someone has to say what the hell is the legislature doing? we're hoping the courts will be that branch. >> i think there was a tremendous amount of patience shown by the senate republicans and our majority leader fitzgerald in giving them three weeks to show up. what are you going to do? >> unless a judge rules the move illegal, governor walker's proposed law will go forward. the assembly is set to take up the measure today. lawmakers holding hearings on home grown terrorisms says muslims shouldn't feel threatened by the inquiry. the committee will hear from witnesses starting in about 20 minutes. just how often do you think about where the food on your table comes from? >> one documentary film maker is trying to make you think about it. and that author will join us instudio after the break. happy fa mies. no-touch hand soap system. its soap kills 99.9% of bacteria. with no more germy pumps, healthy hands are automatic. visit lysol.com/ missionforhealth. well, i dare say most of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about where our food comes from. actually, al, we want to talk about what's going on here. this is canal road, because of the rain we've been having, there's actually a mudslide, a rock and mudslide, which has closed one lane of canal road to traffic. this is near where canal intersects with clarke place. it's unclear exactly when that road is going to fully reopen. again, these are live pictures you're looking at of what's going on out there on canal road. that rain is continuing to come down this morning. we'll keep an eye on this and bring you any updates. back over to you, ali. thank you. a lot of folks don't spend a lot of time thinking about where our food comes from. a documentary contends we owe it to our conscience and to the environment to take a hard look at the practices that bring meat to our table. pig business was directed by tracy wooster. she came to town for the debut of the documentary. she joins us this morning. the company is called smithfield, and have called them for a comment on the film, but vanity gotten a response. we welcome you to the show. how was the premier yesterday, or the screening yesterday of "pig business" on the hill? >> it was packed, which is really, really huge benefit to push a lot of pressure behind the fact that this is a corporate takeover of not only your food industry in america, but across the globe by a handful of giant corporations. i'm looking at just the pig industry. now, pigs are intelligent animals. much more intelligent than dogs. we shove into factories where they can't turn around in their cubicles. these are protein eating animals. these farms are in areas of america like north carolina, where there are so many of them defecating in one area, that the stench is unbearable for the local people. and these companies are basically trying to hide behind your laws that they don't have to reveal really what goes on inside the factories, and the evidence is coming out, the cruelty of the pollution, and also the fact that there used to be many farmers. people love living on the countryside. children love being brought up with animals. why can't we have small scale farmers providing us with healthy food? the big businesses say we provide cheap. but they're not paying the true cost because of the pollution, because of the cruelty, nobody wants to be really cruel to an animal before you eat it. and also, you're seeing these antibiotic resistant diseases coming out of these sheds. to keep hundreds of animals alive in the huge barns, not like the pictures you saw on the viewing, that's outside reared pigs, which are happy pigs, healthy pigs. these are the pigs that are having the horrendous life. they are so bored, they're eating each other. the worst thing is the antibiotics given to the animals to keep them alive are resulting in the bacteria mutating to become antibiotic resistant. when you go to the hospital because you're sick, and they give you an antibiotic to make you better, it won't necessarily work on you because you've gotten antibiotic resistance in your own system. so the antibiotics don't work. so you're getting diseases like e. coli and now the pig's strain of msra, and it's difficult to cure people. we're looking at the end of antibiotics, which have saved so many lives, because you're getting the bugs that are resistant. >> seems almost three-fold, the focus of the film, talking about animal cruelty, talking about the smith field in particular, the big companies taking over the smaller farms, and our own health. do you address all three of these issues in the film, or one main focus over the other one? >> the main point of the film it addresses all the issues, so we see the true cost of cheap meat and we take back control of our food economy, and we buy food which has come from organic or small scale farmers. we go to our farmers market. the cost might be slightly more, so people don't like to pay that. however, we need to eat less meat. actually, the obesity problem and the diabetes and the heart disease because we're eating too much meat. if we ate more vegetables, more protein through grain type protein, plants and roots, then we would be healthier, we could spread in our budgets, the cost of slightly more expensive meat. so use less of it. >> tracy, when does "pig business" open in the theaters that show these types of movies? >> it's on youtube. if you go to my web site, you can watch the american version of the film. i've translated it into 12 different languages. you can have any variety to watch the film. the american version is particularly got an american ending, an american relevant bits. you see how the corporations, they comb the globe for good investment climates, which means they go to places, including in america, where states have poor legislation for protecting the environment. they go to where the labor is cheapest. so this meat in the long-term is very expensive for all of us. we're getting rid of farming communities, where we all, i'm sure, or many of us, would like to live on the land, bring up our children on the land. and we're being herded into the threshold ly this year in the world that now over 50% of the world's population live in cities. but in reality, people live very decent lives in the country side. and also, it's much more sustainable. in other words, we are looking at a crisis of mankind on this planet, as we're exploiting our resources too much. we're depleting the seas, poisoning the rivers. we're having unhealthy food. we're doing a lot of damage to our planet and the future of our ability of it to sustain human life. >> we're going to link all of the information that you saw here, including the web address on youtube on our web site. thank you for stopping by. >> thank you. the man accused of shooting and killing six people in wounding 13 others, including congresswoman giffords, enters a plea in court. we'll tell you what that plea is. holly is dodging for a good cause. holly, good morning. >> reporter: i am. i'm holding an official dodgeball. certified by the national amateur dodgeball association. who knew. we are live this morning at champions fieldhouse in rockville, where they are gearing up to host this sunday the 6th annual dodging diabetes tournament. coming up, we're going to have our own little game. the trash talking has begun. and we'll tell you how you can come out. it's all live later. the art of the dodge, stay with us. actress who appeared on the crime drama "the wire" find herself in trouble this morning. she is one of dozens arrested today in baltimore. this is according to the baltimore sun. the paper says raids this morning targeted a large scale heroin and marijuana -- charges for loughner include murder and attempted murder. court documents found two shotguns and ammunition in his home. he's accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others. congresswoman giffords is among the wounded. a judge has ordered psychological testing and a hearing to determine whether he fully understands the charges against him. in libya the tide may be turning against the rebels. but the rebels don't have the fire power or war planes to match gadhafi. the red cross is calling it a civil war. france has announced its recognizing the provisional government. it's the first time any government has recognized the rebels. question for a lot of people out there. do you have a heavy foot when you drive? 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again, we're going to add to these totals today. later this afternoon, could add maybe an inch plus in some spots with the thunderstorms. we're not done with the rain yet. there we are at noon, and still showers in the washington area. at least less numerous than overnight. 3:00this afternoon, scattered showers through the region. 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, the front approaching from the west, and this futurecast is trying to indicate the possibility of thunderstorms developing, too. if we get thunderstorm activity, the rain will be very heavy, at least for a brief time, as the front moves through. then all out of here tonight, and we'll be in for much brighter forecast friday and the weekend. now the weekend looks very nice. currently, 51 at reagan national. 56 in fredericksburg. 52 winchester. the good news, temperatures nice and mild today. upper 50s for afternoon highs. rain and the possibility of a few thunderstorms later today. heavy at times. high temperature, 59. winds out of the south and east at 15, gusting at times over 25 miles per hour. flood watch continues tonight, early rain and thunderstorms, little clearing overnight. 45degrees overnight low. here is your friday forecast and weekend forecast. let's focus on the positive. lots of sunshine. highs saturday near 60 degrees. and a nice drying trend through the end of the weekend. we'll give you an update as necessary in a couple of minutes. back to you. tucker, thanks. there are more and more red light and speed cameras popping up all over town. >> there are. did you know there are apps that can actually save you from a costly traffic ticket? lauren dimarco where where you when i needed you? she hit the road to find out how they work. >> reporter: grab your smart phone. we're talking about two popular apps that will help you avoid getting a ticket and alert other drivers to do the same. >> alert, red light camera ahead. reduce speed. >> reporter: first up, phantom alert. start it up before you hit the road, and it promises to warn you about cameras, speed traps and dui checkpoints. it will alert you to dangerous curves or intersections and if you're approaching -- >> school zone ahead. >> reporter: there's a similar trap called trapster. it has different voice options. you can get your warnings from the likes of austin powers, bill clinton, even kit from knight rider. certainly good for a heads up. >> there is a speed camera ahead. don't take that chance. >> reporter: particularly if you have points on your license. but from what we found, neither app is 100% accurate. frequently we were given false alarms. use them as a guide, not a rule book. trapster is free. phantom alert offers a free trial period. after that, the creators say it will ask you to sign up for a payment plan for ten dollars a month. what do the police think? >> support might be a strong terminology, but i don't think we're against them. as long as it gets people to slow down, that's the end goal. >> reporter: what about the dui checkpoints? >> part of the actual enforcement is the campaign to tell people to stop driving while intoxicated. and we push out information that says where the stops will be. an application is doing the same thing we already do. >> reporter: one other thing to note, a lot of information is sent in from fellow drivers. if you have phantom alert, you earn points for your reports. there are cash prizes and even a car up for grabs. it works for iphone, droid and blackberry. a nokia app is coming soon. trapster is available on most smart phones. if you're really worried about a ticket, install both apps? for more information, myfoxdc.com, look under the mornings tab. you can also send us links for suggestions for apps you have. >> thank you, lauren. both trapster and phantom alert have programs for gps systems like garmin and tomtom. >> going to get one? >> i should. gadget gurus are getting their sleeping bags ready. the new apple ipad 2 goes on sale tomorrow. but for those who were hoping to get it early friday, still have to wait. apple says sales won't start until 5:00 p.m. you can pick it up at apple stores, best buy and target stores. >> really? >> who knew? >> go target. >> exactly. we are continuing to monitor metro this morning. metro officials on the hot seat for what appears to be a lack of safety. we'll find out what the general manager told the d.c. city council when we come back. q lysol believes a healthy family is a happy family. that's why lysol does more with our new stainless look no-touch hand soap system. it fits any decor... and automatically dispenses the perfect amount of soap and kills 99.9% of bacteria. so you'll never touch a germy pump again. with the lysol no-touch hand soap system, healthy hands are automatic... all over your home. for healthy tips and more, visit lysol.com/ missionforhealth. fox 5 is monitoring metro. tuesday night there was a fight outside the gallery place china town stop, which ended with a man being stabbed in the leg by a juvenile. this is one of the recent assaults in the past seven months involving young people. metro officials say they have made changes, but council members are looking at the bigger picture. >> redeploy people to focus on high crime areas. the chief has deployed people at desk jobs out into the field. he's made more flexible use of special teams. >> it does seem that inside the system, got to be a high priority for people to feel safe. >> a disturbing report about fire safety in metro tunnels. it found the pipes don't carry adequate water pressure to put out a major fire. the problem affects 26 sets of pipes. mostly in d.c. the total cost to fix it, estimated $6 million. metro insists the public is safe, and says work to replace the pipes is already underway. remember, we want you to help us monitor metro. if you see a problem you want us to look into, send us your tips, pictures, videos. it is a childhood game turned into an adult fundraiser. how dodgeball is helping find a cure for diabetes. holly is next with more. feel it in the air, spring is almost here. you don't have to wait on spring to get a little green in your garden. our garden expert and friend is up next with late season planting ideas. we'll be back in just a moment. 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>> our team strategy, we have to take out ben stiller. he hasn't made a good movie since "heavy weight." >> reporter: very good. that's good. you guys look ready. i'm coming over here to -- >> team -- [inaudible]. >> reporter: give me more. >> we're already good. >> reporter: what will be our strategy, because i'm on your team. if i can dodge a wrench, i can dodge a ball. >> operation leap frog. >> reporter: got it. normally there wouldn't be this many balls out there, right? >> right. >> reporter: how many normally? >> six. >> reporter: we are playing with as many as balls as we can put on the line, correct? >> correct. >> reporter: let's go ahead and take positions. who starts this game? >> i can. >> reporter: our fearless leader. love him. ready? >> 3, 2, 1, dodgeball! >> reporter: do i have to run back or just throw? oh, you have to run back? okay. what's a good -- go for the feet? that was kind of tough. coach, i don't hear you telling me anything. oh, ben? that means you're out, right? >> your guns are silent. >> reporter: that means i'm out, which is good, because i'm going to toss to jennifer a second. how are you? >> i'm good, how are you. >> reporter: what do you think of this athletic prowess? >> i think it's pretty athletic. i've seen better days, i think. >> reporter: in fact, you have seen better days, because it's really cool that you allow champions here to host this event. that's super fun. you have a lot of things going on. >> we have a lot of things going on. we have tried to reach out and be on the receiving end of growing local, you know, nonprofits that are trying to do good for our county. so, you know, that's a big piece of who we are as a growing business. from a champions fieldhouse perspective, since we first met you a couple of years ago, we're growing like crazy. we have local small businesses that are teaming up with us. then our inhouse, clinics are thriving. >> reporter: we love to see good people do good business and be good at it. with that, thank you very much, i think my team needs me. let's start one more time. did we win that last round? here we go. >> you start this time. >> reporter: 3, 2, 1, dodgeball! okay. here's the deal, myfoxdc.com is our web site. you are down, down like a sweet muffin. myfoxdc.com is our web site. we have a link to champions fieldhouse so you can find out about all the stuff going on here. we have a link to dodging diabetes. they still need some teams this sunday here. come on out, have a good time for a good cause. we do a lot of charity things, but few things have been as fun as this. maybe it's the people. i don't know. maybe it's the gift that they want to give me. offcamera. we love you, holly. good times. not sure i want to be touching these. back to you. >> i was going to say, that's your color, but isn't your size. i know that. all right. hang on to that one, holly. thanks a lot. as the seasons get ready to change, popular plants are hitting their stride. it may be winter, but the late season superstars are putting on quite a show. our garden expert derek thomas is joining us with how we can get the most out of these blooms. >> how are you? >> you look pretty darn good after spending time on the beach. good to have you back. >> good to be back. >> pouring down rain out there. winter is hanging on. >> and we have a couple of weeks. mother nature rolls out all the stops this time of year. there's great plants that, you know, people think about those over the top floral bouquets and things like that as plants you can actually have when you think about what you cut. these are plants at their peak now. things like heather. this is a heather plant. this plant is looking its best right now. as soon as it starts to get a little bit warmer, that plant will be over. you have things like the ever green ferns, because the freezing temperatures have passed, they're perking up, looking good again. forcithia is one of the beacons that lets you know winter is gone, spring is here. >> i love that. >> they are just getting budding up. pussywillow is another plant. kids love this, because it's very soft. it almost feels like you're petting a cat. you know, within the next week, these little buds are going to burst out, and they're going to be leaves. then we've got the dog wood, which is an ornamental, it's in the winter garden, but it's a great plant this time of year. if you're entertaining this weekend, take plants like pussy willow, because once this plant starts to grow out, it's done. cut a couple of pieces of dog wood -- >> doesn't matter where i cut? >> doesn't matter where you cut. what you're going to end up doing, you're creating an ornamental vase. cut them a little bit longer. >> okay. all right. there we go. better? >> yep. let's get this one. let me see here. >> let's let the expert do it. >> no. a little bit further down. i want them at differing heights. you did a great job. you put together a nice arrangement like that. you can jazz it up if you want, if you are having company, you can jazz it up a bit with the winter fern, and maybe a couple of boughs of heather popped in there. what you've got is a minimal bouquet. the dog woods and pussywillows will stay for years. if you waited until the pussywillows came out to leaves, it would be done. that will be attractive for years. someone asked me before the show, how do they get it to be full again? what you want to do is, take it, cut it all the way back. >> when did you do that? >> you can do that now. because what you can then do is for the next two weeks, all of these blooms are going to last in water indoors. >> very nice. >> and you've pruned it at the right time. >> and it's okay for you to do that? >> absolutely. absolutely. what it's going to do, it will flush out with leaves and it will be full again. >> love it. and it won't be long before they're in great bloom. >> absolutely. >> derek, good to see you. >> good to see you. i understand you're taking off, and i want to say goodbye. it's been a joy. >> it's been great. atlanta has beautiful springs, too. you'll have to come see me. help me in my garden. >> absolutely. >> al, back to you. or, actually, we're going to take a break. i'm sorry. we'll be back in just a moment. 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