day and cool temperatures at night. nice forecast, looking forward. highs expected to be with bright sunshine in washington about 75 later today. and the entire region in the low to mid-70s. 73 at hagerstown, 76 in la plata. more details on the forecast coming up in a few minutes. and i hope everybody gets a chance to go out and enjoy. allison, back to you. >> thanks, tucker. we are following breaking news out of montgomery county, maryland. you see the live pictures provided to us by sky fox. sky fox live over a house fire on charles drive in silver spring. we have only a few details but it looks rather intense. it looks like total damage on that home there in silver spring. the blaze is out but the smoke there, you can see it looks like it was a big fire. we'll have more on this later. meantime firefighters have the fire under control and we understand several adults have been displayed from the home. good news here is no one was hurt. tense moments today for people from tennessee to louisiana. the mighty mississippi river is reaching record levels. >> it is expected to crest in the coming hours and thousands of people are being evacuated. sarah simmons is back with us. good morning to you. >> reporter: forecasts are say -- are saying the mississippi river could crest today. they are making sure people are out of the low-lying areas. and let's look at patient -- look at pictures from louisiana. the army corp of engineers is opening a spillway which has not been used in more than 30 years. the swollen mississippi river has swamped homes in memphis. >> i've been in memphis for 62 years and never in my life have i seen anything like this. >> reporter: search crews are getting around in a vehicle called a hydrotech. it propels through the water and shows an up-close view of the level of destruction. mobile homes are in deep and street signs are covered. hundreds have evacuated. >> to use an analogy, in one second the water behind us rup a football field 44 feet deep, in one second. >> reporter: down river in louisiana, these people are clearing out their camp homes before the summer even begins. >> i think this summer there is not going to be really anything worth saving. i'll have to start all over. >> reporter: it hasn't been open since 1973. but the army corp of engineers plans to open louisiana's morganna spillway on thursday. they've asked for permission from the state. this could create water up to 25 feet deep in spots. >> we drain about two-thirds of the country through this area. >> if the floodway is utilized, there is an additional amount of water coming but with you don't know how much. >> reporter: and bad fuse for farmers and good fuse for fisherman. and these fishermen are waiting to find out if the fishing areas are closed, cutting them off from the bumper crops. >> everything is affected if we cannot come in and you're hurting a lot, a lot of livelihoods. >> reporter: and from illinois to the gulf, census figures that more than 4 million people live in counties ajas.to the miss -- aegis object to the mississippi. and they are still trying to go door to door to get people out now. >> thank you, sarah, for the report on the flooding. and a lot of people to evacuate as sarah as saying: we have an update on more than two dozen tornadoes hit last month. more than 10 people were killed and more than a thousand homes were destroyed. and now the governor said fema has denied a request for federal disaster help. and that includes halifax and washington county. the governor is considering whether to appeal this decision. president obama is talking about what he experienced in the moments leading up to the death of osama bin laden. in an interview with cbs's 60 minutes, the president called the raid among the longest 40 minutes of his life. the president said he and top aides in the situation room had a sense of what was going on but found it difficult to get information about what was happening in the compound minute by minute. the president talked about questions over whether the pakistani government knew of bin laden's whereabouts. >> he is convinced the terror mastermind had some sort of support network and doug luzader has the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: even president obama said someone in pakistan must have been helping bin laden out. we just don't know where that support was coming from. the c.i.a. literally has a better picture now of osama bin laden. these images taken from a new video showing him watching himself op a news report. there are computer files too, taken from his compound in pakistan. a treasure trove, it's being called. but still no answers from pakistan as to how the terror leader lived here for so long either undepected or willfully -- undetected or willfully ignored. >> and they need to provide us with intelligence from the compound they've gathered including access to his osama bin laden three wives who they have in custody. >> reporter: and there is the matter of the secret helicopter wreckage that the u.s. would like back. and pakistan's government said there will be an investigation. >> and heads will roll once this investigation has been completed. now if those heads are rolled on account of incompetence, we'll share that information with you. and if, god forbid, somebody's complicity is discovered, there will be zero tolerance for that as well. >> reporter: the u.s. relationship with pakistan was already as a cross roads. this may be the source of a break-through or a permanent fracture. and we'll hear from the prime minister today. he's expected to talk about beefing up his country's air defenses which apparently didn't even detect that navy seal team as it closed in on bin laden. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. and in other news, drivers across the country have been feeling the pain at the pump as the national average for a gallon of gasoline has reached $4 a gallon. but now relief may be on the way. stacy cohan is live in bethesda on the possible drop in gas prices. we're not talking about today, necessarily, right? >> reporter: no. i wish we were talking about today. and we say possible because that's what all of the speculators assume will happen and should happen. you may have heard that crude oil prices dipped last week. in fact they went down by $12 a barrel and yet in bethesda, right behind me, $4.19 a gallon for regular. now nationwide it's $4 a gallon as the average for regular unleaded. that's not our highest. that was in july of 2008. that is when $4.11 was the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline. in d.c. locally they have the highest per gallon, it's $4.13. in maryland the per gallon average is $3.98. virginia is $3.88. however, with the drop in crude oil prices last week there is an expectation of a dip in the gas prices at the pump. but we've talked to some people and they all ask me the same question, when are prices going to actually fall? >> i was really liking if they went down 8 cents a day, not just 8 cents in general. you have to be optimistic. like it can't get any worse. >> it's ridiculous when it just went down to underneath $100 a barrel. why aren't they coming down. if it goes up, it goes up, when it goes down, it doesn't come back down. >> reporter: 8 cents to 10 cents a gallon is the predicted drop in gas prices but once again we have not seen it yet. it is expected to come this week. now does that mean they are going to fall to those nice low $3 marks that we were seeing sometime ago? that is not what experts are saying. in fact with the summer driving season we most traditionally see a hike. you may remember president obama has made it a priority last month announcing an investigation into why the prices rise and fall with apparently, at least to us, no rhyme nor reason. i'm stacy cohan, back to you. >> thank you, stacy. allison? a big local story we're following this monday morning. a silver alert has been issued for a missing maryland woman. she is 66-year-old adela barrett last seen on friday on her way to her daughter's home in arlington but never made it there. her daughter said she is worried because her mother takes heart medication and hasn't it had it in days. >> she went more than a day with her blood pressure medicine they had to break into her house. >> she was last seen driving a 2010 maryland nissan versa with tag number 4 ab-3251. if you have seen her, police ask that you give them a call. monday an amaze -- an amazing story. a woman found alive after being stuck in the woods for 7 days. she lost close to 30 pounds. she lived off of know water and -- snow water and trail mix. she and her husband were headed to las vegas when their van got stuck in mud. after three days her husband went for -- for help and they haven't seen him since. >> we pray for a good outcome but we'll accept anything. we just want to find him. >> crews had to stop the search yesterday due to bad weather and say it is unlikely they'll find him. tied up and robbed. that's what happened to people in a georgetown home this weekend and now d.c. police are looking for the men responsible. we have details coming up next. and we know it's a breeze for kids to pick up technology because just because they can upload to the web doesn't mean they are prepared for the consequences sometimes. why your child might not be ready for the digital age next. we're back in a moment. 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>> well we didn't ask them why they think they are doing a better job because we didn't know until we did the research. and i speculate, that they want to be doing a good job for the kids. so when you ask them, are you doing a job, they are trying their hardest and believe of teaching the kids in front of them and they their doing the best they can. what we think is that they don't have a framework for what they are supposed to be doing. so issues arise, cyber bullying has been hot this year and hate crimes online. and they are trying to address those on a one-off basis but they don't have the comprehensive view of what should be taught. >> is this because these are relatively new waters that we're nav gave -- navigating. >> and two years ago noble wasn't an issue and now every kid has a smartphone that connects to the internext it's hard for schools and parents to keep up and i think school is moving more slowly in terms of adopting to those circumstances. >> in terms of teachers and administrators, who do they think should be responsible for this? should it be the schools or the parents at home? >> well i this there is a lot of belief that teachers feel very strongly that parents should be involved. i think administrators are mixed. they feel parents and teachers should be involved. this is not a finger pointing study to say you should be doing this, but we all have responsibility for raising or kids in the digital age and we understand technology will be more of a part of their future than their present and we to make sure they can use it safely, security and ethically. >> when you look at what is going on nationally, all across the country, what has to happen to have this addressed in a more uniform way? are there rules or laws in states across the country that mandate this type of instruction in schools? >> well we're seeing more and more on specific issues like cyber bullying that i think 44 states have passed laws related to that. but we like to see every school, whether it's a school district or the statewide level take a comprehensive approach and understand that teaching in the digital age is not just about one issue, it's about a really -- it's making kids cyber capability and graduating as adults and going into better education. and teachers need training. we can't expect our teachers to teach things they haven't been trained in and don't feel confident in the classroom and that came out. >> and what do parents take away from this? what do we need to do? >> be involved in our kids digital lives. we need to help them and do some critical thinking skills and perhaps talk to the teachers in school about what they are teaching and see if you can fill in the gaps and taking responsible for making sure your kids are safe and secure online. >> michael keyser with the national cyber sec -- security alliance. thank you very much. we are following more breaks news. this time from vienna. sky fox live over an accident involving a bus and construction vehicles. this is on the dulles access road near trapped road. we're not sure how many people were on the bus at the time. nor do we know whether anyone was hurt. we will stay on top of this story for you and bring you updates as they come in. meantime, a continental airline flight forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger tries to open a boarding door. we'll tell you who jumped into action to help keep that plane safe. and holly is checking out off-beat expert this is morning. >> reporter: we're live at the national history museum. we have met the dead plant guy and the dead bug guy and now we're going to meet the dead person gal. specifically you would say that dr. brown is a paleo anthropologist. we're going to learn about her off-beat expertise live later in the hour. >> exciting. just like bones. well let's tack a look at our trivia question today. stars robert redford, steve mcqueen and paul newman all turned down the role in which movie despite a large contract offer. was it superman, jaws, grease or mash? the answer is coming up. but take a guess right now on our facebook page. keep it right here. we'll be right back. it's 9:21. 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try new air wick double fresh. it warms two refills simultaneously, filling any room with long-lasting fragrance. that's nina simone. >> i was just listening to her yesterday. >> were you really? >> we had a mother's day celebration and my wonderful cousin who is more like a mom to me, mimi, came in and said who does the whole drum thing at the end of the cover that she did for a famous song and chucky probably remembers, it will come to me. and then we were trying to think of the name of the song as much as we are live on tv right now. >> did you come up with who did the drums? >> i remember it. it's a very famous cover. >> show me what you look like when you are trying to remember the song? there it is. >> good acting. >> making your way to hollywood. >> it is beautiful out. it is perfect. and here is the deal. >> i did it my way, thank you very much. >> my way. i think it was my way. >> can somebody help you with that? >> no. go ahead. the man in my head did. >> i thought so. let's get right to the headlines. there is only one headline that you need because who cares about the rest of them. it's all about sunshine. it will be beautiful today, tomorrow, right through the end of the week. a lot of sunshine in the forecast. with temperatures each day in the 70s. overnight lows in the 50s. it will be a nice streak here for the next several days. temperatures warming up. but they are comfortable. 62 at reagan national. we're 62 right now in quantico. off to the north and west, 63 in frederick. you are in the 40s overnight. 59 in hagerstown. leonardtown 61 at the moment. and 62 in annapolis. you get the idea here. good news, humidity should be low. our winds out of the north today. that will lock in the pattern for the next few days and keep our humidity down in the afternoon. warm days, cool nights ahead. as this weather pattern is going to be a slow one to break down. but i'm sure we'll have no complaining. and look at how quiet it is out there. a lot of clear skies across the mid-atlantic. a cloud or two bass passing -- passing during the di. and it's all thanks in part to an area of low pressure north of us and this will be a slow- mover and you'll be able to feel it because the winds will be out of the north for the next couple of daysch a quite et weather pattern add -- a quiet weather pattern. and so several days of dry weather. a nice streak here for the start of may. sunshine and nice condition. sunny conditions and 75 degrees expected. winds out of the north at about 10-15 miles per hour. then later tonight, it will be cool but not cold. not too warm. clear skies and comfortable. 50 the overnight low with winds out of the north at 5 miles per hour. a lot of sunshine this week. temperatures in the mid-70s by wednesday. more clouds on thursday and friday. and by late in the day on friday, showers maybe back in the forecast. might hold off until this weekend but a glorious looking couple of days across the area. i hope you can get a chance to get outdoors an enjoy it. that was tough to say. let's toss it to allison. >> and do it my way, tucker. >> there you go. >> do it my way. paula will be back soon. it's official now. paula abduhl is the last judge to sign on to simon cowell's x factor. she'll join cheryl cole l.a. reed and cowl on the panel. the competition began taping last week and debuts on fox 5 this fall. and we are gearing up for our own couldn't test. we nair ode down more than 150 video entries to eight finalist who's -- finalists who will perform. and then four winners will get a pass and travel money to the up coming auditions in dallas texas. the judges are sammy and sarah from the cain show. rahim devan and music producer chucky thompson and he joins us live to talk about the whole extravaganza. nice to see you. >> nice to be here. >> let's talk about x factor first. what kind of judge are you going to be? because we need to you be serious and hard on these folks because they are serious. >> really, if i could say that i'm -- i basically will be honest with them. it's not a lot of space for everybody. so we have to pick the right people to represent this area. >> and you need to hear it, the truth. >> exactly. >> straight up and no chaser. >> definitely. i think that they will appreciate it. i think shows like this really get down to what happens in the boardrooms. it's just -- there is not enough space, you only have a couple of greats. so shows like this really get down to who is great. >> and i want to talk about that whole thing and what you think about this whole trend now, the singing competitions. but first we have to give a shoutout, you work with all of these great names, maria carey, brian mcknight, usher, mary j blythe but i want to focus on how wonderful rahim is and now the whole world knows and that's got to feel good. >> coming from this area, born and raised here, i had a hand in helping to discover rahim. i had a studio on pennsylvania avenue. so it was just one of those things where i just allow people to come and hang out and he just caught on to the vibe of what i was doing as far as the industry was concerned. but there are certain people who are focused and he focused in on what i was doing and took it and used it to his advantage. >> and as you see one of the grammy nominated tracks that you were -- were on too. >> and we were so happy with the chuck brown nomination because we love him so much here. and you feel like, hey, don't you know how great he is, chicago, minneapolis, l.a. and it looks like they did know because he was up for one as well. >> he's to me the 100% person. man, artist, talent, legend. >> he has that tight james brown action when you see him. >> and it was an honor for me to be able to work with him. and i'm ready to do it again. he's not stopping no time soon. >> and an evolution for you because you really did start with chuck brown. >> exactly. >> one of his musicians? >> yeah. i performed with him when i was -- i was actually 17, and i lied and told them i was 19. it was crazy. >> and it paid off for both of you. and i want to get your take on the music industry today. those shows come up like idol and x factor, and a star can be born. but it's not fool-proof and some don't go own to the successes that carrie underwood and others did. how has the industry changed and what do the young people need be armed with today to make it? >> i think the industry has -- has changed because of the internet. there was a time where you only had a certain amount of people or dj's and the whole country trying to get to these people. and now you have the free services like you tube and different things. so i would advise artists to use these free tools, it's a lot of stars being created right out of their homes. so i just feel like now is the time to just get it to the people. but shows like this still have relevance because you still get a chance to have executives basically pick and choose and you still get that hand-picked thing happening. so i really feel excited about what is about to happen. especially for this area. >> we're excited that you're on board with us. we'll be seeing a whole lot of chucky thompson this week and we're thrilled. thanks for stopping by. >> thanks for having me. >> we get it started this week. >> i'm ready. >> thanks, chucky, for coming in. we appreciate it. coming up, history from the gay rights movement going on display. where you can see this bit of history. and paul mccartney is getting ready to walk down the aisle again. details behind his engagement next. the library of congress is getting new pieces of history. documents from gay rights history are on display. they come from frank cameny fired as a government astronomer in 1957 because he was gay. they are showing the 1961 petition to the u.s. supreme court contesting his firing. though it was denied, he was the first petition to the high court for a violation of civil rights based on sexual orientation. a piece of the pentagon rubble is being dedicated to the the armed forced for their response. there have been three similar presentations and pieces of the presbyterian have been given to the arlington county fire department, the fbi and the new york city fire department. mall mccartney once wrote a song called i've had enough. not true when it comes to the marriage. in the buzz bin, he is engaged to new york socialite nancy schiffal, his girl friend of four years. this is his third marriage. first wife linda died after a long battle with breast cancer in 1998. he divorced heather mills in 2006 which cost him a good chunk of his billion-dollar fortune. >> is that your editoral comment, the love of his life. and he admits that. well the weather is going it be nice this week and that may have you and your furry buddy outside. but before you do that, you want to hear this next segment. some spring-time pet dangers you might not know about coming up next. and holly is checking out some off-beat experts. we do this every year. it's always cool. she's at the natural history music um this morning with details coming up. ou [ female announcer ] you have all this chicken. chicken, chicken chicken. there are thousands of ways to prepare it. 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>> right now i have modern bones chewed by carnivores. >> reporter: and why would we want to see nice munching on the bones? >> that's a good question. when our first ancestors first started eating meat we were competing with giant sabre tooth cats and we see bones with munching and tooth marks on them to figure out what kind of carnivores our ancestors were competing with we have these bones. and if we can figure out who ate what it gives us a better sense of what was going on in the past. >> reporter: and what are we figuring out here? >> these are three different spaceys of human living around the time. they were all found in the same area around the same time. and they had different ways of living. so some of these early homospecies made tools. that was the first evidence for meat eating. we have stones with marks on them from using the tools. this one went in a different route. this is a lineage that became extinct and they are were focusing on tough hard food and they had big chewing muscles and big teeth. >> reporter: and these are so old and been study significantly, do we still learn new stuff? >> when it's using new techniques we can use carbon isotopes to look at what they were eating and dental micro wear to figure out what they were eating and every time we dig up fossil bones, animal bones like this wheeze with butchery marks we get a more of a sense of early human diet. >> so it is all about what we eat? >> i think so. >> reporter: so this is cool because you get to touch and feel but not everybody has access to this and one of the other hats that you wear is that you are the social media person as well? >> that's right. so i deal with social media for the human origins program and one of our newest projects is what we call project orangutan. and so we have a website where we give the public 3-d access to our collections and it's one of the strategic priorities at the smithsonian. there is special funding from the board of egypts to do 3-d scanning and put things like these skulls online so that anybody can have access to them, they can rotate them. some of the collections, if you go into our bone hall, you'll see one orangutan. we have hundreds in our collection and this is a way for us to let people actually be the next best thing to be able to to pick it up and turn it around and hold it. >> reporter: and you are heading to kenya. >> this summer i'll continue my tour in kenya and i'll be looking for more chews bones that have been eaten by leopards and hyenas and i'm looking forward to that. >> reporter: and i'm going to invite you all to my next dinner party. because you all are fascinating. >> thank you. >> reporter: myfoxdc.com is our website. we have a link to the smithsonian's natural museum of history so you can find out about the off-beat experts they have here. it's been a truly amazing morning. tomorrow we'll introduce you to more people that are in charge of the look of everything that happens at a local theater. see if you can figure it out. back to you. >> fascinating. thank you, holly. we'll be right back after the break. bree: sis, help me create my oasis. marcy: ok, romantic garden? bree: oh, is there a castle nearby? marcy: no, but there's a charming farmhouse. bree: right next to my posh castle! i'm sensing a theme here. well, i am the queen, dear sister. it's springtime which means pets are probably going to be spending more time outdoors. but there are a few springtime dangers every pet owner should be aware of and joining us with more information is michael domain co-owner of camp bow wow in columbia, maryland. and so it's spring and that means there are flowers indoors an out. can you tell us about -- starting with the flowers and then we'll move down the table. >> sure. what we have here is a sampling of probably flowers that most of us have in our garden today. and you may not know but a lot of these are hazardous to our pets. and our pets are curious so they're going to be taking their mouths, sniffing and what happens then is they ingest some of this and when they do, it can cause a lot of serious problems including up to kidney failure. >> oh, yikes. what are the flowers? >> we have tulips, azaleas and lillies here. >> are there others we should be aware of? >> the aspca has a great website with the pictures to the flowers. >> and we'll link that to our site. and moving along, we have spring cleaning which means a lot of products. >> a lot of us are cleaning out the house so these are just some samples of products that are toxic to our animals. you want to be careful of not only when you are cleaning, they can get into the solution, it can be very toxic, but also we have a lab at home that can open up cabinets so we have to make sure they have a child safety lock and put them up high. >> that's good advice for the safey lock. and dogs have allergies as well. my dog has allergies and his eyes get puffy. what are these? >> allergy tablets and some itch relief. some of the common signs of allergies are licking, scratching, so your ear is getting red, like you said, puffy eyes. also gnawing at the paws. so if your seeing any of that, before you administer these, you want to first speak with your vet and figure out the best option. >> are these available at your pet stores? >> they are over-the-counter and available at pet stores. >> and finally we have the dreadful may and tick problem and the fleas are a big problem because once they come into your home it gets infested in everything. so prevention is key. and this is -- can you tell bus this product? >> this is a front-line and there are a couple of other products. it's good to have them on these preventative measures and work with your vet to find out the most appropriate. >> and you said year-round and that's important because sometimes when the weather gets cold, people think it's okay, the fleas are dead, but year- round is the way to go. and how does this work? >> this is a tick twister. you can find this at your local pet stores. but essentially what you do is take it and put it underneath where the tick is on the pet and this keeps you from touching the tick. so you slide it under and start twisting. don't pull up because that's when you can receiver the tick. >> so just twist it off. >> twist it off generally, i know people like to use tweezers but this seems like a better option. >> better option for you. >> and then also we just mentioned that you were a co- owner of camp bow wow. can you tell us about our facility. >> we are an open environment h