Lets talk local forecast and worry about today first. Well be fine today. Quiet conditions. Little fog to start your day. 63 now at reagan national. Dulles 61. Bwi marshall 61 degrees as well. Highs about 70 degrees. Lots of clouds the first half of the day. Well burn the fog off. Get a little sunshine in here later. Kind of partly sunny afrnoon with highs about 70 degrees. 71 in washington. 70 leonardtown. Could be an early sprinkle or lonesome shower the first part of the day. More details on sandy coming up in the next hour. Lets do traffic with julie wright. Good morning. Right now weve got our hands full, accident activity we need to clean up and clear up if you will coming southbound on 295. Still tying up a couple of lanes. Delays stacking up near 895 past nursery road. Stay to the road to get by. No problems leaving 695 to the accident scene. Accident in montgomery county. Over towards connecticut avenue, we have the police directing you through the intersection to work southbound towards the capitol beltway. 66, lanes are open, but pace is slow inbound, down to about 30 Miles Per Hour. Slowing at 31 Miles Per Hour at fair oaks. Thats a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. Thank you very much. Hurricane sandy has left a devastating path in cuba and haiti, and is barreling through the bahamas. Officials say 21 people are dead in the carribean as a result of the storm, including 11 in cuba. Now the east coast is prepping for what forecasters have dubbed the frankenstorm. It is around halloween. It is expected to hit here in the next few days bringing high winds, heavy rain, possibly snow in some part. Dangerous weather predicted from florida to new york city and as far west as ohio. Power crews in our area are preparing for the worst. Pepco and bge say they are planning for 100,000 outages or more and have hundreds of crews on standby. Fox5s sherri ly is in Prince Georges County live to give us the latest on the preparations. Sherri, you just got to cross your fingers in this for us, but theyre working to make us feel a little better. Reporter they are, allison and tony. Right now you can may see this snow plow behind me. Prince george countys crews were in this morning to do a preplanned dry run for their snow plans this winter. But now they find themselves in the midst of preparing for Hurricane Sandy at the same time. This is a storm that has the potential to cause widespread damage throughout the aa, even without a direct hit. Joining me now is susan hubbard, spokesman for the department of public works. How are your crews preparing today while theyre out on this snow run . Good morning. As you said, we are on our annual snow and ice dry run. And it just happens that the hurricane has been forecast. What we have asked our crews to do while theyre out there familiarizing themselves with their routes is to look to the roadways to see if theres any problems that could cause flooding, to check the storm drains to make sure theyre clear, that theres no debris, no leaves or anything down there, and we will ask folks whatever you do, please dont rake leaves down the storm drain. Theyre looking at the trees to make sure that theres not a problem with the wires. Were working with the electric companies, Utility Companies to make sure trimming is done prior to as much as possible. Prince georges county has been monitoring and conducting Conference Calls and theres one at 9 00 this morning to go over the latest forecast. At that time, from that forecast, theyll determine how much staff has to come in and exactly what time they have to come in. Reporter they are calling this the frankenstorm because this is really expected to be a monster of a storm. Tell us what plans are already in place as far as notifying workers, putting people on standby and starting to get those resources in place. The county has been doing that since the first notification of the storm, and as you know and the folks out there who are watching know, it can be projected to be a horrendous storm and veers and goes away. So it makes it a little bit precarious for us to know exactly when it bring staff. Staff is on standby now. They know theyll have to come in. For those members of staff from the different agencies who have to come in, there is a system that is utilized and they are well aware of that. We will bring in and we will for instance the department of public works and staff is preassigned to the six pumping stations we have. They are already preassigned to their routes to ensure what they need to ensure to make it as safe and keep it safe. We have tree crews, not only our staff, but tree crews on call should a tree go down in the roadway to remove it. I think one of the most important things we could ask folks, if the storm does hit us, please, unless its absolutely necessary, stay home. Prior to the storm go out, get your groceries, get your medicine, get your batteries, make sure your generators, if you have a generator, is ready to roll. Make sure if you have a sump pump you have a battery backup pack. And in Prince Georges County, they can be notified through notify me at Prince Georges County. Theyll get notifications of whats going on. Also, if its not an emergency, call 311. Reporter great. Helpful advice here from susan hubbard. Again, they are getting ready here. They are also asking people out there to get ready as this storm makes its way up the east coast. Thats the latest in Prince Georges County. Back to you. Thank you very much. Stay with fox 5 as we track this potential super storm. You can follow the storms path on myfoxhurricane. Com. You can have the storm forecast with you wherever you go. It will be changing throughout the weekend. Download the free fox 5 weather app. It is available for apple iphones and droids. Checking the other top stories, police in leesburg say theyre looking into a suspicious death they learned about overnight. Investigators say a woman in her early 20s was found inside an apartment at the fields of leesburg on edwards ferry road. That was around 1 00 this morning. Police say they were contacted by relatives of the woman who had not been able make contact with her for a few days. Unclear how the woman died. However, investigators say there is no threat to the public. In maryland, police in Prince Georges County on the lookout for a possible serial arsonist, this after nine cars were set on fire in less than 24 hours. As you can see, some of the cars are a total loss. All of the cases happened in Upper Marlboro. Police say they will increase patrols, but urge anyone with information to please come forward. Turning to the race for the white house, a new fox news poll shows the president ial race tightening in virginia, giving mitt romney the edge over barack obama. Independent voters and women remain in the cross hairs for the candidates. Foxs doug luzader has the latest now from the campaign trail reporter certainly seen this race tighten up considerably over just the past month. This is the average of polls. Theres not much space between governor romney and president obama. Romney has widened his lead a bit since yesterday and it has the president running to catch up. Nothing matches the Campaign Tools a president has, air force one rolling up to a rally. Later, the president running to the podium. Are you fired up . [ applause ] reporter after a marathon day, his voice was nearly gone. Even though my voice is getting kind of hoarse, ive still got a spring in my step. Reporter the president even cast his vote early yesterday in chicago. With his poll numbers flagging, his Campaign Hopes early voters help lock down the lead he had weeks ago. The obama strategy involves women and young voters. The president referring to romney, well, thats a bser, i can tell. If mitt romney feels good, he has reasons. His support from women continues to grow. One poll shows he and the president are tied nationally among likely women voters. That is a huge shift. The Obama Campaign is lifting, because they cant find an agenda to help the american families. This is a time for giving challenges and opportunities. We have a big choice, and ill get this country growing again with your help. Reporter as much as we talk about national numbers, its really it map that may matter most. As far as the Electoral College count is concerned, real clear politics gives a little bit of an edge to the president. But weve seen that go back and forth over the past few days. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. Doug, thank you. 7 11now. The tigers looking to call off the giants at home after losing the first two games in San Francisco. A serving up of this mornings sports breakfast is next. Looking more likely that a monster storm will hit our area, at least the midatlantic and northeast in the coming days. Up next, a closer look at what we can expect. As we take you to the break, a live look at Fort Lauderdale, florida, where the surf is kicked up from Hurricane Sandy. Were going to get the latest on its forecast track and talk with the National Weather service about the super storm and get an update on friday traffic from julie wright. Its all coming up next. Were back with a check of this mornings big sports headlines. The San Francisco giants are halfway to a world series title. They shut out the Detroit Tigers 20 in game two. 14 of the last 15 teams that have won the first two games have won the world series. Today is a travel day. The series resumes tomorrow night in detroit. Detroit was only shut out twice during the season. Is that true . Wow. Then shut out last night. Giants seem to have the magic going. I think theyre going to win it. Looking that way. Well see. I was rooting for the lions. Why do i keep doing that . Lions, tigers, bears oh my. Whatever. Okay. Detroit is a great team. Lets get the forecast and talk sandy. Im not sure do we gotta . Nobody is rooting for sandy. Nobody is. Theres your latest. Ill show you the information on it. But i want you to notice a couple of features with it. Not as strong as it was 24 hours ago. Yesterday we had that eye structure. Today, none of that. Encountering a lot of wind shear. Though this is forecast to keep that center circulation intact, likely to weaken over the near term as it pushes off to the north and west. At least thats a little good news. Lets go to the latest with sandy. Hurricane sandy as of 5 00 a. M. , maximum winds 80 Miles Per Hour. Gusts 90, 95. Winds moving to the north and west at 13. Pressure up a little bit over night. 968millibars. Theyve been tweaking this track, and unfortunately the track is looking less and less favorable with every run. Im going to show you why at the end of the time period. Let me emphasize again, today, tomorrow, no issues. Most of sunday no issues. The main event would arrive and tuesday, wednesday. Energized, weve been talking the frankenstorm, energized with this cool air to the west could create a very serious storm situation around here monday and tuesday. That includes gusty winds, torrential rains. Some of the rain forecasts even in washington for 5 to 6 inches of rain. That would fall at a quick pace. We have a lot to be concerned monday and tuesday. Here its 63 in washington. 61 in leonardtown. Forecast for today is fine. Accu weather sevenday, the focus is monday, tuesday for the worst of it. And a lot could still happen. And i think were going to talk to some people out at the Weather Service site in a minute. A lot could happen. Not set in stone, the track. I appreciate on that seven day you dont have, yikes, and omg for those two days. Im saving that. Still look pretty normal. Thank you. Lets go to julie wright. Thats what im saying, julie. Me, too, julie. It has been busy out here. Montgomery county, accident activity aat connecticut avenue. Follow Police Direction. Southbound along 270, slow traffic approaching route 80. Doesnt improve continuing further south to gaithersburg, but at the lane divide back up to 42 Miles Per Hour. There has been some change as you continue southbound along 270. Delays now southbound on kenilworth avenue to 18 Miles Per Hour, heading south towards the exit for pennsylvania avenue youll find inbound on route 50 below speed from 410 to bladensburg road. Lanes are open continuing along the beltway, between college park and bethesda. This is westbound approaching i 97 with accident activity on the right and left shoulder. Thats a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. Thanks, julie. Lets get back to the conversation about the possible super storm. Shaping up to be major weather systems. Were going bring in Brian Jackson with the National Weather service in sterling, our local field office. Hes going to join us on the phone now. Good morning, brian, are you there . Good morning, i am here. What is the latest on all of this . A lot of people worried about this one, bryan. Yeah. Were looking at potentially quite a situation here, with the hurricane coming up sunday night, east of Cape Hatteras and making a turn to the northwest and yeah, i think in the forecast you saw that the forecast is for it to make landfall in the midatlantic early next week. Bryan, im familiar, like you are, im sure, with Tropical Storms. Ive never seen a hurricane track quite like the one thats forecast with sandy. Do you think that that will verify . Are we getting more confident this will happen . Well, its the other aspects that are causing that, its this weve currently got a cold front over the midwest. Theres a large trough of low pressure that will be coming across the u. S. , and those that large trough will merge with the hurricane and essentially its that merging that is causing that turn to the northwest. So its a pretty unique situation. Most of the times hurricanes moving along the eastern seaboard will go straight north, and it is pretty rare to get a landfall into this area. Bryan, is it possible that the cold front that were seeing to the west could be Strong Enough to steer this storm further out to sea . Usually theres, you know, a trough or things like that will deflect. But theres different orientations of the trough. In this case, its what we call negatively tilted, its tilted from the northwest to the southeast. That will actually draw the system in. So theres increasing confidence that yeah, we will see a merger of the two, whats known as a fading. Lets talk about some of the effects of sandy around here by monday afternoon. What kind of winds could we be looking at in the metro area . Weve been talking about uncertainty this whole time. Coming to a better consensus on, as far as where its going to be and where were looking at a landfall now. Essentially from the delmarva, maybe to the southern new england coast. High winds, in excess of 50, 60 Miles Per Hour. Once again, this is all potential. And combined with heavy rain. So its the high winds and the real flooding rains are the big impacts for the inland areas. Bryan, one quick question, the other thing ive noticed this would last for several days. This one will stick around, right . Yeah. As it does this phasing, this merging, it gets all wrapped up and yeah, were looking at at least some of the remnants, one of the models takes it basically to next weekend. So yeah, were looking at kind of a long system. Fortunately, it will weaken once its over land and lose its tropical characteristics. Bryan jackson is a meteorologist with the National Weather service in sterling, virginia. Thank you, sir, for spending some time with us this morning. And well talk to you again im sure. All right. Be prepared. Thank you, you, too. All right, bye. Dont like it. I dont feel any better. Feel a little worse, actually. Coming up next, a look at this mornings top national and world headlines, including a new report about the fiscal cliff. Just a wonderful morning. It is friday. Its still two months away, but already the economy is feeling the effects. And a celebration, everybody, of european arts and culture for all ages and for all kids. Magicians, story tellers, puppeteers. Holly will tell us about how you can get in on all of this fun. Ike leggett gaming genenerated one hundred and eighty. Million dollars for maryland schools. Question seven will double it. 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And ending the war in afghanistan, so we can. Do some nationbuilding here at home. Thats the right path. So read my plan, compare it to governor romneys. And decide which is better for you. Its an honor to be your president. And im asking for your vote. So together, we can keep moving america forward. Im barack obama and i approve this message. Making headlines, horrific crime scene near central park in new york city last night. We warn you the details are disturbing. A mother returned home to her apartment on manhattans Upper West Side to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bathtub. Their nanny is suspected of killing them. She was found lying on the floor with selfinflected stab wounds. Shes in critical condition. Shes under arrest. The childrens father is an executive with cnbc and had been away on a business trip. The socalled fiscal cliff wont hit until january but is having an impact. A report out this morning warns the prospect of higher taxes is hampering the economic recovery and it predicts some 6 million jobs will be lost if congress does not come up with a fix. Still ahead, one of president obamas support groups appears to be staging what somewhat of a rebellion. As we take you to the break, a live look outside. Latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie, thats next. 7 28now. Anncncr their ads, hopelessly untrue. A West Virginia casino launching the biggest ad barrage ever. Dont be misled. The Washington Post says question seven is just. Common sense. Itll create 4,000 permanent jobs. And stop maryland from losing millions to other states. Every year. Thats why business, labor, and teachers all support. Question seven. And so does the Washington Post. Vote for question seven. Its just common sense. What will the next four years be like . One the debt will grow from 16 trillion to 20 trillion. Two 20 million americans could lose their employerbased health care. Three taxes on the middle class will go up by 4,000. Four Energy Prices will continue to go up. And five 716 billion in medicare cuts that hurt current seniors. Five reasons we cant afford four more years of barack obama. Im mitt romney and i approve this message. Welcome back, everybody. Weve been talking about the campaigns, 11 days before we go to the polls. Everybody has an opinion, even barbie. Barbie . Check out barbie. She was the b party, i believe. She is the candidate . Running . Shes running. Mattel makes barbie, they say basically there are no women in the race, so theyre putting barbie in the race. Oh. Running for president . Do we know her platform or anything . I dont think we do. As tony mentioned, here is her campaign can see them on the back. Got a pink wig on. Maybe not a serious campaign. This is cool. Barbie stands on her own, literally, because she stands up on her own out of the box. She does . Thats not something all barbies do. Stands on her own, and says, literally. And she has on wedges, not stilettos. Thats important if youre running for office. Stilettos take a toll on your feet. I dont know the difference. Should i . I dont think so. Good for her. Tucker has a lot of information for us about the weather, which today, not so bad. Not so bad around here. Well talk local forecast in a second. This is a live shot out of Fort Lauderdale. Theyre getting rough surf. I have an uncle that lives down there and says he doesnt have power. Already . What . For a good 10 hours and he said the storm surge was causing flooding locally. Even florida has Tropical Storm warnings and watches up and down the coast now. Could be scary. Are you seriously thinking about giving her your vote . I was seeing if she was the b party. We came back on camera, which we dont often do when you start talking. 63 in washington now. 63 annapolis. Tony mentioned not a bad one day. Much like yesterday, Morning Cloud cover. Got the fog. Once we get that, get that burned off a little bit, a little bit of sunshine this afternoon. 61 leonardtown. 59 in winchester. 59 frederick as well. Temperatures relatively cool. Highs today about 70 degrees. Plenty of time to prepare for what will eventually be sandy and this hybrid frankenstorm late sunday and monday and tuesday. Theres the gray, thats the maritime layer, the low fog. Not very thick, but enough to give us clouds to start the day. Should see that burn off later this afternoon. This front, thats a big player in our weather, we talked to the forecaster in sterling and he mentioned the negative tilt. Behind that front will be a big piece of energy helping trap this Tropical Storm and pull it towards the mid atlantic. Thats the latest look at sandy. Notice its not looking as impressive as 24 hours ago. Pretty good winds in the upper atmosphere pulling at it in many different directions. Core of circulation will stay intact likely, but will lose some strength as it pushes north later today, so thats good news. Lets talk about the bigger picture, and the possible track of the storm. Looks like it will track to the northnortheast, and as i mentioned, will get pulled back towards the Washington Area as we get into the sunday night, monday time frame. Lets take a look at futurecast and decent job of showing what will take place. Later tomorrow, here comes the cold front, that will energize the system. Could give us a few showers late tomorrow. Moving up the coast saturday and sunday. Here we are sunday at 1 00, rain showers around. Heavier rain to the east. Lower Eastern Shore, heavier rain. Main event still several hours away. That will continue to track up towards the Washington Area. Things get much more interesting by early monday morning. Well have heavy rain, and here are some of the impact, beach erosion, did i mention monday is a full moon . Will exacerbate problems with flooding along the tidal basin and of course atlantic ocean. Power outages almost a guarantee and potential for flooding rain. Looking at the last guidance here, maybe 5 to 8 inches of rain. 71 today. Early clouds and fog, afternoon sun. Winds out of the east at 5. Accu weather sevenday forecast, 68 tomorrow. And monday, tuesday, thats the time frame were going to put a question mark, again, that track not set in stone. Much could still happen. If it hits, monday, tuesday time frame, that will be the worst of it. Lets do traffic and get the latest from julie wright. Good morning. Busy ride here on the highways this morning. Lets get to it. Traveling southbound along kenilworth avenue, heavy slow and steady getting past eastern continuing towards pennsylvania avenue. All lanes are open. Southbound 270, still congested on the top stretch down to about 21 Miles Per Hour. Heading southbound to the accident, tying up the right side of the highway. South of shady grove and rockville the pace improves. Inner loop, slow start from springs field, 20 minutes at this point. This is volume delays. Volume delays eastbound on 66. By the time you reach the beltway, up to 60 Miles Per Hour with all lanes open. Thats a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. Thank you. Expect to see more women getting out the vote. A vast majority of women voters still undecided and both candidates are paying close attention to that. A recent gallup poll shows women in key swing states have gender specific priorities. What does this mean . Professor jennifer lawless with American University joins us, where shes also the director of women and politics institute. Nice to see you. We were having a little fun with the barbie, but the truth of the matter is, women are more important than ever it appears in this election cycle. Where are we now as far as what issues seem to be important to women voters . There are two things going on. The first is that they are important. They are more likely to be registered to vote and turn out to vote than men. And their population percentages suggests they are the majority of the electorates. In every president ial election since 1980 and all Congressional Elections since 1986 women have been more likely than men to support the democratic candidate. President obama needs to exploit that if he wants to win, and mitt romney needs to mitigate it if he wants to win. It seems that the president enjoyed quite a gap as far as that women vote, and recently, perhaps when the debates started or around the same time, we saw that gap narrow quite a bit. Can you explain that . Its somewhat perplexing. My assessment is it has to do with what im calling absence makes the heart grow fonder phenomenon. After the first debate womens issues werent talked about at all. Following the second debate, the gap reemerged a little bit, because so much attention was on womens issues. The third debate was about foreign policy. Women were not really fully integrated into that debate, womens issues werent in that debate and it moved away. Some of this has to do with gender setting and what women and men are being told to think about. Interesting. There was a poll taken in 12 of those key swing states, and thats the other key player, the swing states, and it showed a different story as far as what women care about and what men care about. Number one on that was abortion with 39 of women coming in saying that thats what they consider the most important issue for women in this election. Jobs at 19 . Health care 18 . Economy 16 , equal rights, pay and opportunity. Abortion doesnt show up on the men, and equal opportunity didnt show up as a priority. What can we learn from that, and if this is the case, who should be ahead now . Its a little bit confusing, because those questions were open ended. So people were just asked what do you think is the most important issue facing the country . Its not that surprising that in swing states women said abortion and equal rights, because the candidates, democrats in particular, have been doing so much to prime them to assess other candidates, both romney and barack obama, according to that issue. When asked about other five issues, unemployment, foreign affairs, we dont see the gender differences we see when asked that open ended question. So barack obama is leading on womens issues. The key for him is make sure these women continue to prioritize abortion, equal rights and get out to the polls. Ive seen effective ads as far as governor romney goes, the latest was a high ranking women within his cabinet, and just really speaking plainly, you know, basically i know mitt romney, i support mitt romney. How effective is Something Like that . Its certainly not ineffective. And its important for this small segment of swing voters who are women in these swing states. But the things to keep in mind is that where mitt romney can have surrogates on the campaign trail who say he did good things for women, barack obama has a record he can point to. At the end of the day its going to be a question of whether female voters are more inclined to buy the symbolism or the substance. Always a pleasure when you come in. I enjoy it so much. Thanks for talking with us today for a little while, and well be right back. Hat th. Revee roe v. W hopefully reverse roe v. Wade. Overturn roe v. Wade. Planned parenthood, were going to get rid of that. Ill cut off funding to planned parenthood. Anncr no matter what mitt romneys ads say. We know what hell do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. My name is julian bond. I know a Little Something about fighting for whats right and just. Marylands gay and lesbian families share the same values and they should share in the right to marry. I believe people of faith understand this isnt about any one religious belief. Its about protecting the civil right to make a lifelong commitment to the person you love. Join me in supporting question 6. Its the right thing to do. We had a good group of people. Good group of employees out there. This was a booming place. And mitt romney and bain capital turned it in to a junk yard. I was suddenly, 60 years old. I had no health care. Mainly i was thinking about my family. How am i going to take care of my family. He promised us the same things hes promising the United States. And hell give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. Anncr priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Athats what the plan georged allen supports. Would cost our economy. Newspapers called it economically destructive. Like allens votes to give tax breaks to companies. That ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would. Help big corporations, devastating the middle class. Allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. Virginia cant afford to go back to george allen. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Is responsible for the content of this advertising. Its your look at the new and note worthy in the week ahead. It is the capitol rundown for the week of october 29th. Monday at 9 30 a. M. , the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that looks at the constitutionality of federal wire tapping laws. Tuesday, october 30th at 11 00 a. M. , the National Press club hosts Democratic Campaign chairman congressman steve israel of new york and Congress Time white of georgia. Wednesday, the 31st, the brookings constitution talks about markets and economic recovery. And november 1, a lecture on the spread of muslim sharia law. Friday, november 2nd, uso is hosting its annual gala at the washington hilton, honoring the men and women of the u. S. Military. Jordin sparks will perform and Alison Seymour will emcee. Keep checking fox 5 for more. Im tom fitzgerald. See you next week. Im nervous about hosting it. It will be fun. It will be fun. Big deal, allison. Autographs signed later after the show. Cant wait. Want a picture, too. What have you got for us . Waiting for the latest update on sandy. Shes undergoing her transition. Tucker, you said shes lost power. Im confused by this message. Shes lost steam overnight. Isnt that good news . Weve been talking about the hybrid storm. This is undergoing that process, where it becomes a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Bottom line, still will be dangerous as it approaches the midatlantic, late sunday, monday, tuesday, thats your time frame. Still category 1 hurricane as of 5 00 a. M. With 80mileperhour winds. Want to talk about the wind field. Couple of different players here. Weve got the storm working up the coast. See the center of circulation . Notice where it is monday morning at 7 00 a. M. Thats not where you want it. Right off to our south and east, off the delmarva peninsula. Strongest winds are closest to the certainty of circulation. To the the west, that cold air and negative tilt. And that will trap the storm. Monday late morning, early afternoon, it will be right on top of us and will sit here, unfortunately, and if it forecast verifies, that would be a messy situation here monday, tuesday, with heavy rain, lots of wind and mountain snow to the west. Unlike the storm last year that moved quickly, this will take its time and will be with us for a couple of days. Okay, kids, uncle tuck says no halloween this year. Not yet, allison. Lets go to julie wright. Still busy here on the roads. Traveling southbound along 270 earlier accident at shady grove road is off the road to the shoulder. Pace doesnt improve much, 16 Miles Per Hour out of gaithersburg headed southbound to rockville. Lane divide, backed up to about 35 Miles Per Hour. You get the idea, heavy, slow and steady, continuing to the lane divide. Northbound on route 5, car stuck in the center of the roadway. Expect delays leaving 301. Ahead, a taste of europe in d. C. No passport required. Heres holly. Reporter no passport required indeed. Another reason why we live in the best city in the world. This is truly a celebration of european arts and culture, and its all for your kids and its absolutely free. It is kids efest 2012. We are live at the mlk library where we are getting a preview. Coming up, were going to get our own performance from one of the entertainers, and well tell you how you can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity on fox 5 morning news. Stay with us. I propoavings for everyone im talking hundreds here. And furthermore. Newcaster breaking news. The gecko is demanding free pudding. And Political Parties that are actual parties with cake and presents ah, that was good. Too bad nobody could hear me. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. The kid euro festival is returning to d. C. And offers more than 200 performances around the city and its free. I like that. Holly morris has more live from northwest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This is just another day where i get to say that we live in the best city, because the nations largest childrens performing Arts Festival goes on here, and it is kids euro fest in its 5th year. 27 embassies are taking part. We have the coordinator of Youth Services for d. C. Public library joining us. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter this is the fourth year youve been a part of the festival. Clearly this is something you think is great. Were so excited every year to be part of this. They convert their story time to the theme of the festival. They provide school age programming. They have a great time. Our customers do, too. Reporter talk about how the partnership works. We meet with the kids euro Festival Committee every year. We start as early as possible, and we plan our programming. We also get performances from the festival, so we have some of the performances in our libraries. Reporter and you have workshops . Some are story times, some are craft programs. We do pajama story time. Anything that strikes the fancy of our children and librarians. Reporter since your childrens librarians, their expertise is entertaining children, when they have these childrens entertainers come from other parts of the world, that is an exchange of ideas in different ways to help keep the attention of young people . It does. And gives them ideas for throughout the year. They see the performance and how engaged the children are in learning about other cultures and sometimes they plan their programming throughout the year with that in mind. Reporter im assuming this is an opportunity. A lot of these performances you wouldnt get anywhere . Absolutely. We would pay dearly. Reporter you heard it from her, not me. And this is free. 200 plus performances in and around the city. So thank you so much. Thank you. Reporter let me introduce to you to simon and jeal. Theyre from belgium. The partnership is a discovery of a wide variety of musical styles that take us in and around the world. And now youre taking us to france. [ singing in french ] [ singing in french ] [ singing in french ] reporter the kids euro fest is going on through november 14th. 200 plus free performances in and around the city, literally at every venue you can think of. Look for a publication around this like this. Theyre all around town. In our next hour, we have magicians. Back to you in the studio. Thanks, hollie. The marine corps marathon, details coming up at 8 00. If you are looking to take a last minute vacation to some place warm, now is the time to book it. Plus, tips to make traveling this thanksgiving a little less stressful. Thats coming up next hour. And another live look at Fort Lauderdale, where the surf is indeed picking up from Hurricane Sandy. Shes out to sea, but already parts of the south feeling the effects. Well have more on sandy coming up in a few moments. Stay with us. Fox5 morning news will be right back. Teacher this is West Virginia, pennsylvania, delaware. And this is maryland. Every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty million gaming at casinos in these other states. Question seven will build a new casino and bring table games to baltimore. Generating hundreds of millions for schools. And that money has to go to education. Its the law. So vote for question seven. So we can stop spending all that money here, and keep maryland money in classrooms like mine. Anncr every president inherits few have faced so many. Four years later. Our enemies have been brought to justice. Our heroes are coming home. Assembly lines are humming again. There are still challenges to meet. Children to educate. A middle class to rebuild. But the last thing we should do is turn back now. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Good morning. Im tony perkins. Im Alison Seymour. Well check in with tucker and julie in just a moment. But first we continue to track Hurricane Sandy and its potential to join forces with an east coast storm. Now as you can see here, the storm, category 1 storm is moving towards the bahamas. It is creating Tropical Storm conditions along parts of the southeastern u. S. Coast. Even though sandy has lost some power, its wreaking havoc on the carribean. The chance of the socalled super storm could happen looks more ominous by the hour. The combination of high winds, heavy rain, extreme tides and snow in some places could have devastating consequences, possibly totaling at least 1 billion in damage. For more on the when and where this storm could hit, we turn to tucker barnes. Thanks, tony. Lets get you the latest information. The sort of traditional Tropical Storm signature we would see is starting to fall apart. Its undergoing a transition now. The wind field has been growing by the hour and that will be a big player in our forecast as we get into the end of the weekend and early next week. Still a category 1 hurricane. Im getting the update here, now moving off to the north and west at 10 Miles Per Hour. Maximum winds 80 Miles Per Hour. The pressure up to 970 millibars. That advisory just coming in here a few moments ago. Where will it track . Looks like it will go north and eventually heres what is amazing, because we havent seen this a lot in our hurricane history, looks like it will get pulled inland here as we get into the monday, tuesday time frame. This is the official hurricane track put out by the National Hurricane center. Will park over the Washington Area tuesday afternoon, early wednesday, and not favorable scenario for us. Extremely gusty winds, hours and hours of rain. We would have major issues with storm surge, unfortunately the full moon is monday night, and that would exacerbate problems. Bottom line, this storm needs to be carefully watched. Still got that cone of uncertainty. We have to watch the storm here as we get into the end of the weekend. Monday, tuesday the primetime even here with sandy. Temperatures now, 63 in washington. Let me mention, no problems today, if you want to get some supplies, that kind of thing. No issues at all. 71, afternoon sun. Allison, thats the latest. Back to you. Thank you. Our Team Coverage of Hurricane Sandy continues with sherri ly live where prince georges road crews are preparing for whatever Mother Nature has in store. Reporter good morning. Road crews here in Prince Georges County are actually out on the streets now, looking for any potential problems before Hurricane Sandy should arrive. These road crews were already due in this morning for a preplanned snow drill, but now they find themselves on hurricane duty, too. As the snow plows hit the streets throughout the county for a dry run this morning, crews with the department of public works are checking storm drains for blockages and trees could pose a hazard. The command center is keeping an eye on the storm. It is a monster storm thats already being felt along parts of the east coast. The hurricane dubbed the frankenstorm because of the combination with the winter storm moving in, could cause catastrophic damage. As the hurricane moves closer in the coming days, emergency planners across the region are making contingency plans. Prince georges county has been aware of the forecast, has been monitoring it, has been conducting Conference Calls and in fact theres one at 9 00 this morning to go over the latest forecast. At that time, theyll determine how much staff has to come in and what time they have to come in. Reporter it is still hard to predict how significant the damage will be. But if past hurricanes are any indication, we could be looking at major flooding and massive power outages. Millions of customers could lose power after this hurricane. Here in Prince Georges County, too, theyre also looking at possible flood damage during hurricane irene last year, the county administrative building in Upper Marlboro had significant damage from flooding. So now they have these inflatable sand bags that they have ready to deploy if flooding becomes a problem. Thats the latest here in forestville, back to you. Thank you. Now we want to check in with julie wright. Shes got a look at traffic. Busy on the south side of town. Traffic is congested and this is why, coming towards the wilson bridge on the inner loop, accident activity in the local lanes, slowing down to about 22 Miles Per Hour headed in the direction of alexandria. Northbound 210 at kirby road, delays beginning at palmer road. Headed into southeast, heavy and slow because of a stalled car, inbound on the douglas bridge. Watch for Police Direction to help direct you through. Southbound 270, delays down to 31 Miles Per Hour. Gridlocked out of germantown at 16 Miles Per Hour. And 35 Miles Per Hour to wrap up your commute coming in from rockdale. Thats a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. New this morning, a suspicious Death Investigation in leesburg. Police tell fox 5 a woman in her 20s was found inside an apartment overnight along edwards ferry road. A relative of the victim contacted authorities after being unable to make contact with her for a few days. No word on how the woman died, but police say there is no threat to the public. 11 days left until voters hit the polls, and it will be a relatively calm one on the campaign trail. Today president obama will be here in d. C. He is scheduled to give a few interviews at the white house, including one for mtv. It comes after a marathon 40 hour eightstate blitz. Romney is heading to iowa today. His Campaign Says hell give a speech on the economy this afternoon. The latest Washington Post abc news daily tracking poll candidates this years election is more divided along racial lines. It shows among whites, president obama trails governor rom 60 to 37 . And overall it has romney getting 50 to the president s 47 . This is the first time romney has the lead. Here in the district, city leaders have soured on the Obama Campaign. Thats because they say the president hasnt done enough to support the local autonomy d. C. Has been looking for. The city still lacks representation in congress and the city laws are still up for congressional review. A criminal investigation into an undercover video that led to the resignation of congressman jim morans son as his Campaign Field director. In the video, Patrick Moran is heard telling someone from a conservative group how to cast ballots under the names of 100 voters who rarely go to polls. At the same time, the chairman of the Republican Committee is calling for congressman moran to resign. Checking other top stories in the day ahead, virginia man accused of shooting a Security Guard at a conservative christian lobbying group will be back in court. Hell face terrorism charges. He has already pleaded not guilty. Also today the two teenage brothers accused of killing a 12yearold new jersey girl are due in court for the first time. Todays hearing will determine if they should remain in juvenile lockup. Prosecutors say they may want to try the case in adult court. Police say the brothers lured the girl to their home to trade bike parks and murdered her. Finally today, the public will have the chance to say goodbye to former senator and president ial candidate george mcgovern. This follows a smaller more personal tribute yesterday. He died sunday at the age of 90. Developing in afghanistan, the death toll from a suicide bombing in the north is now up to 36. Dozens more are injured. The bomber blew himself up at a mosque as people gathered to celebrate a muslim holiday. Most of the dead are police and soldiers. The taliban is announcing it is behind an insider attack in central afghanistan that killed two americans yesterday. Still ahead at 8 00, an inspiring story of overcoming obstacles. Were going to check in with Sarah Simmons. Down two games to none, highlights from last nights world series game. Well be right back. [ mitt romney ] we have to work on a collaborative basis. Look, the reason im in this race is there are people that are really hurting today in this country. And we face this deficit could crush the future generations. And republicans and democrats both love america but we need to have leadership leadership in washington that will actually bring people together and get the job done and could not care less if its a republican or a democrat. Ive done it before, ill do it again. Im mitt romney, and i approve this message. Ive never written a fan letter before, but youve done what i thought was impossible you made goodforyou, glutenfree cereals in a whole bunch of yummy flavors. Cinnamon chex and honey nut chex are two of our favorites. When my husband rob found the chocolate one, we were in cereal heaven. The only problem is, with so many great flavors youre making it very hard to choose. So thanks. From your fans, the mcgregor family. cause we love chex. [ male announcer ] love chex . Connect with us on facebook. What mitt romneys tv ads say abouout women . Or what mitt romney himself says . Mitt romney do i believe the Supreme Court. Should overturn roe v. Wade . Yes. And it would be my preference that they, that they. Reverse roe v. Wade. Hopefully reverse roe v. Wade. Overturn roe v. Wade. Planned parenthood, were going to get rid of that. Ill cut off funding to planned parenthood. Anncr no matter what mitt romneys ads say. We know what hell do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Hard hit and fair. Past 3rd and down the left field line. Going to 3rd. The relay to the plate is in time one of the pivotle plays, tigers denied trying to score one of the first runs of the game. Giant win 20 and take a 20 lead. Game three is in detroit tomorrow night here on fox 5. All right. Weve been talking about this storm we might have to live through. Lets lighten it up a little bit, just for a second. Can we . Tucker can do that for us. I hope i can. Time for my first 5 photo of the day, the cuteness factor. We say hello to riley smith. Yay there we go. Thank you. Cute as can be. Has she sprouted wings . Yes. Ready to fly away when the storm comes. Riley is turning a great big one tomorrow. And celebrating with her costume extravaganza. She needs to be able to trick or treat, tuck. Ill work on that. Well be much improved by wednesday, i promise. Gorgeous girl. Love it. Beautiful smile. I love the look. Look off ever so slightly. With my wand. Looks like a little angel. Indeed. To send us your childs picture, myfoxdc. Com. I hope you have a fun party tomorrow. Tomorrow no weather issues at all, so you get a chance to celebrate. Good. Lets do weather. Theres your satellite radar. Orientation is a little strange. Couple of players here, hurricane is to the south and east. Thats the white mass you see. Thats sandy. To the west is your cold front. Guess what . Theyre going to get together just off the midatlantic coast and create this, or at least possibly create this super storm. Still a lot of players have to get in place and get synchronized. Certainly a possibility here. With every passing hour becoming an increasing possibility well be dealing with this storm around here. Timing on it would be late sunday, monday, and tuesday. Monday, tuesday will be the worst of it u. S. As it tracks off to the north and moves inland, maybe the delaware bay, southern new jersey. Futurecast, put it in motion, there you go, watch the storm climb up the coast. Theres the cold front to the west. 8 00tomorrow night, lots of clouds. Maybe a few showers tomorrow afternoon. Then the rain shower activity will move in overnight saturday into early sunday. Sunday at 1 00, and seeing the banding features taking place, seeing the rain move in. Notice the center of circulation is still east of north carolina. Were just getting started, and later sunday afternoon the rain will pick up in intensity and early monday morning i think well start to feel the effects. Sandys impacts will be beach erosion, could have serious beach erosion. Surge flooding. Extremely high tides with a full moon monday. Power outages, pretty much a guarantee any time we get storms here. And flooding rains. Maybe 5, 8, maybe some spots 10 inches of rain. Lot of question marks. That track not set in stone. Intensity not set in stone. 71 today. Monday, tuesday, will be cool, too, and highs only 50 degrees. Will be chilly around here. Lets do traffic and have a great friday, julie. Thank you, you do the same. See you at the grocery store. On the roads, very much a busy commute now for those traveling the top stretch of the beltway leaving college park, headed to georgia avenue. 95 and southbound bwi slowing from laurel to the beltway. Crash before the wilson bridge. Follow Police Direction. Down to about 22 Miles Per Hour. Kirby road tying up the commute. Earlier stalled car has cleared. Southeast, stalled car inbound south capitol street on the bridge. Below speed at 31 Miles Per Hour out of revenna. A week and a half to the elections and all eyes are on the swing states. Four senators from key battleground states will debate the issues this sunday and Chris Wallace joins me for a preview. Good to see you. Good to be with you. Included among those senators, portman of ohio. Will come down to about a half dozen states that are ground zero and one of them is virginia. Its great to have portman on, because i say all eyes on the swing state, but more and more eyes on ohio. Thats right. Youre talking about 18 electoral votes. And romney can win without winning ohio, but somebody said he wouldnt want to. Hed have to pick up a bunch of other states. I think whoever wins ohio will be the next president. The candidates are spending it seems all their time at this point in the swing states, which we understand. Is that a mistake now . Should they be going to other places, too . Its interesting, because theres talk about michigan maybe coming into play, and looks like it would be reliablebly obama, but romney is gaining there and in pennsylvania. It may be youre close, but if you spend a lot of money there, dont win there and also dont win in a place where if you had just focused on it, you could have won. Its an interesting choice these guys have to make, and they have so many chess pieces they can put on the board. I think the other interesting thing about the fact you have mark warner on the show, hes featured in some of the ads for tim kaine and thats a race people are watching closely. Absolutely. As romney is doing better, and i dont know if hell win or not, but clearly hes got the momentum, for instance in virginia, in the last fox news poll, he was down, romney was down seven. Now hes up 2. Thats a 9point swing. As romney is doing better, so are some of the republican candidates like george allen. As a result, thats a very close race. Looked like kaine was off to a lead, and now its closing up again. Libya on the forefront. People still talking about that . You bet. Well come to the four swing states, and also one of the issues that is cutting, gdp numbers on growth of the economy, and libya and the continuing controversy over how it was handled by the administration. Well talk to them about the ground game in their states and also what are the issues cutting in their states. Chris wallace we look forward to it. Good to see you, sir. See you next week. You bet. And im going to get my galoshes. Probably will need them. Appreciate it. You can see the show here on sunday morning at 9 00, airs right after fox 5 morning news. Allison . Tony, thank you very much. It is 8 20 now on a friday morning. Coming up next, a head to head text battle between microsoft and apple. Later, magicians, story tellers, and dancers. Its a celebration of arts and culture, and its all for the kids. Well be right back. 8 21now. 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I approve this message. A big day for apple and microsoft. The fourth generation ipad and the new ipad mini are now available for preorder, depending on your choice of color and how much memory you want, you may have to wait until midnovember. They hit stores november 2nd. Meantime, Microsofts Windows 8 system is available today, and we should know more about the new surface tablet. The federal government is removing the controversial full body scanners from a number of airports. The tsa is removing the scanners from seven major airports, though none here in our area. The list includes laguardia and kennedy airports in new york, los angeles international, boston logan and chicagos ohare. Critics compared them to a search. They are being replaced by a machine that produces a cartoon like out line. The first lady working hard to get out the vote. Take a look at a clip, a video she shot for her appearance on jimmy kimmel live. Election day, election day, up and at them. Lets go. Move it, move it, move it. Its election day. [ sound of blow horn ] up, up. Thats one way to do it i suppose. The first lady talked halloween with kimmel and she says, yes, he is allowing sweets to be passed out at the white house. Still ahead, tucker will be back with the latest update on sandys track. Plus, well go live to arlington where thousands of runners are getting ready for the annual marine corps marathon. Its 8 25. Youre watching fox 5 morning news. Anncr its said that character is what we do. When we think no one is looking. Mitt romney believe that they are victims. Anncr mitt romney thought no one was looking when. He attacked fortyseven percent of americans. His companies shipped jobs overseas. His plan cuts millionaires taxes, but raises yours. Hell voucherize medicare. And make catastrophic cuts to education. So remember what romney said. And what his plan would do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. 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However, there are are some clashes in damascus. A judge ordered the new York City Police officer accused of planning to torture and eat women to be detained without bail. Prosecutors say the 28yearold left a trail of emails and instant messages and computer files detailing the scheme. His lawyer claims the alleged plot was a sexual fantasy that never became reality. Also making headlines, a former fbi agent has been found guilty on all charges for killing a teenager while driving drunk in february 2011. Adrian johnson is convicted of homicide by Motor Vehicle while intoxicated. 18yearold lawrence garner was killed after johnson crashed into his car. Garners best friend was seriously injured. Johnson faces up to 13 years in prison and will be sentenced in december. All right. 8 30. Pretty calm right now. Yeah. Got a little fog and low clouds to start the day. Afternoon sunshine. And well be fine today, tomorrow and sunday. Its overnight sunday into monday and tuesday, that will be the time frame when we begin with the impact of sandy or this hybrid weve been talking about. It could cause serious issues around here. We have to watch it. But the track not set in stone. We have two questions, will the track verify and how intense will the storm be when it hits us . This will have a little bit of a Tropical Storm in it and a little bit of midlatitude storm. This is more difficult to forecast. I think thats Fort Lauderdale and theyve been hit overnight. They have pretty rough seas, gray skies. My uncle is there and said he didnt have power all day yesterday. Thats not a side effect of all of this. 60 now. 63 in washington. Upper 50s and low 60s close to town. The fog will hold these temperatures back a little bit for your morning hours. Eventually i think well top out near about 70 degrees. And as i mentioned, no issues today or tomorrow. Honestly, most of sunday, big race sunday morning, i think most of sunday will be fine, too. Overnight sunday and monday when we feel the real effects of the storm. Bigger look, satellite radar, this cold front, that will be a player. Theres Hurricane Sandy. Category 1 hurricane, 80mile perhour winds pushing to the north. Starting to lose tropical characteristics, but the wind field is getting bigger and bigger here, and i think, remember the dor acho that came through in june . Still have circulation there. The storm looking more impressive. Pretty good wind shear at this hour. Theres another picture. Pushing off to the north and east and will be moving towards the Washington Area the end of the weekend. Want to show you the wind field. Watch it work up the coast. Where you get the tight isobars, thats where the strongest winds are. Notice by early monday morning, forecasting strong winds off our southeast coast here. Lower Eastern Shore could be dealing with serious beach erosion. Then moves inland basically on top of us by monday night, early tuesday. Its tapping into that cold air and thats why were concerned with the super storm. Lots of questions still need to be answered with it. Potential for a lot of wind and rain around here monday and tuesday. Theres your accu weather seven day. Monday, tuesday, lots of question marks. I can guarantee you this, will be cool with highs struggling to get to 50 early next week. Thats the latest. Back to you at the desk. Tucker, thank you. Want to let everybody know that you can stay uptodate on the storm all weekend long, wherever you go. Download the fox 5 weather app. It is free for iphone and droid and will come in handy as you get ready for what Mother Nature will bring. Come rain or shine, runners will be lacing up and pounding the pavement sunday morning for the 37th annual marine corps marathon. Hopefully wont be too bad sunday morning. The fifth largest marathon in the United States and ninth largest in the world, the race starts in arlington and end at the iwo jima memorial. That is where Sarah Simmons is with one inspiring story. This is quite a story. Reporter certainly is, tony. A lot of us cant imagine running a marathon and dont want to try, or can imagine crossing the finish line where we are. He felt the same way, until he lost his leg in afghanistan. Now, he is pushing himself in ways he has never done before. Life for lieutenant kerr changed in 2011. First reaction was, i think i stepped on an ied. Then it sunk in, this is what its like and it hurts. Reporter this picture was taken less than a week before the day cameron stepped on an ied. He knew the dangers of war, but like most, never imagined it happening to him. One day youre in 11 century afghanistan, and the next minute your parents are at your bedside. Its weird. Reporter cameron is one of many soldiers who was sent to walter reid for recovery. Even for me, its simple. This is a paper cut compared to some guys. Reporter he decided not to let his injury weigh him down. An outdoors man all his life, he became involved with inspirational people, an organization that keeps him fit and challenged, running the disney marathon. The only adult above four and a half. Reporter well run the marine corps 10 10k sunday. The hug at the finish line, but after that, the challenge of good job, but how would you like to do this . Reporter hell likely keep pushing his limits with this reminder in his head. Theres always worse. Theres never a reason to feel sorry for yourself. Reporter that definitely is a great reminder, a huge inspiration. Goes to show you you never can say you can when you see what people like lieutenant kerr are able to do. Coming up in the 9 00 hour, well talk to the director of the marathon about interesting new things available through social media to track runners. Well talk about that as well and other things coming up this week as well. Back to you, tony and allison. Paper cut is what they call it. Thats great. Sarah, thanks. Still ahead at 8 00, a good time to get away. Were going to check in with our travel expert to find the best deals for thanksgiving and offseason trip for tropical resort. Headlines in hollywood, conan the, i cant ever say this word sexgenarian. Heading back to the big screen. Well be right back. Anncr sevenhundredthousand jobs. Thats what the plan george allen supports. Would cost our economy. Newspapers called it economically destructive. Like allens votes to give tax breaks to companies. That ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would. Help big corporations, devastating the middle class. Allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. Virginia cant afford to go back to george allen. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Is responsible for the content of this advertising. When we think no one is looking. Is what we do. Mitt romney believe that they are victims. Anncr mitt romney thought no one was looking when. He attacked fortyseven percent of americans. His companies shipped jobs overseas. His plan cuts millionaires taxes, but raises yours. Hell voucherize medicare. And make catastrophic cuts to education. So remember what romney said. And what his plan would do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Cloud atlas hits theaters this weekend. Kevin mccarthy liked the originality of it, but said some of the story lines are boring. He gave it three out of five. Another film out is sessions gave. Kevin gave it a four out of five. He said he could see it gaining oscar buzz. Interesting story line. For more on kevins reviews, head to myfoxdc. Com. You can also find him on twitter. Call it a conan comeback. Were not talking about the talk show host, but Arnold Schwarzenegger will be reprizing his role for a new film in the action series titled the legend of conan. Producers says the movie will pick up where the now 65 is in life. Its expected to hit the big screen in 2014. What do we think . Sounds great. Good luck with that. A new hit breakup song could be on the way, because taylor swift is single once again. The pop country cross overstar split with boyfriend Conner Kennedy after just a couple of months of dating. According to u. S. Weekly, the couple blames Long Distance for the early end. Didnt she buy a house across the street from him . Yeah. Swift has been on the road almost a month promoting her new album red. Shes on a roll. Something is wrong there. King of pop no longer the highest earning celebrity who has beens to be deceased. According to forbes magazine, Elizabeth Taylor is number one, raking in 210 million in the past year. Most of that money came from the sale of her jewelry and white diamonds perfume line. Michael jackson came in second at 145 million. Elvis landed in third place with 55 million. Peanuts cartoonist Charles Shultz and singer bob marley rounded out the top five. Interesting. Coming up next, how to find the best deals on the perfect fall getaway. Bringing a taste of the old world to a library in northwest. Good morning, holly. Reporter it is a unique experience indeed. Let me just say, things arent always what they seem. We are live at the mlk library where we are getting a preview of kids euro fest 2012. Hes just one of 200 plus performances going on in and around the area free. Were going to tell you all about it and how you can take advantage of it live next on fox 5 morning news. Stay with us. We had a good group of people. Good group of employees out there. This was a booming place. And mitt romney and bain capital turned it in to a junk yard. I was suddenly, 60 years old. I had no health care. Mainly i was thinking about my family. How am i going to take care of my family. He promised us the same things hes promising the United States. And hell give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. Anncr priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Mom, pop it. Two inches apart, becky. Two inches. Tminus nine minutes. [ ding ] [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Let the making begin. Too bad the guys arent here were clear. Ok, swarm swarm hello [ female announcer ] pillsbury chocolate chip cookies. Let the making begin i just came to say hello hello. It is time for our facebook fan of the day. We say hello to whitney anderson. She is a big fan of fox 5 and a big fan of tucker barnes. With Stormy Weather possibly bearing down on the east coast, tucker needs all the good vibes we can send him. Tucker says thank you. For your chance to be mondays fan, log onto our Facebook Page and leave a comment under her picture. Allison . Thanks. When it comes to saving money, fall is usually one of the best times of the year to travel. Deals are out there. You have to know where to look. For some ideas, we are joined by our good friend from west end travel. Youre the president and founder, the force behind west bend travel. Lets not date me, okay . Lets move along then. Were all freaked out about this hurricane and you should be. But there is good news, if you have a flight, right . Youre not just out of all that money. Most of the airlines have put out their travel advisories. If you want to cancel, depending on the airline, if you want to cancel now, you can with the option of reusing it without a penalty. Are those the magic words, travel advisory . Yes. Every airline will post its own travel advisory on how theyll handle each type of ticket situation and the areas they are allowing you to cancel to. Okay. If you now have a ticket and you want to use it, we are now whats in shoulder season until christmas time. Its a perfect time to take advantage of some of the specials that the hotels in the carribean are offering you. Okay. So there are hotels that will allow you pay for two nights and stay for three. Heres a free breakfast. If you fly this airline, well give you 300 credit you can use at the hotel. Some of these are absolutely amazing deals, like one of the things were going to talk about is in puerto rico, four star hotel, 189 a night. Saint thomas, 189 a night. Saint martin, sonesta, your meals, all for 179. Great time to start planning and use this up until december 15th. Some hotels have reinstituted this for after the christmas holidays. Starting after the beginning of january, you can go ahead and take advantage of a great bargain again. It will expand to many more hotels. You wore your beautiful yellow, because look at this, is this aruba . Yeah. Talking about the video of aruba there. Yes. Think beyond this and there are getaways still, great ones to be had. Right. Dont worry about the fact you now do not have your airline tickets. Youre not traveling this weekend. Look in order to traveling a little later. But also for those of you that havent planned anything and want to go away, take the time now, go on, book your trip for before december 15th or after january and take advantage of the specials. Lets talk about thanksgiving travel. So its what, almost almost into november. Is it just too late to get any deals out there, or whats the word on thanksgiving travel . A lot of people, the ticket is to purchase them early. So the fares that are available now are pretty expensive for those lastminute travelers. But the trick is, take a look, call the airlines, look online, and maybe leave on thursday and come back on saturday. Now is a perfect time to take advantage of the train, maybe amtrak, and drive. Gas prices are down, and theres so much thats available to you in this area. Right. That you can make it even just a day trip. We talked last time about going down the skyline drive. But a trip up to new york, even a train up to boston, and take advantage still of great rates and not being at an airport and paying, at this point, maybe 800 a ticket. Lets face it, thanksgiving, as far as the meal and the fellowship, thats usually in the evening, right . You can take a flight that day. Get up at 6 00 that morning, sleep on the play. You could be in phoenix by 10 00 that morning. Your relatives might enjoy you getting in later. See you next time. See ya. Okay, tony. Thank you very much. Good stuff. Europe comes to washington this fall with an Arts Festival starring some of the worlds most talented childrens entertainers. It offers more than 200 performances around the city and its free. Holly morris is live from northwest with more. Holly . Reporter good morning, tony. Were at the mlk library, one of the venues. I want you to continue to watch him, because it is so much more than what you just saw. This whole festival is so much more than what we could even bring you in one morning. 200 plus performances, weve been saying it all morning long, goes on for several weeks. All the performances are free. These are the best entertainers for children that the European Union has to offer. It is no small feat to get 200 plus performances ready for you and your family. We have the Program Director here. Good to see you again. Hello. Reporter it is amazing in five years how much this festival has grown. Yes, right. We started with a little over 100 performers in 2008, and this year we have 250 performances. Reporter oh, ive been selling you short. Ive been saying over 200. I should say 250. What does it take to bring all this together . We bring over 70 performers from europe this year and 35 organizations. Some logistics, yes. Reporter just when you think you have it figured out, an apple shows up. Isnt that amazing . Heres marie, so you can see her. And i have joe here, an irish art i. Good morning. Good morning, how are you . Reporter i want you to see them. Stop it, we have yet another magician ready to perform for us. Show called presto, appropriately so. Joe, i want to talk to you about the Artist Residency program at the school. Basically ill be at the school a week. Its about the children being artists as opposed to coming to watch. It shifts the focus away, from i wont say passive, but to being more involved and exploring their own artistic abilities. Reporter we dont want people to think you just rolled out here in your pajamas. Lets talk about the show youre doing. I feel like ive rolled out in my pajamas. I flew in yesterday. Im doing a show called star boy, about a small boy who i suppose is full of imagination, and hes going to bed and sees a shooting star. He decides to pursue the star and he uses his toy box to do that. The toy box becomes a car, then becomes a boat. He ends up under the sea. He traps a tiger, meets a mermaid and eventually goes to space. The question is, does he get his star . Come and see. Reporter exactly. Maria, i wanted to bring you back in, too, because theres a Junior Ambassador Program which is a fun way for kids to see multiple performances. Explain that. Can get a passport, and every time they come to see a show, they get it stamped and after three shows [inaudible] reporter whats the best way to really make sure that people make the most of all thats going on, because theres so much, its hard to take it all in. The best way is to go to the web site, kidseurofestival. Org. [inaudible] you can check the web site again. Reporter joe, i wanted to ask you before you go, its obvious what we get with our families here, but what do you get out of being here . Well, its great to bring a show to the kids here and i guess we also get together as acts and share ideas, which is useful. Reporter thank you very much. You have seen firsthand why he won the National Magic competition. Amazing. Thank you very much. Myfoxdc. Com is our web site. We have a link to the kids euro fest 2012, so you can find out where and when you want to go. Well have more action in our next hour. Back to you. Thanks, holly. I love magic. You were watching pretty closely. Really good. Thanks, holly. Still ahead, tracking a potential super storm. Tucker will be back with an update on sandys strength. And the likelihood for impact on our region. Plus, a howling halloween, you wont want to miss our holiday pet parade starring some of our fox 54legged friends and pictures youve sent us of your animals dressed up. It will be fun and cute. Well be right back. Anncr which do you believe . What mitt romneys tv ads say about women . Or what mitt romney himself says . Mitt romney do i believe the Supreme Court. Should overturn roe v. Wade . Yes. And it would be my preference that they, that they. Reverse roe v. Wade. Hopefully reverse roe v. Wade. Overturn roe v. Wade. Planned parenthood, were going to get rid of that. Ill cut off funding to planned parenthood. Anncr no matter what mitt romneys ads say. We know what hell do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Right now at 9 00, tracking sandy. The hurricane continues to turn towards the east coast. Tucker has a look at the latest path and its likely impact on our area. Plus, sherri ly is live with how officials are preparing for this socalled super storm. How to boost your productivity and performance, the author of a new book will join us with tips to manage your precious time. And later, talk about productivity, comedian j. J. Walker is not only hitting the stage, but out with a new book and act. Still hes found time to stop by
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