look at the washington monument this morning. hopefully, it will warm up and be a little nicer than it was yesterday. >> good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin, welcome to fox 5 morning news. before we get to weather and traffic, first of all, we have one school to pass along, tucker. page county, virginia schools will open two hours late today. got to imagine the snow out there. >> a bit of a snow cover and parts of the area below freezing and will have some icy spots or at loft the potential for icy spots north and west of the city. >> be ready for it. not much winter this year so this might be new to some people. >> so a lot of snow plows out yesterday. >> i saw one this morning here in northwest washington. he was dropping sand. so i think even where it rained, it has gotten close to freezing overnight. had the potential for icy spots. just be ready for it. otherwise, should be a great looking day. temperatures right back where most people like them in the upper 40s. juror others would be nice. >> that is close though. >> upper 40s is good running weather. ask julie wright. your freezing temperatures to the west and north. hagerstown, good morning. you picked up about an inch of snow yesterday. 27degrees. 34 in fredericksburg. let's look at the satellite- radar. just a few clouds left over from our weak storm system yesterday. they should dissipate quickly. so bright sunshine, a beautiful thursday afternoon and that will lead into a beautiful friday. can't guarantee it will be a beautiful saturday. i'll let you know why mere in a couple of minutes. 48 your daytime high in washington. how about a 50 in fredericksburg, it will feel great later today. >> time now to check in with julie wright. good morning. >> good morning, guys. yes, maybe a little chilly right now, wisdom, for a run but later on today, you got it. you can strap up and come with me. i keep sending this invite out to sarah but she doesn't take me up on it. >> i'll bring my kids. i want to reiterate that we can d. have the wintry mix last night. temperatures flirting with the freezing mark. so again, you could encounter some icy patches here and there. early this morning. just proceed with caution but for the most part, we're looking good on you are on major arteries. top side of the beltway is behaving nicely from new hampshire avenue headed into silver spring. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. ic. now to today's top stories. an alexandria paramedic on the scene of a car fire on 395 falls some 20 feet off a bridge and into a creek. the rescue effort and investigation caused massive traffic back-ups at the height of the afternoon commute. stacy cohan has the latest out there. >> i'm sitting along four mile run. it is a creek in this area. it all as a resulted around 6:30:00 p.m. during the evening rush hour. that is when the paramedics and the fire ems responded to a car fire that was on 395 in the shirlington area. 35-year-old paramedic josh weissman. he was on the scene and somehow, he fell off the highway 20 feet down into the creek below. >> not only this medic but this medic's family and we're all hoping for the best for this medic at this time. it does affect everybody but we have a job to do and we'll continue to do that job while we continue to hope for the best. >> reporter: part of the roadway was shut downen there were new ulm reduce traffic tie- ups as folks work to retrieve this man and take him to the hospital. we are told he has serious injuries and is in critical condition. reporting live, i'm stacy cohan. back to you jie. man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at ketcham elementary school is behind bars this morning. police arrested 21-year-old davon rashad wood charging him with second degree child sexual abuse. police say he walked into the school out-the-door forecast leak and asked a girl to escort him to a classroom where he inappropriately touched her. a deadly shooting in prince george's county. the incident was reported just before midnight. police say a man was shot along 61st place in riverdale. he was brought to the hospital in serious condition and later pronounced dead. no word yet on a possible suspect or motive. testimony is under way in the murder trial of uva la crosse player george huguely. attorneys gave their opening statements yesterday shedding some light on the drama that took place during huguely and yeardley love's relationship. the prosecution told the jury huguely had a pattern of vile he wants against love. they also made note of an angry e-mail he sent just before she died saying i should have killed you. the defense is arguing that huguely accidentally killed love, that he is not a cold, calculating criminal. a big mortgage announcement. either today or tomorrow, five of the biggest banks are due to announce a settlement with more than 40 states. the settlement is supposed to cut pour tbaj payments for about a million only honers who upside down in the payments. it calls for $2,000 checks to go to hundreds of people would lost their homes to foreclosure. another state is legalizing south america marriage. washington lawmakers voted yesterday to pass the bill on gay marriage. it will now head to the governor's desk. she is expected to sign the bill into law next week and it should go into effect 90 days later. washington will become the seventh state in the nation to allow same-sex partners to we had. egyptian leaders say they will not release the americans they are holding charged with using foreign funds to create unrest. one of them is son of transportation secretary ray lahood. the administering is telling egypt's military-backed rulers that, if they do not resolve the matter, egypt could lose about $1.5 billion in annual aid. the state department says there are 16 americans involved in the case although egypt says there are 19. we have new developments in the financial crisis he is in -- crisis in greece this morning. a high school teacher accused of giving a student a morning after birth control pill. we'll have more on that coming up. we are asking for hue manhattan to help us. we are asking for the u.n. to help us. >> we'll have the latest on the unrest going on in syria. stay with us, everyone. q at lysol, we discovered a problem. the more products we touch around the sink, the more dirt can spread around the kitchen, and the more germs we can spread on our hands. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one no-touch solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. because our mission is a healthy home made simple. lysol. mission for health. we are asking for humanity to help us. we are asking for the u.n. to help us. we are asking for the arab league to help us, anyone. >> desperation there in syria. early this morning, the army went on the offensive again for a sixth day in a row. a top diplomat from turkey arrives in washington today. turkey is calling for an international conference on the syrian crisis. meanwhile, greece has failed to finalize the terms for a crucial $170 billion bailout but the country's finance says he still hopes the deal can be saved. he is meeting now with top eu officials in brussels but greece has been protesting against the terms which calls for reducing the minimum wage, cutting 15,000 government workers and cutting pension benefits. a missouri teen will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her 9-year-old neighbor. just moments before sentencing came down yesterday, 1-year-old alicia bustamante addressed the court -- 18-year-old alicia bustamante addressed the security. she admitted strangling the girl. she has to serve 35 years and five months in prison before becoming eligible for parole. a teacher in texas is in serious trouble after allegedly giving a student the morning after pill. a former high school basketball coach has been charged with the felony of delivering a dangerous drug on school property. apparently a student said she might be pregnant society former teacher bought the pill and gave it to the student at the school. if found guilty, she could face up to two years in jail. it's frightening sight that is more common than you might think. ride-on buses on fire. this happened apparently several times over the past few years. all the incidents have one thing in common. we'll tell you what reeled in this large shark and how much it sold for. we're checking weather and traffic. stay with us. is that real? >> it doesn't look real. >> oh, man! [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum, we can empower more people to innovate, create jobs, and put momentum behind our economy. and a spectrum auction could raise as much as 30 billion dollars to help fund the payroll tax cut. it's simple. more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone. you see the washington monument there through alive video shot. cold morning as we start our happy friday eve. >> friday eve. >> yeah, we're getting close. >> this is real. sarah and i were cop fused about this earlier. it doesn't look real but it is. an incredible catch off the coast of pakistan where a fisherman reeled in a whale shark. >> one of the fisherman said she woke up to it dead in their net t took four hours to get it out. the shark meat was later sold for $18,000. >> this is a big fish. >> that is bigger than jaws. >> it looks like it has barnacles are on or something on it. i don't know if we'll see it again. i'm surprised they could set meat if it was already dead, maybe because it hasn't been dead that long. >> it surprises me that pakistan has a coast line. i never thought about that before. i have to go look at my geography. >> look at the globe. >> once in a while. we got cold temperatures. we got snow over parts of the year hear during the late day period yesterday and last night. could be a few icy spots. just be ready for that. otherwise, a beautiful day. sunshine, temperatures back in the 40s. >> sure about that? >> you wrrnt supposed to catch my eyes rolling in my -- you weren't supposed to catch my eyes rolling in high head -- my head as i thought about it. manassas, you are 30 degrees. we are 30 in frederick. 32 out in winchester. this part of the world picked up anywhere between a coating of snow and 2 inches. possible you could have a few icy spots. going be a beautiful day for all of us. expecting sunshine and as i mentioned, temperatures right back into the upper 40s. so not too bad for february. there is your satellite-radar. again, we've got just a few clouds out there and a waning moon but beautiful, if you get a chaps to check you out to the right now. high pressure will build across the area later today and tonight and we'll be in for quiet weather. as we get into friday and friday night, things get more interesting. let's take a look at our surface map. cool out there. let me mention the breezes out of the north and west. they will be breezy at time, wind gusting to about 15 to 20 miles per hour. we'll have an arctic front approaching from the north and west. there are some indication we could get a coastal low developing late friday and early saturday and these two could combine to give us some moisture around here late friday, early saturday. not sure exactly what form that might take but let me give you the possibility that it could be some winter weather around here early saturdays that storm slips off the coast. we'll have to keep an eye out for that. lots of sunshine. i mentioned the breeze north and west about five to 10. cheer and chilly overnight near freezing here in the city. 33degrees, we'll wake up in the upper 20s and low 30s if you are north amadou diallo west of the beltway. tomorrow looks fine. i mentioned that frontal system late friday, early saturday. putting some question marks there. rain-snow mix. not exactly sure where the rain- snow line might set up or how strong the system might be. we do have a possibility early saturday. let's do some traffic and see if julie wright is having a good time at work this morning. >> i am. i just tweeted you guys. >> thank you. ill abe right back at you in just a second. >> by the end of the show at 9:00. >> all right. you will find lanes are open, no incidents to report coming south along 270. an easy drive coming out of rockville. no trouble spots between college park and bethesda. we are off to a quiet start. no signed of any overnight roadwork. no problems to report out to the west on 66 coming in from manassas to the beltway. northbound i-95 still an easy go in both the main lines and express lanes headed out of woodbridge to the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. well, it has happened again a another ride-on bus caught fire and burned up. >> no one was hurt during this. that make five ride-on buss that have caught fire over the last several years. they are all the same make too. john henrehan has more details. >> reporter: the bus system in montgomery county, ride-on, uses big buses and uses smaller buses to get around the narrower streets. about 50 of the smaller buses were purchased from a company called international in 2007. the union that represents drivers has never favored the vehicles. >> i don't like the bus because of wait it handles and also the rough ride it gives not only the driver but the passengers. ments a truck. you feel every bump, every little crack in the road, you feel on those buses. >> reporter: there is another rope to not like the international buses. five of them have caught fire and burned up and there have been a couple after smoke-only incidents. what is causing the bus fires? >> various causes over the course of the past few years from a crimped brake line to a stuck parking brake to an electrical circuit breaker. >> reporter: at one point, ride- on pulled the international buses off the street and the manufacturer paid for repairs. but another international ride- on bus caught fire december 29th and yet another caught fire on tuesday. the union that represents drivers and mechanics has had it. >> all of these buses should be taken off the road and -- in the name of public and employee safety. >> reporter: county officials say they have carefully examined the buses and found no obvious problems. >> it would lend itself to be this is a unique mechanical failure on this particular bus. again, we don't know. >> why not take them all off? >> the problem with taking them all off right now is that we don't have sufficient coverage in the reserve fleet to cover all of the ridership that is -- that the public transportation system demands. >> now, the other international buses, about two dozen of them remain is in service at the moment. >> officials say they plan to replace that model but because of financial constraints, that process may tax a year and a half. now to a fox 5 follow00 to a story wave been watching all week. up next, more people are angry about the tax returns at that tax return service. >> they are thieves. that is the bottom line. >> they put us out the door because they stole our money. >> but the tax return service says that is not the case at all. we'll hear from both sides on this debate, coming up. a lot of angry customers at a tax return service in northeast. they say the service is stealing their money. >> as fox 5's money reporter melanie alnwick explains, they can't even cash their return checks. >> they're checking it now. they can't cash it. >> reporter: tax refund checks issued by instant service. >> it was rejected from pnc. >> they won't even honor it. jot montgomery told us the check had been printed with the wrong sequence number. >> i can't talk about this. the problem is that there is a problem with the check sequence and we're trying to fix it. >> with the check sequence. >> he did not want to give us his name. another client outside was also waiting for i refund check to clear. >> i don't have no idea what they did. >> reporter: the manager said he would bring them new check but down the street, instant tax service was shutting its doors. >> they are thieves. that is the bottom line. >> they stole our money. >> reporter: police were called for crowd control. then, one by one, clients were let in to get refund checks. it is not just wednesday's check processing problem. customers are angry about what they believe are hidden fees and outrageous charges to file their tax returns. >> they didn't give me no paperwork, this is what we talk out, this is the deduction. this is what we charge you for doing your taxes, nothing. >> reporter: the ore of the instant tax franchises told me the troubles are only with client who came to them for holiday loans. he says there were some erroneous charges taken out of their refunds. this woman did get her check cashed and a second check for pay her back for the error. the franchise owner says he is doing the same for all the clients with mistaken charges on holiday loans. i also spoke with the rceo of instant tax service and a representative of their bank, tax tree. tax tree denied to me there were any mistaken charges involved with the holiday loans. the ceo told me that many of his clients actually have government debts and they don't realize that the government money gets taken out of their refunds in addition to any tax preparation fees and loan repayments. there is certainly more to this story and we will stay on it. melanie alnwick being fox 5 news. >> a lot more questions. >> a lot of angry people. there is at least one school delay this morning because of yesterday's snow. we'll check on that next and get tucker's forecast which includes a chilly weekend. stacy cohan is following one of our other big stories this morning. >> good morning a paramedic responds for the scene of a car fire but instead he is injured when he falls into a creek. i will have that story live coming up. a live look outside from the tower cam. that is embassy row in northwest d.c. welcome back to fox 5 morning news. before we get to the weather and traffic, we have one school delay to pass along to you. page county virginia schools will open two hours late today. that is a two-hour delay for page county schools in virginia. >> all of those kids out there, students are going to be getting out there getting in the snow, make the snowballs, all excited probably. >> not sure we had that much snow. >> all right. i was hopeful. >> i did see one or two cars covered in a little something this morning. >> so far, we haven't had a good snow. what was the most we had? >> about 2 inches. that is an acceptable amount of snow. >> maybe if you are from alabama or mississippi. some of us like a little more than that. >> or maryland. i mean man. we typically get about 16 to 20 inches a year. we've had 2 inches. a very mild winter. >> i'm he liking it. >> i know you are. >> spring is right around the corner, wisdom. hang in there. >> can't wait. >> everything is out of here. we're in for quiet today. should be another beautiful day if you like upper 40s and sunshine. it should be just what you ordered. it will be a little breezy. our stormy trns from yesterday will pick up the winds out of the north and west, maybe five, 10, 15 miles per hour from time to time. currently 34 degrees at reagan national. let me mention parts of the area are below freezing and there could be some icy spots out there. just be wary of that. be ready for that today as we picked i'm little rain, little snow yesterday. winds out of the north at 12 miles per hour as mentioned. your forecast if today is an easy one. sunshine, a little breezy from time to time, highs back in the upper 40s. most communities have picked up a little snow. that should melt off quickly with bright sunshine and temperature in the upper 40s. i'll have more details on the forecast and we've got interesting things in the five- day forecast. >> interesting. >> i don't like the word interesting. >> the possibility. >> we know what that means. >> i like. it tucker talks in code kind of of like i do to the dog when i have to spell out walk or food or treat. tucker is now saying interesting which could mean snow! all right, guys. on the roads right now, not so bad and not too busy. it look pretty good, 395 checking out behind me in both the main line and the express lane. everybody behaving nicely so far this morning. no problems to report between annandale and merrifield. still an easy go along 66 coming in of manassas. upper side of 270 starting to slow just a bit at i-70 and approaching 109. thank you, julie. new this morning, prince george's county police are investigating an overnight homicide. they say a man was shot along 61st place in riverdale. he was brought to the hospital in serious condition and later pronounced dead. the incident was reported just before midnight. no word yet on a lookout for a suspect or possible motive. an alexandria paramedic is in critical condition no, after falling off a bridge on interstate 395 while responding to a car fire. the accident caused massive traffic back-ups at the height of the afternoon rush hour. stacy cohan has the latest for us. >> good morning. we are here along four mile run. you can see this is the area where there is still police tape. it is where they came as they were responding to the situation, this paramedic falling. the highway is off behind me in the distance. here is what happened. it was rush hour, just around 6:30 last night when fire and ems responded to 395 in the shirlington area. this was a report of a car fire. among the people that responded was a 35-year-old paramedic josh weissman. he was on the scene assisting. at some point, for reasons that are still unclear, weissman fell off the roadway. >> as one of the medics exited the vehicle, that person fell approximately 20 feet off the roadway and into the creek below. additional resources were dispatched to treat that medic. that medic was treated, extricated and then transported to an area hospital with serious injuries. several portions of the roadway were shut down while this process happened. it caused major track back-ups. weissman was transported to a local hospital. you heard he had serious injuries. we are told he is in critical condition. >> thank you. a man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in ketcham elementary school is behind bars. police arrested 21-year-old davon rashad wood yesterday charging him with second degree child sexual abuse. police say he walked into the school last week, asked a girl to escort him for a classroom with he inappropriately touched her. police had indicated previously there was surveillance video. a leesburg ban man is in jail after pretending to be a war hero and doctor. richard cruz advertised himself as a physician but he is now charged with a felony. police a 55-year-old richard cruz pretended to be a doctor and a colonel in the united states army. >> was he either of those things? >> no, not that we found. >> that is why cruz is now in jail. a judge ordered him held without bond. police say richard cruz was the part owner of a weight loss clinic called madam and monsieur. he has been charged with forging a public record, advertising a weight loss center using the term doctor and making fall statements or title to the department of motor geeks if anyone recognizes him or thinks they may have been defrauded, we ask them to contact us. >> reporter: cruz is not license as a physician in the commonwealth. we tried to contact the weight loss clinic for a comment and refused no response. republicans in congress give a legislative gift to president obama. we'll tell you about that coming up. a massive settlement designed to help home owner in trouble is close to being a done deal. we'll tell you about new roles for women in the military. that is all next. stay with us. 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[ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. house republicans put ago side partisanship making headlines this morning. they voted to give president obama the power to remove specific items from the budget. the line item veto is a power that some say is unconstitutional. when lawmaker gave president clinton the line item veto in 1996, he used it 82 times to cut $2 billion from the federal budget. we are now waiting for an announcement from the nation's biggest banks on a mortgage deal to help struggling home owners. eager today or tomorrow, more than 40 states and five banks will announce a $25 billion plan to lower mortgage payments for home owners behind on their payments. new york and california reportedly just signed onto that agreement. >> the defense department is changing its rules to let women serve in jobs closer to front lines. the new policy will reflect the fact that more women fought and died in iraq and afghanistan. now, women are still prevented from serving in the infan triand special operations forces but the changes will allow more women to serve at the battalion level which, until now, was considered too close to combat. eight american sailorers are in trouble for hazing that was caught on camera. they have been kicked out of the navy y. you can see the sailors beating up the man. a teacher's aide in brooklyn, new york is is accused of committing lewd acts with children. he admitted that he viewed child pornography every day. according to federal complain, he allegedly produced videos of mostly boys engaged in sex acts, sometime with him. fbi agents have confiscated more than 1,000 files of child pornography from the suspect's home. & i love you &&. mourn ears gather to remember don cornelius. long-time friends and fans honored him during a public memorial. cornelius died of a self- inflicted gunshot wound at week at his l.a. home. he was 75 years old. soul train was one of longest running syndicated shows in history. it was madonna's super bowl half time show but m. i. a. stole the headline and now the material girl is responding to it. up next, madonna apparently miffed about the obscene gesture. >> we are checking weather and traffic. stay with us. h us. welcome back. we want to tell you something about something special we got coming up liter this morning. lark mccarthy will be with us live in studio today. >> we have had her here on the phone. we've had her on the phone before and by skype but this is the first time since she left the show almost five years ago that she will be with us. she look great, doesn't she? >> she does look great. >> happy. >> all rested too, i'm sure. >> we got to clean the studio up before he gets here. >> clean up your corner. >> i'm working hard over there to get things picked and orderly before she arrives. >> i hope the weather can cooperate with her at least while she was here. >> oh, yeah. this is not southern california but the high temperatures in the upper 40s, we've got no complaining. >> not too pad. >> we'll always find somebody who can complain. >> that is true. >>-- not too bad. >> want to get to yesterday's snow totals because at wisdom's house, nothing. sarah's house? >> rain. >> frostburg picked up 1.2 inches. >> a little frosty there. >> frosty in frostburg. damascus got about an inch. off to the west and north is where the jackpot of the snow is. columbia, inch and a half. so again, heavy snow totals here west and north of the city. generally south and east, it was just rain for you. looking forward to today. we've got an icy start to the day off to the north and west. we've got the small snowpack and temperature now below freezing. there could be a few slick spots. 27 in gaithersburg. 30 in manassas. 34 for you in fredericksburg. we'll bottom out here in the low to mid-30s over the next couple of hours. >> our storminess is behind me. there you go, off to the north and east, racing up towards the cape and out of here. we're looking athe bry sunshine with high pressure building in. nice one today. nice one tomorrow. we'll get a cold system to approach. it looks like it wants to check up an area along it is carolina coast. the timing on this late friday, early saturday. >> as that area of low pressure pushes off the coast, it could low back enough moisture we could be looking at a rain-snow mix around here. the timing on that would be late friday, early saturday. that is a change some your forecast from yesterday. 48 today. becoming mostly sunny. breezy at times. here your winds e north and west at five to 10. they will be gusting to about 15 later this afternoon. clear and chilly overnight. one again, we'll be cold. overfight low, 33 in town. tomorrow starts great. sunshine, late in the day, we'll start to cloud up. tomorrow night into early saturday, we could be dealing with that rain-snow mix and then we'll get it out of here. notice the temperatures this weekend. only in the 30s. that is cold. high temperatures on sunday, only 36-degree and windy. that is a look at the weather forecast. let's do some traffic and my favorite traffic reporter, julie wright is here. >> you say that because i'm the only one standing in fronted of you. >> that is the truth. >> up fortunately, we have a little hitch in our get along. we have problems inbound on route other in maryland. the crew in sky fox up with us early this morning. they are hovering above route 50 coming inbond trying to work your way past 074 and head in to the capital beltway. we do have some traffic is able to get by to the left and right. calvin, do we have that shot? if we can pull that up, that would be great. some traffic is able to squeeze by to the far left. it will be tricky as you continue inbound this morning out of bowie. accident activity, one to the right, one to the left will squeeze you by. other side of town, not so bad. kind of quiet along 270. no trouble spots to report leaving rockville headed out towards the lane divide. lanes are open along 66 coming in from manassas to the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. an auction of elizabeth taylor's belongings has fetched millions of dollars. two-day sale of christie's in london brought in more than $183 million. fine arts, julie, fashion and memorabilia were snapped up by bidders from around the world. that auction netted nearly $157 million. the beloved actress died in march of last year. madonna is not too happy about mia's middle finger stealing the show at the super bowl half time show. a source tells britain's sun newspaper that madonna wanted to put on a world beating performance but everyone ended up talking about this girl's middle fixer. mia has not apologized publicly for the sob seen gesture. that source says she didn't plan to do it and just got caught up in the moment although i don't know how you can sphik your finger out. >> right. imagine this. a race up the # 6 flights of stairs inside the empire state building. about 650 people registered for the annual race. -- a race up the 86 flights of stairs inside the empire state building. ng. >> i would rather do mine nils a day than run the steps. boy or girl? up next, the latest in medical technology to choose the gender your baby. >> and possibly the final showdown. that is coming up next. over 200,000 people are hospitalized every year with flu complications. lysol disinfectant spray is approved to kill over 50 germs on surfaces. this includes cold and flu viruses. so we recommend using lysol every day. we want to say good morning to mary lee, our facebook fan of the day. she turns 55 years young today. >> happy birthday to you. >> she loves seeing wisdom sitting at the anchor desk. >> what? i love her. >> you got a fan out there. you got a lot of fans out there. >> i appreciate that. >> congratulation. >> let's talk sports now. 12th ranked georgetown hoys versus number two ranked sir cruise. this one was close throughout. syracuse pulled it out. 64-61. then there is duke paying a visit to number five north carolina. final seconds, duke down by two. austin rivers, son of celtics coach doc rivers, drills this three-pointer at the buzzer to win. rivers had 29 points. duke beats north carolina 58- 48. to the nba now, wizards hosting the knick at verizon center looking for back-to-back victories for the first time since april of last year. they wouldn't get it. wizards end up falling 107-93. >> poor wizards. >> i know. parents who have a strong preference in whether they will have a boy or girl, some claim they can get help when they want it. >> and one is a method that was passed down for generations and another, the latest in medical technology. >> i have triplets and they're all boys. >> reporter: it may not be for everyone. mahal nayim-a i gender selection meth ooped and mother of four calls to the egg cycle method. >> which cycle, this is the psych follow her to try to conceive this this certain time that the egg will attract theender that she wants. >> i've always wanted to have a boy and girl. >> i think everyone should have a fair shot of having one of each kid. >> reporter: the ideal candidate is someone who already has children. the process costs about $350. she says she as a 90% success rate with almost 1,000 clients but some in the medical community say those successes may be coincidental. >> there is no proof that the egg chooses the sperm. it actually is a real dialogue between the sperm and egg before fertilization occurs. >> the chief of the center for reproduction here says he knows a full proof, more scientific way of guaranteeing a gender. it is a popular procedure called pre-implantation generallettic diagnosis or pgd. >> where you take an embryo and you remove one cell from the embryo and you through a technique paint chromosomes way fluorescent color and we are able to tell the boys from the girls. >> the embryos are then implanted in the mommy to be. that process costs about $10,000. still, nayim says she stands by her method which she says is natural and cost effective. >> i am not playing god. i am not going to interrupt nature. >> interesting process. we'll be right back. ♪ [ male announcer ] no success is overnight. ♪ it's about working harder. ♪ and smarter. ♪ it's the culmination of a million decisions. it's where you see yourself going and how you choose to get there. the all-new 2013 gs. our boldest response ever. there's no going back. ♪ without the stuff that we make here, you wouldn't be able to walk in your house and flip on your lights. 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