in washington, d.c. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news and now tucker barnes, you can talk. >> wait my turn. backup quarterback is the best job. you get paid well. you don't have to get hurt. you get to go to the great parties. >> even better is the emergency quarterback. >> then you don't get paid as well as well. >> now, but you still get paid. >> we better go to the weather. >> temperatures in the low to mid-70s. so plenty comfortable. 76 here in washington. parts of the area falling back into a nice range. 71 in fredericksburg. 7 at dulles this morning. ocean city, 65 degrees. we'll take it while we can get t hooking at a lot of sunshine today and relatively warm temperatures. not going to be triple dig the but it will be low to mid-90s. it will be a hot afternoon. it should be a dry afternoon. notice the cloud cover really dissipating during the nighttime hours. we have a very weak cold front that is trying to come through. honestly, just falling part. it will be a good looking day. it will be hot out there. typical early august weather. 94 in washington. 95 in fredericksburg. 93 in waldorf. >> okay. 90s it is i was about ready to say july. it's august. >> we're moving forward. >> speeding through the summer. hopefully people are speeding away on the roads. >> we got to put the brakes on. pretty soon, you guys will be talking about back to school and labor day. >> the supplies are already out in the stores. >> i don't want to know. >> yeah. >> i know that is when they put the suntan lotion and everything on sale. it's bad. i need a moment. if you are traveling the beltway at university boulevard, just when we kind. get used to things here, that separation of the lanes on the beltway at university boulevard, they have yet made another change to our commute. so on both loops, the outer and inner loop of the beltway as you travel past university boulevard, the jersey wall separates two left lanes and two right lanes. so again, this is a in our traffic pattern. four lanes are maintained on the beltway but again, now it is two to the left and two to the right on the outer and inner loop. be prepared for that for today's travel. if you are traveling the inner loop on kenilworth avenue, gotten incident there. follow police direction to get by. no problems to report coming out of manassas. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. >> thank you. president obama wrapping up a two-day campaign trip. >> his final stop is in the battleground state of virginia. tonight, the president holds an event at loudoun county high school in leesburg. now, hears a reminder. some of the roads will be closed starting at 2:30 this afternoon. others will be closed at about 6:30 including lee avenue between dominion academy and dry mill road. now, for a full list of closures and information on the presidential event, head to myfoxdc.com and click on web links. also, president obama secretly authorize the cia to help the rebels in syria fighting president assad. it is known as something called an an intelligence finding and allows u.s. agencies to give help to the rebels but only nonlethal support. mitt romney will be at county fairgrounds in golden, colorado and then he will be at a high school. school. we are learning more about a near miss near reagan national yesterday and it seems it involved more than two planes. we get more on the near miss now from fox 5's sherry ly live at the airport this morning with the latest. what happened? >> reporter: well, wisdom, these three commuter jets nearly collided midair here at reagan national airport and the difference was just mere seconds. the "washington post" is reporting that this happened after air traffic controllers launched two flights right into the path of another plane that was landing. the incident happened at the airport on tuesday around 2:00 p.m. it is the latest mishap for the airport where a lone air traffic control are fell asleep last year allowing two planes to land blindly n this case, three u.s. airways commuter jets with 192 passengers and crew on board were involved and it came within 12 seconds of a collision. at the time, the post reports a number of planes were lined up to land but air traffic controllers wanted to reroute the approach to the airport because of shifting wind. somehow, that information apparently did not get passed onto everyone in the tower. so, instead, a plane was cleared to land from the wrong direction and then sent head-on into two planes that were taking off. the faa tells the post it is now investigating that plane landing here at reagan national. it dland safely and the other two planes did arrive at their destination safely as well. one federal official told the post, quote, this is a pretty big screw-up. back to you. >> thank you. prince george's county police are trying to figure out how a person in fort washington, maryland died. the body was found about 8:30 last night. at the moment, there is not much information other than this is a death investigation. we'll bring you the very latest as it comes into the newsroom. new developments following an apparent hit and run near a herndon apartment complex. police searching for a person of interest in the case have discovered a man's body. this all began with a woman found dead in the parking lot early yesterday morning police said they were looking for 32- year-old fitsum gebretatios, the own are of the car involved in the hit and run and the husband of the victim. yesterday evening, officers discovered the body of a victim in a nearby river and it does resemble gebretatios. they cannot say for sure until an autopsy is done. today marks the one-year anniversary since the disappearance of robyn gardner. the 35-year-old was last seep vacationing in aruba. her relatives want anyone with information to come forward and contact police. gardner's travel companion spent months in a prison but was released because prosecutors did not have enough to hold him. tiny car, big-time police chase. they ended up at the suspect's house. somebody is having a bad day. >> another one. >> another bad day. we are checking more headlines when we come back. if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. my father's hands didn't build this company. my hands didn't build this company. through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? 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[ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. new information in the colorado movie massacre investigation. the denver post is reporting that the psychiatrist who was treating suspect james holmes at the university of colorado was fairly alarmed by his behavior. so alarmed that she notified the campus-wide threat assessment team that. happened in june. but no one took any further action. university officials could neither confirm nor deny the report for privacy reasons. the assessment team is a group of high level school employees trained in assessing potential threats on campus. jerry sandusky's lawyer says his encyclopedia is distraught over the ncaa penalties issued to penn state's football program. sandusky, who is awaiting sentencing, still says he is innocent and is asking to be removed from what is effectively solitary confinement. a fiery hearing now on capitol hill over lavish spending at the general services administration. congressional investigators ridiculed a november 2010gsa conference and its cost. $200,000 the one-day event, $4,000 for the venue. $10 how to the team building facilitator. frustrating. >> also frustrating i'm sure identify lot of people on the road in this video. check this out. a man driving a smart car leads list on a high-speed chase through houston, texas. officers say the suspect was going 92 miles per hour. he apparently took off when they tried to approach him. the chase apparently ended up in the suspect's driveway. he is being charged with his third dui and felony evading arrest. and he was doing all that in the little smart car. >> i know. >> which is about this big. >> so weird to see them chasing a little smart car. >> those things can probably take corners pretty quickly. >> and they can probably hide. >> the other question is why he went to his house. >> yes, very bizarre. long lines outside chick- fil-a restaurants but not just for the food. >> customers making a statement in the controversy involving same-sex marriage. that is coming up next. first, let's talk to tucker barnes. >> we're starting off the day fine. we've got clear skies. should be bright sunshine for your thursday. going to be hot out there later today with highs in the 90s. i'll have all the details on the weather. julie wright has a look at your traffic. there is a look at your full moon this morning. gorgeous. the middle class is shrinking. in this day and age you can only accomplish s so much without a degree, and traditional institutions are simply not set up to accommodate people who have jobs and families. university of phoenix works for those people who have real lives and real demands. the degrees that we offer are things where people can fulfill their goals with even brighter hopes for the future. my name is katy white, i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives and i am a phoenix. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready. plus, global data for just $25. only from verizon. welcome back. i guess we're waiting for tucker. he is working hard in the weather center. >> as you say it, there he is. >> getting better and better at that. yew weren't running. >> no. >> we wanted to talk about these bald eagles. a pair of them getting a second chance at life. one of the eagles was release nod the wild yesterday. the other will be released today on the james river in richmond. both eagles were found in poor condition and nursed back to health by the wildlife center in virginia. the rehabilitation staff says they are now ready to spread their wings back in their natural habitat. >> look how big they are. >> beautiful birds. temperature will be back in the 90s today. so lots of water, that kind of thing. we don't have any advisories but we are getting close to that criteria once again in the next couple of days. >> all right. >> all right. >> we'll turn the corner there. >> give me the news, weather man. >> let's get to yesterday's daytime highs. 91 was the high at reagan national. hope you enjoyed that temperature because we'll see a lot of 90s for the next several days. i think right thought weekend. high temperature will be in the low to mid-90s. 8 # yesterday at dulles, bwi marshall for the first day of august. trend will to be keep temperature on the warm side as mentioned for the time being. then i think we'll get a cooldown next week as the cold front approaches from the north and west. 76 in washington. nice start to your day. we showed you a few minutes ago a live shot of the moon. check it out if you get a chance. 70 in gaithersburg. 66 in manassas. 70 in cambridge. fairly comfortable start to your day. a little warm here in the city. look how quiet it is. i don't have a lot to show you. there is a cold front off to our north. that is pushing down through the area as we speak. but it is so weak i can't seen show you any cloud cover or rain showers associated with t that is our only feature for today. it will be a very quiet day today, not expecting much of anything. lots of sunshine. shower and thunderstorm activity chances just about zero later this afternoon as this area of high pressure starts to work in from the west. all right. the weather pattern this summer has consisted of a lot of heat and humidity out to our west. temperatures all week long have been very strong. it won't be 115 here. we'll get a little taste of that again today and tomorrow with high temperatures back in the low to mid-90s. that bubble of heat moves back in. it won't last all weekend. as we get into the weekend, we'll push it down with some thunderstorm activity returning. temperatures will be a little closer to daytime average here for saturday and sunday. 94 today, sunshine, a hot afternoon. there are your wind out of the south at five to 10. should an dry one for you. clear skies, warm tonight. 72 the overnight low. we'll do it again tomorrow with highs in the mid-90s. better chance of showers and thunderstorms saturday and sunday afternoon. but again, this is your typical summertime weather pattern. not going to be raining all day. just a few late day storms for the weekend. better chance for thunderstorms on monday with a cold front. that is weather. let's do some traffic and get the latest from julie and see what is going o. >> on the roads right now, you will find that there is a change in the traffic pattern for those traveling the beltway here at university boulevard. the change occurred overnight. the jersey wall has been moved. so again, four lanes are maintained on the beltway but two to the left, two to the right get you by. so a change in our traffic pattern on both the outer and inner loop of the beltway that you are waking up to this were nothing. just a change. we have to get used to it. two left leap get by. two right lanes get by as you guys travel between college park and silver spring. we do have accident activity reported on the ramp. this is southbound 270 building in volume now as you travel south of 109. no problems to report continuing out towards the scales. you will find lanes are open in germantown headed out towards the split in rockville. eastbound on 66, no problems reported here as you work your way in from manassas towards centreville. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. chick-fil-a appreciation day had many people lining up in front of their local restaurant. now, the rally brought out customers in downtown silver spring and across the country. it was a response for the controversy over the president of the company denouncing gay marriage. throughout the day, people bought food to show their support for the food chain as well as those people who oppose the president's comments. >> try to bring economic and political consequences to people would voice their beliefs. >> would you feel this way about someone on the left whose first amendment rights were being questioned? >> absolutely. >> we've never called for a boycott. i hope their enjoy their chicken sandwiches today. i hope they realize when they are doing that, they are supporting an anticipate-gay organization. >> chick-fil-a appreciation day was sparked on facebook by mike huckabee. steven tyler opens up about his time on american idol. >> and kevin mccarthy sits down with actor dylan mcdermott, one of the stars of the new comedy, the campaign. i got the chance to start my own business. i know what it's like to hire people and to make ends meet. from those experiences, i had the chance of running the olympics. the games were in real trouble. there'd been way too much spending. and in massachusetts i found a budget that was badly out of balance. our legislature was 85% democrat. and every one of the four years i was governor, we balanced the budget. i want to use those experiences to help americans have a better future. we believe in our future. we believe in ourselves. we believe the greatest days of america are ahead. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. 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[ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. some surprising comments from former american idol judge steven tyler. he says he didn't love the gig. he tells rolling stone he loved the paycheck and he loved sitting next to j-lo. he announced he wasn't coming back in the fall. his replacement hasn't been named just yet. j-lo is also gone. she is being replaced by mariah carey. >> you kind heat advisory to wonder. it seems like such a high turnover. i wonder what it is like doing that. obviously wasn't haze thing. >> let's talk about movies. -- obviously wasn't his thing. >> here is a movie made for our audience. >> difficult appear mcdetermine -- dylan mcdermott played a shady mayor. >> you try to help him win this campaign. if you could go back in your career and go to an early set and talk to yourself and give yourself advice, what set would that be and what advice would you give yourself. >> i think that any advice, when you look back on any part of your life and people always say this on their death beds which is i wish i enjoyed it more. i wish i took those moments and realized how special they are. and certainly with this movie, this is one of those moments. this is a moment in time where i'm working with two of the greatest comedic actors in the world and one of the greatest directors. this is a moment that i'm actually in and realize it and i'm having a good time. >> so would say like back then, you don't think you were in it. >> you know how it is, when you are young, you are always thinking about the next moment. i think as you get older, you realize that this moment is the most important moment. >> he so you played so many great characters over your career. if you could take two of those and have them campaign against each other, which two would you choose and how would that work out. >> i guess we'll take bobby donell and ben harmon. >> would would win? >> ultimately, i think bobby donell would win that war. yes. even though ben harmon would try to outpsych him, i think the tenacity of bobby donell would take over. >> and in the movie where zach's wife says look at what you are agiving up for what you're getting. >> right. >> as an actor, you have the coolest job on the planet. what is the one thing that you wish you didn't have to give up to become an actor. what is that one thing that you have to give up to become an actor. >> well, your privacy. you have to give that up. i know actors fight it. and i know it is really difficult. but it's given point, have you to give into the fact that, you know, people are going to take you -- i had my daughter another day at starbucks and people start taking out cameras. they don't ask. they just start popping away. i'm with my daughter having a little iced tea. so you give up that moment. you realize that there is a price for everything. let me just put it that way. >> all right. we'll have kevin's interviews with the other stars of the campaign. i think will ferrell and his interviews with the cast of the bourne legacy coming up tomorrow and next week. people in one northern virginia town can expect some road closures today thanks to a visit from the president. a look at where and when just ahead. sherry ly is following a big story today from reagan national. >> three planes came within seconds of a midair collision here at reagan national airport. we'll tell you how this near miss happened coming up. people's lives? as a police chief i have an opportunity to affect what happens in a major city. i learned early on if you want to make a difference you have to have the right education. university of phoenix opened the door. my name is james craig, i'm committed to making a difference and i am a phoenix. welcome back to fox 5 morning news. it is 5:30. it is also thursday, august 2nd. moving to the enof the week, start of a new month a nice warm start to the day. we're used to it this time of the day. >> i got some bills to pay. it's the beginning of the month. >> good point. >> i have to go back and look at my books. >> should be a beautiful day. it will be sunny, dry. it will be hot though so lots of water if you are working outdoors. temperatures will be back in the mid-90s later this afternoon. there is your satellite-radar. noise and quiet. we've got a cold front trying to come through but it doesn't have enough oomph to actually make it. we're just not looking at any other weather features today. you can see how quiet it is. bright sunshine, lots of blue sky here. nice full moon if you can head out in the next half hour or so. 70 at dulles. 72 in fredericksburg. 76degrees at washington, reagan national. our highs later this afternoon running about five degrees above normal. lots of sunshine with high temperatures in the low to mid- 90s. we'll be about 93 degrees at 4:00 p.m. today and tomorrow, quiet and then the possibility of thunderstorms return for the weekend. i'll have details on that in just a minute. >> thank you. time now to send things over to julie wright to see what is happening on the roads. good morning to you, julie. >> good morning to you, wisdom, sarah, tucker. things starting to heat up a little bit here on the highway. accident activity on connecticut avenue north of randolph road at weller road. a car took out a signal box there. a lot of activity responding to the scene. waking up this morning tog achange in our traffic pattern. all four lanes are maintained on each side of the beltway. the difference in our traffic pattern is the jersey wall. now, traffic is divided. two lanes to the left and two lanes to the right on both the outer loop and inner loop. all of the beltway lanes are maintained but this is a change in the traffic pattern as you make your way to and from college park in silver spring. southbound kenilworth avenue. 66 seeing the usual suspects line lined up out of manassas towards center criminal. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. three planes almost crashed in midair. it happened over at reagan national tuesday and there were apparently more than two airliners involved. let's get the latest from sherry ly live at the airport with the latest on what happened. >> reporter: good morning. nearly 200 passengers and crew were aboard those three planes. two were taking off, one was landing and they came within seconds of a mid-air collision. the information coming from the "washington post" this morning. it is the latest in a series of mishaps at the airport. this case involved three u.s. airways commuter jets on tuesday around 2:00 p.m. at reagan national airport. there was some confusion apparently in the air traffic control tower and an inbound plane was cleared to land sending it right into the path of two flights that were taking off. based on the speed of the planes, they came within 12 seconds of a collision. the confusion apparently occurred at a time when the airport was switching the landing direction for planes due to shifting winds. apparently, the information did not get passed onto everyone in the tower and the plane was given the go ahead to land from the wrong direction. the faa now says that it is investigating. this is the same airport you may remember where last year, a lone air traffic controller fell asleep during an overnight shift allowing two planes to land blindly here. in this latest incident, a federal official told the post, this is, quote, a pretty big screw-up. back to you. officials are trying to figure out how a person in fort washington died. police say the body was found last night near bra moment r circle. we'll bring you the latest as it comes in the newsroom. a woman was found dead in a parking lot early yesterday morning. police said they were looking for a person of interest, 32- year-old fitsum gebretatios, the husband of the victim. police say gebretatios is the owner of the car involved in the hit and run but they can't say for sure if he used the car to kill his wife. officers discovered the body of a man in a nearby creek and it bears a close resemblance for gebretatios but police cannot confirm the identity until an autopsy is done. today mark the one-year mark since robyn gardner vanished while vacationing in aruba. last night, friends and family members held a memorial service in her hometown of frederick, maryland. they want anyone with information to come forward and contact police. her travel companion spent months in an aruban jail but was release because prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to continue holing him. a call this morning for a stronger law after news that i crofton, maryland man accused of threatening to shoot up his former workplace in largo will end be charged with a misdemeanor. police seized about two dozen weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition from neil edwin prescott's apartment. the prosecutor vows to seek stronger legislation in the future. investigators in blacksburg, virginia are trying to find out whoever planted a pipe bomb just blocks from the virginia tech campus. the bomb went off just before 3:00 a.m. yesterday near several parked cars. investigators with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives says an suv was targeted but they don't yet have any suspects or a motive. fortunately, no one was hurt and the atf says the explosion had nothing to do with virginia tech. tech. on the campaign trail where president obama will once again campaign in the battleground state of virginia. tonight, the president holds an event at loudoun county high school in leesburg. some roads will be closed starting at 2:30 this afternoon. others will close at about 6:30 including lee avenue between dominion academy and dry mill road. for a full list of closures, head to myfoxdc.com and click on web links. a wild scene on one roadway caught on camera. a man hanging from the back of a moving pickup truck tries to make a dramatic 911 call. >> who is really at fall here. >> we'll that story next. still ahead, a woman trapped in her bathroom for two days. details after rescue that likely saved her life. first arc check of the markets. it was a down day wednesday in the u.s. as investors apparently didn't love the lack of action from the federal reserve. the fed said it wasn't going to do anything new despite continued signs of a weak economy. the dow, nasdaq and s&p all down slightly. today in asia, the markets are mixed. japan's nick can i picked up just another point. -- japan's nick can i picked up just another point -- japan's nikkei picked up just another point. we're back in a moment. if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. my father's hands didn't build this company. my hands didn't build this company. through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? it's time we had somebody who believes in us. someone who believes that achievement should 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[ romney ] i'm mitt romney and set the stage for a great day. what makes hershey's pure chocolate goodness that brings people together. hershey's makes it a s'more... you make it special. pure hershey's. making headlines on capitol hill last night. both the house and senate approved new sanction ozzie ron right after the president also authorized new penalties for companies helping the regime get around the sanctions. they are meant to force ron to abandon its nuclear weapons program and are aimed at iran's energy shipping and financial industries. after the house passed them, the senate followed a short time later. republicans want a one-year extension of all bush era tax cuts. yesterday, house passed a bill that would renew the full package set to expire at the end of the year but president obama has vowed to veto the measure. democrats want to raise taxes for wealthier earners and people who inherit multimillion- dollar estates. congress isn't expected to fully address the issue be until after the november elections. police in new york have released a dramatic 9 is 1 call after a man was dragged for several miles while hanging on to a pickup truck. >> it got hit by a truck in rpi. >> i'm hanging on the back of a white truck. >> where are you in rpi? >> just past rpi just going up the hill. >> are you attached to the truck? >> yes. >> all right. robert kowalik and the driver of the truck allegedly fought over a woman and prescription drugs. police said both men made bad decisions. you think? the driver shouldn't have hit the gazarek while he knew the man was clipping to his car. but then kowalik should have let go when he had the chance. he is being treated for pretty serious injuries. >> i'm surprised he had to the strength to hold on while making a call. >> yeah. >> you got to have the other hand, right? >> at some point, you would say how far am i going to go with this? is it worth it for me to hang onto a moving truck. i'm just saying. >> a woman trapped in her bath room for two days. her mailman came to the rescue. >> detailed of how he like he -- likely saved her life. we're checking your forecast with tucker barnes and your traffic with julie wright. stay with us. we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don't know where to start. glad you found us. start by test-driving nearly every make and model, all in one place. carmax. start here. look at the close-up of the moon there. that is a full moon today -- or tonight i guess we should say. overnight, whatever it is. >> that is a nice shot. >> beautiful. >> you can seat details on the moon. that is really cool, tucker. >> gorngious. i noticed it the moment i walked out -- gorgeous. >> you don't necessarily see it when you are driving around. but gorgeous. >> i wonder if it's hot up there. >> that's what you think? >> that's what i'm thinking. >> if it is hot on the moon at all anywhere. i don't know. >> i think it gets plenty hot when the sun is burning bright on it and on the other side, it is very cold. not much of an atmosphere there so it is one extreme or the other. >> all right. i should have learned that probably in junior high that it is cold on the moon. >> we probably did. it is easily forgotten. >> i'm pretty old. >> it is amazing the details we can see with the camera. >> that is coming from our chi fox camera so it is very detailed. >> look at that little spot there. >> tony will know more about that. that is an alien landing spot. let's do some weather. locally here, temperatures are in the 70s. 76 in washington. we're off it another warm, very mild start. i got a little humidity out there as well. 76 in annapolis as well. not a bad start to your day. 60s here north and west. 66degrees right now in manassas. 64 in frederick, and 70 out at dulles. we don't have a heat advisory but we will be expecting a day with temperatures in the low to mid-90s. a lot of sunshine today. not much in the waive cloudiness to kind of of break up that heat during the course of your day. let me show you the next map. it is our satellite-radar. that is what you call a quiet weather pattern. we have a very weak cold front off to the north pushing through. it is actually falling part instead of pushing through. it won't feature a whole lot in the way of cloud cover or even the possibility of a shower or thunderstorm today. not much at all. should be a quiet day, just bright sunshine. all that heat we've had out to the west, that will try to ride in here later this afternoon on some southerly winds. today and tomorrow, right back in the mid-90s. it is august after all. speaking of august, we've got our newest tropical depression. not looking terribly impressive right here but it is forecast to intensify into a tropical storm over the next couple of days. and if it does so, it will become tropical storm ernesto. current track takes it through the leeward and windward islands and south of jamaica. and in about five days, could become a hurricane over the next several days. latest or newest tropical depression as of about 4 hours ago, you can kind of see it during the afternoon yesterday. we'll take a closer look at it. wind out of south at about five to 10. tomorrow, temperature in the mid-90s once again. could be a few scatter storms around here saturday and sunday. better chance on monday with a cold front. you've got outdoor plans this weekend. could be a few late-day storms. better chance on sunday and monday. that is a look at the weather forecast. now, to the lady in orange. >> orange? >> ms. julie wright. >> isn't that orange you're wearing? >> no, it's red. >> oh, great. it looks orange to me. it does look orange. effect over here says it looks orange. >> well, what are you all drinking? that is not hazel nut creamer in your coffee. it is actually red but thank you, think. beltway here, both loops of the beltway. hopefully, can i see what i'm looking at. with the change in the traffic pattern, we still have four loops to maintain. the change is the jersey wall now divides your lanes. -- we still have four lanes to maintain. if you are traveling 395 in both the express lanes and main line, lanes are open, no problems to report leaving duke street to seminary road. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. a mailman from new york state is being hailed a hero. he rescued a woman who had been stuck in a bathroom for two days. mario serrano has been working in the garden city neighborhood for the past 27 years and customers say is always helping out especially with the elderly. during his daily route monday, he noticed something wasn't right at the home of an 87-year- old woman. >> i walked up, there was mail in the mailbox from saturday. that is not her way of doing things, you know. i heard running water and a muffling. >> turns out the woman had slipped while running a bath and was trapped between the toilet and the tub. serrano pried open a window and called for help. the woman has a hip injury but is expected to be okay what a good guy to have that that neighborhood. >> to realize that her mailbox is full, not supposed to be be and to check on the door. he went through the window. good for him. let's talk by atrip to the beach because a lot of people are planning a trip to the beach during the summertime. >> that's true. but would you consider riding your bike out to the shore? >> no. >> i knew the answer from you. just head, two young girls from our areaway plan to pedal for a cause that is close to their hearts. >> that is good. >> you won't want to miss this story. it will make you want to ride your bike. >> you're right about that. 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