it is straitd up 6:00 right now and everybody needs it. >> but not everybody can agree on how to get it done. -- it is straight up 6:00 right now and everybody needs it. >> but not effect can agree on how to get it done. maryland senator ben cardin is met by anger at a town hall meeting. scene are playing out like this across the country. >> also ahead, secretary of state hillary clinton loses her cool. take a look at this. >> so you ask my opinion. i will tell you my opinion. i'm not going to be channeling my husband. >> we'll tell hua question set off that fiery exchange as fox 5 morning news continues right now. -- we'll tell you what question set off that fiery exchange as fox 5 morning news continues right now. it is steamy outside. it is 76 degrees on this tuesday morning. thank you for being with us. i'm gurvir dhindsa. >> i'm steve chenevey. glad you are along on this tuesday morning. it is very warm out there this morning. there is trouble not just here weather-wise but other parts of the world. >> we are following a developing story from the coast of china. they are coping there with devastation in the wake of a typhoon. a helicopter crashed killing six people while on a rescue mission. the mud shied buried a remote mountain village in taiwan. hundreds of people have been brought to safety. yphoon slammed taiwan over the weekend dropping more than six feet of rain in some areas. here at home, another hot day in store. not as bad as yesterday but still a scorcher. a live view of the horizon right now and we got up into the upper 90s yesterday just like you said, tony. not quite record territory. >> didn't get the record at rig appear national which would have been 98 degrees. -- didn't get the record at reagan national which would have been 98 degrees. we don't won't see any records today. we are still in the 90s. we'll start with the radar. we had a couple of showers and thunderstorms come through to our east last night across annapolis an portions of the chesapeake bay. no reports of damage or anything hike that. but some heavy rain and thunder and lightning. al ofatth alhas pushed off to the east and dissipated. right now, current conditions being reported, 76 degrees. relative humidity, 82%. wind are out of the southwest at three miles per hour. forecast for today, we'll see more clouds today than we saw yesterday. that will help keep our temperatures a bit cooler as opposed to the upper 90s. we ar eokoling for the low s o today. 91 in baltimore. 90 in chantilly. 9 # in washington for yo high. again, chance of yso meshowers and thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening and i think today, eymeth will be more ns umthoueriounumber than they were yesterday so more people will get in on that action today. more on that in just a little bit. >> let's say good morning to julie wright and look at traffic. >> we've been busy this morning. the 5:00 hour has popped up a couple of accidents on the parkway. we had an accident on 66 and down south at the wilson bridge. southbound baltimore-washington parkway after 175 but before 3 #, the incident there has been cheered to the shoulder. lanes are open once again -- before 32, the incident there has been cleared to the shoulder. in virginia, 66 eastbound leaving 50 fair oak headed into 123, not a bad commute but suzanne nikolaus is held up as you travel out of haymarket trying to get into business 234 manassas where we had a crash tying up the left lane. then the pace improves from fair oaks in towards industry aia. no accidents to reported at the wilson bridge. the car moved oust your way. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. -- the car moved out of your way. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> how are you going to keep my employer from stopping offering insurance and forcing me on to the public option if that is cheaper for their bottom line? >> senator ben cardin gets fwrild at his own health care town hall meeting in towson. at one point, four police officers stood in front of the stage. it is the president's turn today when he host as a town hall meeting in new hampshire. >> if the crowds there are anything hike the one in tow sound -- if the rods there are anything like the one in towson -- if the crowds there are anything likethe one in towson. >> i believe it is the president's intax to ramrod something through congress. >> i did not realize we had as many people that would be against something that is in their own interests. >> republicans say the rowdy forums are a sign of dissatisfaction but democrats think the republicans are behind some of the protests planting some of of the dissenters in the audience. friends and family still in shock after a virginia man was mauled to death by two pit bulls. police found the 0-year-old inside a home on plaza street in leesburg yesterday. friends believe he was trying to break up a fight between the family dogs when they attacked and killed him. in addition to the pit bulls, officers found another small dog dead and a cocker spaniel safe inside a cage. the news heart breaking to those who knew the victim. >> we played pee wee baseball together and grew up all the way through high school and still have been close friends with the family. >> the dogs fight all the time. i guess he was trying to get in teen them because they got a little bit too serious and the next thing you know, they turned on him. >> loudoun county animal control took custody of the pit bulls. police are hoping the public can help them track down two men who attacked a woman in virginia. the 32-year-old woman says she was attacked last friday. she says one man held her down while the other sexually assaulted her. police say the woman was in a familiar area but she didn't know her attackers. police plan to release a sketch of the suspect sometime in the next few days. indimes have been handed down in a deadly attack in virginia. 18-year-old jamie ayala is now charged as an adult with murder. back in march, cynthia and william bennett early beaten if the lansdowne area of leesburg. william bennett died. his wife was seriously injured. new details coming to light on metro's latest trouble on the tracks. 6 #-year-old michael nash hit an killed by a piece of equipment on sunday night. he was replacing cross ties near the vienna metro stop. metro has suspended some of the track maintenance forcing employees to go through mandatory retraining p metro says all alarms and equipment were working properly at the time of the accident. >> it is the type of operations that you cannot be distracted even for a small period of time. and hat is one of the the areas that we want to look , was there something that distracted our employee. her job requires composure under pressure. >> one question caused secretary of state hillary clinton to lose her cool just for a moment j you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? 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enforceable pollution liits. we have breaking news at this hour. we have just found out that eunice den kennedy shiver has passed away at the age of 88. we had heard from family members that it was a day to day thing. word coming in now that she had passed away at the age of 88. she was probably best known as being the founder of the special olympics. >> made her home in bethesda. her daughter is maria shriver, the first lady of california, married to schwarzenegger. buagain, eunice kennedy shriver dead this morning at the age of 88. sympathies going out to her family this morning. >> without a doubt. we'll have more on that through outthe morning. let's check in with knowny. we mentioned the meteor shower and the question is with all the haze that wave had the last couple of days, are we going to be able to see anything. i think we'll have a fair a cloud cover tonight. tucker said he saw a meteor coming in this morning but for tonight, for the peak viewing time, we'll have a fair number of clouds. so i think it will depend on where you are this evening. so we'll see. i don't have great hopes about seeing that activity. we'll see. let's take a look at what is happening. we'll go back to yesterday and the temperatures, 97 degrees was the high at reagan national. that was one degree shy of tying the record. we did break a record at dulles international. it got to 97 degrees there. the record was 96. that was set in 2001 so we ve a new record at dulles. bwi marshall nowhere neared record. 75degrees right now here in washington. we dropped off one degree. 71 in baltimore. 75 in fredericksburg. let'slike at the temperatures across the country. we'll see a couple of things. first of all, warm air in the eastern united states. very warm continuing warm conditions down to our south. 82 in dallas. 67 in witch ta. where you find that difference in temperatures, you know from studying your weather you're likely to find some thunderstorm activity and let's get to the national satellite- radar and indeed there it is. we have agot some showers and some thunderstorms between those two air masses, the cooler one in the northern plains and the warmer one down in the southern plains and that is the most active area in the country at this hour. so the forecast for washington for today looks like this. partly cloudy skies. fair amount of cloud cover. reagan national is reporting a fall clouds. some scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. they will be more numerous than they were yesterday. 9 # degrees for your high. for tonight, we skip tonight. her is your five-day forecast. tonight, 74 degrees, still muggy. tomorrow, 88 degrees. a chan of showers and thunderstorms every day for the next several days. most significant thing once we get to tomorrow, temperatures drop off and you will feel it thursday and friday with our highs only in the mid-80s. that is the latest on the weather. let's get the latest on this morning's rush hour traffic from julie wright. >> all morning long, it has been pretty busy. we had an accident southbound on the baltimore-washington parkway south of 175. that activitnow cleared to the shoulder. lanes are open now traveling on 95 northbound north of 212. that is where we had the car fire for those continuing to work their way northbound up towards beltsville. no accidents to report here out of hyattstown. heavy volumeapproaching the exits for the truck scales. no incidents to report in rockville. eastbound on 66, the lanes are open east of nutley street. the volume is increasing as you travel out of vienna towards the beltway. that activity now off the road to the shoulder. no incidents to report on the beltway between annandale and merrifield. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. dropping home values are driving home owns are in maryland and d.c. to extreme measures as thousands are now apaling their property tax assessments, disputing how much they should have to pay. official are see a significant increase in the number of home owns are taking this step compared to last area. there are nearly 12,000 appeals in the district and more than 20,000 in maryland. bank overdraft fees are frustrating for a lot of customers but great for banks that get to pocket the extra money. according to the financial times, banks are on track to make $38.5 billion in customer overdraft fees alone. the paper says that many banks have inreesed charges on overdrafts and credit cards in order to boost traffics. the median fee is $26. you run out of toilet paper, you go to the store and get some more. that may not be the case in could you be a the country is apparently running out of the raw materials to make it and running out of money to import t the come knit nation may not have sufficient flies until the end of the year. along with the global economic crisis, cuba is still roving from thee hurricanes that damaged the island last year. l motors is make a new motors e mo mageto tt you behind 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oversight panel will release its latest look at the effectiveness. $700billion bailout. report says that banks that benefited from the bail outare still at risk due to billions of dollars in risky loans that they are still holding onto and they could become even more unstable in unemployment spikes or the real estate market crumbles. general cinemas motors is trying something that probably any other carmaker has not done before to try to boost sales and first, a down day on the market. chris cotter is with the fox business network join is you go live from new york with our business beat. down day yesterday on the stocks. 32 points, not a whole lot but still down. >> yeah. we had a laysy day yesterday on wall street, didn't we? we are talking about one of the slowest days of the year. trade ares often say today was a waste of a good because officer and a shine wheat shirt on a day like yesterday. it was -- traders often say today was a waste of a bus fare and a clean white shirt on a day like yesterday. general motors hoping to move some cars. tell me about the partnership between gm >> reporter: e-bay s selling used cars but never new cars. gm is now partnering up with the on-line auctioneer with the opportunity to sell 0,000 cars. they've got about 250 deal are ?pz california on board with this. it is a little bit of a test run to see how it works. if it does work, it will be a boon for both gm and for e-bay. for gm, because the cash for lunkers program has been such a success but that will cause a swoon in demand come the fall. we'll have a big drop-off. so gm is looking for different channels to keep that demand going. this is one they hope will work. for e-bay, since their inception, they've been trying to convince the consumer that it is okay to bid on and win big ticket items. this certainly is one. it will be a good test for them as well to see how this works. it f. it does work, you know ford and toyota are right behind, that's for sure. >> it would be incident ring to see how things go. your stock of the day is hormel foods. >> hormel foods, makers of spam and dinty moore stews and all kind of various lunch meats and what not. hormel, you might think, very simple, old school company, over 100 years old but they still get it done. they announced yesterday that the rest of 2009 will be better than they originally thought. stocks were up 6% yesterday touching a 52-week high. so sometimes the simplest of companies make for the best stock. hormel has been a great stock. >> thank you so much. we'll leave it thrnd asee you tomorrow. the town hall meeting turned into a shouting match. >> so you ask my opinion, i'll tell you my opinion. i'm not going to be channeling my usband. >> we'll let you know what got secretary of state hydrocarbon's hackles up in the congo yesterday. and also, there were, as we said, some town hall meetings which got heated. ben cardin hosted one in maryland. we'll tell you about that. we are for himming breaking news. the death of eunice kennedy shriver. more on that when we return. ♪ [ woman ] ♪ early light breaks through ♪ music and dance calling you ♪ just need that mountain grown lift ♪ ♪ before you share your gift ♪ ♪ now there's rhythm and sound ♪ making theihearts pound ♪ the best part of wakin' up... ♪ ♪ is folgers in your cup welcome back. we have this breaking news coming no fox 5. eunice kennedy shriver is dead this morning, the sister of john f. kennedy, jr. and the mother of california first lady maria shriver had been admitted today hospital in massachusetts last week for an unknown ailment. she had had several health setbacks in recent years including a number of strokes. eunice kennedy shriver was a long-time advocate for children's health and also disability issues. she was one of the founders of the special olympics. we want to check in with tony an get a look at this forecast for today. it is day three of the heat today. >> this will go down as a three- day heat wave and because it will be a third day that we see our temperatures in the 90s. those temperatures fall off today and once we are into tomorrow. highs will be in the 80s for the next several days. we'll start with the satellite- radar. we'll show you that across the region, we have clouds out there. officially, reagan national is reporting a few clouds but there are some clouds out there. as we look at the radar, what we can see here is some of that precipitation that popped up last night off to the as. gone hs si d. neis it has dissipated. is out of here. later on, we could see more showers and thunderstorms develop across the region. it is 75 degrees at reagan national. relative humidity, 87%. the winds are calm, barometric presre, 29.90 and falling. partly cloudy skies. some scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms, highed today in the low 90s. la plata, 9 # degrees for your -- 92 degrees for your high. we have an ask the weather guy question coming up. >> i said that eunice kennedy shriver was the mother of john f. kennedy, jr. p she was the sister of john f. kennedy, the former president. >> let's check in with julie wright and at the time g a look at traffic. >> the incident south of 175 has cleared so all of the lanes are open on the bw parkway. all of the lane are open northbound as you travel from the capital beltway headed up towards the exits there. southbound 270 in the clear with no incidents to report. light and easy as you continue down on the southbound spur. they were checking for an accident on the southbound spur. nothing has popped up so far so the lanes remain open. it is a quiet trip on the beltway between college park and death he is da. eastbound 66, we have tea lays as you travel through manassas coming eastbound from at least haymarket. you will find traffic slowing briefly as you make your way on 395 from duke street on seminary road. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. how are you going to keep my employer from stopping offering insurance and forcing me on to the public option if that is cheaper for their bottom line? >> senator ben cardin there gettingrilled at his own health care town hall meeting in towson. at one point, four police officers stood in front of the stage. now, it is the president's turn when he hosts a town hall meeting in new hampshire. >> president obama may find himself forced to raise his voice too. at last night's meeting, critics interrupted senator cardin. others had to ask the crowd to simmer down so the senator could speak. out, bullhorns and shouts were part of the scene as opponents faced off. >> i believe that it is the president's intax to ramrod something through congress and not even give the people a chance to even consider it or be heard. >> i did the not realize that we had as many people that would be against something that is in their won't interests. >> republicans say the rode forums are a sign of public dissatisfaction but democrats say the republicans are behind some of those protests actually planting some of the dissenters in the audience. so you the white house on the defensive and has set i'm new web site called reality check to try to clear up some of the con fugs. atlantis a big fuss ore a provision focused on the end of life care. critics say it is creating a death panel to decide if ailing seniors will get medical care. that, the white house says, is not true t does allow medicare to pay doctors for voluntarily counseling and addressing the issue of end of life and options like pain medication and hospice care. coming up at 8:00 being we'll talk more about the white house remember site aimed at reining in some of the health care reform rumors. now to fairfax county where a woman is working with police to help find her two attackers she says one man helder down while the other man sexually assaulted her. elaine reyes has more. >> reporter: quiet, isolated and remote. this stretch of gum springs road was the scene of a vicious crime in broad daylight. >> what is disconcerting is she was in the area checking on a relative's home. they were not home at the time so she went to an area where she felt comfortable and she got into a situation where she was attacked. >> reporter: police say the # #- year-old woman went in and out of consciousness during the tax. no weapons were used, only strength and force. investigators believe she had no expectation of danger because they was in an area she knew. but she didn't know her attackers. the victim did not have a cell phone. after the tax, she was able to drive herself to reston hospital and then she called police. investigators aren't release august description of the suspect at this time. they are asking for the public's help in finding these two men. >> we do not see these type of crimes. that is what is disconcerting about. the fact that it is isolated make it even more unusual. >> that was elaine rewhere he reporting. police are hoping to release a sketch sometime in the next few days and there is a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and an indictment. indictments have been handed down in a deadly attack in virginia as 18-year-old jamie ayala was carjacked as an adult with murder. will yap and cynthia bennett were beaten back in march. william bennett died and his wife was seriously hurt. police say it was a random attack by a group of suspected gang members. and back to breaking news this morning. eunice kennedy shriver has died. we'll take a look back at her amazing life when fox 5 morning news returns. dealer: during the autobahn for all event, you can gegreat deals. it's perfect. i just want toake sure it's the right decision. future..s? we got here as quick as we could. look it's the cc. you don't pay for scheduled maintenance, you get the car of your dreams... seriously us, just drive it. you're right. dealer: let's take this one. it's a time-space continuum thing. the future... soy the results of imagine's autopsy are going to remain sealed. the los angeles county coroner's office says police have asked for the cause and manner of jackson's death to remain under wraps while detectives investigate the events that led up to jackson's death. investigator have been trying to determine to what extent prescription drugs may have contributed to jackson's death. trapped on the tarmac and now continental airlines is urban apology to passengers stuck on a plane for more than nine hours. flight should have only lasted three hours from houston to minneapolis but bad weather diverted it to ronest are, minnesota. the airline said the airport would not allout opinions back inside but the airport says that is not true, they could have come in. some fun seekers probably have a serious case of vertigo. they were stuck on a roller coaster. crews used cherry pickers to pluck the passengers off one at a time. they were not upside down whether this happened and nobody was hurt. we want to remind everybody of the breaking news. that is the passing of eunice kennedy shriver at the age of 8 #. much more on that coming up in just a moment. she is best known no being one of the founders of the special olympics. she is survived by her children, her husband sergeant shriver. >> we will delay the ask the weather guy question until tomorrow. t are aheotn misr another warm start to da e t a that is an indication of where eathe 90s. today. right now, 75 in washington. dulles international airport is at 74 degrees. 71 in baltimore. winchester, virginia. 74. here is a look at the radar for us right now. you will see shower activity, bang, bang that came through last night. actually, thunderstorms that moved across portions of anne arundel county, calvert county, places like that and off to the east. that was it. we don't have any precipitation this horning. you see a few little rain showers associated with the cold front. we will goat get those popping in here late -- we will get those popping in here later this afternoon. let us turn our attention to the tropics. this is the second tropical depression of the season. it is just a tropical depression at this point. it is off the coast of africa. it bears watching. it has maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour, not yet a named storm but we'll keep our eyes on it because some of the conditions are favorable for storm development. this is was happening in our area. the five-day forecast, high today about 92 degrees. we'll see some scattered showers and thunderstorms this an and this evening. tomorrow, our temperatures drop off after a cold front comes through. 88 for your high and it will be cooler than that for thursday and friday with highs in the mid-80s. every day this week, we have a thunderstorms. now, let's get the latest on this morning's rush hour traffic from julie wright. >> all right. lanes are open right now along 66 for those traveling over at business 34. early morning incident cleared. you will find delays out of gainesville. you will find 66 slowing. lanes are open it with no dents to report top stretch of the beltway leaving new hampshire avenue headed into silver spring. definitely below speed for those continuing west of 650 new hampshire avenue. 197 north of 450, we have another accident. inner loop of the beltway at st. barnabas road, a flatbed tractor-trailer involve in a crash. they have all lanes blocked inner loop. beltway after st. barnabas road to retrieve the accident vehicle. in virginia, northbound 395 north of duke street headed up towards seminary road, the lanes are open with no accidents to report. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. fwep, we want to -- if you are just joining us, we want to bring you up to date on breaking news. that is the death of eunice kennedy shriver at the age of 88. she head her home in pot om ask, maryland but she passed away early today in massachusetts. she is the sist of former president kennedy. >> she is well known for founding the special olympics. her family was with her when she passed. she passed with a just a few hours ago at cape cod hospital. fox's david lee miller is take a look back on her life as a member of such a remarkable family who made her own mark as a champion of the mentally disabled. >> reporter: she was a rod member of america's most famous family. she was born in 1921 in brookline, massachusetts. she group up like the rest of the children, under pressure. it was win, don't come in second or third. that doesn't count. one way or another, most of the children followed this advice, entering public service or other competitive occupations. eunice focused on helping thementally challenged. her inspiration, her sister, rosemary who had been born with mild mental retardation. in 1953 she married robert sargement shriver, jr. he shared her strong catholic with respect bringing and her sense of social responsibility. in 1961, she established a presidential committee on mental retardation but it was in 1968 that she really made her mark as one of the founders of the special olympics. since then, the organization has grown worldwide to nearly 150 cupperies. >> thank you, all the citizens of canada, for honoring the special olympians, for hon ouring the special olympic wraps with the largest winter games in sports history. >> reporter: a strong woman in a family that honors strength, jiver leaves behind her husband, five hildren including maria shriver and numerous grandchildren. in new york, david lee miller, fox news. we can get a statement from the family as steve mentioned earlier. family was with mrs. shriver when she passed away early this horning in cape cod. we want to read you portions of that statement. the family says she was the light of our lives, the mother, wife, grandmother, sister and aunt who taught us by example with passn what it means to live a faith-driven life of love and service to others. her life showed that. >> it wanted saying she had a relentless belief in the dignity and worth of every human life. she worked without ceasing, searching, pushing, demanding and hoping for a change. >> she was a living prayer, a living advocate, a living center of power. she set out to change the world and to change us and she did that and more. i love this portion of the statement from the family. it says we are together in our belief that she is now in heaven rejoicing with her family enjoying the fruits of her faith and still urging us onward to the challenges ahead. her love will inspire us to faith and service always. so her legacy will live on. >> eunice kennedy shriver dead this morning at the age of 88. she had her 88th birthday just about a month ago. she has been in mass pass for some time now. her health issues last year were well documented. >> had a series of strokes. spent some time down in noard and back in massachusetts as well. and then again has fallen on some tough times in the last couple of days and the family was there by her side. she is survived by her husband and five children. we will be following this story throughout the morning. we do have a lot more information about mrs. shriver on our web site, myfoxdc.com. we've posted information about her life and also photos which you might be interested to see. >> that is all on-line. go to myfoxdc.com and can you find that there. now, in the meantime,, we've heard a lot about the cash for clufngers program but before the government dished out that cash, it dished out dollars for less energy efficient appliances. >> anita vogel has more on this rome for your fridge. >> reporter: call it the original cash for clungers but these obsolete energy hogs are coming out of people's kitchens, basements and garages. >> thank you. >> before congress started rewarding americans for trading in their gas guzzling cars, home owners in southern california were turning in their old refrigerators and getting $50 back from the local power company. >> work if me. it would have gone out to the front. somebody would have come by and hauled it off or can i get $50 for having somebody else haul it off for me. >> reporter: current southern california edison has recycled more than three-quarters of a million refrigerators and says home owners can save on that you are electric bills. clunkersened up here in this recycling plant. all the glassnd republican rubber parts get removed, coolant drained and the boxes end up getting pulverized in a giant crusher and scold as strap metal. >> the most important thing our country should be doing is helping consumers reduce waste and low are their bills actually program like this makes sense from a societal standpoint and from an individual consumer standpoint. >> reporter: last year, this program is estimated to are used green house gas emission as much as removing 8,000 cars from the road. programs like this have kept utilities from needing to build new plants which is good for the environment and for consumers would get a little extra 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have you ever been to a rodeo? we are livality the springfield operations center for washington gas where they are gearing up for the national natural gas competition. they're hoping qualify for the national competition. in fact the top team will go and compete. and they compete in an event like the pipe cut or the hand dig or the meter set or the service call. and then they have a relay as well. and if you're thinking, why are they doing all of this? it's to highlight the core of the company here, the service workers that come out and make sure we all have gas each and every day. washington gas has over a million customers you know. so not only does it highlight their skills but it does so to show how safe they are and how good they are and the team work. and i'm going to try my hand at it and we'll see how good these workers are and what they do each and every day. gurvir. >> thank you, holly. it's the end of the road for country music's best- selling d. brooks and dunn are splitting up, saying it was time to part. the songs topped u.s. country single charts 20 times. they'll release a greatest hits album before the end of the year and will launch a farewell tour next year. it's time to turn things over to claudia and steve and i know you'll have much more on the passing of eunice kennedy shriver. >> we will. thank you, gurvir. well, coming up, we're following breaking news. eunice kennedy shriver has died. we're looking back at her life and impact on children's disability issues. fox 5 morning news at 7:00 starts right now. it is tuesday august 11th, 2009. you can see the sun already starting to burn through the haze this morning. temperatures already into the mid-70s. they're just hanging tough right now. we are