performance. we are live on that story as fox 5 morning news continues right now. right now. . good morning to you. wednesday, august 8th as we take a live look outside over the city right now. and hot, huge you had and it looks like it is hazy. maybe that is just the monitor. >> i think your uses are right. >> they're right this time. >> good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news at 6:00. time to talk to tucker barnes about that haze. >> you are looking at the water in the atmosphere. so you get the idea here. humidity is going to be sticking around today. >> all right. >> sticking around. >> you like to do that. >> i'm so clever. >> you like to say that every time it's humid like we're in the going to catch that. >> 78 in washington. humidity, 87%. no winds, wish we had some out of the north. they we'll be out of the south later today and they will be light at five miles per hour. pressure pretty much steady. we have a leftover shower there east of salisbury. that is about. it not expecting a lot of activity today. you saw the clouds. we're waking up with some cloud cover and some haze and some humidity. that will be the canada is all day today. i think we will see periods of sunshine or a little filter sunshine through outyour day. kind of partially sunny afternoon and it will be hot and humid with highs about 09 or so with maybe a stray thunderstorm. humidity, that is here to stay for the next couple of days. hot temperatures too. highs at 91 degrees at 4:00 p.m. it does get better on the five- day forecast. >> okay. that's good. >> something to look forward to. >> we will stay tuned to that. let's check in with julie wright to get the latest on traffic. >> we got a lot going on right now as you guys travel out of greenbelt and college park this morning. the crew in sky fox with us right now checking out the remains of the car fire. this is going to be on the outer loop of the beltway north of 450 but well before the bw parkway. the remain of car fire have traffic squeezing by using the two left lane. delays on the outer loop starting to stack up out of land jordan headed around towards greenbelt. accident number two occurred on the inner loop of the beltway as you approach the baltimore- washington parkway. that is where we have another two lanes blocked there. i was hoping we would be able to see that. not sure for we can pan out and get that shot or not. we do have another accident reported on the inner loop of the beltway as you travel from college park over towards greenbelt. heads up on the inner loop as well as outer loop traveling between college park and greenbelt this morning. on the other side of town, you will find your land are open as you continue new silver spring checking for the crash on the outer loop. -- as you continue through silver spring checking for the crash on the outer loop. 395, no problems report leaving edsall road headed up towards duke street. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. . police say charles amofa abducted two girls on separate occasions from a thrift store. a police officer says they arrested amofa with the six- year-old victim in that case at a nearby park. maryland's general will return to annapolis tomorrow to begin debate august bill that would extend gambling in that state. governor o'malley unveiled new legislation that would allow a sixth casino authorize table games and allow all casinos to operate 24 hours a day seven days a week. local resident are still frustrated with pepco's response to all the power outages. >> that is why maryland regulators are now giving customers a chance to voice their concerns at public hearings. melanie alnwick live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. pepco executives told investors that its company performed about ao. par with all the other utilities in the state in getting power restored and pepco intends to seek a rate hike in order to cover the cost of the storm. that derecho was called a hurricane-like storm without the benefit of a hurricane warning. at one point, some 702,000 pepco customers were in the dark and some remained that way for more than a week. the maryland public service commission begins a series of state-wide public hearings to hear directly from customers about their experience about the power outages and their utility companies. about 200 people pack hearing in rockville, most expressing outran that pepco would ask them to pay more money for service this did not receive. pepco did not specify how much of a rate increase it would be asking for. now, last month, regulators did reject a similar request by pepco. pepco had asked if a $68 million rate up crease and regulators in the state said no, you will only get $18 million. that amounted to about $1.89 per month and we will see what happens with these continued rate requests from pepco given all of the outrage that customers are expressing to the public service commission. back to you. >> thank you. hundreds of community members praying for the victims of sunday's shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin. they held a candlelight vigil for the sick worshippers killed by wade michael page. police searched a home that page lived in with his ex-girl friend and found a gun there. his ex-girlfriend is facing felony possession of a weapon. jared lee loughner pleads guilty sparing him the death penalty for the mass shooting in january of last year in arizona. after he was force to take drugs, the judge says he is mentally fit for the trial. ate former university of maryland student is pleading guilty to making online threats about a campus rampage. alexander song entered the guilty plea yesterday. the charges against him are disturbing the peace and misuse of telephone facilities. he was arrested in march. new had morning a man is recovered after he was robbed and attacked with a hammer. it happened at 14th and irving street northwest. the police are searching for four suspects. an overnight earthquake plus fallout from a massive oil refinery fire. an update on these big headlines coming out of california. changes at airports nationwide. we've got what you need to know when fox 5 morning news continues. you know, ronny... folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. and how happy are they jimmy? i'd say happier than a bodybuilder directing traffic. he does look happy. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. . making headlines this morning. residents in the los angeles area felt the ground shake last night. a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit just before 11:30:00 p.m. and was centered two miles east of yorba linda in orange county. so far, no reports of any damages or injuries. a fire at one of the country's biggest oil refineries will push gas price above $4 a gallon on the west coast. flames broke out monday night at the chevron refinery about 10 miles from san francisco. hundreds of peopled intoed hospitals with health complaints. the refindery has been the target of complaints and lawsuits by residents. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. airports nationwide are making some changes after a few scary moments in the sky at reagan national last week. the faa is suspending all opposite direction operations. that is when controllers direct some planes to take off and land from the opposite of the usual direction. the procedure was in place at reagan national last tuesday and the faa says there was a miscommunication between air traffic controllers about reversing the flow of traffic to and from the runway. a frightening ordeal at one d.c. metro station. several passengers were left bleeding during rush hour yesterday. that story is coming up. >> we'll get an update on traffic and weather. it is no secret. 2012 has brought us some hot temperatures. wait until you hear where it falls in the record books. stay with us. ay with . . >> i feel 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[ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. . back now with a live look outside and news that you are not imagining this whole thing. according to researchers at cornell university, so far, 2012 has been the hottest year on record for the northeast. the average temperature from january through july was 49.9 degrees. is that right? >> that's probably right. >> that beats the average of 49.2 from the year 1921. record keeping began in 1895. you knew this already, tucker, right? >> well, yeah i do. >> tucker was ahead it was. >> i mean a lot of it had to do with the very warm winter that we had. it has been uncomfortable and hot. >> we didn't need cornell to tell us. tucker told us. >> i didn't talk about it. >> yes, you did. >> we talked about the hot summer here but that was for the entire northeast. >> i will not give you a compliment ever again. >> i love compliments. i can only take credit when i deserve it. i want nothing to do with credit for this forecast. >> put some lipstick on this big. >> 83 in quantico. let's see what else we have in the waive temperatures. 72 in cambridge, if you are watching the mountains, you are doing a little better. all right. you remember yesterday we had some upper 50s and low 60s off to the north appear west. not the case today. chicago, 73 today. the heat is building out to the west once again. 73 this morning in richmond. the entire region has been basking under these unseasonably warm temperatures. it has been warm. we are off fay warm start here for august. 73. that is the current dew point temperature. that is measuring water in the atmosphere. you will notice that humidity when you run out the door this morning. later this afternoon, it won't take a lot to break out any asweat. humidity will be intact for the next couple of days. not a left chains from yesterday. lots of clouds to start your day. kind of a partly sunny afternoon, warm and humid with high abouts 90678 the possibility we could spring up a shower or thunderstorm today although the chances aren't great. we do have changes some the forecast. off to the north and west out towards chicago, thrice cold front. that will start to approach later tomorrow. could bring us a few showers or thunderstorms thursday. by friday, the weather pattern gets a little more complicated here with showers and thunderstorms back in the forecast and some cooler air. i mean actually cool are air moving in behind the front friday night and during saturday. this is your futurecast. put it in motion. maybe a sprinkle later this afternoon. you can see generally quiet conditions. forecast for today, partly sunny, hot and humid. zoo be a stray thunderstorm. 92degrees your daytime high. all right. i want to say enjoy it but i'm snot sure you will. let's do traffic with julie wright. >> a lot going on here on the beltway. we started off on the outer loop here leaving landover headed into greenbelt with a car fire after 450 in the two left lanes getting by. then we had the crash on theener loop of -- on the inner loop of the bw parkway. crash reported on the outer loop of the beltway. something is definitely there at this point. i don't think we'll able to get that shot before we clear the air. most of the beltway reported to be closed off at this time on the outer loop of the beltway as you approach connecticut avenue. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. back to you. >> thank you, julie. fox ais mop are toking metro this morning and the transit agency's ongoing investigation into an escalator accident t happened yesterday morning at the l'enfant plaza metro station. it appears a woman's bag got caught in a metal strip that line the escalator and the loose strip caused some riders to fall. three people went to the hospital with mine or injuries. the obama administration is teaming with a nonprofit to give help to at-risk home owners. today's event goes from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. homeowners with meet face to face with mortgage counselors. we should mention county executive rushern baker will join us live in studio to talk bay number of topics including a recent development in his personal wife. his wife's early onset alzheimer's. we'll talk about how she is doing and how the family is coping ahead at 8:00. we just mentioned some help for home owners a few second ago. it turns out there is some good news when it comes to americans and mortgage payments. we'll talk about that up next in today's business beat. plus, e-bay is testing out a brand-new service. delivery in as little as one hour. >> can you believe that? >> same-day service. >> i see a car over in the corner. can they deliver that? fur ♪ all right ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ can you feel it out there? [ male announcer ] join the masters of style... trim, shave, edge. with the fusion proglide styler from gillette. . welcome back. looks like more and more americans are paying their mortgages on time and one exciteee has a big thank you for a popular offer this morning. lauren similar sunsety is live in new york with this morning's business beat. good morning. >> good morning. >> maybe a good sign for the economy. maybe a good morning for this. so many people have been behind on paying their mortgages but it is getting better apparently. >> we are at the best levels in three years right new so in the second quarter, that is april to june, trans-union says 5.5% of mortgage holders in the u.s. were behind on their payments by at least 60 days. that is a low number and the lowest we've seen in several years. >> we'll take that. let's talk about e-bay. they are testing something that many of us would love to have, same day delivery. >> it is almost like a courier service. they have a new mobile app. they are testing it in certain markets, basically in california. it is called e-bay now. you can make a purchase on e- bay and you can get it on the same day, sometimes in as little as one our. nordstrom, macy's, walgreens are participating. this is as e-bay tries to battle with amazon. >> that's true. okay. that makes sense. i saw manolo blahnik on the screen. that seals the deal for me. >> i wouldn't be able to pay for those the same day though. >> we'd have to be on the payment flan. let's talk about fifty shades of gray. one business is cashing in on this whole craze. >> it is amazing when you hear the ceo of a company talk about fifty shades of gray on a public company conference call after an earnings report and thanks it is company for boosting sales of its sexual devices. i'm not kidding. the company is church and dwight. you didn't hear of it but you know its products, their, arm and hammer and trojans. i like to say if you put those three together, you have yourself a nice night. >> my grandmother is reading it. >> oh, that's nice. thankfully, my mom isn't reading it. i don't know if i would want to have readings of fifty shades of gray with my mom or my grandma. how's that going. all right. i better let you go. i think you're blushing. >> let's go. let's get out of here. >> talk to you tomorrow. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up, a check on weather and traffic. that is next on fox 56789 plus an update on the olympics and a check on today's top stories. >> reporter: how do you make frustrated pepco customers even angrier? ask for a rate increase on top of a major storm outage. we'll hear what pepco's ceo has to say about his company's performance on fox 5 morning news. while many of you were asleep, another late-night thriller for the nats. they beat the houston astros in 12 innings. danny he is been owes adrove in the winning runway single. at the bottom of the 12th, roger bernadina made this amazing catch for the final out. the nats go on to win 3-2. and to the latest on the olympics in london a big night no aly raisman, capt train of the u.s. women's gymnastic team won gold in the floor exercise and bronze on the balance beam. that gives her three total medals. the most of any u.s. gymnast. gabby douglas fin,ed sevenning on the the beam after a fall. checking out the latest medal count. team usa is in second place right behind china with 30 goals and 70 total medals. one of our gold medalists, katie ledecky, will be here in fox 5 studio this is morning. she won the gold medal in the 800 meter free style. she is the youngest american olympian in the games. she will be joining us during the 8:00 a.m. hour for her visit. >> that is very exciting. i'm glad she is able to fit us in. i'm sure she is busy now that she is back home. >> it will be a hot, sticky afternoon with temperatures about 09 or so. currently 77 in washington. 69 this morning in hagerstown. let's see. ocean city, 74 degrees for you. 75 at patuxent naval air station. not expecting much in the way of shower or thunderstorm activity although we could see one or two kind of kick up later today. looks like we still have a few leftover showers there along the eastern shore of delaware. that is about it. otherwise, a quiet start to your day. there is some cloud cover out there. it won't be a bright,sonny day today. kind of filtered sunshine like what we had around here yesterday. here is your forecast. daytime highs on the hot side, low 90s. nothing terrible but it won't feel great with the humidity. 92 in washington. 89 in gaithersburg. coming up in a few minutes, we'll have more details on the forecast. weekend looks good and ask the weather guy, somebody wants to know what is up with all the humidity. >> i'm with them. i'm glad we have that question today. thank you. time now to talk to julie wright. she has been very busy this morning. good morning to you. >> i just told our friends on pgc, i got more hits than kanye. >> wow! >> that is a lot, right? >> that's a lot. >> this is at 355 in montgomery county. the crew in sky fox over the scene. this one involve a dump truck and a vehicle. the outer loop of the beltway, traffic is able to get by as you work your way past university boulevard headed all the way over towards this accident scene. so again, dump truck, the car collided. you will find one lane to the left getting by. delays are stacking up leaving university boulevard out of silver spring headed in towards bethesda and making yor way around towards 270. only the leflane is able to get by. a rubbernecking delay out of bethesda. if you are traveling the beltway outer loop, you are down to about five miles per hour headed north from before 50 to the inner loop of the beltway. now, a crash involving the overturned vehicle northbound on the baltimore-washington parkway just north of 450. head up leaving prince george's hospital headed back out towards the beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >> thank you. our big story this morning. pepco says they are planning to ask if a rate hike in the fall. >> this comes despite customers' recent frustrations with pepco's response to thousands of power outage during the june derecho storm. we'll have melanie alnwick talking about that in a live report. a lot of people are frustrated about that. it was hot and trees everywhere. >> we'll check in with melanie in just a bit. the university of virginia's chief operating officer has resign. he stepped down in the wake of ongoing questions about what role he played in the attempt to oust school president theresa sullivan in june. >> i remember that. sullivan was reinstated about two weeks later after donors, staff and students protested. his wife, sharon, also resigned from her marketing position with the university. some of our other top stories, a 25-year-old chillum man is charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting two young girls. this is not the video we're taking a look at here. this man right here, police say charles amofa abducted girls from a thrift store on university boulevard in hyattsville on two separate owe indications. the first happened on july 9th. a police officer made the arrest at a park after the latest incident on monday. police have identified a body found in a prince george's county creek as that of a missing d.c. mother. 22 engineered shavon philip was last seen on surveillance video dropping her daughter off at i day care in d.c. last wednesday. her body was found inside a did you ever el bag in a creek in fort washington two days later. -- inside a duffel bag in a creek in fort washington two days later. no word on a possible suspect or cause of death. police in arlington county are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men. the victims were found inside an apartment on north cull pep are street yesterday morning. investigators found no weapons on the scene. police are asking anyone with any information in this case to give them a call. now to a story you will only see on fox 5. a d.c. man who ordered a flat screen tv online received his package but it wasn't a television. take a look at. this when he opened the box, this is what he found. a semiautomatic rifle instead of a tv. now, he ordered that flat screen tv that he wanted through a third party seller on amazon.com. the shipping lap label had his name and address you but the invoice indicated it should have been shipped to a gun shop in pennsylvania. he called d.c. police. they came to his house and confiscated the rifle which is illegal in the district. >> they were a little confused at first. they had never seen anything quite like it. they just sort of took my information and said well, we'll handle this weapon because it is illegal to keep here. it is illegal to transport in a car. so it can't be returned. you can't deal with t we have to take it away. they took possession of it. >> now, says the package was left in the hallway outside his apartment and anyone could have gotten into t a third party seller did ship that package, not amazon. we will keep you posted on this story. >> so bizarre. investigators in wisconsin say they may never know why 40- year-old wade michael page went on a shooting rampage inside a sikh temple and the people of oak creek are still trying to come to grips with this weekend's mass shooting. >> they held a vigil and six simple crosses are now on the lawn outside the temple. in rockville, about 1,000 people showed up at the sikh temple to pray for the victims. coming up, just two days after a successful landing on mars and nasa has some color photos for us. the rover curiosity has been very busy and we'll take a look straight ahead on the other side of break. plus, we've got traffic with julie wright. tucker barnes will be talking about weather. and we've got the world reknowned ask the weather guys coming up. fox 5 morning news will be right back. pean. 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[ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. in the philippines, severe monsoon rains are causing raging floods. half of the capital of man ill as under water and army troops are stranded on rooftops. a. a volcano at a national park in new zealand erupts for the first time in more than 100 years. experts say it had been rumbling for week but they didn't expect a full-blown eruption. the incident prompted some people to leave their homes but luckily no one was hurt. officials in new zealand say their biggest problem is all the ash spewing into the sky. to days after the mars curiosity rover landed on the red planet, we are now getting a look at its first color photograph. the lens is a bit dusty but curiosity's mission is only beginning. fox's ainsley earhart has the latest now. >> reporter: the world watched as nasa scientists celebrated curiosity's successful landing on the red planet. now, they have even more to celebrate as the first color pictures of mars are sent back to earth. >> every time we get a new one, we all crowd around the screen and watch the first images come up here. >> reporter: this photo shows the distinct mountain ridges of the crater and you can see how it leads up to mount sharp, which is curiosity's next stop. >> looking at the dust covers on the various cameras on curiosity, we know that a left dust was kicked up over the course of these events. so hopefully, we'll able to get even better images, more detail in these. >> reporter: the photos were tape with an image handler nicknamed molly. >> the molly is a focusable color camera. this is the first color image of the landscape where we've landed. i waited a long time for this to come back. >> reporter: in the the meantime, years will start booting up curiosity's various instruments and scanners and cameras. it will continue to send back photos of what so far has been a successful mission. >> curiosity is still healthy, what we call surface nominal mode and still in great shape. >> reporter: the rover won't be making its initial movements for a few weeks. first, engineers need to make sure all the systems are check and operational and are worth the $2 billion price tag. a is in aemployee with a very unusual hair cut has become an internet sensation. >> we are talking about fly director bobak ferdowzi. he has gone virals the nasa mohawk guy. tens of thousands of people followed him on twitter and his mohawk changes for every mission. is this a little star? >> and there is a streak of red. >> he added red for the mission to mars. >> i'm he surprised they're able to let him in a government building looking like that. >> i think tucker should change his hair for every forecast. >> this is a great idea. >> you should slick it back one time, puff it up one time. >> i'm afraid at this point in my life, if i cut it like that, it might not grow back at all. got to keep it while of a got it. temperatures once again in the upper 70s. it will be about 90 this afternoon. could there be a storm? yeah. will there be a storm? probably not. i'm bored with it. >> don't be bored. >> i mean it's just more of the same day after day. here we go. let's see if we can find anything exciting to talk b remember yesterday, we were diagnose a little better north and west and that is the case again today. temperature have fallen back into the upper 60s in places like frederick, 68 degrees. a lot of humidity. we'll talk about dew points and dew point temperature here in a minute. we showed some live shots this morning and there is plenty of water in the atmosphere. the rope why, we've got a southerly flow. see the cloud cover. that will stick around for a good part of the day. we're in the going to see much in the way of a shower or thunderstorm activity. there could be a pop-up shower later today. most of your day should be dry, at least the first half of the day with rae her up comfortable temperatures in the low 90s. we do have some relief off to the north and west. let's get down to the tropic. this is ernesto. now a category one hurricane. likely to reinstens identify here as it gets out here t made landfall once and will likely make a second landfall this in mexico in about 48 hours time. the real story here is the rainmaker. eight to 12 inches across portions of mexico. there is your five-day forecast. 92 today with lots of humidity and partial sunshine. the front gets in here by friday and things gradually get better for the weekend. highs on saturday, 826789 sunshine, less humidity a beautiful sunday afternoon. only 85 degrees. >> excellent. >> so for a change, the real deal here. >> starting friday. >> you found something exciting to say. there you go. >> it's me. >> good morning. guess what it is time for. >> i don't know. oh, yeah, that old thing. >> ask weather guys. the most popular segment some morning television, soon to be renamed sometime during the next two months. it is the segment where tucker barnes and i put our big heads together to answer your most pressing questions. today's question comes from tracy burnett. she asks how do predict humidity in advance being how much it is going to be and how long it stays around? >> good question, tracy. >> i have a simple formula. i just look at sarah's hair. >> no, you can't tell by that. >> your hair looks really good today. did you just get it cut. >> yeah, last week. thanks for noticing. >> you can't win. >> here is the teal. relative humidity is all about the amount of moisture in the air. the more moisture there is in the air, the more uncomfortable it feels to us. you all generally know that. we talk about it in two ways. we talk about relative humidity and the dew points which tucker just did. >> and we'll do it again. she wants to know, in particular, how can we predict how uncomfortable the air is going to be. it is all about air masses. we can look at -- we get into what we call a pat western a bermuda high tip inally in the summertime. the area of high pressure gets parked to our east in the atlantic ocean and because air flows clockwise around it, our winds come out of the south and the southeast and sometimes out of the southwest off the gulf of mexico. the air in the southeast atlantic and the gulf of mexico is very warm and very humid this time of year. it can hold a lot of water. once of the principles of weather is the warm are the temperature, the more water that can be held. that is why, even if it is very humid in the wintertime, we are not complaining about how up comfortable it is. with the temperature in the 80s and 90s and triple digits and you have a lot of humidity, you notice it. it gets very uncomfortable. so it is all about weather patterns and it is all about wind flow this time of year. that is what helps us know ahead of time what we can look forward to. if the wind are out of the north and northwest, we would know we've got some quieter, drier air moving in. >> what's so funny, sarah? >> nothing. you're fine. >> no, please. >> nothing to do with you. >> we talk about the dew points. sometime people wonder what is the dew point. >> let's go it that. >> we'll show you they are high. it is uncomfortable outside. >> what do you want? >> i was hoping we would go with max 2. when the dew point is 60 to 64, not too bad. as it goes up into the 70s, it becomes increasingly uncomfortable if not oppressive when it is 75 plus. last couple of days, our dew point temperatures have been in the upper 60s, low 70s. >> people who wonder what is the dew point temperature. it is the temperature at which dew would form, which means the air would be saturated with moisture. >> it can no longer hold any more water. that number changes with -- or that dew responsibility number will change with the actual air temperature. can we go on to max 2 now and we'll show you the actual dew point temperatures. annapolis, 75. 75 in quantico. we are into the oppressive range. when you step out, you will be complaining about the humidity. what happens is when it is very humid out, your skin can't sort of wick away your perspiration. that is why if feels uncomfortable. >> thank you for the question. we hope we explained that for you. if you have a question that you want to have answered, all you need to do is go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. >> this used to be the theme song. >> wonder swat new one will be. >> i don't know. >> we have a couple of years. >> >> we're getting ready to talk to julie wright. >> wisdom's theme song is i'm sexy and i know it. you're making me blush again. >> i just tell you what i hear. i hear things. >> we have had just an outrageous commute this morning on the beltway. it is not an easy drive. we'll start off with the crew in sky fox. we've had two separate accidents traveling between connecticut avenue and 355. as you travel over towards 355, this is the second accident which occurred on the beltway. again, you will find that the right side of road is blocked. sky fox pans out and goes back, you will find another crash involving a dump truck and a car. also on the outer loop of the beltway, closer to connecticut avenue and again, it is the two left lanes that are able to get by as you travel on the outer loop. we've got delays on the beltway overall from 215 to 450 with the car fire on the shoulder. we have this accident here with the dump truck and the car, traffic squeezing by to the left. the second accident over at 355 where the left lane is squeezing boy. from 95 college park to the bw parkway where we had a crash. again, right side of the road remains closed. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >> two, three. all right. it's open. >> virginia governor bob mcdonnell there breaking drowned on the picket construction project in the mid- atlantic region. the billion dollar project will turn the existing hov lanes on i-95 into express lanes. when it is done in two years, carpoolers might be able to drive for free but others could pay up to $20. one of washington's beloved iconic structures is close to being fully restored. the national park service announced it hopes the reflecting pool will reopen at the end of the month. the new reflecting pool features a tinned bottom, sidewalks and nighttime illumination. it willery new system that uses water from the tidal basin instead of the city's reserves. >> exciting to see it. the national aquarium, that is pretty exciting to see. it is celebrating this morning. >> holly is helping mark its 31st birthday. there are special ask it was that visitors can take advantage. we'll check in with her straight ahead after the break. 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. good morning i am holly morris. some body is celebrating a birthday today and you are invited to the party. we are at the national aquarium in baltimore. today marks its 33rd birthday. take a look at this little guy we are starting our morning with the dolphins. good morning we will learn how to be a trainer for a day this morning. find out how they take care of these miraculous, amazing animals we will find out about the dolphin discovery and dolphin sleep overs. we are also going to feed some stingrays this morning, part of their animal encounters, we will get to do it and chat with a macau as well. they are very media savvy. >> they know on cue. come back. we will check with you later on. time to say good morning to our facebook fan of the day, stacey gibbs. stacey has been watching for more than 20 years, and she looks lovely look at that picture all happy. >> excited. >> thumbs up to you and for your chance to be tomorrow's fan, leave a comment under stacey's picture. >> time to send it over the tony and allison. hello. >> hello. >> happy hump day, sarah and wisdom. big belt way delays as police are on the scene of several accidents. >> following a developing story out of afghanistan, another deadly attack on nato troops a day after gun men in disguise opened fire on an american soldier. new details about a group of athletes missing from the olympic village. fed up with pepco. fed up customers voice concerns to maryland regulators as the company plans to ask for