outsued right now on august 28th at the washington monument as we get things started. a lot to talk b lots of plirk to talk about. the republican national convention as we as what is happening on the gulf and in new orleans with the storm. -- a lot to talk about. lots of politics to talk about. >> the storm made landfall near the mouth of the mississippi river just before 7:00 last night. this is a first major test of new orleans' new levee system since hurricane katrina struck seven years ago today. emergency officials are now reporting at least one levee breach this morning. isaac is a slow-moving large storm and flooding is a big concern this morning and already becoming an issue as we have checked in with reporters throughout the morning. let's check in with tucker barnes. >> we are in the worst of it as we speak. extremely heavy rain in the past couple of hours since i got to work here during the 3:00 a.m. hour. the rain has picked up across new orleans. they had a wind gust about 70 miles per hour in downtown new orleans in the past hour. when you take a look at the radar, it is just extraordinary. the bad news, the storm moving very slowly. >> it is staying there which means that you get more rain. >> it is sitting and spinning. still a hurricane. maximum wind still 80 with gusts to 90. i don't know if we have live shots or if we'll go straight to the radar. let's take a look. there is your radar. you can see the slow-moving nature. note is the banding features, the dark are yellow and oranges just pulling that up off the northern gulf. so this story will continue to develop here during the course of the day. the heavy rain and gusty wind will continue across southeast louisiana, mississippi and even parts of alabama here for several more hours. and by several, i moon maybe 12 more hours because the storm is movinso slowly and then they can start to clean up. but the storm is still developing and still very strong at this hour. the pressure has fallen a little bit overnight. that tells us the storm like to keep its intensity for several more hours. local weather, we are looking great here. very cool overnight. low humidity. 70degrees in washington. 65 in ocean city. not a lot to talk about with our weather. it will be a gorgeous day here. we are lucky. lots of clear skies and low humidity. high temperatures expected to top out in the middle 80s. so enjoy a beautiful august afternoon. kind of feel like late summer. >> take it in while you can. think of the people down south that don't have it so good right now. time to see what is happening on the roads with julie wright. >> you've been very busy this morning dealing with that tractor-trailer accident. >> it is actually a tanker truck that was loaded with about 9,000 gallops wort of fuel involved in a crash and burst into flames around 2:30 this morning. sky fox is live over the scene. let me just show you what is going on traffic-wise. for you guys traveling northbound on i-9 5, the right leap -- on i-95, the right lane is closed. can you not exit from 95 to 286. let's roll that for thible that jason smith, our photographer, took for us earlier this morning. you will find that the portion of 95 to exit onto 286 remains closed. the ongoing investigation, you will fine that there is clean- up ongoing at this point and investigation because one person was pronounced dead. you will find traveling off of 286 southbound to 295, that remains closed. a lot of bailout traffic headed over towards route 1. now you've got the combination of bailout traffic so route 1 really well below speed headed north from the occoquan headed towards telegraph road. northbound i-9 5, the right lane is closed in line. big dehas out of woodbridge with an incident at lorton now being pulled over to the shoulder. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. politics now. more big named will be showcased tonight at the republican national convention. >> vice presidential candidate paul ryan will wrap up the second full day. yesterday, mitt romney made it official. >> on this vote, the honorable mitt romney of the state of massachusetts has received 2,061 votes, more than a majority of those votes entitled to be cast at this convention. >> with that, romney is now the republican presidential candidate. the party also used the night to prove a platform that would ban all abortions and gay marriage. romney's wife ann made acase for her husband but the highlight was new jersey governor chris christie who gave a rousing keynote address. jot people have no patience for any other way anymore. it is simple. we need politicians to care more about doing something and less about being something. and believe me, believe me, if we can do this in a blue state like new jersey with a conservative republican governor, washington, d.c. is out of excuses. >> and on tap for tonight, mitt romney plans to discuss veterans issues via satellite along with 2008 presidential nominee john mccain. president obama will follow the campaign trail to virginia today, the last in a series of visits to college towns around the current rich the president will speak in charlottesville. the university of virginia rejected his campaign's request to hold an event on classes. the event is being held off campus. we'll be right back with a look at the morning's other top stories. stay with us. president clinton: this election to me is about which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. police are asking the public's help in the case of a capitol hill man brutally assaulted and robbed. let's take a good look at some surveillance video. investigators say the suspects used t. c. maslin's credit card to fill up at this exxon station not far from the crime scene. it is believed there may be three people in the car. maslin was attacked on august 1th. -- august 18th. a lawyer for a teen accused of opening fire inside a baltimore county high school says the boy did not intend to shoot anyone. robert gladden, jr. is being charged with attempted first degree murder and assault. police say walked into the cafeteria at perry hall high and fired a shotgun at random. his lawyer says the gun fired accidentally when he was rushed by teachers and he brought it to school to intimidate bullies but did not aim it at anyone. a prince george's county police officer who died in the line of duty has been laid to rest now. officer adrian morris was killed in a car crash while pursuing suspect as a the more than a week ago. thousands of officers from around the d.c. region turned out for the funeral service. the police chief posthumously promoted morris to the rank of police officer first class. we continue to track hurricane isaac for you this morning. >> the storm made its second landfall on the louisiana coast about an hour ago. there are reports of at least one levee breach outside of new orleans. we'll go live for an update when fox 5 morning news continues. we are continuing to watch live pictures here coming in to us right there from our crews in new orleans as hurricane isaac continues to slowly churn around there and just dump more and more water on there. issues of flooding already a concern. as wisdom mentioned, a left i don't where some water has gone over the top there. we'll get -- a levee where some water has gone over the top there. we'll get an update when we come back. anncr: it'll start out as concrete and steel... but it'll become so much more. a 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hearing in terms of reports that homes have nine feet of water. people are having to go to their third floor to escape some of those flood waters and flood rescues are in place right now. so that is what we're getting the reports of right now. as you can see, this is improved conditions over the past hour. about an hour ago, things were much, much worse. the wind blue to the point at some points you couldn't even stand. we were seeing windows breaking from debris hitting them. we are here on canal street, a very famous notable place. a lot of people know those big panes of windows, some of the debreathe was shattering those windows. we have seep stall trees down. we are not seeing structural damage in terms of major structures. it is mostly just vegetation issued and in terms of flooding, we are seeing good drainage down here so flooding not an, so far. but we've also seen a lot of the places around here sandbagging and putting up the big metal greats out in front ever the door so that the water that does fall doesn't get blown and forced under the doors and causes damage inside. people did the right thing yesterday. for the most part, we haven't seen a whole lot of people on the roadways or civilians out and b mostly, police forces or reporters and media. >> now, you mentioned the flooding situation down there where people have been putting down the bags and we see a lot of rain and we see the water in the streets. give us a sense of how bad it is or maybe it is not that bad right where you are in the area where -- which is known as the downtown part, the french quarter, the canal street. how bad is it down there as far as flooding is concerned? >> in terms of canal street, it is fine. we are seeing here just the driving wind. what is happening is because we are near downtown, you get the tall buildings so you get this effect that basically funnels the wind. we are seeing high are winds here than most places around the rest of the area but in terms of flooding, that is just not as big of an issue. live from canal street in new orleans, wttg. >> all right. thank you so much. stay safe and i had sea a stay dry but i think that is nearly impossible in the middle of all this. now, let's check in with tucker and get the latest on our weather. >> winds gusting 74 miles per hour in downtown new orleans. i just looked in past 15 minutes. >> you could see her getting blown around pretty good out there. >> that is hurricane force conditions. storm intact. not a whole lot of changes with the storm overnight. it is moving very slowly. just not losing a lot of strength here and sort of a worst case scenario for northerlien over the next several hours is they will just be inundated with one band after another of extraordinarily heavy rain. there is a live look and you can clearly see the eye of a hurricane right here off to the north and to the east. that is where the worst of it has been during the last several hours and new orleans right there. we did see a heavy band move through in the past half hour. we are getting a bit of a break as we just saw in the live shot. look what we have in store for northerly ends as they are expected to get again just extremely heavy amounts of rain. millibar pressure 969 millibars. the movement has been extraordinarily slow, stationary for much of the overnight hours. now moving off to the north and west finally at six miles per hour. any time you've gone around the beltway at sick miles per hour, you know that is very slow -- at six miles per hour, you know that is very slow. parts of southeast louisiana can expect 7 to 14 plus inches. i found a spot at lake front airport that has already picked up over 7 1/4 inches of rain. as you saw, we still have several more hours, probably eight, 10, 12 more hours of rain. flooding will become a major issue here over the next several hours. let's talk about the track of isaac. the slow movement here over the next couple of days, wind currently -- sustained winds 80 miles per hour, gusts to about 90. initial pressure, i mentioned 969 multibars. notice what happens here. here is the good news. the recommend newschannel tens get up into parts of the country that really need the rain. eventually places like st. louis will get some good rains. we may be impacted by the remnants of isaac that will bring us some showers and thunderstorms towards the end of the weekend. maybe some showers and thunderstorms latter half of sunday and early monday. otherwise, look how quiet we are. there is our cold front from yesterday. today will be close to perfect for summertime weather here with highs expected to be in the mid-80s and that is after a very comfortable start. check out your current temperatures. 69 in washington. 66 this morning in leonardtown. look at the 50s off to the north and west. five-day forecast, we do have a warming trend but a lot of sunshine the next couple of days. threw the thunderstorm up on sunday. we'll have to see where the recommend newschannel tens of isaac track but we could be dealing with that by late in the day sunday. let's check traffic with julie wright. >> we have this accident investigation along northbound i-95. chopper brad over the scene northbound 95 at 286 the fairfax county park a brad, if you can hear me, we are incident reefed in the commute off of 286. we-- we are interested in the commute off of 286. coming south towards the exit for 295, the ramp remains closed off at this time. you are denied access. what you need to know is that northbound i-59 right lane still closed off at the scene. our photographer jason smith was there giving us the ground shots. northbound i-95, traffic gridlocked as you work your way up towards the scene. this crash involving a tanker truck which caught fire leaving one person dead. an ongoing investigation and clean-up from a big fuel spill that was out there on the roads continues at this time. an accident investigation continues to block the ramp from 286 south on i-95. let me take it back inside quickly. this is the live shot of the gridlock traffic north on i-95 in the main line. in the backup here, lorton. route 1 already heavy with the typical volume headed out towards fort belvoir. outer loop north of town, no problems to report college park headed for 270. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. >> all right. thank you. we'll ight back with some big news for redskins fans this morning. come on, kids.s. we gotta go! oh, nah, i gotta go. oh, can you make that to go? these days, nobody has time to get sick, but minute clinic makes it easy to get well. our nurse practitioners can diagnose and write prescriptions for everything from strep throat to sinus infections, with no appointment necessary, so you can feel better in no time. you guys wanna go to the park? yeah! yeah! minute clinic -- the walk-in clinic at cvs/pharmacy, where you'll get $10 off sports physicals. only for a limited time. find a clinic near you at minuteclinic.com. i'm barack now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare? the nonpartisan a-a-r-p says obamacare "cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse and strengthens guaranteed benefits." and the ryan plan? a-a-r-p says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors... and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retirees costs more than six thousand dollars. get the facts. the redskins made three big moves yesterday. they signed former ravens kicker billy cundiff and cut graham gano to make room for him. >> chris carpooly was released after eight years with the team. he has been a fan favorite and is the franchise's all-time leader in receptions with 428. injuries have plagued him for several seasons. an emotional cooley acting with class when he said his good- byes yesterday. >> it has been awesome. you've been very, very fortunate to play for a franchise that has embraced me and for a fan base that has embraced me the way that they have. this organization has changed my life in every way for the better. >> cooley says he still believes he can play in the nfl but at this point, he can't see himself suiting up with another team. we continue to follow a developing story that is impacting traffic along i-95 this morning. a deadly tanker truck fire in fairfax county. we'll have an update on the scene coming up in just a few minutes. >> we continue to track hurricane isaac for you. new orleans deal with the storm seven years to the day the city was devastated by hurricane katrina. we'll have more coming up after the break. we sent him there to fix it, but somewhere along the way, something went horribly wrong. george allen voted for trillions in debt while voting to raise his pay four times, then voted to keep special tax breaks for oil and gas companies and took over a half-million from them. worse, allen went to work for them. prcandidate is more likely toion return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. hurricane isaac pounding new orleans with some heavy rain and strong wind right now. the category one storm made its second landfall on the louisiana coast earlier this morning. so far, more than 250,000 people are without power along the gulf coast right now. >> meantime, authorities say a storm surge driven by isaac is overtopping the levee in the plaquemines parish just south of new orleans. we are hearing reports that home have been flooded with up to nine feet of water and residents are being forced up to the third floors to escape. isaac is a slow-moving storm and officials expect more flooding throughout the day. >> where the levy is overtopped, apparently a very rural area but still something to keep an eye on. there are folks that do live down there and it is getting nasty. >> yeah. in fact, the worst of it over the past couple of hours and the worst yet to come. the storm is moving so slowly off to the west-northwest at just six miles per hour that this story i'm afraid will continue to unfold here all day long as they are just going to be inundate by hour after hour of very heavy rain. there is a live look. you can see the eye of the hurricane very, very discernible there on your satellite-radar. tracking up to the west- northwest at just six miles per hour. the yellows and reds you see very heavy rain rates. we have a tornado warning. two separate tornado warnings which continue for parts of louisiana and it is just spinning up that moisture right off the northern gulf. maximum winds by the way with the storm still 80 miles per hour. we got to 90 so it hasn't lost any of its intensity overnight. the center of circulation has remained just over the water here for much of the nighttime hours. things should improve later this afternoon although they have several more hours of heavy rain. i know during the past hour, they had a rain band in new orleans that brought a wind gust of 75 miles per hour. so again, hurricane force conditions now felt in the city of new orleans and this will continue here for several more hours. i'll have more on isaac in just a few minutes. if you are headed out right now, it is gorgeous. 69degrees in washington. our forecast locally a great one. sunshine, blue skies, low humidity, 85 your daytime high. enjoy the weather around here and keep our fingers crossed that our friends to the south make it through the storm. >> thank you, tucker. >> time to check in with julie to see what is happening and give us an update on the accident. >> there has been a change and we'll go live to the crew in sky fox. northbound i-95 at 286 the fairfax county parkway, that is what we're seeing live shots of now. this is the accident scene from earlier this morning. the crash occurred around 2:30 this morning involving a tanker truck loaded with about 9,000 gallons of fuel. it took them about 45 minutes to extinguish this fire. and now you are finding the delays. the right lane remains closed on northbound i-95. the ramp from northbound fairfax county parkway to northbound i-95 is also closed with this ongoing investigation. vestigation. jason smith gave us live ground shots from earlier this morning. you can see the closures where the light rite lane remains closed off the interstate. the ongoing investigation continues at this hour. we are not sure when the investigation will be completed but we know there is an impact on your commute with traffic slowing out of dale city headed up to the accident scene. 95 northbound, right leap is closed. 286 to go north on 95 also blocked off. not a bad drive college park to 270. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. -timetraffic. mitt romney was not handed success. he built it. >> all right. mitt romney's wife, ann, was one of the featured speakers during the first full day of the republican national convention. new jersey governor chris christie also there, gave a rousing keynote address as well. >> and tonight, we have more big names that are going to speak including the vice presidential nominee. fox's jennifer davis is live in tampa with the highlights. so let's talk about chris christie. of course, everybody has always kind of called him the rock star of the republican party. he gave quite a speech last night. what are conservatives having to say this morning about it? >> reporter: he gave exactly the kind of speech his support is just love, fiery, going after president obama critiquing him for his economic policies for what governor christie says is a lack of leadership. he accused president obama of just paying attention to polls and not enough about policy and trying to improve the current rich he talked a little bit more than himself than he typically does, talking about his parents, his mother, father, giving a little bit more of a window into him and his family. a lot of people hope he considers running for president himself in a few years. so they appreciated hearing more about him. he was there to say he supports mitt romney as president. here is a little bit of what he had to say. >> leadership delivers. leadership counts. leadership matters. and here is great news. i came here tonight to bring you this. we have a lead fore america. we have this nominee would will tell us the truth and lead with conviction and now he has a running mate who will do the same. we have gore mitt romney and congressman paul ryan and we need to make them the next president and vice president of the united states. >> reporter: christie has proven to be a very effective surrogate for the romney campaign. tonight, we'll see john mccain on stage and condoleezza rice. the focus will be world affairs and foreign affairs. then will be paul ryan's turn. this will be his national introduction a lot of people outside of washington and outside of wisconsin don't know him that well. this is a chance for him to introduce himself. he will talk about his own personal story, his im-- the roots of his family, how they were immigrants and came here. also about small town values and midwest values. will get to the same theme thattivityee did which is talking about why he thinks mitt romney will be an effective president. -- he will get to the same theme that christie did which is talking about why he thinks mitt romney will be an effective president. president obama will follow the campaign trail to virginia today. it is the last in a series of visits to college towns. the president will speak in charlottesville. university of virginia rejected his campaign's request to hold an event on campus saying it would disrupt classes. the event is being held at the wireless pavilion off campus. d.c. police have released new surveillance video that may be connected to a robbery and assault. a capitol hill father was severely beaten near eastern market august 18th while walking home from a restaurant. he is facing a long road to recovery as investigate investigators search for a suspect. >> reporter: investigators believe that that surveillance video was captured shortly after the violent assault on t. c. maslin in the early-morning hours of saturday, august 18th. now, maslin's wife is asking everyone for take a careful look at t. the video is from the exxon gas station on pennsylvania avenue not far from where t. c. maslin was believed to have been attacked. investigators need help identifying this car which is believed to be a 2005 hyundai sonata and the three people inside it. police say those people were attempting to use maslin's credit card at the gas station. maslin had been out on a friday night spending the evening at the nationals game and then going out for a late night snack at the tune inn on pennsylvania avenue. he was robbed and violently assaulted while walking home after midnight. for the first time, maslin's wife is speaking in public. he says she uses a white board to communicate. >> one of the greatest moments we had is that i wrote him a message. i didn't read it to imbut it said can you put up two fingers. i held it up for him and he did it. >> reporter: dozens ever residents on capitol hill gathered to hear from d.c. police chief cathy lanier and talk to her about their concerns about the recent spike in robberies across the district. coming up a little bit later, we'll talk about just exactly what is happening with that crime spike. back to you. >> thank you. and new this morning, there is concern right now about a missing montgomery county man who was confined to a wheelchair. take a look. this is 23-year-old ali al-hari. he was last seen last night at the falls grove shopping center on shady grove road in rockville. he is paralyzed. he has a tattoo on his left arm. the wheelchair is black and motorized. coming up next, we continue to follow developments from the gulf coast this morning. >> hurricane isaac made a second landfall in louisiana right around 5:00 this morning and heavy rains are posing a threat for much of the area. fox 5 morning news is back in just a moment. president clinton: this election to me is about which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. president. it only works if there is a strong middl's what happes we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater washington home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence, or supporting an organization that serves 5,000 meals a day across d.c., what's important to the people of greater washington is important to us, and we're proud to work with all those who are making our communities stronger. we are watching hurricane isaac for you this morning. tucker is keeping an eye on this. it is category one still? >> not likely to get much stronger. it is not weakening either. overnight, the pressure fell another millibar so the system just remains infact, a category one hurricane. it is not moving. it was stationary for several hours overnight. it is finally on the move and, as i mentioned, moving just sick miles per hour to the west- northwest. >> this is not common. you said this is not usual. >> it is unusual for a storm to be moving this slowly that is this strong. it is not unheard of. >> okay. >> so the location couldn't be worse with the eye just to the south and to the west ever new orleans and southeast louisiana here. you can see that eye very, very discernible. i keep using that word over and over again here. isaac lifting off to the west- northwest at just six miles per hour. i have aseep people walking fast are than that. very heavy bands of of rain. you can seat banding in the tropical storm that continues to take place. it is just lifting the moisture up and throwing it back into land areas here including the city of new orleans where they're picking up some very impressive rain total in the last couple of hours. that particular band of rain brought several inches of rain in about an hour's time to parts of new orleans. they have had hurricane force gusts in new orleans. the wind will only get worse as that eye wall gets closer to new orleans over the next couple of hours. we're in the done with the worst of this storm. it will continue to just rage down here for several more hours and then very slowly during the day lift off to the north and west. here are the numbers to take a look at. just digging these up. wind gusts, 78 miles per hour. rain now, 8.37 inches at lake front arrest port on lake ponchartrain in northern new orleans. it has been dark down there for the past several hours and i'm sure when we get some light this morning, we'll see lots of signs of damage down across southeast louisiana. tornado warnings as well. let's do local weather. couldn't be nicer around here. we've got sunshine in the forecast. overnight lows, look at that, back into the comfortable range. 69 in washington. 63 this morning in gaithersburg. we are 66 in leonardtown. very comfortable conditions around here. we have the 50s breaking out. 59 in frederick and in martinsburg. combination of warm temperatures in the mid-80s and low humidity. a lot of sunshine today. it will make today i think close to perfect for late summertime weather. it should be nice and dry. warming trend as we get into the weekend but lots of sunshine for the next several days. high pressure keeps us nice and dry. back into the low 90s by saturday. the thunderstorms you see on sunday, that could be the remnants of isaac. it would be the remnants. we would not be dealing with a tropical storm or hurricane here. we could see some showers and thunderstorms. there could be plenty of moisture available depending on the exact track of what is left over of isaac over the next couple of days. >> thank you, tucker. there are four of us here now so you know what that means. >> it is time for ask tony and tucker. i'm still not used to the name. this is the segment where tucker barnes and i put our big heads together to answer your questions, weather-related or otherwise. today's question is a timely one. it comes from karen smith in waldorf, maryland. she writes in part, why during events such as hurricane isaac when all the governors, mayors are telling everyone to get out of town ahead of a major storm do all the news services rush in to cover the story? it just seems to go against all the safety issues the very news people issue. >> we get this question a lot. >> it's great question. happy to take some time to answer answer it. i think i started doing the weather in 1992, 1993, something like that. over the years, particularly when i was at abc and good morning america, that is one of the hall mashs of those network morning shows. they accepted you to the location. so i covered some 20 hurricanes during my time there including katrina and the like. you would think it goes against the grain and i cannot tell you how many times my producer and i, very good friend, gary type, we would be in our suv with our equipment and what have you and a satellite truck in front. us and maybe one other truck behind us, literally the only vehicle on a rod way going into a town. >> kind of eerie. >> it was very eerie and strange. the other side of the highway would be jam packed with people leaving. i think every time we did it, i said at some point what are we doing? >> exactly. >> the bottom line is this. governments, the first responder, all that, know that we have a job to do and actually, they kind of welcome it because the media is helping to get the word out about what is going on, how dangerous it is. all of the media, unless you are crazy, all of media take all the utmost precautions to be as safe as possible in those situations and usually, in a case of something like isaac, there is one or two hotels that stay open -- they don't stay completely open but they provide rooms and the like for media. have you no power or anything like that. they're not feeding you. you bring your own food. you take the necessary precautions and you do the best job you can. >> it is pretty wild. when i want to new orleans after hurricane katrina and everybody was leaving -- we have video of you. >> covering the storm a week later. there was nobody there. a lot of people left town. there was the media and the military, floodling everywhere. this woman had to be rescued from her house. it is eerie to be in an area like this. i like really young back then. it wasn't that long ago. it was pretty eerie to be in a town where all of this is going on and you're like the media, we're there. everybody else is either looking for higher ground or on their way out. >> you did this last year with irene. >> yeah. yes, i was in irene last year down at ocean city. everything you talked about, it was just amazing. but i've had a lot of people approach me in the past year and she said to me thank you for being out there because i have a summer house there. i vacation there and i wanted to know what was happening in ocean city. i wanted to know if the city was still intact. and there were only a few media outlets that were there at that hour. >> it is a job to do. >> you know what is coming and how to prepare yourself. you are in a safe position. we've seen the camera coming in and outside of a building when we've been tossing to live pictures. >> if things get really, really bad, frankly, you can't broadcast if it is really, really bad. you bring the mast down. you use a satellite truck where you don't have to put a mast up. your cameras positioned in such a way usually it is up against the wall or some place where there is some protection. you really -- it is a calculated risk. and no one wants to get hurt. i actually did in one of the storms, both my producer and i, we were on a beach and the sand blew into our eyes and we both had to go to the hospital. we had corneal abrasions. >> a lot of the forecasters down in new orleans are wearing glasses now. >> i started wearing goggles for some of those in i was in that kind of location. >> ski goggles or -- >> i don't remember what they were. >> these are live pictures that were coming to us from down in new orleans right now. that is the camera we've been noticed going inside, taking cover and coming back out. >> it is important to know that the media is posing no hardship when they are there. everyone who needs to get out gets out. the media elects to go in. it is understood you have a job to do and a story it tell. a story to tell. >> you are on your own. >> definitely. >> you take the waders and everything you need to cover yourself and proct yourself and sometime you're down there for three, four, five days at a time. >> you need to cover yourself and protect yourself. >> hurricane katrina, we had to sleeve in rv's. you are staying in the rv with other news crews. >> that's right. >> you are on your own. you just have to be cautious. >> there you go. excellent question. hats off actually to everyone who does do all that. because it is dangerous. you don't get any sleep. it is crazy. >> you live on adrenaline. >> all right. thank you very much. if you have a question you want answered, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. >> all right. let's talk with julie wright now and get the latest on traffic. it has been a busy morning for her as well. we've been dealing with an accident on 95. >> it is still in the process of being cleaned up. 9,000 gallons worth of fuel is what the tanker truck was carrying t took 45 minutes to extinguish the fire and clean- up continues at this point. the tanker truck which caught fire around 2:30 this morning left one person dead. this is the clean-up that is ongoing. northbound i-95 is where the wreck occurred. northbound i-95 to the bottom right of your screen now with all lanes open, activity still on the shoulder with big rubbernecking delays headed north leaving the prince william parkway headed out to the accident scene. if you are coming northbound, you are in a big backup well before the prince william parkway. accident activity up ahead at lorton has been moved over to the shoulder. lanes are open top stretch of the beltway. no problems between college park and bethesda. innorthbound new york yeaf, authorities just cleared accident activity from your path. -- inbound new york avenue. still ahead on fox amorning news. >> take a tour of high fashion history recrowated all in paper. holly is live at hillwood is state museum and garden showing us an incredible visit that goes above the fold. we're back in a moment. 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