Closed because of an accident involving a tctortrailer. Well get the latest on that from julie wright coming up in just moments. Good morning to you. Im with isdom marten. Im sarah simmons. Lets check in with Tucker Barnes quickly before we get to traffic to see what the latest is on our forecast. Rain showers overnight and even a thunderstorm or two all pushing off to the north and east. Things are gradually going to improve today. Should be a nice mild afternoon. Mid70s. Get through this for the payoff. Friday is already a payoff. There is your radar. There you go, showers, even a thunderstorm or two pushing north and east. Weve got a leftover shower. We have the fog and a little mist in a few spots as well. So things will gradually improve but i think as far as measurable rain, we are generally done with that here for your morning. Temperatures are warm. 64 at reagan national. 06 out at dulles. High temperatures later today back into the 70s. 60 out at dulles. Even a little sunshine starting by the noon hour. Things will get better. Ill have the details on the ust a minute. Time now to say hello to julie wright. She is business yankee monitoring what is happening on the roads this morning with that Traffic Accident. This has been going on since before 4 30 this morning. The inner loop now closed before you reach 355. Heads up coming off the inner loop of the beltway. Im going to tell you right now the better bet is to go north on 270 or take Montrose Road over to 355. You do not want to commit to the inner loop of the beltway. We are told that this will be with us, quote, for a while. This is also a few spill involved with the crash. The inner loop remains blocked at 355 until further notice. The big delay at the Decision Point to go north on 207 or go east on the beltway. On 270 or go east on the beltway. Instead of continuing around that big curve after the exit for 270, just ride it north and come back on 355. We do have accident activity northbound on the George Washington parkway approaching the memorial bridge. This is what is tying up the left lane. You are nate backup leaving the roosevelt bridge as you continue northbound headed out towards the beltway. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontimetraffic. Timetraffic. In this mornings top stories, a man is under arrest after police say he threw a bottle with a lit fuse on the floor of the ballston common mall food court. It happened during the lunch rush yesterday. It never exploded and there were no injuries. The suspect was arrested a short time later. What you are looking at is cell phone video of the arrest. It is right there ever t arrest. The mall reopened yesterday evening. It looks like both the dream act and samesex marriage are on the way to becoming a law in maryland. A Washington Post poll finds that 59 of likely voter in the state backed dream act which would allow undocumented immigrants to pay instate tuition rates. 35 oppose. 52 favor question six which would uphold marylands same sex marriage law. 4 are opposed. Of course, stay tuned to fox 5. 45 are opposed. A gallup poll released this week shows republican nominee mitt romney leading president obama among likely voters. President obama will be back in the battleground state of virginia today with a Campaign Stop at George Mason University in fairfax. Romney will be in florida tonight attending a rally with running mate paul ryan. Now to local politics and a blow to the campaigns of two d. C. Council members hoping for reelection. In an editorial today, the Washington Post says neither Michael Brown nor Vincent Orange deserve another term as atlarge counsel kill members. The post endorsed ins david grasso and leon swain, jr. A sad day for the Prince Georges CountyPolice Department as they mourn the loss of another fallen officer. Officer kevin bowden was killed yesterday when his patrol car collided with an suv and slammed into a utility pole. Fox 5s sherry ly is live at Police Headquarters with the latest on the investigation. Sherry . Reporter well, wisdom, police say that officer kevin bowden was off duty when this accident happened. Witnesses say the collision may have been caused by an suv that was swerving to avoid a tour bus when this collision happened. Bowden got off work at 1 00 yesterday afternoon. And within hours, he was dead. His cruise are was headed northbound on branch avenue when he collided with that suv and crashed into a utility pole nearly slicing his vehicle in half. Investigators do say it is early but it appears the suv may have changed lanes to miss that tour bus and then slammed into the officers cruiser. This is the second death that weve had in two months in reference to Traffic Accident and i would just ask that the community please keep or everyone please keep the Police Department and this community in your prayers. Reporter the driver of that suv was also hurt but is expected to survive. Officers from all over the state rushed to the hospital to comfort one another. This is the second officer from Prince Georges County killed in less than two months. 2yearold bowden is survived by two children, his 10year old son and a 4yearold daughter. That is the latest here at palmer park. Back to you. Thank you. Last night, the president ial candidates got the chance to take a break from the serious issue and prove they can be seriously funny. Well have more on that coming up. Also ahead, the family of the man accused of splotting to attack a high profile target in new york city comes to his defense as chilling new details about his alleged plot are released. The family of the man accused of plotting to attack a high profile target in new york city comes to his defense as chilling new details about his allege plot are released. Ty min dollars at casinos in other states. Question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland his alleged plot are released. For our schools. As governor, i can promise you, that money will go to education. Thats the law and thats what well do. Vote for question seven. Asoned. Vote for question seven. And marinated with our own special recipes. Smithfield marinated pork. Dinner that serves you. And balanced the budget every year. And tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. Mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. We were a great team in richmond and well be a great team in washington. Im tim kaine and i approve this message. Because well Work Together to restore fiscal responsibility, grow our economy and create jobs. [ male announcer ] tim kaine. Bringing people together to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. We are learning more this morning bath man accused of plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve in new york. Authorities say the suspect considered targeting president obama first. The revelation comes as family members of the suspect insis on his innocence. They say quazi nafis only came to the United States to study business in college. Also making headlines, decades worth of files outlining accusations of sexual abuse in the boy scouts. Officially, they were culled the ineligible volunteer files but were also known as the perversion files. The records were released yesterday under the order of the organize supreme court. They date from 1959 through 1985. In a astatement, the boy scouts of america says in certain cases, its response to the allegations was plainly insufficient, inappropriate or wrong. It goes on to say the organization is now a leader in preventing child abuse. Making headlines here at home, the trial of two fridge county Police Officers accused of assaulting a university of maryland student is expected to wrap up today. Yesterday, officer James Harrison took the stand in his own defense. He said he lied to internal affairs because of financial reasons. He testified he was afraid of losing his job. Find out why some parent are pushing for their children to to sleep in a little longer. Last night, president obama and mitt romney got a chance to show off their funny side. Fox 5 morning news is back. Must a moment. Is back in just a moment. Take away his toys and hell play with a stick. Take away their bikes and theyll still find a way to get where theyre going. But if take you away Early Childhood education. Slash k12 funding. And cut college aid for middle class families. They wont go far. Yet thats exactly what mitt romney wants to do. To pay for a 250,000 tax break for multimillionaires. If mitt romney wins, the middle class loses. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Marywe invest in them. Umber one in america because but we can do even more. Every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty Million Dollars at casinos in other states. Question 7 keeps that maryland money in maryland through expansion of gaming in maryland. It will mean hundreds of millions of dollars for our schools. As governor, i can promise you, that money will go to education. Thats the law and thats what well do. Vote for question seven. President obama and republican president ial nominee mitt romney traded jokes at a catholic fundraiser last newt no needy children in new york city. The Alfred E Smith din are is a tradition that lets politicians take some time to relax in the busy campaign schedule. This is the third time that governor romney and i have met recently. As some of you may have note id, he i had a lot more energy in our second debate. I felt really well rested after the nice long nap i had in the news 13 debate. 3 debate. As president obama surveys the waldorf banquet room with everyone in white tie and finery, you have to wonder what he is thinking. So the time, so much to redistribute. Stribute. The final debate before election day is monday night. The focus will be on foreign policy. There were some zingers in there. They should do that inthe next debate. Just wisdom mart ims take. I hear what youre saying. Everybody is going to watch it anyway. Everybody will be looking. Yes. Im going to do weather. Rain showers moving through overnight. Generally thins are winding down so well see some sunshine by later this afternoon with temperatures in the mid70s. So nice mild afternoon to kick off our weekend. The weekend looks good too. You running today . Im going to try. I think im going for a little bike ride today. You inspired me. You and sarah with this workout regime. You are guys are inspiring me. Were doing the best we can. Going to eat some honey buns first. Maybe some pancakes today. Radar, showers moving across the area. These are very light and this is the left overs. We are generally winding things down. Thins gradually improving. That is good news. Cold front coming through. That is what brought us the rain showers during the evening hours last newt and continue early this morning. With you see we dont have a whole lot left. Just that last the batch. Lower eastern shore, you may not be done yet. Big picture, look at the big spin out to our west and big upper level low. This is what is going to be impacting us this weekend with some cooler air. I think generally well see sunshine saturday and sunday. Well see partly cloudy conditions tomorrow and a lot of sunshine sunday but we should generally be dry here this weekend ads this cooler pool of air works in. 70s today. Well cool off tonight and high temperatures by nome, well top out in the mid60s. We are in the mid60s. 64 at rug and national. 62348 appear appear list. 55 in frederick and hagerstown. Open it up for you a little bit. Cooler air off to the north and west not too far away. That cooler air will start to work in here tomorrow. We have a lot of Outdoor Activities going on. Early clouds, a little sun this afternoon. A mild afternoon, generally done with the rain. That is good news. Winds here out of the south at five to 10. 52 overnight and lots of 40s tomorrow morning if you are outside the beltway. There is your accuweather sevenday forecast. Weekend looks great. 66 tomorrow, a little on the cool side. Near 70 on sunday and a warming trend early next week will push temperatures back in the mid 70s with lots of sunshine. Next week looks fantastic with temperatures in the mid70s. Lets do some traffic and get the latest from julie wright. We hit the ground running and on wet pavement in w. An accident and a fuel spill involved, it has been quite the mess here if you are traveling in Montgomery County. Inner hoop of beltway closed before you reach 355. This is due to a jackknifed tractortrailer. There is fuel to clean up. There is a tractortrailer to straighten out and until all that happens, the roadway remains closed here on the inner loop of the beltway. So again, the inner loop commute stacking up now as you work your way off the inner loop from before the northbound 270 spur continuing up to the Decision Point. Do you go northbound out to democracy boulevard or continue around towards 355 . If you come northbound on 270, you can come off at democracy boulevard over to old george. If you wouldnt onto 35 , which im not suggesting you do any longer, old georgetown road over to 355 an option for you. If you are 66 eastbound, that could work well for you as long as you are hov come pat yibility. I dont think you want for commit to the inner loop of the beltway out towards silver spring. For our friends coming southbound out of gaithersburg and rockville, you will merge on to the beltway scene after that crash. That will not affect your comuthbound. But on the inner loop coming across the American Legion bridge, a couple of things that you need to think about. Decision points there at 270 as to how to work your way around this scene. Traveling northbound on the George Washington parkway, the accident occurred before the memorial bridge. You will fine the left lane is still blocked. Delays beginning back near the roosevelt bridge. Some local parents say their kids need more sleep. There is an effort under way in Montgomery County to push High School Start times later in the morning after 8 15 p. M. One of the parents talked with us yesterday and she says Research Proves teens have different sleep patterns. Mel top inis the hormone that is secreted among other hormones ma makes you sleepy. In teen, it is secreted two hours later so they dont get sleepy until about 11 00. Ut 11 the board has voted against the issue in the past because it would impact bus schedules and afterschool activities. The ladies are talking about what they want for christmas and getting it right may be easier than you think. Tucker and i have our pens and papers ready. We are back in just a moment. President obama im barack obama and i approve. This message. Anncr victims. Dependent. Thats what mitt romney called fortyseven percent. Of americans. Including people on medicare. But what about his plan for you . Romney would replace guaranteed benefits with a voucher system. Seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. A plan aarp says would undermine medicare. Youre no victim. You earned your benefits. Dont let mitt romney take them away. Welcome back, guys. We have some good news for you. Fining the right gift for your lady this christmas wont take as much work. More on that in a minute. Lets take a look at the market. Lauren simonetti is live in new york with the business beat. Good morning. Good morning. Lets hope no one sends the markets reeling like google did yesterday. How are we look something. What a mess what a mess a mistake caused their Earnings Report which as with a disapointing report to be released three hours early. So that just took the tech sector by surprise. The nasdaq lost a full percent. Google shares lost 8 and that was good because they were down way more than that at one point. For the week, we are in good shape. We are up for the week and were flat to slightly lower here in the premarket this friday morning. Lets lets talk about the next story. It sounds like the women will be easy to buy for. Ill interpret this. Gift cards are impersonal. You cant really say you want your special someone to give you a gift card. My husband wont allow it. He says there is like no way im giving you a gift card. 34 of women say they want a gift card to a retail store. We want the gift cards because were scared of what the real gift could be. That is so true. I am with you. You and i see eye on eye on that. Im okay with the gift card. Let me do the work myself. When in doubt, jewelry always works. It doesnt have to be super expensive jewelry. No. Although if is, thats fine too. Thank you, lauren. Were out of time. They won last two rounds. Now the redskins get the chan to prove themselves against the giants once again. We are talking live with the sports junkies on 106. 7 the fan. With just over two weeks left until election day, a new poll reveals what voters are thinking about the issue of samesex marriage. Fox 5 morning news is back in a moment. as governor, i cut five billion dollars in spending and balanced the budget every year. And tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. Mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. We were a great team in richmond and well be a great team in washington. Im tim kaine and i approve this message. Because well Work Together to restore fiscal responsibility, grow our economy and create jobs. [ male announcer ] tim kaine. Bringing people together to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. The big breaking story affecting the morning commute all morning long. All lanes of the inner loop are closed before route 355. This is due to a jackknifed tractortrailer that has also leaked fuel out in that area. You can imagine the misthere. Added to that, a second tractor trailer involved in an accident about 100 yards behind the first problem spot. It is also leaking fuel. This is not going to be pretty this morning, folks. Authorities tell us neither truck can be moved until all the fuel is offloaded. We are going to get more on this coming up in just a moment. Please stay away from that area if you can. What a mess. That is not fun. It has been a while since weve had something that bad over there. Already been going on for a couple of hours. Yes. At least the weather will cooperate. I know we have some leftover rain showers at the moment but things will gradually improve today. Generally quiet with the exception of our friends just to the south. Weve had some rain redevelop in the past 45 minutes or so just south of washington down towards fredericksburg. That is pushing off to the north and east. So la plata, waldorf, chesapeake beach, parts of southern Prince Georges County and anne arundel county. You might get one last little batch of rain here as this pushes off to the north and east. The trend will be to get rid of the rain showers and eventually get rid of the cloud cover. I think by afternoon, we should be partly sunny and mild with temperatures expected to top out in the mid70s. Currently, it is nice and warm out there. Kids headed to the bus stop, it will be a warm day today. 64 at reagan national. 59 at dulles. 64 at b wait a minute marshall. Highs will top out in the low to mid70s for most of us. Well go 74 here in washington. 73 in quantico. A little cooler north and west. 66 in winchester. Mild conditions with afternoon sun. It is traffic time. Ic time. Second crash of the morning occurred back in the 4 00 hour shortly before we went on air this morning at 4 25. That is where we had the second accident involving a jackknifed tractortrailer. There are two tractortrailers out here on the beltway. If you are traveling northbound off the beltway inner loop coming out of vince leaving the American Legion bridge and headed past river road, your better bet is to stick northbound on 207. Can you take 207 up to Montrose Road over to 355. You can use 370 democracy boulevard as an option to get over to 355. You did not want to commit to the inner loop of the beltway after that Decision Point. It is bumpertobumper traffic out here on the roads at this point. That is what were seeing right now. Inner loop is slowing at the exit for the northbound 207 spur or to continue around towards 355. I know its the bit out of the wait but at least it is moving to go northbound on the spur and use those options of democracy boulevard or Montrose Road as your workaround. Authorities tell me inner loop traffic is being diverted off at old georgetown road. The roadway will be blocked until further notice. No one is getting by on the inner look loop headed over towards rockville. Southbound 270, you will merge on to the inner loop past the accident scene. This will not affect you. Northbound on the gw park way in virginia, accident activity occurred before the memorial bridge. You are in a tieup leaving the memorial bridge. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontime traffic. It looks like potential voters in maryland could be leaning towards approval for both the dream act and samesex marriage. A Washington Post poll finds that 59 of likely voter in the state backed the dream act which would allow undocumented immigrants to pay instate tuition rates. 35 opposed it. 52 favor question six which would uphold marylands same sex marriage law. 43 oppose. Stay tuned. Bob mccarty will join us live at 9 00 a. M. To talk more about the hot button issues there for the state. If the race for the white house, a new gallup poll out this week shows republican nominee mitt romney in the lead among likely voters with 52 to president obamas 45 . Battleground states remain the focus for both candidates and president obama will be back in virginia today at George Mason University in fairfax. Romney will be in florida. In the u. S. Senate race in virginia, candidates george alhelp and tim kaine have met in their final debate now. It was held last night at virginia tech. Kaine criticized allen for having what he says is a no compromise stance on taxes. Allen said kaine is using potential military spending cuts as an excuse to raise taxes. Both candidates will appear on fox 5 morning news before the election. George allen is scheduled to be with us next wednesday and tim kaine is set to be here on october 30th. R 30th. Time now for the morning line. The redskins take on the giants this sunday. Both of last years matchups ended with a win for the burgundy and gold. We are talking more about that right now and i little bit of baseball now with the sports yompies from 106. 7 the fan. Good morning, fellows. How you doing . Whats happen something. Hello, wisdom. We got the giants last year. Smoked the giants. Well, we beat the giants two times and giant won the super bowl. We beat them with rex dproas man last year so surely, with rg iii, that is all im going to say. I dont know if you can take that step. Just because the redskin won two matchups with the giant last year and we have much improved quarterback play, you cant automatically assume the redskins will go in and get a big win arc Big Division Win on sunday. I think they have a chance because they are one. The highest scoring teams in the nfl butt giants are as well. They are right there. Were all with you. I think that rg iii is the most dynamic player in the game. But the problem is, and i dont have any doubt that well score some points but the giants score a lot of points too much the problem is defensively. We give up just as much as we give and the giants arent nearly as porous defensively as the redskins are. I think eli manning could have a huge day. If we win, it would have to be in a shoot out. That is the challenge. How are you going to stop eli manning . He hasnt been sacked in the last 13 quarters for the new york giants. He has been sacked only one time in the last five games. That has been a weakness of the redskin team to get for the quarterbacks. The last two home games, theyve scored 82 points. Theyve scored 41 against tampa and 41 against cleveland. So you have to score a lot of points. Yeah. Dont get so distraught. You dont have to get so emotional. Victor cruz is going to be doing the salsa. He can do that as long as we outsalsa him. The redskins have already scored four defensive touchdowns through six games. They cant keep up that pace. They are not going to score 10 or 12 defensive touchdowns on the city. If they win, the city will go into i afrenzy. They will have beaten the defending super bowl champions. Then i think you could say that the expectations have completely changed. You goy to team that now lemignot its matily is competing for a playoff spot. It is a big game. It is a huge game. We can only hope that rg iii will continue this roll against the giants and we will get this win and everybody will be in aen fromy especially what happens with the nats and all our hopes were dashed. We want to keep it positive on a friday and leave it with go redskins. We hope they he going to beat the giants, right . We certainly hope so. We hope theyre going to beat the giant, right . We certainly hope so. Good to see you. You talk about dancing . Did i hear something about salsa. When victor crews for the giants, he scores a touchdown, he starts the salsa. That is all i heard was you salsa. Wait until we get to commercial. Coming up next, a look at whats new at the movies. Tyler perry, he shows his serious side on the big screen in the new thriller alex cross. Morgan freeman has brought the role to life twice. So did perry measure up to freeman . [ female announcer ] as youre making your decision. Maybe youre wondering what to believe about mitt romney. Well, when it comes to protecting your access to birth control. And the basic Womens HealthCare Services planned parenthood provides. One thing we must remember, is this ill cut off funding to planned parenthood. [ female announcer ] hell cut it off. Cut us off. Planned parenthood. Were going to get rid of that. [ female announcer ] women need to know the real mitt romney. [ obama ] im barack obama and i approve this message. Sitting straight up. My water bottle. It is really all right. Nothing is going to collapse if we see your water bottle. Kevin mccarthy is here with 106. 7 the fan. Weve got some big movies coming out. Alex cross an paranormal activity 4. That didnt screen to critic. We have a rare review for that this morning. Start with alex cross. This is with tyler perry in t i do have to say off the top, i have to say i dont know how believable he is. He dresses up as a woman and now he is alec cross. That is a big question. He is not the problem with the movie. There are a difficult onother problems. This part was played back in the day by morgan freeman. They based on the james patter ton books. You can consider this a prequel. But it is present day so it doesnt fit the linear aspect. Here is the deal. The problem with the film is the Product Placement. The story line is alex cross is a detective in detroit, a serial killer played by matthew fox from lost is on the loose and him and his team are trying to track down the serial killer. The serial killer makes it very personal by harming someone in alec cross family so it backs this family of moral versus what to do with the law. And here is the thing. The movie is so cliche. You have aseen movies like this before where people are driven by a revenge. But that is not the problem. Tyler perry does a fine job leading the film. The Product Placement bothered me so much it was that bad . This is literally a scene where tile are perry goes to a house with edward burns and the person who lives there says are you hungry . Tyler perry says no, we weapt to mcdonalds. Im in the kidding you. There is a scene that is literally five minutes in a huge onstore cadillac commercial. Guys, go to onstore. Fine where the car is. Are you on onstar . That is where the car is. That took me out of the movie completely. That might be a little bit persnickety. Tyler perry did fine. That Product Placement bothered me so much. If you build the scene around the product, you are take ago way from the art form. If you want to see it in theaters, catch a matinee. If not, wait for the rental. Rent kiss the girls. That was better. We are talking about paranormal activity. The first knee made 536 mull ontotal worldwide. This one is clearly in my opinion a cash grab. They keep making these films over appear over because they know they will make over 50 million opening weekend. This particular movie, didnt sleep right after the first one for three weeks. As the budget have gotten bigger. The first one cost 15,000. Now, they are getting into the millions and the creativity has dropped. Paranormal activity 4 is a sequel to paranormal activity 2 Kent Shocknek a sequel prequel which is followed up by three okay. It is so confusing. What do you get out of the movie . Its new house, new family. You will see some original characters come back. I dont want to give anything away. The scares in my opinion are not there. The flow and rhythm of the movie doesnt fit the first one. Its lot of jump scares, a lot of cheap edit scares. So my opinion, some of the crowd will scream. I didnt find it that scary. I gave day two and a half out of five. I jumped maybe twice. Coming up in the next couple of weeks, we have interviews exclusively with the cast of sky fall as well as the sexes. Stay tuned here on fox 5 and you can follow me on twitter at bdk reviews. Go see looper. Or see paranormal activity, the first one. Back to you guys. Society first one is a prequel to the second how is the weather, tucker . Weve got the showers winding down. Got some showers just south of the city. Well start with that. But the trend here is to dry things out over the next several hours. Showers still falling just south and west of washington. Getting into oldtown alexandria. Getting further south, some thunderstorm activity crossing the potomac into maryland. This is going to kind of push across Prince Georges County, calvert county, perhaps ann run del county as it is moving through. You might hear a couple of rumbles of thunder. Just saw some locally heavy rain. Most of the shower activity is to north and east of us. There is that last little batch of moisture. I think by late this morning, well see some breaks in the clouds and a decent amount of sun this afternoon. Kind of partly to mostly sunny here by late afternoon. Look at that huge swirl out there in the atmosphere out to our west. And that will be a big player in our weekend weather. More on that in just a second. 64 in washington. Nice mild start to your day. Dont need more than a very light jack tote start your day. 64 in leonardtown. Open it up for you. There is your cooler air. Well be nice and mild and the cooler air will start to filter in later this evening. Early clouds, afternoon sun a mile afternoon for this time of year. 74degrees. Got some morning rain showers. Well get rid of those. This is your accuweather seven day forecast. Cooler air gets in here tonight, sets us up for a decent weekend. There will be clouds from time to time nome but with temperatures in the mid60s, not a bad looking weekend. And the forecast for the rest of the weekend featuring temperatures in the upper 60s and 70s. Where is your mic . You once again forgot to put it on. It fell off me. Im ready. There we go. Just took 10 seconds of time. Yeah, you did. I couldnt figure out what was happening to my voice. Im like where im going . I want to go see alec cross or whatever that movie is called. Just because of the Product Placement. It is so crazy. That is bizarre. For todays im sorry. Im a little bit their stay. I need some cocacola because it refreshes me and make my throat much better and it wake me up. Im a little hungry because if you are hungry minister morning. You have grandmas. Oh, mini sandwich creams. Just in case air hungry. We got those in. Carry on. Just in case youre hungry. It is time for ask tony and tucker, the segment where Tucker Barnes and i put our big Heads Together to answer your most pressing questions weather related or otherwise. Todays question is from doris starling in silver spring. She writes, why cant we sing the traditional happy birthday song at public gathering anymore. If we did sing it, what would happen . Will we ever be able it sing it at public gathering again . You know what she is talking about . I have no idea j usually now when you go to a restaurant, for example, and someone is celebrating a birthday, all the wait staff comes over and they sing that you are own madeup birthday song. That is because they dont want to pay the copyright fees that they would have to pay for singing happy birthday to you, et cetera. Believe it or not, that song is under copyright. I had no idea. Doesnt that seem crazy . Yes, it does. Selfish. Here is the deal. It was written by two sisters, mildred hill and Patty Smith Hill in the 1800s. Lets see. In the late 1800s. The song was originally called good morning to all. It was teachs are would sing it to their children. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning dear children. Good morning to you. They sang that to you . Yes. Wisdom has been around for a while. The late 1800s. That song god changed around to the kids singing it to the teachers, good morning to you dear teacher. It got changed at the send. They wrote that melody and those words. Somewhere, someone changed the words or added the words happy birthday to you. It is not really known who adds those words. The officers wrote the melody. Those words were added and the first time it was ever published as happy birthday was in 1924 the lyrics first and in a song book. Are you roding this for the first time. No, but it is a lot of stuff to get through. Are you reading this for the first time . It is the most popular song in the english language which i did not know. And want to quiz the asmg anchors real quick. What is the most famous version i mean the most famous performance of it. Marilyn monroe . Yeah. And want to quiz the anchors real quick. It can be sung in public, sung anywhere. Coppy right fees have to be paid. Im going to sing happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear whoever, happy birthday to you. We can do that because most stayings pay copyright fees yearly or monthly. Lets hope we did. You would think the copyright would have expired. It did not because a couple of time when copyright he can ten laws havent enacted it wont expire until 2030. Popular misconception that Paul Mccartney owns the copyright. He does not. That was a lot. I sure do need some coca cola. If youve got a question you want answered, go to myfoxdc. Com and click on the weather tab. I need to quench my thirties. Yes. Lets check in with julie wright. Take it away. I know youre busy out there. We have a lot happening out here on the roads right now especially for those traveling thenar loop of the the beltway which is still shut down here at 355. Two separate incidents here involving tractortrailers. One was jackknifed and leaking fuel. Inner loop delays before you reach 207. Go northbound on 270, pick up democracy boulevard over to old georgetown road or even Montrose Road headed to 355 as a workaround. Inner loop of the beltway stalled well before the exit for northbound 270 headed up towards this accident scene. Again, for folks coming out of virginia, can you use 66 as an option if you are hov compatible. Compatible. Northbound i59, you are now tied up out of newington headed up towards the capital beltway. Thats a check of your fox 5 ontimetraffic. Timetraffic. Still ahead on fox 5 morning news, everybody dance now. Holly is live this morning with more on a festival that show canadians some of d. C. s best performers. I wish i could do that. That showcases some of d. C. s best performers. I wish i could do that. Ies. That ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would. Help big corporations, devastating the middle class. Allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. Virginia cant afford to go back to george allen. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Is responsible for the content of this advertising. [ sally umlaut ] what . The five stages of muller. Ah yes. 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Happy friday. Yes. Well see you in an hour. Ill be back. Thanks, wisdom. Coming up, traffic nightmare to end the work week. All lanes of the inner loop closed. Its been that way for hours and theres no telling at this point when things will get better. Well check in with julie wright for an update. Plus, mourning the loss of a local hero. The second time this year, a Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer dies in a traffic crash. Well have a live report coming up. A huge file dating back to the 50s may have the boy scouts in hot