approaching route 50, that's where we have an accident taking away a couple right lanes right now. as we move over to the outer loop, gallows, more crash activity, traffic is getting by. in potomac, falls road, notice nobody is on it because the road is closed between montrose and tuckerman lane. meanwhile on the outer loop we're moving at speed, no major incidents to report out here making your way from 95 to georgia. finally to wrap it up, 95 and the bw parkway, nice clean and green in baltimore toward powder mill. thank you. the 47th anniversary of dr. martin luther king, jr.'s famous i have a dream speech is hired in controversy. conservative activists are planning their own lincoln memorial rally on september, where some followers of the dr. king say is almost sacreligious. >> we will be able to transform the discourse of our nation. >> reporter: it was 47 years ago saturday a turning point in the struggle for he quality. >> let freedom ring. >> reporter: thursday evening workers were making preparations for this saturday's rally featuring talk show host glenn beck who says freedom is slipping away. he says he was inspired by dr. king. walter fontroy helped organize the 1963 event. >> i knew dr. king and i have been pained over the years as people have used his name against the very principles that his movement espoused. and obviously this is going on here. >> beck says president obama hates white people. >> and that was a terrible thing to say and i believe if you are talking with mr. beck right now he would say that he has to learn to love president obama. >> reporter: she is martin luther king, jr.'s niece and supports beck and his evolution. >> i'm beginning to see him expand his tent to begin to accept other things and other people. >> reporter: beck supporters are excite glad we need to make a difference. we need to speak out and be americans. >> oppose big government. >> he just thinks bigger about having a budget that balances, thinking about what we're leaving for our kids. i don't have kids yet, but i sure hope that i'm not leaving them with a bunch of debt. >> reporter: but august 28th at the lincoln memorial. >> kind of bad taste in my min. >> reporter: fontroy will be taking part in a different rally with members of the traditional civil rights movement. >> they're going to respond to this hijacking of the lincoln memorial. >> perhaps the ability to dream is genetic. >> one day i'm really praying that we will sing free at last together. i pray for that. organizers of the beck rally say this is an event to restore american values like fairness. they say it's not fair to judge them on the rally before it even takes place. a possible lead contamination has a neighborhood concerned for health. it surrounds demolition work near a closed playground on 11th and monroe in northwest. city officials say it was an older building and that raised fear of lead particles in the air around the site. the d.c. department of the environment tested the playground equipment for lead. the director explains what they found. >> variable results that one of them was about a thousand micrograms per square foot, which is not a whole lot in an outdoor environment, but enough to be a concern for us. >> the city also provided a mobile unit with nurses to test residents for possible lead contamination. still no word just where the dust cloud originated from. montgomery police are hoping you can help identify the sketch of a man accused of raping an 86-year-old woman. the victim was sleeping in her room at the churchill senior living community on saturday when the man attacked her. they believe the same man attacked another woman in june. police are now offering a $1000 reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest and conviction. the family of a man shot and killed by police in d.c.'s trinidad neighborhood are filing a lawsuit against the department. 24-year-old trey joyner died last june after a u.s. park police officer shot and killed him. the officer along with four other police officers in plain clothes were patrolling the neighborhood as part of an fbi task force called safe streets. they reported receiving a call about a man with a gun when they found joyner. what happened after that is still in question. federal officials belief that massive egg recall may have been caused by contaminated chicken feed. salmonella bacteria was found in samples from both farms involved in the recall. while tests indicate the feed is the source of the outbreak, officials say it may not be the only culprit. this comes as congress opens an investigation into the recall. a house subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for next month t plans to seek testimony from the owners of both iowa egg farms at the center of the recall. a draft report from the united nations high commission for human rights says crimes committed by the ruanda army in congo can be classified as genocide. according to the bbc news, the preliminary report accuses the army and allied rebel groups of targeting refugees from 1993 to 2003. the hutu refugees fled to the congo after the genocide in ruanda in the early '90s. the report documents a decade long effort at what appears to be ethnic cleansing. rescue teams in chile released video of the 33 trapped miners. the video shows the men appear to be in relatively good spirits. they've been trapped half a mile below the surface since august 5th. rescue teams say it could take another four months to free them. at this point authorities have decided not to reveal that to the miners. former president jimmy carter is on his way back to the u.s. after securing the release of a boston man. aijalon gomes has been jailed in north korea since january, serving an eight year sentence for illegally entering korea. carter and gomes are expected to arrive in boston this afternoon. a new report on the state of the economy has some saying the recession words. and one of the nation's largest newspapers is preparing to make major cut backs. we'll be right back at 4:37, you're watching 9news now. 50 westbound from 66, the accident cleared westbound. eastbound smooth sailing to inside the beltway. more shots from roads around the region coming up. it is time for the first living smart report of the morning. jessica doyle unemployment in four weeks wasn't enough to keep the market in positive territory yesterday. today we are waiting upon a report on consumer sentiment and overall economic output. looking at the numbers, the dow standing at 9984 after dropping 74 points in trading yesterday. nasdaq down 22, s&p 500 off by over eight points. later this morning the commerce department will revise it's estimate for economic growth in the april to june period. wall street is expecting this number to be cut almost in half to 1.4% annual growth rate from 2.4%. that is a sharp slow down from the first quarter. the current quarter we're in right now isn't expected to be that much better. usa today is making the most dramatic overhaul in its staff in its 28 year history. the second largest newspaper is deemphasizing the print edition. it will ramp up efforts to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices. usa today is onlied by gannett which also owns wusa9. from 830 until 12:30 this morning, small businesses can attend two seminars, getting back on track during a recession and gsa contracting. congresswoman donna edwards is hosting the forum at the prince george's plaza community center in high hyattsville hyattsville. metro transit will soon be keeping a closer eye on the actions of its bus drivers. a computer glitch managed to shut down all the dmvs in virginia. it's 4:42. 69 degrees. here's howard. >> we're looking pretty good as we head into the weekend. i'll let you know how things will progress between now and sunday. the tropics have heated up. we'll try to get to that beach and boating forecast. 9news now will return right after this. welcome back to 9news now, a pig truly brought home the bacon at the kentucky state fair. a blue ribbon ham sold for $1.6 million. >> what? >> at the annual kentucky country ham breakfast and august, weighing just over -- huh? weighing just over 16 pounds it brought in almost $100,000 per pound. yes, that's a record. all of the money will go to local charities chosen by the winning bidders. again it sold for $1.6 million. i'm worth $15 million in that scale! >> that's got to be good ham. tissue in hand, watery eyes,. >> the weeds, pollen it's that time of season where you're getting into hay fever. the grass and tree pollen have come up a little bit because of the rains we've had. it will be dry the next week. some of that will also go down. let's talk about your forecast on this beautiful friday morning. temperatures in town are in the 60s, lots of 50s north and west. 70 around 9:00. 78 at lunchtime, a beautiful day. mostly sunny skies. 81 at 5:00 driving home or to the beach or wherever, 80 to 85 for our high. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast at the open house yesterday, we start monday in montgomery county, dry and pleasant, 58 to 72, sun coming up at 6:33. this afternoon, sunny and spectacular. 80 to 85 north winds about 5 miles an hour. top ten day of the year, put it on the calendar, this will be great. comfortably cool tonight, back in the mid 50s to mid-60s a very pleasant evening out there too. and overnight and tomorrow, a little bit warmer, but not humid. that's the key this weekend. there are the showers and thunderstorms along the front yesterday. they continue to push east. storms south of norfolk, nothing behind it. the dew points all these yellowish, tan, brown colors into the 40s and 50s with the dew points south and east. the dryer air is moving south and east making it feel so good. we talked about it at 4:30 with the temperature in bradford 42, pittsburgh, williams port 53. 75 muggy in norfolk. 68 in washington -- now we're down to 65, cooling off quickly. 60 in gaithersburg. leesburg a beautiful 61 along with college park, andrews, brandywine, 60 at bwi, columbia along with fort belvoir at 62. national 68, north winds at five and the dew point, yesterday if you were with me at noon this number was 64. it's now down to 56. that dryer air continues to move in with high pressure overall high on northerly winds, the cool dry flow is with us. it will be around here for the next couple days. no chance for rain, maybe for the next week. in the tropics we've got danielle, category 3 major hurricane. this should stay east of bermuda. earl kind of a weak looking tropical system. this thing once danielle passes has a chance according to the models to make it between bermuda and the u.s. if you go to the beach, watch out danielle will throw some swells to the east coast. rip tides may be an issue. consider that before getting in the water. speaking of the water, the beach and boating forecast, temperatures on the bay, water temperatures upper 70s to near 80, mid-80s saturday. sunday nice, sunny and near 90 degrees, no problems there with waves about a foot. going to the beach saturday, around 80 about a north, northeast wind five to ten, water temperatures in the upper 70s. sunday upper 80s, winds variable at five to 10 miles per hour. the seven-day forecast we're heating up. we have summer heat coming, but the different is it will not be too humid as we climb to 92 by sunday, 95 tuesday, 96 wednesday. the nighttime lows, slowly inch up. time for friday angie. >> heat wave, not over. >> everybody we've got a big thing to tell you about, following this since early this morning. falls road remains closed, this is between montrose and tuckerman lane. you want to avoid this area early this morning. we'll keep you posted let you know when lanes start to open up. 270 not too bad, making your way out of frederick toward the split. pretty nice and light. the same situation for those of how use inbound new york avenue through northeast trying to make your way toward the third street tunnel. a little early morning drivers, but overall no tie ups. 395 we are moving at speed toward the 14th street bridge. and we're also tracking your drive on 95 before that, looking at an hour or so, coming out of fredericksburg past quantico toward the mixing bowl. family members of the victims killed in the metro crash on the red line last summer will have to wait even longer for their day in court. a trial in the lawsuit has been pushed back to january 2012. it was scheduled for september of next year, but a u.s. district judge granted a motion to delay the trial four months. the judge also said he will hear metro's motion to dismiss portions of the suit because the agency is protected by sovereign immunity. that hearing is set for november. metro will soon install special cameras on its fleet of 1500 buses. the aim is to assess driver practice the and improve safety. many metro buses have security cameras but this new system will record video and audio inside and outside the bus, de at the time when the driver hits the gats, makes a sharp turn or gets involved in an accident. passengers on a jetblue flight landing in sacramento, california say they didn't notice anything unusual about the landing until they felt a thud. they were then told to get off the plane on emergency slides. about 15 people were injured when the flight made a hard landing. jetblue says four tires blew out and the plane appeared to have brake problems. the failure of a key computer system caused problems at several virginia agencies. at least two dozen agencies including the department of motor vehicles had to stop working after the servers at the virginia information technology agency failed. the system lets the dmv save images and process driver's license applications. >> right now i'm just frustrated. i mean, i just have to go back to work and i have to take additional time off from work and its just like makes my life a lot difficult than it needs to be. >> virginia's chief information officer says it might be monday before all functions are up and running. a spokeswoman with the dmv tells 9news the computer problems have nothing to do with other issues last week. in that case a national registry failed. the department of taxation in virginia's abc stores were also affected. and just a quick heads up about a computer alert this weekend. two of the three lanes on eastbound i-66 will be closed between nutley street and the beltway. it starts at 7:00 and lasts through monday morning at 5:00. it's part of a project to shift traffic to the new i-66 bridge over the beltway. taking a look at this morning's living well headlines, there is more evidence that breastfeeding benefits moms as well as their babies. a new study found that women who did not breast feed their children were almost twice as likely to develop type two diabetes later in life. type two diabetes is directly tide to obesity and there is some evidence that women who breast feed loss pregnancy weight quicker and lead an overall healthier lifestyle. cigarette use among children continues to drop. a government report found smoking among middle school students has dropped by more than half since 2000. smoking among high schoolers fell significantly as well. health officials say most adult smokers pick up the habit before the age of 18. weight loss surgery isn't only popular in this country, the procedure for the obese has seen a ten fold increase in england in just the last decade. the surgery is gaining popularity in all developed countries after studies showed it can significantly improve overall health and help them get rid of weight related diseases like diabetes. for more living well headlines log onto our website wusa9.com, click on the living well tab on our front page. one local county uses new technology to try and keep your children safe during their walk to school. and five years after hurricane katrina, has anything changed for the residents of the gulf coast? we'll be right back. it's 4:53. when i melt to sleep with unisom sleep melts i get to sleep faster, stay asleep and wake refreshed. melt to sleep fast. unisom sleep melts. good morning, welcome back to 9news now. montgomery county is taking steps to make students safer while they walk to and from white oak middle school. the campus sits on new hampshire avenue in silver springs and many drivers ignore the speed limit. officials announced 25 new locations for speed cameras across montgomery county including new hampshire avenue. here is county executive describing what police recorded on that section over a span of just seven days. >> more than 6000 vehicles were traveling at rates of speed of 61 miles an hour right here at this spot. >> he says traditional ways of enforcing speed limits simply haven't done the job in that area. for a complete list of where the new 25 speed camera locations are in montgomery county go to wusa9.com and click on extras. d.c. restaurants versus mobile street vendors appears to be the latest battle brewing in the district. some dupont circle restaurants say they are losing a lot of lunchtime business to those vendors. they want the vendors to face the same type of restrictions they do in hopes of keeping competition fair. >> our biggest concern right now is that new type of vending which may be a logical thing to grow into, needs to have the same public vetting that previous vending has had, and it needs to be having the same standards such as a site location. >> the department of consumer and regulatory affairs has been considering 64 pages of proposed regulations regarding the mobile vendors. it was five years ago this weekend that hurricane katrina slammed into the gulf coast. new orleans was flooded for weeks because of broken levees, but it was mississippi which took the brunt of the storm's fourry. in gulfport thousands of people are still coping with desperate living conditions. >> in my son's house -- >> reporter: life has dealt billy gill more a tough hand the last five years. >> i don't invite people to my house because i'm ashamed for the way i've had to live. >> reporter: hurricane katrina left her home under 30 feet of water. she moved into a fema trailer and later a a government cottage then hurricane gustav flooded the cottage and gillmore lived in her storage she had. at 76, she is not sure what's next. >> i'm too old to keep starting over. >> katrina damaged or destroyed more than 94,000 homes in coastal mississippi, more than 5000 storm victims still have no permanent place to live. >> everything here was gone. >> reporter: kathleen johnson came here to help mississippi's elderly and poor after katrina and never left. >> there seems to be a tendency to want to celebrate this anniversary, the truth of the matter is there is not a lot to celebrate. >> reporter: in large areas of coastal mississippi only one in eight homes has been rebuilt. the landscape is a mix of weeds, remnants of the storm and new construction. >> with sky high insurance costs, stricter building codes and a slow economy, many couldn't afford to stay. >> there is some progress. juanita steele lost her family home in katrina, she saved insurance money and for $60,000, camp victor ministries is building a new one. >> there is where i laid today. i've been here 57 years. and it's like somebody rips my heart out every time. >> reporter: juanita will be moving into her new home by the end of the year. starting today, you can see a special tribute to the people who brought hurricane katrina into your living rooms. it's an exhibit at the museum examining the media coverage of the storm and it looks into what reporters faced in telling the stories. there will be special video presentations, artifacts from new orleans, all on display at the museum until september 5th. thank you for watching 9news now, at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. angie has traffic in a moment. now howard bernstein is here with the forecast. >> angie is the trouble, i have good news. it is perfect today. the weekend will be great. if you have a roofing project to take care of, start it now because the next week looks dry. after that no guarantees. let's get moving. >> fun you were talking? >> that is fun. some folks have maintenance