are seeing a huge uptick in the amount of credit card skimmers abdomen the state. this bundle of cables and wires may not look like much to the untrained eye, but these are being used to steal your money when you fill up at the pump. crooks are very ingenious they make modern technology and make it work for their benefit. he s the director of the department of agricultural, which services division. so far this year, the department has found 40 credit card skimmers all over the state. just this month, they found 12. to put this problem into perspective, killian says they only found a total of 11 skimmers in all of last year. . our biggest challenge is just trying to stay ahead of the crooks, and it s very difficult because they change technology as fast as we figure out what they re doing. technology has made it almost has a skimmer installed. killian says the best way to protect yourself, start asking questions. wherever you fill up for gas, you should go into the s
offense to a 40-32 win against the saints at home in the superdome. it was great. it really was. we ll talk more about that coming up throughout the show. i m so glad they won because you would not have been happy today. i m a big fan but i have to admit like many i thought they would lose. i wouldn t have been stunned. but this is fantastic! yay! also fantastic weather we are having as tony perkins said. just very comfortable out there. gwen has the latest in for tucker this morning. good morning. you re absolutely right. it is really going to be a spectacular day today. and we have a refreshing start to the day. some people are calling it chilly, some cold. i m referring to it as refreshing. let s take a look at our fox 5 accuweather satellite-radar composite. not much happening here. there could be a little fog over the mountains, but other than that we are dominated by a nice ridge of high pressure and that s helping to keep our skies clear so we don t have
that moving its way to the east and a popup shower or so here and there. we re not talking a total washout here, but we are talking a chance of seeing some of the isolated showers in some of other our neighborhoods into the course of the morning hours and maybe this evening. so just be aware. as we go to the weather maps, let s take a look at the temperatures, a very warm start to your day. 77 at reagan national airport, 75 at bwi thoroughgood marshall. we have 74 at fredricksburg and 74 degrees at fredrick. so for today we are talking a high of 90 degrees. it ll be hot, it ll be sticky, muggy, and definitely we ll see some sun with a few clouds. humid? yes, definitely. by midday we ll be about 88 degrees. and as we take a look ahead as far as the weekend is concerned, expect to see some weekend showers and maybe even some storms. i ll have those details for you a little bit later with your full forecast. let s check in now with traffic, see hoour commuters are doing, here s
new this morning, the search for a missing man in northern virginia. take a look at the picture on your screen, 71-year-old david short of alexandria missing since 9:00 a.m. yesterday when he was reportly going to virginia hospital center in arlington. short is believed to be driving a 2006 silver-green honda crv, with virginia tags kbk-6001. he may be in the gainesville area of prince william county looking for a relative. a fallen navy seal from anne arundel county will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery today. patrick feeks was killed in afghanistan august 16th when his helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents. monday his body was returned to his hometown of edgewater while fellow county residents stood along the road waving american flags. today s funeral will be held at the fort myer memorial chapel next to arlington national cemetery at 12:45:00 p.m. the democrats will roll out another who s who of speakers at the democratic national conve