gorgeous day yesterday. let s get over to gwen who is in for tucker. here is where we are at temperatures. 78degrees at dulles. on the weekend being we had temperatures into the 90s. not quite that warm and the good news is that the humidity will stay away. no complaints there. sky conditions for you. as i said, things are clearing up quite nicely with the ridge of high pressure so we can expect to see the sun sticking around through outthe course of the day. current temperatures are at 64 degrees at national. we ve got 60 at baltimore. 57degrees at dulles. as we take a look at the forecast, a very sunny day, pleasant and a warm, pleasant 80 degrees. back to you. thank you. we begin with breaking news. suspect in the 2005 disappearance of american teenager natalee holloway has confessed to killing another young woman from peru. 21-year-old stephanie flores was found dead in a lima hotel room last week. police say joran van der sloot admitted to murdering her during an i
airport. the families of both alleged terrorists apparently tipped off the fbi. an undercover new york police officer secretly recorded hours of conversations with the two suspects. the complaint alleges pretty carefully and pretty clearly that their intentions were described quite clearly to the undercover agent. reporter: according to court papers almonte said, i want the troops to come home safely and dozely in caskets. authorities say they had no known connections to terrorist groups and their preparations consisted of lifting weights, buying military-style pants, and trying paint ball. sophistication is not necessarily a measure of danger, as we ve learned in lots of other cases. reporter: both men have been under surveillance since 2006. body suspects were on a no-fly list but federal agents removed their names so they d be able to make their plane reservations. it was all part of an elaborate sting to take them into custody. linsey davis, abc news, new york.
natalee holloway, has confessed to murdering a peruvian woman. van der sloot has been in peruvian custody since late friday. police released this security video of van der sloot at his hotel showing him entering his room on the night of may 30th with 21-year-old stephany flores, five years to the day since the disappearance of natalee holloway. four hours later, van der sloot left alone. nor rez body was found two days later, her neck broken. police questioned van der sloot for days before he confessed. the lima newspaper reports that van der sloot admitted killing flores in the presence of a prosecutor and lawyer. he said, i did not want to do it. the girl intruded into my private life. a peruvian wire service reports van der sloot flores saw something about holloway on his computer. quote, she tried to escape and i took her neck and hit her. van der sloot has long been the main suspect in the holloway disappearance. she disappeared in 2005 while on a graduation trip to aru
everyone understand the hype around him. they think actually it is funny. joking bit earlier. he had to turn off his phone and not turn on tv last week. that s the only way you cannot be affected by the tension. i don t know what i would do if i were in his shoes. how many expectations, and just that s tough to do. with all you know, all the anticipation and all the people going to koumt. i think he s got the right mindset where he will try to forget about it and pitch. the magnitude of it is it is feeling that and he s trying to trying to be respectful of everybody who is saying anything to him. so i i think that you know, maybe too much can get said. i just basically wished him luck and reminded him that this is just like syracuse, you know. i think he will be fine. reporter: jim riggleman and company expect strasburg to go about six innings and in case something special going on. everybody here is just very excited to see what he s able to do. y
outside of d.c., where he will host a health care town hall meeting. the wall street journal says the president will reopen oil drilling, shallow waters but with new safety requirements in place. the continuation of a very busy week here in the nation s capital on june 8. as we continue to follow the money here in washington, we find this story. off-lead in the washington post. we will cover the peter orszag speech on all of this on tape today. we will show it to you a bit later. we want to get your thoughts on this latest proposal by the white house to cut 5% of the budget across the agencies. we will read more but here are the phone numbers first the post goes on to say that republicans have that leslie hammered obama and congressional benefits for their role driving budget deficits to record levels. they go on to put this quote from rahm emanuel water down, massachusetts. curt on the line for democrats. what do you say? 5% budget cut across the board. a new proposa