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WTTG Fox 5 News At 6 July 24, 2011



the temperatures we hit with the daytime highs, 97 at national airport. 94 at dulles. 98 at baltimore and we still have the heat advisory through until 8:00 tonight for our area as well. so, this means with the heat and humidity, it will feel like 105 degrees out there. right now it feels like it's about 102 at national airport. it's 96 air temperature-wise. 93 at dulles feeling like 98 degrees. and it feels like 103 in baltimore at 97 degrees. satellite and radar composite, we dodged a bullet across the main city areas with storms that plowed to the south and east of us. we aren't quite out of the clear. we could see a pop up thunderstorm before it's said and done. storms, possibly warm and muggy at 78 degrees. a light northerly wind. finally a bit of a dip ahead in the temperatures and i will have the details later. >> we will take any improvement we can get. finally a dip ahead. i will dream about that line tonight, thanks. dealing with relentless heat is one thing. waking up in the middle of a fire is unreal. that is what happened at a dc apartment building on investigate avenue that sent several people to the hospital. karen gray houston has more now. >> reporter: residents of 3654 investigate are now dealing with the aftermath. >> a knock on my door. got me and my granddaughter down the steps. >> reporter: maddie's father daughters came by to make sure she is okay. >> he mistakenly turned on the bar near instead of the oven -- burner instead of the oven. >> reporter: two people suffered smoke inhalation. >> i smelled all this smoke. then it got in my apartment. i got my cat and ran out barefoot in my bath robe. >> reporter: the heat wave is taking its toll on the georgetown waterfront. business would normally be bruce willing with sunday brunch customers. some of these restaurants have barely recovered from recent flooding: back in april, water levels rose high enough to float furniture and shut down restaurants. so they have been serving customers on terraces outside since. only a few diehard customers showed up at tony and joe's this sunday in the heat. >> a friend of mine has a boat and brings it down. one way to beat the heat, stay in the water all day. >> hiding in the air- conditioning. private igloos. >> reporter: also not afraid of the heat, a former dallas cowboys stand out chris warren. >> i wasn't here for the flooding but to see all these places closed, not what you want to see. there are better things on the horizon. >> reporter: one of the owners of tony and joe's knicks grill are rebuilding and expect to move back in by next march. karen gray houston, fox 5 news. the energy saving program kicked into emergency mode friday. the company says for six hours the system cycled power on and off reducing energy demand by about 60 omega watts. some people that participate in the savings plan say they didn't have air-conditioning for as long as ten hours that day. it meant 90-degree temperatures inside some of their homes. a spokesperson for the maryland public service commission says it doesn't appear that pg&e did anything wrong. when you are trying to beat the heat, we have what you need to know. go to myfoxdc.com and click on weather for the latest information including what the heat is doing tour commute and your electric bill. at this hour no deal over the debt ceiling fight. no proposal made public. amid the talk, is there hope of action? mike emmanuel reports. >> reporter: a very fluid situation as talks continue between the white house and key congressional leaders. there is pressure building as there is concern how the global markets will open at the start of the week. bill daly let out the par ram managers. >> it must get through 2013 and not a short term gimmick where we are back in this fix in six or eight months and the world says, once again in the middle of a election year the world looks at us and says these people can't get their acted together. >> some of the frustration is the fact that president obama and congressional leaders have been talking about the debt issue for months and the august 2nd deadline is getting dangerously close. tim geithner expressed a sense of urgency of this moment. >> here we are seven months later. we are running out of runway. we are almost to the edge. i never thought they would take it this close to the edge and let politics get in the way of demonstrating that we will pay our bills on time. >> reporter: the wild card is if before august 2 the financial markets lose faith in washington get this done then there may be a real economic impact. mike emmanuel, fox news. democratic majority leader harry reid is working on a $2.4 trillion debt increase that would last until 2013. house speaker john boehner is working on his own one trillion dollar increase and slightly more federal spending cuts over the shorter term. stay tuned for this one. fopping developing in new york, weddings a -- developing in new york, weddings all over the state. gay marriage is legal there. same sex couples started lining up outside the borough hall in brooklyn overnight for the first chance to exchange vows at the stroke of midnight. the borough president getting in the spirit of things offering free champagne, cake and photos to celebrate. >> we wanted to give a gift back and have attention brought to western new york so that people understand, come to new york and get married because everything here is beautiful and affordable and you will be so in love here. we are. >> we are. >> reporter: new york is the sixth state in addition to dc to legalize garr marriage. a loudoun county man says he was beaten when two other men showed up at his door yesterday. the 21-year-old said he thought it was a friend knocking yesterday morning on hidden grove court. when he opened the door, he was attacked. the men rifled through the house. loudoun county sheriff is gathering evidence and leads in the case. a fairfax county psychiatrist killed in an apparent murder-suicide served as a mentor to other therapists. dr. mark lawyer wednesday republicans was semi -- lawrence was semi-retired but he was still seeing other patients including barbara new man. investigators say she is the one that shot him to death friday afternoon then shot herself. a friend of lawrence told "the washington post" the doctor was concerned about newman but he did not believe she was a threat. the suspect in the norwegian terror attacks has confessed to the bombings and shootings. police raid add home in oslo searching for more answers to the devastating terror attacks. they were looking for explosives but they did not find any. the lawyer for anders breivik said he was wanted as the triggerman in an antimuslim revolution in norway. he published a rant vowing revenge on those that he believed betrayed norwegian heritage. it is about 1500 pages long. police have transported victims of the shooting back to the mainland. the youth labor party camp is on an island. at least 86 people died when police say breivik opened fire monday. the head of surgery at the hospital in oslo said the gunman used special bullets designed to explode inside the body. one survivor spoke about how a 10-year old boy stood up to the gunman even though his father had just been killed. >> the boy defended himself and said leave us alone. go away. we have had enough now. i'm too young to die. he was so strong in the words he said and he was so brave. it was amazing. no one had the guts to go after this man. >> the royal crown prince and princess visited some of the survivors in the hospital today. the death of amy winehouse has the world talking to night. coming up on the 6:00, the latest on the investigation into how she died and how hundreds are remembering her. d.c. will be the epicenter of the nfl world tomorrow as meetings could produce a vote that could end the four-month long lockout.  there is no word yet on what killed singer amy winehouse. tonight music fans are coming to terms with her sudden death. people in london are leaving flowers, photos and candles outside the town house where the multiple grammy winner was found dead yesterday. police said her death is categorized as unexplained. preliminary autopsy results aren't expected before tomorrow. she was 27 years old. a roller coaster ride where an iraq war vet fell to his death has reopened. the ride of steal is what it's called. officials investigated the death of marine sergeant james hakameer. he lost both legs in the war died after being thrown from his seat. the resort has been cited for safety violations. a 7-year-old virginia boy with a dangerous seizure disorder became a bit of a celebrity today. he held his first and only book signing in our area. i'm sure many more to come. meet evan moss. he signed copies of my seizure dog in alexandria today. the event is aimed at helping to pay for a service dog that could save his life. the dogs are trained to detect an on coming seizure. his parents say they are impressed by the turnout. >> this is just amazing. we would have never expected this many people for this. we are so, so thrilled about the support that we are getting from people we know and from strangers. people are here from new york, all over. >> evan needs to raise $13,000 to pay for the dog that will help him cope with his epilepsy that has sometimes caused up to 400 seizures a month. could you get a deal on a get away even in the middle of summer? it's not too late. find out why some plane tickets might be a little cheaper for a day or two. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. the national zoo threw a huge party to celebrate one of the biggest donations it has received in years. it will let dozens of animals stay here in washington. we are not talking about tigers or prairie dogs. as tisha thompson shows us, this party was all about the cows. >> do you think he likes that? >> yeah. >> there is nothing quite like a cow getting a bath. yeah cow. >> to excite the mind of a 2- year-old. they come to visit the cows at the national zoo once a month. >> you have a chance to be up close and actually touch animals here. i don't know what she would do without them. >> reporter: but rose the cow almost had to leave because the zoo didn't have enough money to keep them here until they got a last minute donation. the soot announce -- the zoo announced it would have to send the animals away. >> we all heard it a million times. when you are in trouble, state farm is there. we were in trouble. they came. >> reporter: bob lamm is the executive director of friends of the national zoo and said local state farm agents like keith edwards convinced their company to donate $1.4 million, enough money to keep the farming for the next five years. you can't save the zoo today and not tomorrow. the bottom line is the petting farm needs to be preserved long term. it's an important part of the community. >> we were overwhelmed. surpassed our expectations. it's a barometer how the kids feel. >> in return for the sponsorship, state farm gets to put names on signs. in return, they get to watch rose the cow get a bath for years to come. >> what does the cow say. >> moo. >> oh, my gosh. >> at the national zoo, tisha thompson, fox 5 news. >> even though state farm took care of most of the money, the zoo says it needs about $100,000 more and hopes to raise the money through private donations. isn't that funny, state farm is one of those jingles that sticks in your brain,. ♪ state farm is there >> you don't associate it with the zoo. >> they have a philanthropic side. >> nice to see they are getting attention and money. >> it felt a little better today. >> a little better. >> i like that. >> you like me fanning you? that won't last. you need a lot of fanning. it was a little improvement from yesterday. we had humidity up there. felt like 105 through parts of the day in many of the areas. things will break a little bit relatively speaking that is. tomorrow we have more clouds as we start out monday. the week will start with a chance of more thunderstorms in the forecast. be prepared for that if you are heading out in the morning hours. temperatures will drop to the low 90s. there is many a day when we say it's 91, 92, it's so hot. relatively speaking, compared to what we have been dealing with, this will be a welcome relief. late week the humidity will increase all over again. then we will be back into the soup of things. here is what the highs were today. cooler than yesterday. once again, relatively speaking. 97 at national airport. we hit 102 yesterday. 98 at baltimore. but now the temperatures are still in the 40s. we still have the humidity sticking around. we have this heat advisory in effect until 8:00 tonight. take it seriously. it just means that it will still feel like it's in the triple digits as you step outside. 96 at national. 98 gaithersburg. to the south 91 in fredricksburg. 95 baltimore. up the mid-atlantic, boston at 73. 84 for new york city. to the south 92 in richmond. now a look at the heat indices. feels like 101 at national airport. feels like it's 100 in annapolis and 101 in baltimore. we are still having the sticky muggy atmosphere. moist unstable atmosphere that is in the area right now. it's not going away none too soon. national temperatures, take a look. we have 104 in dallas. very warm there. little rock 86 degrees. 93 in nashville. the entire central portion of the city to the east in the heat wave and just starting to get a very slow reprieve is what we will be dealing with. that is because we have a frontal system moving through. today we had a few storms that raced to the south. a lot of activity to the east over delmarva moving out. some of you saw this activity, some not at all. we could still see a storm or two popping up because we are in this moist unstable atmosphere and we have a frontal system heading our way and ahead of it the storms will pop up. tomorrow as the storm moves to the south of us, another chance of storms. where the thunderstorms hit, there were pockets of heavy rainfall as well. that is another thing that we will keep an eye on. tomorrow and late tonight, expect to see a chance of these storms. hazy, hot and humid. it will bring in cooler air so the temperatures tomorrow will be in the low 90s versus the upper 90s and the triple digits. that's the break we will get. i have to stress relatively speaking of course. tomorrow, could possibly see a storm in the morning hours. more likely by the afternoon. midday 84 degrees. keep your umbrella handy. as we move into tonight, slight chance of a storm popping up. it will be muggy in the overnight hours, 78. tomorrow the daytime highs 92 degrees. a look at the five-day forecast, where we will get a break on tuesday from the wet weather, although we desperately need the rain, we will be back to dryer conditions. things heat up late week as another ridge of high pressure builds in and the humidity will creep back up ever so slowly again. so, still up and down. >> how about that fanning again. >> do you want me to fan you? sorry. show me the money, babe. an airfare break courtesy of congress. not all airlines are sharing the wealth. until washington works out an agreement to keep the faa running, airline tickets will not include some federal taxes that account for about 10% of the ticket price. if you are looking to find a cheaper ticket because of that, you have to shop around. some airlines including american and u.s. airways have actually raised fares to offset the tax savings. coming up in sports, more on the nfl lockout plus the nats scored early but did they score often. good afternoon. what we know for certain is nothing is for certain during the nfl lockout, especially when it comes to getting the deal done. here is the plan, the executive committee will meet tomorrow in d.c. to hopefully vote to accept the deal that the owners approved thursday. then the 32 player reps would have to approve in order for the 1900 players to vote. a simple majority is required. also to be done, the ten named plaintiffs in the player's lawsuit like tom brady and peyton manning wag have to tell the court of their approval as well then the players have to vote as a union. so, here is the good news, team facilities would open two days after the executive committee authorizes the deal. that means wednesday if the vote gets done monday. out west for baseball. the nats and dodgers. mike morris hitting .375 this road trip. base hit to left. the nats score 1-0 but fair to score in the rest of the inning. bottom one the dodgers fighting back. this goes through the middle. the nats defense say let's control the damage. flores dropped the ball, dodgers a 2-1 lead. they lead 3-1 in the 7th. buck showalter and the o's looking to take the rubber match from the angels. l.a. up 2-0 with runners on the corners. off the glove of derek wreck lee, angels lead 3-0. adam jones had a home run last night. why not do it again today. the two-run shot his 18th of the year. o's within a run. still that way in the 8th but then the angels blow it open. mike trout the first career home run. three-run -- [bleep] mike morrell. the angels take down the o's, 4- 3 is the final. the baseball hall of fame induction ceremony is today. roberto alamare is among those inducted. he is a 12 star all star that played from 1996 to '98. he won a record 10 gold gloves. he enters the hall as a jay. the gm of that team was pat gillick. he was the o's gm from '95 to '48 helping guide them to the play-offs twice in that span. >> baseball is a talent and hard work and strategy. but at the deepest level it's about love, integrity and respect. i was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years to a job that i loved, a job that i still can't believe they made me to do. i am humbled to be standing here today when the game has given me back so much more than i ever imagined possible. >> i played the game of baseball. i must say i would rather be playing the game than to be doing this speech today here. the game of baseball, you are -- and will always be, my life and my love. >> i like that. the washington capitals are in a rain delay in tennis. >> now you can itch your nose. >> it was itching the whole time. we have ten seconds. that means we have to say good- bye. remember, we are always on my foxx dc.com. 

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