a congregation gathered to ring in 2010 finds itself in the line of fire. but this morning, they are celebrating a miracle at the start of the new year. five, four, three, two, one! >> and a crowd one million strong packed times square to say good-bye to what was a pretty rough year and welcoming in a fresh start. fox 5 morning news continues right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for waking up with us and staying up with us on fox 5 morning news. i'm gurvir dhindsa. >> i'm tony perkins in for steve chenevey this hour. live shot of downtown washington. happy new year to you. happy new year to you as well. >> you too. >> and to tucker barnes. >> tucker celebrated for the both of us last night. >> which i can't believe. >> i was up late. >> he thinks' still 30. >> i am still 30. >> i know we all kind of je about making new year's resolutions but it is, whether it is literally or figuratively, sort of a way to put the past behind you and move on. >> it is. move on and hope for better things. >> so we'll move on from that recent weather we had around here yesterday and we're featuring a little sunshine today. >> that will be great. >>then after thatwe won't want to talk about the weekend. but for today, thins look great. well,hings look better. 34t reagan national. some fog to the west and south of washington. we have a dense fog advisory for much of central and southern virginia just to let you know that. out to the west, gurvir reported a little fog on her ride in. >> a lot. >> and there is the possibility of refreezing on some of those surfaces. we have had rain, snow and sleet in the area and part of the area is at or below 32. the snow and rain shower activity is out of here for the day. the cold front will come sliding through. we'll have winds oust north and west. you get another front through because the wind will start to pick up later this afternoon and that will usher in the first in a series of frontal systems that are really going to chill us down for the weekend. our highs this weekend, we'll be lucky to flirt with the freezing mark. today, relatively mild. 41 in washington. 39 in hagerstown. it will be very cold around here the next couple of days. >> thank you. >> thank you! while many people are still slumbering from a long night of partying, some are waking up this morning in a new ar. >> i think we all know we'll be waking up in a new year. this is the scene last night in new york's times square. nearly a million people watched the ball dropped live and billions more watched it around the world. there were no real security scares. there was some light snow and rain did you that didn't put a demeanor per -- a damper on all the festivities. >> a very orderly set formation. >> it's dream. maybe once that i lifetime you have to do this. >> a not so happy new year for the new york city sanitation department. iis in charge of cleaning up the nearly 40 tons of confetti that was dumped out there on the streets. here, alexandria left behind 2009 way big celebration. every year, the city hosts a first night celebration filled with events that stretch ad long king street and oldtown and catered to families. first night alexandria started in the mid 1990s. it is the largest family friendery celebration in the d.c. area. meanwhile, the u.s. military i scrambling to figure out who invited a suicide bomber on to a cia base in afghanistan. once inside, he killed seven cia workers. a former intelligence officer says the cia recruited the guy as a possible informant and did not search him as he entered the base. one of the americans killed in the attack was harold brown, jr. of fairfax station. he was 37 years old. he leaves behind a wife and three children. president barack obama says he will meet prmly with officials reviewing what went wrong leading up to a christmas day terror plot. the president got his first review of the case yesterday. a 23-year-old nigerian man with suspected ties to al-qaeda is accused of trying to blow up a plane over detroit. the review from several agencies also contains recommendations about how to prevent such attacks from happening again. new this morning at a southeast church, the new year came in with a bang, literally. somebody opened fire into the new life praise temple ministries on naylor road. stacy cohan joins us live with more on this. >> reporter: good morning. i'm at the eventh district police headquarter where detectives are looking into exactly what happened on this new year's day shooting. this particular church prats just out of a store front. it's small area about 40 people were apparently inside. they were hosting a new year's eve watch party, listening to some singing. that is when the pastor tells us that right around midnight some shots rang out and about half a dozen bullets ripped into the church. >> this community has a lot of people with a lot of problems and they was probably celebrating, probly messing with some type of chemical altering the chemicals in the brain, really not knowing what they were doing. >> reporter: police have no suspects and no motive in this particular shooting. it is not uncommon here in the city for some members of our community to fire weapons as a part of their new year's celebration. this time, the bullets went into a building. the good news here is that no ones with injured. i'm stacy cohan. back to you. >> thank you. it was a deadly past 24 hours in the district. four new murder investigations since yesterday including one in northeast d.c. police say a man was shot while he was in a car sending him crashing into the retaining wall of a nearby cemetery. it happened about a half hour before midnight in the 4800 block of north capital street. the man died. so far, police have not made any arrests. an optimistic new year's resolution for north korea and it involves the united states. >> coming up next, could the north be ready to turn over a new leaf? as we go it a break -- to a break, here are some scenes from last night. you are watching fox 5 morning news. more violence in pakistan to start off the new year. pakistani officials say three people were killed in a u.s. missile strike near the afghan border. that missile strike hit a car carrying alleged mill tabts which u.s. officials believe are threatening the war effort in neighboring afghanistan. -- that missile strike hit a car carrying alleged militants. a new year and a new north korea? the communist country used its annual knew year's message to call for relations with the united states. the comment could signal the regime is ready to return to international talks. the federal judge has thrown out the case against blackwater security guards charged with killing civilians in iraq. a blackwater convoy opened fire on a crowd of unarmed iraqis at an intersection in baghdad in september 2007. senteen people were killed. the judge slammed the prosecutors in the case saying their explanations were quote, contradictory, unbelievable and lacking credibility. the ruling does not say if the shoings were proper. >> the first baby of twep has been delivered in our area. we have the details. speaking of babies. >> talk bay baby boom. five sets of twins in less than 36 hours all before the beginning of 2010. listen to that. it was a thunderous new year's celebration in london. a frigid night though couldn't keep thousands from watching a spectacular fireworks show. those rockets were fired from the london u ferris wheel. that struck as big ben struck midnight. >> this is one most beautiful sights. this is moscow where the firework didn't exactly go off at midnight. they were about a minute and a half late. revelers in snow-covered red scare watched those fireworks in front of st. basil's cathedral. the crowds braved extremely cold temperatures. in germany, they lined the boulevard leading to the city's famous brandenburg gate. firework isplay lasted about 10 minutes. i have an observation. here is what is cool about new year's. everybody celebrates it and what we forget is south of the equator, it is summertime. i've never hay new year's celebration south of the equator. like down in brazil or australia. they're probably hanging out at the beach. >> maybe we can do that next year. >> i think that is a fantastic idea. >> okay. that's not going to happen. >> it is wintertime here in washington. you know when you step out the door, temperatures will be in the low 30s for you if you are headed out in the next 15 minutes or so. 34 at reagan national. we've been stuck here for a couple of hours. we are not worried about icing here in town. but outside the beltway, gaithersburg, you are 30. manassas, you are 0. culpeper, you are 28. manassas, you are 30. we are concerned about ice forming on the sidewalks and roadways and that kind of thing. we have the possibility of some fog out here. we have had reports of localized dense fog out to the west and to the south. we have a dense fog advisory south of fredericksburg for south and central portions f virginia. that is about it. other than that, it should be a relatively quiet day and the wind are kind of telling you that story now. i show you the wind. there is nothing happening right now that is allowing the fog to develop because we don't have any wind. these will start to kick up later today oust north and west. by late this afternoon, we'll have gusts 15 to 20 miles per hour. that will push in much, much colder air. i know it seems like it's been cold but it will be really cold as we get into the weekend. the light rain showers, even some mixed snow and sleet that we had around here late yesterday afternoon and yesterday evening has pushed off to the north and east. what we're dealing with now is a mick of clouds an a little sun in the morning forecast. and i think the clouds will win out later this afternoon as the frontal system comes through and pushes in the colder air. so our trend around here will be to get colder and more sunshine as we get into the weekend. today will be a day of transition. plenty of clouds out there. becoming breezy by late this afternoon. wind out of the north an west by 10 to 15. that 41, enjoy it. teens off to the north and west. it will be cold out tonight. there is your weekend forecast. saturday, 32 for an afternoon high. we'll have a lot of bright sunshine both days this weekend. it will look pretty but it will be downright cold here right into the first five to 10 days of the new year. in fact, looking ahead down to next weekend, temperatures will remain below where they should be this time of year. >> up into next weekend too in. >> you got it. >> f a while. >> all right. thank you. he is here. baby new year came into this world at inova of alexandria. the new bundle of joy add seven pounds and 12 ounces. he was born at 12:03. one local hospal ended the year way real baby boom, five sets of twins born within 36 hours. >> the delivery rooms are now the nursery and they are busier an usual at frederick memorial hospital. tisha thompson talked to the parents. >> reporter: they are seeing double at frederick memorial hospital. >> meet sear sarah and jessica, dare enand lauren, danielle and oscar and brock and garrett. they were all born within 36 hours. >> melanie's sonogram originally missed one of the two twins. >> at six week, there was one and at eight week there was two. at nine and a half weeks, i told my ob to dig around and make sure there aren't any more in there. >> reporter: thee sets arrived ahead of schedule and will now spend the next several week with nicu nurse dorothy corbett. >> all after sudden, it was like boom, you know. christmas rush to get in for new, i guess, tax breaks? >> reporter: corbett says the hospital always has one nurse per baby so they had to call in extra staff. at just 3 # weeks, lauren and darren are the smallest of the lot, barely four pounds a piece. >> i'm he so happy they made it. they are fighters. especially her. e is helping him out because she is nursing. >> reporter: their dad, ronell yot, says his great-grandmother was a twin but mom thinks there must be something in the water gentleman boil your water, ladies, if you haven't. >> nurse corbett has her own theory. >> luck, depending on how you look at it. people are blessed. all of the twins are fraternal but they did end up with an even number of boys and girls, five of each. >> and congratulations to all of them. >> aren't they so tiny when they're born? our children are grown up. >> i think of connor that i wa holing him on my shoulder at o point and now he is a six- year-old boy. >> i know. >> another sign that the economy may be improving. up next, some surprising news about unemployment. >> the news isn't all good and tweb may offer some new challenges. you are watching fox 5 morning news. -- the news isn't all good and 2010 may offer some new challenges. about doing the same. t's help spread protection 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department announced new applications for unemployment checks fell by 22,000 last week to 432,000. exists had expected the number to increase to $460,000. millions of americans are out of work. that is putting a severe strain on states paying out weekly unemployment checks. 25 states and the u.s. virgin islands are completely out of money for unemployment benefits and are borrowing from the federal government. borrowing the most, california, than michigan, then new york. and the al anbaror department says based on unemployment projections, 40 states may have empty coffers for unemployment benefits by 2011 and have to borrow up to $90 billion more. economic analysts say that states va that have been particularly generous in unemployment bins benefits may have to cut back. >> states need to really step up to the plate now and say what are our priorities? i think they will conclude that the hard cases, the truly poor, truly are you needy must come first and so we have to kind of shift the line as it were and make sure that those in the middle class that have other means to take care of themself do so and that those who are in most need are addressed first. >> reporter: money for unemployment checks comes from payroll taxes on businesses. and while groups representing state workers say they expect some benefits to be reduced, they also expect states to raise some taxes to keep that you are unemployment programs afloat. >> they will be looking at raising the so-called taxable wage base which is the wages paid by employers to employees that are subject to unemployment attacks and also raising tax rates is he that over the longer term, perhaps the program will balance out and also the state will be able to pay back the loans that they've obtained from the federal government. >> these are lean times for businesses too. and bill beach says states need to be cautious in increasing taxes on them as it could bankrupt more companies and putted more people out of work. in wash, molly hennenberg, fox news. >> thank you. still ahead, we usher in a new year. throughout the more than, we'll take a look at the new year's celebrations around the world. >> we'll check our top stories next. you are watching fox 5 morning news this new year's day. we'll be right back. have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work's not done yet. we still need to get t h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me -- we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to learn more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health department it's up to you to fight the flu. welcome back to fox 5 morning news. >> tucker is in with another check our weather on this first day of 2010. are you going to say 2010 or 2010. >> i think i'm tending to say 2010 so far. >> yeah. >> it is cold across the area. we've got temperatures below freezing in a couple of spots. be prepared for just icy roadways, at least the possibility off to the west and north and west. 34 right now. the cold air off to the west. columbus is 19 and if you've got one of our wide screens at home, chicago is currently six degrees. lots of cold you're off to the north and west. guess what? that is generally headed in our direction. we won't have single digit lows around here but we'll be on the chilly side as we get into the weekend. we did have light rain and snow that moved through during late afternoon and evening yesterday. that has since departed and what is left is a mix of clouds and eventual will you a little sun out there today. if you peek your head out the window here in the next hour or so, you might be able to see the moon which should be setting. blue moon setting out there. and then we'll be dealing with wind which will be -- came up out of the north and west at about 10 to 15 miles per hour later today and that will set us up for a very cold one tonight and a cold weekend. details on that coming up. but for today, lots of ld and a little sunshine as well. a high temperature, and this will be our balmy day in the next five, of 41 degrees. i'll have more details coming up in a couple of minutes. >> thank you. i think right now, a lot of people probably still slumbering from a long night of partying. >> take a look the ball dropped in new york city's times square in front of a million people live d billion more around the world watched on tv. are we sure of that? there were for real security scares around the big apple. >> in georgia, it was the annual peach drop. thousands huddled together to stay warm in downtown atlanta. in our area, alexandria bid farewell to 2009 with a big celebration. each year, the city hosts a first night celebration filled with events stretch ad long king street in old town and it specifically catered to famies. if began in the mid '90s and it is the largest family friendly celebration in the d.c. area. other news this morning. a grim pick is emerging from afghanistan and the cia attacks there. the suicide bomber who killed seven workers was reportedly invited on to the base and let in unsearched. a former intelligence officer says that the cia was hoping that he would become an informant. it turned out he was a militant. >> you have to ask, did we trust him too soon. and you have to say yes. but were there procedures that you could plussably tighten up? that is what we will have to evaluate. >> one of the americans kill in the tax was harold brown, jr. of fairfax station. he worked for the state department an as with a major in the army reserves. he was a married father of three whose mother says he wanted the world to be a better place. president obama says he will meet personally next week with officials reviewing what went wrong leading up to a christmas day terror plot. the president got his first review of the case yesterday. a 23-year-old nigerian man with suspected tiesto al-qaeda is accused of trying to blow i'm plane over detroit. the review from several agencies also con towns recommendations about how to prevent such attacks from happening again. >> i think the white house is properly focusing on fixing the proble on figuring out how to fix the no-fly list and get better screening and fix the problem. >> reblicans don't agree though. they've criticized the president for what they consider a weak terror strategy. the preis vacationing in hawaii. he is scheduled for return to washington by early next week. >> with the holidays just about over, the president and congress will soon be back at work. it is hard to remember a year that started with a longer political to-do list. doug luzader reports. >> reporter: the year came it a close with an interrupted vacation for the president and 2010 starts with another challenge after a terrorist nearly blew up awe plane on christmas. >> we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. >> while that may be an issue first and foremost on american minds as the holiday travel seen winds to a close, it is health care that will be front and center again as the month moves forward. negotiators in the senate an house will try to hammer out a final agreement and republicans are vowing to fight. >> i think this is not over. we are going to continue to work and i'm ask people to t at home to go see your member of congress. make them face the music. >> reporter: democrats will have to pivot as fast as they can to the economy and jobs can growing fear of a double dip recession. if the economy doesn't turn around, democrats could really be in for i beating come the mid-term elects this year when just about every house member and a third of the senate will be up for re-election. at the same time, there is the rest of the president's unfun issued agenda. >> there is financial industry overhaul. there is immigration reform. this is don't ask, don't tell in the military. there are a lot of promises left hanging. he gets an incomplete. >> reporter: for the president, it will h to make a christmas vacation seem luke a distant memory. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. new this morning, 2009 started with gunfire that forced a church congregation to run for cover. all of this unfolded at a church some southeast washington. stacy cohan is joining us live with all the details. what happened? >> reporter: well, we were just inside the seventh district police station and i'm told that the watch commander will be out here shortly to give us more details as to what was involved on this new year's day shooting. here what is we know so far. this is a worship group if you will that is run out of a store front church and they call themself the new life praise ministry. about 40 people were inside ready to ring in the new year. they were listening to some singing when shots rang out in the night sometime around midnight. about half a dozen bullets apparently penetrated the church. here is what the pastor had to say. >> this community has a lot of people with a lot of problems and they was problemy celebrating, probably messing with some type of chemical that was amounterring their chemical in their brain nd really not knowing what they were doing. >> reporter: thank you time, i'm told there are no suspects in the shooting, no motive. remember, it is new year's and it is not uncommon for some folks to fire off weapons as part of their celebration. in this incident, no one was injured although we're told one person was hit by some broken glass. back to you. it was a deadly past 24 hours in the district. four new murder investigates since yesterday including one in northeast washington. police say a man was shot while in a car sending him crashing into the retaining wall of a nearby cemetery. it happened about a half hour before midnight in the 4800 block of north capital street. that man died. so far, there have been no arrests. and d.c. police are investigating another murder in the district. police found awe man's body in the woods along the 3100 block of park drive in southeast yesterday afternoon. the man was apparently shot to death and tied up with duct tape. his identity hasn't been released and neighbors haven't reported seeing anything unusual. today, d.c. firefighters revisit the scene of one of the most deadly and tragic fires in the district. they will check smoke detectors in the area around jackson street northeast. sick people died in a fire on that street one year ago. fox 5's matt ackland talked with two of the survivors. >> reporter: michelle and oscar wilson invite us to their small apartment not far from the site of the deadly fe almost a year ago. their home has been just about rebuilt. but the wilsons say their hearts are still broken. >> very painful. very painful. >> reporter: the wilsons say it was a happy gathering last new year's eve. a house full of family, a big meal was served and everyone sang karaoke. and then after celebrating, everyone turned in about 6:00, an hour before the fire. >> it just make you file like if we had just sang one more song or stayed up one more -- you know i mean we would have smelled the fire or something. >> reporter: but by the time oscar and michelle woke up, it was too late. >> all i remember was my nephew saying aunt dee dee and when i saturday set up, i sippet 199a cloud of black smoke. >> reporter: they tried but couldn't get to other family members including harrison, father and nephew in nearby bedrooms. their only way out, a second story window. >> as i was breaking the windows, she passed out herself. i had to pull her through the wind toe get her out. >> the wilsons' son, nephew, father and three extended family members died in the fire. michelle and oscar said they wished they could have saved them but it was impossible. michelle told us she made sure smoke alarms and fire extinguishers were on each floor into the event of the fire. >> we could not get to the extinguishers at all. the smoke took you over before you could even get down the hall. >> reporter: the wilsons say they lost just about everything in the fire from personal documents to old family photos. but in the back area, the garage area, they were able to save a few items including two motorcycles that belonged to the boys. now, that is until about three months after the fire when neighbors here called them saying someone was breaking into the garage and taking those motorcycles. >> they even stripped us from all of the sentimental things from inside the house and now you take the rest. >> reporter: the wilsons plan to spend had new year remembering the ones they lost. first, church sovereign sees and then a candlelight vigil outside the house on friday -- first church services and than a candlelight vigil outside the house on friday. >> firefighters say the fire started as an electrical fire behind the walls. it is time for act weather guy. we are doing something a little bit different today. >> we'll take a look back at one our favorites from 2009. stay with us. this is college football time around here, you know. this is a milestone for the virginia tech hokies an a record-setting night for one of the team's players. hokies crush the the tennessee volunteers in the chick-fil-a bowl. ryan williams had 11 # yards rushing and two touchdowns to become virginia tech's single season rushing leader. the hokies have won back-to- back bowl games for the first time in school history. didn't that used to be the peach bowl? >> i believe so. >> navy making its seventh coecutive bowl appearance yesterday. missouri scored on a 58-yard pass but navy stormed back to win it 35-13. that is their tenth win of the season matching a school record. >> wow! >> college football, the bowl games really blood. >> navy has very quietly put together a good team. >> you don't hear a lot about them. >> those uniforms, not great. >> that is what i pay attention on. i noticed those uniforms could use something. >> not in washington, but i do want to warn you that most of the area not under this dense fog advisory but that doesn't mean there isn't fog out there. >> yes, i saw a lot of it on my way in. >> you might experience fog in you are out and about in the next couple of hours. a nice life shot. that is a great look at the fog that has develope right here at the surface, you have the snow trying to melt off. you have the light wind out there currently. you might see a little fog as the sun gets up and over the horizon over the next couple of hours. south central virginia, under i dense fog advisory and lower eastern shore, dense fog advisory until 9:00 this morning. visibility a quarter mile or less. it should burn off by mid- to late morning. 34 at reagan national. the other concern is we'll see some icing form. wave already seen some ice form overnight on some of the roadways and sidewalks where it has gotten below freezing. 31 at this hour in martinsburg. give day couple of hours and the temperatures will jump into the mid-30s by mid-morning and eventually, and get this, today will be one of our warmest days over the next week, seven to 10 days as we'll be about 40 or so. this will be a nice one. there goes the light rain showers and the snow. they moved through during the late afternoon, evening yesterday. it is out of here. we've got a series of frontal systems and a big area of arctic high pressure that will be building in for the weekend. it is this pressure gradient between the high pressure and low pressure off to the north and east that will give us the breezy conditions. the wind will pick up this afternoon out of the north and west at about 10 to 15 miles per hour. we are in store if a cold and windy weekend. we should have a lot of sunshine both saturday and sunday. lots of clouds to start the day. i think we'll see some sunshine mix in during the course of the day as well and becoming breezy. high temperature, 41. there is your weekend forecast. both saturday and sunday daytime highs near the freezing mark. overnight lows in the teens and low 20s. and you can seat cold air. monday and tuesday's highs are only in the mid-30s. i was mentioning that really looking forward into the late next week and next weekend, temperatures will stay well below afterrage so cold here to stay. >> what about precipitation during the next week to 10 days. how does that look? >> looks dry right now. things change. >> they do. okay. one of our favorite segments here that we always bring you at this time of the day is ask the weather guy. a segment that answers viewer questions and occasionally we let you behind the scenes here on what goes on. >> someone asked us a couple of days ago what are some of your favorite ask the weather guys segments so we thought we would share these with you. before we show it. tucker and i both want to say thank you to all of the viewers who sinned in questions. you ask very good questions. you ask some funny questions which we also enjoy having some fun with and the response has been very, very good. we thanyou for your contributions to it. >> we really do. >> hears one of our favorites from 2009. >> our favorite segment where tucker barnes and i put our big geeky weather heads together to answer your most pressing questions weather-related or otherwise. today's question is from regina mccullough, a seventh greater at kilmer middle school. she writes when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed in the more than, are you supposed to act like air happy when you get on camera or can you act like how you really feel? >> that is a great question. >> at 3:00 in the more than, there is no right side of the bed. >> all sides of wrong at that time of the morning. it is a good question. because we are on tv, we are supposed to be happy and upbeat and i would say we work -- i work with a good crew of people. generally speaking, tucker, would you agree, i think we are on the air as we are off the air. >> absolutely. i think behind the scenes, we are just like you see us here. generally, we are in good spirits. >> i have some behind the scenes footage that i think will bear that out. >> hey, guys, we have some great weather information here. >> you guys are going to love this one. >> some trivia. >> i'm getting tired of this weather stuff all the time. >> i know. we have work to do. you guys -- >> this is ridiculous. we have like 300 stories. >> we're just trying to be friendly. >> i'm just saying we have things to do. >> all right, all right. >> enough! >> enough! >> grumpy. >> i think gary williams' team is. >> you know how she dresses. it is always the asame every day. >> why are you looking at me again? i told you ten times not t talk to me. i'm sick of this place. >> what is the high you're going with for today? >> going with 50. >> it will be like in the mid- 40s. >> i told you it was going to be 50 degrees. >> are you going to get the forecast right once this month? good grief! >> matt, i know you are the executive producer. it is not a big deal. move that segment down and move the weather up. >> not a big deal. he should be able to do that. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> man, they are such jerks. >> matt, julie wright is on the phone. >> aww! >> wow! >> oh, man. >> i guess i didn't realize how rough it is in the morning. >> it does get tough sometimes. >> well, regina, i guess maybe we do put on a happy face. >> we all get a little grumpy sometimes. i tease you all a lot. >> i didn't realize you all were taping effect that we were doing. - - everything that we were doing. >> it is important. i mean maryland won. >> regina, thank you for turning your question in. >> if you want to send a question in, go to the web site, myfoxdc.com and click on weather and we thank everyone who played along. >> fun stuff. >> i would agree. i think that was my favorite one. i loved it. >> tucker, you ought to win an oscar. >> that was some acting. >> terrible acting. >> and our producer, matt gaffney i don't think was actually asking in his part. thank you very much. we've got another one coming up during the 8:00 hour. >> good deal. we'll be right back. what -- (announcer) this sparkling glass was washed of finish t dry nse ent. the glass behind it wasn't. for sparkling dishes, try finish jet dry. we think you'll see the difference. most consumers do. finish. the diamond standard. you know, truck guys like to get the job done right. measure twice, cut once i always say. lemme give ya a hand there. did you know that this silverado has 315 horsepower? how about your f150? less. silverado's powertrain is backed for 5 years or 100,000 miles. yours? 40,000 miles less. don't blame the carpenter, blame the tool. now get 0% apr for 72 months, or during the chevy red tag event, use $2,000 holiday cash to get $5,500 total cash back on select 09 silverado vehicles in stock. everybody loves to buy new car this is time of year because they're out with the new models but sometimes we focus our attention on the wrong things. we're looking at the sticker price. you're saying no that isn't what we should look at when purchasing a new vehicle? >> not if you're a smart buyer. because you're right, people get themselves next to the new car and get the new car smell going on and look at how cool they'll look in the driveway but they never see the expected resale price and that is important because say for example that you bought this car, but you drive it for a couple of years and your family is growing, you want to make sure the car takes care of you economically as well. this is the 2010 corvette, that will take care of you from a performance perspective. but then 26 miles per gallon and a $50,000 price to start. and it appeals to the heart and the head and that's why it does well in our study. >> well you said there are several cars with a good resale value or hold their value for five years which is about how long most people keep a vehicle. so can yorun them down for us. what else is out there? >> here is the number one achiever. this is the toyota preus, this is the 2010 model. the previous model was a bit too small and not a big enough car for a typical family. they've addressed that with a new one. you're getting 50 miles per gallon and you're getting the style with the green car version and a solar panel built into the roof so you can run the fan to keep it cooler in the parking lot and then insid here you have a interior that george jet son would be glad to drive around in. you have a great family car and advanced. you're talking about a car that runs on battery alone up to 40 miles per hour. so it's an advanced choice without limitations or places that the typical family here will lose any value. >> and you have one more for us to run down? >> i want to make sure i mention this one. this is the lexus rx 350. lexus in the first generation of this vehicle introduced and designed the luxury suv class. this is the third generation. they have some of the nicest creature comforts. the best sound system and they defined and built this segment. you get all wheel drive, great space and utility, good fuel economy, 26 miles per gallon and they designed the segment and the new generation which is delivering the best value. the last vehicle, this is one you have to have a look at. i'm going to say a word you would never associate with value and that's taurus. the old one was damaged by ford. they used it as a rental car vehicle in their lineup and now the new one is really hot. i mean this one here has the v 6 engine with the power of a a v 8, a lot of style and space and it really allows us to know that ford is back. >> james, real quick, if you're planning on keeping your vehicle, are there things to do to make sure it keeps it's value. regular maintenance and that sort of thing? >> just be smart with it. do the regular maintenance, try not to eat in it which is tough to do. keep it clean, if you get any dents or scratches, get them fixed. it's just those little things that add up, because when you go to resell the vehicle you don't have to spend a ton of money to get it