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night. nancy pelosi blamed the gop for the holdup -- >> reporter: republicans are reportedly making changes to the bill and could bring it back up as early as today but even if it makes it to the senate, democrats say it doesn't stand a chance. >> we cannot come back to this and just a few short weeks and that's what would happen. >> reporter: as time runs out investors wait anxiously. the dow jones has been down all week and after last night's delay in the house, asian stocks struggled while the dollar sank against the japanese yen to a four month low. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> what does all of this mean to us? from the dulles rail to car sales to federal workers' home mortgages, the impact of a possible default in this region could be enormous. >> bruce leshan spoke to a few of the people that could be hurt without a deal. >> reporter: hyattsville businessman giving away ice cream on capitol hill. >> everybody qualifies except for the people working up there. they don't qualify. >> reporter: hoping a little comedy will convince congress to compromise. >> come on up. get some free ice cream. >> everyone needs to go back to kindergarten and learn how to share and make friends and make nice. >> unless they resolve the debt crisis, it's going to cost us all a lot of money. >> reporter: the ice cream, delicious, but for workers and businesses this situation is anything but funny. the greater washington board of trade is warning a default could cost local businesses a fortune. its president says it could hurt 10 times as much as the government shutdown we just avoided a few months ago. >> this could be a cash crunch for a few businesses in washington. >> reporter: outside the house, federal workers, progressives, union leaders rallied to complain that they are pawns in a political battle. one says his colleagues keep asking him, what's going to happen? >> people live paycheck to paycheck. this is really serious stuff and we're living with tremendous uncertainty now. what will happen after august 2nd? >> reporter: the obama administration may have a plan, but it has yet to share it with federal workers. bruce leshan, 9news now. >> 4:33 now, the nuclear regulatory commission isn't going into detail about what sort of security problems they found at the smith nuclear plant. only saying it found issues at at least low to moderate significance during the first half of this year. constellation energy the company that runs the plant tells the "baltimore sun" the problems were corrected. but the ncc says further attention could be warranted on that. the future of a northern virginia college is very much in question this morning after a raid by federal agents. >> a number of students were locked out of their school while federal acts were conducting an immigration raid. matt jablow has the story. >> i need to go back to the country with my degree. >> reporter: maria guzman showed up tonight at the university of northern virginia, excited she was only five months away from getting her mba. she left wondering if she'll ever get her masters degree and soon be forced to return home to bolivia. >> because i have to maintain my f 1 visa and if we have more than three absences we're going to lose it. >> reporter: today, agents raided umva, hauling boxes and filing cabinets out of the school's three story building until early in the evening. >> then they took everybody out one by one and spoke to them. >> reporter: umva is a for profit, nonaccredited school in anondale whose student body has foreign students mostly. >> the door opened around 10:00. it was the fbi agent with a bulletproof vest and i. c. e. agent. >> reporter: diana has taught esl for the past 13 years. >> they asked us to stay in the room, therm going to secure the building. >> reporter: the immigration officials said today that some of the reporting was quote lacking and the school must now prove it's in compliance with all immigration laws. what are you studying here? >> mba and hospitality management. >> reporter: he's a student from nepal who says he pays $2,700 a semester to attend the university. you came to school tonight only to find this. >> no, actually i didn't know that and i just came here to attend my class. but what i see is really weird. >> reporter: matt jablow, 9news now. >> immigration officials say the school will remain open for now. one of the victims of the so-called serial slasher in fairfax county is speaking out. the woman says she was attacked back in february while she was leaving the fair oaks mall. she says she was visibly protect at the time of the attack and the man just came out of nowhere. she didn't realize she'd been cut until she saw the blood on her hands. he left a three inch gash on her buttocks. >> i don't want him to do this to my more girls, traumatic really. i think it's horrible. and i'm just glad that it's bigger now so that he will get caught. >> there has been five attacks since that february attack with the latest one happening on monday at the same mall. the others happened at the green briar shopping center and at tyson's corner. police say while the suspect dresses in different clothing, one thing has remained constant -- the large white watch on his left arm. if you recognize this suspect, please call police. a presidential historian and his assistant are headed to court today both indicts for stealing and selling historical documents from museums in new york and baltimore. 63-year-old barly landau and his assistant jason savedoff were arrested july 9th. >> they reported seeing savedoff take a document out of the society's baltimore library. the two are also accused of stealing and selling documents from franklin d. roosevelt's presidential library and museum in new york as well as steeling a benjamin franklin letter from the new york historical society. time now 4:37, at 4:41, demand is so high for one american car that customers are now actually being put on a waiting list. at 4:51, one local county begins a new campaign to influence you to get out of the car and use your feet. we're back with your weather first coming up in two minutes. stay with us. úcú;ckca/ welcome back. 4:39 on this friday morning. and we're off to the races today. record heat this afternoon. by noon, we'll be in the low 90s at least. upper 90s to around 100 at 3:00, looking for a high around 102. which could be a record setter and even driving home 98. keep it inside as we have a heat advisory and code orange air quality today. i'll have the seven day forecast when i return. kris sneed now has look at the timesaver traffic. some problems on 95 northbound in virginia. we have this accident here at route 1 only the left lane is getting by here. also a southbound accident near this near quantico to watch out for. we're going to keep you updated with a look at this again and roads around the area at 4:48. jessica? thanks so much chris, your first your money report of the morning. on wall street, all eyes turned yet again to the debate over the debt ceiling, even good news about the job market wasn't enough to distract investors from the capitol hill. checking the numbers for you -- there are fresh signs that implores are laying off -- employers are laying off fewer workers. the number of americans fell last week to below 400,000 applying for unemployment benefits, that's the last time in four months. equipment problems at a michigan parts plant caused a shortage of dash boards and the company is working to fix the problem. dealers have been forced to put some customers on wait lists. the focus was ford's best selling passenger car last year. not so great. >> but it is great they're actually doing well financially and they've figured that out and good to go. so, is cheating a bad thing? a new study suggests the older you get, that answer becomes a little more cloudy. >> interesting. a montgomery could be -- rather, montgomery county plans to deal with the influx of workers, keep it here. now time for your united airlines travel forecast on friday morning. looking good, taking off out of dulles, a couple of clouds 76 and we have eight miles visibility. hey, no problems locally but if you're going up to detroit or chicago or columbus today, thunderstorms at times. some around chicago this morning. temperature high there 88 today. heat is on in a lot of the areas of the country. but denver not one of them. 86 with a few thunderstorms. southwest, phoenix 106. vegas a few clouds, 104. los angeles looks good at 72 but reno today, 100 degrees. go to the coast, san francisco highs in the low 70s. can you plan our day for us please, hour by hour? >> that'd be bondable. -- wonderful. >> 10:00, you're going to be getting me some breakfast. at noon, you're going to be watching 9news now at noon. >> what would you like for breakfast? >> some heat on today and some humidity as well. but not as bad as last week. last week we had the heat warnings, really dangerous stuff. but a heat advisory today because the heat index values won't get to 120 or higher. about 105. 110. still that's pretty uncomfortable. the day planner, weather-wise that is, pay attention mike, we've got sunshine all day. >> 9:00, that's my first hour. >> 11,, 90-degrees, in the mid 90s by 1:00 and then we head to 100, maybe 102 this. a it will be hot and look at the winds, the winds are going to turn to the west and that's going to dry us out just a little bit and that's why it's not going to be nearly as nasty as it was last friday with the deadly heat index values. as far as the records to beat today. record highs in baltimore, d. c., dull97. i think the three are going. the 103 in martinsburg, that's probably safe. but all under a heat advisory except for the mountains from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. this evening. heat index values 105 to 110. i imagine one of two spots will eclipse the mark, but the majority of us in that range. 70 now in winchester, cumberland, oakland. the only 60 on the board, that's stanton at 64. just about 80 at ocean city at 79 and pax river and tappahannock and even baltimore right now. 70 degrees. gaithersburg is 73. but 78 for columbia. love etsville. 70 up there in northern loudoun county. haymarket a more comfortable 73. alexandria, 79, spaden, 74 and here if washington -- in washington, 82 with a dew point of 75. so the sticky stuff is back. feeling like 89 already. you like to work out outside? do it early but even this morning, it's going to be a tough jog excuse me out there for you if you're going out. let's look at the national satellite and radar. high heat in the middle of the country with the high pressure. all the storms in south and being pushed west under the ridge. this is tropical storm don. on the north ends though, some thunderstorms, you can see them there around kansas city, chicago, detroit. detroit this morning, you may have some delays with even some severe thunderstorms extending up to new york and pennsylvania. and around here, well, we're going to be rather quiet. isolated storm last night all this stuff today, maybe western maryland might see something. but rain chances staying fairly low. front pushing through tonight. so tomorrow anything that develops will be south and west of us but a little cooler and less humid. looks like highs tomorrow stay in the 90s low to mid- 90s as opposed to middle 90s and lower 100s. here's don in the gulf of mexico. little flare-up right near the center and maybe don is strengthening a little bit. the latest advisory, the winds at 50 miles per hour and don was moving west northwest at 13 and the forecast track from the hurricane center, between brownsville and corpus christi tonight. it will weaken from a storm to 50-mile-per-hour winds just after coming inland and does pate rather quickly. the problem with that is this part of the world needs a good rain. if that happens they might not get as much rain as they were hoping for. don come on shore likely as a strong tropical storm. today, record heat 102. now tomorrow not as hot. probably not as humid either. highs arnold 95. sunday also 93 and i kind of removed the thunderstorm chances because i think the rain chances right now look fairly low. 10%, 20%. you'd be very lucky if i see a storm out of there. the rest of the seven day forecast, monday, 97. tuesday 93 and potentially by wednesday and thursday, then we'll see a few storms. kris sneed, it's quiet now weather-wise. it is getting rough outside this morning. we start off with the yellow light. virginia drivers taking 95 northbound i recommend drying to find an alternate at this time. we have a couple of accidents, first one here at route 1. you can see only the left lane is getting by. the crews are working on this. then if you go up further northbound in the hov lanes, only the left sold receiver getting by right now. but as you can see on the camera shot, left shoulder getting by, this is near the franconia springfield parkway. crews are trying to clear that scene as well. expect some delays, some good news for virginia drivers, inner loop at braddock road, that accident has been cleared. no problems on 66. no problems coming down from 121 all the way from germanton to the split. on the outer loop, no problems between 95 and 270. inner loop earlier construction to new hampshire has cleared as well as pennsylvania to allentown road. i'm going to be looking at i-95 at 4:56. jessica. the maryland state highway administration is taking preemptive measures to ease traffic around the national naval medical center in bethesda. crews will widen connecticut road northbound to the beltway and cedar lane near route 355. it will help alleviate congestion after patients at walter reed medical center are transferred there. the number of visitors is expected to double when that happens. proof that the drug gives women a better chance of surviving breast cancer. taking the drug for five years improves their 15 year survival rate by one-third. that's according to a study in the journal ran set. researchers followed more than 20,000 patients with the most common form of the disease and caught it early. well, the number of women having a stroke during pregnancy or right after delivery is going up dramatically. the centers for disease control says pregnancy related strokes jumped 54% in the last 12 years. doctors says that because more and more women with high risk factors are getting pregnant. high blood pressure and obesity are among the concerns. the group feed the children teamed up with the nfl players association and other corporate sponsors to give food and other essentials to 2,000 dc families in need. yesterday morning at a distribution point along rhode island avenue in northeast, the group focused on families in ward five. the ward has an extremely high unemployment rate and many families there live below the poverty line. just in time, virginia and maryland are launching their an yawl tax-free holidays. virginia sales tax holiday runs from august 5th to the 7th and maryland will offer a full week of tax-free shopping from august 14th through the 20th. during those days school supplies priced up to $20 along with clothes and shoes priced up to $100 will be exempt from taxes. the older kids get, the more likely they are to cheat. that's the findings of a new survey out from fairfax county schools. the survey shows when sixth graders were asked if cheating is okay. 97% of them responded no. by eighth grade, only 82% said they wouldn't ever cheat and just 61% of high school seniors say the same. the survey also shows that older teens are less likely to tell their parents the truth and more likely to ignore the rules. get offeror car and start -- out of your car and start walking. that's what a group called walkarlington.com is asking them to do and in fact they're trying to make the city more friendly. specifically they're asking people what 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[ man ] ♪ she got it, you got it ♪ i got it, we got it [ groans ] ♪ who's got it see you later. ♪ yeah! ♪ come on, she got it you got it, we got it who's got it ♪ we're all different. that's why there are five new civics. the next-generation civic. only from honda. hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. 4:55 on friday morning, howard here with your weather first and a storm or two up near the northeastern area of maryland headed toward delaware. really what we're going to see today is the sunshine and the heat. it's really going to build by noon. low to mid- 90s out there. we'll make a run toward the lower 100s and maybe a few storms specially late this afternoon and this evening. the high today, record high 99. likely get to 102 with a new record. kris sneed is in the traffic center with air latest timesaver traffic. thank you howard. we have a couple of northbound problems here on 95 in virginia. the first one here at route 1 and you can see the accident only the left lane is getting by. you're seeing delays back to 123 here. now moving up north in the hov lanes, we have a problem all lanes are blocked only the left shoulder is getting by between 7100 and the fairfax county -- franconia springfield parkway. i'm going to keep you updated on this. jessica? other to you. a new museum here in the nation's capital is aiming to show people the long listry of islam and muslims in america. the first exhibit at the america's islamic heritage museum opens thursday. among other things it features artifacts and legal documents of early muslim life here in the u.s.. evidence that islam was practiced by native american as well as european settlers. the famed eastern market in danger of shrinking. a proposed development would reduce the number of tents from 100 to 68. residents at the neighborhood are asking for the project to be delayed so developers have time to come up with another plan. the project is set to go before review board this week. amy winehouse's father says the shock of suddenly quitting drinking might have contributed to his daughter's death. mitch winehouse reportedly says his daughter didn't have a drink for three weeks. however, she reportedly ignored a doctor's advice to gradually cut back on the alcohol. amy winehouse was 4'11" and couldn't handle the abrupt detox and a seizure is what could have ended her life. the start of a new mafia movie are out promoting a new film, but joe pesci is out. when he was offered a slimmer character instead and trimmed down paycheck as well of $1 million, he decided to take them to court. the head of the production company making "gotti" says pesci just walked away from the movie. we know the magazine covers and ads inside, they are air brushed to make the models look better. >> but two makeup ads featuring julia roberts and christy turlington has been banned in britain because of it. according to the advertising standards authority, the ads are misleading, lindsey mastis has more. >> from "playboy" to "people" magazine, they retouch everything. >> reporter: why would she need to be digitally enhanced? even when he makes a model look perfect with makeup, the picture has to be enhanced. >> sometimes lighting effects don't work as well. sometimes moving a shadow. >> reporter: professional photographer chuck says the same thing. >> it's not shocking. i'm not shocked by this at all. >> reporter: these ads are for makeup but the enhancements happened on the computer. and it's e

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