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with us on this july 6th. sun coming up on a pretty nice start to the day. good morning. i'm gurvir dhindsa. >> i'm steve chenevey. glad you're with us this morning. lets get a look at what we can expect today. >> we can expect some fog this morning out to the west and because of that, a fog advisory has been isued by the national weather service. it is not impacting washington, d.c. itself but areas off to th e west of the city. take a look. good more than, everybody. dense fog advisory in effect for parts of the viewing area including the counties you see here. shaded in in brown. that fog advisoryis in effect until 9:00 a.m. t includes places like winchester and elsewhere out to the north appear west, harrisonburg. -- to the north and west, harrisonburg. we do have clouds down to the utso ututbacross mutst ofoe th washington area, clear skies, beautiful view this morning of the sunrise. had a gorgeous shot of the moon nia my nghisnior and we'

see a t loof t sunshine during the course of the day today with most of those clouds being suppressed to the south. right now, reagan national airport reporting a temperature of 63 degrees. tull less at 59 degrees and that is pretty cool for this time of year. 59at bwi marshall as well. your forecast for today, mostly sunny skies, warmer today than it was yesterday. we are flook highs in the mid- 80s generally speaking. we'll go with 58 or 86 degrees in downtown washington. elsewhere, you will find warmer temperatures down to the south. 86degrees in la plata. 85 in frederick. baltimore, 84 for your high. more on the weather coming up in just a little bit. >> sound look a good start to the workweek. let's check in with julie wright and see how traffic is playing along. >> i think it is still a little bit of a touch and go here because you know a lot of folks took off last weekend in preparation for the 4th of july. a lot of folks will use the holiday at the beginning of the vacation so we could see trfic volumes lighter than

usual as a lot of folks take off the back half of the vacation and deserve well- deserved time off, i'm sure. it is light and easy with no incidents to report at the wilson bridge. southbound along 270 out of ckville, still at speed here. you are rolling at speed down towards democracy boulevard and around towards old georgetown road. coming inbond along new york avenue, light volume leaving northeast to northwest. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. we have new video just in to the fox 5 newsroom of the first family arriving in moscow just a short time ago. president obama has traved there to meet with the russian president dimitriy medvedev. in just a few minutes, the presidents due to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier in red square. back here at home, another run-in with the law for d.c. mayor marion barry. he was arrested saturday night

accused of stalking a woman. u.s. park police say a woman plagued down an officer saturday night in anacostia park claiming that barry was stalking her. barry was then arrested and released charged with misdemeanor stalking. the woman, 40-year-old donna watts told police she and barry had had dinner in annapolis earlier that night. she told police she dropped him off in the district and headed out to watch the frorkd and she says that is when he followed her in his car. a barry spokesperson denies the allegations and says watts took advantage of their friendship. >> councilmember barry is no stalker. he is someone who has lended his hand to assist which in the end has come back to bite him. >> watts now denies flagging down the park police officer. she says she ver accused barry of stalking her. she wants police to retract the charge. barry's lawyer plans to held a news conference later this

morning. now to the death on michael jackson. the familiar lift late pop star will head to court to begin iring out the details of his estate. they are planning a private ceremony at a cetery in hollywood hills. more than one and a half million fans registered on-line for tickets to the staples center service. the fans are now finding out via e-mail if they received the tickets. the together of former nfl quarterback steve mcnair has been ruled a homicide. police found mcnair and a 20- year-old woman both shot to death in a nashville condominium on saturday. a gun was found near the woman. she and mcnair had been date floofght few months even though mcnair was married with four children. police are not actively looking for any suspects fueling speculation this may have been a murder-suicide. taking a look at this morning's other top sisterries. another escape from the new

beginnings youth center in laurel, maryland. police say six juveniles were taken back into custody. one of them struggled with the u.s. park police officer but there were no serious injuries. several police agencies were involved. new beginnings is a $44 million $44 million center. in upper marlboro, a deadly house fire has claimed two lives. firefighters arrived on the scene along wheeling avenue just before midnight on saturday. they tried to get inside to save the victims but they were forced to retreat for safety reasons. cause of the fire is still under investigation. we're also following several developing stories around the world at this hour. in china, at least 140 people have been killed and riots in the western region there. they were among a crowd of at least 1,000 people demanding an investigation into a fight at a factory last month between

rival ethnic groups that left two people dead. the largest such class since the tibetan uprising last year. the ousted honduran leader says he will attempt to return home again today or tomorrow. military vehicles blocked the runway yesterday as the jet tried to land. thousands of his supporters rallied at the airport. one man was shot to death. a small town held in fear. >> there have been five murders in five days and now police are searching for a serial killer. also ahead, alaska governor sarah palin steps down. what the future may hold for the former vice presidential candidate. a death at disney world. the latest on the investigation into a crash on the park's monorail system. it is all ahead on fox 5 morning news. 

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it happens. you might have had a little bit too much to eat oft 4th of july weekend but probably not as much as these folks though. the 94th annual nathan's hot dog eating contest. here is sonia thomas, the black widow taking part. also germantown's juliet lee taking part. but did he having champ joey chestnut took the title beating kobayashi on the right. chestnut downed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. kobayashi ate 64. >> why? why? >> because somebody had to win.

>> okay. also in new york, lady liberty's crown reopened to visitors on the 4th. it had been closed since just after september 11th. this is a tough ticket to get. these tickets are actually sold out through november. ♪ what you want, baby, i got it &&. >> aretha franklin wowing the crowd on the west lawn over the weekend for a capital 4th. the fireworks weren't bad either and neither was the weather. >> the weather was fantastic. you were down there? >> not exactly but from where -- i was close enough to where i could see them. >> it was the first time i was up on a rooftop watching the fireworks. so you see the fireworks over the wall and you look on the horizon and you see probably at least 0 different fireworks shows all across the imrear from maryland through virginia. it was just unbelievable. >> it is a great day, great time of year and we had great weather for it. >> i know. usually, it is just so missable

this time of year. we kept talking about it. usually, you are down there sweltering. >> it was a good one. today will be a pretty good day. it will be noticeably warmer but it shut fob this time of year. we'll start with the fog advisory in effect. is that what i'm starting with? there is a fog advisory in effect. i'll just tell you it is in effect for parts of het area until 9:00 a.m. out to the west. yesterday's high temperatures, only in the 70s. reagan national, about 15 degrees below normal. 73 was the high yesterday at reagan national. 7 # at dulles. a very comfortable pleasant day but these temperatures well below normal. should be in the upper 80s for this time of year. bwi marshall, 77 degrees. our temperatures right now, 63. 67 up in pittsburgh. we have 50s close to us. baltimore is at 59 degrees at this hour. in roanoke, it is 64. take a look at the satellite-

radar for the region. clear skies, we'll put it in motion for you. the clouds that you see there have now pushed off to the south and the rain that was in central virginia, that has pushed off but we do have rain showers in the southern parts of virginia. clouds have pushed out. we do have a little bit of fog here and there. mostly clear skies to the north an well out to the west. that will give us a fine weather condition for the next couple of days. for today, mostly sunny skies. warmer temperatures, high about 85 degrees here in washington. our typical high would be 88 degrees. for tonight, partly cloudy skies but comfortable temperatures in the 60s across the region. five-day forecast, not a bad one. tomorrow, we'll see a high in the upper 80s so a warmer day by that is right where we should be really. a lot of sunshine. wednesday, a few more clouds added in for wednesday. we have aput a chance of a thunderstorm or shower on wednesday but i'll be hon of the. it is only about a 20% chance so don't worry too much about that. thursday and friday, lots of sunshine. highs will range from the low

80s into the mid-80s. that is a look at what is happen with the weather. let's get an update on traffic for that. >> checking out the ride around town, we have the lane open as you commute between college park and the exit for 270 with no incidents reported. southbound 270 working your way in from germantown headed out towards the split, light traffic volume there. northbound 395 headed out towards duke street, still at speed. 66 starting to see a little bit of action getting busy right now at 50 fair oaks as traffic merges on to continue eastbound in towards vienna. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. a big green light overnight for general motors to emerge from bankrupt as a judge ruled that gm can set bulk of its assets tie new company. government-backed plan if a quick exit from chopper 11 protection hinges on the sale. treasury department is bound to cut off funding from gm if a deal does for the go through by july 10th. coming up next they are called ghost boxes and they are

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a few big box retailers dealing with big trouble being forced to close stores. all of those empty stores have now been dubbed ghost boxes and cities are having a hard time luring in new businesses to take the place of those big box retailers. the international council of shopping centers says nearly 7,00retail stores announced they were closing in 2008, a 50% jump from 2007. topping our business beat, a surprising admission from vice president joe biden. >> so the truth is there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited.

now, that -- i'm not laying -- >> all right. to find out more about all of that, chis cotter is joining us with the fox business network. he is up in new york with our business beat. i guess the vice president talking about when they came up with the stimulus plan earlier in the year, they were thinking that unemployment was going to be 8%. it is now 9. 5% so things far worse than they thought it would be. >> i love that. it is not our responsibility. i love that. i think that is just fantastic. 8%. yeah, issed the mark tremendously on that one. it is now 9.5%. like 99 about the 9% of us thought it was going to be and it is going to go to 10%. it is just a matter of time as to ifand when a why and how. on thursday, we got bad job numbers. all of these economic reports have been less bed bad, not thursday's. that was bad and that sent the market down. we had a terrible day axe record-breaking day as a matter of fact for the day before a july 4th holiday. haven't had one that bad in 50

years. we are starting off on the wrong foot today. our markets are down about one to one and a half percent across the board here in the states in premarket trading. in europe, they are down about one and a half percent as well too. we'll open lower as well. >> i don't want to correct you. he said it is now our responsibility in that clip there. >> oh being okay. that is the first time i heard that. >> i understand. it is early. >> that is why i was -- >> flabbergasted. >> i'm glad he is taking responsibility. >> no matter whose fault this might be. bottom line is something has to be done about t the obama administering came up with a stim plus land. do you think in light of where the economy is now, we'll see additional stimulus money, chris? >> there certainly is talk of it. and the vp over the weekend said i'm not going to say it is needed right now but he also didn't say he wasn't going to put out more stimulus money. so i think it is still too early to tell because a lot of

what we're talking about with the stimulus money and the vice president would be the first to tell you, it hasn't gone through the system yet. we haven't started to see benefits yet from the first stimulus so we'll wait on the second one. they are hoping september, october, we'll see benefits. >> a little bit sooner now, on wednesday, we are expecting some earnings reports, right? >> yeah, hat is huge. alcoa comes out on wednesday and alcoa of all the dow stocks, that is the first one traditionally to start earnings season. so now, we shift a little bit from economic news to corporate earnings and to see how well things went in the second quarter. first quarter, not so good but that was expected. second quarter, we are expecting better. >> very good. we'll see how the week goes. thank you. coming up next, former d.c. mayor marion barry arrested over the weekend accused of stalking and we are hoping to find out more about that coming up a little bit later this morning. sarah similar monday is following this story which has

taken a new twist. >> that's right. councilman barry denies those stalking claims but there are two very different versions of the story emerging here. i'll have those for you when fox 5 morning muse returns. stay with us. spars-- when fox 5 morning news returns. stay with us.

a long holiday weekend and we're off to a good start. >> let's he take a look at what i on out oithe. wrttah ait afoisg y. ordv dense fog advisory issued but the national weather service. i say surrisingly because you lo t okouyour window and you oui y n'dot see any fog but it is off to the west. those re coune ouincluded under this fog advisory in effect until 9:00 a.m. satellite-radar composite, let's take a look. most of ouhecl vedocr off ot the south and across southern maryland, portions of the eastern shore and the southern chesapeake bay as well. lyon ra inactytivi we are

seeing is wel to the south and extreme southern virginia. now, current conditions being reported at reagan national, 63 degrees. relative humidity has dropped off just a tad. 84%. the wind have dropped off just a tad out of the northwest at five miles per hour. and your forecast for today, mostly sunny, warmer temperatures, highs into the mid-80s as opposed to the low to mid-70s where we were yesterday. more summer-like conditions. that is the latest on the weather. >> sounds good. let's check in with julie and find out about the land of traffic. >> traveling northbound along 295, we have a crash tying up the two left lane as you work your way up toward the exit for the suitland parkway. the lane are open if you are continng your trip along the top stretch leaving college park headed around towards the exit for georgia avenue. no incidents to report here. light traffic volume south on

95 and 295. northbound 395 headed out towards duke street, the lanes are open with no incidents to report. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. let's head back out to los angeles now where just in a few hours later this morning, michael jackson's family will be in court as preparation wrap up for his memorial service tomorrow. mindy mizell outside the los angeles county courthouse. let's start there. what are we expecting in court later today? >> reporter: well, steve, it will be very interesting today because michael jackson's own torneys are expected to go toe to toe with his mother. what they are battling over is temporary control er michael jackson's estate meaning his half a billion dollar neverland ranch as well as many of his other assets that are worth probably about a half billion dollars or more. it will be interesting to see what kind v how the jackson family approaches this. because if they start to question the validity of michael jackson's ill, they could be calling into question whether or not they even get to

these assets. will stated that 40% would actually go toward michael jackson's mother as well as 40% to his children. so if they say that that is not valid, they might lose those assets as well as custody is going to michael jackson's mother. so it will be interesting to see what happens today. this is just for temporary control over his assets. >> while that plays out in court not far away downtown los angeles at the staples center, lute of folks getting ready for this. how are they preparingfor crowds that could be over a half million people outside although they are still telling people to stay way unless you have tickets. >> reporter: well the tickets have already been apparently distributedded or at least giv away to more than 17,000 people. 11,000 will be over at the staples center. 6500 will be at the nokia center. it will be interesting to see how many people actually show up because less than 0,000 will actually have tickets. if yodon't have a ticket, don't come down to this area.

police are saying it will get difficult to the downto l.a. area. so so many people have such an interest that they are expecting crowds 200,000 to 300,000 people who don't really have tickets. they say in '84 when the olympics were out here, crowds were just massive. they are thinking the crowds could be even bigger. >> do we have any idea at this point in jackson's casket will actually be there. there is a private service at a cemetery earlier that morning? >> we haven't gotten any details as to what will be happening at the memorial service. we don't know if the casket will be there. we do not the family is expected to have a private ceremony in hollywood hills sometime before the memorial service. we aren't hearing any details as to what the service will contain. only that we will likely see

celebrities out there. the staples center fits 20,000 people. the remaining place will be for vip's and who just ends up making it to the memorial service. >> thank you for the update this morning. former d.c. mayor marion barry arrested saturday night accused of stalking a woman but that woman now tells fox 5 that she is not comfortable with the story police are telling. >> more details could surface later this morning when barry's attorney holds a news con friend. let's get the latest on a news conference from sarah simmons who is at the wilson building. we do hope to learn more at about 10:00 when councilman barry's lawyer is expected to come out and we are expecting the councilman to fight these charges. they were denying them yesterday when the spoke person held a news conference saying the charges were baseless. there are two very different versions of this story that are emerging now. u.s. park police say it all the

went down in anacostia park just before 9:00 saturday night. park police say a woman flagged down an officer at the park and told police she was being bothered and stalked by a person in another car. turns out person was councilman barry. that led to barry's on a misdemeanor charge of stalking. at yesterday's news conference, the ward 8 councilman's spokesperson denied the claim an lashed out at his alleged accuser. >> mr. barry has, or a period of time, lended his friendship and his support to the accuser ms. donna watts through her many stages of instability. he considered her his very close friend and so -- which is why today he feels quite betrayed by her actions. >> reporter: now, donna watts spoke by phone to fox 5 last night. she says that she did not flag down an officer and that she

did not accuse barry of stalk. she also says about those remarks from barry's spokesperson, she says those are unfortunate. she says she is not unstable and that we do hope to learn more from her -- or his lawyer i should saw coming up later on thisorning in the 10:00 news conference. >> thank you. right now, we'll take a look at this morning's other top stories for you. president obama and the first family are in russia today. they arrived in moscow about an hour ago. president obama's meeting with russian president dimitriy medvedev is expected to lead day nuclear agreement. one senior official tells the associated press that agreement would lower the number of warheads. back here at home, firefighters are investigating after a dead lie house fire in upper marlboro. the fire killed two people. the fire start ad long wheeling avenue just before midnight on saturday. firefighters tried to get inside to save the victims but were forced to retreat for safety. they are now trying to figure out what sparked those flames. in laurel, another escape

from the new beginnings iewghtd center. police say six juveniles were taken back into custody along the baltimore-washington parkway and a nearby neighborhood. one struggled with the u.s. mark police officer but there were no serious injuries. another inmate escaped last month just one day after the new center opened replacing the troubled oak hill renter. another big story we are following. the death of former nfl quarterback steve mcnair. >> the former star was found dead in a nashville condominium over the weekend. what police are saying about that crime when we come back. [ engine powers down ] gentlemen, you booked your hotels on orbitz. well, the price went down, so you're algetting a check thanks. for the difference. except for you -- you didn't book with orbitz, so you're not getting a check. well, i think we've all learned a valuable lesson today. good day, gentlemen. thanks a lot. thank you. introducing hotel price assurance, where if another orbitz customer books the same hotel for less, we send you a check for the difference, automatically.

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nashville. police say he had been shot several times. 20-year-old sahel kazemi was found dead lying on the floor of the same room with one gunshot wound to the head. police also recovered a pistol >> we think the gun was underneath ms. kazemi's body when officers entered the residence. it was not initially visible. >> mcnair was a legendary sports figure in nashville and led the titans to their first and only super bowl appearance. he was the three-time pro bowl selection and co-mvp of the league in 2003. kazemi, arrested cog to the police, was mcnair's friend. they apparently met at a dave and buster's restaurant where she was a waitress. we have learned that two days before they were found dead, mcnair and kazemi were pulled over by nashville police. they were any vehicle registered in both of their names. kazemi was arrested for driving under the influence. mcnair, who was a passenger in

the vehicle, was allowed to leave in a taxi. >> from what we've learned from friends, they apparently were involved in a dating relationship over past several months. >> steve mcnair played for the baltimore ravens from 2006 until 2008. it was a win for tiger woods at the at&t national at congressional country club. he hosted and also played in that event. this was the tournament's third year. he didn't hit the links last year because he was recovering from the knee injury. he found time if a little bit of n after his win over the weekend. >> as host, i always wanted to do this so just bear with me. so tying are, how did you play today? >> well -- so tiger, how did you play today? >> well, was a tough day. got off to a slow start but hunt arer put the pressure on us. >> did he really. he shot 62. what do you think about that? well, i always wanted to did

that. thank you. >> must be kind. nice for him to relax after that win after all the pressure is off. they made history at wimbledon over the weekend too. >> and federer stands alone. >> i tell you this was an unbelievable tournament. roger federer won wimedon to claim his record 15th grand lamb title. pretty incredible game against andy roddick. it lasted a record 77 games. federer broke roddick as serve only once. feds earlier ones the four-plus hour marathon 16-14 in five sets to capture a record 15th grand slam tightal. >> i wish i had watched that. >> no, you don't. i was trying to watch the end it was and i had to be somewhere. i said this will be over soon. i finally this give up and i'm gladi did because it went another 15 games after that. >> that is one for the ages. >> it is one of those.

you know you hate to lose it but you got to feel pretty good about the effort you put into it. >> i would feel horrible. >> you play that long and you come up short. >> maybe i'm being too altruistic. let's take a look at what is happening with the weather conditions around the region. w we am ngsttih?arit l 'lstl t aritt wh the first image here which is the current at gi. urer unare ord th on i'm so good at filling time. # 3 degrees around washington. 59 in baltimore. 59 at dulles. this is unusual. july6th and temperatures in the 50s this morning. 55 in frederick. we have some fog being reported out towards the west. hagerstown as well. places like that. sat-rad, here we go. put it in motion for you. there are some of the clouds that we saw yesterday, last night. most of that cloud cover off to the south. a few clouds, some of our viewers across southern portions of the viewing area, fredericksburg, places like that. you will see some cloud cover. but most of the real good clouds are well off to the

south and east. and we've got clear skies across the region. here wh is we'll be dealing with today. most of the action remains to our south because that frontal system is stalled out well to the south across the carolinas. for us, warm air makes its way back in place today. so instead seeing highs in the 70s as we saw during the last couple of days, we'll see our highs back into the mid 1r0 right about where they should be. the forecast for today looks like this. mostly sunny skies, warmer temperatures, high about 85 degrees. our normal higfor this date, 88 degrees. we'll get closer tomorrow as we look at the five-day forecast. 87 tomorrow. on wednesday, we've added the chap of a shower or thunderstorm but right now, tucker and i were talk about this. only about a 20% chance. i don't think most of us will see anything on wednesday. thursday and friday, highs will range from the low to the mid- 80s. ladies and gentlemen, after quite a vacation for ask the weather guy, the feature is

back. ask the weather guy is here. yes, the segment where tucker t our big geeky weather heads together to answer your most pressing questions, weather-related or otherwise. this one, not quite weather- related. its john dee writes lets a say tony tucker and tucker were all hiking. and here is what he says: >> i have the answer. neither one of you. >> it is a very reative question. it is not a beach so the premise of the question is wrong. she had not be -- i don't think any of us would be hiking. i debate whether she would get out of wait. but having said all of that, julie wright joins us now. i have my own view of who you would save and probably tucker -- think you would save me. >> would do you think she would

save? >> i would like to think she'd save me. >> oh, please. >> steve hit the nail right on the head, man. that was right. here is the thing. who is buying me dipper once we get off the mountain. >> you better settle that right now in case you are in that situation. >> i think with we made it off the mountain alive and you were integral in saving us, i would buy dinner. >> are we going to try to win her over. >> you have to bid for your life savings. >> you have to save me on my merits. >> tucker barnes, we all know tucker balkans has enough money to buy own island where it would always be sunny and 85. i will give him that. but if there is something i have to be with the rest of my life, it would have to be tony. because tony and i have the same moussal tastes and we have -- i think we have the same kind of december practice meant. we both have a lot of fun. >> i appreciate the sentiment. i'm not sure how we got to if i had to spend my life with someone. >> i don't mean it like that.

>> just save thing you on the mountain. i'm going to buy you dinner. that is about it. >> julie -- >> i didn't mean it like that, tony. >> i got a phone call. it's rhonda. i'll be ck. >> thank you, julie. >> rhonda said leave you up there. >> you're probably right about that. >> thank you, julie. we thank john d eh want e for the question as well. if you have a question that you would like answered being, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. >> i think john is completely overestimating your athletic ability. >> julie is now composing herself to bring us our traffic report. >> if we were stuck somewhere where it was nice and tropical, you would have something there, john. out on the roads, lane are open with no accidents to reported. we have some slowdowns here at

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