Theth shutdown. Ogovernment shutdown, and of o course, its day three. For the furlough workersou patience and money is already running out on. As Congress Continues a piec meal approach to ending the stalemate. President barack obama isarack pushing for a solution. Today he is is ic taking a tript to rockville to highlight the human and economic toll thellhe shutdown is taking. Melanie alnwick is joining us jo live from rockville with the details, mel, good morning. Me reporter goodl, morning,mo alsee son. As the hour draws closer to president obamas business heres in rockville, media that is nots right up there, has gone through security has been pushed back quite a bit. Que you can see the stacks from theh distance of the m louis company, they have done quite well. They have more than 100 employees, several million inin contracts and some are federal funds. Today the president does plan to use this company to make his case why the shutdown must end n but theres still no signs of o compromise. Last night president obama met with congressional leaders at the white house trying to put an end to the budget battle that sparked the government shutdown. I am exasperated with thehe idea that unless i say that 20 million people, you cant have health insurance, thesee, folks will not reopen the government. Reporter the meeting ended without a resolution and afterwards the finger pointing continues. We sent four different proposals to our democrat de colleagues in the senate. They rejected all of them. I could only conclude thatncl they wanted to shutdown govern. That they think that has ahas purpose for them. Pu reporter the republicans re and democrats alike say the t shutdown could last for two weeks or more, and one financial analysts says the failure of both sides coming to terms willi likely leave a negative impact on the u. S. Economy. Econo you will see a falling stock market, you may see risingri interest rates, falling bond prices, the value of the dollaro may go down and this is not a a good time in the u. S. Economy ec which is struggling to regain growth after the financial crisis. Now, during that meeting yesterday at the white house, ho the democrats, and the presidenr said that they were very clear with republicans, unle not onlye they not going to compromise with the funding bill but they h were not going to compromise with the debt ceiling bill that is scheduled to come up on october 17. Ct the senate will have to take aa vote on some of those mini spending bills that the house passed yesterday some small parts of the government. Tony and allison, i think that i is where we will see if theres any small cracks in these party lines. Back to you. Thank you, mel me. As the shutdown drags on, the impact on the region become more clear. Wisdom is back with this part of the story. Reporter some 800,000 federal employees are flooding the Unemployment Offices, itit received more than 100,000 0, claims, they are asking peoplene to file the initial claims online because of the increased ghafnltdemand. Emand. You should make sure that you check with your state Unemployment Office about the possibility of paying back benefits in feds are reimbursed for the furlough time. The National Mall and its memorials remain closed but veterans and other touriststourt continue public acts of defiance. Nce. Yesterday military veterans went around those barricades touring the world war ii memorial. The vets were flown here througg the honor flight program. A Parks Service spokesman stressed that although the th memorial is closed to the public, the vets rains will be e allowed access to the memorial. Metro is reducing service to six car train as they report 22 drop of ridership because of the shutdown. Trains will still run on a regular schedule. Hedule this could be the shutdown that steals christmas, that isis because a new Holiday Spending p report is tied to how long the impasse lasts. Also there be football in annapolis. The department of defense hase s given the navy a green light. Li and there you go, allison and we will also mention that the z burger will end the offer ofer f free burgers, and they estimate it has given away more than 60,000 worth of free burgers. Wow. It seems like a lot. Seem they were kinds of overwhelmed, but it will end today at severn p. M. 7 00 p. M. M. That was only the first few days. The good news is the footbal game will play, because that ist very important. We dont know what will happen a after other football games, butu this was big. This w i was reading that annie wasn with us as well, that a lot of Small Businesses in annapolis, really look forward to this gamh because it brings a lot oflot o business. A lot of money, because wer talking about two hill tare schoolmilitaryschools playing ah other. This is a big deal for their economy. Om and annie is here. Yeah. Were looking forward to this,ng because i know. Im still getting your interview with edwards. You were you like that. He was a giant. No, i did not tweet on purpose. She sent out a tweet that she tripped in front of him and hehe grabbed her. No he didnt grab me. Me he reached out to help. Help i was okay. I stood my ground. Gr but the fact that he reached ouu to help. You would have watched me fall. She tripped on purpose. He is a goodlooking british man. N. Okay. We are going to talk about texting and driving. D we have been warned of this, wee know that texting and driving is wasnt leading cause of accidents. Daydreaming is the top distraction for a driver. 62 said daydreaming was the top distraction, followed by texting and driving and it was by 12 ,12 and other distractions were we paying attention to the kids ini the back seat and rubberneckinge so daydreaming. You know, we come up with thh best ideas when were driving. R sometimes, that is true. Ue but i you know, im completely aware that theres been times, and our executive producer was saying this early today. He said its true for him, too. That you sometimes, i am daydreaming and all of a sudden i realize, oh, im here. Or you day dream, and youu miss your exit. All the time. Time even to work, something that you do, itsrk, a route that yu take day in and day out, and i have missed my exist before because i drift off on. Probably easier to happen. Could it be that you are driving that routine and you you turn your mind off for a while. When i think of da daydreaming m actively thinking of something. I dont think that daydreaming is that, i think youthr mind is shut off a littli bit and youre thinking about au stuff. Youre going to write down do your card times and make tags and make smore you don sure i. Its falling asleep behindas the wheel. That has happened to a lot ot people or overworking the overnight shift. Ht its easy to get tired. That wasnt on the list. Its not as common as these other things, daydreaming. Texting. Makeup. I see people reading books. I orng reading papers. Pe that is crazy. Rubbernecking is one of them. What you were doing when youg saw that person . Anyway. I came across this article and i thought it was super super interesting. We now agree on something, men n and women agree that the goldeno age for feeling the most mo comfortable with their personall style is 33. Okay on. On. 33 years old, both men and women, say okay, i feel good. This is my style. This is what im working with. It was later for me. It was much earlier for me when i discovered it, but that is good. I didnt even i wasnt even aware that i needed toedd discover that. You go shoppindig and stuff. This is what i wanted to aska you, guys, in addition to that, 38 of people said that, well, women said that half of the clothes in their closet, theythy dont even wear. Do men have the same problem . I do, but its because of thh field i work in. I have a lot of suits and stuff that i would not have if ivef wasnt on t. V. Every day. And you know, some of them fallout of favor, so theyre th kind of hanging there. I donated a bunch of them. I would say that you, even if you were in any other fieldot would still have a lot of of goodlooking suits. Suits you are just that kind of a person. Oh, that is nice. I wouldnt have a whole lot. Where do you think you would be going to work. Dont know. I think you would always be a professional who need to wear a suit and you like to look good when i worked in radio, i ra didnt wear suits every day. What did you wear. Jeans. I cant picture in jeans. Yeah, like a weather day. Day. He sits down. I cant. Look, my role is to let youou know that tony just cracks on you, when he says like whatwh youre wearing. Just to let you know. No, no. All right. [ laughter ]aughte i will not forgive you. You. Another thing i wanted to throw out there forwa the guys s that women often have this, al, you buy something and a few days later you have buyers remorse,e, and you end up going back to the store. I have never done that in myn entire life. Li you have never returned. Is it because of laziness ora you are confident what you purchase. Im pretty confident with co what i get. Ge im confident with what i get. What are you talking about . Ab yes, i have had that. Th sometimes you know, thereson the thrill of the buying of the thing. G. Right. And sometimes by the time i get to my car, is why did i buy this. How about this, the salesperson is so helpful you he cant say no. N you buy something. My question to you, do they lose their commission if you take it back . We will be right back. We will talk. Write our facebook page. If you are a salesperson let me know. At tony perkins on tv. Thats my twitter thing. Oh, no, i got to go. Oh, can you make that to go . These days, nobody has time to get sick. But minuteclinic makes it easy to get well. Our Nurse Practitioners can diagnose and write prescriptions for everything from strep throat to sinus infections with no appointment necessary, so you can feel better in no time. You guys want to go to the park . Yeah yeah minuteclinic, the Medical Clinic in cvs pharmacy. Accepts United Healthcare benefit plans. Find a clinic near you at minuteclinic. Com. imm Terry Mcauliffe, candidae for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . Hes focused on his own agenda. Not us. She back. She is back. Playing her for a reason. You can drop a fortune on the latest lotions and positionspot that promise to stop aging process. But some the best strategies for antiaging are free. And we are joined by tina. And this is the second biggest story of the day for me. Good morning. I know, allison. He wish that we he with are worried of putting stuff on the outside to get rid of the science of aging. This is science and it says its what happens inside, this is about genetics and dna. So i have a shoe lace, and thead caps on this shoe lace, they compare these to our telamierss and those are caps on the dna molecules. Its interesting, the longer they are, the longer you avoid aging. Listen to this. We know that crossexamine cs d navment na are important to o. Tip of a chromosome is a hard little area, its very much like the tip of a shoe lace unfor opportunitily every yeaunfortuns shorter and shorter. When it has no length to it, our cell dies and its part of aging. What do you do, how do you maintain a long telamier. Dr. Dean or initial, cardiologist did a study. He found in the men that followed four Lifestyle Changes grew their telamier diet. Diet. They were doing exercise everyry day, they were just walking, it wasnt supervisor intense supere walking and managing their stress and meeting once a week k in support groups. Getting rid of some of that stress, and sharing some of their stories that supported network, all of that resulted in longer telamier is, and thatth resulted in longevity, guys. Its great to know that youou can lengthen it. It is what it is. Thats good to know. O you mentioned one of the things that the men were doing was managing stress. Stre on another topic, you said if stressful situations seem to t follow you everywhere you go,you the chanceses are, its your fault. What can you do about that . Th well, this is interesting. And a lot of people are going te say its not my fault. Its my boss, its my kid, its the traffic. Traf i talked to a life coach who iss also a psychologist. We label these life events as being stressful, and internally we think that theyre stressful. We create the stress in ourin minds. This is what she had to say. We cant always change our thinking, but when we get there, thinking is what creating it. It we can sometimes cut back fromrm that. It does change our experience of it. You know, were not left scrambling trying to find a newa job or leave our stressful partner, or do all of these crazy, go on vacation and do al of these things. Thin im having stressful thinking, im caught up in what i call a thought storm and wait. All storms it will pass. Yet, tony and allison, some people say picture yourself as a character in a movie and say iy going to change the dialogue an change the characters emotionsr that is one approach dealing with stress. Thought storm. Now that is all im going to be thinking about it. Ut its a thought storm. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Im all caught up in this ne show im watching on well, its on cable the Oprah Network fix my life. Yeah. Y its wonderful and theres a phrase that shefu says, and i think that im going to try tor start using it when i have a thought storm. Make another choice. She is like, that that is your thought, make another choice. She is very positive. She has had a come back. Lets tall make another choice. Coming up next, a miracle in minnesota how a carpenter survived shooting himself in the heart with a nail gun. I hope we dont have any pictures of that one. First we are going to go owl to holly. Holly cheer us up. Reporter wche are spending morning at waterford, virginia. This is saxon and roman, and they are going to be here thishe weekend, you should, too, we ara going to show you all theall reasons why, later on fox 5 morning news. Stay with us. mom. Yes honey . Dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart, is that true . Says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and thats heart healthy. [ dad ] jan . All right, get ready, a a minnesota man is recovering re after accidentally shootingg himself in the heart with thee h nail gun. Gun. The father of seven is a carpenter and he was building aa deck for a neighbor, a 3 1 2 inch nail came within two millimeters of a major artery. Ironically, doctors say the the design of the nail saved his life, and the mans sternumnum stopped it from going any further. He called his wife first instead of 911. As soon as it hit me, i kneww was in trouble. I thought, man. Ma i got to get somebody to get get help fast. Help that is when you think thatk this could be the last time i would be would ever be with him. I did ask him if he thought he was going to die. You said no, didnt you. I said im too ornery to die. He said just die fast. Fa he will recover at home for r several months. Mo doctors say he cant do any heavy lifting for some time. But once he recovers, he iss, he going to finish that deck. No, no, i won hirin would beg somebody. He has got to keep on living. He is living for a reason. Love that. A fun way to support childrep andor families throughout the d. Region being treated at Childrens National medicalmedic center. We are talking about the race for every child. Today we will be sitting downg with one of the families thatmil will be walking. Will be walking. You will meet them in just a moment. Dont overthink it. [ hans ] warm, flakey, gooey. Toaster strudel faster than kenny can dodge a question. Honey, howd that test go . [ female announcer ] in just 60 seconds, youve got snack defying, satisfying mmm. Totinos pizza rolls. Mmhmm. Hmm. [ female announcer ] zero to pizza. Pronto. Now in two bold new flavors [ female announcer ] zero to pizza. Pronto. Im Terry Mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . 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Anyway, theyre little dog cooper, they strapped high heels on him, i cant see the wheels right there. But the two there you go, both of them have on the heels,e the two of them have been together nine years. Too took some convincing to gete the groom in those heels. El they will be married for aedo long time because he clearly haa a sense of humor and its rated super high with women. They want a man with a sense of humor. R. If doesnt workout, they have tucker. That is great. Can we see first one, again, too. That is so cute. Its cute. Oh oh. What do you think. Well if youre a guy. But know, it shows your yo commitment to your woman. Woman. Havent you done silly thing for love. Of course i have. Ha remember joe jonas did a parody we are was timberlake. Those pictures are forever. I love it, too. Its easy. S lets do the weather forecast. Its going to be an easy today. Midto upper 80s and anotherothr warm day expected as we continue to enjoy unseasonably warm air a for early october. 69 for reagan national. And 70 in cambridge andan leonardtown and the upper 60s in fredericksburg, 68 degrees, d and 68 in culpeper as well. Manassas, youre holding on toon the 60s, 69. Cloud offer, and we wil cover a dealing with more cloudiness, it will generally be sunny, high, thin clouds as we watch tropical moisture being pulled up from the gulf. High pressure will keep thingsts nice and drierks bu dry and drya front. That will give us more cloud cover today. We will hold the temperaturestus back, maybe a degree or two, mid80s today the daytime highs today. Want to mention, our new tropical storm, this is karen, maximum winds are 60 miles perpe hour. The latest advisory just came out a few minutes ago, the advisory came out a few minutes ago, its forecast to track to o the north and to the north and d east eventually and become a a Strong Tropical Storm before landfall later this weekend, somewhere on the northern gulf probably the northern western we shore there of florida. Fl already we have tropical storml watches that have been issued for parts of the northern gulf. We will have to watch that. Even here locally, we could be impacted bit remnants of karen by early neck week. Neck it looks like its going tong to track to western florida and get dragged up for the cold front and we will see enhanced rains, the cold front moves on later on monday and tuesday with the recommend nance oremnants. S. Generally 86. And winds out of the east at 5, 66 tonight, and a few clouds and mild. Mil friday, sunshine, 47 87, 80, 80, saturday and sunday. And the rains could be locally heavy here. Hey we will have to look where they are. Thats the weather forecast, allison. 9 32 now and fox 5 is a proud sponsor of this year, the inaugural Childrens NationalMedical Center race for every ev child even. Ve its happening on every saturday, its not too late to sign up, but i think today is the last day to do so. The event supports the childrent and thes families throughout or area. That includes our guest thishis morning. Here to share their story, we w are joined though morning by sue. Good morning to you, and her son, jay lin sue. Good morning to you, we are blad tglad to have you this mor you are taking part on then e race on saturday. Tuay definitely, my whole family will be there. I read the article in the in washington family magazine. It was very touching. To it talks your journey and the big parts of the childrensch National Medical center plays in it. Rest of the viewers, can you tell us what you haveve already been through. We found that jay lin had cancer, we were completely devastated and feeling very frightened, helpless, and we reached out to the friends in the medical field and doctors for advice, and everyone said h needs to be at childrensch national that he would get the best streamen treatment there. R he was there for about a yeara for the kemkemi chemotherapy trr and the whole time we never ne doubted that he has the bestbest possible medical care, not only medically. They did everything they could to makeco sure that he was wa comfortable. It was a very hard time for all of us for jay lin, especially. And they wanted to make surent that heed was in good spirits, that he wasnt feeling too depressed and lonely. Lonel they took such good care of him. This is recently. Ren we saw the picture. Th this ies only several years ago now. Thats right. Amazing now, there you are, and now youre in high school now. And to see you sitting here, ihe would never know that you have been through anything that required anything more than a bandaid. How are you feeling these days . Im feeling a lot better tha i was before. I still cant really do any of the normal activities that i th could do before, running and an playing sports with my friends. But i am gradually getting back to i do physical therapy th every day, and im gradually gr Building Back the muscles and fighting as hard as i can. Because he was diagnosed witn a pretty aggressive form of cancer, can you tell us what wh that was. Osteo sarcoma, bone cancer, he had just started 6thh grade it came cut on anyan warning. He was playing soccer. One day he felt a little pain. He was an active boy. We didnt take it seriously initially. It was part of soccer injuries,n just get out back on the field and it will be fine, so it lasted about three weeks. Ek thereabouts. And then we just decidedde something is wrong. We took him to the doctor, and not thinking it would be anymorn a minor injury. He walk in there perfectly fine, and walked out two hours later told he had cancer. It was very, very difficult time for us. How are you feeling with alll of this . Well, to be honest. I really didnt know what it meant to have cancer at that time. It was something that happenedna to other people and not people. And older people. Right. Definitely. And so i was confused, of course. But i had a sense of fright. I had heard what cancer could do, and once the doctors explained to me what was going o i finally really understood what i was about to go through and an how hard it would be. D and then i got very scared. And then you you entereded childrens, and what can you tell us about the care you received there. Ed the Childrens National, the best hospital. Hospi the doctors, the nurses, the entire staff, they are theyty are all there for us. They do whatever possible they can to make sure this we always get the best care possible and that its after th comfortable. Im sitting here mom to mom o and you hear that news, and my n heart breaks for that moment. I can almost be taken back to that time with you. Foyor those watching and haveha recently gotten a diagnosis, ano you know, theyre feeling, especially parent to child, what do you say to parents out thereh right now, as someone who has wh been through this firsthand . I would just tell them, you just have to you cannot givei up hope. Hope. You know, i knew that childrenn national is the best place for him. I had complete trust in thein th doctors and nurses there. And it was a very, very difficult time. There were moments when we were scared. We were in the hospital so much. Usually it was just the two oftw us there. Er and there were many times when i needed someone to hold my hand and they were always there. They didnt just take care of jalen, because they saw me, theh understood what i was goingat i through, and they took the timee to make sure that i was okayay along with it. It was very, very touching andan it meant a lot to us that theyth cared about the wheel family an not the whole family and not just him. Its been a pleasure meeting both of you. I wish you the best of health for 100 years and let us knowus how you you are doing both of you. See you saturday. Sa yes, definitely, we will bebe there. I will be there, too. Too. Let me give you a couple of reminders. Today is the last day to register. You have to do it online. There wont be any online registration for the race for fo every child this saturday. Sa you have until 11 59 p. M. To do it. Log on to race for every child. Org. To volunteer. To volunteer log on to race forf every child. Org. The event gets underway, excusex me at 8 30 saturday morning, at Freedom Plaza with the 5k runwalk, the kids dash gets underway at 9 30, a lot of stuff for the kids to do. The funds raise race will support medical care, research as well as wellness and Preventive Services offered to the Childrens National center. No family is turned away from childrens regardless of theiral ability to pay. Abilit we are going to be there on theh site regardless of what happenst to the government. We will be ongo the street and t on the plaza. Come around, all of that staysaa the same. The time is 9 39. Thank you to the family for being here. We will be right back. [ female announcer ] these are the crescents you love on a holiday. And these are the ones youll love on a school night. Pillsbury crescent dogs. With just a few ingredients, you have an easy dinner. Pillsbury crescents. Make dinner pop [ pop ] but press them flat, add sauce. And some pepperoni and cheese. 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Quick answer, when youk return, yes, they nee lose their commission. My friend who used to work at nordstrom. Dstm. Its happening in waterforda in loudoun county, and holly is there. Reporter hi, guys, theres a lot of activity here c this morning as they are gearing up. The fair actually opens tomorro and runs through the weekend. We when you come out here, it rit lally iliterally is like steppig in time. A lot of activities that you see happening here are a bit of a history lesson, a bit in itself. We are going to start with walking the wool. The this is melissa weaver dunning, good morning to you. Hello. Reporter tell me aboutter this. The traditional method that sphin b finish cloth in sc. When they came off the wool, you can still see between the threads. It wasnt thick and it wasnt water proof, at the end of the winter women would get together and have a walk in. And they would wet the cloth, cl sew it into a loop, and get a ge bunch of friends together and pass it on the cloth on the table, which begins the feltingt process, and the cross gets ts thicker. It will be warmer and more weather proof and its made into coats it wouldnt shrink again, when it got wet again. Its like when i throw my my knit in the wash. E when you put nonwashable yarn in the wash, it felts together. So its cool. So lets see it in progress a pr little bit. There was the ship sailing on the north north and the name of the ship was the green willow tree sailing are the loan some loathe so that the land so low lo they had not been. Reporter one of the things that i think is so cool c about washing things like these, that it makes you appreciate hop far wpre have come and how thin get done today and what it took back then. Its a true appreciation of the craft and the skills that willal be on exhibit here this weekend at the waiterford fair. Fair. We have someone who is talented on the world. D. She is with 9 pat studio and you are all about quilting. Im all about quilting, tinyl quilts. Youuporter that meanst finish them quickly. Qu not quickly, but they are miniaturized so you can enjoy an old quilt. These are all inspired by 19 century quilt. Centur this is a wild goose chase pattern inspired by a connecticut quilt made in 1825. Reporter i say the mini quilting thing because my grandmother does quilting andes she is always, you only quiltqu for people you really love. That is true, thats true. They are a gift of love. Thats the nice thing about b doing these old ones, and bringing the inspiration of theo old quitters. Reporter you can shows us a little bit. Sure, that is hand quilting. Reporter hand quilting, everything done by hand which is so fascinating to me. We still do it by hand. Reporter how long does itds take you to do any given piece . It depends on how big it isis and how complex it is; i haveha been working on this for severae years. Reporter im sorry, didrryd you just say you have been working on on this for several years. Years. Yes. Reporter and what is the anticipated completion day. Whenever its done. Ne reporter you dont wantyo to knit on a time schedule. Its just when its done. Its about the journey. Theres two other things that have journeyed here that i want you to see this weekend, they th come along with Martha Polkey pk this is jackson and roman, right . Roman, and jackson. Ckson tell me about these guys. These are marino rams andrama they were one the breeds that were in virginia, Thomas Jefferson had marinos and they h were important to early waterfords history sheep in general. There was a following mill, which would do with machines let these people are doing over here. And you can see here is the three bags full of wool. So this fellow is just shorn last week, and his father willtw be shorn in the spring. There you go. Go. And before and after. Afte and theres many, many crafts here. Almost everything that a cheep p has will be available here. You will have textile from hairr fleece. You will have sheep cheese. Its the sheep extravaganza. Come and talk to martha if you o have more yez, th questions, wea link to theirs if you want toant find out more. T i will leave you with that allison. Look at had. Out at the fox lot and i have gone kicking and screaming awayg from summer, now im embracing fall thanks to my good friend, thomas. Hi, how are you . E good to see you. Yo i dont know if its really fall yet. Ye because its a little swampy out here. He anyway, this is fun. No, its a fun, fun thing for the kids for you if you want to give someone. Its all about collecting things that are naturally blooming,bl grasses, and things like yaro which is a naturally beautiful water flower, and leaves that create costume made arrangements. What youre doing is making a bird nest arrangement allison, at the same time im going to be doing this one. Doing what you want to do when youre making these arrangements. Arrane this has a forest foam that i added into the ca canister what that is going to do is help holo the dry flowers and then were going to start wa ma magnolia. Some time this time of year e you may want to trim the magnolia. The reason that youre using different colors and different textures is because its really really good to have three oror more different textures. Now these were some dried flowers that i got at a craft store. Im going to pop those in there, i have actually used this little sphere that im going to add in along. Alon allison layer your pine cones pi and all of your other goodies around that. I can do. What youre making is basically a centerpiece thatth will go on your table. Do we need glue or anything, what else do we need. The great thing about this is some of these are selfsufficient as this one than t ias just created. Its completely selfsufficient youre fast. Y now what you can be looking for is a glue. Gl okay. You can use i use the spray glue if im doing any grasses, because grasses tend to disperse their seeds when youwhn dont want them to, and youre also going to need a wire. Wi now another great arrangements that you can do this time of thh year, this is all harvested ucull i tus, is take, and pop an those in there, for color andand contrast its all in a wicker basket and we got a really great thing there. Now the wreaths, what if youreo going to be doing a door . Do im going to set this, and thisd is a wreath we have made for for you. , what i want you to do is take these pieces here. Uhhuh. Youre going to cut a couple andistiand stick them in. You can see the direction thaten the wreath is going. Its a wreath formistic thos fon the same direction. What you want to do is collect o the items, i got the craft wiret on there, and this is the wreat form thatht you use. One thing that you do is you layer it all in the same sa direction, and as you go aroundr you put that in, you bring your wiring in, you wrap, and then an you will bring in another beautiful its beautiful derrick. You bring this in and you want to hide where you began right there. Th and you bring this on around and see what youre doing allison by adding those yellow pieces, youre actually adding a pop of contrast and youre adding that third element if you will, you got some really good fresh green. Fresh you gho got dry pieces and its helping. Hel stick worn i one in there. And if you. I always try to help you. Right. Yes. Of you yellingyo at me. Me go ahead. I dont mean to yell at you. O im just joking with you. I think its really beautiful. With the eucalyptus is spells real good. And imagine arriving at oneon of those say you have a parta to go this weekend or a harvest. Some people do harvest parties and stuff like that. Stuff there you go allison. Its a great, great way towa put ya personal stamp. Stam get the kids involved. Do that. And with what we did here, the reason that this really works is we got eucalyptus, we got the grasses and the arrow. Follow him on twitter and facebook. Follow me on twitter atic . Thomas garden guy with more great ideas. February, 2013. A landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. Even though its backed by republican governor mcdonnell. Ken cuccinelli joins Tea Party Republicans to block the plan. But Terry Mcauliffe believes its time to break through the gridlock in richmond. Mcauliffe presses democrats to support the bill. And the bill passes. Terry mcauliffe. Putting virginia first. Im Terry Mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. All right, sir, what yough got. Temperatures in the afternoon, temperatures in the mid80s. 80s each day through the weekend. I love the 80s. 80 me, too. I was on the show called i love the 80s. 80 how do we see it. I dont know it was on vh1. It reruns every now and then. I saw it. S i think iaw had a beard on t show. thanks for watching. live from new york city, its wendy williams. Today, backstreet boy nick carter talks about his life on stage and off. Plus, Breast CancerAwareness Month continues with another fabulous makeover. And juicy hollywood makeups and breakups and all the latest hot topics. Now, heres wendy yeah. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Thanks for being here. Thank you at home for watching