meet the woman who s proud to be called the next paris hilton. happy friday, everyone. welcome to elizabeth vargas on this friday. ready to go back to the 80s. not a good time for me with the shoulder pads and the unibrow. debbie gibson and tiffany in central park. i hadn t yet learned the wonders of tweezing. let s move on, shall we? the music from the 80s was great so fun to have the two of them in central park. we ll have the latest on that mysterious disappearance of that 11-year-old girl from that tiny new hampshire town. apparently abducted or ran away from her bedroom at night. friends say she would never have run away but police are not sure yet. they have no clues. we ll talk to someone with very rare insight into this story. kidnap victim elizabeth smartrt who knows the importance of that. right to the chaos in washington. in just five days america can no longer borrow pore to pay our bills unless congress gets its act together and, boy, last night they
to the 7:00 probably. northbound delays show from newington up to the franconia springfield parkway. all right, the outer loop in virginia, we have an accident between route 7 and 66. saying only the left lane getting by there. keep your eye out for that. in maryland, outer loop volume up between new hampshire and colesville road. no real problems yet. we re going to keep our eyes on that as that develops and then 270 southbound, little slow 80 to 109. but jermantown to rockville, no problems yet. on the travel times i m going to keep you updated on the outer loop accident at 6:12. jessica? the stories happening today. this morning, learn about the future of the virginia railway express. v re will hold a meeting at 9:00 to lay out the lang torch plans at the prtc transit building in woodbridge. a burial today for private first class harold kenner. his remains weren t found and identified until recently. there ll be a series of similar burials at arlington over the last
long so if you re in the neighborhood, stop by 48th and sixth avenue, not a free concert but free breakfast and you might meet clayton morris. if you re lucky. i won t make any promises. friends e-mailed me last night, three doors down, huge fans. that could be three drawers down baseed on that guy in the video. he was in his drawers. that s a wake-up call. that guy in his drawers as well as your headlines this morning. he didn t want to kill terrorists in afghanistan perhaps because he wanted to kill americans right here at home. awol soldier may have been inspired by al-qaida cleric copycat to the ft. hood massacre, they are checking into that following his arrest and confession that he wanted to, get even with the army allegedly plotting two attacks near the base. the suspected gunman in the original attack had direct contact with awlaki. yesterday, they announced they found jihadist literature in his hotel room. he made headlines in 2009 refusing to deploy to afghan
already for so many people. so it s unbelievable. we just don t know. we re at a point where there is a lot of concern because it is so uncertain. and people are following it, they re talking about it. and they ll be doing that for the next two hours. hope fly we ll have something by the beginning of next week. live from studio 7, want to get you up to speed for this friday, july 29th. we re will thalmost out of time. those words from president obama. the deadline for raising the country s debt limit now just four days away. and congress and the white house still gridlocked over what to do. the president says there are plenty of ways out of this mess, but the clock is ticking. what s clear now is that any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan. it must have the support of both parties that were sent here to represent the american people, not just one faction. itle have to have tsupport of both the house and senate. a lot of you understandably angry, frustrated o
it would be nice if we could get that in here today. we ll be dry around here. we re just going to have a lot of heat. dangerous heat this afternoon. lots of water. please bring in the animals if they are outdoors. more details on the forecast coming up in a few minutes. we are days away from the united states reaching its credit limit. still no deal on capitol hill. republicans in congress are regrouping today after failing to pass a fix it to the debt crisis last night. what does this all mean? sherri ly is live at the capitol capitol. reporter: right now, the votes just aren t there. these blurry eyed members of congress may be in for a rough morning. they worked late as republicans scrambled to find a way forward. john boehner couldn t convince enough conservative members of his party to back his plan to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for some but apparently not enough spending cuts. we re not there yet, but the objectives of house republicans remain the same.