and now from washington's leading news station, this is "news 4 midday." good morning, everyone, and welcome to "news 4 midday." i'm barbara harris. it's monday, august 27th, 2012. right now tropical storm isaac is headed towards the gulf coast. isaac could make landfall near new orleans on wednesday. that happens to be the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. isaac may be a tropical storm at this point, but forecasters expect it to strengthen into a hurricane before reaching land. alabama residents are also preparing for the worst. in gulf shores homeowners are boarding up windows and tourists are urged to leave town now and gulf shores' mayor hasn't ruled

out issuing a mandatory evacuation for residents. the storm has already brought wind and rain to parts of florida and caused republicans to cancel monday's opening session of the national convention in tampa. tom joins us with the first forecast. >> right now tampa is settled. they're getting a little sunshine now, but there are other heavy rain bands that may be moving right into the tampa area later this afternoon. there are some in florida, those areas of moving orange and yellow is where they get the heaviest rain on the east side of florida. you can see the circulation of isaac west of tampa. here are the latest statistics. it is still blowing at about 65 miles per hour, so it's a strong tropical storm. here's the latest track. a category 1 intensity, which could be winds of 80, 90 miles per hour. so making landfall near new orleans. it looks like perhaps by late tomorrow afternoon, then moving

inland after that. right up the mississippi valley where they certainly do need the rain and add some water to the mississippi which has been running low. that system remains perhaps as a tropical storm as far north as missouri as it does move inland spreading a lot of rain that way. for us around our region, well, we've had some overnight showers and thundershowers east of washington that are dissipating. getting others to our west way out in the ohio valley along a front that may arrive this evening bringing showers and thundershowers. between now and then, a warm and humid afternoon near 80 degrees around much of the area. all the details on the forecast, the seven-day outlook is in a couple of minutes. barbara. tropical storm isaac is to blame for changes to the republican national convention this week. gop officials shortened the schedule from a week down to three days. a roll call of delegates will happen tomorrow evening to officially select the presidential nominee. mitt romney is expected to accept that nomination in a speech on thursday.

organizers cut a number of of speakers. right now the weather is slowing down delegates making their way down to florida. a number of flights into tampa international airport are delayed and even canceled. more than 4,000 representatives from across the country are expected to attend. a group from our area traveled from virginia to tampa, and they said they're having to adjust to the changes. >> i think everyone being so willing and so flexible and so easy-going about it all, it makes it that much smoother. >> as far as the storm goes, this is not aa bad nor'easter for us, so we're good. >> virginia is proving to have a major role at the convention. this morning both mitt romney and actor jon voight visited the delegation's first breakfast. aaron gilchrest sent us a picture of virginia's front section near the stage. delegates are seated near mitt

romney and paul ryan's home states of michigan and wisconsin. of course, nbc 4 is covering the republican national convention live in tampa. look for live reports from aaron gilchrest and julie kerry all week on news 4. look at the midday traffic now. a lot worse than it was last week at this time, danella. i guess a lot of folks are back at home. >> they're back to school, barbara, and it was tough this morning. right now let me let you know what we're dealing with. because of the rain, some of the roadwork didn't get done. it's happening right now. if you're traveling 66 taking the ramp to the outer loop or inner loop of the belt way in both directions, the right lane is blocked until 3:30 today because of the roadwork there. now let's talk about delays happening in our area outer loop as you cross the american legion bridge. you slow. you see at gw park rai delays to the dulles toll road. back over to you. right now school is in session for thousands of students across our area. this is the first day back to

clos and the district in loudon county virginia. in maryland it's the first day of school in carroll, charles, frederick, and montgomery counties. tracee wilkins shows us how the morning went inbethesda. >> reporter: every year montgomery county schools are getting bigger and bigger. an estimated 2500 students join every year. now, it's the largest school system in maryland, and one of the highest performing school systems in the country. that's no secret, and part of the reason for why it just keeps getting bigger. >> this is a very exciting day for me, not her. >> reporter: donna moved here from indiana and she's entering her two kids into the montgomery county school system. while work brought her to the washington area, the reputation of montgomery county schools brought her here. >> what i've read is it's pretty awesome, and that's why i moved to this area when i relocated, because i wanted to give my kids a really good public school system. >> school officials say the

system grows by 2500 students per year. so what do you do with all the kids? build new schools to hold them. >> it's a great thing to have in our neighborhood. we say how the neighborhood is transformed, everyone is walking to school this morning. >> reporter: single elementary is in the mckinney hills neighborhood. it's the first new school in the county since 2009. it was needed in in the community. >> the satellite school was really nice and oakland terrace is wonderful bud we had too many kids for the space. it's wonderful to have the new school nestled in the woods. >> reporter: this year they have a record enrollment of more than 149,000 students. while montgomery is affluent county, 33% of students are on free or reduced lunch. that means there are more disadvantaged kids in this school system than some systems have total students. yet, the test scores, college preparedness and minority achievement is higher here than most systems in the country. >> there are black and latino

kids and they do better than their counterparts in the nation and state, however, they don't do as well as our white and asian kids. we're looking at interventions. do our kids have what they need to be successful? >> reporter: that's why donna is confident moving her kids from private to public school was a good choice here. >> i did that for five or six years, paid for private in indiana. so this is a big difference for us here being able to get into a good public school system. >> reporter: the superintendent says that one of his focuses for the school year is his work to continue to dloes tclose the achievement gap between white and minority students and he has to plan to do that. he wants to pull in the community for more help, that includes parents, and also look to the students who need help and find out what their individual needs may be. in montgomery county, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. drivers in frederick county, maryland, can expect to pay if you pass a stopped school bus. new cameras will take pictures

of cars that pass the bus when the stop sign is actually displayed. the driver will get a $125 fine in the mail. 40 of the counties buses are equipped with cameras. frederick is the first county in maryland to install these cameras. charles, montgomery and washington counties are starting pilot programs this year. this year there are lots of new changes for d.c. students. news 4 megan mcgrath is live at bruce monroe elementary school at parkview in northwest d.c. good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. of course, there's always a lot of excitement on the first day of school, also some first day jitters, especially for kids going to new schools. some kids are hitting the books at completely envated schools like the one behind me, bruce monroe. there are 12 schools, 12 buildings actually completely overhauled this summer. also, other students are participating this year in a new program that actually extends their school day.

>> back to class for district students. for some it's the first day at a new school. >> i'm a little scared because other kids are in bigger grades, and i'm still in the fourth grade. >> reporter: for others it's a return to familiar faces and friends and on to new challenges. >> i'm ready to go back to fifth grade. >> reporter: why? >> because fifth grade is fun, and you learn new things in fifth grade than you learned in fourth grade. >> reporter: you looking forward to seeing your friends? >> yeah, a lot. >> reporter: this morning marked the official end of summer vacation as d.c. students headed back to school. and the return to class meant a look at major improvements at 12 d.c. schools, including bruce monroe at parkview and northwest. the beautiful old building has been given a bright and colorful new look. old wood panels has been restored and a glass wall in the office reveals the ornate

ceiling in the auditorium. >> i think it's better, and i like how it has space and different colors. >> the old school was totally -- it wasn't up to par. now it's totally up to par. >> reporter: also new this year, $10 million in grant money to a59d different schools. some use that money to extend the school day. >> in some cases as many as an hour and a half to two hours a day. one school by adding an hour and a half five days a week will effectively add one extra school day a week. >> reporter: other schools that got grant money actually spent that money. they invested in technology, which will then be incorporated into the classrooms. then other schools used that money to come up with academically challenging before and after school programs for their students. so a lot going on this year in the d.c. school system. reporting live in northwest, megan mcgrath, news 4. back to you in the studio. >> always an exciting day. >> yeah. >> thanks a lot, megan.

ten minutes after 11:00 is the time, and coming up, we're getting new information from nato commanders this morning on the attack that killed two u.s. soldiers today in afghanistan. plus, pictures from the potomac and the

you're watching "news 4 midday." as the republican party rallies rallies in florida in this week, president obama will be in virginia. he'll not, however, be at the university of virginia. the school declined a request by the campaign to speak on kavs. uva officials didn't want to cancel class on the second day of school or pay for the security. a developing story in afghanistan today. two u.s. troops were killed in an accidental shooting. nato officials say it happened as their convoy came under attack north of kabul.

an afghan soldier taking position to fight somehow fell and accidentally discharged his weapon killing two other soldiers. an air support team fired to kill the afghan soldier. earlier reports suggest the afghan soldier turned his weapons on the internal troops. this shooting was one of several violent incidents in afghanistan athat left 29 dead over the weekend. insurgents beheaded 17 afghan civilians at a music event in the taliban-controlled area and ten were killed in an attack at a checkpoint in the hellmamund province. we're following a developing story out of central america right now where a powerful earthquake struck off the kois of el salvador. the quake hit after 10:30 last night, about 85 miles from san miguel, el salvador. there are no reports of damage or injuries at this point. a tsunami warning was issued at a dozen counties including

mexico and guatemala. it's since been canceled. a kind of scary sight in southern maryland. a waterspout touched down. it can be scary out on a boat as thomas told us before. it was near cobb island. several people shot video and took pictures of the waterspout. it didn't cause any serious damage or injuries, but tom keer neen can tell us what it could have done. >> usually they have winds around 30, 40 miles per hour. you have to take heed and take cover, wauz they can certainly cause problems and we have them occasionally along the title potomac. they're not that unusual and sunday we got terrific downpours as we had the humidity hanging in since then. we had a few clouds in and out this morning. there's a live view of a royal blue sky over washington from our hd city camera that is showing a few puffy white clouds floating in the blue sky. right now reagan national is at 80 degrees and the dew point is at a steamy 71, humidity 74%,

wind is out of the south off the potomac where the waters are steamy. here's another waterspout, a photo taken by twitter followers. tiffany in norfolk on saturday got this picture. she called it a baby tornado thingy. if you have an interesting photo go to weather nbcwashington.com like she did of this gorgeous rainbow of yesterday after the showers ended and the sun came out during the latter part of the afternoon. beautiful double rainbow, and as we look now at the view from space, storm team 4 satellite radar showing lots of sunshine over the metro area. to the east clouds and a few passing showers on the eastern shore and the northern neck of virginia is off to the nort and east. elsewhere we have plenty of sunshine into the afternoon hours. going forward with temperatures in the 70s near 80, it will continue to climb. it looks like perhaps into the upper 80s by mid-aerch. it's in the low to mid-70s and into the mountains of western

maryland and west virginia. as we go forward these areas in green, maybe a few showers in the eastern shore are dissipating. into the evening hours we have increasing clouds. we have a weak front coming in and predawn on tuesday and around dawn. might get a passing shower as well as perhaps during the afternoon south and east of the metro area, a passing thundershower passing tomorrow. after that lower humidity moving in and a nice break from the steam heat. it's in place here throughout much of the week ahead. so for the afternoon we have steamy conditions. it's rather humid and partly cloudy, upper 80s by mid afternoon and the low 80s by late afternoon and a southerly breeze around 5 to 10. overnight we have clouds increasing and sunset at 7:48 and by midnight going all cloudy. we drop from the low 80s early evening down to the mid-70s by midnight. we might have thundershowers coming in after midnight tonight and perhaps predawn on tuesday. maybe a few of those south and east of the metro area tomorrow, otherwise partly sunny and lower

humidity moving in. delightful day, and it looks like that low humidity will be in place on wednesday and again on thursday and into friday, too. each day has morning lows in the 60s, afternoon highs and 80s on wednesday and thursday. friday it may get up to 90 around friday and saturday. not too hot and a little humidity moving in on the end of the weekend when we have a small chance of some of the remnants of isaac perhaps coming our way during the latter part of the weekend. that's the way it looks, barbara. >> tom, thank you. we'll see you again. we're going to check on the midday traffic now. danella is keeping an eye on things since early this morning when it was a rough commute, danella. >> definitely the vacation is over. in our area right now we don't have as many delays at all, but i want to warn you about an accident if you take this time the inner loop of the belt way as you go towards i-66, have a crash slowing you down. you feel the heat as you make your way towards arlington

boulevard. also delays right now outer loop of the beltway slow crossing the american legion bridge and your delays continue towards the dulles toll road. nice and clear in both directions. no accidents and no delays at all. barbara, back over to you. >> thanks, danella. it's 11:20 now and ahead on "news 4 midday." before summer runs out, we show you how to make a summer suck tash with the area's freshest ingredients. why doctors warn parents skipping this common procedure when your baby is an infant is a bad yt. first a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com.

you're watching "news 4 midday." summer is almost over so now is the time to take advantage of veggies like tomatoes and corn.

here to show us how to make a great summer sucatash. you say it's not too late in the season to get wonderful fresh vegetables right here in the neighborhood. >> not at all. i went to a market down from the restaurant in dell ray and scooped up these great peppers and corn and tomatoes. >> is the corn pretty good this year? >> yeah, it's great. we're having a lot of drought issues, but there's still a lot of good stuff coming in. basil is still very good. >> i love basil. in fact, i grow it myself at home. that's it. it's growing like crazy, so this is a good time to use it. tell us about summer sucatash. >> it was popular during the depression because it's a great way to utilize cheaper ingredients. >> what's in it? >> typically it's tomatoes and lima beans and take it from there. i use green beans and keep it lighter for summertime. we do a version of this at the

restaurant with a grilled swordfish and grilled okra right now, but yeah. >> fantastic. show us how to make it. >> absolutely. we have the vegetables that are the beans and corn and the red pepper and the tomatoes. >> you're using green beans and not lima beans, is that right? >> that's correct. >> that's good. >> it's important one thing about green beans and grate thing to do with vegetables like this is blanching it and blanching is the process of bringing the water to a boil and cooking the vegetable until it's what we call el dente. and then ice water. >> then it really pops out. >> then because i want it to be warm, i have a little -- we cook everything in cast iron iron. there's a lot of natural sugars in corn. >> did you cut that off the

cobb. >> we cut the corn off and blanched this as well. >> you did blanch the corn as well. what's next? >> next we have the tomatoes and the green beans and then the red peppers we actually pickle a little bit. imagine getting a little color on this. one thing you do with the cobs after you take the corn off is steep it with corn and cream for about 45 minutes at a low as i remember and we use that to make a soup. we got the tomatoes. >> i can't wait to get a taste of this. this looks good. this is something to throw together very fast. >> everything is ready to go. in the refrigerator. it's delicious. all right. is it done? >> that's it. all you have to do is heat it up, and then it's good to go. what i'll do is place it in that

but before i do i'll put basil on top. >> so you're going to spoon some of this into here. why don't i do that? any salt and pepper on this in do you do that to takes. >> a little salt is added in the blanching water. a big bowlful. >> very delicious. it's crunchy. >> wow, that is so good. >> excellent. what's na? >> that's the basil vinegar et. that's what we use on the market salad on display to the left. >> i love the basil so lots of things to do with that. >> a little champagne vinegar and salt. >> at the evening star cafe. thank you for coming. >> i can't wait to finish that. coming up in the next half hour, the kids head back to school a warning for parents about cyber bullying and how to prevent your child from becoming a victim. tom is back with an update on

the local weather and we'll have the latest on the track of isaac. a deadly bear attack we want to tell you about that happened at a national park. why rangers thi

frafrters say it later this week. it could strike on wednesday. the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. we'll have much more on isaac in just a few minutes. also right now across the region are back in class. the school bell rang for d.c. in loudon county. students in carroll, charles, frederick, howard and montgomery counties are starting school as well today. and as students in our area head back to school, there are important things for both parents and students to keep in mind to ensure a safe year. montgomery county state's attorney john mccarthy joins us

this morning with safety reminders. we're happy to join us today. it's a busy day over there in their county, isn't it? >> we have 150,000 students in our 200 public schools back in school today. it's a wild day. >> and you brought some reminders for parents about that they should keep an eye on and one regards cyber bullying. one of the things, we work as' state's attorney's office in montgomery county but we work closely with school officials to educate parentses and kids about the dangers of misuse on the internet. cyber bullying is a danger. it's a sad statistic nationally but 88% of all children between 13 and 17 have been subject on the internet to some form of cyber bullying. we want to make sure parents are away wear of that and monitor the children's use of cell phones and computers to make sure their child is not the victim of those kinds of activities. >> do you think that parents should actually ask to see their cell phone or to look through their computer messages to read

what they're getting from people? >> those are great questions. among the things we try to advise parnents to do is if you have a family computer make sure it's kept in a public area of the house where mom or dad is cooking dinner and it's right there so you can monitor the use of your child's use of the internet. dp your friend -- if your son or daughter goes on to facebook or any of the social networks, ask they friend you and allow you to read what they're exchanging. one of the greatest i guess new challenges for us is the iphone, and now because you have the iphone and the access to the internet 24 hours a day from any place and every remote location, i think you should begin to make practice for younger kids say to them at the end of the day at 10:00 or 11, let me take your cell phone and charge it for you because a couple things will happen here. you may have an opportunity to monitor what kind of activity is happening on the phone and the second thing is you may actually get your child at good night's sleep because they get "up all

night" surfing the internet tweeting and texts friends if they have access to phones. >> do you think parents should be as involved with teenagers probably mother likely to be texting and talking overnight in the late night hours? >> i think, yes. some of it has to do with cyber bullies and some is plain old texting some might go with some of the older kids, some of the stuff we've come to learn a term i didn't even know three or four years sexting. we have young kids that send images of themselves inappropriately to each other. we as parnlts and i have four children myself have to talk to our kids about this stuff and monitor their activities to make sure that these are risky behaviors for kids and they're sort of navigating a new world for themselves and they have to help them throh that. >> it is a new world for parents to have to face. do you think that a parent should actually say, give me your cell phone. it's 7:00. this is it? >> some of the advice -- we talked to parent groups and parents. i will tell you this grows out

of conversations with parents. there are some pro active parents in the community that suggested about 10:00 or 11:00 that's enough. they're beginning to take the phones and to say, look, i'll charge it for you and you can have it back in the morning. so, again, you're going to lose any ability to monitor what's happening now that the cell phones give you access all over the house. we just say put the computer by where you make dinner. that doesn't work now. >> i know. you have a lot of things that you want to warn parents about, keeping in touch with their kids about dating, being able to ward off unwanted sexual advances from girls or boys and i know that's something else that you wanted people to know. >> one of the things we're doing is we have a safe teen dating program. whether we talk about internet safety, safe teen dating and gang prevention, my office is available to come out, the pta groups to talk about it. >> that's important to know. >> when it comes to safe teen

dating, obviously there's studies that show surprise kinds of statistics. one out of three dating relationships for young people and violence. we have to get in there early and talk to young people as they begin their dating relationships about what is appropriate and inappropriate between each other. >> okay. john mccarthy. state's attorney of montgomery county, thanks so much for coming. something parents should hear this time. thanks so much. we have breaking news out of baltimore right now. a high school student has been shot at a school in that county. the perry hall high school student was flown to a hospital after being shot. the school is being evacuated at this time. this just coming in to us right now. today is the first day of classes in baltimore county public schools. no word on the condition of the students or any of the suspects. we don't know who that might be, but we will continue to follow the story and bring you more information in to us. >> this morning all eyes are on the gulf of mexico and tropical storm isaac. forecasters say isaac could make landfall as early as tomorrow.

that's the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. this morning on "today" jefferson par rich mayor says he's confident history will not repeat itself. >> we're monitoring for a week and better protected doed at the time katrina hit. billions of dollars have been spent raising levees and fortifying pump stations. obviously the threat is going to be storm surge and rainfall. already thousands of gulf coast residents have been told to evacuate ahead of isaac. we could feel the effects of isaac, even if the storm doesn't come anywhere near us. it could drive up gas prices. oil companies have already p pulled crews from offshore rigs in the gulf of mexico. the storm could shut down as much as 90% of oil production in the gulf. people in new orleans aren't taking any chances. look at the lines at the gas stations there already. well, some local power crews are in florida right now helping restore electricity to thousands of residents there.

crews from virginia left yesterday for the sunshine state. the crews are from fairfax, charlottesville, hampton and richmond. several local red cross volunteers are heading to florida to help track that storm. we're going to check again with tom for the latest on the forecast. he's outside the storm center right now. he's on the weather deck. tom, how does it look outside right now? >> it's beautiful even though it's rather humid. it is not too hot. we have a little bit of a breeze coming in from the south. some white clouds and a blue sky. we have a delightful day under way. that is the live view from our nbc 4 hd city camera showing that beautiful blue sky and those clouds over washington now. as we take a look at the view of our temperatures around the region, it's still pleasant. we're in the upper 70s to low 80s much of the region. it is rather humid. it's 80 at reagan national, and the view for space showing those showers we had on the eastern shore sort of redeveloping along the atlantic beaches there and

farther south around the tidewater of virginia. elsewhere, a lot of sun, but you see the clouds in the upper left of the screen with that color. those are some showers along a front that's going to be getting closer to us by late tonight into the predawn hours on tuesday. after that front goes by, we'll have some lower humidity moving in. for the afternoon highs reaching the upper 80s, late afternoon and into the evening hours is when we might get an isolated thundershower rolling through. that low humidity is in place tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. highs in the 80s, morning lows 60s and then over the weekend we could get some perhaps passing showers depending on what happens to isaac, it might affect us in the form of a tropical shower on sunday is how it looks right now. barbara. capital bike share is exp d expanding in northern virginia. crews install eight new bike share stations in old town alexandria. those include the braddock road metro station, the king station,

metro station, king street met row station. it as more than 1600 bikes at more than 175 stations in d.c. and arlington. this week a task force will review how effective those d.c. traffic cameras really are. d.c. councilwoman mary chai wants to know if fewer people are speeding or running red lights because of penalties as high as they are. right now the penalty for running a red light is about $150. getting caught on a speed camera can cost as much as $250. it could be several months before the task force makes a decision. we're going to check in on the midday traffic and see if folks are minding the laws. danella sealock is keeping an eye on the roadways. if they're driving on the inner loop they're gripping the steering while tightly. the right lane is blocked on i-66 and the delays start at arlington boulevard. look at 295 looking good from the beltway exit 222.

no issues there. rut 50 is nice and clear inside the beltway. here's a live look past east-west highway in both directions towards new york avenue. nice and clear and no accidents to report. barbara, back over to you. power crews had to respond to an overnight crash on j street in northeast washington. the accident happened just after 8:00. p police say wires came down on the car trapping the driver inside the vehicle until crews could safely rescue him. the driver was taken to the hospital. the cause of the crash is under investigation. a man wanted for murder turned mims in to police. p prince george's county police say james brady killed 37-year-old trevor johnson. the victim was dating johnson's ex-girlfriend. brady is charged with first-degree murder. this afternoon family, friends and co-workers of the prince georges county officer killed in the line of duty will hold a wake for him. the wake for 23-year-old adrian

morris begins at 2:00 p.m. at borkort funeral home. the funeral service is 10:00 a.m. at wood stream church in mitchellville. he died last monday in a high speed chase when his cruiser ran off i-95 and crashed. he was chasing two suspects. both suspects have been arrested. we're hearing from a witness who identified the gunman who shot and killed a former co-worker in front of the empire state building. police identify the gunman as jeffrey johnson. he lost his job as aa designer for a women's clothing company. police say johnson was also being evicted from his new york apartment and sources say that might have sent him over the edge. johnson shot and killed a man. investigators say the two had a long-standing feud. a construction worker who saw the shooting put his own life at risk and started to follow johnson. >> i saw someone get executed in front of us.

he just calmly turned around and walked away, and i wasn't letting him get away. so i followed him. he made the left on fifth avenue. i knew there was a police detail there. i alerted the police. they're the heroes. >> and police shot and killed johnson. nine bystanders were caught in the gunfire. three victims remain in the hospital. today the defense will begin presenting its case in the drew peterson murder trial. the former chicago police officer is charged with murdering his third wife, kathleen savio. prosecution witnesses testify that peterson threatened to kill his wife and offered someone $25,000 to do it for him. peterson's lawyers will argue her death was a tragic accident, she slipped in the bathtub, hit her head and drowned. the case came to light following the disappearance his fourth wife who has never been found. a national park in alaska is investigating its first ever deadly bear attack.

49-year-old richard white of san diego died some time on friday. a denali park spokesperson said it happen when had he got too close to the bear to take pictures. he was about 50 yards away. investigators have recovered the camera and looked at the photographs which show the bear grazing. state troopers and park rangers shot and killed the grizzly. it's now 11:44, and still ahead on "news 4 midday," why you're still forced to take your shoes off in an airport security line. could decreasing rates in infant male circumcision lead to more cancer, infections and hiv? what doctors

we have an update on the breaking news out of baltimore. a high school student has been shot at a high school in baltimore county. the perry hall high school student was flown to a hospital after being shot. we know that one person now is in custody. the school is being evacuated at this time. today is the first day of classes for baltimore county public schools. we have no word on the condition of the student who was shot, but we will continue to follow this story and bring you more information as it comes in to us.

the next time you travel on an airplane, you will still have to take off your shoes when you go through airport security. the transportation security administration is having a hard time finding the right screening device that can do the job. "the new york times" reported ts sa rejected four different scanning systems that would have allowed paerngs to keep their shoes on. a tsa spokesperson says it didn't detect all of the materials in the shoes. stocks start the week mixed. we check in with hampton pearson. he joins us live with more on that and the rest of the day's business headlines. >> in the last few minutes markets are up, but just barely. so far looking for direction, looking to major averages right now. we see the dow up eight points and the nasdaq up 12 and the s&p up four points. hurricane isaac is impacting the oil futures markets. 45% of all domestic production happens in the gulf. at first we saw a price spike going higher with platforms shutting down. now there's been a retreat.

domestic crude down around $95 a barrel, overseas crude about $112 per barrel. the reasons for the decline, governments considering a possible release from strategic reserves to calm those oil markets. once again, the negative market pull is from europe over concerns about greece. over the weekend germany's economic and finance ministers said they did not want to give greece more time to implement spending cuts and the head of germany central bank repeated his opposition to buying german bonds or germany buying bonds to lowering greek borrowing costs. meanwhile in the u.s. shares of hertz and dollar thrifty both moving higher after hertz announced plans to buy its competitor for about $2.6 billion and finally stock in the luxury jeweler tiffany's is up despite falling short of wall street earnings expectations. profits up 2% from the new york based seller of diamond rings and all things in high-end

jewelry. yes, tiffany said the global economy is slowing sales but they expect a rebound during the holiday season, and that was all wall street needed to hear. it's up about 6% today. barbara, a little news you can use. >> i wish. all right, thanks a lot. have a great day. we'll see you tomorrow. the country's most influential pediatrician group says the circumstance couple significance in newborn baby boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for that. circumcisions are on the decline across the u.s. apparently. in the 1970s and '80s, 80% of newborn buys were circumstance sized. in 2008 is dropped to 56%. the american academy of pediatrics says there is scientific evidence of health benefits related to the procedure including lowered risk of becoming infected with hiv, other stds and cancer as well. >> the financial risks are huge per person anywhere from 300 to $400. but you talk about medical costs

in the billions of dollars, and that means costs for treating infections, costs for treating cancers, and the cancer rate is to men and women. >> the pediatrics group says ultimately the decision should be up to parents, of course. with college students headed off to school, there's a new book of lists that some find funny, while others think it makes us feel old. it's about the class of 2016. nbc's chris clkum reports. >> as they settle in on college campuses across the country, know this about the class of 2016. they have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of electronic narcotics. their lives measured in the fundamental particles of life, bits, bytes and bauds. that's actually a direct quote from the mindset list for the class of 2016 written by ron neef on the left and professor

tom mcbride on the right. both from tiny beloit college in beloit, wisconsin who have been documenting the mindset of incoming college freshmen since 1998. they say this year's class is similar to recent years and that rather than radio, they listen to mp3 players or ipods. and some of what they listen to is so loud that a quarter of them already have suffered hearing loss. they've never really seen an airplane ticket. before they purchase an assigned textbook, they'll investigate whether it's available for rent or purchase as an e book. to them, the twilight zone involves vampires, not rod suhr ling. they watch television everywhere, but on a television. they consider point and shoot cameras so outdated. like last year's class, when they say amazon, the last thing they mean is the river in south

america. nbc news. >> so true. 11:52 is our time right now. coming up meteorologist tom kierein will be back with

some new artwork is on

display on u street. ben's chili bowl is commemorating the favorite visitors with a larger than life prediction. an artist worked through this with the e-mail. now he's working on chuck brown the late godfather of go-g. you'll see that in a minute. he sketched it out. because of rain it's likely wednesday before he finishes it all. he's moving pretty fast with that. look at the stories we're going to follow for news 4 this afternoon. at 4:00 a mother's friptenning ordeal behind the wheel. what happened when her accelerator got stuck and the car hit speets of 120 miles per hour. it's unbelievable to watch this. coming up at 5:00 tonight, apparents and college students don't have to break the bank to pay for textbooks.

liz crenshaw has the answer. time for a final check on the forecast. here's tom. >> a wonderful summer day. we have temperatures around the region generally climbing to around 80 degrees now. reagan national is at 80. and it's going to continue to climb as we get into the afternoon hours into the mid and upper 80s and there's some humidity in the air. you know what? by this time of year we're used to it hopefully. some people never get used to it. don't have any in the front to lakeview through indiana and ohio but no severe storms. that is a front that is coming our way later tonight bringing in a few clouds and a chance of a passing shower maybe late this evening or predawn on tuesday. then after that front goes by it brings in some lower humidity and that will be filtering in during the day tomorrow on a bit of a blustery northwest wind, highs into the upper 80s. then wednesday and thursday delightful summer weather, 60s

in the morning, afternoon highs in the mid to upper 80s, not much humidity around today. sunday might get some showers and storms with highs in the low 80s. that's the way it looks. have a great afternoon. we'll see you tomorrow morning. >> tom, thank you so much. that's "news 4 midday" for today. thank you for joining us and invite you to tune in for news at 4:00, 6:00 and tonight at 11:00 and we'll back back tomorrow morning. join us for that. until then, have a terrific day and we'll see you in the