in an investigation in to marion barry's awarding of contracts finds he has vastly outspent his colleagues on the dc city council. with less than three months before virginia's election their next governor they may take a hit when they bring in the party's top man. if you drive a mid size sedan getting in toed and for bender could drain your account. today is thursday, august 6th. angie goff is here. she's had a very busy morning. howard is here to tell us if we will get heavier rain the rest of the day. >> i think we have seen the heaviest. south and east could get some but a light showery pattern and angie will blame me for the traffic issues. >> doing it all morning.

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s. wing with lingering er n. it vea momow fere hours and n he tw in s 60oon.rn s. the 60s heand low 70 oftop f toin the upper 70s and low 80s. it is 9:02. we need traffic news. angie? >> all right. thank you so much, howie. getting in the 9:00 hour and it's been the same situation all morning. we have had a lot of congestion, a lot of traffic incidents and a lot of weather- related incidents. talks downed wires and trees. you can find it at wusa usa. what you are looking at here is the outer loop. it is jammed up from 95 to georgia. looking at a 20 minute commute. on the inner loop, i like what i see. things are breaking apart as they clear that accident at new hampshire. it is pushed to the right shoulder. interstate 270 a 20 0 m up0 so far from hurley to the split. virginia, we are tabbing eastbound 66, you are delayed from 50 to 123 and your delays

break apart approaching 495. speaking of 495, this is the sour spot of the morning. a lot of congestion from 95 to 66 and we say thank you to an accident at braddock road in the clearing stages and track that 15 minute crawl on 395 heading from 495 to king street and using the brakes again once you reach the pentagon to the 14th street bridge. that's a gloomy look at traffic. back to you. dc councilman marion barry came under scrutiny last month when it was revealed his office awarded a contract to his then girlfriend. "washington post" has uncovered more about his spending habits. armando trull is outside with more on the story. >> good morning. it is a report that will ruffle some feathers here at the wilson building where marion barry works as well as other council members. look at the article, it says barry tops peers in contract spending and according to the

article includes handing out thousands of dollars to contractors so they can perform services as well as political campaigning and it is work that does not have a clear boundary according to the article. the "washington post" says council member marion barry has been six times more generous than any of hi peers when it comes to awarding outside contracts using the taxpayers ' dime. the article claimed there is little evidence of what taxpayers got in return. between 2007 and 2009, the ward 8 council member dolled out $252,000 to outside contractors for consulting work, media relations and temporary workers. some of the money may have been for political campaigning and not constituent services according to the post. the second biggest spender was qualmy brown whose office spent $45,000 during the same time period. the district's counseling policies are being investigated because of a scandal involving barry and a former girlfriend

who he had hired as a contractor. bar rerepeatedly said he has broken no laws in his contracting activities. >> reporter: now, andrea, the article has some excerpts from nasty e-mails between barry, the former boyfriend and -- girlfriend, and the former girlfriend's ex-husband, but nothing in the article says that anything barry did is illegal. so the end result may be that those who love barry and those who dislove barry will come to the same conclusion, what? that it is marion barry, being marion barry. live at the wilson building, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> thank you, armando. 9 news now has learned of changes coming to the dc fire department. they come after crews had problems with water pressure fighting last week's blaze. according to a spokesman, the department is staffing two of the city's six special water supply companies so they can

respond to all reports of building fires in upper northwest and southeast and northeast. a 2007 report recommended all six of the city's special water supply units have around the clock staffing but chief rubin said last week that funding wasn't available. you can read more about the changes at dave statter's blog at statter 911@wusa9.com. this afternoon judge sonia sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation to the u.s. supreme court. the senate will probably vote on her nomination around 2:00 p.m. it is believed ten republicans will join all 60 democrats in confirming sonia sotomayor. she would become the first hispanic and third woman on the nation's highest court. tonight, president obama will be doing some politicking in northern virginia with three months left before virginiaens pick the next governor, the president is scheduled to campaign with deeds at the tysons hilton.

deeds republican opponent bob mcdonnell was supposed to appear in virginia last night. after staffers said they had been told they he was theyed at other events. he told us on the phone he had a family commitment come up. >> this is not the america i knew. i don't want it going his way. this administration is nuts. enough is enough. >> democrats want to win virginia to show that obama and the agenda is still popular. republicans want to win virginia in order to show they are on the rebound and on the comeback trail. >> the republican leading deeds. we will see whether the president's appearance tonight changes the poll numbers. what we know is president obama's approval rating in virginia is on the decline according to one poll by public

policy polling. it comes as mr. obama is set to campaign today with deeds. with me now is democratic commentator vick hamber and we have reynard jackson with us also. the numbers are mr. obama's popularity is only at 42% in the commonwealth. this is a state he carried in 2008. so what is happening, vick. >> people are coming home to their normal party. it is six months later. we have economic problems. all the problems haven't been solved in the six months he's been president so i think it is a natural. if you look at the polling numbers where mr. bush was, where mr. clinton was they are about the same after sex months. i'm not particularly concerned about it. i think -- i'm surprised at 42. everything i have seen is saying mid-50s. >> this is just this one poll. >> okay.

and i think it is natural to expect that a president comes back to a normal level from the stratosphere. >> conservatives combing home. >> i would hire you any day. that is a heck of a job to defend barack obama. >> what you have here is president obama has been beat up with how he is handling legislation as president and i think strategically the biggest mistake he's made is he allowed the congress write his legislation opposed to submitting his own legislation and having congress tinker with it. people have a visceral negative reaction to the democratic congress and now you are seeing those reflect in the poll numbers. >> again, if we take a step and try not to be partisan republican democrats, hard not to be. the president hasn't lost a single thing in congress since he's been president. whether he wrote it, congress wrote it, everything he has pushed for so far has passed. whether everyone is happy with

it. whether it has worked on it is still to be decided. the stimulus package is just beginning. we know the economy seems to be turning around. cash for clunkers, terrific program yet people are fighting it. there will be disagreement. we have two parties and the two parties disagree. right now republicans are on the down side of it. the democrats are still there. >> time is running out it does appear in all the polls mcdonnell is leading deeds. this is a guy he ran against for attorney general and every poll has deeds down. republicans, sensing victory here and maybe even in new jersey? what kind of a boost would this be for a party on the comeback trail. >> it would be a heck of a boost and i think bob has run a marvelous campaign and deeds, i don't know where he is. this guy is making al gore's campaign for president look like a great campaign and what he will find is mcdonnell will

try deeds campaign to the national level. obama come in tonight and listen to what he says tonight because i see many 30-second spots off of his remarks in the mcdonnell campaign. >> if republicans can win anything they will try a rejury -- resurgence. they thought they won upstate new york and look at how down obama is. they lost upstate new york a republican district. deeds is down in the poll and the money. he hasn't gotten his message out. it lab closer race than it looks like. democrats win it will be perceived as a victory for a perceived as a ans win it comeback for republicans. what will mean by november of 2010, probably nothing. >> we have to let it end there. good to see you. enjoy the rest of the summer. senators have agreed to vote on adding $2 billion for the cash for clunkers program which gives new car buyers

$4,500 for trading in their gas guzzlers. the white house said the program would run out of money tomorrow if congress didn't put more funds in the pot. the house approved the additional funding. the latest crash test results for mid-sized sedans is out and the test of bumper crash is none of the six major models sold in the u.s. received a top safety rating. the insurance institute for highway safety rated the mazda six as acceptable. the accord and sonata received acceptable bad publicity as the american automakers try to rebuild their businesses. when will the rain we are having move out of here? howard has the answer coming up. plus, what direction should the u.s. military take in afghanistan? former architect of that strategy joins us in the studio. plus, the governors of virginia and maryland are looking for more ways to trim their budget.

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demand for mortgages fell. rates picked up this week. the average rate on a 30 year loan is 5.25%. virginia governor kaine says he will have to trim at least $700 million from the state's budget and possibly as

much as $1.5 billion. that's because the official revenue forecast has dropped for the fourth straight time. he must decide how much to cut by mid month and which agencies will be targeted for the cuts by labor day. in maryland, you have until monday to comment on governor o'malley's budget plan. the board of public works plans to cut about $280 million in spending to address budget woes. you can get a link to the comments at wusa9.com. here's howard too answer how much more rain. >> a little more rain. nationals have a 12:35 start downtown. some rain is showing up but i think over the next couple of hours it will pull away. it will be a slight one and drying out throughout the afternoon. let's show you what is happening here. a lot of showers around. many or most of this stuff is light to moderate. we will zoom in and you see

breaks to the east going down 50, northern fairfax county, northern montgomery county, but southern frederick in places. it will be spotty. however, i want to zoom in. i noticed around sheafly, west of fedex a hefty shower popped up. east of lanham and north of 50 moving to the east northeast we are seeing showers, as well. southern maryland you had the thunderstorms last night. heavier downpours and as we go down there you will see a scattering of showers. really some breaks across central saint mary and northern neck some showers. woodbridge, quantico to stafford we have some light showers heading up to mason neck. and one more stop for you out to the south and west because there is still scattered showers from culpeper to luray, new market. warrenton is dry at the moment but a couple more in the next couple of hours then things llwiget better. this was lle-mailed to me.

mark washburn at colonial beach, one of the t ha cro haroom okto sathisco this shot. i have been lookin g shatot. i have been looking at this all morning several times. he e-mailed it to me and i thank him for that. evidence of the power of mother nature during the overnight. we are watching other showers that have lifting off to the north and northeast. big batch moved away from us. to the south and west, a little more. give it a couple more hours, maybe three tops and much better this afternoon. 81 today. which is way below the average of 88. a beautiful friday. it will be cool tonight, 50s and 60s. 85 tomorrow. it will be fantastic and the heat builds in. 91, isolated storms and the seven-day forecast, it really gets hot after this. temperatures by sunday and monday, i believe will be in the middle 90s. a slight chance of a storm on monday and tuesday.

tuesday is warm but late tuesday a front comes through. in me mid-80s. maybe not as cool as 84, 896 but certainly by wednesday a lot cooler than sunday, monday and tuesday. back to you. >> thank you, howard. >> the obama administration is in the process of trying to redefine the country's war on terror. a "washington post" article quotes the president's senior counterterrorism adviser as saying the government must replace the "war on terror campaign "with a new one which combines the military approach of the bush administration along with economic diplomatic and cultural programs which will increase support for america abroad. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullin says the u.s. is still digging its way out of a hole when it comes to the war in afghanistan. so, what will it take to turn the tide? with me is tony zinni, former chief of sent come and retired general. he is the author of leeing the

charge. before we can answer the question about digging out of a hole seems like we have to figure out what the real mission in afghanistan is. and during the campaign, it was talked about let's go back to where the war on terror started, in afghanistan, where the taliban was, looking for osama bin laden, or now as critics of the obama administration say this war has turned in to nation building. what should the war in afghanistan be about? >> i think the strategy is the right one for this administration -- that this administration has proposed. it is ambitious. the president wants to internationalize this. in other words get more cooperation, more donors, more commitment, more burden sharing even in the fighting and of course we have had problems with alternate and other nations. he also wants to regionalize it. it is difficult to get afghans, pakistans and indians to cooperate but that will be

necessary. that's why we are a super envoy out there trying to make this happen and that will be difficult. the other part is developing the forces in pakistan and in afghanistan to take over for the coalition forces quality security forces, and then the fourth part is one you eluded to to make sure we have a stable governing system in afghanistan and pakistan that can continue the stability and development going forward. but the final point is he did say the focus is on al-qaeda. we lost our focus before, and that's where the laser focus should be. >> reporter: so we are still looking for going after al- qaeda looking for osama bin laden. >> that's the priority and what it should have been from the beginning. we have a great team in the pentagon and secretary gates admiral mullin, general petraeus and general mcchrystal. so we couldn't have better people in place. >> we seem to have a partner in that belief in in the new chief

at alternate who has said that we need more u.n. and european union forces to stop afghanistan from becoming the grant central station of international terrorism. he believes this. the obama administration is pushing for that. what about the eu, bt what about great britain and france? are they buying in to that as well. >> in certain capitals and countries there is a commitment. the u.k. has stood by our side, iraq and actual, suffered casualties, the canadians, the dutch and now even the french. but of course 28 nations in alternate and where are the rest of them? that's a big question. political decisions are hard decisions but they have to be made because this is not a u.s. problem. it is an international problem. >> looking to the book, again, leading the charge, leadership lessons from the battlefield to the board room. you say american leadership currently lacks the ability to bridge the evolutionary gap and detail the qualitities necessary for the leaders of

tomorrow. now, you were writing this it seems at the end of the bush administration looking at the debate going on for the stimulus program. you must have been typing at the same time. it was incredible. you say the old ways won't work anymore. that a leader has to be relevant and adaptable. >> yes. and he has to be visible. has to communicate effectively. has to be exceptionally confident. has to show a lot of care for his people, and probably most important at this time has to be ethical and moral in his behavior in the way he or she leads the organization. i think those are the keys and the expectations of americans and people around the world today. >> reporter: assessing the obama administration as vic said, less than seven months in to real business, you heard him say the president, you may not like everything he has done but everything he has wanted to push for he has gotten. you have a quote about general george marshall talking about -- let's see, i lost my page here. yeah, here it is. it is necessary to convince the

skeptical. great communicators can sell ideas, plans or programs to audiences, disciplined to accept them. the american public disciplined to accept what is happening in the white house or in congress as far as leaders? >> i think the obligation of a leader is to explain why something needs to be the way it is. i think the expectation of the american people is that i'm willing to be convinced. prove it to me. show it to me. marshall, at the beginning of his selling of the marshall plan, there was only 19% approval from the american people. that's the bully pulpit and that's the obligation of our leader. >> general, thank you for your analysis. the brand new miss black usa 2009 talks about . winning the title coming up. plus, the front man for a legendary rock band takes a spill on stage. we will have the latest on his condition. and our gadget expert is here with a look at the must have items for back to school. we'll be right back. its incredible deals.

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our next guest got the surprise of her life this week. shane that captured the national title of miss black usa 2009. she is here now and we have mr. brookin's. thanks for joining us. congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> this happened late in to the evening. i'm sure your reporters are going i have a deadline to make it started on monday. it wasn't even announced until early. >> very early tuesday morning. >> yes. >> when you heard your name finally called after those hours. >> how did i feel? someone asked me this yesterday during an interview and my roommate happened to be miss alabama, kimberly brown and she held my hand really tight and i

was like oh, that is me. it felt really good. and empowering my attention 0 went to where's my mom. so it was an empowering moment to know i will be representing all black women in america. that's just a fabulous thought in itself. >> is that the reason why you entered the competition? >> well, actually was miss america contestant in 2008. so i have had the best of both worlds. i competed in the miss america system and now here i'm here with the miss black usa system. that was the driving force because a lot of the critiques got i got working for the miss america organization says it sounds like you have a black agenda like you are not for all of america. it is not that i have a black agenda but i wake up every morning excited to be a black woman. i found it empowering and befitting i chose to be part of

miss black usa portion and now i am representing the organization. >> reporter: when you hear the other pageants and national pageants may have to take a year off and put aside school and to be miss usa or whatever but as miss black america people would be sad to know you are a schoolteacher and you may have to give up your job but you say no. >> i'm not leaving my babies, oh, no. >> where will you be in the fall? >> in the fall i will be at my high school in southeast. >> what's your subject. >> english and creative writing. i'm a graduate of howard university, journalism and african-american studies minor. without any education this will not matter. i'm not going to give up my job at all. >> tell us what is making news in the afro this week besides this story. >> the major story this past evening, former congressman william jefferson was convicted

of bribery charges that have been going on seven years now. so waiting to see what the sentence will be but 11 of the 16 counts, he was found guilty of them and we always remember they found $90,000 in his home opened it up. it is a regrettable. he was a good congressman per say but got caught up in the whole deal of doing favors for folks for money and that's what happens when that occurs. not a good situation for sure. >> have a wonderful year and even better year with your students at the may yaening a lou public charter school. >> thank you so much. >> if they want to read more, go to afro.com. >> we will have a link at wusa9.com. let's go to angie now with an update on the rush hour. >> go to the outer loop. taking a look at the screen from 95 to georgia avenue. we are looking at a 25-minute

drive on interstate 270 we are going to switch that camera over and i show you from germantown though split those delays are breaking apart. still looking at a 15-minute commute. moving it over to the inner loop. it doesn't look like much relieve yet. from braddock to 66 we have a lot of congestion. still estimating the drive time at 15 minutes. on 395 heading northbound using the breaks under -- brakes under gloomy skies from the capital beltway to seminary and slow from the 14th street bridge to the pentagon area. and finally in the district. inbound new york avenue heavy heavy traffic from the times building to florida avenue. happy to report no incidents or accidents at this time. speaking of time, it is 9:32. now back to you. thank you, angie. hey, what will your children be carrying in their backpacker the new school year steve greenberg, author of the

grad jet nation is here with back to school must have items. welcome back. >> let me tell you about some cool things that are cool for back to school. >> i love this guy. >> this is rondo room. it is inexpensive things you can put on your child's wall, or inside a locker. $1 for letter, $6. not very expensive and show you before and after. this is high-tech. here's a room before rondo and there it is dressed up. a kids for expression and. >> it is easier than painting. >> gadget nation is about inventors. this is catch key for a latch key child. it can be clipped on to a backpack and hide the key for a

latch key kid for a kid 7 and up. >> so more sophisticated latch key device is this, this is a home security system. this will identify because it uses homeland security technology, the first time consumers have access to it. they let you know the difference between a car or a child coming in to the driveway. if you tell me to alert you it will send you an update on your smart phone. >> and i'm assuming you can watch on-line. >> it will tell you the difference between a car, person or what not and alert you to. >> you know if your kids are coming home. >> by themselves or someone else. >> small and really cool cool. these are microsd cards. >> you are smart to do that. you get these phone and if you up the sd card in it is like

putting it on steroids. for kids that use the phones for everything this is a great way to go and not expensive this is great for college kids. this have a thumb drive. >> a flash drive. it is one button. push one button and has a software to back up your laptop. >> you don't need to down load or schedule. >> you can hang it on the key ring and two layers of security built in to it. ideal for college students. next we have the face off. i had howard try three head phones. he tried all three and then we want to see if he agrees with consumers. >> skull candy, wasn't even close. >> according to buzzzillions, they have said they ranked it the same way for $20 skull

candy was on the top of the list, reviewers choice award, and sony bottom 10%. >> this is where it bays to go to a website. how many times do you get to try them before. >> that's why it is a great use for people. to dress up the head phones, another company -- if you want to do this you have money to burn in my opinion but angie loved these. they have war love study crystals on them and add a little bling and rubberized or aluminum look. >> gadget nation.com. this is the man in the gadget nation book. >> you maybe doing a double take on your next visit to the national mall. we will have a look at the wild animals taking residence there. and millions of americans use it during the summer but a warning about an n ingredient i many insect repellents.

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in the living well headlines the main ingredient in many insect repellents maybe dangerous. the researchers warn deet may effect the central nervous system. researchers say more studies are needed. young war vetses with post traumatic stress disorder may face other health problems as a

result. a study found those had an increased risk of dying from heart disease also. one researcher said it may be because mental health issues can lead to unhealthy habits. some wild animals have been spotted on the mall. we are talking about the artful animals exhibit at the national museum of african art. with me is dr. jeanette kohl. we welcome you to 9 news not 9:00. >> thank you so much. >> i know people know your face and name but they are saying, wait a minute, college president, spellman college, bennett, museum director this is a new position for you started in march of year. >> it is a new position, but in many ways i'm still the educator. i think any museum, if it is not educating is not doing its full job. of course we want art. we want to be inspiredded. we want our aesthetic

sensibilities touched. why don't we learn? and why don't we dislearn the myths like about animals in africa. >> all right. so that leads us to this exhibit on until february of 2010. artful animals. the "washington post" called it the hyper family friendly exhibit that does dispel some myths. what does it tell us? >> i think it tells us largely that africa is a place of great diversity but it is not that tarzan dominated, wild place that folks want to make it. this is an exhibition that is centered on animals, but it really helps us to learn. if we are interested about the environment, the relationship. it is the way of learning about an enormous continent, 54 countries, a thousand languages. >> wow. >> it is an exciting place.

>> of all of that we have 130 pieces in this exhibit. looking at the slides and what you have brought us here, these are not, as you say, the tarzan like animal images that westerners have come to associate with africa. very limiting our perspective. >> that's true but i need to point out these two pieces are from our teaching collection. when children come to this family focus exhibition, they can actually touch these pieces. they can examine them. they can even hug them if they wish. but we also have i think an exceptional element to this exhibition. we have reached out to people who are blind or who are hard of hearing, and we have prepared pieces in the exhibition that they can literally touch. we prepared and cataloged in braille. it is all a part of our museum

trying to expand the scope of our audiences. the national museum of african art must be a place for everyone. >> reporter: again, it is also africans educating us about their continent and what they see. and them expressing themselves in what they see in other ways. >> i like the way you put that. but i want to also emphasize while we want to hear from the people of africa about their way of life, their culture, their aspirations, and of course their challenges, everyone of us needs to remember africa is the cradle of humanity. and you know what? the sooner everybody admits that we are all africans the better this world is going to be. >> you can start your an throw logical lesson at the museum of

african art on the mall. see the exhibit artful animals. it is there through february of 2010. thank you so much. >> thank you and of course if you can't get there immediately, why not go on the web? we will provide a link at wusa9.com. we'll be right back. a singing star from virginia will have to wait a little longer to learn his sentence. and a legendary rocker is in the hospital this morning. find out why coming up. we asto aring from afriian asca toian flavor today.

steve steven tyler was take on the the hospital after falling off stage in south dakota. this is file footage of the 61- year-old. he got up before taken to a nearby hospital. >> and a judge has delayed sentencing r&b singer chris brown on an assault charge. she wants more information from virginia authorities about whether brown could do community labor in that state. he is from virginia. he pleaded guilty to assault stemming from a february altercation with then girlfriend entertainer rihanna. get set to feast your eyes on the flavors of asia. the source restaurant by wolfgang puck is offering a special chinese banquet style tasting menu. with more on that is their chef scott druno. he is from western new york and we have been talking a little bit. i have been to the source.

it is chinese food but asian food. >> right. it is modern american with an asian influence and we have gone to different regions of asia and take dishes from those regions and refine them and make them applicable for the fine dinning setting. >> they are located downtown. the tasting menu, how is this different than the regular menu. >> we do a regular tasting menu which is nine courses. everything is individually plated. what we have done for the summer is taken a chinese style approach. it is family style. $85 can be for a table of 2 to 200 an you get basically didn't dishes that you sample that we make at the restaurant. >> price-fixed menu and some of it here and we will make stir fried lamb. >> you are going to do the work. >> whatever. >> we will start with pork here and we had the butcher grind

it. we will keep the fat in there because it will flavor our stir fry in a minute. we will make a marinade that has fresh orange zest. we will add a little citrus. little brown sugar. always a little garlic when we are cooking chinese. all using garlic. >> western new york, where did you learn to cook asian. >> i started for wolfgang and worked at his restaurant and he broke me no to asian food and instilled the passion for me. >> what are we throwing in now. >> a little mushroom infused soy sauce. a little chili oil we make at the source. it is a rich marinade and it blends itself so you don't need an extra sauce. we will use a saute pan. at the source we use a work. but they marry overnight an come together and it has that asian you can sense it from

smelling it. >> so then we will cook it out a little bit. at the source it is a work but you can use a saute pan and you can smell the flavor. great quality of lamb to the mushroom soy sauce to the chili oil. we make lettuce cups. we will stir fry and serve it in lettuce cups. >> are these rice noodles. >> yeah, rice sticks. rice, flour and water an we are going to fry them. >> we take ten secs. >> they pop up like that. these add crisp texture and we will peel off a little bit. and then we will take a little lamb and lay it on top of there. >> i want to see you do that one more time before we go to break. what do you put on top of that. >> and then since lamb is classically paired with mint, the flavors go well, with will

take little mint and put it on the top and a little sugar in there to give a little balance to the dish. >> that's great. >> we will come back in a moment and taste this. i want to see you fry it one more time and we will check wall street and let you look at the seven-day forecast. see you in a moment.

time to check the numbers on wall street. the opening bell a half hour ago and it is a mixed bag. the dow is up over three points. the nasdaq is down almost five. s&p off a fraction. all right. want to see a cute baby

picture? let's go, ahh, there it is at the top right of the screen. there's the little baby. giant panda gave birth yesterday at the san diego zoo. the zoo's camera recorded the delivery. how intrusive. it is already making its little voice heard. it is her fifth cub. as you remember tai shan's birth at the national zoo, it will be a few weeks to determine whether it is a male or female so it will be a while before we get a name. >> ahhh. >> that's why my -- that's my sorority mascot. because the panda has no enemies. like me. >> oh, no. >> except howard bernstein. >> i love you, usually. >> weather wise, showers this morning and drier this afternoon. mostly cloudy skies. maybe a few peeks of sun but cool for august.

heat builds by sunday and monday highs in the mid-90s with isolated thunderstorms. >> tasting, tasting. >> yes. >> this is available until when. >> until until the end of august probably mid september. >> won't be available in the studio for very long. we will say good-bye. >> have a grit thursday.