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hello, thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. howard has been checking his maps. he has details of the weather. some areas reporting two inches of rain the last couple of days. we have a nice break now. what's going to happen with all the moisture around, a little upper air energy, a little daytime heating. the area in yellow, that's a threat of severe storms. there is issued by the storm prediction center out of oklahoma. they track this stuff. you can see it. it includes baltimore, washington, frederick, down 95 to richmond. we'll have to watch this. not only will we goat some storms to redevelop -- we get some storms which could redevelop with heavy rain, but we have the threat of gusty winds and hail. the storms we had this morning are in the hudson valley, northern new jersey, approaching the metro new york area and new england. for us it's quiet at the moment. we had some breaks. we got a little bit of daytime heating going o. the other

thing i want to point out, when you look at the clouds coming through eastern tennessee, see how they're racing eastward? that's an upper air impulse. the next few hours as this gets closer to us, i think some thunderstorms will form to the west and move toward us n. is what we have to watch for the afternoon. we're pretty good. right now dealing with muggy conditions. temperatures have already warmed up into the 70s. low to mid-70s here. we may make 75 to 80 and as far as the rest of the afternoon, the threat for some scattered thunderstorms, some could be strong. 78 at 3:00. we cool off to 76 at 6:00. i'll be back with the full seven-day forecast. jc, back to you. >> thank you, howard. just two weeks after harry thomas, jr. was sentenced to more than three years in jail, the election to replace him on the city council is under way. delia goncalves has a look at the top candidates and early voting in ward five. >> reporter: despite the rain,

residents are heading out to the polls casting their ballots for change in ward five. >> we're going to have a new day in ward five starting tomorrow. >> reporter: ken mcduffy is one of the front runners in a crowd feel of 11 candidates. he says he feels good about his prospects despite critics who say his work in the mayor's office may have tainted his reputation. >> i answer to the residents of the ward. i never served at the pleasure of the council or the mayor. >> we need someone who can go down to the wilson building that they can depend on, they can trust and has a proven record of accomplishment. >> reporter: but it was tim day, the lone republican in the race who first blew the witting about disgraced council member harry thomas jr.'s finances. >> i have continued to work on corruption and not just outing people, but about flaws in the system and positive corrective actions. >> i actually voted for tim day. i went to the debate they had

at catholic university and actually thought he had the best things to say and really wanted something different in our government. >> i want a better ward. i want more unity and more development. >> someone who is going to represent all of the diversity of the ward be it political, ethnic, age, whatever it is. and, you know, hopefully something that's not going to be corrupt. >> reporter: according to the d.c. board of elections and ethics, more than 2200 people have already cast their ballots in early and absentee voting. the polls throughout the ward close today at 8:00 p.m. in northwest, delia goncalves, 9news now. >> you can learn more about the candidates and their positions from the ward five voters guide. it's on our website wusa9.com. republican mitt romney expects to pick up a few more delegates today with presidential primaries in nebraska and oregon. and the latest polling numbers are looking good for the presumptive republican nominee's full matchup with

president obama. according to a cbs news-"new york times" poll conducted may 11 through the 13th, 46% of registered voters say they would vote for romney. 43% say they would cast their ballot for the president. and the three percentage point difference is within the poll's margin of error. the last republican challenger to mitt romney is effectively ending his campaign. texas congressman ron paul says he will not spend any more money on running for president. the libertarian candidate captured 104 delegates. however, he never finished higher than second place in any of the primary contests and so far paul has not endorsed romney. the maryland senate is expected to vote today on a budget aimed at avoiding the so- called doomsday scenario. to avoid half a billion dollars in cuts, maryland lawmakers will hike income taxes on people who make six picks. under the plan people who earn

more than $100,000 a year would pay more in taxes and also couples making more than $150,000. the budget also hikes taxes on cigars and smokeless tobacco products. lawmakers kicked off a special session yesterday in annapolis and democrats appear to have the votes to pass those tax hikes. republicans do not like it. >> there's only 16% of the marylanders who are going to ask to pay a little bit more and those were the ones hurt the least in the recessionary period. >> there are many that believe they are taxed enough. >> the senate just passed the measure to shift the cost of teacher pensions to counties. once the budget is approved by the senate, it heads to the house of delegates. we're attempting to learn more about a deadly police shooting that occurred in the district. it happened on 6th street near chesapeake street southeast. police say the officer shot a man several times. his identity has not been released and it is unclear what

provoked that shooting. an officer suffered minor wounds. a marine accused in the murder of another marine in the district is due in court today. michael poth is charged with second-degree murder. according to police he got into a fight with philip bushong last month near the marine barracks in southeast washington. poth pulled out a knife and staffed bushong in the neck. poth said he was punched in the head and was defending himself. we're about to get a look at a new design for the memorial to honor president dwight eisenhower. frank gary's original design was panned by the eisenhower family. however, he had support of the commission in charge of the memorial. the eisenhower memorial commission will hold a public meeting today to hear about those proposed changes. the government is saying thank you to the country's military. the white house announced last night that active duty military

personnel and their dependents will soon be able to enter every national park free. an annual pass is normally $80. the national park service estimates that giving away the passes will result in the revenue loss of between $2 million and $6 million. still to come on 9news now at noon, a pill that prevents people from getting drunk. researchers at yale say they've developed one. we'll have information. i'm danielle nottingham in washington. coming up, the president and lawmakers call for change after jpmorgan chase loses billions in bad trade.

anew addition is under way to the international space station. nasa says the russian rocket is carrying three space engineers and an american and two russians. once at the space station, they will join three colleagues already on board. the u.s. is dependent on the russian space program after grounding our u.s. shuttle fleet. researchers at yale university are developing a pill to help people stay sober. when taken before drinking, it reportedly can weaken some of the effects of alcohol on the brain. researchers also hope that the drug will help reduce the amount of damage done to liver

from drinking alcohol. testimony has resumed in the roger clemens perjury trial. his chief accuser former trainer brian mcnamee returned to the witness stand this morning. mcnamee testified yesterday that he injected the pitching great with steroids eight to ten times when they were both with the toronto blue jays back in 1998. clemens is accused of lying to congress when he denied using performance enhancing drugs. the head of jpmorgan chase told shareholders today that the bank's costly mistakes were self-inflicted. jamie dimon also insisted he isn't against new rule financial regulations as some lawmakers stepped up their calls for tougher regulations of wall street. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: jpmorgan chase' c.e.o. jamie dimon faced shareholders in tampa following the bank's

$2 million loss in bad trade. >> the bottom line is how up fortunate this is we always do what we -- fort this s we want to did what we always do. admit our mistakes. >> reporter: appearing on "the view" president obama says this is why wall street needs tighter regulations. >> jpmorgan is one of the best managed banks there is. jamie dimon the head of it is one of the smartest bankers we have and they still lost $2 billion. >> reporter: congress passed reform known as dodd-frank two years ago but much of it has yet to take effect. >> i could care less if a person buys a losing ticket at the kentucky derby but when the folks at chase decide to invest money, they are gambling with taxpayer insured money. >> reporter: one part of the 2010 financial reform bill is called the vockler rule. it's supposed to limit certain large speculative investments but it doesn't kick in until

july. it's not yet known whether the rule would have stopped the risky trades that got chase into trouble, but some lawmakers want to see it take effect immediately. >> the vockler rule is a sensible step forward for more accountability and more transparency. >> reporter: wall street watchers say the bad trades chase made are still out there so the bank's $2 billion loss is likely to grow even larger. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> jamie dimon is facing a proposal to strip him of his chairman's title, but he is expected to keep the title because most of the ballots were cast before the massive trading loss was disclosed. there will abgolden parachute for former yahoo c.e.o. scott thompson. thompson was forced to give up his job following a scandal triggered by inaccurate information on his resume. and now the company says that he will not be getting a severance package after four months on the job.

however, he will be permitted to keep $7 million worth of cash and stocks. the company could have required him to give that back. a new survey says that employee loyalty to a company is down. the fiscal times reports that firms share a lot of the blame. the most recent recession produced greater layoffs and resulted in workers and employers feeling less allegiance to one another. net life's tenth annual survey of employee benefits, trends and attitudes says that employee loyalty has reached a seven-year low. coming up next, how wrmd has the forecast. -- howard has the forecast. >> a little bit of sun this midday but that could only help to destabilize the atmosphere, possibly giving us some thunderstorms this afternoon. we'll have more on that in a minute. we'll go to break with a look at the temperatures. the allergy counts were washed out by the rains. 75 in great falls. 79 in columbia. 70 in arlington.

we'll have the forecast looking ahead to some drier times when 9news now returns.

he was determined to get his thrills at king's dominion so an overweight man refused to give up. gnat ambrose was not allowed on the roller coaster because of his size. park workers told him that he couldn't ride the volcano because of safety reasons. he weighed 300 pounds.

he said he was embarrassed by that incident so he decided to make some serious changes. he lost more than 100 pounds and guess what? he went on that roller coaster this past weekend. good for him. bet he feels a lot better, healthier and he had a lot of fun i'm sure. >>it's mazing what it takes to kick start people, that moment where you just decide i'm going to change. we said we needed rain. we had two days of it. >> some spots have had two inches of rain. some areas have only had half an inch south and east. we'll take it. we've been running into a minor drought since the beginning of the year. certainly this is helping and we'll get some more showers and storms in spots this afternoon and slightly -- slight chance we'll get some tomorrow. here's a look at the day planner for the rest of this tuesday. we have partly to mostly cloudy conditions. mid-70s coming up the next few hours into the upper 70s for the highs. one thing that's going to keep us from getting into the 80s i believe would be the fact we've got the clouds. we've got a lot of moisture. it takes more energy to heat

moisture as opposed to dry air. winds out of the south at 5 to 10. you'll notice the chance of the thunderstorms with us starting in the next few hours going into the evening hours as well. if you've got plans outside this evening, watch the radars. you might be okay but then quite a few of you might not be okay with the showers and storms. this morning we got dumped o. it was coming down in buckets. there they go up toward new york now into eastern new york state and new england. around here we've had some sunny breaks. you look now, things have gotten mostly cloudy here. still some sun peeking through here and there, but with energy coming in, some daytime heating we do expect we're going to see some storms develop. temperatures as warm as 77, 78 now in fredricksburg and orange. 27 up in hagerstown. on the bay only 71. and looking outside on our michael & son weather camera, you see a lot of these puffy clouds. this sky reminds me more of being maybe in south florida than washington. it's got a very tropical, humid feel to it. the dew points are way up. it is sticky outside with the

humidity at 76%. our temperature of 73 under mostly cloudy skies. but for the moment radar is quiet. i am expecting more storms on the way for the afternoon and evening hours. heavy rains will be possible and anything that develops, there's a lot of moisture available for rain. some severe also possible. we're talking about the potential for some hail and wind gusts. if anything can get strong enough, we're border line today so we'll be watching it. topper will have you covered this afternoon and this evening. critical time anywhere from 2:00 to 9:00 i think. the stuff is going to definitely west first before it moves to the east. i'm talking about areas toward the mountains i believe and then coming toward us. i think the models are a little aggressive but still the scattering of showers and storms by 3:00. into the evening hours, the ride home could be a slow one for some. this morning was a tough commute in early. then by 9:00 notice how things are shifting south. north seems okay. if you have an evening flight, you should be all right heading out here. overnight things are going to settle down. tomorrow here comes a cold

front. you can see it up here midday. it will be approaching us late in the afternoon and evening and may touch off a shower or storm then. but behind it it's going to get real nice. today 78, muggy, scattered showers and storms. tonight low 60s. a few evening showers and storms. could see a late day storm on wednesday. mainly late day storm, 83. then it gets really nice. thinking a four-day weekend or five. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday partly to mostly sunny. highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. stick around. 9news now returns right after this.

i am one on one today with an incredible man, outstanding. he is the founder of one of the world's most prestigious hotels and resorts. he's written a book and it's called "four seasons: the story of a business philosophy." what an honor it is to have isadore sharp with me. thank you for being my guest today. we were talking about the significance of the four seasons hotel here in washington, your first. >> first. it was called the four seasons in the united states, yes. >> your story is really incredible because you are the son of immigrants. you did not have really any experience. >> being a hotellier but yet you have built this organization to a level of

excellence and elegance. far superior than many others. >> well, i think maybe the fact that i didn't know anything about the hotel business i'm a builder by trade that was my construction. in determining what to build and how to operate, i approached from a customer's perspective. so you would come up with the same ideas. we have been innovating over the years, many things that became firsts but it was all thinking, focusing what would a customer consider to be of value and what would be useful away from home and office. so maybe my lack of experience was an opportunity to think outside the box and do things that maybe hoteliers at that point thought were unnecessary. so things have worked out from that first day. >> very successful. now you have written this book. what was the purpose of the book? i think it was to inspire

people. >> well, yes, but the people i wrote it for in particular really are the employees of the company. we have now well over 35,000 employees worldwide. and as the company grows, thousands more will join. so my purpose really was to try to explain how we got to where we are today and by so doing, maybe they would have a better understanding of how to deal with the future. so it's really to share the history that nobody knew about and really it was a steppingstone approach to how the four seasons evolved. and i thought giving people the understanding of how that happened would reinforce what the company really stood for. >> the name of the book "four seasons: the story of a business philosophy" that certainly has worked. one of your newest hotels is right down the street in baltimore.

i've been there. i love four seasons. i do. it's my hotel. wherever i guy i want to know is there a four seasons here. congratulations you to. much success on your book. "four seasons: the story of a business philosophy" by isadore sharp. delighted to you have here. thank you for joining us. come back and see us at 5:00. bye-bye.