. hello and thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. we are finally getting word of some of the plans for a memorial service for music legend chuck brown. he died last week after being hospitalized for pneumonia. his daughter tells "the washington post" that a viewing

is planned for tuesday at the howard theatre. the paper also reports that brown's funeral will take place at the verizon center or the convention center next thursday. we checked with brown's manager. he says that the details have not been finalized and they are subject to change. we will let you know when the services are finalized on our newscast as well as on our website wusa9.com, on facebook and also twitter. the man who runs the secret service is facing tough questions about the prostitution scandal rocking his agency. danielle nottingham reports that scandal is forcing agencies to revise their codes of conduct. >> reporter: secret service director mike sullivan told lawmakers the misconduct of agents in the columbian prostitution scandal did not

endanger president obama. sullivan is on the hot seat following revelations that secret service agents hired prostitutes in colombia prior to president obama's april visit. the director believes the misconduct was an isolated incident. he says similar allegations in el salvador were investigated and found to be unsubstantiated. but lawmakers doubt columbia was a one-time occurrence. >> this misconduct was almost certainly not an isolated incident. >> reporter: the secret service investigation cleared three acts of the most serious allegations. the agency is moving to revoke security clearance for one employee and eight others were fired or forced to resign. four of those agents are now trying to get their jobs back according to "the washington post." the men say they are being made scapegoats for behavior that

was tolerated in the past. >> the notion that this type of behavior is condoned or authorized is just absurd. >> reporter: prostitution is legal in columbia but the secret service has issued new guidelines making it clear agents are subject to u.s. laws while traveling overseas. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> the fallout from the scandal continues to spread to other agencies. the dea is looking into agent misconduct during foreign trips. later today, part of the beltway in forestville, maryland will be dedicated in honor of trooper first class wesley brown. brown was murdered two years ago outside a restaurant. trooper brown began a mentoring program for children in the area before his death. four key witnesses in the murder case against george zimmerman have reportedly changed their stories. zimmerman is charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old

trayvon martin in february in florida. he contends that it was in self- defense. the orlando sentinel reports that three of the witnesses changed their stories in ways that could be damaging to zimmerman. a fourth person now says that she only saw a single person running, not a foot chase as she initially told police. a long-time friend and former campaign aide to d.c. mayor vincent gray could get up to 18 months in prison. in court yesterday, thomas gore pleaded guilty to charges that he took funds from gray's 2010 campaign and gave them to then mayoral candidate sulaimon brown. he also confessed to lying to the f.b.i. about destroying a ledger that showed those payoffs. sentencing date has not been set. three harness racing drivers are in the hospital after a terrible accident at

rosecroft raceway last night. this was the scene at the track in oxon hill shortly after the accident. the crash involved the first place horse along with six others. lisa watts is the director of operations at rosecroft. she tells us what happened. >> the first horses went down and it caused a multitude of horses to be involved in the accident. some of the drivers that were behind the main part of the accident were able to go around but the ones running with itself first place horse went down as well. >> in harness racing, the driver sits on a cart behind the horse. authorities say that that makes it harder for the driver to see in front, and that makes the sport prone to crashes. a judge has found richard kim guilty of selling alcohol to minors. he owns town square market which is located on mcarthur boulevard in northwest washington. 9news now had been investigating his place since december. we witnessed dozens of alcohol

purchases made by teenagers who said they were as young as 14 years old. kim will be sentenced next month. facebook's highly anticipated initial public offering has become the laughingstock of wall street. now federal regulators are examining morgan stanley for how it handled the affair. matt jab low shows how the debacle could have serious implications for both companies. >> reporter: it was one of the most widely anticipated initial stock offerings in recent wall street history. today it's one of the most criticized. >> this is a misadventure of epic proportion. >> reporter: facebook's stock price lost 9% today on the news that morgan stanley, the lead underwriter warned several that it was you a cutting its projections. >> if there was voices of skepticism, i think everyone should have heard those. >> reporter: it's a black eye for both morgan stanley and

facebook that could have not only serious financial implications for the companies. >> it's not good news for the stock. >> reporter: but legal implications as well. the state of massachusetts today subpoenaed morgan stanley for records regarding facebook and the chairman of the scc had this to say. >> there are irks that we need to look at specifically with respect to facebook. >> that was matt jablow reporting. when facebook's stock first opened last week, it had a market value of about $104 billion. since then the company's shares have lost more than $37 billion in value. the presidential election is just over five months away. mitt romney is at the u.s. chamber of commerce this afternoon. he will address the latino coalition's 2012 small business summit. romney won the primaries in arkansas and kentucky on tuesday, and he now has 1,065

delegates. that's still 79 shy of the amount needed to secure the republican nomination. but romney could reach that total next week when texas holds its primary. we're looking live now at the commencement address at the air force academy in colorado springs, colorado. >> the president of the united states. >> here is the president arriving. [ cheers and applause ] >> after wrapping the g8 summit at camp david and a nato summit

in chicago, he headed for colorado. after that he will make stops for a campaign fund-raiser. we'll be right back.

egyptians are going to the polls in their first democratic presidential election in the nation's history. they will be selecting a new president more than a year after a violent uprising took

down mubarak. >> reporter: egyptians could not hold back their excitement as they surrounded their presidential hopeful. the former foreign minister is a front runner in the first free election in the country's history. he says, god willing democracy will prevail and we will start rebuilding egypt. these egyptians want to be part of it. some men and women waited for hours in separate lines to vote. since a third of egypt's 50 million voters could not read, a dozen candidates on the ballot had photos and symbols next to their name. another favorite is a former member of the muslim brotherhood party once banned in egypt. egyptians are choosing a new president 15 months after mass protests ousted the dictator mubarak. the election will determine the course of the new egypt and it's being watched around the world. former u.s. president jimmy

carter and the california congressman are among observers in cairo. >> i've seen voters go in. they cast their ballots in seconds and they put them into the box and so, you know, it seems to be moving faster. >> reporter: police have increased security across the country. the army which has been governing since mubarak was thrown out is promising to hand over power to the winner. cbs news. the new president must win more than 50% of the vote. if that does not happen, there will be a runoff vote next month. coming up next, howard has the forecast. >> jc, it's warm and sticky outside. a little sun. we're starting to see some storms firing. we'll see that on live doppler 9000 hd and how stormy an afternoon we may be facing. it hasn't been raining everywhere. the moisture is helping out with the grass pollen. that is high. the mold spores have gone high as well. we'll have the full seven-day forecast and there's a heat

wave in it as well when 9news now at noon returns.

a recent poll says public disapproval of congress is at 78%. and there's a new study that says capitol hill lawmakers are sounding dumber. the sunlight foundation used a fancy program to measure the length of words and sentences

used in floor speeches n. 2005 lawmakers spoke as if they were halfway through the 11th grade. this year they're speaking at a full grade lower. gary nurenberg takes a closer listen. >> reporter: this is no longer the congress ever the shakes spear quoting robert byrd. >> they're speaking in shorter sentences and using shorter words. >> back in the day. >> we looked at the declaration of independence which is at a 15th grade level. the u.s. constitution is at a 17th grade level. >> reporter: again, this congress tenth and a half grade level. does it mean they're dumber? >> not necessarily. there's no value placed on using big words or speaking in longer sentences. >> reporter: maryland representative roscoe bartlet is among the lowest levels when he speaks. so what. the historic i have a dream

speech, the gettysburg address. >> 11.2 grade level. >> reporter: president obama's state of the union address. >> about an eighth grade level. historically they've been about a tenth grade level. >> reporter: but he's known as a great orator. >> he may also be an effective communicator. >> reporter: liberals and conservatives. >> it's the most conservative republicans who speak at the lowest level. if it continues will we be at a kindergarten level? >> if it continues but he don't expect it will continue to that help. >> reporter: remember, because there are fewer sesquipedalians on the hill doesn't mean there's any less perspicacious insight because there's now with words as with federal

spending a more parse moneyous approach doesn't mean there's less excogitation. it was seem that the soaring oratory is more anomalist cri perhaps making it easier to do business. the shorter the words, the lower the greats score. remember, you're watching television news where the most frequent sentence is often "back to you." >> got that? >> i didn't understand a thing he just said. and if you didn't understand it, you want to hear it again, just go to our website wusa9.com. there is a link with the definition of those words. >> gary is quite the word guy. >> gosh. i hope they don't use that systemmous. -- >> system on us. we might be in kindergarten. >> some days that sounds very attractive to me. just go in and cut paper dolls.

sounds really attractive. >> paper dolls, no. >> snack time, nap time, it's all good. weather wise let's talk about what we can expect. we have showers and thunderstorms that once again be affecting some of you. not all of you, some of you. slow movers, heavy rain possible. here's a look at the day planner for the afternoon. we've got partly to mostly cloudy conditions. temperatures in the the upper 70s to around 80 for a high over the next few hours. but depending on exactly where those showers and storms form, that will also impact where the temperatures go. winds generally southeast at 5 to 10. these are slow moving storms and over the last couple of nights actually, we've seen some of the heavier rain out across areas in prince william county, manassas, eastern fauquier. last night once again they got hit another 1 to 2 inches. we had flood warnings again this morning. those have all been dropped. had some clearing skies by 9:30. this allowed some heating. now we're seeing some storms fire. south of luray in the blue ridge, you can see that there. to our north and now our east,

we're seeing storms just starting to pop in the last 20 to 30 minutes or so. this one in caroll county, a little hefty up near the pennsylvania-maryland border. i want to zoom in because we've got one shower here on the eastern shore. this is tracking over toward route 50. this may get over toward kent island and the bridge, maybe north of the bridge. as we go into northern prince george's county, just north and northeast of bowie, this is tracking off to the north, northwest. it may come up route 32 as it crosses the bw parkway. we've seen a calm of showers -- couple of showers north and west of baltimore and east of urbana and east of frederick a few showers popping here. now north of myersville we have a few showers starting to pop. i think we'll see a lot more go in the next one to two hours as the atmosphere is just starting to bubble up. temperatures are bubbling up too, to the upper 70s, even near 830 in fred -- near 80 in fredricksburg. only 72 in winchester.

annapolis 73 at the naval academy. easton 77. locally we're looking at still a couple of breaks but mostly cloudy skies on our michael & son weather camera. it's a sticky 76. it is muggy out there. humidity still 69%. so we've got an upper level system here. this is throwing some moisture our way, some instability along with the surface area, a surface trough. a little low pressure which will focus where the storms will form. this is kind of what we're seeing in our region. saw it yesterday. we're seeing it again today. with the daytime heating, the showers and storms pop up. we lose the heating and the activity diminishes. a threat for showers and storms tomorrow and even friday. 80ish today. storms will wain overnight, about 65 by tomorrow morning. 82 tomorrow. mainly afternoon storms. 86 friday. a few less storms. that's why it will be warmer. as we head through the weekend, fewer storms, hotter

temperatures. 88 by saturday. isolated storm sunday, memorial day, tuesday. look at the temperatures, 90 or better. we'll be right back with 9news now at noon in just a moment.

today on one on one -- today i'm one on one with susan and the subject is from the depths of despair. how do you get over hard times, a debilitating experience.

susan has been called america's leading resilience and confidence coach. what are the tips to keep in mind? >> there are three elements that are helpful. one of them is to overcome. that is basically put behind you what isn't working and take responsibility and create what you do want. the next one is to steer through which is about and a half gaiting through all the adversities that we -- navigating through all the adversities we have every day so it doesn't take away or interfere with our well-being and productivity. the third one is bouncing back. and that's not just about going down and popping back up. it's also about getting up in a faster way, more quickly. the longer you stay down, the harder it is. so when you're resilient, you bounce back quickly from anything that isn't working in your life. >> is it important to speak it out into the atmosphere, your words are so important, your mind where you are? >> i think along with resilience has a lot to do with how you see things and what

you're saying to yourself. >> that is important. and the tips that you're giving can be for health, for career, any type of life changing situation. >> absolutely. >> what are the complaints that most people have when they see you? >> balance, the fear about going through transition. >> we like things the way they are. we don't like change. >> right. >> change is difficult anded older that you are, it's -- and the older that you are, it's more difficult to accept. >> absolutely. >> attitude. >> absolutely. it's that positive thinking not in a pollyanna way but shifting your mind set and getting out there and making life work for yourself. >> and understanding in life there is bitter with sweet. >> absolutely. >> you have to take both of them. >> absolutely. >> susan, america's resilience coach. how to bounce back. when life hands you a lemon,

you make lemonade, honey and get on the corner and sell t. thanks, susan. all the red had ladies are here with my friend mickey. they enjoyed being a part of today's show. hi, ladies. come back and visit us at 5:00. have a great day. bye-bye. [ male announcer ] here's a friendly reminder.

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