new record. today i'm happy to say we're not going to see triple digits. we'll cool down by almost 10 degrees. enjoy the cooldown the next few days. we do see some showers and thunderstorms as well today. it will be unsettled for the next couple of days as this boundary front goes through. here's a look at your day planner. temperatures will get into the lower 90s by 1:00. we do see some showers and storms once again. those storms today could be strong or severe. visibility, i'm showing you this because we do have some areas of fog. stafford down to 5 miles but it's worse up in cumberland where you're down to a quarter mile visibility in western midmerchandise. right now temperatures in the upper 70s in downtown. actually the lower 80s downtown. 78 in arlington. 75 for great falls and 75 degrees also for bethesda and college park. satellite radar picture showing us it was pretty active yesterday. today we're looking at pretty quiet morning and we'll see maybe some more active weather this afternoon. temperatures today getting up to 92 in downtown. 95 in manassas and 89 in

frederick. here's your time saver traffic with the lovely monika samtani. good morning. thank you so much. good morning. if you're planning to head over to the silver spring area, i've been telling but this accident blocking the ramp from university boulevard to get on to the inner loop of the beltway. i'm going to step out and show you a live look from sky 9. that ramp remains blocked. it was a car into the woods and they're just in the process of pulling it out right now. looks like they've set up the arrow board as well so you cannot exit from university boulevard to the inner loop of the beltway right now westbound side of university boulevard. keep that in mind for your travel plans as you head out the door. let's go back over to the maps. another accident, this time it's on the inbound side of i- 66 just after route 50 but before route 123. we'll go to our traffic camera. i believe you can see it in that shot on the left hand side of the road. if you're planning to head inbound, looks like the crews have arrived as well squeezing the left side of the roadway and that will affect traffic

heavily right now especially that we're in the 6:00 hour. inbound 66 watch out for the slow traffic trying to approach and pass route 50. i'll keep you posted on both of those situations again at 6:12. >> thompgs -- thanks, monika. a new poll shows support for mayor gray is waning. >> delia goncalves joins us live now from the wilson building where the mayor's office is. she has more as we look ahead this morning. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning, mike, jessica. certainly this is not a scientific poll but the results are indeed very telling. it appears that after these long running scandals surrounding kwame brown, it appears district residents are fed up and they want this controversy to be over quickly. but the mayor supporters who rallied outside the wilson building yesterday say things may not be as they appear. mayor gray admits that it was not the campaign he intended to

run, but he hasn't really offered any further detail. genie harris who pled guilty to funneling $653,000 in that illegal shadow campaign now says she told the mayor about it back in january. and according to "the washington post" poll, 54% of voters think the mayor should step down but 37% believe he should remain in office. >> i worked the campaign. i didn't get a dime. >> i've been troubled by the rush to judgment and the media feeding frenzy with regard to vincent gray. >> we need to wait to see, to really wait to see because the fact is, is that things can look a certain way and not be that way. >> there's too much against him and everything. every time he keeps fighting it, it's like more information comes out about this. so it's not something he can hide. >> with all the controversy surrounding him right now, how could he not know what was going on in his campaign?

he had these people who are close to him. i mean, you know, the buck stops with him. >> reporter: those last two negative comments are coming from ward 7. that is where the mayor lives and that is where he was a former council member representing that ward east of the river. coming up at 6:30, we'll have a closer look at the poll and a breakdown ever the numbers among those -- of the numbers among those who were the biggest supporters of mayor gray and who elected him into office. back to you, mike, jess. >> thanks, delia, delia goncalves live at the wilson building. it wasn't as bad as the storms last month but a quick moving storm system did knock down trees and power around the region. we're going to take a live look now at acadia place northwest. you can see crews working to dismantle a tree that fell over last night. fewer than a thousand pepco customers in d.c., montgomery county and prince george's county are without power. we have an update now on that just bizarre accident from recently. a giant tree falling on a car

stuck in traffic and killed a man inside the vehicle. this happened tuesday night on georgetown pike in great falls, virginia. we're told that tree was basically almost completely rotted out. fairfax county ash ritions say the ivy on the tree -- arborists say the ivy on the tree was one of the only things that kept it from toppling down before tuesday. we are also learning more about the victim in that case. he is a 64-year-old arl roeth. he was building a new house in great falls. one of his best friends was on the way over there the night roeth was killed. >> i was on my way out last night to his house, about a half-hour behind him. i tried to turn here. i saw a tree and all the emergency equipment and i thought wow, i don't know what happened. i had to drive miles to get over to his house. he wasn't there.

i thought well, he's probably just having dinner or he's late. i called him. i said hey, don't go down georgetown pike. there's a tree in the road. i didn't know he was under it. >> he's survived by his 20-year- old daughter. in laurel the i city council -- [indiscernible] if the owner doesn't take action, the city would be able to take down the tree after 75 days. and then bill the property owner for that work. you can learn more about some of the signs of a tree that is sick. here's how you do it. you go to wusa9.com. it 16:06 now. the message from senator john mccain to fellow republican michele balkman enough -- balkman -- bauchmann enough. she has launched an investigation and she specifically points to huma

abedin, long time aide to secretary of state hillary clinton. the allegations have been twirling around for weeks now and mccain says he's tired of it. >> these allegations about huma abedin and the report from which they are drawn are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated american, and a loyal public servant. these attacks have no logic, no basis, and no merit. and they need to stop. >> in response michele bachmann said she would not be silent. time for another your money report. wall street is looking to hold on to its recent rally and that could happen with another round of better than expected profits in the likes of american express, e-bay and i.b.m. all reporting profits that beat estimates.

the do you rose 103 points in trading. the nasdaq added 32 points. the s&p 500 was up by 9. amazon plans to start charging sales tax in eight additional states starting with california and pennsylvania in september. amazon already collects sales tax in six states. it's able to charge sales tax in states where it actually has a physical warehouse or other operations. you may want to make some room in your freezer for meat because prices for beef and pork are expected to drop in the coming weeks. farmers are expected to slaughter their herds because it's becoming too expensive to feed the cattle. a severe drowt in the midwest has sent the price of livestock feed soaring. experts say if the drought lasts through the summer, expect higher meat prices by the end of the year. still nice to get one but an olympic gold medal just isn't what it used to be. gold medal is made up of 60 -- let's make that 93% silver, 6% copper and just 1% gold.

the olympic games have not handed out solid gold medals since the 19 12k summer games -- 1912 summer games in stockholm, sweden. >> they're definitely worth fighting for for sure. go u.s.a. 6:09. still ahead, for the first time since being charged with second-degree murder, the man who admitted to killing an unarmdz teenager -- unarmed teenager trayvon martin is speaking out now. >> we'll have another look at today's question of the morning. keep it here.

. here's your forecast for today. we start out partly cloudy. we have a chance of showers and storms. better chance will be this afternoon and this evening. again some of those storms could be strong to severe. highs will top out in the lower 90s. so don't forget your umbrella today. thank you, anny. if you're planning to head inbound on i-66, delays begin in centreville trying to get past route 50 where the accident has been moved to the left showedder. lanes are open but the damage is done at 6:12 in the morning. i'll be back with more traffic coming up at 6:18. back to you.

>> thank you, monika. itself man charged with killing unarmed florida teenager trayvon martin is speaking out for the first time since his posting bond for the second time. >> george zimmerman and his attorney talked about the night of the killing and they reached out to the teen's parents. randall pinkston reports. >> i do wish that there was something, anything i could have done that wouldn't have put me in the position where i had to take his life. >> reporter: george zimmerman says his confrontation with trayvon martin didn't last long before martin started throwing punches. in an interview with fox news channel, zimmerman recounted how martin approached him shortly after he called police about a suspicious person last february. >> he asked me what my problem was. i looked up and he punched me and broke my nose. >> reporter: zimmerman appeared with his attorney mark o'meara. the neighborhood watch captain has been free but not seen since posting $1 million bond july 6. zimmerman claims the unarmed teen attacked him while

he was patrolling a gated community in sanford, florida. martin's family alleges zimmerman shot their son because he was black. zimmerman said as the two struggled that night, he felt his life was in danger. >> he said you're -- [ bleep ] and took one hand off of my mouth and i felt it going down my chest towards my belt, my hollister and that's when i -- i didn't have any more time. i feel like it was all god's plan. >> reporter: trayvon's father took exception telling the associated press there's no way god wanted george zimmerman to murder my teenage son. randall pinkston, cbs news. >> zimmerman's attorney says he let his client appear for the interview because he's hoping to receive some donations to pay for zimmerman's defense. if you're expecting a better day today for the weather, i think you're probably going to get what you asked for, right? >> as far as the heat's concerned, that's for sure but

we could still see some strong storms later today as we're not completely out of the woods yet. as far as temperatures are concerned, they will not get into the triple digit territory once again like we did yesterday. we did set a record at dulles airport at 100 degrees. for the rest of today on this thursday, here's a look at your day planner. we're waking up to mostly cloudy conditions. we'll see some breaks of sun by the morning hours. temperatures in the lower 80s by noon. we'll get up into the lower 90s for afternoon highs today but we do still see some scattered showers and thunderstorms today and again some of those storms could be strong or severe. visibilities are down in some locations with some areas of fog this morning. stafford down to five miles. no problems here on the beltway but cumberland, wow, in western maryland, you're still down to a quarter mile visibility sour' seeing some fog. our satellite and radar picture showing us we had some active weather, especially yesterday. some severe storms came through the area. today still a chance to see some strong storms once again.

right now temperatures pretty warm out there, especially inside the beltway. 81 in downtown. still muggy as well. 78 in arlington. 77 springfield. 74 vienna. laytonsville good morning you to. you're also at 74 degrees. here's a look at the michael & son weather camera. at least the staff is probably waking up at the white house. dew points are in the upper 60s, close to lower 70s under cloudy conditions and the winds are light. here's a look at our weather headlines for today. more storms again late this afternoon. late this morning potentially and into the afternoon. again some strong storms are possible. the good news not as hot today and through friday and into your weekend. more storms, though, on friday. so you're going to want to keep your umbrellas handy for the next couple of days. 9 future cast shows us i'm not too concerned about showers and storms early this morning. we'll just see cloudy conditions. it will clear out a little bit. by this afternoon you could see hagerstown toward winchester,

culpeper, luray, you may see showers and storms coming through. also on the beltway especially by the evening hours. some of the storms could be strong or severe. later tonight and tomorrow morning, we could also maybe see some more showers and storms. here's a look at your forecast. cumberland 86. leersburg, warrenton the upper 80s. in downtown getting up to the lower 90s. check out your next three days. code weather alert in yellow for today and tomorrow because of the unsettled weather. friday, though, we talked about cooling down, mid-80s. saturday even cooler, in the lower 80s. check out your next seven days. the weekend does look really good. only the chance for an isolated storm saturday and sunday. temperatures by the end of the week mid-80s. we're hot again by monday. temperatures in the mid-90s. so monika, don't forget your umbrella today. how is the traffic looking? don't forget your patience as well this morning. we've had a lot to talk about. first of all accident activity continues to the ramp from university boulevard to get on to the inner loop of the beltway. the ramp is reopened but you'll still see some flashing lights

there. but now there's something a little bit worse. on the inbound side of i-66 there was an accident involving a bus after route 50. i'm going to step out. let's take a live look from our sky 9. you can see everything was moved to the left shoulder here but look at that slow traffic. in fact, let's take a look from our traffic camera as well. this is causing a backup from about centreville now trying to get past route 50. this time over to the south side of town. no problems out of dale city into woodbridge. a little bit of slow traffic, though, as you travel into springfield. i'll be back with more coming up in a few minutes. back to you guys. it is time now for the question of the morning. what's the number one thing kids tend to stick up their noses? is it a, a crayon, b, french fry or c, a bean? >> our facebook friend thinks the answer is c, a bean, because it fits so nicely in their nostrils. what do you think? what do kids stick up their

noses the most? we'll have the correct answer in about a half-hour from now.

good morning. 6:22 on your thursday morning. the good news is it won't be as hot. the bad news is we could see showers and storms. some of the storms could be big. here's a look at your day planner. by noon temperatures upper 80s, close to 90. then late this afternoon a better chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms. we'll top out in the lower 90s. right now it's cloudy under 81 degrees. good morning, everybody. the redskins now have all their drafted rookies locked up and ready to go. heading into this week, just two remained unsigned. both signed on the dotted line

wednesday. rg3's deal is four years worth $21.1 million, all of that guaranteed even if the redskins for some crazy reason let rg3 go before that time is up. the deal includes a $13.8 million signing bonus and the team has an option to extend the contract to a fifth year. big night for jordan zimmerman and the nats against new york. zimmerman give up just four hits while striking out four on track for his fourth win. fourth straight win i should say. the game stayed scoreless into the bottom of the 6th till adam la roche sends this pitch to deep left center just over the wall. brings in bryce harper. nats up but the mets rally with two homers in the 9th to come within a run but tyler clipper says sorry, boys, this one is ours. nats take this one 4-3. they're 17 games over .500 for the first time this season. the washington capitals

last night rocking the camo gear before the match. the kastles continue to refuse to lose, their slogan. they win last night 21 hts 19 in overtime. that's 23 straight wins for the kastles. that's a quick look at sports this morning. i'm kristen berset. have a great thursday. >> thank you so much, kristen. not so great on the inbound side of i-66 where you have a long, slow backup from centreville past route 50 here where there's accident cleanup along the left side of the road. the exit ramp or to the hov lanes, that merge lane has been blocked as well for quite some time. i'll be back with more traffic coming up in my next report at 6:30. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] where did all the obama stimulus money go? friends, donors, campaign supporters,

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>> we are back at 6:2k-8. this -- 6:28. this is the place where you can always get your weather first. good morning, mr. president. we're glad you're with us. >> a beautiful shot. the sun coming up. turning the white house a little pink. i'm jessica doyle. andrea roane is off today. i'm mike hydeck. anny hong in for howard bernstein on the weather terrace with a look at the rest of the day. good morning. we're looking at another warm day today but not as hot as the last couple of days. we'll get a break from the extreme heat. we still see some unsettled weather though. here's a look at your day plan

forethis thursday and pre- friday as we like to say. we're expecting partly cloudy conditions. increasing clouds throughout the afternoon. temperatures in the lower 90s today. we'll see some scattered showers and thunderstorms again. some storms will be strong. some could be severe. visibilities, we do see some areas of fog this morning. stafford visibility down to 5 miles south of quantico. cumberland in western maryland, you're still down to less than a mile visibility. around the beltway things are final. maybe a little hazy because it's humid. temperatures lower 80s in downtown. 75 college park. reston, good morning you to. you're at 74. centreville, you're at 75 degrees. here's monika samtani with your time saver traffic. good morning. good morning, anny. i'm afraid i don't have much good news for drivers on inbound side of i-66 other than the fact that the accident we've been telling you about after route 50 was cleared, but take a look at the inbound side. first of all you're going to see on our traffic camera that the lanes are cleared. they're just moving the cameras back around. let's go to sky 9 and show you

the delay. the heaviest part will be route 7100 right here traveling inbound right now toward route 50. again the good news is that the accident is clear. the bad news is that accident is -- oops, we've lost that shot. no problems to report on the north side of town. 95 coming in from baltimore past laurel to the beltway, it's fine. once you get to the outer loop you'll hit the brakes from 95 heading toward silver spring and georgia avenue. we'll take a last live look of route 50 headed to the beach. looking good. no delays to the bay bridge. coming up in my next report, we'll go over to 270 at 6:43. back to you. >> thanks so much, monika. cbs this morning just about 30 minutes away. >> charlie rose joins us live from new york with a preview. of course i would imagine you're talking about syria this morning, charlie. >> we indeed are. that and much more. good morning, mike and jessica. ahead senior correspondent john miller provides an inside look at the stealth war already under way between iran and israel. only on cbs this morning. a former iranian agent reveals how iran could be preparing for

global terror campaign that includes u.s. targets. and this, 55 years ago today five men voluntarily stood underneath the test explosion of a nuclear bomb. we'll show you how it was all captured on film and find out what happened to the men in the years since. that and more when we see you at 7:00. >> thank you, charlie. have a good show. we'll talk to you tomorrow. a new poll suggests public support for mayor vincent gray is dwindling. >> a "washington post" survey shows nearly half of his political base is now saying he should resign. delia goncalves joins us live now from the wilson building with more this morning. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning, mike. mayor vince gray says he ran for office because he loves the district of columbia, but according to this poll, it appears the love the district had for him is nearly been at this point. 37% including those who rallied in support of the mayor outside the wilson building yesterday want gray to stay in office but listen to this.

52% want him to resign now. breaking down that 52%, 48% of african-americans and that was a huge base for the mayor to get him into office in 2010 now want him out of office. and the mayor's support among women is dwindling down to 6% from 37% for white women. east of the river where the mayor lives that has dropped 40%. three council members have called for the mayor's resignation after learning of the $653,000 illegal shadow campaign but others, including council member tommy wells and vincent orange are taking a different approach. >> we have time to hear some more facts. i think the mayor has to explain himself. our city has been damaged. at this point he has not been charged. i think he's in a pickle. damn if you do, damn if you don't. >> reporter: that's one way of

putting it. genie harris is the third campaign aide to plead guilty to federal charges in connection to this shadow campaign. she now says the mayor knew about this campaign and the illegal money back in january. we know, though, the f.b.i. is looking into several other people connected to the mayor's campaign. so this investigation is far from over. and one last thing i should mention as pretty startling, the poll says that gray's approval rating is down to 29%. that's a near record low foe a d.c. mayor. mike, jessica? >> wow, astonishing. thank you, delia live at the wilson building this morning. looks like buses from out of town are now being brought in to pick up the slack after this ride on bus caught fire in sill sprer spring -- silver spring yesterday. the buses today and tomorrow will rung on a holiday schedule. thankfully no one was hurt in this but the bus driver's union says this is the 13th champion

model bus to go up in flames since 2009. the union has been fighting with county administrators to get these buses off the roads for years now. >> the mechanics are relieved because they assume the concern that i share about the safety of their colleagues but also the patrons that get on the bus. every time they release that bus to be put on the street, they're concerned about the safety of that bus as they should be as professionals that they are. >> county executive ike leggett ordered all ride on buses off the street and now the county is looking to replace the entire fleet. the time right now it is 6:34. i am watching your money and perform mansz review -- performance review. these reviews oftentimes the employees don't agree with the results. a recent survey found employees and employers see things very

differently when it comes to these reviews. this morning i'm joined by the president of the mid-atlantic district. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> tell us a little bit about this survey. we're not seeing these things exactly the same way as employer-employee come review time? >> what we found were employers were certainly more apt and interested in giving them versus employees weren't as excited about receiving them but i think it had -- it has more to do with communication on both sides. >> let's say you're an employee and facing down a performance review or in the midst of it because many workers have to go through this at least once a year. what's the best way to make this work for us? >> i think the key thing is on the employer side, it's very clear it's important that the time ever the performance review isn't the only time to deliver feedback. any time there's a surprise for the employee where it comes completely out of left field, they had no idea that the employer felt that way, that's

not a good thing. this isn't an excuse and a time to just give feedback. there should be constant feedback and the employee should know where they stand at all times. this is more of a formalized process that allows people to go through certain things and objectives and actually set goals. >> let's say you're an employee and didn't like something in your review. you think it's out of left field, off base. what do you do at that point? is there a best practices if you don't like something? >> that's a good question. i think it's important to hone in with the employer, with the manager and say give me an example because the manager must be very specific with where that's coming from. where we often come into problems are the very general statements afternoon the employee doesn't -- statements and the employee doesn't understand where it's coming from. the employee needs to ask the question give me an example so we can come to agreement about what that person needs to do to improve their performance and hopefully have a long career with them. >> this isn't an easy time for the employer. they're doing the performance

review. sometimes there's a sense that hey, if this employee does well, they're going to ask for a raise, maybe the budget isn't there. what are this of the things the employer has to consider? >> i think it's important to be in line with the employee as far as what is that person's objectives long term and setting goals and whether they're compensation based over the long term or certain promotions in line or certain tasks you can give to that person so they can show more value provided there's clear direction, clear goals and not just say it on september 1 and then follow up the following september 1. there needs to be constant communication on both sides. >> really good advice and something we all have to deal with on a regular basis. thanks so much for giving it to us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. i'm going to send it over to mike in the kitchen. >> not a bad place to be. if you're looking at throwing a party this weekend or just want something special to sip on as you head into your weekend, you'll want to check out our mixologist here. josh will show you how to pimp

your daiquiri. we'll tell what you that means, too.

welcome back to 9news now. monika here with your time saver traffic. hopefully i'm going to be saving you some time by telling you what all this red is about. there had been an accident along route 50 on the left side of the roadway involving a bus. it was cleared but take a look at this delay from our sky 9 on the inbound side of 66. it is tough right now. at least route 7100 if not further along as you head inbound for route 50. the damage is done i'm sorry to say all low the lanes are open so at least that's the good news at 6:42 in the morning. let's go back over to the maps. this time over to 270. i'm going to try and wind some good news. usually at 6:42 it's pretty heavy on 270 but look at this. 51 miles an hour passing urbana. not bad at all into germantown. we'll take a live look on the south side of town at the wilson bridge. all lanes are open. traffic smooth between alexandria and oxon hill. there are no issues to report

on the northbound side of i-95 in virginia. let's go to our 50 camera. northbound i-95, no issues to report. it's just that slow traffic as you head for 395 and the 14th street bridge where it will be slow just through the landmark area. i'll be back with more traffic at 6:58. >> thanks a lot, monika. as we peek outside today, we're not going to set any records like we did yesterday. we got to a record of 101 yesterday. >> you know what is amazing where there were storms yesterday? some people had really bad ones. in fairfax county not a drop fell. it was amazing how they just kept popping up with such veracity. >> and trees and power lines down. we look outside 81 degrees but we're heading nowhere near as high as yesterday. >> that's the good news. the bad news is a chance for some more showers and storms which could be strong later today. so we get a break from the heat. here's a look at your day plan forethis thursday as we head into the end of the week. temperatures today will still be warm and muggy as you start

out the morning. by noon 89 degrees. showers and storms picking up in the afternoon. temperatures will top out in the lower 90s. i want to show you the visibilities map because we have some areas of fog. visibility is final. no problems getting into town. in western maryland you're down to less than a mile, about three-quarters of a mile visibility in cumberland. culpeper, stafford, you're down to around five, seven miles. south of us we're looking actually in tappahannock down to seven miles. even leonardtown five-mile visibility. the satellite picture showing us good storms went through yesterday. some of them was pretty heavy. the downpours and damaging winds. right now temperatures around town in the lower #s on. cup better -- lower 80s. cumberland upper 60s. around the beltway generally in the 70s and low 80s. 76 great falls. columbia you're 75. alexandria you're at 80 degrees. here's a look at our dew

points. still pretty sticky out there. 69 is the dew point. 70 andrews air force base. tappahannock, you're 74. culpeper, you're at 73 degrees for dew points. it will still be humid. here's a look at the michael & son camera. the white house as they're getting up and ready for this thursday. temperature 81 degrees. cloudy conditions. the dew points 69 degrees. the winds are fairly light, north, northwest at 5 miles per hour. so for today more storms are possible late this morning and this afternoon and evening. some storms could be strong. not as hot, though, for today, friday, and into your weekend, but we are looking at more storms also for friday to finish out your workweek. here's a look at your 9 future cast. again, this morning we'll see the clouds break up a little bit by the late morning hours. the showers and storms picking up north and west of town. again, those storms could be strong or severe. we'll have to keep our eyes to the sky. tomorrow also looking to be unsettled as well. here's a look at your zone forecast. we start in oakland.

76. cumberland mid-80s. winchester 87. manassas and warrenton in the upper 80s. in downtown lower 90s. annapolis close to 90 degrees. our next three days weather alert code yellow for today because of the storms and showers. friday mid-#s on, unsettled. -- mird 80s, ulg -- mid-80s, unsettled. check out your next seven days, the weekend does look pretty good. only chance for an isolated storm. monday we are hot again with temperatures in the mid-90s. let's go to mike in the kitchen. what have you got? >> it's going to be a good day and i'll tell you why. because anny says it's going to be hot and if you want to cool off, today is a great way to cool off with a daiquiri because july 19 is national daiquiri day. who knew. joining me is josh from ripple which is if cleveland park. what's the address. >> 3417 connecticut avenue northwest. >> if you see what you like here, this is where you find it, with this guy. >> absolutely. >> we're going to take a daiquiri to the whole next level.

he has some really interesting ingredients. is there a special name? >> this is kind of a version of a drink i did last summer at ripple called -- i called it p imf -- pimp my daiquiri. it's rum, lime juice and sugar and i've added a couple of other things. to make this one, you're going to use three quarter ounce of lime juice, an ounce of simple syrup. >> what is simple syrup? is that a liqueur? >> it's exactly what it says. >> sugar water? >> sugar and water. and i do a 50-50 ratio. >> and peach bitters. i didn't know it came in peach flavor. >> exactly. lots of different bitters. at home people can use any kind of bitters they really want. i've chosen peach because it's a nice summer flavor. just kind of tempers out the sweetness from the simple syrup a little bit.

>> you've chosen a dry rum which is different because rum also comes with extra flavoring too. is there a reason for that? >> i just wanted nice, clean flavors, not too sweet and very, very tasty. we're going to give this a nice hard shake. and then strain it out into the glass. and then here's where the fun part comes in. people at home can do this. it's not a very difficult technique but it may take a little bit of practice. we're going to float some red wine on top. you just pour it very slowly. >> that is beautiful. look at that. >> over the top of the spoon. >> so red wine in a daiquiri? >> absolutely. it adds a nice complexity to it and make it is look pretty, too. >> and smells fan tastic. >> this is one -- fantastic. >> this is one of the things i'm doing at ripple, these fun

plays on classic drinks. i've got some other things. i'm participating in the ricky contest this month so i'm doing my smoky gin ricky. it's of course the official drink of washington, d.c. >> we appreciate it. celebrate national daiquiri day with our guy josh at ripple. before we toss it over to jess, let's check on the answer to the question of the morning. the question was, once again, what do you think the number one thing is that kids stick up their noses? is it a, a crayon, b, a french fry, or c, a bean? our facebook friend gloria hubbard says the answer is a. she writes, kids we thought we could turn the mucus to a color of a crayon. she's right. i don't know if the reason is right but crayon is the most popular thing kids stick up their noses. >> i like the answer people have been giving, fingers as well. we've been combing through the daily deals to find you

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good morning. grab the up gel la just in case. we do see showers and storms in the forecast. still muggy out there. by noon 89. late thorch we'll top out in the lower 90s. no triple digit heat like yesterday. right now cloudy skies and 81 degrees. here's a look at your time saver traffic. no, mike's looking at me. go to mike. 6:54. a new poll in "the washington post" reports 48% of african- american voters here in the district say d.c. mayor vincent gray should resign. three council members have also called for him to step down following a federal investigation into illegal fund raising for his 2010 mayoral campaign. israel has vowed to get revenge for a bus explosion that killed at least six

israelis in bulgaria. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says iran is behind the bombing. president obama called netanyahu to offer u.s. assistance in finding the people responsible. a new cbs news poll shows president obama and mitt romney are in a voirtual tie when it -- virtual tie whether it comes to the race for the white house. more voters believe romney is capable of handling the company than the president but a larger percentage of voters believe the president will look out for the middle class much more than mr. romney. time 6:55. >> one last check of the weather and traffic when we come back.

welcome back. we're going to take a live look on our sky 9 shot. this is northbound 395. it's slow from edsall road up

to seminary and looks good at the 14th street bridge. a quick look over into maryland on the outer loop. looks like new hampshire avenue extending to georgia before the pace improves. it's national daiquiri day. josh is here from ripple. go and celebrate with him today. he has a 12-hour shift and would love your company. we're still hot but not as hot. lower 90s. watch out for some big storms potentially this afternoon and this evening. >> wall street, jess? >> we're looking ahead to earnings previews. of course it's earnings season. hoping to keep that rally going. >> national daiquiri day, cheers. >> cheers. >> cheers, everybody. the early show is coming up next. have a great thursday, everybody. see you at 4:25 tomorrow.