joe is here and wally wong, and alex marie who i saw limping, i hope that wasn't from the community meeting. these are the folks that worked with the contractor, mcgwire and hester to get this work done. i want to thank them for that. last but most -- the woman who manages the great streets program that has taken the mayor's vision and the board's policy directive for great streets and actually put it into practice so that we see these projects here, mr.ings all of these prodge -- manages all of the projects, chris opreck. let's give her a hand. if there's anyone i missed, accept my apologies know my gratitude is there. with that we will cut the ribbon. >> all right. we'll do, five, four, three. >> no. no. no. that was really bad. >> everybody. ready? five, four, three, two, one, [cheering] thank you, everyone. ♪ >> hello, i'm meg, welcome to "culture wire." for this episode, the director of cultural affairs, luis, will take you on a journey through presidio has been tet. -- presidio habitat. >> welcome to "culture wire." today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, bec

alex andrea, prince george's county. a ton of moisture. on top of the heavy rains, calvert, st. mary's, anne arundel counties, rain advisories. then wind advisories in effect until this afternoon. wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour then the flash flood warning that remains in effect for the entire metro area as we are looking at localized flooding. areas shadeed in yellow is the heaviest rain. to the south, shaded in green, so letting up over the next couple of hours, but we have another band of storps and showers that will move towards north for the mid-morning hours, a lot of rain will fall. take a look at these rainal totals so far on our weatherbug network. since midnight. huntington, 6.9, milford, virginia 6.2. over two inches of rain. the district holding consistent. howard university. head over to children's hospital. just around an inch of rain. we will see anywhere between 2-5 inches of rain by the time this system moves on out of here. localized areas may see more than that. especially off towards the east towards the delmarva peninsula. in the most of the metro area, farings

mary. toyota recalled 8 million vehicles worldwide in the last year. >>> a large drop into a large bucket. as alexetrick has more, it's a plan to reduce pollution in the bay. >> reporter: most of the water may start up here, and sooner and later, much makes its way into the blue planes waste water treatment plant in washington, d.c. it happens to be the largest of its kind in the world. 327million-gallons a day. at the other end, water free of toxic chemicals and bacteria, but not nitrogen. >> do reduce the discharge of nitrogen to 4.7 million pounds. that's a 45% reduction from the single largest.in the bay. >> reporter: algae leaves the dead zones behind. it will have a big impact. the potomac river and the bay will be bigger. >> reporter: it's not the only plant that needs to reduce nitrogen. >> there are 67 plants getting the technology. the rest are in planning and design. >> reporter: beyond maryland, there are 420 more treatment plants. they're targeting to reduce the nitrogen by 11 million pounds. >> we're on our way to reducing the nitrogen ands to phosphorous for the bay. >> >> absolutel

alex sas and kate. we have peach juice and schnapps. >> you want to try this. this is delicious. your bloody maryrong. >> this is perfect for a morning wedding. >> chocolate and >> we are interrupting "the today show" with a special weather alert. john collins has the details. >> good morning. we are possibly going to see a lot of this kind of thing during the morning and afternoon, especially this afternoon as of this stream of moisture came up. a thunderstorm that is actually not generating lightning but on radar shows the potential for spinning out a tornado or possibly a waterspout depending on whether it is over water or land. it is in the area of annapolis right now. here is the text provided by the weather service. a tornado warning in effect for east central and are rumble county in central maryland until 10:15 a.m. this morning -- ann arundel county. severe thunderstorm capable of producing a trade of 12 miles south near south river north of 25. it is moving rapidly to the north. locations in the path of this section of the sto that might produce a tornado. have not had any reports of an