don perry is with the early care and education. welcome to the show. this is the ideal time.s are now getting out of school. they are going to be out of school two or three months. we'll start with you. how vital is it to keep up if they can, daily reading habits? >> it's critical to them being successful in school. the county office of education has estimated 40% of children are not at grade level. not only sit a time to build the skills but to maintain. so they don't go back further. >> i take the kids to the library not long ago. we had to wait for the doors to open. that tells us it's being used. >> whether it is about vampires, fairies, pirates or whatever, that encourages reading. >> so june 3 you have a kick-off of a special summer reading program. >> june 3 we want to invite everybody to come to the dr. martin luther king, jr., library. this is the first kick-off celebration for the whole system. as you saw in the video that you just show ed. and do a treasure hunt. we'll have live entertainment, performances as well as a community resource fair so people can find out

. >> very quickly, that's kind of a bad mash-up between rick p perry's forgetfulness and don rumsfeld's -- >> he said it's possible the president won't be on the ballot in that state as he's still not convinced that the president was born in the u.s. >> yeah. if barack obama has a problem with it, that's the least of his worries. his kind of campaign immediately looked to d new york times story and they recognized the danger of being associated with anything like this. can't do it. john mccain recognized the same thing four years ago, but what you're seeing in the clips you're showing and what you're seeing consistently with a guy like hannity, they actually believe john mccain lost in 2008 not because of the economy, because of bush, because of anything leak that is correct but because he did not go after barack obama on the jeremiah wright here. romney has broken their hearts here. he's not disappointed because they want him to do it. he'sdy he's disappointed because he has to do it. >> mitt romney says he'll end division in this country that he claims is led by the president. can you

perry. wjz traffic control will bring you the latest on the morning rush tomorrow, starting at 5:00 a.m. with don and marty. >>> well, may temperatures are back. live look outside now. very pleasant. lots of sunshine. still what's in store for the weekend. we can see it in the future. meteorologist tim williams and bob turk are updating the forecast. bob? >>> take a look at radar. we had a couple of showers out in washington, allegheny county. they're pretty much gone. but there is a batch around central pa. this is moving up to the east/southeast. if he grows, it's possible as we saw last night, there may be a shower, even a rumble of thunder late tonight. right now, chances aren't that great. but temperatures have certainly come back this afternoon. take a look. we're at 75 now. 89, still in cumberland. 80 in oakland. d.c., just down the road. 81. the cool spot, ocean city, down by the ocean there. they're only 60 degrees. but temperatures today, running 13 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. ocean city is five degrees warmer. and d.cc., 14 degrees warmer. we've had recent rains the last c