dr. jaymar shall shepherd, -- dr. jay marshall shepherd, meteorologist and clara brown, >> believe it or not, it was a childhood run-in with and insect that led do dr. marshall shepherd's success in life. >> i was stung by a bee when i was 6. i thought i wanted to be an entymologist but then once i learned i was allergic to bee stings i decided not to. i went to the georgia state science fair and then was bitten by the meteorology weatherbug. all these instruments, ping-pong balls and all kind of neat things around the house and i started taking weather measurements for my community. from that, just through household products, it grew. i would say it grew into a passion. if you ask my wife, she would say a passion, because i have always had it on the weather channel. >> marshall didn't want to forecast weather on t.v. because he was more interested in the how's and why's of weather so conducting raeer research became his goal. he learned that florida state university had one of the best departments in the country and set his sights on getting there and along the way made a little history. >> the first african-american to receive a ph.d. from that p