please meet mary brown.he is the co-founder and also the executive director of life pieces to masterpieces. what a lovely name and title. life pieces to masterpieces. exactly what do you do? >> thank you. well, yes we've been providing opportunities for 16 years for african-american males that live in low income communities in greater washington, d.c.. through unlocking potential and developing character and helping them realize that they can transform their lives and their own communities. >> what ages do you start? >> from ages 3 all the way to 25 years old. we work with our boys our young men. >> okay and what hours? >> well, right now we're in the full blown summer program which is from 8:30 until 6:30 every day. and then on -- we have saturday academy for our older boys. >> uh-huh. >> where we assist them with their academics. and -- and development. and then we have our afterschool programs. throughout the entire year. >> we're looking at some beautiful artwork, now where did this come from? >> our you

did waves el ends up mary brown thank you so much.all street is taking new employment number this morning the jobless rate had pretty much set last month and now is jason brooks the kcbs money what stopped, or the markets reacted? they're not all that happens it is rather weak approach only a net gain of 80,000 jobs in june we did have expectations of around 100,000 and as a result the unemployment rate stays steady at 8.2% the bigger problem is that it has been a trend the lid apartment says in the second quarter we have an average monthly gains of 75,000 jobs of 226,000 jobs we need to the least c 250,000 jobs created a month not to mention juvenile in this high ranks of unemployment market may also determine this is further incentive for the fed to engage in more quantitative easing a did expand operation twist recently but it's doubtful how much more will affect money policy can have. we are in the third quarter now and as a result earnings will be coming in soon getting some early mornings from a number of tech companies a lot of

councilwoman mary pat clark was in court for the arraignment of donte robinson, antoine mostly and derek brown. >> there are no wins here. only losses, losses of young lives. >> police and prosecutors used phone records and witness statements to build the case. family members and friends of the defendants were in court but refused to say anything about the case. >> you want to say that again? >> i says kid my -- [ bleep ]. >> reporter: some of those same people were in tears in the courtroom moments before. one of the young men, antwan mostly stole the judge he wanted to raise money to hire his own private attorney and did not want the services of the public defender. she told him it would be unwise to move forward without counsel. he understand the risks and was willing to take them. mike hellgren. >>> police recovered 16 shell casings and a weapon at the scene. >>> john leopold is scheduled to stand trial about two months from today. he is accused of misusing his police detail. the judge has decided not to misdemeanor dismiss the charges. the trial will begin september the 4th. >>> a day aft

brown. >> good morning task force. my name is lois scott, and i live by cathedral, i live on cathedral hill by st. mary's cathedral about two and a half blocks from the proposed hospital site. i'm on the board of the cathedral hill neighbors who were dispointed that our neighborhood who was going to be reunited in your quest and necessity to have the numbers come out was still split. i guess we joined russia hill as one of those neighborhoods that will be permanently split. we're some what of an emerging neighborhood association, that we've only been in existence about half a dozen years, not as long as some of the other neighborhoods in san francisco. we have a huge, huge issue coming up on the construction of the cathedral hill campus of the hospital. 555 beds, a huge impact on our neighborhood. that particular block we urgently request you put that back in district five. it has no population and as a future hospital it will have no population. it is so much more related to the western addition than the marina in district two. we are the immediate neighbors of that facility so we implore you to make a

. >> ryan brown, who happens to be the husband of one of our directors, mary ellen. >> very fun book.pic book for kids ever written. >> great color illustrations, great for 8 to 12 years old. >> want to start looking like athletes. >> custom shoes, new balance. they not only look great but feel great. it takes four to eight days to customize them. you can do any color combination and put words and names and things on the back of it. >> pretty cool. >> really night there. >> some other gear. >> soccer jersey, the official usa soccer jersey for men. many of these can be found at soccer pro.com. all the cool jerseys from all the teams playing plus the soccer ball itself. >> you got any skills? >> i've got nothing. >> come on. >> i've got nothing. >> a little head shot. there we go brf that's about it. very nice. mario armstrong. >> miss anything go to mario.com and on today.com. >> more of "today" but first your local news and weather right here on nbc. hey parents, it's a big year. i'm not just teaching music. ♪ i'm teaching performance. here's what they'll need. ♪ get your backpack, yo

mary -- of this, and it is going to pair beautifully with scallops, as well. when they are ready to be flipped, we'll take them over and got the nice, lovely brown on there. we'll toss in a little bit of bacon fat. >> when it melts in, we just pour that and baste that right over the scallops. >> smoky bacon flavor right on top. >>> we'll take the nice, hot pasta and throw it in with a tarragon and butter mixture and oven roasted prosciutto, and discallian -- scallions and roasted red pepper. >> of course the recipe is on j.c. hayward.com. it is very easy, very colorful and i'm sure it is going to be tasty. we are going to plate it up, about 30 seconds, oh that looks good, chef. >> lovely, night targe gone flavor and everything. >> and i want to remind everyone to get beyond the red sauce. it is classic italian cooking without tomatoes. >>> we are looking at very hot temperatures. we might not make 100 today, but records tomorrow. severe storms sunday afternoon and finally, keeler next week. >> don't forget the pets. bring them inside, okay. come back and visit us at 5:00. have a great weekend.

mary's county, and certainly dell morva has been the hardest hit. you have seen a lot of brown field. well, relief only spotty relief, that's it. here's live doppler 9,000. we'll zoom into a couple of storms. these storms we have been watching a while in southern maryland. they weakened a little bit. still some pretty good rain. but that's about it. they are drifting off to the east, very, very slowly. you might get beneficial rains. now off to the west and north of town. these are stronger, especially in fauquier county. just north of warrenton, around the plain states. this just popped up northwest of ashburn. where are these going to go in the next hour? they will drift very, very slowly back to the north and back to the west. actually toward the valley. but sometimes storms will drift off to the north and west in the middle of summer. there's not much current. so maybe a light shower in upperville. maybe a significant shower south of 66 down toward flint hill. that is about it. again, just kind of scattered relief. how much lightning do these storms have? not a bunch. more

mary bubala. here's what people are talking about. >> when those three flights landed, more than a dozen people needed medical treatment. some passengers feared the worst. terrell brown reports with more on the midair drama. >> reporter: tuesday turned into a turbulent day in the skies around the country, as three flights were met by emergency crews, immediately upon landing. in miami, american airlines flight 1780, landed with 12 injured people, five of them rushed to the hospital. >> it was scary. >> reporter: the miami-bound boeing 757 took off from aruba, just after 3:00 p.m. local time. about 30 minutes from landing, su severe turbulence jolted the aircraft for a full 15 seconds, launching people from their seats and each slamming one woman into the ceiling after she got up to secure her son. >> i was with her in the bathroom. and i hit myself in the knee. and i just went back to my seat. >> reporter: the two other flights were actually diverted off course. the first, a delta flight, headed from minneapolis to st. louis made an emergency landing in cedar rapids, iowa. all 150 people on board landed safely. >> reporter: across the country, however, five crewmembe

mary's university in minnesota. online, fred filed a blog about his reporting trip to niger. in it, he examines what makes this famine different from previous hunger crises. that's on the rundown page on our website. >> brownw back to this country and to presidential politics. ray suarez returns with that. >> suarez: and we continue our regular look at the campaign as it plays out in social media and on the web. for that we're joined again by two journalists from the new website "daily download." lauren ashburn is the site's editor in chief. howard kurtz is newsweek's washington bureau chief and host of cnn's "reliable sources." this week both mitt romney and vice president biden spoke to the n.a.a.c.p. did it garner much traffic there the online world? >> absolutely. our twitter and facebook feeds were lighting up. >> particularly, ray, after mitt romney was booed yesterday at the n.a.a.c.p. convention. the initial wave was sort of one of mockery. one msnbc host said he was deliberately booed because he wanted to appeal to white racist but then there was a counterwave of conservatives defending romney taking issue with the discourts you behavior of some of the n.a.a.c.p. members who after all had invited