>> a very special event to be with one of the giants of meteorology. >> this is an evening with dr. warren washington of the national academy of science. a series of interviews of leading african-american scientists. he is a leading climate scientist. he hsas lived a life in changing times, and understanding changes in climate. >> one reason was to show how i got to where i was. young people need to realize -- when they make good choices -- >> he shared the story of his life -- and the program can be seen thsi fall on pbs. >> wonderful man. speaking of the climate, we made it to 90 degrees. watch the temperatures. 103 -- get an idea of the moisture. in and around us. watch this wave in the atmosphere coming our way. that moisure isture is closing in. at 3:00 or 4:00, folks are catching it. that moisture is coming up and over us. there will be the morning showers. we will see afternoon showers and thundershowers. temperatures only to 70 degrees. the morning showers from port royal to the blue ridge and heavy rain possible with the rumble of thunder. this rain will linger on until rus

. >> it is meteorological summer, by the way. >> oh, so we are in meteorological summer. >> hot in june an 8-year-old alexandria girl awarded today for her hero of. she called 911 last month -- heroism. she called 911 last. >> when her mom fell and was bleeding. fox 5's laura evans with the story. >> these nice folks are specially trained to answer emergency phone calls. >> reporter: students in fairfax county are getting a lesson in calling 911, something 8-year-old katie lee knows quite well already. >> fairfax county 911. where is your emergency? >> excuse me. my mom fell and she can't talk right now. >> reporter: it was may 14th, middle of the day and katie's mom lori was carrying a shelf up the stairs when she lost her grip falling dune about 20 stairs. >> i -- down about 20 stairs. >> i was laying on the floor and blood was all over. >> i saw a big opening right here and she was all bruised up. >> she took control of the situation. >> reporter: in fact, the dispatcher with whom she spoke that day said kathy was impressively calm and focused. she did such a great job they awarded h

. >> it's officially rainy season in tokeio, at least according to the japanese meteorological agency. it looks like more rain coming this way tomorrow. robert speta with the forecast for here and elsewhere. >> yes, not only japan is feeling the effects of this rainy season. over towards taiwan, a copious amount of rainfall has fallen in the past 24 hours. actually in taiwan upwards of 656 millimeters fell here in just one location. and numerous locations recorded over 500 millimeters. what this is bringing is obvious. the high risk of flash flooding across much of taiwan and southeastern china where the rain is also falling. but also landslides and mud slides on steeper elevations where that ground is really s satura saturated. a very dangerous area coming out. we'll keep you posted on it. farther towards the north, the imani region, you could be seeing upwards of 120 millimeters and over towards the konto region as that frontal area starts to lift off. toward the south, though in the philippines and over towards indochin awidespread rain showers will be continuing to expect here. al

>> it's the first meteorological day of -- >> shouldn't it be illegal to close the bay bridge on the first day of summer. >> they just want to be safe. >> give you an excuse for being late to work. >> you cross the bay bridge? i know you are new here but check your garmin or something. if you like it hot it will be a nice day. some are saying bring on the heat but others saying it will be way too hot. with temperatures near 100 degrees over the next couple days we could come close to a record high on thursday. that record is 98 degrees. the high temperature today was at 88 degrees. the low of 69. ten out of 19 days so far this month have been below average. that's over. we'll see temperatures well above average for the next couple days and possible records. 80 degrees with winds out of the south at 6 miles an hour. temperatures near 80 at 11:00. is it a very warm night. the coolest place right over the bay bridge, easton at 73 degrees. now temperatures tomorrow are going to be on the warm side. but it's going to be the heat and humidity. you add the two together to get the heat index

. >> great at meteorology. >> now kids have spellcheck and they are worse than ever. 4:51.et's see if i can get my mouth working. good morning southbound from our roof cam, embarcadero, ferry building not much cloud cover it is out there but mainly at the coast now. temperatures are in the mid 50s there mid to upper 50s around the bay low to mid 60s fairfield, antioch, livermore and mountain view. low to mid 50s inland. today slightly cooler in most areas temperatures still well warmer than average santa rosa 88 today like questioned. concord juan degree cooler 91 still going to need the air conditioner. oakland 74 one degree cooler. fremont down four degrees as is san francisco. if you can see day late 14 hours and 37 minutes still getting longer days about a minute more of sunshine today. here's a look at clouds, increasing during the morning probably peaking around 7:00 with some of those clouds moving into the bay. quick retreat back to the coast once the sun is up and starts overturning the atmosphere clouds stubborn along the coast, 50s and 60s for you, 70s, 80s, 90s

. >>> japan's meteorological agency will introduce a new supercomputer which it says is the world's fastest. the agency has used supercomputers since 1959 to forecast local downpours, paths of typhoons and other phenomena. the new system that starts on tuesday in tokyo can perform 847 trillion calculations per second. the speed is 30 times that of the current system introduced six years ago. the agency currently forecasts rain clouds, rainfall, and other conditions for areas of 5 x 5 kilometers. the new supercomputer reduces the size to 2 x 2 kilometers. the agency says this will approve forecasts for rapidly growing thunder clouds that may cause downpours and gusts of wind in very limited area. such sudden developments have been difficult to detect. >> translator: we hope that better precision in forecasts will also improve precision of their alerts and warnings. >>> the world health organization says the number of chinese who smoke is more than 300 million. that's more than any country in asia. just one day before the may 31st world no tobacco day, the chinese government broke its silence

this year's rainy season has started a week earlier than usual, according to the thai meteorological department. the agency cautions residents near hills in northern and southern regions to beware of possible flash floods and mud slides. >>> nations around the world are making inroads into myanmar and its untapped economic potential. the country is building up its infrastructure to pave the way for foreign investment. but obstacles stand in the way. nhk world's reporter has the story. >> reporter: dawei is a port town on the indian ocean in southeastern myanmar. development is under way to transform the city into the country's first economic zone. it's set to become the western starting point for major load running into china's peninsula. expectations are high for the distribution route that will directly connect the south china sea to the indian ocean. the myanmar government plans to improve roads and port facilities and build a power station in the area. its ultimate goal is to make dawei the largest industrial area in southeast asia. >> it's the center of the pacific ocean and ind

. >> jeff, a serious meteorological question, which i rarely ask. my questions are usually silly.e've had such a strange pattern, where every time we enter a season it seems reversed. there an answer for that? >> we've been tuck stuck in the la nina pattern for quite some time. that's starting to weaken. possibly better news for the summer, but it also could mean a return to hot weather. because we've had two cool summers. >> right. >> the past two summers. >> yes we have. >> kind of moderates itself overall. >> we'll see what happens. thanks, jeff. >> sure. >> and thank you so much for joining us. we hope to see you back here at 6:00. bye-bye.

they're not the same geologically, topographically, meteorologically, weather, or on the surface, on the duke study i take issue with the professor again. the duke study was very limited. and other studies have come out including one from center for rural pennsylvania which seemed to lead to another conclusion. and in your more fundamental question, why all this attention. i will refer to you and not go through it. there was a great article, everything you heard about fossil fuels may be wrong. by michael lind. it's in the new america foundation. it's all about what he thinks why all this attention has grown. natural gas which used to be viewed as maybe a bridge fuel, a fossil fuel for people who don't like fossil fuel could hold their nose and get through could be the fuel of the century. that has caused some cognitive dissonance among some interest groups ere go the push back. >> you've seen and there's a shift of investment out of the west to the east i assume you mean out of the lands and there is a fear that you have that you're about to lose the potential of getting energy is i

when you think of meteorology, you think of the difficulty of classifying a hurricane and tracking a hurricane, making judgments about such complex behavior that has sort of chaotic premises underlying it, you're going to make lots of mistakes. you're going to make lots of mistakes in both directions. sometimes you're going to make a mistake when you think the storm is going to hit and it doesn't and sometimes you're going to make mistakes where you think the storm is not going to hit and it does. and i think one of the great challenges, quite frankly, for the legal system, is understanding statistics well enough to make that judgment about where you draw that line that anita was referring to about where do you want to avoid the errors. you want to avoid the errors, a category five hurricane is going to hit miami but there is only a 40% likelihood that that hurricane is going to hit miami, do you evacuate the city? well, if you evacuate the city and it doesn't hit, you spent tons of money and possibly hurt lots of people in doing that. if you don't evacuate the city and the storm hit

and forties across the metropolitan area temperatures in the month of april final day of may meteorologicalsprinkles in the afternoon. high temperature 63 degrees tomorrow. tomorrow night cloudy sprinkles will end. showers and scattered thunderstorms could develop in the afternoon mostly sunny and 81-82 degrees on sunday. extended outlook looks warmer insight that later. >> thank you tom skilling. the town that gave birth to popeye the sailor i was tempted to say that line popular cartoon character or originated cruisin' illinois and white house what happened when president obama hosted former president george w. bush? [ male announcer ] can febreze set & refresh make even this place smell fresh? [ facilitator ] what do you smell? takes me outdoors. sort of a crisp, fresh feeling. [ facilitator ] go ahead and take your blindfold off. [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] the febreze set & refresh. breathe happy for 30 days, guaranteed. last time i was at a sleepover my parents had kraft mac & cheese without me. so this time i took precautionary measures. looking for these? [ rattling ] [ male annou

cool start to meteorological summer. a mixture of sun and clouds today, the highs in the low 80s. that's the forecast. >> not much happening. first, we will talk about travel times, working or favor on the greenway, the toll road, 66 between centreville and the beltway. pretty good on 270. things are looking good. not much happening on the highway. this time of year is when traffic patterns change now that most schools are closed. a lot of vacation time all-star happening in and out of town. so be respectful to those visiting. keep in mind of the month of june and early july, also a time of a lot of graduations. if you are traveling around a venue, they are vying for the best parking spaces and you will find unusual traffic patterns. i have said my piece. >> thank you. always appreciate your reports. it is 68 degrees in alexandria. >> a strange find for some canadian fishermen. we have the story behind this there's nothing wrong with the video we are about to show. it is blue. >> canadian fishermen were hauling in their catch when they spotted a blue lobster, the first eocene in 3

media rock -- meteorological summer started june 1. slow start in terms of the heat. >> we like the seven days. the weekend sort of levels out nice and consistent. thanks, adam. thank you for being with us. that does a 4 "good morning washin

meteorological summer starts on june 1. low humidity outside as well. >> that's not bad. >> let's take a live look from our rooftop camera? . you can see clouds all across the region. even a few sprinkles lingering in parts of southern maryland. charles, calvert mary's county, they had light rain overnight and into this morning and. now that's coming to an end in terms of the light rain we have outside. upstream where it's coming from and pennsylvania, there is no ongoing showers. this is all for the morning. it is drifting south anticipating. and upper level circulation in the atmosphere, that energy periodically will dip into washington today through thursday giving us a slight chance of rain here and there today, tomorrow, and thursday. temperatures at the moment, comfortable in the '60s. 6 4 in gaithersburg, 59 degrees in the district. 10 degrees below average for this time of year. 68 degrees in cumberland the high temperature. 20% to 30% chance of a brief shower later on today. that will be few and far between. we wil

. >> studying meteorology and minoring in communication. >> are you going into the senior year. >> i going into my senior year. >> i fine young man. >> and always well dressed too. >> i try. >> it is appreciated. >> well, let's all answer the question together since tyler has done the bulk of the research here. a downburst is not a baby tornado. a downburst is actually very different fry tornado. >> yeah, but it can be equally as dangerous as a tornado. what happened in northeast washington, a case in point because they had a lot of damage there. you have a cool pool of air and a thunderstorm cause bid rain so the rain cools the air up in the thunderstorm and that air gets very heavy and gets thrown to earth in a sort of violent way. when it strikes the earth, it spreads out because it can't fall new further so it pushes outward and it can cause a left damage -- a lot of damage in a short period of time. is it a tornado or is it the not a tornado. we'll go to tyler. >> the key did i have reps with the tornado, we have the wind wrapping into the system. so everything is getting twirle

meteorological summer, as you no, agains june 1st, because name the three summer months, june, july,ust. there you go. >> i heard march was in there, too. >> we missed winter almost entirely. we're not going to miss summer at all. it's already here. i promise, today will be the hottest day of the year and i'll have to say that a couple more times between now and labor day. outside, hazy sunshine. getting through, all starting to warm things up. way out in the distance past the jefferson memorial, way out there on the hill, that is the national shrine of the immaculate conception in m. michigan avenue northeast. beautiful church if you never visited. it's worth a stop. 73 in washington. 77 in annapolis, shady side, deal, chesapeake beach. beach side lovers, it's a nice day along the bay. perfect day for anything to keep you in the water. cool. no raindrops to cool you off. if you're headed downtown to the capital pride festival 11:00 until 6:00, on pennsylvania avenue northwest in front of the capitol, be ready to sweat it out. 90 to 95. for tomorrow, more humid but not quite as hot.

let's talk about debby because you want some meteorological humor? a lot of people say meterologists don't have any humor. i think this is hysterical. the intern and i have been laughing all day about this. these are model forecasts and each line represents a future forecasted track of debby. we couldn't be any further of confluence with these lines. we've got two models taking west, several doing east, a quomodoses doing a loop de -- couple models doing a loop de loop, so it's not going anywhere fast and it will probably cross over florida into the atlantic ocean off the southeast coast. that's when we have to watch it going through next week, but in the meantime poor folks in florida will get hammered with another 5 to 10 inches of rain. you can see the band of showers and thunderstorms moving across florida and not much change the next 24 to 48 hours as she kind of sits and spins. we had big thunderstorms earlier. we had a thunderstorm watch. it's south of town down towards st. mary's, all those showers and thunderstorms gone. the cold front moved

this is a really interesting one for us in the world of meteorology because there's still a lot of questions. you see it's still a very large column but it takes it to the west. it does strengthen to a hurricane which for all concerned along the gulf is not good news. i thought we would talking about, that still has the chance to pick up this storm and turned it to the east and bring it to florida instead of texas. obviously, all at interests in florida could face a hurricane. everyone needs to pay close attention. you can see they are all over the place. if.com strong enough and fast enough, it will turn the storm to the east and not take it to the west. for us at home, we don't have those concerns. we see advisories go into effect tonight as those winds start to pick up with that approach in front. today a beautiful one. 89 degrees for the hide. tonight we will start to drop into the 60s. a chance for a couple showers are under stones as that approach. scattered showers and thunderstorms are a possibility. look at the swinging temperatures. only 84 the high on tuesday, so it's a cooler day

it was definitely a cruel summer of 2011, the second hottest meteorological summer on record with an average temperature of 81.1 degrees. the mercury hit 90 degrees 47 days. the hottest day of the summer at least at national airport was friday, july 29. it was 104 degrees that day. at dulles it was 105 on july 22. and that stands as the all time heat record there. we'll be back. >>> today will be the hottest day of the season. a heat advisory from noon till 10:00 p.m. by noon we'll already be in the low 90s with highs in the mid- to upper 90s. maybe even locally near 100. full forecast letting you know when it's going to cool down coming up in just a few minutes. >>> a live look now on the northbound side or inbound side of i-66 at business route 234. this is what you deal with every single day. today is no exception. you've got slow traffic through manassas headed for centreville. in my next report a big situation in southeast you want to know about at 6:17. >>> it is 6:12 on this wednesday morning. let's get a check on some of the stories making news. the wife of jerry sandusky say

. >> she won an american meteorological society award for her science fair project.st prize at the goddard montessori school. way to go, samanta. and thanks so much for coming by. right now around the region, it is cool. we're down into the 50s. beginning to climb into the 60s around the bay. another autumn in june morning under way, under a clear sky. and here's your day planner for today. sun rise was at 5:45. it will be about the same tomorrow, too. and we'll have that sun getting high in the sky by noontime, low 80s. hitting the upper 80s by mid to late afternoon. maybe a few clouds popping up midday. again, another day with low humidity. but with the heat building, it's going to begin a heat wave. in fact, tomorrow, even hotter but still not too humid. morning lows, pleasant. near 60s starting off thursday morning. afternoon highs climbing to the low 90s. and it's going to start getting much more humid though. thursday night and by the time you wake up on friday morning, we will be greeted by eighazy, humid conditions. and soaring to near 100 friday afternoon an

. >> that is a meteorological term. >> yes. then the probability, # 0 to 100%.s no expression of uncertainty used because we're pretty certain it happen. and just so there is no qualifier. it is going to rain today. >> so what was today, isolated or scattered? >> i have fillly used the word chance for a rain showers and you can see that could cover 10 to 50%. so i'm really covering all my bases. >> that is the mark of a really good forecaster, kind of cover your bases. >> that's right. >> honestly, i think there is a god chance that most of us will see at least some rain showers today and then later this afternoon, it will quiet down. so that is why. >> what is aerial qualifiers? >> that means v when she writes what is the difference between isolate and scattered, isolated means there is a 10 to 20% chance of any given spot in the forecast area getting a shower. fates scattered storm, there is a 30 to 50% chance. so you've got -- when we say scattered showers, that means rain showers will be more numerous. you have a better chance of experiencing a shower becaus

it's called an mcs and it's got a fancy meteorological name, but there's another name for this type of complex. it's called a deracho. they move very fast and put down a lot of wind. earlier in the afternoon up in indiana this thing was doing a lot of damage with the wind. we saw reports of 80 mile-per- hour plus winds up in ohio with this and it continued to travel on down and it's been moving at 50 and 60 miles per hour. i mean this complex of thunderstorms again within ohio at 6:00. so here we are less than five hours later and it's right on top of us and we knew it was going to be windy. we knew we were going to have these wind damage reports and this is exactly what's happening. as we look at the tower camera, another thing that's very prolific with this is the amount of lightning. we are seeing lightning concentration which we don't see very often. of course, it's a very tropical atmosphere. we have a lot of moisture in the atmosphere and that helps with the lightning as well. you can just -- it's continual lightning as this thunderstorm passes through, this squall line passes th

our meteorology sift live in eie weather center. is there any good news? >> there's not good news and we don't have definitive bad news other than the winds are going to be light, variable. but in the mountainous regions, the winds can really change around very quickly. it's quite a bit of elevation. 1400 foot peaks. pikes peak is located around here. this is where the fire is. this is interstate 25 running north and south, extending from denver to the south. it's already burned in excess of 18,000 acres. several fatalities reporting and thousands of fire fighting methods now being taking place to control that fire which is now 30% contained. well, as we go into the forecast, this is what we're expectsing. only about a 20% chance of a shower. that means hit or miss. that means the winds may kick up every now and again. we might see a thunderstorm. it may produce rainfall. a lot of times in these regions all you get are the dry thunderstorms. as far as the heat is concerned for firefighters, it's going to remain in the 90s. that's fairly typical. so not a l

i'm storm 4 meteorology chuck bell. beautiful morning.or most suburbs, near 70 in town. 74 annapolis. 59 cumberland, maryland. 63 in culpepper, virginia. 68 in fairfax. nothing showing up on radar. we'll be dry for today. it will be a scorcher. high up into the low and perhaps mid 90s around town. and then rain for tuesday and wednesday. >> and remember you can always get your weather 24 hours a day on weather.com. lester? >> chris, thanks. >>> now to a murder case. authorities close the book on it years ago, but many in a small town say the real killers have escaped punishment for more than three decades. all the while, a man who says he's innocent has been behind bars for the crime. we'll talk to him in a moment. first, here's "dateline's" keith morrison. >> reporter: way out west under the high hampton sky that covers montana's prairie, the small town of poplar stands alone because of what happened here back in 1979 and the whispers on the wind ever since. it was back then high school k valedictorian kim nice was found beaten to death

now the three web cameras from the san jose meteorology department, all cloudy. fog, sun, cooler today. fog, drizzle in the morning. a little breezy, blustery at times. the wind cranks up out toward the delta. 60s, 70s, 80s. coming down from those in the mid-90s. still, it's really tough once you get the heat established to cool off areas out towards solano, contra costa county. it will be cool for many. alameda 64. 75 san jose. 68 santa cruz. 50s on much of the san mateo coast. 60s in the city. south san francisco or peninsula, mainly upper 60s and not too much fog. i don't see much change on thursday. tori and dave? >> all right. thank you, steve. happening right now -- j.p. morgan chase ceo jamie die mon is testifying before the -- dimon is testifying before the committee about the $2 billion trading loss. coming up, the apology he's expected to give the senators. >>> a ucsf employee accused of stealing $1,000 from a fund to benefit transplant patients is due back in court today. the 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty to grand theft charges. according to the c

when we talk spring in meteorology, we include may, april, and march. those three months. even though we haven't hit the first day of summer yet, spring for us is over. you talk about the west coast and pacific northwest specifically, boy, they haven't smelled much mountain sway of spring. 57 degrees expected for seattle, 59 degrees in portland but 80 in new york, 85 in d.c. here comes your warmth. we have an average or slightly below average the past few days. it doesn't rule out the risk of seeing a thunderstorm or two especially across the northern tier. high pressure in control across the mid-atlantic states. the gulf coast will see showers. in houston or new orleans there's a threat for rain today. denver again after a rough two days ago, yetd and last night was no small shakes especially east of denver. one, two, three spots of potential severe weather are across the northern tier, north dakota and parts of the u.p. of michigan. warmer temperatures move the jet stream farther to the north. the belmont stakes. 75 degrees, a slight chance of showers for the big -- at p

. >> that's the meteorological blob. you're right on the money with this.ng it drifting debby. yesterday really stationary. didn't have any movement. it was kind of stuck in this dead zone with no pushing mechanism. the good news today, now it's moving east at 3 miles per hour. where george was, the hardest hit. 21 inches in st. marks. the worst is over in terms of the downpour of rain because it has movement. maximum sustained winds at 45 miles per hour. we're not going to see any strengthening today. here's the good news. tomorrow morning we are going to see the center of circulation make landfall and then we'll see it weaken. as it gets in the gulf stream, we could see it regenerate into a tropical storm again, but then it will move out. so in the dead zone, the wind shear took a toll. the dry air worked its way in. as we talked about yesterday, flooding will be the calling card of this. so here are some of the totals we have seen. over 20 inches in saint marks. and again, this is where it's hardest hit. the access of the heavy rain will move east. we'll

. >> i'm storm 4 meteorology chuck bell. outside our window, the sun is shining.r than average tall way through the remainder of the weekend. nice change from last weekend when we had both day in the 90s. annapolis, the warm spot at 70 right now. plenty of sunshine pap de >>> also welcoming in these dancers from cleveland. jazz hands or anything? back to you, jeff. >> bill, thanks. >>> until last night, no one had ever dared cross the misty, treacherous niagara falls while on a tight rope. you can understand why. this morning, there is one man who can say he has done it in dramatic fashion. here's nbc's veronica de la cruz. >> reporter: it's about as dangerous a thing you can do, but when nik wallenda stepped out on to the wire last night, he was on his way to fulfilling a lifelong dream, to be the first to walk a highwire across the breathtaking but deadly niagara falls. >> the impossible is not so impossible if you set your mind to it and reach for your goals. >> reporter: it's nearly a half mile from the american side to the canadian side and almost 200 feet up

it is meteorological reorganized so that the way these storms move is the way the transmission lines move. you did not leave a lot of stories. you need to combine a lot of transition with a lot of storage. >> this sounds like a large degree of a infrastructure investment. i did not know the model and have heard from ted turner. when you talk about grits, you talk about investment. it brings me to some of the money back states are investing in infrastructure. what do you think from your own perspective -- what would be the motivation for the government to invest? >> a loaded question. >> which infrastructure, you have to look at the company, which is why, why in alaska. ? most people look at the u.s. electrical grid do not see it every day. each stage often has its own policy. georgia does not talk to alabama, florida does not -- does not talk to michigan. when you have a transition and try to coordinate all of those things -- there are over 500 utilities in the united states. we cannot get 535 people selected. you imagine getting 500 utilities to agree? when you want to start doing i

summer is moving here at least meteorological.for this morning across northern plains. any sort of severe weather we see today is going to be down across the panhandles of oklahoma and texas and parts of far eastern colorado. east of i-25. mostly wind and hail maybe a small tornado or go. two. >> firefighters have contained we'll have more on that. >> something. >> we will tell you about the fires. >> first. let's talk about this the gsa scandal keeps getting worse. employees getting paid about $750,000 for travel expenses that they were to go on but they never did. in fact they ended up justworking from home but still collecting the travel money that they never spent. >> this just the latest installment in how the gsa can waste your dollars, your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. it just never ceases to amaze me. workers work from home. normally whether you have an arrangement like this with your bogs save money on commuting and save gas save money on travel. they somehow racked up $750,000 from working from home. when hot tub jeff n