michelle scherer was picked. >> what a beautiful day. a wonderful day to celebrate teachers and teaching. >> the sun was shining on the rose garden this morning filled with maryland lawmakers, educators and families. the president was there to recognize michelle scherer, princeton grad award winning ap teacher, fluent in sign language. >> michelle talk ap chemistry for the first time explaining concepts like kinetics and electro chemistry using only her hands. >> her accomplishments won her the title of teacher of the year. >> america will only be as strong in this century as the education that we provide our students. and at a time when our success as a nation depends our ability to outeducate other countries we desperately need more michelles out there. >> reporter: michelle makes the point she chose this profession and today the president announced he's looking for 100,000 just like her. fantastic teachers in math and science. >> and help those teachers succeed i've called on congress to move quickly to fix no child left behind. >> ou

president obama honored michelle scherer as the national teacher of the year.ng a ceremony at the white house, the president said scherer represents all teachers who are committed to improving their own skills in order to better educate their students. scherer teaches chemistry at urbana high school in frederick county. >>> a rare wooden sculpture of a tahitian girl by paul gauguin has sold for $11.3 million at a new york city auction. the bust was last seen by the public in 1961. he presented the sculpture to a friend's 10-year-old daughter in 1894 after prom ising her he would bring her a gift from the south seas. hit in the making there. >>> this is supposed to be the season for the caps challenge for the stunly cup. >> up next, the caps facing elimb nice tonight. we'll get an update from -- the caps facing elimination tonight. we'll get an update from the caps play irs. ou -- players. eased fseyonn . >>> an alligator took a bite out of a crime fighting car. a gator to go a chunk out of the car. deputies tried to put the gator loose by putting the car in rev

president obama will hold a special ceremony for michelle scherer. she is a chemistry teacher in frederick county. she's been in the maryland public schools for the last 14 years. cheryl plans to take the next year off to travel the country as a national advocate for public education. >>> ten after 11:00 is our time right now, and coming up, the latest on the launch of the shuttle "endeavour." it's already been delayed twice, and nasa says what will happen now. >>> a little too close for comfort. where >>> the launch of the space shuttle "endeavour" has been delayed again. this time the launch will not happen before may 10. nasa says it will be at least friday before they'll be able to set the new launch date. they say they will need most of the week to make sure that there are no problems with the shuttle buns th once they replace that faulty switch. >>> new today, french investigators have two key pieces of evidence to help them determine what caused that air france plane to crash back in 2009. the plane took off from rio de janeiro headed for pari

michelle herer was picked for the top honor. a ceremony all be held let alita haytayaner this morning at the white house. scherer teaches chemistry at urbana high school in spread rick county, maryland. he she has taught for 14 years in the maryland public school system. congratulations. >>> we have an update this morning on the lawn of of the space shuttle endeavour. >> an attempt to save several towns from flooding but is this just a bandage for a major problem. fox 5 morning news will be right back.  >>> all the flooding in midwest forced the army corps of engineers to blow up a levee on purpose. they did it so the mississippi river would not flood its homes if you are sure upstream but now some farms are getting flooded. even more rain is forecast for the midwest today. >>> it is pretty bad out there. our own tisha thompson told us that they are great aunt is 91 years old, lives not far from the river there. only the second time in her life she has had to be evacuated. only other time was way back in 1937. so for her in her area, this is the worst that the mississippi river has been since