. >> and as you said, parking for the 280 people, some of it is on site and in a newburgh area? >> we would expect most of it to be on site. typically, if you have the number of persons and you are expecting two people will come together, no solos, we would expect 100 cars, which could fit in the adjacent lot that we have also. pretty comfortably. >> no further questions, i guess. thank you. >>item 9e. informational update on status of port infrastructure work, tenant relocation and other port obligations under the lease disposition agreement in preparation for america's cup events in 2012 and 2013. >> good afternoon, commissioners. special project manager representing port staff. this is the first of a series of staff updates to the commission about implementing the america's cup, through the events in 2012 and 2013 consistent with the least disposition agreement and the form of a new lease the commission approved. this is an intra divisional update. we have a staff in all of port divisions who are contributing to the effort, and today, joe from the engineering division will up

>>reporter: today's picture was sent in by abc viewer lisa newburgh. it's of her brother-in-law charlie and her nephew patrick. the look on little patrick's face is priceless. they spent last weekend at the beach. we posted the picture on facebook. many of you sounded off. lisa wrote in, pick me up, dad, one of those pinchy things is coming this way. kelly wrote in shark! and reagan wrote in ahh, the ocean is coming at us again, pick me up, pick me up. we really have been enjoying your comments. please keep them coming. if you ever have a "caption this" photo idea, mail it to pix@wmar.com. >> she looks excited. >> mine was already taken. when i saw it the first thing i thought was jazz hands. >> i like that. >> someone had already posted that. >>> 6:22. a houston mailman now being hailed a hero this morning. he's credited with helping two children escape their burning home. >> i'm on the side of town. >> great story. that letter carrier danny thompson and he helped save the lives of a 13-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl. he noticed smoke coming out of

. >> august 11th, 2010, newburgh, new york.of prep work, launch day finally arrives. >> when we were assembling the balloon, the two kids, max and his best friend miles were just so excited. >> we bought like some lollipops so me and miles were really hyped up. >> the kids give this really great countdown. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, blast off! >> we cut off the balloon. >> it started rocking wildly like crazy. it was 25 feet a second. it was pretty fast. after about two minutes, it disappeared into the clouds. >> they track the craft's coordinates. but that's no guarantee they'll be able to retrieve it. >> the batteries in the phone could freeze. it could just not give out signal and we'll never find it. if it falls into anything that would block the transmission, it falls into very dense trees too deeply, it could lose reception. if it falls into water, that would be very bad. a lot of things can go wrong. >> until they recover the craft, it will be a mystery as to what the camera captu

we have three storms in southern maryland, one around newburgh, one around chesapeake beach and one intoouthern sections of calvert county entering st. mary's county. these two will produce some very heavy rain. where you see the red is rainfall rates about an inch per hour with this particular storm, yellow is about 1/2-inch per hour all moving southeast at about 15, 16 miles per hour. at least they're moving which is a good thing. we'll widen out the radar. still have more showers and thunderstorms upstream. we'll keep those in the forecast until 9:00, 10:00 tonight and then we'll again to clear out and set the stage for a very nice finish to the week. temperatures, 71 rockville. you had a shower earlier. 75 bethesda, 76 college park, upper 70s in arlington, 75 springfield, 74 in reston. so here's the deal. early thunderstorms, some of us will have a wet commute this evening. a fabulous friday, grab your shades. warmer and nice saturday and hot sunday, but i don't think we'll have too many complaints sunday. it's going to be a pretty nice weekend, showers and thunderstorms ending by 10