nasa and noaa put out some information carington, carington event.we've been in a low period of solar activity for about the last five years. i can remember -- i think it was in 2003 in north carolina we were watching northern lights. some of you might recall it fritzed some of our systems. a carington event refers an event in 1959 where tellography melts melted . railroad cross ties burst into flames. electrical sparks were shooting out of the tello graphy systems. if that event level of a solar storm happened today, it could emp the whole world if it lasted for 24 hours. one rotation of the earth, 24 hours, bang, most of the world. let me provide an analogy. one of my great heroes in developing this is congressman roscoe bartlett, a representative from frederick, maryland, who headed up from the republican side and let me emphasize as well, this is a bipartisan issue. i just wish we could get out of partisan politics on this issue and agree on a bipartisan basis that we'll all be in the same sinking ship. now, the issue of ballistic defense might n

we spoke to judy adams who work at the noaa headquarters in silver spring, maryland. she says that security operators are constantly falling asleep on the job. >> i have waken up so many officers at my post with their guns on and let them 0 know they are endangering these federal workers. >> reporter: noaa tells 9 news two guards caught sleeping on the job have been removed from their post. >>> an incident in maryland highlights the importance of pool safety and always being aware of your children. on tuesday night along middleton road in white plains a 19-month-old boy drown in his family's pool. police say the toddler was left in the care of a 15-year-old cousin. when his mother returned home the teenager was gone and the mother found the toddler in the pool unconscious. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. police ruled it an accident. >>> stalking charges will be dropped against dc councilman marion barry but the drama surrounding him will go on. digital correspondent, armando trull is live in northwest washington with more on this story. >> andrea, absolutely.

by the way, denise, did he contact nasa, noaa, asking with as norad. >> what do they say? did they record anything? >> they haven't responded anything, but hankie has a good point. he says if this, in fact, was some satellite, he's not sure that the government or military is going to be very anxious about talking about that. that might not be the case but he certainly is hoping to hear back from somebody. >> let's hope that whatever it was, it didn't hit the earth. >> reporter: i think there were people outlooking for evidence that maybe did it hit, but he brought up a good point. it could have hit his house. >> that's right. thank you very much, kai. >>> well, paging dumbledorf. >>> terror across state lines. new developments in the hunt for a serial killer in south carolina. how the investigation moved north next. >>> i'm mike hellgren in southwest baltimore where a five-year-old girl was shot in the head. the teenager accused in the crime faced a judge. more on what happened in court and wjz has learned new information about his juvenile word. >>> more pleasant july wea

my manager called me in in said the white, have you ever heard of a brooks brothers, and i said noaa. he said in an we are going to give you in the vance and we want you to go to this or called brooks brothers and we don't want you to leave until you have spent all of the money. [laughter] one he said when you get home permit the suits. [laughter] so i had a lot sooner and not learn. i guess you say they didn't tease me a lot about fashion but i continues to learn lessons because i had an african american it manager and he was more like a father and brother, i learned some valuable lessons of that i think anybody can learn from in the first-class when i phoned the first class and never felt anything i have worked so hard for. it was that i learned that it does between allowing room for both failure and success because i was devastated. failure devastates a lot of people but the lessons you need to learn about it you treat both of them the same when, neither one of them can disappoint you or devastates you like it did for me that time. but this is a funny story and it think a lot of yo

i can let you know that the folks at noaa and the national hurricane rent are are watching two tropicalone is well off the coast of miami and florida off to the east. and another one just near the dominican republic. these are tropical waves. they are not storms. they are not depressions and they are not expected to develop into anything but they will keep their eyes on them nonetheless. here the of the forecast for washington for today. looking for a high in the mid- to upper 80s ioactually partly cloudy day. hazy, hot and humid. tonight, during the evening, possibly some scattered showers and thunderstorms. another warm, muggy night with mostly cloudy skies. overnight lows in town in the low 70s. then your five-day forecast, take a look for tomorrow. we'll have temperatures again in the mid-80s. another chance of showers and thunderstorms. a better chance tomorrow. friday, not a bad day but hot. saturday and sunday, temperatures in the upper 80s at least and a chance of some showers and thunderstorms particularly on sunday. this is a look at what is happening with the weather. now, le

folks at noaa have seen el nino is beginning to come back and that means that the temperatures and tropicalacific beginning to increase. typically when we get into an el nino pattern, it means for us, in the winter and can be a little bit milder but the beneficial side is increasing pob builts of needed rains in the desert southwest. i was out west, by the way. you can come in and -- see my slide show of mt. st. helens where i was fortunate to visit. quite a sight for us. on the east coast and washington, humid tid will be coming back as we get into the weekend but still no sun and no sign of a building heat wave. although it will be humid with a risk of some afternoon thunderstorms. principally saturday afternoon. tell you more at 11:00. >> thanks, bob. >>> tonight at 11:00, new questions about two books written by president obama. also officials at the nation's most secure federal prison think they may be detrimental to national security. also, nationals park will host the city's hottest event this weekend. and we don't mean baseball. we will get a first-hand look. restaurant dish that in

noaa this was the basis from preschool to college. it made me the man and that i am coming in terms of being able to create these stories and i'm so proud to be from little rock, i am so proud to be from arkansas. and i am so proud that all of you have shown me love and i take that love with me as i go to each city in each state and do speaking engagements, i'm always telling people that i am from will rock, arkansas and will be for as long as i live. thank you. [applause] .. we were we were >>> coming up next book tv presents "after words," an hourlong program or we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week harry stein, author of "i can't believe i'm sitting next to a republican." mr. stein uses humor to explore the partisan division he sees in many aspects mr. stein discusses his book with author and former "time" magazine writer and editor stefan kanfer. >> host: welcome to "after words." i am stefan kanfer and normally i am an author but today an interviewer and today i'm going to interview my fellow writer and neighbor w

noaa does not appear to the court has decided that our rights are going to be bifurcated and will vigorously protect some rights like those that are espresso set out in the bill of rights by the protection of the insular minorities. like the right to vote, but it will not protect contract property and the right to form you're own business and all of this was done with a single footnote in the 1938 case united states forces caroline products. and finally the 12th case, again the fifth and fourth amendment equal protection, racial prison. a 2003 case. in the constitution says no racial discrimination that is no racial preferences either, that is the rule. on less you happen to be is a university chemist a law school in new use race as a mere plus factor as part of a holistic scheme that is designed to attain diversity. of course, we're talking about every city by skin pigmentation, not talking about diversity on a point because if you examine the university of michigan law faculty will not find a diversity of viewpoints. [laughter] but if your interest is obtaining better city by skin pigmenta

. >> as a high school student in kansas city michael worked as a part-time january for for noaa. him to do every task well. woe soon realize how following that motherly advice would turn into a golden opportunity. >> they took me back into the lab and they actually were giving me a little apprentice on being an engineer. >> the mere explosion -- exposure showed michael there was something greater than growing up on the poor side of town in a tough housing project. theÑi eldest of four boys to a single mother he knew the odds of his ever breaking through were daunting. . >> he graduated with degrees in engineering and law from the university of missouri. then becoming a successful chief patent attorney for several fortune 500 companies. but he done stop there. >> a lot of attorneys in corporate america are frustrated business people they work on the deal, they work closely with the executives on their deal-making but they are not really into the deal. i had a lot of deals i learned from corporate america, i said i think i can do this >> by putting his thoughts into action michael

>> it appears to have arrived now, the national weather service and noaa saying, yes, it is here.now, you're saying, what does that mean in. >> what does that mean. >> exactly. this is a graphic representation of the sea surface temperatures in the pacific. here's mexico. here's cabo san lucas, all the way down to south america. here's hawaii. here's australia. watch this zone right in there warm up. i drew right over it. that's okay. right through here. right there. that's where it's warming up. that's the equatorial pacific that is warming up. now, why do we care? well, because when that happens it deflects the atmosphere a little bit. we'll zing that out of here. this will be january and february and march of next year, of 2010. how is it going to affect our weather? all the way through the middle part of the atlantic states, texas, tennessee, much-below normal precip. very wet. florida, very wet in the southwest. and the last time we had a big el nino, we had things falling down around malibu because of the rain. go ahead. >> doctor, i apologize jump in, the president of the u

the director of noaa's hurricane research is skeptical. >> it's plausible, yes.s it realistic? i can't answer that. i mean that's not my job. that's their job to demonstrate the attribution, the proof. >> reporter: with a few simple items, dr. steven leatherman -- >> go ahead and turn it on. >> reporter: filled an aquarium with water as if it were the ocean and then with a bucket and a tube demonstrated the physics involved. when the red water in the bucket is higher than sea level, even without a pump, gravity forces it down, just as would happen in those floating barges. >> the physics is right. and it would work, if we can deal with the scale factor. that's the big thing. and it's going to take an enormous amount of cold water brought up, many thousands of pumps, perhaps, to have any effect on hurricanes. remember how big hurricane systems are. >> reporter: still even those who have been through hurricanes have questions. what would you think if that existed, if we could kill a hurricane? >> that we're playing god. you can't do that. >> reporter: now scientist

>> noaa server. >> so what binds you when it comes to the fundamental right? >> several of the long. >> is an to the rule of law when it comes to which you consider to be a fundamental right, your opinion as to what is fundamental among all of us? >> no, in fact to the question that you raise is in fundamental in the sense of the law. >> right. >> that is a legal term. is very different and it is important to remember that the supreme court precedent on the second amendment predated it's -- >> i need to interrupt but we have -- is there sort of a viggo cookbook that you can go to and say this is a fundamental right, hey, and be is not? >> well, there's not a cookbook but there is precedent that was established after the older president that has talked and described that doctrine of incorporation. that is a set of precedent. >> are you talking about the 1890 case? >> the 1890's was the supreme court's holding on this issue but since that time there has been a number of the decisions, discussing the incorporation doctrine applying it to different provisions of t

noaa i guess now we will open up if there are any questions for the press. >> mr.er, i understand some of the blue dogs have been your meeting with republicans on talk of health care, can you tell us how that came about? >> there are a number of our members who have been informal conversations with the blue dogs and we have been hoping for a race they would become a bit more formal, but i think the american people want us to work together to solve the health care crisis and i have encouraged our members to reach out to their friends across the aisle to see if we can put in a bipartisan solution together. >> any specific topic? >> mr. kantor, how confident are you that if this bill came to the floor as is, all the republicans would vote against it? >> as you know, we never divulge whip counts and obviously we have not had a bill to even look at it when you say if it comes into current state really. as you know the committee process is broken down so i am confident right now that the members of our conference reflect the faces and the people of you see here today tha

that's not necessarily there so the idea we can work with universities, think tanks, groups like noaa figuring out common benchmarks, common frames of reference just as it relates to the science of climate is going to be very, very important. but also working with the foreign commercial service office there on export opportunities that we will have for our firms in china. >> well, i thank you very much. mr. roos, i noticed that the elections are coming up for -- i don't know, it's been quite a number of years. the ldp party has dominated the scene and it's, i guess, at least, from what i have read, the chances of the dpj party coming in are pretty great at this time. the elections are coming up. some statements have been made -- i'll read one of them -- that is pretty -- dpj promises a more independent stance and has accused the ldp of bowing down to the demands of the united states. sperling earlier this year, the head of the dpj party said, quote, we want to move away from u.s. dependency to a more equal alliance. how do you see this -- if that becomes a reality in terms of their be

to fund the development of the joint strike fighter and to pay for 10 uh-1-y helicopters familiarly noaa known as the hueys that were cut to pay for this program, that otherwise would go to the in accordance, both the commandant and the marine corps and the joint chiefs of staff have described as "critical" -- quote, end quote -- for our marines fighting in afghanistan. they need those 10 hueys i think the legislation and funding in the imil within the air-land subcommittee's jurisdiction and indeed in the bill in general strongly support our armed forces in a time of war and support the flexibility the department under secretary gates has requested as it charts a path to military modernization. i praised chairman leaf unin his absence-- --eleven in his. i don't want to miss the time prays him in his presence along with the leadership that he's brought to this committee and the extraordinary example of bipartisan in the interests of our national security that chairman levin and senator mccain have demonstrated. i 0 hope my colleagues have have a lot of amendments. some will be controvers

noaa again, i think what the president strongly believes then he will do this tomorrow, certainly ten out of ten of the press conference. i think it is important that the president continues to remind the american people what is at stake, what is in it for them, why the status quo is unacceptable and unaffordable and what must be done in terms of this issue to lay that foundation for long-term economic growth. i don't think he can probably say that enough. there are, as we have discussed, there are people out there that are opposed to this. their special-interest groups out there that are opposed to this. they are going to continue to make their arguments in the president's going to continue to make is. >> very quickly, could you promise to follow up on that's that? yesterday you said he would try to get the decision. >> ifas but i have not got anything back on that. >> neither have i. >> in his statement today and following up, he knows-- rosett the the republicans but it is the democrats that could be argued, is really the democrats here who were the barrier. you have got people lik

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