thursday rainier, maybe a morning shower or storm and afternoon showers and storms pretty widespread, temperature of 84. not the best day to try to get to the golf course. we will watch this coastal low. it will have the effect of slowing this front down. eventually lit get through and i think our chances for seeing a shower or storm saturday is limited. of the two weekend days that will be a little better. we will watch both of those systems for you. the five-day forecast will show you a dry day friday. we think any showers that we get will be east of town and move out quickly. we hope. it depends on the coastal. one thing you notice on the five-day forecast, it's getting hotter around here and pack an umbrella for tomorrow's commute. >> thank you, sue. >>> the district has a football team. going to the super bowl. we are not talking about the redskins, that we know of. the season has yet to play out. c >>> good evening, i'm dave fell man. it took over a week for dave rig letterman to win the first game as manager of the nationals. he got it and helped the nats with a six game losing

rainier national park.st prominent peak in all the northwest. >> and i think there's no better way to see it than that. this is great that you found these odd things. now, i love every one of these except maybe this one. staying in a submarine. >> yes. at the oregon museum of science and industry, you can stay in the "uss fastback" submarine. bring your kids. $55, per person, per night. you come. check the schedule. it doesn't happen all the time. you bring a sleeping bag. they offer a late-night snack. the following morning, free admission to the museum. one of the most advanced planetariums in the country. >> mattress not to thick on the submarine. little tiny. great ideas. thank you for kind of making us think. if we're staying close to home, we can still do great things on vacation. >> so manied a eventual rouse hotels. and travelandleisure.com has more. >>> we'll be right back. (announcer) when verizon brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home it also brings first-class entertainment, with picture

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the truth is his favorite places near mount rainier. he came to the nation's capital 40 years ago on a whim as a graduate student. he signed up for a cia recording business mostly because it was a free trip. 45 years later dr. robert gates is running the place. the first entry-level person to ever become the agency's director. along the way he has worked with democratic and republican administrations. he has managed to maintain his sanity, his reputation that made a town famous -- in a town made famous by bureaucracy and back fighting. wherhe's done pretty well. its three highest profile positions. cia director. president of texas a&m university. secretary of defense currently. he's helped remake 3 organisation's that were bound y culture. he's done it by listening to people on the frontline. analysts and agents, teachers and students, corporals and colonels. is funded mostly by focusing on the product. he said the national propensity of bureaucracy is not a decision, but to chew the cud until there's no taste at all left. he has chewed

seattle, washingto landf lattes, microsoft, and mount rainier.ut benning in 2004, the pacifinorthwest became known r something else entirely. agents of the dea were the fir to notice. >> the dea brought to my attention that we were having an alming nber of pharmacy bularies. washington led the country in arcy burglaries. >> under law, any eft of controlledubstances must be reported to dea. >> dea showed me, every time a pharmacy is burglethis is what's being ten. it's all being dumped on yr streets, into your neighborhoods, allver the state. it wasn't just washington. up and down the west coast plotted out scoresf pharmacies in oregon, idaho, and liforn that we being hit as well. in late 2005, the feds launedperation midnight sweep and began to gher intelligence. >> the pple doing the burgries were all using the same m.o. >> all of the burglariess we began to looat thewere committed in a specific way. it was aunusual way. it was a highly sophistited way. and that became their fingerprint, because they ner left any fingerprints. they never lefanev

and finally, off to washington -- >> mount rainier.r national park that has 14,000 foot active volcano. >> i don't think we have many other ones. >> no. very cool place. a great day trip from seattle, also manageable. once again, they're waving the entrance fees at most national parks. next weekend, and august 15th and 16th. >> the stimulus money, $750 million, there are hundreds of projects that are in the works right now. so even if there is a park you don't hit this summer, you can get an upgrade next summer. >> don't forget offseason. yellowstone, don't go in the summer, go in the winter. >> peter greenberg, he has much more for us but i have to cut you off. treat to have you with us. thank you. >>> just ahead, is this the next superstar? you'll find out what everybody is buzzing about. jessie james in our "second cup cafe." pepto-bismol. nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. yeah, my buddy's got all that. do we need to buy a bunch of different medicines? pepto guy: oh, no, pepto alone relieves all five symptoms.

we're halfway through the workweek and headed into rainier week than we saw earlier in the week.meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us about the rain, the fog and the humidity. you have been saying this all week. >> we had a little bit of fog where we had light rain moving through yesterday or last night. we will talk about the humidity again and temperatures that will be actually cooler than average but will feel. >> hot. >> yeah, because of the humidity. take a look at the sky watch hd radar. we look for rain and you don't find a whole lot. we had some last night. there you see some moving through the western part of the state, moving through harford county and cecil county. you can see the activity more toward the west in the tennessee and ohio valley. that could be coming our way later in the day but a better chance tomorrow as the cold frond pushes through. 71 degrees for the par starting temperature in baltimore. it's mild right now. 63 at chester town and the temperatures climb to 81 bit noon hour. 82 by 6:00 p.m. after a high of 87 degrees. it will be a warm one, a

the truth is, his favorite place is the other washington where he has a lakeside home near mount rainiers more, he first came to the nation's capital more than 40 years ago only on a whim as a graduate student. he signed up for a cia recruiting visit mostly because it was a free trip. 25 years later, dr. robert gates was running the plates, the first entry level higher to ever become the agency's director. along the way, he has worked with democratic and republican administrations. he has managed to maintain his zanaty and reputation in a town famous for bureaucracy and backbiting. whereas he says the official model is, "i will double cross that bridge when i come to it." [laughter] i would say he has done pretty well. . . so he has chewed up and spit out a few bureaucrats. he fought -- favors consensus. his ego is not entwined with his title. he is not afraid to put himself or his job on the line. his confirmation hearing in 2006, he told senators i did not want this job. i am doing it because i want this -- love this country. he has retain that reputation for candor. he smiled and said

the truth is his favorite places near mount rainier. the nation's capital 40 years ago on a whim as a graduate student. he signed up for a cia recording business mostly because it was a free trip. 45 years later dr. robert gates is running the place. the first entry-level person to ever become the agency's director. along the way he has worked with democratic and republican administrations. he has managed to maintain his sanity, his reputation that made a town famous -- in a town made famous by bureaucracy and back fighting. he's done pretty well. its three highest profile positions. cia director. president of texas a&m university. secretary of defense currently. he's helped remake 3 organisations that were bound by culture. he's done it by listening to people on the frontline. analysts and agents, teachers and students, corporals and colonels. is funded mostly by focusing on the product. he said the national propensity of bureaucracy is not a decision, but to chew the cud until there's no taste at all left. he has chewed up a number of