. >> reporter: 11-year-old karen rosas spent summer afternoons at stillwaters, a reading and writingn bushwick one of brooklyn's more troubled neighborhoods. >> i write something and then i'm focused on the story and i forget everything. i like to write to express my feelings, so i can express them on words. >> when she write -- 1-year-old maria says she finds calm amid the chaos. >> i write about how smart i get or how happy i can get or how sad. >> this is a place where they can come and be at peace. >> one day there was a -- >> steven haff a former new york city public school teach opened stillwaters four years ago. >> they'll sometimes write about things they have seen or heard on the streets, problems, gunshots, losses that they have suffered. just a rough daily struggle. >> so what came up today. >> reporter: here children write stories and poems with the encouragement of volunteers. >> i'm who i am because of him, pretty much. >> reporter: 18 years ago modesto jimenez was one of haff high-school students. he belonged to a neighborhood gang. instead of handing him detention sli

of the music i was writing sound like it have some element of water, whether it was fast, slow, stillwatertle of that collection is a slow peace. i always like to think that it feels like the surface of water. more importantly than that, if the composer, improviser, is connected with an image or story, no matter what that story is, the and the listener who hears it is going to feel that. a man that did the same thing. i may be thinking water and somebody else may be thinking garbage. or somebody might be thinking about a friend of theirs. but still, they feel that connection. something is going on there that is creating an emotional, or maybe a visual image that people are picking up on. i am not quite sure how that ties in. >> it is an interesting point. the performance, of course, has a lot to do with it. one can take a piece by chopin and play it on the piano in a rigid fashion, that is the way that it was written, but without the proper articulation, the peace can sound somewhat flat. it is the performance that brings out the new ones. without putting you on the spot, i wonder if you c

. >> the salt marsh mosquito eggs can survive years in the mud in stillwater stimulates them to hatch. the vector control people say that the only thing that will take care of these mosquitoes is weather. and seeing how this is august, that is not happening for a long time. >> nicely done. let's get right to the weather. we have a lot of things going on. highs tomorrow near 95 degrees in and with a bit of a warming trend and a chance of thunderstorms in the bay area. but we have seen this fairly often, low pressure spinning in the pacific creating a corridor for this to come up out of the southwest. thunderstorms over yosemite we're in right now it is raining at the village at the sierra. the highs today 63 san fransisco and 93 in livermore and 93 in fairfield. a sign of things to come with number slowly bumping up as this low pressure begins to have further to the west, that will pull sub tropical moisture close to the shoreline making things humid by california standards and many may feel like sweating like a tall cool glass of lemonade by saturday as the potential for thunderstorms

the swimming area at lily lake in stillwater, minnesota, is now closed.pen, twice, yeah, i would stay away. >> drain the lake. fill the lake. i mean, two young children. a 9-year-old little boy? and apparently, these, the amoeba shows up in warm, freshwater lakes in the south. there was a recent threat in florida. this is a real concern. >> we saw that awful story a few months ago, the girl who was out zip-lining and got the infection in her leg, something was in the lake. >> fresh-eating bacteria. >> flesh eating bacteria. ended up losing several limbs because of it. you don't know all the time what's in that water? it's, it's scary. >> a scary one. >> what do you do? yeah. >>> great story involving real-life heroes though they don't want to be called heroes. it happened on tuesday. a woman's car burst into flames on its side after running off the road. look at that picture. the driver had apparently fallen asleep at the wheel. just then, two men were driving by, saw the wreck, and jumped into action. >> when we came over the hill we saw a car laying on

but i can tell you that in the last hour or so, a little bit of here north of here in the city of stillwaterhere's a raging wildfire there so a lot of the resources here are headed up there. down here in the city of luther, everything is okay. >> and let me ask you this real quickly before you show us around because i'd love to see it. we've heard these reports about an arsonist, maybe an arson linked to that. are you hearing anything more about the search for a suspect in this? >> reporter: my photojournalist brian dixon and i were out here all night and day, been in close contact with authorities and what we're hearing is yes, they believe it was set by an arsonist. we are told yesterday the sheriff's office got a tip about a guy throwing burning newspaper out of a pickup truck. sheriffs had been fielding tips all day but at this point, no arrests have been made, but oklahoma county, where we are right now, we're under a burn ban, so you can imagine, when they do find the perpetrator, he could face serious charges. >> absolutely. so 47 homes and buildings destroyed at least, in luther. so

. >> host: let's go to ron on the republican line this morning from stillwater, florida. ron, you're on with larry kudlow. >> caller: yeah, i don't necessarily agree with everything that the republicans are doing, but a lot of stuff that obama's doing really scares the heck out of me. i feel that he is pushing us towards being a part of one world government, and even some of his speeches he has stated he wants us to be a part of the one world government so i think they are trying to create an artificial cliff and failure of our economy to push us so that we will become a part of the one world government. >> host: your thoughts? >> guest: well, what i gather from that, i'm not sure i understand one world government, but i will just say this, personally, and i've had some foreign policy experience down through the years. i think the united states must always act in its own self-interest. it's own national security interests. we are obviously important players in the united nations, but we should not be held back. the u.n. doesn't dominate american interests. we must always