scott broom is in talbot county where agriculture is king and where the economic pain is expected to be sharp. >> reporter: look around me in this field in talbot county and you are looking at something now one can remember seeing around here. this is a cornfield that was so withered and burned by drought that the farmer simply threw in the towel and decided to cut it down months early. >> it almost looks like it was hit with a blowtorch which was again that heat. >> reporter: rain and vegetable farmer chip counsel says he's never seen anything like it this early in a summer season. >> there's literally nothing there. >> the grain side of the operation, which is the majority of agriculture in maryland, is a complete disaster. most of our grain, corn, soybeans and wheat go to the poultry industry. them being our largest customer in maryland, we're deeply concerned about what they're doing to ensure supply. everybody is going to get hurt in in drought, but ultimately it will take a while. >> reporter: on counsel's 1,600 acres in talbot county the soil has turned to dry powder. a neighb

salon.com founder, david talbot a perspective on what makes san francisco and the entire region special. a critical look at what needs to be done to continue to attract money, resources, and above all, talent to our medical research institutions, the chancellor of uc san francisco, sue desmond. >> leno coastland, it's great to have you onset. great to have you here. >> exciting to be here. >> what advice do you have for folks in terms of just whatever their passion is or direction, that entrepreneurial spirit that's inside all of us? >> i tell peel, if you are an entrepreneur, you have passion, go after what you are passionate about. i generally find -- and this is surprising to people entrepreneurs who chase making a buck tend not to be as successful as entrepreneurs who chase their passion. passion is a key ingredient to real success in entrepreneurship and i item people their passion is what they can get excited. when somebody goes wrong, they will bang their head against the wall instead of giving up. >> that's what entrepreneurship takes. i am a huge fan. it's patrol the only thing

. >> computer giant apple can now sell its talbots and computers in china under the ipad name.he firm has to pay nearly 50 million euros for that privilege. apple has been fighting with the chinese computer maker since 2009 over who owns the ipad name and the world's most populous country. now, in a provincial court, the two companies have reached a settlement that will allow apple to market its hot-selling ipad in china. >> all right, time now to get a check on it the day's market action. we had poor data out of the eurozone that many investors speculating that the european central bank could cut interest rates at its next policy meeting. that sent stocks higher on monday. our correspondent sent us this report from frankfurt. >> the outcome of the eu's summit was also the beginning of the week, the main driver for the financial markets. hope is growing that these measures may be a relief in this crisis, so traders and the german index made another jump. help for troubled banks was the main support for financial shares. best performers. weak economic data from the german and u.

. >> my name is clint talbot. i'm the moderator, which basically means i introduce the people, the smart people and let them talk. and i will do that now. we have to my left immediate left is carrie he isler. she is perhaps best known for being deputy director of the peace corp. a capacity in which she served since 2010. she's also worked in the field of public health for the past two decades specializing in hiv and aids and maternal and child health and a number of other philanthropic and altruistic endeavors. to her left the national direct oor of the national security network a nonprofit organization. she has also served as speech writer to form president clinton and former secretary of states madeleine albright and christopher warren. to her left is judith morrison who is senior r senior advisor in the gender and diversity division at inter american development bank. she works on international development in latin america. she previously served as regional director for south america and the caribbean at the in

showers andome thunderstorms around talbot county. bad drought situation.ngs are dry around baltimore. i would take an umbrella with you. some high, thin cloud cover on the satellite. 70 in jarrettsville and kind of muggy. the dew points or around 70 degrees. a mixture of sun and clouds. high temperatures between 84 and 89. watch for lightning if you take the boat out today. tonight we will see a slight chance for a thunderstorm in the forecast. the seven-day forecast looks like this. not much difference into the middle portion of the week. a 30% chance for a shower or a thunderstorm. 86 tomorrow. it gets a little warmer going into the weekend. low 90's by the time we get to saturday. >> if you're looking to score at at, you may on a se want to fly american airlines. the preferred seats are available for as low as $3 per flight. a locked car can become deadly very quickly for a child. we have the details. >> the tragedies take place every summer, children left behind in parked cars. heat stroke killed 33 children in cars last year. new research found new de

. >> reporter: in talbot county said he'll only bring in a third of the corn he usually does because wave. >> we have the potential as we ever have for a crop. and just in the last three weeks, we took a turn for the worst. >> heat and lack of rain are not a good combination for agriculture. >> reporter: that means to keep quality produce, they must spend money to water crops. irrigating hurts the bottom line, but without it -- >> we would literally have no crop. >> reporter: water keeping the sweet corn coming, but vast amounts like seed corn are baking in the field. the quality is corn on the shore. >> this is probably going to be the best. but that's what we hope for and looks like that is what we end up with. >> reporter: certainly not what was hoped for. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> the maryland agriculture department say they won't see a decline in the quality produce but quantity could be impacted. the drought could continue on a lack of rain, bernadette? >> here's the drought watch with the state all involved. these numbers get updated weekly. we have an update com

back at talbot's ice and beverage, the customers kept going in and the ice kept going out. >> i call this a disaster. i've seen areas that look liked a jungle. they're no better today than three days ago. >> reporter: back out here on chesapeake street northwest, this tree has been sitting here for almost 24 hours now, the neighbors tell us. about two hours ago we saw a pepco come through this area. the man behind the wheel looked up and drove on. we don't know if he was off to report it or to another job. district government will be open as normal tomorrow, with a couple of important exceptions. those will be any of the programs going on in the summer schools, and any of the other programs in d.c. public schools. also the city has suspended bus service for special education students tomorrow. that's it live in northwest, we are here, laura, back to you. >> dramatic pictures out there. tom fitzgerald tonight, thank you very much. >>> as tom touched on, federal employees in the d.c. area can take leave tomorrow, because of the storm. the u.s. office of personnel management says federa

isolated showers in parts of northern virginia and parts of talbot and dorchester counties on the eastern shore. some scattered showers. radar estimates show a slow moving set up in that county and parts of atoms, down toward carroll county. spotty showers popping up here. most locations will miss out on the rain. it is not excessively hot. 90 downtown, 85 at the airport, 85 westminster. 75 at cambridge. the cloud cover keeping temperatures in check. it will stay partly cloudy. 67 suburbs, 75 downtown. high pressure is passing north of us. opening the door to the next series of weather disturbances to approach the area. the rain chances will go up a bit. 83-88 tomorrow. a chance for a thunderstorm. the east wind at five to 10 miles per hour. the chance is up to 40% for rain thursday. it will get hotter toward the end of the week with thafternoon thunderstorms and highs in the low 90's. >> the city prepares for this year's grand prix. >> work begins but city officials promise that will not tie up traffic. >> live, local, late-breaking. this is wbal tv 11 news at 5:00 p.m. with stan stovall

talbot's doesn't have power there, so they're not selling drinks today, but they do have ice.ng as you pay cash. one of the customers we caught up with in the parking lot was none other than diamond importer ronny murvis, he came -- >> we need the ice very badly, but i'm in the ice business, too. and the difference between our ice and this ice is our ice is forever. our ice is forever. that's it. >> you can survive anything the desert gets to 140 degrees, and they live without air conditioning. >> don't want to put his ice in your gin and tonic. a pearl of wisdom, nonetheless. not bad. >> boy, that stuff is moving fast. >>> pour than 2 million people lost power up and down the east coast. >> huge trees were just uprooted out of the ground. the weather channel's mike seidel reports. >> reporter: it was a long and uncomfortable weekend for thousands. the power is still out, because the winds took down all these trees, like this big hardwood took out this jeep. pepco is saying some of the power may not be back on until at least friday night, as the heat wave rolls on across the m

eastern shore locations from cecil county to talbot county, look for highs and that eighties, normal july weather. in ocean city, sunny to partly cloudy. look at the surf temperature. even the water is getting more comfortable in ocean city. thursday and friday, we will start to see a few scattered shorts -- scattered storms and we can lingering into monday and tuesday and temperatures warming up to about 92 degrees on monday. >> sleek, comfort and built for speed. >> designing a swimsuit is almost like designing a car. coming up, meet a demand behind the speed as you will see at the london olympics. >> real estate prices are on the rise in the baltimore metro area. have we >> according to a recent report from real-estate companies, selling prices for homes the baltimore area have gone up five months in a row. >> which begs the question, as the real-estate market finally turned the corner? >> after the real estate bubble burst back in 2008, many over the years were left wondering when we would finally see the bottom. according to recent data, we may finally be there. >> potential cus

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last year, talbot county suspended two lacrosse players for packing pen lights in their bag, items needed to fix their sticks. the boys had never been in trouble before. but soon after, they faced weapons. >> charging them for a deadly weapon for a two-inch pocketknife is such a waste of people's time. >> reporter: now, it will allow school leaders to review each case on a case by case basis. plus, if a student is suspended, it's the school's responsibility to make sure that student can complete assignments. school leaders wrote, no student comes to school perfect, academically or behaviorally. we do not throw away the imperfect or difficult students. thus our school keeps philosophies. it is that important. >> reporter: state leaders are also concerned about minority and special needs students. those students receive a disproportionate amount of suspensionspensions and expulsions every year. so the state is requiring districts to track those numbers and reduce those suspensions among minority and special needs students. back to you, denise. >> the final vote on the new changes to the dis

look at chestertown, down toward easton, queen anne's county, toward talbot county, a severe thunderstorm warning with this moderate rain, a lot of lightning and the potential for high wind with that storm as it rolls eastward. i'm seeing this one weaken just north of hughesville but still moderate rain headed towards sunderland and calvert county. more stuff stepping into our area for the evening hours. just west of winchester and down toward bridgewater area, around i-81, we've got a couple of clusters of more storms that will be making their way eastward. take a look at these rainfall amounts. the skies opened up and it's been pouring out there. crownsville, maryland, over an inch and a half of rain. folks who have come in have said the visibility just dropped in a hurry. sharpsburg, maryland, over an inch of rain. columbia, maryland, 0.63 of an inch of rain. there were some spots that didn't get as much, like jessup, just 0.11 of an inch of rain. a lot of folks saying i want the rain. look at the current wind gusts, 44 miles an hour in annapolis, maryland, gusting to 36 in d.c. we con

. >> reporter: i'm scott broom in talbot county, maryland, the extreme weather and how it's pushing somers to extremes. the drought is on over here and in at least one case a farmer has simply thrown in the towel and cut down his crops. >> but first the federal government wants to know more about reports of sticking accelerators. we'll tell you what we know so far up next. >>> back with a consumer alert about a sticky situation. the national highway traffic safety administration is looking into reports of gas pedals getting stuck in some fords and mazdas. the agency has received almost 100 complaints so far and reports of one death. the problem may be in 700,000 ford escapes and has dray tributes manufactured between 2001 -- mazda tributes manufactured between 2001 and 2004. >>> an update on the computer glitch that gave some united airlines customers the deal of a lifetime. >> they were able to buy round trip tickets from the u.s. to hong kong for just four frequent flyer miles, but the question now is will the airline honor them? >> reporter: to frequent travelers it was the steal of t