it's a 1,300' walk between the atlantic club and the casino. it should take about 30 minutes the he says the purpose of this is to drive tourism to atlantic city. a couple of months ago he walked 200 fight feet above niagara falls and he said abc forced him to wear the harness. he hates wearing them and says it is more difficult. he likes the thrill of it all. high likes having the option to fall, that is something he enjoys. strangely. but he is a flying wallenda, so, what the heck. he is in the red shirt and black shorts. jonathan hunt is in atlantic city at the craps today. no, no, no, he is at the beach. >>jonathan: thousands here to watch this as we see him descending the crane to begin the 1,300' walk. no safety harness, as you pointed out. 100' does not sound that high. but i walked on to the beach when we got here. boy, 100' is very high. no safety harness on this. if he falls off that, yes, he is falling on to sand, but, yes, he will do himself a lot of damage if he falls. he says he loves the thrill of it. he wants to do with it no sa

the show. this is how you do it. and atlantic city need as boost like this. they have tried performing animals, donald trump, things like that. this is what they need. >>shepard: the knock on atlantic city has been they don't run the place very well. i am not speaking for myself but this is what you read. they have had all kinds of problems over the years. they have tried to clean it up. now they want did try to get sports booked in there. there is sports book that only exists in las vegas, but governor christie is, look, we have money problems and we want to sports book in here. there are federal laws against it but christie is against it. >> atlantic city takes risks which is why nag -- nag -- niagara falls and abc insisted on a harness. >> this boardwalk runs four miles, the set of the named monopoly game, home of one of the first arenas which was built in 1929, convention hall. south jersey's only free beach. most of south jersey, you have to pay, or you have to live there. in the mid-1970's the idea of breaking casino gaming was approved by state referend

. >> warmer in the mid-atlantic today. and the latest on tropical storm isaac. >> the baltimore pit bull dog band may move to a baltimore city courtroom. now some attorneys are working with dog owners. ms.ollow-up from barry si it alone is at this apartment complex for told that they had -- pit bull owners at this apartment complex were told that they had to get rid of their jobs immediately. maryland animal law center attorney says she will seek an injunction hopefully with the assistance of the managers at the complex to stop the immediate ban on pit bulls. >> the reason we're asking them to do that is that it would help other landlords. what the members need is a certainty. this is why they are doing this. the landlords are not of pater's. >> there's plenty of uncertainty surrounding the ordinance that the fines pit bulls as inherently dangerous. worried about liability associated with a pit bull attack, they notified the 1500 residents by letter informing them about the immediate ban. >> they are just -- we're discoveri

the atlantic hurricane season is getting an early start. the last four months could be busier than ever. >> reporter: the florida panhandle is bracing for rough weather and big waves, ernesto making landfall hundreds of miles away. on thursday, ernesto hit central mexico dumping 16 inches of rain. on the heels, another tropical depression in the atlantic likely to turn into a tropical storm today. get ready. this could be just the beginning. >> we're coming closes to the heart of the hurricane season. so it's no surprise that we're seeing more storms forming in the atlantic basin. >> reporter: forecasters with the national oceanic atmospheric administration said the average is 12 named storms but they expect between 12 and 17 including five to eight hurricanes. two or there are expected to be major storms either category three, four or five. >> it's bumper to bumper on the hurricane highway. >> reporter: they point to wind patterns and warmer than normal temperatures. >> lots of warm waters off the seaboard. the way the pattern has been sett

. >> i thought we would start in the atlantic. we have a tropical depression in the atlantic. this is number nine grade it will probably become tropical storm is it over the next 24 -- excuse me -- to 36 hours. it has a good chance of affecting the east coast of the united states. you saw the possible storm tracks. we will have to keep an eye on i said. watching a little disturbance out of the ohio valley this afternoon as well. this will produce as get a shower or thunderstorm. -- a scatter shower or thunderstorm. dew points are still in a comfortable range. if you have outdoor plans, there is only a 20% or 30% chance of a shower or thunderstorm. it is not going to be like yesterday we had widespread showers. the forecast for today, a mixture of sunshine and a few clouds. we will have a 20% or 30% chance of a shower or thunderstorm. high temperatures between 80 and 85. we have set a good trend the past couple of days. sunday, we were in the 70's. yesterday, we hit a high of 80. average high is 85. good news in that respect. this summer we have seen temperatures top out near 9

>> hinojosa: he's written for time magazine and the new york times, and his blog forthe atlantic is one of the most influential on the internet, covering everything from politics tpop culture to race in america. the always-surprising journalist, author and blogger, ta-nehisi coates. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. ta-nehisi coates, you're one of the senior editors for the atlantic monthly, you're a blogger, you live on twitter, you wrote this wonderful memoir called the beautiful struggle, about your relationship with your d. it's great to have you on one on one. >> thank you. i'm honored to be here. >> hinojosa: so, put those two things together. i mean, did you say, "i'm going to be a writer," and then all of a sudden you realized that your life was on the internet or...? >> no, i wrote off-line, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and it's so funny. colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. and it's actually a split that i never really understood much. i love print, and i like bl

and off a to the atlantic. that's where the big downpours and severe weather came yesterday.mperature coming in at 76 degrees this morning as you get ready to get yourself out the door. you will be slapped in the face with humidity even though that cold front is getting closer to us. it might not pass in time. 79 right now in walkersville around 73 degrees. and here's the hour by hour forecast at lunchtime today, around 85 degrees. take the rain gear in case. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. you are talking about a little busy now. >> reporter: yes. traffic is starting to pick up on the main lines. heading to downtown baltimore, water main break repairs continues. light street is still going to be shut down between lombard street and baltimore street. if you are using the jfx, no delays from the beltway all the way down to east fayette street. now construction starting to pick up on 895. right near the steel bridge, expect a slower ride as the morning progresses through the harbor tunnel. stick with the fort mchenry tunnel instead. here's what the west

this one, sitting in the atlantic and heading in towards the direction of the iberian peninsula. doesn't like it will reach that far. it is moving 33 kilometers an hour. those wind speeds at 140. we are expecting hurricane conditions overnight sunday into monday. by monday night, should become a depression. still we are expecting 75 to a hundred millimeters of rain and also potential for storm surge. so something else to just keep our eye on in the next 48 hours. it has been very stormy down towards the deep south here and in fact, sunday into monday overnight you are still looking at intense thunderstorms for eastern north carolina. it was pretty unsettled.

in the atlantic, it is the next tropical storm. this area of activity we have been watching in the central and atlantic to the east of bermuda has become a tropical storm gordon. the area that we normally monitor is fairly quiet. the caribbean toward the eastern part of the atlantic, not a whole lot going on. tropical storm gordon has 50 miles an hour winds. it is moving to the east- northeast moving away from bermuda. out to toward the a's or -- azores. a 50% chance of storms. 90 degrees and nichols off on the weekend. highs in the low 80's saturday and sunday. a slight chance of a shower popping up on sunday. temperatures stay in to the low to the middle 80's into the middle of next week. >> we begin with the good news for folks looking for work. ad volvo is adding 50 jobs to hagerstown. they are producing heavy duty transmissions. volvo has produced units in sweden and modified them in hagerstown but demand for the vehicles are growing. the new jobs bring employment to nearly 1500 workers. we have two serious recalls. turkey sau

this will be making it's way to the east heading into the atlantic. that has lots of lightning with the storm. right now, temperatures in centerville at 73 degrees. chrisfield a lot of rainfall this morning and a thunderstorm 70 right now. but bethesda at 69 and this is what it looks like mow in bethesda. the sun is beginning to rise and i will show you that in a second but this is what we look like going through the rest of today. hour by hour forecast looks good. 78 by 9. 85 in terms of temperatures and we have a chance for more scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. i will break it down but right now let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook and you've been talking about accidents. >> reporter: yes. we have good news for those heading to 95. a crash has cleared from the northbound lanes. all lanes reopened at powder mill road. and it lee maine clear headed up into the city. and if you are heading out to the harrisburg expressway, this is what it looks like up in hunt valley. everything nice and clear. and it's going take y

the weather appearance has raised the predictions of the hurricane season for the atlantic. after initially calling for nine to 15 named storms they expect 12 to 17 before the season ends in november. they also increased the number of major hurricanes saying they are increasing the likelihood of the above normal season because storm wind patterns and warmer than normal sea surface temperatures are no place in the atlantic. >>> the yearly farm progress show is just around the corner and we invite you to join us as we take the show on the road to iowa. it's set for tuesday august 28th at the agriculture co exhibit lot. we will talk markets with a panel of veterans. let us know how many tickets you need by e-mailing mailbag at united states farm report.com or call us at 574- 284-3159. >>> john we talked about yogurt and the growing trend. i. a fab of it. >> i have a longstanding rule i don't eat food that start was a funny letter, that includes kal experience yogurt but my grandchildren have been raised on the stuff so i can see the market expanding. thank you. let's head to cin

is moving -- it is way out in the middle part of the atlantic. 76 degrees after only getting up to 82 degrees. e go through tonight and early tomorrow morning our again inres once washington may be a bit below 70 degrees. into the afternoon, that line of leftover may fire up enough to give us the rest of some thundershowers. as we get through later on tomorrow, we will get some northwesterly winds. morning sun dry air. the weekend over all looks pretty good. saturday there could be to ther showers out beach areas. tomorrow morning still comfortable. the humidity will be coming back as we get southwesterly winds. the rest of some afternoon showers and thundershowers. temperatures 90-92 degrees. by 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon, that is where we have risk of showers. some could linger into saturday morning. cooler air and a lower humidity on into sunday. posted 24-7 on our web site. a new blog up about the beach and boating. be cool this weekend. willknow some people that go golfing, too. >> thank you very much. about thealk redskins. to leave fory chicago. the national's start a six-ga

out in the atlantic, a tropical system. that is turning down and adding to its the atlantic. no where near us. just kind of a tropical curiosity. our forecast, not tropical today. very nice. mid-to-upper-84 highs. we have sun now. with the temperature in the upper 80s, white northwest breeze. winds are northwesterly, five to 10 knots. next high tide at 6:39 this evening. insta-weather futurecast -- there is the stormy weather. it is not look like it will be an issue today. by tomorrow, the cold front approaches. as we go into saturday, it looks like the front will still be in the neighborhood and still very likely generate rain activity and even some clouds on sunday. tomorrow, a bit more humid, with the rain chance kicking in. sunday, things taper off just a little bit. >> after being away for two weeks due to the olympics, the popular show "grimm" will take the money night slot at 10:00. thanks for being with us. you guys hear me ok? ok, perfect. you are back to basically schering the pants off us again. >> i got nothing. i can at hea -- cannot hear them. >> can you guys he

. >> the open waters in the atlantic. there's no better escort than -- >> on the football team. talking about actual dolphins. check this pod out. they are cruising along ahead of the u.s. coast guard cutter "vigorous" doesn't look like they're swimming. just kind of -- doesn't ilook like they're trying to go as fast as they' 't this is the atlantic ocean. look how blue the water is. >> steve, the water's so blue because they're off the coast of florida. >> all right. >> to find out more about the dolphins and what it's like to have a spectacular escort like these, bob shtfrom the coast gu is joining us. how long were then withyou? >> probably 15, 20 minutes. 14 knots, probably 12, 15 mime did it for us. >> are these dolphins using the pushed water of the boat to help them glide along. doesn't even look like they're swimming? >> yeah. using the push above and gliding them through the water. we going about 14 knot, they can keeping up. >> would you consider this a good omen that the dolphins chose to escort you in the ocean? >> absolutely. seeing that lifts your spirits. >> did y

a couple of slow-moving fronts will be crowding into the mid- atlantic tomorrow. wer chance arrives tomorrow afternoon, it is likely to continuing to the first part of wednesday. tomorrow, with the cloud cover increasing and the rain chances increasing, the highs will be held down a bit. 81-86 and the winds at 5-10. there will be a small craft advisory with the waves of chopping up to two feet. the water temperatures in the low 80's. that is where it will stay in the next couple of days, but adding clouds and a few showers. may 80's, scattered thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and maybe a few lingering showers on wednesday. high temperatures in the low to mid 80's. feeling a little more humid as the southerly breezes gradually increase. in that midlantic we had strong tropical depression. it's kind of fizzled out. thank phillippe did not develop further. -- thank fully it did not develop further. the weather disturbances in the atlantic will have to be monitored. tomorrow, a high of 84. a couple of scattered showers as guys gradually clear wednesday. then a beautifu

back in 2008, hurricane gustof responded to that storm. >>> right now, isaac is still out in the atlantic and headed toward the caribbean, but maybe it will be too early to tell you where it will end up. >> we're talking five, x days out. it is early. and even so, even if you take that as fact, that it's going go into the gulf of mexico. right now, a category one storm, so lots of variables and right now, we have to track it south of puerto rico and see where that goes. we do have our own problems around town. showers and storms north of bethesda, up 270. right around the spur. also showers and storms on the west side of 270. and even over toward rockville. and we also have some showers south of town. the good news is, they are split in the ballpark. it rained earlier, but they will be okay now at the ball park, which is good news. temperature wise, it's a bargain. partly because it didn't get very hot today and partly because it showered. 74 downtown. 77 in gaithersburg. 81 in manassas and 87 in andrews. we will come back and talk about the repeat performance of more storms tomorrow and

the mid-atlantic saw the biggest percentage growth in markets this year by nearly 15%. national farmers or bracket week and this weekend. the 2012 progress show is just a couple weeks away and once again we invite you to join us as we take our show on the road to prove iowa. along with lunch will be treated to a marketing roundtable featuring myself, our pal, and three veteran analysts. space is limited so make your reservation today. let us know who you are and how many tickets did it by sending an e-mail to mail back at us farm report.com or give us a call. we've been talking about you up on the show and set to get a good look at your tv to go to the middle of your field. but there is nothing more miserable on a hot summer day. >> what we are seeing is the failure of the old windshield survey. 100feet or 200 feet in the center of the field, it must have been scorching because what we thought were decent politician events did not turn out that way. i don't blame people for not wanting to go out there because i wouldn't either. let's go to mike for the weather. >> well

that is because of this low pressure system sitting off of the atlantic seaboard around virginia and north carolina. it is bringing heavy rain to the eastern shore. focus city at about 0.75 inches of rain in the last hour. this will spin around all night bringing light rain to the majority of the viewing area. it is something we will have to watch throughout the evening. as far as the rain fall today, it is a bit misleading. the main rain gauge is at bwi marshall. they had just a trace of rain. for august, we are about 0.1 inches below normal. year to date, we are almost 8 inches below normal. temperatures are pretty good. the cloud cover kept temperatures low. anywhere from the 70's west of the area and also on the eastern shore they work in the 70's. ocean city is now at 68 degrees. the majority of the precipitation on the eastern shore. there is the low pressure system over the hampton roads area on the outer banks of north carolina. that will sit there for the next couple of days. it will bring with it quite a bit of rain for the eastern portions of our viewing area. as it spends,

we have a new one in the atlantic. it is 400 miles to the east of the caribbean. aac.named is it is expected to pass south of porter rico wednesday night into thursday and probably become a category i hurricane. since it will be interacting with islands and getting more overland, towards cuba, that interaction with the land may not allow it to strengthen. it makes the turn up toward south florida and the next five da. we will have to keep a close eye on it. lots of sunshine for thursday and friday. patchy morning fog over the weekend. temperatures in the low to mid 80's. >> stick around for late night with jimmy phelafallon. >> tyra banks is my guest tonight. tonight on late night after jay leno. >> that's not a fair trade. stick around here find out why the rangers have a great winning percentage at home. the o's have a game in texas. >> hello, america. it is tuesday, august 21. tonight the jackpot is $55 million. to win, you must have these 5 white balls, plus this gold ball. the first number is 5, followed by 33. up next is 13. 23. and the final white ball is 2

this one, sitting in the atlantic and heading in towards the direction of the iberian peninsula. doesn't like it will reach that far. it is moving 33 kilometers an hour. those wind speeds at 140. we are expecting hurricane conditions overnight sunday into monday. by monday night, should become a depression. still we are expecting 75 to a hundred millimeters of rain and also potential for storm surge. so something else to just keep our eye on in the next 48 hours. it has been very stormy down towards the deep south here and in fact, sunday into monday overnight you are still looking at intense thunderstorms for eastern north carolina. it was pretty unsettled. up into this comes and loops around and in towards the atlantic coast. this is your monsoonal rain. also parts of nevada seeing the potential for flash flooding and in towards the intermountain west is dry and gusty with lightning as well. so that spells fire danger. things are looking very cool for the northern half of the continent. getting into 25 in chicago. just 21 in new york city. but staying in the low to mid 30s for

the eastern shore, over the atlantic as well. still have a frontal i havey, the same one about since monday. it is stationary. over the ocean and along the carolina and the georgia coastlines. for thehe main path widespread showers and storms and the thickest cloud cover. isolatedve a few around here the past evenings. looks like we will be dry today through saturday. we cannot rule out a few showers here and there. of uncertainty for the weekend forecast with an upper level system. we will have to tweak that forecast. like we could have a few showers on sunday. there's a tropical storm isaac in the caribbean. is still centered over 1,400 southeast of tampa, florida. a bit of a turn days overext couple the weekend. look at the extended the floridaus into area. t to point out is forecasted path has been westward progressively day-by-day. seems to bee that l trend with the computer models. they're gradually pushing the little farther to the west. a slight chance it could or the outer bands affecting florida. there's also a pretty go

through time, expected to dump about 8-12 inches of rain and then, moving across the atlantic, 3:00 a.m. monday, expected it to begin to strengthen to a category one as it approaches florida fla. if it does it could hit florida, these are the models. it's what we call spaghetti track. all under agreement now that one is eyeing florida. so we'll keep close tabs on isaac. we bring you back to the bay area here. high temperatures friday, into south bay, 78 in san jose. there is mid-70s redwood city. nothing new for you. downtown san francisco there is 63 degrees, 79 in napa. east bay communities, 68 in oakland. heading inland it's going to be a nice, warm day. antioch, 88. 87 walnut creek. 70 in santa cruz. 84, gilroy. america's cup continuing tomorrow, and breezy conditions out there with patchy fog. winds 15-25 and mid-50s to low 60s. you know the 60s. and and cooling off with low to mid-80s inland. upper 50s coastside. next week there is is a trop in temperatures moving to the north we'll see warmer days by middle next week, upper 80s inland. >> and thank you. >> and here are the people

in the atlantic, we will keep an eye on the seventh tropical depression of the season. it could turn into a tropical storm gordon as it makes its way to the caribbean. sunny skies on sunday and monday. for the next seven days, high temperatures will be close to normal. >> injuries continue to temporarily reshape the ravens roster. mcbean will undergo surgery. john harbaugh did not look thrilled with his team last .ight in atlanta appeare no first downs for the offense through the first quarter last night. but they've found the gear in the second quarter. flacco threw to torrey smith for a 25-yard drive. many laser strike to dixon. the bad news is that that is the play that dickson sprained his shoulder on. ben curtis painter in the third quarter, three second-hand touchdown passes. and the backup running back spot is up for grabs. a better night for the backups then irregulars. -- then the regulathan the regu. >> [inaudible] he told me to get the ball and give it to my mom. i totally forgot it is my first touchdown. i was really excited. so i went and got the ball to gi

but it will be fighting the system that is off into the atlantic. the coastal low developing through the weekend. we will give a chance for for a few showers along the eastern shore. we will be in the clouds and have a chance for wet weather out there as well. temperatures this morning in baltimore coming in right around 67 degrees. and that hour by hour forecast as we go into lunchtime today, 83 with the sun-cloud mix and here's the 7-day forecast for you. a as we head into monday -- as we head into monday, drier teems ared. >>> the rides and games and all that greasy food today the official start for the maryland state fair. it's the 131st year that fair -- year for that fair and some say it's the 11th best day of the summer. check out rides and games on the midway and cheer on the racing pigs. this year, you can catch the first ever jousting tournament. and don't forget to check out concerts. christian pop group newsboys will perform tuesday and nick loadan star victoria justice will take to the stage next friday. and the band's perry is performin

we have two tropical storms right now in the atlantic, one in the caribbean, the greatest threat there, tropical storm ernesto 50-mile-per-hour winds moving quickly to the west 18 miles an hour. it will miss the dominican republic but jamaica in its sights. tropical storm warnings up there. here is the forecast track from the national hurricane center. slow strengthening expected and a trajectory that should bring it close to if not into the gulf of mexico by the middle or end of next week. also on the radar and satellite is florence out there well into the atlantic just off the coast of africa. quite honestly not too terribly worried about florence at the moment. we'll keep you posted. fresh updates at the top of the hour. >>> now to the investigation at the aurora theater massacre. the university of colorado has hired a former federal prosecutor to internally review how the school dealt with suspected gunman james holmes. holmes was a neuro science student there. "the denver post" reported a psychiatrist who was treating holmes notified the school's threat assessment team about his b

now things are tapering off most of the wet weather is out into the atlantic. but the satellite and radar picking up on what i am talking about. pushed off there and we have a few showers trying to pop up around carroll county. baltimore county and that's going to be the scenario as we go throughout the day off and on showers. we won't see anything continuing. we are in between the two systems and we will have disturb ands riding along the system to the south. and that's going to give us a chance for showers for the next three days. a disturbance in the atlantic will be watching that as it works off towards the west and becoming probably a tropical depression through the next 48 hours. future trend on a few showers for today. tomorrow and also wednesday. and here's hour by hour forecast by 7 p.m., 75 degrees with more showers and a check of the 7-day forecast, well, we dry out as we head into the end of the week. let's check the traffic with lauren cook good morning. >> reporter: good morning. construction does continue on 895. traffic is reduced to one lane in

a couple of systems to watch way out in the atlantic. with the hurricane system is keeping an eye on is this storm or cluster of storms in the atlantic, far away from where we would normally see development this time of year. 900 miles to the southeast of hamilton and bermuda, looks like that may become a tropical storm gordon. about a 50% chance that it organizes into the next named storm. going to hit 90, i think, in many areas friday, but in a front comes through, and the weak and cools off. -- the beacon -- the weeekend cools off. >> the maryland consumer rights coalition ranks lawmakers on consumer protection bills. in all, 80 legislators received a perfect score for supporting your interests. according to them, that means more than 100 are not going to work for maryland consumers. here is a closer look at who is on that list. delicate crags upper, state senator ulysses currie, and the coalition looked at votes on key bills including identity theft for children, and taxes on smokeless tobacco and small cigars. u.s. retail sales rose

you can see clouds coming in right off the atlantic, moist coming into the region.wers possible for everyone today, maybe thunderstorms, the further east you go. highs around baltimore, 82. ocean city, 81, southern pennsylvania in the upper 70's. tonight dropping into the 70's downtown, 60's in the suburbs and showers still possible. they start to taper off into tomorrow but lingering chance into tuesday. beautiful weather into the end of the week. >> the maryland state fair is underway and with six cases of swine flu reported in queen anne's county, state officials are not taking chances. >> animal health inspectors are checking the pigs. at the maryland state fair, carroll county sophomore brittney lippy unloads her blue buck pig, mecca. i love -- >> i love it. >> this year, each of the pens are sprayed with bleach solution and warning signs are posted with safety tips. across the nation, 230 human cases of swine flu have been reported, a different strain than a few years ago that spread through direct contact with pigs. in queen anne's county, six cases were conf

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above normal temperatures are there in the atlantic in the tropical atlantic. e have dry sinking air in the upper levels of the atmosphere. does that call it a wash? it is hard to tell but it only takes one serious hurricane in 2010 we only had two hurricanes but they did a lot of damage to the u.s. >> alexandra steele, thank you very much. >> jamaican sprinter usain bolt semts his brilliance in a 200 meter final. >> and he says so himself. >> the island nation has a lot to celebrate. jamaica swept the medal stand, yohan blake and weir took bronze respectively. the women beat japan, 2-1, avenging their painful loss to the japanese in last year's world cup. >> he heard a pop and felt a snap, stopping was not an option. if you're still wondering what separates an olympic athlete from the rest of us. here it is, a pretty unbelievable story from the track in london. american mitchell finished his relay lap on a broken leg. he had 200 meters to go in the first leg and the adrenalin must have been flowing. >> it's hard to tell when it happened. >> he's running harder

the main concern is not joyce in the atlantic. that is heading up to the central atlantic. isaac is moving out over the waters of the caribbean. it could get stronger and may move in our direction. the track takes it south of hispaniola as tropical storm. 48 hours or so it is moving into guantanamo bay area in southern cuba and it turns of toward the gulf of mexico. the shift in the trend is to move the trek farther west into the open waters. that is better news for florida. that is an area where the storm could strengthen. it could get stronger as we get over the gulf water temperature is over the early part of next week. high pressure gives us partly cloudy skies and a storm may develop scattered showers on saturday and sunday. another round of storms we in on tuesday. >> from the susquehanna bank's board center, this is 11 sports. >> will live for the ribbons are going through their pre-game warmup for the third preseason game against the jacksonville jaguars. on the field behind me, the kicker's going through their early pregame warmups. to give you an indication of what

unmanned solar powered drones carrying microwave relay stations could have or intervals across the atlantic allowing for light speed communications this idea was floated to the author who was doing a story on high frequency trading and one of the chief architects at a high frequency firm called de maxi on capital management suggested it saying hey they're doing amazing things with drones selling to figure that one out so dimitri is this the next evolution of skynet to where the high frequency traders actually have drones a form that can be used as a weapon right as it is with i mean this is a financial weapon while i was thinking about the other i mean this is like i think we're eventually the end game here is that what's happening is with this is the physical infrastructure that's going to light up when these drones and these algos become conscious ok it's them or was it a terminator was called the whatever of the day but i don't know what it was that became the machines became conscious and another have the drone technology emerging with these algorithms and they can they can do a cyber a

>> reporter: we're talking about this tropical storm that's brewing in the atlantic. early and a lot could change. an extra 50,000 people are headed to tampa this work and next for the republican national convention, so imagine that potential night mayor. tropical storm isaac is making its way toward the southeast coast of the u.s. some projected models have the host city in its path. >> i don't think this will be a factor in this particular convention but we are prepared in the event it is. >> reporter: four years ago hurricane gust taf hit the area and minnesota scaled back the first tight of events. contingency plans are in place. >> what a welcome. thank you oar meanwhile, the convention's main attraction, mitt romney took his message to iowa, a state that went to president obama four years ago. >> the president promised he would cut the deficit in half. it didn't happen, dit it? >> reporter: the president wraps up his two day swing through iowa. >> i have a question for governor romney. how many teacher's jobs are worth another tax cut for millionaires and billio

. >>> the 9th named storm of the atlantic hurricane season developed a few hours ago. topper shutt joins us. where does the isaac guy seem to be headed? >> it's still a tropical storm. let me show you the latest track. it's about 395 miles east of guadalupe and it's moving to the west at about 18 miles an hour moving at a pretty good clip. we do have a tropical storm warning for antigua and the path takes it just south of antigua and puerto rico and just south of the dr and touching haiti and then turning the storm over cuba and heading it toward the keys. now, this is a little farther northerly track, especially from cuba up into the southern sections of the atlantic ocean. just because more models now are taking it a little further north, and that means a bigger threat to florida and the bahamas. we're still talking monday and tuesday. satellite picture, there is the storm right there. pretty good circulation. it's not a terribly strong storm. and, again, we'll have to come back and we'll talk about that. you should go to our website and download our hurricane trackin

bit a flow off the atlantic. unsettled weather along the immediate midatlantic coast especially south of virginia down into the carolina's. this will be the potential weather michener to the weekend here. developing coastal system off the carolina's. now the projection going to keep it just off shore and maybe we don't see any rain anywhere in maryland but we showers in because the movement of the system could come in close enough to spin showers into the eastern shore and especially the beaches, at least on the on and off basis. we aren't talking a heavy steady rain but hit and miss. mere is the trend. high pressure holds but then this coastal low and off the carolina's. some of the showers could wrap in to the beaches, wrap into the areas especially east of the bay. western maryland we will try to keep it warm and sunny. and for central maryland it's a crap shoot. eastern maryland more likely to see showers, isaac, churning and burning through the sea now moving south of the haiti area. in the next 12 hours over

united states, a passenger liner ed carey more than a million people across the atlantic over two decades. the ship completed in 1952 and viewed as a technological advancement in sea travel with speeds of 35 knots. this is about an hour. >> thank you all for coming up tonight. this has been a long time in the making. for me to be will to produce this book after basically five years, a lot of research went into this book. but the of what we did, i read the book. steve and i worked on probably a dozen stories. their mere allies of the book. the research that i thought would be fun tonight. talk about some of the things that surprised me, what i thought would be fun would be to talk to us some of the things that surprised me when i read the book. but first, everyone a little bit of the speed of the conservancy efforts. there is a fine line issue here in terms of where they stand in terms of our ability in the future. >> well, the current status with the ship right now, she is owned by the ss united states conservancy which is a non-profit formed in 2004 that was meant to raise awareness of t

above the atlantic city beach between the zero atlantic casino and the tropicana casino and resort. take a look at all those spectators down there watching her walk on that tight rope. in june he walked across the niagara falls, a obviously a big thrill seeker there. and look at that, their egos. we'll check back in with that in a moment. the grand opening of the world's largest recycling facility under way right now in milpitas. the island resource recovery park on dixon landing road is the first of its kind, expecting to thdecrease the amount of waste by 80 percent. the company that runs the facility at close to process 400,000 t of trash per year. u.s. stocks stuck in limbo as investors struggled to pick eight focus, this is a live look at the big board right now and you can see that is down by about six points. global will pay a record fine to settle allegations that a secret spy on millions of internet surfers through the apple safari browser. the $22.5 million penalty is the largest of its kind ever imposed by the ftc. the fine is over a pledge that they made " not to mislead

tropical storm isaac is growing strength in the atlantic. now there's concern it could become a hurricane. a hurricane just in time for the republican national conntion. >>> what happens in vegas does not stay in vegas. guess who that is? new pictures of prince harry naked in sin city. >> good morning! wake up! welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans in today. >> i'm john berman. zoraida is off today. 5:00 a.m. in the east. despite those pictures of prince harry we are starting with politics. a lot of news in politics right now. the defiant candidate. missouri republican todd akin rejecting calls from leaders, mitt romney on down, to drop out of the senate race. akin for his part believes he is the man to unseat democratic incumbent claire mccaskill despite the up roar about his comments about rape and abortion. ksdk caught up with akin last night at the airport in st. louis. >> reporter: were you upset with how the republican party did not back you during all this? does it bother you that they kind of bailed on you? >> it's been excit

humidity continuing to fetch off the waters of the atlantic which are extremely warm. low pressure, pulling in as warm breezes and that boundary out of the north helping focus the storm threat. we think through the day we will see enhanced storm in to the afternoon and evening hours. not that all of us will see severe storms but the potential for any storm that does pop or any line of storm that pushes in, two go severe, maybe moderately large hail. here is saturday, that boundary a little further out over the atlantic. still a storm threat. we will keep chance through saturday but sunday looks dryer. ernesto making its second and final landfall. coming inland. heavy flooding in southern mention do. rough times there after making landfall once toward cancun. more waves off africa, looks like the tropics are about to heat up big time. overnight scattered storms, into the day tomorrow. more storms, some could be strong to severe. tomorrow night lingering storms in the picture and the seven day forecast shows that trend toward dryer weather on sunday. and maybe most of the

it's weak low pressure along the atlantic sea board. e of this tropical moisture coming in off the warmer waters of the gulfstream, moving it inland. as it does so, it's going to give us needed rain. this is the rainfall totals we may be getting. some of the heavier amounts here on the eastern shore. these areas in orange and red could get three, four inches or more there. closer to washington, the areas in blue and lavender, generally one to two to 2.5 inches. this is all by the time it tapers off and ends sunday afternoon into sunday evening. for the rest of the day today, noontime, showers around much of the region. chances of a little bit of lightning with a high around 80. if you are going to the game, any lightning will probably suspend the game for a time. there may be occasional showers as the skins take on the colts of fedex field. kickoff 4:00 this evening. if you're going out, maybe some showers. maybe a little bit of lightning, in the 70s through saturday night. sunday a little sun back. afternoon highs into the mid-80s. migh

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