Kidcaster: Jacob, 9 years old

White Oaks Elementary, Va. Beach

In nominating him, Jacob's parents wrote:

Jacob's fascination with the weather started when he was two years old. He would ask us to turn on the "News" which meant The Weather Channel. He would just stare at the television absorbing everything the meteorologist would say. After only a couple of weeks of watching The Weather Channel, we could mute the television and have Jacob give us a forecast explaining where the hot and cold fronts are and what type of weather we could be expecting. To this day, he says he wants to be a tornado-chasing, monster truck-driving, meteorologist when he grows up. It would be a dream come true for him to do a forecast with Jon Cash.