. >>> and joce, weather wise we have had some pretty active weather out across baltimore and most of the northeastern part of the state. in fact a couple of severe thunderstorms just expiring here in the last minute or two. take a look, you can see that storm that blew through alston, kent county south into chester town, but no active warnings at the moment. let's take a little different perspective on maryland's most powerful radar, more wet weather pushing in out of the west. in fact right now we're talking some pretty heavy downpours back across i270 from frederick down to rockville. that line of heavier rain also headed toward baltimore here in the next hour or is. more rain behind that. we've got a little bit of a soaker going on this evening, that's a good thing. those warnings clearing out, it's just showers and we'll call them garden variety thunderstorms, 70s, wet and again this is good, we have had an enhanced fire risk, it's been so dry we'll take the rain tonight. weekend forecast is coming up. joce. >> thanks wyatt. our other top stories, a baltimore county couple is loc

weather-wise, no rain to contend with this morning. it's a little cool this morning. 55 in parkton. 52 at fort meade. 61 in a edgewood. it is a little warmer downtown and near the water. we should see a beautiful sunrise. because of the-cloud deck. there is no precipitation in the cloud deck. the nearest rain is in new england. this may give a some rain by the end of the week, late thursday and into friday morning. we have this cold front that will come through this afternoon. you will hardly notice it. we do not expect any rain as this front comes through. let me give a quick update on the tropics. this is hurricane igor with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. it is a category four hurricane. it looks like the storm is very well organized. lookout compact the swirl is -- look how compact the swirl is. most of the computer models keep it off shore. it will be close that we need to watch it going into the weekend. a mixed of clouds and sunshine. high temperatures will be in the upper 70's and low 80's. overnight, mostly clear and tu

i'll handle the duties in the first warning weather center. that's coming up shortly. >>> marty, thank you. we're two weeks into the school year and salt lake city -- vacancies remain. some teachers still hadn't received their assignments when the classes began. 100 contracts weren't renewed. >>> the wife of joe biden is at anne arundel community college today. dr. jill biden is talking to the community college. and president obama wants the u.s. to lead the world in awarding college degrees by 2010. he's counting on community colleges to reach the goal. >>> still to come at noon. coming home, one of the american hikers held in prison for a year is a free woman. >>> emergency crews arrive on the scene of a family pet in distress. >>> and take another live look outside. and stick around, your complete first warning weather forecast is coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> sara shores is a free woman today. the iranny officials say that the rulers mediated a deal for $500,000 in bail for her release. two other americans including her fiance are st

she taught me weather. she really did. >> did she is it. >> we spent a lot of time together at channel 5. >> we experienced the good times. we celebrated your emmy wards. we experienced the bad times, your daughter liz throwing up in my corvette. >> all best to you after 5 years of great enjoyment at channel 5. >> hey, sue, it is topper out on the weather terrace. congratulations. you actually came to d.c. when you were 15 owe that only makes you 40. you are awe gem in this industry. >> hi, sue. as the oldest guy in town, i want to congratulate you on 0 years. >> >> no, it's 25. >> sue is a junior member of the club at only 25. >> what fun we've all cgratulat we love you. 25 more years. >> happy anniversary! happy anniversary! >> that made all this rain go way for those four minutes. >> she is so precious. she does a great job with the weather obviously p. she is just a downright nice human being. she goes above and beyond. >> one of my favorite people. >> yep. much more straight ahead this morning. we'll b

. >>> the weather has been too little too late for many. they've been waiting for weather like this but hasn't shown up. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: that's right mike, for most of us we think of labor day as the unofficial end of summer. but for most of us here in the bay area this year, summer never really began. >> it's been freezing. >> this is the first time we've had in a long time, so it's nice. >> it's like you think you're going to have a warm day and you get up and it's like, wow. it's cold. >> reporter: they're right it has been unusually cold this summer. san francisco's average high temperature for june, july and august was 64.7 degrees. that's 3.7 degrees below normal. making this the coolest summer in the city in 11 years. and the summer that never was wasn't just here, meteorologists say most of california had lower than normal temperatures. take august in san jose, an average of 78.9 degrees, more than 5 degrees below normal and the coolest august in 19 years. average temperatures in sacramento, los angeles an

get a weather radio if you don't have one or sleep downstairs because we could have severe weather. don't want to be upstairs when you have severe weather blowing trees around. southeast wins 10 to 15 and the wind gusts were the concern tonight. mainly morning showers and thunderstorms. highs of 80 on tuesday winds south southwest at 10 to 15. 70-degrees in southern maryland. 65 fredericksburg and also at national. shenandoah valley upper 50s to 61 in luray. and oakland this morning at 52 degrees. got the low 60s here in montgomery county with rain showers around. reston 62 and fairfax 68. it is, let me step over here and look, 60 in haymarket, manassas 3 and 63 andrews. with they have rain pulling away columbia 65. light rain at reagan national. a north wind at 8. the winds change direction. we are on the north side of the stationary boundary but as the low pressure pulls up the warm front will take over. the warm air will come in. by five lohr six tonight, a line of showers and storms. some breaks. a lot of clouds. overnight here's the showers and maybe severe thunderstorms in the

welcome back to your world weather update. now, east issues of course is bracing for a lot of stormy weather today due to our two tropical storm systems, kompasu is working quickly its way across the korean peninsula. you can see the heavy rain, it moves away at a fairly good pace. so by friday morning it should look a lot dryer. now, along eastern china the wet weather will continue for you, and we've got lionrock here in the south. and this one is a slow-moving storm system. so expect the rain to linger for another day or so. meanwhile, today temperatures are going to be still high in tokyo. 35 for your high. and today showers for shanghai with a high of 34 and 31 degrees in taipei. it will be unsettled for you as well. over toward the atlantic, meanwhile, we've been keeping an eye on hurricane earl here. and it is still a very strong storm system. category 4 major hurricane packing winds well over 215 kilometers per hour. a lot of warnings now are being issued along the mid-atlantic coastline. it's going to get very close t

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nice weather on the way. as we inch closer to fall on this side of the equator, folks down under are getting ready for the arrival of spring in australia. kites filled the sky above sidney's beach as part of the annual festival of the winds. organizers call it australia's largest kite-flying event. this is the 32nd year of the festival. people of all ages are enjoying mild, late-winter conditions on one of australia's most famous beaches. wow, those are some fabulous kites. we've had enough wind to fly kites, too. >> yeah, we have. but yesterday really quiet day weatherwise. and yesterday just talking to people in line, you know, this is our season. >> you always look for september in the bay area. >> although we saw a little fog. you saw the golden gate bridge picture. there is some soupy conditions there but this is a high definition picture from mount sutro and looking up towards market street and right now still good visibility. but, again, you'll encounter just a little fog on 101 north and also around t

time for weather and traffic on the ones. 5:11. tempetures around the region are mild on this friday morning. as we look now at national airport, 71. it's in the 60s in the surbs and most rural areas. tidewater, low 70s. highs today reaching the low 80s. part cloudy. then tomorrow should be clear in the morning, near the mid-50s for lows. highs near 80 in the afternoon with lots of sun. sunday, saturday night into sunday, we'll still stay dry. mid-80s. good weather for the skins game. sunday afternoon, 4:00 game, near 80 at kickoff. >>>olitics and taxes. we break down president obama's plans for the economy. why some democrats are pushing to keep the bush administration's tax cuts. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's luxury with fire in its veins. bold. daring. capable of moving your so. ♪ and that's even before yo drop your foot on the pal. ♪ the new 2011 cts coupe from cadillac. the new standard of the world. >>> 5:16 our time right now. time to get a check on the top stories ofhe morning. police are trying to find the person who sho

more on the weather in just a moment. we'll see if the tornado warning gets extended as well. >> i know it will be a busy morning for you all. the tropical storm marching up the cove is our big story. we'll talk more about that in just a second. >>> we do want to talk to julie to see how roads are looking. i came through lots of water just pooling on the roads. >> absolutely. a good amount of rain in gaithersburg but once i hit the beltway at connecticut avenue, it was pounding across the highway. through the glare of the lights, you could just see is it treatmenting across the beltway. and people are driving way too fast at this hour of the morning in this rain. you are feeling with poor visibility, the slick roads and the ramps and the pounding of that water and the glare. it is hard to see it until you hit it and all that road spray kicks up in everybody else's face. you got to slow down. we are dealing with accidents. lane are open at the inner and outer loop at the american legion bridge. the crash is near telegraph

we could see severe weather on thursday. it turns kind of chilly with highs in the 60s over the weekend. tune into am 1090 for weather on the fives all day. >> we are experiencing some delays. this is the one accident and is off to the side by loch raven. we do have a slow spot on the west side, 19 miles per hour from 795 to edmundson. this is what it looks like approaching that accident scene in the area of loch raven. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25. old gibbs canning company. today these factories are full of dot com businesses. old gibbs canning company. and now my job is helping maryland create new economy jobs. training new math and science teachers investing in our institutions of excellence pioneering new cyber security jobs and giving an old gm plant a jump start building electric motors. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you.

. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's the weather channel's bill ckarins. bill m you ever tried alligator meet maet? >> no. >> kind of mike chicken. kind of me made me hungry. >> no, i lived in florida for a while. i never did that. i had a date with a taxidermist, though. good morning, everyone. in the pacific northwest you've got a little weak storm going through with some showers early today. that's about it. the rest of the weather pattern is quiet. now all that rain from new mexico up through colorado and the plains. we've got a nice quiet day today in much of nevada, arizona, utah, and in california. should be a goody in phoenix, too, after some of that rainfall yesterday. you can see just this little frontal system here that's kicking through some showers and clouds in the pacific northwest. it's not a lot of wet weather, as i mentioned. it's going right up and down interstate 5. olympicia is getting a little bit of a downpour. that will kick on through. probably most of it will be gone during mid morning or so. your afternoon should be relatively d

with the weather conditions we are seeing no, ask the weather guys today. >> my question is when is it going to stop raining. >> a few more hours. >> thank you. >>> let's check in with julie. she has a look at the roads right now. good morning. >> good morning. busy commute out there outer loop of the beltway after 450, the crash on the shoulder. 270 is a mess out of germantown. happy to say the accident activity at falls road finally cleared. big delays from north of the american legion bridge american legion bridge headed around. still fining tea lays -- delays on 95 and 295 coming out of laurel. it remains slow in the direction of the wilson bridge. crash on the uner loop at telegraph road. that is what was tying up the left side of the highway. that is slowing down your roll. inbound stretch of the dulles toll road over at hunt are mill accident activity in the airport lanes. the main line, you will find fire and rescue units on the scene at hunt are mill tying up the left side of the highway. 22-mile backup on 95 as you leave dale city to the inbound 14th street bridge. that's a c

warmer weather on the way. we'll talk about that before some rain may possibly dance around the north bay throughout the weekend. 5:50 this monday. good morning to you. we're looking from downtown san francisco. right along the embarcadero all the way back to the port of oakland. notice how you can see some clouds but they're not very heavy or thick i should say. not hanging very low. don't have a lot of moisture in them. a pretty dry commute for all of us. los gatos about 49 degrees. we have some low to mid-50s in the north bay valleys with mid to upper 50s for the rest of us. around the monterey bay we have cloudy conditions and temperatures holding around 53 to 54 degrees even as you head inland. we'll see sunshine just about everywhere this afternoon. hotter at the coast but pockets of it from time to time and that cooling breeze will continue to spread that cooling weather we saw yesterday throughout the bay. cloudy tonight, the possibility of drizzle there but very small. i want to let you know it's still

good looking weather, sunshine by late friday i think, saturday-sunday gorgeous weather, low 80s, lots of that golden september sunshine and great weather for the big swim across america on sunday. kelly. >> all right thanks, wyatt involved in that big swim across america this sunday. it takes place at it's an island for the free swim at meadow brook aquatic center for the pool swim. good luck wyatt. >>> coming up tonight at 11:00. money is tight for a lot of folks these days. so what happens if you're doing some work around the house and you need a nail gun? what if you were planning a garden but you don't have a wheel barrow. if you don't have the cash to buy what you need you can borrow it instead. jamie costello shows us how the internet is making it easy and popular, that and much more coming up tonight at 11:00. >>> in our health alert tonight, asthma is the leading cause of chronic illness in children. now accord to go the cdc more than 10 million young people have been diagnosed with the disease. a look at new research about obese and normal weight children with asthma andy ros

that is awe look at what is happening with the weather. time now for ask the weather guys. a. in some ways dreading today's ask the weather guys. here we go. tucker barnes and i put our big heads together to answer your most pressing questions weather- related or other swies. - - otherwise. this is the hardest question we've ever had. today's question is from onin win which ther p he writes, when i aperson looks into space, how do the scientists know that they are looking into the past and not looking into the future? >> very deep. deep thoughts by onfrom on-- by john from winchester. >> those not an easily answered question. when you are researching it, it leads you to all kind of other things about physics, time, the space-time continuum. it is teen. tucker, you want me to start this. >> i want you to start and finish it. >> i'll start it. basically speaking, what john is talking about, you know, you've heard this. the light from stars that we see is traveling such a long way that by the time it gets here, the original star itself may be gone. it is did you have rent than it

our first weather coverage continues. we'll check in with bob in a few minutes. >>> the fbi released video footage of a devastating explosion that nearly rocked new york city in may. it shows the fbi detonating a prototype of the failed car bomb that was found in times square. experts say the device would have killed dozens of people and caused massive amounts of damage. faisal shahzad admitted to planting the bomb in a parked suv. >>> some good news for the miners trapped in chile. the miners could be set for an early rescue within the next two weeks. kai? >> reporter: it's certainly the kind of news the miners and families had hoped to hear. just last week, mining officials said rescue efforts would not be finished until early november. experts are now aiming for an earlier date. they say one of the drills has been making progress faster than expected. officials say they will be settingp a field hospital near the site to treat miners once they reach the surface. vic? >> the miners have been trapped underground for nearl

good weather again. i wouldn't say again because it was cloudy for the redskins game on sunday night. looks like good weather for the redskins game at fedex field on sunday at this point. that is a look at what is happening with the weather. now, let's go to julie wright and get an update on traffic. >> you can't leave a horse alone. you got to keep mentioning the redskins game on monday. >> no, giving the forecast for the redskins game. it has nothing to do with you and your cowboys who lost on sunday. >> you know what in this is my time. on the roads right now, you will find lanes are open southbound along # 70. picking up the volume now as you continue southbound leaving 118. the volume is increasing and the speed is starting to slow down here. -- you will find lanes are open southbound along 270. inbound new york avenue from florida avenue headed in towards the third street tunnel, you are narrowed down to the two right lanes in order to squeeze by. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> th

let's go back to the weather computer. let's talk about the weather. all of the counties in green are flood warnings. that is in effect until 10:45. to the north in evan montgomery, up across northern maryland, those go into 12:30. the eastern shore, the flood warnings go into 10:00 a.m. i will tell you these could be extended given the satellite/radar and the amount of water that is still falling from the sky. also, from washington and east, we have a tornado watch until 1:00 p.m. these storms have the potential to rotate. that could produce a short- lived tornado. the bull's-eye will be southeast and southeast of washington. those orange areas are 4-6" of rain. we are talking 6-10" of rain before this wraps up tonight. a lot going on. look at the difference from the 60 degree temperatures in the shenandoah valley to 77 in cambridge. that warm front is helping to turn the winds. we have southeast winds and north/northeast winds in the cool air. that is helping to spin up the storms and aiding for the tornadoes. that is why the tornado watch is in effe

get you right into the weather out there. we do have some developing storms across the area, especially north and east of baltimore, kent county on the eastern shore. let's get a look at that. maryland's most powerful radar tracking that cluster of storms that blew through baltimore in the last 30 to 45 minutes, the worst of which are now crossing across the northern part of the chesapeake. again you can see ha large line of storms packing healthy lightning in the last hour. severe thunderstorm warnings up, cecil and kent county, extending all the way through 5:30 p.m. so we've got about another 23 minutes on those. temperatures coming off with that rain. these could be gusty as well. we'll talk much more about the outlook into the weekend. coming up kelly. >> an escaped inmate and his pregnant girlfriend have been captured. paul pammer and gino res take far ya were arrested. they were charged with attempted murder for a stabbing in august. the 32-year-old escaped from police custody last friday while en route to central book

>> >> >> cooler weather continues into this weekend. a storm passing us to the north will bring us increase sea breeze winds. with fog coverage and cooler temperatures. cooler today, cooler on sunday and only 86, inland on sunday. we are going to see some warming as we go into labor day. a complete reversal. as the sea breezes will be eliminated and the warmer dry air will warm out to dry air. and a perfect weather for labor day, and not too stifling. 84 around the bay shore, and 70's on the bayshore we can look forward to that. as for this morning, to backtrack to take a look at the extent of the fog. health>> at 5:00 a.m., the fog track reached the delta and the bay shore and to slow to peal back. and to the north, the fog is up there and you can see that it is starting to clear. by 9:00 a.m. it will be returning to the coastline and up and down the coast that is where it will remain this afternoon. no breaks of sunshine but sunny to the north bay by 10:00 a.m. to 85 degrees in the santa rosa, 80 degrees in napa, and great weather to

may get more wet weather. right now, temperatures are these, 59 degrees in half moon bay. 60 in san francisco. 65 across the bay in oakland. there is mid to upper 60s in other locations. 71 degrees in santa rosa. sprinkles continue into the south bay. clearing tonight and gets warmer next couple days and we'll see a steady wattern into next week. our satellite shows passage of reading edge of the cooler air moving down and still have temperatures above average and some unsettled conditions. watching tonight's vemments you'll see clouds lingering over the bay area except the north bay, seeing clearing tonight. temperatures drop in spots, but clouds ring across parts of the east bay. milder temperatures and chance of more sprinkles and and cooler areas and mid to upper 40s todz, low to mid owe 50s, then, tomorrow, under improving be conditions, sunny skies and high temperatures into low 70s, and we'll see partly sunny skies. highs into upper 70s to about 70. upper 50s on the coast n and are around san francisco,

>> i think we're doing weather. >> we're doing weather. so even though i'm on camera, it's you, top. >>. [ laughing ] >> i didn't get any taste test. >> i recall topper was hiding under the weather center desk when i was giving them out. >> oh, okay. fine. okay. here is the deal, i made some changes to tomorrow's temperatures. but no changes to the rainfall that's coming. it's going to be an event. it really will be. so you have a little bit of time to get your house in order, as it were. the next three days, here we go, 71 tomorrow. really lower temps. put a drop in, just a shower in by evening. it will be a dry commute in the morning. for the most part, a dry commute in the evening. heavy rain developed wednesday night, continues through much of thursday. flooding is likely. a little milder on thursday. upper 70s. breezy on friday. it will be nice actually as we end the week. high school football, temperatures go back into the upper -- mid 70s for highs. we'll break down tomorrow. i still think you might need your sunglasses on the way t

let's get into the weather and we're talking about good weather for the swim, good weather for everyone this weekend here in baltimore. speaking of the swim forecast, air temp is going to be about 70 or so that early in the morning. eventually climbing into the low 80s and we should have a foot or so of chop out on the bay. let's take a look at a live shot weather net camera at chesapeake beach. the sky clearing up there. current conditions out at baltimore we were up into the low 80s. >> dropping into the 70s. wind gust he at times but lightening up this evening. some highs across the state today it did warm up pretty decently with sunshine back. we did stay rain free out there today. and as we zoom out a little bit i want the show you the east coast weather pattern. bottom line is it's all looking good for this last official weekend of summer 2010. can you believe that it's already the last weekend of summer. it's here. and the weather looks good as that front continues to push further south. let's zoom in. forecast model bottom line is we're going to continue to clear out as we roll

so whether weather looking very nice again tomorrow. talking about mostly sunny conditions, about a 30-degree warm up from our morning lows eventually up to about 78 late in the day. the rest of the week wild changes as we go into the first days of fall. it won't really feel like it. details coming up. rosy? >> local ties to a global child porn investigation resulting in thousands of arrests and hundreds of convictions. abc 2 news joce sterman has details on the internet dragnet. >> reporter: 49-year-old clifford clarkson is one of many. the elk ridge native sat behind closed doors believing no one would ever know he was slowly collecting dozens of illegal videos. >> people have i think a false sense of security that allows them to engage in these kind of crimes thinking they are not going to get caught. >> reporter: but an intense four year investigation helped authorities identify 30,000 people from around the world who bought child pornography from 230 websites run by a ring of crim that is. our partners, scripps howard news service,

. >>> weather watch today not bad at all. i mean temperatures up around 80 degrees, we had that nice september sunshine once again, on the whole, just tough to complain about this stretch that we're getting into here, especially for this last official weekend of 2010. highs today again, 82 downtown, when you generally hit the upper 70s in other places, cambridge, annapolis, out towards frederick. temperatures cooling off sharply. york town to 52, frederick to 59, a little warmer there on the eastern shore. take out a little wider, skies clearing up a little bit. afternoon and evening cloud cover, no rain out there absolutely, a dry forecast tonight and into the weekend tomorrow. we're going to break down that forecast in detail. and look at the big forecast for swim across america. it's at gibson island coming up sunday morning. christian. >>> wyatt, thanks, there will be a new top prosecutor for baltimore city. jessamy trails bernstein and today she announced she was conceding a rays. she told supporters it won't be the end

you need to stay up on the weather on the. hopefully you have a weather radio to help you out. 65 to 70. sunset 6:57 and mainly morning showers and storms for you on tuesday. high temperatures around the 80- degree mark. in the mid-60s here in washington. low 70s south and 50s for the north and west. 59 winchester. the winds this morning are northernly. we have rain this morning and storms tuesday in to wednesday morning. late showers turning in to thursday. we will see if we can keep it east and cool down for if weekend with the 60s. >>> as you know it is monday and it's raining. it's hard to get out the door. i know. especially when there is accident and traffic to welcome you to the start of the week. we want to help you navigate through this. inner and outer loop in montgomery county between 95 and 270, extra slow. no one is going above 20 miles an hour right now due to earlier accidents. give yourself plenty of time to get through the stretch. a live camera on 270 right now. it will be slow from father hurley to falls roa

let's go to the weather computer. we'll show you the showers and thunderstorms that we're looking at here on the weather computer, which is coming up right now from the south. a lot of moisture that we're talking about. you can see the reeves of rain that we've been having. one wave, here's wave number two. we've got three and four still down there, so some of the rainfall totals will be rather impressive over the next couple of -- well, 12 to 24 hours. today at a glance, upper 70s at 3:00, at 6:00, at 9:00, thunderstorms on and off from time to time. i've got the highs -- dropped the highs from the 80s to the he low 80s. tonight, more severe thunderstorms, 65 to 70, winds gusting to 20, even higher in any strong storms. 6:57 on your sunset. tuesday morning, showers and storms. so this evening and tomorrow morning's rush hours could be impact by weather. but a warm day tomorrow with highs in the low 80s. looking at the dew points, this tells the story. this is tropical air. dew points in the 70s. still have much more

. >> we have team coverage of the wickkd weather. keith live in baltimore county with the flooding situation in rose dale and karen parks is live in mount washington where all the waterris causing trouble ffr some businesses. >> first let's now go to vytas with the rain total so ffr tooay. >> we have seen a lot of rainfall coming out of this storm. 2 storm system because whether he an aree of low pressure that developed ahead oo the remnant of tropical storm what was known as tropical storm nicole. that first ppshed through dropping heavy ainfall and now we still have remnant of what was tropical storm nicole moving up from the south and thatt% will join us later this especially up in parts of eaat eastern, south eastern harper county looking at 11 and a half inches of rain hhre and 17 and a half inches of rain just soutt of aberdeen. very heavy conditions there with trailing thunderstorms and raan that pushed through belaire at 3 and 3 quarters and sse the difference of just a few miles of how much rain can fall in certain areas. go

here is a look at the current weather is an area. low pressure around the carolinas. remnants of-- nicole will add to the mix. this projection of the jet is pushing moisture in our direction. >> that is quite a system. up next, the maryland lottery up next, the maryland lottery i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. buried in his website - a promise to replace the tax code with a 23% sales tax and eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. a bush tax panel said families would pay $6,000 more a year. a reagan tax advisor calls it a very dumb idea. but that's not his only bad idea. harris was the only senator to vote against expanding the child care tax credit and against the state's cancer treatment program. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich did not make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but martin o'malley, even

can we expect this good weather to continue? [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today in hd. >> good thursday morning. i am mindy basara. >> and i am stan stovall. thank you for joining us this morning. >> sandra shaw has a quick look at the forecast. we have had some nice weather. >> fall officially starts next wednesday. the only downside is we are in a drought. we could get a little bit tonight. we are watching an area of low pressure dragging a cold front across. we have a 30% chance of seeing some rain showers or thunderstorms. we're going to be warm today, 81 to 85. in mostly cloudy night with a slight chance of a passing storm. the weekend looks great. i have more on that just ahead. >> we have one problem of note in glen bernie on mountain road with some fire activity. we're hoping they are able to wrap it up. we have a smooth ride on the major roadways. 57 on the north side appro

that is the weather. time now for ask the weather guys. yep, it is the segment where tucker barnes and i put our heads together to we are your most preeing questions, weather- related or otherwise. thank you's question come from cameron arks fourth grade student at georgetown day school. cameron writes, i'm doing a project extreme weather. can you please plain what a tsunami was. good question. only now as i'm reading it on the air do i think cameron, we're doing your homework for you. >> i thought that right away. cameron is very smart. >> yes, she is. students can be among the most devastating weather-related events if you call it weather- related. it is not really weather- related. >> loosely. >> loosely. that we see on the planet. a tsunami is essentially a giant wave or series of waves that is made in an ocean or another very large body of water like the super big lake that is usually caused by an earthquake a landslide ache volcanic eruption or the impact of a meteor. >> really? >> yes. we're familiar -- we've gotten more familiar wi

are being weatherized across the country. in september the department of energy announced that it had weatherized over 200,000 homes across the country. in june 960 homes were weatherized in my state of north carolina. each of the low income families living in those 960 homes will save an average of $437 annually on their energy bills. but that's not why we're here today. we're here to offer all americans a chance to lower their utility bills and put their neighbors back to work. the recession has had a significant impact on the home construction and services industry which has experienced unemployment rates of 27%. additionally, manufacturing plants have produced construction-related products, have operated at 50% of capacity. home energy retrofit work can provide and it will provide significant employment opportunities for construction workers who are boosting domestic manufacturing. more than 92% of the energy efficient products and materials for which the home star program will stimulate sales are manufactured here in the

first, let's get a check on the weather which was rocky yesterday. here's justin berk. >> that's right. we expected to have the rain ban hold off until the evening hours. it came in mid-afternoon. it makes for a beautiful friday. we should have a fairly decent friday stacking up here. this time, a major hurricane karl already hit adds a tropical storm but now winds up to 120 miles per hour and expected to get even stronger before making landfall tonight. we'll have the latest on that. >>> there's that clearing right over central clearing. the hereford zone on the other side of the bay bridge. 66 right now in baltimore. in our hour by hour forecast calls for partly cloudy skies. occasionally, the clouds may dominate the skies for a few hours at a time. we should get ourselves up to 82 degrees. the gusty wind could gust between 20 and 30 miles per hour. right now, let's see if that yes, sir our speed or better. >> most people should be above 20 miles per hour hopefully at this early hour. really, the only downside will be the wet roads. aside from that

will not be impacting our weather here in maryland. %-west of that.lia back to the also not impacting our weather. and then also now ddwngraded to a tropical storm is karl. wwich is still impacting parts of mexico. so three storms going on right now in the atlantic. none of them will be an issue for s here in maryland. fortunately. but certainny keep an eye on them as they do continue to churn up in the atlantic. high pressure, ttat's what is dominating our forecast for today. cold front pushed through last night..3 brought us hours. we did not get as much as we needed. we do need it quite aabit more weather to get out draft we have. maybe next week. ú%t not this weekend. the high prrssure is bringing us dry conditions, and then another cold front will push through, on sunday evening. when that happens, no rain is in store for us there. a change in the temperatures, and dropping back to our typical temperatures for thii time of year, which is highs in the upper 70s. %-overnight low.degrees for that at five to 10 miles per hour. anddth

the weather channel forecast. bill, good morning. i don't know if you were paying attention when i was reading. >> i was. >> did you notice the kamil's privately owned, who owns a camel? someone who lives near a sinkhole? >> i don't know. i have no idea. but, yeah, sinkhole, either. rare camels, not many sinkholes. not good. the weather pattern changed here biological weapon had one storm kicked through. you notice one a second one off the coast here. it's going to stay a little more active. none of the storms are close to areas around the four corners regions or southern portions of the west. all of the fronts will remain up here to the northwest. british klcolumbia, that's goin to sleeve y to leave you steamy and hot. 110 in arizona and warm in nevada, too. the cool stuff is where the rain is falling. portland, for you, olympia, seattle, showers are going to try to sneak up your way shortly. and spokane, a shower or two. the forecast today, wet weather is up here in the pacific northwest. look how hot we are fro

we actually almost set a new, hot-weather record. wjz is live with first warning weather. bob turk is tracking the high temperatures for us. bob? >> cooling rain. might see some next week. for the time being, just a hot afternoon. and a hot evening. but it's going to be a lot cooler this weekend. take a look at these numbers. today, we tied the record that was set back in 1970. that was 95 degrees. and that's where we are this afternoon. got to 95. the average high is only 76. average low is only 53. so far today, 95, 70. but i promise you, by the weekend, much cooler temperatures. there we go. 1970. by the way, yesterday in 1970, it was 98 degrees. so that was the hot year. and this year, well, i guarantee, when you see much cooler temperatures. this may be the last 90-degree day we say this year. hopefully. >> all right, bob. thank you. >>> a bizarre crash in whitemarsh leaves a woman dead. tonight, police say they know what led up to the accident. skysky eye chopper 13 over the scene of the parking lot in whitemarsh mall. police say yesterday, a 22-year- old woman was c

one candidate gems off to a big lead. >>> another check on weather and lead. >>> another check on weather and traffic when we come four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for the last four years, he worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even a bank that took billions from a taxpayer funded bailout. ehrlich sides with corporate executives again and again and again tell bob ehrlich big banks and billionares don't need help. middle class marylanders do. >> almost 5:45 this morning on good morning washington. the showers from florida and the gulf of mexico will make their way up here. a lot of moisture, a conveyor belt of tropical moisture coming from the can -- caribbean making its way to the washington area. clouds will be on the increase with this abundant moisture. this could likely turn into a tropical storm a call later this afternoon. heavy showers later tonight and into tomorrow. 75 degrees is the high temperature. heaviest

looking forward to the warmer weather and you can look forward to a nice commute. pretty tight 101 millbrae but work going on in san francisco. i'll tell but that. >> a new poll in the california governor's race shows meg whitman is still tied with jerry brown despite spending $119 million of her own money on her campaign. >> good morning, everyone. it is 4:31 on this -- is it thursday yet? i lost track of it. >> it is thursday. are you feeling better? >> i am. thank you for asking. i'm eric thomas. >> i'm kristen sze. following breaking news where three people have been shot near a nightclub on the 1400 block of western street around 2:00 this morning. we know all three people were taken to the hospital but it's unclear how serious their injuries are. no arrests have been made. we'll continue to bring you updates as they become available. >> and this developing news in downtown orrin dough where pg&e is working to cap a gas leak. officials say a construction crew hit a gas main last night near camino pablo. about a dozen homes were evacuated but residents have bee

traffic and weather every 10 minutes. adam caskey, how are things shaping up this wednesday morning? >> another beautiful day, scott. a fantastic day, refreshing this morning with temperatures down to 50. walk, jog, bike ride. it is perfect, perfect running weather with temperatures in the 50's. this is the beautiful sun rise over the day, just gorgeous, and we will stay with these camera shots while we have done because we are losing about two minutes of daylight every day. you can see the sun popping up on the horizon over your screen. currently at reagan national, checking in at 63 with mostly clear skies. the humidity levels, and we typically see that in september, which is right now, with the cold front we had yesterday. let played at, 59, manassas, 58. clarksburg, warmer at 52. martinsburg, 59. yesterday, 84 was the high temperature at reagan national. a little bit cooler in the surrounding areas. the average high was 80 degrees. we will not be too far from where we were yesterday. a few clouds and showers in the up

the big story is the weather. >> nasty out there. rain is expected to cause flooding in some areas today. we had a tornado warning and watch in parts of the state. >> i'm getting reports on the text messages, i'm getting it on doppler radar, i'm getting it from some of you on e-mail, we have a busy morning. check out the latest, what we've got here. a wind advisory until this afternoon and evening with winds pushing 45 miles per hour. a tornado watch until 1:00 in the afternoon. still watching the tornado warnings in calvert county through 7:00 a.m. and that may extend to the north with storms racing to the north. the forward speed at 40 miles per hour. flash flood warning just issued. that includes all of central maryland, including baltimore county, heavy rain and harford county through 12:30. rainfall, upping our total expectation between 3 and 6 inches, already had flooding on the roads. no doubt that will continue. heavy rain pushing into anne arundel county. severe weather towards the south. along the bay shore. don't want to l

i don't think we're going to see much active weather. the whole pattern as shifted north yet up into the great lakes and basically leaving the entire mid-atlantic and southeastern u.s. with quiet weather but a hot humid breeze continuing to swarm around this high sitting off the carolinas now and this front to our north, stationary front, meaning it's not gonna come down in any significant way next day or two, just gonna shift around, really kind of move north as a warm front. finally the back edge of this thing will come through as a cool front into the weekend but we think it's going to come through dry and not produce really any rain. our futurecast forecast model here, a couple showers possible mainly up in the pennsylvania tomorrow, we think we're going to stay dry here and into the day security even as that cool air blows through, see the boundary, cooler air, you see we're not again rating much in the way of rain. cooler weather for saturday and especially sunday, both of those cold fronts coming in this weekend going to look like

we have a big weather situation coming our way. come on back for one second and another thing to consider, is there going to be a surge coming up from the cheese peek bay. -- chesapeake bay. this isn't unlike isabelle. back inside now. >>> and remember, wjz-13 is always on for you, for constant updates and your own live look at first warning doppler weather radar, go to wjz.com. >>> governor o'malley has picked up anens divorcement -- an endorsement from the mayor bloomburg. it will happen tomorrow. bloomberg has endorsed democrats and republicans in this year's races. reforms are in the works for the baltimore city school systems. they'll announce the changes directly tied to the president's race to the top program adam may has a preview of what we can expected. >> we're expecting the dedays in five house. a teacher contract is part of the contract. it's unlike anything scene before. >> reporter: a deal announcing education reforms could make the schools a model for the nation. our schools are getting better everyier and i'm pleas

back on the weather computer. this is the one-hour storm total and some of those numbers have been in the inch-plus category to give you an idea. two inches even in the heaviest downpours in the last hour alone. back on the weather computer. we will hoe you the system that's coming in. it has been pouring a lot of moisture from the atlantic to the carolinas and through the mid-atlantic. we have several inches of rain, upwards of four or five in the northern neck in some areas and with the rain coming in we have a flood warning, bright green until 10:45. the entire metro from loudoun county down to southern maryland and fredericksburg including the dc metro until 10:45. flood watch until 5:00 and a tornado watch for think dc metro points east and southeast until 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. we have had doppler indicated warnings earlier. many to southeastern virginia and eastern north carolina. i think we will see more tornado warnings as we go in to mid to late morning ands for a the rain potential, still storm total

good weather for that game and great weather at fedex feld as well. back to work and school tomorrow. partly sunny, cooler tomorrow. will be 86 tay but a slight chance of a shower or a thunderstorm on wednesday. and then sailing into next ekend temperatures once again in the mid-80s. our average high now by the time we get to next weekend is only 76. we'll be about another ten degrees or so above average. >>hank you, chuck. >> okay. >> well, today is your chance to talkike a pirate. why is that, you say? here is this week's kids' post. >> reporter: this week on kids post on tv a blockbuster, buccaneers, and bloody noses. joining us once again is tracy grnt of "washington post" kids post. let's start with the new movie coming up called legends of the guardians. i've seen a couple of previews. it looks really good. >> it's an amazing movie based on a popular series of books that every boy between 8 and 12 that i know has read every single book. the movie is in 3-d. it is incredibly beautiful. we talk to directozach snyder about what made him want to do

first, marty has first warning weather. >> this is such breaking weather news. i'm still looking at it. all right. fine. the weather has gotten wild over the past 15 minutes. first and foremost, let's take a look at first warning doppler radar. and let me show you that area wide we are getting an have been getting soaking rain. we will have soaking rain in the hear for the next few hours, a slight break during the midday and early afternoon and equally heavy rain this afternoon and tonight. you can see where the real heavy duty rain s it's primarily on a north south line extending from the mason dixon line, at this point harford county, coming inland low of annapolis, shooting through southern maryland. i need to go to the watch, warning and advisory graphic. the immediate concern until 7:00, another 25 minutes there's a tornado warning in effect for portions of calvert and eastern st. mary's county. i need top point out there is now a flash flood warning in effect until 10:00 for cecil, care row line, kent and queen anne's county, now cecil, caroline, yours end

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not person. >>> bill karins has the weather forecast. you were definitely a fan. you and your mohawk? >> never had the mohawk. i know who the ramones are. i did listen a little bit. not a big fan but appreciated that era and some of the creativity. let's talk about the western heat wave. remember, 113 all-time record high in downtown l.a. a couple days ago? yesterday, slightly cooler. cut off low off the baja helping a little of the cool down just on the immediate coast. otherwise, still very hot. unusually strong area of high pressure is responsible, and this weather pattern blocked up until we get rid of this east coast storm. that won't happen for another two days. yesterday, very hot. no doubt about it. still 99 in l.a. 103 in vegas and 101 in phoenix. 90s all the way into boise and medford, we're almost into october. not changing soon, until we see a storm system scum coming to the west coast it's staying warm. that's not happening over the next couple of days. temperatures, holding on to the heat at night, too. still in the 80s in vegas. 79 in phoenix. 76 in

we have better weather on the way. we will get through rain. >> all of this rain is causing problems across the region. in maryland, police are investigating two separate bus accidents, and in d.c., a power cable shut down a busy street. what is the latest from h street? >> pepco is on scene. h street has reopened. officials say a why there was cut underground, and with the rain water, it put out a lot of smoke out of manholes. they are pumping water out of the ground. first-responders have been busy. the rain is not letting up. in the pouring rain, pepco and d.c. firefighters responded to a problem with an electrical feet. >> there was a smoldering wire. there was smoke coming from manholes. >> the smoke poured out from under ground. the street were shut down. buildings were evacuated. >> a lot of smoke. they had to evacuate. >> in silver spring, 26 passengers were injured when a metro bus rear end another bus. several of the injured were high school students. >> staff and myself came to the same. we realized it of ou