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>> good morning. thanks for joining us. >> john collins is saying the forecast has stopped raining. >> right but a little sprinkle activity around here. the heaviest rains have moved off into new jersey and up to new york state. look at our h.d. doppler radar and you can see where the storm is headed. away from us. again, we are still seeing a few sprinkles and showers, mostly from the city east. low clouds everywhere but it is beginning to clear out in western maryland. that is a sign that everything will eventually work our way, meaning sunshine this afternoon. that is the good part of the forecast. we are dealing more with the aftereffects of this and what all of that means to us. the first thing is when you step out today and get in the car what will you deal with? you want to look at the traffic. >> all right. >> here is sarah caldwell. >> good morning, everyone. luckily we are looking better

than we did yesterday. a lot of closures in effect last night have been reopened. we want to tell you we have a downed tree blocking lanes at warren road and bosley. watch for closures there. old bosley and delaney valley another downed tree. traveling at bel air and necker avenue the closures are in effect. jennifer franciotti will have more there in perry hall from necker to white marsh boulevard where the closures are. 42 miles an hour on the north side. a little slow on the west side around 795 at 26 miles an hour in the outer loop. another closure gambrills and antrum in anne arundel county and we have kim there that will report on that. if you are traveling there, watch for those closures due to another sink hole. so the big problems, sinkholes, flooding and downed trees. we will see what the maim roads are like. pretty good at harford. toward us is outer loop and no

significant delays. now west side and so far looks pretty good down toward i-95. that is the latest on "traffic pulse 11." back to you. >> our big story, while it seems the remnants of what was once tropical storm nicole have passed we continue to feel the effects. >> as the waters are receding we can see the damage left. jennifer franciotti is live from perry hall with a sink hall situation. >> drivers will be dealing with troubled spots. kim dacey will tell but a sinkhole in anne arundel but we are we are on bel air road and perry hall which is shut down southbound from route 43 white marsh boulevard northbound at necker avenue. we have an excavator and it is digging up a portion of the northbound lane to get the pavement out of the way so crews could get to the root of a problem which is a sewer pipe that burst cause being the road

to cave in. they have been filling it in with gravel and possibly a good sign they could be wrapping up in the next hour is the fact they were dealing with brooms a moment ago and not shovels. that was brooms to push the gravel around a little bit. they have been working hard out here trying to get this temporarily fixed so they can reopen traffic. their plan is to fill this with gravel, put steel plates over the road to make it passable for traffic. then they will come back on sunday and really get a permanent fix in, fix the pipe and road and put cement down and reopen it for traffic. but it is friday morning and they want to make it as easy as possible for commuters. but right now bel air road a portion is shut down above the beltway. back to you with kim dacey who has a bigger sinkhole to talk about. >> unfortunately we have a

really big sinkhole. we are in severn on gambrills road shut down from sleepy hollow to antrum. it is a deep sinkhole and takes up most of the northbound lane of gambrills. from here it looks like a shadow but it is just a portion of the road that has fallen off into the ground. apparently the water came up so high in the drainage ditch that it washed over the road and washed away part of the road creating the sink hole taking up most of the northbound lane here. sleepy hollow and antrum are the areas that it will be closed so you want to avoid that. police are object -- on the scene to warn folks. a very large sinkhole. the rain, it seems, has stopped for the moment. it was little raining but again it stopped for the moment so hopefully most of it is over. the flooding has subsided but it leaves this huge sinkhole.

we will have more later when we get more information. back to you. >> skyteam 11 was busy yesterday flying above some of the hardest hit areas. here you can see a boat dock nearly under water in the bow y bowley's quarters area and here where waves were crashing into back yards. >> crews continue to work through the night to restore power. look at this picture from catonsville where a tree crashed into a home knocking out power to those that area. last check nearly 2,700 customers in baltimore county were without power, 1,800 in anne arundel and just over 1,000 in harford and baltimore city. 61 degrees on tv hill at 5:06.

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>> the general sky condition, cloudy. temperature 64ment we are looking downtown. it is still dark. it is wet but just wet from the leftovers, not actively getting us wet because most of the rain has moved out. there are a couple of areas where there is a little drizzle or sprinkles. we look at the h.d. doppler radar and we are getting a few radar returns over delaware, out over the bay, parts of harford county, and down around the district of columbia. basically, it is just cloudy this morning and the heaviest rains have moved almost offshore. we will talk about where we go from here. a much drier forecast. the stpinsta-weather plus forec is ahead. >> we have an update on the bus crash as we hear from some on the bus. the charter bus was headed to

pennsylvania from washington and rolled off an elevated exit ramp and landed along interstate 270 in bethesda. >> somebody said driver watch out and we saw the driver slump over the steering wheel and he started swerving toward the side of the bridge and i heard screams and we went tumbling down. >> two or three people jumped into the bus to get everyone out and handed us down. then we had to go sit by some people who had like first aid kits in their car and stuff. >> terrifying ordeal. the bus driver joseph clay but a jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. 12 others were treated at hospitals, >> after several weeks of testimony closing arguments expected to continue later today in the murder trial of those accused of killing ken harris. charles mctkpwaeurpby, gary collins and jerome williams are

charged. one juror was dismissed. the reason for the dismissal was not given. the baltimore police officer who pleaded guilty to firing his service weapon after a bar fight has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. it was outside a canton bar last your. authorities say patrick dodson got into a fight and tpaoeurbd at the car they were driving off in. >> 5:12. a major announcement from fisher price, why it is recalling millions of products. >> the makers of tylenol and other medicines feel the heat at a hearing on capitol hill. what lawmakers wanted to know and why the f.d.a. was called into question. >> still recovering from the storms. we will update you on what closures we have in effect.

>> sinkhole seems to be the big problem. >> you are right. a lot of flooding has subsided and we have a couple of downed trees but sinkholes in areas that both jen and kim have been talking about. downed trees warren at bosley all lanes closed. old bosley and delaney valley another downed tree. bel air from necker to route 43 shut down due to the seufrg hole is jennifer franciotti is reporting. you can see delays are forming on the west side just slow spots there on the northwest corner. 25 miles an hour in the outer loop approaching 795. rest of the major roads pretty

good. still wet though. there are still areas of standing water. another sinkhole as kim dacey has been reporting at gambrills and antrum avenue. here is a look at the northeast side at harford road. so far so good. coming toward us is outer loop. west side pretty smooth at this time. 70 looks good toward the beltway. that is the latest on "traffic pulse 11." now let's go to the buses and trains. >> we have a few bus diversions due to the weather. 35 bus using franklin square drive and four and 10 dundalk avenue. 14, 16, 51 at the patapsco and annapolis and a couple other diversions due to construction. 55 bus among them diverted at lillian hoeflt. metro light rail both on cancel. marc trains looking good. no delays on the penn, camden or

brunswick lines. i'm kirk kirk. now back to john collins. >> look at the h.d. doppler radar, three hours' worth of information. heaviest rains have pulled out of the picture. we have clouds from baltimore east. it turns a little lighter or less gray to the west. the clouds thin out. but we have low clouds. a little drizzle out of them. you see just the last couple of frames over delaware we are seeing a couple of sprinkles and showers and that is about it. also over the district of columbia. the key is the rain is essentially over, or if you still have some drizzle it won't last along. right now it is 61 degrees, 90% humidity. 29.61 the barometric pressure. you see the trend, the storm pulling out of the picture. it produced 6.02 inches of rain

at the airport up to midnight yesterday. a little rain after that but the bulk was yesterday. that is a new record. the old record pales in comparison at 1.6. inner harbor over five inches. highs upper 70's. it was amazing it got that high. but there was a warm tropical air mass. here you can see the heaviest rains were in a core over the bay and on the shoreline and western shore right into southeast baltimore county and harford, a little bit of cecil county. around seven or eight inches in the darkest shading of red and orange. closer to three, four, five inches in baltimore and toward howard county. then the totals farther west in western maryland were considerably lighter. temperatures this morning, it is still in the 60's to near 70 on out lower eastern shore. cools off, parkton 59.

chestertown 63. frederick 61. our map shows the cloud changing color. we have the brighter clouds over us. those are low clouds. still producing a lull drizzle -- little drizzle. the heavier rains or in new jersey and over the water. these clouds are beginning to break out and it has cleared over parts of west virginia and western pennsylvania. not stormy out to the west but by the end of the weekend more tropical moisture will come our way but not like we have had. clearing skies will be the trend today. showers to the east will end. high temperature 72 to 76 degrees. seven-day forecast, 67 tomorrow, 59, rain back in the picture sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday more rain. >> in our consumer alert fisher price has announced a massive recall of toys, tricycles and

high chairs after more than 20 injuries. the ignition key that children can fall on and over a million high claihairs. due to pegs. a variety of toys and soft gyms will inflatable balls are listed in the recall. >> make sure they test their products thoroughly and they have good quality control processes in place and they look for products that not only meet the safety standards that are in place but are free of hazards from foreseeable use conditions. >> for more information on the recall visit the consumer alert page of wbaltv.com. >> executives from both johnson & johnson and the f.d.a. faced tough questions on capitol hill yesterday about a so-called phantom recall of the painkiller mow katrina. lawmakers also tried to find out whether federal regulators

should have done more to top stop it. >> one of the most trusted names, johnson & johnson, is a massive company that makes everything from baby lotion to artificial hips. that trust has taken a hit with recent recalls including millions of bottles of liquid infant and children's tylenol and other medicine. >> i know we let the public down. we didn't maintain our high quality turnaround and children do not have access to important medicines. >> at issue, the fact that the company learned certain lots of mow katrina tablets -- motrin were not as effective and hired outside contractors to go into stores and buy up the affected medicine without telling the public. >> the product was not good enough or safe enough to sell, why would it be good enough for consumers to keep in their homes? >> we determined there was no risk, no safety hazard, no risk to patients who consumed these products. >> legislators also wanted to

know what the f.d.a. knew about johnson & johnson's efforts to hide the recall. >> it didn't disclose the phantom part of the phantom recall. >> the agency didn't do all it should have done according to the administrator but used the opportunity to point out the f.d.a. lacks authority to mandate recalls. >> all of us want to prevent these things and respond faster a and. >> a limited supply of children's tylenol will resume shipping next week. whether the public remains loyal to johnson & johnson remains to be seen. >> it is now 5:22 and 61 degrees. we will have another look at traffic and weather in a minute. >> remembering a legend. we will look back at the career of silver screen icon tony curtis.

>> fans of tony curtis are mourning has pass. flowers mark his star on the hollywood walk of fame. he died wednesday at the age of 85. george lewis has a look at his career. >> when you think of tony curtis one of the immortal images is opposite jack lemon in "some like it hot." as an actor curtis was not afraid to take on risky roles. >> can't lynch me. i'm a white man. >> in the defiant ones playing a white racist escaped convict chained to a black man he was nominated for an academy award. >> we gave them a hell of a run. >> curtis successfully fought to get equal screen credit for poitier. he got famous for his good looks and great physique and turned

out to be a good actor. born bernard schwartz he used tho good looks to leap from poverty to stardom. >> don't fight it. relax. >> but early on critics ridiculed his misplaced new york accent. >> i want you to close your eyes and concentrate. >> his first of six wives was his co-star janet leigh. they are the parents of jamie lee curtis. tony curtis became an artist in his latter years saying he used painting as part of the therapy to recover from addictions to alcohol and cocaine. >> i know i was going to die if i continued but i didn't know how to stop. >> would you move a hrelittle please. >> and as for his legacy, after 150 films -- >> you have to die before they say something nice about you. >> he will be remembered for a whole lot more than that.

>> he was a great actor and he was very landsome. >> i have to take my hat off. he was a heartthrob. >> one of my favorite. >> it is now 5:26. 61 degrees. coming up in the next half hour. >> we have a light misting rain where crews are trying to fix a sinkhole along bel air road. >> a seufrg hole here in severn. i'm kim kill live on the scene. >> all that is left of the storm is clouds and a little bit of drizzle. eventually we get some sun. >> john, as you saw from the reports it will be a while before we get back to normal on the area roads. we will update you on what closures are in effect. my dad is the supervisor of a train station and my mom's a teacher.

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>> good morning, quick back to "11 news today." >> thanks for joining us. let's check weather and traffic. there is a lot to talk about with the big storm. >> it was not a clearly defined tropical storm. just a stream of tropical moisture with several disturbance as it gave us intense rain and caught up in the stream was the leftover from nicole. so was not all nick call. all that aside, we are starting to straighten things out a little bit. we look at the h.d. doppler and it is cloudy, a little drizzle around. the heavy rains have moved out of the picture on the tkradar i the metropolitan area. so, even the drizzle will go away. skies are beginning to clear in western maryland. that is the good news. we will see sun this afternoon

and it will be a totally different picture. then we will restart the rain thing by the end of the weekend and start all over. >> what i can say is it is better than yesterday. we had a lot of problems and much of the flood hags subsided. we have some closures in effect that is storm related damage. a new problem on southbound 95 right at route 24 harford county a vehicle fire reported. southbound lanes. we will up dadate that when we d out what lanes are closed. warren road and bosley road we have a downed tree and a downed tree at old bosley and delaney valley. perry and necker avenue bel air that closure in effect. jennifer franciotti will have more. a slowdown on the northwest corner of the beltway approaching 795 from reisterstown. 27 miles an hour there. farther south in severn a

closure due to the sink at gambrills and antrum. now we will give you a couple of live views. key bridge and good on the east side. no problems to report on the entire beltway. you can see we have a pretty smooth ride except it is wet on harrisburg expressway from parkton. >> our big story is much of our viewing area is under a flash flood watch after nicole dumped several inches of rain causing major problems including flooding, traffic and closures. jennifer franciotti joins us live from perry hall with a look at the sink hall there. >> we will have to get john collins or sandra to correct me but i heard that one inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow. so we could have been dealing with 60 inches of snow and these guys behind me, they are more

happy to deal with a sinkhole than snow plows. they are working on bel air road which had a sinkhole in the northbound lanes. it had to do with a combination of a couple of things. seven or eight months ago there was a new water pipe put in and there was a sewer drain there. couple that with six or seven inches of rain and made for a bad combination with breakage and caused the road to cave in. they spent the last several hours excavating the area, filling it in with gravel. now they are putting steel plates over the road as a temporary fix to get the road reopened for the friday morning rush hour. they will come back on sunday and do a permanent fix. right now they are working for the morning commuters. they hope to have this reopened around 6:00 or 6:30. so they have state highway crews inspect being the situation. -- inspecting the situation. they are trying to reopen for the commute but they will have

to come back sunday for a more permanent fix. my sinkhole here in perry hall is getting the finishing touches but in anne arundel county i think kim we are having a bet, i think that your sinkhole will be bigger than mine? >> i think it might be bigger than yours. but from what i can see this is the biggest sinkhole a lot of people on the scene have seen. yours is getting finished up, but this one was just discovered a couple of hours ago, called in by a resident. county highway folks just got on the scene and are checking out the sinkhole back here to assess the situation and see what kind of damage they have. apparently there is a pipe underneath there so it is going to be hard to fix. we have video of inside the sinkhole we took a few ago that wae can show you. it is pretty deep and wide. it takes up most of the northbound lanes of gambrills road and it is closed between

antrum and sleepy hollow. an area to avoid. the video shows it is really deep and there is just a road sitting in there, just fell inside of itself. there is a pipe so it will be hard tore fill and more difficult than the ordinary patch work. police say it is the biggest sinkhole they have ever seen. county highway checking it out to see how they might be able to fix it and what it will take to put this road back together again. the rain has stopped here though, so that is good news. the flooding has subsided but left this hole. so, on the scene here dealing with it, we will have the latest as we get it. back to sandra shaw who is live in baltimore. >> nothing compared to what you are dealing with on the sink hole. that is incredible. here in felds point there are areas that typically flood. we have streets closed.

i'm on fame treat and it has been -- fame street and has been closed since noon yesterday. but the good news we have watched this street recede. the water was about halfway up here behind me when we got here at 4:00 a.m. now just a couple of pools of water are here. it is generally on the upswing. right now we are looking at drizzle and sideways mist. it is a little chilly because the winds are picking up briskly from the northwest. that is because ultimately we will be drying out and there is a lot of debris on the streets. because of all garbage from the inner harbor washed up and you have the mud here with the flooding yesterday. all in all, you dodged a bullet. nothing like isabel when all a lot of the canton area and felds point was flooded area. i was talking to one advertising agency on wolf street and the last big storm we had they had

all of their equipment flooded out and chairs and tables there. so yesterday they took preventive action. if you walk down here you will see sand bags at people's houses because they were pro-active. we had good forecasting with it and it came in to fruition that people could get a head start. be prepared. that is the situation from downtown. we are on the upswing. we will be in store for a much cooler weekend ahead. >> sandra, i know you live in the downtown area and do a lot of running in that area. did you see the flooding along the promenade last night? >> that was incredible last night. that subsided from what we hear this morning. that was with the high tide and it was incredible. that is typically happens. i was watching jay miller's reports. that was a scene to see. >> all the way to the steps up to the pavilion. that is all gone now. that is good. you can track the storms and any

approaching storms with our interactive radar. go to wbaltv.com. it is 5:37. 61 degrees. new research links follow-up help for suicidal teens to emergency rooms. >> two much or too little of a good thing. why pregnant women should be concerned about the number of of hours they sleep. >> we are dealing with the remnants of the storm. we will update own downed trees and check the sinkholes. here is one, a live view in perry hall. eaks to send jobs ov.

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we have clouds, a little drizzle out there. this is the sky cam view over the city. 60 degrees on tv hill. i have the satellite image and radar. we see the rain, the bulk of it has moved out the past three hours. but low clouds over the area that gray shade over central and eastern maryland, that is still producing a little drizzle. farther west you see less of that gray. clouds are thinning out in western maryland, which means eventually some sunshine creating into the picture. that will be nice. we will detail this with the insta-weather plus forecast in a minute. >> a new study finds too little or too much sleep during early pregnancy is linked to high blood pressure. researchers found elevated blood pressure in expecting moms who logged less than six or more than 10 hours in the first few months of pregnancy. the risk of developing

preeclamsia was almost 10 times higher than,those who slept fewer than five hours compared to those with nine hours. researchers suggest women keep a regular sleep schedule during pregnancy to avoid the potentially dangerous problems. >> suicidal teens treated in e.r. get follow-up care. the 347b8g room is often where they are taken. two or three had seen a mental health professional but one in five had returned to the e.r. requiring inpatient care. it is now 5:42 at 61 degrees on tv hill. president obama set to make a personnel announcement today. >> right now you are looking at a live picture of the downtown area courtesy of sky skapl. nice look -- sky cam. up next we will update the weather and "traffic pulse 11" so stay with us. you are watching "11 news you are watching "11 news

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>> we have a vehicle off the road on the northeast side of the city. bel air and fish -- fitch avenue. and the sink hole from necker avenue to 43. looks like they are in the process of clearing that up. westbound northern parkway falls road a downed tree and falls road at smith avenue flooding. warren road and bosley road a downed tree and closures in effect for the downed tree at old bosley and delaney valley. north point in at king street flooding an issue and pretty nice ride on the beltway. a little slowdown in the northwest corner 29 miles an hour in the outer loop near 795 and dealing with closures in severn due to the other sinkhole

gunmambrills and antrim. rest of the major roads in good shape. key bridge east side running smoothly at this time in both loops. live view of traffic on the harrisburg expressway out of parkton good here at york road. that is the latest. now the latest on buses and trai trains. >> we have a few delays and diversions on buses due to weather. three is 30 minutes late and 20 and 30 are 2010 minutes late. 35 bus using franklin and 14 and 16 and 51 buses at posseatapsco tphals. light rail on time. metro subway on time and marc trains 870 and 15 minutes late. camden and penn on time. i'm kurt chronolokroenke. back to john collins.

>> we will look now at the weather outside. sandra shaw is out there this morning and she played the game just right by staying in the studio yesterday and then going out there during the day today. all we are dealing with this morning is drizzle, right? >> it is not bad. i'm actually very relieved that the thing got out of here like we were hoping. a couple of waves rolled through but it was that we made it past high tide and a couple of streets like this near wolf flooded. this is an area that typically floods. you have the inner harbor water and boats so they have problems but a lot of the residents are used to it so they were prepared. this is no isabel. a lot of peel who have been here equate most storms to that when you deal with a tropical system. it was insane yesterday because we had a lot of potential

tornadoes and lines of severe thunderstorms that rolled up and really a lot of the target zone was around st. mary's and calvert counties and areas that got the most rain were right up the line up the chesapeake bay. a lot of the heaviest rain fell over the bay yesterday. again the heavy rain from five to eight inches. john will have the specific numbers but i can tell you a new record at the airport of six inches of rainfall with torrential downpours remnants of nicole and before that a stalled frontal boundary and it sucked in all of that atlantic moisture with tropical moisture. this morning we have light drizzle, cloud cover around we have brisk northwest winds picking up. normally i complain about the wind because i don't like it but it is good because it will dry us out and we will see a nice weekend and cooler weekends as well. again if you are running around downtown there are areas of

standing water and some roads close bud no reports of sinkholes. they are trying to clean up the inner harbor and promenade that was flooded with the rise of water and tide and wind. other than that just cleaning up. a lot of debris and mud. so, things improving for the weekend. we could see rain for the second half of the weekend. we go from a very dry september to more rain than we know what to do with heading into the first day of october. >> and the radar is looking good. heavy stuff is moving out of the picture. we will get some sunshine in the picture today. it is not sunrise yet. still dark. a review of yesterday, sandra mentioned 6.02 the rain at the airport. the old record was 1.6 inches so we blew that away. inner harbor 5.72 inches measured. typically we would get a 10th of an inch to .12 of an inch.

it was not a clearly defined tropical storm. it was a stream of moisture with a couple of disturbances inside the stream. one of which was the remnant of an old tropical storm. rain totals. in general the area got somewhere between three and six inches of rain but there was a core of heavier rain along the eastern and western shore of the bay that was from seven to 8.5 inches then a couple of areas in southern maryland, parts of virginia, that got up to 10.5 inches of rain. this morning upper 60's to near 70 in southeast maryland but most in the 60's. parkton 59. hagerstown 57. 50's in western maryland. we look at the satellite image put in the weather features. last of the low pressure, this is what is left of nickel. beginning to pull out east of us

and clearing skies out west. no big storms but by the ends of the weekend and early next week more tropical moisture and another disturbance coming at us although not as wet as yesterday. clearing today, showers to the east and a few sprinkles and drizzle pulling out. 72 to 76 the high. northwest winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. still a flood threat out there. dark darker shades around the baltimore metro area and east a flood warning and watches elsewhere. we have to let some of the water go down that is standing. we look at the future cast and everything is pulling out of the picture. we dry out. at the top you see a little snow in parts of kapbdz. the -- canada. sunday a cool front and more tropical moisture from the south. by late sunday into monday more rain in the tpeubgt. saturday highs 60's and near 60 on sunday. rain chance continues monday, tuesday and wednesday. >> it is 5:51.

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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. 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. >> president obama says he will make a personal announcement later today and although he won't say what it is it is expected to be about the departure of chief of staff.

rahm emanuel is expected to resign today and begin his campaign for mayor of chicago. the president will likely name an interim replacement for emanuel and that is said to be senior advisor pete rouse. also stepping down b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward in the wake of his handling of the gulf oil disaster. robert dudley will immediately take his place. dudley has already started work as c.e.o. announcing earlier the creation of a new risk and safety division as part of b.p.'s attempts to rebuild shattered confidence in the company. the remnants of nicole have claimed four lives in north carolina. the highway patrol says two adults and two children were killed when their vehicle skidded off a road and filmed into a ditch filled with water. troopers say the s.u.v. hit a patch of water and lost control. one other child survived and is being treated at a hospital. they were travelling from atlanta. officials say these are the first deaths in north carolina

connected to the storm. >> good morning, i'm greg toland. ray rice will make the final call whether he plays sunday. if it is up to him he will be in the backfield. yesterday he practiced with the mann contact jersey. he is trying to overcome a bruised knee he suffered on that play against the browns. he said it is better. he will be ready for sunday. >> it was just a bruise. you have to have some bounce in step. i have new life. i feel great. if it were up to me and i think the coach is being smart. i don't like to miss practice but aoeu reps i get tkourg walk-throug walk-throughs. i'm sure i will be ready. >> good to see he is getting better. they will need him against the materials. >> going to be a huge game.

must-win. >> in the division and cincinnati already beat the ravens. >> pressure is on. there is more ahead in the next hour of "11 news today." >> rain is moving out and eventually the sun will move it for a while. the forecast is ahead. >> we are checking area roads where we have problems. we will update you on what is closed coming up.

tham >> we are live downtown where streets are closed because of flooding. >> state highway crews are working to repair a sink hole in perry hall. it has the road shut down. >> another sinkhole in severn is causing problems. i'm kim dacey live on the scene. >> we will have more on the treacherous conditions and when the bad weather is expected to move out of here