severe thunderstorm warning for areas in the city and extending northeast into hartford county. warnings go until 5:30 for the city, for the county of work very bill, perry hall, and that has been moving along pretty quickly. one in northern baltimore county should be expiring as we speak. but there is a warning for severe weather up in parts of york and lancaster county's for those cells that cut right across carroll county about an hour or so ago. to the south, severe storms in eastern washington area, coming up out of the d.c. beltway. when the warning in effect, and the storm system would have a tendency to move toward baltimore in the next hour or two as it makes its way up the 95 corridor. rough weather in our area, damaging winds, flooding rains, large hail and possibly 20 damage associated with some of these storms. one of the biggest cutting right across the central and northwestern parts of baltimore city. captain roy has been getting a

bird's-eye view at some of these nasty storms appear first and foremost, stay safe for sure, and keep sending back these amazing pictures. >> yes, right now, we are aware that had the line of storms ended up going through. this is just a taste of some of the damage in this area. we are hearing that a lot of trees have fallen on holmes, have fallen on power lines. power outages in the area. traffic is affected. state police directing traffic at 91. anyone coming off down on 91 had to go to the south because of the amount of traffic coming from baltimore county into carroll county. as you can see here at the trailer park, this is right off of 140. this is just, again, a small taste of hit and miss damage that we have found up in the carroll county area. we've done some damage but there are around your part, and that

whole area up there just north of 91 -- damaged but there are around dere part -- deer park. we have not severe weather coming up to hit us, but if i see them to where you guys are at, it looks like there is one heck of a storm you guys are having to deal with. i am captain roy taylor. >> yes, we can hear the rain pounding of the building outside right now, very loud. we want to check out what is going on in howard county. and the county executive on the phone with us right now. what we are experiencing in baltimore right now hit howard county a little earlier. tell us what went on there this afternoon. >> thanks for having me on.

i am is sitting here in our emergency operations center with our fire chief and public-works teams. we have a number of trees down. we have a report of a tree down in columbia, blocking part of 175 at 29, so our crews are out there working really hard to get the roads clear, but we are asking people to please stay indoors. do not go out unless you need to, and find a safe place in your home. if you have a basement, please go there. if not, a safe room with a window. by the way, we are expecting a lot more coming through this evening sporadically throughout the evening, so, please, i hope no one thinks that we are through this because we really need to stay, you know, very vigilant for the next few hours. >> yes, at the moment, we are under a tornado warning at least until probably close to 6:00 this evening.

any calls coming in from howard county of reported possible sightings of twisters? >> we did just have one in both rich, but we are trying to confirm it -- in oakridge. we had this is a call and report it, but we are trying to confirm it. our 911 center is next door to our emergency operations center, so we are getting a number of citizen calls coming in, mostly for trees down. we are fortunate, we believe, so far, but we are really on guard for the rest of the evening. we have canceled all school system events. our folks from our school system are here as well. we did cancel the relay for life, unfortunately, but we really want to err on the side of caution. >> obviously the possibility of flash flooding with the rain coming down. >> we have not seen any flash flooding yet, but that is always something we are on the lookout

for. please, again, people need to be very cautious this evening. we believe these weather events can happen very quickly, whether it be rain or hail or the possibility of tornadoes. >> we are seeing all kinds of pictures that were shot earlier in the week. trees down, power lines down, but no reports of injuries. ideas about that as well? >> we have not heard any reports of injuries so far, but -- so we are optimistic about that, but we know we have a long night ahead, so again, people, please stay in if at all possible. >> that is very good news. no injuries, and so far, no major flooding. i would imagine the roadways are still passable this evening in howard county. >> most of them are. we have a tree down on 175 n 29. normal rush hour traffic coupled

with a few incidents really does cause havoc on our roads. again, people, stay off the roads unless you absolutely have to be out. >> there you go. excellent advice. thanks for joining us on the phone. >> thank you all for covering this. >> you can see trees down here. we are getting word of an accident on an eye-95, just south of maryland 152. traffic is totally backed up their. that is a tractor-trailer accident, and as you can imagine, a little after 5:00, rush-hour traffic, terrible rain, bad weather, now a tractor trailer -- get ready for a long commute home. >> not a good combination, rush- hour and bad weather. >> we will try to get information on that accident and bring it to you. >> our weather center tracks the storms, and you can follow that on our website, wbaltv.com. be sure to click on radar, and take us with you everywhere you

go. zoom in using our new iphone and android at cs -- apps. >> new questions raised about the man accused of killing and eating parts of his victim in hartford county. our lead investigative reporter is live in the newsroom with the latest. >> what is emerging is a picture of a man who was descending into ever more troubling and bizarre behavior. days before the cannibalistic murder, he was accused of a wicked attack using a weapon -- to be especially legal, but he was able to make bail, and two days later, his next allege a bit and disappeared. it was may 19, the night of commencement day at morgan state university. while graduating seniors were celebrating, court documents show that alexander kinyua, then

a junior engineering student, was allegedly pulling a random attack on a man with whom he had no known connection that let the man with life-threatening injuries. the victim's state a fractured skull, fractured arm, facial injuries, fractures in older, -- fractured soldier -- fractured shoulder and blindness of the left eye. he was attacked with a baseball bat, and not just any that, but one wrapped with barbed wire. kinyua was arrested and locked up but charged with battery charges, but not charged with attempted murder or deadly weapons charges. those would have resulted in a harsh and the spirit instead, he was bailed out a lot. -- bailed out. next, is remiss body was discovered, or what was left of it, in several places.

investigators say kinyua confessed to cutting himp and eating his heart and parts of his brain. at morgan, he had been a member of rtc but was kicked out in january. then at a source said he had provoked so much concern while at morgan, he was labeled another virginia tech waiting to happen by at least one official. a spokesman for morgan could not confirm that account. atyua's father is a lecturer morgan. he told us he had no comment and redirected as to his lawyer. >> page and its educational it, a baltimore city principal fired almost a year ago over alleged cheating at her school may be getting her job back, according to an end -- at least that is with an independent hearing officer is recommending. our education reporter joins us live in the studio with that story. >> the security officer was hired by the school district

eight months ago to investigate cheating at an elementary school. his report all but points the finger back to the school system over how it handled the cheating investigation. the former school principal and her assistant literally took the school to the top. with almost perfect scores on maryland school assessments. a year later, those numbers drop, and then came accusations of cheating by the city school ceo. the principles union fought the case and said the report is prove that both the administrators are innocent. >> hearing officers said that both administrators need to be reinstated into their positions, given their back pay and a whole. we have to see if in fact the board will abide by that decision. dam it is the city school ceo is not willing to budge. dr. alonzo issued the statement. "we do not comment on pending personnel actions.

we are committed to a thorough and rigorous investigations of testing irregularities and maintaining the high standards around testing in our schools began he went on to say that no matter how long it takes to establish standards, students, principals, and teachers deserve no less. >> we always believed in him. >> i am so gratified at this ruling that has found them to be innocent. i know the school board has to review it and take action and the like, but i feel that they have been vindicated. it took a long time. they have suffered unfairly. >> parents say while they have heard about the ruling, they would rather focus on the success of their school. >> i think they have very caring teachers year. this is what i have seen every day.

the whole school in all is doing great. >> it is down to the baltimore city school board to decide if it looks at the hearing officer's recommendation. so far, there has been no comment from the state board of education. >> thanks. it is still coming down like cats and dogs. i think we may be having a water problem ourselves here. of course, as you can see, we have some damage here from an accident, i believe. this is from earlier today. of course, we are going to continue with our weather coverage as well. [ jared ] uh, michael?

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>> and the showers and thunderstorms continue to roll across the area and produced the wins damages like the tree that fell down across the goal here. carroll county, one of the hardest hit locations in our region so far today, with the storm system moving through, and also here in baltimore now we have had a bunch of rain come down in the past few minutes.

our rain gauge over an inch. that is in less than an hour, and our gage is indicating it is coming down about 2.75 inches per hour. that is the rate of rainfall here with the cell that just cut across northern baltimore and is moving up to the north side of the beltway. there is some rough weather associated with it. very heavy rain and the potential for some damaging winds as well. right now, the storm system is tracking through thousand and will head up towards south west hartford county over the next hour or so. we are keeping an eye on conditions to our south because down to the south of us, there are some severe storms that are still producing tornadoes. in northern virginia, toward a warning. in fairfax and prince william's town, and the system on the south side the beltway, a severe thunderstorm warning, had been a tornado warning earlier. all that moving northeast, so we may have to continue to monitor

that. the two storm cells that went across carroll county crossing the susquehanna into lancaster county up to the north of us. that was what initiated all of this. to the west, another line in the mountains. the i-95 corridor all of the yellow-80 counties from the eastern shore to the mountains under a tornado watch until 9:00 tonight. even down there is the latest 21, and in baltimore, we are under a severe thunderstorm warning. why is this happening? these are current temperatures to the request of us. 50's,'s 50, -- the 40's, and 60's. while we are in the upper 70's n e's here along the eastern seaboard. you collide these air masses together, and you get a tremendous amount of lead, which is what is producing the showers and thunderstorms in our area right now. look at the rain that has come down.

again, you get into this little strike here where those strong to severe storms went through, and you get into the yellow- shaded area. all of that comes down in less than an hour, so you get some flooding rains along the path of these storms. we will continue to put it this is the rainfall totals come in. the flood watch covers most of central and western maryland. the green area is the warning theory that is where floods are ongoing. watch out for flooded roadways in that area. the weather service says turnaround, do not brown. do not try to drive across a flooded road. this will continue throughout the evening. expecting showers and storms up to about midnight, 1:00 a.m. the wins will shift to the southwest after that, gust to 30, even outside some of the strongest allies fear lows tonight, 57 to 63.

tomorrow with a partly cloudy sky from a west wind at 10 to 15. it will be dryer. should be a decent saturday. 75 degrees, lower humidity. seven-day forecast as we work our way through the weekend -- clearing and comfortable tomorrow. sunday, we may see a shower prop up in the afternoon here it looks like by far, most of the day will be dry, but an isolated sheller may pop up in the afternoon hours before another unsettled weather pattern tries to live in for the middle of next week. for now, severe thunderstorms will be possible. possibly even isolated tornadoes up until 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. >> thanks. reports of heavy damage in carroll county, one of the hardest-hit areas by the winds and storms. >> we are joined by a sergeant from the maryland state police. thanks for joining us. let's start with conditions. let's start with flooding conditions. as we are hearing, california county taking quite a bit of rain, and there is some flooding

out there. >> amazing we have not had too many reports of flooding. most of the people of your note to avoid the low-lying areas down around the southern area of the county. >> what kind of damage are we seeing in carroll county? that has been called in that your troopers have being -- had been seeing so far. >> a lot of fruit -- trees knocked down theory traffic lights are out. we are still directing traffic at 140 and 91, which is causing a lot of traffic problems. >> i would imagine. right around rush hour. what are the road conditions right now, considering you guys are taking a pounding right now and you have all these people trying to get home tonight? >> the worst of the storm has worked its way through, so right now, it is pretty calm. roads are clear. the rain is pretty light, and everybody is passing along pretty well. we are trying to get everybody home before the second wave hits. >> right. enjoy your quiet time.

>> i guess with this wall now, it gives you a chance to get out and assess damage in the area and see what is going on, right? >> that is correct. we asked everybody -- we still have a lot of rain on the way -- we asked everybody to not be out if they can help it. make sure your lights are on so that other people can see you if it does not help you see better. if you see a flooded road way, do not try to cross. find another route. >> good advice. >> thank you. >> coming up, tom has his forecast. there is still plenty of activity on our doppler radar. activity on our doppler radar. live coverage of tonight's wild [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable

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the thunderstorm moving up into eastern baltimore -- central baltimore county, really and moving its way into hartford county. the warning continues its way into the city down toward the inner harbor until 5:30, another couple of minutes. close on its heels, another system is coming in from the south and west. this one is a little stronger, coming in out of greenbelt and northern d.c. a history of producing rotation. the national weather service has issued a warning out. the storm showing strong signs of producing perhaps a funnel cloud or tornado. the storms are gradually shifting east, this one tracking a little east of i-95, moving rapidly to the north. looks like it will be passing just to the east of us, perhaps up for baltimore city in the next hour if it holds together. want to reiterate -- a need for new warning has been issued now down to the south of us, coming at a d.c., in effect for and a bundle -- ann arundel and pg

county. severe storm still in the area. the debt continues through the evening. we will be back with an update in just a couple of minutes. >> thanks so much. we are joined now by tony from the state highway administration -- by kelly from the state highway and ministration. >> we are at the height of rush hour, a lot of people heading home for the weekend. certainly, the timing for this morning could not come at a worse time, but highway administration crews are available to respond to any sort of what their responses to any date for the evening hours. >> hypothetical question for you -- a lot of folks trying to get home. we have all this severe weather in the area. what are you recommending that people who are about to get into their cars -- what did they do if severe weather is just right on top of them? should they stop, tried to blow over, at exit? what do you recommend?

>> segolene advising those that have not headed out to not do so. with high winds and hail, we want everybody to stay as safe as they possibly can. certainly for those that are driving, please remember the rule of the ro by buckling up and driving at an appropriate speed for the weather conditions. >> other than that accident on i-95, are there any others reported that you know about? >> today, we do not have any weather-related lane closures, but recognizing that we will be seeing torrential rain over the next few hours, we want motorists to drive it definitely a safe speed, but at this time, we are not seeing any significant incidents. if they want to plan ahead, definitely log onto md511.org to see any lane closures or traffic

jams that might affect the commit home. >> that is a good website to have. ok. >> personally, i cannot imagine being out there right now, but folks seem to be moving slow go, and traffic is moving. that is a good sign for you guys, right? >> actually, a great sign. there's a chance the money power downed trees and we want motorists to be prepared for that, but we are clearing any degree that we may find. >> i would imagine is the possibility that folks could experienced some detours. >> that is true, certainly for the areas where we tend to have high water or standing water. we want motorists to be extra diligent in those areas. definitely prepare for whatever you may be encountering for the areas where there might be power outages or debris on the roadway. >> i have seen this happen before during a very heavy downpour. i have seen people literally

stopped their car ride on the beltway, late couple whatever, because they are afraid to move forward. that leads to a chain reaction and crashes, doesn't it? >> that is true. if they are able to get to the shoulders safely, we advise they disappeared if you see standing water, turn around it are able to. another attempt to drive through any standing water that you may see. >> all right. state highway administration. i will be a long night for you guys. thanks for calling in. >> probably the best advice kelly had was to stay inside and do not get outside on the freeways. >> let the storm passed. >> we will take you back over to tom. >> we are continuing to watch these severe storms, but in our area. the two main threats now, when the came across the city just north of hamdan in baltimore county. very heavy rain, and perhaps some hill associated with the storm as well. or the hamdan and baltimore county, moving up perhaps for

long green and eventually on of into southwestern part of parcel caddy. perhaps more importantly, even as it was approaching this city toward the south, it is now centered in pg county moving north. it has prompted the weather system to issue a warning including the county and northwestern ann arundel county and the extreme eastern part of howard county. that is the warning area right there coming out of belief -- bowie. that is the forecast track for that particular strong sell. is this warning that just popped up in frederick county. still have some strong storms to our west, and it wanted a warning issued in frederick county until 6:00. some of thunderstorms around baltimore, with a tornado perhaps approaching from the south, and out in frederick county, and he is also a possible rotating thunderstorm with a tornado warning in effect there.

this is what the rain looks like associated with some of these storms. starting to get a little more disorganized, but still showing signs of rotation according to the stand in the area here for us in the media baltimore metro area, the immediate -- the most dangerous storm is the one toward bowie. one more little scared of it, just to show you where the warning is in effect and the storm system it is impacting. the storms have been mowing -- moving from south west and northeast. it does not take long for the system to move in. it also is it through pretty quickly, and that is why we say take shelter and wait for the storm to pass by. i will not be too long and you'll be in the clear. right now, powerful thunderstorm perhaps producing a tornado. there is the information on it. it is strongly rotating stones

as to the northwest of mitchell bill. it is popping up for the door, maybe as far north as baltimore city in the course of the next hour, hour-and-a-half or so. when it went until 6:00, just to the southwest of baltimore city, that we have to keep a very close eye on, with strong storms still all around the region. the debt continues theory the tornado watch itself is in effect until 9:00 tonight. we continue to monitor the radar, keep you posted as the storm's track through. let me get a quick scan on this one to show the movement. two miles north, moving north east of 27, gets it up to ridgway at five minutes before 6:00, and that warning goes until 6:00. >> thank you very much. one of the great things about social media is it gets us thousands and thousands more eyes and ears. >> we want to go now to kate, who has been tracking all of these for us, with your take on the damage. >> i hope that a lot of people

will use facebook and twitter before their power goes out tonight to send us pictures. we want to know what you are seeing where you are. two interesting tidbits we got recently -- bob in manchester said all he got was a half inch of rain, while katie -- and this is just two minutes ago -- she said hailed as started. he said it is about 1/4 to 1/3 of an inch. she said the rain is heavy and trees are swaying violently. interesting observation from a viewer, and this is the kind of question i had as well, and if tom is listening, maybe he could answer it. she said she lives at the top of the hill. her question is if she sees clouds moving quickly from the east and clouds moving quickly from the west and the clouds moving straight toward the sky, is that the beginning of something to worry about? i guess we will have to ask, if

he can answer that question. he has been talking a lot about how these storms are just chaotic. i forget the exact add to it being used. what kind of rotation in the clouds and cloud movement that ec does it become something that you really need to worry about? >> all right, well, try to hang in there. >> we will try to ask tom that question. >> i do not have the answer for you. in any time, we have a representative from the city emergency management agency and the phone right now. bob, are you with us? i know we're taking up time, and you have it with us since we have been on the air, roughly about 40 minutes. what are you hearing right now? >> the one cell that came across -- we had a lot of rain come in a short time. we are in the process now of

monitoring these flash flooding conditions. the only remarkable area we have to report is the usual suspect and the kelly avenue bridge. >> jones falls is always a problem, and a lot of rain falls quickly. that thing fills up so fast. >> it looks like on this particular cell, the middle of the city and the west side of the city got the brunt of it, but it was a lot of rain in a short time, that is for sure. >> also, in addition to jones falls, you get a lot of pounding because if it means too hard, you cannot get it off quickly enough -- a lot of ponding. we are monitoring traffic conditions now, and it looks like the floor traffic is pretty good, but there are puddles, and that is what we want people to watch out for, especially in areas where the storm drains might not be draining properly. just be careful as you get home.

more importantly, that storm cell coming up from the south that looks like it will track across the city has that tornado warning with it. we are very concerned about that. >> isn't it interesting how timing is so important? if this had been a week ago before you guessed it is all that jfk construction, imagine what it would have been like tonight. >> you are right. my hat is off to transportation. i think they did a great job with getting that open, so you are dead right about that one. >> in addition to the falls road area heading into the mouth washington area, any other areas that motorists should be concerned about or trying to avoid at this hour? >> i would say no. we do not have anything, and if we do, it is very isolated intersections. everything seems to be moving nicely. i think tonight is people come back downtown into the city for various events, they just need

to exercise due caution. this thing is far from over. what worries me is when the cells it downgraded from a tornado warning or watch to a severe thunderstorm, people tend to say that it is ok. it is far from ok. you still need to be aware and take precautions and be prepared. >> a little courtesy would go a long way at this hour, too. >> yes, you know, everyone wants to get home safe to their families, take it easy. you know, we do not need an accident right now to tie things up. >> we are looking at pictures right now. captain roy taylor, i think you are up there looking at this, are you not? >> thanks, bob, by the way. >> we are seeing flooding in the arts here. >> -- flooding in the yards here. >> we are getting reports of a couple of houses that have trees

in them. >> there is it undersell getting ready to head to the city. i do not know how much longer we will be able to hang out here. we will probably start heading back towards the airport. behind the cell working its way up through bwi, nothing but heavy rain after that. we are hearing talk on the scanner's of trees. no injuries at the present time, but expect more as this weather comes on through. >> thank you very much. that looks unpleasant. >> it looked like a fire at -- pit. >> it has been coming down hard year for going on about an hour. >> it is not constant, but it will just found and then it stops, and then it comes back again. >> it may do that for another hour or two hours? what do you think?

>> we are under the risk of severe storms until lease 9:00. probably until midnight. that is a safe, rough figure. the 20 the threat will diminish as the evening wears on, but we still have torn it warnings in effect right now in our area. baltimore city covered in some very heavy rain. it still shows some signs of rotation and some circulation in the atmosphere associated with it. very heavy rain moving northeast about now, continue to push up into hartford county as the next hour or so moves on. the storm cell that the weather service has issued a tornado warning for, the tornado warning includes most of northwestern ann arundel county until 6:00. the extreme eastern tip of howard county. i do not think howard county is that much demand of this except for the border area. as you can see, it is just now

crossing the pg/ann arundel . if there's a circulation with this one, it would probably be sitting somewhere in here in the general vicinity of the storm system as it makes its way to the northeast very rapidly. that is the one the will be approaching baltimore city over the next hour, and the morning goes until 6:00 or so. these storms follow each other. one moving toward hartford county, and coming up behind it is one approachingodinton -- approaching odinton. the weather service included eastern howard county, but they are not as much under the gun here to the rest of us, there's also a warning out around frederick. it just shows you there is some volatile weather out to the west of us. that goes until 6:00, and the entire region is under a watch until 9:00 this evening. farther off to the mountains is

where we find the last one of the storms, and you can see them crossing, and gusty winds will be associated with that line of storms as well. out ahead of it in the warm, muggy air, isolated storms, and the line, which is associated with the cold front. it is hard to believe right now, but tomorrow should be a beautiful saturday once we get past all this rough weather. we are right now on the stormy side of this whole thing and have to watch for isolated tornadoes to prop up. a tornado warning in ann arundel counted until 6:00. the storms in the area. we will keep an eye on the reader over the next few hours. m a keeping an eye on the weather center for sure. as we saw from captain roy taylor earlier this afternoon, a lot of damage has happened. we cannot get a live shot because it is too dangerous, but we are joined by telephone. what are you seeing?

>> it is a little heart breaking right now. as we were approaching the 1900 block of swat away, we noticed a lot of downed trees and some residents out trying to clear that the area. again, branches on the floor, strewn all over the community. once you reach this home here on the 1900 law, we noticed 80-foot trees just slam, crashed right on the roof of this home. residents of this home have been here for about 16 years. fortunately, they are a-ok, thank goodness. they were on the other side of this house while the street, which was rotten through quite some time, just slammed down on to this home. as we speak, we have a building inspector here has ruled that this home is condemned for now, so they will have to find some arrangements for the rest of this evening, and as soon as we are able to clear up the scene, we are waiting for a construction crew to come down

here with a crane to remove the street. they have been trying to figure out where they will stay tonight. it is really a heartbreaking scene out here. we will be out here all evening, but again, we're going to talk to a number of other residents in the community who are also dealing with the aftermath of the system. they are also cleaning up their yards with some branches and trees that have snapped. they also reported some power outages here as well, so they are hoping that the power will come back on, hopefully around 7:30 this evening, but again, that is not the way anyone would want to start a weekend, that is for sure. >> quick question for you. you may have answered this a few seconds ago. i was going to ask -- as far as that large, large tree that fell on the house, sometimes you get so much rain, which we have had in the area, and the ground gets so saturated that older, bigger trees simply toppled because the ground cannot support them anymore, or was this a wind- based tree going into the house?

>> it is up to confirm exactly what it is, but as we were walking toward the area to get a good look, the ground was -- it was soaked. it was definitely saturated, but again, if the tree has been run for quite some time -- >> it did not take much. >> but residents did describe that there was wind just pounding on their window and branches slamming across their windows, it could be a combination of many things, but again, it is a nightmare, that is for sure. it really is a tough place to be. >> as described, we are seeing a lot of pictures here, and i can see the snapping of limbs countries literally snapped off in the mill. this is not saturation. this is all wind-base. you have to have a sort of twisting of the wood for this to be an indicator of a torn it. correct me if i'm wrong.

we can see that a lot of the damage -- high wind, lots of trees down, damage the homes. trees across roads, power lines down. >> not a great night. thank you so much for that report. right now, we are going to look at how traffic is doing just around the area. as you can imagine, it is friday, a quarter of 6:00, and things will not always be that great, but you are looking at i- 95 south. you can see how much water is on the road. >> i would guess that is at least a good half an inch of rain on that road. >> easily. >> here is a shot of i-95 ed green spring avenue, one of the heavier trouble portions during rush-hour, but it looks like things are moving as smoothly as they can. >> i think a lot of people decided to wait to go home, or they left early in advance of the storm. this is i-695 at maryland 44,

and again, traffic moving really well. some water on the road, obviously, but not terrible. >> it is moving better than i thought. >> a reminder, if you have to be out there, which no one is advising you to be out there, but you have to slow down. >> and the wear of traffic lights that may be down, too, so you may be coming up to a road where everybody thinks they have the right of way, and you do not. and the remember coming yield to the right. then it just yield. >> there you go. let everybody through until you go through. >> right now, we go back to the with the center. tom, what is going on? >> the rain has eased up a bit in the city, but it is still coming down very heavy in some locations. the heavy rain we had moving off to our ne. the storm system about to track across hartford county. gusty winds coming your way. showing some signs of rotation, so we are not completely out of

the woods. two miles west of kingsville, gets it up to hickory, and hartford county just about 10 minutes past 6:00 or so, and warning continues for the storm system as well. for the southwest, a strong storm system coming out comingann arundel county with a tornado warning associated with it. extreme eastern howard county, and it continues on up through pg county with the storm is about to leave right now. that storm system is a powerful one, and it is indicated by the fact that the weather service has issued a tornado warning for the common reader strongly indicate that a funnel cloud or tornado may be associated with the storm heading just to the southwest and tracking of toward baltimore city. that will moves on a little farther east. heavy rain with the last one. this one would come across the southern part of the beltway and perhaps the southern inner harbor area, maybe toward the six in eastern baltimore county on its track to the northeast,

so we will keep a very close eye on that storm. meantime, there is a strong storm system out near frederick. this one has a tornado warning to secede of it, moving northeast at 23, and that would get up for northeastern carroll county over the course of the next hour or so, and the watch leaving conditions favorable for the area goes until 9:00 tonight. a couple more hours of possible severe storms breaking out in this unsettled weather pattern with lots of wind shear. the wind changes direction as to go through the ground and atmosphere, and that gives it the twist. the storm popping up, and we have three in our area of your baltimore countered going up toward hard for caterpillar one- celled of the city coming up out ann arundel moving toward the eastern part of baltimore county, and one coming from frederick tracking of toward carroll county, kind of surrounded by these three big severe thunderstorm cells in our area.

the rain could be heavy, the wind could be damaging even if you do not get any of the tornadoes from these thunderstorms. >> looks like if we just get the one over frederick and the one to the south of us, there is nothing behind this. >> on this particular stand, there is not, but there is actually another line in allegheny county that will come through later tonight. the ones we are dealing with now in the warm sector of the storm, this one over here is associated with the actual cold front, and that will be good news. in the last one guest asked us, that we will be on the nice side of the system and things will clear out nicely with the start of the weekend. >> but people should not let their guard down. it will be several more hours before we are in the clear. >> captain roy was grounded a few minutes ago because they decided it had really just gotten too windy and dangerous out there. as much as we love the great video he provides, we would love for him even more to stay safe. >> when roark puts it down --

>> we want to go back to kate in the newsroom. she has been interfacing with social media folks who have been discussing what they have been experiencing. >> we heard from mickey, who says the wind is picking up and the rains that about 20 minutes ago, now starting to hear thunder. curious to see how the evening progresses. you and the rest of us here. then, jack cohen near westminster describe what it was like when the storm went over him. he called it the double storm. -- the double storm. , called it the twin storms purity called it shifty. he said the sky was as dark as he has seen in a long time, and he hit the basement until it passed. donna shoemaker wrote on our facebook page, cassette and dikes, that stuff out there -- "yikes, that stuff out there the

day and then on the 20 -- the twitter feed, we got a tweet from carroll county emergency management that a tornado has touched down. while in the very same feet, my friend gus, who works at "the baltimore sun" said if you see a funnel cake, run and hide in your basement with it, do not share. >> it is like a box of cookies the lady took with her. >> funnel cake, funnel cloud. >> earlier this evening, we heard a woman who said she just grabbed a box of cookies. that is just being thoughtful. >> ok, on the phone with us, we

had a member from the emergency management agency. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> a sari -- here it is -- jack murphy, director of emergency management, frederick county. thanks for joining us. fill us in always going on in frederick county right now. >> like many of your viewers to have been monitoring the storms that have been moving through the area, starting earlier this afternoon, have had some indications of potential for tornadoes. we are currently under a tornado warning right now in the frederick city area. at this point, we have not had any actual tornadoes touched ground or any severe damage at this point. >> ok, so when you say you are investigating the possibility of tornadoes, what kind of damage are you looking at to assess that? >> right now, we have just had what i would describe as typical summer thunderstorm damage. we had some trees down, some branches down, the roadways, that our crews have been working

on. some flash flooding in eastern part of our county as well as some of the mountainous regions to the west of the city. >> has there been an actual 20 of siding near the city of --? >> no, we have indications and doppler radar that may contain tornadoes, but we have not had any touchdowns reported at this point for any major damage reported. >> hopefully, you will not have any of that. >> we have our doppler radar on screen right now. we are seeing a lot of green and a lot of intense yellow and orange, indicating very heavy rain. the flooding situation -- is that a problem right now, in issue? >> actually, we have seen a little bit of recession from the earlier batch of cells that caused some flash flooding, but now, with the heavy rain starting back up, we expect some of the roadways we have had problems with earlier, we may

actually have to close some roadways back off again, but we have made progress from earlier in the date. >> thank you for calling us. jack murphy, director of emergency management in frederick county. good luck to you guys. >> this is still not over. let's send it back to our chief meteorologist. bring us up-to-date. folks in frederick county are thinking they might be out of it, but the need to be still standing by. >> in that area there, they are still getting some very heavy rain and hail perhaps. that is to sell the, the weather service to issue the 20 awarding in frederick county that will expire at 6:00 in the next few minutes. it does look like the storm has weakened a little bit, but it is tracking from southwest to northeast in northeastern

carroll county, so a very dangerous storm system. be on the lookout. maybe even take shelter right now until the storm system passes by. once that gets passed you, you have a significant break until you get to around fosse burke, where the last line of storms associated with the cold front is bearing down as we speak. once that goes by later tonight, then we can give you the all clear. in the meantime, self of baltimore city, the source system is very strong. when it went in effect until 6:00 tonight. the system is expected to continue moving to the north east and pushed up for the southwestern part of baltimore county, and maybe into baltimore city as well. it does not, as you can clearly see, look as well organized as some of the systems we had earlier. the cloud cover, the showers, the wet weather, the cooling of the atmosphere is taking its toll on some of these storms and helping to break them apart or at least weaken them a little

bit. this storm is tracking north east and does show signs of rotation, so it is embedded in a brain area that may well produce a tornado as it approaches baltimore from the cell theory the track of this one would take it for the to the east from the earlier storm system that we are dealing with. the first cell, by the way, is bearing down on bellaire now, so very heavy rain pushing into the bel-air area. this is the one that dumped a bunch of rain on us in the city, and it is moving up toward hartford county. the center of that storm, going to pass through hickory of around 6:10 or so. as the storm came through our area, we picked up about 1.3 inches of rain, and it did cool our temperatures of. we are sitting at 70 degrees. as the storm itself moves through, tended to cool the atmosphere a little bit and perhaps weaken the instability

so that when the next cell arias, it is not quite as strong, but we will have to watch the next cell, and it will approach baltimore city a little farther east, track through the inner harbor area, move up toward white marsh in baltimore county. that warning is expected -- i got a feeling they'd just extended it. yes, until 6:30 now. 6:30, the one and will continue. i hear the bells going off on our weather radio. by the way, it is good to have a weather radio in your vote or your or somewhere where you can hear the warning when the weather service issues it and give you a flag you have to tune in to see what we are talking about when it goes off, but again, it has been extended. it is hard to see where the warnings are in effect. the red is the tornado. frederick county until 6:00. now of in hartford county. this is a new development here. that storm cell tracked across baltimore city. it is pushing toward bellaire.

it is not a tornado warning until 6:30. eastern howard county until 6:30, and up into the extreme southwest part of baltimore county as well here it hard to see some of these storms when there's so much rain falling, but this is one approach in the southwestern part of baltimore county with strong rotations in jesup up toward what lawn and the selfless and part of baltimore county, may be up for baltimore city, but also, this still is very strong. it is now tracking northeast pretty quickly, is showing strong signs of rotation. when it a warning for hartford county until 6:30 this evening. it is moving northeast at 21 miles an hour. take shelter now, and all of the central part of hartford county because the storm system is pretty strong. we are surrounded by rain, and embedded within this range are strong, but thunderstorms showing signs of very strong

irritation. morning for hartford county until 6:30 -- the storm will be up near victory in the next 10 minutes, and it looks like the one in frederick county has weakened, but it is traveling up toward tiny town. lots of storms to keep track of at this hour, and they are getting kind of hard to see here in many areas are dealing with clouds and showers, but that is the current situation, and we are going to keep an eye on it and see how it progresses. we have warnings in hartford county, eastern howard, northwestern ann arundel and the extreme southwestern part of baltimore county, another storm system is headed your way. >> as yoow