there's a touch of fog in the neighborhoods that did get some rain. i think the visibility was stable of a quarter of a mile. 62 degrees at the airport. the dew point of 61. the forecast for today -- cloud cover and sunshine will break through. 20% chance for a thunderstorm this afternoon. the best chance at the mountains and at the beaches. we will check the seven-day forecast coming up in just aew minutes. first crusade good morning to kim -- first we say good morning to kim. >> main street in ellicott city is closed and people are being detoured onto route 40 west. we'll see how this plays out in your morning commute. an ongoing closure on monument

street near patterson park. that is for the water main breaks. 65 miles per hour on the harrisburg expressway. the major roadways are looking good. six minutes on 95 south down between the beltway and 100 in howard county. no delays. this is the beltway at frederick road along the west side. traffic is moving to just fine. this is 95 in howard county. things are moving fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> breaking news in howard county. a train has derailed with up to 80 cars spelling call.

oal. >> we will have a live report coming up later in the hour. >> a deadly stabbing happened on monday morning in dundalk. investigators found the victim stabbed to death in the basement. he has been identified as victor portillo. there was a blood trail that led detectives to another house. >> was a lady and a baby inside. the gentleman looked in the upstairs window and told him to come down. they pulled him out. >> witnesses say police took three people away. following another developing story. police are investigating a serious shooting. investigators say a man was

shocked just before 9:30 monday night. >> -- investigators say a man was shot. >> a man shot and killed two man last wednesday. police are still determined a motive in that case. students want to shut down a chick-fil-a at college park. recent comments by the president opposing same-sex marriage sparked that campaign. reaction is mixed. >> i believe in everybody's chance to partition and boycott. i think it is great and i commend him for it. >> i like to eat the food.

i think it is great to get involved. >> university officials would not comment of the future of the campus chick-fil-a. >> the campaign trail is moving west today. team rummy wants to zero in on fundraising in texas. >> president obama gets back on the stump. we have more. >> after a dry spell, the president held the white house bracing for reporters. >> rape is rape. >> he weighed in about todd .kin's comments about rape >> these comments do _ why we

should not have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions on behalf of women. >> president obama leads mitt romney among women voters. the demographic where mitt romney needs to make up ground. in an interview, mitt romney did his best to try to distance itself from todd akin's comments. >> the comments about rape were deeply offensive. >> the news conference took some of the bite off of the campaign. there was a joint town hall meeting in new hampshire. >> the problem is he made things worse. >> both campaigns moving on today. a new poll comes out later

today. previous polls show the candidates are any statistical dead heat. >> back to our big story and breaking news. a train derailed in howard county. >> reports that two people have been injured. nadia ramdass is joining us live on the phone. >> right now main street and maryland avenue is closed off to traffic. this is now a police investigation. a csx coal train derailed off of a breach in the heart of historic main street in ellicott city. two people were killed. we do not know if the people

cause the derailment. as we were gathering information from authorities about this incident, a family rushed up to us reporters asking if we confirm who these victims would be. the family is concerned it may be their daughter and a friend of theirs. the daughter and a friend were near the train tracks on top of this bridge tweeting. 10 minutes before the incident was the last time the girls tweeted. they are trying to confirm if this might be their daughter who we found out is a james madison student. again, right now a authorities are not confirming if they

happened to be the women these family is searching for this morning. this is still a developing sam cene. crews topecting csx come out and more information during our next hit. nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> i am assuming that police are also involved in this. >> they are not saying too much. we did ask if that was the situation, if it was weather related. they are not confirming that at this time. it is very early in the investigation. >> we will let you get back to more information. nadia ramdass, thank you. >> 5:08.

52 degrees on tv hill. the backlash continues following comments by todd akin about rape and abortion. this is traffic on the beltway at frederick road. more onñi

>> welcome back. 5:11. temperatures in the 60's to start the day. we did have some rain note yesterday evening.

temperatures will stay below average again today. let's look to the numbers outside the city. 62 in cockeysville. up to the pennsylvania line, upper 50's. mostly cloudy skies to start. sunshine will break through. 20% chance for a thunderstorm this afternoon with a high temperature of 83. we will check the seven-day forecast going all the way into the weekend. >> full of continues falling missouri congressman todd akin's inflammatory comments about rape. he commented on sunday that women have biological defenses that prevent pregnancy in cases of legitimate rape. akin apologize for that on

monday saying he misspoke. a live report from washington coming up at 5:30. a biography of joe paterno hits the bookstores today. now he was fired from penn state, accused of not reporting sexual abuse allegations made against sandusky. 5:13. 62 degrees on tv hill. if you could live anywhere in the united states, where would it be/ >> which local towns are among the best in the country? >> we have some

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>> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. that train derailment in ellicott city is causing some problems on the roads. main street and frederick road are closed into baltimore county. they are using route 40 west as a detour. avoid that area if you can. message boards are directing people around that area. monument street is closed near patterson park. that is because of the water

main break. it is still going on at this morning. 57 on the j.f.x. heading south towards the city. no delays there. this is the beltway at frederick road. it is increasing in volume. this is 95 at 175. things are moving fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we go to kurt kronke for a check of the buses and the trains. >> we do have on time service on the trains, the penn, camden, and brunswick lines. metro subway on time. the 16 bus is operating with say the lead. mta is your ride to the mta of baltimore. now back to tony pann. >> thank you. we are off to the same starched

we were off to yesterday. it is dry. all the weather features are the same place as yesterday. we have a stalled front to the south. there is a piece of energy we can see of the water vapor loop. it is north of cincinnati. it is kind of like what went through yesterday evening. this will travel towards us tonight. a slight chance for a thunderstorm later today. the best chance for rain in maryland will be at the beach is this afternoon. upper 50's in the northern suburbs. 62 at the airport. there are some patchy areas of fog this morning. maybe some sunshine will break

through. a slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm. high temperature between 80 and 85. i think we will stay below average for a change. shooting for a high of 83. it doesn't happen very often in the month of august. things will settle down by the time we get to tomorrow and wednesday, we will see the temperatures jump a little bit. into the weekend, mid to upper 80's. the next chance for rain will hold off until monday of next week. a good stretch of weather coming up through the weekend. >> money magazine has released est places tohe base bless live.

waldorf, gaithersburg, and germantown. airline prices are going up again. southwest airlines is leading the charge. southwest raised fares in several other airlines were quick to match the increase. other airlines usually follow. americans getting out of town on the last major holiday of the summer. 33 million american travelers will go 30 miles or more. they will have the roadways for their trip. the average price of gas is up 14 cents compared to 2011. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. will you be traveling more this

labor day weekend then you did last year? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> the u.s. postal service made a major investment in "the simpsons" that basically backfired. jane king has the bloomberg business report. good morning, jane. >>a group of travel sites accused of fixing hotel room prices. that is according to a complaint on behalf of hotel room purchases. the large online travel sites curried the illusion that customers can research rates and get good deals but that they are working in cahoots to fix

prices. the rates have stuck by southwest and have been matched by others. 33 million drivers taking trips on labor day. futures are a bit higher today. we did take baby steps backwards yesterday. the post office had stamps that honored "the simpsons." they printed a billion of them but only sold over 300 million of them. this is an example of the kind of access is that the postal service needs to avoid. "the simpsons" stamps are available on the amazon. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 90 hoping sneaker fans --

nike hoping sneaker fans are willing to shell out big bucks for a new lebron james sneaker. >> fans can sleep in it when it is released. it will be harder to find the salt shakers at boston market soon. >> thank you, jane. 5:23. 62 degrees on tv hill. we may have found a very new and fabulous place you can try out for lunch. for lunch.

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>> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. >> good morning, everybody.

welcome back to 11 news today. i am stan stovall. >> i am jennifer franciotti. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> upper 50's and the low 60's today. we don't expect any rain for the morning commute. let's look at the current conditions. 62 at the airport. relative humidity at 96%. about a 30% chance for a thunderstorm. most of you will not see any rain. a mixture of sun and clouds. high of only 83. we will check the seven-day forecast going all the way into the weekend. >> downtown ellicott city is not the place you want to be this morning. we have some closures in effect on frederick road word turns into main street between old columbia. that is shut down because of the train derailment.

a lot of message boards are up. take 40 west to avoid that. avoid downtown ellicott city if you can. monument street is closed near patterson park. that is for a water main break. that closure is still ongoing. otherwise, the major roadways are looking ok. five minutes on 95 northbound between the fort mchenry and the tunnel. no delays on the major roadways. this is the west side of the beltway at frederick road. no delays just yet. this is 95 near 175 in howard county. north and southbound traffic is moving freely. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we continue to follow

breaking news. the derailment of several train cars in howard county. >> nadia ramdass is live at the scene. >> we are near the police department, up five minutes away from the scene because we had a difficult time getting a picture. the area right now is not a place you want to drive. frederick road is closed from ellicott city into baltimore county as crews continue to investigate the scene. this is the video we shocked a few minutes ago. and eastbound train came off the tracks on the bridge in historic ellicott city. 21 at of 80 freight trains turned over. oal, butcontained a cal

not hazardous material. two people are at the scene. a family came up to a number of us on the scene looking desperately for their daughter who is going into were junior year at james madison university. the family said she was tweeting from where the incident occurred. they are concerned that the victims may be their daughter and her friend. the train operators were not harmed. the cause of the incident is still being investigated. this is still an ongoing investigation. stay tuned to wbal-tv for the latest. nadia ramdass, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we're talking about an

overpass over main street in ellicott city. >> it is on the b and no museum on main street. museum.be and tho and o video are trying to figure out what caused this derailment this morning. we have a family that is concern that their daughter at their friend may be the victims. >> i am not familiar with the historic bridge. >> we were talking to a number of people who live in that area. it is easy to access the historic bridge. a lot of kids tend to gravitate there and that maybe the reason

why the family is concerned that their daughter and her friend were the victims. >> we know the area is closed off. give us a sense of the chaotic nature of this derailment. >> absolutely. we talk to a county executive. they are concerned that some of the trains fell on a couple of vehicles in a parking lot underneath the bridge. nobody was in there at the time. they checked it out. it was coal and trains that landed on the vehicle. it was a bit of a mess. i cannot imagine this being cleared any time soon. >> will give you an opportunity to go and get more information. more coming up next two hours.

thank you very much. >> hundreds of laid-off steelworkers hoping to get some answers about their future. rg steel sold the sparrows point steel company. benefits for almost 2000 employees are about to end. they are hoping to find a new steel company to buy the plant. >> i have been a union member for 38 years. i'm not receiving that service. all i'm getting is a bunch of lips service. >> plant was purchased for $72 million. the clock is ticking for a lawmaker as some colleagues push him to drop out of the missouri

senate rage. >> a real firestorm that has top leaders in both parties wondering, what was he thinking? >> hallie jackson has more. >> that is something that nobody on either side of the aisle and agrees with. >> that is why gop rep todd akin should end his run and forget about showing up at next week's convention in tampa after his statement that a woman's body can prevent pregnancy after "a legitimate rape." >> "a legitimate rape." like some rapes are not legitimate. >> rape is rape. >> i cannot defend what he said.

>> akin apologized. >> todd akin has other views that are way outside the mainstream. >> this makes it much more of her race to lose other than a battle that would be pretty close between the two sides. >> 5:38. 62 degrees on tv hill. school starting out shortly. >> do the study sessions do more harm than good? >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. will you be traveling at more this labor day weekend then you did last year? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com.

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>> welcome back. 5:41. we have some fog in some neighborhoods. we do not expect any precipitation. it should be dry for the morning commute. 62 at the airport. 50's near the pennsylvania line. we will start out with clouds and maybe some fog. about a 20% chance for a shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. high temperature of 83. when we come back, we will check

the seven-day forecast going all the way into the weekend. >> we all know obesity poses many dangerous health issues. >> people with obesity also face memory loss. researchers looked at 6000 adults and found those who were obese and had low levels of good cholesterol experienced a faster decline in mental skills. sleep deprivation. >> those late-night cram sessions do more harm than good. researchers studied more than 500 high school students and found those who stayed up late to study performed worse on tests and homework compared to those who went to bed on time.

getting the work done well before bedtime is much better for the report card. >> 62 degrees on tv hill. the world's most comical dictator. your favorite -- we will miss some of the movies out on video. >> partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the 80's. kim has more on the traffic kim has more on the traffic situation coming up

>> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. we have some problems in downtown ellicott city. frederick road is closed in downtown ellicott city near old

columbia. take 40 west as year detour. it sounds like it will be going on for a while. we have a crash in westminster. watch for that in carroll county. 95 in the north this corner, 66 miles per hour heading down south towards the beltway. same story on the harrisburg expressway near shawan road, 7 2 miles heading south down towards the beltway. this is frederick road. the inner and outer loops are increasing in volume. this is 95 at 175 in howard county. things will be moving freely and no problems to report. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. here is kurt kronke with the mta. good morning. >> moving along nicely on the

marc trains. no delays on the penn, camden, and brunswick lines. light rail is on schedule. a few bus delays. the 64 bus is operating with a delay this morning. a diversion at a monument and patterson park. i am occurred friday. now back to tony pann. >> thank you. we're off to a pretty quiet start. for the expect any rain morning commute. a tropical depression, you can find me on facebook. the weather map looks the same this morning as yesterday. if you look real close, you can see north of cincinnati, then they give us some widely scattered thunderstorms or

showers this afternoon. as it gets closer to us, there could be a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. these are the showers and storms associated with the front that stalled south of us. 62 at the airport. in the 50's in the northern suburbs. we'll start with the clouds and the fog and maybe some sunshine will break through. a slight chance for a thunderstorm this afternoon. high temperature between 80 and 85. the average high temperature is 85. a welcome break when we spend so many days above 90 degrees. if you take the boat out, wave heights a foot or less. nice weather coming up all

through the weekend. a three on wednesday. mid 80's thursday and friday. 83 on wednesday. a good stretch of weather. >> it seems only yesterday that "the hunger games" was killion at the box office. >> it is the movie that set the world on fire. the film is set in the future were select teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death. >> it is a great plan. >> he has a terrible plan in

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>> good morning. the orioles continue their road trip to night in arlington. they lose to the printers last night 5-1 and they lose a game to the rays the wild card. a good start for the orioles against ryan dempster. adam jones, off the glove. nate mclouth scored spirit that was it for the orioles' offense. the rangers chip away. that is a bloop single. that scores nelson cruz. this goes to left center field to score josh hamilton. 5-1, the orioles lose.

there was a no-hitter in the little league world series. connecticut against indiana. he struck out 13 batters. that ends the game. that is a big deal on any level. especially on a national tv. 4-0, conn wins. he struck out 13 of the 18 outs. thursday night, the ravens play jacksonville. this is a big game for a lot of the young players, rookies and free agents. the ravens need to cut the roster from 90 to 75 players after this game. we'll hear from john harbaugh

the next half-hour. you can see the game on thursday night right here on wbal tv 11. >> a train derails in howard county. nadia ramdass will have a live report on the scene. >> a tribute to the life of phyllis diller. >> the first state dinner for kids at the white house. >> the weather is quiet this morning. we will check the forecast into the weekend. >> we have some closures in ellicott city. details coming out. up.

>> two people are dead after a train derails in ellicott city. >> calls continue for a missouri lawmaker to drop out of a senate race. hallie jackson with the latest. >> are more mild temperatures in place today? the forecast as we continue. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today. >> good morning. i am jennifer franciotti. >> i am stan stovall. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> it is chilly this morning. >> it is chilly this morning.