next on fox 45 morning news early edition. water. >> a weekend without water for thousands of baltimore county residents, why they're still waiting for the water to be turned back on. >> six people arrested in the murder of a gas station owner, the shocking relationship between the suspects and the victim. and the terps are regular season champions of the acc. how long it's been since they last held the title. good morning. it's monday march 8th, i'm patrice harris. hopefully you had a great weekend, beautiful weather, lots

of sun out there, meteorologist steve fertig is here to fill us in if we can expect more of that. >> saturday it was cold but yesterday it was gorgeous. >> we thought it was 50 and 54. for the two days. it ended up being 54 and 58. actually 53 and 58. >> saturday seemed a little chillier there i was chill in the air versus yesterday. >> but not bad, yesterday was gorgeous. we have more great weather today and tomorrow too. we don't have a storm until mid-to late week. enjoy the nice weather. in the meantime look for 43 degrees for the high temperature, you're looking at sky watch hd radar and that indicating some dry conditions. let's take a look at a the temperatures and you will see that we're at 43 degrees right now downtown and 40 degrees, it looks like for washington d.c., 30 degrees in salisbury and up in hagerstown, 37 degrees there, and as we look at the sky watch hd radar in motion, now, you see

the disturbance moving to the south and east, and that is going to continue to bring showers past us to the south and not concern us at all. looking at the temperature for day getting up to the mid-it upper 50s and dropping to 35 degrees tonight. the northwest wind at 5-10 miles per how under clear skies. let's see what is happening on the roadways with candace dold. she has the traffic edge, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, steve, we have to talk about gas mamaintenance group and it's knocking an off-ramp. to get around that you will want to use 395 to mlk as an alternate route. checking on 95 at the 395 exit we will show you what had a scene looks like. here it is smooth sailing on the southbound and the southbound stretch down toward the beltway. speaking of the beltway the outer loop lanes from 95 moving up toward 83, we are looking at

a normal clip. 11 minutes at 54 miles per hour. and then it just dips down to 53 miles per hour with an 8-minute ride from 83 up toward the 795. that is a look at your morning travels, patrice, back over to you. 505:02 on fox 45 earl editi. after midnight a saturday, officers found the body of stuart bren no one in an alley south of west street, detectives say he was shot once in a comeft and so far the-- inthe chest ane no suspects. 20-year-old jamal rogers died at shock tram a s trauma ao there's there's no suspects. police arrested the child at

an elementary school in south baltimore, school officials say the boy was acting suspiciously so they decided to search his backpack and that search turned up the gun. >> anybody could have gotten shot in here, the principal, the teachers and this is a school and they are letting this happen. >> we are deciding definitely to pull him out. this is not the environment that we want our child in, not at all. >>the child has been charged as a juvenile with handgun possession. police are still trying to figure out who the gun belongs to and how the child got his hands on it. a maryland soldier loses his life to the war in afganistan. the department of defense is confirming 30-year-old army specialist anthony pacey has died. he was killed after being involved in a vehicle rollover. he had previously served in iraq for about a year and this was his second deployment. a former bal baltimore raven

will be in court to face domestic violence charges. mccontrary. on friday his wife got a court order against him stemming from a violence incident. he has been ordered to not abuse his wife or have contact with her. he retired after playing the 2002 season. a family files a $10 million lawsuit against baltimore county police. the family of ryan myers is accuse department of police brutality, negligence and wrongful death. myers died in 2007 an officer stunned him with a taser at his middle river home. his family said that he was bipolar and called 911 earlier in the day because they were wore ride about his behavior.

the police tasered him when he picked up a baseball bat. 26-year-old raymond taylor was mistakenly released from the maryland correctional adjustment center downtown over a week ago. he used his cell mate's id ward to fool prison workers. the 7 people that have been disciplined include correctional supervisors, and other officials, their punishment expand from reprimand to suspension without pay. >> to the board to the street that didn't workout very well. >> and taylor was caught in west virginia the day after his mistaken release. prison officials are trying to avoid similar incidents in the future by using finger print scans. the pentagon entrance that became the scene of a shooting last week is scheduled to reopen. the entrance will resume normal

operations this morning, both entrances of the pentagon metro rail station and the pentagon rail station re-opened on saturday night. everything was closed after patrick badel opened fire friday last night. two police officers fired back and badel died from his injuries. a cecil county family spent the last months in and out of hospitals dealing with the rare side effects of an h1n1 shot. teenager was paralyzed and developed transfers mallitis. the condition his immune system to attack his spinal cord. he started recovering since december when he first started to get treatment. >> it's so hard to get up to a flat surface and get my legs and put them on there. >> robert is about to begin rehabilitation that could take

months. doctors say his condition may never be reversed, however, they say that his reaction to the swine flu vaccine should not be a deterrent for getting the shot because it's extremely rare. slots in anne arundel county could go back to voters to decide. the group fighting a casino says that they have more than enough signatures to stop it from moving guard. thiforward. this weekend they delivered 16,000 and that is on top of the 13,000 previously delivered and verified by the anne arundel county of election. >> we were told that it's going to create $600 million for schools. right now annapolis is talking about cutting funding for schools. and it was going to save racing and it has done nothing of what we were told.

>> the cordish family that is behind the si casino is fighting the petition saying that they are overlooking fraud. last night the board approved ban city, county, state workers and lobbyist from the board. it would require staggered terms and two attorneys on the panel. the bill would reduce the number of members nominated by the mayor from 5 to 3. now the bill is on a vote for the city council. hundreds of patients do not know if where their students will go to school next year. last week the archdiocese announced that 13 baltimore area schools will not reopen because of budget problems. today the archdiocese will hold meetings with the parents and it will give the parents a chance to ask questions and will be held at three different schools. one of the schools that is

hosting a meeting is cardinal gibbins school which is slated to close. the school is more than a million dollars in debt. they will hold a rally protesting, and parents have launched a campaign and the students are writing letter. meanwhile the archdiocese says that every student affected by the closing will get another spot at another school. federal spending and abortion are of the issues that are healthcare reform. it has come down to the wire as president obama set a deadline on the pending legislation. >> reporter: as house and senate lodge into the final legislative phase this week, the fobbing suthefocus is on a doze. the house speaker wants to flip the votes. two of the house democrats say they are keeping an open mind but both are worried that the

president's proposal doesn't do enough to hold down the healthcare costs. >> i told the president that if the finished product is something i will vote for it, and but if it's not i won't vote for it. >> i don't know how we can pass a bill that doesn't support our business communitity and add more costs. >> reporter: abortion is a controversial issue led by the democrat and socially conservative democrats in the house say that the bill must include bill that would prevent federal funding of abortion. negotiations continue on that with the white house. >> the president has said from the outset we don't want to change the status quo on abortion funding, neither the senate nor the house bill has any federal funding for abortions. none. if abortion services are provided people would pay out of their own pockets in the senate and house bill, they do them in slightly different ways. >> reporter: mid-march is the deadline to try to get the house to pass the senate bill and each

chamber is expected to pass a package of so-called 6s to the bill. fox news. coming up in the early edition, a shocking arrest in the murder of a gas station owner. >> she looked like she was really disis tressed. >> how one of the suspects is related to

5:14 now on fox 45 early edition. a beautiful weekend.

will that carry over into the workweek? meteorologist steve fertig is here with a look at our forecast. >> patrice, yes, it will. we are looking forward to a nice day today and tomorrow. sky watch hd radar indicates a dry scan out there. we will put things into motion to see if there's any rain nearby. down to the south and west of us, as you can see moving through kentucky and parts of west virginia in the southern part, and through virginia, the western part of virginia, it seemed a little bit of rain, and maybe even a little bit of snow in the higher elevations. that is moving south and east and will miss us, we're looking forward to a decent looking day. take a look at the surface features, you will see that we got the high pressure center off to the north and west of us. get a northwest flow, that will keep things dry and keep those showers out of our way. the dry air will allow for sunshine today and upper 50s for high temperatures. so another nice day. if you liked yesterday we got more on the way today it looks like. take a look at our bigger

picture on the future scan model. here is what is coming our way, see the low pressure center that is going to move in our general direction and come here by wednesday night bringing with it some showers. it's going to linger for a while. high pressure is going to block its path. it will take sometime to move through. that will bring us a chance of some showers, as early as wednesday night but more so on thursday and friday and maybe even into saturday and maybe even early sundayment showers are going to be witsunday.with n until early sunday. temperatures in the upper 50s throughout, a day later week we will get 60 degrees. so something to look forward to i suppose, even if we have to deal with the rain. 33 degrees at the harbor, west wind of 5 miles per hour, and not much of a factor and 30 even in the bhm an the barometer andg

steady. 37 in hagerstown, and temperatures ranging colder as you head toward oakland, 30 degrees there and we're headed toward the high temperature in the eastern shore of 66 today with plenty of sunshine, northwest wind 5 5-15 miles per hour. they will vary a little starting weaker and picking up? strength. plenty of sunshine, a northwest wind at 5-15 miles per hour. the western part of maryland look for a high temperature there of 55 degrees, not bad even in the higher elevationed, schooler in the highest elevations but generally speaking out west, tonight looking forward to mainly clear skies. look real pretty and be chilly with the clear skies. typically we drop to 31 for the overnight low. we will be above that. northwest winds at 5-10 miles per hour. moving through the day today heading toward the 58 which will come as 3:00 this afternoon, we will get out of the upper 30s

and head toward 53 degrees. and 51 at 6:00 p.m. with clear skies. look for a high of 58 degrees with a lot of sun. 67 partly cloudy for the wednesday. in comes the showers for late wednesday night and thursday, and for thursday, friday and saturday more shower chances. 56 for thursday and friday 59 and 60 on your saturday. sunday 54 degrees, a little bit cooler with early showers before partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. sky watch weather is available at your finger. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45 powerful doppler radar to track incoming storms. the interactive tools will let you know when the rain or snow will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. now for a look at what is happening on the roads. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we are check in on the actual speeds this morning. and so far not a bad ride. looking at 45 miles per hour near the whitemarsh boulevard.

but we do need to talk about maintenance work. bge crews are actually going to shutdown that ramp from northbound 95 on to russell street that is in effect right now and will be taking place until march 20th. now the way to get around all of this is to use 395 and then hit mlk as the alternate. as far as 95 traveling at 395, let's check in on that vicinity, and here it is, a pleasant ride there on the northbound and southbound stretch making that push down toward the beltway. 95 a little bit farther down moving at ka caton avenue, showg you what that scene looks like, favorable conditions, a few cars filtering down the northbound and southbound lanes toward the 95 exit. on the west side, it's looking good at liberty road nice and quiet, out and inner loop up toward 795. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, back over to you. thank you.

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shocking new developments in the murder of a baltimore county gas station owner. police make more arrests and reveal one of the suspects is the victim's own wife. myranda stephens has the latest. >> i can't believe it. >> reporter: still shocked by the murder of one of their neighborhoods residents in this whitemarsh neighborhood are even more stunned by polic who policw say was behind the killing. >> shocked, never dreamed anything like that could happen. >> reporter: 49-year-old william ray porter was gunned down inside of the gas station he owned. this weekend police arrested six suspects in the killing including porter's wife, 47 years old carla porter. >> we worked on friday evening and we couldn't event get close to her, but she looked like she was really distressed. >> reporter: ca carla porter, witnessed her husband's death. it involved car la's own sister,

brother and nephew along with two family friends. >> the story was kind of odd. there was nothing taken, even one of the boys at funeral says nothing was taken not even a bag of chips. >> you don't ever want to think that it's your spouse. >> reporter: family members notice there were a lot more police cars around the home here lately which they thought was a little strange. >> we were curious in what was going on. they don't search the house unless you're looking for something personal. >> reporter: police haven't released a possible motive or said who was the actual shooter but all six suspects now face first-degree murder. >> i can't believe it. baltimore county police have scheduled a press conference for 11:00 this morning where they plan to he releas release more s about the arrest. coming up later on the fox 45 morning news a singing stockbroker, why one man is showing off his talent in a mcdonald's. but next cutting

> toyota is getting a surprising bump in interest despite its big recall. matt sherri reports in today ace business brief. >> reporter: wall street closed out the week in a bang as

investors cheered the latest unemployment numbers. the dow jumped 122 points, the nasdaq rose closing at the highest level this year the s&p 500 added 15 points. employers cut fewer jobs than expected in february. the economy lost 36,000 jobs, better than was expected. the government said that the giant storms that hit the east coast last month possibly skewed the data but it's unclear by how much. the national unemployment rate held at 9.7%. toyota's incentive plan offering zero percent financing seems to be working. evans.com says purchase intents done by research surged 40% to a 13 month high. toyota is not out of trouble. the house committee is asking the japanese for more more details. and telling them that there's an

absence of documents to prove whether the automaker thoroughly investigated the problem. for business brief i'm matt cherry. coming up snow is melting all across the region. we're happy about that. how things are shaping up at licatpill lick

welcome back to fox 45 early edition. i'm patrice harris. a beautiful weekend, hopefully the workweek starts out the same way. meteorologist steve fertig is here with the forecast. as long as you say more sun is in the future then we are all smiles. >> immediate future, today and tomorrow looking good and much of wednesday and maybe some showers. enjoy the next couple of days, it should be very nice. if you liked the weekend, more of today and tomorrow, patrice. as you look at sky watch hd radar, you are seeing showers moving out of kentucky and west virginia, and it's mofgh movingf the