when it rains it pours. hurricane season in maryland. remnants of tropical storm nicole drooped more than a foot of rain in maryland. oh my gosh! the conditions you're waking up to this morning and who saw the worss of it. the rain is over, but it's not done causing trouble on the -oads. the routes you need to avoid on your morning commute. it is thriving in this area. the sex trade here in baltimore. why the city is becoming a hot spot for modern day slavery. good morning. it's friday, ootober first. we are out of september and into the month of october and it's bringing a lot of rain and mess wwth it, at least it did yesterday.

school delay to start this morning. harford county schools are opening two hours late because had.3 harrii. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig to see what we can expect today the day after e had such for such l rains. we wwll have toohave improvements but we will have to deel with the rains. and we picked up 6 inches downtown. and look at the havre de grace area are piccing up six inches offrain. every place else averaging 5-6 inches. arees and indicate that theú shooers are moving oot. there's still left over light showerssthat could be pushing through from d.c., and but it's definitely improving. there's a run off and as a

result we haveea flood warning to tell you about around the chesapeake bay. we have aaflood watch that will be for the northeastern part of the staae shore. we have a frontal advisory that continues on the west side of the chesapeake bay. the whole thing moves out as the off to the east and the highve preesure should be bbilding in and drying us ut through the afternoon and the weekend, it should be a ice weekend. 70 degrees should do it for the high. it ill be windy with 15-20-mile-an-hour winds gusting higher. here is laaren cooke with the traffic edge. lauren. >> reporter: thankkyou, steve. %-bay bridge this morning, a wid adviceey is in effect as we take a live look at route 50 at sandy point. cars are moving along okay. there won't be any direetionnl lights working in the system. do be extra careful.

we do have flooding in anne arundel county. watch out for a sinkhole and more flooding in millersville -hat has shutdown between central avenue and route 648. as an alternate. we are dealing with more flloding between putty hilll3 taae a look at 695 at harford road. you will notice no reel problems. it doesn't look dangerous. the roads are slick so you don'3 want to reduce yyur speed. here a live look at warren road. cars are moving alonn okay. it's going very, very slick. we do have down trees in the -rea.3 warren road is going to be shutdown at bossily avenue. as we can go back to the map, wú have another fallen tree that shutdown boss lee avenuily at y vvlley road.

and more flooding in cecil county. route 222 is oing to be shutdown t happy valleyyroad. that's a look at the traffic edge. pattice,,let's ssnd it back to you. yesterday and well into the overnight hourss all over the city heavy rainn3 forced businesses anddstreets to close. in morning some are slowll we ú%ening. megan gilliland is live at fells point wwere residents aree3 crossing their fingers that all of this rain is one. >> reporter: good morningg what a difference a day can ú%ke. take a look at teels point. -- fells oint, the flooding has subsided but this is a day that yoo wiil wear the rain boots out here. when you're walking across the streets, you will be walking through and dealing with deepú ppddles thaa are still filling in.ú the bad news, a that rain is

still falling, a lot of people sayinn, it's just water, but we ggt a lot of ii and we have seen how damaging that water can bee take a look at the video that we capturee from fells point. as the aii continued to ffllú down, it seeped into homes and businesses. some were forced to shutdown. that flooddng got worse, llaving cars stuck in hot water. >> i wouldn't want to be the person that owns that car. i think they're gging to have some damage. >> a tow truck is tking them away becaase they're in danger. i'm not going to lie. i came down here to check it out. >> reporter: city officialsú orderrd all cars between central ú%ve oot of thattpotentiaa flood zone. drivers were allowed to park in the fleee and eden garage or little italy garage for free. and ou parked on one of those garaggs, you need to have your car out by 8:00 this morning. all the roads here in fells

point are back open. hopefully this rrin will stop bit time morning commuters hhad out todayy live if fellsspoint, i'm megan gilliland. res dale was amon!!rrsedales that experienced a lottof flooding. dealing with thhusands of dollars of damageefolllwing the storm ut they're taking it all in stride. >> there's a lot f water here, a lot of water. everybody is safe. >> it looks like a river. tte storm came through here and we came ddwn about two hours ago and the hole thing gets flooded out. %-about 20 some years. business is her place. this is what we got. >> oh my gosh! ú% oit had to happen sooner or

lattr. this the 3rd time this has >> it looks like a hell of a mess that's whattit looks like. >> once it started rising. it rises ffom the creek over thereeand the creek on this side and it lets everything go. -p we are goiig to try to let this truck box in here before ii goes again and fills up again. >> you can grab it and salvage. ú%got a pickup truck over theee. well, maybe we don't have it. >> it's a mess. >> back in the warehouse it got to be about 4 feet. p> it was like this once before. it's going to take a long time to clean it up again. >> who knows what they're going >> we want to remiid you that the folllwing countiee in our viewing area are still under a

morning, anne arundel, baltimore county, baltimore city, andú hhrford county. thousands of peoole are withoutú power this morning following th3 storms. right now theee's early 7,000 homes in the balttiore region that have noy electric industry. no electricity. since the storm began, power has ú%en restored to more than 47,000 people. we were following the storms here at ffx 45 all daa, but so were ur viewers. one person captured the scene in westminister on thursday where thiigs were looking a bit sinster, daak, heavv clouds filled the kk. the roads looked worse. this piiture was taken between wolf and washington stteet. those cars right there are not going anywwere for a while. when you see severe weather in your neighborhood, see it, shoot it, send it. ú% to foxbaltimore.com ann clicc

on the see it, shoot it, send it icon. you can send photos thank you picpics baltimoreecom. the unit investigates drug crimes in the northwest police disttict. now the police are investigating the police after the unit used a stolen license plate on an unmarked city vehicle. >> mainly where did they get this he plate from. was it taken out of an evidence room. and why?3 why woull we take a plate and use it on a police car. >> police promise they are sendú other officcrs into the witter, my space, facebook, skype, you name t there's a lot of ways for people to engage and network online.

with that comes the possibility -f peepll who want to take advantage of others, people who maa be more vulnerable than you think. >> the suicide of ttler clemente re-opened thh dialogue on cybee3 bullying. >> they are not able to capture picturessof people and transmit them across the internet.ú%>> r5 bullying laws but the legislation may nnt be the ú%the dehumanizing ann theeing s depersonalizing of this technology. ww eed to get the word out that you can hurt people ttroughú this. >> reporter: the two teees are charged with invasion of privacy. >> are they cold-blooded intentional killers. did they act in reccless disrrgard of this young man's

humanity, yes. -ad look at the end result. >> cyber bullying is a seriousú issue and something that is not going to gg away. >> reporter: every guardian can take charge. >> we love you, this ii going to be a bleep in the screen of your life. you don't need to worrr about this long-ttrm. you're goong to get through t beccuse you are strong enough to do that. >> reporter: cyber cruelty has been linked to at least 36 suicides by youug people in thh according to a wire afety..rg? , newwyork marianne harvesty, fox nnws. -accng a lawsuit following theú death of a teenagerrwhose body was found tto years ago in southeast baltimore. awny mchahn was found in a the medical consiier couldn't determine the official cauue of deathh city police believe that the

teen committed suicide ut the ú%rents are threatening to sue ú%%-thee belleve they mishandled information. >> i do believe that they believe firmly that my daughter annie killed herself, and i know ttat is not possible, they're wrong, yet they won't reopen the investigation. they are clinging to it mutely, dumbly. >> three people werr charged with stealinggthe mchahn's car but nooone has been charged in her death. a baltimore pplice will spend a year and a half? jail aftein jaii after pleading guilty to assault. he wws arrested last year after barr prosscutors say he gottinto a bar with man and as the man and the friend drove away, dobson pulled out his depprtment issued handgun and fired a hot. dobson has been suspended since the shootingg the police department will now begin the process of letting him

go. a gloomy job's report is aarrptly removed f from a state -gency's website now there's a call into a investigation as to why. -he commmttee of the legislature e-mails immediately before and after the report was removed and rrplaced last month..3 the seccetaryyof labor and licensiig says the report was never supposed to be releassd to the public. >> if the citizenss f maryland were being ntentionally deceivvd, then we hhve an obligaaion not tooobsccre that. >> in the campaign there will be of doom or for boding, depending oo what side offtheecampaign they're on. you guys have anymore questions? stay with fox 45 morning news on governorr go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the news features section.

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grace. and down to the south, to ssow %-we saw 8 innhes in severna pak and deppnding on where you were, it waa a rage of 2 to as much as 17 inches f rain.ú we picked up 7 inches at wi which was a record for tte day. now we check improoements. ú%ere's going to be run off want tooshow you a flash-flood warning in baltimore county. that wiil expire. warning for the northeast part of the stateeand the chesapeake bay and the northern part of the eassern board. we will have to eal with a %-ddscontinue, flood watch, thhe it was just discontinued. expected to be ddscontinued %-coastal flood advisory, thatt3 will continue through the33 afttrnoon hours along the coastal bay with the winds that will be somewhat strong, a

little bit of concern theee as well. -therwise the future scan model indicaaes weere going to seeú some improvement. any light showers that we see moving out of here.issipatee and we look forward to drier air moving in. it will be cooler as we get to the weekend a little bit more.3 meanwhile the winds ill be picking up a little bit more out of the north. we do have gusts out there, up to 20-25 miles per hour, gusts higger eeen 30 miles per hour bbfore it's all said and done with. that is moving off to thh nnrth and east slowly. pressure enter hich was remnants of nicole, whhch was feeding this one. %-bit.ill movv offshore a little it's not quite determined yet whether or not thht was moved inland..3 as high pressure builds in behind it. what that wiil increase the wind for today and bring cooler air for the weekend t ill be drier, %-witt cooler temperatures.ne 66 in salisbury, 58 inn33

hagerstoon and the temperatures -ill climb to 70 degrees for th3 high which s fairly seasonable. a little cooler by a few egrees and gusting to 30 mills per hour. tonight 52 degrees, it will be a flow at 10-15 miles per hour. ú-after today, 70 degrees for te high and clearing skies bb later today. in fact, we should see someú sunshine moving in for later this morning and especially for the afternoon. it will still be windy though, and 68 degrees for tomorrow. a chance for a light shower. the front push through ate saaurday into early sunday but %-that.ecting a wwole ot out of anything compared to yesterday will not be a hole lot. 65 degrees on sunday, 63 degrees on mmnday and 67 on tuesday..3 can't let a shower both tuesday and wednesday, and even thursday as the temperatures start to rebound at the end of the seven-daayperiod. now, patrice, let's send it back to you.

>iiadar is available at foxbaltimoreecom. ú%e the interactiveetools to3 track incoming storms down to3 your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/iradar. now it's time to get a check of ú%e roadways. lauren cooke is here with the traffic eege.3 good morning, lauren. ú% reporter: good morning, patrice. yesterday's storm is having quite an impact on the morning commute. we are dealing with flooding anú several accidents and down trees %-the bay bridge where a windd3 warning is in effect and no directional lights are operating at this time. you want to use reduced speeds ú% you're traveling on routt by. -e have quite a bit of floodinn in anne arundel county. watth out for a sinkhole at an tee!!antestimon teem drive. use educed speeds.%we do have s in the area, one in cockeysville that has down bossily avenue and another at old bossily avenue at dulaney vallly road.

we do have no more floodinn ands we check and take a live look a3 i-45. it doesn't look to bad in this vicinity but roads are going to be slick. county where we are dealing with a crash that is dealing with record and more flooding up in road anddmore that has shutdown %-back to you. still ahead a good month on wall treet. to a close. the ddcision thattthey make, it's just like a brrin surgeon. the decision that they make will affecc peoplees liies foreeer. and deciding tte guilt orr3 innoccnce of ttree men. %-harris murder trial musthh ken conssder. the

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>>a baltimore jury must decide the ate of thhee en charged with killing former ccty coonciiman ken harris. john ridel has more on closing >> reporter: juuors have gotten a look at the

surreillance viieo. in closing arguments, prosecutors say that the young men in that video are the ones ken harris. prosecutors say hat dna from a hollow mask used in the robbery is from williams. hhs ar as hh tried to flee from the robbery outside of the jazz club. >> i willlsay that the jury has asked a lot of good questions and they are anxious to get the case. >> reporter: attorneys representing e the three defendants, spent most of the afternoon questioning how police handled this case and they aae questioning the accuracy of the dna evidence. the attorneyyrepresenting %-one is disputing thatrors no mr. harris' death is an unbelievable tragedy. that doesn't mean that these because harris was a public official there was a ppessure on city hall to find suspects. jerome injected race into his

argument, asking jurors, remember, quote, now they say the black guy did it. they must consider all separate ccarges against the thrre defendants. >> that is paat of being a jury. just like a brain surgeon. the decision they ake will -ffect people's lives forever.ú >> reporter: the -eliberationn schedule to begin on friday morning.ú john rye del, fox 45 morning3 [ dog barking ] mom! breakfast? in this house? in the morning i can use all the help i can get. that's why i love nutella, a delicious hazelnut spread that's perfect on multigrain toast and even whole-wheat waffles. it's a quick and easy way to give my family a breakfast they'll want to eat. and nutella is made with simple, quality ingredients, like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. they love the taste and i feel good that they're ready to tackle the day. ♪ nutella. breakfast never tasted this good. i always feed in the fall.

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