humidity 87% and the winds calm. so nice and quiet. temperatures around the region, low 70s for the most part, perry hall, a little on the chilly side, relatively speaking at 68 degrees. we factor in the humidity, feels like we're in the upper 70s most places. we see we have mostly clear skies but we will be seeing the clouds increase somewhat this afternoon. we could see a couple of thunderstorms out of this as well. by noontime we're looking at low 80s. 90 for the afternoon high and then again a couple of thunderstorms and showers are possible and once those form and develop we could be seeing some heavier downpours because they are sort of slow-moving storms once they develop of this type. just be aware of that. you could get a lot of rain in some spots this afternoon. let's check the roads with kim. >> commuters may see some fire activity on the south side of the inner loop between pulaski highway and southeast boulevard this morning. however, we check at the outer loop, traffic is moving along very nicely as you head to the baltimore national pike and towards the route 70

interchange. good news for our friends in glen burnie. crain highway at baltimore annapolis road, that is route 648 has been reopened. that is traveling smoothly in both directions there. however, other incidents are in owings mills, caves road near baronet road, all lanes still blocked because of the tree down there. lutherville, falls road and west joppa road, disabled vehicle there. and plummer avenue closed on the southbound side because of the watermain break but alternating traffic gets by in the northbound lanes. jfx at 41st street, no problems to let you know about. back to you. 6:31. another night of sitting in front of a fan with ice on your neck. this is not the way senior living is supposed to be at mccolloh homes. let's go to linda so to find out why it is like this. >> reporter: for the past five days the air conditioning has not been working. mccolloh homes is managed by baltimore city housing authority. officials tell us they don't know what is causing the problem but it is causing an uncomfortable and dangerous situation for the folks who live here.

the senior citizen highrise on druid hill avenue has been without ac since friday. that forced residents out of their homes. some say it's too hot to cook, eat or sleep. the baltimore city housing authority manages the building. officials say they were not notified of the problems here until saturday. at first only several units were without air. now it's several floors. a housing authority spokesperson says the community room was kept open all night for residents. >> the first-floor lobby of the 1102 building is very cool. we're asking if you want to come down, there's couches, there's televisions, you can relax in the lobby while the system is being worked on. >> it's only on the first floor. i feel though that's sad for all the elderly people. see them in they be in their houses suffering. >> reporter: contractors are expected back first thing this morning to try to fix the problem. we're live in west baltimore,

linda so, abc2 news. not the heat, fire or flood that forced a carroll county from their home. it was mold. the family says they lost everything they owned after mold made them all sick. they first discovered it four months after they moved into their eldersburg home and that was four years ago. they cleaned the house thoroughly, thought the mold was gone but three years again it came back. worse than before. >> the first time around we spent a ton of money. this time we had to throw away everything in the home room by room. in attempts to clean up the house so that we could stay there and we threw -- we found it in the girls' room first, threw everything away, cleaned it up. i thought we were ok. then we found it in the boys' room. >> guess where the family has been living? in their mini van off and on since the summer began. they've also gotten help from their church. to help, contact st. joseph catholic church in eldersburg, 443-920-9191. two ocean city resorts

fined for failing to install carbon monoxide detectors. you know about the americana hotel. had to be evacuated, three people got sick this month after high levels of carbon monoxide were discovered. the americana remains shut down and has been fined $10,000. then we had the el capitan condos now fined $2,000. a family of six got sick by c.o. in june. the fire marshal's office says it will continue to inspect hotels for c.o. detector compliance. it's something you would expect to see on a disney vacation but residents of one town swear they have a mythical creature living just off the coast and are willing to pay you to prove it. and dirty money. what is really lurking on the bills in your wallet. and we are looking at a quiet start so far this morning but we could see heavy rain in places this afternoon. i'll explain why. plus, we'll check out the tropic and see what is the latest on hurricane bill. first, a check of traffic. >> as we check the beltway you

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still thinking about that elevator in outer space. what happens if you get off on the wrong floor terrible. headlines this morning. before weather and traffic. she had to be impressed. he really loves her maybe. a man who pulled strings may have tugged at the wrong one. open your wallet, take a bit

out, there's a chance you have cocaine on it. now put the dollar back in your wallet. a little of everybody will be "dancing with the stars." they even found another osmond. this and more coming up to 7:00. first your forecast with meteorologist susan schrack. >> good morning. dawn breaking over the city. a beautiful sunrise. let's look at the conditions. 71 degrees, relative humidity 87%. winds calm. barometric pressure is on the way down. satellite and radar composite shows we have mainly clear skies across the state of maryland so we don't have a lot going to interfere with that sunshine that is going to continue to get the temperature rising as we head through the day. but this is all that is left right here of what was tropical storm claudette. just a little bit of moisture and some clouds and a couple of showers. that is all that is left over. it's going to pair up though with the cold front that is off to the west of us. that could create some problems for us. in the form that it could be

forming very heavy thunderstorms for us. as all that moisture -- has all the that moisture to work with, not moving fast so the downpours will be prolonged. in the atlantic ocean we have hurricane bill, a strong category 2 now and of course the sea surface temperatures are warming up, this is just going to grow and grow. this could become a very major hurricane for us. for today, 90 degrees, partly sunny and showers and storms around. let's check the roads with kim. i'm tweeting traffic live now at twitter.com/marylandtraffic. you can follow me easily. as we look at 95 southbound approaching whitemarsh boulevard you see we have building volume, traffic looks very nice as you make your way to the 695/895 split. however, we have a little bit of fire activity off to the shoulder, that is going to be on the south side of the inner loop between pulaski highway and the southeast boulevard exits. so just be aware of that as you make your way around. some people are slowing because of rubbernecking. just use caution there. we also still have downed trees in the owings mills area, caves road near barrow net road, all

lanes are blocked there. the disabled vehicle still on the scene in lutherville, falls road and west joppa road and southbound bel air road in the perry hall area at plummer avenue closed because of the watermain break. traffic gets by northbound. jfx at north avenue, traffic moving along nicely in both directions. back to you. 6:46. on a night when you pop the question how far would you go to show your love? would you slip the waiter a 10 for the window seat? slip the bakery 5 for a nice cake? how far would you go? sherrie johnson with the question within a question. >> reporter: he was only trying to please his girlfriend when a maryland delegate used bad judgment. this morning john cardin is apologizing for his marriage prosal that involved a police helicopter and a boat at taxpayers' expense. he's the 11th district angle gate and nephew of senator ben cardin. he says he wanted to make his fiancee's night perfect as he proposed to her on a boat at

the inner harbor august 7th. this involved a police helicopter overhead and marine police pretending to search the boat. in response to our call about this incident we received an e-mail from a cardin aide. it says "in retrospect i should have considered that city resources could be involved and use better judgment to put a stop to it. i will be in contact with the baltimore city police department and reimburse the city whatever costs they deem appropriate." we contacted city police for their response. they say an internet investigation is underway to determine if there was any inappropriate use of departmental resources. after all this at least john cardin's fiancee said yes. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. a baltimore man being sent to germany to face charges he raped and murdered a 19-year-old woman near a u.s. military base 25 years ago. 49-year-old robert brown turned over now to the state police. brown has been living in his sister's basement on home electronic monitoring since his artery in 2007.

he will have a full trial and will likely be represented by a german public defender. city police continue to tighten security at the inner harbor after a weekend shooting in the light street pavilion. police believe the two victims from saturday's shooting were gang members. but there were hundreds of other people in the light street pavilion an lawmakers say city police can't do it all. they are calling for tougher prosecution and longer sentences for violent offenders. the city's top prosecutor counters that she and her staff are doing all they can to fight gang violence. right now it is not a crime here in our state to be a member of a gang. >> this year mrs. jessamy has already begun to be in several meetings in the month of july with prosecutors throughout the state, with police, to, again go back to the legislature with a new package of bills that identify what we need to prosecute gang members. >> it's centered around the inner harbor this year, it led to police patrolling the area more. the police commissioner says

those officers are being told to identify possible gang members and question them if they come into the inner harbor. right now reward up to $5,000 for the capture of a fugitive who attacked a howard county sheriff's deputy during an escape last week. devon champagne is considered dangerous, has been on the loose since friday. that deputy is going to be ok but again if you have information about the whereabouts of devon champagne you're asked to call howard county sheriff's office now at 410-313-2150. a 22-year-old man will spend eight years behind bars for carrying a pipe bomb in his backpack near a biotechnology center in baltimore. dallas smith was found guilty of having the device and attempting to disarm an officer. smith's attorney plans to appeal. he claimed the police had no right to stop or search his client. police say they stopped smith because he appeared to be carrying a gun and searched him because he was act like he was i'ding something. former south korean jung has died. he was hospitalized last month

for pneumonia. right now yesterday we understand from a seoul hospital he passed away. kim served as south korea's president from the year of 1998 up until 2003. he won the nobel peace prize for his efforts in trying to bring peace with north korea. including an historic summit with north korean leader kim jong il, in 2000. scotland's justice secretary will make an announcement by the end of next week on the fate of a libyan convicted in the lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. the man is convicted in the bombing in 2001 and sentenced to 27 years in prison behe has terminal prostate cancer. libya asked he get out on compassality grounds to see his family before he dies. if you're carrying money, bank notes, you're carrying drugs. there's a new study that shows that traces of cocaine taint up to 90% of paper money in the u.s. this is a lot more than what was found in previous studies.

baltimore specifically has larger phrases of cocaine -- traces of cocaine than many other cities. scientists have known for years that paper money can become contaminated occurring drug deals and -- during drug use and through snorting cocaine with rolled up bills. it can help law enforcement identify patterns of drug use in the community. it was a robbery that sort of puzzled police in montgomery county but almost a month later they think they have their guy. on july 30th a saks fifth avenue store in chevy chase was robbed, several chanel dresses were taken. detectives had surveillance pictures of the suspect. the only problem, they were not sure if it was a she or a he. eventually they figured out it was a man and the arrest warrant was put out for 20-year-old jonathan bradley and last week during a routine traffic stop dressed as a woman he was arrested. we've been reporting on this since the air conditioning went out. abc2 news linda so is live at

mccolloh homes where there's been no air conditioning for days. linda? >> reporter: maintenance workers will be back here first thing this morning to try to fix the problem. it's been almost a week since the air conditioning stopped working and uncomfortable and dangerous situation for the people who live here. the senior citizen highrise on druid hill avenue has been without ac since friday, forcing residents from their homes, some say it's too hot to cook, eat or sleep. the baltimore city housing authority manages the building. officials say they were not notified of the problems here until saturday. at first only several units were without air. now it's several floors. housing officials have not been able to pinpoint the source of the problem. the hot weather and broken air conditioning has many worried about their health. >> thank god i don't have breathing problems but there are people with oxygen and asthma. i feel sorry for them.

>> reporter: the community room was kept open all night for the residents. housing officials say they don't know how long it will take before the problem is fixed but do insist they are working on the problem diligently. live in west baltimore, linda so, abc2 news. 6:52. the u.s. will not have as much swine flu vaccine ready my october as originally thought. 45 million doses could be ready instead of the anticipated 120 million doses. the now anticipated delay is being blamed on manufacturing issues. people at the highest risk are a to get vaccinated first but may now have to wait an extra month. researchers at the university of maryland are continuing trials to test the latest vaccine against the h1n1 virus. if your child is hurt it might help them more not to fill the doctor's prescription. a new study found kids with broken arms do better on a simple painkiller like advil and motrin than with a more powerful prescription painkiller. the study shows children who took the ibuprofen were more

likely to play, ate better and had fewer side effects. the moment you've been waiting for since shawn johnson won the trophy. a new cast for "dancing with the stars." this year we have former dallas cowboy wide receiver michael irvin. he'll be joined by former congressman tom delay who danced away from politics amid a bit of controversy. another osmond, donny this time. kelly osbourn will put on her dancing shoes. macy gray, aaron carter, nya all taking part. louie veto, olympic swimmer natalie coughlin and chuck lidiel, fighting champion will be there. and even more. this season's cast will be the largest in the show's history. season nine begins september 21st and you can watch all the action here on abc2. good morning. i'm susan schrack. a pretty nice one today though it will be on the hot side.

90 degrees the daytime high. we could see showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and into this evening so be aware of that. some could have heavy downpours that would be fairly long. for the rest of the week we're looking at the same sort of thing. unsettled conditions webs, thursday, friday and all the way into the weekend. at least the first part of it. so we'll have the chance of showers and thunderstorms. it's going to be hazy, hot, and humid all the way until the beginning of next week. let's check the roads with kim. >> thank you. i'm getting word of a disabled vehicle pocking the right lane, that is northbound 95 after 695. southbound 95 approaching the wind area traffic is moving at speed and smoothly at this hour. however, still a couple of incidents, inner loop on the south side we had fire activity to the shoulder, between pulaski highway and southeast boulevard. that activity has since been cleared. should cause no problems there. also, trees down in the owings mills area, caves road near

baronet road, and falls road and job were road accident has been cleared and southbound bel air road at plummer avenue still closed for the watermain break. here's what we have coming up this morning on "good morning maryland" at 9:00 -- could open-wheel racing could come to our city? we'll chat with al unser jr. about the idea of a grand prix here. >> one of the biggest worries for the elderly, what one local doctor calls ageism. we'll talk about it. and everyone gets ready to get back to school. how you can adopt a child in need and help them get their school supplies. school starts next week. >> i know. can you believe it? >> no. it's good for everybody. remember, our news continues now on abc2news.com. enjoy the sunrise. enjoy your day. see you later. just as we promise 100% fresh produce...

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