we are looking into a possible fire bombing in the curtis bay area. police tell us this may involve the domestic dispute. a business on land and on water. waddling out of town. say goodbye to the ducks. and what a story this is. in just a few hours the oldest living employee at glen el martin is coming back to middle river. >> love it. that's a great story. >> a great story. how you feeling? ready to roll? >> great. how are you? >> here comes the weekend. getting ready for the ravens, nfl season starts tonight. pittsburgh. let's look at the forecast with justin. >> you just read about it tomorrow morning. 6:30. good morning. start off with the main issue with this storm off the coast. that has been plaguing us. just spotty showers. we lucked out yesterday with the break of sun to boost our temperatures. today we're overcast, more

showers underway, but with the strong wind out of the east you'll feel it already pushing 20 to 30 miles per hour and prompted a coastal flood advisory not only for the shoreline and pink shaded area, the small craft advisory on the bay but on the west shore of the chesapeake. look for high tides this morning. baltimore listed at 10:51 this morning and 11:50 tonight. take an hour, hour and a half up or down south on the chesapeake with the location. there's moisture. there's the storm off the coast and already throwing in showers this morning. just a few spotty showers becoming more widespread and steady rain expected by this afternoon and tonight. strong gusty winds and our two-degree guarantee of only 68 degrees. 6:31. let's check the roads with kim. >> we have heavy traffic here on the west side of the outer loop, things are going to be running pretty heavy between 795 and route 70. again, no incidents at this spot but traffic, i guess everyone decideed to go to work at the same time. we definitely have a couple of

incidents we're still dealing with, one in howard county, southbound 95 at route 175. luckily that crash is off to the shoulder. just causing a little bit of minor rubbernecking delays. also in harford county on the harford county/cecil county line, route 1 closed in both directions at the conowingo dam because of a crash. try pulaski highway or 95 as alternates. on the inner loop at providence road we have reports of a crash there with some debris in the road with possible lane closures, just be aware. and the jfx at cold spring lane looking good in both directions. back to you. 6:32. pete "on the street" o'neal was out there on the scene of this crash in northeast baltimore. sources tell us a car carrying students from morgan state university slid on the wet roads, crashed into an suv on loch raven boulevard near havenwood. happened around 10:30 last night. no one seriously hurt but one boy in the car had a very bad day. he had just gotten out of the hospital because he was mugged. he's now recovering from this car crash. rumors about an electrical

short circuit caused a stampede that killed five people, injured 24. this happened in a school in new delhi as students were coming in to take an exam. five of the people injured are in critical condition. the students were ages 8 to 16. baltimore city firefighters are investigating a possible fire bombing. this incident happened around 1:00 yesterday afternoon in the 800 block of clintwood court. in the curtis bay area. when fire crews arrived on scene they found heavy smoke and fire come from the first floor of the two-story brick row home. fire officials think the fire may have started because of a domestic dispute. we're told that two women suffered injuries, they were taken to area hospitals for evaluation. baltimore county fire officials are working to make the neighborhood safer. it's all a part of a new pilot program kicked off in rogers forge. fire department personnel will be walking door-to-door at the request of concerned communities in areas with specific safety issues. they are going to be addressing issues such as smoke alarms,

carbon monoxide detectors and basic home emergency planning. those interested should contact the safety education division. 410-887-4876. saw a lot of suits at the mall yesterday. here's the latest on the push to bring slots to maryland. maryland's video lottery commission conducted a site visit for anne arundel county slots proposal near arundel mills mall. they are competing to operate a casino. commissioners already visited sides in baltimore city, cecil county and eastern shore. he was hired in the same month as the stock market crash in 1929. and today in middle river the glen el martin aviation museum will honor its oldest employee. 101-year-old joe grant began working for the company in

october of 1929. later this morning he'll take a tour of his old business. grant helped assemble famous planes such as the china clipper built in middle river, the first transpacific air service. grant's friend robert morgan spoke about working under grant and even reflected on grant helping start saudi arabian airlines. >> they were pioneers over there. there was nothing except desert. every time we took a flight it took guts. >> joe grant, 101. coming back. he's flying into middle river this morning. there's also a book about his famous life here. 101 years old. >> amazing. he had his own tv show. we'll tell but a famous visitor, coming up in a bit. visiting baltimore again. in the meantime, as you may know, weddings can cost you a

fortune. >> but on 9-9-09, an unusual story. and a fashion designer shows off dresses that are not only inexpensive but useful for the emotional bride. now tracking winds in ocean city, 33 to 34 miles per hour. that storm off the coast now makes its way back on to the coast. more winds, more rain, some flooding expected. our full forecast coming up. right now let's peak at the roads with kim. >> heavy volume and a lot of slowdowns on the west side at liberty road. however, on the outer loop, east side at providence road, a crash with possible lane closures. details coming up. lets check the buses and trains. >> good morning. for your commute you'll find the number 15 bus with a diversion at saratoga and greene. the 17 diverted at corporate and international. construction on the scene. numbers 20, 23 and 40 diverted at fayette and linwood due to police activity. and on the marc, brunswick 872, 10 to 15 minutes late.

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to the cops who found the ripken robbers, they should throw out the first pitch next monday. we're live at the yards for the crime of the century -- or at least the last couple of hours. a street sweeper makes a wrong turn, ends up banging into a house. wait until you see the mess. remember that, i love you george, kiss me george, routine? guess what? it was all an act. >> we're going to show it again. apparently an act that worked. good morning, thank you for joining us. i'm megan pringle. >> i'm jamie costello. here's your forecast with meteorologist justin berk. >> act three of this particular

storm. we've had a few days of cloudy wet weather. it goes back to labor day where we had showers from the same general system. now it's getting a push back on shore. there's high pressure coming out of new england, slides off the coast and that actually pushes this storm inland towards us. we've already had the winds picking up 20 to 30 miles per hour in sports this morning. watch the rain come from east-to-west and building in by lunchtime. if it doesn't happen to be raping at noon at your -- raining at noon at your house it will be raining in the afternoon. hour by hour, chance of moderate rain for the evening commute, baltimore south and west and annapolis towards dc, extends through 9:00 this evening through most of central maryland and the strong winds will be with us as well on in through tomorrow morning. begins to wind down a little, most of the rain of that storm slides in through eastern pennsylvania and new york. we get another shot at showers through midday friday. 68 degrees and it will be gusty, up to 30 mile-per-hour winds this afternoon. that is our two-degree guarantee. only about 67 with heavy rain

building in this afternoon in annapolis. kim? i'm twittering away, please follow me, twitter.com/marylandtraffic to get your updates. west side of the outer loop, traffic very heavy as you make your way down from 795 headed towards the route 70 interchange. those are very heavy volume delays. give yourself a few extra minutes. new crash in the elkridge area, northbound 95 at route 100, that crash is off to the right shoulder. still working that incident in harford county and cecil county, route 1 at the conwindow dam remains closed in both directions because of the earlier accident. pulaski highway and route 95 is your best bets. providence road and harford road, a crash in the right lane, traffic build there. jfx at northern parkway, traffic building southbound had headed towards downtown baltimore but no real delays to let you know about at this time. looking for a business you know you can trust? letior better business bureau do the work for you with the

video business directory. go to abc2news.com/bbb. back to you. look at the e-mails we're getting on the cal ripken story. joe writes in, this memorabilia thing is getting out of hand. a long national nightmare is over. >> we're talking about the ripken 8 monument ripped out of camden yards is safe this morning. abc2 news linda so live with where it was standing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these are the numbers of the great orioles players retired over the years, 33 eddie murray. over here cal ripken's number 8 is missing after police say four drunk men ripped it right from its base. police say the whole thing was caught on tape as the four men pushed and kicked over the 8 and ran off with it. the four suspects have been identified as 18 and 19-year-olds from essex and baltimore. all face theft and vandalism charges. the statue was put in back in 2001 near the park's eutaw street entrance as a tribute to ripken's retirement. officers say it didn't take long to catch up with the

suspects. they got a call for disorderly conduct and when police showed up it was pretty obvious who they were dealing with. >> shortly after that call we received a call for a disorderly in the 3000 block of lombard street. four intoxicated white males fighting with each other. when officers arrived they found the giant number 8 statue in the back of a pickup truck. >> reporter: police are not releasing the surveillance video because they want to make sure they can use it to prosecute the suspects. they say they are trying to get the number 8 back here as soon as possible. live this morning at camden yards, linda so, abc2 news. we want your two cents on this story. what do you think should happen to the guys? sentenced to the bullpen? nothing? a harmless prank? lifetime ban from camden yards or this one? 2,632 hours of community service. an hour for each consecutive game cal played. vote in the on-line poll. go to abc2news.com, look at the

righthand side of the home page. if you you missed these young women in timonium yesterday don't worry. you still have a chance to meet them and celebrate the ravens tonight. the cheerleaders will be at power plant live in downtown baltimore. to sign their calendar and continue a week of celebrations. until the ravens first game which is of course on sunday. the girls were at high tops in timonium last night. the party tonight kicks off at 5:00. 6:50. this morning we're waiting to see just what you thought of the president's passionate plea to congress to pass his health care reform. though what everyone is probably talking about is the outburst that we all heard from a south carolina politician. listen. >> the reforms i'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. >> you lie! [jeering] >> reporter: representative joe wilson later issued a statement of apology and called the white house. he extended sincere apologies to the president for what he called his lack of civility in

his speech. the president says it's time to stop the bickering and start working together to form a comprehensive plan. >> i'm not the first president to take up this cause but i am determined to be the last. i will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than to improve it. [ cheering and applause ] he says individuals should be required to carry basic health insurance and also promised to protect medicare. "good morning america" will have much more in a couple of minutes. to an update on a story involving a gang rape in baltimore city. >> "the washington times" confirms one of the three men accused in the rape is the son of a foreign diplomat. abc2 news sherrie johnson joins us with what this means in the case against him. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one of the suspects in the gang rape case is adedamola adenirans his father is the new u.s. ambassador from nigeria. the suspects were arrested for the july gang rape of two women in baltimore city, another woman in august. police say in july the victims

accepted a ride from the suspects in downtown baltimore. investigators say the women were threatened at knifepoint and taken to a nearby high school parking lot and raped. another female victim raped under the same circumstances in august. she was able to identify the license plate from the car which led police to one suspect and then he gave up the other two. according to published reports since the suspect's father was not yet serving as ambassador at the time of the arrest he will not receive diplomatic immunity. >> we could argue threat to public safety and flight risk and say judge, we think this person might run if given the opportunity, and also there are threats to public safety because the nature of the crime is so violent and hurricane yes, -- heiness. >> reporter: all three men held without bale as they await trial. a preliminary hearing scheduled for september 15th. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. time 6:52. a bizarre accident in harford county leaves a huge hole in a churchville home and the

family, if they were home at the time it could have been tragic. it's hard to believe a street sweeper crashed into the house in the 2600 block of pal hira drive. the -- palmyra drive. the point of impact inches from the baby's room and left a huge hole on the side of the house. the family was away on vacation at the time of the crash. neighbors say that the machine was preparing the road for resurfacing a project when it rolled round the hill and into the home. >> from what he told me what happened was he parked by the silver truck, when to the other neighbor's house to get his truck removed, the blue truck and the sweeper took off on its own. >> that bed used to be against the wall. i didn't move anything in there. it pushed the bed about four feet. >> neighbors are now working to board up the hole in the house, the guest room, for the family to help them out. workers statewide must take furloughs but that still doesn't seem to be enough to

get us out of this massive budget deficit. the governor said the state will need to cut another $100 million to $200 million. at this point the governor still doesn't know where the money will come from. so far $736 million in cuts have been approved. you can't ride the ducks in baltimore anymore. we're talking about the amphibious sight seeing vehicles. ride the ducks. the company decided to concentrate on other cities. the company didn't think it could make enough money here to invest in upgrading its fleet. they drove through downtown before entering the water for a harbor tour. they are based on a world war ii design. i am gay, george. and -- >> here it comes. >> i think i'm in love with you. attorney general, please -- take me. choose me, george! please! >> ok. >> please, choose me. george, may i kiss you, please? >> you probably remember this

story about george clooney's crazed admirer at a press conference yesterday. it turns out it was a stunt. the man is actually an italian tv personality. and dresses as different characters for a show and the man says he was joking around. the only thing that would have made the prank better, if clooney really did kiss him. >> the guy was really nice. he said i love you - >> another heart throb also got unwanted attention from a male fan but took it all in stride. this man was a real fan who ran out on the court to kiss tennis star rafael nadal at the u.s. open tuesday night. he was taken off the court in handcuffs. 6:55. let's take this full screen. we've got this coastal flood advisory. i want to point out the high tides. 10:51 this morning. mainly 11:50 in baltimore tonight. up and down the bay for the strong winds and heavy rain,

could cause minor erosion. 68 degrees our two-degree guarantee. winds will gust over 30 miles an hour, already had some this morning and stronger winds by tonight. tomorrow morning rain tapers to showers and 72. near 80 as we dry out this weekend. stop-and-go traffic on the west side of the outer loop between 795 and liberty road. give yourself plenty of extra time before heading out. in howard county, working a crash on northbound 95 at route 100. that is off to the right. not causing too much delay at this time. in harford county on the harford/cecil county line route 1 at the conowingo dam remains closed in both directions, try pulaski highway or 95 as an alternate. outer loop at providence road, that crash has been cleared from the right lane and is off to the right shoulder. "good morning america" is next. after that "good morning maryland" at 9:00. we're going to talk about looking for colleges. >> richard sherr is going to tell us about his new squareoff which starts sunday morning on abc2. see you then. interesting grooming.

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