extra con trails that are flying overhead here but we will see some increasing clouds toward the afternoon and getting up to a relatively mild 68 later today. 6:29 on the clock. here's troy with traffic. >> we have had a pretty good drive around the beltway on the outer loop of the beltway but traffic is picking up as well. we expected that right around this time of the hour. take a look at your camera. 695 at liberty road. traffic moving freely on the outer loop of the beltway. 95 southbound between white marsh boulevard and 695 early construction issues have gone into the flow of the traffic so that's why we have some backups there. as we take a look at your drive times this morning 695 outer loop to the jfx is a one-minute ride. 695 a 7-minute ride and 83 southbound, a five-minute ride. we have an accident at west cold spring road and east la fayette.

back to you. the latest now on that deadly shooting at the university involving students. the glen burney man accused of shooting two fellow student social security claiming self-defense. we're joined live in the studio this morning. >> good morning. students and administrators are trying to come to terms with grief and sadness after a deadly weekend shooting. now, 21-year-old tyrone hall is accused of shooting two fellow students with a shotgun early sunday morning. hall told police the man came to his offcampus home after an alleged assault on a woman that night. he shot both men in the stomach with a 12-gauge shotgun. 21-year-old ellis hart ridge of washington, d.c. is expected to recover. according to charging documents, hall says he fired in self-defense after both men lunged at him. hall has been charged at first degree murder and attempted

murder. he's being held without bond at the allegheny detention center. they played basketball for the college. friends describe them as outgoing and popular. students plan to hold a candle light march followed by a vigil at 9:00 to remember brandon carol. flight cancellations are mounting as volcanic ash shut down operations across europe and prevent americans from getting home and a lot of folks don't know when they're going to be going where they're going. people are stuck in airports living off of bottled water and sleeping in chairs. one family stayed with a family near new york city when they went to the airport to help. >> we are here to offer you a home if you want. and there were like exchanging

eyes. so then i told them, i said, listen, my husband came and said, listen, we can go to security just to make you feel comfortable. i'll show you my id. they can log our name. you are safe. >> that's awfully nice, isn't it? >> why that do finally get home to scott land they will keep in touch with these people that saved them from living in the airport. >> oh, my god. >> oh, my god. >> you're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. i just want you to know, i love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you. >> okay. >> will you marry me? >> yes. oh, god. >> do you have to go back to work after that? >> absol. >> well, reporters are formally the ones asking the questions but saturday night tv's local tv

sags, the boyfriend of a reporter was asked. and she said yes, of c. >> houston. >> all right. it was a push for a california senator. >> some rowdy guests had the president changing his tone. >> chalk this up to a small loss if you forget something in a bar, but what happens if it's something for a new i phone? wow, wait till you see that one. a mostly clear sky. chilly temperatures. some of you in the 30s with pafrp chi frost. 41 officially in baltimore. you've got ourselves a mild day. maybe some rain knocking on our doorstep. we'll talk about that in just a pinch. >> looking at 97 south of 695, traffic moving freely in both drebss on that roadway. some issues on 95 southbound between white marsh boulevard and 695.

that is congested. if we take a look at the maps we have an injury accident in east la fayette. and one other accident in owings mills, lake side boulevard at chase mills circle. here's a look at your drive times. 95 split is an 8-minute ride. and 695 on the outer loop 70 to 95 an 8-minute ride. >> good morning from the mta. out there you'll find on the mark train system camden train 841 with a delay. the other trains and lines look good for travel. light rail northbound ten minutes late. metro on time and the buses showing a diversion on the 36 at kirk due to a water main break. for the mta transit team i'm mark jones.

all right. let's run down some of the top stories. police are still trying to determine a motive outside the hospital. a woman and a gunman are dead. two other women are injured. police say there doesn't appear to be any connection between the women and the gunman. >> i'm sorry. do you want to come up here? you know, the -- all right. because can i just say once again, barbara and i are supportive of -- >> the president spoke at a fund raiser in los angeles on monday where he urged california democrats to work hard to

re-elect senator barbara boxer. though the democrat friendly droud were not without criticism. they shouted at the president regarding the don't ask don't tell policy. if you leave your kais in a bar there's a good chance you could go back and get them but one apple employee could get in trouble for what he left in a bar. the new iphone. it's scheduled to be released this summer. the lawyers for apple sent a letter asking for the phone to be returned. the phone is back in the hands of apple. no word on what will become of the careless employee. >> that's a pretty dumb mistake. >> if he or she is in marketing they'll get a promaegs, because co. >> coming up next on good morning maryland the orioles may not be exciting to watch >> but a battle behind the scenes really starting to heat up.

>> fighting words aimed at cal ripkin over the orioles. hear the latest twist in an or controls ongoing family feud. an apology from moo neek's brother has he shares family secrets on oprah.

all right. let's go over and get some weather. justin. >> all right. 6:44. some disappointing news. we learned that nasa has cancelled the shuttle discovery's landing. we had some video to show you, but basically rain and fog developing around cape ka narl so the sky hopefully will clear up a little bit later on. we'll show you that, but they've cancelled the first one. a little later this morning about 9:00 and 10:30 they may start to deorbit and head back down there. but this is just a second extended day for them just

because of weather in florida. we got ourselves locally clear skies with some patchy fog. frost advisory in pa. overall high thin clouds begin to stream in and that will be part of our afternoon setup. here's the deal. storm system churning its way through the nation's heart land. down to atlanta, georgia and portions of the gulf coast. by the way, cape that kafrl will clear all the way down to the east coast but right there right around the launch site and of course the landing strip at the space coast, we'll be watching that this morning. looks like it should clear up after the morning hours so it should get that second approach and they're monitoring it a little bit closer than they are here. back home some weather clouds throwing some clouds in the picture. we show you have a mild day today. tomorrow turning cooler with the next weather system. turning spotty showers into the mountains. our model is breaking up to our

west by tomorrow evening and it will be a cooler day and there will be a threat of some showers rolling in as it gets out of here thursday morning and thursday afternoon big-time weather improvement. some increasing clouds that will gaj wally lower and thicken. high of 68. during the day tomorrow it appears as if we're going to have ourselves some temperatures back down to the low 60s. late day and evening showers tomorrow with some improvement back to 70. 68, sunny on friday and cooler with more rain this weekend. >> you're dealing with congestion on the west side between liberty road and baltimore national pike also on the topside of the beltway over near white marsh boulevard. as we take a look at the cameras you can see some of the congestion there. that's going to be backed up all the way to the 83s. as we look at your drive times this morning they look like this. 95 southbound white marsh

boulevard. 83 southbound, a 7-minute ride. a couple of incidents we're dealing with today. 95 southbound before 895, an accident that has the right lane blocked so watch out for that. back to you. >> all right. st. you ares la's in parkville has an outstanding soccer program andjoseph's on bel air road in nottingham an accident scout problem. a man you entrusted with your children has been charged with abuse but police think there may be more to this story. we're live at county head quarters in towson well, that man volunteered at those two schools. police say alexander michael sims always put himself in situations so he could be near children. that's why police want parents to talk to their kids to find out if there are any more

victims. later today a letter will go home with students at the two schools where sims volunteered. he also volunteered in two cub scout troops. police say sims sexually abused a 9-year-old girl. that abuse allegedly happened at least twice last summer off school groundballeds. the girl waited until last month to tell a family member because she was s. >> she went to his home, played video games with his kids, sat in his lap. he abused her. he has admitted to sexually abusing this young. >> reporter: sims posted $75,000 bond and was released from jail. if you think your child was a victim, police urge you to call their department's crimes against children unit at 410-853-3650. we're live in towson.

abc 2 news. the drifting vol tannic ash from an iceland eruption has eased enough to allow the trickle of flights to resume in a few parts of europe. only limited flights are being allowed to fly today. an international pilots' group remains that the ash remains a danger and the volcano is still erupting and stealing more of it. and still today, we're going to be joined by adam rosenberg. he is the executive director of the baltimore child abuse center. we want you to tune in because he's going to talk about and help us understand why we seem to be hearing so much about abuse stories not only here in maryland but around the country and also how you can approach the subject with your kids. if you have questions send them here to our station. >> and all new this morning some pretty soiled family laundry aired on tv by baltimore county monique's brother. he says he molested the oscar

winning actress and says he's sorry about it. he said the molestation started when she was 7 and he acknowledged and abused and betrayed the trust of his sister. monique was not on the oprah show yesterday. state prosecutor says that's it. he's going to retire when his six-year term is up in september. he says he's fighting corruption. the state's been hard on imh and he isn't a fan of politicians. sheila dixon left her to resign, he plans to retire to his second home which is in florida. tonight students at frostburg state university plan to hold a university to remember brandon carol. >> he was shot and killed by another student over the weekend. more about this 21-year-old tyrone hall from glen burney and he told police two students came to his offcampus home at 4:00

sunday morning after what hall calls an assault of a woman at a party earlier that night. hall shot both men in the stomach with a 12-ganl shotgun. 20-year-old brandon carol was killed. friends have been commenting on the group of nearly 2,000 remembering and sharing memories of brandon. here's what some people are saying. i can't believe you're gone. too soon. i think about this all day and rest in peats writes another. you are a cool dude. the university will hold a candle light vigil. it's going to be a march at 8:30 tonight and the vigil begins at 9:00. it is 6:51. average bishop william borders died yesterday morning at stella he died of colon cancer. he served as our average bishop from 1974 to 1989 and he served as a chaplain during world war

ii. viewing for borders will start on thursday morning. that will be held at the cathedral. services will be at 1:00 on friday for the late average bish shot william borders. let's go back to the losing ways. here we are. a bounce and no double play. and that opened up the flood gates. can they combine the drive in five runs? it was a 7-run third. seattle starter had a no hitter through 7 helped out by this. and great spin, throw. seattle beats the orioles. the final score last night 8-2. now as the team continues to struggle on the field, an orioles family feud is playing out at a fevering pitch this mo. >> abc 2 news is following this

late-breaking story this morning. well, jamie, that sports writer is fox sports senior baseball writer rosenthal. he says orioles owner rejected ripkin's offer to help the front office. according to his report he told ripkin he didn't want ripkin to receive credit once the team started winning again. both sides denied the story, but this morning ken rosenthal wrote a column standing by his story and questioning both the orioles owner and the hall of famer. now, rosenthal has these questions for peter. why isn't ripkin already working for the orioles? why isn't brooks robinson involved with the team? why isn't frank robinson. rosenthal challenges ripkin saying the ironman's image is pristine but they'll say he can be stubborn, controlling and a hall of fame pain in the reefer.

cal ripkin started ripkin baseball, an eft to grow baseball worldwide and he owns the orioles mine nor league baseball. >> wow. so as this played out late last night. cal responded to the rumors and released this statement. he said i am more excited now to explore all the opportunities and find the right situation that could lead me to the next phase of my life. this is our hot topic here this morning. does cal ripkin have what it takes to turn around the orioles >> peter will never let go and i hope cal realizes it. that's the first of many comments. stay with us for the latest that's unfolding between the front office and hall of famer cal ripkin. you can read more to our story in our slide show. tonight it looks like we're going to start the season at home because the orioles are playing in detroit on that same

day. and so if that's the case, the ravens will play pittsburgh, tampa bay or denver, but the conspiracy theory will be out. if we don't play pittsburgh the first four games of the yore, what's going on? we'll pick out the sure wins and circle when we play the steelers. that will be fun to. let's hope the orioles are still playing at that . good morning to you. some chill this morning. some of you in the upper 30s to lower 40s. the sunshine gives way to increasing clouds and a mild afternoon. 68 degrees. tonight up every 40s to around 50 and tomorrow's weather system not going to be a wet day. it appears our chance of showers rolling in towards the evening hours but a cool today at 63. anything in the morning gets out of here in a hurry. clearing we get to 70. upper 60s to near 70. kol the weather with rain returning this weekend.

>> we have an accident on 95 southbound before 895. you want to take a look out for that. that has traffic backed up to the howard county line. drive times before you head out the door at the end here it's 83 southbound, northern parkway to st. paul street 7-minute ride. 95 southbound, 895 split to fort mchenry toll. >> we hope you'll enjoin us at 9:00. we'll continue our hot topic with this whole issue with cal ripkin and the orioles. if you want to comment to our facebook page and we'll talk about a fund raiser for autism, an awesome cause. >> we'll be back here throughout the morning with updates.

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