morning, maryland. we are second aafrom 5:30 on a good morning on this tuesday. i am jamie cos it will o. megan has the day off. let's go to meteorologist justin berk. stormy start to our morning, huh, justin. >> reporter: we have-- >> we have storms to the north we have been watching the thunder and lightning and loud boomers across york county since two. and those have stayed mostly to the north. it clipped parts of carroll baltimore and in through harford county pushing off towards the east and may slide to the south with thunderstorms this afternoon. watching hurricane paula, the 9th hurricane, 16th named storm of the season. we will show you more coming up and clear 60s for the rest of the week. let's show you the radar. maryland's most powerful doppler radar highlighting showers. south baltimore and glen burnie getting a sprinkle remnants of an old line of storms and we are watching some of the storms that produced boomers earlier on. heavier rain ban so manchester west minimumter and harford

zone could get clipped with more wet road. the roads are wet this morning. so let's see what's happening to your commute right now. let's get the latest from kim brown. >> reporter: luckily, the wet roads is are the-- are not affecting traffic in the harford zone. we have some fire activity reported in rosedale on roscoe near the campus of essex community college. that could impact you in terms of delays. looking at the major roadways, route 50 look good at sandy point. no issues across the bay bridge in either direction. 50 is all clear all lanes open as you make your way towards the capital beltway no problems towards 97 as well. the beltway and 83 in just a few moments. right now, jamie, back to you. >> thanks. 5:31. the final tests have been run and rescue capsule is ready and around dawn tomorrow we should see the trapped miners reunited with their families. emory schmidt has details. >> reporter: -- emily schmidt has details. >> reporter: after more than two months watch the trapped miners

from 2,000 feet from above the ground ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: families are gathering now to pray a face-to-face reunion are hours away. the hope intensified after workers successfully testified the rescue capsule along the escape route carrying bags of fans to the miners. it didn't loosen dust along the way. >> this test has been very successful. we sent tv cameras inside and we are pretty sure that the cage will behave properly being designed during the rescue process. >> reporter: the trip will not be easy. the men will be in a capsule only slightly larger than the diameter of a basketball hoop. riding in a twisting capsule 20 minutes to the earth's surface. they will wear an oxygen mask while rescuers monitor their heartbeat and body temperatures. once at the top, they will be flown to a hospital where these beds are prepared for them and

computers are loaded with their medical history. the drill that reached the men over the weekend was given a hero's farewell as it was pulled from the mine. but two americans who worked on it say the men below are the true inspiration. >> the real hero is the guy that kept those guys in line and kept them alive on very, very little food. and they have somehow put it together. >> reporter: the miners requested shampoo and shoe polish so they can look their best when reuniting with their families for the first time since august 5th. emily schmidt, abc news. >> thank you. 5:33. it was ten years ago today that a terrorist bombing rocked the destroyer uss cole. it killed 16 sailors including three from maryland. 39 others were injured. it happened while the norfolk based ship was docked in yemen. transformer movies are suppose -- supposed to be action pack but a police suv was

reportedly hit by the transformer character bumble bee while some fans were watching the taping going on in d.c. yesterday. and both drivers are expected to be okay. anne arundel county police are investigating a shooting that seriously injured a man in severn at a party around 1:15 sunday morning. witnesses say they heard several shots before a man was found on the street. two vehicles were seen speeding away. a grad student is out on bail after being charged with sexually assaulting a female student at the university of maryland college park. police say the assault happened last week in one of the busiest place on campus at the stamp student union. victim says a graduate student identified as adam march ten ease cruz ran his hand underthe -- ubd a skirt of a student at tearwell of a food court and they arrested the suspect on the same floor. >> it's likely it could happen anywhere. the stam sp a heavily populated area. and there are upwards of 55 or

60,000 people on campus during the day and come from all over the world. so an individual who has an opportunity and wants to take the opportunity may in fact do so. >> now over the weekend, a second student stepped forward and said she was a victim of a similar assault at the student union that same afternoon. october is breast cancer awareness month and salons across can't try are finding ways to increase awareness and funding for breast cancer research. and have fun doing it. disco don harrison shows us how. >> which way do you way your hair. >> reporter: there's more going on than just your average haircut. >> i am getting extensions. >> reporter: part of the breast cancer awareness month. each extension cost $10 and the money goes to help benefit anne arundel medical center breast cancer research. >> back up and then it will blend in with the hair. >> reporter: angela of angie's tangles wanted to do something to help and found out how

far-reaching the disease of breast cancer is. >> there's a lot, a lot of stories we have heard and we hear of people lost. and we hear of people that are going through it now and we hear people who are you know surviving from it. so, any one that we have met has known someone or been involved with it. >> i know what my niece went through, and you know through the chemo, and the radiation and everything. and removing the breasts, it was hard for her and the family. so, this is my way of saying thank you. >> when we go back. >> reporter: the ladies are here because their boss was paying for anyone in the office who wanted to be part of this. >> we need more awareness. i know many people who have had unfor the in thely the disease and i lost a few friends to the disease, and it's so important that people are aware. >> reporter: so money goes for a good cause. and brings awareness to an important subject and

basically, it's a lot of fun. in pasadena, don harrison for abc2 news. >> and while the goal is to donate 3500 dollars to breast cans are research and anne arundel medical sent glert search is on for a missing 10-year-old girl. her parents told police she vanished from her bedroom. what a search warrant revealed. and stormy weather rolls through new york bringing lightning and marble sized hail. we will look at that in a second. and now, for a check of your trains and bus from the mta here's mark jones. good morning. >> reporter: good morning out there right now for your commute start. you will find a delay on the mark train camden 84115 minutes late and other trains and marc look good for travel. 3, 8 and 30 bros 10 to 15 minutes late and 19 bus diverted at harford and joppa for a water main break and 10 diverted at green and baltimore. i am mark jon jones for the mta transit team. ♪

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storms in the big apple like the big apple need more lights. look at this put on a lightning show for free delayed the game last night. the jets against the minnesota vikings. and in some parts it is falling so quickly the marbleized hail it looks like a little bit of

snow there. this is in prokelin. justin. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar. and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> something about the jets playing a night game at that meadowland stadium that brings in bad weather. they haven't had a delay with the ravens on monday night. the frontal bondry trying to slide through new york and pennsylvania, and now trying to push its way into maryland uniting showers with maryland's most powerful doppler radar. highlighting a band of rain from south of essex and dundalk and clipping middle river and heading through ferndale and glen bernie getting in on the action. that's one band. we have some scoterring -- skirting across the pa line. north of bel air hickory and towards cecil county will get wet weather and a break in the action than and he -- and then build it back with up scattered storms this afternoon. 36 from baltimore to easton. 57 in york, pa or 77 again.

look out for the chance of scattered storms erupting this afternoon. now for the traffic, here's kim. >> reporter: thanks. yes, drivers are going to be take it easy on the northeast side of the beltway. no accidents at this time. we have reports of some fire activity in rosedale on roscoe boulevard on essex community college campus and water mains breaks in the area. and another ruptured water main on harford road has that closed between joppa and northwind. so they are dealing with the partial road collapsed argone closed between the alameda and loch raven and frederick road a utility problem blocking the westbound lanes. two-way traffic gets by approaching the beltway. linda so has the latest details on one of the top stories. >> reporter: it was heated and tense. i am linda so, the candidates for governor faced off in the first live debate and it was not pretty. crews worked hard overnight to repair two breaks in a 12-inch water main break. i am sherrie johnson, and i will have the latest on the repairs

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all right. it's 5:45 and for the first time many can remember the words were uttered during a political debate. come on, man. it may not go down with read my lips or why am i here or you

are no jfk but it was part of the tv debate between o'malley and ehrlich and linda so has more on their words. >> reporter: it's no secret they don't really care for each other personally. when they took the stage for the first debate there were fireworks. both candidates were in attack mode are -- for the hour long debate and disagreed on all the big issues. they argued over education, the ecomony, tax and jobs. ehrlich accusing the governor of putting maryland in worst spot than when hes -- than when he was in office. >> he doubled the unemployment rate under your watch and you know it. this is your record and tough live with it. he didn't lower tax on any group of people we fought like heck to protect loopholes for big corporations. >> reporter: o'malley and ehrlich have at least two more debates scheduled before election day including a live forum this thursday at noon in dc. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> and you can find the latest information on the candidates along with useful links and voter information online.

at abc2news.com and click on the political section under the news tab. you're going to notice increased patrols in several areas in baltimore city following a violent weekend. there have been seven murders since this past friday including one where 78-year-old man was found stabbed to death inside the home. now the commissioner met with his district commanders to assess what happened. police say violence on week sends down 16% compared to those last year. crediting stepped up patrols for relatively peaceful weekends over the past month and a half. >> it's kind of like setting course on a sale. ever -- sail ever so often you have to readjust the ship and that's what we are doing here today. >> city police plan a major announcement regarding new funding to find illegal guns. have you noticed water main breaks happen in the worst places. this is chewing up harford road near joppa. let's go to sherrie johnson live in parkville. good morning. >> reporter: good morning,

jammy. there's good news right now. the crews have repaired the two water main breaks. take a look behind me here. you can see that the road harford road reopened. i got to tell you we are here in parkville where the public works crews worked all night to repair the two breaks and a 12-inch water main. 100 homes were without water because of that break. and we are told that water has been restored to those homes. now this all happened on monday afternoon on harford road between joppa and north winds road. crews managed to repair both of those breaks first thing this morning about 5 a.m. and crews say old pipes probably caused that water main break. and this break is in a residential area near carney elementary school and several other businesses. and crews say that it was very important to get those water main breaks repaired so they can get the buses through this morning and they were really trying to hurry up and get it repaired for rush hour traffic. so, once again, harford road

has reopened to traffic and crews have repaired the two breaks. reporting live in parkville, sherrie johnson. here's a look at what's going on around us. a campaign will be unveiled to warn baltimore homeowners about mortgage scams. plus, some local student will learn to make blankets for u.s. troops serving overseas and churchville elementary school dedicated a brand new playground later on today. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar. and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. one band of rain is slipping from east of glen burnie and passing towards the point and we have mild temperatures around. we are holding at 63 in baltimore. 64 in philly. we are watching a couple bands of rain the main band to the north watching this line it extends to the south. it's hugging the chesapeake. so looks like northeast, aberdeen and towards middle river as we were watching sparrows point with the slither

of rain. heavier around trenton new jersey and they got clobbered and you saw the hail storm jamie showed you up towards brooklyn and the same store that caused a delay to the jet and vikings game last night. overall that, boundary tries to shift to the south. there's storms behind that. so the boundary itself is far to the north and slowly edging in our direction. and reinforcing pokes of energy. it will strike to work through. but there's clearing involved and it's not an all day event but there will be a threat around heading toward the afternoon. showers to the north and we will watch and while watching the bond i slide through, the area of low pressure back across the central plains will slowly edge eastbound and park itself and that's going to reignite a very stormy and colder weather pattern for us. we are pushing some warmer air ahead of the bondry, the come winds will win out. and it is cool air filtering in behind the storm and that's the one that works the way to the east. and locks on top us. temperatures will go below normal as we are bringing in

the chance of some steadier rains towards the end of the week like we need that right? let's bring it back home and watch the band of rain and some storms to try to fire up today. we will be in and out of the clouds. then maybe an hour or two with sunshine. but overall the clouds went out with an unstable environment. we get up to 77 as the two degree guaranteed high and there will be scattered storms erupting into the afternoon. we clear it out overnight and we dropped down by daybreak into the upper 40s and around 50 and for tomorrow a cooler day with a high below normal in the mid-60s. check out extend forecast. partly sunny one tomorrow. but look at rain returning on thursday. the high of only 61 outside the belt woe could stay in the 60s. we clear it out for the weekend. saturday and sunday with sunshine highs in the mid-60s. kim. >> reporter: as sherrie johnson let us know, the water mayne breaks in park vie has been repaired and harford road is reopened and traffic is moving well. that leaves two water main breaks. one in baltimore city and has

argone drive closed between loch raven and alameda and westbound fred reck approaching the beltway that remains blocked because of a water main break repair. two-way traffic gets by on the eastbound lanes. and looking at the beltway, traffic is building. it's getting heavier here on the west side on the outer loop at liberty road but there are a few delays and no accidents. stay with us, we have more on good morning maryland right back after this. [ female announcer ] the healing power of touch

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wears a prosthetic leg and uses hearing aides and police arrested the girl's stepmother on unrelated charges. we will have more on this on good morning, america at 7. a gubernatorial candidate in new york state faces a nationwide fire storm here this morning after making remarks about homosexuality andate gathering of orthodoxed jewish leaders. take a listen. >> i think my children and your children will be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family. >> well those comments from republican carl paladino come after nine men in new york were arrested for antigay hate crimes last week. paladino defend himself on good morning, america. >> i wanted to distinguish that my feelings about homosexuality were no different than those of the catholic church. i am a catholic. >> the opposing candidate's campaign released a statement saying paladino's remarks

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