we are coming on 6:30 on this tuesday morning. megan has the day o let's get the weather with meteorologist justin berk. good morning. >> good morning. and about to push 6:30. temperatures yesterday hit 85. and that hit our two degree guarantee but didn't reach the record. now we pull things back. cool to the north producing heavy rain. and across york and lancaster this morning, got hit with a couple hours of thunderstorms. rain doesn't look like there's much lightning with it. but east of bel air towards port deposit and darlington and rising sun and northeast up 95 getting wet through havre de grace in the north side of aberdeen. we watch maryland's most powerful doppler radar and we will watch more storms fire to the worth later today. where are the rain falling or just had fallen cooled down to 59 in bel air and elkton and 58 in westminster and holding 61 in towson and south side where you are dry, glen burnie 63 to 64. and in annapolis, again it's

scattered thundershower possible this morning. more than likely erupt a few into the afternoon. 77 this afternoon two degree guaranteed and cooler than yesterday, but it's going get much cooler tomorrow. more on that coming. right now, here a kim brown with traffic. >> reporter: traffic is beginning to build and you will see volume a little sluggish on 95 southbound as you make your way from white marsh down towards the beltway and looking at harrisburg expressway, moderate volume. southbound lanes at warren road but no problem or major delays approaching the beltway. look at our maps, we are work one accident up in tawnytown and route 194 and another accident also reported in arbutus southbound washington boulevard route one at 195. back to you. >> thanks. 6:31. pulling up the 33 chilean miners will be something to watch. it will be like using tweezeers to rescue a stink bug inside a feathered pillow. emily smith reports on the -- schmidt will report on the

daring rescue that will have us by our tvs tomorrow. >> reporter: after watching the 33 trapped mineers from 2,000 feet above the ground ♪ [ music ] ♪ >> reporter: families are gathering now to pray a face-to-face reunion is just hours away. the hope intensified after workers successfully tested the rescue capsule along the escape route carrying bags of sand all but 40 feet of the depth to the miners. the capsule didn't even loosen up along the way. >> these tests has been very successful. we have sent tv cameras inside and we are pretty sure that the cage will behave properly as has been designed during the rescue process. >> reporter: still, the trip will not be easy. the men will be in a capsule slightly large then a the diameter of a bass basketball hoop riding in a twisting capsule 20 minute to the if surface and will wear a oxygen mask while

rescuers monitor their heartbeat and body temperature. at the top, they will be flown to a hospital where these beds are already prepared for them and computers are loaded with their medical history. the drill that reached the men over the weaning watts gave hero's farewell as it was pulled from the mind but two americans who worked on it say the men below are the true inspiration. >> the real hero is the guy that kept the guys in line and alive on very little food and they have somehow put it together. >> reporter: the miners requested shampoo and shoe polish to look their best when reuniting with their families for the first time since august 5th. emily schmidt, abc news. >> that's going to be something to see. much more on this on good morning, america here at seven. and gubernatorial candidate in new york face as fire storm after remarks about homosexual after a 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 were arrest for antigay hate crimes. paladino defend himself on "good morning, america" >> i wanted to distinguish my feelings about homosexuality were no different than those of the catholic church. i am a catholic. >> now the opposing candidate's campaign released a statement saying the remarks showed homophobia and disregard for equality. well, this morning, the parents of a missing disabled girl are facing questions after police dogs smelled howman remains on two cars at the house war missing north carolina girl lives. zahra clare baker reportly vanished from her north carolina home and her stepmother says the last time she saw her she was sound asleep in the bedroom around 2:30 saturday morning. several hours after that, the family reported a fire in the

backyard. later that afternoon, zahra was reported missing. police are questioning the stepmother elise baker's arrest on a dozen unrelated charges. . >>i haven't seen her and i just hope i can get my daughter back. >> the girl has bone cans erin uses hearing it's by she can't have with her. painting which sat for years wrapped up behind a couch in buffalo could be an unfinished master piece by michael angelo worth hundreds of millions. tell us more about this. >> reporter: michael angelo's master pieces can be counseled in the chapel and st. peter's basilica and now a house in buffalo? for decades, the unfinished painting of jesus and mary was tucked away behind martin's sofa. i always had a hunch.

he took itth paint egg called the mike to several auction house and museums. he found an italian art historian who claims the scientific tests proves it's the real deal. >> i am totally certain that this is a michael angelo. >> reporter: so how did it get to buffalo? michael angelo reportedly gave it to a friend who passed it onto two catholic cardinals. it eventually made its way to a german bearenes who gave it to the lady in waiting who in 1883 sent it to her brother-in-law in america, his great grandfather not history of the object is impressive. almost unbroken from the time of the 16th century. >> reporter: others have hit the art jackpot. last year, this louisiana woman bought a painting at a yard sale for 2 bucks and turns out it was believed to be a picasso worth up to $2 million. >> makes me sick. but i sold it for $2. >> reporter: as for buffalo's latest master piece, now

hanging in a bank vault, if it is real, the painting behind that sofa is now worth as much as $300 million. p andrea canning, abc news, new york.

we are 20 minutes away from seven. that is bizarre storey. hear about this guy that took his sick dog to the vet and end up make the tough decision to put the pet down. but man's best friend didn't stay down. tom wait with the story. >> i watched her basically die in front of my eyes. i thought she was and now i have to go through it again? >> reporter: matt had to do what every animal owner dreads, put his dog to sleep. >> she is in a lot of pain. next to her you hear her whining. >> reporter: this is matt's dog mia, the rot we willer can barely get up because of spinal

problems this past weekend matt and his vet decide it was time to put her down. >> she is suffering you know. so, i went to see what was wrong with her and jet suggested she be put to sleep. >> reporter: he brought what he thought was the lifeless body to bury her but matt couldn't believe his eyes. >> i came home from work, you know, i was like, she was sitting there you know in front of the bowl of food. i know that when they injected her they injected her twice and she went to -- went to sleep and they gave me blanket and i took her home and i wanted to figure out what to do with her. and the next morning she was wide awake. >> reporter: and now matt is faced with a decision. does he take mia back to the vet and watch his dog go down again. >> what if i buried my dog alive? what if i create mated her she would have -- created she would have been bender alive i explain how do i explain to my kids i got to kill mia twice? i got to kill her again?

my kids are 8 and 9 years old. i mean, this is a family dog. >> unbelievable. what do you do? in this day in history, ten years ago, a terrorists bombing rocked the uss cole and killed 16 sailors including three from our state it. happened while the ship was docked in yemen. we will be right back. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college.

fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go directly to kids instead of through banks. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message. because it's not about the next election, it's about the next generation. right? yeah!!!

i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. his past attacks have been called deceptive, his new attack, false. harris voted for deregulation increasing our electric bills by 72% it's not surprising, harris always sides with the big guys. he opposes cracking down on wall street and supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. harris even opposed making big insurance cover cancer screenings. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us. bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust.

good morning maryland i am jamie cos tell o. this is your news to g megan is off today. let's get the weather with meteorologist justin berk. good morning. >> good morning. we are watching big storms erupt overnight and early this morning on maryland's most powerful doppler radar mostly in joshing and lancaster pennsylvania skirting carroll and man chest and harford zone in harford and cecil. up 95 perryville to elkton with rain which slides up towards the north and e . we expect to have

ourselves this frontal bondry drop through the area and maybe produce storms into the afternoon. our two degree guaranteed high cooler than yesterday. at about 77 and turning much cooler for the the rest of the week. that forecast ahead but right now here kim brown with traffic. >> reporter: we have building volume on both the southbound lanes of the harrisburg expressway and 95. expect to find it a little sluggish in spots approaching the beltway. but we have some debris on the roadway report on outer loop lanes at wilkins avenue. a crash lingering in the route 1 southbound at 195. and we will check the beltway in a few moments. jamie, back to you. >> all right, 6:46. and for the first time many can remember the word were uttered during a political debate. come on, man. 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. linda so has more on what they say. good morning, linda. >> reporter: good morning. well, it's no secret the two don't care for each other personally. so when they took the stage for the first debate there, were

some fireworks. both candidates were in attack mode for the hour-long debate. and they disagreed on just about all the big issues. they argued over education, the ecomony, taxes and jobs. earl being accusing the governor of putting maryland in a worst spot than when he was in office. >> you doubled the unemployment rate under your watch and you know it is. this is your record and you have to live with it. >> he didn't lower tax on any group of people that we fought hike heck to protect loopholes for big corporations. >> reporter: now 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 just a reminder this is it. today is the last day to register to vote a hand delivered copy of the registration form need to be brought to the board of election by nine tonight and if you're mailing in the form it need to be postmarked by today. city police are planning a imagine announcement for tomorrow regarding new funding to help fund illegal guns.

this comes off a very violent weekment city. we have had seven murders since friday including one war 78-year-old man was found stabbed to death in his home. now the police commissioner met with his district commanders to assess what's going on. and police do say the violence on weekend is down 16% compared to 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 sail right. every so often you run into a squall and have to readjust the shp accordingly. that's what we are doing here today. >> so city police will be stepping up patrols in several areas this week and trying to continue to search for suspects in all the murders. a graduate student is out on bail after being charged with sexually assaulting a female stewed antithe university of maryland college park. police say it happened last week in one of the busiest place on campus right there at the stamp student union. victim says the graduate student identified as adam martinez cruz and he ran his hand under the

skirt of a stewedened at food court cement told police and they arrested the suspect on the same floor. ed. >> i likely it could happen anywhere. the stam sp a heavily populated area. there are upward of 55, 60,000 people on campus during the day. they come from all over the world. so, an individual who has an opportunity and wants to take that opportunity may do so. >> over the weekend a second student stepped forward and said that she was the victim of a similar assault at the student union that same afternoon. today a woman from glen burnie fighting her landlord over bed bugs is expected to be in court. she moved into the apartment back in march and that's when she says the problem started. her children started to get little red welts on their skin. well, she thought they were just mosquito he bites. but in june, the pest guy came to the apartment and told her about bed bugs in the building. she can't live in her apartment and is afraid to take any of her belongings out and is fighting the landlord and wants him to

take responsibility for the problems she faced over the past couple month. so she is expected in a court of law later this afternoon. state police are searching to arsuspect they say attempted to hold up the same bank not just once, but twice in just over a week. according to police, the man robert madison, or madison square sorry this man robbed the madison square federal savings bank on bel air road on september 30th. he came back on saturday when employees recognized him and locked the doors to the bank lobby. suspect pointed a gun at the employees before running away towards the shopping center and if you have any information, contact police right away. well, it seems more of you are traveling by train. amtrak said fiscal records for both ridership and ticket revenue overall ridership was up almost 6% from last year and ticket revenue rose 9%. amtrak is using the ridership to lobby for many federal funds to update the aging fleet.

last month an they unveiled a 25 year plan to add high speed rail where there's no money for the plan right now. it's spending millions upgrading the northeast corridor. baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake paid a visit to the white how and joined president obama and others city and state leaders from across the land to discuss improving the nation's aging infrastructure and the president said the crumb scrum crumbling infrastructure caused crumbling lives to shock us into action. about the obama administration is now pushing for a $50 billion investment to pep people go back to work. well transformers movies are supposed to be action packed. but crews filming the third installment of the series got more than they bargained for. police suv was reportedly t boned by the character bumble bee and it happened while fans were watching the taping in washington, d.c. yesterday. both drivers are expected to be okay. it's now 6:51 and a program

meant to save lives. mercy medical center here in baltimore. it's now the first in maryland to create public umbilical cord blood bank program a mother who gives birth at mercy will have the option to donate the umbilical cord at no cost which doctors say has the potential to treat 09 hive threatening illnesses. sickle cell disease is one of them affecting one in every 500 african american births. the archbishop of balmmore says he supports the program since it doesn't focus on stem cells from embryos. mason shaffer was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disorder but he is healthy after a stem cell transplant. >> if not for the unselfish act -- he wouldn't have been saved. >> and maryland joins new jersey, new york, and delaware with hospitals that will have free umbilical cord collections. shop rite is now coming to glen burnie. today, the grocery chain will open the first anne arundel

store at the former k-mart. remember? on richie highway in the chesapeake square shopping center. it will feature a sushi bar and wi-fi lounge. the store will employ more than 200 people. it was ladies night at m and t bank stadium last night. thousands of women were on the field running drills and taking pictures and scooping out the locker room and hoping the favorite players would walk by. purple evening was in the fourth year and it was the biggest one yet. and ladies, they even got to go check out the locker room and here are the fans waiting to get autographs. willis mcgahee and fabian washington among some of the players greeting the ladies. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> speechless.

>> speechless i say. >> 6:5 3. some of you are sleepless because of the rain and thunder that rolled through the north side overnight. right now, a little band of rain moderate rain near turkey point. we got this on the southern peninsula of cecil county pushing up towards delaware. wet road on 95 in cecil county and a wet weather as the rain passed through. most of the action was to the north. two to three hours of thunder and lightning passed through adams, york and lancaster counties. and just clipping in the distance with the thunder from manchester, northern har forecounty. overall, that energy pushed through new jersey. boundary to the north will stay there as one wave of low pressure rides the front and starts to introduce cooler temperatures. once it pushes,000 scattered storms but we set the stage for a different ace air mass as a storm fires away from the hartland -- heartland works its way here. we will squeeze the warm air

out. and the stormy pattern will get stuck and locked on top us. we have wet and cool weather by the end of the week . further to the south hurricane paula work its way up to mexican coastline. and you will hear more about that coming on good morning, america. but locally, we have a to take it home and talk about the front that slides through. and skies are turning partly sunny, it will be cooler than yesterday which hit 85. we are aiming for 77 well above normal and scattered storms into the afternoon and evening. we cleared out overnight, we will briefly drop back to 49 degrees. and sunshine for the first half of storm. next storm works in late, late clouds could arrive. 65 below normal. and 61 should do it with a steady rain expected on thursday. a chilly rain for that matter. 63 leftover showers on friday and mid-60s with dry weather which is great for the baltimore running festival this weekend. kim. >> reporter: justin, traffic is getting slow on the west side of the outer loop. we have debris in the roadway report on the outer loop lanes at wilkins. partially causing the slowdown

here. you will see the inner loop lanes running slow between 95 as you make your way up towards liberty road. however, 95 also running slow as you make are way from the white marsh boulevard toward the beltway and 895. and looking at maps, we have crash activity lingering up in tawnytown. an earlier crash there and route 1 northbound in arbutus at 195 the right lane and shoaled remember blocked there. and in lawyerel a dis-- laurel a disabled vehicle approaching route 3 #. back to you. >> good morning, america, has a lot to cover this morning including the chilean miners coming out with shoe polish and. >> shampoo. >> they want to look nice for their families. unbelievable. >> i think the shoe polish is for the shoes. >> yeah. >> all right. that's it for us here this morning. we will be back throughout "good morning, america" for live updates. see you at 9 for "good morning, maryland" have a great day.