with kim. >> reporter: well, usually for traffic people say they are born to run. as we are going with the jersey guy theme springstein and as we look at outer loop at liberty road. some of the delays eased up a bit. we are work an accident on the outer loop at security boulevard. it's been moved off to the shoulder still causing a little bit of backup here at liberty road. inner loop heavy making your way from 95 past wilkins up towards reisterstown road and look at maps. work a crash in dundalk north point boulevard in the area also excuse me at st. monica drive and in pasadena green haven area closed in both directions due to an earlier accident. use mountainville to get around the crash. jamie, back to you. 6:30. i am free according to tom petty. eight are free this morning. and 33 chilean miners were trapped for 69 days. never in our history have we seen such a rescue like this. we want to go right now to the live shot here.

that is doctor i think he was updating the medical conditions. but as you see, this is the hole they are bringing the miners out of. eight have been rescued. first one happened around #:11. they are averaging one mine a rescue a hour. it takes 25 minutes for the tube to go down, 15 minutes to load the mine and 15 minutes to bring them back up on top. john tells us how the men who have been trapped underground for so long are making it. >> we apologize for that sound. we want to tell outrescue is far from oamplet dozens of miners are waiting to take their half mile journey through the earth and back to the surface. and abc2 news is live streaming the whole thing on the website right now. go to abc # news.com and watch -- abc2news.com and watch as it unfolds. other news right now, let's find out about the teachers vote. it's supposed to happen today. we want to go to abc2 news sherrie johnson to tell us more. >> reporter: good morning. baltimore city teachers are not

happy with the proposed new contract. and online petition calls for the vote to be postponed. one hundred thirty five teachers signed the petition. union leaders say they won't delay a vote set for today and thursday. the contract outlines a new formula with test scores and performance to reward good teachers. it gets rid of steps, experience and degrees as criteria. now critics say a state panel has not determined how teachers would be judged and some teachers say until they know the details, they should not be forced to vote. now, again, union leaders say test scores will only make up 30% of the teachers union evaluation. in the studios, sherrie johnson. >> thanks. taking a look at news around the nation right now. the military don't ask don't tell policy is close to being abolished. a federal judge order the military to immediately stop enforcing the ban on openly gay troops. justice department attorneys have 60 days to appeal but didn't say what the next step

would be. well a. man through a threw a book at president during a campaign convenient on sunday in philidelphia. police are not throwing the book at him. now this video shows the book sailing past the president as he waves to supporters from the crowd. and a secret service spokesman says an overexuberant author was hoping to get the president to read his work. agents saw him throw the book and detained and interviewed him and determineds was did -- he was not a threat. the rescue of the 33 chillenan miners trapped underground for more than two months. -- months. miners eight are safe right now and we are waiting for that wheel to spin another miner out of the hole.

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the u.s. and with the lifestyles. so, something that is just going give you break from the world. >> reporter: the stress melter is a two-hour treatment costing about $200. but during spa week, customers get a 50-minute taste of it for $50. >> for me, it's important to keep my body healthy as possible. you try to eat right and exercises but keeping the circulation going and anything that can help me do that or help meow know keep hydration internally as well as -- help me to keep hydration internally as well as externally. >> reporter: it will have you look and feeling apparent won't hurt your wallet. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> the red door spa is one of many salons participating. we will be right back. we will take you back to chile and see the rescue of the miners. eight have been pulled out so far this morning. harris always sides with the bin

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morning maryland. i am jamie cos tella with your -- costello. megan pringle is off this wednesday. let's fine out about the weather with meteorologist justin berk. good morning to good morning. at 6:41, we are looking at temperatures on the storm center weathernet. look at rain sheer a10 degree spread from around the bay holding at 54 in annapolis. 44 bel air and westminster and while it seems chilly, we are all clear and sun glare maybe the only weather issue this morning. otherwise may need heat in the car with early temperatures. but we will jump to 67 this afternoon. and that's much cooler than the 80s the last couple days. but, we are going to get cooler and we will turn west. more on that coming. >> reporter: heavy volume 59 southbound through the white marsh boulevard area town on towards the beltway. we are on 695 northeast side at harford road the outer loop at crawl and no major incidents holding this up. major volume and we have a couple road closures one in dundalk because of a serious crash and another in pasadena.

i will let you know where and how that will affect your commute this morning. jamie, back to you. >> let's go to sherr -- chile this is just incredible that we have been watching this -- watching this incredible rescue. nobody has ever lived underground this long and survived. 69 days these mine verse been trapped here in this -- these miners have been trappedder. >> this mine. the first one came up around midnight sobbing in the aims of his 7-year-old son. third one came up and asked about how was your half mile rescue and he said it was like a cruise. what they do they are taking the capsule and take 25 minutes to get down and 15 minutes to load a miner on and 15 minutes more up so it takes about an hour we are going about an hour to rescue each miner. the 4th one up said no not doing this again. i am -- here's my hat and my light and my chipper noiment going back in there. the 5th one they brought up evidently he was the boss of the operation telling ive to hang in

there and he was -- telling everybody to hang in there and we have eight miners up and john quinones tells us -- diana we will go to diana with the rescue efforts going on this morning in chile. diana. >> reporter: they celebrate in the streets as minesser trapped for 69 days were brought to the surface one by one at the san jose mine. they blew their hornings and sang shocks and -- songs and cheered as they watched the events unfold live. families of the men were there to greet husbands and brothers and fathers as they emerged. >> we are going to work all around the clock for 38 hours in the rescue process. >> reporter: rescuers finished reinforcing the mine monday as each is hauled up a camera will be focus on his face so they can watch for panic attacks and they will wear oxygen mask and have two-way voice communication. rescue of each man will take about one hour.

25 minutes for the capsule to descend. time to load the miner and then 15 minutes to bring him to the surface. they have been told to keep their eyes closed and were given dark glasses to avoid damaging their eyesight after being in a dymally lit tubal to -- tunnel for so long. they will spend two days at hospital for observations. the miners are not coming out of mine empty hand. they will carry with them leters from loved ones and religious statues and rocks from the mine. the miners have the experience that taught the world that sometimes miracles do happen. and in a night filled with historic moments, one that will be remembered was the rescue of the one bow liveian miner. chileans cheered and sang the bow luffian anthem in a -- bow liveian anthem as a show of university the. >> thanks. 8 have been rescued so far. 25 left to go. and go to abc2news.com where we are streaming the video live on the website. watch the whole thing.

the incredible rescue unfold before your computer. all right. from one tube to another. let's go live to abc2 news linda so. we want to see how the fort mchenry tunnel is doing after yesterday's bus fire inside. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. things are looking pretty good. they opened the two lanes that were shut down from the fire a little before five this morning. you can see traffic is running freely through the four lanes northbound through the tunnel. i can tell you it was a school bus that caused this mess yesterday. it caught on fire a half mile inside the fort mchenry tunnel during the evening rush causing a major backup. smoke was so intense and it was pouring out of the tunnel. the cool bus driver and aide walked out complaining of -- complaining of smoke inhalation. no students were on the bus. backup caused major headaches for those trying to get home. >> i work in columbia.

so i have to use 95i get on fort mchenry and i have to use 95. no other alternative route. >> reporter: all night engineers worked to fix the lights burned out by the fire and checked the roads to make sure the lanes were okay so drivers would be safe through the tunnel. again they got the all clear all four lanes back open this morning just before 5 a.m. so it looks like the morning commute should be okay. live at for the mchenry toll plaza linda so abc2 news. >> 6:47. authorities are investigating a case of counterfeit cash popping up in the area. this happened in annapolis where police found five fake $100 mills in juan pack's back pocket when he was pkd up on a probation violation police flagged a fake 100 dollar bill in annapolis at a restaurant on sunday. a college park under attack following a quadruple stabbing

around 1:30 yesterday morning where four men ages 19 to 23 suffered nonlife-threatening injuries after fight broke out at the thirsty turtle and spilled out on route 1. the university police chief is calling for this bar to be pad locked. >> this is not being a good neighbor to the university. and this establishment is making a lot of money off this university. and they are no friend of the university of maryland student engaging in this behavior. plain and simple. >> now the chief says the staff has tested the thirsty turtle to see if they serve underaged students a they say they failed. they have been cited three times in the past two years. and the chief is calling on the liquor board to pull its license. we called the thirsty turtle for a response but they hung up on us. 6:48. baltimore police say a man trying to get away from police crashed a stolen suv into three parked cars and ran from the vehicle to pop on a bus where

he was arrested. driver of the suv also collided with a car on monday afternoon. causing minor damage and injuries. he also ran over mailbox before hitth parked cars. a police spokesman says officers in an unmarked cruiser found the stolen suv by following the path of destruction. no word on what the charges -- charges -- the driver will face. three weeks from this morning we should know whether our state will have the largest casino built outside arundel mills mall. representatives from both side of the issue held a debate for voters in anne arundel county the both sides are trying to use the last three weeks to make the closing arguments. >> the practical effect of a no vote or against vote on question a is that there will not be slots any time in our lifetimes in anne arundel county. >> we get slots whether they give them to us or someone else gives them to us. and that's what they are not really telling you.

maryland constitution does not go away if you vote against question a. >> the debate was held at the fire company and drew about 100 people 6:49. a water main breaker. >> in parkville continuing to cause problems. it happened on harford between joppa and northwind. two breaks in a 12p inch water main affected a about a hundred homes and official say the street will be ripped up a make repairs. it's not known how long it will take. stock your home with backup water supply and boil your water before you use it. today, baltimore is they police will be planning a major anounment regarding new funding to help find illegal guns. this comes after a violent weekend in which we saw 7 people murdered. in one case a.78-year-old man was found stabbed to death-side his home. police are stepping up patrols in several areas. more than 100 baltimore city teachers want to postponed a union vote scheduled for today and a new contract.

thousands are set to vote tomorrow on a krat that calls for merit based pay raises but 135 teachers started an online petition to delay the vote. claiming a state committee -- committee has not started to figure out how they would be evaluated. union leaders say that's not the consensus among the membership. >> our teachers have not received compensations for two years. this is things they asked for. and i think the hesitation of the teachers who put this petition up is they didn't understand what it was. >> so the contract would replace steps experienced and degrees and students test scores and teachers performance evaluations in determining how they are promoted and rewarded in the future. and the head of dc's schools is set to announce her resignation today. she fired many teachers based on a system that evaluated in part on students standardized test scores. moves got nationwide

recognition and was backed by the mayor fenty which also help support him out of office. the official announcement is expected to be made this morning at the mayflower hotel. baltimore quickly becoming one of the country's hardest hit areas when it comes to mortgage scams. local groups are forming a colation -- coalition hoping to help homeowners from falling victim. but baltimore home ownership preservation commission is cautioning struggling homeowners. >> we have dealt with literally thousands of people who are facing foreclosure and have been able to help quite a few. and many times they come to us having already paid some of the scamers up to $2500 and sometimes even more. and have received nothing. >> so if you want more information about getting help with your mortgage mess, call coalition right now at

1-877-462-7555. in democracy 2010 former president bill clinton scheduled to attend a rally here in baltimore for governor o'malley later this month. o'malley's camp announced the rally is set for october 21st, next thursday, and there will be a contest for supporters to possibly meet the former president before the rally. this will cost $35 for one contest entry. $70 if you want to enter twice. the mta police force has a new facility for the k-9 unit there was a ribbon cutting ceremony which includes an exercise yard and agility to keep the dogs in shape, you door runs with heated pads and the land where the old facility is located will soon be converted to transit oriented development. hey, the pride of baltimore is back after four month tour of canada and great lakes.

the war of 1812 ship returned to the inner harbor with the -- from fells point through the inner harbor. welcome home. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most accurate by weatherrate. >> good morning it's 6:54. watching a air mass filled in here. high pressure sliding down from the south. watch this developing storm that's the major winner here as we head into the next couple days. it's acting on the cool air spilling down from the north. and there's the boundary stalled across central section of virginia where it's muggy and upper 6 50áeus cross southeast virginia and scattered showers. cold air behind it. another cool front will interact with the system and a developing storm will tap into the chilly air and bring us cooler temperatures and rain for tomorrow. there's another storm here not going to impact us. but it will make headlines.

it's hurricane paula working its way 60 miles to the east of the island of cozumel. and east of cancun this morning. it's category two storm with winds of 100 miles per hour. and the storm is small and compact. hurricane-force winds 15 miles out from the center. but, it is a big wint maker. watch it ride there central island of cuba over roughly days 2 to 5 in the forecast. major rain and flooding expected for them and bahamas and southern florida. no impact on us because there's another storm in between and that's going to dominate our weather. today dry weather, clouds roll in overnight. daybreak or by lunchtime tomorrow, rain rolls in and periods of moderate to heavy rain and i want to show you this circulation on your wide screed set. a-you may see the low pressure that's wind maker and what we have to deal with on friday as the storm pulls out. it is going to be chly. enjoy it. we step back closer to normal not the 8 0á the last two days. 67 but with sunshine should be a

nice afternoon. tonight cloud rollback in and could be showers by daybreak at 48. check out the rest of the forecast and only 60 tomorrow which means many of you spend the day in the 50s. and period of rain could be moderate to heavy and winds whip up overnight and into friday. and as the storm pulls away a leftover shower but it's going to be about the wind 30 to 40-mile-per-hour gust. 63. lows in the low 40s. baltimore running festival a cool morning make it to 63 with sun in the afternoon. and 66 with sun on sunday. let's check out traffic now with kim. >> reporter: well, we have problems on the roadway this morning. fortunately the beltway is not going to be one of the trouble spots all be it it's going to be slow spot in op care yays. outer loop at harford road, traffic is at a crawl from 95 heading towards york road. no incidents just heavy involve. northbound harbor tunnel, closed at this time due to an accident. and we have a crash southbound 795 at franklin boulevard a. crash report there had in dundalk north point boulevard closed at st. monica drive.

jamie. >> all right, good morning, america, is next at 7:00 let's watch the miners get rescued and send our kids to school. night bad day. aid good day. all right.

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