53 degrees and temperatures have bumped up a little bit. that's the sign of the cloud cover coming in during the dark hours. rain just to the west, probably a few hours away but we get through most of the morning commute dry in baltimore. and then the rain builds in and again by lunchtime, through the afternoon and this evening, the rain starts to get a little bit heavier as the storm starts to wind its way up. this afternoon's temperatures, not much different than this morning as we are stuck in the 50s. right now, again the roads are dry, but let's see what the traffic is do with kim brown. >> reporter: well, traffic is starting to build. 95 southbound, minor congestion through the white marsh boulevard area towards the beltway and 895 plight. -- split. looking at 659 at harford road, traffic is flowing nicely on both loops. not really too many problems. 95, 83 is checking in without problems. we are working two accidents in anne arundel county. an overturned vehicle reported to be in crownsville at severn chapel road and an accident reported route 100 westbound

approaching route 10. jamie, back to you. >> all right, 6:30. we thought we wouldn't see this miracle until christmas time. it took incredible international cooperation but this morning all 33 chilean miners are safe above ground. we watched each man get pulled up and laugh and cry as they saw their loved ones and natural light for the first time in 70 days. the chilean president was there for all 33 rescues and said it best to miner number 21. welcome to life. >> we have experienced a night that we will never forget. full of emotion, full of joy. >> now the miners are in the hospital and they are being evaluated. a few have new mown yarks others need dental work. but for the most part, they are doing okay. >> listen, four million people were online yesterday watching the rescue between four and five the same time the mine wert wife and mistress was being pulled out. so continue to go online and watch all of it. log onto abc2news.com for the

latest news and updates and a look back at the amazing day of rescue. 6:31. did you hear about this? t.i. helped save a man's life in the rapper talked a suicidal man off the building in atlanta. police say t.i. whose name is clifford harris surprisingly showed up while the officers were trying to stop the man from jump off a high rise. >> i let him know i was here and willing to help him. and he came down peacefully and everything was resolved. >> police say t.i. told the man that people can make it through anything. the man went to the hospital for a mental evaluation. 6:32. people in new york were looking up in the sky wondering what they are looking at. a unidentified flying object captured everyone's attention and gathered crowds to try to figure it out. >> you rather it be wonder woman. >> yeah. >> i think it's balloon.

>> you think it's balloon. >> yeah. >> all right. >> but then again balloons don't standstill. >> what do you think it is? >> i don't know. >> ufo knee don't want to say it. >> i am looking for the mothership. >> new york city official said they had many phone calls on the 311 system about the mystery in the sky and they still don't know what it is. well, it was bank robbery that had gone unsolved for more than 5 1/2 years. until last night. a mississippi police detective says he never seen anything quite like this in his 15 years in law enforcement. he was at home playing football with his son in their yard when his phone range. what happened next is going leave you speechless. the person on the other end of the phone the other end of the phone is unbelievable. man walked into the county jail and confessed to this five year of crime. 61-year-old dale motht admitted to stealing the money saying he needed to clear his conscious. he was supposed to serve time

for robbing bank in texas and louisiana. and as for the money he said he gambled at the casinos and he lost it all. an east texas couple met 70 years ago while touring a prison. and now jack and janet are celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary. it was love at first sight for them. she thought he was kind of cute and broke with up her boyfriend and started dating jack. >> we didn't have any money, and every now and then we had enough to buy a foot long hot dog and split it. if we had a lot of money, we would go to the 25 cent movie. >> well, because of the tight money situation, the couple eloped and he had says the love got them through the toughest of times. janet says her favorite thing to do with jack is watch football. the favorite team, dallas cowboys. coming up next, it was an unfortunate sign of the times. and now, all 50 attorney generals want something to be done about it.

banks will have to answer for foreclosures that never should have happened. and big announcement about the controversial slots parlor that could be built near the arundel mills mall. we will find out more in a minute. stay with us. , woman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn't know what he's done since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich's raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don't need help. middle class marylanders do.

inherits a billion-dollar surplus, low unemployment. o'malley signs the biggest tax hike in maryland history. raids chesapeake bay fund to cover spending. gives raises to top aides. business climate ranks 45th worst in the nation. now 200,000 jobs lost. o'malley covers up jobs report that proved maryland's economy stalled. if re-elected, o'malley will raise taxes again. whether he does, is up to you.

it's 6:38. the attorney general's office says that his office will join 48 other states in an investigation into foreclosure documentation practices. he wants to help ensure homeowners facing foreclosure are treated fairly and according to the law. last week, ally, bank of america, jp morgan chase voluntarily halted foreclosures in 23 estates aid meting they made mistakes. admitting they made missics. >> they were suggesting a they would resolve it in matter of months. the analyst think that it is likely to take at least a year.

>> maryland court officials are reviewing the requests from the governor anders to halt all foreclosures in the state for at least 60 days. coming up next, it's every parents' worst nightmare and pants along with police are searching for -- pants along with police are searching for suspect. >> reporter: the reported case of a sexual assault at a playground. what the 7-year-old victim told police. and she came in with one mission, make the dc school system better and a controversial cuts and no nonsense attitude made her unpopular and is now stepping down. a flag that is meant to honor the country. but an anonymous complaint and -- complaint and now it's gone. we will tell you why. and a washington wizards player said he can't play his knee and the latest says he he was faking it. we will explain coming up. the radar tells the story. it's rain to the west and rolling in and coming out of dc, pg county and perhaps annapolis and bay bridge getting wet in the next hour. the rest of us look for rain to roll in as the -- at tail end of

the morning commute. more about the rainstorm and more importantly the wind behind it coming up next. right now kim has traffic. >> reporter: thanks, justin. traffic was flowing nicely up until a few minutes ago. congestion is playing a factor on the beltway. same on 95 and we are working a couple accidents in anne arundel county. i will get you up to speed when "good morning, maryland," returns after this.

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good morning. i am jamie costello with your abc2 news to go. 33 men are wake up in bed above the earth's surface for the first time in 70 days. we all watched the tear jerking live pictures as each miner was pulled up and greeted screams and hugs from loved ones. one man sang and high fiveed rescuers and another dropped to his knees and thanked god to be alive. this says it all doesn't it? these are the rescuers after the 33rd man was sent up. the rescue unbelievable. the mission accomplished is what it says. we will have more on the rescue in a minute. but first, let's go to meteorologist justin berk. justin. >> good morning. yeah, it's 6:4 3. we will shift

focus a little bit to the weather locally. as the storm rolls in, it brought in cloud. temperatures bumping up from the 40s just a little bit in the last two hours. now pushing 52. and the live image shows us the harbor school in owens mills. we should add half an inch of rain with the developing storm. it is to the west and we will have a dry commute. clouds thicken and the tail end of the commute from 9 through noon, we build in the rain and it could get heavy as we roll in towards the afternoon with the developing storm. it is going to mean a lot of rain by tomorrow. it will be heaviest this afternoon and this evening with temperatures in the 50s. here's kim with traffic. >> reporter: we have some volume that is blocking some issues on the outer loop. here on the inner loop lanes on northeast side we have a disabled tractor trailer passed the camera shot block the center lane and the inner loop is not moving but volume on the other side on the outer loop west side jammed approaching i-70. work two incidents in anne

arundel county. i will let you know about those in two minutes. 6:44. i was with god and i was with the devil. and god won. and then he said he was going to drink and drink a lot. super march wrote miner who gave rescuers rocks and led them on a soccer chant said this in the first interview. we watched each man get pulled up. first time in 70 days. the chilean president was there for all 33 rescues and said it best to miner number 21. welcome to life. >> we have experienced a night that we will never forget. full of emotion, full of joy. >> now the miners are in the hospital being evaluated. few have pneumonia and others the dental -- be need dental work. but for the most part they are doing fine. you can watch the reunions over and over again. and from four to five yesterday afternoon when they were pulling

out the guy with the mistress and the wife, internet traffic ran up live 4 million viewers were online watching this. so continue to follow the progress of the 33 survivors. log onto our website, abc2news.com for the latest news and information and a look back at the amazing day of rescues yesterday. 6:46. this shouldn't happen in a playground or anywhere. police in howard county say a girl was sexually assaulted by four men. linda so is here with the details this morning. >> reporter: jamie, parents in the area are concerned. the playground where police say it happened is a pretty busy one. it's behind talbot springs elementary school in columbia. police say the incident happened around 7 tuesday night a7-year-old girl told police four men with dread locks grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. the girl managed to get home and a relative took her to the hospital. the girl told police she didn't know the men and hadn't seen them and couldn't tell how old they were. police say three of the men left the scene on motor scooters and the fourth on a bike.

>> i was -- i am not going to be send sending them up there at night unless i am with them. >> reporter: the girl was treat and released from the hospital. if you have information on the cause, call 410-313-stop. linda so, abc2 news. >> 6:47. let's go to college park. a 21-year-old man charged in the stab of four men including his brother. police say the fight started over a bar stool. here at thirsty turtle in college park, leonardo alonzo ramos cut three of the men and then stabbed his brother when he got involved. ramo is not a stewed antithe university of maryland -- student at the university of maryland but some of the injured men are. the city of maryland has new tool in the fight against gun violence. there's a smart policing grant one of only six awarded in the nation and will help fun the antigun violence efforts. and the grant will fund the gun

offender registry. it provides intelligence to law enforcement agencies on the identity and location of convicted gun offenders. voting will continue today for a second day on a new contract that puts performance ahead of experience for baltimore city teachers. the contract replace experience and degrees with students test scores and teachers performance evaluations in determining how teachers are promoted and rewarded in the future. in an online petition, 135 teachers are calling for a postponement of the regular vote. they claim a state committee has not started to figure out how the teachers will be evaluated over this. 6:48. the head of the washington, d.c. public school system is stepping down. michelle rhee made the announcement saying the thought of not being chancellor anymore is heart breaking. she took over one of the worst school systems in the land back in 2007 with a mandate from the mayor to improve the schools and since then she has improved test scores but angered many with teacher layoffs and fireings

and a blunt style. >> this was not a decision that we made lightly. but it is would be that i believe is absolutely essential to allow chairman gray to pursue our shared goal of unifying the city behind the school reform efforts making a large difference in the lives of the children across the city. >> fenty says she will step down at end of the month replaced on an interim basis by the deputy chancelor. a new jersey doctor's license has been suspend for ferrying patients to a clinic for late term abortion. ruling calls him manipulative and deceptive in trance pomming them from new injuriesy to elkton to take advantage of difference of state abortion laws. army sergeant john burner ii was buried at arlington cemetery. he died september 16th in

iraq. his family says he died of a treatable ailment while awaiting medical care and doctor's visit. he was a satellite systems chief and he was assigned to the 63rd signal battalion in fort gordon georgia. way deployed in august. a full report on his death probably won't be finished until next year. tenments away now from 7:00. how about this a. flag painted in the middle of a notingham street is history. boughtmore county crews removed it because of protests from some of the neighbors. the flag was right in the middle here of alberta avenue in notingham written next to it, the support of our troops and a tribute to a service member named justin. but an anonymous complaint brought out the county with pressure washer to remove the flag. something that other neighbors say was not necessary. >> i don't see anything wrong with it. i think it is one way for people to express the fact they want to support our troops. there's nothing wrong with

that. >> the bolt nor county highway transport director says that the flag had to go because the paint used posed a hazard on the road and it was defacing county property and says the county can't discriminate between a patriotic display and inflammatory graffiti. well, it sound like his heart was in the right place but gill where the arenas is in trouble. he has been find for fake injury to keep from playing in the home preseason opener. the coach flip saunders says arenas claimed to have a soar knee before the outing against atlanta. arenas said he pretended to have a bum knee to give nick young a chance to start. >> i was trying to help out nick you know get some playing time because he's been work hard at practice and you know, i screwed up again, so you know i. just want to say sorry. >> would have been arena's first appearance since the felly conviction for bringing gun in the locker room last quite

year. wizards won against atlanta 107-92. 6:51 right now. in the democracy 2010 news here this morning, the two candidates for governor going at it again today. governor o'malley and former governor ehrlich are going to participate in their second debate before the november election. the event will be hosted today by the washington post. and will be streamed live on the paper's website. it starts at noon and we will have complete coverage on abc2 news at five, six and 11:00. today, a major announcement from the cordish company about the controversial slots parlor they want to build inure arundel mills mall. the company will unveil the plans for maryland live at a press conference this morning. the announcement will include details of the first class amenities that will be featured in the project. and voters will decide if they want the slots in that area on election day. a referendum called question a will be on the bam asking if you want the slots built there.

the mayor wants to figure out you to to make the city more cultured and will host a cultural town hall meeting at baltimore school for the arts a panel lay dress the issue of audience engagement in 2010 with a focus on people 18 to 32 years of age. the panelists will include the crest o of eknock prat free library and media special it from baltimore. in addition, a panel of young people will provide some ideas on how to make the interests and attract the age group to the arts, the meeting will be tonight from 5:30 until 8. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar, and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. good morning. minutes before 7:00 starting to get some light overcast skies. it's going to be a dark, dreary day. we pushed up to 52. temperatures bumped into the last couple hours as the cloud rolled in. but still chilly air behind this storm. and feeding into the storm western pa in the 40s. mild 60 from rich mand and

leading edge of the rain and watch the radar field enhance here across the mountain in the last couple hours. we have moderate rain to be expected as the storm cranks up one area of low pressure western pa, pull it back and being see second air afterlow pressure in southern portion of virginia and north carolina. that's the one that's going take over. that's the one that forms and turns into this nor'easter. a pattern that would be more common in the wintertime and as it wraps in this cold air, it is really going get cranking. and as the rain pulls out that's when the winds increase. this will whip up into new england with the wind there probably pushing up to 60 miles per hour along the coast and into the mountains stripping a lot of leaves off the new england trees. but for us, we get rain up to an inch expected and then we are expecting the winds to crank up as the thing pulls away. that is pattern we expect in the wintertime and if this storm had hit us in december, we would be talking about two feet of snow possible. especially up to the north. but for us, it's rain event and with the rain moderate to heavy this afternoon.

and it will hold temperatures in the 50s. now watch the rain really enhance here. new york long island and new england. this is midnight our rain cuts off. and as the rain and storm hits new england, we start pulling in strong winds in the morning, and maybe a scattered shower in the afternoon. clouds clear out over the weekend. today, plan for the wet weather. rain moves in next couple hours and heavy this afternoon. and holding the high to 59 degrees. pull back in the 40s with the rain cutting off by midnight and tomorrow a cloudy day. windy, gusts of 40 miles per hour and high of 64 with scattered showers. we drop in the 40s overnight a chilly start for the running festival. sunny saturday afternoon. 63. 68 on sunday and near 70 by the middle of next week. kim. >> reporter: well, heavy volume and congestion are a factor on the beltway. however, traffic is at least moving here on the outer loop. this is at liberty road. it's going to be heavy heading towards i-70. the inner loop lanes look heavy as well. so just plan your trp accordingly. right now looking at the maps, we have a disabled vehicle on

the inner loop between harford road approaching white marsh boulevard blocking the center lane. that has traffic pretty much at a crawl. the delays begin at providence road this morning. and down in anne arundel county, two incidents. one route 100 westbound approaching route 2 that has things slow and crownsvale overturned vehicle severn chapel roll rode at st. stevens road lane blockages and delays as well. hillary clinton, secretary of state, will be a guest on good morning america at seven and we can't get enough of the mine rescue. she will talk about that along with middle east politics and afghanistan and about the mine rescue. how about this, how about super heros for christmas? collect all 33. you know i want mine in number 21. wouldn't that be neat. >> i best people dress up like miners for halloween. >> they will have the glasses. i cpt get enough of it. more of it coming next here on "good morning, america" have a great day again. stay dry.

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...