rainy in some areas and show in some areas. carroll county school is on a two-who are delay. here's meteorologist justin bush -- hour delay. here's meteorologist justin berk. >> initially it was not sticking on the roads or the grass as being see off in the distance. but that changed. big heavy wet flakes and up through southern new york county, and a lot of people who watch us around dallastown have a two-hour school delay. interstate 83 was covered over with snow and slickened up in hurry especially across the pa line. we know you can spot the pa line in the snowstorm because that's where the plows stop. let's get back to the conditions this morning. this is not a joke. we had heavy wet snow and carroll county, down through reisterstown and it's sticking on a lot of places even some of the roads. carroll county has the two-hour day this as megan mentioned. and yes interstate 83 was bad. it may be slick this morning. let's show you pictures this westminster our storm center

weathernet cam. look at the bottom of the screen and you can see the field covering over and the early light-year we will see more of the snow around the reasonableon. towson we have snow now. oh, but it's wet. no concerns there. we are looking at temperatures in the 30s. and our winter mode not doing a great job. so we had to extrapolate where the snow line is sticking on the road northwest. but mainly around the immediate metro area we are in fine shape. flakes around the beltedway but it's wet. here's kim with traffic -- beltway. but it's wet. here's kim with traffic. >> reporter: an accident inside the harbor tunnel that has been cleared and the delays are gone. but we are seeing things pick up making your way around the beltway it cannily the west side -- it canly the west side. 69 -- particularly on the west side. road conditions certainly not the greatest, but we are looking at wet roads around the baltimore beltway. and affecting the 95 corridor from harford county into baltimore county further into howard county. earlier accident in baltimore city at lombard and president street that has been cleared.

police remain on the scene of a vehicle fire at south hanover and fire and ems are on the scene there as well. now back to you. >> time 6:32. thanks a lot. get your preak on. a catchy slogan but a party animal named kegasus is sending a bad message. the half man half horse preakness mascot is causing controversy as sherrie johnson is here to explain why. >> reporter: the maryland jockey club says they are trying to attract more people to the preakness which kicks off in may. they want to grow the products. jockey club says kegasus is the mascot for the infield portion of the preakness which attracts thousands of young people with the promise of a 20 dollar bottomless beer mug. state del gut mcdunna says it does nonbut tarnish the second tool of the horse crown. >> i don't think taxpayers'

money should be subsidizing tiew fid piedity. >> i appreciate what the -- stupidity. >> i appreciate what they have done but we are trying to create revenue streams to be self-sufficient. >> reporter: help -- they have stick with kegasus. it's a waiting of vote in the state senate. news time 6:33 right now. in news around the nation, disturbing comments got an arkansas school nurse fired. according to a letter written by the superintendent in a classroom of students and teachers, maryland -- marilyn snyder said "all special education student need to be euthanized and wiped off the face of the earth." well, the jonesboro public school district, the school board, held a hearing and voted unanimously to fire her. she says it was a bad choice of words" and her heart is broken. 17-year-old was shot and

killed by police after a falsely reported carjacking. and led them on a high-speed chase. police say the teen called 911 to say he had been car jacked at a grocery store parking lot. police chased the car to a deadend road and when he got out he pointed ahand handgun and it was discovered he was holding a pellet gun and the i didn't is investigated but police say the officers appeared to have handle the situation by the book. somethings you can't take your eyes off. like this live eagle cam and that is streaming on the internet 24 hours a day any day now the first of three bald eagle eggs are set to hatch. tens of thousands of people are glued to the computers. at any given moment they will watch the family grow. the project was set up with a live stream to let people see the babies be born. 6:34 right now. a snickers craving could be the

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reisterstown at franklin middle school. you got some on the ground. this is nearby at mema headquarters and there's a two- hour school delay in carroll county where roads got covered over. snowfall right around the beltway. here's kim with traffic. >> reporter: thanks. snow, rain and wet roads making for a messy friday morning commute. we have a couple problems out there. i will let you know how to get around them when "good morning maryland" returns after this. what do we have here?

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good morning. this is your abc to news to go i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's check the forecast and into the weekend. snow in some places. justin is here with more. >> good morning. april 1st but not april fool's jokes. some of you are tired of hearing that word snow. and haring me talk about it. but -- and haring me talk about it. west -- hearing me talk about it. it came down hard and heavy one to two inches on the grassy surface with daylight showing the grassy field covered with snow and some of the roads at winter's mill high school many we have a new image.

hd cam in man chest are we showed you snow. they have a fresh batch this morning. and temperatures are down to near freezing. roads still slick 32 westminster to hereford. 32 kingsville with snow in thewet roads and 36 rain in glen burnie. our weekend outlook in moment. let's talk about traffic now with kim. >> reporter: justin being our earlier accidents inside baltimore city have been cleared and traffic actually not moving too badly considering the slick road conditions. no mainly problems to report here. 50 at i-97 making are way westbound between the bay bridge toll plaza onwards towards this point traffic moving well. looking at maps, we have one accident this is at liberty road and millford mill road. baltimore county police are on the scene. but traffic is not moving too badly on the 95 corridor as you make your way to and from the tunnels. now back to you. >> thanks. she is a baltimore legend. you say his name and think great things. but this morning we are saying prayers for brooks robinson. linda so is live this morning at the yard to tell us how he is doing in the hospital. linda. >> reporter: well, the latest

we have is the statement from the hall of famer himself. he told us from the hospital yesterday that he is doing fine. his number 5 here at yard a legend and we are hoping he will pull through. the 73-year-old was scheduled for a routine outpatient procedure at gbmc but night before the procedure, he developed a fever and infection. his doctors aggressively treated him and brook says he is responding well. he released a statement saying i am pleased to say i continue to remain cancer free after my successful treatment for prostate cancer in 2009. i ask you give me privacy and i look forward to a full recovery and thank you for your prayers. brooks played for the o's from 1955 to 1977. he was elected to the hall of fame in 83. he made 18 all star teams and won the american league mvp award in 1964. he played all 23 seasons of his major league career in baltimore with the orioles. as the o's get ready to open on the road today, we are saying a prayer for brooks and hoping for a speedy recovery.

live at camden yard, linda so, abc2 news. >> thanks. 6:46 right now. it's major league baseball new year's day. buck and the o's taking the field tonight on the road in tampa bay. first pitch set for around 7:10 from tropicana fields. o's will send gutherie to the bump. first pitch after 7. o's and the tampa bay rays. again for the record, i am saying again, 6:47, 37 degrees april 1st, o's win the wild card. there's a good chance your bracket is shot but the games could be fun to watch. we are talking about the ncaa man's basketball final four. tomorrow the butler bulldogs take on vcu. the scheduled tip off is around 6:10 and 9:50 it's the wildcats from kentucky -- going up against ucon the winners of those will play around 9:15

tort-- for the national title. a 14 -year-old boy is in custody e beat his 66-year-old grandmother uncoshes with a hammer. -- unconscious with a hammer e called 9 len after the attack -- 911 after the attack. the boy hit his grandmother multiple times after he got angry while getting ready for school. his grandmother is listed currently in critical condition. this morning, annapolis police are look for a man who grabbed a 16-year-old girl on her way to school. the incident happened in the 800 block of chesapeake avenue. authorities say the teen was able to get free and ran away. anyone with information is asked to call police. the number on the screen is 410- 268-9000. a gun belonging to a baltimore city police major is being investigated this morning. officials are trying to determine how his gun ended up on the streets. a burglar made off with the gun from arcos mexican restaurant. police want to know how the gun registered to major anthony brown ended up in the hands of

business owner nicholas ramos in the first place. you see there's no record of the gun's sale and the major brown never report it stolen it. doesn't appear the gun has been used in a crime. -- it doesn't appear the gun has been used in a crime. mall surveillance cameras got photos of the suspect. acoreing to howard county police, three men walked into the edward arthur scwiewlry store before one wednesday afternoon. police say -- jewelry store before one wednesday afternoon. no one was hurt but the suspects got away with reportedly hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry. anyone with information is asked to call the number on the screen. 410-313-stop. new this morning, the traps pour station department says the number of people killed on roadways had fallent to lowest level in 60 years despite americans drove more miles last year. officials say nearly 33,000 people died in crashes in 2010 down 3% from the same time

2009. more seat belt use, better safety equipment and efforts to curb drunk driving is credited with the decreased numbers. a memorial to remember the wrungest rim of the shooting in air zone -- youngest victim of a shooting in arizona will be erecked today. it will be unveiled in tucson later today. piece phs steel from the pentagon,s -- pieces of steel from the pentagon, world trade center and flight 93 are used in the creation of the statue. it will be in the park where she played little league. consumer alert, if you ate sausage at thurmont recently, the department of health says sauceage at the mount pleasant rotary club has been linked tosalmonella. it happened on january 27th and it served as a and cakebreakfast. any saucean from the january butchering event should be discarded. fine out more on this at abc 2 news.com. well a new app to get you

someone's digits without asking for them. google plans to introduce an appthat lets users snap a photo of someone's face and access the personal information. that sounds creepy. the photo app lets users a person's profile which could include their name, phone number and e-mail address. of course people would have to allow google to share the information. google is working out the privacy issues. the details and plans of when it is released is upcoming. after a week of searching, workers at the bronx zoo found the missing cobra alive and well inside the reptile house. the exhibit has been closed since the creature disappeared. the venom is so powerful it can kill a human in 15 seconds. during her time on the run, the reptile had her own twitter account with 200,000 followers. not bad. a signature creation is available to you at a more

affordable price. starting next month there will be a smaller line of cakes dubbed cakes for two. they can feed 10 to 15 people and cost around $250. it's art. and you can order them online before heading over to charm city cakes to pick them up. the smaller cakes are predesigned but goldman says the colors can be custom eyed by adding birthday messages or a logo if the mood hits you. tonight and tomorrow prominent buildings will be illuminateed in blue to mark autism awareness day including the empire state building and cnn tower in toronto can. crab season opens today but there's a financial pinch this year that watermen are finding themselves in. the rise in gas prices have some nervous about the opening of the season. watermen are waiting to see if harvest restrictions will loosen up. a few years ago the crab pop laying was low and -- pop laying was low and that force

-- population was low and that forced restrictions. cirque du soleil is bringing the one of a kind experience to baltimore. and the rain is not slowing them down. we were there on hand in southwest baltimore at the cirque du soleil when they rolled out the big top yesterday morning known as the grand chapeau. >> it takes about 7 days to set the whole thing up. that is everything set, bleachers-- it takes between 24 hours and 36 hours to take it down. >> beginning april 7th, they will display the newest production and it the show will run until april 24th at the westport water front. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> 6:53. i got a messer from a teacher at east middle who said it's one of the prettiest snows she has seen in carroll county on a

school -- seen. in carroll county, they are on a two-hour school delay. reisterstown good morning to my friends there at franklin middle school. i just got a message from miss lightner that said the kid saw the sign and it said justin b because the last part of my last name was covered up. and that disappointed the students not being justin bieber. it was a good time yesterday. this morning, you see snow. it came down and yes it was sticking on the grass and some roads. northern baltimore and southern pa an issue. around towson we have snowflakes, but it's wet on charles street. and we are looking fine. temperatures right now are running near freezing especially northwest. a winter mode is not doing the best job. we can see where the snow has been sticking. extreme northern baltimore county and southern pa, maybe one or two inches on the grassy surface. we have snow flames around -- neighbors north and west of i- -- neighbors north and west of

i--- neighbors north and west of -- flakes, north and west of i-95. the storm is causing problems in new england. boston is opening up in arlington texas and not at fenway because they have heavy snow and interior new england could get a foot of the april fool's storm. back to the poconos and western pa, self springs is open for skiing tomorrow. the latest openings that they have had. and then they will shut down. we will warm up after this event. again, lingering showers warming to 48. still an issue with snow on the grass and roads northwest this morning. 34 tonight, 52 tomorrow. and rain showers. i will be at the maryland science at johns hopkins university. we will warm to 56 sunday. opening day monday 60. but that comes with rain. kim. >> reporter: we are looking at volume lighter than normal this morning. and that's probably contributing to the fact we don't have a whole lot of major problems on the roads for this

friday morning commute. as we look live at 95 coming through baltimore county. northbound and southbound both all clear. heading northbound towards thebellway and 395, no reported problems. southbound on 95 as you make your way towards the capital beltway, all lanes are open. no problems on the bw parkway. looking at the drive times around the beltway, coming across the outer loop no major issues reported there either. we are dealing with one accident at affecting the eastbound lanes of liberty road at millford mill road. now back to you. >> it's 6:56. don't forget about good morning maryland at nine. the hot topic the kegasus. what do you think of it? do you think it's stupid or will bring people into preakness. >> it is getting support from jockey club. we want to know what you are thinking about. the news is always on at abc2news.com. what do you think of this guy? >> carroll county, two-hour school delay. it's not a joke. it happens. i am not crazy. >> not a april's fool. >> all right. >> update in 25 and 55 and we

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