and democracy. thanks to the military professionals who carried out the mission. we owe them our gratitude and prayers. many of you are waking up this morning hearing the news for the first time. the death oaf sama bin laden. abc -- osama bin laden. linda so is talking to people heading into the nation's capital to start the workweek. linda. >> reporter: yeah, actually, i wanted to show you something interesting. we had the sun the headline reads, dead a picture of osama bin laden. but this happened -- the announcement came late last night around 11. so a lot of papers actually had to scramble. this is the early edition of the "new york times." you can see the big story is still the tornadoes that hit last week in alabama. we are hearing that a lot of newspapers you got to think all around the world scrambled last- minute to get their headlines changeed. but it shows you know how huge this is. the sun det and picture of osama bin laden killed during a

fire fight in pakistan. and the same goes this morning for the folks we spoke with. actually, i spoke with several people who had no idea three the were heading into work at penn station -- they were heading into work here at penn station they had no idea osama bin laden was killed and many were shocked and surprised. one wood said good he was the devil. but she also said she was -- one woman said good, he was the devil and she also said she was surprised and it took 10 years since the 9/11 attacks for the day to come and now that it has, she really was very surprised. we are talking to some folks here heading off to dc to work. we have a lot of dc commuters. they remember the day when 9/11 happened. what they were doing and where they were. and we spoke with one gentleman who works in dc and he was getting ready for a business trip to new york. obviously that got canceled. but he says he is just glad

that this happened before the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 and we spoke with one woman 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 attack. she is glad that osama bin laden has been captured and she believes that it will bring some sort of relief for the families who lost their loved ones. let's look -- listen at what she had to say. >> you can never say a life ending you can never say it's justice. but, yeah, i am speechless. >> reporter: so, again, the front page of the sun says it all. dead. just an interesting thing with the announcement happening the early edition of the "new york times" hass the picture of the alabama tornadoes. but you know a. lot of papers across the country and -- papers across the country and -- papers across the country and world scrambling to get the

story n linda so, abc -- in. linda so, abc2 news. this is great news for those who lost loved one. hundreds gathered after the news of the killing began and it spread among them. it was a man who lost his son in the deadly terror attacks and says he knew he had to be outside of the white house. >> i feel that finally some vindication has been done. there's still a lot more to be done. we know that. and the threat is not -- threat is not over. but it's a big step i came up from woodbridge when i hear. it's to be here this is where it's to be. it's to bring my son with me so we could share this time together. >> he brought a picture of his son with him so they could share the moment together. >> this is the big story we will be following all day long. you can head to our website, abc2news.com. we have reaction from the state and country and world and we are updating the website. it's abc2news.com. it's 6:33. as this is going to be a day of

celebration for the death of so sam -- osama bin laden. other agencies are on high alert. >> police at national embassy are taking extra precautions to protect themselves against antiamericans attacks. >> and the man shans with where bin laden was killed and destroyed, this video that mansion and compound in flames. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30. [ male announcer ] a chicken coop: the unlikely birthplace of a fundamental idea. it's where ethel percy andrus found a retired teacher living because she could afford nothing else. ethel couldn't ignore the clear need for health and financial security. and it inspired her to found aarp. for over 50 years, we've continued that work, to help all americans pursue their best life. discover more of what we do right here in maryland.

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6:37. thanks for joining us. the fire this morning is burning at pakistani mansion where osama bin laden was killed by u.s. forces. right now it's not known what caused the fire. a source tells cnn that bin laden was shot in the head during a short fire fight at that compound. three other men were also killed in a raid along with a woman who has been used as a human shield we are told. no americans were hurt but a u.s. helicopter had a mechanical problem and crashed during the raid. only a small group of people inside the u.s. government knew about the operation ahead of

time. now in other news, baltimore county police say a man in randallstown shot a woman and turned the gun on himself. it happened sunday afternoon in randallstown. baltimore county place plies say the woman was shot in the leg by her husband. she is in the hospital this morning. the situation grew more intense when police knocked on the door but got no response. police forced their way in and found her in the foyer. police have not named the husband and wife. the body of a man is discovered inside a vacant home along with a 5-year-old boy and police are trying to determinehow long he has been with his father's body. this discovery was made along the 8700 block of mary lane in jessup. the man is 26-year-old who is last seen on tuesday leaving a relative's home after a domestic dispute. officers were called to the home on wednesday for a broken window. they searched but didn't find anything. the body and the child were

found when homeowners stopped by on saturday. news time is 6:38. violence is the baltimore county carnival. three men were stabbed after fight broke out near the security square carnival. the fight escalated leading to the stabbings a few miles away at the 3600 block of florida road. this morning, police are still searching for suspects. this morning, police are trying to determine what caused an explosion that killed a man in taneytown. no one seen or heard from carey landskroner. police are saying the 44-year- old man died because of an explosion but aren't sure what caused the explosion. they are still investigating this morning. #:39. -- 6:39. could you get caught on camera. the howard county council is expected to vote whether or not to allow speed cameras in school zones. drivers would wind up with a 40 dollar ticket for going faster than 12 miles per hour over the speed limb. we will keep you posted on what happens. he he was the man that many said they wanted him dead or

alive. >> it was president bush who made that promise to u.s. forces that whoa ghetto sama bin laden. what he said this morning after it happened. >> the sight where we have seen so much sadness and despair turning into a place of celebration of cheers. what ground zero looks like today. and those who put their lives on the line and left their families got to hear the good news about osama bin laden's death. we will get their reaction from our heros overseas. 6:40, 55 degrees. cloudy skies once again a couple showers on the way this morning. and again this afternoon, and again tomorrow. you get the theme in we will talk about the wet forecast coming up. kim? >> reporter: volume is picking up and that's pushing speeds down around beltway. no major incidents around 695, however we have a road closure out in harford county. i will have more details about that and how that's going to impact your commute this morning when "good morning maryland" comes back after this. [ female announcer ] you do so much...

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may 2nd, 6:43 this is your abc2 news to go i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's kick it off with the

forecast with justin berk. >> i want to show outschool i visited friday afternoon. we had a good time. wind for change raising money for the cool kids campaign and we are calculating the totals. so we will pass that along. and kid blowing over 30-mile- per-hour winds. but a good time out there. i want to thank miss heather for setting the program up and we look forward to doing more with them and everybody in the fine city of annapolis who is very proud of the u.s. naval academy this morning. and the entire navy and servicemen and women. looking in annapolis a. few showers on the way from the west. that will be part of the morning ride and on and off showers pushing 72 and a stray thunderstorm this afternoon. it's 6:44. let's go to the road with kim brown. >> reporter: thanks. expect minor delays on the outside of the top side of the outer loop coming from bel air road heading towards york road this morning. again, no major incidents or problems around beltway. looking at volume starting to pick up. and that's slowing things down a tat. now out -- tad.

now northbound riverside parkway closed at pulaski highway because of an earlier accident. a pretty serious crash. and police are on the scene directing traffic. you can use route 24 as a alternate. reisterstown an accident remains at worthington road and timber knoll road. now back to you. >> thanks a lot. news time is 6:45. after nearly a decade of hiding, osama bin laden is dead. president obama made the announcement last might in a press conference. you see the pakistani security outside the mansion where the al-qaeda leader was killed. u.s. officials say the compound was much larger than nearby homes as much as 8 times larger. and it appeared to be a custom built home to hide someone. a small group of people inside. u.s. government knew about the operation well ahead of time. in the address to the nation last night, president obama reiterated that we are not at war with islam. >> bin laden was not a muslim leader. he was a mass murderer of muslims and al-qaeda

slaughtered scores of muslims in many countries including our own. so his dough mice should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity. >> news sources including the associated press cnn and apc news report the body has been buried at sea. >> 6:46 right now. this is certainly a story that we have waited a long time to hear. and if you went to bed early, maybe this is the first thing you are hearing about, the death of osama bin laden. linda so is live this morning at penn station where people are headed to dc. linda. >> reporter: yeah, megan that's the case for a lot of folks. they are up so early and they went to bed early last night and missed ate nounsment. many were hearing for the first time that osama bin laden is dead. a collective sigh of relief for many of them. surprise from a lot of folks. they didn't know this day would happen so soon. we are waiting for a train that's leaving for new york at 7:15 this morning. and another one is coming in

from new york at 7:30. we will be standing by here talking to folks as that happens and have that for you later in the 9 a.m. newscast. you know, the people here many who are decent commuters who use penn station they were working in dc when 9/11 happened. they say they will never forget that day. where they were or what they were doing. and today is no different. they expect when they head into work, they will their will be a lot of chatter and people talking about what happened and the news of the day. we spoke with one gentleman as you know, this is a great victory in the war against terrorism that osama bin laden is dead. but, again, also the fear that it might spark retaliation from al-qaeda cells. let's hear what he had to say. >> you do worry about retaliatory measures, but, other than that, you know, it's a good day. well-known terrorists and no longer around.

>> reporter: i do want to show you something interesting. again, since that announcement came last night, some newspapers had it. the sun front page one headline, dead and a picture of osama bin laden. want to show you the earlier edition of the "new york times." they don't have it. picture here of the aftermath from the alabama tornadoes. that was the early edition. so, again, newspapers across the country across the world scrambling to get the big headline in, but that is the headline of the day. osama bin laden is dead. live at pen station, linda so, abc2 news. >> 6:48. thank you. police departments in new york city and l.a. say the death oaf sama bin laden will make them more vigilant. the state department told americans abroad especially in areas prone to antiu.s. violence to avoid crowd and travel for the time being. embassies have been put on alert. the department says they are enhanced potential for

antiamerican violence given the recent counter terrorism activity in pakistan. >> usa, usa, usa. >> this video shows you a crowd near the white house. some people gathered shortly before mr. obama's statement and the crowds cepped kept growing and growing throughout the -- kept growing and growing. they waved flags and sang songs when hearing the news of the death of osama bin laden. fbi can be -- he was on the most wanted fbi list prior to september 11th. >> ♪ oh say does that star spaingeled banner yet wave ♪ >> it's a celebration in a spot long known for tragedy. here you can see a crowd gathering at ground zero early monday morning shortly after the president announced bin laden's death. 9/11 attacks, the mastermind by bin laden brought down the twin towers and claimed more than 3,000 lives. 2700 of those lives lost at

world trade center at ground zero. it was a similar scene in boston as cheers range out through the streets. dozens of people gathered and the -- at the boton common shortly after the president's historic ad. boston common shortly after the -- boston common shortly after the president's announcement. president bush thanked the men and women of our military as well as the intelligence communities who devoted lives to the mission e said this momentous achievement marks a victory for america, for people who seek peace around the world and for all of those who lost loved ones on september 11th 2001. he also said that it was a unmistakable message that no matter how long it takes, justice will be done. ten minutes away from cinch. nearly ten years ago we are reeling from the september 11th attacks and we remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard about a plane hitting the world trade center. and then the news kept getting

worse and worse. when the smoke cleared, at least 3,000 lives were lost less than a week after the attacks, we knew who was behind them and what we needed to do. >> osama bin laden is one person. he is representative of networks of people who absolutely have made their cause to defeat the freedoms we take -- that we understand and we will not allow him to do so. >> do you want bin laden dead. >> i want justice. and there's an old poster out west as i recall that said wanted, dead or alive. >> president obama called president bush after they found osama bin laden's body to tell him that the job was done. it is 6:51 right now and we are seeing amazing pictures this morning coming in. this powerful image this morning. you can see u.s. troops serving in afghanistan watching president obama historic speech late last night.

>> also another powerful image comings from new york. you found this one on the front page of "new york times" website. dozens of firefighters there at times square. >> absolutely. reading the news on the giant ticker, and the images say it all this morning. we will share them with you of course throughout the morning and good morning maryland at nine. well, the news is spreading all over the internet. people are posting videos of themselves and various celebrations throughout the country saying god bless america and their status updates. many here at wmar facebook fanpage. sherrie johnson is live with reaction from this historic moment in our country's history. sherrie. >> reporter: from facebook to twitter to myspace and other media sites, people are sounding off about the death of osama bin laden. there's been a huge surge of patriotism with many people gathering outside of the white house. so am -- osama bin laden was a terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of men,

women and children most notably the september 11th attacks and last night when president obama took to the airways he said it was the top priority to capture bin laden. now he is dead, the president says we must remain vigilant. now we have been busy this morning in the interactive news center searching the websites and and checking out facebook comments. but if you are waking up and want to know more information, head to abc2 news.com and look in our slide show. we have a number of stories here to update you on what's going on. in fact, in the top -- the number one thing in our slide show you can head to watch video and if you didn't see president obama's speech last night, it was a 9-minute speech, head there to find out more information. also, the latest on security measures. many people are worried about that. you can go to our facebook page where we have a number of comments here. we have darleen who says hey, he got just what he did to our americans. killed.

and sherry says while i am glad that the threat is over, we are americans not barbarians. shnt we have at least what fair trial. also popping up on facebook we are seeing a number of different fan pages like united we stand. so far, 95 people have lived this and we are seeing things like god bless america and we are seeing people saying we need to come together and we can go back to arguing as americans in a couple days but today we need to stand united. so these are some of the things that we are noticing on the facebook fan page and again, you can go to abc2news.com to find out the latest information. reporting live in the interactive news center, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> 6:54. through the power of facebook the word is spreading it's rich foote's birthday you know foote's forecast? you know that guy? wish him a happy birthday.

he is a good man and does a lot of good things for student statement and across the nation, you will hear more about that as students studying the world of weather. and we have weather to talk about on foote's birthday. 62 after morning showers and a lay day thunderstorm and showers could linger through tonight 57. showers will be the theme not at all a washout. we will talk flooding in the midwest. separating 60s and 70sthis morning in the south. that's the warm air pumping in this morning. versus 40s and 30s and maybe snow on the backside of the storm as it mbs through pa on wednesday morning. right now it is producing rain and flooding and speced one against on the anniversary of the national flooding that took out the grand old opera last year. some of that heads in our direction. we have morning showers and the future radar highlighting the fact that that frontal boundary is most of the action is to the west scattered showers ahead of it basically tuesday night to wednesday morning. we get it. temperatures 72 today. and 80 tomorrow and back to the 60s as tuesday night and wednesday morning most of our rain cinco de mayo dry, 65 and

60s with showers friday and saturday. kim. >> reporter: we have got a pretty serious accident here on the beltway on the outer loop lanes right at providence road. we see an overturned vehicle on the side. ambulance and police are on the scene reportedly the crash involves injuries. so you can expect delays this morning as you come through towson and parkville on the outer loop. inner loop traffic is affected as drivers are slowing down and take a look at that. we had an earlier accident in bell camp northbound riverside parkway reopen at pulaski still expect to see police on the scene and up in reisterstown we have crash activity lingering on worthington near timber knoll road. now back to you into course "good morning america" will have more on the death of osama bin laden and we will continue that throughout the morning local coverage on "good morning maryland" at nine. coming, volunteer firefighters from providence that got a piece of the world strayed center they will be

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