right in the palm of your has been. weather app if iphone and ipad users. use the maps to get to the latest forecasts. track storms. you can get the 7-day forecast for an hourly forecast. head to our wide right now. abc2 news/weather. tropical storm lee ruined weekend plans on the gulf coast. the storm dropped over 14 inches of rain over parts of louisiana over the weekend ask more rain than typically they get in a month. the rain turned one street into more like a lake. the sub division, you can look here now. it is all flooded. like you have people walking in it and boats and everything back here. >> people are wading through. >> feels like katrina again, but not as bad. it is scary.

the storm has produced 20 tornadoes in several states. hurricane irene and tropical storm lee have produced billions of dollars of damage. bge says everyone who lost power is back on. they finished restoring power to all customers last night. about 11:30. at one point 750,000 customers were in the dark because of irene. bge says irene did more damage. and ocean city seems to have recovered well. ocean city says businesses have

rebounded well. they had more than 60 rescues on saturday. those who enjoyed the good weather in ocean city have been heading home. don't forget the latest updates until accident or back-up information along with live cameras around the state. a car stopped and was rear-ended by another vehicle. seven people were hurt. county police are still investigating this crash. washington, d.c. will name

more than 50 applicants who have been approved to apply for a license to grow and sell medical marijuana. a group that includes former tv talk show host monday tell williams. the washington post is reporting the health department will name those who will an proved later this week. the group will be able to apply one of 15 licenses. monday tell williams says he hopes to change perceptions about medical marijuana. it will be the debut of terrapins head coach, along with miami's head coach golden. goaden has to play with eight players because they took money from a booster. maryland could pull off a game

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but businesses are weighing in about whether the big race was a help or a hur. reaction to the race, where he found was mixed. some business owners said they saw huge numbers. the owner said he was up 20% in sales from last year. other shops shut down, expecting customers couldn't or wouldn't be able to get to stores and a lot of people stayed out of the city. i had the impression most of the visitors were in the selfen cloweed area. >> win or lose all the business owners we talked to agreed about the hype of traffic did have an impact on business, likely scaring away some of the customers. now the race is on. racing walls and fences have started to come down and temporary grandstands have been

removed. roosevelt joins us with how the tear down is going today. >> the good news is 35 from 95 is back open. that will make it easier for folks to come in. however the bad news is they haven't gotten conway street. but they are going to open up as many streets as they can. they are clearing up a lot of streets on this thing right now. the whole exit off 35 through howard street opened up a lit later today. you won't see every barrier disappear. you know why? there is an awful lot of them. >> the party's over. the cars are gone and pratt street is back to the same old city buses ask normalcy. normal is cars stuck in

traffic. a lot of roads are cut off. >> legally difficult, man. i don't know the construction going on, how long it is going to take. it's been hard lately. >> you are ready for it to be over? >> i would say that much, yes. >> most of the cross streets were open by no one. crews were scattered all around downtown. the grand free says it will meet its goal getting the bulk of the roads open for tuesday's rush hour. access to freeways and downtown streets, that schedule was developed, again in concert with the city. we are currently, i think we have exceeded the intersection openings today. >> with all the streets around, it will take it at least two weeks before every barrier is

down around downtown, driving and walking around downtown should be close to normal next week. that is fine for folks around baltimore. >> now it is over, it is a little bitber. it has been hard to get around. now one of the things they didn't mess around was light rail. the tracks are clear, and people could come, the light rail has been running all day without any problems. the big thing is getting off 95 and getting off 395 and going into downtown. like i said, most of the bare years, the big barriers will take awhile for those to get downtown. a lot of things were in the works here.

there may be some problems along the while. reporting live, abc2 news. plan. you get an idea with a flash flood tomorrow and tomorrow night. basically, all of i-95, cecil county through hartford county, and bel air southward, heavy rains northeastern baltimore county, through the city. real heavy showers moving through bowie, annapolis, up 2, and 97. tough times for beach travelers returning. heavy rain for tailgaters in college park right now. wet weather coming through,

we'll still have a game, but definitely locking at wet weather now. as we look at the forecast for you, 8:00 tonight, 75, rainy, muggy. a wet one out there. hopefully, that helps to neutralize the miami offense. 74 right now. out at the airport, hovering in the mid-70s the next several hours. humidity extremely high.  you see the change in the weather. the clouds thicken up. you get the downpours, everything soaked there. very high humidity already in place. not just tonight, into tomorrow, struggling to get out of the 60s. with more and more of the rain cooled airs. you'll get in here in the next hour or two. western maryland. definitely flooding going on

toward western virginia right now. this is the center of what is left of lee and the area of wet weather will run up the east coast 36 to 40 hours. futurecast shows more of the rain on and off tonight. into wednesday. scattered showers and downpours left into wednesday. katia, still a power house hurricane. look at the size of this thing. south of bermuda. well developed eye wall, likely to go category 3 to want into the day tomorrow. katia will make the turn knowing orthopedic and northeast, back out to east. projections keeping her safely away from us. 64, rain likely, tomorrow, more rain, 70, that is it. flooding possible with downpours. flash flooding, comes up quick and runs off in a hurry too. more rain and breaking it off

into just hours are showers. >> less rain, thursday and friday. interesting to see maryland with a new coach, jamie. miami is a team that is normally pretty good. president obama used this labor day holiday to talk about getting us back to work. today the president hinted his plan would include a major project. >> we have road and bridges across this country that need rebuilding. we have companies with the manpower to do the building. we have construction workers ready to get dirty, right now i don't the first time the president has spoken since

friday's dismal job report, which showed no jobs were reported in the month of august. that adds up to more than 14 million americans out of work. here in our state, while the unemployment rate stands 2.7%, jeff hager has more than why so many people have so little to celebrate this labor day. >> by the grace of god, it is not me. >> craig minor is counting himself as one of the luck did i ones. >> my niece's boyfriend doesn't have a job. has been looking for the last five or six months. when you get to temporary work, if you are on some social services, or anything like that. you get cut off from the social services.

in this shopping center, we met cell lynn robinson -- kelvin robinson. >> you pray nothing shows up. a lot of it is out of their hands. >> finally, we met a mother three about more than 20 years of managerial experience. >> right now, mcdonalds, i would take anything. any fast food place right now. >> she found it more difficult it find a job than to kick her drug has been. she has been clean for 18 months and out of work for 24. >> i have been to career centers, locally, the job readiness programs, you can't

find a job. >> jeff hager, abc2 news. maryland reportedly added 8100 jobs. in large part, due to local and state government cuts. german automaker is developing headlights that will be used the laser technology. the new technology will produce a light 1000 times brighter than the new led lights. con artists are ripping off seniors by pre tending to be their grandchildren. we explain how in this we can's scam alert. your home for 60 days. i'm so confident you're going to love it i'm also going to send you dorothy got a been nicked call

two weeks ago. he called her grandma, and claimed he had been drinking and said he needed help. >> he said the damage to the other car was $2800 and he would have to pay this before they would release him. >> reporter: like any good grandparent, dorothy didn't hesitate. she it can notes and wired the cash to a man in italy. when the phone rang the next day with another request for money, dorothy, wired more, and then called her daughter, tim's mom, to make sure she knew he was in trouble. >> she said what about timmy? he is standing right here. within ten seconds of her starting to the erie, i knew it was a scam.

a popular one where they pick the dealed determinely. >> it is unbelievable people are this low. >> they are desperate enough to get seniors to wire money out of the country. >> i was convinced timmy was being held some whether or not. >> dorothy acted on emotion. it cost her. her family was able to cancel the second wire transfer, she is still out nearly 3 grand. money that padded the position of a scammer -- pockets of a scammer. why don't they go into something lengthy? experts say we should all be very careful about wiring money. never transfer funds to someone you don't know and request a wire cash overseas. a huge red flags that pops up, and more information on this and

other scams, head to our website rate knew at abc 2 news.com and click on the money and the scam alert section. here's a look at what's coming up on abc2 news tonight. a proper way to remember those we lost on september 11th. tonight we look at what's being planned to replace the world trade centers. plus, how safe is your child's money at school? safety measures every college student should take. those stories and more. join us tonight at 11:00. away i very maneuverable. you xññññ

everybody's coming home from the beach. >> yeah. >> come on. get the rain out of here. flash flood watch. into tomorrow evening, even. heavy showers into the baltimore area. we are getting clearing for the moment for all the tailgaters for the terrapins game tonight. a chance for rain tonight still. everybody who goes back to school tomorrow, we'll see you right after castle for abc2

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