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fire and water, two big stories. new video of flooding south, parks desserted as tropical depression lee came through the area. streets are flooded, parks are flooded, knoxville, after four inches fell monday. the rain is not over yet. the downpour will continue even in to today and tomorrow. storms paralyzing the south, continuing the case through the the day. justin berk following this story and how it's affecting us here in maryland. we begin this morning with scott goldberg on the hundreds of thousands of people being affected this morning. >> reporter: gone but determined no to the be forgotten , the system that was tropical storm lee is soaking north from southern louisiana, in to georgia and beyond. lee dumped 10 inches in some

places and brought along winds that turned in to dozens of tornados. really throughout our childhood. even like through college and we were just too scared to open a bakery together officials confirmed three in atlanta, and across the state, georgia's emergency management agency said winds damaged 100 homes, richard and his wife hid in their closet. georgia power reported more than 5000 customers without electricity. what is left is moving in to the northeast, the part of the country coming out from under hurricane irene. >> we had a really serious be 3- day window to watch with the rainfall. >> reporter: people simply can't handle another drop. >> we need more water. we really, i don't know, what we are going to do. >> reporter: ght have a silver lining, pruprom the remnants of lee could push

katia out to sea, sparing the east coast. pictures are incredible that we are seeing. >> this is across mississippi, alabama incomes to georgia. we are getting rain right now. any chance we could get that? >> a piece of lee, as we have been talking about, deflecting katia off of the coast. that made a lot of headline and added anxiety, this storm had initially projected by our storm center to stay out to sea. winds 105 miles per hour. up through an eye wall replacement cycle. watch it race as it gets caught up by our system. we got our problems to deal with, remnants of lee chugging along a frontal boundary.

we are on the cooler side verses threat across the southeast. it will be wet, cooler, my suggestion as i put my 5 year old in jeans, and a long sleeve shirt and raincoat, temperatures will be 60s. slow traffic, tough be careful out there. 95 northbound, aberdeen, an accident with injuries reported. looking at 95, southwest, north of 195, doing fine at this point. ahead earlier 95 southbound, 195, that accident is cleared out of the way. we have a problem on the outer loop, liberty, stop and go. it's slow all the way around to 70. drive times affected. you will slow down in places. 83 southbound, you are not having a problem. five minutes, doing okay on 95

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en maryland family goes to extremes to finds their missing dog. >> they not only blast is thousands of posters across the metro dc area, they brought in trackers from out of state. see, beth and jeff, they consider sassafras a member of their family. the beagle was lost by a dog walker. since then, she has been spotted as far away as american university most recently in chevy chase maryland. they set up a website, dedicated phone line, they hired professional dog trackers, the cost so far, more

than $10,000. while their efforts resulted in hundreds of phone calls and emails, not all of them are people wanting to help. >> the worst kinds of scams we've had are people that say my neighbor has you dog, this is where they live, you should check it out. >> the couple, they paid to have calls to neighbors. everybody's knows erica kane but nobody knows you. one thing that m rprise >> the gnome showed up everywhere, this is going to be a sassafras situation. >> maybe the media coverage will help. in t.v and maybe i was too young or maybe i just didn't get it but i didn that. time to get up to speed on the roads. we will look at how to get around them.

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much of north georgia hit with heavy rains and strong winds as the remnants of tropical depression lee moves through the state. the storm ripped up twisters, caused damage to dozens of homes and flooding a big

problem there right now. >> across part of georgia, seeing flooding in tennessee, alabama, mississippi. we are seeing rain, flooding across our straits. here is justin berk. we had a lull, say that word fife times fast. annapolis. if you are going for the morning jog, the lull. heavier rain towards carroll county. 58 manchester. one of the coolest spots, it's 61 right now, in westminster. 63 edge mere. an accident reported 95 southbound, route 22, before 22 churchville in the left lane. this is the problem spot, the outi loop at liberty, stop and

go traffic. 95 southbound, white marsh, okay there, shouldn't expect too many problems. to the right is the southbound traffic towards the beltway. the day after the grand prix ended, officials say they are getting ready for the commute on pratt street and other streets that served as the race course. it was huge crowds all around the track in the city and officials were watching restaurants on the course, imagine they did huge business and the city can measure three things, the taxes that it collected from the admissions, events, parking in the city and hotel taxes from last weekend. hillville was blocked off because of road closure. reaction was mixed. reggies, they saw huge numbers, but the owner says sales were

up 20% from last year. other shops shut their doors expecting customers either couldn't or wouldn't be able to get to stores. >> a lot of people stayed out of the city, regular shoppers, i had tim presentation that most of the visitors were in the self enclosed area, it was a self contained event. >> all the owners agree about the hype , the traffic had impact on businesses. school back in session for students. the superintendent took time out of his day to welcome students back to class. sherrie johnson joins us live outside of perry hall elementary with what is a great welcome. >> reporter: that's right. it's going to be a excellent welcome this morning. students and staff with k not wait. they got balloons and everything to welcome them.

dr. joe, the superintendent and other visitors will be here, right now i have baltimore county public schools spokesperson, charles herndon joining me life. thank you for being here. you have all of your county schools headed back to class, opening on schedule. this has been a huge delay. >> it has been huge delay. a week ago, we had over 40 schools without power. i think there is a combination of excitement and relief that we are finally able to get in to the classrooms today. everybody is looking forward to it. >> what about the make up days? you have the schools returning today but some people missed several days. what happened? >> we missed two days as a system. it's a little early yet to start worrying about makeup days. a whole year to go. baltimore county is in better shape than most school systems. i think baltimore will be in good shape as long as our

winter stayed mild. that's our hope. >> reporter: thank you so much for joining us. dr. harrisston will visit 7 elementary schools at perry hall at 8:55 this morning, also representatives from county executive's office will be here as well. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. 51 now, republicans chasing gop's nomination are pitching themselvess that strongest candidate to roll back four years of president barack obama's tenure. rent choices that your doctor gave for you and compare five republicans appeared during a forum with senator jim dement in south carolina. health officials are keeping a close eye, watch a case of west nile confirmed in arundel county. this virus affects theer in views system, -- the nervous system. try to avoid mosquito bites, get rid of standing water,

there were three cases of west nile last year in arundel county. maryland hispanic business conference will get underway in bethesda. the congressman is scheduled to be the keynote speaker. workshops, training and business sessions exploring how to promote business relationships. investors are not expecting much success on wall street today. the nikke opened 103 points down. u.s. markets were closed yesterday, but european stocks plunked plunged 4%. that pharmacy is legitimate. it should bear the seal called the vipps seal. what you do is you click on that seal and it's active link and it will take you to the national association of boards pharmacy so we'll take lawmakers will listen to a plea

prom the postal service projecting a $9 billion deficit to close budget gaps. postmaster is seeking permission to end saturday delivery and closest 3700 locations to let go of 120,000 employees and restructure health care benefits. a topic of concern today for maryland, governor martin o'malley hosting cabinet meeting on the issue in annapolis. reporters are not invited to the meeting only to the governor's opening remarks. whether he let you know what he says. starbucks, howard shultz will lead a telephone town hall to discuss ways to restore confidence in politics and the economy. the call will be hosted by the nonpartisan group called no labels and everybody is invited to participate. the white house estimateing that hurricane irene will cost the federal government 1.5 billion dollars in relief. the 1.5 billion dollars was on

top of the 5 billion needed for disaster including tornados that leveed much of joplin, missouri. bge restored power to all customers affected by irene. 750,000 customers were in the dark because of irene compared to 790,000 following is bell in september 2003. big clean up is underway in north georgia in addition to the tornado watch and warnings posted, much of the atlanta area was under a flash flood warning. we showed you video from the storms pushing through atlanta. it's our turn, the hour by hour forecast, flash flood watch, low 60s. i'm jealous of anyone who gets

to run in this stuff. we will stay mid-60s. dropping off this afternoon as the rain gets steadier and heavier. plan accordingly for the kids. the remnants of lee pushing itself up from the deep south, few days of rain, holding off katia off of the coast. see the slug of moisture rolling back in. on the cooler end, we will stay on the less severe end. computer models projecting 11 inches in southwest pa, versus 3 inches on the portions of the delmarra, severe weather, southeast virginia. moderate to heavy rainfall through the afternoon. may get a few lulls, tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon and thursday morning. we got to deal with this for the next couple of days. temperatures today stuck in the mid to upper 60s. that's where they will stay

through tonight. tomorrow 75, showers, thunderstorms, up to 80. lingering showers. scattered showers improving by sunday and monday. accident reported in harford county 95 northbound at which arechville in the left lane. topside of the beltway and on the west side of the beltway, slow. this is 695 liberty road, slow 795 all the way around the baltimore national pike. an accident at liberty in the left lane, that's clear. that happened in the back up. another accident at security boulevard, they are trying to get that out of the way. this will take you time, avoid the west side of the beltway. unituniforms? yes or no. >> thrags are meant for one thing, you stick them on a pole, you don't wear them. >> i think it's like zebra.

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