now "good morning maryland." what's on fire? >> my house. >> the dramatic 911 tapes released after fire killed an elderly couple in baltimore. why some say vital second were lost in the rescue time. and thousands of people are heading out of town for the thanksgiving holiday. i am sherrie johnson. how the weather could delay some flights. and the airlines keep jack up prices for bags. now the government says enough is enough. the plan to make checked bags more affordable. those stories ahead on this wednesday, november 23rd. good morning. i am charley crowson. let's get to justin berk because a lot of people are traveling by road and by air. weather is going to play a factor. >> it is. sherrie talked about it. we have heavy rain on maryland's most powerful doppler radar. we were watching preston is about to press in from the west. denton you are getting it. we have we have no lightning

strike but there's extremely heavy down pours. rates are coming an half ionch to a full inch per hour but won't last an who you're time frame. we are looking at -- time frame. we are looking at heavy rain and near lexington park and salisbury getting in on the action. we have improved. showers around glen burnie and we have to look back to our west. another line of showers and storms that is the cold front entering garrett county and that's what will reach us today between 7 and 9 and 10 we could have another round of showers. and otherwise temperatures upper 50s to near 60 and we will get back to 64 and there could be another chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon. here's teresa with traffic. >> reporter: thanks. looking at 259 northbound hanover road reports of a accident there. let's look live at ana current accident. 9 # north at 100. they are going to clean that up. it's very -- very shortly. let's look at drive times. nothing out of the ordinary this morning. you're seeing the typical times.

charley. >> we are in the thick of holiday travel and millions of you traveling to grandma's house and today the weather could make you slow down a bit. for more on this go to abc2 news sherrie johnson live monitoring flights out of bwi. >> reporter: so far no notable delays at bwi thurgood marshal international airport. but if you are expecting someone from the new york or new england area, brace for delays. we are hearing there are cancellations and delays in new york because of the stormy weather. the best advice if you are flying today, check with your airline for any delays and give yourself plenty of time. much of the east coast is expecting rain and thunderstorms today. thick fog is aexpecting -- say if he canning some areas. upstate new york and new england could see snow and freezing rain. >> we are delays and cancellations coming into the new york airport. >> reporter: there's good news if you are traveling with kids. ts -- psa -- the t-sa eased

rules for young travelers. kids under 12 no long ver to take their shoes off and -- long long ver to take their shoes off and the body scanner no longer shows the outline of a person's body. we have a travel guide and click on this and it has the information you will need heading out of live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. and to keep up-to-date with the most travel delays by air and land, abc2news.com, and go to the traffic tab and you will view hundreds of live cameras and current road conditions. and we have a link to bwi on their home page. and our home page. abc2news.com and click on the story and any time you are leaving to go to the airport to find out if your flight is on time. if you sick of cramming your carry on into the stuffed bins at airports it's one of the complaints among air travelers. two senators say they have got a plan to clear some space on planes. they are introducing a bill

allowing passengers to check one bag for free. that way you won't have to fit all your stuff into one carry on. in news around the nation a candlelight vigil was held. the memory of a florida a&m university band member. robert champion died at a band competition and now the university thinks it may be related to hazing. they suspend all marching band activities until the investigation is done and it could be another 7 weeks before a exact cause of death is determined. they probably undo more than a few pants buttons and 81 eating championships held in new york and sonja, the black widow thomas won the competition. you knew this one you caught this. she aid 5 and a quart -- she ate 5 1/4 pounds of turkey. they will donate 81 turkeys to help new york families and their cities enjoy the holiday weekend. i watched this story of the video like this i cannot watch

that. ee drives you nuts and doesn't listen to what you say and ladies if you can't train him, sell him. what? that's what a woman tried to do when her husband would not stop playing modern warfare three and took matters into her hands. and we have a winner of the mirrored ball trophy. meet the top winner after we get back from new york in this morning's tech bites. in today's tech bites, new smart phones are on the way. facebook reportedly has tapped htc to make a phone that integrates the social network into the operating system and hardware and should go on sale in the next year or two. google he a new android 4.0 operating system could be available in the u.s. very soon. on the galaxy nexus conamed ice cream sandwich. wall street journal thinks the new features make it a strong competitor for the iphone. >> for the most part it's the

mature operating system people have been hoping for from and droid. and it's much more slick and user friendly than the android operating systems have been in the past. >> it will be the first to -- the samsung will be the first to run it. if you check your e-mail tomorrow you are not alone more than 2/3 of us will. those are your tech bites.

now "good morning maryland." ladies, when your husband is driving you crazy, sometimes it's on the thought of selling him might be tempting a woman in utah did that. her husband is a war veteran and a huge gamer. he's been glued to the tv since november 8th when modern warfare 3 was released. one day his wife was shopping around with her mother-in-law

on craigslist when she decided to post an ad to sell her husband. it said free on craigslist and free to a good home. it was joke but e mails began to pour in. >> i had a couple personal ads for men saying oh, i am house broke. you know, i am trained and i will trade him places. >> some thought she was serious and trying to give marital counseling. >> one woman offered to trade a bag of skitels and she did put the ad out there she says she is happy to have her husband home and says, game on. so it's a joke between husband and wife. justin. yeah not too funny, huh. hey, by the way, we are looking at winds and it's not funny on the eastern shore. highlighting the wind out of the south at 10 miles per hour in easton. 16 miles per hour in salisbury. and that's a southerly wind. you notice the south wind that's where it is warm. we have shifted the wind to the west after the rain is depardoned and -- departed. check out the temperatures.

it's 65 in patuxent river and 49 in hagerstown. in between we are slid back into the upper 50s in baltimore and by the way, from 59 to 49 back to 52 in oakland. and a brief cool down as the rain depart and another surge ahead of this boundary. so we are push the rain off to the east and we have got this line that's the front and i am timing this out between about 7 and 9:00 around baltimore area. we could have a rumble of thunder and it's not like -- nothing like this but is that a beautiful sight. north of new england getting hit what could be over a foot of fresh snow just in time for thanksgiving. for us, again a. passing storm between 7 and 9, and we will get back up with a partly sunny sky 64. 50s windy and afternoon shower or storm could pop up. let's check on the traffic againat 5:39 with teresa. >> reporter: good morning. and mta is reporting no delays on the marc trains for penn and camden lines. look at baltimore national pike at the beltway inner and outer

loop running smoothly. follow us on twitter for the latest traffic news. after ten weeks of competition we now have a new season winner. >> seriously things are so heavy. veins are popping out of my head. >> actor jr march teens and his partner walk away as champions for -- martinez and his partner walk away as champions. he he had another partner his mom. >> to think 8 1/2 years ago, you know she was helping teach me how to walk. and now i've been learning how to dance for the past 10 weeks it's amazing life is crazy but you can make it, man. >> rob kardashian and his partypartner came in second. and season 14 for dancing with the stars returns in march. country music star is coming to town. we will have a walk and time also coming up in a bit. we have a little downtime at work and it's terming to goneline and do -- tempting to go online and do shopping but

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top stories we are following for you this morning. 20 people have been treated at hospital for injuries after a three vehicle accident in southern maryland involving a school bus full of students and a car and truck. now the students were from great mills high school. driver of the truck has been charged with driving under the influence. instructors at baltimore fire and rescue academy will not face disciplinary action with allegation of cheating on the exam. all the e-ms instructors were put on administrative leave after 20 student got their hand on the state exam before taking the test. investigators say they know what started a fire in september that killed two long time educators here in the city. sherrie johnson is here with more on the final moments. sherrie. >> reporter: well, all new this morning, we now know that the fire that killed two top educators was an electrical fire. it is all so hard to listen to but we have the 911 tapes with the final words of donned

patter -- donald patterson and his wife inside the home. it was in northwest baltimore when firefighters were called to the scene of a fire. the first thing you learned from the tapes is the call from donald patterson went to baltimore county. the dispatcher transferred that call to the city precious seconds were lost because the house was in flames. patterson tells the dispatcher that he is upstairs. take a listen. >> what's on fire? >> my house. the fire is raging. >> hello? >> yes. >> okay. is there anyway you can on the door and get out? >> yes. >> it's -- >> reporter: it's hard to listen to but it's likely donald patterson was calling from a cell phone and the cell signal was picked up by a tower in baltimore county. now officers say it's likely much time was not wasted in transferring that call. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. in democracy 2012. gop presidential contenders gathered in the nation's capital for the 11th debate. the topics ranged from national

security to foreign policy. from the start of the debate tuesday night, republicans and the nation's capital all eyes were on newt gingrich. the former house speaker just recently emerged as the front runner in the -- emerged as the front runner in the polls edging out mitt romney. candidates stand from the patriot act gingrich was candidate to beat. >> the government should be on defense and you are innocent until proven guilty. national security the government should have many more tools. >> i respectfully disagree. >> i do. >> tell us why? >> i think the patriot act is unpatriotic because it underminds our liberty. >> many topics were discussed but one thing is clear events beyond the borderers sure to impact the 2012 presidential election. occupy protesters from new york arrived in dc yesterday. they he called themselves occupy the highway. protesters walked 240 miles in two weeks to join the protesters in the nation's

capital. they started their journey from the park. if they wanted local government to take a significant hit, mission accomplished. associated press survey shows uke pie -- occupy movement cost lotion taxpayers around $13 million since it began. the data was collected from government agencies in 18 cities where the protest are active. steepest cost in new york and oakland where police have had clashes with protesters. this black friday malls will be tracking your every move by your cell phone signal. a shopping mall in california and one in virginia plan to monitor your movements and how long you stay in a certain store or even what the most popular places in the mall may be. the mall is trying to track your trends and it can make marketing trends down the road a little more advan stageous. the information will be anon- -advantageous to them. the information will be anonymous. take your own smart phone so

you can compare prices everywhere you shop. you may want to check out the details at work and especially you want to avoid siper monday shopping. employ -- cyber monday shopping. employers are crackdown on shoppers for the holiday season at work time. more than 1400 executives were surveyed and more than half said they plan to block access to shopping sites a quarter said they would allow being aout for excessive use. tomorrow night the harbaugh bowl is underway. looking better and better for number 52 to be coming out of the tunnel with the rains. ray lieu hayes been practicing with the -- ray lewis has been practicing with the team on a limited basis e missed sunday's game, the first time since 2007 because of the toe injury e has been -- injury. he has been there cheering the team on but want to be on the field e says "i am doing everything in my power to get back as fast as i can whether it's this week, next week or

whenever it is. i am doing everything i can to be there with my team and i want to pay thus -- play thursday night and i am making some progress." i wanted to put this up. flood warning in carroll county. there's been hefty rains coming down and on the order of about 2 inches or so in some spots. we have got different time frames here between 7:30 and 8:30, near the most prevalent through frederick county and flood warning in cecil county as well. york county has flood warnings. there's been hefty rains around the region during the overnight and probably heard the banging on the roof or window. 57 where we sit in baltimore. we started in the 60s a couple hours ago. and it's holding at 61 in ocean city. 63 in richmond. norfolk at 68. a lot of fuel feeding into the system they dropped back to 46. another warmup and chilly stuff still back in ohio. check this out. band of heave -- check this

out. band of heavy rains on the eastern shore. you have another hour as it passes through salisbury and ocean city another two hours of heavy rain. we get the lull and this line here is the cold front. it's wrapping around this circulation. that is our storm system and now the cold air wraps around the storm but it has a pocket of cold air across northern new york and new england with heavy snow. this is the part we are concerned with. and while low pressure passes through pennsylvania, even though that is the cold front itself, wrapping behind it is a band of energy that could reignite storms for us in the afternoon. so this time frame i just want to make very clear. the rains out of the region this morning. we get a lull. this line should pass through the region and it may be in a broken form between 7 to our west and near frederick and 10 passing east to baltimore and we could get this to develop through showers and storms in the afternoon and there's no look at it. the future trend with the heavy rain pushing east and mid afternoon we could have another

bumpy ride and a flare-up of thunderous activity. that's the leading edge of the cool air settling in overnight. dry weather for the next few days. and a warmup after thanks giving. 64 we have hit that. we could get back early this afternoon and then look for another possible storm. tonight we slide back into the 30s. and 34 should do it. wind gusting to 30 miles per hour. tomorrow, a gusty day but at least dry with a high of 56. and 62 on friday. by the way i will say good weather for the ravens game tomorrow night and after friday, we are looking mid-60s over the weekend and after tuesday next week, we could get the first real taste of winter. >> reporter: thank you. good mornias saying, we have flood warnings and we are getting reports of small road flooded. and if you are driving near standing water, use caution and do not drive through it. let's look at 95 at white marsh. northbound, southbound more cars around you. but right now we are not seeing any delays. looking elsewhere, we are not seeing any other major delays. charley. >> concerns about flying junk apparently get trash in space

-- apparently they get trash in space. when the astronauts may need to take cover. and two turkeys will not be on anyone's dinner setting for the year. the president giving special pardons and we will tell you about that when "good morning maryland" returns on this wednesday, november 23rd.

five things to know on this wednesday morning. the lifeguard captain who pulled natalee wood -- natalie wood body says he believes she could have been saved had the search be started earlier. she was missing 5:11 on november 29th, four hours after she went missing from a yacht off the catalina islands. oregon's governor says execution in his state will never happen on his watch. he is issuing a reprieve to a convicted murderer scheduled to die. the governor says "i simply cannot participate once again in something that i believe to be moralely wrong. researchers aboard the international space station may have to take shelter later today to protect themselves from orbiting space gumption. it's about 4 inches in diameter

and is expected to come between feet of the station but could change course. and gabrielle giffords returns to hem home in arizona for a private visit for the thanksgiving holiday. she plans to spend thanksgiving with her husband, parents and other family members and a few friends. and today president obama will pardon two minnesota turkeys at the rose garden in a ceremony. last year the president pardoned two turkeys aim and cider. hope -- apple and ciderp hopefully the birds this year will fair better than last year. apple and cider both died within a year of being pardoned by the president. luggage is not only thing you are carrying around the airport this travel season. how you can avoid picking up germs along the way. plus, how long would you wait in line for black friday deals. some people are in that position and we will look and the children's intelligence may depend on when they are conceived. which kids researchers say tend to be smarter.

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you're watching the station that works for you "good morning maryland. we have all new video and reaction after a bus crash in st. mary's county with student athletes on board. i am sherrie johnson. the story coming up. and the weather could reek havoc on your holiday travel plans. i am linda so. the delays you might run into at the airport today.