yesterday but a lot of winds. thanks for joining us i am megan pringle. >> what's going on lynette? >> we had the rain overnight into baltimore that's well to the south. when we woke up we weren't see the rain into baltimore but to the south and it's getting out of here. we have a few showers and gusty winds for today that will linger all day long and then the temperatures will drop. so this is what i want to show you. we can see that all the rainpushing to the south and getting out of here as we zoom in on caroline county. we are looking at talbot. starting to get out. but wonts it gets out and we will look pretty good, but if you are going further south, we are looking at heavier rain around ocean city and that is the scenario. but going into 8, 9:00 dry across most of the state. so good times ahead. clearing but colder prns all the details coming -- conditions all the details coming up but right now the traffic with angela. >> reporter: good morning. on the roads, a lane closed on

the bay bridge westbound due to the debris blocking your right lane. and heavy traffic of course in the westbound direction on the approach. also still a lane closure south of edgewater on 214. we have a pole down with this accident also this is going to be between muddy creek road and lock haven road. traveling around the beltway, not too bad on the southeast side over here. on the west side, the pace is picking up a little bit. we are seeing a little more brake lights for those making the drive through pikesville right now. as we get another live look at 695, this is the west side at baltimore national pike a few extra minutes on your drive time for those of you making the outer loop direction drive on 695 at least 9 minutes now from 795 to i-706789 back over to you -- i-706789 back over to you. -- 70. back over to you. partial pardons granted by haley barbour will be upheld. and linda so joins us with more on the state supreme court

decision and a lot of people will talk about this and really upset. >> reporter: it was 56-3 vote justices ruled the -- it was a 6-3 vote and the justice ruled the phenyl decision rest with the governor. four pardons were convicted murderers who worked as trustees at the governor's mansion. the state attorney's general challenged the challenge because no proper notice was posted in newspaper as required by the state constitution. some argued victims and families were not notified before the inmates were set free. randy walker survived a shooting by one of the inmates. >> there's nothing to stop him i can't get a restraining order. i can't be pardoned from what happened that day i can't be pardoned from the smell of gunfire. >> reporter: a lawyer for the remaining inmates in prison say they will be released sometime later today. lenda so, abc to news -- 2 news. a classroom controversy going on in utah. a bill passed in that state by

the senate would change sex education classes to only include lessons and absence in and ban -- abence in and -- absence in -- abstinence. >> kids won't know how to a have safe sex. >> when it comes to sex education there's so much more education rather than absence in. >> the governor has -- absence in. >> the govern a has -- abstinence. >> join the conversation and abc2news.com/facebook. rhode island family says that they were kicked off a flight because they didn't buckle their toddler's seat belt in time. you see she says that her 2- year-old a daughter natalie didn't want to sit in the seat with the safety belt sciewrl fastened as faa regulates during take off so the parents who are both doctors say they got the toddler to sit down security with jetblue and a

representative showed up a flight attendant delivered the bad news they would be pulling back to the gate. >> we weren't jelling and -- yelling and swearing and my child wasn't running up and down aisle. we were putting in an effort and we were doing our best and she decided that was the way it was going to go. >> she says there's no flight until the next day and that one went through jfx in new york. she says the whole thing cost them at least 2,000 dollars. jetblue says the customers didn't comply with the crew member instruction for prolonged period of time and captain decided to remove the customer involved for the safety of all customers and crew on board the flight. >> it's 6:34. a massachusetts father is facing criminal charges for his action at a high school hockey game. he admitted to pointing a laser pointer at the opposing team during the daughter's big playoff game. he was kicked out of the game and since then he has been charged with disturbing the peace. >> i am 42 years old and my children are telling me dad,

you need to grow up. that's hard to hear you don't want to hear that but i listened to them because they have excellent head on their shoulders. >> he says his daughter a senior on the team was humiliated by what he did. benefits have been cut for a michigan lottery win here continued to use food stamp after winning a million bucks. she won the money but used pb look assistance. state official found out and stopped her benefits. in michigan, what she did is technically still legal but lawmakers have introduced a bill to change that this session. senator mikulski will be honored at maryland or maryland african american tourism council plans to honor the u.s. senator with a 2012 harriett ross tubman lifetime achievement award. she hebd establish the historical park in dorchester county and is the first nonafrican american award winner. the care money -- ceremony takes place and today is the harriett tubman day in the

state of maryland. world a-- word a baltimore company is building the tallest indoor roller coaster. it's going to be opening next year this time in beijing. all right. here's some news that no one is going like. that's for sure. the airfares are going up. >> yeah. it could be going up a lot. travel experts, what they say about how high the ticket at the airline could be going. she can sing and can cook too. how well -- we will find out how well and we will tell you about trisha yearwood's latest adventure in the kitchen.

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in the next few years it could be harder to a book a flight. passenger air travel will double in the next few years. 700 million travel commercially and that could double in the next two decades. important news this morning if you bank at wells fargo. long time customers and six more states who had free checking accounts will be hit with $7 a month fees. wells fargcustomers can avoid that fee by keeping a minimum balance of 1500 dollars in that checking account or making direct deposits of 500dollars at least once a month. american express is teaming up with twitter. american express users who sync the cards with twitter will be able to unlock discounts by tweeting hash tags to a select group participating merchants. among companies taking part in the offer, whole foods, zappos and mcdodged's and h and m. trisha yearwood is cooking up something big. she is going to be hosting a brand new show on the food network called trisha's southern kitchen. she will shoot the show in

nashville tennessee and cook her favorite family recipes. in addition to her music career, and cooking, the husband garth brooks she has published two best selling cookbooks. it premiers on april 14th. >> very cool. homeland security are now working on city police helping to curb crime. >> a major gun ring is busted in baltimore city. i am linda so. what police uncovered. i am sherrie johnson live where there's been police presence all morning after two royal farms stores were robbed. live details coming glupt rain will leave-- well, the rain will leave and the wind will drop. as you head out for the friday morning, what can you expect? we have the latest conditions on area roadways up next.

friday morning march 9th this is your abc2 news to go i am megan prink neil let's check off a check of the forecast with lynette charles. a wet start to your friday. how long will this hang around. >> it's getting out of here

slowly. things looking good but we are dealing with breezy conditions for today. gusty as well. check out the wind gusts. now, sparrows point around 32- mile-an-hour wind gusts and all these are coming out of the northwest. man chaster now right around 33 -- manchester now right around 33. we haven't seen that much rain but we have a couple total. starting with manchester, my friend walter 1/100 of an inch. in goldboro also. but look where the rain is right now. to answer charl yew's question it's -- charley's questions it's pushing out of the viewer area. it's in dorchester county sliding off towards the south so drier conditions are ahet head. let's check the traffic with and -- ahead. let's check the traffic with angela. >> reporter: the friday morning drive shaping up to be nice out there. we had a few incidents here and there and they cleared. anne arundel county police opened all lanes of 214 from

that earlier collision. beltway traveling near the bw parkway traveling northbound on the bw parkway you may tap the brakes making the drive through laurel heading up to 695. and also for those of you making the drive around 6 the 5 -- 695 on the west side that's where you will see the most delays and i-95 north of maryland 100 also your northbound lanes where you will see the most activity traveling from columbia up through arbutus past 695 heading to the tunnels. back over to you. new this morning, calvert county sheriff deputies are looking into the death of a newborn after police found it in the trunk of a car in prince frederick. deputies say the family members of the owner of the car were cleaning the inside of the car and that is when they found it. this happened just after 6:30 last night. that's where they found the baby's body. cause of the death is still under investigation. we will keep you posted of course. >> it's 14 minutes before the hour. and a large ring -- gun ring has been busted in baltimore city. where police have been working

with homeland security to bring down the bust and this morning linda so is here with how policewere first tipped off and what led to the big score. >> reporter: they were able to object taint search and seizure warrants with -- obtain the search and seizure warrants with wiretap jail conversation. police arrested a person with a handgun and that investigation is what led to this major bust. police confiscated 16 firearms handguns and semiautomatic well weapons and found $8,000 in cash and ammunition and two bulletproof vest and raw heroin. police searched three homes in the city, one home in baltimore county and one storage unit in the city. three suspects have been arrested. >> with the arrest, they got a major weapons deal off the street -- dealer off the street bottom line. they took somebody who was providing other people with weapons off the streets and now he is going to fake a substantial amount of time in federal prison. >> reporter: those three

suspects face federal charges. linda so, abc2 news. maryland officials right now are asking a federal judge to keep the state gun permit law in place while they appeal his ruling that it was unconstitutional. motion was filed after a judge ruled the maryland requirement that residents show what's called good and substantial reason to carry a handgun is unconstitutional. the state is also asking him to clarify if he plans to issue an injunction barring the state from denying permits based on the requirements. services for a teen shot to death in northeast baltimore will begin tonight. a viewing for 13-year-old monet turnage will be helt held on chester street. the funeral is tomorrow at 11 at the same church. police say two boys were playing with a rifle when the 13-year-old was shot. after the shooting, police say they hid her body behind a house and buried it under neath a garbage bags. they are currently charged with

involuntary manslaughter. for the second time, the robbery of a royal farms storeinvolves gunfire and authorities say that they believe the same man is responsible for both crimes on harford road and west 41st street in hampden. sherrie johnson is live in hampden with the information. >> reporter: well, i have placed calls into richard wolf with the fbi trying to learn more about this case. according to published reports, the fbi is involved because of the violent nature of the crime. now also they said they want to get the person off the streets. look behind me here. you can see we are right in front of the royal farms on 41st street in hampden. robber shot one victim at point blank range and in the latest incident, he fired a warning shot. this morning, the fbi -- fbi is pug spulg out all the stops to -- pulling out all the stops to catch him. this royal farms store on 41st street is the second store hit

in the middle of the night. police say the suspect is not afraid to use his gun when demanding cash. agents with the violent task force says they believe he shot a customer on harford road who refused to give up his wallet. if you recognize the robber or have information to help police, call the fbi violent crimes task force at 410-265- 8080. and you could be eligible for a $2500 if you are able to call in and give police the information they need for this case. reporting live in hampden, sherrie johnson. >> govonor o'malley spokeswoman says thursday whoa veto legislation to legalize medical marijuana. she says it is because of concern over whether it would stand up to federal scrutiny. maryland's legislators will begin debating three medical marijuana bills in the house today. maryland health secretary is expected to testify that his agency cannot support any of the bills. be prepared for long

lunches todaych the terps will take on north carolina at noon in the quarter finals of the acc tournament going on if the lanta. they crushed -- in atlanta. they crushed wake forest and scored 25 points in the 82-60 win. today be on the lookout for a celebrity citing near hopkins. james franco will be in baltimore. he is viewing a movie called the broken tower. it is happened at 2 this afternoon. he will participate in a panel discussion with the author john irwin. movie was shot black and white and is a biography of an american poet who committed suicide. governor o'malley says the hbo film "game change" which chronicles the 2008 campaign of mccain and palin created 1200 jobs while being filmed in maryland. they had the premier last night. >> it's almost like working on a independent movie where you

have no budget and 30 days to shoot it. i expect the ground to shift every day and they were prepared for what happened and it was reliable for me. >> the movie is not without sources of criticism so say it focus on two chapters of the book. governor o'malley added the film saying maryland has developed a strong relationship with companies like hbo providing jobs in maryland and supporting local business that is a quote from the governor. five things to know before heading out this morning. whitney houston sister in law says she feared drugs would kill the singing icon. she who was which the any -- whitney houston's manager was asked about the addiction in an interview with oprah winfrey. she replied the manned writingwas -- handwriting was on the wall. a february jobs report is due out and any number of added jobs will be enough to support the president's economic optimism and boost the reelection bid.

there's been several months of improving numbers raising expectations. president obama travels to virginia to deliver remarks on the economy at rolls royce cross points. it manufactures engine disks and components for the sophisticatedaircraft in the world. from there he heads to houston for a campaign fund-raiser. and part of the let's move first lady michelle obama will be in new hampshire at a community center ploating healthy eating and exercise for all ages. from there she will head to boston for a couple campaign fund raisers. barbie turns 53 today. and in that time she has been through different designs and certainly amassed accessories the house and car and credit card. a mint condition 1959 barbie is for 4,000 dollars. >> i knew i liked barbie. she is a piesies like me. the satellite and radar picking up on cloud cover but the rain is pushed out of our viewing area as of now. maybe a couple sprinkles still

around federalsburg into caroline county but the bulk of the rain is heading to the south. if you are heading further into the south, across the eastern shore you will get wet weather. but right now, the entire viewing area is dry and will stay that way through the rest of the day. now, what we are going to contend with, yes shall breezy conditions once again. -- yes, breezy conditions once again. the conditions at 10 to 15 miles an hour. we can see 16 on the eastern shore right now. gusts will be up to about 30 today. yesterday, we got gusts up toabout 45 but right now,temperature wise heading the kids off to school and getting yourself dressed for work and we are looking at the cold air to funnel in as we go throughout the day and especially into tomorrow. i will show outtemperature but for right now in baltimore, the temperature is right around 47 degrees. so let's take the hour by hour forecast. by 8 p.m. temperatures 8 a.m. rather the temperature will be right around 52 degrees and 57 possibly by noon or 55 and the temperatures will start to go down from there. and then as we go through the evening, that temperature

coming in right around 30 degrees so we will be cold with the clear skies and then finally, the winds will start to die down a little bit. so i will call it breezy not windy. here's the forecast for tomorrow i wanted to show you. 48 degrees mostly sunny and we have that chill in the air. we will struggle to get out of the 40s and let me get out of the way before the clock this springing clock hits me right it's prinking -- springing forward. don't forget to spring ahead one hour for daylight saving time and also, you might want to check the batteries in your smoke detector as well when you do that. we have your 7-day forecast here and we can see a warming trend once again as we head into the beginning of the week and middle of next week. let's check the traffic with angela. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. looks like the friday morning commute is going to be very nice for most people. had a look at 795 heading to the top west side of 695 it's moving without delay. the same for eastbound i-70. no delays making the drive from marriottsville heading to the west side. now on the top side we are

looking good on i-83 as well as 95. and here is a live look at the west side. had a few break lights here and there making the drive from the northwest expressway. around through catonsville and a live look heading into downtown right now. not too bad on 95 just north of o'donnell street making your way to the tunnels. getting ready for the weekend coming up, -- ready for the weekend coming up, the rain will move out and windy but for weekend. >> looking good. sunshine and it will be cool tomorrow. we will struggling to get out of the 40s and back into the 60s by sunday. >> all right. >> wild winter. >> yes. >> roller coaster. >> very mild. >> lynette did mention this. once again tomorrow night when you go to bed, move the clocks forward one hour. we have to get more daylight but at the same time, we will lose an hour of sleep. >> and if you have advice how babies deal with it, hit me up on facebook. >> you talking about a baby?

>> any advice how we can deal with the change. >> i know. have a great weekend.