weather that will continue to work in here, as we go through the remainder of the morning. if your travels are taking you along the eastern shore, this line of wet weather will begin to tap in and move in as we go through the rest of the morning. we have wet days or wet times ahead, and temperatures are in the mild side coming in around 60 degrees, sparrows point. as we take a look at 695, at liberty, traffic is picking up a bit. more notably, you see the rain soaked roadways that could slow you down. use precautions give plenty of space when yourself and the drivers in front of you. should you lose control in a skid or hydroplane, tap your brakes, causing you to skid worse. 695, liberty, 95, fort mc henry tunnel. see traffic is picking up as well. traffic across part of 795,

also 695, charles street exit, as always, always be up to date by going to abc2news.com. tonight marks the fist anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. security is tight in the u.s. amid fears of a new threat. the u.s. authorities are studying studying the possibility of terrorists using body bombs. officials say there is no credible information of an an imminent attack. they've made adjustments to sciewrlt like turning up the radiation making it easier to spot the body bombs. 100 agents will take part in ethics training, overseen by professors in response to the widening prostitution scandal. it's expanded to 100.

opening day for johns hopkins brand new hospital complex. linda so has more this morning on a preview. >> reporter: doors at the new state of the art facile will open to the public later this morning for the past two days, they have been moving existing patients from the old building in to the new one. this is a look inside the new hospital. they were moving pediatric patients in to the tower. a command center has been set up to monitor patients. a team of doctors and nurses monitor the progress to make sure it's a smooth transition for everyone. the facility has a new emergency department. it's different than ones they are used to. >> it won't be loud. we have taken the paging and the intense sound and put it away. we have a lot of sound dampening, ceiling tile and

floor. nurses are on special phone. the communication is on they belt rather than overhead. >> you will alnotice impressive art work on display throughout the new hospital. . the woman whose husband is charged with killing his first wife 20 years ago wants a divorce. martha jered filed papers 9 days after the remains of chris tia jered were found underneath the house. she was claiming her husband committed dull tri. they were married for 19 year with money daughter and wants to freeze his assets. bids are going out for repairs to the baltimore basilica by damage from the earth quake. minor cracks continued to expand. repairs could take 6-9 months. scaffolding could be put up by the end of may. weekend mass and scheduled

weddings will take place. occupy rally set for the post offices to save your post office rally is set to start at the main office at 4:00 this afternoon. at 5:20 the group will march to mckeldin to continue the rally. it's fight is to keep open the ten post offices in maryland. taking a look at news around the nation, the owner of the country music grand ole opry sued the government, he is accusing army corps of engineers and the national weather service of turning the 2010 flood in to a man maid catastrophe. the lack of communication undercut the flood warnings and incurred millions in damages because the corp.released too much water. first time since the trial against a man accused of killing jennifer hudson's family. we are hearing the 911 call.

julia can be heard on tape crying for help after finding her mother shot to death in their chicago home. >> police arrested 30-year-old william ball four for the murder of jennifer hudson's mother, brother and nephew. the prosecution will have to convince the jury balfour is guilty. a widow of a man who let exotic animals loose in ohio will get some of the animals back. authorities were forced to shoot and kill 48 tigers and lions after they were seen roaming the streets. the owner opened the cages and committed suicide. the widow will get back two leopards, two monkeys and a bear. 7 remaining couples took on classical pieces last night.

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who gets eliminated. a padres fan makes the catch during a game last night against the brewers. he caught the fly ball with one hands, turned to face the camera because check this out, his other arm is in a sling. perhaps the padres should consider signing him. focus, squeeze it, there it is. victory. they may need him for a fielding position in the future. >> that's impressive. virginia his storian gets a piece of personal history. stay tuned to hear how it got in to the right hands. a teen save his elderly neighbors in a house fire. hear what the teen and elderly couple has to say.

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welcome back. 16-year-old maryland boy is hail adhere row, hailed a hero.

>> louis and her husband got out of a burning house in time thanks to a 16 year old. the type is credited with saving his 69-year-old neighbor and her husband, the fire began on the second floor of the house, she and her husband were downstairs, she had no clue her home was about to erupt in flames. crews showed up more than 30 firefighters worked to put out the flames and keep it from spreading to the second floor. >> he was pounding on the door. >> i was banging on the door. i was banging on it hard, as a matter of fact. i was like there is a fire in the house. >> they went up stairs and looked. >> good for him. the family may not have a home, but they are thank to feel the teen for saving them. that fire is under investigation. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. consumer news this morning, a type of dry dog food recalled

because of salmonella concerns. the recall involves diamond puppy formula dry dog food distributed nationwide including here in maryland. no canine illnesses have been reported. the plant is the same one that made contaminated food in 2005. we posted the list on abc2news.com. click on recalls. there is a section, finds the information that you need. forbes released a list of the wealthiest counties, four of the top five are within a few hours of our area. loaden county, virginia, the top, and median household income with families bringing in $115,000 a year on average. loaden is home to leesburg k

virginia an affluent suburb of washington dc. fairfax county, virginia. new mexico is fourth, howard county, here in maryland, that rounds out the top 5. today the founder is announcing a new tool that could safe lives. mark zuckerberg revealed a new tool for the social networking site. stay tuned when they sit down with robin roberts to learn what that is. pepsi is tweeting to a new generation to music lovers. they are partnering with twitter to provide screaming videos of live music concerts on the social networking site. the company isn't saying which musicians will be featurerred. college bound child is interested in playing sports? the coaches are coming to baltimore. you can meet the football,

basketball coaches and also meet with the coaches and the men's and womens track and field teams. it starts at 11:30 in harbor east at the marriott. maryland live casino doesn't open until next month. construction on the venue could affect the state. john leopold along with other developers will make an announcem about road closures. the southbound bw parkway interchange is set to close for one month while work is being completed. more information will be released at 11:00. the grand opening is set for june 6th. the city will provide information about changes to the rec centers. putting together a session at war memorial hall for anyone interested in getting in the center, activating our inner citizen. the city voted to privatize some centers to keep them up and running.

virginia man gets a surprise in the mail, postcard from his mother written 55 years ago. >> scott's mom wrote to him while she and her husband were on vacation in 1957. it was dressed to the home in decatur, georgia. it ended up in daytona beach florida and earlier this month, mc murray says he is happy to have it in his hands. >> i was totally surprised. it's like hearing from somebody who you never expected to hear from before. it's the next best thing to a real person. >> the post office hasn't offered an explanation as to why it took so long for him to get the postcard what great story. time for a check on the weather, it's a little rainy. how is it going to look today. we are dealing with rain showers now. we do need the rain. we are four inches below for the -- since january 1st.

çthe rain. this is good news we are seeing. it's not all happening at once. satellite and radar picking up on it. around baltimore, you are getting the yellows, and some of those oranges. that's the heavier rain , the line of showers came from the west, working off towards the east, extending down in to virginia as of now. we will have another round possible as we go in to the afternoon. the reason why, we will have a cold front that's going to move through. the warm front working through this morning, with that, these temperatures are quite mild. check out easton, around 63 degrees. 59 degrees baltimore. 62 dc. 55 across the board in hagerstown, frederick and york. not only do we have the rain out there, the mild temperatures, we have some breezy conditions as well. especially along the eastern shore. easton, holding steady at 15.

gusts up to 20, 25 miles an hour this morning. possibly this afternoon. this is the weather pattern, the warm front moving through this morning. area of low pressure and trailing cold front slices through this afternoon, evening time frame, giving us a chance for showers as we go in to the afternoon-evening. future trend picking up on showers by 9:00, and also don't rule out we could be seeing sunshine as we go in to the afternoon. that's good news if you want to see sun. we will have the chance for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for tomorrow as well and the day after that. for today, the temperature coming in around 80 degrees. check out great pictures walter sally of manchester, he is my weather watcher if you want to be my weather watcher, send the information to the screen that you see here. back over to you guys. it is ten minutes away from 6:00. time for a check on traffic. here is a look at 695, harford

road. traffic is moving along fine. you are going to have company on the roads if u heading out. keep that in mind. it doesn't look like delays on that side of the beltway. a look at 97, there at 50 and 97, you can see lights out on the road. not looking bad as far as congestion goes. if you head out, you are going to have a little bit of company. no incidence or delays to report. curtis bays u going to be held up for a little while. quarantine road and another area of can you 'tis bay, exchange at maryland 10, southbound area, they are doing construction there and that's causing delays on the road. another thing to keep in mind, if you are heading down 83 south, there is going to be delays later on this morning. delay because of the construction going on there. few things to keep in mind. things are moving slowly around the beltway. have a safe morning out. there that's a look at traffic.

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