other people. he said it opens a distinct difference between him and mitt romney. well, we are looking at the drive at 695 and the traffic is moving smoothly but the weather is great. the big question, will we see rain and strong storms. let's check in with wyatt everhart with a look at that forecast. what can we expect tonight? we've been tracking the weather. at this point in time it looks like maybe light to moderate, even a few heavy downpours, not so much in the way of severe weather. now you can see we're clear around baltimore, but to the west get an idea of what's headed our way. hagerstown getting a downpour, heavier rain inside of the cumberland area in the high country toward paw paw. more rain headed this way.

humidity is high in many spots, so plenty of moisture to help fuel those showers as they come am later this evening. we'll call it for 70, cloudy mild conditions and heavy rain overnight. much more on that coming up. you know the grass may be wet in your lawn but the state is still suffering from one of the dryest springs on record. it has extended a drought watch to much of the viewing area. jeff hager joins us with the details. >> the drought watch extends to harford county as well as baltimore and it isn't the big drought like 10 years ago with water restrictions and fines. the department of environment expanded it based on ground and surface water levels along with rainfall totals that will come up short like we saw in nearby

westminster. >> since january we're down about five inches of rain. the biggest loss was in the month of march. >> while many of us celebrated a snowless winter, it robbed the area of the precipitation it needs. the state wants you to cut back on usage wherever you can. only running the dish or clothe watcher -- wash are when you can. can truck 1 be safe from budget cuts in the city. today there was a meeting to see what could be done. jamie costello has more. >> reporter: if you go back in history truck 10 goes back to the turn of the century and now sits on lafayette. it could be sitting idle due to budget cuts. there's an allout effort to save this fire house from closing. today there was a meeting at

harlem park. it was confusing because we weren't let in to cover the meeting. >> we would love to see the rotating closures stay until we get on top of this economy and don't have to close anything. we're trying our darndest to keep that from happen. >> this is part of fire department's efforts to do away with rotating closures. jamie costello, abc2 news. >> all right. thanks a will the, jamie. folks in fallston will have a chance to express share opinion on a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run their their area columbia transmission said it would pump it from owings mills to fallston. the new one would allow it to increase capacity.

last night opponents told the federal energy regulatory commission it's a simple case of a big company threatening the environment to make a bufnlgt owners of homes and businesses will be protected along with the creeks, streams and wildlife. tonight's public hearing will be held at youth's benefits elementary school. one of the men hurt in that fallston crash is out of the hospital. he was hurt when a harford county public schools work truck he was in crossed the center line on route 5 -- 152 and hit a gmc terrain. donald jones died along with ronald buchholz. it also involved a jeep wrangler. that driver remains in shock trauma no a sad anniversary for

the baltimore county fire pear ped diagnosis. two years ago his children were taken to trinidad by his now ex-wife leah. he has now been granted custody of the two but they romaine in trinidad with leah. today the mother was held in contempt of court in baltimore county. >> i hope that leah will bring our children back to our home in baltimore. >> the fight as nearly left him bankrupt but friends and family continue to rally around him. tonight at 11:00 we'll learn more about his struggle and what you can do to help? a church in howard county is finding for giveness in the midst of tragedy. they overred a funeral service for the man who shot brenda brewington and marguerite kohn. as of this evening, the family

-- after the amish community that forgave the man who shot five school girl there is in 2006. we have new developments in the grounding of two southwest airplanes following a bomb threat. both were traveling from orange county, california to phoenix. one arrived at its destination but the other was prevented from leaving john wayne airport. they will romaine there for -- remain there for the night. new security concerns have surfaced after the thwarting of an al qaeda bomb plot. the bomb master building is teaching others how to build other devices. here's diana perez. >> reporter: a treasure trove of intelligence is being bleened -- gleaned from this latest bomb

plot. the fbi director said al qaeda is our biggest threat. >> al qaeda in the arabian peninsula represents the top terrorism threat to the nation. >> reporter: a double ajept working for a foreign agency infiltrated an al qaeda cell in yemen for weeks. it drove the underwear bomb to saudi arabia handing it over to the cia. >> to pass yourself off as an al qaeda terrorist to the terrorist. >> reporter: the bomb, a more sophisticated version of the 2009 underwear bomb is still being dissected by the fbi. it has a different formula and dual detonated. both were built by the same man, ibrahim hassan al-asiri. people not on any watch list and who have been told to attack when and where they want a

confidential security said it could have passed through a metal detector. a report questions whether the u.s. is doing enough to prevent attacks. as al qaeda is building bombs, machines are lying idle in warehouses. reporting for abc2 news, new york. new at 5 senator ben cardin want to make funding for bike lanes part of the transportation bill. he got overwhelming support for maintaining or increasing funding for sidewalks, bike lanes and bike paths. a new attraction is coming to the inner harbor and it's all about the buzz. i'll show you a live picture where the crowd is gathering. in a few minutes one man said he

will walk across the inner harbor on a tight rope. we'll bring it to you live. >> and the post office is handling less mail but seems like we're getting plenty of junk mail. the trick to stop it from filling up your mailbox. heavy rain is headed in our direction. i'll let you know when that gets here straight ahead.

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most of us are getting fewer and fewer bills and letters in our mailbox. our consumer reporter john matarese has more. >> reporter: despite the postal

service handling less and less mail every year, there's one type still on the increase. that's junk mai. one man decided to collect it all to see how much he really gets. see how he's stopping it. doug has so much junk mail, he can literally walk across a carpet of mai. no, he's not a hoarder. he wanted to see how much junk mail he rereceives i'm sick of getting junk mail. >> reporter: so doug began to collect it. >> i would put it in a box in the corner in my kitchen. >> reporter: from earthquake day last year to -- earth day last year to earth day this year he received 65 pounds. he said there should be an easy way to say you don't want it. >> you have to take the time to opt out instead of opting in saying i do want your coupons or

catalog. you can stop it but may take you effort. several websites will block catalogs. they include catalog choice.org and green dimes.com. to stop credit card offers call 1-888-5 opt out. doug's going to start doing that to stop this. one last thing, if you call 1-888-5 opt out, you will have to give your social security number but that's the only way credit card number -- companies know you. it is safe and you don't waste your mony. i'm john matarese. the u.s. postal service is backing off on a previous plan to close 13,000 offices. instead they're going to cut

dunn on hours. the postal services will plans to -- service also plans to have some shift to part-time hours. all right. definitely some rain. a few showers south of ocean city. where we're seeing significant rain is south of frederick, virginia and west of the hagerstown area. you can see the rain continues to come down, especially west of d.c. we've got a wide range of rain south and west of hancock toward pawleys island and -- paw paw and to the west. all of this is confined to the west. we're clear in central m more than likely we'll see a round of moderate to heavy showers.

so be ready for. that all right. right now 73 degrees. humidity is moderate, 50%. winds with the at five. not a lot of wind. the sun is trying to break through. show you this morning a couple of showers, cloudy and gray but, again, tough to find much sunshine. briefly brought in bel air and clouds thickening up. we expect later this evening to see some rain. dundalk, sunshine and an extreme premium with that pesy boundary hang -- pesky boundary hanging out to the west. humid conditions continuing. and the temperatures are much cooler to the west. deep creek lake flirting with the 40s. 60s hagerstown. knocking on the door. we're still warm in baltimore,

dover and easton. downtown today pushing up close to 80 degrees early on. 78 for our high temperature downtown. we did hit the mid-70s in frederick and d.c. all right. here is that active weather to our south. i think a lot of this may direct east of baltimore. you have to look at the trajectory, a large cluster of rain here over central virginia. that is tracking north and east. so much of this rain may past east of the baltimore area. the eastern shore. the part of the rain that needs the most likely to get the most rain as we go through the latter part of the evening. in baltimore we'll get some rain. definitely know that. that area of low pressure sing the rain in our direction and a lot of it will be going up the eastern shore and just off the atlantic coast offshore. tomorrow, just some passing cloud cover, maybe a morning shower. thursday looks dry. friday looks better.

overnight 56, more rain. your two-degree guarantee a morning shower but late day clearing and tomorrow night nice and clear, 48 degrees. the weekend forecast here, again, bottom line is this, sunshine in effect. temperatures climbing from the low 70s friday to mid to upper 70s. sunshine is back. we're looking at clear weather for the weekend. back to you. the crowds are really gathering down at the inner harbor to see something they've never seen before. one man right now is high above the harbor and he is hoping he doesn't and up in the harbor. let's check in with roosevelt leftwich with more on this guy. he's a tight rope walker and walking across the harbor. >> reporter: that's 300 feet. that's the distance from end zone to end zone at m&t bank

stadium. he said he is excited to be here and try this out because this is a stunt his great grandfather did. he put a twist on it. the other end of the cable is attached to a barge. the barge is constantly moving. with the wind, he has to be extra careful. we just talked with mill minutes before he went over. he's -- whoa -- that's not part of the show. that's a little wobbly. this is what he said about walking across baltimore's inner harbor. >> it's a challenge today. the fact that no one's been hooked to a moving object like that, but other than that, it's a fairly normal walk if there's such a thing has walking that high. in my life it is very normal. >> reporter: like he said, just a short little walk, not a big

deal, just 300 feet across open water on an open barge, just an amaizing thing. that's to help open up the ripley's believe it or not museum. i think they have a lot of attention, thousands. you can see thousands of people who are here in the harbor to watch the feat. he's a little more than halfway over and it's something to see. reporting live from the inner harbor, roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. by the way, we'll have him after his big walk across the harbor. >> all right. we'll check back in with you. you give them the dose that this says on the bottom. we're talking about your kids. who makes up that close to of medicine. we'll tell you why one researcher said it's a guessing game. >> we all know that yogurt is good for you, but can this make you look sexier?

that's what happened to mice in a lab. that's coming up in tonight's health alert. >> again, we're taking you back live to the inner harbor. we'll let you know how it turns out and follow his journey.

in our health alert, questions about the amount of medicine that we're giving our children. a research letter publishedded in the journal of the american medical association said in 2009 only 46 being of drugs had correct instructions on how to use them on our kids. kids can metabolize medicine different from adults and many drugs are never tested on children. so figuring out a safe dose that works can be guesswork for

doctors. according to a new institute of medicine report, children should get 60 minutes of activity a day. that activity can come from schools, neighborhood parks and trails, but it must happen. researchers say community schools, jobs and healthcare providers must work together to deal with this problem. >> when we talk about what cancer causes, certain infections can lead to cancer. about itle -- 2 million people developed cancers from infections. the most types were hpv, the human papilloma virus and stomach back tear ya. cervical cancer made up about half of the infections in women. in men more than 80% were liver and gastric cancers.

we know yogurt is good for your health but researchers found that yogurt made mice sexier. they had thicker shinier faster, mated faster and had more off spring. scientists believe the probiotics may be responsible for the extra sexiness. researchers say it may give new insight into human fertility. for stories like this, abc2news.com is the place for all the interesting health news you need. you'll find all the healthlines from today as well as different categories to help you and your family find the information you need. well, coming up we've got new video that could hopefully save the lives of two missing girls. >> it shows the prime suspect with a different look. should you reset your password just in case after twitter gets hacked.

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the operation that filed an al qaeda bomb plot is being hailed as a victory. first, it prevented the attack and gave u.s. official has look at the terror group's latest deadly invention. the do you believe agent involved -- double agent involved provided information. >> efforts have increased to save truck 10. today a meeting was held in har almost park but we were not allowed inside. >> and within the last two hours president barack obama voiced his support