of showers wednesday. we get quite a bit of rain but rain we still need which has been drier than normal. so, again, it's welcome rain. you can see decent band moving flew westminster reaching into western howard county, columbia set to get a moderate shower. not much in the way of lightning. we have more showers building over virginia that will drift our way through the next few hours. it will be an ugly commute. watch out for that. we stay humid and damp as we slowly fall into the 60s. we'll talk about how much more rain is on the way and a look to your preakness weekend coming up. they're back in annapolis working on the budget. law enforcements left annapolis one -- lawmakers left annapolis one finished business. >> general assembly -- >> legislators are used to spending these days working on other jobs or planning

vacations. they'll have to take a break for a special session, a session the legislators will have to find a way with cut and taxes to cover the proposed budget. >> they pay too much in fees and they've had enough. >> reporter: they met to show their displeasure. they say the governor is out of touch with marylanders. >> the governor of maryland has never paid for a gallon of gas for the past eight, 10 careers. he's got a cook in the governor's mansion. he does not live in reality. he has no idea how much a gallon of gas is or what a low of of bread is. >> the $2 billion man. he wants increased taxes with the special session, the alcohol tax, toll increases and now the proposed tax is here. >> reporter: those proposed tax increases come in the form of an

?k tax en-- tax increase. the president of the senate mike miller admitted these taxes would affect him. >> it's no big deal. it's a small amount to live in nils great state. >> reporter: if they approve the budget, it will go to the house for their review. annapolis, don harrison, abc2 news. >> they are asking to hold down costs. tonight a young woman is in critical condition after getting shot several times, sitting in her car waiting for a light to change at east northern parkway in northeast baltimore. abc2 news has more. >> reporter: kelly police have no leads but believe this was a targeted shooting or a case of mistaken identity.

police say the victim pulled up to a light when another vehicle came up alongside her an shot her several times. the woman was shot in the upper chest and head. she is in critical condition. they are trying to piece together where the victim was coming from or going to, but right now with this happening so early in the morning and no witnesses around, they don't have much to go on. >> what we're really hoping for is that her prognosis improves and that we're able to ask her some questions about where she was or if she knows her attacker. >> coming up at 6:00, we'll speak with people who live right there on the corner and hear their concerns about not just how this shooting went down but why. brian kuebler, abc2 news thanks a lot. now to the new twist in the case of a missing 2-year-old.

the 6-year-old has been missing for a month. >> reporter: isabel's farther has been barred from having contact with the two other children, but is he a suspect? >> just please, please to the western or persons who have isabel, tell the us your demands. >> reporter: the emotional lows of a father desperate for her return. she vanished from her tucson bedroom and now her father sergio won't be able to see the two older brothers. >> to ensure thewell fare of the two others. >> reporter: the screen in her bedroom window was removed. police wouldn't say what prompted them to get child protective services in on the case.

police say they still don't have a suspect and the decision to separate the father from his family does not mean he's a suspect but it's razing troubling questions. >> even looking at it through the access to children prism, this means they think this i do a real problem for his children. >> reporter: the mother has sole custody and didn't want top talk about her husband over a difficult mother's day weekend. >> i'm very happy i have my two boys but can't celebrate without isabel. >> reporter: there will be a forum tonight about how to discuss child abductions. the fallout continues months after the beating death of 26-year-old robert champion. he died during a hazing ritual. today the school nounsed the band will not be back on --

announced the band will not be on the field next year. the director resigned last week. school officials said the continued suspension ask necessary while they work on putting rules into place to prevent hazing in the future. just days after the country's largest bank, jpmorgan chase, announced the loss of $2 billion from one trading portfolio, the staff has been under pressure. the the chief has resigned. jpmorgan chase lost 9% of its value on friday. >> combat will change for women. the military is opening up 14,000 combat related position. females had been excluded from those roles because they were directly involved in fighting but advocates pushed for a change in poll ship since women already risk their lives by

serving on the front line and risk military police and security units. defense department plans to assess the policy in about six months. you said til death do you part but what if someone else caught your eye along the way? could you cheat if your spouse said it was okay. joce sterman has more. >> reporter: experts say more couples are making a new kind of relationship work. they call it being monogomish. weir -- we're digging into the monogomish trend. it has some preset boundaries. experts say it's an option some are now exploring. >> people are trying to make marriages work, so monogomish or open marriages, is what it's more commonly called, people are open to it. instead of chasing,

investigating and being curious, why not have everything on the table. >> reporter: of course, is it cheating if you have permission. weigh in on our facebook page and i'll see you back here at 11. joce sterman, abc2 news. whether celebrities or characters from books. the top baby names is a who's who list. aubrey, mia and ava all made the list, too for the boys, jacob, mason and wilson are the most popular followed by jayden at number four. this was the first year in decades that michael was not in the top 20. well from copper pipes, wiring, anything that's nailed down, what local police are

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>> you can find out how emily reacted on the bachelorette. that's right after "dancing with the stars." if you know any eligible bachelors who would be interested in looking for love, you're in luck. the bachelor will be having a casting call in baltimore for details, including the top secret location. just tune in to the bachelorette tonight on abc2. >> i already know somebody who i'm going to nominate. you know, it's one thing to work on camera like we do but to find -- >> love. >> i don't know how they do that on camera. >> we'll talk about it a little bit more. >> take a look outside. let's get into the radar.

maryland's most powerful radar pretty active. definitely wet weather, dealing with wet roads for what is likely a rough evening commute. up the spur toward westminster and a decent band of rain. it's a heavier band slowly drifting out of carroll county. if it holds together it can be a downpour on the jfx later on this afternoon. so we'll keep an eye on this. more rain to come. on and off showers the rest of the evening. 69 degrees. winds are southeast at six and as we look at the picture over the inner harbor it is nothing but rain. very limited sunshine today. people scurrying about to get out of the rain in dundalk, great, not much in the way of sunshine. that's for sure. the ground is look nice and green. in annapolis at the naval

academy, mid-shipmen doing a little sailing. it's 55 at deep creek lake. much of the central park is around the chess is a poke with temperatures in the low 70s. so muggy, mild, not so bad. really it is rain we need. we're two to three inches behind the rainfall. so we'll take this rain we're getting. we got through mother's day weekend just fine. that's good news. more showers certainly in the offing. you can see a slow moving and large suburbs -- disturbance that spans west. so this is a big one so a slow moving system. often times in mid-may the weather pattern starts to slow down. now we start getting into more of that summer like pattern when the whole weather pattern begins to slow down. this is a slow moving wet

weather maker. dry air will funnel in, but we're talking mid-week. thursday and friday look like sunshine will be back with showers through mid-week. here's some of the details. rain often and off a possibility. it could be quite wet for your morning commute. by tomorrow afternoon still showers, maybe some thundershowers popping up. it will be in the mid-70s tomorrow and some clearing wednesday but you can see second shot of showers still possible into wednesday night. so we're going to -- we're not going to clear out. rain on and off. 7 4, 75 degrees, maybe a couple of afternoon thundershowers. tomorrow might lingering rain and the rain will linger into the following day. keep showers in there through early wednesday. as we move through thursday and

friday, cooler dryer air arrives. it looks pretty nice as we move into preakness weekend. so that's a big deal. some baltimore city students got an up close and personal education. the foundation teaches students about the environment. abc2 news education reporter sherrie johnson has more. >> reporter: it's an exciting day for the green school of baltimore. today a work boat called the snow goose with the chesapeake bay foundation is their classroom. it's part of the program to educate students on the environment and the bay. >> it's fun and going to be interesting because this is -- on this trip we're going to be putting our oysters in. >> reporter: students have been growing baby oysters in the harbor.

today they're taking them out on the patapsco river. >> oysters aren't doing good in the bay. we can hopefully turn it around. >> reporter: teachers love the partnership with the chesapeake bay foundation giving them a chance to reverse the bay's decline. >> they need to see what we're talking about and we find that these shared experiences -- they grow a sense of community between the kids and this attachment to the environment that upcan't learn through books. >> reporter: this type of hands-on learning has a big impact with students and helps giving them the tools to succeed and help the environment. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> this is the sixth year the green school has been involved with the program. the chesapeake bay foundation educates students in the fourth grade to college level as well as teachers. so you put your locks on the

cabinets and keep all the kleining pro -- cleaning products out of harm's way. why one of the most dangerous things could be on your hand. a lot of yawning. how that dragging feeling you get over the weekend could be related to your weight.

safety experts have been telling parents for years about babies inner that home. now one in four toddler is heading to the emergency room because of a surprising injury.

it shows that from 1991 to 2001 more than 45,000 children under the age of three were taken to the emergency room after hurting themselves on bottles, sippy cups and pacifiers. much of the time it happened when toddlers had the item in their hands or moth -- mouth and fall. one symptom is must sell tightness and pain called spas sis ti. researchers looked at 30 patients who did not improve with medication and were given marijuana to spoke and some a placebo. those with marijuana had much less muscle tension and pain. one in three adults with autistic have no job -- autism have no job skills. they were less likely to

continue their education or get a job after high school. that's compared to people with other disabilities. they said the core of it is to -- they said more education and job related support could help people with autism. lots of people feel a little extra tired on monday. apparently that sleeping feeling could be causing extra weight. researchers from the university of nunica calling it social jet leg. scientists say it is the difference between your natural body's clock and your social clock, the one that keeps you up later on the weekends. more than 55,000 adults were studied and those whose weekends and woke day schedules differented the most were more likely to be overweight. when people are awake we they

shouldn't be they tend to eat more unhealthy news. don't forget, abc2news.com is the place for all the health us in you nee.d check out the interesting news to help you and your families find all the information you need. it has happened in every zip code what police are doing to deal with the growing problem of metal theft in our hear. and it is the defense' turn in the john edwards trial. we'll look at the strategy and who is expected to testify on edwards' behalf. >> it's in the easy buying green. those stories and more coming up at 5:30.

we're getting you up to the minute lawmakers are back in annapolis for a three-day special session to approve a budget deal. governor o'malley and others have already come to an agreement including income tax increases for people making more than $100,000 or more and households making more than $150,000 a year. it will help the state avoid cuts to education. a woman was shot several times. police say she was stopped at a red light when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside started shooting her. police have no leads but believe the woman was targeted. detectives are reviewing surveillance video from the area. right now, you've been outside. it's been a gloomy dreary day