you're watching the station that works for you "good morning maryland." >> reporter: we are live in state of the art casino. 500 million dollars maryland live opens tonight. what you need to know if you want to come and place your bets. >> and jury selection continues in the jerry sandusky trial and

a possible list of witnesses who could be be called to testify. and why parents at a high school in minnesota say their children's rights were violated. all of this happening during the rehearsal for senior graduation. we will tell you all about that on this wednesday morning. and as we start this, a live look at the junctionture at 695 and 95. traffic is moving along right now at speed. we want to thank you for joining us. lauren has the commute and first we have to talk to her. >> i know. >> a little weather>> reporter: can we warm things up a little bit. >> we will warm things up going into the weekend. 90s. is that good. >> yes. >> especially sunday. we will see 88 i am going for on saturday but some spots might hit 90. so this morning, this is what we are looking at. sunshine out there and startingout in towson with thetemperature around 58 at loch raven tech and we are looking at temperatures in laurel right now coming in at 54. so it's little bit cooler

there. we have we duesed cover and that's mixing can sunshine and that's the name of the game throughout the day. maryland's most powerful radar is mainly dry but a little shower that is beginning to fade. that is good news as well. now a check of the abc timesaver traffic with lauren. good morning. do we have event. >> reporter: we have a crash in bolttor that's on east monument at edson highway. no concerns on 83. it will be nice and clear traveling from 695 downtown to east fayette. as far as west side of the beltway is concerned, this is what it looks like. traffic is picking up a little bit in the area but no delays. it will be a easy ride traveling down fords route 40 and southsowed of 95. no delays towards 495 or north up towards the tunnels. that's a look at your abc2

timesaver trafficor. food and slots available tonight. doors open around 10 for the public but for right now megan pringle has a preview of what to expect before you get a chance to gamble this morning. megan. >> reporter: all right. well, grab your quarters and good luck charles. you're hearing music right now but when you come can at 10, yoconstant chirping of slot machines because finally maryland live casino is opening the doors to the public. rob norton is the general manage erin joins me. congratulationses. >> thank you. >> reporter: -- manager joins me. congratulations. >> reporter: thank you what can we expect. >> lots of people playing and winning. >> reporter: what about thetable games. >> they would create another 800 to a thousand jobs just here and maybe 2500 statewide. i think it be be wonderful --

i think it would be be a wonderful thing. >> it's unfair two of the existing facilities are opened and we invested almost 500 million to build the place and before we opened they are talk about expansion the easiest thing is it's unfair. >> reporter: you brought up the table games and that's a possibility. you are ready to convert to that should the state approve it. >> right. we have planned for it and it would be simple to bring it in. >> reporter: do you have one thing you are telling people you got to check out? >> i tell you it's hard to pick one things. it's an exceptional space forfor phase one check out the r bar. >> reporter: and phase 2 in october what do they need to check out. >> you have prime rib or ram

stead. >> reporter: well, phase one is impressive. so rob norton thanks for your time. and charley one thing that's cool you are a movie fan. there's wall of slot machines over that way and the whole thing is a movie theme. and they have slot machines themed hangover, dirty dancing you name it. that's my must go to for you. now back to you in the studio. >> thanks a lot. news time 6:35. and jury selection could end in the injury sandusky -- jerry sandusky trial. 9 jurors were selected yesterday. he is charged with sexual abuse against 10 boys during a 15 year period. most of the suspected victims are expected to testify. opening statements are set to begin monday. well, she thought he was drinking juice but a honolulu mother says the toddler was given alcohol on a holiday dinner cruise. here's 3-year-old michael having fun but during the memorial day weekend, his mom says he could have died after

drinking orange juice and vodka accidentally served to him on board a dinner cruise. >> if he drunk the whole 12 ounces, it could be like fatal for him at this age. >> the company says it sincerely regrets and is mortified by the error and has taken action to change the beverage containers indicating which ones do in fact contain alcohol. parents say a minnesota high school violated the rights of their children and are considering a lawsuit. they are upset the kids were given a breathalyzer test during the rehearsal for the graduation at st. charles high school. they made the decision after smelling alcohol on a null of students. -- number of students. >> i said you can't test them because some had alcohol. you can test them but not them all. >> superintendent says the administration feared several of the students would then be driving immediately after the rehearsal. the school has declined to tell exactly how many did test positive, they do say that number is in double digits. they cried and say mama and

dada and goof but this mom says the doll her daughter was given as a gift is back and gigeling. word coming out of the baby doll's mouth. a gun range that's appealing to the younger generation. the owner says this will take the mystery out of the deadly weapon. good morning maryland continues.

caught on video. police in colorado find a gas can strapped into a car seat instead of the child's. you see the child next to it. and it's in the back seat wearing a normal seat belt. law requires all children under 8 to be in the child safety seat. the driver told officers the child led him shall let himself out and put the gas can in there. a new gun range in texas targeting kids. indoor firing range under construction in lewisville.

the owner of the eagle gun range wants to appeal to experts and enough novice including children. the gun range will offer birthday parties for the kids. >> the age limit is 8 years old. you have to be tall enough to get above the shooting table. but they are not going to be left unattended. the parents will be one-on-one or if this's not there will be range safety officers. >> they expect to open in the late summer or early fall. your news to go is coming up in bit including a vigil plannedfor tonight to keep a convicted rapist behind bars. >> reporter: he was a baltimore catholic schoolteacher sent to prison in the 1990s for raping a student. why he could still be released and what former student plan to do about it tonight. and another going for the triple -- i'll have another going for triple crown but hopes for the victory could be diminish as the battle for belmont is brewing. >> there's a lot going on with the weather. i will give you a check list what have you need before heading out this morning. coming up. >> reporter: everything is up

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good morning i am charley vowson the let's -- crowson let's say hello, to lynette charles. >> good morning. here are your headlines for the morning. we are unsettled and sunday seasonably cool isolated showers and sun-cloud mix. what you need for the cool temperatures is the jacket. isolated showers don't forget the umbrella and a sun cloud mix and don't forget sunscreen and sun shade and put on the sunscreen even if you are in the cloud. here's the temperatures. very cool in urbana at 49 degrees. 52 in ellicott city and glen elk around 50 degrees. let's check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren and you've been talking about lots of accidents do we have some on the road right now. >> reporter: a new accident in anne arundel county on the northbound lanes of crane

highway and more problems in east baltimore we are dealing with another accident on east monument at edison a using 83 to get into the city, absolutely nothing to get in your way. it will be a nice easy ride from the beltway to east fayette. as far as the beltway, parkville at harford road everything up to speed. and it is a easy ride up towards 83 and west side pretty calm. here's liberty road. traffic starting to pick up a little bit in the area but no significant delays as you travel the outer loop towards route 40. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. candlelight vigil will be held to keep a accused child sex abuser in prison. they are fighting to keep him locked up and this morning linda so is standing by with details. >> reporter: they planel school in baltimore tonight where victims say they were raped and sexually abused by a former

english teacher at the school. he is serving 4 life terms after being convicted in the 1990s for raping a student. dozens of other students also say they were abused by him. they are coming together to fight a court ruling that couldresult in his possible release. he claims he was never properly told of the plea bargain that was offered before his trial. the former students will hold the candle light vigil at 7 on the sidewalk of our laddie of good council church and the former site of catholic community middle. it's in the 1500 block of fort avenue in ballmore. linda so -- baltimore. linda so. abc2 news. police in prince jornlg's county are investigating a -- george's county are investigating a possible homicide a man was shot near the bus bay of the southern avenue metro station around 9:30 and pronounced dead at the scene of the know word on suspects in the case. and a motion hearing is scheduled for private first class bradley manning beginning at 9 this morning at fort meade and his legal team seeking the

dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts in the wikileaks case a military judge will hear oral arguments. trial is set to begin in september. now for a developing story. five men in howard county jail after police say they discovered them manufacturing methamphetamine in the hotel room. now there's a twist to the story this morning because we have learned that one of the hotel guest we interviewed was not telling the whole truth. sherrie johnson is here with more on the interview and how he is one of the suspects: this is bizarre. >> reporter: very. abc2 news had an exclusive interview with spencer smith one of the guests at the holiday inn in elk ridge. he was a hotel guest and the 5th person arrested in the meth bust. this started monday when someone called 911 reporting a strong odor on the fourth floor of the holiday inn. the highly addicted man-made chemical is scarce in maryland, it appears that scarceity set the stage for five out of state suspects to set up a lab in the

room. they were traveling through the area looking for work. during all the commotion, abc2 news interviewed a hotel guestspencer smith to claimed to have limited knowledge but turned out to be the 5th person arrested in the case. >> i don't know anything about this kind of -- about this aapparent lay meth lab -- apparently, a meth lab and what i know is what i see on movies and a big bang. >> reporter: now beside the risk of fire and explosions, cooking meth can produce fumes. cleaning crews were on the scene for more than 12 hours. officers also found heroin and a handgun-side the hotel room. -- inside the hand room. head to abc2news.com/meth and see the page. there's more information on the charges, also that exclusive interview, signs about meth and a lot of information. reporting live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. 6:49 and new this morning,

the abc2 newsroom a bit of drama following a tubetorial recall election in wisconsin -- gubernatorial recall election in which is con. tom barrett slapped in the face by a supporter. she said she wanted to slap him for conceding the race to republican governor a scott walker, a race he lost by 8 points. a protesters trying to stop a woman from being evicted. the group formed a human chain and dawn butler's stairs going up against u.s. marshals. it turned violent one marshal was hit in the head when a front door came crashing down. apartment was foreclosed upon because this eviction is illegal. >> we had an agreement with the former he landlord and that was to fix the house up in lieu of rent. we put over $250,000 in the home. >> butler says she plans to stay in the city and she is going to fight the eviction in court. the maryland food bank is seeking volunteers to help with serious backlog issues. the bank has 250,000 pounds of

food that need to be sorted out and packed. food bank official say donations are coming from wegmans and there's been an increase from other local donors. even with the increase in volunteer hours, they have a hard timekeeping up. the food bank relies on the help of volunteers. an he can citing day for police officers. 31 officers being promoted and assuming new ranks within the department. they will take the oath of office during a ceremony scheduled for today. total of 14 officers are becoming corpse, 12 corms sergeants and 5 -- corpals andcorporals becoming sergeants. when it's all done they should be able to sold more --hold more than 700 students. the ground breaking ceremony is 10 this morning. a live pick from your hanover, the excitement building and shacky inside but no need to worry.

16 hours away from the grand opening of the maryland live casino. the state's largest casino at arundel mills mall will initially open with 3200 slot machines. eventually it will have more than 5,000 as well as entertainment venues and nationally acclaimed restaurants of the all of that is going to be going on throughout the day. we have had live coverage with megan all morning. and we will keep you up-to-date as things develop at abc2news.com. five things to know on this wednesday morning. today drew petersen will be in court for pretile hearing charged with the murder of his third wife. she was found by neighbors in a bathtub back in 2004. petersen's a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife. a possible strike at belmont park in new york could interfere with the saturday's triple crown race. more than 80 workers are threatening to walk off the job. they have been in a contract tries butte for two -- dispute for two years. ravens another ota is

happening this morning at 11:30. that's at the training facility in owings mills. following, head coach and the players will talk to the media after the practice. players and coaches for the brooks robinson all star game will be announced today. orioles will hold a news conference. all star game is this sunday after the o's game again the philadelphia phillies. check out locally grown and homemade products at the baltimore county farmers market. it's opening for the season at maryland state fair ground every wednesday from now until october 31st. you can find everything from veggies to meat and baked good and even flowers. now before we get to weather this morning, let's look live. this is the space shuttle enterprise. abore the intrepid and it's going by the stat you liberty and world trade center before coming to rest at the final resting place at the museum there. let's get one more check of the forecast with lynette. >> all right. yes, the forecast is not

looking too bad. we have a lone shower around talbot county and if you are going around oxford and cambridge a light shower. it's fizzling out. so, we have more sunshine in the forecast right now as we head orders over towards glen oak. lots of sunshine and started out with clouds this morning. but, as we traveled over into rockville look at this beautiful sunrise this morning. lots of high clouds streaming in. and mixing in with that sunrise. and temperature wise, this morning, we are on the cool side once again. middletown 46 degrees. 46 in woodbine and 50 in towson yes. the temperatures are beginning to come up. but we are still well below average now for this time of the year. 53 in hickory and more of the same in northeast. good morning to you. future trend picking up on the chance for isolated showers to work their way back in mixing with the sun and clouds. but tomorrow, we will have a better chance for showers to work their way in. they will be scattered in the afternoon on thursday. and high pressure build in does

its things and brings us plenty of sb shine -- sunshine for friday. teed temperature around 74 degrees. just take the umbrella with you just in case you could be one of the ones under the isolated shower for today. here's seven-day forecast as we will have the chance for more showers in the forecast for thursday. we begin to warm things up nicely back into the 80s and hit the 90s into the latter part of the weekend and beginning of the week. let's check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a house fire in west baltimore continues to shut down south fulton avenue between wilhelm and ramsey street. you want to use mound street as a alternate. you want to expect heavy delays on the beltway this morning. it's due to a new accident on the outer loop at 83. and as we check in and look live. a little farther from the scene in parkville it's starting to pick up. that will be the same case on 95. here's a live look at northeast corridor in the white marsh

area north of route 43. southbound travel really starting to pick up. that will remain slow making apush toward the throughway. >> a houston texas mom says her daughter's doll has a potty mouth she bought it as a christmas gift and says one of the dolls says the b word. the toy store is offering a in- store credit. credit is for price of the doll but she says that's not enough. >> not good enough. i want the dolls removed from the shelf. >> why? >> this is -- we teach our children at an ely age there's -- early age there's things you don't say. >> toys r us says they won't careity doll that uses profanity and it is uttering as baby babel. your thoughts. >> could you imagine that if you buy that baby doll for your child. >> got an idea for a caption

this. >> no. don't do it. let's go. off to something. >> abc2news.com your place to go. maryland live opens tonight at 10. have a great day.