beltway, remaining clear on the jfx. 11 minutes, normal drive time from the beltway, downtown to east fayette street, 695, going to be a different story. traffic is picking up on the outer loop from 95, towards 83. you are looking at a 12 minute ride. it's going to worsen on the west side. outer loop from 795, towards 95, a 12 minute ride. that's a look at your time saver traffic. back over to you. soldier, skin head killer, that's how police are characterizing a man who is behind a sikh temple shooting that killed six and injured four. sherrie johnson has details on the man who pulled the trigger and we are learning more and more about the man police say is responsible. more information is coming out, we have learned that the suspected temple shooter has ties to maryland, wade page was a member of a band assigned to the record label, label 56, one civil rights organization says

promoted hate music. the record label says it stopped selling music from page's band. page served 6 years in the army and trained in psychological warfare before demoted and discharged in 98. police are treating it a as a case of domestic terrorism and ingaiting ties to white -- investigating ties to white supremacist groups. several of the victims are fighting for lives including 21 year police veteran, brian murphy, one of the first officers to arrive at the scene. >> brian is in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit at the hospital,. >> he had been shot nine times, one serious in the neck area, and he waited and told them to go in to the temple to assist those in there. >> the stunned community remembered the victims of the temple massacre during a vigil last night. sherrie johnson, abc2 news.

show you care about your neighborhood, 15,000 communities across the country are taking part in national night out. participate by putting a blue light in your pore your porch. we are posting a list on the website, abc2news.com. for tomorrow's commute, wednesday, five new speed cameras in baltimore are going to be active. for the first 30 days, you are going to get a warning, after that probation period is up, tickets are going to be issued. they will cost you $40, you won get points on your license. we will give you a list of the places that the cameras will go up, abc2news.com. lawmakers are turning to annapolis, talking about expanded gambling in maryland. one of the issues is adding

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tuesday morning, this is your news to go. thank you for joining us i'm megan pringle. >> i'm charley crowson. let's kick off with a check of the forecast and say hello to lynette charles. good morning, we are starting off on a good note, especially when you look outside. look at the shot, it's

gorgeous, mount airy, sunrising, clouds surrounding it. beautiful colors that we are seeing this sun-cloud mix will continue as we go in to the afternoon. temperature in mount airy, 67 degrees, that humidity unfortunately is still up there. 71 degrees, 70 owings mill. temperatures will be closer to normal, but with the humidity definitely going to feel a lot hotter outside, we look at maryland's most powerful radar and all five sweeps on. i do believe we will stay dry in to the afternoon. this is the forecast trend, i'm going to with 90 today. 89-90. we like the 84 and 85 for the weekend. now a check of the time saver traffic with loren cook. tracking the accident on i-95? good news , the crash on 95 has cleared from the southbound

lanes at route 100. the northbound lanes will be pretty packed as you head in to the city. we have more delays on 895, on going construction, south of the steel bridge, that will be in both the northbound and southbound directions. definitely stick with the fort mc henry or the key bridge as your alternate route. inside the city, the water main break repairs block light street, use hopkins to get around the congestion. jfx, no problems to report whatsoever from the beltway down the fayette street. that stretch will take you 11 minutes. if you are bound for the beltway, this is what the northwest conner looks like. this outer loop going to show down more as you get towards liberty road. here is what the beltway looks like, no significant problems to report on the inner loop, towards 95 and outer loop towson, we are giving away $600 in free gas, all you have to do is to enter is like my official

facebook page, all of the details can be found at the top of my profile. tonight another utility company is going to get an earful. pepco customers will voice concerns over how the company handled power outages. sherrie johnson is here with the story. a numb of people are going to want to talk. >> a lot of people are frustrated now. basically tonight customers can talk a lyabout pepco in the fist of the series of public hearings held by the public service commission. thousands of people didn't have power after storms devastateed the region. customers can testify on pepco's performance during the storm. many of those without power for days were pepco and bge customers, it acted swiftly and faster to restow restore power to customers. some folks disagree. >> show this is not going to happen again. the company has succeeded as a

company, while their service failed. we have to change that so that the company can only succeed if the service succeeds. >> the public ser vision commission is holding a meeting to look at other out companies dug the storm. it kicks off at 7:00 in rockville at the montgomery county office building. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. hearings for baltimore for bge customers as well. held on august 13th through the 16th. if you want to find out the location, head to abc2news.com. you will find -- go ahead charlie. >> news time 6:47. it's costing you more to run errands, prices at the pump are on the rise. national average for a gallon of gas jumped $0.14 in the past months to $3.06 a gallon, the highest level since may. midwest hit the hardest, increase due to a pipeline out

of service. here drivers are paying $3.58 for a gallon of regular unleaded. for the most affordable gas near you go to abc2news.com. university of maryland student who plotted a shooting rampage at the school is due in court today. police claim alexander song posted web sites he wanted to shoot people on campus, arrested in march facing 8 charges. we are told song may enter a guilty plea at the hearing. >> jered laughner's trial is today. back in january, 2011, he killed 6 people and injured a number of others. he is expected to enter a guilty plea. laughner has undergone mental evaluations since his arrest and doctors believe he suffers

from schizophrenia. there are plenty of reality tv shows out there on every subject. robbing people, sounds like a terrible idea. police arrested two guys saying the two robbed people and claim it was for a reality show. one of the men is from temple hill, one of the men put the victims in the head lock , the other recorded the robbery on a cell phone. warning this morning if you plan to take your family to the county or state fair, there has been a jump in the number of swine flu cases. linda so is live at the fairgrounds with everything you need to know and linda, a lot of parents need to pay attention, it is becoming fair season. >> reporter: no confirmed cases of swine flu in maryland. with the state fair coming up in a few weeks and several county fairs going on now, health officials want you to be careful. at the howard county fair, they are taking steps to keep people safe, hand washing stations and

hand sanitizer around the fairgrounds to use after coming in contact with pigs. the swine supervisor is checking the pigs everyday to make sure they are healthy. the new cases have been reported in hawaii, ohio and indiana, all of the cases were linked to people who either went to or worked with swine at agricultural fairs. it's the same in pigs as humans, fever, redness in eyes and coughing and trouble breathing. >> i am not worried about that. >> reporter: the best thing you can do if you happen to go to a fair is wash hands. don't take food in and around barns. here at the maryland state fair, they plan to have hand washing stations available. linda so, abc2 news. discussion on ways to stop

bullying in the schools continues in washington dc today. secretary of education, arny duncan is scheduled to speak at the summit. the dangers of texting and driving are well known, especially for young drivers. the tour is bringing a high- tech simulator and tools. they will be setting up at reservoir in fulton. oreos are teaming up with underarmor to help injured military members. basically stuffing backpacks with underarmor and gear. they be distributed to the wounded warrior project. groups supporting marriage equality want to be part of your morning routine, asking same-sex marriage advocates to head to starbucks. dozens of other companies are taking part. drought situation across most of the country is growing worse by the day. president obama is meeting with the white house rural council to come up with ways to respond to the crisis.

maryland students are enjoying the sum evasion. for high school students in indiana, the school year begins today. it's remarkable when you consider a few months ago a tornado ripped through the building, five months ago they sense rebuilt. 600 students and staff were in the building when the tornado hit, none of them were hurt. this is a smoke funnel cloud, popping up around oklahoma because of the wild fires dealing with there. the drifting smoke forced authorities to close several state roads, some of the fires have been contained while others are burning this morning. a major problem dealing with there. are those like what you see in the fields across the midwest? the dust devils. they are not strong, they spin. >> basically, what you are seeing is a gust nado, a rotating cloud, coming from

thunderstorms off of a gust front. that's what that is. >> scary looking. >> anything that spins like that you are thinking it's a tornado. it at the low levels, nobody is out there. everything is okay with that. speaking of severe weather, nothing across the area for us today. that's good news, we are looking at the satellite and radar. clouds mixing with sunshine. that will be the trend as we go in to the afternoon. the humid weather, look at manchester right now. we have a nice little bit of sunshine, little bit of clouds, that will be what we see through manchester throughout the day. everywhere we will look at the same, temperatures will be more of the same as well. what i mean is that we will be heating up through time. the p thes are above -- the temperatures are above average, 73 baltimore. 78 dc. close to 80 there. 75 easton. towards the west, see where some of the drier air has woked

in here, drier, cooler air, it's pretty much stalled out, a stalled out front to the south of us. the drier air not going to make it through for today. we can see that on the moisture content the dew point, 66 baltimore, that's slightly humid. we are sultry in to easton and 72 in dc as we look at the temperatures in the 70ss you know what that means, we are looking at the tropical storm tracker, ernesto, winds sustained at 65 miles per hour. category one hurricane. it slides in to mexico, southern mexico. that looks good for the u.s. we won't be impacted by the storm whatsoever. the future trend picks up on more showers popping up as the front goes more north tomorrow, that's our better chance, our chance for showers and storms come on friday. this is a check of the forecast, 9 degrees is what i'm going for today. if you are head heading to the

game, 85 degrees, 7:05. now a check of the time saver traffic with loren cook. there are a few things to watchout for. sink hole, east monument, shut down between wolf and patterson park avenue. stick with orleans instead. downtown, dealing with the construction to fix that water main break that burst last month. light street closed between baltimore and lumbart. use hopkins instead. 895, expect heavy delays due to the construction going on south of the steel bridge. 95 will be your best bet through the fort mc henry or the key bridge. here is a live look at the beltway, liberty road. everything moving along the outer loop, pretty steady, but slow driving towards route 40 and here is where what the beltway looks like.

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