you're watching the station that works for you "good morning maryland" at 4:30. a man is dead a shot by an officer. what led up to the shooting in a howard county neighborhood. >> also ahead, they were safe places to go where kids could play and read but today more rec centers closed. what it means for families that relied on the places. >> everybody is talking abou may machadma a major league debut last night. was it enough to help the o's take care of the royals. good moing i am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle. another important thing to talk about is the weather. >> we have to have the rain. what do you have? >> the rain is off towards the west, but it's pushing in. down in virginia this morning. those are expired and at line has weakened so as it is coming

over the mountains, things are starting to weaken a little bit. but going into the afternoon showers and thunderstorms are possible to pop and they could be on the severe side. we will keep our eye peeled for that. along i-70 traveling you that way, you are getting heavy wnpog e way up into waynesboro and this is pushing off into fret ribbing heading towards tawnytown. now we can talk about temperatures because this morning we are on the warm side once again. temperatures above average very humid out there. a little bit of patchy fog in spots as well. 78 now in annapolis. 75 in churchville and 78 in cambridge. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. we are dealing with construction out on 895. so one north bound lanes is going to be shut down at steam bridge. but to the having an impact on traffic. speeds clocking in at 54 miles per hour. this will very well change later in the morning. so stick with the fort mchenry

at eastern avenue, everything is up to speed as well. no delays so overall, you are looking at a very easy ride if you are using 95 to get into the city. if you using 695, here's a live look in parkville at harford road. 11 minutes on that outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83 and that inner loop nice and clear down towards 95. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic now back over to you. we have breaking news update this morning. we brought outlast night at 11, -- you last night at11. a bizarre situation that ended with a man shot. and charley has the latest information and new reaction from those who heard the shooting. how did this start. >> this started and the victim's name is yet to be released. it began in baltimore city and didn't end until police tracked him down in howard county. that's where things got out of control ending with the fatal officer involved shooting.

now according to police, the encounter began in baltimore city around midnight wednesday where the man reportedly went to his ex-girlfriend's house and held her and her child at gunpoint and threatening their lives. she escaped early thursday morning but the man took off with the 2-year-old. officers tracked the man to a home in the 9000 block of. >> when the officers arrived, baltimore city and howard county police were confronted by the suspect in the back of the house outside and asked him to show his hands and knew he had a weapon overnight and assaulted this woman. and ultimately the suspect was shot in the confon station. -- confrontation. >> the 2-year-old was found safely with a family member. case is investigated by both baltimore city and howard county police and megan that officer who was involved in the fatal shooting is now on administrative leave until the thing is sorted out. >> charley crowson live at live

desk. we learned a teenage boy passed away after a house caught on fire in prince george's county. he is the second victim in the accident. a 5-year-old girl passed away on wednesday. her father is still in the hospital in critical condition. firefighters think a window air conditioner connected to an extension cord and power strip caused an electrical overload. the three victims were napping when the fire started. baltimore county teacher is on administrative leave after being arrested. aaron joseph waved a gun at a construction crew removing trees from a lot next to his house. he teaches at franklin high school and has been with boughtmore will you be public schools for 12 years. should you have to pay a power company for the first 24 hours of a storm outage. that's what's going to be decide by psc today. a hearing is scheduled on september 24th to decide if power companies can charge customers during outages. that charge is intended to ensure utilities are not

discouraged from participated in energy efficiency programs. but people are against it saying it makes customers pay for a service they are not getting. lawmakers in favor of more games and casino and possibly building another one is hoping lady luck is on their side. they will take up a measure to permit the use of table games. they will talk about proposal to build a casino at the national harbor in pg county. all of this begins at 10 this morning. also coming up today, the full state senate will consider a bill passed by a panel yesterday making owners of all dogs liable for bites not just pit bulls. the court of appeals ruled in april pit bulls are dangerous and that the owners are liable in the event of a dog attack. we will have coverage in da two of the special session at 5 and 6 on abc2 and get the latest information at abc2news.com and on the mobile app. they are a safe haven for

kids who don't have one. but rec centers will be shutting down. and it's not sitting well with a lot of people. linda so joins us now and what's planned for tonight? >> reporter: well people who want to save the rec centers will protest the closures. it's a symbolic funeral march and prayer vigil. five rec centers are slated to close tomorrow. supporters are upset the city keeps shutting them down. the protest is organized by the save our rec save our city coalition. organizers started the movement this summer to get people to stand up against the closures and the city leaders who are making the decisions. the normer naacp president for baltimore and pastors will be among guest speakers. linda so, abc2 news. 4:36. did you get rain yesterday? >> i heard a lot of thunder but didn't see rain. >> big storms across howard county. >> we had severe thunderstorms across the area.

and for today, this morning, actually some severe weather popping up around virginia. this line of thunderstorms right here this is beginning to press closer to us as we go through time. but you can see the little swirl in the atmosphere up here. that's an air afterlow pressure and upper trough swinging through for today. and then we will have a cold front move through. that cold front has slowed down some. what is going to happen is we thought the rain would be out by saturday for the most part. we still have a chance for showers and thunderstorms to pop as we go throughout the day. de-- pop up as we go throughout the day. take the rain gear as you head out, you are going to need it. look at temperatures, 73 in eldersburg. 79 in rock hall, 78 in annapolis, 77 in hanover and 76 in northeast. we are warm once again. megan. >> thanks. friday night a great night to get out of the kitchen of course and go out enjoy a meal with the family. stating today, you can die at 35 restaurants around baltimore county for a discounted price.

they are going to be offering three course meals that range from 10 dollars to $35. that looks good. if you want to see a list of the restaurants participated. head to abc2news.com. 4:37. if you caught the o's game you may have noticed a new face on field. >> he is 28 years old and we will tell you what the new third baseman impressing teammates and fans. we will share his sorry jumping from the minors to the majors ahead. >> it was supposed to be a nice ride but a ohio couple ran for their lives. details coming up. >> and bugs giving you the hieby jeebies? expect to see a lot more around your yard. we will tell you why. >> reporter: every thing up is to speed on 695 at wilkins avenue but we are dealing with a crash on route 295. i will have details coming up on good morning maryland. and don't forget to like my abc2 facebook fan page. you can get in the running to win a 600 dollar gas gift card.

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4:41. a tough night for the orioles. the royals end the o's five- game winning streak and billy butler carried the big stick. a home run in the four-run first ingle for the royals and double in the third and triple in the 5th. he needed a single to complete the cycle. that's supposed tonight easy part. royals beat orioles 8-2 last night. but no matter the score we know that the third baseman mankiy machado what great night at just 20 years old what were you doing at 20? >> nothing like this. and it was pretty good game. scries christian shaffer has more on what it was like to get the call and who was the first

person he called. >> reporter: >> reporter: you might not expect a big crowd with the worst team in town and ravens playing a preseason game on tv but a walkup is what the orioles got. maybe it was the t-shirt give away but all indications are that this guy was responsible. >> i was look online and saw that he was called up and i am like i was interested in see. >> reporter: he is manny machado a 20-year-old phenom from miami. not all the walkup crowd walked to the ticket window. scalpers took note of the arrival. >> you know when the fans don't show up there's no mock. >> reporter: he was considered to be among the best prospects in all of baseball and talked with oriole hall of famer jim palmer and the first phone call after getting the news from his minor league manager was to his mother. >> you have to look for flights to come to baltimore and she says why and i said i am going

to play tomorrow in baltimore third base, and she thought i was lying. >> reporter: she took some convinceing. >> i am serious. i got called up. and we shared that moment together and it was a great feeling. >> reporter: and now he is here, he says he has a lot to learn from a team that's exceeded expectations in 2012. >> they have been up here for a while. they had the experience so i am going to have to soak it in and learn from them. >> i love to hear from that proud mama. >> that was the big story. we had the ravens with the preseason opener down in atlanta but a lot of people wanted to see manny play. >> all right. it was a good night to be inside watching television. >> exactly. >> how about today? >> today will be more of the same. you want to be inside. another stormy day on tap. rain pushing in and also thunderstorms possible again as we go into the afternoon. so this is what we are looking like on the satellite and radar. you can see two lines not real lines but two batches i will say. two batches of rain. this is the first batch moving

through here as we head through the rest of the morning. this batch has dropped some severe thunderstorms across virginia. so, luckily, that has expired but again things could be fueling up going into the afternoon. now we will watch the batch back off towards ohio it will slide more into the afternoon time frame and we can see morethunderstorms possibly severe keeping you updated on the information. i will zoom into the thunderstorm now and that is pushing towards tawnytown. so if you are going that way this morning, be prepared to run into some lightning and also some gusty winds. we are also looking at some thunderstorms and also some heavy rain along i-70 at this time. so traveling this morning, it's going to be a little bit of a challenge if you are heading out west. now future trend picking up on temperatures coming in from 82 to 86 by lunchtime. you will want to eat the lunch indoors instead of outdoors because it's going to be a very warm day on tap. a very stormy day on tap as well and humidity is going to be with us once again. we will do it all over again

heading into saturday. unfortunately because the cold front is going to get hung up a bit. so, temperatures again right around 86 as we go into the afternoon on your saturday. but all in all, things are going to be be improving as we go through the 7-day forecast. let's break it down slowly. today we will be dealing with thunderstorms. temperatures 86, more of the same on saturday. and then as we move into sunday, that's going to be your dry day. get out and enjoy it and do what you want to dom get out on the chess -- want to do. get on the chesapeake and take everyone out. get out and enjoy that. going into monday evening, the next chance for showers will rollback in. check out temperatures as they go back up into the 90s heading into the beginning and middle of next week. we are on a whirlwind. go with it. let's check ballot c -- check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren. >> reporter: a crash on 259 along the southbound lanes at west firstry road. the best alternate is 9 -- in

yourry road. the best alternate is 95. the west side of the beltway no delays from route 40 up towards liberty road and that good news will continue heading out to 695 in overlea. notice no delays on the outer loop so it will be a nice easy ride up towards towson and inner loop clear towards 95. looking live at the harrisburg expressway, at shawan road, there are no delays traveling from hunt valley down towards 695. now over to you. >> time for five things to know on this friday. an army private will learn his fate following his conviction to blow up a restaurant full of troops. he faces the possibility of life in prison. six people killed in shooting rampage at a sikh temple in wisconsin visitation and wakes are being held and a prayer vigil is taking place at a sikh temple in silver spring on old columbia pike. the legal team for lance

armstrong due in court for a hearing. the u.s. antidoping agency claims he used performance enhancing drugs. armstrong as he has done for a number of years continues to deny the claims. opening ceremonies are tonight for the cal ripkin world series game at cal senior's yard tonight. 10 u.s. teams and 6 interring inial teams will play against each other. tickets are free. and the man behind the classic hit sweet caroline come on. he is getting a honor today. neil diamond will be unveil his star on the walk of fame. that is happening outside capital records in hollywood. i was thinking love on the rocks. isn't that him? is that neil diamond? we will listen to this, even rocket scientists get it wrong. this unmaned moon lander crashed and burned during an engine test at kennedy space

center. the project manager says it's destroyed so now nasa officials are gathering the information to determine what went wrong. they hope it will deliver cargo to the moon. >> we can't confirm love on the rocks. i love google. >> you can't confirm it? >> google is awesome. it is love on the rocks neil diamond. >> all right. a drive in the country turned into an adventure. >> stay with us. it started and stopped because they wanted to look at cows. however they ended up running for their lives. we will tell you what was chasing them. >> you see we made it to friday. but friday we are deeing with -- dealing with a bumpy ride. we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. as you step out the door, you brushing your teeth and can hear my voice. take the rain gear with you because you will use it going throughout the day. 6:00, 75, storms linger all day and 9:00 more of the same, humidity will linger throughout the day as well and by

lunchtime, 84, 3 tm 86 with -- 3 p.m. 86 with thunderstorms still in the forecast.

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trees and damaging a few homes. they are outbuildings. the storm ripped freight cars from the tracks. authorities said at least 10 cars derailed. no one was hurt thankfully. you may be sick of the hot, dry temperatures, but if you love bugs listen to this. they love it. basically test experts and spiders say the spiders are cold-blooded and. [audio not understandable] [audio not understandable] [ inaudible ] >> storms yesterday a lot of us got caught out in the rain because it the backups around the area. >> and lightning. >> big lightning. >> exactly. i heard it i -- when i was sleeping. that's what we have on tap for

us. and also lingering into tomorrow. >> yeah. that cold front is going to be too slow getting through wree. hoping it gets through -- through. we were hoping it would get through today and save you on saturday but it will come in saturday evening. sunday is looking like the dry, nice day with di. we look at maryland's most powerful radar as of now. we heard you talk about the lightning you are seeing lightning towas virginia lieding -- sliding f towards the east and heavy rain is pushing into frederick county work its way to the east. baltimore bel air you are all in that. first pitch 05. o the game, 84degrand mid wi thunderstorms. game is delayed. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: that lightning and thunder was bad in bel air. i could barely get to bed. it was awful. we are deeing with a crash on route 295 -- dealing with a crash on 295. watch out for that. not causing too much of a backup but you can stick with 95 to get around the mess.

and here's a live look at 695. that west side going to be nice and clear here at baltimore national pike. that will continue all the way up towards liberty road. and if you are headed out to 95, this is what it looks like at 395. not a car out there. so, it will be nice and clear and as we pull up drive times no problems to report on 95. four minutes from route 43 down towards 695. and that fort mchenry tunnel in great shape. looking an 8 minute ride from 695 to the toll plaza and no concerns this morning out on the jfx. delay free 11 minutes southbound from 695 downtown to fayette street. now over to you. 4:54. news around the nation a massachusetts woman went for a dip in the river while driving. police say the woman was coming from a hospital when she next found herself in deep water. according to police, she was trying to evade them as they were trying to rescue her. charges are not likely to come from the incident and they wouldn't say if it was accidental or intentional. a