flooding light nipping and thunder. we saw it all including stranded drivers stuck in high water. >> two big stories at a special session but one went as expected. >> they may be in the u.s. legally but they -- illegallybut want to go to college and the plan homeland security has to help them achieve the dreams. that story on this wednesday august 15th of the good morning i am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle. you may have heard the thunder and lightning and thought not again. >> lynette is standing by with a check of the forecast. you call it late afternoon thunderstorms. >> they rolled in at 5 and lingered through the evening and we did have a tornado warning for harford county and also baltimore county so we can

see it here. this is from yesterday. and that is that thunderstorm that prompted that tornado warning as of now. things are look good. we are nice and calm but with all the rainfall up to about 3 to 4 inches in a lot spots, we could have a flood warning in effect for today and again that's for baltimore county as we go into about 5:30 and then wilbely able to expire. as we go through the rest of the day. rly morning, this is what we are looking at around 6, the temperature at 70. and we will be under partly cloudy skies. and still dry, though. and as we head into 9 in the morning temperatures at 78 partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. by lunchtime at 85 and we have the chance for more showers and storms to pop up especially as we head throughout the day. let's check the a become. -- let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic. >> reporter: we have trouble in howard county a car fire on columbia pike at route 100 to watch out for. for those of you using interstate 70. no delays whatsoever from

columbia pike all the way over to 695. and here's what the beltway looks likes. west side shaping up great this morning 11 minutes on the outer loop from 795 all the way down to 95. and here's parkville at harford road. no problems traveling towards the -- traveling toward 95 and nice and clear up to 83. that's the abc2 timesaver traffic. 4:32. and here we are again. thousands waking up in the dark this morning after strong storms hit the area last night. abc2 news linda so is live in rogers forge and how are things looking? some people are in the dark. >> reporter: it's not bad right now. one thing to be careful as you head out the door this morning is the possibility of some dark intersections. hear stephenson and balona the lights were out but came on 30minutes ago. bge reports over #,000 customers without power from this storm with the bulk right here in baltimore -- 7,000

customers without power from this storm with the bulk right here in baltimore county. this rescue was at loch raven and lock hill. a woman was rescued from her car as water came up to the windows. rescue crews smashed the back window because they thought a baby was in the back seat but the woman was the only onin the care aaron's brother grabbed the woman and pull her to safetier. >> the woman wound up stuck in the water as it continued to rise, and she didn't want to come out the vehicle. once she came out of the vehicle she didn't want to move. so my brother walked out -- got out of his car and as we headed to grab the lady and pull her because she was still in shock. >> reporter: coming up at 5, how bad it got at ruxton road. but as you head out, remember there may be several traffic lights that are out because of the power outages just be careful and watch out for that.

live in rogers forge, linda so, abc2 news. the power outages is why we keep a nervous eye out when the storms move through. right now, about 5,000 people are in the dark the bulk of the people in baltimore county. we are working to keep you safe. sign up for the latest weather warnings and alerts in your area or weather apps. find that information on abc2 news . com or go to -- abc2news.com or go to your cell phone and text 49 # # --4968. the crowd was not big but they made their point about losing power. bge made the point that they gave you advanced warning the power would be restored quicker. the majority of those in attendance at the war memorial building for the meeting is they are concerned bge is not always planning for the worst. >> a tree top this big came

down and was hanging from the line. and that's -- why don't they cut the tree newspaper like the mayor of baltimore and governor o'malley, some of us were not caught flatfooted. they claimed they were caught flatfooted because they didn't expect the severity of the storm. you should never not expect it. >> bge is listening to complaints and say it will improve performance storm after storm. the company wants to improve the mobile platform so you can useyour cell phone or ipad to keep better informed. 4:35. a late night for marled lawmakers as the special -- maryland lawmakers as the special session wrapped up a few hours ago. 's the diet -- debate over gambling as they discuss discuss the possibility of 56th casino and table games and pit bulls. sherrie johnson is here with the wrap-up and this is certainly a late night of wrangling. >> reporter: yes they were

deemed to wrap up the special session and not drag it out another day and it ran into the early morning hours. the maryland house of delegates passed the measure to allow a new casino in prince george's county as well as table games like pork and roulette at -- poker and roulette at came gel houses. it will allow vwf and american legion to have slots i was new element in the game building debate. the house approved a measure and sent it to the senate before midnight where it passed there. governor o'malley is expected to sign the measure this morning at 10. it will go before voters for approval or defeat on the november 6th ballot. >> the tendency for abuse fraud and embezzlement is emense. we will take the organizations- -that serve a important purpose and corrupt them night not hard

to vote red or green. it's a simple issue. so, if you want to support your veterans, all you have to do is put a green vote up. >> reporter: the other big issue pit bulls were no deal on the pit bull bill. this means the court of appeals decision is still in place from earlier this year which statespit bulls in maryland are considered dang rouse and owners and their landlords can be held liable if the dogs bites someone. this comes as a support for pit bull advocates who tried to get the decision overturned. sher sigh johnson, ab-c -- shall sherrie johnson, abc2 news. it was a bumpy evening and difficult to go to sleep with the severe weather around the area. that's long gone. that pushed out. all that was courtesy of the warm front. the cold front has not passed through yet. it's back in the cloud cover that will slowly but surely make its way across the area for today. so because of that, i am keeping in a chance for some

more thunderstorms as we go into the afternoon time period. going to keep you updated once again the storm prediction center does have us in a slight risk for severe weather. temperatures right now, coming in at 69 in baltimore. and we should be at # 6, -- 66, 65 for this time of year and we are not looking at 70s. 6 # in joshing and -- 6 # inyork and -- 64 in york. and towards the eastern shore things looking good. hopping into delaware with the temperature around # 2 key -- 72 degrees. 4:38 and he is accused of killing yardley love -- yeardley love and they will be back in court. hing sentenced at the end of the month. hugeley's team asked a judge to delay the sentencing until at least october but that request was denied. hugeley from chevy chase will be sentenced on august 30th for second degree murder conviction. love was a member of the women's lacrosse team at the university of virginia. a community gathering to grieve and seek justice for

alex. a group showed up this happened in mount vernon where he was shot and killed and we heard this morning that two other women were robbed on monday night at the scene of those shootings. his mother was not the only person on a mission. she wants to keep her neighborhood safe. police joined that crowd hoping that their presence will encourage anyone who knows anything about the crime to speak up. >> take a look around. you have a lot of sets of eyes out here. we are hoping that somebody saw something that just didn't look right, somebody saw something that may have been suspicious and we are hoping they will be willing to pass the information on. >> he was shot to death friday morning as he sat outside the empire house on east chase street. leary peterson is in critical condition this morning. police have no motive but they believe a man and woman were involved in this those shootings. a major inconvenience to toll tl you about for -- tell

you about for a lot of families. >> many were forced to leave their homes and when they can expect things to return to normal in poofy plan to have can't lope or honey dew hang on we have another recall. >> he spent the weekend in the hospital treated for bronchitis. this morning an update on the condition of the evangelist billy graham. >> reporter: if row are using 95 to get into the city -- if you are using 95 to get into the city no problem. i will let you know how the traffic is shaping up. >> 20 minutes away from 5. a training looking picture you are seeing. but that's new york city times square. pretty quiet there right now. we will be back with more on our weather here in maryland. wççñçñ

family living near a sink hole don't know when they will be able to return to their home. the company that owns the

company blanked for the searching hole is drilling to investigate whether that's the cause. this is the wrong video right there. that's the story we will get to in a minute. this is happening in louisiana. and we heard about sink holes inour area but this is there too. >> we know them too well. texas joined a relief well to figure out what happened. that well is located in 2500 feet from the people around the srchg hole. this could make the -- sink hole. it could make the coverage collapse and it's coming out of louisean -- cavern collapse but it's coming out of louisean. a. people in reseda were ordered to evacuate where four wild fires move closer to the community. this video taken earlier tuesday morning showing the fire burning east of san diego just a few hours later it was closing in on homes. authorities had to issue mandatory evacuations. and order about 400 people who live there out of the

community. residents in the san if a lee pay -- felipe were ordered out as well. 16 airmen from the north carolina based unit of the air national guard are in california fighting the fires. the trip comes six weeks after four of the fellow airmen died in plane crash while fighting fires in south dakota. but members of the 145th airlift wing say they are ready for the new battle. the airmen will be in california through early september spraying fire retardant and water on the wild fires in the area. this list billy graham is out of the hospital. he was admitted for bronchitis a spokesman for the mission hospital says that he returned home after responding really well to all of his treatments. the 93-year-old had to be hospitalize for pneumonia twice but the hospital says he has been in good overall health ever since. that is scene last night. yeah, thunderstorms rolling through the area. we had heavy rain and thunder

and lightning. once again this is not video of that but this is a large plane probably handling the wild fires out in california. but the cars they got serious damage on the corner in loch raven. >> we will show you that video later on. but we are going to talk to you about the weather because that's a huge story and when the weather is is a big issue so is traffic. >> reporter: it was hard to fall asleep last night. the lightning was? spectacular. >> reporter: it was. >> it was bad. and we had the lightning and tornado warning and we had severe thunderstorm warnings with large hail and damaging winds. we ran the gamut last night for sure. and unfortunately, i can't say that it's all over for today because once again, we do have the storm prediction center telling us that while we are in a slight risk for severe weather, it will be as we go into the afternoon evening time frame. but we are waiting for the cold front to pass the area. and the warm front did the damage yesterday waiting for the cold front and until the cold front passes we do have that chance. right now, you are stepping out and about this morning.

you are dry and don't necessarily need the rain gear, but i suggest you take it just in case you can't get back home this is what you will deal with. we have future trend. there's the cold front as we go through time here. this will begin to slide its way off toward the east. and once it does that, that's when we will have the drier air behind it. so we are going to be feeling pretty good especially as we head to the weekend. we are looking pretty good as another cold front will approach and bring in that cooler air. so i am talking about temperatures in the low 80s heading through the weekend. nice looking weekend for you but we have a chance for showers in the forecast as well. i will show you that in a second. this is what future trend looks like. things look pretty good in the morning but by two we have a chance for showers looks like it could be coming along the eastern shore in southern maryland more of that. and babcally that's where the storm threat is for today. heading into thursday, gorgeous day. get out and enjoy it. we will see low humidity and plenty of sunshine in the forecast. and then as we head into friday, that's when the next

chance for showers and storms work their way into the picture. you can see another chance for the showers to come in here as we go into the evening time frame. this is what we are looking like hour by hour for today. starting out at 6 and we have a little patchy fog out there because of all that moisture that we are working with. going into 9 the temperature coming in at 78 degrees and we will be warm and a few showers possible by lunchtime and an isolated shower or tomorrow by 3 with the temperature coming in at 87. and this is what it looks like for the seven-day forecast. 87 is what i am going with today. nice and dry and beautiful conditions by thursday and there's the chance for a late day storm going into friday. saturday, a few early morning showers and then things lo nice as we go into sunday and then monday and tuesday, we will bring back the chance for showers but look at temperatures. the big story. low 80s. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. good news in howard county where a car fire cleared and the delays dismated. using interstate 70, no problems to report from

columbia pike all the way over to 695. and the beltway going to be in great shape. you are looking at an 11 minute ride on the west side from 795down towards 95. using 95 this morning, here's north of interstate 195. no problems getting down towards d.c. this morning or headed north up towards the tunnels. here's what the harrisburg expressway looks like at york road not too many cars a nice easy ride towards the beltway and it will remain that way onceyou get on the jfx. now over to you. 4:48. here are five things to know before heading out the door. republican vice presidential candidate ryan paul continues to hit up the battleground states attending a rally at miami university. mitt romney worked in ohio yesterday. bill clinton is headlining a event supporting president obama. the cast of the wires cohosting a fund-raiser with obama today in martha's vineyard. a account like university

in -- catholic university in ohio is dropping university for student in response to health care that requires health care for medication. could you become a millionaire today? maybe if you have the power ball winning ticket. tonight is the drawing for $320 million. it's the fourth largest jackpot in power ball history. the botched marriage of kim kardashian is playing out in court. a motion hearing has been scheduled for her divorce from basketball player chris humphries. the marriage lasted 72 days. a big day today for hundreds of thousands of people who cameto the united states as children without any documentation. >> they could begin applying to stay in the country and avoid deportation. we will introduce you to a man why this day means so much. >> no doubt about it. this is a-- mosquitoes are annoying but there's one

particular type that's breeding like crazy. >> that's disgusting. today is going to be a little bit -- this morning will be a little quieter. going into the thea noon not -- afternoon not ruling out the storms. it's 6:00 and we have patchy fog and moisture. 70 degrees. 78 degrees close to 80 by 9. we are getting warm as we head throughout the day and lunchtime rolls around keep an eye to the sky and you could eat the lunch outdoors and could get wet. take the rain gear with you. >> 10 minutes before 5. a live look at dc. one light is on and business is about to pick up in the nation's capital. back in a bit. @ñi

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deportation and receive a work permit. reporter has a story of one man who has been waiting for this day for a long time. >> reporter: after years of fighting this is the moment michael has been waiting for all his life. >> this is my country and my home. this is where i've grown. >> reporter: he came to the u.s. from mexico when he was just 3 years old. >> i remember crossing a checkpoint and crossing two double doors. >> reporter: which led him to the land of opportunity. now with pen to paper he is hoping this form will bring him closer to becoming an official american citizen but his desire goes much deeper than the need for documentation. it goes back to this day in 2001. >> i remember one day waking up and turning on the tv and this was in -- september 11th. i remember seeing the towers on fire and that picture stayed in

my mind. >> reporter: an image that made him want to join the armed forces and serve. >> patriotism what this country stands for, opportunity for many people, and that's why i wanted to serve my country. >> reporter: this process won't allow him to fight for his country just yet, it brings him closer to making his dreams come true. abc15 news. >> time for a check on the weather. i know a lot of you heard that thunder and saw the lightning and saw that. >> it woke me up and velvet was petrified and tried to go under the covers. >> when your pets are affected you know it's bad. >> that's the warning sign when it's coming. oscar will shake and wake us up. >> exactly. it was bad yesterday and we still have a chance for another round as we go into the afternoon. let's show you what's going on as of now because we are nice and dry. we like to see that. although, let me add, that rain we got yesterday in a lot of spots 3