and taking it to the roadways. as we slide to the south, brook view, sharptown, wet weather this morning as we take you outside, manchester, dealing with cloudy skies. be prepared for that. temperature 71, aberdeen, galena 72. hour by hour forecast for today. let's get a check of time saver traffic. as you mentioned, rain is coming down hard in harford county. be careful if you are traveling 95, expect delays from churchville to bel air. in baltimore, sink hole repairs as i mentioned earlier. east monument, going to be shutdown for several months between wolf street and patterson park. use orleans instead. as we look at the harrisburg expressway, york road, nothing to get in your way, delay free,

22 minutes together from the maryland-pennsylvania state line, to á6 95, the west side, wilkins, traffic is picking up, a 13 minute ride from 795, down towards 95, no problems on the beltway from parkville to towson and the northeast corridor area. you got the backpacks ready , the clothes are laid out, lunches are made. the first day of school for students in the area. linda so is live this morning at leaf rock elementary this morning. i understand that students there are going to be surprised. it's not going to look like the same school. >> reporter: not at all. they are going to walk in to a state of the art building, joining us is the principal to tell us about it. this place is amazing. you were telling me about the library. there is going to be new things

in here. >> the library is state of the art. we have in the library, all kinds of computers, we have the internet, we have television, we have a stage, where the children can act out their favorite story characters. it's fantastic. beautiful. any child would want to come in. news beautiful view with the large windows overlooking the neighborhood. >> reporter: that's wonderful. this is a 28 million-dollar project. it's kind of in two parts , the new building checking accounts is complete -- they will be renovating the old building, turning it in to the elementary school, going to all parts of the building, making new classrooms, making it state of the art, doing the rewiring, making it safe for children, and we are excited about what is going to be happening in the

building. >> when it's done next year , the buildings will be open and house tons of students. >> the elementary students will be in the new building the next year, this building will become the first class of middle school students. >> reporter: this is an exciting day for you. they are getting ready for first day. at 8:30, the governor, mayor and leaders will be here to celebrate the brand new opening of the elementary school. >> nasty fight on a bus, the whole thing caught on camera. this video coming from san antonio texas , the bus driver calling two female passengers back onto the bus, after they got off. words are exchanged between the female driver and passengers and you see the fight. a short time after they stopped the brawl, the women go at it

again. the bus drive was reassigned following the incident. locally investigators are trying to find out what caused a now alarm fire. this happened on frederick avenue. more than 100 firefighters were called in to battle the fire. flames spread to a vacant church and chinese raw. -- restaurant. he never held public office, many of you know him as the mayor of canton. he is known as scunny, a business owner, philanthropist and community leader he died, hit by a bus on coastal highway. the eldest statute, hub cap margarita, hissing he opened nacho mamas and mamas on the half shell. >> he loved it. he loved people. he loved this neighborhood. he improved it 125,000% as far

as community goes. >> his funeral will be packed. he is doing it today and tomorrow. mass held wednesday at the cathedral. contributions maybe made to the chins foundation, on frederick road. one-third of americans are obese, can you imagine a doctor refusing to treat you because you are overweight. that's what a woman found out saying it happened to her. the doctor has a policy of not seeing patients weighing more than 200 pounds because they could be a danger to the staff. >> she was telling me, she couldn't care for me because i was over 200 pounds. >> this are alternatives. there is an obesity center at umass that is much better staffed and has more resources than i do. >> the american medical association says patients and doctors can quote exercise freedom in choosing with whom

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aground. >> 120 people on board the luxury cruise ship, stranded for hours, the coast guard was called in to help free the ship and put it on course. the route follows the great lakes. the ship's captain may have navigated outside of the channel in to more shallow waters. that's what happened. keep extra change handy, if you are driving out of town , the average price for a gallon of gas is $3.76, up almost a dime in the past two weeks. it's significantly smaller than the previous two weeks high that was $0.20. as the cooler weather arrives and tomb iser driving season ends, demands usually declines for gas. stay with us, a lawmaker has a warning for you parents as you get ready to send your kids pack to school.

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this is your news to go. i'm megan pringle. >> i'm charley crowson. a check of forecast with lynette. >> good morning, everyone. check out in lorel, we have clouds, trying to see sunshine. as we go in to the afternoon, a chance for sunshine and the chance for scattered showers as well. that's what we are seeing this morning. we zoom in to areas around harford county, all morning

long, seeing a little bit of training across the area. aberdeen, getting in on healthy shower, also i-95, pushing up to port deposit and continuing throughout the morning and as we go in to the afternoon. here is the bus stop forecast as you head out, put the umbrella in the kids backpack, the temperature at 72 degrees. this afternoon, up to 84, if we get clouds and rain, the 84 will be held down a bit. good morning. the heavy rains disrupted the repairs the the big sink hole in east baltimore. east monument, will be shut down for several months between wolf and patterson park. use orleans instead. through the fort mc henry, no problems, the harbor going to be nice and clear. here is a live look at the west side of 695, the outer loop

slowing down making the drive towards route 40. in parkville, harford road. a crash on the inner loop. the outer loop, the main concern, expect a slow ride toward providence. road dale, route 7. isaac is projected to make landfall around 2:00 a.m. wednesday morning and could hit from part of western louisiana, to northwest florida. wednesday is the anniversary of one of the worst disasters. the state of emergency has been declared for louisiana, alabama and mississippi and mandatory evacuations ordered for louisiana and alabama. >> i would reck recommend, let's hope and pray for the best as we prepare for the worst. now is the time to make sure you have a plan, know where you would go. >> rick scott says the state is ready to help the neighbors as

a precaution, the stat of the national convention in tampa has been putted back to begin on tuesday. they will meet for five minute it is to start to convention and recess for tomorrow. o'malley criticizing mitt romney for his birth certificate joke. while in michigan romney joked that no one asked to see his oar his wife bees birth sets because they know this is the place we were born and raised. o'malley says it shows a bigger dilemma with the gop. >> when you have positions that are bashing the new americans and new immigrants and policies to take us back in terms of women's rights and freedom of women to choose, i think it becomes exclusive party and the comment is more icing on the cake. >> romney says the bit certificate comment was not a swipe at president obama, and

he believes the president is a citizen of the united states. . the first day of school for howard county public school students. the new superintendent is excited about the school year, and helping students achieve great economic goals. the doctor will visit several schools and ben carden and ken allman. officials anticipate enrollment of 51,000 students in the system's 74 schools, here is what the doctor had to say to students. >> welcome back. it going to be an exciting year. there are new initiatives coming our way as a result of testing and compliance requirements. we have this under control. it's going to be fine. do what you have always done. >> howard county has an increase of 450 students during the the enrollment.

. they've had the summer off, it's time to get back to work and the classroom. fist day of school for students in the area. baltimore county has a new superintendent, who is vowing to make the school system the best in the country. sherrie johnson joins us live from carver center, arts and technology. big year for students. it's a lot of pressure. >> reporter: it is so exciting. we are here in front, carver, in front of the school he. look behind me, students have already started to arrive for the fist day of school. the 174 school centers and programs open to about 107,000 students and yes, baltimore county public schools has a new superintendents. he will open schools by visiting 8 elementary middle high schools. the debut of the new george washington carver center for

arts and technology, right here in towson, this morning i have miss karen steal, the principal at carver. thank you for joining us. i am so impressed with the new school building when i pulled up this morning. tell us about your school. >> carver is an amazing place, environment where students come everyday for one of ten primes to focus on the graduation requirements of a typical high school student and get to spend up to 2-4 periods on doing something they love from anything individual arts, performing arts, career and technology. >> how exciting is this? a brands new building. tell us about the things they can enjoy opposed to the old building. >> this is amazing. we are excited. the olds building had a long and rich history. it had iterations and lives and changes. this is a building that was built for the artists and ar tans to do what they love and

passionate about each day. we have a 1000 seat carver theater, black box theaters, multimedia studios, gorgeous dance studios in terms of technology. it is just amazing space for them to focus on. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. school start at 7:30 this morning. they will kick off the superintendent, the county executive, all going to be here this morning and board of education members. big they for the students at carver. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. a warning this morning from a u.s. senator. a new study finds many children's products contain harmful chemicals. 75% contain a certain chemical. >> they are banned in childrens toys, in the u.s., they have been shown to be harmful. the fact that the product,

chemical, could be banned in childrens toys, but is allowed in childrens school supplies makes no sense. >> he urged the u.s. senate to pass the safe chemicals act requiring chemicals to be evaluated for safety. purchase one ticket to the national aquarium, go there as many times as you would like in a week. it's to encourage people to come downtown, leading up to the grand prix, which starts on friday, buy a special ticket and visit as much as you want between now and monday september 3rd. you can get 10% off an adult race ticket to the grand prix. five things you want to know, the former lacrosse player due in court this morning for sentencing. george huguely is guilty in this murder of yeardly love and expected to get a sentence of

26 years in prison. a man put the united states on the moon. neil armstrong died from complications from heart surgery.

hopefully they will get the game, in we have the chance for showers and storms scattered in nature to pop up in to the afternoon and evening. we have been dealing with rainfall this morning, especially around harford county. towards the west, we are starting to see clearing, we will get a little bit of a break out there as we go throughout day. it's not like the rain will pound us all day long. it will come back possibly as we go in to the afternoon. this is now, ar banna, cloud cover out there, we will be begin to see a few peeks of sunshine throughout the afternoon. check out what we have for the hurricane model projections here. this is the spaghetti models and we want them close and tight. all the models are in agreement. you can see that the models are

in agreement of where tropical storm isaac, by that time, could be hurricane isaac, making a landfall in to wednesday morning. we can see where it is. we are looking around louisiana, definitely is possible. we don't want that to happen. it is possible through wednesday morning. the winds sustained at 65 miles per hour. it is moving to the wests northwest at 12 miles per hour. here is the hour by hour forecast, as we head throughout the day. temperature 84 by 3:00 p.m. scattered showers possible. here is the seven-day forecast as we begin to improve as we head in to the middle of the week with the sunshine continuing in to friday. good morning, we are dealing with several accidents, trouble in ball baltimore. if you are headed out to the beltway, there is another crash on the inner loop. live look, this accident has just been confined to the shoulder. traffic is moving along the

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