day four of the republican national convention and night, it's all about mitt romney. but last night, his vp took certificate stage. what he has to say about the growth of his party. and yeardley love, found dead in a determine room more than two years ago. this morning her ex-boyfriend is find out how much time he'll spend behind bars. why is the cdc now saying there could be more deaths from west nile virus? we'll take a look on this thursday, august 30th. "good morning maryland," i'm charlie crowson. megan is off today. but lynette is in with a check of the forecast and you have a big weekend ahead of you. and you've got to monitor the roads because you got big weekend ahead of you. >> i know we're very busy here. >> exactly. >> yeah grand prix is this weekend. so it's shutting down a lot of roads downtown already. so i'll have more on that coming up in just a few. >> couple of people are confused thinking maybe the o's

were in town this weekend. coinciding with the grand prix. not the case. they're on the way to new york. they're going to be on the road this weekend which is going to be great. >> but they play tonight. >> they play this afternoon. it's matinee baseball. and you know i love afternoon baseball. >> win the wild card? what you think charlie? i think when you start score bard watching it's a good thing. >> they can't blame it on the weather because the weather is stellar today. this afternoon plenty of sunshine in the forecast and temperatures feeling pretty good this morning as well. bowie 62 degrees if morning. and we're not dealing so much with the humidity that will begin to increase more into the afternoon. on your weekend. but for today, it's going to be a nice looking day and we can sena? jefferson this morning. -- see that in jefferson this morning. 68-degrees with the dew point of 58. that means that we are feeling nice and comfortable. arnold right around 65 degrees that dew point at 64. we mile bit of patchy fog in some spots this morning but all in all a nice looking morning. as we look at maryland's most powerful radar, we are dry and we are going to stay dry even into the afternoon so no need

to grab that rain gear as you head out and about. grab the sun shades instead because look hour by hour. you're waking up this morning 69 degrees. 77 by 10:00, 11:00 and by lunchtime looking pretty good with the temperature at 84 degrees and mostly sunny. a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. good morning lynette. well, grand prix is the big story this morning out on the roads. 935 is already shut down at mlk and if you are traveling on pratt and light street. today and over the next few days do expect some closures. for the big race can be found on abc2news.com. and you're taking a live look right now at the northwest corner of 695. no delays whatsoever. you're looking at just an # 1 minute ride on the outer loop from -- from 795 all the way down to 95. inner loop also nice and clear through pikesville. a look at other drive times the beltway is nice and clear from parkville tall way up to towson. and the northeast corridor of 95 in great shape. just four minutes from route 43

all the way down@beltway. charlie over to you. today george huguely the former ha cross player who killed his ex-girlfriend yeardley love will learn his punishment and abc2 news linda so is live in motier dame prep where they're getting ready right now for a little bit of closure with yeardley. a lot of people are watching what's going on, linda? >> reporter: yeah. when george huguely was convicted earlier this year, the jury recommended 26 years. huguely's attorneys are asking for a leniency but the judge will have the final say. yeardley love grew up in cockeysville and spent her high school years here at notre dame prep before going to college at uva. huguely was convicted of second degree murder and robbery in yeardley's death. he broke through love's bedroom door assaulted her and left her to die. today at the sentencing hearing those who know huguely are expected to testify. love's mother and sister already testified during the

sentencing phase and they're unlegally to take the stand again. but the judge can use their testimony and letters from the love family to determine the sentence. the last word could come from huguely himself. >> judge will turn to mr. huguely himself, george huguely and for the first time, he will have the opportunity to address the court and express any remorse that he has. have any comments about what his role was or what he hopes the court would do to him as far as punishment goes. >> reporter: now huguely may choose not to speak because there's still a lawsuit filed against him by the love family and his attorneys are expected to file an appeal. we're live in towson, linda so, abc2 news. tonight, mitt romney will be on certificate stage at the republican national convention -- center stage at the republican national convention but last night it was vice presidential running mate paul ryan energizing the crowd in tampa. abc's t.j. winick reports on the wisconsin republicans' national debut. >> reporter: america learned a little% paul ryan's wisconsin

roots. >> i live on the same block where i grew up. we belong in the same parish where i was baptized. >> reporter: a lot about his political beliefs. >> these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house! >> reporter: mitt romney will accept his party's nomination tonight in the biggest speech of his life. his running mate tried to assure the many americans that believe romney is looking out for the wealthy over the middle class. >> we have a plan for a stronger middle class with a goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. >> reporter: and finished with one last sales pitch. >> join mitt romney and me, let's give this effort everything we have! let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done! >> reporter: two other prominent republicans also spoke about what they believe is a lack of leadership in the white house. 2008 nominee and senator john

mccain -- >> our president is not being true to our values. >> reporter: and former secretary of state condoleeza rise. >> my fellow americans, we do not have a choice. we cannot be reluctant to lead and you cannot lead from behind. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: democrats contend the 12 million jobs promised by paul ryan over the next four years are nearly identical to what's already projected under existing policies. t.j. winick, abc news, tampa. the government is offering up to $10,000 for keeping an eye on the nukes and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists. for the arms control challenge the program is to appeal to entrepreneurs, technologies and gadget tweaks and students. it's offering the reward for the new idea supporting u.s. armies control efforts. the call for the ideas couples from the -- comes from the obama administration now moving to reduce the number of overall nuclear weapons here in the u.s.. well, it's an unusual way

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>> really? >> i do not play when it comes to bats. this could be anything in here and i'm still going to run. >> spiders? >> not bad with the spiders but definitely a frog. the bus stop forecast this morning we are dealing with plenty of sunshine this morning with that temperature coming in at 69 degrees. lots of sunshine still coming through even into the afternoon. so the kiddies not necessarily needing that rain gear this morning. more of the sunscreen and always the sun shades as they go through time. as we look at what's going on, satellite and radar not picking up on a whole lot. just a few high clouds streaming through the morning hours and the afternoon. let's get a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. good morning lynette. well the maryland state fair opens at 12:00 this afternoon. so you will want to expect heavier delays on york road and the area. and if you are heading to downtown baltimore, we're dealing with grand prix closures. so be aware that 395 is shut down right now at mlk. and pratt street is going to be reduced to two way local access between paca street and south street beginning at 7:00 tonight. and light street will also

close at this time. that will be shut down between key highway and pratt street. and here's a live look at 95 heading into the city right now at 395. no delays as of yet. it will be a nice easy ride through the that fort mchenry tunnel. the harbor tunnel also in great shape. charlie over to you. lauren what scares you? >> spiders. >> spiders. >> i hate spiders. lynette i can deal with frogs but no spiders. >> thanks. all right, no more digging for spare cash if you need it to leave that tip. now it's taking plastic. coming up how a new invention makes it easy to show appreciation for great service. >> the trophy case in happy valley is about to get a little bit lighter. what else penn state is now giving up after years of scandal. 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb

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candidate's charter plane wednesday. he was traveling from the republican national convention in tampa to indianapolis delivering a speech. the agent involved did not get back on the plane when rom snow returned to tampa. -- romney returned to tampa. for mosquito bites that could be possibly deadly. now cdc is warning that more deaths from west nile virus are almost sure to come. it's the worst outbreak of the virus in the u.s. it's ever seen and in just a week, cases are jumped 40% to 1590. 60 people have died thus far. in our state we have two reported raced of the vie -- cases of the virus. time now for five things upleapt to know on this tuesday. -- you may want to know on this tuesday. a hearing is being held today for the notebook of james holmes. well, a new program will be announced today to help restore the chesapeake bay shorelines. senator cardin is expected to be there with the chesapeake bay trust and the noaa. and today the anne arundel

county fire department will donate 15 defibrillators to the connor cares foundation. it requires them at all public schools, anne arundel county in memory of a 5-year-old who drowned. his mother says her son would be alive if the law had been in effect. today a $1,500 donation will be given to schools. it was raised by a dinner. their also going to be donating book bags and school supplies. today mayor rawlings-blake will introduce the new police commissioner anthony bats. they're going to have a breakfast meeting. also down in the southwest district for roll call at 6:30. every penny counts, that's what some chipotle mexican grill customers are now saying, in new york and new jersey they're rounding up customer totals to the nearest nickel. it was in keeping lines to move the customers through faster and limiting amount of change that was needed.

after customers questioned why their totals were always a brittle bit different going to a 0 or nickel, chipotle added the information on receipts and decided to only round down the amounts in favor of their customers. well, don't leave a tip because you don't have any cash. it's a problem we've all faced at one point or another. but a new york college grad is now invented a device allowing you to use your credit card to leave tips. it's called the dip jar. the amount is preset to $1 and you just dip your card in and tip those great servers. >> they're working so hard and they're taking home less money now because of the payment trends over which they have no control. and we want to help them recoup some of the lost tips. >> well, dip jar is still in the testing process and since there's now an electronic record of all tips collected be the dip jar, the workers must be extra careful to accurately report them to the internal revenue services or they'll come get you. almost time for the football season to officially start but the ravens they've got one more preseason game

tonight. that's going to be against the st. louis rams in missouri. now a scheduling change to note for you. kickoff is going to be at 7:00, not 8:00. it's been changed for the broadcast of the republican national convention. the ravens officially kickoff their season on monday, september 10th. that's going to be against the cincinnati bengals right here at m&t bank stadium. the o's go for the four game series win this afternoon at the yard. it's matinee baseball in baltimore. last night the o's could continue muster three hits against a red hot white sox hurler axelrod. he struck out five on the way to the 8-1 win over the o's. silver lining in this from last night, the yankees they lost too. so the orioles remain three and a half back in the a. l. east and still tied atop the wild card. after today baltimore heads to new york for a critical weekend series. well, a man is safe after he was rescued from a rooftop. take a look at the video.

in louisiana they from his four dogs from a flooded home. hurricane isaac poured water into parish. the national hurricane center downgraded isaac to a tropical storm yesterday. power companies say more than 600,000 people are without power in new orleans, almost a quarter million throughout parts of louisiana, mississippi, alabama and arkansas all the result of what's now tropical storm isaac. once again powerful video of down south. >> great word to use very powerful video. and it's always sad to see that but happy to see the end result. also the animals this time. that's good nudes there. the temperatures this morning where we are looking at a little bit cooler weather in york, pennsylvania this morning at 57 degrees. we see upper #s in frederick and also winchester. the 70s at the inner harbor and also annapolis and 71 degrees right now in d.c.. high pressure will build in as we go throughout the day. or continue to build in because

we got that yesterday as well. and then we see change in the forecast as we go to the latter part of the weekend and all that is going to be because of isaac. now we look at isaac right now, this is pushing in across the area. and with that still some heavier rain across portions of gulf coast. this will begin to push its way to the north and make an easterly turn and you can see that the projections show that as we will begin to see remnants of isaac as we go into the latter part of the weekend. i think maybe sunday. but for today we will stay dry. mostly sunny and warmer and 8 # degrees and by tonight we will be dealing with mostly clear skies and 65. it will be cool out there. tomorrow, # 2 degrees -- 92- degrees and hot once again and there's the seven day forecast. we have isaac in the forecast. a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. good morning lynette. well the grand prix race is already shut down 395 at martin luther king jr. boulevard and more roads will close at 7:00 tonight for a complete list,

just go to abc2news.com. everything you need to know right there. and here's here's a live -- here's a live look at the topside of the beltway. 11 pink ride on the outer loop from 91 all the way up to 83. the inner loop also nice and clear to 95. other drive times and traffic just starting to pick up on the west side. you're looking at 12 minute ride on the outer loop from 795 down towards 95. and traffic is in great shape right énow on 95 through the fort mchenry tunnel. traveling northbound from the beltway all the way to the toll plaza you are looking at an eight minute trip. char low? do you remember that job you had to get through college? maybe you had more than one. now one employer is offering tuition assistance but there's a check. you will have to work? your -- catch. you will have to work in your birthday suit. "good morning maryland" continues in just a moment.

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well, a strip club in canada is now offering college tuition asis stance to entice new employees to the profession. leonard's lounge and grill is now offering to pay tuition to women to be dancers. ads have been placed up there locking for students willing to

work. now as you can imagine this has people in that town talking. >> i don't have to do that. i don't want to do that but if that's all you can get, and you really need the money, i guess. >> there's a lot of jobs out there you can get. you can get loans and you can get financial help. >> the club's website is also offering accommodations in a rented house next to the club. a juror leaves deliberations and cuts out for mexico. the reason she gave a judge and why she did it and what she would expect the judge what he had to say to her. >> also the sneaky thieves those hotels are now sliding in on you. what you need to be looking out for next time you head to a hotel or resort spa could be costing you extra cash. >> plus, they took an eight hour climb just to say their i dos. whose idea was this to climb a mountain just to take care of your nuptials? "good morning maryland" at 6:00 is back in just a bit.

sentencing day just how much time will former uva lacrosse player could sec for murdering a student -- serve for murdering a student from cockeysville. and isaac causing big problems in the gulf. we are live in gulf port on thursday, august 30th. "good morning