not only that they have to wait until the winds die down below the 30-mile an hour mark. they're just shredded. that's been constant wind through the area. constant wind just ripping through it does a lot of damage and also very -- it's very dangerous for workers to be out in that. >> down there -- as going on in new orleans, plaquemines parish just south of new orleans appears to have been the hardest hit. you were in new orleans at the time of that storm. kind of set the scene for us, what it was like riding through those 40, 50, even 60-mile an hour winds. >> reporter: yeah, it's -- it is very powerful. if you've never been through a hurricane, and here, this is saying ohs this point is nothing compared to katrina. it's really hard to imagine. the wind whips so hard that we see street signs just rips right off the posts and thrown like a little piece of paper. it can take the wind out of

you. so people who are in flooded areas are dealing with a lot out there. and that levee is actually expected to be cut so that some of the storm surge can go back out to the gulf relieving some of what's happening. >> work is just getting started. from wp tv. you guys stay safe down there. are you heading out of town for the labor day weekend? if so and you're going to be at a hotel look at your bill very carefully. you know the likes of wireless internet and phone calls and cancellation we know about those. however there's some less obvious fees that include mini bar restocking fees, charges for inroof safes and fees for holding your baggage after you check out so make sure you check out those fees before getting out. just about 12 hours the new rams head center stage is going to be opening at maryland live casino. the charlie daniels band is going to be performing, this

one is invitation only but you can start seeing shows there after tonight. that venue olds 500 people and through september it's going to feature headline entertainment it's going to do it every thursday night. well, the o's are going for a four game series win this afternoon at the yard. it is matinee baseball in baltimore. nothing better. now last night the o's only mustered three hits against a red hot white sox hurler dillon axelrod. just recently called up from the minors, he struck out five on his way to the 8-1 white sox win over the orioles. silver lining in all of this though the yankees they lost too. so baltimore refrains three and a half back in the a. l. east and remember after today, the o's they head to new york for a critical weekend series up there with those bronx bombers. going to extremes for education. hey, we have all had odd jobs but this one may be especially extreme. we're going to fill you in on the very latest suggestion north of the border. how some students can pay for college. >> and the it could be an -- it

could be an end of the era for the penny if one food chain has anything to say about it. how chipotle is now rounding up your bill unand down so they can -- up and down so they can keep the math simple. >> temperatures cool they are morning coming in at 56 in york and 57 frederick. we'll be warmer by the afternoon and the hot weather is right around the corner. i'll have those details coming up. >> good morning, lynette. well traffic is really starting to slow down here on the west side of the beltway at baltimore national pike. how it looks on95 and 83 coming up on "good morning maryland."

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a shooting in philadelphia is caught on tape and we want to show you this surveillance video. you can see an suv back up to the street and a man approaches the car. but suddenly someone bolts out of the passenger seat and you see it right there. shots being fired off of that victim.

he was grazed by the bullet. police they are still looking this morning they're trying to find that shooter. well, a cost of college can be expensive and a business in canada now offering tuition assistance in an effort to entice some new workers. leopard's lounge is now promoting their offering to pay tuition for women who are willing to become dancers at their strip clubs. targets potential students and potential employees. and as you can imagine, something like this has people 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, you can get financial help. >> now the club's website is also offering housing accommodations in the building next to the club. eat this, don't eat that. new a new claim says that the revelation about how many calories we're eating can equate to a longer life but does it really make a

difference? we'll let you know. >> and times they are achanging for the ravens' kickoff that is tonight. a new start time in st. louis, all of this ahead of mitt romney's scheduled speech. >> and we are dry and comfortable this morning. but will that continue for the o's goal this afternoon? i'll have that story -- game this afternoon? i'll have that forecast coming up. >> i hope so lynette. everything is nice and clear here on the harrisburg expressway at warren road. i'll let you know how traffic is shaping up on 95 and the beltway coming up on "good morning maryland."

it is 6:44. slow show, i'm charlie crowson it is -- it is "good morning maryland," i'm charlie crowson. and we have afternoon baseball today we node some good weather. >> you are beginning to get some out there charlie because nice this morning with the temperature coming in the 62 degrees in frederick. the winds are on the calm side and they'll peak up south through the afternoon maybe about 5 to 15 lena 16 miles per and in' jamsville we have a few clouds out there but still plenty of sunshine in the forecast that's going to continue as we go throughout the day. and we can see lots of sunshine

now in ayamsville that will be the scenario. as we look at maryland's most powerful radar as of now we are dry. don't need to break out the ringer for today. you can keep the umbrella at home. the hour by hour forecast looks nice by 8:00 plenty of sunshine and more of the same as we head into lunchtime. so 12:35 that's when the o's will be playing and it will be dry. 83 degrees and 88 degrees and mostly sunny into 3:00. that's the high temperature for today. let's get a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning lauren. good morning lynette. well we are dealing with several accidents. trouble in howard county where there's a crash in ellicott city. right on old frederick road at tiller drive and unfortunately the problems will persist. another accident in west baltimore on eligible avenue at north hilton street. if you are headed downtown, do expect a lot of congestion all due to the grand prix that's going to be held this weekend. but many roads already shut down. that includes 395 at mlk. pratt street, light street also going to be affected for a

complete police of the closures just go to abc2news.com. and if you are using the beltway, here's what the west side looks like at baltimore national pike. outer loop really slow from 795 down to route 40 and the congestion will continue in overlea at bel air road. the inner loop nice and clear down to 95 but the outer loop really very congested all the way up to towson. charlie? today george huguely the former lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend yeardley love will learn his punishment and abc2 news linda so is live at notre dame prep where she went to school. that would be yeardley love. linda, how long could huguely go to prison? >> reporter: when he was convicted earlier this year, the jury recommended 26 years. his attorneys are asking for leniency but the judge will have the final say. huguely was convicted of second degree murder and robbery in love's death. just weeks before they were set to graduate from uva, huguely broke through love's bedroom doom, assaulted her and left

her to die. at today's hearing those who know huguely are expected to testify. love's mother and sister already testified and they're unlikely to take the stand again but the judge can use their testimony and letters from the family to determine the sentence. the last word could come from huguely himself. >> judge will turn to mr. huguely himself, 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 hoe heps the -- he hopes the court would do to him as far as punishment goes. >> reporter: and huguely may choose not to speak because there's still a lawsuit filed against him by love's family and his attorneys are expected to appeal. we're life in towson, linda so, abc2 news. still have complete coverage of the sentencing today which is expected around 1:00 this afternoon. now as soon as the decision is handed down, you can see at our website. abc2news.com and tonight at 5:00 and 6:00, christian

schaffer will have live reports from virginia. george zimmerman's now getting a new judge. this, after an appeals court in florida disqualified the original judge on the case. seminole county circuit judge lester was disqualified. he wrote that zimmerman flouted and then tried to manipulate the system. for the florida appeals court they agreed. students at the high school are now working to get lady gaga to come to baltimore. this is 17-year-old victim in the perry hall high school shooting from mondays. a stranger created is facebook page called lady gaga please visit daniel. it has more than 20,000 likes and we have a link to it at our facebook page. you can go there or abc2news.com for a link and you can watch a youtube video to lady gaga created by some of the students from the perry

hall. this week students are going to be back at school many of them may ride the bus or walk and on monday a wood lawn high school student was hit by a car while caulking to class -- walking to class. we're looking out for you this morning and abc2 news' sherrie johnson is live in towson with some tips on what you can do to be street smart. >> reporter: well, good morning charlie. yes, we are here at the intersection of register avenue and york road here in towson. a pretty busy intersection here. tough for you know kids to cross the street. we're not what are from rogers ford elementary school and dunbarton elementary school. many of the walkers cross here at this intersection every day. and it's quite busy. now there are crossing guards here to help. but it can still be pretty dangerous for kids. in 2009, more than 4,000 pedestrians died in traffic crashes. that's according to the national highway traffic safety administration. this morning, we have officer becky soule with the baltimore county police department here

to talk about bus and crosswalk safety. foreign and thank you for joining us. can you tell us about what parents and students needs to remember as they are walking to school about crosswalk safety >> just be sure togues the sidewalks and the there's an -- to use the sidewalks and if there's an intersection that you press the button and use it properly. when the signal comes up for walk that you actually enter the crosswalk. when the flashing heads rand appears that's a -- red hand appears that's a warning and when the solid red hand appears that means don't enter the crosswalk. >> reporter: what are the big problems that you're seeing that students are doing when it comes to crosswalk . >> they will enter against the solid red hand or they'll cross the street at not an intersections. it's right between cars and they'll -- you know, go ahead of their parents sometimes that can be very hazardous. >> reporter: okay and wrapping this up, what do you want people to remember this morning as they head out? >> for drive every and pedestrians just take that extra second and look and wait and because of human error take the time and expect anticipate

that something might ham and give yourself time and distance to react to any hazards. >> reporter: thank you so much for being out here this morning. some very good tips as students and parents come into school this morning. reporting live in towson, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. mitt romney's running mate energized the base last night at the republican national convention in tampa. tonight is the final night for the convention and romney himself will likely accept his party's nomination to challenge president barack obama. paul ryan talked about his wisconsin roots and then fired off attacks at the president all trying to get the crowd fired up getting ready for tonight's speech from mitt romney. ribworked the crowd biffies hitting obama care and then playing to the younger voters by referring to his mother as his role model. it wasn't ryan's night. john mccain and rice did their part in cheering on mitt romney. >> our president is not being true to our values. >> my fellow americans we do

not have a choice. we cannot be reluctant to lead and you cannot lead from behind. >> according to economists democrats have to point out right now that 12 million jobs promised during ryan's speech last night, they're claim is the numbers are identical to projections they issued a little bit earlier this year. time now for five things you may want to know on this thursday. a court hearing is happening today on how to handle a notebook mailed by james holmes to his psychiatrist before the aurora movie theater massacre. he's now facing murder charges in that case. his lawyer says that notebook is inadmissible because it violates doctor and patient privilege. the punishment continues for penn state. it mist now return 14 years of football trophies part of the sanctions against the university for its involvement in the jerry sandusky child sex scandal. and kickoff for the ravens' final preseason game tonight in st. louis has been moved back. it was previously set to start at 8:00 our time. now being moved to 7:00 to

accommodate for the republican national convention and mitt romney's speech. that's later tonight. the game is against the st. louis rams. today is going to be robin roberts last day on "good morning america" before the medical leave. that's today. it was originally going to be later this week, but she says she must now return to mississippi to care for her ailing mother. she was scheduled to have her final prep taking place next week. and bring on the high calorie foods. now study now says cutting calories won't prolong your life. it won't. researchers studsdies monkeys and found that ones who ate fewer calories didn't live any longer than those who didn't. don't really expect to be too excited though the study's author says more research is needed. a rescue caught on tape of crews working to save a man and his four dogs from his home in southern louisiana. rescuers burst through the window near the roof and they pulled the 70-year-old out to safety. and they grabbed one of four dogs. these rescuers did giving all

of them out. these scenes were similar around holmes and plaquemines parish. people were trying to escape the fast rising flood waters brought on by then hurricane, now tropical storm isaac. we are still dealing with tropical storm isaac as of now. but, it will bring us some set werth as we go into next week. actually thinking these models pulling it north and then the east. nothing like we've been seeing around the gulf coast states but stilt, some much-needed wet weather will work its way in here through the beginning of next week. but for today get out there and thing advantage of it. we are looking good in man chester this morning. the thin clouds moving through the area but still plenty of sunshine in the forecast will prevail. more of the same in rockville this morning and montgomery county and we will contorta sunshine through today. and also through tomorrow. and the reason why is well we have high pressure building in

across the area. started yet and it will continue -- yesterday and it will continue. we have the stalled out front south south and basically this area of high pressure has helped keep isaac stalling or going very slowly. nothing in the upper atmosphere to really move this along and week see the track of this -- we can see this track of this through friday and also saturday. it will move to the eastwards us. this is the hour by hour forecast for today going with 88 degrees by 3:00. and here's that forecast for today. 12:35, the sox and the o's. the o's are going to prevail. that seven day forecast for you with the clouds moving in by sun. now a check of the traffic with lauren cook. good morning. we are dealing with several accidents in hordes county a crash machine ellicott city, that's going to be right on old frederick road at tiller drive. another crash in west baltimore at hilton street. the grand prix race already causing big traffic problems. 395 is shut down at mlk.

it's also disresulting traffic on --s the resulting traffic on -- disrupting traffic on pratt and light street. here's what the west sides of the beltway looks like at liberty road and inner loop just fine but the outer loop will be slow down to route 40. in parkville, unfortunately there's no relief. inner loop though nice and clear but that outer loop you are looking at a very slow ride up towards towson. charlie? okay, so the mexican food chain chipotle has found a new way to keep the lines moving. some locations in new york and jersey are now rounding to the nearest nickel to accommodate for the change that could be coming to you. they say it speeds up the lines but at the same time, it helps divvying out the change rather. so get the pennies out of there. don't worry though they're now rounding down. what do you have? >> i have some s'mores that or photographer made for us. >> it distracted me there. >> here, enjoy. >> got to have a sweet.

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