look live in white marsh at route 43, traffic picking up but you are look at 15 minute ride no delays from the beltway into the city to downtown. traveling on 695, you will notice traffic really picking up on harford road affecting the outer loop and the drive time is 12 minutes from the 95 up to 83. west side going to be a volume from 795 towards 95. and that's taking you 12 minutes as well. 15 years in the making. in between 199 7 and last year 14 years of losing and a wait and see moment at the field at camden yard that didn't involve the orioles and emergency plane landing. as the sunrises on us today, baltimore is in tampa and orioles are heading to the playoffs. sherrie johnson is live with the story and sherrie, there is a lot of excitement in the air.

>> reporter: yes, fans are very excited about the o's and rooting for them and they are in tampa today, tuesday and wednesday taking on the rays and you know it's going to be pretty tough games there but it was a little trekkie getting to tampa. team officials saw smoke in the kitchen area of the chartered plane. the pilot decided to land the plane in jacksonville. and thank goodness everyone was safe. now it's been 15 years since the on the's-- o's have been to the playoff and they have 23 more wins than last year and orioleswon all three against the red sox and the last home stand of the regular season camden yards was full of oranges over 41,000 fans turned out for a sunday game in late september. and a home game against the yankees is a possibility for thursday. everybody is rooting on the o's. reporting live in towson sherrie johnson, abc2 news. 6:31 and you can't get through airport security with a pocketknife but twice in the

past week, agents with the tsa allowed loaded guns through airport checkpoints. one was a loaded 38 and that gun went undetected by sceneers and a airport in new orleans. a new -- screeners in a airport in the new orleans. one day earlier in orlando agents missed another loaded gun belonging to a firefighter in her purse. it made it all the way to the plane. the tsa says they have had successes screeners confiscated 1100 weapons so far this year 29 were confiscated last week. as for the officer that let the person pull the gun through has been pulled from duty and more disciplinary action could be coming down the way. a teen has been hospitalize after an accident at a water park in california. a spokeswoman for the park says the 19 year old cut in line and

then dove headfirst down the venom drop slide at six flags hurricane harbor. halfway down he fell off the slide. it's not clear why he fell but the venom drop is 75 feet and it's a multiple tower slide. the teen was taken to the hospital where he was reportedly conscious and breathing on his own. a five alarm fire in illinois caused a warehouse to collapse. more than 200 fear fighters were called into the scene and they spent hours to put out the hot spots. fire was reported at 1:30 sunday morning and crews expected to remain on scene for a few more days to make sure the fire is out. the warehouse used to house a custom cabinet business. carmageddon -- failed to materialize. 10 miles of thes aboutiest highway opened hours ahead ofschedule a similar closure was last year because of the nightmare many people expected but it never happen happened.

this time they demolished parts of a bridge to make room for another carpool lane. news time is 6:33. and you love them or hate them. justin bieber is not going to let fans down. this guy comes to play even he was sick and the show went on. we will look at what happened on stage during one of the bieb's shows. they were criminals throughout the depression but the cost to buy guns is not 1930s prices. we will fill you in in a bit. >> and maryland's most powerful radar is dry. get out around run your errands earlier today because we have changes in the forecast i will tell you when coming up. >> reporter: there's a lot of congestion on 659 here at harford road. we are dealing with several accidents across the region. i will have the details coming up on good morning maryland. honey, don't use your sleeve.

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thanks for staying with us. justin beer gives new meaning to the name the show must go on. he got sick of the believe tour saturday night in arizona and threw up on stage not once but twice. now after taking a brief break the biebs returned and explained to the fans that he was not feeling well but continued performing. later that night, he tweeted a picture of himself saying he was resting up for the next show which was tomorrow in los angeles. two guns that belonged to the gangster crime duo bonnie and clyde sold at an auction for half a million dollars. they were handguns on the bodies of bonnie park and clyde barrel when they were killed by police in 1934. the guns were kept by one of the officers following the shootout. arnold schwarzenegger tell all memoir is being released today. admits he kept big -- he admits he kept big secrets from his wife which caused his marriage to end when he was forced to

admit he fathered a child with the housekeeper. the biography is called total recall my unbelievably life story. the cost of baby diapers could be going up. coming up an explosion in japan is now making pampers priceyer in the u.s. >> reporter: before you head out and load the kid into the backseat there's a new law to know about. i am linda so. how it could change the way kids ride in the back seat. >> we have chilly temperaturesout there this morning with them in the 40s in a lot of spots. we will ha a warmup mock into the picture. -- moving into the picture. i will tell you when coming up. >> reporter: we are dealing with congestion on 695 at old court road and several accidents across the region. i will have all the details coming up on good morning maryland. (bell rings) hi. yes? you know those delicious granola bunches oney bunches of oats? i love those. we've added more to every box. really?

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good morning. time for your abc2 news to go. i am charley crowson. let's kick it off with a check of the forecast and say good morning meteorologist lynette charles. >> good morning. good morning everyone. we are still dealing with a

dense fog advisory until about 10 for the areas here shaded in this gray color. so frederick is under that as we go throughout the day. we will start to see maybe a few peeks of sunshine but we will have the cloud out there. right now, it's very chilly. look at bel air coming in at 46 degrees and the temperatures are below that. 47 in millersville and towson 42 degrees. but luckily the winds are on the calm side but we see the 100% for humidity meaning the air is saturated so we are dealing with plenty of fog out and about. now maryland's most powerful radar is dry right now and should stay that way through the rest of today but change comes into the evening as we see more showers moving in from the south to the north. but patchy fog this morning will be dry by lunp time and by 3 for today, we will go with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures at 72. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as you mentioned, we are dealing with quite a bit of fog so expect reduce visibility. we are dealing with several accidents. trouble up in harford county

where there's a crash in bel air on emmerton road at barrington place. and two more in baltimore county a crash right now in dundalk on german hill road at ald 1á7 worth and towson another accident on cromwell at loch raven. heading out to 695, expect a lot of congestion right now. here's wt it looks like in parkville. outer loop jammed. that continues from harford up to providence road and northwest corner a lot of congestion here at old court. now the inner loop nice and clear but that outer loop is the main concern. it will be slow making the drive towards route 40. and that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. charley over to you. a handful of new laws impact everyone from parents to kids to anyone with a job. linda so is live in federal hill with details and one of the new laws affects kids riding in car seats. >> reporter: specifically any kids under 8 years old. parents what this means is you

might have to put your child in a booster seat like this one if they met the weight requirement before the law fobbing e-- took effect. starting today all kids under 8 have to ride in a car seat regardless of weight until they are 4 feet and 9 inches or taller. before the change, kids who weighed more than 65 pounds could forgo the car seat but according to the national highway traffic safety administration, car crashes are still the number one cause of death in the kids in the u.s. this new law is designed to cut down on that rate and to keep kids safe on the roads. now some of the other laws that take effect today the phylicia barnes law designed to improve how law enforcement and community groups work together what child disappears and requires state officials to publish a list of missing children also another law that takes effect today is it's officially illegal in maryland for your boss to ask you any log in information when it

comes to social media websites like facebook. the orioles are in tampa but getting their by the charter flight was an adventure. this was smoke in the front of the plane and the flight was i did votered to -- diverted to jacksonville. emergency land was precaution and no one was in danger. o's manager says that the guys got off caught some of the giants eagles games and hopped on and continued the flight down to tampa and they started three game series with a tampa bay rays and for the latest on the oriole playoff run head to we posted a congratulations to the team as well as a ton of fan reaction so head to abc2news.com and click on sports for your omazing news. a former university of maryland basketball player is dead this morning. 33-year-old earl babdo jump frpped overpass. he was on the 2002 national championship tad. he was a walk on -- badu played 33 minutes touring the college

pass connect -- basketball career and scored 4 points during his four years with the terps. malvo said seeing the reaction of a victim's husband made him feel like scum. tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the deadly spree in the washington area. he and john allen muhammad had been linked to 27 shootings including 10 attacks in the dc area. malvo is serving a life centers in -- sentence in virginia andmuhammad was, cysted in 2009 -- was executed in 2009. . the first presidential debate is in denver on wednesday. president obama and romney hunkered down for practice. americans overwhelmingly think the debate and election are the president's to lose. in a abc news washington post poll, out this morning, 63% of registered voters expect the president to win. this is the biggest lead so far

when it comes to overall voter expectation. the debate could be a pivotal turning point for romney and his campaign. >> i have confidence when we get to thursday morning, george, you will shake your head saying it's a brand new race. >> mitt romney keeps hammering the president's foreign policy and romney says the current administration has been at the mercy of events rather than shaping them. five things to know before heading out the door on monday morning. two americans died during the weekend in afghanistan and it happened during the fire fight at a u.s. checkpoint. since the beginning of the military operation in the country 11 years ago, 2000 means have been killed. gm drivers the automaker is recalling 40,000 cars and suvs, the problem is a faulty fuel pump that could lead to a leak it afeghts cobecause the equinox on the and g5s and

saturday-ion. the supreme court begins the new term and hand full of issues are expected to be on the court docket in the next few months. among them same sex marriage voting rights and abortion. the court's latest term ended and decision on the health care reform law. a bit later we will find out if the search for jimmy hoffa's remains led to any includes. they pulled up two soil samples to see if human remains were buried there. there -- the results on the samples are due back today. the first victoria's secret pink store is opening in cowboys stadium in dallas and coincides with monday night's game against chicago bears. victoria secret model will be on hand for the grand opening. the pink nfl collection includes t-shirts sweats hoodies and tank tops. parents listen up. we may have a diaper shortage here in the u.s. that's because there was an explosion during the weekend at a chemical plant

in japan that plant produces a 5th of the global supply of diapers. the company produce as key element in diapers like papers and hugies. officials will set up facilities overseat while the plant is unusable but some are worried disposable diaper prices could be on the rise. we spend years getting college degrees with the expectation that we will be able to maybe find a job and get more money with we graduate. now we have an idea of which universities can boost the paycheck the most. according to pay scale.com a princeton graduate a more likely to pull in a bigger paycheck also is annapolis u.s. naval academy other schools include west point and morning i.t. and stanford. -- m.i.t. and stanford. 30 years ago today a, themusic dft try introduced the little -- industry introduced the silver disk. belly joel 50 second street

album went on sell in japan hundreds of billions of cds have been sold. the number is winding down as they move to a digital realm. the first album to sell a million cd copies was 1985 and brothers in arms was by dire straight best mown for the mtv video hit, money for nothing. it's been a little negotiating for the past 14 years a season you won't forget. a playoff birth for the orioles is what's on your mind as we start this monday morning. and the excitement surrounding the town is nothing short of amazing. abc2 news sherrie johnson is live with more on what fans had to say about this miracle ride. >> reporter: we are here on york road where we have been talking to fans all morning. and they are so excited for the o's. and today the team is in tampa and they will be there tuesday and wednesday taking on the rays and they have got pretty

tough games coming up but everyone is rooting on the o's. it's been 15 years since they have been to the playoffs. they have 23 more wins than last year and the orioles won all 3 games against the red sox this weekend. the last home stand of the regular season and camden yards was full of orange as over 41,000 fans turned out for a sunday game in late september. here's what some of the fans had to say about the games. >> it was a packed stadium. first game in a couple years took the grand kids and youngest couple grand boys just to see the game and it was a great game. they won and stadium was on fire. >> reporter: a home game on thursday is a possibility. right now everybody is rooting on the o's. reporting live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. the baltimore ravens and the dairy association are getting ready to kick off the 2012 play 60 challenge.

ravens players host the event at elementary schools in baltimore and sykesville. it's an incentive program aimed at getting kids to move for 60 minutes every day. get out and play. the nfl hopes this will reverse a trend of childhood obesity. throughout program students will receive prizes for reaching specific bench marks. if you are looking for things to do and don't want to spend a ton of money check out free fall baltimore kibe off today and runs through -- kicks off today and rns through october 21st. 90 cultural locations offers hundreds of free items for october. we have a list of the activities at abc2news.com. head there if you want to plan fall events for the month of october. and the weather is feeling like fall. >> yes. it feels like fall this morning. although aid little cool. temperatures -- did it's a little cool. temperatures below average a little. stephenson at 47. edgewood and mount airy at 48 and a chilly 46 in columbia

this morning. annapolis at 52. cambridge 54 and fed ralsburg 51 and -- federalsburg at 5 157b rock -- 51. and not a whole lot. we have patchy fog in urbana. and also we are seeing a little bit of sunshine out there as well. that's going be the name of the game as we go throughout the day. that sun-cloud mix i've been talking about and we have thicker clouds down to the south supporting the rain. but the atmosphere has to moisten up before rain will fall here. so that's why i am thinking more in the evening time and also by tomorrow. this west of it. the warm front will move through by this evening. and tomorrow, and then we will have the cold front that will slice through the area by wednesday. but for today, not whole lot in terms of wet weather this evening. and this is underdone. more showers in the forecast as we head towards tomorrow. the hour by hour forecast keeps us dry for the most part until maybe around 7:00 this evening and temperatures coming in at

68 degrees. and the 7-day forecast brings showers and tuesday and wednesday and then we dry out nicely by thursday and friday. let's check the traffic with lauren good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are dealing with several accidents across the region. trouble on route 295 where there's a crash southbound atarubbedel mills boulevard. traveling through the -- arundel mills boulevard. through the tunnels everything is up to speed. and traffic is starting to pick up on the jfx but no significant delays from the beltway to fayette street we have a crash in towson on crumbwell bridge road at loch raven boulevard. and checking in and looking at the beltway in parkville, the outer loop jammed. you are looking at the northwest corner at old court outer loopjammed as well making the drive towards route 40 and here's what it look like in parkville. really jammed. that continues to prove dense road. >> a number of backups and this is the video of the dame. it might be fun but skateboarding down a hill at

high speed is dangerous but i doubt anyone would prepare for that. what was it? skateboarding at 40 miles an hour the rider hit a deer. a deer. the deer rode off to the side of the road. here's deer and 40 miles an hour high speed downhill skateboarding and the deer is okay and ran off into the woods the rider is, he caned responsible -- did is expected to be okay but you have to ask, why? >> he probably couldn't stop it's like a car. >> why would you go 40 miles an hour on a skateboard. >> he wanted a ride. >> he was having fun. >> 40 miles an hour. >> you have to wap out for deer, never would have thought. >> exactly. >> what's with kid. hey lynette. >> i like him. >> that's the jj hardy bobble doll given out to the final home game for the o's. they are now in tampa for a 3-

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