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free. we will tell you more about the announcement they are making later today. >> it's moving in on us. we are talking snow, rain, wind all coming to us. and you can get your most accurate forecast know when you will get hit and how hard. lynette charles will let you know. the weather on this friday morning is the big storey. i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. a lot of days continuing to roll in throughout the course of the day. we are hearing from private schools and educators at abc2news.com. we have for you now are the public schools megan. >> so that's here forezone howard county harford county and remember any delays or cancellation that is come in, we will put on the screen if we are on the air or go to abc2news.com for the latest. >> time to get to meteorologistlynette charles on what it could make its way here. >> we have rain and we are dealing with freezing rain so freezing rain comes as rain and freezes on contact.

we look back off towards the north and west, and well what we are contending with in the purposeels is where we are dealing -- purples is where we are dealing with a mixture sleet and snow and rain mixing in. solid rain towards prospect bay perry's corner and benets point a car -- bennetts point is where we will deal with moderaterainfall. around along 270 we are dealing with the wintery mix. howard county around glenelg getting along the wintery mix. give yourself enough time this morning on the roadways because we are dealing with patchy fog. now with the travel impacts we have a winter weather advisory in effect for the areas shaded in blue. until 10 this morning. temperatures wise we are coming in at 34 degrees right now in glen burnie and we are also at 32 in sykesville this morning. see the 100% humidity and that's where the fog is. hanover coming in at 32 for temperatures. and millersville at 34 so temperatures are up and down

hovering at freezing above or just below that. it's going to get very blustery as we go through the evening and then i will talk about this foe impact. that's coming up. -- snow impact. let's go to the abc2 timesaver traffic. >> reporter: we are dealing with snow freezing rain mix. so interstate 70 will be very slick. slow down and leave plenty of room between you and the car in front of you. if you are traveling in parkville, we have a crash right on taylor avenue west of perring parkway and this is the beltway in the area at harford road. traffic is moving along on the inner loop towards 95 and the outer loop is picking up but you are looking at an 11 minute ride from 95 to 83. here in hunt valley, 83 no delays traveling from shawan road to the beltway. once you get on the jfx, it will take 11 minutes southbound from the beltway down to east fayette street and everything is up to speed through the fort

mchenry tunnel. 8 minutes from the beltway to the toll plaza. that's your abc2 timesaver traffic. now over to you. we know how important it is to have working smoke detectors in our homes. baltimore city fire is getting help when it comes to keeping you and your family safe from fires. linda so is here with details. >> reporter: thanks to a grant from bge, the baltimore city fire department will be able to purchase about 800 new smoke detectors for families in the city. this will allow them to at this . their program that provides free smoke detectors to people living in the city. it's something they have been doing since the 1990s. the grant will be presented later this morning at 10 at the hardy fire station in the citych the mayor and fire chief will be there to accept it. now if you need a smoke alarm in your home and live in the city, call 311-and fire fight will come out within two hours to install it. linda so, abc2 news. chances are you never heard or seen the phenomenon we are about to show you.

brian kuebler tells us one baltimore county family's story and picks apart the science to explain what experts say is a dangerous mix of fire and physics. >> reporter: abc2 news investigators told you about a fire if he nonnol called flame jeting that happens when gas is poured over an open flame. the gas can doesn't simply explode the opening is is a mouth of a fire breathing dragon. you can see it in this video as the flames climb up the fumes and knot gas can only to turn around and spew a jet of flames that can travel up to 13 feet. a baltimore county teen was on the receiving end of something exactly like this last winter when she attended a party with a backyard fire pit. it's well documented a gas can can explode in situations like this, but just recently did the atf study this phenomenon called flame jetting it can be deadly and is incredibly dangerous. we detailed how it can happen

and the recovery of that baltimore county teen who was the victim of it. if you missed last night's broadcast log onto abc2news.com and click on the investigator section and watch the full report and we have included several different angels of the atf testing. brian kuebler, abc2 news investigators. edwin perez was working at a restaurant when a suv crashed through the front window and he saw it in time and managed to jump out of the way. the driver a woman in her 70s was not hurt. it's not clear why she lost control. >> glad we showed the video. thanks for joining us this morning. and stay with us, please, because we have been telling you we are supposed to get wind, snow and rain. >> but north of us it's going to be a different story. this could be historic ancomparing it to a storm more than 30 years old. details on what they are dealing with in a bit.

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thanks for joining us on this friday morning. look at your screen because we are getting more delays this morning. this is the ones you see on the screen are the big ones to know about right now. hereford zone boughtmore and howard county on a two-hour delay. but several private schools in the area are being delayed as well. so if you need that information we posted it online for you head to abc2 news.col for the latest information. we may not get the blunt of the super blizzard that's for new-lan who is bracing for the worst -- new england who is bracing for the worst. schools are closed and mass transit is shutting down and thousands of flights have been canceled. everyone is being told if at all pot, stay inside and stay off road to avoid things like that. the massachusetts department of

transportation has 600 ice and know removal trucks manning the feet and 4500 extra flows standing by. the search continues for the body of a 2-year-old girl. >> reporter: i am linda so. police say the child's mother admitted to killing her. where investigators believe the body is located. >> reporter: a look at how the wintery weather affects your travel plans. i will have a live report coming up. and we have a wintery mix this morning and some rain for your morning commute. i will tell you what your evening commute can expect. >> that wintery mix is falling on interstate # 0 in frederick. i will lety know how the rain will affect your commute coming up on good morning maryland.

all right. the school delays this morning as we are getting ready for storms moving through. baltimore county hereford zone two hour delay howard and arford county are on two hour delays as we start this friday morning. quickly private schools are

on delay. glenelg country monarch montesord color lab academy are on a two-hour delay. go to abc2news.com for the latest information on the delays and cancellations as they come in. >> lynnette is locking at what's happening. >> we are looking at a within theory mix -- wintery mix coming in and carroll county is getting in on it. but the heaviest rain is around the eastern shore. so take it easy as you step out and about. we are dealing with icy roadways because we have freezing rain across the area. that's basically all that freezing rain is, is just ice. toonietown and walkersville i- 70 frederick is where you are dealing with icy conditions. but where you are seeing the rain falling, freezing rain is stick on contact. although the air temperatures

are a little above freezing we have the surface at freezing or below this morning. now we talk about what's going on with the winter weather advisory lingering until 10 for areas shaded in the blue. and the reason why it was issued is because it's going to impact travel this morning. as we go into the afternoon we could be having travel troubles once again and this is all going to be courtesy of snow coming into the foreforecast. but for right now temperature wise 33 degrees in davidson bill. 29 in emmetts wurg and emmettingburg and as we go through the rest of the day, this is how to plan your day, we will be cold this morning we have the wintery mix. by lunchtime everything should be switched to rain and by the time we hit 3, rain and by 7 things should switch over to snow lingering through tomorrow morning and we will have accumulations to talk about. i will talk about that coming up but a right now the abc2

time save savor traffic. >> reporter: you want to be careful on it state -- interstate 70 slippery in the fed ribbing area. 38 is nice and clear. a -- 83 is nice and clear. 12 minutes from the beltway to east -- to east fayette street. everything is up to speed at thefort mchenry tunnel. the outer loop is starting to pick up but we are looking an average speed of 5 miles per hour as you make the push from 95 to 83. and the congestion is going to continue to as we push to the northwest corn corner a4- corner. a 4 minute delay from 795 to 70. the average speed is at 30 miles per hour. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. now over to you. >> team coverage continues ahead of the winter storm

headed our way. sherrie johnson is live at bwi with more on delays and what people are experiencing out there and moreover, what can we expect?>> reporter: right now it's still raining. it's been raining for much of the morning since we have been out here since 4 this morning i am talked with folks with bwi airport and they are selling me there's cancellations and delays and there are flights that are on time. so your best bet is to contact the airline and check with your airline whether that's online and check to see if your flight is still on time. so we are seeing some cancellations and delays especially from the northeastern part of the state, but basically the state highway administration is telling me also that they have trucks down in howard county also in baltimore county and in the owings mills area and hereford zone. they are putting down sand and salt to make sure the roads are

safe for travelers. and they encourage you to watch your following distance and take it easy and give yourself plenty of time. also, on amtrak, amtrak is suspending service starting this afternoon around noon. airports across the country are proem for the problems and nearly 3,000 flights across the country have been canceled. but here at home, road crews are on the streets making sure they are sanding and salting sighing to keep folks safe you can follow us on twitter on abc2 news for the updates. >> a disturbing story on this friday. the search continues for the body of a 2-year-old girl from annapolis. police say the girl's mother admitted to smothering the child and dumping her remains. linda so is here with the latest and linda, it's hard to talk about this, this morning but where do investigators stand? >> they think the body is is in a railcar headed out state.

police say the mother admitted to putting the girl's body in a dumpster and police tracked the contacts of the dumppster at a trash transfer station in jessup. they will resume the search for thing the body and her mother told police she laid on top of the toddler until show was dead. a concerned neighbor called police when she didn't see kassidey for days. booth admitted to killing her later after initially telling people the daughter was with thgrandmother. other news this morning, a judge is expected to decide today if robert gladden junior will be tried in juvenile court. he is accused of shooting a it willo student on the first day of school. gladden faces nearly 30 charges and his attorney says he was

bullied. a teen is stabbed to death after leaving the ravens superbowl and police have released surveillance cameras in hopes of catching the man who killed him. the pictures show a mayor of men on the street and the encounter. deiont' smith was killed. they believe smith and his killer knew one another. they are trying to figure out what let to the stabbing. a second amendment mites rally is happening in annapolis. guns rights groups will meet on the tears beginning at 10. rallies have taken place across the u.s. to current calls for tempered gun control. >> hattie harrison will lay in stays state and died last week at the 84. she will be laid to rest on monday. a hearing is scheduled for today and the man accused of killing another person outside a chinese carry-out.

he is charged with furredder of freddie jones junior. a schedule meety of the sandy hook advice have i commission. members will meet next friday. rains linebacker one of several ravens planes featuring in a antibullying campaign. you will see that beginning at 2 this afternoon on abc2. now, maryland's most accurate forecast. >> all right. let's talk about what's going on right now. satellite and radar picking up on the rain coming in across the area. that's the majority of what we are getting this morning. we have freezing rain across a lot of parts that also a within they -- wintery mix with sleet and snow around carroll and frederick county. this will switch over to rain as we go through the afternoon and switch to snow as it -- it

begins begins to wind down. this will mix towards the west and once the two-phase together that's when it's a powerhouse especially for new england. we are talking about winds gusting up to about 75 miles an hour, so, that's hurricane for the wind here at home, we will be gusting 40 miles an hour. i take you outside at 4 this morning we have wet weather in bel air and patchy fog to talk about this morning. temperature wise, we are up a and down. 37 in baltimore. and we are at 33 in stevensville. take it easy whether you are getting rain or getting icy conditions. it's going to be slick. as we look ahead, yes, yesterday we thought it would be more rain and light snow and a dusting to an inch or two but now things are more powerful so

we will have accumulation of snow going through the evening and into tomorrow. future trend brings that snow in here lingering into tomorrow morning but this is what to expect. 3 to 4 the further north and east you go and the rain-snow line will tell it ought. 40 degrees for today, 20 by tonight with blustery conditions. and for the seven-day forecast, slightly milder going into tuesday. now the abc -- rain across the region it's going lead to ahickic commute. we have a crash in anne arundel county right along eastbound lanes of route 100 at telegraph road. you will want to expect heavy delays on route 295 if you useing that to head down to dc we have a crash southbound at riverdale road. and it's going to take an extra 9 minutes to travel southbound from route 32 to the dc marled line. as we look at the beltway, the

northwest corner, traffic is starting to pk oup on the outer loop at -- pick up on the outer loop. 5 minutes from 759 to 70 and this is the beltway in parkville. inner cloop leader but the outer loop more congestion as you push up to providence road. now over to you. >> we are a couple minutes away from 7. when something big goes wrong should you fix it or forget it. tonight on abc2 news at 11, jamie cos at the timeo -- costello tellsous you the signs to look for to spend a fewhundred dollars or open up the wallet. throughout the course of the morning we will keep you up- to-date on what's going on weather wise with lynette and you will watch the roads. >> reporter: i am updating my facebook as lynette is. there he a big storm ahead. >> be safe and let us know what you see out there and you can

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