>> reporter: you're in sixth grade. how long have you been -- when did you enter columbia academy? >> in kindergarten. i feel columbia academy really wants to give back to the community and really help out. >> reporter: tell us about this student incentive. you get to hit the teacher's face with pies? is that exciting? >> yes, it's very exciting. i think it's very much motivating people to bring in cans. >> reporter: that sounds good. thank you so much for being here. i want to bring in chelsea garoway. tell us about the giving back and how you are a part of this. >> it's an honor and privilege to be part of this. my favorite part has been watching the kids trickle by every morning, by my desk as they brick cans to the boxes in the front of the school. it's been great to watch them. you can tell that the teachers

and parents of our school have really instilled this love for giving back to the community. and serving others. that has been great to watch and be a part of. >> reporter: so through this morning i'm seeing the theme about columbia academy giving. doing good for others. is this any different than other years? how does this feel? >> these kids, they are up here and early on a school morning and parents dropped them off early. it shows how important it is to them to give back. and to be a part of something so great. >> reporter: thank you. i love to see this. we're not done yet. we're going to go to a break. when we come back we're going to wrap this up on a very good note.

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to if this were a -- if this were a newspaper printing press you know what we would say? >> what? >> stop the presses. the creator of "the simpsons" telling the canada sun news a major character will be killed off this season. it won't say exactly who is going to get the ax but they did say the actor who voices the character has won an emmy. that doesn't tell us anything because almost all the major characters and the voice actors therein all have emmys. the simpsons is now in its 25th season and some believe it will go beyond. michael jordan in his prime versus lebron james. who would you bet on? >> lebron. >> so would jordan. he says he could have beaten james in a one-on-one mapup but the 50-year-old says he would lose to kobe bryant because bryant has stolen all his moves.

he even does interviews like michael jordan. >> wow. joe flacco is selling chicken wings for mcdonald's. but he doesn't sing opera in his commercials? ]singing opera] [singing rap] >> stop it mike masco. it sounded good at first. that was justin tucker. in the end that was mike masco. ravens kicker now endorsing dr. pepper. it seems the kicker can sing in seven different languages. you can actually land a famed dr. pepper picture from justin tucker. look under the sports section. now you have to do your weather

freestyle rap. don't do it. good morning, everybody. i can get pretty cheesy, 87 degrees. warm day and if you thought that was it for the heat there's more to the south and west. wait until you see the most accurate 7-day forecast. right now heavy delays on the west side of the beltway at i-70. i'm following two crashes on 95. details coming up. [ telephone rings ] good evening, this is flo. [laughs] yes, i'm that flo. aren't you sweet! licensed phone-ups available 24/7. call 1-800-progressive.

6:45. good morning. ellicott city starting to see the first shades of light, 61 degrees at bwi airport. it's comfortable, a gentle wind from the westerly direction at 3 miles per hour has really a allowed for most of the numbers to range from upper 50s to 6 in the city -- 68 in the city. it will be gorgeous today. no rain from maine right down towards atlanta georgia right now. sunny and 13 to 16 degrees above average. that is going to translate to temperatures ;tuin the 80s for the afternoon. more clouds though for thursday. that could bring our temperatures down to the low 80s but that is still well above average. even more heat awaits as we get into the ends of the week. in the 80s for today. here's lauren cook with the most accurate traffic report. i am following two crashes on 95. one moved to the southbound shoulder after route 32. the other is in downtown baltimore blocking the left

southbound lane approaching the fort mchenry tunnel. drive times now being affected. it's going to take eight minutes to travel from the thruway all the way to the accident scene. on the beltway we're down to 35 miles per hour on the outer loop. here at liberty road. 14-minute ride from 795 to 95. inner loop also moving slowly as you do make the push up towards greenspring avenue. the beltway in parkville down to 38 miles per hour on the outer loop there at harford road. so will be a slow ride as you do make the push up to providence road. heading downtown, jfx definitely a great option, normal 11-minute commute from the beltway all the way downtown to east fayette street. day two of the partial government shutdown. we've learned that the president's scheduled trip to asia has since been cancelled. reports citing malaysian authorities received a phone call of the cancelled trip. the white house since confirmed the president is not heading overseas. while his plans changed congressional leaders are still

carrying on with the stalemate. tuesday the house of representatives denied several times by senate democrats after sending piecemeal legislation for their consideration. the democrats even denied a call to conference with house leadership to find common ground on their differences. >> speaker boehner has been a tea party radical and done the unthinkable. >> my goodness, they won't even sit down and have a discussion about this. >> the squabbles continue. more than 800,000 federal workers were sent home tuesday from their jobs, no signs of any idea of when they will be allowed to return to work. the shutdown stretches into late october, if it does, pension and disability checks could be frozen for 3 million u.s. veterans. president obama is scheduled to be in maryland tuesday to talk about the partial shutdown and what it could mean for small business. he will meet with a minority woman business owner of a road construction company. so many peopleeverybody the outer loop but veterans refused to let barriers keep them out.

they fought in world war ii and wanted to see the memorial made for them so they did. roosevelt leftwich joins with us more. >> reporter: it was no end in sight, many things are shut down, most visibilityible monuments and museums along the national maw. thousands of school groups were turned away from the memorials yesterday, since all of them are closed. a group of veterans however from mississippi who came up on an honor flight to visit the world war ii memorial refused to be turned away and they went past the barricades. ;oubñ >> it makes you feel p[2 good that they got the gates open for us. >> reporter: meantime more than 800,000 federal workers are out of work. everyone from park rangers that would be at that memorial to defense department contractors overall more than $300 million a day is being lost in taxes in cities and states because of this shutdown. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. hyundai is offering a

deeper discount of payments for federal workers. if they are affected by the shutdown hyundai owners could stop making car payments for as long as the shutdown keeps them out of work. the company is also running an october promotion that would allow furloughed federal employees to buy or lease a new hyundai and not make the payments for three months. we've already seen the effects of the partial government shutdown. national parks are among the first places hit. visitors to the arcadia national park in maine saw the sign reading "congress you suck." the shutdown impacts sporting events for this weekend. the department of defense now says all intercollegiate eighth lettic -- athletic competitions at service academies will be cancelled. by this afternoon you should be able to access the web site allowing marylanders

to choose health care coverage in the new program. enrollment began yesterday but there were problems with the state's web site. we're told problems that the government says they intend to have fixed soon. health officials say nearly three million people visited the healthcare.gov web site yesterday afternoon. he's tackled more than 10,000 miles, visited 30 major league ballparks and survived a hit-&-run crash. jacob landes will receive a hero's welcome home now. he rode his bike across the country. we told you about this story. doing it to raise money for cochlear implants for children, a feat almost derailed near the end of his journey when hit by a truck in florida. because of his injuries he ended up walking his bike across the finish line. he'll be honored this ?leveninr% 1?9sx%áv4 abc2 teamed up wit

maryland food bank and columbia academy to try to do something about hunger in this state. we started the cans for kids campaign and asked you to donate food. we found out how much of a difference you made today. lynette charles is live with more. what are you learning? >> reporter: wow. it is busy. we're busy like bees out here. we have two boxes full, we're working on a third box now. we're happy campers this morning. we set out to do something with the help of columbia academy. and the maryland food bank to help stop local kids from going hungry. that's exactly what we're doing. i want to bring back kate sam, director of communications of the maryland food bank. what do you feel about what you're seeing this morning? >> it's amazing. i love that we woke up rê[ñ early in the morning and got all these kids out here. it's great to see them. we have collected 2,400 cans for kids. >> reporter: i love to hear that. also, tell me, we have all

these boxes, more boxes to come. what happens now? we have the food, what is going to happen? >> this food is going to go to our warehouse, volunteers will be in today packing it up, putting it in boxes, getting it on the shelves and getting it out the door to families in need. >> reporter: when you have food drives like this, do you ever set goals for yourself? how does that work? >> we don't but i can tell you that probably the average food drive brings in 500 to 1,000 pounds of food. so this is amazing. if you can think that each can is maybe a pound this is 2,500 pounds of food that is going to go to kids in need. >> reporter: wow. thank you so much kate for being here. 2,500 pounds of food. you all did it. thank you so much for your donations. it doesn't stop here. you can continue to help. kate was saying you can go to the web site and do monetary donations as well. mother nature helped.

thank you for the beautiful weather for today. it's going to be an awesome day. don't stop here. we love it all. thank you, kids. can i get a who should in the -- whoo hoo in the back for you being here? back to you. >> lynette charles live in hailthorpe. thank you. a roster shake-up for the ravens. they got monroe from the jacksonville jags. no one is going to miss monroe because he plays for jacksonville. he has to pass a fill and is expected to compete with brian mckinney for the starting job on the offensive line. in maryland terps getting ready for the biggest game they've had in years. they face off against florida state saturday as they kick off their acc farewell tour. they cracked 25 this week for the first time since 2010. as i understand now mike masco, maryland a considerable underdog. let's go to the beach.

it's beautiful down there. >> are you driving? >> absolutely. 61 degrees now. it is beautiful out there. starting off on a mild note on the way for a hot note today as temperature will be in the 80s. great launching pad this morning. we're talking upper 50s north and west of town. low 60s, upper 60s in town. satellite and radar composite, not a cloud to be found, a gorgeous day. this is maryland's most powerful doppler radar, there is nothing going on. so the faucet numbers, all about the heat today, forecasting 87. we should be at 72 degrees. even some record highs could be achieved. we're going to be around 89 degrees. high pressure in control, that brings the heat from the south to the north. it will hit 90 in memphis. 92 dallas, 10 to 15 degrees above average. say hello to tropical storm jerry. not an issue for the mainland united states, how, it is a tropical wave that could become karen as it moves up to the north and into the central gulf of mexico.

we'll talk more about that at 5:00. 87 today, feeling like august. and 64 tonight. clear. we have 80s all week. wednesday, thursday, friday. more weather inside "good morning america." here's lauren with traffic. unfortunately i do have bad news for 95, heading downtown, a crash continues to block the left southbound lanes as you approach the fort mchenry tunnel. eight minutes now from the thruway all the way to the accident scene. more problems on the beltway. down to 25 miles per hour on the outer loop at harford road. it will be a slow ride as you make the drive up to perring parkway. even worse conditions on the west side of the beltway. outer loop really starting to slow down at i-70. 14 minutes to make the push from 795 to 95. no problems on the interstate 70, eastbound lanes at a high 63 miles per hour at columbia pike. 795 also moving along.

no issues from owings mills boulevard all the way down to 695. the jfx free of delays, 57 miles per hour, southbound at the beltway, typical 11 minutes from here to fayette street. that is your tame time saver traffic. lawyers for south african olympian olympic oscar pistorius called in a team of forensics experts to help prepare the defense for his murder trial. pistorius is charged in the shooting death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he faces a 25-year to life sentence if convicted. police made two arrests from a road rage indent in manhattan in which they say a group of motorcycle riders assaulted a driver in front of his wife and young daughter. now the wife of within of the bikers says her husband is paralyzed. in a coma because the suv hit him. police are still looking to talk to more of the bikers in the case. president obama plans to visit a rockville construction

company tomorrow to talk about the government shutdown's effect on businesses. president obama will visit the company. a white house spokesperson says a prolonged government shutdown would harm small businesses. he postponed a trip to malaysia this weekend because of the government shut down. more on this in two minutes on we're back in a half-hour with a check of news, weather and traffic on "good morning maryland." stay with us for that. to new york now. ♪

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good morning, america. and breaking overnight. this florida airport, plunged into chaos. two suspicious packages discovered. stranded passengers running for cover. >> everybody started running, all of the people that works at the counters started ducking behind where the packages go. >> authorities revealing one of

the items was a destructive device. new details coming in. deadlock in the political staredown. no sign of either side giving up in on the vicious stalemate over the government shutdown. the president cancels his trip to asia. and big questions on how the u.s. can pay its bills. new developments on the road rage. two in custody, as the police search for the men seen splashing the driver's window and pulling him out. this driver left in critical condition. his family speaking out. and the boss fires back. video responding to the woman who quit her job. everyone getting in on the fun this morning. her boss telling the world, we're hiring. and good morning, america. so much to get to this morning.

including that government shutdown taking hold across the nation right now. you see right there, in the second day. and the consequences are starting to feel felt. this was probably the most dramatic moment. down at the world war ii memorial, a group of veterans from mississippi showed up. and they just wanted to get in. >> from the great state of mississippi. they had this trip planned for some time. and there were barricades. people say they stormed the barricades. they were very respectful. and the guards were like, you know what? the reason why we had this is because of these guys. so, come on in. it was quite a moment. >> common sense over gridlock. let's get to the jacksonville airport scene right now. pierre thomas tracking all of the latest, where a suspicious package was called destructive. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning, george. today, the fbi is trying to assess just how dangerous the situation was. but for the passengers, it was truly scary. the airport plunged into chaos for five hours. as frantic passengers evacuated

the terminal, when police announced the discovery of two suspicious packages. >> a lot of people behind the counters started ducking. >> reporter: one of the two items found was, quote, a destructive device. >> it was a device that had destructive nature to the degree that it needed to be taken off site to be rendered safe. >> reporter: witnesses saw the police force this man to the ground outside the terminal. >> we saw him throw the guy down to the ground in front of the garage. that started a very long wait. >> reporter: and in a cell phone video, you see agents board a plane. the shutdown threw passengers into limbo. >> when i pulled up and they said there's a bomb threat. i'm not leaving without my daughter. i'm happy that everyone is safe.

>> reporter: this morning, an intensive investigation is under way to determine who left the packages and why they put them there. george? >> okay, pierre. thanks. we'll get the latest on the government shutdown in its second day. the president has shortened his planned trip to asia next week. dan harris in lower manhattan. the statue of liberty ferry is one of many federal facilities shut down today. good morning. >> reporter: exactly, george. good morning to you. forget about give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. if you show up to see lady liberty today, you will be turned away. this is one of many examples across america of the impact of this manmade disaster. this morning, the centers for disease control says it can no longer monitor the seasonal flu. the national institutes of health says it may have to turn children with cancer away from clinical trials. and overnight, shelters housing victims of dti