on the eastern shore, chestertown to kennedyville to southernville. that is the storm we're watching now. the rest of the region is pretty quiet. the activity near d.c. is weakened. from baltimore north and west, things are really quiet. and looks like we'll have a quiet evening and a dryer day coming tomorrow. now, officially, we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for the entire region. until 8:00. i think they'll probably drop northern maryland very shortly, as that system has already moved through our region. things have begun to quiet down. temperature-wise, a hot and humid afternoon. bernadette has a look at what we have out it there now and what we kidnap tomorrow. >> authority. -- that's right. we will show you temperatures across the state. we were in theurn 80s to near 90 degrees for a lot of us. 95 in patuxent. but where the front is starting to come through. it dropped with a thunderstorm. 79 in elkton. 73. also, notice the dew points are so high. tomorrow, both the temperatures and the dew points are coming down. and those are comi

right now around chestertown. just south of chestertown some very heavy rain. some of the rainfall totals around three-quarters to just over an inch. take a look at stevensonville where it's absolutely pouring. then there's another cell we're watching down around waldorf headed east. open it up and here's why i think we could have more storms if they make it over the mountains. i'm seeing a couple more clusters just west of winchester around i-81, bridgewater. they have washed on this one cell down around rockingham county, severe thunderstorm warning there, but we're all getting a chance to cool down. that we're seeing with the cloud cover and even the moderate rain if you're not getting the storms. 75 in frederick, maryland. 95 grows in fredericksburg, virginia. hopefully some of that rain will make it down to the south because we sure could stand to cool down everywhere. as far as your evening goes, the storms will stay with us until 9:00. we'll talk more about what awaits us tomorrow coming up in a couple of minutes. >>> storms have already knocked out powe

we feel good. 67 now at manchester more the same and 68 in emmits burg and germantown. 70s in chestertownand middle town. you are around 71. we talked about the dew points. in 590s. >>> dozens of people without a place to live following a fire in prince george's county. this is the fire in the district heights. this was last night. a police officer saw the flames coming out of the apartments. he yelled out for people to get out. they can't didn't have much time before it spread. a woman had to leave her dogs. >> i watched my kids burn. they were my kids. >> it took 100 firefighters an hour to get it under control. no word on the cause. >>> the atm is the easiest and fastest way to get cash. but be aware of your surroundings. they believe the samemm commited a number of robbed -- armed robberies. they are seeking money by foot or through the atm window. he's gun and commits then at night and weekends. >> he is a black maleis his face is covered he arrives in a vehicle t has been different for most of the crimes. >> he has struck a variety of banks, frederick road. >>> a baltimore native is

there's one cell that's starting to cook north of chestertown. this will push into kent county. northern queen anne's county. annapolis and arnold about to get hammered. take a look. 800, 900 bolts. that is a lot of cloud to ground lightning. we're also talking about flash flooding concerns and issues as you try to make your way toward the bay bridge. rainfall rates have been ranging between two to four inches per hour. abc2's storm track. this will be pushing to the east. it's arnold, annapolis, high and beach. some of these areas, all around anne arundel, kent, queen anne's, get ready because this is a dangerous storm producing dangerous cloud to ground lightning lightning we'll show you bel air, those storm clouds rolling in. a storm toward the north. that will be pushing through parts of harford and carroll county. a high of 101. look at the temperatures over the eastern shore. dover is at 98. 99 degrees in salisbury. it's feeling like 105 in dover. feels like 87 and a rain cooled 79. we're starting to see a relief. let me correct myself. 102 the official high. 90 elsewhere.

much needed rain around chestertown. it's so dry even with the heavy rain, steady rain friday and saturday. we could use more raifnlt the storms are weakening across the state. right now we can see most of our lightning is diminishing across all of maryland. some healthy weather still here in southern new jersey and south of frederick, virginia, but that's about it. show you some of the weather as it came through today. i want to take a look at that severe thunderstorm watch and show that it has trimmed back to southern maryland. areas south of baltimore, including annapolis, pg county and calvert county and the eastern shore. this is through 8:00. keep an eye on. this you see that pattern getting more quiet out there. so that should lead to basically less and lessee veer weather concern over the next hour or two. want to show you earlier, mt. airy. here's the storm i was referencing a minute ago. this is a big one. see the leading edge, big downpour. you see the back sides that moves further and further to the east. tha

more in buoy this morning. 71 chestertown, goldsboro 70. middletown 74. 71 northeast.is is as we break your day down, hour by hour, 8:00, 76. 84 by lunchtime. the sun cloud mix. slight chance for a shower in to 4:00 p.m. it is slight in nature with the temperature coming in around 87 degrees. that's where we should be now for this time of theee. >>> good morning, lynette. we are dealing with a big sink hole in east baltimore. construction continues for the next month. east monument will be shutdown until then between wolf street and patterson park avenue. there are no delays traveling through the fort mc henry or the harbor tunnel. if you are using 95 white marsh, a 15 minute ride from 43 in to the city. this is what the harrisburg looks like in hunt valley. everything is nice and clear at shawan road. easy ride towards 695. this is the beltway at bel air, no problems to report. it's going to take you 11 minutes from 95 up to 83. that's a look at your abc 2 time saver traffic. >>> welcome back. it's been five months since the death of trayvon martin. also a new york mo

morning, quite warm this morning, see the 70s in northville, good morning edgewood, 71, upper 60s chestertowntheast around 70 degrees. lots of moisture in the air. the measure of the moisture. the dew points when they get in the 70s you are feeling it. mid-60s feeling it. uncomfortable in the mid-70s. we won't see that for today. here is the weather pattern, this front stalled out front is to is south of baltimore, could edge to the north. that's why we will have the chance for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. storms to the south along the stationary front. throughout the day, temperature will be around 86 degrees, nice and seasonable. still a little humid outside. we will take what we can get for today. temperatures will begin to warm up. see that in the seven-day forecast as we head in to next week. take it all in, as we go through time, things are looking good for now. >>> listen to this, health news this morning, sitting down for more than 3 hours a day can shave a person's life expectancy by two years. even if you are physically active. reducing sitting time to fewer than be ho

70 edgewood. 69 chestertown. northeast 69 degrees, sliding to goldsboro, 67, middletown 72 degrees. good morning to you. now a check of the time saver traffic. you've been talking about the house fire. >> firefighters remain on the scene, baltimore city, north of patterson park. between fayette and orleans, use lakewood instead. everything up to speed through the fort mc henry and the harbor tunnel. 95, white marsh, here is route 43, no problems what solve, it will be a nice ride from harford to here in white marsh in to the city. as we look at the 695, no problems here at bel air, traffic picking up a little bit in the area. you are looking at an 11 minute ride on the outer loop towards 83. >>> happening today, department of public works is checking a 54-inch water main, inspection shows the main could fail so crews could be out repairing it before it becomes a problem. linda so is live in baltimore county with more on how this could affect you. >> reporter: a neighborhood that could be affected by what is going on. you could lose your water for up to an hour at your home or workpl

and another thunderstorm to the west of chestertown. a little farther west, we have a couple of showers building up into a thunderstorm right now. and you can see it just to the south of mount airy. now, let's switch it over and show you, we have that same front out there for you. smaller chance than today, though. high of about 88 degrees, which is our average. take a look at our next couple of days. we're closer to average. but we see the chances really start to bump up as that front gets back to the north friday, saturday and sunday. kai? >> all right, bernadette. thank you. weather causes major issues in north carolina. flash floods leave cars under water. several drivers remain stranded. and more than 30 cars had to be abandoned on the interstate. this happened in greensboro. the national weather service says as much as 5 inches of rain fell. residents in greensboro are being told to stay off the roads. >>> in idaho, they could use some rain. crews are battling several wildfires all at once. the one most concerned started as a brus

temperature in northville, 70 degrees, 71 chestertown, edgewood 72. 64 emmittsburg.ldsboro 70 this morning. moisture still out there, we can see the dew points in the upper 60s around 70 dc. baltimore, the lower 60s in hagerstown and york. not as humid in the areas. we are slightly humid this morning. the humidity levels will increase as we go throughout the day as we see an easterly flow. that will continue as we head in to tomorrow. tomorrow, the chance for showers and storms, we do have an area of low pressure, it could ride along the coast in to tomorrow. that could bring the chances in to us, that's why i'm saying a better chance for rainfall across the area for tomorrow. for today, that temperature coming in around 87 degrees, a chance for isolated shower or storm. by tonight that temperature around 70 degrees, mostly cloudy and humidity, there is the temperature for tomorrow. 85 degrees, the storms will keep the temperatures down a little bit. this is what your seven-day forecast looks like as temperatures will go up through time. >>> call for help from the re

chestertown more of the same denton at 68 dedegrees. let's check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning how are the road. >> reporter: good morning. the roads are in great shape heading out on the jfx. 11 minutes from the beltway all the way downtown to east fayette street and traffic will remain up to speed traveling through fort mchenry and we have construction on 895 south of the harbor testimony but not causing any backups as of yesterday yet. 95 and white marsh route 43 look at a 15-minute ride in to the city from this point. no delays whatsoever. you will notice a few more cars out there than earlier than the last check and as we look at 695, here's what it looks like in parkville at harford road. everything up to speed. it will be a nice calm ride up to 83. megan and charley over to you. >>> a pit bull was left for dead in a trash can recovering. linda so is here to tell us more on how the dog ended up there and how he is doing. >> reporter: he is doing as well as can be expected. it's a 5-year-old pit bull.

this morning as we head over towards the eastern shore, we're looking at 68 in centreville and 64 chestertown northeast coming in at 65 degrees. so here's that stationary front once again. still a little bit further to the south than what it was yesterday but we still have that chance for it to maybe wobble back to the north. i am going to keep a chance for showers in here just an isolated one and nothing huge is going to be just like it was yesterday for the most part. and future trend basically picking up on that mainly dry as high pressure will really do its thing for today. but, we will start to see a change in the forecast. the future temps 90-degrees this afternoon. we'll see more of that as we go into the afternoon tomorrow. and then your future -- i don't have seven day forecast rather looks like this. as we go into time look out as he heat things up. 92 on monday 93 on tuesday and wednesday looks like 94 degrees but the humidity moves back in and we will feel much hotter than that. now a check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >>> we are giving away $600 in gas cards ev

as you can see, heavy rain and a lot of lightning for queen ann and kent county, chestertown, you will get some of that and to sentinel radar. they will show you again the flash flood warnings. in the green area, it spotlights the exact areas that we're keeping an eye on and that is the district in columbia and prince georges county. the flash flood warning until 7:00, and that means the flooding is occurring. this is a doppler estimate of how much rain may have fallen and in the yellow areas from the district over to the beltway going to prince georges county. and going through the bloomingdale neighborhood. we are estimating 2.9 inches of rain and that is a doppler product. we'll have to wait and see if we get ground truth on it. i think the pictures might have to be the ground truth. and that, again, they're experiencing the flooding and otherwise, a storm on the eastern shore is producing hail as it moves to the east and this cooled off the area and look at the updrafts to see where the strongest activity is and that is on the eastern shore, diminishing storms across southern princ

we're also looking at the 70- degree mark in buoy, also chestertown.good morning, edgewood you're at 68 degrees. northeast coming in at 67. middletown coming in at 71 and goldsboro 68. as we head through the remainder of today, this is what you can expect on your hour-by-hour forecast, topping off at 90 degrees by 4:00 p.m. you could eat your lunch outdoors today with the temperature right around 87 degrees. it's going to be a summer-like day on tap with just an isolated shower in the forecast. let's get a check of traffic. >>reporter: good morning. if you are headed out to 95, no concerns traveling southbound down towards 495 or northbound up towards the tunnels. we do have construction still going on 895 just south of the harvard tunnel toll plaza. later on you might want to stick with the fort mchenry tunnel or the key bridge. here's a live look at 83 at shan road. no problems. it will be a nice easy ride down towards 695. once you do get onto the beltway, here's what it looks like, overly at bel aire road, seven minutes from the outer loop all the

but right now, temperatures are warm. 72 degrees in manchester. 71 in northville chestertown is at 72. middletown now at 76 degrees. you heard me talk about the thunderstorms. so the storm prediction center does have us in a slight risk for severe weather today. damaging winds and large hail is the biggest threat for the areas shaded in the yellow. mainly we are talking about southerly maryland going into the afternoon. this is a look at what's going on for today. that game day forecast first pitch is at 7:05. they are playing the a's temperatures at 90 degrees and it's going to be hot and humid with the wind out a of the south at a to 10 miles an hour and check out the beach forecast. 95 degrees for today, today's the biggest chance for the threat of thunderstorms. and then we will drop the temperatures down as we head into your sunday. so if you like the cooler weather, sunday is going tonight best bet at beach. but more seasonable heading into next week mike. that's the beach forecast for you. >> great sound good. thanks very much. good morning we are getting you ready for the road

chestertown at 65 degrees and 68 in centreville. annapolis at 69 and northeast coming in right around 65 degrees this morning. now we take you outside andijamsville and we have a lovely sunrise reasons again this morning with -- sunrise this morning with plenty of sunshine. that should be the name to have game and beautiful in mount airy. beautiful blue skies and look at the sun rising across the horizon this morning. so make sure you get out there enjoy it. we see the satellite and radar showing you what's going on. yes we have some clouds to the south. mainly some high level clouds. as we look up more to the north and west, we are seeing more clear skies and more sunshine filtering in with the wet weather to the south of us and that's the courtesy of the stationary front that's been with us basically all week long. we look at the moisture content for today. and we like these low 60s. these upper 50s. well, drying out just a little bit so i'mgoing to call it less humid than yesterday when we were seeing the dew points the measure o

chestertown, 72. down at pasadena, 72 degrees. today we will rise into the mid to upper 80's.e will have a scattering of clouds. the might be a shower west towards the afternoon. temperatures in the 80's to the early evening hours. more on the forecast details in just a few minutes. >> a new study finds the amount smokers gain when they stop smoking is larger than originally thought. >> smokers gained between eight and 11 pounds after the stop smoking. they lose the weight after a few years. a cancer drug appears to increase the time it takes breast tumors to progress. >> it does not increase overall survival. most were taking the drug in combination with chemotherapy. patients had one to six additional months before their tumors grew. despite losing fda approval, the drug is still approved for treatment in europe. >> 5:42. the maryland law might be setting your car up to be stolen. >> will check and on the all- star game last night in kansas city. not much of a classic. >> another day in the 80's in the baltimore area. we'll get the forecast from >> now traffic pulse 11 and i

temperature wise we're in the 70s in middletown, chestertown and even hanover. good morning manchester, you're right around 66 degrees. edgewater at 69 degrees and bel aire 67. hickory you're at 65 degrees right now. the weather pattern brings up that stationary front. once again it's just lingering, not moving too much. it's moved to the south just a little bit since yesterday. but all in all this will stick around for today. and with that we will continue to have the showers and storms to the south of us for today for the best chances. future trend, we do have an isolated chance for showers to pop up as we go into the afternoon, mainly west of i-95. be prepared for that. look at your future trend as we go into this afternoon, wednesday, that temperature coming in right around 90 degrees. we'll see more of this as we head into your thursday, temperatures right around 91 degrees. just be prepare ford some warm weather. but this is nice and seasonable as we head throughout the day. let's head this back over to charley. >>> a young baltimore county swimmer and ent

you can see all the stuff in chestertown and easton. holings worth. pretty quiet and northwest of baltimore by maybe shower and thunder. i expect the wash we had actually to affect pretty shortly, but except for you folks here in delaware. a lot of activity and strong as you saw but here in the baltimore region, very quiet, hardly a drop of rain. more later tonight and tomorrow and friday. more chances of rain with decent activity. take a look at temperatures right now. boy, is it a cool day. easton, you'll be dropping slowly. still, 91 in rock hall. it looks like they've got rain. 86 in bel air. new record today. 104. 76 the morning low, actually, that was the afternoon temperature right now. it was up to 80 degrees and that was like the warmest night ever at b.w.i. but it's already up to 106. more with the front across the region. across virginia and more showers and storms tomorrow kind of an in between day. a risk of more storms. a lot cooler, maybe in the upper 70s but a risk of more showers and some places with 1 to 2-inch os of rain and that co

about a half-inch in tester down -- chestertown, maryland. 71 degrees in hagerstown, 73 in manassas. to the west of us, showers beginning to develop. flash flood watch in effect for areas shaded in green, including the district and surrounding counties. 84-89 with a stronger thunderstorms later today. >> a rough few days for d.c. residents cleaning up from damage of floods for the third time in zero over a week. >> unbelievable. john gonzalez is at one of the hardest-hit areas, which is rhode island avenue. >> good morning. unbelievable what has happened to these residents. if we were here yesterday talking to witnesses cleaning their basements. but it's happened again. the owner of the cafe has lost thousands and thousands of dollars. residents are near the breaking point this morning. their basements have been flooded three times in the past nine days. the latest compound and residents with heavy rain again as cars struggle to stay on the road. a low-lying area notorious for flooding it is reeling again. residents putting direct blame on the city. many say this highlights the lack

north of their, a heavy band around chestertown. that's moving to the eastern shores. right now, i'm in the baltimore area, north and we have lighter showers and maybe some thunder. it looks like the severe weather is holding off to the east and to the south at this moment. they are gonna drop considerably at the airport. 93 degrees right now. 47% humidity. they are not reporting any wind. but in these thunderstorms. they've had wind gusts in excess of 15 miles an hour and trees and some local areas. barometer holding tolddy. where it rained -- holding steady. where it did rain, 79. but where it didn't rain, still in the mid- to upper 90s. i guarantee you, it will be around 80. 73 westminster. it's cooled down 20 degrees. but today a record-tying 102 --le 0 -- 80. 102 and 58 are the records. right now, very little wind but the airport just jumped to 18. we'll start to see. wind shift. that will bring us relief. showers and storms more showers and it looks like friday. the front will hang up across portions of virginia. we expect the heat to be replaced and good changes

but a couple of sprinkles there east of the bay, east and north of us as you get up towards chestertown, you might be seeing a light sprinkle or shower. that is generally it. for the rest of the us, kind after mix of hazy sunshine for start your day. art your day. perhaps some thunderstorms this afternoon and some of the storms will get going later today just like on friday and during the weekend could drop some heavy rain across parts of the area. just be ready for that as a possibility. here is your forecast. lots of clouds to start your day. mix of clouds and sun later. temperatures back in the low 90s. we haven't done that in a couple of days. it will be on the warm scattere p.m. >> thank you. >>> time now to say good morning to lauren demarco with a check of on-time traffic and our roads. >> good morning. we are seeing some fog in areas as we've been reporting. a live look out there. if you are traveling 270 making the trip southbound, starting to see the volume heading from 109 down towards 21. nothing in your way as far as accidents or incidents. once you you get past father hurl

east of baltimore down towards annapolis and pushing across the bay out towards stevensville and chestertownwers as well. all of this so, wade upper level trough. it is not a cold front. but it will dry out the atmosphere enough behind it that i think i'll notice the humidity not quite what it was around here yesterday. again, we are looking for any kind of improvement at all. temperature are still going to be quite warm with highs expected to be in the mid-90s actually few degrees cooler than yesterday with mostly sunny skies expected for your monday. nothing really to break down our weather pattern and we've been talking about the temperatures across not only the mid-atlantic here but for much of the eastern half of the country being well above normal. that will continue all week long. currently, not comfortable. 08 in washington. 78 now in appear appear list. 78 now in annapolis. you are doing a little better well out to the west. let me show you the map here of country. and really generally from the midwest here from central sections of the plains east, the temperatures have been quite e

a few thunderstorms on the eastern shore, from chestertown, all the way down to queens town. we're going to switch it over and show you we had sunshine earlier. clouds starting to build up as we move through the afternoon. and with that front not that far away. we have chances. and we're seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms develop during these late-day hours. a little bit of a breeze to the east. not much. and temperatures very close to our averages. 87 is where we sit now in baltimore. 89 in hagerstown. in the upper 80s for most of us. but look at that wind coming off the water. 79 degrees now in ocean city. 89 is where we've topped out so far today. you can see that average is 88. and we'll be very close to this average most of the week. this 107 is the all-time record for baltimore. and we are not going to be dealing with that this afternoon, fortunately. now, the extreme heat has made its way back out over the west. for us, temperatures are up there. but this is mid-july. and we're not talking about records for most of us for the next couple of days. there were lot

towson, you're right around 71 degrees. 74 in chestertown.rom there. maryland's most powerful radar, though, is dry right now. we should stay dry for most of the day but can't rule out a chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. let's get a check of traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. an accident just cleared from the west side of the beltway, but we are still dealing with delays on the outer loop from liberty road all the way down towards edmondson avenue. here's a live look at the east side of the beltway. now traffic really has improved in this area, but still a little sluggish in that outer loop as you make the drive from parkville up towards towson. we do have an accident in parkville right on loch raven boulevard at puddy hill avenue. if you are using the jfx to get into the city, fortunately no delays. that is a look at your abc 2 news time saver traffic. sheree, over to you. >> thanks, lauren. >>> two florida teens are facing charges for allegedly killing a former teacher and principal from

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