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i'm patrice harris. it's friday and that means it's your turn to sound off on your face book page about anything you want. let us know what is on your mind and your response could air in our facebook segment. the first two fox 45 fans to post the code word on our facebook wall, will win a great prize. just go to facebook.com and join the conversation. a lot of people are joining us this weekend. and it's mother's day weekend, it's time for family. >>> that's right. today is going to be a nice day. it will be a little cooler, but 83, and 77, it will be -- >> that is nice. >> it will be comfortable, absolutely and a lot of sunshine. looking forward to this one at the bus stop. clear skies, 65 degrees, as you can see, sky watch hd radar showing you the clear skies. high pressure is doing its thing. meanwhile the low pressure center through the midwest is going to be skirting off to the north and east, and maybe bringing us some showers with thunderstorms overnight into tomorrow morning and then we should dr

good morning, i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of our forecast. here to tell us if it's going to be another chilly day. >> good morning to you. >> about the same. it looks like it will be the repeat of what we had yesterday with plenty of sunshine. temperatures about seasonable. loolook at low pressure center t is moving off to the northeast. just rain and center. nevertheless it stays to the north and east. it's goinggto move over a little bit, with it takes stronger winds. we will feel the breeze, but it won't be as windy today. clear skies will allow for the temperatures to drop a little -it. 48 is where we start in baltimore. the dew point indicates the temperatures can still drop. yoo see them in the 20s and 30s. that means there's a lot of dry air with it. witt it mostly sunny skies to follow. breezy with winds out of the northwest at 10-15 miles per hour and gusting a little higher. with regard with what is happening on the roadways with regard to the commute. here is candace dold. >> reporter: good morning. steve, and good morning everybod

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to show us >> reporter: good morniig, patrice.look at all of these amazing cards and really the amount of them is great and sometimes families doing it themselves just trying to show patriotism, ú%d just little words and kind gestures is all you need to say thanks for all of your servvce it means a lot to the soldiers. i'm here with frank from the red cross. this idea just a no brainer and just great idea for everybody. >> it's just a great idea. it came about a couple of years ago when folks decided to get together and staated sending cards. it spread through the whole red cross. weeare ppoud of it. -> reporter: some of the people in colum columbia, but t, this is coming up later this week. nordstrom on tuesday all day. we will have the cards there and people can come and sign them up and put the expressions on the caads. >> reporter: it can be as simple s thanks for your service or anything like that. that is in towson on tuesday. when it comes to everything else you do. tell us about what you do. >> we are the official link bet

good morning, i'm patrice harris.t's get a check of our forecast as people are getting up and out on this wednesday morning. meteorologist stevv fertig is here and this is it. >> yes.3 %-it's going to feel a little warler thi!!warmer this morning. it does this morning. >>take a look at the bus stop, 54 degreesswith partly cloudy skies and we will see some ssnshhne to start the day. more louds later on in the aaternoon and maybe evee a thunderstorm popping. 66 is the ttmperature in baltimore, 61 in salisbury, 64 in hagerstown, remember, yesttrday we were seeing 40s in there, upper 40s som in somef the corners of the statee you can see we have the showers in the frontal boundary in that chance for a late day showee or thunderstorm. 88 degrees are to the high. it may be a hot one today. let's see what is happening on the roadways with lauren cooke. laurenn good morning. >> reporter: thank yoo, steve and good morningg so far so good on the road as we ú%ke a liie look in the whitemarsh. no problems to report northbound or

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i'm patrice harris. it's friday and that means it's your turn to sound off on our facebook page about anything you want. let us mow what is on your mind as we head into this weekend and your response could air in our facebook feedback segment. we want you to start off the weekend right. the first two fans to post the code word on our facebook wall. will win a prize. go to facebook.com fox baltimore to become a fan to join the conversation. >>> this morning the conversation is all about the rain. meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us what we can expect. >>> all about the rain. >> it's the first thing i heard when i woke up this morning. >> it's not snow, but we do have flooding concerns. check out, patrice, we have throughout the entire area a flood watch. we are expecting 2, 3, 4 inches of rain, localized areas could see higher amounts than that. this is not a definitely not a laughing matter. we have heavy rain. we see the hd regional radar indicating that the rain is sitting over us with copiou

i'm patrice harris. let's get a look at forecast today. meteorologist steve fertig is here and things are changing. >>> temperature wise we're looking pretty good. we will stay above the average, 61. >> that is good. >> that part is okay and whatever falls in terms of precipitation is going to be just plain rain. >> the rain coming it reminds you we're headed toward spring. i can live with that. >> except one other thing that does concern us is the chance for some flooding actually the western part of maryland for the part of tuesda thursday night. it could be worse i suppose. you take a look at the showers back to the west, not making its way in here. it looks like it's moving into the western counties a lot of dry air still in place. it has to saturate first before we see the showers make their way in. we have a lot of cloud cover and that is keeping the temperatures rather mild. you're watching the areas of precipitation, one with the showers in the midwest headed our way for later tonight into tomorrow. the and rain south east coming o

good morning, i'm patrice harris.let's get a check of our forecaat and see how long that the day. meteorollgist steve fertig is here. >>> not a lot longer. it should start mmving out of here. we should sse more sunny skies. here is a look at where we start the day. any showers dissipating as we speak. not a whole loo out there. just a littll bit of wet ground little bit f slipping ann sliding. be careful out there. those showees moving off as igh pressure moves in. 79 degrees s here we start today in baltimore, and .c. and 74 in salisbury and 74 in hagerstown. we're head with a lot more sunshine and a northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. a warm notice, humidity starts to stop a little bit more. let's see hat is happening on the roadways. here she is, candace dold. >> reporter: thank you, steve. as for what is happening we do have an accident on the nnrthbound lanes of 95 at 175. just be aware that there's a single vehicle involved in this. police are on the scene. as far as 95 taking it ffom route 32, all the way up

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i'm patrice harris. >>> lets get a check of our forecast this morning. meteorologist jessica starr is here with what we can expect as we head through this day. good morning. >> good morning, i know it was a little chilly out there this morning. unfortunately we're going to deal with rainshowers today but it's the workweek. >> get it out of way. >> before preakness and i will have that forecast in a few minutes. it's chilly out there this morning. partly cloudy skies, winds are out of the east at 9 miles an hour, and the humidity is down so a comfortable air mass. things are going to change and you can see slowly rainshowers moving into west virginia. that is the big system that going to be pressing in our direction later today and it's going to be sticking with us for most of the workweek. 49 degrees, chilly, mostly cloudy skies, we will see peeks of sunshine later today and clouding pretty fast with the rainshowers moving in by lunchtime and later in the day. 59 degrees for the high temperature for today and timing out your day for today, lunchtime, 54,

good morning, i'm patrice harris. meteorologist steve fertig is here with more on when that fog will dissipate and what the rest of the day will shape up to be. >>> probably it will take a couple of hours for the fog to dissipate and then we will see sunshine. >> and a nice day. >> nice day. temperatures climbing well into the 80s. look at what we have at the bus stop. mostly cloudy skies and fog. 68 degrees mild enough with a west wind at 5-10 miles an hour. can you see there's showers moving through the area to the south of us down toward annapolis and further points south, but that will quickly move to the south and east. it will take some of the fog with it as well as the skies clear out and we dry out with more of a northwesterly flow of air. we look forward to a day when the temperatures will quickly climb. 83 degrees by noon and we should top out at 87 degrees at 3:00 this afternoon. 84 at 6:00 p.m., looking like a nice day throughout. the humidity will drop as well so it will feel good too. let's see what is h

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meteorologist steve fertig is here with some hot news. >> absolutely patrice. continues and also a chance of hunderstorms. we had lightning overnight, ot strong loud boomer you expect t3 see with thunnerstormssbut we definitely had some lightning. stake a look at sky hd radar an3 there yoo see lighh shooers to the north. dissipating in strength as they move through the east. and showers possible this mooning and as we take a look at the lightning data first looking ú% the composite image as the showers mooe west to east and theepicture to get more activity as i was saying.t the lightning we got lightning strrkes out there and they dissipated in strength and they're decreasing in number as they moved fromm33 west to east. more activity ttere and that is what is coming our way for as early as late morning and afternoon and evening. we don't have that much in the way of riskkfor severe weather. heading points north traveling in new jersey, and new york city maybe you run into more vigorrus activity in that part of the country.ú let's ttke a lookkat the temperature

good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. we have been cruising on the same rate without an increase for beck day decades. a right that some drivers say is already too high, now there's a chance it could go up even higher. lawmakers want to inease contract the liability minute mum coverage to $60,000 per injured person and $60,000 per crash. that means an incident crease of $60 on the vehicles on the eastern shore to $50 at baltimore city. it would be the first hike since 1972 and some lawmakers say it's long overdue. >> when you go into the shock trauma it's about $7,500 now to visit, every time to visit. $25,000 doesn't cut it anymore. it really protects the individual who really may be hurt. >> reporter: and also, protects the lawyers representing them. but some say, it could backfire and people who just can't afford that increase, might start driving without insurance. now the senate is expected to debate the auto insurance rate hikes tie today. governor o'malley says if it does pass, he will sign the bill. megan gillilan

i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of our forecast as we are midway through the week. meteorologist steve fertig is here, good morning. >>> good morning to you, a little breezy this morning but the winds is going to die today, pretty much. we will see sunshine, and yesterday we got to 63 degrees at bwi international airport. we are downtown, not too bad, either, 61. >> not bad. >> the temperatures about the same place today, 61 for the high. looking forward to a nice afternoon, with a lot of sunshine, right now clear skies on a sky hd radar so fairly uneventful otherwise, 34 degrees in baltimore and the moisture from the north is keeping the temperatures from dropping so much. the low 40s in the periphery and 45 degrees for the bus stop forecast with the northwest winds at 5-10 miles per hour. today should get up to 61 degrees, northwest winds at 5-10 miles per hour. it should be a nice day. we will take a look at the forecast and see if there's more nice days ahead. >> reporter: steve so far, a nice commute out there. here is a look at 83, moving at shawan road, you c

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i'm patrice he harris. timeeto get a check of our forecast as we get every closer to the new year. meteorologist tony pagnotti is in for steve fertig and wow, it's almost over. >> it is and the countdown we are going to to see the temperatures go up. no frees enpreci froze frozen pw year. yesterday felt better and today even better, and tomorrow and on and so forth. the winds have diminished.ú thee zero, so they're gone. that's a good feeling when you don't have to deal with the gusty winds when you're out in thh morningg got some precip. look at all of the goose eggs, alllzeros meaning that we will have a calm wednesday and we will have mercury starting to move oo up. freezing in baltimore, 28 in oakland, don, only a not so sweet 16, but we're going to ú%peat yesterday's performance. we will get uppto 42 degrees with partly sunny skies and that is not the end the warm up. i will have my seven-day forecast coming up in a bit. right now the traffic edge report, here is candace. >>> thank you, tony and ood morning. we are dealing with incidents on the beltwaa this morning. innfact, t

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good mmrning, megan. >> reporter: good mmrnnng, patrice.ven on a rainy day here in the city it's not hard to spot. you see the signs for, four looo all over the windows and even on the doors, but they're not going to be up here for long, because effective tomorrow, the city is requiring all establishments toú remove alcoholic beverages hat contain caffeine. that includes beverages likk four loko. it's a drink that has caused a lot of controversy for its potent content. it's equivalent of 5 beers, one red bull and a shot of expresso that drink is blamed for several deaths in the u.s., innluding a drunk driving crrsh that killed a young woman a few weeks ago. thence requesss cannot be ignored especially for the college kids out there? >> increased likelihood for unsafe sex practices, and the increased risk for black outs and the potential for death. >> repooterr college kids we spoke to, believe they shoold be able to make their own decisions and act responsible, still too dangerous for these kids and for that matter everyone else around them

patrice, over to you. >>> 5:03 early edition. it seems that mother nature finally might be in our side. throughout the winter we have seen white out conditions and more snow was predicted for our region but so far we are waking up to rain. megan gilliland is in howard county with how things are shaping out in that direction. and south of baltimore was getting it worse, but you're not getting anything. >> reporter: even here in howard county where we could get 1-3 inches, spot less here at the shell station. not too many people worried to get out on the roads this morning. pretty empty this hour this morning. if you're talking about snow, the on white stuff you're going to see here this morning is the remnants of the blizzards that we had, the snow that formed over ice and mounds like this. other than that, pretty good out here. take a look at the roadways, even with the rain that we saw overnight, not too many puddles to be concerned, and slick spots coming from the city down to this area, but nothing to be concerned about. the i

patrice, you told everybody what i was going to tell them. we have clear skies over our region. the story is the temperatures because we may be talking about black ice and you want to be careful if you're are heading this monday. 17 in wilmington, and 20 degrees in salisbury and delaware. these temperatures are definitely creating problems with regard to the slippery roads with the roads that not been treated other than the main roads. it was a record 28.8 inches is what we got. the previous total was on president's day in 2008 which had more snow but over a total of three day period, other than this storm that lasted two days. a winter storm watch for most of the counties especially to the north where we could see more snow. we give you snow totals concerning what we are expecting in a few minutes. we could see temperatures at 33 degrees that is not going to help a whole lot. then we are going to talk about more snow on the way and how much in just a little bit. right now here is candace with the traffic edge and what it looks like out on the roadways. >> reporter: there's defi

where is it going to go on top of that, i just don't know. >> reporter: exactly, patrice. i don't know where it's going to go. this is huge amounts of snow that we're seeing at the towson neighborhood area. i tell you what, a lot of it has iced over. that is really what we have seen over the last couple of days as the storm has progressed with the aftermath i guess, i should say. a lot of this you can hear the crunch underneath our feet. this is a side street that has been plowed. this is a good sign from what we have seen before. this looks as though some cars will get through, four-wheel drive probably still needed here. we are dealing with icy conditions here. if you notice how narrow these roads are. that's what a lot of people are saying about in their neighborhoods. they're getting by but we're dealing with narrow conditions. a lot of people have plowed their parking spots, but with if we have more know all of this hard work. i can feel how icy this was as we are skating out here. another major concern that residents have been talking about is their roads. you can lo

good morning, i'm patrice harris. meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us.we have been cool all week. you have beee away on vacation. -e have been here cool, but you3 came back just in time for sunshine. >> i feel very well rested. the more you get to sleep. this morning when you wake-up it's going to be cool at ssmeplaces. not too bad. 71 degrees in baltimore right now. 71 in d.c. and 67 in hagerstown. we wwll climb intoothe low to mid-80s today. a couple offlight showers toothe western state that are dissipate ago as the high pressure builds. that high pressure is going to bring us a nice and you can see the line of showers dissipating as it moves into west virginia.3 today a nice day a little breezy at times with a northwess wind at 5-10 miles per hour. ú% will take a look at the weekend forecast what it will shape up for hh maryland fair in just a bit. right now we are oing to cheek on the roads with lauren cooke. >> rrporter:: we have an of route 295 at interstate 195, and we are dealing which shooting in west baltimore it just happened and it's shuttin

i'm patrice harris. >>>let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig and talk about the change in weather. it was beautiful over the week. yesterday. >> not so nice. >> a lot, a lot different. >> we had clouds, showers and even a little thunder out there last night. now we're looking at another day, not as warm as it was last weekend. we have showers to talk. and cloudy and the temperatures and the temperatures will stay rather mild. welcome back. patrice. i meant to say that earlier. comfortable around the region. the temperatures will climb a little bit today but not a whole lot only into the upper 50s probably so cooler than yesterday as far as the highs go. you see a lot of clouds out there, circulating low pressure moving further points north. as it does, the low will intensify and it will bring the showers into the afternoon, scattered about. 57 degrees for the high temperature, it will be cooler than it has been, but it it is where we should be for this time of year. and the winds breezy 5-10 to

patrice, back to you. >>> 5:02 on fox 45 morning early edition.a viewing for aidan tucker and shana tucker will be tonight. megan joins us when the details of when you can pay your respects. >> reporter: good morning, the cecil community is still in shock after that extra jibing -. a viewing will beeheld tonight at the crowder funeral home at south main street. their funeral service will be held tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at the same place. saturday in an early morningt house fire along cedar hill circle. -nvestigators say flames broke out in the living room and then spread very quickly. their mother jewel johnson survived but suffered burns over 17% of her bodyy many neighbors were outsiie watching as she screamed for help. >> i heard her scream. then i looked outside and saw the flames come out the front two windows. i said wwere are your kids at is she just kept saying my kids, my kids. >> reporter: they made by a few neighbo neighborhood kids wy they miss tte kids. edition. >>> the pedestrians were sitting on at sidewalk when thh driver of the suv

gooo morning, i'm patrice harris. a lot of people off work today and ready to celebrate and just enjoy the day. mmeteorologist steve fertig is here to join us. >>> not too earll with the raven's countdown. >> we're already thinking about the avens, jet game. >>> nnver too early to start ú%lking about fall, and cool start for ome this morninn. 53 degrees at hagerstown but 66 innbaltimoreeis not too bad. we will see the temperatures climb nicelyytoday into the low 80s and as yyu can see sky hd radar not revealing anything but clear skies, and looking good. the bigger picture is showing showers up in the midwest that issarr going to steer to the north and east of us. 78 degrees t midday temperature starting at 57. we will liib at the 84-degree mark at 4 or 5:00 in the afternoonnevening and drrp back %-we havv weather for you as far as the baltimore orioles forecast, too, coming up in just a little bii. right now let's senn it back to you. patrice. >>> 5:31 on fox 45 early edition. -he u.s. department of labor secretary m

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patrice, this is a brand new gorgeous.f is in full capacity. ú%at means it cannhold just about anything, unlike it was back in february. the two-alarm fire gutted the station and completely destroyed a brand new fire engine. let's take a look at what is was the roof even collapsed on that morning when the firefighters were tryiiggto save their own home away from home and the expensive content inside. a brand new fire engine as not saved. humvee that was here to help out with the blizzard.ú it had to move to a technical high school for he first two at the time residents and firefighters, they were all devastated. >> i don't know hat we're gging to do. of the ruined building, a couple of weeks later. service was not intumpted tt tho the area thankfully. the $600,000 covered the area you arr veg righ seeing right n. they have tt get a fire engine and ambulance, so hey have a way to go.3 it's only been six months and already this unit is back to full capacity. we're live at dundalk. joel d smith, fox 45 early edition. %-martin

i'm patrice harris. let's check in and meteorologist steve fertig and get more about what we can expect throughout the rest of the day. good morning. i know i woke up to rain. >>> yes, light showers this morning, but the rain gets heavier as weeget to the passing thunderstorms this afternoon. severe weather this afternoon and we're going to have to deal with it. the temperatures real owe climb today. also, patrice it's a heat that is going to be a factor. we have a heat advisory from 8:00 a.m., the heat advisory for all of the central counties and the eastern shore. the central counties feeling feg like 102 to 105 and the eastern shore may feel like it's 110 degrees. right now it's 85 degrees in baltimore, dew points are well in the 60s. we will see them climb into the 70s this afternoon. and that will make for a very hot, humid afternoon and with it the thunderstorm chances will r there. showers as i said, scattered at this morning, not a big deal at this point in time. just light showers but the aftern

. >>> good morning, i'm patrice harris. let's take a look at the forecast for today as we head into the second day of the workweek. meteorologist steve fertig is here with what we can expect. >> good morning to you patrice. it's going to a hot humid day. it looks like the thunderstorms are not going to be in the picture and on thursday we have a tropical storm and things are picking up in the atlantic. 75 degrees the temperature in baltimore. 62 in salisbury as we start to see it right before the your eyes. 63 out in oakland and the dew points once again in the mid up toker 60s. it's definitely going to be a humid day and you will feel that definitely in the air with the showers and thunderstorms steering to the north of us as they move out of the midwest and move around a ridge of high pressure. it will be a warm and humid day and we will tell ou more about tropical storm holland in a little bit. we will cheek on the roadways, lauren cooke is here to let you know what it looks like out there with the traffic edge. >> repor

good morning, i'm patrice harris.meteorologist steve fertig is expect as we heed out midweekk >> here it comes, finally theú great weather we have been talking about. it's going to be loo 80s, -0 degrees, and 81, maybe even 70s for western maryland. low humidityy perfect. >> i knnw we ad high3 %-feet a lot better. even that >> abbolutely. we did et into the low 90s yesterday and the humidity was %-today it's going to be. >> even further. >> unless you like 90s and the low humidity i can't believe, anyyody -- everybody. the temperature 70 degrees, a sllo climb, and i think most of ú%u wiil really like today. 69 degrees in salisbury, and 693 ú% hagerstown. look at the dew poiits, llw 40s in some pots and mid-40s in some others. comfortable indeed. a few showers moving off the ú%stern seaboard and a lot of sunshine thanks to the high pressure. 81 should do it for the hiih today. it will be cooler and with will he humidity it will feel very nice for any kind of outdoor here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> report

. >>> good morniig, o you, a clear start, is here comes the humidity, patrice. >> yesterday was so nicewithout the humidity..3 >> it wasn't that bad even >>>that's how i like my summmr days, but oday it's going to be different, differen. >> it's different and it's going to be mmre humid. 73 up in hagerstown and we see the clouds spilling from the system up ii the complex in the ohio valley area, most offthat staying to the north but that i -er on today we may see that sneaking south and east ann a chaace for severe weather as we get into the evening hours. latt afternoon possible, but definitely a hot and humid day as temperatures climb today to 92 degrees and even if it's a couple of degrees cooler ttan ú%sterday, it will feel hotter definitely a chance for ssvere strong to severe. another mild night as well. ú%re is candace dold with the traffic edge. good morning, candace. >>> good morning, steve, we do start out with trouble in howard county..3 it's because avenue an accidentú involvvng an overturned tractor trailer comppeteey shutting down the lanes of i-95. you can use route 32 or

. >>> good morning, patrice.the best thing ki tel can telu decreased in strength.earl has a cattgory iii. the ocean shore, where the most vulnerableebands will be. the rain starting to move into the ocean city areaaand the winds will be picking up some. we don'' thinkkit will be as strong as we earlier thought but iitwill be significant enough to ú%at is still tropicalwinds, storm-force winds. that is still significant -nough. as we watth it move furthhr north and east and away from us, it means a better sse scenario n it woull have been if it was %-tte center of the storm off of cape has rase..3 hatteras. we are waach the heaviest rain3 with gusts innthat part of the higher. %nd for us we will see the winds gets closer. we will have more coming up later this morning. right now let's seeewhht is happening on the roadwayy with lluren cooke. sse has the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. ú% far o good on the roads. no probbems to report. we're loooing at high speeds onú many of our mmin lines as we check

good morning, i'm patrice harris. meteorologist steve fertig is here with a ook aa ouu forecast. as we are halfway thrrugh the week. good morning. >>> good morning, to you, and we are setting tte stage of the possibility of heavy raii coming your way for overnight tonight into tomorrow. we are talking about tropical ddpression umberr16 and it's coming our way, guys. ttke look at what e have.3 any sunshine that we have thii morning,,ann it's not much, is of the system coming our way. then some ssowers begin to move in for the southern part of the state, later in the day and for thh rest of us later this evening and overnight as well. ccld front from the west will also help bbing us the heaay3 -ain. we alreaay have a flash-flood watch, not for what we're expecting so much. it continues until tomorrow night untill9:00 p.m. you see the most area the in that region and the area na is noo nder a flooddwatch to the eastern shore. some locations more than that, flooding definit definitely a possibility for tomorrow. toddy mostly dry at he us stop.3 we will see the temperatures climb from

i'm patrice harris. >>> a beautiful day in store. meteorologist steve fertigg ere to tell us all about it, good morning, welcome back. >> thank you very much. >> it will take a little time to become beautiful because we have some fog out there and cloudss >> right butty eventually, i'm looking at tte glass half fool compared to yesterday. >> improving weather on the ay here is what we start with. we do have clouds out there that are giving away to fog and temperatures that are mildd that 56 will definitely feel good as you step out this morning. however, the clouds will give way to clearing as patrice was indicating, high pressure will build in and we ill see sunshine for the afternoon after the cloudy start.ú the temperatures warming up a little bit as yyu see the flounce from the low off the carolina coast that is bringing clouds off the start of the day and it will be replaceddby the sun. 76 at 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high temperature of 80 degreessright aroond 4:00 this afternnon. we will see what is happening on the roadw

let's send it back to you, patrice. >>> 5:31 a.m. right now.instead of celebrating many baltimore families are mourning the deaths of murder victims over this memorial day. shootings killed six people the most recent a few hours ago. joel d smith is live at police headquarters with the lateet. >> reporter: good mornnng, patrice. the guys here are going to be busy today. you ever rest when you're in this line of work, but ú%ecifically they will have lot to look at esppcially with six murders and scenes. the last one happened hours ago. at pulaski street we're talking about and 68 pulassiistreet to be exact thaa one happened at 8:30 last night, police reported it as a double shooting but we found that vvctim is dead. that makes it a double murder. and the last of a handful of failed shots this weekend. southwest baltimore, you got shockktrauma event, and that happening in the middle of the day as mann people were outside on ram ramsey street. and on saturday a deadly hour took three lives of three difffrent locations. the first a shooting happene

it's monday march 8th, i'm patrice harris. hopefully you had a great weekend, beautiful weather, lots of sun out there, meteorologist steve fertig is here to fill us in if we can expect more of that. >> saturday it was cold but yesterday it was gorgeous. >> we thought it was 50 and 54. for the two days. it ended up being 54 and 58. actually 53 and 58. >> saturday seemed a little chillier there i was chill in the air versus yesterday. >> but not bad, yesterday was gorgeous. we have more great weather today and tomorrow too. we don't have a storm until mid-to late week. enjoy the nice weather. in the meantime look for 43 degrees for the high temperature, you're looking at sky watch hd radar and that indicating some dry conditions. let's take a look at a the temperatures and you will see that we're at 43 degrees right now downtown and 40 degrees, it looks like for washington d.c., 30 degrees in salisbury and up in hagerstown, 37 degrees there, and as we look at the sky watch hd radar in motion, now, you see the disturbance moving

i'm patrice harris. we do have more snow on the way and we got school closings to tell you about. here say look at the list. allegheny county, anne arundel county, baltimore city, baltimore and calvert county schools closed caroline, carroll, cecil, dorchester county schools closed frederick county, how ward, kent, montgomery, prince george's queen ann's st. george's st. mary's, wacomico and worcester county schools all closed today. whenever severe weather hits, tune into fox 45 morning news. our morning news ticker will have all the latest closings, delays and traffic conditions. that ticker update automatically and even runs during commercials. >>> and fox 45 morning news will be with you through the storm with extended coverage tomorrow morning. stay with us from 5:00 a.m. until noon for all of the information you need to brave round two. >>> meteorologist steve fertig is here with us now and steve, they may have a choice but to be in front of the television. the roads might be impassable once again. >> unfortunately it's going to be a rough one, patrice. even though it may no

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i'm patrice harris. >>> a wet start to the morning.meteorologist emmly gracie is here with a look at had a we can expect for the rest of the day. yesterday it was a little dreary. >>> it was a little dreary and it will be similar to yesterday but cooler. we are going to stay in the 70s. we're slowly waiving goodbye to summer. it was a hot summer, but it's a cooler. a little bit of rain out there, not in our area, hd showers showing us a few showers back to the d.c. they're slowly starting to dissipate. we have the chance of showers today, not widesppead rain throughout the entire day and cooler temperatures revealing them already in the upper 60s here in ballimore and into the 50s ii western aryland, so na that is headed in our direction. we will stay in the 70s that is as warm as we will get this afternoon, the high temperature 74 degrees. let's see what is going on the roads. here is lauren cooke with the traffic edge. good morning, lauren. >> reporter: good morning, emily. if you're traveling in anne arundel kaine, yo county you dot

good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. we are talking about nearly 1,000 people caught by this camera ove over my how older. some of them have paid their fines they got from the camera. now the city has to refund that money, mistakes totaling in the thousands of dollars. this is a camera on the west cold spring lane that the city claims has made these mistakes. it's been operating since february. officials say the camera flapped 922 tickets in error since then. more than 200 people already paid that $40 fine. when you add it up, that is about $9,000 that the city will have to refund. the city has put up new photo enforce signs in this area, but one driver caught by the camera here says the school signs are still missing on one side of the road. >> the whole purpose is to put the speed camera up, is slow down you're in a school zone. if you don't do that, you put up a hidden camera and call it a school zone. it look like they're in it for the revenue, not necessarily the safety of the children. >> reporter: the spokesperson

good morning, emily. >> reporter: good mooring, patrice.ooding here at fells point and you weeare on the street and water is starting to ccme p. %nd this thing is nowhere near and warnings all over the immediate tte area. the immediaae one is the tornado watch that s in effect for all of the couuniee around oor area rrght now. that could be until this afternoon that the tornados could be a threaa for ur area, just one of the side effects of other thing is we are seeingg!!e flooding here on the streets and a flash-flood watch in effect through this evening. we will continue to see the rain ú%ening, all the way even until ttnight is possible. this moisture eetendd to the ddaling with today is the winds. ú%ese arr tropical winds that wind adviiory for coastal counties asswell. not onlyy re we ddaling with the threat of sevvre weather, the flooding but the wi wind is goig on in fells point and floodinn all over the placc, anywhhre %-localizzd amountssup to six inches of rain. that is quite a bit of rainnand that moisture extending well to the s

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