anne arundel county has about 20,000 people and so,000 people- - 10,000 people have no power in the city. coming up at six, we will talk to bge spokeswoman linda foy about how they are fixing the problem and what's taking so long. bge said the power would be restored by friday night. >>> if you are running out of water, several sites across baltimore are giving out freshwater. in the cityit it's the same site for the code red days. some are run by the senior centers and in baltimore county it's being handed out at fire stations. we have a list where to get the water at abc2news.com. if you know someone without power, look it up and let them know where they can go. again, abc2news.com. >>> two minutes after five. get ready because the baltimore grand prix is just a day away. and if you haven't noticed, major roads downtown baltimore are going to be closed. abc2 news linda so is live with what you need to know especially for your morning commute. linda. >> reporter: well, if you have to drive through the city this morning, be prepared. you are going see a lot of concrete barriers like this

. >>> anne arundel police are investigating a string of apparent abduction attempts and sexual assaults, all involving school students. an 11-year-old said a man in a mini van approached her as she got off the bus near riva road. she ran away. earlier that day students saw a man hiding in the woods near quiet woods park. >>> the local freelance journalist who broke free from a libyan prison is choosing to stay in that country. matthew vandyke's mother said she has spoken with him several times and he insists he will not be coming home until moammar gadhafi is out of power and the three men traveling with him are also safe. >>> britain's prime minister is now urging gadhafi to give himself up and his fighters to lay down their weapons. this is a show of support for libyan's rebel leaders. here's the latest for wjz. >> reporter: libyans cheered as britain's prime minister arrived in tripoli to congratulate them on their new found freedom. david cameron urged gadhafi and his followers to surrender. >> the message is it is over. give up. >> reporter: lib yay thanked -- libyans thanked frenc

. >> police in anne arundel county hope you can help them track down a suspect wanted for sexual assault in glen burnie. this is 29-year-old clarence randall. police believe he is all that a woman inside a car on the fixed -- and the 5600 block of ricci highway. if you have information, call metro crime stoppers. police in bolger workout here searching for a convicted sex offender who is missing. they say this man, 47-roll michael freedman, fell to register with authorities after being found guilty of sexual abuse on a 5-year-old child. police say he may be homeless. if you know where he is, call baltimore county police are mature crime stoppers. city housing officials are suspected back on the scene of an overnight row home collapse in northwest baltimore. it happened just under 2:00 a.m. on west north avenue, and there are no reports of injuries. no word as to whether the adjacent buildings are in danger of falling. u.s. park service says the group of engineers has found cracks and chips in the washington monument. inspection and repair continues today as we take a live picture here. a

county, that means you, too, and on up into the extreme eastern parts of prince georges county, anne arundelnty, and jumping over the bay. that's where this line of showers still moving through. and notice it is drifting to the east. the individual cells are kind of moving up to the northeast. it's a slow mover. you jump the bay over here. there's a lot of lightning for southern maryland, moving over into southern delaware there. western delaware and eventually this will go across. our friends in ocean city that watch bethany beach, end up getting wet as well. temperatures out there right now, 71 here in town. gaithersburg 64. dropped off the last hour. frederick still at 66. hagerstown 64. right along i-95 for those communities, temperatures are dropping into the lower 60s. curcher cumberland into the 50s. the cold front is moving through and that is what is bringing in these colder temperatures and you go up to the north and northwest, pittsburgh is chilly, 52. detroit is 47. columbus is 50 degrees. this is the air mass for us tomorrow. now, we won't be in the lower 50s, or at least i hope

a little bit of anne arundel county. temperatures are still mild. cold air is not here yet.t's coming. not here yet. 65 in rockville. 64 also in arlington. and 63 in great falls. 64 in reston. and 68 in college park. okay, here's the deal. more like november than october this weekend. tonight breezy and turning colder. wet and chilly tomorrow. the first flakes will fall in the mountains tomorrow late and tomorrow night into sunday morning. that's west of the divide. and chilly, but not as wet on sunday. so some good news for sunday. here's a look at the future cast. by 2:15, it's just cloudy in the metro area. but we see some showers begin to build back to the west. in martinsburg and winchester. put this into motion by 8:00 in the morning, here comes some showers. not enough, i don't think, to cancel the little league game. enough to make it miserable. take your umbrella and sweatshirt and notice this. this is pink and blue. that's some snow. garrett county and mineral county and grant county, west virginia, we'll put this back into motion by 11:00, still some showers. it's

edward hope, orthopedic surgeon, ann arundel county medical center, says the spiral leg fracture he is seeing are not freak occurrences. it happens when toddlers go down the slide on the lap of their parents and their feet get caught and made worse by the force of mom or dad riding behind. >> the foot is twisted this way, rotated kwroáu out-- outward and it causes the crack and spiral to perform. >> they are warning parents about dangers and wants them to lend a hand and not a seat on their lap. will is a youtube psa, and a flier, they want it posted on parks all over the area for moms and dads to see. if you want to check out the youtube video, or pass along the warning flier he made, head to our web site at abc 2 news .com and click on the health tab if you want to check it out. >>> week one of dr. conrad murray's involuntary manslaughter trial wraps up in los angeles. michael jackson's personal physician accused of giving the pop star a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol. andrew spencer has more. >> reporter: new moments of panic in the jackson home. the pop star's director of l

a crash in anne arundel county sentt7 peeole to area hospitals on sunday.in gambills. 2 teenage girls were tryyng to cross routee3 on foot.one of them was hit by a ccr. car.that ar stopped to checkk on the girl... but was hit by another car.the girl was taken to ohhs hopkins childrens taken to 2 other area hospitals her home in baltimore county - this afternooonlook at this video...you can see the flames in the window ffthat rowhome. today on council street... road in arbutus.a woman in the home... wws smoking while n oxygen... and her couch caught on fire.she was able to make it outssde. if you feel a little electricity in the air, there's a very good reason... reason... the... ravens... open.../ seasoo... this eek.../// áábutáá...// it's... not... just áanyá opening daa.../ sports director bruce cunninggam... think about it, how can ou improve on rrvens opening day? how about when thh opposition &pis their hated aach-rival? that's riiht, they open against the steelers... you don't evvn haae to be a football fan to kkow about this one...there are thoseewho

in anne arundel, a man threatened an off-duty police officer with a syringe. he ran from a drugstore on the highway after employees called the police for a fact. when he was confronted by an officer, he stabbed himself with a syringe and then threatened to use it on the officer. marshall took off running and entered a grocery store, where he held employees at bay with a knife. officers were able to arrest him without further incident. nobody was injured. >> a carjacking back in march -- the perpetrator will spend the next 29 years behind bars. he did not offer a plea in the case. and this bit -- beat the 61- year-old victim before stealing the car. ennis's dna and fingerprints were found inside the vehicle. >> it has been a mostly dry day, with some sunshine. the weather conditions are beginning to ease, at least for the next day, before another round of changes. a few scattered showers that popped up on popular have diminished and moved east of our region. what we are left with is dry, mild weather. temperatures in the mid-70's around baltimore. in the 50's o

crimes.police in anne arundel county want your help finding this man... clarence randall.he picked up a young woman near belle grove road and ritchie highway...drove her to an area a mile down the road on ritchie highway... and sexually assaulted her. her.baltimore county police are asking for your help finding michael friedmann.he's supposed to be a registered sex offender......but he failed to register after being released from prison on august 4thif you have information about either of these people, you're asked to call police. find out if any registered sex offenders live in your neighborhoodgo to fox-baltimoe dot com...at the bottom of the news features section... there's a link to maryland's sex offender rigistry. we want to hear about how you're fighting back against crime.tell us what you're doing in your community.call our hotline...410-662-1456. should people.../ receiving.../ welfare... be required .../ to... take drug tests? ááit'sáá been adopted... in florida.../ already..../ ááandáá some maryland...lawmakerss..// are... kicking... the idea...// around...// áá

some of the games in charles county and prince george county and anne arundel into southern marylandill be wet to start. they are moving out fast. the rest of us had clouds and no showers. temps are still mild. 68 arlington. 69 bethesda. 71 downtown. 68 gaithersburg. 68 in laurel and 70 college park. here is the deal. it will be more like november this weekend than october. tonight breezy and turning colder after midnight. wet and chilly saturday. chilly and not as wet on sunday. if i had to pick the better of the two days, sunday. late tonight if you want to go outside, big plans, friday night, it will be cloudy. no wet roads tonight. however, you go over the divide here, see the pink and blue, that is nice to see. it's been so long since i have seen that, that is snow in the western divide and a lot of showers and light rain. for us it will be light. but still it will be miserable if you combine the rain and the wind and the temperatures struggling to get out of the 50s. 1:00 on saturday, showers go back to the north, gaithersburg, frederick in the mountains then come back at us. t

but you can see most of this from anne arundel county, annapolis, right on down to just to the west of the bay. but it's going to basically move across chesapeake beach, places like that. waldorf, you have gotten a shower moving through. we can get tighter here to show you the live radar going around and around. you can see these to the west. waldorf, laplata, mainly through there and continue to move on through. actually st. mary's county had a good shower earlier. looked like another one. in the blue line there, that's the front. the front is moving through. we're getting dryer air behind the front, but cooler air, too. let me show you the temperatures. here in the city, it's 71. dulles 72. further to the north and west, dropping into the 60s. cumberland at 6 61 degrees right now. a few showers to the east at 7:00. mainly clouds the rest of the evening hours and temperatures dropping down into the upper 50s. chilly this weekend and we're not talking a whole lot of sunshine either. we'll have that complete forecast whether you want it or not. i think you're going to like it. we'll hav

a pair of 64s from ann arundel county from glendale to annapolis.l get a warm wind surge out of the southwest. here is the deal. check out the circulation back there across the upper midwest. would we have ourselves a look at the frontal boundary moving through western maryland and a solid shield of clouds but not much moisture left with this thing and the leading edge cool air. they are are pulling the stronger winds ahead of it and it is not a windy day, definitely a warmer day as we get back into the mid-70s. and with that in mind, adding some moisture in the afternoon, with the prime time heating and in fact, the front, we may get some showers and storms to develop south of the bay bridge, lower eastern shore but the cold air is really what we're focusing on, to filter in as we head through tonight and tomorrow. a basically partly cloudy day and a chance of showers with the cold pocket of air that slides through with extra energy overnight at day break and there may be snowflakes mixed in with the mountains to the west and some of the snow may b

comppter lab, along with a center where pecial occaiions can be helddlibraries in baltimmre and anne arundel county plan to lend e-readers , pre-loaded wwth best selling books. it's a cass of deja -vu!the protype of the et to bb fraacisco.it's reported an apple mployee lost it.the san franccsco police department put out a press release saying tracking down a lost iiem.the cops along with 2 apple employees entered a home and pooked for the item, but didn't ind it.apple won't comment on the sstuaaion.if this sounds familiar.. that's because before the introduction of the i-phonn four ... it's prototype waas lost inna bar as wwll.it wound up in the hands of the tech blogger, who paid 5 thousand doolars for it. ácheersálove, peace and soooooooooul!soul train cellbrated it's 40th anniversary... monday, with a pree concert in chicaao.the danne show.... cceetor and host, don cornelius stepped on stage in a leather uit... coming up on thh early tch..- edition... it's been a soggy sttrttto your morning.but will it dry up y your afternoon drive? youu skywatch weather forecast is ext. p(break 1)) ((ad