cheryl conner is out there, talking to people, interviewing, hanging out. having a cold beverage, take a look. not a bad shot showing the clouds coming in. 89 now, it's comfortable. the barometric pressure falling down. we have inclement weather coming in to play. hopefully get wind tonight. here is the shot this afternoon. watch how it was not much in the water of cloud coverage, we are seeing the clouds filtering back in, outside the channel 2 doors, bel air, same deal, good looking shot. this morning gorgeous downtown, just the clouds coming in to play. let's switch sources, here is the band of showers starting to work in bigger storms out towards hagerstown that we will have to keep an eye on. spotty showers, frederick, westminster, south of tawny town, maybe that produce as band of showers and storms. let's get over to weather graphics, 89bwi. hour by hour folk showing us -- spotty showers in the forecast, tomorrow morning you may wake up to a spotty shower. we will see the front bringing in cooler, drier air. 80 by tomorrow afternoon. here is the cold

cheryl conner is live at m and t bank stadium. they are ready for a win on home turf, right? >> reporter: that's right. the party being right here, fans are back at the bank for the first home game of the 2012 season. look what we spotted across the street to. get the home life is okay. you have the man wearing the detroit lions jersey and the woman wearing the ravens jersey, looks like they get along fine. they are holding hands there. we found our own square off, ahead of tonight's preseason game. we have don armstrong, wearing the detroit lions jersey, we have earnie nick, wearing the ravens jersey. earnie, since it's the home game, we are in baltimore and not detroit. we will start with you. tell us, what are the ravens going to do tonight? how are they going to win? >> ravens are going to win, we are not going to lose any preseason games, one last week, we are going to win tonight. also we had flacco calling his own plays. i'm going to be behind him, hooping and hollering and make sure he calls the right plays against detroit. >> reporter: what do you think about that? t

cheryl conner joins us with the latest. >> reporter: the goal was to get main street opened for weekend and that happened at 7 tonight. there will be free parking through sunday after a week tough on business and life changing for two families. it's beginning to look like the historic town built around the railroad. after several tests the first trains since the derailment mapped through ellicott city friday evening. -- passed through ellicott city friday evening. cars are allowed to come through. >> from day one we were clear with csx they don't get back to business until the town gets back to business. >> reporter: county executive is happy with the progress but it's tough to celebrate when flowers serve to remind us of two 19-year-old lost. rose mayr and elizabeth nass were on the bridge when the train derailed and 21 cars flipped over spilling coal. sally owns discoveries along main street. her son went to mount hebron high with the victims. >> shut down for one day and i knew it was probably fairly useless to open the other days. but, we did and you know, a fair a people came in. >

cheryl conner with more on how dr. dance thinks the school district handled today's violence. >> reporter: dr. dallas dance never expected conversations with the police chief every 30 minutes on the first day of school and as you said, his first as superintendent but this has been his monday. a news conference wrapped up about an hour and a half ago. help spent time thanking the perry hall principal george roberts and commended the one staff member for bringing down the gunman. he said there were code red policies that were revamped before he took his position. he said school will be held tomorrow at perry hall with additional staff. there has been word about parents learning about the shooting from social media. >> once we realized what the situation was and had the opportunity to work with our police department and assess the information, we did release it to the community and when kids would be released. there will be a letter going home with kids tomorrow. in the age of social media we had students who were making

being used in the baltimore area, if the three had their own business or if they were selling it, cheryl conner, abc2 news. >> we're working to help you protect your family from credit card fraud. first, don't put your pass code or pin numbers anywhere. only shop online with companies with reputable name. and keep a close oi on your account and statement f you see a charge that shouldn't be there, contact your bank or your credit card company immediately. >>> a few showers out there well north and west of the city. take a look from hagerstown all the way down to west virginia. i'll show you over frag county -- frag -- frederick county, westminster. i want to show you the progression of the line. it's still north and west of the city limits. i think it's in here after 9:00, 10:00. a spotty shower, perhaps a rum billion of thunder. temperatures with the clouds, 77 in town. 77 easton. 80 in salisbury, a rain cooled 66. 71 degrees through the rest of the evening. you'll go to bed with clouds and storms, waking up to fog. we'll check more on the seven-day forecast. the tropics are heating up. >> 50-

. >> cheryl conner joins us with a new law that may get us closer to that goal. >> starting in octauthsprinklersill be rir err required -- sprinklers will be required in homes. >> reporter: we visited a site of heart ache for a family. on sunday night, night ning struck to -- lightning struck the roof. >> reporter: the family will be out of their home at least four months, but investigators say the sprinklers spared them from more damage and possible deaths. a report out on monday shows that fire deaths are down by 21 pest compared to last year. >> zero fire deaths for the occupant as well as the firefighters. >> starting on the first of october maryland law will require sprinklers. investigators point to this strutistic. there have a -- statistic. there has been no fire death since 1992. >> it doesn't get the strength that it needs to grow. >> he showed us pictures without sprinklers. >> and then continued to burn through the roof. >> reporter: and with sprinklers. >> all you have is a little bit of soot and spoke damage. >> reporter: the cost may have you thinking twice. aft 1.44 -- a $1.41 a

abc2's cheryl conner has more. >> reporter: it's a tough day at headquarters. it's the first day of school for dr. dallas dance. a news conference wrapped up about 33 minutes ago. we did learn that school will be held tomorrow. he also said there will be additional security and staff in place. dr. dance talked about the principal for the bravery and the heroic actions of one man who stepped in and took down the shooter. we asked about the code red poly. he said it's something he worked on revaling before taking his position as superintendent. >> all of our schools have school safety plans. when i came on board in july i met with the u.s. marshals as well as the -- fire marshals as well as the chief. they did a great job of following the plan to a t. >> reporter: he certainly emphasized that, really thanking the staff. you can imagine if that person didn't step in, we could be talking about a horrific event at perry hall high school. one thing that's missing, the name and more information on the shooting and the victim. all that he would say is both are students

cheryl conner has more. >> reporter: the scam was happening a quarter of a mile from the state police barrack. the suspects went to rudder's gas station again a manager called police and they were

everybody at face pwaorbgs no one has an office, whether you're mark zuckerberg or cheryl simberg or adam conner and i, it's an open environment. we sit in rows of tables. what's great about that is the collaboration that it brings. one of the things i love about our company is that they really encourage ideas from all over the company, and it can really spark from the bottom up. if you've got an idea to really just be able to talk to the people around you very quickly, to get something done. i always liken it to it's very much like a campaign. campaigns are loud, everyone together, just trying to get everything done, and that's exactly what our office is like. host: but you being the republican and you being the democrat, you don't necessarily want to share information do you? guest: we have conferences and things, we'll take private and presidential calls on, something of that nature. a lot of it is we're colleagues, coworkers and friends and it's great to have a collaborative environment when watching news, talking about what's happening, but we obviously, the nice thing about this structure