i want to thank everybody, especially principal chris cook. we'll see if we can get more pictures this morning. joppatowne elementary school, all our new friends out there. we're looking at storm center weathernet where we have 43 degrees at north harford middle in pylesville. bel air elementary school 46. we've got trinity lutheran school in joppa, 48 degrees. by the water, havre de grace, 50s. we have a seven-degree spread in harford county alone. most of us in the 40s to low 50s by the city and bay. we'll get up to 67 this afternoon for a two-degree guarantee with a lot more sunshine. >>> 6:00. 6:01 right now. always bringing you sunshine out there. here's kim brown. thank you. no accidents and no delays. that makes your thursday commute off to a fantastic start. as we look at 50 and 97 you see traffic starting to build a little in both directions as you make your way on 50 westbound headed to the capitol beltway. no problems there. same on northbound 97 headed to 695, that earlier construction project at new cut road has been picked up. tr

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chris jansing. >> can i have your attention, please. >> reporter: at cook children's hospital in ft. worth, texas, suspected cases of swine flu are flooding in. >> he's running a fever. >> reporter: it's an increasingly common sight. >> most states do have quite a lot of disease right now, and that's unusual for this time of year. >> reporter: cdc has confirmed swine flu in all 50 states, widespread cases in 27, a situation they call uncharted territory. the first 600,000 doses of the h1n1 spray vaccine are set to arrive by tuesday with the injections arriving by the end of the week. they'll initially go to health care workers, children, and pregnant women. 100 pregnant women have been admitted to intensive care units with swine flu. 28 have died. dr. anthony gregg's patient was one of them. >> her symptoms were present during her delivery, and she deteriorated really shortly after that. >> reporter: and 60 children have died since april. that's more than in a typical full flu season. >> it's scary, you know, when you hear about kids who are very healthy that are dying for no reason.

chris kimball, editor-in-chief at "cook's illustrated" is here with a bush shelf great recipes for krichlou like it? a bushel is a lot. >> we have a few. what kind of apples should your for bake something had. >> traditionally people use five or six different kind, whatever was available locally. but granny smiths hold their shape, but they don't have a lot of flavor. so the other apple to pair with it would an golden delicious or my favorite is macintosh. the yellower the granny, the more ripe it is. p. >> so do you like to all of these in one recipe is this. >> i would quuse half grannies d half macs. the problem is they're stored in a controlled atmosphere so after eight or nine months after storage, you bake with them, they just turn to apples. >> so there's so much flavor in that kind of an apple, but they're mushy. >> got it. what are we makmaking? >> pie is a problem because it's a lot of work. so what do we do? we take about 2 1/2 pounds of apples, saute them in a skill let with two table spoons of butter. add syrup and spices and sugar. >> your maple syrup? >> yes. it's his. >> i