another crash 32 at clarksville pike. the beltway moving well, just a minor slow down on the west side inner loop as you approach security boulevard. let's take a live look. not a bad drive for you. 895 north of the tunnel. easy drive white marsh boulevard also. this report is brought to you by toyota and you local toyota dealer. for the best deal on a new car you have to look beyond the day you buy it. toyota is designed to save you money today and tomorrow. visit buy a toyota.com for all the special offers. >>> at the top of the news, the new clues as police continue to search for the man who abducted cap ripken's mother, vie. mike schuh is live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. when there's a crime police hope there's a usable photo available. in this case, there is. >> take a good look. here's the man police say kidnapped vie ripken at gunpoint from the garage of her home. the camera captured these imagines. >> he was wearing a white shirt, a long white shirt, blue jeans, had a hat on. >> the suspect tied up

this will be coming across jessup, laurel, up toward columbia and clarksville. you'll watch out for that temperatures this morning, they're certainly muggy. the low to mid-70s with high humidity everywhere. some 60s, though, out in western maryland. in cumberland 60 and oakland 64. looking outside, that's the capitol behind just a wet lens on the camera. 75 degrees on our michael & son weather camera. 75 at a south wind at 6. only two degrees shy of the temperature. relative humidity way up there at 94%. nationally probably heard about the heat going on in the midwest. once again very hot from nebraska through kansas city, st. louis, chicago, even detroit today will be 102 degrees. we'll have to watch this heat because little pieces of it are going to break off and move east the next couple of days. here's that ridge of high pressure once again in the middle of the country. storms forced to go up and over the ridge through south dakota and minnesota and iowa. then in the southeast, we've got some scattered showers and storms. got some pretty bad drought conditio

if you're traveling along route 108 at clarksville pike, traffic lights are out in that area. please, treat all intersections as a four-way stop. also look out. an accident, reportedly a car spun out along eastbound i-70 near route 97. now, if you're traveling along i-95 in virginia, though, taking a look there, nice and clear north and southbound, especially if you're traveling northbound heading up towards the occoquan, getting some volume but no major delays, and travel lanes are open. back in ten minutes with another look at your traffic. angie, over to you. >> thank you, danella. >>> three washington nationals are off to kansas city for the major league baseball all-star game. pitchers gio gonzalez and stephen strasburg and outfielder bryce harper were selected to represent the national league. harper is an injury replacement and he's the youngest position player ever to play in the all-star game. shortstop ian desmond was selected for the team but pulled out because of a sore oblique muscle. >>> well, it was a rough day for the nationals to end the first half of the seas

clarksville pike at homewood road and the eliket city area. and also aviation boulevard at elk ridge landing. let's take a live look, once we're over the tunnel things look pretty good. rid your home of pests, call home paramount pest control for a free inspection today. you can call them at 888-8888- home. >>> customers avoided by bge response to storm related power outages are not happy to hear that bge is asking for a rate increase. pat warren reports bge is making its case on the need to upgrade equipment. >> reporter: mary beth has already battled cancer and she battled the heat when she was left without power. it's against the backdrop of disconnect that bge asked the service commission for a rate increase. >> we're going to let the psc decide whether the performance was good, bad or needs improvement. but apart from that the instructure is the infrastructure. >> and the infrastructure is what the increase is about. in a regular bill 70 pays for energy, 29 for taxes and about 100 go to shareholders. >> people have the misconception that

eastbound 32 just past clarksville, we have accident. if you are going to travel along a liberty road, we want to remind you that there are downed wires. partial building collapse along 33rd street. if you want to travel along monument street, you are going to find delays between wolfe and patterson park. take orleans as your alternate. here is the live view of 795 and franklin boulevard. let's switch over to a live view of 95 and o'donnell. pretty nice start there. >> another muggy start to the day. 75 in salisbury, 75 in ocean city. heat andnation anof the humidity could make it feel like the low 100. chance for thunderstorms today, especially south of the d.c. and baltimore areas. with all this heat, the atmosphere is unstable. as we head into >>> 7:30 on friday morning, july 27th, 2012. you are looking live at the olympic torch on the river thames as it completes the last leg of its epic 70-day, 8,000 mile journey to britain. it's at city hall where the flame will remain out of sight until the big moment, the opening ceremony. if the

it's headed toward the northeast toward ashton and clarksville and another cell headed eastward. we've got all this going on with the high heat across the area as we maxed out at 101 degrees. reagan national airport, temperatures currently sit between 90 and 99. so we're getting a cooldown. we'll talk more about what's going on with these storms in a couple of minutes. >> we'll stay in close touch throughout the evening. veronica, thanks. >>> redskins fans won't have to wait long to see rg3 out on the field. the heisman trophy winner officially signed with the team this morning. >> the deal is reportedly worth about $21 million. melissa has more now from redskins park. >> reporter: it's a four-year deal worth about $21 million. here is a picture of rg3 signing on the dotted line earlier today. it was released just after he tweeted this. well, people, it's time to go to work off the unemployment line and, oh, yeah, httr. i assume that's short for hail to the redskins. griffin's agent says the heisman trophy winner will be in rookie camp today. he was the second pick out of baylor.

if you see any high standing water in the area, this is around route 108 clarksville road at columbia road. also in columbia, maryland, we have an accident at oakland mills road. crash there involves a vehicle. >> thank you. new this morning, one person is in custody with a triple stabbing in the district. it happened in the 1300 block of northwest near spring road. one man was stabbed in the arm. police did not release details about the other two injuries but they say that all three victims should survive. investigators are investigating circumstances that led up to the stabbing. >> one man is dead after a shoot-out with fairfax county police. it happened near the intersection of frye road and match lane. that's in mt. vernon. this hatched late last night. news 4's megan mcgrath joins us live. megan. >> you can see behind us the police still have a section of this area cordoned off. there's an officer keeping people away. things unfolded quickly late last night when police aroached two men along frye road. it turns out that one of those men had a gun. he opened fire on police. it was

the truck hit the guardrail before coming to a rest near old hundreds road in clarksville around 4:00 a.m. no one was hurt. the road was closed for several hours. now open to traffic. >>> let's check on the roads with kristy breslin at wjz traffic control. >>> we have a couple of delays still building out there, especially around the beltway. north side inner loop, slowing there from charles street to harford road. the west side inner loop, traffic is pretty congested there from edmondson avenue to liberty road. it does break free after that, and everything goes back to the normal speed. a couple of slow spots on northbound 95. first from route 32 to route 100. and northbound 95 slows down again from 395, approaching the fort mchenry tunnel. if you're traveling in the harford county area and bel air, route 23, at the bypass, we have lights out that is definitely causing a lot of congestion in that area. other accidents include moravia road at sinclaire and also charles street at madison. you can see, things definitely a bit slow there. that's 95 at 395. this traffic report is brought

. >> caller: a big boo-yah from clarksville, georgia. >> glad to have you on the show.elp? >> caller: i know there are obvious reasons why a company might change their stock's ticker symbol. >> right. >> caller: are there reasons not so obvious here in the u.s. or abroad and does this have any effect on stocks? >> no, not really. when i was -- a couple years ago at street.com. i'll give you this example. the symbol was tscm and the ceo wanted a facelift. they changed it to tst. i picked the symbol. it seemed good. it was just a change of face. that happens a lot. companies want to change their names. it's really the fundamentals that matter. rich in new york, please. >> caller: hi, jim. for a beginning investor new to the stock market would you advise shorting stock and could you explain how one would make money trading in that manner? >> i do not advise shorting stocks. losses can be infinite. i would say buy puts protecting your down side. it's a mirror image. go to "getting back to even." i have a hundred pages about how it's better to buy puts than short stock outri

north point boulevard, 32 eastbound at clarksville park east 3rd street closed.far as your travel times go, from 83 to 95, 6 0 miles an hour average. this traffic report is brought to you by subway with. entry -- entry the steak melt for a limited time. >>> the search is on for the man who kidnapped cal ripken's mother vie earlier in the week. mike schuh live with the latest. >> reporter: her alleged kidnapper managed to get his picture taken twice. police re released these pictures. that's these were taken by a camera are at royal farms. kroim -- crime stoppers is offering $2,000 reward. if that person looks familiar aberdeen police or the hartford county crime stoppers wants to hear from you. >>> today another code red heat alert will be in effect. the state department confirmed eight more heat related deaths. two in baltimore city, two in baltimore county, two in ann arundel county. >>> 6 0 days, that's how long the governor is giving a plan of energy advisors. the damages caused by the storms and widespread outages led to the governor to issue an executive or

host: with a to clarksville, md. on the republican line. caller: good morning. thank you. please, if you will, refresh my memory as to the three positive spanish speaking commercials that aired last week. where the pro-obama or pro-mitt romney? >> one was a pro mitt romney and one was obama. -- >> president obama goes on the road this week, campaigning in ohio and florida and virginia. republican presidential candidate, mitt romney, concluded his three-nation overseas tour today with a foreign-policy address at the university of warsaw library and poland. he talked about the relationship with poland and praised poland for its economic efforts to stimulate investment, expand trade and live within its means. you will see that speech later on our program scheduled. his trip began on wednesday and london and travel to israel before arriving in poland yesterday. the u.s. house is coming in for morning our speeches. legislative work starts at 3:30 eastern. members will consider 19 bills today, including stemming the abuse of government credit cards and for the limits on abortion

host: clarksville, tennessee, good morning. caller: i want to go back to when the bill was passed.nancy pelosi said now we have passed this bill, we can see what is in it. nobody knew what was in it. if people have money to buy insurance, they would buy it. poor people or people in the middle of the road did not have money to buy insurance. if they do not pay insurance, now they've got to pay a penalty. where are they going to get the penalty from? i get so aggravated saying i have created so many jobs. well, it has not been in the south. the job he can get our minimum -- the jobs you can get our minimum wage. you cannot raise a family on minimum wage. i waited so long i forgot half of the things i was going to say. host: let's see if the congressman has response to what you have said. guest: i would respectfully suggest that she look at what the republicans did a week ago with the transportation bill that was about 600 pages of technical information that was not available until about half a day before we go -- voted on it. sometimes people do not know all the elements until after

clarksville, tennessee, catholic ra -- kathleen. caller: nobody is really talking about the fact that america has never forgotten about slavery. they did it to the blacks. they brought them over here and now they are doing it to the mexicans and chinese. it is not only about us not having jobs. it is about american companies looking and seeker being out slavery. because if they weren't looking and seeking out slavery will are plenty of people that want to work but if they can get the product made for two cents versus $6 that is where the dice is rolled. that is why so many are out of work because of company greed. i don't think anybody ever thought about that. america just will not let slavery go. people should be outraged to know they are using mexicans and chinese people -- and even korea or wherever. you go into some of the high end places that cost you lots of money for products and they are coming from different countries all over the world. there's nothing being made in america and it is because of greed. and people that have