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we check the drive times in the green as well as making your way southbound on the harrisburg expressway problems for the 83 to the jfk looking good as well. only going to take you 4 mints this morning. around the area, a road closure in pilesville. riverside parkway closed at route 163 due to an oversized load being moved. a big tractor trailer is hogging up the roadway there. also in willard's maryland, remaining closed detoured to old ocean city road this morning. >> thank you, kim. >>> religion to this, it's exciting no doubt about it, everyone wants one. next week we are giving away two apple aye -- apple ipads. if you want one, watch beginning monday. look for the daily code word and text it to 6988, and you could win an apple ipad. talking about the 32 gig. the contest lasting until may 21 may 21st two winners will be randomly selected. all the rules are posted for you online. >>> it's 6:17, and here he is, our certified financial planner, is a country defaulting on debt the same as a company defaulting on debt? if it's not the same, point out the differences. >> we are talking ab

it will remain clear if you're traveling on the harrisburg expressway down to 695, and the jfx is goinggtoe, east fayette street. downtown to that's a look at morning travels. patrice, back to you. >>> thank you, lauren. >>> the summer season is about to kickoff here on foxx45, the season premier of so you think yyu can dance is this thuusday at 8:00. one lucky viewer will be able to dance with the best of them. it's ur we can't wait for you think you canndance scon contes. one viewer will win a nintendo wii fit system, an i-pod nano. watch so you think you can dance, trivia question, go to foxbaltimore.com for rules. >>> more people re getting back to the workforce. take a look at the nation' new kenmore elite multi-motion washer. how does that work? hit it! see, other machines only go in circles. this kenmore elite has multi-motions for a custom clean. it scrubs to help lift stains, rolls to wash gently, swings...steps... and tumbles. better than just circles. pbht! what?! sorry. [ male announcer ] get 15% off all appliances plus up to an additional $250 instantly with our appliance trad

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it was in the brain pan and i was driving down the southeast expressway towards the kennedy library.it was just like a car tune and this light bulb, where do i start on this project? i'll ask the archivists and do you have the letters. he explained most of them are destroyed and i said all of it. he said no, we have some. so i said, okay, could i see a bob? -- box and i took out the first file folder and one of the very first letters i looked at was written by a family of eskimos in alaska. and then i turned a couple of pages and there was a letter from a coal mining family in west virginia. and then the next letter was from republicans who really disliked kennedy. one woman was looking forward to voting against him in 1964 and was sorry she was going to be deprived of this opportunity. but in those letters -- condolence letters to mrs. kennedy are like condolence letters most of you -- judging by the age profile has written a condolence letter. it's to console the bereaved persons. and within them i quickly came to see there was much, much more. and what we could gain was a snapshot

it's going to bb on the harrisburg expressway along the southbound lanes at timonium road.o tell you about. you want to stick with belfast road this morning. as we check in on the west side of the liberty road, we're dealing with a bit of congestion and aloog the uter loop lanes, speeds are clocking at 21 miles per hour. it's going to be a slow travel on the west side. we're deeling with an accident at guilford avenue at 24th street. no problems to report at the tunnelss all is clear at the fort mchenry and the harbor ttn. back ttunnel. back to you. >>> the summer season is about to kickoff here on foxx45. the season premier of so you think you can dance is this used to at 8:00. one of the lucky viewers will be able to dance with the best of them. one viewer will win a nintendo wii system. a wii fit plus, a just dance video game and an ipod nano. just watch the season premier of so you think you can dance and answer a trivia question friday morning. you can gooto foxbaltimore.com for the rules. >>> still ahead, a naval academy tradition could be coming to an end. school off

we have the accident on the harrisburg expressway on the onramp on the shoulder.s a truck into a tree and an accident at dundalk and williams and one more at annapolis and green holly drive and downed wires blocking the lanes at quaker bottom road and 795 southbound. ten minutes between owings mills and the beltway. 83 southbound and there's the drive times and the beltway. 22 miles per hour on the topside now. this is brought to you by h.l. greg. browse through the selection of 100 tvs. back to you. >> in the news, a few weeks after being born, an infant is found dead and now, the police are trying to find out what happened there. andrea fujii stays on the story. >>> don, even though the police don't know how the baby died, they launched a murder investigation. a woman was crying for help knocking on the neighbor's door in lorell. when the police arrived, they found the infant unresponsive and an autopsy is done now. the 6 week old has been identified. there could have been an argument before the baby's death. anyone with information call the anne arundel police.

we have reports of an object in the roadway at the harrisburg expressway at mount caramel road.s, 95 southbound is down towards the beltway and towards the tunnels causing a delay of about five minutes this morning. as we take a peek at our map, one crash is working in the area of parkville, old harford road and check the drive times, looking good on the harbor tunnel throughway taking you about 8 minutes. no problems from the beltway to route 32. traffic moving a lot better on the west side at liberty road. you still will experience a little bit of a slowdown between 795 down to i-70. we're sending you back to new york right now for "good morning america." ♪ i'm hot you're cold ♪ ♪ you go around like you know ♪ ♪ who i am but you don't ♪ ♪ you've got me on my toes ♪ >>> what a scene here in central park. they are ready for the jonas brothers and demi lovato. >> boy, are they. this is my first "good morning america" concert. i'm kind of overwhelmed. so, you are guys ready? [ cheers ] >> you've even got george stephanopoulos in jeans. you know that he's ready now. you're ready fo

things are improving on the harrisburg expressway, but we're still seeing delays from middletown to mountloop at york road, a crash off to the side. we will show you that in a moment. dorothy road and campbell would road, crushed to watch for there. as far as the drive times, pretty standard rush out there. 18 minutes on the outer loop with east side, at 8 minutes on inner loop before the j.f.x. let's see what is going on in the cameras. bw parkway, south looks good here. we will switch over to a live view of traffic on the topside york road. we do have an accident off to the side they're on the outer loop. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> things are pretty quiet, obviously, in the weather department. temperatures and the fifties right now. humidity is going down significantly over the last couple of days. 64 degrees in randallstown. 54 degrees in cecil county. mostly sunny skies. upper seventies and low 80s. sunset's this evening three minutes after 8:00. seven-day forecast looks like this. thursday and friday, the to% mark on that. -- 30% mark on that. high near 75. at this po

looks good on the harrisburg expressway. a significant delays. no -- significant delays. >> we are dealing with low clouds, fog, and drizzle, and that will be the case through the middle of the morning, and after that things will improve. 64 in catonsville, 62 in parkton. as we go through the afternoon, the clouds will break up a little bit. the chance for rain will go down a 20%. we will break out of this pattern on tuesday and wednesday. could be some rain at the end of the week. >> be sure to check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. packets of o'clock 55. packets of o'clock 55. >>> 7:30 on this monday morning, the 24th day of may, 2010. unofficial start of summer just a week away, but these folks seem like they got a jump-start on the party. inside studio 1a, i'm meredith vieira, alongside matt lauer. >> the beating that shocked the nation, one it teenager nearly killed another over angry text messages. what exactly did they say to each other? in just a moment for the first time you're going to find out. >>> th

>> reporter: this was the north end of the city where you could take the expressway to the east riverrive from the northern part of the city. >> i imagine -- i'll mention to our viewer, if you're looking at that map right now, we just changed off, just above the "e" in new york is roughly where time square would be, gives you a sense, right above the "e" in new york there. it was known as the triborough bridge for a long time. if you're confused, because of the name change, the robert f. kennedy bridge. what we do know at this point, it had an arizona plate and a u-haul truck but not surprising. >> reporter: exactly. too early to know about this truck but the first thing authorities will be doing is look up the license plate, run that tag and try to trace it through the company, who rented the truck, as part of what they're doing. immediately, they have to figure out whether they can safely approach the bridge. one way the bomb squad is used to doing this when they handle situations like this, remember they have that robot they can send a little closer. a lots of these are very sophis

thank you very much richard a genuine pleasure to welcome you here today for this conference and 12 expresswayappreciation to our speakers to have come from out of town. the first panel is on the major issue of global climate change. this is clearly an issue where the united states and china are the two biggest players on the issue unfortunately since each of us account for global greenhouse gas emissions every year. as an issue whose focus is changing, the u.s. hysterically has clearly been the largest single contributor, a peculiar term, a responsible country in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and since the gasses remain in the atmosphere for a long time coming history matters but as reflected in future the u.s. has peaked in the greenhouse gas emissions and the issue is how much will be reduced those and with what schedule? china is nowhere near its peak but on a very steep upward curve so while the focus has been on the u.s. historically it will shift to china accounted for a large percentage of the increase of greenhouse gas emissions as we move forward. the whole world is looking at th