, foggy start to the morning. and meteorologist steve fertig is here to fill us on the details. >>> the sky hd radar is showing us some fog as a result of the rain yesterday. the rain is out of here. it's gone, however, the fog remains. here is what we're looking at, tell us rain moving off the eastern seaboard and out of here. we have a chance of rain coming in today. an isolated shower possible as the frontal boundary works in. it's the fog that we're most concerned about this morning and candace will give us an update on the roads it morning. we do see the fog advisory from the majority of the state as you look on the west side of the chesapeake bay from harford county all the way across the washington county and across the chesapeake bay. all of those areas from d.c. and beyond in virginia, until 9:00 a.m. it's going to be hanging around for a while. 52 in washington, it's rather mild because of all the clouds, 48 degrees in salisbury. 48 in hagerstown and 45 in oakland. we're going to pick up again just a cha

and you're waking up to extremely foggy conditions outside.s is what the rain that came out yesterday left for us today. if you're getting ready to drive, be careful, because you're not going to be able to see very much in front of you at all. because of that we have school delays to pass along to you. kent county schools are opening one hour late because of the fog and queen ann's schools are opening 90 minutes late with no morning kinte kindergarten. we are going to meteorologist steve fertig and see when the fog is going to move out. >>> it will take sometime before it warms up a little bit and we see the fog dissipate. we have a dense fog advisory until 9:00 a.m. some the areas and earlier 100 yards of visibility, maybe now we're seeing some places as early whitemarsh about 50 feet in some spots. i mean, it's really limited as far as the visibility is concerned. sky hd radar is showing us showers off to the east in some parts. there's the dense fog advisory from the harford county to the southern most part of the state. lower 50s throughou

>> hello again, it's foggy this morning and some eastern shore school systems are delaying. kent county is an hour late and queen anne's is it minutes late and no pre-k. >>> we're primarily stacked up here on the western shore and the school advisories are on the eastern shore. the fog will be with us until about 1067bg about 10:00. >> we'll be on the way to mid- 70s this evening. there's a chance of passing showers and thundershowers as it moves throughout the afternoon. and looking at the glass half full, there's a chance that nothing will happen. >> well, the fog will figure into your ride this morning. >>> well, it's hard not to notice it. we have accidents because of it. one on the westside of the beltway. that's past wilkens avenue and another at the eastern avenue and one in darlington. that's blocking the road there and closed between shoresville and castle ton. to get around that, you can go to shores road and back to the other. and marriottsville, there's a live look at the harrisburgs expressway. you can barely see the roadway. there's 295 and 32. fog warnings in

foggy across the bridges and going to the eastern shore as well. find out about school closings, we'll be the first to let you know. be careful as we have that visibility cut down to less than an 8th of a mile. it'll be tough to see traffic signals and overhead signs. 40s this morning. 66 by lunch time. mild 70 this afternoon. 5:30 on the clock, back to the roads, here's kim. >> speaking of foggy morning, fog warnings in effect for the entire stretch of 895. several accidents working in this morning. baltimore city, we have a large truck fire highland avenue at boston street. another crash, east 25th street. looking at the cameras, going to see foggy conditions around the area. fortunately no accidents or problems on 95 or 695, in ten minutes, i'll let you know about an accident we have working on the bw parkway. >>> today many of you will be celebrating earth day and celebrating the fact you can make extra cash, especially if you have old appliances hanging around. sherrie johnson has more on how you can take advantage of a federal program. >> rep

right now it is foggy because we are writing history. from what i have read confusion and doubt are two key ingredient for remarkable times. >>> hello everyone. it appears the usda may not be done counting the 2009 corn crop. the ag report may do it in the may 11 crop update. when producers were surveyed

it's very foggy.ellet chesapeake beach -- at chesapeake beach you can see a little. let's look at downtown. you could see the bridge into the city a little wild ago, but not now. most of our temperatures are around 50. germantown is 41, most of us in the 40's. 53 in woodbridge. there's a fog advisory. no surprise. a weak system will sing through later. we will still have sunshine after the fog burns off. highs in the low 70's. but the front could trigger an isolated shower or storm this afternoon. keep that in mind. it's isolated. there's a fog advisory for the entire area until 9:00. it may be dropped and may continue for some spots. tomorrow will be very nice. a front will get to was on the weekend, making for a wet weekend. not bad today. lows '70s. >> georgia avenue near 495, dense fog. they are turning it around. i think it got stuck. on georgia avenue there are reports of a vehicle fire in the area. they are trying to find that in the fog. i don't see it on the camera. 270 southbound at 109 with

start. -- it is pretty gorges out there at midday after a pretty foggy start. it is gorgeous out there with lots of sunshine. the upper 60 cozy in arlington. los 70's this afternoon. -- below 70's this afternoon. tomorrow looks like a gorgeous day. >> virginia lawmakers have approved a plan for gov. bob mcdonnell to cut abortion funding from the commonwealth. in a close vote, they voted to block state funding for abortion except in cases of rape or of the life of the mother is at risk. some people could cash in on a program to encourage people to buy energy-efficient appliances. $5.4 million has been committed to the program in maryland. the va has $7.4 million committed. the program kicks off next month. officials building the new silver line at dulles international say it is costing more than expected. the cost could mean higher fees for phyllis commuters. -- dulles commuters. and coming up on abc7 news at noon, the president heads to wall street with a message for bankers and brokers. get ready for more oversight. a preview, coming up. then powerful testing

it's very foggy as you make your way at northern parkway. keep that in mind as you head out so far.ve times this morning, they'll be in the yellow as we start out early. 95 southbound, going to take you about five minutes from the beltway. 7-minute ride from the split towards the fort mchenry tunnel. we are still working an injury accident in sykesville. a handful of crashes in baltimore city. east 25th street. still dealing with an accident eastern avenue at ponca street. truck fire at highland avenue and boston street. jamie, back to you. >>> 6:15. today's birthdays. here we go. baltimore's own john waters from calvert hall. 64 today. country music superstar, i wasn't finished. glen campbell. from anne arundel county, turns 74. went to glen burnie high school. >>> if you're having a birthday, hurry up and send it in. try to give us a couple days advance notice for the birthdays. >>> let's talk about facebook here. it's revolutionizing the way you surf the web. 400 million of your closest friends are already on the site. sharing statuss, sharing pictures of the kids, now a new feat

trains will be single tracking on the orange line between foggy bottom and courthouse. all the work is expected to continue until the system closes sound at midnight. on sunday night get ready for long-term work near the lincoln memorial. crews will be reconstructing ohio drive over the next several weeks. most of the work will happen at night between independence avenue, 23rd street southwest and the southern end of rock creek parkway. keep an eye out for posted detours and lane shifts. >>> the traffic right now is what we are worried about at this moment. >> it is after 7:00 and things are looking much better, especially on the capital beltway. as you can see here drivers are up to speed past 270 spur. no big problems out of springfield, as well. let's switch over to i-270. most of the day it has been good. you are looking at minor delays between 121 and clarksburg but otherwise looking good on 270 an wrap it up in downtown dc near the verizon center. the game underway. a lot more traffic down here. a lot of people are rockin' the red so watch out for pedestrians and

the roads are wet and it's foggy making your way around the area. as we peek at the cameras, no problems on the beltway, traffic moving at a good pace, starting to pick up a little on the outer loop at old court road but seem to be moving pretty fine on the beltway as we look at drive times, also, they are pretty good as well as on the top side from belair road to providence road. outer loop five minutes. starting to build a little on 95 southbound from whitemarsh boulevard to 695, four minutes. on the outer loop between the 83s only one minute so far, back to you. >>> it's a minute after 6:00. martin o'malley got his political science degree by working for senator barbara mukulski. he would lose to john for a state senate seat in 1990 but wouldn't lose again, winning a city council post, then mayor, then governor. linda so as the governor tries to keep his winning streak alive. >> this time it's about winning another four years as governor. o'malley will be here later this morning at 11:15 in fells point. he'll make his case to voters to keep him i

still a little soggy out there. >> misty, foggy. little foggy outside but that's all right because with the fog is the sign that the warmer air is moving in and that is the reason for my optimism today. warmer air on the way. yesterday, there was a whole lot of clouds but not much in the way of rainfall across the area. officially only .05 inch of rain fell yesterday. four of those fell after 11:00 p.m. last night and into early this morning. there's a look at downtown washington. the lincoln memorial getting more and more visible with each passing moment. i can feel it out there. temperatures are starting to climb as well here in friendly northwest washington at the channel 4 studios, we've made it up to 56. national airport is at 57 right now. it has been a dry april. only half of our average rainfall here so far in the month of april. but that's unusual. the last six aprils in a row have all been wetter than average. an average april just under three inches of rain. here's the visibilities again. still four miles downtown. alread

right now foggy and 51. time for traffic. >>> yeah, if you are leaving in the the next couple of hours, leave earlier. i promise you in many spots of the viewing region you won't be able to go the normal speed you are used to. traveling the dulles toll road, i went a good ten miles urn what i usually traveled. a lot of people with low beams on and it is like in the entire way from frederick to the spur. in to dc on river road you will have a couple of patches of clearing but low visible out here. so take your time. the beltway in maryland, it is going to be tough to see in spots here as well as evident here at colesville road. the live shot of the outer loop if you can see it on route 4, route 5 and 301. the same situation on all three of those roads and wrap it up with the beltway in virginia. bad, bad bad out here. watch your speed. no incidents or accidents to report but low visibility is the big story this morning. back to you. >>> maryland state board of elections is requesting an investigation of state

it is extra at foggy and you'll find delays. it looks like it is lifting just a bit at green spring. moving well towards the jfx. good shape into town. we will let you know if delays start to form here. that is the latest on traffic post 11. >> 11 people remain missing from an oil rig explosion off the coast of the louisiana. they are patrolling the area. there was a huge fireball. 126 people were on board. 17 were injured. protesters are lining up over a new immigration reform bill that amounts to legalized racial profile. it would allow police to stop and arrest anyone who cannot produce documentation of their citizenship. there is a bill that would require people to show their birth certificates in order to appear on the state ballot. a teacher has been dismissed for fighting in school. there was video of him boxing students in the hallway. each of the students in the video say they agreed to the boxing matches. school officials say it was a in judgment onpse the part of the teacher. >> a software update caused customers to m

visibility is less a quarter mile in the foggy spots. today's forecast, a fall this morning. sunshine and clouds later. highs today near 72. let's take a look at traffic with lisa baden. >> we just heard about a crash if you're heading into chevrolet. it is southbound on the parkway near 202. several cars involved. dangerous fault of their-- fog. 95 between richmond and baltimore, no problems. 270, 66, the dallas green lake, and the dulles toll road, no problems. >> we begin with breaking news from prince george's county. two sheriff's deputies were involved in a shooting at a nightclub. details are scarce. it happened at brinkley rd. in temple hillel. and there's no word on the number of victims or what led to the shooting. we have a crew on the lake. >> a popular d.c. principal will be laid to rest a week after he was murdered in his own home. brian betts was loved by his students and co-workers. bien carter has some of the emotional tributes and the latest on the investigation. >> words like irreplaceable put on the outside of the door at the school. yesterday the students

people who wanted to come even further up to get away from the small negative and humidity all-around foggy bottom and the potomac in the summer would come here, the highland tacoma a little closer to heaven is what it literally means and i remember when my dad first came here i grew up in brooklyn new york and when my dad first came and visited he said to me you didn't tell me i moved to the suburbs. it ought to live in the city. i said i do live in the city this is washington, d.c.. but the idea that it was a single-family detached house, you know, that was a with a little backyard and postage stamp in front of the guard to him suggested it looks pretty suburban to me. but that is a guy living at that time on the 22nd floor of a big building in brooklyn. that is where i grew up. because i am a working journalist there is no typical day of working on a book for me. the books have to fit into my other responsibilities to fox news and national public radio and to the columns i am doing and speeches i am giving. so it has to fit into what is a very sort of scheduled, heavily scheduled life at

. >>> pretty much foggy everywhere. look at the west side of the beltway. outer loop at liberty road. traffic at a crawl as you make your way down towards i-70. take a quick peek at the maps. accidents in darlington. conowingo road, northbound to southbound continues to be closed at castleton. still dealing with a crash in howard county. we'll get into the fog warnings when we come back. let's get a check of buses and trains with mark jones. >> earlier delay on light rail. that's out of the way. we're good for travel there. metro subway doing fine. the marc train system operating fine on camden, penn and brunswick lines. for the buses, dense fog out there slowing things up a bit. allow extra time for getting there if you travel by bus. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. >>> 20 minutes away from 7:00. florida police have showed a driver running down and killing two british tourists last year. the driver was charged last month. the suspect called his friend who met him at a gas station where he ditched the car. >>> a new study out says motorcycle death

blood pressure green, well his situation a little more foggy, there. jackson with the pirates. 25th, an outfielder and became a pitcher in the d in the run to the 3rd. 2-2. verdin has a good enough arm, in the fall georgia experimented with him working behind the plate as a catcher. in the outfield, he is a guy who is an excellent college player. he did a good job at a freshman and is a mainstay in the middle of the organization. >> matt: 3-2 pitch. taylor moving in the play. trying to get a little action on the bases. >> jeff: verdin, 5 of the 6 home runs have been of the solo variety. good a chance to do something here with a man down at first. jonathan taylor, 1 out in the 5th. again, they are convinced that taylor down 7 runs here and the bulldogs are going to run in the situation. >> matt: i think it will be a hit-and-run type spot, not a straight steal. starting to create a little more energy. here is the 2-2 and the runner is going. and verdin pokes that one into left field, but schaus is there. and 2 outs now. >> jeff: schaus has 3 putouts out

reports reportedly from the plane's black boxes take from the decision made by the pilot to land in foggy weather, as the major factor of the crash. the body of president kaczynski lies in state at the presidenti presidential palace. and the first lady was repatriated today. the sight of the president palace, illuminated with candles, is the place where people are paying their respects. they're maintaining that pilot error caused the disaster. a russian news website released what it said was audio from the plane's data recorder, reportedly of the controllers instructing the pilot to divert because of heavy fog. the last communication, the pilot asking about visibility on the ground. the russian controllers confirmed the haze, before the pilot replies that they were to decent. shortly, the plane clipped the communications antenna and went hard to the left, before grazing tee tree tops and went crashing to the ground. there's no evidence of the president pressuring the pilot to land. vinita. >> a lot of unanswered questions remain. >>> shuttle "discovery" astronauts ventured out this mornin

. >> russian investigators say the pilot had been warned that it was too foggy to land but made the attempt anyway. the crash killed 96 people on board. >>> the mourning isn't limited to poland itself. in our area a church was packed with people who wanted to be part of a memorial to the victims. particularly the pole issue president. fox 5's roz plater was at the service. she joins us live in the news room. >> reporter: the pole issue community in our area held a memorial mass. this is a small tight-knit group who told us it was important to mourn together. high noon, polish americans from across the d.c. area make their way to our lady queen of poland parish in silver string. they packed the pews of the tiny church, lined the walls and aisles and stood in the parking lot. they come to pay respects, share their grief and take part in a memorial mass. >> it's a terrible tragedy for the entire polish nation worldwide. and it's a severe blow. and i feel very sad. >> we all have in tremendous pain and youography -- grieve. >> where overwhelmed. . >> reporter: opinioned's president first lady -

i am buying by the gallon at the foggy. that's how we do. truck show up on these independent contractors and we test the fuel and accept the fuel. that system is run by isaf in the south. in the north we do it ourselves, defense logistics agency task. down at bastion leathernecks, we and the brits work hand-in-hand, try to share our logistics, and you. and we do with all the other coalition partners as appropriate, whenever we possibly can. >> i think i saw question back here. >> mr. secretary, mike mitchell with lockheed martin. i would like to explore a language between the third and fourth topics. and this has a number of firms are developing unmanned helicopter capabilities that could fulfill niche resupply missions. it would take truck convoys off the road and in an area where as you said there is a limited road infrastructure in the first place, to get to areas where there are none. so i'm interested in kind of where the departmental is thinking and if there's anyway to accelerate the capability for all the reasons cited. stark great,

right now it is foggy because we are writing history. from what i have read confusion and doubt are two key ingredient for remarkable times. >>> hello everyone. it appears the usda may not be done counting the 2009 corn crop. the ag report may do it in the may 11 crop update. when producers were surveyed there was corn acreage still unharvested in both states. while planting is in the early stages across much of the u.s. corn in louisiana thinks right around 600,000 acres. many growers have moved on to soybeans. plots have already been planted across the state to provide an early warning. >> they are going in throughout the state looking for asian soybean trying to detect it, give farmers a heads up when they find it in the area. >>> a cold winter should help in the fight against rust. >>> this week's usda crop progress report shows 6% of the nation's cotton is planted. in texas 9% is in the ground. usda is estimating texas doing 8 more acres than last year. we will see 10 and a half acres in the cotton belt. an upswing is enticing to gr

i was already reading those articles, so it wasn't anything to do, but again, speaking as an old foggie, i am truly, truly concerned about the unfettered, unedited, uncontrolled social networking which can be for good or for ill. on the other side, i can say that i was delighted that the pulitzer award went to an internet site which suggests that there might grow in the internet serious journalism with serious standards being applied of control. but i do think we've reached a point where if you want attention, mary jane, you've probably been in a better position to say than i, if you want attention, one of the best ways to do it is to shout really loud, and i'm concerned that the whole -- that shouting drowns out civil discourse. i know, i'm getting -- this is a great example of civil discourse. you can say your opinion, i can say mine and we're not going to get mad at each other and i feel that a lot of social networks is at the highest decibel level possible, so yeah, i do think -- though i don't think i could have done the book, because this -- just to give you some idea, just watchi

his wife maria and about 92 other members of the polish government were killed in that devastating foggyin western russia on sunday, i believe. now, there's one wrinkle, andrea, which i'm not sure if you talked about it earlier. that volcano in iceland could end up scratching that trip. right now the white house -- >> we've been talking about that with chuck todd and he said right now the white house says it's going, but obviously, if there's a safety issue, they won't fly. >> right. we should also talk about one other thing about this trip's the significance of this trip. presidents usually don't go to funerals of foreign dignitary, but this trip by the president to poland is rather significant, because if you remember, the president cancelled the missile defense shields over poland, which rankled the polish government and also rather sensitive, because the decision was made on this 70th anniversary the russian invasion of poland. president obama's going to poland is in a sense a way to restart the relationship with the polish government

this has been a foggy start to the morning. visibility's come up in the last hour.ou're going to be slow because of it. elsewhere, we have a large area of severe weather from texas to oklahoma. this is just east of denver. we think there's going to be tornadoes that pop up in these storms today. please make sure you're up with your abc stations. on the west coast, very cool. showery weather, from l.a. to san diego today. all the all that weather was brought to you by the alzheimer's association. juju, one of the reasons we're here today talking about all of our oceans around the planet, is there's so little known about them. we hope to spark some interest in that water that covers the globe, that really, we all share. >> the aquarium looks like a green screen behind you, sam. but i must say, nice wet suit. >> we're going to need it in a minute. we're getting in. >> all right. we look forward to that. >> i only pulled that off once. >> we look forward to that. thanks, sam. >>> coming up next, the congressional workers flying high on your dime. it's a "gma" investigat

. >>> after a foggy start we had a nice spring day out there. but we could be in for changes this weekend. >> veronica johnson joins from us the other side of our new home here. >> hey there, jim and wendy. i'm going to be heading to the brooks store. maybe one. ones nearby to get a couple of good books for the weekend. it is a stay inside kind of weekend coming up. temperatures today, those have been in the 70s throughout the area. not too bad considering yesterday was so cool. scattered clouds around the our. not a big deal. certainly not putting damper on this day. that's the weather front heading south. by 9:00 on your good night wakeup forecast, we should start clearing out. even more for the entire area. temperature will drop from about 75 at fauquier to mid 60s by 7:00 and 57 degrees by 11:00 p.m. it is one more dry day for us. the weekend has thunder possibilities. you know, it has been a quiet in terps of severe weather across the plains states so far. >> metro is expanding but riders could soon be facing higher fares. some reduced serv

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but people who wanted to come even further up to get away from the smog and the humidity all around foggyand the potomac and midsummer would come out here to clear the high lead, tacoma, a little closer to heaven is what it means. and i remember when my dad first came here, i grew up in brooklyn, new york. and when my dad first came to visit this have, he said to me, you didn't tell me you move to the suburbs. i said i do live in the city. it's washington d.c. but the idea that it was a single-family detached house, you know, with a little backyard and a little post is damp out front of the yard, to him suggested what looks pretty suburban to me. that's a guy who was living at the time on the 22nd floor of a big old and in brooklyn, new york and that's where i grew up. you know, because i'm a working journalist, there is no typical day of working on a book for me. the book has to fit into my other responsibilities to fox news, to national public radio, two columns that i'm doing. two speeches that i'm giving. it has to fit into what is a very sort of schedule, heavily scheduled life. and

i had planned all week to go to the parade in downtown dallas, but the morning dawn foggy, misty and ugly. bill insisted that i stay home and watch the motorcade on television. by 9:30 a.m. i couldn't do so any longer. they put on my oldest raincoat and overshoes and dashed to dallas. i partway down on pacific and was the last car that that law could take your excitement was in the air and i was glad to be allowed so that i could soak it up without the necessity of polite conversation with anyone. i walked slowly, trying to kill the long ways. finally, i decided to go to the zodiac on first mac, where they were having a private branch until mid. so i sadly turned around. as i did so, i saw the beauty salon and right there decided to get my haircut. i was happily surprised that they could take me. i told them that i couldn't wait because i wanted to see the president. i'm going to excerpt some of this comes as quite a long letter. when i came out of meanness, with my new haircut at 11:10 clouds were already forming. it was quite hard and because i had worried so about his reception in

what is happening on the roadways this morning, candace dold is here with at least not a foggy reportn the traffic edge. >> reporter: that's correct, steve. no more fog to deal with, and now we're talking about a pretty picture. check it out on 95, here it is on 395, the coast is clear on the northbound lanes and the northbound stretch all the way up toward the beltway. 895 is looking good as well. that is southbound side from the harbor tunnel all the way toward 95 looking at a 9 minute clip right now 54 miles per hour. we don't really have any complaints on the beltway to talk about. the outer loop lanes from 95 up toward 83, 12 minutes, 45 miles per hour. an 8-minute ride at 83 toward 795. from 795 toward 95, so far it's running reasonably well. 12 minutes, 52 miles per hour there. that's a look at your morning travels, patrice, back over to you. >>> 7:03 on fox 45 morning news. >>> a police officer opens fire on a suspect in anne arundel county. it was a dramatic scene in glen burnie last night and this morning investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened

here's what it looks like, foggy start but now things clearing out just a bit. look at st. louis.you're going to see is cold air circulate through. rain falls to your east with thunderstorms in georgia and the carolinas. get away from there all heavy rain around louisville and the west coast, more heavy rain. lots of snow, too. especially around the sierra nevada. get into oregon and washington state, too, talk about that, again, robin, in a half an hour. >> thank you. >>> so, the stocks fell flat monday, they're under pressure today. stephanie elam has a look at some of the early market movers. but a lot of information that they're just kind of waiting for. the goldman sachs thing and then the federal reserve meeting. >> you're right. we have a lot going on. we're in the holding pattern as you said. but another wave of corporate positive earners but the highlight of the day for sure is ford motor. ford posted up more than $2 billion proft for the first quarter and a huge turn around from the first quarter of 2009 when the automaker lost over $1 billion. ford said it was helped by

it's foggy and that's not -- i couldn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt what happened there. >> there are a lot of questions remaining. he is saying we don't really know what happened in that bathroom. she had a sexual assault examination, but her inconsistent statements are what could really hamper a beyond a reasonable doubt conviction standard. >> does the clearing of charges in this case have any bearing on the case in nevada? where does that thing stand right now? >> it is ongoing. i just got off the phone with cal neva. he is the attorney that represents the alleged victim in south lake tahoe. he's a reno attorney. he says the case is progressing. that actually the attorney for ben roethlisberger tried to dismiss the action. that was denied. now they are trying to change venue out of south lake tahoe. that is to an appellate court because it was denied on the trial level. he's trying to get it out of that resort community of south lake tahoe. >> in this public apology, he didn't make any concessions. i mean, he didn't say i did this. no admissions by any means. but it almost sou