again, we just received a call about this one, two fredrick county schools are closed for this morning. and you can head to our website at abc2news.com for a complete list of the schools that are closed. that story is in our slide show. also parents can sign up for school closings with the e-mail alerts. all you have to go is go to our home page and click on the weather tab and come down here to closings and click on that and you can easily sign up and have these closings e-mailed to you. of course we'll continue to update you on our website with more school closings as they become available. reporting live in the newsroom, sherree johnson, abc 2 news. >>> time now for five things you want to know on this wednesday morning. the new york stock exchange will reopen today. the storm forced the exchange to close for two days. new york city mayor michael ploomberg is expected to ring the opening bell. >>> bwi airport opens for business and there are still some canceled flights, however, so officials say passengers definitely, before you head out the door, check with the airport, it could be

they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming in 1975 from webster university. patricia has a successful career as a teacher and children's book editor. she changed careers to become a full time writer of children and young adult books. her goal is to create books for and about african-americans. i write because there is a need to have books for, by and about the african-american experience and how we helped to develop this country. i present to you patricia makinsik heart of literacy. >> i am from st. louis, missouri. a lot of you think i have said it in correctly when i said missouri. you think i got it slid into my southern dialect, right? no. i was not born in st. louis. i was born in nashville, tennessee, a little town side of nashville. that is where i grew up, went to high school, met and married my husband. moved back to st. louis where i

from your normal. 19 was -- as i mentioned in town, you go outside of the beltway with 30s in here, fredricks at 39. near 50 in dover. 46 in salisbury and middle and upper 40s. light and variable wind in the course of the overnight. 43 to wake up. a lot of sunshine. maybe a few clouds, the last hour and a nice finish tomorrow afternoon. the daytime high around 68. high pressure reigns supreme in the eastern third of the nation and going to keep us high and dry for the next 24 hours and look back in oklahoma city, that works by tomorrow afternoon. there's a storm system. this is on the boards and going to move in chicago in the next 24 hours and have to address that for our area as we go into the day on thursday. take a look at temperatures. 40s, 50s, look at the south and west. st. louis, 71 degrees and this is on the move. it marks them as we go into tomorrow afternoon and more so into thursday. future trend shows sunshine tomorrow afternoon, but watch how the clouds gather thursday afternoon. a few spotty showers developing and then a band of heavy rain that pushes in thursday evening's com

the west, that's where you're dealing with the snow advisories, and then here closer to home, so fredrick and also montgomery county dealing with some flood warnings, and, again, this is mainly for the creeks, the rivers across this area. now, temperatures coming in on the cold side this morning. this is what we're really going to contend with as we go throughout the day, so make sure you have the heavy coat. 40 degrees in arnold, iamsville coming in at 39 degrees this morning. these temperatures are well below and will be definitely well below as we go into the afternoon. this is what's going on, remnants of sandy pushing off towards the north. we are going to be chilly and breezy today in its wake, not windy like we were when it was around, but the breeze is still kicking up, so woo will have a wind chill. i will go with 52 today, but we will feel chillier than that because of the winds. future trend not picking up on a whole lot as we go through time. we will start to improve. look what we have here, mainly cloud cover. we could get a few peeks of sunshine as we go through the next sev

charles village made the top 10 list in 2008 and downtown fredrick was labeled as a great neighborhood, that was in 2010. >>> if you just had a baby, the newborn already owes the state more than $13,000. a nonpartisan group pushing for state budget reform claims that every american owes a little over $13,000 in state debt. that debt, they say, is for state spending on everything from roads to schools, state employees' salaries and even pork barrel projects, one or two of them at least. >>> there are fewer teens drinking and driving than there were 20 years ago according to the cdc. they found that 10% of high school students 16 and older admitted to drinking and driving last year. that's down 22% from 1991. they attribute the decline to the state's raising the drinking age to 21 and zero tolerance laws for teens caught drinking and driving. >>> there is he a popcorn recall to tell you about this morning. dale and thomas popcorn is being recalled. this is because of a concern over possible listeria contamination. this recall is for flavored ready-to-eat indiana-based popcorn with the be

it's still in the 70s in leesburg and fredrick. 73 at both andrews air force base and annapolis. you can see here on satellite and radar that little pocket of showers is just that one isolated area that has those showers that erupted right in time for the afternoon rush. not good timing here. but we are going to start to clear things out as we head into the evening hours and on futurecast, we look good. all right so we're going to push those showers out of the way. as we head into the overnight hours just a few clouds out there mixing in with your view of the stars. and saturday looks good. we're going to see more sunshine returning i think we will have a few clouds bubbling up in the afternoon. because of that pocket of energy you might have seen it there as we were headed to the west. and that will start to make its way toward us as we head into the overnight hours and as we head into saturday. overnight tonight partly to mostly cloudy. 53 downtown, those winds out of the west southwest at five to 10 miles per hour. here's a look at your zones on saturday. 65 in haguerstown. an

let's start in fredrick.have reports of 77 roads that remain closed off at this time because of storm damage, including green valley near route 80. that remains blocked off. 355 between parks mill and holiday drive, that's shut down. also 109 closer in towards montgomery county, barnesville road remains shut down due to storm damage and, of course, 355 blocked off between dr. perry and route 80. we had tree debris tying up the commute along southbound 270 to hurly boulevard. do keep that in mind. now, in virginia, 107 signals we're told without power. so, again, traveling around, if you run into a signal like this, treat it as a four-way stop. burk lake over at rolling road, route 81 at 286, that remains closed off because of standing mill road. again, typically you know your neighborhood where there is standing water. if that happens on a good day when it storms, you can imagine what it's like today. tree mill road at 267, that remains blocked off because of flooding and tree debris and removal continues to

you could just be seeing flakes flying, but once again, mainly towards the west and fredrick. is our viewing area. don't be surprise fort lauderdale that happens this evening. now this is the okbigger story for today, more rain piling up on the rain that piled up yesterday. about 5 to 6 inches yesterday. and we could get maybe about 3 or 4 more inches today. and we are going to continue with dealing with the flood warnings xdthrough today. wouldn't be surprise fort lauderdale maybe we had a -- surprised if maybe we had it go through tomorrow morning and coastal flood effects through tomorrow morning for areas in blue. high tides at 7:44, 8:26 middle river and port deposit at 11:39. and a check of the forecast for you, we will stay windy through tuesday. breezy thursday and friday. and start to see the light at the end of the tunn with more sunshine by the weekend. let's Ñiget a check now of the traffic. good morning. >>> gooding. well the heavy winds okcontinue to shut down the bay bridge. 176 will be shut down at baltimore boulevard. route 175 also going to be closed at route

teachers' conference, we have an annual teachers' conference for free with the neighboring county, fredrick inclusive best practices for the classroom, tactics and tools that they can take that afternoon and use on monday and that's been very well received. we work closely with mcps on that and training for special education and inclusive practices. we also do parent workshops. so we're helping individual families who are touched by down syndrome, but we also reach out to the community as a whole and really support, and we want to be the go-to resource for down syndrome within montgomery county as well as advocacy efforts both on a state level, local level and a national level. >> and you're doing that with the help of this talented man sitting next to you, this young man. you're the master of ceremonies for the event. so are you excited about it, a little bit nervous? i know you want to be an actor. >> right. >> how are you preparing for this on saturday? >> i'm preparing through the speech and with a grace mile. >> that's a winning combination. what do you want people that are watching an

we can see only about two miles of reduced visibility in fredrick, that's the worst of it. and then the further to the north you go, in york, pennsylvania, we have about eight-mile reduced visibility and in baltimore we're looking at nine-mile reduced visibilities. we like to get to the 10s we're seeing in d.c. and also easton this morning. and then we have the temperatures that are quite chilly. cold in some spots. ellicott city coming in at 39 degrees. we should be at 46 degrees this time of year for our low temperatures. annapolis 42, and federalsburg coming in right around 40. so we have lots to talk about today. i'll tell you when you'll need the rain gear. i'll tell you when you can put the coats away because we do have a warmup in the forecast. megan and charley, over to you. >>> stay with us this morning because you probably know what you were doing when that earthquake hit in august of 2011. did you know what to do. >> what the state has planned to make sure you're prepared in case the quake should come your way. >>> also today, there's a grand opening today. we're