takes place at gibson island for an open water swim in the chesapeake bay. meadowbrook aquatic fitness center. someone taking part is our own wyatt everhart. he's out at meadowbrook. it's a great day for it sunday looks pretty good too. >> reporter: absolutely christian. beautiful day for it and you know meadowbrook aquatic center has been playing such a huge role not just in terms of the training. for all of the swimmers especially rookies like me. you can see high speed swimmers these guys are unbelievable. the bottom line is one of the big parts of the swim on sunday morning will of course be at gibson island and chesapeake. but also here at meadowbrook a lot of inland swimmers we hear 80 to a hundred right here at this facility. i want to bring in dr. john burton. dr. burton i hear you have an amazing team assembled that has done a tremendous amount with swim across america. baltimore's first ever. >> yes we do. johns hopkins bayview medical center 21 of us are swimming mostly physicians but not entirely. three of our children swimming along with one of

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it's at gibson island coming up sunday morning.christian. >>> wyatt, thanks, there will be a new top prosecutor for baltimore city. jessamy trails bernstein and today she announced she was conceding a rays. she told supporters it won't be the end of her career but it is the end of an era. >> february 1995 then 46-year- old patricia coach jessamy becomes the first woman to serve as baltimore city state's attorney. she told abc 2 news about her upbringing in rural mississippi. >> we were all culturally deprived but we were not deprived from love and support. >> jessamy had just been appointed to the post replacing stewart simms who had just been appoint todd cabinet. >> i think i bring as a woman a certain perspective to this job that maybe has not been there before. >> reporter: the citizens of baltimore agreed, easily re- electing jessamy in 198, 2002, and 2006. it would be much more difficult this year. two months ago, former federal prosecutor greg bernstein announced his candidacy and immediately went on the attack blaming jess

gibson island, pine hearst, ultimately fort smallwood state park. the chesapeake bay or inland on the western shore of the bay. this is annapolis on the map in case you are having a hard time reading the information. here is gibson island's right here. you can see the storm activity. the strongest is highlighted in red. moving north toward rather rapidly. to the south, the intensity is not very strong right now. there is a lot of rain across the. at this stage. interesting to note, we had the lightning detection system on but there is no lightning detected from any of the activity right now. but once again, the reason we are on the air with some extended coverage is a tornado coverage in effect for east central anne arundel county until 10:15 a.m. this morning. this includes a lot of the water communities, right on the shore, from around annapolis no. words to near baltimore -- around annapolis north toward baltimore. this is a tornado indicated on radar, at least the potential. circulation of the macleod, a few thousand feet up. if we have not had

you guys are doing the swim at gibson island not at the pool right. >> that's right. >> reporter: andat kind of distance are you guys looking to do out there. >> i'm doing the 3-mile. >> 3-mile. >> one mile. >> reporter: all right young man. what does it mean to you to do this. this is baltimore's first ever swim across america i know you guys do a lot of swimming but never in this event before. >> we have a friend suffering from leukemia. good family friend her kids used to swim here, and we want to do our part and fight cancer. >> reporter: how about you. >> it's great how everyone can get together have fun go out and swim. donate some money. it's going to a good cause. >> reporter: how about you? >> we would like to help people with cancer. it helps we're doing it with swimming. >> reporter: the brothers give each other a hard time on occasion i bet but teaming up for this swim right. >> yes. that's right. >> reporter: speaking of that before we get to weather let's see a demonstration of some brother to brother speed here. i can't swim as good as you good. let's see what the real

the median home price on gibson island is nearly $2.8 million. no other maryland towns were in the top 100. however, royal oak near st. michael's on the eastern shore ranked 122. >>> it's one organ that all of us have but sadly it's very difficult sometimes to find a match. tonight, you're going to hear the story of one friend, one family, and a new life for everyone involved. plus, keeping your balance can be difficult. sometimes especially for the elderly. we're going to show you how exercises taught at home could keep your loved ones from falling. >> and sun breaking through the clouds today. 81 degrees at bwi marshall. 79 was your 2-degree guarantee. so we just squeaked it in there for you. gail from baltimore, you're our 2-degree guarantee winner. give us your name. we'll be right back. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. buried in his website - a promise to replace the tax code with a 23% sales tax and eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. a bush tax panel said families would pay $6,000 more a year. a r

we're going to be over at gibson island and also at meadow brook so we are going to swim in the poolnd swim in the open water. >> we are trying to make it as inclusive as possible. it's in a protected cove off gibson isle. for people who want to stay in a pool, it was generously donated by michael phelps. we have over 100 swimmers there so far. and 430 swimmers at the open waters. a total of 500 swimmers. >> and michael will be down at gibson island. >> michael will be our official starter. >> in the pool and in the open water. what does this mean for you, that so many people are coming out to fight this darn disease? >> i mean, you get to a certain point in your life, yesterday i found out one of my dear friends that i've known forever my whole life was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. so you feel like i'm doing something right. >> are you swimming for yourself or are you swimming for others? >> i'm swimming for myself, i'm swimming for others. i'm swimming for my team. there's just so many people that are affected by this disease, and it seems really like we could beat it. we could f

the first swim we we have had for gibson island. 500 out there. >> 500,000 raised. >> half a million dollars raised. >> good. >> so we set all kinds of records relative to that event nation-wide. so eat your heart out boston, that whole thing. the bottom line was that we have great weather for that, we keep it going this week all week long. sunshine, get a little longer, might be up to 90 on friday. first days of fall coming in like a lamb to say the least. >> i like that. ease in the trend. >> yeah, don't like it too cold too fast, look outside. beautiful day. the swings in action. ride that swing, pain, that's what i always say. you got tone joy these days wheel we still have them joce. sunshine, 77 degrees, humidity 44 pearls, winds northwest at 6 right now. through the day it's been fantastic out there, weather net camera out there at the science center capturing a beautiful sunshine-soaked day out across the entire state today really. not just baltimore but everywhere is seeing all kinds of sunshine today. a beautiful scenario here early in the morning and late in day, school is

gibson island.ang on, trying to get ready to go into battle. >> manly men. >> wasn't the easiest thing to do an open water swim when you're not an open water swim earn, put on the goggles and the double double jacket. i had to. but again, just hundreds of swimmers out there, 200 volunteers, and an awesome event from maryland and baltimore. so looking forward to next year on that. cooler and clear tonight, beautiful weather, but it will be chilly overnight. we're already down to 62 at bwi and expecting that number to drop sharply. probably getting down to the low 50s in the city. outlying suburbs going to see 40s overnight tonight. already seeing that up north of 0 the pennsylvania line. new today, chesapeake beach. nice looking sunset as well. next couple days very, very nice weather around here, today's highs similar to these numbers, upper 70s, a few spots only into the low 70s, nor his risks industrial, hanover, maybe a degree or two warmer then the temperatures head up as we head into fall, wedn

residents on gibson island live in the 23rd most expensive place. it has an average home price of $2.8 million. several other local places are making the top 500. mclane and potomac at 1.6 million in d.c. with homes are round 1 million. the country's most expensive senate code, california with the median house price of $4.2 million. >> that is insane. >> rain, rain, rain. we had a storm center that lasted from june 26 june 29 in 2006. that is the last time we had a similar set up an atmosphere. we had close to 10 inches of rain. it looks like we would get two to 5 inches of rain locally. a big deal. tomorrow morning's rush hour will be terrible. let's show you the rain now. the doppler not picking up much of tharound the district. the moisture pushes all the way south, into south florida, even into cuba. this goes all the way down to the north western caribbean. it is a large area of moisture. pockets of heavy rain. places like wilmington, north carolina, have picked up 16 inches of rain. maybe another four or five or 6 inches coming. let's look s c

gibson island is in the path. let's go to the graphics and i'll show you the other tornado warning. is the second one now. another tornado warning in effect until 9:45 for central st. mary's and calvert county. so a few locations in the line, long beach, calvary beach, point republic and prince frederick. so tornado warning until 9:45 for central st. mary's county and southeastern calvert county and a new tornado warning until 10:15 for central and eastern portions of anne arundel county. entire area under a tornado watch. we've been talking about this all morning. east of the district, that's where the worst of the rain has set off so we're not out of the woods yet. we have several more hours of intense rain. some places have received over an inch an hour and it will continue to rain for several more hours. let's push on to hd radar and i want to show you a few futures. one of the problems is to the east of the district. annapolis, deal, eastern portions of the bay and into queen anne's county and you can see the intense thunderstorm and rain activity in annapolis, reefa, to the we