also calvert county this morning, step out to warm temperatures above average, garrett 72 degrees, hickory 68. jessup 70. the winds turned around to the north. that's filtering in the drier air. with the front to the south it's still going to keep the humidity around. that's what you can expect as we head through the rest of the day. 6:00, 74, 80 by 9:00. lunchtime 87 degrees. let's get a check of the time saver traffic with loren cook. >>> if you are headed to the downtown baltimore, we have repairs underway on the water main break. light street shutdown between lumbart. construction really is starting to pick up out on 895, one northbound lane is shutdown at the steel bridge. later stick with the fort mc henry tunnel. here is what 95 looks like at eastern after. everything will be up to speed. 8 minutes traveling through the lanes through the fort mc henry tunnel from the beltway to the toll plaza. if you are heading downtown, another traffic alert, reminder, the grand prix preparations are underway. a portion of pratt street will be closed through 5:00 this morning. it will open at 5:00

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temperatures, reisterstown 65 degrees, good morning, 66 westminster, more of that in mount airy and hickory. 71 we are looking at in centerville and 67 in northeast. here are the dew points right now, the moisture is up there, it's trying to drop off that dry air is really trying to make that push in here. lit be squashed for the most part because that cold front that stationary front is sagging to the south. we can see in easton, 72, we are feeling it. slightly humid in baltimore, frederick, more in york, pennsylvania. the humidity is out there as we look at the tropical storm tracker, we can see the winds sustained for ernesto, 65 miles per hour. it's forecasted to strengthen a little as a category one as it makes the landfall. it will stay away from us. future trend not picking up on a lot throughout the day. now a check of time saver traffic. >>> traffic is starting to pick up. we have problems out on 95, there is a crash along the southbound lanes at route 100. on the northeast corridor, there is going to be a disabled car. as we check in and look at 695, parkville, harford road, that

more in hickory, temperatures in the 50s. we are looking at 58 now and once again, the dew point is the same as the temperature. the air is saturated. more of the same bel air with the temperature coming in around 59 degrees, right now and that dew point is at 58 degrees. the winds are light and variable. through the afternoon, they will pick up a little bit more. this is what you can expect if you are heading to the airport, 63 degrees, check out the sunrise, 6:26, sunset in the 7's, 7:53 is what we are looking at. >>> we follow breaking newses howard county, a train derailment killed two people and shutdown main street. expect a lot of police activity in the area. charley crowson and linda so will bring you a life report in a few minutes. 695, northwest conner, in great shape at old court road. no delays towards pikesville or the outer loop. here is the beltway, nice and collie from parkville up towards towson. >>> here is what the team is working on for you on this tuesday morning. good morning maryland at 5:00. we are fol

they exploded in the middle of hickory avenue. most people were still sleeping. they found debris gathered around the streets. >> obviously when they detonate the bottle gets shredded and somebody can get hurt. >> the police say it is not known what chemicals were use inside the devices and no arrests were made. >>> two women narrowly escaped fire this morning t. broke out at 6:00 a.m. one woman said she heard flames and an explosion in another room. she rushed to wake up her elderly aunt and helped her out of the house. they have several horse on the property and they escaped fine. >>> hiring figures are due out at the end of the week. u.s. economic growth slowed to 1.5% for the second quarter of the year and and economists say the fed could launch another program of buying bonds and mortgage-backed securities in september if the economy does not show improvement. that weighed on stocks as a day, until then, had been positive. the dow lost 32 points and nasdaq 19. the united states postal service declared it was broke. the usps failed to make the $5 billion paym

hickory at 68 and 72 right now in laurel. let's get a check now of the time saver traffic with lauren cook. >> good morning. well, if you are headed out to route 50 we do have a disabled car that's blocking one eastbound lane at the bay bridge, but good news traveling westbound where a crash is just cleared from route 301 and for those of you wruzing interstate 97, no delays from route 60 all the way up toward 695. and as we take a live look here at howard county, everything up to speed at route 29. no problems as you drive over towards 695 but traffic is really starting to pick up out on the beltway. a 13-minute ride from the outer loop. also building on the outer loop from 95 up towards 83. not any serious delays. that stretch will take you 12 minutes and everything will be nice and clear out on 95 through the white marsh area. you're looking at a 15-minute ride >> there a virus and it's making its way around. it ooes affecting our pets. it's called the parvovirus and it's extremely contagious. is this considered an outbrea

it exploded along hickory avenue just after six this morning.fficers discovered another unexploded bottle when they arrived on the scene. now it appears that somebody filled that bottle with chemicals that could cause it to explode. fairfield police say this is the late nest a series of similar cases. >> unfortunately it's extremely dangerous when the device is actually detonated. it throws debris for sometimes hundreds of feet. it's sharp. now it's covered with acid and it's a felony in the state of california. >> fortunately nobody was hurtpy today's blast. the bomb squad assisted in disposing of the unexploded bottle. >> free birth control is one health benefit that's now available to women under president obama controversial affordable care act. a provision went into effect today that provides free services that also includes screenings for sexually transmitted infections, prenatal care, pap smears, pelvic exams and breast cancer screenings. >> too often we put our own health last and that's especially true when it comes to preventive care.

our last stop takes us to hickory this morning where the temperature dew point is same 63-degrees as you head out and about this morning i do suggest a sweater or a jacket. it's going to be on the cool side again. maryland's most powerful radar is dry now and it will stay that way through the afternoon. here's the hour by hour forecast for you as we will be nice and sunny by lunchtime today. temperature 83 degrees, over to you. >>> you head out for the water for fun and relaxation but anything but that last night when two boats collided injuring nine. among them five children. >> abc2 news' sherrie johnson joins thus morning with the latest on what happened and we have learned that a state lawmaker was on board at the time? >> reporter: that's right. delegate donald dwyer was one of the people on board the boat as well as four children who were seriously injured in the collision of two motor boats. now i spoke to the nurse this morning and she told me at last check he was in serious condition and six others also at different hospitals. it happened last night on the magothy river and

hickory around 74 degrees and we are looking at the humidity up there once again. that's going to be the name of the game throughout the day. i'll talk about where ernesto is and if we have a cooldown in the forecast. right now a check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>> good morning lynette. construction still going on on 895. do expect the heaviest delays traveling through the harbor tunnel. always stop at the fort mchenry tunnel instead. 95 at 395 you'll see no problems here getting into the city. a nice easy ride trafficking through the fort mchenry tunnel you will be in the clear. drive times just eight minutes from 695 down towards the toll plaza. now here's a look at 695 up in parkville. no problems to report here at harford road. will be a nice easy ride all the way up to 83. charlie over to you. >>> it's a mixed bag in annapolis. abc2 news linda so is live this morning with a preview. linda? >> reporter: their main agenda isn't the future of -- is about the future of gambling in maryland. whether or not to allow a sixth casino

look at hickory with the temperature at 64 right now. and humidity is at 100% because the dew point is the same as the temperature. we see maryland's most powerful radar is dry right now. i think it's going to stay that way even as we go into the afternoon. although we will have a few more clouds out there than what we saw yesterday, and here's the check of the hour by hour forecast by 10 we will be dry and 78 degrees. and lunchtime today, 83 degrees with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. over to you. >>> live traffic camera 695 at liberty road. this is the site of continuous construction. sometimes it's the eastbound lanes and sometimes it's the westbound lanes. and it always seems to go back and forth but as daylight breaks those construction crews they breakdown for the night and not much going on in the way of accidents this morning. and we have a fire we are following right now on the traffic side and the news side this coming out of district of columbia. along alabama avenue. a lot of backups there. that's going to come back to

but we can look at temperatures in hickory at 6 # degrees and as we head -- 64 degrees and through the remainered of the day, by -- remainder of the day, by lunchtime sun and showers by 3 p.m. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we have trouble out on 695. we are dealing with a crash on the south side on the inner loop at holland ferry road. expect delays in the area. if you are using the jfx it's a different storey. no delays traveling southbound from towson downtown to east fayette street. head together tunnels, construction continues on 89 5 approaching hashon -- harbor tunnel. stick with 95 and fort mchenry tunnel and here's a live look. 59 at 395 traffic picking up and no significant delays heading into the city. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. >> reporter: new -- >>> new this morning there's no such thing as routine shooting especially when it involves a juvenile. three people were shot in the 400 block of bloom street in west baltimore just after 11 last night. abc2 news was on the scene and spotted a nu

alex morgan led the soak team to a dramatic team and they are now a gold metal with 27 hickory over argentinae city is setting up a big screen and today's viewing party lasts until 4:00 this afternoon and there will be another viewing partity on saturday. >> sal, is the commute looking good so far? >> so far so good, dave and pam and we are looking at traffic that is moving along well. we will start off on pay point and it is looking food as you drive out to the will loy pass grade the we are seeing more slowed traffic through the area. if you are driving our computer -- computer iced map -- computerized map system is working find. >>> and the coast was clear, a tiny bit of fog hung onto the lighthouse and temperatures built in higher elevations, how high ? 2000 feet. higher than sunday morning, that chewed up the fog. so it is nice, there is always a system. travis not too outrageous. 4 in sonoma county airport. you go 101 about 55. sap hose 59. the high pressure system is building back but today this little guy right there will keep temperatures the same as yesterday. 60s and 70s and #0s, -

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weeks, during which time the british attack andrew jackson and his then at new orleans and all the hickory just plain demolished a couple thousand british soldiers. so it is in some sense hardly surprising that people don't remember this war given the sequence of events. and by the way, the treaty that ended the war was left entirely out of the treaty and andrew jackson. and that is john quincy adams by the ray standing at center. the treaty can be phased out which is status quo antebellum, that is the way things were before the war. very little change that in some way psychologically and politically an issue. and while this may not have proved a memorable work on my way to make the case is nonetheless a very more in shaping the american character. to put it in more contemporary terms, we were being bullied and we stood up for ourselves. it was david and goliath and although we didn't knock to the ground, the world's expert tatian and her of self-confidence was altered as a result of the war. it think it might be useful to explain mr. and mrs. madison in the title. partly it's a function o

when he's inviteto parties like at bobby kennedy's hickory hill house, he's put at what ethel kennedys the losers table and he knows it's the losers table. they have a nickname for him in the kennedy white house, rufus cornpone or uncle rufus. he's humiliated and cut out of power completely for almost three years. >> he and bobby kennedy, particularly, really hate each other. describe the meeting you describe. >> you say why did -- as a historian you hate to use words as strong as hate. it's not too strong to describe the feeling between lyndon johnson and bobby kennedy. and there are other reasons, but part of it was just chemistry. >> then bobby kennedy becomes the second-most powerful man in america and is -- is treating lyndon johnson, the vice president, as a nothing. >> as a nothing. johnson literally has to ask kennedy's permission every time he wants to use a plane for a trip. every word in every speech that he gives has to be cleared by the white house, really by robert kennedy. he's -- you know, one of his secretaries said, the kennedys, they made you feel that they were in

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the location hickory avenue and evergreen drive.er this morning, a small homemade device reportedly exploded. apparently there were two of them. the bomb squad is trying to detonate the second one. >>> a problem at a bay area refinery may affect how much you pay for gasoline. gasoline prices have been inching up all week. the company says the oil processing unit will be closed for the next two weeks. that's gonna slow down production. that benicia plant produces about $107 -- about 170,000 barrels a day. >>> eight female players including the doubles champion from china have been disqualified for flowing -- for the way they were throwing. they were -- they were booed off the court. >> the athletes are from china, south korea and indonesia, they claim they were conserving the energy and are appealing the ruling. >>> well, the committee has cleared this athlete from steroids. the chinese media accuses the west about being petty about the progress china makes. >>> michael fells is the most decorated ath -- michael phelps is the most de