. >> john collins has a check on the forecast. >> two more days. it may -- may has been an interesting month. no big extremes. we have had some disappointing may days. we'll go back to less than perfect situation this weekend. now like it was on tuesday. there is a storm out there. we have fair skies right now. the rain is not a threat today. the storm system affect us and it will happen this weekend. i will have details. do not panic. let's check the panic. we have the latest. >> good morning. we have an advisory. national bicycle to work day will kickoff and there will be a celebration in downtown baltimore. that could cause some congested around lexington. those streets will be pretty jammed up because of that. howard county, northbound 32 we have the report of a vehicle fire. some fire activity at assateague drive. route 40 white is closed at route 4 in the lothian area. that is completely shut down so you want to avoid routes 408 if at all possible. this is the west side of the beltway. very light traffic for this time of morning. 95, things m

. >> now, your 11 insta-weather forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> we have had some weather here, too. we have had some strong wind, strong enough to blow the weather from east to west. we do not always see that. no. baltimore county, just north of the city, we have some light, scattered showers, and around the district, the heavier rain brings. we see some spotty showers. that is about it. it has been scattered today around baltimore and chesapeake bay. when you go west of us to western howard county and western carroll county and beyond, they have had an inch to almost two inches of rain. much more to the west and south of us. let's see what we had today. 75 was the high at the airport and the inner harbor. a couple of spots of blue sky. the clouds predominated. mid-60's for the low. not quite -- the clouds will be dominated. mid-60's for the low. at least around the baltimore area, we are a little bit on the short side. to the west of us, there was much more rain. annapolis is 70. 64 in ocean city. the breeze is coming off of the ocean. it is keeping the temperatures down

now back to john collins. >> thank you and good morning. bicycle to work day to day.they are getting on the weather. just a few clouds passing overhead. the real rate is to the west. the rain will stay out there all day long. another great day today. look at our rain totals. we had some rain last week. mate is running behind. we have just over one and a half inches so far. we are an inch short on the month. -- may is running behind. we could use more rain. annapolis, 59 degrees. 55 in easton. 51 at the boardwalk. 63 at westminster. 59 out of oakland. these are mild temperatures. we are starting out milder this morning the yesterday. a big area of high pressure gives us good weather again today. storm center is just west of st. louis. behind this warm front. this is not going to be a factor. warm temperatures, yes. 81 to 86 for the high temperature today. wind at 10 miles per hour. the orioles have a game this evening in washington. you might want to attend. temperatures falling into the 70's around game time. the rain part of the storm is hanging to our west. we do pi

. >> now the forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> and area of high pressure keeping us and dry. as these clouds and rain try to move in, you can see how it is breaking up as a comes from west virginia and the mountains. the only clouds overhead are these clouds. tomorrow and sunday, this storm coming in. today, we are in great shape. let's look at -- the pollen getting to me here. the count is low there. it does not kick in at the total pl -- pollen is high at 272. easton is 81, salisbury and ocean city. hagerstown is 80. seventies in the mountains to the west. they have a few more often clouds out there. the clouds are producing some of his rent out to the west. it is very scattered. it does not move all that much this morning. the low pressure center is going up towards the great lakes. this high-pressure is deflecting the storm, so do speak. it will not last forever. the real humidity with this storm is on the gulf coast region and the mississippi valley. even though we are in the warm air, it will not be aggressively warm today. -- not be oppressively warm today. 8388 was t

. >> weather forecast, with meteorologist john collins. >> we'll look at the doppler radar and sprinkles in baltimore county and here's the city and beltway on the radar and a little darker green shades to the west. once you get west of 29 and howard county and down in montgomery county, you get rain showers. and parts of frederick county east of frederick, southward, and toward pullsville and then down to the west of the district. there's no thunder and lightning in this, it is just rain shower activity. this is the heaviest where it is yellow and lighter rain shower in howard county. few sprinkles west of that. this is moving eastward and once it comes in, we'll have rain chances on again and off again for the next day or two. let's look at what happened today. we got a fair share of sun and the temperatures went beyond what we thought they would. there was sunshine mixed in. the airport and inner harbour made it to 79. and 66 and 67 and the respective lows and in rain measured yet there. it is just west. typically this time of year 76 would be the high. see the warmer temperatures sli

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. >> john collins has a check of the forecast. >> yesterday was a nice payback for what we had to put up earlier in the week. it was gorgeous yesterday. plenty of sunshine. let's do it again today. you can see a few high thin clouds over us. a storm system is back in the midwest. it is throwing some rain into the ohio river the valley and up into the charred. all of it will get stuck in the mounds were caught in the great lakes. there is the weekend.

. >> your instaweather forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> and getting a close look on the doppler radar, over baltimore right now. nothing happening, maybe a couple of sprinkles out of the clouds. another band of showers is approaching from the west. so here's howard county. it is west of how -- howard county. there's lightning in some of this, west of the district of columbia down here. this band is coming in, and the previous one gave us anywhere from -- from 100th to 600th of an inch of rain around the area. let's look at numbers that we collected during the day today. that rainfall, 1-100th at the airport. and there wasn't much at all, a lot of sprinkles and height assures. took a while to get the pavement wet. 7 was the high at the airport and inhear harbour high. and there was enough sun to drive the temperature up. 76 is typical for this time of year. kehl see more clouds, probably toughtory warm up during the day tomorrow. and especially with the activity. and 69 right now, annapolis and it is 6 at cambridge and 63 at ocean a they have been in the 60's all day long and rat

now, your insta-weather-plus forecast with john collins. >> a pre check of the radar, there is not much going on. we do see some echoes to the north of baltimore. that is not hitting the ground. there might be a couple of sprinkles. out to the west, and into west virginia, there are a few scattered showers. they are not substantial. the weather system is weaker than it was earlier. it will definitely be a rain- maker over the next couple of days. at the moment, our air is dry. right now, the clouds are saying enough to make it a nice, bright morning. 69 at the airport. the morning low was 66. we start the morning off mild. the broad letter shows a rising tendency. -- the barometer shows a rising tendency. we need the rain. for the month of rain -- of may, we are just over an inch and a half. we are short for the month. no it is a weekend, but the need the rain -- i know it is a weekend, but we need the rain. 65 in annapolis. 64 in cambridge. 64 in westminster. hagerstown is 58. here is the satellite picture. we have some thicker clouds over us. these really bright clouds in west virgini

. >> now john collins. >> we have radar returns right over head, but that's moisture up in the clouds that have moved in over the area. there might be a couple sprinkles out there, but we are dry. when you go out west toward wheeling west virginia on the upper left of the screen, you do see other radar echos. that is more likely to be producing spotty rainshower activity. that's a little closer to where the actual storm is. we expect the rain activity to really pick up later today. this thing is moving into -- well, it has for the last couple days been a dry air mass. so this initial batch of rain is drying up before it hits the ground. so this morning, it doesn't look like the rain threat is very much. as we get into the afternoon hours and this evening, the chances go up that we'll catch rain shower activity. let's take a look at what's going on outside now. it's warm or relatively mild this morning. we're starting out at 67 at the airport and 68 at the iner harbor. 73% the humidity. winds are calm. if there was going to be sunshine today, we'd have a really warm day and more humidi

let's go to john collins with the weather. >> clouds are thicker this morning trying to make rain.t is not working right now. >> so a nice morning until -- >> ok morning this new york because temperatures are nice and everything. but this afternoon, this evening, take a look at the radar. we'll show you what we mean. the storm is trying to come in. it is a little -- the word discombobulafed comes to mind, if you remember that word. it is not a well put together storm. in it's attempt to come in here, it will take forever to move through once it starts. today is the latest chance of rain of the next couple. it straddles the weekend, of course. they will receive some spotty shower attempts over maryland just off to the north and west of www.wbaltv.com. it is all up in the clouds. it is not making it to the ground. the real rain shower activity is back in ohio, its mountains of pennsylvania, place ysts like that. we'll talk about how this storm, so to speak, will affect us and our weekend coming up in just a minute. >> to our big story this morning. new developments in baltimore strug

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security and counterterrorism advisor john brennan to communicate with the nypd about federal support, which the president says will be provided. brian? >> brian: nicole collins good to have you. thank you. three people are confirmed dead in northern mississippi after a possible tornado touched down there. and five are dead in tennessee from floods. elizabeth pran is following the developments on this from atlanta and joins us now with more. how is it looking, elizabeth? >> reporter: not looking too good, brian. like you mentioned, we just learned that mississippi officials confirmed that three people have died in benton county, mississippi, as a possible tornado ripped through around 2:30 this morning. that part of the country not seeming to catch a break. tennessee still seeing a lot of flooding, about ten inches yesterday. flooding highways, roadways and rivers. now that band of slow-moving thunderstorms drefrnled t ss d volunteer state this weekend. ten inches falling in memphis turning streets to streams and the floodwaters so high some buildings were even see floating down what was once an interstate. emergency officials scramble to get people out of th