severe thunderstorm warnings up, cecil and kent county, extending all the way through 5:30 p.m. so we've got about another 23 minutes on those. temperatures coming off with that rain. these could be gusty as well. we'll talk much more about the outlook into the weekend. coming up kelly. >> an escaped inmate and his pregnant girlfriend have been captured. paul pammer and gino res take far ya were arrested. they were charged with attempted murder for a stabbing in august. the 32-year-old escaped from police custody last friday while en route to central booking. they say palmer was able to break three from his hand restraints and escaped. she was traveling with palmer, she is charged with harboring a fugitive. they also recovered the kia spec tra with a bent frame. it's not clear if the couple used the car to drive across the country. >>> prince george's county, three people were killed after an ambulance collided with an suv. police athe ambulance was respond to go a call when the crash happened early this morning in district heights. investigators say the suv was traveling on the

do take cover in kent county. tornado watch is in effect, all of the counties that you see there in green, including the cities of washington, baltimore, annapolis, cambridge, st. mary's city, all under a card watch until -- a tornado watch until 1:00 as the storms continue to move through, particularly east of the district. let's take a quick look at hd radar. we continue to see rain, including more widespread areas of heavy rain at this hour. we'll continue to see these periods of heavy rain through the morning. there is one of the areas we are focused on in prince george's county. largo, greenbelt, college park, mitchellville, all of this area seeing heavy rain and farther out to the east, this same areas that have been getting it all morning long, annapolis, diehl, we've been talking about lusby, all of these areas along the chesapeake bay continue to get heavy rainfall from the south to the north and they'll wind up with extraordinary numbers there. tucker barnes has the latest on the numbers. tucker? >> rain

kent. chairperson mirkarimi: welcome, mr. palmerton. >> thank you very much. and my role with power choice, i'm a co-founder of power choice and i have been here in california since 1985, grew up in the pacific northwest. in 1985, i began work with the northern california power agency, a group of 15 municipal electriutilities. i have been involved with public power since then. we -- at ncpa, we built $2 billion in electric power plants. we were instrumental in all of the open access transmission access wars that you are using the transmission from pg&e or edison or whatever it might be. i'm currently under contract as general manager of the power and water resources pooling authority. we are five years and 22 days old. we're about 100-megawatt utility, 15 irrigation and water districts spread between bakersville and in the counties of sonma and santa clara. the model for this is a model similar to what we developed at ncpa and it's the model that i have put into place at the pooling authority. basically i'm very comfortable working with the board and understan

across kent island, and bay bridge. looks like pushing through queen anne's and kent county, cecil county will get in on the action, heading to cambridge and salisbury, heavy rain continues at least for the next one to three hours. then we start to improve as we start pushing in this dry line. a break in the clouds already back west of hagerstown should slide through here by lunchtime it's wrapping around a rather impressive storm system that will continue to ride north towards buffalo and toronto and behind that we bring in some drier air, but still not completely stable and there is that chance we may pop a thunderstorm even though we may get sun out lunchtime in towards the afternoon. check out the wider view. you can see that circulation and this is all part of a very important change in our pattern. it will actually drag down really cool air behind it that settles in for the weekend. before that happens we're tapping into what could be a developing tropical storm. it is now located at the bottom of the map. it's do

. >>> kent connect man, accused of strangling his wife, says caffeine is to blame. woody smith is prepared to claim in court that excessive caffeine left him so mentally unstable, he could not have knowing he killed his wife in may of 2009. prosecutors say there is no evidence that he consumed excessive amounts of caffeine. >>> paris hilton admits to lying to police about cocaine found in her handbag. the 29-year-old heiress struck a deal with las vegas prosecutors this morning. and pled guilty to obstructing an officer. under the terms of her plea bargain, she must serve

tao and kent county is now under a tornado warning.own to your neighhorhood. that is coming up after the -reak..3 >>> and i'm meteorologist emily gracie live at fells poont where blue diamond almonds! more bold flavor! more variety! more value! more of what you want... not what you don't. blue diamond almonds. (play-by-play announcer) it's up and it is... good! more than a snack. >>residents through the regiooú are joining us. >>> we in fells point have seen a lot of water on the roadways. it wwlllonly get worse as the morning goes by. tte steady rain is coming down.ú it's the ligh lighter rain we hv we're watching the water level because it's low tide right now. we have seen water rushing through the area with the as high tide approaches shortll afternoon, that will certainly be an issue. i waat to take through the watches in the aaea, becauue ww have a ttrnado watch in effect until early this afternoon aad now a tornado aaning for kent county. this is topping severe weather all over the place. and steve flood watches and warnings eve

east of the bay and this includes caroline county, kent, and talbot county under a tornado warning. system pushing off to the north at about 40-45 miles per hour was just west of oxford and easton, now racing to the north. and you can see an intense band of showers and thunderstorms that we are concerned about the possibility of a tornado. there is your latest look, crossing route 50 on the way north in the next couple of minutes and we expect the warning to be let to expire. no confirmed reports of any tornadoes on the ground but reports of winds gusting in excess of about 50 miles per hour so we have a special marine warning for these counties for the rivers along these counties and the eastern bay and again a tornado warning in effect for another couple of minutes and i'll continue to bring you updates as merited here in the weather center. that's a quick look at the forecast. more coming up. >>> a group of air force veterans maintain that aliens from outer space are visiting nuclear missile sites. >> and they claim to have proof. >> a white pulsating light in the sky. >> dark me

queen anne's and kent counties, 90 minute delay because of the fog. forecast is a hot one today. >> flock is causing some problems on the roads. there is an accident on bel air road -- fog is causing some problems on the roads. there is an accident in baltimore on fleet street. this is the topside of the beltway at harford road. traffic is backing down from providence down to harford. you'll see some delays that are probably fog-related. food for everyone at the greek festival. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com, and stay connected with us on facebook and twitter. >> with the implementation of early voting, casting a ballot has never been easier. less and less citizens are exercising their right to vote. we hear please, exercise that right by november 2. for a complete voter's guide log onto wbaltv.com and click on commitment 2010. commitment 2010. bob ehrlich pretends to be for the working guy... but he's not on our side. i thought i kne

shimmering of the kent coast, this is the biggest offshore wind farm in the world. the u.k.overnment is betting that this is the energy of the future. in the next decade, they want 20% of our energy to come from the wind. it is 2.5% at the moment. a big gamble according to critics. >> what i am worried about is the infatuation with wind power, which is very expensive. there are other renewals that have been starved for resources, and they should be going that route. >> it has been used. it is still used in our country, around europe. it is definitely -- >> the technology does have its problems. no wind, no power. it may seem obvious. it is always -- it is also heavily subsidized, which means everyone's bills will go up. this is just the start. this is the biggest so far, but it is tiny compared to what is coming. bbc news, of the kent coast. >> now for many it will sound more like a holiday in hell rather than an opportunity to get away from it all. tourism is being promoted in iraq. iraq fought desperately needs the income. " when a holiday there be like? gabriel doubt -- g

shimmering of the canseco's, this is the biggest win the farm -- kent coast, this is the thiswind farmn the world. of the next decade, the 120% of our electricity to come from the -- they want 20% of our electricity to come from the wind. the previous governments in vegetation with offshore wind power, it was very expensive. there are other venues. they should be going that route. >> it has been used in our country, around europe. it is definitely one of the best, relying on renewable production of energy. >> the technology has problems. no wind, no power. it is always have a leak hopes digit it is also heavily subsidized. which means it costs more for everyone. bbc news, off the kent coast. >> to many, this will sound more like a hellish holiday, but iraq is looking for overseas visitors. iraq desperately needs the income foreign visitors rain, but would win a holiday there be light -- foreign visitors bring, but what would a holiday there be like? gabriel gatehouse has this. >> if this is iraq, but not the iraq we know from our television screens. this is not the iraq of daily suicid

take a look, you can see that storm that blew through alston, kent county south into chester town, but no active warnings at the moment. let's take a little different perspective on maryland's most powerful radar, more wet weather pushing in out of the west. in fact right now we're talking some pretty heavy downpours back across i270 from frederick down to rockville. that line of heavier rain also headed toward baltimore here in the next hour or is. more rain behind that. we've got a little bit of a soaker going on this evening, that's a good thing. those warnings clearing out, it's just showers and we'll call them garden variety thunderstorms, 70s, wet and again this is good, we have had an enhanced fire risk, it's been so dry we'll take the rain tonight. weekend forecast is coming up. joce. >> thanks wyatt. our other top stories, a baltimore county couple is locked up after police say they severely assaulted a woman and locked her in the bathroom of their reisterstown home for a year. police say the 22-year-old woman was repeatedly beaten and burned with cigarettes when she tried to

i went across the bay bridge to take a look at the eastern shore. [ sound of water ] >> over on kent island some marine as have been affected. off we go. michael kate found his boat taking on water and the engine was under water. he is not gonna let that stop him. >> i'm gonna go get the mother running again and put it back in the water for this afternoon i hope. >> reporter: chris dolllar with kent island kayak is well aware of the storm problems. >> we saw it coming, we were paying attention to the weather forecast, and then we pretty much pulled all the bolts up on dry land, lashed them to our racks and secured everything down so it wouldn't either blow away or be affected by any extra high tides. >> reporter: annapolis has been in the brunt of the storm path. the city has activated their emergency management center and is keeping an eye on the situation. some streets have been closed due to flooding. these guys just sailed in from south africa on a luxury cat a ma ran. >> we have had more foul weather here at annapolis since arriving than all the way across the atlantic. >> this

of the world, teach your children is riding the charts, and then we have the horrible shooting at kent state, and neil young walks in with a song. and today, you'd have a meeting of the marketing department, and say, "no, teach your children "has got to run another 24 weeks, "and then we can cycle it out, and we'll never record and release anything like ohio." what was that conversation about? abandoning-- literally abandoning a hit record in favor of a statement. you're right; it's something that couldn't happen now. we have different people running the record companies now. they're lawyers and accountants, and they absolutely wouldn't do that. we were in a position then when we were very strong, and we had an ally: ahmet ertegun, who was one of the really great old men of the record business and a gentleman and our mentor. nash did an astounding thing, because that was his song that was going up the charts, and he pulled it. (paulson) and he believed in ohio? he believed in it and he pulled it. he knew that we had to put ohio out immediately. i watched neil write it. i called nash. n

jones' talents to make sense of the world around us, kent is on vacation. he's gone. the good news is that it turns up that kent does some freaky crazy weird stuff on vacation and pops into a studio to tell us about it. did you seriously do what i heard you did today? >> it depends on what you think it is i did today. i'm in san francisco and i think that i helped the people of san francisco advance music to the next level. >> okay. >> that's what i think i was doing today. my i present the festival of music for people and thingamajigs. ♪ >> this is a guitar, but not like one we know. tell me about this. >> this guitar actually has no threads on it. it is basically a combination of an ude and a guitar. ♪ >> you told me these are skach boxes. what is that? >> skach box is a kind of instrument that comes out of a technique called skaching. skaching is basically taking a shaped comb and scraping it across a surface. >> and that's what it sounds like inside my head. ♪ >> this is a koto, a traditional japanese instrument. and this is a photo koto. they react to

and 68 rock hall and 70 in kent island and annapolis. all of this rain will continue to press our way up from the south and the slow pressure gets on out of here. and we have a few inches of rain. 2 to 4 inches of rain not even possible. we don't clear out the rain until tomorrow morning. it will be a larger total until you take into account, midnight to 8:00 in the morning high temperature, 80 degrees and thursday, another chance of a shower and sunshine and 72 and a fall like 68 degrees. >>> so you'll have weather in your way. here's sharon gibala. >> the weather is causing accidents and jams. we have a jam on 95 at o'donnell street because of an accident at keith avenue. and we have several accidents working and one coming in to us on the outer lupe on the south westside and an accident on 83 between middletown and mt. carmel road. and another crash between the inner loop blocking the right lane. one on 295 at arundel mills boulevard. another one on the westside. and one on the outer lupe at 795. that's blocking the right lane and 50

almost 70 in annapolis and kent island. we were at 58 on tv hill.a warmer morning, a tad bit more humid. clouds will increasals the cold front -- increase as the cold front moves our way. look. the computer, barely into the moisture zone. so, having said that, the forecast for today doesn't have rain with a high of 86. clouds will break, maybe a thundershower or two around, maybe. tomorrow sunshine, a high of 80, beautiful weather begins tomorrow. 80 saturday, 82 sunday. hurricane igor to a strong cat four. it will hit head on the island of bermuda. we'll, of course, watch it for you. it will send swells. it will be a beautiful weekend. got to be very careful. julia is almost pretty much out of here. this is going -- we're still watching carl make a move towards the central mexico coast. >> here's kristy at wjz traffic coal. >> if you're getting ready to take the the beltway allow yourself a couple extra minutes. we have delays as you make your approach to harford road. about 10 minutes to get through. we have a disabled vehicle past the ft. mchenry

dixon line, arcing over bel air and hugging the immediate shore east of annapolis, bending right over kent county. we just have some heavy doubt rain. this is not going to be the only time we see this radar looking like this today. let's take a look at the traffics -- graphics. what we're seeing is easily three to six inches from the time it starts through tomorrow morning when it's out of here, but right now they're talking about a band primarily over the shenandoah valley but arc together east of frederick, like 12 inches of rain? >> that's amazing. >> that would be 144 inches total. let's put this in terms of snow. no. let's say it's going to be raining with a high of 75. when we come right back, we're going to roll down all the watches, warnings and advisories in the area. i'll just give you a blanket statement. other than garrett and allegany county we're all under some sort of an advisory right now. i want to shift gears. one of the team must men in music is paul reed smith. there he stands. we're going after cancer with the help of prs. >> we're inside studio j, the legendary paul r

and kent and howard county schools are opening late this morning.is going on with this fog..3 patto furriture. >> that's wild. i meaa anybody can win. obviously, we will see who else wins later o. >> i thought it was funny. >> very cute. aasolltely, not just kent county with fog this morniig but other areas. takk a look at what we havv ouu3 there as far as the bus stop foreccst. 70 degrees is the starting >> maybe it was my delivery. >> your delivery, no, it was it was exactly the way it was supposed to be. at the bus stop and arrund the surrounding area, there ould be %-so be aware and give yoorself extra time. we are going to hear from lauren roadway. we are ttlking about a chance of some rain coming your way. i will tell you when that is. a hot day that mayyapppoach the record of 95 degrees. it may be a couple of degrees shy. i will tell you about the ress of the weekend forecast in a moment. here is lauren cooke with the check of the traffic edge..3 >> repprter: thank you, steve. we are dealinggwith heavy fog -f youure traveling up in cecilú cou

the bbc's richard west scott reports from kent, inc.nd. >> reporter: it's been called one of the world's most audacious green energy projects. and a costly eyesore that's putting all our bills up. shimmering off the kent coast, this is the biggest offshore wind farm in the world. more than anywhere else, the uk government is betting that this is the energy of the future. in the next decade, it wants around 20% of our electricity to come from the wind. it's going to be about 2.5% at the moment. a big gamble, according to critics. >> what i am a bit worried about is the government, the previous government's, infat ation with offshore wind power which is very expensive and intermittent. other renewables which have been stopped support, they should be going down that route. >> wind power is a proven technology today. it has been used for several years in all countries around europe. and it's definitely one of the next reliable format on renewable energy. >> reporter: the production does have its problems. no wind, no power. there's no way o

point of 50 and 71 elkton and 70 westminster and 70s in frederick and 70 in minneapolis and 70 on kent island. almost 80 in district. that's skewed by the urban island of the district of columbia. we're getting dry again and now, we're seeing the special weather statements. this is going to be the precursor for the red flag warnings for the dry conditions of the upper eastern shore of delaware and south jersey. there's moisture trying to stream our way. let's say tomorrow and late afternoon and tomorrow night and into friday morning. we're on the southern edge of the good rain showers. i'm not too sure we'll get the moisture. come on back here, we'll watch this if we get the rain. we'll watch and see if we can stave off the red flag warnings. en we'll watch the beautiful and dry weekend. bernadette woods and tim williams are off this day. i'll handle the duties in the first warning weather center. that's coming up shortly. >>> marty, thank you. we're two weeks into the school year and salt lake city -- vacancies remain. some teachers still hadn't received their assignments when the cla

it is quite a range and 78- degrees in annapolis and 78 in kent island. 87 in columbia. and the winds aric pentagon up out of the south. they'll continue to pick up and keeping the warm air in place. and still a hazy sunshine this afternoon. and the record challenging heat is making its way into the mid- trick atlantic today. the record is 95. it will be close and not on the fringe. we're talking about the record highs and it's the end of september here. it's all because of this front. and this is the one that brought the flooding to the midwest. it's rial dying out and that trend will continue. and when it moves through maryland, we'll have a chance for a shower and that's going to take if heat with it and we'll have a chance of rain increasing next week. it will move up from the south sunday. we'll get a shower during the day sunday. for the home opener for the prostate cancer challenge also, for the most part, it looks to be dry. we'll keep you up to on that and check back. the rain comes in monday and we'll have rounds of rain into tuesday. on the waters, matthew, tr

julia on kent island sent us this picture of a flooded yard. this will be glen arm road a flooded road out in baltimore county. if you have a weather picture you'd like to send us, our address is wjz web alert at cbs.com. d would' lick this get your pictures back here in the web center. >> we aren't the only ones dealing with the storm as you've sewn on the radar. it's going up and down the east coast causing rain. first warning weather continues with randall pinkston reporting from new york. >> reporter: pounding rain and wind are turning streets into rivers. >> this sen credible. i've never seen flooding like this. >> reporter: 21 inches of rain have already fallen in different parts of the state. this man decided a kayak was the best way to get around eye went to the store and the roads were flooded. >> reporter: they put out sandbags. it's already knee high in someplace making driving conditions dangerous. >> it's everywhere and there's a lot of it. >> reporter: the remnants of tropical storm nicole are moving up the east coast triggering f

kent county public schools are running on a 90-minute delayed because of the fog. the rain is well to the north and west of us. the span of showers over the great lakes, running down towards chicago and into illinois, that is associated with a cold front that will be coming in saturday morning very early or so. until that cold front, let's switch air gears and show you what is going on temperature- wise. we will be rather warm and some hot and humid air. catonsville, 70. parkville, 70. 69 in cockeysville. 68 in sykesville. chestertown, 69 degrees right now. waterfront trying to push to the east. we are still in the cooler air but not by much. it is only 70 degrees. the cool front is not until early saturday morning. no relief from the heat and humidity. temptress when step back a little bit. 901095 state for a high. maybe a few clouds. hot and some what cuba -- 90 to 95 for a high. hot and somewhat humid. of winds, 10 to 15 knots. water temperatures in the mid 70's. dry conditions even with that from coming through. it would not be generating much rain activity. no

shimmering off the kent coast, this is the biggest offshore wind farm in the world.uk government is betting that this is the energy of the future. in the next decade, it wants around 20% of our electricity to come from the wind. it's going to be about 2.5% at the moment. a big gamble, according to critics. >> what i am a bit worried about is the government, the previous government's, infatuation with offshore wind power which is very expensive and intermittent. other renewables which have been starved of support and they should be going down that route. >> wind power is a proven technology today. it has been used for several years in all countries around europe. and it's definitely one of the next reliable format on renewable production of energy. >> reporter: the technology does have its problems. it sounds obvious, but no wind, no power. there's no way of storing it either. it's heavily subsidized which means everyone's bills go up. still, most of the people i spoke to seem to like it. >> i think it's definitely good that there is a wind farm and that the governmen

even kent county, a tornado warn going on until 9:45.d right up route one here and get over toward national airport in another 20 minutes. even winchester and parts of west virginia, you're getting very heavy rainfall right now. did you see this coming from charles county, virginia? we have flood warnings. it's happening. roads are closed. water continues to rise. remember, it's raining. anything that's high now will only get higher. back on the weather computer, we have a tornadic threat. we talked about kent county here for another 25 minutes. this is the baltimore tv market, headed toward the upper part of the chesapeake bay. the metro, east, south, we have tornado watch until 1:00. the concern is some of the storms coming out of the northern neck could be spinners as well. coastal flooding as well. winds are gusting over 30 miles an hour. tides one to three feet above normal. the counties in the light green are for coastal flood advisories. we'll have one to two foot high tides there. even in the delaware bay there. this storm is pas

charles, dorchester, oward, kent, montgomery, prince geerge's queen annn somerset, talbot,,wacomico andountiis. a toonado watch in those countiis. >>> police learned offthe incident around 11:30 last night after the victim walked nto a local hospital. he said he was hot on gorman avenue at cold spring lane. there's no word on his condition at this time. >>> anne rundel police investigateea double stabbing in annapolis, hhppened at 11:15 at 4th street. officers say a man wws rushed to a loccl hospital. police are still lookinggfor suspects. >>> the family of a baltimore county man killed one year agoo3 today is fighting to keep hhs memory alive. held at striiker street in honor raady lewis senior. he was found stabbed to death in september.l's townhome last police still haven't made any arrest. >>> the driver of a charter bus is killed when the bus plunges off the washington beltway and falls 45 feee on tt the interstate 270 in montgomery county. investigators arr still trying to figure out why it happened. the scene at 4:00 yesterday3 ú%ternoon. the 40 passsngers were returning ú%om a t

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as a matter of fact, the season of a certain variety, the kent variety, and the tommy at kin variety, is really peaking right now. and the quality is incredible. in about 3 or 4 weeks they are going to start to wind down. they have been around since april. so when you see them in the market now, enjoy them especially salsa. this time of year, if you don't select them right they will taste like cardboard. when you buy them, see this right here? nice and red all the way around just like this. a little bit of greening here. nice and heavy. and when you squeeze it a little bit, there's just a little give and that's what's important. when you bring them home, store them on the counter. never, ever in the refrigerator. now, mangos are a super food. they are loaded with nutritional value. and if you buy them and enjoy them in two or three days you get more of the benefit of nutritional value. if you let them store on the counter for too long or at the house for too long, now what's going to happen? some of that nutritional value will be depleted. great mango salsa with some red onions, cilan

. >> this is in western kent county on the eastern shore.orm. his is just north of rock hall. this is now passing just to the north there and heading off -- it does appear a little bit farther tthe north, just west of chester town. this is the storm cell, the areas of dark red. this is the zone here where there could be a tornado touching wn. we vacations on radar that there is circulation here. this is western kent county. this is the shore here on the chesapeake bay. here's th bay. and farther to the south there is the eastern neck wildlife refuge. this is rock hall, north of rock hall, headed toward toll chester beach. that is a tential tornado. elsewhere we have modete to heavy rain south of washington. it's about to move into the metro area here over the next hour, so expect some more heavy downpours and more flooding. eun. >> thanks so much. breaking new this morning. two metro besollided in silver spring at the intersection of university boulevard and burnett avenue. 17 people are hurt in the crash. four people have significant injuri

even kent conrad from north dakota called it a ponzi scheme, which would make what bernie madoff did minimal. we ought to repeal that. i think states ought to be able to opt out of it. nancy pelosi said that any given state could decide to be part of the rules or regulations. nancy pelosi said you have to pass the bill first before you get to find out what is in it. people are finding out what is in it. the whole irs regulation with the 1099's and the small businesses in the country with 40 million of them who will have to fill up these additional 1099 forms for anybody out there that they buy or sell from. it will cost millions of dollars in expenses and nobody saw that coming until law was passed. >> a group of stranded in pledges from members of congress to defund the health care law. would you take that pledge? >> i would have to look at that. >> it has passed after a very long and difficult process. why is it not then that the system worked in that situation as well? what happened? i remember one event where you guys went to the white house, senate republicans, and came back com

on kent island, don harrison for abc news. >> talking on the phone while driving will be illegal starting october 1st. >>> pretty nice commute this evening for a drive. not bad. we've got sunshine out there after some pretty heavy rain at times earlier this morning in places. more rain on the way we think tomorrow night. for the moment we're looking good. maryland's most powerful doppler radar also, our satellite trend both showing clearing. though we will see a variably cloudy sky into the evening and maybe a pop-up isolated shower or two. most of the rain is now offshore, out over the atlantic. look at the numbers. warm conditions out there this evening. 81, balmy degrees downtown. same in dc, annapolis, a little cooler along the bay at 79. most of the evening in the 70s. we will eventually drop into the 60s, even the 50s overnight. so clear and cooler but just for about 24 hours. more chances for flooding and we'll talk web that happens coming up. >>> now for a look at tonight's top stories. the man convicted of ordering the murder of a suspected gay gang member is going away for life.

kent explains. >> reporter: no two-ways about it. >> under pressure.goes down. >> reporter: football is a violent sport. impacts causing injuries do and cause injuries on players, teams and seasons. >> these measure the forces we are interested in measuring, as the guys give and receive impacts from the field. >> reporter: in short, researchers have the ability to gauge and record the effects on vital organs not protected by pads. >> the sensors are force select offensive players over their lungs, over their liver, spleen, and the two kidneys which are in the back. and it is a fabric which when compressed translates roughly force. that is then sent to a wireless transmitter in the back of the shoulder pad and sent to us on the sidelines so we can get real-time information. >> reporter: the hope is to eventually collect enough data to not only diagnose an injury more efficiently but to provide feedback for future protective equipment. >> when they do come off the field and they're hurting, how bad the injury is. if there is an injury that needs to be lo

kent island, graysonville, heading up towards extreme eastern baltimore county, middle river right now, over towards kingsville, getting the heaviest of the rainfall. we'll have bands of rain and slugs of moisture as you see the bottom of the screen, another push of those deeper red shadings coming up from the south. look at this this morning, 70 degrees right now in annapolis. they've had over two inches of rain. we're watching them for the possibility of that dam failure, we're watching the possibility of storm drains really not able to handle what we've got. 68 this morning in many spots. 75 this afternoon. it's potential flooding, winds gusting to 45 miles per hour and that additional possibility of tornados, at least until 1:00 this afternoon. how about that traffic. it's already a mess out there. here's kim brown with the latest. >> how about that traffic this morning, justin? we have lots of problems to start off the 6:00 hour. ton of problems on the beltway, causing big headaches on the outer loop, southwest corner, we have a crash at wilkins, blocking the two right lanes. both

actions on the eastern shore, just in the last 30 minutes we have seen a few lightning strikes there in kent county, also south into northern queen anne's county a little bit of wet weather in that view. more rain off to the west. that will be in as we go forward in time later tonight. also still some storm action out towards hagerstown but some of that may end up just hitting carroll county and points north and west of baltimore itself. through the rest of the evening we're talking about 70s, still some showers and storms, an early look at your hour by hour forecast tomorrow. after a morning shower or two nice weather pack on type tap is that we see the sunshine come back and that sets the stage for a fantastic weaken. we've got it coming up. kelly. >> thanks a lot wyatt. >>> very disturbing story. a woman is clinging to life tonight after baltimore county police say she suffered abuse for almost a year at the hands of a rise terse town couple. they face attempted murder and assault charges. after police say they beat the victim, they burned her with cigarettes, all of this at their apartme

along the water, 73 in annapolis and kent island. this afternoon we will have a warm up. for our highs. the thing is though after today big changes coming in the weather pattern. the cool air will return. the chance for rain will pick up. we'll have that coming up shortly. so enjoy today. get out there, get sunshine and then we'll have that forecast for you. >>> thank you. now back to some stories people are talking about this morning. hope and healing, renewed support for a local hurt in a bombing halfway around the world. 100 people were killed in the suicide bombing in uganda this summer. ellicott teen emily kerstetter was badly injured. emily is now home and is on the way to recovery. weijia jiang has the latest chapter of emily's story. >> reporter: good morning, everyone emily kerstetter was not up for being photographed but she was excited for being around friends. hard to believe just a few months ago she was fighting for her life in africa. ♪[ music ] >> in ellicott city, eight bands came together for one cause on friday night together for one young woman, 16-yea

a metal detector might have kent that out of the hospital but they pointed out there are more than 80 entrance s to the buildings on the campus. >> to put a mag nah tomter at 80 doors and the required armed force that would need to be staffing the mag nah tom terse is not realistic. >> reporter: still the hospital security first said the hospital will review its procedures used right now. dr. david cohen is out of the of the operating room and in stable condition. >> we're hearing from the shooter's family for the first time. his brother told the ap that he thinks par advertise was upset after their mother's surgery last week was unsuccessful and she probably would never have walked again. he described the mother as a deer sweet lady. tonight we know the shooter was from northern virginia and they described him as a very dedicated son. >> he was always there for her, if she had to go in the ambulance or anything, she would bo with her. he never left her side, i mean, and i told her when i seen him walking her out that she had a great son, you don't find too many sons like that. >> her

from the university of kent told r.t. a little earlier. now so many common challenges economic and environmental also political and it's very clear about countries like russia with a long cultural intellectual tradition have a lot to offer in terms of trying to understand the problems and trying to find common solutions and i certainly see lots of potential because i think the case of pavel's makes very clear that international economic and financial debate can be extremely influential battle started off as a small initiative and has grown into a global fixture and i think he also has the same potential which is the focus is on the i think it's important that we move away from just be criticizing each other or lecturing each other or simply talking at cross purposes and really try and find the common modes and i think debate exchange critical questions and constructive contributions is what's needed and i think the former is just wrong in that direction and i look very much forward to seeing how about what unfolds in the next two days. so

it's produced notable major league players like jeff kent. also big at rugby. now it will be a club sport. cal says the cuts are an effort to save $4 million. >>> not a good story on the cal campus today. the number one public university, well, we just discussed that little news item. why don't we talk over to mike. good morning, mike. >>> good morning. we'll take you out to oakland where we talked about construction zones. the southbound side from broadway down to 5th, there's a construction zone there. the northbound side we do know that's picking up heading up towards 23rd. i know that because chp has been called for help for a little traffic control passing by 23rd as they pick up the cone zone so watch for flashing lights. just a little blip on the southbound side. we see speeds dipping just a little bit because of that construction zone likely because the equipment imoving. 880 we'll look at a live shot past the coliseum. traffic is flowing nicely. the taillights as they make the bend at the high street offer ramp. there's an earlier accident that's clear

general i'm now joined live by dr adrian pabst who was a lecturer of politics at the university of kent and also a frequent contributor to such well known international newspapers such as the guardian and out of moscow news thank you so much for being here mr fleischer no just to cover some of the thing is that the nato secretary general has mentioned about russia's role in the international community in the twenty first century about developing some of the things that were mentioned in today's schedule what is your opinion on what i think it's not a very important point which there were two new stage of international it's no longer about east and west of north and south and now so many common challenges economic environmental also political and it's very clear about countries like russia with a long cultural intellectual tradition have a lot to offer in terms of trying to understand the problems and trying to find common solutions and he mentioned challenges and of course one of the perhaps most threatening challenges to the international community today is the threat of terrorism unfo

dew point down to 49 degrees. 50 in westminster and 60 in kent island.n, we'll go up to 77 and we'll have a lot of sunshine and we'll have the five-day forecast coming up. >> thank you, bernadette. >> first, here's what people are talking about this morning. it's been three days since the shooting occurred in johns hopkins and today, the police continue to search for answers. john pardus shot his elderly mother's doctor. he went into his mother's room and shot her and himself. hopkins didn't close and many of those on campus the day after felt safe. >> what helped me was the feed back from my family and friends and i saw snipers and everything, i was like, wow, this is intense. >> bealefeld doesn't believe it was a planned shooting. david cohen is still in stable condition. >> and stay with wjz-13 for complete coverage of the shooting. wjz is always on. for more, go to wjz.com. >>> the results are in and baltimore will have a new city state's attorney. jessamy broke the news to supporters at a press conference yesterday. >> i called bernstein and i advic

annapolis and kent island -- and now, we get into the part of the presentation we're interested in. that's what's coming our way. and forget what you see offshore right here. that's not a player. this moisture at the border, that's the leading edge of rain that's being squeezed north from the tropical depression number 16. now, before i put this into motion, we'll look at a few things. winds 35 miles per hour. we've seen bigger nor'easters and yeah, it may not get a name. it's the rain, not the wind we're concerned about. it's gathered a ton of moisture from the south west atlantic from charleston and daytona. we have the jet stream dipped off to the west. and imagine two spinning wheels in different directions. like a tennis ball, you'll see the batting cages. and put it in between the wheels and it pops out. that's what's happening between the moisture. it's moving quickly up the coast. this thing right now, it's south of key west. by friday morning, it's going to be north of the area. and the spaghetti models are agreeing broad senter is coming from the west. the strong parts of

it's 66 in rock hall and 69- degrees in kent island this morning. we're warming up to 79 degrees.old front moved through and not much to it. we can see the clouds out there right now. partly cloudy skies and we'll cool it down. we'll have the forecast coming up. >> >> if you're driving rather than sailing, here's traffic with sharon gibala. >> well, we have no accidents, but we have delays. taking a look at the speed sensors leftside is slowing down and we have a speed sensor in the 30 miles per hour range. and there's a look at the average drive times and the speeds on the beltway. 45 miles per hour on the westside. that's an average between 795 and 95 with the 14 minute drive time. there's a look at the westside at old fort road. that will set you back about five minutes. and there's a live look at the topside. starting to get busier there. not yet officially delayed. there's 95 and you could tap your brakes. >> and this is bought to you by your toyota dealer. toyota, moving forward. >> >> we have school advisories from the same section of anne arundel county. chesapeake high sc

and 61 rock hall, down to 60 on kent island and annapolis. here's the huge dome of high pressure.ext shot of clouds and showers will be thursday night into friday. and a few showers in the forecast. we're going to have a cold front moving throughout the area and that's the cause of a tiny bit of rain. 80 the high this day and sunshine and passing fair weather clouds and high clouds. 56 is the low and tomorrow, 86, breezy and warm and increasingly cloudy skies and here's the cold front. 80 friday and saturday, beautiful. sunday and monday, 82 and 78 degrees. got to go to the tropics. and now, we're going to make, according to the computer models, a move north and staying offshore. we have one category 4 storm and julia. julia exploded overnight. when's the last time we've had two category 2 storms. fortunately, this track will do the same. she'll make a decided move north and stay offshore and now, we have karl. getting ready to come ashore and we believe it's a tropical storm. and you would matily, come -- and ultimately, it will be a category 1. they won't effect us, but we'll co