thanks so much for joining us i am megan pringle. charley is off today. it's cinco de mayo he and whether you have plans or not, you want to know about the weather. here's meteorologist justin berk. >> good morning to you. 6:30 yesterday it was a day that held on to the cloud. we broke a little sun and he wanted to do -- and i wanted to show outcamera sites. this one we haven't showed from the maryland science center look towards federal hills. mostly cloudy skies giving way to late peeks of sun towards inner harbor east right there. all right. maryland science center showing the same thing northbound across the harbor. mostly cloudy skies breaks the sun and a few showers that gave us rainbow views. and this morning, we are looking at annapolis where you got more sunshine in the clouds that try to hang tight much of yesterday. look at cloud shift in the afternoon with the cold wind. this morning, westminster down to 44. and a little gusty winds today. and we are looking for high temperatures back into the 60s with more sunshine. we will have the mother's

i am megan pringle. we will get started with meteorologist justin berk in we are looking at a very kwai-- >> we are looking a at very quiet sweep. as we check out maryland's most powerful doppler radar. clouds are left over this morning. 4:31 on the clock. we have a chill in the air. and as we point out our graphics, it's cinco de mayo and i promise that will be the only spanish you hear from me. in thes we speak english and i will keep it that way. mostly sunny skies. warmer temperatures for the next couple days. the mother aday-- more's day forecast looks questionable. it's 47 in baltimore. 48 ocean city. and back in oakland they are in the 30s. and the weather service was debating putting a frost advisory in western maryland. brr. we will talk about the weather coming up in moment. now to the road the first check with kim brown. >> reporter: thanksch good morning. -- thanks. good morning. traffic looks good. very light volume around the area. no reported accidents or major delays or problems. however,

i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson.e will have complete coverage of that in a few minutes burks first a check of the monday forecast with meteorologist justin berk. >> at that mets-philly games the 9th inning as the score was a 1-1 tie. how about that for something apropos. yesterday, we had severe weather reports. not that many. 68 across the nation. and looks like we will flare up that activity across the deep south and push it further to the east as we watch the very active frontal bondry. not the severe weather push that we had last week but it will be some severe weather increasingand shifting eastbound heading through tomo

i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. more coverage worldwide but first a check of your monday forecast with meteorologist justin berk. >> good morning to you. i wanted

i am megan pringle. charley crowson is off but meteorologist justin berk is here with your forecast. >> all right. yeah. good morning. at 5:31. we have a brand new camera site. another hd camera from a different direction off the maryland science center showing federal hill. wanted to show you this. while it was not the prettiest days early tweed interesting cloud shots and the camera is shifted towards the east. you can see harbor east off there in the distance with sunlight reflected off a few buildings. let's switch it back over. you can see 5 off to the left and swinging a little further off to the left. we are looking north northeast at the inner harbor. we had pretty clouds roll through. occasional showers popped up in the afternoon. and they gave us the rainbow views and this morning, leftover clouds 44 brooklyn park at towson. 41 up towards hearford. a chilly -- hereford. we will show outforecast through more's day in a moment. here's kim with traffic. >> reporter: roadways look good through carr

i am megan pringle. charley is not here today. but meteorologist justin berk is and he has a look at your forecast. good morning, just in. >> you just wanted to prove it to people. >> i am all alone. exactly. >> we got the lack of charley to prove it to you. how about temperatures this morning. and hopefully the lack of cloud cover this morning as well. check it out. storm center weathernet down to 43 in brooklyn park. 44 westminster and we have ourselves a cool spot in hereford. no surprise there at 42 degrees. let's take it back towards towson. as we show you west towson elementary school, that is a blue sky back there. the silhouette of trees off the charl street a sign we have at least some clearing skies this morning. maryland's most powerful doppler radar on a dry sweep, different story with late afternoon showers popping up yesterday. and if you've not seen our awesome double rainbow picture stick around and i will share it. a little about this. partly ludlowy skies. we are expecting to have some cloud trying to filther in

good man morning i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's kick it off with a check of the forecast before we get to the ground breaking news. >> we will go to our pride and joy the u.s. naval academy in annapolis. a lot of proud people down there and rightly so. let's check it out weather wise. as we look across the severn, we have cloudy -- a cloudy start and a few showers back towards the west. and that may impede the travel this morning with some wiper blades needed on the automobile. 58 degrees south wind and that's a sign of warm air trying to pump it in. we will switch it over towards the harbor school. 58 and no rain. we expect showers moving in as we head into the morning. just a few scattered showers enhancing a little bit to the west. in the last hour. more on that coming up in a bit. let's see what's happening on the road with kim brown. >> reporter: justin, we are off to a fairly good start this morning. however we are dealing with a very serious accident up in bell camp. but as we look at the beltway, 695 on the west side

. >>> may 2nd, 6:43 this is your abc2 news to go i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's kick it off with the forecast with justin berk. >> i want to show outschool i visited friday afternoon. we had a good time. wind for change raising money for the cool kids campaign and we are calculating the totals. so we will pass that along. and kid blowing over 30-mile- per-hour winds. but a good time out there. i want to thank miss heather for setting the program up and we look forward to doing more with them and everybody in the fine city of annapolis who is very proud of the u.s. naval academy this morning. and the entire navy and servicemen and women. looking in annapolis a. few showers on the way from the west. that will be part of the morning ride and on and off showers pushing 72 and a stray thunderstorm this afternoon. it's 6:44. let's go to the road with kim brown. >> reporter: thanks. expect minor delays on the outside of the top side of the outer loop coming from bel air road heading towards york road this morning. again, no major incidents or problems around beltw

>>> i am megan pringle and charley is off but we have lots of guests to keep you entertained. we have a great program a woman in cecil county that started this mission getting kids that are sick and in the hospital around the world teddy bears. she start a teddy bear drives and we have the details on that. plus if you have your charity or nonprofit organization, she brought a guest to explain how to do better for your community. we will tell you more about that. >>> also, mothers' day is on sunday. hopefully you have plans but if you make mom something, why not rockfish. we have a chef who will give us a great recipe that we will put online nan leave it to the maryland spca to bring in a great cat that's up for adoption who is so cute but also the cat we are talking about that is francesca but they've awesome program. they are so creative at the maryland spca so it's basically great deal if you are looking for a cat. we will hear from the director over there aileen gabbey who will et us know about it. stay tuned for that. but first, our hot topic is a story that's going to mak

. >> i am megan pringle. thanks for joining us. this is obviously the big news of the day. it started late last night and the news keeps coming. you are looking at video and hearing cheers of celebrations as people learn osama bin laden had been killed in pakistan. millions of people are reacting and, of course, in washington, d.c. that's where we go live this morning to meet emily schmidt. she kicks off the team coverage this morning. emily, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. for months u.s. intelligence focused on a suspicious mansion and signs bin laden could be inside. on friday the president authorize admission to find out and yesterday, u.s. special forces killed their number one target. in a 9 minute state last night, the president announced the end of a nearly 10-year man shouldn't. >> the united states is conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. leader of al-qaeda a terrorist responsibility forel murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children. >> reporter: nearly 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks. by the end of 2001, u.s. forces were b

and thanks so much for joining us on "good morning maryland" at nine i am megan pringle. first thing we will talk about is something that's hard, child abuse but we have to balk it's a serious -- because it's a serious issue so adam with the baltimore child abuse center is here to talk about that and great programs going on and educational information that might help to passe long. and spending -- pass along. and speak of education lifelong reading habits how to keep them and an exciting event may 7th this weekend and how to get involved and help out kids. >>> plus, it's cinco de mayo and since we consider the make -- can't make margaritas we will make margarita cupcakes. she brought along a recipe for us. so we will get more information on that as well. >> every thursday dr. fioramonti comes in and takes your calls and gibbs advice. if you have -- gives advice. he is here to talk about obedience. that and more but first as always we want to get started with today's hot topic. and this is one we can relate to. we are talking about gas prices. as prices continue to rise at