. -- at mlk, a big problem. being a former chairperson and pta president, i know this is a one-year obligation, to have to be looked at after the year is over. how come this is not happening at mlk? why isn't this happening? why is this administration being allowed to retaliate against parents and teachers who speak against them? i was informed by one of the teachers that mlk administration had me under their sights for speaking against them. my kid has been there for two years. a 3.0 or better grade student. i would hate to be tied up with your 17 law firms for the one year i have to go to get my kid to cross the stage. i want to thank you for passing the kipp academy charter. it is something we can look forward to and hold a heads up high. our kids can say, i want to go to college. give us our chance. that is all we ask you to do. give us our chance. thank you. [applause] >> i stand here. i am from denver, colorado. i have been here 28 years. i understand how a school should be ran. you sit here, you talk abou

use mass transit or mlk as an alternate. a lot of congestion at liberty road continuing to route 40. >>> new york city housing authority worker had to dib intobushes -- can be dive into bushes to rescue a girl who fell out of the widow. look at this video. i was told we don't have the video so we will leave you with the picture of traffic and again remember you can always log onto abc2news.com for more information. thanks for joining us this morning. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right. do you have any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes... next time, you drive. next time, signal your turn. ...that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you.

if you are driving use mlk or franklin street. it will take a few days for everything to get cleaned up. more problems on 695 where there's a crash on south side blocking one inner loop lane. at route 157 and as we check in and look live at the top side of the beltway, here in towson all is clear. it will be a nice easy ride up towards 83. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. now over to you. >>> 6:16 and new this morning, a bridge linking the u.s. to canada is now back open. all this following a bomb threat that stopped track on bowing sides for -- both side for a bomb threat. one scald to blow up the ambassador bridge around 7:15. police after investigating they found no devices. >>> they are stealth like and useful addition to any s.w.a.t. team and even though the are not liquor breathing they e pot >> reporter: into you ready? we are ready-- >> you ready? with rewade ready. >> reporter: the wat -- ready. >> reporter: they pull into a suburban that is training session. >> we are not using live rods ors a man is -- roun

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so stick with franklin street and mlk as an alternate and motorists enconcerned to use mass transit.ll be following all of the delays all morning long. >> thanks a lot. >>> as for weather, things are pretty bad out there as well. yesterday it was really painful out there. with humidity. >> if you thought yesterday he it was painful more of the same temperatures will be hotter. no rainfall that i will be talking about. maybe an isolated shower. as he we look at maryland's most powerful radar, we are nice and dry. all five sweeps are on and we do need rainfall. temperatures coming in basically in the 70s all across the board here. look at thomas point coming in at 80. temperatures will soar to the upper 90s. i will detail that coming up. now back to megan and charley. >> >>> -- go if you are -- >>> if you are traveling around downtown avoid some streets. >> linda so is out there live and you know this really could not have happened at a worst time for drivers yesterday. >> reporter: yeah it happened during the evening rush and the repairs are going on this morning. we are here at the c

caught in a spray of bullets in his father's arms n june, gunfire rang out mid afternoon at 29th and mlk. police say they witnessed a fire open fire with no motive for attack. this is a random nature of the violence. >> they're going to emeryville or berkeley so they don't hear bam, bam. i don't blame them. i want to be safe, too. >> staift and neighborhoods looking out for one another that is the idea behind national night out. leaders hoping to have them host block parties so they can use it as a crime prevention tool to save, and place in their neighborhoods. >> we want to know our neighbors. >> in rockridge district the only frightening thing she's encounters are weeds in the driveway. >> there is a list of neighbors letting people know what is going on. >> eyes and ears of people police say is key to crime fighting. >> they know who is shooting and we need their help. and i'd like to see the neighborhoods all over oakland. >> so would linda who isn't convinced police can monitor multiple parties along the city. >> as long as it's early. if it's dark, i won't be there. >> national ni

if not, i'll put it on display in the oval instead of the bust of mlk. seriously, great job on this tomato. that's a lot of imagination. they've launched a whole slide show of these presidential moments back in 2010. another highlight from the reel, here he is with joe biden at the museum of nature and science. the caption, no joe i have no idea what we're supposed to be looking at. just keep looking. now for the really bizarre. iowa republican randi shannon was running for a senate seat until she sent out a four page letter to supporters saying she was dropping out. that's not the end of it. she now says she's been appointed senator for an alternative government, the so-called as she puts it, republic of the united states of america. that's right. shannon's joined a libertarian group that says they reinhabited the original government in 2010. the group says that's what we now think of as the government. really just quote, united states corporation as they call it. and we have it to blame for things like invasive tsa screenings and even the 14th amendmen

the group started at the corner of mlk and malcolm x avenues. before that, they held a citywide community forum to talk about how to keep people working and out of trouble. the hundreds of marchers were joined by non-profits, churches and mentoring organizations. >> keeping black people from killing each other opposed to standing up for each other. the black man taking responsibility for their families and jobs. not jail. jobs. the best things. you know, the jobs. -- [ indiscernible ] >> as part of the effort, participants and community members are encouraged to take someone to worship this weekend. >>> that guy looks like good guys in an attempted robbery of a florida jewelry store. >> they were posing as police officers. fox's josh casillo showed us how it played out. >> reporter: clearly, the four guys who tried robbing marcellus' jewelry had a plan. dress up like cops to get inside and make off like band its. >> everything was police. like -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: the plan seemed to be working. they had police lights in their sat yo

if you're traveling route 50 eastbound between the beltway and mlk, 704 here. debris is blocking the right lane. have to be aware of downed trees cleaning up southbound connecticut avenue at denfield avenue. all the lanes are working. crews are working to get the tree out of the roadway. quite large, and still you see debris in the road here. hopefully it will be cleared by the time you head out of the house. aaron, over to you. >>> thank you. to help drivers leaving d.c. tonight the hov restrictions during the evening rush hour. be patient if you ride mess troe today because of the weekend storms. 200 metro bus lines are running on detour routes because of downed power lines and other storm damage. metro says all of the 86 rail stations are open, but some stations may be operating on backup power systems and emergency lighting. that means escalators, platform displays and some p.a. systems may not be working properly. >>> commuters today had to pay a little more this morning on metro. new rates kicked in yesterday. it now costs 5% more on the rails. bus fares

a mlk. >> the idea of operation the bill is to not just about tickets, but to also educate the public that distracted driving is dangerous. >> it is about getting the word out about distracted driving. a great portion of the accent's we have right now is distracted driving -- of the accidents we have right now he is distracted driving. >> we want you to take the pledge. don't drive distracted. sign up that wbaltv.com. >> we want to let you know that the new speed cameras we have been telling you about in baltimore county are now active. police tell us that portable cameras are up and running. the 30-day grace period begins now. for a list of all of the active cameras, you can go to wbaltv.com. >> a senior adviser to president obama, what led to the visit and the key issues that were addressed. >> how you can keep them healthy and active this summer. >> and a uniform crisis averted? >> and a uniform crisis averted? that >> a new push for young people in baltimore city to practice safe sex. representatives from a full cme church will be talking about sexual process in the baltimore neig

yeah let's put mlk in the back of the bus and put winston churchill right up front. god, romney.ives this interview with brian williams where he asks do you think the brits are off to pulling off the olympics. >> do they look ready to your experienced eye. >> it's hard to know just how well it will turn out. there were a few things disconcerting about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials -- >> oh, this is great. this is great. go to england and dump all over the brits. go there for the olympics and say it looks like it is going to be a total bust. it's hard to say how it will turn out. he didn't make any friends among the brits. >> if you go through all of his mistakes yesterday he is george w. bush. >> no, bush was smooth compared to romney. so i tell you the prime minister really shot back at romney. and basically said you yahoo, what do you know. it's easier -- well let david cameron say it. >> we are holding an olympic games in one of the busiest most active bustling cities anywhere in the world and o

stay with hopkins place or alternates including mlk. mass transit a good bet this morning.cident on center street at st. paul street and another crash heading north in the city going to be right on cold spreng lane at falls road many traveling on 695 this is what it looks like in overlea at bel air packed on inner and outer loops. that's your abc2 time saber traffic. see you in 30 minutes for another traffic and news update. now back to new york for good morning america. ♪ i want to dance and love ♪ >>> what a wonderful tuesday crowd. blowing kisses and everything. it is great, as always. if you're in new york city, come on down. that's "dance again" j. lo's hit single, playing. we have our exclusive with jennifer lopez, and enrique iglesias, behind the scenes of their summer tour. and wait until you hear what jennifer lopez reveals about her new boyfriend. >>> ti wish we didn't have joshs microphone on right now. we're going to play guess that pop tune. ♪ i want it that way >> if you're going to play the first line. >> one of the biggest hits by the backstreet boys. they'r

a couple of new accidents, cane street at east lombard, mlk at west read. 83 at ruks ton road not much news this morning the manhunt understood -- underway for the armed man who kidnapped vie ripken. here is mike schuh with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. the alleged kidnapper managed to get his picture taken twice. police released these pictures to see if the public recognizes this man. they were taken by a camera at the royal farms. hartford county crime stoppers is offering a $2,000 reward. ms. ripken was returned to her neighborhood unharmed at 6:15 wednesday morning. if that person looks familiar aberdeen police want to hear from you. >>> larry tolver takes over for james tier july 21st as the ann arundel county police chief. >>> a fire broke out around 2:00 this morning at an apartment complex in ran randalls town. 12 unit s are damaged. >>> 98 rocks stash will not be returning to the air. according to our media partner the baltimore sun steven smith known as stash on the air no longer works at 98 rock. this comes days after he was charged with dui. it was on sunday the 48

another one and falls and coldspring, mlk and madison. jackson boulevard, accident coming in.h area. south of white marsh, you are experiencing delays towards the 895 split. let's look at it a section. lombard is open, but light street shut down at lombard. over to you, ava. >> temperatures are quickly heating up. 87 degrees downtown. low 80s across the eastern shore into ocean city. high-pressure system builds into the east, with a clockwise flow around it. humidity will be increasing as well. pretty humid started the day, but slightly drier air into the afternoon. that is the silver lining, as it is going to be extremely high. -- hot. opera 90s to low 100, with mostly sunny skies. tomorrow, just as hot and becoming more humid. cold front wednesday night into thursday. >> we will have another update at 8:56. >>> we're back now at 8:30 on tuesday morning, the 17th day of july 2012. it's going to be hot, temperatures in the upper 90s so plan accordingly. we have a big crowd on the plaza spending time with us this morning. we thank them for that. i'm matt lauer alongside savanna

was lyndon johnson and mlk.barack obama said mlk given these milestone,s that emergency room cog dhash coming up. we see in the election opened up opportunities for all of us. especially those who write and agent and are active about issue. we see brother on television now we see different people. whether we degree disagree 0 with the new black faces peopled needed negro face in higher place. they're calling you. people were professor -- [inaudible conversations] what does it mean? space opened up. space opened up. what does it mean for us the milestones whrorntd obama gets reelected. the civil rights milestones. they were talking about how miseducated or no education. the 50th ankers anniversary. is going to have talk about king and civil rights. what can bedo? what is the opportunity that is there for us. >> one i think barack obama is going to win. mitt romney is justice sense of -- [inaudible] he is going to win. but for me, you know, it's the 41st anniversary of what's going on and raised a question. marvin