i'm patrice harris. >>> let's get a check of the our forecast, because hopefully a new month brings new weather patterns. out with the snow and in with the sunshine. >> actually we still have a similar pattern, the southern stream that has been taking our coastal low, that is still in place, but the next one is going to be disconnected to the other piece ich was the low pressure center to the north and west of . >> it ems not as big. >> , it still seems not to be as big of a deal. and we expect to see a snow. >> when is the snow that will bring the sunshine. >> that would be a high. more on meteorologist 101 a little bit later. taking a look at the temperatures out there, 39 in hagerstown and it will feel chill we are lighter wind and you will see that we have part lead cloudy to mostly clear skies. it will look with more of the same for the afternoon but the activity as far as the winter weather stays up central new england. keeping an eye and moving in our general direction and see if that is going to

i'm patrice harris. we start this morning with a school closing. garrett county schools are closed today and it might be easy to understand why. so far that county has recorded more than 260 inches of snow this winter. a lot of it came last week. and remember whenever severe weather hits, tune in to fox 45 morning news, because our morning news ticker will have all the latest closings, delays and traffic conditions. the ticker updates automatically and it even runs during commercials. >>> let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig. they got hit hard again last week so they're still recovering from that. >> they got a lot of cold air in place, you get the help of the great lakes for the lake-effect snows plus the coastal systems. >> last week on top of the all of the snow they got when we got the blizzard, they're never go to thaw out up there? >> slowly, ghat i and that willd if it's slow. in fact, we will get into the 50s by the weekend around here in the central part of the state. right now we're at 39 degrees. that is mild throughout the are

i'm pa fris harris. -- patrice harris.et's check in with meteorologist steve fertig and see what we can expect.

i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of today's forecast with meteorologist steve fertig and we're talking about federal money coming to help from all of snow removal. hard to think that that was just last month we were talking about? >> what a difference a few weeks make. >> it seems such a long time ago. it was such a rough period for the city. >> and this weekend, you would have never known, the 70s we had, not quite as warm today, but it will be sunny. we're looking for the sunshine shining brightly this afternoon. 44 degrees and the same for hagerstown and 44 in salisbury. we're looking at the temperatures climbing into the 60s. can will feel chilly. we could call that windy, i suppose, more than a breeze. again, we will see clearing skies today and that is going to allow for plenty of sunshine today and much of tomorrow before the clouds roll in and the low comes our way. that's the next chance of rain coming late tuesday into friday. here are the weather headlines, sunny and mildier today. and it

i'm patrice harris.efully you had a chance to get outside yesterday. >>> we will feel the nice warm temperatures for at least most of the day and then rainshowers move in later tonight. but holding off on those rainshowers. you won't need the um a first thing -- umbrella first thing out this morning but you might want to have it handy. 47 up in hagerstown. mild temperatures throughout much of the area where there's more cloud cover. where there's less cloud cover at salisbury 37 degrees right now. the clouds have allowed for radiational cooling and it drops more. the low pressure center has got to move through here before we get rid of the rain. it will take a cold front to follow before it will allow for the clearing skies later tomorrow. high pressure will clear for the weekend and we will allow and cool down. mild today and rain into friday. brisk and colder tomorrow. rain reappearing won agai once e sunday into monday. >>> lauren cooke has th a look t the traffic. >> reporter: there's going to be an

a lot of good stuff, patrice. >> it sounds like it. talk about dressing the part, because i'm sure she would like to see people come prepared for an interview. >> reporter: we say dress for success, do your best how important is that. what do you think people should be wearing when they're coming to see you today. >> when you come in, you want to put your best foot forward. as professional as you can, be it a business suit, khakis and a shirt an tie and tie if you hav. whatever you have, do the best that you can. >> reporter: look like you're ready to step in and start today. >> all right, joel, good advice. thank you so much. >>> coming up on the early edition, hundreds of thousands dead and many more living victims of the earthquake in haiti. >> it's awful. this is going to be the worst natural desaster in recorded history. >> see one mission of hope going on in the country. >>> and not a lot of rain out there right now but a lot of clouds keeping temperatures mild. look at temperatures >>> welcome back, 5:42 on this tuesday morning.

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i'm patrice harris. hope you had a great weekend and already for a great workweek. meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us what we can expect in the weather department. >> happy monday to you. >> and a happy, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and friday. the weather is going to get weather and weather, although we have starting with a rainy one today. >> but once we get past that. >> we are going to get past that. >> you were talking about really good temperatures. >> i was telling you last weekend. it will pan out. we do have to get rid of the rain, we have a coastal flood advisory for the west side of the chesapeake bay and for the northern part of the eastern shore. and that is what we have as far as through this afternoon and through tonight until midnight for the eastern part of the state. also the rain bringing some heavy rain down to the south and east, looking at probably a couple of inches of rain that will continue through today and into tomorrow as we said before, it dries out and get drier air moving in. temperatures 53 degrees starting out, 53 also in

i'm patrice harris. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig and see what we can expect as we head into tuesday. -- thursday, it's getting close to the weekend. >>> we will feel the temperatures back into the 50s. that is good. the down side is -- it will be not as pretty as it was yesterday with more cloud cover moving in actually today. >> you didn't want to give that part up. >> no, either that or i'm going to a new kind of change. i thought i went through that already a few years ago. >> you can always reinvent yourself. >> maybe i will go back to school. bus stop, 45 degrees, with mostly cloudy skies, west wind at 5-10 miles per hour, so not bad temperature wise heading out to morning. just a lot of clouds and the showers that we do expect to come our way will be coming here later on, western counties maybe this afternoon, but holding off for the evening. the rest of us all of that moisture is going to hold off and through here will take sometime to do that. it will move in the evening hours a

i'm patrice harris. >>> let's get a check of today's forecast with meteorologist steve fertig. we always like it when it's nice. yesterday it was really nice. >> today. >> not so nice. >> no, it's going to be cloudier and the rain will hold off in the latest but not until the evening. >> we will take that a full day. >> temperatures are going to be on the mild side for one more day. we will start to see them drop, too. 52 degree52 degrees is where wet this day. 50 in hagerstown and we have a lot of clouds beginning to build in the area ahead of what will become a rainier night. if showers will hold off it will take sometime for the atmosphere to saturate. that part does sound pretty good. look for the clouds to increase through the day and the chance of rain that come through the night. we will talk about how much rain we can expect in a little bit and for how long it will last. we will see what is happening on the roadways. here is lauren cooke, good morning, lauren. >> reporter: rail service is disrupted in koo cockeysville ar thursday's crash. as we take a look at west side

i'm patrice harris. >>> we're starting this morning with a school closing. garrett county schools are closed today. that county has recorded more than 260 inches of snow this winter. i'm sure they've had enough. just remember whenever severe weather hits, tune in to fox 45 morning news. our morning news ticker will have all of the latest closings, delays and traffic conditions. the ticker updates automatically and even runs during commercials. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig to make sure that we are not getting snows that add to totals like that. >> ithat. >> no, we have are not getting anything that will add to 200 inches. they have gotten enough, we have gotten enough. we have a little bit coming our way. >> we could be done for snow for maybe all the winter? >> i'm not saying that. march -- you know the kind of winter it has been. march has the potential of bringing more snow. we may have one more. right now things are looking good. cloudy skies are looking good when it doesn't include snow as well. that is what we got for the day, but we d

so i will now turn it over to patrice to get things started. patrice? >> thank you, reece. that was very, very generous. so, hello and welcome to the fifth annual national discussion on government openness and secrecy to help and a very successful sunshine week. i'm your moderator as reece said, patrice mcdonough. the official name of the open the government coalition. our cosponsors for the event are listed on the program that is available to you outside, and i'm not going to go through all of them. and we are very grateful to them for the help in creating this event and making this a success. this year again we're webcasting live from the center of american progress from washington, d.c.. i want to thank reece and john podesta, president and ceo of gap for graciously hosting the event for us this year. the center is a partner in open government.org and is honest and committee. and the staff at c.a.p. have been wonderfully helpful and wonderfully patient. as always we thank all of you for joining us live in the studio, and those of you watching at meetings in your communit

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. >> patrice harris fox 45 news "late edition". >> the birds have just one more week of spring trainingn sarasota before they break camp and tonight the future is looking brighter. sec baseman brian roberts recovering from herniated disc in the back, finally made the spring debut tonight against the twins. unfortunately though it was not the start the b rob was hoping for. but he is back out there. went 0-3 in the loss to the twins. tillman with a rough start. went 4 and a third. giving up two runs on four hits. but walked four. burk enthrough four shutout innings in relief. and reimold his hit a first homer. they host red sox tomorrow. >> orioles announced today, they have sent nine players to the minors. josh bell and schneider will report to triple-a norfolk and hughes and aubrey. relief pitcher heads to minor league camp. >> a big lacrosse match up tomorrow as virginia hosts johns hopkins, and annual showdown for the doyle smith cup. cavaliers are ranked number one for the third straight week and blue jays struggle, have fallen to 12 and trying to break a losing streak. blue jays lo

now patrice brought up before and i didn't get a chance to comment the requesters groups have come to us and talk about the idea of a foia negative ford and we already have a lot of information about agencies available publicly to read the reports are publicly available, the chief officer reports are. but the idea behind the dashboard which we think is very interesting and we are very seriously considering. i can say that and it's actually the second highest voted on suggestion on open government website where we have members of the public commenting -- today is the last day to want to vote but it's already number two. we've been watching that. we are getting feedback from the public of the idea of wanting to see how agencies are doing and the idea behind the dashboard is that there will be graphic representations how agencies are doing and i like to think if it does that people will want to race to the top as the slogan that is used people will want to be on a chart that shows increasing release, they will want to show they are having decreases in backlogs so that will motivate peopl

the sheriff in california tells cnn john patric bedell had a history of mental illness. sheriff curtis hill says his family try for years to get help and he had been committed to mental institutions at least three time. according to court records from a 2006 arrest, the 36-year-old suffered from bipolar disorder. bedell seemed to be obsessed with online anti-government theories. >> make him fit a narrative es special lay partisan political narrative. it's clear this is a very disturbed individual whose drug out of the hate and paranoia sold on the internet by conspiracy entrepreneurs. that's what happens when you use hate as a cheapening computer tool but can lead to violence especially when those drinkings are unstable to begin with. >> bedell died in a shoot-out with guards. his family says, we may nerve you know why he made this terrible decision. one thing is clear, though. his actions were caused by an illness and not a defective character. >>> a wisconsin zoo shut down yesterday when a bear bit at least two fingers off a woman's hand. authorities say the woman walk

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