the perry hall man accused of fraudulentll selllng millions of dollars in renewable energy credits mayy have to pay all thht money back. today jurors heard closing arguments in the prosecutors said hailey - sold more than 9-million dollars in credits for bio- diesel that his comppny did not produce. the case is one of several that have lead to calls for a review off the environmental protection agency program. a judge could rule this week whether charges should be dropped agaanst anne arundel county executive john leopold. crime and justice reporter joy lepola takes a closer look at the case. 3 some --- maybb all--- of the state's charges against anne arundel county executive john leopold may e dropped. and, this week. ((vo)) in court, leopold's attorney rgued... the county executive did not break any laws... when he used his taxpayer-funded security detail to help in his campaigning efforts. last week judge dennis sweeney.... told prosecutoos he found parts of the ndictment troubling. 13:14:47 you can not proseccte people for matters that are the question is hat did he do that's broken

bel air, just north of towson, perry hall. this is parallel.is the system that's down to the south, south and east of you but you're still going to see some dangerous cloud to ground lightning, so keep it indoors. let's zoom it out and show you the latest scan on the radar, just a tremendous amount of leeting in. we'll throw a lightning tracker. at times we've seen close to 300 bolts per 15 minutes. that is an intense lightning storm. we implore you to charge up your cell phone, charge up your ipod so you can stay connected. this is a storm that's been ongoing, producing tornadoes since 2:30. we're taping it to go -- anticipating it to go. we have a brand-new app called stormshield that will bring you the latest alerts as they come. a tornado watch. this will continue until 9:00. i'll talk to the storm prediction center and see if we can expand this until 10:00. it's showing intense, at least they're becoming stronger as they push toward the east. tornado watch until 9:00. you notice everything is pushing from south to north. 5:45. we're still

perry hall at 5:32. fallston at 5:50, so get ready for the storms. we're watching more storms to the south. take a look. test will pivot into our area. we'll have to watch it closely. the radar will be active out there next several hours has these are slow moving storms capable of producing flash flooding. a tornado watch will stay active until 9:00. all of our counties across the baltimore viewing area under the tornado watch. any storm that develops has the potential to rotate and cause a tornado. this is the first rod of storms moving across the area. you can see these storms will be moving to the north and east, dover beach, all of ocean city, you'll get rocked with this storm. the our storms lined up along the 95 cor re dore, from harford county to pg county. this is lifting to the north. you see a line of pretty strong thunderstorms set up. and this is receipt around the pennsylvania, maryland border. this will push everything offshore but it will come at a cost. 79 downtown. d.c. at 72. the role story is the humidity values, between 60 and 90%

perry hall, sykesville. we will get some clearing from the west. we talk about how the rest of the week looks coming up. >>> president obama spent the day in our state campaigning and raising money for his reelection bid. the president met with donors. traffic from reisterstown road to 83 brought along some traffic nightmares. we have an update on the traffic. rosie? >> reporter: i'll tell you what, take a look for yourself. you have a combination of rain a combination of rush hour a combination of folks coming downtown for the orioles game. usually by rush hour things have evened out but there's still heavy traffic. all the roads are back open it. cause lad lot of nightmares. let's take a look at the video. when the president's visit closed off south charles street going north and it also closed off light street going south. so what you had were two of the main streets to get out of 95 and conway. both were closed off. what happened was you had people trying a way to get around. there was heavy traffic on pratt street, lombard street. so a lot of

temperatures this morning, coming in, in the upper 50s, instead of the 60s, and the 70s, 59 now in perry hall, owings mills 57 degrees, 58 now in rockville. the winds are calm as of now, a accidents. >>> dundalk, wise at church road, the accident has been cleared. traveling through the tunnels, everything up to speed through the fort mc heat church road, the accident has been cleared. traveling through the tunnels, everything up to speed through the fort mc henry and 895, acci cleared. traveling through the tunnels, everything up to speed through the fort mc henry and 895, north of child's street. not too many cars out. there an easy ride through the harbor tunnel. no concerns on the south side, heading southbound, 495, north towards the tunnels. as far as the west side is concerned, here is a look at liberty. no delays on the outer loop, looking at 11-minute ride from 795, towards 95. a look in a few minutes. no delays to talk about on the jfx in to the city. 11 minutes to travel from the beltway, downtown to east fayette street. that's a look at time saver traffic. >>> strong storm moved th

we are looking at 52 in owings mills and perry hall coming in around 54 degrees.is what i am talking about. see on the satellite and radar, the batch of clouds andcounterclockwise spin and as long as we have that we have the chance for showers going throughout the day. charley. >> all right. health news this morning. more than 1.2 million americans will suffer a heart attack this year and today a new report declares one state north carolina, is pioneering an idea that may help. duke university medical center report says the key is calling an ambulance so they can hook you up to an on board ekg to be sent to the hospital before you arrive. this can give doctors a chance to diagnose and prep for surgery before you arrive at the er. in north carolina, 90% of ambulances are doing this. >>> lawyers say they are close to a settlement in lawsuit against the colorado farm for the source of the listeria outbreak. 30 people died from the canteloupe including some here in maryland. the possible setment will set up a-- settlement would set up a victim's fund of $4 million. >>

good morning perry hall coming in around 51. 50 in churchville and bowie around 54. like you did yesterday, you will need the jacket as you step out and about. the wind are calm as of now. not picking up so much as we go throughout the day. we look at maryland's most powerful radar as of nowp and things are drying out. -- now, and things are drying out. we could see an isolated shower throughout the morning and afternoon. but we have coastal concerns in effect until 1 p.m. the areas here shaded in the darker blue we are looking at a coastal flood warning. so be prepared for that. i will talk about that coming up but right now let's check the traffic with lauren cook. good morning. how are the roads. >> reporter: good morning. we start the day off with an accident on 95. it's right around the northbound lanes at caton avenue. watch out for that if you are traveling in the area. no delays traveling through the fort mchenry tunnel or harbor tunnel and clear on the northeast corridor of 95. white marsh north of route 43, a 4-minute ride from this vicinity to 695. no prob

temperatures right now are on the cool side. 50 in bel air and 52 in perry hall. 55 in chestertown. centerville good morning to you. you are at 54. we should be at 58 degrees for this time of the year. you can see these temperatures are well below that this morning. take the jacket as you head out and about. a sweater or something as the kids are heading out to the bus stop. we are looking at possibly a few showers moving back in as we go throughout the day. courtesy of the upper-level low that upper level trough digging in across the area. that will stay with us even as we go into wednesday. and then we will break free of it as we head more into thursday especially friday and by the weekend we will be be done as high pressure will begin to build back in. 72 is what i am going with for today. so it's going to be on the cool side. and breezy not as breezy as yesterday but we have the breezes coming in from the north and east. this is the 7-day forecast as we hit 81 by friday charley and going into the weekend, close to 90 degrees and by monday, temperatures might be in the low 90s. l

so around kingsville and perry hall overly getting in on light rain showers this morning. we are seeing more of this the further as we slide off to the north and west. and past over tawnytown and union bridge is getting in on that as well as westminster and the last stop is going to take you around york pennsylvania. because this will be diving down into the area once again crossing that border. but if you are going into red lion winterstown and glen rock and new freedom this morning, you are seeing wet weather. now speaking of the wet weather, we are not getting it right now around mount airy. we are on the dry side but we are dealing with lots of cloud cover this morning and that's going to stick around through the prove. let's check at b. c2 -- abc2 timesaver traffic how are the roads. >> reporter: well, we are dealing with a lot of rain and a lot of fog out there. so turn on the low beams and be extra careful as you head out. an early morning house. house fire in northwest baltimore that shut down at reisterstown road. use quantico as an alternate. this happened in vac

temperatures on the cooler side when you look at the 50s in perry hall and bowie aberdeen around 60. head back to megan. >>> 4:47. and there are just four mor more hours of a 24-hour lacrosse event all in honor of the wounded warriors program. they are clocking in the final hours with the participants so education reporter sherrie johnson joins us live this morning. are we going see you play? >> reporter: you know i don't know. we will have to see. the guys are tired and have been playing for a long time. so, maybe if i can get a quick lesson in, we might see that. we will have to see. let me tell you, i am at the boys latin school of maryland and i got to tell you i never seen this many people out at 4:30 in the morning. i could tell you this place is packed with folks. there's already a game that's still going on right now. this is all a part of shootout for soldiers. it's a 24 hour lacrosse game with the money going to support the wounded warrior project and the effort to aide wound soldiers. it's a first year for this convenient is and we are talking about everyone from rec teams

perry hall coming in at 65 degrees and 64 in columbia. the wind right now are pretty much light on the calm side but they will pick up throughout the day and with that about 5 to 10 miles an hour. out of the south. now we have visibility issues this morning. only in certain spots. patch date of the morning in baltimore and instead of the 10 we saw earlier, we are looking at 9. also in hagerstown 9 mile reduced visibility and 7 in york and 1 in culpepper. let's check of the abc 2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning and how are the roads? we had an accident earlier. >> reporter: we have a car that crashed into a ditch. it's going to be right in joppa on route 152 at clayton road. if you are using 95, no delays to talk about from harford county all the way to baltimore county. but we have a disabled car that the fort mchenry couple blocking one northbound -- blocking block tunnel blocking one lane. as far as the southwest corner is concerned, here's a live look north of route 295. you want to watch out for a disabled car along t

warnings go until 5:30 for the city, for the county of work very bill, perry hall, and that has been moving along pretty quickly. one in northern baltimore county should be expiring as we speak. but there is a warning for severe weather up in parts of york and lancaster county's for those cells that cut right across carroll county about an hour or so ago. to the south, severe storms in eastern washington area, coming up out of the d.c. beltway. when the warning in effect, and the storm system would have a tendency to move toward baltimore in the next hour or two as it makes its way up the 95 corridor. rough weather in our area, damaging winds, flooding rains, large hail and possibly 20 damage associated with some of these storms. one of the biggest cutting right across the central and northwestern parts of baltimore city. captain roy has been getting a bird's-eye view at some of these nasty storms appear first and foremost, stay safe for sure, and keep sending back these amazing pictures. >> yes, right now, we are aware that had the line of storms ended up going through. this is just

next 16 minutes and then on towards baltimore in the next 30 minutes and eventually up towards perry hall. but this is where the particular cell will be headed. so, radar signature, again, showing that this storm system is capable of producing a tornado. moving northeast, in fact, at 20 miles per hour. i'm going to go ahead and zoom in just a little tighter for you and show you the areas that we're talking about here. right around columbia, i-29 area. that's right by the mall, just off of 29 and also around 100 right now. so, folks from the savidge area and right over you are under a tornado warning until 5:00 p.m. if you're in these areas, seek shelter right away. shiply's corner, again, elkridge and then on towards brooklyn area, under a tornado warning. that means not just the possibility of a tornado in this area, but likely that there is one occurring. we're certainly seeing that based on the signature here on radar. we continue to have more warnings issued. let me go ahead and wind out. we have chopper 4 up live. this is in prince george's county, folks. almost looked like nighttime

temperature right now coming in at 68 degrees in aberdeen and 66 in perry hall and also darlington.he winds are sustained at about five to 10 miles an hour out of the northwest. we'll see more of that as we go throughout the day. actually, they will begin to pick up some more. let's take you outside to baltimore around the inner harbor. it is going to be a good day to get out there and do that. another shot across urbana right now, seeing that sun/cloud mix across the area. for the most part we will stay dry and maryland's most powerful radar is showing that. let's get a check of abc 2 news time saver traffic with lauren cook. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. there is a crash along the northbound laips of 895 at route 32. traffic is jammed all the way back to route 16. if you are traveling 95 in the white marsh area, fortunately no problems. a lot of the congestion has really dissipated. not the case on the beltway. as we check in and take a look at parkway at bel aire road. traffic moving slowly continuing up to 83. there are no delays if you are using the jfx to get into the cit

still a little bit on the cool side. 65 degrees right now in aberdeen and perry hall at 64.ht, but we are feeling those breezes from the west. they will pick up more as we go into the afternoon. as we check out what's going on in terms of maryland's most powerful radar, we do have all five sweeps on right now. they'll stay that way as we go throughout the day. we'll continue to be dry with ample sunshine in the forecast and temperature topping out right around 87 degrees. let's get a check of the traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. an early morning house fire in baltimore city continues to shut down baltimore street at stockton street. if you are traveling in the area, use lexington street as your alternate route. megan pringle will have more on the fire coming up in just a minute. and we do have an accident in the city you want to watch out for as well. that's going to be on east eager street at st. paul street. if you are headed out to the beltway, this is a live look at parker road. that congestion will continue on 95 moving through

perry has a long list of hit singles. now she's trying something new. details about her new venture. >>> halle berry loses the battle with her ex. how much shield have to pay every month. >>> a birthday fit for a pr [ screeching ] >>> visitors are flocking to a south korean zoo to hear lala the parrott to hear her perform. she can do more than 50 imitations. the african gray's talent was discovered about 2 years ago, so her trainer started teaching her to mimic maybe computer beeps to cat meows. african grays can live up to 40 years. lala is expected to learn motte. >>> halle berry takes a hit in the wallet. >> and some music to the ears of justin bieber. georgia al freed is is in the house. hard by wkys week daye morning. already there's tremendous predictions about this. >> insider say he would probably sell half a million. this is actually his best dubai as well. so congrats to him. actually he's part 2 of the justin bieber special tonight, so really good last night. >> halle berry. >> of course. >> that's always part of it. halle berry has been ordered to pay up. tell us about that. >> my

perry show. so if i were to ask you to think of what a boston seceltic looks like, a lot of you would picture this. that's iconic celtics' player and hallrry bird, but not all of you thought about him. some of you thought about this guy. and that celtics forward and team captain paul pierce. he is what the iconic celtic player looks like today. it is a lot like the way we tend tend to think about an american. the most salient image that comes to mind may not be the one that matches up to reality. the celtics are lucky that the leprechaun logo is the nod to the story of america, because they are who we picture when we hear the famous words enshrined on the statue of liberty, give me your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. that idea of welcoming with open arms liberty and freedom, and that ability to welcome and welcoming them has changed. according the a report from the u.s. census bureau for the majority of the children born in the united states for the first time was born to people of color. so that means that the picture of being american is browner than ever before we m. sti. with me, still the panel. and yes, the celt