i hope so. >> rob roblin, wbal-tv 11 news. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. we have a crash at liberty and mill ford mills road. and approaching the harbor tunnel, you can see traffic slowing down there fro lum bard to the tunnel. so watch out for that. otherwise we are looking good on the rest of the major roadways. 64 in the harrisburg expressway, heading south 95 in the northeast corner. we are looking good there. we will give you a live look outside. you can see east and westbound moving just fine. here along the top side you can see the inner and outer loop. but you can see the roads aren't slick -- the roads are slick out there. now john has a check of the forecast. >> good morning. with a little bit of snow mixing up near the pennsylvania line, sticking to the grounds and a little bit. tapering off to a few sprinkles or spotty showers in the afternoon. sun breaks. temperatures will be near 50 today. we'll detail the forecast going into the weekend in a few minutes. >> the time is 6:37. coming up, first there

rob roblin is live at the race course. >> opening day is kind of the beginning of the buildup to theig race, the preakness. there will be a lot of promotions here up to the preakness. a lot of them are aimed at getting a un people to come to the track. -- getting young people to come to the track. for horse racing fans, there is nothing like it. >> i love everything about it. >> i love the races. i wish they had the slots, though. >> you cannot be the excitement, the people, the yelling and screaming. >> today began the spring in new year at pimlico. for more than 250 years, were stressing france have been coming to old hilltop. -- horseracing fans have been coming to old hilltop. >> you just get a feel for the tremendous amount of horses that ran out here. there is a different feel when you come to pimlico, and you get a little fired up. >> if you look at the crowd out here today, you do not see a lot of young people. >> we do a lot of promotional and saturdays, trying to target the young kids. a lot of different things, because obviously our clientele right now is 45 and over. we a

rob roblin has more on what is at stake on this opening day. >> there is a lot at stake and a lot of people were out here today for opening day. the real deal for the folks at pimlico is, they will have lots of promotions this year, building up to the preakness, and the whole idea is to get a lot of young people to start coming to the track. it is a place with a proud tradition. for over 250 years, people have been coming to pimlico for the beginning of the spring racing week. horseracing, the sport of kings, and few tracks have seen as many great horses. >> you just get a special feeling, the tremendous amount of horses that ran out here. there is a different feel when you come to pimlico. you get a little fired up, and that is how we are. it takes a lot of pride here in preakness week. >> you cannot say the -- that it was crowded. >> they need to attract younger people. >> our clientele right now is 45 and older. if you come out here, you are wrong to have a great time, it is just trying to get them out here. >> for those who came here, some for 10, 20, or even 30 years, there is n