. >> reporter: the 18-year-old has been accepted to stevenson university in baltimore to play basketballd study law. >> i want to go out there to learn. and to play basketball at the same time. >> reporter: but school starts in just three weeks. tuition is due on thursday. >> right now, i'm $5,093 in the hole. >> she has done everything possible to secure the funds. he has worked, studied, student loans, and financial aid. >> the federal first year award, federal direct sub loan. >> reporter: but they are still short. >> right now, i'm very stressed because he's looking to me every day wondering if he's going to attend stevenn. heartbroken. >> we went to the experts at the school counseling group in washington. it turns out in this economy, it's a problem counselors are all too familiar with. >> we're seeing people are hurting. >> reporter: the counselor says this close to the deadline, there is little that the family can do. but there's a chance. >> i would really encourage this family to contact the financial aid offices again if they have not already done so, just making a phone call

at stevenson university. it's chilly out there. justin will let us know if a warm-up is on the way., a look at the weekend forecast. we'll be right back. ♪ the art of getting dirty. the art of getting clean. new powerfully formulated wisk®... is better on tough mud stains than tide total care. wisk®. powerfully clean. perfectly priced. >>> good thursday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm megan pringle. here are the top stories -- fire damages a popular baltimore county restaurant. we're live with the latest. >>> some baltimore res doesn't walk to take back their streets but more evidence overnight why it will be a long journey. >>> and a shakeup in the investigation of that light rail tragedy that claimed the lives of two teens. that and more just ahead. again, thank you for joining us. let's get a first check of the forecast with meteorologist justin berk. >>> 5:59. let's start off on this chilly morning with some temperatures in your backyard. we keep looking at the airport and downtown but what about where you are? towson 53 degrees. that is at

stevenson university 65 now on the northwest corner of our beltway. so we could have patchy fog, mid to upper 60s this afternoon. 86 is our two-degree guarantee. we're just a 20% chance of a thundershower. here's kim with a check of roads. >>> as we check around the area not many traffic incidents to let you know about. i am looking but that's a good thing for commuters. we're going to take a quick look at the tunnels. baltimore and fort mchenry tunnels, earlier overnight construction projects have been wrapped up, all tunnels and tubes now open at this time. no problems to report around the beltway. top side looking good as you make your way down east side through providence to the harford road area, no problems there. 83 is looking good, this is the jfx, northern parkway through to about north avenue, running smoothly with no problems. 95 southbound as you make your way through the whitemarsh boulevard area through to the 695/895 split, all running incident-free at this time. looking here at the cameras, 695 at the bw parkway. you can see not much v

at stevenson university. the winds are calm. let us know if the rest of the week is going to be as beautiful as the first half. we'll be right back. # p+ >>> good morning. i'm megan pringle. last call for a baltimore city fire company. the results of budget cuts, but firefighters say your safety could be the real cost. >>> many area parents are in a mad scramble this morning after learning their children's school is shutting down. we have the latest. >>> plus, he's not only living strong, he shares the lead in the super bowl of psyche lick. the -- cycling. the latest on lance armstrong's incredible comeback career from cancer. that and more coming up. >>> thank you for joining us. it's ju

. >>> outside, we have stevenson university hooked up, 56 degrees, an indication that once you're just outside the beltway, especially in the valley locations it's chilled back. so we're down to 56 degrees. that is an important mark, that would put us at record territory at least at the airport, just a few miles away. check out the beach, it's 67 now in ocean city. want to compare that with harford county, 52, compared to 58 fallston and 62 havre de grace. widespread this morning. we'll get to the two-degree guarantee of 87. >>> let's see what's happening on the roads with kim. >> traffic smooth on 83 southbound from pennsylvania through to about the beltway. however, we have a couple of incidents in the city to let you know about, still working that crash east fairmount avenue at north linwood. also 95 northbound approaching whitemarsh boulevard, that disabled vehicle remains on scene. we have lane closures downtown for lombard between president and mlk for the resurfacing project. that might take extra time for you. and 95 southbound past the fort mchenry tunnel toll plaza there's a

. >> reporter: 18-year-old leon has been accepted to stevenson university in baltimore to play basketballtudy law. >> i want to go to school and play basketball at the same time. >> school starts in three weeks and tuition is due on thursday. >> right now $5,093 short. >> reporter: his mother says she's done everything possible to secure the b@nds his work study, student loans and financial aid. >> federal first year award. direct sub loan. >> reporter: but they are still short. >> right now, i'm very stressed. because he's looking at me every day wondering if he's going to be able to attend stevenson. it is heart breaking. >> reporter: so we took the problem to the experts at the city council counseling group in washington. turns out in this economy it is a problem counselors are all too familiar with. >> we are seeing people are hurting. >> reporter: this counselor says this close to the deadline there is little they can do but there is a chance. >> i would encourage this family to contact the financial aid office again, if they haven't already done so just making a phone call and sayin

some point as we check it out after last night's rain, had a little sliver of valley fog by stevenson university and greenspring valley road, northwest corner of the beltway. hazy, partly sunny morning, and that will charge the atmosphere to fire up again. low 70s now. i want to point out the storm totals. lisbon in western howard county had big hail yesterday. almost an inch and a half of rainfall. churchville had golfball sized hail. at one point 1.46 inches of rain. we could have rain any time today though maryland's most powerful doppler radar is currently dry with multiple sweeps across the chesapeake. it could happen after 2:00 this afternoon. temperatures get back up to seasonable levels. 87 is our two-degree guaranteed high with a chance of showers and storms any point this afternoon through this evening. 9:02. back to you. >>> we start with our top stories. this morning we start with a deadly crash in baltimore county that killed three people. police tell abc2 news a car crash happened on whitemarsh boulevard -- what happened is what we're told the car tried to turn left on to honeygo b

the time lapse here from stevenson university. had a little fog this morning, a mostly cloudy, hazy sky now. that hazy in the air is the sign of all the moisture and that is why it feels much wearl than it is, even though we're not that hot so far. maryland's most powerful doppler radar, again, we've got rain in northern sections of baltimore county. parts of harford county and dotting in through southern pennsylvania. gets much more pronounced. i-81, often acts as this dividing line. that's when you get this deep into the mountains. the rain is spreading eastbound but while we got this solid rain here and it's just a morning event we'll fill all this in as we head through today. the cloud cover prevents us from getting too warm which may prevent us from getting too severe. but where there is sun breaking out portions of the delmarva, southeast virginia, they could be approaching 90 and could have tornadoes here. we're in the environment where we'll have the slight risk of severe weather. i think for us the possibility of damaging

stevenson university, we had a little haze and fog in the valley.lky white to the sky despite the sunshine. 79, feeling like 83. essentially we're dry now on maryland's most powerful doppler radar. multiple sweeps across the chesapeake, may get a little active as we head into this afternoon, acting on some of the heat and humidity. we're going for the two-degree guaranteed high of 89. only two degrees above normal and small chance of a thundershower popping up after 3:00 p.m. tonight, we pull back to 73 with scattered showers and patchy fog. our outlook for the rest of the week, we pull back to 85, a better chance of storms tomorrow. wring it back up to near 90 thursday, friday and keep the threat of afternoon showers into the weekend. >>> our final check of the roads with kim. >> thank you. still delays on southbound 95 from the harford county line through to about the 659 split. however, we had an incident that shut down the northbound tube of the harbor tunnel. that has since been reopened. they had to perform a little bit of emergency maintenanc