tonight, tim williams helps you steer around the road work. >> reporter: as labor day approaches, sos baltimore's first ever gran prix. five year agreement brings gran prix racing to charm city's 2 1/2 mile course. downtown streets around the inner harbor and stadium need to be repaired and up for the task. the latest construction, conway street will be closed in both directions between light and charles street. the closure will last up to two weeks. alternate routes into the city include howard to baltimore street and incompetent state 395 to dr. martin luther king boulevard. city crews have been plugging potholes and smoothing out roads to the tune of $7 million. city planners say costs areoff set by the 100 thousand visitors and $70 million, the race is expected to pump into the economy. so they have to -- >> look at the underground utility work. >> reporter: but on the surface, some residents say that money could be better spent. sometimes, when you are out walking, i can't keep on looking down at the ground. >> reporter: now, nearly 30,000 daily motorists are looking ahead to wh

we'll have the traffic after tim williams that has first warning weather. >>> good morning. a high around 84 degrees. we're just around 80. we're on target for what's happening this time in june. we have the heat kicking in on wednesday and thursday. we'll have a chance of showers and thundershowers friday and saturday. temperatures up to 92 and down to 86. for a look at the roads, here -- here's sharon gibala. >> watch for that in the southbound lanes past middletown road. we have a disabled vehicle blocking the left lane there causing a backup to lumbard lane. we have an accident past 216 in the clearing stages. we have a backup to 175. we have fire activity in the city as well. that's closed between foster and fleet. taking a live look outside, that's the delay on 895. there's the beltway and 895 again. there's the beltway again. >>> this is brought to you by your baltimore hyundai dealers. >>> a fight between two dog turns deadly after the owner of one shoots the other dog. >> reporter: don, the pit bull died before it could get to a vet. two were walking cane in severn.

tim franks reports now from wimbledon. >> reporter: victory in round one should be routine for defending champions. right? wrong. serena williamsas barely played for the last 12 months. she was, she says, on her deathbed. she had blood clots on her lungs. >> it's been so hard. you know, it's just -- it's been a disaster year. but, you know, i've been praying and, you know, had my family, you know. i love tennis. to be able to come back at wimbledon is pretty awesome. >> reporter: over three sets, serena made her comeback. if not quite of biblical, then at least of deeply personal proportions. >> i didn't expect to be having the emotions. i just expected to walk off and -- but i was pretty excited. and i just thought about all the things that was happening and me not being here. and i wasn't necessarily expecting to come to wimbledon this year and making it and winning was pretty cool. >> reporter: last year, john isner and nicolas mahut's match lasted 11 hours, the longest match in history. if that was incredible, then this was unthinkable. the two men, now good friends, were drawn again this year in the first round. it was rat

. >> among those no longer taking part are the williams sisters which a lot of people can't2 believe. we're talking about venus and serena. and also as timeports the brits sure do have something to cheer about. >> reporter: if week one of wimbledon was a warm-up, week two began at full burn. hot dogs and englishmen came out in the midday sun. andy murray and his french opponent richard gasquet playing under the gaze of the future monarchs, one of whom we're told turned out for her own school tennis team. to begin with, gasquet produced shots of panache and verve and other french words. at two sets up, murray didn't relent. this was a display not just of strength but of touch. >> gorgeous. >> reporter: gasquet was broken twice, which left match point. >> game, set, match. >> reporter: and a bow to match a command performance. >> it's nice. i think it's great for tennis. any time you can get royalty to come along, it doesn't happen that often so i enjoyed it. >> reporter: murray could face a semifinal against the top seed rafael nadal who won his fourth-round match. history may be urging caution. but there's a different feel about wimbledo

if i'm tim paw lendy, i wond wrer she came from. she has a tax degree and went to william and mary.nty smart and understands where the right wing is coming from. she speaks loutly and they love it. all politicians make mistakes barack obama made a mistake last week and george w. bush made a mistake. the question is, can she be credible to enough voters going beyond iowa and that's an open question. >> is she held to a different standard because she is a woman? >> i guess the answer is obviously yes. i don't think chris wallace would have asked a man if he was a flake. i think that the fact that she is constantly compared to sarah palin as opposed to other men in the race clearly would demonstrate that. i think the issue for her is she is a high flying rhetorical politician in part because she was not in a position of power to execute. she was just more trying to create a movement and now i think going forward, it's not that she is not smart or well-educated, does she have the discipline to reign in her rhetoric and know what she's talking about. >> she has a great staff including ed