out there and do it. >> what a beautiful day to pay taxes absolutely. >> it could be breezy and low 80s, and that not be a good day to pay taxes. >> that's true. it depends on what you have to pay. temperature wise it's not that bad, not as chilly as yesterday. we do end up warming up more than yesterday. 48 degrees in baltimore, 46 degrees in washington d.c. and the same for hager towns. as we check out the hd radar looking as clear skies, it's a clear start to the day and that is the way things should continue through the day as we see temperatures climbing to 73 degrees today with a southwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. and tonight 42 degrees a mild night as well. as always, this is the time we want to check on the roadways. first thing this morning, here is candace dold with the traffic edge, candace, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, steve. we are talking about 95 right now. here it is moving at whitemarsh boulevard and things are picture perfect. now farther down on the southbound lanes there's actually clearing construction, and that is causing delays. just be aware of that. you will find that unexpectedly this morning. as we are tapping on the beltway things are looking good. an 11-minute ride 54 miles per hour and the same speed with only 8 minute clip from 83 up toward 795. as you go around the bend all the way down toward 95, 11 minutes there, again 54 miles per hour. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, back over to you. new developments on a story you saw first on fox. city officials admit a speed camera in north baltimore as been taking pictures by mistake. it's the camera along cold spring lane yesterday of the jones falls expressway. megan gilliland joins us live from there this morning. what happens -- more with what happens to those people who got tickets and maybe didn't deserve them. good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. we are talking about nearly 1,000 people caught by this camera ove over my how older. some of them have paid their fines they got from the camera. now the city has to refund that money, mistakes totaling in the thousands of dollars. this is a camera on the west cold spring lane that the city claims has made these mistakes. it's been operating since february. officials say the camera flapped 922 tickets in error since then. more than 200 people already paid that $40 fine. when you add it up, that is about $9,000 that the city will have to refund. the city has put up new photo enforce signs in this area, but one driver caught by the camera here says the school signs are still missing on one side of the road. >> the whole purpose is to put the speed camera up, is slow down you're in a school zone. if you don't do that, you put up a hidden camera and call it a school zone. it look like they're in it for the revenue, not necessarily the safety of the children. >> reporter: the spokesperson with the transportation department says there's no rules, the regulations and speed monitoring program addressing the school zone issue. whether that will change or not, we will let you know. meantime hundreds of drivers are still waiting for their refund that they paid for those fines. no word on when they're going to get it. live in north baltimore. megan gilliland, fox 45 early edition. the aclu is taking up the case of woman who is not being accepted as a foster parent because she does not allow pork in her home. the muslim woman went through hours of training but her application was rejected in october. temporary family services said she was denied, because she won't serve pork in her home. she said she would respect the religious beliefs of any child placed in her care. >> the foster care system it is in poor condition and there's many children who need foster care parents. ultimately if a competent caring woman is willing to provide services to a child we shouldn't be denying her, simply because she won't allow pork within her home. >> a representative from contrary family services responded to the claims, saying quote, the decision had nothing to do with her religious beliefs. we place a child we want to make sure that the parent can accommodate the child and be flexible to meet the needs of the child. she didn't do that, she wasn't very threx ib flexible and very. a man wanted for shooting two people in westminister is captured. ka shan harris is behind bars after being arrest on tuesday in pennsylvania. he is 1 of the people accused of shooting two individuals at an apartment complex last february. both lar ris an harris and the r suspect have been charged with attempted murder. a carroll county man charge with assaulting a 21-month-old child assaulted the child while the mother was sleeping. he abused the little girl at westminister. the child had bruises, abrasions and burns. gifford and the mother had allegedly been drinking before the attack occurred. >> you don't like to hear this happening anywhere, it's scary when you have your own in this neighborhood to hear that someone ha four houses down has abused a child and it's someone you know. >> gifford is in jail this morning, the child is being treated at john hopkins hospital. jurors will continue to deliberate today in the trial of lamont davis. davis is charged with two counts of attempted murder accused of shooting 5-year-old raven wyatt in the head. if convicted he faces a possible life sentence for each of the two counts. the mother accused of burying her baby in druid hill park has a preliminary hearing scheduled for today. 28-year-old lakisha hahne is facing charges lu murder of fire murder in the death of her son. there will be a candle light vigil for the elderly man that was shot in the carry out restaurant last week. last tuesday a man was gunned down by robbers as he left the restaurant. the vigil will be from 5:30 to 6:30 at green mount street. they arrest two officers involved in a police shooting. video shows police beating a maryland student. the first officer suspended filed assault charges against two students. prosecutors say those charges have been dropped. prosecutors say they have received angry and threatening phone calls from people around the country since the video was released. >> we understand that there's a lot of community concern about this case, and we have received threatening and hostile phone calls from across the country. the fbi is involved into the investigation into the incident, police say more suspensions will be announced soon. some owe, some need a deadline, and some old plain procrastinate. april 15 is here which means taxes are due today. joel d smith is live downtown with last minute information for this tax day. good morning, joel. >> reporter: good morning, patrice, happy tax day to you and happy tax for everybody. not a happy day for everybody. we expect lines here but not as long as usual. it seems more and more people every year are doing the e-filing, that is filing on the computer. as for here, we see a lost cars go by and probably filled up with the latest returns. let's take a look at the stats in maryland according to the e-filing scenario, 1.52 million electronic returns have been filed. which is 5% more than the same time last year. maybe they're doing it sooner because more are getting money back. refunds are up $8 million from the same time as last year. the e-filing is saving maryland as well. it's estimated since the early 90s, maryland has saved $18 million because paper returns costs the state $1.85 to process. there's changes, like the go green credit, and the new home buyer credit among many others. >> get on do something, don't delay, file today. this is important. if you don't file you're going to be subject to penalties. >> reporter: in a controversial statistic out says 53% of americans actually pay the taxes that cover the other 47%. according to a group called the tax reform center a family of 4 with two kids under 17 can make up to $50,000 and break even with the government. it goes on to say 40% of households receive money because their tax credits are larger than their liabilities. today is the deadline, the deadline is here and if you need more time you can file for an extension but you still need to pay the government what you owe as an estimate. you have to pay them something otherwise you could be penalized. extensions will be filed today as well. so it will be a busy day at every location especially those that are opened longer. until then live downtown baltimore, joel d smith, fox 45 early edition. hundreds of people will spend tax day at tea party rallied across the state. eight tea party ralliesed are scheduled and some familiar faces will be at those events. governor ehrlich will be at the tea party. that is after kindle will speak at a tea party. we will talk with david schwartz for the maryland for prosperity about the tea party. that is coming up in the 6:00 hour. maryland is known for its blue crabs and lately it's costing you more to enjoy them. now prices could be coming down because it appears that the crabs are making a come back. crab population increases 60% from last year. great news for restaurant owners and crab lovers. >> we will be able to lower the prices if that is true, 60% more crabs in maryland. we can get some of the louisiana crabs and their prices go down when there's more crabs locally. >> it's too early to say if and when crabbing restrictions will be eased. coming up in on the early edition, two people were sent home last night. >> it's time like tonight, on a night to have to eliminate two people. >> find out what happened during american idol double elimination. yesterday the temperatures began to warm you, we are talking about much warmer temperatures today and for tomorrow. i will let last week the judges used their one and only save and that means that two american idol hopefuls had to hit the road last night. >> it's tough even for us on a night like tonight to have to eliminate two people. andrew, it's the end of the road, sorry. >> andrew garcia was the first person sent packing. after tuesday's night performance, though, it wasn't a big surprise but andrew was still gracious about his loss. >> i appreciate everything and i'm glad i'm here. i'm glad i have been through what i've been through. you let me experience something i had experienced, thank you. >> find out who else went homecoming up in our 6:00 hour. let us know what you thought about last night's show. you can post your reaction on facebook or twitter page. go to facebook.com/baltimore or you can send us a twit. you can go to our website foxbaltimore.com, and click under american idol under the entertainment section. can you watch american idol next tuesday at 8:00, and wednesday at 9:00. here on fox 45. and meteorologist steve fertig is here. i can't wait to see who the next person is going home. i didn't watch last night. this is what we're watching out on the hd radar. a clean scan, 48 degrees at the inner harbor with clear skies being reported. on no wind, and 75% relative humidity and d due point is at . and 46 in d.c., a couple of milder places than we saw yesterday at this hour. chillier in salisbury and oakland not bad either. as we take a look at the fewer tour sca--future scan image andt stays to the north. that is going to bring in the warmer temperatures as we climb to the 70s and maybe even upper 70s to near 80 tomorrow. there's a front behind us. that front is going to be bringing us cooler air for the weekend. it's going to be bringing us a chance of showers and thunder with all of this in place, it's going to be left stable air mass. there's a chance of thunder tomorrow. you see it beginning into the northern counties as 4:00 p.m. and a little bit after into the evening, and nighttime 8:00 p.m., here is showing a lot more pervasive the shower activity throughout the area. it tapers off overnight into saturday morning. we're left with drier conditions for the weekend but cooler with all that air front. the cooler air is being replaced and the cooler air moves back this as the jet stream takes a dip to the south by the time we get into the weekend. here is the way things should shape up for today. you are looking at the eastern shore area, you're noting a high temperature of 69 degrees. mostly clear skies and a west wind at 5-10 miles per hour. temperatures warm up a little bit more for the central part of the state. 73 degrees here, and further points west going to clear out earlier and get more sunshine. 75 degrees for the high with a west wind at 5-10 miles per hour. tonight mild, only dropping to 54 degrees, mainly clear skies, and southwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. 74 degrees for today's high temperature, mostly clear skies, showers late tomorrow, and maybe thunder, too. look at the high of 75 degrees, 64 on saturday, and mostly cloudy skies and then the saturday, sunday timeframe 60 degrees for the high, and sunday, and 65 on monday. we move through the day today climbing nicely into the mid-60s by the noon hour. then we will be looking a whole lot better through today and much of tomorrow as well. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45 powerful doppler radar to track incoming storms. interactive tools will let you see when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar now here is candace dold with the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: thanks, steve. we're talking about trouble in harford county. there's a broken watermain in aberdeen on route 32. it does shutdown the lane on the eastbound side at route 40. you can still get by the area. that is at least the better news for you if you're traveling through there. as far as 95 is concerned, let's check it out moving on route 32, you can see a few cars here and there, no major cars to be concerned either the northbound or the southbound stretch. and that's pretty much the same deal moving through whitemarsh. we do have late clearing construction near the beltway just be aware of that, a little bit of the slow down as you go through there. as for 695, moving through harford road, let's check out that area, light activity inner and outer loop stretch. that's a look at the morning commute. back to you. retail sales were up last month, we will tell you which items are the hottest sellers. someone needs to make a phone call somewhere and rectify it. >> and students forced to miss a major some anne arundel students are found themselves all dressed up with nowhere to go. melinda roeder explains why some students have found themselves shut out from their prom. >> reporter: pretty girls have pretty dresses. shannon fletcher has her heart set on pink. the prom is like a right of passage for seniors. >> just like being with all of my friends and having fun. it's like the end of the year fun. >> reporter: but this year some won't get to go. >> i would be mad. >> i would be mad. >> reporter: these seniors bought their tickets early expecting they would sell out. >> they kept telling us you get there as soon as you can because there's a limited amount of tickets. >> reporter: the room they reserved has a limited amount of space but the senior class raise money to reserve a bigger venue and they didn't want to raise ticket prices. >> this class didn't raise enough funds to hold a prom that everybody could attend or have e lower ticket prices. >> reporter: complaints are flying on facebook. >> i think they should order more tickets or something or found a little place, maybe. >> i think it's a little unfair. someone needs to make a phone call somewhere and rectify it. >> reporter: school officials say it's too late to change the location but they will try to fix the dilemma. >> we want our students to the prom, and the graduation and class trips are part of that experience. >> reporter: until the drama is addressed dress shopping for some will not happen. mel indimelinda roeder. >> school officials say most seniors in the senior class did not even participate in the raise funding events. the letter that was sent and how it's related to the february's snowstorm. next international shoppers won't be able to get their jp morgan reports its first quarter stocks are propelling high roar rs people ar. >> reporter: people are shopping, and the dow rising 100 points. the gp morgan chase rising more than 4%, that bank earning more than $3 billion last quarter. retail sales jumping by more than 1.5% last month. clothes and cars the hot sellers. consumer prices rising by .10 of a percent in march compared to february. fed chairman ben bernanke telling congress he is expecting inflation to remain low. and apple delaying the international debut because of the sales here at home. the stock hit an all time high above $245 in a share on the news. i'm adam shapiro. fighting carry on fees, the maryland senator who is opposing a charge by spirit airlines. and caught speeding, i'm megan gilliland. why the city might owe you a refund. and i'm joel d smith live at the post office today. yes a very welcome back to fox 45 early edition. 5:29 is the time. i'm patrice harris. it's time to check on the forecast. meteorologist steve fertig here to look at what we can expect on tax day. people going to drop off their return. >> they may have a smile or a frown depending on the responsibility. but some people get a nice return. >> they have probably already sent that in, though. >> and you will be able to tell by the signs of the smile as far as what people's situation is. take a look. this is the situation at the bus stop. 45 degrees with clear skies, looking very nice with a southwest wind at 5 miles per hour. no problems there. clear skies throughout the day. sky watch hd radar, not showing much in the way of cloud cover no less and no rain. it stays dry for the time being. showers back to the west as you stay throughe