we're mid-way through the week and good weather should be in store for today. meteorologist steve fertig is here with a look at what we can expect. you said yesterday was a transition day today is. >> the is on. you like that, i know you like that. everybody doesn't like that. we have a chance of a couple of isolated showers. we will talk about thunderstorms, better chance really for tomorrow and friday. 67 degrees, nice, hot wave or mild wave to start off this wednesday morning. 65 degrees in d.c. hagerstown at 64. as you can see checking our sky watch hd satellite image, not more than a few clouds. a few clear skies for a while. look at at the 90 degrees for a while. a little bit of patchy fog, not as widespread as yesterday, a hot 1 for you. we will get details on the stormy conditions in a few minutes. right now lauren cooke is back with the situations that are happening on the roadways with the traffic edge. good morning, lauren. >> reporter: good morning, steve. we do have trouble in towson where we are dealing with an accident on providence road at 695, fortunately to really days at the beltway. we're looking at 67 miles per hour on york road. as we take a look around the area, you can see that the traffic is flowing along the inner and outer loop lanes. if you're traveling on the outer loo lap lanes, you're looking at an 11-minute ride. all is clear on the fort mchenry tunnel, from the toll plaza to the beltway. and from the harbor tunnel toll plaza on 295, you're looking at an average ride of 54 miles per hour. that's a look at morning travels, patrice, back to you. more reports of bullying in a baltimore county school. it's the latest in a story you saw first on fox. megan gilliland is liveefrom franklin middle school where a mother is willing to break the law to protect her son. good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, patrice, we were out here yesterday at the same place yesterday reporting on the story of a 7 years old girl who says she was pushed down the stairs here. now another story, another student who says he was teased and ridiculed and even physically attacked while going to school here at franklin middle school. falls mother says her son's skin condition made him a target for bullies here. he is constantly teased and called names and even physically attacked. but she never felt as if the school's add administration was in her corner. after a stabbing and several suspensioned she decided that her son was leaving baltimore county even if that meant she had to lie to get him into a new school. >> my son is coming home, he is not sleeping at night, he is scared to go to school the next morning. he is wondering who is going to hit him the next day. >> reporter: again, this is the second case of bullying just this week reported at franklin middle school. the mother of the girl who says she was pushed down the stairs is now suing the county board of administration two school administrators for $600,000. because of ta lawsuit the county school system is not commenting on this at all. live no baltimore county, megan gilliland, fox 45 early edition. baltimore pleas are investigating a suspicious death in east baltimore. a man was found dead inside of a home on north bradford avenue around 4:45 yesterday afternoon. police have not released how the man died inside a 61 years old man admits to raping a 14 years old. marion stone pleaded guilty in a baltimore county court on monday. he had sex with the girl after she ran away to his home last july. he could face up to 20 years in jail, but prosecutors say it's likely they will only ask for 10 years. a baltimore man is free from jail this morning after spending more than 10 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. tyrone jones was released yesterday after prosecutors dropped conspiracy to commit murder charges against him. jones was sentenced to life in prison over the killing of 15 years old tyrie white. a police report was recently found saying the witness that picked jones out of a photo line up originally said he hadn't seen any suspects. a cecil county teenager charged with the death of a pregnant woman has been found fit to stand trial. roberter lirobert irvin is menty competent and can assist in his own defense. he stabbed her after they got in a fight. he was 16 at the time. his trial is scheduled to begin june 18th. more than 20 inches of snow fell in some areas the weekend of the december 18th. well now fema has set aside more than $4 million to help pay for the storm costs. the money will be divided between several counties and the state, no word yet on if fema will help with the february snowstorm. what's the possibility oil from the gulf of mexico will reach maryland waters and beaches? that's one of the topics that will be discussed today when governor o'malley meets with maryland's desaster response officials. the governor is holding a hurricane preparedness tabletop drill at the state house this morning, but the first half of that drill will be spent talking about what happens if the does come our way. the fight over healthcare reform could be headed to court. virginia's attorney general is suing the federal government over the new law. late monday night the white house asked a federal judge to dismissed the case but virginia's ag says the requirement to buy insurance or pay a fine is unconstitutional. >> it was not bipartisan. it was uni partisan. this is one side and that is unprecedented for a new entitle of this scope. >> health and human services secretary, kathleen sebilius said that congress acted within its rights earlier this year when it passed health care reform. the millitary's longstanding, don't ask, don't tell policy could be a thing of the past. they are thinking of a repeal of the policy contingent on how it will impact. they are optimistic that it will pass dice pie despite the oppos. but some say that the issue shouldn't be considered in congress until the review is complete. >> i don't know why we're jumping the gun here and taking a vote on here when we all agreed on one point not too long ago that we were going to have a review panel take a look at this. >> the house is expected to take up the repeal this week, the vote could happen as soon as tomorrow. it sounds too bizarre to be true, but it turns out some people are attempting to get drunk by pouring vodka into their eyes. joel d smith is live in towson with more on -- i don't even know what to say about it, joel. it's absolutely crazy. >> reporter: yeah, you could definitely say that. i went back over here and a random place we're this morning. i didn't see eye droppers but apparently this really is happening and as is the norm nowadays, there's youtube video to prove it. >> go, go! [ laughter ] >> reporter: lots of videos like that one. yep, people taking the bottle, placing it on their eyes and bombs up. the idea turned up in a movie 10 years ago and the video are becoming popular on youtube. a shot in the eye is believed to enter the blood stream quicker when it's vodka. this quickway to get drunk, can be a problem. >> it gets very, very dangerous because obviously, you know putting this alcohol into your eye can actual legal melt your corcornea. >> reporter: they are afraid this this will blossom in places like beach week where young drinkers are willing to try anything. we don't know how popular this is right now. a lot of the video we showed you is kids in the uk that are doing this. it's starting to get more pop ular and people are trying things like these. we are pointing how dangerous it can be, when you're talking about a high-level of alcohol into the eye but when people get drunk they're trying stuff. >> joel, you're telling me this not a great fun, party dame. wh-- game. who would have thought. >> reporter: there's people online doing it. and they seem to be having a good time. people are laughing in the background. you're not seeing the consequences. >> they're not going to see much if they keep that up, joel, thank you. stay tuned for fox 45 morning news for continuing coverage of this story. we're going to talk with addiction specialist mike gamble about this new fad. that is coming up in the 6:00 hour. the city mounted police unit is about to get a boost thanks to the community relations council will present a check to the mounted unit. more than $3,000 raised during annual bull dose. some of that money will be put toward the purchase of a new horse. it's scheduled for noon at north holiday street at the stables where the horses are housed. police will step up patrols on waterways this weekend. police encourage all boaters to wear a life vest but under a new law that went do effect last month, life jackets are required for everyone except for those under 13. more than one person who was killed was not wearing those jackets. coming up in their early edition, it was their last chance to impress america. ♪ >> how simon characterized lee's version of the boxer. >> and we start off rather warm this morning with temperatures in the mid-60s throughout the [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? 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can find out who will be crowned the next american idol tonight at 8:45. it's down to the wife, and last night we were talking about it, i don't think lee did enough. >> i don't either. why not go to hallelujah. >> i was surprised that he chose that song, too. i don't even remember it. >> he is get positive reviews. >> he could have chosen any song from the season and i was surprised. >> maybe because he did it recently, but i think he made a big mistaig. >> i do, too. >> we will have to wait and see what happens, we have seen surprises before. we have a chance of patchy fog this morning. not as widespread and not as thick with not as much moisture as the deep levels of the atmosphere. showers stay to the south. back to the west going to watch this, because this could be visiting us by tomorrow as far as anymore vigorous activity. we could ge get an isolated sho. bench degree67 degrees with mosy skies. winds are calm with relative humidity, we are going to see the skies clear out before we see partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. 67 right now in baltimore, 64 in d.c. and temperatures in the 60s, 63 in hagerstown, cooler at salisbury at 53 degrees. we got high pressure once again controlling the weather. warm air will be with us today, the hot conditions in fact. we are going to see temperatures toward 90 degrees. one other thing we will be talking about is the backdoor cold front. this front is going to be moving in from the north, the chances are it could pop up some thunderstorms as it approaches. look for that as we get toward tomorrow, really, although we could see with the heat alone a pop up shower. you see hot pressure controlling the weather. that backdoor cold front and following that, we are going to be in the warm sector of air. the chance for showers and thunderstorms as we get all that warmth coming our way is there for thursday and friday as well as the next front pushes through. high pressure builds in behind it and we should be looking decent for the weekend especially into memorial day. we will get to that in a little bit. mostly clear with a northwest wind at 5 miles per hour. the central part of the state, climbing to the 90-degree mark or right around there. north winds at 5-10. a high temperature of 88 degrees or a hot one there as well with partly cloudy skies and a north wind at 5-10. tonight, 69 degrees, partly cloudy, with a northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. a mild night for sure. as we look toward the next few days, we stay with the isolated thunderstorm, and a better chance with a thunderstorm with a high of 92. as that front pushes through with a thunderstorm chance increasing for your friday. saturday isolated shower, generally at best but a dry day. looking good on sunday. 84 for the memorial day and mostly clear skies, 84 degrees, partly cloudy for your tuesday. 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 know when thunderstorms will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. now lauren cooke is here with a look at the traffic edge and what is happening on the roadways. lauren. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we have an accident at joppa, on old joppa road between stan road and the over pass. we're looking at high speeds at whitemarsh. 62 miles per hour right now and as we take a live look, you see no problems to report. it should be smooth sailing along the northbound and southbound lanes. good news out of towson. the accident at providence road has just cleared at 695. as we take a live look in the area, no real delays to talk about. we do have trouble in reisterstown where we're dealing with an accident on reisterstown road at mont rose avenue. a watermain break that has shutdown one of the lanes of reisterstown road at avalon way. as we take a look at the beltway, we're looking at a high 56 miles per hour there. if you're traveling on the expressway, it should be a smooth ride, from shawan road to 695, and no problems to report on the jfx. it should be clear from 695, downtown to east fayette street. no problems to report at the fort mchenry tunnel, or the harbor tunnel. that's a look at the travels, patrice, back to you. thank you, lauren, the summer season is about to kickoff here on fox 45. ♪ ♪ the season premier of so you think you can dance is tomorrow at 8:00. and one lucky viewer will be able to dance with the best of them. it's our weekend so you think you can dance contest. one viewer will win a nintendo wii system, a wii fit plus, a video game and an ipod nano. just watch the premier of so you think you can dance and answer a trivia question on friday morning. for the rules go to foxbaltimore.com. the worries at home and abroad that are plaguing investors. and el minute itago hundreds 600 baltimore city jobs could be cut. john rye del says it's the latest threat as the city wrestles with a $2,100,000,000 deficit. >> headquarters are launching a counter offensive. they have seen the ads condemning the 4-cent beverage tax. but the city leaders say it's time for the city council to take a stand and pass the controversial tax. >> we don't mind, and workers don't mind spending a couple of pennies to save jobs. >> without the bottle tax and a series of other tax hikes, up to 600 city workers could be laid off. >> a layoff at the city workers, is firing, you're firing these workers. >> many of those targeted for layoffs are on the front lines of keeping baltimore city safe, from picking up trash, to those boarding up houses. >> folks are still ee illegally dumping in baltimore. >> reporter: but at city hall there's no con sensu con seps se bottle tax. and they are being bottom boarded by senior sitten citizeo are condemning the taxes. >> hopefully with the ones that the march orha mayor has out thd restore some of those jobs. >> reporter: the council president jack young says even if all of the taxes are enacted up to 200 city workers could be laid off. >> they got to do the math, we want to restore all of the jobs with these revenue enhancements to make sure we have the city workers. >> reporter: until the council takes action the fate of hundreds of workers remains in limbo. in baltimore john rydel fox 45 morning news. the city council may not take a vote on any of the proposed tax hikes until the next regular meeting on june 7th. the city budget has to be finalized by june 30th. coming up later on the early edition, another issue over a political sign in baltimore county. why a second man was ordered to take down a sign in support of bob ehrlich. next the i-phone becoming more affordable. w# a big bargain for the apple 3g i-phone. and stocks recover after a nearly triple-digit loss. thisselizabeth mackelselizabeth. stocks in asia and europe plunging on worries of the debt mess and the tension inside north korea. former stock exchange had graso telling stock exchanges they're getting jittery of wash wab spending anwashington spend. home prices fell by half a percentage price in march verse february. those prices are up 3% since bottoming outlast year. wal-mart slashing $100 off the price of apple 3gi phone. now you can pick up 1 for $97 if yyu buy a 2 year contract with at&t. and they are testing new technology that would let customers use their smart phone as a room key. that elizabeth mcdonald. a howard county teacher accused of having sex with a student. why investigators say this case is especially disturbing. and more reports of bullying at a baltimore county middle school. i'm megan gilliland. how far one mother is willing to go to her save her son. and this one certainly does not pass the eyeball test.