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talking about an accident on the beltway this morning. it's a crash on the inner loop lanes, it's at wilkens avenue. you can see the activity right here. they're trying to clear this one out pretty quickly. as for the delay, there's a little bit of a slow down as people look over at the actual scene. that is the look at the inner loop lanes as for the outer loop direction, from 795, to 95, that's an easy drive, right now 11 minutes, 55 miles per hour. nothing to get in the way on 95, the southbound lanes from the fort knack henr mchenry tunnel,s and southbound miles per hour. the harbor tunnel all the way toward 95, 9 minutes at 54 miles per hour there. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back over to you. president barack obama will address the nation about the massive oil spill at the gulf of mexico. he is returning from his 4th trip of the region. three members of the maryland's congressional delegation are also getting back. megan gilliland with hor on how these leaders are going to hold bp accountable. >> reporter: this is a live look at the mace sieve oi massin the gulf of mexico. up until last woke week some of maryland's lawmakers had only seen these images now they have a firsthand look at the smells. mulma cullmikulski and cummingso the area. they say the area impacted is as big as the region from ocean city, new jersey to richmond, virginia. mikulski has been assured that the maryland sea industr seafooy and its shores won't be impacted. bp has caused the problem. they have the capacity to respond. what government has to do is assure that the response is timely. >> reporter: bp has agreed to set up a compensation fund for the people along the coast. the oil giant says that the cost for the spill has reached $1.6 billion and that's a number that is expected to rise with the countless numbers of lawsuits filed against bp. newly released bp documents show that six days before all of this happened an engineer with the company called it a nightmare well. tonight could bring more answers with what the leaders are planning to do from here. when the president addresses the nation you can watch the speech live at 8:00 p.m. here on fox 45. megan gilliland. fox 45 morning news. we are following a developing story out of anne arundel county this morning. police discover an explosive device at a home in crofton overnight. it happened around 3:00 this morning on falls way drive. police say they found a plastic bottle filled with black powder, bbs and a fuse. the bomb did not detonate and no one was injured. we will continue to bring you the latest on this story as it becomes available. to his family and friends he is being remembered as a marine who served his country well. to many others his death has become a lightning rad with how city police handle confrontation. joel d smith is live for today's viewing of tyrone brown. the man shot 12 times by a baltimore city police officer last weekend. good morning, joel. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. brown's viewing actually starts around 8:30 and goes almost all day. a lot of time for family and friends to come here and pay their respects. they have been paying attention to how everything is being handled bit polic department. now they're happy that someone has been apprehended. tshamba has been charged with first-degree murder. he finally turned him self in after being in hiding for the first few days. his attorney addressed the first three murder charges saying tshamba was acting in self-defense. the witnesses say that the officer was off-duty when a female friend got up after being groped by tyrone brown. that is when tshamba identified himself as an officer and confronted brown. it seems that what actually happened during that confrontation, the specific will be the key to the case. >> 13 shots were fired to this victim, and that is even against our training. >> a police officer in fear of his life has to do what he has to do to preserve his life. if one shot doesn't work and two don't work, and 3, 4, and 5. if they don't work, you fire until the threat is gone. >> reporter: if found guilty t shm ba coultshamba could faceh penalty. tyrone brown family members were grateful the charges came so quickly. the viewing will be here today and the actual wake is tomorrow at morgan state university. joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. police make two arrests in the killing of an off-duty maryland state trooper and the key suspect is being held in baltimore. williams is in the city lock up because he was wanted on a violation of probation charge. williams and his friend anthony milton are both charges with murdering wesley brown. it's williams in surveillance photo. brown escorted williams out of an applebee for not paying his bill. an hour later, brown was gunned down in the parking lot. milton admitted that they returned to the scene and fired the fatal shot. the trooper friends want the gunmen held responsible. >> he can get hive in prison. as long as he doesn't see the life of day, i'm fine. i don't want him to enjoy walking the streets anymore because wesley won't not again. both suspects have extensive criminal records. the person shot inside of his car last monday in southeast baltimore works for the u.s. sensus. it happened new year hope circle, a car ran into that sign. spencer williams was found in the vehicle shot several times. he died on sunday. he was returning home after dropping off a co-worker at the end of the day. and the they say that his work is not related to his work with the census. players and fans at last night's san diego padres' game got more than just baseball. >> we're experiencing a tremor, an earthquake at the ballpark in san diego and it's very significant. >> a 5.7 ma magnitude earthquake shook the padre earthquak stadir everybody to see it. the quake could be felt as far as los angeles. fortunately, there were no reports of significant damage. the orioles are on the west coast for a series against the san francisco giants. they were safe from the earthquake but they lost again last night 10-2. a federal committee upholds the current policy preventing gay men from donating blood. the 9-6 vote to keep the ban goes to the fda which has the final say. some say the ban discriminates against gay. the red cross says the ban should be lifted. >> the testing for hiv, hepatitis and a number of other viruses is so good nowadays that after a year we have a good belt and suspender mechanism to test both for the anti body itself and the virus in someone's blood stream. >> the red cross says it will follow whatever decision the fda makes. we want to know what you think? should gay men be allowed to donate blood? it's the question of the day. we will take the call during the a 7:00 hour. sound off through facebook and send us a tweet at fobbing baltimore or -- fox baltimore. you can text your answer at 45203. enter fox 45a for yes or fox 45b for no. how residents in oklahoma are hanging on. i'm meteorologist emily gracie live in hunt valley for today's hometown hot be on par with fighting cancer. eagle golf drive against cancer is an attempt to set the future. emily gracie is live with today's hometown hot spot. look at that smile. you look like you're having a lot of fun on the golf course. >> reporter: i am having fun. i failed that putt. i'm talking about this event next week. tell me where this is so important. >> we're a part of the eagle golf and they're partnering with the strong foundation to raise money for the fight against cancer. this golf event across the country, 61 courses are participating and they're all basically raising money to support the foundation. we're having this event on june 22nd and it's going to be hopefully the largest shotgun start and we're going on the book of guinness book of world records to be the largest gunshot start. >> reporter: one week from today eagle golf drive against cancer. beautiful morning, hopefully it will be next tuesday as well. it's next tuesday. for more information, log on to foxbaltimore.com/morning. if you're headed out to practice this weekend, it's going to be another hot weekend in store for us. we are expecting temperatures to be in the low 90s. another weekend like we had last weekend and an isolated storm possible on sunday. no isolated storms out here, steve, it's absolutely gorgeous. a little bit of fog and the humidity pretty high but for the most part a really nice morning. >> emily, i don't want to put any pressure on you, but can i tell the people what your husband does for a living? >> no. >> doesn't he design golf courses, right? >> he does and i'm hoping he is still sleeping and he didn't see that putt [ laughter ] >> i'm sure you are going to see him proud. all right, emily, take a look. here is what is happening right now. i called her out. take a look at sky hd radar showing as a dry scan and as emily said, it's pretty nice to start the day. and yeah, there's no wind. that is not going to carry the ball in any direction other than where you intended it to go, emily. i'm putting her out there. we got showers coming our way later today, a couple of stray showers but there's a chance for a better chance of thunderstorms for overnight tonight into your wednesday. the bigger picture shows that some of the showers from last night have stirred south along the stationary boundary. 63 degrees with mostly cloudy skies, and northeast winds at 3 miles per hour. 65 is the dew point so it's still humid but not too bad. it will dry out with northerly flow today. 73 degrees in baltimore and 71 in salisbury and the same for hagerstown. the temperatures do not climb a whole lot. the stationary boundary has been to the south and out of our way. it's allowing for the cooler air to move in today. it will feel better with drier conditions before the showers move in terms of moisture. again, the humidity value is not high. the warm front will return further points north by later tomorrow and then the cold front follows bringing us shower chances overnight tonight and then the thunderstorm chances really increase as the cold front follows tomorrow. then we dry out behind that front as high pressure builds in. here is what you can expect door food. if you're in the eastern shore, 78 degrees for high, definitely cooler than it has been. 10-20-mile-an-hour wind for the central part of the state. a chance for a stray shower but the better chance comes later tonight, with a northeast wind at 5-15 miles per hour. further point west, looking at a high temperature of 81 degrees with a chance of thunderstorm, northeast winds at 5-10 miles per hour. as we move through the day, 78 degrees at noon, topping ought at 82 about 3 to 5:00 afternoon and the evening, and at 6:00 p.m., could be a light shower in between but the better chance of showers and thunderstorms comes later tonight and 66 for the overnight low. tomorrow early showers and afternoon thunderstorms, 83 for the high is still cool. 87 on thursday, mostly clear, 89 and clear on friday, and then temperatures and 90s saturday and sunday as the humidity returns for the weekend and the thunderstorm chances also increase on sunday as the next front passes. we also want to remind you that, of course, 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. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. now here is candace dold with the traffic edge. hi, candace. >> reporter: wow, you did put her out there, steve, we will see what happens after the show. we are talking about what is happening is right now as far as the roadways are concerned and well, we're liking the numbers, 49 miles per hour on 95 traveling through whitemarsh. it's at 59 on 95 right near 395. we're talking about the beltway, though, the inner loop direction, in fact, and that is because of an accident. we will show you what the area looks like. it's a crash on the inner loop lanes at wilkens avenue. that activity is still there. we're trying to clear it out but we definitely have a good crowd and a little bit of a slow down as we look over the at scene there. farther up, traveling on the beltway, frederick road, there's nothing to get in the way. we will show you what that region looks like. outer loop and inner loop direction toward the triple bridges. it does get more congested traveling near liberty road, pretty much the usual deal there. southbound 795 is in the green from owings mills all the way down toward that beltway. that is a look at your morning travels, patrice, back over to you. thank you, candace. we're looking at baltimore's best dad and we think we found him. every day this week we will reveal a finalist in baltimore's best dad contest. he could reveal four tickets anywhere southwest flies. our four dads will compete in the closest to the pin contest on friday for the grand prize. coming up if you get health insurance through your employer expect to pay more next year. just how much more it could cost you. >> next, rain storms keep pounding oklahoma. how it could be causing the worst bloj who cares how far your lengthening mascara goes if it flakes out when it gets there? flakes are finished with covergirl lashblast length. it kicks some lash over the leading lengthening mascara since our elasta-nylon formula flexes without flaking. women prefer it 4 to 1. with our longest brush yet lashes look up to 80% longer. for lashes that go long and stay strong. get lashblast length. from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. summer runs on dunkin', arf! so stay cool with an icy dunkin' donuts coolatta or a delicious authentic iced latte. grab yours today for just $1.99. flood waters in oklahoma and more severe weather could be on the way. most of the state is under a state of emergency after a thunderstorm dropped 10 inches of rain, it flooded homes and washed out roads. another two inns of rain is -- inches of rain is expected today. sandra endo reports on the recovery efforts. >> reporter: once the water receded yesterday, this is what many oklahoma residents came back to, water logged homes. the owner of this home said he came back and waited through chest deep water to get to his wife and son. now he is throwing out damaged clothing and insulation and drywall. for hours 10 inches of rain fell leaving residents caught off-guard. roads and cars and even entire neighborhoods submerged in water. the teenage girl was clinging to trees at the fast moving water surrounded her. >> the currents got stronger and the water got deeper. >> reporter: they pulled her to safety after what she says was a two hour struggle to survive. >> i was shaking really bad when i was swimming and i thought i was going to pass out and i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: the storms caused flash floods leaving thousands without power and many injured. the state of emergency has been declared in 59 of oklahoma's 77 counties. authorities are urging people not to drive through water covered roads. >> at one point in time, we had almost two dozen calls of people that were trapped in vehicles due to high water and at least half of those were considered high priority requiring immediate rescue. >> reporter: some residents say they didn't think they would ever need flood insurance. >> this area hasn't flooded in about 20 years or more. with our retaining wall that we had, we thought we were safe, but it was a big mistake. >> reporter: residents aren't in the clear yet, a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect in parts of oklahoma today and a flash-flood watch is extended through later this morning. in oklahoma city, i'm sandra endo. coming up next, we all like free stuff, what you won't have to pay for at starbuck coffee shop much longer. >> plus, bomb bottoms up, if you get health insurance through your employer expect to pay more next yearmen year. stan case tells us how much more in today's business brief. stocks inned little changed. the dow fell 20 points, the nasdaq was virtually unchanged and the s&p 500 lost nearly 2 points. senate democrats are asking bp to put $2 million into an escrow account to pay for the oil spill clean up. according to a statement the london based company had $7 billion in cash on hand. bp has until friday to respond to the senator's requests. shares of bp slid more than 9% on monday. employees on company health plans can expect to pay higher deductibles next year, a survey finds kopped companies will pay% more. they are expected to require employees to pay more before coverage kicks in. next year they will have a deductible of $400 or higher. starbucks can surf the web for free. they will offer customers free sites to the "wall street journal" and down loads from companies like itunes. i'm stan case. for business brief. coming up a south carolina man wins his party's primary single handily, why some think, something smells fishy. oil continues to gush out into the gulf of mexico. will it spill into our region. i'm megan gilliland. local lawmakers will tell us what they saw firsthand. >> reporter: i'm joel d smith at a viewing for a mari ♪ my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. "x love. welcome pack to fox 45 morning news, 6:30 is the time. that's a shot from east baltimore, a very nicely done there. good morning, i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of our forecast with meteorologist steve fertig and see how nicely done that will be. good morning. >> good morning to you. it's humid this morning and mostly cloudy, it's not the prettiest start but we will see sunshine and temperatures will climb today. it will be in the 90s, and that is why the humidity will drop a little bit, too. that should be welcomed. take a look at where we start. we are at 73 degrees, and d.c. the same and the same in salisbury and the same in hagerstown. definitely warm with the low 70s but we are climbing into the low 80s today. a couple of showers moving into the western most counties. we will see a couple of scattered showers into the afternoon for the rest of us. a better chance of thunderstorms comes tonight as the frontal boundary approaches. that will be with us for tomorrow, too. 82 degrees for the high, definitely cooler with an northeast wind at 5-15 miles per hour. now with regard to what is happening on the roadways and your commute this morning, candace dold is here with the traffic edge. >> reporter: we are checking in on the roadways and looking at 95 for you. it's starting to accumulate with the volume on the northbound and southbound lanes of the corridor traveling at whitemarsh boulevard. no delays as of yet, so we will keep our fingers crossed. the beltway is looking good from 95 up toward 83. we're in the green, 11 minutes, 54 miles per hour. and 53 miles per hour with an 8-minute ride from 83 up toward 795. look at this, from 795, down toward 95, the volume is increasing, 13 minutes, right now 47 miles per hour. that's a look at your wedding travels, patrice, over to you. as the oil continues to gush into the gulf of mexico this morning, lawmakers are trying to hold bp accountable for the massive spill. president barack obama will address the nation tonight. he is getting back from his 4th trip to the gulf region and this time he wasn't alone. three members of the maryland congressional delegation got a firsthand glimpse. megan join us more with what they found and if it's possible that the spill could affect our region. >> reporter: this is the live look at the oil spill at the gulf of mexico. had a oil spill gushing out there. up until last week, some of maryland's lawmakers had only seen these images. now three of them have had a firsthand account of the sites and even the smells of what they call an environmental disaster. senators barbara mikulski, and ben cardin and elijah cummings just got back from the gulf. after seeing the spill in person, they believe it could take two more months before it is contained. the area impacted is from ocean city, new jersey to richmond, virginia. >> everywhere we went, we are saw oil, oil, and the consequences of oil. i will always oppose offshore drilling off of the mid-atlantic coast. >> reporter: mikulski has been assured that neither maryland beaches nor its seafood industry will be impacted but as damage costs continue to skyrocket, lawmakers say pb oil musdbp -- bp must be held fully beingable. the oil giant says that the cost for the spill has reached $1.6 million. newly released bp documents shows that six days before all of this happened, an engineer with the company called it a nightmare well. the president will address the nation tonight on the oil spell. you can watch the speech live at 8:00 p.m., right here on fox 45. megan gilliland fox 45 morning news. the president of the chesapeake foundation says that president obama should use the oil spill as a call for conservation. conserving immediately reduces consumption and cuts pollution in the bay. and he is calling for the president to permanently ban drilling off the mid-atlantic coast. we are following a developing story out of anne arundel county this morning. police discover an explosive device at a home in crofton overnight. it happened around 3:00 this morning on falls way drive. police say they found a plastic bottle filled with black powder, bbs and a fuse. the bomb did not detonate and no one was injured. we will continue to bring you the latest as it becomes available. a baltimore police officer charged with first-degree murder is ordered held without bail. he is accused of killing a former marine outside of a baltimore nightclub. their confrontation resulted in tyrone brown being shot 12 times. joel d smith is at the match funeral home for brown's viewing. this all comes a day after the officer's attorney claims it was just self-defense. probably not what the people coming to the viewing want to hear this morning. >> reporter: not really but they are glad that this process is moving guard. we are here at the marsh funeral home where the viewing takes place from 8:00 this morning to tonight. as you said a lot of those people will still be talking about who killed him as well. the shots fired by officer tshamba. look at what happened in the aftermath of that. he has been charged with first-degree murder. it took him a while to turn himself here. yesterday his attorney addressed the first-degree murder charge saying that tshamba was acting on self-defense. a fe female friend was groped by brown. the officer's attorney claims there's more to the story than police are sharing. >> he is being served up on a silver platter. i think the police department is using him as purell to say we're using him to wash our hands of all of the other misdeeds of anything else that the officer has done in the past. they are using him to credit with the public. >> reporter: blown' brown's fy was critical of brown taking so long to turn himself in. the attorney said he was afraid for his safety. trial will begin soon. if found guilty, tshamba could face the death penalty. the wake is today here at the funeral wake, and the funeral is tomorrow. retailers in baltimore are standing together against a proposed bottle tax. at a rally those opposed came together at a the supermarket. it would ad amount to tra costs their business -- extra costs that their businesses can't afford. >> we are in the middle section and the middle people, just like a lot of folks in the middle-class are feeling that crunch. >> the city council is considering the tax as a way to help close the 121 merchandise deficit. while debate over the bottle tax continues, the city council did give approval to other tax hikes and fees. some of those include raising the parking tax, the hotel tax and an energy tax. >> we have to raise these fees and these taxes or else you are going to see rec centers closed. you are going to see police lese officers and firefighters on the street. >> the council approved a tax on vacant properties, outdoor advertising and telecommunications, meaning your cable bill could go up. the council also gave preliminary approval to a proposal that will drastically reduce pension pay outs for police and firefighters. it would increase the retirement age for few you ar future hires. they clean na they will be affected. >> they are not looking at lessening the impact of our pension system. they are looking to strip benefits away. >> the unions have already filed a lawsuit to stop the changes. what would be your dream job? for many it's the official beer taster for london. it's a covet job that stressed back centuries. for the job interview, the would be tasters endorse several rounds of beer tasting and give a pitch for the position. people come from all around the world to apply but in the end the london beer sampler is a local businessman. >> it's a job i have been training for 30 years and now i got it so cheers. >> steve who he was was the winner there. will be given a weekly allowance to visit pubz in london and write a review. i wonder how he is going to write after sampling. i can't wait to read that column. the chance he could face the death penalty in convicted. you're taking a live look at wilkins avenue. we have monitoring conditions throughout the area because of an a nice shot of the hunt valley golf club on this tuesday morning as we take a look at a place where i would spend a slot -- a lot of time looking for my ball in the waterment let' wate. let's take a look at what is happening on the hd radar. we're not talking about rain at this time but we may be talking about later today and overnight tonight into tomorrow. let's take a look at the sky hd radar as you put things into motion, you had showers moving to the south as you move east. back to the west, a couple showers moving in now. we will talk about increasing chances overnight tonight as a front moves from the west. city degrees is the temperature at the inner harbor. mostly cloudy skies and 76% relative humidity. 29.98 and rising, 65 degrees is the dew point so for the time being still a little bit humid but that value should drop a little bit through the day. 73 degrees is the temperature at baltimore and d.c. we got a couple of 71, and oakland cooler at 63 degrees, but again, these temperatures won't climb as much as they have. stationary boundary again to the south is going to allow for cooler air to move in from the north and east. that cooler air is going to be bringing us a little bit drier conditions, too. the humidity value should drop a little bit, too. the stationary front sags to the south around the virginia, north carolina border until it moves to the north now and it begins to bring us shower chances for later in the day. i think the best chance as they said will be overnight tonight as the warm front approaches and into tomorrow morning the cold front advances. that cold front could bring us thunderstorms that could be on the strong side in isolated locations tomorrow afternoon and evening especially. behind that, we dry out nicely as high pressure builds in and we shape up pretty well for the end of the week. 78 degrees should do it for the high today. obviously much cooler than yesterday when we got to 90s. the central part of the state, we expect to see temperatures climb to 82 degrees and also that chance for a shower in the afternoon. east northeast winds at 5-15 miles per hour. back to west, a high temperature of 81, a chance for a shower or thunderstorm there. as we move through the day today, 78 degrees at noon, and 76 after getting to the high in the afternoon at 3 or 5 this afternoon. that could be the shower around. tonight a better chance of showers and thunderstorms overnight. 66 degrees for the overnight low, morning showers tomorrow followed by thunderstorms with a high of 83. we stay cool and 87 degrees, warmer on tuesday but the humidity still not a huge deal. mostly clear skies and the humidity starts to climb later on friday, a high of 89 with sunny skies. mostly sunny on saturday and the humidity impacted through the weekend and the thunderstorm chances as the next front comes through. 89 for monday with partly cloudy skies. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. you can use 45 powerful doppler radar to track incoming storms. the interactive tools will see what rain and thunderstorms are over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. now here is candace dold with the traffic edge. cap das. >> reporter: we're in the middle of the morning rush out there on we want to check in on the numbers for you. 41 miles per hour on the southbound 95, traveling through whitemarsh. we definitely have a lot of cars there, but then it's 62 miles per on 95 traveling at 395. we do need to talk about the beltway, though. we have been monitoring conditions, we can show you what it looks like on the inner loop lanes right at wilkins avenue. we had an earlier accident. there's one vehicle there and a few cones. so it at least grab your attention, but as far as the volume, it's just reduced speeds there. no significant back-ups as of right now. pretty much the same conditions, both the inner and outer loop stretch. let's check out the beltway farther up moving at frederick road this morning. that is going to be a breeze on the outer and inner loop lanes up toward the triple bridges. further up on the top end of the beltway, we are in the green traveling from 795, near reisterstown road through greenspring avenue and eventually up toward the 83. speaking of 83, let's check it out, just above the beltway, it's going to be a beautiful picture there, northbound, and southbound lanes down toward charles street. that's a look at the morning commute. back to you. a senate commute wins his primary race with bare bone campaigning, why some think the win is a hoax. next an off-duty cop shoots a man outside of a nightclub and new this morning, two men accused of beating an elderly fishermen are due no court today. 18 years old zackary lockner are facing charges in connection with james privot. a 3rd man was found guilty last year. the man convicted of shooting a little girl in the head during a street gun battle last summer will learn his fate today. sentencing for lamont davis is scheduled for morning. dah vis wadavis was convicted ad murder after he shot wyatt in the head. he faces up to 61 years in prison. bail is denied for a police officer who is accused of shooting a marine 12 times. officer t sh tshamba is chargedh first-degree murder and will stay behind bars until his trial. the first-degree murder trial makes this the. we take a look at the closer look at the death penalty. >> the reason this is being considered is because this is a first-degree murder case? >> that's right, because you can't seek the death penalty unless you are being charged with first-degree murder. that is the only reason. >> do the circumstances rise to the level that he would be convicted and given the death penalty. >> certainly that remains to be seen. we don't know what all the evidence is. at the first, look, i would say no. there's a certain number of staturstature tory requirementst is called aggravated circumstances. >> what is an example. >> for example, you have committed first-degree murder and have killed more than one person or in the commission of a violent crime. they are stature forly set forth. the state has to demonstrate there's dna evidence connecting him to the crime a video confession. if it's relying on eyewitness testimony, no death penalty. >> his lawyer says this is self-defense. how could he argue that? >> certainly the defense is going to do anything they can to plant in a seed in the potential juror's mind this doesn't warrant a first-degree murder conviction. the etcredibilit credibility is. it doesn't take 12 bullets to neutralize a person. >> he is charged with first-degree murder but could he actually be convicted of something lesser than that. >> second-degree murder. i think it's unlikely, but possibly manslaughter and a defense attorney is going to work and that is what is going to happen if there's a conviction. the circumstances, thus far don't seem to merit a first degree conviction in my opinion. >> very interesting, we will continue to follow it. >> my pleasure. while baltimore city works to scrape together residue, you may not believe how some of the members of the city council are spending your tax dollars. here is jeff barns with a preview of tonight's cover story. >> reporter: new fees and taxes will greet residents but that hasn't stopped some spending by members of the baltimore city council. >> that is outrageous. >> reporter: we will show you how much the expense accounts are costing taxpayers and what you're paying for. >> they have a $5,000 line for business related expenses. >> reporter: tonight on fox 45 news at 10:00. we will show you who is eating is traveling on your dollar. it's a cover story tonight at 10:00. coming up in our 7:00 hour, bge bills are getting cheaper. why rates are falling and how long those savings could last. i'm standing here and the people of south carolina have spoken. >> next south carolina democratic candidate for senate is someone experts never expected. why some don't think he is smart enough for the >>for just about everyone, it takes a lot of campaigning to win a statewide election, so when one man won his primary election for the senate by just passing out some cheap flyers, it left all of the political experts shell shocked. >> jonathan hunt tells us why something fishy is going on. >> reporter: it is a political fairy tale that could end up as a movie, mr. green goes to washington perhaps. but many democrats, it's just that, a fairy tale and one that flies in the face of all reason and facts. one they, hope they can rewrite before senate's november election. this appears to be the extent of albert green's senate campaign, a cheaply printed flier. he admits he spent less than $2,000 in his efforts to become a candidate other than the $10,000 filing fee which he saved over two years. they simply identify with him. despite the concerns expressed by his own party, he is not going to back down. >> i'm standing here and the people of south carolina have spoken. they have chosen me as their candidate. they have to be pro south carolina and not antigreen. >> reporter: they have raised all questions of green. having talked to him, he doubt green's quote mental status. green defeated the opponent for the democratic nomination say there's a number of red flags in the voting patent. >> let me very clear, regardless of the outcome of this protest, a full and unblinking investigation of this election and the overall integrity of south carolina's election system must go forward. >> reporter: and in one out of 7 pres 7 precincts across soh carolina green won by more than 75%, the sort of margin of victory that saddam hussein usually enjoyed. in baltimore, jonathan hunt, fox news. coming up in the 7:00 hour, after 61 years a woman finds out she has a sister. how she says that has changed her perspective on life. and oil continues to gush into the gulf of mexico. will it spill into our region? i'm megan gilliland. local lawmakers tell us what they saw firsthand. i'm joel d smith, live at a viewing this morning for an exmarine shot 12 times and killed by a baltimore police officer. straight ahea a baltimore police officer charged with murder. >> if one shot doesn't work, if they don't work, you fire until the threat is gone. why his attorney says shooting a man 12 times was justified. i promise you this that things are going to return to normal. >> president obama taking matters into his own hands. what is he going about the oil spill in the gulf. when you crank the ac, you also expect to crank your power bill. why you may not be paying as much as you expect to cool your home this summer. good morning. it's tuesday, june 15th. isn't it nice to wake-up to something like that, flowers in bed. [ laughter ] >> that almost beats the break naft ibreakfast in bed, not qui. if you could add the breakfast, that would be goodpo good for m. i'm patrice harris. meteorologist steve fertig is here. i wouldn't be watering those flowers. they make get rain for later today into tomorrow. we get showers pushing through and thunderstorms then but not right now. now it's dry and mostly cloudy. it's a warm start. it's going to warm up from here but not nearly as much as it has. take a look at sky hd radar showing showers moving to the south and back to the west you see showers that are dissipating. therthere's a chance for showern the afternoon and a better chance of showers overnight tonight. 78 by noon topping out at 82 about 3:00 p.m. and dropping back to 77 at 6:00. definitely cooler than it has been in the midday. let's see what is happening right now with candace dold. here is traffic. >> reporter: thank you, steve. it's all about the beltway, we're checking in because it's getting pretty busy out there, so far no significant delays. we like that. inner and outer loop lanes, again, just a lot of volume that you will have to deal with. so from 95, all the way down toward 83, it's a 12-minute ride. 51 miles per hour, things look much better traveling through baltimore, though. the southbound lanes of the 95 and the fort mchenry tunnel around the beltway, 8 minutes at bief mile55 miles per hour and a southbound 895, from the harbor tunnel all the way down toward 95. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, let's turn it over to you. president barack obama will address the nation tonight about the massive oil desaster in the gulf. he is returning from his 4th trip to the region and he is not the only one checking things out in person. three members of maryland's congressional delegation are getting back. megan gilliland is live with more on how these members will hold bp accountable. >> reporter: this is a live look at the spill spill pushing -- oil spill gushing into the gulf of mexico. now the maryland lawmakers have had a first account of the sights and even the showndz of what asounds ofwhat they call al desaster. barbara mikulski, and ben cardin, and elijah cummings got back from the gulf. they say it could take another two months before it's contained. the area impacted as as big as the region from ocean city, new jersey to richmond, virginia. mikulski has been assured that the maryland seafood industry nor its beaches will be impacted. bp oil must be held fully accountable. >> it would be outrageous for any government bail out of bp oil. they're the ones that caused this problem. they have the capacity to respond. what government has to do is make sure that response is timely. >> the white house says that bp has agreed to set up a compensation fund for people along the gulf coast. the oil giant says cost for the spill has reached $1.6 billion. that's a number that is expected to rise with the countless number of lawsuits filed against bp. nearly released bp documents show that just six days before all of this happened, an engineer with the company called it quote, a nightmare well. tonight a could bring more answers to what our leaders are planning to do from here when the president addresses the nation. you can watch his speech live at 8:00 p.m. here on fox 45. megan gilliland, fox 45 morning news. to his family and friends, tyrone brown is being remembered as a marine who served his country well. to many others, his death has become a lightning rod for how city police handle confrontation. joel d smith is live at baltimore for the viewing held for the man who was shot by police officer last weekend. >> reporter: a lot of time up until 7:45 tonight for people to come here and pay their respects for tyrone brown the exmarine they're talking about. they're going to talk about the person who ended up killing him. that is officer tshamba who is being held in prison for first-degree murder. police and witnesses say the officer was off-duty on june 5th when a female friend got upset after being groped by brown. that is when tshamba identified himself as a police officer and confronted brown. a confrontation that resulted in brown dead. what happened in that confrontation is what is being disputed. >> 13 shots is even against our training. >> a police officer in fear of his life has to do what he has to do to preserve his life. in one shot doesn't work, and if they don't work, you fire until the threat is gone. >> reporter: if found guilty tshamba could face the death penalty. as a vigil the past weekend, family members of brown are grateful that the charges came so quickly. many are at the viewing today and the funeral is at morgan state university tomorrow. joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. a federal committee he holds the current policy preventing gay men from donate the blood. some say the ban discriminates against gays. the red cross says the ban should be lifted. >> the testing for hiv, hepatitis and a number of other viruses is so good these days that after a year we have a good suspended to test for the antibody itself and the virus in someone's screening. >> we want to know what you think. should gay men be allowed to donate blood? it is the question of the day. we will take the calls later this hour. go to foxbaltimore.com and tell us what you think. or sound off through facebook. send us a tweet at fox baltimore are or text your answer at 45203. enter fox 45 for a or fox 45b for no. a pleasant price on your power bill. why you may not be paying as much as you expect for cooling your house this summer. >> reporter: i'm emily gracie. we're at hunt valley golf club for the fund to some people say i'm obsessed with my chickens. but i like to think i'm just going beyond the call of duty. cock-a-doodle-dooooo! i do 22 more inspections than the government requires. and my fresh, all-natural chickens are never given any hormones or steroids. ♪ they're fed a nutritious 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if you're coming out to practice this weekend and an isolated thunderstorm possible on sunday. no thunderstorms here this morning, steve, it's absolutely beautiful. did you see that drive. >> reporter: i did. i was impressed. that was well done. i'm intimidated. >> i was very afraid swinging amiss. >> reporter: i will take back that your husband designs golf courses. we are headed for temperatures in the low 80s. as we are looking at sky watch h hd radar, mostly cloudy skies, northeast winds at 9 miles an hour and the barometer on the rise. 44 degrees is the temperature in the baltimore. we're in the low 70s all over. it's not going to climb a whole lot from here with the stationary boundary to the south. it's allowing more northerly winds in that will keep us cooler today. it will allow for drier air to move in to less humid too. the frontal boundary is going to return as a warm front as we move through the day. look for it through tonight and into the early morning when we could have showers and maybe even thunderstorms, but the increasing chances of thunderstorms comes with this, the cold front that follows for tomorrow afternoon and into the evening hours around 5:00 you saw there prime time for some of those showers and thunderstorms. behind this, drier air and we look a whole lot better by the time we get to thursday and friday. today, 75 degrees is all for the eastern temperature. and could see an isolated shower but 82 degrees should do it for the high temperature here. a 5-15-mile-an-hour wind. 81 with a better chance of a thunderstorm and generally we're looking at increasing chances for the showers for the afternoon but more so tonight, overnight. 78 for noon as the temperature, and 78 degrees for 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high of 82 at around 3 or 4:00 this afternoon. then we drop to 66 overnight with the increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms as the next frontal boundary approaches. tomorrow 83 degrees, again, a better chance of thunderstorms for the afternoon and evening then. behind it, we dry out 87 for the high on thursday. 89 and sunday on friday, and the temperatures 90s for the saturday and sunday as the humidity returns. the frontal boundary does return a chance of thunderstorms for sunday. here is candace dold with a look at the traffic edge o. >> reporter: thank you, steve. it's all about the numbers right now as we continue to monitor the speeds and well, it's a pretty slow go on parts of the beltway. right now we're checking in on the west side, 39 miles per hour, right near security boulevard and 44 miles per hour traveling through catonsville. now, we do need to talk about exactly what is happening and, while baltimore is in the spotlight right now we do have utility work completely shutting down 35th street at old york road. you will want to use 34th street. we also have utility work that shuts down two lanes of southbound harford road after hamilton avenue. a busy area there so avoid all of the activity, you will want to use bel air road as the alternate route. on 95, this morning, checking it out near the stadiums at 395 the coast is clear, we're loving this ride in both directions in fact. it's up to speed. 95 through baltimore county, we have seen our fair share of volume and that continues to be the case. so reduced speeds there from whitemarsh all the way down toward the beltway. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back over to you. thank you, candace. coming up playing the blame game in the gulf. we are going to continue to hold bp and any other responsible parties accountable. >> what president owe bam is obg to get bp to pay up. next paying less for power, two men are facing several charges including first degree assault and committing a hate crime in connection with the beating of the 76 years old james privilege o privilege pri. this wouldn't have happened if he was a white man. a 3rd accomplice 16 years old daniel miller was found guilty last year. the man convicted of shooting a little girl in the head during a street battle last summer will learn his sin tensing today. davis was convicted attempted murder in april after he shot raven wyatt in the head. he is facing up to 61 years in prison. on the hottest days of the summer, you don't have to worry about cranking up your air-conditioning. your electricity bill is going down. this summer, bge rates will be at the lowest levels since 2006. increase supply and lower demand translates into good news for cheers. customers. even better news, the down trend could continue. the president of bge joins us with more on why the prices are dropping. good morning. >> good morning. >> you don't want to look a dead horse in the mouth. i almost don't want to ask the question, but request are the prices dropping. >> every year we go out and buy power on the competitive market for our customers. supply has been robust and demand is down with the economy. that has put a downward push on prices. as we are able to buy cheaper power we are able to pass the prices down to our summers. the prices for next year will be down 4.8%. every year we refresh the price so we are predicting that next year we could see more of a reduction. >> when you buy this electricity or the commodity, how much of it can you buy. can you not buy well into the future so we are guaranteed to pay this price for a long time to come is what people will wonder. >> we typically buy it two years forward and we buy it every six months we are refreshing the price. that way it tends to refresh the ups and the downs. >> you're saying that the downward trend could go how far into the future. >> i feel that the price we have locked in for one year, we continue to see barre forward ps downward trend at least for the next year. it's harder to see much further beyond that. >> you still know there's people that are saying i was paying before deregulation and i'm seeing a spike. >> there's great options for our summers. there's good competitive officers from 3rd parties. >> that would surprise people that you are encouraging people to go elsewhere. why is that? >> bge makes money on the delivery. we deliver the power but the encouraging thing is we believe the competitive markets bring more choice and ultimately lower prices for customers. we have over 80,000 of our residential customers that are shopping. we encourage you to go on to our bge.com and check out the suppliers that are available. there are good suppliers out there? n it's going to be hot this summer, crank up the air-conditioneair-conditioner ae that is going to drive up the bill. there are ways to save this summer. >> if you're not signed up for peaks we regards, do that. it's easy to do. we have a number can you dial and we will come out and install either an air-conditioning switch or a smart thermostat and you can save up to $200 in the first year. it's a graha great program. >> can you tell me what it is. how you safe. >> during the hottest 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moving water surrounded her. >> the current water got stronger and the water got deeper. >> reporter: they pulled her to safety after what she says was a 2 hour struggle to survive. >> i started shaking while i was swimming and i thought i was going to pass out and i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: the severe storms caused flash floods leaching thousands without power and many injured. a state of emergency has been declared in 59 of oklahoma 77 counties. authorities are urging people not to drive through water covered roads. >> at one point in time we had almost 2 dozen calls of people that were trapped in vehicles due to high water and at least half of those were considered high priority requiring immediate rescue. >> some residents said they never thought they would need flood insurance. >> this area has not flooded in about 20 years or more. with the retain tanning wall we- retaining wall we had, we thought we were safe but it was a big mistake. >> reporter: oklahoma city residents aren't in the clear yet. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect through parts of the state today as well as a flash-flood watch. that has been extended through later this morning. live in oklahoma city, i'm sandra endo. patrice, back you ons to sandra, what are the residents there doing. where are they staying now that the floods have come through especially the person that lives in the house behind you. >> reporter: luckily for him, he has friends that he is staying with as well. the red on cross is seeing on providing emergency shelter for the residents and neighborhoods that you saw submerged underwater. as you can see, looking through the neighborhood it's beautiful. the housings are amazing, but you can see the waterline very high up on the property. >> sandra endo, reporting live from oklahoma city, thank you. still ahead, gay men banned from giving blood. you know, it's like banning black people, white people. >> why the red cross wants to change the policy and who isn't letting them. and oil continues to gush into the gulf of mexico here. will it spill into our region? i'm megan gilliland. local lawmakers tell us what they saw firsthand. >> reporter: i'm joel d smith live at a viewing for an exmarine shot and killed by a city police officer. straight ahead "x welcome back to fox 45 morning news. 7:27 is the time. i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of the our forecast. meteorologist steve fertig has a look at what we can expect. we thought it was warm in the physian 70s and it won't geo the 90s this time around. overall we have showers coming in later, over tonight we could have thunderstorms, too. 72? salisbury right now. as i said, it doesn't climb a whole lot from here. you see showers out to the western most part of the area. those showers will be moving west to east breaking up a little bit now but expecting as the front approaches to see more activity later and especially overnight tonight. 82 should do it for the high so a cooler afternoon. we will talk about a chance of thunderstorms when it's more likely in a bit. right now we will see what is happening on the roadways with regard to the commute this morning. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> reporter: well, steve, we do have a new accident to talk about the inner lop lanes of the beltway approaching security boulevard an already busy area. let's check it out on 695 at route 40, scooting through catonsville and take a look at this, a lengthy back up on the inner loop lanes, all the way up toward that accident scene. as for the outer loop, it's just a fair share of volume and well, that is the case from 795 all the way down toward 95. a slow go, 21 minutes at 30 miles per hour. but then, much better, traveling through baltimore, southbound 95 from the fort mchenry tunnel toward the beltway, 8 minutes at 55 miles per hour and only 54 miles per hour with a 9-minute drive on southbound 895 from the harbor tunnel all the way down toward 95. that's a look at your morning travels, patrice, back over to you. as oil continues to gush into the gulf of mexico this morning, lawmakers are trying to hold bp accountable for the massive spill. president barack obama will address the nation tonight the he is just getting back from his 4th trip to the gulf region and this time he wasn't alone. three members of maryland's congressional delegation also got a firsthand glimpse. megan gilliland with what they found and if they think the spill will affect our region. >> reporter: this is a live look at the gulf of mexico where the massive oil spill is sending oil gushing into the water there. up until last week, some of maryland lawmakers had only seen these images. now three of them have had an account of the sights and the smells of what they're calling an environmental desaster. senators, barbara mikulski, and ben cardin and elijah cummings just got from the gulf. they say that it will take two months before it's contained and the area impacted is as big as ocean city, new jersey, to richmond, virginia. >> everywhere we went, we saw oil, oil, and the consequences of oil. i will always oppose offshore drilling off of the mid-atlantic coast. >> mikulski says she has been assured that neither maryland beaches for its seafood industry will be impacted, but as damage costs continue to skyrocket, lawmakers say bp oil must be held fully accountable. the white house says bp has agreed to set up a compensation fund for people along the gulf coast there. the oil ey giant says cost for e spill has now reached $1.6 billion. just six days before all of this happened an engineer with the company called it a nightmare well. the president will address the nation tonight on the oil spill. you can watch his speech live at 8:00 p.m. here on fox 45. megan gill lan, fox 45 morning news. police discover an explosive device at a home in anne arundel county overnight. it happened around 3:00 this morning at falls way drive at carafe ton. polic-- crofton. the bomb did not detonate and no one was injured. if you have any information about the device, you are asked to call 410222-tips. a baltimore police officer charged with first-degree murder is ordered held without bail. he accused of killing a former marine outside of a baltimore nightclub. their confrontation resulted in tyrone brown being shot 12 times. joel d smith is live at the funeral home for brown's viewing and this comes after the officer's attorney claims it was self-defense. >> reporter: interesting timing in all of this. it starts at 8:30 this morning. and it goes all day long. a lot of time for people to come and pay their respects to tyrone brown. because this happened yesterday, no doubt they will be talking about that as well. of course, we're talking about the shots fired from the gun of officer tshamba, a man you see right here. he is being held in prison without bail. yesterday for the first time his attorney addressed the first murder charge saying that tshamba was acting in self-defense. witnesses say that the officer was off-duty when a i female friend of his got upset after being groped by brown. that is when he identified himself as an officer and confronted brown, a confrontation that result ended 13 shots fired and brown dead. what happened during the confrontation will end up being thety tthe key to this case. >> i think the splee police gar- department is using him as p urell to earn credit with the public. >> it's a quick . >> reporter: if found guilty tshamba could face the death penalty. at a vigil this past weekend, family members were happy that had happened so quickly. the viewing goes until 7:45 tonight and the wake is tomorrow at morgan state university. we're live at northeast baltimore, jolt d smith joel d . fox 45 morning news. police make two arrests and the key suspect is being held in baltimore. williams is in the city lock up because he wanted on a violation of probation charge. williams and his friend anthony milton are both charged with murdering trooper wesley brown. they say trooper brown escorted williams out of an applebee's restaurant for not paying his bill. half an hour later, brown was gunned down in the parking lot. milton has admitted that they returned to the scene and fired the fatal shots. now what suspect pulled the trigger is not clear, but the trooper's friends want the gunmen held responsible. >> as long as he doesn't see the light of day, i'm fine. i don't ever want him enjoying walking these streets anymore because wesley will never be able to. >> both suspects have extensive criminal records. grocers and retailers in baltimore are standing together against a proposed bottle tax. at a rally in northeast baltimore yesterday those opposed to the tax came together at the buy right supermarket. they say the 4-cent tax added to bottle drinks will amount to extra costs their businesses cannot afford. >> we are not large so we don't get any of the benefits that very large grocers get nor are we very, very small. we're in the middle section and the middle people just like a lot of folks in the middle-class are feeling that front. >> the city council is considering the tax as a way to help close the $120 million deficit. while the debate over the bottle tax continues, the city council did give approval to other several tax hikes and fees. some of those include raising the parking tax, the hotel tax and energy tax. >> we are to raise these fees and these tax or else you will see rec centers closed. you will see less police officers and firefighters on the streets. so we have to do it. >> the council also approved a tax on vacant properties, outdoor advertising and telecommunications, meaning your cable bill could go up. a federal committee upholds the current policy of preventing gay men from donating blood. the 9-6 vote to keep the ban goes to the fda which has the final say. some say that the ban discriminates against gays. the red cross says the ban should be lifted. >> the testing for hiv and help diets and other viruses is so well that after a year we have a good suspenders to test for the antibody and the virus in someone's blood stream. >> the red cross says it will follow whatever decision the fda makes. we want to know what you think. should gay men be allowed to donate blood? it's the request ques question . go to wecall us at (410)481-454o foxbaltimore.com or text your answer at 45203. enter fox 45a for yes or fox 45b for no. every time i turn around and look at you girls, there should be another one. >> why this woman just met her other sibling for the first time three days ago. wow. >> we're talking about delays on the beltway this morning. take a look at here on the outer loop lanes and old court road. it is a busy ride approaching now i can stop pain from any angle-- with no mess. (announcer) new icy hot spray. relief that's icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. and no mess. new icy hot spray. don't mess around with pain. welcome back. it's 7:42 on this tuesday morning. we're checking out or sky hd radar looking pretty good right now. maybe later we talk about a few showers, especially later over night. a good chance of showers and thunderstorms, too. 74 degrees mostly cloudy with a northeast wind at 5-10 miles per hour. 63 is our dew point. we're going feel the humidity a little bit this morning but that should drop through the day. 74 degrees for the temperature in baltimore and d.c. and 72? salisbury and 71 in hagerstown. pretty mild no matter where you start the day. boundary has moved in that direction, near the north carolina border near virginia but the showers steering to the south mostly. now seeing showers moving along the frontal bo boundary to the west. that is where we have a chance of a shower or thunderstorm. there's a light shower as the boundary returns northward. and we will see a chance of showers returning overnight into tomorrow morning. the next chance for showers will be tomorrow in the evening hours or late afternoon to late evening. behind that we dry out as high pressure moves in and we shape up nicely for your thursday and friday. 78 degrees for the the eastern shore for a high temperature. cooler than yesterday's 90s. instead, again partly cloudy skies with the cooler temperatures, northeast wind at 10-20 miles per hour. we start warm but we just don't warm up a whole lot getting to 82 degrees for high in the central part of the state where we could get a couple of light showers. northeast winds at 5-10 miles per hour. further points west will get up to 81 degrees for the high. that's the best chance of a thunderstorm because you will be closer to the boundary that advances from the south and west. and then as you move today, get up to 78 degrees at noon, topping out around 82, as i said, about 3 or 4:00 this afternoon and the chance of a shower, 77 degrees at 6:00 p.m. as the skies, just kind of hanging in there with mostly cloudy skies. and tonight 66 degrees, in come the chances of showers and increasing chances with thunderstorms, too, overnight as we drop to the 66 in the early morning hours. southeast wind at 5-15 miles per hour. tomorrow, 83 degrees, morning showers but afternoon thunderstorms staying on the cool side which is seasonable, frankly. we warm up again. 87 degrees on thursday but mostly clear skies, sunny and 89 for friday, and then the humidity starts to climb for the weekend. 91 for saturday's high, 92 as the next front brings us thunderstorm chances monday, 89 and partly cloudy for your monday. 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 rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. now candace dold is back with a look at the traffic edge. >> reporter: it's a busy morning out there on many of the roadways and a lot of it is just that sheer volume that we have to deal with. that's the case on 95, 17 miles per hour on the southbound lanes traveling right through whitemarsh. at 46 miles per hour on the outer loop direction right near parring parkway. the beltway the usual dreaded spot near security boulevard, there's more trouble this morning and it's all because of an accident on the inner loop lanes, that is right at security boulevard. let's look a little farther back and see how it's shaping up on the beltway at route 40. here it is on the inner loop direction. you can see, it is a slow crawl there from the route 40 all the way up toward that accident scene. the outer loop lanes it's just the sheer volume ptah will have to dea -- that you will have tol toward 95. on 95, there's nothing to distusdisturb the drive. even actualleventually toward tt mchenry tunnel. and the outer loop lanes not a good morning for us a straight stack of cars from harford road toward towson. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back to you. coming up next a ban on gain men. donating blood is upheld by a federal committee. we want to know what you think. should gay men be allowed to donate blood? ojt's the question of the day. gay men are still banned from donating blood. the ban has been on the books for years, but it's making headlines today because a federal committee voted to uphold the ban 9-6. the committee's recommendation has been passed on to the f darkdawho will determine the oue of the measure. the red cross wants the ban lifted but it will follow whatever the fda decides. we want to know, should gay men be allowed to donate blood. our first caller is paula at westminister. >> good morning, paula. >> what do you think? should gay men be allowed to donate blood? >> they should be allowed to donate blood. they shouldn't have to discriminate against anybody else. >> i also -- it saves lives. >> it saves lives and i know that john hopkins and whomever is doing the testing in the blood for different diseases is very on top of it? >> paula, we appreciate you calling in this morning. let's go to chris in parkville. good morning, chris. >> i do believe that gay men should give blood. i'm a gay man myself. my blood is just as good as anybody else's. if anybody else should have the ban, that person would -- a gay person should have as much right -- >> chris, thank you for your call. let's take one more caller, maxine in baltimore. good morning, maxine. >> good morning. >>what do you think, should gay men be able to donate blood. >> no. because you are risking other innocent people that are needing blood. 'cause being gay does not discriminate against gay people. it's a big risk for people taking the risk that people that are not gay. >> thank you for the call. >> a lot of people weighed in. shawna on face book says i think that gay men should be able to donate blood, although they live more of a high risk lifestyle than heterosexual, they should be able to donate blood with the same precautions than anybody else. >> another facebook says, no, because gay people have diseases, straight people, too, but gay people are more at risk because they like the same sex. thank you for your calls and comments morning. did you your dad make the cut? we will reveal another finalist in our baltimore best dad contest. every time i turn around and look at you girls, i know there should be another one. >> and later a family reunion six decades in the n [ male announcer ] thinking about your florida beach vacation and about what's happening in the gulf? well, florida has 825 miles of beaches... 221 of them, here in northwest florida. so, there's plenty of places in florida to enjoy crystal clear waters and a great beach vacation. go to florida live at visitflorida.com for real-time information. [ female announcer ] experience perdido key, one of florida's last pristine natural wonders on the gulfcoast. plan your getaway at visitperdido.com. pristine natural wonders on the gulfcoast. the race for governor is starting to get interesting. the latest rasmussen poll shows o'malley and ehrlich in dead heat with 45% each. since february ehrlich has made slow steady gains while o'malley has been on the decline. kurt anderson and pat mcdonough join us today for the spotlight. >> good morning, gentlemen. >> is it too early in the campaign to say they're in a dead heat. the election is still a ways off. how significant is this? >> i don't think it's anything unexpected. the last time pat and i viewed at this particular question. pat and i agreed that there's 45% of the vote who will always vote for ehrlich and 45% who is going to vote for martin o'malley. the question is how about the last 10%. they're the ones that are going to swing this election. >> but it didn't start this way, since we asked the question last time. governor o'malley was well in the lead with 50%. >> you have to go back historically for all of the elections for governor, the last three, and with ehrlich and you will see that there's a very small percentage of folks that swing the entire election. i think those percentage of folks are in baltimore county. >> delegate mcdonough, let's bring you into this. is this significant or is it normal fluctuation. >> it's a significant, but i agree with kurt that baltimore county is going to play a role particularly my district. for any governor to be below by percent, we understand that's a problem, that's bad territory for an incumbent governor. secondly, ehrlich has steadily increased despite a great deal of criticism by o'malley sources, which was early paid radio advertising and during that period of time, ehrlich has increased. these are not good signs for governor o'malley. this is going to definitely help governor ehrlich's fundraising. there's no question about it. this indicates that he is moving in the right direction and o'malley is moving in the wrong direction. >> what is it that former governor ehrlich is doing right and how does he keep that momentum. >> let's be fair about it. there's antio'malley, and antidemocrats just as george bush harmed the republican brand. obama is harming the democrat brand. there's a lot of negative talk and ehrlich is benefiting from that, but in addition to that, he has said he has new ideas including small business and the economy which is important to people. >> delegate anderson, i think you want to get in on this. what does governor o'malley have to do to pick up some speed? a a lot of it depends on what happens in the country with our economy in the future. right now the economy seems to be leveling off. it's not getting any worse and there's some indicators that say it's getting better. if that happens, i think that o'malley probably will win the raise handily. but he still has to do all of the other things that -- >> like what? n he has got to campaign and get out and knock on doors and kiss babies and go to the various fares, and get his commercials and campaign together. >> he has the share of the money. can he spend more to do that campaigning. >> right now it's early in terms of spending money. you usually want to spend money on things that will hit the vote voters just before the voters go to vote. >> all right. >> in this particular case you want to spend the machiney probably not until october or so. >> i want to mention, as i said before, patrice, he has already spent a significant amount of money and it has been ineffectual, and that is important. >> all right, gentlemen, thank you. you are watching fox now on fox 45 morning news. i don't want him walking the streets anymore. >> why this man isn't the only one facing charges. beat the heat. how to exercise safely in this high humidity. london, ohio to the aisle. >> it's a tough job but somebody has got to do it. how this man scored a gig as a professional beer taster. good morning. it's tuesday, june 15th. and how do you like that? >> that's a beautiful shot there. that's in hunt volel valley overlooking the golf course. >> very cute. >> not a bad shot to up t wake-o this morning. >> emily gracie is doing pretty well out in the golf course. and let's see if meteorologist steve fertig is do as well. she has been messing with gracie this morning. >> reporter: we learned that her husband designs golf courses. >> that doesn't mean that she should be able to golf. i'm sure her husband can't do the weather. >> reporter: here is what is happening out there the rounds, take a look. >> you don't know [ laughter ] >> i got the lingo. showers moving from the west right now, 76 in baltimore, 75 in salisbury. the frontal boundary is going to move back to the north as a warm front. ta will brin -- that will bringa chance of showers and it will be looking a whole lot better for the next couple of days after that. mostly cloudy with a shower today. thunderstorm chances, better chance today, overnight into tomorrow and the heat and humidity return for the weekend. as far as what is happening on the roadways, though, we need to check in with candace dold. she has the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: all right as you head out and hit the roadways, we are talking about an accident on the beltway. here it is, you can see the activity at dulaney valley road. you can see the delay leading up to it. this is going to be the case. it's going to be a sluggish roll from 85 toward 83. we're in the green with a lengthy 24-minute ride at 25 miles per hour. but then, doing much better through baltimore. southbound 95 from the noter fot mchenry tunnel, 54 miles per hour with a 9-minute drive on southbound 895 from the harbor tunnel all the way toward 95. that's a look at your morning travels, patrice and megan, bako over t-- back over to you. president barack obama will address the nation tonight about the massive oil desaster here in the gulf. you can see the oil still gushing out there. he is returning from his 4th trip to the region and he is not the only one. three members of the maryland delegation made the trip, barbara mikulski, and ben cardin and elijah cummings say that i it could take two months before it's contained. the area impacted is the area between occasion city, new jersey, and richmond, virginia. as estimates continue to skyrocket, they say bp oil must be held fully accountable. >> it would be outrageous for any government to bail out bp oil. they're the ones that caused this problem. they have the capacity to respond. what government has to make sure is that response is timely. >> the white house says bp has agreed to set p a compensation fund for people along the gulf coast there. the oil giant says costs for the spill has reached $1.6 billion. a number that is expected to rise with the countless number of lawsuits filed against bp. again, the president will address this issue tonight. you can watch his speech live at 8:00 p.m. right here on fox 45. police discover an explosive device at a home in anne arundel county overnight. it happened around 3:00 this morning at fall ways drive at crofton. police say they found a plastic bottle filled with black powder, bbs and a fuse. the bomb did not detonate and no one was injured, but if you have information about the device, call 410-222-tips. to his family and friends tyrone brown is being remembered as a marine who served his country. to others, his death has become a lightning rod of you on the police handles con forgotten co. >> reporter: good morning, joel. >> good morning, megan, and technically the viewing begins at 8:30. i was inside talking with funeral home personnel. they're open right now in case someone wants to come by and pay their respects. they don't expect brown's family to be here until this afternoon. whoever is going to be here, they will be talking about the murder charges against the man accused of can go brown. -- killing brown. tshamba is being held in prison without bay. for the first time his attorney addressed the first-degree murder charges saying that tshamba was acting in self-defense. witness say the 15 year veteran of the force was off-duty when a female friend got upset after being groped by brown. he identified himself as an officer and confronted brown, confrontation that ended up with 13 shots being fired, 12 hit brown and he died. what actually happened during the confrontation, the specifics will end up being the key to this case. >> 13 shots were fired to this victim and that is even against our training. >> a police officer in fear of his life has to what he has to do to preserve his life. in one shot doesn't work, if they don't work, you fire until the threat is gone. >> reporter: if found guilty tshamba could face the death penalty. a vigil was held this weekend. family members of brown are grateful that charges have come to quickly in this case. once again at the marsh funeral home in east baltimore this is where the viewing has begun. the wake for tyrone brown is tomorrow at morgan state university. live in east baltimore, joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. police make two arrests in the killing of an of off-duty maryland state trooper and the key suspect is being held in baltimore. williams is in the city lock up because he was wanted on a violation of probation charge. williams and his friend anthony milton are both charges with murdering trooper wesley brown. williams is the one seen in the video photo. brown escorted him for not paying his bill. half an hour later brown was gunned down in the parking lot. charging documents say that the milton confessed that they returned to the scene and fired the fatal shots. who pulled the trigger is not clear but they want the men to be held responsible. >> as long as he doesn't see the light of day i'm fine. i di do not want him to enjoy walking the streets any wro, an, never again. >> both suspects have extensive criminal records. players and fans at last night's padres' game got more than just baseball. >> we are experiencing a tremor, an earthquake at the golf part in san diego examine it's very significant. >> a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the padres' stadium enough for everyone to feel t you can see the south polls and the light polls swaying back and forth. the quake could be felt as far away as los angeles. there's no reports of significant damage. the orioles were on the west coast for a series of the giantsment they were not affected by the earthquake but they did lose last night 10-2. police make a discovery at a dui checkpoint in virginia. they found this goat bound in the trurve trunk of a car. when they pulled up deputies heard noiseses and they admitted to carrying a goat in the trunk. the temperature in the trunk was 94 degrees. she was accused of animal abuse. she was released and is due in court next month. it's a coveted job that goes back centuries. the testers endure a grueling several rounds of testing. people came from all around the world to apply but in the end london's new beer sampler is a local english men. >> it's a job i have been training for, for 30 years and now i got it. so cheers. >> he will be given a weekly allowance to visit pubs in london and write about the quality of the beer and service there. what a tough job he has. >> i can't wait to see all of the writing after all of beer he has. after 61 years a woman finds out that she has sisters. >> i can't describe it. i mean, i have a family that i just -- i never had and i never even dreamed had. >> how she says that has changed her press tech perspective on . >> reporter: i'm emily gracie live at valley hunt club where we're gearing up for a go take a swing at battling cancer. eagle has an a treatment to set the record for the eagle shot tournament. >> emily, i hear you are trying to make the shot, trying. >> in case you missed it, i really failed with that last one, though. maybe golfing is not exactly my forte but if it is yours, next week is a great opportunity to get out here at hunt valley golf club. i'm talking to natallie. natallie, is it too late for folks -- take this from here. bad idea for me to have that. is it too late for folks to sign up for this event. >> absolutely not. we still have more room for participants. it's open to the public. if you're interested in playing, you can hit our website hunt valley gk.com. and there's a registration form online there. we're looking for max hu maximum participation. we are trying to win the record. >> reporter: tell me about the prizes. >> we are giving away. the grand prize nationally is a trip for pine hurst to plate course. that's a great prize. we have local prizes including a set of iron for $900 and a couple of clubs and things like that. so it will be really fun. >> reporter: eagle golf drive against cancer is here at hunt valley glove club next tuesday, a week from today, starting at 11:00 a.m. you can get more information and sign up by going to our website at foxbaltimore.com/morning. it's a great morning out here as it will be hopefully next week. we are talking about a nice weather this weekend. if you're coming out for a practice and round on saturday and sunday, low 90s and a possibly scattered thunderstorm. next tuesday we're hoping for good weather. steve, you challenged me to basketball last week. i challenge you to golf this week. >> reporter: i have been teasing you that your husband is designer of golf courses, that means you should be a golfer. let's talk about your father-in-law. i just learned that he is a professional golfer. >> he is. >> reporter: are you fooling a little pressure is. >> just a little, you think. i don't even play golf so anything you saw here was just for fun. >> reporter: all right. sounds pretty good. thanks so much and yeah, we will play a little round of golf, i think, maybe. here is what we got. sky watch hd radar. maybe i can take her. i think she is holding back a little bit. meanwhile the showers are holding back to the midwest but they are coming later in the day. also, we're going to talk about a chance of thunderstorms overnight tonight into tomorrow especially. here is what we have as far as the current conditions, 76 degrees, mostly cloudy, 62%, relative humidity, and it's 30 0 30.2, looking on the barometer. it's not bad, it will lower during the day. 76 the temperature starting out. mild, 75 in d.c. and the same for salisbury. it's mild all over, even in the mountain areas, 63 degrees in oakland. we have the stationary boundary to the south right now. that's allowed cooler air moving in from the north and it will bring less humidity. we should se be a little more comfortable today. that will return as the warm front brings us a chance of thundershowers especially as we get into the late night showers. tomorrow a cold front follows, that one could be bringing us thunderstorms for tomorrow afternoon or evening as you see moving in. behind that drier air returns for thursday and friday with more sunshine as high pressure build in. 78 degrees for the high, partly cloudy skies, we should climb to 72 degrees. that should be partly cloudy skies but it could be a lingering shower around in the afternoon before showers continue overnight tonight and snoormsthunderstorms, too. climbing to 82 at 3 or 4:00 this afternoon. it could be light showers partly cloudy at 6:00 p.m. we drop to 76 with shower chances increasing. thunderstorms in the afternoon, still cooler than it has been but about average, 83. 87 on thursday, mostly clear with 89 degrees and sunny skies on friday. 91 the humidity is back, though, for the weekend as the temperatures climb into the 90s again. 992 as the next front perks through. thunderstorm -- front perks through. thunderstorm chances on monday. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45 powerful doppler radar to track incoming storms. the interactive tools will let you know when rain thunderstorms will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. now here is candace dold with a look at the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: well, steve it's going to be a tough ride on parts of the beltway this morning. look at this, we're dealing with 16 miles per hour on the outer loop lanes. that's traveling near harford road and here is why. it's all because of an accident on the outer loop lanes at dulaney valley road right near the exit to the mall. it's going to be stacked up toward the scene. let's check it out and show you what the area looks like. atroute 40, let's ho show you wt that area looks like this morning. we have a fair share of congestion on the inner loop lanes, extra than usual. that's because there's an accident farther up at 630 boulevard. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice and megan, back to you. coming up next the heat is up outside, how to exercise outside this summer without getting heat exhaustion. plus exercising with disabil summer is now just around the corner. if you're an outdoor person, you're not going to want be cooped up inside a gym when you want to work on that beach body. it's important to to stay safe n the heat and humidity. danny with gold's gym joins us this morning. good morning, danny. >> how are you? >> how do you know you have overworked too much when you are outside. are there signs that you can tell. >>the main sign you want to look for, is if you're not actually drinking enough water and your body starts sweating and you start getting confused. that's a big sign of heatstroke or heat exhaustion. you want to make sure you are drinking plenty of water beforehand, during the workout and afterwards to make sure you're cooling the water because temperatures are over 80 degrees and humidity is at 60% or higher. that is when you are running the high risk. >> you're are going to feel that. in addition to that, can you change your workout. if you're used to doing one thing what can you do instead? >> you want to make sure that you're toning down your exercises outside. your body cools down with the evaporation of sweat. when the humidity is at higher levels it's harder to cool down. to say, if i'm working out outside, i do a lot pile owe metric workout. >> while i'm standing in at one time. jump lungeing, instead of doing something like in those kind of temperatures, instead of a plyo lunge, i could a walking lunge instead of jumping up and putting more force into it. you want to make sure you are relaxing your body less. make sure you workout in the shade as well. >> what about running and when it's this hot outside. should you not do it at all? n if you have been running, you want to make sure you have been working out in an exercise program. if you have been, tone it down a little bit. if you're running for an hour straight, maybe you run maybe a half an hour and take the rest to a jog or a little bit of a walk. listen to your body. if you starting to get signs you stop sweating and confusion, go seek help from a health professional. >> both of those and hydrate, hydrate. it's hot out there. >> always. >> danny, thank you very much. if you want more information on what he had to say today, log on tour website at foxbaltimore.com/morning. coming up treasure your heritage. the special event at this weekend's african-american heritage festival. and next, together at last. what finally brought these long lost sisters together after a ♪ my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. the first thing we noticed was our next door neighbor, looking through our picture window, at the tv. i was going to set up a chair for him, because he was watching my tv, on my front lawn! 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[ dennis ] i used to have hair! after growing up as an only child, a 61 years old missouri woman learns that she has siblings. >> teresa wittered was there as the family met for the first time. >> i can't describe it. i mean, i have a family that i never had and i never even dreamed i had. >> judy knew she was adopted from parents too poor to raise a child. >> when my parents died, i found a check that had been written to pay for my delivery in 1948. it cost $100 to deliver a baby and have my natural mother's name on it. >> she never knew she had sisters be but those sisters knew about her. >> when we got to be about teenagers, she would tell us. she told me in a way. she says, you know, every time i turn around and look at you girls, i know there should be another one. >> she posted a message on a genealogy website searching for her natural family. a stranger saw the postings, made the connection. >> we met each other for the first time three days ago. >> reporter: a family was born. >> all i wanted to do was hug them so tight, they would never be gone again. >> reporter: deb came from iowa, carroll from montana. they met this weekend at judy's home. they look-alike, they act alike. they love the same spices, they love to bake bread. they love to garden. 61 years have passed and they had never met but they are not strangers, they are sisters. >> up until three weeks ago i would have said everyone is 100% a product product of their environment, that is it. and i will eat those words until the day i die. i'm telling you, i never knew that genetics could affect you that much [ laughter ] >> they're such wonderful and beautiful people. i'm so lucky. >> the two mothers, two fathers and two beautiful sisters. i'm the luckiest person in the world, i am. >> look at how they seem to fit together already, just after that little bit. >> so similar, even though they didn't grow up in the same place. amazing. >> that's really nice. coming up workout even if you have some disability. >> how you can do it coming up next. i'm joel d smith, live at the funeral home for a viewing for the exmash kille exmarine ka baltimore city officer. up next why the officer's attorney even though 12 shots were fired into the victim, it welcome back to fox 45 morning news. 8:30 is the time. this is a picture that we would like to not keep showing you, but still the oil is gushing into the gulf of mexico. this is 54, 55. >>going on. >> and president barack obama is expected to address this later tonight. you can watch that on fox 45 at 8:00. it would be interesting to hear what they have to say. >> good morning, i'm megan gilliland. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig and hope for a brighter picture outside. >> you forget that it's live. >> it's every single day that is gushing. >> unbelievable. around here, a nicer situation, even though it will be a shower or two that passes through in the afternoon. overnight, a thunderstorm but generally speaking lower humidity and temperatures that will won't be as oppressive because we only climb into the 80s. 74 degrees in d.c., 75? salisbury and 73 in hagerstown. 63 in oakland and as you check the radar, there's a few showers moving in for this afternoon expecting the bigger showers and thunderstorms later overnight tonight and into your wednesday when again we have a possibility of outside chance of strong to severe storms. 83 degrees for the high today so definitely cooler. let's see what is happening on the roadways with candace dold. >> reporter: thanks, steve. it's a hectic ride on the top end of the beltway moving through baltimore county. this morning it's even more so and that is because of an accident on the outer loop lanes. it's right near dulaney valley road finally in the clearing stages but we have a fair share of congestion on the outer loop lane through towson. that's a fair deal from 89 toward 83. we're in the red with a 44-minute ride, 1 14 miles per hour. now doing much better on 95, you can exit off of 95, that's the way to go from the fort mchenry tunnel toward the beltway, 10 minutes at 53 miles per hour. 54 miles per hour with a 9-minute ride on southbound 895 from the harbor tunnel all the way down toward 95. that's a look at your morning travels. patrice, and megan, back over to you stz than. >> thank you, candace. a baltimore police officer charged with first-degree murder is ordered to be held without bail. he is accused of killing a former marine outside of a baltimore nightclub. the confrontation resulted in tyrone brown being shot 12 times. joel d smith is live at the marsh funeral home for brown's viewing na is expecte that is ee later today. >> reporter: they are prepping the body so the viewing will begin at 9:00. some family friends have already come here for tyrone brown. one of them is michelle summerville. good morning, michelle. >> good morning. >> reporter: what are you going to miss most about tyrone? >> i will miss mostly him laughing and we joking together and stuff when we get together. most of all, when he come back from being in the millitary and stuff like that. but i'm just mainly going to miss the times, you know, that we spent together and laughed and joking and stuff together. >> reporter: unfortunately one of the things that people are talking about for the officer tshamba saying that was self-defense, even though there were 13 shots fired, and 12 hit your friend that it was still self-defense. >> i don't believe that was self-defense. i believe he had alcohol in his system and it wasn't right for him. they should have tested him, but also, he had waited time enough to get his system cleaned before you know they were actually wanted to do the alcohol test. >> reporter: either way, are you happy how quickly it all happened with the first-degree murder charge coming pretty fast. >> i really do, that it came a little faster than normally that a charge would happen. but other than that, i'm glad they got him in custody now, even though they have him prosecute protective custody. that is not going to last long, because it wasn't right for what he had done to him. so i feel, as though, he should get, you know everything that he deserves. >> reporter: we will let the court system figure that out. thank you very much. >> i'm quite sure that they're going to do what they're have to do. the good thing is that the judge didn't give him a bail. >> reporter: obviously, people are with two things right now. they're talking about what happened but also trying to remember their friend here. that is what they're going to be doing the rest of the morning as the viewing goes on the rest of the day and the actual wake is tomorrow at morgan state university. live in northeast baltimore, joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. coming up treasuring the african-american culture. what unique thing you will see at this n we all know that exercise can help make you healthy but what about those who suffer from strokes and other neurological issues. they still get all of benefits of exercise. in this morning's your health matters, we're joined by doctor richard macel, from the university of medicine, who has more. good morning, doctor. >> good morning, it's a pleasure being here. >> question for you, can those with neurological diseases still exercise effectively? >> the answer to that is a resounding yes. there's compelling research evidence now that even individuals with a severe stroke can participate in regular cardiovascular style aerobic exercise on a treadmill at low speed with a harness support? and how -- >> sph addition we havin additid functional mobility exercises with italian health authorities and these sort of programs, these exercise classes appear to be very robust to improve function, including walking and balance. >> i was going to ask you, what is the benefits of those exercises but that sounds like that is at least some of them? >> well, there's a number of health benefits that come from structured and supervisorred exercise after stroke. the aerobic exercise training not only improves fitness and walking function, but it appears that we may be even able to reverse diabetes and the prediabetic state. our research studies now show that 3 out of every 4 strike survivors have a prediabetic includglucose tolerance and the aerobic training in six months appears to reverse this in over 46% of people. >> are there patients that benefit from these techniques or do you recommend it for all of your patients. >> one of the most common myths is that the game is over several months after the stroke. we know that is not true. these exercise programs can improve physical function and health even years out after a stroke. for any individual that still has walking and balance programs that are still present after they finish their conventional physical therapists, they should check with their doctor and therapists about getting involved in an exercise program to improve walking function even a decade after the stroke. the truth is, it's never too late to cart. start. >> you just made a lost people smile. thank you for joining us. great information this morning. >> if you would like more information log on to foxbaltimore.com/and click on your health matters. we have had hot and humid days, will we see any relief? meteorologist steve fertig is here with those answers. hi, steve. yes, in a word. we start off warm, guys. it's 70s out there this morning but it's only going to climb into the low 80s today. take a look at the sky hd radar and it looks good for now though there could be shower chances moving into the central part of the state later for the afternoon. seeing a few showers to the west but it's on the light side. we will talk about the chance of thunderstorms overnight tonight into tomorrow, more so. 76 degrees right now, mostly cloudy skies, not the prettiest looking day but it feels okay. northeast wind has pick up a little bit and the barometer is on the rise. dew point at 62, means still a little bit humid but the humidity value should drop through the day. 76 degrees is the temperature right now, the same for salisbury. definitely a warm start, 73 degrees for the start. it looks like with the temperatures we warm up quite a bit today but because we have the stationary boundary to the south and we're getting more of a northeasterly flow of air it's not going to warm as much. we get into the low 80s instead of the 90s we had recently and that frontal boundary as a stationary boundary to the south will return as a warm front. that will bring the warm temperatures back into the forecast later but not for a couple of days. ahead of, we will see a chance of showers not just later today but especially tonight into tomorrow. could be early morning showers tomorrow and as the coal front follows up -- the cold front follows up, we look for a chance of thunderstorms that could be on the strong tomorrow evening. behind that high pressure builds in is shapes up early for wednesday and 90. the humidity will return also as we get deeper into the weekend. 78 degrees for the high temperature in the eastern shore. a little breezy today but it will be a cooler breeze with the temperatures that climb to 82 for the central part of the state. again that chance for a shower already seeing some showers in the western part of maryland that could be a little thunder mixed in too, 80 degrees for the high. you will be closer to the stationary boundary. that's why the better chance of a shower or thunderstorm there. 70 degrees for the noontime temperature, we almost already at the noontime temperature. in between we will get to a temperature of 82 at 4:00 this afternoon. then a better chance of showers and even thunder possible as we drop to 66 degrees. tomorrow another cool day or really seasonal day compared to what we have seen as cooler, 83 degrees for the high and the thunderstorms moving through. behind it higher pressure will bring us a drier day. 89 on and sunny on friday. here comes the humidity and the heat, 89 degrees on saturday. the next one brings a thunderstorm chances on sunday afternoon and 89 and partly cloudy for your monday. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. i-aid rather is available at foxbaltimore.com at baltimore.com. you can use the powerful doppler radar to track incoming storms. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on i-ai iradar. we will take a look at what is happening on the roads. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. hi, candace. >> reporter: we do want to wrap up this commute. it's not been a fun one for many people out there. 30 miles per hour at catonsville and at 30 miles per how near liberty road. it's still going to be a sluggish ride. the top end of the beltway is a greated commute. this morning it was complicated even more because of an accident on the out loop lanes right at del a adulaney valley road. look at harford road, an annoying morning, a parking lot from harford road making that push all the way down nearing perring parkway. on 95, checking in through baltimore county on whitemarsh on the southbound lanes, we have had our fair share of delays. let's see how things are shaping up now. things eased up so this is a bright spot for us, both the northbound and southbound lanes toward beltway. as for 95, making the commute through baltimore, checkin checn at the fort mac mchenry tunnel there. northbound lanes is going to be an easy drive all wait up toward the toll plaza. that's a look at the roadways. family guy is in repeats for the season. family guy volume 8 is now on video starting today. it includes extended uncensored versions of the show. 20th century fox sent us copies to give away to you today? >> if you are the 4th or 5th caller right now at (410)481-4545 you get family guy you don't forget you can see family guy here on fox 45. coming up, we got robots roaming through our studio. take a look there. how it will play a part in this weekend's african-american heritage festival. >> and america celebrates the 100 birthday of the african-american heritage festival is coming up this weekend. miller roberts the 3rd is going to be there and he has some very unique things he is going to be showing of there. he brought them to our studio to show them off to us. >> good morning. >> tell me about your organization and what you're going to do at the festival. >> career communication group based here in baltimore is about exciting minorities in engineering and math. we are going to bring or our robots hoping to excite children ages 2 to 102 about technology. >> who doesn't get excited about robots, because they're fun. they do all kinds of fun things and you get on contro get to co. people should get excited about that. >> tell me what these things are? >> they are nanos and they're able to maneuver their way through the course. because of a loc lock motion, ly appear to be bouncing off the edges. >> kids will learn how that happens and thousan how they cap make it happen? >> that's correct. >> is there a lot of programs in baltimore for kids to learn this kind of thing? >> we have a wonderful program at the baltimore city public system is starting a stem academy for 600 students this summer where they are going to get the part for this robot over here. they're going to build it and learn about the levers and the gears and everything else, physics, math and then compete. >> i actually had just heard of this program and the baltimore city schools are doing a wonderful job with their summer school program. they're expanding. this is great for the kids to learn. they don't have to wait for summer school. they can see all of this at the festival. >> saturday and sunday, 12 to 7:00 p.m. i want the parents and administrators and kids to come by. play with them, and sk ask me questions, and wil i will tell m everything i know. >> thank you for coming in. >> for more information log on to foxbaltimore.com/morning. coming up whose dad is the best dad? we reveal our second finalist in our baltimore's best dad contest. the lifestyle of our r vrkinvingis on entrenched in thn public. ú whether it was a whole family church or just mom and dad in their later years. the rv transformed american vacations. as it celebrates the 100 year of family fun, steve takes us down a walk down memory lane. >> reporter: about to come the automobile was rolling off the henry ford's assembly line. >> americans determined how to put beds and kitchens behind the automobile and evolved into rvs. >> reporter: making recreational vehicles 100 years old. some examples can be found at the rv at indiana. >> going camping and seeing the great outdoors and seeing what this country has to offer. >> reporter: like many american industries, rv manufacturing is rebounding after hitting rock bottom, rv orders are up almost 90%. the cost of an rv varies from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred thousand dollars. >> people are still enjoying and enjoying the freedom it represents. >> we have had an rv for 12 years. >> reporter: ralph and brenda are two of america's 30 million rv enthusiasts. with a son in washington state and a daughter in maine the libby's spend a lot of time in their rv. >> i can go pretty much anywhere. i don't have to look for hotel rooms. ki save a lot of money. >> reporter: and remember, getting there is half the fun. in elk hart, indiana, steve brown, fox news. coming up next we are going to reveal our we are looking for baltimore's best dad and i think we might have found him. we have been looking through and a lot of people out there coming in. >> and the next one finalist is going to have to wait just a minute before we got to weather in before. >> yes, you do. i tell you what, it's going to be a cooler day today only getting into the low 80s. we start off warm in the 70s but only climbs a degree or two. a better chance of a thunderstorm overnight tonight and into your wednesday as the frontal boundary pushes through. 83 for tomorrow's high staying this time of year. cooler but seasonal. sunny on thursday with a high of 89. look for the 90s that return with the humidity, too, for saturday and sunday. monday, 89 degrees and partly cloudy. could be thunderstorms on sunday, too. >> you know, we let you do the weather first because we want to buildup the excitement. we want to keep the next dad finalist on the edge of his seat a bit longer. every day this week we're going to reveal another finalist in baltimore's best dad contest and on friday is the big day that they are going to have to compete. but today's finalist is allen winter wurs your from middle ri. growing up my mom dad pass add way from breast cancer when i was 9. he took on the biggest challenge, being a firefighter, and owning a small business and making ends meet for our family while raising three girls. he never let us down, and put us all through college. every father's day we have the family enjoy steam crabbed to celebrate how much he means. my dad is my hero and i love him. congratulations to allen, he has three girls who really love him. >> and crabs. >> our four finalist will compete in the closest to the pin contest at church valley country club on friday for a chance to win the grand prize which is 4 tickets to anywhere where southwest flies and power passes to king's dominion and a cobra golf set. >> stay cool. >> we will see you here tomorrow.

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