today. that will warm us up. a dense fog advisory right along the mason-dixon line. including the panhandle. it will reduce his ability north of town appeared much color northwest of town. 39 in cumberland. the temperatures right now appeared the to mitscher's this afternoon. upper-50's while other it 60's. they are developing out of the west. tamara increasing clouds and a few wrinkles sprinkles. they will bring some areas of rain for the first part of the day on saturday. probably some thunderstorms as well saturday midday. that is your forecast. >> we're going to flip the calendar. i am looking at february still. we of looking ahead to what is happening on the highway. that is the news. everything is open. they taking care of the sinkhole. it is open for the morning rush. if you're running through this, we'll show you the pace of the traffic. they will wind down with a look and virginia of traffic approaching the beltway. we will have our in traffic all morning long. coaxial see a in a little bit. high water from yesterday's storms led to a couple of water rescues. finley was driving home from a work party is the got up to 77. they manage to get help. >> i made it their everything else. i did not know it would be that high. i can see the water coming up my door. cracks was his rescue pretty quickly, her car not quite so fortunate. she cannot get restarted last night. >> a section of route 450 that was closed by a single is now back open. they put a temporary one. the sanitary commission says the temporary patch was two weeks ago. it failed. they're hoping for better results. >> the most powerful storms now blamed for eight dozen deaths. >> a tornado flattened entire blocks of homes. >> this morning towns across the midwest are picking up after 16 tornadoes but behind a terrible package description. survivors say it struck in an instant. >> i heard the wind pick up. a lot once that felt like the house that come a part. the wind flow out. delhi big knives. >> it felt like thunder. >> 170 mile an hour winds to a football field field wide left 60 people dead. homes were shredded. entire buildings knocked off their foundation. it is like a war zone. >> half the homes were destroyed. there are near the set out of their house when the tornado hit. >> when he got here, he went airborne. >> it came all the way. it ripped through the top. >> another remark of heroism. he ran into his handicap daughter's bedroom to bring it to the basement. he at times only dive on top of her as the ceiling collapse. >> went down the basement. the water started flooding the basement. >> the traders are caused by a powerful coalition of cold air into warm air. they moved across missouri and kentucky. the destruction is enormous. they predict another strong system could hit friday with the midwest and south in the bull's- eye. >> it to be an emotional day in ohio and students return to school for the first time since monday's deadly shooting. soon as planned to return to the high school three days after prosecutors say he opened fire and a high school killing three students and wounding two more. he's being held at juvenile petition facility. >> maryland gov. martin o'malley will sign a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. an effort to repeal the legislation is already under way. they use when collecting signatures. >> the battle over birth control takes center stage on capitol hill today. they are set to vote today. it would allow employers and insurers to opt out of any provision in president obama's health-care law that they object to on a moral or religious grounds. that includes the requirement to cover the cost of birth control. microsoft is hiring a key attorney from the ftc which may not make google happy. >> with more on that, that said the morning to lend at bloomberg headquarters. >> hello. we do have a lot of economic data coming out. we have any factoring. we'll see how hard u.s. factories are working. they will expect to say a fourth straight month of growth. they also have weekly jobless claims. the jobless picture is improving. the average unemployment rate is dropping in 48 states that have risen in two states. tech companies have been hiring more antitrust lawyers as the increasingly face more patent investigation spirited a senior member of the ftc has been hired by microsoft. he led several of the agency's controversial antitrust investigations into google. breaking up is hard to do when it comes to your pet. i will have more on that. that is all coming up in the next hour. that is business news in new york. reporting for abc 7 news. >> we will be waiting. we are looking at 57 degrees. >> it is very warm. still to come, an update on a house fire that sent fire fire seven firefighters to the hospital. >> we're hearing from the prince george's county woman caught going more than 100 miles an hour on the beltway. police say they did not get for a speeding ticket. >> a lot of people talking about that. 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