precipitation here. runoff just too much in downtown baltimore. we had flooding in that direction. temperature-wise, we're looking at 60. real warm day. we dry out today, but for the next couple hours, it'll be damp and wet out there. for more on your roads, we head to kim brown. >> looking good this morning on the beltway. no problems around 695 or at the tunnels, but we have several intersections around the area blocked due to fallen trees. anne arundel county, sand road is blocked due to fallen k trees in the roadway. owings mills, caves road at bell field road. we have wind warnings posted this morning at the bay bridge. as we look at the bromo tower traffic is very quiet. the family of a missing baltimore county woman takes matters into their own hands. today they're forming a search party looking for her body. as we reported on monday, 22-year-old jerryell foster disappeared from her apartment. her family is searching for her body in the woods near her apartment. her boyfriend is the last person to see her. he showed up at her mother's house for thanksgiving. >> he showed up with the baby. friday was the last time i saw him. the next day when i came out to report my daughter missing. >> and now he's gone? >> he's gone. >> police say they cannot consider foster's disappearance a homicide in the absence of a body. the family will keep searching to provide one. mayor dixon kept up her public profile on wednesday. on wednesday the mayor was on hand to celebrate a $5,000 donation to the city's police mounted unit. tuesday she was found guilty of embezzlement for misappropriating more than $500 worth of giftcards donated to needy children. she joked whether it was the horses or herself that brought all the cameras to the event. >> it's great you brought out all the media for this event. i'm impressed. >> the city solicitor general says the mayor will not step down until she's sentenced. the program at the center of mayor dixon's legal trouble is running into problems of its own. the holly trolley program isn't continuing this christmas. it was a way to give needed items to charities last year. a spokesman for the city says they hope corporate and private donors will step forward and continue to help baltimore's needy families this holiday season. >> we have many churches and groups that collect for us, but you know, we're always trying to find resources. >> and if you would like more information about those charities, for example, sara's hope or any of the other charities affected by the holly trolley program that was discontinued head to abc2news.com. we invite you to stay with us as the legal process unfolds. there are still motions, a sentencing has to happen and at least one more trial in dixon's future. we'll bring any developments as soon as they become available. 5:03 right now. we'll turn our attention to a developing story. president barack obama's plan to send another 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan isn't sitting well with some americans. >> can't see the point. >> we're taking you about an hour and a half up to 95 to philadelphia where protesters voiced their opposition last night. there were also protests in new york, chicago and san francisco. the president's plan is expected to cost $30 billion a year and will bring a total number of u.s. troops to afghanistan to about 100,000. the president's strategy also includes an exit plan 18 months from now. mr. obama wants to begin bringing troops home by july 2011. four minutes after 5:00. it started with a first encounter and now reports say a well-publicized affair. >> police take your name off my phone, my wife went through my phone and may be calling you. >> we have more of the voicemail that tiger woods left on a phone of the woman he allegedly had an affair with. plus: saying good-bye to marybeth marsden. >> 16 and 14 buses using annapolis road on the way to patapsco station. be aware of that in your travels. diversion activity in the number one. being diverted around a water main break on charles between hamburg and cross. number 23 bus taking a diversion at saratoga and cathedral. your marc train operating on time on the camden, pen and brunswick lines. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. good morning to you, meteorologist wyatt everhart here for justin berk. it's been one night across maryland. the heaviest of the rain is over. i really don't expect to see much more than a stray shower or two the rest of the morning. we're tracking the last of wet weather moving towards the tip of the chesapeake bay and into cecil county. winds are now the other factor for us. we have high winds gusting to 30, even 35 miles per hour at catonsville. take a tight grip on the wheel this morning. the roads will be wet from all the rain. we'll have a lot of wind to deal with. you can see all the heavy rain that came through, through the overnight hours. dousing baltimore and especially the eastern shore with flooding rains even. it's a warm start temperature-wise. on our way to 63 or so today. we'll hover in the low 60s. cooler weather back in the picture soon. let's head to kim for a check of the roads. >> roads are certainly wet this morning. be aware of possible standing water on the roadways as well as some ponding. the weather that came through last night has several intersections closed due to fallen trees. anne arundel county, loathian same thing at college parkway. due to trees in the roadway. we have high winds and wind warnings posted this morning at the bay bridge. definitely use some caution. as we look at the jfx you'll see roads are wet, but passable. use caution. nine minutes after 5:00 right now. he became the michael jordan for the golf world. looked to become the greatest golfer of all time. now tiger woods is dealing with a major media frenzy. what one of his closest friends has to say about the golfing superstar. 5:13 right now. very bittersweet yesterday at abc2 news for many of us. at the end of yesterday's evening 6:00 newscast, marybeth marsden signed off for a final time. we thought we'd walk down memory lane one last time. >> reporter: at this library they spell success books and lots of them. how many times have you seen seven copies of one book, eight copies of another? library officials say they're the kinds of books you want to read. >> reporter: does no drinking mean no fun? no. but it'll be something to get used to. >> channel 2's marybeth marsden is out with the rest of the trick-or-treaters this evening. nice costume by the way. >> i look like an old chair, don't you think? >> when you look back, it doesn't matter if we were trick-or-treating with the kids, or feeling the grace of pope john paul ii at camden yards. >> a baltimore sun newspaper is echoing this morning. >> reporter: over the years i wore a lot of hats for channel 2, but only one veil. the middle years saw a wedding and 1, 2, 3 babies and a super bowl. >> good evening, i'm marybeth marsden. this beautiful vince lombardi trophy. we're on the field where the raiders have won the super bowl. >> baltimore fans could taste victory. final score 24-10. yeah, that was awesome. but now, it's time for me to go. my most steadfast co-anchor, the crew. my biggest regret, i don't know, maybe that jacket or those earrings, but my biggest blooper, hands down, the story of a wonderful italian woman named nuvia which only i seemed to find hilarious. [indiscernible] >> if i have a chance to go to italy, to let them no. only italy. >> she says she would tell them that she made it [laughter] i'm sorry i'm breaking up over this story, she's so cute. anyway... her [laughter] the birth of her children and her grandchildren. that's all for us, don't go away. [laughter] we are certainly going to miss marybeth. she's been here 21 years and is one of the classiest women i've worked with. i'm learned a lot from her and thank her for the short time i got to work with her. let's send it to wyatt for weather. hard to follow that uh, amazing career there. we'll try here this morning. we've had pretty heavy weather across maryland. we're seeing the last of the weather move out. we had one last line of gusty showers move through. you may have heard the rumble of thunder, show you one more time. the line moves out of the west. giving us one more dousing of precipitation up toward belair. highs yesterday, we pushed 70 degrees richmond, no, sir folk norfolk. we had flooding downtown. a lot of the eastern shore getting doused with heavy weather. as we look at the big picture, core tracking behind it. spotty shower this morning. we'll get into blue sky this afternoon, but a damp gusty start this morning. slick roads, high winds. watch out for all of that. gayle warnings on the chesapeake bay today. tonight we'll drop down to 36. colder air works in. 63 is really an early morning temperature. overnight tonight, the cooler air works in, you see the difference tomorrow. only up to 49 degrees. more clouds coming in for the weekend. now over to kim for a check of the roads. wyatt, i'm getting reports of standing water in the roadway going to be southbound on the jfx after northern parkway. please be careful out there this morning, as we look at the beltway, looking good around 695. we don't have accidents to let you know about on the harrisburg expressway or 95 as well. we have several intersections around the area closed due to fallen trees. lothian, sands road at bayard road. owings mills. we have warnings posted at the bridge. be careful as you head out. traffic is quiet at pratt and sharp streets. no incidents working in baltimore city. >> thank you, kim. take a look at news around the nation this morning and start with a new report by abc news that says this man, maurice clemens, accused of killing four washington state police officers sunday, pulled together a group of family and prison friends, even a 12-year-old relative to hide him from authorities. police eventually shot and killed him on tuesday. police arrested six people in connection with the nearly 48 hours police spent hunting for clemens. he moved to arkansas from washington state where he was convicted and sentenced in 1989 for aggravated robbery and property theft. governor mike huckabee commuted his sentence citing his young age at the time of the crimes. >> please take your name off my phone. my wife went through my phone and may be calling you. >> this appears to be tiger woods leaving a message on the cell phone of one of the woman he's accused of having an affair with. >> a friend of woods said he probably thought he was a better guy than he is. the white house party crashers. tarik salahi and ma michelaele salahi. we have information you need to know before you head out the door this morning. ♪ ♪ good morning to you. wyatt everhart here for justin berk. today we're finding more active weather clearing out though. so the weather over the last couple hours, put down an excessive half inch of rain across the baltimore area. now moving out. we take you to a broader view here. you can see what we were looking at overnight. a lot of precipitation. in fact you see a lot of it offshore now, ocean city. down in ocean city, had a tornado watch overnight. but uh, again, back here in baltimore at the moment. things have been clearing out really nicely for us. the heaviest much the wet weather now gone. nothing more than an isolated shower for the rest of the day. 60 degrees, but temperatures will fall off into the afternoon. more weather, traffic and news coming up. let's get the latest on your tech bytes. >> reporter: in today's tech bytes, microsoft's bing steps up its assault on google. microsoft has released a new version of bing maps. zooming is smoother. bing offers a three-dimensional map of the cities it scans. that makes it possible for anyone to add collections of images. instead of just standing in front of a museum, bing users would be able to walk inside and check out the art. there are new apps that tack on tweets, traffic and other information. movieclips.com is launching 12,000 clips from more than 1,000 movies produced from major studios. there are clips from classics like it's a wonderful life. users can share clips over services like twitter, facebook and e-mail. you can a new function called universal remotes. a new app app called red eye. the iphone sends signals to other gadgets. costs about $190. sealing nuptials in the area of social networking. dana hannah and his bride tracy updating their facebook and twitter pages at the alter. he wrote -- standing at the altar with tracy page. gotta go, time to kiss my bride. those are your tech bytes. i'm jeremy hubbard. now at 5:30 overnight rain pounds maryland as a massive storm races um the east coast. what to expect in the hours coming up this morning. a jury found her guilty, but she's not shying away from the public. the direction sheila dixon is taking after her legal troubles. it's where parents are buying cribs that has federal officials worried this morning. first off this morning: we're monitoring a developing story. rain is soaking the east coast and much of maryland. our overnight photographer captured this video. the storm dumping massive amounts of rain from florida all the way to new york. this developing story this morning, heavy rain, even a tornado watch was issues overnight in maryland. thanks for joining us on this thursday morning. team coverage this morning on how rain may affect your morning commute. we have sherrie johnson live in south baltimore with more on the flooding situation that happened overnight. sherrie, good morning. >> yes, i'm here in the 500 block of patapsco avenue and south baltimore. let me show you what's going on. actually right now the water has seemed to recede a little bit. earlier this morning there was extensive flooding out here which makes it very difficult far cars to get through on their morning commute. look at this video that our overnight photographer pete on the street shot. right now there's about one or two lanes that are open to traffic. actually they've put barrels up here to block people from getting through the lanes that have flooded. right now the water is reced