lane closures there. around the metro area, especially anne arundel county, arnold really took the brunt of it. richie highway closed in two directions. one at moore road, the other place at college highway. st. stevens church road, closed in both directions. baltimore city getting it too. westbound northern parkway, clyburn avenue. no issues on the 95 corridor, up and down, pretty much from harford county, down towards the capital beltway. 95 is checking in incident flee baltimore city. no issues at caton avenue. as we check our drive times, looking good on the outer loop. five minutes down towards i-70. three minutes from white marsh boulevard to the beltway. harbor tunnel thruway checking in pretty clean. megan and jamie, back to you. 6:01. storms rolled through our area yesterday leaving thousands of people without power, knocking down trees, here we are in beltsville. a woman died after winds caused a tree to crash down on her car. the passenger had to go to the hospital, no word on the extent of her injuries. yesterday's storms have left thousands still without power. nearly 40,000 people, many in anne arundel, baltimore county, baltimore city. if you need to report a power outage, call this number: two minutes after 6:00, 77 degrees right now. his superior said stop the chase, he didn't. this morning a motorcyclist is dead and an officer is now suspended. linda sow joins us in the stoudemiro tell us what happened. >> reporter: it started on northern parkway in the city, the officer tried to pull over a motorcyclist for racing another car, he refused to stop. haines holloway-lillston was leaving his job at a baltimore bar where he worked security. the chase ended in the county on the ramp to delaney valley road. holloway-lillston was ejected from his bike and pronounced dead at the scene. the officer was told repeatedly to stop pursuing the bike, but he didn't follow orders. the victim's roommates say they'll miss the man who looked out for them. >> i'm going to live with the spirit and not get mad at anybody right now. so he's, i can't bring him back, there's nothing i can do. >> officer beall has been suspended and is on paid leave leave. police haven't said how fast the motorcycle or the police cruiser were going, but holloway-lillston didn't have a motorcycle license. we have a deadly crash on monroe street. as police chase a suspected drug dealer, this happened around 3:00 yesterday afternoon. 27-year-old tyrone hix hit three police vehicles and another car which killed the driver. >> innocent victim, an innocent victim driving through the city of baltimore collided with a maniac as the commissioner would say, maniac blew a stop sign ending this girl's life. extremely traumatic. >> the woman's name hasn't been released. but she was 25 years old and was from springhill, virginia. hicks was tased before what he taken into custody. he faces a number of charges including vehicular manslaughter. four people are recovering this morning after being stabbed near east point mall. baltimore county police say the victims were attacked around 2:00 yesterday morning. one of the victims was also hit by a car. police believe this attack was a result of road rage. all of the victims are expected to be okay. two people were arrested. usually just getting into the playoffs is a goal, but not this year. the goal has been set to get to the super bowl. abc2 news, sherrie johnson, right nows we get started with the season. good morning, sherrie. >> good morning, jamie. >> are you ready for some football? the ravens are ready too. rookies, quarterbacks and select players report to the best western in westminster. they'll have four practices over two days, all open to fans and the media before veterans players arrive on wednesday. the first full scale practices are open to the public. the ravens scheduled 41 practices over their 26-day camp on monday august 2nd, the ravens will hold their sponsors day during the morning session. this practice is closed to the general public. the ravens have a new autograph policy. players will sign autographs for children only after the morning practices. autographs will not be available following afternoon practices. they changed the policy because of safety concerns for the children. many players select a few players each day to sign a limited number of autographs in a designated area. the ravens have been picked as the second best team in the afc this year. the ravens sold out all regular season games. other teams in town, the orioles, they'll be in toronto after losing three out of four to minnesota. jason kubel hit his 7th career grand slam. minnesota wins 10-4. there's an hour and five minute rain delay at camden yards yesterday. hey, today on monday's with larry, you'll read online how he was glad to see that ty wigginton showed emotion on the field and hopes intensity climbs the warehouse. when he's calling on the front office to get fired up, make bold trades, shake it up a little. see what you think by reading mondays with larry on abc2news.com. good morning, 6:07. taking a look outside. morning daylight, sun's been up since 6:02. in the first five minutes of the day, we have ourselves a mostly clear sky. we have a temperature of 72 downtown. we're still running above normal, but starting to pull back a little on the thermostat. which means, instead of 100, we go for 90 this afternoon. we may have a few days in the 80s by next weekend. more on that coming up in just a bit. let's get the quick peek on traffic. >> not going to encounter too many issues this morning. as you make your way around some of the side streets. as we take a peek at the maps, baltimore city, northern parkway, there's an accident and tree down blocking the intersection at northern parkway and clyburn avenue. dundalk, north point boulevard, police are on the scene of fire activity directing traffic. we have several incidences of debris on the roadway blocking a couple places. i'll get a complete check in a few minutes. another big scam has hit us with promises of a great vacation, big payouts. >> our investigative reporter joce sterman will say before you sign on the dotted line , there's a lot of questions to be answered. we just cannot get enough of this whale story. we showed you the picture on friday and people said it's photoshoped. we have the video to show you skeptics out there. promise me low prices. and stick to it. like seriously low prices. 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kind of business the federal trade commission warns about, you only get paid commissions by recruiting new distributors. getting restraining orders to stop them from promoting the offer. it's hard to find out much else, even who owns tbi. >> the focus of the website isn't so much on the vacation plan, but on you recruiting people to participate in this business opportunity. those are the biggest warning flags you can super. >> reporter: if you get one of these offers, ask a lot of questions before you sign on and start recruiting your friends and family, otherwise the company promising the world could leave you holding the bag at home. after sending multiple e-mails to tvi accounts, one of the co-founders said she answered direct questions about the company, but after we sent questions about how legitimate they were, we received no responses. let's find out about this weather today. >> good morning, 6:14. we're starting off in chester town. had storms blow through yesterday. when we were looking at this site on friday afternoon, had heat index values alternate 100 degrees at 9:00 in the morning. nice break, wanted to talk about good news as you're down to 66 degrees this morning in response to the storms that blew through yesterday afternoon and evening. look at this, hickory, 66, 65, perry hall. westminster, hanover now and southbound still holding at the 70-degree mark. 72 officially in baltimore. norfolk at 80. to our north, we have a 59 spot on the thermometer. allatoona, that's the source of our air coming down, central western pennsylvania. leading back to canada, drops the humidity down. even though we're still at 72 around the beltway. 60s outside the beltway and much more pleasant feel to the air. abundant sunshine in central and northern maryland. you'll see clouds hanging out and stalling to our south. we expect to have a mostly sunny sky for today. we'll throw added clouds into the afternoon. could build thunderstorms into mountains to our west but also, just throw in afternoon clouds for us. increasing humidity and we stop our timeline here wednesday morning. wednesday afternoon, we'll probably build in the chance of more storms. that'll extend through thursday. after this, we get a deader air mass into next weekend. two-degree guarantee under a mostly sunny sky. the drop in humidity will make it feel so much more pleasant throughout the weekend. tomorrow we'll get back to about 90 again. few added clouds into the afternoon. we'll have the extended outlook in just a couple minutes. right now let's see what's happening on the roads. because of the storms that blew through yesterday, anne arundel county hit hardest. >> they got hit really hard. you'll see a variety of issues from downed trees to wires and high water around the area. let's look at the beltway. you're not going find much going on here. traffic still light, moderate on the outer loop lanes, that's what we're looking at closest to us. no problems towards i-70. on both sides, inner and outer loop on the northeast corner at harford road, traffic moving very well. up in elkton, we have two incidences to let you know about. high water has route 7 closed. also fire activity in elkton, pulaski highway. just west of nottingham road. police on the scene directing traffic. in the city, we have reports of a crash involving a downed tree as well. westbound northern parkway at clyburn avenue. expect to see activity there too. dundalk, fire activity again. north point boulevard, rose bank avenue. police on the scene guiding traffic there. traffic managing to get by without too many issues. anne arundel county, as justin mentioned, hammered. arnold road. crownsville, st. stevens church road, remains closed in both directions because of downed wires in the roadway. 6:17 right now. a practical joke that has californians turning their heads. >> we'll tell you, they're smiling about this and why some folks want this great white to stay. we have the video that this 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afternoon showers and thunderstorms wednesday and thursday. we aim for the mid- to upper 80s friday, saturday and sunday. those storms that came through yesterday, 60 to 70 mile-per-hour winds. most of the damage reports that we had across the area were down towards anne arundel county with trees knocked down and numerous other problems on the roads surfaces. let's go to kim brown and see what's happening on the roads. >> that's right, if you'd like to, go to twitter.com/maryland traffic and get the complete list of incidences, possibly in your area. especially anne arundel county. first crash in anne arundel county, westbound route 100 at telegraph road. also in baltimore city, a new crash reported that is at uh, drewitt hill and dolphin street. we'll get a complete look at all those incidences, there are several, in a few minutes. we're all skeptical of the photos depicting a small ship off the coast of south africa that was partially crushed by a whale with poor eyesight. >> a lot 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