Down. Good morning i am charley crowson. I am megan pringle. So much to talk about because yesterday the big story not only on the roads but out at the pep rally to see the ravens on and it turns out its the story today but different. Fog is on the road. And reporter and its causing reduced visibility. Use the low beams this morning. Hopefully it wont be a problem that lingers. No it wont linger too long but we have a mixed bag of everything. So i want you to pick something out and. I hope its sunny and 70s. Thunderstorms my favorite. We do have thunderstorms on the way going into tomorrow. Thats a big possibility. Well megan we have thunderstorms on the way. Dont blame it on me. But for this morning we are going out in the shady side and temperatures coming in at 40 degrees when we should and the 24. We will take the 40 right . But we have 100 how midity so you know that means we are humidity so you know that weans we are dealing with the fog. Further into the afternoon things will look up a little bit a few peeks of sunshine but it will be a greery gray dreary gray day with misting across the area. Marylands most powerful radar is scanning the skies to see ifwe pick up anything. The droplets are too small for the radar to detect. If you are thinking its not great hair day, thats why. So, we look at the planner and can see whats going on for the afternoon. So lunchtime is going to be right around 46 degrees. The High Temperature only coming in at 48 degrees. But i say only this is above average when we should be at 41 degrees for this time of the year. 60s in the forecast. We will talk about that coming up. Lets check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook and youve been talking about an dent sz accident. Reporter we are fog a crash that following a crash that shut down the road at chapel gate lane. Notice Police Officers are on the scene and atf agents. We are working to figure out details. We will bring you the latest as it becomes available. But it will be closed forsometime. So stick with cooks lane edmonton or forest park as an alternate. We will bring you the latest as it becomes available. Now heading out to 695 this morning, checking in and looking live at Baltimore National pike, traffic is moving along. And this will continue over on parkville. 695 is free of delays on outerloop from 95 all the way up to 83. That stretch will take you 11 minutes. And as we look at the other abc2 timesaver traffic drive times we wont have problems using the jfx to get downtown. This is an 11 minute ride southbound from the beltway all the way down to east fayette street and everything is up to speed through the fort mchenry tunnel. 8 minutes northbound from the beltway all the way to the toll plaza. Thats a look at your morning commute. Now over to you. Three minutes after 6. And we know miracles happen in our backyard at Johns Hopkins every day. But the story you are about to hear is incredible. A soldier who lost his limbs in iraqarms once again. Linda so is at the hospital this morning and linda, you hear the story and you have to wonder how is this possible. Reporter its possible with the incredible doctors here. Its the first time that hopkins performed a double arm transplant and later this morning, we will get to meet that soldier and the surgeon. A News Conference is scheduled for 11 this morning here at the hospital. This is video from before the transplant. Brandan marrocco is the first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the iraq war. He was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He underwent the transplant last month. It involves connecting nerves and skins and muscles and bones on both arms. It involved a treatment that used the dead donors bone marrow cells to prevent his body from rejecting the new arms. Marrocco is one of 7 u. S. Soldiers to received a successful double arm transplant. He will spend the next 3 to 4 months at hopkins and will be returning to Military Hospital for further physical therapy. Again, that News Conference is scheduled for 11 this morning. Live at hopkins, lnda so, abc2 news linda so, abc2 news. Count down to superbowl xlvii. Today ravens players will talk to the media. This was scene yesterday, a big send off at the inner harbor. Thousands turned out for a peprally to cheer on the ravens. And jammy costello was in Jamie Costello was in new or leeks when the plane touched down. Reporter from new orleans when the plane touched down. Reporter from baltimore to new orleans. What a day for the ravens after the send off at the inner harbor to new orleans today [ music ] reporter little jazzy start to the stay and what a start to superbowl week. Rains arrived mid afternoon all ice on ray lewis who says he is thinking about his ill grandmother. Ravens arrived mid afternoon. All eyes on ray lewis who says he is thinking about his ill grandmother. They told me they are going to pull the plug always in prayer. Thanks for asking. Reporter tht the home in the middle of the action. And he notes the streets of nola. We played from mailbox to mailbox. Reporter as they put two feet on the ground they wont forget the send off in baltimore and ray wont forget the saturday night hive skit. I know its on i got a torn cep and i cant get the peck off my face. When i saw it, i just laughed so hard i was in tears last night laughing about it. Reporter and from the skit to the split. Ray rice told me he ripped his pants on the plane. Ray. Did you rip your pants today . Yep. Its for good luck. You cant see it but i am telling you i look good in my suit but but the back of my pants is ripped. You will see it on the way out. You wont be able to see it anyway. I am going to put this in the cleanance i am not wearing it on sunday. I got a couple suits being delivered and i will be good to go. Reporter with the ravens in new orleans, Jamie Costello, abc2 news. We will have much more from new or lien as the week goes on. New orleans as the week goes on. In three hours closing arguments are scheduled to start in the case of executive john leopold. The judge could offer a verdict as early as today. The defense wrapped up the testimony yesterday leopold faces three counts of misconduct in aves and one count of fraud. He did not take the stand in his defense. Yesterday, the defense called another doctor who vouched for leopolds back problems and the Personnel Officer for county government said leopold returned 5,000 dollars after a mandatory pay raise. The judge allowed four charges to stick after a second attempt to have them dropped. Carla hamner who filed her civil lawsuit against leopold has been in the courtroom every day watching this case. The citizens of Anne Arundel County were promised an explanation as to this there was another side to this story and no one knew anything about. And i am not seeing an explanation. I am literally seeing excuses. The case resumes at 9 this morning. If leopold is found guilty he could face prison time or be voted out of office by county council. The Phylicia Barnes murder trial continues today. Yesterday jurors saw a sex tape involving phylicia her sister and the defendant and his younger brother. Prosecutors claim Michael Johnson killed phylicia and dumped her body in the susquehanna river. She disappeared while visiting family in baltimore in december of 2010. Brian kuebler will be in the courtroom and have updates on abc2 news onate 5 and 6. We may learn more about funeral arrangements for delegate Hattie Harrison who passed away last night at the age of 84. She was a member of the house of delegates since 1973 representing the 45th district in baltimore city. The mayor issued a statement saying that baltimore has lost a good legislator. The city delegation fairy god mother and i lost someone i was proud to consider my friend. A maryland pastor says enough is enough. Yeah and he is making a heart breaking decision to close the doors of his church and its not because of money or low membership but because of crime. If you are parent you know there are shots your pediatrician recommends and now that is changing. We will explain why. You want snow . Will this change your mind . Maybe it makes you jealous. Details on where they are busy cleaning up after old man winter. We dont have snow out there this morning. But snow is in the forecast. Fog instead and i will tell you when it is out of here and the sunshine returns coming up. Reporter traffic is just start is to go pick up on the west side of the beltway. We are following a serious crash on Baltimore National pike. I will have details coming up on good morning maryland. Its 10 minutes after 6. A live look at times square in new york. Leads head that way for lets head that way for a check of todays tech bites. Reporter in todays tech bites success of yahoo. The pioneer is reporting better than expected earnings and revenue and analyst credit new ceo for the turn around. Mayor says theres more work to be done and mobile will be the key. Yahoo and abc news are online partners. Latest version of ios6 has interesting new features. You can use siri to order movie tickets on fan dango which accounts for a third of the ticket sales and it allows useers to send voice recordings and videos and easier to hide posts on the news feed a blank spot is filled on Google Mapsthe maps show golf courses to detention camps for political prisoners. Google says it used information volume untoward by ordinary citizens outside the country mostly from south korea. North koreans cannot access google. Have a great tuesday. I am rob nelson. Only on 2 this morning a pastor from a Baptist Church in cecil county closed his church this for good after a series of crimes have taken place there targeting the house of god. Abc2 news jeff hager has more on the final chapter. This one is left is the baby girl. Reporter this family that prayed together has stayed together here at first mount carmel Baptist Church in northeast. Lesson less and wanda were married here les and wanda were mareied here and all their children want eyed here and heer ised as the pastor as his father. He never took a dime for doing the work and he guess thats instilled in me. I worked here for 14 years and never would let them give me anything. Reporter but now he is taken all he can stand. But they took a brick from over there that block and threw it through the window. Reporter saturday Morning Police notified pastor thompson someone had vandalized the church again. Knocking a hole in the message board. Ripping off a piece of railing and smashing the windows. It didnt take northeast police long to come up with a suspect. After all it appears he left his footprints here in the snow leading from the church to his nearby house. I dont trust the young man i dont know what he is going to do because look when he did to the house of god. We dont know when he will go off again. Reporter in house that once represented hope and love and peace,. Over the years, people throwing racial slurs. Reporter as the neighborhood changed surrounding the church, things changed for the worst. And they are smoking pot out here. Drinking on the steps while sunday morning services. Reporter and in october someone cut a propane line that could have easily sparked an explosion. And the very next month someone sent another message. When they put two bullet shells on the steps thats letting me know they are going to shoot somebody here and two bullets is going to be for the two always out here. Reporter and the faithful wife of a devoted preacher and the son of a long time pastor are flipping off the lights closing the doors of the beloved church for good. And keeping their faith where its been all along. Thank god understands us and time to move on you know. We tried to help people here. Reporter in cecil county jeff hager abc2 news. Your weather in the northeast look at pictures from kennebunkport maine a couple inches of snow is expected to fall and surrounding areas may get more. Crews are working hard on the road in time for the mornings commute. Kind of sounds like a broken record from us here yesterday. Yeah. But yesterday, it was bad. It was not quite that bad. Thank goodness. Yeah. But yesterday we had ice. So ice is always much worse than snow and you dont have to have a big accumulation. Just a nice glaze will we talk about driving in it. But ive got on foot place was lynette and she is checking the sidewalks for ice. Thats something to keep in mind. Someone tried to go buy her coffee. Hot chocolate. A she walked out the door. Exactly. And goes back in. I am not going. She is safe. Too icy and today we are dealing with the fog not ice. So take it easy as you step out and about. This morning, temperature wise, we dont have to worry about it being too cold because temperatures are well above average. We can see look at manchester, 49 degrees. Jessup 37. Germantown 42 and 37 in kingsville this morning. Cant island at 41. And cambridge coming in at 44 degrees. These are our actual High Temperatures. We should be at 42 degrees now for the highs and these are where the lows are this morning. Satellite and radar not picking up on a whole lot close to home. Just lots of cloud cover and that translates into lots of fog. Look at this back off into michigan, a complex of thunderstorms rolling across the area and its going to be coming our way possibly as we go into tomorrow. We have a warm front thats going to stay to the north today but by wednesday it will move through and then wednesday night we have that cold front thats going to move through the area. The clashing of the air masses is when we have the potential for thunderstorms to pop up in the forecast. And in its wake we will be left with colder temperatures so the roller coaster right continues. Hyperlocal forecast looks like this. Temperatures in the upper 40s in sykesville and mountary. Mid 30s around they aremont and 39 degrees at the inner harbor. Along the eastern shore, 47 from rock hill rock hall rather to easton. And as we look at whats going on in the sevenday forecast, this is what it hx like. Superbowl looks like. Superbowl. No complaints. Very gusty going into wednesday and thursday. Lets check the traffic with lauren cook. Reporter good morning. We are following a serious accident in the city that has shut down Baltimore National pike at chapel gate lane. This is the scene moments ago. New video straight into the newsroom. Notice police activity. Atf agents are is on the scene. Its unclear why but we are waiting on call backs and we will bring you the latest developments as they become available. But Baltimore National pike is going to be shut down from stanford to cooks lane. You want to use cooks laid edmonton as an alternate. We will bring you the latest developments as they come into the newsroom. As we take a look at 6 actually 83 north of the beltway, notice traffic is moving along. You wont have any delays heading downtown. It will take 11 minutes traveling southbound from the beltway all the way to east fayette street. And 695 traffic is just starting to pick up on the west side of the beltway. But you are looking at a pretty good driven time from 795 to 95. That takes you 8 minutes and the east side nice and clear of delays. Looking at an 11 minute ride from 95 up to 83. Thats a look at your morning commute. Now over to you. We have Important Health news for parents. Person academy of pediatrics is relosing a vaccine schedule and there are a couple changes including a new report for vaccinating against pertussis or whooping cough as it is mondayly known. The one change is theres a recommendation that all women with their pregnancy get whooping cough vaccine. Its combination with every pregnancy. Ideally around 27 to 36 weeks jest station. And because infants are most at risk for contacting whooping cough before you did get can get the shots they are better protected if the mother receives the vaccine during each preg pansy. There are a couple minor changes to the schedule for vaccine for menin expwriet ies and pneumonia. Talk meningitis and new mown yeah. Talk to your peed tigs pneumonia. Talk to your pediatrician if you have questions. Its time to think about spring allergies. Health experts recommend starting allergy medications in the next couple weeks so you are not caught off guard when the flowers begin to bloom. We know that the intranasal steroid sprays make a difference if they are two or three weeks before the seasonal allergy season. The doctor says its tough to predict the start of seasonal allergies so its better to start early. Fall allergy season is more predictable but spring are weather dependent. We saw an early start to the season last year. Some people started feeling the symptoms by late february. Two men have been arrested after police say they went on a chicken wing heist. How they managed to haul away 65,000 dollars worth of the frozen poultry. And a motorcycle rider got lucky after a tractor trailer overturned in front of him. We will show you the incredible escape. And a live look out of dublin ireland. A preview of what to expect on katy today on abc2. Congratulations youve new baby. I do. Little olive. Oh gosh. It hurts. I just got her passport todayand i square the picture is so heart breaking. And she is look at the camera. She is so locked in. And its the cutest picture wearing a stripped shirt and looks like she is going off to paris but she is not. 4 months old. 4 months old. And you enjoying motherhood . Its the best thing you will ever do in life. Are you exhausted . I am. Good morning. Thanks for joining us its time for caption this where viewers accepted pigtures. This is of a pug of cocoa who looks hungry. It generated a lot of comments on facebook. Heather said where are the chicken nuggets. And sharon with a are we having for dinner kendra you caught me and matthew his caption was could you pass the ketchup. Keep your captions coming and i need caption this photos for this week. Email yours to pix wmar. Com. Now over to you meg aan Charley Megan and charley. Motorcyclist narily avoids getting crushed by a tractor trailer. The truck fell on its side when turning at an intersection in eastern china. The motorcyclist started to back off and jumped off when the trailer began to fall on the bike. When you see all this, amazing to think no one was hurt. More than a dozen people showed up at a shoe store early yesterday morning. Police say they were not there to shop. In fact, they were there to do damage. And they left quite a bit behind. We will show you what good morning maryland continues. for those nights when its more than a bad dream, be ready. For the days when you get a sudden call from the school, be ready. For the times you need to doublecheck the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. When you have childrens motrin on hand, youre ready. For high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer than childrens motrin. Be ready with childrens motrin. Youre watching the station that works for you. My now, good morning maryland. 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