Powerful radar. So we have lots of snow around the midwest and great lakes, but closer to home, things are fizzling out. And we have the rain component further to the south you go and Severe Weather across the area. But dry air sliding in here and with that things are evaporating and erode. But going through the rest of the afternoon and atmosphere could moisten up a little bit. We have the chance then but that was always the timing. As we head more into the afternoon time frame. Lets show you whats going on in terms of temperatures. 25 in hereford. Temperatures slightly below average because we should be at 27 and we are at 23 in pylesville and looking in sykesville, 26 right now. We have a cold day on tap thats going to stay that way into the afternoon. Switching back over to show you whats going on in terms of plapping your day and clouds will persist planning your day. And clouds will persist and we have a chance for a mix of sleet mixing with snow going into 3. Lets check the traffic with lauren cook. Reporter good morning. One person has been taken to the hospital following a tractor Trailer Crash early this morning on 83 in baltimore county. Heres the scene earlier today. This happened along the northbound lanes at middletown road and the person that was injured is expected to survive. Everything has reopened and there are no delays as you make the push up toward the maryland Pennsylvania State line. Looking at 83 in hunt valley at shawan. Everything is nice and normal southbound and will remay that way on to the jfx and heading downtown. Traveling on 95 as we check in and take a look here at route 175, traffic is moving along once you make your way into the city. There are no delays traveling through the fort mchenry tunnel and normal 8 minute ride northbound from the beltway to the toll plaza and 695 is in great shape. 11 minutes on the outer loop from 795 down to 95. You will want to watch out for a crash on pikesville. And another accident on interstate 70 along the eastbound lanes at south street. Thats your abc2 timesaver traffic now over to you. Breaking news update out of baltimore countyp one person is dead after an overnight crash on the beltway. This was the scene near pikesville around one thismorning. We talked about this. Police say the driver was ejected from the car after colliding with a tractor trailer. That driver was head by another car and died on the scene. Everyone else suffered minor injuries. Dont forget to know about breaking news. Down load the free. App. Maryland is one step closer to adopting stricter gun laws and linda so is here with all the new information that developed while you were sleeping i understand the key sloping. I understand the key vote happened last night and this could make maryland one of the toughest states with the gun laws. Reporter the vote came in before midnight and it pushes hem to them to adopt tougher laws. They voted 74 in favor of the bill. Stricter begun gun control is is a top priority. It the ban would ban assault weapons. It would prohibit anyone from owning a handgun if they have been envolumenarily committed for Mental Health reasons. They would cut the require hours of rain to 4 and it was down party lines. All but one democrat voted in favor of the bill and republicans against it. They feel identities overreaching and wont fundamentally address crimes in the community or really address the Mental Health issues that we are row sip tating the vil. I do know that at least the connecticut newtown murders we are not going to have those here because we got rid of the issue of assault wellons. The billhead to the full senate for debate next week. Linda so a. B. C. 2 news. Delegates voted on a measure that would make all owners reliable for all dog attacks but the dog owner could defend themselves in court and try to prove the dog dangerous. It goes before the state senate senate. The county council voteded for laura neuman to fill the post. The council interviewed 16 people before voting or her. She is a businessone who embraid waited from loyola and is chief of Howard County development authority. This morning there are parents who have to worry about child care as they head off to off to work because right now a local dare care is shut down or the doors are closed and theres questions as to why. A the centers director says her us about parter in came in with moving trucks and packed everything up suddenly. We have a consumer alert. Gf you before you fix your breakfast, you want to know about more than 38,000 pounds of pork and sausage that are being recalled. It could contain small pees of plastic and affects certain containers. It was made by Smithfield Packing Company and shipped to 11 states including ours. Find more information if you are concerned, on the website and we posted everything at abc2 now is. Com. What whyr you what are you paying when you fill up. A lot. Details on why the price of gasoline is going up and anything to do to redies theamount. Reporter are you in the market for grand new home decor. I will show you where you can find it coming up. Us that of the nations heartland under a snow blanket this morning. Details of the winter storm heading from the midwest and what residents in that part of the country can expect. Probably more things like that lynette. You are right. I will tell you what we can expect from the system as it pushes through the area for today, but we have norm system to talk about. Details come coming up. Traffic is tarting to pick up here and we have crashes on 95 and 70. I am tracking the delays and we will have the complete timesaver traffic report coming up. Its 7 minutes after 6. You are looking live of new york city. Lets head up there for todays tech bite. Reporter google challenges microsoft and apple. They are offering touch scene versions of the chrome book laptop computer. It includes the new pixal models recrying on cloud based storageand orangeel is planning to shove Security Experts say hackers right now see java as the eatiest way break into systems. Public Wireless Companies get the public is offering works with a single handset and its a mid tier and right phone that runs a older version of android. Reporter you have to buy the phone but theres no contract. Those are the tech bites. Have a great day. I am rob nelson. The friendly confines. Nice snowy picture there of Wrigley Field home of the cubs. They are dealing with Winter Weather and in some form its going to head our way. So we will let you know what to expect. But that has been a huge story across the country traveling proving to be a big challenge for millions especially in the nations heartland. Yeah the gripes of winter and winter storms coming on in the upper midwest the next target dropped record totals more than a foot and a half across kansas. Its mess out here. Its really mess out here. Just got out of control. Lost control. Due to the weather condition. And it is carry. The peaks snow fell at 3 inches per hour in some places. This is how quickly it piled up in arkansas as it was glowing through this, but you got the pictures. People look and think is it coming our way. No we are not getting anything like that. Of course the people that want the snow, they are upset about it missing us against. We are dodging another bullet and she is not talking. You are not talking. Do i need to pull the number out for you guys . Exactly. Dry air is coming. 20,000 to 7,000. He is talking about how much more women talk to men take it away. Okay. We saw whats happening around the nation so with this there is a Winter Weather advisory and all the blue in all the blue counties and colors. But none are in our area. So, thats good news. It doesnt lock like we will have big travel impants going through the rest of the today. It could change because are possibly expecting black ice. So as you step out be prepared for that. This is whats going on. The satellite and radar. This is the sigh nare yes and big storm and seeing lots of snow up towards the great lakes, but then we come down around west virginia, virginia and things break apart a bit and the reason j is we have dow points and this is the measure of the moisture in the atmosphere. You see. He me sues it a lot in the summertime. But 17 at the inner harbor and dew points are dry this morning. We are very cold this morning coming in at 25 degrees in manchester. Eldersburg at 28 be a 33 right now in baltimore city. So we have temperature that are going to be cold and that will linger into the afternoon. We have High Pressure to the north built to bring in the colder air and when we have the colder air that are ride along and on top of it we have it going into the afternoon. We go into motion and have the commute home being on the dicey side so once again take heat to that and then as we go into the second part of saturday, thingsimprove as think the pushesous and we will look dryer going into sunday and a chance for more showers to work their way in here. But this is what you can expectexpect today. Temperatures at 35 for a high. Nice sunday and the next storms coming in as we go into the beginning of next week. Good morning. Good morning. Well, we have several accidents that could get in your way. We are dealing with a crash on 95 blocking the southbound soldier at 198 and the eastbound lanes of 70 at south street, theres another crash. No delays from drum yeah pike to 695. Here a a live look. Traffic is moving along it will tame 7 minutes from 795 to 70. And traveling up in hunt valley this is the harrisburg expressway at shawan road. No lace to the beltway. 12 minutes southbound from the beltway to fayette street. Everything is up to speed and 8 minute ride travel along the northbound lanes of 95 from the beltway to the toll plaza. Thats your morning commute, nowover to you. You know if theres a weird animal vito we will show you monkying around cowboy raced them and it was part of a session in professional bull riding. We will get the rido and video and show you later or post it on abc2news. Com. Who needs that when we ask this guy. We named him hegy. We assign a name to loot dogs lost dogs. He remints me the reminds me of the president ial pooch. He is 5 years old and we havent heard from the owner so we will put him up for adoption so we are trying to find him a good home. The maryland spca is open on the weekend. You are have been vocal about the pit bull legislation . We were in and alleys and the house passed it bill overturning the original ruling but it holds pet owners responsibility. So we are very happy with hit. Now it notes to go to the senate and hope it passes. You are working for a state neuter fund. We were there to testify for it. Its important and theshelters dont get overcrowded. We were happy to testimony. We do over the surgeries cost money and thats basically a burden for you guys. You do it as part of the adoption process. But it has to be paid for which is why you have the great events. March for the animals in april. Whats that about. We have a event a Swimming Pool area and downtown dogs. This might be a weather permitted situation so give you a call. Check our website. Check the website mdspca pom org. Give them a call because they have great events going on that they will post. Thank you. All right. Alien gabeie along with this. Could this dog be more crild or more laid back. They bring in the calms. Are you eyeballing me . Wait until next friday. Its that time of year again the Craft Council shows up in baltimore. Sherrie johnson is live with what to expect and youve been going all out showing everything the extravaganza has to offer. Reporter yes, there is something for everyone. I really am enjoying myself. They have craft artest like 650 from everywhere, and they have jewelry clothing and furniture and anything you can think of its here. Ive been enjoying seeing it all. And we have pamela diamond one of the oarsers of the event. Thanks for joining us. Up in the middle of the night. You did a good job. We have so much stuff and this is one of the artists. Tell us about what we have. We are standing in an exhibition special exhibition modern designs meets kratts and we challenged local designers and put together a foe of photo of them and let them pick a piece to inspire a room setting. So you will see different eyedems and in this case they have the glass table and michael with craft pieces. Challenge is take craft and design the room around it. This tile, the colors and textures were inspired by art art sanin is artisans work. This is the Oldest Jewelry show in the country. People think of craft as macro may or macaroni. This is the opposite and designed and gorgeous but we have items from handmade under a hundred to go dillions if you want to spend them. And its about fashion and design. Craft is eu till tearian and thats object. So its beautiful and useful and you get to eat the artist and let we will let you know what that is about. Its a educational experience reporter you have beautiful items here from what ive seen. And it kicks off today at 10 a. M. Runs through sunday something for everyone down here. Sherrie johnson, abc2 news. Government workers are bracing for pay cuts if workers we have details of why they may have nothing to wherey about in gas prices are on the rise rise we know that. What it will cost when you pull up to the pump this weekend. 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Caption this is a great picture. This is of a smiling puppy. He looks ready for friday. As i think we all are. Its generated a lot of comments on facebook. Susan wilder said smile you are on candid camera. Kathy lyons and why must my grandma pinch my cheeks when she visits. I immediate photos for next week email them to pix at wmar. Com or post it on my facebook page. Today on katie you have the happy hour with melissa and gone rivers. And i bet they do talk a lot. And they are letting their hire down heres preview of what you will see. Are you interested in meeting someone . No. No . Well i am looking for a rich man with a pulse. And at this age. She tells it like it is. She probably got enough money and can count it and whatever. You can catch katie at 4 right here on abc2. So keep that in mind if you are looking for something this afternoon. The we have video coming up. We will show you a fishtailing out of control because of the icy roads and its caught on camera. Youre watching the station that works for you. Now, good morning maryland. Its issue of debate in the state for decades. This morning maryland is one step closer to repealing the death penalty. Oscar pistorius in core for the fourth day. What he wants to come out of the hearing. We have the latest straight ahead. And we have a live look at downtown baltimore. Look at that beautiful sun vine courtesy of paul, a great start to your friday morning. But will this hang around . We will find out in bit. But until then good morning