outer loop heading to i-70. you might want to give yourself a few extra minutes. no problems on 70 past greenspring heading to the 83s. not too bad on 95 southbound, no problems to report between mountain road all the way towards the beltway. here at whitemarsh boulevard to the beltway, four minutes. 83 southbound not looking too bad from shawan to 695. it will take you six minutes. 795, volume picking up between owings mills boulevard and the beltway, five minutes so far. a few incidents, one in woodlawn, gwynn oak avenue at park road closed at this time due to an injury crash. a vehicle off the road, in baltimore city, a crash still on scene at hillen between forest and east monument. in parkville, an accident at loch raven boulevard in loch bend. in harford county, still that intersection at whiteford road and rocks road closed due to an accident. back to you. he said he served maryland well and continues to do -- will continue to do just that. today governor martin o'malley takes his message to the people. in a few hours he kicks off his re-election campaign. linda so is live in fells point. >> reporter: it officially starts today. o'malley hitting the campaign trail, begins at 11:15. governor o'malley will start with a three-day tour of the state, including 11 different stops including columna, catonsville and aberdeen. the governor is facing a rematch with former governor bob ehrlich. it's likely the same issues from the last race will return this time but republicans hope that will turn the tide in their favor. >> no regrets, forward progress, opportunity, success. let's take it to annapolis. and recapture the state house. >> it's true that we've had to do a number of things that were tough and difficult and short term unpopular but we do them for one reason only, to move maryland forward especially in these difficult times. >> reporter: again, governor o'malley will kick off his re-election campaign here at 11:15 in fells point. baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake will also be here. afterwards he'll make other stops, in problematics, southern maryland -- in prince george's county, southern maryland and montgomery county. linda so, abc2 news. 6:33. arizona governor jan brewer is dismissing the threat of an economic boycott over the new state immigration law she signed last week. a tucson democrat called for a boycott of convention business for the state and other calls have come for a boycott on arizona goods, services and tourism because of the nationally controversial immigration law that requires police to question anyone who appears to be in the country illegally. our pets become family members so when brittany parkinson's dog disappeared she freaked out. things got worse when someone called her, they got the number off the dog's collar and demanded cash for, that little chihuahua's safe return. they wanted $600 in return. so she called the cops and set up a sting at this gas station. police arrested a man and woman. as you can see roux back safely in brittany's arms following what she calls both the worst and best day of her life. an islamic cleric's suggestion that modestly dressed women caused earthquake earthquakes, caused thousands to show cleavage. >> a 22-year-old university student started it as a way for females to embrace the supposed supernatural powers of their breasts. women all over the country participated and while there was no earthquake in washington, dc there was the quake over in taiwan. so maybe it's a result of the boob movement but either way the students are big on this right now. the makes food taste good but bad for your health. >> and now major chains say they are going to cut back on the salt. >> i put on the brace and people came to help. then someone called 911. he's only 8 but says driving skills are credited for saving his grandmother. >> 54 degrees. looking north at the maryland science center, we still have moisture, so there's still drizzle and mist, even occasional fog on the commute. it will be a little slow but it also will get better. wait until you see the forecast coming up for the weekend. 6:35. what's quaking around the beltway? kim brown? >> heavy volume making it a little volume on the outer loop at old court road headed down towards i-70. takes the drive times up a bit on the outer loop between 795 and 70, about eight minutes. as we check our drive times, 95 southbound, volume building from whitemarsh boulevard to the beltway, four minutes. harbor tunnel thruway not bad from the split to 295, about seven minutes. we'll catch up on crashes around the area but first the buses and trains with mark jones. >> you'll find light rail and metro subway on time. buses had some earlier delay but no major delays at this time. just a heavy volume of passengers on the 13, 7 and 22 buses. and wet roads slowing up the buses a bit so do allow extra time. marc on time on the big rails. no delays on the camden, penn, brunswick lines. with expedia, when you book your flight and hotel at the same time, voilà, you could save up to 450 bucks. and that could come in pretty handy. where you book matters. expedia. 6:39. a haitian judge dismissed the kidnapping and criminal charges against nine of the 10 american missionaries charged with trying to take children from haiti but the leader who remains in detention still faces a lesser charge. 16 food companies agreed to reduce salt in everything from ketchup to rice as part of the national effort to cut america's sodium consumption by 20%. the participating companies include heinz, starbuck's, kraft and subway. heinz official says that the company will cut sodium by 15% in all ketchupups ketchupups that it sells by may 1st. and mars plans to cut sodium by 20%. and uncle ben's, they will cut salt from 65%. so products in 25 restaurant meals in as well. >> we should realize he's a real hero. he saved a lot of lives. >> 8-year-old from a small town in western colorado is being called a hero. after he help save his grandma's life. dylan earl and his grandma were driving. she had a seizure. so dylan sprang into action, steered the car, at the same time he hit the brakes bringing it to a stop. if you're looking for a teaching job head to the fairgrounds today. >> we're going to tell you about 700 opportunities. >> there's fierce competition to recruit top-notch teachers to baltimore county public schools. i'm sherrie johnson, more on a teacher expo, coming up. >> plus, parents normally want their kids to have access to all kinds of information but a decision to unblock some web sites causing a lot of controversy. >> and should your 10-year-old play call of duty? 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[ male announcer ] accumulate 10 nights. and get a night free. welcomerewards from hotels.com. smart. so smart. good tuesday morning. let's look at your abc2 news to go. >> justin berk, hi. >> check out this video taken yesterday in north carolina. this is just east of raleigh. a family drives on highway 7, actually sunday night, when they suddenly saw this, or at least did yesterday. that is incredible. what would you do if your family was stuck in a vehicle. technically don't drive towards it, pull over to the side. if it comes your way get out of the car and lay in a ditch. that is incredible stuff. 6:45. nothing like that around here. temperatures right now 54 degrees. we hit 57 yesterday. that was all we did. we'll improve it today but still running well below normal even though the morning temperatures running mild. 40s to the west. that is a sign of slightly drier air behind this boundary. so drizzle, fog, and mist. that will make for a slow commute, rain pulling off the coast. some clearing back here and a northwesterly flow will help pull out the clouds. we may re-develop clouds even where it's clear to our west. we may not completely clear out today but it will improve. next storm system sitting back here and diving south and eastbound from about st. louis, missouri. that will pass to our south and that will be a southern storm system, in the fringe but appears as if we may actually build in clouds as we head through midday tomorrow. before we can really shake this pattern and improve by the weekend. after the morning drizzle and fog, 62 is our 2-degree guarantee. some clearing, stays school but we should actually be be dry for the yankees and orioles at camden yards and cool tonight. we'll go back to 40, 30s outside the beltway and could be patchy fog come daybreak but that will give way to morning sun, then a mix of some clouds into the afternoon. 65. the extended outlook, we'll be pushing 70 heading through thursday. by friday 77. despite of the chance of an afternoon thunderstorm i think you should take that with temperatures in the low 80s. on twitter, follow me at twitter.com/marylandtraffic. we do have several incidents we're working this morning. fortunately none of them on the major roads. traffic is moving really nicely here on the beltway at frederick road. as you head down towards 95 on the outer loop. headed towards i-70 on the inner loop lanes. though it's pretty sluggish from 795. headed down towards liberty road on the outer loop. inner loop looking good, outer loop sluggish and slow towards i-70. no major incidents clogging this up at this time. as we peek at the drive times this morning, going to be elevating as you make your way southbound on 95 from the beltway to the split. it will take you four minutes. another seven minutes from the split to the fort mchenry toll plaza. only 10 minutes us a come across the key bridge on the outer loop to i-97. keep in mind the dense fog warnings still in effect. good news up in pylesville, that earlier crash at whiteford and rock road has been cleared but woodlawn, vehicle still off the road gwynn oak avenue and park drive. a crash in baltimore city, frederick avenue and pulaski street. accident in parkville, loch raven boulevard and loch ben road. 6:48. democracy 2010. ready for the o'malley rally? today mayor stephanie rawlings-blake will kick off the official announcement of the governor's man to run for re-election and everybody's invited. it begins today in fells point 11:15. the governor will make three more stops across the state. for tickets to the announcement at felsz point go to abc2news.com and click on the story in our slide show. we have a link all set up for you, if you need parking as and tickets for -- parking passes and tickets for today's rally. abc2news.com. and in timonium, hundreds are expected to show up ready to go to class. after the summer break. sherrie johnson live at the baltimore county school job fair. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are here at the state fairgrounds in timonium. in front. exhibition hall. this is where the teacher expo and job fair will kick off a little later this afternoon. they are expecting about 3,000 people to established this job fair. baltimore county public schools is looking to hire between 600 and 7p 00 educators for next school year. they want to get the best of the best for the students. and right now i have joelle is here, and also dr. donald pescia, here as well. they are with baltimore county public schools. good morning. thank you for being here. first of all, tell us a little bit about why this expo is so very important. >> it's incredibly important to baltimore county because we want to recruit the best teachers for our children. we want to staff our schools next year with the highly qualified and certified teachers in our system. >> reporter: what should teachers, or the candidates remember to bring with them today? >> bring big smiles, in addition to bringing plenty of copies of resumes and they'll have the opportunity to talk to over 170 principals. >> reporter: that brings me to another question. what kind of things can they take advantage of? you were saying there will be principals here? what can you take advantage of at the expo? >> there will also be representatives from our support staff, offices and housing will be represented. they will have opportunities to talk to different people with opportunities to either rent or buy in baltimore county and elsewhere. so there's really everything you can imagine a teacher would want to know. we'll have here for them to research. >> reporter: that's just amazing. in these tough times some school systems across the condition are laying people -- country are laying people off. you are looking to bring a lot in. >> we have close to 9, 000 teachers, with the number of retirements and resignations we have those are going to be needed in order to fill those positions. >> reporter: thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. that job fair kicks off at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. runs until 6:30 p.m. and right here at the exhibition hall at the state fairgrounds. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. a 2-year-old boy is back home with his father after his mother was hit and killed on philadelphia road here at the beltway. police say 17-year-old mavi maldonado was walking from golden ring shopping center crossing busy philadelphia road at the beltway in rosedale. she was head toed to a bus stop, a pickup jumped the curb and hit her. her 2-year-old was in a stroller but it was pushed out of the way. her friends and family believe that the mother made a split-second decision to save her son and police are still trying to figure out what caused the driver to jump the curb. he did stay on the scene to help the woman and her son. at this point no charges have been filed. 6:51. there's a controversy in harford county over what kind of web site students should be allowed to view while they are at school. earlier this year the county school board unblocked several web sites that provide information about gay and lesbian lifestyles. that sparked complaints and protests from parents and an attorney for the school board in harford county says the board is just following state law. many parents say that they should have been consulted before the change was made. >> i was shocked that something like this would happen, a decision would be made, without any meetings or public notice about it. without any parental input on the situation. >> it's hard to live in diversity but that's what our nation embraces. it takes for fort today of freedom and respect for all. >> the school board didn't act on the issue last night. it's not clear how or whether they will address the petition or complaints from parents. 6:52. it's all over. northrop grumman picked virginia over maryland as its new home for its global headquarters. in the "washington post" this morning one maryland lawmaker said that the state is more gay-friendly than virginia, trying to lure northrop grumman to our state. northrop wins awards for gay rights. virginia is about to land thousands of jobs. 6:53. the u.s. supreme court announced yesterday it will hear arguments on whether states have the power to regulate violent video games. back in 2005 california law prohibiting the sale or rental of such games to minors never took effect because the industry immediately challenged its constitutionality, after winning two rounds from the lower courts. the entertainment software association is confident the highest court will side with them as well. >> it should be treated just like movies, music, books and other forms of media. that there's a first amendment constitutional protection to the great games that are made by our industry. >> the parents should be responsible for what their kids have especially when it's violent or anything other than pg-13. >> the gaming industry already labels the packaging from e to everyone or m formature audiences. new insight on the corruption case against sheila dixon. we hear from the man who brought down the former mayor. maryland state prosecutor robert rohrbach. he says he'll resign later this year when he's completed his six-year term. he plans to retire and move to florida but he sat down with abc2 looking at the -- back at the dixon case. he says that her former boyfriend, megadevelopper ronald lipscomb prompted the investigation and as for why the prosecutor agreed to a plea deal for the former deal he says he didn't want to ask and risk taking the case to what he calls maryland's liberal courts and see the conviction get overturned. >> at that point she would have only been a suspended mayor. she could have come back, reclaimed her position as mayor and then she would have asked the city to repay her legal fees which people estimate to be $1 million to $2 million. >> he also says the investigation uncovered $13,000 in cash in her bank accounts that she was never able to explain. mount st. mary's students an their professor will be back home after that volcanic ash cloud stranded them in italy for more than a week. the students had been spending the semester there and they were supposed to fly home last week. this is a picture of the students. the professor has been blogging about the ordeal. they spent the last day touring florence. they will arrive back at dulles 12:30 this afternoon. they are expected to be back home by dinnertime. you can feel the pinstripes storming our city. the yankees are in town. they met with the president yesterday at the white house and now they will play the orioles tonight at camden yards. phil woods is going for them tonight. i meant phil hughes. kevin millwood for us as we try to get the orioles first home game of the year. baltimore raven life inspired the movie "the blind side." michael oher writing a memoir writing "i beat the odds," published in february of next year. he rose from poverty in memphis to become a star with the ravens. 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