nope, check that, we're back to 80 in perry hall. 78 degrees in fallston. centreville has an 83 spot on the thermometer. 81 from columbia to beltsville. 100 degrees yesterday in baltimore. we'll try to break that pattern over the northwest couple days. showers and thunderstorms into the mountains, seemingly falling apart. they'll regenerate. clouds will dominate through the afternoon. 2-degree guaranteed high of 93, damaging wind and large hail. >> right now we're in the calm before the traffic storm. very quiet on the roadways to begin our monday so far. you'll see traffic looking really good around the area completely on the west side at liberty road. looking good on the outer loop towards the i-70 interchange. all the way up towards reisterstown road and green spring. no issues towards 95. the inner loop looking good towards i-70 as well. no problems to let you know about on 83 or 95 corridor at this time. jamie, back to you. 5:31. you want to go down to the harbor for the 4th of july? did you hear about saturday's shooting? linda sow tells us what happened and how police want to keep us safe this weekend. >> just after midnight saturday, two groups of teens got into an argument and shots were fired in the middle of the inner harbor. police say 19-year-old kyron holly pulled out a silver re revolver and said "i feel like killing someone" before he opened fire at another teen. the victim was hit in the left hand and taken to the hospital before later released. security will be ramped up for the 4th of july weekend. 300 officers will be on patrol. sunday night we spotted r&b singer keith sweat at the harbor. here's what he had to say. >> killing a person isn't the answer to anything. violence has never been the answer to anything. once people get that in their heads, this world would be a lot better off. >> last summer there was a shooting inside the light street pavilion, believed to be gang-related as well. 12 democrats and seven republicans are going to see if elena kagan should get a life-time job. today she begins her nationally televised job interview from the supreme court. some doing the questioning are up for re-election. john hendren says prepare for fireworks. >> reporter: today republican critics are making it clear she won't get off easy. >> issues that need to be raised. >> will the constitution control her? or will she try to control the constitution? >> reporter: criticism, kagan, now solicitor general is an extreme liberal. limit on campus military recruiting because of the pentagon's don't ask don't tell policy. >> not allowing military recruiters to come to the law school will be problematic for most americans. >> democrats say critics are reaching. >> i believe the drift net has been out to find some disqualifying factor and it hasn't been found. >> there'll be no parsing of legal decisions. kagan has never been a judge and president obama says if her record gets a fair hearing, she'll be fine. >> what you see is somebody with an extraordinary powerful intellect, somebody with good judgment. >> reporter: judgment sure to be tested this week. whether she answers the tough questions or not, republicans are determined to make sure kagan doesn't call these hearings vampid and hollow. senator robert bird of west virginia, the long est serving senator in our history has died. dying at the age of 92 this morning. thousands of people out of work could soon run into a job. the company that's beefing up their workforce so you can get paid. before we head out for our work this morning, here's justin berk at the weather board. >> a warm steamy morning. could be stormy this afternoon. we'll talk about the break of these hit wave coming up. let's go to the mta here's mark jones. >> good for travel on light rail and the metro subway. look for number 33 bus to be diverted at argon and hillen. patterson park due to construction. 13 westbound diverted at washington street. also construction related. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. 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>> if we could take a snapshot of rush hour right now and keep it just like this for an additional two hours, i think everyone's monday will be off to a much-improved start. no accidents or delays to let you know about. as we look at our drive times, everything's in the green. 795 southbound, less than 10 minutes to route 140 all the way towards the beltway. as we look at our cameras, light volume around the area, on the outer loop at delaney valley road. traffic moving very well in both directions, actually, inner loop lane looking good towards 95. outer loop, no problem towards 83, towards the top side of the beltway. we have more good morning maryland coming back right after this. six minutes away from 6:00. prince harry got off his high horse yesterday, took a tumble for a good cause. he was on new york's governor island, playing a polio match to benefit his charity to help children in hiv-ravaged africa. his visit to new york was a little better on friday. he went to the west point military academy and had a chance to throw out the first pitch at the mets game. the end of the world as we know it for our u.s. soccer team. germany and argentina will advance into the quarterfinals. u.s. missed a goal and off sides. germany ends up beating england 4-1. argentina beat mexico 3-1. terrible. i could call it from here. they're still arguing over that one. when we come back on good morning maryland, here's what we have coming up. an argument between two groups of teens that led to a shooting at the inner harbor. what police are planning to do to make sure we are safe and sound when the 4th of july hits our town. six children are dead this morning after a massive fire at a highrise. two adults managing to escape this fire. if you have foreclosed property, beware, josi is telling you about a scam targeting people just like you. temperatures starting out around 80 this morning. another day for 90s today and tougher. chance of severe storms. big cool down into the 80s, wednesday, thursday and friday. let's see what's happening on the roads now, here's kim. we do have reports of a couple incidents around the beltway. one on the outer loop at bel air road. another in park heights avenue. i'll have details for you when good morning maryland comes back at 6:00. tmeal okies! bar bell! hey, hey, hey... what's the problem? 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