Morning, we will get to meet the soldier and the surgeon behind it all. A News Conference is scheduled for 11 this morning. This is video from before the transplant. Brendan marrocco is the first sold year to survive after losing all four limbs in the iraq war. He was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He underwent the complex transplant last month. It involves connecting bones, blood vessels and muscles and nerves and skin on both arms. The surgery involved an innovative treatment that used the dead donors bone marrow cells to help prevent his body from rejecting the new limbs. The 13 hour operation was led by dr. Andrew lee, the Plastic Surgery chief here at hopkins. Marrocco is one of seven u. S. Soldiers to received a successful double arm transplant. He will spend the next 3 to 4 months at hopkins and then he will return to a Military Hospital to undergo further physical therapy. Again, that News Conference to meet the soldier and the surgeon is scheduled for 11 this morning at t
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 lo
With. We can see the humidity at 100 that means the dew point and temperature at the exact same. The air is saturated. Going through the rest of today, the clouds will hold tough through lunchtime a few peeks into sunshine heading into 3. The High Temperature at 48 degrees. We will be above average for today and temperatures will only get warmer from here but it will come at a price. We will talk more about that but right now lets check the traffic with lauren cook good morning. Good morning. We are following a serious crash in the city that shut down Baltimore National pike at chapel date lane. You will notice the crash is under police investigation. Atf agents are also on the scene. Its unclear why we are waiting on callbacks from the Police Department and we will bring you the very latest as it becomes available. Now as you travel in the area be aware Baltimore National pike is shut down between stanford road and cooks lane. You will want to use cook lawns or forest park as alternat
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Good morning. Good morning lynette. Well, all that rain from last night has caused flooding across the region. You will want to be extra careful in carol county right on maryland 140 at main street. If youre traveling in Baltimore County we have flooding reported up in cockeysville on western run road and also here in windsor mill thats going to be right on dogwood road at ridge road. Avoid in area if you do this area if you do travel the region. Heading out to Howard County, this is what interstate 70 looks like at columbia pike. Traffic is moving right along you wont have any problems letting over to 695 or wedding west out to heading west out to frederick. As far as 951 concerned, heres a live look at 175. Traffic is starting to pick up but no delays as you make the push from elkridge to downtown baltimore. Just 12 minutes. The jfx is free of the delays, an 11 minute ride right now southbound from the beltway all the way down to east fayette street. And 695 in great shape this morni