hello, everyone. welcome to 11 news saturday morning. i m lisa robinson. and i m kate amara live at the starting line. the 11th annual under armour baltimore marathon. this will be a record breaker today. 25,000 people have signed up to run the race. some 30,000 friends and family will turn out to cheer them on. they all have one big question the weather and the wind. for that we turn to tony pann. yeah, if there will are any weather issues today, it will be the wind. right now it is not that bad. we have a light southwest wind. the winds may be gusting over 20 miles per hour between clock and 10 between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. a.m. do they let you run with the wind? i think it depends where you are in the race. let s go out to kate. kate, you know you have covered these marathons year after year. you know, the wind will be a huge factor for the runners. notice the wind picking up when i put my hat on. the marathon is 26.2 miles long. the gun goes off for the 5,
this morning we have marathon coverage, and kate will join us a little later. the wind will be an issue. i don t know if they like it sunny and dry, but you will have to run into the wind. be prepared for that. take a couple degrees off for the temperatures. there is a slight chill for temperatures. when you are running in, you are running into the wind. temperatures not that bad. 56 at the airport. west wind at 10. as soon as the sun comes up, the winds will start to kick in. the atmosphere will be what we call mixing. winds may gust up to 20 miles per hour during the racism race. keep that in mind. when we come back, we ll check the seven-day forecast. now let s go to kate at the starting line. at the intersection of russell and camden streets in downtown. hey, kate, good morning. tony, i have an answer for you. i talked to a race official. if you don t like the wind in your face, sure you can turn around and run backward. i have seen people run marathons juggli
chance of rain. live h.d. doppler radar showing high cloud cover. way out west, getting moice sure associated with an upper level low which is something we will be watching and we ll bring up precipitation later today. under northly cloudy skies. we ll take a look at the rest of the weekend and the promise of some very snice weather next week. we ll show you how that unfolds in your insta-weather plus forecast in a couple minutes. serious allegations leveled against the housing authority. charles grassley, one of the most aggressive watchdogs on capitol hill wants an investigation into how habc spent $67 political mill in federal stimulus money. i-team reporter barry sims has more on the accusations. questions and concerns about the spending of federal stimulus money. frampingly, i was shocked. charles grassley has targeted the housing authority of baltimore. he oversees the senate judiciary committee. he sent a letter to john donvan. grassley claims his office ha
yeah, you know, fall is here. and unfortunately the cooler temperatures are here with some wetness. of course because we live in seattle now, not baltimore. and we had record amounts of rainfall in september, which i ll talk about in my forecast. unfortunately, i know folks like the cooler weather, which is great, but when you mix the rain in with it, it can make it miserable, especially when you have problems with arthritis and my grains. it is no good. h.d. doppler showing rain through the eastern shore about an hour ago, and spotty showers to the west of baltimore. unfortunately, we will see on and off rain showers today associated with an upper level low that is churning from this moisture activity. you see those northwest winds 10 miles per hour and then down at the inner harbor, a little warmer, 60 degrees. coming up in your insta-weather plus forecast, we ll take a closer look at weekend anded ravens game which will be perfect football weather. temperatures in th
portions shut down during the heaviest rain. today has been tough. we have had some pretty pad areas in the parkville area, palace ski highway. polasky highway. kevin kamanetz said they have emergency management in place. we have been using our p emergency management able to respond quickly in the roadways and also the police department. the northern and western sides of the county were the hardest hit. fortunately there were no reports of serious injury. we found a lot of cars speeding through standing water and drivers had to be rerouted around bell air road near slater avenue during the busy rush hour. a person inside this black car had to be rescued after becoming stranded in several inches of water. we had to have some rescues using our swift water boats. obviously the gameplan is to tell people to stay out of standing water when they are driving through the water. kai reed reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. some of the best flooding photos came from you our