those are handled by the waste and agriculture waste and measure section. you could be getting charged a higher fee because of the scale that s why scales are weight tested to see if they correctly measure things big and small. errors could end up costing you or airlines. they do have problems once in awhile. reporter: those problems are considered violations. the ones that matter to you the most involve tolerance, whether the scale is on the money if it adds weight, you could pay the price. that happens rarely, but it s one of many reasons a scale can be rejected for repairs. if it is really off, inspectors macon democrat it. it s a problem that we feel would effect the cost of it, so, that s why we remove it. scales can be flagged for a s do other violations, too and it happens more than you think. we looked at checks done on 548 scales since 2004. in that time, 195, more than a third, were he rejected for repair. 31 condemned and taken out of service.
strike but there s extremely heavy down pours. rates are coming an half ionch to a full inch per hour but won t last an who you re time frame. we are looking at time frame. we are looking at heavy rain and near lexington park and salisbury getting in on the action. we have improved. showers around glen burnie and we have to look back to our west. another line of showers and storms that is the cold front entering garrett county and that s what will reach us today between 7 and 9 and 10 we could have another round of showers. and otherwise temperatures upper 50s to near 60 and we will get back to 64 and there could be another chance of a thunderstorm this afternoon. here s teresa with traffic. reporter: thanks. looking at 259 northbound hanover road reports of a accident there. let s look live at ana current accident. 9 # north at 100. they are going to clean that up. it s very very shortly. let s look at drive times. nothing out of the ordinary this morning. you re seein
beaches a little lull in the action but another band of showers trying to push through the mountain right now west of hagerstown. trying to time this out from frederick 7 to about 9 or 10 past baltimore for a brief morning shower. we are mid-50s and could get back to 64a break of sun possible. and gusty winds and another round of a thunderstorm possible this afternoon. and then we usher in cooler butmore importantly drier air we will talk about next. here s charley. this morning investigators now know what started a fire in september that killed two long time educators. abc2 news sherrie johnson has more on the couple s final moments. reporter: all new this morning, investigators say the fire that killed two top educators was electrical. and this morning we have the 911 tapes with the final words of donald patterson and his wife jenny inside the burning home. it was september 28th on mohawk avenue in northwest baltimore when firefighters were called to the scene of that f
this just in from penn state in the last ten minutes, the board has just announced they are going to appoint a special committee to investigate child sex abuse case. hundreds of students rallied for joe paterno. he came out and told the students i live for this place. he asked them to pray for the victims. that s ha is going on here tonight. this because his form era sift isn t coach is a accused of abusing eight boys. and the reason the coach is facing heat is because he didn t go far enough in reporting. we explain the laws. reporter: the director of the baltimore child abuse center said the coach may be the winneest coach but not as a human being. he said he believes the penalties for failure to report abuse should be tougher. at penn state there is a statue to honor the coach. many believe the coach topped the ball when a reported case of sex abuse was brought to his attention. if this is boeing being today to the powers to be an immediate investigation should tak
. this is wjztv, wjzhd and wjz.com baltimore. from the city to the counties to your neighborhood, now it s complete coverage, it s wjz, maryland s news station. hello, everybody, i m denise koch. we begin with breaking news. an american visionary has died. steve jobs has just passed away at the age of 56. he is the man that brought us the mac, the i-pod, the i-pad. reports if wjz on his worldwide impact. it s incredible with its multitouch interface. steve jobs was the face of apple. a drop out, ecofounded apple. he was just 21 years old. he revolutionized the pc with the macintosh. jobs was forced out of apple in the mid 1980s after a tiff with the board. but he was jobs transformed the music industry with the i- pod and made i tunes the largest music store. then started a tablet revolution with the i-pad. one of the richest people in the world. steve jobs made a black turtle neck and jeans his trademark. he beat pancreatic cancer in 2004 but his gaunt appear