the backpacks were packed, the school buses rolled. children across the area, including two of the largest districts are back in school today. thank you for watching fox 5 midday news. i m gurvir dense you. i m allison seymour. concerns over enrollment and school readiness grabbing headlines on this first day, including one school where parents pulled some kids out saying the building wasn t ready. and sherry ly has more from burrows education campus. reporter: when students and parents arrived today, the pta greeted them at the door with face masks for the children and a letter warning children to keep the kids out of school for 72 hours because of last-minute construction. despite assurances from the principal that the air quality has been tested and is safe, some parents walked aw. we re going to remove them or take them back home. and if you show up and there are people handing out face masks to wear in school. i think should be in school shouldn t be in sch
what was the one moment that when you saw it a tear came down? when did it hit you? when my dad was walking me down the aisle. got all choked up. what did he say? my dad? did he say anything to you? yeah. he said you re a great kid and you re marrying a great guy and i m happy for you. he said let s move it. then we walked down the aisle. it was a really long aisle. it was wonderful. i get the same feeling when i go to the weather center. walk over there. jamie said you re a great kid and marrying a great guy. welcome welcome back to school for a lot of kids. anne arundel county and eastern shore and kent county we re starting in baltimore where the bob davidson lincoln mercury in parkville showing up 69 degrees at parkville middle school. temperatures hovering around 70 or more around baltimore. there s nothing around the beltway though once you head to southern maryland it does appear as if there s rain and that rain trying to come out of southern mary
how about kids returning to school today? yes, sir. that just hurts, doesn t it? pains me. i feel great for the parents. 69 degrees in baltimore. 70 easton. in southern maryland, look at this satellite and radar composite, pretty heavy rain coming from, looks like charles to st. mary s county and lower eastern shore, st. mary s, by the way, severe thunderstorm warning until 6:00 a.m. another half-hour. that is out of our viewing area. just want to let you know what is going on down there. problems may pass over to the lower eastern shore so we ll continue to monitor this. yesterday s high 87 degrees. we ll you pull back a little today, 85 is our two-degree guarantee. we could develop showers and storms here this afternoon. bring an umbrella to play it safe. 5:30. for those of us not floating to work, the traffic for everybody else with kim. thank you. reminder, to get traffic updates twittered directly to you, follow me at twitter.com/marylandtraffic. 95 southbo