security upgrades at mark trains could cause use extra time. and a deadly day in afghanistan brings new focus to president obama s decision on a new strategy in afghanistan. that story coming up. an off-duty police officer scares him into making a bad decision. find out what he did that got him us is spended. what will the weather be like at the end of the day? [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] good morning. i m lisa robinson in for mindy basara. and i m stan stovall. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. we ll get to the big story in a moment. but first let s check in with peterologists, tony pann. good way to put it. right now doesn t look very nice. rain showers locked in across the area. that will be with us at least through the morning commute. the showers go from southern pennsylvania to southern maryland. so at least for the next three to four hours we have to deal with steady rain. but things will start to improve. temperature
winds northeasterly 10-15 miles an hour so it s going to be breezier and much drier in the next seven hours. details on your weekend forecast coming up but first a check on your commute. we re just looking at a couple accidents. in the lutherville area. everything else moving well on the major roadways but if you re moving near elkton and leads road, everything looks good even with descendant there. looking good at the harbor tunnel. we ll keep you posted. mindy? stan? our big story this morning an off-duty baltimore city police officer spent in the course surgery overnight. we re told he was shot during a robbery. jennifer franciotti is outside mount sinai hospital with the latest. police say the officer was off-duty when he was approached by three men with guns and police say this happened just after 10:00 in the 600 block of high gate when police say a gun battle broke out between the officer and the suspects. thester was shot multiple times where he immediately un
you made sure. on tuesday. right. exactly. and he said if you don t wear it, you are toast. payback. anyway, hopefully it will be clear by the game. we are going to be dealing with heavy rain potentially late into saturday mainly over saturday night and into early sunday morning. there s even rain there this morning. this is light shower activity moving through and associated with that front that really hasn t made much progress but that we think is going to clear the area this afternoon so we ll see variably cloudy skies 71-75, breezy, and it will help make it feel drier. the timetable for that weekend rain coming up in your seven-day forecast but right now let s check out your commute. showers never make for a nice commute and this is tricky out there. dealing with slick roads and as volume picks up we may see more problem spots. at lutherville and sem narrow and shar mouth road and speed censors not indicating any volume delays, so that is good news. an accid
and severn wondering what the president will say when he comes here to capitol hill on wednesday. my report up next. after a perfect preseason we want to know what your predictions are the r for the regular season. that s our water cooler question of the day. and what can we expect of the long labor day weekend? the insta-weather plus forecast as 11 news today continues right now. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] good morning, tgif. i m mindy basara. i m stan stovall. let s talk about the gorgeous forecast. yes. we already got an head start on fall, for real. unofficial start of end of summer is labor day the official start of fall not for another couple of weeks but we remain in the low 80 s with temperatures lows at night into the 50 s and 60 s. partly cloudy skies currently the sun will be up at 6:38 and 78-82 by this afternoon. slight shower possibility to the east only at about 15% and confined to the eastern shore. i think really on
good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i m stan stovall. and i m mindy basara. thanks so much for joining us. weather and traffic. we re all in a great poohed. friday! we re so predictable. every friday we re, like, ooh! we ve had beautiful, glorious weather conditions all week long and it s only going to continue this weekend. in fact there s an area of low pressure offshore that will stay offshore. we put in a slight risk of a shower but i don t think it s going to happen. high pressure wining the battle here in central maryland so 70 downtown. 63 out at the airplanet. 70 at annapolis, today a high between 78 will have 80. remain in the low 80 s with partly cloudy skies all weekend. whoo! we like that. mm-hmm! well, i guess you ll like this one for the most part. here s the problem spot if you re headed out on the eastern shore 50 completely closed in the area of skip to be landing road with an accident being cleared. toe trucks on the sce