next on fox 45 morning news. >> the whole slot things should be shelved. >> slots in maryland, why pricey machines could end up costing you more. putting a price on healthcare reform. our former governor bob ehrlich says it should be funded. what is the worst news your boss could tell you on a monday. >> we're getting married. >> see how ryan reynolds handles that in low down. good morning. it's monday, october 12th. i'm patrice harris. time to get a look at our forecast on this chilly monday morning. meteorologist is -- the meteorologist steve fertig is here. >> absolutely i'm here. >> i'm still scattered. >> hopefully in mind present. you know what, i'm here despite the cold temperatures. as you head out the door, you will feel the chill. you may not want to head further out, you may want to head further inside. temperatures in the 40s. we're at 49 degrees in hagerstown, 49 degrees in salisbury as well. 50 degrees in baltimore but it's a little breezy and that will make it feel chilly, too. definitely on the cool side of things. 54 degrees the noontime temperature, because of the all the cloud cover we won't see the temperatures climb a lot. bic degrees for 6:00 p.m. temperature after getting only to a high of 59 today. definitdefinitely going to be cu can see generally speaking. it's cool through the mid-atlantic region. we will talk about the rest of the week and how cool it will be in a little bit. right now candace dold is here with a look at the commute, she has the traffic commute candace. thanks, steve. we should a trouble at the harbor tunnel that completely shutdown all the lanes. now the good news is all the lanes are open. still want to use 95, from mountain road to 695, we're looking at a 10 minute clip. and 95 through the city at the fort mchenry tunnel that will only take 5 minutes. as for the commute on the top end of the beltway, there's an accident at park heights avenue, once you get past that, and travel from liberty toward wilkens, we're looking at an 8 minute clip. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back to you. candace, thank you. 6:02 on fox 45 morning news. bringing slot machines to maryland could be more expensive than bargained for. critics are concerned that the initial construction of the parlor could cost taxpayers a lot of money. megan gilliland join us with the latest. >> reporter: much. good morning, patrice. right now the state is putting its money on 5 casinos here in maryland. the flashy high-tech gambling machines are more expensive than we first thought, millions, in fact. the whole goal of gambling to generate money for the state, some say it's too much of a risky bet. like the video gaming machines at gopher down, maryland casinos could look the same packed with games lick roulette, and blackjack. right now the state is granting licenses to slot parlor operators in hoping of breaking ground in several months. >> the games fall under the defense of the type of class of machines that err mitted. >> reporter: but this kind of technology comes with a price tag. the higher end machines are more expensive than the state original statement of $12,000 each. >> the state had no idea what it was going to cost them to set up the casino's. >> reporter: roy has advise the several business people. >> this is common sense. >> reporter: casino operators should have to pick up the cost for buying the video gaming machines not the government. other gaming consultants say the gaming fees are too low. it's estimated when all 5 casino inside maryland are up and running the total operating cost could be $65 million a year. the state only planned for around $27 million. >> no, no, this whole slot machine should be shelved. we have a lot worse problems for monetary system and the jobs. the state needs the money. why give it away. >> reporter: at this point it may be tough for the state to go back and make changes now, since the slot machine bill was passed by the state as a referendum. it happened around 12:30 sunday morning in the 3700 block of springdale avenue. police say the vips were standing in the street when a car drove up and people started shooting. dion jones was killed and the other victim was treated shock trauma and were released. police are investigating two homicides that happened in east baltimore. first happened at 3700 block of oak hill avenue. day monday johnson was shot and killed. after 1:00 in the afternoon, alonzo keys was shot self times in the 2700 lock of north kenwood avenue, police have no suspects in either murder. a final hearing is scheduled this year in the proposed sale of constellation to ed, if. the maryland public commission will hold a hearing on wednesday on the deal which was approved friday by the regulartory commission. edf wants to buy 45% of constellation nuclear business for 4 1/2 billion dollars. the move will create jobs and lower energy jobs. the maryland commission has to approve the deal. people came from all across the country to participate in sunday's gay rights rally in washington d.c. earl' estimates put the crowd well over tens of towns. claudia cough caufee has more. >> reporter: hopefully it energieses young people because it's important that they have rights as the rest of america. >> reporter: thousands called for the rights of gays and lesbians. the crowds so deep at times that the streets were impossible. activities came from all over the u.s. from tony lang heart who marched with others in washington, to urge the repeal of the defensive marriage act. >> even though our marriage remains valid because we got in under the deadline. >> reporter: this event was not limited to the gays and lesbians. colbey came out with her husband and two sons to show their support. >> as an american you have to stand up for what you believe in. >> reporter: sex and the city stars cynthia added her star power with the hope of bringing more attention to the people close to her heart. >> gay people deserve the same rights and our families are the same and we deserve the same protection. >> reporter: these protesters called on all levels of the government to make a change. >> over the rainbow ♪ ♪. >> reporter: in the name of equality. this comes just as the house approves a bill that would broaden the defense of a hate crime to include attacks againt people for their sexual orientation. the senate is expected to vote and pass the bill. some would are consider it a fun girl's night out. for others it's a to get on the field and meet the team. it kay tears to women but it's open to everyone, that's why we find joel d smith there live, he is on the field with a preview. >> reporter: patrice, i moved inside after my big miss on the field. they told me to come into the locker room and clean up. but this is the locker room for the ravens, and one of the cool places and one the places for the purple evening that the ladies can come and check it out. this is the cool places to come. give us another thing. >> the field will be open, this will be open for the tours, and the club level will be open with the player vendor autographs. >> reporter: what time. >> it's 6 to 10:00 p.m. and it's $40 at the entrance door. >> reporter: the interest level, tell us how you know that it's going up. >> this is our 3rd event, and tickets have gone sky high this year. >> reporter: it's open to everyone, but how does it cater to women? >> all of our guests and activities are catered to women. the coaches here they will take the time to explain everything, if you're not familiar with football or how the game is played. you will have a coach explaining why you're watching monday night football, what is going on the t.v. >> reporter: is there somebody plan explaining the pl. >> maybe a ref will be here on the field. >> reporter: they can try the field goal attempts like i'm attempting and who else is going to be here field kicker himself. >> yes. >> reporter: i will clean out my locker. this is where folks will be for today' evening. i'm joel d smith. still to come celebrate preview. we have a preview of the harbor festival coming up in the homet > we can tell by the weather, fall is definitely here. and there's no better way to celebrate than on the waterfront with the family. judy o'brien joins us live this morning with all of the details for our hometown hot spot. good morning, judy. >> good morning, patrice. >> tell me a little bit about the festival and what is going to happen this weekend? >> it's our second annual harbor harvest at the beautiful inner harbor. it's sponsored by the baltimore family alliance and the waterfront partnership. it's a free family family event. we're going to transform the harbor into a pumpkin patch. we are going to have whole families. and where kids can decorate pumpkins and cookies, all kinds of arts and crafts. we will have live entertainment and music for the kids. it's going to be a great family event at the inner harbor. >> it's very cool. and the pumpkins look like they are very fun and the kids look like they're having a great fun, a lot of smiles. >> it was a great event last year. we had several thousand visitors come through, we're looking forward to another time this year. hopefully we will have great weather. it's cool to see the inner har harbor transformed into the pumpkin patch. >> is this free or anyone who comes down? >> it's completely free, sponsored by the family alliance and waterfront partnership, it's from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 on october 18th. >> it looks like the parents are having a lot of fun. they're the ones playing with the pumpkins while the parents watch? >> it is. it's for people from all ages from babies to adults. >> that baby there looks sad. i think he wants mom to stop playing. >> thank you for joining us, we're going to check in with you guys in a little bit. the harbor harvest festival is at west shore park on sunday from 10 to 2:00. for more information log on to foxbaltimore.com/more than. no frost on the pumpkin at the inner harbor, maybe toward allegheny county and garrett county, there might very well be. frost possible there, but sky watch hd rai radar not showing s any rain for the central counties for sure. let's see what we have when we put things into motion, you will see the shower activity down into the gulf coast region in the general activity. that is going to bring us plenty of cloud cover in the next several days and a chance for showers when we get into tonight. a couple of showers around and maybe more so for wednesday through friday. as we take a look at the big picture, here is what we got, frost advisory in place as you see for the western more counties. garrett county and the eastern more part of garrett county seeing the frost advisory. we're going to see the moisture moving in our indicated where you see the green, especially the things, so cloudy skies today. that will lend itself to a chance of smo showers, a lit shower in spots. maybe a better chance as we watch tuesday, this is showing you the northern part of the baltimore county maybe seeing a chance of a shower tonight, late night. maybe a chance as we get more so in wednesday, but this will show you the possibility to the northern part of the state. holding off wednesday into thursday and into friday when you see the showers more so. here is what we're looking in terms of our surface features as we check out the bigger picture. the jet stream aloft is showing us where the cooler air is to the north and the warmer air to the south will be around that area because of change. not much change north and south. things stay the same temperature wise through the week. we are going to get with the temperature wise to the north. that will add to the cloud cover and eventually some of this activity is going to come our way for wednesday. our cold system comes for wednesday, and into your friday maybe as late as saturday morning. 50 degrees for the current temperature in baltimore, because of all cloud cover temperature is dropping, d.c. has 50 and 49 in salisbury. out toward hagerstown 49 and a cool 4 46. milder for the eastern shore, getting to 56 degrees there. a mild wind, and partly cloudy skies. because you will have more breaks of the sun and spots, 59 degrees should do it for the high in the central part of the sky. mostly cloudy skies here. back to the west we look for mostly cloudy skies with the high temperature of also 59 degrees. tonight, cloudy skies, drops to 50 degrees only for the overnight low so not much of a drop off. we can't rule out a shower in spots, it will be a shower, and southeast wind in nature. as we move through the day today, look for the temperatures to climb to 54 degrees, not much of a climb and 57 degrees at 6:00 p.m. after hitting the high a little bit earlier, about 4:00 p.m., 59. and tomorrow 69 degrees for the high, partly cloudy, warmer then temporarily. 58 degrees on wednesday with a chance of a some showers coming in later in the day and better chance of for it thursday and friday, in fact with highs of 54 and 56, cool days ahead. 57 on saturday, early showers maybe, still lingering, otherwise still partly cloudy skies, and 60 degrees on sunday, with 60 degrees, the nicest day of the week comes on sunday. sky watch hd radar comes at your finger tips. you can use fox 45 powerful doppler radar shows you incoming storms. interactive tools wil will showu when rain or thunderstorms is over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. candace dold has the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. it's a monday morning, and so far we're not doing too bad on the roadways. we're loving this one. 65 miles per hour on the northeast corner and 65 on the jfx and 64 on the west side of the beltway. not too much to worry on the west side of the beltway. ask 63 traveling through howard county. here is what we have to talk about, a crash at patapsco avenue, is at 895. there's no problems to report, at hanover street, so they're better options for your alternate. we did have a crash at the harbor tunnel, completely shutdown all lanes, but now they're reopen, you can use 695. you can stick with 895, but since we have the residual delays, use other optioned, 895 and the beltway. as for 495, those cars are starting to trickle in from white march swhitemarsh boulevag from parkson eventually toward the 83. we have an accident clearing in the stages on the flip side of either, between stevenson road and park heights avenue, no significant delays reported as a result of that one. we will keep our fingers crossed for that. coming out of the northwest corner, taking it from owes owings mills boulevard, you will have company there, but so far we don't have incidents to talk about. we're only looking at an 8 minute clip. these conditions are changing, but you can keep up with them round the clock, with personalized traffic reports for your commute. just click on foxbaltimore.com and click on traffic edge. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, back to you. still ahead, what is the worst news your boss could tell you on a monday? >> we're getting married. >> see how ryan reynolds handles it coming up in the low down. and next, putting on the pressure, why both parties are pushing for a decision on a future of the war in - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. shared knowledge is even more powerful. there's more pressure on the president to increase troop levels in afganistan. now some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say a troop surge is necessary to win. meanwhile the president is still figuring out a new strategy for the war. sandra endo is in washington with the latest. >> reporter: with the clock ticking president obama is hearing from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about strategy in afganistan. with some urging him to send more troops as reportedly requested by the top u.s. commander on the ground. it's not the top commander in the arm services committee says. >> i think it would be an error of historic proportions. i think he needs to use deliberate speed and adopt the strategy. >> reporter: a top congressional beam crate is dems endorsing the proposal to send 40,000 troops to form a strong insurgency. >> i don't know how you put somebody in who is as cracker jackass general crystal who gives the president solid recommendations and not take those recommendations if you're not going to pull out. >> reporter: the president has been deliberated on a new strait teg owestrategy in the a. they have made it clear that the u.s. is not going to pull out of the country. it's time to find a new way forward 1 with less involvement with u.s. troops. >> i want a defined mission. that means a beginning, a middle and a transition end. we don't have an end in afganistan. >> reporter: the president is said to meet again with his national security team on wednesday, a new strategy is not likely to emerge for another few weeks. in washington i'm sandra endo. still ahead, stocks start out a new week offer hitting highs on friday. find out latest business news next. this whole slot thing should be shelved. >> and slots in maryland, why some machines could end up bring it. if we're known for one thing... we've got the best customer service. - low fares. - frequent flights, that's what we're known for. low fares. customer service. - we're known for a lot of things. - bags fly free. the lowest fares. customer service. low fares. we're not saying other airlines are bad; we're just awesome. southwest airlines is proud to 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