Live picture of how the rain could impact your weekend and todays marathon. Off and on . Yes. Thats what we are looking at. The good news is, it will be a little lighter. It has been pretty heavy pretty steady downpour. Now we are looking at it lightening up just a bit. Unfortunately still there for the run erbs. For the runners. Light rain. People are getting a break. A few clouds out there. 66 in the inner harbors. You can see most of the showers are off to the east of us. We also have some light showers out to the south and the west of us as well. 66 now in ocean city. Its 62 in hagarstown. For the baltimore running festival we will find temperatures hovering around that 65 to 66 degree mark. At 65 at 7 00 a. M. 66 by 10 00 a. M. Booking looking at showers and drizzle. Thanks miri. You can track storms wherever they are with our spart phone app. You can get the most effective radar at wbaltv. Com. Click on weather. Even with the rain its a big day in walt more. Thousands of runners are ready to hit the pavement. In a few hours in the baltimore running festival. Kate amara joins us live with more. Good morning, kate. Good morning, lisa. The theymarathon is 26. 2 miles. The marathon starts at 8 00 this morning Half Marathon is at 9 45. I want to show you what the starting line looks like right now. We are actually here on the starting line. One of the most Amazing Things that core gorigan courts does i they sweep in and the street goes from basically nothing. Cars are driving down the street and in about 15 minutes they will have the start line assembled, the balloon banner and over here, this is a special edition addition this year, the Baltimore CityFirefighters Union has made it possible to hang a gigantic American Flag over the starting line. It will be suspended from two ladder druks. Not on ladder trucks. Not only the amazing start the cheers you go under the balloon banner, but you will be going under the American Flag as well. It will be a great moment for those runners. One other thing that we need to talk about is the weather. Its very important for a runner running 26 miles to be prepared. They will be using garbage bags. Thats what they do. They cut a hole in it put it over the bodies it will keep them dry until the race starts. The people over the hotel were kind enough to give me a roll. If you need one i am at the starting line. I can help you out. The weather is what all of the runners were talking about yesterday. Heres what some of them thought. I like the rain. It is fun and cool. Better dhan hot sun. Much better. I am worried about slipping. I am going to do my best. Okay. And one Important Note here. The race officials will be driving the course and starting to shut down the roads at 6 30 this morning. That is when we will know if the Rainy Weather we have had over the last few days will have any sort of Significant Impact on the course other than just puddling on the road. We will let you know at 6 30 how the course looks. I am kate amarah. Running in the rain i am with that one lady. It helps to cool you off a little bit. This is going to sound disgusting, but one of the problems when you are running 26 miles is that theres a lot of chaffing. Your socks are wet your shoes are wet your shirt is wet. It rubs. It is very uncomfortable. So that would be a concern for me mostly the shoes and the socks. If i was running today. But it is much better to have a cool misty rainy day than a hot day. They are absolutely right. Thanks, kate. Baltimore City Department of transportation is advising motorists of temporary road closures and parking restrictions due to today he is a race. There are quite a few of them. The race starts at camden and south paca street and m and t bank stadium. For a list you can go to our web site wbaltv. Com. Click on news, sports and then marathon. Our complete coverage of the baltimore running festival continues all morning long. 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Most of it is to the east around the delaware area. Some moving into centerville. You may experience drizzle if you are heading out the door right now. Heres a look hour by hour of how things are going to pan out for us rment i know m. At 7 00 a. M. Looks like we have clouds with most of the rain off to the west of us. This is just a model. It isnt written in stone. Just to give you an idea of what you may be facing. 8 am may have clouds out there. We begin to see light showers developing between 9 and 10. A few more light showers and may have light precip going for the rest of the afternoon going into sunday. We have low are pressure in the area keeping atmosphere more stable. Temperature wise downtown see the temperatures around 65 at 7 00 a. M. Light fog and dridz el will be possible around 10 00 a. M. Hold the temperatures in the mid 60s between 10 00 a. M. And noon. They will pluck wait too much staying in the forecast. Little bit of good News NationalWeather Service has allowed a flood watch to expire for much of baltimore. Few clouds in place along the Eastern Shore and ocean city as well. We have a flood threat there but around the Baltimore Area we have allowed that to expire. Rest of us highs between 61 and 69 degrees with the drizzle and light rain chance staying with us. Northeast winds 515 miles an hour. Not forcing it out until late sunday. Out as early as monday morning before it pushes out of here. How much more rain could we get . Squeeze out half an inch or so. Other isolated areas could see a bit more than that. Ravens partly cloudy 6268 degrees with a 50 percent chance of light clouds and drizzle. The 13th annual baltimore running festival takes place today rain or shine. A high lit will be the starter of the race. Erika talked to deborah when she said there was not a moment of hesitation as she was asked to be the official starter. She was the last Boston Marathon survivor to leave the hospital. Surely she is the first one to start another marathon. This it is my honor to prese you the ceremonial horn. While her moniker has been boston bombing survivor. Saturday you can call ericka br bran nick. I will never hide from the things that scary but i will scare fear in the eye and say you will not keep me from living my life. The 29yearold preschool teacher who shared her pro prosthetic and first steps with her students says she must lead by example. I dont want the kids that i teach to see that something is scary for me i will veer away from. I want them to learn from my example. It is maybe scary but you go through it and you push forward and you do it and you are a much better person for doing that. Today the spectator from california who came to erickas aid in boston received the first medal of the baltimore marathon. The two women once strangers have become a close friend. She is a person of great grace and calm. I dont know how she does it but she has this zest for life. Ericka shared for us her next goal, and its a big one to participate in a november race in charlotte. She will be in the wheelchair for most of it but she is working with her physical therapist so she can walk along the finish line. Whether it be half a mile a quarter mile or a few feet thats my next goal. Deborah weiner, wbal, tv 11 news. I wanted to give you that quote again ericka said. She wants to be the starter of this race to prove to herself she will not run away from the things that scare her. It is what all marathon runners do. You are squared, you a scare are nervous, you have prepared but you never know how your body will react at mile 20, 21, 22. This is a scary thing to take on and the people who are doing it like erica are confronting their fears today when they cross the starting line at the baltimore marathon. Also Erika Brannock will be at the start today. 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Next meet the baltimore man behind the team in training an the daughter who inspired it all. Rain chances what you can expect for the baltimore running festival and the rest of the weekend straight ahead in the instaweather plus forecast. Welcome back to 11 news saturday morning. Thank you for joining us. Lets take another look outside with miri. Is the rain getting out of here . It sort of likes baltimore. It will hang out here for a little longer. Unfortunately you wish it would be another weekend. The clouds out there and the rain chances remain. Our weather will yet push off coast at the time. We can see a slight break in the shower. Most of them are off to the east of us. Centerville seeing light sprinkles. The rest of us clouds out there. You may experience drizzle but for the most part the downpours we are not seeing that at this time. Heres what we can expect for the baltimore running festival. Looks like the temperatures will hold steady around the mid 60s for most of the morning. Right around 65 at 7 00 a. M. In the mid 60s between 10 00 a. M. And noon with the light showers and drizzle staying around. A reminder you can track storms wherever you are with our smart phone app. You can find an interactive radar and most up to date forecast on wbaltv. Com. The baltimore running festival, it will be impossible to miss about 100 runners decked out in purple. Team in training they have raised millions for cancer research. Kate amara has more. Team in training is a pipeline for marathon runners these days. Some credit it with helping to fuel the tremendous growth of this sport. You may not know the founder of team in training live right here in baltimore. It started when he got an idea from his daughter and ran with it. 25 years later he is passing her the baton. This is a story about a baltimore dad and his daughter. Bruce and georgia. Two years after she was diagnosed with leukemia. Her chance for survival was 50 50. He had been raising money for leukemia lymphoma society. Run the 1988 city marathon and get sponsored. He recruited 38 friends and called it team in training. Probably half of the donations were bets. Bets placed early on before we got into shape. Theres no way you are going to do that. Sure if you do it i will pay you 10 a mile. Everyone finished. They raised 320,000 dollars. Bruce cleland came the very First Charity runner. 25 years later team in training is the largest charity Endurance SportsTraining Program in the world. 600,000 participants raising some 1. 4 billion for Blood Cancer Research and treatment. What about the little girl who inspired it all . Today georgia cleland is 29, cancer free and training for her fourth Half Marathon with team in training. I called my dad, i said, dad, guess what . I am going to do the disney Half Marathon in january. He said, what . You have never run before. How are you going to do that. . She did it the same way her dad did in 1988 train with a team of friends and raise money to help others. I remember crossing the finish line and i was bursting in tears because i made it. It is a lovely kind of natural end to the circle, the completing of the circle.