especially in arnold. richie highway northbound lanes closed at arnold road. you'll see police providing a detour as well. dundalk, north point road, fire and emergency crews on the scene there. as we leak at the beltway, no real issues. 695 looking goot at liberty road. drive times will be normal as well. harbor tunnel thruway running well. no issues on 95 southbound from the beltway to route 32. south side of the beltway looking good as well, 70 to 95 will be a six-minute ride this morning. a baltimore city police officer is told to end a high speed chase minutes before he crashed into a motorcycle killing the driver. linda sow joins us live in the studio with details. >> reporter: the officer thought the motorcyclist was racing a car, he tried to pull him over, the rider kept going. the officer was told repeatedly to stop and he didn't, moments later, the crash happened. haines holloway lewiston was working security at a bar. the chase started in the city and ended in the county on the ramp to delaney valley road. the officer, timothy beale, was chasing the motorcycle. the officer was told repeatedly to stop pursuing the bike, but he didn't follow the orders. >> i'm going to live with the spirit and not get mad at anybody right now. i can't bring him back, there's nothing i can do. >> officer beale has been suspended and is on paid leave pending the investigation. police haven't said how fast the motorcycle or police cruiser were going, but do say holloway lewiston didn't have a motorcycle license. in the studio, linda sow, abc2 news. baltimore city police say there was a reason to chase down the suspected drug dealer who was possibly armed. police were called to monroe street around 3:00 yesterday afternoon. a spokesmen says that tyrone hix rammed three police vehicles that killed another driver. they had to tase him before he was taken into custody. this week ravens camp will open. getting there isn't going to be easy. abc2 news sherrie johnson joins us live in the studio with a look at who will be reporting to camp today. ravens, rookies, quarterbacks and select players report to the best western in westminster today. they'll have four practices over two days all open to fans and the media before the veteran players arrive on wednesday. the first full squad practices are open to the media scheduled for 8:45 and 2:45. on monday, they'll hold their suite holders and sponsors day during the morning section. the ravens have a new autograph policy. players will sign autographs for children only after all morning practices. ravens executives say they changed the policy because of safety concerns for the little children. many nfl teams select a few players each day to sign a limited number of autographs in a designated area. the ravens have been picked as the second best team in the afc this year, behind indianapolis. in the studio, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. baltimore ravens top pick sergio kindal is in the hospital after he fell down two flights of stairs at his austin, texas home. the orioles are in toronto after losing three out of four against minnesota. jason hit his 7th career grand slam and kevin slowie took a 5-hitter into the 7th inning. there was an hour and five minute rain delay. the team was tied with the 1988 orioles. worst regular season record, so late in mont of july. be sure to log onto abc2news.com. in today's column, larry carney outlines why he thinks the orioles front office needs more intensity. trees down, power out, some of the problems we've been experiencing as wild weather passes through our area. we'll look at how these storms are affecting our neighborhood as cleanup starts this morning. how have storms affected the cleanup process? tropical storm bonnie causes major delay for the cleanup crew. lets find out about our weather. >> 101 saturday, 100 yesterday. seven days above 100 degrees. it's not going to happen today though. looking at a current sky around the area. 72 degrees with light winds. much more tolerable afternoon. let's go to the mta with mark jones. >> the commute start looks good so far. no delays on camden, penn or brunswick services. number 51 with a diversion at pulaski and pratt. diversion at hilltop and commons and the 315, 27, 35 and 44 buses are running 15 to 20 minutes late. light rail metro subway on time. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. just barely made it to the 100 degree mark for the seventh time this summer. made 100 in ocean city. patuxent river making it to 104. storms came in earlier =, only 102. sign of cooler air working in. at least we've got ourselves clearing skies. you'll notice a drop in the humidity and much more comfortable day. we'll get back to near 90. less humid during a mostly sunny sky. 5:10, let's see what's happening on the roads with kim. >> debris in the roadway has another road closed in anne arundel county. this one in crownsville. richie highway, salem community lanes closed at moore road, college parkway, richie highway northbound closed at arnold road because of debris in the roadway as well. no issues on the 83s. looking good on the harrisburg expressway. no problems on the top side of the outer loop. four minutes southbound from the beltway down to northern parkway. as we check our cameras this morning, cameras pretty cool on the beltway on the west side at route 40. caton avenue, enter and exit baltimore city, megan and jamie, back to you. imagine this, a horrific crash, people are dead, families are grieving. >> and then you're told one of those is your loved one, only to find out later it's not even true. a loaded gun at a gun show goes off, hits a teenager, who's to blame in this freak accident? dad put me in time-out for a very minor dinner table infraction and oh look he's helping himself to my unguarded kraft macaroni and cheese. clever dad, send me up the river on trumped up charges and scarf down my mac and cheese. classy. ♪ have you had enough? ♪ [ male announcer ] gooey creamy delicious kraft macaroni and cheese. ♪ you know you love it. a family in arizona spent a week mourning the death of one of their loved ones they thought died in a car crash, only to find out the girl is still alive in a hospital. abby gera's family grieved while another family got bad news. the family members were confused. officials are looking into what caused all the identification mix-up in first place. in fayettesville north carolina firefighters found a body of barbara towry. she appearsppeared to have been beaten to death. a teenager attending a gun show was injured when a gun went off. it is rare for a loaded gun to be loaded at a gun show. the teen is expected to survive the shooting. we weren't the only ones experiencing severe weather. a massive storm ripped through chester county pennsylvania. high winds brought down trees onto cars and homes. the area was hit with torrential rain and hail. storms came through yesterday for most of us, between about 3:00 and 4:00. just highlighting right now, this yellow dot, one mile east of annapolis, wind gusts just before the 4:00 hour. look at all the wind damage reports for the most part. biggest threat out of this particular storm complex was basically heavy winds. there was hail to be found at green dot, right there, mannheim pennsylvania, one inch hail. just outside the mant ryland line, we're looking at this particular one right here, just outside of cecil county. also at one point, 7.5 inch hail. temperatures hit 100 degrees again. we broke a record saturday and sunday, not going to happen today. 87's where we belong. we finally begin to pull back on the almanac. temperatures slow down and cool down for the tail half of the summer. 101 set in 1940, that will not be achieved. 72 right now in baltimore. we have the warm stuff still hanging tight. you'll notice the drop in humidity. you'll notice the clearing sky. if coming from the northern tier, temperatures back in the 60s really par for the course as we head through the end of july here. there's the complex of clouds and storms passing well to our south. we open up a northerly flow, that should give us a much more pleasant day. temperatures aiming above normal at 90. we've broken 40 days this summer. with it less humid we become accustomed to this heat. should be a much more comfortable afternoon. for tonight, back to 66 degrees. as we check out our extended forecast, sorry that's an old graphic, we're expecting temperatures to make it back up. that's an old graphic as well. we have to shake the computer here. we'll be back in a couple minutes. here's kim with traffic. speaking of cecil county, elkton, high water has route 7 closed in both directions at crestwell avenue. lots of debris-related closures in anne arundel county. closed at st. stevens church road. southbound lanes will be closed in two places at moore road and college parkway. northbound richie will be closed at around road. checking the beltway, traffic moving very well around 695, 95 corridor checking in without incidence. drive time this morning, no problems, northbound 95. route 100, howard county. 29 looking good through i-70 to route 32. that'll take you about ten minutes. on the beltway, checking in pretty good. i-70 as you approach 95. >> thanks, kim. july 26th, somebody out there celebrating a birthday, happy birthday if it's you. we'd love to say happy birthday on the air. e-mail us [email protected]. give us all the details so we can say happy birthday on our show. a lot of candidates have to go back out and hammer their signs out. they're all over the place. >> i'm sure the weather did a doozy on them. where candidates gathered for a chance to let more voters hear their voices. all right, 5:21. we are looking at temperatures pulling back just a little bit. still at 90 degrees for the next couple of days. we'll start to see a slight improvement here. this is already an improvement from the 100s we had over the weekend. 90 today, drop in the humidity. lots of sunshine. we'll make it to 90 again tomorrow. few added clouds in the afternoon. crank up the humidity just a notch or two, and that'll help to build showers and thunderstorms wednesday and thursday. after that, we could call it nice. just a reality check though, we're back into the mid- to upper 80s, definitely a pull back for friday into next weekend. 5:22. let's see what's happening in new york with this morning's tech bytes. >> reporter: in today's tech bytes, surprising finding about iphone owners. at&t usually gets the blame when there's something wrong with the iphone, but in a new survey, 73% of iphone users gave a positive response when asked how they feel about at&t's service. only 69% of users are happy with their service provider. you can add tone check to the list of grammar checks. scandals e-mail messages for sentences and phrases that might carry too much emotion. the program works by comparing your words and phrases to a massive database and flagging any sentences that might convey the wrong tone. a test version is available for free right now. in a couple months, sony will release its motion control system for the playstation. it's similar to the wii and comes a month and a half before microsoft releases the hands free connect for the xbox. >> someone who's had a wii for a long time, i noticed the sony remote control is much more sensitive, much more accurate. it's exciting to see sony pushing the boundaries a little bit. they didn't just copy the wii remote. they had to do peripherals and new features to it. finally, queen elizabeth, the second, is expanding her online presence. the british monarchy has started an account on the sharing site flickr. this isn't the monarchy's first attempt to social monarchy. for information on all of these stories, log onto the technology page at abcnews.com. those are your tech bytes, i'm vinita nair. feeling so lucky, i'm trying not to look at the dent in the car that far from where i was sitting >> a lot of glass from things we had in the cabinets. a tornado came by iowa, we'll show you the damage. it is the 100th anniversary of the boy scouts, the mayor will meet with scouts in japan today at city hall. those are some of the stories that are happening. >> i saw the tree start to fall and i slammed on the brakes and apparently it fell and hit my car, but missed me by about three inches. a driver in washington was fortunate during the storm yesterday's straight line winds. knocking out power tomorrow more than 90,000 customers across the beltway. good morning, maryland, i'm jamie costello. >> i'm megan pringle. incredible stories and video. we all saw something last night, whether it was lightning, rain or thunder. >> yesterday's storms left thousands without power. >> nearly 40,000 people are without power. many in anne arundel, baltimore county and baltimore city. if you need to report an outage, here's the number to call: before we get to the other stories of the day, let's get right to meteorologist justin berk. justin. >> we look at pictures from yesterday, trees came crashing down, gunpowder state park. this was the storm that blew through between 3:30 and 4:00. powerful winds causing trees to snap in half, like tooth picks. it's amazing when you get 60 to 70-mile-per-hour winds in the right direction. what it can do to older, large more mature trees. all it takes is to be underneath one tree that snaps the wrong direction to have that turn fatal. we had one fatality in beltsville yesterday. we check uh, look alternate some of the temperatures this morning, ills notice, we're back down into the 60s, at least north of the city. chester town, you're matching perry hall and hickory. hanover and hickory, sunrise just a little over a half hour away. full sun once again to 90. it'll be a little