thanks for joining us. i'm megan pringle. >> i'm jamie costello. kerry cummings sent this e- mail. today at 12:30, fallston high school will have 1600 students. this is homecoming. they will have this flash mob to the black-eyed peas "i got a feeling." you've seen it on the youtube. >> that's great. >> tonight at 6:45 right before the game, they will do it again with the community, all business leader as ntd community members. we've got to cover this. this is great stuff. congratulations on your homecoming. >> we love fallston high school. we'll load it up there live. that will pump in temperatures. fallston, bel air, you are dry. if you pull this back wider, you will notice showers in cockeysville. it looks like hunt valley and north of timonium. most of this stuff is passing through baltimore county in the form of sprinkles. this little band of rain, the leading edge of warmer temperatures. it is a widespread this morning. we start shifting the winds to push us to 67 by lunchtime and 72 this afternoon. mostly cloudy. maybe a shower again. not a washout. 72 our two degree guarantee. let's see what's happening with the roads with kim brown. >> reporter: thank you, justin. no problems at either tunnel this morning. if you are headed to dc or the metro area, we look at south pound 95 through howard county, traffic is moving at a good pace. no problems on the bw parkway. route 29 is checking in nice as well. in cockeysville, we have a lane closure to let you know about. keep that in mind for emergency road work they had to do overnight. still dealing with a crash in the city at druid hill avenue and lawrence street. the earlier crash at 95, that crash has been cleared away. jamie and megan, back to you. a man is locked up in connection with the disappearance and murder of this wool woman -- this woman, mia nichols. linda so has more with how police are tracking down leads. >> reporter: good morning. police suspected the boyfriend all along. the couple apparently had a rocky relationship. autopsy results show nichols was shot to death. the young mother of three vanished last october. wheel police suspected foul play, they were unable to make an arrest. hunters this weekend found the body off dogwod road in a wooded area. nichols boyfriend told police she didn't come home from work last october and his last contact with her was a text message. witnesses including her 8-year- old told police they often saw webb beat nichols. >> they had according to the city investigation a very difficult relationship. he was abusive. he was violent. was jealous. >> reporter: this morning, webb is being held without bond charged with first degree murder. linda so, abc 2 news. elizabeth smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her home in 2002. nine months later, she was rescued. that was seven years ago. now elizabeth smart is talking about her horrifying ordeal. the 21-year-old testified in salt lake city as part of a competency hearing for brian mitchell. smart says mitchell raped her three to four times a day during her nine months in captivity. she says she was told she would be killed if she yelled or tried to escape. >> i had no idea she had gone through so much out there. >> he he was twice found incompetent to stand trial. there will be more testimony in november before the judge determines whether he is competent to stand trial. don't know if students will like this but president obama and secretary duncan are talking about the idea of longer school days. the goal is to make american students more competitive with their counterparts in other countries who spend more time in the classroom. >> guess what? they under school nine hours in the day, over the weekends and in the summer. this is not a new idea. >> maryland school superintendent dr. nancy grasnik says she supports the idea. >> the acceleration of knowledge really requires us to have more time. if we compare ourselves to the competition of a student because we're in the depth of distance. in the asian countries it's 240 days of schooling. we have 180. >> but she does point out there are cost concerns in terms of teacher salaries and classroom space. 6:34. steamboat willie, jimmy cricket. >> he brought us some of the most memorable songs in history. we have a new shoe thrower to introduce you to. at 6:35, we've got milder temperatures trying to push in here. most of us sliding into the upper 40s and mid-50s. we'll talk about a warmer weekend coming up. we'll see what's happening on the roads with kim brown. >> reporter: route 32 as you make wawry towards the capital beltway. now let's get a quick check of the buses and trains with mark jones. >> reporter: good morning. you'll find the camden and pen lines operating on time. on the brunswick line, it's 20 minutes late. the number 17 bus is taking a diversion at corporate and international due to construction. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. i thought it was crazy feeding in the fall. i always 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you want it. at the price you need. today... and tomorrow. that's our promise. that's ingredients for life. safeway. a woman missing for nearly a year is found, and her boyfriend is now under arrest for her murder. we learn of who posted a survey about the president on facebook. it's a kid, but the question is, is he going to face charges for threatening the president? hey, we have a new shoe thrower to show you. did he go long and away, low and inside or right through the middle? we'll tell you. we want to you know that qean ann's county public schools, the church hill elementary school will be closed because of a water main break. staff needs to report as usual. if you go to school there, you have the day off. it's 6:45 and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. a brief shower passes through carroll county and the past hour. you have it at manchester and hamp stead over towards this area with a few sprinkles eventually getting towards york in pa. northwestern pa they he have more substantial rain wrapping around a large storm system in the northern plains. we get the warm winds pumping in. the leading edge has been the clouds and shower weese have right now. the chunk of the rain, the bulk of it will stay on the other side of the mountains. we'll get a piece of that trying to slide through by tonight and tomorrow morning. until then we have a mostly cloudy to partly sunny day. temperatures pushing into the middle to upper 70s in baltimore. the 77 will be tomorrow's tomorrow cheer. 68 in westminster, 69 in parkton. we'll be in the lower 70s across the bay. at 6:45, let's see what's happening on the roads with kim. >> thank you, justin. so far so good on the beltway. we have building volumes causing a little bit of slowing in spots. here at liberty road, we do have a slowdown as you approach the route 70 interchange. the east side is running slow between harford road and providence road this morning. only two incidents to let you know about so far. one will be at yale avenue and beach field as a crash there. another crash remains on the scene at druid hill avenue and lawrence street. if you are looking for a business you know you can crust, let your better business bureau do the work for you. you can always get more details by logging on to abc2news.com/bbb. jamie and meg be, back to you. -- megan, back to you. it has been a year of wondering for a family. >> mia nichols has been missing since last october and now police have found her. >> reporter: when mia nichols disappeared last year, the family knew something bad happened. police suspected her boyfriend all along. the two had a rocky relationship. the young mother of three vanished last october. police suspected foul play but were unable to make an arrest. this past weekend, hunters discovered her body in a wooded area off woodlawn. nichols boyfriend tyrone lamont webb told police his last contact with her was a text message and that she didn't come home from work. but witnesses including her 8- year-old son, told police webb lfn beat his mother. >> when the remains were checked it was discovered the victim died of gunshot wounds. dental tests showed it was indeed nichols. >> reporter: this morning, webb is being held without bond and he he's facing three murder charges. linda so, abc 2 news. now to video you will see here on abc 2 news. police are investigating the car crash on patapsco avenue. a pickup truck crashed into a pole in the 700 block of of patapsco avenue. the driver of that truck have died. police are now looking for the man who broke into a west baltimore home and raped a woman while her children were inside. police say she was beaten and raped last wednesday about 2:00 in the morning. her children were inside the home at the time of the attack. the attack happened in the 1600 block of franklin street in west baltimore's harlem park neighborhood. women are being cautious this morning. >> it makes me mad because it could have been me. i'm 20. i'm an adult. it could have been me. a lot of love goes out for her family. >> police do have a few leads in this. they say that the victim was able to help them identify or at least put together a composite of the man who attacked her. if you look at that picture, he has hair with short braids. investigators hope someone will recognize this composite picture and help thom out finding whoever did this. if you think you recognize that picture with any information, we want to hear from you. 410-396-2076. 6:49 right now. baltimore county police need your help trying to find a murderer. rodney lewis was found stabbed to death inside his randallstown home late wednesday. if you know anything about this crime, call metro crimestoppers. call the number on your screen or send an anonymous message to crimes. a facebook question asking whether president obama should be assess natured -- assassinated was filed by a juvenile. the poll asked people should obama be killed. the choices with are no, maybe, yes, and yes, if he cuts my health care. secret service agents met with the child and the child's parents and determined there was no intent to harm the president. a firefighter in syracuse is expected to be okay after being arrested in a fire. the fireman was in the attic when his air pack ran out. he magged to stick his head out of the window and call for help. other firemen were able to pull him from the window to safety. the fire started in an empty home. no one else was hurt. he he couldn't hear the smoke detectors or call 911, but his family is alive this morning thanks to him being a hero. kent clark is deaf and mute, but the smell of smoke and fire in his apartment woke him up, and he went right into action. >> he's saying that he woke up and the whole place was in flames and he just busted out windows to drag his mom and his baby out. >> his fiancee got out first. then he handed the 4-month-old through the window. his mother was unconscious and he managed to drag herrous of the house too. his fiancee and the baby are doing okay. fire officials determine that the cause of the fire was careless disposal of smoking materials. it is the ultimate insult in islamic culture. a student journalist hurled a show at the international monetary fund director and ran right towards the stage shouting "i am, get out! "the man who through the shoe was remove fld the meeting. he was answering questions about turkish economics. students and journalists were there. it is a fight to the end for the cities vying for the 2016 summer olympic games made their final pitch today. president obama was in copenhagen pushing for chicago saying they were ready and eager to be host. first lady michelle obama told officials that she saw sports bring her hometown together as a child and hoped that the games would bring the world together. chicago is competing against rio de janeiro, madrid and tokyo. the winning city will be announced between 11:30 and 1:00 today. a chicago skyline is drenched in olympic spirit, buildings in the city lit up showing 2016. and the number stands for how many days are left until a decision is made. the skyline lit up the city on thursday. in baltimore county, all of the talks centered around the upcoming winter olympics. the one team in particular with the way the economy's going, it's tough sledding -- oh, tough sledding. get this. in reisterstown, a lot of american pride producing hopefully financial support for the u.s. bobsled and skeleton team. ted offutt hosted the party. he's also on the board of elections. the team has a good story, basically going from worst to first. >> we're winners. many years ago the u.s. was one of the worst team hes in the bobsled and skeleton and fortunately, through a lot of research and development and great athletic training, we're now medal favorites, champions of the world. >> members of the bob shed team were on hand as well. we're told the tolds will be favored in five categories. every little bit helps. dundalk businesses hit by that massive water main break had been given an extension on the tax credits. the due date is november 15th. dundalk businesses won't have to pay interest or late fees. the comptroller wants to make sure the business owners are not penalized by something that is totally out of their control. how about a free night at the sheraton hotel near you? it's now giving you the chance to win a night on the house to show off their newest renovations. all you have to do is register on the web site starting october 6. keep in mind, the free night can only be used friday october 3rd across the nation. so to register for the details to win go to abc2news.com. there is a link on the sheraton web site. listen, skateboarding takes a lot of balance and skill. >> it does. so look at this. bentley the bulldog makes it look so easy. look at him go. there he is. he just needed a push. he loves to ride the skateboard. the dog was never trained. his owner says he went outside one day to find him on the skateboard. the trick is helping out the owner's car service business. he's developed many regular customers because they keep coming back -- there he goes! >> that's a good trick. >> he needs a helmet or knee pads, something. look at him go. it looked like he was going to eat that for breakfast at one point or lunch. this morning, we've got ourselves showers pushing their way through the northern fringe from carole northern baltimore county and york, pa travel rg 83 getting wet. we'll call it a range of mostly cloudy to partly sunny. near 60 tonight and tomorrow. the front comes through in the morning. this is good news because it cuts down the chance of a thunder shower and improves the afternoon. the chance of morning rain after lunchtime. we should see the wind pick up and gradual clearing. the cool air spills in sunday with 70s in the 40s. another round of showers by tuesday and wednesday of next week. 6:55. back to the roads. here's kim. as you see we have a slowdown on the outer loop at liberty road. i'm just getting word of a crash on the inner loop at route 70. that does have the left lane blocked and causing a little bit of backup there. southbound 95 at 'emmerton road involving multiple vehicles causing delays and the crashes do linger on in the city this morning. we see the dog over here still on the skateboard and she's in tears. >> look it's riding a bike right now. we have a lot coming up at 9:00. women, no, ladies, if you ever wanted to understand football better, you'll be able to do that. if you are a big ravens fan, you can learn about the team coming up at 9:00. >> purple friday. we hope you'll join us at 9:00. thanks for choosing "good morning, maryland." for more news, watch "good morning, maryland" at 9:00 or go now to abc2news.com. abc 2 works for you. announcer: trying to be good to your heart? so is campbell's healthy request soup. low in fat and c