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a california auction. a ferrari made history last year by selling for more than $16 million. last friday vintage car history was made when a 1968 ford gt40 sold for 11 million bucks. making it the most expensive american car sold at auction. >> i believe that 36 mercedes was actually in a garage for a number of years and the owner didn't realize what he had in front of him. >> he knows now. he is probably rolling in the dough. >> yeah. >> literally. >> a fight to throw chick-fil-a out of university of maryland. >> abc2 news at 5 starts right now. >> you're watching the station that works for you, now, good morning maryland." it's supposed to be a fun party but turned out to be a crime and crashing -- flash being lights following a deadly shooting. >> parts of the u.s. are a tenderbox. three factors work against firefighters. >> back to school shopping. items -- items that the biggest sellers for tens of thousands of students heading back to class. those stories trait a-- straight ahead on this monday august 20th good morning i am charley crowson. i am megan pringle. hope you had a wonderful weekend and the opportunity to get outside and enjoy some cooler temperatures finally. >> got to see if those will hang around. lynette we are going back to work, but maybech. >>i believe the rain is holding off but don't expect too much sunshine out there charley. we are going to be seeing clouds and from the clouds we could be seeing more rainfalling this afternoon. but maryland's most powerful radar is pretty much dry. looks like another shower trying to move into carroll county as of now. and that's the scenario as we go throughout the day. we look at temperatures right now in glen burnie at 67 degrees. only at 65 in owings mills right around 66 degrees. the winds on the calm side but they will pick up more goog into the afternoon. the hour by hour forecast for rush hour. 67 degrees, 70 as we head into10 and 75 with sun by lunchtime. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. if you are using 95 row why -- you are in luck because it will be nice and clear from white marsh to eastern avenue and through the fort mchenry tunnel. notice 83 is going to be delay free. 11 minutes traveling southbound from the beltway all the way downtown to east fayette street. 695 going to be in great shape. no delays on that outer loop from 95 up to 83. that stretch will take you 11 minutes and all is clear on the west side look at an 11 minute ride. traveling the outer loop from 795 down towards 95. megan and charley over to you. and new this morning we placed a call to kiss -- dispatch beers a triple shooting last night in wealth -- dispatchers about a triple shooting last night in west baltimore that included a child. investigators say all three victims are expected to be okay. and police are not sure what led to the shooting. coming out of baltimore county a man is killed in a shooting outside a hotel from catonsville. >> linda so is live and what do we know about the victim. >> reporter: he is 18 years olesel old and his name is kevin glasgow and raves mile from the shooting happened sunday morning. he was staying at ramada limited says a group of 50 people were having a party in room. it spilled into a big fight in the parking lot when be somebody pulled out a gun. when police arrived, they found glass goe dead at scene. they say they only rent to people 21 or older. some of the guests said they had no idea what happened. >> i wouldn't expect it to be right here where i am staying at. >> reporter: and police do not have a suspect at this point: if you know where the gunman s. call police. linda so, abc2 news. three minutes after 5. a baltimore family is hoping to find their 12-year-old son. his name is rashad foster. you can see the picture of him. his apparent say he is autistic. we recognize it's not a -- his parents say he is autistic. this is not a great photo but this is all police have. he is about 5-7 and weighs about 120 pounds. police tell us that he was last seen wearing a white shirt green shorts and black sneakers. if you have information, call 911 immediately. new video of a small plane crash along long island. two people died in that -- as that aircraft plummeted into a neighborhood. people ran out of their home with fire excontinuing wishes. some even resorted to using garden hoses. no one was on the ground -- no one on the ground was hurt. it's unclear how many people on board the plane. the ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash. an interview making headlines and has a congressman apologizing. todd akins of missouri is a staunch opponent of abortion e was asked what he thought about abortion if a woman was raped and here what he had to say. >> it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down but let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something, you know i think there should be some punishment but the punishment ought to be in the rapist and not attacking the child. . >> akin said he misspoke but hasn't stopped many from weighing in on what he had to say. all of you chiming in on facebook about this on our fan page. we have 70 comments so far. if you have something to add, become a fan of abc2 on facebook and let noise what you think. 4 minutes after 5. while you were sleeping, planes crisscrossed all over dallas once again and this was to spray for mosquitoes carrying west nile virus. 220,000 acres were scheduled to be sprayed overnight and several sit -- in several cities in texasch the treatment plan started on thursday and could be extended until tomorrow if recommended by the cdc. 14 deaths have been associated with west nile virus in the state of texas. meantime, a different battle is going on this one out west where hundreds of thousands of acres are still burning across the west. firefighters there doing all they can to contain dozens of fires despite the high temperatures and the low humidity and, of course, the strong winds. in northern california, more than 3,000 homes and businesses have been threatened. >> it was like i was in a black box and i drove through it and i couldn't breath and then, it was a fire every where like every turn around every where it was on all sides of you. >> all right. so in idaho right now a. fire threatening a small town there forcing hundreds to flee. more than a thousand firefighters working to protect about 350 homes in that area. and, of course, weather a big factor with that story because it's the temperatures and it's the dry conditions and the high winds. >> also going back to the dallas story about the west nile spraying. they had rain for several days and they had to postpone those spraying for those pesticides so they got dry conditions to get that taken care of. >> exactly. and you know, we have been dealing with rain this morning. and then we have a little bit of break out there. we will have more rain in the forecast. i will show you that in a second. look how warm it is at the inner harbor. 73 degrees and more of the same in annapolis rights now. dc close to 70 and low 60s across the north and west this morning. and as we go throughout the day we will have the clouds hovering and showers so that's going to keep the temperatures down. but this is what we are working with this morning. and we are drying out the bulk of the action in the rain out into atlantic as of now. but we can see the scattered showers and storms down to the south of us. some of those could get in as we go throughout the day. so off and on showers take the rain gear just in case. let's check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. water -- the water main break on light street has been fixed. there speeds clocking in at 62 miles per hour along the northbound lanes at child street. if you are using the jfx to get into the city, no problems to report from towson downtown to east fayette street. you are look at an 11 minute ride on the outer loop from 795 all the way down towards 95. megan and charley, over to you. summer break is almost over and in a couple days your kids will be heading back to class. hard to believe. >> this morning we will catch up with parents and teachers making sure their students get the right tools to head back to school. lysol knows the soft places we love could be home to bacteria. so use lysol disinfectant spray on soft surfaces everyday when you're cleaning up to kill 99.9% of bacteria. lysol. mission for health. 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. 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budget and they picked up everything from pens to pencils and notebooks and lunchbox and clean exand everything you can think of they pecked it up and put it in the basket. store managers say sales are pretty good these days. backpacks are the hot ticket items flying off the shelves. wal-mart stores contacted area schools to help with back to school shopping by providing studentswith list of supplies students need. the parents found the list helpful as they tried to figure out what to shop for. >> notebooks and folders and pencils and lots of pencils stuff like that. >> crayons and tissue box and lunchbox and that kind of stuff. >> reporter: it's up as far as buying back to school supplies the sales are up. and in the baltimore area schools start on monday august 27th. reporting live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. on the subject of school supplies we are collecting donation for our back to school drive. we are work with the preston mitchum junior foundation and celebree learning foundation. if you want to donate, just get involved. and we are taking donations up until friday the 24th. here's some of the things they need. backpacks, composition books pens and pencils and packed of wide ruled parent supplies can be dropped off at any of the 20 celebree learning centers. log on to the website for more details. lawyersen standing by and a big announcement for those going downtown. >> reporter: the big water main breakdown town that shut down a portion light street has been fixed. it was reopened last night. everything back to normal. light street repaved and no problems to report whatsoever in the area. and if you using 95 in white marsh you are look at a 15 nt minute ride traveling southbound from route 43 and all the way into the city. this is what 695 looks like in parkville at harford road. no problems on the inner loop towards 95 and that outer loop nice and clear all the way up towards towson. here's what the harrisburg expressway looks like -- harrisburg expressway looks like. no problems here. nice and clear and it lee maine that way once you get on the jfx. that's the abc2 timesaver traffic and here's lynette charles with a look at the forecast good morning. >> reporter: good -- >> good morning. as you step out the door, we are dealing with mainly cloud cover as we go throughout the day. we will see more showers picking up in the forecast for us. and also we will get a few peeks of sunshine so don't think we will be socked in all day long. we have a front to the south and a front to the north. we are sandwiched in between the two and we have a upper level trough. with that that will keep us on the unsettled side for the next three days. we have areas of low pressure and disturbances riding along the front to the south and that's going to keep the chances in. so, we are going to be seeing wet conditions so what you need to do is grab the brain rain gear as you head out this morning. let's talk about the tropics because we are in the thick of things and look at this disturbance out here into the atlantic and this is one to keep our eye on. this will get more organized and i believe this could become a tropical depression as we head into tomorrow and this is work its way off towards the west. and we will see if this impacts the u.s. as we go through the next several days. but in the meantime, this is what future trend holds for us today. i put it in motion and you can see the showers around us. so that's why i will say we have another chance for showers to creep in going into afternoon. off and on throughout the day if you want to do outdoor activities do them earlier in the morning because more showers are possible in the afternoon and we will do it all over again as we head into tomorrow and wednesday. now this is the scenario as we go through the hour by hour forecast. and we are looking at 10 with clouds and sun by lunchtime and temperatures for today still showers possible by 3 but look at that 78. wow we should be at 85 for this time of the year and look at showers still continuing as we into tuesday and wednesday. that looks worse than what it is. off and on, but we can see we dry out nicely heading into the end of the week and weekend. charley. there's one agriculture industry benefiting from the drought. there's one. wine owners say because the weather is so hot and dry, the berries this year are going to be smaller he and more sugar concentrated. one winery in virginia looking forward to what the crops will bring this year. >> july was very dry. overall the grapes are happy and we are looking forward to what will hopefully be a good harvest this year. less quantity, higher quality. >> that's their's down side hot, dry conditions like potential long-term damage to young vines but wine makers say this year's crop should be very tasty for wine lovers. >> happy grapes is that what he said. >> happy grapes. all right. your kids are probably not happy about heading back to school. it's 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you can't get through the day without a coffee break or two or six researchers say the evidence is strong for coffee for preventing type 2 diabetes and parkinsons because of the antioxidants. increased coffee consumption isassociated with longer life. the greatest overall benefits appear to be in people drinking coffee at moderate levels moderate two to three cops day. the white house is preparing for a state dinner happening today. but this is not going to be the usual dignitary at this meal. instead, it's going to be all kids. first lady is hosting 54 kids today including one from maryland and the kids created quite the menu. in fact, they did the whole menu and, of course, it's healthy means and 10-year-old samuel high tower submitted a recipe called sizzling tofu with green onions and sugar snap peas. all the recipes will be put online after the dinner so you can try them with your kids and cook them yourself. does this sound good? >> you like the sugar snap peas. >> and i am a fan 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