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county police department. old hill top opens up for the spring heat and tomorrow they start by honoring a legend. good morning, maryland, i m jamie costello. i m megan pringle. on 695, we have a car and truck involved in an accident. as we look at the map, you ll see the sear that we re talking about. the details on the situation is a serious accident i told about you earlier. pennington avenue and east ordinance road. a car and tanker truck at the draw bridge of that area. a possible entrapment. police and hazmat are on the scene. this is a serious situation. linda so is on the way here. we ll keep you updated. justin has the latest with weatherp what s going on? reporter: it s an yoon eventful morning so temperatures in the mid-50s to near 60. an usually mild start to a day that will be warm and feature the possibility of a southerly. winds relatively light. looks like sprinkles are trying to do the the ground. i do expect a partly cloudy sky this morning and temperatures surge to 81 with a strong breeze this afternoon. the winds get gusty during the late afternoon hours as the cold front approaches. the chances of rain will hold off this evening. it is 5:32. back to you. tu are looking to shop, baltimore is the place to be. today begins baltimore retail week, an unofficial week of tax-free shopping. that means you get to shop tax free all weekend long and next week as well. about 60 downtown retailers are offering discounts of at least 6% or more. head to our web site, click on the slide show for more information. checks should be coming soon for people out of work for a long time and saw the benefits temporarily expire. last night, the president signed into law the benefits that will run through join. new details about the university of maryland student by prince george s county police. two more officers have been suspended after coming forward with their attorneys. so far, a total of four have been suspended. this morning, people all around the land are mourning the loss of dr. benjamin hooks. dr. hooks pass add way yesterday. he was the leader of the mv.p, angd the first black commission wert sec. he is credited from taking that from dr. martin luther king s dream to realityp. i remember one of his quotes was questioning whether or not civil rights was still necessary. he said if you don t think civil rights is necessary, they need to think again. we re going toage trait. don t think we re going to litigate by the close of court, so we re coming to the court. so it was a new phase of the civil rights which meant we were to go to court other actually pass laws. he was one of the leaders this that area. dr. benjamin hooks died and was 85 years old. jack young says mr. hooks cared deeply for equality for minorities and the poor. our make is better off because he was in our lives. justify four score police brutality piton. we ll show you wapped. a huge sinkhole swallows a car. here s justin berk. mid-50s this morning. we ve got 60s on the map. a mild start here across the mid-atlantic and back into pt ohio valley. we expect a summer type day. you can follow the wake-up window at the bottom of the screen. we ll have full details and the latest on the accident with troy coming up. right now, let s go to the mta and academic with mark jones. reporter: hi there. look at 10 and 30s. taking a diversion out to with the heavy volume of passengers on the 13 and 23 bus lines. light rail metro subway look goods. out there on the marc system, brunswick train running ten to 20 minutes late. i m mark jones. [music] whitney houston is singing the blues. she got booed by british fans. apparently, she failed to reach some high notes. the london media is blasting her for it. the press ran headlines which included houston, we have a problem. the singer blames the problem on a cold. oh, whitney. it s hard. i feel bad for her. i do, too. let s look at the weather here with meteorologist justin berk. it s 5:39. it was gorgeous yesterday and looks like another beautiful day today. it will get a little bit more windy as the day wears on. temperature s already starting at 62 in annapolis. the rains this morning from 56 to the 60s. we ve got a mild start to the day. that benchmark with some sun will kick us up to 76 by lunchtime. in fact, there may be some clouds this morning to fight off but they give way to more sun before the next round of clouds builds in this afternoonp before that happens, we ll shoot up to 81 and flip back to the 70s but the better rides are this morning. we have a serious situation, breaking news a few moments ago. in the curtis bay area, as you look at the maps, you can see where that is. reports that a tractor-trailer is hanging off the draw bridge after an accident involving a vehicle. that area is closed off, police are on the scene. make sure you avoid that make you mu you keep here with us. that is in curtis bay and a contract hanging off a draw wridch after an accident involving a vehicle. that area is closed off so please avoid that area. let s go to the latest with sherrie johnson. reporter: that s right. radio talk show host tom joyner will be live in baltimore encouraging people to be counted coming up. [ sniffs ] morning. you got in pretty late last night. dad, i m not sixteen anymore. still, it was late. well. you re not gonna have to worry about that anymore. yeah, why s that? todd s a lucky man. the best part of wakin up. that s what i told him when we talked last week. .is folgers in your cup all right. it s 5:44. we ll have tom joy in town today and he s counting on you to count yourself. sherrie johnson is live at maryland general with more. good morning, sherrie. reporter: good morning. it is time to stand up and be counted. that is the message tom joy will be sending out this morning. he will be here and this is all a part of his census tour. right now, this morning, we have roxanne lucas with the u.s. census bureau. we also have marvin cheatham with the naacp. first of all, let s start with roxanne. talk a little bit how baltimore and maryland are doing with the u.s. census bureau. how are we doing? according to the data, we re very, very fair. maryland is at 71%, which is the heyer right of 2,000. we re excited about the neighborhood. reporter: today s deadline, you need the forms inp what happens? after today, we ask you to just prepare yourself for the people visit separation. we are expecting some mailback forms that creates a duplicate after this weekend. those phones that came in after the 21st will include in the people visit section of our operation. all right. reporter: all right, you guys are out here collecting the forms. we can t collect the forms. they must go to the post office. we re here to support all of our elected officials and community members here to support us with the tom joyner show. reporter: why is it important for folks in this area to get those forms in? because the money that s used comes directly to our communities. we look at our schools, roads, and even with our hospitals. the money that calculated from each person calculated a should dollars a year. 10,000 for eel person that fills out the census. it works the other way. we lose 10,000 for every person that does not fill out the census. today, the naacp is saying yes, we can. we want to see baltimore is here. here at maryland general today with the census on tom joyner s morning show. they ve got more giveaways. i was trying to put stuff in my pocket. it s so important that baltimore do significantly better than we ve done in the past. thanks to the leadership, the roxanne lucas center, this is an improvement from what we ve done in the past. community, we need you coming down today to do the right thing. reporter: thank you so much for joining us this morning, both of you. this kicks off at 6:00 a.m. this morning. the show runs until 10:00 a.m. and the fly jock will be out here in just a few minutes. we ll be standing out here all morning long talking with other folks as well. sherrie johnson, abc 2 news. get ready for the census day on the mtatonp runs this morning. it s a kickoff. promoting the importance of completing the census forms and sharing information about temporary census jobs. and returning to pimlico this morning. the headline was the six-week stand of the 120th running of the preakness stakes. you have zach brown and oar weapon be out there to prex. today they honor the life of the lechery chick language. more breaking news. in the curtis bay area in baltimore, as you look at the map, it s pennington avenue. the draw bridge at east cord nance road is just north of 695. some more details. we have a report that a tractor- trailer is hanging off the descraw bridge after an accident involving a vehicle earlier this morning. the hazmat is responding along with the coast guard. if you are in that area, make sure you follow police detours or better yet just avoid the area. abc 2 news linda so is on her way to get us the latest. so keep it here as we update with you the details. again, that s pennington avenue draw bridge at east ordinance road. police and fire crews are responding to the truck is justin. at 5:49, we ve got ourselves 50 tee agrees and weather is not adding to any woes this morning. while we re at 56, it s 63 in pittsburgh. warm air pushing back in with clouds and sprinkles and showers up to the north and east, especially pa. we get the worm winds. frontal boundary starts to sneak back in. if you were watching yesterday, we had a time line of 4:00 with showers. i think the main line of storms back here through western pa will be the one to watch. with that in mind, with lowts will fill back in. we ll get strong winds to pudge our tells up. it looks like stocker storms back toward pittsburgh and the energy staying to our north. we ll get the frontal boundary from 11:30 to 12:00. then we usher in colder winds and probably hang on to the clouds throughout most of the. that will make it feel chelyer. we ll hold those showers off until the evening. strong winds pushing over 20 miles per hour this afternoon. showers, maybe a rumble of thunder overnight. we ll settle it back down to 53 degrees. the cooldown continues through the weekend as tomorrow we ll be dealing with leftover showers most of the day. only near 60, sunny to partly qloidy on sunday. back to near normal on monday. we ll be right back after this. let s look at some of the top stories we re following for you this morning. a volcano in iceland has grounded flights in and out of europe. that s because of the risk the ash could pose to the plane. ireland is reportedly lifting restrictions on most of its airspace. and a disaster of another kind to show you. in california a large sinkhole in the bay here. right here. a police officer in facing charges after beating a driver and the whole thing was captured on dash cam video. officer can be seen getting out of his car. look as he uses the time to beat the driver causing a concussion and cuts that required stitches. the passenger was also tasered. the officer stopped the car for the tires. he claps the two men resisted arrest. a look at the other top stories we are following today. we have a new traffic signal to improve safety in howard county. plus, that will be going on, what, and the waverly firehouse all coming up today. the russian adoptions to the u.s. families have been suspended. now a maryland family is waiting to adopt a russian 15- year-old. as if you gave life to these kids. we don t give up. that s not what they lead. wye take to you harver decrease havre de grace, this house is about to slide off the cliff in california. [music] finding his voice. how the child of two military parents who both served in iraq is fightingite personal forecast. once again we ll pudge 81 today with a strong breeze and late-day and evening showers developing. we ll slide it back to 62 tomorrow hanging on to the clouds. 5:56. it s been a busy morning so far. quick peek on the roads now with troy. reporter: we re dealing with a serious accident at the pennington avenue draw bridge at east ordinance road. we have oorts that police are on the scene and avoid the area. we ll have more here on abc 2. 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