 And there's an excessive heat warning for the Baltimore area until 8 o'clock tonight. Tony's updated forecasts in about four minutes. Now an update on a story we've been following all day here on WBAL. State police and the NTSB tonight investigating after a small research plane crashed today into the Trader Avon River in Easton, killing the pilot, the only person aboard. The crash occurred around 9.30 this morning. The plane was heading from Tipton Airport to the Easton Airport. Divers later recovered the body of the pilot.