[captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- live, local, latebreaking >>. this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon in hd. >> good afternoon. i am mindy basara. days after a late-night hit crime at fort armistead, police made two arrests this morning. the victim's wife is speaking exclusively to the 11 news about the incident. lowell melser is live at police headquarters. >> police tell us they have arrested two teenagers in connection with this heinous hate crime. their names, zackary dylon watson, 17 years old, and 16-

year-old emanuel miller. they face a laundry list of charges in the bidding of james private at fort armistead park -- james privott, at fort armistead park. she was with him at the time of the attack. she spoke for her husband, who did not want to go on camera, still very shaken up by the whole event. >> what has happened is an unfortunate thing. i think we are living in the prison world. we are not safe here. we cannot have clean fun. this is what happens. fortunately, he is still with me. i have someone to yell at. that is the happy part. >> the victim was behind that door. it is good to see that she is able to keep a sense of humor here.

already in custody is 28-year- old calvin lockner, who police say claims he is a white supremacist. he is facing a number of different charges, including attempted murder and assault. police say they are going to call a news conference in about half an hour. we will be there and have a very latest for you tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. >> the only person ever convicted of the bombing of pan am 103 over scotland which killed 270 people was freed from prison this morning. more on the release of the germany -- terminally ill man who will spend the rest of his days as a free man. >> the scottish justice minister says that he knows many of the deeply held views and many will disagree with him, but he has decided to release the murderer on compassionate grounds. a convoy with the man left the

scottish prison bound for glenco airport. he is heading back to libya to die. >> he faces a sentence imposed by a higher power. is one that no court in any jurisdiction, any land, could revoke or overrule. >> the white house issued a statement saying that it deeply regrets the decision to release the man. he is now bound for libya, where it is expected he will be held as a hero. >> we want to know what you think. do you agree with the decision to set the bomb are free because he is dying of cancer? grab your cellphone and text of the word yes or no to this number. standard text messaging rates apply. we will reveal the results of our poll on 11 news at 5:00. residents of apartment complex are looking for a new

place to call home after a two- alarm fire ripped through last night. crews found heavy smoke and fire from unit 24 and two adjacent apartment resident tom hannan says the whole thing is his fault. he says he knocked over a lit candle. before she knew it, his bedroom was up in flames. >> you see it all the time on the news. how to grow and cut out and -- grill and cook out. >> frankly, no injuries were reported. -- thawley, no injuries were reported. the red cross is working with the displaced families. >> no major surprises in today's weather. it is still warm and humid. high, thin clouds overhead. a few isolated showers west of

frederick. in line of storms from ohio down to kentucky and tennessee. that is ahead our front that will come into the area, but it may take a day or two. we will stay in this topical, moist air mass over couple of days. we will talk about this but the time we get to the weekend. >> big trouble for commuters on the j.f.x. this morning. the truck is built for closure of northbound lanes from fayette to a northern ave. for most of the morning rush. kim dacey is alive with a more. >> the j.f.x. is back open, as you can see behind me. traffic is moving smoothly and that is good news. it happened around 5:45 this morning. the department of transportation spokesperson says that the chart -- truck palmer road material on the roadway, and

crews had to scrape and sweep it off before the j.f.x. could reopen. the shutdown at traffic backed up not only around 83, but the alternate routes in the city. a department of transportation spokesperson says it was a busy morning. >> we had two major spills, one right at fayette and j.f.x., and another was larger spill at the orleans street viaduct. yet intermittent spills around the roadway as well. >> the road is that open, as it has been for several hours. reporting in downtown baltimore, kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> a made at a howard county hotel is being credited with protecting thousands of people from falling victim to identity theft. after the house to pinker at the best western motel in elkridge alerted -- house cleaning crew

at the best western motel in elkridge alerted about suspicious paperwork. >> driver's licenses, credit cards, unidentified documents from several states. >> personal information from hundreds of victims from virginia and florida were covered, as well as people from ellicott city and elkridge did two of the suspects remain behind bars. coming up, the premier college basketball team could lose a final player, because of player cheated on the s.a.t.. we will update you on the ted kennedy's condition. and doctor kim hammond from falls road animal hospital is here to answer your pet questions. e-mail them to petquestions@wbaltv.com.

>> in poor health, legendary lawmaker senator ted kennedy has asked his home state of massachusetts to overturn a law that would expedite the process of a finding a successor. he wrote a letter to the governor, state senate president, and house speaker tom asking them to change the law pretty was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last may. the university of memphis will have to take the better it

raised last season. it will be stripped of the 38 wins from that season. current nba star and former memphis blair was found to have a fraudulent s.a.t. score. the ncaa has scheduled a news conference for later on this afternoon. even if you save the coupon inserts in the newspaper, you would not knock the coupon queen of her mental. and doctor kim hammond from falls or animal hospital this year. e-mail your questions that petquestions@wbaltv.com. >> it is august in baltimore, and we have heat and humidity. a few scattered clouds and rain off to the west. here is the sum of the heat and humidity. humidity is up 67%. when it is in the 80's, it is

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>> in the consumer alert, everyone has cut hundreds of dollars off of the weekly shopping bill at the supermarket, of course. we visit a woman known as the coupon queen. >> $1.29 for the grapes. >> she has been known as the coupon queen for three decades. >> if you buy a mayonnaise, you get a dollar off appear fresh produce purchase. >> paying full price is almost never an option. >> it depends on what is on sale and what i need. >> she typically saves up to 60%

under purchase, but it takes time and organization. >> five hours a week. >> that is clipping and filing her coupons. she finds them on-line or at the sunday answered. that is off to the store. -- that is off to the store. she says the key to successful saving is making a list. hers is a meticulous and is categorized by sections. >> so you're not looking down the items and not fighting ones that are not on sale. >> one big mistake she says people make -- >> match your coupons to items already on sale at the store. >> i'm getting it on sale and using a coupon. by >> items that are in -- in. buy items that are in season.

>> use and in the proposed purchase and you get a coupon for your next one free. >> the best one we found is this detergent, normally $8.35, but with great -- a rebate coupon, it is absolutely free. when the card is full, we go to the register. >> many of them are free. >> the total surpasses 100 and adams keep coming. the grand total is $150.90. then the bargain whiz breaks out her also of coupons. one by one, her balance drops. the total cost, $6.98. she says it is all about forming habits, i have acted save you a bundle. -- a habit that could save you a bundle. >> a typical summertime afternoon in baltimore.

if clean clouds out there. nothing showing up on radar and nearby. isolated shares have been drifting through the mountains out west. this will probably kick off a little later today as the strongest arms out in the ohio river valley right now. rain will develop later on today throughout the area. we have been noticing this the past few days, temperatures up near 90's. 83 in annapolis, cabbage, 86. -- cambridge, 86. 87 in hagerstown, 82 at york. with the dew points in the 70's, a lot of moisture in the air. it feels like panama or florida or around new orleans or something. and a higher elevation there. some of the spotty clouds around.

high clouds to route baltimore itself. a fraud stalled to our north. -- from to stall to our north. there is relief there somewhere. it is going to take awhile. we are in this tropical feeling air mass. that needs to heat and humidity. the french will be a lot closer tomorrow. it starts making its move on the area tomorrow and saturday. we expect the best chance for main activity. out to the west, speaking of topics, we have a hurricane belt, a category 3 storm. -- hurricane bill, a category 3 storm. it looks like these will be an ocean-going storm. category 3 storm, with winds measure just before noon at 120

miles per hour. by saturday morning, it will be a couple hundred miles away from bermuda. by sunday, it will be off the mid-atlantic coast. probably better than 500 miles away. starts to weaken as it approaches the maritime provinces of canada. mostly off to sea. canada may get the worst of this storm. our forecast is warm and humid today. 88 to 92 is the height. a few of tinkering showers possible. same thing as today, warm and humid. insta-weather futurecast shows rain chances on-again and off- again right into the weekend. 98 and tomorrow.

the rain chance spikes a little bit tomorrow. begins to taper off on saturday. we will see a lot of sunshine. >> doctor kim hammond from falls road animal hospital is here with the pet questions. look at this sweet little kitty. >> needs a home. it was out in reisterstown. you can call the falls road animal hospital and take this little kitten. it has not seen of that, but they have had it for two weeks and it looks very healthy. just sweet, sweet little thing. it does have a little discharge their. >> a little colder something going on. but a sweet temperament. >> will definitely need antibiotics. >> as you back away slowly. let's go to the questions.

you hear this a lot, don't you? this type of problem. >> this is very interesting. there is a doctor who works at the falls road and a hospital who kind of specializes in this problem. i've never known people who pay attention to that. again, i would call her at the animal hospital, ryan engler. they have attractants that you can put in the litter box that can make the litter really attractive. i was very -- i would very aggressively say yes, you can do that. you have to make sure you have the appropriate letterbox, make sure you have clean litter. >> sometimes that is the problem. >> only for a couple more

months, because she is going back to cornell, we have someone who can tell you answers. it is not cost you a penny to call, but the way. sounds like an advertisement for my hospital. i say this modestly -- falls road animal hospital is one of the only hospitals open in maryland with the exception of friendship, perhaps, that is a 24-hour and a hospital. all the map to map a route to an emergency center. -- all of them have to have a referral to an emergency center. >> i hope the kitty cat gets a home. >> it needs a home and amoxicillin. if your question for doctor kim

or any of the vets -- in the medical alert, according to the national center for health statistics, americans are living longer lives. a person born in 2007 will live to be about 78 years old. scientists say that women live about five years longer than men -- no surprise there. roughly half -- another first, life expectancy for african- american males. up next, the maryland lottery numbers. and another check of the insta- weather-plus forecast. i can smile, i can carry on our conversation

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