winds northeasterly 10-15 miles an hour so it's going to be breezier and much drier in the next seven hours. details on your weekend forecast coming up but first a check on your commute. >> we're just looking at a couple accidents. in the lutherville area. everything else moving well on the major roadways but if you're moving near elkton and leads road, everything looks good even with descendant there. looking good at the harbor tunnel. we'll keep you posted. mindy? stan? >> our big story this morning an off-duty baltimore city police officer spent in the course surgery overnight. >> we're told he was shot during

a robbery. jennifer franciotti is outside mount sinai hospital with the latest. >> police say the officer was off-duty when he was approached by three men with guns and police say this happened just after 10:00 in the 600 block of high gate when police say a gun battle broke out between the officer and the suspects. thester was shot multiple times where he immediately undertwenty-first round of abdominal surgery, the officer came out of surgery around 3:00 a.m. and in critical condition and was transferred to i.c.u. police are apparently talking to two people of interest in this case. we hope to have an update on his condition soon. jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> also this morning baltimore county police are mourning the loss of one of their own when

his car flipped over on the way to work. 32-year-old jason simmons lost control of his pick-up when he lost control on the slick roads. he was a seven-year veteran of the force. >> and after arrested for making false statements and stealing from suspects. he was with the -- a criminal complaint alleges he received several items including clothing from a hotel room and arranged for the informant to get payments for the information then give give half the money to lunsford. >> i hope people will recognize that we're on the job and the majority of the police officers you zeal with on a daily basis

are honorable men and women who are just as upset about this as we are. >> baltimore city fire and police told to work out with officials. officials want $8 million trimmed from the budget but the chief says at least $5 million can be saved without if you are lowes or layoffs. >> if we can take compensatory time or overtime until the furlough plan ends and when it ends we would expect this stops as well and would protect our younger officers from being laid off and more importantly it keeps the cops on the street for the taxpayer. >> there are 1,300 patrol officers. >> a man arrived at engineer 52 fire house at 7:42 tuesday morning and the staff members on

duty left the fire house to have equipment repaired 10 minutes earlier and someone called 911 and the man was taken to mount sinai hospital where the man was pronounced dead. >> baltimore county schools a student at montebello middle school is being treated for the h 1 n 1 virus and letters were sent home, classes were canceled for a previously scheduled professional day. >> and not far from the g-20 summit. >> today president obama is set to announce the g-20 will replace the others. today it will claim the role of board of directors of the world economy include ready china,

india and brazil and secretary treasury tim excite they are in says the shift makes sense. >> given the change in balance in the world and have the shift to the countries who have been for a substantially period of time among the ones with the most growth. >> facing out sub cities for fossil fuels and to limit bonuses paid to bankers in order to curb hurege risk-taking. >> went it to take effect now 10th effect compensation practice today not tomorrow and that they bring about reforms in compensation by the end of this calendar year. >> not far from the g-20 talks protests overnight heated up and police used pepper spray and smoke to dispurse the crowd. some marched against capitalism

and some downtown businesses were ready for it and earlier boarded up. >> no one come down. >> by this morning protests led to arrests. >> secretary excite they are in said they'll involve separate standards for each country. specific limbs they see some u.s. banks return to now. brook hart, wbal-tv 11 news. >> could the way you discipline your child reflect his or her intelligence? a university of new hampshire professor says his research shows children who are spanked have lower i.q.'s. the study tested ages 2-9 then retested four years later. the kids who were spangde had i.q.'s 3/4 lower. they believe it can be a stressor posing post traumatic stress-like systems.

>> our water cooler question of the day do you think spanking a child can impact their i.q.? >> email your response at watercooler@wbaltv.com. the time is 5:70. the state of massachusetts will have a new start by the end of the day. >> and details on an investigation. >> and details on an investigation. >> sandy point, more >> and details on an invewe call the bunches >> sin honey bunches of oats the prize in the box. well, now there's a prize inside the prize. pecans! pecans! baked into crunchy oat bunches. taste the delicious surprise in every spoonful. new honey bunches of oats with pecan bunches. beautiful. of maxwell house's flavor lock lid. hear that? seals it tight. smells like fresh ground. fresh fresh fresh fre-- that's our favorite part. ...fresh! (announcer) taste why maxwell house is good to the last drop.

>> and welcome back to 11 news today. on your friday morning, 68 degrees, some light showers around. a wet morning commute across much of the state. not dealing with heavy rain but definitely some light patches. the heaviest is around virginia and wind chester. by this afternoon your school bus forecast says that we'll be

partly sunny and 74 degrees. so clouds early on and sun trying to break through this afternoon. winds northeasterly at 10-15 miles an hour and the dew points will drop, so we're in a transitional-type day. still need your umbrella. >> coffering the nation this morning a 19-year-old jourdainian man has been arrest ed for plotting to bomb a downtown dallas sky scraper. the bomb was a decoy given to him by an undercover f.b.i. agent and is charged with attempting to use a weapons of mass destruction. he could face life in prison and a $250,000 fine and not connected to another arrest yesterday to a man facing similar charges in the state of illinois. >> chairman paul kirk has been named to fill the late ted

kennedy's seat. he will only be a senator for a few months. a permanent election will be held in january. both patrick and kirk affirm that kirk will not run for office during that january special election. the time now 5:11. coming up airlines are guaranteing you the right to fly with your pet. details on a new initiative. >> and a lawyer who filed on behalf of acorn employees says it's about the message not the money. we'll explain. >> and early morning problems to talk about with your commute. coming

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>> finally here, friday. >> seems like it took forever. >> and i thought yesterday was friday. as far as what's going on with your morning commute we have an don't report at shar mouth road and as we check our speed censors south of the beltway we continue to run smoothly. no delays on the north side or west side and overall a pretty smooth ride. that is certainly going to set you back a few minutes this morning and this is an accident around the area of nottingham road and the rest of the major roadways continue to run smoothly. let's give you a live view of traffic. no sign of delays yet. looking good around howard county and looking smooth on the road from the beltway. that's the latest on traffic

pulse 11 and the latest look at the buses and trains kurt kroncke? >> we're looking good on the buses and trains this morning no delays on the pen camden ar mark trains. metro subway on time east and westbound directions. the 44 bus is being diverted due to construction at belvidere. back to sandra shaw. good morning. >> good morning to you too. it's a little bit wet out there and we're going to see a slick morning commute. the reason we basically have this front yesterday. it didn't make much progress. some disturbed rain around there. we're seeing the heaviest showers around the pennsylvania state line and not too bad out there and should clear out pretty quickly. so we're going to see a different pattern by this afternoon. temperatures out there still mild.

looks like 68 downtown and 66 in easton and 72 down on the lower eastern shore and only going to go up to a high of the mid 70's because cooler air will start filtering in after the front makes a little more progress and it's going to be a showery day in maryland. here around the central part of the state patches of sun trying to break through then some clouds so kind of inner mittn't. 75 the forecasted high. northeasterly breeze 10-15 miles an hour. dew points elevated now are really going to drop and it will feel much more comfortable. 73 on the eastern shore. as we take a look at the high right on the mark. high set in 1970 and record low of 35 set back in 1963. for tonight it looks like we're

going to have more clouds around. winds at 10-15 miles an hour and considerably cooler and quite cooler as we head throughout the day tomorrow. >> bringing us the showers it's going to continue to slide to the south and stall out but over the weekend mainly tomorrow it's going to re-emerge and this low you see spinning over here now in the middle part of the country is going to enter the ohio valley and bring us a good chance of some showers throughout the day. the best timetable for that looks to be later on in the afternoon. here's how future cast shows us by 8:00 you see this blue swath and that's heavier rainfall that will continue to move on through tomorrow night into sunday then a very wet start and some of these showers could be quite heavy then lit clear out by sunday afternoon. looks like most of this precipitation will be out of

here by game time so clearing for the ravens forecast for the 1:00 kickoff and nicer as the game progresses. the forecast breaks down breezy. looks like this afternoon 7 4. tomorrow cooler, 66 and those showers all around mainly late in the day then early rain on sunday before we clear out next monday a slight chance of inc. showers and a warmer high of 81. >> in this morning's "consumer alert" the obama administration is holding a summit on distracted driving and wants to make driving safer for the public and commercial carriers and follows accidents involving professional users. >> several airlines have partnered with the she werea pet

group to standardize pet carriers now it guarantees its members full rei mean bursement of their carriers and pets if they are refused the flight. american, northwest and northwest and southwest. >> and world leaders will continue to meet today to discuss the world economy. jane king joins us live with a look at the business news happy friday to you jane. >> happy friday the world leaders at the g-20 summit in pittsburgh are scheduled to reconvene and will issue a statement and fan out to give press conferences after 4:00 p.m. they tell bloomberg the group is close to an agreement cracking down on banker pay and looking at the plans to replace g-8 as the world's main forum for economic coordination. the decision does reflect a shift in power from the richest countries to emerging powers.

it shows the country's plan to maintain plans and bolster the economy until the economy is secured. it would require members to subject their economic policys to some type of peer review and that would expose the u.s. and china to broad scrutiny on the way they run the economy. so lots for investors to take in and stock futures pointing to a slightly higher open. we did get a down beat from hewlett hewlett and reports -- humanity packard. and reports showed a drop in existing home sales and look for price cuts on the blackberry. research in motion forecasting third-quarter sales that missed the bloomberg analyst estimates and meaning they may start selling at lower prices. at the new york stock exchange i'm jane king bloomberg news reporting for wbal-tv 11 news.

have a great weekend. >> thank you but we'll see you back here at 6:15. >> 64 degrees on tv hill. coming up another look at your morning commute. >> and the social networking site facebook could be hit with a lawsuit. we'll tell you why. >> and don't forget to email us your response to our water cooler question of the day, do you think spanking a child can impact their i.q. email us your response at watercooler@wbaltv.com. ( instrumental rock music playing ) radar to help watch for the unforeseeable. infrared to help protect. satellites to help guide.

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who played the pimp and prostitute requesting tax advice from acorn employees and they say the video should not be shown anymore. >> used to be three network television stations and a major newspaper all of which played by the rules and what we have now is a bunch of bloggers that think rules don't apply to them and if we don't take a stand here and say no, there is both a criminal and civil law that prohibits secret taping it i think it then becomes sort of wild west news gathering. >> they say the tapes were editing to make the situation worse than it is and the $7 million lawsuit filed involves only the baltimore recording and in maryland it's illegal to record someone's voice without their knowledge. >> well, the company called who glue is based in canton and -- >> they claim facebook has

infringed on a patent who glue owns. "medical alert" has that story. >> who knew? who glue in canton thought up one of the basic premises in facebook and say they did and have the patent to prove it. >> it was designed to prevent a small inventor. >> so on monday they filed a lawsuit in u.s. district court in delaware. >> it's -- it was a patent issued to who glue. >> a patent applied in 2001 some three years before facebook existed and said they didn't come up with the concept but the security allowing deprerneds to see certain portions of your profile. >> the corner stone of our patent scrounds individuals being able to protect and manage

access to their information. >> he admits he's had a facebook account for several years and a patent since 2007 which begs the question why sue now? >> this was a last resort for us. we could sit idolly by and let anyone who chooses to infringe or do something about it. >> so what are the chance this is small company has the will power and stamina to keep up? >> i'm a navy grad and football grad and we're used to going up against much bigger teams than us. we don't give up. we'll see what happens. >> ok. unable to get ahold of facebook for a response a lawyer for who glue says facebook now has 20 days to respond. >> the time is 47 on tv hill. coming up -- >> i'm nicole killion in

pittsburgh, the g-20 summit kicks off today and so do more protests. that story coming up. >> an off-duty baltimore city police officer is shot multiple times during an attempted robbery at his moment. at his home. details are next. >> and light showers will clear out. and what we can expect for the weekend, ahead. >> several accidents to report and we'll let you know how volume is looking. next.

>> good morning, everybody and welcome back to 11 news today, i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us. did you notice everybody on our air has on purple today even those not in baltimore, nicole killion. >> sort of discount it.