[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 sarah caldwell. nine people, including three prince george's county police

officers, have been arrested. this follows the rest of the county executive and his wife last friday. >> police officers are given badges and guns to prevent crimes, but the indictments in these cases -- three police officers used batons and guns to commit crimes. >> the fbi arrested three prince george's county police officers. two of them are charged with extortion. >> the defendants agreed to pay police officers and extent of using fiscal authority to assist in the transport and distribution of u known space taxed cigarettes and alcohol. -- untaxed cigarettes and alcohol. >> authorities are seeking the

forfeiture of money and bank accounts and property used to facilitate criminal acts. the question is whether of any of this is time to the rest on friday o -- arrest on friday of prince george's county executive jack johnson and his wife. >> we are not going to talk about what, if any connection, there might be among these investigations. >> the fbi took the johnson's into custody over witness tampering and destruction of evidence. it is in connection with a four- your long probe of providing benefits for public favors. >> my family -- we are strong. had a lot of -- thousands of calls from citizens and all the

church people called and said they are praying for a spirit that has not lifted our spirits. -- they are praying for us. that has uplifted our spirits. >> jack johnson is back on the job as county executive. currently, elected officials can only be removed from office once they are committed -- convicted of a crime could a man accused of killing a police detective during an argument over a parking space has been indicted. the 25-will this been indicted on -- 25-year-old has been indicted on murder charges but he is being held without bail pending an arraignment next month. city police have fired an officer over accusations he assisted a drug dealer under federal surveillance. the officer was arrested last week after police say he looked up the license plate at a

friend's request that turned out to the car of an undercover agent officials said that the man was indicted over cocaine conspiracy charges. keith nowlin has not been charged with a crime. >> we have definitely seemed pretty rewarding. however, we needed the rain, and we're getting it today. it will lost all -- it will last all afternoon long. the area of pressure is to our west. you can see that on hd doppler as well. we will get more showers, moderate-to-basically- light shower activity could then we will clear out. temperatures are steady in the low 50s. details in the seven-day coming up. >> another maryland native has given his life in the war in afghanistan. the defense department reports

that the 28-year-old from frostburg died on thursday, three days after being wounded by an ied. the three-year veteran was with the first squadron 61st cavalry regiment, 101st airborne division, out of fort campbell, kentucky. he is survived by his wife and two children. we head into one of the busiest travel season of the right controversy is heating up over the federal government's screen roles -- screening rules but critics say that the screening in its crop or radiation and invade the privacy and one group is calling for a public boycott of the scanners before thanksgiving. >> people are concerned about having their naked bodies would despite an aged and the back room, and they don't know who they are -- their naked bodies inspected by an agent at about,

and they don't know who they are. >> there are about 300 full body scanners operating at airports right now, including b.w.i. the tsa plans to deploy it 500 by the end of the year. how do you feel about the scanners? log onto our website, wbaltv.com, and click on "local news." the royals made it official. prince william is getting married. he reportedly proposed to longtime girlfriend kate middleton during a trip to kenya. >> after months of intensive the speculation about an imminent engagement between prince william and kate middleton, what happened, it took everybody by surprise. a short and succinct statement in which it says that the prince of wales is delighted to announce the engagement of prince william and this catherine middleton. -- ms. katherine middleton.

it will take place in the spring of the summer of next year, take place in london, but nothing more specific than that. the news is that william and cage became engaged not today, but he popped the question apparently in kenya. a private holiday, a 10-day safari. there may have been airing as well. prince -- a ring as well. prince william has notified the queen and other family members. >> we are thrilled by the prospect of a wedding sometime next year. >> following the marriage, the couple will be living in north wales. they have a cottage up there, because that is where the raf base is where volume is based. -- william is based princess katherine would become queen katherine.

>> we just learned moments ago the prince william proposed with his mother, princess di's engagement ring. a woman and two children are killed in a murder-suicides in pennsylvania. a toddler calls 911 but he was trying to get in touch with his mom. an carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. e-mail your questions to

>> a maryland woman is among four dead in a murder-suicide in pennsylvania. the 33-year-old and their children were shot by the father, who turned the gun on himself. a 7-year-old and 4-world were killed and their 2-year-old son survived. the woman is from reisterstown and attended franklin high school. investigators appeared to be losing hope of finding three missing people alive in ohio. officers found a 13-year-old down and gagged and her basement over the weekend they arrested a 30-year-old on kidnapping charges. the mother, a 10-year-old brother, and a family friend are

still missing. authorities say evidence of struggle and blood were found in the home, acknowledged the three still missing may not be as fortunate as the girl. a disturbing story out of florida. a 4-year-old allegedly left home alone for several hours accidently called 911 trying to get in touch with his mother. the sheriff's deputy was sent immediately to the home after the little guy called. he found the boy at the home of hundred depu -- at home. the deputy found the mother at a relative's home. she apparently did not know of nobody was there. the little boys spent about five hours home alone. the words and phrases of the year are released, and one has direct ties to baltimore and a certain snowstorm. first, apple makes a major announcement about itunes. >> we are tracking a lot of

activity on hd doppler and. it has been eight what morning. what about the afternoon and tonight? gray skies, 52 at the airport. >> carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. emailed the questions to plantquestions@wbaltv.com.

>> in the "consumer alert," the beatles are finally coming to the internet. apple announced that its itunes service will sell music from the fab four. has so far been the most prominent holdout from itunes and other online music services but a big announcement would be made today, leading many to speculate. this book has its eyes on being more than a one-stop -- facebook

has its eyes on the more than a one-stop shop for chatting with friends, becoming an e-mail service. it already has the ability to send public and private messages, but founder mark zuckerberg is announcing a platform that not only creates your own facebook e-mail address, but merge it with other forms of instant messaging like text, sms, and im. it will roll out over the next few months. >> now the 11 insta-weather-plus forecast with sandra shaw. >> it has been waiting all morning combined with a little fog this morning. showers across the area from the south. this area of low pressure is making its way up and will go to the western side of the appalachians and generate more showers and maybe a thunderstorm tonight as it moves on through. the bulk of the heavy rain will remain to our west. with that said, keep the umbrella handy. we will see the light-to- moderate-brain activity.

we are stuck in the low 50s and we may make it to about 55 or 56 this afternoon. 57 over south and east in. it is definitely going to be a gray november day parade 56 is the normal high bid we are hovering around normalcy. but we needed moisture, so it is good that we finally got the rain. 76 is the record high. it was set back in 2005. rain is likely tonight. more fog developing. but in the outlying areas, 52 downtown -- 45 in the outlying areas, 52 downtown. this is generating more showers. public disturbances and the upper levels of the atmosphere as well -- koppel disturbances in the upper levels of the atmosphere as well. the winds are going to be the

story tomorrow. still some rain around tonight. this is about midnight or so that we start to clear out. we would generally be clear. late on thursday, another front gets through here. today, really the worst as far as the rain tacos. the slightest chance -- as the brain cancer goes to the slightest chance very early tomorrow morning. -- rain chances goes. slightest chance very early tomorrow morning. we're only up to 50. friday, 52 and beautiful, plenty of sunshine. 58 and 60, respectively, saturday and sunday. >> carrie engel from valley view farms is here to answer your plant and gardening questions. >> i brought along to do a house plants, great for cooler temperatures and shorter days.

this comes out of all colors like a burgundy red and orange. -- comes in it fall colors like burgundy red and orange. this will bloom and generally from about october until the middle of march. it is like an upside-down flour. one of my favorite plants. the real bamboo, stuff people grow up said, takes care of itself. i don't know how does it, but it does it very well. a lot of people think that the little lucky bamboo -- they do not like to be kept in water change the -- water the they do like to be kept in water. change the water about once a week. if you just mow and shred them,

not at all. it will do your garden good. we have snowballed on our lawns, and with all plants -- snow mold on our lawns, and can cause some problems. it is. usually, we say point site up, but you cannot always tell. in most cases, they will work their way around. the stem is not going to grow down into the ground it will try to find its way towards a light. >> thank you so much. if you have a plant or gardening question --

ezpass is supposed to make travel easier, right? but dozens of customers have said it made their lives more difficult. some have gotten thousands of dollars for the violations they did not know about. barry simms explains. >> when we first reported on e- zpass violations, we talked to a maryland couple whose license plates were suspended for violations they say they did not know they had. we have heard from dozens of other e-zpass customers. >> i was hysterical, sobbing and crying. >> maryland transportation authority police pulled her over. >> i am going to take your tag. >> her tax were suspended because of dozens of toll violations that she did not know about b.

>> these claims are erroneous. >> a man said he had to monitor his account daily because of over-charges. tonight at 11:00, the stories, and the tactics used to collect outstanding violations. >> what do sarah palin, the world cup, and the snowstorm that buried baltimore last winter have in common? they created new his words and the american english lexicon. according to the global language monitor, the hottest new words were vuvuzela, the horns made famous at this year's world cup, spillcam, snowmageddon or snowpocalypse, which buried baltimore for parts of a week last winter, and finally,

refudiate, sarah palin's unique blending of refute and repudiate. coming up, the maryland lottery numbers and another check of the forecast. wall street is down 200 points.

>> coming up on the farewell season of "oprah," barbara streisand and robert redford reunite, and secrets from barbara's leading men. that is today for cockpit tonight at 5:00, -- that is

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weekend ahead. >> thank you for joining us for 11 news at noon. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com, and stay connected with us on facebook and twitter.