how bbgade plans to servef hope. thouuands of thanksgiving meals despite the economy. and creepy crawlies become a career. we meet the worm girl. good morning. it'sstuesday, octtber 5th. i'm patrice harris. let'ssget a check of our forecast. meteorologist steve fertig is here. good morning. >> good morning to ou. we have got some light drizzle out there some spots, otherwise nothing like what we saw yesterday when it wassraining, showery nn on and off and dreary. ú%'s going to be dreary, a

of lighh rainn hd raddr not real actiie at this time aa you can see. most of t is to the north and east off to the del marc marva %-at the bus stop 51 degrees, northwest winds at 5-10. 52 degrees starting in temperatures in the upper 50s throughout the area. we shoold limb a little bit -igher than yesterday as we get to 62 degrees for high..3 still a little cool with the light breeze and 11-20 miles per hour at times..3 that's the quick forecast. we will get the rest of the week in a moment. %-traffic edge.n cooke has the >> reporter: good morning, steve. we have a few things to talk about. an accident at west baltimore and a tree att imonium ttat is complicating things at seminary no problems to report at harford

road. not too many people out there just et. you're lookkng at an 11-minute ride on the outer loop with a high-spped of 55 miles per hour all remains clear with a 12-minute trip with an average trip of 54 miles per hour. from whitemarsh boulevard to the beltway, you're looking at a 4-minute trip with an average speed of 54 miles per hour. that's the traffic edge. back to you. a ppp lar synthetic drug is now band in balttmore county ú%lls k2. it's a chemical that similar effects as arijuuna. megan gilliland is live with more on why some ssy theeban won't be effective. >> reporter: while baltimore county councilmembers voted unanimously ffr this ban, the experts say it won't solve the problem.

if the current formula is banned. experts say makers can adjust and start reselling it and it's ú%ready happening in 11 other states where lawmakers banned it. >> the chemists just went back and ccanged the tructure and they went to ii was o18, then it was 23. >> those who support the ban re hoping it will help by getting the word out to parents that this is dangerous stuff. now thattit's banned stores in baltimore county will not be abbe to sell it, at least not in its current form, but it can e still be bought very easily on3 the internet. the penalty for selling this bucks $500 or up to 60 days in jail. megan gilliland earlyyedition. one person is seriously hit after being hit by a trash truck in baltimore county. it happened early this morning. emergency crews say the personn3 is a sanitation employee and was onnthe job at the time of the the victim is being treated at life-threatening injuries,

there's no word on what caused the incident. police say a deadly acciddnt in anne arundel county was likell caused by pedestrian error, itthappened oo friday night at curtis bay, 49 years old adam john o'connor was hit matt sent us the photos of the scene. no one else was injured. police ave determined the causes of an accident that sent3 a toorrbus over an embankment and onnto the highway below lasú week. they say the driver had a fatal heart attack. 66 years old joseph was driving when passengers say they passed out and slump over the wheel. the bus went off oo the road. clipped once and rolled down an -mbankment on i-270? mmntgomery county. the meddcal examiner said it was a heart attack that hild him not th!illed himnot the crash. the 29 years old was killed

in a heavy fire fight in the providdnce. he was innhisstwefl 11th deployment after spending several tours of duty in afganistan. he ii survived by his wife is tww children. helen holton is removed from her post t the taxation committee after pleading no contest to aacampaign violation. sheeentered a ppea eal and was given probation for taking too much money from poliiical donors. the ccurt of appeals that by far is the more serious charge than the misdemeanor holton entered ú% the no context plea. >> you got to follow the campaign law, if you don't, we will investigate and we will prosecute. >> i will continue to ssrve on the city council and to serve my community to the best of my ability tt elp make baltimore,3 say saver,,healthier and moss

prosperous city. >> holton was given a $2,500 fine, and one year of unsupervised probation. her plea is the final chapter in the investigation that leddto sheila dixon's resignation. >> ttattis what people expect and deserve.ú >> this has been like a daak cloud looming for quite sometime. i believe shhehas one a great job during this time which is unfortunaae forr ll of us. >> despite at peal on her bribee chhrge, holton says she now.ú putting the brakes on a 3000 increase in a city parking fine. in june the baltimore ccty council approved an increase in the fine for double-parking. a ticket used to cost $77, ut now, it's $252. city councilman bill cole says

that is outrageoussand he has introduced new legislation that will ower the fine to $100. >> it's against he law, there should be penalty attached to it, but $250 is clearly not the right one. %-that raised parking rates acrs the city. baltimorr county residents should include good news as local officials prepare to release crime statistics for the first half of the year. couuty executive gym ssith announced the crime totals for january through june.ú homicide, rape, robbery and auto threat all noticely decreased whaird to thdecreasedcompared tt year. witt just eeks before the midterm electtons governor martin oomalley has been hitting the campaign trail and one of the major topics on his agenda is education. the governor met can students in college paak on monday.

he ran ads says he froze tuition at state schools for four years and he says students tell him they aae grateful..3 >> i wouldn't be able to g go to college without the college freeze. we are the only state ii the %-a row without a college incree in tuition. >> experts point out thattthe first year of tuitiin freezee came when bob ehrlich was governor. o'mallee's republicaa ú%hllenger in the gubernatorial3 race ayssthat by law the governor has indirect role in setting tuition rates. >> the board of regents looks at and sets tuition rates accordingly to. prrtend that the governor sets the tuition rates is false. >> anno'malley budget plan indicates that tuition could rise sharply over the next four years. o'malley says he wants to limit

any such hikes to the ccsttof tay with fox 45 ffr all the latest on midterm elections. gg to foxbaltimore.com/2010. the justice departmenn sues three of america's biggest credit card companies.3 uncle ssm wants to put moreú money of ameriian con customers but the big wigs of ameeican expressssays they are eady to fight the suit. >> the crackdown on america's three biggest credit card ú%mpanies. >> weeare sending a very, very clear message. we will not toleraae anticompetitive practices. >> reporter: they iled a ssit against ameeican express for imposinggunfair restrictions oo stores that use their cards. it ettled with visa and master cardd >> we want to make sureethat every consumer has access to more choices and lower prices.

>> reporter: visa and master card may have settled but the %-setback for competitionn and the too officials want their day in court. the ssit falls in line with sweeping financial changes and regulations under the obama administration. -p>> credit caad companies willo longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print. you won't be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties. >> reporter: neither will %-a.m. ex shares touc tumbled 7e news the lawsuit..3 >> fall has arrived and so has the season of giving. but for ccaritiis like the b ggddy's center it's shaping a donation. >> reporter: good morning, joel. >> reporter: it mighttseem like it's a long way off. we are talkin talking about

thanksgiving and it's a long timeeover. this ii when the donations need to ccme in to see how many people they can feed. %-ccmpared to ssme other yeers. >> right now donations are down considerably. we have probably nothing at this point. >> reporter: nothing. >> nothing, it's just a ew cans herr and a few cans there. we are really in need..3 >> repprter: is that because %-all the time and collect for >> yes, we are. and we're trying every day, we try to serve bags of groceriess3 and right now i'' trying to et in gear for the thanksgiving. it's really hard. people jjst don't have it. >> reporter: we talked to you before. sometimes people thht used to work for you and help out are the ones thattneed the help now. >> absolutely. a lot of themm meals this year.ve over 50,000 >> reporter: you saiddexpect to. that is something you need too3

how many do you think you can do? >> right now we are hopeful that the citizens of the state of maryland will come forward and ensure that we will be able to give those meals thissyear. >> reporter: we will be talking a lot more with you throughout the morning. bbgade, there's a history of tens of thousands people trying to help out. and it's own before he a illion able to eed over that period f timtime and a tradition thhy wat to keep going. >> every year they hhve a struggle, but this year, i can see howwit must be more difficult. maybe we can pull together. the atteenion much eerlier than usual? >> if we can get help get the word out thhre, that's a goodú thing. thank you, joel. >> repprrer: okay. >> former president jimmy carter may have been admitted tooa ohi3 hospital last week, but he is i3 our section. this morning he is picking up a

hammer and joining forces for the habiiat for humanity. he anddhis wife rosiland will help to build homes in baltimore before lending a hand at another place in annapolis. he feels fine after his time in the hospital and has been outt3 working ever since. coming up inl in the early edition. charging suspects as a an adult. why the ttey are calling the new -ractice a plan of attaak. i don't play around with my health.

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editton. let's get a check of our foreccst. ú%teorologist steve fer is hereo tell us what we can expect

today. yesterday.3 very accive.3 spoos and that is about it. generally dry and cloudy skies.ú filling in and mainly partly we can see the showees to the north and east. youuwill see around wilmington and delaware seeing showers there as the low pressure center off the coast continues to slowly move to thh north and east from now. then it will pick up some pace by tomorrow and move oot of here. ú%n you see the rotation in the upper level low a factor, too.3 let's take a look s far as ow much rain we might be seeing and ú%u will see that we don't have a whole lot. of appearrinch and only hagerstown and most ocations seeing more than that. everywhere elle seeing light rain. 51 in d.c. ann 48 in hagerstown. pretty much where we were yesterday at this hour.

we look for the temperatures to climb a little bit more as we get toward 65 degrees for thee3 high in the eastern shore with a wwst wind 10-15 miles per hour. the western part of the state could climb to 62 degrees with the high with a northwess wind at 10-20, mostly ccoudy there. mostly cloudy and a chance for a shower, and a bbtter chance there and elsewhere. it won't be a whole lot in the way of rain. 10-20-mile-an-hour winds, means it will beebreezy. a wess wind at 5-10 miles per hour with mostly cloudy skies then. better chhnce of showers as we get the upper level low to pull3 through. on thursday we begin to clear ouu some aad very comfortable. look at the rest of the week, on saturday, 0 degrees on -unday as you head to the m and t stadium. a great day foo the gamee 73 on monday with sunny skies and it should be veey comfortable then as well. we need to check on the

roadways, ann we look at what it's looking ike as we head out to the commute. >> reporrer: good morning, steve we have a few things to tall about, trouble in west -altimoreewhere we are dealing with an accident at wakefield road and a shutdown tree at hill leshillen road. there's going to be another down tree at lutherville and timonium. ú%rtunately if you're traveling the beltway in the parkville area,,we're looking at a high 67 miles per hour. taking a live ook, not many cars out thhre yet, yyu're lookkng at n 11-minute ride on the outer loop. it will remain clear as we make our way to the est side. hereeis a look at liierty road ú%om where we are making the 795 to 95. if you are using the expressway, ú%kinggan outer loop it will be wide open so it will be an eaay ride as you make your way to the

beetway. that's a look at the traffic edge, patrice, back to you. thaak you, laaren, still ahead, toyota mmking some much-needed repairs to a few models, the issues the automaker right nowwwe're throwing our phon mmoney away. >> and keeping juveniie3q (announcer) did you know even the leading dishwashing detergent leaves residue behind? finish jet dry rinse agent removes residue and dries dishes better than detergent alone two times better. for a brilliant shine every time. finish jet dry rinse agent. finish. the diamond standard.

prosecutors say the accused gunman in the ken harris murder case wass15 years old when he pulled the trigger. under maryland law he was -utomatically clarnlgd as an chn adult.ú he but a new reporttshows that model doesn't work and legal organizattons re fighting to change it? >>a streak of crime deadly violence with juveniles made as suspeecs in some of baltimore's city's most notorious cases. there are victims. >> how do you tell a child that another child.3 >> november 2003, one day before thanksgiving, 20 years old, thornton go gunned down at a suspect. the suspected arrested identical twins, 15 years old.

>> and just over a monthinn on. >> 14-year-old arteesha holt charged for murdering a man. cases chhrging casss of 15 years oll charged as adults. -p>> they are horrible crimess3 happening in the city by children but. >> reporree: they believe that trying juveniles as adults is counter proouctive. the group favors rehabilitation over punishment. -p>> most f the time for the mt of the kids, will do better in the juvenile system. found among other thingssthat the adults jussice system teaches teens to become violent criminals, subbects hem to physical ann sexual abuse, and wastes taxpayerers money. >> if you want to change the system you want tt get the kids

with they can be dealt with at a younger ache. age. >> reporter: stiil supporters of thht tough on crime approach including city police union president robert sherri..3 >> a law that a violent crime being committed by underage offenders. -> reporter: they should face puniihment with the same degree -f seriousnesssas their counter it's sending the kids to the streets to coomit violent crimes. tried as an adult in maryylnd. a new commercial pushing for slots aa laurel park instead of arundel mills. why some are calling the aa misleaaing. next campbell soup ushers in fall ♪ let's take a look at the stats. mini has more than double the fiber and whole grain...

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welcome back to foxx45 early -dition. 5:29 as you take a look out over the inner harbor. good morning, i'm patrice harris.3 meteorologist steve fertig is here o tell us what we can expect as far as our forecast for the day. a little different than yesterday. yeah, mainly dreary kind