now on fox 45 early edition. voting on a contract. the changes that could be coming to the city's police forc to loe even one police officer's position right now could adversely affect that. they could take, 10, 15 guys in a day. prostitution new playground. where it's happening in baltimore and why police are having so much trouble stopping it. and brrnging home our heros, one group's mission to give the fallen a proper burial.

good morning. it's thursday, november 11th. you're taking a live look over the inner harbor, all lit up on this thursday morning. good morning, i'm patrice her race. harris. i forgot what day it was for a moment. meteorologist steve fertig is here. it feels like ttis week has gone by to quickly. >> purple thursday. and we will see sunshine and a few degrees cooler. yesterday we got into the low 60s. today we will be into the upper 50s but it will definitely be comfortable still. clear skies what we got over the area on the skk watch hd radar. cooler in the outlying areas in salisbury and hagerstown at 38. at the bus stop on average we will say 44 with clear skies, north winds at 5-10 miles per hour, not too bad. 59 degrees for the high on this

veterans day. a northeast wind at 5-10 miles per hour. it should be pleasant and seasonable. let's see what happening on the roadways with candace dold. good morning, candace.ú >> reporter: good morning, steve ann good morning everyone. we''e talking about a pleasant ride on many of the main lines. right now near 70, t's going to be a breeze there in both directions. once you finally do apprrach the beltway, there's nothing to get in your way from 795 all the way up toward 95, 12 minutes at 55 miles per hour. an easy drive on the outer loop lanes from 95 up toward 83, 11 minutes at 54 miles per hour there and nothing to get in the way of southbound 95 to whitemarsh toward tte beltway, 4 minutes at bief mile 55 miles p. that's a look at morning travels. patrice, back over to you. the city's police union is set to vote on a new ra contract today, it's expected to pa makey

cuts. megan from the union where that vote is expected to be taken. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. today the police union and the city a greemed could be reached. inside of this contract, it would give police officers five more days off a year in exchange for a 5.5% pay cut, pretty much the equivalent of a furlough. it comes after months and months of negotiations over scrutiny of police schedules and time hours. %-charging overtime.skiing and they are working on cases to increase the clearance rate ss we can have a saver city. >> while the mayor defended that practice innjune, she said that if overtime is not cut a bit, more furloughs may be necessary. that is what is happening in inside of in new contract. the voting begins at the union lodge and it will go until

7:00 tonight. megan gilliland. fox 45 early edition. two men are dead after a fire at an auto body shop in anne arundel county. flames broke out around 9:30 on wednesday morning. it took 60 firefighters an hour %-once they did, they learned tt two men were missing. search dogs eventually ffund the bodies inside of what was left of the building. >> that is scary that they're trying to figure out what happened. %-living there.ing in there, it's hard to say. >> the two mmn have yet to e identified, but investiggtors believe they worked in the garage. there's no word on what caused the fire. a baltimore city school purchases new computers only to have the magority of them purchased by thieves. christian academy in baltimore gets one grant a year. and this year administrators used the money to buy 18

computers. on monday morning everyone showed up to find that 17 of them were gone. police believe the burglars broke into a classroom window sometime friday night into saturday morning. >> we had just gotten them set up and running to use, the them for two weeks. >> the thieves also got away with school supplies and musical equipment. a state prison inmate is convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his cell mate. the jury found christopher white guilty of killings clearance myers junior in 5 hours. they say that he strangled his cell mate. myers died after setting two life sentences for setting a fire that killed his girlfriend's two young daughters. sentencing is still set to be

schedule. a student who killed a classmate will spend the next five years in jail. tyron plead guilty ffr killing the bas basketball player. he fired at two men after they gottinto an argument over a girl. the soft drink, loco will be hard to find. we have been telllng you about the drink and all of the risks associated with it. last month, 5 students end up in the hospital after taking it. stores have just a week to remove them from shelves. michigan has also banned the drinks. a demolition in ohio doesn't go quite as planned and leaves crews running or cover. men started scrambling after the tower started falling the wrong way. no one was hurt but the smoke

stack did manage to take down power lines and generating builds. 4,000 people lost electricity. the state is demanding answers following a speed camera incident that was reported to you on first on fox. take a look at these pictures that a driver took an i phone over the weekend. they show a speed camera vehicle going more than 80 miles an hour on i-70. now the state highway administrator is demanding disciplinary action from the contractor who employs the program. >> the contractor is totally cooperating in terms of the investigation to establish who the violator was. this clearly was unacceptable somebody driving that fast is creating a safety issue not just for themselves but for other drivers. >> the state officials are also demanding that he company reexamine its training procedure. since the start of the program, more than 158,000 drivers have been cited, that amounts to $6.3 million in

fines. officials say the cameras reduce speeding by about 45%. charges have been filed against the man responsible for the controversial robo calls on election night. maryland attorney general doug gensler, filed the complaints against the two women. they were responsible for more than 100,000robo calls telling officials that o'malley had won and all they had to do was stay home and watch the results on t.v. the calls are a violation of the protection act, because thee failed to identify the source or the call back number. the complaint doesn'ttallege wrongdoing, but it's a civil complaint asking for a $500 fine for each violation, that totals

$160,000. a police officer accompanied the mayor to provide secure city. the city's spending panel approved aamost $900 for his expenses during the july trip. >>the sergeant knew where we were taying. if something happened here, and he had to get to me to get me back to baltimore, he knew where he were ssaying, but he wasn't there to cart me around. >> mayor says traveling with security is a city policy. the news is in surrounding the state of maryland's economy and ii's not good. maryland's budget deficit now stands at $1.6 billion from education, to medicaad, mandated programs were heavily funded by federal stimulus dollars. >> 800-some million dollars of additional federal mmney being used to support that proggam take that out and we have to from the general fund.

ú% governor martin o'malley stands by his word that next year's budget will include no new taxes. maryland officials are demanding an investigation into the state's prison system. this after an audit reveals bad recordkeeping resulted in a $250,000 gap at the baltimore office at the department of criminal activity is not suspected in the case. >> i don't personnlly believe and i can't say this for a fact, i don't believe there was criminal activity, but we will find out. it's being looked at. >> the department officials say at least five people were reprimanded for the lax recordkeeping. it is our duty to hold our government accountable and you can help by joining our fox 45 waste watch. if you see government waste, call (410)662-1456. you can go to foxbaltimore.com and click on waste watch. in chester today, a veteran

is receiving a hero ease welcome mad's welcomemade just for him. joel d smith is showing us how this amputee is moving into a home as special as he is. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. this is called homes for our troops. this is a free home going to him because of how special he is and the special needs he has. i have jim from the construction. you guys got invooved with this. tell us about the guy who is going to be living here. >> the soldier's name is parris butler, is' double amputee. the home was built with special features to get around on a daily basis. >> reporter: there's a lot of challenges, and he was looking for a home for a while. what is here in the kitchen that wouldn't be in a normaa home? >> what you see underneath the stove, you have a recess panel where he can access via

wheelchair. the appliances like the dishhasher and the oven are located where he can access those vii wheelchair. there's a raised toe kick on the cabinet that was supplied by craft mate that allow also for the feet to go underneath there. >> reporter: how you on 96 are these items. are they easy to find for anybody. >> actually, there's a lot of ada products on the market, however, it is not mainstream you could say and they are tougher to find. >> reporter: in getting to know him a little bit, what has he said as he has seen the progress go. >> he is thrilled. he loves the house and he loves the eastern shore. he is looking forward to moving over here. we're looking forward to having him, he is a great guy. %-many volunteers were a part of making this happen, too. >> throughout the whole process, through the building the house and the landscaping and finishing of the house, i would say there was probably well over

500 volunteers, contractors and local, you know, locals who wanted to help. >> reporter: sure, thatthad to have the expertise or that. it's amazing, patrice, when you talk about how many people helped out with this. helping someone who is a hero to uu all here on a vet answer day. >> it's going to be nice to get in there and see what his new home is going to look like. the expression on his face is going to be priceless. >> reporter: we will hear more about him and the featuresú in this place as we go through the rest of the morning. >> joel, thank you. we are honoring the heros here in baltimore all morning long here on fox 45. we got a picture of one of the family members who was a gunner during world war ii.ú he enlisted when he wassstephen and served in ---17 and he served in the north atlantic. thank you for the picture. you can send us a picture of fur your family or friends to pics at foxbaltimore.com.

or go to foxbaltimore.com and click on soldier salute on the hot topics tab. coming up on the early edition, finding the rea mains f an american fallen soldier. >> the mission to bring troops home. it may not be quite as warm as the low 60s of yesterday, still a low when i see people trying to sell and old camry, it

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welcome back. it's 5:16 now on this thursday morning. sky watch hd radar. it looks good. another clear day expected here thanks to high pressure building in. the north wind at 3 miles per hour. 52% relative humidity and 32 is the dew point. there's room for the temperatures to drop a little bit. aboot 49 degrees in the downtown areas of baltimore ann d.c.

salisbury 39, and hagerstown 38 degrees with a more northerly east wind today. just keep hanging out to sea, but it's not coming closer. the high pressure is building over us and that is what is going to bring us a nice day today. the low pressure is going to come our way. this is probably going to lose strength in terms of the moisture that is with it, tooo it will be lessening. it passes through by maybe sunday night, but we don't get a whole lot out of it. the next frontal boundary that ú%ves through with the low pressure center comes our way by tuesday into wednesday and that's the next chanceeof rain. chillier air for next week behind the next front. don't get use to the upper 50s and low 60s for the next couple of days we will see more 60s possible before the cooler air moves back in. 67 degrees is what we're expeeting for the eastern shore for a high temperature today. for the central part of the state, you should enjoy a

pleasant day, climb to -9 degrees and lots of sunshine. winds out of the northeast at 5-10 miles per hour. we go further west than here, not bad, 60 degrees for the high. a lots of sunshine, northeast wind, tonight on the second day, 35 degrees is the way we close things out overnight for the low. and northeast wind at 5-10 miles per hour, chillier but also about where we should be seasonable. 63 on saturday, also with plenty of sun and then more cloud cover late saturday and then on sunday partly cloudy with a high of 61, but we still have 60s through monday. 60 degrees and partly cloudy. the next best chance of showers comes on thursday and wednesday, 57 for the high on tuesday and wednesday, 58 degrees. now for a look at what is happening on the roadways and the commute this morning, here is candace dold with the traffic hcandace. >> reporter: steve, so far a ú%ce and calm ride on the main lines. right now 52 miles per hour on 95, traveling through whitemarsh, 63 on the outer loop

lanes to the beltway a harford road and 67 on the jfx. we ant to show what it looks like on 95, traveling through howard county, and you can see the line is starting to build in. the southbound lanes and even the northbound stretch. farther up on 95, takingga live look near the airport at 195, you can see that is going to be a breeze there in both directioos. as for the beltway this morning, there's nothing to grab your attention. let's take a live look moving at route 144 for you this morning. and again, thh cars a little bit of a crowd, but really this time in the morning yyu're looking a-okay. farther up at liberty road. let's take a live look at outer loop lanes, it's going fob rule the tweet.

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they gave the ultimate sacrifice for heir country, but never made it home for a proper goodbye. now 60 years after world war ii a special u.s. marine unit is hoping to find the remains of fallen soldiers and bring them. photo journalist takes us to the soutt paciffc island. >> reporter: i'm staff sergeant wit. i ave a twin brother and two younger brothers, all 4 of us

are in the service. we have all done time in iraq. my win brother is in afganistan at the moment. some parts of j-peck have been over a little two years. it's a japanese 8-millimeter. >> we are supporting the promise that our millitary gives every single service member by saying that you're never forgotten and we're here to bring back the remains of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to our country. >> a japanese 222-millimeter. >> it's a critical part of the makeup of this team. without him, we cannot operate. in a place like, where honeetly in 1943, it was shot here. >> here it was no cover, swimming, running, dredging through the sand while you're getting shot at the from the trees and still pushing forward. these guys were awesomm.

>> it's hollowed ground for the united states marine corps. we have a marine team. >> the ordinance in the paccfic appears to be a japaneee 3-inch projectile. >> today while we were working on the our site, a local man came up and explained that he had remains that he would like to turr over to us. >> whee we got done with the turn over, our captain turned around and this guy handed him a projectile. i instantly said, you don't need this in your house. >> ordinance in this kind of condition you can't tell, ou assume a worst case scenario, but they wouldn't know that this is unarmed and that it's safe to move. that would hurt our mission, they have to stop. ú%why do you do what you do, considering how dangerous it is? we are saving lives.ú >> it's the team member, no mato

matter where we work. >> they have left an amazing legacy for me to try to fill those shoes. if 1 of my brothers went down, i would want them back, too. i now hhve the confidence when i'm out in combat or one of my brothers is, that no matter what happens, my government has got their back, my back, whether it takes a year or 60 years, i'm going to be home. my family is goinn to get that closure. coming up later on the early edition, baltimore residents near the top of a not so nice list. the magazine calling us ugly. but next, finding a golden ticket..3 the contest that

>>within deez hopewendy's hopese can boost the sale of fries. general motors is riding high. gm posting a $2 billion quarterly profitt gm saying that the company is expecting to post the first profitable year since 2004. housing still struggling. home prices have now fallen for the 17th straight quarter. prices are down from the peak of the market in 2006. the dow gaining 10 points, now up nearly 9% on the year. wendy's is channing its 47 fries. the new ones will be skinner, crispier and saltier. it's using a different type of potato, leaving the skin on and sprinkling sea salt on top. play boy putting 10 golden tickets on the december issue selling on newsstands.

get a ticket, and you get invited at the play boy ansion. it includes, air fair, hotel for a friend and a guest. outcry for a new book that is being sold on amazon. the title that is leading to talk of boycotting the company. the city's police union is expected to vote on a new contract today. ú%m megan gilliland. how it could affect you and the cuus that could be made as well. i'm joel d