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good morning. it's friday, november 12. you're taking a live look over %-good morning, i'm patrice her race. it'harris. it's friday and because it's friday that means it's time to are to sound off at our facebook about anything you want. go to facebook.com/baltimore to become a fan and join the conversation. now lets get a check of the our weekend ffrecast, meteorologist testiiy fier tisteve fertig is . good morning, patrice. we continue with all of the sun. the temperatures will climb to the 60s still, and we will stay there during the weekend so it will be nice. take a look at the temperatures around the region.ú you will see that we're 33 degrees at hagerstown..3 around town, 48 degrees,

15-degree difference, and oakland at 41. jumping around a little bit. it should be a pretty day wiih all of the sun as the high pressure continues to da dominae our weather. the wind out of the northeast at 5-10 miles per hour. a nice day and tonight clear skies and drops to say candace dold is here with ther. traffic edge. candace, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, steve we start with one problem at brooklyn. it's a fallen pole that shuts down the northbound lanes of ritchie highway. it's at lessenin 11th avenue. as far as the 97 and 695 scooting through the area there's no problems to report. 695 looks good on the entire west side stretch, we are in the green, 12 minutes at 54 miles per hour. 55 miles per hour with only an 8-minute ddive on southbound 95 from the fort mchenry tunnel all the way down toward the

beltway. all is clear from 895 from the harbor tunnel toward 895, only a 5-minute trip, 50 miles per hour there. that's a look at morning commute. back to yoo. a young woman is dead after a drunk driving crash on the eastern shore. her parents blame an alcoholic more and more popular on college cammuses. megan joins us with a possible ban on a drink. >> reporter: it has a a 5 on, 10-ounce beers in a can. thhy believe that courtney waa under the flounce for for loco when should he crashed early. her truck crossed the center line, hit two utility polls and flipped several times. courtney was killed.

when i found her face down. i don't want people going through what i'm going through losing a child just because of this drink. it'' horrible. >> reporrer: they pulled the story. they are hoping it's just the start. they are trying to get the alcoholic energy drink bannee here in maryland. so far, for loco has been pulled off the shelves in michigan and in washington state. megan gilliland. fox 45 early edition. two people including a state trooper are recovering after being hurt in a car crash in glen burnie. we were september these photos following the iicident. they were taken at aviation boulevard. the driver of an suv ran a red light and hit the state troopers vehicle. both were taken to shock trauma. they are expected to be okay. pplice at bwi thurgood marshal airport, discover heroin

being smuggled into the u.s. in a most unusual way. it was hidden inside of the but tns obuttons on several dresses. they confiscated the dresses sent from the philippines. they found $50,000 hidden in the buttons. two men who were supposed to be the recipients. dresses now face charges. prosecutors are now pursuing assault charges against leonardo ramos. the 21 years old is accused of injuring three students and his brother during a fight at the thirsty thurtle last month. there's reportedly new evidence that suggests that he was defending himself during the incident. a frederick man will spend 30 years behind bars for sexually abusing a girl for nearly a decade. donnld webb plead guilty to several counts of child abuse by a custodian.

webb abused a girl in his care during the '90s from the time she was 9 until she turned 18 and left his home. an alarming situation for residents at a baltimore group home ho were evacuated because of a chemical scare. it happened yesterday at a building along south patterson park avenue. offfcials sayyan exterminator was ssraying for bed bugs and some the chemicals used were making people sick. >> the fire department responded, got all of the residents outside of the building. they brought this fans to ventilate the facility. we had the residents checked over by hazmat ems. >> res debts who were taken out of the building stayed in a nearby facility until it was safe for them to return. members of the police union turned out on thursday to reject a contract. 95% of those who voted said no to the contract.

it woulddhave given union members 5 more days off if they agreed to a 1.95% pay cut. they continuee to ejuice changes to the -- refuse changes to the pension system. they filed a lawsuit against the city. they claim that the officials3 under funded the pension for decades and any changes would violate their ontract. -p>> toughhtime for the city and everyone else, but these are men and women who are expected to go out there and take a bullet. these are men and women who are supposed to chase violent criminals and take them off of the street so we can keep our children and citiiens safe. >> just lass year the union accepted 5 day furloughs along with the city. the mayor says she was disappointed with the vote but she remains confident that an agreement will be reached. mortgage rates have dropped to the lowest level in decades. a 30 year fixed loan now stands at 4.7%, but for realtors

there's not much to celebrate. home sales in the baltimore area were down 30% last month compared to october of last year. economists say that is because of an $8,000 tax credit for home buyers that expired in september. right now the average house in baltimore is selling for 16% less than ittdid a year ago. >> we're still closing deals, we're stiil selling houses, it's just the quantity of the sales is lower than what it normally would be. >> but there's somm encouraging news for those looking to ell their home. in anna arundel county the average selling price of a house in october went up by 3.5% compared to october of last year. nationwide the average 15 year fixed loan fell to 3.57%. president obama's trip to south korea for the g--0 eeonomic summit has a sluggish start. >> reporter: unable to finalize the trade agreement he and the south korea hoped to

show cause as a model for other nations here. president obama hoped there was a short delay. >> we don't want months to pass before we get this done. >> reporter: the impact centers around u.s. automakers, two of which are emerging from bankruptcy, being closed out of the korean market by mileage and safety standards. they also opposite u.s. beef because of the mad cow. republican dave camp suggested the president was right to walk away, saying there's a basic principle at stake with a very practical impact on american jobs. but they warned the koreans are negotiating aafree trade deal with europe and american workers stand to lose 340,000 jobs without the u.s. deal.ú asia specialist charles freeman say the two ambassadors left them down.

>> that's put a lot of pressure on the principal. >> reporter: the deal wwll get done but not this week when %-convince chinese president to lower his trade export so other countries can do more. to deal with insurance, andons sustainable growth. ú% reporter: u.s. officials say chinn exports are the goods are low which is the value of keeping their currency art ffsh artificially low. >> if everybody wantt to balance their economy and their exports the world will go bankrupt. if you only want to sell who is going to buy. >> reporter: german balloon on numerical traded. there won't be no real

>> the danger is we drift toward protectionist at a time we can't afford to. >> reporter: most of the leaders they med two years ago they would avoid protectionist and even some of their aides warned that some of the economic crisis was over, the temptation would be hard to resist. until now, the obama administration has focused on a 2011 deadline for a troop withdrawal in afganistan, but now theefocus has shifted by top u.s. officials are saying that the afghan army will be able to take control of its force in 2014, instead of the summer of 2011.ú this is being seen as a victory for millitary commanders who have long objjcted to the 2011 time line. senior leaders and generals in afganistan tell me that the 2011 date is a real mill stone around their neck. >> afganistan will top the agenda when president obama

attends a naao summit in liboo next week. and we are likely to hear more abbut the year 2014 at that meeting. after getting off to a slow start the ravens rallied in the seccnd half of last night's game against the alcons to try to pull out a victory but their efforts won woul wouudn't be ee. soon it was 13-0 after joe flacco threw an interceptioo that led to an atlanta field goal. the ravens got on board with a touch down pass from flacco to an antoine boldin. pulling the ravens within 7 and thhn with just over a minute left he ravens took their first lead of the game, 21-20, but the falcons respond and they won, 26-21. >> we got to clean some things up. there are some areas in the

first half, mistakes and penalties and things that we didn't handle as well as we should have handled in this kind of environment. being in this kind of environment this time in the season is gging to pay for us doww the road. >> the ravenssnow have 10 days to rest up. their next game is sunday the 21st at 1:00. they face the carolina panthersú even though the ravens dropped last night's game against the falcons, one the littlest fans is still smiling. ronnie in baltimore sent us this picture. this raven in the cheerleading knows their team can come bbck in theirrnext game. no matter where you are, we're looking for ravens fans to sent us photos showing off your go to foxbaltimore.com ann click on the community features section. it's beginning to look a lot like chrrstmas. the world famous rockefeller ccnter christmas tree has been chosen and on its way home. this year's ower is feet tree is coming from new york.

responder who worked new yorkt city fire department.ú the tree will be raised today at rockefeller center. the annual tree llghting takes pllceeon novemmer 30th. coming up on the early edition, filing a federal lawsuit to the tune of $145 million. it's not a lot of money. it's about right and wrong. >> why the parents of a 20 years old an are suing a sheriff ccunty's deputy. it may not be looking a for the temperatures out there this morning weather wise. 27 degrees in freeerick. milder in downtown, 48. so quite a ra rule the tweet.

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you might have noticed that joel d smith isn't here this morning, but there's a good reason.

joel dd's wife kaitlyn gave birth to a beautiful baby girl last night. she was born at 11:30 and weighs 6 pounds 7-ounces, everyone is doing grrat and we want to welcome the little one to the fox 45 family. thaa's the proud dad there in his terps jacket. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig. good weather for the baby. very cute indeed and congratulations to joel d.3 i couldn't tell if the baby had the hat backwards like he did. as far as current conditions out there. another dry start to the day. it looks like it's going to be a pretty one with a lot of sunshine coming your way. 48 degrees is the temperature right now at the harbor. winds are wom low. the air is dry and the temperatures are still drop a bit more.

quite a range, 33 at hagerstown. we saw places like gaithersberg in the 20s this morning. 33 degrees downtown. high pressure is goinggto bring us a nice sunny day s temperatures climb to near 60 degrees once more. pressure offshore, moving south ú%ving in our direction. it's going tooweaken as it gets close to us on sundayyif there's a shower to the estern part of the state on sunday. it looks like the better chance of rain comes on tuesday or wednesday as another low pressure center develops off the coast later on this week. the meantime chillier air will be on the way for mid-to late next week. until then we will enjoy the upper 50s toolow 60s. in fact the eastern show gets up to 58 todaa with a lot of sunshine, northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. during the central part of the temperatures climb a little bit for. it's only 58 degrees, but take it, it looks good. sunny skies, winds out of the north east at 5-10 miles per hour. the western part of maryland

looking like temperatures are going to get to the same, 51 with a lot of sunshine. north winds at 5 miles perrhour. tonight 39 overnight, clear skies, it will be seasonable cool then because that is where we should be. tomorrow a littleebit warmer, 66 degrees for saturday and a lot of sun. mostly sunny for sunday, though the clouds do increase on late sunday as the low comes up of the coast. with it comes the chance of showers but not until late night mooday. 53 degrees for the high. and the then the showers reallyú more earnestly on tuesday and into wednesday. 57 for the high on tuesday and 58 wednesday. 56 partly cloudy thursday. candace dold is here with a check on the traffic edge; candace. thank yoo, steve. the early morning commute is shaping up to be a good one on many of the main lines. the actual numbers reflect that. on the beltway 61 miles per hour traveling near security boulevard, 63 moving through pikesville. 500miles per hour on the jjx we do have an accident that we want to talk about in baltimore county. it's a crash involving a vehiclú

that went hrough the front door of a 7-eleven. you will find it on golden ring door. it's right at kenwood avenue. we will continue to monitor this situation, but it is commanding a lot of attention as you scoot through the area. going to be an easy drive, on northbound and southbound lanes tooard the 895 meet up. and the sky ram is going to be a breeze on both the northbound and even the southbound stretch toward caton avenue and eventually toward the beltway as well. we do have an incident in brooklyn to talk about. it's a fallen poll that completely shuts down the northbound lanes at ritchie highway. -t's at 11th avenue. you will want to use morgan avenue as an alternate route. that's a look at the morning commute. patrice, back over to you. still ahead, wal-mart is giving shoppers incentive to shop. the changes they are making

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parents of a frederick county man who died after being tasered by sheriff deputies just found out their caseeis headed to trial.

they filed a federal lawsuut asking for $145 million. crime and justice reporter joy lepola talks with the yawning man's father. >> reporter: it's been almost three years since 0 years old jarel's death. little to ease the pain. done >> as far as the three years to his mom and i it's like 3 minutes. >> reporter: on november 18th, 2007, officered responded to a suspected fight in progress. a frederick county deputy confronted jarel. the attorney who is familiar with cases involving tasers, says the deputy did what they had to do. >> they did what they were trained to do and what the law permitt them tt do and what was necessary under the circumstances at that ttmee >> reporter:: the deputy tasered the 20 years old, not once but twice. >> it's been a long road. we look at the lawsuit as the case as far as money, but they don't see what we're going through as far as a child.

>> reporter: following his death, jarel's family filed a $145 million civil lawsuit in federal court, but since then there's been concerns the case %-appeal was filed. after an >> it's not just the money. it's about death and right andd3 wrong. >> reporter: a big win after thh appeal was thrown out, the case is headed to trial. >> to get aadecision of that stature in a case like this is so rewarding to all of us. >> reporter: even though jeffery is grateful, his heart is still filled with sorrow after losing his only son. in frederick, joe lepola, fox 45 morning news. the case could go to trial as early as january. coming up later on early edition, cruiiers, passengers stranded at sea for days, finally makk their day home what their time on the water was like. next fedex is expected a very merry christmas.

there's more bad news for mortgage rates, but fedex says business is lookinn good for them this holiday season. elizabeth mcdonald has more this today's business report. mortgage rates have never been lower. a 30 year fixed loan below 5% for the first time ever. wal-mart offering free shipping no minimum and 60,000 items are covered, including ga jewelry ad all electronics. fedex delivering a rosy holiday forecast. they are exxected to send more than 200 million packages.

disney's profits falling 7% in the latest quarter. earnings dipping at theme parks and in the able t.v. business in the the dow shedding 23 points that is still up more than 8% on the year. home depot and lowes giving 10% discount to veterans. and apple bees giving them free entroughs tenentrees to vets ant back a free blooming onion. a young woman on the eastern shore dies in a car crash. they are parents say for rule the tweet.

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