a flight to rgentina was forced to return to sydney because of smoke in the cockpit. the electrical problem happened about an hour to sydney. they had to turn the plane around and dumped fuel on their approach to sydney. it's the 4th quantas midair incident since an engine exploded near an airport earlier this month. quantas says the airline is still safe to fly. the holiday travel season is approaching, that means millions of americans will be in airports over the next few weeks and many of them are concerned about new

tsa procedures. travelers can expect to see increased number of full body an scannnrs, and pat downs at airports. however, some people say they plan to boycott the measures over concerns that they're too invasive. one man who reffsed a body scanner talked about what happened to him. >> she came over and explained the whole process again. i told er i'm not comfortable with this. it seems to me to amount to sexual assault and i don't think that should be a condition for ggtting the oo plane. >> that man's ticket was refunded. he is planning to sue. stay tuned to fox 45 morning news for continuing coveragg of -he story. wiih will talk to a ederal agent about the security measures and whether they're too much. over the river and through ú%e woods is a long way to go to visittgrandma and it uses a lot of gas. just in time for the holidays gas prices have going up. they have jumped an average off3

$0.10 in a gallon in the last couple of weeks and industry3 analyst expect the gas to go up. that the inflation. stock in oil rather than other commodities, that in turr causes tte prices to go up. drivers don't plan to change their travel plans. >> i'm goinn to nee yook and philadellhia over the weekend. >> driving? >> driving. >> i have tt have gas. i have to drive to work. whaa am igoing toodo. >> the average rice of gas is $2.90. it's less here in maryland. soon a new kind of message will be in your facebook inbox. -n e-mail, the social networking is starting what is called seam less message across different ú%dia. what does that meann >> reporter: face book says the real valuu is being able to

consoliiate all of your single messages, text messages, such as ims and ms, and now e-mail. now it's not just e-mail, it knows who your friends are. >> only facebook can build this kind of system, this person is not my friend, i don't want to hear from them. that is very powerful. >> reporter: facebook's e-mail system wwll be phased in gradually by invitation only. it wants to get feedback before releasing it to 5 million users3 >> we willlsee overtime how people use this product. obviously it has a lot of powerful pictuues. even this is not an e-mail killer. ii's aimed at cat i capturing af communication. >> i still like my g male mail i think facebook will be very

powerful.ú >> i don't use the second ooe. >> facebook thinks the new plan has value. they can set their privatentrol, settings to who can send them messages, just friends, and not friends.ls of those who are3 e-mail won't be canned to help pinpoint what ads will %-facebook has been criticized >> anytime facebook doesecurity. something, people will be i i'm nnt sure that the privacy product are knownnyet. coming up early edition, i do just about everything with my credit card. a don't carry cash a lot. how drivers found themselves in a dangeeous situation. low pressure staying to the west brings gulf

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it isn't a boy or a girl, but the universe has given birth to something nee, and it has scientists at nasa giddy. there's new evidence of a young black hole in relatively close proximity to the earth. a black hole forms when a star -urns up and explodes becomin ba sspernova. even lighttcan't escape and henceethe name black hole. thissone coulddteach us a great deal of how stars behave. p> we want to watch how this system evolves and changes in it's firstborn to when it ggows into a child and a ager and gets ú%der. >> the black hole is actually

consideree vvry close to thh earth. let's check in with meteorologist steve fertig. they sound like proud parents. >> hopefully not too close.ú talk abbut the earth andd3 closer to home. here is what we got, rain that is moving through the area. when we get closer, now, you ca3 -ee on the eastside of the chesapeake bay, we're seeing showees up around ell ton and further points south. and aaound bar clay and tt the centreville, aad as we look to bay. and i-70 as you thrafl toward showers with periods of rain.ú there will be some locations versus others not widespreadd3 later on this afternoon as more3 moisture continues to filter in from the south as we get a lot of gglf moisture as well as atlantic moisture is going to

come in thanks to the low pressure center around the gulf coast area as it's bringing a lot of rain. here is what we got as we look at ttat low pressure centee bringing the rain, but the later rain beggnning the central counties. -he most because the crack of tte low pressure center is going to be on the west side of the state. as it moves through continues to bring us rain intt early tomorrow morning and then it tapers off and we look forward to drier conditionss the next low pressure center bringing us a chance of a shower for the western part of the state. as far as how much rain looking3 aa he neighborhood of 2/3 to an %-it's a pretty good dose of ran through much of the state as you can see. salisbury seeiig lesser amounts, down to a quaater of an inch. -1 right nnw in baltimooe and the same for d.c. the temperatures will continue to climb today as the warm front in fact, ii will climb throughout the day untillwe get

to the highest temperature closer to midnight. 62 degrees foo the high in the eastern shore. there there could be rumbles of thunder mixed in, south ind at 10-15. something else we will note, the -wnds ppcking up this evening. 58 degrees for the high temperature today for the central part of theestate, where we get the rainshowers picking up in intensity for steaainess for this afternoon or evening. 52 degrees for the western part of maryland withhthe rainshowwrs as well. tonight 52 degrees in the evening, there could be a rumpl3 -f thundee here in there. the wwnds 10-15 miles per hour gustinn to 55. it will be mild and windy. theetemperatures will get up to 62 tomorrow. early showers taper off with partly cloudy skies. the winds could gust upwards of 40 miies per hour tomorrow. that will be a notable factor. 52 on friday as temperatures back off a bit and then we moderate and see seasonable and sunday with a mix of sun and clouds. now for a look at what is happening on the roadways. here is candace dold wwth the3

traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: steve, we have to deal with the rain this morning and it's ddenching the ú%use extra caution as you trav. as for the actual speeds we're at 47 miles per our on 95 through whitemarsh. 64 on 95 moving at 395. let's take a live look at the -eltway moving at yorkkroad and3 hhre it is, you an see the refleccion from the road, definitely just showing you the fact that it's going to be a slick one, both the inner and outer loop lanes getting by just fine. ann we're looking at a calm ride moving from the jfx all the way up toward greenspring avenue and eventuaaly up toward 795. as go around the bend at liberty road, let's take a live looo theree so far the volume that is starting to trickle in there, inner and outer loop towwrd the ú%iple bridges. a little farther down on 695,ú %-a live look there, again prrty you can see the mist coming up from the cars so please make sure there's a lot of space between yourself and the car in just so you want to talk about the rails this morning.

rail. you can expect a 15-20 mmnute-delay as unning bbtween hunt valley and cromwwll. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, baak over to youu still ahead, getting read other for blaac friday sales. the plans wal-mart has in

>>an air f baltimmre county is shutdown and roads are blocked off after reports of shott fired. at least one driver wws struck and another taken to the hospital. as crime and justice reporter for 1 or two shooters.searching >> it was sccry. >> reporter: immediately3 calls went out to police. >> from victims who claim this they believe their car windows wwre being shot at ors roads ar3 reporter: roads re blocked off as the search for shooters begin. >> ttee started etting uppa perimeter and they had police who were going into the woods and were calling in the hel helicopters. >> reporter: police say at least 5 drivers were it along this stretch of road, many when were enjoyiig the night's

-eather we were person ising a leasurely sunddy drive that ended in terror. >> it was shocking. it literally felt like somebody hit me in he leg. >> small ice fragments. >> reportee: glass shattered in the face of matt who was a passenger at one of the cars targeted. he didn't know what to think, and i didn't know in the window was hit by a rock. i don't any if a stray bullet a tuahunter had gone through my window. my initial thought, what happened, am i okay. >> reporter: he wasn't. a trip to the hospital wassin mind. it wasn't until gordon hector pulled over that police learned bullets but bb. >> i thought it was a bird that had gloan int flown into the ca. when i pulled over and saw the little bb knew that somebody had ú%ne itt >> it appears they were hiding

gun. >> reporter: a less lethal but the end result could hhve been sufficient a just as fatel. >> it could have been a dangerous situation, swerving in that area where the road is so windy, it could have caused an accident. >> it's so unfortunate that people have to dooseemingly random hings to people who don't deserve ii. >> reporter: joy lepola, fox 45 morning news. police are hoping the public ú%y provide some iiformation that may elp them. coming up laaer on the eaaly parking situation near morgan state university. why eople livvng near the campus are feddup. but neet, reeail sales are on the rise. find out if the rule the tweet.

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turkey day leads to huge potential sales for retail %-avoiding incurring unnecessary credii card fees. we have more in todayys business report. ome earry holiday cheer. retail sales rising by more than 1% in october, much better than expected. that is the largest monthly increase since march. car sales really strong, furnituue and electronic sales were on the weak side. wal-mart is opening most stores at midnight on thanksgiving. toys "r" us opening on thaaksgiving day. caterpillar doing some shopping. they are snapping uppthe mining company bucyrus. bucyrus stock soaring 50% on th3 news. and more people are paying their bills on time. major credit caad companies are saying ddlinquency rates are

falling to the lowest llvel this to the wall stteet,,the ow ggining 9 points, 7.5% on the yeaa. and dhl express delivvring it's raising ts priccs by nearly 6% starting next ear. coming up, a dog survives the war in affanistan, only to die after being brought to the u.s. the mi