baltimore city, a 12-year-old girl allegedly raped in a baltimore school, and now another sexual assault comes forward from south baltimore high school. a 14-year-old girl says she was sexually assaulted outside of the ben franklin high school. >> reporter: the victim says this happened in early october when her daughter was working on a class project. her daughter and two other students were picking up trash as part of the project when the other two students ran off and her daughter stayed behind and a man grabbed her and brought her to a nearby alley and sexually assaulted her. >> she said she was picking trash and when she was doing that she fell someone standing behind her and he pulled her to the side of the alley. >> now why baltimore police

confirm this is an active investigation the victim's mother says the school system feels that even though the daughter was working to complete a class assignment, it is not liable because it happened off campus. we have not talk to the school yet and we will have more from the search and the suspect coming up at six. now the latest from aruba. attorney lou pose is not represents jerry gee owe dono. he has tried to get him released from prison but has been denied. while he no longer represents him, he believes the businessman will be released.

gee owe dono claims that gardener disappeared while they were scuba diving. >> a student no carrieráringcon0 killed and sa nay -- >> you are part of a chain that

served our nation and we thank. >> the city honored past and current veterans and jeff has more on that tribute. >> reporter: the ceremony marked that day 93 years ago when world war one came to an end and veteran's day got its beginning and a story from owens mill took center stage. >> they represent a long line of men and women that ensured this nation's freedom and it is the loss of the women dressed in white that underscore the sacrifice. >> we mourn the death of our children but white states it is peace, sacrifice and goodness and these are the values that are children have died for. >> gold star mothers have lost children in the service of this

country and janet chance of owensmills serve as the chaplain. her son jesse died in afghanistan three years ago and next month her daughter will serve there as well. >> my daughter will go to afghanistan initially and there was a twinge that oh, my goodness, she is going back to where her brother was killed but she could be killed right here in baltimore. >> reporter: it is a selfless and honorable commit document serve. shared by veterans and their families and lieutenant governor anthony brown a colonel in the u.s. army says demands our gratitude. >> honoring veterans on november 11th places a well deserved spotlight on a small one percent of the population of patriots who love our the country and our willing to serve and sacrifice. >> for janice chance it is a sacrifice she is willing to bear but on this veteran's day she asks that those that don't

have a friend or family member in harm's way to remember what is at risk for that's defending us. >> when you see a soldier, say thank you, thank you for preserving our country and for your sacrifices. >> many are still serving in iraq and afghanistan. we are asking to you honor veterans with pictures and stories and many of you have done so and we are featuring them on our website abc2news.com. look at this picture, lindsey cox sent thus photograph of specialist robert cox, her brother. he is on his 3rd deployment and specialist john wagner and ja nin sent this one of her father

and he is a national guard veteran and you can find it on our slide show. if you want to send us send it to picks on abc2news.com or you can put them on our facebook page. and we stay generally dry for this veteran's day 2011, passing clouds and a couple of rain drops. and that is it. take a look at the winds, we have seen gusts up around 25 and pushing 30 and steady winds from the west now at around 14 miles per hour and the wind chill factor making it feel like 40 degrees, for the rest of the veteran's day evening looking at temperatures dropping through the 40s into the low 40s brisk and windy and temperatures will fall quickly and we have more straight ahead. thanks. two weeks after an abc2news showed you how the social security numbers of dead

americans end up on public websites, a u.s. senator makes a plan to have them pulled. we told you about the master file that lifts your name and social security number after you die. it is maintained by the feds and sometimes it is put on the web. some say that social security number of their kids were used to file tax claims and because of stories like that senator bill nelson wants to introduce a bill to allow the agency to hold back certain information for two years after death. >> the stolen identity and ripping off the taxpayer by getting tax refunds is an outrage and that's why we are going to pass the law and stop this nonsense. nelson says he plans to meet with the social security administration and he wants them to pull information like

names and social security numbers as he puts the name through process. now, to our continuing coverage of the penn state school scandal, the president is trying to move it past this scandal and putting one coach on administrative leave and  that's happening because of the victims that say they were abused by former coach jerry sandusky. >> reporter: with football glory suddenly a memory, penn state is trying to put it back together. >> i ask everybody to work together for our culture. >> reporter: the school and board of trustees will look into the sex abuse allegations and it will be a long road back with every day bringing dark details and as this one from the mother of a boy's court papers. >> he says i didn't know what

to do and you just can't tell jerry no. >> jerry sandusky is the former assistant coach charged with molesting eight boys he met through a charity he started to help at risk children and last night someone threw pieces of a cinder block through the window of sandusky's home and no one was inside. in the case of victim one, the boy says the abuse started when he was 11 and happened repeatedly at sandusky's home and the mother said the boy asked for help finding information about sexual predators. >> i asked him who he was looking up and he said he wanted to see if jerry was on there. and i said well, why would you look him up? and he said i don't know, he is a weirdo. >> the scandal had brought down four top university officials. two charged with a coverup and the university president fined for not doing enough and head coach joe paterno dismissed for the same reason and the first

time in almost 50 years taking the field won't be him. >> mike mcquery won't be taking the field either, he saw it and never called the police and he is placed on administrative leave. there are long lines of people desperate for help with their mortgages and what one company is trying to do with those struggling to keep their homes and why it is not too late for to you get help. and being bull led is hard enough and it can affect a student's performance in school but for those with autism, bullying can become a larger challenge, the baltimore based survey that could help them. it is the seconded weekend in november so you know what that means? >> hind will give you all the

details coming up. >> for some this presents a different challenge. and how bullying affects autistic children and some home school base of it and there is a survey studying the bullying. >> camping suits this family and in ten minutes abby created animation. her talent is much but it hasn't been celebrated. she has as berger's syndrome and on the high ends of the autism syndrome and on the high end of academics but struggles with social skills. >> so her mom took the tent to

the classroom where abby can go when she felt frustrated but soons signs were post on the tent saying for sale. >> i didn't want to beat the boys up, i wanted to take them to court. >> she gets upset when she hears her mother talk about it so she chatted with us from kennedy keyinger there where there's a story on bullying. >> her mother knew they were different when she was 3. >> at 3 abby wanted to bring a rabbit with when the letter was "l" because rabbit belongs to a special order. >> abby says classmates taunted her to the point where it made the environment intollerrable. >> i tried to ignore it but it was not easy. >> by age ten abby had enough and she was home schooled and

the experience left ma honey to participate in a bullying survey. >> and it is not just this little thing that happened here with my kids. this is something that is a pattern happening everywhere and these children are vulnerable. >> the survey can be filled out online and researchers want to no questions how bullying affects children with autism and asks about children that are not on the spectrum. >> abby is in a new school and she doesn't believe there's any limits to her future and her creativity comes out through music and ability to draw and skills that are no longer shut down by bullies. >> if someone is making you feel insulted or bullying you, there's no tattling, telling is

good. to join the autism network and take part in the survey, we put a link on abc2news.com, participants will have access to answers from other parents allowing them to compare their experiences and researchers are looking for information from kids from sick to 15 whether or not think have been bull led and a survey is available online for the next three months and for the direct link and the resource log onto noto bullies and you can learn more and that's abc2news.com/no to bullies. now pardon's most powerful radar and the forecast certified by weather rate. take a look out there, some beautiful conditions across the area, breezy and chilly and 46 degrees and that's colder than

some of the weather earlier and winds are west at 14 and visibility unrestricted ten miles per hour and let's take a look at some of the pictures from baltimore, the passing clouds and on the whole you call this beautiful weather, outstanding stuff and take another view from chesapeake beach from the rod and real and weather continuing to look really nice in the evening and breezy and putting a chop on the bay and one last stop, how about federick, a nice clear day and nice sunset and temperatures in the middle 40s out there and chillier to the west and you can see that in west creek lake they are down to the freezing mark and 46 in easton and 46 in ocean city and the winds are steady from the west and they have taken a westerly direct and gusting higher and from the wind chill perspective we feel like the 30s, frederick and york and there's a bit of chill in the

air, a few passing clouds from the west and from the east lake- effect snow hitting parts of new york and also northern pennsylvania and chilly air will wrap around the high pressure to the south and a large cold front and it broad the winds and brisk conditions and sunshine tomorrow and in the 60s and sunday clouds increase but the rain holds off until monday and what is left of shawn blowing to bermuda but a late season tropical storm nonetheless. overnight some spots in the upper 20s by daybreak, a clear breezy finish to veteran's day and tomorrow temperatures bouncing back and we go down to 37 with partly cloudy skies and here is how thing will shape out for the seven-day forecast,

bottom line, not bad for the weekend, temperatures in the mid-60s by sunday and monday, tuesday and wednesday, a bit of a warmup and also the chance for showers early next week but on the whole a nice trend here and nice setup and tough to complain. >> i am not going to complain, people are going to think we coordinated ourout fits. nice. and fall weather and great festival and one on the eastern shore has the love of arts and celebration and no one loves it more than lanet and she is live at the water fall festival. what are you doing. >> reporter: no one likes a celebration more than i do and i am in easton under the tent

with the beautiful sculptures and i have been trying to figure out my favorite and right now i want to bring in ron ford, he is the president of the festival and this time i'm seeing you in the evening so things are better. >> we have had a full day of successful events. >> good, the 41st yeah, stack. >> yes, the 41st year where we are bringing in artists from all over the country. >> how is going today. >> great, because of the holiday and the weather the anticipation is good and the crowds are good. >> reporter: tell everybody about the waterfowl festival. >> it is a nonprofit and we raise money for habitat conservation and we do that through art sales and the

different events around town and really to spur some good energy for conservation. >> and what activities are out here. >> it depends on what you are interested, if you are an art lover we have photography and other artworks and we have fishing derby and the retriever trials and then if you are a shorting enthusiastic we have a goose calling competition. >> and why should people come to the festival. >> for fun, it will be a great weekend and easton is a beautiful town and support our conservation mission. >> reporter: and you know warrants you heard it from ron, the president and he knows what he is talking about, and get culture and education and like he said fun, fun, fun and back to you josie in the studio. >> lynnnet always gets the best

assignments. if you are trying to lose weight, a family maybe might be your best bet. >> the domino effect, when one family loses weight and others

follow as well. now to a health alert by dieting. if one family member takes up the battle of the budge others may follow them. one of the reasons was possibly when dieters keep sugar and

fats out of the house it stops the temptations for everyone. >> wegman is recalling the sweet potatoes because pieces of white plastic may be in the food. the company says the sweet potatoes are packaged in 24- ounce trays and it says used by september 11th, dsa. it comes from kemp foods and unclear where the pieces of plastic came from. >> there are many that need help with their mortgages. coming up the lines were long in baltimore as the company came to the convention center to try and help and why it is not too late if your mortgage is under water. and a police chase ends with an officer driving into a house, what he hit first that

caused the crash. now, abc2news at 5:30. >> we save homes, we save families. >> the lines are long and as people hope one group can help them out of a mortgage mess and they could be out of trouble in less than a day. and police want the mother after missing 2-year-old to come in and talk even though she is not a suspect. why they believe she has important information that could help find her son. first though, all new at 5:30. thousands have been lining up at the convention center and they are seeking help from banks to save their homes from foreclosure. the event is put on by one of the largest nonprofit advocacy groups and curry redman says it promises solutions for those in desperate need. >> reporter: they lined up early before dawn looking to get help in order to save their

homes when the doors of the convention center finally opened ... >> make sure you don't pay anybody anything, everything is free. >> reporter: the large crowds of hundreds were greeted by bruce marks ceo of a nonproperty agency. >> what we do is that we save homes and we save families and in some cases people tell us we have saved their lives. >> wells fargo and chase and others were on hand to help people facing a mortgage crisis. >> people can come and save sometimes over one thousand dollars a montague anthony laboko were the first ones in line and he is hoping that the process will be simple. >> i want the issue resolved

today. >> reporter: but they like everyone else here must go through the process. >> step one, orientation and learn about the program and step two is meet with a counselor to determine affordable mortgage payments and step three to meet with your lender to restructure the mortgage and bring the interest rate down and them meet with a negotiator to make sure the deal gets done. >> this is the 3rd event in three years and at each stop the crowds grow larger and larger and a testament on how bad the mortgage crisis is. >> it keeps building and we don't see it stopping anytime soon. >> we don't want something for nothing, we are just trying to find an easier way to accomplish what is on our plate. >> which is the case for many that showed up today. if you need help modifying your mortgage, the convention is going on through tuesday from 8:00 a.m.

to 8:00 p.m. at the baltimore convention center. >> and banks are growing with a growing backlog of mortgages that have gone unpaid. there's more unpayment and the banks are starting to tackle it and there's an increase in foreclosures. they jump 10% this month and it slowed a year ago after problems arose after the way handlelers were handling the documents. a few clouds but on the whole a crisp and brisk night as we finish up veteran's day. thank for serving all of the guys and gals watching. and breezy conditions and the temperatures are falling and as we look at the rest of the evening, we are looking for temperatures to fall and we could be in the 20s by daybreak

tomorrow morning and there's a nice rebound temperature-wise coming that forecast in a few minutes. news from around the nation starts in washington where investigators want the mother of a 2-year-old that is missing to voluntarily come in and answer questions. police say the mother is not a suspect or even a person of interest but they believe she has key information that could help them find her son sky. police have not talked face to face with the mother since the boy vanished oned sunday after she ran out of gas and left him sleeping along and walked with her four-year-old daughter. a police chase in portland, oregon didn't end the way the officer planned. he hits the suspect's vehicle and ends up in a house. there was man but was injured. the two people in the car suffered nonthreatening

injuries and the officer was not to blame for the accident. amazing video. for one family, not only running a family business, a family endeavor but so is protecting our country. we sit down with this family to talk about this sacrifice and why it is in their blood. if you like wildfire, art, and make sculpting, stick around because i have the thing just for you. we will talk with our featured artist at our waterfowl festival and that's coming up at the break.

>> the weather should be great so why not head to the eastern shore. that is what lynette visiting the waterfowl festival what is going on. >> reporter: i am in a fabulous tent with fabulous things and that's the way i like it and we are looking at some pieces here and i was talking with the artists, the featured artists that did this and i have him with me, it isdon rambot and he is going to talk about all of the beauty

that i'm seeing. how long have you been doing this,don? >> it has been 16 years since i graduated from college with a fine arts degree and starting showing my last year, so about 17 years and have been here at the waterfowl festival my 13th year. >> did you know right off of the bath is what you wanted to do. >> no, i started resource management and shifted into biology from there and had a passion for art and was taking art classes because i enjoyed it and took one where i picked up a couple pieces of steel and within a month i changed majors and changed schools and i found my voice. >> reporter: and what inspires your voice. >> birds, that is my passion and my primary subject matter and what i am most comfortable with. >> reporter: do you have any favorite pieces. >> yes, a couple of pieces. it is usually the case, your newest piece is always your

favorite and i do have a logger head where the camera is right now and i completed it and it is a different format and i tried new techniques and that is a favorite and i have a hooded merganner and this piece that i am loving. >> reporter: it is beautiful and it is a tradition, i picked out my far rit piece and i found it and i told them i would share it and it is right over here, so if you can see the one i am showing, this is my favorite. i love it. josie do you see it, the whole water fountain, show the trick. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: i love it. this is my favorite and we are going to be looking at more. i have some dogs that i'm going to show you a little bit later. bring me back something pretty. as we honor those that have

died who protect our country we are honoring those that have came home. we hear from an aberdeen family that spans several generations and why they feel they needed to do it. >> and the race for the republican party. did this week make the race any clearer.

>> we bring you stories that

you will be talking about. fast paced and more interesting and what's going on. right this minute, abc2news. >> across the country people are honoring veterans and for some families it is a way of life and fred talked to one family. >> reporter: the pictures on these walls inside of mimi's cafe tells the stories of their

family. >> we were hanging on a corner in highland town and somebody came up and said there was a war on. and the rest of the guys standing there said let's go join. >> reporter: he enlisted and was soon deployed at see aboard the u.s. franklin roosevelt. >> i was a a machinist. >> reporter: the strong sense of family and service came from his parents. >> during the second world war, my mother and father worked in the airplane industry at the old chevrolet plant. pop was a die setter and my mother was a rivotter. >> and the grandson also served in the military. >> i was in the 10th mountain

division, infantry regimen and we spent time in iraq. >> reporter: michael's grandfather ben will always be a hero. >> it is the way he lived his life, such a positive role model and very caring person. >> reporter: ben married his wife, mary teresa on june 21, 1952. >> she was visiting me at boot camp. couldn't keep your hands off of me teresa. >> the service life is a different whole life and it is -- it makes you appreciate your husband because he is serving our country. >> reporter: they may be retired, they are still proudly serving their customers. in aberdeen abc2news. we are asking you to send us photographs in the veterans

in your life under our featured story section on abc2news.com. we have a link about the veterans, and e-mail them to our or share them on facebook. thanks to everyone that shared a photo and we have a photo we want to show you have a soldier we have come to know and love. somebody told us we would have a photo but you are here to talk about the weather. >> long ago and far away, josie. technically a sailor. it seems like a different lifetime. >> you look about 12. >> closer to 18 and quite a few years back. fresh out of boot camp. >> i like it. now, tell us the fresh young forecast. >> we will do that. hello to all of the vets. i think of my dad and grandfathers. world war ii and vietnam in the family. 46degrees and it's chilly and humidity dry and winds west, 14

so it will be a breezy, chill in the air and no question about that and from baltimore today, we found basically just a mix of clouds and sunshine. not a bad looking day but it was breezy and there was that chill in the air to deal with, no question. at the high school and next, fall foliage but we are beginning to lose the winds are knocking down the leaves and right about this time in november and gwen oaks, you can see the trees getting bare and a winter look and the air will not be winter like over the winter, we will warm up, maryland's most powerful radar showing nothing, just a couple light passing showers in carlisle pa where the army war college is. temperatures, 30 in oakland and slighter milder towards the peninsula but not much. winds are from the west at 10 to 14 and breezy weather and

there's a chill in the air from the north and west, 38 degrees, the wind chill in hagerstown and 35 is what it feels like in frederick and it feels like the upper 30s in the city. there's very little weather on the horizon next couple of days. there are some lake effects and snow in the new england states and you have a trip to buffalo, new york, maybe a little snow on the ground and other than that, things dry and high pressure in the south and east will continue to swirl in the chilly winds and through at least part of the day we will be breezy and the skies will clear out and a few clouds and i think it will mean nice clearing for saturday and a sunny senator as we go through the day early sunday but there will be additional clouds sunday and the chance for some showers to come in here on monday. but i think the weekend will remain dry and by the way, what is left of tropical storm shawn, not very impressive but a bit of a wild 24 hours out towards bermuda as the tropical

storm made its path. overnight could get to 29 by daybreak but it will be a chilly breezy one, frost by dawn and we will be 60 tomorrow and temperatures bouncing back and 37 tomorrow night and a few more clouds and cloud cover also on sunday and looking ahead to early next week we find that the temperatures will slowly warm back up in the mid to upper 60s, not bad there, josie. >> i like the sound that have one. meanwhile the republican race tightened up thanks to governor rick perry's oops moments. and more troubles for herman cain and another candidate making a comeback. we have the latest. troy, do we have a new front- runner following this week's debate. >> reporter: this is what i want to show you the most recent poll, romney is on top with 23% and ways surprising is

that newt gingrich has slid into 2nd place with 19 percent and with any debates and he has said that steady wins the race and here is what he is saying about this apparent shakeup in the polls. >> nobody is far enough ahead to mean anything and so all of us are going to earn it the old- fashioned way by convincing the american people we would make a better president. >> the campaign has raised more money in the month of october than in the three months leading up to it. >> romney and newt gingrich is doing well and what about herman cain, have the sexual harassment allegations hurt him. >> we have a poll and this was a question given to republican voters should cain stay in the presidential race?

69% of republicans said yes, but some females say no. >> and once a front runner and slick and how is governor perry redeeming himself after the oops moment. >> reporter: the imfamous moment of rick perry, you have noticed that there's a lot of funny moments and his campaign has acknowledged that the mistake has happened and pushing forward and using humor to mask that mistake and take a listen to rick perry with letter man last night. >> number two, yeah, i wanted to help take the heat off of my buddy, herman cain. >> there is one of ten excuses he gave for that flub. thank you for keeping us updated. a mother is speaking out about an attack on her daughter. we'll tell you where the

investigation stands now. and a tow truck driver killed by a hit-and-run and now the company he worked for is offering a reward. we have more stories coming up brand new at six and we have a preview of what is ahead on world news at 6:30.

in tonight's consumer alert the highway safety administration is looking into the safety of electric car batteries. the group is concerned after a battery caught fire in june several weeks after it was crash tested. right now the officials don't think the risk of electric car is any greater than gas engines. gm says the volt is safe and no other fires reported among the 5000 on the road today. we can he can find some of the best crab cakes in the world on abc2news at six which starts right now. now, abc2news at six. baltimore city police are investigating the sexual assaults of two young girls and we spoke to the mother about what happened to her daughter. veterans are welcome here at the mission barbeque. i'm don harrison. i'll tell you how they stepped

it you up for veteran's day. it looks like the waterfowl festival has gone to the dogs. i will tell you about that coming up. allegations of a 12-year- old girl being raped by another student at harlem school, another sexual saul victim comes forward and near ben franklin high school in south baltimore. >> reporter: according to the victim's mother who we are not identifying for the safety of her child, her 14-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted in october outside of the ben franklin school and she says her daughter's science class was picking up trash around the school as part of a class project when she ventured off campus and they started to play and ran away and her daughter stayed behind to finish the assignment. >> she says she stayed out picking trash and as she was

picking up trash she felt someone standing behind her and he pulled her over started to rape her. >> baltimore city police say they are investigating the case and the victim's mother says they have been to the precinct to compose a composite sketch of the suspect and the school has said little other than the fast that this crime allegedly happened off of the campus. >> the kids are supposed to be safe. >> reporter: her daughter is being home schooled afraid to go back to the high school and she is in counseling and experiencing nightmares and off from an assault that happened off school grounds but could have been prevented with proper