through the debris to get through the busted main. residents too were busy. >> 32-inch flat-panel tv gone. >> reporter: scott's backyard is a mess. looks like a pile of debris but it's more than 40 years of memories. >> the furniture that sits in the backyard was his grandmother's. it's a antique. how do you replace that? totally destroyed. >> reporter: so is anita kramer's car. they got out friday when the rushing waters from the busted main came pouring down the street but she was forced to leave her car behind. >> i only have liability so it's a total loss. >> reporter: there are sad stories all up and way loganview drive as residents try to pick up the pieces and put their lives back together. >> this is a lot of damage, and the insurance companies are wiping their hands of a lot of people. >> reporter: the county's

helping by waiving inspection fees of electrical work that has been completed and helping residents moving trash. >> the trucks are going through today and the rest of the week. they will pull up in the alleys and residents can put their debris in the backyard and we'll be happy to pick it up for them. >> reporter: dpw crews are still assessing the damage. but are still preparing to move boulders to reach the 72-inch main. while many of the homes were hit hard some residents like robert stone are just counting their blessings. >> we're hoping just the furnace needs to be replaced. >> reporter: robert stone said his 12-year-old was home alone during all of this and had to be evacuated by police. so you can imagine they are just happy she's ok, and all they have to replace is the furnace. 33 folks still without power and gas, five just without gas. a big concern, we heard it from a lot of people out here, they are worried about insurance

coverage. we want to give you a phone number for the maryland insurance administration. 410-468-20900. you should call that number if you have any problems. 410-468-2090. as far as the works here on broening highway, the crews will be back here tomorrow and should begin the excavation process and then they can start the repairs. kelly swoope abc2 news. >> thank you. as some homeowners worry about how will pay for repairs others are targeted by people trying to cash in. baltimore county officials are warning of scam artists reported in dundalk. apparently showing up in homes and telling people the county ordered them to clean up. the county says no private companies have been ordered to do that. meanwhile, the better business bureau says your best bet before signing up with a contractor is to find out what your insurance company will cover. also ask for written quotes and above all else verify that the

company is licensed by the maryland home improvement commission. >> you don't need to act out of emotion and it's a very stressful time for people. don't act out of emotion. do your homework before you agree to that contractor doing any repairs for you. >> if you have questions, 410-468-2090. it was a rough weekend for people in dundalk. a rough week, too. particularly because it's a workweek and a lot of people aren't able to go to work. coming up on abc2 news at 5:30 -- how neighbors are coping now in these tough times. a man was hit and killed by a car in east point early this morning. baltimore county police say the man was hit while walking on eastern avenue near north point boulevard around 3:00 a.m. they are trying to identify the victim. police say the driver was not at fault and no charges are expected to be filed. a dramatic rescue in southwest baltimore after a man

crashed his moped into a guardrail. and flipped down an embankment. the crash happened 3:00 this morning near frederick avenue and millington. rescuers used hoses to pull the man up the embankment. medics took him to the hospital. he's expected to be ok. police do not know what caused the crash. eight people including two children are recovering after a crash in west baltimore. a cab collided with an suv around 2:30 this morning at the intersection of north schroeder and west baltimore streets. police say the injured people squeezed themselves into one cab. the cab driver may be charged for steak -- taking so many at once. the suv driver wasn't hurt. a u.s. marine stationed in virginia accused of lying of being wounded to get freebies. david budois says he was

injured in afghanistan but marines say he was never there. he was stationed in quantico in 2006. before that, in okinawa, japan. he reportedly attended six rock concerts, two washington nationals game and a redskins game for free because of his story. a trial date is set for october 20th. police in anne arundel county need your help finding a bank robbery suspect. it happened thursday at the wachovia in ridge road in hanover. police say the suspect demanded money from the teller, took it and ran. you can see he had on a badge hanging from his neck. it's a little dark but you can make it out. if you have information call 1-866-7-lockup. a burglary suspect has been caught, also in anne arundel county. russell digarolemo was charged with theft and burglary. he was pulled over for a traffic violation when police discovered he had a stolen bank card and purse. police say the suspect walked into the unlocked back door of a home in the 200 block of lees

lane in edgewater yesterday and stole the items. the suspect is also charged with driving on a suspended license. it was a nice way to wrap up summer 2009. can you believe it? the summer season coming to an end. i think we're getting into the first days of fall, on a little cloudier note. first, we're looking at temperature now in 76 or so at bwi marshall. 77 easton. widespread mid to upper 70s for the most part. one cooler spot way out toward western maryland. things looking pretty nice. radar clear. maryland's most powerful doppler radar not showing up any form of precipitation. that could change late in the day, into tomorrow, but tonight, look for clouds on the increase. we'll talk about the best chance of rain and peek ahead at the first days of fall. coming up in a few. president barack obama says hard work and invasion will lead the -- innovation will lead the way out of this recession. he delivered an economic pep talk today saying we must

innovate so we don't just drift into the future. diana avillar reports. >> reporter: speaking at an upstate new york community college president obama outlined his administration's plan to invest in innovation. when we fail to invest in research we fail to invest in the future. >> reporter: he promised to make college more affordable, reduce taxes of start-up companies and kick start lagging investments in research and development. >> that's why i set a goal of putting a full 3% of our gross domestic product into research and development. >> reporter: the speech was delivered the same day the conference board's monthly report was published. its index of leading economic indicators rose .6% in august, continuing the longest stretch of gains in five years. the board reports consumer demand is going up and inventories are falling. stock prices are steadily increasing. even the public's expectations are trending up.

the bolster with federal reserve chairman ben bernanke announcing last week. >> the recession is very likely over. >> reporter: ben bernanke was quick to warn the recovery will take time and unemployment is likely to hit 10% by year's end. still, green chutes are sprouting in even the driest of job environments. a resort group in hard-hit las vegas announced its wants to fill 12,000 new jobs, all permanent positions by december. later this week president obama will turn his attention to improving the global economy. at the g-20 summit in pittsburgh. diana avillar, abc news, chicago. h1n1 or the swine flu, remains a threat and so does the seasonal flu. that's why the university of maryland baltimore is making sure that faculty and students are vaccinated. the university school of pharmacy and pharmacists from walgreen's held a flu vinic today -- clinic today. the university is doing the flu clinics earlier because of the

swine flu vaccine to come. >> we're helping people here on the university of maryland baltimore campus get coverage for seasonal flu and also highlighting the fact that pharmacists now can also provide the immunizations. >> reporter: meanwhile, u.s. health officials ordered more swine flu vaccine bringing the number to 251 million doses. recycling is up in baltimore city. city leaders say trucks are picking up 53% more recyclables since cutting back on trash collection and increased recycling pickups in july. the city hauled away an average of 8,000 tons of garbage. now the city is picking up an average of 5,700 tons of garbage and almost 1,000 tons of recyclables. garbage down, recyclables up. the new plan exceeded expectations. the bureau of solid waste projected picking up 40% more recyclables after a year. it passed that number in just weeks. the sun always shines a lot

brighter on a monday following a ravens win. and today it is beautiful. the ravens win to san diego yesterday and came out still undefeated and pretty healthy. thanks in large part to ray lewis. rob carlin has a recap. it was great. >> reporter: sure was. ravens fans have been coming to the ray lewis party for 14 years now, no way it's disappointing. when they needed a play yesterday ray made it. the ravens moved the ball against the chargers defense. mcgahee with two touchdowns, joe flacco up top to a wide open kelley washington. first touchdown since 2006. wait, wait! >> touchdown! >> reporter: oh, oh! i've been waiting years for that. ravens up 21-13. the chargers toast in the secondary all day. dominick foxworth admitted he had a bad game. phillip rivers career high 436 yards.

chargers within 28-26. less than a minute left. fourth and 2, ray stuffs it. a case of big players making big plays at big moments. >> i've been in games where we've helped people on the 150 yards, that's huge. that's pretty. but if you don't win you're sick, you know? and the bottom line is when we didn't let them in the end zone, that's when i said, that's championship football. >> reporter: oh, it gets me to excited so listening to him. coming up we hear from mcgahee who had two more touchdowns. more in sports at 6:00. a cow-tastrophe in sykesville tonight. cal is the mascot of a local team but seems like he's taken a hike. steering clear of trouble? "2 your health" -- does the emergency room near you have the tools needed to save

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sykesville mom didn't want to call police for fear they would laugh her out of the precinct. instead she called abc2. the story you're about to see is true. the names have not been changed to protect the innocent. abc2 news jamie costello with the mystery on where art thou brown cow? >> reporter: this is cow's baby album. for 15 years he's been a part of the family. >> maybe it was a little jaded we treat him like a little stuffed boy and not like a real

person. >> >> reporter: for the past three years cal has been the mascot for the sykesville raiders. here he is going to the game, looking other the game plan, looking over shoulders. acting as the water boy, taking pictures but this will be the last time we would see cal. did he walk away or was he cow-napped? >> i think -- i think somebody took him. i don't think he would get up and leave on his own. he doesn't have a license so he can't drive. >> reporter: last week a break in the case. communication from cal, e-mail saying he was enjoying his life on the lam and pictures to prove it. cal at the water fountain, shooting hoops, on the slide. maybe this, cal-cology, looking in the mirror wondering where his life was heading. you didn't mistreat him? >> no. >> reporter: so what next? raider moms in disbelief. >> where has he gone? >> reporter: how is your son

handling this? does he stay awake at night? >> sometimes but he's getting through it. >> reporter: on saturday the raiders won one. beating silver spring 13-0. this saturday they play ellicott city but it could be ellicow city. >> they miss him so much. >> reporter: again, have you seen the cow? >> if you're watching, don't talk to strangers, look both ways before crossing. come home safely and we miss you very much. >> reporter: they even tried to hire the chick-fil-a cow but -- please let the real cow come home. you have a suspect in mind, don'ts you? >> i have an idea of who it might be. ? i think it was my friend (bleep) -- i think my friend (bleep) >> reporter: if you go to abc2news.com immediately we'll take the beep away from vicki to find out who she really thinks took it. jamie costello, abc2 news.

>> oh, the tragedy. vicki has also set up a blog. for a link to that go to abc2news.com and click on links mentioned on air. again, if you see it please call somebody. or call metro crime -- no, don't call that. >> the heavy music there. you get into it. >> i need my kleenex. >> yeah. >> we'll keep our fingers crossed for the cow. >> and we'll keep you posted. >> jamie will, we won't. animal and man alike, how's that? nice weather to wrap up. you're happy about it? >> i'm not happy. i wanted summer to stretch out a little longer. i felt like i didn't get my fulfill of it. >> it never got super hot but i think we have 80s for the first days of fall. there you go. it's just a calendar mark, right? what we're seeing outside now, i'm looking closely on that

boat, i don't see a stuffed cow. i think we can rule it out. right now just a nice day to be out, a nice day to be on the water and great day to wrap up summer 2009. summer flew by for me at least. 76 the current temperature at bwi marshall. humidity 52% right now. so all in all pretty nice-looking afternoon. bel air now, elementary school, 73 degrees. feels like 77. a little bit of humidity out there. that did make it feel a bit milder today. this morning temperatures were cool. we dropped to 49 at one point. as you see on the low temperature map from early this morning. but most of us were warmer. there were a few spots north of the pennsylvania line, on sunday morning, upper 30s. yeah, that was a little pra mature even for the edge of fall. high temperatures today, not bad, nice rebound into the mid to upper 70s. in fact 80 in winchester, virginia. 77 in easton. dover, delaware, 75. we've got a nice little break in the clouds now across

baltimore. if you look closely you see that sort of nice little gap in cloud cover. we got some blue sky out there, great afternoon for everybody to be out, maybe on the soccer practice field, football practice field, whatever the case is. nice day to that. we have more active weather brewing off to the west this afternoon. and this particular system pretty stalled out here, continues to bring rain up and down the appalachian trail, you can say. as a matter of fact, west virginia getting soaked with good rain but none of that really for maryland, just additional cloud cover. the other thing we're watching here, a southerly flow developing coming in off the carolinas and this will be our best chance for rain. moisture coming up out of the south across maryland. could bring us showers. i think the best chance for rain comes late in the day tomorrow. then again i think through the day on wednesday. other than that the week looks relatively dry at least until we get into the weekend. forecast scenario now, look for increasing clouds tomorrow but no real additional chance for rain until we get into the late in the day tomorrow. wednesday, i think another day

where we may see mostly cloudy skies but again our forecast model is not picking up on much in terms of heavy steady rain. i think we'll see scattered showers though through the day on wednesday. the bay forecast tomorrow, hey, we saw some boats, still great weather to get there, water temperature 73 degrees still hasn't cooled down much yet. high tide will be 9:30 a.m. sunrise 6:53. sunset 7:03. still a little while before we flip the clocks but the days are starting to feel shorter and we're starting to see the leaves change. tonight, 612 degrees, clouds ontdz increase, it will be milder tonight. 62. i don't think we'll drop -- maybe outer suburbs upper 50s. not upper 40s. 77 tomorrow afternoon, mostly cloudy with scattered late showers. your 7-day forecast, baltimore's most accurate, you see the temperatures here. marybeth will like this, in the low 80s wednesday, thursday and friday. we do cool off into the weekend. again, the best chance of rain

now looks like late tuesday afternoon and then again maybe scattered showers as we go into the day on wednesday. >> thank you, wyatt. "2 your health" -- research shows that most emergency rooms don't have the special equipment and supplies needed to treat your children. in response to that, leading officials on pediatric care released new guidelines on how to better prepare emergency departments nationwide for kids. in 2006 the institute of medicine released a report that found only 6 of% of u.s. emergency rooms had all of the necessary equipment, medications and supplies to properly care for children. now a group of top pediatric health care officials unveiled new guidelines for staff at emergency departments across the country. so they could be better prepared to treat the needs of younger patients. though children make up 20% of emergency room visits only 18% of emergency rooms in the united states currentlily have a physician coordinator to address the needs of pediatric

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city. who is likely to budge and which unions won't? >> and dundalk, how people are coping there. it's stopping traffic. what is getting all the attention in harford county? that and baltimore's most accurate forecast coming up at 5:30. >> thank you. we go to central new jersey where six people were hurt in an early-morning crash today. a greyhound bus crashed with a tractor-trailer on the new jersey turnpike in cranbury. the bus driver was trapped, had to be rescued, she was rushed to the hospital. the tractor-trailer driver wasn't hurt. a texas swim team found themselves in treacherous waters today. their bus crashed and went into a lake about 20 miles outside of dallas. the bus stayed upright long enough for everyone to escape through the back door. the driver and five students went to the hospital as a precaution. police are still investigating the crash. check this out, a man takes down a bank robber in wisconsin. this husband worried for his wife's safety and mped on to the would-be thief's back. you can see she's afraid to

react at first but then she runs over to help him kicking the suspect to keep him down. >> it's nice to know somebody like that would take the time or put himself in harm's way to, you know, at least, protect everybody's interests here. >> the suspect has been charged with armed robbery. would your husband or wife do that for you? abc2 news is next. we all have confidence

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