multiple vehicles, will make slowing towards the beltway this morning. also fire activity in the city, patterson avenue and reisterstown road. you may see equipment on the scene there. another crash in the city, that's constitution street at east monument street. jfx at north avenue, traffic is beginning to build in both directions but again no problems or delays at this time. back to you. we're coming up on 6:30. if you live in pasadena you may know the name, alexander skowran. >> right now police want to know where he is because he's wanted for killing his ex-girlfriend massachusetts in massachusetts. >> reporter: he grew up in pasadena but went to school in massachusetts. he's now wanted in connection with the death of his ex-girlfriend. this is the picture of the 22-year-old. police found the body of giselle rodriguez yesterday morning in her apartment in boston. the two apparently had a rocky relationship. rodriguez had a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, a senior at fitchburg state college in massachusetts, rodriguez also used to go

there? he was placed on probation after he broke into her apartment and poured bleach on her clothes. >> she was a sweet girl going places. very quiet. kept to herself. wouldn't probably hurt a fly. >> reporter: skowran is believed to be driving a 2003 black honda civic with maryland plates 8dxx66. again, he's from pasadena but currently residing near boston. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. 6:31. people in park heights are now set to learn more about plans for a roundabout in their communities. city officials are hoping it will ease traffic at the busy intersection of park heights, druid park avenue and also reisterstown road. residents there have complained for years about speeding cars and earlier this month a man was killed when his van went airborne and slammed into four parked cars. will hanna is the president of the park circle improvement association and he supports this idea.

>> we think the flow of traffic here would be much better and also decrease the speed here going into the circle. >> he says funding has already been approved and residents will have their say at a community forum, coming up thursday night. officials from the department of transportation and city council expected to attend this forum. a u.s. marine stationed in virginia is accused of lying about being wounded in come watt to -- combat to get freebies. the marine corps says sergeant david buddha told police he were wounded in afghanistan but the marines say he was never there. he was assigned to the marine corps -- actually, in virginia back in 2006. six years before that he was stationed in japan. boudeau attended several concerts and ballgames for free because of that story. his trial date is set for october 20th. five people gathered to

watch a now healthy sea turtle return to its national natural habitat. he's so cute. the turtle was admitted to the national aquarium in july of 2008 with nearly 10 pounds of organisms infecting its shell. sea turtles are already endangered so the aquarium held heal the turtle and they called him flight and release. now he's going to be tracked by a satellite tag. loggerhead turtles is the 82nd animal helped by the aquarium rescue program. a ray of sunshine is filling the farm fields here in baltimore and harford counties and people are slowing down to take a look. zach roads says he normally grows soybeans but decided to try sunflowers this year. he's the third generation of his family to work at the farm.

the sunflower crop was planted in mid-july. covers about 600 acres. they are being sold as bird seed. they are full blown for a few more weeks and then they will be back next july. beautiful. here's a man you definitely do not want to mess with. he was sleeping in his south florida home in the buff, yes. that man, in the buff when a robber came into his home. the 91-year-old world war ii veteran grabbed his gun while his dog attacked the robber and the 91-year-old man held the 26-year-old at gunpoint until the police showed up. the robber was arrested and the 91-year-old was not hurt. just picture that. diamonds might be a girl's best friend but for one woman it might be her shoes. >> she holds the world record and proves you can never have too many pairs of shoes. new guidelines announced for the swine flu vaccine that could have you taking your child to the doctor more than once this winter. 6:34.

westminster, one of the spots that has pretty thick fog this morning. plan for that to slow you down around some of the commute. temperatures near 60. also take an umbrella. we could have moderate rain at times this afternoon. 6:34. let's check the roads with kim. >> thank you. we are heavy here on the west side of the outer loop between liberty road and route 70. on the inner loop traffic slows between greenspring and the jfx but now lets check the buses and trains with mark jones. >> good morning. you'll find on the marc train brunswick 892 operating with a 15 to 20-minute delay. other trains look good. the buses showing the 3 and 35 running 20 to 30 minutes late. number 17 with a diversion at corporate and international. due to construction. and look for heavy volume of passengers on the 36, 19 and 5 buses for your travels. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones.

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woman is a step above the rest when it comes to loving shoes. her obsession has landed her in a record books. room after room in her house is filled with shoes. and not the kind you wear on your feet. we're talking about a shoe table, shoe chairs, shoe phone, shoe rupg, you name it, she probably has a shoe version of it in her house. you see that shoe chandelier? >> it's a museum. that everything in the house that possibly can, shoe related is shoe related. i used to buy everything i saw that was a shoe. then the last couple years i just buy the things that are really unique. because it's getting overwhelming. there's not enough room in my house. >> i bet not. back in 2006 she had 7,765 shoe items and now she says the number is well over 11,000. 11,000. she said she's ready to submit it to the record books. i suspect she'll win. >> you think? i think so. how many shoes are in your closet? round it off.

>> a lot. i mean, nothing like that. >> up? are they -- >> do have i more than 11,000 in >> boxes from floor-to-ceiling? >> yeah. i've got a lot of shoes! >> wow. all right. coming up next, he's a world war ii vet. he's in a wheelchair. now he's a crime fighter. >> a group of would-be robbers definitely made a huge mistake when they decided to mess with this senior citizen. 6:40. last few hours of summer. watch the lights in westminster disappear with fog rolling in. they have thick fog this morning, 65. a moist southeasterly wind and we could have some rain on the way. switch it over. i want to show you the harbor cam there's the beautiful view of the eastern horizon. mostly cloudy in downtown baltimore. we're all planning for the chance of showers today. so stay with us. more to come after this.

6:43. breaking news. the hunt for the pasadena man has ended. police believe he murdered his ex-girlfriend. we have the very latest. also ahead -- it looks like police and firefighters are going to put up a fight

against furloughs. find out more about money problems in the city. and there's been yet another change in the way to fight off the swine flu. just how many times are we going to have to roll up our sleeves? that and more. just ahead. thank you for joining us. >> let's look at our forecast with justin berk. >> winding down the last few hours of summer, feels like summer trying to hang on. 60 degrees, not that warm but that is baltimore. we're surrounded by mid to upper 60s, even a 72 norfolk. a push of a southeasterly wind has built in a lot of moisture. you'll notice that this morning. if it's not thick fog and we have that in spots, it's definitely mostly cloudy skies. the push of that southeasterly wind coming off of the atlantic and off the chesapeake bay also with the assistance of some moisture coming in from the deep south, watch this, the remains of what was once hurricane fred sitting in the northern bahamas and now pushing moisture in through north carolina. unfortunately, it's pushing it to the southeast and adding it to this system which is going to gang up on atlanta, georgia, more heavy flooding expected for them. they've already seen up to 20

inches in some of their parts for the last week. looks like more is on the way. for us, we'll watch this nod of moisture ride northbound and though it's just areas of thick fog and clouds this morning, plan for the wet weather this afternoon. some of the showers could come with some heavy downpours, 77 our two-degree guarantee. tonight we're back to 65 with more showers and more fog and tomorrow we'll push 81. first full day of autumn. still the threat of a shower and warm temperatures. let's check the roads with kim. >> thank you. as he just said be aware of fog around the area, especially if you're out in carroll county, harford county, baltimore county, howard county, just be aware the fog, has visibility reduced some. 95 approaching the whitemarsh boulevard area, traffic is definitely beginning to build as you make your way down towards the beltway in towards the harbor tunnel thruway. a little slow on the east side of the outer loop between harford road and loch raven boulevard. we'll still working a crash on southbound of the harrisburg expressway, this is at belfast road. multiple vehicles involved. some of it has been cleared to the shoulder, some remains in

the median. that has traffic slowing at about mount carmel road. still fire activity in the city at patterson avenue and reisterstown road. we also have a crash still on the scene in baltimore city at constitution street and east monument street. jfx at cold spring lane, traffic moving very well. in you're looking for a business you know you can trust, let your better business bureau do the work for you. you can log on to abc2news.com/bbb for more information. back to you. it's 6:46. this has been our lead story all morning. it's breaking yet. it involves the murder of a college student hundreds of miles away in massachusetts. >> the suspect, alexander skowran, has been found dead in stevens city, virginia, in the northern part of the state. abc2 news linda so joins us live in the studio. she's been following this story all morning long. >> reporter: we've just learned alexander skowran has been found dead at a virginia hotel. his car was spotted at a comfort inn in stevens city monday night, when police tried to call him they heard a gunshot. skowran found dead from an

apparent self inflicted wound. police found the body of the ex-girlfriend giselle rodriguez late yesterday morning in an apartment near boston. the two apparently had a rocky relationship. rodriguez had a restraining order against skowran and back in july he was placed on probation and was required to attend an anger management class after he broke into her apartment and poured bleach on her clothes. his neighbors said she last saw him about a week ago. >> probation officer came looking for him. and they left their card. and it fell on the ground so i taped it to his door. so he would know. and he just took it and looked at it and just walked away. >> reporter: again, police say skowran was found dead at a virginia motel. he died from an apparent self-inflecked gunshot wound. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. to a story you'll only see on abc2 news. we have a tractor-trailer driver now being treated at shock trauma after his rig overturned on the beltway. investigators tell our our overnight photographer pete "on

the street" o'neill that the rig somehow flipped near the 702 around 11:00 last night. the tractor-trailer was the only vehicle involved in this crash. the road was reopened shortly after the wreck. plans to close baltimore city's huge budget gap could be held up in a dispute with the city's fire and police departments. so this week the board of estimates is expected to approve a plan to furlough every city employee for at least five days. the head of the city police union has said the union has a clause in its contract stating that officers cannot be furloughed. the head of the city's  firefighters union says the fire chief thinks furloughs and layoffs layoffs would lead to the closures of eight to 10 fire companies. negotiations ongoing between the mayor's staff and unions. the city council president says with or without furloughs the police and fire unions will have to find a way to reduce their budgets just like every other city agency. >> i feel very confident that they will make cost savings in line with what each agency has

been asked to do. >> the overall plan is expected to be approved wednesday but includes a provision that will allow the mayor to continue negotiations with the police and fire unions. the deadline for those negotiations should be finished by october. the 21st. we want your two cents. because of these tough economic times should police officers and firefighters take furloughs? log on to our web site now at abc2news.com and take a look at the right side of the home page to vote in our on-line poll. time now 6:49. dozens of baltimore city cop cars are out of commission this morning and tainted fuel maying the cause. authorities say it looks like diesel was accidently mixed with gas at a city fueling station but officials are waiting for test results to be sure. so far 68 police cars have been disabled. a city police spokesperson says the department has enough vehicles that operations should not be affected. the city is now draining the fuel from the affected vehicles, replacing the fuel filters and cleaning out the

fuel injectors. some have already been fixed this morning. if you're looking for a new business to launch how would you like to buy a piece of history? baltimore's historic senator. the city began soliciting proposals for the operation for the baltimore landmark. the moviehouse which opened back in 1939 is listed on the national registry of historic places. baltimore took over the theater's mortgage this spring after the longtime owner defaulted on the loan. the city took ownership of the theater after it failed to sell at auction. if you get ready to board amtrak, marc or light rail you're warned to be a little patient. >> federal officials are warning that mass transit can be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. and we're going to send it now to sherrie johnson. she joins us live. >> reporter: good morning. mass transit systems all across the country and in baltimore at penn station are warned to beef up security patrols. this comes after authorities say that a man was charged with

trying to detonate backpack bombs on new york city trains. now, police believe that he's a part of an al-qaeda terror cell network. this person and two others were arrested over the weekend. one of the men was working with the fbi but according to court documents investigators say he turned around and warned other suspects that the government was monitoring them. now, authorities are trying to figure out if one of the suspects was part of a larger terror plot or trying to help federal investigators. >> the government asks to search his home. he consents. to a search of his home. they asked to take a dna sample. he consents to a dna sample. they asked him for more oral statements. he waives his miranda rights, gives an oral statement. >> reporter: the suspects are behind bars at this time. they have a hearing on thursday. reporting live at penn station, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. the 72-inch watermain that broke on friday, it could be a long time before life returns back to normal for neighbors in

dundalk. they are continuing to clean up after that pipe burst flooding out their homes, water logging and mud covering items. they are drying out on the lawns but so much had to be thrown away. now the big worry, dealing with the mold that started to grow. how much the insurance companies are going to reimburse them for all the damage. >> devastating. i opened up my doors and watched my refrigerator float by under here, entertainment center floating the other way. it's -- and i couldn't come down here. to see more because it was all full of water. the smell is starting to creep through the floor. you got to keep the windows open just to keep it ventilated. >> public works crews will bring in heavy pieces of equipment to excavate. and broening highway could be closed for a month as crews work to fix the pipes. one swine flu shot will protect most children but in your child, if your child is under 10 they need two shots, three weeks apart. the findings show that one shot

of the new vaccine provides older children with the protection within 10 days, just as standard flu vaccines do. younger children need two shots because they don't mount as potent as the immune response to the new vaccine. duke university researchers are developing a test to determine with a mere drop of blood who will get the influenza before the sniffling and fever ever set in. and they are turning to hundreds of dormitory dwellings, first-year students, to see if this works. students report daily whether they have the cold or flu symptoms. if they do a team test, not just -- but also for hallmates who might be incubating the infection. at this point you know that tanning is not healthy but officials in howard county, want to make it illegal.

today a county executive will propose a complete ban on the use of indoor tanning beds for minors. former miss maryland from 2006 will join the county executive. she was actually diagnosed with skin cancer from indoor tanning beds. the proposal will be sent to howard county for the board of health for their approval. for the third year in a row now the u.s. census bureau shows that maryland had the highest median income level, median household in maryland pulls in more than $70,000 but that doesn't mean folks are spending a lot of money. compare this, if you will, a dozen eggs will cost you 45 cents more in we theseda -- bethesda compared with tupalo, mississippi. burglars did not know who they were up against when they decided to rob who they thought was a frail 88-year-old man. >> the new jersey man says a woman came to his door posing as a member of a church across the street. she came into his house but he was not interested. so he turned her away.

that's when three men walked out of his home with the safe. bill got out of his wheelchair, and he went after them. >> i get out there and -- these two women and this guy -- i said, oh, my god! >> with her nails she put a gash through here, like -- i thought it was a knife wound. >> a little bit of soldier left in you? >> it's in me. >> his adrenaline must have kicked in. >> they didn't know who they were picking on >> they didn't know. i did a job on them. >> he sure did. we mentioned he's in a wheelchair. the world war ii veteran managed to chase the crooks off his property. even left the safe. good morning. 6:55. one little bit of good news, even though we're talking about patchy fog. some spots that had it yesterday don't have it this morning. parkville, we can see at least a treeline.

we couldn't see it yesterday. you're starting at 65 degrees. sparrows point, an interesting cloud view there, 67. we still have patchy fog this morning. plan for showers this afternoon. our two-degree guaranteed high of 77. some of the showers could be heavy and fall officially arrives at 5:18 p.m. 81 tomorrow with showers. 85 thursday with thunderstorms. we'll dry out on friday and drop in the 70s over the weekend. traffic is moving at a good pace on southbound 95 approaching the whitemarsh boulevard area. as you make your way down towards the beltway. you can see it's foggy there. we have fog in howard county as well on route 32 that is causing congestion in that area. southbound on the harrisburg expressway at belfast road, that scent still remains on the scene causing delays in mount carmel. and incidents in baltimore city still but no major impact on the commute. there you have it. we're done. but "good morning maryland" at 9:00. pops up at 9:00. justin will continue his countdown to fall. >> we're looking for that cow.

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