big loss for them and a good way for them to get their feelings out and show their appreciation for the young man that he was. >> like many of the students who graduate from the high school he set his sights on har ford community college just across campus. he was suiting up friday for the first time when he became unresponsive at practice and later died. the mark he left on hi former high school playing side by side with as many as 150 other students was undeniable. >> that is 50% of our school he had contact with on a daily basis, he was a very agree gary just young man who got along with the entire population, so it becomes a pig thing, where a lot of students want to speak with someone, after two days of being able to work through their grief, but being here brought some of that back for him. >> reporter: now a student whose future appeared so bright

is gone and students on two campuses are trying to find the words to say good-bye. >> i just got off the phone with doctor deb cruz with hdc and we're thinking of doing something for them and he loved basketball, and eriely did, but he was a great athlete and, you know, we'll miss him. we'll all miss him. >> reporter: we're told devon take's family which is split between harford county and baltimore city, are trying to finalize plans for a memorial. family and fellow officers said a final good-bye to a city officer james fowler, he died when his truck crashed into a barrier, he was on his way to penn state to participate on a training program on accident investigation. funeral services were held today at st. mark's church in

clay tonsville. he was laid to rest. the 33 year veteran leaves behind a wife and two children. well today ahs and maryland state flags are being flown at half-staff in memory of lieutenant gun done looney, he was one of four soldiers killed in a helicopter crash. the 29-year-old was assigned to a west coast-based seal team. he was a navy lacrosse player,. baltimore city police are searching for two suspects involved in a store robbery. they say a baltimore city schools police officer shot one of the three people involved in the robbery last night at the harford road family dollar store. someone approached the officer and told him that the store was being robbed. when the officer approached the suspects they tried to run, one of them threatened the officer, the officer fired, hitting one of the suspects. the other two got away. the officer is on routine leave. well just what we needed. more rain.

not really. you're looking at a live picture of the inner harbor where it is grey, damp and chilly, so when is this rain going to roll out of here? wyatt is in the storm center with a look at your first forecast? kelly, absolutely a wet and veer reand ugly day out there across the state. i mean just nasty stuff. but there is improvement as we go into the week. there is some good news on the outlook. we look at the radar, most of the showers clearing off to the north and east, rain from cecil county back down through parts of the eastern shore, temperature-wise look at this, one chilly early october day, 55 degrees downtown right now and we're almost down in the 40s in places like york and wilmington, a little bit of a gusty breeze out there as well. tonight down to 44, showers coming to an end eventually, even cooler weather is going to be on tap overnight. we'll talk much more about that and break down exactly when the

sunshine may rear its head again, it's all coming up. kelly. >> thanks wyatt. intelligence officials on high alert and believe that tractor teams from pakistan are already in europe prepared to strike. this information caused the state department to put americans traveling in europe on alert. here is john hendron. >> american tourists are getting a mixed but troubling message. be cautious if traveling in europe but don't cancel the trip. >> this is not a warning, travel warning, telling people not to go, this is simply to raise awareness and alertness. >> but law enforcement is concerned enough to issue a travel alert cautioning them about possible terrorist attacks in europe warning tourists they should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings. >> what they are wrestling with is they feel some threat out there, and they feel compelled to share that. >> reporter: they also have what they say a credible

information that a plot aimed at tourists is underway. it involves command oh raids. these german tractor recruits were shown practicing on propaganda camps. many of these people may have already been dispatched. >> if they believe they can pull it off i think there's every reason to be they might well go ahead and try it. >> reporter: but it isn't sideline basketball. the l.a. lakers are in london tonight and plenty of american tourists are on the streets. >> life has to go on. i don't think you can live in fear. >> i'm really here. >> reporter: they have learned among the possible airports are pre-security areas in five major european airports, they are advising them to avoid public transportation. john hendron, abc 2 news, washington. helen alton pleaded no contest to campaign finance violation charges today. it's the last chapter in that

whole corruption scandal that out of thed them from the whole thing this year. dixon's ex-boyfriend funded a poll that exceeded campaign finance limits during her re- election campaign. both lipton and paterakis, she received probation before judgment, find $2,500 and 1 year of unsupervised probation. u.s. supreme court is hearing argument from the case of a controversial west borrow church. they will hear arguments whether they are protected from the first amendment. they claim their deaths have got punishment for homosexuality. they they blatche blatche. well today former white house chief of staff ron emmanuel hit the streets to kick off his litany tour in the run for the mayor of chicago.

he listened to people at an l stop who made an unscheduled stop. his resignation was announced by president barack obama on friday. well green energy is on the agenda at the hinton hotel in downtown baltimore, there is a clear energy summit today, city and state lawmakers along with environmentalists are discussing ways to make maryland more environmentally friendly and create more jobs. >> clean energy is important right now. we can create and keep johns right here in america. by investing in green energy we can become energy secure and not have to rely on countries who disagree with our way of life for oil and we can also help our environment. >> the summit ends tonight after a reception and an awards banquet. a rutgers university is remembering a student who committed suicide after a sexual encounter with a male in

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a look at news around the nation begins in new jersey where the plight of gay college students is a cause for concern. after several recent suicides across the country. it was the tragic story of a rutgers university student that helped to bring it to national attention. here is t.j. which had dick. >> please rise and join us in a moment of silence. >> reporter: the tributes continued over the weekend for

rutgers freshman tyler clemente. >> my hope is that it be come something greater, that it be come the action of something bigger. >> reporter: the new jersey team took his own life after his sexual encounter with another man was streamed over the roommate. hours before his suicide he reportedly posted on his gay web site he asked his resident advisor for help. this rutgers student said when he confided three years ago it ended badly. >> when i was a freshman i came out to my sa that i was a transgender and she out of thed me from the building. >> reporter: openly gay singer lance bass admitted to mtv as a closeted teen he even used to bully gay classmates. >> when i was in mississippi i was one of the first ones to jump on the bandwagon to make

fun of a gay fern. >> reporter: gay college students experience significantly greater harassment. >> it is tough to allow young people to come out and find support and realize once you do come out you're not alone. >> reporter: under the prief cease of invasion laws the two students accused of bullying him could get up to 5 years in prison, if heat crime files are laid they could increase the sentence. t.j. winnik, new york. amusing for some kids in racine, wisconsin, saturday when the ride stopped spinning. 17 riders were trapped for hours braving wind gusts estimated at 50 miles per hour. >> it's really scary, they seem to be very brave. >> they returned the children safely to their parents, investigators are trying to determine why the wheel got stuck. and a 9-year-old boy figured out a way to cheat the

claw toy vending machines. he crawled right inside. fight firefighters say they have no idea how he did it but his parents found him in the machine with the toys in a wal- mart story. apparently he crawled in a 1 foot by 1 foot hole where a prize toy is usually dropped. firemen said though they never trained how to deal with that they were able to get the boy out quickly. >> we statistical tried to get his attention a few times because he was playing. he was happy to be in there but i don't think mom and dad were too happy. >> he crawled in there, he wanted the toys. i didn't know until i went to get him he was inside the machine. >> the boy went home with two toys. and in toronto, some pigs escape after a truck crashed on a highway. cruz built a makeshift pen to contain the animals. they say a truck driver was speeding and lost control rolling over and allowing about 60 pigs to escape.

the truck driver wasn't hurt and they gave hima ticket for careless driving. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by whether rate. >> what a way to start the week with all that rain. >> we know what happens as we start to get into october, we get some of these days, you know. >> yeah, doesn't make it better. >> and rainy dreary, a taste of what is to come. this is like one of the coldest days we have seen in early october. we never got out of the low to mid-50s, so that's unseasonable for early october. >> okay. >> ate little ahead could have schedule. let's take a hack at maryland's most power full radar, still oh wet weather in the direction of the east shore as well. the bottom line with this is we're still going to see some shower activity back through eastern maryland here, cecil county a little bit of light rain, back through kent county

as well, showers up through delaware and on into pennsylvania and up towards philly, actually. take a look it a our weather net camera today. out across the inner harbor, grey skies, but conditions not bad. 53 degrees right now. humidity at 83% and a nasty northwest wind. steady at 9, but man it has gusted a lot higher than that through the day today. our high temperatures, 56 at the inner harbor, yeah, that's not that great of a high temperature for early october. in fact, the coldest day that we have ever adonal record for this date would be 54 so two degrees above that. right now temperatures are certainly very, very chilly, 53 out at the airport, 52 there in easton, wind currently 9, 14, 15 miles per hour, it's breezy. we have seen some gusts up 18, 20 miles per hour, as we look at satellite radar trend bottom line is murky cushions, still cloudy, but the rain abating down toward d.c. and northern virginia.

that's what headed into our direction, so bottom line is we're looking add improving weather overnight and into the day tomorrow. but by tomorrow night the backside of this low, these sort of wrap-around showers may bring a little more rain tomorrow night. then finally we begin to dry out later in to the week here. let's take a look at that. bottom line is this, through the overnight period here, cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. the wraparound moisture, that may come in as some scattered showers, then as we work into the day wednesday, partly to mostly cloudy, better weather, on tapas we go into the day on thursday. let's break it down for you tonight. showers will come to an end later this evening, probably 9, 10:00, 44 degrees overnight, even cool earn, it is going to be one chilly start tomorrow morning. as you look at your 2-degree guarantee, 61 degrees, mostly cloudy skies. breezy dryer conditions, that's going to be the bottom line for us but we'll take the drier part of that. okay.

tomorrow night still the chance of a few showers as that moisture wraps around the system and finally as we go into the latter part of the week here we're going to get rid of this moisture. take a look, we'll drake break it down in detail on our seven- day forecast, you can see the chance for showers going to be there on an isolated basis tuesday early, maybe late wednesday, most of the week looks dry. especially as we go from thursday into friday, fantastic weather coming back into the area for the weekend. we'll look forward to that. kelly? >> an estimated 29,000 people took part in the komen maryland race for the cure yesterday, the 5k race and walkways money for breast cancer, research, and support programs. the event celebrates survivors and those women who lost the battle with the disease. komen officials say they expect to raise $3 million, it was a spectacular day, great turn out. former president jimmy

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in tonight's health alert, having trouble losing weight? there may be a simple answer. try getting a good night's sleep. that's the message from a new study. dieters who get 8 or more hours of night time sleep lose more fat than people who skip out and sleep. >> reporter: can't lose weight in maybe you just need a good night's rest. a new study from the university of chicago medical center found that people who get adequate sleep lose more fat than those who skip out on sleep. the study included 10 overweight or obese participants aged 35 to 49. when they got 8.5 hours of sleep they lost an average of 3.1 pounds of fat in a 14-day period. but those who got 5.5 hours of sleep or less lost only 1.3 pounds of fat. levels of a hormone that triggers hunger spiked as the dieters got less sleep, making

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penn national, who owns hollywood casino in perryville, owns a majority of the track, correspondence dish points out, it's illegal for one company to own two gaming licenses. >> it's a law. they cannot have slots. it's illegal in maryland. to own two licenses. that's the law. >> reporter: cordish has more at stake here. according to the state's location commission they are voting no to slots altogether. the gaming license was approved based on location. if it's defeated come november the license is rendered useless unless the county grease on a location, a development he says could mean millions in lost revenue. >> it means the zoning has to start over, it means many many years of delay for us, for the county. >> reporter: a bet now squarely in