of the robbery. >> i think it's hard to predict what juries think. again, i don't know. i would have thought if they found him not guilty of the felony murder they would have found him not guilty of the felonies attached to the murder. i guess not. but again very pleased with the acquittal. >> reporter: attorneys were hesitant to speculate why the jury made its decision but the fact they traded the masks during the robbery may have led to murder convictions. attorneys say they still don't believe the dna found in the mask was enough to convict. >> my client is a strong young man, and i vivid them, you know, the pre-trial issues we raised to dna are going to have to be resolved by an appellate court. because mixture dna in my judgment at least is not the holy grail in criminal cases. >> reporter: harris was shot to death as he fled from a

robbery in a jazz club. >> this is a message to the criminals of baltimore city that they can just not get away with murdering someone and think that they are going to walk away free. so we give all honor to our lord and savior jesus christ because he is the one who gives us the victory. i'm wearing purple today because purple meant victory and i feel that today we have the victory. thank you. >> sentencing for all three men will be on october 19th. in a statement the mayor said quote i am deeply relieved to learn justice was delivered in a baltimore city circuit court that the individuals responsible for the senseless violent murder of ken harris will be held to account for their actions. baltimore city police sex crime sexual assault unit is

finally getting a financial boost from the state. last summer the unit came under fire for the amount of quote unfounded reps reported in the city. now the mayor's asked for the grant to help fix this problem. brian kuebler joins us with more. >> reporter: rosie the governor's office awarded the city $278,000. it is money that will go directly to training and new equipment to better investigate and solve sexual assault in the city. the mayor said she applied for the grant to help the police department and the mayor's office overhaul the sexual assault unit. >> offer training for our officers and detectives, it will help us clear up the backlog with testing the dna testing we have to move the cases forward. we're going to hire a coordinator to turn around the investigation more smoothly. >> reporter: the sexual assault unit continues to go

through major changes. it is under the watchful eye of a new major whose detectives have already worked and solve several cases one of which we'll highlight coming up tonight at 6:00. brian kuebler abc 2 news. they are asking for your help in identifying two men behind a home invasion robbery in abington next week. jeff joins us with more. >> reporter: they posed as door-to-door salesmen. when the victim balked at their pitch they forced their way through his front door. >> they never said they had a weapon never showed a weapon. >> reporter: faced with a pair of brazen men in late teens or early 20s pushing their way inside his home. charles johnston pushed back. >> most of it is healed up i got a cut on my head and on my face from where they -- when i struggled with them. and they pushed me into a picture that was hanging on the

wall. >> reporter: in less than a minute's time the two men pictured here in these composite drawings grabbed cash credit cards and bags of prescription medicine before running out the door. >> i had just gotten something filled from walgreen's, for heartburn and prescription eye drops for my wife. >> i don't think they knew what they were getting. >> reporter: monica world of the hartford county sheriff's office says residents should take precautions. >> if you're not familiar with someone who is knocking on your door please don't open the door. let people know you're home alone and you should be doing business with people that you know or that you've initiated the contact with. >> reporter: lesson charles johnston learned the hard way as he confronted the men invading his home and backed off when he realized the thieves were after quick cash and little more. >> i mean, it's not worth losing what little bit i lost when i have a 3-year-old son

and a wife. it's not worth all that to risk, you know, what they took for something. i wouldn't have fought back anyway. >> reporter: if you recognize either of the men in those sketches call detective phil golden (410)836-5430. jeff hager abc 2 news. under investigation tonight a washington d. c. hit- and-run claims the life of a columbia woman. key llama rhea ryan was celebrating her birthday. she was getting out of her car when an suv struck her and drove off. she died several hours later at the hospital. >> she was a very pleasant young girl, very optimistic, wanting to exceed in everything she could be. >> a man jumped on his bicycle

and chased the suv. he was able to get the license number. investigators say when police arrived davidson sat in the drivers seat they took her into custody and charged her with dui. another splendid day of weather across maryland lots of sunshine out this. blue sapphire skies fantastic way to connect off a long weekend for a lot of people. temperature wise mid-70s. >> that's not bad. >> pushing 80 in d. c. we got 75 at bwi. warmer downtown closer to 77 there. 73 necessary ton right now. you have to zoom out to the entire east coast of the u. s. to find a cloud you really almost can't find one across the entire east. 70s it's going to stay nice and clear and mild. good looking friday night to head out do wherever your plans take you. more weather coming up in a few

minutes rosie. it's a good news bad news situation on the job front. the bad news isn't doing any good for president barack obama's reputation or democrats head into the november election. >> reporter: this is not the kind of information democrats wanted to hear just 3 weeks before election time. the private sector is seeing some growth the federal government is reeling from big tight job cuts. the latest numbers from the u. s. labor department are startling. according to the latest staff the private sector added 64,000 jobs in september but it was the opposite with uncle sam. thanks to a wave of layoffs nearly 160,000 federal workers were laid off for a net loss of 95,000 jobs. it's news that would be tough to hear at any time but democrats are reeling from an additional punch that's given their opponents another selling point. >> a pink slip shouldn't be going to workers here in ohio. they should be going to the members of president obama's economic team. >> reporter: with today's numbers there has been a net of

7.8 million jobs lost since december 2007. josie s abc 2 news. in the be will dering case of kyron. the father believers the wife tried to hire someone to kill him. divorce proceedings could be part of investigators strategies concern cain said was revealing about terry's position. >> you have to get on the stand plead the 5th you can't tell exactly what happened or didn't happen. if you put the truth out there it's not incriminating why wouldn't she say what happened. >> the judge has put terry and cain's divorce on hold calling it unlike any case to come before the state's family court law. waiting and praying the

families of 33 trapped chilean miners are hoping. as families pray nearby the drill pushed through the final section of rock above the underground chamber. once a drilling is complete a camera will be lowered through the shaft it will help determine whether the miners can be pulled up through the exposed rock or plus wait for the shaft to be encased with steel piping. >> waiting bothers you every minutes of every day. >> the actual rescue is expected to take 48 hours. they have been underground since the beginning of august. a coach is sidelined but it's not because he did anything wrong. it's because he's in a wheelchair. the organization says his chair is too dangerous for football. keeping active may have to do as much with the spirit as

it does with the body. we'll get up close and personal with a different kind of spirit. we'll learn about some of annapolis oldest and spookyest residents. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college.

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annapolis was once the nation's capitol it is still home to the oldest state capitol building in use in the country. the town has a rich maritime history did you also know it is home to ghosts? don harrison introduces us to a few of them. >> reporter: no one knows what lurks in the dark corners. this is the st. ann church yard cemetery, and there once worked here a man named joseph simmons known among the annapolis towns people as joe morgue people of the town were afraid of him. they averted his gaze if he caught you staring at him he

would look at you and say i'll have you one day. , and many of them he did, for he did continue digging graves up until the day he died. and this is the little bryce house. one evening little sara turner went into the parlor and came running frightened pale of face to the judge and said judge bryce judge bryce there's a figure in the parlor could it be that little sara turner had had a brush with the dead? >> i want you to see where poor henrietta maria came and

where she died. it was in this bed for 10 months. got sicker and sicker. they bled her, they gave her a physique. they gave her all these things to eat. but she got sicker and sicker, and she died. you can sometimes hear a little child walking. listen. the spirits here. >> oh,donn that's a good one. you can check out the haunted ghosts tour every friday and saturday through october 30th. the two hour tour starts at

7:30 at the museum. there will be a special halloween tour on october 31st. you can call (410)268-7601. extension 100 for more information. and i see ghosts of rain that have gonna way just flowing away. >> we like to see those ghosts. because i've been telling everyone we paid the proprietor early in the week good timing for the weekend. >> 3 day weekend for a lot folks. >> basking in the sun warming it up. what more do you want. we definitely don't need anymore rain. >> exactly. >> let's take a look outside blue skies no rain to tell you about here. just a fantastic picturesque looking friday around here. and again, very tough to complain. temperatures 75 degrees. humidity 32%. winds west at 9. and as we take a look at your almanac numbers

on the day, 70 is typical, obviously the date's a little bit off this, but 70 would be typical. today we were above that. take a look at our weather net acura down. see beautiful blue skies we take you south into washington. very beautiful blue skies as well. this was the theme all day today on across the entire mid atlantic nothing but sunshine out there, and nary a cloud in the sky. i mean, just about as deep blue of a sky as you've ever see in early october. winds a little breezy once again today out of the north, but they couldn't really cool us down much with all that widespread sunshine. sun still pretty intense in october. so temperatures warm up really rapidly after starting off around the upper 40s this morning. quick rebound. 76 out of bwi. 77 in hagerstown. next several hours this friday

evening fire up the grill still going to be a pretty mild night out there. he enjoy what may be one of our last warm evenings here in the fall season because we know things will begin to turn later in the month. your neighborhood by neighborhood. hamden about 70. federal hill south side of town could hit 80 with all the sunshine. of course the concrete helps to warm things up with the sunshine too. your neighborhood through the day tomorrow maybe 75 or so. edgewood 76. widespread sunshine all across the board through the day tomorrow. up and down the east coast bottom line is this where we had the troughing earlier this week that brought us all the rain steady disturbances and murky conditions not only is that storm out of here but we now have widespread ridging jet stream riding well north of us. cool, dry and mild is the bottom line. cool by night. mainly dry and mild by day. this giant area of high pressure big ridge over maryland over the east coast. that's going to keep the sunshine burning brightly and also keep the temperatures

pretty mild every afternoon we're talking mid-70s through the weekend. things might change a little bit tomorrow. this is saturday afternoon. if you look real carefully narrow patch of cloud cover all it's going to mean we won't warm up as rapidly as we normally would. i don't think we're going to see too many 80s on the map. downtown and south of us tomorrow we may see some 80s around here. in our future forecast sunday just a partly cloudy day, but on the whole pretty nice looking weather out there. you definitely want to take it in and enjoy it. tonight you know, just a break down the details. 50, clear, cal. not quite as cool overnight but on the whole a great looking friday night to head out and about and a beautiful evening. fire up the grill or whatever you like to do outside. two degree guarantee 78 tomorrow. some spots likely to hid 80 downtown baltimore south side

of town howard county closer to the d. c. area southern anne arundel county closer to 80. tomorrow night 48 or so overnight. most of the evening will be in the 60s. it's going to be a pleasantly mild evening out there for your saturday night, and again, getting cooler though by daybreak sunday morning. let's look ahead to the entire columbus day weekend. break it down for you day by day. we're still looking at fantastic weather for our 7-day forecast right through ravens sunday low 70s that day. pushing back close to 80 we think on columbus day monday. rain tuesday into wednesday of next week. rosie. >> nice. if you're looking for something to do tonight in these nice balmy temperatures you can take a trip under the sea for five bucks. national aquarium is cutting back on prices basic admission ticket are going back to 1981 prices only 5 bucks.

it's part of the aquarium's kick off to its 30th anniversary. and if you've been wanting a new ipad now is your time to get one for free. all you have to do is like us, from now until december 3rd at abc 2 is giving our viewers a chance to take home a .32 gigabyte apple ipad with wifi log on to facebook and our fan page. click on the sweepstakes tab and enter to win. must be 18 or older to enter. apple care protection are not included in this prize. good luck. staying active is important specially for older americans. now new research shows exercising their faith may be just as helpful as exercising their bodies. a football coach is band from the field because of his wheel now he's fighting back to get with his team.

. a kansas football coach says he is getting sidelined because of his wheelchair. it has been labeled a hazard to players on the field. the football and cheerleading club of johnson county says it's okay for him to be on the sideline but he has got to stay behind the play and another coach has to be in front of him as a buffer. >> later on in the season when it rains and gets wet and sidelines get muddy it's hard for people that are standing there to get out of the way. >> i can move just as fast if not faster an i lot of people out on told. >> the coach has appealed to the league and meet with them on monday to try to get back on the field. >> one of the challenges facing healthcare professionals is how to keep older americans active. new research suggests those who

treat the body may have something to learn from those who treat the spirit. dr. timothy johnson has more. >> reporter: getting senior citizens to exercise is part of keeping them healthy. african-american women make up the least active segment of our population. a new study finds one way to keep them moving may be to mobilize their faith. african-american women are among the most religious people in the u. s. researchers from ucla took 62 subjects from three mostly african-american churches and divided them into two groups. one was put on a program of weekly 45 minute exercise sessions followed by exercise education, scripture readings and group prayer. the other group got the exercise, but without the faith based reinforcement. after four weeks the authors found that physical activity levels had increased by 78% in

the first group compared to 91% in the other group. the first group also showed a drop in resting blood pressure. the authors say it doesn't prove adding religion made the difference but it's more than a matter of faith. with this medical minute i'm dr. timothy johnson. >> across the country number of banks freezing foreclosures is growing. all and the forecast all coming up at abc 2 news at 5:30. so who is "making stuff up"? the news media say it's bob ehrlich... with attacks that have been called "false" and "misleading." made up attacks bob ehrlich knows aren't true. but here's what's not made up. bob ehrlich's $3 billion in taxes and fees. the $2.5 million he got paid

working at a lobbying firm. or the fact ehrlich worked for the casinos to put slots at arundel mills mall. now, bob...that's all true.

i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. his past attacks have been called deceptive, his new attack, false. harris voted for deregulation increasing our electric bills by 72% it's not surprising, harris always sides with the big guys. he opposes cracking down on wall street and supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. harris even opposed making big insurance cover cancer screenings. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us.