. from mortgage mess to foreclosure freeze. homeowners close to losing their homes may get to stay a little longer. good evening i'm christian schaffer. more banks are putting the brakes on the foreclosure process to review paperwork that may be fraudulent. diana a has that story. >> reporter: the number of banks halting foreclosures is growing amid the revelation home owners were evicted with the blessing of bank officials who didn't bother to read the paperwork they were seek some called robo signers. >> they have been violating the law repeatedly. it's a lot cheaper and a lot quicker if they ignore the law.

>> reporter: so far j. p. morgan chase, ally and pnc financial group have halted foreclosures in 23 states. bank of america has halted sales of foreclosed homes in all 50 states while they review their paperwork. >> you're dealing with 50,000 loans in one case maybe 50, 40, 60,000. that's plenty of paperwork to have to go through. >> reporter: what the does this mean for the consumer first it bicycle troubled homeowners some time. faced with the prospect of reviewing so much paperwork banks may decide not to foreclosure after all. >> that will cost them a significant amount of money and might actually give them an incentive to try to modify people's homes instead of race through foreclosure, which is what they are doing today. >> reporter: which means it may become more cost efficient to keep americans in their homes. >> this issue has grown so contentious president obama vetoed a little known bill that would have sped up natura

sayings. what's needed most right now is more time all around when it comes to processing foreclosure. abc news los angeles. governor martin 0 mallory says bank of america has taken a step in the rate direction to halt foreclosures while it reviews its procedures. dogginess letter and representative elijah cummings sent a joint letter to other lenders urging them to follow bank of america's example. hartford community college is celebrating the life of basketball player devon take brownly. he died during his first basketball practice at the school. the public is invited to attend a service at hartford community college to be held tomorrow from 4:00 to 7:00 in the globe cafe' in the isn't center. funeral service is also planned for tomorrow. a man is recovering after an attack at baltimore highlands elementary school inland down. it happened shortly after 1:00 a.m. the man says a group of ten men assaulted him and stabbed him in the back three times. the man tried the treat the

wounds himself but went to a convenience store to call police. he is expected to be okay. go to our web site www.wmar.com click on the crime check tab. authorities in hartford county need your help to identify two men that posed as door-to-door salesmen. when the victim wouldn't buy their pitch they forced their way through his front door. authorities say in less than a minute they grabbed cash, credit cards and some bags of prescription medicine. and then ran out the door. the baltimore city police department's sexual assault unit is getting a financial boost from the state. the governor's office has awarded the city $278,000 in grant money that will go directly to training and new equipment to help better investigate and solve sex assaults in the city. guilty is the verdict for two men who police say gunned down former baltimore city council plan ken harris. 17-year-old jerome williams and

22-year-old charles mcganey were convicted on all counts a third man was acquitted on second degree murder but found guilty on all other counts. harris was shot and killed during a robbery back in 2008. another day of mighty fine weather across maryland blue skies temperatures hovering in the mid-70s out there. tough to complain. little breezy but i mean good stuff. let's take a look first at maryland's most powerful radar. five sweeps into motion for you. bottom line nothing. we expect the radar to stay clear right through the weekend. our visible satellite imagery not a cloud in the sky in maryland nor any of the surrounding states. and in fact as we zoom in a little closer to home the one thing we have some beautiful temperatures in the mid to upper 70s right now. this evening we fall through the 70s and eventually down into the 60s under clear sky. how warm through columbus day you ask? that answer coming up in a few minutes. thanks a lot wyatt.

democracy 2010. maryland is taking absentee ballots to the web. it will be one of the first states to open up that option. the ballots are to be available on the maryland election center web site the system will assign a security number and then create a personalized mailing label with the bar code to make sure only one absentee ballot is counted per person. governor o'malley and his opponent former governor bob you are lick have agreed to duke it out on a second debate. the democratic compensate has agreed to debate you are lick on radio show from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. the two candidates are running on a rematch of the 2006 gubernatorial race. to the latest on the death of an american man shot jet skiing on a lake at the u. s. mexico border. the mexican government has opened a federal investigation and is looking for the man's body. the wife says her husband was shot and killed by mexican pirates on falcon like a little more than a week ago as they

returned on jet skis from a sight seeing trip into mexico. passengers and crew had to get out fast after the engine on air allegiant jet caught fire. smoke was defectsed as the plain was about to take off. the passengers were diverted to another aircraft no one was hurt. two months ago a similar incidents occurred on the opposite end of that route. as children become more internet savvy the risk of losing their privacy becomes an issue. on monday the poll's sponsor launched a campaign to try and teach kids how to protect their personal information and reputations online something some lawyers say can be difficult to do because of how information spreads on the web. >> when people go online and they publish pictures and they

publish stories, instead of it being published to five or six people it's an entire school or an entire town. >> or indeed the entire world some say internet discretion education for kids would be a good start. well, lightning strikes two best friends outside their school. that's when their teacher springs into action becoming their lifesaving hero. we'll tell you about them. plus yoga supposed to be good for the mind body and spirit. one religious leader says not if you're a christian. for great gas mileage

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woman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn't know what he's done since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich's raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don't need help. middle class marylanders do. . big day for the dow. the dow jones closing above 11,000 for the first time in five months. the federal reserve is going to take more action to try to get the economy moving again. nasdaq gained 18.

s & p 500 gained about 7 points. in tonight's consumer alert amazon will soon be able to give you an app for that. the company is getting ready to open its own line app store according to reports the apps would be for smart phones that run google's android software. amazon already competes with apple's itunes in sales of digital manufacturing books and video and now of course mlb competing against google which runs its own digital app marketplace. record numbers at baltimore washington thurgood mashall airport. more than 2 million passengers traveled through the airport in august all time high for that month second busiest month ever. part of that is thanks to the largest airline southwest the airline boosted its number of daily depart thursday to 182. that is the most ever for southwest. could you be working your way into the hospital? americans work more hours and take less time off to relax than people in other countries it could be taking a toll on your health. plus from the church to the

yoga matt one religious leader says yoga is bad for christians. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. "maryland is moving forward"... ...and moving maryland forward. [ female announcer ] ...this jobs report tells the truth... maryland's economy stalled. [ male announcer ] "we face an uphill struggle in trying to regain the jobs lost." [ female announcer ] o'malley attempts a cover-up, falsifying the jobs report to help his campaign. [ male announcer ] "whatever we can do to make it disappear, we need to do it.

that's coming straight from the top..." [ female announcer ] martin o'malley. first he makes stuff up. when caught, he covers stuff up. we need a governor who tells the truth.

. the weight loss drug is being pulled off the market. the drug manufacture is withdrawing meridia because of links to serious side effects including heart attacks and strokes. europe and canada have already banned the drug. could your job be bad to are your health. americans work more hours and take less time off to relax than any other industrialized country. as t. j. winick tells us all those factors could be taking a toll.

>> reporter: hours after michigan state celebrated a heart pounding overtime victory mark antonio was lucky to very beating heart. he under went immediate an yo massty. he had a blood clot in his leg. he plans to coach again this weekend. >> i'm not going to miss michigan week i'm not going to miss it. something special about this week rivalry week. >> reporter: is it commend able or questionable. >> if the doctor gives me the okay why not. >> you want everyone to know you're okay. >> reporter: sports is just one profession where employees spend hours at work trying to stay ahead of the competition. a recent study in england found those working 10 to 11 hours a stay were as much as 60% more like think to suffer hard

disease or die prematurely. >> americans work harder than any other industrialized nation in the world we take the least time off for rational activities. >> reporter: three days after stepping down at florida's head coach urban myers decided to stay. >> when you put your heart soul and everything into being a father and coach it hard. >> i do believe what doesn't kill you is going to make you stronger. >> reporter: after being told his doctor spartans coached displayed that strength against michigan this saturday. >> one way to relax yoga exercises the mind body and spirit. some question with it turns you

away from religious. >> one says christians to practice yoga can transform their spiritual lives. many disagree. >> yoga only enters a person's personal belief it strengthens my belief in god and christianty. >> they don't incorporate any sort of religion into the physical elements of the class. >> there are several christians who teach and practice yoga it does interfere with their religion many others say they agree yoga and christianty don't mix. >> ladies handed out free veggie dogs near city hall at lunch time. dozens of people came out for a sample. i don't know if they ate them or not.

according to one health magazine baltimore is ranked the 8th most unfit city in the country. although she is fit. . if you're going to wear a bikini of lettuce you need to be in good shape. she didn't have much lettuce. >> she didn't have much to spare we'll put it that way. >> sunday i can't believe how nice it's going to be ravens are home. it's going to be a big tailgating sunday. >> seems like so many with the games it's baking hot early in the season you're down there sweating late in the season freezing. >> it's looking perfect. >> oh, man it's as good as it gets. look outside, man, this is a nice, nice baltimore night. harbor cam capturing just a beautiful sunny scenario out there. still couple of hours of daylight left. like this part of fall we have not turned the clocks back an

hour you don't have this super early sunsets but you do have that gorgeous fall weather. 75 degrees right now. humidity 32%. and winds west at 9. so a bit of a breeze all day not bad a refreshing winds. break down the winds in detail across the state. winds around 9, 10, 12 miles per hour. 12 miles per hour breeze in dover ocean city with about 8 miles per hour winds. want to show you some of our weather net cams statewide. check out mount eric you talk about nice blue skies man, sapphire gorgeous skies not a cloud. high uv index and a day where you really needed the sunglasses out there. take you down to chesapeake beech down toward christian schaefer country inson maryland we've got gorgeous blue skies as well. great day to be out on the water out on the boat. no chop out on the water stillwaters in the bayda. high temperatures across the state not bad at all we were talking about 70s on the whole. mid to upper 70s in many cases

oceanst 75. get one more beech weekend in. hold 70s all weekend lockdown that way. temperatures statewide hovering into the mid-70s close to our highs on the day. and through the day tomorrow expecting very similar numbers. hampton tomorrow 78, federal hill. i think we could hit 80 in the heart of the harbor certainly down in the south baltimore. and then we take you north here and a little cooler off to the north neighborhood by neighborhood. harbor to grace we're talking 75 or so. as we look south edgewood 76. nice day, nice weather, and this is going to carry overall weekend long into our sunday. ravens broncos kick off at 1:00. we're expecting 70, sunny conditions, and winds almost calm, which is unusual for an october football game. you know that. so kickers will have no excuses out there on sunday. satellite radar trend clear skies up and down the east coast. there is just not a cloud in the sky until you get well

south and offshore of the outer banks of north carolina. high pressure culprit giant area of high pressure continues to settle in out of the west. that's going to mean cool nights and cooler north of us up to the new england states but back down through the mid atlantic dry mild conditions all weekend long. good stuff and perfect timing for columbus day weekend. future forecast tonight just a couple of passing clouds. and then as we go into your day tomorrow we're talking about rather into sunday another day featuring a lot of sunday, just a few passing clouds enough of a breezy condition where we probably won't see 80s but we will continue to see 70s. 50 tonight tomorrow we're talking about 78 or so. sunny and breezy tomorrow night down into the mid to up 40s. quick check of the 7-day. bottom line more good weather on tap as we charge towards ravens sunday and columbus day almost 80 degrees. you got to love it. thanks, wyatt. weather news out of utah. two boys struck by lightning

but a quick acting teacher helped save their lives. sam champion spoke with the teacher who is being hailed as a hero. >> i thought i was looking at two dead boys. >> reporter: this is the spot where social science teacher ron hanson's life changed forever. >> to come out see two boys laying on their backs smoldering who's prepared for that? >> reporter: it happened during a sudden violent thunderstorm. he heard a clap of thunder and some screams. when he ran out of his classroom to see what happened, he found the unthinkable. two students and best friends 17-year-old alec lamb son and dane flat on their backs struck by lightning clothes and bond still smoldering. the lightning had stopped their hearts. >> i was in tears. >> reporter: instead of panicking ron sprang into as immediately administering cpr he dragged them back into school

until the paramedics arrived. they were airlifted to a trauma hospital their bodies artificial cooled 6 degrees below normal. their families believe ron is a hero. he. >> we have ron to thank for saving our sons lives. >> reporter: he disagrees and believes anyone in his circumstance would do the same thing. >> we know they are grateful. we're just grateful we could be here to do our part. the ravens were put on the pink in support of breast cancer awareness month they will be wearing pink when they take on the denver broncos. the coach said they decided to have everyone wear the cleats for one game instead of a few players wearing them some weeks. some players are also going to wear pink chinstraps pink towels kick off at 1:00. downtown at m and t bank

stadium. well, now that school is back in session it's time for a history lesson. we're going to take a field trip back to some homes in annapolis to learn more about the historic artifact that they hold inside. plus baltimore city sexual assault unit is getting help from the state. those stories and more coming up at 6:00. a preview what's ahead on world news at 6:30. jobs in america, new numbers are out, what do they mean for you and who you vote for in november. plus the boy who stormed washington and rewrote history giving 6 million americans a voice and respect they deserve. our person of the week tonight on world news with diane sawyer on abc.

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.

. fans around the world are getting ready to celebrate the life of john lennon he would have been 70 years old tomorrow. his widow yoko ono will light the peace tower in island. yoko says she hopes to get 1 million twitter users to tweet for peace in honor half his birthday tomorrow. guilty verdicts in the trial of the men charged with killing baltimore city councilman that's coming up at 6:00 which starts right now. > a jury convict two in the murder of a former baltimore city council plan. the third defendant is acquitted of murder but not robbery. good evening everyone i'm roosevelt leftwich. the verdicts mark the end of a two-year struggle for ken harris's family as they hope this verdict will send a strong message. >>