they did that but they say the other camp pulled a fast one, it is to be the first debate of this campaign, members of the youth community made up most of the ah against of 50 people. but three people in the audience led governorrer lick to walk away early. >> we have some technical problems and we'll get that to you later. >> the mayor of baltimore, stephanie rolls blake has gone from city hall to the white house at least for today. he along with a group of governors, cabinet ministers, met with barack obama to discuss infrastructure investments, it was part of a new attempt to focus attention on the plan to invest $50 billion on highway rail and improvements. >> now top stories, a series of attacks in the university of college park campus. a graduate constitutionality is to blame for at least one of

them. 11-year-old don martinez cruz is charged with sexual assault after a student accused him of grab being her inappropriately. she said it happened in the constitutionality union. a second came forward to report a assault in that same building but there is no report on whether the attacks are related. a violent weekend, 6 homocide in baltimore city over the past three days. police are investigating the possibility that two of the shootings are related. the republican candidate for new york governor is on the hot seat tonight after telling orthodox jewish leaders he didn't want children to be "brainwashed into thinking homoassault home sexuality is acceptable. he said the remarks showed a disregard for equality. it was an absolutely

gorgeous day outside. once between on this columbus day, you couldn't have asked for a better weekend. and even today, still holding temperatures in the 80s, oh yes. it is fall but not feeling like it whatsoever. let micheaux you some of those temperatures because we came in at 83 degrees into baltimore and 86 into washington. yeah, definitely close to the 90s, but this is what we have right now. 86 degrees into culpepper, winchester, 82 into hagerstown, frederick, 81, dover at 76 degrees, salisbury at 82 and york, pennsylvania, right now at 78 trees, they might cool down a little bit because they are getting some thunderstorms trying to roll through their area right now. the most powerful radar is dry for now. we could see showers moving in. this evening temperatures at 74 degrees with increasing clouds across the area, can't rule out a shower or thunderstorm. let's go back to christian. >> thanks lynette. police in washington state wants to know what is sickening

dozens of students, some could face stiff penalties, they are reviewing the conduct of students who were at that off campus party, it could range this from an alcohol education class to suspension or expulsion. they found 60 underaged people sick or unconscious and it appears that someone spiked their drinks. >> we're saying don't drink out of the red cups, don't drink out of the red cups, and i know i had saw someone drink out of the red cup, i took one drink and i through it without a single drink. that's how powerful it was. >> police now waiting for drug tests as they wait to identify who might have spiked those. the rescue capsule that is posed to bring 33 miners to the surface was given a test run. that capsule was lowered to within 46 feet of the chamber where the miners have been trapped for the last few

months. hair stylists are seeing pink. they are trading blonde ones for ones that make a statement. one man's trash is another man's treasure. a man is build agriculture home with items he finds in landfills. jobs over seas.

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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.

on friday dow jones industrial average managed to hit 11,000 for the first time since jump. today, pretty even, 3.86 gain for the dow, the s & p went up .17, the nasdaq up about half a point today. economists believe one reason for the continued high unemployment is that employers are now being very picky when hiring. a cord to go the wall street journal they lack confidence in the outlook for consumer demand and are not sure what government regulations could be imposed in the future, they are taking the time to hire the best qualified candidates. they are saying one man's trash is another man's treasure certainly holds true for a couple in texas. they design and bill homes from things you might s to out.ed la convenience dara has that story. >> reporter: license plate

roofs, picture frame ceilings, wine cork floors. >> it feels really good, really cushy. >> reporter: those are a few of the quirky home treasures dan phillips is designing from trash. >> reporter: i suspected one could build a house out of whatever went in the landfill. >> reporter: new he is turning that in to a business. >> i think it's worth trying. >> reporter: his wife marcia blends a creative hand but clients don't have much say. the designs grow primarily from the materials. >> they can't say i would like the bathroom pink, you can't do that unless you found some pink paint in the dump. >> reporter: he builds exclusively for artists, low income families and single moms and he encourages many of histants to be to help construct their future homes. >> you now 4th know how to maintain it because you wilt it yourself the first place. you protect it because you know how many times you hit your

thumb and how dirty and as welly you got. >> kristi stevens and her two sons helped remodel this 900 square foot home. they are living in it paying $368 a month. >> i'm very, very proud of the work. it's probably the hardest work i've ever done. >> reporter: phillips only builds in texas but his model is spreading quickly. he says a group in australia is now work to go bring his novel recycling idea down under. >> that wassed laughen dare reporting. well making a get away to space is closer to becoming a reality. a look at the plans for space tourism, a program that could be up and running in the not too distant future. >> abc 2 works for the community. a proud partner with the johns hopkins children's center. for

bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust.

well some disabled people are getting a new lease on life thanks to a win in garcia and a few of her furry friends. jennifer arnold found canine assistance. they trained service cogs to help people who have service disabilities, as a teenager she had special needs. she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, her father thought she would be more independent with the help of a service dog. he set out to create a training program just three weeks later by a drunk driver. arnold carried out her father's plans each after she went into

remission. >> the deal i made with myself was that in it was something i could do to try to make life easier for other people who were facing similar circumstances, that's what i was gonna do. >> almost 20 years later, arnold's non-profit group has saved put 1,000 service dogs with people who need them. two waiters from baltimore are almost in san diego. they went on a crosse country bike ride to benefit their charity group bike free. they raise money to give free bikes to children of parents in the military, the dew oh began their journey in june at the inner harbor. google is known for driving traffic on the internet. now they are getting into the car business. they are creating an automobile that can drive it in traffic using artificial intelligence software. it is provided with a group of

sensors, the car even mimics the decisions that are made by a human driver. not sure if that's a good idea. >> and virgin galactic's space tourism rocket spaceship 2 achieved its first solo glide flight yesterday. they plan to eventually fly paying passengers into space. they carried eve to a release over the mojave desert. the entire flight lasted about 25 minutes. >> now, maryland's most power full doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> what do you think lynette. would you get blasted into space on a virgin galactic flight? >> sure. what about you? >> it would be kind of nervewracking. >> i know, i know. >> the thing that's going to stop you from doing it is the cost. it is going to cost $100,000 for a round trip ticket. >> can you imagine that.

>> it would be cool but -- >> you could pay for me and then i'll go. >> you got it. let's make some plans. >> we'll do that. you know what, though, today would have been a wonderful day. >> gorgeous right here 0 on earth. >> exactly. right here on earth. all started over the weekend. columbus day, plenty of sunshine. more of the same for today. >> it's going away. >> you always have to put a damper on things. >> that's my job. >> i'm trying to put a spin on it. but like you say it's going to come to an end. let's enjoy it for the rest of the evening, we'll have a chance for thunderstorms to work their way in here. you can see the people out there shopping at the inner harbor, going to be gorgeous still. but you know what, overhead we'll start to see some clouds moving in. but as of now, the temperature is at 83 degrees, it just feels so good out there. you have your sun shades on, that humidity is low, 36%, the winds out of the west northwest at about 7 miles per hour and the barometer is at 29.77 and holding steady as of now. so this is what we're looking at as we go through the rest of

the evening, right now the temperature is at 81 degrees, this is at the station, humidity 42%, dewpoint not too bad, we're in the 50s so you can see that dry air once again. that pressure, that 29.79, rather. as we look at some temperatures here on our weather bug site we can see currently they are just updated, now in the 70s up to manchester, looking back 78 into el eye cot city. middletown coming at 85 degrees, we look back over towards the east, the temperature to the northeast coming in at 78 degrees right now, hickory at 79, morgan ton to chester town, easton right around 79 degrees as well as toba lean a so these temperatures are feeling pretty good. temperatures are going to start to go down as we go into time. we'll take in what we're getting right now, we look at maryland's most powerful radar, all is dry as of now. but if you slide up towards the north, yes, look at these brisk thunderstorms moving in, basically they are getting some windy conditions across this area and also dealing with some

large hail and you can see this, in these deep reds here, scranton is pretty much getting hammered as of now. if your travels take you to the north, be prepared for this, a basic disturbance riding through that area. so we could be getting in on some of that action as we go later into i'd say the evening time frame and also into tomorrow as well. definitely be on the lookout for that. as we check out what's happening, we can see the temperature, coming in at 83 degrees. dull less at 84. as we head over into oakland, yes, a lot chillier as of now. 68 degrees, charlottesville, york 75, they will be chilling down as they get some of those thunderstorms to cool them down. into philly, keeps coming in at 00 degrees as of now. we'll deal with the temperatures falling, but today we have also been dealing with a little bit of winds out of the west, charlottesville 14 miles per hour sustained. not too bad into hagerstown and

into winchester, baltimore 7, and the pea tucks ten river. ocean city a 10 miles per hour per mile wind as 0 of now. now we're looking at the weather pattern. here is this little frontal boundary that stalled out and what we have are little disturbances riding along thetron nfl boundary, that's why they are seeing some showers and thunderstorms into pennsylvania, as i said some of those could die down our way, we're not out of the woods as of yet. we'll see how times go into the evening and also into tomorrow. we do have that chance of showers and thunderstorms, future forecast is definitely going to show you that by tomorrow. we do have is a chance for showers. now i'm not gonna say really wide coverage, i'm gonna say some widespread thundershowers possible in the forecast for us, goes back into motion, a better looking forecast into wednesday where we'll see plenty of sunshine as high pressure will dominate once again. that's not going to last too long because as we go into thursday we're definitely going to be seeing some rain likely in the forecast. that temperature around 58

degrees, mostly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms still possible and then by tomorrow that temperature not too bad, still above average, coming in at 77 degrees, still have the showers and thunderstorms possible in the forecast. as we take you neighborhood to naked tomorrow, that temperature into mt. vernon, 76 degrees, showers and thunderstorms possible, more of the same as we head into fells point with that temperature at 77 degrees, showers and thunderstorms still possible in the forecast, that will continue as we slide over into perryville and also into bel air for tomorrow, the temperature at 77. as we go into tomorrow night, finally we start to cool back down, we will dry things back out. the temperature right around 50 degrees, and here the check on that seven-day forecast, the rain in on thursday, really cool things down, then we're nice as we head into the weekend. christian? >> thanks lynette. well you know, tv infomercial products can look so good in the ads, some of them. anyway not all of them. when it comes time to make the phone call and open up your wallet you need to listen to

the pitch carefully. >> reporter: tv infomercial products are hard to resist and sometimes, i'll admit, they can be pretty good. unfortunately as more and more people discover year after year you have to be very careful when you order them. betty crowsier loves her new swivel sweeper that she ordered after seeing an infomercial. what she doesn't love is what showed up on her credit card. >> call now and get the swivel sweeper for two payments of $19.99. >> $19.99, and the fact they were throwing in a fee second sweeper sealed the deal. >> i want to get one free so i thought "this is a deal." >> reporter: but when she called she said she got a computer that would not let her quickly order a sweeper. >> took a good 20 minutes to answer every question, you had to be careful what you said or you could buy all this extra stuff. >> reporter: exasperated she finally ordered just the sweepers but she arrived with a

bill for $69. far more than she expected. >> i was shocked that they charged me $29.98 for shipping. >> reporter: the swivel sweeper's manufacturerren tell did nothing wrong but its fine print is so tricky that online complaint forms are filled with complaints similar to betty's. find one get one free for two payments of $1,999 but that's really $40, plus p and h, postage andling, an extra $15 per sweeper, total, just under 70 bucks. betty says next time she will look for one at wal-mart or bed, bath and beyond with no shipping charges. swivel sweeper's manufacturer confidential firms those shipping fees are correct. it's all explained on their web site and phone ordering system. question is why you have to take your time and ask lots of questions when ordering a tv product so you don't waste your money. john matarese. any parent losing a child is the worst thing that could

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they are now 4-1 on the year and will travel to new england where ray enjoyed his greatest game against the patriots last year in the playoffs. here is scott garceau with more on yesterday's big win. >> reporter: workman-like. that might be the best way to describe this ravens win over the broncos today. after a huge emotional win in pittsburgh last week some thought that maybe the ravens might let down just a little bit. it didn't happen. they jumped out to a 17-0 second quarter lead and never looked back. they ran the ball like they haven't this year, 233 yards this year rushing for the ravens, 133 of those by ray rice who also had two touchdowns. >> when we needed to pass the ball we passed it. today when we needed to run the ball we ran it. there was no second guessing what we were gonna do. >> you got to help him up, knock 'em down, help 'em up. you get plays so you know you have a plan. >> i'm disappointed, is finishing at times, finishing at the end of the half, finishing it the end of the

games, we're staying on the feel, getting off the field, first drive we accountant knock it in. as well as we played so many ways, within each play, as well as we played in so many ways, outside of that we've got to find a way to keep getting better in those areas. i'm excited about our team. that's somethingy can do. >> now 4-1 the ravens lead their division. things get a little more interesting next week when they hit the road to take on the patriots in new england. that's a matchup of last year's playoff contest the ravens won. at m and t bank stadium, i'm scott garceau. >> thanks a lot scott. watching television can be entertaining and fun. but it can also do a number on those peepers. that is new on abc 2 news at 6:00 which starts right now. now abc 2 news at 6:00. >> the family of a teenager killed in a south baltimore car wreck is wondering why it took so long to get answers. food evening everyone, i'm roosevelt leftwich. the