to deal with the deficit. >> reporter: at its peak the ones proud bethlehem steel employed 30,000 workers when it terminated its pension plan 8 years ago it left many of those workers, the workers who followed and their families high and dry. >> my dad was a bethlehem steel retiree and unfortunately he and my mom didn't live long enough to have the health benefits taken away,. >> reporter: you may not know bill campbell republican nominee for state came patroller he dares the speak of the multibillion-dollar deficit the state faces in paying for its current and former employees retirement benefits. >> i don't know why other people aren't talking about it. it is literally a financial tsunami. the deficit for the pensions and the other post employment benefits such as healthcare are larger than the state budget. it's about $35 billion. >> reporter: the last time the state of maryland fully funded its pension and healthcare

benefits was in 2002, the same year beth steel plunged into interviews. since that time lawmakers have partially funded it and the losses in the stock market have created an even bigger shortfall. the incumbent controller says by differs firing the funds and bringing in new people to manage them the state has stopped the bleeding. but long term reforms will be necessary. >> you know it takes 11 miles for an aircraft carrier at sea when it's going along at a formal pace to stop. similarly these big financial programs are very complicated, they need to be reformed. this is no magic bullet and you can't do it overnight. >> reporter: while there's talk of possible reforms in the future greater employee contributions, extending the retirement age or converting to 401k plans union leader balk at the prospect of shifting on the burden on the back of state workers. >> quite frankly you maybe rash decisions you're going to have a whole slew of seniors going to be affected about it.

there aren't enough greeter jobs at wal-mart to fix the rash decisions that people might make. >> reporter: jeff hager abc 2 news. >> union leaders are lobbying for long term comprehensive solution. they point out the average 401k plan today has $13,000 in it which would hardly pay for 6 months worth of retirement bills. city of baltimore has a new tool in the fight against gun violence. mayor stephanie rawlins-blake announced the $300,000 smart policing grant today. it is one of only 6 grants awarded in the nation and will help fund the city's gun offender registry among other issues. >> the smart policing grants will support these efforts by funding the purchase of equipment to aid investigation and prosecution such as recording equipment, which also promotes officer safety. >> now what it does it provides intelligence to law enforcement agencies on the identity and location of

convicted gun offenders. one by one the men are surfacing from the mine they were trapped in for some 69 days. we want to show you a live picture of the operation taking place in chile where they are in the 19th hour and still going strong. chilean officials have successfully pulled 26 miners back to the earth's surface with anxious family members anxious to old them again. abc news will be airing a special. please note this will prehe the show the whole truth and also for updates and a live stream of the rescue which is expecteded to go into the evening hours head to abc2news.com. what a beautiful day of weather out across maryland. but you felt the difference. temperatures about 15, 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. so our warm stretch coming to an end, and you see it here on

the map. 58 degrees right now in new york. 62 inner harbor 61 in annapolis sitely warmer on the eastern shore. satellite radar picture clear across maryland but there is rain beginning to develop south and west of us we expect that to begin to arrive as we go toward the middle part of the day tomorrow. let's look at the hour by hour forecast. 57 or so by lunch time that's going to be it. rain rolling into the afternoon and evening it could get heavy at times. after that rain comes in tomorrow, then we're going to be dealing with some wind around here as we move toward the weekend. we'll talk about that in detail. and look also ahead to your forecast for the running festival in baltimore it's all coming up. families living in one howard county neighborhood are on high alert tonight after a 7- year-old child told police she was attacked by four men last night walking home from the park. police are looking around the 9600 block of basket ring road in columbia. christian schaefer is live in

el could it city with the latest in the investigation. >> reporter: that address takes you to a park behind talbot spring elementary school. the girl told police she was walking home from that park when she was assaulted by four men. police now looking for those for men she said they grabbed her and sexually assaulted her. the girl reported the incident to a family member. took her to the hospital. three of most men left on motor scooters one left on a bicycle. she describes them all as black males with dread lock hairstyles. the girl is only 7 years old did not recognize the men hadn't seen them before and couldn't tell quite how old they might have been. >> we're canvassing the maybe right now. we've been doing that since last night we have detectives knocking on doors and talking to people in this apartment complex to see if anyone heard anything or saw anything that

would be relevant. >> police say the girl has no physical injuries and once again they are categorizing this as a sexual assault not a rape. typically in an investigation like this the difference involves vaginal intercourse. police looking for four suspects if you have any information call howard county police. 410313 stop. >> thanks a lot chris. prince george's county police have arrested a man who stabbed four people. a group of men got into a fight inside the thirsty turtle bar on baltimore avenue. police charged 21-year-old lennar do ramos in the stabbings and say one of the victims was his own brother who tried to break up the fight. he is not a student at the university of maryland but three of the victims are. the family of a 78-year-old shirley palmer wants to know who killed him. the retired worker is pg

remembered a good man died the wrong way. he was found stand to dead inside his home 2600 block of edison highway. the case has detectives stumped and they are looking for your help. >> here's a man that did everything right. you know, retired from the mta worked hard raised his family in baltimore, never been in any trouble, never any controversy just did what he was supposed to do, and then is violently murdered in his own home. it's senseless and you can't even begin to imagine what that family's going through. >> the funeral for sterling palmer is scheduled for 11:00 friday morning at the dalton baptist church in northwest baltimore. a flag painted in the middle of a knoting ham street is history. baltimore county crews removed it to the protest of some neighbors. the flag was right in the middle of albert take avenue. written next to it was support our troops and a tribute to a

service member named justin. but an anonymous complaint brought out the county with a pressure washer to remove the flag. something that other neighbors say wasn't really necessary. >> i don't see anything wrong with it. i think it's one way for people to express the fact they want to support our troops there's nothing wrong with that. >> baltimore county highway department director ken burgess says the flag had to go because the paint used posed a hazard in the road and was also defacing county property. he says the county can't discriminate between a patriotic display and inflammatory graffiti. meanwhile abc 2 news checked the flag code and a flag paint flood the middle of a busy road is not considered an appropriate way to display the flag because it is on the ground. maryland's attorney general says his office has joined 48 other states in an investigation into foreclosure documentation practices. dogginess letter wants to help ensure home owners facing

foreclosure are treated fairly and according to law. last week allied bank of america and j. p. morgan chase all voluntarily healthed foreclosures in 23 states admitting they made mistakes. >> they were suggesting they might babe to resolve in in a matter of months. analysts think looking he at the it's likely to take at least a year. >> maryland court officials are reviewing request from governor martin o'malley to halt all foreclosures in the state for at least 60 days. you may go into nordstrom's expecting to find a fancy wardrobe. but one maryland student found a life changing surprise coming up you'll never believe what it is. plus can an everyday activity cause your children to lose their vision? experts are saying that it might. that's ahead in tonight's health alert. . 68 degrees will be average today that's exactly what we

hit at bwi much cooler day 67 your two degree guarantee we have a weather winner today. donna dennis out of bell camp congratulations to you you get a abc 2 storm umbrella we'll back with your forecast right after this. bob ehrlich is desperate, and he'll say anything to get elected. negative attacks the media have repeatedly called "dishonest" and "total malarkey." and why can't we trust bob ehrlich? because he raised taxes and fees by $3 billion then denied it... because he says he's for us, but made $2.5 million at a special interest lobbying firm. and ehrlich says he'll cut education again

if elected governor. bob ehrlich-- a career politician we really can't trust. 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. 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.

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. today a class at south river high thought there was a film crew in class to document a high school class in anne arundel county. nordstrom's presented a 10,000- dollar check to one of five students in the area chosen out of over 400 applications. don harrison was there for the surprise and has more. >> reporter: it seemed like a normal day at south river high, until this happened. >> where's damon? oh, my gosh come over here. wow. . >> reporter: north strom present aid $10,000 scholarship to tailor collins who has a

desire to be an engineer major in college. >> this is one way to give back to the communities who help support us. >> one of the five whichers going to be receiving $10,000 so congratulations. >> reporter: needless to say, it was an emotional experience for taylor. >> i'm happy. i'm really happy. >> reporter: his mother was so proud of her son. >> i would say he probably cares about people first and then he puts time in for himself second. he has a huge heart. >> reporter: one of taylor's teachers influential in helping taylor meet his dream of becoming an engineer saw it all. >> in the future right here. >> i have a lot of my technical skills. >> >> reporter: if you would like to be successful as taylor get a pen get ready to take notes here's his secret to success. >> i have my head in the clouds but i have my feet on

the ground i give 110% for anything he was the do. i never slack off i sure my effort is shown in my personality. >> reporter: this is not many kids to take $10,000 from school when they ask him what happened in school today he'll have something to talk about. >> what a great store. teens from one school in baltimore county got a special recognition today. eastern technical high school has been named a national blue ribbon school. the essex school one of only five maryland public schools to receive this award in 2010 and actually the first baltimore county high school to achieve this honor. the school has been named one of the nation's top high schools by news week magazine and u. s. news and world report. although some kids aren't old enough to appreciate a good cup of joe that doesn't mean they can't read about how a good cup of coffee is made. today in land over 8:00 coffee

teamed up with first book a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy by providing new books to children in need. they have produced 5,000 copies of the special edition sell says me street book we're different we're the same for second graders. >> we feel it's important to engage children in something that will promote their life skills and carry them through to have successful productive lives. >> the students followed their reading of the book with a sesame street themed lunch. something is getting stirred up there. kelly what a beautiful davies wally. a lot cooler to the touch i guess you could say.

>> just cooler. >> at all cooler. but we will see a big change again tomorrow temperatures will stay cool. but now we bring in the rain. and another change friday, rain goes out wind comes in. and so it's the fall i tell you late october things start to move quicker. let's take a look right now. boy, this is getting beautiful. days getting shorter here we got that beautiful orange hue on the sky here. and it looks like for the most part last hour we had the schooner race parade. most of the schooners are out of there now but man, what a gorgeous afternoon for it. again much cooler we're down to 61 now temperature beginning the fall pretty quickly out there. we'll be in the 50s very quickly here this evening and humidity quite low right now. got to recap this our high definition weather net camera to the maryland science center beautiful blue skies there are the schooners. i tell you man fantastic weather. look at this. high temperatures today with our weather net here statewide.

you can see chester town 67 as well as centerville east and you push 70 you didn't get there. some spots bilabial air 71. columbia 72. most of us struggled to get out telephone 60s today in the spots that hit 70 only very briefly there you can see temperatures cooling down rapidly we're 57 now already in arnold. already down to 58 in cockysville as that cool airmass keeps descending into maryland. state white low 60s top of the hour. current wind field right now is not that gusty, but we do expect that to begin to change into the day tomorrow. radar clear at the moment. all looks good, but as we peek ahead at your forecast neighborhood by neighborhood tomorrow take a look. you can see canton through south baltimore at best 60 or so into the afternoon, and then there will be rain after maybe a break or two of morning sunshine, and then we take you out a little further west here miller up in northwestern baltimore county only about 58 tomorrow. 57 or so for a high in

westminster. we do expect the rain to roll in by midday. skies generally clear clouds into virginia but as we take you out a little wider you can see rain giving to develop in earnest down through southern indiana northern kentucky all of it really beginning to get its act together and whole double barrel blow coming our way tomorrow. so this area of high pressure that's kept it so nice and dry and sunny, that is going to get out of here through the midday tomorrow. and look what replaces it. rain coming in out of the west. pretty good bet rain is going to last and even get heavier toward 5:00. looks like a wet evening commute for dryer friday but we will bring in the winds behind that storm system could be gust i friday 30 miles per hour or more 60 is it at bwi. cloudy we will look for the rain could get heavy in the afternoon and breezy tomorrow afternoon tomorrow night. 46 the scattered rain showers will taper off late overnight

tomorrow nature. but friday right now looking like a windy breezy day in the mid-60s. so it will feel cooler than that again for the weekend here lots of sunshine, but staying in the 60s. kelly. >> thanks a lot wyatt. we're going to take you back live to chile take a look at these emotional pictures where the 27th miner is meeting his daughter after being trapped for 69 days. looking live at the operation in chile where officials have pulled number 27 up. live from chile where the 27th miner is back at home with loved ones tonight and appears to be in pretty good shape. coming up at 11:00 we're going to continue to bring you the latest in the rescue efforts in chile after months underground what kind of health problems could those rescued miners be facing. plus it's a store laced with spirituality, a little superstition and plenty of luck. two men say they managed to

escape the day that mine collapsed all thanks to a white butterfly. those stories and much more coming up tonight at 11:00. well, getting your kids out and away from the tv or computer might be doing more for them than just getting them some physical activities. michael jones explains in today's health minute. >> reporter: according to a new study published in the journal of pediatrics researchers in the uk found children who spent a lot of time in front of the tv and computer monitors had more psychological difficulties than kids that weren't. school for exercise nutrition and health sciences looked at 1,000 children age 10 to 11 years old and noted the time they spent on recreational activities including sedentary tame and time spent on moderate to very russ activities. the youngsters completed a questionnaire that asked about their strengths and difficulties. the questions were designed to assess their psychological well- being. the data found children who

looked at television or computer screens for more than 2 hours had higher psychological difficulty scores regardless how much time the children participated in physical activity. however kids who spent more tame on sedentary activities like homework or working on a hobby not in front of a screen had better psychological scores overall those with more physical activity fared better in certain psychological areas including emotional problems april issues with school mates but did not do as well in areas related to conduct and behavior including hyper activities. they concluded the less time the children spends in front of a electronic screen the better. michael jones. >> we'll be right back after this break. [ male announcer ] martin o'malley sworn in.

inherits a billion-dollar surplus, low unemployment. o'malley signs the biggest tax hike in maryland history. raids chesapeake bay fund to cover spending. gives raises to top aides. business climate ranks 45th worst in the nation. now 200,000 jobs lost. o'malley covers up jobs report that proved maryland's economy stalled. if re-elected, o'malley will raise taxes again. whether he does, is up to you.

. it's been on the calendar for while but it feels like fall is officially here. >> it really does kelly. temperatures cooling off tonight. here's some of our weather net sites these are live temperature streams 59 from bel- air we've got 58 from cockysville westminster 56 in arnold even. getting cool out this tonight. rest of the evening 50s you can see tomorrow we struggle to get out of the 50s as the rain comes in out of the west. so, be ready for some fairly heavy rain tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening then we'll clear it out tomorrow night. >> that it for abc 2 news at

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