buy. each book can be lent once for 14 days. the feature works with another kindel a or kindle app for the ipad and it will be available later this year. and it is the end of an era. sonny stopped making the cassette walkman. final batch shipped earlier this year. sony sold around 200 million walkmans since they went on sail in 79. those are the tech bites.

now, good morning, maryland. eight days ago michelle obama goes out on the campaign trail and michael steele says expect a huge change in power. >> well, we know how somebody feels about slots in anne arundel county. wait until you see the video of a guy damaging campaign signs. >> and it's octoberfest at the zoo. animals get an early trek

because they go to the pumpkin patches. >> i am sorry. i was up late i said treat instead of trek. >> i know what you meant. >> good morning, maryland i am jamie costello. >> it's a a treat to have you in here. >> all right. how you feeling? >> i am great how are you? >> just splendid. let's look at our monday weather. here he is meteorologist i spelled that wright right, justin berk. >> everybody is forgiving after a ravens victory right? >> exactly. >> headlines warm temperatures with a a lovely weekend we had. and temperatures into the 70s saturday and sunday. and we will do it again today. 10 above normal today. we will start off for the first half of the workweek. we will have to fight off developing showers and strong gusty winds. cooler temperatures will spill in here by the weekend but until then, we have our safes look back to the southwest where some strong thunderstorms are firing their way from eastern kentucky and tennessee on through the deep south. now some of those will weaken but the sign of energy back in

the atmosphere will try to spill in our direction and there could be developing showers and thunderstorms with gusty winds this afternoon. we will push our two degree guaranteed high to 72. more on the extended outlook in a couple minutes. let's get the look at traffic. >> reporter: thank you. the beltway south is look good. no problems to report top side or east side or west side. elsewhere we have a vehicle fire going to the maps now. reisterstown, highway 30 at mount gillad road. and essex eastern boulevard at marlin avenue and serious accident at 9 5 southbound with delays after i-195 involving an overturned vehicle. you can see a picture of that backup there. we have reports it's backed up to the beltway. medivac is on the scene. one left lane open and looks like we have a disabled vehicle off on the shoulder. jamie, back to you. >> we will have reports every

tenments along the way. eight days until millions head to the polls in what could be a drastic change on the power of congress. >> you are going to see a wave, an unprecedented wave on election day that is going to surprise a lot of people. >> all right. democrats are out there campaigning furiously to defy predictions of republican landslides. and with polls showing some democrats gaining ground, the party has been wooing women voters during the final campaign days. michelle obama returns to the campaign trail this week and her husband, the president, will be out there, too, doing his best for democrats and all those close races out there. megan. >> stealing and vandalizing political signs happens every election, but when you get busted on tape, it's going to get a lot of attention. linda so joins us here in the studio with more on the video and the investigation. linda. >> reporter: well, megan w. voters in anne arundel county head to the polls, they will have to decide on question a whether to bring slots to

arundel a mills mall. voters are evenly split and police have man in custody for doing more than voicing his opinion. 50-year-old david corrigan was caught on tape destroying a sign at around four saturday morning. aid sign asking voteers to support slots at the mall. police say he admitted to destroying the signs and they found 70 other signs in his car. earlier in the week, the campaign for slots payed a camera at the headquarters in severna park after noticing someone was knocking down the signs. >> many of the signs we have seen in the last month have the same marks. he slice was box cut air cross the police logo. >> reporter: now the campaign has logos for police and teachers sin the money raised from slots would go towards them. supporters for question a say 700 signs have been vandalized in the last two months. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> and fine late of the election news and voter information and useful links online at

abc2news.com. click on the political tab under news. we shed you a complete highlight for the ravens a couple minutes ago but they feel bruised and some fatigue is setting in but a week off will help the ravens after a overtime win over the buffalo bills. looks like they would put it away in the 4th with a 10-point lead by the bills but they came scoring back. and ravens needed overtime to stay a half game behind the afc north leading steelers who won by a point. billy kicked a 38-yard field goal with 10:57 left in ot to complete the ravens 37-34 win over buffalo. >> we wanted to be 1-0 to be 5- 2 and i think you look back we wanted to be 7-0. but we are not. the best we can do is 5-2 and we have had to win tough games to do it. we lost a couple tough games. we are in good shape. but we are in good shape if we take it and make the most of it. >> the bills led 24-10 and trailed by 10 late in the

fourth before the bills are now only -- the only nfl team winless but you could have had us fooled the way they played yesterday. 5:37. breast cancer in african american women is more likely to be detected at a later stage than women of other races. >> a group is doing all they can to raise awareness and help get women to go and get checked out. and is this junk or art? well, whatever it is, folks in one town will have to put up with this unusual display for a while longer. >> before you head anywhere, let's send it out to mark jones to see how the trains and buss are moving. >> reporter: number 10 bus is taking a diversion at gail and cedar garden due a fire. look for the 8, 15, 23, 35 and 40 buses to be about 15 to 20 minutes late. and the 15 to 23 taking a 30-minute delay. light rail and metro subway and marc look good. i am mark jones for the mta

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20 minutes away from 6 right now. artwork or an eyesore whatever you call it a. peeves austin, texas, is taig put. >> it's the cathedral of junk and now it has a building

permit from the city after months of back and forth. the cathedral's owner got the carefully crafted junk right up to code and says a lot of the structure had to be taken down to get it there. >> that doesn't count the stuff i've given away and bulky trash which we have had twice here, and other yard sale and stuff like that. over 30 tons. but there's 40 tons worth of stuff left here. >> he spent 20 years constructing the cathedral out of random odds and ends and gets about 10,000 visitors a year. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. all right. looking at temperatures this morning, it's a mild start. 52 degrees. tough consider that low to mid-60s the normal high on this date. we are running well ahead of schedule and typically we do wind up with at least a warm week in the week leading up to halloween. that's been our general trend for the last five to 7 years.

so this is no exception here. 61 right now in easton. 63 the a patuxent river. clouds are rolling in from the west and hours behind the clouds. the showers may try to develop by lunchtime. and any time there after, through this afternoon and this evening, the breeze will kick up. some storms could gust over 40 miles per hour and we will aim for the two degree guaranteed high of 72. let's see what's happening with the traffic with alexis. >> reporter: thanks, justin. traveling from annapolis towards baltimore, we are running incident free on 95 northbound. taking a look at the maps, still have the accident in essex eastern boulevard eastbound at marlon and the vehicle fire up in reisterstown highway 30 we have good news for you as we take a look at the camera. the earlier accident 95 southbound after i-195 looks like it has been cleared out of the roadway. traffic is moving all be it still pretty slowly at this time. but by the time you get to the

area, you should able to travel through without too many incidents. stay with us, sherrie johnson with live with an update of this morning's top story. >> reporter: the men and women in blue come together today to lay to rest one of their own a city detective. i am sherrie johnson and i will have more on the funeral service for detective brian stevenson. what can i get you?

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it is a quarter to six on this monday morning. woke one week ago we celebrated his birthday and now we are herring his life, a life that had so much throat give. sherrie johnson as we bury detective brian stevenson today. sherrie. >> reporter: good morning, jamie. a sad day. friend, family and fellow police officers will gather here this morning at new antioch baptist church in randalltown to say bye to detective brian stevenson. he was killed in canton last weekend after a fight in the parking lot. he was hit in the head with a rock during a fight over a parking space. he was out celebrating his birthday. he would have turned 38 years old a day after that assault. detective stevenson joined the baltimore police department in july of 1992 and was assigned to the district detective unit in the northeastern district. 25-year-old sian james is locked up charged with first-degree murder. james was out of jail on

150,000 dollars bond following his indictment on attempted rape charges involving his ex-girlfriend three months ago. but this morning, he is in jail on murder charges. so once again, the services for the detective stevenson starts at 11 this morning. reporting live from randalstown, sherrie johnson, abc two news. funeral arrange mense are set for officer tomorrowas portz who died after the squad car crashed into a fire truck. a private funeral is planned for today for immediate family and another in towson and a funeral will be held at 11 wednesday at cathedral of mary the queen. he will be laid to rest in lutherville. and united states honor flag is sent to our city to honor those city police officers who were recently killed. this flag flew over ground zero during recovery efforts in new york city after 9/11. and the flag is set to arrive in

baltimore tomorrow afternoon. 5:47 right now a georgetown university dorm was evacuated after a chemical lab was discovered inside. officers arrested two students and visitor in connection with the suspected drug lab. police say it started on saturday morning when they got a call about a foul odor. >> it was potentially very explosive. the metropolitan police brought in the explosive experts as well. we hazmat stabilized it and again it was made safe for the explosives folks to come n dangers are explosions and inhalation. >> they thought the lab was for making meth and later was for make drug known as dnt which is illegal. 5:48. what would we do without music? i mean what would we do without compassion and persistence. about raising money for african american women for sifters network this weekend.

♪ [ music ] >> local artist played for 300 people in owens mills on saturday night. now according to the american cancer society, african americans have a lower survival rate of breast cancer compared to white women. partially they say because it goes undetected for longer period of time. the sisters network raises awareness and helps battle breast cancer. and survive the financial burdens that are placed on the people who have it. >> right now, we have about 4 or 5 women that we are helping. people that need help with getting their heat turned on and things of that nature that are not working because they are going through treatment right now. so we are doing that to help them. >> our sherrie johnson emceeed the event and the group raised over $10,000 to support services. 5:49 right nowch the ghosts and ghouls are out haunting the park. second annual hall of horror kicked off this weekend in

parkville and admission $5 for all the proceeds that benefit the harford park community association. if interested in getting a little scared, it opened friday and it runs through sunday. 7 until 10 p.m. at the community hall on lynwood road. >> oh. >> scarry. all right, a trick or treating has gone to the animals literally. it's part of the smashing pumpkins event at the detroit zoo. everyone from the vouchers to polar bears got a little treat. some wanted to snack and others had more fun tearing apart the pumpkins. there he goes. there he goes. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> we are starting off with a look outside. downtown baltimore while we have got some haze showing up over the city and there's fog. especially north and west we will be look at it increasing clouds for today. and as a result, we have had warm temperatures this morning. we will go west to mount airy

middle school where we are looking at temperatures of 57 degrees. checking out the storm center weathernet, that includes the midnight high temperature of 63. we pulled back a little bit since then but we can thank the southerly flow for keeping moisture around and keeping the warm air around. check out this time-lapse from yesterday. what a beautiful scene. contrails in the sky and high clouds mixed in making for a mostly to partly sunny day. a gorgeous day where many of us did make it up into the lower 70sthis morning. we are holding it at about 58 in dundalk. 60 on the eastern shore and a couple cool pockets therefrom woodbine ellicott city at 49. normally, we would be down to 40 but 64 will do it in the afternoon. today's forecast close to 10 above normal and that's the general trend we will have for much of the upcoming week. we are checking out the forecast including the rain on down towards the deep south and tries to cross the mountains and reach us from midday through the evening. showers and thunderstorms at main cluster back to the west. but keep that umbrella handy

because more showers are possible to fire up tomorrow afternoon and this cold front that reaches us on wednesday morning. the forecast for today, 72 degrees. scattered showers and storms may contain gusty winds and we will settle back overnight with lows back into the 50s. the extend outlook calls for highs in the mid-70s. 78 on wednesday with strong winds and gusty storms. down to 60 on friday. and 58 with sun to start off the weekend. here's alexis with traffic. >> reporter: the good news is the earlier accident 59 southbound after i-195 has been cleared. watch for residual delays from the beltway at 5 to 7 minutes to the commute. looking at the maps, we are dealing with the car fire up in reisterstown. highway 30 at mount gilead road. also taking a look at the cameras now this is the beltway at liberty road. normal volume on the inner and outer loops. no major delays. stay with us, jamie and megan will be like with more of this morning's top stories. 3q

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but some people were enjoying the downfall, others were caught by surprise and ended up trying to dig their cars out of all the muck. so far no injuries have been reported. >> i don't have a short memory. but doirnghts want to see snow. >> no. >> i don't want to see pictures of it. i say we ban snow coverage. what do you think. >> good luck with that. >> all right. justin thought -- stay with us this morning, we will tell you about the home sounds good and offers you might want to take advantage of however. >> but josie has a warning about you about a work at home scam that can cost you a lot of money or even landau in jail. and -- land you in jail. >> sherrie johnson will share tips how to pick a school fulfilling the educational needs of your children without drying out your wallet. ññ

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