much of our state. and now why they say they have to keep them in prison. that is on "abc news" at 6:00, which starts right now. the raid will just -- the rain will just not go away. tonight may be a rookie one. boy at the center of an amber alert remains missing at this hour even though his father has been found and arrested. anne arundel county police have been called several times for a strange van with someone taking pictures of children. what the police saying about the strange incidents. first weather, a tornado watch in effect for anne arundel county. this has been rain in the area through the day. wyatt everhart joins us now. good news, there are two things. the tornado watch does go for now through 9:00 and it has been expanded to reach into

north maryland and baltimore county. we're looking at some of the radar trends here. we saw some ements on the radar picture. this cluster of storm stz main one -- storms is the main one that we're watching is showing some signs of weakening. but the entire storm situated to the south of that line, a little less impressive now. the rest of this evening we'll keep the tornado watch till the weather service decides to change that 70s and thick fog for this evening's commute. if you want to keep up with why the and the weather -- wyatt on the weather, go to abc2news.com and download the app. they move in our region and our neighborhood. you can track the storms on our interactive radar and get an update on the current forecast. and you can click on the link to download the weather app for your iphone or ipad so struck

the same information right -- so you can have the same information right there in the palm of your hand. since early this morning, road signs, lottery machines and our website have had information about a missing boy that has not been found. the boy's mother was found dead in her montgomery county home last night. all signs show that she was murdered. police have a man in custody right now in connection with this but we don't know where the 11-year-old is. rosie? >> reporter: that is the big question. authorities say they're continuing the efforts to find 11-year-old william mcquane. the police say this started when 51-year-old jane mcquane was found dead inside her germantown apartment. they found her ex-husband curtis lopez and charged him with murder. lopez has not said in addition

about the boy's whereabouts and the amber alert is still in effect. he was last seen on september 30th. the police say they will not speculate where he may be. the main goal is to find him. >> these are pictures of william. our priority and focus right now is to locate william mcquane. we were hoping that we would find him with mr. lopez and we did not. so we -- we're asking for the public's help in locating 11- year-old william mcquane. >> chief says that at this point they believe they have detectives on the way down to charlotte right now to question lopez. but right now the amber alert is still in effect and they're asking who may have seen this

child or know where he might be to call the montgomery county police. to a developing story in baltimore city where the police need your help to try to find this man. his name is jermaine stroud. the 21-year-old was arrested yesterday for armed robbery and madison street and being transported to the eastern district and he was able to get away. the police stay stroud has a past history of robberies and should be considered armed and dangerous. if you know anything, call 911 right away. annapolis police have been getting calls from people concerned about men taking pictures of children. people in one community have called twice about two men in a truck following kids and taking pictures of the kids. some say they saw the truck earlier and taking picks of --

pictures of kids by the school. >> i'm very concerned. we have a lot of small kids in this area. >> annapolis police ask anyone who sees anything suspicious to call them right away. investigators in carroll county are still awaiting the results of an autopsy to figure out what killed a teenager who was found unconscious lying along sandy mountain road on wednesday they detected no signs of struggle or trauma to suggest that he died as i result of foul play and they're trying piece together what may have happen in the hours or days leading up to his death. >> caleb was last scene after 2:00 a.m. on tuesday morning leaving a friend's house in the finkberg area, a short distance from where his body was found. >> anyone that may have seen him in the last couple days, call the carol county sheriff's

office right now. or you can use the toll free anonymous tips hotline. a federal grand jury has indicted 35 people in a racketeering enterprise known as the south side broom blood game and the game that was un-- the gang. and the unindictment was unseal unseal unseal beachised. we need to make sure that they're sent out of the state in federal prison. when we leave in local facilities they're able to

continue to influence fellow gang members. >> nine of the 35 have been arrested under the indictment and 11 others are in custody on other charges. the other 12 defendant have been issued summons to appear in federal court. a man was found with 67 pounds of marijuana. a trooper stopped to help a disabled driver and he found the marijuana. two florida men were arrested and charged with possession and intent to distribute. the trooper was coming back from a training mission and said i'm going help. look what he found. governor o'malley has issued an executive order calling for a session to begin on monday. our state must pass a congressional redistricting plan for the start of the 2012

legislative session coming up in january. it's in order to conduct a presidential primary coming up in april. the districts have to be redrawn because of the results of the 2010 census. and now internet travel agencies are going to be required to call taxes on their rooms. the possible legislation would target websites such as travelocity and/or gets and other -- orbitz, they will hold a meeting on this. waste to energy plants like the one here in baltimore pollute more than coal-powered power plants. the state's two largest incinerators provide more pollution per hour than each of the state's cool fired plants. there's plans to build another

one right near frederick. work continues on the washington national cathedral to repair the damage from the august earthquake. they removed parts of the pinnacle on top of the cathedral. and church officials said that the work will make the towers more stable till the stone work can be repaired. as the weather gets cooler and the kids back in school, germs are always flying around. so we have simple ways for mommies to stay healthy to keep them on their toes to help their children. why there are concerns tonight over a vast majority of booster seats and why they're not keeping our kids safe. a little warmer than average. and we could warm up more this evening. 72 is your ten degree

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two more deaths are linked to listeria from tainted cantaloupes. there have been 116 cases of listeria in 25 states, including ours. so the number is expected to continue to rise. if you have a cantaloupe and you're unsure where it's from, ask your grocery store about it and they'll tell you. moms you do everything that you do to keep your kids from

getting sick. but a lot of times you forget to take care of yourself. we have five easy tips to keep yourself healthy from all the germs. >> reporter: being a mom is not easy you have kids it take care, work that needs to get done around the house and not a lot of time to sleep. and the heavy load can make moms vulnerable. dr. berger said that the first things that mom cans do is get their flu shots. >> there's so much miss information out there if you get the flu shot, you'll get sick from it. you can't get sick from the flu shot. so get your flu shot at the gunning of the season. >> reporter: and if you're out and about on the road and you notice someone in your car is sick, roll down the window to avoid your exposure to virus. >> if you're driving to someone to a sporting event and someone sneezes, open the window and

get fresh air in the car. and don't share things like spoons, glasses, cell phones and pens, all these other items that viruses and bacteria is located. you borrow that and you've now just touched that and exposed yourself to that. >> reporter: replace your hand towels with paper towels in the bathroom. >> if you walk in a bathroom and there's a hand towel and someone else just wiped their hand on it you don't know the order of that towel. >> reporter: the last tip that is usually the hardest, try to get enough sleep and exercise. doing both can really boost your immune symptom. listen. if you use a hand sanitizer, make sure it contained as least

60% of alcohol and make sure that you rub it under your finger nails go to abc2news.com and the health tab. and you'll find today's health headlines and a different health category that you can get for all the information that you need to keep you and your family healthy. we continue to count down the susan g. koman race for the cure. we're a little under two weeks now here in the home valley. and we'll be broadcasting life from the event. the ease vent is coming up sunday -- the event is coming up sunday, october 23rd. it will start at 8:00 in the morning. there's a 5k and a one mile walk. for more information go to abc2news.com/think pink or susan g. koman.org for more information. let's get into this a tornado watch up still for much of the state, including the baltimore region down in south

maryland. this will run through 9:00 unless it's canceled ahead of schedule that is always a possibility. but you see multiple tornado warnings in south central south virginia, well south of the washington d.c. area. so it's one of the reasons that we're continuing to watch a warm front set up that can potentially lead to rotating storms and briefs spinoffs of tornadoes. this is the cluster that triggered this weather. this cell is we cannenning some but -- weakening some. but still packing a lot of lightning here. you see the lightning strikes up along the washington d.c. beltway that is just ugly. but you see this storm overspreading the western part of washington and montgomery county. and we put a storm track on one of these cells, you see it's not rotating. but they're stale hailer -- still hailers.

so hail to three quarter an inch. and the storm realititively low. -- relatively low. but it still bears watching. check out some of the current conditions out there. 70 degrees and winds southeast at ten miles an hour. and humidity is up around a hundred percent. that is what we've seen all day, murky and muggy and ugly weather. we did see a little bit of late day clearing in the annapolis area and frederick. it's one of those days and october days of changing weather. down closer to where the storms are moving through in arlington, you see a brief clearing and you see the skies a little more ominous. much cooler north and west and much warmer from baltimore dulles south. we had a high near 80 in easton today. so it is the warm front boundary draped over the state

that is createing that focusing area for potential storms and isolated strong ones. the humidity helps fuel the storms and as we look to the west, more heavy weather out in west virginia, extreme western pennsylvania and there's a cluster here down on the lower part of the eastern shore of virginia that may pack quite punch as well. so more storms and more moisture feeding up out of south. and we have to keep the watch for some of these to become fairly intense over the next few hours. and a very messy setup across the east right now. warm air surging in and the warm front staying in october and fall sometimes. you never trust a warm front. they don't cause the widespread storms that cold fronts do, they do often trigger the isolated rotating storms. and the second front to the west, this is the one that will bring in another round of showers and maybe storms tomorrow afternoon. but also clear us out into friday night and into saturday. take a look at our future

trend. some hit and miss storms overnight and then another round comes in tomorrow afternoon and it could affect your friday afternoon commute. but quick clearing by friday night. we should be in the dry slot and i think things stay nice and dry. there's still a new disturbance churning out over the south atlantic and this could mean another tropical storm, about a one and three chance of that disturbance off florida. 60 with showers tonight with fog. tomorrow 7 # -- 72 with showers and maybe a form. that storm will come in late tomorrow night. if you're out late, be ready to feel the change with you walk out of your favorite establishment. things look good for the ravens on sunday. >> foggy night. thank you. we have a new warning about children's booster seats. it turns out that booster seats may not be doing their jobs. they're designed to lift kids

between the ages of four and eight so that seatbelts fit them properly and help save children's lives in a car crash. the insurance institute for highway safety put them to the test, over 80 seats, built only 31 -- but only 31 of them is rated best bet. >> price is not and issue. you can get a best bet for $15. you need to look at our ratings to take the guesswork out of choosing a booster that will predictability consistently do a good job. >> so boost everies should correctly position the seatbelt in any minivan, suv or car. and there were six boosters that windshield not recommended at all -- were not recommended at all. coming up new for you on abc 2 news at 11, it seems that

on annapolis man that authorities have been looking for scheming people with his pavement business. and people said they've been forced to pay for work that they didn't want and overcharged by thousands of dollars. >> it was in the springtime that he was charged. why is he still doing it? why can't they put a lock on this guy so that he cannot continue to do this? this surprises me. >> wyatt's forecast tonight on abc 2 news at 11:00.

here he is with important stuff. >> this tornado watch for, all intents and purposes will go to 9:00 for central maryland and there are a couple warnings in virginia. we'll watch this carefully. i want to take you to the radar briefly. there's the line i270 and the western part of washington d.c. it will come up here in the next hour, hour 15 minutes. howard county you'll probably get on the line first. tomorrow, the chance for more showers and storms will be from a different front. >> all right. we'll be here all night. >> we'll track to see if

anything pops up around baltimore. >> diane sawyer is up next with world news at 6:30. we'll see you tonight at 11:00. have a great night.