limited edition flavor featuring fudge covered rum balls. the chains are not saying whether they'll boycott the product in response to complains from a million mom groups. they say the name runs something innocent and is turning into something repulsive. why did the chicken get run all over the road? that's what investigators are trying to determine after feathers ended up all over the roadway. tablets with keyboards, intel predicts that by the end of next year 40% of all consumer laptops sold will be ultra books, light and slim

computers. >> the ultra books are mainstream computers aimed at the consumer who really wants portability. these are light machines, thin, good looking. the idea is you would travel with them. >> these are not for heavy duty gamers or video editors. battery performance left something to be desired. cell phones are getting a clean bill of health from danish researchers. the biggest study ever to look at phones and cancer found no link between them. the u.s. government concluded the same thing.

celebrations across libya and the world after news of moammar gadhafi's death. a local man witnessed the heartache caused by the moammar gadhafi regime. we'll hear from matthew van dyke's family. apparently here we go again. the california minute stree says end of the world is coming. why they circled one date on the calendar and say the end is near. it could be coming at any point on this friday, october 21st. good morning. let's check the forecast with justin burke. i paw question up online on my facebook page. are you down with being down in the 40s? kim said, no. i think she was hollering that. bill said, can you please make sure we have a lot of snow this winter? kim says, bill, you can shovel

out my driveway. jim says, it feels good outside. he bought an axe to split some wood today. that's a bad thing. jim's is a steelers fan. 47 this morning. toward york we have clear skies are light winds and fairly uniform numbers. 50 by the bay, 40s in the mountains. 45 our popular number. we will develop more clouds today. this weekend looks just fine for late october. time to check traffic. we are going to have an accident in heart heart. it's in edgewood, 24 south at the ramp to i-95 south. this is i-95 at 195 in howard

county, no issues. i-95 north of white marsh boulevard we have regular volume both directions. heavier on the southbound side to the right of the screen toward the beltway. no incidents reported on harrisburg expressway or the jfx. the world's most wanted man, moammar gadhafi, was killed yesterday by rebel fighters near his hometown of sirte hours east of tripoli. moammar gadhafi had been on the run for weeks. we have more on how this entire ordeal came to an end. >> the image of moammar gadhafi's dead body is sparking celebrations in the streets across libya. his 42-year reign came to a bloody, gruesome end. there are still questions over how he was killed.

libya's rebel government says he was cornered by insurgents in his hometown of sirte. a video showed rebels pushing him on to a truck. he was then shot and killed. in 1986 his agents attacked a berlin disco that was popular to american soldiers. president reagan ordered an air strike on moammar gadhafi's compound. two years later moammar gadhafi retaliated boy blowing up pan am flight 103 over scotland. 191 americans were killed. the news of moammar gadhafi's death spread quickly across the country of libya and the world. >> we are -- i feel my best day is today. >> libya is free without him. >> president barack obama said libyan peel now have the responsibility to build a tolerant and democratic society. >> the death of moammar gadhafi could bring a south baltimore woman one step closer to a reunion with her son. matthew van dyke has been in libya since early this year.

he went first as a journalist, then spent six months in a prison before being released in august. since then he has been fighting with rebel forces. his mother smoke with him thursday. he was in the town of sirte where moammar gadhafi was killed. he is expected to return to baltimore in the coming weeks. one person is reported missing following a train derailment in a toyota plant in san antonio texas. search crews are rummaging through scrap metal that crumpled. this is video from last night. one person was spotted near the pile just before the accident happened. big rig carrying thousands of live chickens crashed in northern california. the birds were tossed all other road and highway patrol said the driver of the truck may have fallen asleep before hitting a big rig.

new york officials are threatening to shut down a brooklyn bus line over claims of segregation. women are reportedly forced to sit in the back of the bus. the bus serves a large population of hasidic jews whose religion calls for men and women to be separated. a guy who knows all about winning wants you to have that same feeling from your couch. michael phelps is diving into the video game business. you thought about getting out the snow boots yet? have you? what scientists are saying about the coming winter. at usaa, we believe honor is not

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for a second year in a row that weather phenomenon known as la nina is expected to affect winter weather across the u.s. that's the prediction

of scientists from noaa. the devastating drought across the southern plains will continue with dryer a and warmer than average conditions. texas, oklahoma and new mexico are not expected to get enough rain to ease that drought. the pacific northwest is likely to have a colder and wetter than average winter. >> first off, the noaa gave us an equal chance of above and below normal temperatures and above and below normal snowfall. someone wrote me and said, noaa stands for no idea what's gonna happen. i think they're playing it too safe. i think we'll be locked in. we have to consider other patterns on the east coast in addition to that la nina. peel probably wind up with an early start to winter. i think we'll get some snow before christmas. then we'll be locked in with cold are than normal temperatures at least through january. that's my call right now. probably a mid-winter warm up

and into late spring. i'm sticking with that. 44 in columbia, annapolis 45. we're talking about wind. it's fall right now. winds will pick up, a little gusty this afternoon, out of the north over the weekend. for today a sunny start. we'll get to about 60 degrees this afternoon. cloud cover will clear out overnight. we'll talk about the weekend forecast in a moment. time for traffic. we are doing ok so far on the beltway on the southwest side. frederick road where you see the volume is building both directions.

overnight roadwork is gone here. this is volume that's building on the outer loop to the left of the screen. we have a very bad accident in harford county, i-95 south on the ramp from 24 southbound. police are on the scene. that ramp is now closed. back to you. balance mr.'s own michael phelps is diving into a new video game. he has partnered with a game developer to create the world's first swimming game for the x box 360's connect system. the game is called push the limits. players can move their bodies replicating swimming styles like the backstroke. michael phelps will instruct you on how to improve your swimming technique. from the south poll to balleted more, a scientist is make act long trip to johns hopkins after she was evacuated while doing research. details ahead. a paving scam is making its rounds in our area. the warning for people living in howard county.

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welcome back. a warning for you if you live in howard county. it's about a paving scheme we told you about last week.

the county executive is echoing our concern. what should people be looking out for specifically? >> there's an unlicensed contractor who is paverring driveways for thousands of dollars without the proper paperwork. howard county has been getting several complaints about this contractor who is going door to door offering to pave your driveway. his name is tommy clack. he is already accused of operating without a license in anne arundel county. one man said he was billed $19,000 when clack and his crew showed up at his house. he only asked for an estimate and physically had to stop the crew from paving his driveway. you should always contact mhic to make cor contractor is licensed. if someone is offering services door do door in howard county, that person must have a solicitor's permit. ask to see it. if you think you have been scammed, contact the howard county office of consumer affairs. we have a lot more on our

website at abc2news.com. if you go to the main page and click under news, you will find an investigator section. we have several stories about the paving scam history, how a lot of people were scammed out have tons of money and there were no refunds for them. we have nine tips to avoid a paving scam. you can find that at abc2news.com. a sick new hampshire woman evacuated from the south pole could be at johns hopkins within a week. the woman arrived in christchurch earlier this week two months after experiencing vision ring language and memory problems while working at the south pole at a research station. doctors believe she had a stroke, though she is expected to recover. she says she should be in baltimore until thursday. it's the end of the world as we know it again. oakland, california, based radio family international led by harold camping is again

predicting today to be the day of the rapture, the point in the christian fate where christ returns to take believers to heaven. what's different this time is camping and his followers are avoigd media attention. we're looking at temperatures right now, i want to highlight that while we're at 47, that's fairly uniform up through western new york where they're at 47 in buffalo. they're under cloud cover and under the influence of that storm still with rain falling. this is a lake effect machine where we get that cool air flowing across the warmer waters. this time it's all liquid form. i really think we're about three weeks away from starting to flip things for the good. i do believe we have something that could be in the pipeline just about a week away. this morning we have clear

skies. clouds are banked up against the mountains. the clouds are likely to make a push toward the east. it looks like it's pushing right along 70. for the general on set of our population, we'll start off with mostly clear skies. we'll mib in some clouds depending on the strength of the winds, either early morn organize late morning. overcast or mostly cloudy into the afternoon. that could carry across the bay. showers lined up in the mountains, nothing to do with us. we'll be looking at winds slacking up through tomorrow. tomorrow is mostly sunny. we could build up mid-day fair weather clouds. clear skies overnight allow us to really cool down by sunday morning. 60 degrees today with afternoon clouds. 42 tonight with 30s inland.

60 tomorrow and 62 on sunday afternoon. that's race for the cure. we're really concerned about the morning temperatures. it will be chilly, upper 30s in hunt valley. we have a very bad accident with injuries in harford county. 24 southbound trying to get on to i-95 southbound, that ramp is now closed. it involved a motorcyclist that hit a deer. the motorcyclist is expected to be ok. they're waiting to for a chopper to take him to the hospital. police are on the scene. this ramp is closed. you will have to not use that ramp. we're doing ok elsewhere on the beltway. we have volume building both directions, heavier on the outer loop at frederick road. back to you. >> there's great divide in our country. it continues growing. what it reveals about the gap

between our country's rich and poor. that's straight ahead. a jolt in san francisco, what happened after people living there felt the earth move under their feet. we'll be right back.

>> the president will make remarks and sign that in the rose garden. the san francisco area was jolted by a quake thursday. centered beneath the uc berkeley campus. it struck around 2:40 pacific time. almost 22 years to the day the great san francisco quake of 1989 and while it was felt strongly therer no reports of significant damage. the government is reporting that 50% of u.s. workers earn less than twrix thousand dollars last year reflecting a growing income gap between the rich and poor. according to the social security administration was there was one exception, the people making a million dollars or more soared. for the first time since

2001 the texas rangers had a two run top of the 9th rally to catch and beat the cardinals in game two of the series last night. it is tied at a game apiece. game three set for saturday in texas. occupy wall street is not letting down across the world and especially here. new video coming from the occupy dc protesters but this time they took their message indoors. new reaction on the death of moammar gadhafi, the surprise from hillary clinton when first hearing about it. also recruiting police officers in baltimore city today. one group the department is specifically targeting. we are tracking new stories developing this hour, bringing them to you for the 6:00 hour, good morning maryland begins in three minutes. woman: we love ordering sushi,

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