you heard me right. winter weather at the end of october for maryland. what is coming, how much and when will it get here? we turn to the storm center with wyatt everhart. he is double checking the forecast. >> just a little unusual here to say is a the least for the last weekend of october. we've got winter weather warnings up, not so much for the city of baltimore. we got it for the northern tier county, winter storm watch for saturday. see the pink shaded counties to the west. warnings for fredericks west, hagerstown and deep creek lake where they could get snow in to the day tomorrow. the set up now, clouds rolling in. showers to the west already and some of this already converting. if you look west of hagerstown, we are seeing changeover this the higher the rain. the warnings kick in for western maryland. much of the area could begin to see a changeover in terms of

precipitation type by say mid- morning tomorrow and through the day, we look for more of our rain around the baltimore area to changeover to the snow. more on this unusual halloween weekend storm , the details straight ahead. as the temperatures fall it's a good time to remind you of tips to get the car ready. first, check your tire pressure to make sure you have enough air, tires tend to defate in colder temperatures. check your fluid levels keep a flashlight and batteries on hand. a bag of road salt or sand, cat litter can work. keep a small shovel in your trunk in case you have to dig yourself out. get the latest forecast and track the coming storm with the abc2 news weather app for your iphone or ipad and get an hourly or 7 day forecast, find the link to the application on abc2news.com weather page check out the most powerful radar and

the latest forecast. head to abc2news.com/weather. now to new developments in a bizarre police shoot involving a sheriff's deputy in northeast baltimore this morning. a department spokesman says a man wheeling a knife jumped in to the deputies car and the deputy shot him in self defense. jeff hager spoke with the suspect's family. >> the family says he has had numerous run ins with the law and avoids them at all costs and say something about this morning's shooting at the corner of walter avenue doesn't add up. a deputy sheriff's commute ended in gunfire at a busy intersection in northeast baltimore. >> a suspect tried to gain access to the vehicle, open it up, and got in and pulled a knife on the deputy while he was stopped at the intersection of walter. my deputy opened fire, suspect

was struck in the left arm. >> reporter: the deputy sheriff is attenyear veteran of the department while the suspect is no stranger to police. the teenager face d attempted murder charges after an officer lunabled at him and fell in to the path of an on coming car, in 2002 police arrested him after he ran a head right and ran from police before running in to marked police unit injurying that officer. his father says since that time, he has been a marked man. >> we are going to get you on something, doesn't matter what it is. we are going to get you. picture is hanging on the wall. everybody that walks past sees the picture. >> reporter: two hours before the shooting, dougherty's father says his son received a call about a stolen car report he filed and he left the house and may have gone down the

street to visit a woman he had been seeing. whether he jumped in to the car with criminal intent or seeking help from often known threat torments his father who is not allowed to visit his son at the hospital. >> said he tried to get in to marked police car with a knife in his hands. it makes no sense. that ain't his character. he stays away from law. >> dougherty's family admits h se no saint and the check of rise his record turned up 3 dozen cases from drug and gun charges to attempted murder. a judge decided to keep a maryland man in jail another 30 days in connection with the disappearance of a frederick woman. 35-year-old robyn gardner was seen with gary giordano when he was swept in to the ocean, he says. the search for guardner presumed dead, continues but

giordano says he is innocent. for a second time in a week a patient is charged with killing another patient at state mental hospital. mayio killed a man last night at cliffton t perkins hospital. hospital staff found the man on the floor of his room. mayio goes in to the victim's room twice last week police charged another patient with killing his roommate and 13 months ago police filed charges in another patient to patient murder. two months jail time for a lock smith we told you about more than a year ago is part of an abc2 news in investigation. joe horton was convicted this week after forging the signature of a customer. horton quoted her $250 to unlock her car, but bumped the price to more than $1000. when she refused to pay she forged her name.

a judge sentenced him to two years in jail. the man authorities say mutilated at least two adopted cats last spring pleaded guilty today. brian kuebler tells us what e than faces for the crimes against animals. >> he could face three years in prison for shooting and killing a cat with a bb gun and nearly beating another to death. he pleaded guilty to adopting the cats and abusing them. the pet stuffed blueprint force trauma which led a vet to be suspicious. and the 20 yield brought a cat back to the spca deceased. disturbing cases of animal cruelty, animal loves are glad to see prosecuted and the police have been thorough in the investigation and made sure they were treating these seriously. it was good to see that these weren't simply brushed aside because it was just animals.

>> coming up at 6:00 we will have more reaction and tell you when he will learn his fate for the crimes. brian kuebler, abc2 news. early voting for the general election in the city started today. mayor stephanie rawlings blake is running against alfred griffin. the fist time rawlings blake has run for mayor. council and president races will be decided by december 8th, the actual voting day. early voting is now until november 3rd except for sunday. a big problem as students at one maryland college treating their dorms for luxurious accommodations. mold invaded one of the dorms in st. forces the college to move students. some staying in hotels but others will be moved to cruise ships, coming from no vascotia. it will be docked a short walk

from campus. students could be on the ship or hotels until the end of the semester. lighting up the night at camden yards to fight cancer. there will be thousands of illuminated balloons. baltimore's event is the walk for the nonprofit group, they make sure to go out with fun and games and entertainment and have a unique feel. >> what makes our walk different isist an evening walk yovment u get the twilight feel and see the illuminated balloons, lighting up the whole sky. it's inspiring. >> the walk is the biggest of any across the nation. this year's honorary chair is former ravennish mail. if you've had a loved one pass away, you know the pain. imagine your loved one's

identity stolen after death. it's because of a website full of social security numbers released by the government. a warning from the fda, some treatments could lead to blood cots. get the most powerful radar all kinds of detailed weather information as we get this unusual october storm approaching the area. again, check it out, download this app from your ipad or iphone. back with the latest on the storm coming up in just a few.

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william donald shaffer, former colt and movie actor, betty ford, we've gotten our hands on the social security numbers for the big stars and from little angels like this 6-month-old and 5-month-old katelin. millions of valuable numbers in our hands. we are not sharing them, but someone else is. >> i would say most people are unaware of this. >> not knowing a number you are told to protect will be exposed on the internet. we found them listed by the thousands thanks to a simple web search, it's not hacker whose handover this dangerous information for anyone to see. >> the federal government is not only allowed to release it, they are required. >> reporter: the feds have been required to report the name, social security number, and other details about american citizens. not the living, but the dead. it's part of a giant data base

called the social security death master file. with 90 million names you will find everyone from columbo to wrestler randy savage. you don't have to be famous, one day regular joes will make the cut, you don't get a choice. >> making this information public has put people at risk. >> reporter: call it social insecurity because when you are dead your social security number is alive and well. the government adds to it the death file so credit firms and banks can check for fraud. >> thieveses will look for private information they can use to exploit for financial gain. this master file of deceased americans gives them the perfect opportunity. >> reporter: to use identities of those who passed on for profit. >> reporter: if love was all it took to protect her little girl, ava would be here. but this tiny baby who smiled

despite the tubes in her nose died at only 6 months, her lungs not as strong as her spirit. >> she was happy baby. even though she had to fight for every breath she ever took. >> reporter: now they are fighting too, to reclaim their daughter. last month they learned a stranger stole her social security number and claimed her as a dependant. >> i was angry. >> we were angry. >> reporter: a parents anger at finding the private information listed in a very public file. they believe scammers picked her number from the web and placed it on a tax form. they are not alone. >> we were hoping to beat the people to the punch. they got to katelin's number first. >> reporter: a fraudulent tax claim was made for katelin, who died from sids at 5 months old, her name and number are listed in the master file and appeared

on someone else's 1040. >> to know someone else is taking advantage of your child, even if they are decease second painful. it's frustrating. >> reporter: jerry's frustration took him to capitol hill. >> may 6th, 2009, we sought the lowest of lows. >> reporter: he testified about the death index and risks of publishing this sensitive information. >> it's a clutch in, i think, of whether or not the social security administration is willing to recognize there is a problem here. >> reporter: advocacy groups think it's a problem that could be solved easy by releasing less information. ssa doesn't have much choice. private companies get file and publish it thanks to a court case and the freedom of information act. >> this information is being misused to consumer's harm, we should leave it at this. >> reporter: they agree. their little girls lost too soon and found by strangers, so

the family's fight knowing their babies are much more than a number. we have extention information on abc2news.com/protect your id. see the story and how to protect your social security number and your loved ones social security numbers after they pass away. the families are trying to get information about who stole their child'sitis. both were told by the irs they couldn't release who claimed the girls because of privacy concerns. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> hard top believe we are not out of october and getting in to the winter storm mode. winter warnings are up for western maryland, frederick west, hagerstown, cumberland, deep creek lake and see the shied shaded counties. borderline situation around the baltimore area. harford, carol, northern baltimore county, back through

howard and montgomery, accumulating inches by tomorrow night. cold rain tonight in to the morning and cecil with the winter weather advisory. these accumulations will be dependant on how the cold air wraps in to the backside of the storm. how fast it happens. the bottom line is significant accumulation in hagerstown, even frederick county, 5- 8 inches of heavy wet snow tomorrow possiblepy tomorrow night. baltimore, an inch or two of slush around here by the time it blows out tomorrow night. mostly rain for the eastern shore with the exception of cecil county. we will refine that in to the late night picture here. tune in at 6:00 and 11:00 for more. here is where the changeevers are happening. high totals that could push 8 inches or beyond in western may recallment they are getting snow on the ground now towards

cumberland. no changeover to rain in the western prts of the state, baltimore cold showers, moving in. rain showers, through the goaf night and most of us should stay rain. maybe a few wet flakes. not anything that will accumulate. the changeover set to happen in to saturday through the day. cloudy skies in the city. 48, humidity 46. winds east, southeast, through the day. we saw the clouds kind of thickening up here as we went late in to the afternoon, the sky took on a much more ominous look than it had early this morning when we had the sunshine. now our temperatures running well above freezing. doesn't look like an issue at all. i would tell you towards cumberland now, the air temperature is marginal enough where the snow coming down we saw on the radar is not sticking, not yet. after sunset that will be a different story. temperatures running in the upper 40s, have no threat for sticking snow around the baltimore area tonight. again through the day tomorrow. things change through the day,

air temperatures will not move much, and this is the first area of moisture coming in out of the south and west. first, area of low pressure, but there is the second area that really brings the storms punch and that's down here off of the carolinas, beginning to develop. it's going to develop in to the day tomorrow, join forces with the storm to the west, and a miserable raw cold rainy day for baltimore eastward, changing to snow tomorrow evening. i think just west of baltimore, very quickly as you push west towards reisterstown, westminster, several incheses of accumulating snow. 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, right on the rain- snow line. western maryland a mess. rain for delmarva, coastal storm coming up. the cold air gets drawn in after 2:00 tomorrow, we could see the changeover to snow. grounds will be marginally above freezing. cold rain, there it is for you

tomorrow. wintery weather, rain to a mix to snow by tomorrow evening. just snow showers around. it's going to be a cold wintery night in fells point, or where ever you are headed for your halloween parties. sunday we clear out and 47 degrees should allow what does come down, if it's a couple of inches to melt off quickly. but an ugly looking saturday no matter how you slice it. >> i got your halloween costume. you should be santa because it's feeling like christmas. >> or maybe someone in the witness protection program. >> whatever you want to do. you are going to have to bundle up. people at risk of heart attack or stroke are asked to take a aspirin a day. it could ward you have one form of cancer. and quality when it comes to the british throne.

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now, abc2 news at 5:30. you are not hearing things, gearing up for snow in the area for the first time in october in 8 years, will it cause problems around here? a crash takes the lives of 7 family members what may have led to the deadly wreck. who can be the king or queen of england is getting a major makeover. storm clouds , they are gathering. we would be talking about a winter storm about to hit our area, instead this might be a nuisance more than anything. how much snow is going to fall during the