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good morning maryland. i am sherrie johnson live in catonsville war college is making big strides in signs and technology. i will have live interview with the dean of science coming up.

and i respect him and looked up to him. and, it just was shocking to me that he would use that power in such a way. >> republican presidential contender herman cain expected to speak today about a woman claiming she was sexually harassed by him and she has come forward to share her story. an earthquake and now possibly a tornado. incredible video out of oklahoma this morning. and that state continues to recover on this tuesday november 8th good morning i am charley crowson. let's check the weather forecast and see how things are closer to home and hello, again once again to meteorologist justin berk. >> closer to home is a brand new named tropical system off the east coast. surprise, surprise a new name tropical system off the southeast coast. i will he introduce you to him -- i will introduce you to him in few minutes. st. peter and paul high school at 39 degrees. 100% humidity. we have got fog.

what county was that? we have a school delay on theeastern shore. >> queen annes county. >> with a 9 0 minute delay. we may be spreading the fog out and we have near fog conditions with the threshold of 100%humidity and sparrows point. and bowie at 36. patchy fog and sunshine to be found for the rest us throughout the day. we go from a cool morning andrise at 6:42 to the two degree guaranteed high of 69. yes, a named tropical system. we will talk about it in a couple minutes. here tanya with traffic. >> reporter: trying to clean up an accident on 198 on the ramp to 95 northbound. that should be out of the way shortly. looking live at our traffic cameras this morning, 95 southbound at 32 we have volume building right now. but it's moving smoothly through savage make your way towards laurel. so no issues to report. this is 95 north of white marsh boulevard to the right of thescreen is the southbound

traffic towards the beltway. no issues to report here. there were cones just south of the beltway that need to be picked up. you can follow us on twitter at maryland traffic and we spell out maryland for the latest accidents and delays. charley. umbc has bragging rights. they are receiving national recognition all having to do with educating students in technology. education reporter sherrie johnson is live with the story. >> reporter: well, yes, we are here on the umbc campus where they are receiving national accolades for a wonderful practice here. and i have dr. bill lacourse joining me dean of science. good morning and thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. nice to be here. >> reporter: can you tell me a little bit about the scholars program. what's going on in. >> well, here at umbc we he had cade a broad rage of student with diversity backgroundsnational will be it nance --internationally and students of color and white

students. the program started 20 years ago to help focus attention on underrepresented minorities. and with the help of foundational money we have given opportunities to student that didn't have them with a focus of them entering in the field of medical professions phd and mds combined educations. and we do that with a series of educational invasions. most where we focus on the student and their experience at umbc. >> reporter: why is this working? you are getting national attention. one of the best programs in the country? >> well, i am going give the credit to the people here at umbc. starts with inspirational leaders and phillip who is work on building a community of scholars and every member of the staff and faculity dedicated to the success of the students. and all of us are focused on intinkive undergraduate education for all our students. >> reporter: thanks so much for chatting with us.

we appreciate it. wonderful program doing wonderful things for students in science and technology and putting us on the map. >> no problem. >> reporter: all right. coming up at 6:00, we will talk more with dr. lacourt and have students to talk more about the program and how it is working. reporting live in catonsville, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. a 8-year-old boy is terrorized by his two older cousins in september on a school bus. but if it weren't for the bus driver the incident could have gone unnoticed. drivers review the tapes on a weekly basis and when the drivers saw the ateak contacked police. the two 14-year-old -- contactedpolice. the two 140-year-old -- 14-year- old are charged with assault and harassment. a deer making a trip through a take out near atlanta. the dough crashes through the glass startling everyone inside as she ran around until an employee opened the front door and it went outside. before the door closed, the deer went off and was unharmed.

he beat muhammad ali. boxing legend this morning the life and career of joe frazier. and we will find out if he is the father. teen heartthrob justin bieber says bring on the paternity test. we will go to new york for a check of this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites voting by ipad. voters in organizeron -- oregon are using ipads to allow thedisabled to vote privately. the most and tis paid video game of the year is on sale. thousands of stores stayed open late for the midnight release of modern warfare 3. the last edition set all sorts of records and another game on chart has the feel of the hollywood move imdan ackerman says the adrenaline level is so high you almost need to pause

to take a breath. >> explosion and walls cave in, bad guys streaming in through every entrance of the cast. castle. things on -- castle. and things on fire and all packed into a couple hours of game play. >> reporter: the game is available for the play station 3. those are your tech bites and i am rob nelson.

now "good morning maryland." apparently an earthquake was not enough from the weekend for those in oklahoma. they are dealing with severe twisters touching down. look at this video. a storm chaser got into an accident chasing down the funnel cloud. the driver was following this possible twister when the car flipped over and the windshield

smashed. driver says he was trying to back up when the steering jammed causing him a slide into a ditch and flip over. great image for those who enjoy weather justin. a new update for you now. as you said, in addition to queen annes 90 minute delay. no a.m. pre-k and kent county in that as well. public schools fog delay 90 minutes. >> kent and queen annes county and if we get more we will let you know. in the baltimore region, leading edge of the storm system stirring clouds in western ohio and ten kentucky. we have active weather back towards the west. what we will be watching is temperatures you will notice 39 officially in baltimore. 37 easton and we have near freezing up towards york and frost mixed in up there and back to the west. western side of dc and dulles at 34 degrees. a repeat of yesterday but not as widespread on the fog front but there will be some to

encounter in the typical spots over the valleys and in the nooks and crannies of the tributaries feeding into the chesapeake on the eastern shore. fog an issue for a couple hours and then 63. by lunchtime 69 the two degree guaranteed high and sun goes over the western sky down below the horizon at 4:59. we will talk about subtropical storm shawn in just a few minutes off the east coast. tanya. >> reporter: i like when you say tropical. we have a report of an accident, 50 west at the bay bridge. not causing too much of a problem because traffic is still pretty light. let's look live at our traffic cameras see how things are moving along. 95 at 175. no issues to report southbound between elk ridge and dorsey make your way towards laurel. 95 at fort mchenry tunnel. southbound traffic oncoming traffic is what is heavier right now. no problems to report northbound. follow us on twitter at maryland traffic for the latest. charley. the boxing world is mourning the loss of joe

frazier who lost his fight with liver cancer monday night. family members say he passed away at his home in philadelphia. nicknamed smokein joe was knownfor a devastating right hook and rivalry are muhammad ali. he owned a boxing gym in philadelphia where he taught others. he is dead at 67 years old. the first perfect score was handing out on "dancing with the stars" jr march teens good perfect score of 30 -- martinez got a 30, twice. kardashian is behind with nancy grace last place. tune in tonight at 9 here on abc2 as we will see who is heading home. the elimination right here at 9:00. justin beaker will take a a tern -- beaker will take a a -- bieber will take a paternity test to put away claims he fathered a baby.

bieber says he is never met the woman. tmz is reporting that bieber will take the paternity test after returning from the u.s. -- or to the u.s. from europe in two weeks. from there, once proven he is not the baby daddy he says he will sue yeater for defamation. well, how low can you be? police in a maryland community are look for two crooks who stole cookie money from girl scouts. cookie money. corinne. >> reporter: plus, one of herman cain's accusers steps forward. what she had to say about the alleged sexual harassment coming up.

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now "good morning maryland." . >> the sexual harassment controversy building around republican presidential hopeful herman cain has been involved anonymous women until now. that after chicago area woman came forward claiming cain behaved-appropriately in 1997. -- behaved inappropriately in 1997. corinne redman is standing by with the latest and details. >> reporter: the woman is sharon bialek and says it happened while cain was head of the national restaurant association. sharon bialek went to him forhelp with a job and she got more than asked for when the alleged entercounseller occur cement told three people about

the incident but didn't file a complaint because she didn't work for cain. here's what she had to say to reporters about the incident. >> he put his hand on my leg nd my skirt and reached for -- nd my skirt and reached for my genitals and grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch. i was surprised and shocked and said what are you doing? you know i have a boyfriend. this isn't what i came here for. mr. cain said, you want a job right? i asked him to stop and he did. >> reporter: despite the latest allegation cain is weathering the storm. an abc news washington post pole last friday had him neck in neckwith mitt romney. more than half of the voters say the sexual harassment controversy is not serious and 70% said it wouldn't impact likelihood because they would vote for cain. she says she is not asking for

money or planning to file a suit or write a book. conrad murray has to wait three weeks to learn his fate after being fond guilty in the death of michael jackson. it took a jury nearly 10 thundershowers to come to the decision and -- hours to come to the decision and conrad murray showed little emotion. he was convicted of administered a lethal dose of propofol to michael jackson. >> justi was serveed but it was not enough time. >> what would you say to michael? >> he is with us. >> just thank you so much. i am just happy it's over with. nothing will bring him back but i am happy he was found guilty. >> murray face up to four years in prison and will be sentenced on november 29th. the orioles will hold a press conference introducing the next general manager for o's. he's been out of the front office for a decade since being fired in boston but many credit him with crafting the championship season. he is the cousin former o's gm

jim and announcement will be on the 6th floor of the warehouse scheduled for 11. the perry hall boys soccer team will play westminster in regional finals tonight. the team was suspended last week for doing the bernie dance on the field after winning a game against the due lanny valley high school. the principal reversed the decision and they went onto beat james hubert blake high school saturday to make it to the finals again tonight, the game for the winner of tonight's game will go onto the state championship. bowie police are on the lookout for two suspects who stole money from a group of girlscouts. yes, that's correct. girl scouts. it happened outside a wall mort in bowie where they were -- wal- mart in bowie where they were selling the cookies. they asked how much they were and grabbed the cash box and ran off. the troop leader took off after the suspect trying to run him down but a man offered to help and she stopped running.

he was the second suspect. >> don't steal the girl scouit' the girl scouts to not let the money get stealed. >> give us back the girl scout money. >> yeah. the thieves made off with around $200 and police have two men on video leaving the store. and if you have information, take a look at your screen, any information give police a call as quickly as possible. 19 days to spare the man who won the power ball drawing turns in his ticket. he bought a ticket in clinton but in may but never got around to checking to see if he was a winner. when he did, he discovered hewon $200,000. the retired military man will use it to pay off bills and help his daughter in her college education. justin. all right. take a look at this. take a look at this. say hello, to my little friend.

this is subtropical storm shawn and we are getting the graphic together. as we check out storm system rolling its way a few hundred miles to the east of miami. in fact, we have the official track by 671 miles to the east of miami. 45-mile-per-hour sustained wind. and subtropical storm is named subtropical because it doesn't have a full deep core of warm air and it's shallow where the warm air is and a meteorological essence but as far as we are concerned, it's going to be a wave generator along the east coast but it's not going to be much more than anything else. the thing is going to sit and spin for a couple days. may ram up up to 50, 55 miles per hour been et -- and get caught up and shoot out to sea. it will interact with the frontal boundary. the same someone responsible for the observing laa tornado may be responsible for more severe weather from illinois through missouri and being a saw today. we will get the steering winds starting to pull in our

direction as we head into the next couple days. the front itself should be sweeping through maryland on thursday. the leading edge of the clouds on the outer edge of that storm still off the carolina coastline. we watch the future trend here. you may notice our computer model trying to pull the moisture closer. but really, it's going to be that frontal boundary that's going to help to keep everything off the east coast. and it's going to be coming at us in a diminished form and we don't expect severe weather here but we will have warm weather before this arrives. 69 today despite the fog and delays on the eastern shore. we will have a nice sunny midday and afternoon back to 42 and fog overnight. tomorrow a little bit into the lower 60s and the chance of rain showers on thursday, 58. 49 the high on friday behind the front and get back with dry weather this weekend between 55 and 60. it's 5:52. and let's see what's happening on the roads again with tanya. >> reporter: a major problem in arbutus. 95 southbound at the beltway.

we have major delays there due to a serious accident. it's in the process of clearing out of the way but we do have residual delays. this as you can see all of the brake lights and lanes. lanes to the right getting on to the beltway. those are running better but all of this backs up to caton avenue. so major delays on the southwest side. taking a look at 695 at frederick road, it's moving much better outer loop has volume heading towards 95. so you will run into that just abe ware and give yourself extra time. follow us on twitter at maryland traffic for the latest. charley. with election day across the country and mississippi residents are going to vote for -- what person -- what it is all about. and the president will be in the city of brotherly love. he is in philly and he says this message can't wait. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30. back in a bit.

president obama continues talk education and regulation for u.s. head start programs. he will today be in philadelphia promoting the we can't wait campaign. there he will tour a head start

center and speak to supporters. and a new poll underscores how close mississippi is to passing the country's first personhood law later today many public policy polling finds 45% of voters support the amendment to he define life as beginning at conception. 44% epose what's called -- oppose what's called initiative 26. the bears orchestrated a comeback against the eagles on monday night football. chicago shut out philly in the fourth quarter behind cutler's 208 yard 2 touchdown night. eagles michael vick now 0-4 against the bears. homeowners we are targeting you. the trouble people are running into when it comes to the mortgage. what you need to know and why is it a growing problem. how companies can tell if you are headed to foreclosure. that story coming up next. does diabetes run in your family? it cab debilitating disease. how to stay ahead of it and remain in good health. plus a man celebrates his

106th birthday. what is his advice for living on for so long? you will hear from him coming when "good morning maryland" continues in the 6:00 hour. we are back in a bit.