>> the intruder that died was the victim's next door neighbor. jeff hagger has the latest in the 2,000 block of the street. >> joseph breckenridge was battling for his life and all of the victims of the home invasion breckenridge was the intruder. >> calm down and quiet and had the one sheriff got there, basically he had him and he was not breathing and he asked if i could help and i turned him over and his eyes were open and i don't think he was breathing. >> reporter: breckenridge would die at upper chest a peak medical center. it all began when breckenridge

entered the home without notice. >> he was obsessed with my friend, justin, he does it when her husband is not home. >> reporter: this time the husband confronted him and a scuffle ensued and they attempted to restrain him hoping to stop the man that had make a practice of walking into neighbor's homes without warning. >> several of the neighbors had voiced concerns about the individual in the past through unwanted entrances or bothering them in the neighborhood. >> reporter: witnesses say breckenridge was acting aggressively and erratic. >> they say he was strong, for 53, they said he was extremely strong. it took both of them to hold him down. >> reporter: jeff hagger, abc2 news. want to get back to the point that jeff made, the female victim says that breckenridge was in her home

and rummaged through her clotting in the past. baltimore police say a man shot and killed a man in baltimore, he was waving two large kitchen knives around on edmundson avenue when police were called for reports of an armed man, the 52-year-old refused to stop and she ended up shooting him and he later died and the officer was not hurt. the occupy baltimore protesters are going to be reapplying for a permit to allow them to stay right here in mcalden square, they submitted their application to allow them to continue the protests through april. the new application seeks permission for four large tents and personal tents and asking for electricity which the city cut around the plaza earlier. >> we have new information about the school bus crash.

20 peoplenedded up at saint mary's hospital. it took place in chappaco. the accident involved the bus, car and a truck and the driver was charged with driving under the influence. the great mills high school basketball team was on the bus returning from a game in virginia. 15 students and the driver and along with the driver and a 13- year-old girl and the truck driver that suffered minor injuries. if you are planning to hit the road for thanksgiving, you might just want to wait a little bit. traffic around the beltway is not bad but if you are going up north it is jammed after getting off of the beltway. let's take a look. out the windows on 95 near white marsha where traffic is moving in both directions but not quickly and further up north things have cleared up and we want to take a live shot near warren where you can see

the red lights heading north. if you are planning to hit the road for thanksgiving dinner or the weekend, make sure you plan your trip with abc2 news. and good holiday weather all weekend and you can check out maryland's powerful radar and we are checking it and finding some rain on the radar. it has been tough to get the last of it out. one band of rain back up through centerville and queen ann's county to kent and there's still rain in queens town and we have the wind restriction and drizzle and light rain and look at the wind gusts 37 in easton and you get an idea where bay bridge travel is on the tough side and temperatures hanging on to 50 in baltimore and quickly falling to the 40s and a nice rebound for tomorrow for 44 for

game time tomorrow night and much more on your thanksgiving forecast right through the weekend and coming up. and remember you can follow all the storms as they move through the region in the palm of your hand and use the live interactive radar and getting your seven-day forecast on abc2's weather app. log onto the weather page on our website at abc2news.com/weather and you will find a link to the app. baltimore county police have charged a man driving drunk after he struck and killed an older pedestrian last night. that's the headline but as abc2news brian dugler explains there's much more to the story. >> when a man has nothing, even if he is homeless and lives in a van and has nothing, he will always have his dog. it is 74-year-old william said he was not going to the

hospital for his heart condition unless his dog was cared for. the medics took norton's dog taco to the eastern animal hospital which offered to care and board the 10-year-old chihuahua until norton got out of the hospital and the two nearly spending the time apart. >> the owner called from bay view to make sure taco was okay and very worried about him and we reassured him each time. >> reporter: the dog and owner will never see each other again, norton was released from the hospital and attempted to check into the homeless shelter located in the united methodist church and it would be one night and the next day he would get his dog but last night while walking from the bus stop police say 26-year-old mario renta driving drunk struck and killed the 74-year-old. ran over once by renta and then

again by the vehicle behind him. >> when you heard this last night what was your reaction? >> i was crying and shocked. >> reporter: carla shafer is the director of the streets of hope, a shelter that bounces around from church to church while it looks for a permanent building. it was going to settle last night before neighbors complained and since then it ended up here along a busy road and with a challenging distance to the closest bus stop. while this accident was incredibly unforce nate it may not have been avoidable, the driver was drunk, the police say twice the legal limit but norton was walking down this road from the bus stop on the way to the homeless shelter and you can see there is very little if any room to walk. >> he was very well loved and all of the men were upset when they heard and one was crying inconsolable as well as the staff. >> reporter: norton will be

missed if not by his friends in the shelter but by the only family he had left. in baltimore county, brian cubeler abc2 news. wow. some staff at the shelter have express the interest in adopting taco and giving him a home. while the accident was officially ruled by police as pedestrian error rentta was criminally charged by causing a life-threatening injury while driving while impaired. you want another dog story? now the latest on a story out of essex where a community is rallying to help a family whose 8-year-old son needs a multiple purpose dog. a fellow student in school ended up being the one to help him. >> jamie you introduced us to him. the family needed $8000 to help the child get help with his

seizures and we got great news and he will be getting it thank to his fellow student. we were there and his family and mom and andrew wanted to raise $50 doing odd jobs so william can afford the special dog, not only did andrew reach that goal, he raised $250. >> well, i raked leaves. i did a demolition drive in a basement. i cleaned out a car. i got some sponsors and i'm testing a video game for someone. >> that's impressive. >> you take that $250 a and combine it with all of the other fundraisers it comes out to $13,000 and that's how much it will take to train the dog which should be in williams' home in ten months.

andrew did his job, didn't he? way to go, andrew. we got sad news tonight. ted foreman, a long time math teacher has died and the pep rally scheduled at calvert hall was called off out of respect and the cardinals will play the loyola dons in the catapult learning bowl and loyola leads it with 48 wins and the cardinals have won 35 times and we will have more tomorrow from the 92nd learning catapult bowl. do you have a smart phone? that means personal information in the palm of your hand. think about it, so much of who we are is on the devices. the info on the phone could

be stolen. abc2 news is going to tell you what you can do about it. looking to buy a new home and why the housing could result in problems. we had 64 and the guarantee was 62 and our winnie connie copyley and clearing out nicely and will that hold up for the thanksgiving weekend? we will answer that on the other

side of this break. when you don't see someone talking or texting or browsing the web on their smart phone -- in fact a new survey found four out of ten mobile homes have a smart phone and between 25 and 34 that number swells to more than six out of ten. so with all of this new technology is helping us stay weekended it could pose a big privatesy risk, cheryl tells us what we should know about protecting our data. >> it is amazing how much more people do with their phones. >> reporter: from e-mail to internet and gps and app the possibilities seem endsless. >> so much of lo we are are on the devices. >> reporter: there is more risk, the smart phone is a handheld computer and sending and receiving information in the air. >> anytime you have a wireless connection involved in performing a transaction, you

probably lose something in the security. >> reporter: consumer report electronic editor mike dickta says the gps our phone may be help for making suggestions on where to shop or get a bite to eat but ... >> you don't know who else has that information and what remains to be seen is the impact of a lot of 3rd parties having intimate knowledge of your every action. >> reporter: also keep in mind those apps you down load are connect to the web so malware could come with them and there is always the chance your phone could fail and be lost or stolen. >> the fact that many more people are using it as their on the go device makes it so much more important that you have some sort of protection. if your device feels you can notify the company right away. >> you wouldn't want to lose

pictures or your calendar. she says google sync and the i cloud and your i tunes account can help you. and there are programs to protect you. >> there are programs and you can sign in and have the phone protected and your personal information will be safe. >> and some programs will allow you to allow on and have a screeching sound to deter thieves. and turn off the setting that will automatically connect to you wi-fi if your carrier signal is unavailable or otherwise you may connect with someone trying to steal your information. tomorrow at 11:00 and tomorrow on good morning maryland we will make sure you are smart phone savvy and which phone works best for your needs

and tomorrow morning whether you need smart phone insurance. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the weather. >> chilly night and old glory flapping hard and no question why, the wind is up as it has been all afternoon, north and northwest at 13 and gusting near 2nd down 2-and it is a breezy one and mount airy in the afternoon a little bit of sunshine in the midday and not much and then sunset and annapolis and the wind ripping the waters at the u.s. naval academy and much improved tomorrow night and we will be clear and cooler mid-40s and a nice evening and some of the hot deep fried turkey out at the raven's game and we will look forward to a clear and cold game. maryland's most powerful radar,

rain showers plaguing parts of maryland and mainly the northern eastern shores and queens town up to churchill and this band of rain diminishing and drizzle toward kent island and as we look at the wind gusts this is a bigger story behind the front and winds gusting in places to 50 or higher and gaithersburg gusts up to 51. temperatures cooling off to the west and that's what is headed into baltimore through the rest of the evening and we will look for falling temperatures across the entire state all the way to the beaches and we will wake up in the mid to upper 30s first thing tomorrow morning and you can see where the rough travel weather is from philadelphia to new jersey and boston and snow showers in northern new england basically towards maine and bangor and chilly temps and we will bounce back quickly and tomorrow in the upper 50s and we are in the 60s from black

friday right into saturday and our trend showing clear overnight and winds diminishing and we are left with crystal clear skies and right into the biggest shopping day of the year. overnight to 34 and clear and colder and windy and your guarantee for thanksgiving and 58 and it will be a chilly start in the upper 30s. tomorrow night the bird makes its transition, 36 degrees overnight and again for the game temperatures will be in the mid-40s and your seven-day forecast looking ahead to a nice weekend with the trend showing upper 60s to near 70s and looking forward to that. >> thank you, during the housing boom, homes went up and incredible rate and they were pumping up so quickly that some code inspectors had trouble keeping up and homeowners are discovering problems and we have tips if you are a homeowner or looking to buy one

that was built during the boom. >> the housing boom from the late 90s up until 2007 saw more homes built than during any other time. and according to a new survey of home inspectors the speed at which homes were built made it difficult for them to enforce proper building methods, now homeowners are beginning to notice problems. >> we recently have seen houses built during the housing boom and over half of them reported problems with the common ones being problems with drywall and carpentry work and plumbing. >> reporter: many of the problems stemmed from hasty construction and poor quality of materials and being built to minimum housing code standards. >> and most good builders will tell you meeting the minimum code requirements is not good enough. >> reporter: if you own a home or looking to buy one from that time period hire a reputable home inspector. >> no one wants to be surprised and getting a home inspection they will point out problems that you can plan for instead

of being surprised. >> reporter: which looking for a home inspector check the credentials. if you are looking to build a home, take a look at the projects the builder has in the works, if they are slow moving it could mean trouble and check courts for liens from subcontractors that have not been paid. for more tips on hiring a home inspector or builder go to abc2news.com and click on angie's link list. we got turkey in the afternoon and going downtown for the hardball bowl and then we are going to shopping. we got to find out about the

weather. coming up next

jamie all about the travel weather tonight and as we take a look at maryland's most powerful radar, one band of rain left on the eastern shore and through tomorrow dry and sunny and good looking thanksgiving day as you head to grandma's house, up to a cold start and talking about the

tailgating weather, looks clear, temps will drop but no wind. go to abc2news.com and we have all of the tools from traffic to weather and everything you need to keep you safe. see you tonight.