school and complained and went to the school board and asked them to take them off. >> reporter: it wasn't the school board taking them off this morning. it was by order of the fire department. a department familiar with the illegal locks at that school. we will show you records obtained by us that show maritime industries academy was cited in the past for this very same thing and how the fire department reacted to it. >> weather wise, clouded up pretty good. you can see mostly cloudy skies, hazy thin cloud cover. a little sun coming through. still a warm day. radar scope staying nice and clear. good temperatures, even with the cloud cover. low 80s right now. humidity high as well. all eyes much further south as we have a named tropical entity for the first time in a long time. that would be karen. one that's threatening the coast. we think the gulf coast will be

under the gun in to the weekend. we will have more on that coming up. for the rest of the evening staying hazy and cloudy and slowly cooling off. much more ahead. >> we have the update on the breaking news we first brought you this morning. a man found dead in a park. he is identified as 49-year-old reed haney. he was found in robert e lee park. investigators are waiting for the results of an autopsy and police are unable to determine if a crime happened. a fire does $10 million in damage. a team of deputies, state fire marshalls and atf agents are investigating the cause. it happened at northeast plaza shopping center. it started inside the back storage area. the fire then went through the roof causing damage to multiple businesses, there is a game stop, cecil bank, images salon. they were all hurt in this one. olympia sports and ride aid

received significant smoke damage. investigators are working on the cause. the mass burglar terrorized businesses for weeks. >> a smash and grab criminal that always stayed a few steps ahead of police until his luck ran out. now with more on how the law caught up with him. >> reporter: police say the burglar struck nine businesses in just eight weeks i'm but it was his 16-year-old car that led to his arrest no wonder they couldn't catch him. shown here scouting out a liquor store. smashing the glass to get in and coming out 12 seconds later to get away. the police spotted a late model kia90 minutes later that landed the 54 david holland in jail. >> pulled it over and took him out and saw all the stuff, saw the tire iron we removed the man from the vehicle. see through the front wind

shield under the passenger seat was the clothing that hehad, the hat and the bandanna. >> reporter: the same man had struck at this barbershop. >> maybe 20 seconds. >> reporter: lindsey lee said while he may have had his method of operation he didn't seem to have a clue as to what he would take. >> $4.25 in quarters. >> reporter: the police chief said investigators have now tied him to at least nine similar burglars. a barbershop, a liquor store, a tobacco shop, a dry-cleaners, a italian ice, a starbucks, a jimmy john's, a ground rounds and a pizza bowling. those are the ones that we know about. >> reporter: the chief said police are investigating two

similar burglars that may be tied to him along with a it's or more others throughout the county. abc 2news. >> four dollars in quarters. >> wow. >> crazy. >> all right. you know what day it is. the day after hump day. it's thursday. this commercial -- now one school is banning it. >> and a spoiler alert. scandal season three premieres tonight. a peek of tonight's episode.

. it's on. the navy air force game is on. a lot of midshipmen will have to miss the game because many of their classes have been canceled. >> don harrison talked to officials at the academy to

find how many classes have been canceled and what it means for the seniors. >> reporter: they have one of the most grueling schedules of any college but many got more time. >> as a result of the shut down, we have experienced about 20% canceled classes. >> reporter: 60% of the professors aren't active members of the military. all of them have been furloughed. many of the more difficult classes suspended. >> areas such as languages, some of the chemistry labs, we have had to cancel because there is just no ability there to cover them with the military staff. >> reporter: officials tried to prepare for the shut down. >> plans were put in place last week where military instructors could cover a lot of those classes during this week but going into next week and beyond if the shut down continues it's hard to say how many classes will be canceled

but it'll have an adverse impact. >> reporter: folks visiting the academy are trying to understand how the government could let this happen. >> we have a grandchild. he is two years old. we are saving for his education and hopes he never has to deal with the shut downs. >> our politicians are setting a poor example for these students who are looking at this, what's happening. these are the future leaders of this country and if anything is to be learned here you are seeing hopefully saying we want to do that in your generation as they come out. >> reporter: for now the graduation won't be affected but if it goes on that will be a problem they have to address. at the naval academy. don harrison. >> you know the community support is growing. businesses continue to rally to help the furloughed federal works, offering free oil

changes, tire reptations to all federal employees. jack said, yes they understand what it means for them. you can find more on the website. local bunesses are offering workers everything from ice cream to hairstyles, just head to the website to check out all of the deals we have. >> what about the navy blimp? guess what? it's not impacted by the shut down. threatening the -- the navy air force game but the blimp is still up because it's still flying over the skies of baltimore because it's funded by charging for their services. the project was paid for by the after may and it's out of the fiscal year 2013 budget which is why its not affected. the blimp is nducting mapping operations and flight zones over the skies. the mission is set to wrap up with in the next few days. >> now from abc2 maryland's most accurate forecast. >> the army playing for the navy's blimp? i know this week is game.

don't let that information get widespread. the radar all clear. look at dundock. it was hazy. though the radar is clear we haven't had a clear sky. nor have we have that up in northern baltimore. really all round the area with a hazy sun at best but still unseasonablely warm day. 82 right now. wind south at six miles an hour. the south breeze will be more pronounced over the next 48 hours and crank up the humidity and warmth. if anything, even more. tomorrow, back in the low to mid80s. midday the upper 70s. the humidity is going to be something that you will notice out there. look at the low 80s central maryland. upper 70s toward the beaches, no report from the mountains right now. the humidity levels set to climb even higher tomorrow. dew points in the upper 60s.

that starts to get to be not peak summer levels but summer like humidity. coming in tomorrow on top of very warm conditions that will spring well up in to the 80s for us. we think that happens the next few days, the cloud cover streaming through the area but no rain. i think the rain chances will stay limited the next 48 hours. things should start to change by late sunday night into monday. right now it's a stalled out frontal boundary just north of maryland and high pressure sliding east. kicking in the south wind flow. this is a lot of moisture. we did cloud up. even more humid air behind this high tomorrow. humidity set to crank up. great lakes won't impact us in any significant way. there could be showers along that stalled front. mainly north of the state and you see that here tomorrow afternoon. a couple of showers break out over pennsylvania north of the philadelphia area along that stalled front. we think that will stay north

of maryland. we will still see cloud cover. then it gets more interesting as we work into saturday afternoon. here you are seeing a frontal boundary starting to get together. beginning to make its push east. this is going to be joined by potentially a lot of moisture out of the gulf of mexico. that brings us to the tropics where we have karen and you can take a good look at her here. you see basically some defined circulation. it was more robust last evening. still a tropical storm. some model indications it could be a category one hurricane out in the southern gulf. you have to remember the sea surface temperatures are higher in the southern gulf than as the storm nears the florida panhandle. the water temperatures, while very warm are not what they were a month ago. we have had cool nights as we are now in early october. the tropical storm 65, another

ten miles an hour. we will crank it up to a category one. about 500 miles west southwest of miami. we think miami will completely miss this storm. it'll be north florida toward tallahassee over through pensacola. even in southern alabama. you can see some of the computer models, a bit of a spread with this but most of them put it east of new orleans, west of tallahassee and that will ba hound the florida panhandle -- likely to weaken back to a heavy rain this is over maryland into early next week. remember that the heavy intensity, a lot of these -- right into the chesapeake bay area. tonight down to 60 and tomorrow just another hazy day, even

warmer, i don't know if quite the 86 but mid80s tomorrow. you see what happens, the next several days, more partly cloudy and warm. summer like pattern here. right into the second part of the weekend. rain chances start to crank up early monday morning and they will be with us through tuesday as we get both the rain from karen and the front coming through. change on tap. really not until we get past the weekend. >> >> the dog fest coming up. a lot of stuff. it was hump day. >> it's thursday. a middle school says enough. they say the slogan is interfering classes. >> why scams are the rage of the day. we try to help you protect yourself.

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. posting on facebook yesterday. someone said guess what day it is or texted a picture of a camel. it's really catching on. >> guess what today is? >> it's hump day. >> one middle school doesn't think it's funny. the superintendent said some students are hughes it so much that teachers now complaining about it being disruptive. the school is now banning the phrase hump day. >> everybody is walking around in the hallways saying its hump day like in that weird voice. >> i don't think that it's that big of a disruption and people are just doing it in the halls. >> it's silly. there are bigger things to take

care of than that. obviously you don't want the kids disrupting. >> some parents will be happy when the phrase dies out. if a camel walks four miles how long does it take to get to town? >> how long? >> i don't know >> the word, national in the title right snooki ? why the aquarium is spared. >> and that scary video of that group of motorcycles surrounding that suv. we can't look away from the video. tonight new evidence police have in this case of road rage. >> and the accordable care act can be confusing and scammers want to use that. make sure you don't fall for that. . >> weather wise, the radar still clear though we had cloud cover day. maryland has been dry throughout the summer and september.

we will talk about what we could see heavier rain. straight ahead.

. updating the breaking news at the united states capitol all day long. there was a woman who rammed her car in to the gate at the white house, then started firing shots at the secret service as they chased her. she was shot and killed. there are reports she had a child in the car with her. the child is believed to be okay. capitol hill was put on lockdown for a half hour. investigators do not think it was an act of terrorism. >> . >> legislators were forced to go into lockdown and the president asked the house speaker to approve a budget plan. >> a smash and grab burglar who terrorized businesses for week is locked up tonight. police say that the 54-year-old david holland used a tire iron to smash windows and steal cash. he is tied to nine burglaries. some say he wasn't real

effective. in one he only got $4.25 in quarters. >> and and yesterday we showed you emergency exits padlocked and chained at a city high school. today the fire marshall ordered them removed to make sure it wasn't a problem. fire marshall inspected more than two dozen. >> weather wise, cloudy, yes but still warm today. we hit the low to mid80s. 83 at pwi. 84 in the city. not as warm as yesterday because of that hazy sky. the humidity, higher. when the humidity climbs it may feel more summer like but the extra moisture in the air, moisture in the air actually slows down the warm up in the afternoon. that was a factor today too and not getting to the upper 80s. big picture wise, couple of things going on. front starting to form up in the northern plains and karen looking rather impressive down

here. moving from the northern caribban through the yucatan, where there is warm water, karen may be a hurricane in the next 24 hours, talk a lot more about that coming up. just realize for the rest of your night in to the 60s or so a muggy start in the morning and then warm it up again tomorrow afternoon. we will have more coming up. >> all new, the national aquarium is getting a lot of phone calls about if it's open. >> it has not it. the government is shut down, all the national parks and museums. the smithsonia, but the fish are open. >> we have had a number of calls of people wondering if we are open and of course we are. we are a private nonprofit. national is in the name because we are the national aquarium and the best in the country. so naturally because of that people that would visit washington dc would come here to visit. so we have had those calls and told everybody we are open for

business. >> big crowd in there. the maryland zoo said its been accommodating field trips trips. the affordable care act. >> confusing new law has scam artists out there looking to work off it. how to avoid some of the obama care scams. >> reporter: the president makes it sound simple. >> just visit health care.gov, you can compare insurance plans the same way you would shop for a plane ticket. >> reporter: for many americans, the affordable care act can be confusing and there is a new problem. >> people are believe that the government has shut down. what do we do? we need to act quickly to get information, to take advantage. what if it goes away? scammers know that. >> reporter: among the most common scams, phone calls people claiming to be from the federal government, claiming

they need to verify personal and financial information for cards. those cards of course don't exist. online, the coalition against insurance fraud warns of fake exchange websites, and of phishing. >> that appear to be from the exchange or a government official, you open them, you click on a link and that could install malware on the computer or take you to a bogus exchange site. >> reporter: fake sites then take personal data and financial information like credit card or barning numbers. when whether the scammer arrives at the front door on the phone or in the inbox don't be pressured . >> look at your options and make the best decisions without being scared or pushed in to it through fear by a conartist. >> reporter: coverage under the exchanges won't start until january 1st and enrollment is open until march 31st. in washington,. >> speaking of health care

there is a simple way to help you stay healthy this winter and we can get you that done for free. free flu shots are available in baltimore county this weekend. the department of health is running a public flu vaccine clinic this saturday between ten and two. you can get's free shot one of seven different locations, doctors hear excuses all the time but everybody over the age of six months should get that shot >> flu doesn't know your age, it doesn't know your race, it doesn't know your ethnicity, you will be sick if you get infected. >> it takes two weeks for the protection from the shot to kick i . >> i think he cries. >> get it done early. that is the encouragement. looks like he is crying. he made it. >> give him a sucker. we have the update on the breaking news.

>> dozens of people are dead after a ship sank off the coast of italy. the ship was carrying 500migrants from africa. they are searching for survivors. the agency rescuered at least 150 in the ongoing operation. police say it could take eight days to identity the bodies of the people that were burned in this crash. they were burned so badly. eight people died when a church bus blew a tire, veered across the highway and hit an suv and a tractor trailer. 14 people were also hurt. cries are expected to use dental records to try to identity some . this. they are also looking in to safety records. >> this is something else. caught on camera a nail goes into a man's chest. look at that image. the man was building a deck. i don't even want to see this. when he accidentally shot a