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and the hand ffl of women say their cars have been broken into and shr purses taken. >> it's happened four times yesterday and it's part of a growing trend along the east coast. they are using stolen checks and personal information to quickly drain bank accounts. here is what you need to do. the easiest way is take your purse everywhere you go. if you are a victim report it to the bank immediately. it takes time for stolen checks to make their way through. if you see suspicious activity in a parking lot always call the police right away. >> all right. who is heading down to the civic center? a team made famous by earl the pearl will hit the floor. the bullets and the wizards as we know them will play the knicks in the baltimore classic. it'll start tonight at seven. it's a homecoming of sorts for carmello anthony and sam from
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dunbar and the assistant coach for the wizards. that's tonight at seven. >> we will have the video at 11. >> this faraway from being sold out. > orchestra students learning from the pros at baltimore's soulful symphony. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: a music teacher at lands down high. >> the kids at this school, they come to the music room fts their sanc tuary. >> reporter: he may not be able to personally address every student. in steps the symphony. an orchestra started by musician and composer daron at, they hold a teaching paster class for lands down orchestra students. >> just really gulp that air. >> helping them @&c
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close relationship, not only with music but personalities that make it. >> this is a personal thing to have experts in the field actually come and spend the time and energy to work with the students. >> >> also to give them another perspective. sometimes the perspective reinforces what we have talked about in class and sometimes it's a new thing. >> you can do whatever you want. this is your time. >> it's about -- everything that someone like that can bsh this guy is like prosecute professional. >> you don't realize how much it helps until they leave and take the advice -- they are doing it every day. it helps your skills. >> the kids are -- they are amazing. i think the coolest thing for me is to come in as a
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professional and really see how quickly you can get connected. >> reporter: and students have a way of teaching the masters. >> i learned a new way to look at notes on the keyboard. i usually explain flats and sharps by raising a note or lowering a note and one of the students said you mean going to the right or left. >> they come in and connect with the kids on a completely different level than the guys they see every day. >> reporter: the soulful symphony and the lands down high orchestra making beautiful music together. in lands down, i'm lamont williams. >> that's a good story. >> students who stud dwri y with the symphony will be invited to a holiday concert. just a few days we will race for a cure in hunt valley. breast cancer center will talk
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about the research that they support. >> and you have to wait a few more hours before you get to watch the new episode of scandal but you only have to wait minutes for a sneak peek of the show. >> take a look -- our hd weatherbug camera at the tidewater marina and weather there was bright early on. then we saw conditions, well clouding back up again. the question, how will things tilt as we head into your saturday and sunday? your details most accurate weekend forecast in just a minute.
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. now from abc2 nary land's most accurate forecast. >> tonight -- i wanted to go back to the radar before we get in to the cameras here and see ife can get this to rewind a bit here. maybe not. i will step out for a second. i don't know quite what the deal is with the computer here. we do want to start off with a look at the radar picture. we can do that for you now right there. so again, overall the set up and rain coming in toward northern hartford and it's not
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just here but back through cecil. north of the port deposit area. some showers still coming down and then we see not a lot of rain behind this particular round of showers, particular cluster of rain, just about it. most of the rain is actually trending to the north from harrisburg up through basically north central pennsylvania. we just kind of catch the southern edge of that system. kind of what we thought would happen as we checked that out with the models. just a glancing blow from precipitation. 70 degrees at pwi. sunset at 6:25. look at the difference out in the mountains, little cooler there at 59 oakland. most of the state at 70. about two to five degrees above average for this part of october. upper 60s will be the average where we would be. the south breeze helping warm thin up and keeping humidity around and pile up additional water at high tide for those western based counties, hartford down through eastern -- southeast baltimore -- watch out for enhanced high tides
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through the overnight. only a foot or two above average. keep dropping into the day tomorrow. the northwest winds kick in. we will replace the south wind with a much dryer northwest breeze. it'll really make for improved weather. just the possibility of a shower for the next two hours or so. look at the day tomorrow. cloud free, bright, outstanding weather. a day where you want to make sure to remember the sunglasses. as we proceed into saturday the clouds returning ahead of yet another cool front that will be out toward ohio and possibly bringing just an isolated shower saturday night. i think saturday will be a generally dry day. again, beyond that into sunday and monday. just sort of partly cloudy and fairly mild. cooler air will arrive late next week. in the meantime the first of two cold fronts between now and sunday will not bring a great
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cooldown. just slightly cooler into the upper 60s for highs throughout most of the weekend. you can see a look at the temperature pattern, first front coming through tomorrow. 60s. fairly seasonal. not a big drop. you will notice how much dryer and then beyond that into the overnight. saturday morning, you do see the colder air getting poised to move in as we go later and later into next week. tonight down to the 50s. scattered showers nah will clear rapidly to the east and next few hours, tomorrow 66 for the three degree guarantee. tomorrow night a cool friday night in the mid40s. look at the outlook saturday. temperatures not quite there. the race for the cure slightly cooler, 65, you see it dry right now and then later in to the early part of next week that's where we see a more significant october cold front and that one will drop us down into the 50s for a high. highs and also make for better
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chance for rain. the strong cold front, holding off a few days. we have had a few races where its been rather frigid in hunt valley. that one will just be cool. cool. >> let's go with the cool. >> thank you. we are thinking pink shirt. the race for the cure. in hunt valley. a big part of the battle against breast cancer is finding new treatments. research, hopefully one day a cure. i'm joined by a doctor, co director of the breast cancer program to talk about the research. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you very much for bringing me here. >> temperature us about the importance of your relationship with comen when it comes to research. >> reporter: komen has been super generous. i can say for more than 20 years, and ever since i have been in hopkins, i have continuely received fund from
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them to conduct my research in breast cancer. they have been key in funding ideas, trying to get new ideas off the ground and into the world and as fast as possible. they focus on the importance of doing research that is meaningful to breast cancer patients. we are at hop tins the university of maryland great be eficiaries. my lab has been funded for nearly $3 million. indeed much of our research is at the cutting edge of research in breast cancer, both in cure as well as in direction has really been made possible by komen. >> and you focus on prevention a lot. >> indeed. my focus has been on prevention. there is a very good reason for this. that is that i feel that once you have breast cancer the
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morse horse is out of the barnl. after that point you are trying to battle that cancer. first you do surgery, raidation, clrkschemo and then you say okay, okay, go on home. five-years, ten years, 20 years later it gets you again. then you are battling it and it's most often a failing battle. the -- my idea has been why get to that stage at all? why not take prevention, after all the majority of the -- in the world have been gotten completely eliminated by prevention. >> okay. that's what it's about right here. thank you so much doctor for coming in. you still have time. you can retion sister online. >> thank you. daily deals for moms, babies and kids. it's the slogan of a special
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. online shopping has gone far beyond the website of your favorite store or mall. some of them going pub lib. the big question, will it work on wall street? >> reporter: i'm not the target customer for zoo lil yirks.com. i don't have kids, i don't know what makes a frock twirl worthy. i haven't heard of most of the brands but i have started paying attention to the site after an announcement that it'll be the first of the daily clothing deal sites to get an
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ipo. in the last few years a number of these sites have sprung up. they all serve different areas but the strategy is the same. sell heavyly discounted clothes and products for a limited amount of time. new sales every day. keep customers coming back. high end sites have cooled a bit recliently. during the recession it was easy to find expensive designers for cheap. now bts harder it's harder. a . by targeting tech saavy moms they built a base of loyal shoppers. around three million and they claim to work with over 10,000 brands. they appear to have some fanatical followers. >> anyone with children needs to shop on zoo lily. >> reporter: they want to raise a hundred million dollars with their ipo and plan to focus
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more on their mobile experience. there is a small assortment of men's clothing but it's clear the big focus is on daily deals from mom, babies and kids. there are good deals, discount fake toaster, 40% off fake kid's beard. soon we will see if wall street thinks the company is a good deal as well. >> and you can catch more stories like this one on the list. watch it week nights at seven followed by let's ask america. >> coming up at six, everybody is on facebook these days including, gang members. gangs are using social media to organize and recruit. and keeping f era lrk erl cats over running the streets. those and more coming up at six.
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. spoil era alert. >> all right. all right. all you g ladiators. we are about to spill scandal secrets. >> do you know every week the cast gets together at one of their homes to watch the episode and prepare for live twitter? the actor who playing see you prepared by yelling curses right before a signature rant and the prankster, josh who plays david rose man. now last week olivia dealt with daddy issues and the return of jake ballard. here is a sneak peek of tonight's episode. >> she wants her son's file declassified. >> okay. >> tell him what will happen
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if i don't get it. >> sir, she said she has every intention of using the bomb if she doesn't get the file. >> hang up. > understood. >> i said hang up! . >> wow. you can catch the all new episode tonight at ten right here on abc2. . >> all new to the party because -- now that the orioles season is over i can watch. >> i will reel you in. i told you. >> it's national bullying prevention day. >> we will take you to woodlawn middle to show you how they are bringing everybody together to end bullying on the news at six which starts right now. >> you're watching the station that works for you. now, abc 2news at six. >> when you think of a wire you think of drug drops and rooftop video. >> that was years ago. now gang members are using
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social media. so are police. >> reporter: social media is not just becoming more and moreen grained in your world. it's used by the criminal element as well. it can be a force for gangs, they are using it to organizeo, and recruit. some detectives in our area are beginning to make careers out of fighting gangs in the virt awrks, l world. tonight you will get the look into the center where police mine their hundreds of crime cameras. it's also a data clearing house as criminal analysts look over social plead media. we sat down with them to see how they find clues about city gangs. >> it's not obvious. i will commit a shooting today. anyone in for it? they will post things that give
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us an indication that, you know, maybe they are up to no good today. you can tell that just by some of the information that they are starting to post. >> tonight at 11 we will explain more about how police departments do that in your city and suburbs one of the tools detectives employ is a new program that depends on what you post and where you post it from. it can be an important resource for law enforcement and we wanted to learn more. we talked to our digital media producer to help us explain. we will zip over to 1101 russell street and you can see the -- using the microsoft mapping software. it lets us create what they call a go fence or a boundary or perimeter for activity. once we create this -- let me double click that. we can search specifically
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inside this area which you assume will be a lot of content. so will social plead yay that caters to it. what we are seeing is instagram, twitter, flicker, youtube, those are the only media we use because they are more trusted and require opt in location services. >> reporter: show us what people are tagging. >> we do the -- this way -- what it does is shows not only inside the boundary but wherein side. the service is never ending. you can go anywhere in the world with this and get realtime updates. that's what makes it so incredible. >> >> reporter: it was just a snap shot from the ravens game this past sunday. coming up at 11 how all of the tools fit together as police departments in our area start taking to the battle against gangs from our streets to online. abc 2news. >> that's wild.
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all right. looking forward to that one. new details on the case of that woman accused of posing as a doctor's assistant. we have learned is that shauna gunter was previously an assistant for a doctor. she is a accused of stealing more than $14,000 from a doctor who was her boss. according to the state medical board assistants aren't licensed in maryland though they are allowed to help with surgeries. >> [inaudible] after more than a week in critical condition doctors upgraded her to serious condition. she was sent to shock trauma after being struck by a car. she still facing a long road to recovery but we are happy, that's a positive sign. >> a message to stop bullies spread on the internet. people encouraged to wear
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purple to stop bullies. >> we found a school trying to stop it from beyond the class. katrin . >> treat people how you would want to be treated. . >> reporter: that's the mentality woodlawn wants all their students to have. it's something that m montana taylor this about all the time. >> when someone bullies someone, then you think boy want to be treated that way? of course not. >> reporter: montana said he learned that from his mom. the education started at home. >> we take it seriously. we don't want students bullied, don't want them to bully. it's a multifaceted approach. >> reporter: whether it's with pins showing support for prevening this month or lessons and meetings throughout the school year they want to create the type of environment that's comfortable for kids to come forward. they say
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