loyola, essex and towson. things happen in 3s but this has to stop before it reaches four. sherrie johnson is live at towson u with more. what's going on. >> reporter: good morning. we are here live at towson university where faculity and students are on high alert after robberies on three different college campuses. now, last monday, there was a robbery here at towson university war woman was robbed while she was trying to make a deposit at an atm. and on thursday, a man held at gunpoint in a park lot at the ccbc essex campus took his wallet and friday three stewed antiloyola university were robbed in a parking lot when two men demanded money and jewelry. all three incidents triggered campus wide e-mails to students, faculity and staff. >> generally i feel safe around the campus them. new life around here everywhere. campus security is there. >> student need to be aware of that, and they have to be aware of their surroundings because of proximity to rough areas. >> reporter: now police officers say they don't believe the different robberies are related and they, again, ask

campus that was hit. >> reporter: we are here at towson university. this is one college came -- one of three college campus that is have seen on-campus robberies within the past week. the robberies happened at towson university, ccbc on essex and also loyola university. police say they don't believe the crimes are connected but the campuss are taking precautions. in all three cases, the victims complied with the robbers demands. police believe that may have kept them from being seriously injured. >>i was amazed that that could happen on campus. like, that stuff normally doesn't happen on campus. usually you are off campus and stuff like that. >> reporter: now once again, police say that the descriptions they have been given of the suspect don't match. they don't think any of the robberies are related. right now they have not arrested any suspects in the cases. reporting live at towson university, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> baltimore city police say this man broke into the car belonging to mayor stephanie rawlings-blake's husband. police arrested a

water main issue in towson. closed because of the water main break.we have road closures in effect for today's veteran's day parade. that starts at 7:00 so expect to see charles street closed between fayette and monument. now back to you. >> the passengers on a disabled cruise ship are staying busy with live music, save engine hundreds and the carnival splendor is expected to arrive in san diego into port sometime today. >> it lost power in an engine fire on monday and tugboats are slowly pulling ate a-- it along. tempers have been case lathing among the people on the ship. they are trying to -- and the crews, trying to keep the tempers calm and passengers busy and they are towed to san diego where they can get off the ship sometime today. abc2's emily schmidt reports from washington. >> reporter: as the carnival splendor moved into cell phone range, passengers got a chance to share the ship's shape. >> just gross everywhere. >> reporter: joey and his wife stacy boarded the boat hours after they a3)pgot married. just before a monday morning fire in th

that's going to be between 11th and towson. take morgan road inside. ---- instead.here's an accident at will kins and still working and starting to see delays on the beltway. just minor ones on the top and the westside. we can take a live look at the westside and that's at old fort road. this is brought to you by your toyota dealer. toyota, moving forward. back to you, marty and don. you're the one that did this one. >> there's a new series on cable that looks at where life started. this is brought to you by the discovery channel. >> and please welcome sir david atinborough. i use that term. i have to admit, i'm a big fan of your work and approach at using this medium to teach. and i would like to thank you for keeping on working. >> thank you, very much. i'm quite enjoying it. and now you've taken on something new and of course, it's old. the first life here on this earth. >> yep. and it's about 600 million years old, roughly speaking and it's new in as much as what we know about that period 600 million years ago and it's only come to light in the last few decades

we are live at towson university.ave to tell you in the two hours we have been here this morning, we have seen a beefed up security out here. we have seen a number of patrols going by. a lot more than we usually see when on campus becauseyone is on high alert after robberies on three different college campuses. on monday, of last week a. woman at towson university was robbed while trying to make an atm deposit and thursday a man held a gun to a woman in a parking lot at the ccbc essex campus and took her wallet. on friday, three students at loyola university were robbed in a parking lot when two men walked up to them and demanded money and jewelry. all three incidents triggered campus wide e-mail to student, faculity and staff. >> generally i feel safe walk around the campus. there's lights around here. security is there. >> student need to be aware of that, and they have to be aware of their surroundings because of proximity to rough areas. >> reporter: now police say the descriptions that they received in the cases

towson mixture of clouds and sun all day. breezy and powerful winds actually. saw some wind gusts up to 40. chesapeake beach. i want to show you some wind gusts. westminster gusting to 45. we gusted to 40 in bowie 43 arnold. windy, windy day. that can bring down obviously branches and trees in places as well along with the wind gusts we saw over 50 and some of the thunderstorms last night had a tremendous amount of wind in the last 24 hours across the state. skies clear now radar crystal clear. mid 50s in baltimore, easton, dover chillier air marching in. oakland already down to 37. going to be a chilly night. current winds around 15 or so but we've seen much higher gusts than that. take a look at some of the wind gusts, gusting to 26 in the last hour. the earlier map through the day we're still gusting to 25 out there. so it is a windy weather scenario. satellite radar trend. very, very clear after big storms of last night. there's not much to tell you about tonight. that's a nice change we're glad to say that. and as we zoom out a little bit here, you can kin

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reporter: smith even commissioned patriot plaza between the owned courthouse and circuit court in towson to salute each branch of the armed services. this is the first time it has been used to commemorate veteran's day a day we set aside to honor brave men and women who defend our freedom every day. >> i can tell you the families that have deployed soldiers and airmen that's never lost on them and lost on me as i watch the families say good-bye to their loved one. i think they have the toughest job back at home, and one thing i would ask is to support those families that are left behind. >> reporter: in towson jeff hager abc2 news. >>> right now 5,000 misdemeanors are serving in iraq and afghanistan. so far 119 men and women from our state have sacrificed their lives this those wars. >>> one of those soldiers is sergeant john burner of baltimore he died while serving his fourth tour oversees it wasn't a quality death his family believes he died pause the military didn't help him with the common medical diagnosis. >> reporter: sergeant john burner was not a soldier who backed away from hi

robberies happened at towson university. the ease sex campus of the baltimore county community college and loyola university in the north baltimore campus area. police don't believe the crimes are connected. however, the campuses are taking extra precautions. in all three cases, the victims complied with the demands of the robbers. police believe that may have kept them from being seriously hurt. >> i was amazed that could happen on campus. like, that stuff normally doesn't happen on campus. you hear it off campus stuff like that. >> police say the suspects in the three incidents have different descriptions so they don't believe the cases are related. there have been no arrest in any of them so far. >>> here we are three days after we saw county executive jack johnson and his wife led away in hand huffs. nine people including 3 cops were led's way in handcuffs. it involves drugs guns black market alcohol and cigarette. >> reporter: all the elements for a great hbo story line. the elements are here. allegations of corruption,

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a former towson university foon star and nfl standout was sentenced after rape and burglary. he was a running back at towson in the 1980's and his son is a running back at the university of maryland. the former giant, jet and patriot raped a college student inside her home last year. his lawyers say they will appeal the conviction. >> and police say the death of a towson university student was the result of a hair win overdose. the rug by coach told the campus newspaper his death was a surprise and hopes lit serve as a cautionary tale for all students. >> and how to reduce the deficit, only a few weeks to do something about it. mandates, entitlement expenses and although governor martin o'malley says there will not be a new tax, some believe there will be an increase in the alcohol tax. >> a new report ranks baltimore second on the city most un appealing. it took into factors friendlyness, intelligence, fitness and food. not many are happy with the report. that brings us to or water cooler question of the day, what do you think of a newspaper ranking baltimore second in the c

we're live in towson tonight. jeff abell, fox 45 news "late edition". >> a state employee blows the whistle and gets results. 37-year-old veteran of the state highway administration said for years he witnessed well paid consultants commit fraud and falsify records. video obtained by fox 45 news indicates a consultant arriving late to work, at least, four times in a 76 minute disparity in the time cards. >> when you report fraud they come after you. yet the people that committed the fraud, they continue to exist. >> you know, if it is human error, those are taken into act and reviewed. in this particular case, that obviously will go on as well. >> that consultant that we talked about has been fired today. but simmer's future is in doubt. it is our duty to hold our government accountable. and you can help by joining our fox 45 waste watch. if you see waste call our hotline. and you can go to foxbaltimore.com and click on waste watch. >> new tonight. st. joseph medical center agreed to pay $22 million to settle a cas

in towson. jeff bell, fox 45 news "late edition". >> first on fox now. some baltimore city police officers are accused of using excessive force on a 14-year-old girl and the confrontation is all caught on you camera. >> jayda johnson said it happened yesterday afternoon along west hamburg and hanover. it all began when officers coofronted the girl about a fight she had with a group of other girls. but the mother said the daughter was tacked by those girls and then police.3 >> one of the cops was 6 foot tall, 200 pounds. had his feet on her back. >> i want to see them off he streets. because i know this happened more than one time. it probably was not a brave enough person to say anything. >> the mother has filed an official complaint. tonight city police are looking into the case. >> new tonight. the man that blinded a baltimore police officer is sentenced to 12 years. 20-year-old james kimball convicted of slinging a beer mug at a detective's head while friends said kimball was not a hardened criminal but the racial slurs shouted are intolerable the jud

we will go back to towson.at a mild start. 49 degrees and one of the good things is that we don't have the widespread fog that we had yesterday. it's still out there. i want to alert you traveling in the outlying areas, if you your commute tax you by the reservoirs or through the valleys in baltimore county near carroll or howard county you may encounter fog. but that's not the case in towson. we have 50 backs towards sykesville. and 52 in easton on the eastern shore. we have some patchy thick fog, but mostly cloudy skies will result in some scattered showers as a cold front approaches early to mid afternoon. we will hate warm 66 the two degree guaranteed high. let's check on the traffic with kim brown. >> reporter: thanks. as we get ready for the travel day tomorrow, this morning, traffic is actually moving very, very well. we have light to moderate volume. no delays around the beltway. traffic moves good at liberty road in both directions. looking at the maps, we have a disabled vehicle southbound 95 approach

old oman and aaother person were walking down this street, near glen mount and cold berry road in towsonwhen aaman tried to grab a woman's purse. ú%en she fooght back, he hit her several times with the gun. >> the victim in this case was a 68-year-old asian femaae and she could only speak just a little bit of english we are really concerned in this case, because the suspect was in fact, carrying a handgun and he actually assaulted the victim in this case. >> anyyne with information -hould call metro crime stoppers at 11866-7-lock up. p>> a tip from neighbors leads ú%lice to kids who they believe stole several exotic animals from a nature center? in baltimore. an iguana, a cockroach were taken. they were tipped off by makes it who were taking the animals into their homes. other people will face charges. >>> there is new information in the corruption chargee that led to the arrest of 9 people. in court they revealed that they have video tape of the pollce %-dealls in the middle of a drug the tape showssher agreeing to transport drugs. she and two other police officers were arrested on drug

they are trying to piece together fire investigation right there in towson. joppa road closed at danaway and expect it to remain closed for a while. and brooklyn park ritchie highway closed in both

we are looking at west towson elementary at 47.he last hour in rifterstown. -- reisterstown. on the average, we are looking at pretty thick fog with a dense fog' advisory eastern shore. queen ann schools 90-minute delay. care line county a -- caroline county two hour delay. we are watching this developing storm near the gulf coast spreading moderate to heave can i rain through louiseana and towards at lna georgia. heading up in our direction and that's the event tomorrow and coarld air is behind the storm. for today, fog is a morning issue. we should turn partly sunny and up to 60. the cloud the fog and we develop overnight with showers toward day brick and low 44. here's kim with the traffic. >> reporter: thanks. well, we have had a fatal crash this morning in the sparks glencoe area that has york road closed in both directions between phoenix and mccormick. but as you see here, southbound lanes not affected heading southbound towards the beltway. looking at the maps, we are also work several other accidents around the area. one i

former morgan and towson state football star is going to jail. he went onto play in the nfl with the giants and patriots, he was sentenced to 30 years on charges of sexual conduct and burglary in south carolina. the 44-year-old would pack stadiums on sunday but suffered on off the field activities here. remember when he was with the giants in 1990. he was arrested in baltimore on a charge of offering to pay an undercover female police officer for sex. his son playing for the terps in college park. his son is placing did -- is playing for the terps in college park. >>> brand hartridge testified he went to hall's off campus apartment look for a fight after a woman whom both dated said she was hit. hall pled guilty to manslaughter last month. he says the shooting was in self-defense. >>> today, members of the city police union are set to vote on a new contract. the new deal gives them five more days off in exchange for about a 2% pay cut. last year, the union spent months negotiating a contract with city and five furlough days along with the changes

for a multiscreen movie theater, restaurants offices and a complex across shopping roads from the towson center. they endorsed a $6.2 million county contribution for a new parking garage earlier this month. >>> well the credit card act of 2009 has gonna long way toward making sure you're protected when using plastic. but did you know those rules also protect a purchasing you'll likely make a lot of this holiday season in we have more on what the new regulation mean for gift cards in this week's scam alert. >> reporter: they are the gift you go with when you can't find the perfect present or you don't care to. >> gift cards are a hot item right now. >> reporter: it's a 50 billion- dollar a year industry. but, this year, the costa make and sell gift cards are playing by some new government rules that went into effect just in time for the holiday season, the better business bureau is breaking down those rules so you don't get scammed. the first change involves x probation dates, thanks to the credit card act gift cards have to stay active for at least 5 years, you still to have keep an eye

joppa road some fire activity in towson danway and pleasant plains road. you could see lane closures there. rosedale we have an accident at golden ring at kenwood avenue, a car through the front of a 7-11 and could take a while. upperco defective light at hanover pike and emory and old york near lentz in parkton. ritchie highway shut down 11th to townsend and southwestern boulevard at wilkins avenue an accident. the harrisburg expressway at shawan both directions moving freely. over to a live view of the beltway at 295 in the southwest corner it is moving on the inner and out are loops. 95 ok as well. that is the latest. over to you. >> looking at some of the top stories, north carolina investigators looking for a missing 10-year-old have found new evidence that could end their search for zara baker. authorities are tight-lipped but dogs and search teams are out in caldwell county. she's been missing since october 9. last month they found her artificial leg. r stepmother is charged with writing a bogus ransom note. a plane crashed in a florida airport. off

she was yelling a towson tigers jacket. >>> and at towson university, an alert sent out this week, says a woman making a robbery at a camp -- deposit at a campus bank was robbed. >> we give them a lot of recommendations on how to be safe anywhere, not just in loyola, but anywhere they might be going. >> reporter: at this point, police do not believe any of the crimes are related. ask they do not have suspects in custody. >> loyola officials say the suspect took off with $50, a cell phone and a student's ring. >>> state police have to rescue a teenager who took a serious fall. the 17-year-old fell dozens of feet, while hiking on sugarloaf mountain. he was hoisted off the mountain and taken to shock trauma here in baltimore for treatment. >>> a state commission report shows a drop in the number of procedures in hospitals. pat warren reports. some think the decline in procedures is related to the publicity, surrounding possible unnecessary stent procedures. >> you may remember how it started. hundreds of patients at st. joseph's medical center, receiving letters telling them they may have

the first is fire activity in towson on joppa road. upperco we have a defective light at emory road. a couple other things. a report of an accident in rosedale at golden ring and kenwood and downed wires in anne arundel northbound richie highway. so an area you may want to avoid for now. we will give you a live look at 95 south of 195. you see looking good both directions. over to a live view northbound here looking good as well. that is the latest on "traffic pulse 11." >> our big story, the baltimore city f.o.p. rejects the latest offer of a contract for 2011. nearly all of the officers, sergeants and lieutenants disagreed with the proposal. jennifer franciotti is live at headquarters with more on what is next. >> turnout was exceptionally high but rejection of the contract was overwhelming. if passed the contract would have called for a 2% pay cut. that is basically the equivalent of five days of pay. in 2012 however they would have received five days paid leave to make up for the cut. the police union has been without a contract si

charles street will be closed and towson we are having a water main break issue that has bosley closed in both directions at fairmount. use lambborn as good alternate. >>> you know they would spend the night in order to get a jump starred on -- start on the new day. and if i've taken your car here you have to feel fad for what happened. sherrie johnson is live in glen burnie. sherrie. >> reporter: it's an unbelievable scene out here. take a look behind me. all you can see a burned out building. you can even see the cars with all the rubble on them. this all happened two men died when the auto body shot caught fire and they were sleeping in it. as try to figure out how the fire started, the family members are trying to understand what happened. family members say both of the victims worked long hours at the shop and it was not uncommon for them to sleep over to get an early start on the work. they identified the victims as 45 years old herman acevado known as macho, and the other victim was 17-year-old johnny ramos. >> we love both of them, you know. so, we have to deal with it. >> repo

another armed robbery happened at towson university. this time a student at a bank atm loses his cash. towson security sent campus wide text messages to students and teachers. then thursday night, robbers mugged loyola university students and beat up another who tried to help. >> as they crossed the parking lot, they were confronted by two individuals who demanded money and jewelry. those individuals were brandishing knives and obviously threatened the victims. >> i don't feel safe. it's awful. where the incident happened is right there and we do that walk all the time. >> reporter: tonight, security at loyola is high. >> it's their home and they need to feel safe. >> reporter: while loyola has beefed up security and placed students on alert it's working with the other universities to make sure the robberies are not related. in baltimore, i'm gigi barnett, "eyewitness news." >> we checked with police and they are searching for suspects in all of the robberies. >>> there is a new caution for maryland drivers. there is another speed camer

powerful doppler radar and five sweeps across the chesapeake and we are dry. 43 in pasadena and 42 in towson and we will go for a two degree gander teed high of 56 with thickening class here's kim brown with traffic. >> reporter: thanks. debris could be on the side streets in northeast baltimore. northern parkway was closed overnight right there at mcclean for debris cleanup but that's been reopened and traffic is moving well. as you look at ann i arundel county south bound lanes at route -- anne arundel county, southbound lanes moving up to speed. bunker hill road at york road shall reports of downed trees and wires under the 83 overpass. not blocking any lanes. crews are on the scene trying to make repairs. a vehicle fire downtown at bank street in eaton street. a crash lingering in dundalk at dunn haven and dundalk avenue. and northbound 97 at dorsey road a vehicle fire blocks the left shoulder. now back to you. >> all right. thanks. >>> it's 6:01. we learned yesterday the wolf is always at the door hoving and puffing trying to blow the house down. we will go to dutch village apartments o

don't believe the robberies are connected but the campuses are taking precautions, it happened at towson, loyola university and other campuses in north baltimore. christian schaefer is here with that story, chris. >> reporter: combly, patrols have been increased at all three campuses. they say they feel save as police are working to find the suspects in each of those robberies. shortly before 3:00 p.m. three students were in this parking lot when two men walked up to them. >> one of the individuals struck one of the victims in the face and which time both individuals pulled knives and demanded money and jewelry. >> reporter: the students gave them cash a watch and a cell phone. and they ran off. >> i was amazed that could happen on campus. that stuff normally doesn't happen on campus, usually you hear it off campus, stuff like that. >> in fact it's been happening a lot have local campuses. thursday night a man held a gun to a woman at essex campus and took her wallet. and monday of last week county police say a man robbed a woman at towson university while she was making an atm deposit.

in towson, they are continuing that fire cleanup from an earlier shed fire. that has joppa road closed between danaway and pleasant plains road and in brooklyn park, ritchie highway closed in both directions at 11th street because of a utility problem involving a downed pole. glid 6:17-- >>> it's 6:17. women who had breast cancer surgery have the os of reconstructive surgery which includes implants. a study tries to help women decide what is bet for them. dr. timothy johnson has the story. >> reporter: women who have had mastectomies are faced with the decision whether to follow up with reconstructive surgery. most patients who do must make another choice, do they want implants filled with silicone or sail lien which is salt watt -- saline which is salt water. 670 women with reconstructive breast surgery were surveyed. 176 had silicone implants and the other saline. those with silicone reported greater satisfaction than those who had saline implants. breast implants have been controversial. their effectiveness and safety have been called into question especia

and we are lag behind in towson and sykesville and ellicott city at 48.e looking at the warm air surging ahead of the frontal bondry. line of rain is break up to the west. but there's the threat as it does bump into the warm and moisten viernlt as some areas did have fog this morning. we will hold some of the showers together. we have to keep that in mind from the lunch hour through about mid-afternoon. after that, we will shift our winds from the warm flow this morning to a much colder setup and that colder setup will have reinforcing shots of cold air through the holiday weekend. from lunchtime into four we expect showers and once that swings through, we clear it out tonight and temperatures do tank back into the mid-30s. nothing unusual but a change of the warm pattern we have right now. and computer models are a little split for thursday but appears as if rain is going to try to move in during the morning hours. main batch to the west is showing up here. i believe a warm front will swing through and that could enhance the east wind off the chesapeake

. >> here we go. 9:0 4 pushing 9:05 and we have a west towson elementary school and we have had fog develop. you can watch the fog develop before sunrise and occasionally we are dealing with waves of the low ground cloud that will limit our visibility and some of the higher elevation because of the low cloud run thicker or deeper into the low cloud deck and that's why some of the visibility is cut down more so north and west of the city. they were hook at big fog in the eastern shore that delayed schools and few counties. 48 in the thermometer. moist wind out of east and northeast and we have ourselves a look at temperatures now pushing 51 in baltimore. 48 hanging into the fog and easton. now, the dense fog advisory went until 8 and we should start to see an improvement if you haven't done so. basically low clouds gradually lift. we will thin out and brighten the sky and occasionally get sun spoke poking through. 54 in patuxent river. down into the 30s this morning. we dry things out especially once you head south of route 50 and south of dc and eastern virginia. they are clear andy. once w

two families were displaced over in towson. towson police are handling that.of injuries here in the parkville. proper. no fatalities. that is the good news as these things came through. the damage is widespread. varied damage across the area. the big concern will be the debris and the downed power lines. it is very much a developing story and we'll have more as the rescue crews and power crews and police and firefighters do their job and help resume normal sleep. in this neighborhood, this is the area that suffered the most damage in the center of parkville. reporting live, sandra shaw. >> we're hearing from parkville residents via e-mail. this is from jacob. >> i have one from melanie in parkville. she says there are trees uprooted. several trees are down in their yard. one landed on a chain-link fence. an entire tree is down on a neighbor car. please give us more information we're getting it this morning. you can share your pictures of the overnight storm damage with us. visit the u local section of our website, wbaltv.com. >> arundel mills school is closed

william porter shot in the head after lured by a false alarm to hhs gas station on towson's east joppa road. the whole scheme was organized by his wife. karla, that will to go trial next year. >> and belair police have arrested this man, muhammad for a shooting and murder back in july. 15-year-old was shot in the leg and another man was shot to death behind the american legion on bond street in belair. muhammad is the gunman. in 2007, he was charged with %-found guilty on asssult for leaving a man paralyzed. he only served 3 and a half years. 52 families in the city.isplaced and while the clean up continues tonight kathleen cairns reports, on what was discovered in the dangerous pile of debris. >> fridaa, at the dutch village apartments. the ait is on outside of building 2205. >> the top that is caved in. >> donee talaytham lived on the second floor nd worried about her two pets. >> my animals are in there. >> yesterday they were spotted in this debris. >> yes, i seen them. they ran. mowka and muffin. they are hiding. scared to death. >> while the piles of debris @%tside seem to be gro

wjz is live at the hospital in towson. mike hellgren has more on the possibility of criminal charges. mike? >> reporter: that's one topic on which the u.s. attorney would not elaborate. tonight, though, what he is saying about this case. and the imbact -- impact of the settlement, on the hospital, patients and one of its former doctors in particular. >> reporter: st. joseph medical center will pay $22 million to the feds. part of a settlement, where the government claims the hospital paid kickbacks to mid-atlantic, cardiovascular associates in exchange for the referrals. but that settlement is notable for what it does not include. and that's a deal to stop it. >> i'm going to want to make sure, if i give you that amount of money, i want you to guarantee me that you're not going to prosecute me crunlly. criminally. here the answer was no, we're not going to guarantee you that. everybody in this chain could go down. and you never know where these cases are going to go. >> reporter: here's what the u.s. attorney told wjz abou

baltimore police need your help as they search for a suspect who attacked and robbed a woman in towson last week ended the victim and a friend were walking on the glenmont road early saturday morning when a man hit her several times in the head with a gun and then took her purse. if you have any information, you are asked to call metro crime stoppers. after rejecting a new contract weeks ago, baltimore teachers say yes to a landmark proposal. just over 1900 teachers voted for the new contract, while 1045 opposed the three-year agreement, which comes with a 4.5% pay hike any controversial evaluation system. tim tooten has more on the story. >> all day long, schoolteacher's made their way to the polls to vote for a second time on what the unions and school officials called a landmark contract. 6 dubai% of those who voted cast ballots in favor -- 65% of those who voted cast ballots in favor of the contract. >> out teachers of shown how much they love our profession and students and have voted in favor of the contract. >> but the real work is just beginning to hear some terms of the new ag

theenext event you can do this aa, this thursday at towson town center at nord storm.on. imagine you on it would be to send words of encouragement to the troops, it takes a cup of seconds. >>> president bush's book is out today. the book is expected to reveal never before heard details about the president's time in office, including the september 11 attacks. some the names mentioned in the book, john mccain, dick chhney and president obama. >>> a singer pops the question again and an on, again, and off again couple is. you see how that may are hard to >> on again, off again couple they are on again. >> a diva hopes they will celebrate the holiday with her. >>> wedding bells will be ringing soon for nick lachey. he finally popped the question. he took to twitter to confirm that the rumors are true. nick who was divorced from jessica simpson wanted to the take it slower. the couple is excited about ennagement and look barred t foa wonderful life together. >>> bowwow took to twitter to spill his guts. fame may be too much for the star to handle. he complains about the mus

we have got ourselves 50s on the screen. 52 towson and edgemere. 5 # on the eastern shore in sorry i know pay back is coming right? yeah. we have the cloud on the eastern shore as well. band of clouds looks like it's moving into cecil and harford it continues to throw moisture back just want to show you this impressive view. up. off the edge of the wide screen set the low pressure system. finally trying to pull away but it has one more surge coming on the backside. it is the northeastern winds that's carrying the moisture and clouds across central and southern new england through new jersey. and a band of clouds forming in northeastern maryland and looks like these are actually thick up in enough to block out sun. but it's all associated with the storm off to the east and it will have a little to no impact on us in terms of rainfall. we expect to have the cloud again. there you go. closer image highlighting hartford county. we will be -- harford county. partly sunny skies. occasional band of cloud to dim dim out sun and block it for an hour or so. 62 that's the two degree guarantee a

towson security sent campus wide text messages to students and teachers. thursday night roberts hit another university and mugged two students at knife point and beat up another student who tried to help. >> as they crossed the parking lot they were confronted by two individuals who demanded money and jewelry. those individuals were brandishing knives and obviously threatened the victims. >> i don't feel safe. it's awful. especially because where the incident happened was right there and we do that walk all the time. >> reporter: tonight security there is high. >> this is their home and they need to feel safe here and it's our responsibility to make sure that's the way they feel. >> right now police are still searching for suspects in all of the robberies. >>> more details this morning on the corruption arrest of prince george's county executive jack johnson and his wife. federal agents raided the home last week and charged the couple with taking money from a developer. we've now learned that the charges may be linked to a development near the green belt m

towson nice looking day decent fall foliage a lot of the tree cover getting more hard to find. no wind to speak of statewide, good looking weather. 63 in easton. that's really nice for this part of november. look how much colder down the beach down at the ocean 5 in ocean city 57 in dulles. high temperatures today low to mid-60s. so this was pleasant. and i think tomorrow we're talking mid to upper 60s, especially over on the eastern shore. easton should top out about 67 tomorrow under a nice blue sky. kent island 65. think about extremely dry air. it cooling off and heats up very rapidly. so tonight temperatures will drop quickly into the 30s, even the 20s, but we'll see a rapid rebound tomorrow as temperatures surge back into the mid and upper 60s. so wild see-saws of temperatures when you get this really dry air. this is water vapor imagery we don't show this that often. you have to get well west to find any kind of moisture that could potentially produce rain. so this is about as dry of a weather pattern as you'll ever see high pressure right on top of us. this next storm s

police say the death of a towson university student was the result of a heroin overdose. the 20-year-old junior philosophy major died in his off-campus apartment in september. his rugby coach expressed his this belief in an interview with the campus newspaper and hopes that his death will serve as a lesson to others on campus. >> you can now add buttons as a look -- to the list of ways drug dealers tried to smuggle heroin into the nine states. -- into the united states. david collins is live at bwi thurgood marshall airport with the details. >> according to federal court documents, someone in the philippines said dresses to a west baltimore address. they were decorated with large buttons filled with heroin. heroin smugglers with ties to baltimore city airmail a package of eight dresses from manila in the philippines last week. this house in west baltimore is the address on the parcel. court papers indicate mark harrison lives there. the package was intercepted last week by u.s. customs and border patrol agents in cincinnati ohio. court documents do not reveal why it was t

friends at accuweather going through the radar imagery capturing this one as the storm blew into the towson area and towards parkville. in this is a velocity loop. where you see the green section here, that is actually a twist in the winds. generally an indication of a possible tornado. so it certainly now is a question, this is a side view of the rotation in the storm. it didn't last long but it may have been a brief spit up of a tornado. we're cloudy, cool in the low 50s, a quiet night on the range tomorrow. looking like a dillier day in the upper 40s as we see the chillier winds coming in. we'll talk more about the weekend coming in. >> thanks wyatt. >>> a randall'stown woman was shot nine times by her husband and he barricaded himself inside the home. it happened in the 9500 block of okay trace way. she was able to escape the home along with her 8-year-old son who was not injured. the husband barricaded himself in the house for four hours and it all came to and end when police made entry into the home after 1:00 this afternoon. >> we do know that the suspect is deceased and that the vic

but woodbine at 35 and towson at 37. 39 in edgemere and eastern shore milder by the chesapeake at 44.we are going from 28 to 40. that's the spread this morning. widespread frost to 20 degree spread at least by lunchtime. we should get into the upper 50s and get to 63 or mostly sunny afternoon. that is our two degree guaranteed high. let's see whapping on the roads with kim brown. >> reporter: thanks. if you are make your way around the beltway or head towards 95 or towards 83, you are not going to encounter problems. traffic is light moving very well. here we are heading southbound you won't entercounsel -- encounter days. look at the maps we have a couple things working. one accident remains that is at golden ring road and kenwood avenue. a vehicle has gone into the front of a 7/eleven. and that's not going to impact you. joppa road remainsed close and in brooklyn park, ritchie highway closed in both direction as 11th street as they try to repair a utility issue. morgan road is a good alternate. sherrie johnson has the latest details on one of the morning's top stories. good morning,

baltimore county residents displaced after the morning storms are spending the night in a shelter in towson. >> parkville, has unsafe homes. @%gh winds snapping 100-year-old trees like twigs. in some cases they were landing on homes. construction crews tried to clean it up. >> all of sudden you could hear a loud woosh. >> ooly thing that bugs me issi cannot ggt out the car. >> that's all right. we are not going anywhere. >> i know it was a tornado. yeah, definitely a tornado.@ >> and check thii out. one man's security system caught a transforming exploding after a telephone pole fell on top of it. the noise was loud enough to get theehomeowner ouu of bed at night. >> damage is done. many wondering if it was a tornado. >> chief meteorologist vytas reid is here with details on the latest in the investigation into that. >> well, it looks like national weather service has sent out the surveyors to look at the damage to determine if it was a tornado or straight line winns. yet to be determined. still looking at that information. by tomorrow, the latest information from them, out of sterling virg

we're live this morning in towson. i'm megan gilliland.ox early edition. >>> an investigation is underway after a woman is sexually assaulted while jogging on howard county. it happened on saturday morning. the victim told police a man grabbed her and threw her down oo the sidewalk before assaulting her. she was reportedly able to ffght back and escape and call police. it's shocking news in what people describe as a quiet neighborhood. >> that is very unnerving that that happened and i will be very careful from now on. >> a bit nervous until they find out what is going on and who this person was. >> the victim was treated at a local hospital and released. police are still searching for the suspect who is described as a white or hiss ta!! hispanic mn 35 and 50 years old. police have stepped up patroos in the area in the meantime. >>> a mother is offering thanks even while the person responsible for a hit-and-run who put her son in the hospital is still on the loose. on friday night lawrence was walking when an suv struck him and kept on goi

pre-sun rye shots no fog in towson or man chaster -- manchester. you can see rain just off to the west. that should hold off until the afternoon with a warm two degree guaranteed high of 66. kim. >> reporter: justin, volume is starting to play a part this morning. as we look at the northeast corner of the beltway at harford road, that's the outer loop that's calling as you make your way up towards delaney valley and york road exits. only working one accident and that's actually in the process of being cleared in rosedale, philidelphia road reopened at ridgewood. crash activity is off to the shoulder. now back to you. >> thanks. >>> there are too many kids at one school, there's not enough at another. but parents don't care. in harford county, they say it would hurt the kids to start shuffling them around. every school in the county is affected by this. we are talking about redistricting, either losing or gaining student. sherrie johnson has more on the battle over boundary lines. sherrie. >> reporter: it was standing room only as parents gathered f

we are looking at towson. watch the fog develop over the past hour.udging the tree tops. visibility about half mile with 47 degrees and visibility cut down to half to a quarter mile by in reisterstown. 49 and there's pretty thick fog on the eastern shore as well. most of the rain up towards new york, new jersey and into new england and extending back across the eastern seaboard watching this mess developing from east texas to the gulf coast state. it will ride ahead of the next cold front that's going to mean business. this is on top maryland, the low pressure spreading rain by daybreak tomorrow. we could have hefty rains on tuesday. skies partly sunny and clouds went back in by daybreak tomorrow. we have rain. a break in between the action but the rain comes in tomorrow afternoon through tomorrow night. we get an inch or so before it is said and done and should be pulling out by daybreak on wednesday. cold air catches up with the next disturbance. a rain or snow shower is possible on thursday. 60 degrees our two degree guaranteed after the morning fo

we expect more to roll in today. 32 in ellicott city and 40 in sykesville and manchester and 43 in towson. the clouds are back to the west that will fill back in this afternoon. maybe an evening shower. the breeze will pick up but we are aiming for the cloud to dominate the sky this afternoon for all of us going for 56 as the two degree guaranteed high. now kim has traffic. >> reporter: thanks. as we look at the cameras, we are sitting on top of the fort mchenry tunnel. we don't have be problems on 95 just minor congestion as you approach the toll plaza. looking at the maps, we are working a couple accidents around baltimore city and the county. parkton bunker hill and york road. an accident at dundalk avenue and dunn haven and bank and eaton street. sherrie johnson has details on one of the top stories this morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's day number two for storm victims in northeast baltimore. coming up, find out what today means for the community. [ male announcer ] little oliver had a fog horn nose. it shattered his tissue with hurricane blows. no person or place was safe fro

especially for places to our east as we watch the storm still churn off the coast. 44 this morning in towsonnd up towards cecil county and elkton, 45 in chestertown and towards easton, places that will see clouds this morning. we are watching the system off the coast skirting the delmarva and jersey this morning with an increase in clouds probable. we expect mostly sunny morning. this afternoon, a breeze picks up and our two degree guaranteed high of 62. veteran's day and weekend outlook coming up next. right now here's kim brown with traffic. >> reporter: justin, so far so good on the roadways. we still have very light volume. volume is picking up just little bit but not enough to impede you this morning. looking at the harrisburg expressway, you see southbound lanes at the right-hand side is dispg along pretty well taking a peek at the maps. no accidents still no incidents either. we are looking good all around the area. the 95 corridor wide open from harford county towards the beltway and as you continue through baltimore howard and 495. stay with us, because we have more of "good morning