hooper says abel invited two others to the home. police say rio put the cat in the microwave, dryer enwasher and then tied her by the tail to the ceiling fan. >> i had to come home to burst hair in the microwave, refrigerator as well. blood. you could tell where the cat ran around and blood was everywhere. >> the hoopers say they've since adopted four new cats, three kittens and their mom to help them overcome their grief. >> disturbing story. members of congress get an earful from constituents. now the white house is signaling it might be willing to compromise on its plan. 11 news washington bureau reporter nikole killion has the details. >> this all has to do with the so-called government-run public option. in arizona, the first family takes in the scenery at the grand canyon. but the view from the commander in chief might be changing when it comes to the fundamentals of his health care plan. >> the public option whether we have it or don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it, one aspe

andrea hooper, dillon's mom, said kevin abel was a friend. she said he invited scott mcdowell and richard rioux over while they were gone. police say richard rioux put the cat in the microwave, in the washingtonner, and in the drier, and tied her to a ceiling fan before putting her in a bag of rocks and throwing her in the lynch point creek. >> i had to come home to burnt hair in the microwave and refrigerator. blood was where the cat had run around. blood was everywhere. >> it was a sad homecoming for the hooper family. the four boys are heartbroken and are struggling to understand why the three men killed their cat. it is hard it to get over the loss of the kitten who had become part of the family. >> that cat was the best cat in the world. she always played with me. we would have a toy, she would chase it everywhere. >> it was a kitten, so i helped it out a lot and nursed it, more or less with the bottle. >> they adopted four new cats -- three kitens and their mom -- to help the kids get over their grief. though they have taken to their ne

three men were charged with animal abuse for the killing of the hooper family pet. it has been almost a week, but the pain is still very fresh for the kids. >> the people that did it were like my brothers to me. they always helped me out. i did not know why they did that. >> 10 year-old dylan hooper is mourning the loss of his pet kitten, diamond. bob dylan and his family were away on vacation, diamond was tortured and killed. andrea who persist their house sitter, kevin abel was a friend. she says he invited two men over while they were gone. police say rioux put the kitten in the washer and dryer and tied hurt to a ceiling fan, and put her in a bag with rocks and through her in a creek. >> you could see where the cat renner wound -- ran around, and blood was everywhere. >> they are heartbroken and still struggle to understand why the three men charged killed the cat. it is hard to get over the loss of the four month old kitten, who had become part of the family. >> that cat was the nicest cat in the world. she always played with me. i would have a little toy and s

. >> the hooper family has new pets to help the children get over the death of their kitten, diamond. the 5-week-old cat was killed in a bizarre torture case, while the family was away on vacation. >> it's disgusting. i can't believe it. you know. i don't know what somebody understands to do something like that to an innocent, innocent thing. >> two others have been charged with animal abuse. andrea hooper said it was so hard to break the news to the children that the cat would not be there to cuddle when they return. >> you could just lay with her. >> police say 25-year-old richard rue is primarily responsible for the abuse. they say the other two didn't step in to stop it. the three were drunk, according to police. >> at one time or other, he put the cat in the freezer, then the dryer, ran the dryer, microwave, twirled the cat around by the tail and then hit the cat. >> reporter: after the cat was tortured in various ways, there was one final act of violence. police say the animal was put in a bag with rocks and tossed into this river. >> reporter: one of the men charged said he tri

and huh -- andrea hooper said their house sitter was a friend. he invited rioux and abel over while they were gone. they put the cat in a washer, drier, microwave, before putting her still alive, but paralyzed into the river. >> i had to come home to blood everywhere, hair in the microwave. >> it was a sad homecoming for the hoopers. the four boys are heartbroken and struggling to understand. it is hard to get over the loss of a four-month-olt old kitten that had become part of the family. >> that cat was the best cat in the world. she always played with me. >> i helped it out a lot. nursed it more or less with a bottle. i was there for that cat all the way. >> andrea and her husband adopted four new cats to help the kids get over their grief. and though they have taken to their new pets, dillon said they can't replace diamond. and with the -- he says he'll never forget her. >> every time i go into a parking lot and walk by the water, i always think of her. >> kim dacey, wbal-tv. >> two of the three men were released on their own reconaissance. r

. >> and if you have a garden question send it to 3800 hooper avenue, baltimore maryland 21211.o go on to our web site wbaltv.com. >> the time now is 9:28. up next marvin cheatham joins us to answer your questions. >> and local animal shelters help give pets in need a good home. find out about the offer they are making that you can't refuse. >> we have had plenty of rain, but not in the next few days. >> welcome back to 11 news sunday morning. thank you for joining us. >> let's take another look outside with john. >> hey, john. >> well, good morning. the clouds are breaking off. the sun is breaking through. the temperatures are still in the 70's. a little on the humid side. care that to kind of give you an idea of what's going to happen today. this is what the situation would be this evening. the cold front which is right on top of us would be a little further to the east and south. cooler drier air would be filtering in. we expect a lot of nice sunshine during the day today. notice at the bottom of the screen a little low pressure center along that front and it might kick rain

if you have a garden question, send it to sunday gardener 3800 hooper avenue, baltimore maryland 21211us an e-mail at wbaltv.com. >> 71 degrees on tv hill. >> not too late to get questions in for maryland's first lady. if you have a question for judge o'malley send it to sundayquestions@wbaltv.com. >> and too cool toys. the best gadgets to get for school. >> and some comfortable weather coming our way. forecast ahead. >> welcome back to "11 news sunday morning." thanks for joining us. >> let's check with john for another look outside. >> i just got back from the weather ver andia. -- veranda. we do have a few clouds out there. i'm giving you the wide view of our live h.d. doppler radar here. bill spinning around off the maritime provinces of canada. the rains of new york are related to a stalled out front which eventually will move out now that bill is moving away. everything has to be moving into the atmosphere, and today is the transition day. i'll have details on how all that will come about coming up with the insta-weather plus forecast, not only for sunday but for the week ahead.

the hooper family returned from vacation to find that their kin had been killed. the family says they left the cat in the care of a family friend. he allegedly invited friends to the home and police say it one put the cat in the microwave, washer and dryer, and tied her by the tale to a ceiling fan before throwing her in a nearby creek. >> bird here in the microwave refrigerator as well. -- burned hair in the microwave refrigerator as well. blood was everywhere. >> the family says they have adopted four new cats to help overcome the grief. >>> a late night fight over the weekend led to gunfire. it happened just after 10:00 over the light street pavilion someone pulled out a gun the victims were transported to the hospital and are expected to be ok. police are interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage to identify suspects. witnesses say was pandemonium after the shots rang out. >> they were just around the corner. you heard the shots and you saw everybody running. they ran past my stand. i got out of the building. >> if you have any information, you

to make notes on, to show something, to discussion it with people. >> today hooper says 40 percent ofown out the day they are printed. a startling figure. but buried in all ofwastepaper u wastepaper could be the seed to paper's future. >> xerox is creating reusable paper, chemically enhanced it reacts to an ultra violet led penlight that returns to blank with the application of heat. and i can write over and over and over again, over the top of that image. >> also in tomorrow's paper, the development of bioactive labels that can indicate the presence of toxins in food and water. >> and if you thought walls made of paper were a bad thing, you haven't met jim jusac. >> his house outside water town new york is made of, yep, papert >> it is either called paper enhanced mortar or paper cret. e and it is paper, 80 percent paper by stroll and 20 percent masonry cement to help bind it. >> is your house repsychable? >> yes, cpl ietely,t will go into the ground as soon as we stop caring for it minorly or if we knocked it down it would go back to the elements very quickly. >> or put it in a gian

is with the hooper as all- stars. you went to the nationals last year. >> yes.e expecting to do better this year. >> a whole lot better. >> reporter: and this was the team that buckie reilly was on. he got hurt playing softball, not here. but how do you -- why do you do this and what do you get out of it? >> this is what we do every day, and to focus on safety and team work and have fun. >> reporter: was your family surprised the first time they saw it. >> yes they were. >> reporter: well one of the highlights events is the relay and i'm bringing back tonya hudson, the operations compliance offer and this is where everybody gets excited. >>ery exciting. and it highlights the difficulty of using the heavy equipment and how skilled they are at doing this. >> reporter: and let's queue them to start. and what is going on. >> the first event is the truck backing and they'll back through the cones and there is only a few inches on either side of the wheels of the trailer where the cones are. they couldn't knock over any cones or they get penalty -- and they'll back do

." >> and if you have a question send it to 3800 hooper avenue, baltimore 21211 or go to our web site at wbaltv.com. >> 9:28. do you ever shop sample sales? >> i do not. i just learned what it is. >> you might want to start. we have a guest in the studio. she will explain to jen and everybody else how you can shop these sales and look like a million bucks while pinching pennies. >> some of the warmest temperatures we've seen all year are on the way. details in your seven-day forecast coming up after the break. >> let's go to the weather. >> most of the rain is well off to the north and east, which of course is good news. it did add a little to that humidity outside. temperatures are 78 degrees. 81 in baltimore. 84 out toward frederick. partly cloudy skies. temperatures reaching anywhere from 91 to 96 degrees. you factor in the humidity, it is going to feel like temperatures are going to be in the mid to upper 90's. whenever we talk about this much heat and humidity, we have to talk about the risk of scattered thunderstorms as we get into the late afternoon hours, and even as we get in

police say the hooper family hired a house sitter to watch their cats while they went on vacation. according to police, the house sitter, 25-year-old richard rio invited two of his friends over and began drinking. >> at one time or another he put the cat in the freezer, then a drier, ran the drier, microwave, twirled the cat around the floor by the tail, hit the cat. >> it's disgusting. i can't believe it's. i don't understand what somebody thinks of to do something like that to an innocent thing. >> the animal was then tossed into a nearby river where it died. rye owe is now -- rio is being held on a $50,000 bond. >>> they are scrambling to combat a virus that makes dogs six. at least six cases of the virus has been confirmed so far, one of them fatal. the virus called dog flu affects dogs' appetites and causes other respiratory problems. 20 dogs are quarantined with suspected symptoms. the virus is transferred from dog to dog. humans cannot catch it. >>> when it comes to health care, president obama is moving stay ahead. he took his pitch on the road to colorado saturday. manuel

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. >> 10-year-old dylan hooper is mourning the loss of his cat diamond. dylan's mom left the cat in the care of a family friend. able then invited two friends to the home. police say one put the cat in a microwave, washer and a dryer then tie her by the tail to a ceiling fan before throwing her in the creek. >> i had to come home to burst hair in the microwave, refrigerator as well. blood was -- you could tell where the cat run around. blood was everywhere. >> the heerps have now adopted four new cats, three kittens and their mom to help young dylan overcome his grief. a cat cruelty case in howard county ended with a 74-day jail sentence. that's how long 52-year-old nessie will spend behind bars. police say they found 74 dead cats in her home in 2006. officials responded to the home after neighbors complained to authorities about an odor coming from the town home. >> efforts to close the budget short fall. at the summer conference in ocean city the governor announced his intentions to cut $250 million to local governments. yesterday the lieutenant governo

but i try to proportion night time whether hoopers bay in alaska or indian reservation in montana. rural vermont or west virgin i can't recollects to really get a sense for it. opposition for differences. using technology to give students opportunities for higher level classes. a simulate a world. teacher housing and residences are a big thing. we need to touch everybody and challenges are not unique to urban or suburban. interesting is as we look at the 2000 high schools that we call drop out. 20% rural. this is national problem at this level. not inner city problem. they want to fund it best in the every single area and find the lessons we can learn from rural, urban and suburban. many different inputs will offer the solutions we need. not any particular effect. i'll take a few more and then switch to jim. thanks. >> um... i'm sure alecture of the chief technology from the schools in louisiana and i'd like to ask you from your vantage point, what do you think the department can do to encourage innovation in programs already in place. a large amount of federal dollars that come to

joining us at the nyse hooper, chief economist of deutsche bank securities fund, joining us from midtown, managing director with zypher. and, of course, steve liesman. peter, are things as bad as roubini thinks? >> mark, we're in for a relatively sluggish recovery, but we follow up, it's going to be a significant bounce from here. even if we don't get any consumer spending, business spending is dormant. the drop in inventories we've had over the last couple of quarters, we do back to zero inventory accumulation is zero to growth. the fiscal stimulus already in the pipeline as another percentage point. so baseline, 2 percentage points over the next four quarters, at least, has got to be some bounceback in consumer durables. we're seeing the autos pick up. helped by the cash for clunkers. more fundamentally, demand there. and you're going to begin to see business coming back from a very low level spending. and finally, home building, we're starting to see some signs, but that's a very low level. we're going to start at a tremendously low base, bounce. looks good, 2% at least. that's sluggi

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. >> we saw hula-hoopers and now we're seeing backpacks, what is going on at this festival. >> therel be a give away for the back packs. the bel air community does something every year where we give away backpacks and school supplies for the children of the community. it's something free that the businesses as well as the commune theassociation provides for the neighborhood children. >> very nice. and i think the word captures everybody's attention and we heard a free bite that they can try to win. >> absolutely. >> that is absolutely correct. >> there will be a free bike give away which is sponsored by the baltimore city office of minority businesses, but you have to come down to register to win the bike as well as the backpack. so we invite everybody to come on down this saturday, august 29th, 12 to 3:00 at the corner of bel air/edison. and come out and winsome backpacks for the children. >> very well. hopefully this will make getting back to school easier and a little more fun. >> absolutely. and that is what we want. parents bring your kids down. >> thank you very much for sharin

rural area i've spent a good portion of my time in their floral suburban areas so whether it was hooper's bay in alaska recently, whether it was an indian reservation in montana, west virginia, rural vermont, trying to get a sense for it and their -- there are some real distinct distances. we talked about using technolog and high level classis, la of quality teachers which is rural and urban, teacher housing is a big piece. and so we need to touch everybody and these challenges areot unique to suburban or urban or rural areas. it is interesting w look at the 2000 high schools would call dropout factories. 50% or urban, % suburban, 20% for all. this is a national problem. and so our resources have to be distributed across the board and we want to find the best in every single area at t end of the day the lessons we can lea from those different communities i think we will get into many similarities that will foster this improvement we need across the board and not just in that particular set. i will take two more. one, too. then i will tn it over. >> thank you, mr. secreta. i am the chief t