where people believe that these guys could put up some significant numbers, even a profit potential, jessup and lamont -- again, switching gears from aig to delta. jessup & lamont said they had a 30-cent loss for the quarter but based on the improving business environment and credit freeing up they think delta could actually put up a 5-cent profit instead of a 30-cent loss. that kind of stuff, joe, is all playing into exactly what you're talking about as far as the amount that aig owes, could be coming in, and the actual deal could be tightened up significantly in their favor. >> i want to go back to the aig call activity because you hear heavy volume like that and you think, oh, well, the markets believe that the stock is going to go higher. at the same time you're seeing this activity come mostly from retail investors. no institutions are actually buying into this argument necessarily. >> no. and that's the reason that i'm not just pounding the table saying oh, this is going to go to 70. i'm not doing that because what i'm seeing is a lot of retail sized action. i'll say that's trades of

route 155 at 95, also we're looking at a crash in jessup at route 1 and port capital drive.e do have slow traffic. as you make your way southbound toward baltimore are this morning. >>> i was gushing about cloudy with a chance of meatballs and justin the weather geek that he is drops a book over. who has this on set? i would only expect you to be excited like justin about the split peaking so or spaghetti into town. >> there it is right there. i've seen the movie trailer. the movie cops out today. i'm excited to take my boy out to see this thing. we'll wait until the cowrds due dine -- crowds die down. >> i need to borrow somebody's kid to take them to it. >> go by yourself. >>> have a great weekend. we'll see you at 9:00. come join us. >>> thanks for choosing "good morning, maryland." for more news, watch "good morning, maryland" at 9:00. or go now to abc2news.com. abc 2 works for you got nfl-sized odors in your house? febreze air effects actually eliminates odors in the air and leaves a fresh scent. febreze air effects, it's a breath of fresh air. got a wet pet in your hou

someone walked off with her 4-year-old yesterday afternoon on clark road in jessup. authorities say the woman was waiting in her car as her young son was playing outside nearby waiting for the school bus. that's when a woman grabbed the boy and walked off. not long after she let the boy go. authorities say 50-year-old leslie offit was arrested and charged with kidnapping and second degree assault. >>> we're in the first days of fall in maryland and starting to feel a lot more like summer around here. sounds strange but that's the reality. we were well in the mird 80s in many spots today. some parts of maryland, upper 80s. out west toward winchester and hagerstown things got really warm today. bwi marshall topped out about 83. that doesn't really tell the story because there's so much moisture in the air. feels like near 90 with all the humidity. summerlike humidity. they are going to continue another day. maryland's most powerful doppler radar not picking up much rain across the state. a few showers in far western maryland out toward friendsville and the river. tonig

gaithersburg and poolesville over to laurel and jessup. the numbers that go with this map, a little chilly but tomorrow morning at this time you will be waking up to 50s instead of the 60s 6 change over the weather graphic and there you go. 61 gaithersburg and andrews air force baits. around here 64. 1 winchester. 65 at annapolis. all right. where it is not raining it is cloudy. we will give it until the afternoon to break the clouds up and some high pressure from canada will sneak down for a little visit. it will be a little visit because tomorrow it will move out of the way for low pressure and this means rain will be back here tomorrow. as for this afternoon, angie. our temperatures will rebound to the lower 70s and we will see some sun. how's the drive in? >> well, you know when there is rain it will impact the roads. we know it all too well. we are seeing major slow goes out there and a couple of tieups that will slow you down, especially if you are on the bw parkway. notice the icons the yellow and green on the screen. you are slow f

it all happened in the 7800 block of clark road in jessup yesterday afternoon at around 12:30. police say a mom was waiting in her car as her 4-year-old was playing outside nearby waiting for the school bus to arrive. that is when a woman went up to the child, grabbed him and walked off. police believe that woman was 50-year-old leslie ofit, before she got too far the child demanded to be put down, the suspect listened, put the child down and just kept walking away. >> i think it was fortunate in this case that the mother was in close proximity to the child first and foremost. the child did the right thing for the woman to put him down. that is always good, that can alert somebody who is nearby as well. >> reporter: ofit was arrested and charged with kidnapping and second degree assault. live in studio, brian kuebler, abc2 news. >> thank you. >>> a 40-year-old mom is charged with punching a 16-year-old boy in the face after she found out he was involved in a fight with her daughter. according to the sheriff's office the woman faces charges of second degree assault and disorderl

. >> a howard county grand jury indicted a jessup man on attempted first-degree murder charges. relating to his escape from police custody. last month, 20-year-old devon champagne found guilty of felony theft. when being transported to a detention center he tried to strangle a sheriff's deputy and escaped. he evadeed police for a week before caught near richmond virginia. >> president obama brought his health care message to the university of maryland earlier today. 17,000 people, mostly students, listened in as the president laid out his proposals. the president called health care the defining struggle of this generation. >> i have heard a lot of republicans say they want to kill obama care. some may even raise money off of it. but when you ask these folks, what exactly my plan does, they have got it all wrong. when you ask them what their solution is, it amounts to the same old same old. >> the president is inside selling his bill of goods. and he really is lying. >> at one point the president was interrupted by hecklers that were quickly ushered out of the building. >> to see

police arrested a woman they say tried to kidnap a preschooler wwile he was waiting at a bus stop in jessup and less than two weeks earlier police arrested a man that tried to rape a high school senior as she was walking to her bus stop early one morning, on mount vernon avenue in odenton. >> i am concerned, you know, i have two small kids, a daughter and a son. >> police say while the three incidents are unrelated they are a reminder to parents to teach kids to be vigilant when on the way to school. >> you have to sit and talk to your children. have a plan in place. so children know what to do if something happens. or f if they feel they are threatens. it makes you want to look out now for other people's kids. keep an eye on them. not that you don't but it makes you want to pay attention a little bit more. >> all of the schools related to the incidents have sent out letters, like this one, to warn parents and notify them about what happened. and police say they are working closely with the schools, and continue to investigate. live outside of the anne arundel county police headquarters, my

the tests will be conducted in the closed maryland house of corrections in jessup. illegal cell phone use has been a concern in our state and other states because the phones enable criminals to plan and coordinate crimes behind bars. you recall the high profile murder of witness carl lackl whose killing was order from a cell phone in a prison. >>> baltimore city police will soon have a new weapon on the war on crime. thanks to federal stimulus money every patrol officer, about 2,000 men and women will have special blackberries called pocket cops. commissioner fred bealefeld says the device will give his cops instants access to search local and national databases and registries on the spot instead of their squad car. the program has been in effect now in the western district already and some officers already find that the pocket cop is a useful tool. >> it's very helpful with investigations right there on the street. no need to go back to your office, run records and do other various inquiries. you can do it all on the pocket cop. >> the commissioner says baltimore i

this is going to be on the jessup area on route 1 at capitol drive. not looking like a bad alternative this morning. patrice, let's send it back to you. >>> horn lauren, thanlauren, it. >>> if you have something happening in your community you can share it with baltimore. go to foxbaltimore.com/your takes. you can up load videos direct >>> new this morning, an essex man is indicted on child pornography charges. he went online and pretended to be an 18-year-old lesbian suffering from cancer. he allegedly used the claim to convince teen girls to send him sexually explicit photos. patrick is being held on related charges. >> he he shouldn't have been there, but still it didn't mean for him to be killed. >> the family of the man killed by a john hopkins student is questioning his death. donald rice was killed when the student slashed him with a samurai sword. police initial hely said that the student heard a noise in the garage and went to investigate. that is when he found rice. now they're saying, police got a report of a suspicious report in a home. on

reporter: jamming is illegal, but other technologies recently got a try out at a closed prison in jessupnd. one product claims to detect a cell phone every time the phone is used or turned on. >> and then they will know exactly where that cell phone is and go and tremendous treef it. >> another product says it can select and block calls. >> it didn't go through. >> if legally authorized, it can collect information about calles and even record them. >> if mike is calling john and mike tells him kill sam, we know exactly who said what. >> reporter: some say a more effective solution would be to jam all cell phone calls in and out of prisons. but critics say that could block legitimate users nearby, even emergency calls. >> maybe that 911 call for somebody who needs urgent help right away, right now, and that would be tragic if that call was blocked by jamming technology. >> reporter: congress is considering changing the law, banning jamming to make exceptions for prisons. many corrections officials favor that idea, but say they would like an array of tools to fight what has become a pervas

show you the caskets last night at a funeral home, about 45 minutes from here in a small town of jessup. eight people who shared that home, seven of them were in one room. family members were shocked and floored when they found out that guy heinze jr. had been charged with these crimes. t.j., that's the latest. we don't know when he'll be in court. i did speak with his defense attorney earlier in the week and he adamantly denied guy heinze jr. had anything to do with the killings. >> sean callebs on the scene for thus morning, we appreciate you this morning. >>> summer's winding down. imagine you're a student, headed back to class this week, some people excited, some people headed back to school regrudgingly. on tuesday, some students might think it's cool they get to hear and see an address from the president of the united states. there's a catch. not everyone is exactly happy about this address the president is planning or the lesson plan that's coming along with it. our own kate bolduan is live in washington. it appears the president is pushing a lot of messages but parents are up in

-- >> jamming is illegal, but some other technologies recently got a tryout at a closed prison in jessupone is used or even turned on. >> they will know exactly where that cell phone is and they can go and retrieve it. >> and another program will block unauthorized calls. >> basically at&t network and it didn't go through. >> reporter: if legally authorized it can also collect information about calls and even record them. >> if mike is calling john and mi mike -- >> reporter: some say a more effective solution would be to jam all cell phones in and out of prisons. >> maybe that 911 call for somebody who needs urgent help for somebody right now, and that would be tragic if that call was blocked by jamming technology. >> reporter: congress is considering changing the law banning jamming the exception for u.s. prisons. >>> this just in to cnn, this is coming to us from the associated press. apparently the british military is investigating a suspected bomb that was found at a uk air base. this is what we know. the ministry of defense says it could be an improvised explosives device, an ied t

dopplerdoppler 9000 shows light rain coming from the north from poolesville and gaithersburg over to jessuping, but that will be changing. our temperatures reflect rain that has passed through. we are at 65 inside the beltway. as we look to the north and west, a lot of 60s up there. will we warm to the 70s today? i believe so, but it will take a few hours. and we will have to get rid of the rain and ensuing cloud deck before we get those 70s back. it is mind everybody money friday and in five minutes we will have advice for you. hope you stay tuned. get to the tieups to avoid. 197 southbound an accident there and another at 193. that's off to the right shoulder. slow from 197 to the beltway. speaking of 495, the outer loop is jammed from 95 to georgia. 15 to minute 20 minutes there. but the inner loop from braddock to 66 is where we are looking at more problems. just volume but a lot of it. from 95 to eisenhower avenue is where we were live. that's where we are finding drivers below speed. 395 northbound from the beltway to king, the first delay and no surprise there, kim. over to you. >> a

reporter: jamming is illegal, but some other technologies recently got a tryout at a closed prison in jessupaims to detect a cell phone every time the phone is used or even turned on. >> they will know exactly where that cell phone is and they can go and retrieve it. >> reporter: another company says its product can selectively block unauthorized calls. >> twice on an at&t network and it didn't go through. >> reporter: if legally authorized, it can collect information about calls and even record them. >> if mike is calling john and mike sends -- says, kill sam, we know exactly who said what. >> reporter: some say a more effective solution would be to jam all cell phone calls in and out of prisons. but critics say that could block legitimate users nearby, even emergency calls. >> maybe that 911 call for somebody who needs urgent help right away right now, that would be tragic if that call was blocked by jamming technology. >> reporter: jamming is being considered to make exceptions for prisons. it's become a pervasive and dangerous problem. >> thank you, jeanne. >>> a dangerous surprise could