john matarese explains the reason so you don't waste your money. >> fully weds like to celebrate their first year of marriage together but this couple spent that year apart. how her husband gave her a wonderful surprise. >> and how dreary can it really get today? you almost couldn't see the bay bridge. i'm chief meteorologist wyatt everhart. we'll talk about how much longer we have to deal with this coastal low straight ahead. >>> in tonight's health alert, a new study finds acupuncture may be as beneficial for people with depression as counseling. they looked at patients with moderate and severe depression. those who received the counseling received lower depression scores than those who received neither treatment. if medication isn't effective enough, counseling and ac you can puncture could help. >> if someone is depressed for whatever circumstances, the acupuncture will give a since of calm. >> complete findings for the study can be found in the journal lows medicine. >> a little 3d perspective. the core circulation and the wrapping and dragging of atlantic moisture still coming in

don't waste your money, i'm john matarese, abc2 news. . >>> halloween is less than a week away. the search for a costume has said trick or treaters in a frenzy. >> if you haven't picked out your outfit, we have ideas. yahoo seen costume searches for everything from zombie make up tips breaking bad costumes, and the despicable medians. >> it's a closer to reality costumes, popular culture. >> other oh top costumes include willie. and the classics the princesses, super heros and the star wars. >>> from abc2 news, maryland's most accurate forecast. >> trying on the mask. mask after mask. freeze warnings up for the entire eastern southeast u.s. down to atlanta, tuscaloosa, charleston south carolina. for our state, the first freeze warnings of the year for ocean city, across through poke mo, southern maryland as well. you got a freeze warning overnight tonight. annapolis south. areas in maryland not affected, are affected tonight. be advised get the tender plants inside. you have the freeze and frost warnings, every winter weather warning in the palm of your hand. check out ocean cit

i'm john matarese, abc2 news. >>> listen, we have an important warning for pet owners. the fda is looking into reports about jerky treats, making dogs circumstance even killing hundreds of them. officials with the fda are looking to pet owners and vets to report any possible cases to see if they clan find a root cause for this problem. even without a lot of information, experts said this has been on their radar for awhile. >> we will have to go into high gear about educating our clients and what symptoms to look for. >> so dr. brand gave us some of the symptoms to look out for. she says if your pet isn't eating well, has changes in thirst, is vomiting or seems more tired than usual, then get them to the vet and checked out right away. >> all right. we're still taking your house calls and talking about diabetes. thank you for joining us, doctor. tell us about your clinical background and your experience in diabetes and endocrinology. >> i finished my training at the national institutes of health and joined the university of university of maryland midtown campus. >> tell

i'm john matarese. >>> sunshine, warm temperatures. there is more to come, days of it. if you're fan of this indian somersetup, you're in luck. we got more. 79 at bwi. winds are westerly at 7. put a little motion there. the sunshine starts to dominate the setup here and much the same as we look at oat heat today where they are hitting 80 degrees and had really great weather. no one down there. man. great setup. finally, out to the other end of the state where see see a little more fall color hitting the trees. take a lock at system of those photos coming out -- look at some of those photos coming. one more on the water's edge, again, some very bright colors on the edge up in the high country, so we look more like this, more color like this to get into central maryland. probably at this rate late october. if you have a great fall photo where things are beginning to turn, out west into harford county, send them our way or use your abc2 news app. if you have a day off, perhaps you work for the feds, why not hit the golf course. humidity moderate. uv index moderate. tempera

. >> john matarese, planes why you need to be extra careful. >> health insures and employers are making changes. many of us are receiving letters in the mail. if you find a new health card, you may think it's part of the program but we have an important warning. christine opened her mailbox to find this, two discount pharmacy cards from the national prescription discount network. >> all of a sudden i get what looks like prescription cards and it says you have been preapproved. >> reporter: they claimed they can save her up to 5% of prescription. he is wondered if it was part of obama care. >> it started talked about what the new healthcare is supposed to do. i thought that felt nice but something felt fishy. >> reporter: the los angeles times investigated it and said it is legitimate. the company script relief is a marketing term. script explained it has paid by drug companies when its cards are used. should you join? maybe. the website, consumer world dot org recently tested a half dozen des couldn't cards including costco as and aaa's and the savings vary but not 75% and it as giving

. >> john matarese has some advice for us [technical difficulties]. >> now that it's almost 2014, iteems even wants to you to switch to automatic bill payment. it's sure convenient and you never have to worry about being late but there are some bills you should never automate. you don't want to worry about a late fee paying off that shopping spree or you hate writing a check for your car loan. no problem, sign up for automatic bill pay. moneywatch.com says that that's great for fixed bills but don't autopay your phone bill or your gym member. there's too many ways to miss a charge. and whyfwr the doesn't that stink file, why that can lead to much higher phone and cable bills. moneywatch.com says if you auto pay, you don't inspect your phone bill carefully every month and may go over and with cable, you may order too many movies on demand not realizing how mucheach one is costing you. botonly the line, never automate any bill that can fluctuate wildly from month to month. youplight go months -- might go months without noticing an increase or that they never stopped billing you once yo

. >> john matarese takes a look so you don't waste your money. >> technological developments in recent years have made one popular item almost obsolete. do you still watch movies on vhs tapes? that as one device you no longer need in your home. >> if you have a click and shoot camera and a smart phone, you don't need both. buying point and shoot may be a waste of money. others include a stand aloan gps if you have a smartphone a dpafd player now that we stream movies. flash drive, thanks to the cloud. desktop computers. a laptop does it all. home cam corders, a victim of smart phones and alarm clocks, soon to be replaced by your phone or tablet. none of these item also disappear completely. a lot of people like to have a separate gps unit and separate point and shoot camera. but if you're doing it, it might be a case of don't waste your money. >> all right. listen up, ladies, a new study that researchers say is the final word on hormone replacement therapy for women going through menopause. people who have just entered menopause can take hrt in the short term. they said it's in the lon

i'm john matarese. >>> people who get a monthly check from the social security administration should see a slight bump. it amounts to $19 extra bucks. it's one of the smallest increases seen. in 2010, 2011 there were no increases. next year's increase is due follow inflation. >>> if you gets bored and want to get away, southwest airlines is letting people bro ipad 2s. it's for those flying from chicago, midway, denver and no plans to extend in the future right now. >> we're still taking your house calls. we're talking about eye health. doctor, we're talking about eye health in terms of cataracts. any new treatments? my mom had to have it and was freaked out. as technology made it easier. >> very much so. cataracts is a natural aging process. people get upset. just the word and having them doesn't mean much until the cataracts progress to the point that it's interfearing with your vision and you can't perform your normal activities. really nothing has to be done except monitoring them. once it gets to the point with glasses and you can't do the things you need or want to do, then it's

some are not receiving text messages but john matarese tells us about a bigger problem. >> reporter: many iphone and ipad owners have been reporting problems with apple's updated operating system. some say it locked up their phone while updating. others are having problems, especially with battery life. ios 7 is sleek, clean and fast, it makes an iphone 4 look like the new iphone 5 but several wish they never did the upgrade. >> i did the upgrade on wednesday, thursday i noticed that my battery rief decreased. >> patrick was stunned to discover that his one year old phone was running down the battery almost twice as fast. he went on line and found several blogs reporting battery drain issues. among thesuggestions for how to fix this, turn off the 3d home screen wall painer and disable background app refresh. >> i mean, i went in and shut down some notifications, i went in and closed out a lot of apps. >> turn off air drop, turn off wi-fi searching and the age old solution, dim the screen. >> it helped a little bit. itprobably increased it to about 10%. >> he is hoping for an official

people from picking up the habit most of us change our address online now >>> before you do that, john matarese has a warning so you don't waste your money. . >> reporter: a caution to anyone who may be moving in the next year or may have a student moving soon, when you go to file that change of address, you may want to make sure you're filing it with the postal service. belinda warren recently moved to a new condo and changed had her address online. >> i just did a google search and was going to change my address online. >> the first thing that popped up on her tablet says usps, change my address so she clicked on it. she entered her info and credit card number for verification purpose scombls about two weeks after wards, i noticed a 19.95 charge. >> reporter: she then discovered that change my address was a private company. >> i was upset and i said what kind of services go you -- do you provide that i couldn't have gotten for free from the post office. >> the better business bureau has over 500 complaints against the company. the company'sattorney tells me they have complied with the better

john matarese explains why toyota owners will have to go back to the dealer. >> hundreds of thousands of toyota owners will receive an unusual letter in the mail telling them their car is being recalled for a second time because the first recall didn't work. one woman believes she almost had an accident because of a bad recall repair. >> my husband said did you hear that or did you feel that. >> reporter: ms. york says she's lucky to be alive. >> the car, he couldn't control. he went into the passing scomplaen into the median. >> reporter: what was it like at that moment? >> it felt like our life was passing before our eyes. >> reporter: a tow truck took it to a toyota dealer. >> this was bent in to almost not quite a 45 degree angle. >> reporter: but what shocked her is just a few weeks earlier, her toyota dealer did a recall repair on that exact same part. >> they said by the way, we also fixed your right rear suspension arm. >> reporter: but it didn't take care of the problem. toyota isnow re-recalling rav 4s. atoyota spokeswoman tells me they have reports of several crashes and th

. >> at some point you may have to help th down size to a smaller place john matarese shows us a man who claims hechs ripped off by -- he was ripped off by an estate seller. >> if a farnt sdies un -- parent dies unexpectedly or has to move and you have to down size, families turn to estate sellers for help. estate sellsare red hot these days. if arelative dies or is down sizing, es states selling companies estate selling companies will handle everything. >> i thin had to -- then had the task of deciding to sell the house. >> reporter: after the company sold his mom's furniture, clothing and collectibles, brian was stunned. he received a check for barely over $1500. >> i filt ripped off. >> bryan couldn't believe her lifetime of collectibles was worth just over 3 grand. for apocket watch, he got $5. abeautiful grandfather clock, not even 200 bucks the clock was sent mental. coming back -- senty mental. coming back and seeing it at $180, hurt the estate seller says the furniture was out dated. briandisagrees and has a warning. >> take your time, don't rush. >> reporter: he wishes he ha

so we have john matarese to break down the problem so you don't waste your money. >> it's not been aonth since apple released the upgreat ios7. you would expect bugs to be worked out but quite the contrary. ios7 is taking a beating. since apple has not resolved some of the first complaint belts upgrade and said more and more of them have surfaced in recent weeks. the major complaints continue to be shorter battery life, problems sending text messages, 3d animation making people sick. apps logging out without warning and occasional blue screens of death which up until now was considered a microsoft windows problem. apple said it's' wear of the buption and hope to peck them with the ios7.3. many are asking if they can switch back to the ios6. the answer for now is no. go to our web page abc2news.com and click the money tab up top. >>> former baltimore ravens center matt birk walked away from the football field after winning the super bowl am january. >> since then, he is trying to work as a model. check autism the picture. there he s birk dropped 75 pounds and 10 inches from his waist