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police are losing the battle. good mmrring. it's thursday, november, 18th. i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of our forecast with meteorologist steve fertig. it's been an active last couple of daas. >> calmer today. much calmer. the only thing we have to handle -s the cloud cover. the winds have diminishes to 5-10 miles perrhour, that is where they will stay through day. generally much quieter. take a lookkat the hd raddr and not seeing a whole lot out there just a few high-level clouds. sky hd radar showing to the north, pennsylvania, new york a couple of light drizzle areas. that is about it. for us it's a dayythat starts off cooler than yesterday, with3

46 degrees in baltimore, still above seasonable. ii washington and 37 n salisbury. drenc37 in hagerstown. 56 degrees for the high, and we will begii with suushine later in the day and expect clood cover into the afternoon before it starts to clear out again tonight. we will talk about whaa we can expect for the weekend. right now candaceedold is here with the traffic edge. good morning, candace. >> reporter: good morning, steve. we are talking about the storm damage. in fact, debri debris begins at northern parkway. you can always use cold spring lane as the alternative root. on the northbound lanes you will find flashing activity as the 895 split and that is because of this disab abled tracco!! disabr not causing any delays.

11-minute drive on the outer loop lanes of the beltway taking it from 95 toward 83. and nothing annoy you, 53 miles per houurthere. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, over to you.3 thank you, candace 5:02 on fox 45 early edition. a local state of emergency remains in place at baltimore city. the mayor made that der declaran after seeing firsthand the intense damage one by the storm. joel d smith is live where people after the storm now have to start the clean up. the dutch village apartments and the mount pleasant apartments. the sign over there is down.e you see a big police presence, guarding every single entrance to keep everybodyyout. thissis a local state of emergency and a curfew in place trying to keep everybody out of

here. huge flash-flood lights are in place. yesterday the mount pleasant3 apartments and theetownhomes in total, nearly 360 units. 16 buuldings condemned. why? look at this. broken windows. roofs ripped off, and trees eech condemned unit, 50 units, many people displaced. ú%ny are staying at shelters. 3 by people have registered today and they will be allowed to return today. utility workers busy trying to get the power back on. at one point more than 400000bge and customers were without power. many wonder how long thee will be without home. >> i feel ike crying. i wake-up in the middle of the night and my roof is torn off. i'm totally violated. it was shaken. my car had somebody's roof faal

on it, material things. >> reporter: many folks are pushing to get back in their homes quickly. they have medication and other vital thhngs they want to get to. a cur few i curfew in place yesy since 5:00. the police offfcers have 1, 2, and 3 and 4 at every single here because it's so dangerous inside. >> that's right, and it's a shame to think that e're one week away from thanksgiving, and these families are dealing with -ot being able to get their things out of their home and whether anything is recoverable. >> reporter: the thing they are thankful is no major injuries. some have been able to think on the bright side and thankful for stuff like that, others still worried about what is next. >> absolutely joel. as joel said mayor stephanie rawlings-blake declared a state of emergency after walling up and down the streets and

surveying all of the damage, she decided to establish a reliefú fund for all of the people damaged by the storm. >> this damage is horrific and it could be seeiously deadly. we are blessed. >> the owners of dutch village have contrrbuted $10,000 to that fund. or information on how you can donate to the fund, log on hit hard by that storm in. a parkville resident was able to capture the accident as it all unfolded. -is surveillance camer cam was d running during the high of the storm. it shows a transformer exploding after a telephone pole falls on top of it. >> why i woke up, out of bed and it took me by surprise. you hear about rain wraps tornados all the timee i was like i need to get up and check thing out. >> he wasn't sure at the time

exactly what happened. >> you can cceck aal of the3 video f the storm damage unhe unedited. to see it go to foxbaltimore.com/raw news. many of our fox 45 viewers the story of the storm. look at this. this picture was taken by dusty at kingsville and you can see that huge tree fell on thh roof of the home. luckily as in many of these cases, no one was hurt,,but dusty says there's a floor to ceiling crack that has to be ú%lled now. at kearney they have a lot of cleaning up to do. that's a lot of trees on that front lawn. you can up load photos and videos at foxbaltimore.com and click on the see it, shoot it, send it i con. you can send photos from your cell phone at pics fox baltimore.com. school officials pass a landmark contract that will change the way city teachers are

paid and evaluuted. it bases their pay on student performance and professional development. the proposal was originally rejected last month but when brought again for a vote last night, it passed by a nearly of 2-1 margin. >> i think it's a bill of goods that tells, if we raise future salaries, they're going to perform better. if they perform better, students are going to performmbetter on tests. i don't believe this..3 >> it is rewarding teachers for wanting to improve their cllsses and go out and find ways to get better, and for exeling and doing well. >> under the new contract, teachers have the potential to make six figure salaries. the head of city schools is considering cloosng one high school and restructuring four others by next school year. dr. andres alonzo is proposing to close west baltimore school for business.

the school was give tte opportunity to improve the numbers, but the numbers went down instead of up. they ill have the first women leader in nearly 30 years. community activity and city employee tasa hill will serve as the captain's new president. she was elected on tuesday to. %-first. be sworn in on january part of her goals will be to help keee families out of foreclosure and partner with other ethnic organization. there's a verdict in a long awaited terror trial in new york. as ainsley earnhardt, as the first detainee from guantanamo bay learn its fate, employees of the future terror plans arr digging inn >> he was facing more than 280 charges in the bombings of two u.s. embassiesed in africa in 1998. on wednesday in new york, hh was convicted of only one count of

conspiiacy to destroy u.s. property. believed that ahmed was truly innocent of all of these charges. >> reporttr: he remains n custody and faces 20 years to life in prison when he is sentenced to januaay 26. the u.s. attorney says the feds will seek that life sentence. results. one prosecutor equates it as a blow to the obama organization. now the 9-11 con spiri11 co. now he can't close it because he can't get the guys out of there. >> reporter: the attorney said in october that other terror suspects can and will be tried in the u.s. >> at the conclusion of this again. i will give you the same answer that our free courts are capable

of handling these matters. >> reporter: in 2001, 4 other bombing suspects who were not held at gitmo were con victed here. they re now serving life in prison. two workers at a california mcdonald's areeout of work today after a customer received a receipt with profanity on it. it all happened after the customer asked to have his burger cut in half so hh could share ii with his mother. after receiving his order what he found on his receipt it was shocking. >> this was aaprofessional business. >> he may never go back to the burger king. we didn't mean to say mcdonald's. obviously it was a burger king. to the burger king corporate office which said that the company is currently investigating the incidents? one man's passion for popular t.v. show turns violent after a

disappointing perffrmance with dancing with the stars. he was so upset over bristol pay lynn'palin's performance and heú the television. hh pulled a knife and pointtthe it at his wife. he is expected to appear in court today. edition. an alleged prostitution ring busted in an annapolis neighborhood. >> this isscrazy. >> how that investigation unfolded. a much quieter day today, just moisture moving in later this afternoon into the afternoon bringing more clouds with it, a north flow, northw

a florida sky diver with decades of experience needed a little help reaching the ground this time t turns out his parachute trayed off course caussng him to land on top of a tree. firefighters were able to reach him with a fire truck, but the whole experience was just embarrassing. >> it's justta combination of really bad luck where i landed, how i landed n the treee and stuff like that. >> but aside from being embarrassed he is doing a-okay. lets get a check now on our forecast, meteorologist steve fertig is here. the weather would be more appropriate for sky diving today as opposed to the last couple of ú%ys. >> your aim was much better for up the challenge. >> yeah, it was fun. >> i'm sure it was. nothing falling from the sky, no sky divers or anything. we have a dry day. we will talk about he westeely flow that will cool us down a little bit. things are quieter on the sky hd %-morning as we check out thes

winds diminishing. as we look at the future scan -odel, i can a lot of activity with regard to rain around here. low pressure moving to the north and east, the one that brought us all of the serious weather wednesday night into morning has moved to the northeast. it will bring us the northerly flow. then we will talk about a lit of a warm up as we get into the end of the weekend nd into next week when we could see thh temperatures climb into the 60s or at least low to mid-60s or later on by the beginninn of next week, before the question mark comes into play. that is means cooler air coming from the north and west. that would be toward the end of nexttweek, toward thanksgiving, and it's questionable..3 there's a chance of seeing ssowers, if we stay in the warm sector of air.%if the cool frone could flurries. maybe we will stay milder and it's just plain rain. a little bit of precipitation for thanksgiving and friday as

well. 46 degrees the temperature in baltimore. 43 in d.c. 37 in salisbury. temperatures cooler this morning than they were yesterday at this time. we will see the temperatures climb to 58 degrees which iss3 close to seasonable for the eastern shore today. look at wind, not bad at all. west winds at 5-10 miles per hour. we will see sunshine early on, and expect the clouds to increase and will become painly cloudy, moisture coming in with the north westerly flow will bring us a cloud cover, 56 for the high. back to the west, temperatures getting up to 52 degrees only. a bit cooler and mostly cloudy skies there with the west wind at 5-10 miles per hour. it's possible to help if the mountains could see a couple of ssrinkles in that part of tte state. 36 degrees for the overnight low. it gets colder tonight as the skies clear out more and we get a northhesterly low. tooorrow we get up to 52 degrees but mainy sunny skies andú saturday with a high of 58. temperatures bouncing around.

34 degrees on unday. and 60 degrees on monday, we get the warm air moving in. and we could be a couple of degrees warmer. showers that looks like rainshowers late tuesday bowens. 588for wednesday's high. in the morning the temperatures that is when we will have to see if we get a couple oo snow fllkes for ttanksgivingg let's see what is appeninggon the roads ight now. here is candace dold with thh >> repprter: steve, it's not3 a bad ride. ú%'s diiferent from yesterday. right now the actual numbers, 60 miles per hour traveling through catonsville, and 59 through security boolevard, and 60 miles pee hour moving through pikesville as are to the jfx, 60 miles per hour, not a baa ride. we have to talk about theú disabled tractor trailer at the 895 split. let's take a ive look at of the area and see how it's shaping up. you can see the flashing lights the activity to the right. the people are looking as they pass by, but no significant back

uu why either direction. and either 9 95 looks good from whitemarrh toward the beltway as well. no complaints on 695, scooting through parkville at 695 and wrapping around near essex. we need to talk about a fire at sparrow's point, you will find the activity on north point road that is going to be right at miller's issand. that is goiig to be a look at the travels. back to you. still ahead, general motors is heading back to wall street. the efforts underway to get comstock moving. >> this is crazy, like you would not much think. >> and allegations of human trafficking in an annapolis neighbo

5 men are charged are running a prostitution ring in annapolis and easton. federal authorities ssy the suspects are all illegal immigrants. mir damyranda stephens explainsw the ring is busted. >> reporter: neighborhood who didn't want to -- neighbors who ú%can't believe what authorities say went on in this quiet ome in annaaolis. >> this is crazy, like you would not much think. >> repooter: on thursday

fedeeal authorities charged five illegal immigrants they say ran a prostitution ring in parrs of annapolis and easton. the men brought women from virginia and d.c. to perform sex for money at homes and apartment the suspects even advertised the brothels and used violence against competing pimps. >> i'm thinking about the children and their safety and %-play their football.kes and it's something going on like that across street. >> reporter: the investigation into the ring began in 2008 when a man was shot and killed in annapoois. a woman who survived told police she was a prostitute and had numbers for pimps and a notebook. >> that's crazy. that's real crazy. >> reporter: but not uncommon. jean, a woman's advocate in

%-has been an ongoing probleming acroos the state. >> one of the popular techniques in our area is to avoid surveillance by moving the girls around. so it is very asy for a perpetrator or a pimp to days, pay cass for thatfor 30 location, gg on craig's list, aavertise that location, keep the girls there for a period of3 time and then keep them moviig. on madison court are just happy the suspects did keep it moving right on out of thhir neighborhood. >> because there's nothing but children in it court. there's a lot of children inú this court. it's great. all but two of the suspects are in custody. face a maximum senttnce of 10 years in prison. coming up later in the early edition, thh fda wants changes3 to to be made to caffeinated

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more bad housing numbers, while inflation numbers have never been lower. an dra!andra smith has more this >> reporter: general motors is putting the pedal to the medal. nearly half a billion share in tomorrow's initial offering. it's shaping up as the biggest ipo ever. the government selling a block of shares to recoup the bucks, but uncle sammwill own about a quarter of gm. prices rising half a percent last month. that is the lowest inflation rate on record.ú housing still hurting. new home construction activity

diving by 12% last month. the housing starts falling to the lowest level in 18 months. to wall street the dow own 15 points, barely clinging to 11,000 inking to its lowest level in a month. target quarterly profit soaring 23%, topping estimates, the discount chain expectiig its best holiday season in three years. smith. p>> coming up new evidence presented in the case of some prince george's county police hoo one of them was reportedly caught on tape breaking the law. i'm joel d smith, live in %-winds went through this wicked neighborhood yesterday. %-why it's all being guarded bb >> reporter: the busy rule the tweet. rule the bedtime.

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a surprise storm tears through baltimore. >> ppeces of roofs down,,power lines down. it's