we will check in with joel d smith in a few minutes. -aaris.rning, i'm patrice we need to get a check of our3 forecast. here with thh fall on the wayy >> wednesday at 11:05 p.m. is when it strikes. >> i'm readd. >> it's goiig to be a shower or thunderrtorm hance by thee. today and tomorrow a couple of nice days, patrice, with a lot of sunshine and comfortableú temperatures where they should be for this time of year.3 high pressure is going to brinn us a pretty day with all of that sun. the bus stoop 55 degrees starting out but where e're headed is toward temperatures thattwill be in the upper 70s, that will bee ere later. we will talk about that but now we need to check in with lauren cooke. lauren. >> repprter: thhnk you, many of ur main lines as wes on check in and take a look at the northeast corridor of 95. no delays traveeing southbound and northbound. if you're traveling to he whitemarshh you're looking at a 4-minute trip with an averageú speed of bower miie 54 mmles pe. we are looking at an 11-minute drive 288, with an average

joel d smith is live at the board of elections this morning where the count begins today for more than 2,000 absentee ballots that were cast. good morning, joel. >> reporter: good morning, megan. a big day here. incumbent for 15 years, pat jessamy is behind by 1300 votes. but as you said there's 2,000 close to call so no winner has been declared yet. they say about 3600 applications for absentee ballots were done by the democrats, 2100 have been returned so far. a lost counting to do and it starts later this morning. bernstein says in a statement that he is not claiming victory yet and the jessamy camp s far from conceding as well. for most of yesterday, only 97% of the precincts had been counted so far. there could beemany reasons for that. >> we had 2,000 people do do a it could be human error, they leave them in the polling place, and put them in a supply bag, so there's things, challenges out there and of course, thaa is why the process is not comppete until we get tt the 100% mark. >> reporter: that official, did admit sooe of those things had occurred. no matter what thh outcome,

joel d smith is live at heritage high school. where educators rating theeride to sshool will help to improve aatendance. >> reporter: ttey are thinking that kids don't get on3 the bus because they don't like %-maybe the buses are fulll take that part out of the equation, maybe they willlget more kids here.ú text in and rate the ride.o do we have britney ere who takes hart age hiih.eery day to the -uses. >> my experience haa been all right. it's been okay, because it's been really crowded and some of them they are not in service.3 -ut as far as getting from3 school it's all right. >> reporter: you get home but things coold be a littte bit beeter is what you're saying. do you think will you go and rate your ride and say this is good and this coull be better. >> yes. >> reporter: she is going to use itt michelle, that is probably musi3 to youu ars. >> we need to have enoogh peoppe doing it so we can see patterns. having one or two experiences on a bussstop or a bus line is not going to be enough to have a pattern. so what the schoo

joel d smith is live today with how the shape of early voting could impact results. good morning, joel trs. >> reporter: goo.>> reporter: g patrice. -ood morning, everyyne. we don't know if the extra days of voting will mean have votes. here we are at the albutris middle school. -t's a place where former bob ehrlich will be here with his3 parents who live in the area, they will be voting for the day. but governor ehrlich voted earlier. he didn't approve, and he is not taae a look at this, a ot of ú%ople ame out during the first 6 days of voting. thousands did, it's the first that the state has offeeed it. early voting under the o'mallee administration. it was a big constitutional -menamendment the pun had!publio approve it, but hey did. if ore people came then that would be a good thing, ut a lot happen. >> people whh vote early, are people who have already made up their minds of who they're going ú% vote for. they are the people that turn out anyway. >> reporter: the state election administrator is stipulaaing a 32% increase for the primary.3 while some of the big

joel d smith hhs rough cut. >> reporter: ♪ ♪ this is the work of film make3 pptrick o'brien. he has done shows for m t.v., spike and others, but this waated something more. ♪ -7 a masterpiece that would stad and patrick thinks he finally ffund it with an lsspatient willing to reveal it all withú the cameras alwwas rolling. you might think someon findiig e sooopen to document this grueling disease would be difficult, but that was the easy part. behind this scenes footage, patrick is not the one behind theecamera. it's the other guy. yes, iiside of this facade, is theeactive creative mind that put together these amazing images and watch firsthand as his way of life slowly and sadly fadd add way. >> wha -- faded away. >> what is so startling about the disease is that you go from pprson in your coomunity and life to slowly losing function of your body and your brrin is3 still there. it's always still there. >> reporter: lou gehric's usually affects people muchalled older. patrick was diagnosed when he was just 30. he knew the lifespan was 2 o 3 years, but instead of wallowing

they still have unttl next live downtown, joel d smith, fox 45 early edition. >>> stay tuned to fox 45 morning news for ccntinuing coverage of this story. we will talk to former police commissioner and adio host ed norris about thh potentialú impact of having greg bernstein as the city's state attorney. that is cominggup in our 6:00 hour. >>> we now have a winner in the tight democratic race for baltimore county executive. with 100% oo the precincts reporting, countyycouncilman, kevin kamenetz has secured the nomination withh52% of the vote. councilman joeebartenfelder has -onceded the race with 44% of the vote. >> it's time that we put our differences behind us and i reach out to everyone in baltimore county to heal our division, pull in soagh togetheú %--hat we will be democratse united. >> kamenetz will face kentthhltz during november's general election. >>> it was a frustrating night as they waited on slow returns. eleccion officials say it was human eeror. after polls closed. workees shutdown the vvting machines, locked them up and forgot to tally the votes inside. the issuu was

joel dflt smith i d smith ii lin dundalk whereethe faaily that lives inside of that home is certainly, certainly full off3 fanatics. good morning, joel. it's juss a sea of purple there. >> reporter: you can barely see me. it's kind of crazy in here. ttey have gone all out from the top of the place to the bottomm here is the top of the bootom, %-and all the way to the bottom, ú% are talk about astro turf field and even the emblem has3 been spraaeddbyyttem. it's just amaziin. we have kim, this is your idea, this is your baby. this is your room. people mmght think this is great but there's cost. >> i got $5,000 tied up in the rooo. >> reporter: that is putting memooablia more than ttat, right? >> right. >> reporter: this is yourr33 spot, would you rathee be heree3 or the 50-yard line at gaae. >> ere.ú >> reporter: if you are ready3 be at a place like this. %-fanatics today.dalk with the i'm joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. >>> they''e essential ready. the ravens are goinggto be playing at home for thh first time this season on sunday and the lever cleaver brothers are gettinn tail wa

joel d smith is live at the hospital now to tell us how this chaotic scene played out. jmgood morning, joel. >> reporter: the nelson buuld behind me is wherr it haapened. yesterday this s about as close as you can get. bbrricaaes out here, s.w.a.t. teams, it was a chaotic scene for a whileein the late morning let's take you back when it all3 happened, we're at 11:00 yesterday mmrning. we are told that a patiint's son, paul warren pardus was talking to a dr. the dr. david cohenn about the status of his mother. hh was told that a recent surgery trring to help her out did not go well ann ppobably his mothee would never walk again. that isswhat is believed that he got up and shot the doctor. took a gun out of his waistband and shot the docttr. he then went into his mother's hospital room and barricaaed himsell in there. dr. cohen was shot in the stomach aad he is expected to recover. the hospital was put in lockdown. fbi teams were on hand and they position on the ground and on air. back inside, othing changed. pardus never lefttthat room. it was quiet for 2 1/2 hours. at 2

joel d smith, fox 45 mornnng news! >>> this morning we have a winner in the tight democratic rrce for baltimore county with 100% of the press inchts -s precincts reporring, kevin kamenetz has won the nomination. kevin kamenetz met with his sspporters at his campaign headquarters and says it's time to look head,. >>>it's timm to put our diiferences behind us. i reach out to everyone in baltimore county to heal our divisions and once again i hope we will be democrats united. >> kevin kamenetz will face holt on on the november election. >>> elections officials say that part of the slow returns of hue after polls closed, workers shutdown the voting machines and locked them up and forgot to tally the votes iiside. the issue was fixed. >>> stay with us for the latest on the november elections. just go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the vote 2010 icon inn3 the news features section. >>> emergency crews were called to route 295 at the hanover road pass around 8::5 last night. when they arrived on the scene they found two veh

joel d smith is live in albutris to explain how the statees earll good morning, joel. results. >> reporter: good morningg patrice, a lot of people starting to show up, starting tú put a few more signs at the polling location. only time will tell if this day will be the only one thatthas an impact if the days before voting will impact the voter turn out. one thing we knoo is that govern bob ehrlich will be here at ú%00 hour. %-will not because he took%-advs well. take a look. ú%lot of people took advantage of this. thousands did it and it's first time that the state has offered this kknd of voting of early voting was passed in 200 2007 wú constitutional amendment. crrtics say it costs too much to keep sites open for nearly a weee worth of voting. if that is to get people outt really they need an increase to make it payoff. >> people who vote early are people who have already made their mind of who they're going to vote out for. they're the people who turn out anyway. >> reporter: thh estimation by the state electionú -dministrator is 32% turn outt3 for the primary

joel d. smith takes us to a place dripping ith purple3 pridd. >> the people that know me, know that that's what i am about. i am 100 percent raven. >> from chairs to curtains,ú traffic lights, kim lapinskiihas four walls to prove she is a ú%ven maniac. keein is one too. just a room to shoot pool. >> once he sold the pool table, i said to him i would like to my games. >> what re you talking about. we have a 53-inch tv in the other room. you are talking about a room for the football game? she said yeah, 65-inch tv. >> said yes. >> the wall cut around the tv. then memorabilia filled in he rest. %-left to decorate.he only thing now, when the ravens score, kim gets to go to the end zone too. in all it coot close to 5000 and took a year to complete. on its oww, this room is lready %-buu detaals make it. look theelight switch plate, has %-over here, the blades of the fan, they are purple and black. and when it ccmes to remote control. normal one doesn't look right, does it? no problem, this one ha

we're live joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. is moving forward to the generaa election in november. he sailed past his cllser of brian murphy. ú%rphy gaaned some momentum when he was endorsed by sarah palii last night. last night he conceded defeat and said he would suuport ehrlich in the general election3 if ehrlich wanted? >> tonighttthe people spoke and if 7 weeks the people will speak very louu in the state of maryland [ cheering ] %-taxpayers, and for the small businees people, for the people %-day, oor message is stop wait, give us 7 weeks [ laughter ] >> giie us 7 weeks. >> ehrlich raa on a pro usiness platform..3 he also says he wants to cut a 1% increase in the sales tax aad >>> not many people came out to theii vott in tuesday's primariis. reporting record low numbers in balttmore city, just 13.6% of eligible voters headed to the polls. baltimore county oficials areú reporting a similar turn out. that is less than half of the 30% turn out hat was prediitee leading up to the eleccion. >> to vote in the m primaries yu

>>> i'm joel d smith, live at sen10ial high school where [ laughing ] hey, let me see that map for a second. just drive, we'll get there! adventure runs on dunkin', with our lineup of oven-toasted breakfast sandwiches. from egg white flatbreads to bagel sandwiches, grab your favorite just the way you like it. hurry in to dunkin' donuts for a delicious veggie or turkey sausage egg white sandwich. >>> spesz say th!!experts say ts over. >> people wwo are struggling to much a paat of it?l feel very %-the store items that are justa >> i thought equality was none negotiable. [ chhering ]3 >> a pop star on a mission. what laay gaga is fighttng for and who is listeninn. >>> good morning. it's tuesday,3 september 21st. you're taking a live look ver the inner bore and hen you seeu see it all little up you have know idea how t's going to look >>> there is the warmest part of the state, u

joel d smith is live at the hospital now with more on the investigation incluuing some 911 calls that came from that deadly morning that police could use. good morning, joel. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. overall police say ii they are happy with the way they handled this, the way the officers reacted even though it did end with pardus shooting the dr. and killing is mother. there's a question did he bring the gun in here in days prior to the shooting. there's a lot of things tt look at.ú police are trying to see -indsight to see if there was signs and if there were red fllgs, and things that ttey are looking at now, things that could have looked for that maybe the surreon couldn't havv been ssot. of course, he did barricade room. had he used an alias, every time he visited is mother and he did hhve a license for that gunning but it was a permit in virginiaú not in maryland. help as well. >> how many shots did you hear? >> 1,,i was standing right there and a physician went down. >> he went down here? >> a nurse down. >> no i'm -- >> i'm in room 877. my paaents are -- this is o

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joel d smith is live at albutris the 7th and final day of voting.ú good morning, joel. ú% reporter: good morning, patrice. you can tell it's the official primary day of those 7. all tteesigns up behind me, only time will tell if we get more voters because of more days. we're at albutris middle school and the spot where governor ehrlich will be voting at 7:00. we will be talking to im around that time. we won't bb voting today -- he won't be voting today because he already voted. he took advantage of thh early voting as some people tack advantage. six days of early voting, the first time the state has offered this. ú%rly votinn was assed in 2007 as a state conntitutional amendment. critics say it cost too much to keep too many sites open. but candidates believv that to get the people to vote it's worth it. >> the research ww did in 2007 showed no significant negligible incress in turn out. >> reporter: all right. the state administer says that 32% ttun out for the primary is expected while some the big races, you know, maybe already will win. some others that might bring people out, sena

d smith is here to tell us why that could be just the beginning of such attaccs. >> reporttr: twitter s in3 the midst of revamping its websiie. security hackers had a hole ooen in the security and yesterday they took advanttge of it. followers yesterday were greeeed with ugly contenttappearing without warning and strolling over theelinks automatic pop ups, covering orrginal twits or directing people to places it never intended to do, including japanese porn sites. it has the ability to do more harm like stealing personal information. twitter says it had the problemú fully patcced by mid-morning and ones wwre back o tweeting soon after. >> there will be those that want to gum up this system and things like that. i don't hesitate to continue to use it. >> if it can hit the white correspondent, it can hit you >> to keep tweet saves, eep an eye on what is going on under youu name. make surr you are verifying the content that is outtthere nd make ure to monitor your own platform and use caution with anyylink even if it appears to be sent by a trusted folllwer. 8 million people followwd th

joel d smith is live in north baltimore with that price tag. good morning, joel. >> reporter: gooo morning, paariie. good morning, everybody. baltimore there's bad roads here and there, but actually looking at how bad they are from an independent resource that, is differentt and the ones here aren't even the worse we hhve seen everywhere. here is the numbers, 600 year for vehhcle maintenance. aae the 10 worst innthe country3 46% of them, almost half have the pavement in poor condition. really the payment you have oe make for tear and wear and the depreciation of the vehicles oo this omes from tripp, a national tronportation research group. things are going to get worse becauss of the economy. ww are talkinggabout tte baltimore. a person for the transportation depaatment says that the data they used is old 2008 and itú included the me approximate trougentire metto areaand ot j. >> it'' not a fair representation, given tth fact that we have concentrated on our roadways in the lass three years ask we continue to do that. %-looks bumpy because acc

joel d smith is live at the to evaluate the response to 911 and here's in tapes there. >> reporter: even though police said they did a pretty good job. it did end with paul pardus3 killing himself and his mother. theyyare look at thhngs they %-trying to use hindsight to lok back at what happened. some questions remain, did he carry a gun in here in the days ú% ooened fire? they are going to look at thht %-tails as well.hings, using 911 were there signs and any red3 -lags that could have helped this. pardusshaddused an alasin all of his visits and he did have a license for the gun he used, but that permit was innvirginia not to carry a gun in maryland. police continue to evaluate their response in many waas including using the firsthaad responsee the 911 tapes could really help. >> how many shootees? >> i don't know anything. we just heard peopll scrramiig room.e're barricaded in the >> rrporter: to put a magge a t magnetometer and to puttthh workforce that would be staffing the magnetometer is not realistic. >> reporter: we talkeddto a hospitals have full scale metal detectors at the en

joel d smith is at the ccunty board of electiins wheee computer errors are having3 ú%oblem.3 >> reporter: we still ddn't know what the computer errors were if they were attthe elections. %-safe, even hough it ssems weo havv a innee. we got wood frrm the kamenetz campaign that they will be talking to the media at llch, addressing the problems thatt3 happened ith the election, and talking about their campaign moving forward. only 28 to interpre!! waa to ins that they think that theyydid win. the results camm in and then got very ssow. uncertainty is what characterized this night. we saw joe bartenfelder huddling with his staff around computers at his campaign headduarters trying to see if he could make a come back. over the kamenetz camp, they liked the early numbers, they at one point the candidate addressed followers in what -eemed to be a victory speech. it didn't go that far. after hours of waiting forú results, after midnight the campaigners sent home their followers with thess words. >>we had 4,000 vote lead on thh nnmbers thattwe had, but there's addition and subtraction ttat has t

%-joel d smith is live in timonm with some answers. this is going to require some equipment, joel.ú >> reporter: it will, first let's poonn out that it's a secondary offense. if you don't have ann movement be buuged by this at all.ú it definittly makes you safer when you arr not using your hands tootalk and you're using them to drive. this is a hands free device and here to tell us more about how things have beenngoing, especially with sales we ave3 roger. i got to imagine that here communicction electronics it has >> has been. the closer we have otten to october irst, thh more and more awareness there's been out in the public. we have seen a lot of interest in our stores. they are buying aaternative devices for hands free. >> reporter: do you feel people understand the law or are they coming in asking questions? >> and i ttink they understand the remise of the law and that is theeycan't e seen talking with a hands held come on >> reporter: ssoe of tte very low enndandd s the corded piecs that plugginto a jack to your phone and go ov

joel d smith is here to slain how it haapened and why the problem went to the white house. >> reporter: everyone witt a twitter account wasstold bit company to stay off the website. until everyone gottthat news, robert gibbs was affected. twitter is on the process of revamping its website. instead of sharing information and news 140 characters at a time. with llst content and tricky pop ups. ii the accounttof the wife for the british prime minister was sending her visitors to porn in japanese websites. so experts say this type of breach in the future has the potential do do a lottof harm, like installlng malicious3 software to your computer or steaaing personal information. twitter says it had the problem fully patched by late mmrning, and users even the more ppwerful ooes were soonnback to twitting. >> the platform was not built %-these typp of attacks are goig to continue to come, and a number oo other social platforms until they aae catching p to the user base. >> reporterr keep the tweets ú%fe, keep an eye on what is going out under your nnme. make sure you veeify the content make

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. >> in perry vil, joel d. smith, foxx45 news at 10:00. on hand for the official grand opennng event on thursday. >> now here is our question of the day. will you play slott in maryland casinos??3 so far 52 percent say yes. 48 perceen say no. we were there today. and had a wonderful time, and plan to return. beeter than driving to delaware or charlestown. robert writes, no oost state casinos are bigger, better and provide more entertainment value. go to foxbaltimore.com and let ú-send us a tweet@foxbaltimore. ú%xt us at 45203. and enter fox 45 a for yes. fox 45 b for no. and we wwll hear morr responses coming up tonight on the "late %->> the two largeet carriers at bwi thurgood marshall airport, plan to become one airline now. >> southwest airllnes, waats to buy aiitran foo $1.4 billion. if it is approved, the deal would get southwest into major access to some caribbean destinations. ú% one s sure what the deal will do to prices. there will be less competition aiiport. the combined airline would serve 70 percent of the market aa the air

joel d. smith has tonight's cover story. >> this is the work of filmmakeú patrick o'brienn he hassdone shows for mtv, spike, nd others and this stylish brash director wanted something more. a masterpiece that would stann forrsomething. and patrick thinks he has found it withhan a.l.s. patient willinn to reveal it all with the cameras always rolling. you may think finding someone so opennto document every grueling mmment of this fatal disease would be difficult. but that was the asy part. >> beccuseein this behind the scenes footage patrick is not the one standing up near the camera. >> my nammeis patrick. >> yes, inside of this nowwstoic facade is still the active these amazing images. and watched firsthand as his way of ife slowly and sadly fade adwae. the disease, is that you go from being a walking talking acttve person in your community,,in your life, to slowly losing function of your body. and your brain. it is still there. so it is always still there. >> lou gehrig's disease s people o

joel d smith is. >> reporter:ing!is reporting li. >> reporter: perfect et up with all of the tropical moisture moving up from the south. whenever you get all of the humiditt that we have in place. a lot f tropical moisture and up lift with the ssationary3 boundaryyover us you're going to see a chance of some storms. that is why we have a tornado watch in some places. we had a tornado warning in anne arundel countyyin st. ary's county and calvvrt county. that have been to the north and east of 695 area, at leasttthis ú%oning. we coold see sttonger thunderstorms to the south -ater, too. ú%at we will see as we get closer on 95, you ill see ttat whitemarsh the heaviest downpourr as you see indicated here as the areassof orange. we will continue to see heavy downpours through the afternoon. 3-5-inch of rain, all with two centers of low pressure, one ofú of theethe north carolina coast, one of further poiits south that we will be talking about the flood watch for the northeast part of the state through tonight. -lso a fl

joel d smith is live in timonium with some of those answers, good >> reporter:! good morningg patrice, we want to show how far we come when it comms to car phones. remember ttis brick that you used to put to your ear? this is hilarious and it belongs to this guy. here, take it. this is roger castle with communicationnelectronics. did youuuse that? >> this was the state of the art technology bbck in the >> reporter: i now zaak ú%rris liied it from saaed from the bell but thha is funny.3 weego ffom that to the handdeld and now we got to ome all the way through. the law changes ccming up on friday. are peoppe talking about thhs? >> absoluteey. ii the couple f lasttweeks, a lot of wareness of the law3 first. they are coming in to find solutions. >> reporter: let's go from the cheapest to the most expensive. this ooe here, how much is it? >> ii's $30. traditional corded and rear set goes to the rear. what are you getting more if you >>>cordlesss and blue tooth technology. very good in high noisee nd good voice quality if you are talking from somebody in audio from ot

joel d smith is live at demonstration todaa is designed to prove the faat once and forr3 all. that issa surprisingly low numbbr that only 36% of teens could result in eath. >> reporter: i have theú claires and we are going tt be doing the original mva version offthe course. when think of drrnking and driving, teens, do you think that coull lead to death? >> obviouobviously, i mean evere knows that drinking and driving is horrible decision.ú >> reporter: how about3 texting and driving, do you think in your mind that leads to death possibly. >> possibly. i know a lot oo peeple who sweer they will drink and drive, hee3 wwll never drinkkaad drive, i but texttng nd drrving, thhy o it all the time, so i guess the connection isn't there. >>>reporter: we hhd you drive this ourse eaalier. you did fine without texting. we ade you text. ú%sent me aad you hut somebody. we will put this back down and it's only fair that we put me to the test aa well. get in the passenger seat if you dare and we will see how e canú do here. i will have you hold the microphone, claire. and we will see to