Travel into the area. I hope they catch him. Locals thatot of camp there. They are well protected and theyre going to protect their family. To get what is coming to them. For many here, a just sending, but perhaps bittersweet after an emotionally charged week that started in a running home and boulevard. As grateful as we are, we also remember the other victims in this case who lost their lives. City police are investigating a Sexual Assault in west baltimore. It happened monday morning near the sunoco gas patient. Baltimore investigators are looking into the case but according to the victims family, the 17yearold was waiting for the bust when she was abducted pit she was taken to the back of an abandoned house and she was raped, she was sexually assaulted. We are looking for justice. The man has not been caught yet. We would love to get some information from the communities. The dayy members for warning communities about what happened and asking for people for clues to help find the suspect. They are also looking for a witness that may have been in that area at that time. The man who attacked a woman at Howard County as she jogged along a trail, it happened near the a win brown village. The suspect may have been a jogger, because the victim said he was wearing athletic gear when he ran up a hide her and groped her. It follows the series of attacks in a series of attacks on joggers in the past 10 days. A violent attack inside annapolis mall. A man is in custody, accused of punching a woman in the face while she shopped for shoes. It happened just before noon yesterday and involves the Jcpenney Department store. This man, 26year old aaron gay erin gray punched her in the face, rips the purse from her shoulder, and took off. A group of men chased them down and held them to police arrive. This is a nine usual tact be something we have not seen. We are trying to look into this to see what exactly this gentlemans problem was that he took the brave attack in the middle of the afternoon, inside of a crowded mall. The victim was not badly injured. Number of charges, including robbery, theft, and assault. To a situation we have been closely monitoring. S was a resident set up don champion has that story. Cell phone video shows the weekly hassle neighbors of skate land have dealt with. Throws of teens pouring out of the popular venue and all too often causing problems. Its chaos and we do not let them in our business because they destroy things. A fellow employee shot this cell phone video last week things got out of control. In the video you can see several cop cars down the street where officers faced off at the group of teens. They will come out in oryx in hordes. They will jump on peoples cars in the parking lot. This week the county refused to renew the Amusement Hall license, which can allothe club to put on ocular scenes. Running andcame out screaming. A neighboring pub said that if they are allowed to throw another party, police should step up their presence. There were cops but there were not enough to handle the crowd that was there. They need to have more security over there for one. The Police Actually need to get out of their vehicles. Wbaltv 11 tv news. A pulmonary report from the say the aircraft pilot was not certified to fly, using only onboard instruments. There was no indication the pilot obtained a weather briefing before taking off late last month. That cap rash happened in world pennsylvania. Officials with the company that owned the helicopter say they think it was caught in some sort of thunderstorm. The 58year old Bernard Kelly and others were all killed in that crash. The pilots identity is not been released. Up, our q and a segment. And the first step to Financial Freedom is paying off your debt. We help you achieve just that. We are watching a few showers to our south right now. A few of those could the north through the day. You the time now is 9 11. There is a live look out doors and i see a little blue out there over the city. The clouds are starting to break apart a little bit. You should see a mix of clouds and sun as we get into the afternoon. The day,grey starched it is still rather pray as you head to the south. The pitchers warming up and the mid to upper 70s we are at 78 at the inner harbor, 76 at the airport, the 25 in annapolis. A little slower to warm up in places. Drier air allows the temperatures to get cooler overnight. It is the humidity that keeps temperatures on the warm side. You are definitely feeling the humidity increases the winds will be turning out of the socket a couple of light showers have been popping up near d. C. Shower nearight easton. Most of it has been to the south and charles county. That is going to be the focal point as he got throughout the day. Baltimore in the south will stay mostly tripe hit the skies are starting to thin out a little bit. I think some of this moisture may creep back up to the north throughout the day. You may just want to think about the fact that a couple of raindrops could pop up if you find the outside. This is going to be moving north throat the next two days. That is why we are going to see an isolated chance for a shower or thunderstorm. You will see a few mixes clouds today. A little cooler in Southern Maryland because of more showers and the mountains takeover at 75 for the high. Even they have a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms. The Eastern Shore does he mostly dry today. U should be the case that leads into the early part of the evening. It will be your afternoon temperature range. For tonight, maybe a shower leftover from the evening. It is mostly dry and the skies to start to clear out. Once the skies clear out we still have the humidity, the temperatures drop down, it allows a little bit of fog to form. Something we have to work out on your monday morning commute. 74 downtown, upper 60s into the suburbs. I definitely want to get this graphic in, meteor shower is reaching its peak tomorrow morning. If you cant get out after midnight until dawn, you may see a few streaks in the sky. Four tomorrow, we are going to see a mix of clouds and sun again for the afternoon and isolated thunderstorms possible. The humidity always make things feel sticky. This is what is happening in the next couple of days, a cold front will be coming out of the west. That is going to bring some thunderstorms around Tuesday Morning and into the evening. Once it passes by, we see drying weather. Interesting, as the jets and big fellow the backside of that front, it may focus the Stormy Weather on the coast. The beach may deal with some fairly rainy weather. Rings shifts in any direction it could change everything. We are expecting my things. We will be tracking the rain chances. An emotional meeting for a baltimore man who made a life changing decision for himself and for a 10yearold from michigan. Withme facetoface violent lovelies. What is so unique about the meeting ya . He actually forgotten about it when he learned he was a perfect match. I am a father too. If your child is sick you want to do something. You definitely want to spend the time into this little thing for somebody else. It doesnt matter. Was tighteyearold milf with a rare blood disorder. What our kids wearing for backtoschool . We are checking out our backtoschool fashion, coming up for you. Everyone knows somebody who is free of the burden to become a challenge. Minimize and pay it off. Here is a look at some of the events going on around town this weekend. Caramel mocha. Caramel almond. Caramel turtle. [ sighs ] that wouldve been awkward. 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If you make more than you spend you have been put to help pay things down. You have bandwidth to help pay things down. If you can find a way to get 18 months or and extend something, it is worth trying. Start by paying off the loans with the highest interest rates. The only exception is make sure the ones you pay off first are the ones that are not deductible. The tax breaks from the deductible ones can actually lower it. Create a schedule of payments. It is like going to a gym, if you have a trainer you have somebody keeping you in line. Stay on track. Either use your advisor or a family and friend. A lot of people a lot of places make it easy for people. You can pay your bills online and you can schedule a payment on their. It makes sense. If you follow if you fall behind you will never get behind that. Consumers are doing better than this are doing better when it comes to consumer debt. Folks have stopped shot at thing stop shopping for things they cannot afford. You have some resources you want to share with people. If you are in debt to the point where you need some help professionally, there are a lot of different Credit Monitoring Services and some credit counseling services. Justie Us Department of ce website. The u. S. Trustees office has a list of organizations. There are a number of Debt Consolidation Companies out here. And some of them are predatory. You have to be really careful. Inc. You. Thank you. Coming up on 11news, [ male announcer ] now you can get a kindle fire hd, with high def screen, ultrafast wifi and access to 23 million movies, tv shows, music, and apps all for much less than an ipad mini. I couldnt believe how good the value was for the money i paid. It gives you all the options with the apps as far as netflix, hulu, great internet browser. [ male announcer ] act now, and as part of this special tv offer, youll get a custom cover worth over 30, plus a 25 amazon. Com gift card both free with your kindle fire hd. 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A lot of times they are the focal point of the garden. We have some over here into pre reforms in tokyo reforms. In topiary forms. This is a type of topiary that has a street trunk on it. Trunk on it. They give you three seasons of color. When i think of japanese, i think of this eat burgundy red coloration on the leaves. There are all different shapes. This is one of the most popular. It is a nice tree. The height on this can get up to be 12 feet. You do have to check it out. This for right he may stay a little bit shorter. This is called pixie. You can put it in an area where it is not going to get quite as big. A here is one, this is called son they japanese maple called a japanese maple. Look at the colored leaves on here. Beautiful. Yearfive foot the five growth on this is going to be seven feet. It is going to get almost as wide. Watch for these guys, not just height but what. Not just height but with. Choose wisely. This looks like a true miniature. It has a big long japanese name. Very interesting coloration. It looks like it will be a slow grower. It is. The other one is a bit of a i have mean and red growth fund. When you get some of these you may want to get a lookout, learn about pruning and some of the different styles. It can definitely be an art. You put a maple tree and it does its own thing, it does not need any special care outside of pruning and whats not. Because these are featured in your garden, what would you need to do it easy e they are some if you move them in an area to the shade, pecan for it is not get in fulld put them out sun. I would make sure you water them in any good. For the first year . A good inch of water per week. I would not put it all the way up to the trump that just enough to keep any weeds out and keep the moisture in. Longterm, pruning is just a major thing. Keep an eye on it. Every once in a while you will see a crack. You are going to be careful when you slow 20 solo. When you solo. Lex we will be back next time. If you have a question, just er. D it to sunday garden you can go to our website, wbaltv. Com. Today is a big day across the state. It is the start of taxfree week. We will talk to Peter Franchot about the decision. And local shops also benefit from the special week. We are going to hear from an owner coming up next. Continue in Southern Maryland but i do not want to rule out a couple of rain drops around baltimore. We will have those details coming up in the instant weather plus forecast. Live, local, late rating latebreaking. Welcome back. Thank you so much for joining us. We have another check outside. The sun will be playing peek a boo throughout the day. Northern areas of the state are getting the sun making out. A couple of showers popping up. Tar south. Otherwise, maybe a rain drop or two possible in baltimore today. Temperatures are in the mid 70s around baltimore. Low 70s as you head into the northern some birds northern suburbs. I cannot rule out a couple of isolated showers and neighborhoods this afternoon. I got a little dizzy with that camera movement. Back to you guys. I am just trying to make sure everyone is awake. Joining us this morning is. Omptroller maryland here Taxfree Shopping week starts today. This is christmas in august. Everyone should get out and shop for clothing or shoes. Any item that costs less than 100, you can buy an unlimited number of items and they are not subject to the states six percent sales tax. Says 999, it is 9. 99. They do not add on the six percent. This is christmas in august for small businesses. They get an anonymous amount of traffic. It is great for maryland families who have been hammered by the recession. Everything is going up in price. Wages have not gone up and everyone is looking for a deal. All week, until next saturday, you can shop till you drop. Buyt is under 100 you can 1000 worth of backtoschool clothes, you save 60. Why cant we do this all the time . Other people ask for task fremont. Im going to expand it to back likehool supplies, backpacks and other items like that. We are going to lose about 5 million in tax revenue. I think it is will worth it. We are giving maryland families a break. Small businesses, as i said it is the second busiest shopping week of the year. Next to christmas yet 00 cst is something we are going to recommend . Next to christmas . Is this something we are going to recommend . Clocks yes. It is not just backtoschool, it is any article of clothing. You can so him involved. I know you recommend school start earlier. Youre thinking about proposing a start after labor day. I want to go back to the way it used to be, start school after labor day, let maryland families have a Summer Vacation with their kids, spend some quality time with them, so we are going to be recommending policy that we do not have this creep back into august. Some schools are going to start in july if we are not careful. We have to preserve Summer Vacation for the quality of life for our families and children. We are so busy these days. You have to slow down and islize school is not at not everything. For businesses it is very important to stay open for that summer. Off forids are often part of thats labor day week anyway. What happens is you come back, you go back in august. There are so many days off. The parents are driven crazy by this. I happen to believe that if we have that good Summer Vacation it really improves the quality of peoples lives. It is being studied by the legislature. We are going to put out a big report next week which shows how important it is for the maryland economy. How important is it . 10 you give us any details . Uscks ocean can you give any details . Clocks ocean city has a make or break month. Everybody is going back to school in august. It has a big impact on the states economy. We will be reporting on some of those figures. Is this a change that can be made by the next school year . Clocks sure could. Lots of states like North Carolina and others have longer school years, 200 schooldays, we only have 180 in maryland. They get out in the first week of june. They just dont have all of these ad hoc Service Dates that drive families crazy. All of a sudden the kids are out of school. We have about one minute left and i want to talk about his plan, internal expansion. It did not get the approval that was expected. It is going to be on the next four to public works. It is a request for state alone. Oan of 240,000 i love green turtles. They have great wings. Is designed to help businesses in struggling communities, like cumberland out the or chris fields in Eastern Shore. It is not meant for a sports bar. We are going to hopefully defeat that. We are trying to be tight with the dollar. We are trying to protect the taxpayers as far as getting them a way of a way to return what they deserve on their taxpayers investments, and giving money to green turtle is a really bad idea. Thank you for coming in and talking with us. Have fun shopping. Please dont go away, we will be back with more news in a moment. Here is dana gregory with a look at what is coming up on meet the press. Co. The president tries to convince a skeptical public of their needs. I talked with the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, mike mccall, to get an analysis on the broader subject. We will go in depth to focus on the growing number of Sexual Assault in the military and what needs to be done to stop it. Numbers of both parties agree there is a problem and there may be some proposed reform coming this week. Will it quite the debate . I talked to the i talk to key lawmakers on the issue. There is a live look outdoors from the skycam. So nice to see the blue skies peeking out behind the clouds. He had a lot of cloud cover over the city this morning. Not that is retreating down toward the south. You are still going to have some clouds in place for today. He may even have to talk about raindrops. That may be the last thing you want to hear. Airport, 78 at the downwn, still cooler in the northern suburbs. 71 in westminster. It was drier over towards the north. With allern areas, that moisture, the temperatures really did not fall that much. The northern spots was able to get a much cooler. You can tell how much you macatee is in the air just by looking at the dewpoint temperatures. Notice how it is in the upper 60s and low 70s across the southern and eastern maryland. This is that very dry air that is trying to hang on. Any further south it feels sticky. Thes south continue to get cloud covers, a couple of light sprinkles. Focal point for those showers as ago throughout the day, continuing to tractors st. Marys county over into Dorchester County and over towards ocean city. Baltimore does look mainly try. You can see how clouds in virginia can move back in at any time. It is going to be a mix of clouds and sun. Here is the unstable boundary that we have been talking about, hanging around for days. It is now down to our south but lifting back up to the north. That is where we are going to talk about isolated showers and storms. For today, a mix of clouds and sun, becoming more humid. You cannot rule out a shower. A few neighborhoods will get them. You are going to have a lot of time for dry weather. Be moving upwill into the mid 80s we will see a lot of cloud cover during the evening but then the skies become partly cloudy again tonight. We will see areas of fog beginning to develop. The temperatures fall to the 70s downtown and 60s as you step into the suburbs. The meteor shower continues tomorrow morning. If you are lucky enough to get a break in the cloud cover you may get a chance to see that before sunrise. It will be up at 6 17 tomorrow. Isolated storm and temperatures once again in the mid80s. Here is a look at the futurecast, fast forward to Tuesday Morning on the cold front is going to push by the day on tuesday, causing some heavy showers and thunderstorms. We get some very nice weather on the backside. Heres the caveat to that, the jetstream is going to dig down to the south on the backside of that front. Any time it forms this powder forms this pattern its forms a storm a barrier along the coast. If it comes any further east we are going to end up with nice weather at the beach. If it stays in the position right now, ocean city could get some nasty weather for the end of the week. It is a really close call at this point. If you have travel plans to the beach, just keep in mind tres that potential for rain pit that the ball completely change and you could end up with nice weather. We are expecting storms increasing through wednesday through tuesday. The ravens back in home on thursday. Its time for backtoschool shopping. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for having me. This is a big week for retailers. Particularly for locally owned stores. Shopping local is important. You have ise things the clothes for the little one. Show us what the styles are. Some fun books here. They ring is really important. You do not know what the weather is going to be. Just some layering pieces for boy and girl. I love this jacket, little rock star. What sizes are these . Clock these go from baby all the way up to six for boy and 12 for girl. Thing is coming up is the high holidays. That is really cute. Itit is really tricky when is this early. It is a great time to take it vantage of the taxfree week. What are these outfits running . Editing is under 100. That is the only way to get the taxfree. Our accessories included . I was excited to hear the treasurer saying he was thinking about adding backpacks. Lex a bill to not be included . No. Shoes and clothing. You want them to keep their pants up. Talked to other shop owners. Most of them are all local. We are the Largest Group of locally owned boutiques in baltimore county. I brought some of my neighbors fashion so mom can take it vantage of taxfree as well. We have great pajamas. Which ones are you pointing to . We have these pajamas here on the end and in the center we have great tshirts and other things from panache and at the end, frilly him. These are great back to fall pieces. For the general trend seattle you say layering is big but so general trende this . You say layering is big. Give boys a lot of primary colors. A lot of fun with color. We are seeing a lot of symbols, hearts and lightning bolts. They are popping up these looks and making them special. You mentioned the backpacks. That is scary. They are called mad packs. They do lunch bags through large fullsized accpac. Great. Fullsized backpacks. Great. Go in and get your Taxfree Shopping on. Thank you for coming and. And stay with us, up next we are in the kitchen for sunday brunch. First a look at last nights winning lottery numbers. Time once again for sunday brunch. Joining us is dan long from the bonefish grill. Lex good morning. You made the creme brulee french toast earlier. It smelled like candy. Now we are moving to fish seafood. Today we are going to talk about some grilling tips for those that want to make this at home. We are also going to cover how to make our chilly cherry. You have the beautiful grilled shrimp and scallops get you want to stick it on a skewer but how long do you cook it for . Cks you want to cook it up you want to cook it for five minutes on each side. You are looking for to be done but nice and moist. Trip has a built in thermometer. Shrimp has that built in thermometer. Scallops are tougher. Just make sure it is not overdone or dried out. What is the sauce . Ichurri. Mm we are going to use are chopped parsley. You can dump it all in. Teaspooning to do it of red pepper flakes. Going to do a teaspoon of red pepper flakes. A teaspoon of oregano. Then we are going to do a little bit of salt. And our garlic. That is what we would do. Stick it all in there. We will start with white vinegar. We are going to use that to incorporate everything. Good. Smells really is the cilantro . Clocks it is acumen. Human. A cumin. Were going to multiply that all of oil in there. How long would the city in your refrigerator for . Sit in your refrigerator for . This will sit for about a day. You want to have this nice consistency. After a while the olive oil and vinegar starts to separate. Look for this nice presentation. We will preserve that overpower absolutely we will driver we will drizzle that over absolutely. A little bit of lemon juice on top of their. And then some parsley. Clocks if you would like a copy of this recipe, you can go to our website, wbaltv. Com. Us a self addressed stamped envelope. We will be right back with more in just a moment. [ male announcer ] now you can get a kindle fire hd, with high def screen, ultrafast wifi and access to 23 million movies, tv shows, music, and apps all for much less than an ipad mini. I couldnt believe how good the value was for the money i paid. It gives you all the options with the apps as far as netflix, hulu, great internet browser. [ male announcer ] act now, and as part of this special tv offer, youll get a custom cover worth over 30, plus a 25 amazon. Com gift card both free with your kindle fire hd. I can play games, listen to music, watch television shows. My daughter is really into caillou, curious george. The picture is really sharp and really clear. [ male announcer ] get a new kindle fire hd, plus a free custom cover, and a free 25 amazon. Com gift card. This is a limitedtime offer, and you wont find it anywhere else. Kindle fire is amazing. Its a lifechanger. [ male announcer ] go online to order now. We are in the chapel town center. Are weather forecast. Just a spring or two around baltimore. Annapolis may see a few scattered showers. Highs in the 80s today. Really great in baltimore through the end of the week. Think he so much. Thank you. That looks really great. We will see you tomorrow. Have a great day. Our key issues and people this week. Spying showdown. President obama orders changes to u. S. Surveillance programs and faces tough questions about the nsa leaker. I dont think mr. Snowden was a patriot. The debate over the future of u. S. Spying programs. Mike mccaul, the head of the House Homeland Security committee. Analysis from ted koppel of nbc news and the Washington Posts Barton Gellman. Then president ial orders. Strong words from the commander in chief this week about stamping out Sexual Assault in the military. The pentagon is preparing new rules, but there is an agreement on how to end the crisis. I go oneonone with one of the lawmakers pushing for change, missouri senator claire mccaskill. The immigration debate. A critical time for reform as members of Congress Head back to their districts to prepare for the fall fight. What are the prospects for passage . Talk to both sides including the congressmen leading the fight against reform. End of an era. The venerable the Washington Post is sold to amazons jeff bez bezos. Was what does it say about the future of traditional media . Inside analyst from the Washington Posts David Ignatius and david gross of the new york times. All of that ahead on memeet th press this sunday morning, august 11th. Good sunday morning. President obama is on vacation, congress is out of town, and although we are in the dog days of summer, the battle to win the hearts and minds of the American People on a range of issues is is in full force. The Obama Administration is finding tough opposition to its agenda, while the gop is divided as well on how to move ahead. Friday, president obama announced changes to the u. S. Surveillance program so many people are talking about, including a change in how the nsa collects phone records, more transparency by the secret foreign intelligence court, thats the fisa court, and the creation of a task force of private citizens. Joining me this morning Barton Gellman of the Washington Post who has been writing extensively about Edward Snowden and the nsa, special correspondent for nbc news ted koppel, and the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, republican congressman mike mccaul. Barton gellman, let me start with you. Has Edward Snowden won . Has he accomplished what he set out to do, which is not only get a debate going but force change in these programs . He has accomplished far more than anyone in his position could have reasonably hoped to have accomplished. He told me his greatest fear was that he would come out and do this and whole story would be you know, roiling around for a day and it would be gone. Now you have president obama being forced to say that he welcomes the debate, which he welcomes sort of like the ceo who gets an angry letter yet writes back and says thank you for your interest in our surveillance programs. But its top of the ageneral da for two months. The president spoke out about snowden during his press conference on friday and said the following. I dont think mr. Snowden was a patriot. As i said in my opening remarks, i called for a thorough