Effect. Were still in the overnight, but i think for the most part were going to be living pretty large. 37 on tv hill right now. Going to average about 3 degrees cooler than this time yesterday, but weve lost the steady wind of yesterday morning so now a breeze so actually its not all that uncomfortable. 52 at lunch going to high of 54. 10 below normal. On the chilly side, but its going to be a beautiful, fall friday. Tgif is right. Take it away, jess all right. Marty, thanks. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. Sharon. Hi, jess. Good morning, everyone. We picked up our first problem of the morning. We have an accident blocking bellaire road at record grove, an accident with a pole down and wiers hanging low. You can take hartford road instead. Otherwise, at 197 theres Police Activity there. Speeds still great on the beltway overall. Same goes for 95. Thats a live look at the west side at exit 17 and topside. Now, wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres jess. All right. Sharon, thank you. Marylands attorney general doug gansler is in hot water again, this time for his actions at a party in delaware. Was underage drinking going on while he was there . Political reporter pat warren has ganslers response. White shirt center doug gansler at a teenage house party in delaware where underage drinking was going on. What i understand, there certainly was drinking going on because if you look at the picture, not right where i was, but there were one or two kids holding red cups and generally, you know, there could be koolaid in the red cups, but theres probably beer in the red cups. I didnt go over and stick my nose in and see and maybe i should have. Gansler says he dropped in to see his son. The party was chaperoned, and he saw no evidence of alcohol in the time he was there. Ten days ago, gansler defended his deportment as a passenger his Security Officers say ordered them to break traffic laws. Gansler says the primary race makes him a target. Is the dirty tricks and all the innuendo and all that stuff going to continue . Absolutely. Were eightandahalf months were more than a year away from election. This stuff is going on now. I asiem its going to get more and more. What he wont do, he says, is quit. Im a big boy. Ive been doing this a long time. When im wrong, im wrong. When i could have done something differently, ill tell you. In this case, i could have done something differently. Gansler says in hindsight he should have checked in with the chaperons while at the house. He says he does have a moral obligation to other peoples children as well as his own. Pat warren reporting. Now, back to you. Pat, thank you. The party took place at a South Bethany beach rental house in june. Stay with wjz for more on the gansler controversy. Cbs this morning will be live in federal hill with more starting at 7 00. Police finally catch up to the man accused of shooting a Howard CountyPolice Officer. Now, he and the officer are in the hospital. Wjz and kristy are live at shock trauma with the very latest. Good morning, kristy. Good morning, jess, and good morning, everyone. Police arrested the suspect off route 1 in savage not far from where that shooting happened. After a 15hour massive man hunt, 29yearold Steven Prather is in custody. We have a tremendous amount of work to do to find out, you know, why he chose to do what he did. We have a tremendous amount of work to make sure hes accountable for that. Wednesday, police say drivers spotted prather pacing with a gun around this red pickup truck, but when officers approached, they say he opened fire, hitting officer stephen houk. As the gunman jumped over the guardrail and ran into the woods. Officials say prather was shot in the leg and likely hid in the storm drain all night, but thursday morning, a witness spotted him and told police. He just put his hands up and went to the ground. Wjz investigates and finds prather has a long criminal record. Its a lengthy one, and it includes violent crime. Court records show several arrests in maryland in 2002 for vehicle theft, in 2004 for assault, and in 2006 for attempted firstdegree murder and assault, then in 2011 an arrest in North Carolina for breaking and entering, traffic violations, and more. Prather faces more charges now after this latest shooting. And police say they found a gun deep inside a storm drain and believe it belongs to prathers. Jess, back to you. Kristy, thank you. After having surgery, officer houk remains in serious but stable condition. This morning, city police are investigating a deadly shooting in west baltimore. It happened last night on the 1400 block of north longwood street. Police say a 24yearold man was found shot in the stomach. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. The victims name has not been released, and so far no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is urged to call police. In baltimore county, the cause of a massive house fire is under investigation this morning. Sky eye chopper 13 was over the scene in glen arm last night. You can see the flames were shooting right to the roof of the home on running fox road. Fortunately, no one was hurt. This morning, a fouryearold baby boy fights for his life after a tragic car crash in Anne Arundel County. Officials say the child was not in a car seat. In fact, he was in someones lap. Meghan mccorkell has the story. Good morning. Charges are now pending against the father of that four month old after his son was seriously injured in that crash. Police say Matthew Mitchell was behind the wheel of this crushed dodge caravan. He was driving down clark road wednesday when he veered across the center line and crashed head on into another car. Mitchells fourmonthold son in the lap of the front seat passenger. Right now that i know of, he has a fractured skull. He had bleeding on his brain. Family members of the childs mother are furious the baby wasnt properly restrained. His father is drinking and driving with a child in the front seat period. A child is not supposed to be in the front seat without no car seat. This child being under oneyearold should have been in a rearfacing shield seat in the rear of that vehicle. But according to a new study, an alarming amount of parents admit they dont always put their child in a car or booster seat. In a survey of more than a thousand parents, safe kids worldwide found one in four admitted to driving without buckling up their children. They told us if they were taking a short ride or if they were driving overnight with their kids or perhaps as a reward, they found that it was okay not to buckle up for that ride. Wednesdays crash happened a block from Matthew Mitchells listed address. Family members say they want him criminally charged. He could have took five peoples lives, and that would have been horrible. Now, theyre just praying their baby cousin will pull through. And there is some good news to report. Hospital Officials Say the babys condition has now been upgraded to good. Meghan mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. Meghan, thanks. Investigators are looking into whether alcohol was a factor in that crash. The two passengers in the other car were also taken to the hospital. Theyre expected to be okay. Five people are hospitalized after a ride at the North Carolina state fair malfunctioned. The ride called the vortex was caught on tape just 15 minutes before the accident last night. The ride spins, twirls and flips riders upside down. A preliminary investigation indicates the passengers were hurt when the ride started up begin as they were getting off. Two people suffered serious injuries. In massachusetts, classes are set to resume today at danvers high school, the Boston School where a teacher was allegedly killed by one of her own students. A classmate of the 14yearold suspect says math teacher Colleen Ritzer asked the 14yearold to stay after class on the day she was killed. Her body was found in the woods behind the school. Additional security and counselors will be on hand today. In this city, a teachers dream store now exists. A wish list depot stocks supplies for free. Inside elementary and middle school, a classroom has been transformed into a store stokd with School Supplies. The store is a brainstorm of a local woman who started a nonprofit to fill the need of School Supplies for teachers. Teachers make up a wish list, and one saturday a month, the store is open for them to shop. Turning now to sports, the st. Louis cardinals even the world series by beating the red sox in game 2. 7th inning the cardinals Matt Carpenter hits a fly ball. Runner tags from 3rd. Red sox throw the ball to home plate, but it gets away not once but twice. The cardinals take the lead and win the game 42. Series now tied at one game apiece. Today Major League Baseball will announce the finalists for gold glove for top defensive players at each position. Several orioles are expected to be considered for the award. One award an oriole missed out on, the sporting news player of the year. Orioles first baseman chris davis finished second to Miguel Cabrera of the tigers. Davis led the major leagues with 53 home runs, 138 rbis. Talked about this last. Everybody in the studio off the air pretty much agreed. Thats a function of orioles not making post season. Out of sight, out of mind. For sure taking nothing away from cabrera, but crush davis won us ball games and kept us in contention through the entire year. His impact on the orioles was large. Cabreras impact was big, but i think if we would have gone into post season, you know, with daviss production, our defense, we would have gone to post season, may have been a different outcome. Right. But thats okay. We know what he did. He knows what he did. We know. Were proud. Were proud, and were loud. Have you ever seen a gold glove . Yes, as a matter of fafkt. Its cool. It is. Its a very very cool thing. I saw one. I didnt even know i didnt realize how cool it was until i was older. Whered you see it just real quick . In la at a guy named jim edmonds house. He was friends with a guy i dated sxad couple of them in his house in ir vine. He played for the cardinals. Take a look name dropper i am. You know, interesting thing about the statue on russell street coming by at camden yards right there in front of sliders. Gold glove. The glove is gold. Its cool. It sure is. High pressure is dominating our weather. Yesterdays wind settled down to a breeze. Techl is about 37 now. 54 is going to be the High Temperature this day. I would say its a lot more comfortable this morning without the wind. Gigi barnett might respectfully disagree. Outside outside of bare hills, how are you this morning . I do disagree. I disagree a lot. When they told me this morning id be on a bike, i thought it was going to be that bike. Much easier. 12 hours, its for the karma for Kara Foundation. This is rough. When Eyewitness News morning condition continues. Keep going, gigi ,,,,,,,, all right. Ravens nation in the house. Nothing finer. 36 degrees right now. 75 humidity. Westerly breeze at 7. Barometer now 30. 18. Barometer yesterday 29. 89. Now, we drop from 36 to 37 degrees. Were still in the overnight so this graphic still is in tact. We have a freeze warning in effect essentially for the western shore on out toward western maryland. Lets, again, take a look at numbers, see how were dropping, if were anywhere near 32. Take oaklands 38 out of the equation. Now, weve dropped to 35 degrees in hagerstown. 35 elkton. Still 41 easton. Lock at the clock real quick. Still drop another degree and a half or so before sunrise. 34 bellaire. 36 columbia. 40 in the district. Fact of the matter is as this High Pressure settles in over the area and the vortex of the the chilliest air coming out of central canada sits down over the mid atlantic, were all going to 32 degrees or below tonight. So the freeze warning that will be in effect for this next overnight really is going to be much more of a widespread reality. Were already getting a bit of a warmup coming our way through the weekend, little bit quirk than anticipated, what we discussed yesterday. Partly sunny. 54 today. 10 below normal. 32. Clear, cold overnight. Around the beltway, actually even see 29 or so. Mostly sunny. Breezy tomorrow. High of 59. Almost 60 sunday. 62 monday. Almost 60 tuesday. 64 degrees on wednesday. Take it away. All right. Marty, thanks. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. Hi, sharon. Hi, jess. Good morning, everyone. If you are about to head off, we are starting out with an accident in fallston, this one on bellaire road. All lanes are blocked. Theres a pole down with lowlaying wires. On 295 southbound, we still have Police Activity at 197. Speeds beginning to slow. In fact, pretty drastically on the west side of the beltway. 36 is your outer loop average now. Theres a look at your averages on 95. That is a look at the west side of the beltway where it appears we have just picked up an accident. Thats why we have those delays. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Did you ever sit back and dream of all the places youd like to go, place that is bring you happiness . Toyota is ready to take you there. Now is a time to find a great deal on a toyota. Back over to you guys. All right. Send it right out to gigi barnett, former former aerobics teacher. Dont say that youre out of breath, youre tiered. We know better. He made it clear former, you know. No, im not out of breath, but let me tell you something, ive been on this bike for, like, six minutes. I feel it, and thats a good thing. Thats a good thing. We are at bare hills racket and fitness club. Okay. Im going to get off now. My morning exercise is done. I dont normally work out this early in the morning. This is allison woodward. She is the Program Director here at bare hills, and karma for kara is tomorrow. It is a marathon. We are going to do a spinathon marathon. We are going to spin for is hours straight. Were hoping to get more people to come out and spin with us. We have a few spots left. Most hours are sold out, but wif spots left to come and spin for leukemia. Okay. This is in the name of kara becker. Who is she . Kara becker was a member here. Her parents are still members. She started the foundation amazingly enough when she was going through treatments in the hospital. She wanted to reach out to families who were going through the same things that her family was going through. She wanted to start a foundation to help those families. Sadly, she died from leukemia last year around this time . Yeah. She did. She lost her life last year in december. Folks watching saying, hey, i want to go out and help in this, how do they do it . You can come to bare hills yourself or call in and register. If you you cant do it online, but you can call the club because were keeping track of how many spots are left. Right. And its going really fast. You guys are almost sold out. Wefrment we are very xietd. Its the first time weve done this. Weve got great instructors. A lot of energy. Its going to be outside. Were excited. Weve got food coming. Its going to be a great event. What better way to show your support for suffering when you can come and do something. You are superwoman. For folks who dont want to get on this bike, and they prefer this bike, they can give here. Tell how they can give. So we have a lot of people that arent going to be able to spin with us tomorrow so theyre dropping in donations here at the club or they can send a donation to karma for Kara Foundation in our names from the spinathon thank you youre coming tomorrow im going to get back on the bike. Back to you guys at tv hill. I got to go. Gigi yeah, jess. I took a class when i lived downtown, a treading class, and i am still sore, and that was, like, three years ago. Allison is hard core. She looks it, though. She looks great. She does. Im going to spin with these boots on tomorrow. Thanks, gigi. All right. Still to come on wjz. Im alex. Coming up, dogs behind bars raised by inmate veterans for wounded veterans. That story as Eyewitness News continues. ,,,,,,,,,, Training Service dogs from behind bars. Its a program that inmates who are military veterans work with dogs that will help wounded veterans when they come home. Alex has the story. The maryland prison in haggerstownhouses inmates doing serious time for serious crimes, but locked up doesnt necessarily mean shut off. Done something wrong, the little bit we can do to return to try to do something right. That something is the early training of service dogs. Its done in other prisons, but this is the first time veterans who have been convicted of crimes are raising the dogs to aid wounded veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan. The veterans, this is an opportunity for you to step up to the plate and do something unselfish for somebody else. Pay back to the people who help us so much, to the disabled veterans. But help flows both ways when a dog is in the middle. Be incarcerated and have a dog, its, like, no matter how bad my day is, that dog is always wagging its tail. After a year of care and training, the first three dogs graduated to the next step in the program. From their home behind bars, the dogs now go onto new york for advanced training, a goodbye that isnt easy. And so its like losing a friend. I dont know. Its going to be very very difficult. Although the next recruits waiting outside the prison gates might help ease that loss. Wjz Eyewitness News. That advanced training could run 3 to 6 months before the dogs are matched with a disabled veteran. Next up this morning right here on wjz. Critics wonder what went wrong with healthcare. Gov. Im on capitol hill with the latest on the sites. Well, an officer and the man accused of shooting him are recovering here at maryland shock trauma. Were learning the suspect has a lengthy criminal rap sheet. Those details are straight ahead. A surprising announcement from bret favre. What hes saying about his health after a successful nfl career. And we have a couple accidents that could get in your way of your morning commute. We have a live look at one of them. Thats straight ahead. Right now, send it over to marty. Smooth jazz on tap at rams head thavrn in annapolis tomorrow night. Two shows. Art, jr. , in the house joins us for making his trip down to annapolis. International smooth jazz artist lives in your own backyard. Did you know that . Art comes by. Hes a great guy. Its the morning edition, and thats coffee with. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,, this is wjz tv baltimore. Good morning, maryland. Now, don scott, marty bass, and the latest breaking news from wjzs news team. Your first warning weather and wjz Traffic Control with sharon gibala. Its wjz marylands news station. Its friday sfwlchlt a nice fall friday here in charm city. Im jess ka in for don. We have weather and traffic together. Sharon, well get right to you. Lets go to marty. Lets taek a look at the numbers, now 36 on tv hill, which is going to be about 3 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. Yesterdays kind of light wind is just now a breeze so it look, its still chilly, but its not quite as bight as it was yesterday morning. 52 at lunch going to high of 54. 10 below normal not unlike yesterday. Very much like yesterday. Ton of sun around. Actually, beautiful fall friday. Jess, take it away. All right. Marty, thank you. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. Sharon. Hi, jess. Good morning, everyone. We have a live look at an accident we have work right now on the west side of the beltway. It is causing delays blocking the right lane. The average speed in the area around the mid 30s. We also have an accident still there. It is on bellaire road between record and mountain road. It is blocking a lane. Accident city eagle at south payson and 295 southbound Police Activity at 197. Speeds now in the 20s, actually, on the west side of the beltway on the outer loop between 795 and 95. 95 speeds overall running pretty well. That, again, is a live look at the west side, the problem area right near security boulevard. Now, wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres jess. Sharon, thank you. Contractors responsible for the troubled healthcare. Gov web site go before congress. They claim lastminute changes and not enough testing led to widespread problems for the web site. The very latest for wjz. The heads of four contractors that built the troubled web site healthcare. Gov raised their hands to swear in before congress and then said the Obama Administration made lastminute changes and decided to launch the site without enough testing. A lot of them were kind of saying, you know, not it, not me, you know, weve done our part. Did you deliver the product you were contracted to build, ms. Campbell . We have. Mr. Slavin . Yes. Mr. Lowell . Yes. After days of hearings, many member ofs of congress say they still have questions. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius wasnt available to testify yesterday because she was at one of the call centers which helps americans find the right healthcare plan. She say it is web site is still a work in progress. Its better today than it was on october 1s, but its a long way from perfect, and we are determined to have it be perfect. Congress still wants to know who made the decision that slowed down the web site and why. If somebody is responsible, i think they have to be held accountable. Secretary sebelius is scheduled to testify next wednesday. On capitol hill, wjz Eyewitness News. The web Site Developers all said they believe healthcare. Gov will be functional by december 159. That is the deadline for consumers to purchase insurance and have it take effect at the start of the year. A National Guard member is behind bars this morning after opening fire at a u. S. Navy base in tennessee. The shooter did strike two fellow National Guard members, one on the leg, the other in the foot before he was arrested. Police say the shooter was a Sergeant First Class and recruiter whod been relieved after duty. The two shot were his superiors. They were treated for injuries at a local hospital. This morning, the man accused of shooting a Howard CountyPolice Officer is hospitalized himself. Wjz and kristy are live at shock trauma where he and the officer are being treated. Good morning, kristy. Good morning, jess, and good morning, everyone. Police arrested the suspect not far from where the shooting happened. This morning, were learning the suspect has a lengthy criminal rap sheet. After a 15hour massive man hunt, 29yearold steven prat Stephen Prather is in custody. We have a tremendous amount of work to make sure hes accountable for that. Wednesday, police say drivers spotted prather pacing with a gun around this red pickup truck, but when officers approached, they say he opened fire hitting officer stephen houk. As the gunman jumped over the guardrails. Prather was shot in the leg and likely hid in the storm drain all night but thursday morning, a witness spotted him and told police. He put his hands up and went to the ground. Wjz investigates and finds prather has a long criminal record. J its a lengthy one, and it inclusd violent crime. Court records show several arrests in maryland in 2002 for a vehicle theft, in 2004 for assault, in 2006 for attempted firstdegree murder and assault, then in 2011, an arrest in North Carolina for breaking and entering, traffic violations and more. Prather faces more charges now after this latest shooting. And Police Believe they errored prathers weapon nearby in a storm drain. Jess kristy, thank you. After having surgery, officer houk remains in serious but stable condition. Several students are taken to the hospital after a syringe is found on playground at an Anne Arundel County school. Yesterday the kindergarten class in glen burnie was playing on the playground when one child found and picked up the syringe. It was determined a total of 7 students touched it. They were taken to area hospitals as a precaution. School leaders will speak with children today to discuss the incident. We now know what caused several Baltimore CitySchool Students to fall ill this week. About five students from the Reach Partnership school in clifton park were taken to the hospital wednesday morning. Turns out, they tested positive for marijuana. Other students tell wjz a school staff member gaef out laced marijuana cookies, but investigators are still looking into that. The kennedy cousin convicted of murdering a young neighbor almost four decades ago could soon walk out of a connecticut prison. Michael skakels attorney filed a motion that his client be released from prison while he awaits a new trial. Ven eta has the very latest for wjz. Michael skakel could soon be a free man. The kennedy cousin spent the last 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of teenage neighbor marxtha moxley, but a judge tossed out the conviction. I think this judge looked at this record and said, this is a case where there really was reasonable doubt. Skakels newtorian filed a motion friday asking his client be released on bond while awaiting a new trial. The motion echoes the judges claim that original attorney Mickey Sherman failed to properly represent skakel. What the judge says is that there were people who might have killed Martha Moxley and they were not Michael Skakel and yet we didnt learn about that. One of those other people is michaels brother, tommy skakel, who was the last person seen with moxley before he beaten body was found under a tree on halloween 1975 and yet at the trial, this judge certainly finds that Mickey Sherman did not point the finger at tommy skakel, the brother. Sherman says hes not worried about damage to his reputation. Skakel, he says, should never have been convicted. Prosecutors will appeal skakels release and the new trial. In greenwich, connecticut, wjz Eyewitness News. Skakels attorney requested his client be released on half a Million Dollars bond. A videotaped confession of a man accused of killing washington red skins safety sean taylor is played for the jury. Yesterday, a detective testified 23yearold erik rivera, jr. , admitted to breaking into taylors home, kicking down the bedroom door and shooting him. Prosecutors say rivera and four others from the fort myers area thought taylor would be playing a game when they went to his home, but he happened to be home with an injury. A shocking realization from one of the most successful quarter bashgs ever to play in the nfl. Bret favre says he suffers from memory loss and believes that maybe the result of concussions. Duncan reports for wjz. For 20 seasons, bret favre stared down some of the biggest, meanest players in the nfl and won. Now, retired, favre says Something Else has him scared. I dont remember my daughter playing soccer one summer. I dont remember that. Sports Radio Station hes experiencing memory loss thats more than just misplacing his glasses. So thats a little bit scary to me for the first time in 44 years, that kind of put a little fear in me. Favre said that fear is that he has been affected by concussions during his long career. Its not a new problem facing pro football veterans. In august, the nfl agreed to pay 765 million to settle lawsuits for more than 4,000 former players, including retired running back kevin turner. Turner has als. He and the other plaintiffs who suffer from neurological conditions including dementia claim their conditions were caused by repeated concussions they received on the field. Favre says he knows his career has taken a toll on his body. For 20 years, god only knows the toll. Favre says for now, hes trying to enjoy his retirement with his family. Wjz Eyewitness News. This comes after favre says he was contacted about a possible return to the nfl by the st. Louis rams head coach after quarterback sam braldford tore his acl on sunday. In thursday night football, the tampa bay remain winless after loss to carolina panthers. Panthers cam newton threw two touchdown passs and ran for another score. It was three minutes left in the game before the bucs would make the end zone. Panthers win it. Bucs now 0 and 7 for the 7th time in team history. Olympic gold medal swimmer from bethesda is named sportswoman of the year. The 16yearold won her first olympic gold medal at the age of 15 in the 800meter free style, and this year, she won four gold medals and set two world records. Shes the first female swimmer to win sportswoman of the year honors since back in 2008. Coming up on coffee with. Art gerard, jr. , joins us. Do you know art . I dont. Do you know of his music . Yes. Art is one of the best smooth jazz sax phonists in the country, and has an international following. Art lives in your own backyard. Its amazing what smooth jazz stars. Cyrus chestnut, jim waters, art gerard. Art is performing two rows tomorrow night. Tickets still available, pretty sure, on their web site. Art came in. We hadnt talk today him in about five years, just sit down and chat with one of the really good guys on the scene today. And a former Naval Academy mid. How about that. Sharons got wjz tv Traffic Control, first warning weather and more coming up next. Well be explaining that accident and its impact,,,,, hi, were the butlers from perry hall. Good morning, wjz. Good morning. Thanks for being with us. 36 greece right now. 75 humidity. A bit of a breeze out of the west. The barometer has rin to 30. 18 from yesterdays 29. 89. High pressure settling in over the area. Winds are diminishing. Its still not really daylight yet so were going to keep this graphic. In fact, we have a freeze warng in effect the western shore all the way out to western maryland. Still 28 oakland. 35 haggers town. 35 elkton. Bottom line is all these numbers, not really too many folks are in danger of hitting that 32 mark right now. Tomorrow night, different story. 36 westminster, 36 bellaire, 36 columbia. 39 rock hall at 41. High pressure settles in over the area. Really its going to be a beautiful day. Its going to be a beautiful five dais, but the bump in the road frankly is going to be the temperatures. Look at that lake effect second morning in a row coming off of the great lakes. Mild air is going to get in here little bit sooner than we thought with a little more oomph than we thought yesterday. 54 degreeings going to be the high. Partly sunny on the cool side by ten degrees. 32 mainly clear cold overnight. That will mean business frost area wide. 59 tomorrow. On sunday lets call it another 59. 62 monday. Almost 60 tuesday. The mid 60s on wednesday. Jess, take it away. Marty, thanks. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. If you are just about to head out, we cleared up all of our problems but one. Unfortunately its the big one left on the outer loop in the area of security boulevard. We have an accident blocking the right lane. Meantime we can show you we do have speeds slow in that area. 22 is your average on the outer loop. Topside of the beltway starting the slow, as well. 95 southbound still full speed. There is a live look again blocking the right outer loop lane. There is a look at the topside backing down. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Did you ever sit back and dream of all the places you like to go in toyota is ready to take you there. Find a great deal on a toyota at buyatoyota. Com. Lets go places. Back to you. Thank you. This mornings coffee with with art sherrod, jr. Were just talking about art shshgserrod joins us. We are at the festival this weekend. Which was huge. Yeah. It was incredible. Gigantic, huge. Yeah, it was. It was huge. A lot of great artists. I got a chance to play with naji for the first time so that was really cool, and albright and nick, so many great artists. Art actually hadnt been in in about five years. If youre not into the smooth jazz genera, art, were talking big league and actually happens to live in baltimore, not from baltimore. Right. Texas but had some time at the Naval Academy and decided to come and settle here. Yeah. We think thats pretty cool. I love it. But ever since you first started joining us, your career has just its all because of hard work, dead ration and effort. Right. And me being on your station. Well, that was that was the last one lasted five years. Thats right. Are you happy with the time line youre on, where your career is right now . Yeah. Im happy. Its continuing to progress. Im getting a chance to do a lot of things ive always wanted to do. You play with everybody now. Yeah. Its wonderful. I think its cool because we knew you when, you know, when you were first coming around saying heres my disk. Weve got great fests around here. You have to go out to long beach or other exotic locations to hear the best. Yeah. Why is that . Why has it all happened here now . You know, i think people are realizing because this area has so many incredible musician, i mean, just absolutely incredible musicians. I think people are recognizing that, and theres a need for that music on the east coast. It seems to be centering around, like, the baltimore area. I would think that genre of music would already have had a foothold on the east coast. Is it really a smooth jazz west coast thing thats migrating east . I think its coming back because it was going west hard. You know, they took away all of our smooth jazz stations, and they all went to the west coast, and then for us, you know, it kind of left us on the east coast without anything. Now, all of a sudden youve got xm sirius, pan dora, spotify, all these ways to hear the music you want to hear now. Right. The listenership never left, just the the Radio Stations left satellite has proven good for you, huh . Yeah. Its great. Internet radio is great. You know, its all good. There it is right there. I plugged this into my car. There it is. Pandora. Art sherrod. Now, comes art, albright, here they all come. Shout out to our friends mason who all hang around here. Thats right. Were going to do a web extra with art. Tim waters. Ill be hearing from kim. So you pick up the saxophone because it was the best chance to get chicks . Yeah. Im serious. Im dead serious. Im not joking with you. It was between the trumpet and the drums . Right. Why is the saxophone so sexy . I dont know. Thats the mystery of it all, but i like the mystery. But what a change from a brass instrument or percussion you know, im not the greatest singer. I sing, but im not the greatest singer, and i think the saxophone translats really well in terms of vocal. Its about the closest instrument youre going to get to vocal. I played in high school, and it wasnt sexy for me. I was 7th chair. All right. This is the out of four saxophones. This is arts new disk. If you love smooth jazz, im just my personal recommendation, i was telling art, i was listening to art in gym the other day. Your music has matured. Its expanded. Were just thrill today death for you. I mean that sincerely. We love having you. Were going to keep this going on live because weve got to get to traffic and weather. Were going to hang out with one of americas best, the guy who lives in own backyard. Well, almost. You stay tuned. The morning edition continues right after this. ,,,,,,,,, now, up dpatedwet and her traffic together. Lets go to marty. Take a look at the forecast for the day. Mid upper 30s right now. 54 greece going to be the high. Sun is coming up. Beautiful amp. Now, heres sharon at wjz tv Traffic Control. Good morning. Hi, marty. Good morning, everyone. If you are just about to head out there, we have an accident still will there on the west side of the beltway on the outer loop. Watch for it just approaching security boulevard still block tg right lane. A new accident on the outer on bellaire road, that one at henry. Theres a lock at your speeds out there if you are headed out on the beltway, and there is a live loofk outside and a look at that accident on the west side there at exit 17. This traffic report is brought to you by jiffy lube. Back over to you. Sharon, thank you. Maryland attorney general doug gansler is under fire over his actions at a party where underage drinking may have taken place. The photo shows gansler dressed in a white shirt in the center of a teenage house party in delaware. The party was chaperoned, and he saw no evidence of alcohol at the time he was there. He and the officer are in the hospital after a 15hour man hunt, 29yearold Stephen Prather was arrested yesterday along route 1 in savage. On wednesday, he opened fire on offices striking 30yearold stephen houfk. Prather was shot in the leg during the exchange of gunfire. Officer houk remains in serious but stable condition. Back here, city police are investigating a deadly shooting in west baltimore. It happened last night on the 1400 block of north longwood street. Police say a 24yearold man was found shot in the stomach. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. So far no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is urged to call city police. In baltimore county, the cause of a massive house fire is under investigation. Sky eye chopper 13 was over the scene in glen arm last night. As you can see, flames were shooting through the roof of the home on running fox road. Foj gnatly no one was injured. Several students are taken to the hospital after a syringe is found on a playground at an Anne Arundel County school. Yesterday the kindergarten class at rippling woods elementary in glen burnie was playing on the playground when one child found and picked up the syringe. 7 students touched it. They were taken to area hospitals as a precaution. A wish list depot stocks supplies for free inside middle school. A classroom has been transformed into a school stocked with supplies. Teachers make a wish list one saturday moont. Stay with wjz 13 marylands news station complete news weather and traffic still ahead on this beautiful friday morning. More on attorney general doug gansler and the house party he attended where underage drinking is believed to have taken place. Thats next. ,,,,,,,, [ telephone rings ] good evening, this is flo. [laughs] yes, im that flo. Arent you sweet licensed phoneups available 24 7