But fair. Well talk about it on the insta weather plus forecast. Our big story this morning comes out of Prince Georges County wrshgs last night a jury did reach a verdict in the trial of two officers accused of beating a university of maryland student last year. Jurors returned a split verdict. We have the latest from upper marlboro. Those officers face Second DegreeAssault Charges and misconduct charges. Officer Reginald Baker was acquitted, officer James Harrison was found guilty of Second Degree assault but not guilty on misconduct charges. Now, this case centers around this eyewitness video showing those officers using force again john mckenna during a chaotic terps victory celebration in 2010 in college park. The jury decided officer baker used reasonable force but found harrison used too much force. Mckenna was unarmed, but attorneys defending the officers say that he was waving his fists around while illegally approaching a police lineup. They also claim mckenna threw a punch. Prosecutors say the officers never yelled a command for mckenna to stay away and they dispute mckenna threw a punch. Either way a split verdict means mixed emotions for the states attorney and for the students at the center of all this. We believe tonight that the citizens of Prince Georges County have spoken loudly and clearly that, although we appreciate and we really honor the protection thats provided to us, that protection must be reasonable. That protection must reflect the dignity of every human being in this community. Definitely glad that some justice has been done today. Its been a long two years for me and my family, but it was a broader crime committed here, and it spans way further than the two cops charged in this trial. We hope that the department of justice continues their investigation. Sentencing for harrison is scheduled for december 14th. He could face ten years in prison. After what happens with officer baker and his future with the Prince Georges Police department, right now the chief of police says thats unclear. Either way, both officers are still officially suspended. In Prince Georges County, wbal tv 11 news. Also in Prince Georges County, one person is dead and eight others in the area were taken to hospitals this morning after a mercedes collided with a metro bus. Metro Spokes Person said the driver of the car was killed friday night when it struck the bus which was turning on to central avenue. Eight people on board the bus were taken to the hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening. Officials say another vehicle going in the same direction as the mercedes was involved in a separate crash around the same time. Two people in that vehicle were taken into custody. In Howard CountyPolice Arrested this man in a bizarre peeping tom case. 42yearold Michael Mckenny faces burglary, visual surveillance and videotaping without consent charges. Were told numerous tips led police to the suspect after 11 news showed the video thursday and friday. Investigators say mckenny used hidden cameras to secretly record the women inside their condo. Detectives believe mckenny knew the victims and had stolen the key to their condo which he entered several times beginning in late june. Authorities working to notify two other women who were all recorded in a separate incident. Theyre looking into whether other victims may have been videotaped. Mckenny is being held on 100,000 bond. A Baltimore County family is pleading for your help, one year after their son was violently murdered. The person who killed ernest bo gails is still on the run, but some crucial new evidence could bring them closer to justice. It was a year ago today when Baltimore County police found 21yearold ernest bo gails inside a car in pikesville, murdered. He had been shot several times. Detectives learned mr. Gails had been at the mcdonalds on the 8200 block of liberty road earlier in the evening. We bleefb believe he went there to meet some individuals. We believe the three suspects followed him out, forced him into the vehicle and forced him to drive approximately half mile to the location where his body wu found. Today Police Released these photos of the suspects taken at that time mcdonalds. The victims mother sitting next to her husband and daughter asked for help in solving her sons murder. Thats what we are hoping for today. That somebody will look at these pictures and recognize these guys and make a phone call that will help us get justice for our son. Along with the Crime Stoppers reward, the family is also offering 10,000 for any information leading to an arrest. Were surviving by the grace of god and the love and support of good family members and friends. But every day is a struggle. Baltimore county police are asking anyone with any information to call them at 4103072020. Again, that number is 4103072020. And metro Crime Stoppers is also of ferg a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the suspects. That number is 18667lockup. In this mornings medical alert, the flu is making an early visit to maryland. The state reported its first confirmed case last flu season on december 30th but already this year, four people have come down with the illness. We have a warning from Health Officials, plus why its especially dangerous for children. Right now with the first confirmed case, we know that we are in flu season. We know that its here. Its official. The nasty cough, sneeze and fever inducing flu has made its move more than two months earlier than it did last year. The reports are coming in that its a confirmed flu. There are two parts. So were not too far off from what other states are experiencing. The first cases in maryland have affected four children in the baltimore area. State Health Officials say the kids are doing welsh although one was hospitalized. The early on set provides some initial clues as to whether or not this years vaccine will be effective. It looks like these four cases that were a mix of two different types, these are gonna be good matches for the vaccine that we have available. Were going to monitor that throughout the season to make sure that we do have a good match. Health officials are warning people to get their flu shots now, particularly pregnant women, the elderly, anyone with a chronic condition and chern six months and older. This is an age group, children of particular concern. Theres some people that take flu a little bit tougher. They can have more serious consequences. A new cdc Study Reveals kids are particularly susceptible to flu. Researchers looked at flu cases in children from 20042012 and found that nearly half of those who died from the virus had no under lying health conditions. Just really brings home the fact that flu is often something that people can manage on their own. But for people that we cant really predict, some people have very serious consequences, some of which can be life threatening and result in hospitalation. Its not something to take lightly. Get a flu shot. In baltimore, wbal tv 11 news. Time is 9 08 1 2. Thinking about the time. Get the time right. You can count on it. 52 degrees on tv hill. More on the election. Join us with books on u. S. President s past and present. Meet the newest addition to the maryland aquarium family. You can find out how you can name a new baby sloth coming up. And weatherwise, the rain has gone away, at least for the time being. Well see how long that lasts. Thats coming up with the insta weather plus forecas last evening we had a rare Tornado Warning out for part of the area from Baltimore County. Well review on the radar what was going on there. Some thunderstorms started to develop in the virginia suburbs of dc up into montgomery county. Storms expanded across Howard County. By 6 30 in the evening, a really good cell developed over central Baltimore County just north of the city. And that showed circulation up in the clouds, a few thousand feet up. A Tornado Warning was issued. Still showing circumstance laying up in the clouds. It never apparently did reach the ground although some strong gusty winds developed which did cause some damage. Lot of rain in this line of storms between 6 30 and 7 30. With the pendant out of the picture, things are fine. Lets look at things going on right now as we look outside. Lots of sunshine out there. Not a cloud in the sky. At least around baltimore. 52 degrees at the airport. 57 at the inner harbor. 89 the humidity. That numbers starting to go down now that temperatures are going up. Any fog that was in the area this morning, there are a few patches of fog. That will be dissipating. 29. 77 the barometer rising because the front is moving away from us now head on east. We have a west wind at three miles an hour. That breeze should pick up during the day today. Temperatures this morning up to 57 at annapolis, 54 elkton, edgewood, 53. Parkton spent the overnight hours in the 40s. Now up to 50. Westminster 54. Still 39 out in oakland. Little chilly. Satellite picture. Last nights storms all out to sea. Moving away from us. But the core of this system is a big upper at moss spheric low. At the surface there is also a little low sitting under it. Its still spinning around out there. Little impulse spinning around that. You see this dash line represents one. They spin around. Theres some clouds west of us. Wont be surprising to see a sprinkle come out of that. It wont change the basic weather for today. Out in the tropics forecasters are watching a prop call wave in the caribbean. All in the atlantic. To see if theres any development with that at all. All is pretty peaceful in the tropics. Here pretty quiet. One of those clouds could produce a sprinkle. 63 to 68 the high temperature. Thats right on the normal, in the normal range for this time of year. Lots of sun tomorrow. Again in the 60s for highs. Next week well be in the 70s and dry most of the week. Thank you, mr. John. National aquariums newest addition isnt easy to see. Hes moving around a lot, not real pretty, but its cute. He is cute. Its okay. All that expected characteristics of a sloth. By the way, he still needs name. The rain forest holds many treasures. Some are easy to see. Others, not so much. Hidden in the trees are five sloths including this new addition, a baby twotoned sloth born in midaugusto mother ivy. We actually didnt expect this particular female to have a baby. Shes been our sloth out all the time. She doesnt do slothy things. But here she is, or maybe shes a he. Curators cant quite tell you, but they think shes a girl, about the size of a guinea pig now, sloths are born with their eyes open with a full coat of fur and soft nails. Its the third baby sloth to be born here. The aquarium wants the publics help. You get to name our sloth. The aquarium launched an Online Campaign to find the perfect name. One day alone they got 500 entries. Some of the ones that have come insofar, speedy. Cutey mccuterson is my favorite. Sdwl the curator said on average sloths are active only about four hours a day and spend most of their time up in the trees. Unfortunate thing about it sometimes is because theyre doing what they do in nature, oftentimes they are very high up in a tree or curled in a corner and very difficult to see. So take a good look at this face. What name does she scream to you . Yugly. Yugly. No, cute little thing. Comparing the candidates of today from the ones from the past. The fact free library will help us do that with a few reading selections. And is the state trying to pull fast one on voters . What are all those ads for question 7 arent revealing. Avoid paying high costs on car repairs. Aaa will join us on what you need to know next time you send wellcome back. If youre looking for your next book selection, dr. Karl heyed season here with some good recommendations. Good morning. It is tension city. The name of the person who did the first debate. Theres debate about his moderating. Well, he had a book out a couple months ago about the president ial debate. It gives you all the inside scoop from nixon, kennedy and everything. So if you read it now, youre gonna really say, oh my goodness, what was going on . What was really in his mind . Tension city. He really gets to it. Theres a new book coming out about the president that people still think might have been the most impressive president , thomas jefferson. Most controversial. This is a brand new book coming out. It will be out in about a week. The book thats already out about him that came out last week is cream brulee. You wonder what does that have to do with thomas yefr son . Well, we know he was a gardener, university of virginia. He also loved french cooking and actually went to paris and discovered macaroni and cheese. No kidding . French fries. Yes. Introduced it to america. And pasta. We all have 20 pounds to thank for that. Thank you. Recipes are in here. Its just wonderful. Because you dont think about thomas jefferson. Are these his recipes . He americanized them and brought them to america. So french fries, macaroni and cheese, cream brulee. Move over julia childs. But the president that had the most books written about him is lincoln. Lincoln is the one. Theres a book thats coming out about him. And theres 16,000 books written about abraham lincoln. More than george washington. He only has 3,000 books written about him. Thomas jefferson, 2500. This one is team of rivals, arguably the best book about lincoln ever. Wow. Doris kearns goodwin. Its the book that the new poef vi coming out in a couple of weeks is based on lyndon. Thats a steven spielberg. Sally fields is mrs. Lincoln and Daniel Day Lewis is lincoln. It is going to be quite something. All right. Thats the best one out of 15,000. Get that one. Now guest of honor. You hear about white house dinners. This is a book about what happened, and its true, when thomas roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt had booker t. Washington, the first africanamerican to have dinner at the white house. And there was a big scandal about it. It was quite something because he had he invited booker t. Washington to the white house for dinner. So this is all the ins and outs . And how he did it and why he did it. Then our favorite, dolly madison. You know her from the ice cream. Yep. All know that she was the one that saved George Washingtons portrait from the war of 1812. This is all about her and how she worked things. She was quite a politician on her own. So dolly madison. Then if you really are getting a little tired of all the real life things, get the dirt with fiction. So there are two books by political insiders that are just great. The gq candidate. You get a lot of inside scoop there. And then the second book by miss wallace, who worked for george bush and was part of the mccain campaign. And she has a book about a female president called its classified. Thats good. You can read between the lines. So its a great time to get your history, but all have some fun with books. Have you found people have been coming in asking for these books . Absolutely. They want to know more about lincoln because he was referred to. They know the movie is coming out. They want to neebt thomas jefferson. Twhant to neebt some obscure president s, too, garfield. Everybody is into politics, president s and first ladies. We have plenty of books if youre interested. A good reading lesson. Thanks for joining us. Please dont go away. The maryland zoo is joining us next. Welcome back. Greg wilson from the maryland zoo in baltimore joins us with the eastern screech owl. Im surprised. You were saying when you came into the studio, i didnt see it. You said i have a screech owl. I expected something big. I didnt really see it. I sat down and looked at this tiny guy here. They are small. Theyre small, but theyre fierce. They really dont screech. Theyre also known as shivering owls or ghost owls. Their hooting is a very spooky kind of sound. Theyre so well camouflaged that you probably would never see them in the wild. But you can find them in suburban neighborhoods and your back yard. I always think of an owl as eating mice. This guys pretty small to tackle a mouse. Would he . He will eat nice, also grasshoppers as well. Theyre indigenous to this area . They oor indigenous to maryland. So keep an eye out for a little guy who would be hard to find in the trees. Absolutely. What else is going on at the zoo. Its a busy season. It is. Today we have our octobearfest. And well be running from 12 to 4 and will be featuring a lot of beer and seasonal ale, as well as objecting fest. Where do the animals come in. We have big cat awareness day thats going on as well. There will be a lot of cat awareness. So the zoo is very active. Today lab Beautiful Day weather wise. Going to be a great day to come out. Next week ton 27th and 28th we have our 29th year of zoo boo. Thats the weekend ahead of halloween. Correct. Thats being featured by cf community bank. It will be running from 10 to 4. Well be featuring costume contests, carnival games, crafts, entertainment, special enrichment force the animals at that time zoo and our ever popular pumpkin smash by the elephants. So lots of activities. Especially over the next weeks. Usually the weather is ideal for these activities. It really is. Just go on to maryland zoo. Org in order to find out the times specific to the event. And for more information. It all happens, of course, at the maryland zoo in baltimore. And just one quicky here. We only have a few seconds. Amongst you guys talking at the zoo, whats all the buzz . We talk about our guests. We talk about the fun that we have working there. Its a great time to see everyone. The great thing with zoo boo coming up, the animals, such good enrichment for them seeing the costumes and the families come in. Thanks a lot for joining us. My pleasure. Im glad you brought this little guy around. He winks with one eye. More coming up in just a moment. 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