Good morning. I am jennifer franciotti. I am lisa robinson. We will have the news in a moment. First a look outside with the weather with ava marie. We caught up we are above normal now. The rain can stop any time. The rain will continue at least for your sunday. A good excuse to be lazy today. 53 degrees at the airport with rain being reported. Humidity at 9 p percent. Areas of fog that is what you have to watch out for. The light showers continue to redevelop over Baltimore City. The heavier storm move off to our west. This is a chance for rain around baltimore especially for the first half of the day and then we will stay cloudy even into the afternoon with a slight chance for rain. Temperatures mid to upper 60s. Thanks, ava. Back to the Grocery Store today for food stamp recipients who couldnt check out today because of the easy t benefits cards. The cards wouldnt work. It was related to the government shut down it turns out a computer failure is to blame. John champion has more. I was caught off guard. True cons in hand resident claire tonguer wasnt ready for what happened during her trip to the Grocery Store saturday. He came over and said they couldn could not accept any food stamp purchases today. It was the last thing the cancer survivor now living on Disability Income was expecting. She relies on food stamps once a month to get groceries. I was almost devastated by the thought of when i was going to get my stoamps and how long will this last . Turns out a computer glitch in the nationwide food stamp system is to blame leaving people in 17 states in limbo. In maryland low income people disabled homeless and seniors all use food stamps. This is due to the not being able to process the transaction. They had customers ditching their packed carts. A store manager says it sparked confusion. They are upset they cant get their food. I am being told that i have customers calling me on the phone saying that some places are going through. Some places are not going through. Dealing with the glitch the problem happened during a routine test of the system using us leaving users with declines at the register. The rumors that are going on that your food stamps are going to get cut off your wic benefits are going to get cut off. All of these things are going too happen because of the government shut down. She hopes the glitch doesnt last for long. Done champion wbaltv 11 news. Much of the government poised to default on the debt in fourdays. We have 11 News Reporter brian mooar. House republicans work a third saturday in a row. They dash mounting hopes of a break through in washingtons shut down show down. They negotiated and took no offers. They retreated from demands to roll back obama care. Now they say the president wont bet on spending. They are walking away with fresh on the senate to make a deal before the nation hits the debt limit on thursday. The motion is not agreed to. Democrats tried and failed to push a green debt limit extension until the center of next year a plan they knew republicans would nicks. Today brings bad news and good news. They d something today they have been unable to do through out this crisis. Talk. This seems to be something very positive even though we dont have anything done yet and a long ways before anything like that will happen. Painfully aware they dont have much time left democrats met with president obama at the white house to talk strategy and look for a way out. Senate democrats rejected add compromise pushed by moderate republican susan combs mind. They have real prospects for becoming a deal. Brian mooar, nbc news, washington. 13 people are homeless this morning after a fire in the edgewood area of hartford county. That fire turned in in the 1700 block of judy way. Firefighters put out that fire within 30 minutes. As you can see there was significant damage to the home where the fire is believed to have been started and minor damage to the home next door. A man is dead after a crash in a car fire in owens mills. Police believe the man is in his late 30s. They had not confirmed identity. It happened outside of the wawa gas station and 300 block of veterans highway. The victim and adult got into a dispute with 400 people. Three men and a women drove off in a black mitsubishi. Baltimore county say a man shot by officers have been charged with an Armed Robbery that occurred last week. Officers say they shot roberts after he reached toer a gun. He was treated for nonlife threatening injuries. Roberts was charged for a robbery at a jewelry store. 63 degrees downtown. Still ahead this morning with halloween. We have more than toys. Talking decorations and bigwigs. Getting your home system bge is here with some advice coming up. Could we warm up in the 7 day and will we finally see sun in i wi the time now is 9 10. Cloudy skies ore the city light rain and drizzle falling as well. We are still tracking more rain chances at least through today and maybe a few more in the 7 day as well. Most of the light rain is on the southwest side of Baltimore City traveling along i 95. Route one as well. You have to tap your windshield wipers. A couple light showers showing up on the northeast side as well. Heaviest of rain has pushed west to baltimore. It is pushing up south west of hagarstown as well. You see the yellow p and orange that indicates heavier rain as well. Still a couple light showers moving into the Eastern Shore as well. It will take some time until we see a drying trend. Wind out of the northeast. Keeps the moisture coming in off the coast. Keeps the cloud cover to the coast. Breezy out there especially the further you get toward the coast. Winds pick up around baltimore. It is really keeping the temperatures down. We are still only in the 50s and 60s. 58 at the airport and 58 degrees in randallstown. That makes it harder for us to warm up in the afternoon. We are expecting highs against the upper 60s. This hold on longer. Keep that in mind cooler than what we originally thought. Most of the fog and drizzle and rain coming in early in the day and we should see generally a drying trend as we get into the afternoon. It will be cloudy during the entire day and even into the afternoon. Sometimes rain can redevelop with the easterly flow. If you are going to the stadium kickoff at 1 00 pm. High pressure is stuck in new england. This is bringing the on shore flow. It is helping to keep the low Pressure Center stuck as well. It will take a while until it is all clear out. Highest down to the south. It will cause the drawing trend into tomorrow. A significant cold front will be coming into the midweek. That is adding up to a couple more rain chances. Mostly cloudy fog and drizzle forming once again. Tomorrow could start out with drizzle once again. It is much drier in the afternoon and sun may break out as the High Pressure system comes down to the north. Temperatures tomorrow a little warmer for that reason upper 60s to low 70s. A Baltimore County teacher is still the maryland teacher of the year. Shawn macomb is an english teacher. For the next year he will be travelling around the state representing American Public schoolteacher will be honored by president obama at the white house next spring and compete in the National Teacher of the year award in april. Macombs selection is the second time in three years a Baltimore County educator has taken the states top teaching. They deliver lunches to areas in the homeless shelters hatch tag lunch bag movement which is bringing healthy balanced meals to the homeless. They passed out nearly 300 lunches yesterday. I always wanted to be a blonde. You can save money and on heating bills. Enough of wearing this. Take a look at some of the events going on around town this weekend. If you use natural gas for eat you will see a rise of 15 percent. Average of 679 for the entire season. Heating oil the average should drop 2 percent to 2,046 for the winter months. Homes relying on electricity for heat will likely pay about 2 percent more 18 more for the year. Before the cold weather hits ryan is here with more on that. A filter is one of the most important things that people can ignore. What they want to do right now is to go ahead before it gets cold. Turn the system on what you dont want to do is get prepared. Turn the system on make sure it is working. Get system prepared. Also check your leftovers. Something the customers should be doing. One would be going down stairs checking the filter. Go ahead click that monthly. If you turn system on let it run maybe for 10, 20 minutes. Get it get a good run. Go ahead and check on the vents. Make sure the furniture or curtain is in the way. Make sure you have nice air coming in. Make sure that it is working functionally. What do you have here . What a doctor is going to say a service pro infectionnal will come in. What we have here is a indiscernible for the gas unit. We have a lot of rust, a lot of dust on them. We will take it through make sure everything is clean. We will make sure it is running efficient. There is a lot you can switch to. They have to be cleaned periodically. You have this system here that utilizes the hot service ignition. Go ahead and clean this as well. If you have this replace it. You have ku mers that have been there for a long time. indiscernible . You can have a programable thermostat. You make sure the settings are right. You can step back at night or when you go to work. Double check the set points making sure they are heating up for the system. Are there programs you think are more accurate than this one . Certainly they would be a little more accurate. You might have a i am tier in there that can let you know when your filter will needs to be ch. Set it every 30days to let you know the filter needs to be changed. Thank you. Thank you. Coming up next john kerry and the sunday gardener. How do you do that . This morning on sunday gardener, couple hundred years old . Couple hundred years old. We have this banana mixer. I suspect you are going to look like this next year, josh. Right. Right. The Hampton National historical site gardens tenyear garden on sunday gardener coming up in i am john collins along with jay engel and paul from the National Park service. This sunday we are at the Hampton National historic site. We are at the gardens. You walk behind the building and its a sur prides. You look downing you see the garden. I dont mind gardens like this. You are the historian. You can tell us what it was like to do gardening in the time period where they went after that until the late 1812s. Thats how far back this goes. Thats correct. Second generation originally 1745 to 1948. They were in the house. It has gone through park service indiscernible and garden club of america to maintain the historical configuration and planning that has been in the pooer i dont do. In this segment this morning they have the same problems back then that we have today. They have a lot of home remedies. They were a Healthy Family and they have prelabor and endentured servants to help them take care of the garden and maintain them. What do you see here . What are you looking at as far as plants . It is about the plants. They dpoo g indiscernible . I love man tan gnaw these are all historically used in the gardens. We have really expected plants to grow. In the three years this garden has been in storage we have adopted a few things of the historic variety dealing with low maintenance. We have done really well we have limited use of materials to the public. I love that it is the center of one garden. How manier yaos has that been here . We have been in that spot for one year. No destruction at all. I can have that in my backyard . You can have this in your backyard. You have to provide some winter protection but i have gone to many of them. We have about a minute left. Less than a minute left. What would you be doing if we were heading fwhoo winter . Get cleaned out. You can take a few parts and daffodils and pan zees. Maybe create parts of it. They have the budget for that. It is all a part of this at all. It is absolutely beautiful. There are others being prepared. The lawn is cut and i assume flowers will be in there later. Maybe we can plant some. I think that hampton is a great place to visit the garden and learn a little bit about what gardening is like and what life was like back at the time of the American Revolution all of the way to modern times. Nice to see gardens still here. It is still here. We will be back next week with more of your sunday gardener. Ground is soft for digging and planting. If you have a garden question send it to wbaltv. You can also go to wbaltv. Com. 63 degrees downtown. Coming up a look at the top story. Another baltimore running festival in the history books. Coming up a local teacher who made that history. The rain held off for the running festival yesterday. We are seeing more today. We will talk about how long it plasts when we come back in the instaweather plus forecast. Er with going to get to the story in just a bit. First live with ava the tailg e tailgaters are hitting the stadium with ponchos right now. You have the showers for everyone who ran yesterday in the running festival, congratulations and now you have a good excuse to be lazy and rest up today. We have the rainshowers pushing through the metro area. You can see they are redeveloping even though we had a break a little bit earlier this morning. The heaviest of the rain is off to our west. It will stay that way through out the day. We have the light rain possible maybe drizzle in some spots as well. That will be especially true for the first half of the day. The rain tapers off toward the afternoon. It doesnt disappear. Skies cloudy and temperatures struggle to get into the upper 60s. A few more rain chances into the 70s. The details are coming up. Happening right now with time running short efforts continue to resolve the partisan stalemate in washington that caused much of the government to stay closed. They face a deadline of thursday for the government to change the authority. They have taken aim at discussing the agreement. They should be able to use their debit style cards again. The outage stopp left people in maryland and other states unable to use their food stamp cards on saturday. 13 people homeless after a fire in the edgewood county. Firefighters put out that fire within a short time, but as you can see there was significant damage to the home where that fire was believed to have started. Some minor damage to the house next door. 92013 festival is now in the record books. Is it a history making year . That was one of the highlights of the events 13th year. Here is kiah lee with more. 27,000 people on a journey of those who develop more than just running. This is about your dad. Incredible what we have is an opportunity to run together is pure gold. For some like preschool seecher Erika Brannock says its a life changing experience. Brannock lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombings. In baltimore she was the honorary starter and held up the finish line as runners broke through. This week when you were starting this race you said it was important to you that you could prove to yourself you would face things that scare you. The first to break through and the first ever Baltimore Area winner was david berdan. He talked about the spirit clicking in the 5 minute journey. The whole entire time the people were cheering. Go dave, go teach. It was just fun. Elizabeth berry came out on top on the womens side perry from pittsburgh says her goal was to finish within three hours. She came in 2 hours 57 minutes and 57 seconds. Elizabeth 36 years old you have three kids 7, 4 and 2 how do you find time to train . I get up early. My husband is very supportive through out. Kia lot more going on behind the scenes of the festival. Applesauce making in there as well. Running festival sponsor musclemans set the world record for the largest bowl of applesauce. It was made in the village and made with 1716 pounds. They were able to add their own cups of applesauce through the creation. National hispanic heritage month and we are celebrating with food. The chef in the Baltimore Marriott waterfront will join us for sunday brunch. First David Bloomberg with a look at whats coming up on meet the press. Day 13 of the government shut down of 2013. Are they close egg to agreement or default . We have the latest. Plus my interview with the head of the Monetary Fund christine before heing guard. The world is shocked by whats going on here in the u. S. Leon panetta i ask if he thinks the shut down is hurting our National Security. Why the deadliest catch is testifying before congress about the shut down . We will explain coming up this the time now is 9 38. Live look outdoors clouds hanging over the city areas of drizzle light rain as well. Winds picking up out of the north and east. If you step outside this morning a lazy sunday inside. Winds out of the northeast is ushering in all of the moisture off the atlantic. We will be stuck in this dreary h pattern for days. The wind get stronger the further you go towards the coast. Bringing in the moisture. Temperatures right now only in the upper 50s to low 60s. 67 at the airport 67 college park. All of the cloud cover not going to see much of a spread in the temperatures this afternoon. Light showers across the city of baltimore. Especially along route 1 down toward bwi thor regood marshall. Howard county into peril county as well. The heaviest of the rain is well to our west. You can see the shades of yellow there. That is where the heaviest rain is falling. We are going to watch for that on the road as they are rae maining wet through most of the day. It is the early half of the day we have the best chance to see rain. It wont completely disappear. Skies stay cloudy winds stay out of the northeast. We see temperatures only in the upper 60s by this afternoon. We are stuck in the pattern we have been dealing with for days and days. Low pressure off the southeast coast. Both funneling in to the westerly flow. You will slowly see the drying trend going into tomorrow. By the middle of the week rain will crecep off the coast. For tonight a little drizzle late into tonight with mostly cloudy skies and fall down into the 50s downtown. We wake up to drizzle tomorrow as well. The clou