It is the top of the hour. A pretty start to the last tuesday in october. Sharon is watching the roads. Marty at first warning weather. Lets take a look at the numbers. 41 right now on tv hill. That 41 is actually going to be with a frontal boundary moving through the area. Six degrees warmer than this time yesterday. About lunch a new air mass is over the neighborhood. It will be 57 on the way to 59. Yesterday it was almost in some places 10 degrees warmer. Don, take it away. The rush from Sharon Gibala, wjz traffic control. We picked up the first accident of the morning. Its on 100 westbound just past 97. Otherwise we are great on the beltway. 55 is the outer loop average on the top and west side. 95 southbound looking good between white marsh and the tunnel. There is the west side of the beltway. Slightly busier than it was an hour ago. Running with lots of space in between the cars. Wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Here is don. Thank you. News about those abused by former penn state assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The university is agreeing to pay out millions of dollars in damages to them. Wjz and mike schuh are live with the latest on this. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning, don. Good morning, everyone. This has been called one of the most troubling scandals in the history of college sports. Penn State University agrees to a multipill Million Dollar settlement with more than two dozen men who say they were the victims of jersey sandusky. He was accused of abusing ten victims on school property. But in an interview prosecutors admit that there are many more. There are dozens more, dozens. Dozens more. Yeah. Reporter attorney matt casey represents seven of the alleged victims that settled with the school. They are pleased to put it behind them but its a remarkable achievement by courageous young men. Reporter the scandal cost joe paterno his job and three former University Officials have been indicted for their roles in covering up sanduskys abuse. It was a lose, lose, lose move situation for penn state. Move for penn state. Reporter the settlements they say are fair and the safest move for both sides. The costs to litigate this and the negative publicity drawn out over a long period of time, frankly this makes the most sense for everyone. Reporter the president of the university released a statement calling the settlements a step forward in the healing process. Rodney erickson says we can not undo what has been done but we must do Everything Possible to learn from this and ensure that it never happens again at penn state. Sandusky is in pennsylvania super makes prison serving a 30 to 60 year sentence. Im mike schuh reporting live. Don, back to you. Thank you, mike. Sandusky maintained his innocence and appealed his guilty verdict. A local man faces charges for selling drugs on silk road. The feds brought down silk road earlier this month. They say more than 1 billion in illegal narcotics were traded on that site. Grammy winning pop star appears in court in washington, d. C. Chris brown charged with beating a maryland man outside of a d. C. Hotel. Rochelle ritchie was in the courtroom for the arraignment. Reporter the judge reduced the felony assault charge against brown and his bodyguard to a misdemeanor simple assault. [ music ] he is a grammy award winner who topped the charts across the country as a pop sensation. Chris brown found himself off the stage and in front of a judge after being charged with simple assault in d. C. Chris browns troubles started here in Hotel Washington a few yards from the white house. According to Police Reports, he punched a man in the face after he tried to take a picture with him. Brown guarded by Law Enforcement and body guards raises a peace sign for the crowd as he left the courtroom leaving his attorney to do the talking. Christopher brown committed no crime. We understand that his security acted to protect mr. Brown and mr. Browns property as he is authorized to do undies strict of columbia law. Reporter browns music career has soared but his behavior outside of the studio has some fans questioning if he learned his lesson from a violent past. He is on probation from a case in which he reportedly beat up his girlfriend rihanna. You dont always have to react to everything. Reporter brown entered a not guilty plea in the d. C. Assault. The alleged victim is from beltsville. The Police Report says the victim suffered broken bones in the nasal area. Chris brown and his bodyguard are expected back in court in d. C. November 25th. Rochelle ritchie, wjz Eyewitness News. The judge ordered brown to undergo drug treatment and report to his probation officer in l. A. Former congressman Jesse Jackson junior will wake up in a prison. He is accused of using Campaign Funds for personal expenses and clothing. His wife will go to prison pleading guilty to filing federal income tax returns. A family double murder suicide in florida. A man kills his 7 and 8year old children why they sleep then commits suicide. Police say it happened while the Hernando County man had his son and daughter for the weekend. They say he left behind a note signaling he was bitter over the recent breakup with his wife. A note of disgruntled soon to be exhusband and unfortunately there was an 8 yearold and a 7yearold who got caught up in this. The wife says they had a heated argument before the incident. Police say the couple did not have a history of domestic problems. More problems for the contractor operating some of the suburban speed cameras in our area. Investigations find xerox was forced to void 1400 tickets in Baltimore County after it failed to recalibrate a dozen cameras in february. The contractor has since paid the county more than 57,000 in compensation. One year later and Superstorm SandyRecovery Efforts continue in the hardest hit areas on the east coast. Seaside heights on the jersey shore sandy swallowed up the boardwalk and the roller coaster. Countless businesses and homes were destroyed. Some were without electricity for months on end. Here is Jessica Kartalija with a look at the recovery still going on in maryland. Reporter the First Anniversary of sandy. This is the highest i have seen the tide up in my lifetime. We went down a half hour ago. We had to turn around. The Superstorm Sandy hit the state with record breaking winds, rain and snow. They are very worried about is the storm surge. They are worried about water, flooding. Reporter 11 marylanders killed with 47 million provided in damage. We provided homes and build homes for people. Reporter one year later 19 million is going to maryland towns hit the hardest. The money will be coming from the federal government and it will be coming to the lower shore. The money will be distributed on the basis of need. It was devastating. The entire town was flooded. When i say the entire town, everything was flooded. Reporter in crisfield, could have fins floated out of graves. The county dock swept away. Thats where the bay commerce comes through every day. Reporter they are still rebuilding. We know the ocean city pier has taken a beating as well. Still plenty of work to be done. 200 maryland homes are still in need of repair. Try to get the help we need to start rebuilding. With the latest funding, the Senators Office has received 70 million in federal aid. Jessica kartalija, wjz Eyewitness News. Five dozen crisfield families are on a waiting list to have their homes rebuilt. A big night for sports fans in st. Louis. As the cardinals were playing in the world series and the rams took to the field for monday night football. A long night for the struggling rams. Russell wilson connects for two big touchdown passes including one to take a 143 lead. The rams managed to keep it close but never really catch up and lose 149. Turning to baseball, the story isnt much better for the cardinals who are on the brink of elimination in the world series. The Boston Red Sox scored a huge win thanks to jon lester. He threw seven plus innings. David ross delivered the big hit leading to a 31 win. Boston takes a 32 lead in the series. Game 6 is tomorrow night in boston. We pointed this out a while back, the new audience. Last night, monday night football was played in downtown st. Louis and the World Series Game was played less than a mile away. How is that possible. Im not even sure its a mile. To be honest about it, you got busch stadium. If you are standing standing at the home plate entrance to busch stadium, you are basically looking at the football stadium. Its close enough that some would think there was a problem. Hold on a second. Excuse me. Can somebody queue up the war song why cant we be friends. 55 the high tomorrow today. Ron matz, good morning. How are you, ron. How did they do that . You know, ron, i you know. They must have reincarnated the spirit of Woodrow Wilson and the treaty of ber sigh. Its amazing. We are talking sports this morning. We are at the maryland spca here in hampden. They have shopapalooza going on. Hi, tammy. Good morning. Good to see you. Online auction. Ravens stuff that you wont believe. We will tell you about it when the Eyewitness News morning edition rolls on. ,,,,,,, they did a tremendous manic monday and got their message across in a long way. 41 oakland. Almost 50 ocean city. 56 cumberland. 39 hagerstown. Elkton at 42. The district 46. Now 50 officially kent island and annapolis. 45 in bel air. What we have is High Pressure settling in over the area. Its coming in behind a frontal boundary. Its five degrees warmer than this time yesterday. By lunch this new air mass is in place and it will be 5 to 8 degrees cooler than yesterday. Quickly coming in on the heels of this frontal boundary, cold front, warm front. 59 will be the high today. 41. Partly cloudy overnight. Tomorrow we will move it back to 65 degrees, variably cloudy. 72 thursday. 74 friday. Another cold front comes through the area. This time with showers maybe a thunderstorm. That might be a wild start to november. Saturday and sunday the sun comes out, temperatures dip. 66, 56. A little breezy but a beautiful weekend. Don, take it away. Here is Sharon Gibala wjz traffic control. Hi, don, good morning, everyone. So far a good morning on the roads. One accident 100 westbound past 95. Watch for that. Otherwise not much to watch for on the beltway. 54 the slowest spot on the west side outer loop of the beltway. 95 at full speed between white marsh and the tunnel. There is the west side of the beltway. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Did you ever sit back and dream of the places you would like to go . Toyota is ready to take you there, buyatoyota. Com. Lets go places. Lets go to the ronster. Ron matz. Reporter i am live at the ninth annual shopapalooza answer Online Auction that helps the animals. They raised 45,000 last year. This is family from the maryland spca. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Lets go over some of the items. They are incredible. You got until 9 00 tonight to get your bids in online. Lets start here. This is huge. This is the smith and smith package, autographed helmet and jersey, torry and jimmy. We have a lot of ravens tickets, too. Lots and lots of tickets. We have a ravens weekend experience to go to the practice and tour the practice facility then the game the next day. All of that is on the web site. That is a big deal. Its a tour of the under Armour Performance Center in owings mills then lunch with the baltimore assistant then tickets to the game. Very popular. Lets go down the list here. We have jewelry. We have mens designer watches. We have these little guys. These are hand made from recycled steel, the dog and cat which are adorable. This is a fashion apparently womans purse with the crab on the front. Very maryland themed. We have lots of artwork. These are pop art prints with some cute dogs on them. Plenty of wine baskets. Everyone loves a wine gift basket. Wine tastings, tour local vineyards and bid on that. That big bag that is our furry friends. We have plenty of gift baskets, too. Wine gift baskets and wine treats and toys for the pets. All the money raised little to the maryland spca helping the animals. We have scarlet here this morning, right . Scarlet is one of the many animals up for adoption . Thats right. Scarlet is about 3 years old. She is such a sweet happy girl. She is extremely well behaved, too. She has been hanging out, checking out making sure where we got everything set up correctsly. She is going after the correctly. She is going after the ravens helmet now. Reporter the auction goes until 9 00 tonight. Lets give the web site out so people can go online and make money for the spca. Mdspca. Org. The Online Auction continues until 9 00 p. M. Tonight. We should mention scarlet is up for adoption. People interested should call. Or stop by. We are open seven days a week. Ron yes. You know, we are sitting here in the studio and we are all discussing that you have worn many hats during your career at wjz. We would love to see you put that helmet on. Let me see if i can. Tammy, hold this. I would love dont mess up the signature. Take off your glasses. Oh, man. John harbaugh, here i am. The answer to all your prayers. Ronnie yes. All those sections just took a deep breath. Thank you so much. It has probably now gone up in value. Maryland spca. Org. Bid on it or bid on my head or something. All right, guys. I hope it comes off. It may not. See you. I thought he would struggle with it all the way down and never get it off. Still to come on wjz this morning. After being damaged in hurricane sandy. Todays historic ellis island reopened to the public. One thing tourists wont see is one thing tourists wont see is nearly a million ,,,,,, one year since Superstorm Sandy damaged ellis island in new york harbor. Parts of it finally reopened to the public yesterday. But the Historic Site is still without nearly a million of its artifacts. As Monique Griego explains. They are hundreds of miles away here in maryland. These are all material from ellis island. Reporter bob sanderman in hyattsville showed us aisle after aisle of historic pieces from ellis island, the facility which houses millions of museum items for the National ParkService Received the collection in january after Superstorm Sandy swamped the island with eight feet of water. It knocked out the power. You couldnt maintain the proper environmental controls and Security Systems to house the collection. Reporter one year after the storm, parts of the island that welcomed millions to america reopened to the public but the vast majority of the artifacts are here in temporary housing. Textiles. We have luggage. Its just a remarkable collection of personal objects that people left behind. Reporter some of the more sensitive objects have to be kept in this very, very cold storage vault. Most are film based projects housed on all of the shelves. This is a passenger list from 1902. Reporter sander mans team showed us some of the archives with documents coming to the island. This book is signed by people visiting the statue of liberty. All of these items will remain in maryland until repairs and upgrades are completed at ellis island. Sander man is part of saving this important piece. We owe it to future generations and previous to pro serve and protect the objects that represent us. Reporter as of right now there is no exact date when the renovations will be completed. They hope within the next few months. Monique griego, wjz, Eyewitness News. Thank you. Part of ellis island is open to the public. Next up this morning, right here on wjz good morning, im mike schuh. A massive set maniment in the year settlement in the Jerry Sandusky case. Baltimore city firefighters are in mourning after one of its own is killed by a Baltimore City police officer. ,,,, im a blacksmith and i love two things. Making skillets and filling them with liquid gold. Yes. Im a blacksmith and i love two things. Making skillets and filling them with liquid gold. Yes. Its the bottom of the hour. That is the Maryland Science Center and light street behind it. Marty is at first warning weather. 40 on tv hill. That will actually be five degrees warmer than this time yesterday. Frontal boundary is moving through the area. No big deal. You will notice it this afternoon with a lunchtime of 57 going to a high of 59 or so. Thank you. Your rush from Sharon Gibala wjz traffic control. Hi, don. Good morning, everyone. If you are heading out a accident on the outer loop at security. Vehicle fire 95 northbound in the area of mountain road. We have the outer loop accident at security that i mentioned and 100 westbound at 95. Heading out on the beltway delays in place on the west side. Average speed 44 on the outer loop. 95 looking good in the southbound lanes. Thats a look at the west side at Baltimore National pike. Wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. News of the settlement in the wake of Jerry Sandusky sex scandal. Penn state is planning to is agreeing to pay out millions. Wjz and mike schuh are live with the details. If you remember back it looked like it might have been isolated incide