Was not the Main Attraction on this day. Please welcome former president bill clinton. Reporter the former president arrived more than a half hour late after campaigning in florida and north carolina. Let me tell you why this is important. I dont think i have he looked tired and dealt with several coughs 0 coughing bouts, but he got his mental across. Maryland voters should stick with the governor they have. Why in the world would anybody think about making a change. Reporter he talked about the republican party. They are banking on you not thinking. They are banking on some of you people being so mad facts dont matter and other people being so apathetic facts dont matter. Reporter he said if they do turn out to vote democrats election day may not be as grimace everybody they thinks. Show up, vote, keep your governor. Thank you. Reporter in a crowd filled with democratic voters the reaction to the speeches were predictable. Its a loss to the state. Its a scary thing what ehrlich might end up doing. Hopefully theyll take it serious and look at the record and the facts and make a difference. If we stay home as citizens, not just as africanamericans but as citizens, well get what we deserve which is nothing. Reporter now the gonzalez poll earlier this week showed that 17 of democratic voters plan to vote for robert ehrlich. Today the Johns HopkinsPolitical Science professor matthew correction son told me he believes ehrlich needs to get at least 24 of the democratic voters to win. Early voting across maryland starts tomorrow. Christian schaefer, abc 2 news. Omalleys opponent did a little energizing of his own while the former president was speaking. Bob ehrlich appeared at a rally in celebration in pikesville. He echoed president obamas sentiments saying the biggest thing is making sure his supporters go to 2 polls. Get them out, identify them, get them enthusiastic. Its not really a problem this time, is it . No. The rally was all is to support the campaign of republicans in hopes for Baltimore County executives. Police are still grieving the tragic get death of one of their own from yesterday morning. Black funeral drapes were placed on headquarters and on the Western District office. Ports died yesterday morning when his Police Cruiser smashed into a parked fire truck. While the Investigation Continues his family is receiving a lot of support and the family is coping with another loss. Officer ports was very popular, played for the pd hockey team, good friends with a lot of officers. Y want to make sure, the Fire Department has been grey shouse, they have helped out, negotiators and counselors, making sure the unit and his family is taken care of. Anyone that needs to talk to somebody, were making those resources available. Officials say the death is considered to be in the line of duty so hell get a full police funeral. Police in Howard County say that a 7yearold girl who claimed she was a victim of a assault has now recanted her story. The child told Police Last Week she was sexually assaulted by four men in the 9400 block of baskett ring road. Now she says she made up the story. She and her family have been referred to counselors. Weatherwise today, some sunshine out there, but then this afternoon the winds really kicked up. A breezy afternoon, now they died off a bit. Chilly night, numbers falling pretty dramatically there temperaturewise, weve got 39 already in frederick, 41 up at york, 41 at bwi. Were headed down into the 30s in many places tonight. Except for probably the heart of the city. Current winds have died off so thats one Silver Lining for us, again skies clear overhead. All recipe for a chilly night but then through the day tomorrow a decent Andre Barrett temperaturewise. Most of the day tomorrow in the 50s, top out around 50, and in fact the please will be blowing again through the day tomorrow. Well talk about that. Also break down your weekend forecast, coming up. All right. Thanks wyatt. The man at the center of more than 100 lawsuits for allegedly doing unnecessary heart procedures at st. Josephs Medical Center is speaking out. With his wife at his side and surrounded by his lawyers, doctor mark midday took the first step at clearing his name. The hospital claimed he implanted unnecessary stents in patients. I can promise every one of my patients that what i did was what i would want for myself, for anybody in my family, my mother, my father, they were treated appropriately and with the highest regard for their women being. His attorneys say he was the fall guy when st. Josephs became the target of a federal investigation. Today he filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit of his own against st. Josephs and its Parent CompanyCatholic Health initiatives. It says they practiced fraud, and permanently tar initiated his career. The hospital says it will defend it against the doctors claims. Just hours after losing his job with National Public radio analyst Juan Williams has cashed in with a new gig. But the controversy continued across the country. Here is abcs alex stone. Reporter the war of words escalated quickly. When i get on a plane i got to tell you if i see people who are in muslim gash i get nervous. Reporter that got Juan Williams a call from his boss at National Public radio. She said there is nothing you can say that would change my mind. This has been sided above me, were terminating your contract. Reporter they said his comments were inconsistent with our practices. Vivian chiller says williams is a news analyst and not a commentator and should not take any controversial positions. She said the firing came after several items where he veered from it and his feelings between muslims is between him and his psychiatrist or publicist. Williams generally considered to be a liberal was back on the oreilly factor. Juan was very sympathetic to muslims during that interview. You didnt hammer them at all. No. No. They take something totally out of context, one word or one line, they forget the fact that here i am engaging you bill oreilly, right. Right. Were having an honest discussion. Reporter he is drawing a Diverse Group of defenders from Whoopi Goldberg to sarah palin who is suggesting cut off of Taxpayer Fund to go npr. The head of npr apologized for her psychiatrist remarks. Williams signed a multiyear deal with fox news said to be for about 2 million with expanded duties. Alex stone, los angeles. Well in tonights consumer alert another big recall for toyota. The auto maker is recalling a million and a half vehicles with problems with break fluid and pumps. It affects the av a lon, lexus and the 2004 to tricks highlander model. They have recalled more than 10 million vehicles over the last year. Health officials are investigating after four people died from apparently eating bad celery. It was tainted with listeria, they traced it back to a Processing Plant in texas. It has been shut down and all the products the company shipped this year have been recalled including fresh produce. The Company Disputes the states tests citing a track record of health and safety. So when was the last time you had your car taken into the shop . Well if the answer is i cant remember that means your mechanic probably hates your car. Which cars do they hate the most . Plus, scientists make a discovery that has them asking the president to send americans back to the moon. Im meteorologist wyatt, i think we had 76 degrees at bwi, tomorrow falling rapidly through the 40s, your forecast after this. Sunday at 11 00. I have a tendency to be a little bit of a warrior with michael. A hightech halloween can calm your fears. Abc 2 works for you. Learn how new gang etcetera help you keep track while your kids trick or treat. Periods measure duck [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. Today, its nearly double. And nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. In addition, we face a National Health care plan that will hurt Small Business and cost us jobs. So we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago . Were heading in the wrong direction. We need strong leadership. Say no to things we cant afford. Fix our health care plan. And refuse to raise taxes. Martin omalley cant do it. I will. Welke rampant violence in drug activity along the Mexican Border has been well documented so it may not be a surprise that the job of a police chief in a border town may not be the most popular gig. Nobody wanted to be the cop top and 20yearold vacation yeah stepped up. She has no experience and says its a big gamble in a place where officers repeatedly become targets of cartels. She takes a new step, prevention. She says the police force will be mostly female and theyll not carry weapons. President obama has said the u. S. Wont be going back to the moon during his administration but he may have to reconsider after a big discovery by nasa. The results of a recent moon bombing indicate not only is there water on the moon, there is a lot of water on the moon. Scientists launched a rocket into a crater ann lived the dust cloud. That analysis assistant showed there is the equivalent of about a billion gallons of water in that one crayter. They say the president needs to rethink his stance on new moon missions. If were going to explore the moon is in our future and we will go there. The presence of that much frozen water would be plenty to supply a lunar base. It also found high levels of hydrogen which could be used to make rocket fool and make the moons jumping off point for more extensive exploration of the solar system. No one wants to buy a car that is going to break down and cost them a lot of money in repairs. The average repair these days is over 400 bucks so abc 2 News ReporterJohn Matarese shows us which cars rarely visit the repair shop so you dont waste your money. Looking to buy a car that wont drain your wallet with repairs . Well if you want to know which cars hold up the best of course you can check Consumer Reports magazine. But you can also ask a mechanic about which cars they hate the most. Because they never need to be fixed. Auto mechanics like most of us these days want to work. Well you know, youre supposed to replace it every two years. Jim actual ton hates cars that never break down because they dont make money off them. So which cars are so reliable they dont bring much money to his shop . I would say definitely on the top of the list would be hondas and toyota. Reporter they echo a new tongue in cheek report. The click and clack brothers of radio. The brothers recently listed the cars they hate and topping the list is the honda civic. Actual ton says the civic had the bugs worked out years ago. Its a simple car. Theres not, you know, the my father used to say the more on the car the more there is to break. Honda is a nice simple car. Reporter the next car on the click and clack list the toyota corolla. Very reliable. They have been making em for years. Reporter other cars mcnecks dont see much the honda accord, the camry minus the sudden acceleration recall, and the ford fusion. I think ford is making inroads, they are making a lot better cars. Reporter on the flipside cars that bring them lots of money are firstyear models because they have bugs and luxury cars because they are so expensive to fix. The newer that gizmo or gadget on that car is they dont have tall bugs worked out. When its all new, yeah, absolutely its much more expensive. Bottom line a car that needs fewer repairs can save you thousands of dollars over a fiveyear stretch. So they are worth checking out. So you dont waste your money. Im John Matarese. Now marylands most powerful Doppler Radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. A little chilly out there tonight. Kelly, i mean temperatures dropping, and were going to see 30s overnight. Some frost, not low 30s, the city will be in the 40s, but late october. Starting to feel like it. But it felt like we eased into this kelly. Nothing dramatic yet. At least yet. Not ready yet. Yeah, exactly. Take a look outside. Eh, a pretty nice looking night in the city, bottom line is dry. Those powerhouse winds we had earlier this afternoon and into the evening diminished big time. Southwest wind at 6 00 in the top of the hour, no big thiele there. Temperature 41 degrees right now, barometer 29. 86 and on the rise. Marylands most powerful radar had a little bit of rain earlier tonight mainly around the eastern shore, what few scattered hours we had is better ga or rain that didnt want to touch the ground. Rain at the surface very, very dry to any showers we get a lot of times evaporate before they ever hit. Didnt look like rain in towson, beautiful blue sky early on today, time lapse photography from towson middle school. You see one fiery red tree there in the foreground. Were getting some beautiful fall color across the state. Check out imusville past the lake there, in the distance, red hughes, some yellows, gorgeous gorgeous conditions, and out to middletown. This is frederick county, beautiful shot here. Were going to get our camera shaking in the wind there late in the afternoon, beautiful conditions right before sunset. Some of those wind gusts pretty strong strong, you can see why the camera was shaking. 36 in baltimore today. Gusted as high as 35 in westminster and gusted to 28 there at the Naval Academy in annapolis. Eastern shore wind gusts into the 20s as well. You see the difference, state wide winds have died off to almost nil. We get a little mixing in the atmosphere. Expect the winds to come up again, probably 15 or 20, not the gusts to nearly 40 that we had today though. A breezy day tomorrow. Temperatures cooling off pretty rapidly, Southern Maryland hanging onto 50 but western maryland in the 30s now, baltimore it down to 41. And closer look here, frederick always one of the chilly spots this time of year, overnight 39 now, thats why we say there could be some patchy frost by daybreak. Interestingly enough you can actually get some patchy frost at 367, 37 degrees, because the ground temperature tends to run lower than the air temp. Overnight. 30 not 30 60 in Ellicott City tomorrow. 62 in port immediate. It will be a cooler day by 5, 6, 7 degrees. On a cool northerly breeze, westminster should hit about 58 or so tomorrow. Kick it a little further off to the north and east, top of the bay northeast, 57 there, plenty of sunshine, a good looking day but a little cooler as you head up i95 towards webster. Satellite radar trend clear tonight statewide, across the region really really calm conditions, there is one storm were tracking up toward basically the owner great lakes. Large circulation and there is some lake effects, winter remixed precipitation coming down in upstate new york even in the far northwestern pennsylvania tonight. Yeah, thats a sign of fall falling big time. But no none of that for maryland, in fact tomorrow will be a cool dry start and this area of High Pressure will settle in tomorrow night. Into saturday we get rid of the wind, warm up, the temperatures should be upper 60s and into the 70s sunday even. Our future forecast model, we continue to clear the skies off until tomorrow morning. You could see a few more clouds off that disturbance as it heads further east. Breezy tomorrow, less windy saturday. And saturday just a mixture of clouds and sunshine. Overnight tonight, uneventful. 38 though, especially in those outlying areas. Patchy frost north and west. Widespread frost tomorrow night. Tomorrow night bring in those tender plants if you have them outside. 60, sunny and windy tomorrow, breezy. Tomorrow night 37 or so closer to the city. Outlying bushes could get closer, we are going to get a nice rebound going as we get rid of the wind. Sunshine, back up to low 70s from ravens sunday right into early next week. Kelly. Thanks a lot wyatt. This time of year youre gonna see plenty of halloween deck raise rations around. They say one may be going a little too far. Well let you be the judge. Its the scare crew laying in a lawn chair drink agriculture beer and giving passersby the finger. Many neighbors say its inprep and sets a bad example for kids but the man who made the display said not that big of a deal. Its something funny, unique you know. We dont con doan, you know, really drinking and that, doing what he is doin, but i mean if you raise your kid the right way they are gonna know you dont do that. Terry bauman says despite all the hoopla he has no plans to take the scarecrow down. You know, chicago does not have the best reputation when it comes to elections and an unfortunate typo in one of the races this year isnt probably going to help the situation. It seems some early Voting Machines have misspelled the name of the green party gubinatorial candidate. Instead of rich wit knee it says rich whitey. On the one and st. City of chicago is is a laughing stock. On the other hand our candidate kind of, you know, has been tagged with a name that really isnt that nice Officials Say theyll have to reprogram all 5,000 Voting Machines at a cost of thousands of dollars. As for him, he says he is not too happy with the mistake. A sign outside an Arkansas Church has a strong message not for his congregation but to football referees. The sign says there is hope for the sec refs. Jesus makes the blind see. Its a pot shot at the refs after a controversial call that had the arkansas faithful outraged and judging by the sign it seems someone is a pretty big razorback fan at the church. It may be a famous symbol of the 1980s but the rubics cube is still stumping people of all ages. But not these kids. They are getting ready to put their rubics cube skills to the test in the nations capital. Storm gear and promotional consideration provided by l. L. Bean. Woman 1 sync i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. Man 1 sync raised my property taxes 60 percent. Woman 2 sync let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. Woman 1 sync but i didnt know what hes done since he got fired as governor. Man 2 ehrlichs raked in millions. Man 3 he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. Woman 3 10 billion of our money. Woman 4 our money. Woman 5 sync and he worked for another bank that collapsed. Man 4 costing tax payers 17 million. Anncr tell bob ehrlich big banks dont need help. Middle class marylanders do. Rue bic Public Safety is a governors most important job. Thats why governor Martin Omalley has instituted new dna and fingerprinting technology thats reducing violent crime. New, stronger Domestic Violence and abuse legislation. And omalley passed new laws to better track and convict sexual predators, with even longer prison sentences. As a father of four, i know theres always more that we must do to protect our children and make maryland an even safer place to raise our families. Press box sports report presented by mr. Basement. This is stan the fan charles with the press box sports report. Ed reed has been on the practice field this week. Whether or not he plays sunday will be his decision alone and it will be made on sunday. So says greg madison, defensive coordinator of the ravens. Bills are the option, the 05 buffalo bills. Theres been no comment from andy mcphail or Terry Crowley it looks like the orioles are in discussion for crowley for a different role, more of an evaluator role. He has been on the scouting list and more resently batting coach for 1 years. Check out pressboxsports. Com for your fix throughout the season. Tomorrow good morning maryland moms and dads, your teens are getting behind the wheel and some cant wait to drive. Were going to break down the five rules that parents need to enforce for every new driver. Im megan pringle, this story plus weather, traffic and a whole lot more coming up tomorrow on good morning maryland. Abc 2 works for the community. A proud partner, a voice of boys and girls homes of baltimore. As the next gal but, come on. 60,000 for one dinner held by the department of justice. 66 per person just for bagels at one of the nasas shindigs. I cracked down because Big Government shouldnt be funding big banquets with your money. Some people say im a bit of a tightwad. I say, im Barbara Mikulski and i approve this message so youll know im fighting for you. All right. How fast can you solve a rubiks cube wyatt everhart. Not really. These kids can and they ever going to prove it this weekend. Kids are going to compete in the u can do the rubics cube competition on the national mall. The man who invented iconic cube will be on hand. I didnt know he was still alive. Yeah. I remember i used to peel the stickers off. Cheat. Peeling them off. 0 wyatt. Wasnt pretty good. And i have seen the one guy that can do it blind folded. A couple are incredible. I cant do it the regular way. None of that for me. Lets look outside. Were falling off quickly, in the 30s, flirt be with the 30s in bwi. Get the heater on, tomorrow through the day we warm up some but a breezy day as we climb up close to 60 late in the afternoon, i will say this. After tomorrow we have get a nice warming trend into the weekend so enjoy. All right. Thats it for us. Next time you see us it will be the weekend. Good night. See you