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senators mikulski and cardin have been leaders, fighting to make health care more affordable and to make sure seniors have access to the medicines their doctor prescribes. now maryland senators can improve medicare and help close the donut hole without raising premiums on seniors by as much as 20%, which some proposals would do. call today ask senators mikulski and cardin to support the senate health care reform bill. because we can improve medicare without making seniors pay more. we re back with more of today on a monday morning, october 26, 2009. it is a gorgeous morning in new york. the air smells a little better. the sun is shining a little brighter. you know why that is? because the yankees are going to the world series for the 40th time. they re going for their 27th world championship. i know that divides people. lot of people love the yankees, a lot of people just plain hate the yankees. it is going to be an interesting week coming up. looking forward to it. out on the plaza, matt lauer along with natalie morales and al roker. coming up, a miraculous story and pictures to prove it. how about this couple asleep in their bed. middle of the night, car comes crashing through the wall of their house and ends up on top of their bed. miraculous because they survived. we ll be talking to them in just a couple of minutes. minor scratches and bruises. unbelievable. plus, the latest on the swine flu vaccine now that president obama has called the virus a national emergency. we ll find out if there will be enough to go around as the flu season is already upon us. also ahead, time for round three in our search for today s kid reporter. that s right, after looking through hundreds of videotapes and promising entries, we re going to introduce you to four more cub reporters who seem awfully comfortable in our chairs. little too comfortable, i think. then you get to weigh in on who you think has the stuff to join us here on the plaza. after that we re all about hall bean but first, ann s at the news desk with a look at the headlines. good morning once again, everybody. in the news this morning, the u.s. military s investigating two deadly helicopter incidents this morning in afghanistan that have killed at least 14 americans. nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel has more now from afghanistan. reporter: it has been a terrible day of several helicopter crashes. i m now in western afghanistan. i was supposed to be in fact on a helicopter that crashed. on that helicopter service u.s. servicemen were killed along with three civilians. they were on an operation in western afghanistan and then in a separate incident two helicopters collided in mid-air in southern afghanistan four u.s. servicemen dead in that incident. a very, very significant day. all of these are currently under investigation. so far the military does not believe they were shot down and the exact cause of the crashes are still under investigation. it was the deadliest days for u.s. troops in afghanistan since june of 2005. on sunday, at least 155 people were killed and more than 500 people wounded when a pair of suicide car bombs exploded and they devastated government buildings in the heart of baghdad. violence in iraq has intensified as iraq prepares for january elections and next year s withdrawal of u.s. troops. the nation s top health official said this morning that supplies of the h1n1 vaccine are increasing. people lined up for shots this weekend as president obama declared a swine flu emergency. earlier on today, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said there will eventually be enough vaccine for everyone. today the u.n. world food program said that 1 billion people around the world are now what the group calls urgently hungry. that is the highest number ever. the agency is blaming falling incomes and higher food prices as well as climate change and natural disasters that have destroyed crops in the developing world. gas prices have posted a big increase, up nearly 18 cents a gallon over the last two weeks. aaa says the nationwide average for regular is now $2.67 a gallon. outrage over bailouts, foreclosures and credit card rates are fueling three days of protests in chicago. the city is hosting the annual convention of the american bankers association and demonstrators want banks to draw up financial reforms to give consumers greater protection. paranormal activity earned the top spot at the box office. saw vi was second. now back outside to matt. i m here with a bunch of exchange students from london who say our show is what s our show? brilliant! it s brilliant! mr. roker s got a check of the weather. we ve got a sweet 16er here. what s your name? marina. where you from? i m from utica, new york. all right, utica! little jenny cream ale for breakfast. let s check your weather, see what s happening. man, it s been wet in the lone star state. rainfall amounts 200% to 300% above normal. what s going on there right now, heavy rain s falling throughout texas, going to continue. flash flood watches extending into louisiana, arkansas, oklahoma. look at the rainfall amounts. we re talking generally one to two inches but right along the gulf coast three to five inches good morning. the weather should be nice and quiet on this monday. it s chilly this morning. this afternoon, low 60 s with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. more clouds south of baltimore than north but overall a fairly nice day. i like this sign. happy birthday to me. what s your name? marysol. thank you. imagine laying in your bed fast asleep for hours wrapped in crisp sheets and a cozy comforter when all of a sudden you re awakened by, not your alarm clock, but a car on top of you. that s what happened in sparks, nevada to kristin palmer around trent wood when a car driven by a drunk driver careened through the couple s study and kept going right through their bedroom wall. kristin and trent are here miraculously along with the man who led the rescue effort. thanks for sticking around. you take a look at those pictures. i m sure when you see that still and imagine that you were under that, to know that you re in this great condition today, kristin, do you find the whole thing just still completely unbelievable? yeah. felt like a dream and it still feels like a dream. i m not sure if it will ever feel like it actually happened. even when i look at the pictures it doesn t seem you look at it and you think i don t know how you survived that. we shouldn t have really. what do you remember about that night? what did you hear? i remember the house shaking and hearing the noise and having the debris on me, then just a big thump right on top of us. i remember just screaming. you thought it was an earthquake, you told meredith earlier. yeah, i thought the roof was actually on top of us. trent, when you realized that this was a car pinned literally pinned you under it, i mean how concerned were you in that moment that you didn t know where she was because she was on the other side of the tire. yeah. well at first i would say just from the like the fluids and the stuff, like spitting on us, first reaction is i hope something doesn t blow up or start a fire or anything. it was leaking gasoline, transmission fluid. just covered in it just splitting out of our mouths. the biggest thing was just making sure i would hear her screaming and i was just trying to get ahold of her, make sure, hey, are you all right, do you have anything wrong. we were just trying to keep ourselves calm. as soon as we heard help coming. we were saying i love you and we were pretty much each other s support system throughout the whole thing. kristin, you described earlier, your face was where in relation to where the tire and the engine was? yeah, it felt like it was up in the engine. i m not sure where it was. i don t know if they took a picture while i was underneath but my face was perfectly stuck in between two things. i had a lot of weight on the right side of my face. carl, when you arrived at the scene and you look at what s happened, you said earlier you ve never seen anything quite like this. how concerned were you that the situation was still very dangerous? very concerned. we looked at the car. we looked at the house to make sure the house wasn t going to collapse. then had to clean debris, three or four foot of debris from around the car before we could affect the rescue. took us half the time to do that. we spent the other 20 minutes with various rescue techniques to lift the car away from them. describe that basically it was amazing rescue operation. you re using air bags and this whole system to kind of lift the car up. is that right is. correct. we used the debris pile and some stabilization units. we used air bags on one side of the car and then a hydraulic ram on the other side of the car and had to do a coordinated lift. were you concerned at any point in time, too, that the car could start a fire? i mean it s leaking gasoline on them. it was leaking all kinds of fluids on them. we had a fire hose line on the ground. fire exti fire extinguisher. people were making sure the house wouldn t come down on top of the car. kristin, did it seem like the longest 42 minutes of your life? yeah, i remember the police got there very quickly. it seemed like they were right in the house. i kept saying when is the fire department going to be here because i knew that they were going to get the car off of us but that was it was just really, really hard to stay calm. you re both so young. do you feel like in some way this is a calling for a greater purpose here, the fact that you re still doing so well just a couple scratches? yeah. definitely i think we have more of a purpose in life and now every day s just it s amazing waking up knowing that you sat there and thought about your family and that we didn t know if we were bleeding to death. i didn t know if i was going to stay awake. it s just one of those experiences that you can t describe. it was pretty scary. we re all so glad you re doing so well. just a little sore. right? yeah. great. and you do have a story to tell, as you said earlier. thank you all so much. thanks for your efforts to get them here. still to come this morning, if you sometimes feel like the ceo of your family, well, we re going to tell you how that can actually be detrimental to your marriage. first though, we ll meet the third round of semi-finalists vying for the title of today s kid reporter. after these messages. when it comes to protecting the things you care about. .leave nothing to chance. travelers. insurance for auto, home, and business. cer: trying tolers. be good to your heart? so is campbell s healthy request soup. low in fat and cholesterol, heart healthy levels of sodium, and taste you ll love. guy: mmmm! chef: we re kind of excited about it. announcer: campbell s healthy request. 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(laughs) announcer: olive garden. when you re here, you re family. announcer: today s kid reporter is brought to you by carnival cruise lines. this morning on today s kid reporter, our third round of semi-finalists here from all over the united states. and here they are. deirdre shores, a 12-year-old from memphis, tennessee. owen miguel, 10 years old from altadina, california. jenna nicole ruiz, a 9-year-old from avon, indiana. bailey brown, 12 years old from russell springs, kentucky. good morning to all of you. everybody excited? yes. yep. great. diedre, take a look first at the tape you sent us. hi. i m debra shores. kid correspondent for the today show live from memphis, tennessee. we all understood why matt postponed his trip around the world but i ve been hearing rumors that he s here in memphis and i m investigating. he usually visits the historical sites. america, i can t confirm whether he s here or not but i do know where he will be thanksgiving day, and so will i. here is your clue. if can you make it there, you can make it anywhere. central park. balloons in the air. this has been today on nbc. you got a lot of confidence, diedre. very good. you never found matt lauer. no, i didn t. but i m still looking. well, i think he s upstairs somewhere. you can find him today. what made you decide to do your report on that? well, matt is a very unique and very cool type of person. he gets to play hide and go seek around the world and get paid for it. i want to know where i can sign up for that. is there a permission slip somewhere? okay. owen, now welcome to you. we ll take a look at your submission. see how that looks. hi. i m owen and i m going to show you how video games can help us communicate by using technology. the first video arcade game was pong which started in 1972 and was made by atari. the next big hit was spade invaders in 1980. video gaming has always been a social experience. people play each other, compare high scores, trade tips and games. when used properly, video games can actually give us new ways to communicate with each other. owen, you don t like video games. do you? i can t say that. i just can t. i like video games. i m not a video game hog. but you decided why did you pick video games to talk about? i don t know. because most of the kids in my grade like video games and i thought that it would be a good topic because everybody would be interested. do you have some other interests as well? yeah. i like sports. i like baseball. you like the yankees? yes. good answer. good answer. at least while you re here. or the phillies. great, owen. thank you. next we have our young lady over here, jenna. let s take a look at jenna s tape. hi. i m jenna nicole and this is kid s news. today we re going to discover the life of a middle schooler. josie, what do you think the best part of middle school is so far? definitely having more freedom. what do you think the grossest thing you ve had for lunch this year is? definitely the grilled cheese. and why do you say the grilled cheese? because it tasted like it s frozen. ooh. you heard it here, it s kids news. you got the head bob. can we see that move again, jenna? cool. when you started interviewing people, was there any particular newscast or style you tried to emulate? actually, no. i just tried to do it like to where my voice was like that you could hear it and i just wanted to do it for fun. very good. did you have a good time doing it? yeah. you re terrific. that s great. now we have bailey. let s take a look at bailey s tape. thanks, al. hi. i m bailey brown. do you remember when you were a little kid and people would say things like, you re too old to be carrying that blanket, in the next breath, you re too young to stay up past 9:30. well, my friends, you have entered the tween zone. not so surprisingly, some parents feel that marketing tactics for tweens is urging kids to grow up too fast. we ll tell them, we re not pressured to grow up too fast. we re pressuring marketers to keep up with us. all right, bailey! there you go. why did you decide to do a report on tweens? well, me being a tween myself, me and my mom actually started researching it on the internet and i thought it was so interesting to see like how expensive i really am. how expensive are you exactly? about $40 billion is what tweens cost. it actually surprised me. that s not your allowance. oh, no. i wish. well you guys are all again terrific tapes. very impressive stuff. this is going to be tough, tough decisions to make. very difficult decision, let s tell our viewers what the next step is so they know how they can vote for you. you can vote by logging on to todayshow.com or by texting your vote to 622639, press 1 for diedre, 2 for owen, 3 for jenna and 4 for bailey. standard rates apply. tomorrow voting ends tuesday, 5:00 p.m. eastern. we ll announce the winner live on wednesday morning. so get in there and vote for all these guys. er that terrific. still to come this morning, big kenny of the country music group big and rich stops by. can you guys help us with this last one? 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(announcer) pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. - uh-huh. - ( rope creaking ) - ( rope snaps ) - ( piano clangs ) - ( crashes ) - glad forceflex trash bags are so strong, one bag is all you need to pick up the pieces from even your biggest disasters. - ( doorbell rings ) - where do you want the piano? for stretchable strength get glad forceflex. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. a carroll county man with an extensive arrest record is behind bars this morning. it is in connection with a deadly hit-and-run that killed a johns hopkins student. he was arrested on saturday, the same day the victim, mary frankl, was laid to rest. miriam frankl, was laid to rest. it is good to know he is not on the road after the accident and that heard that does not just fall by the wayside and that something is being done about it. the accident happened october 16. the man turn himself in last tuesday but was released after questioning. police have not yet said what he is charged with. groups representing the maryland developmentally disabled community are worried about the effect of budget cuts and other services. they plan to meet in anne arundel county to discuss it. a campaign has been launched to reverse $29 million in cuts to the disabled community. they say that more than 20,000 residents and their families will be impacted by the cut. the governor says the state needs more help from the federal government. let s look at the forecast with tony pann. things are pretty quiet on this monday. we will make it into the low 60s this afternoon. the thicker the clouds are going to beat the further north to go the further north you go, the more sunshine. temperatures will be the same for the beaches to the mountains. a storm system comes off the coast on tuesday and wednesday. that will give us a chance for a few rain showers. it will not be a washout, but off-and-on-rain showers. very nice on thursday and friday. about a 30% chance for showers on halloween. but at least it will be mild, with a high temperature near 73. another update at 9:55. senators mikulski and cardin have been leaders, fighting to make health care more affordable and to make sure seniors have access to the medicines their doctor prescribes. now maryland senators can improve medicare and help close the donut hole without raising premiums on seniors by as much as 20%, which some proposals would do. call today ask senators mikulski and cardin to support the senate health care reform bill. because we can improve medicare without making seniors pay more. that is sting playing a song from his new album if on a winter s night. to celebrate tomorrow s big release he s going to be here to perform a tune from his new cd live in our studio. again, sting right here tomorrow on today. rod stewart today. sting tomorrow. it s a pretty good job, al. doesn t hurt. meanwhile, coming up in this half-hour, running your household is one thing but taking complete control while your husband helps just by, well, maybe staying out of the way, that puts a whole new spin on the game. what being the wife in chief can do to your marriage. also ahead, how sweet it is. you want to impress your guests as well as little ghosts and goblins? dylan lorn of dylan s candy bar here in new york has some delicious ways to put candy to use. and then let them eat cake. chef lauren chapman is in today s kitchen with a new book on easy to bake cakes that you can whip up in an instant. and part of big and rich stop by hoda and kathie lee. for the week ahead, thundershowers move into the southeast. above-normal temperatures up in the great lakes. rain in the pacific northwest with snow in the rockies. midweek, rain along the south atlantic, mid-atlantic coast. rain through the gulf coast, above-normal temperatures from the southeast and into the great lakes. below-normal temperatures out west. in the late week period, rain from the great lakes to the gulf good morning. i m tony pann we re off to a chilly start on this monday. the weather should stay quiet. you ll probably see cloud cover especially south of baltimore. we ll average it out by saying a mixture of sun and and that s your latest weather. coming up next stop the resentment. how to restore the balance in your marriage right after this. 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(announcer) have a heart to heart with your doctor about your cholesterol. and about lipitor. this morning on today s woman, are you a wife in chief? if you plan the family vacations, call the plumber, schedule your children s activities, you may have superior wife syndrome, not necessarily a good thing for a marriage. editor in chief red book magazine is here along with robi ludwig. what s the difference between wanting to do everything and being a wife in chief? a wife in chief is the one who just runs the whole show. she s the event planner, schedule organizer, schedule keeper. she does it all. big thing is she s the total decision maker. nothing good s enough unless she does it herself. exactly. recognizing that right there. that creates a problem. so it seems. why is it not a good thing for a marriage particularly if you re always calling the shots? it s not good for a marriage if a wife is going to feel resentful and chronically angry. of course, the sex drive goes down the tubes. if you re losing respect for your husband, that s when the love really seems to wane. that s why it s so important to try to equalize things where they can be equalized. the statistics will tell us that, according to a survey conducted, 2 out of every 3 couples said the wives run the show. this is a pervasive theme on marriages. but we also do it to ourselves. these are culturally ingrained ideas that are very hard to change so a woman wants to feel like a good mother and a good wife, and part of the way to do that is to coordinate everything in the perfect way. women are naturally better multi-taskers, it is easier for us to keep a lot of ideas spinning in our head which is of course good for moms. but you can t let that bleed over. where are the husbands in all of this? do they just choose not to step up to the plate or is it more that the wife is so overbearing that she s not giving them a chance? exactly. it gets complicated. if she s going to complain about how i put the dishes away, that i put things in the wrong place, forget it, i ll just not put the dishes away which is what creates resentment. there is a feeling the husband is sort of an employee, working for the cranky ceo. that doesn t breed obviously trust and connection and love. it s not good. so let s talk about how we can bring a little more balance to the relationship. stacy, first thing you say is ask for small requests and favors. it is like asking him to put away the dishes. then not following up and checking if he did it right. just have those simple tasks and be clear about it. gradually move on to bigger tasks. exactly. when you plan the birthday party for his mother, have him be involved in the planning. don t do all of it yourself. you have to think of it as team work. that s reason you got married in the first place. positive reinforcement always works from kids to husbands. i think that s the thing we forget. you re like, you didn t do it this way. it is so much to say thank you for helping out with that, it s great. the key is not to complain. and also to compliment when your husband actually does do something well because people want to do more things that they feel they re good at and also to realize each person is coming from their own frame of reference. you may need to tell your partner on both sides, listen, i m feeling like you re not treating me well or i really need help, imfeeling overburdened. you can t just expect somebody to read your mind. the old models of how things work, the man goes out to work and the woman does things in the house with the kids. what if you re like giving him a grocery list, say do this, you give him a list, are you being the wife in chief in that situation? the goal is to make him a partner in it. to sit down and have a conversation, say the balance of our relationship got out of whack. don t do it when you re cranky or irritated something didn t go the way you wanted. pick an unhurried time to say let s talk about what works for us, what makes us both feel like we re connected. if you re asking in the right way, listen, i really need your help, can you help me out instead of you didn t do this, you didn t do that, then it feels very different. think about it, we want to do things if we feel it is going to contribute the better feeling in the household. then the benefits of course are much more just feeling more loving. yeah. and more connected and you can trust each other and relax into your relationship. and you can rely on each other which is the whole point. stacy morrison, rob bi ludwi thank you. you guide are good partners. an edible table for halloween right after this. ooh la la. the #1 lengthening mascara! the difference? our grip and extend brush lengthens to a sexy point. up to 70% longer. pro-vitamin b5 adds black patent shine. never breaks. length this hot. towers over the rest! lash stiletto, the #1 lengthening mascara. it s showstopping. maybe she s born with it? 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a lot of candy. any kind of candy from gross candy. most popular sellers? candy corn is a huge one. still candy corn? yeah. and sour watermelon rinds. candy corn. wow. yeah. we re going to deck kate with candy. you are doing a pumpkin deco podge. even after halloween you can use it, thanksgiving or centerpiece or decoration. take glue and put on the back of your wrappers. you ve unwrapped these little minis. yeah, whether you ate the candy or not, you still use them as candy can do anything for your house. then you layer this and you just keep covering it. you would use mod podge which is great. take a brush and shellac over the whole thing once it is done. take the brush, soak it. it is actually safer than using the knife. here s the finished product. yeah. it is a great thing for the whole family. it is a neat activity. these are candy corn not just your traditional. they come in all these different flavors and colors now. grape, strawberry, butterscotch. this is a great idea because it is easy in your case. you don t have vases lying around and beautiful fall colors. great for a centerpiece or hostess gift. halloween candy lasts for years. right? i eat it very fast. match the colors with the flowers. take a bunch, pour it in. make a base and kind of stick it around. yeah. then put the votive in, then you have a centerpiece. it is really a great idea. hot glue gun time. yes. you can use a hot glue gun or liquid. made this is a styrofoam ball. take hershey s kisses or any wrapped candies. that s the glue gun. hold on a second. let me just warm this up. we got about an hour? because this isn t plugged in. that s so funny. and you can t really eat the glue stick either but you can eat the candy. wow. look, i m a snowman! so this is your topiary. this is for you. this is a great place card. it is a great conversation piece. people at the table. as a host you can ask your guests what s your favorite candy for halloween or any day. you ve got a centerpiece. we have a whole grouch different candies. we have these teeth, spiders and brains, eyeballs, all edible. what s this made out of? that s like a taffy kind of goofy candy. do you like it? i think that s going to be there for a while. so this is a great idea especially if you re having guests over, adult party. last but not least, the witch s brew. this is a cauldron you can get in any store. vanilla putting, we put orange food color in. you can do chocolate and make it a mud cauldron. witch s brew. gummy hand, ghosts, cats, bats. these are great, these are fingers. there are gummy teeth. these are circus peanuts with almonds. you can just dip it in the brew. it s great. these are secures. the whole week is halloween. once again, they call these fun size. there s nothing fun about this. no. if you want a fun size, make it three times the size of a normal. that s fun. you can eat the whole thing. happy halloween. thanks for sharing those ideas. coming up next, it is a piece of cake baking made si this morning on today s kitchen, simple cakes. you may have your candy and costume, chef lauren chapman is here with a recipe to help you prepare for your party. the author of cake keeper cakes. over 100 cake recipes. is that right? i wasn t worrying about my weight while i was working on this book. you baked a cake every day? i tried to. i was on a mission to develop a bunch of recipes that were easy and quick enough to make in the space between homework time and dinner time. so that s it, they re easy, simple steps. but delicious enough if you dress them up you could serve them at a dinner party. for halloween, we have a pumpkin chocolate chip pound cake. great for snacking, lunch boxes and great for entertaining. what do we start with here? whisk together dry ingredients flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves because spices are so delicious this time of year. some butter and sugar in here. mix those together. run-away mixer! that went flying out of the hole and on to your tie. once that s done we re going to add eggs one at a time. one at a time. one. there you go! almost got away from me. it s very important to keep these ingredients at room temperature before you start making your cake. that way your batter will come together nice and smooth and your cake will rise nice and high in the oven. right now we re going to add the pureed pumpkin. when you re at the supermarket, buy 100% pureed pumpkin. right next to it is pumpkin pie mix. get the pure pumpkin. little bit of vanilla. we ve got some milk. there are all the wet ingredients. now, put in the dry ingredients. we get it. do you want to use the spatula to there you go. that was good. when you make this at home add that a little bit more slowly no! this is what it looks like. there s the batter, all nice and smooth. a cup of chopped nuts. you can leave the nuts out. i m not a big nut fan. if you re not a nut fan, leave them out. that s a cup of minichocolate chips. mix that up. nice and smooth. i like minichocolate chips because they won t sink to the bottom of the cake like big ones so you get chocolate in every bite. once that s all mixed together, we ve got a prepared pan here. it s greased and floured. this is a nine-inch loaf pan. scrape it into the pan. that s funny, our director was just greased and floured. really! is that what you call it? i don t even know what that means. i don t either but i just thought i d say it. he just thought it was funny. and i think it was. smooth the top. put it in the oven for about an hour. maybe a little bit less. set at what temperature? how do you know when it s done all the way through? bake it at 350. you can stick a wooden skewer or toothpick in. if it comes out dry, it s done. how long does it cool in the pan? you should let it cool in the pan for about five minutes. this one is obviously cool. otherwise i d be using oven mitts. then flip that, overturn it. here s the cake. this is great for snacking. great for lunch boxes but also would you hand me a plate? what do y what this is sweetened whipped cream with cinnamon. i make cakes in every shape, every size. all ingredients, all flavors. this is a spice cake with black pepper in it. it has a blemen glaze. that s a banana and chocolate upside down cake. that smells fantastic. chocolate and bananas are great this time of year. the cake keeper s cakes. recipes are on todayshow.com. still ahead with hoda and kathie lee, fashion dos and don ts when you go to a theme park. plus, big kenny of big and rich is going to stop by. first though your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. members of the baltimore county police department are mourning the loss of one of their own this morning. the 17-year veteran was killed in an off-duty accident at parksville. a vehicle crossed the path of his motorcycle, forcing him to hit the vehicle. he was pronounced dead at the samaritan hospital but police say it is likely the driver will face charges. back i good morning. i m tony pann. the weather will be quiet this monday. this afternoon, expect a high temperature near 63 degrees. this will hold a temperatures back into the 50s. see you on issues important to seniors, senators mikulski and cardin have been leaders, fighting to make health care more affordable and to make sure seniors have access to the medicines their doctor prescribes. now maryland senators can improve medicare and help close the donut hole without raising premiums on seniors by as much as 20%, which some proposals would do. call today ask senators mikulski and cardin to support the senate health care reform bill. because we can improve medicare without making seniors pay more.