Our bottom line at the top of this hour, it is much colder than that picture might have you think outside this morning. Seasonably colder. Sharon is watching other roadways, martys over at first warning weather. The current temperature is 44. Having said that with a breeze its 9 degrees chillier than this time yesterday morning. Sunshine through the day at lunch. 53. Just going to a high of 5 4 degrees. Thats with sunshine. That will tell you how chilly the pool of air that settled over the mid atlantic is. Welcome to big league fall. Don, take it away. Thank you. Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Two problems out there. One in the city, police activit. Watch for police in the area of west cross street between washington boulevard and saratoga. Watch for an accident 70 eastbound. This one is just after marriottsville road. Youre looking at an accident involving a downed pole. Apparently there was a deer involved in this one as well. If you are headed out on the beltway speeds still at full speed on the top and west sides of the beltway and on 95. Thats a look at 95 in and out of the tunnel. Theres a look at 895 and the harbor tunnel. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres don. Thank you. Right now Police Across the state are looking for man who shot a Howard County police officer. Wjz and mike schuh are live outside shock trauma downtown where that officer is being treated. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. At last check 30yearold offick is in serious condition here at shock trauma. Now theres a 50,000 reward to find his shooter. It starts around 4 00 yesterday. Police receive a call about a man pacing outside this red pick up truck along route 1 holding a handgun. The man identified as 29yearold stephon prather. He opened fire, hitting officer steven houk, just 2 years on the force. Then the man ran off. I heard the gunshots. Aaron said he watch ed ed officer houk collapse as prather took off running. As the gunman jumped over the guardrail and ran into the woods another officer was running along the guardrail firing shots into the woods. Its not known if prather was hit. From sky eye chopper 13 you can see the densely wooded area. We have helicopters, dogs, officers on foot. Police are telling residents to take precaution. He should be considered armed and dangerous. We encourage any member of our community who may believe they see him or know where hes at to call us at 911. Officer houk is expected to recover. I got a chance to speak with him. Hes under the great care of the fine men and women here at shock trauma. We are blessed to have this wonderful resource here in baltimore. Reporter prather, its the second time hes been wanted. The other time was in North Carolina, it was a case of breaking and entering. Im mike schuh reporting live down at shock trauma. Back to you. Thank you. Anyone with information on prathers whereabouts should call Howard County or their local police department. In northwest Baltimore City police say a man who appeared to be breaking up a fight of High School Students is dead. According to the Baltimore Sun police say a group of students got into a fight yesterday near bell avenue and garrison boulevard. When an adult intervened he was stabbed and died at the hospital. One other person is wounded but expected to be okay. Prosecutors say the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was connected to a triple murder. His friend told officers he participated in the killings. Three men were found with their throats slit on september 11th, 2011. He was killed during a shoot out with police. His younger brother, dzhokhar is being held at a medical facility. A conviction is overturned. Now michael scacle wants to be released. Hes the know few of robert kennedy. The judge ruled his attorney failed to adequately represent him and ordered a new trial for him. Here a verdict is in. A towson jury finds dr. Midei liable in a lawsuit. Hes accused of putting unnecessary stints into hundreds of patients, including a prominent cal developer. Here is rochelle richie. It took the jurors two days to reach a verdict. They struggled to come to a decision. Attorneys for the plaintiff in the case against mark midei walk out in victory after six jurors found midei breeched medical care standards in the care of glen weinberg. He claims he lost 50 million in business after scaling back to deal with matters of the heart. He was the director at st. Joseph. What i did is what i would want for myself, my mother, my father. They were treated appropriately and with the highest reward. Attorney byron morgan said many are not argued. You have to go through about 100 cases before you find one case thats good enough. So the vast, vast majority of these the lawyer rejects because there isnt a case. In 2009 st. Joseph Medical Center sent letters to hundreds of dr. Mideis patients warning them they may have received unnecessary stints. Midei said it was 90 . After they reviewed everything 0 . The percentages were for blockages in the blood vessels. Dr. Midei was in the courtroom when the verdict was read. He showed little to no emotion. Damages are expected to be discussed next week. Today police are investigating a strange incident at a city school that led to five children falling ill of eating or using something. The students were taken to the hospital from the Reach Partnership school in northeast Baltimore City. Its not clear what the substance was or where the students got it. The Child Division is work being the hospital. Amazon. Com is choosing baltimore to open its next Fulfillment Center. Today leaders are applauding the news. Linh bui has more on potential impact. Amazon, the Online Retail giant is coming to charm city creating more than 1,000 full time positions. Its a great day for baltimore and im very pleased at the work that was done in order to make that happen. The 1 million square foot facility will be built at the former Gm Assembly Plant in the port of baltimore. It will look similar to this warehouse. This location in baltimore is one of eight new warehouses planned across the country. According to amazon each city has a Large Consumer base. Amazons moving towards sameday delivery. The new Fulfillment Center would serve the baltimore washington area. Employees will pack and ship goods. That would be perfect for me. I love that kind of work. Ive been doing that all my life life. Amazon said it will pay 30 more than the average retail job plus benefits include a 401k, health care and prepaid tuition for college. I will apply. I will be the first one there. Economists said this will bring energy to the area and could attract other fortunate 500 companies to baltimore. They realize business is going to that area, there must be a reason. They look at our demographics, cando work force and think about baltimore too. City leaders said this is more proof that baltimore is open for business. If you shop on amazon. Com once the center opens maryland residents will have to pay a sales tax. Reporting in southeast baltimore, linh bui, wjz Eyewitness News. No word on when construction or hiring will actually begin. The red sox win game one of the world series, playing the cardinals up in boston. In the first inning the Sox David Ortiz grounds to 2nd and the cardinals go for a double play. They drop the ball. Then with the bases leaded mike napoli cleared the bases for the 30 lead. The red sox go onto win 81. The same two teams in boston tonight. A new report says the orioles are valued at more than a billion dollars. Bloombergs news said the club is worth over 1. 1 billion. The teams stake in masn, ticket sales and sponsorships put them over the 1 billion mark. They are one of 10 billion dollar baseball teams. Most of the teams on that list i think youll find theres a large broadcast entity. Yeah, the yankees are number one. They say most of the money comes from yes network, yankees entertainment system. So its the angels, the os, the rangers, the phillies. Not on the list would be the marlins, white sox and the mariners. Yeah. And the oakland as. There are bigger cities than baltimore that arent there. Yeah. It all has to do with the broadcasting. I want to show you something. Weve been looking at all this morning. This is at table rock in garrett county. A plow has gone by that road. You can see right in here at the intersection where its still kind of slushy. We had snowfall in western maryland yesterday. A high of 54 degrees today, partly sunny by breezy. Tonight is going to feel like the upper 40s. That 54 is 10 off normal. Theres frost warnings, and frer tonight. Im going to show you what area s you expect the growing season to come to an halt. Gigi barnett joins us. Its the weekend of halloween. Well, its the weekend everybody is going to celebrate halloween. Zoo is boo. How is it going . Reporter its going pretty good. You want to get a jump on halloween. I guess some parents do. This is the 30th annual zoo boo. Coming up were going to introduce you to marty, the porccupine. The details straight ahead when the Eyewitness News morning edition continues. ,,,,,,,,,,, good morning. Its 40 degrees right now. Actually, it just dropped to 39. These are realtime temperatures. Now 39. 75 humidity. A bit of a breeze out of the southwest now at 3. Generally throw the day a northwest flow at 8 to 10. Barometer is a 29. 98. Oakland now at 30, many areas in the upper 20s in western maryland. 39 cumberland, 37 hagerstown and elkton, 46 easton, 39 ocean city, 40 pax river, almost 40 columbia and westminster, 37 bel air, low 40s annapolis and kent island, 45 rock hall. None of this unexpected to be quite honest. Its actually going to be a very, very nice five days sun wise. Total sunshine for the next five days. Were going to stay on the chilly side, averaging 10 degrees below normal day and night side. Look at this lake effect coming off after lake erie. Heres the widespread view. I think its impressive. Not just counties around our metro, but look at this, all the way from new england theres a froze advisory or freeze watch or freeze warning. We have a freeze watch in effect for maryland from 95 west. Youve got plans saying youre going to bring the plants inside, bring them inside. 54 is going to be the high. 34 your over night low. Tomorrow a high of 54, 56 saturday. Almost 60 sunday and monday. Tuesday 58. Don, take it it away. Thank you. 17 past the hour. Here is sharon at wjz traffic control. Good morning. We cleared up one of two problem s, that Police Activity in the city is gone. We have that accident on 70 eastbound after marriottsville road. Its an accident with a downed pole. Seeds just a little bit slow in that area. Speeds doing great still on the beltway and on 95. Theres a live look outside at 895 at the harbor tunnel. A little braking as you approach the tunnel, other wise doing fine. 95 and the tunnel also problem free. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Do you dream of all the places youd like to go . Toyota is ready to take you there. Now is a great time to find a great deal on a toyota at buyatoyota. Com. Lets go places. Thats one ugly animal. Yeah. I just wish you could have seen when sharon was finishing her traffic report that animal comes with its own handle. Reporter yeah. Pick him up again. Its like a flint stone vacuum cleaner. Reporter we were commenting about the smell too which you cant get a whip of. It smells like. Onions and aarp arm armpits. This is marty the porcupine. Hs one of our south american animals. Hes not happy about this weather, thank you. He does not care for it. Hell be hes one of our animal ambassadors. We will have lots of animals out. Reporter youre celebrating the 30th anniversary of zoo boo. Thats right. We have costume contests, the ps smash. They are hundreds of pounds and the elephants make them look like a tick take. They smash them quickly. Thats at 11 30 tomorrow and saturday and sunday. Reporter kids can see the animals get special treats too. Thats right. We have a fun hol wean end halloween enrichment for them. Its fun to come in your costumes and go to the chimp forest. They look checking everybody out. Reporter its a big costume parade. Are they mandatory . No, theyre not. We like people to come in cosgaa tume. We like the kids to come because theres a costume contest. Its a big event for us. Its our biggest event of the year thats a nonfundraiser event. Its free with admission. If youre a member its free anyways because you paid for your membership. Bring your kids out in costume. Its the safest place to trickortruck in baltimore. Reporter you get a jump start on it. Right. You can maybe just answer your r on halloween so you dont have to go out there. Reporter 10 00 to 4 00, starts tomorrow, runs through sunday. Marty here still smelling too. You wont have to smell him. Reporter marty, hes nothie you. Back to you on tv hill. It depends which phase of the moon you catch me in. Thank you a lot. Thats true. Still to come on wjz this morning. Im Alex Demetrick. Coming up, beyond the day you by behind the numbers of marylands,,,,,,,,,, 6 24. Marylands black bear population is growing. Hunters are being allowed to harvest more of them. State officials have raised the limit that can be hunted. Wjz is in western maryland where the hunt is playing out right now. Here is Alex Demetrick to explain while Natural Resources police say its a good thing. As Deep Creek Lake settles into autumn trucks pull in and out of a department of resources checkin station carrying dead black bears. Theres no restriction on size or age. Theres a promise. What we promised is we would never wipe out the bear population with this regulated opportunity. There was 500 bears in maryland when it started. Today its estimated at 1,000 so the harvest quota is up. 30 bears were taken the first year in 2004. This year between 95 and 130 will be taken as their range has spread from garrett and allegany counties east into washington and frederick counties. Were averaging about three cubs per hunt. Its slowing the growth. The bear population continues t. Groups opposed to the hunt see that control as unnecessary. Weve heard these arguments time and time again from the department of Natural Resources. We have to look at the land mass thats out there in western maryland. Its a huge land mass for these bears. Only bears seeking more room are now being spotted in central maryland backyards. Because of crop damage, farms have become hunting grounds. He made a hard right and went up the edge of the corn field. I was about 80 yards away and took a shot. The bear this gentleman took was a prior nuisance bear that we captured. This is a hunt that directly targets some of the problem bears. Alex demetrick, wjz Eyewitness News. Hunters arent the only ones taking black bears. 50 bears have been hit and killed by vehicles during the past year. Thats about half the number thats being hunted. Next up this morning right here on wjz. An exchange of gunfire and a Howard County officer is shot. Now theres a manhunt underway for this man. Im mike schuh, a live report from shock trauma next. Im Tara Mergener in washington. Developers of healthcare. Gov shift the blame for problems. Who they say is responsible coming up. A lost super bowl ring. Hear where you may be able to find it. If youre just about to head out we have some minor delays out there on the roads. Well take a look at our Speed Sensors and cameras in just a few. Mma back in charm city with show gunfights at the arena. The man who helped sanction mma in maryland john raul is on coffee with. One of the good guys. Stay tuned, its the morning edition, well be right back. ,,,,,,,,, it is 6 30. Thats a live look at the newly narrowed section of russell street where the casino is under construction. Sharon will have traffic after martys first warning weather. 39 degrees on tv hill. Thats going to be about 5 off of what it normally should be at this time of the day right before dawn. That 39 is 8 chillier than this time yesterday. 53 at lunch on its way to a High Temperature of 54 degrees. 10 off of normal. Don, take it away. Thank yu. What awaits you on the way to work and or school . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. If youre just about to head out we only have one accident. That accident 70 eastbound just after marriottsville road. Its involving a downed pole. It was involving a deer also. Theres minor delays there. Starting to be some minor days on the west side of the beltway. 47 is now your average between 795 and 95. A 13 minute drive there. Speeds slowing also on 95 southbound between white marsh and the beltway. 44 is your average. Once you get to the tunnel it looks like everything is running smoothly into the tunnel. Thats a look at 95. Theres a look at 895 at the harbor tunnel. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres don. Thank you. Police are searching for a man who shot a Howard County officer. Mike schuh is live outside shock trauma where the officer is being treated. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. 30yearold officer steven houkt eran of the force is in serious condition here at shock trauma. For the second time in 2 years a man who they suspect hot houk is wanted in a manhunt. It starts around 4 00 yesterday. Police receive a call about a man pacing outside this red pick up truck along route 1 holding a handgun. Three officers approach the man, now identified as 29yearold stephon prather. He opened fire, hitting officer steven houk. Then the man ran off. I heard the gunshots in my car. Aaron was driving near by. He said he watched officer houk collapse as prather took off running. As the gunman jumped over the guardrail and ran into the woods another officer was running along the guardrail firing shots into the woods. Its not known if prath