Effect. Were still in the overnight, but i think for the most part were going to be living pretty large. 37 on tv hill right now. Going to average about 3 degrees cooler than this time yesterday, but weve lost the steady wind of yesterday morning so now a breeze so actually its not all that uncomfortable. 52 at lunch going to high of 54. 10 below normal. On the chilly side, but its going to be a beautiful, fall friday. Tgif is right. Take it away, jess all right. Marty, thanks. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. Sharon. Hi, jess. Good morning, everyone. We picked up our first problem of the morning. We have an accident blocking bellaire road at record grove, an accident with a pole down and wiers hanging low. You can take hartford road instead. Otherwise, at 197 theres Police Activity there. Speeds still great on the beltway overall. Same goes for 95. Thats a live look at the west side at exit 17 and topside. Now, wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres jess. All right. Sharon, thank you. Marylands attorney general doug gansler is in hot water again, this time for his actions at a party in delaware. Was underage drinking going on while he was there . Political reporter pat warren has ganslers response. White shirt center doug gansler at a teenage house party in delaware where underage drinking was going on. What i understand, there certainly was drinking going on because if you look at the picture, not right where i was, but there were one or two kids holding red cups and generally, you know, there could be koolaid in the red cups, but theres probably beer in the red cups. I didnt go over and stick my nose in and see and maybe i should have. Gansler says he dropped in to see his son. The party was chaperoned, and he saw no evidence of alcohol in the time he was there. Ten days ago, gansler defended his deportment as a passenger his Security Officers say ordered them to break traffic laws. Gansler says the primary race makes him a target. Is the dirty tricks and all the innuendo and all that stuff going to continue . Absolutely. Were eightandahalf months were more than a year away from election. This stuff is going on now. I asiem its going to get more and more. What he wont do, he says, is quit. Im a big boy. Ive been doing this a long time. When im wrong, im wrong. When i could have done something differently, ill tell you. In this case, i could have done something differently. Gansler says in hindsight he should have checked in with the chaperons while at the house. He says he does have a moral obligation to other peoples children as well as his own. Pat warren reporting. Now, back to you. Pat, thank you. The party took place at a South Bethany beach rental house in june. Stay with wjz for more on the gansler controversy. Cbs this morning will be live in federal hill with more starting at 7 00. Police finally catch up to the man accused of shooting a Howard CountyPolice Officer. Now, he and the officer are in the hospital. Wjz and kristy are live at shock trauma with the very latest. Good morning, kristy. Good morning, jess, and good morning, everyone. Police arrested the suspect off route 1 in savage not far from where that shooting happened. After a 15hour massive man hunt, 29yearold Steven Prather is in custody. We have a tremendous amount of work to do to find out, you know, why he chose to do what he did. We have a tremendous amount of work to make sure hes accountable for that. Wednesday, police say drivers spotted prather pacing with a gun around this red pickup truck, but when officers approached, they say he opened fire, hitting officer stephen houk. As the gunman jumped over the guardrail and ran into the woods. Officials say prather was shot in the leg and likely hid in the storm drain all night, but thursday morning, a witness spotted him and told police. He just put his hands up and went to the ground. Wjz investigates and finds prather has a long criminal record. Its a lengthy one, and it includes violent crime. Court records show several arrests in maryland in 2002 for vehicle theft, in 2004 for assault, and in 2006 for attempted firstdegree murder and assault, then in 2011 an arrest in North Carolina for breaking and entering, traffic violations, and more. Prather faces more charges now after this latest shooting. And police say they found a gun deep inside a storm drain and believe it belongs to prathers. Jess, back to you. Kristy, thank you. After having surgery, officer houk remains in serious but stable condition. This morning, city police are investigating a deadly shooting in west baltimore. It happened last night on the 1400 block of north longwood street. Police say a 24yearold man was found shot in the stomach. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. The victims name has not been released, and so far no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is urged to call police. In baltimore county, the cause of a massive house fire is under investigation this morning. Sky eye chopper 13 was over the scene in glen arm last night. You can see the flames were shooting right to the roof of the home on running fox road. Fortunately, no one was hurt. This morning, a fouryearold baby boy fights for his life after a tragic car crash in Anne Arundel County. Officials say the child was not in a car seat. In fact, he was in someones lap. Meghan mccorkell has the story. Good morning. Charges are now pending against the father of that four month old after his son was seriously injured in that crash. Police say Matthew Mitchell was behind the wheel of this crushed dodge caravan. He was driving down clark road wednesday when he veered across the center line and crashed head on into another car. Mitchells fourmonthold son in the lap of the front seat passenger. Right now that i know of, he has a fractured skull. He had bleeding on his brain. Family members of the childs mother are furious the baby wasnt properly restrained. His father is drinking and driving with a child in the front seat period. A child is not supposed to be in the front seat without no car seat. This child being under oneyearold should have been in a rearfacing shield seat in the rear of that vehicle. But according to a new study, an alarming amount of parents admit they dont always put their child in a car or booster seat. In a survey of more than a thousand parents, safe kids worldwide found one in four admitted to driving without buckling up their children. They told us if they were taking a short ride or if they were driving overnight with their kids or perhaps as a reward, they found that it was okay not to buckle up for that ride. Wednesdays crash happened a block from Matthew Mitchells listed address. Family members say they want him criminally charged. He could have took five peoples lives, and that would have been horrible. Now, theyre just praying their baby cousin will pull through. And there is some good news to report. Hospital Officials Say the babys condition has now been upgraded to good. Meghan mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. Meghan, thanks. Investigators are looking into whether alcohol was a factor in that crash. The two passengers in the other car were also taken to the hospital. Theyre expected to be okay. Five people are hospitalized after a ride at the North Carolina state fair malfunctioned. The ride called the vortex was caught on tape just 15 minutes before the accident last night. The ride spins, twirls and flips riders upside down. A preliminary investigation indicates the passengers were hurt when the ride started up begin as they were getting off. Two people suffered serious injuries. In massachusetts, classes are set to resume today at danvers high school, the Boston School where a teacher was allegedly killed by one of her own students. A classmate of the 14yearold suspect says math teacher Colleen Ritzer asked the 14yearold to stay after class on the day she was killed. Her body was found in the woods behind the school. Additional security and counselors will be on hand today. In this city, a teachers dream store now exists. A wish list depot stocks supplies for free. Inside elementary and middle school, a classroom has been transformed into a store stokd with School Supplies. The store is a brainstorm of a local woman who started a nonprofit to fill the need of School Supplies for teachers. Teachers make up a wish list, and one saturday a month, the store is open for them to shop. Turning now to sports, the st. Louis cardinals even the world series by beating the red sox in game 2. 7th inning the cardinals Matt Carpenter hits a fly ball. Runner tags from 3rd. Red sox throw the ball to home plate, but it gets away not once but twice. The cardinals take the lead and win the game 42. Series now tied at one game apiece. Today Major League Baseball will announce the finalists for gold glove for top defensive players at each position. Several orioles are expected to be considered for the award. One award an oriole missed out on, the sporting news player of the year. Orioles first baseman chris davis finished second to Miguel Cabrera of the tigers. Davis led the major leagues with 53 home runs, 138 rbis. Talked about this last. Everybody in the studio off the air pretty much agreed. Thats a function of orioles not making post season. Out of sight, out of mind. For sure taking nothing away from cabrera, but crush davis won us ball games and kept us in contention through the entire year. His impact on the orioles was large. Cabreras impact was big, but i think if we would have gone into post season, you know, with daviss production, our defense, we would have gone to post season, may have been a different outcome. Right. But thats okay. We know what he did. He knows what he did. We know. Were proud. Were proud, and were loud. Have you ever seen a gold glove . Yes, as a matter of fafkt. Its cool. It is. Its a very very cool thing. I saw one. I didnt even know i didnt realize how cool it was until i was older. Whered you see it just real quick . In la at a guy named jim edmonds house. He was friends with a guy i dated sxad couple of them in his house in ir vine. He played for the cardinals. Take a look name dropper i am. You know, interesting thing about the statue on russell street coming by at camden yards right there in front of sliders. Gold glove. The glove is gold. Its cool. It sure is. High pressure is dominating our weather. Yesterdays wind settled down to a breeze. Techl is about 37 now. 54 is going to be the High Temperature this day. I would say its a lot more comfortable this morning without the wind. Gigi barnett might respectfully disagree. Outside outside of bare hills, how are you this morning . I do disagree. I disagree a lot. When they told me this morning id be on a bike, i thought it was going to be that bike. Much easier. 12 hours, its for the karma for Kara Foundation. This is rough. When Eyewitness News morning condition continues. Keep going, gigi ,,,,,,,, all right. Ravens nation in the house. Nothing finer. 36 degrees right now. 75 humidity. Westerly breeze at 7. Barometer now 30. 18. Barometer yesterday 29. 89. Now, we drop from 36 to 37 degrees. Were still in the overnight so this graphic still is in tact. We have a freeze warning in effect essentially for the western shore on out toward western maryland. Lets, again, take a look at numbers, see how were dropping, if were anywhere near 32. Take oaklands 38 out of the equation. Now, weve dropped to 35 degrees in hagerstown. 35 elkton. Still 41 easton. Lock at the clock real quick. Still drop another degree and a half or so before sunrise. 34 bellaire. 36 columbia. 40 in the district. Fact of the matter is as this High Pressure settles in over the area and the vortex of the the chilliest air coming out of central canada sits down over the mid atlantic, were all going to 32 degrees or below tonight. So the freeze warning that will be in effect for this next overnight really is going to be much more of a widespread reality. Were already getting a bit of a warmup coming our way through the weekend, little bit quirk than anticipated, what we discussed yesterday. Partly sunny. 54 today. 10 below normal. 32. Clear, cold overnight. Around the beltway, actually even see 29 or so. Mostly sunny. Breezy tomorrow. High of 59. Almost 60 sunday. 62 monday. Almost 60 tuesday. 64 degrees on wednesday. Take it away. All right. Marty, thanks. Now, over to sharon at Traffic Control. Hi, sharon. Hi, jess. Good morning, everyone. If you are about to head off, we are starting out with an accident in fallston, this one on bellaire road. All lanes are blocked. Theres a pole down with lowlaying wires. On 295 southbound, we still have Police Activity at 197. Speeds beginning to slow. In fact, pretty drastically on the west side of the beltway. 36 is your outer loop average now. Theres a look at your averages on 95. That is a look at the west side of the beltway where it appears we have just picked up an accident. Thats why we have those delays. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Did you ever sit back and dream of all the places youd like to go, place that is bring you happiness . Toyota is ready to take you there. Now is a time to find a great deal on a toyota. Back over to you guys. All right. Send it right out to gigi barnett, former former aerobics teacher. Dont say that youre out of breath, youre tiered. We know better. He made it clear former, you know. No, im not out of breath, but let me tell you something, ive been on this bike for, like, six minutes. I feel it, and thats a good thing. Thats a good thing. We are at bare hills racket and fitness club. Okay. Im going to get off now. My morning exercise is done. I dont normally work out this early in the morning. This is allison woodward. She is the Program Director here at bare hills, and karma for kara is tomorrow. It is a marathon. We are going to do a spinathon marathon. We are going to spin for is hours straight. Were hoping to get more people to come out and spin with us. We have a few spots left. Most hours are sold out, but wif spots left to come and spin for leukemia. Okay. This is in the name of kara becker. Who is she . Kara becker was a member here. Her parents are still members. She started the foundation amazingly enough when she was going through treatments in the hospital. She wanted to reach out to families who were going through the same things that her family was going through. She wanted to start a foundation to help those families. Sadly, she died from leukemia last year around this time . Yeah. She did. She lost her life last year in december. Folks watching saying, hey, i want to go out and help in this, how do they do it . You can come to bare hills yourself or call in and register. If you you cant do it online, but you can call the club because were keeping track of how many spots are left. Right. And its going really fast. You guys are almost sold out. Wefrment we are very xietd. Its the first time weve done this. Weve got great instructors. A lot of energy. Its going to be outside. Were excited. Weve got food coming. Its going to be a great event. What better way to show your support for suffering when you can come and do something. You are superwoman. For folks who dont want to get on this bike, and they prefer this bike, they can give here. Tell how they can give. So we have a lot of people that arent going to be able to spin with us tomorrow so theyre dropping in donations here at the club or they can send a donation to karma for Kara Foundation in our names from the spinathon thank you youre coming tomorrow im going to get back on the bike. Back to you guys at tv hill. I got to go. Gigi yeah, jess. I took a class when i lived downtown, a treading class, and i am still sore, and that was, like, three years ago. Allison is hard core. She looks it, though. She looks great. She does. Im going to spin with these boots on tomorrow. Thanks, gigi. All right. Still to come on wjz. Im alex. Coming up, dogs behind bars raised by inmate veterans for wounded veterans. That story as Eyewitness News continues. ,,,,,,,,,, Training Service dogs from behind bars. Its a program that inmates who are military veterans work with dogs that will help wounded veterans when they come home. Alex has the story. The maryland prison in haggerstownhouses inmates doing serious time for serious crimes, but locked up doesnt necessarily mean shut off. Done something wrong, the little bit we can do to return to try to do something right. That something is the early training of service dogs. Its done in other prisons, but this is the first time veterans who have been convicted of crimes are raising the dogs to aid wounded veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan. The veterans, this is an opportunity for you to step up to the plate and do something unselfish for somebody else. Pay back to the people who help us so much, to the disabled veterans. But help flows both ways when a dog is in the middle. Be incarcerated and have a dog, its, like, no matter how bad my day is, that dog is always wagging its tail. After a year of care and training, the first three dogs graduated to the next step in the program. From their home behind bars, the dogs now go onto new york for advanced training, a goodbye that isnt easy. And so its like losing a friend. I dont know. Its going to be very very difficult. Although the next recruits waiting outside the prison gates might help ease that loss. Wjz Eyewitness News. That advanced training could run 3 to 6 months before the dogs are matched with a disabled veteran. Next up this morning right here on wjz. Critics wonder what went wrong with healthcare. Gov. Im on capitol hill with the latest on the sites. Well, an officer and the man accused of shooting him are recovering here at maryland shock trauma. Were learning the suspect has a lengthy criminal rap sheet. Those details are straight ahead. A surprising announcement from bret favre. What hes saying about his health after a successful nfl career. And we have a couple a