on one glove, pulled his pants up and pulled down the color curtain. ♪ gone too soon. >> without notice, our dear love has escaped our doting embrace. sing our songs among the stars and walk our dances across the face of the moon. >> michael, when you left us, a part of me went with you. >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. ♪ we are born to see the king ♪ >> the final curtain call for the king of pom, michael jackson. millions of people around the world paused to honor his music legacy during a memorial in los angeles.

we have jay gray from 11 news in los angeles to bring us a report. >> it was an amazing collection of entertainment superstars along with thousands of fans who gathered here today to say goodbye to michael jackson. it was someone who took the stage for the first time that left the most emotional and lasting memory. >> the king of pop takes a final curtain call. it was a memorial that was part church service, part concert. ♪

>> and all michael jackson. ♪ >> he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived. [cheers and applause] >> evidence of that, the amazing group of all-stars that gathered to honor him. >> we need to look up where he is undoubtedly perched in a crescent moon, and we need to smile. >> but the smiles would have to wait, as the most poignant tribute was delivered by those who were closest to him. his brother jermaine singing michael's favorite song. ♪ >> followed by a jackson who

had never been on stage, his 11-year-old daughter, paris. >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. >> with a heart-wrenching goodbye. and i just want to say i love him so much. >> it really was the defining moment of the memorial. a reminder that even with all the controversy that has followed jackson, the family is still aching from the loss of a son, a brother and a father. in los angeles, i am jay gray. now back to you. >> we will have continuing coverage of michael jackson's memorial on our website, wbaltv.com. we have posted the entire memorial including performances by stevie wonder and the we are the world tribute. you can see all of it on the front page of wbaltv.com.

>> there is new information tonight about the two 17-year-old boys who were found lying on light rail tracks sunday afternoon. the m.t.a. now says those teens who died were hit from behind while walking on the tracks. lowell melser is live with that story. >> and while we now have a definitive answer from the m.t.a. that the two boys were hit by a late rail train, there are still a lot of questions surround the story, such as how the driver of the train had no idea he had hit two people and why a second train ran over the boys before they were noticed. >> we know know how they ened up on the light rail tracks sunday afternoon. m.t.a. officials said a videotape told the story. >> with all the light rail trailblazers, there were front mounted camera.

that revealed the circumstances of this accident. >> it was around 3:00 p.m. sunday, the two boys were walking north on the southbound tracks near the lutherville station. what the boys didn't know that the light was was operating in a single track mode at the time. trains were running in both directions on the southbound side. as the teens were walking, they were hit from behind by a train they never saw. it wasn't until a second train ran over the boys that a fare collector noticed the boties and called police. the driver of the first train never new he hit the boys -- knew he hit the bob knight. we asked how that was possible. >> everything, the light, speed, direction, height, elevation. there are so many factors that go into that, so it? -- so it is not that cut and dried. >> we checked our own videotape

of the scene, and it was a nice clear sunny day, and it didn't appear visibility was an issue. m.t.a. officials say there was a lot of glare from the sun at the time of the incident. still, the question remains, even if the driver couldn't see, how he could not notice hitting two 17-year-old boys with a train? >> they are going to ask themselves why and when. these are professionals. they are running through their mind what could have possibly gone wrong. >> officials say the driver of that first train has been pulled from service. he has been questioned a number of times and given a toxicology test. we expects to hear more information in the coming days about this story as officials say they are continuing their investigation. i am lowell melser, wbal-tv 11 news. >> it was quite a scare today for a southwest flight traveling from b. wmple i.

marshall to rhode island. witnesses say about 40 bird hit an engine after take off. it was quarterly about 137 passengers at the time. fortunately, no one was injured. b.w.i. says while the magnitude of this incident is rare, bird strikes are fairly common across the u.s. >> the airport works with the f.a.a. and other parties to help minimize the risk and the potential impact between aircraft and birds. >> we were sitting up in front. we could hear them hit the engine, and then there was this tremendous smell. >> passengers credit the pilot with keeping them safe. they were put on another flight. >> tonight city police are searching for the person or persons who went on a tire-slashing spree in a northeast baltimore neighborhood. residents woke up to find their tires slashed on close to 30 vehicles. some residents just thought their tires had gone flat

overnight. that is, until they noticed all the other cars on the five blocks with the exact same problem. >> it is just terrible. that is all i could say. >> it happened some time last night. i went to take my wife's car to get the oil changed. i never noticed mine was flat. >> city place say they are beefing up patrols in that neighborhood, all in hopes of finding the person or persons responsible. a city man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possesses more than 90 pounds of powder cocaine. he was arrested back in february in what was the biggest cocaine bust by baltimore city police. it is drugs were discovered in his pick up truck. the cocaine was worth about $3 million on the street. they describe murphy as a major player in the city-wide drug trade. >> tonight we are learning that baltimore city could soon lose another historic site to an

auction. the ambassador theater is expected to be auctioned up thursday. it last operated as a theater in 1968. since then it has housed several businesses, including a church and a cosmotology school. ambassador is sort of a sister theater to the renowned theater. >> towson catholic was one of the most affordable catholic schools in the area, but after 82 years, the institution is closing. kerry cavanaugh is live at the school. she has the latest for us. >> the towson catholic community is stunned that this school is closing. they are even more upset that in most cases they found out over e-mail. officials tell us that the plan was to inform teachers tomorrow and then tell patients, but somehow the news leaked, and it is response is overwhelming. >> alumni gather to process the

niece. >> there has to be more to it. there is too sudden. >> we have had hard times before. >> founded in 1922. it is the oldest co-ed catholic school in the a diocese of baltimore. it draws nearly half its students from baltimore city, with 40% minority. >> i was accepted here. i won awards here for the first time in my life. >> he says the recession undermined the school's bottom line. >> when your sole source of income is tuition, and you have $180,000 worth of tuition that you didn't collect from last year, you have a perfects step. >> i feel so lost and stressed. >> carla would have been president of her senior class. now she is stressed about finding a new school.

>> i am depressed that the a diocese has taken my parents money. >> i received an e-mail from some of my friends saying towson catholic is closed. then i saw the news and i was in tears. >> they say the archdiocese will help them relocate. >> we no longer have nuns and religious brothers serving for free. you have salaries that you owe the teachers and staff. aging buildings. >> the archdiocese says it is approaching other catholic schools to see if they will accept the students for the same rate paid here, $9,500. they say that any money paid for the coming will bery funded.

immaculate conception will not be affected by the closure. i am kerry cavanaugh, wbal-tv 11 news. >> still to come come, could your race be a factor in whether you live or die from certain cancers. tonight a researcher says yes, and why. >> 75 million americans sickened every year from tainted foods. now the f.d.a. has more standards. >> polluted waters of the chesapeake bay becoming more dangerous to you. >> hd doppler shows a thunderstorm moving through southern maryland. it is developing along a

>>? tonight's medical alert, health experts say they have found biological factors that show african-americans are more likely to die from certain cancers. researchers at loyola university followed more than 19,000 cancer patients who all had the same access to care, and they found

african-americans were more likely from breast, ovarian and other cancers. >> surgeons at johns-hopkins hospital lead the first 16-patient multicenter kidney transplant. the operations took place here, st. louis, oklahoma city and detroit. doctors performed 16 surgeries over a three-week period. they took kidneys from eight donors and matched them with eight patients who needed kidneys. a kidney swap program could help ease the shortage of transplant organs. >> we think that in the future this is the paradigm that is going to be used where there is going to be multiple centers involved. >> montgomery estimates that the donor pool in the united states could facilitate 1,500

transplants each year if all centers participated. a new report out tonight suggests that global warming and newt rent pollution are leading to more people being sick from the waters in the chesapeake bay. they call the spread of the bacteria a national disgrack. john sherman has more on who the group says is at fault. >> dirty, polluted water puts people out of work and makes us sick. >> in an effort to call attention to the increasing health risk posed to humans by bay pollution, he makes an alarming example. he lived on the river for 50 years before this happened to his leg. >> i went in swimming with my grandson. i had a small scrape on the back of my right calf. >> he said overnight his fingers swelled and the pain increased so much he haud to call 9-1-1. >> i spent two weeks in the hospital.

that little spot that was in the back of my leg break out on the side of my calf. and it became a big sore about that big around and an eighth of and inch deep. >> elevated forms of back tear were cause. >> here's the bottom line. clean water laws are not being enforced, and that puts human health at risk. the entire six-state chesapeake bay region, six states, is affected. >> i just hope that somewhere through all these programs that we can start cleaning up the bay. i think it is the -- if the e.p.a. gets serious about it, they can do something about the farmers, the run-off, the sewage plants and all the things so important that are fouling our bay. >> i am john sherman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> by the way, in the report, experts recommend that during the seven months following heavy rains, that people should

wait at least 48 hours before using bay waters for recreation. >> well, if you have been outside tonight, you have been able to see the full moon of july, sometimes referred to as the full thunder moon. one isolate the thunderstorm moving through southern maryland as we speak. it was a warm day, 88 degrees at b.w.i. marshall. the normally high is 87. for once we were a little bit above normal. it is morning low was cool enough to make us have an average temperature that was normal. we are running quite a bit below norm always in july. 9 in baltimore. 78 in middle river, 72 around haggarstown and 70 in frederick. college park in 0. reagan national in 78. so the downtown locations are mild. outlying areas showing signs of

cooling off a bits, and that trend should continue into the morning. you can see cool air to the north and west. the front triggering one thunderstorm south of d.c. in southern maryland. other than that it is a wind shift and the cool dry area ready to come on in. a little bit of clawed cover associated with the front. 50's in the suburbs, 60's downtown, sunrise at 5:48. the front will be followed by a bubble of high pressure coming out of the upper great lakes region. that looks like it is going to be strong enough to dominate the weather for wednesday, thursday and hold on into friday before the tail end of this front can start coming back in our direction over the weekend. so the sets up is nice for summer weather around here. mainly clear skies during the day tomorrow. the humidity levels stay down. a little cloud cover thursday into friday. our next best chance for storms will come in late on the day on

saturday. in the meantime, enjoy night summer with, average high is 87. and with northwest winds, well have dry air filtsering in. on the bay, northwest winds of 10-15 knots. 70 frees with some sunshine there. warmer around the bay. 84. down at ocean city, a sunny sky at highs near 80. insta-weather plus seven-day, less humid, cool temperatures at night. then it heats up a bit with a chance of thunderstorms for the weekend. >> the government takes steps to make your food safe. tonight the way officials way to strengthen food safety standards and when the efforts will take effect. that's next.

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>> well, today the obama administration rolled out a new effort to make food safer. >> in the wake of the tainted peanut butter, span after and the other foods making 75 million americans sick a year, it is system is in need of an upgrade. it will sample all ground beef and require new standards. they will build a national tracking system for outbreaks. the f.d.a. is recommend new safety standards for tomatoes, melons and greens. and it is requiring new test controls, testing and refrigeration methoding for eggs producers.

>> at this time, if they are going to implement these plans, and if this tees they put money behind them, it will make a difference. >> the plan does not add more inspectors that are freightly needed, that is something congress will have to authorize and pay for. >> coming up in sports, michael phelps is getting ready to get back in the pool. plus the orioles go against an

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>> the orioles went against one of their own tonight, taking on eric bedard who was traded to seattle. what have they gotten from bedard? a meager 11 wins in 26 starts, hardly worth giving up five players for. no one really liked bedard here anywhere. bases loaded, and luke scott whacks a single to center. the throw to the plate ricochets off the mound and out of play. but dave trembley thought nolan thought should of scored. >> you know me. i don't say nothing. that was terrible. you are telling me my guy didn't run hard. that is what you are telling me. you are telling me that my guy

dependent run hard? >> get out there, get out there. >> dave trembley gave it to the home plate umpire trembley gets tossed from the game. i don't know about that one. jeremy gustry struggle can't, and gutierrez tags him for a three-run homer. right now it is 3-2 in the fourth. joe torre was back in new york. manny ramirez stole the headlines. he looked at strike le. clearly he is not happy with the call. single with the bases loaded to knock in a couple of runs, not a bad night's work. three r.b.i. for many. and apparently that was enough for him because when he looked at another strike three in the fifth, he starts shucking pieces of equipment everywhere. he didn't like when almother

spits in his face. he tosses manny out of the game, but the dodger do fine without him, winning 8-0. michael phelps is set for his first major test since last year's olympics. this week he is back in the pool for the u.s. national championships. it is a lighter schedule, only going to swim in four events, the 100 meeter and 200 meter free steel. he modified his freestyle. he is famous for downing all those calories, but maybe he is cutting back. he met jarrod the subway guy and hooked for a commercial. he is thinking i can't bob ley they pay me all this money just to eat. from one legend to another, don't look now, but lance armstrong doesn't seem to be ready to sit back and be second fiddle to anybody. he moved into second place overall even though he didn't seem to be riding very fast. lance, you have to pick it up, don't you?

armstrong's team won the time trial in the fourth stage of the toured france. armstrong, 37, is 8 sounds behind the leader. the story that dominated head lives too was the memorial of michael jackson. magic johnson lightened things up with a story about the first time he went to michael jackson's house for dinner. >> the chef brought me out the grilled chicken, but he brought michael out a buckets of kentucky fried chicken. [laughter] >> and i wednesday crazy. like wait a minute, michael, you eat kentucky fried chicken? that made my day. that was the greatest moment of my life. we had such a good time sitting on the floor eating that bucket of kentucky fried chicken. >> no, i did not picture

michael jackson as a k.f.c. guy. that will do it for sports. tom's back with the seven-d

>> some of the overnight temps look unbelievable. >> very nice for jum.

>> good sleeping weather. >> and a fool moon. does that make you sleep better? >> no. makes me howl better. >> you can call it the full buck moon because antlers starts growing this time of year or the full thunder moon. it is a comfortable pattern through friday and then some thunder for the moon over the weekend. >> i just hope your name's not buck thunder. >> good night, everybody. >> tonight show with cone and o'brien is next. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause featuring m