so he can live in the community as a juvenile offender and still remain under supervision. >> if we were to map where our children die -- >> more than a year ago, the governor led the announcement that the state was spending $1 million to start using the g.p.s. units made by a company in nebraska. the state chose the two-piece system which includes the anklet and the g.p.s. device the offender is supposed to carry. so where was it? the g.p.s. box, the unit, where was that? >> on delaney street. >> several miles from where davis was. officials say the advantage of the system is that it immediately sends a red flag if the offender goes somewhere without the portable device. but because davis left the device at home, it was of no help in locating him. juvenile authorities won't say when or how often davis had been flagged for violating the

system. >> he was wearing it. he wasn't supposed to be outside at all. >> did he go outside? >> yeah. >> how often? >> we went outside every day. >> she told us she does not believe lamont davis had anything to do with the shooting of the little girl. the company that makes the g.p.s. system and is under contract with the state did not return our call today. live tonight from the newsroom, jayne miller, wbal-tv 11 news. >> city and state officials are urging congress to approve legislation allowing states to jam illegal cell phones used by prisoners. authorities say inmate cell phone use is a growing and deadly problem. david collins is live with the latest on that. >> correction officials consider this a cell phone public enemy number one behind bars. inmates use them to conduct criminal activity on the outside and jeopardize assist of employees on the inside. behind prison wire, a growing number of inmates are embracing

the dark side of technology. smuggled cell phones are being used to coordinate gang activity and set up attacks against cooperating witnesses. as in the case of carl lackl, who was killed after an inmate used his cell phone from behind bars to order a hit. federal indictments against the black guerilla gang charges they arninge for vodka, shrimp and crab to be smuggled into their rooms. maryland's top corrections official gary nain ard testified in support of legislation that would allow prisons to use or at least test phone jamming technology to interrupt those calls. the panel also got a letter from city state's attorneys in support of the amount. a law passed in 1934 prohibits interfering with radio signals. >> the jamming technology is something that we haven't had an opportunity to demonstrate

because it's against the law to use it. so part of what we're doing is asking for a demonstration to see if the technology might work. >> corrections currently uses dogs to sniff out cell phones. other tools include a chair that can sense metal hidden in body cavities and metal detectors. but the methods are costly and use too much manpower. critics contend phone jamming is not an exact science either. there is concern it could interfere with legitimate uses. according to internal documents, in the past 14 months, authorities have found as many as 729 illegal cell phones inside prison walls. inmates caught face a misdemeanor charge. state legislators will be asked to make it a felony. >> baltimore county police need your help finding a witness who

may have information on two boys who were hit and killed by a light rail train earlier this month. an image of the man was captured on surveillance inside the train. police think he may have information after the victims were found on the tracks near the lutherville station. if you know who this man is, you are asked to call baltimore county police. >> several schools in glen burnie were placed on lockdown after a deadly shooting early this morning. 28-year-old lamont gordon jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. the search is on now for the suspect. john sherman has details. >> a body under a sheet. not what people here say they're used to waking up to. >> when i came in and saw that i couldn't get here and then you come down here and you see the body, i was like wow, not here, not when i moved away to be in a quiet neighborhood where nobody gets shot. but i guess you get shot anywhere. >> there were seven shots total. four shots went off, a one or two-second delay and then three

other shots fired. >> this is a very nice and quiet neighborhood where kids play out front every day. >> police tell 11 news they have no information on a suspect or motive right now. officers from the eastern district respond to the 7900 block of summer rain court in glen burnie for a report of shots fired. upon arrival, officers spoke to witnesses, who reported hearing multiple shots. >> with the killer or killers still at large, many here will continue to carry a great deal of concern with them. >> i'm very concerned about kids because the school is right through this way. they walk this way when they get home from school. now they can't. it's very sad and i want to know why. >> john sherman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the woman found shot in fell's point early yesterday morning has died. officers say 48 jold josephine lowatowski was found just before 3:00 a.m. officers arrested and charged 22-year-old donta mccray with her murder.

police say he was observed on the city watch surveillance camera handling a shotgun. he was taken into custody without incident. tonight an anne arundel county woman is devastated after a vicious attack. authorities say a neighborhood pit bull wandered onto or property and attacked her farm animals. one animal was killed. rob roblin has details. >> it was early sunday morning when wendy came to feed her animals here at the rescue ranch. what she found was heartbreaking. >> i looked in between the barn there and saw her in the pit bull's mouth. her body actually was being flung like a rag doll. it was something that looked like a movie. i couldn't believe it. >> she has been rescuing animals for years. she takes in farm animals that have been neglected or abused and makes them part of her family. sunday's attack killed one of her animals and injured 15 others. >> people had her -- her face was swollen to about double the

size. she's got at least 50 bites on her face and neck. there is one on her side. this is chloe. it was her mother buckwheat that was brutally attacked and her throat crushed by the pit bull. now she's an orphan. she has no mommy. and she cries for her mommy every night. i'm her mommy now. >> the pit bull escaped from this towing company down the street where it was used as a watchdog. wendy says when she yelled at the dog, he stopped his attack and started wagging his tail. >> within one millionth of a second, the dog let go of the goat and started wagging its tail because it knew me. i've never seen anybody switch like that. >> animal control says around half the dogs they take in each year are pit bulls. the dogs you see here are in quarnt teen because of biting.

40% to 50% of the dogs at any given time here are pit pulse. people don't take care of their animals, dogs get out, they run free. >> wendy says because of the attack anne arundel county should do what prince georges county did and ban pit bulls. >> i don't want anybody to ever bring one here. i don't want one in the neighborhood. i really want then banned in anne arundel county county. >> the put bull that attacked the animals has been put down by the anne arundel county animal control. >> ocean city beach patrol is credited with saving a young boy's life after a sand tunnel collapsed on him. when crews arrived on the scene, the 11-year-old was not breathing and did not have a pulse. it happened on the beach near 37th street. he was given c.p.r. and eventually resuscitated. lifeguards say the boy was taking in the ambulance. he is now recovering at a.i. dupont children's hospital in delaware. >> several alumni from towson

catholic are suing the parish keeping to keep the school open. the parish is accused of breaking its contract with students who already paid television for the coming year. officials say the proper is enrollment and not money. >> we are first hoping for a reversal of the decision so that we in the community will have time to rally support for the school and fix the troubles that they had mentioned. >> when you're talking about a high school having 163 kids when program atically the target number is at least 300, you know, a check isn't going to solve that problem. >> the archdiocese plans to release audits of the school for the past seven years. >> lawmakers did their best to pin down supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor on sensitive issues today as they move toward wrapping up her confirmation hearings.

we're following those hearings and we have more on today's highlights. >> the hot-button issue of abortion sparked some of the day's most intense exchanges. republicans pressed judge sonia sotomayor to spell out her views on abortion on day three of her confirmation hearings. >> let's say i'm 38 weeks pregnant and we discover a small spina bifida da zach on the lower part of the back of my baby and i feel i just can't handle a child with that. would it be legal in this country to terminate that child's life? >> i can't answer that question in the abstract because i would have to look at what the state of the state's law was on that question. >> on tuesday, sotomayor told lawmakers that roe v. wade was, quote, settled. but she declined to go further. she was similarly cautious when grilled about gun control. but when one lawmakers asked about a right to self-defense, her answer drew chuckles.

>> if i go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal -- >> she again underscored her central argument to critics that she is not a why with an agenda. >> i take every case case-by-case. my mind is always open. >> reviews of her performance were split along party lines. >> it's muddled, confusing, backtracking on issue after issue. >> i think she's been clear, she's been consistent, she's been cautious. >> but with democrats controlling the senate, her confirmation is seems assured. the only question is how wide the margin will be. >> the hearings are expected to wrap up tomorrow after lawmakers hear from a series of witnesses for and against the nominee. in washington, wbal-tv 11 news. >> still ahead on 11 news at 6:00, do you ever wonder why your donations go when you put them in the bins outside of businesses? >> our team went on a mission to find out. we'll have a preview of tonight's investigation. >> terrell suggs reacts to his

new record-setting deal. here what $63 million sound like from his perspective later in sports. >> there are a couple scattered showers and thunderstorms on h.d. doppler. might bring some needed rain into parts of maryland. abrasive on dentures? look, scratches collect and grow cause bad breath instead clean without scratching causing bacteria every day

>> there is increased competition for your family's old clothes. look at all those donations bins outside local business. >> many of them say that they're affiliated with charities. how much do you actually know about them? lisa robinson investigates. >> these bins are convenient when you went to get rid of clothing you no longer want. once you dump it, though, do you really know where it goes? there are thousands of standalone donation bins throughout the baltimore area. but some of them are owned by

for-profit companies. one baltimore charity says it's feeling the squeeze. >> we saw a lot of clothing donations take about a 35% dip. >> who is profiting from your donations? we discovered a collection box that may seem like it's benefiting marylanders when it really isn't. another that gets an f from a charity oversight organization. and a local hospital that's turning away money from the owner of this box. tonight at 11:00, see who owns these boxes and hear what they have to say about why your donations go and who is profiting. >> no rain here in baltimore for two weeks now. the last time we had measurable rain at the airport? the first day of july. we're starting to run up a bit of a deficit for the month. nothing in the rain gauge today. we've got at least a chance for showers thursday, friday and saturday. so the next three days, while

it probably won't hit everybody, at least some spots will get some rain. the morning was quite cool at 58 degrees, just one away from tying the record set in 1999. on h.d. doppler you can see a few scattered showers off to our west. these showers are going to try to cross the mountains and really what we're watching are the little showers we see here in ohio. they may develop as they come across the mountains and head for baltimore after midnight into the early morning tomorrow. the bigger storms to the south in parts of southern virginia probably don't have a chance of getting here. the clouds come in tonight with that shower activity. a blanket of cloudiness and a southerly breeze will not let temperatures cool off like they have been the past few nights. 80's from the cost. only a few spots in the mountains are in the 70's. there you see the thickening cloud cover at midnight. maybe a light shower starting to pop up in parts of frederick county around 2:00 in the morning. as we work our way to sunrise, scattered showers moving across

central maryland during the day on to the eastern shore. with two weeks of dry weather, it's actually good news. 66 to 73 degrees with winds out of the south at five to 10 miles an hour. sunset this evening at 8:32. a cool front out there near chicago will try to move across the mountains toward baltimore tomorrow. probably going to take several hours. this front may not sweep off the coast. it's likely to get here and stall around the chesapeake bay, which means the potential for a shower lingers for a couple days. there you see, in fact, the remnants of that front triggering showers from new york down to eastern virginia tomorrow afternoon. a brief shower early in the morning and maybe a thunderstorm in the afternoon. on friday, another surge coming in from the mountains with another round of showers in the area. it looks like that possibility continues right on into the first part of the weekend. warm stuff tomorrow with southwest winds getting our temperatures maybe up to 90. it will depend how much sun we get through the cloud cover. the warmer and more humid it gets, obviously, in the afternoon, the better chance

for a thunderstorm especially around the bay and toward the coast late in the day. on the chesapeake tomorrow, winds increasing out of the south and southwest. we have the possibility of a thunderstorm. there could be higher winds and waves around the bay in the afternoon. in the western maryland mountains, especially from rocky gap westbound to deep creek lake, the main threat of showers is in the morning. i think we'll see sun out around deep creek lake in the afternoon with a high of about 75. likely to hit 90 around the chesapeake tomorrow unless you get a little bit of that bay breeze. 90 with a thunderstorm just off the water. at ocean city, you'll have to dodge a thunderstorm or two with a high temperature right around 83. strong south winds 15 to 20 miles an hour coming up along the coast tomorrow. seven-day forecast, almost 90 tomorrow. mid 80's friday. a chance for a thunderstorm saturday and 82. nice weather to wrap up the weekend on sunday. >> it took over a year to put it together but the ravens and

terrell suggs beat the deadline by hours. coming in just ahead of the 4:00 deadline for players with a franchise tag, terrell suggs signs a new contract that will keep him with the ravens for the next six years. suggs gets the $63 million deal with more than $35 million guaranteed making him the highest paid linebacker in nfl history, at least for this year. ravens let bart scott get away in the off-season. ray lewis reached the short i'd of his career. at only 26 years old, terrell suggs has reason to believe he still hasn't reached the peak of his career yet. the three-time pro bowl start wants to prove the ravens did not overpay to keep him. >> i'm going to continue to be the dominant player that i've always been. with me being 26, my best years are ahead of me. so i'm just looking forward to showing them that they didn't

make a mistake and they got the right guy. >> he loves football. he's got tremendous work ethic. he plays really hard. he studies the game along with guys like ed and ray. he's really into the preparation part of it and he's a raven. he plays like a raven. he's a core foundation building block for what we're going to try to do for the next few years. >> head coach john harbaugh obviously delighted with the news. life certainly has few guarantees. but at this rate the american league winning the all-star game could join the short list of death and taxes. 13 trait for the a.l. this one game adam jones a chance to showcase his clutch skills. the game's m.v.p. had an incredible grabbed, perfectly timed takeaway that would have been given the n.l. a one-run lead in the sevet. instead, in the eighth, following a triple, adam jones

to the corner in right field. r.b.i. on the sac fly gave the american league the winning run. then yankee closer marianna rivera finished off the work. the record fourth save in the all-star game. the 4-3 american league win left crawford feeling like the unexpected hero. >> this feels great. they totally caught me offguard today. i definitely didn't think i was about to win it. this being my third time coming here, it definitely feels good to win the m.v.p. award and i'm just so happy i don't really know what to say. but, you know, i just hope i can come back as many times and try to win it again. >> a couple more days off for the o's. they resume the second half of the season starting friday on the road in chicago. try the new subway big chipotle cheesesteak.

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>> it felt more like july today with humidity and the warm, humid weather continues into tomorrow, which may bring much-needed rain to parts of maryland. a shower or thunderstorm in a few locations and again on friday and saturday. haven't had any measurable rain since the first day of the month, so a little shower activity for the next three days and we'll clear it up in time to finish up the weekend with lots of sunshine on sunday. >> thanks for joining us. >> "nbc nightly news" with brian williams with up next.