[captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon in hd. >> good afternoon. i am sarah caldwell. breaking news, where we have learned of a stabbing downtown at the lexington market. lowell melser is live at the scene. >> we are getting new information right now. this is not as serious as we once thought. around 9:30 this morning, police responded to the lexington market on a call that a male had been stabbed. the person was taken to hospital. further investigation revealing that this mail received what they are calling an extremely minor puncture wound. in fact, they're not even sure his skin was penetrated.

they're describing it more like a graze wound or even read the paper cut. police tell us they have one person in custody and the investigation continues. lowell melser, wbal-tv 11 news. >> definitely not minor rain this morning. you're dealing with a wide spread of precipitation. greenspring ave, the rain is coming down. it was quite heavy at some times. nothing that rose to the level that severe. a lot of the eastern shore got it, and of course, the metropolitan area got some showers and storms, too. here is a little cell rolling through baltimore, a little light rain on the periphery of things. a stronger and sell up here. you can see that the bulk of the semi tropical system is moving up the eastern seaboard, and is on the periphery of our shoreline. a lot of what we get later on

this afternoon will come from the approaching front and upper level waves to our west. unsettled, very humid out there. for the most part, just unsettled. 81 is the forecast high for today. more coming up in a little bit. >> on the same theme, weather may have played a role in a morning accident involving an ax -- involving an ambulance in west baltimore. it happened just after 9:00, where two fire department members and civilians, including a child, were injured. the injuries are said to be non- life-threatening. after last night's prime- time news conference, president obama is on the road to drum up support for his health care reform plan. >> after making his case to the nation, today president obama is taking the health care fight to america's heartland, and the famed cleveland clinic.

>> the cleveland clinic is simply a role model for some of the kind of changes that we want to see. >> the president wants a plan that treats patients based on their needs, not the bottom line, a plan that is universal. but republicans say that is too much, too fast. >> there was not a lot of details in with the president laid out last night. people are questioning -- whether questioning -- questioning what a government health care plan is. >> the president refuses to add to the deficit, but so far, congress is not going along with his plan to tax the rich. he wants health care done by august. now he is saying that the end of the year. >> if you don't set deadlines in this town, things don't happen. >> republicans are hoping to slow the process down. >> why are you in such a rush? are you afraid americans will learn the truth of this time? >> i would believe that thousands of companies would

drop their company health care plan. >> but the president argues that the current system would cost even more. >> we just cannot afford what we are doing right now. >> fight over health care, to be continued. the president says he wants the bill done quickly and threatens to veto if it is not done right. >> anticipating the h1n1 virus will make a comeback in the fall, a clinical vaccine trial is being launched in the summer and the university of maryland clinic is leading the way. participants will get two doses three weeks apart. results should be in by early september. if you would like to learn more about the trials, we have posted a link on our website, wbaltv.com. legendary anchor walter cronkite will be laid to rest this afternoon. family and friends will remember the longtime newsman, who passed

away from an illness last week. known best for his emotional announcement of president kennedy's assassination in 1963 and the moon landing in 1969, he coined the famous phrase "and that is the way it is" to end every broadcast. if you are thinking about travel insurance, that can be a good thing, but the i-team discovered a policy exclusion that you may not be aware of, and it could be that your claims are denied. barry simms explains. >> a maryland woman is battling an insurance company, believing that the company should have reimbursed her when she was forced to cancel a family trip to hawaii. when she became seriously ill, she thought she would get the cost of the airline ticket back because she paid hundreds extra for travel insurance. >> it was just a relief, one less thing we had to worry about, $40,000 on these hawaii tickets, because we will go another time. >> the claim was rejected.

>> it is the number-one reason for declining policy. >> i felt angry, then released to bid. >> tonight at 11, why claims are being denied, and when you need to know about when buying travel insurance. >> coming up, the senate takes a major vote on gun control. find out what congress decided about the future of concealed weapons as we cover the nation. and the doctor from the falls road animal hospital is here to answer your pet questions. e-mail the petquestions@wbaltv.com. fios guy! where ya headed?

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>> two votes shy of passing, the senate rejects a bill that would have given those with permits for concealed weapons by to carry them across state lines. it is seen as a huge victory for gun control advocates. some senators led democrat chuck schumer from new york say that america is a lot safer because of the senate rejected the vote. >> had this amendment passed, safety in america would have decreased, plain and simple. lives were saved with the defeat of this amendment. >> 48 states have concealed weapons laws. only wisconsin and illinois do not have these laws in place. fbi agents in new jersey

have arrested several public officials they say are involved in a major corruption probe. they are in custody for allegedly running a money- laundering scheme. a total of 30 people have been arrested. still to come, you may want to put your cellular phone down to listen to our medical alert. why to much time on the phone could be to aches and pains on the elbow. and the doctor from the animal hospital is here to answer the pet questions. >> an active hd doppler as we are waged between two systems. very humid outside. the temperatures are in the low 80s across the board. the looks like there is more with the showers coming in.

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>> in the medical alert, who ever said that too much time on your cellular phone can hurt you may be right. a painful condition based on excessive use is called a cell phone elbow. it is more common than you think. >> pain in your arms? it might be the telephone you are always hoping to your year, a problem that doctors call cellphone elbow. it is real and it hurts. >> this can be severely painful. it can stay like that for weeks, months. >> this occupational therapist has treated it many times. >> loss of credit, loss of feeling, dropping objects. >> it happens when you bend your

elbow more than 90 degrees for an extended time. that cuts off blood supply to the nerves that run from your shoulder to your elbow and into your hand. to avoid problems, even try switching hands frequently, but sometimes the only causes problems in both arms. the best prevention is a cordless handset. >> get away from this position. use technology that is available. >> it is either that or hang up the phone. that have is a hard one to break. >> i have people to talk to, my family and friends. >> you have to get on the phone when you are on the way somewhere, on the way back. >> when you talk to much and the arms start to hurt, get to a doctor. the ones left on treated can require surgery. >> the sooner you get a diagnosed, the less it will

interfere with your life. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with sandra shaw. >> we started with wet morning commutes and heavy downpours. the strongest activity just north of the state line. a little bit of light rain activity over baltimore right now. pop up showers just randomly over the eastern shore. as i expand the view, it is easy to see why we got the heavy precipitation. there is a low pressure area that is continuing to move up the eastern seaboard, and that will inundate parts of new england and the shoreline. we are on the periphery of this right now. behind it, we have a front that is approaching, this body of showers out ahead of that front in hagerstown. all in all, and unsettled the day. basically very mild out there. still in the 70's, but it is mild because of the united the -- the humidity. we're looking at 70's, do points

in the 70's. that is quite a contrast to what we were in most of july. at one point we were in the low 30's this month. a lot of moisture streaming from the atlantic ocean today, and moisture to our west, with the upper level low. 81 is the forecast high. we could see a break or two in the clouds. 72 and a high elevations in the mountains. 82, a washout day, in ocean city today. as far as the day forecast, no problems other than dodging showers and storms. triple digit record height, typical for this time of year, said back in 1991. a nice contrast, 57 degree, record low in 1977. tonight, we still have a chance for showers and storms, mostly cloudy skies, and the cloud cover insulating us. 64 to 68, the temperature range. the frontal system will die out once it gets here.

we also have this tropical flow, this moist air infiltrating the mid-atlantic and the eastern seaboard today. a good chance of more showers and storms cropping up later this afternoon with humid conditions. friday, a mix of sunshine and clouds, and a 40% chance of late-day showers and storms. we clear out for saturday, high of 89 degrees. >> the doctor from falls road animal hospital is here to answer the pet questions. my favorite pet. >> he is a two-year-old ferret. he is showing a good example of a nice, happy pet. >> it is like a cross -- it is like a cross between powder fresh and just nasty. >> a lot of them will be descented, but they still have quite an odor. >> let's get to some of the pet

questions. >> well, it can be from a lot of things. a lot of people think there is a nutritional part. but it can be behaviorial. it can be an obsessive compulsive thing. they can have allergies. talk to your veterinarian about it. another thing you can do is make sure they are licking -- incontinence is common in older dogs. in cats, it is very important that if they have read or inflamed eyes, take them to the veterinarian.

they can get things that are preventable with over-the- counter treatment, but once the eyes are red, you have to take them in. if they happen all server something like that, it can be very serious. >> we are out of time, but thank you so much. you can e-mail your questions to a petquestions@wbaltv.com or -- with the summer jobs in full swing, many states are using money from the stimulus package to fund a summer jobs. but how long will they last? one reporter went to virginia to see if people think of the funds are being put to good use. >> this 20-year-old says he grew up in brooklyn surrounded by violence and gangs. >> you do not want to have the vision in your mind of your

friend being shot dead, or just a lot of things that are not supposed to be happening to a kid that is only 16 or 17 years old. >> last year, he moved to richmond, virginia, to start over. he is hard at work as an assistant for a community outreach program. >> i hope it can lead me into the realm of being a businessman. >> the stimulus package provided $1.2 billion targeted to job training for disadvantaged youth. >> it provides an opportunity for us to help young people. >> this man helped mr. branch find work. the community has received $439,000 from the stimulus for its summer employment program. he says that the money means he can put nearly 200 young people to work this summer, compared to 137 last year. >> it is very difficult for a

young person with no job skills at all to compete in a marketplace where individuals are losing work all the time. >> but these are temporary jobs, which is why some, like a virginia congressman erick kanter, are questioning whether summer employment is the most effective use of stimulus money. >> the american people are just frustrated seeing taxpayer dollars wasted, and when you say that you want to see a stimulus bill work, the american people expect the stimulus bill will be focused like a laser on creating jobs. >> are they wrong? >> to say that this program does not work does not hit the point. the point is that you are turning people for the future. >> he already use this in this project as a success. >> i would never think in a million years that i would have the opportunity to just sit in a beautiful office, air- conditioning.

i would never think that. >> up next, the maryland lottery numbers, and another check of the insta-weather-plus forecast. with the dow jones surpassing 9000 for the first time since january, we will look at how stocks are performing.

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