>> good afternoon, everyone. i'm mindy basara. clinical trials of the h1n1 vaccine have begun and today experts at the centers for disease control will discuss who should be vaccinated first. we will begin at the cdc in atlanta. >> the projections are sobering. >> hospitals and physicians' offices will be stressed. >> the swine flu continuing its deadly spread as we head into the fall. >> we do expect when children get back together in school we will see a rise in cases. >> as dr. prepare for clinical trials on a vaccine -- >> each one --

>> a panel is now deciding how to best use it. this doctor is one making the decision. >> there is not enough for everyone, we will have to prioritize. >> at the front, health-care workers, children, and pregnant women. expected moms were shown in a new study to have a higher risk of death from h1n1 than the general population. >> the community probably goes down during pregnancy. >> one pregnant woman who has died -- >> who would expect a child of 22 die of the flu? >> appearance are raising the baby along with an older sibling -- her parents are raising the baby. doctors know they must now make a tough decision to get what that first maybe a limited supply of the vaccine into the

right hands. doctors also recommend that everybody get the regular seasonal flu vaccine which should be in abundance. it will not protect against h1n1 but could be helpful in what could be a double barrel -- double barrel floozies in. >> we continue to follow developments with the swine flu vaccine. the university of maryland medical center is still looking for volunteers. to learn more, log on to our website, wbaltv.com and click on medical alert. >> onto other things? >> right. i was waiting. we got the announcement you are going to new york. >> thank you, i am so humbled. everyone who voted, thank you so much. the week of august 17 i will be able to co-host.

>> again, an alphabetical order -- from wbal in baltimore, md., sandra shaw. [applause] >> this is so exciting. i know you were so nervous. >> it was so heartening to see the response. i just thank you so much. now i am in my element. i'm on cloud nine -- but what the weather, we do have severe news as far as the weather because there are storms located over in pennsylvania right now. you can see the lightning strikes. we are in store for more showers and storms. a little activity north of baltimore. as you take a look at the wide

view, an intense amount of moisture funneling in from the southwest. forecast is mostly cloudy skies and a good chance of showers and storms. slight chance today for severe storms, risk all the way from our area to new england. more on what it means in just a little bit. stay tuned. >> thank you. baltimore city councilwoman helen holton is once again under the microscope. a grand jury indicted her after a judge dismissed other charges. jennifer franciotti explains another big name developer also faces charges. >> i'm elated today that justice has been served. >> that was helen holton back in may when a judge dismissed bribery charges cleaning legislative immunity. a grand jury decided new charges -- has cited new charges. it has to do with a $12,500

payment allegedly made to her in exchange for a political survey. she allegedly met with john propofol and suggested they pay and they allegedly agreed -- john paterakis. according to the indictments paterakis wrote a check. according to maryland law, the payment should have gone to holton's finance and to the so it could been properly recorded. >> not additional issues not based on her voting record the other evidence. >> some say it appears this time round prosecutors may have a better case. last year lipscomb -- he is cooperating with the state. case in point, the $6,000 check from paterakis. what remains to be seen is what effect the new charges could have on the mail. jennifer franciotti, wbal tv news. >> if convicted both holton and

propofol could face up to a year in prison and $25,000 in fines. we are getting reaction to the baltimore county councilman who pleaded guilty for misappropriating campaign funds. councilman can oliver is not on probation for writing checks for $3,200 but told the judge there was no criminal intent. >> he took responsibility. he came in without blaming anybody or making any excuses and i thought it was absolutely appropriate. >> i see it at -- as serving both ends of justice. >> he violetta public trust. >> he will never do it again. >> in addition to probation but judge sentenced caliber to community service and a $2,500 fine. talbot county teenager was indicted, accused of raping three young dirtiness. 18-year-old trade cramer is accused of giving alcohol to two

girls before sexually assaulting them the stickley say he told the victims they would go to jail if they told on him. they did not come forward until months later said there was no physical evidence. prosecutors put sworn statements to the grand jury. east and west united in baltimore to say no to the proposed redline that could connect the two to communities. folks traveled to protest the line. both communities are against the rail running along the road in the neighborhood. they say it is dangerous and would increase traffic congestion and they would like to keep the entire line underground. >> if you have an emergency, those vehicles would not have the opportunity to turn around. the youths will not have an opportunity to safely cross the street. >> construction could begin as early as 2012 and is expected to

cost up to $1.6 billion. the economy affecting the number of immigrants in the nation. and the president takes his pitch for health care reform on the road, but the plan is looking a lot different than the original. see the compromise. a tweeter may take $50,000 for latest. why she is being sued. why she is being sued. this fiber? i'd had my fill. then i found miralax. and miralax relieves constipation with no bloating, no excess gas, no taste, no grit.

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>> according to a new report there are fewer illegal immigrants living in the united states. research by the center for immigration studies fine more are returning home, however, the number of legal immigrants entering as not change, which means the overall number remain steady. experts say in part the faltering economy and tougher enforcement for the decline in illegal immigration. today the president has the road to campaign for health care reform and is seen as the bill coming together on capitol hill is a lot different than what he and in line. president obama will promote his ideas in north carolina and virginia today and we are expected to get a slightly different message -- on capitol lawmakers are debating changes to the measure that would not mandate businesses to offer their workers health care insurance and also alters the rules on the government insurance option and the deal is aimed at getting more republicans on board. >> the use words like reform and

choice, but all the plan does is tax and spend to fund new government mandates. >> the president's pitch for health care reform begins in raleigh, north carolina. he then heads to bristol, va., to speak with supermarket employees. the two of the biggest names on the weather during forces, what this means for consumers, and new research has official issuing a warning about tanning beds. plus the alternatives. >> the doppler, a string of worcester heading to our direction. slight risk for severe storms. the distance from the field to your table just got shorter.

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that isn't the second largest search engine and the two formed a 10-year partnership to close the gap with google and raise revenue. you may want to check privacy settings on facebook if you are concerned about the picture in ads. facebook gives permission to use member information and add to their friends by default. you have to go to the settings page to make a change but you could still show up on third- party ads would take your data without yours or face books -- facebook's permission. twitter is supposed to connect you to the world and let everyone know what you are thinking but one tweet cause -- cost thousands. horizon management is suing. they accuse the woman for defaming the company by posting an update sang -- "who said sleeping in a mold the apartment is bad for you?" other neighbors, also have mulled in their apartments to not see anything wrong with the tweet. >> i never thought just

complaining about something, that it would go that far. >> -- >> one more expert says any time a tweet injures someone business or irritation that can be sued. experts say the explosion of social networking site creates lots of new work and complications for lawyers. imagine police officers arriving at your door, carrying guns responding to reports of shooting all because of a 911 call they say you made when you really didn't. >> 911, op. 14 07 -- the need police, fire, or ambulance? >> dozens and dozens of calls to 911, reports of gunshots, stabbings, even police officer don. >> your name? >> the caller claimed to be this patricia morgan, her phone number even showed up on the caller id. but she didn't make the call. hard to explain to the police officers who arrived at her door over and over again. >> one of them was carrying a

shotgun. the police were ready to take me out of here. >> tonight at 11:00, how she became a victim of a dangerous prank that could happen to anybody and what the police have to say about it. >> hope you are doing well. middle of the week and the best shot for strong showers and storms for this week. it is today just as leaded activity. it has been very hot and muggy, though, we have are ready seen shower activity. a couple of matches just rolled through. there are severe thunderstorm warnings to the north. you see where the lightning is. and a lot more shower activity to the west. as i expand, you can see all of this most streaming from the southwest. it will continue to do so throughout the day. we also have the bermuda high just pulling in all of this deep south heat and humidity and showers and storms. here's what we have going to take. let us take a look right now --

slight risk for severe weather. we are right in the zone for thunderstorms late this afternoon. no watches posted yet but dealing with potential high winds, heavy downpours what the showers and storms in the because there is a much moisture and additionally some of the hail was all the other day. right now it is 80 degrees downtown, 77 at the airport and all the 86 in salisbury. the dew point showing how much moisture is out there, any time we are dealing with dew point at the low 70's, it is showing how mundie it is and there is plenty of moisture for the storms. in the mountains of western maryland definitely wet day, looking like 70 degrees is 673 degrees and a higher elevations. in this city, probably 89 or so depending on the break in the cloud cover. and then ocean city by this afternoon probably in the lower 80's although the already surged to 87, but when they get more of

the cloud cover they will probably see more showers and storms developing as well. as far as the record books, 99 degrees was the record high in 1954 and a record low was 59 which was set back in 1978. tonight we are not going to get much of a break. mostly cloudy, showers and storms, still unstable, 60 degrees to 75 degrees -- we were in that range last night and did not hold down at all, muggy air mass wedge in place, a front basically to the west, low pressure generating the showers and storms and high pressure pulling in all the moisture from the deep south, so we are kind of the middle of everything, and a front will stall out so we will stay tuned to more but the emphasis and trigger is the low pressure area that is continuing to move up from the south, so today, definitely the worst. future cast is showing strong and severe storms especially heading into the evening hours, early evening probably the bull's eye time, and then things start to roll through several hours and then clearing nicely by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, so tomorrow exactly not going to be

a bad day but it will be hot and still muddy, 90, just isolated showers and storms chance, friday, an upper level disturbance zipping through and then by saturday, we will change the pattern and be a little less humid and the temperatures go up there in the upper 80's. >> thank you. and the summer many folks want to look the part, which in some cases involves tanning salons. some research prompted world health officials to move uv tanning beds to the highest cancer risk category. now in the same list as arsenic and cigarettes. this afternoon's medical alert. >> i was checked or screens in february and found in melanoma on my leg, very common in women, the lower legs, and removed. >> angela davis used to tan years ago. she he did all the warnings and now a new summation of more than 20 studies on skin cancer in a medical journal concludes tanning using tanning bed up the risk of skin cancer by 35% for

some people -- the culprit? on ultraviolet radiation. >> the data has been cleared for years that what tanning beds -- beds in it, mostly uva, is carcinogenic. >> and mr. mythologist's says it can creep up. he recalls a patient in her 30's that used it regularly from routines. >> by the time i saw her at the age of 32, i had to excise 12 skin cancers on her neck, chest, all over. >> what about tanning under the sun? there are dangers there, too, according to experts. >> but it is far safer to have just moderate amounts of real sunshine. >> this tanning bed users says it is a cow clitoris' he is willing to take. >> people take risks doing a lot of things -- whether it is over- station alive, just another prevalent risk. >> face stands -- fake tans are

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we are ok so far but not exactly luckie. plenty of green on hd doppler and severe thunderstorm warnings, you see the lightning there in pennsylvania. a lot more moisture is streaming in today from the southwest. not too bad in the city of baltimore right now but with the heating, the instability will increase so it means if we do see showers and storms they are likely to be strong to maybe even severe. 87 the forecast high, 7% coverage later this afternoon and evening and tomorrow is 90 degrees and humid -- another system rolls through friday afternoon giving us a chance some of showers later today friday and saturday and little less humid which will be a nice reprieve because it is so saturated. >> thank you, sandra. let me cut to the chase.

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