who says a 76-year old cannot relate to young people? ron paul received a rousing welcome from university of maryland students tonight. that is our big story. as a matter of fact, there is a lot more about what is going on with tonight audrey commitment to of the trouble report. i hear the students really loved him. >> the reception was pretty incredible. the energy was very palpable. the coliseum was bursting at the seams with people chanting and cheering. even though ron paul's is trailing in the gop race, he has no intention of stepping down and used this event to rally supporters. >> tonight, i bring you dr. ron paul, ladies and gentlemen. >> republican presidential candidate ron paul orr arrived in college park to a warmer reception from supporters who

were excited to hear him speak. >> this is the only candidate out there speaking to me rather than the other one's speaking for corporations. >> the congressman spoke to a packed coliseum on everything from personal liberties, cutting government spending, and shrinking the federal government. dr. paul received cheers particle to end the bourse. >> why should we have a third option? why should we say why do we not mind our own business? >> the line of supporters at the university of maryland strut down route one. there was a mixture of young and older voters. the ron paul campaign said the university as one of their biggest supporters. >> i think he is pretty liberal on its social issues. he is the only candidate talking about ending the war overseas. he is the only one who seems to have a clue about economic policy. >> because maryland is a

democratic state, i feel like they are rallying around a liberal democratic candidate. >> ron paul is still trailing behind front runners mitt romney and rick santorum. despite his position in the race, he says it is -- he is in it for the long haul. >> i want to debate as long as there is not a candidate. i want to talk about the fed, personal liberty, the war. they are not talking about it. >> voters had to the poll on tuesday to vote in the primary. >> rick santorum made a few friends this week. he said he will do well in tuesday's wisconsin primary. he hopes his hard work will pay off as he continues to talk to voters. santorum goes to california tomorrow for a fund-raiser and a speech on foreign policy.

mitt romney is expected to get a big endorsement tomorrow. george h. w. bush. the official announcement will take place tomorrow at the president's -- former." the's office. -- former office. according to the houston chronicle, -- houston chronicle, they are supporting mitt romney. just last week, floor -- former florida gov. jeb bush also endorsed mitt romney. >> the maryland gop primary as on tuesday. there is one day left of early voting. some marquee races should inspire a big turnout by the registered republican voters in maryland. >> i want to get our economy going again and i know how to do it. >> when it comes to the primary ballot in maryland, the gop presidential race has turned into a delicate hot.

mitt romney, newt gingrich, and ron paul have all been on the stop here, vying for our 37 delegates. >> this is a long-term struggle for an elusive 1144 delegate votes, the republican potential nomination. it will certainly play out extremely well in maryland. >> did you get your sticker? >> early voting continues at 46 locations statewide. as of tuesday, 60,000 ballots had been cast -- 1.5% of eligible voters. it is what the state board of elections expected. the turnout improves each year early voting is available. >> we encourage people to come out and vote. >> a couple of high-profile primary races is expected to boost turnout this time around. >> we have 10 republican contenders to challenge u.s. -- a u.s. senator.

>> in the sixth district, a tough contest under way. both candidates are looking to unseat the incumbent republican congressman. >> voters are telling me they have already gotten 20 pieces of mail before the primary and it seems to be coming every day from those two campaigns. >> did a of men are behind bars for their alleged involvement in a string of robberies in baltimore city and possibly baltimore county. domenik williams and anthony johnson are charged with at least four incidents throughout the city. they targeted locations including radio shack on sinclair road, the boost mobile store, and a joy restore on liberty heights avenue. >> the two suspects would go into the store. one of the suspect would spray the employees with mace what the other took the most valuable

property. >> police are looking into whether the pair is behind a similar incident in their district. in baltimore county, the search is on for a man who robbed a good will. it happened sunday morning authorities tell us, a white male or around 6 feet tall with dark hair passed a note to a person at a register implying he had a weapon. he made off with an undisclosed amount of money. anyone with information as urged to contact metro crimestoppers at the number on your screen. >> we first brought it to you with breaking news on 11 news at 6:00. a pedestrian-and bob accident in baltimore county. -- pedestrian-involve accident in baltimore county. two people were hit by a vehicle. an unusual start to a house fire in baltimore county earlier tonight. >> a vehicle crashed into --

>> bte crews are still out here repairing utilities due to the fire. fortunately, no injuries the been reported. it could have ended worse. >> flames are absolutely huge. i have never seen a fire spread so quickly. >> firefighters rushed to the 88 a lot of howard forest lane with the afternoon. they saw an unusual sight when they arrived -- a utility truck stuffed inside a town house surrounded by massive flames. >> the truck was -- ran into the house and it started flaming. >> authorities say the truck plowed into the gas and electrical lines of the town house, igniting a gas-fed fire. a viewer sent this picture of crews battling the fire. many were concerned for the

well-being of those who may be trapped in the inferno. >> i thought about the people in there. >> fortunately, the occupants made it out on hard. the truck driver also escaped safely. >> at any given moment, anything can happen. >> these are potentially bad because the utilities are in front of the house. anytime you have a accident, you have a gas-fed fire. you cannot extinguish the fire, you can only try to control it. quite the town house received extensive damage as well as the the zero neighboring homes. the driver is being questioned by police. >> charges have been dropped in the death of a teenager who attended a bolingbrook prep school. in 2007, a 17-year-old died while being restrained by five counselors inside the school. they had been charged with reckless endangerment for

failing to call 911 in a timely manner. prosecutors in a detective on the case are under investigation for perjury a short time after the incident, the school closed. >> jury selection got under way in the retrial of twin brothers accused of setting a pit bull on fire. a large pool of 80 potential jurors were called in in hopes of finding 12 jurors and three alternates. they are charged with animal cruelty in the death of the dog later named phoenix. advocates are looking forward to positive coming from this case. >> we need to see this come to a logical conclusion, whatever that may be. we are grateful for the things that have happened over this three-year period of time. quite the first trial in february up to about 11 ended in a hong the jury. 60 years in prison for a

baltimore county man who killed his sister's husband inside a bar. robert garner shot lee martin eight times when he left. upon further investigation, martin's white orchestrated the it. she pled guilty in january and will be sentenced sometime next month. >> the baltimore city police department -- a suspension of another officer. a sergeant from the eastern district has been -- is suspected -- there are questions about his handling of money that -- a departmentr spokesperson says internal affairs investigators are talking with city prosecutors. the aclu is not happy with the anne arundel county and police chief who refused to testify about the indictment of a county executive, john leopold.

john leopold s. -- but the aclu is expanding the inquiry into whether members of the police department conducted illegal background checks against leopold's political components. -- political opponents. >> table games in six of them locations is meeting some resistance in the house. some delegates are concerned the state admitted to pass by adding a site in prince george's county before the other five locations are fully operational. >> we are going to look at each piece of that bill and see what we can keep, what we cannot, and what we need to add to the bill. quite the bill provides a 7% revenue increase for slot operators and allows the same company to run two casinos in maryland. the senate passed similar legislation on tuesday.

state law requires any expansion of gaming be decided by a voter referendum. >> can you wrap your brain around being a half billion dollars richer? >> n9o. no. >> letting the kids have a shot. a group of kids take over a baltimore court room. >> meltdown in mid air -- that it's now passengers are describing a jetblue pilot. more on the federal charges stacked against him. >> showers and storms moving off the coast. a cold front approaching baltimore. mild right now. 70 degrees downtown with southwest wi

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>> a group of teenagers in baltimore city spent the week learning about crime evidence and how to bring the evident to the court room. they tried a robbery suspect. >> it gives them a good view of the criminal justice system. they see what jobs are available. more importantly, the build self-esteem throughout the project. >> this is an important project for the recreation department. we have to think of recreation be the first line of defense in public safety. we cannot cut these programs.

>> in addition to learning how to try the case, the teenager's spent time with volunteers from the police department learning of forensic science techniques. tonight we are learning more about the jetblue pilot that had to be subdued and restrained yesterday. >> the captain has been charged with interfering with a flight crew. the captain was shouting incoherently on the flight after being locked out of the cockpit. >> passengers became the last line of defense as an apparently in hand pilot tried to take control of his plane. >> he was running down the aisle screaming, "afghanistan -- there is a bomb -- i have to get in the cockpit." >> a federal complaint said the pilot was behaving erratically shortly after the flight left new york for loss vegas. he was talking about religion

and delegate co-pilot "things do not matter" and " we need to take a leap of faith per "he left the cockpit and it was up to basinger to keep them from going back in. >> i got him turned around and other passengers to jump on him. >> the co-pilot is the hero. he was able to persuade the capt. out of the cockpit. that is what completely averted what could have been a tragedy of today. >> with the help of an off-duty pilot, the co-pilot diverted the plane to amarillo, texas. >> we are going to need a parties and medical assistance at the airport. >> he was taken out of the plane in restraints, taken into fbi custody, and given medical treatment. 13 hours after leaving, the passengers arrived in las vegas. surviving a nightmare at 35,000 feet.

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that makes your winning numbers -- >> now, your first alert forcast with meterologist tom tasselmyer. >> one line of storms was poised to the northwest of baltimore about 12 hours ago. you see that coming out of pennsylvania at 11:00 in the morning. it raised to the east and rapidly, which in baltimore in the middle part of the day. all the way down in southern virginia now. you can see a weakening trend. the storms were at one time quite powerful. a couple of trees knocked down in the richmond area. skies had cleared up. the end result in baltimore, not all that impressive. we had over 0.2 inches of rain. some spots missed out on the bulk of the action. the work of the weather certainly avoided us. it was a mild 54.2 the average

temperature. just behind the first two warmest march is on record. the warmest was in 1945. not allmarch's produced a warm weather. in 1942, the biggest snowstorm ever do it baltimore came rolling to the area. it started on the 28 in the evening and ended all the 29th. it bought 30 inches of snow on palm sunday in westminster. d.c. had a foot. temperatures were above freezing. it was a very wet and heavy snowfall that came down on this date back in 1942. no snow around with temperatures near 70 tonight. cooler in the morning, but for this time of year, relatively mild. 49-55 to start the day. winds kicking out of the west

and northwest. 51 in cleveland. the front is approaching us and kicking the storms out to sea. the main impact will be gusty and northwesterly winds tomorrow. lot of sunshine on thursday. temperatures cooler than today, but still above normal. winds may gust over 30 miles per hour at times. friday, the next system rapidly approaches our area. maybe a shower on -- during the evening. it looks like these will clear up saturday afternoon. sunday was like a decent weekend day. tomorrow, sunshine. 60-65. small craft advisory on the day. waves up to 3 feet. western maryland, much chillier and a couple of showers on friday. eastern shore, well up in the sixth the body tomorrow. rain arriving late friday, probably after sunset. lower eastern shore, sunny to partly cloudy.

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>> overtime in the nfl will now look the same in the regular season in the playoffs. the playoff overtime format was taken for the regular season. last season, the redskins' defense forced 36 turnovers. that will mean 36 is brutal reviews. a boost review will be required after every turnover. the but it is now used every scoring blade. the coaches will save the challenge flag for something other than scoring in turnovers. for thebrien will play wisconsin badgers he will graduate from maryland this year after only three years. he will go to wisconsin at a graduate student.

he does not have to sit out in to play for wisconsin starting next season the orioles open the regular season in nine days, but you do not have to wait for baseball season to begin. it started this morning. the mariners and a's played in tokyo, japan. they delighted the japanese crowd. the first pick of the game right up the middle. a classic infield single. the game went to extra innings. in the top of the 11th, an insurance run for seattle. mariners over the a's three-one. oddly enough, it counts in japan. the orioles did not account for another 1.5 weeks. a one-out single to right. 2-1 lead did not last. it did not look like much on the mound today. escobar gave up three runs in

four-innings of work. he pitched the first 10 years of his career in the widget with the orioles before joining the yankees. he won one of the 47 games as an orioles pitcher. the l.a. dodgers have not won a world series in 25 years, but they have become a valuable franchise. the dodgers were sold to a group that includes the magic johnson. at that turned a lot of heads, including that of tommy lasorda a lifetime in a batter for the dodgers, the former manager figures magic johnson will bring hall of fame caliber pizazz to the organization. it is also something lasorda knows a few things about. >> i know magic is a great guy.

i walk around here and say what do you do? i talk to the players. i motivate them. i inspire them. i evaluate them. that is the value that i did. he can do the same thing. he can walk around and tell guys but it is like to win because he was a winner. >> no shortage of star in value in l.a. a new contract for a basketball coach right after this.

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>> we have a front sliding towards us. temperatures near 70. tomorrow, -- 64 degrees. gusty winds. a significant drop from the mid 70's today. the rest of the weekend but the pay. 75 degrees monday and tuesday of next week. >> friday looks like a tremendous day to win a half billion dollars. >> billion dollar day. that is all part 11 news tonight.

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