but peacock feathers. at dusk, they send to the risk and fan them out. then comes this. >> what a really want to talk to you about is the peacock on your roof. >> they are a permanent fixture in this community. >> this is a pretty compact area. >> the law says i can put any one -- anything in my yard except a chicken. >> that is really allowed. >> yes. it is only during the breeding season. >> one neighbor said sleeping is the issue. [honk, honk] >> at first it was pretty and unique, but i get up at 5:00 a.m. so it is not pretty anymore.

>> he starts calling to let everybody know that this is his territory. >> are there any peace talks in the neighborhood for him to worry about? >> other animals. >> and responded to complaints about the peacocks, limited to 5 per property. it is hard to tell, but we counted eight altogether. any under 6 months old are not effected. >> block him out. i do not want him out of the yard. >> there he goes. >> they tried to keep petey in home. >> how do keep the peacock year but not on anyone else's roofs? >> they need to be caged. >> it people would stay out of my business, there would be no problem. >> they consider them domestic

animals, albeit noisy. [honk] is your plan to keep them here? >> they're my pets. what's the county council is considering a proposal to increase the number of animals property and owners can have come up the talks included. -- peycocks included. jayne miller, wbal-tv 11 news. >> with rain levels 5 inches below normal, they're concerned we could have more brush fires. sheldon dutes is live with this story. >> like most of the counties in our viewing area, anne arundel is very dry. the vegetation out here is very brown and dry.

these are pictures from a recent four-alarm fire in edgewater. anne arundel county fire investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the fire but said dry weather conditions could have played a role. acres upon acres of land have burned in recent brushfires like this fire in carper county. this fire chief says current conditions are creating "the perfect recipe" 4 brush fires. >> there is a lot of dead vegetation left over from the springtime and just all the components have come together and they are really right for brush fires. >> according to 11 news meteorologist 8 memory, rain levels are 5 inches below normal. >> we would need a big, soaking storm to catch up. we have rent chances, but nothing to really make this a drought-ending rain.

>> officials have not iued any water restrictions, but the conditions may soon affect local farmers. >> farmers now have to irrigate earlier. sometimes they do not even have to. >> brush fires that are not usually cause the naturally here. it is usually human error. >> they have already issued open burning bans and they are urging officials to be more mindful. >> they have suspended burning in the fireplaces and we also want to make sure they keep lighters out of the hands of children. >> they are urging people to remember how they get rid of cigarette butts. sheldon dutes, wbal-tv 11 news. >> tonight, 11 people are without a place to sleep after a three-alarm fire in glen burnie.

the buyer reportedly started in a ground level apartment and spread quickly. no word yet on a cause. three suspects are charged in the murderer of a 12-year-old. sean johnson was shot four times. police have charged derrick brown, antwan mosley, and danyae robinson. >> sean johnson was sitting on the porch of this home and was shot multiple times. >> three others were wounded. according to a court-charging document, the have positively identified mosley, robinson, and brown as those responsible. >> tragedy in west baltimore. a woman is killed after she was struck by a speeding vehicle

police were trying to pull over. lowell melser is live outside of city headquarters with the latest. >> the question is whether or not police were chasing the vehicle as they have a no-chase policy within city limits. they say that they were not chasing this person. police say it was just after 11:00 monday night when a patrol officer noticed a car operating in an unsafe manner and they began calling the driver tried to pull him over near the 1800 block of poplar grove. >> the officers tried to stop him from operating the car and the proceeded to escalate and collide with a another car. >> for some reason, the suspect drove through a red light and collided with a car that then crashed into another car and

arrested finally on this curvet. the suspect fled and police later caught him and found illegal drugs. inside the car, a 22-year-old rawlins, her infant, and her mother. >> nothing that i can say about her. they were all good, you know what i'm saying? for this to happen to her, it's a sad thing. >> attempts to reach the family were unsuccessful, but close friends say there are questions from the family about whether police broke the no-chase policy which may have caused the accident. police officials insist there was no chase in the situation and the suspect fled when they try to pull him over. >> i personally listened to the broadcast. it was not a police chase. it happened very quickly. almost evans later, he was

asking for an ambulance unit because they had collided. >> please have not released the suspect's name. they expect to charge him sometime later this evening or tomorrow. he will be charged with a number of traffic violations, some due to do with her death, and a number of drug violations. lowell melser berkman wbal-tv 11 news. >> leo carroll is facing several traffic offenses and he was behind the wheel of a car at that started a series of chain crashes that seriously injured the officer. he was thrown into the opposing traffic lanes and is now being treated at shock trauma.

>> how the weather has impacted the health of the bay. >> i'm sally kidd at dulles international. the space shuttle discovery makes its final journey. we shari the spectacular fly over the nation's capital and its permanent home. -- we show you the spectacular fly over. >> we give you a sneak preview of some of the ravens prime time games this season later in sports. >> a lot of rain on hd doppler to the south. will any of that get into the baltimore area? we check the seven-day forecast. still mild in the

but heavy rain and a hot summer did damage to the chesapeake bay's health. the bay was given a d + in its latest report card. this is the second lowest since it began in 1986. the worst year for the bay was back in 2003. heavy rains washed pollution and sentiment in the bay and it spurred algae blooms that lowered oxygen levels which are especially damaging to oysters which cannot move to better areas. >> unusual sequence of events starting with a very wet spring followed by a hot, dry summer. then at breaking into two did -- big storms. >> ago 42 out of 100 possible

points and it is the first drop in four years. >> the space shuttle discovery blasted off its final journey today to going from kennedy space center to its new home in washington. >> it touchdown around 11:00 a.m. >> the space shuttle discovery dazzled onlookers with a spectacular flyover. it hitched a ride atop a custom of mass of 747. people from the national capital, the washington monument, and lincoln memorial. >> it was a huge!

>> blogging affected hundred feet come it was easy to see. -- flying at 1500 feet, it was esay tasy to see. >> boy, that was like cool! what these kids had a front-row seat. then it was time to bring her home. >> in dallas right, third blame. >> traveling more than 138 million miles, orbiting the earth, 5003 under 38 times -- 5,338 times. it touched down at dulles. making it's final stop. >> finishing its last flight, but it is great for the public to see this. >> taking her rightful place

among some of the most treasured historical icons. they will be using huge cranes to remove the discovery in that it will be transported to its new home at the smithsonian. sally kidd, wbal-tv 11 news. >> nasa and the program after a 30-year successful run up to focus on other things. >> temperatures came down a little bit today, but nothing like the 90-degree heat. a high of 78 at the airport, 79 downtown. way above the normal 65, but a cooling trend is under way. in the precipitation, again. the pollen count went up.

the total count was 2100. most of that, tree pollen, 2261. if you separate from a tree pollen allergies, it is in the very high range. it is still quite mild and the low downtown was only 71. that will probably be readjusted rated is unusually warm. oakland and across the board in the fit the's. this is where the air will be coming from out of the north, nw. in the suburbs. the cloud cover we have seen in the afternoon assuring a little bit of rain on the hd doppler. beneath the clouds come is still very dry. to the south, you can see a few more substantial heavier

showers and thunderstorms in far southern virginia. a few hopes that it will spur through the region. more substantial storms will be approaching and they could bring us a better chance for rain in the mid-atlantic. there are some heavy showers, severe storms even possible in the deep south. some of that is moving up into parts of virginia and looks like the bulk of it will move south and east of baltimore, but at least the chance for review scattered showers, maybe even as far west as hagerstown or allegany county, but the best chance will be southern maryland. a sprinkle with clouds in the morning and then a better chance for the brain to get up here at the baltimore. this should turn out to be a little bit cooler tomorrow.

58-63 with a variable wind. the wind will be more brisk out of the north and then an occasional gusts of 20 knots. only a 20% chance of rain in the mountains tomorrow. the drier it will get. it is about a 50-thick the chance with the rate up around salisbury, ocean city, indeed seven-day forecast -- in of a couple of days of dry weather with a warming trend. saturday and sunday, watching the storm organized from saturday through sunday and the potential is there for mild to moderate heavy rain. >> from the susquehanna bank's board center, this is 11 sports.

>> the ravens will finally get to find out if they get to host a monday night game this season, something they have not done since 2007, the year before john harbaugh arrived. there will be at least two games in prime time three the ravens will host the new england patriots in a rematch of the afc championship game sunday night, september 23, 2003 the second sunday night game will be on the road in pittsburgh, november 18th, both of those will air in here on the tv 11 as a part of the nbc sunday night football package. we will have a full schedule on wbal +. the ravens are still pulling together their roster. there re-signed ellerbee. ellerbee originally arrived as an undrafted bertie's.

the draft is just a little bit more than one week away. after 14 straight losing seasons, they will need more than a few wins, but they keep stringing them together like last night, baseball could see some popularity. in the seventh inning -- a great catch slipping into the stands. the runner on third did it tag and get the white sox a 4-1 lead. good with a glove -- better with a bat. solo home run making it a 2 run game. down to the final out. adam jones to left center -- all squared at 4 a piece. then a 6 run explosion. a grandslam! 10-4 orioles in extraeinnings

on the road -- in extra innings. game tim 8:10 at u.s. cellular. for kentucky, this lessons seems familiar. enjoy the change kinship, but do not get attached. it looks like they will lose the entire starting five. they will hold a press conference along with calipari to announce the decision. all 5 will announce to enter the nba draft. so much for a

>> a protest asking why many u.s. corporations do not play by the same rules when it comes to paying extra fees. new details emerging about the widening prostitution scandal involving members of the secret service.

>> looking for a little bit of rain. >> we need some. a couple of showers mainly south of us tomorrow. our best hope for significant rain, a storm will try to develop fallen by some gusting wind of the storm polls away. it is our best chance for a decent rate we have had in quite some time. >> the ground is just a hard as a rock. >> "nbc news" is next. see you back here at 11. t