done. and the static house speaker in beaming at senate president confirmed a deal to hold a special session to work -- we rework the state budget. >> we hope to have a session on may 14 and 15. we will come together and shake hands and get the boats and leave here. >> the state house presiding officers and leadership team to agree to the revenue package that they hammered out on the last day of the session. >> a 2% rate increase for people making over 100,000 or $150,000. >> the income tax rate would rise. the joint filers to make between $150,001.174999.

rates would rise to 5.2 percent for single filers who make $125,001. joint filers who earned between $175,001 to 225,000. the rate would rise to 5.5 percent for singles to make $150,001 to $250,000. high wage earners will see a 5.7% rate. senate leaders have what they describe as an honest, philosophical difference with the house in this approach, but they are willing to give it up .ere yet to g the special session will take a shifting pension costs over four-year. and take up a revenue package for other tobacco products to

30%. >> we will come together for a special session and get it done. >> governor o'malley signed into law close to 300 bills passed during the 2012 general assembly session. among them come up bills that will but that the state tax and limit the installation of new septic systems. he also signed felicia's law. it calls for more coordination and volunteer search groups. also signed into law, a bill preventing employers from requesting employees to hand over the social media passwords. >> keeping a close eye on showers and storms this evening. tom tasselmire is tracking the unsettled weather. he joins us live and out. >> clouds and cooler temperature around baltimore keeping storms away from us.

temperatures have been warming into the 80's this afternoon. that has triggered showers and thunderstorms. storms moving east, southeast, mainly toward southern frederick county and down towards the sea. cloudy, cool weather a round of baltimore. so far protecting us from the potential for big storms. that could change as a warming trend comes our way. details on the forecast in just a couple of minutes. >> track storms down to your very street using that tv app. wbaltv.com it is all on the weather page of wbaltv.com. >> critical testimony today from one of the two brothers on trial for assaulting a teenager while working on a neighborhood watch program. lowell nelson is live downtown with more on today's testimony. >> after a brief closing

argument late this evening, at this case is now in the hands of the judge, pamela white. this case lasted about two weeks, and all came to a head when he took to the stand in his own defense. >> he maintained his composure in testified truthfully and honestly. i think he did perfectly. >> his attorney react to his client's testimony wednesday. he maintains a 4.0 gpa at john hopkins university and served three years in the israeli army and said he was just trying to diffuse a situation that turned into a huge misunderstanding. he testified on november 19, 2010 after receiving a radio call on his neighborhood watch radio for a suspicious person on falstaff road. in his car he spotted an african

american teenager who would later be named the alleged victim in this case walking into people's yards and looking through windows. he also said he saw the teenager pulling on the door handles of a silver suv. he said he stopped a car and got out and try to introduce himself when his brother got out and said, "didn't i see you in park heights?" he says he and his brother followed the teenager in his car, and said the teenagers seemed scared and kept looking back at them and ripped a piece of board from a shipping pallets in one of the front yards. he told the court that he wanted to diffuse the situation because he saw a woman walking her dog towards the teenager. he stopped his car, got out, and tried to explain who he was. that is when he said the teenager charged that him with the board. using his self-defense still, he

knocked the teenager down to the ground. in cross-examination, he did admit he could have made a mistake by stopping the teenager the second time around. >> the judge told the court she would render a verdict at 3:00 tomorrow. the brothers are charged with false imprisonment, a second- degree assault, and use of the deadly weapon. these are all misdemeanors. >> meanwhile, the woman who was the voice of the now infamous roebott calls took the stand. ron the russell was one of his employees. she testified she recorded the call at his request. a top aide has been found guilty in connection with his role in the scandal. >> a woman is in shock trauma.

this fall with a violent fight at the westminster home. eric liam is being held on $250,000 bail. police tell us they found his 52-year-old mother just after 10:00 last night in the 500 block of goldenrod terrace and had been stabbed several times. she remains in critical, but stable condition. >> the streets of baltimore may be a bit safer banks to new crime cameras. -- thanks to new crime cameras. >> these cameras have helped to apprehend suspects and high- profile cases like a shooting in 2009. police say more of the cameras will help make the streets safer. >> 33 new crime cameras were installed wednesday morning in

homestead street in northeast baltimore. >> i am glad to see that these cameras are here. >> the rest of the new cameras will go into the neighborhood of montebello, self clifton park in will add to the 550 cameras already stationed around the city as part of the city watch program. >> in 2011, city what participated in 1236 our breasts and initiated over 145 arrests for violent crimes. overall, cameras have shown to reduce crime by 25 percent signed in affected areas. >> official said the cameras have been used to identify suspects in a number of cases that helps police to do their to keep criminals off the streets. >> i think as an emerging technology for law enforcement,

it is a sound investment. >> of these neighbors agree it will make their streets safer and welcome the addition to their neighborhood. if >> the more cameras they have, the better it will be for our neighborhood. >> we want to live in a safe environment and peaceful environment. >> 11 news team searches for answers after a maryland company promises struggling homeowners help and took their money in disappeared. >> the homeowners admit they were desperate in trying to save their homes from foreclosure. james is still trying to save his home more than a year after signing an agreement with the american home relief foundation.

it is a maryland-based company that promise to get him a home loan application. >> i was looking for them to help me out because i am having problems. >> he was told the lawyer who was part-owner of the company would represent him. that lawyer claims he did not represent anyone, and he is a victim in all of this. >> you have no idea that the people who were working for american home relief for telling homeowners that you would be their attorney? >> i have no idea. >> hear why a former employee was worried about going to jail, and why another lawyer is in hot water with the state. >> it has been up part of east baltimore for more than half a century. the fight to keep the owners of the mac lewis jim from throwing in the towel. >> back to the drawing board for the school budget. coming up, why $12 million could

make a difference. >> the nfl mourns the shocking death of a former player whose career spanned 20 years. his death stunned coaches, players come and fans alike. >> tracking a severe thunderstorm in southern frederick county. insta-weather-plus in just a minute. 62 degrees at the airport. 62 degrees at the airport.

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school system, one week after the court ruled the school system had been shortchanged. how well the dollars be spent? >> that is still being worked out, but there are questions. where will the $12 million come from. and if it will affect other county employees. >> will system is looking at where it wants to spend the $12 million. -- the school system is looking at where it wants to spend the $12 million. the county council may have to dip into the general fund to increase the school system's budget. >> other agencies always get hurt. to cut the county executive still has doubts about whether the $12 million will be spent on school children or pay raises. >> we have funded that everything the school board has asked for. the only difference is, they want pay raises.

i have had to have pay reductions for other county employees. it is a matter of fairness. >> class sizes is certainly an issue and it area will -- we will look at. we have asked for 62 additional teachers this year. that is not just the number we need, but the number we could fund solely from savings within our organization. >> while there is indeed, they hope it is not met at the expense of other county departments. >> it worries me that the county budget is so tight it will come on the backs of somebody. the parents do not want that to be something they have to worry about. >> parents are promising to keep a close watch on the upcoming budget meetings. >> an east baltimore landmark may have to close because of financial problems. for more than a half century mac

lewis trained fighters at the east baltimore jim. he passedway in 2010. it set was working with a fighter today. the former champ who first came to the gym when he was a eight- years-old says he will do everything he can to keep the gym opened. >> how close are you to closing the doors? >> we are not far, but we are not close either, because i will do everything i can, along with my board members, william hill, different people on the board. we're doing everything we can do to keep this jim and his legacy alive. >> friends of the gym will hold a fund-raiser this weekend. we have posted the details on our website, wbaltv.com. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmire. >> right now cooler temperatures

and clouds protecting the baltimore area from strong to severe thunderstorms that have developed not far from here. a severe thunderstorm warning now for southern frederick county. that storm has blossomed in just west of frederick making its way to the east, southeast. the storm is pretty close to the national battlefield. moving southeast at 18 miles per hour. should arrive in brown's bill around 6:30. the winds could dust around 60 miles per hour. -- should arrive in brownsville around 6:30. that store making its way down the 270 corridor. so far the cooler weather around here keeping the storms to the west of us. the high temperature was well short of normal. typical height is 70. 65 at the airport. 68 downtown. morning temperatures were mild,

too. the temperature did not change much at all. a trace of precipitation last night. we will keep an eye on the site and radar screen to see if any more showers or storms move in. not enough rain to clean the atmosphere of the pollen. high amounts of pollen in the atmosphere today. look at the temperature contrast from 56 at dover's air force base in 54 at ocean city. were you moved west and the sun is warming things up, low to mid 80's. in the warmer air is with the thunderstorms will be tracking through the early evening. heading south in southern maryland, another batch of storms are writing as we head towards thursday morning with a lot of clouds in may be called as well. we will see clouds tonight in a thunderstorm. tand may be cooler air to the east of us. 60's to the south and west of

baltimore. temperatures in the low to mid 80s across the ohio valley. in the warm air is what would be streaming in here tomorrow with the possibility of thunderstorms in front approaching in the warm air. that helps to take up the storms in the afternoon for the next couple of days. friday we will see scattered thunderstorms in the vicinity. tomorrow, a warmer day with winds shifting more to the south. high of 79-84. of the big, light and variable winds. -- on the bay, light and variable winds. low 80s on thursday and friday. eastern shore, a cool day today, but get ready for the warm-up. mid to upper 80s on friday. ocean city the sea breeze that will be the main feature. 70 on the beach on friday. inland locations warming to summer-like levels. 82 tomorrow. still warm saturday.

clearing out and less humid and a little bit cooler on sunday. >> from the susquehanna think sports center, this is 11 sports. >> somber news to begin with. the former nfl linebacker junior seau died from a gunshot wound. police continue to investigate his death as a suicide. his girlfriend found him in his san diego home this morning after he suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. in the nfl. he remains the only linebacker in nfl history named the 12 pro bowl teams. junior seau he was 43-years-old. heavy suspensions for four saints players involved in the bounty scandal. the commissioner hit with a one- year suspension.

the head coach got the same. the nfl suspended defenseman will smith four games. all of this attention scum without pay. -- all of the suspensions will be without pay. each of the players designed to -- declined to meet with the commissioner. ironically they will have to meet with him now since the commissioners here is the appeals. a former defensive tackle maake kemoeatu let ravens. he is simply for carolina and washington. injuries kept him out last year. saturday come a little producing its first triple crown winner since 2008. post position draw at churchill downs today in a 20-horse field.

trained by three-time derby winner points toward restate as a favorite with four-one odds. if he does win, it will mark an incredible turnaround in the fortunes for him who suffered a heart attack in march and says he feels like he has a second shot at life. tom tasselmire back with a seven-day forecast right after this. do

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