sagamore farms and owned by the owner of underarmor. he failed the breathalyzer and instead will have a new jo ckey. they will have their eyes on bodemeister, the voting line favorite. he finished second in the beef kentucky derby and then not hold on to the end of this dredge -- the stretch. trained by five-time preak ness winner. an amazing finish at the derby setting this up for a potentially great finish tomorrow.

perhaps tomorrow we will lizzie -- we will see a good 1-2 today is not so much about raising as it is about raising -- racing but preparation. crowds expected over 100,000 and rob roblin has his eye on the finishing touches. >> the black tried susan just finished a few minutes ago. a lot of people here today. as you mentioned it, a lot of last-minute work. people are in motion putting the finishing touches on pimlico before tomorrow's big day. >> this is a list of all the tables and chairs that are

supposed to be out here. it is a lot of set up today. >> you're going to need a lot of a food and they are already preparing some of the many items for tomorrow. >> 100 pounds tri tip, 1,000 crab meat, big numbers. >> you should have quite a time. this is the under armor sagamore farms tent. there is a huge bar and outside balcony. >> at a great presence in baltimore. >> they will all be in here

watching the race and rooting for their horses. >> you are going to need lots of chairs and tables. >> rough estimates, probably 4000-5000 shares out here in the village, tables probably, maybe 400 a rectangular tables. >> it should be somewhat party tomorrow. if today's any indication, when a crowd today for the black eyed susan. crownlooking for a huge tomorrow for the running of the preakness. >> wbal-tv.com is your pass to the preakness. >> you can see video from the past years. just click on the preakness.

>> its been a beautiful day today. but looks like the preakness will happen. for now, a few high, thin clouds. the big storm is swirling tjhere of over the atlantic so the forecast for tomorrow calling for sunshine, warm temperatures, and mid to upper 70's. it should be a fast track for the 137th running of the preakness. more details in a few. >> see you any a few. more than one dozen people charged in a case involving a cycle of retaliation leaving two

dead and five wounded. greg bernstein says these charges are an example of a new way of doing business going after violence. >> it started with a homicide and then came all the pay back. last spring he became a homicide victim. he was killed in a home invasion in the middle of the six month investigation announced today by city and federal prosecutors. >> they were sad and in retaliation three people were shot. two wounded, one killed.

september 16th, his younger brother was shot greeds and timber 19th, a friend was job. on january 7th, but when did the man shot in april was shot and wounded again. 14 people have been charged and all they say have a history. >> they are violent repeat offenders. >> they say this is a perfect example of how a small group can feel so much violence. >> another shooting here and one victim allegedly shot twice as a part of the cycle of retaliation. >> they say this case represents a greater level of cooperation

between this of us, the police department, and something outgoing police commissioner bielefeld pushed for the last few years. >> and now his quotes that he is they are wreaking havoc on the harbor. he said about his concerns about violent crime downtown like the st. patrick's day beating that went by rail on youtube. >> this is an economic engine and a job creator. we continue to damage the harbor and it is a setback for everyone in the state?

"juvenile crime has dropped dramatically. >> the mother of slain teen trayvon martin will be coming to baltimore this weekend. she will be talking about her journey and how her life has changed since february. zimmerman maintains the killing was in self-defense. >> his surprise ruling when it comes to police collecting dna samples. breaking news. the court of appeals will mark reconsider banning in the in a collection for those arrested for violent crimes. they say those samples are critical in solving violent crimes of the crimes -- the courts as it violates the fourth amendment. >> seven of the group of eight

industrial nations are meeting today. on the agenda, greece, i ran, and the war in afghanistan. -- greece and the economic enterprises, iran, and afghanistan. >> they're heading to camp david to discuss the worsening economic crisis in europe, worries over greece, and instability in syria, afghanistan, and iran. before the summit, he sat down with the new french president francois whole long thollande. >> we're looking for retreat for full discussion about how we can manage an approach to fiscal consolidation coupled with a strong growth agenda.

>> it is really crunch time. the situation in greece is rapidly deteriorating. felt itdent hollenbecande important to visit the u.s. >> our economies depend on one another. >> they are heading near the client -- heading to the quaint camp david. nato summit starts tomorrow in chicago. takinenprotesters have to the streets. obama will meet with the president of afghanistan to talk

about the future of that country and around economic issues. jennifer johnson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> baby boomers, stay tune. a dangerous health condition you should be tested for. >> learning more about the messy crass that snarled traffic in baltimore county. >> on a career tour of sorts. >> on a career tour of sorts.

>> the morning commute slower this morning as crews worked to clean out this accident around 7:15 at ingleside ave. the driver of the car was taking to the hospital. there were no passengers aboard the bus. city transportation say they will continue the overnight closures to repair collapsed drain pipes.

a double left-lane closures will be in effect from 9:00 p.m.-6:00 a.m. so expect significant delays during peak hours. >> we begin tonight medical alert with a startling report from the cdc. new numbers show one in 30 baby boomers is expected to be infected with hepatitis c. most of them do not know it. the virus is passed through contact with blood and it can cause serious liver diseases including liver cancer. many of the cases can be cured. too many pregnant women are not being tested for s t d's. they look the 1.3 million pregnant women between the ages

of 16-40. 16-year-old pregnant mothers had the highest positive chlamydia tests. those infections can mean health risks for pregnant women like early onset labor and the risk for newborn babies including serious eye infections and ammonia. a house subcommittee is now weighing in on a d.c. abortion bill. in the scientific community, there is no consensus on when a fetus actually begins to feel pain. the bill has very little chance to become law, but supporters say they will continue to press the issue.

health officials call him a public health threat. california man arrested bailing to be treated for tuberculosis. deputies say he is now in trouble for missing his scheduled appointment to take his daily medication. he cannot be tracked down. without proper medication, the disease can spread. >> you need 1 hour or more of face-to-face contact. it has to be an door. we are not so worried about people around person outside. >> he is being held in medical confinement with a bail of $50,000. did not believe his exposure was long enough to spur the homeless. he will be held until he in no longer considered a health threat. >> now your 11 insta-weather + forecast as chief meteorologist

tom tasselmyer. >> cool chargers from the mid- atlantic and northeast this morning. westminster was down to 41 this morning. below freezing in way of state new york. 27 degrees. 39. 47 officially at bwi marshall. lowell chillier in the outlying suburbs. a cow hot it is to the west of us. this heat will stay to the rest of us. it may be a little bit warmer by a few degrees but not much.

ocean city cooling off in 75 at martin state airport. pimlico right now in the low 70's with lots of sunshine and the east wind. it should just be beautiful weather for the preakness festivities tomorrow. clear skies holding and that will let temperatures dropped into the 40's. mid 50's downtown. east wind up 5 miles per hour or less. sunset is at 8:16 p.m., so several hours to enjoy this beautiful weather pattern. nerve wracking to see this kind of unsettled wet weather not too far from baltimore on the edge of a big weekend here, but it looks like this storm, although significant, will stay to our south. if you are traveling to bermuda, you may have to deal with bobby weather, but the low pressure system will keep the weather nice year.

tomorrow, as you can see, all the way up until horse time, the bulk of the storm, straw or is moving up in northeast virginia. it is not until later sunday night into monday were they start to pop up here. the beautiful preakness forecast. 76-81 degrees tomorrow. it should be right about there, mid to upper 70's. the wave it at one or two feet and a water temperature is getting closer to 70. tomorrow, in uniform monday. mostly sunny and 75 on sunday. on the eastern shore, about the

same. breezy, mostly sunny. a little more cloud cover coming in as the southern storm begins to approach. when will be gusting off of the ocean, 30 miles per hour wind gusts keeping temperatures in the 60's. it is only a 30% chance. it will be a fairly decent weekend. preakness saturday, 79 mostly sunny. mid 70's with scattered showers and storms monday maybe all the way into wednesday before it clears up. midwestern wheat moves our way. low to mid 80's next week. >> i wonder if you wore -- he wore a suit or a new hoodie? [laughter] >> he can afford a new one now. the most talked-about ipo in years. when we come back, how the stock did its first day on the market. >> this is not just an unusual

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everyone was trying to get aniline trying to make sure -- in line trying to make sure. >> they put more than 400 millino shares on the market and set a record. some wonder if it was over a hyped ending just 322 cents over it's ipo price. 28-year-old mark zuckerberg rang the bell from the facebook menlo park, calif., headquarters. 9 million users -- 900 million users now have a chance to own a peas. they have not figured out how to put out the mobile devices leaving them to disagree on whether it is a good investment.

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>> lives, local, late breaking. you're watching wbal-tv 11 news at 5:00 in hd with stan stovall, donna hamilton, chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. 11 news at 5:00 in hd continues now. >> new tonight, an off-campus career dates for baltimore city students hoping to build the future in health and science. it's been the did the johns hopkins medical campus. >> students get to not only what the experts but also engage in hands-on learning. education reporter tim tooten has the story.

no surgery, i trust. >> this is a chance for students to see close up what is possible when you combine good grades with opportunity. the chance to learn aside doctors and nurses. they may be elementary school students but they're not too young to understand what it means to plan for a career. >> now i'm starting to rethink it. >> why is that? >> i enjoy helping people. >> it's really good. i want to do this because i can help patients and they can go back home. >> his heart rate is really bad. >> this is what they had in mind when they opened their doors to the young as learners. >> children will dream up they have hopes. children will learn a they have an opportunity. they will reach their potential that they have help. we believe that we should help our children as an institution.

>> on the other side, middle school students for also getting some hands-on experience in the field of robotics. >> robots can help with a lot of things these days. it is a good connection between the two of them. >> it helps a lot. you can mount technology and robotics. it has a lot of mass. >> mavs, science, technology, and engineering. >> i do not have the right exposure. they do not understand how math, science and technology is relevant to their future. >> in future they say is closer to reach. this is the second year of the hopkins career day. more students are expected next year. live in the newsroom, tim tooten, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we are just hours away now from the 137th running of the preakness. final preparations are under way

to put the polishing touches on pimlico for the day. organizers say they had 800 pounds of salmon and 1000 pans -- pounds of crab meat. baltimore city's top prosecutor announced more than one dozen people have been charged in a case involving a deadly cycle of retaliation. the state's attorney called as a textbook example of islands in baltimore. it started last april with the stabbing death of one man during an armed on invasion in northeast baltimore and led to six more shootings, one of them deadly. 14 people are and are charged in the case and they called these "violent repeat offenders." the mother of trayvon martin is coming to baltimore this week end of the three month anniversary of her son's death. she will be speaking at the empowerment temple church and she will be talking abroad for personal journey and how her life has changed since the fatal shooting of her son. she will be speaking sunday

morning at two services, 9:30 and 10:30. >> more than 200 items of evidence have now been made available to the public prosecutors. it may have prompted more questions than answers. eric edwards has more. >> these are the final images of trayvon martin, surveillance but you just before the confrontation. the dti range of evidence from the scene, eyewitness accounts, his gun, and these photos taken by police just hours after the incident. >> that is what the family once, all the evidence there to be looked at carefully. >> they say the two men were in a vicious scuffle that night, would do the aggressor was was unclear. >> use of two people. were they both on the ground? >> know, one was on top of the other. i do not know which one.

>> this recording of someone crying out for help has parents divided over its source. trayvon's mother says it's her son's voice. ismerman's father claims it it his son's voice on the tape. >> that is positively george zimmerman. klutzy death of the teenager could have been avoided if he had waited for police, as instructed by the 911 operator. >> if he would not have profiled him, confronted him, he would not be in jail and, more importantly, trayvon martin would be alive today. >> in every life event your experience, we can go back and say, "had this not happened," but we a to deal with what happened and try to explain them properly. >> the must determine if this makes it to a court room.

eric of edwards, wbal-tv 11 news. >> how close we may be to a verdict. >> it is one form you cannot back away. what happens when they took over corpses' stadium in colorado? one of the most popular events takes place days before the preakness and it is something preakness and it is something everyone can get involved in. c i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind.

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>> i investigation under way about what sparked a two-alarm fire just before 11:30 a.m.. sky team 11 was over the scene around noon and they just about had it under control. we're told the big problem is the heavy smoke in the area. no reports of any injuries of the sour. -- at this hour. >> jurors deliberating in the john edwards trial have gone home and will pick of

deliberations again on monday. they're considering six criminal counts. they say he to campaign money from two healthy donors -- wealthy donors to hide his mistress while running for president. they claim he did not knowingly commit any crime. president obama announced a new partnership to reduce -- $3 billion in private sector partnerships in africa. >> i believe the united states has a moral obligation to partner with others. >> the new alliance could the $50 million out of poverty in the next 10 years. >> this video certainly has the

internet world abuzz. remember when the diamond backs went and set up shop around this camera? fans and players, disconcertin g. a bee keeper used the ultimate in high tech tools -- a vacuum. he moved them to a new hive. >> it's wrong to kill them. there are not enough of them. they moved them to a new hive. are you a frequent flier? he could be getting a new deal. >> had to give the best bang for the best seat for your buck. details coming up in consumer alert. >> if i check on the latest

campaign attack ads. -- a fact check. >> is storm this to the south and east across the carolina outer banks. we've been keeping a close eye on that. the guppies blue skies. 73 of the airpo

>> coming up on 11 news at 6:00, a web of violence and we have details on the stabbings and shootings over much of last year. what is up with these life jackets? details of the head. preakness mania continues.

we look at the main events including preparing the infield. including preparing the infield. these and much

>> and six married couples can now get divorced here in american. the ruling came down from the maryland court of appeals. maryland courts should uphold only if it is offensive to state policy. two women were married in california but denied a divorce in maryland. the scabs off a week of nonstop campaign ads as the air wave of war is to keep separate nikole killion helps sift through these

and joins us with more. >> looking at two ads that gained attention looking at some of the president's promises and romney's business background. >> he is sucking the life out of us. >> this spot against mitt romney portraying him as a corporate raider from gst steel alleging his company, bain capital, a profit off of them. >> they made as much as they could dance shut that down without any concerns. >> mostly true, but big knowledge it does not tell the whole story. >> yes, they shut the plant down. what is important to note that there are some outside factors that did not involve bain. >> president obama's agenda promised so much.

>> today, i am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> he has not even come close. >> that would be true. >> he did not fulfil that promise. it is only a little bit smaller now than it was then. >> you will not see your taxes go up. >> broken. obamacare raises taxes. >> there are a few taxes that goes up on individuals, but not 18. more like five or six depending on how you count them. >> some of them are on things like smoking and indoor tanning. most of them are targeted toward the wealthy and are unlikely to affect the broader public.

nikole killion, wbal life and tv 11 news. >> any other ads that were checked? >> they took a look at another one that came out last week. basically alleging that romney was against adoption for gay couples. they took a closer look at that one and rated it falls. >> nikole killion, thank you. >> your 11 insta-weather + forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> it was in the 40's this morning in the suburban areas. the low to days so far was 60, 13 degrees cooler to start this 18th day of may. the normal high is 74 record

high, 97 degrees. the record low is almost freezing. it was a 35 degree morning on that preakness morning. it was on the 19th of may. it was a really chilly morning. mostly grass pollen out now. if you suffer, you're probably feeling in. the total pollen count at 85. after a chilly morning, a very comparable late afternoon and evening in the low to mid 70's over on the eastern shore. western maryland, a little bit cooler and a beautiful weekend in the mountains. wind coming in off the atlantic.

chillier along the coast all along the weekend. 55 downtown east wind at 5. sun set at 8:16 p.m. unsettled weather along the carolina coast. most of the day should be a nice weather pattern. this will keep us clear and beautiful through the weekend. there is some heat underneath the high-pressure area and temperatures have soared into the 90's all the way to minneapolis, but we will stay here in this nice pattern producing clear skies tonight and tomorrow. these are not rain-making clouds. even through sunday, a looks like the threat for showers states from richmond south. increases.hance an a warm day and humidity fairly low. east wind so it should be a fast track at post time at 6:15.

high tide at 6:35 a.m. in the mountains, cool at night, sunny and mild. on the eastern shore, a nice one coming your way. a little bit more cloud cover by sunday afternoon. in ocean city, brisk easter and wind. we do have some rain on sunday, but it is only a 30% chance. just a slight chance that would move up in the ocean city area by sunday evening. the weekend forecast calls for beautiful weather saturday and sunday. lows in the for the's and 50. a chance for a shower or storm on monday and tuesday and they should begin to taper off wednesday. that should be followed by a significant warming up in the mid 80's by next week.

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are you a frequent flier? according to this new survey, southwest airlines has the best availability and the most frequent flier seats available up until october. southwest airlines say the number of awards redeem the jumped 16% last year and the percentage of travelers flying on free tickets also increased. >> you may have noticed extra traffic this morning. it is the national bike to work day. what a beautiful day for this. perfect, really. there were 11 hits stops along the way. anyone feeling extra ambitious could have hit 58 stops along the way to promote a cheaper way to get to work while reducing pollution and getting exercise. >> we have such a beautiful city and we have an opportunity to see how great baltimore really

is. what a better way to do it than on a bike and being healthy? >> city transportation officials say there were a record number of participants. it is part of national bike month than there are a number of other festivities to promote more biking including bike jim in patterson park. it includes kids' activities and trick riding which stan stovall got a taste of this morning. i have not seen it yet, but he went in a practice run for one of the tricks we will see how it played out. >> ok. we've got it. >> there you go. thank you. i am not speaking in a much higher voice today. back to you. >> that was funny. you did not get credit for anything. will you be trying that again?

>> i was prepared to put it all out there and it worked just fine. >> i hope you did not get your suit dirty. >> to is something a little different, and people may have seen their co-workers wearing life jackets in the office part of a statewide plan. but first -- >> they are magnificent. seeing the clydesdales is part of what you can do in pimlico. i'm jennifer franciotti.

>> here is a mild at pimlico ready for the 137th running of the preakness stakes just more than 24 hours away now. for anyone who will not be making an over for the big race in person, there is another way to be a part of the second round of the triple crown. >> you can barely see them, but this is a famous for her jockey upfront giving a sunrise tour. the free tour from 6:00-9:00 a.m. gives everyone a unique behind-the-scenes look at the horse racing industry. >> they like to see the horses and learn about the race, the history.

>> you really get behind the scenes. it's thrilling. it's not something you ever see on race day. >> the jockeys are telling us about the history of the races and the track. >> we tried to get about 20 people in each tour. we have a tour guides. we all walk down talk fast. >> it covers a lot of ground from the track to the states, to picture-taking opportunities. >> then we have a little horse that called the kentucky derby, as you probably know. >> they worked every day with the derby winner and he spent the last few days talking with racing fans. >> anything we can do to create an interest in horse racing and put faces with the stars of the game, i think it is a got to do deal. >> another one, the budweiser clydesdales. of history.rt

it's great to be here. >> the sunrise tours are over. there are none on preakness day, but we wanted to give you an idea of of how to setup your schedule next year. jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> have a great day at the races. here's a look at what's coming up new at 6:00. >> revenged laurels in the case of 14 people linked to drugs and violence, five shootings, two dead. kidd live in washington. dg 8 summit. world leaders are writing. what's on the agenda? >> i rob roblin. tomorrow is the preakness and the hilltop is looking good. a live look coming up. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- clucks good evening. the big story at 6:00, the big story at 6:00, authorities are tr