>> two baltimore county apartments up in flames. late breaking details on the search for a gunman in the ely cot city spa. a change is on the way when it comes to the pump. what analysts are predicting for the rest of the summer and why. good evening. we begin with a developing story out of hartford county with emergency cruise have suspended the search for a boating

accident. right now one person is still missing. one person has been accounted for. the sheriff's office confirms search and rescue boats were scow erring the waters before calling it off. no word on the missing boaters age and identity. we'll continue to bring you the very latest. now to some late breaking details in serge for an accused gunman. 11 news have located the suspect's getaway car at an ellic ott city spa. pham the wanted for an attempted murder, assault and gun offenses. investigators arrived at the nail spa last night and got into a fight with a man outside. he chased the man inside the salon, opened fire and took off. the female victim was working inside and had a protective over against pham. both victims are in critical condition. the vehicle is located in allen lane within the last 90 minutes.

now to tonight's big story. two dozen apartment units were destroyed in an early morning fire in randall town and now investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the blaze. sheldon is live at fire station 18 with the latest. >> there are some good news to pass along even with all of those apartments being damaged. no injuries have been reported, but the official number of displaced victims are unknown since a lot of those units were vacant. fire officials are grateful because this could have been a lot worse. when firefighters arrive at the garden view apartments early sunday morning they were greeted by these unruley flames. >> i just hope nobody was in it because that thing was ablaze, an inferno. >> i was praying that nobody got hurt because how bad it looked, it's just bad. this video was provided by michael sportsburg.

and it destroyed 22 units. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. but fire officials think it spread to the attic. they had the fire under control about an hour and a half later. fires contained to that apartment and to the attic area. a lot of water damage to the rest of the area. the residence were displaced due to the water damage. when the firefighters were praying the roof, the roof was caving in. >> it's unknown how many residents were displaced. but the leasing office and the red cross were helping victims find a temporary place to stay. despite all the property that was destroyed in the fire, david brulin is relieved that his neighbors are all right. >> i know a lot of families are displaced. when you lose your home, it's got to be bad.

again, no injuries have been reported. firefighters working smoke alarms helped alert out of those people get out. >> just hours before those flames broke out in randallstown crews responded to another town. this one at a home that was undergoing renovation. that fire spread to a nearby wooded area and it took 150 firefighters more than an hour and a half to get it all under control. no one was living there at the time. investigators were working determine the cause. thousands of b.g.e. customers lost power after some fast moving but powerful storms rolled through. meteorologist is in the weather system. those storms came and went very quickly. >> right but the strongest weather has been to the north of us. we'll take a look at the radar

moving through southern pennsylvania. a little rain went through the city here. and by far the worst of the weather is near philadelphia and those big storms are moving offshore now. there is another storm activity coming out of west, virginia so we're likely to see one more band of rain coming here tonight. you can see rain estimates. two bands of rain mostly north of us and south of us. baltimore's been in kind of a hole with all of this and we've only received generally here in the metropolitan area. the heat and humidity will be up for quite a while as we go into the week with some hot but not record-breaking temperatures. forecast details just ahead. a baltimore police officer is on administrative leave after shooting and killing a man in northwest baltimore. authorities identify the man as devante bowman.

he was with a semi-automatic gun. he took off leading to a brief chase. one of the officers fired his gun killing him. >> the state medical examiner is conditioning an autopsy of a man . . the body was found on merritt boulevard. they believe that the body has been there for some time but say the investigation is ongoing. police are trying to determine if alcohol and drugs are a factor that claimed the life of a baltimore city man. marcel donnell smith was traveling southbound on 83 when his motorcycle collided with a car. he traveled at a high rate of speed. he had some marijuana in his

position. person in car was not injured. >> now the scandal that has rocked penn state. sports analyst bob costas says today that the university needs to suspend its football program for at least a year following the release of the free report. that report is the independent investigation into penn state in jerry sandusky's sexual abuse of children by lewis freed. and found that coach joe paterno hid accusations. he said if the university doesn't take action against football program, the ncaa will. >> but if they play come september at penn state, something's wrong. >> as for joe paterno's legacy, costas says that free report does irreparable damage. he said they enabled sanduskies abuse. -- sandusky's abuse.

>> as the race for the white house heats up, the obama and romney campaigns are accusing each other of lying. the obama campaign says it has the people to back that claim up. a political firestorm is underway. >> the lateth poll show the presidential race is tightening but it doesn't take a poll to show how it is heating up. president obama supporters are making no apologies for their latest attack on mitt romney and claims he was a jobs outsourcing pioneer when he rain bane capital. >> stop whining. >> romney supporters say the allegations are untrue, unfair and effective. >> they want to talk about anything but president obama dismal report when it comes to the economy and it's working.

>> romney lost the narrative in a week that was supposed to be focused oon another lackluster jobs report. >> they care about getting the done greatest country back to work. >> president o bam's fortune -- obama's fortune lands on the economy. >> which means an economy with weak jobs growth, an unemployment rate at over %. but for now it's a focus on their personality and on some very personal attacks. republican governors are urging him to stay focused on the economy. >> well, we could know in just a few days that there will be a special session to expand gambling in maryland. governor martin o'malley is meeting with steve knee raw -- stephanie raw lings blake.

it i -- a casino. o'malley will meet with them on tuesday. the deadline is august 20th. >> work is scheduled to begin tomorrow to replace a large part of a water main in southwest baltimore. the department of public works will need to relace three 15-foot sections. the main was flagged with potential for failure after crews discovered a ricks. d.p.w. officials say the project should take two weeks. residents may notice a slight decrease in water pressure. officials urge residents to conserve water as much as possible during the repairs. >> their children were victims of murder. an parents are helping each other to deal with the grief. they had a memorial service. it started three years ago with

about 50 people attending. this year hundreds flocked to turner station park to remember children killed in local communities stricken with violence. the goal is to give moral support to anyone who has lost a love one providing resources to cope. >> you can encourage one another. to encourage one another in the lord. >> they offer support with e-mail and they offer a 24-hour support service. >> as police investigate the deadly shooting of an indiana man, the case takes a tragic twist. turns out the shooter was his 3-year-old son. but first this 130-year-old prison is set to be demolished. but the method may surprise you. >> a bunch of thunderstorms to our north. the weather forecast is just ahead. a warm evening this evening around the area but some thunderstorms have taken the

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>> it housed some of maryland's most violent inmates for more than a century. now the 130 maryland house of corrections is set to be torn down piece by piece by inmates. officials say that the deconstruction plan will save millions of dollars an will ramp up at the beginning of next month. the facility shutdown after a string of violence including the deadly stabbing of a correction officers. >> america's c.e.o. is getting a public relations message. they have selected university of m's business school as one of six schools to participate in the pilot project. the project will launch a model

course at the school, focus on how to handle crisis and preserve corporation reputations, corporate reputation. society issues like the gulf oil spill and the recession have given capitalism a new name. >> covering the nation tonight. late breaking news from microsoft announcing its pulling out of a joint venture that owned msnbc.com. nbc is buying the software company's interest in the website and msnbc will be rebranded as nbc news.com. the online divorce stems from the two partner's desire to gain control of their own destinies. microsoft plans to launch its own service this fall. >> meantime that break we've been enjoying on gas prices may soon come to an end. lundburg survey says high seasonal demand and the rising cost of crude oil will likely

mean the rise -- a rise at if pump. the average is $3.41 and the average price we're paying here in baltimore is $3.38. >> police say a 3-year-old may have actually shot and kill his father. the toddler found a loaded gun inside the home and accidentally shot and kill his 33-year-old father on friday night. police say the man, his wife, their three children and another relative were inside the home at the time of the shooting. nobody else in the home was injured. the incident remains under investigation. >> the relentless drought sweeping most of the country is causing some major problems for boaters in indianapolis. water levels in the morris reservoir is under six feet. many boaters have chosen to stay out of the water to avoid stumps an shallow water. >> -- and shallow water. >> we'll store it.

if the lake goes back up, we will go back in. >> the water's dangerously low. it's creating a lot of high areas and run across stumps that's doing a lot of damage to their boats. >> it's exnted two weeks of rain to restore normal water levels. >> now your forecast with john collins. >> our rain has been inconsistent to say the least. just this month alone we're running .14 below what would be considered the average as far as rainful is concerned. with the heat -- all the heat we've had the moisture gets drawn out of the soil. so the soil could use some good rains, catching up. usually in the mid to late summer. a will the of the factor of breaking droughts are really dry conditions are the remnants of a tropical storm or hurricane. there's any of that activity going on.

we have had some thunderstorms passed to the north of us. we did get a few showers this evening. the big storms have been up in philadelphia and new jersey. a lot of that's moved. those are loaded with lightning. unbelievable amounts of lightning strikes. there is cluster activity coming from western virginia beginning to cross the potomac and washington county. a lot of lightning is has gone from it. these showers could pass. 95 was the high. 99 at the inner harbor. the record was 102. records for the next few days will be in the 100's even though we will be hot and humid. we had.6 of rain. we had a trace earlier this morning. only a trace of race here. where have temperatures been? they've been up and down. the normal is 88. all right. so we've been down and up and down and up hovering at 8 in the past week. it's unbearable.

now we're going to add humidity to it. so we'll be soldly in the 90's for the next few days, with high humidities. it's warm this evening, 81, cambridge 80. and 77 elkton. 75 parkton. 77 westminster. western maryland's in the 60's right now. these are the really big storms. most of that has been north of us and here's the stuff coming in from the west. it's kind of demirning. thunder and lightning has dispated. but that's due from west to east. we'll pick up a few showers. this dotted line indicates the trough. that's kind of a partial front, a very weak front. it's been moving through the area and that's been the focus for some of this storm activity. it will be moving up to sea. and there is this big area of high pressure is just pumping in all of this moisture and warm

air. it's going to be with us for a few days. mostly cloudy, 65 to 75 alone. west to southwest winds at 27. here's the rain that we expect to come through tonight. then we dry out. tomorrow just an isolated shower. hardly enough to get a percentage point. 90 to 95, kind of hot and humid. everybody in the 90 's. heat and humid and those isolated storms and the hot weather stays with us. plenty of humidity but by wednesday and thursday a front comes in. knock the temperatures down. >> let's talk about sports now. it's pretty cool seeing a local player making the orioles debut. >> craig johnson. justin verlander was locked in. we'll show you how verlander stifled the

>> one pitcher the orioles hate to see on the monday is justin verlander. verlander's not only one of the best pitchers in baseball but he practically owns the o's. in 10 starts the reigning m.v.p. is 7-0 lifetime against birds including 5-0 at camden yards. his latest clinic was on display. verlander, here he strikes out chris davis. verlander allowed just three hits in eight scoreless innings. to the sixth inning we go. two runners on for alex avila. a diving robert an dindo. the runs scores making it 3-0. tigers but an dindo, robert's having trouble getting you m he would leave the gaining with an injury to his left shoulder. an m.r.i. is scheduled for

tomorrow. steve johnson, the son of former oriole dave johnson making his major league debut with runners at second and third. he strikes out austin jackson and there's a proud dad dave johnson leading the cheers for his son. in the ninth steve serves up this pitch to miguel cabrera. cabrera does this to a lot of pitcher, his 20th of the season. the tigers win it 4-0. what else can you say? verlander was simply verlander. >> it's a luxury you know, you have when you have a horse like that to empty your bullpen last night. you guys notice tigers didn't make any move for pitchers today. he had struggles in the all-star i wasn't too excited about it because i had an idea he was going to be on top of his game today. >> before the game jason hammel was put on the 15-day d.l. he will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.

meanwhile the birds activated britain. britain has missed the entire season with a shoulder injury. the angels' young stud mike trout greeting derek jeter. we start with derek jeter. tex loses his bat. goes flying into the stands and look who has it. it's spike lee. spike showing off his swing. trout has been a beast for the angels. he had two more hits. a deep drive to center field. curtis granderson. what a catch. trout batting a .349. mark trumbo goes deep. his 24th of the season. the angels go on to win 10-8. jered weaver now 1-1 -- 11-1. strasburg was dealing. here he whips carlos lee. strasburg with six scoreless

innings. strasburg getting some help with his defense. hanley ramirez with the drive. roger bernadina with a terrific catch. the offense also getting it done for the nats in the fifth. steve lombardozzi coming through. the native delivers the base hit. that scores jhonathan solano. nats go on to win 4-0. jason kidd was to be a mentor but apparently it's kidd needing to learn to make the right decision. he was arrested this morning for a d.w.i. he was involved in a single-car accident when his s.u.v. slam into a telephone poll. he signed with the knicks just three days ago. >> senior open, a local guy in contention that's fred funk the former turk getting it done. birdie putt on 17. he finished at eight under. bernhard langer entering the day.

but he had trouble getting things going and a bogey here and langer with a shot at 72 he also finished at 78. chapman, jack nicklaus, gary player and hail irwin were the only ones to win in the same year. >> speaking of legends, our john collins is back with the seven-day after this.