of escorting the valve trucks to this location to try to get this shot down and it is still gushing all the way down to pratt. they have shut down the as side streets. traffic is in gridlock. this is on the jones falls expressway here. traffic is just not going anywhere from the east side to the west side. if you try to go from south to north baltimore, it is just packed and stacked. they're working diligently to try to figure out how they can get this figured out. reporting live in sky team 11, capt. roy taylor. klutzes special legislative session to expand gambling is better than rolling the dice according to governor o'malley who believes progress is being

made. >> and david joins us live from the news room. >> this is a yet to be named gambling commission setting new tax breaks for gaming revenue. the senate president will be briefed at a breakfast meeting tomorrow. >> the are the low-cost special session are now better than a role of the dice. this grows from a consensus regarding a new proposal allowing to set a gambling tax rates. the seven sticking point for some house members.

-- this has been a sticking point. >> this is better left to a commission to handle. they can come back and overturning it if it was never something so egregious. what they discussed it with stephanie rawlings blake who declined to speak to reporters. isaiah leggitt. >> let the gaming commission said the raids. i think that the house alternative plan that they offer. >> they all support allowing a commission and they will press their case for table games with their delegations. the state board of public works that the property tax rate.

the governor believes the house alternative could generate a compromise and lead to a special session. >> at the progress has been made. then again, i thought it was being made a up until the goal line when they took off their helmets. >> the breakfast meeting with the governor will include house speaker michael busch. even though this is a house proposal, getting the 71 votes needed could prove a difficult. they call the alternate proposal "not much of a selling point peak of the delegation is on record in opposition to a six the gambling side. david collins, wbal-tv 11 news. >> plenty of the baltimore city council tonight including auditing city agencies and term limits. lowell melter joins us live from city hall with a preview. >> a busy night.

city hall this evening. bill henry has been the most vocal sofar introducing four different bills which he tells 11 news he hopes to improve the way the government operates in the city. >> i would be proud of the council put any, much less all, on the ballot for the people to vote on. even if that does not happen or does not happen quickly, getting the conversation started, for me, is an important part of it. >> bill henry will try his best to rock the city council vote introducing four charter amendments he says will make the city government more efficient and cut down on the city's "strong male role system." he wants to reduce the number of votes for the mayoral veto to two-thirds of the council. >> we have a ridiculously strong male role system of

government in baltimore. it is so strong that it infringes upon the legislative bodies ability of to be a legitimate check on the executive power. >> the second would let the city council that money to the budget if it did not approve of the mayor's spending. >> would just came out of a budget season were a majority of the council wanted to spend money differently. >> that there would be to change the structure and size down to nine members, six districts and three at large council members. >> everyone will have a district representative, but they will also have three at large people to call upon instead of just one. >> 3 terms for council members and two terms for citywide officials. jack young will also weigh in on several bills including one that would make public hearings mandatory if there are to be any future firehouse closings.

with the sake of baltimore's more important to me than worrying about the politics of it. -- >> the safety of baltimore is more important to me. >> the others requiring city agencies to have their operations audited every second fiscal year. a similar bill was defeated by a narrow margin not too long ago, so it will be interesting to see it that bill makes it through. reporting live from city hall, lowell meltzer, wbal-tv 11 news. >> more details tonight in the investigation of the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy in howard county. >> one of the accused is five months pregnant and another is a college student. we had the very latest from police headquarters in howard county. >> all three are still being held without bail. the parents of one suspect that asked the judge to consider their daughter's future. they want to see if it's possible for her to get out of jail.

>> leaving the court without comment, but the parents of 21- year-old chiquita sketeres had something to say to the judge saying, "if my daughter is guilty of anything, it is choosing her friends wrongly and using poor judgment peak of their rest of her at her home in randallstown. in court, she heard the charges against her, attempted murder, conspiracy, firearms violations. the public defender said she had just finished her second year at west virginia state and was transferring to compensate. she says she wants to be an anesthesiologist. according to chart -- court charging documents, she supplied and loaded the rifle used to shoot a 15-year-old boy in the back the head. she is accused of telling him he is going to die. prosecutors called as a horrific crime. he was kidnapped june 19th and

shot in this field. howard and baltimore county police officers executed a search warrant at this home. police say an officer shot and -- say someone shot and killed a man after an attack with a sword. they arrested the man's knees, -- neice, laura karr. she is five months pregnant. investigators think she was the driver and peoples was the shooter. both are charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. skteres has no criminal record. karr and peoples are out on bail for drug charges. peoples was that to be on trial monday for assault and weapons charges. live in a recount the, barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> more now on the breaking news in downtown baltimore where the

big water main break. sheldon dutes is live on the scene. you are right next to the break. what's going on? >> this could not have happened at a worse time. not only is there rush-hour traffic, but we have this water main break happening and traffic is at a standstill downtown. titlist want to assure you were the bulk of the activity is happening, the corner of lumbar, just one block north of where we are. that is rare you can see a lot of activity, light, and sirens down that way. we have seen a lot of water and so forth just cascading in coming down in torrents down where we are here. i spoke to an official from the department of public works and he is actually on his way over here to the scene, but they're trying to figure out how big the break was. they're not sure how big the pipe was would is giving them a hard time figuring out what the cause may have been. traffic around downtown is that a complete standstill and it

took us 30 minutes just to travel a few miles to get here to the same coming down here. this is the main thoroughfare into federal help, but as you can see the area around here has a lot of browne of murky water in the area and a lot of streets are closed as they try to figure out what exactly went wrong and why all this water is here in the street. i did want to show you what's going on trade the water over here is brown and murky. the streets are closed. if you have to be in this area, stay north of downtown or try to take an interstate around so you will not get caught in this mess. there are traffic officials trying to detour and guide traffic in the area. traffic is at a standstill. pratt street looks like a parking lot. >> any idea if the valve trucks are on the scene? have actually gone in there? can they start to fix it?

>> this is as close as we could get. we're still one block or two away from the actual water main break. it's anyone's guess at this point the fed actually arrived. getting to downtown was so tough and a lot of the response crews that have been coming out here got stuck in the same gridlock traffic. that is why officials are urging everyone if you do not have to be here to avoid the areas of they can get to work. >> when you get that much water concentrated, the possibility of raising coal is there. is that a concern? >> v.c. water in your area, do not try to drive through it. just a little bit away from here, the ground is pretty soft. there is water bolt -- bubbling up. it looks like that is about one block away. if you're driving through here, a lot of people are being brave and tried to drive through these intersections that are filled with this water.

you're taking a risk. >> thank you so much, sheldon. we will check back in a little while. "let's take a break. we're back with more in a minute. rate rise gets his deal. >> another hot day today, but a nice break in the heat with the seven-day forecast coming up. temperatures right now or in the mid 90's. ♪

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>> lets try to update you on a major story going on right now. this has really flooded the area. sheldon dutes on the scene. >> can you give us a sense of what is going on? >> i will try to pandora slowly as i can to show you the other side. on the other side of where we are here, there are fire trucks blocking the center section. this is where there is another news crew over there. it is a mess down there. there were cars waiting trying to get through the center section to continue to go east over on pratt.

go south to federal hill creating a problem. it you can see the brown murky water in that intersection, that is the scene in this area. the department of public works says there are three water mains located here on the other side of where the camera is right now. they're trying to shut the camera -- the water off right here. it will not know which water main broke here. they're still trying to shut off the water in that area and once they do there will have a better gauge. >> there has been a recent concern to conserve water because they're getting ready to fix another water main that has

an issue in southwest baltimore. you wonder what losing these thousands of gallons of water will do to the water supply in the city. about theearning potential ramifications. things are shutting down in the area. things are unfolding as we speak. an active seen downtown. still learning how people and businesses in the area will be effected. >> thank you, sheldon. he just got down there and got us all that impression. for more information on the brake and what this will mean for you, visit our web site, wbaltv.com. >> now, your lebanons the weather + forecast with tony pann. -- your insta-weather + forecast with tony pann.

>> it is not quite as strong as it was a couple of weeks ago, but in the upper 90's near 100 over the next few days. last night in the heat and humidity, we had some big storms develop and even damage in some areas, but tonight it's not as widespread. most of the activity now is down in southern maryland. prince george's county and then down in st. mary's county. in baltimore, we will be ok. 93 at the airport. 89 in parton. dew point around 70. when we back to that in, the heat index is over 100. 95 in westminster. the forecast for tonight, partially cloudy skies and a chance for it thunderstorm this evening.

during the day tomorrow, the high pressure will slide off the coast meeting this will turn to the southwest and we will probably be a few degrees warmer tomorrow around 100. 95-100 with a heat index between 100-105. an outside chance for a storm, but only 20% in the afternoon. the seven-day looks like this. just as hot on wednesday with a cold front approaching the. through wednesday and thursday morning. you can get some bumpy weather. we will be rewarded with a nice weekend, sunshine, low humidities. the overnight lows will be in the 60's. it something to look forward to. >> from the susquehanna banks for center, this is 11 sports. >> it has been the time to get deals done.

two minutes before the deadline on friday and then today, re rice signing of the dotted line five minutes before the deadline. a five-year contract with the $25 million in certainties'. it could be as much as $40 million. the summit in the highest-paid running back in franchise history. if a rise replicates his performance over the next years, $40 million will be a bargain. four years from to $32 million with $18 million guaranteed. he had earned more and in negotiating, it's all about the compare will deals. war rushing yards, more receiving yards, and more touchdowns and with a bat house more money. the san francisco chronicle dropped a bombshell this afternoon saying that kevin anderson it would become the

athletic director at stanford just a few days after officially saying nothing. they say he is not in negotiations with stanford. this say that this was all but a done deal but maryland says he is not under consideration. we will have to wait and see. stay with us for one

>> we go back at the downtown baltimore where water main break-and down the area on lombard street. capt. roy taylor and sky team 11 is still over the area. >> the valve truck we have been talking about has arrived. they have shut down most of the flow from the major water main break. the roads still remaining closed because they're concerned that underneath the road has been undermined and there may be damaging to the vehicles driving over top of it. expect some delays downtown. live in this 1911, and capt. roy live in this 1911, and capt. roy tayl i'll have the $4 everyday value slam with... bacon.

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>> for another couple of days, he will be with us and then smooth sailing into the weekend. tomorrow and wednesday upper 90's with heat index over 100. a cold front will be coming through with some thunderstorms in the middle of the weekend. >> two days vs two weeks? fine. >> we have the latest on the water main break tonight at 11. there is always more online, wbaltv.com.