have to go before a judge, however. >> and a monster truck on a destructive mission. why it is all part of a plan to boost the economy. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition". >> hello again i am jeff barnd. >> and i am karen parks. convicted felon on the loose tonight. >> he escaped custody after assaulting a sheriff's deputy. the sheriff's office said 20-year-old devon champagne had just been convicted on felony theft charges and was being transported around 11:30 last night. during the ride from the courthouse to the jail. champagne reportedly attacked the deputy using handcuffs to choke the man. and struck him and tried to steal his weapon before climbing out the cruiser window. his family said champagne then stopped at home briefly before going on the run again. >> we have had trouble here in the past. this is not the first time the place have been here. >> i hope they find him and put

him where he is spotted supposed to be. i hope. >> sheriff's office said it will launch a review in to how champagne was able to pull off the escape in the first place. >> at this time, before we do a capital review, we believe every rules and regulation was followed. always room for improvement. concerned with the safety of the officer, and citizens of howard county. >> the deputy is in stable condition at this time. champagne meantime is facing charges, including attempted murder and assault. >> first to on fox. two teenagers caught on tape shooting a man at a carry out. our sentence today. you recall the video of a bystander targeted in a robbery and then shot. witnesses are seen laughing. 15-year-old kevin johnson and 17-year-old david jefferson pled guilty to several charges, including attempted murder. johnson received nine years. jefferson got seven. >> it was sad because he could have done more, got more time. >> it is the incident that

happened. everybody makes mistakes. >> the victim, marvin edmunds still walks with a limp. he was not at the sentencing. >> and the trigger man in the carl lackl murder case will spend 40 years behind bars. 18-year-old jonathan cordish learned his fate today. member of the bloods gang, he was 15 when he shot lackl out of his home in 2007. lackl has been set to testify against patrick byers in a murder case, when buyers ordered the hit from jail. cordish is the last of eight defendants convicted in the death. >> olympic champion michael phelps involved in a crash in downtown baltimore. and tonight police released a report and say it is not his fault. the driver of the other car will be cited for failure to obey a red slight and causing an accident. $180 fine, with three points on her license. michael phelps was also cited, police say he was driving his cadillac escalade on an expired michigan license. >> he will be going to court and talk to the judge and explain

why he was driving around without the license. you know, i do know he was traveling with the olympics and everything and all the training he does. but that's an issue for the court system. >> accident occurred at north calvert and east bittle. no one seriously injured. >> two bus operators who work for the metro out of work tonight. michael robinson dismissed. charged with kid can napping last isnora'92 month after refusing to let a rider off the bus. apparently after an argument between the two. car let ta douglas was also fired. police arrested her for driving a suspended license. >> three new marc trains gather dust in locus point as the state confronts the maker over safety concerns. engines have not been properly vented. but they claim all the necessary testing completed. the train saw the first of 26 new locomotives purchased by the state at the cost of $100 million. they were supposed to be up and running by june. >> and an audit of the state highway administration, finds

the department needs to go to get better at record keeping. officials are not keeping track of things like cash receipts. fuel use. and corporate purchasing cards. administration failed to fully comply with certain state regulations for purchasing equipment for contractors. and it did not waste follow up when items went missing. audit covered november of 2005 to july of 2008. >> the governor of maryland talks about thousands of suggests he received on how to save the state money. some are lifting a tuition freeze in state colleges and universities. and stop the purchasing of new voting machines for the state of maryland. others want the state to reduce land acquisitions for the state's program known as open space. >> one of the themes that keeps coming through, from state employees, is the notion of closing all of state government. around holiday times. and in order to allow people to plan and also to save more money by being able to close all operations on the same day.

>> the governors office is trying to find $400 million in budget cuts by labor day to balance the budget. >> meantime federal stimulus funding ear marked for maryland could save you money. $51 million will go toward green programs like providing energy grants and low interest loans for energy improvements to residential and commercial buildings, altogether it is expected to save $370 million in energy costs. and reduce carbon emissions by 2 million tons. >> another beautiful sunny day out there today. >> it was wonderful. and the heat and humidity did not let up. >> yeah. >> here is meteorologist jessica starr with more on the sky watch forecast. hi jess. >> it was a great day outside. >> it was. >> beautiful summer day. and good news is that it will stick around for the weekend. so if you have outside plans this weekend or head to the pool or want to get yard work in. this is the weekend to do it. right now 79 in baltimore. 76 degrees in d.c. and as you can see, the winds are a little bit light out of the, well, around out of the south, southeast right now. showing not very strong but

bringing in moisture that will allow for fog to develop overnight tonight. at midnight 75. waking up to fog with sunshine out there. 64 degrees. at 6 a.m. and at noon tomorrow. 80 degrees. but we will be dealing with humid conditions. conditions out there. and there is a chance for some 90s in our forecast. tell when you they will arrive in maryland coming up in a few minutes. >> well, tonight you need to know that it is a very last weekend to take advantage of free entrance to national parks. the parks normally charge $20 per car, but not this weekend. even president obama and his family are taking advantage of the offer with a visit to the grand canyon. and yellow stone park. the national park service launched the free weekend program in june. >> college students will have the option to save money and rent their textbooks come december. publishers will offer the service charging between 40 and

70 percent less than the suggested retail price. anyone that signs up will receive an electronic version of the first chapter. then the book will come by mail. >> a lot of people are turning out, many of whom have never turned out in the past. >> talking town halls for health care reform. why the former governor of maryland thinks ben cardin got more than he ever bargained for in towson. >> proposed health care reform bill is big. and confusing for some. why lawmakers have put together with such a lengthy document. . >> that is not karen parks in the parking lot. the unlikely person, however,

. >> president obama hits the road trying to sell health care reform.

townhall meeting in montana this afternoon was much calmer than most. but the president denounced the focus on angry protestors at townhall meetings saying television loves the raucous. president spoke for about 30 minutes before taking questions. >> what we need to do is come up with a uniquely american way of providing care. so i am not in favor of canadian system. i am not in favor of a british system. or a french system. >> the president has another townhall meeting tomorrow in colorado. >> undoubtly many u.s. lawmakers cannot wait for the recess to end. because town halls are tougher than the comfortable confines of the u.s. capital where reckless spending has become sport. we continue with political pulse with former maryland governor robert ehrlich. >> cardin is popular, been around forever, right, house of delegates. house of representatives. and what he saw the other night is probably surprising to him.

because these are not wackos or cooks, right wing. regular folks turning out. now clearly there is a certain aspect to this. republicans take advantage and democrats play defense. but for the most part people are turning out. many of whom have never turned out in the past. >> you are saying there is a partisan effort here. and i want to drive home in the point. you have a lot of democrats, in the early stages of these townhall meetings when they start to see people get out of hand. it was a right wing effort. republicans, and i am thinking to myself, this is not a reasonable person republican issue or democratic issue. put out a tablet and get a pen and do the math. republicans are impotent. >> we are talking about maryland now jeff. so any crowd is going to be 2/3rds democrat by definition. >> right, these are democrats that are up in arms over this. >> but, again, it is -- go back to a point i made before. last week. ed marki and henry wax man, and

nancy pelosi and harry reed and all of these guys, for the most part, they have never had a job in the private sector. for the most part never run a business. for the most part never worked for a successful business. never met a bottom line. never dealt with health care mandates or tax increases. or balanced budgets in the real-world. where you don't get to print money to make up for deficit. so a lot of them -- they are not bad people. they just have an idea that in many cases, in most respects, far removed from the reality of running a small business, in the real-world. >> i have the answers and you don't so therefore let me do what i want to. >> and the american public are coming back with, no, no, no, you don't know better. because here is my situation. here is my bottom line. here is what you are doing to me. >> appreciate t thanks for coming auto. governor ehrlich. and see more of the interview and read the blog by going to eb foxbaltimore.com and clicking on political pulse. >> now one concerned about

health care reform is the overwhelming amount of red tape involved. three house committees are working on hr 3200. more than 1000 pages in length. senator cardin of maryland held a townhall meeting in salisbury thursday, one person said it was just too confusing. >> why on earth, are you producing a health care bill that has so many pages in it, and such complex wording, that we cannot understand it? >> i think, we have a responsibility to answer as many of the specific questions that are out there as possible. >> senators have yet to have a bill on the floor of the upper chamber. >> this brings us to the question of the day. is the health care reform plan too complicated? at last check, 77 percent say yes. 23 percent say no. patricia from baltimore writes, why can't there be a comprehensive interpretation of the health care reform? all the people want are answers to the questions. to read more of your responses

go to foxbaltimore.com and click on your responses. >> sounds roam to me, don't you think? >> yeah. >> they should have the townhall meetings outside. and it has been beautiful. and maybe people would be in more loving mood. >> rain at night. good sleeping weather. >> should have them in the day. >> any more of that? here is meteorologist jessica starr. if jeff barnd would be quiet so we can get the forecast. >> he doesn't want me to talk tonight. he wants a one man show tonight. for some reason. but anyway. we are going to have beautiful weather this weekend. if you have outside plans, get out and enjoy it. but it will be warm, and the humidity will be increasing through the weekend. but right now, checking in at the inner harbour. 79 degrees. it was a beautiful night for an o's game. winds calm. and humidity, unfortunately staying up. so it will be a little bit uncomfortable overnight tonight. as well as for the daytime saturday and sunday. you can see the dewpoint is 68 fahrenheit. so on the sky watch hd regional radar. getting a dry sweep across the

state of maryland. and that's the way things stay. further south, you could run into rain showers. as we have the stationary front sitting to the south. that will allow for clouds and rain showers to fire up, if you are traveling toward virginia beach and or ocean city. this weekend. and as it will stay just to the south. but further north you go to maryland and pennsylvania, you will be fine adjustment dry in sunny weather. all thanks to the high pressure in control. and once we are on the back side of the high pressure system, tomorrow to sunday, temperatures will get close to 90 degrees. but look toward sunday, around 1:00. that stationary boundary is allowing for rain showers to develop towards the southern portions of the delmarva peninsula, and virginia and southern portions of maryland as well. so just a slight chance for an isolated rain shower in the vicinity on sunday. but otherwise, things are going to remain dry and sunny. now, we have a tropical disturbance that we are watching. the tropical depression two has weakened a bit. the other one that we are really concerned about right now, is

the tropical wave that is coming off africa. a lot of convection with it. as well as a lot of thunderstorm activity. and it is forecast to strengthen. all the models have it strengthening as well. and if it does become a hurricane it will be hurricane anna. so watch that salmonella system as it strengthens and turns in the warm atlantic water. beach cast, forecast. if you are headed over to ocean city for the weekend. couple of clouds in the vicinity. partly cloudy skies. muggy and temperatures in the mid 80s. and if you are staying here. inner harbour, downtown. 85 degrees. under humid conditions. and winds will continue out of the southeast. look at the five-day forecast. looking very dry and very summer like. 88 by sunday. 89 degrees on monday. and close to that 90-degree mark on tuesday. dry and sunny weather. if you have yard work to do this is the weekend to do it. cold front will move through here on wednesday allowing for thunderstorms to develop in the afternoon hours with a temperature of 87. i will have a look at the seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> 2 faa employees placed on

administrative leave after the collision over new york hudson river. investigators say a air traffic controller was involved in inappropriate conversations on the phone at the time of the accident. and his supervisor was not in the building at the time as required. the faa said the employees's actions do not appear to have contributed to the accident. nine people died in that crash. >> you usually don't hear cal

. >> o's turned things up a notch tonight in the first game of the series against los angeles angels. but it did not -- bigger night for felix pie that joined other birds in the record books tonight. start at the bottom of the first. pie up. he pulls it down the right field

line. noland rhyme hold comes in from third. pie goes to second with a double. and that was just the beginning of a big night for pie. bottom the third. pie has not had a home run since the 13th and changes it with that swing. way gone. third of the year. o's up. and pie was not done. bottom of the seventh. pie needs a single and a triple for the cycle. he hits it in the hole at short. and eye bar makes a nice throw but speedy pie beats it out for the infield hit. he is a triple shy of the cycle. and later in the seventh. o's up 14-5. pie up again. you know he is going for three if he hits it in the gap. and that's what he did. he drills it to right center. and pie puts on the after burners, he gets to third. easily. to become just the fourth oriole to hit for the cycle. and orioles pound the first place angel 16-6 to take game one of the four game set. >> ravens have starteded off on a good note. shutting out the washington redskins last night.

23-0 in the opener. joe flacco and the starting offense drove the ball well. but ended up leaving it to kicker hauschka to get the six points. back up qb smith able to connect pot team's first touchdown. ravens top defense, in top form. we saw several of the newest ravens get their time in the spotlight. overall, a good night in baltimore. and coach john harbaugh sees this as a good sign for the season. >> it was a good start. and obviously we have a lot of work to do. our guys realize that. that's what we do. go back to work saturday. we are physical. protected the football. defense played well. young offensive lineman did a nice job. lots of good things. >> despite the shutout win. ravens could not escape injury. marcus smith out for the season. with a torn acl. he was seen limping off the field after making a tackle on a punt return in the second quarter. it is a tough blow for the second year receiver who was just vying for one of the top

four wide receiver spots. >> you go out there every day. you don't think about getting hurt. trying to make plays. make the team. everybody is out there going full speed. trying to do whatever they can to make and be a part of the program and organization. definitely feel i was doing that and got hurt had. it happens. it happened to me. and the situation and circumstances that happened. it sucks, but move forward and go from here. >> no word on when smith will have the surgery. >> ravens had off the day today. and practice reopens tomorrow. ravens next preseason game is monday, august 24. at home. against the jets. . >> get this. surveillance video of the robbery of a virginia convenience store. the store owner said the masked man demanded money. the woman's husband rushed in and tackled the suspect. and wrestled him outside. that's when the woman saline aktar grabbed the gun and threw it in the trash can and her husband continued to fight the man.

police arrived and arrested the suspect but gun disappear. officers are investigating the possibility that the gunman had help. >> wonder what dealers are doing with all of those cars from the government's cash for clunkers program. well at a florida foreign dealership monster truck crushed these clunkers, under the program cars traded in cannot be resold. so this dealer put on a show with a 5-ton monster truck. the driver said he enjoyed doing his part. >> i am used to this. and what is funny is i drive down the interstate and get in my way and i am like you don't understand, i crush cars for a living. >> it wants to have another crushing if it gets enough trade ins. >> check out these smooth moves from the competitors in the yo-yo games in orlando florida. some 250 yo-yoers from 20 countries are said to yo-yo for top honors this weekend. in addition to the string trick competition there will be yo-yo workshops, and panel

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. >> well, this is a pretty scary thought. it is raining mini men in the midwest. >> hal. hundreds of gi joes dropped from a hotel in kansas. part of the gi joe convention this weekend. you are miss continuing. hosted by hasbro. and a collector's club to celebrate the 45th birthday of the world's first action figure. >> i am on my way. >> that is incredible. gi joe. happy birthday. 45 years. >> how much sun in the future? i hope a lot. for the next few million years. >> jessica starr is back with a look at the seven-day forecast. >> we have sun for four.

i got four for you. 85 tomorrow. for a high temperature. 88 on sunday. continue with the humid conditions. 89 on monday. and 90 on tuesday. but dry weather. so pretty nice weekend is in store for us. around the state of maryland. and then a cold front comes through here in the afternoon wednesday. allowing for clouds and thunderstorms to develop with the passing of a cold front. 87 on wednesday. 86 on thursday. and then once it moves through, dry conditions behind that cold front. mostly cloudy skies and a high of 86 degrees next friday. that's a look at the seven-day forecast. back to you guys. >> sounds good. thank you. >> thank you so much for joining us tonight. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am karen parks. see you tomorrow night. real time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning

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