questions. >> next time. retest. >> all right. that does it for this edition of "sports unlimited". "late edition" is next. and it starts right now. . >> a friday soaking. the damage heavy rains left behind. >> remembering 9/11. a new way america is paying tribute. >> he is a little bit groggy from the pain medicine. >> a victim of animal abuse. how surgery went for an injured cat. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition". >> a sloppy soaking to end this week. toppled trees and flooded roads for one big pain of a day for many many people around these parts but it was much worse for several west baltimore families. roofs collapsed. >> hello again, i am jeff barnd. >> and i am karen parks. several families have been forced out of apartments

tonight. after a roof collapsed. keith daniels is live at the scene tonight. with the story. keith? >> well, karen, live at the rosemont gardens apartments in the 2400 block of winchester street. tough to see now but a blue tarp covers the roof, part of the roof, of the building tonight. people that live in the top floor units, in building 2402. are cleaning up and drying out. parts of the ceilings, in at least six units, have fallen. residents say they are not surprised. they say with each rain the roof leaks. they have been complaining to management since april. but no repairs. with the steady rain today, roof on two units on the fourth floor, collapsed. and they be like a domino affect each ceiling below falling. one neighbor had a awakening at 5:00. >> you heard boom. and i am like, my neighbor from downstairs came up. and asked me had i ran my

bathtub or my toilet flooded or something because his ceiling was leaking, and i am like mine too. >> well, there is no word from management tonight. they did not return our calls, but those hardest hit said they were told that they would be put in other apartments. temporarily, until the repairs are made. live in west baltimore. keith daniels, fox 45 news "late edition". >> all right. thank you, keith. >> heavy rains today prompted flood warnings in some areas. how are things looking out there right now in jessica starr has the first alert sky watch forecast. >> the rain is slowly starting to taper off from the coastal low system that moved in here and dropped over a inch and a half of rain at bwi thurgood marshall airport today. there it is. you can see the counter-clockwise rotation. weakening and pushing out of the area. and we will start to deal with the remnants television for the daytime tomorrow. temperatures, it was a little bit he have a chilly start out there, and chilly temperatures out there. 62 degrees at airport.

64 in d.c.. and 62 in oakland. so next day planner. continue with the breezy conditions through the overnight hours. first part of the day tomorrow. saturday. wake up for clouds, and maybe a bit of drizzle as well. but things improve for the weekend. i will have a look at that in the full forecast in a few minutes. >> two developing stories to report tonight. police say the victim in a shooting had at a bus stop in baltimore has died. 3:00 sunday on northern parkway. the victim was sitting on the bike. when a gunman suddenly shot him in the head. the suspect then fled on foot. >> we know people, at least heard the shots. we know a lot of people saw suspects running. and we want to talk to them. we are hoping that they can give us a call to help out detectives. >> police have now identified the victim as 20-year-old trenton marshal of 2200 block of blue grass heights court. he died shortly after the shooting at johns hopkins hospital. >> also a body found floating in

the inner harbour today. found near the domino suggest is arrest facility. just after 4:00 p.m. today. police are calling the adult male death very questionable. >> a follow up tonight. a maryland woman accused of killing and freezing two daughters pleads guilty to first degree child abuse involving a third daughter. 44-year-old renee bowman abused her then 7-year-old adopted daughter found wandering in the neighborhood wearing a blood-stained night shirt and open source on much of her body. bowman could can receive up to 25 years in prison for the child abuse. >> eight years, since the attacks of 9/11. . >> family and friends of loved ones lost on that day gathered at ground zero in new york city. read the names of victims, and trumpets played. 3000 people died, when terrorist suddenly struck the united

states. >> no it has not healed anything. i still feel the loss. >> it hurts all the time. >> all the time? >> not just sometimes. >> president obama spoke at a ceremony at the pentagon. >> people around the city of baltimore, gathered at the inner harbour to pray and remember those killed eight years ago today. cry out america, is a nationwide prayer gathering. >> this anniversary is taking on a new meaning. giving back to the country and community. as today is is the first nationl day of service. governor o'malley rolled up the sleeves to help with a local project sponsored by habitat for humanity working to build nine homes for nine families. . >> a popular brand of water bottles could be bad for your health. cig brand aluminum water bottles popular for being environmental friendly. has a chemical in them interrupting hormones. they suggest it was in plastic

bottles but the company did not admit the bottles were dangerous. now the company said bpa was in the bottles all along until 13 months ago. >> the annual list of the top colleges and universities are out. the list from us news and world report and princeton review always gets a lot of attention. one researcher said take it with a grain of salt. >> the rankings do not really mean a lot. and that's what parents and students need to know. they have to come up with their own rankings based on their own research. >> she said to foe cus on school's educational programs and look for those that best fit your needs. and keep a school's graduation rate in mind. >> breaking news late tonight. the domestic abuse case against former university shawne merriman is dismissed. da dismissed the accusations that tila was attacked last

sunday. he said there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that merryman that plays for the san diego chargesers ever committed a crime. >> hidden camera reveals questionable tax advice and not just in the city of baltimore. how acorn is feeling the heat tonight. >> you lie. >> two days since congressman joe wilson makes that infamous outburst. he is rolling in the dough. >> and i sit down with robert ehrlich to get his thoughts on the president'

. >> there is late word tonight that the u.s. census bureau is severing partnership with acorn. the news comes after another tape is released today of acorn

workers apparently helping people cheat on taxes. tape released yesterday caught workers at a baltimore acorn office showing people how to claim taxes on illegal activities like prostitution. acorn said it was an isolated incident but toed the filmmaker released a new similar tape. this one in a dc acorn office. >> taxpayers are just upset. the stimulus package had granted them the ability to get billons of dollars of taxpayer money. and that's not stimulating the economy. >> the employees involved in baltimore and dc offices fired. and acorn said it has no plans to pursue the new stimulus dollars, it is now eligible to compete for. >> and that brings us to the question of the day. should the fired acorn workers also face criminal charges? so far 87 percent say yes. and 13 percent say no. steven from parkville writes, what happened, even though disgusting, and i can perverted.

i don't think the acorn workers should be criminally charged. they lost their jobs. that's enough. to read more responses go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the question of the day. >> the planned raising of eight downtown buildings is put on hold tonight. baltimore city is clearing the way for an $80 million city center project at calvert and lombard. but a demolition company was selected without public advertising first. and the city charter said that it calls for any contracts over $25,000 to be publicly advertised. >> when you have public dollars, you need to follow an open and transparent process, so that taxpayers understand how the money is being awarded. who is bidding on it. and who ultimate wins the contracts. >> as a result, mayor sheila dixon said baltimore's development corporation will no longer award demolition contracts. >> congressman joe wilson is well known tonight.

>> you lie. >> the morning after his infamous outburst his name was the number one search on google in the last two days. raised more than $200,000, for his reelection bid next year. but his democratic opponent rob miller has received more than $875,000. >> and the issue that had wilson so worked up had senators's attention today. part of the senate finance committee hammered out details to make sure that illegal immigrants cannot get government funded insurance. they said they are working on a provision to verify legal status before you can get coverage. they said they thought it was settled before, but apparently not. >> two days after president obama's speech on health care reform reaction is heated. we spoke to robert ehrlich about his thoughts on the speech on wednesday night. and congressman joe wilson's ill time tirade in this week's political pulls. >> he would have to do this with

all democratic votes, that's a problem for him. political problem. and self problem. particularly if he tries to do it through reconciliation where he needs 51 votes in the senate. that would be the start -- that would be in my view, the beginning of the next major civil war in the congress. there would be no cooperation. it would be a sign that this administration was so desperate for health care bill they are willing to jetson the rest of the major issues, the rest of the agenda and the rest of the presidency. >> 800-pound gorilla in the room is the senate. everyone so uncertain about the senate when it comes to health care o thursday, what you were talking about should have been talked about. it wasn't. what was talked about was joe wilson of south carolina and his outburst, which i thought, and tell me if i am wrong here, it was beyond the pale of decorum in a joint session of congress, but beyond that, he just said, here to the democrats, here is fodder for you, so they can take away the discussion regarding

the so-called hold, in obama's speech. >> i was there for eight years. the fact of it is there is a lot of junior high behavior that goes on on both sides of the aisle. >> the fact of it is, he was wrong. dead wrong. it was not a classy thing to do. he should have, in my view, made a more concrete apology. secondly, if you care about the defeating the this bill, which he does. and i do. and you think it is a bad bill and you prefer alternatives. you do not see the moral high ground on any issue to the opposition. that's what he did. now, nancy pelosi, harry reed can run around with disrespect to the president for that issue. and there is no excuse for that type of behavior. no excuse for the democrats, for the way they treated bush. no excuse for this the other night. no respect. and done political. wrong morally and politically.

double loser. >> thanks for coming in the rain today. >> my pleasure. governor bob ehrlich. if you would like to see more of the interview and read ehrlich's blog go to foxbaltimore.com/political pulse. >> will your weekend plans get rained out? meteorologist jessica starr is here with the sky watch forecast. >> heavy rain showers out there today. over an inch and a half at bwi thurgood marshall airport. but things have slowly dried out a bit. 62 at the inner harbour right now. cloudy skies. it was really windy out there today. those have subsided a bit. out of the west at eight. and humidity is up. and at 93 percent. so on sky watch hd regional radar, things are tapering off. and coastal low moved in here today. and brought a lot of rain showers. mainly toward the delmarva. now the showers are toward the north in pennsylvania. and new york. but we could see a still of rain showers overnight and for the daytime on su saturday. before the coastal low really

officially makes the way out of our area. so here is the state rainfall totals for the daytime for today. over an inch and a half reported at bwi thurgood marshall airport but look over toward dover. close to 3 inches of rain reported. the delmarva peninsula got hit hard from the coastal low that really moved in our area. for the daytime for today. brought some heavy rain showers, and the strong winds out of the northwest today. gusting up to 30 miles an hour. right now, they are right at 12. in d.c. 8 miles an hour in baltimore. and 9 miles an hour in dover. so on the future scan model. there is the coastal low that is slowly moving out of our area. but the future scan model is still picking up a chance, slight chance tomorrow afternoon, of a light rain showers in the vicinity toward north. toward mason dixon line. pennsylvania and toward baltimore. and as the coastal low makes the way back out to the atlantic. high pressure system is going to build in here nicely for the daytime on sunday.

and to monday. bringing dry conditions. sunny conditions and warmer conditions. temperatures to where we should be. only in the low 60s today. something more like late november out there. and tomorrow warmer. 70 degrees for a high tomorrow. on the eastern shore. toward salsbury and ocean city. and inner harbour for tomorrow. 72 degrees for a high temperature. see sunshine. some light rain showers. chance for rain showers hours. but drying out and improving conditions throughout the day. and by sunday, for the ravens' game. just in time. beautiful weather. clear skies. 1:00 against the chiefs at m&t bank stadium. 78 degrees. and the five-day forecast. things improve and dry out and warm up as well. 72 degrees for tomorrow. 80 on sunday. and 83 degrees on monday. and 82 degrees on tuesday. and partly cloudy skies next wednesday.ville a look at the seven-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> all right jessica thank you. >> abused cat received seriously needed medical attention earlier today. veterinarians performed surgeon on miracle the cat.

police found the cat wednesday. you recall we had it right here on fox 45 news at 10:00. in the 2600 block of wilkens avenue. witnesses saw several boys holding the kitten by the tail and throwing it. miracle suffered a broken jaw as a result. and doctors say he should recover. it was successful. you can see that he is recovered from it. he is little groggy from the pain medicine. but it was successful and complete a complete recovery. >> police are still offering the $1000 reward for any information whatsoever that leads to an arrest. >> get this. what burning this boogeyman means for you. >> all right. i am interested in finding out what that is about. >> ravens open up the season at

. >> get this. new mexicans burned a 50-foot boogeyman as fire dances left around its feet. the burning of old man gloom significance the annual dance of santa fay. according to legends the burning takes away the problems of the year. >> an attempt to break the record for the most kites in the air at one time is called a success. organizers in enid oklahoma say thousands of kites hit the skies in conjunction with a wind energy conference in the state. of course, the guinness world record judges will have to certify the numbers. previous record was set this summer, when children in gaza flew more than 3000 kites. >> if you have a beef with geese, call the geese police. dave marks found a secret weapon in his border collie which uses a wolf like glance to get the foul in line. while working as a golf course

superintendent mark saw the damage geese can do. >> tried the everything. >> mark said the dog does not chase or bite. he just stares. >> candace dold, fox 45 news "late edition". >> the non-stop rain today did not damper the ravens spirits as they finished up last practice and get ready to open the season sunday against kansas city. chiefs coming off a 2-14 season have an edge in the series. they are 3-0 against the ravens. but overall the ravens have had home field advantage. since 2001 ravens are 46-18 at home. and they intend to add this week's game to the win column. the team acknowledges that it is the fans that help them win. >> all the places are loud. but not anyplaces like our place. there is no outside places any louder. and our fans are real supportive. so i think, it is a home field

advantage. >> better electricity in the building. you know, it has its own aura about it and when you walk into it, you appreciate why people appreciate who you are and why you do what you do. because it is so loud in there and crazy and fans are just out of control. and they are ready right now. they are ready. we are ready. >> best fan base in the league. we feel like. and everybody feels like it with that team. but we are going to come out the first game and give it our all and next we can do the same thing. >> right now they are focused and ready for sunday opener. they survived a tough training camp. went undefeated in the preseason. >> good start for second year head coach john harbaugh and qb joe flacco. this sunday it may be a challenge. chiefs have a new coach and it will be a game time decision on whether or not quarterback matt cassel will play. but whatever happens, they are ready to play. >> we're excited to play, you know what i mean?

so i think, they are going to come ready to play. and stand by whoever is, you know, you undefended. so we are going to prepare and be ready. >> we will have fun we will be ravens' defense and get to see joe go out there and see if he is still cool. see if he can handle the pressure. and we can see, you know, get to see us play. and everything is live. so it will be good. >> now to big injury news from last night's game. steelers all pro safety sprained his mcl in the left knee and will miss three to six weeks. missed it go for a ball. when >> in case you believe in curses, pal mole low joined fitzgerald on the cover of madden video game. back to you. >>

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. >> is a rainy saturday ahead? >> lets find out. jessica starr is here with the final look at the sky watch forecast. >> we have a chance of rain showers tomorrow. but slight chance. wraps around the coastal low as it moves out. improving conditions throughout the day for tomorrow. 72 degrees for a high temperature. and then on sunday. looks nice and sunny with a high of 80. great weather if you are going to the ravens' game. 1:00, at m&t bank stadium. 78 degrees. for a temperature. and dry and sunny. for most of the work week. 83 degrees on monday. 82 degrees on tuesday. 79 degrees on wednesday. slight chance for rain showers next thursday. topping off with mostly cloudy skies next friday and high of 79 degrees. that's the seven-day forecast. back to you guys. >> nice to see you wearing purple. >> that does it for the "late

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