how many people were hurt in the blaze. you can spend a lot less,. money for makeup. how much former mayor sheila dixon want taxpayers to shell out for her benefits. and corporate ceo's aren't high rollers anymore. just how much governmen govern e government workers make. good morning. it's wednesday, may 5th. i'm patrice he harris. we're halfway through the

week. the weather has been pretty nice for the most part. what can we expect today? meteorologist steve fertig is here with all of those answers. good morning. i hope to have more answers throughout the more than because we will see more changes throughout the day. today looking at a nice day and comfortable temperatures. it's going to be a winner, you want to get out and enjoy this one. 66 degrees the temperature in baltimore. that is rather mild, that is the downtown area, because the area toward the airport we're seeing temperatures about 8 degrees cooler than that. seeing 50s generally speaking throughout much of the area, though. cooler then, sky watch hd radar showing clearer skies and one of the reasons we have cooler conditions this morning. the front will be bringing showers by tomorrow afternoon but just a brief one if we see anything at all, more likely friday into saturday, more likely timeframe for a shower or thunderstorm.

82 degrees for today's high, clear skies, a warm one, should be a real nice day to get outside. what about the commute this morning will it be a nice one for you her? here is candace dold with the traffic edge. >> reporter: thanks, steve. we don't have much to talk about for you. we are looking on the beltway at harford road, and you can see light activity, a few cars scattered here and there both in the inner loop lanes and outer loop direction as well. from 95 toward 83, we are looking at an 11 minute clip 54 miles per hour. southbound 95, right now through baltimore fort mchenry tunnel toward the beltway we are in the green, 8 minutes at 55 miles per hour. and 54 miles per hour with a 9 minute drive southbound 895, from the harbor tunnel toward 895. that's a look the morning commute. patrice, over to you. we tell you about the costly

hair salon bills that taxpayers footed for mayor sheila dixon. now there's more bills. this time thousands of dollars spent on makeup. this is a story you are seeing first on fox. megan gilliland is joining us at city hall where the new administration is just hearing about this round of bills. >> reporter: good morning, patrice, one state prosecutor says that the greed is what led the downfall for sheila dixon. fox 45 discovered the makeup bills submitted by former mayor sheila dixon. more than $11,000 worth during her three year term as mayor paid to a company at owings mills. the minimum service ran $350 per visit. this comes after those hair costs surfaced last month. all of the bills have been paid by baltimore city from the mayor's office fund.

>> when you're spending the taxpayers money, i think you should be spending it on things that the taxpayers care about. i don't think they care about how well her makeup is applied. >> there's more to worry about, the oil spill in ne new orleans than her hair and makeup. it's done. >> reporter: dixon admits having her hair and makeup done before taping segments for the office channel. the office backed her saying the bills were part of her job. what do you think? some people have been weighing in on the facebook face. jenny mill says now that we know everyone is outraged over personal expenses being paid out of the city's budget, how do we ensure that the current and future mayors don't do it yet? we have not heard responses from the current administration. keep your comments coming. your comments could be aired later this morning.

megan gilliland. fox 45 early edition. one person is taken to the hospital after a fire in baltimore. the fire fighters quickly put out the one alarm blaze. the person that was burpe burnes taken to the bay view burn center. so far no cause is found. it happened before 10:00 last night in the 400 block of eastern boulevard. police have not said whether the driver stayed at the scene. a hair salon owner is shot in the head as he opens up shop for the day. it happened yesterday morning at the blessed production hair studio in overly. police say the woman had just opened the salon when the robber walked in and shot her. he stole her money and ran. she managed to stumble into a nearby business for help. >> i look at what happened. i get to call 911.

>> all of this happened at a busy shopping center on bel air road. police are looking through video from surveillance cameras. they say they do have leads this morning but the suspect is still on the loose. the victim is expected to survive. piles of bodies found stacked in a garage forces the closure of a prince george's county funeral home. state officials suspended the license of the crematorium on monday. they found piles of 40 body bags containing human remains inside of a garage. the funeral home said it had a contract with georgetown university to dispose of the cadavers but it got too many. the funeral home has until friday to dispose of the bodies and then the funeral home will be closed. the funeral owner says he will appeal. the city school ceo sends

out a letter about bullying to hundreds of baltimore educators. the letters were distributed yesterday evening. dr. andres alonzo says that the recent spotlight on the issue presents an opportunity for the school system to do a better job at bullying. two weeks ago we shania boyd a disabled who was a victim of bullying at gilmor elementary school. the governor signs legislation that will help to fight back on gang violence in school. governor o'malley signed a bill that requires increased communication between schools and the police. the bill received support from jennifer adkins. her son was beaten and killed in baltimore county by suspected gang members. we are opening communications between law

enforcement and the information sharing that must occur between school officials in order to protect our children. he held a gang summit in anne arundel county and has received $5 million in funding to form a gang elimination tax force. more information on the man trying to blow up a car bomb in time square. shahzad who was born in pakistan became a u.s. citizen last year. he and his american wife had two children. investigators believe that he drove the suv equipped with explosives into time square. and they captured him on monday night at jfk airport moments before boarding a plane to dubai. shahzad was headed to islamabad pakistan where officials have taken 7 people who they believe are linkedded to shahzad. after taking him into custody, investigators say he confessed.

he provided valuable investigation, intelligence and evidence during that time. as the attorney general noted, he was mirandized later and continued to cooperate. >> police used the vin number on the suv to track down shahzad. the number from the dashboard had been removed but they got the hidden vin number from the bottom of the car. that led them to the car owner who said she sold the car to shahzad three weeks ago. stay tuned for continuing coverage of this story. we will talk with the director of the justice institute at community college about that bomb coming up in the next hour. there may finally be a solution to stop the oil spill in the gulf of mexico from spreading. take a look at this giant steel and concrete box. there's one, and it's expected to move the oil away. a barge is expected to haul the dome through the oil leak.

such domes have never been tried at this depth and because of the extreme water pressure. but if all goes well, the dome could be fired up next week to start funneling the oil into a tanker. stay tuned for continuing coverage of this story. we will talk with the director of the environment this maryland about the effects of the oil spill not only in the coast but in our area, too. that is coming up in the 7:00 hour. at least 29 are dead as a result of flooding in the nation's south. officials in tennessee, mississippi and kentucky fear they might find more bodies as the rivers recede. mean while for too many families life as they knew it has changed. the water is beginning to recede and what is left is devastating. >> i wanted to get the stuff out of the basement but i didn't have enough time. >> reporter: the weekend storm dumped rain.

families were not prepared and had little time to react. >> every 20 minutes, 30 minutes, you could just see like it rising, and rising. >> reporter: officials say they made the right call in advising people to stay inside pointing to the higher number of deaths on the roads. for those who did flee and survived, returning home has been the hardest part. >> some people are still in houses, and some people only left with clothes on their back. some people only have a bag of clothes. >> mainly grateful. >> reporter: the red cross has set up shelter so people who can't go home or those who remain without electricity. officials in nashville say the power might not be fully restored until as late as friday. coming up in the early edition. they had a lot of songs to choose from. ♪ smiling at me >> find out if the contestants picked the right sinatra toons

on last night's american idol. we do start a little bit cooler this morning than we have recent lee with temperatures inh temperatures in the mid-50s throughout the area. we will cli

>>he's the original crooner. so the top 5 american idol contestants had a lot to live up to when they took on the songs of frank sinatra last night. ♪ blue stars smiling at me ♪ nothing but blue skies

♪ do i see ♪ >> casey james sang blue skies and it really had the judges singing the blues but not in a good way. >> this was like for me your worst performance, dude. i got you to tell you, it was peachy all the way until maybe the last note. it's funny when some of these things when the orchestra sounds out of tune, you're in trouble. you were out of your element. i knew this was going to be tough for you, and this is about intricate melodies and singing them with the band. it did not work, baby. >> it didn't work. you can tell us what you think about last night's show. you can put your reaction the facebook or twitter page. you can follow candace on her idol blog as she takes us blind the scenes -- behind the scenes

all season long. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the american idol in the entertainment section. you can find out what contestant goes home here start starting at fox 45 morning news. fox 45 morning news, in this case 106, airtran and value city furniture are giving away a trip for two to los angeless and the ticket to season finale of american idol. all you have to do is prove that you are the biggest american idol fan in baltimore. we have come up with 5 trivia idol questions. answer them at foxbaltimore.com and you will qualify for the big competition, sing for your seats. whoever scores the highest during our karaoke challenge gets that trip to l.a. for the american idol finale. very easy, log on to foxbaltimore.com, read the official rules, and answer the trivia questions. meteorologist steve fertig is here. and steve, casey didn't do a good job and he is going to be going home.

i think he is going to be checking out the blue skies from a window plane seat. >> he has definitely been better. >> he looked nice, though, last night. >> he will look good on that 1 dwindow seat. we have dry conditions and going to look for a pretty day ahead as we check out the composite image. we zoom out and see showers out to the back and west. much of this is going to pass to the north and east. by tomorrow maybe we see a light shower to the north that we kind of were talking about yesterday where we could see one pushing through yesterday afternoon. we didn't see a whole lot, though. that will be the story tomorrow. 63 degrees at the inner harbor, right now and different, with a lot of mid-50s in the area. 56 relative humidity and the pressure is 29.96 and rising. 47 is the dew point so it's pretty dry. 63 in baltimore but 55 degrees in salisbury.

54 for wilmington, delaware. 53 for hagerstown. much the area in the mid-to upper 50s. it will be a warm afternoon, as the high pressure slides to the east ahead of the next front. here is what we're looking at. probably not until tomorrow when we see the chance of a shower but most of the activities you see here to the north as high pressure hem helps us out and generally dry tomorrow as well. the next front coming our way for friday night into saturday, still looks to be the next opportunity for some showers with maybe even thunderstorms, too. probably friday night and again with a little bit of a break overnight into early saturday before we see a saturday afternoon event with some thunderstorms possible then. 77 degrees for the eastern shore, high temperature today with a lot of sunshine, 515-mile-an-hour wind. a little bit of a reasonable of winds today. the star in part of the state we warm up to 52 degrees. further points west we look for a high temperature of 83 degrees with a lot of sun, southwest wind at 5-15, point mainly clear

skies, 61 degrees the overnight low. a south wind at 5-15. as we showed you earlier through the day today, 77 degrees for the noontime temperature and 78 at 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high of 82 at around 2 to 3:00 this afternoon. a nice, mild or warm afternoon after the cooler start and then tomorrow 80 degrees for the high. partly cloudy skies, not bad, maybe a passing shower or a chance, a better chance friday night, late night, though. 78 degrees for the high so most of friday a dry day. 73 with a chance of afternoon showers or thunderstorms on saturday. saturday 64 degrees. look at the cool air, mostly clear skies through monday with 67 degrees for monday's high. and a chance of a shower on tuesday. fox 45 sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45 powerful doppler raid ab to track incoming storms. the interactive tools will let you see when rain or thunderstorm will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click

on iradar. now we do need to check what is happening on the roads. here is candace dold with the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. we're indeed checking in on those numbers and so far so good. heading on the beltway, 60 miles per hour near security boulevard and 67 traveling through catonsville. we're talking about trouble in balbaltimore right now. there's fire activity that completely shuts down maryland avenue, and martin luther king boulevard, that is also blocked right at bitle. you want to use k street and maryland as the alternate routes. as far as the main lines, let's check in on 95 moving through the fort mchenry tunnel approaching the downtown region. so far no mishaps to talk about in either direction. that's the same deal heading toward the beltway and speaking of the beltway let's check it out at harford road this morning. inner and outer loop lanes, those cars are traveling at top speeds. that's a look at morning travels, patrice, back over to you. still ahead, the number show a surge in pending home sales

for the month of march. the program getting the credit for the increase. people of baltimore deserve more than that. and three police officers

three baltimore city police officers are indicted for kidnapping and assaulting a west baltimore teenager. the officers are all a part of the violent crime impact division as and all three have n on the force for less than 10 years. karen parks has more on the charges against them. >> today the justice system of the baltimore city stood up. >> reporter: naacp leaders gives the city's justice system a pat on the back after three

police officers are indicted for kidnapping an a teen. 16-year-old michael johnson junior says last may detective tire on francis, smith, and gregory helen, picked him up in the 1600 block of gilmor street. threw him in the back of a police van, cursed him, assaulted him and dumped him in the rain at patapsco state park in howard county without socks, shoes or cell phone. >> taking an urban city youth who does not have a car that far against his will is akeen to taking a fish and putting him on the beach a few yards and asking him to get back in the water on his own. >> reporter: today all three officers were charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, second degree assault and misconduct in office among other charges.

>> people in baltimore deserve more than that. the commissioner made it clear, we are going to hold officers accountable and civilians noaccountable. >> this is not as isolated as that. this is something that has been happening in baltimore city, just as the other shootings, as a matter of intimidation. >> reporter: the attorney has already filed a multi-million dollar suit against the three officers. >> it might be a case where the suit might be expante expanded o against the baltimore city department. >> reporter: michael johnson's father says one day later this case is still mind-boggling but he wouldn't comment any further. another car recall, the issue that is affecting more than 100,000 nis sanz. but next

>>the government home buyer tax credit helped home sales spike as the economy grows. here is elizabeth mcdonald. money fears overseas scaring stocks in america. the dow falling more than 200 points. debt worries in europe over shadowing good news at the economy here at home.

factory orders rising 5.3% in march. orders posting their biggest boost in five years. home sales boosting more than 5%. the government taxpayer credit getting a lot of credit for that. earnings for the maker of viagra and lipitor down from last year but still beating expectation. and they are talking about beating quarterly earnings and mir dock saying the record-setting movie avatar, advertising and tv network. new score is the parent company of the fox network. that is business, i'm elizabeth mcdonald. coming up more information in the death of a college lacrosse player from maryland. what police say happened on the night of her murder. >> reporter: and former mayor