now on fox 45 early edition. if one shot dunn work and if 3, 4, 5, 6, you fire until the threat is gone. a baltimore police officer is charged with murder, why his attorney says shooting a man 12 times was justified. i promise you this that things are going -- >> president obama taking matters into his own hands. what he is doing about the oil spill in the gulf. and a pleasant surprise at the pump. how much gas prices have dropped. good morning. it's tuesday, june 15th. you are taking a live look at

the oil spill gushing in the gulf of mexico. the president was in the area yesterday. he is due to address the nation tonight. we are going to check in with megan gilliland in a few minutes to get a preview of what the president is going to address the nation about later this evening. good morning, i'm patrice harris. it's time to get a check of our forecast as we head into another hot day. meteorologist steve fertig is here. very humid yesterday, more of the same? >> actually we are going to be improving. this will be a little transition. we could get a little shower here and there. here is what we have, sky conditions are not going to be the prettiest. we will have a lot of clouds mixed in with the sunshine. definitely mild to start the day, 74 degrees in baltimore. 72 in hagerstown. as the frontal boundary have

sagged to the south. you see a line of thunderstorms through ohio but that is weakening some as the frontal boundary weakens moving through. we will talk about a chance of showers and thunderstorms, especially overnight tonight. before we get there, it will be a cooler 82 for the high with less humidity, too. it will be feeling better by the afternoon, even if we deal with a little light shower here and there. let's see what is happening on the roadways with candace dold. here is candace with the traffic edge. >> reporter: good morning, well, there's not too much happening on the main lines but we're checking on the beltway traveling at route 40. you're going to see it's an easy drive, just the cars that are starting to accumulate especially on the outer loop lanes toward 95. there's one incident in the area, it's a broken watermain, and it's going to be at frederick road at engel side avenue, just use route 40 as the alternate. as for 795, to 95, lech minutes to 54 miles per hour. things are looking good at

southbound lanes, fort mac mchey tunnel, and only 54 miles per hour, from the har bole tunnel l the way to 95. that's a look at the morning commute, patrice, back over to you. president barack obama will address the nation tonight about the massive oil spill in the gulf. he is returning from his 4th trip to the region and this time he didn't go alone. three members of maryland congressional delegation went along. megan gilliland with how these leaders plan to hold bp accountable and protect our shores. good morning, patrice, this is a live look at the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. up until last week, some of maryland lawmakers had only seen these images, now three of them have the accounts of the sights and the smells of what they call an environmental desaster.

senator mikulski and senator cummings just returned from the gulf. they believe that it will take another two months before it's contained. the area impacted is as big from ocean city, new jersey to richmond, virginia. mick cull 63 has beemikulski hat maryland beaches won't be affected but as it ease cables,p must be held accountable. >> bp has the ability to respond. what the government has to make sure is that the respond is timely. they have set up a compensation fund for people along the coast. the oil giant says that the cost for the spill is $1.6 billion and that is a number that is expected to rise with the countless number of lawsuits filed against bp.

newly released bp documents shows that six days before all of this happen, an engineer with what the company called it a nightmare route. we will have more answers with what the leaders man to do from here when the president addresses the nation. you can watch the speech here live at 545 on fox 45. megan gilliland, early edition. we are following a developing story out of anne arundel county. police discover an explosive device 8 home in crofton. police say though foun they fouc bottle with a fuse. the bomb did not detonate and we will bring you the latest of the story as it becomes available. to a family and friends, he is being remembered as a marine who served his country well.

for others his death has become a lightning rod. we have the viewing of tyrone brown, the man shot 12 times by a police officer last week. >> reporter: good morning, patrice and everyone. it starts at 8:30 the viewing does and it lasts all day long so it has a long period of time for family and friends to get together to remember marine tyrone brown. they will be talking about something else, the first-degree murder charges of a 13 year veteran of the force. we are talking about tshamba. he is being accused of first-degree murder and being held without bail. yesterday for the first time his attorney addressed the first-degree murder charge saying that the tshamba was acting in self-defense. the officer was off-duty when a female got upset after being groped by tyrone brown. that is when tshamba confronted

and identified himself as a police officer. it seems what happened to the key to that co confrontation wil be the key to this case. >> 13 shots were fired against this victim. that is against our training. >> a police officer has to do what he has to do to preserve his life. if one shot, doesn't work, and 2, 3, and 4, doesn't work, you fire until the threat is gone. >> reporter: tshamba could face the death penalty. family members of brown say they are grateful that the charges should come to quickly. many of them will be here for the viewing, starting at 8:30 and going all day long. the actual wake for tyrone brown is tomorrow at wake state university. joel d smith, fox 45 early edition. police make two arrests in the killing of a police officer. tyrone williams is in the city lock up because he was wanted on

a violation of probation charge. williams and his friend are charged with murdering wesley brown. it is ti williams was escorted r not paying his bill, half an hour later, brown was gunned down in the parking lot. milton has admitted that they returned to the scene and fired those shots. which suspect fired the shots it's not clear, but they want the friend held responsible. >> he can get live in prison. i won't ever enjoy these streets to walk them anymore because wesley won't be able to, never again. >> the weapon have been discovered with other key evidence. both suspects have extensive records. the man who shot a little girl in last will learn his fate

today. davis was convicted after he shot wyatt in the head. he faces up 65 years in prison. the woman accused of scamming former high school classmates by claiming she had terminal cancer is in court today. >> you did not what. >> have cancer. >> baltimore county police say lina leoni took $12,000 given to grant her dying wishes. she when we spoke with her, she admitted she was wrong. >> did it hurt, absolutely. i'm sorry to the victim's because she does have cancer and i pray for her every day that she gets better. >> she is accused of conspiracy and her husband is also named in the indictment. players and fans at the last night san diego padre's game got

more than just baseball. >> we're experiencing a tremor here at the ballpark in san diego and it's very significant. >> it had to be scary, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the padre stadium enough for everybody to feel it. you could see the light polls and swaying back and forth. the earthquake could be felt as far away as los angeles. there was no reports of significant damage. ranginraging floodwaters in oklahoma and more rain could be on the way. thunderstorms dropped 10 inches of rain, it caused flooded homes and washed out roads and another two inches of rain is expected today. laura engel reports on rescue efforts in oklahoma as people in arkansas are cleaning up. >> reporter: a 17 years old in oklahoma city desperately clinging to tree branches with

floodwaters threatening to pull her under. >> as you can tell, it's very difficult to locate anybody here. >> reporter: rescuers within a boat, within minutes their boat filled with water and they need rescuing, too. >> at the time we are talking to them, the firefighters have the radio and they say they're in the keys. >> reporter: firefighters cause to see the floodwaters rise quickly. dozens of drivers stuck on washed out roads. weekend rain in arkansas turned deadly. >> i know it was going to get bad is when cars starting floating by. >> reporter: rising water, the cause of more than a dozen deaths. >> i understand why my family was taken away from them. >> reporter: one family was able to escape a campground. >> after going under and pulling her back up and losing all

control of what i can do, that is when i really said to myself this is going to be a bad way to go. and that is when my son grabbed both of us and got us to safety. >> reporter: family members say they are grateful to still be together. >> i have my family. i can replace those other things. i can't replace these guys. i'm very thankful. >> reporter: residents in oklahoma are still bracing for the possibility of more rain. laura engels, fox news. they are certainly not cheap but gas prices keep dropping. on average both regular and diesel fuel went down another penny over the weekend. regular has dropped more than $0.11 over the past three weeks. it's now down to $2.69 a gallon across the county. still to come an international crime hits home. it is,. >> how big of a problem human

trafficking is in our area. >> and temperatures are pretty mild to start with 70s

knife 14:00 on fox 45 early edition. time for a check of our forecast. meteorologist steve fertig is here with what we can expect today. it's going to start mild, the only thing it's not going to warm up a whole lot. no 90s today like we had yesterday. for now no rain, either, we have a few showers to the south. as we put these into motion, you will see most of the activity last night skirting to the south and east of us. however, there are showers to the north and west, that could be moving in for later this afternoon as the frontal boundary weakens as it does. mostly cloudy right now. southwest winds at 3 miles per hour and the barometer is at 29.96 and rising. humidity is at 76%. it's still humid right now. we're going to get more of an easterly flow and that will dry a little bit as far as the

humidity values. it won't be as uncomfortable and the temperatures won't climb much more than from where we start. 72? salisbury. warm start but again, what has happened is the stationary boundary is to the south now. we're going to get more of a northeasterly flow coming in and that is going to allow the temperatures to warm up, near 80s to near 90. it will lower the humidity value and we will feel better. with the stationary boundary a chance of a few showers moving in this afternoon and eventually the frontal boundary returns as the warm front points north. that will bring increased chances for showers and thunderstorms overnight tonight with the frontal boundary that follows, the cold front that increases the chance for thunderstorms tomorrow. that is the best chance, as we were saying, yesterday and now are saying again. we are going to see the best chance of thunderstorms again into your wednesday. behind that the high pressure builds in and we will dry out as we head toward end of the week.

northeast winds at 5-10, to 20 miles per hour. the central part of the state, warmer than that, no 90s out there, 82 degrees with a chance of an an afternoon shower, a 20 to 30% only, the chances increase today about 30 to 40% chance, 81 degrees for the high temperature in the western part of maryland where we could get a shower or even a thunderstorm getting closer to that stationary front. 72 cartin72 starting out this m8 at noon, not a huge climb, it only drops to 77 after getting to a high temperature of 81 or 82 degrees by 3:00 to 5:00 this afternoon or evening. 66 tonight, a better chance of showers coming in, a little bit of thunder overnight, tomorrow 83 degrees with the increasing chances as you see 60% chance then of thunderstorms. 87, mostly clear behind that front. we dry out nicely with high pressure building in. the return flow brings this the warmer air, 85 for friday and 89

for saturday and a high of 92, 89, and partly cloudy for your monday. fox sky watch weather is available at your finger tips. iradar is available at foxbaltimore.com. you can use fox 45's powerful doppler radar to track incoming stores. the interactive tools will let you know when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on iradar. for a look at what is happening on the roadways as you head out this morning, here is candace dold with the traffic edge. candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. easy ride on many of the main lines. right now checking on the beltway at 62 miles per hour at harford road and 64 miles per hour traveling through pikesville. we're talking about in baltimore county, a broken watermain. it does completely shutdown frederick road. that is right at engel side avenue. it's a busy area, so you will want to use route 40 as the alternate route. now checking in on the beltway, traveling near the frederick road region, can you see this is going to become, so far just the

volume na is starting to a kueho accumulate on the outer loop lanes. let's check it out moving through baltimore at 395 near 295, can you see this is going to be light activity in both directions. that is a look at your morning travels, patrice, back over to you. thank you, candace. we're looking for baltimore's best dad and we think we found him. every day this week, we will reveal a finalist in baltimore's best dad contest. he can win four tickets anywhere southwest flies, four passes to king's dominion, our four dads will compete in the closest to the pin contest on friday for the grand prize. still ahead, playing the blame game in the gulf. >> we're going to continue to hold bp and any other responsible parties accountable. what president obama is doing to get bp to pay up. >> it is. it is the second criminal

enterprise in the world. >> next, a

in just the last week, we have seen two cases of sex

trafficking right here in our area. as michael explains, it's a growing crime that you need to know about. >> reporter: just the a stone's throw from baltimore's bucking downtown. bill hillard shares a sobering story. >> 1998 i had a daughter kid trapped from the train between bangkok and singapor along with a couple of friends of hers and sold into the sex trade. six months of searching and 80 countries and $80,000 later. >> when we found she was, she wasn't there. she had been killed trying to escape. >> reporter: the father now tells his horrifying tale to bring attention to a crime that affects almost 12 million children and young adults each year across the world. those numbers according to a report just released by the state department. i think we can do much more in this country. >> we're probably not doing enough but we're doing something. >> reporter: the baltimore

area is not immune to the crime. >> you can ab abducted and thrown into a van and put into sex labor or some type of sexual exploitation. >> reporter: just last week, two men were arrested in anne arundel county, their crime, sex trafficking of a 19 years old. >> it's happening in our own backyards and that domestic minor sex trafficking of americans is a major issue that we have got to do something about. >> reporter: we are out there and we're looking for these predators and we're looking for these people that abduct young women, young men and exploit them. >> experts say west baltimore actually has the highest concentration of sex trafficking in the city. regionally, they say the district of columbia ranks in top five 5:23 is the time. [ female announcer ] welcome to busch gardens virginia,

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bp may stand for billion-dollar pay out as the cost of the oil spill grows. and starbucks may soften the coffee by offering free internet service. oil keeps spilling and costs keep mounting. bp saying the spill is costing

the company $1.6 billion. 61,000 people have submitted claims for damages. bp shares falling almost 10% on the day. that stock losing nearly half its value since the spill started. and the dow dipping 20 points. it was up more than 100 points until greece's debt was down graded to junk level. and a pilot's strike grounding all spirit air flights until wednesday. spirit saying all passengers will get reimbursed for their flights and a $100 voucher for a future trip. now get ready for a jolt in coffee prices. coffee futures rising to a 6 month high. tight supply spiking up prices, but you will save on wi-fi. starbucks to offer free wireless internet service starting next month. right now it costs $3.99. that is business. i'm elizabeth mcdonald.

still ahead, gay men banned from giving blood. >> it's like banning black people. >> why the red cross wants to change that policy and who isn't letting them. and oil continues to gush into the gulf of mexico. will it spill into our region? i'm megan gilliland. what local lawmakers tell us they saw firsthand. i'm joel d smith, live at the site of a viewing for an exmarine shot and killed by 

welcome back to fox 45 early edition. 5:29 is the time. you're taking a look at a view out in northwestern baltimore. meteorologist steve fertig is here to answer those weather questions. yesterday very humid, very hot. >> we got to 90 degrees at bwi. 91 downtown. it was as hot as we thought it would be. today it won't be as hot although it starts warmer in the 70s, it won't climb as much. the humidity is going to drop which will help a little bit. take a look at what we