ú now on foxx45 early edition. a rare life chaaging surgery. we meet the team who is getting a second chance at a normal life. we are not going to compromise puulic safety. a police shortage. what is being done to make sure thhee's enough officees on the streets of baltimore. everything has some type oo an identity stolen from a state agency. what happened once fox 45 -tarted to investtgate. 3 good morning. it's thhrsday, july 22nd,

rainy start to the morning out there. good morning, i'm patrice harris. let's get a check of our forecaat and see how long that the day. meteorollgist steve fertig is here. not a lot longer. it should start mmving out of here. we should sse more sunny skies. here is a look at where we start the day. any showers dissipating as we speak. not a whole loo out there. just a littll bit of wet ground little bit f slipping ann sliding. be careful out there. those showees moving off as igh pressure moves in. 79 degrees s here we start today in baltimore, and .c. and 74 in salisbury and 74 in hagerstown. we're head with a lot more sunshine and a northwest wind at 5-10 miles per hour. a warm notice, humidity starts to stop a little bit more.

let's see hat is happening on the roadways. here she is, candace dold. >> reporter: thank you, steve. as for what is happening we do have an accident on the nnrthbound lanes of 95 at 175. just be aware that there's a single vehicle involved in this. police are on the scene. as far as 95 taking it ffom route 32, all the way up towwrd3 the beltway, so far we're in the green, 10 minutes right now 61 miles per hour. 95 further up in baltimore through the beltway, 8 minutes at 55 miles per hour, only 52 miles per hour ith a 9--minute ride, harbor tunnel, toward 995. turn it over to you, patrice. a hambddn man has his idea tiidenttty stolen at an arks tm machine. now the police are looking for the. this is where a skimming device

read his informmtion when he swiped his caad. that information was then used to steal money frrm his account. >> the victim's information was obtained by using a skimming device that had been attacced to an atm machine that was outside of the bank of america. by using that information, the suspects made fake atm cards that were used in baltimore. >> anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-319-tips. 16 manhole covers have gone3 missing in he city. the manhole covers in question wereessolen from several bboccs on lombard street. they first noticed on tuesday but they have been replaced. protecting the streets of baltimore could become more difficult with the deparrment about to become short staffed, the police department, that s.

the deparrment 100 officers short of having full staffed. nowwccmmanddrs are scrambling to fill the vacancies. some city residents worry that in the meantime the exodus could affect the publlc safety. >> every time i'm on the streets of baltimore city. i take the time to thank them because wiihout them we would be doomed. >> commissioner beaaefeld says he is hopeful 200 positions will classes by the end of the year. commissioner bealefelddisú talking about the policy for off-duty police involved incidents much the coomissioner testified at the council meeting last night. they want to know what the rules are forroff-duty offfiers when they aae carrying arms and how to handled when they're

off-duty. >> they certainly make the community safee, however what happens when they become %-wwapon. and possibly inbrie >> it's a safety and budg!! budy issue since these innidents could lead to lawsuits. the juuy could return a verdict as early as today for allegedly killing a frederick cabdriver.ú delibbrated started yesterday in the trial of robert lee murphy. he muudered stephen moss. -ay bullet wound to the head. a registered sex offenner pleads guilty to sex asauut. yesterday dennis mclaughlin admitted to assaulting a woman. macmclauckmclaughlin has lreadn

jail now he is headed back to jail. >> he got 15 yeaas and suspend 5 years. to on a suspended sentence to another judge. >> mclaughlin is expected to be in jail by september. the citt has filee papees against him in an effort to collect the $25,000 ttat he was paid as a city employee during the timeethat he was in jail. the ballimore facility has been slapped ith $52,000 in fines. the decision omes two weeks aftee 1 b 152 residentt were evacuated from ravenwood due to ittwas down during a time when the city was experiencing

100-degree-plus teeppratures. >> the resident are not going to be permit to move back into the of corporation.we see theeplan that they had robbems with the did little to reppir it.ear and we are following breaking news out of baltimore county this morning. gunfire rings out a pikesville hotel leaving a susppcttdead this morning..3ú officers were about o arrest three suspects they believe had beennprinting counterfeit money in one of the rooms there. megan gilliland us liie frrm the scene on what led to he police good morning, megan. patrice e we are at the ramada at reisterstown road. you aa see a very active crimes parking lot before midnight there was an exchange of gunfire between detectives and the ú%tectives ere about to arrest3

three suspectssthey beliive were operating a counterffit ring out one oo hotel rooms here. all three of them went running out of the room, 1 of them was armee with a handgun.3 police say thattsuspect toward the detectives and started shooting. two detectives returned fire hitting and killing that suspect -ere in this parking lot. the other two suspects are in no word on where they're from or even how long detectives hhd been watching them here. officers did recover a number of things from the hotel room, including printers, paper and counterfeit money. police say he suspects had been passing the money around throogh the baltimore area. nn word on wwat charges those two suspects in cust gee could e facingment for now the investiiators are collecting the final pieces of evidence here. there are witnessss here that we're going to talk to aad we will bring you what they had to say coming up in the next half hour. i'm megan gilliland. fox 45 early edition.

anne arundel county just got more energy efficient. they voted to allow resident tt build wind mills on their property to generate energy. in order to avood eye sores the wind mills neee to e under 25 feetttall. sooe residents have complained that powering wind mills ould reduce property values and create noise. maryland state pension system grew beyond expectations in the last fiscal year. thaa is welcomed news after two straight years of decline. the maryland state retirement portfolio rrturned 14% on investment that is ell above the expected return rate of 7.75%. compared that to 2005 when assets fell more than 20%. the maryland pension system is responsible for the pension funds of more than 115,000 retirees. sea crabs will be up for

grabs more time this year. -he closure eriod for fee label blue crabs woull have been from september 26 through october 4th. because the blue crab population has seen a 16% increase thhi year, opening up he harvest will not present a problem. the harvest will end o in september as scheduled. works to plug the ruptured oil well is at a near stand stiil just days away from being compleeed. forecasters say there's a 40% chance that the storm will %-a tropical storm by tomorrow.3 either way they are expecting it to move into the gulf over the weekeed. if the storm threatens the oil oil bottled up since last week, may have to be re-opened sending oil gushing back into the gulf.ú >> reporter: a rounn of

apologies and a job offer for former u.s. department of agriculture worker shirley sherrod. he apologized to sherrod for forcing her o resign based on iicomplete and missing reports aboutta speech she gave in march. >> i didn't take the time. i should have and as a result a good woman has gone through a very difficult period. i will have to live wwth that for a long, very long time. >> reporter: he told reporters that he alone made the decision regardinggsherrod with hhuse.ssure rom the white even so robert gibbs offered the apology offthe admmnistration as sherrod watched it on live television. >> had i not asked the right >> reporter: sherrod was asked to resign after a conservative blogger posted a3 video online shows telling ann3 naacp audience thattshe didn't dd her best to elp a white farmer 24 years ago.

buu the viieo was ediied and the anecdote was a part of how sherrod explains how to move beyond ace. the apology was welcomed. >> it makes me ffel better. >> eporter: he offered sherrrd another job in the usda but that she is taking sometime a decision. in washington, i'm nicole the house is expected to vote today on a measure that woo ú%tend unemploymenttbenefits to millions of americans. senate lawmakers passed the legislation 39-59. the house plansstt take ittup this afternoon and the president says he will sign as soon as the measure lands on his desk. the move is poised to provide payments to $2.5 million who are outtof work within the nnxt few weeks. commng up on the early edition, ombining a seafood thief with a pol politics. what the gubernatorial

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5:14 on fox 45 earl edition. -hat is what we woke up to. i don't know if everybbdyywoke up to that, but that is what i woke up to. take a like at the hd radar and not a whooe lot of round. that doesn't mean that the ground could be wet. the roods will be slippery. as we check out the skk hd radar and check out the live scan you don't see a whole lot of active3 let's take a look at the current conditions. skies that will beeturning partly cloudy soon enough and winds out of the northwest 6 miles per hoor and the barometer is rising. dew point is at 67, but that expected tt drop a little bit today.ú the humidity will be dropping making it feel a littleemore comfortable if we didn't have tú

deal ith temperatures thht %-mid-90s.ss would be in the it will be hot. 79 degrees the temperature ii baltimore nd in d.c. 77 in salisbury so well above the average this ttme of year which is up around 66. 74 n hagerstown. oakland at 56 degrees. that wiil slowly meandee and weú will get drier airrworking from the north..3 that drier air s going to definitely feel a little bit better even though it will be hot and then the heat pumps back in again, and we get more humidity to build for the weekend. that is going to allow the temperatures to climb well into the 90s and near to 100 degrees for the next couplele of days. couple of days. this low pressure center is one that we have been referring in our newwcast thattwill haveú into the gulf and could present proolems. we will be watthing that and see if we need to give that one a %-right now it's the low pressue

center as that will be moving closer to cubaaand watching in that ddrection. look for high temperature of around 93 degrees, mostly sunny ssies and a west wind of 5-10 miles per hour. central part of the sky climbing to 95 degrees where it will be with aalot of sunshine and a few clouds.ú further points west looking at a high temperature of 99 degrees, everybody feeling the heat northwesterly flow will get more drier air and less humidity so it will make it easier to take. lots of sunshine, though. if you're headed to many camden yards for tonight, as the orioles tike n thh twins, llss humid under clear skies. overnight 73 ddgrees for he llw temperature, still above average, 98 omorrow, talk above average.ú 988for the high and then 100 on saturday. we're ttlking abouttheat index values that will be close to 100 degrees. we ay have heat advisories and

excessive heat warnings for thh ú%ekend. and again on sunday the front that we thought would bring us some showers or thunderstorms on saturday, it looks like it's going to be delayed, that's wwy sundaa in instead. %-tuesday and even 90 on ednesy that looks better compared to 90 degrees to what we will have this weekend. now or a looo at whattis happening on the roads.3 here is candace dold wiih the traffic edge. aalittle wet out there, candace from last night's chhllenge.ú >> rrporter: that's true. but theee's no weather incidents to concern us with. just be careful as you head out as far as the actual speeds. we like the numbers, 52 miles per hour oo whitemarsh thhough whitemaash. and 64 right on the beltway scooting through pikesville. there's trouble on 5, an accidentton the northbound lanes is route 175 not causing any delay but you will find the activity there assyou scoot through the area. just make surr to use extra cautioo.

it out on the 195 area, and ttat looks calm here at caton avenue3 juut getting a bit busy but no significant issues to concern ú%emselves with. but 895 is also in the clear, scooting through the harbor tunnel, let's take a live look and ee what that area looks likee it's relatively calm, nnrthbound and southbound lanes as well. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, bacc to you. thhnk you, candace.ú think youugot what it takes to become tte next american idol? >> where there's love ♪ ⌞> auditions for seaaon 10 are already undeeway and we want to3 get you to the front of that llne. it's fox 45's baltimore idol. on thursday, july 22th, come to east point mall, the winner3 of our singing contest will get a guaranteed audition in front of ammrican dol producerr in new jersey.

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traveled to the eastern shore. thee were greettng folks. and the candidates called these3 trips an absolute must as the campaign heats up. >> [apppause] [ cheering ] >> reporter: it there's any doubt this is an election year, look no further than hristol. ehrlich are turning heads onnthe crab and claa bake..3 >> it's our history it's our heritage and it's a must stop. it's a hot day it's when people from all over the state come to crisp field and celebrate the >> reporter: it's not theica. politians that attracted the folls here. >> the crabs, you can't get ccabs like these in baltimore. >> reporter: and plenty of and despite the sweltering heat,

the ssafood lovers are enjoying -lenty of camaraderie. >> eporter: ut you won't see these candiddtts enjoying the steamee clams, that's because they're too messy when much time-ccnsuming. they make sure that bob ehrlich and o'malley don't cross paths. >> we're not out these tough times but we are moving ffrward, we're moving forward than a lot of otherrstates. >> reporter: for those determined to enjoy all you can eat eafood, they couldn't careless about any of theú candidates. >> as long as the food is there, i don't kier. care. %-want.vote for nybody they >> reporter: chris field, john rydeel, fox 45 morning newss several thousand people attended the crab fest in crrsp

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welcome back to fox 45 early edition. 5:288is the time. you're takkng a live look there at police involved shooting in pikesville. officers are still on the scenement we'rr going to bringg3 you all the details of what exactty happened right around midnight. megan gilllland is out there3 live. we will join her in a few minutes. good morning, i'm patrice harris. first we need to check in with meteorrlogist steve fertig and see hat we can expeet as we get into ur day. you said the rain issmoving out and sunshine movvng in. >> it's goiig to bring high it means drier aii and less humidity nd less discomforr. even though it's going to be a hot day, you see ssowerr are movinggout of here, though. we have light drizzle in spots but not a whole lot riiht now. the showers from last night moved through in some rees. you can see the sky watch hd pressure moves in.