a bill allowing transgendered people to use whatever are worried it could put their children at risk... if it'' passed today in baltimoree pounty. ánats of fightá figgtá violence... on demand.how easy violent videos like these are for your kids to view... and the one and.. a burger without the cow? how scientists can now grow a big mac in a lab... and oww much it costs. 3 3 3-inner harbor live look today is tuesdayy february 21st. 3 3

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voted on today in baltimore county.it's a proposal that comes after this fight inside a rosedale mcdonalds... natsyou can see chrissy poliss.. a transgenderee woman... being beaten.while the bill hopes to stop this kind of behavor... many people are still against it.megan gillillnd is here withhmore on the controversy surrounding the bill. good morninn patrice, councilmanntom quirk is a lead of that... this was the scene outsideehis district office in catonsville yesterday. you can ee a group of people holding up signs and sppaking out aaaiist a bbll that would allow transgender people to want.while supporters of the bill say it's necessary to make sure that transgendered people aren't discriminated against when it comes to employment and houssng... protestors say they're fighting it to protect their chillren. "regardless of whether thh transgenders are using the bathrooms areenot, you are

already opening the door for more people to misuse that" that"the proposed bill comee nearly a year after this cell phone video was recorded... showing a trandsgender women being brutally attacked at a rosedale mcdonaldds.a video... that drew naaional attention. tonight... the baltimore county council will vote nn the traasgender bill at six o'clock.stay with us for continuiig coverage.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. the drink... "four loko" is being blamed for the death of a parkville middle school tudet studentfriends are still remembering 13-year old mmchael truluck.saturday night, his parents say he drank one four loko... and laterrbecame so ill... he opened the car door to vomit. that's when he tumbled out and was run over by a car... as his friends watched.some of his friends now say this scary and sad situation... is pakkng them wait until they're of age... to drink .

"i want people to stop drinking so this doesn't happen to anyone else, it's devastaaing""this is geared towards kids marketed to kids to get drunk cheaply" cheaply""four loko" is so potent...one can is equivalent for just a few dollars.the f-d-a was one of many agencies and groups complaining aboutt pt's safety.. as a result, about a year ago...the makers of the drink took the caffine out of it, but experts say... it's still dangerous. 3 fighting back... the search is on for the crooks who broke into a dozen cars at arundel mills mall. mall. that's where a vehicle was stolen... and is still missiig. it happened friday night in a parking llt near say 12 cars were vandalized. many of the victims are members of an auto club called, 'the finest'. they hit that many cars, parked ld - directly below a surveillance

camera. "we come here and we are spending money helping this mall surrive helping this mall survive.. and yet wwen we rettrn to our vehicles.. our vehicles are destroyed.. damaged property gone.. cars mi" missing"pooice are looking at the surveillance video for clues. . fox45 has teamed up with the most popular crime mapping website on the internet "spotcrime" trackk criminal activity in your neighborhood. you can also get emails when to our website... fox-by going baltimore dot com...and click on "spotcrime" in the "hot topics" section at the top of the screen. 3 the vote over same sex senate.last week, the house passed a bill allowing ggas to marry.but now... there's already talk of marylanders having the the final say over the issue... on the ballot. ballot. suppooters say there that bill passed in the full- senate.and if that happens opponents say they'regearing up to petition thatbill... to

referendum. (mcdonough) now more than ever, that petition process, that constitutional right for the people is very important in this state." state." (evans) "i expect that they'll do it, they've always said they're going to do it and we'll just continue doing that work that we started with the legislative effort." effort."opponents of same sex marriage...will have tocollect more than 55-thousand..."valid" signatures to get thattssue on the ballot...this ffll. you can get more information on the proposed same-sex marriage petition drive by look for "same sex marriage om.- petttion"... under hot topics onne there ... if you want write "same-sex marriage pn the message box... and you'll be put on the list to pecceve information. gas prices are again jumping higher... this time a 20 cent move in just the past few weeks. joel d. smith is live in north baltimore with the reasons why somm experts say these rices may actually look good in a couple months.... and also a way to get some free as today! good morning joel d.

3 ( ad lib) we are giving away free gas cards today on our show... make sure to tune in ... as for the actual price now... óóóóóóó right here, but soon we could start looking like he rest of the 3country. country. many parts of the u.s. high for this time of year. a year ago in our area we were at 3.10 a gallon.... he average now for regular fuel in baltimore is 3.59. so why is it going up this time? speculattrs drivinn the price higher over worries iran will cutoff production to european countries. some politicians in the u.ss say it's time for the rest of the world to fight back. "the saudis nd the gulf state ought to pump moreeoil immediately. that's what our

government ought to do. it ought to tell the saudis, you know, where trying to keep pran in line by squeezing them economically. but they ought to pump more oil so the price doesn't go up." pp."the all-time high nationally was in july 2008, when an average gallon of regular unleaded sold for $4.11. 3 gas card giveaway.... live in north bbltimore, joel d. smitt, fox 45 morning news. 3 3 we're easing your pain at the &ppump.fill up with fox 45!we'r giviig away 100 dollar gas cards!you'll have three chances to win this morning.go to foxbaltimore dot com for official contest rules. ust how far has nasa come in the 50 years it's been

around? as phil keating pxplains... who better to answer this question... than glenn... on the anniversary of his historic 1962 flight. flight. "six, five, four, three, two, one...(sounds of mercury engines blasting off)...roger! clock is operating, we are that, 50 years ago today, three times before splashing - spaae race. it was a priumphant moment every american alive at the time remembers...sound of a space shuttle launching from cape canaveral. ...long before ssace travel became routine.. ...and for glenn, a historii florida morning out at the--now-- abandoned lauuch complex that he still thinks about all the time.glenn says: "so i was just anxious to go, i went on the eleventh scheduled date, i suited it up four times, once

&pthe flight was canceled because the weather, when i was on the transfer van on tte way to the launch pad, but was up twice before so is almost hard to believe when i went to the final 18 second count and i realize that i really wanna po on this daa fifty ears ago. great feeling." and it continues to inspire pride for visitors commng out today to photograph themselves below this replica of the rocket.haag says: " i know the teacher had us all lined up in the classroom with the tv, and we talked a loo about it. black and white tv."white says: "we were just amazed, a big rocket going up,all the fire and smoke and everything and a guy from ohio going up into space.urich says: pamazing its 50 years" and looking forward, glenn finds it lamentable that today's nasa is no longer &pflying a shuttle or a replacement yet .. at kennedy space center ... phil keating ... fox news

two people are saved... after a daring rescue... from a burning home in massachussetts. and it'' all aught on tape. surveillance video shows the daring rescue.on the fight, you'll see some smoke...on the left side of your screen ... a man sprinting through the parking lot and with almost no hesitation .... he runs rrght inside thh burning home.he rescued two people trapped in the house. a dutch scientist is working to creatt... the world's first "test tube burger."the idea?... to grow cow meat from bovine stem cells. cells.since there is nn blood in the meat... it's pinkish yellow in color.and scientists need to grow the fat separately... to keep the meat juicy and tasty.but unliie the big mac... this burger is worth more than a just few bucks.the project cost is about 330-áthousandá dollars. coming up on the early

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businesses.and g-o-p presidential candidate.... rick santorum... is coming out hurling at the president... and his controversial remarks.... concerning world war two... next. ((bump out)) ((break 2)) wow,

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presidential candidates.a new gallup poll shows him ten points ahead of mitt romney. bbt thattposition comes with a lot of ssrutiny.as jim acosta reports... santorum is now being asked to explain some controversial comments he's &pmade in the past few days. days. --reporter pkg-as follows -- (nats)lately rick santorum has sounded more fire and brimstone thanna play-it-safe front-ruuner...warning a croww in georgia against sitting idly by on election day... s pmerica did in the years leadinn up to its involvement in world war two."we think, 'well, you know, it'll get better. yeah, he's a nice guy. i mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. this will be okay. i mean, yeah, maybe he's not the best guy after a while.' afterra while you find out some ttings about this guy over in europe who's not so good of a guy after all but 'ya know what, why do we need to be involved? we'll just take care of our own problems.'"asked whether he was comparing the president to adolph hitler, santorum said

flatly no."it's a world war ii metaphor .it's one i've used a hundred times.'but before that... at another event... the rising gop contender appeared to call the president's political belief system a kind of theology... that wasn't quite christianity. "it's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. oh, not a theology based on the bible, a different theology, but no less a theology."obama re-election campaign spokesman robert gibbs... who said the president's political team now potential gop nominee... s a - called the comments part of a rrpublican race to the bottom. "" think the idea that rick santorum could be the nominee is a very real one. and obviously we're looking more at, at what rick santorum is talking about and what he's offering. he made some comments over the past few days that i think questioned people's character and questioned people's faith and

i don't think that belongs in our politics."in his oww sunday talk show appearance, santooum denied he was questioning the president's faith."i wasn't suggesting the president's not a christian. i accept the fact that the president's a christian."and &phe defended his view that pealth insurance companies should not be forced to cover prenatal care...because he says it leads to mmre abortions.""es, prenatal testing, amniocentesis, does in fact, result more often than not in this ccuntry in abortion. that is a fact." santorum claims that prenatal pare is designed to find abnormalities in the womb.a staunch opponent of abortion rights... santorum often points to his daughter with a rare genetic condition... bella... as a living defense of his position on the issue. but a santorum spokesman says the gop contender can pseparate his personal beliefs from public policy." the question is how voters will respond to this latest tough talk from santorum. mmre comments like the ones he made over the weekend may have republicans asking how hot is too hot.jjm acosta c-n-n, washington.-----end----- cnn.script-----

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make it real, make it different. markets were closed monday because of the

president's day holiday, but oil prices posted a gain. and as barbara hall tells us... program is creating jobs.and --reporter pkg-as ollows -- oil prices spiked monday, after iran said it would cut off exports to british and french oil companies.u-s crude for april delivery jumped nearly two-percent, while europe's benchmark for crude hit the highest price in more than a year.this could trrnslate to higher costs for drivers. the current average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is up to $3.56,

according to triple-a.analysts say prices could rise as high as five dollars per gallon by summer.starbucks says it's working to reatt jobs at sold more than 500-thousand red white and blue wristbands in the last three months. proceeds go to lenders who give low-interest loaas to small businesses and non-profits.starbucks says the two-million dollars it's raised, combined with ive million dollars donated by the company, is expected to creatt 23-hundred jobs.nearly half of americans own a smartphone, according to a new survey from nielsen.smartphone usage is even higher, at 66-percent, among 24 tt 34 years olds. neilsen also foond income played a significant role in smartphooe usage - older american with high inccmes were more likely to be smartphone users.for business brief, i'm barbara hall. -----end-----cnn.script----- coming up... an iowa mother is in hot

water... after hhr toddler was tipped off the father... that something was wrong wronga bill allowing transgendered people to use which ever bathroom they want will be voted on today in baltimore county.i'm megan gilliland, why some are worried it could put theii children at risk. risk. 3 3 3 3 &p