t was the first time in aawhile... maryland's in thh race for president.ng still, votte turnouu wws extrememly low... somm a man is recorded on surveiilance video buuing a gun. why the timing of his purchase... lead to his children being taken away from him. 13:48 when people call me up they are at their wits end, and... first the houssng do. - crisss.. then the crrditt aad ccllapse..he next big horizon... and how it could be worse than tte ones before it. 3 3 3 today is wednesday, april 4th. - 3

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3 3 the votes are in... and mitt romney sweeps thhee stttes in the g-o-p battle for the nomination in the race for the white house.here in maryland... percent of the vote... making him the clear winner by aabig margin... ver rick santo.

santorum.in ll... romney beat santorum and newt ingrich in .. ....wisconsin... washington d-c... d-c...and right here in marylan. maryland.but whether rooney's big night issenough to bring the republican nomination fiiht clossr to ccosure is scaled back their campaagning, rick santorum has continued to forge ahead, and despite tuesday's setbacks, will be aiming for a showdoww in his home state oo pennsylvania in three weeks. unfortunaaely... it'ssbeen reported that voter turnout here in maryland was the worst it's been in decades.megan gilliland is here with some reason's whyy ggod morning patrice,we're talking about only abbuu 25 percenn of vooers turning out... state wide for primary.this was tte scene in cockeysville...pretty much... a deserted polling location. pike mann across the state. turnout in decades.e worst

1630 "this s very sad to me. i don't see any linns, i waa sure here would be lines. it makes me very disappointed." with such a low turnout... we asked oor viewerss.. do you overwelming majority... said no.take a look... 3&jamie says: i went out and voted but i don't feel likeeit matters in the grand scheme of thingsspat says: doesn't count for much in this one party state. ssill... three of the four g-oop candidates for prrsideet campaigned here in maryland recently.this was for thh first time in a while....where maryland's primary could make a difference in that g-o-p race.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 mornnng news. seeeall of our stories about the race for the white house. go to fox-baltimore dot com... icon in the news features psetion..ll of the stories on president barack obamm cliiched his party's

he's been racking up &pdelegatessin contests across the nation.according to c-n- n's delegate estimate, the president onny needs about 43 more of the over 2-ttousand delegates needed to win the ddmocratic party's nooination. &p 3 new information on a story ou saw first on fox.... concerning an outrageous beating in downtown bbltimore....all caught on possible suspect... anddnew video shows whaa might havee started theefight. pight. take a look... ou see one man punch another man down cold... he falls to the ground... then he's strrpped and left lying there. witnesses say t happened on st. patrick'ssdayy outsidd ourthouse east oo cclvert street. new video that's surfaced... hoos moments before the punch... and the postinnss ay he's a twitter -3 20-year-old party prommter. he's seen grabbing sometting from the victim's pants. the victim then moves

toward the susppct who hee... throws a harddhitting punch. that's when the taunting conninues. it's a video disturbance that's captured the attention young. 3 around downtown, look like the police should have been able po see this aad someone should right up the street, not even a block and a half away.." away.."the victim hasn't come forward yet, and police say they'reestill investiggting... and have the susppct's name. a baltimooe man is sentenced killing a 11-year old boy.a r jury convicted 37-year-old dante parrish, last month... in the 2009 death of jason mattison.police say mattison was sexually assaulted.... gagged wwth a pillowcase an sttbbed in the head.hissbody was ffund in his aunt's homee &pstuufed ii a loset.parrish admmtted being part of the &pmattison. pleanup hs started after tornadoes did widespread damage in the dallas-fort worth area.national weather

service teams are expected to spread out across the region today... to determine how manyy tornadoes actually hit.as mary ellen hoppins explains... a meeeorologist with the service tornadoessrnadoes..- semi-trailers were thrown like matchbox cars.powerlines fireworks.and the roof offthis house wws peeled away, making it looo like an unfinished dool houss.vincent tang (lank-uh-sterr), wheee about 300 buildinns ere damaged.i just screaming and 'oh my god, please do not hit my house, 'cause i don't want any of my neighborrood get huut, and also i on't want myself getting into that moment.super entire life. never ever scared &plikk this.lancaster'' (lank- uh-sterr's) mayor had some advice for the newly homeless. we would ask hattpeopleeseek shelter outside of the city, if they have that luxury. iff as a temporarr shelter. this

is what's eft of a house in arliigton.a woman and her two sonn survived by taking like a freight train. it was shared this viddo f heavyy - hail poundinnghis plane as it taxied at the dallas-fort worth international airport. the plann rrtuuned to the gate and the flight was ccnceled. the airport says hail damaged more ttan one-hundred-and-10 departures -- and more thaa - hopkins reporting. g flights there are no reports of deaths prom the storms.arlington'ss police department says seven people were injured there, one of them criticaaly.and the mayor of lancaster says there were mulliple injuries in the city, but id not hhve any ssecific numbers. the university of pitttbbrgh is nnw offering 50- information on a wave of

recent bomb threats on campus. two threats promptedd evacuations monday .. three more threats were reported tuesday.that makes 12 since february.the first threats a reporter at the pittsburgh post-gazette.no students have a new study finds roughly áhalfá of ameriia's pre- school-aged children... are not getting a daily dose of "archives of pediattics"... found that geeder and race played a role.researchers aaso found mothers are more likely than fathers to take their ccildren outside to play. experts recommend children play outside for at least 60 minutes a day. they say being control, motor development, vision and vitamin d levels. americans tend to be more overweight than they think. study... by the path new - foundation... in new york city. it finds the body mass index... or b-m-i for short... ssgnificantly underestiiates

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it's a threat targeting new york and the coming attraction is al qaeda.mary snow reeorts on the chilling online attention of the nnw york &ppolice nd f-b-i. first glance, it could be --at - mistaken for a movie ad. al qaeda ccming soon again in new york. the message is on a city ppliie ddpartmeet who say it's used by errorists and jihadists.officials say they have no evidence that it's tied to any specific threat toonewwyork. but the web site is being analyzed by the fbi pnd the nypd. (reporter: "is this ignificant at all?") "well, thii is a major orum. it's called al ansar. it's been in existence for a while.

weebelieee it's used for innpirrtion but also an be used for operational messagee. it exxsts in severalldiiferent languages anddit's been a &pccncern of ours for a while." commissioner ray kelly says analysts believe it's national based n the language that's used. kelly says he was struck by the level of sophiitication of the graphic ann the expensive softwwre used to create it. but whether there's a credible threat...cnn ttrrorism analyst peter bergen is skeptical. assooiated with any real plot? that seemssto be nottclear at all. my guess is that there's nothing really to this. if there was a real attack about to appen on new york my guess is al qaeda wouldn't advertise it on the website."this isn't the first time threatening messaggs havv appeareddon jihadi sites. but federal authorities and the police department say anyythreat must be taken serioosly. "and it's

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