there are just two gift cards left!your next to last chance to win 250 dollars in free groceries.. tomorrow on fox45 "we believe the charges as they are now are insufficent." he threatened mass murder.. and had the weapons to do it. but hy the man known as the "maryland joker" is only facing misdemeanor charges this morninn. cuba gooding junior.. is no longer a wanted man.why the charges against him.. have been dropped. ?? (3:28:14) "what i'm going to do is ride this map upside down." down."and.... the road... is his paintbrush.how one cyclist uses his bike routes... to create art. 3 3 -inner harbor today is thursday, august 2.

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threatening to kill his co- workers is formally charged... but only with a misdemeanor. neal prescott faces up to three years if convicted of "misuse of a telephone." prescott is accused of calling his supervisor last week... and threatening a mass murder, similar to the colorado theater shooting. shooting.police searched prescott's crofton apartment and found 15 guns and thousands of rounds of ammo. investigators believe he intended to kill. "iq: its hard to measure what you prevented... oq:a tragedy was 3averted." averted."maryland doesn't have a specific law against making threats by phone.but prosecutors say they will lobby for one. prescott is still undergoing a medical examination. friends and family gather to remember frederick native robyn gardner.today marks one year since she disappeared during a vacation in aruba. aruba. gardner traveled to aruba last august with gaithersburg businessman gary

giordano ... who says gardner disappeared while the two snorkeled off the coast. giordano spent four months in an aruban jail while police tried to build a case against him but was eventually let go for lack of evidence.giordano took out an accidental death policy on gardner which he tried to collect 2 days after notifying police of her disappearance. 3 im still devastated .......that she will come home sometime... 3 sometime... a year later... police have not found a body or a suspect. meanwhile... giordano is suing american express for failure to pay a 1-point- 5 million dollar death benefit. caesars entertainment group wins a license to build a slots casino in baltimore. baltimore.the maryland lottery commission made the decision tuesday. the casino near m&t bank stadium will have 37- hundred slot machines. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake calls it a positive move. but not everyone shares her enthusiasm... including one delegate who has concerns about the developer.

(del. carter) "this is a foreign company coming into baltimore without having been properly vetted and held to a more relaxed standard than what we hold our own businesses and our own people t" to."the slots parlor is schedule to open in 20-14. more than half of all counties in the u-s are now considered payne explains... that's based on damage and losses by drought and high temperatures. 3 the u-s department of agriculture declared disaster zone designations for an additional 218 counties in a dozen statee wednesday, tipping the u-s past the 50- percent mark. it blames excessive heat and a devastating drought that has spread across the corn belt and contributed to rising food prices. a 92-year-old farmer in iowa has a bit of perspective. this is about as bad as it was in '36. (in 36.) 36 it was real bad. (wow, it

was bad in '56, it was bad in '88, there were some bad patches in 2005.) yeah, but they weren't bad like it is this year. this year i think is worse. tulsa, oklahoma is begging residents to conserve water. it's not mandatory -- for now. please, please, please voluntarily conserve the use of water immediately. to the north, parts of canada are also suffering from drought. a chef at a restaurant in quebec says berries are in short supply. i'm just making some raspberry jam there, and actually, some of it is frozen raspberries. so, that's not -- that would not be normal. canadian chefs say fresh fruits and vegetables are costing up to 20 percent more. they're worried t's going to get worse. some of our local producers are telling us that we can expect definite spikes in prices towards the end of the summer. i'm ed payne reporting. the u-s-d-a says this year's harsh conditions could cause

u-s food prices to surge by as much as 4-and-a-half percent next year. lawmakers pass the republican plan to maintain the bush era tax cuts for all americans. on wednesday... house republicans and more than a dozen democrats... passed the g-o-p measure by a 256-to-171 margin. it ditched the democrat-backed and senate- approved version... that kept tax cuts only for people making under 200- thousand-dollars a year. the congressional stalemate over the tax cuts has come to symbolize legislative inaction in washington. 3 presidential hopeful...mitt romney's tax plan would likely cut taxes for the rich, while shifting the burden to the middle and lower classes, according to a new report. the non-partisan "urban-brookings tax policy center" analyzed the presumptive republican presidential nominee's plan. its report says romney's proposed tax cuts would decrease government revenue by

about 360 billion dollars... and the government would have to offset that with a big drop in tax breaks. those tax breaks typically benefit the lower and middle classes. according to the washington post, romney's campaign bashed the report, calling it "a liberal study." the national average price for a gallon of gas... jumped 17 cents in july. july.that's according to triple-a... which says that's the biggest jump for the month of july since the year 2000. triple-a blames higher oil prices... middle east instability... and mixed global economic news for the price hike. from game worn jerseys worth millions, to baseball cards just found in the attic......one of the biggest sports collectors shows in the country is underway at the baltimore convention center. center. joel d. smith is live there now to tell us when you can meet sports stars like pete rose, cal ripken junior, and even mike tyson! good morning joel d. 3

3 meanwhile... former baltimore raven, jamal lewis... who was scheduled to appear at that event tomorrow... is now caught up in some legal drama. on wednesday... he was arrested in georgia... and later released on bond.he's accused of not paying child support.just 4 months ago... lewis filed for bankruptcy. an umpire has his face... bloodied during a major league baseball game...after he's hit in the face by a bat's backswing.take a look.it happened during the miami marlins versus the atlanta braves game... at the top of the 5th inning.home plate umpire joe west is hit the face... with the bat of carlos lee.the bat brushes his cheek.. but west shrugs it off... and

continues with the game. a convenience store worker is back on the job ...just days after a car came slamming through a wall... and into him. him.texas police released this surveillance video... which shows the car come barreling into the parking lot and through the wall ... straight into the store employee.that employee was thrown 15-feet across the store... but still manages to get up... walk outside of the store before collapsing.police believe alcohol was a factor in the crash... and arrested the driver.the clerk is back at work after suffering head and arm injuries. a dog... with a keen 3nose! nose!(nats)

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metamucil uses super hardworking psyllium fiber, which gels to remove unsexy waste and reduce cholesterol. taking psyllium fiber won't make you a model, but you should feel a little more super. metamucil. down with cholesterol. here's a campfire story you have to see to believe!this motor home crashed through a fence and landed in a pool wednesday in brockton massachus. massachusetts.firefighters called for cranes and heavy towing vehicles to get the camper out.the wife of the driver says he is diabetic... and that may have led to the crash. ((2-shot toss to weather))

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man's best friend...saving live. lives.nats natsthe medical issue this dog can sniff out...and the steps he takes... to get someone in need... help. help.and later...your boss can be two places at once.the new technology that allows him or her to enjoy vacatiin...and still keep an eye on the office. ((bump out))

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out a when a diabetic's blood sugar gets really low. a dog is 10-thousand times more sensitive to smell then we are they have entire chamber of recepters in thier nose just for smell. pete and his handler dr. dana hardin come to work together. dr. hardin is leading a study at eli-lilly to figure out what's inside a dog's nose that detects low sugar in people with type one diabetes. he does look like a pete doesn't he? she hopes what's learned here from pete will save lives across the county. we are hoping at ican with our partnership here with lilly to standardize how dogs are trained for hypoglycemia alterts so it can reproduced by other programs. low blood sugar attacks can cause a person to suddenly pass out. it can mean a trip to the hospital -- even death. dogs like pete are trained to detect changes in a person's body chemistry to avoid big problems. he is going to start soft right if he does not get

my attention he is going to start raising his head and bumping me and if he does not get my attention he is going to crawl up on my lap and if that doesnt work he is gone to get someone else to help me out. dr. hardin hopes that in a year's time, the mystery of how pete's nose knows so much can be solved. -----end----- cnn.script----- keeping an eye on the office.. while on vacation. vacation.the new technology that allows bosses to be two places at once.. and later...cuba gooding junior is no longer wanted by police.the simple reason why battery charges against him... were dropped. ((break 3)) when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfastst, i need all the help i can get. i tell them, "come straight to the table." i say, "it's breakfast time, not playtime." "there's fruit, milk and i'm putting a little nutella on your whole-wheat toast." funny, that last part gets through.

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change.alison kosik explains the new tool... that allows your boss to be two places at o. once. --reporter pkg-as follows -- your supervisor could be on vacation and in the office at the same time. microsoft is working on a robot that could allow people to be in two places at once. cnn-money went to microsoft's research lab for an inside look. we're actually gonna call bruce who's sitting not far. he literally has two cameras here where he has a camera which shows him the full 180 degree field of view and he has another camera that's for example looking right now at me. it's controlled remotely, as long as the user has access to the internet and a webcam. so your boss could be on the beach, with a laptop, checking in on you. and it's not just for conference calling. the robot would have wheels, several cameras, and an h-d display. so it can roam around the office, attend a meeting, someone. this technology could even be used outside of the work-place. you could maybe

travel the world- right from your living room. of course, the robo-boss is still just an experiment. it may never make it beyond the development phase. but robots working in the office shouldn't sound like a scene in a sci-fi movie. microsoft thinks it's only a matter of time, because wi-fi and 4-g networks are almost everywhere. i'm alison kosik ii new york. -----end-----cnn.script----- former boxing champ...evander holyfield... needs some cash! cash!the items he's putting on an auction block...to avoid for. forclosure.