the government predicts this fall the outbreak will get far worse 90 million americans will be i'll. 9.9million hospitalized, 9.9 million, dead. >> we are preparing as best we can. including getting ready. >> reporter: this woman was diagnosed with h1n1. she will be among the thousands benefiting from the grouped breaking work underway in maryland. >> it can be devastating. you want to about as quickly as possible. >> reporter: three people in maryland died, 263 died nationwide. >> the volunteers in this study will all receive two doses of vaccine, three weeks apart. we will be using two strains of vaccine to determine which strength is necessary to stimulate immune response likely to protect against h1n1

infections. >> reporter: thousands in maryland will be given the vaccine here at the school of medicine and at sites in annapolis and frederick. >> we did not have that available to uss did not have the tool in our tool box, air yeah in our quiver in the spring. >> reporter: it will begin with healthy adults and the elderly and followed by children. >> united states government is launching a nationwide effort to develop a vaccine that would protect against this new strain. >> reporter: the government will spend $1 billion on the vaccine, this is the only testing site in the mid atlantic. it is far better to be prepared than at the end of the game to find out that you have to play catch up. >> reporter: h1n1 is now widespread in more than 20 states. reporting live in downtown, mike held gren. people between the ages of five

and 24 have been hit hardest with h1n1 than any other group. juvenile offenders has lawmakers taking action tonight. >> hearinged will be held to try to get to the bottom of the problems. victor collin center is not rehabilitating some of the most violent youths. another high profile incident raising red flag as 17-year-old baltimore teen supposed to be on home confinement accused of shooting a 5 yield girl. a youth advocacy group wants juvenile justice system to follow missouri's justice system. >> planning three 48 bed locked facilities similar to the victor collin center, construction will take years. >> strong words from the police commissioner as the controversy grows over the handcuffing and arresting of 3 elementary

school children. tonight commissioner is standing by his officers as ann explains the children admitted to stealing but were not charged. >> reporter: transporting this 7-year-old boy after he and his friends admit to stealing. i thought i would get out when i was 18. >> reporter: his friends admit to stealing bike parts from a neighbor. eye witness news spoke with the mothers of the boys who say stealing is very wrong but the police went too far with boys so young. in an exclusive interview the commissioner disagrees. >> the police officers were to investigate and take it seriously. >> reporter: it's hard for officers to determine how to handle young violators he says, when tatheir main mission is to enforce the law and protect crime victims. i don't think it's necessary to

handcuff a 7 year old, 4 ft, 65 pop boy. >> reporter: she believes they must still be held accountable. the victim says the 8-year-old come to his home with his mother to say he is sorry. >> i she brought her son over and made him apologize. he seemed sorry. i give the kid a bike if he wanted a bike. >> reporter: they were put in a holding cell at the justice center with older teenage boys who bullied them and made them eat off of the floor. that's against the policy. >> the holding area is run by city police not bjf. >> i felt my son's safety was at risk. >> do we have special rooms with teddy bears for kids? no. kids are brought there for a reason. they are brought there because they committed some sort of

criminal act. >> the boys say they won't ever do it again. >> i was scared. i don't want to do that stuff again. >> they will be required to meet several times with the police, victim and parents to make them better understand why what they did was wrong. >> the police commissioner says there is a positive side to taiging children to the lockup it can be helpful to diversionnary programs. fbi is searching for a serial bank robbery suspect, take a look at surveillance pictures of the suspect. he robbed 6 banks in the past few weeks. most recent monday when he hit a sun trust bank on north charles street. if you have information call the bank robbery task force. struggling to stay out of the red, board of public works cuts $280 million in the budget. governor is look for ways to cut 400 million.

eye witness news stays on this story. pat warren is live at the complex on preston street where employees await their fate. >> reporter: governor o'malley wants to avoid the massive layoffs that would only contribute to the state unemployment problem but still has to balance the budget. another round of budget cuts today sends agencies back to the drawing board and dozens of employees packing while others consider the future. >> it will be a problem if there is a layoff. >> we are working hard to avoid the massive layoffs that we seen in other states to the extent that we have done job aboggishment it's been only in the cases where there was a clear operational efficiency to be gained. that's what these represent. >> reporter: among the biggest losers of state dollars are health and higher education. in addition to 75 million saved

by funding, $34 million in medicaid payments was cut to hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers, $40 million cut from the university system. >> we are doing what the private sector is doing, which is tightening our belt. but today it was a couple of notches and the next time it's going be three or four notches. >> since o'malley took office spending has been reduced by $3.52700 billion positions eliminated. these cuts will round out the total to $4 billion more than 2800 positions cut. 39 people were layed off today and 18 positions eliminated. >> let me say again our desire, our hope and the goal towards which we are working is not to add to economic woes through the massive layoffs like the 25,000 teachers that were put in unemployment lines in california yesterday. >> reporter: there will be negotiations about the state

worker's union about the furlough. >> we negotiatedded so the lower ends didn't take as much of the brunt. we expect the people on the higher ends of the scale making far more money than the average state employee should take the brunt of them. >> reporter: governor is scheduled a cabinet meeting tomorrow to wog on the next round, $420 million worth of budget cuts. board of regents holding a meeting tomorrow to determine how it will handle its $40 million cut. tonight the historic senator sheeter remains in remains in hands of the city. the auction wrapped up. eye witness news is live, angie freeman explains why the city wants to make sure the senator remain as big draw. >> reporter: the reason why is that the city paid thousands to keep the center up and running

and keep it vitalized the area. with that the bidding of the historic center theater began this afternoon. the auction was held outside without a microphone. some munched on popcorn, and supporters complained. >> the auction should have been inside where everybody could hear everything clearly. this is rigged, this is bull. >> i don't want to interfere with an auction. >> reporter: bidding started at 7 50,000 dollars.

when the highest bid came in, it was the city. offering $810,000 for the building. since the city already owns it, it keeps control. the city has spent thousands to keep the theater up and running. in 1999, palletmore gave the senator a 180,000-dollar grant, then in 2002 it guaranteed half of a $1.2 million loan to the theater. in may baltimore took over 9 50,000 dollar mortgage payments when the owner couldn't make the payments t. city will now keep control, saving it from foreclosure and finding a new owner. hopefully it works out so we don't have a vacant building sitting there. >> reporter: shows continue.

>> i cap imagine ratifying this. >> reporter: there was much speculation about how many bidders the center would receive. they said there were less than a dozen. they would not say who the bidders were. mayor dixon would like to see it remain as a theater no matter who owns it. for. this was the scene on tv hill a short time ago. rain falling near the radar tower. only lasted a few minutes. live look outside now, when will we get more rain. is it coming later this evening? bernadette woods, bob turk are updating the forecast. >> doesn't look that positive for more rain. by 9:00 last night we saw rain, now 85. activity moved to the north. the only thing around the city bs not much at all, down to the

west and southwest, there is rain across southern pennsylvania. southwest pa, one thundershower moved through chester county. few thundershowers. some of these will continue to move to the north, west of us i think we have a better chance in the mountain regions. the city is quiet down to virginia , there is no rain headed in our direction, still the chance because we have the humid air mass around of something popping up. keeping the forecast longer. speaking of rain, bernadette woods joins me with a look at the rainfall numbers. >> reporter: this has been a swinging type of year in the sense that we were so dry and so wet, now we've dried out once again. i want to show you for this month alone we were already over 2 inches below, that's since july. we are above but our surplus dropped to below 2 inches unless we can get rain we will

see the numbers drop. in this type of a pattern we have the thunderstorms and underneath you get a decent amount of rain, if they are not over the pair port they are not going to factor in to those numbers. we will keep you updated there is a long way to go before members of congress can strike a deal on president become become's push to overhaul the health care system. opponents say his plan is a budget breaker. republicans and some democrats are urging the president to back off his deadline for having a bill done before congress goes on recess in august. >> this is too important to be rushed. we need to take our time and do it right. >> tonight the president will try to convince the nation his plan is right and is not being rushed. watch his prime time address here on wjz, gets underway tonight at 8:00. still to come on wjz, death investigation, agents search the office of michael jackson's

doctor. wait until you hear what they were looking for. two of the biggest soccer teams are matching up here on friday. i'm weijia jiang, where a major economic goose is expected to come along with the thousands of game goers. coming up on the hot seat, dc metro's top man answers questions about rail safety. that story as eye witness news continues. sticky wednesday evening. updated first warning forecast is coming right up.

reports generating worries about riding metro trains. the washington post -- after the fatal crash, who has the story right. >> reporter: deaths and injuries in the rail crash launched immediate hunt for a cause. leading suspect circuitry that should have kept the training apart, failed. the post claims other circuits briefly blinked out. when riders learned about it. >> i getter in vows -- nervous. >> some were calling in to the show where metro chief responded. >> i'm sorry about the fear that you have. i can't control that human fear. what i can do is to take steps

to make the system safer. >> reporter: circuit failures lasted minutes at a time over several days. he said the anomaly with the post reported were more like the quick blips that appeared on the screen of the traffic controllers. >> there is an instantaneous blink and it's right back. it's not that the train is not being recognized for any period of time or measurement of time whatsoever. >> the metro people obviously want us to believe them because they want us to ride it. >> do you think it's safe? >> yeah i think it's safe. >> because the system the being checked twice a day instead of once a month t small errors are caught early. >> because of the heightened condition we are under, we will go and remove the circuits and replace them with new equipment. >> while it is making improvements to tracking and circuit systems, a major system

wide overhaul will take a decade and cost $11 billion. >> that increase level of testing by dc metro was ordered by the metro transportation safety board. dfc has not stated a official cause for the crash. deputies charged who people who crashed a vehicle while fleeing from police. the two suspects from west virginia are charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and other offenses. it started last night when a deputy spotted a stolen suv and began pursuing it, the suspects crashed in to a place cruiser, one deputy custreated for minor injuries. football powers at the bank stadium. not the type of football normally played at tower stadium. two of the best soccer times in the world will collide this friday. eye witness news is live. weijia jiang with more on the economic boost it will give the city. >> reporter: the game is sold out. hotel rooms in baltimore for

the weekend, sold out. fans across the world are going to be pouring millions of dollars right in to baltimore, 70,000 people will fill the seats to watch an international football game. well the other kind of football. >> this is a first time in the stadium we had a major soccer event. >> reporter: two of the best soccer teams in the world. ening lands and italy are -- england and italy are taking over the turf. last week crews prepared the field. >> calls for natural grass. >> reporter: they are bringing in directors who organize 100 soccer camps in the region. visitors to the city offer a much needed economic boost to the tune of an expected $25 million. >> talking about hotels tbeeng

full, using restaurants, people spending money. >> reporter: because there is so much excitement, so many people expected to pass in to the stadium the city is urging everyone to take public transportation. or if you must drive, please plan to leave early, park your car, and travel around on foot. >> reporter: however you get there, the game is sure to score major goals for soccer lovers and charm city. the soccer buzz could be growing more here in baltimore, the city is placing big to bring world cup somer here within a decade. weijia jiang, wjz, eye witness news. gl the game is part of preseason tour stopping in four other cities. >> friday night. hopefully the rain will be out of here. >> warm and humid, probably if the 70s. let's look at temperatures now. 85. dew point however has dropped.

humidity dropped the last hour, winds southeast 7. holding steady.

up to 87 this afternoon. normal is 88. pretty normal day. now 85. cooler spots where they had rain earlier, cum ber land 75. 71 oakland. ocean city on the beach at 82.

hot spot, coming in in the upper 80s to 90s all afternoon. 88 washington. dew point dropped. last hour like 68. came down to 64. drying out a little bit. they moved through the regions things more stable now. it's possible a shower can break out later on tonight. all we need is cool air coming aloft if the atmosphere. no of the city we had a big area of showers, western howard through carol, baltimore, to hartford, moved towards the knot. some areas pick up half inch, three quarters, even an inch of rain in some locations last night. wasn't even expected. it exploded quickly. winds generally south, southeast, light. clouds around and fog this morning. that cleared up with sunshine and the showers popped up. you can see to the southwest of us, showers in northern virginia around winchester and the skylines heading up towards

western maryland. hagerstown, hancock, big batch of rain in southwest pa. nothing to the south. tomorrow that's hopefully going to change. big area of rain from the great lakes down in to tennessee valley and in to tennessee and georgia, most of that will pass to the west. low pressure is going to pass pittsburgh, on the eastern slope, showers breaking out oh. southeast, low pressure up the coast means where she a chance, particularly in the eastern shore of more rain tomorrow. two chances, hopefully we get one of the chances for rain. by friday afternoon, most of this is done as a little area of high pressure moves in. probably will dry out in time for saturday. sunday a chance of more showers may come back in to the region. 78 degrees. overnight, showers and thunderstorm activity quickly ending, patchy fog overnight.

68 68. tomorrow 82. still to come, a house of horrors, what happened inside this rundown home and how involves a baby and vicious rats. cracking down, maryland wants to put cigarette smugglers out of business.

just after 6:30, 85 degrees, mostly sunny, thank you for staying with eye witness news. here the stories people are talking about tonight. a short time ago, police in federal agents raided the children oisk michael jackson's doctor. dr. murray was with jackson when he died. police are searching for evidence of manslaughter. >> reporter: officers from los angeles, detectives and federal drug enforcement agents raided the office of michael jackson's personal physician, dr. conrad murray. taking a computer hard drive and documents but no drugs.

murray's lawyers confirm investigators are looking for evidence that could lead to a charge of manslaughter. >> they are probably going through records to see what it is that they will be seizing. >> reporter: the doctor has not been named as a suspect in jackson's death. but he has emerged as a central figure in the possibly criminal investigation. murray was with jackson hen he died and performed cpr before paramedic arrived. lawyers say they were surprised by today's search and their client has been cooperative with investigators. there have been two autopsies conducted on jackson's body one by a la coroner and the other a private one ordered by the family. though there were reports about jackson using dip ra van, toxicology reports have not been released. the final autopsy on jackson's exact cause of death is not expected until next week.

the worst school shooting in u.s. history, dozens of people massacred at virginia tech, now there is new information regarding the gunman. sally is live with the details. >> after two years mental health records belonging to the killer have been found. back on april 16th, 2007, that joe went on the rampage at virginia tech. his mental health treatment had been a major focus in the investigation. his health records vanished more than a year before the shooting. tonight virginia governor says the records were found in the home of the former director of the university's counseling center. >> university is being sued by family members of the victims claiming gross negligence in failing to prevent the massacre. in a rare win for tabun control advocates the senate strikes down a bill that would allowed a person with with a concealed permit to carry the

weapon while visiting another state. 5839 not favor of the measure, two votes short of the 50 needed to pass. opponents argue that the measure violated states rights. maryland stepping up efforts to crack down on cigarette smugglers who get away without having to pay state taxes. the efforts are being mirrored by other states who have substantial per pack taxes. look at the cigarettes confiscated in maryland. they are missing something important to the tax man. maryland tax stamp. >> for us it's a violation of a law, and my agency, the controllers office empowered to enforce the law. we are doing that to create a level playing field. >> reporter: $2, maryland has the fourth highest per pack tax in the country. virginia is 30 cents. south carolina, 7 cents. >> with the recession there is more smuggling of cigarettes. because of our tax in maryland

is $2. up in new york city it's more than $4. >> reporter: state figures it's losing a half millionion dollars a year in taxes. they've stepped up enforcement efforts. >> almost double the number of violations. i think we confiscated 172,000 packs of cigarettes last year. >> reporter: much money is there to be made that in nizzed crime is now -- oh organized crime is now in on the the action. >> they usually smuggle drugs and heroin and cocaine and look upon cigarettes as another attractive illegal item they can make money off of. >> tax per pack is new jersey is highest. $2.67, quick look at stories in the edition of the baltimore sun, look at the director of sports marketing. helping bring soccer match to

town. 10á9 anniversary of fluid movement water ballet show. for the stories. >> more read tomorrow's baltimore sun and remember look for the updated forecast on wjz's first warning weather team. scientists may have found a key missing link in the ef luges of the virus that causes aid. it's a virus that is killing chimpanzees in the wild. different from the hiv virus. does not make them sick unlike humans. finding the second strain that sickens apes, helped doctors come up with a vaccine for humans. in the health watch as well, could hot dogs be hazardous to your health? a advocacy group says yes and is suing the biggest manufacturers. >> the washington based group cancer project wants to see warning labels on every package of hot dogs you buy. the lawsuit sites a report by

the american institute for cancer research that found regular process of processed meat with raise the risk of caps i. a contact lens for dry eye suffers scientists comes up with a lens that delivers medication to the eye. can release a antibiotic at a rate for a month. scientists hope to start human testing in a year. two studys show keeping your weight down exercising and eating right do pay off when it comes to protecting your heart. a healthy lifestyle can prevent numerous illnesses. aaaaaú government speer vengeses like barring smoking in restaurants and bars can help people achieve a healthy lifestyle. millions of people across asia durned their eyes to the sky

this morning as dawn disappeared in to darkness, it was the longest solar eclipse for more than a century. stretched from china, india to the far east in beijing china. in some parts lasted nearly 7 minutes long. >> i heard some people chartered planes to go up and get uninstructed view. military plane slams in to the ground and a pilot was able to walk away. crime near campus the bodies of two people found near a texas university. we'll be right back. more juicy shower, hopefully coming our way. exclusive first warning five day forecast. wjz13 is always on. for updates on all the news, log on to wjz.com.

police arrested three people for allowing rats to attack a 6 week old girl. >> doctors say infant suffered

injuries consistent to rat bites. 18-year-old todd and a 33 year old and a 29-year-old face child endangerment charges in the case. they were at the ohio mobile home where the baby was found on sunday t. infant ended up losing two toes and recovering in fair condition at a hospital in columbus. two other children were removed from the home and placed in protect i custody, they showed no signs of abuse. >> horrible story. thank you very much. >> police say there could be other arrest ifs the case t. suspects are held on a 210,000- dollar bond. recent college graduates found dead near the university of texas campus, police say they are investigating the death as a double homicide. the two were discovered with gunshot wounds in their apartment. investigators say there was no sign of forced entry which leads them to believe the suspect knew the victims. indiana stays police have a

new way to keep an eye out for aggressive drivers, they plan to drive with truck drivers. they hope to educate the public to be careful and respectful when they are driving near semi trucks because they have more blind spots and can't stop as quickly as people may think. search is on for two men who left a shark to die in the middle of a streevment police released video of the men dragging the 5-footer inive shark by a rope monday night. they reportedly try to sell to it fish markets for $20 when no one bought it they left it in the street where where it was discovered a day later. firefighters spent hours working in a australian marina after five boats went up in flames. one boat caught fire while docked at the beach in sydney. black flames spread in to the air. fire crews had to drag them in to open water to prevent further damage. no one suffered serious

injuries. home video catches a damatic plane crash as a military pilot plunges to the ground. witnesss sprayed wit fire extinguishers, the pilot was performing a acrobatic routine. he survived the crash was taken to the hospital where he is recovering from a spinal injury, a perforated lung and a broken arm. >> incredible video. they are called the lost generation, the growing number of under age girls forced in to prostitution. this young woman's nightmare began when she was only 15. >> guns have been pulled on me, knives, raped more times than i can count. >> we will go inside a fbi sting operation trying to rescue these girls. my reports again tonight on the cbs evening news. here are the closing numbers on wall street. we'll be right back.

it's been a dry month so far. eye witness news is live with complete coverage, bob will update the five-day forecast, first we have bernadette woods. >> the ocean is going to be a nice place to be, in the water at least, lit be muggy through there weekend. tomorrow scattered thunderstorms possible. friday again scattered thunderstorms, not all day rain event. saturday we get a break. by sun a new -- most of the day fine sunday. weekend warriors will be out of there by the time anything does come. tomorrow, we are going to see a front come our way. scattered showers and thunderstorms possible on and off throughout the day. not a all day rain event but a decent chance at some rain around here. it's going to be a muggy one. here is bob. >> still a chance of spotty

scattered showers or thundershowers, 85, by the weekend saturday looks like the driest day, probably no rain. 88. warm. sup thundershower. 88, 8. partly cloudy, 86 monday. slight chance of a shower on the afternoon by monday. still to come, orioles road trip continue and baseball in the brongs and mark has the low lights next in sports

there is a reason why orioles fans tend to be antagonistic towards the yankees. >> growing pains it's been that way all year, tough long road for the o's struggle aid way from home, more road defeats than any team in the american lead. it's tough when the road leads them through the bronx. a rookie trying to prove he belongs in the big lead. yankees -- rodriguez , base hit left field. brings in jeter, yankees loaded the bases that inning. robinson ground ball, roberts can't make the play. yanking made it a 4-0 lead.

jones had four hits including this home run in the 9th inning. good for jones but not good enough for the o's, lost the last ten they played in new york. step closer to moving the training base to ed smith stadium in sarasota florida. city commissioned there approved an agreement with the orioless on a renovation to the ballpark and nearby training field. once the deal is finalized they will leave fort lauderdale and begin spring training in sarasota starting next year. former orioles moyer on the mound for the phillies. age 46 years old. trying to pitch to an 11 straight victory but coming off the best out of the year, moisturier not so good against the cubs. bases loaded. another comes in on the throw. the cubs stop the phillies winning streak at 10 in a row.

10 to 5 was the final. the ravens continue to line up candidates, looking to find a replacement for mason who says he is retiring. latest on the list is joe horn. baltimore sun reports that ozzie told the horn's agent he will be contacted afthey work out over receiver candidates. he did not play last season. earlier we caught up with willis at the grand opening of the boost. mcgahee battled injuries last season. he says he plans to be at full strength when the training camp starts. >> it's a about me proving myself that i can go out there. >>

good luck to the parkville up thisser under 12 year old girl softball team headed off to represent our area in the mid atlanta regional championships. thuppedzer has a record of 27- 2. best of luck to them. map we'll be right back.

tonight the hit drama csi new york, followed by eye witness news at 11:00. he is 80 years old and named rocket, he is on the move except he doesn't move very fast. rocket didn't care for the red carpet as he entered his new

home at the tulsa zoo, the 600- pounder outgrew his oldest place in wichita. he is the largest in north america. back at 11:00, i'm vic carter. >> for bob and mark i'm denise koch, thank you for watching eye witness news and wjz13, maryland's news station. more ahead on the cbs evening news with katie couric.

america. young girls, many from middle-class families, drawn into prostitution in alarming numbers. it's a dark day for the earth as the moon steals the spotlight from the sun. >> couric: good evening, everyone, you may have forgotten about it, but the h1n1 flu virus has not gone away. in fact, it's expected to make a rebound. so researchers are moving as rapidly as they can to come up with a vaccine and they need your help. in this country, it's infected more than a million people. worldwide it's killed more than 700. today the u.s. government called for volunteers to take a