>> wicked weather, severe storms rip across maryland, leaving scattered damage and many people in the dark. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm adam may. we're tracking damage from a line of storms that crossed the state this evening. high winds led to many downed trees and massive power outages. look at this picture from a viewer. it appears to be a funnel cloud lingering over the waldorf area. tonight there are no confirmation of any tornadoes but certainly you can tell a lot of people saw some very strange clouds. we have complete first warn weather coverage. bernadette is still tracking the storms but mike schuh is live in baltimore county where a lot of damage has been reported. >> reporter: in many parts of the county you can smell the damage before you see it. take for instance this pine tree. the trunk is over a food wide. where did this tree start out? 25 feet in the air. it snapped right off. behind there there is a police

car blocking the road. the reason being there are downed trees. there are many police cars blocking many roads in the county and in this case behind the downed trees there are downed wires. listen to this rain. it was enough to snarl traffic in harford county. part of the same storm that did damage in carolyn baltimore counties. >> it's just crazy. >> within the darkness i saw from the corner of my eye a really dark swirling mass. like that funnel clouted cloud and she's like getaway from the door. >> there were like so many downed trees. >> we all ran into the basement, stayed there for about a minute or two. and then realized it passed by. >> how did all this destruction come from one little storm? >> reporter: little but packing hail and high winds. more than 20,000 without power in baltimore county. for about a quarter mile here, there are a lot of trees and branches down. when the winds got to this

light weight advertising trailer, they had no problem flipping it on top of this big truck. >> we have unusually heavy storm damage in about a one, one and a half square mile area. a tree fell on her car, and brought some power lines down on it. she's ok. but it did take about an hour until we could get her out of there safely. >> reporter: the car she is talk about is just down the street. the sykesville fire department tells me in their area they have nearly 3000 in the sykesville area without power. an evacuation center has been set up at the sykesville fire department. i am told there are people arriving there. red cross disaster teams are either on site or enroute and the fire department here in baltimore county is told by bge that they expect to have power returned to this area of ricer the town by tomorrow night. reporting live, mike schuh,

wjz. >> i'm sure we will have a better look at that damage at day break, too. the complete first warning weather continues with bernadette woods tracking storms on live doppler radar tonight. >> there are still storms out there. the national weather service is getting a lot of damage reports and at this point they aren't going investigate anything for a tornado but are assessing the situation. going first warning doppler radar, nothing is severe at this point. we're done with the watches and warnings for now, but we saw this batch of thunderstorms leave us moving to the north and then this batch to the south. still some gusty winds and possibly hail with it all along the beaches here. back to berlin and sols barry. but at this point, there are no warnings. something we will monitor. at this point the bulk of the energy is winding down. still showers and thunderstorms out there but we have more in the forecast over the next few days and we will have that forecast shortly. >> thank you, bernadette. the storm has caused a lot of power outages. we got new numbers from bge,

baltimore county has more than 19,000 people without power. carroll county has over 2700. harford county more than 2000 in the dark. wjz is always on for updated forecasts, live doppler radar and the power outages in your area. or lock on to wjz.com. we also have other breaking news tonight. right now baltimore city police are on the scene of a multiple shooting and apparently, one of the victims is a pregnant woman. the sound of gunshots filled the air just after 9:00 tonight. this is in the 2600 block of ashland avenue. now it is still not clear just how many people were shot originally. we were told it is about a half dozen. and we were told by police that one of the victims is indeed a pregnant woman. we will have the latest on this story that is still developing either later in this newscast or on the eyewitness news morning edition. an apartment complex in baltimore county has once again become the scene of a carbon monoxide leak. today three residents of the

coe village apartment complex got sick and had to go to the hospital. emergency crews had to ventilate two units tonight. they believe that a stove may be the cause. >> they just got new water tanks, new stoves, new bg & e air conditioning units. everything. i don't understand what's going on, at all. >> over the last month a number of other co leaks involving stoves have been reported at the staple complex and a fatality a few years ago. from the eastern shore this weekend, heartbreak for a maryland family following a boating accident. an 11-year-old girl is dead. the victim of rough water. >> reporter: search efforts on the sassafras river in kent county come to an end sunday. crews find the body of an 11- year-old girl who flew out of her family's boat when it passed a barge friday. >> the vessel struck the wake on the bow. that created a bouncing effect. >> reporter: investigators at the natural resources police say it's possible the girl was

hit by her own family's boat. that triggered a long weekend search that ended with a sad discovery. >> that location was approximately one half mile from the accident scene. the victim was transported to the medical examiner's office in baltimore for autopsy. >> reporter: now authorities are not releasing that little girl's identity just yet. some pretty scary moments for security at the aaron del mills shopping center when they approached a virginia man spray painting his car in if parking lot this weekend. security says the man-made threatening comments then soon after, security found a loaded pistol in his backpack along with shotgun shells and marijuana. tonight 21-year-old timothy barnes of virginia faces numerous charges. another attack at a popular bike trail has police on anne arundel county on alert. jessica kartalija reports police have a strong mention for everyone using the trail. >> reporter: a popular place for hiking and biking turns into a crime scene again friday night when two people walking

the bna trail are attacked. >> they were approached from behind by the subject. he demanded money from them and valuables. they refused to give him anything. >> reporter: the suspect struck the male victim in the face. then took off on foot. heading south object the trail near cat tail pass sang, and white -- passage and whites road. >> a blackmail in his teens, 5' 6 or 7. wearing a black shirt and black hat. >> reporter: this latest attack comes months after another robbery on the same trail. >> next thing i know, look out my window and the fire department is here, the police are here and somebody is laying on the bench right here, and then they took him away in the ambulance. >> reporter: the 20-year-old victim was beaten unconscious and taken to shock trauma for a head injury. police have stepped up patrols in both areas. anne arundel county police tell eyewitness news you don't just need to be concerned on the bna trail, but really any wooded area like this. >> lighted areas are always the

choice. and just to remind people that the park, the trail is a park, and the county parks do close at sundown. >> reporter: jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. >> police are reminding joggers and bikers to stay in well-lit areas and never use that trail alone. a suburban washington d.c. police chief has been arrested for dui after an accident that left another driver injured. police say david baker, the chief of police in alexandria, virginia had a blood alcohol level of .19 at the time of the crash. he was reportedly driving an unmarked city vehicle at the time. the alexandria police department says they are shocked at the news. >> i am surprised, also, is the most that i can say. this is behavior that i have never seen. it is something that has certainly not been a part of his career, or even his ethics, and i've worked with him now for 19 years. >> chief baker is on paid administrative leave tonight and chief cook who you just saw

has been appointed the acting police chief down there. alaska governor sarah palin left office a little quiet tonight. the former vice presidental candidate gained international attention less than a year ago. now as palin enters the private sector, no one is really quite sure what she is going to do next. >> reporter: sarah palin is moving on. >> i will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right, and for truth. >> reporter: the first-term governor left office 16 months early. she felt the lawsuits and ethics probes against her had become a distraction to the office and she wanted to focus on her family. >> i feel that it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical politics as usual layman duck session in one's last year in office. >> reporter: politics was anything but usual with palin. her popularity sored when she became john mccain's running mate a year ago. after a series of missteps, however, she became fodder for late night comedy shows.

she took one last shot at the media. >> our new governor has very nice family, too, so leave his kids alone. >> reporter: her departure may open up a run for the president see in 2012. but with her approval rating hovering at 40%, fellow republicans are confused at her decision to leave the governor ship. >> once you start a shop like that, it seems to me you should try to finish it. >> reporter: palin says she plans to write a book, campaign for other candidates and try to pay off her large legal bills. democrats are staying quiet to see what she does next. >> she is entering private life now. we wish her well and it's up to her to decide what role she will play in the future. she's got plenty of advice, i'm sure. she doesn't need mine. >> reporter: conservatives are sure she will be back. sean parnell is now the 12th governor of the state of alaska. in new york, wjz, eyewitness news. >> we've also found out tonight what palin's first order of business will be as a private citizen. she is planning to speak august 8th at the ronald ragan

presidential library in california. still to come on a busy night here, we will have an update on the breaking news we had earlier, a multiple shooting in baltimore. also a tragedy on the road this weekend. eight people killed including children after a minivan collides right into oncoming traffic. >> and a day at the ballpark turns deadly for a major league baseball fan in philly. >> and have cemetery vandals struck again? that could be the case as another investigation is under way in chicago. a firefighters tradition continues here in baltimore despite a year of economic constraints. i'm tim williams. more on that coming up. i'm bernadette woods. after a round of showers and thunderstorms today, we are not quite finished with them. we will have that forecast coming up when eyewitness news returns.

>> we just got new information from police so we want to update the breaking news. a mass shooting we told you about in the top of the newscast. baltimore city police have confirmed a total of 12 people have been shot tonight. it happened during a party in the 2600 block of ash land. now one of the victims was apparently a two-year-old girl. luckily, she only suffered gunshot wound to her arm. those injuries not life threatening. also a 23-year-old pregnant woman was shot in the leg. all of the victims are believed to be able to survive their injuries. tonight police are still searching for suspects in the shooting, not reporting any arrests at this time. in other news, eight people are dead in new york state, including four young cousins,

after a wrong way crash on the highway. police say a family's minivan was going in the wrong direction when it suddenly crashed into two cars in westchester county. firefighters on the scene say the minivan was completely engulfed in flames when they arrived. >> yeah. several people were ejected. most of them children, and we prioritized, and we were able to save one young child's life. >> the four children killed were ages 2, 5, 7, and 9. police say that three men in the second vehicle were killed, and two in the third vehicle were hurt. officials say this was the second wrong way crash on that parkway just today. the first one happened about 20 miles northerlyier in the morning -- north, earlier in the morning. a california man is under arrest accused of stabbing his wife to death with an ax. deputies said the man called to report he had killed his wife. when they arrived they see she had been hit several times with

the ax. investigators are not releasing a motive for that attack just yet. in philadelphia tonight a fight outside the ballpark leaves a man beat tone death. police say the man was attending a bachelor party near the phillies' stadium when the party got into a fight with another group in the closing innings of last night's game. police say the 22-year-old man was assaulted and rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead. the phillies say they won't comment until any arrests are announced in the incident. there are more angry families in illinois as human bones turn up for a second time at a second cemetery. someone made that discovery at the mount glenwood cemetery. coming in the wake of a gruesome burial scam at burr oaks cemetery where workers are charged with double stacking bodies and reselling plots. loved ones in glenwood are rushing to check on the graves there. >> apparently, they said that it was confirmed that it was a human bone from the coroner's office. i just wanted to make sure

everything is intact. >> we have to constantly come out here and check on our loved ones. why is that? >> the sheriff's department says there is no reason to believe this incident is like another burr oak. the glenwood cemetery's owner is denying any wrong doing tonight. also tonight, the president of france remains hospitalized after falling ill during an afternoon jog. nicholas sarkozy was rushed to the hospital by military helicopter for observation and treatment. the president's office is denying reports that the 54- year-old lost consciousness for some short time. sarkozy underwent several examinations, all which came back normal. nonetheless, he will remain hospitalized until the morning. rescue workers from all around the country have traveled to baltimore this weekend for the annual firefighters convention. the event highlights the new northwest safety and technology. as tim williams reports, they are also talking about how cutbacks some stations are making it challenging for many of the attendees. [ bagpipes ] . >> reporter: from around the

country, nearly 17,000 firefighters converged on the baltimore city convention center. the week long event to revisit tradition and introduce technology. >> shows a lot of the new stuff coming out to help firefighters become more safe. >> reporter: just like in maryland, staying safe despite budget shortfalls. >> cut backs all over. >> reporter: is a challenge for fire companies around the nation. edward pierce is from new york city. >> we run two used ambulances because we can't afford to buy new be we're in the process of maybe selling our headquarters to a different place, a cheaper area. so we can raise some funds to buy new ambulances. >> reporter: in baltimore, city budget cuts could mean the closure of engine 36 among others. the company has been on edmondson avenue for five decades. >> we need to keep the fire department open. >> reporter: and station 31 in the northeast baltimore community needs 2.5 million in renovations. >> we haven't put enough money into them in the past to keep

them modernized. >> reporter: 2 million has to come from federal stimulus money. donations are down. >> if people knew what these officers needed they would give. >> reporter: in nearly 30 years of hosting this expo, organizers have never battled economic times this stuff. firefighters said they had to search individual station budgets to get to this event. >> we really didn't see a drop in our attendance. we're very pleased. >> reporter: and until this economy turns around -- >> we'll keep doing what we've doing. we've been through worse we'll get through this. >> reporter: -- firefighters don't plan to miss a beat. >> and this year the baltimore city fire department is celebrating it's 150th anniversary. let's talk about weather right now. really strong storms through the area. i want to see that picture a viewer sent us from waldorf. i thought it was amazing. bernadette, what does this look like to you? is this a possible funnel surround? >> it's a possibility of a funnel cloud? i cannot tell if that's touching the ground which you need that for a tornado. but it does look like it could

be rotation in those clouds, if it is what they are actually seeing and they sent that to us. >> could something like that cause damage even if it doesn't touch down? >> there's no wind surrounding it but it wouldn't be nearly the damage as if it touched the ground. >> there was amazing damage tonight. >> crazy storms. if you saw mike's package earlier you saw the damage going on. at this point still thunderstorms out there however nothing at the severe level. i want to take you to the southern part of the eastern shore, because that is where we're still seeing the thunderstorms at this point. and all along the beaches, rumbles of thunder, gusty winds, downpours but everything is below the severe criteria. saulsbury on down. let's switch and it show you no watches or warn information effect for us at this point. that has calmed down somewhat. off to the south and north but not for us. this is what it looked like moving through the afternoon and evening hours. see two different lines that got going. that picture was off to the

south with that batch of storms. what we saw for mike schuh's story earlier is with dispatch the storms are lifting up into pennsylvania no longer our problem but definitely left its mark. winds are generally all over with the thunderstorm going through but they have been out of the south most of today. that's kept the moisture levels very high fueling the thunderstorms coming through. another factor were the warm temperatures. at this point we're down to 72 degrees in baltimore. 78 in d.c. 70 is pretty much across this entire map. though we did top out at 87 today, right on par with our average. now for this upcoming week we will be closer to these averages, or above them in some cases. because we really have switched to a summertime weather forecast here. the front that came in today is going to stick around right into the day tomorrow. so that everything is calming down a little bit overnight. it's going to flare up once again tomorrow with that front around. so the showers and thunderstorms, some will linger through the overnight but we will see more develop heading through the day tomorrow. and then even on tuesday, the

front moves off shore but it's close enough that we could see scattered showers and thunderstorms around. as soon as we get rid of this front a new one starts approaching from the west ahead of it as early as wednesday we could see another round and that will continue on and off thursday, friday and possibly even into the weekend. so out on the water small craft advisory still in effect. tonight down to about 70. the strong thunderstorms are dying down but we could see some linger through overnight. tomorrow up to 87. another round of showers and thunderstorms is possible. you can see in this forecast, each and every day there is a chance. these are not all day rain events but the summertime thunderstorms that we see quite often this time of year. adam. >> we saw them tonight. thank you.

>> hello everybody. orioles today applying their salvages skills. kevin youkilis not getting the contact he wanted. instead a pop file that zips

melvin mora around like a spinning top. and he won't be denied the catch. smile, please. thank you. right fielder nick markakis sill saferring a three rbi day top 5 out of the park solo homer. nick's applying offensive kick of late but you know the drill. how pitching is 75% of the game, even though starter david hernandez was 100% effective for the birds. 0-70 allowed one run off five hits walked nobody two strikeouts. orioles win 6-2. kansas city comes to town for four games starting tomorrow and then the birds host the sox in town friday also on sunday, baseball i'm mortality status for two of baseball's best ever. stolen baseman ricky henderson inducted. also enshrined former boston slugger jim rice the only man to lead the majors in triples, homers and rbi's in the same season. for boxing fans, results from the card. cruiser weight daniel cool

lidge, a former olympians decision to roger green. james keeping sleeping 69 son who i featured earlier this weekend knocked out his opponent in the third. nine of sleeping's 10 pro fights knock-outs. with the victory he capture 2 titles, international and national respectively. also another from baltimore, steve so steeler wheeler, first round knock out. he is 3-0 in his career. finally, mexico took the united states to the wood shed in the gold cup soccer final from sold-out zion stadium. here is the final. mexico 5, team usa, nil. let me get this in real quick. sad note. former boxing champ vernon forest, owe olympics, junior cruiser weight. shot and killed during a robbery attempt. someone tried to carjack him. someone tried to carjack him. he chased them, they exchanged s on car insurance.

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