the arch bishop compares baltimore to a war zone after a missive shooting. i'm don scott. >> i'm sally thorner. today we have strong words from city and religious leaders as though behind a series of shootings sunday night remap on the loose. we have a live report outside police headquarters with a the

latest. >> reporter: the pregnant woman who was shot delivered a healthy baby but not much other good news. the violent feud between drug gangs has left a bloody trail across this city. >> it definitelies home. >> what is happening to our chance of rain? >> reporter: the naacp president condemned unprecedented bloodshed in eastern baltimore. >> stand up and deal with what is happening in the community, stop pointing the finger and blaming somebody other than ourselves. >> reporter: 18 people were shot in five hours in the 2600 block of ashland avenue, among 12 wounded at a cookout. that and at least one other stemmed from a feud between rival blood gangs. >> it's a big city t. needs are much greater than our resources are right now. >> reporter: police have swarmed the neighborhood.

their presence includes 37 uniformed foot offices and a s.w.a.t. team. >> i don't want to hear about the snitching and enough. that's crap. this is so important. you have innocent people who were shot and could have been worse. >> reporter: investigators have made no arrests. they say two gunmen carried out the mayhem. >> it was very well planned. there's a lot of work that went into that hit. >> reporter: police are reviewing their operation, specifically the intelligence and what they know about these big drug gangs with rivalry apes east and west sides of baltimore. live in headquarters, mike hellgren. >> thank you very much. despite the violence, non-fatal shootings are down significantly this year. a 14-year-old will remain blind bars until his murder trial. he's charged along with a 16- year-old in the beating death of 14-year-old christopher

jones. the younger accuse second- degree not being named. a judge turned down a request to let him live with an aunt in delaware until the trial. breaking news just seconding a a judiciary panel approved sonia sotomayor to be the nation's first hispanic justice. the committee voted 13 to 6 to send her to the senate. she is expected to be confirmed next week, despite on sessions from republicans who have questioned her impish i can't likety. and a raid a home left a couple injured and their dog dead. >> reporter: new legislation is designed to keep tabs on all police s.w.a.t. raids. this spring a s.w.a.t. team detained a man and his mother-in-law and killed both his family's dogs.

police were serving a warrant only suspected drug activity when they encountered the couple's rot weiler/lab mix and shot it point-blank. the suit filed here alleges assault and battery and malicious prosecution. >> thank you. the hendersons were akuwaited on charges brought after the raid. the owner of the heavenly ham salon told partners she won't be able to reopen for months because racist words and symbols were spray painted all over the shop and a flammable liquid soaked into the future. a thin man act six feet tall was seen at the scene. s the common knowledge, texting while driving can be dangerous. it may be even more than

previously thought. >> reporter: you're putting lives in danger in you're driving while texting. >> it just takes one mistake to run right into you. >> reporter: researchers used cameras to continuously observe motorists and truckers for more than 6 million miles. they discovered the risk of collisions went up 23 times. >> they're going to mess up and hurt somebody. >> what are you doing? >> reporter: the difference is the amount of time your eyes are off the road and on your device. they've found that right before a crash or near collision, texting drivers looked at their

devices for northeasterly five seconds, enough time to cover a football field if traveling 55 miles per hour. >> very unsafe. >> reporter: the risks have already been illustrate instead transit crashes in massachusetts and california. both drivers texted right before the accident. 14 states already ban texting while driving. the safety institute says that should be across the country to keep all drivers safest. >> a survey find 87% of drivers feel distracted and it's a threat, and more than 66% admitted to using a cell phone while drive in the past month. and this morning the national and state officials announced new funds come nothing from the american recovery and reinvestment act. maryland and other states will receive fund to hire new police

officers soon. almost two days watch severe storms hit central maryland hard, the cleanup continues. the storm's straight line winds knocked down hundreds of trees and power lines: at this hour 1500 people are still without power, vast majority in baltimore county. and northeasterly 150 have no power in carol county. more than 45,000 customers lost power during the storm. today we are feeling the humidity this hour. here is a live look outside right now. it feels just like it shall. we have the coverage for you in the first warning weather center. garner everybody: let's go right to the watch warnings and advisories. now that we are feel to go mid- atlantic summer and have had storms, what's going orange right now? no watches warnings or advisories expected.

the radar, even though we have got a frontal boundary stalled right over the area, it's not until tomorrow as we look at graphic when we see a cold front moving our way that we're going to see the sheering and effect. today we'll see a shower or thunderstorm. thunderstorm though a different threat and a multistate threat. we'll talk more about that coming up during the first warning weather center segment. back to you. thank you. astronauts are heading back the earth from the international space station. the crew memberrings completed five space walks and call it a total success. endeavor will spend three more days in orbit before returning to earth on friday. still to come, a disturbing look at the king of pop's last day and the evidence is

mounting against his live-in personal physician. and the man behind and alleged billion dollar ponzi scheme makes a complaint about conditions behind bars. and the compete forecast is still coming up.

investigators now say on the day michael jackson died, dr. conrad murray gave him propofol through an iv. they say more than a dozen oxygen tanks were found in the property along with the propofol and other drugs. new information this noon about a north carolina terrorism suspect facing life in prison accused of organizing a terrorist group here in the united states. he spent time in pakistan in the 1990s and was convicted of rob ago bank there. his sentence, to lose a hand and foot. his conviction was later

overturned and he went under recruit. there is one person still at large from the jihad group. that person may be in pakistan or the united states but the public should be worried. alan stanford is feel to go heat. seems the charged white collar criminal find it uncomfortable mind bars. he wants to be moved because he's been without air- conditioning and shares a cell with up to ten other inmates. he's charged with operating a $7 billion ponzi scheme. a new report says volunteering is up across the nation. in 2008 northeasterly 62 million people volunteered for something. according to to community service corporation, that's more than a quarter of the population. the most poplar activity, fund raising with food collecting

coming next. take a nonperishable food item to camden yards this weekend to benefit the food bank. it's all part of the continuing community commitment. still ahead, look outside. we'll be back with the first warning forecast. and today's midday stocks.

you know, it is wet. there is the humidity itself out there. you know, we've been wondering where was it. we know why it's back. what is today? >> the first day of ravens training camp. >> that's right. take a look at this. like clock work. we could have predicted this a month and a half ago. current temperatures, keep your eye on that dewpoint. when you get a dewpoint of 70, you're going to feel it. tomorrow it will be eastbound higher. 74 degrees in oakland, 83 hagerstown, 82 d.c., 86 ocean

city airport. go by the water, still on the low to mid-# 50s. it's 85 in columbia. nice by the water, kent island 84 degrees, 64% humidity. wind are calm. don described it perfectly this morning. the humidity will hug you when you walk outside. that wind is calm, not moving. we still have this nice so you recall flow when it moves. warm humid air in the mid- atlantic with the cold front sitting out west. that comes sheering into the warm humid air mass. we'll have a multistate problem tomorrow. the front is going to wash itself out. we're never really going to lose a ton of humidity nor a ton of heat. we were thinking we might see a

change in this forecast once you get to the weekend. still it's going to be hot and humid through the weekend. 91 today. earlier we were thinking 90 so we jacked that up a bit. partly cloudy and humid overnight. tomorrow look at the difference. we're going to see a guaranteed thunderstorm. but the possibility of severe thunderstorm from noon and beyond, the forecast is storms but that dynamic may kick in tomorrow. multistate. okay. i have a clarification, on the terrorism story i said people should be worried, the story said people should not be worried. get the top stories at wjz.com for updates on all the

in today's health watch, researchers may be close to finding out why obese people develop type ii diabetic. research, say the findings could lead to drugs or even vaccines to treat both conditions. people who get married and stay married may enjoy better

health. a new study find middle-aged and older americans who are married give higher ratings to their health than those never married. widows adults fared worse than people never married. >> check in with us today and 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. relatives of 2007 virginia tech shootings ant the state to reopen the case. and a little boy is allergic to all foods. how he's able to survive. these stories and all a breaking news today at 4:00 after dr. phil.

let's take a look at the five-day forecast. tomorrow we'll have thunderstorms and up to 90. good news, we'll lose enough of the humidity in the atmosphere that we can take the thunderstorm symbol off thursday through sunday. it remains summer like as it should but those days of soda precedent zelayas between now and then. we'll watch that carefully for you at wjz.com. >> coming up tonight, medium at 10:00 followed by eyewitness news at 11:00. finally this noon, if you

have a goose on the loose, there's one man you can call. a california man is taking geese to task for the messes they leave behind. he's known as the goose guy. cities hire him and his border dollies to chase geese away from parks, cemeteries, anywhere poop is unwelcome. it may sound silly but he just signed them on for a mere $35,000 contract. >> my goodness. >> it's like a package deal with the border dollies. >> they have a deal like that at pine ridge but there's still a lot of poop around. >> we're out of time.