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>> reporter: michael jackson's three children will be raised by the same woman who raised him in the same encino home where he grew up. an agreement has been reached making jackson's mother katherine their guardian. >> there's no situation better for these children than for them to be raised and reared under loving care of mrs. katherine jackson. >> reporter: the deal is between the jackson family and debbie rowe, the pipe icon's wife of three years and mother to prince michael and paris michael, the two oldest children. rowe gets visitation but nothing else. >> this is not a money deal. it's not about money. >> reporter: michael jackson's father joe won't be in the picture since he no longer lives in the home with his estranged wife. the custody agreement will be formalized in court on monday but there are still many unresolved issues surrounding jackson. mainly how his estate will be managed and what killed him. the jackson family wants to make sure the superstar's wealth is handled with care. he could be worth billions in debt if his assets and legacy
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are managed effectively. >> we're talking about the most rich intellectual property assets in entertainment assets ever. >> reporter: as for what killed jackson the coroner is expected to release toxicology details sometime next week. as investigators determine whether they have enough evidence to charge his personal doctor with manslaughter. manuel gallegus, cbs news, los angeles. >> debbie rowe's visits will be determined by a child psychologist selected and paid for jointly. baltimore county police finally identified three people killed in a street sweeper accident in whitemarsh. denise is in the newsroom with more on the victims of the fatal crash. >> reporter: they are all women from pennsylvania, a mother, a daughter and teenager. 37-year-old lori ann cardwell was driving the vehicle that collided with the street sweeper early monday morning. her mother, 612-year-old darlene cardwell and 19-year-old katarina ann morrison were passengers in the car.
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crash investigators say cardwell was westbound on whitemarsh boulevard and turned on to honeygo boulevard and crossed into the path of the street sweeper. both vehicles erupted into flames. the 32-year-old driver of the sweeper suffered only minor injuries. >> thank you. the women were returning home from a trip to kentucky at the time of that crash. the fbi says scientist bruce ivins was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks and closed their case. now the investigation is being investigated. experts from the national academy of sciences plan to review the scientific research done in the investigation. the mailings killed five people and sickened 17 others. the doctor was about to be indicted by federal prosecutors when he took his own life. the president's beer summit with the white massachusetts police officer and the black what harvard scholar set to take place in a few hours. president obama hopes to settle the controversy once and for all. >> reporter: the police
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officer and policeman whose confrontation sparked a national debate will finally meet again. >> they are decent, honorable good men. to get together and talk about what's going on in this country is a positive thing. >> reporter: president obama's hosting harvard professor henry louis gates and cambridge, massachusetts, police officer james crowley for a round of drinks on a patio near the rose garden. crowley arrested gates in his home after a neighbor reported a suspected burglary. president obama's hoping to quell the controversy over some cold beer, after admittedly making matters worse at a news conference. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> reporter: he came to regret his choice of words and proposed the beer summit as a potential lesson for the nation. so the president keeps using this term teachable moment. do you expect to learn something today? >> i think we know the lesson.
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>> i believe there could be a good learning lesson for everybody through it if we learn how to cooperate and if people slow down a little bit before reacting on both parts. >> reporter: an e-mail didn't help matters. the officer used a racial slur to refer to gates. the police department apologized for the e-mail. the white house says there will be no apologies on the agenda tonight. just a few beers. in washington, joel brown, wjz eyewitness news. >> after the three have their beer outside the meeting will continue inside the white house in private. the dc metro significant anything system was -- signaling system was being reworked at the time of the crash. the ntsb says adjustments were made before the accident and changes to the trash circuit signal strength were being reviewed. investigators are looking into whether the adjustments may have played a role in the accident. the june 22nd crash between two metro trains killed nine people. an outbreak of swine flu affects people at a downtown
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congress. gigi barnett says many of those who became ill are visitors from out of town. >> reporter: at least 220 veteran affairs workers you are in town attending a training session but the health department says the session was cut short when some became sick. the city's health leapt confirmed 11 cases of h1n1 virus found at this federal office building in downtown. the patients worked for the veterans affairs department. were out of town guests attending a weeks-long training session until some of them came down with the symptoms. health workers asked them to stay in their hotel rooms, away from other va workers. in a written statement to eyewitness news the city's interim health commissioner wrote -- >> reporter: but farrow says the symptoms are distinctive, much
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like the flu. contact your doctor or go to the health department. in downtown, i'm gigi barnett. now back out on tv hill. >> thank you. katie couric will interview secretary kathleen sebelius about the swine flu on "cbs evening news" tonight. a string of church burglaries in the towson/timonium/hunt valley area getting bigger. police now say in addition to the three churches we told you about earlier this month six other churches are also reporting break-ins. small amounts of cash are being taken along with artifacts. clergy members in the area are taking steps to imprivate security. police at this time have too few leads to go on. drivers will soon notice big changes. suzanne collins is in the newsroom with more on the change of the traffic pattern on i-70. >> reporter: the state highway is channelling an area of i-70 down to one lane in some areas to prevent cars from being able to go side by side to drag race. two people were killed along a
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short stretch of i-70 from the park and ride to the beltway this june. a car involved in an illegal street race veered off the road striking them. residents in the area say they've long complained to the police about illegal racing. state highway officials say they are going to closely monitor the changes they made to the section of i-70 to make sure it doesn't cause any traffic flow problems. back to you. >> thank you. the state highway administration says the cost of the changes on i-70 are minimal. our string of sticky cloudy weather continues. it's warm and pretty humid. feels like it might rain in fact. eyewitness news has weather and traffic together. meteorologist bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers from first warning weather. >> today's better than yesterday. want to show you first warning doppler radar. we still have thunderstorms but not nearly as strong nor as widespread as yesterday. we're going to take you in on a few of these thunderstorms. very few and far between. martinsburg to maryland. this one around berkeley
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springs. it will move to the east/northeast. another thunderstorm around cumberland now. so there are some thunderstorms out there. we could see a few more before the evening is through but tomorrow chances go up again. that forecast coming up shortly. >> thank you. let's check on the roads with sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. how does it look? >> i'm happy to report it looks pretty good. only two accidents in fact. one of them is going to be in hunt valley on gillroy road. the other crash in the city, northern martin luther king boulevard at west baltimore street. that does involve a pedestrian though. one delay, on 95 northbound between 216 to 175. that is a nine-minute setback there with an average speed of 34 miles per hour. otherwise beltway is wide open there at wilkens avenue. same goes for the west side at baltimore national pike. there's a look at the top side at 83. that is even looking pretty nice at this hour. this traffic report brought to you by the maryland department
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of agriculture. maryland'sbest.net. back to you. an unusual assault of young women visiting a movie theater. attacked by someone wielding super glue. into new york's homeless. if they want the city will fly them anywhere free of charge. wild ride. a second grader behind the wheel. and july is about over. get ready for august. weather in baltimore. the forecast coming up.
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a police chase starts by a 7-year-old boy, caught on tape in utah. police dash cam captures the child travels after he steals his father's car to avoid going to church. when the car came to a church -- look at that. wow. the officer -- we shouldn't laugh because it's serious, he could have been hurt or hurt
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somebody. the officer was surprised to see the young child jump out and run away. police say they will probably not file charges. a chicago woman is being sued over posting she made on the social networking site twitter. amanda bonnen sent out a tweet in may about living in a moldy apartment. her former apartment building claims the tweet did damage to its business. the lawsuit seeks about $$50,000 in damages. police in texas looking for an unusual set of assaults. someone is spraying women's hair with super glue. the suspect has sticky fingers and a mean streak. >> reporter: sherry is a mother of four who lives in richmond and last saturday she was in this wal-mart in stafford and just walked past the school supplies aisle. >> i thought someone was trying to pick pocket by backpack. i turned to look and saw him. >> reporter: a young man would slink away and moments later saw dpliew dripping from the wack of her head.
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>> pretty much coating the bottom half of my hair. >> reporter: fortunately for her it was school glue. it washed out. >> it's on my shirt. >> reporter: in the past two weeks from pasadena to sugarland super glue has been the destructive weapon of choice used against several women and teenaged girl. attacks from grocery stores to movie theaters, now the wal-mart in stafford. the question is if it's the same suspect captured here on surveillance video in pasadena or the work of equally idiotic copycats. now stafford police are investigating two confirm glue attacks at this wal-mart and at least one of the victims here is fully convinced the person she saw on surveillance from pasadena is the exact same man who attacked her here. >> i watched the surveillance video after someone sent it to me. and immediately recognized this person as the same person i had turned to see. >> reporter: 11 news confirmed today that stafford and pasadena detectives met this morning, are comparing notes, comparing evidence, comparing possible suspects.
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to whom sherry has a message. >> get a life. i mean, find something else entertaining besides disrupting peoples lives and their appearance. >> reporter: several police departments are now involved hoping to interrupt the work of an annoying attacker. with a fetish for glue. ceeive reese for cbs news. >> the teen attacked at the movie theater says she spent about seven hours getting gobs of glue out of her hair. she had to cut several inches off. another good day on wall street. all major indexes saw gains. the dow up 84. the s & p up 12. nasdaq up 17. alex alexis has our "moneywatch" update. >> reporter: wall street's summer rally back in full swing. investors went on a buying spree after a series of better than expected earnings reports. motorola was one of the winners reporting a surprise profit after several months of losses.
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the company says phone sales picked up in the second quarter and is planning to introduce two new smart phones in time for the holidays. investors also liked news that the pace of layoffs is easing. the number of people continuing to collect unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level since april. and the steep drop in oil prices went straight to the bottom line at exxonmobil. the energy giant reported quarterly profits tanked from a year ago. down from $22 billion a year ago. we're learning how much money the bailed out banks gave in bonuses last year. according to the new york attorney general citigroup paid out over $5 billion, more than 730 workers got a million-dollar bonus or more. bank of america and merrill lynch handed over over $3 million in bonuses. for more go to
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cbsmoneywatch.com. i'm alexis chris stof russ in new york. 18 women who spend their work hours in amid books and researchers took time out to bare their skin and reveal their tattoos. photographs of their body art appears on a new calendar sold by the texas library association. it's all the for a good cause. proceeds go toward disaster relief for damaged libraries. coming up at 4:00 -- mansion fire. who owned a dc home that was destroyed and the priceless artifacts inside. and a car crash separates a family and beloved pet. how the animal gathered clues to help find his way home. we have the heartwarming story coming up. and the weekend is in sight. will the rain clouds will be moving in? meteorologist bernadette woods has your updated first warning forecast. wjz is always on. for the top stories on wjz.com, instant updates and first warning weather all the time, click wjz.com.
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relief. right? >> it's still humid but after yesterday it feels so much better. >> it does. you notice a difference. >> it really does. it's not quite as thick -- but i want to show you first warning doppler weather radar. there are still thunderstorms out there. these are not as strong nor as widespread as what we saw yesterday by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a part of the next storm system that is moving our way. all of this will be moving off to the east. as the sun dies down, a lot of it will die down. at this point just a thundershower dying down around martinsburg, berkeley spring and also for cumberland. we'll switch it over and show from you earlier it was dry. sunshine, clouds building up. we're in and out of the sun and clouds today, a mix going on. the winds have been lighter and thisser this -- they are a little more scattered than yesterday. we're in between storm systems. there's another one on the way. we've warmed up to 86 degrees at this hour the dew points -- what we were talking about too, earlier, they were in the lower 70s yesterday.
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they are in the mid-60s now. so this is still pretty muggy outside. however, compared to yesterday it is nothing. as far as tomorrow goes, the humidity levels are going right back up as this next storm approaches us. it's in a few different pieces right now. this is ahead of it. it's not just happening over the mountains but these two areas are going to come our way. as they do there is a chance of some of the thunderstorms tomorrow, could be strong to even severe once again. so something we'll be monitoring throughout the day. if any watches or warnings come out we'll let you know about them. this is the front from the southwest. this is going to bring a round of thunderstorms and rain tomorrow. at this point it looks like it gets out of here for saturday, notice this fringe line. still hanging on to the beaches. so there's the chance at the beaches for shower or a thunderstorm but our chances go way down on saturday. before they go up once again on sunday. with yet another storm coming our way. so the train of storms continues. today is a sort of a down day before we gear up for tomorrow once again. on the water small craft
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advisory are going into effect tomorrow because of the winds picking up. as far as tonight's forecast goes, an isolated shower or thunderstorm now. that will die down. then as we head through the day tomorrow we do see a round of scattered showers and thunderstorms and it will be another warm and muggy one tomorrow, too. we'll have the 5-day forecast coming up in a bit. if you're heading down to the ocean, chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. that is spreading all the way to the beaches. it's a better chance on friday than it will be on saturday. but the later sunday the chances go up again. if you go earlier in the day sunday maybe you'll escape with the beach day. >> it doesn't mean you can't have a good time. just be mindful. >> exactly. we had that story yesterday on lightning safety. just keep that in mind if you're out there. coming up on wjz 13 -- don't miss the drama "the mentalist" 10:00, followed by eyewitness news at 11:00. wjz is teeming up with the orioles to feed the hungry. we need your help. take nonperishable food to camden yards for the orioles
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food drive. the wjz family will collect your donations at the gate. on friday you can meet me, ron, adam, stan, and alex. and derek. then on sunday -- or saturday, excuse me, vic, mike hellgren and pat will be collecting donations. it's all part of wjz's continuing community commitment. katie couric has a preview of the "cbs evening news" tonight. >> we'll take you inside what could be a medical breakthrough break. making hand transplants possible for thousands of u.s. veterans who lost limbs in the war. powerful blast in spain. who the target was and who is claiming responsibility. and just how safe is the information on your iphone? the surprising story, coming up. horrible tragedy. the miraculous discovery. the latest on a pregnant woman left to die while her unborn
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it is 4:28. 86 degrees. and mostly cloudy. thank you for staying with eyewitness news. i'm denise koch. >> i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. >> a massachusetts woman accused of cutting the fetus out of her pregnant friend is being held on $2 million bail. taryl brown reports for wjz that the infant was found in a neighboring state. >> this was the best-case scenario out of this tragedy that we have the child and it appears to be healthy. >> reporter: the mother, darlene hanes was last seen a week ago. it's still not clear when she was killed.
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monday her mutilated body was discovered in a closet. it was in her home in worcester, massachusetts. but it was not until tuesday the medical examiner realized the mother of three had been eight months pregnant. it was the strange behavior of julie cory, an acquaintance, that led to a break in the case. cory told a mutual friend she had given birth some time last week. her friends who didn't even know she was pregnant called police. >> many of her acquaintances watched the news and realized that there was a woman who was killed and missing the child. >> the 35-year-old suspect did not waive extradition to be taken back to massachusetts. as for the baby girl, tonight she's listed in good condition. an investigation is underway tonight on a resort island in spain after an explosion killed two officers. kai is live in the newsroom with details. >> reporter: the explosions are blamed on a vast separatist group. emergency crews raced to the scene on the resort island of
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mallorca. frightened tourists gathered outside of the hotels. it's the second attack blamed on the separatists in two days. yesterday a car bomb exploded outside of a police barracks in northern spain leaving dozens injured. >> experts believe it's meant to demonstrate the group is strong and still capable of deadly violence. the search for the black boxes from the air france jet that crashed into the atlantic resumed. a french oceano graphic survey ship is scanning the floor for the boxes now that they are no longer emitting signals. it crashed into the atlantic last month killing all 228 people on board. search crews are focusing more on finding wreckage and hopes the black boxes might be discovered amid the debris. two of the victims involved in last week's deadly helicopter crash near i-70 are being remembered. earlier today a memorial service was held in damascus
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for kim felix. in less than two hours manchester services will begin for 19-year-old george tudor. among the four killed when a helicopter returning from a charity event crashed. the national transportation safety board continues to investigate that accident. a roaring blaze near american university destroys a dc mansion. armando trull reports. >> reporter: by daybreak dc firefighters were still dealing with the hotspots of a two-alarm blaze that slightly injured one of their own and severely tested their skills. >> we really struggled initially with water pressure in the area. >> reporter: broken fire hydrants and low water pressure in this exclusive american university neighborhood are to blame for the dc fire department's inability to contain the blaze for hours. >> firefighters did the best they could under the circumstances. pretty significant loss. >> reporter: dc firefighters responded quickly to the fire
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last night but when they tried to hook up to a fire hydrant a few feet away they were unable to do so and had to hook up the hoses thousands of feet away down two different hills. >> about 400 yards away, 500 yards from the fire, they had -- they were using fire hydrants in front of my house and down past the house. a lot of the hoses seemed to be empty a good part of the time. >> reporter: the fire, which began at 8:00 p.m. and was still raging by midnight totally destroyed this chain bridge road mansion and extensive art collection inside. >> you can see flames leaping up over the trees and it was really terrible. >> reporter: frustrated neighbors trying to get to work needed a helping hand to navigate the thousands of feet of water hoses snaking through the neighborhood. the homeowner is currently out of town. a caretaker living at the house was not home at the time the fire was reported. a dc metro bus driver has been charged with kidnapping a passenger. police say the 41-year-old
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driver from capitol heights refused to allow a passenger to leave his bus after an argument. metro police arrested the driver after taking statements and dearth the bus driver -- determining the bus driver wrongly detained the passenger. he's on administrative leave tonight. it's said you can't go home again but that's exactly what new york city officials want some homeless officials to do. christian -- christine johnson reports. >> reporter: davis, homeless since 2006 has firsthand knowledge of project reconnect. city officials offered her and her family tickets back home to north carolina but she said no thank you. >> i didn't take it because when i was living in north carolina i was sleeping on a broken pull out couch and not getting along with my mom at the time. >> reporter: she said it felt like the city wanted to get rid of her. others say a way back home could be a good thing. >> you don't got the money to get there and they giving you the help, take it. only if you have a place to go. >> reporter: and while the
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city has paid $6,332 to fly a family home to paris and $2,550 to fly another to johannesburg, south africa, the average cost per ticket is just $218. a bargain, the mayor says, when consider it costs $36,000 to shelter a family for a year. >> this saves the taxpayers of new york an enormous amount of money. keep in mind no one is forcing them to go. they want to go. >> reporter: the bloomberg administration has been grappling with an explosion in the number of homeless families currently 8,339 families in shelters. with nearly 15,000 children. a 12.5% increase over last year. advocates for the homeless blame the mayor for the increase. particularly the decision to stop allowing homeless families to receive priority for federal housing assistance. and they say paying for a few families to leave the city is hardly the way to address the swelling numbers. >> number he gets back to brass
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tax and starts undoing some of the policy issues we're in this situation because of michael bloomberg's doing. and he can undo it. >> reporter: so far 564 families have taken new york city up on its offer since the city expanded the program two years ago. iphone users, researchers discovered a way to take complete control of your phone by simply sending a special message. hacking into an iphone is as simple is a sending a simple sms message. attackers can make calls, steal data, and even make your phone inoperable. according to a security researcher the attack is due to a serious corruption bug in the way the iphone handles sms messages. apple has been notified, and has yet to fix it. a live look outside. will we see severe weather? look at that beautiful boat and those lucky people on it. eyewitness news has weather and traffic together. bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers from first warning weather.
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wouldn't we like to be there? >> much better place today than yesterday or than it will probably be tomorrow. want to show you first warning doppler weather radar. we're in between two storm systems now. that doesn't mean we're completely dry. in this weather pattern we still see thunderstorms forming over the mountains but they will be dying down for the most part as we head through the evening and overnight hours, in time for another storm system to move our way. will increase our chance of thunderstorms once again tomorrow. that forecast coming up in a bit. let's check in on the roads now with sharon gibala, wjz traffic control. >> it started off slow but we've gotten a little busier. we have a new accident. this latest one in baltimore county at the city/county line. york road at murdoch road. three accidents in the city, joe avenue at south caton avenue. eastern avenue at south dean street and north martin luther king boulevard and west baltimore street. a pedestrian involved but that should clear up shortly. and slow from 395 to the fort mchenry tunnel. that sets you back five minutes
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and delays between 216 and 175 but they are dissipating. northbound lanes slow down one more time between pulaski highway and the beltway on the top side. that is a seven-minneapolis ride with an -- seven-minute ride with an average speed of 27 miles per hour. here are the speeds. 21 minutes on the top side of the beltway with an average speed of 28 miles per hour. there's a live look at the top side at 83. that is where the delays begin. and it goes until 83 -- i mean, to 95, where that is a 21-minute ride as i mentioned. that is a look at the west side, slow there but not quite as bad as the top side. this traffic report brought to you by by the hunt valley outback steakhouse, on shawan road, open for lunch friday, saturday and sunday at noon. back to you. most people agree a dog can teach us a lot about friendship and unconditional love. in tennessee one family's rottweiler is offering an astonishing lesson in patience and loyalty. jeff tang reports for wjz.
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>> reporter: ella is waiting for something. humans would say ella is lost but she'll say it's the other way around. her family has been missing ever since the accident. >> she slammed on the brakes and we went into a spin. >> reporter: july 1st, i-40 westbound, mile marker 159. ella almost lost her family for kid. >> i just remember slamming right into the mountains. >> reporter: frightened ella watched as medics took joe, michelle and the three kids away to the hospital. >> the last thing i seen was her looking straight in the eyes. >> try to find my dog. >> reporter: for 13 dogs ella waited. >> that's the last spot she was -- she saw her family and she was going to stay there. >> reporter: kathy drove by the accident the day it happened. two weeks later she spotted a dog near the same spot. >> when i saw a beautiful rottweiler drinking water out of a ditch, it was covered in
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ticks. and starved. >> reporter: kathy brought ella back to the rescue ranch where the two became quick friends. she also brought back this plastic bag full of clues. hoping something might lead her to ella's owners. >> toothbrushes and a comb. >> reporter: it's a pretty normal list of things until you realize where kathy discovered them. >> i found another little nest that she had all these personal items. >> reporter: since ella couldn't find her family at the crash site she instead decided to find everything that belonged to them. >> oh, my god. it just blew my mind. i thought, you know, this dog is trying to find some comfort. >> reporter: while searching the area kathy also found a note pad that led her to insurance agent april bowers. >> i went oh, i know exactly who it is, i know whose dog it is, i know what is going on. >> may i spoke with joe kelly please? >> reporter: just like that the pieces came together. which leads us to this moment. >> somebody here to see you. >> hi, ella!
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oh, yes. >> every member of the kelly family is expected to make a full recovery and are excited to have ella back. >> who wouldn't want ella? >> well, yeah. good dog. straight ahead on eyewitness news at 4:00 -- how you can own a piece of the golden girls set. and police officers change an incident report and they are caught red-handed. and it's muggy and warm. your weather forecast coming up.
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an effort to reopen the investigation into the virginia tech shootings does not have tull support from the families -- full support from the families. some relatives were pushing the state to reconvene a panel. but the virginia governor says other families don't want to relive the ordeal again. the request for a renewed investigation comes after the
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gunman's mental health records were found after they were missing for two years. four police officers in south florida face accusations they doctored an arrest report. >> he's drunk so it is what it is. >> the officers charged a 23-year-old woman with drunk driving but the charge came after an officer rear-ended her car accidently. an open microphone in the patrol car captured two officers plotting to cover up the mistake. since the release of the audiotape charges against the young woman have been dropped and the four officers placed on administrative duty. thousands of people showed up in salt lake city to protest the possible sale of land owned by polygamist warren jeffs. a judge considering selling the land to repay some of his debts. members of his church showed up to express their opposition to the sale. many of them still live on the 400 acres and jeffs originally planned to build a temperature there. -- temple there. the search for loved ones
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at the burr oak cemetery is far from finished. but the painstaking task is getting a little easier. >> reporter: gloria mohammed and her daughter have spent weeks searching for information about her husband clark kirk's burr oak grave site. buried near the back of the cemetery close to one of the crime scenes they feared the worst since news of the grave re-selling for money plot broke. weeks later their lack of information still haunts them. >> it just leaves you wondering why. you know why. and if you sit down and think about it too long it's painful. it's really painful. >> reporter: but thousands of families like the mohammeds now have another tool in their search for answers. the cook county sheriff's department launched a partially completed web site for burr oak grave site inquiries. burroak.net. on the home page you can click on search headstone photos, enter in the fame of a loved
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-- name of a loved one presumed buried there. we randomly entered jones and matches will be listed on the screen. at that point you can click on "view image" and actually see the headstone. but remember, if you don't find your loved one's name on this web site this is still only a partial list. >> nothing yet. >> nothing? >> reporter: unfortunately, the search went nowhere for gloria and makita who also attempted to find an uncle's grave. is that disappointing? >> yeah. pretty much. no results. >> reporter: but both say they are not giving up. do you think, if you have a computer you will come back and check this as they continue to update it? >> definitely. >> so far only 10,000 out of 50,000 names and headstones are in the system. authorities hope to have all the names in by mid-august. a company based in los angeles has a way for
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prospective parents to have a baby that looks like a star. it's a sperm bank that goes beyond revealing the donor's height, weight, hair and eye color. goes as far as to classify the donors based on the celebrities they look like most. the company's employees sit for two hours a week to make the matches so that parents can make a superstar selection. tiger woods teed off this week with rock 'n' roll hall of famer bob seger in michigan. the titans were you in the pro- a.m. at the open. he's a multiple grammy award winner, known for such hits as "like a rock" and "old time rock 'n' roll." the king of pop has never before seen home videos. >> reporter: coming up on "entertainment tonight" new footage of michael jackson at home singing on the phone to a hollywood legend. a sight of the pop icon you've never seen and only et can show
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it to you. ♪ i keep going on ain't no worries i've been at you♪ >> reporter: that is michael singing "minute by minute." home movies during unguarded moments on a private phone call to his friend elizabeth taylor. dressed in a spangled blue jacket with white t-shirt underneath, sitting in his home, michael bursts into song. ♪ i have the power♪ >> reporter: tapping out to the song "what a fool believes," his spontaneous singing thrills dame elizabeth. and he kids about his high-pitched vocals. >> people don't realize it's me singing. >> reporter: filmmaker brian michael staller, who is also his producer partner shot the video of him in 2003. >> he always talked about elizabeth. that was like his second mother, his best friend, his buddy. >> reporter: there's more of michael's singing tonight.
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plus new clips from "jon and kate plus 8". all i'm going to say is very awkward. and hilarious scene from chris rock's new movie "good hair," on entertainment tonight. >> it's at 7:30 tonight on wjz. parts of hollywood history -- as long as we're talking about hollywood, on the auction block at a los angeles prop shop. the ratan sofa from "the golden girls" is among the inventory up for sale. the owner says he's closing doors due to the recession. they supplied props from maybe tv and -- many tv and minority sets including "minority report" with tom cruise. i want that wig. >> is it a wig? >> i think so. the weekend is hours away. how will august come in? bernadette woods has the updated first warning forecast
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>> i totally agree. the hair has been an issue the past few days. very hard to keep it tame in this kind of weather. we're going to have issues as we head into the next few days. there are a few different storms lined up to come our way. first warning doppler weather radar right now, we're in between the storms but that does not mean we're not seeing thunderstorms pop up in the mountains this afternoon. very few and far between but they are making their way off to the east. there are a couple of out there, dying down as we head through the evening hours. let's show you overall what has been going on, in and out of the clouds today. that is about it. a mix of clouds and sunshine and that is going to continue for the rest of today. then tomorrow though more clouds are going to take over as that next storm moves our way. as it does it's going to increase our chances for thunderstorms once again and some of them could be strong to possibly even severe. another thing we're going to keep an eye on, too, at this point there's only one watch out, a flash flood watch, still hanging on to cecil county for all the rain from the past few days, as we expect more rain tomorrow could become an issue
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also. winds light and variable. temperaturewise we've been warming up though. 86 degrees in baltimore today. 80s pretty much across the board. one difference, dew points have come down from the 70s to the 60s. not necessarily refreshing but it's a step down, however, we're going back up again tomorrow with this next storm system. here it is out to the southwest now. it will be riding up through the appalachians as we head through the nighttime hours. then tomorrow scattered showers and thunderstorms are going to start to break out and some could be strong to possibly even severe. again we will be here if any watches or warnings come out. so keep it tuned both to the tv set and wjz.com. if you're not in front of a television. here's the storm from the southwest. it will leave on saturday. not the beaches. could be lingering showers into the morning, maybe even a pop-up shower in the afternoon. that storm is still pretty close but for most of us a calmer day saturday before yet another storm system comes our way on sunday. they are linedded up, going to keep coming and we have a small craft advisory in effect
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because of the next storm tomorrow. do remember that. if you do have plans to go out on the water, there's a really good chance of thunderstorms out there. tonight, isolated thunderstorms, dying down tonight. tomorrow better chance at anyone seeing them. they will be scatdered about and could even be strong. it will keep the high down to 86 degrees. we will have again that chance of thunderstorms on sunday increasing so it's just going to keep on going. >> it's a pattern. still to come -- >> scandal at city hall. i'm mike hellgren with complete coverage. wjz breaks down the new indictments facing the mayor. we will tell you what she's up to today and what all of this means for her political future.
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coming up next on eyewitness news at 5:00 -- virus spreads. h1n1 at a training conference for veterans affairs. how the health department is trying to contain the virus. what is next? mayor sheila dixon reindicted on charges of perjury. how this could affect her political career. president obama tries to extinguish a racial controversy with an ice cold drink and casual conversation. eyewitness news at 5:00 starts now. >> h1n1 outbreak. federal workers in baltimore for a conference contract the swine flu. >> tonight, how the health department is making sure it doesn't spread further.
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>> 11 out of towners confirmed to have the swine flu and asked to stay in their hotel rooms. eyewitness news live at hopkins plaza downtown. gigi barnett has more on the h1n1 virus and the fears about it. >> reporter: there were 220va workers all together in one building, one federal building for two weeks. here for a training session from all across the country but some of them were asked to stay in their hotel rooms, sick with the h1n1 flew flu. three more patients are suspended cases. the city health department says all the patients trained at this federal downtown building, e-mails and notices about the virus were sent out immediately. >>
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