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13, maryland's news station. >> city hall corruption. the mayor's lawyers are back in court. >> the charges stand as a new trial date is set. hello, again, i am don scott. >> and i am mary bubala. >> here is what people will be talking about today, the new developments in the corruption probe of city hall and mayor sheila dixon. another effort to get charges against her dropped fails. mike hellgren joins us outside circuit court where a hearing has just ended. good afternoon, mike. >> reporter: good afternoon, don, mary. this is the first time we had on-camera interviews with the mayor's attorneys and state prosecutors since the new indictments were handed down. the judge threw out the old flawed case against mayor something the prosecutor wanted. and the new case begins. he set that trial date for november unless it gets out with new motions to dismiss which are expected before then. the mayor's attorney promise a vigorous fight when she heads to trial on november 9, the date set in court this morning.

>> we will be able to be within the schedule that has been served. >> reporter: if they don't get the case thrown out before hand. among the new motions they plan to file that the state prosecutor abused the grand jury system by bringing back charges the judge dismissed as flaws but rewriting them so they would have a better chance of making them through. >> we will get a little more discovery under the new charges, and once we go through that, we expect we will be filing a new motion at least with respect to the grand jury, as well as om other issues we will be filing. >> reporter: the mayor faces three counts of theft, one count of misconduct, two counts of perjury and three counts of misappropriation, the prosecutors accuses offer stealing gift cards from the needy and failing to disclose gifts she received from business she was doing with a businessman with the city. he is optimistic of this case making it to trial. >> absolutely. that is why the grand juries returned the indictments again. i don't think there is any

problem. >> reporter: both sides presenting a confident public face. the mayor has long maintained her innocence. the case has been going on tore three years. mike. >> the prosecutor also charged city councilwoman helen holton and john patarakis in the city hall investigation. another water main break is causing major traffic destruction in northern baltimore near the county line for the second day in a row. sky chopper 13 is live over the scene on falls road. captain mike perry is there. what's going spoon hi, mary. more of an extension of the same water main break yesterday around 2:30 in the afternoon. a 10" water main break occurred at the intersection of falls road and northern parkway. public works officials have been on the scene all night and apparently around 9:00 or 9:30 this morning, secondary water main broke in the vicinity they had been working on so they have taken all traffic all of southbound falls road and moved it continue to westbound

northern parkway. the big delays here as you are coming southbound on falls road. right now you can expect delays in the area throughout the afternoon as the rush hour comes. and you can see public works officials working farther down near the cross keys village on falls road. that is in the northbound direction. expect delays in the area throughout the afternoon especially during rush hour. back to you on tv hill. >> captain mike perry, thank you. the two american journalists jailed for months in north korea are back in the united states. former president bill clinton accompanied them to the burbank airport in california just a few hours ago. manuel gallegus reporting for wjz on a very emotional reunion. >> reporter: they are back in the arms of their families. euna lee and laura ling are now on u.s. soil. >> 30 hours ago, euna lee and i were prisoners in north korea. >> reporter: euna was reunited with husband and her 4-year-old daughter and laura with her husband and sister, lisa. the freed american journalist

thanked former president bill clinton to brokered their pardon during a rare meeting with north korean leader kim jong il. >> we saw standing before us president bill clinton. [ applause ] >> we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end. >> reporter: president clinton did not speak at the whomcoming here but he did issue a statement saying he is happy the two journalists are reunited with their families. the reporters were working for al gore's tv venture when they were arrest for illegally crossing the north korean border. after north korea indicated they would be open for a deal with clinton, the former vice president and reporters' families both asked him to make the trip. >> this has had a happy ending? >> reporter: no one is happier than lee and ling who were serving a 12-year sentence. >> the past 140 days have been the most difficult, heart-

wrenching time of our lives. >> reporter: the women say they could feel the love of americans all the way in north korea, and it kept them going in their darkest of hours. manuel gallegus, cbs news, los angeles. >> ling also said she and lee feared at any moment they would be carried off to that labor camp. instead their captors took them to what they called a meeting where they saw bill clinton and instantly felt relief. another warm, august day out there. today let's look outside. temperatures are climbing near 90 degrees right now. eyewitness news is live with first warning weather coverage. marty is in the hot outback, but first we begin meteorologist bernadette woods in the first warning weather center. bernadette. >> we will show you temperatures so far today on the way up. not too bad quite yet. a beautiful morning. 81 degrees right now in baltimore. 89 down at the ocean. a little cooler out in the mountains. in the 70s. and the dew points aren't that bad yet. so the humidity will start to go up, and the dew points will as we head through the day. at this point, the heat index

in check. 94 being the warmer spot down at the ocean, but that's where you can jump in the water and definitely can cool off. but for more on the storm coming our way, marty in the outback. >> thanks, bern. i will tell you what difference is and the reason i am not sitting here sweltering in a dark suit today as i would have been yesterday we have got some -- i am calling them shade clouds in the area. may be the calm before the storm. first warning doppler weather radar. we have been talking about this the past couple of days, as a cold front approaches, showers and potentially strong thunderstorms line up and march through the area. conversation alley speaking, let's say mid, late afternoon to maybe even almost bedtime. indeed, this could be some pretty potent short-term weather. and i want to -- come on back here for just one second. you can see some showers and storms firing up to our immediate west. this may begin developing when we are not on the air before 4, 5 and 6. i will refer to you wjz.com. meteorologist bernadette woods

will be doing updates through the afternoon and we give you first warning doppler weather radar. look at the summer evening. if you have got plans and want to find out if storms are firing up or maybe moving toward your air rah. it you can do it as simple as hitting wjz.com, clicking on the radar, and you have got the power we have in your own hand. use it this afternoon, because you are going to need it. meteorologist bernadette woods with this afternoon's details and a big warm-up coming your way. she will have all that information shortly. now back inside. >> thank you very much, marty. use that radar all the time. three months left in the boating season and more people have been killed in accidents this year than all of last year. 10 people have died in water- related mis. happens, the ma -- mishaps, the majority of them not wearing seat belts. poor judgment and bad weather is the factors in that. a high school rivalry has led high school students under arrest. they charged three students from brunswick high school of

setting fire to the artificial turf at middletown. the damage is $20,000 and unclear whether it can be repaired in start of the football season. a former goucher college student fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading music illegally is getting assistance. he was fine $675,000 for illegal sharing 30 songs, but thanks to his legal defense web site joelfightsback.com, contributors have donated more than $200,000 toward paying his fine. the case is only the nation's second music downloading case against an individual to go to trial. it looks like the cash for clunkers program will survive another month. the senate should vote on the extension later today or tomorrow. passing the measure would give the program $2 billion in additional funding. so more car buyers can trade in their gas guzzlers up to $4500 for more new or fuel-efficient vehicles. an idea so successful it ran through its $1 billion budget in a week. >> that's right.

still to come on wjz at noon, "idol" bombshell. the judges' panel is shaken up. health care members scatter for their lives when a man open fires with a gun. we are learning more what may have prompted last night's attack. a live look outside this noon. meteorologist bernadette woods will be back with our first warning weather forecast.

witnesses say more than 50 shots were fired at a pittsburgh-area health club. a minute or two later three women laid dead and the gunman had taken his own life. as we report for wjz, more than a dozen others are injured. >> reporter: police are trig to figure the out why a gunman would unleash a hail of bullets outside a health club in pittsburgh. >> people were running. we knew we had to get out. >> reporter: the shooter has been sided as 48-year-old george sadini in photo appears on a web site attributed to him. sadini was a member of the club. they towed a car said to be his from the parking lot. reports say just after 8:00 last night, a gunman walked into a dance class, turned off the lights and targeted women.

>> he did not say anything. he walked right to the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going and pulled the guns out and started shooting. >> reporter: the shooter is among the dead. cbs news has learned of an on lien diary posted under sodini's name it talked about a murder plot nine months in the making and not the first attempt. january 9 he wrote, i chickened out. i brought the loaded guns, everything. ron's niece and daughter-in-law was among the victims. >> she laid down the floor and he straddled her and shot her. she was trying to play like she was dead. >> reporter: police say the gunman fired more than one weapon and it was all over in about a minute. one man, a member of the gym, carried a woman to safety. she was bleeding from a wound to her leg. >> she just said he is going to kill me. he is going to kill me several time repeatedly. >> reporter: today the gym in this small bedroom community is closed, and the grieving has just begun.

whit johnson, cbs news, collier township, pennsylvania. >> another entry from the blog linked to the shooter posted on monday said i need to work out every detail. there is only one shot. tomorrow is the big day. when the new season of "american idol" kicks off in january, the show will be back down to three judges. after eight seasons on the number one-rated show. paula abdul tweeted she is not coming back making the announcement by the web site twitter. producers say they are saddens that abdul decided not to return. auditions begins in two days. singer chris brown is scheduled to be sentenced for beating of his girlfriend rhianna. he is expected to have five months of probation and probationary work. he could serve his probation near his home in virginia working on roadside cleanup or similar jobs. live look outside. meteorologist bernadette woods will be back in two and a half minutes with our first warning weather forecast. first a look at today's

midday stocks and last night's megamillions numbers.

welcome back, everybody. what a great shot out there. what a great place to be right now. there is nothing going on weather-wise at this point. temperatures are going to start to warm up this afternoon, but we are probably going to see some thunderstorms also start to break out this afternoon. with 83 degrees so far at bwi

marshall. you can see 91 down at the ocean. 77 out in the mountains. dew point is at 65 degrees. so it is on the way up. so that makes the heat index right around that 85. you can see 96 down in ocean city and 85 degrees in d.c. not all that bad except for the ocean right now, but we will see that on the way up also this afternoon. winds are generally out of the west because of part of the storms that went throughout to the west. the effect of it. but the winds will turn back around to the south as we see a new come our way and this one in here that will tap into some of this moisture that has been pounding the deep south and will start to draw some scattered showers and thunderstorms our way as we head through the afternoon and evening hours. we will not be finish with this storm tomorrow. the low comes our way land still be around. the chance for scattered showers and storms tomorrow also. the thing with tomorrow, our dew pointing will be higher up. more moisture to work with, and the potential for some real downpours in the storms is tomorrow. that does exist. by friday at this point, it

does look like it gets out of here and watching on saturday for this storm to come in from the west. there is a chance it may not affect us at all and stay off to the north but something close enough that could bring us a shower or thunderstorm and something we will have to be watching. the forecast for today looks like this. getting up to close to 90 degrees. we are going to see that humidity building and the chance for thunderstorms to start breaking out. tonight going down to 68 degrees. and could be a lingering shower or thunderstorm through the night. then tomorrow, scattered showers and thunderstorms and some of them could be heavy with downpours. 85 for our high. even a sign on some of these computer models that if enough rain comes down it will hold that temperature down from 85. even though it gets. warm today, not so much tomorrow or friday. but there is the chance, the five-day coming up in a moment there for real heat to come our way late in the evening and early next week. we haven't seen it so far this season and how is that coming up for you. >> in baltimore that is gavin. >> has to happen eventually. the orioles road trip continues through this weekend

after the orioles wrap up with the tigers in detroit they will go to toronto to take on the blue jays. masn on wjz. see the birds in action at the rogers center saturday afternoon at 1:00 on wjz 13. still to come on eyewitness news at noon. we are always hearing how high cholesterol is bad for your heart, but do you know the condition threatenings memory as well. for all of the constant updates of the day's news and the first warning weather

the september 11 attacks in new york city are causing health problems for tens of thousands of people. our reporter kellye lynn joins us on that. kellye. >> a lot of people who were there suffered breathing problems. they are lasting and pernant. 4,000 rescue workers were in 9/11. and an estimated 25,000 has since developed asthma and 61,000 suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. high cholesterol does dam to more than just your heart, it could be bad for your brain too. a new study finds people with higher, even borderline high cholesterol in their 40s have a significantly increased risk of developing alzheimer's disease. researchers reached this conclusion after the longest and largest age-related trials ever conducted. >> my cholesterol is fine,

thank you. my 40s are behind me. >> yes, they are. >> thank you, again. tune in to eyewitness news at 4, 5 and 6. sally is live in the newsroom with a preview. sally. >> reporter: life-saving call. a harrowing story from california where a woman's throat is slit. she is minutes from death. how a kind-hearted woman and a call to 911 keep her alive. flying danger. the warning one pilot wants everyone to hear. these stories and breaking news at 4. mary and don. >> thank you, sally. stay with us.

. welcome back to the noon news. a quick look at the five-day. concentrate on this. make plans for this august weekend. looks like a good pun with back inside. >> thanks, marty. the primetime line-up. the hit drama "csi: new york"