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attacked by two 16-year-old males. >> preliminarily, we know he was attempting to get into his home when he was approached by at least two suspects. who were trying to rob him. at some point, gunfire was exchanged. he was struck in the stvment. >> reporter: a few hours later, a teenager, named craig tillet, walked into the same emergency room, with a gunshot wound to the leg. >> with a story about how he had been shot. homicide detectives were there to greet him. >> craig tillet lead police to a second-- led police to a second 16-year-old. wilson. both had been charged as an adult in what was an apparent random robbery attempt. >> i hope this is an example to other juveniles, that we're not going to tolerate this. >> reporter: detective harris was off duty, in plain clothes. police do not believe the suspects knew they were taking on an armed officer. >> what they suspected was an easy mark.
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and, you know, to their surprise, it was detective harris, who was armed with the 40-caliber glock semi automatic handgun. so we thank the lord he's still alive. >> detective harris is 39 years old. he is a 16-year veteran with the force. following surgery at sinai hospital. he is listed in serious but stable condition. denise? >> thank you, alex. the two 16-year-old suspects have been booked as adults and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery. in tonight's flu watch report, a young city teenager still is fighting for her life after contracting the swine flu. wjz is live. wjz spoke exclusively with the girl's aunt. >> reporter: good evening, vic. good evening to everyone at home. destiny parker is still in intensive care here at the university of maryland medical center. tonight, her aunt has a strong
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message for parents. >> i peaked at her. to actually stand a couple of feet away from my niece. and all i see is some [ inaudible ] , my heart was crushed. >> ernestine parker describes the first time she saw her 13- year-old niece destiny in the hospital. >> tests ran, tests ran. later that evening, that's when they were told she had h1n1. >> this, after she said the 8th grader collapsed at montebello junior academy. she was taken to the hospital, where she went into cardiac arrest. >> her heart stopped. they rhesus resuscitated her. >> reporter: in a letter sent home, school officials say they are doing a thorough cleaning of the campus. dr. an balowitz says it's crucial students get both the seasonal flu and h1n1 vaccine when it becomes available. >> h1 may well not last for the entire flu season.
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it may go down. and when it goes down, the other types of flu may come up. so it's important to have both seasonal protections and h1 protection. >> vaccination clinics like this one at poly high, are popping up throughout baltimore. city and county schools have seen an abnormally high number of student absences this week. they're urging parents to keep sick kids home, wash hands frequently. and be on alert. >> be more careful. i mean, sterilize everything. sanifies. like -- sanitize. like you say, get the shot, the flu shot. this is nothing to sleep on. i never thought it would touch homes so close. >> reporter: as for destiny, she's still sedated in intensive care, but is expected to recover. >> my sister screamed and hollered yesterday. came in here. she's back. she's back. just ran it over and over in my head that she's back. >> reporter: city health officials tell me that destiny's case is very rare. most people who do contract
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h1n1 recover rather quickly. live at university of maryland medical center, i'm jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. >> and we certainly hope that that's the case for destiny. stay with wjz for complete flu watch coverage. for important information on the swine flu and a list of flu clinics. log onto wjz.com. we are following breaking news right now. sky eye chopper 13 is live over an accident on i-95. >> reporter: hello, denise. we are southbound on 95, between 395 and caton avenue. a multiple vehicle collision involving a tractor-trailer. there's at least three cars involved in this. one 2 that you see in the shot. one a little further to the south. but it has taken away one in its entirety. and the backup extends well into the downtown, all the way -- all the way back to martin luther king boulevard. and each affects it back on light street. expect serious delays as you're trying to get out of the do you
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want, on to southbound 95. authorities are on the scene. it does not appear the injuries are significant with this accident. but it is tying up that left- hand lane and it is friday afternoon. back to you on tv hill. >> we can see that. thank you. captain mike perry. the spotlight at the g20 summit in pittsburgh shifts to iran. president obama has revealed that he has violated the law with more. >> reporter: president obama made the blockbuster accusations iran has been hiding a nuclear facility. together with the leaders of france and great britain, he demanded that they allow inspectors inside immediately. >> the iranian government must now demonstrate through deeds, its peaceful intentions. or be held accountable to international standards and international law. >> reporter: the u.s. has been monitoring the secret site for several years and says it's not operational yet. but that it's large enough to
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enrich uranium for one or two hours a year. hover of hours after -- hours after the announcement, it exists. president ahmadinejad said he is under no obligation to tell the u.s. about every project. the news came from pittsburgh, where world leaders are gathered for the g20 economic summit. but between revelations in iran and the protests on the street here, they have been largely overshadowed. >> protestors here have been mostly peaceful. >> reporter: the city has responded with a giant show of force. >> i'm more intimidated by police, obviously than other people that i'm marching with. >> reporter: the g20 leaders were marching ahead more quietly. they touched on the thorny question of how to put limits on bankers' salaries. and they promised a new era of
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economic cooperation. >> reporter: in pittsburgh, teri okita, wjz eyewitness news. >> and those thousands of demonstrators at the economic summit are demanding solutions to environmental and economic crises, they believe were created by the g20. >> cooler skies and temperatures rolling in. here's a look outside. where is rain coming? let's hope not. meteorologist bob turk and tim williams coming in. >> purple friday. >> let's take a look at friday. a little rain. sooner or later, my friends, it will be here. probably about 4:00, 5:00 afternoon. continuing tomorrow night, could be pretty heavy at times during saturday night and cool and damp. but we've got a game on sunday. tim is in the outback with a look at the ravens forecast. tim? >> reporter: well, bob mentioned the key term is sooner or later. the sooner this rate rain get -- this rain gets out of here,
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the sooner it leaves or the sooner it gets here, the sooner it leaves and vice versa. people are calling for the forecast. if the rain gets here late in the afternoon, it's going to leave late on sunday, which means the clouds to sun transition is going to happen later in the afternoon. 1:00 p.m. kickoff, browns versus ravens. temperature will not change too much. but we will hope that the rain will leave by at least the beginning of the game toward around halftime, as opposed to lingering until the end of the game. so we'll keep you posted as it starts to arrive. right now, it's a lovely afternoon. bob will have your complete updated first warning forecast. still ahead on wjz's eyewitness news at 5:00. back to new york. a suspected terrorist is headed back to the big apple to face charges that could land him in prison for the rest of his life. and are cooler temperatures in store this weekend. the first warning updated forecast coming up with bob.
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it's ray purple friday. and ravens fans are getting revved up for games. getting caught up with the 101st mobile and roost today. they're teaming up with old mill high school to deliver furniture to an elderly woman who has custody -- custody of her teenage grandson. sports director mark viviano has more on the matchup. >> reporter: the goal is to twin their division. the ravens get their first shot at a divisional foe. and baltimore has built some momentum for this matchup, with a two-game winning streak. >> reporter: the ravens had a battle to the end to beat the kansas city chiefs. and it took a last-second
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stop to secure a win in san diego. so with 2-0, the ravens feel good about being unbeaten. but are well aware of how tough it is to win, even with the struggling cleveland browns to come to down. and the ravens favored to cruise to an easy victory. >> you know, going down 0-3 in our division is not a good thing. i know they're going to come out and give us the game. >> reporter: all week at practice, the ravens spoke of being humble. the team doesn't take the accolades seriously. >> one week, you win it. and everyone loves you. then the next week, you're losing, and everyone hates you. one week, tom brady is the greatest quarterback that ever lived. now they're questioning whether he can lead the patriots to victory. so i mean, it's very -- i mean, people's opinions change like the wind. >> adding to the stakes,
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cleveland is a division opponent. and they come from a city that has strong feelings about baltimore. >> there's not a lot of people in cleveland that like us. you know. and i think it's nice versa. >> reporter: coach john harbaugh emphasized again today that his team will not take cleveland lightly. we'll hear more laert in -- later on in sports. and catch the ravens taking on the browns this sunday at 1:00. here on wjz 13. it is official now. loyola college is now known as loyola university, maryland. wjz is live at the university. gigi barnett has more on why officials felt they needed a name change. gigi? >> reporter: the university said that it considered this move nearly nine years ago. but now it's saying it's going to a university this week. >> reporter: the loyola college name will never be the same. >> welcome. to loyola university, maryland. [ applause ]
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>> reporter: in a special ceremony today, the school made it official. no longer a college. now loyola is a university. >> i just think university just kind of gives it the nice little -- like everyone coming in knows it's a university now. >> reporter: and every sign on campus shows it. >> reporter: change the sign on the bridge. >> reporter: some siewntds say the -- students say the new name looks just as good on paper as it does on campus. >> i think from communities to players say you graduate from the university. it just applies a little more academic standard. >> reporter: father brian lanain agrees. although he says some students and alumni resisted the change. >> some of our alumni, they, afraid that we are straying away from our traditional mission. and that it's no longer the institution. and we're taking great pains to show them that it is still loyola. >> they considered a name change a few years ago. but they said no. but now, they fool it may
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attract -- feel it may attract more. >> i think it will bring more attention to students who may apply because of that title. >> reporter: the university says one of the reason about -- hard things about the name change is changing all of the banners, and the website. >> university officials researched the name change before deciding to go with it. if you're waiting for someone to get home from work this friday evening, let's check on the roads with christy brez rin -- kristy breslin. very busy volume out there. if you are traveling on the west side of the outer loop because of that early vehicle fire we had. your drive is up from harford road to 795. west side inner loop, bumper to bumper from 95 to security boulevard. 95 northbound continues to struggle past the beltway on the northeast side. a second delay from 195 to the beltway on the southwest side. and sky eye chopper 13 showed you earlier footage of that accident between 395 and the bw parkway. as you can see, quite a delay
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in the red there. north side inner loop. two delays, 10 minutes york road to harford road. and another, park heights to falls road. and 895, no improvement there in the northbound direction. that's heavy from lombard street to 95. here's a live look at the north side of the inner loop. moving a little better. that's right before the delay. and over here at the congestion, 95 south of 895. this traffic report brought to you by md mountain finds.com. now back to you. >> thank you, christy. in tonight's eyewitness news healthwatch, hundreds of feet will pound the pavement tomorrow in the great prostate cancer challenge. suzanne collins explains, treatments now being tested could help patients avoid unpleasant side effects. [ bell sounding ] >> people will be putting their running shoes shoes to good use tomorrow in the great prostate cancer challenge. the dollars raised go to further research into the disease that for men is the
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second leading cause of death. there will be screenings available. because if detected, the prog prognosis is good. >> treatments now looks like it's cured me. so i'm grateful to be here to help other men get tested and be checked out. very important. >> reporter: while treatments are usually successful, the side effects aren't easy. with surgery, radiation control over urination could be lost. and there are a number of possible treatments, coming down the roads. some of them are available in the u.s. some of them not quite yet. but are in trials. >> one alternative treatment is cryotherapy or freezing, which has become much more advanced. and an experimental treatment, showing much promise in limiting the side effects, involves ultrasound. most involve careful removal of a tumor. but mris and cat scans can't detect exact location. >> there is another unusual option for people with prostate
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cancer. they may not be treated at all. but instead, monitored with blood tests, exams and even biopsies to see if it's progressing dangerously. >> probably at least six out of seven people that have prostate cancer end up dying of something else. and that's a complex issue to sort of deal with. it means that a lot of patients may not need treatment. >> tomorrow's run may help doctors learn more and help patients suffer less. >> that was suzanne collins reporting. and as part of wjz's continuing community commitment, we are a proud sponsor of the great prostate challenge of challenge. -- challenge. make sure you come out to st. joseph's medical center. talking about saturday morning weather, it's going to be pleasant, cool clouds. no rain until later. barometer holding steady. come back and take a look at the weekend after this.
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looks great out there now. but pretty soon, it's going to be duck weather, right? >> in the next 24 hours, going to see some rain. chilly temps, breeze. saturday night looks pretty
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messy. but the good news is, i guess, most of it will be over by sunday morning. looks like sunday afternoon. sun comes back out. things dry out. a little warmer. right now, temps and conditions around the region. just high clouds. 60 out in oakland. we're at 70. very comfortable. elkton at 73. ocean city city. dew point is loy at 52 degrees. -- low at 52 degrees. two days ago, the dew point was at 70. very tropical air. east winds coming off the atlantic motion. bringing in the moist air on the cool side. that's going to help tomorrow to juice up the atmosphere even are more of -- even more. a lot of this is going to pass to our northwest. but across portions of the mississippi-ohio valley, this moisture will start gathering more influence from the gulf of mexico. it's going to get a little wetter than we're seeing it right now. we should some rain right now. that's down to the south and southeast of us. but you see how this is beginning to fill in with rain. reaching to zanesville, ohio.
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down across extreme southern virginia. this is all going to be one big massive rain by tomorrow night. we'll keep tracking. to our north today, generally from baltimore north, philly and new york, clear as a bell over new england. beautiful. gorgeous sunshine up there. cool nights. they'll start seeing some increasing clouds. probably some rain here by either late saturday night or sunday. looks like the rain will reach our region by later afternoon on saturday. so you can kind of plan on that for saturday night. looks pretty wet. eventually, this all slowly passes off by sunday morning. it's off to the east. things start drying out, sunshine and milder temps coming in for sunday afternoon. monday, another front moves through. really bona fide fall cold front with a shower or thundershower. then kind of chilly again after monday. east winds on the bay, 10 to 15. gusts to 20. and a small craft advisory through saturday afternoon. bay temp around 73. sunrise, 6:58.
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sets at 6:57. yes, the days and nights. nights are getting longer, days getting shorter. clouds on the increase. look for rain in the afternoon. tomorrow's high, only around 65. normal high tomorrow is at 75. we'll come back and take a look at the rest of the weekend and early next week in a few minutes. >> thank you, bob. still to come on eyewitness news at 5:00. running low. tamiflu is flying off the shelves. what parents should know before giving children even one dose. coming to a school near you. baltimore will see city cameras. what school zone you won't want to be caught in. i'm ran mots. -- ron matz. celebrities, authors and a whole lot more. time for the baltimore book
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it is 5:29. 70 degrees. and mostly sunny. good evening. thanks for staying with eyewitness news. and here's some of the stories people are talking about tonight. baltimore breaks out the speed cameras. the city is ready to activate its first school zone speed
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cameras, when they become legal october 1st. political reporter pat warren notes it is a chosen high speed zone. >> reporter: the traffic on walter avenue, versus the kids on the street. >> it's messed up. >> eric jordan knows the negative argument. but that's nothing compared to the negative of prying loose a girl pinned to a pole by a speeding car outside glen mount elementary and middle school. >> it's a very scary and trying experience. it was something that you never want to see a child, have to happen to a child. i understand that it cracked a pelvis. >> reporter: the school zone on walther avenue is clearly posted, and the drivers are shown how fast they're going. but the school children think they just don't care. >> yes. definitely. they just speed there, not caring what happens. they're just focused on where they need to go. >> reporter: the cameras may get their attention.
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>> people really need to be mindful and slow down. because if not, they're going to pay. and it's not about generating extra revenue. it's a safety factor that has been ongoing within the city and communities, who are just fed up with people speeding. >> reporter: darius wagner agrees with the mayor. >> and people are trying to go across the street. they might get hit and get badly injured and have to go to the hospital. because i see plenty of people going through red lights all the time around here. and not just around here. around other places, too. >> reporter: the first 30 days, beginning october 1st, speeders caught on camera will get a warning. after that, $40 fines are expected to generate $7 million. pat warren, wjz eyewitness news. >> and city leaders will be unveiling the first speed camera at glen mount elementary in a special ceremony on monday. three people, including a 14-year-old, have been arrested for beating and robbingage 86- year-old man. but police say the group approached and attacked him while he was working at the
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cambridge laundry. the man was treated and released from the hospital. the 14-year-old was was released to a guardian. and the other two are being held on $100,000 bond. and a new code of conduct for maryland high school sports teams. respect for diversity is at the top of the list. and this year, student athlete handbook, this edition jumps out to allegations of racial slurs between ford hill and dunbar of washington, d.c. that game ended when dunbar's coach ended his team off the field. a man plotted of suspending a bombing attack has been moved to new york to face charges. the feds are using surveillance video as part of their case. >> reporter: a plane, believed to be carrying suspected terrorist najibullah zazi is on its way from denver to new york. a judge ordered him there to face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. >> we're pleased with that
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decision that the judge held mr. zazi without bond. >> reporter: federal authorities say surveillance video shows him back in july and august at denver area beauty supply stores, buying large quantities of industrial- sized hydrogen peroxide. >> one of the guys on the sales floor said, wow, what do you need so many for? and he said, oh, i've got a lot of girlfriends. >> reporter: prosecutors say he was going to use the hydrogen peroxide to make bombs and detonate them here in new york. possibly to coincide with the september 11th anniversary. the 24-year-old was born in afghanistan and had been working as a shuttle bus driver at the denver airport. his father was also arrested last week, and so was a new york man, both charged with lying to investigators. they are free on bond. police are still looking for others involved in the alleged bombing plot. >> the fbi and department of justice are looking widely to figure out what the zazi
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network looked like, what he was up to, whoy hoo knew. >> reporter: -- who he knew. >> reporter: if ficted on the weapons of mass destruction charge, he could spend the rest of his life in prison in new york. >> zazi has denied any wrongdoing, say he had no links to alwilda or any -- al qaeda or any terrorist plots. if you were trying to get through, they launched a major initiative. they are promoting alternative transportation options for people living and working in the harbor east and waterfront areas. today's event focused on trying to find trafngz congestion in those places. >> that's our goal, really over time to begin to reduce the number of employees in the area that drive alone in their cars. and increase the number of people who bike to work, who walk to work, who live in apartments here and could just cross the street and go to work. >> the effort is officially
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called a smarter way to get there. you can find more information to on their website. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg heads back to work today after spending the night in the hospital. she became light-headed at her office yesterday, after being treated for anemia, and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. gins burg underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in february. in the next decade, obesity could become the leading cause of cancer for women. that is the warning of a new study. it found more than 120,000 people in europe developed cancer last year because they were overweight. in tonight's flu watch, flu season is ramping up across the country, as manuel gallegus reports. in some areas, pharmacies ever reporting a shortage of tamiflu. >> reporter: the food and drug
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administration is warning about possible errors when it comes to doses of liquid tamiflu. most prescriptions are usually in teaspoons. but tamiflu is dosed in milligrams. >> for parents, if their child is prescribed tamiflu by a pediatrician, need to double- and triple-check the amount they are give their child with both the pharmacist and if possible, the pediatrician to make sure it's the right dose. >> reporter: in some areas, pharmacies are running low on liquid tamiflu. the makers are now advising some pharmacies how to grind up the adult version to produce a liquid form for children. >> i will stay later and make up a couple more pint bottles. so that people can come in and get it and not have to wait for us to make it at that time. >> reporter: the drug maker confirms there is a shortage of the tamiflu version. but shifting its focus on pills, which are made easier. tamiflu is the most-prescribed treatment for the flu. and also effective for the h1n1 virus.
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they report only 28 patients worldwide had resistance to tamiflu. >> that can lead to viral resistance and the h1n1 strain would then potentially become resistant to anti-viral medications, such as tamiflu. >> reporter: health experts stress that vaccination is probably still your best protection. seasonal flu vaccines are available now. the first doses of the h1n1 vaccine will be distributed next week. >> reporter: manuel gallegus, wjz eyewitness news. >> doctors say that every child who gets the flu may not need tamiflu. most children recover on their own, with just rest and plenty of liquids. time now for a quick look at some of the stories you'll find in tomorrow morning's edition of the baltimore sun. a baltimore woman wants to cap the amount of overtime city employees can earn. a new housing report raises serious issues with rental properties in the metro area. and why the rider wood elementary is rallying around
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one employee. for these stories stories and more, read tomorrow's baltimore sun. bruce springsteen and the legendary e street band have sold out. first mariner arena in a record 20 minutes. the singer who recently celebrated like two days ago, his 60th birthday, had not appeared at arena since 1963, when he opened for another legendary group in chicago. a crowd of over 14,000 will see springsteen play in the baltimore arena, november 20th. it began on a small scale, 14 years ago. now, it began to grow. ron matz reports, thousands will head this weekend. >> come in. >> fall has arrived. and that means it's time for the annual baltimore book festival. >> now have time to go through each booth and buy some books. i'm apan avid reader -- i'm an avider.
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i -- avid reader. >> reporter: including baltimore's own alizza brentwiseman, the author of two books for young adults. >> it was about three years since i sold the book to the publisher. so i've always come to the festival as a spectator. and it's exciting to be here as an author. >> reporter: the united humanities council is ready to g. >> and we are all about, here we go now. opening eyes, opening ears and opening minds. >> reporter: lots of activities for children here as well, including a storybook parade tomorrow at noon. >> our children can come, dress up as their favorite costume characters and parade around the festivals. we'll have live music by mom blow combo, -- mom bow combo. and it will be a light refreshments and kids will have fun. >> we'll go through first book to purchase new children's
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books at a deeply discounted price. so we can then turn around and give them to people in the community. >> reporter: a community that wait to turn another festival page this evening. the people, the atmosphere. everybody is so happy. and friendly. ask it's just beautiful. >> reporter: in mount vernon, ron matz, wjz eyewitness news. and remember, wjz is always on. for more information, and complete festival schedule, log onto our website, wjz.com. and click on local news. and i've been there before, when it rains. they just go right on to the festival. >> that's right. why not? don't miss the cbs evening news with katie couric. here's one of the stories they're working on. a pastime becomes permanent. this campground used to be primarily for vacationers. but not anymore. i'm seth stone. we'll have that story tonight on the cbs evening news with katie couric. and still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. the search is on for crooks in sweden. the high-flying heist that played out in front of police
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and could not be stopped. oh, boy. a woman gives birth to the largest baby believed ever born in indonesia. just how much this baby weighed. bob turk in the first warning weather center. we'll have your exclusive first warning five-day forecast. look at the weekend.
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all right. a beautiful shot here. sun coming down in about an hour or 15 minutes or so. one singular person out there may be fishing this afternoon. let's take a look at tomorrow's forecast. in the morning, it should be okay. but by afternoon, the clouds build. and it will probably start raining after, let's say, 4:00, 5:00, into the evening hours. temperatures are going to be cool. only in the 50s to mid-60s all day tomorrow. and back tomorrow night, with rain, probably in the 50s. tim has a look at some energy- saving tips. and look at the five-day forecast. >> well, as far as the five-day forecast, bob, talked about tomorrow, the rain could stay with us right on into late morning and into early afternoon sunday. we'll keep the showers in the forecast. 75 degrees, daytime high. 76 on monday, with another chance of showers.
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and a bit of clearing on tuesday into wednesday. 68 degrees on wednesday. with overnight lows to 50. by the end of the five-day period. for your energy-saver tip of the day, we're telling you that the new compact florescent light bulbs use about 75% less energy, and last about 10 times longer than an incandescent light bulb. they pay for themselves in about six months' time. if you have any information about how -- questions about how to be an energy saver, go to wjz.com. ask the que, and next week, look for your answers from bge's energy experts. fire in california has smoke billowing into the night sky. fire broke out in an oil refinery, south of los angeles. over 100 firefighters were called out to get the flames under control. the refinery has been shut down for now. no one was injured. and the cause of the fire is
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under investigation. charles manson follower susan atkins has died at a prison in california. a the -- atkins was convicted of stabbing susan tate years ago. representative jeff wood was pulled over by police, after someone reported that a driver was swerving on the road. he admitted to taking six pills for anxiety, as well as two doses of cough syrup. elizabeth smart may be allowed to testify during a competency hearing for the man who kidnapped her in 2002. prosecutors want smart to be one of 40 witnesses. if smart does testify, it will be the first time she has faced mitchell in court since his arrest in 2003. she was 14 when she was taken from her salt lake city home at knife point in 2002.
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this next story sounds like it's straight out of a hollywood movie. thieves in sweden are lowered from helicopters to get away with a huge lump of cash. mark phillips has more from wjz on the high-flying heist. >> reporter: 5:00 a.m. early on a dark, stockholm morning, police rush in to set up a perimeter around a suspected robbery in progress. a helicopter hovers overhead. the target, a depot, where huge amounts of cash, no one will say exactly how much, was being held, awaiting distribution to stockholm's atm machines. it looked like a commando operation. the helicopter had been stolen from a local airport. the thieves were lowered on ropes, onto the roof of the building. the few eyewitnesses said they heard the robbers blast their way in. fearing the thieves were heavily armed, the first wave of police was instructed to wait for a s.w.a.t. team to arrive. but the crooks were way ahead
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of them. hauling their take back onto the waiting helicopter and making good their escape. when police tried to get their own helicopter in the air to pursue the robbers, they were foiled when they discovered a packaged, reportedly labeled "bomb," lying next to the aircraft they wanted to use. they decided not to risk it. >> reporter: the thieves' helicopter was found abandoned sometime later. the perpetrator his vanished, along with the money. they left no trail, just a lot of embarrassed police in their wake. >> a reward of $1 million has been offered for any leads to the crooks or the money. blastoff from cape canaveral, florida, the delta 2 rocket is out of this world. >> two, one. we have ignition. and liftoff. of a delta 2 rocket. >> delta 2 launched into space this morning, with a pair of experimental missing tracking satellites for the missile defense agency. the goal of the space tracking
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and surveillance system mission is to detect and track enemy missiles. check in with eyewitness news at 6:00. fighting for her freedom. a unique challenge for a baltimore family, as both mother and father prepare to ship off to the front lines. and -- crumbling infrastructure. water mains snapping at an alarming rate. what needs to be done to stop what is being called a ticking time bombing, under streets all across the region. that's coming up in my special report. check in for these stories and all the day's breaking news. the host of cbs's big brother welcomes her first child. they now have a son named charlie. he was born thursday morning in los angeles. mother and baby are said to be doing well. they married in 2004. this is their first child together. we have more baby news. this time it's for the record books. a woman in indonesia has given birth to a 19.2-pound baby boy.
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mohammed is his name. he is believed to be indonesia's heaviest baby ever. doctors say the baby's extreme weight was the result of receiving excessive glucose from his mother during pregnancy. guinness cites the world record in the u.s. in 1879, weighing 23.7 pounds. >> guess what. he's dating and driving a car already. >> he's too big for that right there. >> eyewitness sports is next. this is mark viviano. the experts say the ravens are a shoo-in to win. but they're taking the cleveland browns seriously. we'll hear from coach harbaugh. and they take on the monster boys at dover. that's ahead when eyewitness news continues.
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well, i imagine, it's a lot better to play the browns in baltimore than in cleveland. >> they eventually have to go to cleveland to play them. but first time through, this saturday way it's going to be. ravens say they expect a fight when the cleveland browns come on sunday. today, the browns were fighting themselves. after their practice today.
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the rookie threw a punch at his teammate in the locker room. the punch didn't connect. the scrimmage was a result. all was calm in owings mills. coach john harbaugh is touchdown his guys will take nothing for granted, regarding sunday's opponent. >> the browns are capable of being an early team. they haven't been able to put it together yet. you listen to those guys talk. that's what they're telling you. but i think they have every intention of putting it together on sunday. and it's our job to make sure that doesn't happen. just like it's their job to make sure they play as well as they can play. we know we'll get the very best ones on sunday. >> and lj smith played a complete practice healthy. linebacker jared johnson is limited in today's workout. he has a shoulder injury. if you're not among the 70,000 fans who have tickets to the game, you can still see the ravens and the browns, here on wjz.
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our coverage kicks off at 1:00. it's a cleveland-baltimore sports exchange weekend. the browns come here. the orioles are on the road in cleveland. tonight, they start a three- game series. this isn't pretty. the orioles have lost seven straight. the indians have lost their last 11 in a row. a nascar chase continues. mark martin is the leader of the pack in the chase after a win last week at new hampshire. he's a four-time winner at dover. so martin is looking forward to taking a shot at the monster. >> dover is one of my very favorite race tracks on the bolt circuit. really have been blessed with a lot of great race cars there. cars seem to really run good there. and allen and our team were really excited about getting back there. >> reporter: jimmie johnson was the fastest in qualifying at dover this afternoon. hitting top speed of 157 mights an hour. ryan newman, third.
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mark martin, qualified 13th. they're going to run 400 miles on sunday. coming up next hour. tiger woods on the prowl at the championship in atlanta. and you need every shot you can sink to top tiger. kenny perry gave it his best. but does he have enough? what he still needs is a slight breeze. yep. i'll have an update on who is leading on eyewitness news at 6:00. >> he read the greens perfectly. >> thank you, mark. still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. >> a teenage girl, fighting for her life. here at the university of maryland medical center. i'm jessica kartalija. the
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bgesmartenergy.com, and pamper your home with a quick home energy check-up. [sigh] ah... the efficient life is the good life. coming up now on eyewitness news at 6:00. fighting for her life. a girl infected with the h1n1 virus. the aggressive plan to keep children from getting sick. ambushed. an off-duty police officer, shot in front of his own home. the teen police now have in custody. what's in a name? why loyola college is now in history.
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suddenly sick. a young girl on life support. with the swine flu. tonight, a bold plan to get others from getting sick. hello, everybody. a young girl on life support. we stay on the coverage -- on the story. destiny parker is being treated. >> jessica? >> that's exactly right. destiny is still here on life support. her aunt tells me that she is doing much better. but she does have a very important warning for families. >> all i see is some breathing.

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