a baltimore teen dies days after being diagnosed. protecting you and your family. hello i'm don scoot. >> i'm mary bubala. the young spent days in the hospital prior to her death due to the swine flu. in the flu watch report, vic carter said this is the second child to fall victim to the virus in just one week.

and it was confirmed that destiny parker died on tuesday evening. the student was hospitalized last week ill with the h1n1 virus. >> i looked at her, to stand a couple feet away from my niece, i see the machine doing the breathing, my heart was crushed. >> reporter: she made a frantic call phone call when she collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. >> tests were run. they were told she had h1n1. our hearts stopped. >> the cause of death is not known, her death would be the ninth in maryland associated with the swine flu and the second child. another age and defend remember not being released, fell ill with the virus and died on friday.

that child had underlying medical conditions. >> this is the exception to the rules. the majority of individuals, children and adults, they are ill then they recover and go back to work and lead a normal life. >> reporter: the doctors is a i it is critical to get the seasonal flu and the h1n1 vaccine when it is available. >> it may well not last for the entire flu season. it may go down and when it goes down the other types of flu may come up, it is important to have the seasonal protection and h1n1. >> we're always on for the cases, updates and facts on the virus go. to www.wjz.com. >> the legal team for the mayor has wrapped up their day if court. today a hearing was healed and the judge said he will make a ruling by next week. lawyers argued that motions

including a bid bydism union's lawyers to have the counts tossed out. she faces several charges to failure to disclose gifts from a many toker boyfriend who was doing business with the city. a school causes an evacuation. ron matz has the latest. >> reporter: shortly after 8:00 this morning, there was a report of a chemical odor in the middle school. 16 students were rushed to area hospitals. they plained of headache, nausea and vomiting. contractors were on the roof using strong chemicals. >> the crews arrived in other locations and a roofing contractor had been using chemical adhesive and aluminum roof coating to do some work. the slept lace system had pulled the fumes into the building. the roof work has ceased. the haven't lace system has

shut down. it has been ventilated. >> reporter: 11 of the students were taken to the medical center, intoive were transported to south baltimore. one refused treatment and released to their parents. don, back to you. >> thank you, ron. classes have resumed. advanced tearation has been discovered on bridges that cross the susquahana river here. the deterioration on the pier foundation pose nos danger immediately but needs to be fixed soon. today is the last day that you can legally text while driving here in maryland. if you are caught texting and driving you could be fined $500. drivers will be able to read the messages while they are behind the wheel. a tsunami has devastated the south pacific islands of

samoa. a earthquake triggered the walls of water and killed many and others are missing. we have the latest. >> reporter: the tsunami leveled samoa and american samoa. >> reporter: the waves up to 20 feet high slammed the islands. many people living there were swept out to sea. >> the death stole 100. with many still missing it is expected to rise. debris is scattered for miles. >> trees, cars, boats, floating past the window. >> a 8 earthquake struck between samoa and american samoa, a string of islands between hawaii and australia. that triggered the tsunami. it alerted people to get to higher ground. many could not escape. >> you can see the bridge that is wiped out by the waves. >> it could be weeks before the power is restored.

it is so bad the president declared a disaster for american samoa. a territory with 65,000 residents. water has made it difficult for rescuers to get in and search for survivors. weather coverage continues with bernadette woods. she has more on a earthquake in the region and why it did not cause a tsunami-like -- a tsunami like yesterday. >> in the last 24 hours, there was another earthquake. it was another strong one. a 7.9. it brought back a lot of memories that killed over 230,000 people. the difference between this one and the recent one that happened in samoa or the past one in indonesia has to do with the depth of the earthquake. the with unin indonesia preliminarily is a 7.9 on the magnitude scale but 50 miles

deep into the earth. the one in samoa was much more shallow. that's why it created a large wave creating such devastation. we're seeing problems but not necessarily the water and we dealt with the one in 2004. i know it brought back a lot of memories about out this with unis not as bad. we have more coming up on our local weather. we'll send it out to marty in the outback. >> good afternoon, the leaves are falling, the wind is blowing, there is a chill in the air. there will be a couple of showers passing through the afternoon. look at doppler radar after i show you the shocking graphic. that is a frost advisory again. here is doppler radar that become as school glow later on it is bringing shower activity.

widely scattered. i don't think this is all we're going to see throughout the afternoon. as we move to dinner and beyond, we'll clear skies out a bit and then good news. that area that you are looking at is going into the 70s. and bernadette woods has the details coming up shortly. now back to you. >> thank you. still to come, update on a story we touched on. speaking up about the h1n1 virus. >> look at bernadette woods will be back with the forecast.

there has been a ninth death from the h1n1 virus. a teen from baltimore, complete flu watch coverage now with derek valcourt who has finished speaking with the governor. >> reporter: good afternoon. the reaction and we have new comments from the city school ceo and a statement as they learn about the second death from the rapidly spreading virus in just one week.

>> the sad news confirmed that 13-year-old destiny parker died on tuesday night. the student collapsed alt school. family members said her heart stopped beating. medics rushed her to the hospital. >> i looked at her. to stand all i see is machines doing the breathing. my heart was crushed. >> reporter: her aunt said she was recovering but then took a turn for the worse. the ceo confirms the news saying in a statement on behalf of the baltimore city public school family. >> reporter: another childs who age and defend remember not being released fell ill with

the virus and died last week. the governor is heartbroken. >> and we're in a race to get the back seen to as many people as we can. >> we're going to hear a lot more from the governor the september department and those to died from the virus did not have any underlying continues. and officials will have more on this. live in east baltimore, we have coverage at www.wjz.com. we are learning about the extorsion case with john travolta. he testified that a paramedic threatened to claim that the actor was at fault in his own son's death.

he said he demanded $25 million from him. and the attorney have pleaded innocent to the charges. a 16-year-old jet tav ole la died in january. a record number of drugs has been seized off the coast of south america. it was 240 million pounds of cocaine. they were hidden through the vessel. they have a street value of $384 million. and the president was in bethesda today at the national institutes of health. he announced $5 billion in founding for research into cures for cancer and other diseases. it comes from the stimulus plan and is the biggest boost to bio- medical research. take another look outside this noon. the forecast is 2 minutes away. here is a look at the

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welcome pack. we do have a couple of showers out there. and where you are dealing with those and just off in baltimore county. you can see the showers around, they are drifting to the southeast. we'll take you back through the overnight. we had the clouds move in and

then a few of the showers down from the north. and it really is just a secondary cold front coming through. there is not a lot of moisture to work with. don't be surprised if you see a shower or two. and the winds out of the northwest. that's keeping the cooler air in place. and temperature wise in baltimore. 61 in cumberland. 72 at the ocean. temperatures are not going up much but they are going down. and they will clear out. as that that had. happens for allegheny county. we're going to deal this. not the frost but dropped down into the 40s. we have the front that we're dropping -- wrapping up trying to pull out of here. there is another storm out to the west. it is going to provide a lot of problems. it will move our way to the end

of the week. after we get rid of this round of clouds we clear out and then tomorrow night. by friday the clouds are back in. a hans for showers then they pick up on saturday as it make its way through the state here. >> we're looking at sun and showers are responsible. breezy and cool. we'll clear out. and temperatures will drop for the low on the school side and a breeze. temperatures will recover with sunshine tomorrow afternoon. that time of year. >> uh-huh. breaking out from the avenuier clothes. all my scarves. the ravens look to extend their season. they travel to massachusetts. and the game will air at 1:00

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