a woman will serve no additional jail time for starving her child. the mother of a woman who starved her child to death will be released from jail. suzanne collins is on the scene. good afternoon, suzanne. >> reporter: she's been in jail for two years and she did successfully testify against the cult members convicted of murder. today, she gets a suspended sentence and she must complete a treatment program. >> reporter: it's a bizarre case involving a cult. a young mother doesn't protest when the cult leader says her child should be dehighed food. the boy died of starvation.

now, the prosecutor changed her mind, she believes that the mother was also a victim. >> in the beginning, i think i shared the view of a lot of people, we should just lock her up and throw away the key. any mother allowing her child to starve to death must be a cold and unfeeling person. >> reporter: she testified against the cult leader and they were convicted of second degree murder earlier this year. after two years in jail, she'll get out on five years probation. >> she's been brainwashed and these three are manipulative murders and she's realizing, she was sucked in and duped by these people. >> reporter: she'll be going to a live in treatment facility that's christian based out of state. if she competes this, she won't have to return the treatment. her mother is unable to speak

with her while in the cult never gave up on her daughter. >> it's my child and everyone would say the same thing. she shouldn't be in there. you know, under the circumstances and everything, but the law is the law. >> reporter: there's an od condition of her probation, that's something that she asked for, that's if your child is resurrected from the dead, the conviction will go away. from the courthouse, back to you on tv hill. and the judge is going to call her back to court in july. baltimore county police are investigating an armed robbery. six or seven robbers kicked in a man's home yesterday. he says one had a gun and the rest were armed with knives. they stole a play station game console and several had red

bandannas. the family members of a fire cadet who died during a training will move on with a lawsuit. >> reporter: she was with the firefighters for three months when she died. she was unable to get out of the house and the situation deteriorated. the lawsuit alleged that -- she did not have an adequate evacuation plan. her clothing and breathing apparatus didn't protect her proply. >> and the fire chief resigned after that exec size -- exercise. >> her mother is asking for $35 million for her two children. an afternoon of fun at the patuxent river turns fatal for a teen.

the dive teens recovered the body of a 15-year-old. the witnesses said he was playing with friends near the river and he dove into the water and never resurfaced. 11 are missing after an explosion off of the coast of louisiana. the coast guard is searching the gulf of mexico hoping to spot a lifeboat. >> reporter: grounded no more. planes over europe are grounded no more. the ash cleared -- >> well, i'm sorry, that was the wrong story. the oil rig is under fire and now to the air travel story, it's getting better this noon. 20,000 flights were given the all clear from take off. and the cloud of volcanic ash

kept the travelers pinned down for six days and it could take days and weeks to clear the backlog that stranded tens of thousands of passengers. >> er >> good -- good old-fashioned clouds over maryland and the rain is continuing to move this way and what will we expected a when? we're live with marty bass. well, we'll show you the graphics. this explains it all. we're not looking at real big systems. again, delivering us enough rain to float noah's arc. it's no more than a new sans -- nuisance. it's in the past half hour and 45 minutes, we've seen a real push of moisture getting north of south baltimore if you would. again, we may see 1/4 inch of rain autoof this and leaning towards the temperatures and

we'll see a pretty nice sunset with mr. turk out here the evening. we have a few april showers and that's bringing may flowers and tomorrow, it will be so nice, you'll think it's may. great conditions coming our way and great details coming up shortly. thank you, marty. baltimore city filed a complaint against wells fargo. the original lawsuit said they targeted black minority groups with unfair loans. thousands of foreclosed properties are in baltimore and the city's suing for $20 million. going green is too expensive for ocean city. they're canceling the recycling program. the baltimore sun says it was 2 1/2 times as expensive as trash dispose sal. it will save $1 million in the

next physical year -- fiscal year. and the ravens kick off the season monday night, september 14th and then the jets and then the bangles. the first home game is in week three against the browns and then, back on the road against pittsburgh and back home again against denver and then buffalo before the biweek around halloween. in november, the dolphins come here and then a thursday night in atlanta. we'll go to carolina and tampa bay here. pittsburgh comes to our house on sunday night and then houston for the monday night at the ravens. then to cleveland and then, the regular season finale at home with the bangles. >> we're ready. we are. >> we're all ready. all right, still to come on wjz- 13 eyewitness news at noon,

dramatic rescue. the crew of a sinking boat is saved off of the coast of alaska teen texting -- texts have overtaken all forms of communication among teens. and taking another live look outside this noon, marty will be back with the forecast. ,,,,

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a rescue as a fishing boat sinked off of the coast of alaska. another crewman died before the help arrived and the three surviving crew members suffered hypothermia. no word on why the 75-foot vessel began sinking. for the first time, the pope publicly commented on the sex abuse scandal. he traveled to meet with eight who said they were abused by priests. the pope says he shares the suffering of the victims and the vatican says they'll do all they can to bring abusive priests to justice and protect the children. a school employee involved in a web cam spying says that

the -- the technology coordinator says that they lost laptops and that's why they were using the tracking and he sued the district for taking pictures of him in his home. the fbi is investigating. 3/4 of all children between 12 and 17 have cell phones and they're texting more than they talk. and even more than they talk face to face, many parents are monitoring the contents of the teen's cell phones. still ahead at noon. taking a live look outside at noon, please stay tuned and we'll be back with the first warning weather. >> and first, we'll look at the midday's stocks and followed by the megamillions numbers. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

you know, we were looking at the indy racing facility. >> well, that would be cool. >> let me tell you, if the weather would cooperate. the announcement is this summer. >> well, we'll have them on. tomorrow, friday, saturday.

>> this is great, well, it's cruddy outside. there's not a ton of rain. we're not going to float noah's arc on this. the animals went back to the zoo. what's the biggest push of the moisture is trundling through the area and we should look at the current conditions. we should have a beautiful sunset and that's built into the area. we're moving that moisture throughout the area and 80% humidity and now, that's at 29.84 and 57 easton and pax river. almost 60 in ocean city. 61 cumberland and 54 in oakland. westminster and bel air, 55 and 59. 59 rock hall and on kent island. we're at 57. we'll max out at 52 degrees.

there's not a lot shaking going on. it's not impressive and a deep area of low pressure. getting out of here, you have the wind shift, and the cool front. the temperature is rising tomorrow and we'll have a good amount of sunshine. today, it's kind of blah. today, 62-degrees is the high and 46. the clouds break early on. the normal, 56 and gentle spring breeze and 70-degrees is the high. and we'll ramp up for the weekend and we'll have the five- day forecast shortly. >> the orioles are struggling still and the road trip continues in boston. you can watch the game saturday night at 7:00 and sunday afternoon at 1:30. live here on wjz-13. and wjz-13 eyewitness news at noon will be right back. guys remember,

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the coast guard is still searching the gulf of mexico

hoping to spot a lifeboat. the coast guard are searching for 11 workers. the deep water is rising over 50 miles off of the coastline, it was still burning after the blast that happened 10:00 tuesday night. officials say it's too early to say what caused it. >> it's leaning badly, the coast guard is don certain -- concerned it will fall over. there were 126 people on the drilling flat and most escaped safely and some were air lifted to land and environmental teams are standing by, ready to get the cleanup work once the fire's out. the deep water horizon was built in 2001. it's owned by a drilling company and it's under contract to bp. joel brown, cbs news. and at this point, no one can say lounge it will take to

get the fire under control. >> you'll want to check back in tonight for hissen hazards in -- for hidden hazards in all of our homes, children falling through screen windows. those are the stories and more breaking news today at 4:00. >> please stay with us, the five-day forecast is next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

not like this is going to be a real, wet day.

i'm concentrating on tomorrow, friday and saturday. and 66 by saturday and a few degrees below normal. we're still cruising in on the end of april. and we're going to get one of these, well, you know, spring like cold fronts moving through, 60 and still cloudy, breezy and 60, that's what i'm saying, today, it is what it is. the party starts for the next three days and we'll have a sunrise. >> tonight, another csi and at 10:00, it's csi new york and immediately followed by eyewitness news at noon. well, it's a monkey menace. a group of monkeys are causing trouble for tourists in india. they're fond of nonvegetarian food and they're aggressive in their snacks. they snapped away meat that tourists brought and they're

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