. duchess of york is caught up another scandal. >> the deal she tried to strike with a urn cover reporter that was caught on tape. i'm tie tie. >> i'm mary bubala. here is what people are talking about. sarah ferguson is no stranger to controversy. she is apologizing after being accused to cash in on her ex- husband, prince andrew. . >> reporter: royal watchers are shaking their heads. over this happened shake by sarah ferguson, she is looking for a 700,000-dollar deal to cash in on her ex-husband, prince andrew. she promised to set up meetings with andrew. she made the offer to an undercover reporter posing as a rich businessman. in one scene the duchess claims

andrew is in on the deal. friends of the duke called that per posturous. the fallout from the scandal goes way beyond the duchess of york, the queen has been involved in crisis talks here at buckingham pal palace. one called her vulgar, vulgar. the duchess who is millions of dollars in debt has apologized for what she calls a serious lapse in judgment. >> can you come back from this kind of scandal? it's going to be incredibly hard. >> reporter: she found herself in trouble before but never been caught so royally red handed. >> there is no alleged about it, a spokeswoman confirmed the recording is authentic and she is devastated by the

embarrassment she caused. two suspects wanted in a shooting and killing of a local business owner. the murder ser is violent and 40 year-old lee martin was ambushed and shot nine times outside his home and business. martin was still alive when medics arrived. he died later at john hopkins. witnesses saw two men running away from the scene. martin was a good man and took over the tavern from a relative. police are asking anybody with information to contact them or call metro crime stoppers 1-866-7-lockup, crime stoppers is offering a reward of up to $2000. autopsy investigation underway today in the death of a 6 week old baby boy. arundel county boy say the infant was found unresponsive inside a home on edge rock way

on saturday. neighbor says she called police when a woman banged on her door asking for help. there were no obvious science of trauma. the medical examiner will decide how the baby died. bp's failure to cap the leak in the gulf grows. joel brown says patience is running low. >> reporter: president obama's cabinet members toured the spill that's only getting worse. >> we are going to stay on this and stay on bp, until this gets done and gets done the right way. >> reporter: louisiana's using sand to build natural bare dwrers to block the crude from further invading the fragile marshs, the damage is already done in many areas. brown ooze cover wetlands and beginning to coat wildlife. jindal is pressuring the white house to do more. >> every day that we are not

dredging sand causes it to come in. >> reporter: stretch ace long 150 miles of shoreline between louisiana and alabama at 6 million gallonses gushed in to the gulf and still can't stop it. the next plan to plug the leak is called top kill. engineers will shoot mud and see ment in to the ruptured well. but the procedure is delayed until wednesday and bp isn't sure it will work. but the obama administration warns that its losing patience promising to push bp out of the way if the oil giant can't cap the spill soon. joel brown, wjz eye witness news. u.s. fish and wildlife officials say 264 birds sea turtles and dolphins have been found dead or stranded on the louisiana shoreline. the beaches of ocean city will be manned by experienced life guards in time for the memorial day weekend. starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. the guards that packed rigorous

tests will take their post along the entire ten miles of the ocean city beaches. in baltimore it is muggy and the clouds are trying to move out. not quite beach weather just yet. wjz has traffic and weather together. bernadette woods is here with the numbers from first warning weather for us. it's going feel very much like summer. transitioning tomorrow. it gets hot on wednesday and thursday. before we get to the point we have a couple of showers from the weekend storms. see them rotating from the east. more so over the eastern shore. showers in baltimore and hartford county. spotty showers at that. all moving in that direction. we will see them drift to the west. a thundershower in this batch across the south. showers out there from the first storm. i want to show you, we got this graphic. the national hurricane center

is monitoring this area for possible tropical or subtropical development. it looks like it's strengthening and could become depression or a storm in the next 24-48 hours. more on this coming up in the forecast. let's check on the roads right now with sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. the biggest problem is actually an accident in the clearing stage. delay caused by it is there on the inner loop, providence on the right shoulder. 20 minute back up to green spring. lake vista circle, two in notingham and bell air at 410 heights avenue. one on bell air at singer road and in the city at west baltimore. there is a look at drive times and speeds. west side the slowest because of the accident in the clearing stages appealing providence

road 2-rbgs the 2 22 minute drive there. this traffic report is brought to you by american signature and value city furniture. no drugs and no alcohol for actress lindsey lohan, a judge given her stricter rules to live by after she missed a mandatory court appearance. >> reporter: lindsey lohan arrived at the beverly hills courthouse to a crush of cameras and a few minutes late. the 23-year-old looked concern as the judge laid down new stricter terms for her probation. >> drink no alcohol, (inaudible.) >> a scram device is a

monitoring ankle bracelet and she must attend alcohol treatment classes. the judge ordered lohan to have drug testing every week in the los angeles area. her defense attorney told the judge that will interfere with the movie she is trying to make in texas. the defense attorney pressed the judge to loosen restrictions on the actress. >> lindsey has a number of upcoming films, as well as continuing to film movie in texas. the scram device would interfere. >> but the judge wouldn't budge. >> lohan missed a court appearance last week because she claims her passport was stolen from her room while she was at the canned fill festival. she has been on probation since 2007 after pleading guilty to

misdemeanor cocaine drug related charges. she will have another court appearance in july. that court date is july 6th, to address the probation violation sentence for her failure to appear in court last week. five months after britney murphy is found dead, paramedics rushed to he home to find her husband unresponsive. too many too soon an intense study on how the brain is effected by first year vaccines in health watch. and taking the search out of search and rescue. that story as eye witness news continues. mostly cloudy, a bit sticky outside. bernadette woods has your updated forecast coming up.

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it's caught on tape. the 60-foot pine tree lands on top of a colorado springs family's garage. they called the fire department, then it comes down. they said the fire department said the tree is not safe. the family just finished moving their cars out of the the garage when the tree went down nmpleghts the health watch, the largest pediatricians group is relaxing its stance on swimming lessons for young children. in the past the american academy of pediatrics said swim classes might give kids under 4 and parents a false sense of security. now they say studies indicate swimming lessons may prevent child drowning. also, vaccines are essential to protect children, when is the right time to get the shots.

>> reporter: she remembers her daughter's first vaccine shots. less than a week old. >> four days. how did you feel about it? >> horrible. scared. >> reporter: parents are delaying vaccinations concerned that the medicines intended to protect from diseases may harm brain develop. now a study finds there is no reason to worry. >> receiving the immunizations is the opposite affect it helps the development. >> reporter: a thousand children receive vaccines, researchers tested them later and found these who received timely shots faired better on tests for language, memory and intellect. there studies show there is no connection between autism and vaccines. doctors say it puts your child at risk for sickness.

but for her mother, a little pain is worth the knowing that her child would get protection from life threatening illnesses. great britain banned a doctor who persuaded mill yops of parents that a common vaccine could cause autism. wakefield conducted his research unethically. not a great way to start the week on wall street. concerned about europe's economy drags down the market. dow is down 127 points. nasdaq off 4. let's go to new york where we have the money watch update. >> reporter: fires rush in to the real estate market. boosting home sales 7.6% last month. shoppers looking to take advantage of expiring tax incentives fueled the increase.

first time buyers made up half of all sales. the government offered those buyers a tax credit of up to $8000. a bounce in consumer and business spending has economists convinced the recession is over. a poll by the national association for business economics says forecasters see the economy growing more rapid expli predict unemployment will fall to 9.4% by the end of this year and to 8.5% by the end of next year. it was a disappointing opening weekend for shrek forever after. the fourth movie in the animated series. it brought in $71 million. but that was far less than expected. shares of the film's creator dream works animations are down on the news. match.com is becoming the exclusive on line dating service on yahoo. yahoo is dumping dating site and will create match.com onia hoovment users of the personal

page will switch to the new site over the next 60 days. log on to cbsmoneywatch.com. there is something unusual going on in the middle of baltimore. a beach party. they had party today in the square. there will be two daily nonstop departures from baltimore to the brand new northwest florida beaches international airport. bwi serves as a hub for southwest with 82 daily nonstop flight to 44 destinations. coming up at 4:00, crib deaths two babies died and dangerous cribs are on the market. what one lawmaker is trying to do if you thought about adopting the cat now is the perfect time, with three area shelters waiving the adoption

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severe storms this the plain bring large tornados to kansas. storm chasers take the twisters, the area was hit with hail and high wind gusts. forecasts are worried about flash flooding. here our weather is much better. you spent time out there. fortunately we are not dealing with that around here. what we have is couple of showers lingering from the weekend storms. i want to show you the doppler radar. mainly over the eastern shore, they are forming and moving westward and heading over to baltimore county. what we are seeing with this area, west of salisbury, maybe

around elliot, a thundershower going on. that's about it. north of that, few spotty showers, henderson, denton, chester town. these are scattered up through the pennsylvania border. book, let's show you overnight we had rain, drizzle this morning and clouds trying to lift a little bit and mix for sunshine this afternoon. but that gave way to a few showers popping up. the winds have been out of the east. when you get west of the state you start to turn. they are rotating around the center of the storm which is now south of us. with the winds rotating counter clockwise, this is the direction they are taking. temperature wise, pretty mild. 76 degrees in baltimore. 77 in dc. this is really the factor today. all of us have been talking about with our hair, it's muggy. dew points in the 60s. they will be straight through

the next couple of days. managed high of 76 today. that's on par with average. look at where we started out. it's going be another warm one. the center i was discussing. off to the south, see also offmore, additional round of clouds. that is associated with yet another storm system that's not only watched by us but the national hurricane center for development. this doesn't have the true characteristics, so what they are thinking, if it forms it could be called a subtropical depression, the center is right in here, you can see most of the thunderstorms are east of, that it's not very well formed and it's really working against cool water for this time of year. this could become a named system in the next few days if it were to happen it would be alex and factor in to our forecast. the other thing we are watching

with that happening offshore to the south is the sun coming out tomorrow and heating up on wednesday and then a cold front coming from the north thursday in to friday. the cold front will bring thunderstorms with it thursday and friday and eventually take what've is forming out to sea as we head through the weekend. with the tropical system it will mess up the weather pattern and something we have to monitor closely. we are going to see fog form overnight. and with the fog that will lead to clouds in the morning. temperature wise, down to 63 degrees. tomorrow after those morning clouds mix of sunshine, getting up to 79. muggy one tomorrow. wait until you see the temperatures for wednesday. we jump up to close 90 degrees. really going to feel like summer on wednesday and thursday before that cool air returns behind the front for the weekend. couple of hot days ahead. >> i like the hot weather. i will be smiling.

cbs line up at 10:00 the season finale of csi miami followed by eye witness news at 11:00 here on wjz13. katie couric has a preview of what is coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. >> reporter: i'm above the oil spill. is snuff being done to stop this slow motion disaster? tonight on the cbs evening news from the gulf coast. adrift at sea for days. how calm and cooler temperatures helped save their lives. why maryland's first lady is stepping in to stop bullying. i'm gigi barnett, the details are just ahead in tonight's school watch report. hikers jailed in iran, the visit with their mother is over. did they manage to convince

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. mostly cloudy, hello, thank you for staining with us um i'm denise koch. >> i'm vic carter. daily abuse at school. bullying cases across the united states are driving several students to harm themselves. there is a push to stop the harassment in maryland. gigi barnett explains in wjz's school watch report. >> reporter: in massachusetts 15-year-old febe committed suicide in january. police arrest three students for bullying her, in florida a girl hanged herself. her diary is filled with

incidents of bullying. three are suspended after a girl come plains of excessive bullying. she was beaten by three other students. >> you can't put a band-aid over it and think it's going go aey. >> reporter: the next step for leaders statewide is preventing it. katie o'malley signed on to help. >> all kids know what it is. getting them to be aware of when it's happening and what to do, not to be quiet. >> reporter: she says kids who bully needs help too. >> they have issues. they are insecure. >> reporter: last school year nearly 1700 cases of bullying were reported around the state. some school leaders say that number maybe higher because students are just too afriday to come forward. >> it's a serious thing. you have to deal wit. >> reporter: se he is a 6th

grader and seen it in the hallways but cyber bullying is the worst. >> all the texting and bad messages. the kids are stricter all the time. >> she sent let tores the state's 24 school districts asking teachers to set aside time to educate parents and students about bullying. gigi barnett, back to you on tv hill. katie o'malley plans to focus on school bullying again in the fall. cribs are recalled this is an effort to ban them in the united states. kai jackson is here to explain. >> new york lawmaker plans to introduce the legislation outlaw progress duction, sale and resale of drop side cribs and banned from daycare centers and hotels. 7million of the cribs have been recalled in the past five years. the hardware for the crib

malfunctions and the rail can detach. that creates a dangerous gap between the mattress and side rail where a baby could get caught and suffocate or strangle. >> the crib industry insists that babies are safe in drop sides that have not been recalled. five months after the death of actress britney murphy, her husband is found dead inside the same home. >> reporter: sigh monsanto jack issimon monjack is famous, the coroner is taking his body out. he died five months after murphy did. there is no sign of foul play. murphy's mother sharon lives in the house and found monjack and found her dying daughter. >> mr. monjack was found unresponsive, the family is devastated over his passing.

it is under investigation. >> when the couple was married in 2007 murphy was an established hollywood star appearing in several movies including clueless. her acting career stalled. she was treated for flu like symptoms when she died. she had taken numerous prescription and over the counter cold medications. prescription drugs were found in the house last night. >> there were prescription drugs found that belonged to mr. monjack. we will have a on going investigation. monjack suffered health problems in the past few months and had a heart attack two weeks before his wife's death and complained of seizures. sandra hughes, wjz, eye witness news. monjack is credited as producer of factory girl. britney was known for clueless and girl interrupted. three american mothers traveled to iran in hose of freeing their children from prison but their trip is

unsuccessful. >> the mothers returned to the u.s. this weekend. (inaudible.) [technical difficulties] [no audio] [technical difficulties] we will pick up that story for you. authorities allowed the mothers to reunite with children who had been jailed since july. iran accused them of spying but families insists they were hiking. the day the intelligence administrator said he might be open to releasing them in exchange for iranian's held in u.s. custody. u.s. won't consider that option. shane bauer and shard plan to be married after their release.

this travels with specialized locator beacons. >> this is a hydrostatic release in here. if you can deploy by hand it will deploy by cell phone to water. >> reporter: weather satellites that pick up the beacon's distressed call and sends it back to earth. that's what happened this winter when a storm threw dennis out of his sailboat. the beacon brought rescuers. they flew right to my position, the diver came down in there, u.s. navy, down in to the storm for me, that is the bravest anything i've ever seen anybody do in my life. >> reporter: researchers think they found a way to remove the search from search and rescue. >> it should be near

instantaneous. >> reporter: in a reverse gps. >> out of the box, we will have a good location to head straight for instead of going off in to a general direction. >> reporter: not only would it find people faster it would find them anywhere on earth. >> complete global coverage except underground and under water. >> the ground station is already at goddard. the next step is tacking hardware on to a new generation on weather stat lites. . the new search and rescue network will need years to work. a trooper manages to make an arrest after breaking his own leg. the trooper pulled a speeding vehicle over on interstate 270. police say the 22-year-old driver ran away. the trooper broke his leg while chasing the man down an em bankment but managed to pull the suspect to the ground by

his shirt. the driver faces several charges. a slow moving system moving out of the region this afternoon. the low clouds beginning to clear out and we are in for a pleasant change. to our east, there has opinion several hours of sun, it's what we call self defeating sun. showers popped up. breaks in the clouds but to the east and southeast, there are a few showers developing this afternoon across southern pennsylvania there. just east of red line, light shower activity. not much is going to make it in our direction. this evening maybe a sprinkle over the next hour or two. light activity across portions of southern maryland, eastern shore as well. light stuff. but good news is coming, temperatures will rebound back up to 80 degrees. thank you, bob. let's check on the roads with sharon gibala.

>> thinks calmed down. we have a few problem areas including accident at lake vista circumstance circle. bunch in the city. there is looking at the drive times and speeds. northwest side remains the slowest spot at 20 miles an hour. 22 minute drive time because of an earlier accident on the inner loop at providence. that accident is gone. see delay is clear on the topside. it will be extend once you get beyond providence to hartford road. 95 at white marsh. everything running smoothly. no issues on the west side of the beltway. it's a race to save lives three area animal shelters participating in the baltimore

500, hoping to have 500 cats adopted by the end of the month. >> reporter: one year old amanda, she, like hundreds of cats, hope to find a good home. the maryland spca humane society and k barks receive hundreds of cats a month. >> we need a lot more help more than ever. >> they are teaming up to adot out 500 cats and kittens by the end of may during the baltimore 500. >> we want to make sure we are finding as many homes as possible for the cats and kittens before kitten season comes in to full swing. >> adoption fees will be waived. owners must pay microchipping. about $35. they adopted out 360 cats, they have a week left to make their goal.

>> they are very cute, there are too many. they really need homes. >> workers say there are so many stray cats because many owners don't spay or neuter them. all of the cats are already fixed. during last year's 500, 280 cats were adopted out. they are doing better this year but many cats are still awaiting. >> cats will get a free first aexam. to see who is up for adoption log on to wjz.com. straight ahead on wjz, vehicles collide. this vip stepped out. the week is off to a good

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mike perry is over the scene of a fire. >> reporter: bell air at frankfort with a stove fire, this occurred in a restaurant actually on bell air road, south of frank fort avenue. firefighters are vent ventilating the roof. there is no word on injuries. apparent lay fire suppression system in the chimney area of the stove it is not working properly. as you can see fire made it through the roof at this point. we will continue to monitor the situation and keep you updated as the situation develops. the father of a man killed in a mine wants the company

sued. the son was one of 29 workers killed in the big branch mine. he told a committee today he sends out radio alerts that a man is on the property when inspectors arrived. it will head of the federal mine safety and health administration says the allegations are under investigation and the justice department confirms it's looking to possible criminal charges now. the west virginia explosion is the nation's worst mining disaster in 40 years. fender bender can happen to anyone, even a former u.s. president. clinton was riding in an suv when the vehicle was hit from behind on the parkway. police say the traffic was backed up from a previous accident when a driver behind the former president failed to stop in time. clinton called it a fluke and

says he is fine. courage and a water cooler both credited with saving three bothers tossed over board off the florida coast last week. today they are sharing their story. >> reporter: the three spent nearly three days adrift at sea. the only thing to cling to, this water cooler. the coast guard searched more than 11,000-miles then it was a passing fisherman that found the three by accident. >> i just picked up three survivors out of the water. can somebody come out and get them for me. >> reporter: the boaters who served in the navy left for a fishing trip may 16th when the boat capsized without warning, they didn't have time to put on life vests. >> there was no fear.

truly no fee. we knew we were going to survive. >> reporter: the boater says the cooler contained water and gatorade. they came up with a plan of how much to drink each day in order to survive. witnesses say a boy was playing soccer in south carolina when a rottweiler bit him in the face. mccain rushed him to the hospital. the boy is home recovering. the owner has been cited for harboring a vicious or dangerous animal. a decade after the hay day of the boy band back street boys, back street is back. [music] i never want to hear you say i want it that way. >> they released the 7th studio album. touring the united states with the old songs with over 100 million records sold back street boys is the highest selling boy band on record.

a pop star and olympic skater. >> coming up on entertainment tonight inside dancing's final rehearsals. nicole, evan, aaron, the secret before they pull out all the stops. they get ready to push to it the trophy night. it's been a grueling 9 weeks battling nerves injuries and a trio of tough judges. >> i'm so much better. it's unbelievable. >> she is like snap out of it. olympic champ evan is ready to give them stone cold competition. >> we are trying to push ourselves obviously to our limit. aaron is considered the under

dog. >> we are going to be broken. that was quite a bruise. also tonight jesse james' new cheating confessions plus kim kardashian and family hi on the record. who has had plastic surgery. more coming up on entertainment tonight. a tool for elite runners is proving invaluable for those with special needs. it and started here in maryland. lock laces keeps sneakers tied with an elastic cord. eric johnson invented them 11 years ago. he is paired up a opportunities development inc. look for them next time 2010 special olympics in july. >> i remember those.

it was overcast but the rain stopped for you. >> bob turk has your updated weather forecast after this break.

more breaking news now. a very bad accident. captain mike perry is over the scene. >> reporter: we are in pin brook, this is cold spring lane where a head-on collision occurred between a sport utility vehicle and a sedan there is a on on going rescue t road is closed by fire apparatus. police are on the scene investigating. we will keep you updated. back to you. the clouds pretty much moved out. here and there, spotty. >> we had sun a few areas with sprinkles popping up. 76. northeast winds continue to bring in moisture though at 7. barometer is high 30.23. that's the flow that we seen the last day or so off the atlantic ocean.

today we had sunshine and a couple of sprinkles in the eastern shore. may make it across the bay in next hour or two. just sprinkles here and there 76 here, ocean city is 69. oak land 656789 warmer, sunshine, 77. temperatures were back to normal. last night's low was in the 60s. a warm night. the rain from the weekend is down, down across the carolina coast. southwest is an area of low pressure we are watching carefully. bernadette will talk about that next hour. out to the west, cold temperatures and snow. high pressure will dominate weather the next couple of days. clear things out and a front from the north will slide across the region, probably give us a chance of a shower or thundershower thursday or friday. this will bring you warm air. may get to 90 on wednesday.

east winds 5 knots. tonight still have a lot of clouds. maybe a sprinkle elly on and patchy fog can form. 63 up close to 80 tomorrow. clouds, sunshine. feel a little bit on the sticky side. temperatures getting aabove normal and on wednesday we may get up to 90 degrees. still to come on eye witness news tonight. >> bar owner shot nine times after closing. why neighbors here say the circumstances seem a little bit suspicious. that's coming up. car owner: yeah, here she is. friend: it's uh . . . great. car owner: thanks. friend: yeah. car owner: doors would have been nice. friend: yeah. car owner: they weren't in my budget. friend: no biggie. car owner: hey, you want to hop in, go for a ride? friend: oh! be easy, right?

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coming up next, tragedy, a local businessman was shot five times while closing his bar. the big gamble, i'm mike hellgren. the battle is on over anne arundel slots. and president obama's attempt to take control of the oil spill clean up. >> 13 news starts right now.

a local businessman is killed, shut down while closing his business. hi everybody i'm kai jackson. >> and i'm mary bubala. here is what people are talking about. >> the owner of hops inn was shot five times in the same neighborhood where he grew up. police say they still don't know why she was targeted. >> reporter: at the neighborhood bar, hops and dumdar patrons leave flowers. >> all we know, is when we walked out he was confronted by two suspects who