tonight. we have what's next for holton. >> reporter: councilwoman holton she only pays a fine. it wasn't a typical speech for a council meeting when holton rose to defend herself against a grand jury indictment. >> i also want to assure you and the public that i did not wrong. >> reporter: today holton was in front of the judge. where she does not dispute the charges against her but does not plead guilty. she will have to pay the fine. >> i will continue to serve on the city council and serve my community to the best of my ability. to help make baltimore city a safer and more prosperous city.

>> reporter: her soliciting of $12,000, their contributions exceeded the $4,000 limit individuals may give a candidate prompting the charges. >> you have to follow the campaign finance charge, if you don't we'll investigate and we'll prosecution. >> reporter: state prosecutors instead agreed to a deal, even though they pushed to have a dismissed bribery charge against holton reinstated. >> the grand scheme of things, relatively minor charges. i think the case that needs to be tried is the bribery charge is. >> i thanks god for being an always present help, i thank my family for being my strength. god bless you all. >> back to you on tv hill.

now because holton's plea involves a misdemeanor charge and not a felony, she remains eligible to serve on baltimore's city council. a man just entering the prime of his life collapses on the basketball court and dies. derek valcourt has reaction from the campus. >> that man was a freshman. it was his first basketball practice, he was required to pass a physical exam in order to play sports, he did pass that physical exam. so tonight no one in his family, none of his friends know what medical condition killed him. condolence messages pouring into a facebook page that belonged to dunley who died on the basketball court on friday. >> everybody loved him. >> it still hasn't sunk in. >> reporter: he was attending the first basketball practice of the season.

after 20 minutes of drills, the team took a brief break. >> as they were doing the stretching exercises, devonte who was i think already on the floor stretching didn't get up when the rest of the athletes got up. >> devonte popped into my office, made a big impact on me just the way he handled himself. what he said, the questions he asked. he was clearly the guy out of the new ones that at first made an impression on me and i was anxious to get to know him better. >> reporter: devonte was new to the community college, but he was not new to the area. he had just graduated. >> had a real big personality.

people were drawn to him. >> it's going to be a rough rest of the day for them, it's going to be a rough rest of the week for them. >> reporter: meanwhile, the coach cancelled all the schedule to give the team some time to grieve. >> an autopsy is being performed to determine dunley's cause of death. after a week of great weather, it's been all rain the last week. bernadette woods is tracking the storms. >> we're not going to have as much rain as we did yesterday, well excuse me last night into this morning from it. but still spotty showers and spotty areas of drizzle are possible. you can see at this point, most of us combined the north

eastern part of the state, it continues to rotate in from the ocean and move off to the northwest. and while this is going on by has it cooled down. it is 53 degrees last night. the actual storm will start to weaken but it is going to be around. so still a chance of showers. >> thank you very much bernadette. the investigation into a crash on the belt way is under investigation tonight. several people on board were injured, the investigation continues. right now police are searching for two young men in a busy neighborhood in east baltimore. wjz is live at the scene on

hartford road. mike hellgren has the investigation. >> reporter: busy because we're right across the street from the courthouse. police shot a third man trying to rob the store behind me. and that person may have gotten away had it not been for the action of a quick thinking citizen. this family dollar is open for business again after a rattling night. >> they robbed somebody with a box cutter? they must have been desperate. >> reporter: a witness spotted three people armed with guns in addition to box cutters and ran across the street to a wendy's and alerted a school police officer. that officer rushed, one of the suspects threatened the police officer then the police officer retrieved his gun and fired.

the city school's police officer who shot the man is on routine administrative lever right now. the other two suspects got away. police say they were wearing masks and dark clothes but could provide no further description. still they praised the actions of that witness. >> a citizen saw something, notified police and we were able to do something quickly and prevent injuries to bistandards. >> reporter: there are surveillance cameras that could be key to catching those at large. >> i'm not surprised at all. >> reporter: why is that? >> because of the area. the neighborhood. you know there's been a lot of that going on here. >> reporter: the area has seen violence including the still unsolved high profile murder of caretaker milton hill killed for his scooter two months ago. >> the crime is terrible. >> reporter: the priority now is getting those behind there

bold crime in custody. workers here atfamily dollar declined to comment. as of right now investigators aren't saying whether the robbers took any money or any merchandise from the store. reporting from east baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> mike, thank you. police have not identified the officer involved. he was on duty at the time. life in prison. that is the sentence for a baltimore man who opened fire on two police officers. mary is in the newsroom with the final chapter in this case. >> chauncey claire was charged with two charges of murder. sin claire attacked his wife then drove to his girlfriend's house where he was involved in a fight with her. during the next few chaotic minutes, sinclaire shot two police officers before he was subdued. an officer who has been in the

hospital still hasn't been cleared to return to work. the first gubernatorial debate exclusively right here on wjz13. and we want you to be involved as governor o' malley and the áf ehrlich debate the issues. what questions do you want them to answer? log on to wjz.com and click on the link on the top of the home page to submit your questions. it was the show down in steel town most fans expected. mark viviano joins us now with more of what you were saying about the win. >> reporter: it was the cold hard hitting game we expected. but the ravens came with a

boost at halftime. flacco being called the golden boy in the aftermath of the win, flacco was quick to credit his teammates. >> every time you've been in the offense year to year, more than a year, two year, three years you start to improve. every time you get some guys that want to be good and work hard at it you're going to improve your game. getting out there and putting it on the line and challenging yourself to get at it it shows everyone that you can. >> it was the last minute score that made the high lights but it was the usually depent teammates that brought the score. >> i felt joe was going to drive the field on, and we

downed on them. we have the best receiving back in the league. we knew somebody was going to get open. >> reporter: beautiful to win, and what was the best part about it? with our wjz fan cam, we asked you what impressed you most about the win in being. >> the fact that we were under pressure and we didn't fold. >> joe flacco, he has done a heck of a job as head quarterback. >> when ray lewis stretched out and got that interception, we had the game. >> reporter: joe flacco and coach harbaugh spoke at a press conference. after the ravens play three of their road games, three of them will be at home when denver comes to town. >> you can see the game right here at 1:00 p.m. live right here on wjz13. no matter what happens with the broncos, they feel good today. >> no question.

still to come on eyewitness news tonight. maryland marine killed in iraq, now his dad is the one fighting in a battle reaching the u.s. supreme court this week. i'm mary bubala it's supreme of speech versus a father who just wanted to give his son a peaceful burial. that story up next. tough times here at bgaddy. you can see the shelves are more empty than usual. i'm jessica cartalia, so what does this mean for their annual thanksgiving dinner? bugging out, some homes are collapsing and they are blaming a tiny insect. and cooler weather, we'll have that when we come back. [ female announcer ] ,, after months of martin o'malley telling us

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and a story wjz told you about and it's been following for months. dozens of homes in southern maryland collapsing. >> reporter: a scary landslide just steps away from a home perched 100 feet on top of cliffs. >> oh my god. people better not be there. >> i want to get that. i'm not comfortable. >> reporter: a family took the video as they were witnessing erosion. >> i'm afraid i'm not going to wake up tomorrow. it's scary. >> reporter: residents can't

build retaining walls because of the endangered species. there's only 5,000 in the world, and they all live right here. >> if it was a panda bear people would get it. but it's an animal that's not sexy, it's just a beetle. >> reporter: natural erosion will wipe off some of the homes in 30 years. even if you add shoreline protection, some homes will still crumble and fall boo the bay. still anthony odonnald wants something done. video on the verge of becoming

reality. and a meeting between homeowners and government officials is scheduled for next month. a number of meetings have yet to create any solutions. >> what a problem, the only other place tiger beetles have a significant presence in the u.s. is in new england. a struggling economy has led to more residents to ask for help. >> reporter: on mondays and thursdays, residents wait for a bag of food from the magati center. >> this situation has been bleak. >> reporter: cynthia brook, daughter of the the

councilwoman b.gatty is following her mother's work. >> maryland is all over volunteering. this is maryland's meal. >> reporter: despite empty boxes and a need for more donations, brook says the 29th annual thanksgiving meal will go on like always. >> we've had commitment from shay brook farms that they're going to come through with the 70,000 pounds of turkey for us. >> reporter: as more marylanders look for the center for help, brook says they need all the help and donations they can get. just a few weeks ago all they had was some of the baby food on the top shelf here. then a driver from a church and donations helped fill some of the shelves. but as you can see, there's still a lot of shelves that need to be filled up.

>> we need can foods and nonparishable items. >> reporter: brook says that it might seem like hard times but her mother would know just what to say. >> just to us. >> reporter: for seniors who can't make it to patterson park on thanksgiving, volunteers bring the meals to them. >> seems kind of strange we're talking about thanksgiving and about the fall. and it's definitely fall. >> it just hit you in the face fall today. and temperatures are going to remain low the next couple of days, still with a chance of rain, but this is what we're seeing outside right now. it is only 52 degrees. still some rain and drizzle out there in first doppler radar. and we'll have all of this when we return. ma'am, can you identify,,, the other airline that charged you bag fees?

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our rainfall amounts aren't going to be very high because they'll be on the lighter side. it's more of that nuisance drizzle. see the clouds trying to break up around here. winds are out of the north and that's going to keep the cool air in place and take a look at these temperatures. 52degrees in baltimore right now and that's close to our high. with this storm sticking around the next two day, those

temperatures are going to remain way below average but we'll probably stay closer to 60 degrees. there's two difficult different storms that merged into one. the jet stream usually pushes these storms along and since it's cut off there's nothing to push it around. so it's going to stick around and move on the next couple of days. over all still cool with a chance for showers the next few days. it's not until thursday that we finally get rid of this storm. when that happens, high pressure moves in and we dry out. we're setting up for a pretty good weekend around here. the forecast looks like this. on the waters, small craft advisory remain in effect. this time out of the northwest and the forecast is like this. for tonight, still spotty rain and drizzle out there. we're dropping down into the 40s overnight. tomorrow we go back to about 60

degrees. spotty showers as we head through the day. this is the same forecast we're probably much going to see on wednesday. it's not until thursday that we get out of here. when it does we warm it back up to the low 70s, that's our trade off. >> thank you brook. -- thank you, bern. and a school is not letting a death go in vain. they're honoring a student who committed suicide. on alert, troubling new warnings for americans planning to travel overseas. this is mark viviano, more reaction from the ravens after a big win. and buck shorewalter is positive but makes no promises to oriole fans after a strong

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it is just before 6:30, 52 degrees and damp. good evening thanks for staying with wjz. here are some of the stories

people are talking about tonight. high alert, a warning for all americans traveling to europe be on guard for terrorist attacks. charlie dagget reports from london, high level intelligence agents believe terrorists are planning to hit major european cities. >> reporter: security teams across europe are bracing for a possible terror attack. japan is now joining america from warning about terrorist attacks on tourist sights. >> right now i feel very safe here in paris. >> reporter: french authoritys are investigating nine bomb threats in paris last month. two at the eiffel tower. people believe osama bin laden himself is behind the plot.

terrorists may be planning to plant shooters. they say islamic militants are modeling their attacks the terror attacks on mumbai. intelligence officials are giving no details about the targets or timing of an attack. >> we feel following authorities it was appropriate to issue this alert at this moment. >> reporter: some tourists say all they can do is live life. >> no matter what threats there are, still go. >> reporter: and hope anti terror teams have the power to keep them safe. britain, france and germany have not raised their terror threat levels in recent weeks, partly because they are already

at their second highest level. some people are calling discrimination, some downright hate. tyler clememte jumped to his death from the george washington bridge. he was terrified after he found out that his roommate streamed video on the internet of him having sex with another man. that roommate and another student are facing charges. the suspects also could end up facing hate crime charges. a hero remembered and layed to rest. the funeral was held today for james fowler. he was killed in a car accident last week in pennsylvania. the service was held this morning at st. mark's church in

katysville. fowler was laid to rest at daleny. this wednesday the the father of a marine who's funeral was disrupted we protesters will plead his case to the highest court in the land. mary bubala reports it's a battle that pits freedom of speech against a father's right to bury his son without interruption. >> reporter: the father is trying to protect other americans from holding a proper funeral. they held across the street holding signs, god hates soldiers. al schneider was trying to give his son matthew a hero's funeral. the maryland marine was killed fighting in iraq in 2006. >> they don't have a right to

terrorize families and single families out and that's what they do. >> reporter: they have protested at hundreds of funerals with this message. these soldiers are dying for homo sexuals and other sins of america. >> it is everybody's first amendment right to go to a public spot and speak out on a public issue. shame son schneider. that's how i feel about him, shame on him. >> reporter: the baptist church will argue its side in front of the supreme court on wednesday. >> i had one opportunity to bury matt, one and it was taken away. >> reporter: al schneider sued the church four years ago and one. but a case was overturn on appeal. schneider refused to back down. >> nobody in the history of this country has ever done this to a military funeral. >> reporter: he appealed to the

u.s. supreme court and it agreed to hear its case. it'll be a landmark decision, does freedom of speech trump a person on suing if there was a heatful message. sean summers will argue the case for al schneider. >> i think we have a very good chance with the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: i know you are a reserved, shy man, you are on the national spotlight. do you have any regrets that you have taken it this far to the supreme court. >> at least i know that i've done it for matt and i'm exposed these women. >> reporter: and i will be there in washington as the u.s. supreme court hears this case. >> reporter: it's going to be an interesting case to follow.

and it already is. check in this wednesday as mary following this case. time now for a quick look at stories you will find in tomorrow's edition of the baltimore sun. why thousands of nonprofits are scrambling to file financial statements by october 15th. with the orioles late season charge enough for them to earn a passing great from the sun's staff? look for these and more stories tomorrow on the baltimore sun. pumped up at the pump as you probably have noticed. gas prices are suddenly going up. but as we explain, it's not supposed to last much longer. >> reporter: when a crude oil pipeline burst three weeks ago, prices all over the country spiked 20 to 30-cents. >> i expect it to go up and up. >> they've gone up. >> almost immediately when we

saw the disruption in the midwest we almost immediately saw the prices go up. >> reporter: now that the pipeline is fixed, gas prices are coming down. >> with the reopening of the pipeline out in the midwest, although we had seen gas prices increase, quite a few cents with that disruption, now that the el barrage pipeline have reopened, we have seen gas prices continue to stabilize a bit and drop a few pennys. >> reporter: this price is about the lowest in the state and people have noticed. >> he's complaining that we just go back and forth to work, it would be nice to go to other places. >> because it's $2.70. but they've pretty much kind of stabilized. >> reporter: with the summer travel season over, good news about the future. >> with the refineries being impacted in the gulf because of

the hurricane season or any other unforeseen financial events, we expect the prices to stabilize and go down in the next few weeks. >> i just blow with the punches and deal with it. >> back to you on tv hill. and wjz is examining prices for you at the pump. today we're paying an average of $2.67. that's up from $2.53 last week and 2. $2.58 last month. a new vaccine helping people with one type of brain cancer live longer lives. two young girls drown and their father nearly dies trying to save them. i'm bernadette woods in for bob turk, we're putting together your exclusive five day forecast and we'll have it for you in a few minutes. and here are the top stories on wjz.com at this hour. for the updated forecast any

time, log on to wjz.com. ,,,, two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first.

eaks to send jobs over seas. i think we need tax breaks to send kids to college. so i worked for a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college. fought to get pell grants expanded and insisted that college loans go directly to kids instead of through banks. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message. because it's not about the next election, it's about the next generation. right? yeah!!! in texas, twin 9-year-old girls drown after being swept in the gulf. authorities say their father tried to rescue them and was also swept away. he now is in critical condition

in an area hospital. searchers found the father and the body of one of their daughters. the body of the other daughter washed ashore later that night. and authorities say the school bus was transporting people from a high school when a driver lost control and overturned into a ditch. the bus rolled at least three times. three people were transported to area hospitals with unlife threatening injuries. just days after he was releaseed from the hospital, former president carter is building homes with habitat for humanity. he was out framing a home in his blue jeans and sneakers today. their goal is to build or repair 86 homes in the

baltimore area in honor of carter's 86 years of life. >> reporter: lee sullivan isn't letting brain cancer stop him. >> you get a diagnosis a lot of bad things go through your mind. >> reporter: sullivan was diagnosed last year, now he's in a study in duke where he takes a vaccine with radiation and chemotherapy. adding the vaccine to other therapy extended the -- with roughly 10,000 new cases in the united states each year. a very aggressive cancer gene fuels about a third of all

plastoma. this vaccine is only for patients who have that genetic mutation. even though the study is small the findings are significant. >> the way that we're looking at the patients is with that small change. >> i hope i get to five years, others get to 10 years. >> reporter: sullivan will take the vaccine every 28 days as long as it keeps working for him. a phase three clinical trial is planned for the vaccine before possibly being made available on the market. great breakthrough. katie couric has a look at what's coming up on the evening news. is it safe to go to europe? the latest on the travel alert and what's behind it. plus fallen heros, two friends who died on different battlefields now share a final resting place buried side by

side. this 24-year-old woman is defying tradition in china, she's the owner of her successful company. denise and vic back to you. here's a look at tonight's here's a look at tonight's closing numbers from walal,,,,,,

i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. his past attacks have been called deceptive, his new attack, false. harris voted for deregulation increasing our electric bills by 72% it's not surprising, harris always sides with the big guys. he opposes cracking down on wall street and supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. harris even opposed making big insurance cover cancer screenings. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us.

a wet dreary start for the weekend. will it dry up for the workweek? bernadette woods will update the forecast and also has a look at what we can expect tomorrow. >> we are going to dry up later this week but it's not until later this week. so here's what it looks like for tomorrow's forecast. we will see a few peeks of sunshine. 63 on wednesday, a few peeks of sunshine. but by thursday this storm is out of here. take a look at the forecast heading into the weekends. 75 on friday, 74 on saturday. >> that's more like it. the sneak peak, the new episode of the biggest loser. kevin fraizer is live with more. coming up, we have an

exclusive look at a brand new episode of the hugely popular show the biggest loser. tonight a grandmother, yes a grandmother gets pushed to the brink. >> let's go. >> bob crushes you into dust and then asks you to enjoy it. he's a killer. >> tomorrow on nbc is trainer bob pushing too hard. 58-year-old tina seems ready to break. >> i am going to ask to go home today. >> you can't go home. >> i don't want a chance to pull anybody else down. >> her teammates get mad. >> how selfish can you be. he just sent a young girl home last night, 28 years old. >> tina who once modeled swim

suits the says she's doing it for her family. >> and will bruno apologize on dancing with the stars. plus mary kate and ashley and their new movie about fashion. their new movie about fashion. and you can see two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley,

a lot of gloating on mark's radio show this morning. >> the ravens offense stole the spotlight in the final seconds. could be another sign that the ravens could be earning their wings. we've been hearing about the development of flacco. just a couple of weeks ago, some raven fans were calling

for flacco to be benched. the team talked today about how big the victory is for the qb. >> has to be a confidence boost for joe. i think he's been doing that pretty much since he got here. he's been in some huge games. >> honestly, i mean it's just another game. we moved on. it's over. and i'm not lying to you and sitting here and just saying stuff that sounds right. we honestly, we've moved on. we're getting read did for denver. it was a great win, we're happy that it turned out the way it did. and a new week. referee: flacco's first big fourth quarter show down and ray rice has been doing what he's been doing for 12 years. the ravens are back home on sunday, you heard joe flacco mention it. they're already concentrating on the denver broncos, it's a game you can see here on wjz. coverage kicks off at 1:00. in baseball news, three

managers were fired today. the mets, manuel, and ken macca is out in milwaukee. the orioles has new managers this season and would stay strong. under shorewalter the cardinals finished with their best franchise history. >> they want to see action and i'm right there with them. there's not going to be a lot of, we realize what's going on around here the last few months. it's been throwing out the window in february, it's what have you done for me lately and i'm okay with that. >> the o's lost the finale to detroit yesterday 4-2. and a rained out finale in

whales. tiger from the fairway for eagle. tiger defeated molinari and the cup came down to the final match. mcdow on this 15th hole. huge put that would start a celebration for the europeans. the u.s. has not won the rider cup on foreign soil in 26 years. they're going to have to redo those green, way too many people. >> wouldn't happen at the masters like that. >> yeah. >> thanks. >> thanks, mark. we'll be right back. just minutes away, a vaccine that targets deadly tumors. we have the breaking medical news. plus in a male dominated society, she built a company society, she built a company -o( music playing ), - we know technology can make you more connected.

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attack and a u.s. drone takes out a home in pakistan where a plot may have been hatched. i'm katie couric. also tonight, it's the disease that killed senator edward kennedy. now a new vaccine shows promise in extending the lives of patients with brain karen. the military made them brothers in arms. now they've been laid to rest side by side for eternity. and everybody in the world has a story. tonight, steve hartman visits a totalitarian society and finds a liberated woman. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. ever since 9/11, officials have taken ever threat, ever hint of a terror plot seriously. with a threat of a possible attack against a major city in europe,