this is wjztv, wjzhd and wjz.com baltimore. >> from the city, to the counties to your neighborhood, now, it's complete coverage. it's wjz mild's news -- maryland's news station. looking for answers. a maryland family heads south after their daughter is found dead. >> it's nothing. she was gone. >> the few clues police have into her murder and the people who could help crack the case. good evening i am andrea fumingy adam may is off. police in georgia are all butcertain the dismembered body is a howard county native missing for a week. pat warnen -- warren has latest. >> reporter: the police in macon, georgia are waiting for dna testing to come in, but

they have identified two people of interest in the case. police announced they believe they have found the body of 27- year-old lauren giddings. >> the missing spern a homicide -- person is a homicide victim. >> reporter: mike persons says the condition of the body prevanes positive id. >> what's-- was the-- wased bodydismembered? >> sphwhient answer that out of the respect for the family. >> reporter: the familiar will can be - the family sent arequest for privacy and compassion giddings graduated from law school at mercer university this year a friend reported her missing after she had not heard from her in nearly a week. now a neighbor is considered a person of interest in the case e told reporters--- case. he told reporters he and others searched for her. >> we looked around the place and no sign of a trug -- struggle and nothing. she was gone. all of her stuff was there, herid was there and her wallet was there, but she was -- she

was just gone. >> reporter: police released no information about the cause of death but have included a searchof a nearby landfill in the investigation. the neighbor says he saw something on giddings's computer. >> she said she was afraid in her apartment she thought one tried to break in on thursday night and she was afraid to stay in there. >> reporter: steven mcdaniel way as arrested -- was later arrested in an unrelated burglar. second person of interest's nape has not been released. back to you ash did -- name has not been released. giddings graduated from appleton high school in columbia. back here, flames ripped through an anne arundel county home killing one person and sending another to the hospital. the fire broke out this afternoon onshore drive in edgewater. when firefighters went inside the home, they found one person already dead. they rushed another woman to

the hospital with life- threatening injuries. a neighbor was also treated for smoke inhalation and investigators are not sure what sparked the deadly fire. >> a baltimore city firefighter is recovering after getting hurt battling a fire at this east baltimore home. the flames quickly spread this morning to three row houses. one of the homes partially collapsed. but everyone inside escaped. we are told the injured firefighter should be okay. a chaotic scene outside a nightclub. a man was shot to death early this morning in the parking lot of club baltimore in rosedale. police were investigating, someone hit one of the officers in the face. they arrested that person but the shooter is still on the loose tonight. after weeks of drama, jurors are almost ready to decide the fate of casey anthony. karen brown reports for wjz, closing arguments in the high- profile murder case starts tomorrow morning. >> reporter: casey anthony's defense attorneys have one last

chance to explain to the jury what they didn't make good on their promises. in opening statements, they told the 7 women and 5 men that anthony's 2-year-old daughter accidently drowned. but in 33 days of testimony, never offered firm proof to support that claim. they also told the jury that anthony behaved badly when her daughter was missing because she was sexually abused by her father. but he denied it. >> i said for several days they needed to throw a hail mary. and every time they seemed to have attempted that, they fumbled. >> reporter: still, the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. they contend 25-year-old anthony suffocated her daughter. but offered only circumstantial evidence. no dna on the body and no proof of how she died. what they have going for them is anthony he's erratic behavior in the weeks caylee was missing. her lies, her partying. and the prosecution may have gotten one of its biggest

breaks when the final witness's testimony suggested casey anthony's mother lied on the stand to protect her. cindy anthony testified she searched the family's computer for chloroform that the prosecution says was kiss -- was used to kill caylee but cindy'sboss testified she was at work at time the search took place putting the spotlight on herdot anthony never took the stand in her defense -- her daughter. anthony never took the stand and her fate will be in the hand of jury. karen brown,wjz "eyewitness news." >> and if casey anthony is found guilty of first-degree murder she guaranteed to spend the rest of her life in prison and could face the death penalty. dominique strauss-kahn is getting used to life as a free man. former head of the international monetary fund left his home in new york city. he had been under arrest after he was accused of sexual assault.

but the judge let him out after prosecutors discovered problems with the maid's credibility. he is not allowed to leave the country. a security scare as president obama vacations in western maryland a small plane accidently flew into restricted airspace over camp david. that's in frederick county. the president is spending the holiday weekend there with his family. a fighter jet escorted the plane to hagerstown. the secret service spoke to the pilot and called this an accident. a small sigh of relief in new mexico. the wild fire continues to spread there, firefighters say the los alamos national laboratory is safe from the flames creeping closer. as the growing wild fire near the town of los alamos has blackened 162 square miles, the nuke clear weapons laboratory may be out of harm's way. hundreds of los alamos national laboratory employees returned to work saturday. >> we are checking things like the air handling systems to

make sure the filters weren't clogged by the smoke. >> reporter: the smoke covers los alamos and 12,000 residents. many are in shelters and fire officials don't know when they will left the evacuation order. >> we want all resource that is are available since this is the number one fire priority in the country. >> reporter: the wild fires is the largest in new mexico's history. >> this unprecedented dryness makes the state a tenderbox. >> reporter: they are trying to protect a mountain sacrate to the santa clara pueblo indians. it scorched the watershed and cultural sites. some residents are angry over the rush to save the lab at the expense of other areas. >> now we see their focus was save los alamos, what about us? the last fire we are still not even recovered from the last fire. >> reporter: authorities admit the wilderness is so fire damaged, flooding may be inevitablenew mexico's governor

-- inest be. new mexico's governor is warning -- inest be. new mexico's governor -- inevitable. new mexico's governor is warning residents not to use fireworks. two teens claim coworkers sexually assaulted them a clerk was arrested for one of the attacks and the own teen says a contractor assaulted her. city is reviewing safety measures for the summer program. coming clean, a baltimore is they officer confess the -- city officer confesses to his role in a scandal. he admits to taking money from a repair shop to have cars towed there. the police department admits even more officers could be connected to the case. city police have put out the help wanted sign. they are looking for new recruits. you have to be at least 20 and a half years old. the salary starts at 40,000 dollars and you get 12 paid vacation days plus 14 paid

holidays. to find out how to apply, go to wjz.com and click on the newstab. a controversial plan to help students in baltimore. the school district ceo wants to send kids to class on saturdays to improve test scores. gigi barnette explains that the pro-- barnett explains the proposal is drawing mixed reactions from parents. >> reporter: after three years of back to back gains, baltimore school leaders saw a dip in test scores. read willing results -- reading results dropped by 3 percentage points and math scores fell more. at nearly 5%. now the question is how to get back on track. the answer maybe saturday school. >> we see it as a model that works in some of the schools and the question is, can we lyric it to -- link it. >> reporter: dr. andres alonso wants a longer school week to

begin for those in the 5th and 8th grades. he says that is just before students go off to middle and high schools. and it's where school leaders are seeing the biggest drop off. >> for many of our kids, you need is to stretch time in a way that allows to dive deep into the barriers to success might be. >> reporter: will it work? >> the weekend is family time. and it's plain and simple. >> reporter: other parents say more time is a good solution. >> absolutely. my children are going to summer school next week. so i would have no problem with them going on saturday. >> reporter: whether they are for or against it, they want to know how they plan to pay for it. dr. alonso says that's a detail he is work on. gigi barnett, wjz "eyewitness news." >> one of baltimore's charter schools already has a longer school week. and it's one of the highest performing schools in the

state. a spectacular start to the 4th of july holiday weekend. i love the popping sounds. people were treated to a dazzling display of fireworks at oregon ridge park in cockeysville. it wrapped up with the baltimore symphony orchestra star-spangledspectacular. you can catch the show again tomorrow night. coming up, tonight on wjz "eyewitness news," an unbelievable accident. the driver's mistake that caused this car to land upside down on top of a building. you are clearly intoxicated and you can't do the test right. you are giving me problems. >> a politician pulled over for driving drunk. but that is just the beginning of his problems. the even bigger issue after an officer stopped him. and an amusement park

accident. the tragedy that sent a worker plummeting to his death. i am meteorologist bernadette woods a great start to the weekend weather wise but we have changes coming up. we will have the details and your first warning forecast coming up after the break. complete coverage continues with adam may, and meteorologist bernadette woods and sports with stan saunders. it's wjz maryland's news station. ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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78 degrees and partly cloudy in central maryland. the complete first warning weather forecast is coming up. an i incredible accident in new or -- an incredible accidents in new orleans a honda civic land on top of a building killing the driver. they believe the driver may have been tired and speeding when the car hit the curb and bounced and went airborne. the crash is under investigation. tragedy at an anewsment park in florida -- amusement park in florida. he took a plunge he's worked on a ride. they used harnesses and cables to reach the man but he later died. the amusement park is closed while investigators look into the accident. an ohio lawmaker is arrest on suspicion of dui and the whole thing is caught on tape. >> you are clearly intoxicated and you can't do none of the test right. you are giving me problems. i can smell the alcohol. >> i am not trying to give you a problem. >> you are. i don't care if you a lawyer.

we do things different here. >> police say ohio state representative robert mclendborg was drunk and the married father of 3 also had an exotic dancer in his car. he apologized this week and has another court date later this month. so the weather this weekend couldn't get better. but as you enjoy the clear skies, there are others who look forward to a dark stormy day. mike schuh explains why some people are praying for more rain. >> reporter: on this holiday weekend, the sun is a welcome sight. but soon, too much sun could give local farmers the blues. we are down an inch of rain for the year, nearly a half inch in the past month.at farmers market in waverly, family farmers who grow what they sell. >> you have to have water. >> reporter: produce appreciated by the loyal

customers. >> why do you come here? >> you can get the same stuff basically in the store? >> no. because it's so fresh. it's so fresh and to support your local farmer is so critical. >> more cucumbers. >> reporter: farmer joan norman lets her husband worry about the weather. she knows it's bad when... >> when my husband says bad words. that's when we panic. >> reporter: no cursing yet, they are getting enough. >> at this point we are doing fine. the ultimate wish is the rain the between may -- the rain between may and june but that didn't happen. everything is fine. we would like to have rain any time now, but there's no complaining happening yet. >> reporter: same for howell who purchased his farm because it has a spring stream. >> we would be dead if we didn't have the water. this is like 39 days and we have what total of one about 3/4 of an inch of rain in 39 days. >> reporter: in waverly, mike

schuh, wjz "eyewitness news." >> and though the numbers are down, it's nowhere near a drought. and who better to tell us more about whether we will get rain or not, bern. >> well, we do have a couple thunderstorms that have been firing up on first warning doppler radar. nothing huge. today is a peck stack -- spectacular day. but there are a few storms out to the west. thing is they have been forming along the ridges of the mountains and they are coming down from pennsylvania. here's how it looks when we put it in motion. not that long ago not a whole lot but it's moving southward. we are going to open think up a little more and show you that this is part of a storm system that's coming in our direction. you see there's a little more off to the northwest with it. we may not get all of that, but that's part of the storm system moving in our direction. you can see it is parking -- sparking showers and thunderstorms ahead of it. a couple showers and thunderstorms are possible. first, we will go back to today before we get more into this. and most of today was gorgeous

out there. we did have the isolated thunderstorm earlier that made its way down to the south through frederick and another band starting and this is going to continue. southerly winds are also bringing out humidity levels. now today, it was pretty low but the dew points are on the way up. they are in the 60s. it's still not that bad but by tomorrow they will be in the 60s and temperatures are going up so tomorrow it will be a muggy day. 78 degrees outside. 81 in dc. and we did top out at 90 this afternoon. way above that average and this forecast most of it is going to be above average. so here's the storm system. it's off to the northwest. and most of it will pass off to the north of us. however, we are starting to see the showers and storms firing up. and then tomorrow, that's when the front gets its closest. even more in the way of scattered showers and storms. now not everybody getting this all day long. this is going to be the most active day of the holiday weekend. then by monday, the front pushes off to the south, however, it starts to stall off

to the south. scattered showers and thunderstorms will fire along the front once again. we are close enough we could get something out of this. but the farther south you go, the better chance of that and that's going to linger into tuesday. so that's what we are looking atfor the 4th of july forecast. out on the waters if you are going out on who, be careful of the thunderstorms firing tomorrow. southwest winds at 5 to 10 knots and tonight we are going down to 68. that's it. shower and thunderstorms possible. scattered showers and storms again tomorrow. and even on monday, there is that chance of a shower or thunderstorm. by wednesday a. little break and the temps are back up to 90 and another storm comes our way on thursday. andrea. >> thanks. well we will check in with tim and gigi starting at 8 a.m. for the updated first warning weather forecast. coming up next in sports, the orioles offense face willing all -- facing all kinds of pitching and the braves bats came alive. the one -- came alive too. the one big hit that determined

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welcome back. sam is here with the -- stan is here with the wjz sports report. >> another loss. orioles outhit the braves in and -- outhit the breaks in atlanta and lose -- the braves in atlanta and lose. make that attempted pitch to hardy. oh dear oh my, watch hudson trip as opposed to is he tripping? he is a good sport and tips his hat to the crowd and you see the first it would have reynold homers. 2-zip orioles and the grand buster of the night for the other team. bottom 4, ross grand slam and atlanta had 5 runs in the frame and that makes it 5-2 on route to the 5-4 victory. orioles in danger of being

swept for the second consecutive series. orioles now 6-11 in inner league play wraps up the series tomorrow. see the game at 1:30 here live on wjz at towson from corners near and far, from lacrosse nation the 6th annual under armour classic. underclassman matchup. boys and girls from up and down the east coast. an upper-classman game tonight, these were important ones and north girls beat the south 15- 10 and the south boys beat the north 11-9. from wimbledon. championship match for women's crown. won nine times by that lady amid 18 title. 7th game, overhead smash and 30- 15 and her way match point she serves the first ace of the match. petra wins over sharapova

got that fifa world cup soccer women's style germany. team usa facing columbia. heather oriley goal -- oriley goal. megan shot's good. fast forward 7 minutes later, 57th minute put oog it -- putting it where it's supposed to g they advance. in another match -- to go. they advance. in another match, sweden taking advantage of north korea. sweden over the korea -- people's republic of korea. germany blacking the unanimous decision over hayes. the victory at a rain substadium means vla -- vladimir and his brother hold all three titles.

and finally, mick wattney. fired a back 9, 29 on a national. not too far away he is here at the 54-hole lead with fowl here birdied six of the first 10 holes for a round that helped the birdie cause but he fired 64 today. that's sports everybody. have a great weekend. see you tomorrow. >> and thank you. we will be right back.

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