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on board. >> reporter: how it was found and is there any threat tonight. hello, everybody. a southwest plane bound for bwi marshall is evacuated because of a suspicious substance on board. at this hour people in baltimore are still waiting for their loved ones to arrive. >> authorities have determined that powder posed no threat, but there were still tense moments before that was known. a frightening experience on wednesday. southwest airlines 793 is evacuated after an attendee found a -- >> we had a number of passengers who were wheelchair bound. we brought them out of the aircraft, and the rest of them

were brought down to the tarmac. >> it happened just after 4:00 in the afternoon. hazmat scenes rushed to the scene. an odd site, as some of them even sat in chairs, unsure of possible exposure. and hazmat crews inspected the plane. no one was hurt. >> we brought the hazmat team from west palm beach and they went in and investigated it. they did some testing on the powder. >> protocol mandates that the powder still be sent to the fbi for analysis. >> reporter: that flight is expected to land at bwi at about 12:05. police say the man who fired at the white house has

mental problems and is apparently obsessed with president obama. >> reporter: investigators are using metal detectors to look for more bullets on the south side of the white house after finding two hit the white house last friday. one was found lodged in a bullet proof window on the second floor where the first family resides. 21-year-old oscar hernandez from idaho falls. >> he wanted to know why he was being taken into custody. >> reporter: they said he left his id and assault rifle and spent shell casings 7 blocks from the white house friday night. this after sources say a man fired a semiautomatic rifle from his car about a third of a

mile from the white house. prosecutors say they may charge him with attempted assassination even though the first family were out of town and never in danger. >> believe he may have targeted the white house due to a rate red of president obama -- hate red of president obama. >> he's very sincere in what he believed but he did seem rather troubled. >> he is scheduled to make his initial court appearance thursday afternoon. investigators are now running ballast iics tests on the rifle to see if they match. told a friend he went to police when he saw jerry

sandusky raping a boy in the shower. but they say they never heard from mccrary. there could be more victims. also a new judge was assigned to sandusky's case. a tense confrontation with police as occupy protesters storm a bank. hundreds of members of the occupy san francisco march into this bank of america branch and refuse to leave. police in riot gear arrested about 100 people for trespassing. here in baltimore mayor won't say how or when the city will crack down on the protesters burr she says they are breaking rules that ban camping there. and occupy baltimore is

making national headlines for disrupting a talk by karl rove. but the conservative commentator fires back. >> johns hopkins university is making national headlines after protesters heckled karl rove after a speech on campus. and he fired back. >> you think you're the only person -- who gave you the right to occupy america? nobody. >> reporter: security removed 15 people from the auditorium. they were warned about this but did they tell rove? >> we would not be the ones to give him a heads up. mr. rove has spoken at a number of events as you can imagine and he's probably run into

people who are not in total agreement with his points of view. >> some students became fed up with the protests. now a conservative commentator, he was senior advisor to george w bush. he told wjz, i was honored to speak. >> rove was able to finish his speech and the protesters never went back inside the lecture hall. occupy wall street plans to protest around the world tomorrow. a goodwill store was hit

for the second time in a week. the same store targeted by rob he is last wednesday -- robbers last wednesday. a group of masked gunmen assault a young girl and sexually assault her. wyz has the warning for neighbors tonight, megan. >> the police, that girl was able to give a very detailed description of her attackers and tonight police need the public's help to put them behind bars. take a look at these men. investigators say they are suspect in the assault of a 15- year-old girl. said she was walking along wood lawn drive right near the library. 4 men in a teal sedan like this one forced her into the car at gun point. she said they covered her eyes and drove her to an unknown

location. there she said this man sexually assaulted her. the teen said she was dropped off right here at the corner of wood lawn and kreul across from woodland memorial park. people who live in the area are on edge. >> i feel scared now because it could happen to anybody. >> it's a busy area over here. >> this right here is like expected to be safe but. >> reporter: county police say the victim gave detailed descriptions of the car and the two suspects who weren't wearing masks. >> any kind of an incident like this is very frightening and we are very interested in finding these 4 suspects. >> reporter: now investigators need leads on these men before they strike again.

baltimore county police said they waited two weeks to release details because detectives were following up on leads. all right, thank you, megan. investigators are asking anyone with tips to call police right away. it's known as binge in a can. now there's a warning about -- calls the drink deceptive because one can is the same amount of alcohol as 4 beers. now they want it put on the label. it has already removed caffeine from the drink after coming under fire. it's a water front light. kicked off tonight. you can see it on the power plant building. brings this from now until christmas. really interesting. like a little show downtown. holidays are here.

parents outraged by controversy in the classroom. >> i don't trust the system at all now. i'm afraid for her to go to school. >> a teacher's odd request that is upsetting so many students in her class. what a cops did next is just as surprising. new information in the atf raid, who they were after and why. i'm mary bubala, that's just ahead. a chilly but drier end to our week, first warning forecast coming up next. complete coverage continues with denise koch, vic carter, kai jackson and first warning weather with bob turk and sports with mark viviano. it's wjz, maryland's ne,,,,,,,,,

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it is 52 degrees, cloudy with some light rain. powerful storms tear through parts of the southwest leaving at least 16 dead in mississippi, alabama. there were reports of trees falling on homes. thousands are also without electricity due to downed power lines. rocks a section of rural -- the flames could be seen. 3 homes as a barn were destroyed. one person was taken to the

hospital with breathing problems. amid mounting pressure johnson and johnson has started removing toxic amounts of chemicals from its baby products products. johnson and johnson says it expects the process to take about 2 years but its baby shampoo will be free of the toxins earlier this year. 25 environmental medical groups urged the company to remove the chemicals. a beating is caught on tape showing an officer holding down a suspected car thief. then another walks over and starts kicking the suspect. in an unedited version the officers are seen celebrating afterwards. both have been fired. new information about an atf raid that led to a dramatic

crash. the men arrested were some of the most violent in maryland. describes their link to a major drug cartel. >> move in to arrest a group of 6 men we now know were planning a home invasion to steal money that belonged to a drug cartel. met with an undercover atf agent in a ymca to set up the robbery. he and a couple of dudes that will go straight in there, knock them off. but before that could happen atf agents move in. they try to get away driving recklessly before crashing. they found a .38 caliber revolver and a handgun. all of the men have criminal records and are now charged with con pier asy with intent

to disdistribute a controlled substance. the atf tells eyewitness news that was its goal to disrupt and arrest the most violent. >> an atf agent was injured in the raid. he is now out of the hospital. federal agents from across the northeast participated in the raid. a first grader told her grandmother she was asked to rub her teacher's feet. the grandmother said they found several other children were also selected for the activity. school facials say they -- officials say they talked to the teacher. baltimore's own josh charles makes a list in people magazine's sexiest men alive.

his latest honor puts him in good company, tim mcgraw and allen baldwin are also on the top of the list. and bob says it's no big deal he's been on that list many times. >> he's classy. >> yes, bob. >> maybe next year. take a look at radar, we have some rain in the region. the bulk of it has passed the region. most of it is west of us. pretty quiet but it will get colder overnight and in the morning maybe a few more showers and don't be surprised, authority of the city -- north of the city we may see some snow flakes. humidity has dropped from 100% to 90%. it will be picking up tomorrow. barometer on the way back up. 50, 48, 41, extreme western may

see an inch of wet snow on the mountain tops by tomorrow afternoon. north and west of town, maybe westminister, york may see a few snow flakes. 56 ocean city right now, low 50s around the region. so temperatures have been dropping slowly and during the day they probably won't get more than the upper 40s. the winds are very light right now. the low pressure down on the south is moving off to the southeast of us taking the bulk of the rain with it. although a little rain in kansas. this pretty cool area across the great lakes but it will be pushing our direction. in fact there's moonlight over all of west virginia, pennsylvania. so you might see a little bit of enhancement of some precip. maybe a few showers will move

through during the morning hours and temperatures probably no higher than 45. but friday being a cold day, the winds go right back to the southwest and moderate air begins this week, so it looks like a really nice dry weekend. 55 is the bay temp. winds 15 to 20 with a small craft advisee. tomorrow a little bit of rain. 4545 perhaps a little bit of rain in the morning. colder, clearing later on, 48 dropping to about 38 by dinner time. 29 tomorrow night. 56 a warm up for the weekend with sunshine again on saturday. partly cloudy sunday. light chance of showers, 60 here on monday. denise. check in with scott and marty bass tomorrow morning.

and coming up, from joe flacco as the ravens get ready for the bengals, he has the latest coming up next in

different sighed joe flacco, mark is here. >> it's interesting when a team loses, just like fans, they came into the league together and in 4 years they have grown into leaders and both say they are more comfortable being vocal. today they were vocal but not necessarily in agreement on how much the ravens should run the ball. rice admitted he was very upset after the loss to seattle. a number of his teammates have said that failure to utilize

rice more is a flaw in the game plan. the coaching staff says the game plan had to change from running to passing because they were behind in seattle. rice and flacco shared differing opinions on the game. >> i always expect to come out of a game with 20 to 25 passes. when you look at where the numbers correlate, you try to add it up. >> it doesn't make sense. did you watch the game or didn't you watch the game. i understand the way our running backs backs do. i would be a little upset that i didn't get to put my stamp on the game either. did you see how the game went? >> all are in agreement that running will have to be -- at issue is whether they gave up too early when they fell behind against seattle. since he always plays them

tough, season divisional show down here at 1:00. at the baseball general manager's meeting dan duquette said he is shopping for some starting pitchers. don't look for him in the high priced -- he is adhering to the policy of not giving pitchers more than 3 years. that would leave out texas rangers. likely to get a team to offer a 4 or 5 year deal. so far he has met with the yankees and the angels. proof that teams can do well without -- second time he's won the award. much more on the ravens coming up tomorrow as they prepare for a big game sunday. what's in a name?

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