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counties, to your neighborhood, now it is complete coverage. it is wjz maryland's news station. >> back from aruba and talking. for the first time we hear from the man held in the disappearance of robyn gardner. >> hello again, here is what people are talking about today. gary giordano is back in the united states but he is not out from under the cloud of suspicion. but on national tv this morning he tried to explain his side of the story in the presumed death of robyn gardner, eyewitness news and gigi barnett live with the latest good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, don, good afternoon, everyone. instead of going home to gaithersburg gary giordano was in new york city, giving his version of events the day his travel companion went missing. back on american soil gary giordano gives his first network news interview this morning since being arrested in aruba, he appeared on good morning america, telling his side of what happened on the

island the day his travel companion and frederick native robyn gardner went missing. >> i feel -- >> -- she -- >> -- cared about, okay, a companion, if you or you, has disappeared on my watch. >> he says gardner was swept out to sea while the two went snorkeling and he frantically searched for her afterwards. he also discussed the $1.5 million life insurance policy taken out on her before the trip. >> there is a holland hand handbook for travelers it tells you what to do. the first thing is call authorities, the second thing is call your insurance company. >> back in august they raided his home. his attorney is the same man who represented casey anthony, he says her disappearance is nothing more than a tragic accident. also in the interview he said that aruba is known for human trafficking and that if he had known that he would have never

taken gardner there. don, back to you. >> and appeals court has denied a request to bring him back, saying prosecutors still lack evidence against him. more potential trouble today for a local cardiologist, the baltimore business journal is reporting nearly two dozen additional lawsuits have been feeled against the former chief of cardiology at st. joseph s medical center. there are now more than 200 suits against him from people who claim they received unnecessary surgeries, he claims he is innocent. the state rests and now the defense begins as attorneys try to improve bob urlich's campaign manager did not break election laws in connection with those 20 between election night robo calls. wjz and derek valcourt are live outside the courthouse with how they plan to do that. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon and the defense did get a minor victory first thing this morning as the judge threw out the charge of obstruction of

justice against bob urlich's campaign manager, saying the state did not offer enough evidence to justify that charge. one down, four more criminal charges for him to go and it comes just one day after he got a boost in his defense from the woman whose voice you hear in those calls, the state's star witness. ronda russell says she was told by her boss, julia henson to record the election night robo call that suggested democrats had already won the election before the polls closed and there was no need to go vote. >> relax, everything is fine. the only thing left is to watch on tv tonight. >> reporter: she testified it was henson who told her not to record the required line saying who paid for it a call that was

intended to be counter intuitive. >> it would sometime late the voters to say hey my vote was going to urlich, he is down-and- out, i am going to go out and vote for him after i heard this call, so that is the motivation of counter intuitively. she said it was her fault. he took the stand and said she was a straight shooter. live from downtown derek valcourt. >> we will have more at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. grate concern

great concern for the man still in prison there. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. cuba allowed the general secretary of the national council of churches of christ to meet with gross yesterday. gross is serving a 15 year sentence in cuba for smuggling illegal communications equipment into the country. gross claims he was only trying to help havana's jewish community communicate. >> he has lost a lot of weight and we have concerns for his health and his family also. >> he also met with relatives of 5 imprisoned on charges of spying. >> he has been in prison on cuba now for two years. today is world aids day and

a local effort is seeking to commemorate it by setting a world record. thousands of panchos were handed out. shortly after 11:00 everyone lined up in the shape of a ribbon hoping to be the most ever to do so. as heather reports that is just a small part of what is happening today, 30 years after aids was first identified. >> reporter: young military cadets in southern india rush to hand out flyers in a campaign to work world aids day. hundreds marched through the streets of bangladesh to phrase awareness. this girl says i hope everyone will learn about this disease so he can help stop it from spreading. they lit up the opera house to commemorate the day and called for a new war on aids. >> to get the funding necessary to actually kill this disease once and for all. >> reporter: this red ribbon is she universal symbol of aids awareness.

people are wearing these across london to show support. >> i think they should be talking about it as much as they do in africa, i know it is a bigger problem there but i think here we all think it won't happen to us. >> reporter: this year alone greece has seen a 50% rice in hiv infections especially among drug users, doctors say the economic crisis is causing many drug addicts to use dirty needles. south africa has more people living with hiv than any other country, an estimated 5.6 million. these children living at an aids aids orphanage were infected at birth and are getting treatment. they want to create an aids free generation. >> aids has killed more than 25 million people and more than 33 million people worldwide are living with hiv. weather-wise we have got a

-- we got brighter blue skies outside and a colder feel. take a live look out at 8 right now. you might be fooled by the sunshine but you will need a coat to check out or to recessth resist the chilly temperatures. here is tim in the weather center. >> the temperature is 50 degrees our normal high, 32 is the cold spot in oakland, 50 on the shore. the cool air is going to stay with us for at least another day or so before we start to see a bit of a warm up. reinforced cold air around that low pressure that moved out of here, low responsible for the rain but we have high pressure building in bringing us sunshine, dry conditions and blue skies, it is just the direction of the wind is coming from the cold of the spot in the country, the northwest. we will talk about how it plays into your weekend ahead in your complete updated forecast. >> thank very much, tim.

cold weather or not a monumental ceremony is taking place, transforming that into a tree. this ceremony is set to begin at 7:00 with matt stover serving as the mc. a sophisticated project, agents discover a drug item over historic proportion. and a symbolic turn over, ceremonies make the end of a era for the united states and iran. not a cloud in this sky on this first day of december, your complete first warning weather forecast is still coming up. >> complete coverage continues with don scott, jessica kartalija and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist tim williams. it is wjz, maryland's news station. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

iraqi naval forces and their u.s. counterparts make it official, sailors from the two countries stood alongside each other for an official hand over ceremony weeks before u.s. soldiers are expected to head home from there, the u.s. flag has been brought down for the last time there, signaling the new beginning. today could mark the end of the road for herman cane's presidential campaign after allegations of infidelity, cane told supporters he will decide whether to continue his run after talking with his wife in

person today. the one time republican front- runner has not seen her since allegations of infidelity first surfaced on monday. he has talked to her but has not seen her in person. he denies any affair. it is called the most elaborate and so fast sophisticated drug tunnel ever discovered along the mexico border. it links warehouses and is equipped with lightning and ventilation, a drift and special rail cars, authorities recovered 32 tons of marijuana worth more than $53 million on the street making it also one of the largest pot busts in u.s. history. still ahead on today's eyewitness news at noon and as you take another live look outside, if you are headed it to lunch bring your sunglasses and a jacket. first warning weather coming up. first let's take a look at the stocks and last night's power ball numbers. ,,,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable

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because we had those 70 degree temperatures. >> uh-huh. >> but as the first day of december goes 50 degrees with sunshine and blue skies is pretty bring good. >> i like being spoiled. >> sure. i think a lot of us would rather have 70s you are right. we have 50 degrees, that is on target for our average high, 29 is the dew point, air is dry, 44% humidity, the winds are coming from the north and northwest at just around 10 miles per hour, they have been calming down through the day. not as gusty as yesterday when all the rain moved out, was still close by and the high pressure started to move on in. but the barometer is going up. high pressure is dominating our forecast. and the state 32 oakland, 50 on the shore, 50 at bwi marshal. falling in that range, 40s to 50, 49 on kent island and annapolis, 49 in dc.

winds from the northwest bringing in cold canadian air and all the temperatures from the northeast right down along the lines of where we are, nobody extreme on either end, no warm temperatures, the warmest spot is down in south beach, 71 degrees in miami, detroit at 40, 49 memphis, so everyone pretty much right on target for their seasonably normal temperatures, we do have cold air up around the great lakes toward the dakotas, toward mon tan, a that air is going to move on through here heading into the weekend. we have a front very weak front that will breath across the region to the north on saturday. colder air will filter in for one day. our temperatures will take a hit, we will go into the 40s on saturday but the mild air comes back and the sunshine never leaves us so the winds this afternoon at ten knots, the high tide then, clear tonight,

28 degrees, then tomorrow up to about 54 to about 55 degrees a full day of sunshine. your five-day-forecast is coming up. >> looking forward to the weekend because the ravens are tbaferred to favored to win by a touchdown against cleveland. we will bring that you that. still to come the battle of the sexes over multitasking, who handles it better? for constant updates and the ,,,,,,

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>> 5 days of first warning weather, 1 day is cooler but beyond that the 5 day temperatures are not too bad, 54 tomorrow for your first purple friday of december, then 49, mid-50s on monday, mid-60s on tuesday, a chance of rain but back to them put but the weekend looks good. >> tune in, it is the mentalist followed by eyewitness news and a superhero gets a superprice, how about $2.1 million, that is what a copy of it went for, it is special because it marked the debut of superman in 1938. check out that car. there are only 100 copies of the comic book remaining and

this one is believed to be the most pristine of those. it looks pretty good. >> yeah. i was looking at the difference in the s on his chest. it is like -- >> yeah -- >> -- what is it red with the yellow or -- >> -- just bigger red and a lot less yellow. >> all right. >> hope you have a great afternoon. we will see you right here we will see you right here tomorrow. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, @ @