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but dick clark was a rock and roll idol. inducted in the rock and roll hall of fame, for spreading the gospel of pop music. as the host of "american bandstand," he introduced new songs to millions of teenagers in the 1950s, without alienating their parents. >> they finally got a common ground of understanding so they can talk to one another for a change. >> reporter: in its more than 30 years on television, "american bandstand" featured the pop performers, artists like james brown and stevie wonder made their debuts on the show, thanks to clark, who ended the practice of using only white performers on television. he became an entrepreneur in the process. he hosted several game shows and became a commercial pitchman. dick clark productions created thousands of hours of television, particularly awards shows, such as the golden globes, the daytime emmy awards, and the academy of country music awards. he appeared on many of the shows, most famously for years ringing in the new year as the
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host of dick clark's new year's rockin's eve. >> reporter: clark was unable to host in 2004, after suffering a stroke a few weeks buyer -- before the show. but he made a highly- anticipated return in 2005. it was its first television appearance since the stroke. >> we're getting closer to midnight. >> reporter: clark's youthful appearance earned him the nickname, america's oldest teenager. he agreed. >> the minute you grow up, the minute you mentally atrophyy and freeze in time, you are old. >> reporter: clark felt that rock and roll lasted so long because it has so many forms. he himself survived by embracing each new wave, ensuring the enduring affections of millions of americans. manuel gallegus, wjz eyewitness news. >> for a time, clark had shows on all three of the major networks and was listed among
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forbes' 400 wealthiest americans. a fire causing problems on the metro line in pikesville. sky eye chopper 13 is over the scene. captain mike perry has more on the developments. mike? >> reporter: hello, denise. itit all happened about a half hour ago. this is the metro stop in old court in baltimore county. where apparently a track emergency is determined what it is now. a fire occurred on one of the tracks for the northbound metro train, just north of the metro stop. causing a metro train to become disabled. train number 5. looked to have maybe 100 or more passengers on board. became disabled, just north of the rail stop. we're going to show you some video. what they did was, metro sent another train up here. and they transferred all of those patrons from the metro train that was disabled onto a rescue train. that train has since taken all the folks back to the metro stop. as we come back live, we can show you that that train has come to the metro stop and
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allowed all of these phobes to get off -- folks to get off. now, they are waiting for folks to come on the southbound side. the west track is still in north-south operation. they're going to take the folks eventually to their destination. now, the trains remain disabled on the east side track. at this time. they are operating single track operations, the west side track is moving both north and southbound on the metro system. there may be delays from out in the owings mills area, all the way down to parts south or platforms to the south. but as you see, they are, at this point, still maintaining some metro operation in and out of the city. again, there are no injuries. but there it still a disabled train here that metro has to deal with. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you. captain mike perry, live in sky eye chopper 13. >> american soldiers under fire. the army is now investigating, after pictures surface of soldiers posing with the bodies
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of afghan suicide bombers. the two photos are among 18 taken in 2010. an 82nd airborne division soldier gave them to the paper, to expose the actions. military leaders are strongly condemning the pictures. wjz is following this outrage. and we'll have more coming up tonight at 6:30. more breaking news tonight in the secret service sex abuse scandal. cbs confirms that one agent is resigning. one supervisor is being allowed to retire. and another is fired. eight other agents are on administrative leave, pending the investigation. they are accused of bringing prostitutes to hotel rooms in the columbian city of cartagena. days before president obama was set to visit. the agency said the president was never in any danger. baltimore city police move in to break up a drug ring and find a dog-fighting ring as well. tonight, a number of abused animals are in the shelter. and the accused mastermind is in custody. mike schuh has more on the arrest. mike? >> reporter: well, denise.
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police will sometimes be the first to tell you that they stumbled into things that they weren't expecting. that's exactly what happened. >> police arrived, the warrant said they would find drugs at johnny taylor's house. they did. but they also found eight pit bulls. >> it's okay. are you scared of the cameras? >> reporter: the dogs are now part of a police investigation. >> when they executed the search and seizure warrant, they a -- uncovered what appeared to be a large dog- fighting ring. they found eight dogs at the location, as well as dog fighting manuals and are the things. >> reporter: it was 2:30 in the morning when the dogs were brought in from baltimore. this one is nicknamed march. >> this is what i find all the time. >> reporter: the dogs are in pretty good shape. some with scars from fights. >> why couldn't someone just have nine dogs? >> well, i think the fact that there was medication there. there were a bunch of dogs
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there. dog-firsting manuals there. that shows there may be some kind of indication that there is dog fighting there. >> reporter: the raid happened here on the west side in gwen oak. this man, johnny taylor, is arrested, charmed with animal cruelty, and drug possession. >> now, i saw the animals this afternoon and surprisingly good tempered. but police say because of the investigation, they are not available for adoption. reporting downtown at police headquarters, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news. back to you on tv hill. >> and the animals will be held until the case is complete. case will move forward against a university of maryland student, accused of threatening a shooting spree. jessica kartalija is in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: the 19-year-old suspect will be prosecuted on charges that he made online threats against the university. a judge has ruled alexander song competent to standing trial. song underwent a psychiatric evaluation, after he posted internet messages claiming he would kill people on the college campus.
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police found no weapons in his college dorm or in his home in howard county. song told the judge he feels much better now. >> it could be months before the case goes to trial. taking the fight to city hall. right now, supporters and opponents have a plan to increase the bottle tax are make passionate arguments. wjz is live at city hall. derek valcourt has more on the hurdles the bill faces. >> reporter: city leaders say they have enough votes to pass the bottle tax bill, if it can make it out of the taxation and finance committee. and those councilmembers right now are getting an earful from both sides. >> reporter: a packed house, as they hear an earful. from those who reportedly support the bottle tax and those who oppose it. >> we slow down the momentum that our industry has. >> reporter: the hearing comes hours after mayor stephanie rawlings-blake toured a city school, in desperate need of repairs as she promotes her plans to increase the bottle
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tax by 5 cents, a plan she says would generate millions in revenue. and help the city lower another $300 million in bonds to renovate old schools and build new ones. >> amounts to the largest increase in school construction proposed in baltimore in modern times. >> her plan has a lot of support. many understand that it's their grocery budget that will take a hit. >> it's no-contest are no- brainer. >> reporter: and remember, that 5-cent tax is per container. that text, -- tax,ex tra60 cents. >> those higher taxes hurt their businesses. >> certainly we want to see baltimore city schools improve. >> reporter: store owners insist, some customers would shop in the county, rather than pay the bottle tax. she's part of a coalition of retailers and bottling companies, calling the increase a job killer and bad for small businesses. >> just makes our lives very difficult. and perhaps not survivable. and i know that that sounds like a gross exaggeration.
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and it sounds like we're making it up. but it's like anything else. a lot of times, it's death by a thousand cuts. >> reporter: so it is possible, though not likely, the taxation and finance committee could vote on this bill tonight. we'll keep you posted. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> all right. thank you, derek. and we have a reporter in the hearing right now. we'll have much more on the testimony tonight at 11:00. gas prices remain, near record highs. around $4 a gallon. now, the pain at the pump is becoming a political one for president obama. adam may has more on the plans to stop prices from going higher. >> reporter: the president wants to stop wall street from going to what he calls excessive gambling. and he's getting respect from a well-respected professor. >> ask anyone what they think about the prices. >> pretty ridiculous. >> supply and demand is one reason. but wall street is another. crude prices, $100 a barrel since february. president obama calls for a
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crackdown on traders. >> we can't afford a situation, where speculators art officially manipulate markets by buying up oil. driving prices higher. >> reporter: billions of speculative dollars have been flooding the trading pits. a study finds after global demand, speculation was the second largest contributor to oil prices, coulding -- accounting for about 50% of the rise. >> high gas prices are a problem of gambling by speculators on wall street. >> reporter: university of maryland michael greenberger was a watch dog. >> if we could get excessive speculation out of this market, the price of gasoline would drop. it would be a dramatic surprise to the american people how low the price of gasoline would go. >> reporter: the president's proposals would have to pass congress, where republican leaders accuse the obama administration of failure. >> he believes that the oil market is being manipulated. where is his federal trade
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commission? where is the fcc? why doesn't he put his administration to work to get to the bottom of it? >> reporter: if all of this sounds familiar, for good reason, the white house made a similar proposal last year, but they never issued a report. adam may, wjz eyewitness news. >> and to find the cheapest gas in your area, log onto our website, wjz.com. a mild winter means a longer summer vacation for students in baltimore county. the excuse me year will end june 8th. not june 14th, as scheduled. extra days built into the calendar for bad weather were not used, meaning four more days of summer vacation. no word yet on a shorter school year for other counties. and a live look outside now. not bad weather. but still welcomed rain relief. we still need more to make up for the deficit, however. meteorologist tim williams and bob turk are tracking live doppler radar and that deficit. let's take a look at the light rain around the area. and we're not talking about this. but it did upon to at least reduce the fire danger in the
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area. temperatures on the cool side, around the local area. very light rain. north of the city. south of us, almost nothing going on around d.c., south. just a few spotty sprinkles. but in virginia, west virginia, it's another batch down there. looks like it may be heading our direction. so we're not done quite with the rain tonight. but things will be improving a lot by tomorrow. now, take a look at the rainfall amounts. this afternoon. as i said, not even a dent into the drought. but most places picked up a lot less than even a quarter inch. at the airport, really about 15/100ths of an inch. it's just enough to drown a few ants. we need, as we mentioned, lots of rain. take a look at the deficit. just in a few minutes ago. almost 5 inches for the year. that's about a month and a half worth of rain that we're well below. as you see, april down 1.76 inches. tim in the outback, with a look at the temps that have dropped today. tim? one thing the april showers have done, is dropped our temperatures substantially. keep in mine, that monday we
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were just around 90 degrees. and now, we have dropped substantially. take a look, to give you an idea of what we're talking about today. right now, current temperature, 51 degrees. 51 in oakland. 51 in bwi marshall. and ocean city. well, yesterday, we were about 25 degrees in some parts of the area. warmer yesterday than we are today. yesterday, we were close to 80 degrees at this part of the afternoon. and again, we were near 90 on monday. so about a 24-degree drop in temperatures over just a 24- hour period. all because of northwest winds and rain cooling the air. we'll talk about when it gets a little dryer and a little warmer, heading into the weekend ahead. bob will have those details in your first warning forecast coming up. back inside. >> okay. thank you, tim and bob. barack obama, hillary clinton and freeman robowski. the president of umbc has ranked among the 100 most influential people in the world of. >> reporter: "time" magazine has just named its top 100 people who inspire, challenge
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and change the world. and the president of umbc is on it. >> we need to be encouraging that curiosity. >> reporter: umbc president freeman robowski is known in maryland. but now, the rest of the world will learn who he is. he is on "time" magazine's list of most influential people. >> i think it's well deserved. >> students tell me they're not surprised their president is on the list. >> i think we are glad to to see him with this well-deserved honor. >> he supports the community of students, faculty. >> reporter: grabow key is credited with changing umbc from a commuter school to a powerhouse in academic science and research. >> reporter: at age 12, robowski was thrown in jail during a civil rights march. to his reign over one of the most innovative universities.
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mike summers was here 20 years ago, when minority students protested over race relations. he witnessed robowski turned the entire institution around. >> now, you know, we're the top producer of african americans who produce ph.d.s. we're not just a role model anymore for diversity. we're a role model for changing how education works in general. and it's all started by freeman. >> robowski says he accepts the honor on behalf of the whole campus. vic, back to you. >> well deserved. time's most anticipated edition hits news stands tomorrow. >> we are proud. from the ironman. where orioles legend cal ripken is tonight. and the community he's helping. i'm alex demetrick. coming up, last year's extreme weather takes a toll on the bay. that story as eyewitness news continues. o'malley for president. the governor won't talk about his future political plans. but that's not stopping others
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from speculating. >> and a cool and wet wednesday evening. stick around for the updated forecast coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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light rain and 51 degrees in central maryland right now. the complete first warning weather forecast is coming up. climbing the ladder. a political think tank is talking up governor martin o'malley as a 2016 presidential candidate. the idea may have some foundation in truth. >> reporter: governor o'malley makes the network rounds, promoting the obama agenda as chair of the governor's association. >> governors haley barbour and martin o'malley. >> he signs the bill into law. now he's billed as a hot topic to succeed president obama. >> he's on the national radar now. he's been recognized. >> reporter: maryland politicos have recognized the governor's national exposure, sometimes tongue in cheek. >> the governor will be in new york.
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>> sometimes in protest. >> i don't begrudge anybody having national ambitions. but do we have to pay for it? really? >> reporter: a spokesperson for the governor says it's all being made too much of and this latest worry is because he leads the democratic governors association and because he led lawmakers to approve same-sex marriage. >> that's 15 minutes of fame that everybody has. if he's going to be considered a serious potential candidate for president, he's going to have to be making appearances again and again and again. >> reporter: and it appears there is every chance of that. pat warren, wjz eyewitness news. >> governor o'malley appears at the inside politics with bill schneider. press breakfast in washington friday morning. it's an affliction that affects more than half a million americans. and many people may not know they have it. we are talking about chronic
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gastrointestinal issues. jessica kartalija is live in studio b to ask the experts. jessica? >> we're joined now with dr. howard byrd. and we're talking about the colon. and a lot of people have an aversion to go in and get tested. >> right. a lot of people don't want to have a colonoscopy because they feel it's going to hurt. or they don't want to do the prep. and those are just misconceptions. it's actually a very simple procedure. you're typically skated during -- sedated during the whole procedure. and the prep has dramatically improved. many times, people can just take pills or simpler preps where you're just drinking fluids for a shorter period of time. >> and if you do find something in there, as long as it's treated early, you could avoid a more serious problem. >> right. if we find a polyp or growth, which could become more serious. most of the time you can remove that. if you find an early cancer, that's the best time to treat a cancer before it is
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symptomatic. >> be brave. go get checked. >> right. >> back to you guys in the studio. and once again, if you have questions about chronic gastro intestial -- gastrointestinal issues, you can ask the experts. the ironman is hending -- lending a helping hand. maryland native cal ripken, jr., is in joplin, missouri. helping rebuild homes destroyed by last year's devastating tornadoes. it's part of a 13-city tour to have communities nationwide. >> i love habitat for humanity. >> so do i. and i bet he doesn't take any breaks either. >> right. let's take a look at temps and conditions around the region here today. a little rain in the area. 51. no winds at all right now. the barometer holding steady. come back and take a look at a big warmup and a drying trend the next two days. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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all righty. some rain in the region. take a knick look at radar. we'll take what we can get. right now, light activity moving north of the area. south of the city and southeast of us, it's really quiet now. but there's another batch southwest of the area that could, i think, move in at least around here. laray harris. most of it is going to stay around the frederick, martinsburg, maybe westminster area. but we might see more in the baltimore and central portions of maryland this evening. so we'll keep that in the
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forecast a little while longer. and we need it. boy, do we sure need it. 51 now. 51 in oakland. everyone pretty much the same. and our high today was only around the upper 50s to low 60s. 55, annapolis. kent island, and rock hall at 53. 61, 51 today. 66, 44, the averages now in the records. look at that. 1896. 94 degrees. remember, monday was 91 here. yeah. 1875. way back in 1800s. 26 degrees on this morning. right now, the winds are extremely light. they have been generally to the north and northeast all day long. kept us in that nice, cool air. this rain system in the east, moving out late tonight. another developing over the great lakes. and out in the rockies. looks like it gives us another chance of picking up some more rain later in the weekend, probably saturday night, a shower or thundershower. a good chance on sunday. may even linger on monday. and that could be decent rain. as you can see, the rain kind
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of spread out from new york a little bit. down through pennsylvania, west virginia. we'll clear out by morning. a lot of sunshine. along with much warmer temperatures coming in tomorrow afternoon. then we'll watch over the weekend, that front approaching. hopefully low pressure will be able to develop and bring us a decent amount of rain, particularly on sunday into monday. south winds on the bay. keep us much warmer tomorrow. and a bay temp, around 57 degrees. looks like a nice day coming up. 45 tonight. so a little more rain and light drizzle here and there. tomorrow, back up, with sunshine in the afternoon. very pleasant, nice day. back up to 70. the rainfall amounts so far today, really nobody has seen more than 2/10ths of an inch, which is nothing as far as the drought is concerned. we need 3, 4, 5 inches to get over this dry condition. >> it's a start anyway. >> it's a start. still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. excellence in education. baltimore honors its teacher of the year. >> i'm gigi barnett.
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that story coming up, in tonight's school watch. dramatic video. a car plows into a busy grocery store. how did it happen? unthinkable crime. a mother stalked and murder. her newborn baby snatched away. the suspect now in custody. ,,,, thanks.
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it is just after 6:30. 61ings can some showers. thanks for staying with wjz. growing international outrage. once again over the actions of american soldiers in afghanistan. this time, soldiers a photograph of body parts of would-be suicide bombers. danielle nottingham reports from the white house. >> reporter: top u.s. officials are strongly condemning photos the los angeles times published that appear to show american troops, posing with dead insurgents in afghanistan. >> now, that behavior that was depicted in those
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photos, absolutely violates both our regulations and more importantly, our core values. >> reporter: the two printed photos are among 18 taken in 2010 that an 82nd airborne division soldier wanted the newspaper to make public. secretary pineta asked the l.a. times not to run the photos. >> i'm not excuse that behavior. but neither do i want these images to bring further injury to our people. or to our relationship with the afghan people. >> reporter: the white house called the pictures reprehensible and said the president wants those responsible held accountable. >> reporter: the obama administration is already dealing with a series of recent incidents that have strained relations with afghanistan. last month, an army sergeant allegedly killed 17 afghan civilians in a shooting rampage. earlier this year, video surfaced, showing marines urinating on afghan corpses.
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and the accidental burning of korans at a nato air base, sparked deadly riots. secretary pineta apologized on behalf of the united states and department of defense and said this latest incident will be fully investigated. at the white house, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: now, the u.s. remains on track to hand over security operations to the afghans by the end of 2014. new developments tonight in the trayvon martin murder case, citing a conflict of interest. the judge presiding over a case removed herself. circuit court judge, jessica rexidler recused herself because her husband was first contacted by george zimmerman to represent him. zimmerman says he acted in self- defense. an unthinkable crime in suburban houston, texas. tonight are a young mother is dead.
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a nurse in custody. and mare sein the newsroom with the chilling allegation. >> that nurse admits to shooting a woman to steal her newborn baby. verna mcclane is charged with stealing the baby. witnesses say she shot golden outside of a pediatric doctor's office outside of houston. she then took off with the woman's 3-day-old son. after an intense search, police tracked down mclane and found the son unharmed. police say she simpled planned to kidnap any child and that golden was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. a man is seriously injured in a crash in anne arundel county. take a look at the scene in odenton. you can see the crushed front end of the car, underneath part of the bus. it happened near the intersection. the 25-year-old driver of the car is at shock trauma, with serious injuries. there were no students on the bus. a fight between softball
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players from two city high schools. sky eye chopper 13 is over the scene in hampden. students at the academy for college and career exploration, and reginald f. lewis high, brawled in the park after the game. one suspect was arrested after hitting a police officer in the back. that officer suffers minor injury -- minor jurisdiction. while changes in the weather left the chesapeake in its worst shape in years, alex demetrick reports, too much of what are normally good things left the bay with bad weather. >> every year, the university of maryland oversees a bay report card. 2011 comes with a grade of d- plus. >> it's the second worse that we have been able to calculate since we started in 1986. >> reporter: it was triggered last spring, when heavy rains hit the bay's multistate watershed. >> which brought lots of nutrients and sediments down river.
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followed by a long, hot, dry summer. and we cooked the bay. >> that fed off nutrients like nitrogen that washed in the spring rains. oxygen vanished. dead zone spread. then the final blow hit. huge runoff from tropical storm lee, almost 500 cubic feet per second of water, pouring into the bay, from the susquehanna river alone. and not just water. sediment levels, researchers hadn't seen in decades. these is top soil that farmers don't want to lose. this is stuff that has come off construction sites. >> this is us. >> too much sediment can definitely disrupt the living resources of the bay. >> and it did. burying and causing a dieoff of underwater grasses. it helped earn an f in water quality for the patuxent river. only the western shore scored for 2011. >> reporter: while the weather hurt last year, this year's warmer and dryer conditions could mean a healthier bay in 2012. >> so we're very hopeful. >> reporter: that 2011's
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weather patterns don't suddenly repeat. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> experts who track water quality say the conditions could have been even worse last year, if improvements in sewage treatments and land use had not been started. time now for a quick look at the stories you'll find in the baltimore sun. how members of thed of the immediated in national guard are deploying to the u.s.- mexico border in a high-tech helicopter. eastern shore farmers are having a tough time dealing with the lack of rain this summer. and lacrosse team is coming back from a serious concussion. for these stories and more, read the baltimore sun. and remember to look for the updated forecast. baltimore's top teacher works at a middle school in northwest baltimore. and as gigi barnett reports, in tonight's school watch, he advances for the title among teachers statewide. >> reporter: every one of brad's 8th grade math students
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at kip ujimma academy is headed to college. they've got a good shot. that's because norrenhold is baltimore's teacher of the year. [ applause ] the honor comes with a surprise visit from school ceo, dr. andres alonzo. >> here's somebody who gets amazing results. the kids are incredibly motivated. the expectations are very high. >> reporter: so high that math test scores among norren hold's students are consistently number 1 in the city. and last year, they were fourth in the state. students also have his cell phone number. that's so they can call any time, just in case they need more help. >> reporter: tracks where every student is on every scale, all year long. so if you ask him, tell me how each student is doing on a particular scale, he can tell you exactly where each student is. >> he just pushes us beyond what we think we can do. and i really liked it. >> reporter: he now gets a slew of prizes.
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he says building strong relationships, plus teaching rigorous math lessons, equals smarter students. >> they bite into it. they believe that i care and that i want to help them. and when they believe that, they start working really hard. >> reporter: he now moves onto the state teacher competition, which will be announced this fall. if he wins that, he goes on to the national competition. i'm gigi barnett, wjz eyewitness news. >> norrenhold beat out more than 40 other teachers to win the teacher of the year award. we're pulling for him to move on. >> i should say. if you can teach math that well that's a good teacher. still ahead. unusual form of protest. the naked man at the airport. i'm bob turk. the first warning weather center. a dryer, sunny end to the week. but a chance of more rain this weekend. i'll have the exclusive first warning five-day forecast. and wjz 13 is always on. here are the top stories at wjz.com at this hour. for updates on the day's news, and the updated forecast, log onto wjz.com.
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injuries. while two people are seriously hurt, the driver insists on mechanical problems. investigators say they found no such failure. this weekend, the best of baltimore's bus drivers will test their navigating abilities on a rigorous obstacle course. monique griego has more on what you'll see at the mta rodeo. >> strap in and -- buckle up. because this baltimore bus driver is about to put his skills to the test. >> it's something i've been doing for a long time. 37 years. >> reporter: stanley johnson is hoping all that experience helps him edge out the competition at this weekend's mta rodeo obstacle course contest. >> this basically challenges their abilities abilities to maneuver through a tight space. >> reporter: the rodeo began in 1980 as a way to showcase the best drivers while highlighting safety. >> reporter: once a driver gets behind the wheel and puts their foot on the gas, they have exactly seven minutes to make it through the course. >> reporter: now, instead of
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people and curbs, these cones are the only obstacles. >> there's quite a bit of pressure on you. because you want to do well. >> reporter: mta administrator, rollin wells knows how tough a job parallel parking this baby can be. he used to drive one. >> get in there, raleigh. get in there. >> you can't touch anything. you have to be very safe. >> reporter: the driver who comes out on top, moves to the international finals in california. >> this is like the play-offs for the super bowl. >> reporter: this is only the second year the rodeo will be open to the public. stanley hopes you come to watch him run away with first place. >> i'm in it to win it. [ laughter ] >> that was monique griego reporting. in addition to the course, there will also be an antique bus show, food and activities for children. the event is saturday, from 9:00 to 2:00 at the reisterstown plaza station. an oregon man takes off more than just his shoes and belt. passengers got an eyeful as the
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man stripped naked in a security line. the 55-year-old was reportedly angry over security procedures and said tsa averages were herselfing him. he's now -- harassing him. he is now charged with disorderly conduct ask indecent exposure. i'm guessing he also missed his flight. >> and a lot of people around him stunned, too. here's a look at closing numbers from wall street. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,
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some much-needed rain in the region today. but we could use more. live look outside now. we are several inches below where we should be for the middle of spring. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. meteorologist tim williams and bob turk are updating the forecast. first, let's check in with tim. and looks like it's drying out there. tim? >> we may see a little more rain before the night is out. just enough to maybe stop some of the immediate fire concerns. but certainly as you mentioned, not enough to put a dent in our deficit. going to around the mid40- degree range. that's where we start tomorrow, with the clouds. we'll start to see some break in the clouds through the middle of the day. and the return of the sun. temperatures going up to around 70 degrees. and we'll drop back into the 60s and eventually around 50 degrees. for the next five days, we send it in to bob.
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>> looks like a really nice end of the week. we got some good rain today, a little bit. 74 by friday. saturday night, i think we'll have a shower or thunderstorm. good chance of shower activity. maybe steady rain. may even be in the low 60s sunday. and lingering showers, now probably into monday, with temps again in the 60s. so chance of much-needed rain coming back into the region. denise? >> all right. thank you, bob. still to come on eyewitness news tonight. a blast from the past. do the ravens want to bring kyle boller back to baltimore? >> mark has the latest next in sports. ,,,,,,,,,,
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mark is here with the wjz the fan sports report. and the name kyle boller has come into the headlines. >> a little retro is sometimes chic. i don't know. we're going find out. well, we know that joe flacco is set as the ravens' quarterback of the present and future negotiations ongoing to get flacco a long-term contract. but there is some uncertainty about who will be the backup. the ravens are taking a look at former steelers qb dennis dixon. and yes, believe it or not, former raven kyle boller, known more for his foibles and fumbles. he will join dixon and colt
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curtis painter in an audition. now, the job currently belongs to this guy. tirod taylor, the former virginia tech star, who joined the ravens as a rookie last season. taylor didn't play much. but when asked recently about taylor, coach john harbaugh said he believes in tirod's ability. >> absolutely. but everybody competes for every spot, every year, every practice. and tirod is no different. but we like him a lot. >> flacco has started every ravens game since he was drafted five years ago. tirod taylor appeared in just three games last season. he completed the one pass that he threw. to the baseball birds. good season for the orioles. they sit in first place. they'll continue a long road trip with another game against the white sox in chicago tonight. and tommy hunter is the o's starting pitcher. o's pitching looking good. ranked among the best in the league so far. and a big reason for their record. o's hitters are going to face
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white sox right-hander. nick markakis is the designated hitter. tonight, first pitch, 8:10p.m. nolan reimold continues -- hopes to continue his hot streak. he came into the season as a question mark as a regular in the lineup. he's answering another highlight catch. and at bat, none hotter than nolan reimold. he has homered now in four straight games. all of them on the road. that one helped power the birds to that 3-2 win last night. former oriole jamie moyer has pitched his way into baseball history. now, with the colorado rockies, he threw 7 innings in a win over the pad padres. at age 49. moyer is the oldest pitcher to earn a victory in baseball history. he's been in the majors for 25 years. that's longer than some of his teammates have been alive. moyer on winning, at age 49. >> slowly living the dream. and i still believe i had the
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passion for the game. and, you know, it's a special night for me. >> moyer's win was the 268th of his career. that ties him with jim palmer. on baseball's all-time victory list. well, no one has won more -- basketball games than tennessee's pat summit. but her legendary coaching career comes to an end. summit announces she is stepping down, while battling the onset of dementia, an affliction she admitted to earlier. she won eight national titles. pat summit is 59 years old, a hall-of-famer, and we certainly wish her well, as she moves on in what is a difficult battle. >> hard to watch her. >> she's great. >> thank you mark. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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