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christine jared's body was found feet from her home. now her husband is being charged with the murder. gigi barnett has more on the gruesome discovery. >> reporter: police say robert jared has always been their number 1 suspect in the disappearance of his wife years ago. but proving it was tough, until last night, when they searched his shed. >> in the backyard of this house on clear drive in elkridge, howard county, police make a decades-old discovery in this weather-beaten shed. they find the body of christine jared, missing for 21 years. >> that is crazy. >> there is rumors going around that she was in the pool back there. >> reporter: all this time, she was under the florida -- floorboards of the shed, buried in concrete. police say say her husband, robert jarrett did it. back in 1991, he reported his wife missing. he said that christine jarrett walked away from the house. after a heated argument. never to be seen or heard from
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again. >> this is someone who was really cared about in the community. she had a lot of friends and family members. and she was someone that we never forgot. >> reporter: police say they never -- always suspected robert jarrett but never had enough to charge him. until this week, when a tipster came forward. >> this is one of those cases where right from the very beginning, we knew it sounded suspicious. neighbors and friends told us this is a woman who would not have left her two small children. >> reporter: police were able to get into the shed this week, when jarrett's current but estranged wife let them in. police say they also found personal items on the body that looked like they belonged to christine jarrett. >> there was enough there to indicate that this very likely is christine. >> reporter: some neighbors still remember christine jarrett well, while others never imagined that she was always still on claire drive. >> a very creepy kind of feeling that she may have been under that shed 21 years. >> reporter: while police suspect this body is christine
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jared, they say they are not yet confirming that until they receive a full report from the medical examiner's office. vic, back to you. >> gigi, thank you. jared is being held without bond on first-and second-degree murder charges. >> sky eye chopper 13 is over the scene of the accident. and captain mike perry has more. where are you, mike? >> we are eastbound the at taioga parkway. not far from mondawmin mall. we have a city school police vehicle, which was involved in some sort of a crash. now, it's not clear whether the police vehicle crashed after it lost a tire or lost a tire as a result of the crash. but we do have eastbound gwens falls parkway, closed. looks like duke land street. police are blocking the roadway. city police are conducting the roadway. we understand that the injuries are nonlife-threatening. and as we said, it is not real clear what caused this
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accident. but we do have a disabled car in the roadway, east of the railroad bridge. and police are going to be working to clean up that accident and investigate and find out what happened. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you, captain mike perry. well, a well-liked student adviser at a local university is dead after a bizarre run-in with police. mary has more. >> reporter: patrick tony died four day the after has confrontation with anne arundel county police officers. last friday night, police spotted tony's jeep on piney orchard parkway. and he was tossing item the out of his vehicle. an officer stopped to ask if he was okay. and tony's bizarre behavior continued. he even asked an officer to shoot him. officers arrested him, took him for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. however, while being transported, tony stopped breathing. doctors managed to revive him, but he died tuesday. the cause of death, still pending. denise? >> thank you. tony was a student adviser at
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buoy university. a memorial is being planned. the budget impact. millions of dollars in cuts are looming. now, students are pleading for governor martin o'malley to deal with a special session and crisis. a protest just wrapped up. she explains what is at stake. >> reporter: many students on camp us here say they're already struggling to pay the bills. and say a doomsday budget would make a college nearly impossible. >> we're talking about $50 billion in budget cut the. >> reporter: these students say lawmakers are failing them. >> they didn't do their job at all. if you're trying to balance the budget on the backs of students who already don't have any money, you've got a problem. >> reporter: at a rally thursday, more than 100 people marched on campus, urging the governor to call a special session to hash out a budget. a task the state legislature did not accomplish by sine die. >> i'm sorry we didn't get the job done. and second, they need to work to make sure we come back and
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get the job done. >> reporter: otherwise, the so- called doomsday budget will cut deeper into higher education funding. $38 million less for public universities. nearly $20 million less for community schools. and grants to private schools will be slashed by $4 million. >> reporter: and that means a spike in tuition to make up for it. >> students are struggling right now $800 it would be for in-state students. >> not everyone's families can afford this kind of money am. >> reporter: but the governor says he won't call a session unless there is a consensus between house and senate leaders who for now are playing the blame game. >> if you don't have the hutzpah or the nerve or gufnlings to pay this, that's what's going to happen. >> reporter: the countdown until july 1st, when the doomsday budget goes into effect. students are desperate to stop that clock. >> the budget can't really be people paying. we're all students. colleges are already an exception. >> reporter: organizers say the
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next step is to launch a letter- writing campaign. so they're using social media, e-mail and phone calls to spread the word. at the university of maryland, college park, weijia jiang, wjz eyewitness news. >> the doomsday budget also includes more than $200 million in cuts from maryland's public school system, for grades k through 12. 160 years in prison. that is the possible sentence for a baltimore pastor, convicted of child sex abuse. 61-year-old leon jones is found guilty of abusing the 51-year- old -- 15-year-old girl from april 2000 to march 2002. prosecutors say the child's mother also participated in the abuse. the victim is now 27. a raid on a west baltimore home, turns up more than the drugs police were expecting. they also broke up a dog- fighting ring. and tonight, wjz digs deeper with dog fighting with surprising results. wjz is live from police headquarters. and mike schuh has more. >> reporter: we've learned these dogs are a lot like
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thoroughbreds. their records are soft. these dogs to keep them in safe. oftentimes, teenagers are sent out to steal family pets for just a couple of bucks. >> reporter: angel brown doesn't know what to expect. >> it's sad. they shouldn't be taking people's dogs. >> reporter: they ," she says are dog-fighters. five months ago, ali, her pit bull, was taken from her backyard to train the fighters. >> i wouldn't wish that on nobody. >> reporter: when she heard police arrested this man and confiscated eight fighting dogs from his west baltimore home, angel realized just how lucky she is. >> i came right over to pick my baby up. >> reporter: long before yesterday's case, ali was recovered. >> ali. come here, ali. >> he was stolen not once but twice. and now, this scared, scared animal, is finally going home. >> look at my baby. >> reporter: stolen to be a bait dog. a living piece of meat, thrown to the fighting dogs to make
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them more confident and ferocious. >> it's a high, high possibility. >> reporter: eric volt is an expert. he was found by police near death. payton, he says, was, like, ali, someone's pet. >> because the people that are fighting the dogs, they don't even have the spine to go steal their own dogs. they'll pay minors under aged, 14, 13-year-old kids, to steal someone's pet. >> reporter: the bounty? maybe $21. shaking, scared. tail between his legs. ali is lucky. he's alive. and now that angel knows he and other pits pits have bounties on their heads, he's not going to be let in the backyard unsupervised, ever again. >> i just want them to leave my dog alone. he's been through enough. >> experts say you should get one of those identity chips and plant it under the skin because if they are stolen and they survive, then a shelter would be able to scan for it and get the dog back to you. reporting live, mike schuh, wjz
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eyewitness news. >> good advice for all dog owners. thank you, mike. at last check, the man arrested yesterday and charged with animal cruelty is still at central booking. we got some much-needed rain. but it's not nearly enough. a live look outside right now. the sun is back. drying things out. much of the state is still under drought conditions. wjz is live with complete drought watch coverage. bob turk is updating rainfall numbers. but first, monique griego with more on how serious this dry weather is. monique? >> reporter: well, vic, that rain we got yesterday didn't do a whole lot to lead with the drought. and expert says we are still in desperate need for a downpour. >> reporter: breaking out the brush fires are just one sign drought conditions in maryland are nearing a dangerous level. >> we are seeing indications in all regions that are showing the conditions worsening. >> reporter: jay aperson from the maryland department of the environment, says while yesterday's drizzle fogged up sky eye chopper 13, it didn't put much, if any rain in the deficit. and today, eastern maryland is still under a drought watch.
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>> you have to watch that. that increases our water monitoring. not only in the eastern region. >> reporter: but also here in baltimore. where streams and reservoirs are low. and vegetation is dry. he says the trees and plants are paying for a lack of snow. this winter, less than two inches fell. on average, we receive around 20. >> that's why we're seeing what we're seeing at this point. >> reporter: it's pretty normal to experience a drought during the hot summer months like june or july. but this year, conditions came early. >> it's kind of like we skipped spring and went right to summer with the dryness of the whole situation. >> michelle bentley, from poor boys garden center says no rain means more insects. and they'll eat up their plants if the sun doesn't dry it outside first. >> monitor your plants. keep an eye on them. >> and while there are no water restrictions in place just yet, aperson is asking people to conserve until the rain comes. >> hopefully they'll get it. and they will keep conditions from getting worse. and prance you can get us out
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of this situation. >> reporter: and state leaders say if we don't get that rain soon, they will start looking at water restrictions. denise, back to you. >> all right. thank you, monique. drought watch continues with meteorologist tim williams and bob turk, who are updating the critical rainfall totals. bob? >> drought watch continues to track these rainfall totals. but take a look at the drought watch around the state. officially now, eastern shore. particularly lower eastern shore, still considered a severe drought. they didn't get much rain yesterday. a modern drought around the bay area. west of the area, still considered to be abnormally dry. rain from yesterday, really a pittance, compared to what we need. the most i could find. a little more than a quarter inch. literally all that did was wet the ground just a little bit. down and around the airport area in annapolis. less than -- as you can see, less than two-tects of an inch of rain. and -- two-tenths of an inch of rain. and deficit, about 2 1/2 months
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of rain we're down for the year. temperature-wise, very pleasant afternoon. tim has a look at what we and deputy tomorrow. can expect tomorrow. we got up to around 70 degrees, topping out in the low 70s in parts of the area right now. around the state, temperatures are just around the 70-degree mark. we are at 73 in cumberland. cool air around ocean city, where the winds have been coming in off the ocean. 68 in bwi marshall. and 67 in easton. and 70 down in d.c. we expect another surge of warm air tomorrow, which is not going to help, with our drought conditions, because that's only going to help evaporate what little moisture we do have in the ground. but that warm air is going to take us into the low to mid-70s for tomorrow. and we'll probably get much- needed rain. unfortunately, it's in time for weekend activities. bob will have your complete updated forecast comingum. >> thank you, tim and bob. the ravens are back on the practice field. the first round of voluntary workouts this off season. sports director mark viviano has more on the limited
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practices taking place this week. >> well, vic, they are noteworthy. remember a year ago, there were no spring workouts. the rest of the league is open for off season business. and the ravens have plenty to do for the season lady. these practices are not mandatory. and many veteran players do not take part. but quarterback joe flacco was a daily participant. all gearing up for the regular season in senate. the schedule was unveiled earlier this week. and the ravens are already looking forward to opening up monday night at home against cincinnati. >> it's a schedule they always give us. because we know they can take that schedule. we're ready. ready for it. it's good that they released it now. so we know exactly what we're working towards. it will make us work a little harder. >> reporter: it's another off season of transition. it's out with the woald. -- with the old. no more jared johnson, to sign with san diego. and will that means opportunity for a younger player, paul
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krueger. >> yeah. it's a great opportunity for me. couldn't ask to be in a better situation. so i'm going to be grinding as much as i can, from here to august to, you know, prepare myself for camp as much as possible. i'm really excited am. >> reporter: as season has opportunity, he'll do his best to fill the shoes of jared johnson, who showed krueger how to do it while they were teammates. >> he taught me a number of things. mainly how to be a student of the game and how to, you know, make yourself better in the classroom. so that's one thing i'm going to take from him for sure. >> now, former ravens qb kyle boller was in town to audition for a backup job. he didn't get the job. instead, ravens have signed former colts qb to a one-year contract. i'll have more plus the o's in action, in sports. first round of the nfl draft is one week from tonight. and still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. secret service scandal. what investigators say happened in the columbia hotel. but has the agency under fire.
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our lives will never be the same. yeardley love's mother speaks out for the first time since her daughter's killer was convicted. i'm jessica kartalija. that story next on wjz. i'm alex demetrick. coming up, the big crab comeback. the record-shattering numbers as eyewitness news continues. any more rain coming this way? don't miss the updated first warning weather forecast. ,,,,,,,,
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it's sunny and 68 degrees in central maryland. right now, the complete first warning weather forecast is coming up. the mother of slain cockeysville native yeardley love wants lawmakers to do more to protect young women from domestic violence. wjz is live. jessica kartalija explains, sharon love wants to make sure what happened to her daughter does not happen to someone else. >> reporter: sharon love is speaking publicly for the first time since her daughter yeardley's death. and she's pushing for tougher laws against violent domestic offenders. >> our lives will never be the same. >> reporter: following the conviction of her daughter's
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one-time boyfriend, george huguely, sharon love throws her support behind the renewalph -- renewal of the violence against women act. >> my daughter was murdered by an out-of-control lacrosse player with a violent past. >> reporter: speaking at the white house, love was joined by vice president joe biden, who helped pass the original law in 1994. >> look what she went through. my god. >> reporter: sherry parliament is with house of ruth maryland. one of the nation's leading domestic violence centers. >> we're grateful that she's speaking out about the issue of violence. it's a big problem. we know that one in four women will be in an abusive relationship at some point in their lives. so it's very important that we talk about this issue. >> reporter: the violence against women act has already allocated $9 billion towards prosecuting offenders and providing support for victims. reauthorizing the law would expand finances.
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>> we are beneficiaries, violence against women act program. so we're very hopeful that that program continues. it's not just the work we do. it's work that we provide support for other victims. >> george huguely was convicted of first -- second-degree murder. he faces up to 26 years in prison. >> love is also looking to file a wrongful death lawsuit in her daughter's name. >> thank you, jessica. george huguely will be sentence ised in august. a welcome sight. today, the world's most traveled space ship. astronaut and former senator john glenn helped return it to had the the national space museum annex in north virginia. the shuttle will be displayed as if it just landed. >> i guess that means on its wheels, right? >> yeah. >> but we can climb through. won't that be fun?
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live look outside now. it's that time of year, when all of the cars look about the same. they're all yellow. >> hose it off five minutes later. >> rain did enough to knock the pollen down. also would help to reduce the fire danger. but the drought continues. we need a lot more rain than we saw yesterday. yesterday's rain barely entered the top. maybe an inch or so if that. sewe're talking ground water. that's with we feed to recharge with rain. take a lock at temps right now. -- look at temps right now. very pleasant. 68. 64 in oakland. and ocean city, down by the ocean, where the winds are coming off the ocean there. pretty chilly there, at 54 degrees. the ocean weather temperature in the low 50s, by the way. currently, 70 in bel air. 67, afapolis and want-- annapolis, ask kent island by the bay. light southeast wind now. tomorrow winds will shift more to the south/southwest. that will get us into a little warmer air. and also may start to bring in additional humidity or moisture. a front to the west.
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this is a chance, at least saturday afternoon, as that front approaches, it will bring up some of this moisture in the gulf of mexico. we do expect to see some shower and thundershowers, beginning to develop. tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. across the ohio valley. that will move into our region late saturday afternoon, saturday night. so chance of shower and thundershower activity. now, that same front, hopefully will slow down because we need the rain. and kind of get hung up along the coast. if that happens, the correct scenario for us to get rain is low pressure developing right across the south and moving toward our region. now, at least one of the models has it somewhat close to us. but not a lot of rain with it. another has it offshore with no rain at all, except the shower or thundershower possibility saturday. we're hoping we get some of that extra moisture in. we could see a nice little soaking rain and cooler temps sunday. if that, in fact, happens. but these models have been all over the place. pretty sure we get showers on saturday, with the front coming
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through. but beyond that, really we just have to wait to see what transpires. here's the shower activity tomorrow. as it moves across the ohio valley. saturday, warmer temps. shower or thundershower. maybe someone gets a decent shower out of it. and we'll watch that front, hopefully give us a chance of more rains. bay temp, around 57. it's coming up slowly. tonight, then, generally clear. all things considered, a mild night. 48, pleasant. tomorrow, back up in the mid- 70s. a lot of sunshine. clouds and maybe a shower or couple of thundershowers late in the afternoon on sunday. so the end of the week, beautiful. excuse me. on saturday. but weekend, not so great. but we need the rain. >> we sure do. >> thank you, bob. still to come tonight on wjz's eyewitness news. a challenge to do good, from kevin bacon. how university of maryland students impress the actor. and why some walked away with $5,000. i'm andrea fujii. that's just ahead on wjz eyewitness news.
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it is 6:30. sunny and 68 categories. -- degrees. good evening, everyone. thanks for staying with wjz. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. the secret service is cleaning house in response to the prostitution scandal that is rocking the agency. danielle nottingham reports from the white house with the latest. >> reporter: three secret service agents are out of a job for their involvement in the columbian prostitution scandal. and lawmakers expect others soon will be. >> my understanding is that there will be more resignations coming in the next day or so. >> reporter: already one supervisor has been fired. another supervisor forced to retire. and a third agent resigned. eight others remain on administrative leave with their security clearance suspended. some members of the team allegedly hired prostitutes after a night of partying in
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cartagena, according to president obama's arrival. congressman peter king says there is no evidence drugs played a role. but says the agency's investigation will be thorough. >> a number of them are right now, undergoing drug tests and polygraphs. >> reporter: the white house has expressed disappointment in the scandal but is standing by the secret service director. one republican senator is suggesting the president's leadership is partly to blame. >> that sounds very much like a lawmaker attempting to politicize something that is not at all political. >> reporter: the secret service is moving aggressively to get to the bottom of the scandal. with investigators on the ground in columbia, and washington. the agency continues to brief members of congress. and one hearing is expected next week. at the white house, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> at least 10 members of the military who were staying at the same hotel are also under investigation. cruise ship controversy, a
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crew under fire for not taking action to help a disabled vessel at sea. mary has more on this. >> reporter: princess cruises is conducting an internal investigation, after a captain reportedly ignored a distress call. passengers and crew on the ship spotted the small, disabled fishing vessel that had been stranded at sea for two weeks, 120 miles off costa rica. the three men on board frantically raved for help. but the crew crewmembers did not stop. passengers called the coast guard for help. but by the time the coast guard found the fishing boat, it was too late. two of the three men on board were dead. >> the consequences could be serious for the captain if he did ignore the fishermen in distress. an f15 fighter jet and mobile jets scrambled to make contact with the two men. the two tried to signal the pilot who was unresponsive. they reported the plane's windshield was iced over.
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indicated it climbed over 30,000 feet. it eventually crashed into the gulf around noon. no word yet on what happened to the pilot. after months of deadly civil wars, united nations and syria, reached an agreement to enforce a fragile cease-fire. but as tina kraus reports from london, government forces are still shelling rebels, despite the arrival of peacekeepers. >> reporter: syrian peacekeepers signed a deal, to monitor the country's cease- fire. >> reporter: a small team of unarmed observers are in damascus. but they are pushing in to try to bring peace to the region. despite the week-old cease- fire, between government and on -- opposition forces, explosions are still battering rebel towns like holmes. >> the past few days in particular has brought reports of renewed and escalating violence. >> reporter: foreign ministers met thursday in paris and called the u.n. peace plan the last hope to end the crisis.
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>> i think we are all here out of a sense of great frustration and outrage. over what we see occurring in syria. >> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called for tougher u.n. action against syria, including a weapons embargo if syria keeps violating the cease-fire. clinton stopped short of calling for military action. >> reporter: many syrians are tired of waiting. angry crowds mobbed u.n. peacekeepers in damascus wednesday. accusing the international community of ignoring the violence. tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: more than 10,000 people have been killed in syria's 13 months of violence. the baltimore city fire department is mourning the sudden passing of a long-time firefighter and paramedic. michael meniari was a 12-year veteran, working with engine company in park heights. he passed away yesterday at the age of 40. his viewing will be held this
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weekend at the rucks funeral home at harford road. his funeral is monday. another baltimore city police officer is sentenced to prison for taking part in a kick-back scheme. 40-year-old osvalido valentine will spend 40 months in jail for taking and directing accident victims to that company, that store. the owners would also falsify reports to increase their payments from car insurance companies. nearly two dozen city officers have been implicated in the scheme. as comebacks go, it's off the charts. researchers are finding a population explosion of blue crabs in the bay. alex demetrick runs some very promising numbers. >> reporter: a bushel was steamed up as a prop. but what was really hot was the announcement that went with it. >> i am now glad to report that the population of the blue crab is now at a 19-year high. round of applause. >> reporter: according to this year's blue crab survey, 764 million crabs spent the winter
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in the bay. a 60% increase from last year. and juveniles reached a record high of almost $600 million. >> -- 600 million. >> having that many in the bay is great news. because those are the crabs that will support the fishery later this summer and fall. >> they dredge the bay's bottom, where crabs burrow into the mud. and while the survey is not a census, it has proved a useful tool. in 2008, it found crab numbers were plunging. and the states put harvest restrictions on females. now, with the numbers climbing, watermen hope those restrictions will ease. >> we're not going to see a difference. >> but higher numbers won't mean fewer restrictions this year. although there could be a little wiggle room. >> reporter: especially in late fall, when crabs go mostly to packing houses. the pan ban on catching-- ban on catching females then might
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be eased by a week or so. it's females that control the future. >> they're going to be responsible for creating the next generation. and there's a lot of them. >> reporter: and there will be plenty for maryland tables this summer. alexalex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> the last time the blue crab population was this healthy was 1993. >> may have to have some crab cakes sometime soon. >> looks mighty good. still to come on wjz eyewitness news. dumb time to post a picture online. see what got this man in deep trouble with police. cold-blooded crime. a young mother murder. her infant snatched. new information on the suspect as she appears in court. bob turk. first warning weather center. more rain this weekend will help the region hopefully. 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. [ female announcer ] with xfinity,
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investigators say mcclane had reerntsly suffered a -- recently suffered a miscarriage. a bond hearing is set for monday. there may be a break in the case of a new york boy, who vanished more than 30 years ago. federal agents are searching the basement of a federal building in new york's sojo remains. he disappeared in 1979 while walking to a school bus stop. the child was the first missing child ever featured on a milk carton. the prime suspect, jose ramos, has never been charged in this case. officials say a truck caught fire. and the flames spread to a nearby building in springfield. flames are now shooting out of the now-demolished building. and heavy smoke can be seen for miles away. so far, there are no injuries. a kentucky man is facing charges after police find an incriminating photo on his facebook page. the 20-year-old said it started as a joke. but police weren't laughing.
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after some much-needed rain and return to sunshine. a look outside right now. is there a chance for much more rain this weekend? we certainly hope so. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. meteorologist bob turk and tim williams but for now, tim is enjoying the sunshine. >> with a good bit of sunshine. it's going to be a gorgeous day really. right on through, until really tomorrow evening. we go up into about the 70- degree range. we'll taper off into the 60s. bottoming out down into the 50- degree range for tomorrow.
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then the rain does come by probably saturday afternoon into the evening. for a little more on the weekend, we send it in to bob. >> looks like chance of showers coming back late in the afternoon on saturday. it will be more and more humid. hopefully we'll get more shower activity. and if that front slows down and low pressure does develop, we could see some steady or solid rain on into sunday. keep our fingers crossed. i know it's the weekend. but we need the rain. 77, in the 60s. clearing out later on monday. leftover shower. 6248. kind of chilly. 63, down to 37 on tuesday night. denise? >> thank you, bob. on the day, legendary basketball coach pat summit steps down in tennessee, she receives a major national honor. summit will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom, which is the highest. last year, she revealed her diagnosis of early-onset
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dementia. >> they're going to still see me. and i'm still going to yell at them. but, you know, i love these people. and hopefully they'll keep me young. >> reporter: pat summit won over 1,000 games in her 30 games in tennessee. making her the winningest coach in basketball history. doing good in maryland, with the help of kevin bacon. the actor is in college park to award students who came up with charitable ideas. >> reporter: a big round of applause for kevin bacon, who was on the university of maryland campus, challenging students to do good. >> by doing this kind of challenge, we're encouraging the idea of doing good and giving back. but we're also trying to get newed new ideas from them. >> reporter: they partnered with bacon's charities called
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six degrees.org. six teams came up with change for social media. >> some of the ideas, i was like, this is such a great idea. >> students say the money is a great idea. >> reporter: bacon, along with former terps basketball coach, gary williams, and nutrition expert helped pick the winner. and students who collected campus food and gave the food to local shelters inform we recognize the impact we could make if we connected food waste and hunger. >> reporter: bacon's goal is to use creativity to help others, which he says every team accomplished. >> i think you guys did a killer job. way to go. >> reporter: the food recovery network says so far, they've distributed 6700 meals to homeless shelters. with their win, they'll receive $5,000. i'm andrea fujii.
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all right. afternoon baseball. must be almost summer. mark is here with the wjz the fan sports report. >> the sun was shining here and in chicago. for the o's. the o's started the winning streak here at home. and they've kept the ball rolling with the wins on the road. currently, they're on a 10-game trip. and they wrapped up a series in chicago this afternoon. on the road, but facing a hometown pitcher. that's gavin floyd. a baltimore boy, from mount saint joe's high school. first inning. jones' base hit over second base. that brings home handy chavez. just the start of the day. jason hamill. lots of swings and misses by chicago batters. a career high, 10 strikeouts for hamill. the o's pitching staff struck out 16 total. back to adam jones. facing floyd again. this time in the fifth inning, with a runner on base. and jones hits it out. deep to left center. his fifth home run this season. jones drives in three of the orioles five runs. it's a 5-3 victory.
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they win three of four in chicago. the first placed birds now fly west to anaheim. first series with the angels. the football news now, kyle boller was back in baltimore this week for a workout with his old team. the ravens are looking for an extra quarterback to work for joe flacco and tirod taylor. former colts qb, curtis painter gets the job. he's agreed to a one-year contract. painter played mostly, sat on the bench. but with manning hurt last season, he started eight games. he's a former sixth round draft pick. thrown six touchdown passes and 11 interceptions in his limited nfl career. it's been an off-season transition for the ravens. they've said goodbye to a number of free agents like ben grubbs. it's a critical offensive line spot. and now jaw reed will get a chance to fill it. reed saw this. he and his teammates talked today about reed moving into grubs spot and guard.
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>> i think i should be able to do it and play this position well. i look forward to doing that. >> i'm looking for them to get in and make an impact. like i said, he's a very physical player. and i'm looking for him to, you know, have a pretty good year. >> reporter: reed was a third round draft pick out of central florida a year ago. this year's nfl draft is one week from today. the ravens have eight picks. well, baltimore has some passionate hockey fans, most follow the washington capitals who continue their play-off series in boston in d.c. tonight. and the caps will be coming to baltimore this summer, just as they did last year. it will be an exhibition game first mariner arena. the date is set for the 26th. last september, caps played nashville in the first n well -- nhl game in charm city. finally. pga golfer takes out his frustration with a chain saw. he returned to the scene in san
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antonio. where a wayward shot led to the worst hole in the game history. took six shots to get out. take that, trees. of course, the easier solution is, just don't hit it there. keep it on the grass. and you won't need a buzz saw or anything els -- else to blame mother nature. >> tree lovers might be critical. >> i know. >> thank you, mark. be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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