this is wjz-tv, wjz-hd and wjz.com, baltimore. from the city to the counties to your neighborhood, now is complete coverage. it's wjz, maryland's news station. >> courtroom apology. >> i am sorry for the loss of your son. >> the man who shot an unarmed florida teen explains his actions. what's next for george zimmerman. i'm vic carter, here's what people are talking about tonight. george zimmerman explains why he pulled the trigger on trayvon martin. in the courtroom with wjz. >> reporter: took the witness stand to make his first public statement about shooting trayvon martin to death. an apology to martin's parents. >> i wanted to say i am sorry for the loss of your son.

i did not know if he was armed or not. >> reporter: referencing to being in an age close to own contradicts what he said in february. >> how old would you say he was? >> reporter: undermines that zimmerman was the aggressor. >> you never started the fight? >> no. >> reporter: bail conditions require zimmerman to report to authorities every three days and to wear an ankle bracelet with gps that can monitor his every move. the attorney for martin's parents say they're outraged. >> zimmerman's parents only have to put up $15,000 and would give their lives to get

trayvon back. >> reporter: asking the client awaits trial out of state. >> there are a lot of angry or high emotions that exist and i'm just -- i don't want that to spill over on to the family or my client's safety. >> reporter: zimmerman is accused of second-degree murder in martin's death. in sanford, florida, randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> he's agreed not to contact the martin family. new about the 21 year old murder case just cracked in howard county. people who knew the missing woman and her accused husband say there was reason to suspect him all along. monique griego? >> reporter: he killed his wife kristine, but without a body there wasn't much they or police could do about it. a howard county home with a disturbing secret hidden under a shed for 21 years and it

would take help his second wife to help the mystery of his first wife, missing since 1991. >> she was fun, vivacious, full of life. >> reporter: not long after christine disappeared, saw concrete pouring in the shed but never had enough evidence to get a search warrant and while the case went cold, neighbor's suspicions never did. one determined detective never gave up and found out jared separated from the second wife and moved out of the house, detectives moved in and asked to search the shed. there, they found christine's remains under floor boards. they were 5 and 11 at the time and thought their dad killed their mom. one lives in the neighborhood, but we were unable to reach him for a comment. >> reporter: i comment -- i

tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. >> reporter: the boys are reliving it. >> it's a really rough situation. i mean, i don't know how people can deal with that. >> reporter: and family members say they're still in the process of making funeral and memorial arrangements for christine, back to you. >> arraignment today. in catonsville, somebody had the camera this morning that was just placed there about a week ago. police plan to replace the damaged camera soon. a disturbing crime in hartford county. the man is touching himself in public. these are all the places in the belle air area where he's been seen so far. police say the man usually commits the crime in front of women. the man may have exposed himself earlier this year. tonight, we get an inside

look at the bird strike that forced a landing at jfk airport. the passengers on board the flight and the pilot's call for help. >> reporter: a harrowing few minutes in the air, the plane landed. passengers described as violent shaking followed by smoke seen in the cockpit. minutes after, the pilot radioed to air traffic control. >> there's an engine failure. an emergency landing due to a bird strike. >> reporter: striking footage of a flock of birds, shows at least seven birds probably ingested in the right engine. >> an emergency engine failure, request a visual return. >> reporter: a visual return would save precious seconds as he guided the crippled aircraft down. >> we'll head back in and just

to let you know our stats for delta 1063, we have 179 souls on board. >> reporter: brought back thoughts of the miracle on the hudson when flight 1549 made an emergency landing after the engines were down because of a flock of geese. >> there was turbulence, up and down, i thought we were going to roll. >> reporter: he had a souvenir video. >> i'm glad i videoed it because my girl gets to see et today. >> reporter: there are concerns over the frequency of bird strikes with bird populations growing. wjz eyewitness news. a similar scare for joe biden. his plane hits a flock of birds last night. crews looked for damage. no one hurt. vice president left santa

barbara today on a different plane. three more secret service agents resigned for the roles in the prostitution scandal, up to six. that's expected to grow. got into an argument over payment with columbian prostitute. met for the first time to talk about the scandal. the county executive john leopold has to defend himself against the $20 million lawsuit. he claims the county executive abuses power to look up information on political enemies. he denies doing anything illegal. a 13 year old's life is saved by cpr when she collapses while playing field hockey. honorary captain of the lacrosse team. pat warren has the triumph of

return. >> reporter: september 27th was her last field hockey game. >> i actually don't remember anything. >> her mother will never forget. >> i asked my mom for my phone and my friends texting me telling me stuff like i had a seizure, i had a stroke or anything and then after i read, i asked mom, she said, no, you went into cardiac arrest. >> reporter: they performed cpr. >> they did an excellent job in saving her life. >> reporter: the lacrosse gave the dedication to brianna. the cardiologist said she was born with a rare heart condition. >> they identified the problem when the heart stops beating. >> reporter: cpr saved brianna life. >> the best gift is to know cpr. >> and brianna is proof of that. >> get this checked out because i was playing since i was three and we never knew about this until it actually happened.

>> reporter: the game is also a fundraiser in honor of brianna's life saving story. i'm pat warren in perry hall, now back to you. >> brianna hopes to return to the field in competition in the fall. testing their wits, some local celebrities find out if they're smarter than a fifth grader. city ceo and then nfl player brian johnson put on the spot tonight. they competed against fifth graders in the quiz show. answered the questions with these money raised. tonight's benefits schools and sports. they look nervous though, don't they? coming up, a frightening scene. the driver wasn't in the car and who was behind the wheel.

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the fire destroyed this motel in san antonio. more than 80 guests evacuated. planes coming from the second and third floors. roof collapsed on firefighters but all escaped injury. the cause of the fire not determined. a winding road in new mexico is the scene of a horrible accident. 43 people killed when a cargo truck and tour bus collide. most of the victims were farm workers. investigators believe the accident happened after the trailer separated from the truck. police say the driver of the truck fled the scene and still at large. a major clean-up on a chicago street after a car crashes in the front of the beauty shop. the car owner went inside leaving her friend and baby in the idling vehicle. next thing she knew, the car came in the store. the friend was left to explain what happened. >> i never drove a car in my life. trying to turn the car, it

started going forward, when i discovered which was brakes and which was the gas pedal, it was too late. a 75 year old grandmother fights back when attacked in daylight. she used her car keys and he used a knife to cut and then took her purse with a thousand dollars inside. police are still looking for her attacker. a maryland firefighter battling a fire. he suffered burns on half his body. >> reporter: a hero's welcome. >> it's the first time outside

the hospital. so it's a really good feeling. >> reporter: it was just two months ago when a fire nearly claimed his life. >> 6327th avenue. >> reporter: february 24th, a fire breaks out in riverdale. high winds have a blow torch effect. suffered burns to 50% of his body and finds the moment hard to talk about. >> i'd rather not talk about that day. >> reporter: o'toole has endured countless surgeries and skin grafts. >> this whole time, i think, am i going to make it or not? i just kept fighting the good fight. >> reporter: later found to be arson. >> still looking for the person or persons. >> reporter: o'toole said the crew has been by his side. >> one guy stayed by me, so

never been alone. >> reporter: that camaraderie is why he hopes to return. >> see where that takes me, but hopefully i will. >> reporter: monique griego, wjz eyewitness news. >> they're still investigating the arson. anyone with information leading to the arrest can receive a $1000 reward. it was a reward for middle schoolers who spent the morning building these floating wet lamps. they worked side by side from the water front partership, to provide food for the fish placed in front of the world trace center. they were winging it for the university of maryland's baltimore campus. brought their appetites for the annual wing-a-thon. they were to good use.

ate 244 wings in 20 minutes. after which they used a lot of dental floss, i'm sure. can you imagine? >> sure. all right, got some good rain here this weekend. checking the rainfall numbers. after the rain ends, we can really get a good amount of rain. high clouds in a few spots for 61. warmer than last night. barometer falling. the winds are chilly. i expect from frostburg west, we'll see wet snow 3000 feet up, and that will continue across portions of pennsylvania and new england by monday, for us, it will be all rain but

chilly. 64, 59. it's going to stay mild because the winds are shifting. 66, 44, and the record is 94 and a chilly 27. the winds are back out of the south to keep it mild tonight. tomorrow afternoon, here's what's happening. to the west of us, shower and thunderstorm activity developing along this frontal boundary. breezy and chilly temps. a little snow in northern minnesota but that's moved off to the east and northeast. but more cold air filters in behind low pressure that's beginning to develop. this area of low pressure will head along the gulf coast, to the east coast this weekend which means we have a breezy sunday. the front is going to stall out right along the coast, which means we'll have a very good focus point for rain across the region. some areas see more than two inches of rain this weekend. believe it or not.

that's the good news. it looks like we'll break the drought. thundershower activity with it. could be some brief downpours, and the front slows down and the low pressure heading up the system gives us a good chance of an all-day rain on sunday. gets colder and breezy and some wet snow in the higher elevation areas. the bay temp around 57 tonight. partly cloudy to cloudy at times. 52 tomorrow. mostly cloudy. some sun in the morning and then a couple of the afternoon showers. in the region, a light rain begins tomorrow night and continues as late to moderate rain on sunday. low 50s, maybe a shower or two on monday. 57 and a little warmer, partly sunny on wednesday. looks like we'll be chilling the drought by the end of the weekend. >> thank you.

check with tim williams tomorrow morning on eyewitness news for the updated first warning weather forecast. orioles have one of the best hitters in baseball history. mark has more on the angels and, so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse.

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mark's here with the sport report. the road has been pretty good for the o's. >> that takes them out west tonight. yes. the thrilling win on opening day here in town, but they're doing well on the three city trip. in anaheim to face the angels and as well as it's gone overall, brian mattis. left field for a run scoring

double. an inning for the angels. now 3-1 in the fourth inning. celebrating fenway park in boston, one hundred years ago today the red sox played in this ballpark for the first time. the all-time greats for the birthday party. a win at fenway. high school lacrosse. calvin with a big lead. knocked off gilman. college, in virginia, the university of maryland coming off a big win at hopkins, face dukes and red. senior cumming played at loyola. hope for fast forward, final

seconds, one last chance. cummings will take the shot. dan makes the save, maryland falls short. a 6-5 duke victim. under way in north carolina, an easy win over virginia tech led by katy schwartzman. the turks take on duke in the final battle. there's a ravens tie-in for the ultimate championship tomorrow night. john jones, light heavy weight champ, brother of defensive lineman arthur jones. tipped the scale at john evans. they will kick and punch tomorrow night. that's some tough stuff that goes on in the rings. >> definitely so. thank you, mark.

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buckingham palace tonight, a high-tech display. children created portraits and trying to make up the likeness of the queen to mark 60 years in power. a florida family hears a mysterious noise and turns out to be a curious little visitor. out comes this furry explorer. the kitten was frightened by the house hunting escapade, but she was not hurt. they are waiting until someone can adopt her.

it was the 100th anniversary of the boston fenway park. red sox fans thought it would be a good time and place to pop the question to his girlfriend. >> will you marry me? >> daniel was able to get the ring out. she was wearing a yankees t- shirt which proves love conquers all. hopefully their marriage lasts ,

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>> letterman is next with lionel richie. thank you, good night, have a great weekend.