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federal agents move in on the potasco market, what they found inside will keep them working for days. hi everybody, i'm mary bubala. adam has the night off. bargains too good to be true triggered a raid at the baltimore flea market. so many counter fit goods were found it'll take days to catalog it all. it went down today. alex demetrick has the latest on the raid. >> reporter: the potasco flea market has never had a rush at its doors quite like this one. >> they hit the door, they put about eight agents to each door and took everything. >> reporter: not quite everything. agents were very particular about what they were looking
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for. >> easing merchandise that is either counter fit, pirates or unlicensed. could be luxury goods as in purses or sneakers, that type of stuff. sunglasses. >> reporter: but what specifically agents won't say, although it's knock offs of real items usually found in departments and specialty stores. often buyers know they aren't the real thing but if it's something the company spends money to make and market, those phony goods hurt the bottom line. >> it's a multi million dollars agency. >> reporter: it might take until wednesday to take goods into evidence. although they knew exactly where to look. >> if you didn't have anything counter fit or any warrants or etc., they let you go. any merchandise which wasn't real, is gone. everything. >> reporter: well agents tell wjz that this raid was a
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combination of a 2-1/2 year investigation. >> reporter: federal agents have not said if any arrests were made. although more information should come out together in legal documents. more problems for the attorney general's office. according to court documents he was arrested friday for alleged marijuana conviction. this all comes on a heel that is snoden will temporarily step down from his position so he can sue anne arundel county. a deadly crash in howard county ininvestigation tonight. it happen friday night near eliquett city. kelly pierson was killed when her car slammed off the road and into a tree. investigators are looking into
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the possibility that she fell asleep at the wheel. meteorologist bernadette woods is live with an update of doppler radar. just a miserable day out there. >> we say we needed the rain and are we getting it. let's show you doppler radar. we were getting bands of heavy rain right now. everywhere we saw the yellow and in some cases it has gone over to rain. we're going to switch over and show you. wjz radar continues to track these rain drops. we've already had 2-inches of rain in salisbury. ocean city 1.69-inches. bwi marshall, .68-inches. temperatures have come way down. look at the west, 36 in oakland, the swing from yesterday at this time 30 degrees cooler and the colder it's going to continue to come
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our way because of that. a winter storm warning, yes a winter storm warning is in effect for allegheny counties where accumulated snow is expected. stay with wjz for complete weather coverage. to find doppler radar any time log on to wjz.com. with a $38 million budget shortfall, one councilman has an idea that he says will help the deficit. putting advertisements on fire trucks. and andrea fujii explains one company wants to have the first ad with a provocative ad. >> these are out of the box times and you need out of the box approaches in order to create additional revenue. >> reporter: up to three fire
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companies could close because of the budget downfall. so weltz is proposing they place ads on fire trucks. and p.e.t.a. is jumping on the opportunity. in a letter to the councilman they said in part our advertising featuring a sexy woman showing off her vegan physic will have baltimorians running to vegan lifestyle. >> i've had e-mails from firefighters applauding me on my proactive approach to it. and those that i've received have been in favor.
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>> reporter: andrea fujii, wjz news. >> he hasn't commented on the peta ad. today marks the beginning of victim's rights week. a ceremony was held today. it is a place where victims survivors along with those who work the crimes crimes can come together to support each other. >> it helps us the police officers to see the human side. >> three more services are set for this week in other parts of the state. well there could soon be everyone more fall out over the secret service prostitution scandal. daniel knottingham reports, more than 20 americans are under investigation and members of congress want to know if this has happened before. >> reporter: more secret
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service agents involved in the columbia prostitution scandal could soon be out of a job. >> i would expect in the very near future to have several secret service agents leaving. >> reporter: many in congress expect the secret service to fire more agents this week. so far six agents have lost their jobs, five are on administrative leave and 11 members of the military are under investigation. they were part of an advanced team setting up security for president obama's trip to cartajena columbia. some are accused of hiring prostitutes and bringing them back to the hotel caribe. but the secret service now admits, one agent stayed at the hilton. the same hotel where president obama stayed at the summit. >> why don't know why he's been put on administrative leave. now you're in the hotel where the president of the united states was going to stay. and it just gets more
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troubling. >> reporter: senator joe lieberman says congress plans to launch hearings and will try to determine if this type of behavior has happened before. former secret service director rod basham doesn't believe the investigators will find anything. >> i don't think in the past these things have happened, they certainly haven't happened on my watch. >> reporter: the secret service says at no time was the president's security compromised. in washington, daniel knottingham, wjz news. several members of congress say they support the investigation launched by summerman. including elijah cummings. he's looking into this scandal. he talked about the reputation in light of the investigation. >> it's not only that i want the secret service to be the
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excellent organization that it is. but i also want people to receive it as being that. that is very important. >> congressman cummings also planning to set a letter to the secret service tomorrow to see what their role was in the scandal. still no sign of a seize fire in syria, the new push from the united nations. an explosion at a mcdonalds has customers pull up to order. what officials say cost him. >> you never think something like that would actually happen to you. all of a sudden you wake up one morning and you're in that scenario. - - >> a little girl from tucson arizona vanishes from her home. we'll tell you what all police
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it continues to rain, 48 degrees in central maryland right now. the complete forewarning weather forecast is coming up. bullets and bombings continue rocking syria today. more observers arrive to try to bring on a seize fire.
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a talk explodes at a california drive through. the explosion happened outside a mcdonalds in minnesota. a truck could not handle the desert heat. the spark burned the driver who jumped out of the way right before the big blast. police in tucson arizona are looking for a 6-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom. the parents of first grader isabel silas last saw her in her bed at 11:00. they discovered her missing the next morning. they believe isabel was kidnapped. >> the mother is beside herself, we're just letting officers do their job and conduct their investigation. >> we saw that picture of her.
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signs tonight that star of bijies star is improving. he has recently battled colon and liver cancer. bern is back, the big story is that nor'easter that is really affecting -- >> it's a really big storm. going to affect the entire northeast. and it's good for places that haven't gotten a lot of moisture. what we're seeing at this point a lot of rain and heavy rain at times coming up with this storm system. and it's also bringing down temperatures and pumping snow out west. we will have that forecast coming up when we return. ,,,,,
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welcome back everybody. we're getting rain we really need. this is only a part of it we're going to get into a lot more of it in a moment. first up, look at these yellow bands. that where we're seeing the yellow bands and it's coming down in the city, in the county. pretty much across the entire area. now we're going to switch it over and show you. this is how it's progressed. we had a little bit of lighter rain come up last night. then the bands have picked up as we've moved through these evening hours. see them swinging east, that's when it's piling up on top of each other giving us these heavier amounts of rain. wjz develop watch continues to track these rainfall totals. we're seeing everything from 1.7-inches in salisbury to just about an inch in rock wall, all of these are going to continue to go up because that rain is still coming down. the other thing going on with this storm it's picking up the winds. these winds are really going to
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pick up overnight and pick ill colder air than we have right now. a couple of 50s across the south but look out west. compared to yesterday at this time we are 30 degrees cooler and with these numbers dropping overnight we have the chance for snow out west. now while our high on the day as been 56 but that was at midnight. our current is our low on the day. that will continue to drop through the evening. here's the storm coming from the south. it's intensifying while it does so. what it's doing is connecting to a low on the north. and colder air from the upper layers of the atmosphere and because of all of that this is the scenario. snow, for allegheny county we had a winter storm warning in effect.
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a little bit east of that we're going to see a couple of inches of snow especially in the higher elevations. here's that snow, it keeps intensifying, notice all of these lines indicating a lot of winds. we're going to feel this across the state. tonight cloudy and windy, rain and drizzle out there. it continues to pile up tomorrow. still some showers around probably not as heavy a bands as we're seeing right now. slowly temperature. >> derek: started to climb as we move with that storm. we have another chance for showers thursday that could continue into friday. mary. >> all right, bernadette. stan is here, we're talking o's. >> you should have seen her face when i was telling her exactly what is going on with the game right now. the o's are trying to keep from getting ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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stan is here with the wjz fan sports report. >> good news during the commercial break. they won. they sweep the twins, then get swept by the yankees. then they take three out of four from the white sox on the road. and they face the prospect of getting swept by the angels in anaheim. let's show you what happened today. oh those loyal bird fans. indy on his high horse. deves running on that pujols
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high. bottom four, watch what happens, alberto callasco got jammed up. anaheim with a 1-0 lead. chin massable today against albert pujols. swing and a miss. his faithful followers of mr. chin. they love it. nick markakis base hit. they win it by a final of 3-2 in 10 so they come off a road trip with a five, make that 6-4 record. not bad. 6-4. chala facing elimination by ovechkin, and game six, fredman hopey said i'm having a great save and i'm not going to
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have this. and same period same steam ahead. here's a final score, at home washington at boston wins this game. they stay alive. game seven the decisive game seven -- wednesday night in boston. last week, the loyolla greyhounds win after getting the not so bad record. >> it's a good and a bad thing. you can certainly feel good about your efforts to date. you obviously go to play every saturday and want to win every game. >> so far so successful. they are 12-0. mary that's
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layolla's best start. here's your winner, denny hamlin, denny hamlin the winner in the city kansas today. that's sports for now. i have a lot more coming up at 11:00, and i will be sure to see you then. >> be sure to tune in to cbs tonight at 10:00, catch an episode of the brand new drama nyc32. and coming up tonight at 11:00, the latest on the search for akon pace, police find a bloodstain but is it his. a house cat gets in touch with one of its wilder relative, an arizona man says at first his bob cat wasn't too interested then something changed. he captured the moment between the two cats. watch as the bob cat reaches the paw. and the bob cat stayed for about half an hour, took a nap and then went away. been there, done that. see you. poor kitty cat would like to go out and play with him but
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can't. >> was that a, furry high five. >> it was a furry high five. he's taunting the poor domesticated cat. >> i don't any i've every seen a bob cat. >> in arizona it's standards they see that stuff. thanks for jo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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