chaos downtown. >> somebody has stop the mail in the -- the male in the crowd. >> newly released police recordings reveal the violence on st. patrick's day. hello i'm denise koch. >> and i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about. >> mike hellgren has a closer look at the mayhem. >> reporter: the vicious beating of a tourist in downtown baltimore was far from

the only chaos unfolding on st. patrick's day. emergency recordings showed police used their chopper, city watch cameras and officers on the ground to control huge numbers of young people likely drawn here on facebook. >> i don't need no one on the air, please just listen up. i need somebody to go to pratt and like, a medic is trying to get through. somebody has stomped a male in the crowd. the ambo just passed a large group of kids assaulting the male with one child on the ground. >> reporter: the baltimore sun revealed more fights than first thought in an area from the block to first mariner arena. >> let's go y'all, don't get on the air, just go. >> stay together, do not get separated okay. try to keep your cars positioned so you can get out of there in a hurry. >> reporter: as police would get to one fight another would break out and they had to close off several major intersections downtown. >> reporter: the mayor spoke

previously about the confrontations. >> reporter: the harbor's next big event is fourth of july. last year saw several fights, the murder of a father and a child hit. this time there will be more officers protecting what is considered the crown jeweled of baltimore. police were not taking any questions about their response. reporting from police headquarters, adam may. >> police made 10 arrests that night mostly for curfew violation. crews cleared two concourses when passengerred noticed an old smell. officials think a can of pepper spray near the security checkpoint may have caused the

problem. three prisoners were rushed to the hospital after an unusual incident. another driver hit the trailer throwing two inmates on to the ground and trapping a third next to the truck. everyone is expected to be okay. stand off at the state house, lawmakers are in the special session to hammer out a budget. it is going to mean tax increase for some. megan mccorkel has more on the contentious debate. >> reporter: lawmakers are trying to determine what is being called a doomsday budget that could mean sweeping budget cuts statewide. lawmakers try to avoid more than $500 million in cuts. >> we're going to balance the budget. we're going to save the counties from the disaster that would have befallen them. >> reporter: attorneys say the

state needs to live within their means. >> coming here to cut more spending, we're coming here to raise their taxes and to shift burden to local governments. >> reporter: under the proposal single filers who make more than $100,000 won't see a change. a tax will be imposed on every dollar over $100,000. >> we don't have to do this. we could instead choose to simply cut education, cut public safety, cut public health. >> reporter: baltimore city schools rallying against those cuts. >> don't balance this budget on the backs of me and my classmates, we deserve better. >> reporter: the school system could lose $22 million if a tax increase fails. baltimore city school teachers could be forced to take four unpaid furlough days next year. >> that means, that's four less days of education, that's four

less days of pay on the backs of our teachers. >> reporter: now the they're urging lawmakers to pass the budget to keep funding in city schools. the tax increase has passed in a preliminary vote in the senate. a final vote is expected tomorrow. the debate in the house however is expected to be more contentious. reporting live, megan mccorkel. >> another bill to shift the cost of teacher pension is also in the house. a fall officer claims williams massaged her feet. williams then allegedly rubbed her private parts on the officer foot. williams is on leave while he deals with his sexual assault charges. police in baltimore county are beefing up efforts to stop the cooper robbers. we first told you about the

growing problem, alex demetrick explains there is now a task force to change it. videos show thieves stealing the cooper. brazen enough in broad daylight but only a shadow of what's being taken. >> metal pipes, grounding plates, hvac coils, wire, gutters, even bronze statuted. >> reporter: today police announced the first operational to target cooper theft. >> because the thefts have more than tripled since 2009. >> reporter: even though police say scrap metal collectors cooperate, it's often impossible to separate out what's being stolen. for homeowners the thefts are personal. the thefts also leave costly

repairs behind. >> for example when someone steals an air conditioner, they have to damage the entire unit to get the small amount of cooper that's in that air- conditioner. >> it's a way to trace our product through the chain and help improve the likelihood that we can find those parties that are responsible. >> reporter: that's because bge is a prime target for cooper thieves. at $4 a pound everything from power poles to substations have been hit leaves thousands of dollars in damage. alex demetrick, wjz news. besides the damage and dollar loss, cooper thiefs have also caused power outages. a $2 billion trading blunder tonight one of j.m. morgan chase's top execs is out for her big mistake. she retired after the bank suffered the big loss. two other top executives are also on their way out. tomorrow the top ceo is

expected to face tough questions. president obama also weighed in the controversy today saying the trading loss reflects the need for wall street reform. it could be the biggest deal in the mid-atlantic in decades. a ceo lists his river front home for $32 million. the incredible home and agents claim it's worth the staggering price tag, kai jackson has the story. >> reporter: it's a mega mansion and it could bring record bucks when it's sold. it's a majestic estates in anne arundel county. the owner built a seafood empire and is selling it for what could be a record amount. >> the house is listed for $32 million. >> reporter: they're selling the 32-acre home near the naval

academy. the sprawling estate is -- >> once the kids are gone and out of house. sometimes you find yourself thinking, gee this is more house than we really want to take care of. >> reporter: it has 23,000 square feet of space, seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two swimming pools, a spa and a nine car garage. >> sometimes a change is good. it's a change good for us, it's a change good for people around us. >> reporter: it's a whopping price for a mega house in broker david says it could be a record high but at $32 million who could afford it? >> there are certainly people from other cities and other countries who could see the appeal of owning a property in this town. >> reporter: of course we're out here in front of phillip seafood. the owner moved his iconic restaurant to pratt street. a change of venue because of a disagreement that came about. if you would like to see this house, not a problem. just have your bank show them

that you have millions in your account demonstrating you're potentially a serious buyer. back to you. >> i won't be seeing it, thank you kai. sutherby's says there have already been inquiries since the house was listed last week. >> that's a lot of crab cakes. >> yes, that is. coming up politicians pull no punches. the tense issue that caused the fists to fry among members of the same political party. the rare flesh eating infection a woman suffers from and the key body parts doctors are trying to save. i'm bob turk, i'll the complete forecast coming up. they were just kids, cyber bullied, tortured not just at school but online. the local family who knows all too well what it's like. >> this the in a classroom? >> can it be stopped? >> this is not okay. >> next. ♪

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there's light rain out there, 65 degrees in central maryland. the complete forewarning weather is coming up. a wild scene in south korea when a brawl breaking out in a meeting. the fight broke out when they

were discussing a boat rigger. they had to leave with torn clothes. party members were upset about the formation of an emergency committee. two mysterious shootings on mississippi highway's lead police to warn the public to be extra careful. they're concerned that a police impersonator may be out. neither car had mechanical problems and it did not appear anything was stolen. a grad student from georgia is fighting for her life after being infected by a flesh eating infection. the infection has caused copeland to lose her left hand and middle finger. doctors are hopeing to save her palm so she could eventually use prosthetic devices. the band was not allowed to

perform during the investigation into champion's death. 11 people are facing felony hazing charges. the reevaluation will be brought up again next year but first they will have to find a new brand director and come up with new band rules. it is cyber bullying. a young maryland teen tells me it happened to him and tonight you will hear why his life has never been the same. >> reporter: you're looking at the face of a new kind of victim. young people who kill themselves when cyber bullies make life unbearable. >> this has got to stop. >> on easter sunday in howard county it happened again. 15-year-old mcculma takes her own life. her parents blame cyber bullies who preyed on her for months. harassments once limited to classrooms and playgrounds and

hall ways, have now moved on to cyber space. 14-year-old deren king was bullied at school for years. >> the taunting, he's been bullied since seventh grade. >> reporter: but it got worse when a fight was video taped and placed on you tube. how do you feel about the fact that that video is out there? >> mad. >> this is not okay. this is not the way you treat another person. >> reporter: nine days after the fight the school told her the video was taken down. >> that wasn't the case because two weeks later i'm still finding the video on twitter and you tube and facebook. >> reporter: the video was eventually taken down but fall out from the cyber bullying changed daren. he still loves exploring the woods behind his home, riding

his bike and playing ball but will no longer go to school because of bullying. >> i would really like him to enjoy a public education without having fears. >> reporter: daren's fears are normal. nancy willard a national expert on cyber bullying says this very public humiliation is devastating. >> one of the things about the internet is it distances us from being able to see the impact of our actions. >> reporter: the controversial movie bullied shows these fights happen a lot at school. >> the law is really very clear that schools can intervene if students are attacking other students. >> were you afraid to go back to school like that you might get beat up again? >> yes. >> reporter: so you felt in danger there? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: that's very hard as a mother. what do you do? >> i want everyone to be aware. if you want to put something on the internet would you want yourself in that video. would you like your name in

that comment. and if you don't, then don't post it. >> reporter: schools can demand that students remove postings if they interfere with a student education or their physical or mental welfare. rescuers were called to save a dog from a river bank. he got there just in time to pull the golden retriever out before he was swept away. the dog was placed in a rescue boat and then returned to his owner. >> wow, not everybody would do that for a dog. that's pretty incredible. all right we got some rain in the region and actually a lot more headed our way. take a look at radar real quick. today most of the areas from the city did not have that much. but west of us as much as an inch or more fell. look down to the south there's a whole bunch developing there in the virginia. some of that is of the heavy variety. so do expect to see more rain

coming. looks like the heaviest may again be west of the baltimore area. it might slip a little further to the east. overnight tonight and into the overnight hours and into the morning. so looks like tomorrow's drive to work may be very wet. east southeast winds six. the dewpoints up there at 63, the humidity also at 96%. still pretty warm now, besides the mid- to upper 60s out there. close to 70 down by the bay. right now southeast wind in the region, tomorrow the winds pick up out of the south with pretty warm air coming in. might even get close to 80s in one spot. with this disturbance, more rain headed our way. as i said some of it could be heavy already over an inch to

the south and west. slight break in here but there's a whole new batch of rain developing across virginia, west virginia and kentucky area. east of kentucky, west virginia and north carolina. eventually that's going to move off. but there's another front coming in wednesday could bring us a brief shower. once that passes really beautiful weather head ed up for the end of the week. south winds gushing to 20 miles per hour. tomorrow showers, maybe a thunderstorms 77 degrees tomorrow. any sun we'll get some of those storms. just a shower chance on wednesday. 82, drying out. beautiful sunshine 76, 77 and 78 for saturday the preakness, denise. >> that looks good. thank you bob. the first place orioles try to keep their lofty perch. they're in for a fight with

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the yankees are in town, mark is here with our wjz13 sports report. >> not a good day weather wise or sports wise. trying to stay in fourth place and it's not easy against the yankees. big night for o's rookie xavier. twice he got on. twice j.j. hardy drove him in. a home run happy o's lead to the total. his ninth of the season. three of them have come against the yankees. but trouble with the glove,

chris davis error at first base allows the yankees to score. the o's have the the most errors in the league. baltimore native mark texeiria returns to his hometown to haunt the orioles. that put new york on top, they stay there and beat the birds eight will have -- eight -- 8- 5. the youngest player in the major league facing the san diego padres and harper hits his first major league home run. 402feet away. harper gets his first in his the major league game. freakness week in kentucky derby second place finisher bodimeister is officially

committed to coming to baltimore. the owner made the announcement after watching bodimeister working out. the o's have been trying to knock out the yankees weather permits tomorrow night. this isn't your typical ballpark frank. >> the extra ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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♪ this time 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. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving. ♪ [ dad ] we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. ♪ what do you get when you mix 4,000 children and six beagles, some would think a big mess but in south korea it turned out to be the world's tallest lego tower. it took five days to construct

and was topped out at 500 feet. the tower is tied to legos 80s anniversary. you wouldn't believe the ingredients or the price. this quarter pound hot dog was topped with lobster tail, aoli and gold flakes. it cost $1,500 and he sold four of them. now people in little rock don't love their hot dogs that much. the high priced dogs were a fundraiser for a local food bank. >> that's incredible. especially since

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