bracing for beryl, a tropical tomorrow surging towards florida. the damage it could bring. good evening. thanks for joining us. we just got an update, they're now reporting the tropical storm has winds of 70 miles an hour, just shy of hurricane strength. beryl is expected to make land fall any time now along the south eastern coast. >> the wind is wick -- picking up across the ghost of georgia. -- coast of georgia. the store is expected to hit parts of florida, georgia and south

carolina. it could drop up to 8 inches of rain. officials in jacksonville, florida canceled memorial day events because of the storm. >> it has the potential to produce localized flooding, downed trees. >> beryl started ruining plans sunday. lifeguards moved people away from the shore. swim ingming isn't allowed. the rough conditions kept most people out of the water in florida. >> no, we didn't get a chance, but that's all right. a little rough. >> these surfers in daytona beach came back to shore saying the waives were too dangerous. >> whenever they're rush kr -- crushing you it's tough to get out. >> forecasters say beryl is expected to move up the south eastern coast monday bringing

much needed rain but washing out memorial day plans. >> so right now let's go to bernadette woods. she's live tracking beryl's path and the latest on thunderstorms that are moving through our area right now. a lot going on tonight. >> there is . we're going to start out with our thunderstorms first. let's go to the radar. this is a very strong line of storms as they moved out of pennsylvania. 87 mile an hour wind gusts. a couple warnings. it's make ing its way into southern maryland right now. notice this batch. some of that is going to hold together and scoot further to the east. we're done with this storm yet. just down to our south, this is beryl. just about to make land fall at my point. i'm going --

at any point. i'm going to zoom it in. here is the western edge in jacksonville. it's about to make its way on shore. this is probably going to happen in the next half hour to hour. let's switch it over to the computer. 70 miles per hour, moving to the west. it's going to weaken over land and stay over land for 24 to 36 hours before going back over the water and heading north. that's when it could factor into our weather here. we will have that coming up in the forecast. >> a lot more coming up. stay with wjz for complete first weather coverage. log onto wjz.com any time. it is a million dollar signature. adam jones inks a historic contract with the oriels. jones' is opening up about the deal. >> for five years adam jones has been an oriels rising star. now he has a pay raise to go

with it, a # year contract extension worth more than $85 million. seated between the manager and the gm, adam jones talks about becoming the highest paid oriole in franchise history, a distinction he urned. -- earned. he said it's more than just money. >> there's a bigger goal, winning games. that's why i signed on. i believe in what they believe in and they believe in winning. >> we're telling oriels fans we're committed to this player, committed to putting a winning team on the field and committing to providing hope to rebuilding our fan base. >> on the field as a player an off the field as a roll model, he talked about his bigger goals. >> i want to make a mark in the city as someone who played -- who's going to go out there and

play hard every day on the field but in the community going to give his 100% to make a difference. >> it's been a long time coming. the excitement is back. we're all oriels fans. we brought 10 people down here today. we're excited jones is back. >> adam jones cashes in. now the oriels hope to follow up that investment with a winning season, something they haven't had in 15 years. >> thank you. we're going to find out how skwloens and the or -- jones and the oriels did today. a teenager falls down a maryland dam. this rescue is caught on tape. a teenager boy slipped down the pret thety boy dam this afternoon. he wasn't hurt. he did become trapped on a ledge. this police helicopter lowered a rescue swimmer down to the boy. he is home safe tonight. the search is on for a missing better in kent county. a 21-year-old man jumped off a boat for a swim and never came

back up. it happened near hallow point. as far as we know, that search is ongoing. were still waiting for an update. a frightening home envision. they shoot one man and shoot his girlfriend. the victims and the suspects for us. >> there were four people inside that house when two robers broke in. tonight one of them spoke with witness about what -- wjz about what she saw. >> it's hurting bad. i'm scare scared to death. >> it's been a traumatic day for sharon. she asked not to reveal her last name. she was visiting her daughter's house when two men busted through the back door shouting. >> baelt -- baltimore city police and came gunning up the steps with a gun. >> before it was all over

robers stabbed her 28-year-old daughter, amy, and shot her daughter's 30-year-old boyfriend justin. she said the robers kept asking where's the money and demanded their cell phones. >> i hurried up and called 911 and they saw me and lunged at me with the knife. my daughter stepped in between us. >> neighbors reporting seeing the -- reported seeing the suspects run out of the house an down the alley into a get away car. sharon can only describe them as tall, thin african american men. >> all dressed in black with a bandanna. >> the whole thing happened in an area loaded with kids leaving neighbors appalled. >> it makes you worry for the safety of our children. >> it makes me think twice about locking my doors and windows. >> i want them caught so they

don't do it to nobody else. >> the man with the gunshot wound is still in critical condition. the stabbed woman was taken to hopkins. she will survive. the investigation is still ongoing. >> more frightening, the suspect's claimed they were police. thank you so much. the couple bho lives if that -- who lives in that home has a young daughter but she wasn't there. another brutal attack, inside a baltimore city home leads to an intense stand off with police. an unidentified man pistol whipped his girlfriend. the gun went off but it's not clear if the woman was shot. she was taken to shock trauma with injuries. the man later took his own life. international out rage is beginning after a mas keer in syria. 45 were children under the age of 10. the un security

counsel called it out ray just. governor martin o'malley is put in the hot seat over his presidential dreams. >> a lot of buzz about you running for president next go around. what advice might you give the governor on running for president? >> raise a lot of money. >> i haven't thought that far. i'm doing everything in my power. >> the governor joined newt gingrich to talk about the upcoming election between president obama and mitt romney. before that interview ended the talk turned to o'malley's president's as per rations. am track services roll anything baltimore after an afternoon of long delays. an am track spokesman says crews are still trying to complete repairs of wires. those repairs suspended service between washington and philadelphia for 3 hours earlier today.

riders should still expect about 30 minute delays because of that one track shut down. it's a great weekend to be out at the beach. some ocean city board walks include base -- basics include towels, sand and good food. tonight, that resort town has a way of bringing out the food lovers. >> the ocean city board walk is open for business this holiday weekend. of course shoppers come for the souvenirs and summer sales. what they can't leave out, the food. >> pizza is really good. >> fresh ers ice cream. all the stuff on the board walk for the last 40 years. >> the broad walk is just three short miles. >> we got a cheese steak sandwich we're splitting. >> that right calories don't count on vacations. >> there are no diets. the ocean breaks off all the

calories. >> rest raunlt owners -- restaurant owners says there's one way to classify the food, child memories. he said restaurants wait all year for memorial day weekend. >> we're ready. . >> that means this will be one sweet holiday weekend. >> i have got to get some of those fries this year. you have plenty of options for places to eat on board walk. it has more than 100 restaurants. we have a lot more to come tonight. >> i heard the boom. >> an explosion blows up a home. the rush to save those who are trapped inside. an unbelievable crime, miami police shoot and kill a man who was eating another man's face inside

the south beach cannibal case. how nick wallenda is getting ready for his risky walk across niagra falls. >> the baltimore aware air -- area is among the best for parks. >> we have showers and thunderstorms and a tropical storm making land fall in florida. all that coming up in your forecast when eyewitness news returns. try dunkin's new black cocoa creme iced coffee and call star-star-d-d for a text to capture your alien today.

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we have some showers and it's 69 in central maryland. there's a tropical storm about to make land fall. bernadette will have the forecast coming up. five people are hurt when a house explodes. fire officials say a good semertian rescued two people from inside. there's no word on the victim's conditions, the cause of the explosion remains under investigation. just a shocking story out of miami, florida. a man chews off another man's face. police say they got a call that two naked men were fighting on a road. when they got to the scene one of the men was biting the other's face. a witness describes a globe of human flesh hanging from the man's mouth. when police ordered him to stop

he wouldn't. >> now during this con confrontation on officer discharged his weapon striking one of the individuals. >> that man was killed. the other man is in the hospital tonight. there's still no word on what -- what started the fight. take a look at this video. 78 people were left hanging in cable cars when the cars just stopped working. they were up in the air for more than 4 hours. crews got everyone down safely. nick wallenda intensifies his training ahead of his walk across niagra falls. tonight he walked across while a giant fan sprayed him with water and wind. here it is earlier this month when the 7th generation member of the family the wallenda's walked across the harbor for

simple practice. a new study ranks baltimore among the top areas for their park systems. >> this garden growing is just oning -- one of the neighborhood's park areas. >> the parks have lots of different amenities from swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, playground equipment, picnic tables, the shade of a tree. >> there are 270 strike that park sites in the -- separate park sites in the city. baltimore ranked 15th out of 40. >> we were right in the middle there. how big our parks were. in general we have a lot of smaller parks compared to other cities. >> they range the size from drew hill park and gwenn falls

to mullin park. >> the great thing about having so many small locations is they're easily accessible to all the city residents. >> accelerate ccessibility was a fee -- accessibility was a key ranking in the factor. 80% of the popular lives in a short walk to a park. the study says the city does not put money into the park systems neighborhoods do. >> to elaborate on that, the amount of money the city spends is the only negative park. bernadette woods tracking a lot going on. we have thunderstorms and this tropical storm. >> it's pretty much right on the coast. the eye has not passed yet. it's going to any moment. we're going to start out with our thunderstorms that moved through this evening. you

notice even at this hour just to the north of cumberland another area of thunderstorms making its way down from the north. these don't have warnings with them, but there's a lot of lightening and downpours. wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour in pennsylvania. it broke down as it moved further south. it canceled a lot of festivities in dc. you can still see the lightening hanging on. here is that next batch coming down from the north. most of today mixed clouds an sunshine before those tomorrows starting firing and coming down from the north. temperature wise, still 69 degrees outside. we are not dropping much more. one of the reasons for that, the dew point is so high. we're going to get fog to form over night. that's how we will start out the day tomorrow. 89 was our high. that will be close to our high again tomorrow.

that's just how warm this air mass is right now. it's going to stick around not just for us but a lot of the countries. record highs across the deep south all the way to minneapolis. it broke down along the coast because of beryl. beryl is making its way on shore as we speak. what's happening to the north of that is a separate system. this is a part of a front passing by that's going to pass by tomorrow. again the chance for a shower or thunderstorm. as far as beryl goes, making land fall tonight and hovering over land for a day and a half before making a turn off to the north and heading back out to sea. it passes maryland early on in the week. now the model generally take it on this track. the most part, it's going to stay south of us. with this front coming in from the west, it will draw

moisture oh -- our way. scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible. those isolated ones this evening -- excuse me isolated ones tomorrow but with the front coming in even more widespread thunderstorms and showers before it gets out out here for the second half of the week. we have small craft advisories in effect. tonight we're not dropping much, some fog forming. tomorrow close to 90 for the high. a shower or thunderstorm possible. better chances tuesday into wednesday with that front drawing all that moisture from beryl our way. upper 80s, still muggy and warm. when it gets out of here we cool it down. >> power outrages already reported in florida from that storm. coming up next, the oriels take on kansas city. take on kansas city. stan,,,,,,

stan is here with our fan sports report. did jones earn some of that $85 million tonight? >> his hitting streak is 18 straight games, the best in baseball. downtown at the yards tonight kansas city beat the oriels taking the weekend series. the birds still share first place. on military appreciation day at camden yards, we fast forward to the bottom of the 9. there's trouble in the out field for johnny and jeff. a little sunday meet and greet. bottom 9, last chance, birds trailing and strike out. birds lose 4-2. bryan mad ison -- bryan madison's

three game streak is broken. the birds head to toronto. see gulf seniors 81-7. meantime, two all set to tan go in men's ncaa battle. it should be a good one. >> how much fun are you having with this group? >> it's emotional. they're a special group. having fun. >> my man charlie a little choked up. in woman's la cross, shannon smith two goals. northern west beat syracuse. remember when they beat maryland in the same game last year? national champs again. >> auto racing today. mike con

way flying. this bouncing tire struck a car. here is sacco. he spun out and wrecked. fran frankini won. >> shar let motor speedway, the coca-cola 600. quick note, zach johnson winning the colonial in golf. the spurs beat the thunder 101-98. sgltsz,,,,,,,,

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