a report on the penn state sex abuse scandal. >> the most powerful men at penn state failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who sandusky victimized. >> today we learn who knew what and when they knew it. hello, i'm jessica kartalija. don has the day off. here's what people are talking about today. the breaking no uz from this morning -- news from this morning, the long awaited report on the penn state sex abuse scandal is out. randall pinkston has details from philadelphia. >> former fbi director lewis freed delivered a report on the failures of top penn state officials to top jerry sandusky from sexually abusing children. >> the most powerful men at at penn state -- at pen statement failed to take steps for 14 years. >> he named four top university officials including joe paterno who were more concerned about

sandusky's well being than this victims. >> created a dangerous situation for other unknown, unsuspecting young boys lured to the campus and football games by sandusky. >> the report criticized paterno and penn state for allowing sandusky to retire as a valued member of the penn state football legacy. >> the university's board of trustees fired freed to look into penn state's roll in the scandal. over 400 people were interviewed. the investigation found there was no report of paterno or tim purely reporting that they saw sandusky in a shower with a boy, which the law requires. >> at the very least mr. mr. paterno could have alerted the entire football staff in order to prevent sandusky from bringing another child into the building. >> before paterno's death he said he wished he had done more.

>> more than 400 current and former school employees were interviewed for the investigation, including everyone associated with the football program. the former university officials deny any wrong doing. joe paterno's family said he never would have protected sandusky. an update on the controversy brewing over the raise for the baltimore city fire chief. the board of estimates approved a new contract that i want cludz a raise -- that includes a raise of 18% by 2018. the raise caused an uproar in the union. today the chief said if firefighters do not get their raise he will donate his to the city department's fire foundation. a surprise sentencing for a woman in federal court this morning. the feds say she injected a potentially dangerous form of silicone into the butt

of several clients. mike hellgren is live. >> reporter: good afternoon. kim ber berly it -- kimberly smedly faces a lot of jail time. the key witness turned on the prosecution. >> one of kimberly's supports told reporters to go home as she left the courthouse for what was supposed to be a quick sentencing hearing. she pleaded guilty earlier this year for her role in what federal prosecutors say was an operation injecting the butt of women with central grade silicone. >> you can't inject it into somebody's body. >> the sentencing went array when prosecutors called her exboyfriend to testify for them.

they already secured a plea deal with them him -- with him. in a surprise move he said he's been tricked by the government. >> i was not surprised. he was using medical grade silicone. >> some clients were strippers who believed a bigger behind would earn them extra cash at the clubs. she would inject women up and down the east coast and falsely told them she was using medical grade silicone. many are left with disfigured bodies, even organs that shut down. >> did you know what was being injected into your body? >> no, i did not know. we still don't know what it is. i almost went into a deep depression over this because i felt like i did this to myself. i do feel like i'm one of the lucky ones. >> prosecutors say one of the clients, a dancer was hospitalized when silicone entered her bloodstream and spread to her lungs. >> reporter: feds say she is not a licensed medical pra tigs

ner, she would -- practitioner, she would use crazy glue to sale -- seal up the wound. >> the u.s. attorney officer worked with the food and drug administration on this investigation. an over night accident takes the life of a teenager in howard county. the crash happened in columbia just after 3:00 a.m.. a 17-year-old lost control of his car and hit a tree. three other people were in the car. they were injured. police say speeding was a factor. thousands of packages of heroin won't make it to the streets. state police arrest a north carolina man, recovering more than $100,000 worth of the suspected heroin plus more than $70,000 in drug money. police say the man was initially stopped for following another vehicle too closely but a search by a drug dog revealed 5,000

packages of street ready heroin. an arson investigation is underway after a playground goes up in flames. firefighters battled the blaze at the our house community center. investigators say the fire started in the padding material. no one was injured in that blaze. adding fuel to the fire bge customers who lost power in the recent storm have a gripe over upcoming charges. ron is not news room with all the details. >> reporter: it's a small charge but still causing controversy. some customers had to suffer through as many as nine days without power. now they're learning a state utility policy lets bge charge customers a routine distribution fee of less than $1. the utility is only allowed to charge customers for the first 24 hours of the outage. even though the charge is small, many customers are frustrated. >> after the first 24 hours

after an outage bge has to absorb the cost of storm clean up. let's take a look live outside. the sun is shining at the moment, giving us a typical summer day. marty is in the first warning weather center with a look at whether the sun will stick around. >> the sun is going to stick around. good afternoon. lest take a look at the -- let's take a look at the numbers that are almost exactly as they were this time yesterday. a temperature of 84, dew point of 55. yesterday the dew point was about 53 and temperatures were in the mid 80s. there's been virtually no change 24 hours to 24 hours. it's a very comfortable thursday in progress, a few high clouds in the area and that's about it. do understand high pressure that blew some humidity and haze out and gave us a great day start is going to turn on us. we're going to be looking at 100

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in the inner harbor. such has been the case through over night and this morning. this morning was pleasant. this afternoon even with a high of 90 it's going to be just as delightful. let's enjoy what we have and understand not only does the weekend loom but so does another heat pump high. i'm not trying to be donny drowner, but it's going to get hot again. >> you scooted away as you said that like i was going to give you one of these. >> in the commercial break you might. let's take a look at the -- the commercial breaks are off the charts in this show. it's 84 right now, 55% humidity -- i mean, that's the dew point. 37% humidity. so delightful. the winds are out of the north at 6. any breeze at all is a nice one. the barometer has risen to 30.20. this big dome of high pressure pushed that humidity out. that high is moving offshore and going to become a heat pump.

85 elkin, 84 dc. on the board walk with ocean city 78, 84 columbia, westminster, rock all. the temperature and dew point pretty much the exact same as yesterday. why am i not obsessing but really trying to spotlight this dome of high pressure? it's going to be a different heat pump than what was a big dome of high pressure that hammered us about a week and a half ago. this is going offshore. it's going to get in that slot off the carolinas. what brought us that big heat of the past week and a half was located out to the west. we're sitting over the center of the country. this is really going to be a humid period coming up, more so than we dealt with during heat snap number two of the summer which just concluded. 90 today and comfortable, 70 over night. tomorrow it's going

to be warm, noticeably more humid. when we get into this weekend look where that high is. it's not sitting out there over the side of the country, it's sitting offshore. it's coming right from the ocean, the air is. it's going to get sticky. still to come on wjz eyewitness news at noon, your eyes may not give you away. the connection between you eyes and lying. wjz 13 is always on. here are are the top stories on wjz.com at this hour. for instant updates on all the day's news and the updated first warning weather forecast log,,,,

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looks nice, doesn't it? >> yes. >> sure does. we can use a little bit of rain. federal hill is looking a wee bit par parched -- parched up. other than follow up showers, there's no day long rain coming our way. 90 tomorrow and saturday. you're going to notice humidity coming up. sunday it will be reach for the baby powder, screaming for it. tuesday 94. these temperatures might be low. they're kournt -- counting on cloud cover to give us umbrella effect. it's coming back, summer in the city. it's an episode tonight you don't want to miss, tune in for person of interest at 10:00 and eyewitness news at 11:00. a service you can wrap your arms around.

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