mass car at the movies. >> i think somebody is shooting in the auditorium. >> tonight, search for answers

at the suspect's home. >> good evening, everyone. thanks if for joining us. many new developments tonight. bomb experts are trying to secure 24-year-old james holmes' booby-traptd apartment. holmes was arrested that friday night, and has confessed to having several bombs inside his home. mo neck has the response here in maryland, but lets begin with teresa garcia with the latest from colorado. >> a controlled explosion went off inside the booby-trapped apartment of achylessed movie theater gunman james holmes. the blast was designed to help law enforcement get inside the apartment, which he said contained a complicated array of devices, trigger wires, chemicals, and ammunition. >> translator: the threat has not within completely eliminated. it has been significantly reduced. >> reporter: holmes is in

custody, awaiting his first court appearance on monday. he's accused of massacring movie goers at the premier of the new batman film. >> a day before the shooting, some of his neighbors say they did make an impression on him. >> reporter: carl allen spoke with holmes on wednesday. >> he didn't say much to us. he had a weird look in his buy. >> reporter: we're also learning more about the victims. a.m. exsullivan was celebrating his 27th birthday. tomorrow would have been his first wedding anniversary. jessica gawhi was an aspiring sportswrite and blogger. >> her whole life has changed in a flash, for what? she still doesn't know her daughter's gone. >> reporter: and only one person knows why. in aurora, colorado, teresa

garcia, wjz eyewitness news. >> place say holmes received many deliveries to his home and work addresses over the past four months. that explains the thousands of rounds of ammunition he had. movie theaters here in maryland are also stepping up their security here. monique continue ours coverage from downtown in baltimore. >> reporter: security experts say this mass shooting may change the way we go to the movies, to the mall or other public places. >> reporter: officers on patrol and heightened security inside theaters are what movie goers can expect heading to the movies this weekend. >> i think it's to keep the safety and security of the people coming in. >> reporter: the pass consider at the dark knight premier in colorado has understandably left people female feeling uneasy. and security experts say that's because it highlighted how vulnerable people are in certain places. >> this has been a long time coming. >> reporter: michael

greenberger worked in counterterrorism, and is now the director of the maryland center of health homeland security. >> this kind of mass event in a consumer situation is something that many of us have been worried about for years. >> reporter: greenberger says traiks police in populated areas is only a short-term solution, and he believes the tragedy in aurora will force theaters and other public places to revamp how they handle security. >> i think this is the beginning of a new era of security protection that the american people are going to have to get used to. >> some theaters have already banned cost tombs and masks for the dark knight rises premier, but that may be the beginning of what's to come. >> when violence happens in stadiums or larger events anywhere, it becomes necessary. >> it's good to do tea, maybe this weekend, but i wouldn't keep it up regularly for every movie that comes out. >> reporter: and most police garments are just increasing their patrols for this weekend.

it's still unclear if any theaters are any long-term changes already planned for their security. back to you, adam. >> thanks, mo neck. stay with wjz for complete coverage of this terrible mass shooting. for the latest, log onto wjz.com. rupert murdoch has resigned from a number of news corp. boards and stocks here in the u.s. last year, murdoch faced allegations that his companies had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrity, royalty, and public citizens. again, rupert murdoch resigning tonight from a number of boards. some much-needed rain is falling across a renal today. for what seems like most of the day, showers have been soaking us. looks like there's still a bit of rain out there. let's go to bernadette woods,

who is live with our first warning doppler radar. we needed this, didn't we? >> we really did. it's unfortunate timing for people that had weekend plans. the soaking is still continuing. most of these amounts are light at this point. you steel still see a little bit of light rain and drizzle across the state. we want to show you as far as rh amounts go, this take us toback to whb we had the thunderstorms that produced a lot of flooding rain. we've seen anything from four and a half inches in frederick, and at vwi marshall where the records are kept, up to over 2- inches a few days ago. this is some very-needed brain temperatures are taking a huge hit. it's only 69 degrees outside right now. we haven't gotten to 70 yet this afternoon, and that may be a record low maximum temperature, after on wednesday we had a record high of 104. what a swing. >> talk about extremes with

bernadette. an air force instructor in texas is sent to 20 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. a military jury at auckland aforce base found lewis walker guilty on several charges incleugd rape. he's one of 12 instructors accuse of sexual miswith female trainees. six o have been officially charged. police are investigating a shooting here in baltimore tonight. officers found a 21-year-old man bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. that victim was rushed to the hospital, and tonight he is said to be in stable condition. police are asking anyone with information on the shooting to go ahead and call detectives. police are hoping for help in the case of a missing vulnerable adult. look at this picture of natoya

williams hobb. she is mentally challenged. they need help trying to find this woman. anyone with information is asked to call the missing persons unit. it is one of the night's fastest-growing airports. and now vwithurgood marshall has bhun to expand. it's one improvement that will make vwi a favorite for passengerrers. >> reporter: years of construction shows that vwi airport, now armed with a $12 million grant, has more improvements on the way. the airport is givings i rainway an upgrade. >> translator: payment was 20 years old there. you can imagine all the wear and tear from the aircraft landing and taking off every day. >> reporter: last year the airport tracked a record numb of passengers. and last year, vwi planned upgrades to its holdest

sections, concourse c. two new airlines announced their arrival at the airport. you work on the runway is already underway. >> we're working with the airline to make it invisible to the customers. >> reporter: angela green and her family just returned from jamaica. the silver springs resident says she chooses vwi often over other airport. she knows a new and improved runway could bring more passengers with it. >> if they're going to improve the runway because they improved the airport, that's probably overdue. >> the airport says construction should be completed in september, long before the holiday rush begins. i'm gi girks barr net, wjz news. >> this grant is a small portion of the $350 million price tag that's designated to

bring the runway up to federal air safety standards. thowfs fans showed up at the poor boy's restaurant to meet terrel suggestion, who is making progress in his recovery. thousands of people are unoutside today, enjoying arts, crafts, displays, tables, and vendors at art scape. today was the first day of the free outdoor fest value. -ups are kiss playing their paints, photographs, sculptures, jewelry reason clothe, lots of chotchkies you could buy today. didn't see that ride there last year. that looks fun. still to come, a dangling driver, crashes his truck and it left hanging over the side

of a bridge. missing cousins. police believe that two iowa girls have in fact been abducted. we have new information and reaction from the parents tonight. also, mall mess. customers rush out of north carolina stores as parts of the roof collapse. we'll tell you what caused it to cave in. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it's still raining out

there and 69-degrees in central maryland. bernadette will have the first complete forecast. but first, a very bad crash leaves a truck dangling over the edge of a bridge in china, and the driver is literally hanging on for life. his leg was caught under the 30- ton truck. firefighters used some ropes to hoist the driver back up on the bridge, and paramedics had to work to free the man's leg. he did survive. new evidence has led investigators to believe that two missing cousins are still alive in iowa. that information came one day after fbi investigators said they do believe the girls were abducted. investigators have questioned some family members in the disappearance, but so far no arrests have been made. >> their study on dan and i is a bit out of place, although

we're not the fbi, so i believe they're just doing their job. >> one relative walked out of a polygraph, because bliss accused him of hurting the girls and knowing where they are. dozens of shoppers are evacuated from a mall in north carolina after part of a ceiling collapses on top of him. here's a look at damage from the sky. authorities say that parts of the mall were flooded with water right aft collapse. amazingly, no one was hurt in the accident. heavy rains are also blamed for causing serious damage down in tennessee. check out this giant sinkhole that opened up right outside of a hotel, taking part of a car with it. a crane was called to the scene. no one was hurt or in the car, but the car did suffer a couple of scratches. it's kind of crazy. looks like after they hoits hoisted that car out of there, it just drove right away.

that's a perfect circular sink hole too. >> can you mage walking out and seeing that? so we're at 104 degrees on wednesday. today, we haven't gotten out of the 60s. >> i had to wear jeans today and pulled out a zip-up to do day this morning. >> i don't buy that. the record low maximum today is 73-degrees. we still could go above that, but right now we're sitting at 689 degrees. there's still areas of rain and a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it's like a canadian summer day. >> or far up in new england. >> it's unbelievable. not even new england. i was talking to my in-laws.

they're grilling out. they're nice up there. >> not too far to the north, the sun has returned. new york was also beautiful this afternoon. we have this easterly wind right on top of us. first warning doppler radar, here is the rainmaking its way across the state where you're not seeing rain, there's still a few areas with a light, fine drizzle coming down. it's just a wet, gray doubtday out there. here's the latest batch of rain on the eastern shore on the northern side. the rain will head to d.c. and annapolis and head over the bay bridge. let's look at these rainfall totals, pretty impressive. it takes us back to when we had the thunderstorms. some of these amounts came too quickly for some areas, but overall these amounts in theory are what we need to kick some of the drought conditions. unfortunately, we did see some

flooding. 4 and a half inches in frederick, at vwai marshall, 2 and a half inches. we have coastal advisories in effect for varying times. the next couple of high tide cycles will have localized flooding out there. in addition to that, these are the 3w567s of rain we saw today. out west, already trying to achebreak up swhab an eventually that will take over, but not quite yet. and look at these temperatures, 69 degrees in baltimore for a july afternoon. when we were just in the 100s a few days ago. that's our high on the day. nearly 20 degrees below average, starting out the day on 64 degrees. and can you see, we're locked in one little pocket of cool air. out to our west, here's the heat building once again. it will move our direction once

again. 99 in denver, 97 in kansas city. if you like the heat, be patient, it's coming back. we have that stalled front to our south. it will slowly try to break up tomorrow. we could still have showers during the morning hours. a little bit of a break before another front moves our way. this front will draw that warmer air ahead of it and produce a couple scattered showers and thunderstorms monday afternoon into tuesday. so the forecast on the water, that northeast wind turns around to the southeast. still some rain and drizzle tonight and some fog tomorrow. maybe some peeks of sunshine in the afternoon. 85 for our high. and then here comes those 90s, 91 on monday, 94 on tuesday, before we cool it down once again. >> weather like this just perfect. sat in the sports bar last night had a couple beers, watched the baseball game. >> and if you watched jim thome

who's now with the orioles, last night was a special night for him. >> big jim thome knocking it out of the park at the place he used to work, cleveland. as an indian he had 337 home runs. he,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it's time for our sports report. the yoarls back on the upswing right now. >> and that's what it's going to take, every little bit to catch the yankees and tampa bay. every hit, run, and error so crucial for the orioles. they clobbered the indians in

cleveland. and my microphone just on me. jim thome had a good night last night, leading off with a home run, his 610th home run. oh, there's my microphone. it fell on the inside pocket of my front coat. anyhow how, jim thome in cleveland where he played for 5 years. ryan flaherty had a home run to help propel the os, who won 10- 2. after the game here's rhine flaherty. >> trying to be as consistent as i can, just get in there and help this team win. that's all i can do. and that's what i was trying to do. >> the orioles egoweekend a series continues in cleveland tonight on masn. see them live at 7:00 in about 34 minutes. the washington nationals'

nl east division lead has slunk, thanks to bryce harper bruising his ankle on a bunt attempt. adam larosche robbing ben shiefs, but the braves win this one. three rounds done and one to to go at british open. the leader has the hit from the green to the bunker. he bogeyed and dropped to 8 under. tiger woods very much alive and in the hunt. great shot from ad am scott. -- adam scott. great scott. as we look at the leader board,

adam scott at 11 under, saying catch me if you can. brandon mcdowell tied at second with snedeker. that's it for sports, see you tonight for tour de france highlights. and here's that reminder on wjz tonight, the orioles' weekend series in cleveland against the indians, tonight on wjz. and at 11, we'll have the latest from aurora, colorado, including the latest on the victims and that suspect, and when will these rain showers get out of here? we'll have the updated first warning weather forecast font at 11:00. in the meantime, enjoy that fall type of a night, huh? >> makes you ready for

football, doesn't it? [ laughter ] >> always ready for that. >> we should get a countdown clock for that. that's it for us. for bern and stan, thanks for watchi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,