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competitors. swimming into history. baltimore's own michael phelps wins his 16th medal and becomes the best of all time. tonight hometown pride rings out. history is made in london and it's felted all the way here in baltimore. michael phelps breaks a record, a record untouched for half a decade. >> reporter: michael phelps has accomplished a legacy for the ages -- established a legacy for the ages and his hometown

of baltimore has been right there with him. supporters gathered at a bar downtown to watch the swimming star race. they also gathered in mount washington to cheer on michael phelps who made history becoming the most decorated swimmer ever. >> i think it's great for america, for the u.s. i think it's great for baltimore and great for the sport of swimming. >> reporter: michael phelps has an impressive medal count. in 2004 in greece he won six gold and two bronze. at the games in beijing he won eight gold medals. so far in london he won three gold medals. baltimore fans know his story. in real life that his success at the olympics comes from years of hard work and training that he put here at the pool at

meadow brook. >> i think he's shown people he has the power to succeed. >> he's doing a pretty good job, and i like the swimming. >> reporter: michael phelps medal count eclipses russian swimmer adina. tonight three boaters are rushed to the hospital after a collision in anne arundel county. rescuers rushed to get the victims out of the water. 911 caller told police the boat struck a buoy. two people were treated for injuries and a 37-year-old woman is still in serious condition at shock trauma tonight. new video of a few new clues in the abduction of ripkin. now we have a longer and clearer view of the suspect. rochelle richie report that is several police agencies are

involved. >> reporter: this surveillance video released to wjz show it is man that police say is responsible for the abduction of ripkin. >> we're asking people outside the area to take a look at this video. >> reporter: the video show it is suspect casually walking into the store on the night that he kidnapped ripkin. he makes a purchase and walks out. police have released a sketch of the suspect. it was a week ago that ripkin, cal ripkin jr.'s mother was taken from her house. her car was spotted around 8:15 that night. a missing person alert went out at 5:30 in the morning and she was found at 6:00 in the morning. ripkin was tied up and thrown in the back of her car. the suspect took her on a terrifying ride for 24 hours.

the mayor of aberden calling the situation troubling. >> i have never seen anything like that. i think it's going to be a matter of time. >> reporter: the ripkin family has yet to comment publicly about the investigation. however they did release the statement saying they were grateful for vi's safe return. >> a $2,000 reward has been offered for tips leading to an arrest. a man is shot and killed by police after a struggle with a police officer. meghan mccorkell reports. >> reporter: it's released that the man had a knife, now it's been investigated if he tried

to use that knife. >> several police cars. >> reporter: the officer responding to a 911 call that a violent fight at this weldon home. neighbors say that woman is pregnant, the man turned on the officer and attacked him a knife near by. >> the officer who was being attacked did summon the other officer to assist him. the other officer fired at least one round to the suspect. >> reporter: the suspect killed, neighbors say this exhumety -- community is so quite, they ,,,,,,,,,,,,

partly cloudy, 76 degrees in central maryland right now. the complete forewarning weather coming up. a rare weather scene in las

vegas. a monsoon type rain leads to widespread flooding. clogged storm drains helped contribute to the problem. some parts of las vegas saw nearly 2-inches of rain. a large power grid failed today compounding a problem that has millions of the people in the dark. thousands of people are stranded because the trains can't run. government officials say they are confident power will be restored tomorrow. a bird strike causes significant damage in an international flight from dallas to denver. the usda is trying to determine the size of the flock.

no one was hurt. miranda bowman was the only one there when her grandfather had a heart attack. >> i avoided the telephone pole right next to me. went through someone's lawn. ran over a tree and then i took out three other trees and a stump. >> reporter: the air bags disdeploy and miranda was able to escape the ordeal with a few scrapes and bruises. adam may has the dramatic calls to 911. >> reporter: witnesses laying out on boston beach surprised to see two sharks going after some swimmers. >> it came between the two and went into the swimmer of the left and went into the man's

swimmer. >> we immediately started grabbing towels to compress the bleeding. >> a lot of bleeding? >> yeah, there was blood all over his legs. >> reporter: others called 911. >> reporter: what's the problem. >> a shark attack. she's bleeding, he's wounded. >> okay is he on the beach now? >> he's on the beach out of the water. >> reporter: witnesses say they have no doubt they saw a shark but they're not sure what kind it was. since the attack, most here have stayed on the sand but some took their chances on the water. >> it's nerve wracking for sure. >> but you weren't going to let it stop you? >> no, we'll always going in water. >> reporter: on top of this attack there's been an unusually large number of shark sightings along the coast of cape cod this year. adam may. >> reporter: according to the university of florida which tracks shark bites there has never been one in maryland. missing mascot in louisiana, tech 20 the mascot for louisiana tech was snatched

from a fenced area in the clinic where his owner worked. the british bulldog was let out for a several minutes. his owner says he wouldn't run away. the school is offering $10,000 for the dog's return. the drought in the midwest is turning into a good thing for noodlers. noodlers only use their hands to catch fish. hand fishing isn't as easy as it may look. it's messy and only allowed in a few states. so avoid putting your hand into the water and catch dinner. >> they have a whole show around that. >> you would be good at that. >> tastes like chicken. no taste like cat fish.

no wind at all and the dewpoints are 70. there are some showers west of us. let's take a quick look at radar. you can see some activity that's looking over western sections of our region. we'll probably see some of this in the baltimore a little heavier stuff south of us. so there may be some thunder even some lightning after midnight even 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. 76 now. no wind, the barometer is holding steady. locally out to the west they've had rain much of the afternoon and evening. 69, 64, 77dc. locally mid-70s, we had some showers in a few spots. the 80 in annapolis. 86, 70, today the average is 87. the record is 102 and 54. 1997. we've got some very light wind most areas. it's beginning to turn to the south tomorrow. i think we will see a bit of a

south wind and slight chance in the afternoon but shower or thunderstorms because of a front to the west. kind of a weak thing. but there's just enough of a cool air loft that may kick up some showers and thunderstorms. stays rather humid now by thursday and friday i think we might dry out but warm up into the mid-90s with less cloud cover. we will get up to 91, 92, maybe 93 degrees by thursday, friday and into the weekend. a lot of activity to the south. to the west of us there's a weak frontal system with shower activity. a whole bunch did develop and that is now beginning to cross into virginia. quite a bit of activity. it has weakened since we lost the sun. but we may still see some showers tonight. behind that there's some clearing skies, by thursday, friday we'll see a lot of sunshine. south winds five to 10 knots. the bay temps still nice and

warm at 82 degrees. still showers and thunder showers and patchy fog. clouds and sunshine maybe a shower or thundershower by afternoon. looks like it stays dry on friday. 93, 93 saturday. the normal highs only went 96. pretty hot 93 here on sunday. vic. >> okay, bob. thank you. check in tomorrow morning on eyewitness news starting at 44: 4:55 for the updated morning forecast. >> do the o's have enough to come back against the yankees? mark has more coming up next in sports. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

mark has our wjz sports report. >> baseball usually takes over this time of year. the orioles are keeping things interesting that's for sure. they will head into august not only with a winning record but still very much alive. victory's over the yankees over feel good. it was bad news in the bronx for pitcher tillman with adisastrous first-inning. he had a visit. one score when he made this error on a ball hit right to him. looks like one of those nights it was 5-0 yankees in the first- inning. but then the second inning happened. the o's started hitting. quintanilla with a hit right into the sec. this was just the start of a huge second inning come back. chris davis came to the plate, based loaded and he unloads to left center field that was his

first grand slam of his career. the o's score seven runs in the 2nd inning. the yankees didn't score again at all. it ends up a 7-5o's victory. they finished july with play off hopes alive. >> we had our own expectations, we didn't worry what everybody else wanted us to do. we know we're going to play our division the last month and have an opportunity to climb back un. >> and looking at the rockies tomorrow afternoon. the o's have not swept at the yankees since 1996. o's and yankees tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. football now, it is a broken hand for david pettis

yesterday. he could be ready to play the season opener. training camp continues in owins mills. everybody respects the montra next man up. the team is practicing with replacement guys. >> everybody is fighting. we all want to be a great team. i'm busting my tail. other notable absences in camp, defensive tackle nada and bryan mckinny. two starters yet to practice because of injuries. upshaw has missed practice because of a injured shoulder. we'll see if the o's can get that sweep. >> definitely. thanks a lot mark. >> coming up an elaborate

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