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crash and burn. moments away from the checkered flag, a multicar accident. the front of car shears off. debris floods at grand stands. >> i'm adam map more than two dozen nascar fans injured in a crash. andrea diaz has the latest. >> reporter: a multicar crash on the la lap of the nascar nationwide series sends debris into fans rookie kyle larson's
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number 32 car flew into a fence that separates the track from the stands. the engine landed on the divide. a tire and other pieces of the car came to rest in the grandstands. >> you have to realize, a motor was sitting in the stands, and a wheel. not a tire, a wheel with a brake drum on it and everything flying over your head. >> reporter: rescue crews quickly moved with stretchers to help fans. terry huckabee says a piece of metal ripped apart his brother's leg. >> i didn't think he was hurt bad until i looked down and he was laying down and his leg was bleeding bad. >> reporter: veteran tony stewart won the race, but said this is not a time to celebrate. >> i wish i didn't have a rear view mirror, because that was an ugly site.
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>> reporter: officials will be work around the clock to fix the track. >> we expect to go racing tomorrow with no changes. >> reporter: nascar says they will conduct a full review of the crash to determine if any new safety measures need to be applied to future races. >> 14 people were taken to the hospital. 14 otherrings were treated at the track. friend and family said good- bye to a rapper. fans and family lined a street where kenneth cherry grew up. the shooting and crash took the lives of 3 people. cherry was father of 3 young children. the suv involved in the ordeal was involved tonight. it was found at an apartment complex in east los angeles.
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new details in the death of veva stekamp, the girlfriend of oscar pistorius. no reports say the south african police told her family that her skull was crushed before he died. pistorius said he thought she was an intruder and shot her through a door then beat the door down with a constrict bat when he realize whad happened. more patients have come forward, afraid they were videotaped by their gynecologist. rochelle richie has be more on the growing legal problems. >> reporter: hundreds if not thousands went to dr. nikitita
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leavy. >> reporter: at the hilton baltimore, possible victims of dr. leavy learned more about their violated privacy rights. >> you get the question of how did this happen? where are the videos? how will i know if i'm on one of these videos? >> reporter: the doctor is accused of using a camera on a pen to secretly record his patiences during their examinations. >> that's a violation. >> reporter: he committed suicide before an investigation into his secret taping practices were revealed. some experts say while some rights are obviously violated within others can be ignored. >> did johns hopkins notify them in a timely fashion or at all? >> reporter: a lawsuit has been filed against johns hopkins.
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>> i believe that each and every party patient of this dfer who lented of this conduct, his malicious, wanton, unlawful, and outrageous conduct, has suffered damage. >> reporter: others who trusted dr. leavy are going up against the hospital on their own, like taisha bell. >> i had no idea that this man was capable of doing such acts. >> reporter: the dr. had upwards of a thousand women visit him during his time, and many are left to wonder if they may have been recorded by dr. leavy. >> reporter: johns hopkins says coworkers notified security on february 4. he was fired on february 8. >> johns hopkins has remained tight-lipped about the investigation, releasing only a statement that says, "words cannot express how deeply sorry we are for every patient whose
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privacy may have been violated." a baltimore county lawmaker in big trouble after being arrested on charges of dui. he was arrest forward driving with his headlights off. he was driving a county-owned jeep when he was pulled over just before 3:00 in the morning. his blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. he's facing negligent driving charges. police are looking for a pair of missing girls. police say 13-year-old kamera martin has not been seen since yesterday. investigators say she left her home in the 3700 block of ellsersly avenue. anyone with information is asked to contact police. here's the other girl police are look for tonight. this is 13-year-old katelyn benny. she was last seen friday afternoon in the 3500 block of benton heights avenue. if you have seen either one of these girls, you are asked to
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call baltimore police. a deadly fire in prince georges county claims one more life. an 11-year-old girl has died as a result of her injuries. the father and two zrs died at the scene. deja price had no put when she was pulled from the home, but was revived and then died last night. now to vatican city where pope benedict thanks members of the vatican's central administration for their support before he leaves office. he spoke with a group of personnel, some privately, and then tomorrow, pope benedict will hold his last sunday blessing. here in ballet bhoash local parishioners held a mass in honor of the 85-year-old. >> reporter: a mass of
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thanksgiving. catholics say good-bye to pope benedict xvi. >> we want to pray for him. >> reporter: hundreds packed the pews for huh this historic service. it's the first time living pope has retired since 1415. >> it's a great act to step aside on behalf of the great needs of the church. it speak thoises great humanity and love of us. >> reporter: parishioners expressed their favoring opinions of the pope. >> he's put in major contributions while he was pope. >> we wanted to pray for him. we know he will spend the rest o his days in prayer for us. >> reporter: cardinals will choose a new pope in coming weeks. >> when i see that white smoke coming up, i want to say that yes, it will be an american.
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>> someone that will touch everybody around the world and do great things. >> this retirement, the first one in hundreds of year, has caused speculation and rumors about why. the nation is facing another fiscal crisis. march 1 is the deadline for lawmakers to reach a deal to avoid massive domestic and defensive cuts. the pentagon says the massive cuts to the military will affect our country's ability to protect itself. the centers for disease control will lose more than $300 million, meaning they will have less money to solve outbreaks. air travel will also take a hit. republicans and democrats disagree about how to cut the debt. residents in north baltimore may hear a loud bang in the morning. bge crews plan to dhollish the decommissioned natural gas storage tank. can you see it there along i-
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83. the use will implode the structure just after 8 a.m. the tank has been out of use since 1997. a lot of people say it has been an eyesore here in north baltimore for quite some time. >> it has been 3 weeks since the super bowl and ravens excitement is still riding high. fans turned out to meet team members and buy more memorabilia. tim has more. >> reporter: it's calmer than the super bowl or even the parade, but fans here at the pikesville double tree are just as hyped as ever. >> i am really excited. >> reporter: why? >> because i get to meet lots of players i haven't met before. >> i want to get their signature. it's really cool. >> reporter: ravens fans purchased a variety of team items. die-hards like buddy martin have gotten them signed. >> how can you get any better
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than this? world campons, they brought it home. >> reporter: more than 2 dozen ravens in all are all still riding the excitement. >> i don't think i'll really feel it until we get the rings. >> i just got back from l.a. i was down there to visit family and friends, and they're still exstat ping. >> reporter: friends say there's an appeal to events like this, finding an outlet for their enthusiasm. >> when you realize there's no football, tough wait for next season. we have to figure out what to do with our sundays now. >> reporter: at least until training camp starts. >> the players say getting their rings and meeting the president are the next two big things they are looking forward to. still to come, severe flooding, drivers stuck in their cars, struggling to get out. record rainfall in greece. and a pilot lucky to be alive,
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how his plane ended up there in tampa bay. and at the campus of m.i.t., a hoax is under investigation. >> a burned body is what frferlts found during a vehicle fire. i'm gigi barnett. coming up, i'll explain. >> i'm meteorologist bernadette woods. we have milder air moving our way. i'll have your complete forecast in yins news. -- in eyewitness news.
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bernadette's complete first warning weather forecast is coming pup look at this, heavy rains caused severe flooding in athens, causing 300 people to call for help. the storms lasted for several hours, leaving plenty of damage in its wake. the capital city recorded 5- inches of rain in just 5 hours. hundreds are gathering and protesting in india, demanding the death penalty for the people who raped and murdered 3 young sisters. >> we want justice! we want justice! >> the victims in this case were just 6, 9, and 10 years old. police did not act on the investigation until protests
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began this week. the children's bodies were found two day after they disappeared from school. it comes two weeks after the horrific gang rape of a 23-year- old woman on a bus in india. a pilot survived a crash landing in the harbor in florida. he had to choose between landing on a bridge or in the middle of the water. he chose tampa bay to avid hurting any drivers. he walked away with a couple of scrapes and bruises but otherwise was okay. police are continuing to search for the person who made a false report of an armed man at m.i.t. police received an electronic message. m.i.t. was immediately notified, but they did not send an emergency alert to student until just after 8:50, more than an hour later. the report was ebbly deemed a
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hoax. a murder mystery very dloas home here. firefighters -- very close to home here. firefighters found two burned bodies in a car. investigators say the two were shot before the car when up into flames. >> reporter: city firefighters rushed to this alley just before daybreak friday morning. next to the trash and debris was a car fire. firefighters work to the put out the flames, but they soon found two unidentified bodies. >> the bodies were burned pretty badly. our arson unit is working with the fire department. >> reporter: jerome diggs's daughter live -- father lives two blocks away from the scene. he called her to say what happened in her neighborhood.
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>> it's ridiculous. >> reporter: firefighters say the cause of the blaze is also a mystery in northwest baltimore, i'm gig i barnett. >> police say it could take a week or more to determine the identity of the victims. this was the scene earlier today of a water main break. water rushed up from the street from that broken water line. it's still unclear what caused the break. no word when it could possibly be fixed. between the water main breaks and all the rain, i think everybody is done with all of this rain, and i think people should would like some sunshine. it's been a gloomy winter. >> it really has, and we haven't gotten the snow to go along with it. >> exactly, so we haven't even had the fun of winter.
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>> there was a presentation earlier today. that's the former rain there. fog is settling in. there is a little bit of a breeze, not much, but it is turned around to the north. it will eventually bring in drier air. one good piece of news though with the fog is that temperatures won't drop all that much. north and west of the city, could get below freezing. you notice this is already down to 32 in oakland and 39 in hagerstown. temperature wills be close tore that 32 degree mark. we warmed all the way up today to 46 degrees, starting out at 32. not quite town average, but very close to it. so on monday, we have moderate
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air moving our way, and the coldest of the air locking up to north at least for now. so it works out like this. you have this front getting out of here that we were just talking about, here the low driving that system, that will swing by to our north tomorrow. that breeze will come in tomorrow afternoon, bringing in that drying air, and then clear skies on monday. and like that last couple, this will bring us marginally cool air. it will be more of a storm off to our knot once again. small craft advisoryings will go through the day tomorrow. we have some fog out there, and it is dense. we bumped up that overnight low, but north and west of the city, we may see icy patches.
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tomorrow, sunshine may be returning. those winds pick one 48 for our high, and on friday, more sunshine. on tuesday, here comes that next storm once again. 45 for our high. that's in the rain zone. on wednesday, as we head towards next weekend, it will turn cold once again. adam? >> maybe one of those surprise march storms, huh? stan
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scoop steps up and makes contact, infield single, scoring mako navaro. trkts revon robinson powered the birds past the twins. maryland freshman shaquile claire blocked by devon booker. earlier this week, mark turgin told e me shaq is the best player to toach qoafn because ain't no mountain high enough to keep him down. the high-point man is darin fouks. no turnovers for him. maryland wins 72-59 at georgia tech. college lacrosse now, the rematch of the division 1
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companionship, the loyola grayhounds getting a mass -- greyhounds getting a nice block. you sigh sau mic hannachuck getting a nice block there. maryland upsets loyola 10-4. and several young men are recognized for their work on the wrestling clark. jack mcdonough successfully defended his national title won a year ago. and this young man is only in the 10th grade. zack mass krirks ks a won a national companionship. 3 guys go from baltimore to
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