kuebler, abc 2 news. anne arundel county police shot a man who threatened an officer a chair last night. it started when a woman was treated for injuries at the anne arundel medical center. police later went to her arnold home to check on her condition, and that's when the woman's husband became angry, told the officers to leave, and then attacked them. the officers used pepper spray and a taser gun on the man, but he continued to fight. >> at one point during the assault, the subject picked up a dining room chair, a wood 10 dining room chair, raised it up over an officer who was on the floor beneath him. he was about to strike the officer wit. the other officer who was there, fearing for that officer's safety, thought that he was in eminent danger, fired his duty weapon. >> the unidentified man is at shock trauma with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. you might have seen police searching baltimore's inner harbor this afternoon. they were looking for a body. a person is reportedly missing after a boat party on the

canton waterfront last night. but other partygoers aren't certain if the person fell in the water or left to go somewhere else. the person's name has not been released, and no body has been found. now the latest on a bizarre in anne arundel county where police are still trying to figure out why the body of an elderly woman was placed in a freezer for weeks. it happened at the country club apartments located in the 7400 block of furnace branch road in glen burnie. police tell abc 2 news that 83- year-old doris lee cooke died several weeks ago, and her body was placed in a freezer by relatives living with her. detectives also say that cooke suffered from various medical conditions, and had been bed ridden for years. neighbors tell us the elderly woman lived with her two daughters, one who was mentally challenged and the other who was her caretaker. >> pretty creepy. it's pretty scary, actually. it's kind of something you don't expect to have living below you, something going on that you had no idea was going on. >> police have ruled cooke's

death as suspicious. so far no one has been charged. detectives say they are awaiting the autopsy results. and a time when money is tight and charities are strapped for donations, baltimore county firefighters are getting in line. the answer almost a quarter of a million emergency calls each year. and now as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, the men and women of baltimore city's fire department are calling upon those they served to help fill their most basic needs. >> reporter: there is no pot of gold here at the walbrook fire station in west baltimore. >> i don't know how heavy they are. >> reporter: just the clay variety, courtesy of city council president stephanie rawlings-blake. during a tour of city firehouses, she noticed many of the 1800 men and women who risk their lives to save others and their property every day are forced to live without some basic necessities when they return to their station. >> oh we have a lot of tops,

but no bottoms. so a lot of wives got mad because they don't got half the stuff back. >> reporter: the council president says she was appalled during her tour when it came to the sleeping quarters for the firefighters and found many of them were sleeping on a single mattress on top of a thin piece of plywood. >> i know there are better beds at central booking i'm sure. and look what they have to live on. and they don't ask for anything. i mean, they were perfectly satisfied. >> reporter: the city has now launched an online collection drive called genie in july, in hopes of granting the wishes of various firefighters for items like dishes, cups, and hand towels. >> they have made their lists, and it's kind of like christmas in summer. >> reporter: their seeking gently used or new items for people who routinely answer the call for others, but who hesitate to ask for anything in return. >> it's so hard for them. this neighborhood is kind of impoverished. people don't have a a lot but, they give what they can. >> reporter: jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and if you would like to see

the firefighters' wish list or make a contribution, you can go online to the baltimore city council.com and click on the green genie. i think we have a link on our website as well. baltimore also began its new garbage collection routine. starting this week, trash will now be picked up tuesday through friday with one pickup per neighborhood per week. recycling will also be picked up once a week. it's part of the new one plus one plan which the city says will save millions and encourage people to recycle. if you need to know your pickup dates, call 311 or go to www.cleanergreenerbaltimore.org maryland's most powerful radar continues to pick up shower and thunderstorm activity across the bay near the dover area. also some shower activity down near the cambridge area. it's moving on towards the east. it will not affect the baltimore area tonight, but we do have some showers in the forecast. but not for this evening. partly cloudy.

the showers will be to the south and east. our temperatures will hang in the mid to low 80s for the next couple of hours. we've got a cooler night on tap and more sunshine, but we've also got some rain in the forecast. so when? we'll tell you, coming up. >> thanks, norm. a surprising announcement for football fans late this afternoon. baltimore ravens wide receiver derek mason says he is retiring from football. mason says he had a tremendous career with two great teams and added that all good things come the an end. and he is ready to see what else life has to offer. mason's retirement comes nine days after quarterback steve mcnair, a long-time friend and teammate were shot and killed. rob carlin will have more on the story coming up in sports. two baltimore buildings were evacuated for a few hours today, including a city courthouse because of a battery acid leak from a forklift. people started feeling sick and spell smelling a strange odor about 9:00 this morning. that's when firefighters

detected low levels of carbon dioxide and ordered the evacuation of the and the old post office building on calvert street. >> perform further monitoring and evaluation and determined that the odors came from a forklift. secondary, there was a battery that malfunctioned on the forklift that emitted some odors as well. >> the forklift was parked in a garage under the building. the building stayed closed until they were properly ventilated with large fans. some people received medical attention at the scene, but there were no injuries and no one was hospitalized. a randlestown neighborhood is also back to normal after it was blocked off for a suspicious package. it started just before noon when police arrived in the 3900 block of red deer circle. someone had broken into a car and left an unknown electronic device on the seat. the neighborhood was sealed off while the bomb squad examined the box, which was not dangerous. the all clear was sounded

around 1:30 this afternoon. police have not said what was inside that box. the h1n1 virus continues to spread in maryland, and of course all around the world. but don't expect the licensed swine flu vaccine any time soon. the world health organization says the vaccine might not be available until the end of the year. and that news could affect many countries' vaccination plans. researchers blame the flu itself. they say the swine flu virus is being used only produce about half as much material to make vaccines as regular flu viruses. maryland senator barbara mikulski wants to make patient safety innovations available to patients all across the nation. she has put a provision in the senate health care reform bill, setting up federal support for tools like the pronovost checklist, which was developed at johns hopkins. the 19-step checklist helps care for patients. it has reduced meller roar, saving lives and millions of

dollars. >> if you get an infection in the hospital, you end up staying longer, which increases costs. you end up needing more medical intervention, which increases costs. and at the same time, it increases the cost to society because of lost productivity in the workplace. >> senator mikulski says simple tools like this checklist are low cost, low-tech solution that have a high impact. much more on the-to-come on abc 2 news at 6 tonight, including a trip back to the moon with a maryland man that helped put us there in the first place. you think driving downtown is kind of tough now, wait until you see what happens starting this week. and maryland's wide receiver derek mason suddenly announce he's is retiring. rob carlin will have much more coming up in sports. >> so far derek's number was 85. our 2-degree guarantee for today was 85. >> nice tie-in. >> did we hit it? the daytime high today was 86. we did hit the 2-degree

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you're watching baltimore's station that works for you. now abc 2 news at 6. >> and you're looking at a live picture right now of cape canaveral. nasa is keeping its fingers crossed, hoping that space shuttle endeavour will finally be able to launch in just over a half an hour. thunderstorms forced them to cancel planned launches on saturday and sunday. two other launch attempt were scrubbed last month because of hydrogen leaks. the shuttle and its crew are scheduled to deliver the final piece of japan's $1 billion space station lab. long before endeavour, the

crew of apollo 11 made history. the anniversary of that flight, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is this thursday. abc 2 news brittney gordon met a local man who played an important role in a piece of american history. >> reporter: when one thinks of man landing on the moon, they probably think of neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins. how about john ryan? does that name ring a bell? if you haven't heard about him, he has a lot to tell you. he remembers the landing like it was yesterday. >> i can't remember about what i had for dinner yesterday, but i can remember coming out of there, sitting on the curb, smoking that cigarette and thinking man! >> reporter: 78-year-old john ryan is a resident here at charlestown. these days he spends his time playing softball and socializing. but 40 years ago, he played a major role in the apollo 11 mission. he was part of the team at the goddard space center that

managed a high-tech switchboard, the only link that kept the brave astronauts from being lost in space. >> if they got up there and they couldn't talk, they were lost. this here is the flight plans of what -- what happened. >> reporter: with the 40th anniversary, john was happy to show us pictures, awards, and mementos from this pivotal moment in american history. he is one of only a few living team members that continue to tell a center that helped define a generation. in a world where space flight seems every day, he remembers when apollo shook the world. >> and i think it brought the country together. everybody watched television on those days. they just lifted off the other day. nobody watches. >> reporter: at charlestown, around here, he is just a regular kind of guy. >> but frankly, at charlestown what they care about most now is what kind of outfield throws he is going to make when we

pitch the gym on thursday. >> reporter: like 40 years ago this week, john says he is ready. brittney gordon, abc 2 news. >> the anniversary of apollo 11's launch is this thursday. the anniversary of the moon landing is july 20th. now the forecast certified baltimore's most accurate. here is chief meteorologist norm lewis and maryland's midwest powerful doppler radar. >> i'm not even going to ask you if you remember where you were because you were probably not old enough. >> no, i was home watching on television. we stayed up light. >> you must have been a very little child. >> very little. >> wee girl. 11:00 or something like that it happened? >> i remember it being very late. i think i was falling asleep and they woke me up to see it, my parents. >> reporter: i'm going to take you down to the launch pad at cape canaveral and see what the weather is going to be. but first the weather here in baltimore, which is absolutely gorgeous. >> yeah. >> take a look outside, the shot from harbor cam. temperature at bwi still hanging in at 86 degrees.

wind from the northwest at 7. and a pressurizing 29.86. there are your tides tomorrow at fort mchenry. a high tide at 11:61 at low at 11:24. winds tomorrow from the northwest. sun comes up at 5:52. we'll set at 8:32. the high today 86 degrees, which did hit our 2-degree guarantee. and temperatures still hanging in there at 86. 79 up in york. 84 in easton. over in ocean city right now they're at 81 degrees. the satellite picture, lots of sunshine throughout the day. down to the south and east, we've seen clouds and scattered showers. scattered showers right now on the eastern shore. and down around the cambridge area. right now as far as the larger picture is concerned, the showers and thunderstorms that moved through carolinas today gave the outer banks a big drink of water. and that's now making its way out into the atlantic. the in the meantime, during the day tomorrow, sunshine, lower humidity is on tap. baltimore's most powerful radar continues to track shower activity that is making its way

in that direction. away from our region. dover and frederick getting a little shower and thunderstorm activity. but nothing on tap for baltimore until thursday. take a look at our interactive radar. now this is the tornado alley. it can do other things besides tornadic tracking. what i'm going to do is zoom out a little bit so you can get a better perspective of the map there is florida right there. what we're going to do is zoom back in to the cape canaveral or cape kennedy area, whichever you want to take a look at it. right there, there is the launch pad right there. you see that one shower making its way on off and out to the west. things are looking pretty good. a little thunderstorm right here building up to the west of the orlando region. but for the most part, things are looking pretty good for the launch. so again, it's available on your computer at home at abc2news.com, 24/7, 365. just click on tornado alley, and you can zoom the map in. i'll take a look at what is going on down at the launch

complex at the cape. as far as our forecast for this evening, the showers around our area will continue to pull on towards the east. tomorrow another very nice day. another weather system headed in our weather direction. by wednesday we'll be causing scattered showers in the ohio valley. they'll be making their way in our direction. the majority of the rain will pass through virginia and into the carolinas. we could see showers in the baltimore area, but they'll be few and far between. partly cloudy, cooler, 58 degrees for the overnight low. during the day tomorrow, mostly sunny, again, below normal temperatures with a high of 86 degrees. the extended outlook, wednesday partly cloudy, 88. now we'll see 89 with scattered showers and thunderstorms because of heat and higher humidity on thursday. then friday, a little cooler temperatures, 85. 83 was scattered showers on saturday. then sunday and monday, partly cloudy, 84 both days. we'll see you tonight at 11:00. >> thanks, norm. brace yourself for delays when you drive through downtown. and the delays won't be going away any time soon. work crews begin resurfacing lombard street this wednesday.

the project is expected to last until late fall. lombard, as you know, is the main westbound route through downtown baltimore. officials hope to keep at least three lanes of traffic open between light and president's street that will be reduced to two lanes as the project wraps up. drivers should expect longer commutes and look for alternative routes around town. well, it is certainly the stunning story of the day in sports. ravens wide receiver derrick mason suddenly announcing his retirement from football. he will not play this season. mason made the announcement on the website jocklife.com. it comes obviously just over a week after his good friend and long-time teammate steve mcnair was shot and killed. mason was the first ravens receiver to ever have 100 catches in a season this 2005 for his career. had over 10,000 yards and 50 touchdowns. here is the statement he made on the website, quote, i've had a tremendous career and i

played for two great teams. i had fun. i've been able to do everything but win a super bowl. after 12 years, have i seen it all and done it all. right now i am content with the decision i am making. all good things come to an end, and i am ready to see what else life has to offer. he also said, quote, have i been thinking about this since the season ended. emotionally i'm just not that enthused. i've not been that enthused to get up and work out. this has nothing to do with the contract situation. i've made more than enough money. emotionally there are things that are more important. now the ravens sent out a statement just after 6:00 saying, quote, for any player to retire, he has to send a letter to the nfl stating this. derrick mason has not done that interesting. the sun is reporting there is no deal eminent between the ravens and terrell suggs. suggs will play this season as a franchise player if they don't get a deal done. suggs is just 26. she a three-time pro bowler and

led the ravens in sacks last year with 8. a career high 102 tackles. the home run derby is tonight. part of all star monday. the starting pitchers for tomorrow night. troy halliday starts against tim linthicum. adam jones will represent the orioles tomorrow night. he is hitting 303 on the season with 12 homers, though he hasn't hit one since june 13th. yesterday he said he is excited to wear baltimore on the road jersey to represent the new hometown. this morning in st. louis, he kind of sounded like a kid waking up on christmas morning. >> a little nervous right now, but it's enjoyable, you know. the words can't really explain how i feel about it. it's just enjoyable event that i'm at. >> adam jones making his all

star debut tomorrow night. of course tonight the home run derby. we will have much more. we've got calls and text messages in to derrick mason. we're hoping to hear back from him. it is a stung story. derrick mason announcing his retirement from the nfl. that's your sports. i'm rob carlin. marybeth, back to you. >> thanks, rob. all right. let's take another look. a beautiful evening downtown at the inner harbor. norm is going to be back with another quick look at the forecast. and a quick look at temperatures, from cromwell elementary school in towson, 81 degrees.

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nice weather just keeps rolling. but we do need some rain. we have some in the forecast. on thursday a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms. with the exception of thursday, below normal temperatures continue here in the northeast. we'll talk again tonight at 11:00. >> thank you, norman. that's all for us on abc 2 news at 6. i'm marybeth marsden. we will be back tonight at 11. we hope you join us then. remember, the news always continues on abc2news.com until 11. have a great evening. good night. >> thanks for choosing abc 2 news at 6. for more news, watch abc 2 news at 11, or go now to abc2news.com. abc 2 works for you.

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