about $100. but in this economy, it matters. >> it matters a lot. last year we had five people working. this year it's just me and the dog. >> reporter: he says the suspect climbed a fence and then broke out a window to gain entry into the area where the metals are stored. encountering this husky named nikki, which he scared away by brandishing a knife. aided by the surveillance video, harford county sheriffs investigators are now hoping that you can help them crack this case. >> we've actually seen copper thefts go down. but they're still seeking out those locations. >> reporter: but in these tough economic times, criminals like this one are growing more desperate. and don huffer doesn't think he has seen the end of such theaves. >> there is no demolition going on there is no construction per say. and that's where we mainly get most of our material from. >> reporter: he says he hopes

he can hold on to the little bit of business and material he can still muster. in harford county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> now if you recognize that burglar or have any information on his identity, you are asked to call the harford county sheriff's office. the number is 410-272-2121. police in aberdeen are investigating the deaths of a pedestrian early this morning. around six thank morning, police responded to an area of westbound pulaski highway near the route 17 overpass. police found the man lying on the road. he died at the scene. police say his injuries are consistent with being hit by a vehicle. if you saw anything, you're asked to call aberdeen police. the number is 410-272-2121. and now the a story you'll only see on abc 2 news. baltimore city police were busy overnight handling four shootings, one of them deadly. just before 1:00 this morning, a man was shot several times. it happened on eastland avenue

and southwest baltimore. the victim was taken to a local hospital where he died. police don't have a suspect or even a motive in this case. an 18-year-old is recovering at shock trauma after being shot in howard county. it happened shortly before 1 this afternoon on green mountain circle in columbia. police say 18-year-old walter richardson was visiting the residence. they believe the suspect entered the apartment complex through an unlocked backdoor and fired at richardson and then fled. he has an injury to his leg. he is expected to be okay. but police are still trying to figure out whether the victim and the suspect knew each other. in anne arundel county, police found marijuana inside a jiffy lube in severn. police found the drugs during a search and seizure warrant yesterday. the business in the 2600 block of annapolis road. police arrested mckenzie web as part of a month-long investigation into the business. detectives seized two large bags, a digital scale and other paraphernalia.

the marijuana taken had a street value of more than $3,000. detectives also found a small amount of suspected marijuana inside webb's car. if you have any more information about this crime, you're asked to call metro crimestoppers. the number is 1-866-7-lock-up. tonight a group of students from maryland and washington, d.c. are back home after a pretty scary ordeal overseas. some of the children came down with the h1n1, or the swine flu. when the local group of student arrived in china, one of them tested positive for the flu. the students were quarantined for ten days. 17-year-old jeremy peck texted his parents that he was in the hospital under watch for possible signs of the swine flu. >> i know you're going to freak out, mom, but i'm going to the hospital. >> peck stay aid lone in a chinese hospital for two days. in all nine students tested positive for the swine flu. right now all the students are out of the chinese hospital. the first round of students arrived at dulles airport last night, while the rest of the

students are expected to fly home tuesday or wednesday. baltimore county is considering a speed camera bill. but the county council is meeting monday night. if the bill passes, 12 to 15 stationary cameras would be placed near schools. the chief says they'll pick spots based on crash data, speed data, and citizen complaints. if the measure passes, speeders could be fined $40 if they exceed the posted speed limit by 12 miles or more. water restrictions have been lifted in the northwestern portions of baltimore city and county. the department of public works says repairs have been completed on a 54-inch water main that provides drinking water to that area. well, storms rolled through the area, bringing some heavy rain. here is what it looked like in rodgers forge today. will we get any more rain in the area? meteorologist emily gracey here with the first forecast. >> kelly, looking at maryland's most powerful radar this evening, we're seeing that rain come to an end out there. not everywhere yet, but across the baltimore area we are

seeing the showers move out of here. now the lower eastern shore still being impacted by that wet weather. a cold front pushing through the area means some severe weather still in store for some folks from ocean city back towards salisbury. we're still seeing some strong thunderstorms this evening. but over the next couple hours, we'll start to see these clear out. we'll have improving conditions overnight tonight, drying out in a great day in store for us tomorrow. mostly sunny skies with a temperature of 70 there is a little bit of wet weather in the forecast. i'll have more on that coming up in a bit. >> thanks, emily. bge tells us right now more than 34,000 people are without power. more than 17,000 in anne arundel county. about 8,000 in baltimore county without power. and carroll county has more than 1500 outages. more than 8,000 people in harford county also without power. and the folks at sinai hospital tell us emergency power has kicked in there. they're operating as normally as they can under the circumstances. and a maryland energy administration is developing a

plan to help ensure reliable, affordable and clean renewble energy for marylanders. the administration held a meeting today in annapolis. the ten-year comprehensive plan will profile the state's energy supply and identify crucial energy issues facing maryland. >> we're trying to look ahead to the next decade. what are energy challenges going to be. how do we position maryland to be better situated to address them. >> this is the first of several meetings that the maryland energy administration will be hosting on this subject. thousand of people got their raven jerseys and showed their purple pride as the full team took to the field pour the first time this evening. training camp is well underway in westminster. we sent abc 2 news cheryl conner to see what fans have to say about the 2009 season. >> reporter: purple pride comes in all different forms. 1-year-old jason is sporting a spray painted mohawk. >> draw some attention the

players? >> absolutely. >> reporter: kelsey hopes to get some attention too from quarterback joe flacco. sure she likes the game, but her eyes are set on number 5. >> sweet last name, kind of cute. >> reporter: no matter the motivation, fans know football is back in season. hopes are set high in '09 after a near super bowl run. the ravens fell in the afc championship game to the pittsburgh steelers last year. >> i think if we can get the steelers' number, we'll be all set. i think we've got every other team okay. >> reporter: the team was expecting 10,000 fans to show up to practice this morning. and that many people may have been here at 8:45. you can see people surround the team as the full squad takes to the field for the first time this season. joe cool is flacco's nickname. and he remains poised under pressure during his rookie season. veteran ray lewis is back on the field. and a day after signing first round draft pick michael oher, the offensive tackle was getting to know his team nates.

>> that's my favorite part, the drills. when they start doing the one- on-one hitting, and you get to see all the action up close. >> reporter: it's a hustle on the playing field. but a day on the sidelines. >> you usually have to wait to the end of the game to get autographs, and everybody moves to the front. but we're pretty close to the players where we're sitting. >> i think they're the best team in the whole world. >> reporter: in westminster, cheryl conner, abc 2 news. >> training camp runs through august 23rd. abc 2 news is your place for all the latest news on the ravens. just go to the ravens fan page to check out what is going on with the team. it looks like some baltimore city kids will get a new place to play ball, thanks to orioles hall of famer cal ripken. the cal ripken, senior foundation plans to build five youth ball parks, including one at the site of the former memorial stadium. the redeveloped stadium place at 33rd street will be turned

into a multipurpose artificial turf sports complex. the foundation is hoping to raise money for the $1.5 million complex, and a $1 million multipurpose field near pimlico race course in northwest baltimore. the other three sites have not been chosen, but two will be located in the city's east and west side. visit baltimore. that's the new name for baltimore city's tourism bureau, formally known as baltimore area convention and visitors association. travel experts say it's now more popular for convention and visitors bureaus to take on a more user friendly name. for example, there is destination d.c., choose chicago, and meet minneapolis. and also some good news to report concerning tourism here. officials announced recently that they booked over 500,000 future room nights through the year 2019 that is good news. we've been telling you about the shower of hope for a while now. coming up, we're going to show you how it is helping homeless women get back on their feet.

>> all right. your 2-degree guarantee for today, 85 degrees. well, we made it up to 88 degrees. it happened early in the day, right around noon. we cooled off, but didn't quite hit the 2-degree guarantee. all the look at the weekend forecast, which has a little bit of rain. not what we had today. a little bit of rain. vial more on that coming up. >> all right. we'll be right back. >> watch abc 2 news any time on channel 1 with comcast on demand. (announcer) when verizon brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home

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you're watching baltimore's station that works for you. now abc 2 news at 6. >> we've been talking about the abc 2 shower of hope now. in celebration of rob carlin and megan pringle's upcoming wedding, one week from today we teamed up with the united way and ywca to help women in need. it all started with the scan of

a registry gun. >> reporter: the last time i had this gun in my hand, that's my fiance rob. this time i had vicky by my side. and this time we were at target going hog-wild. vicky is the ceo of the ywca. and i need her for this registry. while all this stuff is in my name, none of this stuff is for me. >> we're here because we have a new facility. we're creating homes for chronically homeless women. many of these women, this is going to be the first time they're housed in permanent housing or they have a roof over their head and some place that they can call home. >> reporter: so these women are going to need a lot of things. everything, really. pots and pans, bed, lamps. even smaller, cheaper things like cleaning products. you name it, they need it. >> what i want to do is get all sorts of different prices. so if somebody has $5 they can give, they can buy something for $5. >> reporter: all of the stuff will go towards the my place project. >> these women are coming, if they can even come, with a sack of clothes. usually it's a hefty garbage bag of personal items.

if that. so they have absolutely nothing. no possessions. so they need everything. >> reporter: so if you can, get shopping to help women start from scratch. and on behalf of abc 2, the united way, and the ywca about and a very happy and humble couple, thank you. >> if you would lucky to donate, just head to any target store and look up pringle and carlin registry. you can help buy items to help the women and drop them off either here at abc 2 or any of the united way locations. and you can do it now, and we'll collect it all next week as we send rob and megan off to their wedding. for more information, head to abc2news.com, and click on the gmm tab. now the forecast certified baltimore's most accurate. here is meteorologist emily gracey and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> is it going to rain on the sox fans? >> i don't think so. unfortunately.

it did earlier, though. they were all over downtown, and they got soaked earlier. but it looks like for the game we are going to start to dry out. it is still a little cloudy out there. i want to show you the harbor cam right now so you can see. no rain out there. but still holding a view of the clouds. the cold front is pushing through. we're not going to see any more showers out of this evening. and we are going to start to see these clouds break up into sunshine. shine through before the sun goes down this evening. so dry weather for the game tonight at 7:05. right now 74 degrees from the airport. the humidity is still pretty high at 82%. and the wind are now coming to us from the west northwest. that means that cold front has passed, and they are at 12 miles an hour. all right. so for today we hit 88 degrees this afternoon. so we have come a long way from where we sat earlier today. 70. we started off the morning very warm. so it was a humid start to the day. and we rose into the upper 80s. now down into the mid 70. our record on this day, though, we didn't come close to that. that was 102 degrees. that was set back in 1954. and our record low was 54 back

in 1997. so 75 degrees right now in stephensville. they had a wind gust of 65 miles per hour during the storms this afternoon. we had strong wind gusts up and down the coast. northeast 49-miles-per-hour wind gusts. that was the case in glenwood as well at glenwood middle school where they are now sitting at 68 degrees. the storms came through, really cooled off the area. we're hanging in the low 70s in most locations right now. this evening we'll be in the low 70s. we'll drop into the upper 60s overnight. and another warm day in store for us tomorrow. so we're not seeing warm temperatures go anywhere. but we are going to see a shift in the humidity as the cold front passes through the area. so baltimore right now drying out. but not the case everywhere. in fact, looking up and down, we are seeing some severe weather still impacting the lower eastern shore. salisbury right now picking up some strong thunderstorms, lightning strikes. not quite as many as we experienced earlier this afternoon. but still some heavy rain associated with the storms that are pushing off the coast now. we'll continue to see these for the next half hour or so on the

lower eastern shore. that cold front is now pushing to the south and east of there, and we'll see clearing conditions there as we have in the baltimore area over the past hour or so. 74. that's where we're sitting right now from the airport. so we have cooled down from the 88 degrees we had earlier this afternoon. down to 72 right now in new york. and 72 in easton. comfortable conditions for this evening, although still a little humid out there. but we're going to start to see that shift in winds bringing in that less humid air overnight tonight. but those winds once again will shift out of the southwest for tomorrow, which means warm conditions for us as we head in towards the start of the weekend. all right. there is the front right there. as you see, it is now pushed through area. we've seen that shift in wind, and the clouds starting to break up behind it. this is going to move to the south of us, and we're going to start to see winds come from the southwest tomorrow, bringing in continued warm air. but no more thunderstorms. at least for tomorrow. we do have a chance of some showers and thunderstorms by sunday afternoon. for the first half of the weekend is looking dry. there is the front pushing thw tonight. we'll have dry conditions later

on this evening. and overnight. now tomorrow a dry day, partly cloudy to mostly sunny. and then a chance of thunderstorms comes in by sunday afternoon. just a slight chance. and then by the middle of next week, we are going to continue to see those warm conditions. very summer-like out there, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms pretty much every day. 67 overnight tonight. the storms are coming to an end everywhere. and we'll have partly cloudy skies as we head in towards the overnight hours. mostly sunny by tomorrow afternoon. 88 degrees, but still a warm day out there. and the warmth continues pretty much all weekend. in fact 87 on sunday with the slight chance of thunderstorm activity. getting up to the 90 degrees by tuesday. so a warm day there. back into the mid 80s by the end of the week. we hold on to that chance of showers and thunderstorms all the way through until friday. kelly? >> all right, thanks, emily. a lot going on this sunday inside press box. here is a preview: >> stan the fan from inside press box here. the orioles have a lot of rookies. the ravens have a lot of rookies. i've got a tv rookie with me on

this week's show, brett hollander of 105.7 the fan. >> and stan, i feel like a veteran already after doing one program with you. >> hey, how was it? was it fun interviewing gordie combs, now at hopkins? >> to talk to a guy like gordie combs, who has been through all the collegiate coaching warious can possibly imagine, always insightful. always entertaining. >> how about matt zennis this. >> all the inside info one could possibly imagine when it comes to the ravens and training camp. he has been there. >> and hower joe jordan, director of scouting for the orioles? >> i think he knows something about baseball in trying to find the next great oriole. >> the only thing i can tell you, all coming up this sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. on inside press box, right after this week with george stephanopoulos. >> and as sam said, you can catch inside press box sunday mornings at 11:30 right here on abc 2. a live look now from our camera at the inner harbor. there is that clearing that emily is talking about. she is going to be back with her final forecast. my husband and i, we love to go to steakhouses

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the dow rose 17 points, closing out the best july in 20 years, and the s&p 500 gained less than a point, and the nasdaq lost nearly 6. thousands of jobs could be headed to anne arundel county. the national security agency is planning to build a new complex near its headquarters. the baltimore business journal reports the new space would house as many as 11,000 employees, but they did not say how many of the jobs would be newly created as opposed to being moved from other facilities. we are working to help save you in these tough economic times. on our website today, the hobbies that may help you turn into cash. plus, ten ways to get the kids ready for fall without breaking the piggy bank. all you have to do is log on to our website at abc2news.com and click on our financial survival guide. new at 11 tonight, constellation energy has taken a huge financial hit. profits dropped nearly 90% in the second quarter. tonight at 11, we'll look at what this could mean for your money. plus, how scammers are taking advantage of coupon clippers in these tough

economic times. abc 2 works for you so you don't fall victim. the stories and much more tonight at 11. and we are watching a line of thunderstorms move out of the baltimore area and move over on to the eastern shore. starting to clear out of there as well, though. we'll see improving conditions over the next couple hours storms move off the coast. a gorgeous day in store, 88 degrees. that's your 2-degree guarantee. mostly sunny skies. we'll have an increased chance of showers and thunderstorms on sunday afternoon, with a high of 87. it looks like a warm week ahead with highs in the upper 80s, hitting 90 by tuesday, and a chance of thunderstorms each and every afternoon. kelly? >> thanks lot, emily. that's it for abc 2 news at 6:00. i'm kelly swoope. thanks for joining is us. we'll be back tonight at 11. and remember, our news continues 24 hours a day on abc2news.com. go out and have yourself a great weekend. >> thanks for choosing abc 2 news at 6. for more news, watch abc 2 news at 11, or go now to

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