>> we're not selling the property to retire and run off to florida like so many think. >> residents bordering the 125 acres received word that they will soon lose a pair of neighbors and hundreds will take their place. toll brothers is negotiating a deal to build 200 single family homes and 100 more condos and townhouses on the land. many long-time residents like bob mayor don't like it. >> it's putting so much traffic in here now. if you go down this road here, you'll see it is a one-lane bridge down there. they're pught a wal-mart up on the other side. >> reporter: zoning cleared the way for the project years ago. and through the base realignment or brac, economic development leaders say it's needed. >> housing numbers say a 51% increase between march of this year, the days on market decreased by 30 days for the existing homes. >> reporter: for all of the talk of selling out, the magnes

family put the breaks on as to the size of this. while some might not like hundreds of new homes popping up in their backyard, bob and sandy plan to sell the land for upwards of $60,000 per acre only to relocate their beef operation near hickory for just $20,000 per acre. losing the family farm but saving their business in the process. and harford county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> the plans will address one of the county's needs in providing space for a new regional sewage pumping station. pt county will conduct a site plan review for the property on wednesday morning at 9:00 at the county headquarters in bel air. the flights in a number of european countries began hitting the skies today, but in britain, many planes remain grounded as volcanic ash continues to blow through the country's airspace. some stranded brits took to the water to return home.

hitching rides aboard navy vessels. others stuck in spain are hoping to grab a spot on a cruise liner sent to rescue them. >> people have been incredibly resourceful in getting back and taking whatever because it's not certain when the guys are going to open up again so people are just trying to get home. >> the big challenge will be getting through the backlog before air travel can return to normal. and like a frozen river melting in the springtime, the airspace over europe is slowly coming back to life tonight. that means thousands of travelers left out in the cold can now start moving forward. here's abc's aaron katerski. >> reporter: at airports at several u.s. cities today there were big smiles. this family returned home to chicago after three days stranded in germany. >> we made it in one piece.

the boys are tired. >> reporter: tired but happy. >> the flight crew was fantastic. they were happy to be working, too. they had an easy job because everybody was happy to be flying today. >> reporter: 13,000 flights left european airspace that had been closed. that's less than half the normal amount. at least now some passengers are finally beginning to get home. >> i'm not sure i'll believe it until i step foot in my doorway, but yes this is incredible. >> reporter: she came in from paris airport in ronden to resume limited operations. the air traffic control agency says it will likely be friday before travel returns to normal. so many passengers in europe and the united states remain stuck. >> we need to go to amsterdam and we sleep here in the terminal on the floor. >> reporter: those lucky enough to get the flights out tell us they are sorry to leave so many of the stranded behind but are grateful to arrive home. >> you know, cheers and

clapping. i was definitely glad to be here. >> reporter: aaron katurski, new york. >> the international terminals what a ghosttown with the british airways flights grounded within a week. it's becoming a drain on military families. coming up tonight at 6:00, we'll introduce you to a couple to tell you how the grounded air traffic led to one heartbreaking delay after another for them. on the weather front today a beautiful looking april day out there. you had to love it. that will be changing by this time tomorrow. let's take a look at our current radar satellite view right now. nothing on the radar so no rain out there. we have clouded up this afternoon. high, thin cloud cover is moving through the region and filtering out the sunshine a little bit late this day.

mid-60s temperature-wise. 66 now at bwi, speak of the devil. 67 out at d.c. right now. you find one 70 degree reading down in culpepper, virginia. through the rest of the evening, staying pleasant in the 60s. generally cloudy skies. we'll talk more about when the clouds may spit out a little bit of rain coming up. kelly? >> thanks, wyatt. today, america lost a piece of its history. civil rights activist and long time president of the negro council dorrly height has died. she helped orchestrate the civil rights movement of the 1960s. late activist c. delores tucker once called her a legacy. we'll have more coming up tonight at 5:30. tonight, a visitation is being held for former naacp executive director dr. benjamin hooks. the visitation runs through

8:30 at a church in his hometown of memphis. he died last week at 85. he led the naacp to prominence in 1970s and 1980s. funeral arrangements have been set for former baltimore archbishop william borders. he died yesterday of colon cancer. he was 96 years old. a public viewing take place thursday at 10:30 at the cathedral of mary our queen located at 5200 north charles street. on friday, reverend borders funeral will begin at 1:00 p.m. toyota dealers already dealing with several recalls now have got another problem to fix. toyota is recalling nearly 10,000 lexus gs460s. this is the sixth recall since november. abc 2 news don harrison has more on the impact on dealers right here in maryland. >> reporter: just as toyota agreed to pay a record $16

million fine, toyota announced it will recall 94 00 lex -- 9400 lexus vehicles. they need to change a computer glitch. >> no question they've had a number of things happen all at once. >> reporter: peter kits miller is the president of the maryland automobile dealers association and understands the difficulties that dealers are under. >> we're sort of the front line people. we're the ones to take care of the problem, so the dealers have been working, you know, closely with toyota to tell them, look, we have to take care of these customers. i think they've got a process in place now to do that. >> reporter: peter says it should take an hour to make the adjustments. some consumers still aren't convinced they would trust a toyota. >> i think they obviously have not been true to their consumers and have not done the fek cal inquiries that they should have done. they have repeat, repeat,

repeat, so something's wrong. >> reporter: others are not swayed by the latest problems. >> we buy, too. >> i do believe in them. i do believe that whatever's going on with them, they will make it good. >> reporter: the authority affected the car dealerships. we'll have to wait to see how the sales are this spring and summer. i'm don harrison for abc 2 news. general motors is ready to pay up. the automaker will pay more than $6 million of its government aid earlier than expected. the government gave general motors a total of $52 billion inned a. the balance of which will be repaid once the company sells stock possibly later this year. gm's ceo will reveal the details tomorrow when he visits a kansas city assembly plant. wall street companies continue their parade of shame on capitol hill. president obama predicts a big battle in the senate over new regulations he wants to slap on

wall street. the president says they are needed to head off more financial turmoil. he calls for financial reform that's being echoed on capitol hill today. the federal reserve chief and treasury secretary are being grilled on the role the government played in not bailing out wall street giant lehman brothers in 2008. the decision ultimately led to the company to bankruptcy costing investors billions. republicans unanimously debated it and the hard-line appears to have softened. >> both parties agree on this point. no bailouts. in my view, that's a good start. >> and wall street bank goldman sachs reported its first quarter profits doubled. the news comes as the bank is dealing with legal problems. the securities and exchange commission filed several fraud charges against the company and the company is coming under scrutiny overseas. britain had begun an investigation into goldman

sachs international, the london- based operation. protecting your child from predators. a child abuse expert joins us in the studio with ways to keep your children safe. and the secret iphone iphone prototype left in a bar. is it a hoax or is it real? plus, a really close call in ohio. video captures a construction blade going out of control. and looking at westminster tonight. sitting at 64 degrees. rain's in the forecast. wyatt's got the details coming up for us in just a few.

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stop what you are doing and take a good look at this man, 46-year-old alexander michael simms of parkville. police say simms confessed to sexually abusing a young girl, and they fear there could be more victims. simms volunteered for a youth soccer team at a local catholic school, which gave him frequent contact with younger kids.

now police hope parents will talk to their children to encourage other possible victims to come forward. tonight, we're joined by adam rosenburg, the executive director of the baltimore child abuse center here to talk about awareness and what you can do to keep yourself safe. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> these are the things we'll touch on. six ways to keep your child safe. know the facts, know the signs, talk to them, minimize opportunity and have a plan. adam, i'll tell you, as a parent of a young child it's so tough. all of these stories are in the news and these are frightening situations. some could have been prevented, others maybe not. >> the best take is these are all teachable moments for us as parents to take a look at this and say something's going on. we need to talk with our kids. we need to make sure we know what abuse is and can tell our kids we can take action. >> we had a situation yesterday

with a 15-year-old. she was able to responsible. her dad was there. obviously a 15-year-old old enough to respond. when do you need to have the conversation with your kid spz. >> i think now. there's multiple point as long the spectrum to have it. these are not conversations. i've got my own kids at home and it's not an easy conversation to have. nevertheless, it's important to have the open dialogue so kids know there are certain situation these shouldn't be in or if they are put into the situation, they could react. you look at the simms case here, the abuse occurred at simms' house and i don't know whether the families knew each other, but as a parent myself, some of this is good common sense. you have to know where your kid is hanging out. you have to know the parents of the child and the children shouldn't be sitting on neighbors' laps while playing video games. some of it is pure common sense. by having that conversation, we

can eliminate future abuse down the road. >> i imagine some of these are things talking in the schools with the children as well. >> i hope so. we're sucked in by stranger danger making the sensational headlines. 90% comes from when the child knows who the abuser is. so the rare situation is the kid in southwest baltimore, the attempted abduction. the more likely ones are the simms cases and these are neighbors and we've got to talk to them and go through the basic steps so we can come up with a safety plan and figure out what to do there. >> what are the signs as a parent? this child came forward almost a year later. >> right. some of the signs would be if a child is reluctant to go to somebody's house. if something suddenly changes in their demeanor or personality, if they, you know, are having regrets of rebarve -- regreat gets or aggressive behavior. you put them all together and they paint a picture there. you can find a lot more at

baltimorechildabusecenter.org. >> the most important thing is communication. >> start talking to your kids. use these as moments to an letter. something's going on out there and there's a lot in the paper but let's see this as a warning to start having conversations now and keep our kids safe. >> thank you very much for coming in. >> again it will be on our web site, abc2news.com. take a look now at news around the nation. takes us to a close call in ohio. a home surveillance camera captured this video of a blade detwaching from a piece of rod construction equipment and rolling away. it sliced into a vacant home. a worker can be seen trying to retrieve and attach the blade. the firm that did the construction work is investigating the incident. dozens of men in virginia stepped in sexy stilettos. they did the walk a mile at hershey event that promote as wareness and sexual assault.

money raised will benefit the city's sexual assault resource agency. and a smooth landing for the shuttle "discovery." the spacecraft ended a 6 million mile mission with a perfect touchdown this morning at kennedy space center. workers will immediately begin prepping it for a mission in september. only three shuttle missions remain before the program ends. last night at 5:30, we told you about a plan to make baltimore's inner harbor clean enough to swim in or eat the fish that you catch. so we asked you on the web site what you thought about it, if you would ever swim in the harbor. an overwhelming 85% voted no. only 14% of you voted yes. i must admit that i might.

i might be in that 85% until they make those changes. >> you have little faith. i think it could be done but over ten years. >> like starting today. kelly, a nice looking april day out there. >> very nice. >> enjoy it today. there will be the chance of showers tomorrow then the brief dry window and a chance of showers nearly every day until the weekend. >> late april showers. >> it can happen. >> brings may flowers. >> i heard that somewhere once. outside, a nice clooking afternoon -- nice looking afternoon. 6 degrees and the humidity is nice and low. you have to love that. almost no wind. looking at baltimore, high thin clouds blowing out of the west. we don't expect to see any rain for another 24 hours or so. beautiful west of the city as well. you can see the high, thin

clouds roll in as you push towards sunset tonight. mid-60s today. getting to 70 in frederick today. 68 from dulles today. a wider perspective and we find 70 plus toward richmond and norfolk getting close to 70 today. this is typical for this mid- late part of april, i guess you'd call it. as we look at the satellite view, one little round of cloud cover now. then clearing and our next storm system is beginning to approach out of the south and west and a chance late in the day. it's not that impressive of a storm to be honest with you. we'll see scattered showers but not a prolonged soaking rain at least. cool conditions north of us right now. we're milder today even though we're getting a bit of a north wind from the great lakes. this weather system will bring us a shot of rain.

the forecast model will begin to bring it in and any rain will make the evening commute a real headache. after we go past sunset tomorrow night, these showers fizzle out it would appear. as we go through the night on thursday, passing cloud cover and a little bit of drizzle. i think thursday is looking relatively dry and that will be a good thing. tonight, 47, generally cloudy and mild out there, quiet. tomorrow into the day, we'll start off dry and there will be the chance for some of the showers to develop as we go into the afternoon. high temp around 60 degrees. 45 tomorrow night and the showers and as we take a look at the seven-day forecast, here's how things play out. again, a chance for rain tomorrow into the early part of thursday. i don't think much dry weather into friday. that'll be a nice way to start the weekend but enjoy that because the chance for showers and thunderstorms comes back saturday afternoon into the day on sunday. kelly.

>> thanks, wyatt. training your brain. we've heard of doing some things. why one group says you may think you are smarter but it's really all in your mind. while doing your spring cleaning, make sure your credit report is sparkling as well. how your grimy report could affect your job search.

here's what's coming up new at 5:30. an apple engineer has a few too many drinks at a bar and lets the cat out of the bag. a top secret reveal or is it? why too much quality time

really stinks. and one couple tangos its way to the top and another seems to be dancing with two left feel feet. we'll have last night's "dancing with the star oz i" that and more new at 5:30. in tonight's health alert, can you train your brain? many people try but scientists found that some of the progress you think you are making could really only be in your mind. abc's dr. timothy johnson explains. >> reporter: have you developed your brain to function at optimum capacity? are you using it to its fullest potential? if you need help, there are a wealth of brain-training programs that promise to help your mind work more quickly and efficiently, much like physical fitness workouts for the body. beware, a new study published in the scientific journal "nature" says the brain fitness programs may not live up to their billing. researchers train more than 11,000 subjects on computer- based tasks designed to improve

memory, reasoning, planning and visual skills. they found participants did improve on the specific tasks on which they were trained. however, when the subjects were given closely related tasks on which they had not been trained there was no evidence they were able to transfer the skills or effects. researchers argue that without such a transfer there was no true training of the brain. so while doing word or math games, puzzles, teasers, and tests can be fun and stimulating, there's still no conclusive proof that it actually makes you smarter. with this medical minute, i'm dr. timothy johnson. a look back at the life and career of civil rights pioneer dorothy height coming up.

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