at 5:30. we begin with breaking news tonight. baltimore city police have made arrests in the murder of a vietnam veteran killed during a robbery attempt at a carryout in waverly. christina schaffer is live at the northern police district with the latest. christian. >> reporter: police commanders wrapped up a news conference here where they announced the two arrests. the victim, 72-year-old charles bowman was a security guard for the afro-american newspaper. he was on his way to work late one night, april 8th and he stopped in the yale brothers carry out to stop for dinner. at that time two armed men went into that store and as bowman turned around, police say he was shot in the chest. the men got away with $13 from another patron. today police have announced they have arrested michael hunter, who is 19 years old and troy taylor who is 18 years.

both of these young men, police say are from the neighborhood, that general area, green mount and 33rd street. hunter was arrested yesterday afternoon by the warrant apprehension task force and then troy trailer turned -- trailer turned himself here at the northern police district. also a second murder close to that location, close to the third street a couple weeks after the murder of charles bowman. police say they do have a lot of good information on that murder. they may be getting closer to an arrest in that one, they say these two men were not involved in that murder. they say the murder of charles bowman was involved with an armed robbery. the murder down on 33rd street had more to do with what they are calling a neighborhood dispute so the breaking news here from this afternoon is that police have made two arrests in the murder of 72- year-old vietnam veteran charles bowman. they are continuing to investigate that case along with the other murder from green mount avenue earlier this month. we are live in north baltimore, christina schaffer, abc2. >> thanks. how does saving $300 sound?

you can start saving that money today as part of the cash for appliances program in maryland all in conjunction with earth day. sherrie johnson headed over to best buy to see how you can take advantage of this easy cash. >> reporter: jeanine nickels is in the market to buy a new washer and she couldn't have picked a better time. today is the kickoff of the new appliance rebate program which can save her money. >> got a very great price on the lg washer that i just bought and then i get $150 back on top of that and then it's going save me money over time. i think my old washer is like a hog. so i think it's great. >> reporter: the appliance rebate program is modeled after cash for clunkers. it's designed to stimulate the economy while encouraging consumers to save energy with more efficient appliances. >> if you've got well functioning appliances, don't go ahead and throw them out just to get brand-new ones. really look at where your energy consumption is and whether it makes sense to replace that old clunker of a

refrigerator or a clothes washer. >> reporter: cash for appliances is a $300 million federal cash incentive program. maryland received nearly 5 1/2 billion dollars of the sum. maryland will offer a $300 rebate for energy star qualified heat pump water heaters and $150 rebate for superefficient clothes washers and a $100 rebate for superefficient refrigerators. >> this will help by reducing the amount of energy customers use, they will save money and ultimately it helps the environment. >> reporter: the cash for appliances program is based on a first come, first served basis. all you have to do is pick up this form right here and mail it in. many stores like best buy are hoping people take advantage of the program. >> all of our energy efficient products are on sale right now as well as the rebates they will get from the state and federal government. >> reporter: thanks to the appliance rebate program, jeanine can feel happy about saving money and saving energy with her new purchase.

in timonium, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> 35 states are launched the appliance rebate program. nine states including maryland launched their programs just today. consolation energy has added a hands-on activity to take your child to work today. more than 150 children of the employees helped put together bags for the needy at port discovery. they included toothbrushes to socks. >> we felt it was really important to have part of the day a community service project to teach kids how easy it is to help in the community as well as why they should help. >> the children were able to give back to their community in addition to helping their parents at work. constellation also gave each child a tree to plant in honor of earth day. and even the u.s. navy is going green. they are testing a fighter jet that uses biofuel. the fa18 superhorn net dubbed the green horn net -- the navy

says it expects to see no difference between th green hornet's performance and jet fuel. it's aimed at creating a great careen fleet -- great green fleet by 2016. here's a few ways you can help keep the environment clean around your house. don't fertilize your yards. they contain phosphorus. plant a tree. it can provide more shade for your home and reduce air- conditioning costs. trees also play a part in cleaning the air and the water and finally, be sure to pick up behind your dog. dog waste can be washed into sewers and contribute to pollution in our waterways. now for a look at tonight's top stories. a door to door salesman is behind bars charged with raping a woman in anne arundel county. he attacked a woman and then

proceeded to knock on other doors as if nothing had happened. he is being held on $2 million bail. president obama wants wall street to help back new rules coming their way, speaking at cooper union university in new york just blocks from wall street, mr. obama asked business leaders to call off what he calls his battalions of antireform lobbyists and join the government in its efforts to prevent future financial calamities. on the weather front today, had a fantastic start to the day and still not bad out there this afternoon but we are picking up a couple of showers here on maryland's most powerful radar. you can see those showers peppering the state right now but not particularly widespread and heavy. i think the weather will be decent most of the rest of the evening today. high temperatures today, 72 degrees. 75 out in frederick this afternoon. we will throw in the chance for some scattered showers but again they are going to be widely scattered and if one does come through, it will

quickly exit your area. warm and breezy conditions into the night. we will talk about the rest of the weekend here, some nice warm temperatures, but, man, a lot of rain toward the end. weekend. we will have it all coming up. microsoft co-founder bill gates has given away billions of dollars through his foundation. today he announced a new initiative designed to help the world's hungriest people learn to feed themselves. it launches a $900 million fund to help the world's poorest farmers. >> we are investing in small farmers is an incredibly infective way to fight hunger and poverty. >> gates and u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner says it's time for other countries to make good on the bank pledges of $22 million for global security which was made last year by g8 and g20 summit. a quarter of a billion people who live in extreme poverty depend on agriculture for a

living. the gates foundation is chipping in about $30 million. ben franklin is back, he's rested and he has a new look and armed and ready to fight new crime as well. how new crime fighting cash is targeting crooks. and two friends are not only growing old together, they are kind of growing out together. wow. meet the newest contestants hitting the scale for the brickover challenge. currently at pioneer ridge elementary school, it is a beautiful 67 degrees. wyatt has your complete forecast coming up. stay there.

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he started yelling at me and i couldn't -- i couldn't reason with him. he looked like he was asleep and i didn't understand what was going on and all of a sudden he beat the [ bleep ] out of me. >> well, we have all heard about strange things some people do in their sleep, talking, walking, even eating without waking up but a null discovered -- newly discovered sleep disorder landed anons man in child. he was arrested for felony dispute, an order to stay away from his wife, a charge that randy is fighting. >> he's not a violent man. he's never hurt me. he's never even made me feel afraid. >> the legal -- but the legal system disagrees, though, adam can see his three sons, the judge has brought contact between the couple for more

than two months. the couple is convinced evidence should clear adams' name, he was diagnosed with rem sleep disorder. maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> 72 degrees, just perfect out there. >> sunny skies. i'm telling you. >> good day not to be working. >> nice blue blazer, by the way. almost as nice as mine. >> i got the memo. >> i tell you, rosy, one of those days you want to ditch the suit because warm again, couple of showers, quieting down this evening and then another good looking friday out here. enjoy it because it does change later this weekend. first things first, actually that's our evening forecast. let's show you maryland's most powerful radar right now. you saw an evening forecast there, a couple of showers and you can kind of see those right now in our radar picture we have got scattered light to moderate showers. you know, i think we are going to see these quieting down here in the next hour or so. one shower just crossing the chase peek there -- chesapeake

there, nor to northeast and a couple of light showers moving their way out of the north and east, bel air, maybe a little bit of light rain there. inner harbor, we want from a clear sky to increasing clouds right now. may see a brief passing shower but again it won't be much and it will quickly end. 72 degrees, west-southwest wind 13 miles per hour. humidity actually rather low and i want to show you through the day today how the weather changed. look at that blue sky early on. then in the afternoon, see storm clouds, then clearing, then a few more clouds rolling in so back and forth we go and a very similar scenario as we go into the day tomorrow. temperaturewise, this is the positive side of things. 72 not bad for baltimore and dulles. couple degrees above average. 68 in dover, cooler from patuxent river back through atlantic city, those spots in the low 60s right now. scattered showers across

primarily pennsylvania. this cool front, the boundary where the cool air is lined up kind of edging its way about halfway into pennsylvania, it's much cooler back up into northern ohio. the boundary staying north of maryland, so we are still in the warm air but we are getting those peppering of showers and even a brief thundershower at times because it's unsettled. when that boundary is so close by, it can create some unsettled weather out ahead of that cool front and that's what we are seeing but we don't expect the cool front to make it through. if anything, i think it's going to back up and retrograde a little bit into the great lakes. warm air will hold on the next couple of days. as we work into the afternoon, we will get the instability going and the chance for a few showers. the better chance for rain coming in not tomorrow which looks mainly dry but on saturday, scattered showers and storms possible in the afternoon and the main batch of rain holding off until sunday and monday. those look like two very wet april days so enjoy it today and for the most part early on

saturday. 46 tonight. tomorrow sun and clouds, more sun early in the day and tomorrow night, i think clouds on the increase. show you the seven-day forecast here. looking ahead to saturday, start off relatively quiet but the chance for scattered showers, plan on those saturday afternoon, saturday night. sunday looking like a very wet day around here as does monday. cooler toward early next week. rosy. time now for our brickover couples challenge where we have our own "hot tub time machine" going on. the year 1973, fast times at overly high, two fast friends for nearly 40 years have decided it's time to return to their glory days with help from their family and friends. here's jamie costello. >> reporter: a corner picture is worth 150 pounds. >> yes. >> reporter: no way, it's the same lady. her daughter lost. >> actually 83 1/2 pounds as of today. >> 75 pounds as of today. >> reporter: and now it's time

to make room for daddy. >> what's the first thing you want to do? >> i think i'm going to have a beer with my buddy bill. [ laughter ] >> reporter: laughs from a love seat in japa town,. >> january of 1972 i had just moved to overly from dun back. >> reporter: the day william med eldridge at overland high school. voted most likely never to be out of shape, they were football stars for the falcons. >> there'sal and there's me. >> i was 78, he was 89. >> reporter: nearly 40 years later, they grew up and they grew out. >> i always struggled with weight and then it's always, you know, haunted me. >> reporter: three weddings and a whopping weight gain. the father of the bride needed help. >> there was an intervention about two years ago, i guess, we were all at hershey park in

october. >> reporter: so a man who starred at double rock park and rosedale park went to hershey park knowing his roller coaster was hitting downhill and downhill fast. >> it's scary to sit down ask tell your dad that you're worried about him making it. >> my kids had to wake me up in the fall of 2008 because i was up to 460 pounds and they could see me, my quality of life just withering away. >> reporter: so big bill asked bill al to be his teammate again. >> and what we found now after three weeks in doing this is, you know, what was stopping us? >> that's such a good wife. great wife, four beautiful daughters, five grandchildren one on the way, i love all my son-in-law's and good job. god has been good to me and i don't want to waste any of that. >> reporter: al has gone through his own pain and heartache in his life, but life that first -- like that first day back in september in the early '70s here he is again for his friend. >> i got much greater capacity

for enjoying life. yeah, i think so. it's tough but it's fun. it's almost like being at high school football practice in the summertime. >> reporter: the ice cold victory beer is waiting and diet to go is below and if you come back here in the class of 2014, will we be able to fit four on this love seat? >> well, i don't know about four, but -- >> we will have a little bit more room than we have right now. >> you're going to keep it off? >> yes, sir, i promise. >> reporter: jamie costello, abc2 news. >> good friends can help you get through anything. bill and al will be our guests tomorrow morning on "good morning maryland" at 9:00. so far they have been in the lead over some other couples out there. now with a look ahead to news at 6:00 tonight. an empty parking lot sitting in one community is for sale. that sales time has a lot of residents feeling mad about it. we will explain. and on this earth day some teens are going green.

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this is earth day all around the globe. it was 40 years ago that we began the voting today to raise awareness of the planet we all call home and to protect our environment. over the years the message has been mixed with social consciousness. abc's diana alvear has one example. >> what you're seeing on the horizon is the mountain of coal. >> reporter: these mountain of coal represent environmental injustice to kim wasserman. the coal plant is located near chicago's little village. visible from a school where many of the children have

asthma including kim's son but not all of the parents feel free to speak out. >> a lot of times is communities that don't know their rights, don't know they have a right to speak up or immigration issues are keeping them from speaking up and so put them in communities where people aren't going to ask questions. >> reporter: statistics show coal plants, landfills and other sources of pollution are disproportionately located in low income or minority neighborhoods. in communities with hazardous waste facilities, minorities make up more than half the population, making environment issues social issues. >> the environment isn't just something that's out there. it's not just the oceans, it's not just the forest. it's also something that's around us every day. it's where we live. that's where we work and it's where we play. >> this is part of the earth, your own neighborhood. >> reporter: businesses like brown sugar bakery are driving the transformation of park manner. it's becoming a neighborhood that typifies clean living.

>> these are the things that keep the fabric of a community strong when we can walk to work and walk to shops, when we are inventing, investing, manufacturing merchandising locally so we are looking at a whole system solution. >> reporter: whole system solution that combines booming local businesses. urban farms and old-fashioned advocacy efforts to create communities where the environment and civil rights are respected. diana alvear, abc news, chicago. a plane ride ends with a stolen cessna sitting on the side of a runway and a homeless man is the pilot. abc2 news at 6:00 starts right now. now abc2 news at 6:00. we begin tonight with breaking news in the shooting death of a vietnam veteran just two weeks ago. tonight news that police have made two arrests in the death of charles bowman. good evening i'm kelly swoope. let's get right to abc2 news christian schaffer. he's live in waverly