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right now police are investigating a suspicious shooting. investigators believe two people were shot with a pellet gun and injured. we know one when was take on the medical center with injuries resulting from the shooting. the warren bridge was closed for a shoot time due to a police investigation. police have not identified suspects involved. good evening. it has been 48 hours since a man inside a glen burnie pizza shop was gunned down. police say they have one of the four suspects in custody.
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the man was visiting a friend when the robbery happened friday night. cheryl conner spoke to the owner who witnessed the shooting. she joins us with details. >> reporter: the employee was on her first day of work and knows one of the suspects police needed to make an arrest. >> there was one shot over here. >> reporter: the owner of mr. wings and pizza in glen burnie was at his shop on friday night at 9:00 when four men wearing masks walked in and announced the robbery. a 17-year-old girl was at the front. it was her first day on the job. he walked back to the kitchen but could hear what was going on. the girl was standing with a 20- year-old who worked across the street washing cars. he and a female employee are described as as recent
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friends. >> he told her not to touch her. >> reporter: that's when one shot was fired. according to police the bullet went through the front desk and hit the computer on the other side. forest was shot in the body. >> we cleaned up the blood. >> reporter: flores was taken to baltimore medical center and pronounced dead. saturday was his 2 is 2 is 21 birth day. he has done business here seven years operating another pizza shop across the street but he's thinking about a move. >> my family called me and said move from here. don't do anymore business. >> reporter: police say at least two of the four suspects were armed. investigators are not saying
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the exact role in the incident. the search is on for three for suspects. >> thank you tonight three people are under arrest including a teenager after a stabbing inside an ann arundel mills mall. the 20-year-old and unnamed juvenile are all facing charge. a teen was stabbed during a fight in the food court. the teenager was treated and released from shock trama. investigators don't know what sparked the fight. authorities are investigating what sparked a fire in a hartford county townhome. the fire broke out after 2:00 this afternoon. fire caused serious damage to the first and second floor of the home along with minor damage to go other homes. there were no reports of injuries. tonight family, friends and colleagues are coming together to remember a tow truck driver found shot to death in his truck. the 23-year-old was found slouched over in the drivers seat earlier this month. detectives say he was sent to
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this location in northwest baltimore to tow a car. police do not have any suses expects listed in the murder yet. today tow truck drivers around the area will start a vigil at 9:00 at the scene of his murder. we had another gorgeous day on tap. we had sunshine. clouds will moving in. we have rain on the horizon. check out maryland's radar. you can see a few showers towards the west. they'll try to get in our area overnight. it is not going to happen because our air is too dry as of now. satellite and radar showing a view of the clouds pushing in the area. i'm call it partly to mostly cloudy through the overnight hours. by tomorrow and the next day we'll definitely be seeing changes in the forecast with rain. right now those temperatures dropping. coming in around 57 degrees in the inner harbor. 52 york. 53 annapolis. cambridge 48. by this evening temperatures will remain in the low 50s.
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then we'll be partly cloudy and fairly mild. then we'll start to see a significant drop as we go into the end of the week. you know what? we'll be seeing rain in the forecast. i'll talk about that coming up. now back to you. >> thank you. while we were enjoying a taste of spring over the weekend parts of the midwest were hit with a winter blast. twin cities got the worse with snow falling at an inch an hour making road conditions miserable. 1,000 customers are without power in minnesota and wisconsin. all this after a record setting 68 degrees in the midwest on wednesday. president obama's ten-day four country asian tour is over. earlier today obama held a one- on-one meeting with the russian president. he put pressure on congress. the two presidents signed a nuclear agreement in april. obama administration wants the senate to ratify the treaty before the new congress takes over in january when the
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democratic majority shrinks. what do a few car dealers, fuel funeral directors and airline pilots have in congress? >> reporter: this washington hotel is freshman orientation. in the lobby we found a man who used to work in manufacturing in kansas. >> i have never run for a political office before. that experience is reel haven't for what americans are looking for today. >> reporter: bob young from indiana was heading out to find a place to live. >> it is time to finally hit the ground running. and start to do the people's work. >> reporter: it is a huge freshman class. at least 85 republicans. nearly half never served in government. among them sixing doctors, three car deal e two funeral directors, airline pilot and a pizza restaurant owner.
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7 women. two african-american including tea party candidate tim scott from south carolina. scott was at a dualer preorientation orientations. tea party candidates gathered two dozen new members away from washington, in baltimore for two days of intensive training on how to stay true to conservative campaigns. >> we have amazing work that must be done with respect to forming our government to make it conformtive with a mandate of our constitution. >> reporter: message to the new members. stick together. >> my approach in all that i do is what i would do at home. >> reporter: sarah palin is jumping into the orientation mix sending a letter to freshman saying stick to the principles that propelled your campaigns. this freshman class meets with the speaker and speaker-to-be later in the day.
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sarah palin is doing a lot more than just encouraging that freshman class. she is taking her daughter's lead and jumping into the world of reality television. coming up, we'll take a look at her new show. >> plus, fighting a fire on a country road is nothing like battling a blaze on a city street. we'll head out to rural baltimore county where firefighters got hands on training. temperatures started below average today. 31 degrees. high of 64. we made it above average. will we stay above average tomorrow? i'll have the seven-day forecast after the break.
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daughter. the former vice presidential candidate is about to star in her own reality tv show. sarah palin's alaska. >> i would rather be doing this than in some political office. >> reporter: even though her name didn't appear on a midterm election ballot the frenzy surrounding her. out of the 55 house and senate candidates she lent her star power 37 won. that's a 70% win rate. her reality show is more of an 8 part series campaign ad. >> i think she believes as long as her fame is increasing that could be translated and poured into a political campaign. >> reporter: steven mansfield wrote the book about sarah palin. >> i think it will give her
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more to overcome than help her. she is not looking presidential. she is running around in shorts and chopping up fish. >> reporter: this is a different spotlight than what she passed on the dozen of candidates. certainly more of john and kate than john and sarah. got unwanted toys? how about giving them away to a good cause this holiday season. the annual hanukkah toy drive is going on this week. it is a year-long event that provides familys in the jewish community gifts for their children. >> you cannot imagine the smiles and the brightness of the families that they were able to provide something for their kids where they thought they wouldn't be able to. >> last year the charity provided gifts for more than 250 children. organizers of this charity are working hard to make sure that no child is left without a toy.
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toy donations are going on this week. they can be dropped off at 5750 park heights avenue in owens mills. lots of folks came out this weekend for maryland's annual irish festival at the fairgrounds. weekend-long event included 13 bands. irish step dancing and vendors. the event that's been part of baltimore for 30 years wrapped up today with a special mass this morning. i'm starting to feel like we won the weather lottery. every sunday it is just gorgeous. 60 degrees. i keep thinking when is it going to come to an end? >> all good things come to an end. it is not going to come tomorrow but next weekend you'll be singing a different tune. i'll tell you that. >> i keep preparing myself for it but every sunday i get up
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thinking it is beautiful. >> you are saying saying thank you, i love you. i have to take the credit when i can. let me show you what's going on. temperatures are dropping out there. right now 55 degrees. you know what? we made it up to 64 degrees for today. it was an absolutely stellar day. you can see in the inner harbor we made it up to 63 degrees. york 63. frederick 64. hagerstown 60 degrees. kulpeper 60 degrees. dover 61. current winds right now about a mile an hour sustained wind in baltimore. more sustained around dulles. the winds will stay 5 to 10 miles per hour. be prepared for that. the temperatures will feel
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cooler. this is your forecast tomorrow. we are edging 60 degrees. yes, we'll be cooler than today. but still above average. we should be at 57 degrees for this time of year. we'll take that 60 and not complain. partly cloudy skies is the name of the game. this is going to look good for tomorrow. then the change will come. speaking of the change, right now you are looking at the satellite and radar. we are seeing showers off toward it is west here. what we have is a cold front. this cold front is going to try to make it closer to us. it is not going to drop the temperatures too much. once it starts to get closer to us, you know what? our air is to dry the rain towards the west will fizzle out in the overnight hours. i'll show you that in a second. high pressure in the atlantic. slowly moving away from us. we are in store for a low pressure system to move into the area. in the meantime things are looking good as of now. this is what i'm talking about. you can see the showers fizzling out. air is just too dry. now you are seeing more showers
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move in. this is courtesy of a system getting its act together around the gulf coast states. it will make its way into our area into tuesday and wednesday morning by tuesday around 10:00 you'll see the rain. the atmosphere will moist up. we'll get the rain across the area. unfortunately it will stick around until your drive home on tuesday. when you wake up wednesday morning then a chance of showers in the travel. things will taper off. that's good news. tonight you are going into the overhours with the temperature around 44 degrees. that's not bad. we have cloud cover. so temperatures are not going to drop like a rock. by tomorrow this is going to be our last chance in the 60s. get out there and take advantage of it. we'll be dry, as well. partly cloudy. temperatures still above normal. as we move into tomorrow night it is not going to be as cool as the night before. because of the fact we have clouds around. temperature around 49 degrees. here's that seven-day forecast
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for you as you plan accordingly. get the pen and paper out. tomorrow around 60 degrees. 57 degrees tuesday. rain in the forecast is likely as we head into wednesday a chance of showers. then you can see a real cool down as we head into next weekend. we exposed his shady tactics as part of an abc2 news investigation last spring. seems he may be back to his old tricks. how do we know? we caught him on tape. tonight at 11:00 we'll confront a locksmith who has been busted. he is under court order to stop luring in customers with low estimates and busting the prices way up. we caught him red handed and confronted him face-to-face. >> you are charging our producer. what's the price of this? $825. >> yes, ma'am. >> haven't you been to court
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people who live in baltimore county saw a lot of smoke and fire today but it is not what you think. >> reporter: when you see this much heavy smoke and this much fire you are thinking i hope everyone made it out safely. they did. this is a life fire exercise from baltimore county career and volunteer firefighters. >> this is a great opportunity to practice basic skills. ladder skills. search-and-rescue. interior fire fighting. exterior fire fighting. >> reporter: today's training was an addition to a normal 7
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days a week training these men and women receive on a daily basis. safety is paramount. >> we do this following national standards. we do structure burns. we have safety officers in place. we have a lot of redundancy. should something go wrong we have a back up plan in place. safety is is paramount. we follow the standards of the letter. >> reporter: when it comes to fighting fires of this magnitude in rural baltimore county. >> it gives us the opportunity to first of all deal with fire fighting in a rural area. which means we don't have fire hydrants. as a result the fire engines are designed to carry additional amounts of water. you can see behind me a holding tank. we refer it to rare, rare operations. tanker operations. this is a great opportunity to
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i know it is too early to talk about it but i'm loving next weekend's forecast. >> penn state is coming to d.c. we are playing. it is supposed to be beautiful weather. >> let's talk about tomorrow morning. tomorrow we'll wake up temperatures on the cool side. 48 degrees. partly cloudy skies continues throughout the dayhigh coming in around 68 degrees. let's jump to weekend.
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