>> reporter: today in chore chart -- charlottesville, virginia circuit court we find that her blood alcohol level was not high of to kill her. the medical examiner testified that an irregular heart bead, ard yak arrhythmia was the cause of the death. the cause of the arrhythmia, blunt force trauma. two doctors testified they studied yeardley love's brain and instances of bleeding. george huguely's attorney plan to argue that the bleeding could have been caused by cpr. both neuropathologists say they have never seen that happen. the defense will argue that yeardley love's death was cause blade lack of oxygen from passing out drunk in her bed.

the forensic neurologist that testified today did not support that theory. we'll have to see how the defense will try to prove its case. reporting from charlottesville. >> and christian has been tweeting testimony as it happens. we've taken those tweets and built a timeline on our website. it's waiting for you right now at abc2news.com/lovemurder. let's take a look at your ride home. we are right now on the beltway. roar' -- we're really on the parkway trying to get on the beltway. everyone is probably pulling off to pick up their last-minute valentine gift. let's check in with meteorologist wyatt everhart. >> the bottom line is a few rain showers. you know, i get that on valentine's day every so often,

a few rain showers but not much. in fact, most of the so-called heartbreaking weather is well north of us in western pennsylvania. i hear the grown -- groans. the good news is temperature wise we're seeing basically not much, mid-50s, now falling to the upper 40s so not all that frigid. any showers that you do experience will be liquid rain showers. no chance for wintry weather, no sleek roads but enough to bring your umbrella along because you don't want your sweetheart to get hit by a shower. we'll talk about how the weekend shapes up. we have ran update on a parking garage attendant who was killed after falling from an automatic lift. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine exactly what caused this man's depghts. they said the state of the arts

parking system at the palisades parking system was a great system. however, they're trying to determine how it caused this man's death, a man who would go out of his way to help anyone. when it first went into service, there was nothing like this in the area. the auto park system is a way to put a lot of cars in a very tight space by using a computerized system to physically move and stack cars. it had its problem but early monday something went horribly wrong. >> a portion of the park system had fallen to the third floor and the fly e -- employee had fall tonight second floor. >> reporter: the employee, 35-year-old timothy bartholomew was rushed to the hospital where he died from his injuries. >> a very tight knit community.

tim was certainly a resident favorite, very considerate. he lived on our floor, so he was a resident as well as an employee. he was a neighbor, and everybody was just shocked. people gathered in the lobby. people were talking about it. people were crying. >> reporter: state investigators are trying to figure out what happened here. mcdermott said when the system worked it was fine but there were always a lot of repairs being done. >> sometimes computer issues where you would scan your car and it wouldn't know your car was there. sometimes workers would have to go up and manually call down the system to bring your car, retrieve it, but it was more of an inconvenience for so. i personally gave up my access to it. i didn't need this. >> reporter: mcdermott said the owners brought in staff from some of the other people grieve. it's a tight knit community.

the staff and residents get along great. meantime, the state is investigating and it could be weeks before they have an exact cause. reporting live in towson, roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >> terrible, terrible. let's get you up to date on this gas main break. abc2 news cheryl conner is in southwest baltimore with the very latest. cheryl? >> reporter: that gas main was here at millington and affecting a senior housing facility and also an elementary school. 900 buildings total. crews from bge will be out here for days after water got into that gas main around 3:30 this morning. linda with bge joins us. certainly a tedious effort. the first you were telling us starts with shutting off gas to the 900 buildings. >> correct. once they worked to row patient

-- repair it, restoring it we have to get into each of the homes, about 900 buildings total to turn the gas off. then we can safely get the gas out of the main, make the repairs and go back in to restart gas service if it's safe to do so. >> reporter: we're talking a multiday effort where you go in and have to go back in. >> a gas outage is different from an electrical outage. 900 customers we can typically restore them on short order. in this case multiple days because you have to physically access each and every building that's been affected and you have to do it twice. we need our customer's help so we can turn the gas off. then we'll make the repairs. then we'll go back in and turn the gas on if it's shave to do so. >> reporter: outbreak for the

update. again, 900 buildings affected. as linda told us they will be out here throughout the night and several days making repairs. for live in southwest baltimore, cheryl conner, abc2 news. >> all right. you've heard whispers of $5 gas coming to a pump near you. the governor is making his gas tax proposal clearer saying a 2 3-bg9 increase who be -- 2% increase would be phased in. if gas prices increase by more than 15% in a year during those first three years, the increase would be delayed. the additional money raised is supposed to be ice foferred -- used for transportation. if you had jury duty and was dismissed, did you go back to work or home. you don't have to go back to work even if you spend 10 minutes at the court.

it's interesting to read more. it's senate bill 16. when you're shopping, you check the food labels to find out everything from the calorie counts to the ingredients. abc2 news investigators will spell out why some labels could be disappearing and now that puts you at risk. >> it would make me wonder who they're trying to protect. i'm looking out for the interest of my own family loo absolutely. we'll find out where the food is coming from tonight at 11 we'll find out which labels may be dropped first. that's tonight at 11. a former baltimore city officer is behind bars facing charges similar to the one that cost him his badge a few years back. police say he sexual assaulted a 13-year-old relative in the

basement of his northeast baltimore home. troy gee face charges, including one in 2008. >> they were down in the basement and then our suspect attempted to sexually assault her. her identity won't be released. >> gee pleaded guilty in the previous cases. hoe is now being held without bail. 60-year-old samuel garris is in jail for improperly touch mag woman at a lowe's. police found the suspect right across the street. the victim i.d. he had him and now he's in jail. >> kelly swoope has more on an

unconventional valentine's day. >> everyone wants flower to so the sheriff's department is using that. in honor of valentine's day, the sheriff's office chose four people with warrants for their arrest who also happen to have birthdays today. the sheriff wrote each one of them a note mapped posted the whole thing on facebook. >> i'm actually writing a handwritten card and enclosing a copy of your war rent in your valentine's day greeting. >> sheriff hoffman is offering a dozen roses for the first two to come into the sheriff's department. this isn't the first time the sheriff's department has used social media to deliver a mefnlgt they've also used it in the past. points for creativity. kelly swoope, abc2 news. >> he has about 36 roses on his desk. be honest right now. are you more upset about a 20-year-old breakup or not

getting that job promotion last week. this survey shows where your regrets lie. and no regrets for mexican food today, a kiss at the counter. it's a day for cupid. how did they get to qdoba. 55 at bwi on this valentine's day tuesday. pretty mie.d mild -- mild, milder than we thought. we'll talk about it. that's coming up.

in tonight's health alert it happens every time you bite in a

delicious deseveral whenever -- dessert. your brain release as special chemical. linda so tells us about a remarkable new way it might soon help to fight cancer. >> sandra battled cancer and said besides her faith in good this was often the love for her horses that kept her going. >> huge motivation. >> reporter: horses were both a comfort and motivation for sandra and because of the chemical in her brain known as dopamine. doctors have known for decades that dopamine acts as a reward chemical. >> to find out some very important roles in tumor. >> reporter: it's a role that could be vital. in a lab test he injected dopamine into cancer tumors and showed vastly improved blood flow. in cases like sandra's that

could be crucial. >> there's not the blood flow to the area where the cancer is like a normal organ or something like that and that was a big challenge. >> when dopamine was used, the doctor was able to double the amount of medicine that got into tumors. that could make radiation treatments much more effective. by using dopamine extremely efficient. >> dopamine costs 33 cents. when you compare it to other drugs it's really inexpensive. >> reporter: but could some day prove to be invaluable to those who need this. >> linda tells us the experiment focused on prostate tumors but it could also play a role there treating several types of cancers as well. we have a new health study that may have you thinking twice about your priorities. researchers from northwestern university surveyed 500 adults

about their biggest regrets. most found something to do with love and not work. 56% of the people say they regretted something about a personal relationship. only 26% had regrets about their careers. it's the most romantic day of the year but you forgot to pick up a gift for that special person. you're not alone. we talked to some local florists who say this is their busiest day of the year and they're used to people stopping by for a last-minute bouquet. >> we have a lot sufficient extra designers that we bring in, lots of extra drivers to help get this delivered, lots of patience to deal with the guys who come in at last minute. >> thank you, allison. some local florists have closed up shop. you can always make a nice dinner to show you care.

if you want to stop somewhere in between, you can get some chocolates. we're taking a look at the beltway. let's check in with our weather with meteorologist, he will never, ever break your heart, wyatt. >> keep them coming. maryland's most powerful radar seeing a few light rain showers, much worse far north of us up into pennsylvania. you can see as we take a look at the current conditions as people head out to din are and for a night out 48 degrees, a few showers. no rain observed at the top of the hour. but as we take a look at some of our weather bug cameras, you can see the change through the day. we had amount of midday sunshine but then the clouds rolling in later in the afternoon. we saw the same scenario in the state capital. of those are, a lot of boats out

and about, really decent fair weather but things kind of changing later in the afternoon and a different angle downtown showing that bright sunshine. that allowed temperatures to jump up. we thought we would be overcast for most of the day. so not far below 50. that's after topping out in the mid-50s. 56 the inner harbor. 56 in d.c. these temperatures running a solid 10 to 15 degrees above our average statistically for valentine's day across maryland. you can see a lot of the moisture that was pushing out of the west has surnlgd north. some of this spilled off to the south overnight. we were left with a few trailing showers behind the main core of precipitation which is coming down in the form of snow mixed with rain. other than that, things are going to continue to improve overnight and into the day tomorrow as high pressure slides

in out of the west. perhaps a little cooler as we get a more westerly breeze as opposed to a southerly breeze. so i think we'll be slightly cooler tomorrow. one of the reasons the rain showers, even though they look somewhat impressive on the radar picture are not hitting the ground with much force, dew points in the mid 30s. as we go into the day tomorrow we clear things out, a big day of sunshine with a northwesterly breeze, bringing in some cooler air. i still think we'll be well into the low 50s but perhaps not the mid-50s. we'll trim three degrees or so off our highs. highs have been tricky all week. our trend into thursday, we bring in our next rain system. it could provide wintry weather. for maryland south it looks like a rain event on thursday but tonight just a few light showers really not bad as you take your

sweetheart out. mostly sunny and tomorrow night down to 35. as clouds increase, could see a late overnight shower. better chance through thursday and then a dry friday with sunshine. saturday looking good. we're watching sunday the collapse for another mixed weather system. we'll keep you posted on that. he told us with this -- about this promotion. if you showed up at q do ba and kissed at the counter, you can buy one meal and get one free. so there you go. kiss at the counter at qdoba and you get two for one. >> in about nine minutes they will be gathering at the gopher hole. all eyes will be on senior sara bart. she is one of 15 players

selected out of 2,000. she could win $100,000. you're a half an hour away from watching jeopardy right here on abc2. i'm going to try to read this without getting a lump in my throat. corey weisman is a senior. as a freshman he suffered a stroke on saturday against washington college the coach put him in and pulled him. that was all scripted. then corey gets in with 306 seconds left. washington college fouls him on purpose. corey goes to the line misses the first free throw but hits the second. he finishes his career with one collegiate point. washington college honors him by making him the shoreman of the week. corey will graduate on time. what a job both did to make this man remember his senior day. for more on corey's story, just head to abc2news.com/sports. we'll be right back.

breaking news out of annapolis. two house committees have voted in favor of same-sex marriage and now the bill moves to the house. now here's wyatt with a wrap-up of the weather. a chance for a massing shower. other than that enjoy a pleasant valentine temperature wise at

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