stops in trying to catch him. captured on camera at this royal farm store a hooded figure enters in the early hours of the morning, demands cash at gun point, steps around to get it and fired shot as he leaves. word of the early morning robbery has put nearby businesses on guard. >> i'm here a lot by myself at night. doesn't make you comfortable when have you to leave. >> reporter: you have security? >> no. i will now. >> reporter: agents with the fbi violent crime task source say the suspect is the same who robbed this royal farm store two weeks ago and shot a cher who resisted giving up his wallet. >> that means they are more dangerous and violent and they need to go off the streets before somebody is killed or hurt or they shoot a child that's innocent and is standing

there. >> reporter: from the images its thought the african american suspect is in miss mid- 30s, 5'7'' and weighs about 200 pounds. he has used a silver revolver. if you recognize him or have information that could help police call the fbi violent crime task force. you could be eligible for a are 2,500-dollar reward. a nissan and work truck collided at the intersection of old east avenue. two were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. now an update to the firefighter crash last night. they crashed on richie highway.

a toyota apparently was northbound on the highway and a fire truck was on baltimore annapolis boulevard headed to a fire in the 7900 block of ines circle when it happened. the driver of the avalon field to give right of way to the fire truck. they had minor injuries but the man hurt in the hospital was taken to the burn center. new, someone opened fire inside a mental clinic at the university of pittsburgh killing two and injuring seven. police say one of the men is the -- the gun men is one of the people killed, killed himself. the shooting happened at in the oakland section. five were shot including a police officer. a swat team was on the scenew. he will tell you more throughout the night. baltimore county police need your help trying to find this man. he is wanted for failing to register as a sex offender and

for failing to appear in court. he was convicted of second degree rape in hartford in 2005. he is required to register every three months and must report changing in his address. his last known address is in red lion road. he was a tattoo on his left arm that says thugged out and a tat it other of a girl on his right arm. he has a tattoo on the right side of his neck. anyone with information is asked to call police. more than a dozen protesters forced a bank of america branch to close this morning after they stormed the lobby. occupy women and occupy baltimore say that the banks still not working with people when it comes to saving them from losing their homes to foreclosure. roosevelt has more on this story. >> reporter: about a dozen members of occupy baltimore and women occupy staged a protest

today. one member was acted after they wouldn't leave. leave. they say the reason they picked this bank is because of what they say our policies stopping people from renegotiating their loans. >> bank of america as of june 2010 had over $88 billion in foreclosure. they are the number one targetter of women home foreclosures, number one of african american women and hispanic women. >> the bank closed immediately and sent the tellerso. one protester continued to block the door after asked to leave and was arrested for presets. they say that other institutions may be targeted in the future.

>> in tonight's consumer alert several fast food chains made headlines when they said they would stop using pink slim, a filler added to ground beef. an investigation has found that there is pink slime across the food supply. jamie is live with more on how this is getting in to your food. >> reporter: sorry to talk about this at dinner time but pink slime is scraps of meat and fat created and added as filler and you buy it and the government disn 't require the producers to tell you. this is so-called pink slime. a meat filler that was once used only in dog food and cooking oil but according to whistle blowers it's now found in 70% of the ground beef we buy. >> economic fraud. it's not fresh ground beef. it's a substitute. >> reporter: gerald is a former sciencist and he and his

colleague both warned against using what the industry calls lean, finely textured beef. why didn't you consider it beef? >> because it was a salvage product. >> reporter: the waste trimmings are collected summered at low heat to make it easier to separate the fat from muscle and then it's spun to finish it. next it's sprayed with a gas to kill bacteria, facial finally it's put intos bricks and flash frozen for shipment. there it's added to most ground beef and it doesn't have to appear on the label. >> the under secretary said it's pink so its meat. >> reporter: we showed people photographs of it. nobody thought it was meat. >> strawberry ice cream. >> a big snake of nasty -- pink stuff. >> reporter: then then we said it was added to ground beef. >> that's disgusting. >> reporter: the makers made

hundreds of millions of dollars off this filler. we have learned the official who said it could be called meat is former under secretary for agriculture joanne smith. she made at least $1.2 million over 17 years. >> thank you. well some good news. gas prices dropped slightly for the third day in a row. the average price for a gallon of regular still $3.76 but it's down a fraction of the cent. you may not even notice it. we are working to try to help you save money and tracking the cheapest gas here in the area. go to abc 2news.com and click on gas prices. >> right now temperatures still well above 70, 71dc of 68

in easton. at least up to 72 at pwi. winds to near 40, gusting to near 36 in washington. . take a look across the state. there are showers already pushing in to garret county, points west of cumberland. that line through later tonight. this evening we stay dry, warm and windy, slowly falling the 70s to the upper 60'sw. will talk about how it changes by saturday. it's coming up. >> all right. thank you. sad news tonight from the maryland -- a 4-year-old snowy owl has died. she died on saturday. she had a recurring medical problem. a necropsy will be done to determine the cause of death. this is the second snowy owl to die in the last five months. years of warnings to teens about the dangers of using tobacco have fallen on weave

ears. despite education and advertisements, one in four high school seniors still smokes. that's according to a new report. more than 80% of them started by the time they were 18 and today more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high school students smoke. efforts to prevent them from using and chewing tobacco have all been unsuccessful. >> to many of our children are addicted, to many cannot quit and to many go onto die far to young. >> now tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death. the report suggests more work needs to be done including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes onto bako products. last week a judge blocked an fda mandate. . the obama administration appealed the decision.

this is the first look at youth tobacco use since 1994. it is a disease that affects our mothers, wives, children, we are talking about breast cancer. the chances of any woman getting it in a lifetime is a little less than one in eight. nobody know that better than march lien king. >> most people don't talk aboutt. >> reporter: she does. breast cancer has interrupted her life more than once. >> so life was happy. i went on, no -- had happiness for about two and a half years and then went back in and they said that it was showing itself again. it was back. >> reporter: together king and her husband have battled the disease twice. watching her go through the treatment may have been worse than the seven surgeries. >> she felt like she couldn't

move, like she wide a thousand pounds, after two or three week its after she started feeling better it was time for the next treatment. >> reporter: when she found out it was back she opted for surgery. >> it was still very difficult for me to come to term was losing my breasts. i think that's the biggest thing for a wal-mart. >> the challenge for me was is she going to pull through this time? >> reporter: eric the pastor of saint matthew's new life methodist church called on his faith and so far king's tumor is no longer visible. they have worked to use the sister's network and komen to reach out. >> education is the key to making it through ; surviving breast cancer or any other disease. >> reporter: she is feeling good. she and eric remain optimistic. >> i do think about it. it doesn't consume me.

then i wouldn't think about moving on and doing other things to keep myself healthy. >> education as she said is the key before and after you find out you have it. saturday join komen for a special day full of answers, healthy living tips and expert medical advice. it's called finding your path to breast health. saturday march 10th. it'll be from eight to noon. it's free and open to the public and for more information you can call komen maryland. coming up more details on a shocking case out of new york. a mother of four accused of running a multimillion dollar prostitution ring out of her home. how investigators were tipped off to the soccer mom madam. and a renovation effort underway in a town.

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. >> a strange case of an alleged prostitution ring involving a soccer mom outside a new york city. tj has the very latest details. >> reporter: we are now getting a closer look inside the high end multimillion dollar prostitution ring allegedly run by anna christina. she is being held on two million dollars bail on new york's infamous riker's island. >> she had ten million dollars she would be out on bail. >> reporter: her husband was seen leaving their home from where she allegedly ran her sex empire. her defenders say she is a

soccer mom, animal lover but investigators have reportedly linked three people to her brothel. her possible accomplice jamie baker named as a co defendant who helped book clients, she is now on the run are. the alleged money man morgan stanley banker david walker, his transactions are being looked at and her possible inside man, sergeant richard wahl. internal affairs is investigating what he may have known about her business. despite the charges she could be released soon. >> every once in a while they have to make a high profile prostitution bust just to make sure people know it's still illegal. >> reporter: police say at ceus madam used all cash tran actions, a sliding scale ranging from a thousand dollars to $25,000 for a weekend and carefully selected girls banned from drinking doing drugs. the prosecutors are looking at

the money trail to see if more serious charges of tax evasion can be filed. no word if the clients will be arrested. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> wind gusts to 40 out there today. take a look at federal hill whipping around and the cameras shaking. in some of those gusts over 71 at the pir art. winds southwest at 24 but we see gusts up to 40 in the last hour. take a look through the day. sun on tap all day. temperatures surging above 70 downtown and really all across the state of maryland people out and about enjoying spring like temperatures but the winds having an impact out there. it'll otherwise be a near perfect day. a chop on the chesapeake from the -- near the bay bridge

marina. still choppy on the bay with all that wind. if you look carefully north and west the early edge of new showers coming in on the radar. they are still north and west of hagerstown. these plus the winds which have been rather gusty but 71 now at baltimore, so far we have hit 71 at the airport. we will see if that's the high on the day. other highs, annapolis, 75 today. 75 at the inner harbor. have you to remember average for this early part of march 50 to 52. across the area here we go. tracking the next line as it starts to move in, central pennsylvania. we think the arrival through baltimore will be around ten or 11. watch for showers or a thunderstorm. even early drivers should be fine with the exception of perhaps if you are headed east toward the eastern shore. it'll be a quick moving large line of showers, obviously very warm windy conditions ahead of it.

cooler air on the back side of this front. it'll drop us in to the 50s through the day tomorrow. we will peak early in the day and temperatures falling through the day and then we struggle to get out of the 40s on saturday and you see why. here is what's headed our way. this it air mass which is only in the mid40s for highs today. and you -- you contrast that with the 70s up and down the eastern seaboard. 80 in alabama. yes it's its contrasted air temperature cross the eastern united states that we often see in this part of march though this is a little more extreme than average. take a look. the trend bringing that line of showers through the overnight. then more dry and partly cloudy by friday afternoon. temperatures peak early in the day and will fall through the evening with winds shifting northwest. not as gusty but still breezy and cooler. the air temperatures get struggling to get out of the upper 40s. 45 over night. the possibility of a few thunderstorms through the

overnight. window about 10:00 p.m. through about 4:00 a.m. in the morning. the two degree guarantee. 58 and early shower. clearing breezy conditions and colder tomorrow night as skies go clear. let's check the seven day forecast and again the outlook showing that cooling trend starting tomorrow. by tomorrow night it'll be cold out and then never out of the 40s on saturday but we bounce back quickly. 60 or so on sunday as we spring forward one hour. start daylight saving time and then into early next week mid to upper 60s. we will be back in the 70's more than likely wednesday forward. if you like the 70s today more on tap. >> stick around. >> don't forget to change the batteries in the smoke detecter. coming up we hear that whitney houston's only child bobby christina will inherit her mother's estate. according to the will she will get everything she owned from home furniture to jewelry to

cars. she died on february 11th. transplants, they are life saving but leave patients often time with a rough road to recovery. we will look at a procedure that could help patients heal quickly and safely. ear infection can be extremely painful for kids, some tips to help children avoid getting them in the first place. i'm carol, and this is my cvs pharmacist. i had to switch my insurance plan. but then my prescriptions got more expensive. i felt helpless... frustrated. it was very frustrating. then john... maurice...

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. in tonight's health alert in a procedure designed to help transplant patients is showing promise. it inserts bone marrow along

with a gifted organ. they hoped the stem cells would trick the body into thinking the new organs were their own. for the patient who received new kidneys that's what happened. the patients immune systems had their own immune cells and cells the donor. more than half of them no longer needed to take the drugs because their body accepted the new organ. and patients you know thist. ear infections common in children and often heal on their own but what should parents do when the child has military up ones? they are caused by to upressure in the middle ear. multiple infections can sometimes interfere with the child's development. >> they can be a problem if the child has had so many that the fluid causes hearing loss and speech delay in that child. >> reporter: we are working for you tonight with tips, doctors say to help stop them in the

first place breast feed your baby. if you can breast milk offers protection against certain infections, also make sure your child gets the specific vaccines for the condition and avoid exposing them to cigarette smoke. coming up it's an area that sometimes gets a bad rap. when a local group is doing to renovate the area and make it a better place to live. that's coming up. prepared for the worst. what the solar flare affected. and at mcdonalds they are saying what can can't get you. what is gearing the dollar menu.

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