harford county, there was a raid in a home. the deaths occurred in the same home on locker ri road where officers seized animals last year home to return them. >> reporter: count this dog has one of the lucky once. when officers raided this home on friday, they said they found a dead dog and cat inside and plenty of others that had to wallow in their own stench and feces with no food or water. >> there were 27 animals. on any given day we have 34 dogs in our shelter. that's a lot of dogs. for someone to have them in their home, it's unreasonable and unfeasible. it's not good for the animals. >> reporter: this beagle named dpaf foe dpil will remain at the harford county facility until i. the owner is no stranger to

animal control. >> we dealt with the last individual last summer in reference to beagles she had taken away from her. they were relinquished back to her. so it is a little disturbing. while shelters like this one last the resources to match pets with new owners, it appears her beagle rescue left it in need of rescue handle hoarders can love them to death. >> take someones who passionate about dogs and cats and they want to save everything they can where mentally they don't realize what they're doing. at that point it gets to the point they're not helping the animals, but hurting them. >> reporter: in harford county, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> well, the seized animals will remain in limbo at the shelter until an investigation is finished or the owner gives them up for adoption. nine dogs remain in pens, four

more than the county allows without a ken them in licensed. new development unless the death of a baltimore county firefighter last year the fire started in the kitchen and ultimately took the life of firefighter mark falkenhan. kelly swoope has more. >> reporter: the investigation revealed the number of secondary causes for the fire that led to his death but nothing to a direct calls. the 84-page report was compiled by fighters -- firefighters and union members. they looked at pictures, did interviews, even createdjf model tools outline what happened the night falkenhan died. the report outlines his final moments as he called emergency and said he was trapped on the third floor under heavy fire. recommendations included the need for crews to stick together and that everyone should carry a portable radio.

falkenhan and his partner were separated inside the apartment and only mark had a radio. although the report said there was no one single cause for the reason of his death. >> what they found was a confluence of smaller issues that in and of themselves would not have been that significant, but that combined together created a catastrophic scenario. >> now the fire department said all the members are being retrained in the wake of the deadly fire which started from a pot of oil on a kitchen stove. kelly swoope reporting. you are looking live right now. let's go out to the toll booths. traffic looks pretty good. roads are dry. what happened today? weren't we supposed to see the sun. wyatt everhart tries to explain. wyatt, we're already complaining. >> we thought mostly cloudy but some sun was expected. that morning nothing lifted but

really never broke up. look carefully. some late day sun coming out in southern maryland and parts of the eastern shore. a little bit of sunshine over caroline county but sunshine tough top find today. temperatures upper 60s to near 70, held down slightly from the low 70s of yesterday because we couldn't seem to get the sunshine going. maryland's most powerful radar tracking one cluster of rain mainly in the salisbury area. low 70s by tomorrow afternoon as some sunshine should appear after morning fog. we've got much more on the weekend forecast straight ahead. now continuing campaign 2012, mitt romney came to the hometown of our former governor robert ehrlich. rosie? >> reporter: mitt romney spoke for about 45 minutes to a really

entuesday as tick crowd. about 200 or 300 people showed up at the legion post 109. a lot of people haven't decided. for many people they still want to hear what romney has to stay say because they -- has to say because three don't know who they will vote for. >> reporter: an enthusiastic crowd greeted mitt romney. his visit comes at a time when every vote will count in the republican primary. however, romney directed most of list remarks toward president obama and what he says is president obama's failure with the economy. >> i'm concerned about the debt and the economy and the president who doesn't understand our economy to know that innovations and businesses are built on dreams rand dreams are very fragile and as he expands

the hand of government in the marketplace and excessive regulation and larger and larger taxation, that he kills dreams and dreamers. >> reporter: she says at this point she's not sure who she will vote for. she's disappointed in all politicians. she wants someone who mr. tell the truth. the grandson said he wants the same but someone who will work for his future. >> still undecided, but he's personal personable -- personable, has a religious background, how capitalism is a good thing. >> i needed to come here with him because he's a die-hard republican. he wants to convince me that i need to look at the other side. i think he's trustworthy.

>> reporter: that was one thing we heard from a lot of folks we spoke w they wanted to hear what romney had to say but with other candidates, ron paul, newt gingrich and sawn spawn still in the race, they wanted to hear what he had to say before they gave their support. three want to see what romney has to say before they make that final decision when maryland's primary comes up next month. >> stay with abc2 news for continuing coverage. just go to abc2news.com/politics. and look for local races leading up to the primaries and jnl election. this time last night we were learning about a multiple shooting and stabbing in garrison. police have still not filed charges but say they are close.

the events unfolded on spectator lane. it started out as a fight. a mother is recovering right now after police say her own son attacked her using a hammer. police said robert benscoter repeatedly hit his mom in the head and body with a hammer. she is in shock trauma. he is charged with second degree attempted murder. eight years ago a triple murder shocked a community. there are still delays in the retrials. two have been in custody since may of 2004. that's when three children, three relatives were found nearly beheaded in their home. the first trial ended in a hung jury. the second trial was overturned due to a mistake. now we're on our second delay of the retrial and still no word when trial will happen. an odenton man is under

arrest after hitting an officer with his vehicle. they pulled over davis. that happened near donaldson avenue in severn. police cased davis after he ran a red light. harford county teachers soon will be getting their bonus. we're told the first half will arrive in the coming weeks. the second half later this year. the harford county council approved it. teachers were supposed to get it at the end of last year but the deal was vetoed after the teachers tried to get more funding control. the wheels are turning tonight planning the newest elementary school in buccaneer bawfnlgt the new school will be now what's called mays chapel

park. it's surrounded by retirement near padonia road. in the end it was approved by the boompletd the $25 million school will be filled with 700 students and should ease overcrowding. the school is expected to be finished in the year 2014. competition you're getting from glen more, both are in the $3.70 and but it's quick le approaching $4 a gallon. how close are we to an all time high. it's a matter of feeling lucky, but for us it's that wonderful location. >> we have a shootout with seniors. >> by the way, check it out. 68 at bwi. remember, that's 13 degrees before our average but not quite the 73 where we thought we'd end up. your weekend weather maker

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part of a st. patrick's day reception and o'malley was part of the performance. from o'malley's march to march madness, while the maryland's women team keeps playing there was a different one at oak crest. they had their own basketball tournament of sorts. >> reporter: in this annual event at oak crest preermt community located in parkville about 100 residents and students from area high schools participated in a free throw shooting competition to benefit stop hunger now. >> time to get out for exercise and mingle. this will help the stop hunger campaign. we ask all the students to bring a quarter to sport cam --

support the campaign. >> i'm having a ball. it's fun. this is what i need at my age, to get out and be able to do things. >> it's a matter of feeling lucky, but for us it's a wonderful occasion. >> reporter: this year student teams came from the institute of know ter dam and they love giving back to the community. >> just enjoying it and having a good time. >> i'm doing something good and it's like i'm not sitting at home watching tv. i'm actually out helping others and making their day better. my hope is everyone can give their time because time is free.

you don't have to pay someone to volunteer. it makes a difference in the lives of those you're helping. >> reporter: with the sweet 16 games around the corner, at left some marylanders are still having fun. in parkville, i'm manny locke. in three days, the world will change has the world gets to peek inside the world of wheeling and dealing sports memorabilia. the newest reality show will air and you'll see what characters they are. the first ball boys episode will air this coming saturday at 3:00 right here on abc2. very little rain. the closest shower activity

lower eastern shore. that is diminishing. so we're done with the rain. still, a hazy overcast and some sun breaking through, but 68 at bwi. that's where we sit now. winds light, east at 7 but very little breeze. it's stagnant and humid. clouds holding tough in bel air. as we look at our weather cam, a nice run on main street, dry but definitely on the cloudy side. same thing in loch raven and towson. conditions running mild, relatively dry but obviously, quite cloudy. overnight into the morning hours we'll see much of the same. right now temperatures across the region, 57 at the beach and ocean city. not quite as warm has yesterday. with that sunshine in the afternoon we didn't quite get that in most spots.

winds are very, very light. the humidity levels are high, up around 90% in annapolis, frederick. this amount of moisture in t wie fog potential, patchy fog overnight and into the day tomorrow. dover at nearly 100% humidity. you can see where the fog impacted temps today, only in the maryland and southeastern pennsylvania, in new york where we were trapped in the 60s. look how hot in pittsburgh, charleston, west virginia in the mid-80s. nearly 80 in richmond. those areas had the sunshine. you can see where the clouds were holding tough, this section around maryland, including all of our state, tough to find the sun. as a result temperatures held down. all eyes shifting to the weekend. you can see tremendous rain, tornado reports across the deep south. that is going to be a very slow moving system. for now the south breezes

continue. mainly south of us. the main system you could see just really taking its time to cross the country but it does appear we'll continue to see a strong fetch of moisture out of the gulf of mexico. this could be quite a bit of rain as we move toward sunday. just a slow, slow mover. here it is for you, down to 57, mostly cloudy many your two-degree guarantee tomorrow, 74. patchy morning fog. watch out for that and humid has we go to the mid-50s. seven-day forecast, changes, some but, again, the trend is this, more active weather into sunday. that will bring in cooler air. 60s, sunday, monday into tuesday before we warm back up. >> 27 days we could have had for opening day that would have been perfect. >> the year of opening days. opening day style weather.

>> that's right. what did you pay for gas today? >> four. >> ago mag just won't stop climbing. don't pay four bucks for gas. it's cheaper around town. the last two weeks the average price for gas is up three cents a gallon. according to aaa, it's up to $3.90. a hadn't ago we were paying 31 cents more a gallon. the record high was $4.04, last may. under the traffic tab you click on the gas prices. there you'll find the cheapest prices found by the people in the area and the interactive map to find -- help you find the cheapest gas prices. let's hit the megamillions

lottery. the jackpot is $290 million. no one had the guts to win since january 24th. the next drawing is friday night the cash only option is worth $205 million. we'll be right back. wyatt will tell us the rest of the forecast and kelly will tease us about the news tonight.

kelly joins us. you expect companies to be honest. we are exposing business busted by the feds for covering up important safety information. every day you watch the price at the pump go up. plus, gas prices and airline tickets could be going up, too. we'll break it down for you at 11. >> we'll be walking every where. can't fly, can't dry. >> you can sit outside and enjoy the weather. >> saving on your heating bill. the ac may be on. 70 tonight and we'll continue to see a warmup tomorrow back in the low 70s. >> hold it off has long has possible. >> it's an unwritten rule. you're not supposed to turn your

ac on in baltimore until july the 4th. that's all for us. i'm jamie costello. kelly and this guy will see you at 11. ♪

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