i'm john donvan, in washington. please, please, we all can dream. you're watching the station that works for you "good morning maryland" at 4:30. just ahead this morning, trayvon martin's girlfriend spokes out for the first time. final moments and surveillance video of the shooter. charges have been dropped in the death of east baltimore teen at a former juvenile facility. a local mom wants to know why. >> and some call it a stroke of luck but you are not going to believe what an ohio map found at thrift store for $14. we will tell you what it is on this thursday, march 28th good morning i am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle pry is -- friday is almost here. let's see if we can get some good weather for the weekend here's meeto will gist lynette charles charles. >> we had showers and

thunderstorms yesterday but today we will be more spring like as temperatures will begin to drop this morning. it's windy outside but it will be much drier. as we look at what's going on in terms of temperatures, look how mild we are. if you think you don't need the coat hanging out this morning but the temperatures will go downhill. so, take that jacket with you. 58 degrees right now in aberdeen. arnold around 60. more in shady side and the winds now sustained out of the northwest showing you that cold front has passed through due to the direction. but, the cold air has not necessarily worked its way in as of now but the temperatures will go downhill as we go through the rest of the morning. and we are going to make it up to the 60s. i will give outtemperature in a second. but maryland's -- you the temperature in a second. maryland's most powerful radar is dry and will stay that way through the remainder of todaych let's check the traffic with angela. good morning. is there anything to talk about on the roads. >> reporter: on the roads right now, just a little bit of construction out there. especially for those of you traveling right now through howard county of the northbound i-95 we found a left lane

closed at maryland 32 but all in all things are running smoothly on the major interstates running through the city crystal clear. and i-95 heading to the fort mchenry tunnel and another spot with construction traveling on 95 at cecil hardford countyline. tidings memorial bridge two lanes closed in the southbound direction. mega and charley over to you. good morning. in d c, the house moving towards a -- towards a vote on a republican budget plan which could cut programs for the poor and overhaul medicare. happening today, the governor plans to take part in early voting. and the place that his vote for a primary election governor eowe male is expect at public training facility on northern parkway. now you still can have time to cast your vote early. today is the last day of yrl i voting. -- early vote poems are open

from 10 in the morning. gop candidate rick santorum but his brother will be be campaigning in maryland. dan will hold a rally in frederick beginning at 10 this morning to discuss obama care and it's effect on small businesses. rick santorum will instead be in california delivering an address to the american foreign policy happening at 7 this evening. about 1500 people came out last night to hear ron paul talk at university of maryland college park but richey coliseum was filled. you can hear the crowd inside. some students were turned away with chants of president paul before the congressman spoke to a rousing crowd. new details about the moments after a neighborhood watchman shot and killed florida teen trayvon marten. >> george zimmerman's father is speaking out and so is trayvon martin's girlfriend. linda so is here with more on what they are saying this morning. >> reporter: martin's 16-year- old spoke with abc news and

says she was on the phone with martin before the shooting and he told her he was being followed. we also know from the police report that responding officers found zimmerman bleeding and grasping. zimmerman claims martin punched him and slammed his head to the ground but martin aparents say the video is proof zimmerman is lying. you can see zimmerman arriving at police station but there's no blood or bruises. the lead homicide investigator in the case has recommended zimmerman be charged with manslaughter but a state attorney's office says there was not enough evidence for an arrest. meanwhile, today, another rally is planned this time in dc to protest to kill laws such as florida's stand your ground law. zimmerman claims self-defense and has not been charged. ce claims martin ked us not to attacked his son. >> trayvon martin said something to the effect of you're going to die now or you're going to die tonight

something to that effect. he continued to beat george and at some point george pulled his pistol and did what he did. >> reporter: now tomorrow students at central michigan university in alabama a&m plan to hold a vigil to remember martin. we will continue to follow the story and bring you the latest details coming up in the next half-hour. linda so, abc2 news. yesterday, in d.c. things got heated on the floor of the house when illinois congressman bobby rush wore a hoodie in protest of martin's death. listen to what happened. >> racial profiling has to stop mr. speaker. just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum. >> the member will suspend. chair must remind -- >> does not require you but to do justly.

>> congressman rush was kicked off the house floor and ushered off the podium. hoodie had violates the house dress code rules. she's been fighting a battle for her son for five years and this morning a local mother has lost that battle. charges have been dropped in the case of 17-year-old isaiah simmons. >> he was attending a bollingbrook school in carroll county when he died and sherrie johnson is here with reaction from his mother. >> reporter: counselors from a former school for troubled youth in carroll county will face no criminal charges in the death of isaiah simmons. the east baltimore teen died in 2007. he was september to the school after being found responsible for a robbery. investigators say at least five counselors from that school restrained him from -- for more than three hours. when he stopped breathing they didn't call 911 for more than 40 minutes. the carroll county state's attorney says the detectives whoinvestigated the case faces anaccusation about his credibility and wouldn't be

able to testify and that's why he says he dropped the charges. >> heart broken to see that today, and. [audio not understandable] >> the med chal -- >> >> reporter: ed et merchandise- - the medical examiner ruled the. [audio not understandable] a 17-year-old prince george's county girl was running track during her gym glass when she collapsed and later died. tekau rasay op her father said she felt pain in her chest before she fell down. she was described as strong leader outgoing and a friend to everyone. could coffee beans be the key to losing weight. >> what studies are saying

about unroasted coffee beans trait ahead plus... >> what you stopping for? >> caught on tape a family try to outrun a wild fire in colorado. you are watching, "good morning maryland." we will be right back. @ @

now "good morning maryland" at 4:30. and welcome back. a wild fire swept through jefferson county colorado. 911 operators were flooded with calls asking for help and we have new video on one family trying to escape the flames. >> where's mom? what you stopping for? >> the fire was started by a prescribed burn and high winds gusts blue embers into the unburned portions of the forest and you see at least two people died when the home burned to the ground. a much lighter note,

university of arkansas has come up with a pretty neat way to educate students about earthquake safety. look at this. it is a 3-d mural on the floor of the university hall. the painting is part of the great central u.s. shakeout. so a neat way to let people know about what's going on. that's pretty cool. >> that's awesome looking. it's to do a double take. i like that a lot. the weather for today, we are dealing with mainly clear skies as of now. we will be seeing plenty of sunshine as we go into time. but the big story this morning is it's mild but temperatures are going to go downhill. so before you leave the house, make sure to take the jacket because you could be leaving around maybe 6 or 7 and the temperatures in the 50s right now will go downhill before then. close to 60 in rock hall and chestertown coming in at 58 degrees. good morning to you. and then we have the winds out there this morning. so it's feeling a little bit chillier but the winds will be gusting as we go into the afternoon and will be another windy day on tap for you. let's get a check of your

traffic with angela. >> reporter: good morning. not a lot of difficulty out there. just a couple work zones. just cleared one on 95 at 895 in the northbound direction. all lants opened there. -- lanes opened there. and here's the first live look north of the beltway in arbutus. we are moving pretty smoothly north and southbound on this stretch of the interstate. let's get the first look in anne arundel county this morning as we go to a live shot of i-97 north and southbound wide open as you make your drive past the benfield boulevard interchange. after a public outcry about the use of low cost meat filler they are calling pink slime, it has been removed from a lot of stores. >> what the production plant is receiving from lawmakers. we will look at that when we go around the country. heading to sin city. who's taking a family vacation. we will tell you ahead.

news time 4:44 and five things to know today. president obama scheduled to deliver remarks at the white house urging conference to end the billions of taxpayer dollar hand out to oil companies. a price hearing a senate energy and natural resources committee will hold a hearing onrising cost of gasoline and the effect on small businesses. and mitt romney picked up another gop endorsement former president george hw bush said to a-- set to announce his endorsement later today. he will support romney at an event in houston. and today texas governor rick perry and other officials are expected to tour the beef products plant where the so- called meat filler called pink slime is produced. that plant is located in nebraska. >> all right. abc2 has done it have you, the facebook timeline will switch over automatically beginning tomorrow. you can preview the time page and make adjustments before it

goes live. we are talking about mega millions it's risen to a record 500 million dollars. so, you night want to get a -- might want to get a ticket. it's the nation's largest ever lottery jackpot. odds of winning we are talking one in 176 million to one. so, the drawing is friday night, you will be able to step -- we will be with you every step of the way starting tomorrow at 4:30 we will be going live talking about tickets and talking to people buying tickets so be sure to stay with abc2news.com and good morning maryland. that would be a great thing to win. someone who won another challenge recognized today sarah bark is second in the jeopardy college challenge and will be recognized by baltimore county executive. the event will be at executive office in towson at 3 this afternoon. making the top stories, the backup pastor at bay city ministries is in jail this morning.

the 73-year-old is charged with sexually abusing a young girl in his congregation. it appears no one at the church knew frank small was on the sex offender recommendation at this list. if you have information about small or any other potential victims harford county wants to hear from you and ask you to call the advow saysy center for children at 410-638-32-94 the number on the screen. former baltimore city officer facing additional charmings. 66-year-old charles richter is charged with first defree murderer in the death of his neighbor mark desander. trial starts monday and -- zander. the trial starts monday. child pornography charges have been added he has been charged with 14 counts of poe tegs of -- possession of child mornography. the attorney for robert bales says his client had depression and anxiety from a traumatic incident in afghanistan prior to the massacre. lawyer says he can't discuss the details and says the issue

sure to stand out in the case against his client. bales is charged with premeditated murder and is being held in a military prison in kansas. we are continuing to follow the latest on out of washington with the constitutionality ofpresident obama's health care reform. >> it's leekly the supreme court won't re-- likely the supreme court won't release their decision until june. they held the final day of oral arguments yesterday about the law. and analysts who watched the arguments for and against the law believe that part of that requires all americans to buy health insurance will be rejected. hundreds of people who live in baltimore city along with johns hopkins university students will be demonstrating a cause that most of us care about. we are talking about jobs. they will be marching at 11 this morning to different construction sites near campus. the pro-- they are protesting the lack of local workers on the projects and say if the university is going to build in east baltimore they should hire people from the community. around the nation this

morning, the first family on vacation in las vegas. the first lady and daughter malia and sasha visiting vegas after stopping in south dakota on a family trip. they visited mount rushmore for the first leg of the trip. a school in oklahoma will be closed continuing investigation nearly a dozen students and staff got sick yesterday. many became nauseous and dizzy and no one knows why. school officials say they checked for gas and co poisoning and they didn't find anything. today the crews will disinfect the school. a lot of problems in minneapolis. people are carrying out what police call flash robs instead of flash mobs. they start out with a big group of people and chase or assault innocent bystanders in the most recent says a victim's jaw was broken. police say in the area they havestepped up patrols. a piece of art bought in ohio thrift store for $14 may actually be worth about 10

grand. zack bought a picasso print while shopping and says he noticed a feint signature in the corner of the print and he had one of only 100 prints of the painting made in france in 195. art cleghtors believe -- collectors believe it's worth between 5 hundred hahn 10,000 dollars. no -- 500 to 10,000 dollars. >> i would keep it and see if i could get more. >> no. i am selling. >> i am selling. >> i am selling. >> the one thing you might want to buy is the abc2 app on facebook. we were mentioned as one of the newest app. wmar in baltimore launched the live streaming on iphones last year had a sleek look with all the bells and whistels. it's going to cost 2.99 on the ipad which we have up for you and it is free for the iphone. >> a shout out.

>> that's a pretty big deal. the weather this morning not too bad. a little mild but the cold front did slice through. i will show you what will happen in a second. let's talk about what's going on right now. if you are listening, getting ready. the temperatures are not so bad. they are mild right now. but what's going to happen is we are going go downhill going through the rest of the morning. so, take that jacket with you or maybe you will be going out in the next two hours or so. it will be cooler then but we see 60s in baltimore and dc even down into culpepper. even over in the eastern shore, 61 degrees in easton right now. but this is the sign that we are going to get chillier and that cold front has passed through because those wind now are out of the northwest at about 5 to 15 miles an hour even close to 20 miles an hour in winchester coming in around 18. so these gusts once again will get up to about 30 to 35 miles an hour as we go into the

afternoon. reason why, we have high pressure that's going to be building in from canada and then we have this area of low pressure that's departing. the difference between the two that's why we have the windy conditions as we go through the rest of today. now, future trend picking up on the fact we will get plenty of sunshine for today. but we will have another system that's going to be working its way in here as we go into friday evening into early saturday. we could see showers in the forecast for us but then that gets out of here so i am going to say 50-50 weekend looking pretty good and then the temperatures for today coming in right around 62 degrees. and we will be mild and this is what it looks like for your 7- day forecast. we are going to see the rain overnight in saturday but you can see we get much warmer as we head into monday. let's check the traffic with angela. good morning how are the road? >> reporter: good morning. the roads are always pretty good especially when we don't have weather related issues out there to the start of the morning. the commute is off to an excellent start. we are clearing some of those overnight work zones and moving

steadily as you can see right here on 695. and the y. this is a live shot as you can see. we are light on the inner and outer loops of the beltway on this stretch. same on the top side of 695. if your morning drive includes a trip past harford road this is what you will find inner and outer loops moving smoothly between the harrisburg expressway and i-95. a local hospital paying out big bucks for making false claims. >> yeah. find out how long this has been going on and how much they have to pay the government. >> may be one of the worst places to have a accident, a fire work factory. we will show you video of firefighters trying to bring down a blaze gone out of control. that's when we take a look around the world. but as we go to break a live look at atlanta, 53 degrees and a bit cooler than we are. you are watching what's new in maryland, we are good morning maryland. back in a bit.

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at 4:30. 4:5 right now. what's the most religious state in the united states? mississippi. a new gallup polled found 6 in 10 people for the magnolia state consider themselves very religious. utah with the large number of mormon came in second and on ther end vermont and new hampshire are the least religious states. good news today a new report shows cancer rates have dropped by nearly 1%. downward trend has been consistent since 1999. health official say it's due to better screening and treatment advance and efforts to reduce rest being from unhealthy behavior. a study sure to excite you coffee drinkers, the morning cupof joe may be the key to quick weight loss but it applies to unroasted coffee beans and instead of drinking you eat them a group of people lost 10 perof the body waist after eating less than a ounce of green coffee beans every day for 22 woke.

researchers suspect the substance known may be behind the fat burning. meanwhile, one local hospital right now will be forking over catch after they found they were making false claims. the feds say good samaritan hospital filed the claims over a4 year period and they have agreed to pay the government about $793,000. good samaritan has denied any wrongdoing. all new, the washington post is reporting the howard street tunnel is too expensive to fix and is hurting the state and city economies. the report says freight trucks have a difficult time getting through the tunnel access port of baltimore. 40,000 people work at the port and it brings in 2 1/2 billion dollas for the -- dollar for the city but without make it bigger the ability to move freight through baltimore affects more than dozen other states. 4:57. coming up on good morning

maryland at 5, a false address sends unwanted visitors to the wrong zimmerman home. an apology in the trayvon martin case. changes are coming to the london olympics wardrobe. we will talk about that at 5:25 and unexpected ingredient leaves starbucks customers grossed out. we want you to weigh in on this. that's coming at 5:35. we are two minutes away from 5 and news around the world, secretary of state hillary rodham clinton is heading to the middle east. the meeting is with the king of saudi arabia to talk about the violence in syria. mrs. clinton will travel to turkey attending a friends of syria meeting. italian police say they have seized about 1 1/2 billion dollars in assets from the late libyan leader qaddafi's family and associates. the assets including two harley davidson motorcycles and land in italy were frozen to comply with u.s. resolution. official say the international court of justice requested the

seizure. employees at fire work factory in thailand won't go back to work for a while. the series of explosions that's fire. a huge warehouse burned to the ground as a result. firefighters what difficult time putting out the fire because the fireworks continued detonating. there are no reports anyone was seriously hurt or anyone killed. move over prince william brother harry is moving in. the royal sources say that he is moving in -- moving out of his dad's place and moving near william and his sister-in-law kate middleton. so will and kate and they are going to move into the main building of the palace next year. harry will take the costage kensington palace where william and harry lived with their mother princess diana diana. a parents of amanda knox begin their trial in italy accused of making allegations of police mistreatment of their daughter during her arrest anddetention. they are being ar