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>> getting up to the minute on some of the top storey, the body found in a wood area of middle river earlier this week has been identified as jeffrey wayne jennings senior who ha been missing sinces. police have arrested a couple, and they are charging them with the murder. neighbors say they lived in the house with him before he disappeared, police haven't determined a motive. and the mega millions mystery continues, the director of the lottery said that nobody has contacted them to say they won yet. this 24 hours after an attorney for a woman claiming to be the winner said his client is unsure whether she has the winning ticket and he has not seen it. baltimore orioles manager coaches and the team on hand today for lunch with the orioles. they gave out autographs, bags and celebrated the 20th anniversary of camden yards, the home opener tomorrow against the minnesota twins,
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game time 3:05. it was another picture perfect day. little colder, taking a live look, things are calm. let's check in with wyatt. everybody wants to know what the weather will be like tomorrow. >> kelly a very similar to when he had today. sunshine and a little bit on the cool side, maybe not quite as mild as it was today. can see the clouds going across the sky from west to east. fair weather clouds, no rain, a freeze warning up for northern maryland, cecil back through garret. all the county that border, you name it, northern baltimore with that freeze concern after 3:00 a.m. all the way through early tomorrow morning at sunrise. bring in the plants i mild evening in the low 60s. enjoyable. 50s through the evening.
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especially into easter sunday weekend. that's all in a minute. >> thank you. we continue to lead the way in all the mobile news offerings here in baltimore. just check out the website right now for a look at the growing list of apps. get the latest news, weather forecast and live streaming video right the there to your device. you know more than six years after hurricane katrina devastated the city of new orleans, the scandal hit police department is still trying to clean up its reputation. we have more on the latest effort. >> reporter: it's big news. five former officers have just been given prison terms for authority roles in the deadly shootings of unarmed residents in hours and days after hurricane katrina. this this they are expected to appeal the decision. the new orleans mayor called it a significant closure to the dark chapter in the city's history. the conviction and sentencing of five former police officers in the bridge shootings in the
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days after hurricane katrina. >> the acts of heroism have been over shadowed by the misconduct of a few. >> reporter: police shot six, killing two less than a week after the storms landfall on august 29th 2005 and to make it appear justified they conspiracied to plant a gun, made up witnesses and made make reports. lance saw his brother shot and killed by police. >> i really miss him. i'm just glad that we found justice. >> reporter: that in the form of prison sentences, ranging from six to 65 years, even the judge expressed frustration. he was bound by minimum sentencing laws because some of the former officers had cut deal was prosecutors. >> everybody will have thoughts about the sentences, some may think they are to high, some to low. >> reporter: this case was the season interest piece of a justice department's push to clean up the new orleans police
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department. now under new investigation for a pair of deadly shootings. >> we will continue to take actions to right the wrongs inside the department, some of which now we know go back seven years. >> reporter: now one of those sentences, a retired sergeant was assigned to investigate the shooting and was convicted of helping with the cover up. >> thank you. people in northern texas still picking up the pieces after tuesday's tornado. the national weather service said they believe as many as 13 touched down. the governor toured some of the hardest hit neighborhoods today. >> you know standing here in the rubble of the homes and people's -- you know treasures and things that the men and women who lived here two days ago see thrown across the road and in their yards and some in places never be able to find them or replace them.
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>> crews are assessing the damage from the tornadoes, it's amazing we can report that so far no death was reported. that's the good news. breast feeding in public is not illegal in seattle but that hasn't stopped a group from heading to city hall to fight for the right to do it when and not have to worry about getting flack for it. this group of proud breast feeding mothers want city hall to make it illegal for someone to ask a breast feeding mom to cover up or move. >> some people think you should do in private, it's a private thing but nobody really eats in private. a lot of people go out to eat. people eat in restaurants and many public. why shouldn't my son? >> reporter: if the bill is a proved moms would have the right to file a complaint with the city's civil rights office. >> a teen's family said he was bullied to death. how did a anti bully demonstration turn to violence after the funeral? and students racing their
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florida store after a plane hit it. what a mess . it went right through the roof the public supermarket sending people running through the aisle, filled with smoke and fire. the plane's pilot and passenger were both seriously burned and three shoppers were hurt. the. police in texas have released this video of a burglary suspect who they are still trying to identity. they say he broke into a duck tours vehicle store and sprayed a fire ebtinguisher over the car and then took it. he then broke down and did a dance in front of the camera. people have gather -- gathered to protest bullying ended up in a fight. the demonstration started after a funeral for a texas teen. the 16-year-old's family said he killed himself after being bullied. they were invited to protest with friends at his former high school where the fight broke
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out. police are investigating the incident . and students protesting possible tuition hikes ended up getting pepper sprayed outside a board of trustee's meeting. some students rush the door before police started using pepper spray. students used milk to try to soothe their ice and called the spry eyes. they are always laying off thousands and taking [inaudible] why are some saying those cuts will put the united states postal service further into the red. in and kindle, nook, i-pad, researchers say they can tell how many books you need a year and how that compares to traditional book readers.
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. >> financial problems have post the mail service struggling. now comes the revelation that the planned moves could do more harm than good. allison has more on the hidden costs of the postal cut backs. >> reporter: the post office is on a mission to save $20 billion over the next three years and it's planning to make heavy cost cutting initiatives. the proposed cut backs include making thousands of job cuts and reducing service. two separate surveys done by the usps show the plans may not have the desired results. the first survey done last summer found the cut backs could result in more than five billion dollars in lost business and a drop of almost 8% in mail volume. the service said that study was seriously flawed because it assumed a number of major changes toes and price hikes would kick in the at the same
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time so they commissioned a second survey that still found losses just not as bad. now some unions and lawmakers suspicious of the postal service's motives in redoing the survey claiming they were trying to hide the fact that proposed cut backs would have little or no impact on revenue and many critics say the cuts would drive away more customers. >> today the president signed the so-called jobs act into law it stands for jump start our business start up. it'll make it easier for people raises investor money for new businesses. the reporters say it'll help small businesses avoid red tape and regulations but critics say the law opens the door for fraud and abuse. >> now, harry land's most power of doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> all right. started off with a game day forecast tomorrow, 60 for the
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first pitch. just past three. looking at a game that, we hope will go the orioles way but also throughout the tailgating early at camden, just bring a layer, bring the sunglasses, bright and sunny. sunny for the most partw. he have clouds in the area. temperature wise we are talking 61 at the airport. we get 62 early their afternoon. tomorrow a struggle to get to 60, somewhat cooler, more frigid start tomorrow morning. through the day show the fair weather clouds streaking across skies in howard. not a bad look day. refreshing spring weather. beautiful shot here as the weather progresses through the day, generally a mostly sunny situation, out here in summit ridge and about a look across the bay bridge as we look over the mighty chesapeake. sunny situation, just a light chop on the water that continues to warm up slowly. today and tomorrow will be a
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set back with the warming day, 61 now at the airport. 57 easton, 49 ocean city. coolest spot on the map today and overall the pattern show a north breeze that will continue to drop the humidity and cool it off rapidly. the freeze warning for northern harry land. cecil, west toward garret. that's where we have very cold conditions, humidity dry, right around the 20% range. here it is for you. most active weather has remained bottled up to the soup. cold front over southern virginia and most of the weather has been no closer than really the north carolina border. down toward the raleigh, durham area. you can seat center of the circulation of the main storm that once upon a time was churning, huge storms in to texas now. more garden variety thunderstorms, second area of low pressure over tennessee area moving in to western north carolina, both areas drifting south of maryland but wrapping
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in or pulling in cooler air out of the north. out of canada. it'll be much chillier tonight and tomorrow night. we will have bright sun for the game. really not bad by opening day standards in april and crystal clear through your friday flight into saturday with another cold start by looks like blue skies again to kick off the weekend and we may get to the lower mid60s saturday. overnight clear and cold. patchy frost to the north. game day weather tomorrow. talking 60, mostly sunny, breezy baseball but on the whole good, an extra layer and -- 34 tomorrow night and here is the seven day forecast again, you know the trend here for you, slow, warm up into easter sunday will be conservative and say we don't quite get to 70 and then a new cold front early next week and it may stall out. that would allow the chance for
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scattered showers tuesday and wednesday. point to where we could use rain are, we had a very limited snow winter and not a lot of rain here the last three or four months. maybe a little rain before we heat up. >> as long as it's not opening day. >> it won't be. >> now let's talk politics. following romney's three big wins this week many in the party say it's game over for santorum. what >> reporter: many people say the longer this thing drags out the more it hurts the republican party. there is a lot of speculation about what santorum's end game just may be. at this point in the race santorum facing a political, 7-10 split. the odds are stacked against him but does he know when to call it quit? >> four years ago we quit.
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conservatives quit and we got a nominee with the establishment wanted. >> reporter: and just what does he hope to accomplish? >> getting the right candidate is more important than the first candidate. >> reporter: perhaps he is watching 2016, republicans have a history of nominating primary runner ups. george hw bush and john mccain each came in second before coming in first. romney fell short into mccain just four years ago. >> i'm a conservative. >> reporter: perhaps he is watching the vice president office. a romey santorum ticket would satisfy many of his followers. the former senator hasn't let up on his attacks. >> not so much. with governor romney. >> reporter: he is romney's running mate would have -- the feel of a strategic pairing rather than a personal one. >> santorum is walking a fine line. republicans may admire him but
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if he stays in the race to long he runs the rick of hurting romney's chances in november. that's something that republicans would have a hard time forgetting. the most obvious answer is that santorum sees a viable path to getting the nomination, that he thinks he can take it to the convention this summer and make it a floor flight fight. >> we heard about strategy meetings. what can you tell us. >> reporter: they were between santorum and social conservatives, it was about mapping out the future. a realistic approach to how they plan to take on romney and obama. we have learned there was no talk in these meetings about santorum dropping out. there wasn't much talk about gingrich and trying to get him to drop out but there was a lot of more talk about maybe how they sway some of the voters to move from gingrich back to santorum. >> okay.
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we will see his name maybe on the vp spot. thank you. coming up at ten tonight you can catch the series premiere of a new show called scandal. it's about a former white house communications director who opens a crisis management firm in dc. the president is a ceus of having an affair and her firm is called into save his reputation. missing also kicks off with a new night of shows, starting at 8:00. followed by gray's anatomy and then scandal. have you to stay for the news at 11. jamie. >> and here isy. coming up tonight at 6:00 there is one version of approved in the house, we have another version in the senate, lawmakers in annapolis can't agree on solving the state budget. what happen itself they don't agree by monday night in. there is a popular trend among mothers on how to get back to their prepregnant look. why its not necessarily about
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own a tablet but they are likely to read more. the typical e book user read about 24 books last year. the paper book only read 15. >> make sure they remember you. >> lots of people read the best selling hunger game books but apparently in this case more people actually read it in print than on e readers. that's even more surprising considering only the first book of the three part series is available in paper book. the publisher said no dates have been set for the paperback versions of the other two. you will soon be able to rent movies on youtube. the website and paramount have released a deal to make nearly 500 movies. it make itself the 5th major to
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join youtube's program. snoot orioles will celebrate 20 years starting tomorrow and it's a big anniversary. we will give you a preview of the new look at the yard when the news at six starts right now. >> now abc 2news at six. >> the legislative session ends monday night or does it? i'm don harrison in annapolis. they still have a budget to work on. i will tell you what's holding them up. >> it was another meet the microphone day concerning the mega mills, what did the man who hands over the check have to say? and the body found behind benji's that of a man missing since september of last year. baltimore has a couple locked up. and we want you to go outside right now and here we are live, we have the harbor tunnel freeway shut down. there is been an
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