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no one was injured inside the store. the driver and passenger were taken to the hospital as a precaution. a judge denied bail for a man accused of robbing a bank. david hays held up cnc bank on rock spring road yesterday afternoon. he made off with cash and drove off, he didn't get that far thanks to a helicopter ha happened to be in the air during the robbery and followed the car. the officer caught up to hays and found the robbery note he use aid long in his pocket along with $3000, in cash. you are looking at harbor cam, it's a volleyball season or folks that want to play volleyball. a good day to be walking, enjoying the warm weather. cool temperatures expected to be quite warm this weekend. wyatt everhart joins us for a look at the first forecast. >> we are getting rid of the chill we've been having the last few days. temperatures warming up comfortable today. seasonable for this part of mid
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april. mid-60s, ocean city 56 after hitting the 60s today as well. humidity, very, very dry, that feels comfortable, but remember, that means enhanced fire risk outdoors for wild fire, tonight and tomorrow, sunday maybe different deal, clear and quiet here across maryland, big storms firing up here, supercell thunderstorms, potentially tornadic storms over the oklahoma central oklahoma area towards oklahoma city actually. this evening, quiet 50s, clear skies, we will talk about how things shape up in to sunday and beyond. check out the light snow in california, it snowed somewhere there, its like lightning, maybe lightning snow. a severe storm rolled through the san francisco bay area on thursday. cool pictures. he says he didn't -- he is hailed a hero after charging in
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to a burning building to rescue a woman from a fire last night. paul reports, the mayor insists he was being a good neighbor. >> reporter: with bandages on his burned hand, corey booker described what was going through his mind as he plunged in to a wall of smoke and fire sphwh when you hear somebody calling for help and see a roof engulfed in flames, it's very terrifying. people say briefry, i felt fear -- bravery, i felt fear. i didn't think we were going to get out. >> reporter: he may say he wasn't brave, what what else do you say when a guy argues with his body guards, and breaks free and rushes in to a burning building. >> i wasn't going to let him go in. he said, if i don't go in, this lady is going to die. >> reporter: booker and rodriguez picked her up and slinged her over his shoulder
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and the mayor carried her out to safety. she was listed in stable condition at a nearby hospital. another building resident says the woman wouldn't have survived without booker. booker was brushing aside those who would call him a hero. after today's news conference, he took a well earned nap. a mayor who would walk through fire for his constituents even needs to get rest sometimes. >> arundel county high school teacher accused of having sex with three students, pleaded guilty, jeffrey was an english teacher, police say he met one of the victims through his role as a junior coach.
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he pleaded guilty to two counts of child sex abuse and one count of fourth degree sex offense and scheduled to be sentenced in april. a home invasion in cecil sends a man to the hospital. it happened thursday in timber brook. two masked men entered the home, walked up to the second floor bedroom and stabbed a man in the chest and punched a woman in the head. the victims couldn't give investigators much information. a fire at east baltimore damaged three homes and started in a vacant home at 2009 kennedy avenue. the fire spread to another vacant home next door and finally a third home which was occupied, no one was injured. investigators are looking in to the cause. little less than 90 minutes, you will have a less lane to travel when you head up and down the jones falls expressway. the left lane of the northbound and southbound, near 29th and george park lake, will be closed. the department of transportation will be working on repairs to the collapsed drainage pipe underneath the
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expressway. to find out an alternative route and more information, by the jfx lane closures, head to abc2news.com, we have absolutely everything you need to know before monday morning's commute. you know it's friday the 13th, a day that's bad luck, and superstitious and high- risees and hotels avoid having a 13th floor. the same is new for the patient town that opened in the johns hopkins campus in east baltimore. here is another cool things it the tower doesn't have rooms that are numbered 13. even though your phone is look locked, you can still dial 911. a crook found out the hard way when he pocket dialed during a crime.
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his friends were planning and stealing a car. it went on for 45 minutes , the operator heard it all. >> telling the driver to pull up next to a car, saying i will jump out and jiggle a key. >> a few minutes later police got a call about a stolen suv. detectives were stumped until later when the same men called 911 again. the operator recognized his voice and they were able to trace the number and found the dude. he admitted to stealing cars and said that his cell phone often dialed 911 for no reason. take a look at this video out of boise, idaho. this is actually a line to get in to a long awaited nordstrom. the first ones got in line before midnight.
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you have until tuesday to get all your taxes donees that is plenty of time for creative scammers. what you need to look for in your inbox, and what you should do if you see it. it's the subject dogging mitt romney all campaign long, his own taxes. what president obama is doing to pressure him to reveal more of his earnings.
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claiming coming from the irs. it's those get trick and promise fraudulent refunds and newest are hones in on targets, senior citizens, religious congregations and the poor. when is the irs not the irs, most are scamming for personal information, social security, bank account and credit card numbers to commit identity theft and steal your money. the irs never asks for personal and financial information like pin numbers or passwords, ever. the irs never initiates contact with taxpayers via email, if you get an email from someone claiming to be the irs, do not open the message, any attachments or click on links. pay attention to web addresses, the official website is www.irs .gov. don't be misled by similar looking sites claiming to be the irs ending in.com, net
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or.org. watchout for unsolicited offers to prepare and split a refund. tj winnick, abc2 news, new york. if you do get a suspicious looking email, the irs wants to see it. forward it unopened to fishing@irs .gov. find tips at abc2news.com. click on the money tab and you will find information about tax breaks, you may not have heard of and a warning about why you need to be careful on the roads, tuesday. hundreds of thousands of homeowners will use tax refunds to file for bankruptcy according to report in u.s.a. today. the number of families doing that has increased since 2005 when the cost soared following a change if law. familys have been forced to delay filing until they can afford the pay the bankruptcy
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fees. good looking spring day. we like the sunshine. nice conditions on a friday. 64 now, out at dwi. winds west, northwest at 8. pressure holding steady. as we look at the weather through the day, doesn't get too much better. you miss the spring days, when we get in to july and the heat and baking. cool and crisp today. plenty of sunshine over the chesapeake. hemingways rooftop. a bright, bright sunny scenario all day long. maryland's most powerful radar, crystal clear. right now temperatures running comfortable, mid-60s, 63 easton, 63 dover. mountains in the 50s, it hit 60 earlier today and winds light and variable, of no
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consequence. dry conditions. if we have weather woe, tonight, tomorrow, just wild fire, will be up. we had so limited rain so far this season, be careful with jot door burning or source of ignition. reisterstown tomorrow 72. severn 73. warming it up a little bit more tomorrow with a mix of sun and clouds, it is going to stay crystal clear the next several hours. nothing on the radar scope here, west, yes, active weather to the southern plains, there are big storms flaring. we are watching over the south, warmer air, will begin to push in and replace the dry cool pattern as we go through tomorrow afternoon, especially sunday and monday when temperatures will push in to the 80s. trend wise, here we go. clear as a bell tonight and tomorrow. bright sunny start on your saturday. on saturday night, clouds increase, chances for showers, especially north of us in
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pennsylvania. some of these could sneak across the state lines. we could see a sunday morning shower before things quiet down and clear out through the day on sunday. i'm looking at relatively dry weekend. a chance of a shower early sunday, keep that in mind. watching this potential oklahoma tornado outbreak, some large supercell thunderstorms, developing across the central part of the state. a wild weather scenario here in the heart of tornado alley this friday night. overnight here, 40, mostly clears not as chilly. two degree guarantee, 74 degrees, sunny early and warming up through the day, increased clouds tomorrow night. a dry scenario until we get in to potentially showers, briefly, on early sunday. the better chance for rain will hold off, as we go towards the middle part of next week, looks like we could get decent rain tuesday and wednesday. rain we need. we will look for that to be the
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scenario in to the middle of next week. on to demc rasey 2012 news, white house is getting personal by releasing the president's 2011 tax records and urging mitt romney to do the same. emily schmidt joins us now from washington dc. >> reporter: the president's reelection team is working hard to paint mitt romney as out of touch with the average american. they think one way to do so is challenge him on his income. that's the reason we seen the white house talking about the buffet rule. the idea that would raise the money mum tax rate for americans minimum tax rate for americans. >> they should get new tax cuts every year, that are worth more than what the middle class family makes in a year. >> reporter: so how did the
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president and vice president do last year? question had new numbers out today, thanks to the white house release of the 2011 tax returns, president obama reporting income of under $790,000, putting him at a tax rate of 20.5%. although it's a lot of money, it's a million dollars less than last year because his book sales are down. look at the vice president, he made a little less than half of what the president made. tax rate is slightly higher. the white house says these are our numbers. what about mitt romney's. we learned that governor romney says he is asking for an extension to file his taxes, his campaign says they will file before the election and release the numbers at some point before then. we don't know if 2011 numbers. our best guess is looking at what happened last year, these were numbers back in january. income just under $22 million, a tax rate of 14%. you will remember, that the governor has said a number of times that he is not going to
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apologize for his financial success. >> back to you. >> if mitt romney wasn't focused on taxes, what was he working on today? >> he stçwent to missouri, in sr louis where the nra was having a convention, a chance to talk to his base and shore it up. >> reporter: this administration's attack on freedom extends to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution. the right to bare arms is so plainly stated. so unambiguous, the liberals have a hard time challenging it directly and employing every manageable ruse and ploy.
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newt gingrich says it's all for nothing for him tonight. baltimore city police charged someone else in the death of a 13-year-old girl, found dead in an alley last month. why a 21 year old faces gun charges. how many do it yourself projects are around your house? why hiring a handyman could save you money and headaches, too. those stories and more coming up at 6:00. [ female announcer ] with xfinity,
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android, a favorite for turning everyday objects and events in to works of art with filters and effects. whether a like-hate relationship with instra grams new owner or want to try something new, there are other photo sharing apps for users to snap up. the hip stamatic app is another way to give photos the old school look with various lenses and films with a retro feel. they use hash tags similar to those used on twitter, let's you upload and do the same for video. while insta gram and other apps push, this does the opposite. organizers photos posted to other platforms in to customized feeds. if none of these peak your interest, give it time, the billion dollars price tag will likely inspire app developers to come up with the next big thing in photo sharing, soon.
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pizza may become the official foods of the united states of america. researchers tell huffing post, that 21% of people surveyed eat it once a week. it's popular for so long, that that's more than 26% more than two years ago. it could be due to a influx of higher quality frozen pizzas. there is always dessert. burger king is testing out a new bacon sunday. fast food concoction features ice cream, chocolate sauce, chopped bay con and a full strip of the salty meat sticking up out of the top. the reviews have been mixed but if like it, we could see it on the menu this summer. some local students are honored today for helping keep their school safe.
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who put them in front of the cameras, coming up on abc2 news at 6:00 which starts right now. man accused of being behind the wheel when two girls were hit and killed walked out of court a free man , the jury did not convict him. a suspect in a harford county bank robbery doesn't get far with a police helicopter tracking him from above. roirl farm got fresh air after a man drove through the front window. first, we start tonight with a developing story out of baltimore city, a jury acquitted an arundel county man in the death of two teenage girls. christian shaffer joins us from the live desk with the latest. that crash happened ten months ago tonight. the girls courtney and emerald smith were struck and killed
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