into reality of what was left behind. >> all i heard was a bang, bang, bang. it's a fire, please get out. >> reporter: that's the sound she woke up to. and here's what she saw. >> scared the daylights out of me. i jumped out of my bed and looking around like why is my place dark. i couldn't turn no lights on. all i heard was a banging real loud. >> reporter: it was after 2:00 in the morning and her whole world was up in flames. she just hoped her neighbors were not trapped. >> i could see fire. >> reporter: she is talking about her neighbor tonya. >> i was looking for her, screaming. i was screaming for tonya -- tonya, tonya. >> reporter: it was a few tense moments as she searched for her

friend tonya. she did find her and worried about the others. >> they have a little girl. just looking for them, they weren't there either. >> oh, my god. i grabbed my baby and ran out. >> reporter: an emotional reunion of neighbors. they were awoke by the same alert. >> we got to get out because there's a fire. the next thing i know he says grab the baby and get out. >> reporter: now it's time to return and sur vat damage, finding lit thal can be -- little that can be salvaged. >> starting from scratch. >> reporter: with a fire this big there's a lot of bad news to go around but there is a bit of good news. no firefighters were injured and no one who lives here was severely hurt. reisterstown, don harrison, website woab news. >> new details on a fire that

gutted an apartment in glen burnie. we're told cooking started it. the red cross came in to help 11 people. you didn't feel the tremor but students and staff at towson acted like an earthquake as part of a drill. it was designed to teach emergency preparedness and how to get agencies work together in a disaster. last summer a 5.9 earthquake hit maryland. and the harbor is a safe place to fish and swim by 20230679 the kids from the living classroom foundation created and installed these floating wetlands. it will act as a tidal marsh naturally cleaning the water in the harbor. taking a live look now at east baltimore, the skies are still clear in the city tonight. so are we going to get much

needed rain this weekend? or not. let's check in with meteorologist wyatt everhart to find out. looking like we can get quite a bit of rain by the second half. temperatures, low 70s to upper "60 upper -- purr p--- upper 60s. a lot of moisture out of the gulf of mexico, coastal storm off the carolinas. they're merging over maryland and the mid-atlantic states as we go into sunday. for this evening, enjoy. it sunshine, 60, a few clouds. take a look saturday afternoon storms. it looks like heavy rain and breezy weather. much more on your weekend and the week ahead. a 14-year-old in ohio was

under arrest accused of having sex in a school bathroom with a 12-year-old. the student had sex during school hours and the children said it was consensual. the girl was under the age of 13. aren'ts can't believe what happened. >> when i was 12, i didn't know, you know, about that. >> i think it's horrible. i can't believe it. i know i'm old are and from a different generation, but, my gosh. >> parents are also wondering how this could happen and where the teachers were. the superintendent for the school system said he will not comment. a teacher in virginia is facing 12 felony charges after he taunted his students with a gun. 60-year-old manuel earnest dillous lined up students and

pulled out a blank gun and fired in their direction as many as 10 times. no students were hurt. he is out on bond and has a hearing scheduled in may. students in california are facing expulsion after hacking the attendance s they are accused of breaking into the system and changing their attendance records so they could skip without their much parents finding out. the principal said there are at least 20 others who could still be punished. she didn't have a license. she want even in the driver's seat. how decide an illinois woman send a car crashing into the store. sure, it would be nice if your daughter was prom queen but would you take out a billboard to help her.

caught on tape. a highway in georgia is back open after being closed for a part of the day while a tractor-trailer crashed and it had live clickens. a chicago woman with no driver's license was sitting in

the passenger seat of her friend's car when she crashed it into the store. she said she reached over to turn the car off and it shot forward. a texas mother is pulling out all the stops to make sure her daughter gets voted prom queen. tammy day shelled out $1500. some of the teens and parents from her daughter's school aren't huge fans. >> families feel that, you know, it's little too much or over the top for one night, you know, prom, but then, again, it only happens one time in your child's life. >> that is a dedicated mom. she said the only opinion that really matters is her daughter. they will have to wait until

saturday night. >> a break in the disappearance and the clues sit steps from his home. we'll have the latest. >> you always try to remember your dreams. what if you could set whether they who be in advance? the latest technology makes it possible.

police in new york city sent the second day searching for a boy hop went missing in 1979 on the way to a bus stop a cadaver dog picked up a scents at a building near his home so authorities are focusing on the basement there. it was used as a work space by a

handy man. no one has been prosecutessed for the boy's disappearance. >> i was a lieutenant in the organized crime bureau. i think it changed the way the country thought about missing children. the picture was the first to go on a milk carton. i think parents sort of rethought their willingness to let kids do lots of things as a result of the case. >> dozens of police and federal agents are expected to continue their search. in massachusetts the search continued for a missing 2-year-old girl. caly harrison disappeared tuesday afternoon. she was at the beach with her family. the ball they were playing with bounced over a wall and within minutes she was gone. >> she within the up to the area to retrieve the ball, did so and in the span of maybe two

minutes, came back and observed that kally was no long are standing with the other daughter. >> coast guard helicopters and dive teams searched but no trace has been found. investigators said foul play is still a possibility but the areas will has water with dangerous currents so she could have been swept out. officer spoke with the girl's sister but was unable to give them substantial leads. a man has been missing for 33 years. they have released the only picture of solomon. he was last seen april 1st 1972 at the a dommen center. when she returned her son was gone.

ever play sand volleyball? winds light. i wish i could tell you this will hold up all week. this won't. we'll get some much needed rain, especially for the eastern shore. take a look through annapolis today. it was some early low cloud cover, patchy fog. blue skies agoer just day. our view from the naval academy. in ocean city, foggy, no question about that. of course, the big komen race later and ellie cut -- ellicott city was a mix of sun and clouds. crystal clear. we note radar will get more active. by sunday looking at some heavy

steady rain. temperature wise 72 baltimore. 55 at the beach where they had the fog and maroon layer holding the temperatures down. most of the state in the low 70s. you can see the winds from the south, south, southeast. humidity fairly comfortable. everything beginning to change here as we move forward into the next 24 hours. you can see across the region generally clear. a couple showers well offshore. that is the scenario tonight and early tomorrow but already two weather makers on the map. you can see this developing coastal low sitting there speaning. here comes our frontal boundary that's tapping into gulf moisture. heavy rain in places like arkansas and louisiana. these two systems will merge as we go into saturday night and sunday. that will create the potential for a real rain train right up the east coast and beyond. so this is going to be an ugly looking sunday for most of us. take a look at the temperature

pattern. you see the warm air still flowing out of the south. here's the colder air. believe it or not by early next week this low pressure that brings the rain could drag snow into places like upstate new york, really an unusual situation, but it's a possibility. take a look at the trend here. our latest computer run in terms of timing, you're fine early saturday. by saturday afternoon this front will be knocking on our door bringing the chance of showers. we'll have our developing system offshore. the two systems coming together. this is 6 a.m. sunday morning, already rain around. rain for the komen race at the beach, unfortunately. rain desperately needed in that part of maryland. then this is heavy rain if this works out. we'll see that could be heavy rain mid-day sunday beginning to taper off. one part of that gathering storm is this coast aloe right of a --

coastal low right off cape hatteras. it will start off dry but the chance for afternoon showers and storms. by tomorrow night the rain probably gets sthed diker and probably the most steady and heavy by sunday morning. again, here's the outlook, calling for heavy rain on sunday. you got to do it. i know we've got our inaugural komen event. i'm saying pack the rain geemplet looks like most -- gear. looks like most of the lightning will be saturday instead of sunday. >> they will be shopping for pink rain blazers and umbrellas. >> the pink ball caps. >> thanks, wyatt. now to democracy 2012, mitt romney continues to bolster support from the republican party as he moves into general

election mode. even though the republican national committee stands ready to stand behind him. why is today important for the romney camp? >> reporter: this is a big pep rally for the romney camp. the candidate gets to appear in front of the republican national committee. >> i don't think we can afford him any longer. i don't think the american people can afford to have barack obama as their president. >> reporter: mitt romney is focused on president obama and getting him out of the white house. according to romney, he isn't working. that's the message that the republican party is getting behind in arizona. even his current competition is ready to jump on the romney train hoot fact is we are dedicated to a unified republican party winning the presidency on behalf of america. >> reporter: mitt romney isn't the only one working in arizona.

joe biden visited the area and said president obama has a real shot at taking the state even though it has voted blue in the last 60 years and that candidate wasn't president obama. so what is different this time? democrats hope they can bank on the growing latino population in arizona. they accounted for 16% of the electorate in 2008 and it has been a stronghold for the obama campaign. stwowr it didn't work for the obama campaign. the nominee was the senator from arizona, john mccain who introduced mitt romney today in front rough the rnc, really a sort of passing of the torch. >> so some big fund razing events as -- fund-raising events. could this turn into another billion dollar election, similar to with we saw in 2008? >> reporter: the way things are going it almost definitely will.

romney is now focusing on president obama. they raised about $12.6 million last month. $86million since last year. it will go up as son as the campaign gets the backing of the rnc. that's what president obama has been able to do without challengers. he raised $53 million with the dnc in march. if money talks, what all these numbers tell you is both sides anticipate a long tough road to november. back to you. >> all right. big, big money. thanks for that report. meanwhile president obama is heading to plate night tv. the commander in chief will be on jimmy fallon's show next week. it's part of the president's push to keep student's loan rates a 3.4%. it could cost the u.s. government $6 billion. the president will sit down with

fallon when he visits the university of north carolina chapel hill. >> i'm chris shaffer, coming up at 6 a newly installed speed camera goes up in flames. and bill cosby comes to baltimore. the special honor he and his wife received. those stories coming up at 6:00, now a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. coming up on world news, a baseball star breaks a record at the age of 49. dr. m. hmet oz, our person have the week.

trying to shake a recurring nightmare or just wish your dreams were a bit more entertaining? there's an app for that. it's a new iphone application that goes to work while you're asleep. >> reporter: controlling dreams has been a thing of fiction like in the movie "inception." this app is dined to program your -- designed to program your dreams. >> pull up the app and cost from a list of 1,000 words. >> reporter: the words come in different categories like sports adventure. it calculates when you'll reach rem sleep. that's when a soft female voice

repeats the words. they found it's possible to alter par test pant's dreams about a third of a time. >> i fond myself thinking about it trying to fall asleep. it took longer than it normally would. >> reporter: would you give it a try? >> i would try that. if a always wanted to try that. >> i'm not sure it can do that but i'd try it. >> reporter: the app costs 99 cents. >> the hope is that people cran use it to vish crallize themselves doing well in a setting like an athlete like athletes visualize success and you can achef -- achieve that. >> if you want top control your dreams in a dream house, be prepared to shell out money for a good school system. that's how much more you can

expect to pay on average for a school near a high scoring public school. the percentage of economically integrated schools in the u.s. is less than 7%. some much needed rain is on the way. wyatt's forecast is coming up. abc2 news at 6:00 starts right now. a field hockey player at perry hill high school is back with her team after she collapsed from a heart condition. you'll hear from brianna sudano and why her teammates are raising money. >> people that catonsville say a new speed camera made their neighborhood safer. p &c >> i want