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tv   News  ABC  April 23, 2012 6:30am-7:00am EDT

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good morning, i'm megan pringle. >> i'm charley crowson. it is monday, april 23rd. don't set your calendars back, that is snow, it's almost may what is going on? it adds to the craziness we had over the winter season. i'm happy we are getting rain, but we are talking about storm warnings in effect for garrett county and allegheny county. let's get down to it. in to the pinks right now. we are dealing with the warning in effect. we had the snow started yesterday, that was in effect for yesterday as well. 6-12 inches of snow is possible across thier. we are looking at the blues, winter stormed a advisory in effect. winter weather advisorys in effect there. four inches of snow acrotion the area. allegheny, garrett, are under a 2-hour delay because of the snow. school there is under a 2-hour delay. we are seeing the rain pushing in across the area. heading in to carroll county,
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heavier rainfall totals adding up. we will talk about that coming up. now a check of the traffic with angela. she has a lot to talk about. patchy fog, rain and wind. >> we've had a lot of activity going on. linda so is live down in camden, we have street closures behind the warehouse fire. also heading towards the capital beltway, a little bit of good news wrecks opening lanes now on the outer loop of i-495 as you approach georgia avenue. one right lane shutdown with the accident investigation and hazmat response to the fatal crash there. if you are traveling around the baltimore beltway. looking good. here is the topside. no delays in place on the topside until after you pass harford road heading over to towson, for those of you making the drive on the harrisburg, activity on the southbound side, looking live in western maryland, we have snow on the
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ground, extra caution fur heading out in the direction. back over to you. many eyes are on the trayvon martin case , there is a similar case. two brothers set to go on trial accused of beating a black teenager. >> in a few hours the trial is set to begin for two brothers accused of beating a black teenager. the brother, were part of a community patrol organization in northwest baltimore. the incident happened in november of 2010, when the brothers were patrolling a ott docks jewish neighborhood. the brothers are excite and claimed self defense and say the teen was holding a nail studded board and they felt threatened. the victim was walking on fall staff road at 12:45 p.m., and a car pulled up and two males drove next to him. the men followed him before
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jumping out of the car and surrounding him. he says they grabbed him, threw him to the ground and hit him in the head and told him you don't belong here. the brother's attorney say there were a number of crimes in the area. civil rights leaders are hoping the tray von martin case will draw attention to racial profiling when it comes to neighborhood watch programs. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. in arizona officials released new information about a missing 6-year-old girl. there is now growing suspicion about the point of entry in to the child's home. they are not saying that the entry was through a window or door. she was missing friday. her parents say they woke up saturday morning and the girl was gone. police say she could have been abducted or walked away. the safety experts disagree. >> show is á6 years old and
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didn't likely runaway. we have to assume as time passes, there is greater likelihood that somebody took her. >> police say they plan to bring in search dogs today look for the arizona girl. search for a missing 6-year- old boy in new york is expected to continue today. this is the site where the fbi has been tearing out a basement. a law enforcement source says human remains have been found but checking out a possible bloodstain found on a basement wall. job hunt can be ultra competitive. a minnesota man came up with a creative idea of what he is going to do setting himself apart from other candidates. the 22 year old paid $300 for an 8 second spot on a billboard, displayed for 24 hours. he came up with an idea after sending out resumes he has been getting plenty of leads. controlling dreams has been
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a theme like fiction. see it in the movies, now it maybe a reality. cigman is an app created by a harvard phd student designed to program your dreams. cnp's heck writer gave it a try. you pull up the app before you go to bed and choose from a list of 1000 words, that he is are things you want to show up in your dream. >> the app calculate what is time u going to reach rem sleep. when you are likely to be dreaming, a soft female voice repeats your selected words over your iphone speaker. if you are curious, that app costs $0.99. would you be comfortable programming your dreams? log onto the facebook fan page, give us thoughts and let us know what you think. would you give it a try?
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>> we will talk about it during the break. by the end of the show we will decide if i'm going to try it for a week. 3q
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♪ i, i'll bring the fire make you come alive ♪ ♪ i can take you higher what this is, forgot? ♪ ♪ i must now remind you let it rock, let it rock ♪ ♪ let it rock ♪ this time we are finally beginning to
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see relief at the pump. gas prices begun falling after a four month surge, dropped five cents during two weeks. a regular gallon of gas is $3.91 nationwide. gas prices in other city, baltimore, drives were paying 7 remember, we are always looking to help you save money, go to abc2news.com to find the least expensive gas in your area. look under the traffic tab. abc2 news is working for you this morning, to help you save money the next time you go shopping. when you go shopping, try freezen meat, poultry and seafood. it can be up to 40% cheaper than fresh. check out drugstores for staples like milk. if you are looking for a deal
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on wine, check out offerings. live coverage in the aftermath of a huge warehouse fire. >> reporter: firefighters are still on the scene here in canton. i'm linda so , the latest on the situation, how long roads will be closed and power restored in the area. a flea market hats been shutdown and raided by feds. more on what happens coming up. it's wet this morning. the drier weather is on the way. seven-day forecast is coming up.
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a lot going on on this monday morning. roll the music. sherrie johnson is here with detail on a raid at a baltimore flea market. linda so is live at the scene of a warehouse fire in canton.
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angela will let us know about the red roadways causing problems for the commute. we are looking at the most powerful radar, we can see a shield of rain across the area. heavier rain pushing in to westminster, reisterstown, over i-70, a dicey commute. more along i-95, see wet weather around towson, baltimore, this will continue through the remainder of the morning. make sure you take it easy on the roadways and also have that rain gear with you. 43 degrees in bel air right now. chester town 42. much colder in frostburg. we will feel the wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour. feels like we are in the 30s. we need to dress like it's winter and maybe the gloves wouldn't be something to rule out this morning. now a check of the traffic with angela. good morning, good morning,
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everyone. busy, dealing with incidents. on the outer loop, a very slow drive there. new accident on i-97, slow traffic southbound 97, approaching maryland 1 hundred, closing the left lane with that accident. traveling around the baltimore beltway, slow on the outer loop, this is a live look at liberty, that starts before you reach liberty road and continues through baltimore national pike. i-95, delays are in placings traveling southbound, after mown they road to approaching white marsh boulevard on the brakes. george zimmerman, the man who shot 17-year-old trayvon martin in sanford, florida, is out of jail. he was released in the middle of the night awaiting trial for second degree murder charges. he had to put $15,000 up of 150,000 dollars bond. he is wearing a monitoring device. destination is kept secret, it could be outside the state of
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florida. breaking news, story we is been tracking all morning long out of canton, after a 3-alarm fire gutted a business. crews are on the scene of a warehouse fire that started last night on bayless street. they want to make sure it doesn't reignite. linda so joins us live with more information. >> reporter: you can see nearly 10 hours after the fire first broke out, crews are on the scene, they are using water to spray hot spots that might be on the building. this fire officially was brought under control at midnight. hazmat crews weapon in before 1:00 this morning to try to determine what caused the fire. we are told bge is working on restoring power to folks in the area at the height of the fire, there are 1500 homes without power. we are told most, all of the homes have been brought on line. there are 62 homes remaining without power. they hope to have everyone
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restored by 7:00 or 8:00. this is what it looked like when crews got here. this is the eastern plating company on south bayless. it's a chemical plating company that specializes in coating metal with magnesium. the fire reached 3 alarms and several homes had to be evacuated. the transformer outage knocked out power to 1500 homes. if you live on south bayless, expect road closures around the area. after 24 years, a flea market has been shutdown. agents closed in on the weekend saying shoes, clots and purses are all fake and hurting businesses. she sherrie johnson is live. >> later today we've learned that the court documents will be made available.
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this means more information will surface sunday, homeland security agents raided the flea market and confiscated items sold including counterfeit, pirated and unlicensed items. illegal sports apparel, musical recordings and cosmetics are some of the items. the flea market has been in business for 24 years, one of the largest flea markets on the east coast. agents will continue the investigation and search this week. so far, no one at the flea market has been charged. the raid was part of a 2.5 year investigation. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. more on the secret service scandal. obama administration is fighting off accusations that the white house was involved. maryland representative elijah cummings spoke out about how the president responded thus far. >> i think that he is doing enough, he acted decisively, he
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got folks out of columbia the moment he found out about this. he had stripped them of their security clearance and he suspended them and they've taken action. >> the incident claims that agents had involvement with prostitutes prior to the president's trip to columbia. 6 service members left their jobs. five on leave and have their clearances temporarily revoked. the fbi warning computer owners to check for a type of malware called dns changer. it's slag to a virus. pcs -- it's similar to a virus. agents caught those responsible. users won't be able to connect to the internet. check your computer by going to the fbi .gov site and search under dns changer. we are working to help you
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declutter safeway. pile up unwanted documents, you can shred them for free this weekend. there are two locations, catonsville, one in northern parkway in baltimore. bring your papers, any of your papers you want shredded from 9:00 until noon on saturday. college class of 2012 is up for a rude awakening to the world of working. a weak labor market left half of young college graduates jobless or under employed in positions they don't use their skills. more young adults with bachelors degrees are finding themselves in low wage jobs, bar tending or retail. the demand in fields like science, education, health jobs and arts and humanities is growing weaker. if you are planning to retire or want to know where the best place to spend your golden years, you may want to
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head south. tallahassee, florida, is the best place to retire. they have chosen because of climate and affordability. other great places are alabama, memphis tennessee and georgia. u.s. airways filed paperwork to take over american airlines. american was considering filing for bankruptcy, which would have meant 13,000 jobs lost. with the merger , the company would cut half that number in the merge goes through. american would keep the name and head warts located in -- headquarters located in fort worth texas. opening statements begin for the man accused of murdering three of jennifer hudson's family members. her mother, brother and 7-year- old nephew were killed three years ago. his former brother-in-law faces three counts of first degree murder in the case. members of the religious groups will begin proposing
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antiimmigrant laws. leaders will gather under the spirit they say of all people of all faith. washington post reporting when president obama deliveres are marks at the holocaust, he will announce grants to create new technologies to warn citizens in countries where there are mass killings. mr. obama will speak at the museum at 9:45 this morning. making way for shuttle discovery's new home. the space shuttle enterprise arrives to new york, enterprise will be displayed at the air and state museum. first ever military appreciation day. the school sun vailing a memorial for student soldiers, also a special tribute for timothy who passed away last month. winter weather in western mailed, let's look outside from our m dot camera, this is
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interstate 68 near cumberland. look at that, snow on the roadway. >> this isn't a flurry. this is piling. >> exactly. it's going to continue as we go throughout the day. it started yesterday. we have a winter storm warning for the area. 6-12 inches of snowfall possible. we are looking at the winds, it is breezy. the winds out of the north and west 10- 15 man. we are getting gusts up to 25 miles an hour for this morning. it's making it feel colder. feels like winter outside and looks like winter in to western maryland this morning at points north and also south. 34 degrees is what it feels like, it feels like 33 in york, pennsylvania. look what it looks like outside, an accident this morning. we are dealing with snows we saw that across the area. we come a little bit closer to
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home, ellicott city, we see the rain pelting the lens. that's the scenario through the remainder of today. much like over the weekend, we will pile up the rainfall totals and need it. we put a dent in it. we have patchy fog, 3 miles of visibility, easton and also, baltimore right now. satellite and radar picking up on the rainfall. see that counter clock wise spin, the area of low pressure, future trend not picking up on a lot in terms of precipitation especially in to tomorrow. i'm keeping the chance in here. the low will be on top of us. 49 degrees is what i'm going with today. it's a chilly day on tap with the temperature coming in close to 50 degrees. we won't get there. seasonable as we head in to the middle of the week with rain by next weekend. on the roads, as you head out for the monday morning drive, dealing with weather hazards, rainy conditions around the area, fog and windy
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out there for you. an accident reported on i-97 for those of you traveling southbound 97 at maryland 100, left lane is shutdown there. capital, one lane closed but slow on the topside, georgia avenue and the topside of the baltimore beltway. here are delays in place on the north side before you reach harford, on the brakes over to towson and same on harrisburg expressway, southbound on the left side of the screen at maryland 45. that continues all the way to the topside of the beltway. according to cigma, you can add 5 elements to your dreams to softly mention these words when you reach rem sleep and it will help you balance your dreams. >> are you going to buy it? >> i will do this for a week and have a report on friday. >> i knew you would do it. >> have a great monday.
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