we're getting you up to the minute on abc2 news at 5:30. spring gave way to winter, the storm that brought several inches of rain, brought them several inches of snow. in some cases winds were up to 50 miles an hour. crews returned to the scene of last night's fire in canton at a where house. they began neutralizing dangerous chemicals at the site of the eastern plating company. the fire forced dozens from their homes. fire crews found no significant levels and said the smell would go away after some people opened some of their homes. baltimore police making another arrest in that beating that was caught on tape. 20-year-old shayona davis faces robbery, theft and assault

charges. the video was taken on march 18th. plirls looking for -- police are looking for two other people suspected in the attack, 18-year-old deangelo carter and 21-year-old shatia baldwin. well, the rain started over the weekend and it just keeps on coming. take a live look at the harbor cam. it doesn't look like a misshot but the city is gray and second. let's check in with wyatt everhart to see how much longer it will stick around. temperatures really reflecting that cool windy conditions. here's the center of the large storm centered just off cape cod. again, we're getting well into the southern portion of the storm. the wind, the showers. we're dealing with all of. that as we zoom in we can see on maryland's most powerful radar, most of the showers scattered about and light. winds gusting to 25, even 22 miles an hour across the area. here's those scattered showers,

even some winter showers in western maryland. you can see the winter advisories. frostburg, man, an ugly, ugly day of weather with snow mixed with rain. 40s with showers, no snow. we talk about the rest of the week coming up. if you want access to maryland's most accurate forecast 24/7 right there in the palm of your hand, just head to our website at abc2news.com/mobile. take a look at the growing list of apps, latest news, live streaming video and weather forecasting just a download away. an undercover prostitution sting led seven potential johns in handcuffs. it's an ongoing problem for police and businesses in pape pea. don harrison spoke to witnesses who had a front row seat to alt action. >> reporter: last week. annapolis police ran an undercover prostitution sting in the 200 block of west street.

two female police officers went under cover arresting seven men looking for se. one was take tonight hospital for an unrelated medical problem and charged later. this all started when police began getting calls from the public. >> the 200 block of west street is where we have the most complaints but we do get complaints in other parts occasionally, but this is the most frequent area. >> reporter: during the police sting operation, some people had a view of the whole event. they said it looked like a scene right out of the movies. >> cops come right behind them. >> reporter: steve fisher is one of the owners at ruby's salon. the city has expanded the business revitalization. they had just closed up shop. >> another 15 minutes things happened. it went on for an hour and a half, 20 seconds every stop.

>> reporter: they're happy the police is cleaning up the area. >> i've been here five and half years and this cleaned up a lot. >> this has cleaned up a lot over the years. i've been here 12 years. just the change -- atmosphere has change lad lot. >> for the amount of time put in, seven arrests is a pretty good number. >> reporter: in annapolis, don harrison, website whoib -- abc2 news. authorities raided the patapsco flea market this -- flea market this weekend. 70% of the booths were selling fraudulent products, labels from the nfl, nike and even louis vitton. they believe this may be one of

the largest in recent memories. we'll have more tonight on abc2 news at 6:00. well, half of new graduates are jobless or underemployed. they found while there are job opportunities for students who studied science, education or health, recent grads who focused on the arts and hiewments are not -- humanities are not fairing as well. the job market for students graduating with a bachelors degree fell to the lowest level in more than a decade last year. experts say the worst could be over at the pump after two weeks of following prices following a four-month surge. the national average is $3.88. we're working to find the cheapest prices. just log on to abc2news.com. check out the traffic tab and

click on gas prices. you'll find a list of the cheapest prices found by the people right here in our area. baltimore's very own sip and bite restaurant is getting some national attention featured on the food network's diners, drive-ins and dives. the owners said they had to shut down two days to film but it wa. you can check out the food network debut tonight at 10:00. coming up, people in nevada woke up to an explacing instead of their alarm clocks this weekend. find out why people in reno, nevada may be looking at a meteor. it's an event you wouldn't see in the junior olympics, but the cup stacking event is at its best. we'll have that when abc2 news at 5:30 returns. [ glass clinks ] i just wanted to say a few words.

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fragmented and hit the earth's surface somewhere in the sierra mountains. they believe this happened just after an annual meteor shower. check out these pictures. they were taken an hour after a utah plane crash that sent one person to the hospital. a couple of brave bystanders darted in to rescue the pilot and get him to a nearby rv where he waited for police to arrive. take a look at this video. it's called speed stacking and it's made its way into the junior olympics this year. you see kids in sacramento, california fighting to stack their way to the to and represent their city in this year's olympic games. it's made to challenge the children's precision and speed and they look pretty good at what they're doing. coming up, two dogs got loose and started attacking two children. how one man's courage saved the

day. in tonight's consumer alert, how safe do you feel about your personal information on facebook. we're telling you a new service that's grading third party apps when we come back.

now to a story out of northeast washington, d.c. where over the weekend a man put his life on the line to save two children being terrorized by dogs. we have the very latest. >> reporter: this is more than a dog bite this. s with an animal attack. look at this surveillance video obtained exclusively for abc 7 news, two dogs on the loose. watch these kids. they jump on cars to escape the dogs and were trapped.

>> something out of a horror movie. >> these dogs were obviously trained to be mean, to be vicious. >> it seemed like they were hunting, like they were going after people. >> reporter: this was then that an day from, coming -- andre, coming home from the game stepped in. he was armed with a knife and the dogs turned that are attack on him. >> neighbors were throwing things out the window to distract them. >> andre was released from the hospital today. >> i got bit on the arms and got stitches. >> no one knows who the dogs belong to but many neighbors have seen the dogs through the window of that apartment building over there. check out this. this is a trail of bloody paw prints that if you chase the trail all the way it goes inside

that apartment building. the carpet is bloody and the walls have blood on it, too. it was quiet at the apartment building, no dogs and no answer. >> any dog that comes by, people are reacting. people are scared. >> reporter: neighbors are applauding their own hero. >> i don't consider myself a hero. this is my community. >> reporter: a community that's recovering rather than in mourning today. all right. brave guy. ravens fan, too. the storm is impacting our state. the main impact came last night and yesterday through the day into last night. we're still dealing with the wind. wind chill factor feeling like the 30s and still plenty of action on maryland's most

powerful radar. scattered showers over central maryland. this is light rain. winter weather in western pennsylvania including garrett county, west of cumberland, in particular. in fact, we have footage to show you from deep creek lake. there's our berth -- here's our weather bug camera. you can see the snow coming down in our state, granted as far west as you can g what a winter like day in garrett county. this is unusual. look at frostburg, snow mixed with rain. didn't stick as well in the cumberland area, but still some snow showers coming out there. take you all the way east. no snow in ocean city. look at this, waves coming in. the waves are churning in the wake of this power house storm. temperatures mid-40s. we hid 50 briefly -- hit 50 briefly. oakland just 32 at the freezing

mark. winds gusting higher. winds gusting around 25, gusting to 33 in the last hour or two. making those temperatures feel much cooler. you don't talk about this in late april much. mid-30s. three above freezing is what this feels like, barely west of baltimore and barely north. winter advisories, you can see for the highest terrain in pennsylvania, extends through garrett county and pennsylvania. watch out for slick roads far west. in the meantime here it's going to be the rain and wind across central maryland and the eastern shore. we picked up several inches of much needed rain. we'll get more from a few more showers this evening. this storm is beginning to exit but churning bringing in that cold blast and very windy conditions and still enough moisture wrapping around to keep us cloudy. you can see that on our future

trend, generally cloudy scenario through the day. as we go tuesday through wentz -- wednesday, we begin to see clearing. overnight down to 37. two-degree guarantee 5, warmer but feeling cooler than average. tomorrow down to 39 with partial clearing. looking ahead, finding temperatures to rebound to more seasonable levels by wednesday and thursday. chance for more rain thursday. that's good news for farmers and into the weekend looks like a drier and better weather scenario this go around. >> thanks a lot. new to democrat democrat, speculation continues as to who mitt romney will pick to be his vice-presidential running mate. one popular candidate was on the trail with the presumptive nominee.

what's the latest on the vp search? >> reporter: once someone starts campaigning alongside mitt romney, the speculation builds on whether or not that person will be his running mate. today it was marco rubio's turn. >> i'm delighted that senator marco rubio agreed to join me for the trip. >> reporter: it's qun of the hottest -- one of the hottest names in the race. rub yes would help romney with the hispanic vote, fire up the party's base and give him an edge in the critical state of florida. today rubio traveled north to pennsylvania. >> there's whom one choice running for president that will help us reclaim and row scape clur the thing -- recapture the thing that makes this country different and he happens to be here today. his name is mitt romney, the next president of the united states. >> reporter: rub yes tried to pour cold water on a romney-rub yes ticket but didn't shut the

ticket. >> would you still stand by i wouldn't accept it. >> i'm not going to respect the process. >> reporter: still if many republicans get their way, this is what you'll see at party's convention in august, which will be held perhaps appropriately in rubio's home state of florida. >> isn't he an exordinary leader? >> reporter: kelly, the attention is definitely on marco rubio. he's trying to divert some of it. over the weekend he actually suggested jeb bush as a name mitt romney could look at. at this point in the game, mitt romney said he's still very early in this whole process of decide hog will run beside him. >> live from washington tonight we'll continue to watch the developments. well, the criminal trial against former presidential candidate john edwards started today in north carolina edwards is scharged with six felony -- charged with six felony charges in connection with campaign

finances and his mistress. he is accused of using $900,000 in illegal chon ri biewtions to hide the -- contributions to hide his affair. if convicted, he could get 30 years in prison along with hefty fines. >> i'm jamie costello coming up at 6:00, a second lay press in that st. patrick's day beating all caught on tape. baltimore police are able to track down the suspect. and a new scam threatens to access your bank account, so tonight we're working for you. those stories and or coming up at six. now here's a preview of what's head on world news at 6:30 with diane sawyer. coming up on world news, something for every family in america. what if you're paying $100,000 more at your hospital for the same procedure you could get down the road. what you need to know.

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stocks fell sharply before closing. the do you fell 102, the nasdaq down 30 and the s&p 500 fell five points. in tonight's consumer alert, privacy protection is really a huge concern for the web especially for people on social sites like facebook. now a group is grading facebook's third party apps. >> reporter: it's designed to let people know how their

favorite facebook app private policies stack up. it's a new program run by privacy choice. the service rates more than 200 apps based on criteria like how much data is shared, how long information is stored or if it has an opt out feature. those scored 90 points are the most protive. between 80 and 90 proceed with caution. anything below 70 the least protective. users of sims and scrabble will be happy to know their privacy is well protected. angry bird scored only a 65. there are 140 different tracking entities that track information on users. when consumers install an app it typically requests information for advertising purposes. some companies give other companies access to your personal information. while it's meant for consumers, it will give developers the

incentive to clean upper that data sharing devices. abc2 news is working for you to help you protect your personal information. start piling up unwanted documents because you can shred them for free. there are two location. one is in catonsville and the other is on northern parkway in baltimore. you can bring any papers you want to shred from 9:00 until noon. so start packing it up. from sweet treats to infant nutrition, nestle has agreed to pay $12 billion for pfizer's infant nutrition business. according to the "wall street journal" it could help it earn a top spot in the world wide baby formula market. this is the company's largest purchase since 2001. you least television ons a background noise when no one is

watching, in problem, right? wrong. why it could be a problem if kids are in the room. we have that story and much more at 6:00 with jamie costello, which starts for you right now. coming up, the latest on a video taped beating that went nationwide. it's the day after the feds make a raid on the flea market. we go back to the patapsco market. that's 3 in the morning, and there's one stop and it's right here at the sip and bite. tonight the big time stops by. now let has take a look at prill -- april showers. they bring may flowers. parts of the northeast are getting hit with a taste of winter snow,