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hundreds of volunteers turned out to help search for a missing marine in north carolina. kelly bordeaux was seen leaving a bar on april 14th. her husband says there no way his wife walked away. fayetteville police released a photo of bordeaux, they say she took it with her cell phone on the day she disappeared. undercover sting in arundel turns up several violations and an arrest. abc2 news was along for the ride. cop were making sure you get a fair shake when you take cab. arundel county police were busy this morning, county police along with amtrak police did an undercover sting operation at the cromwell light rail and bwi
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amtrak station. they were looking for cab drivers refusing to take passengers on shorter rides hoping for longer more profitable rides. you can see this undercover officer refused what they call a short run, by this cab driver. other cab drivers will jack up the price for a fair. after the police initiate the undercover sting they bring the cabs here for inspection, and to see if there is any other problems. they did find some other problems. >> smoking device, residue. >> reporter: this driver was arrested for possession of drugs, this is the second time for him.
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he was busted in october for the same thing and same type of sting. >> we should be doing this more. the cab drivers need to be giving service to passengers. when they have a second thought in their mind that it might be a police officer. they will do the right thing. >> whether from the airport or train station, they should be able to go where they need to go. >> reporter: the cab drivers that did no wrong, the police paid them for a nice ride. don harrison, abc2 news. live look at your friday night in downtown baltimore, beautiful out. perfect. sunny, postcard weather. what is going to happen this weekend? let's check in with wyatt everhart. >> it doesn't look like it's going to stay to pristine for saturday afternoon and evening. we will make a come back sunday. prepare for this. breezes northwest, gusty, temperatures are hovering
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around 60, we have the sun out, normally nice weather recipe with the wind, it feel as little bit cooler. i'm telling you take the extra layers. freeze and frost concerns, colder night ahead. northern eastern shore, north, across northern baltimore counties we got a freeze warning up, there will be frost early tomorrow morning, cold overnight period. protect your plants the rest of the evening in the 50s, staying breezy, more on your outlook for the weekend, the timing of the rain coming in, that's coming up. it was a perfect day for golf as good morning maryland anchor charley crowson found out. he spent his day at boys hope girls hope golf tournament. they teed off at sparrows point country club to raise money for the children they help. they help at risk children have a stable home environment and positive education experience. we are checking out
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maryland day at the university of maryland. jenny is live from college park on the campus. what going on there this weekend? >> i don't know, do i have a bug on me? can you see a bug on me? one of the fun things about maryland day, is you can get up chose and personal with bugs. mark is known as the bug guy with some really neat bugs. this is amazing. it's going be a bug palooza tomorrow. we have rosy the tarantula. willie the walking stick and you have this beautiful little locust from florida. that might i thought it was roger, it's sally. >> reporter: you have got a walking stick on your ncí;÷@&c% shoulder. >> really? tomorrow we will be rocking this mace with insect it shall place with insects at the
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insect petting zoo. the kids will love this sp get to see all kind of insects, bees, and walking sticks, we will have black widow spiders and recluse spiders and everything they can imagine. they get to bring their parnts if they like. >> reporter: you tried to get me to hold this, kids, if they come or parents can do it, right? we will let them touch rosey. i'm not sure we will let rosie walk around. sometimes the children frighten the big spider. kids are scary to a spider. maybe spiders are scary to kids too, i'm not really sure. we will have rosy out, she will be smiling and waving. >> reporter: she is not shy at all. >> come and see rosy and the rest of the critters tomorrow. it's going to be fantastic. >> reporter: it's from 10:00 to 4:00, it's free on the
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university of maryland college park campus. there are oh things you can do, fun to get out with the family. i had to hand back sally. she was getting too up close and personal with me. >> no way, that's totally not going to happen, the hebe gee bees looking a at the bug on your jacket. >> reporter: i have a bug on my jacket? >> i will be at maryland day from 11:00 to 4:00 as well. 26 children on the bus on their way home from school are forced to duck for safety, after someone on the street started shooting at them. what police say may have started it all. you are hopefully going to be thankful to have the man in your life after seeing the prank one guy pull on his girlfriend. it's funny, now.
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fired. >> it's sad, because it was a group of teenagers, right, are walking around like this is the wild, wild west. >> one student had minor cuts. police hope releasing the video will help them find the suspect. two highly trained paratroopers got hung up in a tree on a training mission, when the winter cold forced them out of the drop zone and they were stuck until crews arrived and pulled them to safety. in the market for a new car, times have changed what you need to know before you start wheeling and dealing. it maybe what you are not using, that maybe eating up the data on your cell phone plan.
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well, all of this is a jokes, the girls had no idea, terrified they ran from the apartment and attacker follows them down the stairs with camera in hand laughs all the way. when he reveals his identity, they are not amused. the boyfriend says he was bored and decided to pull off the prank. yes, they are still together. what a catch that guy is. would you do that? that's not very nice. >> i used to do stuff like that to my mom, it was about the prank. the ski mask was the bright
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friendly blue. >> ski masks, they scream friendly. >> i don't think that scored points. they are still together. love survives these things, i guess. i hope that was funny. >> it was amusing. in hindsight. take a look, nice day out there. breezy and cool, but i don't think it's ski mask weather. that's good. 60 degrees now, bwi, humidity less than 30%. dry breezy night. kinds of chap stick weather, windy and this dry. look at this, beautiful view now, of the key bridge on the east side, from the gorgeous campus, community college of baltimore county, dundalk. this is a gorgeous blue sky, kinds of a day out there. this is the way we like it in april. lots of sunshine in bel air as well. the same deal on kent island, a
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chop on the chesapeake today. maryland's most powerful radar remaining clear. should stay dry tonight and first half of tomorrow. past noon, in to the early afternoon, we think the chance for rain will be there. tonight, clear and cold with a frost. frost expected for most of the eastern shore here. care line county, queen ann, north in to cecil. harford, northern baltimore, frost including howard and a freeze warning for carol, and frederick county. here you are going to get a deep freeze that could kill outdoor plants and vegetation. bring in anything out there that's sensitive to the cold. we don't want to lose plants tonight. 60 airport. 56 hagerstown. the numbers will be dropping sharply the rest of the evening. winds northwest 15. gusting to 25, and 30 at the top of the hour. a breezy and cool friday night that will feel cooler than the temperatures would otherwise indicate. a clear evening here across the mid atlantic. look up and down the east coast. we have weather beginning to
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brew to the west of us now and couple of disturbances riding north of this cold front that is south of us now. we will bring in chilly rain tomorrow. the thing is the cool air will hang around, clouding up and bringing in showerses its doing to be a chilly saturday night and saturday evening. have that in mind as you make your plans. timing wise, increasing clouds during the saturday morning. this is 2:00, see the rainmaker pushing west. this rain will be overrunning chilly air at the surface. a little raw i think tomorrow night. as we go in to sunday, maybe a few morning showers, cheering through the day. that will allow temperatures to bounce back to 60 degrees or so on sunday. warming up more significantly next week. overnight, 36, we get colders saturday forecast dry early and rain showers in to the afternoon. we stay chilly tomorrow night with more rain showers. seven-day forecast looking ahead, finding that the
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temperatures will bounce back. we will be in the 70s. tuesday through friday a warming trend. with the summer driving season around the corner, maybe you and your family are in the market for a new ride. if you play your cards ride, allison has tips on buying a new car. >> reporter: the days of massive losses government bailouts and overflowing inventory seem to be in the rearview mirror for the major auto makers. there are big discounts available on cars and trucks. here are some tips on how to drive home a great deal. first, save off the hard sell. the minute you walk on to a dealer's lot, you will be hit with sales tactics, know what you want ahead of tame time and stick to plans, shop your old car at used car dealerships to see what similar models are selling for. or take to it car mabs, which h make you an offer good for a week and try to get your deal
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tore beat it. compare the real cost of ownership. the real cost of owning a car includes gas, oil changes, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation, do you home work. negotiate from home. true car.com and car moo.com are web sites that allow you to anonymously nee negotiate with dealers at once to get the best price and look at inventories in your area on lines call and and negotiate a price over the phone instead of on a showroom floor where the dealer has the upper happened. find out what kind of financing you qualify for, go to your bank or apply to see what you monthly payments and interest rates will be. when u dealing with a rep, concentrate on negotiating your bottom line rather than calculating your monthly cost in you head. to democracy 2012 news, president obama spoke to troops in georgia while his reelection
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team went after mitt romney's foreign policy expertise. torey joins us live from washington, the obama reelection team is hitting romney hard on this issue. >> reporter: it seems that way tbs vice president gave that scathing speech yesterday and now today, the reelection team is releasing the web ad starring none other than bill clinton. the ad goes on to basically question what mitt romney would have done in that exact same situation. would he have made the same decision. we have to ask, what's the response from romney's campaign about the ad? >> reporter: you have to imagine they are not happy with
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the ad that came out. a spokesman for mitt romney issued a statement blasting the president. it says in part, it's now sad to see the obama campaign seek to use an event that unitfied our country to once again divide us to distract voters attention from the failures of administration. it says romney is committed to strengthening america, both here and abroad. >> is the general election appears to be underway, who has the inin the latest national poll? >> reporter: president obama does. at least for the moment. this is a daily tracking poll, bomb become has the lead 50 to romney's 4%. the president's lead has narrowed since rick santorum dropped out of the race. we have to point out the fact that it's only april, the numbers are going to change. they can tell us a little bit about what we can expect as far as campaign strategy. >> a lot of time left in the race.
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stocks closed after higher corporate profits from big companies. dow jones rose 24 points. the nasdaq rose 19 points to close at just over be thousand and the s -- 3000sp rose 3 points to close at 1403. in consumer alert, between texting, tweeting and smart phone apps it's easy to get to the mid of the month and ask where did my data go? sneaky things could be pushing you over the limit. >> reporter: posting, watching, listening, and sharing, most of us have an idea of where our data goes when we are on the go. what happens to the rest of it? as unlimited data plans become scarce, consumers are counting texts, tweets and emails, hoping to avoid fat gonch
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overage fees. >> that can be a risk, especially with android, apps can do stuff on their own in the background. i've been testing this, the second biggest consumer data is application that downloads news articles. i don't think i've used it. >> reporter: constant application updates. >> when you have new versions coming up every week, you know to tap the update now button, that can add up as well rr youtube video clip or two won't burn through the data, watching the longer tv shows and movies can. smart phone users can keep tabs on what is eating up data with an app. switch over the wi-fi with your device to cut down on data usage when you can. abc2 news is working for you helping you protect your personal information and declutter, start piling up
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unwanted documents because you can shred them tomorrow. there are two location for the springtime shred event at the me q branch and other on northern parkway. bring any papers you want too shred from 9:00 to noon tomorrow. new law enforcement against the bachelor as we get ready for a casting call here. that's coming up at 6:00 which starts right now. the case against the man accused of killing felecia barnes, i'm brian kuebler, the details coming up next. be ever you land your weekend trips around town, lane closures that may have you rethinking your trip downtown. she is all heart with a brand new set of lungs, remarkable operation giving this young woman a chance to go
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to her prom after doctors worried she wouldn't survive. tonight we begin with continuing coverage of a man charged with murdering felecia barnes. we know how she was killed as well as part of the case against the man accused of murdering her. brian kuebler was the first to break this news story and has been following the developments closely. changes today for the suspect, michael. >> reporter: michael johnson was denied bail at his hearings that state started to lay out the case against him. finally a look inside the state's case against 28-year- old michael johnson. felecia barns died from asphyxia and they believe johnson did it. he was the last to see her alive. neighbors witnessed him struggling to carry out a 32- gallon bin, investigators say was big enough to fit a woman of felecia's size. she is reported missing by he
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