radar is crystal clear. temperatures hovering around 50, mid-60s on the eastern shore. the rest of the evening will hover in the upper 50s but the chance for rain goes up. we'll talk about that and how rapidly we'll warm up. it's straight ahead. should all pitbulls be considered vicious? the state's top court thinks so. the ruling said because dogs are agrease sirvetion the entire breed should be considered inherently dangerous. we have reaction from dog owners. >> reporter: the ruling puts strict liabilities on owners. dog breeders say this opens up a huge can of worms that could lead to more dogs being thrown away by their owners. is it a bad dog or a bad owner? pitbulls and pitbull mixes are welcomed like any other breed at the canton park. owners say any dog can be a jerk

and any dog can be a saint. it singles out all pitbulls as being famous. why not mixed breasted, jack russells, shepherds. >> any dog that probably doesn't get enough exercise or chained in the backyard, they are dogs, so we always have to remember it's up to we as their care takers to properly take care of them. >> reporter: the biggest ish sue determining what exactly is a pitbull. take a look at the chart. some look like pit bus but aren't. this is a member of the pitbull family and was the star at kissing booth. the director said determining the dog's blood line is difficult. >> with long hair, with funky crazy hair. what is it mixed with. are they going to enforce a dna

test? if they do it's not going to be identified as a pitbull terrier. >> reporter: what she is afraid of is people will stop adopting dogs from shelters. or dogs will be abandoned by their owners to the streets. >> 50% of people in baltimore city are renters. a lot of them loan dogs. our concern would be they would start surrendering pets either out of fear of this new thing or landlords telling them they have to get rid of their pet. >> reporter: the key, she said is educating the owner. pitbulls are a dog that need last lot of exercise and attention. you can't just chain them up or crate them and expect them to be fine. >> well, they beat man. they burglarized his home and took his dog.

three men attacked a man outside of his home on willow drive in the winding brook neighborhood. a man and a coworker had been drinking beer outside when one left to go inside. that's when three men assaulted him. >> whenever he get out of the van and walked to the house, somebody came and whooped him. >> the thieves made off with a big screen tv a lop top computer and the family's dog. the victim suffered a broken bone in his face and a gash required more than 80 stitches. neighbors said this is the second time the man has been targeted. they said the dog mysteriously showed back up at the house the next day. >> this next ory is a matter of your public safety. jamie costello joins us with a shift in policy. >> reporter: he as really frustrated tonight feeling that harford county is spinning its

wheels when it comes to your safety a bill before the county council would have established a commission this that would make recommendations concerning fire and rescue, but some felt this was the step to have a paid career fire department and they didn't like it. county executive craig said that was never the intention. >> during the 30 years i've been here, i can't say that it has -- how we improve the public safety. the desire of amendments that keep changing day after day, woke after week resulted in my decision last friday to withdraw the bill and come up with a new solution. the status quo is not acceptable. >> he yanked it. mr. craig said this advisory board should not lab threat to anyone and anyimposing such a commission is not reacting in

the interest of public safety. mr. craig will go to plan b and tell us about it later this week. jamie costello, abc2 news. >> a deadly accident claimed the lives of three generations of a new york family. somehow the car lost control and plummeted 50 feet off the highway killing all seven passengers. we have the latest on the cause of the crash. >> reporter: this is what the mini van carrying seven members of the same family looked like after plunging more than 50 feet from the bronx river parkway, mangled metal, personal affects every where this. ended up in parts of the bronx zoo, away from trees and animals. the driver, maria gonzalez along with her daughter was also killed. >> we believe -- this is preliminary information -- we

believe the driver struck a jersey barrier. as a result the driver make as severe righthand turn on goes over the side wall. >> reporter: the seven people inside, all wearing seat belts were pinned and killed when they landed upside down. the crash killed the driver's sisters will named maria, her kids and the women's parents, both in their 80s. >> it's hard. >> reporter: the driver's son said his mother took a job at fordham university just to put him through college. now as the family grieves the loss of three generations, city officials are looking into what highway safety issues could have contributed to this deadly plunge. just last year a very similar accident happened on the same

stretch of road. now to arizona where this surveillance video is being analyzed by police in tucson, hoping it can give them new clues about what happened to 6-year-old isabel celis. police have turned their focus now to the video which show as group of machine and women leaving a bar a block away from her home the night she went missing. police have already talked to three of the people in the video but are trying to identify a man seen walking behind a wall nearby. authorities haves will extended their search to mexico, investigating the possibility that she could have been taken over the bored ?eer well, george zimmerman's lawyer wants to delay the release of documents in the case against his client. attorney mark o'mara said zimmerman, charged with killing trayvon martin, said releasing

the document cost compromise zimmerman's safety. today marked the beginning of the second week in the john edwards campaign finance trial but edwards' former aide is no longer in the hospital. last week her husband testified. much of that money went to finance. she is accused of endorsing many of the big donor chicagos that prosecutors argued violate campaign law. she said edwards told her it was legal to deposit money from a wealthy donor to take care of his mistress. edwards denies the charges. saturday night hottest ticket in d.c., the annual whit house correspondents dinner.

comedian jimmy kimmel hosted it but president obama got some of the biggest laughs of the evening. >> anyway, it's great to be here this evening in the have the magnificent hilton ballroom or what mitt romney would call a little fixer upper. i know at this point many of you are expecting me to go after my likely opponent, newt gingrich. newt, there's still time, man. >> well, the night wasn't all about taking pot shots. the event raises money for journalism scholarships. the widow of the ohio man who led dozens of exotic animals lose before killing himself are getting some of them back. they had made their way into nearby streets. the surviving animals were quarantined since october but at a hearing today the state

agriculture department said they couldn't prevent marion thompson from getting the animals back. it's a process that has taken years a place that brings great sorrow and pride. a look at progress of the new world trade center. >> and oscar winner's reeve real life -- real life tragedy playing out in court. parents make decisions about how to raise their children every day. what what mom is doing that's fetching her a lot of heat -- when we come back. [ glass clinks ] [ mom ] i'll take this. it's mother's day.

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a major milestone referred in the construction of the new one world trade center. it now surpasses the ohm

h-empire state building in height. >> reporter: it's been six years since one world trade center begafnlt now it has risen -- began. now it has risen above every other structure. >> what you see is a determination to remember what we lost and to rebuild even higher. >> reporter: monday afternoon they hoisted into place the skeleton column. when the column was installed it made the skeleton big enough to peek over the observation deck of the empire state building. for this retired firefighter who lost his 29-year-old son in the attacks, today's milestone brings up mixed emotions. >> every time i see it in the distance, i will remember my

son. >> reporter: it was also an emotional day for crane operators. they witnessed this falling down almost 11 years ago. >> an emotion for me, thinking the plane hit the building andlr no reason. >> reporter: it is not expected to reach its full height for at least another year. at that time it will stand 1,776 feet tall including an antenna. >> it's a special day. i rejoice with others who say we can do it if we band together. >> reporter: with the two columns and two beams in place, it now stands at 1,271 feet. t.j. winick, new york.

so awesome to see. back here, tough to find sunshine. 62 at bwi. winds southeast at 10, cooler than average by 10 degrees but a significant warmup on the way beginning may 1st, which, of course, comes tomorrow. disun dock, our view from ccbc, again, looking at the key bridge, not much sunshine coming through today, a few peeks of sun late in the afternoon. baltimore not nearly has many out today pushing us up to 70, just couldn't get there today with the cloud cover in damascus holding tough. get a look at maryland's most powerful radar, expect the radar to get more active. by tomorrow one of those mornings you could wake up to thunderstorms. right now temperature wise 6 in oakland where the sun is out. ago heaping 58.

oat heat 58. relatively cool, unseasonably so but the huge shift coming tomorrow going into next weekend. winds light from the south but not enough to push up temps. humidity has come up, too. it feels damp, cool and damp. some spun sneaking through as we look at these satellite pictures, but that sun is mainly hagerstown westward. garrett county, howard county. more active weather to the west. you see the downpours toward southern indiana. the warm front is south of the system. this is our tuesday morning rain maker. you can see the air behind that boundary, mean mid-80s nashville, chore lot -- charlotte, maybe cool, rainy in the morning and maybe the rumble of thunder. anytime after 2 a.m. once we start the month of may looking for showers and maybe

some showers lingering into march, especially the lower eastern shore. yous in the sun coming out and temperatures skyrocketing. wednesday a little tough to call temperatures here. we have cool air in pennsylvania that may sink down into maryland. we could be anywhere from 70 to 0 on wednesday but warm -- 80 on wednesday but warming up thursday to friday. the possibility of a morning thunderstorm tomorrow then sunny and warmer into the afternoon. tomorrow 58, mild. take a look at the seven-day forecast. it's a tricky call on wednesday's high temperature. maybe mid-70s and back to the 80s thursday, friday into the start of our weekend. kelly? >> thanks a lot, wyatt. the network for teaching entrepreneurship is celebrating it's 10-year anniversary. it's teaching students how to starter that own business.

sherrie johnson shows us how the program is making a difference for students. >> reporter: here in mrs. denee mcdonald's school students are busy working on a business plan. they are creating pitches and writing business plans. it's part of the network for teaching entre prefourship or nfte. >> they think of employment. our students test better. they also have better a i tend dance rates and they graduate and go on to college. >> reporter: jay a -- jayla sawn ders immediately went after the program eye -- >> i enjoy doing it. >> reporter: alexis alt loves to

baifnlgt she wants to become a pastry chef so it wasn't too hard for her to decide on a business program. >> give people good experience and selling what they want to sell. >> the nfte is celebrating 10 years. it has reached over 10,000 students. seven businesses in the area have become part of the adopt a class program, raising $100,000 for entrepreneurship education. >> it benefits them. it lets them know you don't have to be someone who is 21 or college educated to have a business. they have learned there are many students in their teens who have started businesses, who are financially successful. so they have learned they can gre at this point and gre from there. >> reporter: with the proper tools these students could be running some top corporations in

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we're talking about vitamins and cancer. more than half of americans take dietary supplements, some promising to ward off cancer. a new study said those customers might be wasting their money, that several trials have shown an increased risk of cancer associated with some of the supplements. a new study found that more than a quarter of nonsmoking apartment residents say they smelled their neighbor's smoafnlgt the study's lead author said children, especially, are vulnerable because second hand smoke could put them at rise being for asthma or cystic fibrosis. the findings support evidents to make all multiunit apartment buildings smoke-free. a pacifier is a way of life for many babies, but some

critics say they interfere with breast feeding. researchers put it to a test. a study of organ health and sciences finds that giving a baby a pacifier may increase the need to breast feed and when they were in pain, breast feeding decreased significantly. an annual survey on physician pay is shedding some light on which doctors are making the big bubltion. the data shows radiologists make the most on average with average salaries of $315,000 a year followed by orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists. pediatricians, family medicine doctors and doctors who practice internal medicine make less than $170,000. only 11% considered themselves

rich. abc2news.com is the place for all the news you need. you will find all the healthlines from today and different categories. coming up, three people were stabbed over the weekend at a party in annapolis. we'll tell you where that investigation stands tonight. an emotional day in court for the remaining members of the hudson family, what the chilling 911 call sounds like. he's not a doctor in real life but plays one on tv. how the man behind mcdreamy saved a life out of his malibu home. that story and or when we come back. [ glass clinks ] [ mom ] it's mother's day. a day to thank me for all of the little things.

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