1st. he is looking forward to spending more time with his firemanly and friends. the city plans to do a national search for his replacement. the ravens will have to open the season out the player of the year. suggs tore his achilles. he will likely have surgery next week. he said he absolutely would be back on the field before the end of the season. keep your fingers crossed. heroes come in all size and there is no better example than the parkville sisters who saved their grandpa. bill learned they prepared for that moment early. >> baltimore county what is the address? >> my poppa fell in the bathroom and he is on the floor. he needs help. >> reporter: emily and riley soak up the attention.

at six and four they deserve it. in march when their grandfather was watching them he fell, and it was bad. >> laying there and emily came in and said are you okay? i said no i'm hurting. >> reporter: amazingly the girls knew what to do. >> my little sister riley got the phone and dialed the number. >> reporter: riley was three. >> i did all the talking. >> reporter: is he awake and is he talking to you? >> -- he is a wake. >> i'm proud. >> reporter: it's because of mom they knew not to be afraid and stay calm. at 1. >> they have -- they have been taught about my epilepsy since they were old enough to realize what was going on. >> reporter: and it was grandpa who taught them what to do in case of emergency. >> they are a little bit of --

i didn't know i was training them to do and they would use it to save me. they are my heros. they saved my but. >> reporter: they not only heros. >> angels. yes. >> reporter: and how does that feel? >> pretty good. >> yeah. good. >> reporter: in baltimore county . >> adorable. emily wants to be a doctor and riley wants to be a princess. tomorrow is the 27th fallen hero's day ceremony. there was a service for maryland state trooper who died a year ago trying to stop a speeding motorcycle. his mother explains how important tomorrow is. >> means a lot because of the fact that they are honoring our son but they are honoring all of those that have fallen and paid the ultimate price. >> and in addition to the certify nonny howard county

police will ride in the unity tour. it races awareness for officers killed in the line of duty. after a gray morning the sun, blue skies, finally settled over baltimore. sun actually came out as we headed in to work. how long will it last? wyatt has a look. >> i think we have it for a little while. weather nice and clear. just acosmist lated showers pop up to the west. we are tracking them with the radar. its been warming out this way. not particularly impressive showers or storms though and temperature wise -- 81 belaire, 84 germantown. 80s on the map. that's a big difference from yesterday. nearly 90 martins bug rest of the evening down into the 60s. various temperatures and cooler east of the chesapeake. how conditions will change for friday and look at your weekend that's coming up. >> thank you.

close to a third of all children are give away something important. access to their social media and all the tech things they fool around with. it's a dangerous idea that puts your child at risk. joe is he explains how. >> reporter: forget passing out your locker combination. tones these days sharing a lot more. >> they are far more casual than wew. >> reporter: and they are sharing something personal. >> i was disappointed. >> reporter: isabella got a tough lesson in over sharing. she gave a stranger her password to a online game and lost parts of the game she paid for. >> i did a part and she did the other parts and got it right. everything got taken. >> reporter: a small loss for her but security experts say the price for password sharing can be sometime. >> anything that gives you some sense of security and

privacy. >> reporter: joe mason said it doesn't stop kid from giving out the kids that will give access to their cell phones, i- pads, facebook and e-mail. to them it's a gesture, a sign of trust between friends. >> not all the relationships wind up happyly. >> reporter: leaving them open to cyber bullying, bella's mom knows our easy it can happen especially with her son. >> if some child got his password they could write things about him and try to embarrass him. >> reporter: hunter knows not to share with anyone but his parents who don't give him much choice. >> they aren't getting in trouble or doing things they shouldn't. >> reporter: but passing along passwords with in the family is often for casual sharing quiets started. >> almost natural, this idea of sharing a password. >> reporter: when you is the kids to give give you their

codes, make sure they keep their lips sealed to everybody else. isabella does when her friends ask. >> if it does happen thenly -- i will say here you go and i can play with it. >> reporter: knowing give away access to her stuff is no longer a game. abc 2news. >> if your child is a victim of cyber bullying through password sharing you may have to shut the down the account or change numbers. they said everybody in your family should be changing their passwords often and when it comes to teens make sure they aren't picking an access code that's overly simple and easy to guess. coming up, a little boy looks more like a tasty zebra to a lion. unbelievable video of the boy's encounter. . >> it's another about face from one of romney's former

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mart. if you look on the right side you see a woman approach a lady with a cart full of groceries. police say the suspect pulled a knife on the 65-year-old victim and demanded her purse. the woman then yelled her purse was aiken you can see the man run after the thief and tackle her. that man was stabbed in the neck and got nine stitches. now police are looking for the purse snatcher after she got away in a truck. a massive sink hole in the backyard of a florida home. this is about 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep. it swallowed up four trees. crews watching it. thank a lion at the zoo thought this little boy was a treat. maybe it had something to do with the black and white stripes outfit. >> didn't notice he looked like a zebra said it on

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senate small businesses are hurting from debit card fees. retailers pay a fee for each swipe of the card. they have been cut almost in half after a government cap was

put into effect late last year but the national retail federation said card issuers are not following the spirit of the law. companies such as visa and mastercard first agreed to keep fees small for some low cost stores as they pushed to get machines in dollar stores and coffee shops. now the fees going up costing businesses. at a time when student loop debt is sky high two universities are trying to something that's sure to be easier on the bank. harvard and mit have teamed township offer free online courses. starting fall you can get an ivy league education for free. >> reporter: a harvard or mit education for free? yes you just need a computer and internet connection. the institutions have teamed up to provide five free online courses. they include engineering and

more will be added. >> we believe that people throughout the world, even -- especially those who can't afford to pay the fees of online courses should have access to the information. >> reporter: both mit and harvard each gave $30 million to fund the project. they are doing it for research purposes, the schools plan to look at the way students learn. they will use the knowledge to improve teaching. they describe what the online courses would be like. >> i expect the staff to develop ambition our approaches that will likely have a video part and maybe other features, maybe the possibility of v laboratories. >> reporter: you won't get a degree but you will get a certificate of mastery. if you are up for the free courses they say monitor the website to find out when you

can enroll. reporting in washington. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> all right. take a look. pretty quiet day. we have the sun coming out after a cloudy start this morning. the sun finally coming out for us here and we like to see that. not a lot of wind whipping the flags on top beautiful federal hill. 76 now -- humidity just 60%. moderate on the humidity but on the whole its been nice and improvement from the cloudy cool conditions, much of maryland had to deal with it. look at baltimore, cloudy skies early on and then -- people coming out, feel that sun. i -- get the vitamin d levels up. good for you. annapolis, looking good at the state capitol, bright sun and

belaire, a cloudy, murky start and then the sun, blue skies to finish the day and the hart of hartford. the radar right now showing a little bit of weather, extending war the i-81 corridor. minimal rain out this way. this isn't exactly power house thunderstorm action and for most of us, not an issue. 86 in winchester as we speak. 84hagerstown. they have the couple of showers, 59 and the clouds never broke down here at the beaches, 75 easton, 76 at pwi. humidity dryer -- more humid north and east. the cloud deck and this is one of the reasons why if you are watching kent or cecil you are running cooler. you didn't get as warm as baltimore. again from i-95 west it was improvement it to the 70s. 67 wilmington. that was the forth east corner of the state. annapolis cool as well with the breeze off the chesapeake bay

water temperatures around 60. there is that narrow band. they aren't even as significant as what the model indicated they may be which really wasn't that much to start with. very narrow band, other than that quiet weather, active weather on the gulf coast with moisture and heavy flooding rains still surging into parts of the deep south including alabama. warm air out of the west. cool air out of the north and east. maryland on the squeeze play line. stalled frontal boundy. this is starting to wash out. by coming less of a sharp boundy. i think tomorrow we will break out with warmer temperatures in to the mid80's. with that, potentially a line of showers, sneaking out of the north. it lookalikes they may well wash out. possible that we could see afternoon showers, just plan accordingly with your friday afternoon plans.

overnight mild conditions, i don't know why the temperatures aren't showing up but overnight mill. probably 60 or so. tomorrow 86. warm we are a few afternoon showers and stay 63 or so with a stray shower overnight. all right. seven day forecast in to the weekend. townsend town fest. it'll can't rule out the isolated shower on saturday but it looks minimal. still looking warmer saturday verses sunday but all weekend looks much mildler than the last several weekends that have been cool in april. >> no complaints. looks good. >> we like it. >> now to the campaign. at a rally, romney added yet another former opponent to his list of supporters, we are live from washington. good evening. who is on that list? >> reporter: today it was michelle bachmann making the endorsement four months after they dropped out. some people say they may be a little slow in coming but

almost all of the former rivals are now rallying behind him. >> this is what victory looks like. >> reporter: the former candidate came out strong for the nominee. >> we must elect romney as the next president of the united states. >> reporter: like most former rough rivals she pulled a 180. she was once consider aid potential front runner. >> she proved herself to be a total work horse. >> top tir in the field. >> reporter: her time in the sun quickly faded. >> i have decided to stand aside. >> reporter: along the way she hit romney hard, trying to tie his massachusetts health care plan to the president's national law. >> nobody has been a bigger critic of romney care than i have. >> reporter: today she left little doubt. >> this is a very simple proposition, this november.

president obama, president romney. you decide. very easy. >> reporter: from there is another potential endorsement a lot of people are anticipating, that one from santorum and we know they are schedule meet tomorrow privately. >> could have another endorsement. >> over to jamie. >> all right. coming up, all new for you tonight at six we will have more onto verdict just handed down. what attorneys from both side's have to say about this outcome. and concussions a big problem for athletes of all ages, now we will look at how video games could be the key to helping track the brain injuries. those and more all new for you tonight at six. [ glass clinks ] [ mom ] i'll take this. it's mother's day.

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. in tonight's consumer alert we all hate having to check our bags but now a airline is taking the extra charges to a whole new level. allison has more on this new bag fee. >> reporter: spirit is raising its fee to bring a carry on bag on board the plane from $45 to $100 each way. that's $200 round trip. carry ons are the bag that go into the overhead bins. the fee doesn't apply for personal items like the purse or laptop that can hit under the seat. this is not out of the normal for spirit. the airline is known for charging a lot of fees and the strategy seems to be working. the company's ceo said it's a

industry first. the tradeoff is that their fares are cheaper than the big carriers around $75 one way during the first three months of this year. there are some things customers can do to save on the bag fees. you are only pay the 100-dollar fee if you get to the airport, go straight through security and get to the gate and then realize you haven't paid for the carry on. a little planning saves money. it'll cost $50 per bag if you pay at the ticket counter before you go to a security. the cheapest way is to pay $35 when you book your ticket online. also, unlike most if you fly spirit it's almost always cheaper to check the bag than carry on, usually about $5 less. these new fees go to effect in november. >> what's up with all these fees in if you want to go with machine who speaks another language google will soon offer

a automatic translation feature for all g mail users, it'll roll out in the next few days and if you alady speak languages you you can just turn it off. new science shows the possibility of testing much earlier than before >> now, abc 2news at six. >> it's a guilty verdict for one of the jew issue brothers. a full report. >> they wore a badge and pledged to protect. today we remember the very brave and doctors are supposed to give drugs but how wow feel if the doctor was on drugs? the report for us tonight but first, fred was so close to

becoming the longest serving commissioner since the man who hired him. but out of the blue the man who led the team is calling a career. abc 2news with the station that really caught the city off guard. >> reporter: it was a shock. the man who was not afraid to call criminals punks, clowns and bad guy was guns isn't saying much now about his sudden decision to step down at least until tomorrow. in a statement he said he wants to spend more time with his family. his retirement will be effective on august 1st. he is one of the longest serving commissioners in the city's. during his tenure the city has seen big drops in violent crime, mainly the homicide rate that last year was at its lowest rate in years. he brought in the gun offender legislation industry and changed the focus to going after the most violent offenders and gun crimes. the mayor's office is a nouned a national search process for his replacement. he hasn't talked