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conspiracy to distribute schedule two narcotics. agents raided it just off the beltway. they believe that the two operated out of the facility on york road according to affidavits filed for the warrant the clinic has been seeing about 80 a day. records were show patients paida as much as $350 a visit. they were give endangerrous narcotics. donna summer has passed away. she died in her florida home. she gained popularity during the 70s with hits like last dance and bad girl. she won five grammies during her career. she released her last album in 2008. sheriff's office has new tools to help them fight crime. don harrison went along for the ride today for a different perspective of law enforcement.
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>> reporter: this is not a helicopter but looks like one. it's a gyro plane. it has all the advantages and more of ñ-a helicopter. >> we like to say it can do 90% at 10% the cost. >> reporter: that's what they say, they supply the air crafts to the police, because ñnof a federal grab grant. they have many advantages mainly the cost. a larger sized would cost about four million dollars. this one with the camera surveillance system cost about 100,000. >> a normal helicopter can cost between a thousand to $3,000 an hour to operate. this is -- it costs about $25 an hour. >> reporter: those lower costs make it feasible to fly more and longer missions, it's a perfect fit. >> we think of maryland as a populated state but it's a rural state. have you big city surrounded by
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rural areas and thoslack the resources that are needed by some of the -- by law. >> reporter: this small plane can cover quite an area. >> you can cover the entire eastern shore twice without having to land before getting fuel. >> reporter: phil fly this is for the sheriff's office. he has flown larger ones for the county but he really likes flying these. >> i compare it to a little small, german sports car. >> we can see a lost detail that can't be seen from the grown. they hope to have other air craft available to them in the near future from ismail plane down to a powered parachute. >> reporter: all right. how do you get a ride on that? that looks like a real good çk
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time. the radar, crystal clear, we are dry, sunny as you go from the state capitol, toward the lower eastern shore. you will find more cloud cover. further south and east. i know you are dealing the clouds and most us are not. look at the temperatures, low and mid-70s. rest of the evening temperatures, slowly falling through the 70's. just a few clouds mainly to the east. how it'll change with this coastal disturbance. >> bobby kennedy june you're's former wife was found dead yesterday. tonight we know mary cook took her own life. tj with more. >> reporter: the family had
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another tragedy wednesday when the estranged wife of bobby kennedy junior was found in her garage. sources say she took her own life and today the west chester county medical examer ruled to be hanging. >> astound ised, shocked, couldn't believe it. >> reporter: medicare ary richardson married in 1994. she was a successful architect. the family released a statement saying she was a genius at friendship, a gifted architect - and a pioneer saying she inspired the family with her kindness, love and spirit. >> i think i really feel badly for her children. >> reporter: those children range from 11 to 18. their father filed for divorce in 2010. it was never finalized but mary struggled with drugs and
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alcohol and was charged with dui that same year. she was also reportedly depressed over financial issues. >> heard -- they weren't get agriculture long. sorry to hear they passed away. >> reporter: the loss of another sad chapter for the family when saw the assassinations of robert kennedy and john f kennedy and shortly after jfk's son died in a plane crash in 1999 a an author redirect that they are cursed. >> they don't have everything, one of the things they don't have is control over their destiny. >> reporter: an autopsy will be preformed today. >> remember the commercials for the shamwow and snugy? john shows us why the çk government is not laughing so you don't waste your money.
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>> reporter: remember when they were fun to watch? then billy mace died and [inaudible]. now they are not as enjoyable and worst ftc is pulling the plug on some of them. the golden age may be over. >> ñ-billy mace. >> reporter: we used to get a kick out of billy mays and some of his products worked well. in recent years more have pitched easy ways to wealth. the green millionaire showing how to put in solar panels and pay no electric bills, remember the smiling people in john beck's free and clear real estate system who got rich buy and flipping houses in you won't see them anymore ñnbecaus the ftc shut them down. from the doesn't that stink file paying more subpoena more money to a get rich quick commercial that drains your
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walt. the ftc won a settlement saying everybody who got the john beck system lost money. they also said the green millionaire, led to an 89 dollar yearly subscription. the one thing the two had, both claimed you could get something for almost nothing. now getting rich quick was that would ñ-do it. you may want tostication with the shamwow so you don't waste your money. >> you know those unlimited down loads on your smart phone, they are about to go away. verizon making changes to have you digging deepener to the wallet. what they are and when they will take effect. >> the numbers are out and the bucks are big. more on how this is shaping up to be one expensive presidential race. ♪
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with a formula that feels dry. not greasy. off! deep woods dry. keeps bugs off! s.c. johnson. . >> a bike thief in oklahoma broke through the window of a bike shop. he can be ñnseen taking a bike but it went south. just outside the shop the man
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wiped out and did a face plant on the asphalt. stunned he would bels to his feet and hesitates to get back on the bike. >> he gets up, i can only assume the chain fell off so he is trying to fix that and then he just gives up and walks. >> we are watching, see nothing and then suddenly when we see that i mean we were high fiving. >> the owner now hopes the video hopes police catch the three who left with the busted bike behind. a horse rescued at sea near southern california after it ran away from a photograph shoot. something spooked it and he broke away from his handler, rescuers found him after he swam two miles in to the channel. they hooked him to a boat, floats underneath him to keep his head up and pulled him to ñn land. he was taken to a clinic and released back to his owner. in switzerland they are cleaning ñnup after this
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landslide. it happened over the course of several hours, rocks slid down the hill and into the valley before. fortunately much of the debris landed near an industrial area and no buildings were reported damaged. you know we all want to eat healthy. it seems like all the fruits cost more than the cookies and ice cream. not so. u.s.d.a. put that line of thinking to the test. we will expain. and coffee lovers may have found the fountain of youth. with that morning cup may help you live longer.
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. >> you want to ñ-eat hepvqhy b think it's to expensive. a new study says that's not true. researchers looked at foods three weighs, the price for
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calories per edible gram and per average portion. it shows that carrots, onions, pindo bean are all cheaper for portion than ice cream, pork chops and ground beef. foods rich in protein and food high in fat, sugars and is the jump were all more expensive than fruits, vegetables, dairy and grains. in our medical minute we have good news if you like coffee, it seems it may help you live longer. here is tim though think johnson. >> reporter: it may be a good reason to get another cup. researchers for the national cancer institute studied 400,000 adults, between 50 and 71 years old. they found that those who drank three or for cups of coffee a day have approximately a 10% lower risk of death than noncoffee drink drinkers, those
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who drink coffee are less likely to die from heart disease, breathing seize disease, stroke and diabetes. doctors don't know what provides the benefits but it was similar with regular and decaf. even without the buzz, you may still have a good reason to brew yourself another pot. with this medical minute, i'm timothy johnson. >> our good morning maryland crew is desperate for their morning cup of joe. they have been on calfe withdrawal since their old coffee maker broke down. now they are lobbying for a new one and you can help them. just head to their facebook pages and click like. the boss said when they reach a combined new one thousand fans they will get the coffee maker and we can all enjoy it. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate.
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>> little inside secret from the weather office, lynette doesn't drink coffee, she is caffeinated ñ-çknaturally. 75, humidity low and winds northeast around ten. refreshingly cool north breeze all day. dry humidity, blue skies, loving that. how, as we go further south and east there ñnhas been more clou cover, still not a bad day but extra cloud cover here and where we saw the most further south and east toward ocean city hard to find much sun here. there is a coastal storm down off the carolina's, it's spinning clouds up the coast did in the direction of the weatherbug camera at the beach. more on that in a second how it may impact the second half of the weekend. for temperature wise -- upper 60's toward york, refreshing.
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we will miss it in another month when the humidity is high. take a look at the pattern, winds from the northeast. that's a cool and dry breeze for us, here is the look at the overall set up. extra cloud over to the south and east. this coastal system it's a large one and starting to spit a few clouds up toward the shall half of maryland. chesapeake west, sunny, looking good. showers, down off the carolina coast. this system will bear watching all weekend. right now the best estimate is that this will slowly churn off the carolina coast and kind of just sit out here and spin off the maryland coast until at least sunday. it's a change to the forecast -- dry air for now. cold front hoping push it south for now. keep it at bay and optimistic it'll hold through the race day
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saturday. you can see the trend shows that kind of starting to spin off the carolina coast. we are dry as a bone for friday. in saturday it starts to go back in off the atlantic, starting to bring clouds our way so we could see partly cloudy skies and the chance for showers, that line of rain into sunday. now the closest rain down south. here we go overnight. 77. this is a great looking day for the race. tomorrow night down to 48 with a to you clouds and the seven day forecast as we look ahead you can see the trend here is for -- more of the same really. i do think we will see more clouds by saturday afternoon. still generally a dry day. it's sunday where we çkcould start to ñnseashores coming in off the coast and that could persist into ñ-monday ñ-and tuesday.
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looks like the key activity for the race, but we will kind of just get them in. that's good. >> we will take it. >> thank you. >> now to the campaign n is shaping up to be the most expensive campaign in history with both sides bringing up the campaign cash. >> reporter: millions and the fundraising gap looks like it may be closing. this week the campaign announced it brought in $43.6 million in the month of april alone. for them that is down from march. also when we talk about the romney campaign they announced they raised just over $40 million last month back in march romney was competing
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santorum, gingrich and ron paul for donors. to put it all in perspective, for you give you comparison, back in 2008 obama's campaign ended up raising about $750 million by the looks ñ-of the numbers though which i just guay you we could be on the way there. >> in addition to the campaign dollars we have the well funded super pacs and adds as well president the obama campaign apparently raising issue was a recent one. >> reporter: the pacs are adding the whole new element to the race and obama's campaign has problem was an ad. it's from a super p ac co founded by carl rove. >> agenda promised so much. >> we must help the millions offers facing foreclosure. >> promise broken. one in five mortgages are still under water.
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> the they say he failed the people when it comes to housing. today the obama campaign responded going after rove. >> because of the president's policies and the effort he set many motion over 5.9 million were able to change çktheir mortgages, avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes. carl rove is relying on you doing nothing to call out his bs and i know will prove him ñ- wrong. >> reporter: çkthat goes çkon f about three minutes and what it does is try to disprove everything from the previous ad but çkyou know as well as i do this day and age ñ-of super pac there is a lot more back and forth. >> okay i was going to say stay for that live report. . >> coming up new at six what would you do if you opened up the water bill and it was four times as much as normal? what people in one neighborhood say is going on and what the city is doing. and we need them to power a
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lot of things, but they could be putting our children's lives at risk. what you need to know about the dangers of button batteries, those and more coming up new for you at six. here a preview of world news at 6:30. here is diane say year. >> coming up, sun screen, it was supposed to change the label to protect everybody in the sun but did they? a big reality check tonight. before you head out into the sun watch world news. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone likes a bit of order in their life. virtual wallet helps you get it. keep track of spending, move money with a slide, and use the calendar. all to see your money how you want. ♪
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how you want. until i had the shingles. i have never encountered such a burning sensation... it was like a red rash. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. it's something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com . >> you may want to think twice before down loading more apps. verizon apparently is making changes to its data plans and
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they will cost you more. still using verizon to power your smart phone in your data may be running out. verizon is getting rid of unlimited plans. last summer the company stopped offering unlimited at a wireless conference they announced plans to ditch unlimited data entirely. that means beginning summer when current customers with unlimited data plans go to upgrade their phones, they will be forced in to a tiered data plan. sprint now is the only carry to offer unlimited plans, its major ñncompanies are rushing t generate more revenue because their costs rising, verizon is moving to a 4g network to keep up with demand. it'll make phones faster but costs more money. verizon is turning to customers to help pay for it but don't cancel the service because there may be an upside.
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lue be able to share it with family members and with different devices so if you have a ñ-phone and tablet you c put them both on one plan. no pricing details available yet. we will find more ñ-this summer >> on the biggest horse racing weekend in maryland they are so much more. >> now abc 2news at six. >> all been complaining and -- every single person that complained has -- said on -- that this is outrageous. >> what some say is happening their happening water bill. and the winning preakness horse will have a blanket over its shoulder, how

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