got a call about a couple having sex parked on the second floor of the no -- noah hill parking garage. when police arrived, giordano and carroll ann bock were naked. police say they were laying on a siege mattress. quickly tried to cover up when officers knocked on the window. both were charged with indecent exposure. jamie costello, abc2 news. last night we brought you the story of a middle river church that had several large windows busted out after being hit by vandals. the church's prayers have been answered. brian cube learn joins to us ex-- kuebler joins us to explain. >> reporter: the windows were smashed and broken out. while the church still works on an estimate and police work to solve who did it one company is helping the only way it knows

how. while there's been different incarnations of the physical building, the orem's predates this. today they're getting a maryland dearn upgrade -- modern upgrade. there will be state of the art surveillance cameras, all in the hopes of catching vandals. >> i think it's ludicrous for someone to come in here and damage a church. this is god's home. i'm speechless. >> reporter: which is fine for james burns. it's not his words that matter. it's his actions. installing the cameras and the security system free of charge.

neither have a connection to orems united methodist, just the belief it's the right thing to do. >> i'm pretty much thinking of how it makes others feel. >> i just want to thank everybody. it's a blessing to have great people around us. >> reporter: great people to answer big prayers. don sheening said the vandalism goes back a year. more windows were broken last month and last year. someone stole the air conditioning units. these cameras and the man who chose to donate them is a blessing. >> we don't no why someone would do this, but the congregation is praying. we would welcome them with open arms. >> reporter: a standing invitation from the more than two century old church. police may feel differently. they said thir investigation is

-- their investigation is ongoing and they're working leads to find out who did that damage. the mother accused of stabbing a baby inside a department of social services building has been denighted by a gfnlgt ken knee sha thomas has been charged for attacking her 8-month-old daughter, pretty diamond, with a knife back in ay. according to the charging documents thomas complained about her baby's care. when the supervised visit to social services was over she put the baby on a table and started stabbing her with a kitchen knife. officer teresa rigby has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit. rigby filed the lawsuit against the driver robert vanderford and the owner. the lawsuit claims that vanderford caused the crash after speeding to pass a

vehicle. rigby is speaking $15 million in damages. finding a couple of hit and miss showers, west of frederick into far western maryland, not much for baltimore nor the eastern shore, though clouds have been thick for the day. storms flaring well out to the west. we're getting clearing. temperatures bouncing upward. all it takes is an hour of sunshine. so, yeah, a warm and humid evening on the way. this will be varbly cloudy, humid a little moist out but on the whole a decent quiet night. we'll talk about how hot it meet get by memorial day coming up. one year ago today 161 people were killed when a giant tornado ripped through joplin, missouri. that day ganged joplin --

changed joplin forever. t.j. winick has the story. >> reporter: one year ago today it looked like a bomb had been dropped on joplin, missouri, 161 people were killed when the monster tornado tore across the city. >> normal is not normal in joplin, missouri. >> reporter: joplin high school was one of those buildings reduced to rubble. students went to makeshift classrooms. >> this was the people that mattered. >> reporter: last night at the class of 2012's graduation, president obama returned to celebrate joplin's remarkable recovery. he noted how the city of 50,000 people is reising -- rising again thanks to volunteers. >> the story of joplin isn't just what happened that day.

it's the story of what happened the next day and the day after that and all the days, weeks and months that follow. >> reporter: the storm had more than $2.8 billion in damage. it will take time. graduate claire davidson said she wouldn't change anything about her senior year. >> i wouldn't trade my high school experience with anything else or trade the people because it's been awesome. >> reporter: today's solemn remembrances will be punctuated by a moment of silence at 5:41 p.m., the time the tornado tore through joplin, transforming the city forever. t.j. winick, new york. baltimore gas and electric as already started installing those smart meters in the hear but pop -- area.

both sides faced off at a puck -- public service commissions hearing. >> reporter: bge said it could bring new savings on the bill but opponents say it's not worth the cost. the company plans to replace more than a million of the old analog meters that requires someone to check the meters in the yard. they say ultimately it would save you energy. but opponents say bge is glossing over the relativen known impacts of the replacements. >> people who are going to have these will have huge amounts of radiation coming into their homes. there's potential for fires, medical devices. it will interfere with their privacy. >> reporter: there are plenty of waves from microwave ovens, cordless phones and wi-fi in the

air. they want an option to keep their hold meters, even if it means paying more for them. the company said this can't afford to operate two different systems and neither could its customers. jeff hager. n--- if you get your internet from your cable your access will become more mobile. companies including comcast will open up their combined 50,000 wi -- wi-fi hot spots. customers will be able to that into any hot spots in these locations for free. users can log in under the cable wi-fi. you know, you think you know about the drugs your kids might be tempted with but that's in

the always the case. it's legal but that does not mean it's safe. joce sterman is here to explain. >> reporter: since the start of 2011, more than 200 calls have been made to the maryland poison control about synthetic pot. tonight at 11 we'll introduce you to two local families who discovered the hard way just how big an impact this man made marijuana can have it. is sold legally in maryland. once they take it, experts say it can do deaf stating things to their body. >> you see a child with a great potential, a very sweet kind gentle good looking boy. now he's, you know, looks at you as if -- what do i do? why mi going through this -- am i going through this. >> reporter: tonight at 11 we'll

have a story about a boy who was high on drugs the night he stabbed his mother. well, 'tis the season for fireworks, sparklers and poppers. they're pretty but they could be dangerous. >> you might agree when you see what happened to one teen in anne arundel county. >> a prearchg that could have had a -- prank that could have had a deadly ending. >> it's a miracle this teenager is still alive after he was swept down a 10-foot water fall and river. the dramatic rescue at 5:30.

a father's prank could have ended in tragedy. he picked up his kid, tossed him into the water head firsthand slammed the door. he never expected what happened

next. the machine began to run. the toddler began to tumble inside. luckily an attendant turned off the mfnlt he will have a few bumps and bruises. this is the time of the year we usually show you the exploding watermelons or clothing catching on fire. we know we've seen it a hundred times. we have the story. >> reporter: unfortunately, teenagers zoo always make the right disirks especially with fireworks. last night a 13-year-old boy in ferndale was hurt while playing with one. he found this in the house and took it outside where it exploded in his hand. >> he was ultimately transported to the hand center at union home yal hospital. >> reporter: the chief said the fire work was not purchased in

maryland. >> the device was an illegal fire work. these are not available, legal here in the state of m the whom legal fireworks as per say in the state are ground base sparkling divis or sparklers. >> yes, it does give me concern. >> reporter: kim watts was in the community where the accident happened last night. she has a girl and two boys of her own. she worries about them playing with fireworks. >> i guess this would be more of a by thing, playing with the fireworks, very dangerous. i don't see my daughter doing it. >> reporter: more than 50% of the time in firework accidents, the person involved is under 15, which was the case here. >> chief cox said anyone in recount run will legal fireworks can take them, no questions

asked, to the local fire department, and they will dispose of them. all right. cloudy day and a little bit of sun breaking through as we take a look high atonight inner harbor. temperatures have come up near 80. at the airport cooler. 75. humidity around 70%. so it is muggy. you can see through the day some of our weather in motion. our abc2 hd weather bug camera high atop ccbc. you can sew the key bridge in the hors dishon. conditions are brighter and sunnier, especially late in the afternoon over the chesapeake. we had a cloudy start. eventually the sun is breaking through. you can see the breaks in the

clouds. so some sunshine and some clearing. where's the active weather, the wet weather? that's out to the west, especially west of the hagerstown area. we have heavy downpours in northern virginia. our biggest storms have been here over the virginia beach areas and conditions from heavy, heavy downpours a slow moving system over the virginia beach area. temperatures running warmer than they have in the last hour or two with the sun breaking through. on average we're still in the mid to upper 70s. tomorrow we're back there. humidity about stay high once again tomorrow so a muggy scenario. the active weather south of us and west of us. offshore where we had fairly active weather, not much. alberto, which was once a tropical storm system, you can see it being channeled, so alberto is gone. other than that, we're looking at drier air trying to get. this is sparking rain ahead of it. it's a very slow moving

boundary. eventually it will get in toward the end of the week. we're going to continue to see this sort of sticky condition with hit and miss showers. hit and miss showers overnight. as we go not day tomorrow looks like some clearing. as we go into the heating of the day, some showers could begin to flare up as we work through the afternoon and evening. i think we'll see a similar setup on thursday. we can't rule out chances until friday. overnight 64. mostly cloudy. tomorrow a two-degree guarantee of 78, not that much warmer, maybe two or three degrees. hit and miss showers, not an all day rain but hit and mills showers. as we look at the seven-day forecast, here's the outlook last we go into the memorial day weekend. we'll dry things out and heat things up. as we move toward sunday and monday we'll bring back the chance for a few -- a few hit and miss showers. really, what i think you'll

notice is the heat. we're looking at low 90s in the outlook for the second half of the weekend. this has been two months and they have been working hard to shed some -- some pounds. tonight they will have their weigh in. they're ready to show off their summer bodies. >> reporter: they're getting ready for the final weigh-in coming up in minutes. five years, and it gets better and better. >> they have lost a huge amount of weight. >> reporter: every time on every tuesday we came and shot asy did the weekly weigh-in, you had words of encouragement. >> what we really try to encourage them to realize is there is no finish line. this is the start -- we hope it is the start of a new phase of their life where they will be

committed to a healthy life-style. >> reporter: these are the people supporting these six teams. the contestants are all taking part today. is this not great? >> this is phenomenal. its did take a dream team to reach a goal or a dream, and they've had incredible support from their family, friends and personal trainers. >> reporter: we'll get right to the weigh-in. when we wrap up this live shot, you're going straight to the scales. we'll have interviews with the winners, the final weigh-ins and let you know what they've been doing food wise to keep them going. for right now we're live out in reisterstown pat brick bodies, charlie crowston -- crowson. >> students at the naval academy in annapolis had a vision leak

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excess weight can cause a lot of health problems, but the stuff that people take could be harmful, too. people often turn to supplements. they could be causing damage. scientists looked at more than 100 cases of liver damage and found they had all taken supplements. the most commonly used ones, researchers found the green tea extract which can cause liver damage, was present in most of them but not listed on the labor. a government panel said men should not be getting routine screenings for prostate cancer because the most common test is causing too much unnecessary harm and not saving lives. the task force found the psa test causes everything from fever to infor examples to incontinence to impotence in some men. they are basing it on routine screenings and believe the risks

outweigh the potential benefits. it goes against two decades of officials pushing to use the test. if anyone needs another reason to lose weight, a new study from the cancer research center in seattle found that doctoring a few pounds could lower a women's risk of brain cancer, they saw their estrogen levels doctor along with breast cancer risk. fat tissue reduce the production of estrogen, which can fuel breast tumors. whether we like it or not, it's inevitable. we're all going to die one day. we don't know when or how but if marylanders just owe bait law, we're less likely to die from an energy. and a man throws himself over the edge of niagara falls.

it's an amazing rescue caught on camera. >> reporter: you're looking at brick bodies. who will be the big winner? we'll let you know when abc2 news returns.

we begin with a breaking news update we first told you about on abc2news.com. the maryland man who was at the center of a missing person's case in aruba faces indecent exposure charges in annapolis. gary giordano drew national headlines after he vacationed with robyn gardner in aruba. she was never found. however, giordano spent time in prison but was never charged and later released. annapolis police said friday night someone reported a couple having sex inside a black suv park the in the noah hill parking