. now,abc 2news at 5:30. >> getting you up to the minute. a morgan state student accused of killing his roommate and eating his heart and part of his brain. student disappeared last friday but his roommate became a suspect when his brother found what he thought were human remains in the family basement. detectives searched and found body parts there and also in a nearby dumpster. right now baltimore county police are questioning a man seen holding a gun near the campus of unbc.

they got the call from a student who said's man she knew showed her a hand gun. police blocked off the area and searched. they found the gun but not the gunman right away. they are talking to him now but haven't arrested or charges him tonight. this man is in jail accused of taking pictures of young boys using the bathroom. brian williams took video and pictures of 11 children hughes the rest room at the maryland house and chesapeake house. a witness called police after seeing him take a picture of a young boy. they are now looking for other victims and witnesses. the man wanted in connection with a murder in parkville turned himself in. investigators say he killed darryl augustus inside an

apartment. he then drove it to essex and set it on fire. it's believed it was -- this is the wrong video -- this is the young man who was killed in ocean city. today they gathered to remember the student. he was hit and killed by a suspected hit and run driver. the mass and burial will about held tomorrow. the man suspected in the crash is in jail after having his bail revoked. he is scheduled to appear in court on july 5th. new, tonight. deciding how much soda is to much. new york city's mayor is pushing to ban big sugar are you drinks, it's his newest attempt to get a handle on the obesity rate.

reaction from both sides of this proposal. >> reporter: yeah. people are fired up. if the mayor has his way sugary drinks bigger than 16-ounce, this size would be ill legal for sale. the joy of buying a way to big, i can't finish this drink could be a thing of the past if the new york mayor gets his wait a minute he wants to ban soft drinks bigger than 16-ounce sold at places like delis restaurants, even theaters. it's his latest weapon in the fight against obesitn and it's on the heels of another decision, the fda shot down a petition to rename high fructose just corn sugar. the agency said the fda is already spent millions promoting the first name and a change would consume people and could pose a health ring to anyone with allergies. >> it's never a good thing it.

everything in moderation. it's a good idea to promote. >> reporter: still some think it's the wrong way. >> if you have one 20-ounce soda a day and you cut that out you can loose 25 pounds a year but have you to want to do and i don't think this ban is going to make people want to change their behavior. >> i don't think it's his job to decide what soft drink that people anywhere in the world want to buy. >> reporter: the mayor isn't banning every big drink, larger sizes of water, milk, fruit juice, diet soda will be allowed. abc 2news. >> thank you. haven't heard the last of that one. a warning for pants tonight if you have a child there are some items at home you that may not have thought of that need to be stashed. make sure you keep the mouth wash, facial cleanser and per fumes in a safe place because of the alcohol content and always lock up your pills, even vitamins. >> lots of pills can look just

like candy, the offender is iron pills that look like mxm's and kids can swallow a lot. that can cause death. >> reporter: doctors suggest watching your kid's parties so they don't get into alcoholic drinks that maybe adults have left behind. >> we had a beautiful day. got rid of the humidity for one day. temperatures made it into the 80's. sitting pretty. that northerly wind bringing in the dry air at six miamis an hour. we will start to switch that into tonight. 84 the official high, 78 the normal. we right about 6 degrees. take a look at the evening forecast. for tonight. 70s, widespread 70s through the evening. mostly clear and a comfortable evening. we are watching several storms now, out toward the west. you can see that developing showers and gusty storms, this

will be interacting with humid air for tomorrow and that will produce the potential of severe weather across baltimore. we will talk more about that and the details of the storms coming up. >> thank you. it was a historic mission, today space x became the first private company to send a cargo ship to the international space station. it brought supplies to the station and is returning with old equipment. it splashed down into the pacific ocean just west of baja california. karen has the latest on this major turning point for nasa. >> reporter: call it one giant step for private space exploration. >> spent five-days, 16 hours and five minutes attached to the international space station. >> reporter: it left the space station for its return to earth this morning. >> it is free from the station. the crew back away the arm

official time 4:49 a.m. central time. >> reporter: the blurry images show it on its way to splash down in the pacific ocean about six hours later. it was a historic mission, one that marked a major turning point for nasa. it was the first private cargo ship to reach the space station. it carried up roughly 1200 pounds of food and supplies and it's coming back to earth with about 1400 pounds of old space station equip comment samples. it's a dream of a billion area who made his fortune with the internet company pay pal. he is one of the handful of private business people aiming for the stars. >> more like it's the dawn of a new era. . >> reporter: the agency turned to private businesses to take over the routine runs. it paid space x $400 million to two launches. >> they now are going to be mainly responsible for building and operates and we will buy

the service from them. >> reporter: eventually they hope to use private companies to transport astronauts in to space. the next supply trip is scheduled for september. abc news washington. >> scary moments in minnesota after a truck crashes right through a bar and of course it's caught on tape. what police believe caused the driver to slam into the bar. and it's tough to find a job in this economy but hundreds want to hire you, take a look at job openings coming up. ♪

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. it's a typical day at a neighborhood bar in minnesota until this happened. a truck slams through -- there we go. slams through the wall and into the bar. a camera captures all the chaos that follows. the owner's son used a bobcat from the parking lot to help free some of the people pinned against the bar. at least five were taken to the hospital. it would have the customers were seriously hurt. the driver suffered some sort of medical condition moments before the crash happened. a man in trouble for driving a lawn mower while drunk. an officer saw him on the road in jackson. the police dash camera video

shows him motions for the cruiser to just go around him. the officer followed him into a walgreens parking lot. a breath test showed he had a blood alcohol level of two times the legal limit. he said he had no idea that he couldn't drive a lawn mower on the street this is his 4th drunk driving charge. how you like your popcorn? check out these flames at uncle mark's popcorn warehouse in kentucky. the flames could be seen for miles and is expected to be smoky for days. apparently people living nearby had to be evacuated. according to investigators children set a small fire behind the factory and it spread. not such a good idea. we will be right back.

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during the summer tend to spend more time on the roadways. a new study finds a promising trend when it comes to teens and crashes but there is still more work to be done. >> reporter: as school lets out teens have more time to drive or learn how. the good news the chansons site for highway safety said the number of teen drivers in deadly accidents has decreased. >> dramatic reduction in teen f atal crash rates and we think the biggest factor is safe driving laws. >> reporter: new research finds more than 500 additional lives could be saved in almost ten thousand collisions averted if all states strengthened teen licensing laws by adopting five standards that would make teens wait longer to get their licenses and place restrictions on new drivers including a

minimum permit age of 16. at least 65 practice hours, a minimum license age of 17, a night driving restriction starting at eight and a ban on teen passengers. regardless of state guidelines they say parents need to look at if their teen is ready to country. . >> parents didn't often understand how much power they have in the situation. they really make all the important decisions. >> reporter: abc 2news. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> we had a great indictment take a look at annapolis. just a beautiful day. that deep blue sky. low humidity. sun and temperature near 80. it was like a july afternoon. look at the harbor shot. again a lot of traffic in the harbor this afternoon with the sun and a few clouds, here is what's going on.

the weatherbug temperatures and most spots in to 80s. temperatures uniformly into the upper 70's to around 80 degrees. just a beautiful shot on harbor camera. 82 at bwi. you can see the bone dry humidity at 31%, that's because of that northerly wind. we will start to switch the winds out of the southerly direction and that will bring in humidity later tonight. 82 in the city. the warmer spotsa ronde dc and those dew point values, measure the amount of moisture in to the 40s but climbing in to the overnight. here is the planner hour by hour. pair -- 67 around 11. could be a spot shower tomorrow and then a better shot ever gusty thunderstorms sloping tomorrow afternoon. not a drop to be found but as we go into the south and west you find very rough weather along the mississippi river going toward the ohio valley. severe thunderstorm watches, tornado watches, warnings, just

a mess of weather toward the west of us and this is has to come through the area into tomorrow afternoon. again it's a dynamic pattern the we see these types in the fall with cold air out of the northern plains, warm sticky air from the gulf and that clash of air masses going to produce severe weather tomorrow. storm prediction centers along much of the state seeing dangerous lightning, hail, strong gusty winds and there could be a isolated tornado threat. we will have to watch that going into tomorrow morning and afternoon as the best threat friday evening going into friday night. here is the future trend. a clear sky for the rest of the overnight. temperatures in to the 70s. into the 60's. could be a couple spotty showers south and west of town and as we advance the timeline look at the heavy rain, right around ten, 11:00 as we talk to you it'll be a rough next 24 hours before we kick it off shower into saturday. here is the forecast for this evening. just a beautiful evening.

mostly clear, comfortable evening and into the overnight same deal, increasing cloud from the southern zone to the northern zone. a cooler night at 63 and 82 for tomorrow. that's the two degree guarantee with the gusty storms across the area. here is the seven day forecast and again it'll be -- a forecast that will show us 70s and we will pop that back up. 70's back on the boards in to the weekend with clearing skies, but just a little unsettled into sunday and monday. temperature of around 80. >> all right. thank you. now to the campaign, on the trail today we heard news conferences with each campaign going after the other. we are live from washington tonighto and last week the democrats focused on romney's time, what are we starting off with this week? >> reporter: so the obama team traveled to romney's home turf to question his record as the former governor of

massachusetts. this is really quite the event because there were supporters from both sides of the aisle there. set against the backdrop of the massachusetts state house, the white house revealed a fresh round of attacks on it's november opponent. >> under the governor the state was 47th in job creation, 4th from the bottom. romney economics didn't work then and won't work now. >> reporter: the news conference coincide was a new add from the obama campaign calling on friendly voices inside the state. >> romney was not an effective leader in massachusetts and the proof is in the pudding. >> i worked only under republican governors and worked well with all of the others. >> reporter: romney was quick to hit back. >> the president fails to understand the basic nature of free enterprise in america. >> reporter: he brought reporters to the closed

headquarters of slyndrea, it's a failed energy company that got over $500 million in government loans from the obama administration. >> took a half billion dollars of taxpayer money and devoted to a enterprise that was owned in large measure by his campaign contributors. >> reporter: the lead up was unusual. romney's campaign kept the location secret saying they didn't want the obama administration to stop them from staging this event in any way. the bottom line is today you have both of them digging up dirt from the past and we will have to see if that work was voters as many of them want to know about the future, not necessarily the past. >> and new poll numbers out and things may be closer than we think in some states. >> reporter: very close. especially in three states, this is a new poll out. nevada, you take a look and see

the president has a 2% lead over romney. we move to the next state to colorado, all of the sudden that lead goes down to 1% for the president and then finally we will end in iowa. both candidates at 44%. we talk about key swing states, considering them you go back eight years the president won all three, four years later become won them all, those are the swing states. >> all in the margin of error. thank you. no also a key part of the law banning federal recognition of same sex marriage has been struck down as unconstitutional by a united states appeals court. the defense of marriage act defines marriage as union between a man and woman. at issue whether the government can deny tax, health and pensions to same sex couples in states where they can legally marry. the court said the law

discriminates against same sex couples, the court noted it may be up to the supreme court to make the final ruling. >> coming up, we will have more on the disturbing new details a missing person's case that's turned in to a murder investigation. it's now national news. we are live in edgewood. and students in and out of state attending a school at the university of maryland are not going to be happy. the details on a new round of tuition hikes just approved by the board. those and more coming up all new for you tonight at six.

. some big companies are doing their part to put americans back to work. allison tells you about a handle of companies that are be log to fill thousands of open positions. >> reporter: ten companies, 26 how positions and one big sign that the labor market is gaining traction. career builder is out with a list of large companies that need workers, at the top of the list first transit. they plan to hire 10,000 mostly bus drivers, then a bank, wells fargo has 4500 openings. third on the list, community health systems, which is a big health care services provider. it has 4,000 spots open in nursing, pt, it. >> reporter: . they show some companies getting more

confident and that job seekers are getting more options. we are not totally on stable ground yet. friday's jobs will -- and will predict the united states economy added 150,000 jobs in may and the unemployment rate is expected to stay at 8.1%. >> now we all know someone who has battled canner lived. a look at how you can celebrate this weekend. that's on the news at six that starts right now. >> now abc 2news at six. >> police say a morgan state university student killed a man, cut him up and then ate part of him. i will have a live report. >> and a man showed off a gun on the unbc campus. we will have the latest.