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was in this shop. he's the best detailer in town. an hour ago help went into detail of how he survived. >> i'm recovering in shock trauma. i got a steel rod in my leg. i broke my leg and my arm -- i popped out a socket. they put it back. i hope i don't have to get surgery and get it back in. >> reporter: all right. he also went into detail he's going to go into retail because he has to learn how to walk all over. i'm going to bring in joce sterman. you were there on friday. everywhere you looked. >> we could spend all day going up and down route one looking at
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business. when we turned on to 152, there was not a single business that didn't have a sign of the tornado that went through. an entire swath of trees was knocked down. now the storm knocked down fences, trees and even a few local businesses toppling under its strength. in all three people were hurt during the tornado, two at the auto body shop jamie has been talking about where they said a 2500 wall collapsed. business were feeling the impact, although not as severe. some of them the roofs were torn off sending the rain into their offices and homes. it ruined the walls, carpet. many have major construction projects ahead. the people are shocked they have to deal with a huge mess. >> as i got closer to the building, i realized the roof was gone and we have something
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major to deal with. >> it's an act of god. you have to take it the way it is. >> reporter: and the damage from this incident, we're not sure how widespread it is in terms of money. just that fallston complex, the repairs could be as much as $500,000 and that's just one little section of fallston. up and down this strip you can see where the tornado went through creating a ton of damage. the insurance adjust teres -- adjustors, people come out. we'll find or the much more about the actual totals and i'm sure, jamie, it's going to be a woulding total. >> how far down route one would you say. i'd say a couple miles north of kingsville. you start seeing the trees and the damage. >> it was obvious. this was like someone flicked a
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switch and said start here and done again. it's amazing that it dropped. amazing stuff. >> i want to tell you a little bit about bge. bge is in there. the crews continued their work mainly in the pleasant hills area. they're working across the state. nearly 800 employees worked to restore power to more than 24,000 customers. and the mobile operations center help people to help customers. we're at country life farms where the great cigar was born. a lot of horses knew it was coming before us humans do. kelly? >> look at some of the video, some of the damage. it's amazing we didn't see
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anymore injuries. >> reporter: he said, and i'll play it later, 3500 pounds came crashing down on him. had it in the been some of the people that were working that day to lift that heavy weight off of him, we would have a different story in fallston. look at all the metal, the concrete wall. that's part of what fell on keith matthews. >> we'll check back with you in a little bit. now we'll go to carroll county where the weather weather confirmed two tornadoes touched down, one leaving behind a four mile stretch, broken trees, damaged homes. brian kuebler has more on how that area is trying to rebuild. >> reporter: it's hurricane season. it is rare to see the type of tornado outbreak we saw friday, rarer still to be some of the
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few people impacted by it. they are the sounds of frustrations -- chain saws, grinders. >> yes, of course, it did. he couldn't have gone over there where there were no trees. >> reporter: tend was parts of those trees just between -- and it was parts of those trees just between the two houses. the parade of tree specialists, roofers and contractors have been marching through here for three days with maybe as much gusto as a tornado itself. >> things can be fixed, a place to live. they'll be fixed and we'll go on. >> reporter: but go on following the four mile path and you begin to see for some it won't be all that easy. >> you can see the sky and it's
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pouring down rain and it's coming in buckets. it's like oh, my god. >> reporter: carroll said she was historical when it happened. you would be, too, if you found this in your master bedroom. the damage is severe. look no further than the massive crane they had to call in to remove the debris. this family will be out of this home for six months, maybe a year before it's repaired. many will have a much longer route on the road to recovery. how does it feel? >> awful, can't sleep. just terrible. >> reporter: is this your dream home? >> yes. >> reporter: in carroll county, the national weather service said there were two tornadoes, one that lasted four miles in and around gam ber and one in
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mt. airy. officials confirmed reports of other wind damage and flooding. >> you guys have sent in great pictures of the storm and some of the damage it left behind. we put together in a slide show on our website. let's check in with meteorologist mike masco after a very, very busy weekend. we even had a busy night. right now not bad. temperatures are in the 70s, 73 right now, at least your high is 73 this afternoon at bwi. the real story has been the winds out of the northwesterly directions, drying winds. again, some spots pick up between 20 to 25-mile-an-hour wind gusts. the good news is maryland's most powerful it's dry overhead.
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scrat ton back to altoona, gust showers -- gusty showers. so the rest of the forecast, a few scattered showers, mostly cloudy with temperatures right around 70 to 74 degrees. we'll seat temperatures fall back into the 50s for tonight. we have 90s on the seven-day forecast. i'll show you that coming up in a little bit. a man woke up behind bars this morning and he could be there for awhile. the man charged with murdering trayvon martin turned himself in yesterday. a judge ordered him back to jail after court records showed that zimmerman and his wife tried to cover up exactly how much money they had. >> reporter: this time this wasn't in the dark of night, george zimmerman now accused of
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trying to hide passports and money -- >> george, why did you lie about the money? >> reporter: a judge revoked his bond. now the neighborhood watch volunteer spent the night in a place help wanted to avoid, a solitary nine by seven foot cell. >> help didn't like it while he was there. he's frustrated by the process that he has to in his mind prove his own innocence. >> reporter: zimmerman isn't the only one us from straight. the judge found zimmerman and his wife shelly, at best, misled the court during the april bond hearing. at the time he had access to $135,000 in carchlt the lawyer described him as broke. >> unfortunately, this is a family of very short means.
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>> reporter: prosecutors said taped conversations caught him talking in code, $155 when they really had $155,000. >> he would say he didn't lie. this is one of those unique situations where what the judge thinks about you is important. >> reporter: zimmerman's lawyer will ask the judge to grant bail again. if that doesn't happen, zimmerman could spend two years behind bars waiting for the trial to start. coming up, a disease that touches every family. a possible break through that could treat the way we -- affect the way we treat breast cancer. facebook is always creating controversy. the latest on the social media giant's plan. it is a pickup day on this
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nearly all of us have had our lives touched by cancer, but there's new information on the disease. >> reporter: the drugs will kill the drug while leaving healthy cells. the battle against breast cancer can be debilitating and is sometimes deadly but new smarter drugs can soon be added to the arsenal. it's added immunothey are i. it tricks the cancer into killing itself. >> it really like a heat seek missile with a toxic pay load, travels all over the body until it meets the cancer cell and lets off a toxic dose to kill
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off the cancer without damaging the rest. >> reporter: during a study of 1,000 women giving the two new cocktails, half were able to get their cancers under control. 30% of the patients given one of those cocktails, showed -- they saw their risk of dying reduced 38% compared to those taking conventional drugs. it's being called a game changer, dream drug that's already saving lifers. maureen o'grady's stage four lung cancer all but disappeared. >> it extended my life. >> reporter: 20-year-old bridget is cancer free after a seven-year battle against breast cancer. >> every day i get up and go to work and dream about celebrating my 30th birthday and one day
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living in a world that we're free of breast cancer. >> reporter: the drugs will not be available until next year but experts say talk to your oncologist about whether you're eligible for clinical trials. jeff hague are, abc2 news. what a weekend. the sky looked kind of ominous today. >> only min nussments -- ominous. a lot of people are nervous about the situation. a lot of cold air is aloft. it's a weird looking skyline, but not a funnel cloud. let's look at time plaps -- lapse photography. the skies at times looking threatening. we had those gusty northwesterly
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winds making those temperatures settle into the low and middle 70s. you can see a few clouds, still looking busy and dry. that's the good news. take a look at the other time lapse showing the clouds coming in. so just a weird afternoon, but certainly dry for right now. that is subject to change. take a look outside our studios. 68 degrees. 70 down toward glen burnie and annapolis. temperatures uniformly into the 60s to around 70. 71 at bwi, still a relatively dry atmosphere. we're below average. 73 so far. 74 for the high. we'll see if we can hit that. 71 in the city, warmer toward the south and the east with more sunshine. washington checking in at 74 degrees. so that northwesterly wind, that's that drying wind. we had a few gusts between 20 to
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25 miles an hour. it will reflect gusty winds and showers. 8:00 right around 69. 60 around 11:00 and around 2:00, 3:00, 56 degrees waking back up to our temperature of 61 degrees. here's maryland's most powerful. we go up north. we have a band of showers, just a very unstable atmosphere aloft, high aloft. that's what's triggering the showers. this will be pivoting from north to south. we will see showers entering the picture after 6:00 going through the rest of the evening. it will go to the north. that will keep us unsettled, the clouds, cool conditions before we break out of this. we'll also keep the chance of breezy conditions into play. the low is keeping temperatures in the 50s to 60s. the real heat back down to the south and west, we will touch
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upon this. 90s and 100 degrees. so we'll start to warm up across the area. future trend showing scattered showers across the area, same deal for tomorrow with a temperature around 70 to 5 and the trend on wednesday shows more in the way of sunshine that allows for temperatures to get into the middle and upper 70s but the outside threat is out there. the rest of the evening we're talking 70 to 75. so our northern zones, carroll county, baltimore county, you'll see some first. everyone will get wet. 72 degrees. that will take us into tomorrow night with scattered showers out there. so 72 tomorrow. 75 on wednesday with a scattered shower or stoarmt we have to keep -- storm. we have to keep the scattered showers going into friday.
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friday 70s into 80, maybe 90 by sunday. a local program called it takes a village is changing the lives of some youth. it takes a hands on approach on servicing schools, family and the community. sherrie johnson explains how the program is making a difference. >> reporter: many of us have heard the african proverb it takes a village to raise a child. that's the goal at this middle school program. the program it take has village teamed up with the school in park heights community to sport youth. >> well, we believe in the adage it takes a village to raise a child. we were know students can't be successful if there are difficulties at home if families are having problems, if their communities are falling apart. >> reporter: the afterschool program is open to students in third through fifth grade monday through friday and provides help
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with homework and tutors. they learn how to cook and play drums and a dance routine. there's plenty to keep them busy. >> dodge ball, bingo, play games and have fun. >> reporter: despite the fact that some students come from challenging backgrounds in the park heights community, educators want students to dream big and achieve their goals. >> it's so important because as the economy goes on, there's some resources that are closing to our students, the recreation centers. it's important that we have a group that's r -- reaching out. >> reporter: they're hoping to make their big dreams become reality. >> since the program began they have seen an improvement in
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new study shows that many women aren't meeting their own breast feeding goa. the study finds most new moms want to breast feed for at least three months but less than a third actual di do. the american academy of pediatrics recommend that mothers feed their babies breast milk for the first six months. this time of the year again when families start planning that summer vacation. well it will be a rental home, camping. whichever way you decide to lay your head, you'll want to avoid these -- bed bugs. they're reddish brown in color and very, very sma. bites from bed bugs usually show up like a small red mark on the face or body. when you arrive, make sure you check the creases of mattresses and sheets and look for blood spots from a dead bug and check
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the drawers if you're staying in a hotel. if you see them, notify the people right away. abc2news.com is the place for all the health news you need. coming up, people all over our area spent most of the weekend outside picking up the pieces from friday's -- tornado outbreak. >> jamie costello is live. we'll hear from him. facebook is looking for younger friends, how they will allow kids under the age of 13 to log on. >> and lost in the storm shuffle from friday, a very disappointing jobs report, how the president is trying to put a positive spin on things when we come back.
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