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his mother said he was in the wrong place at wrong time. last night an off duty police officer heard a loud noise at his front door and started chasing a group of youth he saw outside. he found 17-year-old christopher brown hiding in bushes onstar brook road and a fight started. police will only say the teen went unconscious and later died. his mother said they told her -- [inaudible] didn't tell her of the death until five hours later. >> my first time hearing about him being behind bushing and them pulling him out and whatever happened after that. all i got was he ran him down and somewhere he lost consciousness and he wasn't able to be brought back. >> reporter: his mother said he and a friend had spotted the group of teens and he was poping them when the officer burst out and gave chase. the teen had tore his acl which she suggests made him the easiest one to chase down.
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with in the last hour the cause of death was ruled homicide . >> a 29-year-old was involved in a stand off with police after an argument with a 21- year-old girlfriend. this happened in the 6400 block of dog wood road. the girlfriend and her sister got away. a developing story out of new york tonight. a nurse is dead and a doctor on the run. jamie is in the studio with the latest. >> reporter: we are told that the two had previously dated. timothy jordon is a prominent doctor, who lured the woman into a stair well and shot her. people who know him say he is the calmest, easiest going
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friendliest guy, people who know the nurse say she was really a good person. here is what heather shipley had to say. she met the doctor and they had talked about jordon and she said the couple had a rocky relationship and that jordon would spy on her after she broke up with him. >> she said if anything ever happened you know that. >> reporter: jordon reportedly had trouble with police in the past including two domestic cases in 2002 that didn't involve this nurse. police say the 49 -year-old-year-old may be armed and dangerous who people say that jordon was a role model for black youth in that city. abc 2news. >> thank you. continuing coverage now on the story we brought you first on good morning maryland. for the second time a deadly car crash by a driver going the wrong way on the interstate. don harrison was the first reporter on the scene this morning and has the details.
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>> looks like two cars there and it was pretty bad. >> reporter: that's the reaction of drivers seeing the deadly car crash a little after 1:30 this morning. police say the 25-year-old kelly witt was driving the wrong way on i-97. . she ran into a 64-year-old killing them both. she was thrown from her vehicle, the other was taken to the hospital where he died this morning. >> really bad. car going the wrong way and another car just -- didn't see it. they just completely smacked in to each other and there is no movement from either car. >> reporter: the roommate said witt was renting a room and worked at a steak house. she said state police woke him up at six and told him act the accident. he didn't know where she was
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last night. in january three teens drove the wrong way down 97 and hit another driver killing him on route 50. >> there is a lot of areas where you can enter onto the wrong way. >> reporter: cindy works nights and she has had cars go by her the wrong way on 97 before. >> lot of times when i'm on the road i have had four times had people come at me on 97, 295, coming the wrong direction. >> reporter: state police don't know if this is a ram many that she used to enter the road going the wrong way. what they do know is this is the ramp that the three teens used to go on 97 for their fatal accident in january. millersville, don harrison. >> state police say there is no evidence of drug or alcohol on the scene. the man pass away at the hospital and police have to wait for blood tests.
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and another deadly crash on 97 killed four in january. police say a teen was driving the wrong way when she hit another car. four people were killed and in that case we are told alcohol was a factor. >> all right. let's start off with a look downtown. crowds are out todayw. he have overcast skies now but temperatures pleasant and obviously the crowds out in force for the celebration as we go in to the big weekend remembering 1812. satellite radar showing cloud cover off the atlantic on a easterly breeze. we will continue to seat clouds around tonight. nothing more than a absolutely isolated or stray shower. i think we are generally dry. 70s the rest of the evening. mild and breezy. that's the story and we are sticking to it here. how will the rest of the weekend develop in we have that
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in just a minute. >> we are officially kicking off baltimore's star spangled celebration. >> it's like no other. today the opening ceremony of the show here in baltimore. more than 40 ships representing 13 nations, said into baltimore for a long weekend celebration today marking the anniversary of the war of 1812 and the writing of the star spangled banner. the opening ceremony brought out all local government officials like the lieutenant governor and the mayor. thousands of -- visitors downtown this weekend taking in the sight its of the beautiful tall ships. roosevelt is live at the inner harbor with more of what you will see. beautiful just some of the pictures we have seen. >> reporter: it's absolutely incredible out here. in fact i will give you the example. on the had 4th of july its
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packed. this is the first day and it's already packed. thousands and thousands of people have been coming down here to look at the tall ships. take a look, you can see them off in the distance. ships mexico, from brazil, sweden and of course the united states navy. there have so many different thing to cement tents showing off the history. from how they used to make ships back in the day to showing examples of how to load cannon, black history, maryland history, just a lost good things for you to come and see. even a guy walking around as francis scott key and he is breaking in to song. that is what this is all about. it's about how our country went from a small country after being 20 years to starting to be a world power, defeating what was the mightiest nation, england and taking them off our shores. that's what baltimore was a big part that have and that's what
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it is about. this celebration. earlier today they had threads from the first one in to the official 9/11 flag just to connect the old with the new and to let people know that baltimore was just a big part of the war of 1812, it goes on starting today through next tuesday. they expect more than a million people to come into just take a look at the tall ships and just to breathe in the history that is baltimore. reporting live from the inner harbor. >> wow. got to go check that out. his name is known with cycling but now lance armstrong is fighting to clear his name again. new details on the doping charges now that he is facing and the title he stands to loose if they stick. >> i fix my car. >> and two massive hail storms
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crash through homes and windows. what it sound like to see those. and remember that bathroom peeper brian williams? the one taking photograph in the maryland house? an indictment has been handed down. how many years he will face in prison. [ female announcer ] with xfinity,
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. looks like doping allegations just continue to haunt lance armstrong. months after he thought he put autopsy that to rest now new and more serious charges. ones that could strip him of his wins and cycling most storeyed raise the tour de france and force a lifetime ban. tj has the very latest. >> reporter: he is a 7 time tour de france winner. a role model having beaten cancer and raised millions to fund a cure.
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now for the first time it's alleged he is a cheat. in this changing letter he is a used of use banned performance boosters. his former teammate told abc news that, during an interview. >> did you see lance receiving transfusions transfusion? >> yes. >> more than once? >> yes. >> reporter: the agency claims that as data from blood collections obtained from armstrong in 2009 and 2010 consistent with blood transfusions. >> it's possible he will loose all of the titles,. >> reporter: armstrong got the news while training in the south of france for the iron man race. he is now ban from that event because of the allegations. >> we have nothing to hide. we have nothing to run from. >> reporter: he has always denied wrongdoing and regarding
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latest investigation he said i have never doped and unlike many accusers very passed more than 500 drug tests and have never failed one. . >> shouldn't we find out if this huge name in sports and in our culture, someone who means so much, shouldn't we find if he cheated too? i think the answer should be yet. >> reporter: he thought he had been cleared when a two year criminal investigation was dropped just a few months ago. abc news new york. >> some severe weather in texas. want to show you this home video. the dallas area really took a pounding all because of baseball sized hail. this is what it looked like outside of one home. you can see it hitting cars. it was so heavy the hail punched through roofs and damaged hundreds of cars. >> sounded like the house was
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exploding. just -- just over and over again when you can look at the roof and see a thousand explosions. > it also led to delays at the airport. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> unbelievable hail coming down there in the dallas area. massive, caused big damage. back here, its been nice. very nice for the celebration. you see the big crowd. 80 degrees at the airport. downtown 82, humidity moderate, winds from the east. those breezes have brought in additional cloud cover. take a look. sun early, then clouds thickening up ono that midlevel easterly flow that is pulling in some additional cloud cover from the east off the atlantic. you see them pretty well in annapolis today. at times the sun breaks through nicely but not a completely
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sunny day and down here some of the first areas but at times clearing as wet. kind of a mixed day and we will take it for this big day as we continue the celebration. the most powerful radar, all scans showing clear. temperatures comfortable, seasonable for mid-june. these are very last days of spring officially on the calendar and again numbers pretty comfortable. look at ocean city, 69 onto east breeze but things have been comfortable. easterly winds have been the story from the east all day bringing in the moisture. clouding us up we have seen no rain and humidity has come up but still in the comfortable range around 40 to 50%, just a little muggier than this time yesterday. heat index in the mid80's. feeling like about the mid80's downtown. here is the overall set ill. quiet, again just enough moisture out of the east to
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cloud things up over the state. nearest shower activity well south. very light rain. have you to squint to see the showers. overall set up across the east is a quiet one on the whole. we have just that disturbance off shore with enough wrap around flow to bring in the clouds. there its. low pressure, well off shore. the wrap around flow with a northeasterly breeze but on the whole good waste lie pressure north of us will help clear things out there to the day tomorrow and them saturday. basically this disturbance keeps drifting southeast and we are left with sunny. a trend showing clouds tonight diminish and then more sun around here tomorrow. you go downtown to celebrate you want to maybe just bring the hat along or sun block. we think right into saturday and sunday. overnight down to 62, we are
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partly cloudy, pleasant. it's good stuff. tomorrow we will say 82 with more sun in the mix. downtown hotter. this is the airport. downtown to around the mid80's. tomorrow night down to 60 mostly clear, dry and mild. let's check out the extended forecast and as we look ahead to the weekend not a lot has changed in the outlook. we still think low to mid80's a good bet and right now the outlook into early next week will heat it up. we think the 90s will be back and will be nice if temperatures don't warm um to much this weekend because it's more comfortable downtown. you always add when we forecast the -- most the heart of the city you always add a few degrees. this is great for tourists. they. >> like mid-june is into the end of august but we know it gets hotter. >> thank you. >> want to get you caught up on breaking news.
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all happening in hampden. the atf busting up a ring of armed robbery suspects. one suspect was shot, christian is live. he joins us with the latest. >> reporter: yeah. let me give you a sense of where its. i'm at a abandoned restaurant that was known as the mill steak house. you see its right near the jones falls and also i-83 under there so it's near a lot of thing its but a pretty remote area, not such a bad place to meet and talk about armed robberies you are thinking about committing that's what police and atf agents say the suspects were doing here today. six of them in fact. what they did not know is that the police and the atf were here as well and when this moved in to make the arrest, the suspects tried to get away, the head of the baltimore atf bureau talked about the operation today. >> atf and the baltimore
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police department were conducting a joint investigation into a group of individuals. >> reporter: lost that feed. and what he went onto say is that investigation had been going on for about three weeks and in fact if those suspects were attempting to commit a robbery later today. that's why police and the atf were here to try to stop that. one of the suspects tried to drive away and into some of the officers, one of the atf agents fired at the driver and struck the driver in the shoulder. he has been taken to the hospital. no police or atf agents were hurt. coming up at six, we will hear from a woman who works and saw what happened. we will hear that at six. one person shot, a suspect shot. six taken in to custody after a
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raid. live, abc 2news. >> thank you. we have new developments in the jerry sandusky trial. a man testify that sandusky called himself the tickle monster and embraced the then 11-year-old boy in a penn state shower. the alleged encounter sparked an investigation but ended without charges being field. the now 25-year-old alleged victim said that sandusky embraced him in the shower, lathered him up and then lifted him to rinse out his hair. the first three days kind of painted sandusky as a man who use his position to gain control over boys. you know when we think about strokes we normally think about older people. ahead you will hear from a college freshman who was walking across campus when her life changed forever.
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. stroke is the leading cause of death here in the united states. while age does play a role, it can happen at any age. in fact the cdc says about a quarter of strokes happen in people younger than 65. a stroke happen when is a blood vessel to the brain is blocked by a blood clot or bursts with a lack of oxygen. that part of the brain becomes damaged or dies. one woman had a stroke when she was only 19. >> i was walk across campus. noticed thick thinged looked different, color was more
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vibrant. i asked a question and the only thing that came out was blah. >> reporter: add advances in technology may be responsible for identitying a larger number of strokes. there is an increase of the amount of strokes in the age rage of people 15 to 80. 40. ? cancer survivors is on the rice. 13.7million with a history of cancer were alive at the beginning of the year . the organization credits both more cancer diagnosex more people living. the study said one in three women and one in two men will develop cancer during their lifetime. one reason is the growing aging population, nearly half of all are 70 or older. the number will go to 18 million by 2022. we have heard that vitamin d is the best weapon to fight
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brittle bones. some of the top doctors now say that for a lot of people they are useless and may be harmful. according to a new report taking low dose vitamin d and calcium doesn't prevent from fractures and races your risk of kidney stones. for those who take a higher dose is where -- they say will not enough evidence that this works. the website is the place for all the health news you need. check out the sites, find out all the top headlines and interesting health categories. the big story, tall ships, thousands of tourists, it's the weekend that could make it or break did for some. we talk to some who are staffed and ready to make the most of the large crowds in baltimore. and not exactly a banner day for a crew trying to hang banner over a roadway. the crane came down on top of
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