that water main break on york road is still causing problems. there's another leak tonight. public works tells us it's a combination of the hot weather and hot asphalt. york road will continue to be closed, one lane in each direction until this is all repaired. a day that should have been filled with fun and celebration turned tragic for a family. now grieving the loss after accidents claimed their lives and many of them were children. >> reporter: heartbreak and sadness this 4th of july. most of the victims were children. on long island's north shore more than two dozen people had just watched the fireworks on a 36-foot boat like this one when it capsized. >> three of those 27 people are children. they are deceased.

there are 8, 11 and 12. >> reporter: several children were also electrocuted in missouri and tennessee. outside of knoxville two byes were swimming from one house boat to another and were electrocuted. >> a bunch of people jumped into the wart. my son and brother helped the other. >> reporter: in the lake of the ozarks, a 13-year-old and her brother were election tre cuted while swimming near a prist dock. >> i don't want to go swimming at the lake of the hoe disarks. i'm scared. >> reporter: in both cases investigators aren't sure what energized the lake. it's a mystery why the boat capsized in oyster bay. >> it could be overcrowding, a mechanical situation, a wake created by another boat or a weather condition last evening that suddenly erupted. >> reporter: there was another

tragedy, this time in iowa where three children drowned in the river while celebrating the 4th of july with their family. 11 people, including five children were seriously hurt in a fireworks explosion. neighbors hosted it every year but something went wrong. the blast happened on the back point a neighbor believes a firework was set off and set off the others. police removed 90 boxes of fireworks from the home. three of the kids have severe burns tonight. >> any chance george zimmerman is going to bolt is going to happen now, after a judge set his bail at a million dollars and took away his passport. more on the man who shot trayvon martin. >> reporter: if george zimmerman wants out now, it's going to cost him -- a lot. the judge set bail at $1

million, that for the man accused of killing trayvon martin. it's a blow for the defendant who hoped to gain credibility back with videos like this shot one day after martin's death. that's zimmerman claiming to police that martin caused the death. >> you got a problem and he punched me in the face. i stumbled and i fell down. he pushed me down. somehow he got on top of me. >> reporter: but now that million dollar bail comes after the judge sided with prosecutors. they portrayed zimmerman as a liar who misled the court and may have been planning to flee the country saying he and his wife shelly failed to disclose $15,000 in donations they received from the public. >> it was a conspiracy, no doubt about it. >> reporter: the judge wrote in his order zimmerman has flaunted the system saying the high bail

is intended to stop the defendant from fleeing, he must submit to & electronic monitoring and obey a cor few. it means less freedom and new restrictions from zimmerman if he does bond out but zimmerman won't have to come up with the full million to get out of jail. in florida the standard is 10%, meaning he mr. need $100,000, still no small amount. >> today marks up with year sense a jury found casey anthony not guilty of killing her daughter caylee. anthony is speak out. jose baez writes in his new book presumed guilty, casey anthony, the inside story that prosecutors offered anthony a plea deal but anthony adamantly insisted she had nothing to do with the toddler's dpesmght baez

dropped the bomb shell about evidence discovered on anthony's family computer. >> on the day that caylee died, someone on the anthony home computer ran searches for full prove suffocation, basically suicide related searches that were done an hour after george anthony said she left her home. >> baez didn't talk about what anthony is doing now or how often he talks to her. a fish so big it's literally off the charts. why the man who caught the fish couldn't get an accurate heed on how big it was. >> plus, a new test to see how healthy your newborn baby is, this one less envaisive. >> many options at the itunes store for your weather apps. we have an outstanding weather page. it's all available when we're

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we had a crash on 83. an suv was driving northbound when it rolled into the southbound lane. the driver was medivacked.

as you can see, one lane is getting by southbound. this is on middletown road. >> caught on camera. look at this. that was a quick show. in san diego they ran off with the finale. it's the big, big bust. it was all caught on tape. the city's popular fireworks show went off early and all at once last night. the display was five minutes ahead of schedule and it went dark. they said a technical shall you caused the fireworks to pop in 15 seconds. they're blaming a premature emission. 15-second firework show in san diego. have you seen this? hundreds of thousands of people still without power across several states.

what you're looking at right now is a shot from space. this is what it looked like. nasa took the images with a satellite. you can see a dark spot over va -- virginia, west virginia, washington. we have a huge wildfire in utah that cut a family's hike short. rachel shot these photos while she and her family were walking south of salt lake city. when they got close to the bottom of the trail, they saw the smoke coming from a near by cannon. that's when park officials stopped them and told them to return to their car at once. it had already burned,000 acres. we're getting ready for the marlin open. check this out. this is from the specific mariner's yacht club. a fisherman caught a maco shark. it was caught 50 miles off the

coast. the dock scales only go to 750. it was too heavy for the scale. it took six men to lift the prize catch from the water. you may be trying to get your finances under control but you better think twice before closing out accounts. the right ways to get rid of that credit card without it hurting your overall credit. plus, the fight for battleground states. we'll he is you how mitt romney is combating the president's trip to ohio and pennsylvania.

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[ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, a new test makes it easy to determine the health of a fetus. it's raising ethical questions. here's dr. timothy johnson. >> it's what expecting parents always want to know -- will

their baby be born healthy. until recently doctors would take samples from the fetus to get a complete genetic sequence that could offer clues on possible diseases or defects but that test could also harm the fetus. recently researchers started taking samples from the mother's blood and the father's saliva to obtain similar information. now it's simpler. a study tested blood samples from two pregnant women, one with a healthy fetus, one with a rare genetic disorder. the test results matched each baby's genetics after birth. it cap be done in the first trimester leaving time to treat diseases during pregnant spi. the test also races obvious ethical questions. in about three years the new technology could determine the complete genetic sequence of an unborn child.

these could lead to more prospective parents considering terminating pregnancy. with this medical minute, i'm dr. timothy johnson. it's a sweltering baltimore. no question about that. 97 seering degrees -- searing degrees. the humidity is high, making the heat index values feel like the mid to upper 100's. here's dundalk today, hot. bel air, same scenario here, extremely hot conditions. just a couple of fair weather clouds popping up. not a lot of radar action. here's where you wanted to be, even in ocean city, temperatures reaching into the mid-90s. here's that current heat advisory. this will be in effect for several more hours, really

through 8:00. the current air temp at 97. heat index values 105 in baltimore. 100 hagerstown. steamy, 105 in easton. really, a hot, hot scenario. i wish i could say this is the peak. we'll get a carbon copy day and perhaps three to four degrees hotter on saturday and then, then we between see a change in the weather pattern although it will be slight on sunday, not as hot and looks like a big break will come toward the middle part of next week. in the meantime baking with the high humidity levels. in arizona they bake. baltimore we get steamed with all the heat and humidity. 101 the current air temperature in the inner harbor. 92347 frederick -- 97 in frederick. is there a breeze? min ma.

minimal. enough to stir the air. we'll take it. we do look at the overall scenario. we've got one stray shower that could pop lightning over the harford area and action north of carlisle, pa. will the cluster perhaps hold together and drift further south, there's plenty of leet -- heat and humidity. the ground temperatures are hot. it's tough to cool off even after sunset because the dprund has been baked for several days. we're getting heat from not just the atmosphere but up from the ground in two directions. so this is one of those those scenarios. hot, humid conditions, continues to swirl around our tropical high over the carolinas. the back side of that system, the hottest part, that heat bubble, we think, spresd weflt to east. not so much tomorrow where there will tie today's extreme heat

but near record or perhaps record-breaking heat on saturday as that heat bubble kind of breaks loose and surnlings further east it. looks like saturday will be the most miserable day before we she cooldown sunday and monday. 77 overnight, steamy, extremely hot. we'll say 100. tomorrow night down to 77. muggy, sultry conditions and the seven-day forecast. it gets the -- it gets worse before it gets bet are but there is relief in sight. there is light at the end of the tunnel. in the meantime we'll go up before we can come back down. >> want to tell everybody what you're doing? >> go ahead and move. good moving day. it is what it is. >> how many stories up.

all right. democracy 2012. president obama kicked off his bus tour and tried to convince voters his economic plan is working. tory dunnan joins us live from washington. what's the president's agenda today? >> today it's all about grass roots events and ice cream associations. the president is getting out of washington, d.c. and trying to get some face time with vote ares in ohio. he knows how important it is to win the state in november. this marks the president's seventh visit to ohio this year and his first official bus tour. it comes three weeks after romney took a bus tour of its own through the midwest. >> the country is beth on you, ohio. >> reporter: really aware of his audience, the president focused on his efforts to improfit auto and manufacturing industry. >> governor romney said we should let the automobile

industry did bankrupt. >> reporter: ohio is a tossup state. a poll shows obama led. also working in the president's fairvetion the state's unemployment rate is pointing downward. >> his presidency has been a losing hand. >> reporter: team romney isn't letting the president off that easy. the campaign sent a lap governor bobby ginned am and former minnesota governor pawlenty. >> the list goes on and on. the bottom line is this. we've had enough of broken promises. >> reporter: jamie, for the president tomorrow it's off to pennsylvania for this two-day bus tour. also happening tomorrow the june unemployment numbers will be coming down. no doubt, that will be driving the discussion. >> if americans want some

relief, they may want to avoid watching the olympics in london. tell us why. >> reporter: yob if this will stop them -- i don't know if this will stop them to watching. you see the commercials, those ads, politics. that's what's getting -- going on. the obama campaign has already spent $6.5 million on ad time. so you'll see a lot of presidential politicking during the olympics. >> okay. you look cool. you doing okay in d.c.? >> i'm great. i love the hot weather. >> thank you. listen, i know a lot of you are tired of the presidential campaign. that's according to a new pew research poll. republicans and democrats aren't checking out just yet. the same study showed 60% of

voters think the the next four months will be informative. pew did a similar poll in march when the gop nomination was still in doubt. only a third of republicans find the race interesting now. that's a down 52% and on the flip side 45% of democrats find it interesting right now. the pew research center surveyed more than 2,000 americans from june the 7th through the 17th. coming up at 6:00, a family has a tragedy and it really is a grim reminder of the importance of pool safety. we'll take a look at what you need to know before you head to the pool again. we sit all day at the office and we sit down for dinner and few shows at night. why taking it easy could be dangerous to your health. those stories and more coming up. here's a preview of what's ahead at 6:30. >> coming up, the scathing new

report after that deadly plane crash. investigators believe those passengers could have been saved 20 seconds before the crash.

break up is hard to do. closing out a credit card could put a dent on your score if you're not careful. >> reporter: you probably heard that closing a credit card can actually damage your credit score, but do you know why? it's your credit utilization ratio, the amount of credit you've used compared to the amount available a factor that's

30% of your score. if you're considering closing an account, a credit card expert said don't do it if it's your only card. if you have others, check the balances. >> take a look at balances on the other credit cards. are they fairly low? you want to get the balance has low as possible so you have a low utilization ratio even if you lose that credit card. >> reporter: common reasons are new or increased fees or interest rates. if you're switching to a new card, keep the old one open until you receive it. >> that way your fico score will start utilizing the new available credit with the credit card so you'll minimize the impact. >> reporter: it's best to have a zero balance when closing the card. you can close it over the phone but follow up later in writing. after a month or so check your credit report to make sure it's

noted. people all over celebrated the 4th of july with big barks right? what you need to know about the dangers posed by your grill brurchlt abc2 news at -- brush. abc2 news at 6 starts now. we're in a heat -- a code red heat advisory. you want to have a drink, splash your face with water. code red heat continues. >> what a mess this s where do you start r--- is. where do you start? i'm roosevelt leftwich. we'll explain coming up. >> how do you tell a story about a family who is hurt so much. their 3-year-old was found at the bottom of the pool. all we can do is offer our sympathies. we have four more who have died bring the total