me reaction and details ability the three young boys who died. >> and out smarting the scammers, the worldwide virus you need to know about before powering up that computer. plus we saw a break in gas line prices the last few weeks and a place we are all too familiar with. happening right now, it almost feels like a fall day compared to what we've been experiencing, good evening, i'm kelly swoope, and bringing with rain and wind, a lot better than those triple digit temps, wyatt everhart tracking the latest, it feels pretty out there. >> this is the break we've been waiting for and we have it now. temperatures dropping into the mid-80s in much of maryland and you have to get down to charlotte and charleston to find that extreme heat. right now temperatures mid, low

80s, that's comfortable, the one spot touching 90 and storms rumbling from richmond south, that's where that cool air boundary is, so it's pushed all the way south in virginia and the storms just out of that air. we're back into the mid- to upper 80s, a slight chance of showers, we'll talk about that, look to the rest of the week coming up. he actually became the focus nearly every single day for more than a week. maryland health officials say 18 people have died because of heat related illnesses, 8 deaths were reported saturday through monday, two out of state residents who died in heartford and a totally of 34 people died last year in maryland of heat related causes. bg officials restored power from the big storm more than a week ago but last night's storm has a few people without power, the majority were in creightonsville, and we checked

the bg's web site where a total of 1800 people were still without power this evening. we're getting any details into that triple drowning that we first told you about last night at 11:00, we're going to show a picture of two of the victims, 12-year-old vladimir petron jacotin and christopher toto gabriel, and they had been playing in the creek. don harrison traveled today to speak with family members. >> reporter: family and neighbors gather in federalsburg, a small town on the eastern shore to try and make sense of three young boys losing their lives in the creek that runs through the town over the weekend. saturday night the parenters of the boys, 12-year-old vladimir petron jacotin and his 11-year- old cousin christopher gabriel and their 6-year-old friend yamoude dona came home and could not find the boys, the

boys were found dead on the banks of the creek sunday morning. this is where the boys were last seen in this church parking lot playing basketball. they were found in the creek about a hundred yards from here. >> i saw all them three boys and then the blood was coming out. >> pastor lieu wee had to identify the children yesterday because the families were too upset. this town has a small but close haitian community and they all feel the pain of the families. >> imagine that you have your son yesterday play basketball and today and they say he die. >> reporter: the 5th grade teacher for christopher and knew all the boys, it was understood in the community that the boys did not know how swim. she thinks this is a perfect situation to change that. >> this community needs an answer for 90% of the children that can't swim in this community, that's what, if we

can do anything to fix this, that's what our community needs to do. >> reporter: in federalsburg, don harrison abc 2 news. now, we just received information about the funeral anxiousments for the three boys, the viewing will be held saturday from 6 until 8:00 p.m. and the funeral is set for 3:00 p.m. sunday at atlanta road alliance church in seaford delaware, donations can be sent to the funeral home. victims of a fire that drove them from their apartment building in howard county returned to the condemned structure today but most lost everything they owned. alarm sounded just before 6 in the morning as the fire spread at laurel's country meadow's apartment, victims ran from unit to unit ensuring families with small children and seniors to get out as the guesting winds fueled the spread of the flames. >> i saw it.

it was blowing toward our apartment. and the fire department stopped from the top, they stopped. that was it. everything else was burned. and what a loss, we're told the fire caused about $700,000 worth of damage and most of the victims have no insurance, firefighters were treated and released for an ankle strain and also for heat exhaustion. i want to show new video we captured today after a fire killed a women on newport aver in the bay community. it took about 50 firefighters to get the two alarm fire under control. authorities do not know what caused the fire. it caused about $200,000 in damages and actually this is the second fire within just one

week. well squad eleven along with a ladder truck 15 ended service today in baltimore city among heavy strike outny with residents and fire -- scrutiny of residents and firefighters, truck 10 has been given an extension until october when it will show down, but residents say safety really is their main concern. >> they saved my life. i passed out here near the woods and they came me, and brought an ambulance to me and came and saved my life. >> i would )a÷say bthe !k÷7gov would need to look somewhere else to cut the budget than to mess with the fire department. tom blast within the fire department says the city's fire response time is still quicker than the national average. they claim these changes won't slow down the response time. the people behind the st. patrick's day beating pleaded

guilty today. aaron parsons the suspect who in the studio was sentenced to three years in prison, a judge sentenced two of the suspects davis and deangelo carter to time served and probation. and baldwin, the fourth person in the video had already been in trouble for another crime and faces three years in jail. top officials at johns hop kins i don't want say the new health care law that the supreme -- johns hop kins hospital say the new health care law that the supreme court may cause shortages, they say the new health care law does not add a plan of how to add more doctors as more people are covered under this law. maryland state superintendent lilian lari has been putting in a lot of miles as she travels to all 24 school districts across the state.

the washington postsays one of her biggest goals is to close the gap between poor and wealthier students when it comes to the 8th grade national assessment, they ranked number two last year. and speaking of education, we're going to find out tomorrow how baltimore city public schools did in the 2012 assessment, it will take place at gill man elementary school tomorrow morning and they will brief community leaders on progress. democracy 2012 tonight, a mali is going on the attack against mitt romney. >> he wants to make it even easier for very wealthy people to avoid paying taxes to offshore american jobs and maintain swiss bank accounts while our roads and leaferies

crumble. >> he scared off with jindal, this week, and continues to criticize the tenure of george w bush, o'malley defending obama's handling of the economy. governor o'malley's staff is sifting through documents to learn how to clean up the chesapeake bay. he met with officials down in virginia, the clean up are is one of the -- is one of the biggest water pollution control acts in the history, the meeting gave them a way to see how six states and dc are doing in the effort to clean up the bay. a new report out this evening ranked maryland number 33 in the country when it comes to college debt, the institute of college access and success found the average student has been more than $21,000 in debt after graduating. more than half had to borrow to pay for schools, even though college students have a degree about 9% of recent grads were

unemployed. the average debt in college park was about $22,000, atalson university, the average debt was about 19,000, and coppin students have 8500, not good news. keeping your computer safe and secure, scammers try and target more than your identity today. >> you go to some web site that they control and they can go capture your password. >> the national scam that had the attention of the fbi and more of what you need to be aware of. plus gas prices have been dropping in recent weeks but not now, the rise in gas and what's fueling the increase. we've seen our share of storms, the lightning storm that lit us up and what it means for temperatures. >> big improvement in temperatures today, 3 degrees below average, you were

guaranteed 87 so just barely a 2-degree winner and seven forecasts in a row we've hit that two degree guarantee, don't forget to check us out on mobile abc 2 news app the itunes store. you can see how pleasant the temperatures are across the state and in your area, we're back in abc 2 news coming up. [ mosquitoes buzzing ] ♪ [ female announcer ] repel mosquitoes

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his county police protection squad. this one had tense of thousands across the -- tens of thousands across the country on guard when they logged onto their computers. this week the virus is the real thing that should have all of us concerned. this week's scam alert. >> it's d day for a computer virus that's so serious the fbi had to get involved. it's called the dns changer and it makes it seem like your computer is on a legitimate web site but in reality hackers have rerouted you to a site that looks the same but lets them steel your personal information and passwords, experts call that malware of the worst kind. >> malware is any kind of computer program that makes your computer do something that you do not want it to do. >> reporter: the fbi found out about the scam and fixed the problem but today they're taking down the safety net

that's protected people, those impacted have had enough time to get the problem fixed but if you didn't act and don't have updated antivirus software on your computer you may have a problem. >> this monday if you have internet connection it will go away and you'll have to call the internet service provider to figure out how to remove the malware from your computer. >> reporter: before you try to find if you have it on your machine, back up anything on your computer. keep in mind the majority of people did not feel the impact today, only about 65,000 people in the u.s. may have had to deal with this dns changer. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> ms. connie was trying to tape up the window and she saw the funnel start, and she just told everybody to get in the dance room. >> we weren't that close from it hitting us, like we had just

stepped foot in there and we saw it cave in on us. >> kind of dark side of that heat breaking cold front that barreled through the mid atlantic yesterday and overnight last night causing all kinds of damage here in fredericksburg virginia, the storm leaving two parents injured as they pulled the kids to safety during that dance rehearsal. and if you had a rough night's sleep, lightning and thunder, as storms rolled through, this video from rogers ford in baltimore county, a bill old lightning show lighting up the sky and one of the last places to get the power back in the rogers ford area. they're all out of our state, and down through central virginia as we take a look at those storms, they are fairly intense, we have two severe thunderstorm watch boxes south of richmond, but that front has drifted much further south and so the lightning, thunder and all the precipitation, and one

renegade shower in maryland, that is now cleared out of southern wooster county, in baltimore, temperatures running in the mid-80s, humidity around 40%, moderate, not bad, some of the weather through the day, we captured from summit ridge, a mix of sun and clouds but really a lot of clear sky later in the day, in ocean city there was rain here but one of the coolest spots in the state, never out of the 70s today and how about a spot with sunshine and temps in the 70s, out here toward the impart county way, through deep creek lake it was refreshingly cool today. temperatures in the mid-70s at the beach and in the mountain, winds are actually variable but have been generally through the east all day and that has been a cooler atlantic breeze, humidity more moderate, not as intense as over the weekend. here's that bound restricts you can see the storms flaring right around it and the

temperatures behind that boundary so much more comfortable representing about a 20-degree cool down from that 1/4 104 -- 104-degree high temperature we had at bwi on saturday. mild will continue to flow tonight and tomorrow, this boundary while not a true moving front will shift a little bit, stationary front shifting further, keeps the hot air bottled to our south, storms popping at times perhaps but mainly to the south, southern virginia down, could we see an isolated pop up shower in maryland, it's possible but the main line will remain in the south for at least the next 48 hours and by the way in the deep south extremely active weather, thousands of thunderstorms breaking out over the gulf coast, 68 variably cloud arey, tomorrow 86 mostly cloudy with a few storms probably not much activity tomorrow. tomorrow night 67 that is going to be refreshing and as we look at the 7-day forecast, more 80s

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before we go let's take a look at what's coming up tonight at eleven. facebook can really be the cyber that's keeping up with the joneses that's why some parents have dubbed it fake

book. why they're choosing to unplug from social media. plus, the internet can make ticket buying complicated, how do you know when a seller is he legitimate, how to -- legitimate, check out toby, the blue lobster, he's the national aquarium and most lobsters can reddish brown and he's now resting comfortably at the national sang wares exhibit. you have to check him out. >> very bright lobster. quick check of the temperatures, the heat wave is broken, mid 80s, low 80s out there, so much more comfortable, tomorrow looks like a repeat performance, kelli, we like it that way. >> we love it that way. >> after this weekend, we love it. >> pretty miserable. thanks for joining us. we'll see you tonight at 11. have a good evening.

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