million on the investigation and legal fees. police are trying to track down two 19-year-old men for sexually assaulting a 13 yield girl in wood lawn. officers say jackson and mayio led the girl through the woods where mayio lives to sexually assault her. . a teen nearly drowned yesterday afternoon at a swimming pool in cockeysville. someone noticed the boy floating in the pool, witnesses pulled him out and began cpr. the boy is at shock trauma in critical condition tonight. hand, foot and mouth disease, highly contagious illness hit baltimore county. doctors express three people have been diagnosed, mouth sores, a rash on your skin and five. it's found in kids under age five. to protect yourself and kids, wab your hands and clean common

surfaces. temperatures have dropped, the clouds have kept temperatures down. is the cloud cover going to give way to sunshine as we kick off the weekend? mike is tracking the forecast. i hope you have good news. >> we will have to get through the heat and humidity. let's look outside. notice it's a packed house downtown. low humidity, notice the clouds in place this afternoon and going in to this evening. that h be with us for a good part of the night. we did have some shall be earlier this afternoon, that allowed for the temperatures to boost to 89 at bwi. easton packs river 87. ocean city, 81 degrees. a couple of spot showers towards the north and west, from time to time, carol, baltimore, harford, cecil could see a spot shower. we are headlining the best shot of the showers to erupt during

the course of this evening. further north and west you go. see a good downpour coming in to parts of coupler land and garrett. beyond that, watching a better shot of rain that will move in across our area. for the rest of the evening, temperature around 84 degrees, mostly cloudy, a spot shower, chance being further towards the north and to the west. the big boards, a whole mess of weather going on towards the south and the west. scattered showers and storms. go beyond that, that's where we are seeing the heat. nothing going on in the way of clouds or issuer activity. that's the heat that's going to pump in towards this weekend and more so as we go in to next week. we will show you the forecast, it's a hot steamy one, coming up in a little bit. you maybe breaking out your sprinkler soon if we don't get the rain. in some parts of the u.s., citys are issuing bans on watering your lawn.

brandy has more on how drought conditions could impact what you pay for food. >> reporter: scorching heat and rain led to a bigger problem. more than half the country is now experiencing a massive drought. >> this is about as bad as i've seen. >> reporter: so bad the usda declade -- largest natural disaster area in u.s. history. corn familiars say without rain >> 2012 is going to be probably surpass any of those and be the biggest historic event we have. >> reporter: this dry spell followed a recent blistering heat wave, more than 170 all time temperature records were broken or tied. >> the chances of texas seeing another drought, colorado seeing another epic year of wild fires, all of these things become far more likely. >> reporter: in wisconsin, residents have been banned from watering their lawns and in california, firefighters are on

edge. >> we don't have any rain that's going to wet everything down. we get lightning strikes on top of the hills, desert floor and fire starts all over the place. >> reporter: some areas of the south and southwest are getting relief. >> this time of the year, in that part of the country, when it rains it pours and almost always leads to flash flooding. >> reporter: this rain is what neighboring states to the north are still waiting for. >> i assume some day it will rain. we are running out of time. >> reporter: another heat wave is coming through the midwest next week. luckily it won't be as intense as the one we saw earlier this month. a hot topic that caught our attention today, certainly caught yours on line about 20 moms held a nurse in outside of a water park near denver after employees there told a breast- feeding mom in the kiddy pool to cover up or go somewhere else. advocates argue moms have a legal right to breast-feed anywhere and those who say breast-feeding in public and a

pool is not the place. >> when you go to the pool, you see the girls walking around in the tiny bikinis and never asked to cover up. if you see a mother trying to nurse her child, we are asked to cover up. >> the park issued an apology to the breast fooding mom and said it will would use this as a training lesson for staff. we posted the story on our facebook fan page and it went crazy. weigh in as well. the opinions are mixed. leave your comments about the story and we may share them on air. we know green means go. red means stop. tell that to this guy you are about to see. the dramatic crash caught on tape and how one u.s. city says its benefited from red light cameras. a similar situation in texas, a big commuting nightmare. the truck driver who police say caused a whole bunch of people to be late to work today. looking at a couple of

scattered showers. carroll county, frederick county. widen out the shot. there is more showers and storms to get through for tomorrow and big heat out towards the midwest. we are let you know of the full forecast coming up at 5:30.

take a look, this is what happens when you run a red light. police in new jersey released the video of a crash last month when officers say a car ran a red light. you saw it there. the drivers in the crash were not seriously injured. the city where it happened installed red light cameras last year, that move has cut down on red light runners by half. a big mess in houston today, those chopper aerials show what was left after a city bus slammed in to a flatbed trailer. the bus t boned the trailer after the truck driver ran the red light. medics took the truck driver and 7 passengers to the hospital but nobody was seriously injured. new video from texas. this is near houston. freeways and side streets are flooded. dozens of homes have been flooded as well. the rain started falling last night and the houston area has been under a flood watch for most of the afternoon. when you visit the zoo, the chimp exhibit, a must see.

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new information tonight after two large chimpanzees ran loose in las vegas. it caused officers to place an entire neighborhood on lockdown until cops got the situation under control. paul has more. >> reporter: las vegas police were out in force thursday morning warning residents to stay indoors as they tried to track down two chimpanzees. the male and female buddy and

cj have been local celebrities appearing at public events where people pay to hold them and take pictures. primates were a pair of dangerous fugitives. >> one seen me. i was like get out of here. it hopped over the wall. >> reporter: each weighed in at more than 150 pounds and stood over 5 feet tall. the two battered out of the cage, kicking a concrete wall until the hinge came loose and ran wild. after putting the word out on twitter, las vegas police had to convince people the which i have warning wasn't a hoax -- chimp warning wasn't a hoax. police stopped cj with two tranquilizer darts but when buddy lunged an officer was forced to bring him down with a shotgun. cj is home but her deaf stated

owner said how powerful and unpredictable chimps can be. >> he has thrown me from the cage. i'm tragically sad about buddy. i love him so much. >> in nevada all you need is a permit to keep a wild animal in a private home. activists say wild animals should never be kept as pets. a pit bull is recovering after a rattlesnake bit the dog in the face in california. the dog's owner says she took to it the hospital and watched its face swell from the bite. doctors gave abby antivenom that saved her life.

take a look, a few boats out there. sail boats were out this after the lunchtime hour. we have to headline the fact it will get muggy, humid, warmer and maybe a spot shower and storm. ocean city is looking beautiful. a day where we were watching enhanced surf. issue with rip currents. downtown, beautiful shot as we head in to the afternoon hours. we have sunshine, packed house downtown, take a look. stop out towards frederick, more clouds towards the west with the showers during the course of the day. 87, city limits. rain cooled 78 towards the west. frederick 82 degrees. eastern shore numbers between 85- 87 degrees. notice the humidity values come up some they are at 59. frederick 66. beyond that as it is raining towards western maryland, those

dew point values are coming up. 89 degrees, the official high from bwi. we should be around 88 degrees. 99 was set back in 1966. pretty clear slate overhead. couple of scattered showers through carroll county. that may hold together. maybe extreme northern baltimore county heading out towards harford county tonight. not going to be a big deal. spot showers around deep creek and garrett county. everything from south to north over west virginia. this will slide in to central pa. not going to be a big deal for us. we will see scattered showers develop for the overnight. clouds back in to place as we head in to tonight and tomorrow morning. 83 degrees around the 8:00 hour. pair of 7s around 11:00. tomorrow up to a muggy feel, 74 on our way for 87 tomorrow. with the humidity coming back in as the front lifts we could be talking about a gusty shower or storm during the afternoon

hours. we will watch that and download the app for watches, warnings or advisorys issued. stationary front stabilizing the air on top of us now. heat and humidity to the south. it was raining buckets all week in atlanta. grand total 4 inches of rain. that's not going to be our problem wrecks going to get all this heat and humidity to move from the south to the north and that is why we are expecting a big change in our weather from a comfortable feel for this week to more of the muggy oppressive heat and humidity as we move in to this week or rather in to the weekend in to early next week. in to tomorrow morning, in to the 70s on our way for the mid and will upper 80s. the heat, humidity in play could allow for scattered shower or thunderstorm to develop. close to 80, maybe 90, maybe a spot or two hitting 90. we think we hit 90 by sunday. isolated shower or thunderstorm

possible. towards the orioles game tonight, first pitch 7:05, around 85 degrees, mostly cloudy skies. a dry game. temperatures falling in to the 70s. overnight temperature 72. late night shower or thunderstorm after midnight. 2-degree guarantee tomorrow of 88 degrees. 90s sunday. 91 degrees, the scattered shower or thunderstorm. 94 monday. man it gets hot, tuesday and wednesday, how about 96. how about a feel of 101. >> too hot for me. you keep saying pair of 7s and 8s. >> gambling state of mind right now. >> gambling and hot weather. democracy 2012 news, mitt romney's running mate is up in the air, word is we could hear who the vp candidate will be soon. torey dunn nan is live in

washington. >> reporter: the speculation is really building, there have been interesting developments in the past 24 hours or so, that have people talking. it started when the republicanny campaign sent out a teaser as an email to supporters , the subject line read, mitt's vp. you up the email and it says they are going to make the announcement twain now and the republican national convention in august. we knew that but it has people putting this at the forefront of their minds. marco rubio, was fundraising for mitt romney in boston. today his answers were vague. take a listen. >> the reason they are asking about condoleezza rice because an article came out in the brog

report and puts her as the front runner in the race to become mitt romney's vp. you have to remember, it was two weeks ago she said, she is not interested and there is absolutely no way this would happen. >> she said she is happy where she is. president barack obama is back on the campaign trail in a key battle ground state, virginia. tell us what you know about his plans. >> think back to 2008, winning virginia was a huge victory for president obama. he was the first democrat to do it in decades. now he is trying to hang onto the voters and here is his pitch. that's what brought us together was not about a single candidate, it was not about me, it was about us and our desire to make sure that the american dream continues for the next generation and the generation after that and the generation after that. >> a pretty fiery speech. as far as the numbers go in the

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jp morgan reported strong quarterly earnings sending the markets higher. dow jones industrial average closed at 1277. nasdaq jumped 42 points to close at 2908. sp rose 22 points to close at 1357. summer time of course means time at the beach or the pool. what about a big scoop of ice cream to cool you off? forget about chasing down the ice cream truck, all you need is you phone. the scoop on the coolest ice cream apps. >> reporter: when what it was like to chase the ice cream

truck down the street, so quaint and old fashioned and delicious. now it's gone high-tech for sweet test drive, oobe let's city drivers summon transportation to their doors. in 7 studies, for just one summer day, they decided to try ice cream trucks on demand. >> when you open the app, in addition to see the sedans and suvs, you will see a ice cream truck. for those out of earshot of the ice cream man's happy tones, there are apps to crack your own frozen treats at home. the recipes and shopping lists app for apple, android, kind and will more has a section devoted to summer desserts, ice cream, pies and ices. recipe maker app from fine cooking for iphone let's summer hef shelves pick from a vary of

flavors and ingredients and form late a step by step recipe with tips for smoothing the process along the way. amazon is adding distribution centers, the move could be a way of staying competition as states push towards charging sales tax on amazon purchases something many customers do not pay at this point. if you are heading out the door for dinner and thinking about eating a main lobster, it may not set you back. main lobsters are selling at record low prices. the drop due to a partnership with canada and abundance of lobster. fishermen are feeling the effects of a lobster industry bringing in over $1 billion to the state's economy. tonight learning about how baby teeth could hold insight in to autism.

that's coming up on abc2 news at 6:00 which starts right now. the owner of an eldersburg lounge recounts events leading up to a gunman opening up on a crowd killing a customer. fire at an apartment complex . investigators are trying to finds out what happened here. and is big brother watching you on facebook? not talking about the government. we will tell you who is really watching. i'm mike, we have the heat building towards the south and the west. that's in here by later this weekend. i will have the seven-day forecast coming up. a carroll county man is behind bars charged in a double shooting outside of a popular restaurant that left one man dead. it happened at cheers lounge on eldersburg