now abc2 news at 6:30. >> the big story tonight is the heat. we'll see what the week holds coming up. dozens of apartments damaged after an early morning fire. we look at why firefighters say there were no injuries. >> changes to a mural featuring joe paterno. why he lost his halo. >> a multimillion dollars scheme involving coupons but can you tell the real ones from the fake ones? >> another steamy day and our heat bubble is about to go boom. are you watching anne arundel county? >> mike.

>> everyone can see a thunderstorm across the area. we're looking at the city cam now and it is starting to get pretty dark out there. we'll show you again really blossoming mostly out to the west. we saw a big storm over the south. northern baltimore county, a cell along the pennsylvania maryland line. another cell popped up near woods burrow and this will slide through union bridge in windsor. these are slow moving storms so there could be flash flooding concerns with some of these. this cell may make it into the city limits over the next 45 minutes. slow moving storms could produce lightning but there could be flash flooding for the course of the evening. if you're making away to the bay bridge, that takes you out to the eastern shore and pop-up showers and storms. we're showing a decent amount

of lightning there. another cell may drop into baltimore counties through the rest of the evening. that shows you the future scan and continuing to see these cells popping up through the course of the evening. we'll have more in a little bit. here is where it happened. at the apartments right there on grand michael lane. it happened just after midnight. now this was going pretty good when they got here. that is the third floor. then 24 apartments burned up and the management and red cross making all have a safe roof over their heads tonight. it looks like a domestic fight started this one. they need your help. they are trying to find a suspect involved in a shooting. police believe that he approached the nail and hair

care spa on richards valley road and shot his former girlfriend and friend. both are in critical condition right now at shock trauma. he took off at a 1998 tan or four-door honda. license plate 2 a k0291. police are offering at $2,500 reward. he had an active protective order against the father of her two children. anyone with information call howard county's sheriff's department. >> a man was shot by a police officer in west baltimore yesterday morning. officers were called out to the 7-eleven because of a man with a gun. when they got there, the man took off. they caught up with him a little while later. he refused to obey commands. he grabbed for something in his pocket and then they killed him. he is identified as a 20-year- old. >> this is the spot that smith

was killed riding his motorcycle. smith rear ended a mazda and was tossed and landed in the grass on the opposite side of the guardrail. police did say they found a small amount of marijuana right on smith's body. well, if you have watched any tv this weekend, you have seen those sharp president barack obama ads against mitt romney. romney has had enough of it. he has had so much that he is firing back. now from richard. >> reporter: taking a break from the campaign trail, mitt romney is still feeling the political waves. president barack obama is attacking romney for his business practices. >> oh beautiful for spacious skies... >> reporter: an ad has romney

singing american the beautiful and out sourced american jobs. >> i don't want to pioneer in outsourcing. i want some in sourcing. i want to bring companies back. >> reporter: romney was the head of the company that out sourced. >> i had no association with them after february of 1999. >> reporter: but documents filed show he was president and ceo for three years after that. >> when you look at it it doesn't measure to up what he claims. >> reporter: the campaign manager suggested romney might be guilty of a felony. >> those two things both can't

be true. >> reporter: he retried retroactively at that point. >> reporter: governor romney answered in a mini media plate. >> he has to say he is sorry for the kinds of attacks that are coming for his team. >> you don't hear me complaining because if i was in his shoes i would be making the same argument. >> let's go to penn state. the late penn state football coach joe paterno got some changes. the artest was removed the halo. jerry sandusky has been convicted on dozens of the counts. it is yet to be seen what other charges may be filed. >> it looks like they justice appeared. two women that left behind two young children. their purses and even cell phones. police are baffled. there may have been foul play.

here is the latest. >> they are somewhere. hay have to be somewhere. >> reporter: a desperate plea from a desperate father. his daughter missing, her half sis spur also missing. the two were last seen friday morning. police were called to their home after britney's two infant children were found home alone in the crib. they ran to neighbors and said sher was blood inside the house. >> i can't make any comment as to foul play or not at this point. it is unusual circumstances with the mothers disappearing. >> reporter: later a white pickup truck was found abandoned miles from the women's home. >> that was the last solid lead and now that that is down, we don't know who we're looking for or what area they are in or anything. >> the purses of both women and

cell phones were found inside the house but the bed sheets were report they missing. ment family desperate for answers. >> she is a very good mother. she would never leave her kids alone at home especially for that amount of time. >> that was ron claiborne reporting now. the sheriff's offers is speaking to a person of interest in the case. they have executed two search warrants. >> now everyone for the rest of time will see 22 smooth. jim palmar, brooks, earl. they spotted davy leonard. jim's wife, stepsons and daughters. there is brooks. that is the best we have ever seen and always thinks of his orioles. >> he played only in an oriole uniform. cal played only in an oriole uniform. [ applause ] >> and i never played in any

other uniform but the orioles so -- [ applause ] >> it was an emotional day. he talked about his good friend mike flannigan and it was a history lesson and great to see buck and adam jones and jim johnson also taking in the event yesterday. he doesn't have a statue yet but he was honored for what he has done for our city. the legendary high school coach had a benefit basketball game yesterday. it was held at edmonson west side. he built that program and all the money will be raised to help coach pete staying at home to fight alzheimer's. >> just remembering day today activities. alzheimer's is a terrible disease and my biggest thing

right now is to make people aware of it and what is going on. >> rhonda plans to have a website up and running tomorrow to help coach pete and her dad out. >> great time with the teams of the 80s and '90s. >> they are fake. many are falling for this trick, a trick that has police and companies trying to put an end to this robbery. how many of you slid open a watermelon today? >> we have a darkening sky overhead right now. take a look at the camera. around us a lot of thunderstorms. we'll track each and every cell on abc2news at 6:30.

you know we all look for great deals and many teams that means using coupons. a giant counterfeit coupon ring has been busted in arizona. three women are facing charges, a first of its kind, a multimillion dollars scam, the

largest case ever. when police in arizona raised this house, they hit the jackpot. they found a camaro and cadillac, a huge speed boat, they found more. the alleged source of these riches, this paper. counterfeit shopping coupons worth 25 to $30 million. >> this is the largest counterfeit coupon arrest that has occurred in the industry. >> police say this ring of counterfeit earnings in arizona was headed up by this woman robin ma rear rez. >> she over the past 12 months profited approximately $2.2 million. >> phony discount coupons like these are flooding the country and she is accused of selling millions of dollars of fake coupons on this website. they were mass produced outside the country but these counters fitters have plenty imitators.

in 2008 she issued 250 coupons for a free bag of dog food but thousands were redeemed. >> the manufacturers lose in this situation, because they ultimately end up paying for these counterfeit coupons. >> real coupons are given away, not sold. there is your lesson. curfew. there is no clock when you go see the boss. if the concert starts at 7:30 and he notices you are stuck in traffic, he doesn't hit the stage until 8:30. bruce answered paul mccartney singing twist and shout and the audio went out. organizers ended the show because it ran over curfew. they cut through some mccartney in mid song. >> he played there a couple

weeks ago. one concert went well over four hours. >> they cut the boss and mccartney off? >> summer means the warmer weather. it means barbecues and beaches and some of our favorite foods. we look at which are best for you. >> it is summer and that means you'll find him at this story stocking cherries throughout the day. >> people really, really love the flavor ait is something people really look forward to. >> ann says summer is the perfect time to enjoy fresh fruit. >> it has great nutritional value and it is better to eat fresh fruit than something more processed. >> buying fresh fruit in season is also good when it is most affordable. watermelon is when you get the most nutritious bang for the

buck. it keeps you hydrated. >> don't forget the blue berries, strawberries and blackberries. >> they have a great deep rich color. the darker the color the more antioxidants it contains and the better it is for you. buy as many colors as possible and then you know you're getting all the nutrients from your fruit. now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar. we have a storm to talk about on the radar in one second. let's take you to ocean city. a great looking afternoon. a little bit of a sea breeze. a good looking crowd down along the board front along the beachfront. we even had a rip current to talk about during the afternoon. look at the clouds billow. a beautiful shot in annapolis. sailboats out there in good

force. sunshine. notice some clouds rolling across the city line right now and again that will be the trend as we have scattered showers and even thunderstorms. you can see the heaviest of the weather at the eastern shore. >> again right into clipping through baltimore county. this will go through hartford and cecil county. maybe a little lightning there. down to the south we go. we're watching one crossover the bay bridge. an indianapolis had a good downpour. that went into queen ann county. lightning with that. this is going to cross 95 and head just for the southern city limits. the sky is darkening because of this cell. not severe but it could put down a good amount of rain and also some lightning as that crosses through. then another cell that will cross into parts of the county

will produce some lightning. this is a cell that has been developing. you may have quite a lightening show over the next 45 to 50 minutes. it is pitting down decent lightning. if you look toward your northern sky, you will see lightning mostly on the pennsylvania side for the next 45 minutes to an hour. it is a slow-moving cell. this is our future scan. this is giving you an idea through the 8:00, 9:00 hour. most across the area again widely scattered so at any point we could see a thunderstorm through the course of the evening. 91 right now. it is feeling like 97 degrees. dover feeling like 102. back into the 90s into tomorrow afternoon. widely scattered showers on the radar. you know the real heat is back.

90s. that will be spreading toward the east as we head into this week. going into tomorrow afternoon into the 90s. tuesday, watch this. nearing 100 degrees for a lot of locations before we kind of break this heat as we head into wednesday. here is your forecast for the rest of the evening. 90 degrees, spot shower. 72 mostly cloudy, thunderstorm chance tomorrow going to 93. there could be an isolated shower or thunderstorm into the latter portion of the afternoon. 97 on tuesday. strong storms possible for wednesday as we hit 97 degrees. i think we're going to clear out the heat and humidity as we go into thursday and friday and next week drier conditions and temperatures into the 80s. more abc2 news at 6:30 coming up after this. [ horn honks ] ♪ oh, those were the best of days ♪ ♪ i still feel the summer rays

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well, the day started with news that jason hammel will miss a month.

justin verlander. detroit wins 4-0. he has never lost to the orioles. they lost ten out of 14. steve johnson made his debut today. he gave up a homer in the 9th. orioles lead for a long road trip. >> this isn't good. in france, the tour de france, it is little terred with nails today making the cycles have problems all with flats. it happened 25 miles from the finish for stage 14. they say it will be hard to find out who put the nails on the track. mike nascar hambers down his final forecast right after this. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol

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well, we got some storms. we'll show you. it started raining in the city limits but lightning tracker picked up on some cells into

randalls town. good downpour rain for you. good lightning to the north. if any turn severe, we'll let you know. >> we'll see you tonight at 11:00. ó

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