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custom tai tailors -- tailors. with the street closed and no water in the building, they don't want their customers to think they can't serve them. >> i'm hoping that the work will be finished by august. if august is taken away from me, i might as well deep our head above water. >> dpw said water should be to all buildings by thursday, keeping optimism high. >> we are managing to get through them. hopefully this will be fixed in time for the grand prix. >> in the short time hoping contractors can work some magic and get water to the buildings without it. >> we can't wait to see what will happen tomorrow. >> reporter: in downtown baltimore, i'm lamont williams. >> drivers will also be dealing

with traffic headaches until the repairs are complete. redwood is closed from calvert to light and lombard is closed from calvert to light but the two far left lanes will be open, the turn lanes. drivers should avoid the area if they can, especially during rush hour. your best bet is if you have to get through to use the east-west roads. don't forget, you can go to abc2.com time saver traffic, plus get a look right from our website at abc2.com and click on traffic. 11 years ago the howard street tunnel fire caused a nightmare. it caused when two cars derailed. then a fire burned. a water main broke. smoke poured out sewer grates. several days of work were

missed. even three orioles games had to be canceled. a bus filled with members of an -- an israeli youth group exploded. six were killed. 32 were hurt. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called it a terror attack and he promised a response. an anne arundel judge threw the book at tommy clack. it could be the end of the line for tommy clack. joce sterman is back with some of the tough words. >> calling him a shameless swindler and a rotten cook, the judge sentenced clack to two years in prison. he pleaded guilty back if march

to acting as a contractor without lap license and selling home improvements without a license. prosecutors say he scammed nine people in aa county charging some tens of thousands for paving he wasn't allowed to do. he then took off south. he scammed people for as much has $170,000. clack was arrested and brought back to maryland. >> i'm happy with that because there couldn't be any more, and it's been a long time coming. i'm glad that he's off the street and we will see what happens in the future as far as any restitution, but i have a little faith in that. as the judge said, he's a path logical liar. >> clack apologized. his attorney admitted he did

overcharge. jail made that difficult. the nine people in the case are owed $63,000. clack has been ordered to give them the money back although the judge said he doesn't have any hope that clack will pay a niblg. >> good work. >> efforts to bring table games to m. since governor martin o'malley and house speaker bush to lobby. there's plans for a sixth gambling site. >> reporter: after all, the city committed to a slots par or and still sitting on an empty lot north of the stadium. many feel the added competition could cut in that. by changing the games it could

change the face of what's built here. >> the vendor here, which is ceasers has basically determined there will be one type of facility, table games if there's slots only if there's a har rods, which is i guess some of a smaller scale project than if they had full table games. >> half the delegation is on vacation or out of state. we'll keep our minds open. at this point i don't see that much as changed until we get the final numbers. >> baltimore and anne arundel would receive a cut of the lost proceeds. time is of the essence.

they will call a special session and get it on the ball will the for vote ares in know. jeff hager, abc2 news. >> a national casino would hurt the one built in the city. so do they have a case? brian cube learn crunched the numbers. >> 42 miles separates the harbor. that's nine miles less. so abc2 news investigators crunched the numbers looking at whether the june 6th opening of maryland live, the answer seems to be yes. it generated almost $8 million a 21% drop in revenue from the month beforehand 10 -- before and 10% less than hollywood casino. now it's important to point out

maryland live casino wasn't even open for the entire month of june. these numbers are small sample size but they could fuel the delegation's argument if the trend continues and what it could mean if another casino competes for business in our area. >> thanks a lot, brian. while most colleges are gearing up for the football season, there's a dark cloud hanging over the future of penn state. the action the school could take. >> and 10 years later a new report says our skies may not be any safer than they were before 9/11. the extreme heat is doing more than making us miserable. for farmers, it could be breaking the bank. we'll have more. >> we're tracking severe weather down to the south. we'll break down the details and show you the latest next on the

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the extreme heat is uncomfortable and dangerous and now it's threatening the nation's crop. farmers are trying to keep their crops alive. >> reporter: the drought can even be felt on the typically mighty mississippi river where the water has dropped dramatically. that means barges have to lighten loads unable to carry as much cargo. >> i'm concerned about the smaller ports. i think there will be areas that will have to have emergency dredging. >> reporter: this year farmers went from expecting a record corn harvest to seeing profits

dry up before their eyes. 60% of the country is currently in a drought and farmers are struggling to salvage what they can. >> it's in deep trouble because of the drought. they don't have any place for their cattle. they are looking at very high feed costs. so we're opening up areas under the conservation reserve program for emergency haying and grazing. >> reporter: according to officials with the franklin county illinois farm bureau, it is much worse than expected. >> what you see from a windshield in a car is not what's out there as we flew over it. >> reporter: one man managed to keep his lawn looking lush and green despite a watering ban. after thinking it over for two weeks he coated his yard with yard paint which will last three to six months. here in new york it was forecast

to feel like 111 today. we're just beginning to seat storms, which should bring temperatures down to 74 by friday. t.j. winick, new york. we have those active severe thunderstorm warnings starting in anne arundel county, pg county as we are seeing strong thunderstorms moving through the close is a peek. the special marine warning. you want to give it at least three, perhaps four hours as we're going to see a tremendous amount of lighting in. here's what's going on. all right. we got a line that has developed. this is from cecil county right down into d.c. i want to show you the most intense portions of this line. there's one cell that's starting to cook north of chestertown. this will push into kent county.

northern queen anne's county. annapolis and arnold about to get hammered. take a look. 800, 900 bolts. that is a lot of cloud to ground lightning. we're also talking about flash flooding concerns and issues as you try to make your way toward the bay bridge. rainfall rates have been ranging between two to four inches per hour. abc2's storm track. this will be pushing to the east. it's arnold, annapolis, high and beach. some of these areas, all around anne arundel, kent, queen anne's, get ready because this is a dangerous storm producing dangerous cloud to ground lightning lightning we'll show you bel air, those storm clouds rolling in. a storm toward the north. that will be pushing through parts of harford and carroll county. a high of 101.

look at the temperatures over the eastern shore. dover is at 98. 99 degrees in salisbury. it's feeling like 105 in dover. feels like 87 and a rain cooled 79. we're starting to see a relief. let me correct myself. 102 the official high. 90 elsewhere. patch river checked in at 100 degrees. notice that line of showers and gusty showers pushing through the bay. keep in mind any interest on the bay, give it a couple hours as the line pushes through. there's more showers starting to come. that's toward the south and east. we'll see if that starts to trigger showers and storms. still baking, 103, 102, so again, missouri is still dealing with the heat. this will fall to the south. we'll see some relief as we go into the weekend.

maybe another heat wave. here's future trend, 80s through the rest of the night. it's muggy and mild, 92 tomorrow. so that's a good recovery from what we've been dealing with. a gusty shower possible and the threat of a shower or storm lingers. the forecast for the rest of the evening, 88 degrees. moving through and could be a spotty shower overnight with all that humidity in place, temperature of around 75. tomorrow your two degree guarantee 92 degrees. here's the seven-day forecast. we'll call it unsettled both thursday and friday. drier, nicer. you'll love this weekend. saturday, sunday, 85, 87. all indications point to another heat wave. >> so just get through today. >> get through today. keep in mind if you lose power you should have storm shield. if you don't have this get it now. you get the watches and warnings

instantaneously. that's important. these are some somber days in happy valley, pennsylvania. the future of the penn state program will be known soon. jamie costello has more on why the ncaa could gift program what's called the death penalty. >> the once mighty program that gave us great human beings has been shattered by this jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. a plain pulling a banner that says take the statue down or we l the threat may be vague but the bad feelings are everywhere on campus where there's talk about shutting down the football program. ncaa president mark emretes said

it's something he will consider. >> i've never seen anything as egregious as this. >> reporter: after former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky was found guilty, top school officials, including paterno covered up what they knew. two former top officials had been charged. the former president could be charge any day now and paterno died not long after he was fired. the verdict on the statue could come next week. >> we have to look at this comprehensively. >> reporter: but the alow once hanging over paterno's head on a mural is gone, replaced with a ribbon a symbol of abuse for

child victims. jamie costello, abc2 news. >> thanks a lot. tonight we're learning more about the man who police believe shot 17 people inside a bar in alabama. he had been fired from his job after a fight with a coworker earlier in the year. police had charged 44-year-old will kins with 18 counts of attempted murder which includes a charge related to a shooting at a house just about 45 minutes before the shooting at the bar happened. coming up in health news, egg allergies in kids. the new treatment that could bring relief to every one struggling with them. >> and the food that you eat at the farmer's market. we rolled up our sleeves to test the food at the baltimore farmers market, when we come back.

there was no sta test cal defense in the number of people who died. the authors suggest that increased use of observation could avoid harm from that surgery. the kids with egg allergies, the allergy usually disappears, but in some cases it does not go away. a study has found a way to possibly desensitize children with egg allergies. >> children who have no real therapy at the moment besides avoiding the eggs, are able to tolerate them while on the

treatment. once the treatment is stopped they're able to tolerate them. >> after 22 months of treatment, 75% of children in the study were desense teased and unable to eat eggs. you know, if you're struggling to lose weight, there's a new diet drug on the market. for the second time since june the fda approved it. patients in clinical trials lost 23 pounds on average. some consumer advocates are concerned about the drug's side effects including possible birth defects in pregnant women. because of the risk, the drug is only recommended for obese patients with weight-related heart ish use like diabetes. one in 10 deaths worldwide can be blamed on illnesses from a lack of exercise. that's about the same number of deaths from smoking. new research shows by not exercising you're more likely to

develop heart disease, type two diabetes, brails and colon cancer. doctors say to get at least 150 minutes of physical activity a week. stories like this you can find on our website, abc2news.com. log on, check out the page. you'll find the top headlines as well as interesting categories to make sure you and your family get all the health information you need. coming up at 5:30, the farmers market is the place to find the freshest produce, but what about the food that's cooked there. the health code violations at the farmers market that you should know about. >> caught on tape, the surprise these thieves got when they tried to rob an internet cafe. a strong storm moving toward pape pap and we're tracking it, next on the news at 5:30.