we're at 70 and 20 -- 270. the roads are wet and the sky is dark. wyatt? check it out. we start off with maryland's most powerful radar. storms weakening. this is a good weather trend. you can see one isolated storm that will be crossing into the western edge of kent county on the eastern shore. we're seeing the weather quiet down. let's show you the severe thunderstorm watch for the entire state still through 8:00. storms beginning to weaken. it doesn't have the setup. if you get a shower, that's going to be welcome last we run more than five inches behind our typical rainfall totals. so here's the setup. 80s, hot, steamy, with still the possibility of some hit and miss

gusty storms. the outlook is cup include. if one of your family members was shot to death handset on fire to cover it all up, you'd be in front of every microphone and camera to get the word out on who did this. a family refuses to let this case grow cold. >> reporter: it is still a scar in the middle of this northeast baltimore community. that's war a year ago 58-year-old billy ray lovett, his daughter and her boyfriend were murders, shot to death and then set on fire. the burned shell of a home, a reminder of what happened but still no clue last to why. >> really struggling to deal with the pain and the hurt that we have to -- deal with. just tell it. just say something. >> reporter: not knowing is a pain wide enough to blanket two families, the mother of michael

jones and the son and brother of the other two victims. >> we've been going through this for over a year here two days short of the exact year mark both families joined police to get answers. handing out these fliers in and around the 4300 block of nicholas avenue in an attempt to zig up a new lead before the case gets too old goes cold. >> you have evidence, forensic evidence that's left on the scene. they've done all they scan do to weed through that. as you put it, it's sometime mid- >> reporter: stymied, it's a curious crime. lovett is recovering from surgery at the time of his killing. police say his daughter and her boyfriend also not an obvious target. yet, this was a special kind of violence inflicted on these families who believe they are dealing with a special kind of

evil. >> whoever done it out there, it's no peace for you. you will not rest until you come to closure with it. so we're suffering. you're suffering. you might as well tell it. >> reporter: healing a scar not only visible on a quiet street corner but in the eyes and souls of two families. in northeast baltimore, brian cube learn, abc2 news. now both families also made this very clear they're not happy with the way the police handled the case at first. police got a report of shots fired in the neighborhood. when they got there, they found nothing. this was more than an hour later that the house was set on fire. the family believes better police work would have caught the killer. the department said their officers responded how that should. if you know anything about this triple murder and arson call

crime stoppers at 877-lockup. three mens tommed a victim from the 7-eleven across the street to a bus stop where one of them was stabbed several times. the victim collapsed and an suv ran over him. the unidentified victim survived but he is in crit contract at the whom. police charged a plan for a deadly stabbing early monday morning on pulaski highway. officials found phillip weatherford. he died. mark brown, jr. last been charge -- has been charged with first-degree murder. the two knew each other, got into a fight and brown stabbed weatherford. if you're watching us from

catonsville be aware of making trips to your automated teller machine. they believe the robberies are linked to two other crimes in june at banks in the same area. the man has used various cars to drive up to the locations and he's always concealing his face. by the time the victim sees him, it's too late. >> the most important thing you can do is be aware of your surroundings, especially if it's not in a well populated area. >> the police say the robber usually strikes between 9:30 and 10:00 at night on saturdays and sunday and chosen banks on baltimore national pike, frederick and will kins avenue. police say this man sexually assaulted somebody in the 2300

block of aiken street. he's about 5'6", weighs about 150 pounds. call 410-396-2076. for the second time in four days weave le lost another one of our sons to war f you worked at fort immediate, grew up in ex-sex you're broken up over the loss of srgt pepper. >> we've been getting emails in our newsroom from folks who knew him. they say he was a really good guy, honorable man. he was killed in afghanistan when his unit was attacked. he was assigned to the 4th battalion out of fort bragg. he grew up in the essex area a 1999 graduate of kenwood high school and joined the reserve in 2000. his friends say he had also served in iraq and this was his first tour in afghanistan.

his body was brought to dover airforce base this morning. the funeral arrangements have not been made. fire on the second floor of the hampden in on arundel mills boulevard. sprinklers went off and that helped. 77 firefighters were called in. nobody was injured. we still have no idea on how this fire started. >> our student athletes are going to be a little safer. at least that's the new goal of regulations passed by the school board taking the issue on about concussions. kelly swoope has more. >> these emergency regulations have been in effect for 180 days. during that time the board has planned to take a deeper look at athletes and concussionings. the guidelines will require public schools to train coaches about led injuries, keep them

out of sports after the concussion and forces coaches to give parents information about it. coaches were required to be certified. the state school board also decided to study what is being done across the state to reduce the number of concussions in athletes and whether enough is being done. these folks in howard county are still trying to get some answers for the lengthy outages they experienced during hurricane irene and some during the remnants of tropical lee last year. more than 1,000 signatures were collected to question bge's reliability. >> that message goes to the

public utilities commission -- puck service commission -- public service commission. please look at what they've done, haven't done and prescribe to them what needs to happen. >> our cameras are inside a public here being. it will be at the george howard building in ellicott city. we'll have the latest at 11:00. let ease look at video from main street, ellicott city from last year. this is old tropical storm lee. the bulk of the outages the petitioners are stalking about came from hurricane irene. during and following hurricane irene last year more than 740,000 bge customers lost power. many lost power for an entire week. although it's not included in the petition, more than 748,000 lost power during last month's storm.

the public service commission has planned a series of eight meetings to review bge's performance in connection with that storm. all right. for us, this weather is close. inhale and ex-hail. now let's talk about our kids with as ma. summertime can be very cruel. we'll tell you how you can breathe easy. >> the do it now gov is being called the take it away gov. >> all right. 94 degrees. the heat index went over 100. the actual air temp 91. hey, dry air marching in behind me. there were warnings today and by the way, you really need to download our storm shield app if you get a chance to do that on the itunes store. you can get the warnings anywhere you are. we'll be back with much more of abc2 news at 6:00 coming up.

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the rain isn't quite falling yet but wyatt will have the details coming up in about three minutes. you know we spend a lot of time outside. all that summer sun can trigger as ma. abc2's health reporter linda so has more. >> reporter: heat, pollen and pollution can trigger asthma. >> the kids are more active, spending more time outside. they're breathing in all this but also running around a lot more. as a result, for those children who have asthma and you look at

the statistics, one in 11 children have asthma, a lot more kids have asthma attacks during the summer months. >> reporter: the doctoasthma cat in younger kids. here's some things to look out for. >> if you notice them coughing when they're playing, running around the house playing but not demonstrating signs of illness, that could be a sign of asthma. if you notice their breathing becomes more labored, see their ribs more prominent. look in the area around their clavicles and looks like there's motion there, those are signs that they could be having trouble with their breathing that could be suggested of asthma. >> reporter: dr. burger stayed don't make the mistake that many do . >> don't go on the concept of

hearing it. wheezing is typically not heard without a set though scope. >> reporter: if it turns out your child as asthma, your doctor may prescribe a nebulizer. >> like lynn disa so's -- linda sew's facebook page. birth control a very personal choice. for women who choose to use it, it is so important to know what the options are. iud's are shorthand they're getting more pop lamplet so the cleveland clinic wanted to dispell some of the popular myths about them. >> the iud's back in the '60s and '70s, those are different. yes, this was unsafe. the new methods are extremely effective. >> dr. brady said they are extremely safe.

iud's last up to five years. experts recommend talking to your doctor about all the birth control options before deciding which would be the best birth control for you. all right. let's start with maryland's most powerful radar. storms fizzling out. much needed rain around chestertown. it's so dry even with the heavy rain, steady rain friday and saturday. we could use more raifnlt the storms are weakening across the state. right now we can see most of our lightning is diminishing across all of maryland. some healthy weather still here in southern new jersey and south of frederick, virginia, but that's about it. show you some of the weather as it came through today. i want to take a look at that severe thunderstorm watch and show that it has trimmed back to southern maryland. areas south of baltimore,

including annapolis, pg county and calvert county and the eastern shore. this is through 8:00. keep an eye on. this you see that pattern getting more quiet out there. so that should lead to basically less and lessee veer weather concern over the next hour or two. want to show you earlier, mt. airy. here's the storm i was referencing a minute ago. this is a big one. see the leading edge, big downpour. you see the back sides that moves further and further to the east. that was a pretty nice capture of a big time summer thunderstorm there in carroll county as it came out of frederick county early this afternoon. right now a live view from frederick. we can she storm cell on the horizon here. again, a weakening storm cell, so that's good. there may be rain and brief lightning on that storm. the abc2 hd weather bug cameras, you see them here.

current conditions now at bwi 86 degrees. winds are west at 12. the humidity is high. the weather is cooler. most of maryland still pretty hot. when you throw in the moment humidity -- in the humidity numbers, very high. i would not want to be in cambridge, 105. still some wet weather. the severe weather threat continues to look less and less ominous, especially for maryland, points south could see storms. it's a small circulation of high pressure, an unusual setup. we see it in july, dry air trying to come. less humid tomorrow. as a result, chances for storms look pretty nil. overnight a shower possible. tomorrow 88, less humid. no storm chance tomorrow. actually, some blue sky. tomorrow night down to 68 with a lingering storm possible but i just don't look for much.

how about the outlook the next seven days. tomorrow night there will be no chance for a lingering storm. that graphic needs to be updated. we had fun with the graphics. the seven-day forecast very humid by the end of the week into the weekend, classic july weather. so enjoy tomorrow where you have one day. all right. i got to be honest with you. i still miss you. it's been 15 months that william donald schaefer has been gone. the governor set up through his will a foundation and is donating $1.4 million to the baltimore community foundation. it supports the foundation's neighborhood grants program. so far it's already fund lad ruth summer camping, mentoring program and community garden. >> this wonderful gift to baltimore -- >> we all know neighborhoods

meant so much to the governor. when he died in april of last year, his friends asked that memorial gifts go to the significant fund. also today our own preston mitchham was honored as part of the foundation's giving program. preston received a $10,000 check to help his nonprofit organization. it's call the -- called the preston mitchham foundation and you will hear a lot more from mr. mitcham. >> it's over. it's the start of the raze -- ravens training camp. now the ravens are home at their owings mills castle which becan't under armour performance

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