appear hour ago. heat advisory up for the entire state for the rest of the evening. temperatures will be slow to cool off and we are tracking a power house line of storms here across central pennsylvania. moving very slowly south. more really east than south. however, out of caution the national weather service issuing a severe thunderstorm watch for just about all of maryland. we will watch that as we go later this evening. 90s, hot, humid, scattered storms. >> let's get to the new details in the vi ripkin kidnapping case. taken at custody she had the presence of mind to get a good look at her kidnapper and gave police that description after he returned her home the next day. now police have a picture of that man during the 24 hour ordeal as he drove her around, stopping sometimes for food or gas. in her hometown people remained hopeful that investigators would be able to track him

down. >> pretty sure of it. yeah. he is going to do it again or, you know hope he just doesn't snap all the way. >> i don't think it was random. because that wasn't the only home in the neighborhood. i don't -- it's almost like somebody who had been there before or had to know them. it was just to specific of a act to me. >> let's take a look again at this man. police are not saying where the picture was taken but if you recognize him you should call the police department's criminal investigation section right now. the number is open. continuing coverage tonight on that giant sink hole that opened up yesterday in east baltimore. now a monumental business decision to make on monument street. many are asking should we open or close? want to take you to one of the main shopping districts that is just so happening to be near a hole, a hole so big it could swallow up people trying to

make a living. here is tim ruth. >> on a normal business day this stretch of east monument street would be teaming with potential customers for the merchants in the area. today this block looked more like a ghost town. >> nobody is in. nobody at home. >> reporter: the lack of walk in traffic at one store guarantees a slow day. >> we get a lot of movement from people visiting other businesses. what can you do? >> reporter: the sink home has closed a two block area on east monument street. the investigation into the cause of the sink hole is still very much in the early stages as fire crews and city work crews needed to first secure the area for the safety of their people, before repairs

can begin. >> i -- no customer here now. just a little bit customer. >> reporter: he may see more city worker customers than his regulars who are forced to go around the many roadblocks. >> no, no, no driving the car, no parking the car, no people coming here. >> reporter: merchants say weekends are important for these businesses here and the thought of a lost weekend has many of them concerned. >> normally the weekends are the best part. friday, saturday, sometimes sunday. i think it's going to be very, very slow. >> reporter: city officials say repairs here may take quite a while. the merchants here are resilent but it's more bad news in an already troubled economy. in east baltimore. >> well officials still not search about the extent of the damage and say they will continue to assess traffic and

road closures. baltimore county police have charged a man saying he had sexual contact with a 13- year-old boy he met using an app called grinder. police say the 36-year-old agreed to meet with the boy for sex near the boy's home. months later his parents found out. they called police. the detectives investigated, arrested him. he has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, sex offense and transfer hiv to another. police are not saying the hiv charge is connected to the 13- year-old. he is out on 75,000 dollars bail tonight but he is set to go on trial october the 11th. well if you knead to borrow sugar you should have been here. just after midnight . firefighters were called tout to the ramp here on 95 north and route 100 for after overturned tractor trailer full of sugar. pounds spilled out on the road along with more than 60 gallons of fuel.

the driver wasn't hurt. the firefighters were able to get it cleared up by two in the morning. we thought we were a beer town. take a look at montgomery where a truck overturned, it spilled cans of beer all over the road. state police say it happened on 270 just after four this morning but it was still messing up tracking through the morning rush. it's all cleared up now. the coast guard is out there looking for somebody who keeps calling them. six times so far to make fake disstress calls. they know it's coming the middle river area by a man between may first and june 1st. the calls led to four searches using air and water crews. that cost the coast guard $70,000. if the authorities catch the man he could face six years in jail. stand by. we could find out tomorrow about a special session to expand gambling. it was hush hush but we are told to expect the formal

announcement tomorrow. there have been a lot of behind the door meetings to let table games and build a new casino, why the rush? because you need to vote on it. we need to know how it'll look on the ballot by august 20th. a crack down on synthetic drugs ends with raids across the land including right near in baltimore. the dea will not confirm which locations they hit but they say baltimore is one of 109 cities raided as part a huge operation. they busted businesses selling drugs like k2, spice and bath salts w he have been warning you about these for months and they can have devastating effects on the young and buy them without much effort picking up the packets at smoke shops and gas stations, even convenience shops. >> sold in real looking packaging, these substances are marketed directly to teens and to young adults with benign and catchy titles. >> the dea said that as many

as 5 million packets of sin 94 i can drugs were take especially off the street as part of that round. our septemberors have been tracking the use and dangers and all the local lives they have affected. you can find all that on abc 2news.com under the other feature stories right there on the home page. on the heels of a series of reports our station in phoenix, ford just announced a recall for 48 5,000, 2001 to 2004 ford escapes and mavericks with three liter d6 engines. it stems the speed control carve issue that's been at the center of our investigation. the recall comes five months after the death of 17-year-old sage bloom. bloom's ford escape accelerated out of control and crashed in january killing her.

we found ford warned dealers about a speed control cable issue seven years ago. we looked at other crashes involving accelerating escapes and talked to people calling to for a second recall. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. you know because the -- the bloom investigation, we are going to get to the bottom of it. >> last week they announced it was investigating the 2001 to 2004 ford escapes and the mazda tribute. people impacted should have vehicles service promptly. we just spoke to mazda. they are look into the recall. here is another alert. the company responsible for bucky balls and bucky cubes being sued. kelly swoop with more on the suit and the products dangerous to the children. >> reporter: it's a federal suit that come cans our of

concern for the safety of our kids who have swallow oured them. the safety commission have been getting reports of kids swallowing them. children have had to be hospitalled or had surgery after the magnet clumped up inside them. >> the company and cpsc have been warning for a long time it's a product not for kids but the incidents still happen. in the end we have the obligation to keep children out of surgery and we feel like our action is intended to do that. >> now the makers of bucky balls and bucky cubes say magnets have been around for centuries and they say that it's sad that the consumer product safety commission went after them. they said their products marketed for people 14 and older and experts say it's its first time in more than a decade that the commission has filed a complaint like this.

>> all right. coming up next this may be the hardest lesson at the reversal of fortune. we meet a man who lost his leg in order to walk again. and back in the day stores used disposable bags, now we pay for them and reuse themselves ourselves but that can be bad for our health. we will explain. >> all right. 97 degrees, so far today. we predicted 98 for you. we have a two degree winner. that's going do be robert from baltimore. congratulations to you. give us your name on the website. when we come back a lot to talk about here, big storms rolling in and also, you can track those with the radar, at the abc2 weather app. . [ male announcer ] it would mean one billion dollars for maryland

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. it's amazing what doctors can do because of modern medicine. linda tells you about a remarkable surgery where doctors cutoff a man's leg to help him walk. . >> reporter: its been one step at a time for mike. he had a tumor deep inside his hip and at one point it looked like mike would have to be cut in half to save his life. >> [inaudible] you can save my right leg and please, please at all costs savor it and he said he would. >> reporter: the doctor said that because of the type and location of the tumor he had no choice but to remove the lower left part of his body to remove the cancer. then he had an idea. >> we knew we were going to take his lower leg and remove

it but the bones and the blood supply were not involved with the tumor. >> reporter: what happened next was medical history. doctors took the bones his leg and rebuilt his hip. by using his bones they hoped it would fuse together and the bones would grow like they were supposed to be there. a hope that quickly turned to reality. >> he is already fused. we saw it quickly that he fused. it was still blood supply going to the bones which promoted bone healing. >> reporter: that let mike get a high tech fake leg with tiny computers that help him learn to walk. >> got to the point where i can almost walk with no help at all. i think it's amazing as it is. >> reporter: something that wouldn't have been possible if doctors had not removed his leg. abc 2news. >> in all he went through 37 hours of surgery at ohio state's james cancer hospital with a team of hundreds of

doctors and others, and today mike is cancer free. his operation was named the regives the year. for the latest health news, just head to the website, right now or like us on facebook. we have another health warning, something many of us do, reusable grocery bags. they come in contact with chicken, meat, produce, which all has bacteria that can go this to the bags and the next time, it gets on other foods. >> it's important not to use grocery bags for other purposes, they should be set as grocery bags and as a matter of fact some recommend that you

label one for meats, for produce, that type of thing so you don't get in cross conanymore nation. >> there you go. it's important not to leave them in the truck where the heat gives the bacteria a boost. should you wash them after each trip and 97% said you never wash them. >> now the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> start off with the updated look of the severe thunderstorm watch. this is going to go in to the evening, we have multiple severe thunderstorm warnings i expect to see warnings into maryland. happy, this has been the recipe all july long. it's the peak heat waves and that intense heating of the day that helps fuel the frontal

boundary, pushing into the north. you end up getting a line of intense storms, we hit 97 today and the winner was robert. let's show you hershey through the day. you can see that's been a day of changing weather here and certainly some stormy weather moving in that way. kent island, a hot steamy view here. i want to talk you to the beach, a beautiful time of year here. no storms here but it was hot. well into the 90's. current conditions -- 97, winds southwest at ten and -- upper 90's, low 90's easton, 83 at the beach. beach side but -- 113 in the inner harbor. 110 in cambridge sot numbers tell the story. extreme heat and humidity. will we see a break?

can be get a break? yes but not really tonight or tomorrow. i think the break will come tomorrow evening into saturday, a new -- this front will drive itself through. slightly cooler area lives and we into the upper 80's or 90's. there is some relief but it won't be here tonight or tomorrow. we will get prefrontal storms in here as we go through the evening hours and part of it that narrow band of humidity. the moisture, that is pushing through. now it's the wide spread humidity. he had that break yesterday. chances of storms tonight. at least on the scattered basic especially for northern maryland. with that front shifting around i think more storms in to the afternoon. really it looks like that front is going to come down and stall over the midatlantic. more storms perhaps saturday arch. things could say unsettled.

overnight 78 with a few storms, the potential for strong gusty storms, more heat and humidity. 95 tomorrow. feeling more like 100 -- with clearing late. seven defrost, weekend forecast remaining unchanged with the numbers in to the mid90's friday, low 90s saturday and sunday. a break over the weekend but got to get through a hot, humid night tonight and again tomorrow. we will track those storms all evening of course here. >> must have been listening, we asked look ahead to august and what did you say? >> we could get one more good surge of heat. >> the same thing. this summer, you know its been hot. so its been causing a lot of droughts across the country. well things aren't going to be better this fall. . they are predicting august

through october nearly every state including ours will have hotter weather than normal. what do you do? you go to hartford. to the farm fair. 25 years ago, called the 4h fair. it brings the 4h's together to compete with one another. pigs chickens, all at horse center. complete with a petting zoo, plenty to heat and drink, or competing in the horseshoe pitching contest. eight dollars for adults and four for children. now the biggest crowd pleasers, friday and saturday night with the tractor pulls and that pull. hartford. one more reason to go to the farm fair tomorrow night. for the fair -- you are also going to look for a chance to be in a new game show. the show is called let's ask america. if you are picked you will com feet against people from all over the country, answering questions for cash.

the contestant search happens tomorrow. you will get to meet the host, plus they will host a casting call for people and that will be held from three until eight. let's ask america, the new half hour show will start at 7:30 on september 17 president and for more information on the show just go to abc 2news.com/laa. let's look at the roads, we are on the beltway. looks good.

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. here is wyatt . >> we see storms tonight. no question big line out of pennsylvania. tracking them on the radar. they are lined up on a line from about hershey to harrisburg, several hours before we are dealing with them here in maryland but you can see look at the numbers driving the heat. 108 baltimore, 1507 richmond. the numbers, 103 philadelphia. those are the real feel temperatures, it's pretty extreme and those are the watches and warnings, includes all of maryland with a severe thunderstorm watch that will extend into the lat effort part of the light here. we will see if it stays up or we bring it down but watching for potential strong storms, especially on the maryland

state line. >> we will watch that. we will see you tonight at 11. world news is next.