that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning america." have a great tuesday. you're watching the station that works for you good morning maryland at 4 chn 30. no one deserves this. a cockeysville woman attacked after walking her dog. the advice she is giving so itdoesn't happen to you. thousands people could have been affected with hepatitis c. now we have details about the man at the center of the investigation. >> he we love ocean city for the beaches and entertainment but there's nothing fun about what has been happening to some women. we will tell you about that on this tuesday july 31st. i am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle. thanks for joining news welcome back. >> if you have flown with children oregon on vacation with them, your vacation is very different. >> let's go over to lynette

charles in with a check of the forecast. >> good morning. so glad to have you back, megan. let's talk about the weather. as we look at maryland's most powerful radar, close to home, things look pretty good. we are nice and dry. as we slide to the south around lexington park you are look at showers and thunderstorms and around salisbury this morning, we have showers and thunderstorms popping up around that area. going throughout the day hour by hour, 6 a.m. the temperature at 72 degrees. i am keeping the chance for showers in here even as we head through the morning. look at what we have by 3 p.m. the temperature topping off at 86. scattered storms throughout the day. let's check the abc2 traffic with lauren cook worse rear dealing -- >> reporter: we are dealing with the water main break in downtown baltimore. you can use hopkins place as an alternate or mass transit would be a great option. now if you are using the jfx to get into the city, no delays.

an 11-minute ride from the beltway to east fayette street and here's a live look at what 695 looks like at packville. no probable -- parkville. no problems up to 83. using 95, to get into the city, this is 395, no delays through the fort mchenry tunnel. but watch out in east baltimore the sink hole is a huge problem on monument street. look this is the repairs underway -- look at the repairs underway. the city said this is such a huge problem that it may turn off some residents' water within the next week it should be repaired. until then use or liens -- oral -- orlean street. >> you think you would be safe walking your dog. >> that's what 574-year-old thought until she was attacked. this woman fought back and has a incredible story. >> reporter: its appears the robber had her eye on the 74-

year-old taking notice of her morning routine and her age. but gwyn sirota was willing to fight the woman who attacked her in her home. you may find the video graphic. show was walking her dog around8:30 like she does every day. she lives in the valley crossing community in cockeysville and said hello, to a woman and noticed the woman turn around. that alarm her and she went back to her house and walked inside the unlocked front door and sought woman inside her home. the woman attacked her and shefought back. the suspect then pulled out a kitchen knife. she was not stabbed but she had stitches inside and outside of her mouth from fighting. a neighbor what hunch something was not right when she saw the dog out. >> i range the bell once and she didn't come to the door and range rang it twice and the doog dog what strange whine so i rang the bell a third time and she was standing there and after a minute, she comes out

and she was bleeding profusely and her face was out to here. >> reporter: the suspect left out the back door with the wallet, credit cards and cell phone. linda so, abc2 news. he lived for 68 years but police hope whoever killed herman regis will spend years in prison. they found the body in northeast baltimore last thursday. his family had not seen or spoken to him for sometime. they had to get fire fighters to get inside the front door where they found the body. officers say he was murdered and they don't have suspects yet. family members and victims packed the courtroom to face the man who accused of killing 12 people in the colorado movie theater. james holmes were charged with nearly 150 counts yesterday in court including 24 counts of first-degree murder. the judge banned cameras in the courtroom. but witnesses say holmes had the red hair. family members of the victims who showed up in the courtroom

had a lot to say after seeing holmes. >> i felt resentment that anybody could take away someone's life for just going to the movies. and i also felt sorry for him in the sense that here was a brilliant person that could have done a lot of good but what went wrong? >> some of the people who showed up to see holmes in the courtroom wore batman t-shirts. one what splint on her arm from the shooting. if you live in crafton you may be take -- crofton you may be talking about the man who talked about blowing everybody up at work. he is in jail this morning after making threats late last week. he's been seeing doctors for a psychiatric evaluation. police discovered two dozen weapons in his apartment and he has not been charged until police say they gather more information on this case. and when you hear stories like this or the movie theater shooting we have been talking

about, it sparks a debate over gun control and there's a poll by the pew research center. 46% of americans say it's more important to protect the rights of americans to own guns. however 47% say it's more important to control gun ownership. the latest poll is sim is lar to one done back in april. -- similar to one done in april. ladies if you are headed to ocean city soon, you need to know where you're walking and with whom you are talking. sherrie johnson is here to explain and what's now led the warnings coming out from ocean city police. >> reporter: within the past month, there's been three attempted sexual assaults in ocean city. police warn women to be extra careful. authorities with the ocean city police department say someone is targeting young women finishing up a night of partying and taking advantage of the situation. on each attempted assault, the girls were able to fight back and get away from the attacker. now police tell us all three of the attacks happened between 50

and 62nd street in ocean city. >> walking in poorly lit areas and secluded areas and he approached and made a conference and then attempted to zek sexually assault them -- sexually assault them. >> reporter: police are have not caught suspect but they encourage people to be vigilant. >> the number one factor is safety. but specifically what advice are people giving people. >> reporter: yes, police are offering advice if you head down to the ocean. the buddy system is very important. never walk alone. and if you have to go somewhere by yourself, tell someone where you are going and the route you are taking to get there. be sure to not drink too much and be aware of your surroundings. and walk in well lit places. charley. >> all right. abc2 news sherrie johnson thanks for that report this morning. we have learned the traveling medical technician accused of causing a help titus outbreak wrote a suicide break saying he couldn't handle the stress and this a week before

his arrest. >> he worked for four maryland hospitals including johns hopkins ept with a arrested after reportedly finding him impaired in a hotel room. he is suspected of presidenting -- spreading hepatitis c to several hospitals at 7 hospitals in the u.s. lightning scene lighting up the skies during the olympic games. those rainstorms intense heat not causing problems for the thousands who are there attending the olympic games. all right that's a spectacular sight but we have lightning of our own across the lower 48. a lot of spots this morning, as we zoom in closer to home, not dealing with the thunderstorms directly but traveling to the south in southern maryland, around st. mary's county and calvert county and crossing the bay there, are thunderstorms across the area dumping a lot of rain. so if you get trapped in the thunderstorms that's a good thing because we need the

rainfall. right now, temperatures are on the warm side coming in at 68 degrees in manchester. good morning. west friendship 67. carney at 70. rock hall at 69. 67 in darlington. 70 in elkton and middletown around 71. goldsboro at 69 degrees. i will have the 7-day forecast coming up but right now let's go back to megan. >> thanks. the prices of produce may be weighing in on your wallet there may be a sweet side to the drought sweeping a cull tar across the united states. according-- agriculture across the united states. according to time magazine you could get more for your money when you talk about flavorch the more water the juicier they are. 4:39 and sumer is winding down for many of -- summer is winding down for many of us. it's time to head back to school but it's not easy especially when it comes to buying school supplies. >> that's where abc2 news come

in. we are teaming up with the preston mitchum junior foundation for the back to school drive. mitchum a multimedia journalist here and the items include backpacks wide ruled paper pens pencils. drop it off at any of the 20 locations. >> head to abc2news.com/school supplies to learn more. imagine taking your child to the hospital only to have him or her be raised by someone else. >> that's what a lady d find out -- did -- did. find out her punishment. and more and more people rending up in emergency rooms just from walking. why some say watch where you aregoing. >> and a tweet got a university student big trouble. the charges that young man is now facing. time for a check of the road with lauren. >> reporter: well, everything is up to speed on 695 at

wilkins avenue. i will show you what 95 and 83 look like. and you are look live at abby road. beautiful way to start the day. stay with us. there's much more coming up.

live look at statue of liberty at ellis island in the big apple. things look pretty clear out there. over the past few days we have had a little bit of fog kind of covering lady liberty. good to see things are clear this morning. if i ever was near him i would cut his tongue out so he could never talk. >> that was words from a an 83- year-old woman who said she was scamed out of thousands of dollars. listen to this. grandmother of 9 from georgia didn't want her face on tv because she says someone called her last week and pretend to be one of her grandsons.

person told her he was in jail for a dui crash. another person called claiming to be her grandson's lawyer. she ended up wiring nearly 6,000 dollars to mexico to pool she didn't know. police say there is not much they can do sin the money was sent out of the country. -- since the money was sent out of the country. a detroit woman who was fighting a flesh eating bacteria died. she picked it up after having a boil removed at a hospital. it's unclear if she died from the infection or complications from the type 2 diabetes. woman who took a sick baby from a hospital in 1987 is on her way to prison a judge sentenced her to 12 years for taking a baby and raising it as her own. that baby she is 25 years old. she was able to solve her own kidnapping after seeing a picture on a missing children's website. petway pled guilty to kidnapping and apologized to the biological parents. the woman's birth father says the sentence is not enough. >> she may be sorry because she

got a period of time. but i don't think she was sorry. to me she was under the state of mind to kidnap a baby and get back home to connecticut you are in the state of mind to get back home and you know what you done to me. so, i don't have sympathy forher. >> lawyers for petway says she was mentally suffering after miscarriages and still births at the time she took the baby. a kent state university sophomore is in big trouble with the police of the officers arrested the 19-year-old after police say he twite tweeted to shoot up the -- tweeted to "shoot up the campus" he is charge with aggravated menacing and he may be expelled. he is on bond after pleading not guilty. it was a really big traffic mess for some drivers in parts of northeast china. a rainstorm swept through the area. look at this leaving the roads flooded. it was waist deep watter. >> what's worse some of the

flooded roads were paved. a drain company pumped the water from the drain to help get the traffic moving. these are video images we have been seeing coming from china for the past several days. >> time to check our weather and our traffic. >> yes. and it's extremely important never to drive in flooded waters like that. >> exactly. >> very dangerous. >> turn around and don't drown is what i go with. but you know we could see thunderstorms hopefully some big ones. we need rain but hopefully of course we don't want anybody to get hurt with that but we need the rainfall. let's show you the current conditions and we will talk about satellite and radar. right now, we are looking at 71 degrees in owings mills. 71 in pasadena. and pylesville at 66 degrees right now. and we can see the humidity 96% in owings mill and 93 in pylesville right now. the winds are on the light side and they will be turning around out of the east. we are going to be looking at once again a very humid day on tap for us. now we look at the future temperatures. if you are heading out and about at lunchtime, you are

wondering if you shed eat in or outdoors. you can go outdoors. we have the chance for thunderstorms. so keep your eye to the sky. isolated to scattered in nature. 82 in baltimore. frederick around 81. as we go through your lunchtime. easton along the eastern shore coming in at 83 and salisbury more of the same there. and we will be also dealing with those temperatures pumping up as we go throughout the day but not as hot as we are going to get as we go into the weekend. so speaking of that, it's it -- i have it for you as we look at highlights. saturday, sun cloud mix hot and humid and temperatures around 92 after a start of 70. sunday, that temperature coming in right around 92 degrees. and we will have the chance for scattered storms in the forecast. so once again get ready for the heat to pump back up. let's check the abc timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. we have a few problems in baltimore city. we are dealing with the repairs to the water main break. light street is shut down between baltimore and lombard street.

you can use hopkins place as an alternate. east baltimore, a huge searching hole. so monument street will be closed between patterson park avenue and wolf street. no problems on 95 through white marsh. it will be clear as you head towards eastern avenue. and heading out to the harrisburg expressway, this is what it looks like in hunt valley at shawan road. nothing to get in your word towards 695. and this is what the beltway looks like in overly lea overrule -- over lea -- overlea. five things to know before you head out the door this morning. new health care coverage for women takes effect tomorrow under the affordable care act. senator barbara mikulski isjoining democrats today to announce the plan. >> the rally at penn state in a parking lot there. a radio program hosting a rally to show support for the football players who decided to remain with the nittany lions

amid the sanctions. with the drought situation growing worse every day, the house rules committee is meeting to consider extending the food conservation and energy act making agriculture disaster assistance available to farmers this year and next year. a nationwide campaign against same sex marriage now being launched by a group of african american members of the clergy. the coalition of african american pastors says the president is threatening the civility of families by embracing same sex marriage. the trial against in drew peterson who is charged with murdering his third wife in 2004. he is a person of interest in the des appearance of his fourth wife. news time 4:49. you know walking is something, well, we do it every day. some of us are good at it some not so good. >> it's basically landing more and more of us in the emergency room walking. you might say how is that possible? it has to do with being distracted and causing serious

-- distracted and causing serious injury. >> we will be warm today and humid. the temperature by lunchtime coming in around 8 # degrees. -- 82 degrees. as you head out and about take the rain gear because we have the possibility of a scattered shower or thunderstorm to pop up throughout the day.

4:52 right now. 7 to he -- 72 degrees a pretty cool picture. that's a picture of the torch on the statue of liberty. it's 71 degrees there. not very different from what we are experiencing this tuesday morning. all right. megan that's so true. we have some clouds out there. and also we have a chance for showers and thunderstorms as we go throughout the day. i am going to keep a chance in this morning and basically as we head into the afternoon, more of the same. so as you head out and about, do grab the rain gear. we can see right now as we head

south into southern maryland in the bay there's thunderstorm a cross the area dumping heavier rain and hopefully it will slide off towards the east and put rain over land where we need it because we are dealing with a severe drought across the eastern shore. this is the forecast trend for today. i am going with 86 degrees andthose temperatures get hotter if you don't like the hotter weather, wool see 93 as we head -- we will see 93 as we head into friday and saturday and sunday around 92. hot temperatures back on tap. get out and enjoy today because we will be a little below average with some of that cloud cover. let's check of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. >> reporter: good morning. we are dealing with a sink hole in east baltimore street -- in east baltimore. mob unit street will be shut down between wolf and patterson park avenue. traveling in the area, stick with orleans as an alternate. and if you are traveling through the harbor tunnel, fortunately that construction not having an effect on traffic

right now. 895, nice and clear and as we head out to howard county, here's a look at interstate 70 at columbia pike. and if you are heading towards the beltwayings no delays. it will be a nice easy ride. as we check in and look live at drive times, the west side of the beltway in great shape this morning. 11 minutes on the outer loop from 795 down towards 95. and if you are using the jfx no delays there either. it's going to take 11 minutes as well traveling southbound to the beltway all the way down to east fayette street and 59 nice and clear through fort mchenry. 8 travels from the beltway to the toll plaza. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic now over to you. here's something we all do and all of us able are do, walk. and we do it while talking on the phone and getting an e-mail and texting. >> emergency rooms are seeing four times the number of patients injured by walking while distracted. >> four times? >> four times. >> all right. lindsay davis tells