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conditions will repane the same -- remain the same. 12 minutes from 95 up to 83 on the outer loop. that's your timesaver traffic. our top story men and women try clothes on in coed fitting rooms at the target in columbia. but now customers are questioning whether or not that's a good idea. after the man you see behind me is allegedly caught exposing himself to women who were trying on clothes. however target is not the only store with the coed fitting rooms. cheryl conon looks at the -- connor looks at three other stores. >> reporter: on dobin road in chum yeah men are next to women changing in the seam area. here's the photographer preston meachum a few steps ahead and he minds his business, howard county police say this man didn't keep his pants up. >> oh, my god it's awful i feel like i have to watch my direction and everyone who is around and behind me.
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>> reporter: two women made similar complaints on saturday night. one reported the man beside her kept his door opened and as she went in and out he stared at her and exposed himself. you think fitting rooms should be coed. >> i don't understand that and never heard of that and don't think they should be. >> reporter: the second woman said she stepped out of her changing room when she came back, the man was in her room parading his parts and asking her to join him. she walked away. women in the fitting room are having a fit next. >> posure is traumatic and horrifying but you question the one person that takes it a step further. >> reporter: in the same shopping center we went to nordstrom rack but old navy mixes it up a spokesperson says different target stores have different layouts. take another look at this man as police want to ask why his pants were down when the dressing room door was open. >> i think the females should
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have privacy to undressing without a male entering the room or making mistake and coming into the same dressing room. >> that was cheryl conner reporting. target has not said whether they will separate men and women but police are still searching for the man from that surveillance photo. if you recognize they want to hear from you. call police here's the number 410-313-stop. matthew fortese who was beaten in camden yards has been transferred to rehab but the road to recovery is just beginning. sherrie johnson is live with the details and i understand his family is making an appeal to anyone who may have seen anything. >> reporter: they want anyone who has seen anything to come forward. and you know we are here at camden yards and he checked out of shock trauma and is at a rehabilitation hospital where it will be months before we
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know how much damage was done to him. now it was an orioles national game on may 29th when he was on a date and get being heckeled by two men. according to court records, fortese got up to and he was pu back and sustained a serious head injury. he spent weeks under doctor's care in shock trauma but is finally well enough to begin rehab. he is learning to walk and talk all over again and his family tells us they are beginning to see what they called his electric personality. >> coming back a little bit, slowly, he is starting to understand things a little more. starting to ask some more questions, starting to recognize some people more but then the next breath he can say something totally off the wall that makes no sense. >> reporter: fortese is making progress but his family says it's long road a-- to a full recovery. his family wants answers and
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wants folks to coming up at 5:30 we will show you how to help if you have information on this case. reporting live, sherrieionson, abc2 news. opening statements are expected today in the trial of a baltimore county police officer james laboard who was off duty last june when he says a group of kids including a teenage named christopher brown threw rocks at his frond door and ran off. witnesses say he chased down the kid catching up with brown. and official say brown died and prosecutors say he died from asphyxiation. he is charged with man slaughter. officials say carbon monoxide is to blame for sending 8 people to the hospital. fire crews detected high levels of co when they arrived at group home in parkville. but this morning authorities are not sure where the gas originated. bge checked the place out and couldn't find a leak. officials say the investigation is continuing. we broke the story for you yesterday on good morning maryland and you can always be the first to know about breaking news by following us
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on twitter at abc2 news under the hash tag gmm. when you get carry out in baltimore city, it will be in a styrofoam container a bill bans bamming the use of the foam cups and containers is going back to committee. they decided not to vote after members withdrew support. u.s. naval academy is moving forward with sexual assault charges. official say they are sending the case to article 32 proceedings and the military equivalent for a grand jury investigation. the female midshipman says the assault occurred at an off campus house last year. authorities have yet to release specific ideas about the charges against the players. new plans at pentagon could have women training for combat roles in two years. the pentagon is expected to announce the plans today. it could open thousands of jobs for women in the mill tarry. official say women may begin training for jobs in army ranger and navy seal units by
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the middle of 2015. earlier this year then secretary of defense leon pineta order all jobs be opened to women lls a specific request was made. news time 4:38 and 30 years ago today sally ride was the first to fly in space. june 18th, 1983 ride made history when she blasted into orbit aboard the challenger. she went back again in 1984 after retiring from nasa she works as physics professor and founded a company. she passed away from cancer last summer. the anniversary comes as nasa class of astronauts make history of their own. of the 8 new astronauts half are women, the highest number. they were picked from pool of more than 6,000. they will report for duty in august at johnson space center in houston.
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now, maryland's most accurate forecast. >> let's talk about the temperatures this morning. we are seeing 77 degrees right now in baltimore city. 72 in elk ridge and ellicott city we are at 71 in cockeysville. woodbine you are coming in at 69 degrees and the temperatures are not going to raise that much. we will deal with cloud cover and a chance for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. we won't see as much sun as yesterday but the moisture is going to be around. look at the dew points once again. so we are talking about very humid air. it's going to be sultry for today. 72 for a dew point right now in annapolis so it's going to be uncomfortable. but then we will get dry air work in here as we go through the next several days. satellite and radar, we are socked in with the clouds and we have a nasty thunderstorm roll through kent county earlier and we have more on the way. i will break those down coming up but let's go back over to megan and charley. give this a thumbs up.
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organ donation is up. >> the p push behind it might surprise you. we will tell you what cooered more people into becoming organ donors thanks to something most of us use every day. >> more than 500 homes destroyed in wild fires. this morning, some people are returning back to what used to be their homes to see what's left. >> reporter: well, no delays here on 70 at columbia pike. i will show you what the other main lines look like and have the latest drive times coming up on good morning maryland.
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new for you this morning we use social immediatal for all times things to stay -- media for all times of things. now it's used in a new way and it's helping to save lives. health reporter linda so is here to explain and what is this all about. >> reporter: it's called the facebook effect. researchers at hopkins discovered social media can have a huge impact on getting people to become an organ donor. researchers sawed a 21 fold increase suggestion social media could be effect any of dealing with organ shortage in the u.s. the boost in numbers came last may when facebook created a way for useers to share the organ donor status with friends and provided easy links to make their status official on websites. it's more than 18,000 people on waiting list for organs. and the findings the study are publish in the american journal of transplantation. back to you.
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taking a look at other stories around the world this morning, final day of the g-8 summit is underway. in less than an hour the president will join the rest of the leaders to the signature of the g-8 family photo. he will meet with the president of france before leaving for northern ireland and germany. yesterday the president met with russian counterpart slad mir puton and -- putten and they tried to -- putin. they tried to find common ground they agreed to have a difference of opinion on the issue. the russian president is the only g-8 leader who backs the president al assad's regime. there could be a significant turning point when america's longest and costliest wars. afghan president karzai is expected to announce the forces are ready to leave the security from the u.s. and take over for natal forces. this are questions as to whether the afghan force is ready to take full responsibility. the u.s. is said the afghanistan will get the weapons it needs to fight such
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as transport helicopters cargo planes and ground support airplane. president obama has not said how many soldiers will leave afghanistan along with nato forces. 15 minutes away from 5 this morning. closer to home new developments in the massive wild fire in colorado black forest fire. investigators believe the fire was human caused. meantime, officials say the fire is mostly contained and they have listed more evacuation orders about they are not letting people back in where there was a lot of devastation in a small sigh vinity -- vinsenity because it's being treated -- vicinity because it's being treated as crime scene. investigators want to preserve evidence. firefighters are working to make sure all the hot spots are put out. authorities say that the fire is to blame for the destruction of502 homes and two deaths. it's 14 minutes before 5. time for a check of the forecast. lynette was talking about a
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thunderstorm that rolled through but yesterday felt humid. >> it did i guess that's how it's going to be. >> we will be humid again for today. we have dew points in lot of spots in the 70s. with that, we have the potential for more widespread thunderstorms as we go throughout the day. you can see back off towards the south and west, it will begin to make et cetera way in here and i am thinking -- its way in here and i am thinking we will see more shower formation with thunderstorms developing into the afternoon more. but this is the culprit. we have a slow moving front and with this, we will have the potential for a little disturbance right along the front enhancing the thunderstorms as well as all the moisture kicking in from the gulf of mexico. so once again we are going to have to watch flooding. we have a flood wash in virginia this morning. pourss of verge and west -- portions of virginia and west virginia. temperature wise we are at 72 in annapolis and it's warm this morning. it's 71 in reisterstown and churchville is at 67. good morning eye amville at 68
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degrees. and easton 73, 70 in goldsboro and galena at around 65. so let's head to the tropics because yes we are still watching which is now a tropical depression moving inland towards belize dropping lots of rein across the area. -- rain across the area. it will stay with us as it makes the westerly jog away from the u.s. and that's good news. now, as we look at abc2's most accurate future trend it picks up on a few showers coming in through the morning. more thunderstorms catered -- scattered in nature. and we dry things out especially as we head towards the end of the week. this is what the planner looks like for today. warm and it's going to be humid and we will have those thunderstorms in the forecast with the high temperature only coming in right around 83 degrees. the 7-day forecast is coming up. but right now let's check the track with lauren. >> reporter: hopefully we will see sunshine. if you are getting an early headstart no problems on 83.
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here's a live look in hunt valley at shawan road, it will be nice and clear as you make the push down to the beltway and get on to the jfx and head into city. moving to harford county a. live look at 95, south of route 24, no problems getting down to white marsh and once you did it's going to be a nice easy stretch into the city. just a 7 minute ride from the harbor tunnel throughway to the fort mchenry tunnel toll plaza. no problems on the east side of the beltway. traveling the outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83, a normal 11-minute trip. over on the west side things will remain nice and calm. 12 minutes on the outer loop from 795 all the way down to 95. that's your timesaver traffic. school is out for summer but when students get back they will see big changes. >> yeah coming up, one district is putting in place for newer tougher and even more strenuous testing for your kids.
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former secret service agent plans to run for congress again. he is scheduled a news conference today in frederick where he is expected to formally announce plans to run for the republican nomination for maryland 6th district. he will be at the american legion for that announcement he served on the security detail on george w. bush and about a rack obama. he ran for senate but was -- barack obama he ran for senate but was defeated by cardin. a commemorative coin
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program kicks off today. it's a fun way for kids of all ages to keep track of the sights and events of the war of 1812. those who receive 10, 1812 stamps from participating places around the city are eligible for a commemorative coin. the mayor will join employees from the baltimore national heritage area for the kick off event. before the 2013 season starts get a peek at how the super bowl champs will look for the second year in a row, you will be allow to attend free individual training practices on august 4th at m and t bank stadium august 11th at navyme marine corps stadium and you must enter a lottery to attend the practice at receivesson university and you can enterer to wintry tickets to-- win tickets to training camp. the o's hope to get back in the win column tonight but it will not be easy at all. they are facing one of the best pitchers in the american
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leagueall of baseball. the bird lost last night 5-19 final score. davis provided the only highlight with his 24th home run leading all major league baseball. pitcher lasted 4 innings in his return to baseball and was sent down to trippal a after the game. first pitch at 7:00. it's fun to go home with the ball e baseball game especially from a world series game. so it's no wonder if young girl goes crazy when she gets a foul ball during the college world series game. the batter hits a foul ball and it bounce off the railing and lands on the field and the player sees the kids eyeing it and throws it to them. you can see the young girl cannot contain her excitement. she is pretty psyched. everybody in the studio is smiling watching that video i am love it. >> it looks like she is taunting everyone. >> and the boys are trying to get it from her.
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we like that a lot. let's talk about what's going on because we will be dealing with warm weather this morning and very humid weather and that's going to linger into the afternoon. that temperature is coming in around 83 degrees. this time of the year we should be at 84. so we are a little below it. but with the humidity we won't feel like it. we will have the cloud hanging around and the showers and storms. that's what's going to keep the temperatures a little bit below for today. by tonight, the temperature coming in at 64 degrees. we will still be sticky and we have the potential for the showers and storms across the area. and we see changing in the forecast as we go into tomorrow. because we will be mostly cloudy and that temperature dropping off a bit with a slight chance of showers in the forecast. and then finally, we get some relief as thursday and friday roll in with less humid air. so i know a lot of people in the studio are he can seated-- exciteed about that. >> reporter: well, if you are traveling in anne arundel couldn'ty this is 9 -- county this is 97 at route 100 pushing
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from route 50 up to the 895 will's nothing in your way. traveling on 95, a live look at 195, no problems getting down to dc and northbound lanes will be clear as you make the push up to the beltway. looking at a 12-minute trip from route 32 up to 695. west side of the beltway moving right along taking 11 minutes on the inner loop from 95 to 795 and no problems on the outer loop from # 3 to 795 taking you 8 minutes. megan and charley over to you. in this morning education alert last week we told you about dozens of layoffs to teachers in har forecounty. now we can -- harford tonighty now the teachers that remain will face new challenges. common core standard are coming to maryland for the 2013-14 school year. that means tougher newer testing for kids. the harford county board of education called meet to explane the program last night. explain the program last night. they had the meeting so school official say many of those
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positions are being restored. the losses could come through retirements instead of layoffs but still, there will likely be fewer teachers to implement the testing program. >> at this . i think we have done the best we can to -- point i think we have done the best we can to save as many positions as we can. and they are trying to save more. >> we have a link for more information about the common core standards on the website abc2news.com if you are curious. we will be right back. hey, look! a shooting star!
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okay we have seen it animals dressed in clothes. but these next pictures may takethe cake. >> new outfit for your pet is up for auction this is for your beginy pig a cyst armor built for a againy pig up for-- beginy pig a suit of honor built. lock at lynette on ebay saying the proceeds will go to an organization that finds homes for guinea pigs. start bidding. good morning maryland at 5 starts right now. a surprise for shoppers at a area store. what they encountered when they
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walked into a dressing room and what many are saying needs to be done. >> army rangers navy seals ease leet positions will not be limited to men. >> 8 people hospitalized after being sick at a group home. what test results show coming up on this tuesdayi am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle. it will be a nice day if you like the warmer weather. here's meteorologist lynette charles. you a fan of the humidity. >> no. gosh i don't think any woman is. bad hair day. this is not going to be good at all. >> throw it in a mowny -- ponytail. >> right now, it's dry but don't let it fool you. as you head out the door, grab the rain gear because we will see showers and thunderstorms rolling in here especially as we go into the afternoon. but the rain could start as we go later into the morning hours. temperatures are on the warm side this morning. look at shadyside at 71 right now. sykesville at 70. and catonsville at 71.
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look what's going on in owings mills. 68 and the dew point at 68. yes, we have patchy fog across the area as that humidity is at 1 hundred%. aber -- 100%. aberdeen 67 and we don't have wind to stir up the atmosphere. 70 in columbia. and these temperatures as we go into the afternoon won't be that hot and the reason why is we will have the cloud around. we will have the showers and thunderstorms that's going to keep us a little bit below average. so your planning your day and waking up this morning, as 6:00, 71 degrees will be the temperature. by lunchtime 81 with the showers and storms in the forecast. let's check the traffic with lauren. >> reporter: well, if you are heading downtown, the jfx nice and clear nothing in your way from the beltway to east fayette street. a normal 11 minutes and there's no problems to report on 95. southbound lanes at 55 miles per hour

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