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year. >> more on the ota this week. and here is jenniferrgilbert with the "late edition". >> thatts not good judgment. >> former officers weigh-in on a police-involved shooting. the things they have to say about carrying a weapon while off duty. >> and we're making no illusions. other than a catastrophe. >> progress in the gulf. >> 1.5 million cars recalled. the thing that could make them >> and how long balttmore's wwshington monument will be closed for repairss >> live, in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 nnws "late edition". >> hello, i am jennifer gilbert, jeff barnd is off tonight. a deadly shooting in mount
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vernon is raising new questions about off duty police officers and weapons. jeff abell is live in mount vernon with the latest on the story. jeff? >> right here in this alley over the week where the bullets flew. and came from the weapon of an off-duty police officer, who detectives say had jjst left a night club. whether officer should be charged. but it rrraiies questions about off duty police officers and service revolvers. do they belong in a bar? tonight two retired police officers say it is a matter off3 common sense. >> first of all, if i walk outside, without my gun, i am in jeopardy because everyone in the city has one buu me. if i add alcohol to that formula, that's not good judgment. understand your position. as to who you are and what you are. >> >> off-duty police officer under
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investigation remains on desk duty tonight. while prosecutors decide which3 move to make next. live in mount vernon. jeff abell, fox 45 news "late edition". >> the trial for a baltimore3 city police officer accused of3 an unjustified shooting gets underway today. and officer is expected to take the stand in his own defense. the first full day of testimony3 sanders is accused of shooting and killing 27-year-old edward hunt. hunt waa shot twice in the back. in january of 2008. 's trieddto run away from sanders eye witnesses and family members talked exclusively to fox 45 news after leaving the courthouse today. >> crazy. iisane. insane. you see people get killed but you don't expect to see officers shoot somebody. %-wrong you do nottexpect it. >> sad that thee just, out here, like their own little gang.
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do what they want to do because they have a badge. >> the defeese, arrues saaders fired at hunt ecause he believed the suspect was %-no weapon was ever recovered from theescene. >> 80-year-old man is accused of killing his 83-year-old wife inú southwess baltimore. police arrived at the scene on north augusta avenue before investigators say the suspect's daughter had dropped him off at the home. anddlater she heard screaas coming from inside of the home. she tried to get in but was locked out. and a neighbor heard all the commotion. >> old time he was banging heú was beating her up. i didn't hear it. >> when police arrived officers forccd the way inside of thh homee there they found phillip reid in a bedroom chokkig his wife glennie. shh died at the scene. rrid faces first-degree murder ccarges. >> well this is a live look at the massive oil spill in the
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gulf of mexico. bp executives say the company expects to be capturing eventually all the leaking oil by early next week.ú this s as lawmakers in washington start to ask lotssof and local residents, even celebrities try to do everything they can to help. >> christopher ones gets choked up at a senate hearing about big oil.ú as he testifies about losing his brother, who was killed in the explosion on the deep waterú horizon oil rig in april. he also reacted to recent comments by bp's ceo. >> in particular, he publicly statee e wants his life back. mr. haywarr, i want my brother's life back. >> at a washhigton briefing, admiral alan heading the oil containnent cap is diminishing %-although he said the challenge is immense. >> making no illusions, other
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than a catastrophe. >> along the gulf tourists are soaking up the sun on thee3 beaches and stepping carefully around chuuks of black sticky tar. >> we have been in the water swimming, you know. i feel safe. pains taking work to help pell cans. it takes about an hour to cllan one. >> they are so happy nce they ú%e clean. and it makes you feel good this part of the operation is being done. >> new orleans saints worked at a rally.3 governor jindal tood the crood they are at warrto protect the louisiana simplest this is about wetlands and fisheries. -his is about our way of life in louisiana. >> welllnext week, theeceo of bp is scheduled to make his first trip capitol hill to testify coomittee. in the meantime today, the company announce that had any proceeds rom the sale of oil captured from the spill. will be donated to a new wildlife funnd >> traveling through bwi
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thurrood marshall airport is now a lot more intrusivee body scanners are now standard practice at bwi thurgood marshall airport. until today, they had been used as a backup method for security screening. tsa said other airports will increase the use of body sccnners too. and hope to add some 350 more of the machines nationwide. by the end of the year and that brings us to thh question of the day. are full body scanners an invasionnof privacy? so far 71 percent say yes. 29 percent ssy no. one viewer writes on facebook. once aggin you have the liberty to refuse anddtake another form of transportation. nobody is going to handcuuf and you say get in the scanner. christine writes. i can guarantee ou i will not use bwi thurgood marshall airport and will instead use another airport such as dulles or flat out drive the entire waa. >> in tonight's news you need to off flights may get ore money.
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department of transportation wants to raise the cash compensation up to $1300. the dot also wants to require refunds if your bags are not delivered on time. and they want to let people cancel bookings wittin 24 hours, %->> general motors is pulling 1.5 million vehicles off the road. involving pickups, suvs and cars ú%om model years 2006 through 2009. the problem is with a heated3 windshield wiper fluid that can cause fires. gm will disable the feattre and pay owners $100. for more information about the recall and to see theemodels affeed go to our website foxbaltimore.com/news links. >>well,,baltimore's washington monument is closed for, at least, three months. announcement comes after he abrupt closing last week because of saaety concerns. city is work wing a engiieering firm to inspecttthe 178-foot mounment. and make improvements necessary
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so it can reopen to the public. in time for the annual lighting ceremony traditionally held the first thursday december. espeeially with weather like today. and we have changee. vytas reed is here to let us know is apppning tomorrow. >> talking about december? >> yeah, we are. but again, long way off. >> lets think about the niceú weather out there right now. changes are coming. we talled about rain and rumbling into the area tomorrow. on radar, no activity around the zoomiig outt nothing going on around the state. put it in motion. ok out there west of garrett county. leading edge of showers pushing -n. we can get showers by morning rush hour and morniig commute into the afternoon. maybe thunderstorms. quarter of an inch to maybe an inch and a half depending on where the heavier rain is. be prepared for that. temperatures in the lower 70s right now. and cooler day tomorrow. on the daily planner. thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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out of the upper 60s. so changes coming. tell but a better laterrhalf of the week coming up. >> the black bear is causing quite a stir in northern baltimore county. residents in parkton spotted th3 bear in fields and front lawns neer the woods. one neighbor was able to snap a picture of him before he ran away. ú%other man got a picture of the paw print that the bear left bear does not appear to be aggressive or dangerous. %->> i was sitting in y itchen eating lunch and my dog started %-i weet out and looked outside thinking it was ssmebody walking by and it was bear,,walking across the field, across the street. >> well, dnr officials are tracking the bear's movement. they thhnk it came from pennsylvania and recently was spotted in harford. baltimore and nnw carroll counti. >> the man onceeaccused of
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quick thinking helped them prevent a possible murder this aaternoon. they james dean waa holding his estranged wife at gunpoint at ú%is home in crowns vil. police say dean had poured a flammable liquiddaround the home and was threatening to kill her and take his own life. but things changed when she was able to use her cell phone to send a text meesage. >> the person on the end of the call called the police officers, police depaatment and officer >> after police got to the scene, dean shot and killed himself but his wife was not hurt. >> the man once a suspect in the death of natalie holloway admits to killing a 21-year-old womaa in peru. sandra endo he has the latest o3 the investigation into the investigation of joran van der sloot. >> days after he was seenston faced and in handcuffs he admits
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surveillance video shows he two entering the rooo att5:30 in the morning may 30. 22-year-old dutch native was twice arrested in the case of missing alabama teenager natalie holloway. but never charged due to lack of evidence. in this case, hotel workers found flores's body was blooded on the floor of joran van der sloot room. holloway's mother launched a new foundation on the anniversary of stressful time for me and i know lets all remind ourselves, and keep the florez family in our hearts, and in our prayers. efforts to reach the public defenders office, reporting joran van der sloot were unsuccessful. legal experts say the u.s. could possibly open the case against him. >> u.s. marshals, and the plane
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ticket for the u.s. will be waiting for him after he served his sentence in pursue through3 and if connicted, he faces 35 years in prison in eru. in washington, i am andra endo. >> authoritiessare expected to take joran van er sloot to the hotel room where the body was found. they want him to help with the reenactment, with the moments ú%ading up to the death. >> disgraceddforrer lobbyist home in baltimore. until today serving a time in a prison in cumberland.ú he pleaded ggilty to federal corruption back in 2006. showered gifts on official that is provided favors for his clients. >> voters in sevvral statess3 headed to the polls today as a %-their political lives in party primary races. in arkansas senator blanch lincoln appears to have a slight
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lead in trying to resecure the nomination. but in south carolina, the republican incumbenn bob englis is trailing and appears to be primaries are getting extra attention this year. many believe they are a good indicator of where the balaace come november. >> and a community ii ohio puts clean up efforts on hold, at least temporarily. to celebrate high school graduation. >> the class valedictorian received a standing ovation when she received the diploma. -er father among the five eople killed oo sunday when a tornado struck the town of mill bury. storm severely ddmaged lake high school forcing graduation to be postponeed and moved to a nearby community college. >> it is going to be an emotional night, i am sure. ú%t we are hoping this is the beginning of the rebuildiig of
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people with some temporary rrlief from the loss that they are experiencing. >> the twister was the most powerful one to hit ohio in fivv years. the governor and fema toured the damage and they will ask for assistance, first thing tomorrow. >> and here in baltimore, thankfully no severe weather. but ww have rain moving in. chief meteorologist vytas reid is here with a look at what that is all about on the sky watch forecast. >> at this time doesn't look like severee eather tomorrow afternoon. we can get thunderstorms. there is a slight chance for some stronger storms in west virginia. borderlining maryland buu at this time mainly west. not to rule out that we cannot get a few gusty thunderstorms. like garden variety thunderstorms. looking at the hd skycam inner harbour. 62 degrees. few clouds. winds calm. and humidity levels at 62 percent. and it looks like we are going to continue to see the temperatures fall through the night, with the rain cooled aii
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moving in from theewest. 70 in baltimore of the 70 in d.c. and hagerstown. cooler west. and showers are starting to make thh way off to the west here. we got to see high pressure keeping us nice and clear andd3 dry today. -ut we goo the rainnshowers that will continue to push our direction. that is not going to quite get here for tomorrrw. probably get the ccoler air ahead of it first and then the rain. and behind that see the warmer temperatures move up going into thursday and friday, with more sunshine involved after the first the warm front moves in. and tomorrow continue to see the temperatures. cooler. but latee in the ay, temperatures go up a bit. by the morning commute n afternoon, showers and thunderstorms. but then thh cold front slides through.3 overnight..3 and then that helps to bring us some clearing into thursdayy and then into friday. with more sunshine. so tonight expect to see cloods gathering. showers late overnight.
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666is the low with winds out ofú the northweet at five. ú%d for tomorrow. the area. temperatures up around 69 to and then get the sunshine back in the picture. lower 80s for thursday and friday. saturdaa and sunday, partly cloudy skies with chances for showers and thunderstorms later in the afternoon with upper 80s for the temperatures. back to yyu. >> 44 strikes in a row. coming up. the person ttis man said helped him to make his new record possible. >> and after snapping the 10ú game losing streakkon sunday. could the orioles make it two
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get this. a suuer streak of strikes for one pennsylvania boller. tommy golikkbowled a 44 strikes in a row. according to the u.s. bowling congress that's a new record. it smashes the ones on the books since 1988 by seven perfect throws. tommy gives his thanks to his mom that always played in at practice. let him tag along >> well, elderly woman with a
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passion for ping-pong takes center stage in china. the world veterans table tennis champiinssip. doing pretty well. split her first two matches and moving on to seconn round. and quickly becoming the fan favorite at the competition. >> after a night off the orioles got back to business tonight. and business continues to be bad. very bad. loses 10 of the last 11. birds open up the series with the yankees. millwood started. looking forrthe first win of the year. and he still looking. top of the first. after lead off walk to jeter. swisher hammers one to straightaway center field. that ill clear the wall for the two run home run. his 10th. and like that, 2-0. millwood was hoping for. top of the third. bases loaded for granderson. that is a grand slam. onto theeflag court in right field.
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two big swings for the yankees. they lead it 6-0. bbttom of the fourth. here comee the birds. wieters lined it o center field. markakis rouuds. heads to theeplate. orioles on the board. down 6-1. next batter. -ontanez. flares it to the right center. falls in for a hit. wingington crosses plate. birdsstrail. bottom of the fifth. rips a single to left field. lugo races around third. beats the throw home. they are down now. yankees game ne of the three game series. >> aaross town. -avens in ddy two of the final organized team activity of the spring. and they are reacting to yesterday's nfl decision to cancel next week's workouts that would have been the team's final mini camm. leagueed the ravens violated rules for organized team activities. intense city and tempo specifically and objected to the amount off ime players were at the facility during ota.
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rather than fight t the ravens accepted it and john harbauuh thinks it will little if any long-term cigarette i don't ttink it will hurt us at all. it will urt in the sense that, to be honest, in that it is embarrassing. i don't want the ravens name out there, losing 2 ota's. i am not trying to hide behind we will meet longer or something like that. we made a mistakee ran over. we should not have. >> all of us are honest, when we are wrong, we admit to it. coach led y example. >> veterans will be barred from the facility next week. but paid for the ota. >> jennifer, back to you. >> it looks like the rain is on the way. get the ure
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own personalized forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. >> that's all for the late edition tonight. thanks for joining us. i am jennifer gilbert, see you tomorrow night. have a great night. real time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning can a smart phone push you to your limits ?
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