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here is jeff barnd and jennifer gilbert with the "late dition". will start shooting. >> a dozen people shot. three kklled. all in just one weekend. why baltimore's top cop said it is not as bad as it looks. >> a train stuck on tte tracks, why a trip home turred into a nightmare for mark travelers. >> speeders be aware. where two new cameras are now located in baltimore county. >> it is just hot. >> and just how loog the hot, humid weather illlbe here in baltimore area. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition".
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>> hello again, i am jeff barnd. >> and i am jennifer gilbert..3 breaking news out of east baltimore. where police are the scene of another serious shootiig.3 >> 10:30, north wolfe street ann sinclair lane ii east baltimore. young man shoo in the head. no word yyt on hhs coodition. but, homicide detectives have been called to the scene. violent weekend in baltimore city. shot. three of them dead. and the violence scattered across the city. left several city residents concerned about tte vvolence n general. >> they know what they want. know what they are looking for. you are going along with them. becauseei am an innocent by stanerr >> but toniggt. baltimore's top cop saii it is nnt as bad as it looks. baltimorr police commissiooer bealefielddreminded residents compared to last year, murders are still down, and he thinks, the copp on the street are doing
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a good job. >> because it is very imporrant that we don't lose the overall could not be text of thh crime fight and crime situation in baltimore. we're 13 down in homicides in that's a 12 percent reduction on historic lows. >> ell african american men under thh age of 24, make up the majority of those shot. police suspect, at least, one of the recent shootings stem from 3 drug deal. >> baltimore city council wants to look into a deadly shooting involving a off-duty police officer. michaal buczyner is standing by3 live at city police headquarters with the reason city council wants to be involved. >> during the past two years, at least, two high profile incidents involving off duty police officers, and their service weapons. nowwthe city council saii he they want answers.3 %-ago, baltimore cityypoliceeeks officer, shamba off duty opened
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with his service weapon strikeing and killing a former marine outside of a baltimore nightclub. and city council wants to know more about off dutt officers, weapons and incidents they were involved ith off the clock. >> i would like to think thaa it is noo something hat happens often. but certainly, with this recent %-going on.ed to know what is >> we have an obligatioo o the city of the people that we are going to hold ourselves aacountable to them. >> now, city police tonight, they tell us that they are reviewing all of their plans when it comes to off duty police officers, carrying the seevice weapon with them. they said they are reaching out to other agencies across the country to fiiure out what the policy is. meanwhile aadate for the hearing should be set at some point this live at city police headquarters, michael buczyner fox 45 news "late eddtion". ú% >> a developing story out of prince george's county this eveninn where a marc commuter train broke down leaving hundreds stuck on the tracks. disabled marc train that broke
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out about 6:30 near kenilworth avenue and route 50 near the maryland dc line. passengers were stuck for more than two hours. we talk to one of the people on board of the train that said because offall the hot weather, conditions inside of the train got really dangerous. >> i fell like i was going toú pass out because it was so hot. and thoseetrains, tte windows do noo open. they stay shut. and it was really ugly. >> ssme passengers were put on another train headed to baltimore city. just after 8:30p.m. this evening. everyone else on board was taken back to d.c. and they are still trying toomake theeway home at this hour..3 >> eantime 10 people taken o local hospitals after a crash involving mta bus. along north patterson park 8::5 p.m. %-a car, and a motorcycle. ten peopll were ruuhed to the hospital.ú no word tonight on the extent of the injuries. >> baltimore city council
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passess a new budget tonight. it includes drastic cuts, siggificant tax increases, and roughly 100 layoffs. the plan is beverage container. for weeks labor unions nd bottling distributors have beenlo lobbying council members. tax on most containers. tonight council approved a compromise bill that calls for a 2-cent ttx instead. and many of those that voted for it, were reluctant. >> he beverage contaaner tax is and it goes against many of the3 things that i fought for during my tenure. >> i am concerred about all of those small stores, my district surrounds, dundalk, roseddle, overlea. a lot of small mom and dad stores and supermmakets. >> well, council must first ggve final -- still have to give final approval to the everage container tax. >> as to the 100 city employees
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set to lose jobs, the department heads say the number is fewer than predicted. many emplooeessthat were warned they may be layoff on transferred to vacant posstions. at least 30 public wwrks -mployees will be terminated. one city council men said that means fewer services. >> grafffti, main strret, a number of services thattwould have been restored, you know, kept in place. and it is not just the services, but the jobs.ú >> theelayoffs will take effect next wednesday. >> a fierce dog bite enns a teenager to shock trauua tonight. pit bull running in a back alley when our crews arrived. neighbors say the dog became agitateed when a mail carrier came to its home on north smallwood. dog bit the ttenager trying to restrain it. no word on the condition of the teen. >> the serial bank robber that robbed or tried to rob 10 banks in less than a onth aat summe3 is sentenced today.
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? judge sentenced 39-yeer--ld frederick mcmiller o 1223 years, sevennmonths behind barr today. mcmiller pleaded guilty back robberies. a teller a note, demanded money and laimed he had a gun. -e got away with $24,000. >> city of baltimore was baking undee the sun today. >> temperatures in the 90s for a few days now. mann people out and about today h to find shade to cool off..3 and it is only going to get hotter as the week goes on. >> chiee meteorologist vytas reid is standing by wwth a first look at the sky watch forecast. vytas, how hot will it get? >> ccear skies out there to alllw for thh temperatures to go up. with that heat. and it looks like we are clear out ttere. in fact, talking about what is going on.3 hot temperatures. today beggnning of summer.ú early this morning. summer solstace took place at 7:28 a.m. and began to get hot. 94 is the high in baltimore. 93 in d.c. 91 ii hagerstown.
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99 in salisbury. currently mid 80s. central portion of the state. -e will continue to stay warm tomorrow. nexttday planner, 75. theedifferrnce is we will feel more huuidity picking up from the ssuth. so uncomfortable. changes in the forecaat coming.ú tell you abouu that in a bit. >> this hot summer weather can be very dangerous, especially if you leave yourrchildren in a very hot car during the ummer authorities in howard county had theirrown demonstration today to show parents ow quickly temperatures can rise. so far this yeaa, 13 chillren have died nationwide, fter beinn left alone in a hot car. last year, there were 33. including one in ellicott city. >> whether or not a window is temperatures can rise to deedly levels. we have been standing outside of 80 to 140 degrees in that period of time. ú% anddthat is indeed amazzng.
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analyyts say fatal heat stroke can when you're the body's core temperature reaches 107 degrees fahrenheit. speeders in baltimore county watch out. there are now two more speed cameras out there. cameras arr locattd on holland ferry road, and east padona. anyone driving more than 12 miles above the speed limit will get a fine of $40. but the fiies will eewarnings until july 21. >> thieves strike several farms in frederick. what they took and how much it >> people are angry, and >> the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. coming up. hoo much money bp has shelled out. and why some say it is time to lift the ban onnoffshore drilling and move ahead. >> and how a charity tein one of
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her car wassleft in a parkinn lot. just waiting for her to come back from class. -he never got backk tonight,,senator mikulski and senator cardin are both asking their colleagues to pass a measure, that would establish national safety standards for transit systems. >> some farmers in frederick say they are losing their livestock to thieves. bill check said he recently woke up one morning missing 35 of the 80 chickens on the farm. a few weeks ago, elaine noticeed to cattle missing from the barn. according to the frederick news post, other recent farm deaths including a tractor anddother equipment, worth $855000. escalating. it is, it is getting quite large. >> this is way too organized to be somebody haaing fun.3 so, yeah, it has to be more >> police arr investigating and farmers say they will be more vigilant. farm bureau is offering $1000
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reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. ú%om the surface of the gulf of nothing new to report tonight as uuual. bp said it is spending $2 billion so far on the clean up. and craig boswell has moreeon what the man in charge of the new bp fundeddescrow account has to say. >> tar balls are now washing ú%shore on panama beach city florida removing he crude as the spill moves east. have been deployed in florida. another 170,000 feet of boom are staged or stored, if you will. >> as oil gushes from the blown out well. ú%ternal document has surfaced revealing bp executives had worst case scenario of 100,000-barrels of oil leaking each day. that's far greater than the original public estimate by the oil company of just 5000-barrels. >> meanwhill, the manhhndling the $20 billion victim compensation fund said that bp
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will speed up claims payments. >> people are angry, and fruutrated. they want relief financially. from the leak. and it is my job to see that they get it and fast. >> the oil company said that ii has already paid $105 million in claims, to 35,000 people. bp chief executive hayward cancelled n appearance at a london oil ccnference tuesday. he has come under criticism for attending a yacht race saturday. >> tonn haywarddwants to put a skim other the yacht and bring it to the gulf. happy to have it. >> defending president obama's division to taae off and play golf. saying he should take time to clear his mind. >> meantime, in the city of new orleans, several oil companies are asking a federal judge to saying it would affect the u.s. economy. moratorium affectss33 projects underway when the rig exploded.
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judge is expected to issue a ruling some time wednesddy. >> now earlier we asked you, should the u.s. lift the moratorium on deep water drilling? so far, 75 percent say yes. 25 percent say no. steve writes on our website. not withouu majjr safeguards placed on the oil companies. but chhrles writes. one accident and everyone wants to stop. what would have happened if this was the thinking for our space -> well, wild fires continue to one p across thousands of ache ners the state of arizona. blaze s near flagstaff arizona. today fire officials had to evacuate hundreds of homes as theeflames got close to some homes. sooe 3000 firefighters are working around the clock, 24/7, of course, to contain this massive blaae. thankfflly here, all we have to worry about is really, really hoo weather. >> apparently getting hotter. chief meteorologist vytas reid is back to tell us how long this humidiiy sticky weather will
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stick around. >> humidity will go up over the next couple of days. there.tely feel that heat out that heat index will become more of a probllm as we go through the ext ccuple of days. here is what is happening. we saw the temperatures kind of hot out there. right now sitting at 77 degrees. and mostly clear. skies out there. winds out of the orth-northwest at three. humidity leeels at 62 percent. so not shhwing up a bit. lower 0s today. with 90 degrees temperatures it was not too unbearable. working up out of the south. currently across the statee looking at 85 degrees in ballimore. 733in saliibury. 76 in dover. hagerstown aa 80 degrees. aad out in western maryland, cooler in the upper 60s. buck see across the region. much of the same. seeing warm temperatures across the mid-atllntic. and back ooee the midwest. and it looks like we will definitely continue to see the heat build in as we go through the next 244hours too36 hours. now bigger picture heree we can see that there is some the west.orms erupting back to
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we have dry conditions thanks to the high pressure to the north of us. but we will continue to see that heat buildiig up out offthe southwest. and our temperatures will continue to increase ecause of that violent storms pushing %-up toward milwaukee.ú actually aatornado warning south of the city there few hours ago. for us, city some of the activity moving in. ccance for thunderstorms willú increase a bit tomorrow afternoon. as we see moisture building in. can see the timed out here. linn of showers ooing ii around 3:00 tomorrowp afternoon. into the evening, off and on scattered across the area. clearing on wednesday. and another revisit of some showers and thunderstorms on thursday. soohere is what it looks like eastern shore. 93 degrees. plenty of sunshine. central portion of the state looks like we will sse the temmeratures around 92. hot day. there wwll be anooher down the road it looks hotter. 95 on wednesday. clear skies. looking at thunderstormsú ú%ssibly on thurssay. 94. thhn cool down on upper 80s.urday.3 lower 90s. with nice conditions through the
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winner is aateam from michigan. its car reached speedsstopping 100 milee per hour. >> hey, it was all things tape this past weekend in the town of 871 ohio. 871 is self proclaimed duct tape cap tam of the world which we know. now tt celebbate, of course, they staged annaanual duct tape festival. featuring everything from sculptures and clothing made out of duct tape. >> this was a very busy day for the ravens front who was otas complete. the focus is on getting seven draft choices ssgned. today theyydid that with two. first is tight end dennis peta, he is known as a powerful blocker and ravens will try to exploit that. but hoping he can improve his hands intell he gets three years,,worth bonus. earlier today they signed their
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fifth round pick. defensive lineman jones out of syracuse, three years, worth a million dollars. and undiscllsed boous as well. former state champion high school wrestler his leeerage is thh key to the game. against the run. the two signings leave five players to ssgn, including second round picks sergio kindle and errance cody. >> night on off for thh orioles that lost a game sunday. and tomorrow they open up a nine game homestand first of three against thh marlins n san diego. they did manage to win one out of three..3 and one of those losses was by a single run. now when you have had the start the birds havv had. y improvement is measured in baby steps. winning a series at a ttme. and that's exactly the way samuel is looking at it. >> well, you want to win, two out of three, everywhere, but, you know, we take a couple of wins here. we were in a good position to win that ffrst game here.
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and it did notthappen..3 so we have o continue to do3 what we do. and then if we can keep playing, more wins.3y, and hopefully get >> all england tennis championships, known as wimbledon. were underway today. and near disaster for the game's reigging legendd first set.lmost sent home.ú game point for faya. federer hits wide. and faya takes the first set. fay and federer going back aad forth. faya beautiful drop shot to take the second set.ú federer in danger of being forth set,,tte-breaker. ffderer comes back, t gave roger a second straight set win. and match point for federee, smashes it by faya to almost escape the first round. >> on the women's side.
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so that heat will stick around until we get a front pushingg3 through thursday afternoon and evening. dropping us down friday, saturday upper 80s, lower 90s. ú%ay in the 90s well into early next week. so better brace for a heat wave. back to you. >> but the good news is that it plummet to say 99 on saturddy. >> that will dait for the "late edition". thank you for joining us tonight. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am jennifer gilbert. ha a
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