in westminster. here is jeff barnd and jennifer gilbert, with the "late -dition". >> tryinggto turn things aroundú for victims of rape in the city of baltimoreeú >> alex icks up steam and begins to hit the gulf coast. next and the damage ii could >> turning to facebook. ehrlich ade tonight onnthe sociallnetworking site. >> and the possible connection between mass transit and your waist liie. >> live in high definitiin, rom wbff tv in baltimore, this is -ox 45 news "late edition".

>> hello again, i am jefffbarnn. >> and i am jennifer gilbert..3 ú%tline opened today. ú% baltimore is number one for rape cases deemed unfounded. karen parks haa more on whether the hotline is working. >> jennifer, and jeff, more thae %-the ccty, created this center% after fbi data showedd40 percent of all casss reported here in baltimooe are thhown out by ú%lice. because they claim, a the victiú now the new hotline givesappen. victims an opportunity to connect with services, and report past incidents, or mistteatment that may have happened while reporting a rime of assault to police. hundreds of cases go unreported3 because victims o not trust they wiil be heard, and believed. >> victims often feel shame, and blame themselves. well, in additton to that, in these instances, they arr wondering if there was something

about them, ttat caused the did.ú >> if you need to reach the hotline you canncall (443)279-03799 monday throuuh friday, frrm 9:00 to 7:00 at night. nnmber of unfounded casesage the karen parks,,fox 45 news "late edition". >> hank you karee. -> prison detainee tries to escape gets hot. happeneddat 2:30 this afternoon at the city ddtenniin center. -ollce say the 19-year-old that was shot as on work detail and took off running..3 he scaled a fence. before being ssot in the leg. the an shot last night in norrheast ballimore has died at man was shot along carrs well street. before 10:00 p.m. last night. police say they are interviewing witnesses and no arrests so far.

>> new tonight massive buiiding fire in the heart of frederick. smoke and flames shoot through the roof oo the tww story firefighters battling the blaze siice 7:00 p.m., say theú appears no one was inside. good news. one firefiihter has been taken to he hospital. however, for heattstress. also new tonight. the owner of tiile agency in -owson is indicted in $3.44millionnmortgage fraud susan hall fell victim to the scheme. she battled foreclosure after trying to refinance her home through maple leef title. %-other clients.ise, stole her >> this is a major crime. i mean, he stole so much monee, for me personally, you know, it was over $15,000 in leeal fees. just to defend myself as a victim. >> well, wise faces a maximum

sentence and $1 mmllion on each of the 16 fraad counts. >> baltimmre city employees are facing more cutbacks. but it comes at a time when some ú%partments are being criticczed for how much overtime orkers melinda roeder explains who isú looing ouu and who is racking up some serious ot. been informed their heelth care costs are going up. some losing jobs and noww they are being orced to take more today, the board of estimates -pprrved aaplan that forcess3 workers to take up to 11 ffrlough days depending on pay scale. and it affects everyone, evee eeergency orkers, but fire officials say they will fight it. -hey made a deal with the city3 anddonly with concessions. last year, the city paid out more than $40 million in ot. >> i ave been asking agencies to work on cootrollinggovertimee since i became mayor, actually

was focused on overtime eeen as ú%so if we had not had that focs amount of overtime, we would be >> the mayor defended overtime for pplice, which accounts for much of the payouts. in some cases, police officers overtime than they are in %-one officer clocked in $100,00 in overtime alone. someeof it is for ecurity for special vents, which is eventually reiibursed to the city budget. melinda roeder, fox 45 news "late edition." >> pollcc ant to know if he city bus driver fell asleep at the wheel this morning. whenntte bus crashed into several cars. the crash was so loud it woke u3 the entire neighborhood. >> each car, just slammed right into one another. likk a doino effect.ú and when i saw my car go up in the air and land on the pavement, that's when i lost it. %-oh, myygod.h, my god.

fouu paasengers on board ofú tte bus were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. >> tonight, a lot of frustrrtion witt public transportation, in the state of maryland. marc train were strand fodhours, in 90-degreeeheat. this week a train from dc tt ballimore skipped a stop at oden tonight governor said thh state is spending a lot of money to fix those problems. >> here is our question of the3 day. do you trust public %-so far 33 percent say yes. 67 percent say nn. nicole writts on faceeook.franky behind a killlng machhne. car, plane, rain, tractor. whaaever. but another viewer defends tte workers, sort of. ú%ey are overworked under aid. so this will be happening a lot. bob ehrlich is attacking the3 o'malley administration, for its response to the trouble with mass transit. one week after governor o'malley took this ride, on a marc train, ehrlich said ttat passengers still face naccepttble

failures. %-riders addisory council..3for today the governor fired baak. >> governor ehrlich doesn't know much about government. never careddabout government..3 really ranked transit very, very low on hhs list of priorities even in easier times. i have surrounded the people's government with very confident i have not loaded up with cronies and hhcks as governorú ehrlich did. >> o'malley said hiss3 administration is trying to add new engines to the syssem soon. you heard it first on ox. ehrlich announced his runniig mate on facebook. mary kahne, former secretary of state. and wife of john kahne, marylann's formerrrepubllcan counny chair. ehrlich made the announcement at 10:00 tonighh ehrlichhand kkhne

will be in montgomery, charles and tomorrow..3 and late word tonight that ú%orge owinns dropped out of the %-he planned to challenge o'mal3 for the democratic nomination but he is leaving the race because he is recouping from a illness. stay with uu for the latest on the race or maryland governor. go to foxbaltimore.com and click on the vote 2010 icon in the news feetures section. >> bp is helping ut its station ownerr. and hhpinn to pass the savinns as long to drivers too. bp is giving distributors of the gasoline a one or 2-cent discount per gallon. aad it is up to each station owner wwether to ddcrease the price of gas or the customer. study found hat people that usú public transportation lost more weight. and had a lowee risk of obesiiy than people who don't. >> well, this nice weather, we have had hold on for thh holiday

weekend? with the temperattres as llw as they have beenn comfortablee >> it is perfect. find out from meteorologist emily ggacey if that weathee ssays with us. emily? >> comfortable thii evening. we have a few moor daas of comfortable weather. ú%t warm up on the way. look at he temperatures outsidd right now. we will continue to drop down to across the area. ú%d we will stay dry. watch hd radar. biggerrpicture shows rain off to the south. into mexico. hurricane alex making landfall right now in mexico. i will ave moreeon that ccming up. take a look at the neet 12 hourú hhre. you can see we will cool down overnight. and not warm up a on tomorrow. stay in he 70s for the afternoon highs. warm up on the way for the hollday weekend. i will have all he details on that, includiig tte latest on >> go ahead and shoo me the bottom of your feet there.

>> is that oil? this will object tv now. ú% did you not know what that was? >> no. >> concern growing along the florida beaahs. %-being found.baals are now bp's plan to clean ttem upp and why it may nnt work. >> and conm

>> first hurricane of the season makes lannfall hitting meeiio over he gulf alex becaae a category 2 with winds at ú%0 miles per hhur. mexican authoritie ordered the coast line are braccng for alexú tte southern arr of the state %-no evvcuation order but stores and homes boarded up and high winds are making ittvery difficult. >> we did not now what was going on. and got up on the ladder. afraid it would fall.3 >> tornado wwrnings issued. twister tossed this high school bleacher upside-down. >> huuricane alex may be closer to texas than mexxco. sllwed recovery efforts, and concern growing along the florida beaches. oil is now found buried in the coastal geologists say it is a

to over p the tar balls. they show what bppplans to do tt clean upp he sub surface tar. >> to the casual bbach goer it mmy not be noticeable. >> go ahead and show me theú %-you see that.feet there. >> is that oil? >> this will be on tv. >> did you not know what it wws? >> by the affernoon, bp workers through the surface. >> anyone building a sand castle out here knows the cleannup, bp workerssare doing behind me, will not get all the oil that is out here. look aa this. there are tar balls out here. -s little as 3 inches tt assmuch as 18 inches below the surface of the sand. but we are told that bp does have a ppan to clean all f this up. >> what we are doing is grading putting to theeside. and put that good sann back so3

it s not weeare bringing sann in but putting backk >>have you done that here? >> i thiik it has been happening today. yes. >> then why can you go out there and still find tar under the sand then, if that is happening? >> they are workinggon it s we so i don't know exactly what location you are effering oo and maybe you can show us exactly where that is, so we can direct our crews over there. >> so we took bp spokksperson, oot to the beach. >> be careful. -> and showed her what is lying a fee inches below theesurface. >> we know. >> that's why we have to come in %->> why is it there right now? >> because we started the night. so i mean, our uys are here. so i can talk toothe supervisor

riiht now. so hat they get the exact site. >> so willlthee clean it ouu y tomorrow? yeah. >> and crews were xpected to work on the clean up under the %->> the state of maryland preparing for the worst just in case oil from tte gulf reaches here. governor o'malley joined theú coast guard tuesday placing protective booms in waters offú the coast of ocean city.3 maryland has 12,000 feet of boom..3 but business owners, in ocean city said if oil wereeto cooe here, it woull bb absolutely posittvely devastateing. >> everybody that has anyyhing to do with the tourist industryú or the seafood industry or the processing, or down to uying chain now for anchors, is unavailaale because it is all used in the gulf to hold businesses ttgeeher. >> xperts say t is highly unlikely oillwill reach maryland's shore. >> a school district in

massachusetts, was under fire -ade condoms available for now school fficials ay it was all a misundeestanding. the superintendent in province townnis aaologizing to parents. and she said the younger students will not be able to get a condomm even if they ask for one at the nurse. the wording of the policy was -isrepresented by the media.ú okay. weather wise it was amazing weather out there today. >> it was greatt we are hoping for more of his for the holiday weekendd check in with meteorologist emily ggaaey with the latest on the forecass. emily? >> media shoull take credit for the forecast today. gorgeous. and this evening, nice night out there. and, in fact, cool heading into the overnight hours. baltimore, 68 deggees..3 we have cooled down quite a bit from where we sat an hour ago.ú winds areecalm. and humidity at 57 pprcent. that humidity has been low over the past couple of days. and will stay low heading inno

all right. we are watccing hurricane ou can alex this evvning. category 2 hurricane. just made landfall. in mexico. but affects are felt all the way up to southernnttxas. in fact, tornadoes already being reported all around the continue through the next 2 hours or so. alex is moving due west and s it does, e will expect it to and that will happen, probbbly, in the next day or so. in factt already expecting thos3 over land. and losss the ffel f the warm gulf. all right. as you can see, it is moving to the wwst now at 9 miles per hour. very slowly. sooflooding will be a concern in those areas. wwnds at 98 miles per hour. huge storm.ú so the inds are extending all the way up to outhern portions of texas. all areas hit hard byalex tonnght. baakkat home. -e are experiencing nice weether. high pressure.

aad we are watching the cold front as it continues to push starttng to bbcome stationaryy3 now. ú%adinggthrough the next few days. high pressure continues to push and wwen it does, we wiil start to see the winds shift direction and they will start to come from the south. -o rathee than the vvry pleasant air we havv been experiencingg warm humid conditions, more typical for this time of year. overnight tonnght. nothing warm and humid about those temperrtures. 57 during he overnight hours. and cooler temperatures remain for tomorrow. and we will only haveea high of 79 degrees. so another comfortable ddy out there with winds out of the north northwest aa five to 10 miles per hour. on the beach this weekend. comfortable weather as well. 76 for friday. 79 on saturddy. and a littleewarmer ffr the 4th but plenty f sunshine all looking nice here.ays. slow climb in the temperatures as we head to the end of the week, and the week. 89 byy aturday. 4th of uly is warm. so drink plenty of fluids.

as you head out for the celebrations. and then the warrest day of the week here, on monnay,. %-plenty of sunshine. no rain in our forecast at all. i will have a look at the next seven days, ccming up. ú% >> cal rip contain r. wants to c? %3

>> tte orioles snap the major streak last night against the as. witt millwood on the mound coming off two straight wins, birdsslooking to get back in the win column.ú %-one on for ree hot adam jones. ffl ball, deep to right. caaries onto the flag court..3 for the twoorun shot. his 13th of the year. and 8 of thhs month. o's lead 2-0. top of the fourth. game tied. coco crisp up..3 gulf it to right. his second. oakland with a 663 lead. aad bottom of the seveeth. first for the o's this year. wiggiittn launches it to left. not a first for him. halfway up the seats for the two

run shot. the first home run hit by an orioles first baseman his season. and ties the game at six. and next man up.ú luke scott lifts one deep the other waa. floats into he first row. and it is his 12th home run..3 but rounding first, he comes up limpp he found the -- left the gameú with a leftthamstring strain. o's take the 7-6 lead. bottom of the eighth. miguel tajeda shows know mers crushes it to left. two run homer, his sixth. o's with a three run lead. %->> rumors circulating round e baltimore area for some time that cal ripken jr. is iiterested in rejoining theú o's orggnization in some caaacity. today at the ground breaking ceremony for his new baseball fields, ronman addressed the rumors. ripken confirmed he was meeting with macchail and angelos on a

regular basii to discuss the3 possibility of him cooing back, ii an advisory position. he says the process haa been progressing along nicely. but he is not sure hat they will be able to get everything ironed out before the 2011 seasoon >> there is all kind of talk and sppculation about it. all of that is flattering. i mean, real issue is i ontinue yoo know both with andy and mr. angelos. and it is realll borne -- i made a choice when i got aaay from baseball, to be flexible in life. %--y kids gettinn ready to go to college in a couple of years. and now the opportunity, if one exisss, would be in next two years or so. so, you now, nothing eally any ú%w on that front.3 we continue to talkkand continue to explore the possibilities. that'ssall we are doing riiht -ow. >> cal ripken, ironman is live in our studio tomorrow during fox 45 news morning news.

>> ery comfortable temperatures tomorrow. high oo 79 degrees. so well below the average. 82 friday. the holiday weekeed. and 94 by the 4th of july. we hold onto the mid 90s through the middle of next week. and plenty of sunshine all across the board.

no rain in sight for the neet sevenndays. back to you. >> 79, after what ww have been through, we will need paakas? >> fantastic. >> get out the snow shovels. like february aaain. >> that does it for the "late edition"" thank you for joining istonight. i am jeff barnd. and i am jennifer ilbert. have a great night. see yoo tomoorow night. real time closed captioning provvded by u.ss captioning