>> the way one an wants to change maryland's law. >> a wall of flames, why this car was driving in to them and what happened next. >> and bottoms up. find out which colleges and ú%iversities really know how to party. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition". >> hello again, i am jeff barnd. jennifer is off. gun rights advocates that successfully challenge d.c.'s gun laws re doing the same thing right hereein maryland. crime and justice reporter joy lepola, talks to one lawmaker, who is firing back. >> gun rights advocates that successfully challenge d.c.'s gun laws are now trying to do the same thing here in maryland. a lawsuit was filed in u.s. district court thursday. claiming maryland's restrictions on handgun carry permits violate the second amendmeet. plaintiff raymond woolard was

denied a carry permit, even though he was approved twice before. the state denied his application because he could not show good cause to carry a gun. >> i want my permit back. i want the law changed in the state f maryland. >> everyone who has no criminal rrcord. wants to do this. for self protection should be able to get t. >> attorney general gansler's office would not comment on the filing. joy lepola, fox 45 news "late edition". >> now, here is our question of the day. should you have the right to carry a concealed weapon?%81 pe. 19 percent say no. yolanda writes on facebook. it would just put more guns in the hands of more idiots. but james writes, yess if you have the proper tracking you need to be able to defend yourself, and, of course, your family. >> hundreds gather for a prayer vigil for an elderly church volunteer killed, apparently for

his scooter. keith daniels standing by live in east baltimore where organizers came up with a plan to stop all the violence. keith?ú >>well, jeff organizers say %-really help to stop theot violence. unless the people truly help ú%lice. now the vigil for milton hill happened outside of the ark church here today on north avenue. and there were songs, and prayers, but soon the vigil turned to a thunderous call to action, with a twist of words. related to witnesses of violent crimes ii baltimore city. new call from city leaders, don't snitch, tell. >> you know something, say something. and stop coming up with reasons and excuses, for the snakes and the vial creatures, that live in our community. >> passionate pleas from the3 commissioner. police say they found hill's stolen scooter a few blocks away. from the church here today.

detectives say they are processing it now or evidence. evidence they say that could include ffngerprints. live in east baltimore. keith daniels, fox 45 news "late edition". >> thank you, keith. >> a woman molested by her catholic school teacher launches a cyber crusade to keep him behind bars. she has a petition driveú currently on facebook. merzbacher was given four life sentences 15 years ago, but a federal judge finds he was not told by a plea deal. elizabeth murphy said if he is freed every child is in danger. >> their lives are in immediate danger. any child in close proximity to merzbacher. >> merzbacher has 60 days to find a judge willing o reexamine the particular case. >> and arundel county police need your help to find two men that they claim held up a 7-11. surveillance video shows the incident on old mill road in millersville. police say one suspect pointed a gun at a clerk and took money from the register.

anyone with any information whatsoever is asked to call metro crime stoppers at this number on the screen. 1--66-7-lockup. >> 21-year-old rebecca himes of reisterstown faces tonnght attempted murder charges. this after she allegedly tossed her newborn infant out a window. baby did survive unharmed. of the department of social services. >> two more wanted men are off the streets tonighttafter highlighted in fox 45's fugitive filee recentlyy brothers james and john occur continue wanted for separate armed robberies. friday on fugitive files we focused on their cases and took tips. and aturday night both turned themselves in. >> they said that they knew they were on fox 45. they knew it was getting closing in on them. they wanted to avoid any further

embarrassment for the family and agreed to turn themselves in at the central district. >> you can see the fugitives on our liit, you simply by going to foxbaltimore.com and clicking on the fugitive files icon in the news features section. >> list and firefighters have a new message for baltimore. one big message. a billboard at baltimore and president streets. expresses a lot of frustration with the mayor and city council tonight. the unnon's paid for the sign to protest hanges in their pension systems. recently council voteed to increase the number of years of service required to receive retirement benefits. >> baltimore is the only jurisdiction in this state, who actually changed the pension system for incumbent employees. everybody else recognized it was probably illegal to do that. but it didn't stop our mayor and city council. >> the police and firefighters unions also filed a federal lawsuit against the city of baltimore. >> if you felt there were larger crowds at bwi thurgood marshall airport, this summer, you should

have bet on it. more than 2,000,000 passengers flew in and out of bwi thurgood marshall airport. in the month of june alone. the second busiest mmnth ever. about half the passengers traveled on southwest airlines, followed closely by airtran. >> and arnold creek is deemed unsafe tonight arundel county officials issued the warning today for dividing creek. because of the waste water overflow of nearly 15,000 gallons yesterday. signssare posted along the waterway. and it remains closed until further notice.3 >> solo cup announces 555 layoffs in this region, will begin this october. the plant at owen's mills closed for good in 2012. cup and container maker will keep 120 corporate jjbs however3 after it closes three facilities, nationwide. >> sunnhine, rain and clouds. all day today. chief meteorologist vytas reid joins us now with your first look at the sky watch forecast. vytas, no complaints, it has

been beautiful out there. >> actually it was not a bad day to walk. just a few spitting showers.3 but for the most part. decent day with the sun breaking through later in the afternoon. rain showers are pretty much dissipateed. and on h.d. radar not a lot of activity. temperature wise feeling good. 79 in baltimore downtown. outlying areas in the middle 70s. and when we get into the mid 60s in western maryland. still feeling good. 69 eastern shore. in salisbury. aad so it looks like it is comfortable out there. crack open the windows. next day planner shows some sun and clouds. 72 degrees. and then for your afternoon, around lunch time. 84. partly cloudy. and warms up behind this day, for tomorrow. show you how warm coming up inú the seven-day forecast. >> nearly all teenagers admit to driving while abdistracted. even though they know it is dangerous. aaa and 17 magazine surveyed 2000 teenagers, and 86 percent say they drove while distracted.

many teens don't think they will get hurt. and texting or adjusting the radio for instance, will only take a split second. >> taking your eyes off the road, for just two seconds. doubles your chance of getting in a car crash. >> texting while driving is one of the worst distractions, of coursee car accidents are one of the leading killerr of america's teens. >> spirit airlines charges passengers a fee for their carry on luggage. new fee effect on sunday. spirit now allows one free carry-on bag. if it fits under your seat. anything else? will cost you $30. spirit airlines said the fee will lead to less carry-on bag ú%e making for more on time schedules. >> changes tomorrow for trash collection downtown. recyclinggwill be collect order tuesday nights now. trash friday night. until now business and residents alike could place trash and recycling out on both nights. for more information, if you

wish to know more about this. simplyycall 311. >> capping the gulf oil spill for good now. the final steps that must be undertaken before the leak is officially sealed. hopefully, forever. and those dogs know how to party. the biggest party school in the country. and the rest of this year's

>> if you are downtown brace yourself for gridlock, thanks to the baltimore grand prix. two lanes of ppatt street beeween paca and howard are shut down between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. again from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m. to prepare the streets. repaving will not occur until next year. so you better plan ahead. >> mulberry street is a good option to get you away from downtown traffic. and russell street, turn on to pratt. and get the word out that they may want to conssder using 395 that would allow them to bypass this work. >> next week, two lanes of pratt between paca and howard will shut down 24 hours a day. for three weeks. >> virginia's lawsuit against obama health care clearssnumber one hurdle. judge decided the law brings up several constitutional issues. virginia's attorney general is

filing suit saying congress does not have right to make people buy insurance or pay penalties. more than a dozen other attorney generals are following be separate lawsuits of their own. %-virginia joins the state of arizona, to protect its borders. the state attorneyygeneral said that officers have the authority to ask imigration status of criminal suspects, not for civil violations. experts say congress clearly intended for states to hhve a role in enforcement. because they created a federal center for local authorities to call in, to verify the immigration status of people that they stop. >> another leak at the bp oil well but it is not stopping crews from preparing to ppug the gusher. from the great state of louisiana. -> bp, and the coast guard, say they are ready o move forward with the static kill. >> science team together with bp engineers have determined it is safe to move ahead with the injection test.

and the static kill at this point. >> static kill procedure involves jamming the mild deep oil well with mud and, perhaps, cement in an effort to shut it down for good. %-right.itions have to be just >> after the preparations, and the injection tests aae complete. the injection test findings will be evaluated. and that takes several houus and then they would initiate at that point what is called the static kill. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal wants bp to commit oweto a he multi-billion dollars seafood fund. >> we need bp to approve this fund. this is part of the obligation to restore our way of life. >> divers arr ring tests. ocean future society looking for oil in the waters along the louisiana coast. at first glance, there was less crude and muck than in may when they first checked. >> we went offshore looking for oil. and then made about 4 or 5 jumps. and in different spots, across the outside offshore.

and didn't see anything. >> they did find a chocolate brown later of use under the sandy beaches. >> as you stepped on the sand next to themm it is squishy and oil bubbles up from out of the sand. quite a bit of it. >> scientists working for bp say roughly 4.9 million-barrels of oil is escaping from the leaking well from the time he deep water horizon sank april 20 until a relief cap was installed several weeks ago. in louisiana, fox news. >> most college students know how to party. as we all know. but the dogs apparently do it best. this year's princeton review list of top party schools is out. at the top, the georgia bulldogs. next, are ohio university. penn state university. wess virginia. and the university of mississippi. brigham yyung university toped the list, on the other end of the spectrum. it is the most sober school for

the 13th straight year. brigham young is where i attended. and also vytas reid, if i am not mistaken. so let'ssgo to him to makeesure i am right with a look at the sky watch forecast. fellow brigham young alum? >> no, i am indiana university guy. >> i am looking for your interest. >> i am not. and mississippi state where i got my meteorology from. so two schools we're talking about. but talking about -- and they were fun schools. here is what is happening. we have relatively quiet conditions out there. after a beautiful day. 77 right now. few high thin clouds. winds five to 10. and humidity 74 percent. today almanac page showed high of 83. comfortable high of 83. relatively nice. even though we had the cloudd and spotty showers. 71 was the throw start of us off. no precipitation really downtown. just very liggt. as you see, not a lot recorded. but some folks saw rain drops versus others. so depending on where you were, with you saw rain drops.

79 in baltimore. 76 in d.c. looking at 69 salisbury. cooler out in west maryland at 64 degrees. and bigger picture here.ú warm air that will continue to build in from the west. we will continue to see the 80s displaced over to our area. we will continue to see the temperatures going up to the mid to upper 80s tommrrow. and 90s behind it. so we will see the temperatures increase through the next couple of days. area of high pressure off to the east. allowing us to be dry for tomorrow. so quiet day all and all. next chance of rain probably arrives into wednesday. showers and thunderstorms as the next ront comes in. so you can see here, that model data shows the showers and thunderstorms popping up across the region. so tonight looking at 75. few clouds. mild temperatures. tomorrow, 88. warm day w sun and clouds. and then for five-day forecast. 93 wednesday. 94 thursday. both days have 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. 94 friday. clearing out. saturday back to the upper 80s with plenty of sunshine.

>> wild video, wild fires. coming up. what the people in this car were trying to do. when a waffle flames got in their way. >> and for the fifth time, since 2004, the o's have a new man, at the top. we will hear from buck showalter on his plan to turn the

>> gee this. dramatic individual grow inside of a car trying to get through blazing wild fires. men in the car were trying to help residents trapped in villages by flames. blaze forced them to turn around. 300,000 acres, are now charred tonight. at least, 30 people have died. 1500 homes have been destroyed. >> amateur artist in russia is painting without brushes. victoria had a deep dream one night and painted a beautiful flower using her breasts and decided to try t her work is now shown at one st. petersburg art gal receive. she loves to paint mmuntain ranges with two big mountains,

hills with 22 big hills. coconuts with two big coconuts. you have a pattern. only complaint is, when she uses oil paint, okay, and you can understand this. we all can. she has to dip her breasts in the harsh chemicals of terpennine. true test oo creativity. >> the orioles ushered in a new era today introducing showalter as the franchise's 17th full-time manager. showalter has a history of ttrning teams around. he spent his first 19 yeaas in %-four as manager.zation. leading them to the first playoff berth in 14 years. and was manager of the year in 1994. then he went to the diamondbacks and rangers where he was manager of the year again and turned them into a winning team. orioles president macphail wanted to bring showalter in now, to give him a chance of observing firsthand what changes

need to be made and help the orioles establish a identity in the american league. >> yankees are not going away red sox not going away. and tampa is not going away. toronto is getting better. so you have to figure out a way to do it. tampa bay is eliminating a lot of the excuses. and it can be done if you know who you are and stay with the way you have to do it to be successful. and stay the course. >> we need an identity as a franchise. we need somebody that can put his stamp on this team and have us play a certain brand of baseball that we will have to play to win. and again, he has a reputation that excels or equals all others, in that category. >> a lot of ago and energy that it takes. it is not for the weak of heart. it is a grind. and just want to be consistent.3 >>as for former intern manager samuel he informed macphail today that he would remain with the orioles organization,,but only as a special adviser. not as the third base coach.

which was originally rumored. dominican republic to work with the two teams and facilities down there to make sure it is up to par. alanson will remain with the o's as third base coach. >> ravens continue preparation phostheir season and over 30 guys got a break from practice today. cornerback chris carr did not practice as well. due to a back injury. but luckily they say it is not serious. don't worry. and gay they are, that has been out since carted off the field friday. back on the field today. and said to be fine. for forth year quarterback john3 beck, last practice in the purple and black uniform. traded to the redskins today for cornerback doug dutch. dutch spent part of the season last season in the skin's practice squad and has yet to ú%e any nfl action. >> beck will compete for the red skin's back-up quarterback job, new starter donovan mcnabb. jeff, back to you.

>> the entertainment world hopes to hear from fox today about who would be the new idol judges..3 but they are not talking still tonight network representatives say nothiig is finalized as of yet. but that some of the initial reports have been very accurate. there has been speculation for instance, that stephen tyler from aerosmith and jennifer lopez will be new judges when american idol season 10 startss >> meantime american idol is coming to maryland. taylor hicks concert tour stops in annapolis and he will perform live tomorrow n this studio. on fox 44 morning news. >> co

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