>> one man fight for freedom of speech. >> cocaine and guns seized in baltimore. the business where it was discovered. >> a shooting at a downtown hotel. why the accused shooter is free tonight. while the victim is behind bars. >> and a pop tart heaven. where you can make a customized box of your favorite flavors. >> live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news "late edition". >> hello again, i am jennifer gilbert. jeff barnd is off tonight. a drug bust in a car wash in he city. four people are arrested. as kilos of drugs are swept off the streets. investigators say the suspected dealers used a celebrities car wash on reisterstown road as a front to sell drugs. police put the car wash under surveillance yesterday morning that. afternoon detectives say they

spotted drug deals. one of the arrested lloyd green, police say is one of baltimore's most violent felons. >> he has gun conviction backgrounds, he is a known cocaine distributor. >> detectives seized nearly 2-kilos of crack, cocaine, heroin, and 6 guns and $4000 from the business. investigators believe green owns the car wash. >> another drug bust in baltimore. this one discovered from the air. this is video released by the baltimore city police department. taken from the fox trot helicopter. 34 marin plants found in leakin park a month ago. police watched the area but no one came forward tor harvest the plants. police removed them this morning. street value could be $70,000. >> a city police officer is recovering tonight after being hit by a pickup truck. this is the scene about 4:45 this afternoon. near baltimore and howard streets downtown. the officer was on the police motorcycle at the time. he was taken to shock trauma,

and is expected to survive. >> about the same time, along linux and callow avenue, foot chase ends and suspect hit by the car. man pursued for drugs and he took off. details are not available but the suspect did not have life threatening injuries. >> >> new details about the four morgan state university students beaten in a city jail before they were released. dante green, renard james, howard smith and detail louton, all served 30 days without bail. accused of assaulting a woman back in june. and hamilton hills apartment. but yesterday prosecutors dropped the charges after the woman changed her story. >> it was very difficult to get any kind of corroboration, between what was initially told, and the varying accounts of what happened after that. >> if the young lady in this particular case is not charged then the whole criminal justice

system does not work. >> the men's attorneys say clients were assaulted in jail because they were bragging about their release, all four expected to be okay. >> the man shot in a downtown hilton hotel last week s now behind bars himself. while the shooter, sharolyn yarrboro released. she shot her boyfriend in a forth floor hotel room. he is now arrested facing unrelated federal gun and drug charges. >> well they are closing igniting a political firestorm. but tonight the city reopened five of the public pools. private donors contributed $417,000 to keep the five pools open through labor day. the city shut down all the pools on sunday. but today many city council members demanded they be reopened. after a fire from the mayor that questioned the council's demands. >> you know any one of them could have come to me during the budget negotiation and say

listen this is a priority. to do it afterwards, i cannot work with a moving target. >> it should not be about whether we knew. yes we knew. we asked. and the administration did not -- we fought. the administration did not budget. >> it will take $177,000 more before all of the city pools could be reopened. >> well, the pools reopening, that was a welcome thing to do. because we have another very hot day that we dealt with today. and a cool down is coming. chief meteorologist vytas reid is here to tell us about it. vytas? >> one of those days want to be in the water. or air conditioning. so nice that they did open the pools for the kids out there. and enjoy them. all the folks that got in and take a dip. temperatures for the highs, in the mid to upper 90s. 96 in baltimore. 97 dc. mid to upper 80s. warm out there right now. and humidity levels are not so bad right now. but heat is out there. clear skies on the radar. you can see no precipitation to

talk about. except off to the west. we have a bit avenue activity down there that we're watching. and then northwest watch the next round of precipitation. see over ohio, cleveland. another front that will push through, giving us a chance of showers and thunderstorms mid to afternoon tomorrow. take the umbrellas with you. start off with the sunglasses and tomorrow may need umbrellas. closer look at the temperatures for the weekend, coming up. >> the candidates for governor are stepping up the campaign. that includes a major push for contributions. and as john rydell reports, those efforts are apparently paying off. >> with a last minute appeal to donors online. governor o'malley's reelection campaign is reporting big bucks. more than $6.7 million in the bank. with $3.3 million raised in the last four months. ehrlich campaign said it has received contributions from 20,000 private donors. ehrlich was hoping to raise, at least, $3 million by this week,

and while he won't say exactly how much has been collected. the former governor remains optimistic. >> it is tough to raise money against democratic incumbent mayor in maryland. obviously. but the numbers are startling on our side. and we're proud of them. and we think it does show momentum. >> governor o'malley was not available, but his campaign manager said the 6.7 million puts him in a strong position to win. o'malley's campaign has already spent thousands of dollars on tv commercials, while the ehrlich campaign has not aired any tv ads. >> particularly 93 state like maryland where you have dc media and abaltimore media. it is a great advantage to have more resources to go up on, to go up on tv than your opponent. >> with the general election three months away, and many polls showing the two candidates neck in neek, bone campaigns are taking nothing for granted. >> people that do take it for grand usually wind up many times surprised at the end of the day

by not going back to the office. >> both campaigns are stepping up the appeal to voters in dollars and cents. john rydell, fox 45 news late edition. >> all political candidates have to report to the state the amount of money they have raised by next week. >> a baltimore county resident took his fight to protect his rights, to court. and the judge ruled against him. stephen colby posted a large campaign sign in support of ehrlich. in his front yard. the county said it violates size restrictions, so they fined colby and ordeeed taken down. since then, colby sued the county for his right to free speech. today's ruling has not not discouraged him. >> this is not just political signage. this is -- these are personal message signs as well that are covered by the law. so this may carry past november. but this is just as important after november, as it is now. >> colby continues his fight and has a meeting with a judge, at the end of the month.

for now, colby's lawn on delaney valley road is bare, without the big sign. >> stay with fox 45 news, for the latest information on the november elections. go to foxbaltimore.com, and click on the vote 2010 icon in the news features section. >> next year's polar bear plunge will be alcohol free. organizers say the decision was necessary to continue with the event at all. for 14 years now plungers take a quick dip in the chesapeake bay to raise money for special olympics of maryland. but next year, alcohol will not be sold or allowed into the festival at all. >> but i think this is a reflection of our culture and society. >> certainly i understand. >> the jet blue flight attendant that lost his temper and

evacuateed himself from the plane. has a following. hear from the supporters and the campaign they have started. >> >> eating at the finest restaurants for free. the unique scam that one man used every time the check arrived. and where he is eating his meals now. >> and a pop tart fantasy. where you can make

>> that suspended jet blue flight attendant is out of jail after his take this job and shove it moment. lauren green reports he faces charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment. >> stephen slater posted bail one day after his melt down inside of the cabin of a aircraft. reaction from on board of the flight detailed his profanity laced try raid. >> few of us waiting to get off. i turned around and looked at them and say did this just happen, did he swear at a passenger on the intercom. >> his attorney later described the actions on board flight 1052. >> shoving around the luggage. came over to assist. she started to cursing, based on information. and slater carried the luggage, overhang -- overhead luggage then land order his head. >> after the confrontation slater popped open the door,

hurled the luggage down the chute and went toward the emergency chute. and. >> we just had a slight slide deployment on 274, so that's in the book. it is the r 1 slide. it was intentionally deployed. >> they sent the flight attendant has a passionate for the industry. >> unfortunate things have come to this point because i believe it is his true loving. >> his actions were defended. >> he made a decision to leave. >> they are putting the lowest staffing possible on the airplanes. filling them up. chockful. flight attendants working longer days, at less wages. >> story appears to have struck a nerve. thousands of people have already declared themselves supporters of slater o facebook. and at least one fan has set up a legal fund on his behalf.

lauren green, fox news. >> and that brings us to the question of the day. do you approve of what the jet blew flight attendant did? 68 percent say yes. 32 percent say no. laura writes on facebook, yes he had had enough. rather than get violent he got out. and kenny he writes on foxbaltimore.com. going off on a profanity try raid addressed to everyone on board, including women and children, for any reason is inexcusable. >> a man that dined at baltimore restaurants and then faked seizures, in order to get out of paying the bill s now eating his meals in jail. andrew palmer is was sentenced to 18 months for theft. at brook's restaurant he ordered food and 12 blue moon drafts before he collapsed. >> we went to collect the check, and he had gone to the men's room downstairs. and he was taken a seizure. we knew he was faking t we called the police. >> urban ledge.

paramedics knew who he was. they were saying his name. so obviously continuing problem. >> palmer already had a lengthy criminal record. including dozens of theft charges. >> there is now a pop tart store in new york's time square. it has a cafe that lets you make your own sweet dessert creations using pop starts as main ingredient and a vending machine lets you customize your box with favorite flavors. >> everybody has a favorite flavors and families do not always agree. but this is a chance for family to come in and everyone picks their own favorite pack. >> and there is this. for the extremist. pop tart sushi. it is pop tarts, wrapped in a fruit roll up and sliced. >> well, cool down is on the

way. chief meteorologist vytas reid has details in our five-day forecast. the cherry frosting vytas, i am taking for you. >> i don't know. it has been a long time since i have had a pop tart. i don't even remember what my favorite flavor was, i don't know, i will go to figure that out. friends tell me on facebook what i should try. leave it up to the viewers. here is what is going on. talking about what is going on as far as the temperatures are concerned. i know something about that more than pop starts. looking at heat and humidity out there through the day. temperatures were in the 90s. and we are going to see a cool down coming our way. which is good news. 80 degrees right now. and it looks like we have mostly cloudy skies. winds calm. humidity levels at 69 percent. and we will continue to see some changes coming our way with chance for showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. 96 was recorded out at bwi thurgood marshall airport. looking at the low of 74. precipitation, not anything to talk about. even though there was rain southwest of us. i will show you where it was in

the radar. but across the 95 corridor. looking at the mid 90s. 95 for the high in wilmington. 96 baltimore. 97 in d.c. 96 in fredericksberg. continue to see that heat. kind of go away. good news into tomorrow. mainly the 80s right now across the region. but we will see temperatures cool down through the overnight. temperatures if you go up 95 up toward boston. cooler sitting at 66. comfortable night there. even in new york sitting at 78. holding on to the heat across the mid-atlantic. what we will see is changes, and thunderstorms still kind of firing up in the area, and right now, we are looking at this stationary trough that will continue to push south. and that will continue to take some of the thunderstorms with it. but we are watching up to the north. next round of showers and thunderstorms pushing down with another frontal boundary that gives us more showers and thunderstorms by the afternoon. time ting out on future scan. one to three to 4:00, scattered showers, and thunderstorms across the area.

and some of them can be a little heavier. downpours of rain. and lightning that we have to watch for. but nonetheless it will cool down around the state. 77 degrees tonight. mild conditions. we will see a few broken clouds across the skyline. and then for tomorrow, 88 the high. with the chance for showers and thunderstorms. that chance is about 50 percent to 60 percent chance. some of you folks may get some heavier rain than others. and nonetheless, we will see the scattered showers across the region. five-day forecast. 88 friday. 30 percent chance for showers. 20 percent chance on saturday. better chance you may not see any. may be the best week. 90 sunday. monday 89. with a few scattered showers. jennifer? >> preseason opener hours away. john harbaugh tells us what we can expect from the

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>> welcome back. i am bruce cunningham. things were shut uptight in westminster today. no fans or media. as the ravens held a light walk through type practice in advance of tomorrow night's preseason opener. hosting carolina and for the

veterans it is a matter of going through a couple of series without getting hurt. for the 13 rookies on the roster. it is far more serious than that. it is a chance to catch the coaching half's eye. especially non-drafted free agents. for them everything is at stake. and john rydell will be watching closely. >> very excited. you know, see them in game action for the first time. i know they are excited to show what they can do. i think they will play well. i will be surprised if our rookies don't play well. that's why it is so great. never know who will step up. who gets the opportunity. who gets a ball thrown to them on either side. who is sacked. special teams are big for them. you have an opportunity to stands out on special teams every time you run down the field. so interesting to see who takes advantage of that. >> it is august, and the town is talking about the orioles. it has been about a decade since that has happen. under buc showalter, the o's have won seven of the last eight. tonight we are looking for the fourth win in a row. it was game two of the three game series against the indians in cleveland.

shelly duncan rips it to third. bell makes the dive and stop. gets up. throws the first for the out. major league play right there by the rookie, josh bell. top of the third. markakis, rips the line shot. tomlin catches t throws to first. double off roberts. pretty fairy flexes by the indians rookie pitcher. and top of the fourth. 1-0. izturis lines it to right field. and here comesfy peia and here comes the throw from chu. and peia beats it with ease. orioles lead. and bottom f the fourth. burgeson gets defensive help. chu with a liner to left. peia with a catch on the right. and fires back to first. to double off. as daniel cabrera, great play by peia to end the inning. top of the fifth. same score. 12ed pitch of the at bat. roberts drives it down the line into the seats for the home run. his second. orioles lead it. and bottom of the eighth.

brad burgeson is still cruising along. he gets louise on a check swing third strike. the next batter jason knicks goes down on the check swing as well. four strike outs on the night for burgeson. bottom of the 9th. number 35 goes for the complete game win. tie and run at the plate in chu. burgeson gets him to fly out to jones in center to end the game. orioles win the fourth straight. 3-1 over the indians. eight wins in nine games. under buc showalter. >> wow! the orioles go for the sweep tomorrow night in [ male announcer ] there are many vehicles that claim to be just as capable off-road as the jeep grand cherokee. but without triple-sealed doors, a raised air-intake system, or even a watertight drivetrain, just how far off-road are they talking about? ♪

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>> final look at the seven-day forecast. 89 tomorrow. showers and thunderstorms. friday, saturday, sunday, cools. saturday best day. 85. with 20 percent chance for showers. few showers turning off-and-on. but next week we will have it with sun mixed in. >> that's all for the late edition. see you tomorrow. have a great night. real time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning

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