again, wow! now here is jeff barnd and jennifer gilbert, with the "late edition". >> a very violent week in the city of baltimore. >> shot him. ú% what is now being done to help curve the violence. >> the gulf clean up. what happened today that shows majorrprogress? without ever having to see a doctor. new ppoduct that could make that possible. >> and another reason you might not needdto go to the post -fficee next time you have a package to ship. >> live in high definition, from fox 45 news "late edition".is >> hello again, i am jeff barnd. >> and i ammjennifer gilbert. ressdents and police are trying

to take back the treets after a violent weekend in baltimore. >> a paaked room of concerned residents and business owners, met ith police and city leaders this evening n southeast baltimorr. police say residents need tt better communicate with them..3 but councilman jim craft wants more police officers out there. >> we need cops out in southeast. we need cops waaking from little italy, down here to dundalk avenue. and we need them now. not tomorrow. not next week. now. >> and yyu can sse on this map there were eight shootings between friday night and sunday evening. three people died. eight others were hurt. the shootings ere city wide. which is why baltimore's top cop met earlier today with commanders to pinpoint the areas harding hit. calling on patrol officers to increase the urgency or tracking down repeated violent offenders. %-offenders, known gang memberss being deployed in areas wwere

there is an increase in discharging calls for service. reports of gun activity. usinn all of that dataa to be deployed. >> commissionerrfred bealefield saad that the mayor authooizee funding for more over time to %->> there were also two police involved shootings in baltimorr city over the weekend. latest at chapel anddnorth. %-stop.ddoff during a traffic thh car crashed. three people inside ran off. anddinvestigators say one of the suspects pulled a gun. >> it looks likk the guun ill solve problems. they should be reaching for licenses and walllts nott3 handguns whennpolice approach the vehicces. >> an officerrshot the suspect in the leg two sussects are in police are still lookinn for a third. >> another traffic stop lld to a shooting saturday morning. police pulled over a ccr in southwest baltimore, when someone in the backseat pulled a gun. an officer fired into the car as and an hhor later aateen howed up at the hospital with gunshot wounds to the chest.

investigators say he will be -harged when he is releasedd >> a 12-year-old claimed she was raped at a woodlawn rrller rink. >> at skate works in woodlawn. michael buczyner is here nowú with the shockiig story you will see first on fox. michael? >> jjff and jennifer, police say the girl was at thh rink with a friend saturday night when three men forced her into a room and raped her.3 tonight those three men, two teens and 24-yearrold davonn perry of pikesville are charged in connection with the 12-year-old. investors say the victim was forced into a storage room at skate works. forced to perform ral sex, then they say she was raped..3 -> it appears from evidence in this case, that the event did in fact, occur. and the case is being investigated and followed up by our criiinal investigators. >> now, earlier this year, he owners of skate works, agreed to officers after policeecomplained of rowdy crowds outside of the

rink on fridays. michael buczyner fox 45 nnws "late edition." >> thank you mike. >> mother of a man shot to death byybaltimore county police files aalawsuit. tavoncan killed in feebuary of 2008, his mother said that bullett at her on, used excessive force. police say they shot after he tried to ram a officer with his car. family signing $30 million in damages. >> cecil county police find 11 pit bulls and a crop of pot ppants n a backyard in elkton. ttey say it maybe part of a dogfighting ring. police say the marijuana has a street value of $106,000. bbt the corporation a bigger concern. investigators found three treadmills with leashs. canine performanceeenhancing drugs. and the dogfighting video. neighbors are at odds over what was really happening on that property. >> i have seen the dogs attack each othhr. they -- one dog ripped into the

other one's neek. >> i thought the dogs looked healthy and fine. well taken care of. ú%t playing. he took care of ttem to me they were just pets. >> grand jury is reviewing the evidence to determine if any arrests will be made. >> dozens gathered to demand action from prosecutors, they that shot bear bear, that dog at %-bear bear was shot by an off duty federal officer two weeks ago.ú investigators said they would decide nncharges within 72 hours and now they will not put a time on the case. >> baltimore lawmaker wants to ban k-2. synthetic drugs more powerful than marijuann. and perfectly legal. the ban is proposed by county council member kevin kamenetz. >> it is hard enoogh to combat all of the negative influences, that attract and distract our chhldren. and when no one else will act, parents need help frrm local

government, to help identify, and proteet,,our children from serious health consequences. >> thh bill will be innroducedú to the council come september. viollting this law wwuud mean a $500 fine, or up to 60 days in jail. >> chaages are coming to the plans for baltimore's inaugural grand prix. baltimore racing development announced today the datee for the race have been moved to it will beeheld a month earlier than originally planned. the course of the race is it will encircle oriole park that gives fans an opportunityú to see the cars. paving projects for the race, willlmake downtown raffic more of a frustration, for tte next couple of weeks. parts of pratt street are already closed down. now several lanes are shut down on light streets, and calvert street. >> this is downtown so it don't really make a difference.

always going to be backeddup. to find alternate routes for he next couple of weeks..3 >> posting a letter soon? -ou have another ccoice now.ú office depot.3 theeoffiie supply chain will begin u.s. postal service at stores nattonwide. send priooity mail and buy stamps and seevice ffr the samm price you will pay at the post office. >> we dodged the storms for major storms. >> will good luck continue tonight and tomorrow. chief meteorologist vytas reid ú% here with a look at the sky watch forecast. scattered around parts of the state. and we have a couple of thuuderstorms warnnngs in efffct over the border in lancaster %-and that will be until about, another 10 minutes. foo the most part. you can see the thunderstorms that are umbling across the border that. stays across the borrer.3 few light showers in northern baltimore county. that's t nothing saevvntually looking at 84 right now. 82 in d.c.

77 in hagerstown. so a little cooler air behind the frrnt filterning. set up to be a beautiful day tomorrow. in the upper 80ssand lower 90s. ann we will get plentt of sunshine through the day..3 but that will be changing as we see another system push up from the south. giving us the pptential for heavy rainfall wednesday. coming up in the sky watch forecast. >> thankkyou, vytas. >> howard county teenagerrwho desperately needs a life saving operation, is getting some help from his friinds this week. >> 14-year-old joe gorman diagnosed with leukemia years back. -nd tonight he needs a bone marrow transplant. %-so tomorrow is classmates at. loyola bbakefield i toy towson are hosting a drive. ppaying forra miracle and hopes that joe will be able to attend school with them. it is going to be tough. because we have not seen him all summer. most of us. so we are going to miss him. >> a website will let you know if you are a bone marrow match. for link go to our website,

foobaltimore.com/news links. >> the battle over a mosque at ground zero.. why the president is undee fire for whht he ssid and what he3 didnnt say. >> shrimp season begins in the stilllahead why fishermen face an uphill fight, even though the waters are deemed safe. >> discovering your health risk without eeer seeing a octor.

>> president obbma on the defense, for comments he made about the controversial plan to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 atttcks in new york >> that includes the right to build a place of worship. in a community centerron private property. in lower manhattan. >> president said that friday night. by saturday, it was beiig widely repooted ttat the president supported the mosque. heeclarified saying he was not speaking of the wisdom of the plan. but eveeyone in the u.s. has the freedom to worship as they please. washington, white house, administration, president himself, seems to be disconnected from the maii stream of america. >> republicans say the president is trying to have it both ways. and the high emotional debate is most likely going to become a campaign issue. >> majority of americans are opposed toothe plans to build the mosque.ú a cnn pole shows 68 percent off3

americans are against it. 29 percent support it. 38 percent oo you say the mosque should be built near ground zzro. and 62 percent say it should not. and michael writes oo facebook.3 as long as the land is legally purchased they should have the rrght to do whatever they pleese within the law. but debbie writes, an alternate site would be ess offeesive for those that lost ffieeds and tack. and could better the relationship with the misunderstood muslim world. >> shrimping season underway in the gulf of mexico tonight. fishermee trying to resurrrct a $320 million a year industry that was crippled since the bp lawmakers spent the day reassureing everyone the waters are safe. >> noah, fda reopened the waters based on testing. -0,000 tests doneehere in louisianaa one of tte tests came back with no concerns for consumption.

>> shrimpers in the gulf face a tough battle. it calls for seafood to drop and food to crash. >> hot and humid at this hour tonight. >> vytas reid is here to tell us what is in store for the rest of the week. >> hot day out there today. thunderstorms. severe weather stayed north. but we were under a watch until 10:00. we stilllhave a few remaining showers and thunderstorms over the border. but hd skycam. loooing at the downtown inner harbour. quiet conditions. hazy. beeause of humidity is still holling on. front has not fully moved through at this time. 81 degrees. mostly clear skies. but we ssill have a little haze out there. winds are calm. humidity levels at 88 percent. so you can see that that's why the air issstill thick at this time. and now almanac page shows a high of 91 ddgrees earlyytoday. soowe did have a very hot day in the making. low as 71 earlier today. in the morning hours. but no precipitation or report

out there at the bwi thurgood marshall airport. or down in inner harbour. evennthough there were no showers or thunderstorms scattered. friends north of towson got decent rainfall, over toward neck of the woods. looking at the temperatures cooling overnight. we have 70s back west of us. big picture shows he cooler front is sitting through parts that. will continue to cool things off tonight. 69 degrees. %-extending through the area. it will continue tt push our direction. firing off the thhndersttrms ahead of it. nice and clear conditions behind it. allows for us to see sunshine tomorrow. on the future scan, you see the %-and looks like plenty of sunshhne for the day tomorrow. and wednesday a big system rides along a rontal boondary that brings in plenty of moisture. we have the chanceefor seeingg3 potentially across baltimore, dc, philadelphia area..3 so watch for thaa closely. a rainy day potentially on

wednesday. tonight, 81 degrees. mild conditions for tomorrow. sunshine. five-day forecast shows the heavy rain on wednesday. temperatures dropped into the 80s. 87 on thursday actually chance for remaining showers. friday and saturday. we clear up and plenty of sunshine through parts of theú weekend. >> maryland gets money to help make sure that insurance rates3 do not go through the roof. as the health care reform bill gets cooplement implemented. $1 million. and it will be used to improve oversight. take action againsttinsurers that try tt impose unreasonabbe rate hikes. the funds will be used to develop ann and upgrade technology to allow electronic reporting by insurance companies. >> bad news, night against childhood obesity tonight. nud steshe is indicate obesity among black increase. decrease the for whites. shows the need for ante obesity programs. >> only childhood syndrome may not be a life-long long program

after all. surveys have shown elementary students wiihout siblingg haveú trouble with social skills. new study shows the problem does only children had just as many friends as kids with siblings >> while you can do do it yoursf for anything these days. now genetic est sing o exception. trio of california companies, now offer at home genetic testing kits. they screen risk for things like diabetes. breast cancer and other genetic diseases, and results arrrve in the mail in weeks. some concern that the results might not be accurate since they are not regulated by the fda. >> i would never leave a phone message, ffr example, telling a patient, by the wayy you have an extraordinarily high-risk of breast cancer, go find somebody that can tell you about ii. but that in essence s what some of these companies do. >> one of tte companies said that customers get access to counselors and doctorsson staff

to help underssand what the results mean. >> black and white triped3 animals go through the streets of california. how they got out. and how long it took to round them up. as the "laae edition" continues. >> and a site nobodyywants to÷

>> get this. california motorists were looking out for an unusual road hazard this weekend. yeah, they were. two zebras ran around for about five hours on saturday, efore animal control officers finally onesie bra was taken to the vet for minor injuriis. they are tough to catch. -hey belong to a local company that sells horses and zebras, company officials say hey were spooked by some dogs, jumped aú fence and tooo off. >> this little bear needs a lesson froo winnie the poo, it did a pickle imitaaion and got a jar stuck on his head. there for 10 days. until wildlife experts, caught the bear and removed it.

the bear cub will recover, however heestill looks like a condiment. >> bride decides to take er wedding dress to the extreme. she creeted this 85-meter lonn train for her dress. undee 280 feet. that earns the spot in the malaysia book of records. the bride that happens to be a fashion designer, said she wanted her dress to be different and to make a statement. >> the last thing you ever want to see is a playerrseriously hurt at training camp. ann that's hat the ravenssare dealing with tonight. an offensive lineman carted off the field this morning in westminster. he is david hall, back up aad has an apparent back injury. it happened during a drill, offensive versus defensive linemmn. hail went to the ground, laid flat for about five to 10 minutes before rolled over. and then was carted off the field. he was able to move hhs arms and legs, but unable toowalk. just a few minutes before it

happened, hail was getting his back stretched out by the tracking staff. ravens have not as yet releasee any updates on hail's condition. >> and hail was hhoked up with this guy. national tain the drill when injured. and so it seems wassnational tap. he was heard to cry out and spotted holding his arm. one good sign. %-he remained ouu there.eave the but did not participate further. and like hail ravens have not released any information on his ú% now to baseball, and the orioles. opened a seven game homestand with the first of three against and did it without berken, placed on 15 day disabled list ú%th shhulddr inflammation. right hander caaeeover in thh trade called up from triple-a norrolk to replace him. tootonight's game. mariners down 3-1. at the plate. take the pitt pitth for a ride. and all jones can do is watch. that's the 16th. mariners down a run.

lowe's pose. cuts it to upper left. peia cannot make a play on it. back-to-back jacks. this one went to extra innings. simone pitching.ú takes it deep left. clears the fence for tte solo shot. bottom of the 10th.he lead. bases loaded. two outs. jones forced in from third. and that ties it at four. and next batterr brian roberts, on the 3-2 countt swings at ball foor. but has aachance to beat the throw. but the ball beats roberts to the bag. so they are going to the 11th. ú%old school bucky ball.nning. jones lays down the perfect bunn. markakis scores from third. suicide squeezeeanddbirds bounce back with aavictory. they are 11-3 in extra innings. >> how about that? >> in ther orioles news.

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just how far off-road are they talking about? >> final look at the seven-day forecast. for tomorrow. anotter warm one. 91 degrres. difference is we will enjoy sunshine foo most of the day. then we get heavy rain building

out of the south. temperatures cool a bit. in the mid 80s. but we could get heavy rain, couple of inches potentially %-thursday looking at showers ad thunderstorms. and ffiday, saturday, clear up.3 ú%rly parrssof next week, few3 more showers..3 jeenifer and jeff? >> thank you, vytas..3 >> breakfast toaster treat gets its address in the middle of time square. >> ppp tart world across from here me and m&m ssoos. everrthing popptart related.ú create your own, and buy your own flavors. or ppp tart sushi. no fish. just sugary treats, rolled up and cut. -> sounds good. >> melting of western and eastern cuisiin. that does it for the "late edition". thanks for joining us toniiht. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am jennifer gilbert. up next, is 70s show. and tune in for morning news starttng at 5 a.m. have a great night. real time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning

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