abel has been here for ten months.ease committee he's ready to go home. >> we review their packet, and we know that they're essentially eligible to come to the release committee for review, but we don't ever talk about it in advance. you had how many counts of battery? >> four. >> what were the batteries about? >> racism. >> racism? tell me what that means. >> when i was going to school, when i just came up here, there were a bunch of kids calling me names, so back in the day, i would react to any stupid stuff. somebody call me a name, i would react and start fighting right away. >> that's how i mostly got all my batteries from, people calling me names. >> was any of that gang related? >> no, sir. >> talk to me about your victims. >> victims? they were rivalry gang members, so we don't get along with them for certain reasons. >> you just told me a few minutes ago that those were not gang related. >> what victims are you talking about? >> any. >> any? well, some gang members and some were racist. >> probably the number

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jeff abell shows us, .../ the... thief... now...as an audience...// audience...// at the severna park golf center these days..... (nats golf swing) golfers struggle to improve their score..... as owners attempt to settle the score with a thief. (16:18) (owner) "i took it very personally i don't know how to describe it." owner rob brilliant raced to his office early one morning when workers discovered signs of a break-in..... a broken rear window.....and an office that looked like a war zone. (10:36) "it was really an invasion. i really felt personally like my space had been invaded." brilliant soon discovered that the nanny-cam he used to monitor the business by day......had captured the action....by night..... these are the crystal clear images of the thief. (12:59) "jumps over the counter and looks right into our security camera....." the camera may have captured his image....but it failed to scare him away. in fact.....for twenty- minutes.....the robber searched cabinets....rifled through the register.....and sniffed for valuable

jeff abell, fox45 news at 5:30. how are thh roads looking tonig? tonight?carrie peirce has our traffic edge report. report. mapmapmapfiber- 895 at potteemdot- 695 at belair there's a new singing show coming to the c-w. áthe nextá features celebrity artists who work with contestents to develop their abilities.taping for the show is happening right now... and we mean right now. now.candace dold... streaming live from the hippodrome with a special guest where the show is taping... candace. the next.. fame... is... at your doorstep... / premieres ...on thursday... august 16-th... on the ... c- w baltimore. have you ever had an unflattering picture of yourself posted online without your knowledge or consent?what rights do you have when it comes to removing those pictures?an attorney joins us in studio with more... 3 a high speed chase ends in a multi- vehicle crash...the surprising passenger police pull from the suspect's vehicle. andda skyscraper on fire.what officials say saved the lives of everyone inside. 3 still thinking of replacing the truck? i just don't

jeeff abell, fox 45, news at five.and that brings us to oor question of the day.what dd you thhnk is worse...excessive heat in summer oo bitter cold in winter? go to fox-baltimore dot com and tell us what you ttink. facebook. or end us aarough - twwet.. at foxbaltimore. the costt are adddng up for because of last riday's big storm. many storr victims ike to eat out every night - orccd - because all of their food spoiled frrm not having power. on food alone! s probably 2631 i do suggest that if you have food spoilage, create a list and then howwmuchhit actually coots and then provide that tt your agent thht will apply as well 43 expenses. many storm victims have also had to stay in hotels for the past 6-nights. insurance experts say reimbursement for hotel stays typically applies to those &pwho've been disppaced ffom their omes bbcause of dirret daaage. we're following breaking nnwssout of florida....george zimmerman has been released ffom jail one day afttr a judge set his bond at 1 million ollars. dollars.zimmerran ra

works. 33 for those witt healtt making bad situations even worse for those without power.. p jeff abellhowssus why there's cause forrconcern, jeff........ 3 tonight, some of those wiih chronic health probbems are begging for help. (2:32:29) "this is what tried to ggt them to underrtand that i need this maa" machine....!" 73-year old hollis dorsey has long suffered from respiratory problems.... but her catonsville community has gone six ays now without electricity. that means no power for theedevice that helps her breathe..... &p and nnt only is she strength.....she's alsooin a pight with b-g-e.... b-g-e.... 3 (2:27:26) "i think i don't know what'' going on with em. its taking em so long to get the electric back on. what in the woord is happening???" out of sttte crews did neighhorhood this afternoon but so far....no power. jeff abell, fox 45 news at police are searching for the suspecc who shot a man leaving on the scene aaout 10-30 this . morning at the corner of mcculloh and laurenssstreet. police say the victim was walking out of johnson's grocery store, when aagunman opened fire.. h

abell... is here... with... the damage report, jeff....what it looked like during the height of the storm last night. the rain fell so fast, it overed cars, stranded motorists, and left many people paddling their way out of some water worries. &p3 it created such a mess that many residents spent this day attempting to clean it all up. much of the damage was in east baltimore where the water flooded basements, damaged cars and washed debris into lawns. 3 (6:51:13) "just like we had no control over whats happening. its like all of a sudden it was like the blink of an eye. i mean one minute it was just raining and the next minute i looked you seen a manhole just flying up in the air ann water gushing from out of it." 3 the rain fell so fast that part of the ceiling at the downtown hilton caved in.... there were no reports of injjries. jeff abell, fox 45 news at five. many of you sent in photos of the flooding in your area.... this photo... was sent to us by kenyatta.... it shows flash flooding outside the johns hopkins emergency room. you can

jeff abell, fox 45, news at ten. a city police officer is recovering from a car crash this morning in north baltimore. baltimore.this is the scene about 10-30 this morning on the alameda and 33rd street. you can see the officers patrol car... pretty banged up... the front bumper torn off... and the passengers side dented... the other car.... also had damage to the front end.the officer was taken to the hospital but is expected to be ok... no word on the cause of the crash. baltimore police release neww video of a mob of teens stealing from a downtown convenience store. myranda stephens has more on why the suspects won't face charges. 3 it happened march 23rd. dozens of students pack this downtown 7-eleven store for free slurpee day... but leave out with much more. surveillance video shows some of the teens stealing items from the store... before a wave of them head for the doors! some workers try to stop them - but some of the students attack them! the owner and other employees try to fight back... but finally give u

jeff abell, fox 45 news...late edition. a suspect... who attempted to copycat colorado's mass shooting... is arrested in main. maine. police caught 49-year-old timothy courtois ... after pulling him over for speeding. in his car ...they found weapons and ammunition. the suspect told police he carried a loaded gun in a backpack to a screening of "the dark knight rises"... while on his way to shoot a former employer. "i don't know. he might've been asking to get caught, it might've been his cry out for help. he also, i think he might have been, clearly he had some kind of infatuation with law enforcement." courtois is charged with having a concealed weapon. a close call for a woman who fell onto a subway track this m. morning.it happened about 11-30 today at the state center metro station downtown. it's still unclear why the woman fell, but police say she survived by crawling into a space under the platform. she was hit by the subway as it passed, but not run over. transit authorities say the train was going about 30 miles per hour. "wher

i''m jeff abell, reporting. 3 the mandate applies to all employee health care plans in the u-s.es into effect next month for non-religioos employers. see all of the stories about website...go to fox-baltimore care reform at the top of the screen gas prices this summer haae been a pleasant surprise for drivers orried that 5 dollars a gallon gas was on the way. but some gas surcharges are the average price right now at 3- dollars, 37- cents. at sannoni's in glyndon, thee did ánotá add a fuel surchartge to their delleveries... even though catering acounts for 40- percent offtheir businessswhen gas was rocketing ppst 4 dollars a gallon, many of their vendors where quick to add fee, and only now are finally backing off. 4835 couple months ago, when we drrpped below $3.50, some better numbrs came in and they backed off a bbt. i think most felt guilty passing it on . anyway.santoni says about 20- percent of the vendors till pave the fuel surcharge in place. fox45's pump patrol is always looking for the lowest gas priccs in the region. find the best price in your neighborhood at fox bal

jeff abell streaming story, jeff.... jeff.... in about eight peeks,,the roadwaas downtown new ooganizers willltry . - to make a go....oo baltimore's struggling grand prix. but already they're predicting a loss....before the race has startee.arted. (federaa hill sidewalk/businesses) for store owner beth hawks..... (18:22::9) "it was the hardest decision i've ever had business has survived a decade in federal hill..... but it maa not survive anothee weekend of racing. sign on y building. whee i heard they wereebringing the grand prix back i decided to no respect for any ssall hhs business in this town." (grand prix race nats) in eight weeks, the baltimore grand prix is slated to racee through city streets..... it not only shuts down business....it shuts off sales.... organizers of last years race lost millions of dollars....and left many bills un-paid. this year....theee's a new set of invessorssand nascar's michael it. (mayor) "i don't e - thinkkanybody can bb frustrated about andretti motor sports being eight weeks to go, the new

&p jeff abell taaes u inside their battle.. as they fought one enemy abroad...ther oneehere at home. home. (23:12) all these mmn ii here were members of my outfit..." when he graduated from high school, charles wells had plannnd to beeome a rinter...... but aaletter from the draft board.....turred him into a my choices weren't too reat ll either obey them or go to prison and i had noodesire to go to prison." it was 1944 and 18-year old chhrles.....was bout to become one of the first blacks admitted into the marine corps. presideet rooseveet haddrecently ordered the marines too integrate.....despite strong objections from the last whites-only branch of the military. (10::0)) "one general had he audacity to say that he'd rather have 500-white marines than 5- thousand black marines. he didn't think we had the courage to fight. they didn't give s a chance." from &pthe beginningg...wwlls discovered that black marines were tteated far differently than white mariies. blacks were trained at montford point in camp lejuene, north carolinn.....whites... .weeeetrrined elsew

jjff abell shows us why some homes are still in the dark. ddrk.neighbors still that uprooted a tree....and - brought the power lines down "didn't nobnndy had no power at the time....." and today....two eeks laaer....... p the tree still sits alongg with a mangled mess of power lines. residents in at least two homes have suffered without power or two weeks. one resident didn't want to be identified. (5:26:14) two weeks ain't no powwe....." (5:22:30) "ave to go out and gets some air...." residents did report the outage on the daa of the storm....but two weeks later, outagg still existed. ((:34:06) (robert gould) "anddin any storm like thii &pthere will be a customer llik &pthis who have an outage after we bblleve we've restorrd evvrybody its not for anybodyy fought but we didn't know the outage existtd and the customer did not call us back to let us know." on sunday, bge announced that aal cussomer outages had been restored. and at the same time, it encouraged customerss to report outaaes which still existed. (5:33:511 "if you're neighbors have powe

. -------------------------------- -- good evening, i'm jeff abel. abell. and i'm karen parks. tonight, the eyes of the world are on aurora colorado. just under 48 hours ago, a gunman opened fire at a midnight screening of the dark night rises, killing 12 and wounding 58 more. more. today, police were finally able to get inside suspects apartment which, they say, was designed to kill..... sandra endo has a look at this tense saturday in colorado. colorado. the technicians did a marvelous job. they went to the next ied and/or iid filled with an unknown substance. they had to attack a triggering mechanism and they did that very skillfully.-nats- authorities called in about 100 law enforcement officials for the investigation.they gathered outside of james holmes' apartment saturday. what you need to understand is this trip wire was set up to clearly detonate when somebody entered that apartment and it was set up to kill that person. the aurora community is in shock after the suspected gunman opened fire during a movie screening of "the dark knight rises" early friday morning.12 pe

despitt oo reccnn court ruling that abeled the breed as iiherently dangerous.angerous.the attorney general's office says he because thh court has been .. asked to reconsideerit.the court's deccsion says victimss of pii bull attacks would not need tt prove the dog has aa áhistoryá of violence before mmking a claim.the ruling sparked controverss... prrmpting "state farm inssrance" coopany to ass the court to take another llok at the iisue.until then.. landlords have no leggl baais ppit buuls. "iq: this is a temporary reprieve from that.... oq: people."lawmakers have created a task lawmakees have created a task force o addrrss concerns over the ruling. gas prices are rising again after a big decline in the past few weeks. the nationaa average is noww3-37 a gallon. that's 26-cents less than it was a year ago. ago. yet at the same time, consumers are noticing that fuel surcharges have not changed at all. joel d. smithhis live at santoni's n reisterstown to find out why. 3pgood morning joel d. -& 3 aator roberr actor robert bbake... goes on a tiradd while being inter

./ jeff abell... shows us ...the damage... left behind. "the water was over the fences....so high....." iin east baltimore today.....they were struggling toorecover....from the water that fell in a flash. (6:51:13) (washington) "just like we had no control over whats happening. its like all of a sudden it was like the blink of an eye...." (flooding nats?) in a matter of minutes thursday night, many roadways became waterways...it stranded motorists, flooded homes..... and even aused the ceiling at the downtown hilton to cave..... (6:50:53) "about right here. about that high." in east baltimore, rrsidents could only watch and worry.... (6:52:17) "it was coming from this way, that way, and down madison street...." (6:43:25) "like the levees broke in new orleans thats how it looked." (6:40:15) (shoveling) marquis dunlap was left with a lot full of debris.....and a day to clean it all up. (6:42:04) "i thank god cause it coulda been worser but its a disaster we had to clean-up so much." (6:51:58) "i'm just still in shock. i really haven't perspe

jjff abell, fox 45, news at fivee... two.... state want regulators...ine b.g.e.... 100--illion dollars... for... those... lengthy &ppoweroutages. outages..ore than ... 700-ttousand residents... lost pooer... &pafter that storm.../ some... for... up to a week...//. enator... brian frosh... wants thee fine bbg.e.../ and... wants... a... surge reserve"... to... help restore power faster. (frosh) "they've got to provide 21st century service if they wann to get rates."in less than three submit... reports... to thee.. responded to the storm. pow are theeroads looking tonig? tonight?brandi proctor has our traffic edge report. report.mappel air 295fibermap 895 a... new round of heateddattacks... in the race for the white house..../ why... the romney campaign... s... demanding an apology... from the president. nee evidence in thh george zimmerman ccse.... whaa we're learninn from the conversattons eeween 911 dispatchers. boom nats nats pplots under fire after an airr how doesn'ttgo according to plan ... thh damage caused 3 --adblib weather tz-- the... rommey cam

jeff abell, fox 45, news att5:30. a baltimore county non-profit is going green. new rooftop solar system was unveiled this morning at phimes internaaional .. a group offering support services for people with disabilities.the agency, located onnmilford mill road, is noo equipped with more than a thoosand sollr panels, providing clean, renewable energy.. that's cost effective. "iq: alot of what's beinggddne here by chimes.... oq: sttp in the ight direction." 3 this is the second phase of a mjor sslar initiative by chimes... last year, the agency activated threeerooftop solar ystems at their campusson seton drive. how are the roads looking tonig? tonight?brandi proctor has our traffic edge report. report. mapbelairfibermap895map penn state takes full responsibility for the sexual assauuts commmtted by jerry sandusky on campus..he white house gives their reaction... 3 summertime ii when teens start most.we have an expert joining us with information about prevenning and knowing the signs oofdrug use in your teen. and get a áventi mocha frapachino liggt... while paying

jeff abell... examines... what's ...at stake..../ when... the... psers... of...es.../ become... the "product". "product". (26:44) "i'll say i'm willing to spend 50-dollars a day....." at the m-g-h marketing firm toddy.....ryan goff was creating an ad campaign and it. (25:30) "and i wanna reach men and women who enjoy running....." (3:20) "i can target people who live in a certain zip cooee who are a certain age, who h ave this certain interest...." goof can target his audience because his ad is going on facebook..... the social networking site not only collects data about its users and their friends..... but it uses that information to help marketers decide where to target their ads. (2:50) "they know pretty much everything about you which is scary but it works to the advantage of the advertiser...." facebook &pclaims more than 900-miilion users. many of them have amassed hundreds of online friends who are pulled into the web of social networking. (16:50:10) (anne mckenna) "there's no way your teenager has a thousand close friends who they share personal informat

. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i

from thh abell foundation... will... help create ...a databaae ... oo... public aad private...ecurity cameras, .../ allowing... olice... to quiikly identify cameras ... close ...to... crime scenes...///.citizens... and... business owners ... can... reeister... their... security camera systems ... with... a... web application,...//// giving... police... access... when... there's trouble...// right... now,... the... citiwatth nettork ...includes ... 600-cameras ... city--wide. police... continue... investigating ... a... domestic shooting... in waldorf .../ p left... one dead.they... say... 33- year-old.... áshea proctorá... &p shot... his mother... and father... beforee.. killing himself...//. poliie... were... called to the home... on... sea--grape court... around ... 5--m.... by... a woman ... who... said her son... was arguing ... with... his step father..../ the... mother... and step father ... were... ound,... outside the home.... with... gunshot wounds.../.shea... home... dead...// after shooting himself authorities... continue to investigate... the cause of a bus fire...

ays whhn smart - place....they'll llow the utility to better identifyy thess isolated outages. peff abell, fox 45, news late edition. because of bge's esponse to problems....///ore... than... 700-thousand people... lost ower... because of... last month's... stormm...../ii... took... more han a week... to get everrone back nline.../.the.. hharings ...will be held... september 13th ...and 11th ... at... the... schhefer tower in baltiiore.../. balttmore.../....for more details.../ go to our website... / fox-ballimore dot com slash newslinks &ptwo... state senators... want regulators... to fiie b.g.e.... for... those... outages. outages.more than ... &p 700-thousand ressdents.. lost power... after thaa storm.../ some... for... up to a week...//. senatorr.. public serricecommission... to fine b.g.e.../ pnd... wants... a... "surge reserve"... to... pay for... &padditiinal workers... to... help restooe power faster. (frrsh) "they've got to proviie 21st century servicc if they want to get rates."in less than three y rat- peeks.../ b.g.e... . wwll have to submit... reports... to the... p--s--c...

jeff abell is ptreaming live downtown tonight with the story, jeff....ees, the roadways downtown here

ttnight, jeff abell struggle for survival... surviial...(wind chimes) in thii triple digit heat..... (2:21:52) "i'm sweatin....!! 73-year old, hollis dorsey is suffering.....alone. (2:22:20) "i haven't been &paale to do no house work no washin, no foldin theeclothes nothing....!" her catsonville street lost electricty six days ago..... she's been choking on hot air evee since. (2:26:31) "at nighttime when i go to lay doow i get a wheezing sensation...." dorsey already suffers from respiratory problems. now, there's no way to power the device that helpssher "how am i going to make this work and i ain't got no electricity." (2:10:44)) "ice and sodas and food for mcdonalds...." everyone in his community is struggling to survive. at jeromm carter'ss placc.....ice...was as good as gold.... but the power was no where to be found. (2:14:14) (carter) "thhy on 8-oclock tuesday niggt at 8 3 pcarter) "called hem back the other morning called them back this morning, as sooo as possible." ((:32:299 (dorsey) "this is what i machine...." after six days of

from the abell foundation... will... help create .... database ... of... public and private...ecurity cameras, .../ llowing... police... to quickly identify cameras ... close ...to... crime scenes...///.cctizens... and... business owners ... can... register... their... seeurity camera systems ... with... a... web application,.../// giving... police... access... when... there's trouble...// right... now,... the... citiwatch network ...includes ... 600-cameras ... city--wide. police... continue... investigating ... a... domestic shooting... in waldorf .../ that... left... one dead. dead.they... say... 33- year-old.... áshea proctorá... shot... his mother... and father... before... killing himself...//. police... were... called to the home... on... sea--grape court... around ... 5-am.... by... a woman ... who... saad her son... was arguing ... with... his step father..... the... mother... and step father ... were... found,... outside the home.... wwth... gunshot wounds.../.shea... was... found... in... the home... dead...// after shooting himself the... is... getting ...new suppor

jeff abell, fox 45 news at five. a brush fire burning 50 acres on kent island leads to a surprise find. find.marijuana plants--several of them burned up in the brush fire off romancoke road last month.a sheriff's office spokesperson says the fire and grow- operation don't appear to be related. al torre, kent island: "on this island, it's pretty shocking, because you don't figure things like that happening here, but then again, it is wooded, and there are no roads back there. i guess if you wanted to get an isolated place, that would be i" it."the fire is 100 percent contained, but still burning in some spots. meanwhile, the marijuana grow operation is being handled by the queen anne's county drug task force. a... firefighter... is recovering... after... falling thru... a floor... in annapolis.../. lightning... sparked the flames.../.it... happened on... coventry place ... near... coach-way road.../.the... home-owner... called.../ saying ... his house... was filled with smoke.../.the... firefighter... fell... trying..

thanks to a donation from the abell foundation, new on-line software will allow businesses to plug intothe crime watch camera grid. it's optional but would give police more access to help investigations after a crime goes down. and the police departments say the program will be an invaluable tool. >> this is a great tool. now when we get the call, before even going out and wondering and questioning as to whether or not, man, i hope they have a camera. now we know. that's just, again, it's jut one step closer to solving cases. >> the funding for this program was just approved this week, it could take a while to go on-line. the first businesses that sign up are hospitals followed by hotels. >>> he's already got two years in prison to handle, now can add 30 more days to tommy clacks's sentence. exposed for running a scam pled guilty in queen anne's court today and got a month added to his time. yesterday he was sentenced no anne arundel county for acting as a contractor without a license. prosecutors say he overcharged customers by thousands for paving jobs he was not even allowed to do. >

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when they wail about murder and torture and rape, and unlucky abel complains about cain, and they aske just why i had planned it like this, i never apologize, never explain. of course, if they're smart they can figure it out -- the best of all reasons is perfectly plain. it's because i just happen to like it this way so i never apologize, never explain. >> job kept asking why -- >> poor thing, yeah. >> -- and never got an answer. >> no. >> jesus himself, "oh god, why hast thou forsaken me?" no answer. >> i'm not so impervious to the world that i don't know that religion does a lot of good sometimes. that some religious people really are good and they want to do good. but unfortunately, so many religious people let the religions lead them into hatred. >> let's have a little fun with one from "perfidious proverbs." it's actually called "parable of the perfidious proverbs." and proverb, as people i hope know, is an epigram of wisdom contained in the "book of proverbs" in the -- in what christians call the old testament, the hebrew bible. >> okay, yeah. >> how better it is to get wisdom t

. >> reporter: thanks to a donation by the abel foundation the city will now develop a way for businesses and residents to opt in to the existing city watch grid. basically giving police access to the security cameras when a crime happens near them. it's optional but could exponentially increase the reach of catching crime on tape or preventing it. >> when you give us access to the cameras inside of the locations it just further stretches our arms. it gives us more ability to solve crimes. >> reporter: the police department is on board as this new application would give them countless more eyes after a crime happens. a striking for instance is the shooting at a chinese carry out on greenmount avenue last year. this video led to an arrest in the november 2011 shooting. a result police believe they would see more of and more quickly if they already had access to private cameras in conjunction with the public ones. >> this is a great tool. because, now, when we get the call, before even going out and wondering and questioning as to whether or not, man, i hope they have a camera, now we know.