you get a bad picture of baltimore, but baltimore has a lot of beautiful locations where you don't haveme. but when you have the shootings that permeate the front page of the newspaper, that is the perception of businesses and people that want to move to our city. the meeting about yesterday, it moved away from just talking about police to start talking about, what are the causes and factors for african lives being lost on the streets, and that is what i'm excited about. brian lamb: the same is true in washington. here is some video of the mayor, and this is all about something that you are in the middle of discussing. it has to do with body cameras. >> the goal of the review is to build upon the reforms already in place with a focus on developing additional internal controls to track and respond early to officer misconduct, well it the same time providing the police commissioner with the authority currently lacks to hold that cops accountable. it is also to build trust and transparency to the development of a panel looking at the implementation of body cameras. we are in the final stag

the baltimore sun.it good or bad that you have an aggressive baltimore sun covering police activity? anthony batts: media exists for a reason, and i think that is a good thing. when i was in long beach, as a young command officer, one of the first assignments that they gave me was to correct the relationship between a local media organization and the police. they always started stories with the beleaguered long beach police department. my task was to change that. what i had to do was open up the organization to the media. what i learned is, that if you sit down with the media and our transparent with them, and explain what is going on and how you are correcting it, that you usually have a good relationship. that happened when i was in long beach. that happened when i was in oakland. you sit down with them and say we don't have anything to hide. my mantra is, sunlight is the best disinfectant. brian lamb: what you said before about the cameras, is all the video that policeman should -- all the video that

and one of the first of those major cities was my city of baltimore. you see when i was elected mayor in 1999 our city head sadly allowed herself to become the most violent, the most addictive in the most abandoned city in america with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets of baltimore which presented us with a really important question question, where to send them. now we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. that would be one way to do it or if we wanted to be real political about it we could deploy them to the council districts with the highest numbers of primary voters or if we want to be really really political about it we could deploy them to the districts where the greatest number of people voted for me. or or we could actually deploy them to the concentrated hotspots where the greatest numbers of our citizens were being shot mugged or robbed. this is the option w

the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him he said i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. once you looked at the boots, you could see the holes where they screwded in ice skates to the boots at that time. when the weather improved in june of 1869, the family got together and buried him in greenmount cemetery. the grave is not marked but it was well-known to everybody. it was distinguished by a mount for a while. in the next year in 1870, that was the first year that confederate families in baltimore decorated the grace of their dead. "the baltimore american" said the grave that had more flowers on it than any other

one of the first of those major cities was baltimore. when i was elected mayor in 1999, our city had allowed herself to become the most violent, the most addictive, and the most abandoned city in america. with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration, we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets, which presented us with an important question. where do we send them? we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. or, if we wanted to be political, we could deploy them to the council districts with the highest numbers of primary voters. if he wanted to be real, real political, we could deploy them to the districts with the greatest number of people voted for me. or, we could deploy them to concentrated hotspots where the greatest number of citizens were being shot, mugged, or robbed. this is the option we chose. we repeated this every day and every week, constantly looking for better strategies. over the next 10

police say they reached out to her family who is en route to baltimore. she remains in critical condition as far as they know right now. >> prince george's county police are looking for anybody with information about this case. please call police if you have information. >>> a virginia family in mourning after a 16-year-old died in a small plainish. ryan mccall was at the controls -- plane crash. ryan mccall was at the controls when his plane crashed sunday morning in orange county. >> reporter: ryan mccall was a student pilot who had flown about a year. investigators were combing through the remains of a single engine piper which crashed just after taking off from runway 8 at orange county airport. the young pilot was a student at sky line flight school described as a promising teenager who loved to fly. there is no indication what caused the crash. witnesses told investigators the plane banked to the left as it was climbing past the runway and crashed. there was no fire. mccall's family was secluded in their home today but issued a statement expressing

what is baltimore? >> one of the traces this most important in our nation that the current moment but in an area that receives very little attention. i see my research near its test close to a decade to understand poverty in the united states and because of this research so if it is but it is about how the government and society interact with impoverished people to the african americans. >> host: what is a population of west baltimore ? >> where i conducted my research the neighborhoods are predominantly black where more than one-third of young women have had at least one child. income levels never per sad -- surpass ted that women paul or the president and then to show for the first time to show policy in the united states. not just by a scarcity but the overwhelming presence of government officials and the likes of of four her gore recently i was introduced by a different organization and i noticed that it is not unusual for a child but but did does show the beginning of a trend set is says much as pa

baltimore avenue at 57th street, so you can see several things going on, vehicle into a pole. overturned around in the area, as well. you want to take christian street to get on by that for the time being. see a lot of tow trucks on the scene, police activity there as well, and few vehicles involved. out in southwest philadelphia, baltimore avenue at 57th, you want to take christian to get on by. no problems east or westbound. out on 59 right around cottman avenue headed southbound into the center city avenue. no problems there, as well. over to you. >> right now 5:35, in business news this morning the hottest spot for vacation this is year. >> it looks like a bounce back day for the markets. money watch's jill wagner joins us live from the new york torque stock exchange good morning jill. >> the dow and s&p open today in negative territory for the year after a scary friday the 13th for stocks. the dow lost nearly 146 points, the nasdaq fell 21. dead offer alive, according to 60 minutes. the government's master lit is -- list is dead, fatally flawed cost taxpayers billions of

baltimore resident karl force was with the dea. the men were investigating silk road, the online marketplace, which lets users buy and sell drugs and other illegal items. the men stole digital currency during the investigation. >>> facing a backlash and threat of boy cats, indiana republicans state lawmakers say they're working on adding language to a new state law to make it clear it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. indiana governor mike pence signed the measure last week. it prohibits any state law that substantially burdens a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. the mayor of los angeles wants that law repealed. >>> d.c. council member at large david grosso released a statement reading in part tonight, "the blatant bigotry on display by governor pence and the legislature leads me to believe that indiana is not a safe place for our public employees to travel. our government should not support any jurisdiction that displays such bigotry." >>> the american getting treatment for ebola at ni

agent karl force from baltimore. both men were involved in the investigation of silk road founder ross albrecht. just ahead on abc 7 news at 6:00, what's to blame for long lines and delays of jet blue at reagan national airport and others around the east coast? what we've learned about the co-pilot accused of intentionally crashing a plane in the french alps. and next -- how much c.s.x. will pay after a train crashes into a virginia river and bursts into flames. doug: i'm doug hill in the belfort furniture weather center. absolutely beautiful afternoon early evening. enjoy it. more weather changes on the way. give you the timeline coming up next on abc 7 news at 6:00. maureen: c.s.x. has been fined $361,000 for last year's derailment that sent three crude oil tankers into the james river near lynchburg. one of those tankers burst into flames, as you can see. abc 7 first told you about the proposed fine in february. now, a state board has signed off on it. as part of the deal, c.s.x. will also pay investigative and cl

this is a baltimore newspaper. baltimore, saturday, fairbury 1815. glorious news! orleans saved and peace concluded. literally at the same time the treaty arrives and is ratified and signed, news finally arrives overland about the eighth of january, where andrew jackson won the battle of new orleans. we not only get to celebrate the end of the war, we get to celebrate going out with a bang. and having both of those things arrive at the same time means that it's very easy in the american mind to say that one gave way to the other. we won the battle of new orleans, and the war is over. we stuck it to the british. did we give anything up in the treaty? no. and we won the last three major battles of the war. this is great! now, what's really cool is look at what is underneath the headlines. 'tis the sparse -- star-spangled banner entrance -- in triumph shall wave. it has become incredibly popular, and they are using that song to kind of sum up how they feel about the end of the war. so a lot of historians, like don hickey, will say, the war was not a success because th

[laughter] then he said, i am going to burn baltimore to the ground.ur nation was not yet 40 years old. think about it. the american dream was facing extinction. imagine what we felt at that moment. anger, fear, disbelief confidence shattered, trust gone. there are moments in the life of our country, and these are the defining moments, when it seems the american dream is hanging by a thread. for america, there is always a yet. the final thread that holds us could just be the strongest. 50% of us in the city were immigrants. one out of five african-americans of a very imperfect country. only a third of those defenders were free. somehow together we transformed our loss. we transformed our despair. instead of digging graves, we dug trenches, and we built ramparts by the sea. over the shock and all of its day, the people of baltimore stood firm. all of us as we did tonight, now singing the star-spangled banner. the flag was hoisted in defiance over fort mchenry when the british gave up. as we sing that song, let us remember the colors of the actual star-s

in baltimore, brad bell, abc 7 news. kellye: while the early talks focused on martin o'malley, he said he will not run. instead, congressman chris became the first to say he will run for mikulski's senate seat in 2016. that set off a chain reaction, clearing the way for former abc 7 anchor kathleen matthews to run for congress. she said she will run for the congressional seat currently held by van hollen. she will run as a democrat. ahead, the national park service has announced when the cherry blossoms should reach peak bloom. find out if it is earlier or later than usual. kellye: february's wintry weather turned back to peak bloom forecast for the cherry blossoms. the park services they will hit peak bloom april 14, the last weekend of the cherry blossom festival. in the last five years, the initial prediction was right twice, including last year. so we will see. eileen: looking forward to it. when we talk about cherry blossoms, you know the spring is right around the corner. i cannot wait for tomorrow's weather becaus

the activity skirt to go to north to baltimore and a tougher commute to dc and baltimore. >> showersh rain on tuesday and rain between six and 10:00 a.m. and we will talk about that more. >>> the black bandit struck again and continues to allude police more than terrorizing banks in maryland and virginia in the past few weeks. the scene of today's most recent robbery. paula. >> well, derrick and jan the wells fargo in falls church is the 8th bark -- bank in the last two months and they are becoming more brazen with every robbery. >> call the police. a bank is being robbed. that is what a man screamed as he ran into the falls church this afternoon and employees thought. >> the guy can be serious. >> and they realized how serious he was. the two alleged bank robbers scrambled out of the store. >> two minutes he asked to call the police. you know,. the dude came out running through the side and i just happened to turn around and look and there thtwo men are part of the black hat bandits, a three man bank robbery outfit. two of the armed men go in the bank and the 3rd waits in a got away

the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him he said i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. once you looked at the boots, you could see the holes where they screwded in ice skates to the boots at that time. when the weather improved in june of 1869, the family got together and buried him in greenmount cemetery. the grave is not marked but it was well-known to everybody. it was distinguished by a mount for a while. in the next year in 1870, that was the first year that confederate families in baltimore decorated the grace of their dead. "the baltimore american" said the grave that had more flowers on it than any other

the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors -- there were a number of actors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater, said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him? he said, i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. sure enough, once you looked at the boots, you could see the holes where they screwed in ice skates to the boots at that time. this is february of 69. when the weather improved in june of 1869, the family got together and buried him in greenmount cemetery. the grave is not marked but it was well-known to everybody. it was distinguished by a mount for a while. in the next year, in 1870, that was the first year that confederate families in baltimore decorated the grace of their dead. "the balti

reporting live from baltimore, suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. autria: be sure to stay with abc 7 and wjla.com as we follow the investigation into the deadly shooting at the n.s.a. you can look for more reports near the scene at abc 7 news at 5:00. leon: more good news for the american health care worker who is being treated for ebola at the national institutes of health. the hospital says the patient has improved going from serious to fair condition now. and the person's name is still not being revealed now. we're told that the patient contracted ebola while volunteering at sierra leone and arrived at the n.i.h. two weeks ago. heading in a good direction. autria: good news there. mild start to your work week. leon: we might need the umbrellas tomorrow. get the official word on that from the chief meteorologist doug hill in the stormwatch weather center. what's the word? doug: if you were up early this morning, you made it in. we had that outside belfort furniture weather center right now. beautiful, not beautiful earlier. gorgeous now. nice bree

[laughter] then he said," then i'm going to burn baltimore to the ground."ur nation was not yet 40 years old. think about it. the american dream was facing extinction. imagine what we felt at that moment anger fear, disbelief confidence shattered, trust gone. there are moments in the life of our country, and these are the defining moments, when it seems the american dream is hanging by a thread. and yet, for america there is always a yet. the final thread that holds us could just be the strongest. 50% of us in the city then were immigrants, one out of five were african americans of the still as yet very imperfect country. only one third of those black defenders were themselves free. somehow, together, we transformed our loss. we transformed our despair. instead of digging grades, we dug trenches and built ramparts by the sea. against the overwhelming shock and all force of its day, the people of baltimore stood firm. all of us as we did tonight announcing the star-spangled banner, that giant flag that was wasted in defiance over fort mchenry when the british

. >> what does what baltimore was like in the '50s or how that relates. >> baltimore had that started in the late 1800's the largest steel mills in though world. they hired whites and blacks they felt they did not do the job as good but they also had a gm assembly plant with 5,000 employees. those went down very sharply after the '60s when our economy started to transform the jobs went elsewhere and a little while little they have spent eroded. so they don't exist in the steel plant is closed we have good news coming in a parking lot where the gm plant used to be now is a distributorship. it is terrific but maybe they will pay one half for one-third of the general motors plant so not with the benefits were the paper that could support some of the all-time factory jobs usually they're not here or ashley is the amazon to it, economy. so wasn't that we had no jobs could pose a are largely gone. i apologize for that i got it misstep but does it change when it comes to economic matters or community matters? >> change is inevitable. we cannot go back to the factory era and we shouldn't. we

we'll have a report from baltimore about with what's next in this case. >>> we're waiting to learn the name of a man shot to death in his car overnight. officers found him around 2:00 in the morning in northwest d.c. near the intersection of jefferson and 8th. police say they're waiting to notify his next of kin before releasing his name. no word on suspects yet. >>> still working to find out what killed a man in hyattsville late last night. officers responded to shots fired on edmonston road. they found the victim a few blocks away at this gas station, but even though he was badly hurt police found no evidence heed been shot. he later died at the hospital. >>> another development in the latest scandal to rock the secret service. the two senior agents who reportedly drove into a white house barricade during an active bomb investigation may have driven right over the suspicious package. this was according to "the washington post." it did not turn out to be a bomb but there is little comfort in congress. >> does it really need to be said that you can't show up drunk at work especially wh

>> yes. >> is putting inner city baltimore kids through school? >>reporter: more than 100 private donors including almost every company with a sky scraper in baltimore have jumped on board the program. bates, homeless at 14 is now a college senior. in fact the school's proudest achievement is 100% of students who finish their program attend college which is much higher than the national rates of 66%. but there's a snag in the success story. not everybody at crystal ray makes it. in fact the school's graduation rate is 74%, almost identical to the baltimore city school system. in other words one in four students who enroll here won't finish. monique . presley says the school is scamming the most motivated students out of the school system. >> you take the best and brightest students, put them into private schools, and then the public school system is left to handle the masses. i think that there needs to be a way for corporations to invest in the educational system across the board. >>reporter: gilbert is a junior. his family refugees from the demo

from a baltimore hotel after a night of partying. it appears the men took a wrong turn off the highway leading to that deadly confrontation. alison: and d.c. becomes the latest city to ban all publicly funded travel to indiana because of that controversial religious freedom law. opponents say the law allows discrimination against gays and lesbians. supporters argue it protects business owners' religious beliefs. leon: talks on ending iran's nuclear program will continue state department says there's been enough progress to justify extending the deadline. the original deadline was for today for at least an outline of an agreement. senior political reporter scott thuman will update us on those talks coming up at 6:00. alison: new developments from new brunswick, canada where police have charged a man in the death of two young brothers who were killed by an escaped python. he was charged with criminal negligence causing death. that python escaped its enclosure inside his apartment before strangling the boys in their sleep. and they were

jamie: on july 30, 2003, he drives from roanoke, virginia, to baltimore and meets with his siblings tockel. >> i was ready to tell them that their coin wasn't genuine, but at the same time you always want to meet someone that has history in the business. jamie: but once he has the coin in his hands, paul montgomery does a double take. he was expecting to see a fake, but this doesn't look like a fake. paul invites jeff garrett, who has a pedigree as solid as his own, and four other experts to assess the nickel's authenticity. >> he says i think we found coin. >> they were the coin experts. and you try to get some indication from their expression as to whether it's real or not. but they didn't really show any. so i was a little nervous. jamie: this convention holds an unprecedented opportunity that stacks' auction house didn't have in 1963; to to compare george walton's nickel with the four others that had already been authenticated. >> we spent 45 minutes talking about the different nuances of the coin. jamie: the experts hone in on that strange 3. what shocks them is that it's identica

. >>> more running back troubles for baltimore ravens. today the team cut bernard pierce because of a suspected dui incident. baltimore county tops pulled him over for speeding in towsend going 55 in a 35 mile- per-hour zone.he had been drinking and he failed field sobriety tests. while riding with police on the way to the station pierce said he knew the team was going to cut him but the officers probably didn't care about that. pierce is the third raven arrested this off season. >>> update on yesterday's stabbing at morgan state university in baltimore. a 19-year-old student is charged with assault. two football players were stabbed. a fight broke out between a couple groups of students. carlos said he was swinging a knife around in a wild manner trying to keep students off his friend. a witness says he repeatedly stabbed one of the players in the chest. >>> a virginia mother will spend two years behind bars and face deportation for neglecting her children. a judge handed down the sentence today. her home in sterling was cold and filled

right along college park up 95 towards baltimore. more shower activity to the west right around front royal all part of a storm system moving through the east. as it does so lit bring in more showers tonight through about 8:00 and then bring us cooler air making our way through tomorrow. look at the highs today, 73 in d.c. 74 in fredericksburg 63 in hagerstown. but those numbers are coming down. i'll show you where we're going and when the next chance of rain moves in in the forecast. >>> high drama today on a fair and accurate fairfax county parkway. the car-clipping ride and how police put an end to it. >>> we're uncovering new information on a deadly confrontation at the gates of the national security agency. what the fbi is now saying about one of the suspects involved. >>> and breaking that the hour, a former local fbi agent is pleading guilty to evidence tampering. >>> a wild scene disrupts the morning rush. >> and tonight we are learning more about the woman who was behind the wheel. >> she's 36-year-old lakisha tracy. accordi

and one of the first of those major cities was my city of baltimore. you see when i was elected mayor in 1999 our city head sadly allowed herself to become the most violent, the most addictive in the most abandoned city in america with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets of baltimore which presented us with a really important question question, where to send them. now we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. that would be one way to do it or if we wanted to be real political about it we could deploy them to the council districts with the highest numbers of primary voters or if we want to be really really political about it we could deploy them to the districts where the greatest number of people voted for me. or or we could actually deploy them to the concentrated hotspots where the greatest numbers of our citizens were being shot mugged or robbed. this is the option w

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here's where we're seeing some areas of freezing rain baltimore and annapolis, both reporting freezing rain rain to the south and west. we'll continue to see that along i-95 down to the south. so that evening planner tonight, one thing to notice 34 degrees. but notice temperatures actually rising as we move on through the night tonight. we'll talk more about that plus how much snow you'll see in your area. that's my forecast as well at 5:45. >>> almost anywhere you drive in our area you are likely to hit potholes as you know. the snow and ice over the last week mostly to blame. transportation reporter adam tuss is live in northwest d.c. with a look at some of the dangerous obstacles out there for you drivers. >> reporter: wendy, they're everywhere out here. take a look. this is fox hall road southbound, this major pot role right here has opened up and cars are having to swerve around it. it's in southbound lanes in the middle of the lanes creating a dangerous situation. we're finding this across the area. don't worry if you never actually wanted to climb down into a massive pothole. we

should be having if we want baltimore to be richer? leave more money and baltimore.ke more jobs by not sending it to washington in the first place? i am a big believer in freedom, human ingenuity, i say if we give our back to the people, we will see success like we haven't in a long time. [applause] >> i would like to use our moderator for the q and a. >> thank you. thank you for having me. i love the way stay -- bowie state. we are going to go ahead and do a q&a with senator rand paul. i thought was refreshing to hear and talk on so many different topics, obviously that's around and involve our life here and elsewhere. first question, senator paul, could the federal government provide incentives for businesses to hire as offenders? senator paul: the best way to have an incentive is to get rid of the record. expunging the record is one of the best way to get ex offenders back to work. i think, particularly we are trying out millions of people, as many as 5 million people who o lost the fight to vote but they're also people who are having difficulty getting employment

. >> reporter: i'm scott broom in baltimore where authorities have identified the dead nsa suspect as ricky shawatza hall. friends say he is a transgender person who goes by the name maya and was homeless. >> i know she wasn't in the right head space when she was in that car. she doesn't even know how to drive that that. she's not licensed. it's not like she was pro at driving or could steal cars, that was her m.o. this is out of her characteristic. >> reporter: it was hall shot to death at the gates of the national security agency yesterday after authorities there say hall and a companion refused to stop after driving in a stolen car through the gate of one of the nation's most carefully guarded facilities. today howard county police confirmed details how it start here at the terrace motel in elkridge. a 60-year-old guest claimed two men dressed as women stole his suv monday morning after he'd picked them up in baltimore and brought them to the motel. how the suspects ended up at the gates of the nsa in a stolen suv is a mystery, but investigators theorize they simply made a wrong tu

o'malley was mayor of baltimore for years. this event was hosted by the brookings institution. >> good morning, everyone. it is my pleasure to welcome governor martin j. o'malley. here in the brookings government studies program. one of the critical problems we analyze is how to make government work better for the middle class for average americans, and for everyone. martin j. o'malley has been a trailblazer in doing that as governor of maryland from 2007-2015. and before that in serving twp terms as mayor of baltimore. under his leadership as governor, maryland recovered 100% of the jobs lost during the great recession. it was one of just seven states to maintain a aaa bond rating. the college board organization named maryland one of the top states in the nation in holding down the cost of college tuition. the state also had the best public schools in america for five years in a row. governor o'malley compiled a similarly distinguished record as the mayor of baltimore, where "time" named him one of the top five big-city mayor

next "q&a," with baltimore police commissioner anthony batts. then prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. after that, marco rubio at a politics and eggs breakfast in new hampshire. >> this week on qa day --q&a anthony batts talks about the challenges of policing baltimore , and the u.s. department of justice coming in to review the practices. he also speaks about baltimore's lower crime rates in 2014 and is upcoming initiatives -- in his upcoming initiatives.

. >> reporter: the fbi says ricky hall of baltimore died on the scene.learning more about the confrontation that happened here at the nsa entrance and what may happen next. fbi agents are conducting interviews following leads and collecting evidence. baltimore fbi and the u.s. attorney's office will determine if any criminal charges will be filed. now we know it began here in howard county at this motel along washington boulevard. howard county police say a 60-year-old man reported his ford escape had been stolen. he said he picked up two young men in baltimore who were dressed in drag and he drove them here to this motel to party. howard county police now say that the three men were here at the terrace motel in elkridge maryland before the two cross-dressers allegedly stole the 60-year-old baltimore's man suv and took off. they apparently took a wrong turn into the nsa restricted entrance and as seen in this animated recreation crashed into a police cruiser which was blocking the roadway. shots were fired. police reportedly found a gun and drugs in the

traveling 95 from baltimore down to the d.c. beltway, more volume on the roads and wet roads, but no reports of incidents or delays. 270 out of frederick looking good. 66 at nutley street looking good as well. you'll find again the ponding and pot hoetholes on the road. 395 up to the 14th street bridge no reports of delays or incidents. >>> hundreds of people waited in line for hours will in d.c. for marijuana seeds. you can now legally smoke pot in d.c. but you can't buy it. yesterday the d.c. cannabis campaign organized two seed sharing events for people who don't know anyone who can give them seeds. rsvp was required. p another seed share is planned for tomorrow. >>> some say it's a unique take on physical therapy. >> doreen gensler reports it's helping people get back to work after being injured on the job. >>> you take a slip or fall while at work and it can take weeks, maybe enven months to get back on the job. digging, lifting, shoveling turning. this warehouse is full of people trying to get back to work. doing physical

one of the first of those major cities was baltimore. when i was elected mayor in 1999, our city had allowed herself to become the most violent and abandoned city in america. with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration, we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets, which presented us with an important question. where do we send them? we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. or, if we wanted to be political, we could deploy them to the council districts with the highest numbers of primary voters. if he wanted to be real, real political, we could deploy them to the districts with the greatest number of people voted for me. or, or, we could deploy them to concentrated hotspots where the greatest number of citizens were being shot, mugged, or robbed. this is the option we closed. we repeated this every day and we, constantly looking for better strategies. over the next 10 years baltimore achieved some of

she was elected to the baltimore city council. she was first elected to congress in '76 and she broke the gender barrier in 1986, becoming the first democratic woman to be elected ever to the u.s. senate. three years ago mikulski became the longest serving woman of the history of the whole congress and also in 2012 she was appointed the first woman and marylander to serve as chair of the senate appropriations committee. >>> parents have been cited for neglect by maryland child protective services. >> the meitivs are not only fighting the ruling but apparently disregarding it as well. we saw their children playing by themselves in this neighborhood park. it's the very thing that got their parents in trouble in the first place. >> i just saw her running after her brother. there she is. >> reporter: dan ielle meitiv has changed nothing in her parenting despite a ruling from child protective services citing her and her husband with unsubstantiated neglect. >> i think at first it was shock and numb and then as it sunk in, it was very u

the purple line and baltimore's red line project. scrapping those projects. he feels the state may not be able to afford them. supporters say those rail lines are necessary for economic development and jobs. together the two lines are estimated to cost about $5 billion. >>> there's new video from metro tonight. people get too drunk really to be out on the streets safely. this video shows a man stumbling on a platform at the mount vernon station. he appears to be trying to get himself into the train but instead he was so drunk, he fell between the two rail cars. seconds later that train started moving. another rider on the platform that night described what happened next. . the train rolled away and it seemed like it was taking forever to like leave the station. and we all walk up and look over the edge and somebody's like oh m i god, he's alive. >> metro says that if you're out with a group of friends and one of them can't walk properly they say it might be a better idea to call a cab or uber. >>> a snowball fight ends with a fistfig

i will never forget in east baltimore a little girl about 12 years old came up to the microphone and she said mr. mayor, my name is amber. there are so many drug dealers and addicted people in my neighborhood that people in the newspaper refer to my neighborhood as zombie land. i want to know if you know they call my neighborhood zombie land and i want to know if you are doing something about it. the question that she asked of me was really a question that she was asking of all of us. do we know and are we doing something about it? because behind all of our data there are real people living their lives shouldering their struggles, working hard every day to give their children a better future and they deserve a government that works. thanks very much. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> you guys are very quiet. let me begin by introducing myself. i am bill galston senior fellow in government studies here brookings institution and i want to congratulate the governor on his speech. i cannot imagine a more appropriate speech to be delivered under the aegis of the center fo

that's pretty nice, even 60 in baltimore and annapolis just went from about 55 to 60. think it's warmer today than this time yesterday? you are correct. 22 degrees warmer in cumberland, 18 degrees warmer in d.c. just a little cooler tonight, nothing crazy. bus stop temperatures 34 to 46, still need a light jacket. grab your shades for tomorrow and then grab your umbrella friday. you will not need it friday morning. you'll more than likely need it on your way home friday evening and certainly friday night on the town. 10:00 tonight on the futurecast clearing skies, clouds lingering a little into southern maryland. you'll clear out before midnight, 54 downtown, upper 40s in the suburbs. by morning we get down into the 30s, but notice everybody still above freezing, only 36 in martinsburg and hagerstown, 40 downtown, so a chilly start no doubt and by midmorning we're still around 40, 39 in manassas and also la plata, 42, though, in d.c. then by 1:00 we're right in the 50s which is about where we should be. you walk to lunch tomorrow, probably a light jacket, 53 downtown,

it's just misting a few spots across montgomery county towards baltimore and we've also being seeing some light rain to the south. from fredricksburg into st. mary's county and into calvert county as well. our forecast today is just going to be areas of rain and temperatures in the upper 40's to near 50 tonight and really while you're sleeping, is when those changes will begin and our winter storm warning for the region goes into effect. these are some of the main points that you need to know. today, rain only, the mix will happen overnight. you'll likely wake up to not much, if any snow on the ground. the heavy snow window comes between 8:00 and 2:00. closings are likely for school and for the government. this should be winding down by thursday eve and we're expecting four to eight inches across the metro area widespread. we'll take out the snowfall map and walk you through hour by hour with the futurecast coming up. talk about a couple of tweaks that may need to be made. coming up in main weather in another few minutes. back to you autria and jummy? >> crews across the area making

this is the third outbreak of violence on the baltimore campus in less than a week. on friday a male student was stabbed with scissors by his roommate. early saturday and on campus party was brochbken up. >>> penn state suspended kappa delta rhofraternity. a facebook page you included naked pictures of women, drug deals and hading inghazing rituals. the fraternity was suspended for a year. >>> we're still waiting to hear what police found inside robert durst's houston home. on monday prosecutors in l.a. charged durst with an unsolved murder. he's also suspected in the disappearance of his wife. the 71-year-old was the focus of an hbo documentary on the final episode, he mumbled how he quote, killed them all. right now durst is in a new orleans jail waiting on be extradited to california. he could be waiting as long as a week. he is not scheduled to be back in court until monday. >>> 4:49. starting today, you can take a closer look at some of the darkest moments in recent u.s. history. the d.c. crime museum will open its domestic terrorism and hate crimes exhibit. it

an accident in the neighborhood 57th and baltimore.he the route 11 trolley using shuttle buses overnight. trolleys are back and running. but the norristown high speed line kick in a new schedule that begins today. so make sure you grab a new timetable, there were adjustments on the trains for the morning rush hour otherwise we're in good shape on the schuylkill as i showed you. i-95 south no problems from wood have men toward center city. we are picking up volume as we see rush hour start to unfold here coming out of the downingtown on the bypass looking good we had a report of the deer out near that route 100 interchange so be careful there. and then north on i-95 from delaware county the ramps to 291 are still closed, use the the island avenue ramps as alternate, chris and lauren back over to you. >>> developing right new a couple people recovering after an early morning house fire. >> this broke out in the 3500 block of brookview road. fox 29's sabina kuriakose is live with the very latest. a very active scene behind you, still. >>

two university of maryland baltimore baltimore baltimore county students have been expelled after a rape investigation. a girl said she was raped in a dorm room but was so drunk she didn't remember what happened. the man said they had sex bull it was consensual. two school officials say two of the men violated the school's code of conduct. >> two women are charged with running a prostitution ring out of a manassas massage parlor. investigators executed a search warrant tuesday at blue sky massage located in the 8700 block of diggs road. right now, there are no mug shots of the woman because they were released on summons. the police investigation is ongoing and more charges are pending. >> a baltimore judge tossed out an indictment and upheld his acquittal of a man accused of killing 16-year-old felicia barnes. michael johnson stood trial twice in the case. in both instances, mistakes made by prosecutors resulted in a mistrial. she said that she will seek an appeal. barnes was from north carolina and disappeared while visiting her family in baltimore back in 2010. her body was later found

also overturn at 15th and baltimore. as we go for a ride northbound i-95 from delco toward the airport the the ramps to 291 are still block that month long construction project to repair 291. use the next exit which is island avenue, route 11 trolley, where they were using buses overnight they will do that for the rest of the week but trolleys are back on track and norristown high speed line began a new schedule over weekend so grab a new timetable. there are adjustments for morning trains for the morning rush hour, mike and alex, back to you. >> okay. >>> new this morning two people including a fire fighter are recovering from smoke inhalation following a house fire. flames broke out along 3500 block of brookview road in northeast philadelphia a family of four all got out alive thanks to neighbors knocking on the door. coming up at 6:30 we will have a live report and hear from neighbors who witnessed it all. >>> overnight crash send one driver to the hospital thinks a scene just after 4:00 this morning at 57th and balti

in the purple northern faulkier county northwestern howard county into northern baltimore, what we're expecting is a mixture of rain and snow starting around midnight. some roads during the morning rush will become snow covered. your temperatures this is what's going to help us out. we're in the upper 40s to low 50s across the area. road temperatures a little higher than the airplane temperatures you saw. leesburg warrenton, the highest impact 70 270, winchester thurmont. those are the areas that could have some delays and some accumulation. in just a couple minutes i'll give you a time line take you hour by hour, show you the snow

. >>> new tonight, five players from the women's lacrosse team at the university of maryland baltimore county have been suspended indefinitely for sending threatening text messages to their teammates.

martinsburg will be close and baltimore close within a degree or two. futurecast, 10:00 tonight if you're out it's cold, not windy, no wind chills to worry about like this morning. we had wind chill 10 below this morning, 16 in gaithersburg, manassas, 17 leesburg and down to la plata. by midmorning or late morning or i guess early morning, 17 in gaithersburg, 23 downtown, but unlike today temps will jump back a little bit. so by 11:30 we're above freezing downtown, 35, 35 in manassas, leesburg and frederick about 34. by 3:30 we're in 40s. that's still colder than average, but we'll take it and run. by 8:00 it's not going to be as cold tomorrow night. temps will not fall as fast nor as far. by late tomorrow night only 36 in gaithersburg, 38 in leesburg, 40 downtown. i think inside the beltway or in the district it may not make it below freezing tomorrow night, but you will tonight. clear skies, very cold, record lows possible, 8 to 18, wind light southwest 5 to 10. keep the sunglasses handy and make sure your windshield wiper fluid is full. lows tonight

no word on baltimore yet. however, adding these flights could take years. the airline boosted about these planes for years now. it's a we'll see sort of thing. >> $15! >> wouldn't it be nice? >> it would. >> let's check the forecast. chuck bell what do you say? >> i have nothing but good news in the forecast for today, everybody! temperatures in the 30s and 40s around the metro area already. temperatures in the low to mid 60s in the shenandoah valley. the warmer air will be moving to the metro. it's going to be a beautiful day to be outside today. bus stop weather this morning in the metro area upper 40s to near 50s early on. low 50s by near 9:00. highs today upper 60 to near 70.