he know to get to baltimore he needs to cross. if wallis can hold it long enough he can get reenforcements to both of those cities. by the morning of saturday his 6,500 men or so have fallen back to his positions. it is to strike, find that advantage to attack. wallis isn't doing that. he will sit here and wait for confederates to come. it is kind of waxed and he says now there is nobody but us. if we can maintain ourselves here and by cook or crook get 36 or 40 hours on early that added to the marching required of him will give him ample time to get into washington and make it. so it is another hour to allow the reenforcements to washington. the abiding theme remains that of time. every minute, every second, every hour will come into play. so the battle will begin. the battle will begin early in the morning with skirmishing. it will continue into 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. at 10:00 a.m. they discover a fort he haggles over a $200,000 ransom. so this confederate brigade had that and is playing a man of blind man's bluff. they are ri

i was from baltimore. they were all from baltimore. that was the connection.nd then it became much bigger than that. it became about showing a pocket of hope and joy embodied by these young women, by their mothers, by their families, by their schools, by their teachers. >> and it paid off. blessing and the team confidently stepping toward successful on the day the movie premiered in baltimore, feels of pride for themselves, and for their city. >> i feel like it is an accomplishment. not only for me or my step sisters, but it is something baltimore can be proud of. >> i'm putting this everywhere. instagram, facebook. >> even rallying support for one of the women's strongest women, michelle obama tweeting, couldn't be more excited for these phenomenal women i met at signing day. keep up the great work and congrats on stepvie. each of these girls is going to college. sisters stepping toward dreams, bigger and bolder than their best moves on stage. >> what do you want people to take from this documentary? >> resilence, confidence, confidence and persistence. becau

taking you to baltimore where a baltimore judge considering holding the state of maryland in contempt for not immediately removing immensely ill criminals from jail and putting them into treatment centers. judge said the state failing to follow a court order. secretary dennis schrader is defending the process saying it takes time. he is making some administrative changes and doing shuffling to open up more rooms for patients. >>> to west virginia where an advisory board helping develop the state's first medical marijuana program is meeting for the first time today. members will meet at the univer university of charleston. west virginia is the at one pointh state to allow the use of marijuana for certain mel conditions. of >>> new study found vitamin b 3 may play an important preventing miscarriages, researchers in australia found two gene to be deficient in a co enzyme called nad. normal organ developments when they tested the mutation in mice they found the defects could be prevented but more research is still needed. >>> oprah opens up about her weight struggles. she is done with ob

john kerry is president of the baltimore ohio railroad. at the beginning of the more, he is a secessionist seven supervisor, but above all, garrett likes money. when he sees confederate threats moving closer to the maryland border, he realizes his railroad is in jeopardy, which means his funds are in jeopardy and he is going to start ringing the alarm bell. on june to may 9, he writes, i find from various quarters statements of large forces in the valley. i'm satisfied the operations and designs of the enemy in the valley demand the greatest missed lunch and attention. he is ringing the fayetteville saying, -- ringing be fayetteville, saying what you going to do to defend this railroad? this is the redline. this is winchester, north toward harpers ferry, martinsburg, and often to ohio. he needs somebody to defend that railroad. he is raising the alarm. that alarm goes to the union high command, goes to ulysses s. grant and goes to his chief subordinate, who is working in washington as chief of staff, henry halleck. both of them dismiss gar

ring to baltimore as the second u.s. city what the highest murder rates we spoke with baltimore city police department spokesman t.j. smith who lost his youngest brother to gun violence last month take a look. we get calls every day from local media and national media want to know what the homicide count is that homosexuality. is human beings have an equal stanleys that are connected to each other and yes number one seventy three was my brother deonte smith and it's still something that hurts the muscle a couple of days past when that incident occurred and it's tough but as i've done since i've been in baltimore. a mouthpiece we're not only the police but before the community and for the victims of our own crown baltimore mayor catherine pugh weighed in saying quote over six hundred shootings in less than a year in our city and something has to give in so we are trying to protect the citizens of our city and make sure that we curb the violence and our city baltimore city police commissioner kevin davis has created distri

baltimore has suffered more than two hundred homicides this year the baltimore police department is now enlisting community members to stem the rising tide of violence over the weekend the activists called on a citywide cease fire or to correspondent ashley banks says the story. forty hours into the baltimore cease fire a twenty four year old man was fatally shot saturday afternoon and just a few hours later a thirty seven year old was shot and killed as well baltimore police are now investigating two homicides two homicides the city was hoping it wouldn't see this weekend last friday erica bridge for the core guys are of the action took to the streets of west baltimore to promote a seventy two hour cease fire and to encourage citizens story freedom from violence for three days all of violence and not completely stopped in the city bridge for stay positive standing on facebook baltimore's goal was seventy two hours of no murder and ten minutes from now baltimore would have seen forty one hours of peace from friday to saturday plus twenty six hours of peace saturday to sunday which equat

in a baltimore resit every fuse is a million dollar settlement from the city she tells us her story of her fight for justice. it's thursday august third four pm in washington d.c. i'm actually banks and you're watching our team america we began today with president trump signing a bill to impose new sanctions on iran north korea and russia and effectively limiting his options on overturning future sanctions that alone led many to believe trump would not sign the legislation but judging by his own reaction he seemed to have no choice and even despite that many active and former politicians have already said this could be a big mistake and terms of finding the rift between the white house and capitol hill are to select a report. president signed the countering america's adversaries through sanctions act congress has encroached on the power of the presidency and he signs it in the interest of national unity even the language in this statement by the white house spokesperson suggested that trump signed off on the new sanctions bill against iran north korea and russia which also limited his

in baltimore, we spend so much money on police. one out of every four municipal employees is a police officer. if we were a nation, that would be called a police state. dealing with the statues is only part of the issue. the other part is public policy. whether that should take the form of reparations as the caller suggested or the form of more equitable distribution of taxes so we actually have more benefits for working class folks in general, that is a discussion we should have. host: there is a story in the post recently about the number of statues raised to confederate heroes at statuary hall in the u.s. capital. the house,alls from nancy polizzi, to take down those statues. do you think that conversation will reach the halls of congress itself? guest: i think it will. i think because of the way the republican party is right now, as it stands, i believe only 30 republican members of congress ask forlled trump to tta his statements in charlottesville. there seems to be a tight relationship between the republican party and white

few cities in body american or a more depressing lead in the city of baltimore baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. murder out of control. yes baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy. this week we have two suspects that we need your help. with will from baltimore next his see america correspondent ashley banks the. i'm in for another pretty grim year old where authorities are saying that freddie agrees a death that took place a couple years ago is the reason for the spike and homicides in the city according to the baltimore sun baltimore police commissioner kevin davis is trying to combat the gun violence and has the poit one hundred fifty officers and supervisors we spoke with baltimore city police department spokesman t.j. smith who lost his younger brother last month to gun violence gangs guns and drugs is what we're seeing is a nucleus but i don't go out of the homicides that we're see that homosexuality. was human beings to meet with families that are connected to each other and yes the number one seventy three was my brother deon a smith many residents in

i grew up in baltimore just outside in townsend. >> hey! >> charm city., we'd love to have you back as much as you can to talk about the efforts. >> i would be happy to be back. >> i think, we believe bringing this attention you did save lives this weekend. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you. >> coming up in the next hour, a special report on ferguson, three years later. after that city really changed and the events after michael brown's death. the violence that followed and the riots that happened and specifically there and a change in political figureheads, too and we'll dive into that in the next hour and we have thousands that are now cleaning up tonight after severe storms pummeled part of the country including a tornado hitting tulsa, oklahoma with dozens of injuries and very serious damage. we get on the ground there next. ? olay regenersit shatters the competition big hype. big price. big deal. olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over $100, $200 and even $400. for skin that looks younger than it shoul

depressingly in the city of baltimore baltimore a record high murder rate. baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy. this week. that we need your help. with more details in baltimore. actually banks. i'm in front of the forty grim year old where authorities are saying that freddie agrees a death that took place a couple years ago is the reason for the spike and homicides in the city according to the baltimore sun baltimore police commissioner kevin davis is trying to combat the gun violence and has supported one hundred fifty officers and supervisors we spoke with baltimore city police department spokesman t.j. smith who lost his younger brother last month to gun violence gangs guns and drugs is what we're seeing is the nucleus behind a lot of the homicides that we're seeing the homosexual. use human beings to be equal stanleys that are connected to each other and yes number one seventy three was my brother deonte smith many residents of baltimore want to see an end to violence which has led that community activists to push for a seventy two hour ce

divided nation now gone in baltimore. crews worked in the dark of night to take down civil war monuments hours after the city leaders ordered them removed. baltimore is the latest city taking a stand in the debate over the monument. some consider history and others consider reminders of hatred. maryland bureau chief brad bell are in baltimore. the statues are gone but the debate continues. brad: yeah. we have been hearing it all day long. this is where the statue that honored robert e. lee and stonewall jackson stood. the paper machete sculpture is up there now. there was graffiti but it's been washed off. not long ago someone wrote "honor history" on the base. it's the diversity of the opinion and the passion we are hearing here. >> a steady stream of people come where the massive and robert e. lee stood for 69 years. university professor lawrence jackson with his son nathaniel. >> i want to verify it with my own eyes. >> i think it's just a statue. i'm glad they are gone. we live in a liberty city again. >> wanda duncan

joining us from baltimore, maryland, is lester spence. he is talking about the issue of confederate monuments. good morning. host: you sent out a tweet recently on the topic of monuments. this shows the face of a monument, but it does not show the statue. can you explain this picture and the thought behind it? guest: that particular statue was a statue where i played johns hopkins one stays and fridays. i have seen that statue dozens of times. i looked at it and saw it represented the confederacy. it is shocking to live in the 21st century and see a statue representing the confederacy near where you live and work. agoou asked me a few weeks but i imagine a time where that would come down, i would have told you i could imagine a time but not when that was. as a result of political protest, it came down immediately. it was there one day, then under cover of night it was removed. that that picture to show political power, limited political power, it is not like black or progressive populations have the right or ability to take all of their w

and now earlier we spoke with the baltimore police department spokesman p.j. and he was letting us know that a lot of these killings and the related thinking activity would you rule is that i'm not i'm sure it is not can't tell you where it's coming from what i do know is that america is an extremely violent place right this is one of the most violent places on earth and the structure of it is designed to keep some people at the bottom of that structure them so when you see that balance of power of course the people at the bottom of your structures are going to use the same strategies to gain their power that they see people at the top of that structure. so whether it's gun violence so people just having arguments and i know how to be able to accomplish what people fail this is how what they're going to go with violence is violence is america's culture is interesting that you say about do you believe that residents here in baltimore are a whole less or just don't value life well you know the judge's son said he's so close to so that said right so it dawned on

to that in just a moment but first-- major breaking news in baltimore overnight. amid a growing national debate about the future of confederate memorial statues-- crews in baltimore have began removing them from the city while you were sleeping.. this state of roger taney statue was removed overnight. construction crews also removed the robert e. lee and "stonewall" jackson monument at wyman park dell. the statues had become a flashpoint for criticism. baltimore mayor catherine pugh is promising to remove two additional confederate statues. it's unclear when they will come down. we have a crew on the way to baltimore, and will have a live update at the top of the hour. dense fog advisory for the entire area through 9am - foggy early, then sunny, hot & humid - pm storms thursday and friday - seasonable august warmth through early next week - still expecting fair skies for the eclipse - 5 days away today: fog early. becoming mostly sunny. hot and humid. highs: 87-90 winds: nw to s 5 mph tonight: mainly clear to partly cloudy. patchy thursday: partly sunny. scattered

in baltimore for an amazon jobs day event. by the end of the day amazon will have hired fifty thousand part and full time employees across the u.s. for amazon jobs day here in baltimore thousands of applicants are applying for a coveted twelve hundred positions amazon is thrilled. to be expanding its presence in local communities it's not the biggest employer in the u.s. but you might assume otherwise after tending one of its job fairs at amazon jobs day nationwide in twelve locations people are lining up for hours just to apply for open positions and we're really excited to see this kind of turnout because across the country we're looking to fill more than fifty thousand roles here in the city and county in baltimore and in the region we're looking for about twelve hundred rolls for context that's nearly a quarter of the jobs added to the u.s. workforce in june alone some of the jobs filled will be part time at amazon sortation centers but a majority will be full time at the film and centers like the one here in baltimore and

following breaking news in baltimore now. that's where two confederate statues have been removed by the city in cover of darkness. robert e. lee and stonewall jackson monument and taney monument were taken down. we are working to get more information. we will have an update here and on the nbc washington app. >>> president trump faces new backlash for his response to the >> we want to show you a portion from each of his recent comments to give you an idea how his tone has changed over some days. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. >> what about the alt-left that came charging at the alt-right. do they have any semblance of guilt? let me ask you this, what about the fact they came charging, that they came charging with clubs in their hand

>> mason: baltimore police investigate whether officers planteidd ev iencen ar dug case. a scientific breakthrough, genes inan hum embryos are repaired before they can cause a birth defect. and shopping for jobs. hundreds go online the old-fashioned way for a chance to work for amazon. >> somebody's got to fix the robotics. captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. congressional investigators now want phone and e-mail records of everyone involved in that meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower last year. their interest in what happened there is growing after the president's story changed. at first his lawyer denied the president helped his son put out a misleading statement about the meeting. but yesterday the white house admitted that the president weighed in on that statement. the special counsel's investigation of russian meddling in the u.s. election is widening, as well. here's jeff pegues. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that congressional investigators have high interest in obtaining the phone recor

breaking news from baltimore. crews removed several cities confederate statue.ckson being removed. hoisted off around 3:00 a.m. before that, they removed a statue of roger taney. which said african-american could not be considered citizens of united states. baltimore city council decided to remove the monuments and city's mayor said she would get it done quickly >>> i think there's blame both sides. you look a both sides and i have no doubt about it. >>> president trump coming under fire for remarks he made about the deadly riots in charlottesville. he equated the actions of the white nationalists group with the people protesting them. large crowds gathered outside trump tower tuesday. many people were already upset that he didn't condemn white supremacist groups in the immediate aftermath of the deadly violence in virginia. >>> texas controversial transgender bathroom bill died. a special legislative session abruptly. not the one they identify with the house speaker said there's no push to bring bill back during the next session. >> this will officially finish

great for the city of baltimore.e associates. >> reporter: we saw can dace tailor, she explained she didn't get one of the today jobs but is still hopeful >> we did a drug swap was given a date for an august spot interview of 10th of this month at 9:30 in the morning and i'm very confident that i'm goingto be come an amazon employee >> those of you who weren't able to get here today can still apply online amazon delivers. jobs. >>> good luck to them. that does it for us at 5:00. >> it's tony and shawn standing by for your news at 6:00 beginning right now. ♪ ♪ >>> this is fox 5 local news at 6:00. >>> right now at 6:00. a murder mystery in virginia. the manager of a cvs found dead by a store dumpster. tonight an elderly employee is in custody. >>> and praying good samaritans, a local charity is accused scamming donors. >>> an illegal immigration controversy comes to a close. two maryland brothers in ice custody learned their fate. the news at 6:00 starts right now. >>> at first at 6:00, police made an arrest in the ca

cool down the temperature in baltimore to 72.ese will cool us off, but that heat index temperature still run as few degrees higher than the actual temperature, because of all the humidity in the air. 7:00 we'll keep thunderstorms around at 86. they should be gone by 9:00, 81 and by 11:00. 77. big headline for tomorrow, we do this all over again. and there is your seven-day forecast, and you can see what we're talking about with another 92 reading should be the last of the warm days and i can't describe it as hot because we were so hot in july. this is a little toasty for this time of year but close to normal. you're absolutely right. shawn, we may have thunderstorms around tomorrow again on friday and saturday morning but the weekend still looks good. mid 80's and then our next chance of more significant rain may be on monday. >> that weekend is important, sue >> so far so good for the weekend. >> we like that. >> thank you. >>> still ahead if you're looking for last minute summer get away, listen up >> how you can snag a cheap t

baltimore complaining that local government can't get stuff done. i was like you want to see action? watch that coordinated thing. they moved fast and got it done. >> the mayor is going to tell us how she did it and how she made the decision, how quickly she moved. thanks, rachel. >> thanks. >>> well, donald trump has become the divider in chief. he has divided this country. he has divided his party. he has divided the white house itself. so it was no surprise today when he did not do what his predecessor would have done. he did not attend heather heyer's memorial service in charlottesville, but heather's parents delivered more eloquence and wisdom in their remarks than this president of the united states ever could. >> if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. >> not all of those people were neo-nazis, believe me. not all of those people were white supremacists. >> they tried to kill my child to shut her up. well, guess what? you just magnified her. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> the president of the united states needs to co

baltimore one of several u.s. cities taking these monuments down in the wake of the deadly events in charlottesville >> angelie hemphill is live in baltimore at the park where one of those statues came down. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. after 50 years of this confederate statue standing here of robert e lee and stone what will jackson, reminders of the controversy certainly remains here, you can actually see standing in front of the old statue, appears to be another statue. appears to be depicting a woman with her arm up in triumphth. sitting in front of the the confederate statue making a defiant statue. the new statue are both covered in graffiti. writing things like stop white supremacy, black lives matter, there are folks happy to see these statues go, on the other hand, there's also on top of the base here, a small memorial that was left here by a woman earlier this morning, she left it here so mourn the removal of art and historical value. so, both sides expressed here at the base of this d

breaking news coming out of baltimore, while you were sleeping. the city removed at least three confederate statues >> baltimore one of several across the country that have accelerated the removal of these monuments in the wake of that deadly white nationalist rally in charlottesville. angelie hemp park, where one of those statues came down. >> reporter: good morning, so far, at least a total of three of the four confederate statues here in baltimore have been taken down tonight. we're hear where stone wall jackson and robert e lee used to be riding on horseback above this base here, you can see that is gone now. and in its place is a lot of graffiti and vandalism left on the base of what used to hold the statue. there's also another statue that has arrived here unclear who brought it here. when it arrived but it is obviously standing in some sort of defiant pose against the base of that previous statue and it is also covered in writing that says things like down with white supremacy, rip freddie gray, sandra bland, are we helping black lives matt

baltimore - now gone. the statues.. taken down while you were sleeping. the empty bases left behind right now. an explosive news conference at trump tower - president trump conference at trump tower - president trump defending his initial statements about the weekend violence. the comments causing an outcry this morning. and remembering a life lost. how charlottesville is coming together this morning to honor heather heyer. good morning washington. toss to eileen dense fog advisory for the entire area through 9am - foggy early, then sunny, hot & humid - pm storms thursday and friday - seasonable august warmth through early next week - still expecting fair skies for the eclipse - 5 days away today: fog early. becoming mostly sunny. hot and humid. highs: 87-90 winds: nw to s 5 mph to partly cloudy. patchy fog. lows: 72-75 winds: sse 5 mph thursday: partly sunny. scattered pm thunderstorms. highs: 85-88 winds: s 5 mph breaking right now - plans to remove statues, speeding up in baltimore. while you were sleeping - the city's monuments, taken down. the roger

baltimore getting pommelled. some storms south and east of baltimore right along i-95. notice pretty good storm along savage. one other shower developing to the east. i'm tracking these. these are moving off to the north and east. still a chance we may see one or two in the region. most of us remain on the dry side. you can see activity to the north and west. next couple of days continue hot and humid. cooler for the weekend. we are talking pretty nice weekend. we will have much more on that and tracking our next storm >>> we can provide -- it's okay. she cannot do it anymore. i'm very sorry. >> mother collapses as she tries to speak of her son whose were deported the day they were due to attend college. they were arrested on friday. they came here as children and one got a soccer scholarship to college. now the brothers are back in el salvador, a country they have not seen since they were kids. chris gordon has more on the family and reasons for deportation. >> reporter: both of these brothers graduated in gathersburg. both were outstanding soccer players. the younger

in baltimore, cheryl conner, abc7 news. jonathan: now at 6:00 -- >> they did everything they were supposed to do and the dog still came up rabies positive. jonathan: a family dog killed by rabies despite being vaccinated. the rush to protect both pets and humans who may have been exposed. [screaming] nancy: shocking video. road rage, out of control. what happened next and where the angry driver ended up. jonathan: coldcocked. video showing a man being sucker punched but so far no one has been arrested. both sides reacting. we have that coming up. announcer: now "abc7 news at 6:00". on your side. >> first up on "abc 6:00". update on the small but heavy thunderstorms continuing to develop over part of the district. the area in orange and red and the lightning strike show the area of the city most impacted. northwest, downtown to part of northeast extending over the d.c.-maryland line to chillum. you can notice that the movement is very subtle. it's expanding. there are indications in the next 30 to 40 minutes. few additional

i have so many things to focus on in baltimore. we are right now choosing our monitor for our consent decree, making sure our young people are working, making sure people understand we can move our city forward. so president trump has his issues. catherine pugh as mayor of baltimore city is working for the people of our city. >> i appreciate that. the president did say he did feel it was up to the local communities and states and cities to make decisions for themselves. obviously you're not just the mayor of baltimore. you are also african-american. i am curious when you have gazed upon the statue of robert e. lee, your whole life in your city, growing up and seeing it as an african-american, what feelings did it give you? >> well, let me be clear. i'm not originally from baltimore. i am the mayor of this great city. so i didn't gaze on this statue of robert e. lee but let me just say, what i do believe that it is part of our history and there should be something that says why that statue was once there, what it represented and mor

officers in baltimore accused of planting evidence. scenes caught on their own body cameras leading to dozens of cases being overturned. it's another problem for a force that has seen its share of controversies in recent years. nbc's stephanie gosk has the new details. >> reporter: shamir collins was pulled over by baltimore police last november. >> you're locking me up for what? >> i think they put sfg something in my car. >> reporter: after a 30-minute gap, body cameras pick back up and police pull what they say is heroin from the car. >> i put the handcuffs on you because there's drugs in your car. >> you didn't show me any drugs. >> reporter: when they told you they found marijuana and heroin in your car, what was your reaction? >> my reaction was how? you understand what i'm saying? how? where? >> reporter: internal affairs is investigating. >> it's no doubt that the video that we see, the piece of video that we see is ugly. >> reporter: the baltimore police department is in crisis, accused of tampering with evidence in the collin

boy, northeastern baltimore 6" radar this afternoon. we had flash flood warnings this afternoon and early evening. here's something we continue to watch. south of kapon bridge north of middletown across 1 s show-moving thunderstorm that moved east 10 miles an hour and looks like it is pretty much ready to fizzle on out and did have heavy rain with it and it probably is seeing lightning out there. not sure it will make it to the mill wood area and activity through pennsylvania. this may grays the hancock area but the most part stays knowledge of mason dixon line. tonight, here's what's ahead, yep, weather forecast, deja vue. exactly what we had today i'm expecting tomorrow and maybe one degree warmer and certainly on the warm side and if not hot as our high pressure area gets over to the coast. and make a couple of hit or miss thunderstorms in the afternoon and you know the drill with thoxtz not everybody gets them but if you get them you may get an inch of rain out of it we'll forecast a high temperature thursday of 92 degrees and may f

today is north of baltimore. flood warning and severe warnings for the eastern suburb of baltimore city, to the county and western shore of chesapeake bay. notices from the f.a.a. indicate significant delays in departures from reagan national and arrivals and departures from the metro new york city area. they are getting hit with a lot of storms. let's zoom in baltimore. active storms drifting north east at 5 miles per hour. farther south we have action, not much we have a window of an hour or two where we could see it pop up low callly but nothing yet. temperatures right now are mostly in the 80's to 90 in the area. 90 in washington and leesburg. 91 in warrenton but it feels warmer because of the moisture levels. the future cast indicates possibility of more storms popping. things will settle down tonight. tomorrow we'll replay the whole situation and again on friday. the weekend, ahh, the weekend forecast is worth waiting for. alison: looking forward to that. thank you. we want to show you this. this is skytrak

overnight several statues were removed in baltimore.herine keys said it wasn't the threat of removal by residents that led to her decision. >> i mean, i know what we were planning on doing and i think if you'd check with the city council, i sat down with the president and said what we'd do, move quickly and quietly and i did that. adrianna: suzanne kennedy was in baltimore as the statues began coming down. >> this is the site of four confederate monuments that came down overnight and one was robert e. lee and stonewall jackson is now a empty pedestal is remains as graffi p overnight. crews were here at 3:00 a.m. and took a large crane to remove the statue dedicated in 1948. the monument had been proposed for removal by a committee appointed by baltimore's mayor. the robert taney station in mount vernon also taken down overnight, while not complicitly a federal monument, he's known for his decision advancing slavery in the u.s. and the 100-year-old confederate women's monument sits now as just a blank pedestal. baltimore residents woke t

and two days in a row for baltimore. yes, yesterday, baltimore had in some spots over six inches of rain and then tonight the storms weren't so much a flash flood type storm they were moving faster and the win was the problem. i'll bet they had three or four rounds of bouts of strong and severe thunderstorm and unfortunately you heard about where a car was struck by a falling tree and that is always one of the biggest dangers, he so your best bet whenever you can is get out of the way of the tomorrows. yes there wibl probably be a few storms around during the daytime, but there is also a second round is that going to come with a friend tomorrow night front tomorrow night. they are going to come through after we've lost the peak heating of the day. they may produce some heavy rain at night which we don't need to see . the weekend looking great. we're getting the front through by saturday morning. might linger with a couple of showers at the beaches. i think most of us are going to see a dry weekend and comfortable tempera

job fairs around the country and hiring on the spot will be free or report from one warehouse in baltimore that time starts right now. u.s. investors disenchanted with the dollar are falling in love with european stocks but like any affair it comes with risk to start we've seen europe outperform in a number of areas which actually has some has a tenth the market will correct itself and then there's the case of e.u. banks they're still nearly one trillion euros worth of bad loans in the european banking system that's more than five percent of all e.u. loans while. as a whole banks could probably still make the average ratio there's a huge difference from country to country ranging from bad loans making up one percent to nearly fifty percent of all loans the countries with the highest bad loan ratios are greece cyprus portugal italy slovenia and ireland this month the officials have proposed coming up with one cohesive strategy to deal with possible bank runs when the concern about a bank's future leads to its customers running to the a.t.m. to withdraw their funds that proposal includes fre

now it was removed in the middle of the night by the city of baltimore. all this after the incidents in charlottesville. trying to get rid of these statues. this was one of four of them. let's show you some other video of the three others that were taken in the middle of the night. there was one that was the confederate soldiers and sailors monument over on mount royal avenue. also the confederate woman's monument. the statue was parkway. the roger taney monument also stripped away during the night. a lot of people saw this happening overnight and were there taking photos and were actually pretty happy about it. take a listen. >> a teachable moment and it's a -- a time for other people to be up on a pedestal. >> it celebrating the worst part of our history -- celebrates the worst part of history and presents it as something worth honoring. that was actually twisting the truth. >> reporter: about that last person you just heard from. he is actually the one that organized this statue right here. his friend actually made it. it was originally put up two year

overall amazon is certainly expanding its presence in baltimore. bianca's you mentioned president trump is not fond of amazon has he made any mention of this jobs fair. you know simone he hasn't which is odd because you know whenever an american company or an international company announces that they're going to add jobs in the u.s. or maybe they're going to open a new plant we immediately your comment from president trump usually a positive one sometimes associating them with the policies of his administration but he is it's radio silence from the trump administration on amazon jobs day which is odd specifically because of how many jobs they added today fifty thousand but the reason we can all assume that he had stayed silent on amazon jobs today is because he has a lot of issues with the owner jeff beatty. few weeks ago or actually rather last week in a tweet you cues to the washington post which jeff bezos owns as well a quote lobbying congress to protect amazon from paying more taxes because he sees the washington post as a very anti trump publ

is a good opportunity that means a lot to job seekers and baltimore that up until only recently dealt with years of stubborn unemployment post recession compared to its competitors and even major u.s. employers amazon offers more benefits than most the benefits that come with jobs that amazon has worked as a way. to attract members of the working age population but it's also been a good way to attract younger members of the generation especially as the price of college tour is and way to raise taxes for many young americans a job that pays full time with benefits beyond just medical is a better deal than tens of thousands of dollars in student debt it also allows them to get a head start on saving which is why some people at the job fair were in attendance with their kids so this is a great start for him this is a great opportunity and it gives him a chance to move up in a van you know so that they feel like you. have to make you feel as amazon's labor force grows so does its global presence and buying power and it's making other companies nervous in fact an analysis by bloomberg show

in inner city baltimore.y this is. it's a powerful uplifting inspiring film. it takes place in an all girls school. it's during a senior year while these girls are competing in a step competition but also the goal of the school is to have every graduate and it takes place during and before the time period of the freddie gray passing and death so it's a very, very powerful film. baltimore is a very big part of the story. but it's also about overcoming adversity. it's a very powerful film. i loved this movie so. i gave it a 4.5 out of five. >> that's great. >> one of the best films of the year. definitely see it. as i mentioned baltimore plays a major character in the film because of what happened with freddie gray during that time period. >> let's go with dark tower. >> idris elba and matthew mcconaughey. >> what. >> i heard the same thing. i didn't want to disappoint you. >> are you serious. >> i love steven king i love idris elba. >> i love matthew mcconaughey as well. >> it takes place after the events of t

confederate monuments in baltimore are taken down.esidents stood by as crews removed statues of robert e. lee, thomas stonewall jackson and others. and at saint john's church in brooklyn new york a longstanding plaque dedicated to general lee was removed wednesday. the chaos in charlottesville virginia has sparked a nationwide debate over statues plaques and memorials bearing the name of figures from the confederate era. the main argument for is that they're reminders of slavery. one chicago historian says he understands calls for the mayor to rename washington park but he thinks the debate should be about learning. >> i think some of these monuments could be recontextualize so it's an opportunity for people to learn. >> reporter: others oppose the idea of removal. >> we allow people to make up their own mind, what they mean to them. >> reporter: meanwhile residents of lexington kentucky spoke about the issue at a city council meeting to debate taking down statues of john breckenridge and general john hunt morgan. >> let's pretend tha

sam sweeney is in baltimore with one of the largest job fairs that had people lining up before sunrise. sam: started small around 5:00 a.m. and by 7:00 a.m., a different story, candace taylor is one of a new job. >> i am ready and i can do this. --: the lands >> the high demand company and they need the help. sam: hoping to score one of the 1200 jobs in the maryland area, most inside this fulfillment center, the size of 28 football fields. >> a chance for growth in the area and i want to be part of that and add on to what i can do with my life. sam: qualified candidates are offered positions on the spot and fulfill most -- fulfillment center jobs pay about 30% about minimum-wage with 3200 people working at this location and she has been out of work for five months and has her fingers crossed. >> i feel great because i know i will get a job. if you could not make it or did not want to wait in the line, go online and apply a amazon.com/jobsda up, we are still following this breaking news coming out of minneapolis. a building has exploded at a christian school and we will have updates on