>>reporter: she hopes to earn her bachelor's degree at compton state by may and then start working on her masters degree in religion at morgan state. this is news at 5:30. >>> great story. you often have unique look at events like this so we want your take. you can up load picture pictures, video and written stories by just going to our web site/your take and accepted photo directly from the cell phone to pick at fox baltimore.com. >>>. >> one contestant named america favorite dancer on you think you can dance. it's to be a jam packed two hour event. if last year shocker is any indication at all you can expect some surprises tonight as the top 20 return for some show stopping numbers a and something from unexpected talent. how is that for a tease. see the finale episode tonight at 8:00 p.m. right here of course on fox 45. >>> ravens had a special guest ♪ [ female announcer ] arthritis targets your body where it's weak. where it's vulnerable. ♪ tylenol arthritis works with your body to block the pain, without interfering with certain high blood pressure medicines like aleve sometimes c

. >> do you have your compton id? >> yes, somewhere. and i brought all of these books that i had studied. >> she is a student at compton state university. >> look at this. >> she runs into admirers. >> education has no limits. no age limit at all. >> then it is tutor time on the third floor. >> i got to learn studies. >> then i can use two hands. >> the last time fibi was in a classroom. >> press the button. >> nixon was president. she is just a few credits shy of a bachelors degree. >> check your e-mails and reply. >> i forgot that. >> but she has decades to catch up on. >> her major, in her disciplinary studies has been very revealing. >> why would a married woman want top read about sex at my age? i am away from all of that junk. >> she said the diploma will be just the beginning. >> if i can help somebody on the way, then i figure my living is not in vein. >> so when fibi is done here. >> you can always learn. >> she says she may even earn a master's degree before she is 90. >> i think that's amazing. >> learning is something, if yo

is earning her degree, attended compton state in the early 70s and had to drop out to raise two children. and now she is learning computer skills. >> you can always learn. learn is something that if you have the mind you can learn. once i learn the computer, i can put it in the computer and i will not have to be writing. won't have to have hand worrying me. >> fibi hopes to get her bachelor's degree in may. she may attend morgan state next year. >> back to vytas reid with one last look at the sky watch weather forecast. because we are on the cusp of a weekend. >> fabulous start. more sunshine friday. with a high of 84. by saturday, maybe a 30 percent chance with late afternoon showers. and temperatures topping out at 89. so decent saturday. sunday, hotter. out there with temperatures at 95 degrees. looking at partly cloudy skies. monday, tuesday, looks like holding onto the 90s, mid 90s. but staying dry until wednesday, thursday of next week seeing temperatures back in the 80s. so nice start to the weekend. jeff? >> thanks so much. you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast.

this was the picture around compton, and st. mary's county. there were reports of golf ball sized hail and it is psible -- pictures, these could be the hail bouncing back up. wild, wild day down into st. mary's county. for us overnight tonight we are going to continue to see some showers and dissipate tomorrow and on into the weekend. we may be seeing a few more. right now on doppler that last ferocious storm moving into the lower part of the eastern shore, back to you. >> thanks, bob. >>> jennifer stringer is the mother of three children in lombard, illinois. she is a woman that does not spend a lot of time in labor. stringer's husband is rick tressel. he helped her deliver their most recent baby monday at home on the living room floor. he was still on the phone with the 911 operator when the ambulance arrived. got quite a check when the first paramedic walked in. 18onths ago his wife delivered their second child in that guy's ambulance. >> 08%, 90% sure it was their house.

around compton, two miles southeast of compton in southern st. mary's connie. -- too -- county. that is baseball-sized hail. and a few spots to report. a funnel cloud. apparently some observers down there. we've got more showers from southwest of vienna, to south of pax river. down to extreme southern maryland. that's moving into the chesapeake bay. officially, they still have the severe thunderstorm warning in effect for southern st. mary's county, for the next 35 minutes. all of that stuff moving out over the open water. so if you know anyone on the bay right now, in that region, there is a marine warning for the southern bay, extreme southern portions of the potomac river down there. extreme southern portions of our area. pretty much out of our viewing area. but we go to st. mary's city. dreiden. you folks still getting a pretty good storm. as you can see by the indications. earlier this afternoon, we had black and white in there. that indicates hail from that particular cell. and boy, did it produce some hail. around our region, it's pretty quiet. not much going on at all. a

kimberly is part of an educational program that is based in compton, california. organizers say there are plenty of groups right here in the metro area that will help young people who want to fly. and flying, they say, reinforces the importance of education. >> aviation teaches you why like, for example in, school, how many times you have heard a kid say i know all this math. why i do have to know how to read? when am i going to use science? when you start flying, it makes sense. >> reporter: kimberly also hopes continue to speier other teens to reach for the stars. she wants to be a heart surgeon. >> i want them to believe in themselves that they can do anything that they want to do as long as they put their mind to it. >> reporter: jane latrell, news 4. >> kimberly also carried messages of hope on her cross country trek. the messages are being delivered to foster children. >>> news 4 is also keeping track of jobs for new the area. and this report focuses on a company that is opening for caregivers for patients helping those near the end of their lives. kimberly

we're going to check in with compton chaos.ool i, the two-time pro bowler talks about jason campbell and how good he thinks the skins will be as the "news edge" at 6:00 continues. >>> weere just tracking a y.bang cluster of storms i want to let you know a tornado warnin en ue ibed sson eassued on th bestrne shore for outhern dorchester coun and n weermistcoouwico cyco unl 7:00. there isa sever e thunderstorm there. there mayer be at ab m21ouiles t ou mes s esa t ulh eastwould be 13 miles of cove point m m pil25 eresurlo . m25 pes hour. watch out around vienna. this tornado warning goes until 7:00. the safest place if you feel likee picking up or 'rgou yin up or you're in the path of the storm get to the lowest level of your home or if you don't havea basement, ge clotsm inwsdon o the interior of ou r home. again that's upperr dorchester and wicomico tadoor a tthdoese storms havend these storms have had a history of rove tating. >>> feldy i'm glad that you are safely out of redskins park. no warnings for you tonight other than h

reports of anywhere from ping among sized hail to baseball-sized hail coming out of the community of compton. we did not get any pictures. if you have check ondthem - che right now, we want to you see that most of the metro a ea was clear. estlan igthhtt ahoislaur, we had a lot of activity. what we had been tckdoinrawng ra off the coast. some lingering showers still remain. we still watch a few shower up it through pennsylvania, but it do nes look nto me like those go e aring e to be getting into our region tonight. let's go over heatoklo in other look ok aturhcal.ne bil you mentioned it is a category 4, extremely dangerous. i wanted to show you the latest models tt bare continuing to take bill off the coast. that is the best news of all. but we will not be unaffected by this storm. back over to true view. there is plenty of warm water for bill to develop in. weak wind sheer, which mean it is remains very strong and as it comes up the coast, even at ocean city, watch friday night into saturday for very rough surf. 10-15-foot waves off the coast. rip currents, beach erosion and it could be wo

he's from the compton beach area. >> that would be on youtube in a second. >>> still ahead, you won't believe this next story. an inmate spits on a judge presiding over his case. >>> i didn't do anything, and i didn't plot anything. >> a florida woman maintains her innocence after being accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband of six months. >>> a prince george's county neighborhood's rocked after a simple fumigating procedure goes horribly wrong. >>> and it's starting to warm up after a cooler start to the day. bob is updating the forecast. >>> controversy in a kentucky courtroom after an inmate not happy about being accused of attempted murder spits on a judge's face. it happened yesterday after the man was charged with trying to kill a jailer. he's also a suspect in his ex- girlfriend's death. the judge was led away after the spitting incident. the inmate is expected to face additional charges for his conduct in the courtroom. >>> family burglary bust in california. a dad is accused of using his three children to help him steal msdz. police say the man's 8-year-old and 13-yea

the actual areas that we're talking about, compton. lovedale, society, and briton hill. that storm, perhaps a tornado in this particular cell. for the next 15 to 20 minutes, please be very careful. if you're in that area, do take shelter why immediately. it's moving very quickly. but a tornado is possible with this one thunderstorm cell. just to the north of st. clemens in southern portions of st. mary's county. >>> straight ahead on eyewitness news at 4:00. he crashed his plane to fake his detect. today, marcus schempger finds out how he'll pay for his crime. >>> there's a bear in our house. and it just attacked my wife. >> is your wife injured? >>> scary attack. a bear breaks into an aspen home and attacks for no reason. >>> tornado warning. a live update coming up next. >>> breaking weather news to tell you about. let's quickly go to bob turk in the first warning weather center. with news on the tornado warning. >>> we're talking around the leonardtown area. and actually, in the last two minutes, this storm has changed quite a bit. and you can see, from about a minute

report of golf ball size hail south of leonardtown and a report just southeast of compton and southeast in southern parts of st. mary's county of hail to ping pong sized. and that's certainly very, very possible because as i was showing you a couple of minutes ago and the doppler radar is can also estimate the size and severity of the storms. now it is moving through -- let's zoom right down to where this ferocious storm is. it really is a ferocious storm and you get an idea also of -- see that bow part, that's the indication of a very, very severe storm right around lexington park and st. mary's city. you folks in st. mary's city are reallyatching it right now obviously. and the main threat, one is that it still is a tornado warning because of the circulationf this. and here's some of the spots, st. mary's city, right now, obviously, let me go down and i will also reduce and show you all of the lower -- the smaller locations. the smaller spots. st. george beach, pinin point. pi piney point. southern partsf st. mary's county, this storm has had a history of damage, large hail, very, ver

anita vogel live for us tonight from compton, california just south of los angeles. anita?> well, hi there, trace. the local utility company here southern california edison is offering homeowners $50 for old clunker refrigerators. they will come to your house and haul it away for free. they will bring it to a recycling plant just like this one where many old dinosaur refrigerators are put out to pasture. before congress started rewarding americans for trading in gas guzzling cars. home ons in southern california were turning in old refrigerators and getting $50 back from the local power company. >> works for me it would have gone out to the front. somebody would have come by and hauled it off or i can get 50 bucks for something somebody else to haul it off to me. >> that's not all. southern california edison has recycled more than three quarters of a million refrigerators. homeowners can save as much as 20% on their electric bill. hundreds of dollars a year just by replacing old refrigerators and freezers with new energy efficient models. the clunkers end up here in this re

compton is a health entrepreneur.it's a study of two chinese students, who american students and two indian students. 2 million minutes is for years of high school. when you see that move, you'll realize we're a country aggressively preparing for the 1956 olympics. we are totally out of sequence with the chinese and indian education systems. and this is as true of suburban schools as it is of bad inner city schools. people think they're going to good schools. compton put the tenth grade indian exit exam on his website. he's had 4,000 americans take it none of whom have passed it. at the end of the tenth grade on the academic track on india you've had four years of physics taught by a physics major. and you have to pass that to go to the eleventh grade. for america to be our -- our argument is that for america to be successful, we have to continue to be the most inventive, most productive, and most prosperous economy in the planet. the question you have to ask if what we inherited is a 20th century bureaucracy and a 20

hey, you know our next guest is the 173-year-old vampire bill compton on hbo's hit show "true blood,"on this sunday night at 9:00. let's take a look. >> jessica, i'm going to have a guest coming over shortly. >> can we eat her? >> you may not. >> who is she? is she your girlfriend? >> yes. >> is she a vampire? >> no. >> oh, well, do i have to be nice to her? >> i need you to go upstairs and get cleaned up. remove your makeup and make yourself presentable. i will not have you looking like a slattern. >> a what? >> a lady of the evening. >> awesome! >> jimmy: say hello to stephen moyer, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: stephen moyer, thanks for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> jimmy: can i call you stephen or steve? >> steve's cool. >> jimmy: steve's cool? >> yep. >> jimmy: "true blood." dude, it's awesome. >> you said "true blood." >> jimmy: yeah. well, i was trying to do your accent. >> you've been doing a lot of accents tonight. >> jimmy: yeah, i'm trying on accents. this is my new sidekick, john krasinski. >> john: ha, ha! [ laughter ] woo-hoo! >> jimmy: that's not

it's called the compton effect. imagine a pebble rolling downhill finally triggering an avalanche. by the time this hits the earth's surface at the speed of light, it is a giant electrostatic discharge. it feeds through the power grid of the united states. all of our wiring, antennas and everything become antennas picking up this electrical overload. it blows out the entire power grid of the united states. game over. >> so in other words, you got a missile. instead of hitting a target such as a city and wiping out the city, you have the missile go high up above the united states, detonate the warhead there. people on the ground wouldn't feel a thing, right? >> no. >> however, you would fry the electric grid and it means which comes in your book in a place where you live in where you teach college, suddenly they find out that knock electrical works. every car on the highway pretty much has stopped. anything that is computerized is dead. phones don't work. refrigeration doesn't work. everything has stopped. >> it's all gone. >> it's all gone. >> the scenarios -- there's a variety of

. >> in that district is the city of compton which prior to this whole collapse had an unemployment rate of 19% and now it exceeds 22%. so it's my intention and the only reason why i voted for this bill is that you would maintain the first two objectives of the stimulus. and so i'd like to go back for you that although you have the goal that you have -- and i agree with it and i think it's important but your top two objectives of what we authorized for this bill is to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery and to assist those most impacted by the recession. so again i'm going to ask you the question, do you know of those 6,000 applications which ones meet these two criterias? >> to some degree i would imagine all 6,000 do. >> okay. can you supply to this committee a map of the 6,000 applications and where they, in fact, do follow this particular area and that they're in economically distressed areas? >> defined economically dressed? >> i think -- >> excuse me, the act defines economically distressed as described by the economic development administration in the u.s. depar

compton points of 60% of u.s. students have no science to biology. students take advanced classes and physics, chemistry or biology yet every indian student on the academic track takes four years of physics topped by a physics major. only 45% of u.s. students take math work beyond basic old georgia and interest rate to geometry. remember these are the students that have been dropped out. if you add in the students that dropped out you realize how huge the educational challenge to the next generation is if we are serious about competing with india and china. september 17th i'm about to announce american solutions will be hosting the premier new documentary 2 billion minutes a 21st century solution hosting the event with the education of quality project and u.s. chamber of commerce institute for comparative work force. it's interesting the film highlights the basis school which is a tucson arizona charter school "newsweek" rated as the best school in the country and we think there is a lot to be learned and this is the kind of opportunity to say every

compton points of 60% of u.s. students have no science to biology. 18% of students take advanced classes and physics, chemistry or biology yet every indian student on the academic track takes four years of physics topped by a physics major. only 45% of u.s. students take math work beyond basic old georgia and interest rate to geometry. remember these are the students that have been dropped out. if you add in the students that dropped out you realize how huge the educational challenge to the next generation is if we are serious about competing with india and china. september 17th i'm about to announce american solutions will be hosting the premier new documentary 2 billion minutes a 21st century solution hosting the event with the education of quality project and u.s. chamber of commerce institute for comparative work force. it's interesting the film highlights the basis school which is a tucson arizona charter school "newsweek" rated as the best school in the country and we think there is a lot to be learned and this is the kind of opportunity to say

compton points of 60% of u.s. students have no science to biology. only 18% of students take advanced classes and physics, chemistry or biology yet every indian student on the academic track takes four years of physics topped by a physics major. only 45% of u.s. students take math work beyond basic old georgia and interest rate to geometry. remember these are the students that have been dropped out. if you add in the students that dropped out you realize how huge the educational challenge to the next generation is if we are serious about competing with india and china. september 17th i'm about to announce american solutions will be hosting the premier new documentary 2 billion minutes a 21st century solution hosting the event with the education of quality project and u.s. chamber of commerce institute for comparative work force. it's interesting the film highlights the basis school which is a tucson arizona charter school "newsweek" rated as the best school in the country and we think there is a lot to be learned and this is the kind of opportunity t