miss dixon has never explained to the public what that cash was doing in her bank account and where she got the cash. >> reporter: while some question the need for a state prosecutor, rohrbough is convinced it will always be important. >> we didn't spot corruption in this state. it has been going on since spear wagner. nothing is going to stop corruption, greed will always be there. it will just take a different form. >> reporter: in towson, joy lepola, fox 45 morning news. >>> a battle over dixon's pension would have cost taxpayers too much. >>> coming up can investors keep >>> cat clawing back. caterpillar beating estimates, the company's sees the world economy improving. that stock the dow's biggest gainer spiking 4%. overall the dow gaining a fraction on monday, that keeps the 6 day streak moving. the sales topping $4 billion in three months, beating estimates, whir pool beating the estimates for the 4th year. hertz the world's largest car rental company paying $4 billion to by 31st. both stocks rising sharply on the news. >>> a trump is selling stock a bargain. donald's wife is lau

he grew up in the cornfields and dixon, illinois -- corn fields in dixon, illinois. he participated in all the plays and competitions. the spoken word was extraordinarily

florida panhandle and this is going to ease to the north of us and stall out right near the mason-dixon line and back to the south again and to areas of central virginia and maryland, talking thunderstorms as way move through tomorrow and future cast shows us as we move into tonight, the rain is widespread and into the early morning hours, everything is to the north of us and we see activity into the 4:00 hour and in the afternoon and to the north and we fill in again 32 into later evening hours. we're going to hope it holds off and anything could change and lingering into monday and tuesday and showers are widespread and possibly scattered thunderstorms in the overnight hours and tomorrow, talking showers and thunderstorms and we have a slight risk of seeing the storms become severe, 73 degrees is the daytime high and your five-day forecast, showing you unsettled into tuesday and dry out with sunshine and temperatures start to rise again and by the time we hit the end of the week, we're back to bright skies for wednesday and plenty of sunshine by thursday and i'll have more in the morn

dixon was first charged with murder for a halloween shooting in columbia last year. the murder charges were dropped back in january because the evidence was not strong enough. >> attorneys for lamont davis asked for a new trial today. last week davis was found guilty of attempted murder for shooting a 5-year-old girl and another teen. attorneys for davis have complaints against prosecutors, saying davis had a lacks defense. >> the city faces a $120 million deficit. but several store owners say a plan to tax beverages by 4 cents may put them out of business. kathleen cairns has the latest. >> we are a family place. >> my cousin's place in highlandtown has been around for more than 60 years. now businesses are slowed by the recession. and owner said that the proposed beverage container tax may be the last straw. >> after all of these years, you are looking at a establishment that will have to close because they are being over burdened. >> at city hall, debate over council bill 10474 draws a standing room only coupled its supporters say it will prevent a property tax in

sheila dixon argued she did not have to report gives from one lipscomb because he did not meet a technical definition of the city's ethics code. the bill signed today clarified that language. >> the family of fire cadet rachel wilson is suing baltimore city for $35 million. wilson was killed in 2007 when a fire training exercise went horribly wrong. barry simms is live at city fire headquarters with details. >> baltimore city has already admitted mistakes were made, but now the family of rachel wilson wants the city to pay for those mistakes. february 2007, fire department trainees are sent into a vacant, burning house located in west baltimore. the drill turns into a disaster. 29-year-old rachel wilson dies of asphyxiation and severe burns. internal and independent investigations by major flaws in the training exercise and at least 50 violations of national safety standards. wilson's mother and her two children are suing the city for $35 million. the lawsuit is based on independent report findings. claims for federal civil rights were violated and she was deprived of life and liberty. the

he oversaw the prosecution of baltimore mayor sheila dixon. he says he will resign on september 1, the end of his term. >> police have a registered sex offender in custody after he allegedly tried to abduct a 15- year-old girl. the victim's father fly down an officer, alleging michael lee roy thomas tried to snatch his daughter who was luckily able to get away. it happened in southwest baltimore. police arrested thomas at his woodlawn home. he has been a registered sex offenders is 2005. >> baltimore city police have charged a man in the beating death of his two-year-old daughter. i-team reporter barry simms has details for us. >> he told police he was trying to discipline his daughter. he has now been charged in her death. we learned he has made other alleged threats of violence. >> the dogs remain in the backyard. apparently, they were not supposed to come in the house. now there owner is at central booking for what one of his neighbors called discipline gone bad. actions against his own daughter lead to child abuse and murder charges. >> he

the other raven pick are terence cody, big defensive end from alabama, ed dixon, tight end from oregon -- overall coach says he's happy. coach? >> the fact that they got players that we're excited about as a coaching staff to have. guys we targeted and wanted. that just speaks volumes. >> the ravens' official season opener is against the jets, who are trying to sign jones and mitchell. >>> 5:05. a former frontman hospitalized. >> how a rocker turned reality star bere -- how he's doing this morning. >> >>> 5:06. check the clocks, check the lights. we had some flickers of the power. we had temperatures still mild, wet at 51 degrees. winds currently calm. yes, we're watching the doppler, including maryland's most powerful doppler radar, for wet weather this morning. that will be affecting your commute. that's coming up in a couple of minutes. right now let's go to the mta, and mark jones. >> a heavy volume on the 7, 13 and 5 buses. and 16 bus diverting at poetee and patapsco. and marc good to go. no present delays on the camden, penn, brunswick services. nock. hey! [ female announcer just

sheila dixon left her to resign, he plans to retire to his second home which is in florida. >>> tonight students at frostburg state university plan to hold a university to remember brandon carol. >> he was shot and killed by another student over the weekend. more about this 21-year-old tyrone hall from glen burney and he told police two students came to his offcampus home at 4:00 sunday morning after what hall calls an assault of a woman at a party earlier that night. hall shot both men in the stomach with a 12-ganl shotgun. 20-year-old brandon carol was killed. friends have been commenting on the group of nearly 2,000 remembering and sharing memories of brandon. here's what some people are saying. i can't believe you're gone. too soon. i think about this all day and rest in peats writes another. you are a cool dude. the university will hold a candle light vigil. it's going to be a march at 8:30 tonight and the vigil begins at 9:00. >>> it is 6:51. average bishop william borders died yesterday morning at stella he died of colon cancer. he served as our average bishop from 1974 to 1989 a

. >>> his corruption case against former mayor sheila dixon forced her to step down as baltimore mayor in february. now maryland state prosecutor announced he'll retire and is moving to florida. today robert rohrbach sat down with jeff hager and looked back at the case that brought her down. he says it was her former boyfriend, megadevelopper ronald lipscomb, who prompted the investigation. he denied giving her gifts but an investigator later tied one of her fur coats back to his company. as for why he agreed to offer the former mayor a plea agreement, he said he couldn't take the chance on the state's liberal courts upholding her conviction. >> at that point she would have only been a suspended mayor. she could have come back, reclaimed her position as mayor, then would have asked the city to repay her legal fees which people estimate to be $1 million to $2 million. >> reporter: he says the investigation uncovered $13,000 in cover cash in her bank account that she's never been able to quite explain. >>> maryland is the first state to decide that inmates should be residents of the juri

cast model at 8:00 tomorrow night, the center of that storm going basically right along the mason dixon line. so as a result we will have a chance for more showers and potential for thunderstorms tomorrow, as well. but the atmosphere won't be quite as charged up tomorrow as it is today. so, thunderstorms tomorrow are less likely to be severe, compared to the ones that we're dealing with today. quick check of the seven-day forecast here. 70s again tomorrow with thunderstorms around. 30% chance of showers on tuesday with a high of 65. and drier weather returns on wednesday with a high near 67. thursday, mostly sunny with a high near 70 degrees. and as we head into next weekend, much quieter weather, indeed, is coming back our way. so that is definitely welcome news. again, we'll go back on to live radar here. just to keep you completely updated. southern washington county, you now have a severe thunderstorm warning, southern washington county. let me get the actual timing on that for you. severe thunderstorm warning now. that goes until 7:00. 7:00 southern and central washington county ma

the legislation is aimed at closing some of the loopholes involving sheila dixon. it will make it more independent by limiting the number of appointees. >> it will make a difference. people of our city and state demand more from the government and this new ethics board is a good example of us moving forward with transparency and ethical reform. >> the second part of the package clarify laws requiring city officials to report receiving gifts from anyone doing business with the city. >> there is a new plant to make the inner harbor clean up enough to swim and fish in. there is a new plant to clean up the toxins. it includes plans to attract fish. >> if we securities with a very durable grist and we put some media in between to make a sandwich, we can create a flotation device for creating artificial wetlands. " for more information on how you can get involved, we have some links on a website, wbaltv.com. >> interesting concept. there is good and bad news for residents with the budget proposal. there are no tax hikes or layoffs. there is more money for partnership gra

prosecutor for the past six years and as you recall, oversaw the prosecution of baltimore city mayor sheila dixonr is behind bars after admitting to beating his 2-year-old daughter to death. 22-year-old retired -- tyrellan hammer is charged with second- degree murder. police were called to his house for an unresponsive chiles on saturday she was beaten -- and unresponsive child on saturday. she was beaten to death by her father for allowing the dogs in the house. and they're asking for $1.5 million against a gasoline station on the route 140. they've found the shell company to be responsible for leaking into some area wells. the additive came from a neighboring junkyard where decomposing cars emitted the chemical and not the gas station. and the travel it a headache continues for european travelers. madrid has become a major hub. it is one of the few european countries unaffected by the ash. prices of rental cars are skyrocketing. >> this guys have done more than just frustrate air travelers. there also -- a the skies have done more than just for air travelers. there also costing the airline indu

now reaching in toward the mason dixon line.g to slide into northern maryland, northern parts of virginia, too. we'll get a couple of travel delays. our parent system, it's that low that's developing and strengthening out. when you see something like that develop with a big wind field, you know you'll see some problems. winds gusting today to near 55 miles per hour. all the areas that are shaded in yellow, that's who has the wind advisory. red shaded areas, high wind warning. temperatures will be on the mild side below that front. winds will be gusting to near 60 miles per hour. more on that in a bit. let me show you snow coming out of the sierra-nevada range. yesterday, lake tahoe region. there's a snow lower in action. one to two feet of snow yesterday. that is headed eastward toward montana and wyoming. more details in a bit. late season snow, it continues. natasha? >> my goodness, that's crazy to see. all right, bob. thank you. a lot of people need an umbrella today for sure. >>> if you're looking forward to grilling season,

around here today, that warm front lifting up to about the mason-dixon line. that's the reason for the risk of showers and thunderstorms today. as we go through the day tomorrow as that area of low pressure gets closer, it will also bring a chance for a rumble or two of thunder into our forecast on monday. not quite the severe weather threat tomorrow as we may be facing later on today. fog out there for now. gradually we'll thin that out. might get a break or two of sunshine. noticeably warmer today. highs 15 to 20 degrees warmer than yesterday. some storms and thunderstorms may be today. monday, maybe a rumble or two of thunder. the all important forecast, highs into the low 70s again tomorrow. a little bit cooler as we get into tuesday and wednesday. but that's when things start to get better around here. the last of the showers should be done with us about sundown on tuesday. wednesday looks dry. then as we finish out the month of april into thursday and friday, temperatures zooming back into the 70s and saturday will be may 1st, and we'll be back up close

extreme pollen levels everywhere south of mason dixon line and those trees are doing their thing to procreateat the higher elevations. still winter storm warnings posted 16 to 26 and even 6 to 12 inches potentially above 5,000 feet along the grapevine in l.a. that's more like a february or march storm more than mid-april. this will continue today and onshore winds will continue as well. rip current will be a bit of an issue and tempts very mild. sunshine out there and people will be drawn to the beaches. be aware of that if you are going to dip your toes into what is a chilly atlantic ocean. temperatures are very nice. 80 across lower texas. john and kiran, if you go out and decide to swim in the beach. be careful. >> probably not this week. when it was 92 for a high, may we would have thought about it. >> i was in virginia weekend over the weekend, plenty of people on the sand, but didn't see anybody go in the water. >>> this morning's top stories minutes away including gop excitement in the big easy, divided in the future of their leader. united they need a change in washington. >>> at 50 m

. >> david dixon. "the washington times." goldmansachs received $12.90 billion from the credit defaults swaps with aig. should they have taken a hair cut? if so, how much? i do not know. . . >> new rules for fuel efficiency and overall energy policy. he is introduced by the interior secretary -- secretary of the interior. this is 30 minutes. providence -- precedents have promised to deliver on that goal. america and their families are still falling cars with fuel from desert half a world away. our economy still rides the highs and lows of world oil prices and our children are asking, will be in the behind the same old energy policy that has failed us for the last 40 years or is now the time for change? president obama has made it clear that we are not here to do what is easy. we are here to do what is right. to make the hard choices. to succeed, where others have failed, by finally cutting our dependence on foreign oil, building a clean energy economy which is more secure and more prosperous and protecting our children from t

we are seeing that along the mason dixon line as you look at the sky watch hd radar.al direction if you're further points south. you can see that direction is northwest and southeast. only slightly moving south right now. it will continue to do so through the day and light showers continue through move through the evening before it tapers off at midnight. the clouds move and the temperatures won't climb a whole lot. don't worry after today it won't bounce back and we will see the temperatures get back into the 50s tomorrow and 70s thereafter for thursday and friday. what we're looking at here is the frontal boundary, that means we're in the cool sector of air. we have the showers moving through today and the warm front pushes through and warm front, warmer behind it. that is what is coming our way for the rest of the week. upper level disturbances does bring us the showers this morning and the through the afternoon and the next one which is being fed by the jet stream. it will bring us more chances of showers before we tape are off and we look at the drier end of the

clouds have moved in and rain showers are along the mason/dixon line.showers today. sunshine returns wednesday and thursday. jerry? >>> roslyn crawling this hour because of the accident still on the roadway inbound on key bridge. allow extra travel time there. the trip in on 395 to the 14th street bridge, very heavy and slow. had a couple of motorcades moving around. we're used to it. traffic is slow. lanes have reopened. >> you can see all that traffic if you wake up with us 30 minutes early, our >>> back now with more of "today" on this tuesday morning, april 13th, 2010. little gray and overcast in the big apple. not a problem though. we thank these people for sticking around. >>> down on the plaza, i'm mt lauer, along with al roker and msnbc's tamron hall. ann's on assignment today. good to have you back. >>> coming up, boy, this unauthorized biography of the queen of talk, oprah winfrey, is getting a lot of attention. penned by kitty kelly, what is she saying about oprah? kitty kelly is back today to talk more about this headline-making new book. >>