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abc 2 news jeff hager with more on the former cop's sentence. >> reporter: rammed from behind in his ford explorer, the crash killed antonio martinez, who left behind a 2-year-old daughter and a widow crying out for justice. >> everyone in her family has suffered the maximum loss. and that it would have been appropriate for mr. hall to face the maximum sentence. >> reporter: 29-year-old dane hall later admitted to being behind the wheel of the suv that struck the explorer and to leaving the scene, claiming he had fallen asleep, and he never saw the victim's vehicle, which jumped the guardrail on i-95 and landed in an oncoming la. he was sound asleep when police tracked him to his home after his license plate was discovered at this scene. five hours after the crash, blood alcohol tests revealed that he was still legally drunk. ultimately, the judge had to weigh martinez's promising death with the once promising life of a student athlete and cop who set his eyes on becoming an fbi agent. faced with a the maximum of 7 year prison sentence, he got 18 months with two years of house arrest

people don't have a a lot but, they give what they can. >> reporter: jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and if you would like to see the firefighters' wish list or make a contribution, you can go online to the baltimore city council.com and click on the green genie. i think we have a link on our website as well. >>> baltimore also began its new garbage collection routine. starting this week, trash will now be picked up tuesday through friday with one pickup per neighborhood per week. recycling will also be picked up once a week. it's part of the new one plus one plan which the city says will save millions and encourage people to recycle. if you need to know your pickup dates, call 311 or go to www.cleanergreenerbaltimore.org >>> maryland's most powerful radar continues to pick up shower and thunderstorm activity across the bay near the dover area. also some shower activity down near the cambridge area. it's moving on towards the east. it will not affect the baltimore area tonight, but we do have some showers in the forecast. but not for this evening. partly cloudy. the showers will be to the s

reporting in cecil county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and jeff says hall is being held tonight

>> i didn't think it was going to be that big. >> reporter: jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and talk about shipping fees. the move is costing the nuclear plant more than $5 million. about half of that is going to utility companies in maryland to move and bury their lines along the root. >>> now the forecast certified baltimore's most accurate. here is chief meteorologist norm lewis and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> okay. we're going to tell you why that storm had changed track. it was coming straight up 95, okay. here is baltimore. here is 95. it's coming straight up the 95. the heat coming off of baltimore, the storm basically bounced off that, because all that heat going up provided a little bit of resistance. so it's actually turned and now heading across the bay. that's the reason that storms move. they take the path of least resistance, like i do many times. >> makes sense. i do too. >> take a look outside right now. your shot from harbor cam overlooking the downtown area right now at bwi thurgood marshall. 79 degrees. 74% humidity. wind from the northeast. 15, pressure s

if i had to, acouldn't afford to buy that house. >> jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> harford county executive david craig is expected to make it official, signing the tax cap reduction measure tomorrow morning. >>> there a new push to get congress to approve legislation allowing prison cell phone jamming. maryland's top corrections official gary maynard testified today in washington. a maryland inmate was sentenced to life without parole this year for using a cell phone to order the killing of a witness. but critics say jamming devices would interfere with emergency response and service to law- abiding citizens. >>> it's no surprise the cost of a college education is going up. and president obama is pledging to do something about it. he has a lan to invest $12 billion in the nation's community colleges, and the timing is just right. thanks to the recession, community colleges are watching enrollment go up this summer while funding goes down. and montgomery county, for example, in maryland, even this 8 a.m. statistics class is a summer hot spot. >> we have filled pretty much every seat. >> a l

from westminster and finksburg to taneytown and mount airy, as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, that is making it difficult to track down all of their victims. >> reporter: witnesses spotted the suspects' red and white truck near a number of burglarized homes, and it was easy to spot wh they stole from his home. >> use chains. >> reporter: but it's the foreign currency, the high- priced coin that are now baffling state police in their efforts to return stolen items to their rightful owners. >> the japanese peso was -- that was issued by the japanese government when they occupied the philippine islands back in the 1940s. this is the united states of america trade dollar that was minted back in 1877. and it has -- according to what i've been able to find on this, it is fairly valuable, actually very valuable, about 1500 and up. >> reporter: investigators say jerome and tina heran hit so many homes, that they apparently can't remember where they pilfered the world war ii era currency. and no one has reported it stolen. the only thing certain is that it did them little good in financing the

transit, but now as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, the head of the maryland transit administration has a backed off on an initial report to record people's voices. >> reporter: behind the roar of the engine and the squeak of the brakes, many doubted the mta could electronically eavesdrop on conversations inside the buses anyway. the riders like mary allen didn't like it. >> i don't think it's a really good idea, because i feel like it would be an invasion of my privacy. >> reporter: eyeing future camera upgrades, transportation leaders wanted to see if adding audio capabilities to their existing video cameras would violate the state's anti- wiretapping laws. the mta asked for an machine on maryland's attorney general on whether people who ride the bus would have to be notified before their audio was recorded or whether a signposted inside was sufficient. >> i think that is definitely big government gone too far. >> reporter: state senator nancy jacobs and others began voicing their concerns over the matter. acting transportation secretary beverly staley called off the inquiry, at least

in carroll county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> four people suffered minor injuries in the fire. doherty is being held at the carroll county detention center with bond set at $100,000 pending a review. >>> day 2 in the hot seat brought stuff questions for supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. abc 2 news terry owens shows us how senators turned up the heat. >> reporter: marybeth, as expected, republican senators grilled sotomayor on her record and her personal convictions today, from abortion to gun rights, the supreme court nominee was peppered with questions. today she tried to explain off the bench comments she made that a, quote, wise latino woman could make better decisions than a white male. she says she was trying to make a play on words used by former supreme court justice sandra day o'connor. >> i do not believe that any ethnic, racial, or gendered group has an advantage in sound judging. >> tomorrow sotomayor sits down for another day of questioning, but her confirmation is likely to move quickly through the democratic-ruled committee, then on to the full senate for a v

as jeff hager reports, the city is producing a record amount of recyclable attorney at the time when the market for it is fading. >> reporter: they sort through it piece by piece. which translates into about 80 tons per hour. >> we do most of maryland. >> reporter: at a time when baltimore's new one plus one trash service is leaving residents with little choice to recycle. some centers across the country are reportedly finding it cheaper to dump them in landfills. but not at this center in elkridge. >> we have long-term contracts with all our suppliers. and we have moved all our material even through a time when it was hard to move. >> reporter: for years we've heard recycling makes sense, and it's also made decent dollars but not this year. >> before the drop baltimore made just over degree hundred thousand in revenue. right now we're not make anything but our perot processor, west management america is still taking the material for us, which is a great thing. >> reporter: even if the city doesn't make a dime on its recyclables, it's still saving the taxpayers money. otherwise it wo

hager, was devon brought into your network?he was not. >> reporter: nor was he taken to any of the six other pediatric coun county clinics that specialize in child abuse. according to internal dcfs documents, the doctor said she found no evidence of abuse. the social worker closed the case. hager said if devon had been evaluated at one of the county's special clinics, things may have turned out differently. all of the injuries would have been documented, x-rays would have been taken, then he would have had mental health assessments and somebody working with him from crisis and he would have sat there in the waiting room until somebody came to take him to foster care. >> reporter: he would not have been taken home and could have been alive today? >> he would have been alive today. >> thelma joining me live from los angeles. have you heard from the child welfare officials and to be exact, it is dcfs. i want to know what family services had to say about this. it looks like the social workers within that program really failed this

are banning his whole attire. >>> bar stool chat. >>> >> doppler radar shows a batch moving past hagers town, they are moving through, sum of them very light and embedded in them, some very strong showers around butler. if you happen to be up and down the 83 corridor, you will see these moving through pretty quickly. your fraph looks like this are we do have showers in the forecast throughout the day. temperatures are the focus. 90 degrees with a chance of thundershowers pretty much through the afternoon. lighter showers throughout the early part of the day, your completed update forecast is coming up. >>> jim, thank you. >>> first, we want to update what people are talking about today. a serious stabbing overnight near langley park. 8200 block of tiny branch road. police say he was cut in the the neck with a broken glass bottle. he lost a significant am of blood and was taken to an area hospital. no word on her condition. >>> >> the search for a missing 11- year-old girl has been called off. she went missing during a boating accident. the coast guard looked for her for more than 20 hou

thunderstorms that wept right through the region, mostly north of baltimore. 69 in new york, 74 in hagers town. 72 in the baltimore area. satellite, throughout the day, some sunshine. a few light clouds, but during the afternoon, showers and thunderstorms developed and came right through the region. they are fairly small storms, but extreatmently intense. strong storms making their way out of the eastern seaboard. there it is, right there. harper county seemed to get the heaviest amount of rainfall. behind it, breaks in the overcast, when you get the breaks in the overcast, for sunshine, more humidity, which means the atmosphere starts to bubble up once again, showers and thunderstorms making their way out to the fort and east. all of the watches and warnings being canceled as they make their way out of the region. heavy rainfall experienced. i want to show you where the heaviest rainfall was. let me go ahead and click on our rainfall totals and as you can see, the heaviest rainfall was in the region right around the bel aire area, just north of the beltway, right here, going down through

in baltimore, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and if you're interested in volunteering for the trials, you can call the center for vaccine development at 410-706- 6156. this point, it has not been determined how many participants, actually how participants will be compensated. >>> the budget ax has fallen as the state struggles with a $700 million shortfall. more than $280 million has been cut this time around, including more than 40 million from the university of maryland system. so far, there are only a small number of job cuts. but as abc 2 news roosevelt leftwich tells us, that's not going to last too long. >> reporter: every state department gets a cut. although two got chopped a little deeper than the others in the initial round of cuts as the state grapples with the $700 hole. health and hygiene loses payments to hospitals and nursing homes. and the university of maryland system is losing some $40 million, prompting an emergency meeting of the regents tomorrow to figure out how to deal with the shortfall. >> eliminated of classes, we're going to try to do everything we can to make s

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. >> 15 minutes after taking off from hager town regional airport, the four-passenger robinson 44 helicopter was engulfed in -- engulfed in flames east of hagerstown. >> the cabin of the aircraft was consumed by fire so there was -- it's not survivable. >> reporter: witnesses say they saw sparks as the chopper tangled with high power utility lines. they say there was fog throughout the night in the vicity. the tourer at hagerstown was closed and around 10:15 the pilot decided to make a quick return flight to frederick during a dull between the storms. >> we know that he waited. and begun one of the things we'll look at is what kind of weather advisories were out there for pilots, for this pilot and pilots in general who might have been flying. i don't know at this point whether there were other pilots who were also flying las evening and what they reported. >> now the pilot and two passengers aboard the helicopter were employees of advanced helicopter concepts, a flight school in frederick. they were giving short helicopter joy rides here at the airport here in hagerstown. it was a fundraise

abc2 news jeff hager caught up with it along its path. >> reporter: the excitement is building here along main street in delta, pennsylvania as residents hope to capture a glimpse of one of the largest special deliveries in decades. >> i heard about it from the maryland side, not from the pennsylvania side. i heard it from maryland. that it was coming here. >> reporter: what is coming, a 250-ton generator bound for the peach bottom nuclear plant that will carry enough power from a nuclear reactor to the power grid to light up an entire state. >> the transfer was manufactured by hyundai in coria. from there shipped to philadelphia. from philadelphia barged to havre de grace. >> reporter: now it's making the last and most difficult leg of the 7,000-mile trip covering 30 miles of rural roads through northern maryland. at 16 feet wide, 27 feet high and a whopping 144 feet long with the two tractors it takes to move it the state is shutting down portions of routes 155, 22, 136 and 165 this week as the very oversized load begins moving each night before midnight and halts its movement by 5:00 i

as jeff hager reports, he burglarized a recycling center, hauling away as much as he could carry. >>urglar rummaging for copper and brass from a remote recycling center in cardiff near the maryland- pennsylvania state line. the owner esti

and i think that will be the case during the day tomorrow and tonight. 86 degrees downtown. 84 in hagers town. 82 in winchester. the air is really dry. relative humidity is only 29%. so as soon as the sun goes down, the temperatures will fall very quickly. so that is why i think it will drop into the 50s in the suburbs by tomorrow morning. and during the day tomorrow, high pressure will be in control. and that means quiet conditions but more from the west that should roll through here during the day on wednesday and usher in that slightly warmer and more humid air mass tore the middle of the week. so 89, maybe 90, wednesday and thursday. there is a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon, each day. through the beginning of the weekend. but these are just going to be the hit-and-miss type variety. not washout days, by any means. so if you have outdoor plans certainly don't cancel anything. i don -- i would only put about a 30 or 40% mark that you will run into some rain wednesday, thursday, or friday. so all in all, another good forecast. >> all right. thank you ve

jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> the state highway administration also wants motorists jumping on the interstate from ingleside avenue to pay close attention. since they will no longer have their own lane, they'll have to merge as they enter the highway. >>> in howard county, people living along route 32 hope changes will be made to make things changer. the two-lane road in sykesville has seen its fair share of accidents. last month a mother and her teenaged son were killed in an accident at route 32 and river road. the community has come together to organize the meeting tonight to talk about some of the safety concerns. they say changes like new traffic lights, more signs, and dedicated lanes for turning and passing will make things better on a road that some consider dangerous. >> with so many people paying attention to cell phones and other things in the car, you just pray that they see every single time. >> the meet willing be held tonight at 7:00 at the west friendship volunteer fire department, state, and local leaders, along with representatives from the state highway administration will

jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> is the city's contract with waste management allows it to make money on its recyclables when the prices are high, but kit not lose money on them when the prices drop. >>> and now for a look at tonight's top stories. two baltimore city police officers recover from this weekend's shoot-out, we're learn mortgage about the suspect. she 34-year-old shawn sinclair. he has three felony convictions, an assault conviction and a handgun violation. police say saturday sinclair walked up to a police car and started shooting with officers inside. he was also shot, and is at shock trauma tonight recovering. >>> baltimore police are still searching for the person who shot two 16-year-olds last night, killing one of them. this happened just after 9:30 at the corner of east madison street. police say the teens were standing on the corner and someone came up and started shooting. one of the teens died at the scene. the other is recovering at a local hospital. police say they have no motive for the attack. >>> the parents of a soldier captured in afghanistan say their focus is

in harford county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> now if you recognize that burglar or have any information on his identity, you are asked to call the harford county sheriff's office. the number is 410-272-2121. >>> police in aberdeen are investigating the deaths of a pedestrian early this morning. around six thank morning, police responded to an area of westbound pulaski highway near the route 17 overpass. police found the man lying on the road. he died at the scene. police say his injuries are consistent with being hit by a vehicle. if you saw anything, you're asked to call aberdeen police. the number is 410-272-2121. >>> and now the a story you'll only see on abc 2 news. baltimore city police were busy overnight handling four shootings, one of them deadly. just before 1:00 this morning, a man was shot several times. it happened on eastland avenue and southwest baltimore. the victim was taken to a local hospital where he died. police don't have a suspect or even a motive in this case. >>> an 18-year-old is recovering at shock trauma after being shot in howard county. it happened shortly b

today, we learned that the chopper w traveling from hagers town to frederick after an event that offered helicoptr rides to raise money for trucked youth. on board, three co-workers of a maryland helicopter company and a woman who won a raffle for a free chopper ride. michael flynn spoke with the woman's husband and joins us in the studio to tell us their story. >> reporter: wendy, loved ones tried to talker out of going on the helicopter ride but her husband told me tonight nothing could stop her adventurous spirit. the charred helicopter wreckage was unrecognizable. before it crashed on the median next tth,70i-i-70,ow dstntlaghnl nt dn last night, killingow oboboard, three men andwoman. arthman. the kim f felix of new market had won the helicopter ride in a raffle. >> she just won this trip. i think there were a lot of people that tried to influence her not to be on the helicopter. >> reporter: felix'sç husband says the 48-year-old mother of three daughters had a magnetic personality. she was a pta volunteer and brownie troop leader. she won theelicopter ride by putting her business c

as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, the changes come on the heels of last month's deadly crash as peoplece near the eastern most park and ride. >> reporter: if you're driving westbound from the

jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> daniel marshall is expected to appear in court on those charges august 4th. >>> now the latest on the shooting inside of a white marsh club. police arrested three suspects in connection with last night's shooting on pulaski highway. the victim was dancing with a group of people when several shots were fired by a female suspect who is still at large. the victim was wounded and treated at a nearby hospital. police still have no motive for the shooting. three men have been arrested in connection with the shooting. the woman has not been identified. but the club's video cameras did capture her image. she is described as a black female in her 20s with a medium build. deteives believe she frequents the edgewood area of harford county. >>> a gruesome discovery made this morning near one of baltimore's most popular walking areas. just after 10, a person spotted the body of a man inside offer karr on lake montebello drive directly in front of the lake. police say they aren't sure how the man died. they say the body was already starting to decompose. tonight investiga

as jeff hager reports, the city is producing a record amount of recyclable material at a time when therefading market for it. >> they sort through it piece by piece. which translates into about 80 tons per hour. >> we do most of maryland. >> reporter: at a time when baltimore's new one plus one trash service is leaving residents with little choice but to recycle, some centers across the country

this morning we know the chopper was traveling from hagers down to frederick after anhe event t offer helicopter ride force troubled youth. on board were three co-workers of a maryland helicopter company and a woman who won a raffle for a free chopper ride that woman's husband is sharing his story. he said he tried to talk his wife out of going on the helicopter ride but nothing could stop her. >> reporter: the charred helicopter wreckage was unrecognizable. itiann ttoed mn eth lanes of i-70nd les of i-70 board. everyone was killed on board. the woman, kim felix of new market had won the helicopter ride in a raffle. >> she just won this trip. i think there were a lot of people that tried to influence her not to be on the helicopter. >> reporter: felix's husband says the 48-year-old mother of three daughters had a magnetic personality. she was a pta volunteer and brownie troop leader. she won the helicopter ride by putting her business card in a drawing during a recent chamber of commerce event. >> my wife is very independent spirit andiked to try a lot of different things. and she kep

live in hager town, sherry ly, fox 5 news.to you. >> thank you very much. >>> and now more disturbing news following ast month's deadly metro crash. a new report from investigators says problems with a track circuit near the crash site date back to 2007. we already knew that the circuit at the center of the crash was replaced five days before the collision. now we have learned another section of the same circuit had been replaced 18 months ago and showed power fluctuations. metro says none of the blips were enough to keep controllers from knowing where the trains were on the tracks. >> we've not found any failures. we're going through the wreckage to ensure there were no failures during that period of time. if we find that there were any cases where we failed to detect the trains, you will hear this from us. >> metro is also promising transparency moving forward. a if you website detailing all current maintenance on metro launches today. >>> we're learning more about a huge corruption crackdown in the garden state. more than 4

hagers to wn 66. hagers70. and rr70. and garrett county, wester maryland it is 63 as you wake up and get moving this hump day. here's the satellite an radar loop. sandwiched between two systems. eyes on the prize to the west. the ohio river valley is where the heavy rain will be. this is along a front that has stalled out there and we will be in the nebulous area a little unstable and if you look at the at ms. fear the wrong way it might rain on you keep your eyes down. most of the day should be dry, partly cloudy and a little warmer than yesterday. we will be taking temperatures up to the middle 80s this afternoon as this warm front lifts across central pennsylvania. it is along this front and down the low in kentucky. that's where the highest rain chances will be. and our temperatures this afternoon, up to 87. if you are heading to 77d an 77 rey n- fo minu s.mean in the meantime, angie has a look at the traffic. good morning. >> goodgood morning, kim. thank you very much. it is wednesday, july 282nd. we -- 22nd. we are

that blaze ripped through the roof of the bausch & lombing on hager circle. the caution of the fire remains under -- cause of the fire remains under examination. no one was hurt. >>> investigators probe the wreckage of a house fire that happened last night. prince george's county velthors are still trying to -- investigators are still trying to determine what caused the blaze that destroyed the property. >>> more disturbing testimony about ba neat ta jacks' parenting skills at her murder trial today. witnesses said the d.c. mother accused of killing her four daughters allowed two of the girls to smoke marijuana at the ages of 3 and4. she would also withhold food from them as punishment. here is the latest. 16-year-old brittany jacks ran away from home several times, at least twice. she said to escape her mother who witnesses said abused her. the last time she fled banita jacks went and g her. then her text messages stopped. witnesses have testified about banita's treatment of her girls especially her olders, brittian, they said they wouldn't fiedler as punish

let's go out to jan hager, legal editor of radaronline.com.ichael jackson's will delineated who he wanted as the co-executors of his estate. it was not katherine jackson. what are your thoughts on this? >> exactly. his will specifically stated that he wanted john branca and john mcclane, two trusted, longtime business advisers and friends, of over 30 years, to be the executors of the estate. radaronline.com reported this afternoon that mr. branca and mr. mcclane had been -- sources tell me they've been in talks with the other side, to give allowances to the family, and they said what -- how much money do you guys want? how much money does katherine jackson need for the children? and they were given a number. and it was mutually agreed upon. furthermore, there has been absolutely no evidence brought forward by mr. mcmillan or anyone on katherine jackson's front that he was involved with any of his business affairs. dd >>> agents from the dea executing a search warrant at dr. conrad murray's houston clinic. then, murray's lawyers release a bom

we will wind up with very comfortable conditions and clear skies later on tonight. 84 in hagers town, 81 in winchester. 86 in baltimore. officially at national airport it is also 86 degrees. look at the dew point. only 53. that is going to allow the temperatures to fall fast after sunset because the air is so dry. relative humidity, only 30%. so the dew points are usually a good mark to set -- see where the low temperatures will wind up. if you have dew points in the 50s most of the time you wind up in the 50s for overnight lows. high pressure in control tomorrow. a little warm front will be coming through on wednesday but still, nice day in the short term. for the next 24 hours on tuesday, and then we turn up the heat and humidity just a little bit, wednesday, thursday, we will be up close to 90 degrees. with hit-and-miss thunderstorms in the forecast. all the way through thing good of the weekend. i emphasize the hit-and-miss part of it because -- if you have outdoor plans i wouldn't cancel them. i would put a 30 or noter% mark -- each one of those days you would run into something

could be as much as 2-inches of rain in hager's town. an inch and a third in hogan and down in salz berry an inch and a quart threr. hail possible with damaging winds as well. keep an eye on the system as it moves through the day. we hit a high of 87 degrees. and now for a look at what is happening on the roadway at this hour. here is candice with the traffic edge. >>> thampleg you steve. well, we are dealing with trouble in the northwest corner now. there is a new accident on righteous town road at mick done nel road. as a result stick with 795. no miss happens to talk about will on the southbound lanes on west minister pike. we're looking at a nine minute clip. on the top end of 695 from green spring avenue to jfk we're in the green with a four minute ride f. you're going to veer off taking it from the beltway down to east bay street. so far we're in excellent sthaivment will take 15 minutes. that's a look at your morning commute. patrice, back to you. >> first on fox, a 2-year-old is recovering this morning after being bitten by a rat

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we start at 70 degrees. 63 cooler in hagers town and the temperatures are going to climb quickly as questionur and get to 80 degrees by then. a couple of light showers you may see the little green speckle here and there, as that is not reaching the ground, that is veerinverga or rain that is thas too dry to allow it to get to the surface. the you see the frontal boundary giving us an outside chance of a shower or a thunderstorm, but the best chance will be up in new england as the temperatures will be cooler than we are. here it should be rather warm as the temperatures climb well into the 80s. with the low humidity, comfortable, and most areas will be rain-free as well through friday until this weekend when we could have thunderstorms. it will be hotter then and more humid as temperatures climb to near 90 degrees then. let's check out what is happening on the roadways with candace dold. sheer ishe is here with the trac edge. >> reporter: thanks, steve. there's not much to talk about on the roadways. as far as the main lines are concerned, we are incident free. we will take that on the tuesd

comfortable day with low humidity. 55 right now in baltimore, 64 in d.c., 55 in salisbury and 66 up in hagersour in oakland. as we look at the forecast for today, note the temperatures again on the cool side of average. average being mid-to upper 80s depending on where you are at the state, 79 degrees the expected high for the eastern high and a northeast wind at 5-15 miles per hour. for the central part of the state, climbing to 81 degrees so a degree cooler than yesterday even. southeast wind at 5-10 miles per hour. the warmest spot getting up to 82 degrees for high unless you're at the highest elevation toward oakland. it may be cooler than that. partly cloudy skies there. 60 for tonight, mainly clear skies. 65 degrees, and 81 degrees for the high temperature. 75 as early as noontime before you get to that at 3:00 p.m. mainly clear skies and if you're headed to camden yards, the bluejays are in town and the orioles will start off throwing the first pitch at 7:05. the temperature then, 76 degrees, a real nice night for the game. clear skies, rather mild with a south wind at 5-10 miles per h

continue success to you up in hagers town or down in 30 tomorrow mack, we hope every time you go outlights out. good luck to you. >> thanks a lot. thanks for having me on. >> our pleasure. drew storm the tenth player take in the 2009 draft. let's go back to the bullpen now. sean burnett has got to be happy to be out of pittsburgh with the fire sale they were having in that city. he is getting the job done. >> the mayor may be leaving pittsburgh with all these people leaving. burnett a great story johnny, he was the best player in the organization, drafted number one in 2000 and actually just fired through their minor league system with the 95 miles per hour fast ball. hurt his arm, tommy job surgery and they put him in indianapolis for two years and now he's been in the bullpen did a great job for him. a nice cutter a fast ball a sinker the best left hander we have had in this ball club i think hands down. we have had some pretty good ones. >> and a .108 batting average again. jason bergmann earned three runs runs. >> ray: he has been up and down up and down up and down. seemed like