jeff hager has more. >> it's far too early to talk about serial arsonists, but there are similarities. the fire at pleasant zion church was actually set in a shed behind the church just as an arsonist targeted a bus outside another bussments the church replaced the two buses and replaced them within a week. >> the blessing of it is we keep going on. we can't give in to things like this. there's too much hatred in the world. the fact that they who do something like this just goes to show the lack of respect that people have. >> due to the fire of pleasant zion, the congregation will be moving to shiloh baptist. it's at 2499 sycamore avenue. that service gets underway at 11 a.m. pleasant zion suffered damage and repairs will take some time. jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> in tonight's consumer alert, nutritionists wants mcdonald's to stop marketing to children and want them kicked out of the hospitals. letters were sent to hospitals with mcdonalds and medical professionals support the move. >>> jail manicures are become -- gel manny curs last long are but one ladies inned her nails look -- n

jeff hager has the details. >> reporter: an older woman who seeks out younger men is called a cougar. since the young man was 16, she's considered a criminal. it all started out innocently enough, flying make believe bombers in the game but the 16-year-old boy dropped a real bomb on his parents when he disclosed he was having a real life affair with a 39-year-old maryland woman. >>> florida authorities obtained a warrant for lisa carol from job a charging her with nine counts of sexual activity with a mean for and one count of traveling. >> reporter: they form and relationship via skype that became physical when the woman drove 800 miles to meet him in a hotel. the mine for's parents intervened after they learned of the relationship but they had no idea that it had gone that far or that the couple planned on getting married. >>> there's apparently at least on their part an engagement between the two. at least that's what they told investigators. much like the video game that brought them together, the bombs don't stop there when police served up to serve her a warrant, they learned sh

we begin with jeff hager. he joins us live from coke kissville. >> reporter: people are heading to the polls. many haven't arrived, some 10 hours into the polling. we see more of the candidates' signs than human beings. the gop voters, especially, given something to dazzle them, a republican nomination still technically up for grabs. we did spot one voter, congressman andy harris if he was casting his ballot. he said he is still hopeful gop candidates can pick up some type of momentum today. >> we'll be going around to various polling places to help oth are candidates. we're going to set up the election for the fall to make sure people in maryland have a clear choice between what the republicans stand for and what the democratic party stands for. >> reporter: you can see some of the campaign workers working on their sun tan. beautiful enough weather for people to turn out. we still have a few hours. we talked it one of the poll workers. they have 1400 registered voters in their precinct and only about 200, les

jeff hager spoke with forest rangers today who are still monitoring one such fire in joplin. >> reporter: rangers and firefighters stopped the fire which scorched 18-acres in joppa but their work is far from over. >> you'll see smoke, things like that. right now it's all interior. our rangers will be back daily checking to make sure there's nothing on the fire line that could stoke up and start the fire again oar are within the last 48 hours this fishings coupled with separate fires in recount recount -- anne arundel and cecil counties, rangers point to a similar fire that broke out in new jersey monday as further evidence people need to heed the national weather service's red flag warning and refrain from outdoor burning of any kind at least for now. fueled by 40-mile-an-hour winds, this fire spread to 1,000 acres. >> right now we're encouraging people not to do age outdoor burning at all. it's too dry and too windy. just be careful with other sources whether you're doing that outdoor cookout. make sure it's in a safe area that it's not over fuels that are easily going to ignite. >> rep

jeff hager joins us with more on the accident. jeff? >> reporter: a dark winding road, speed and the heavy downpour all set the stage for the accident along poole road in gamber about 1:00 this morning. the 16-year-old driver lost control of her toyota corolla and wrapped it around a tree. the victim, identified as rita medeiros of westminster, died from her injuries. we spoke to the mother of one of rita's friends. >> you just hold them and tell them that you love them. that's all you can do. >> reporter: rita was a westminster high school student and a member of grace fellowship. if you have information you're asked to call 410-386-2900. jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> tomorrow is primary day in m. and many of the candidates took advantage of the monday morning rush hour to push for some last-minute votes. they brought signs and smiles to the corner of york and timonium road hoping to remind voters about tomorrow. >> we have a big decision to make. in the 2nd congressional district we'll have a big decision to make. >> polls will be open f

jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> taking a look at some of the top stories around the nation, tonight a small new england town is in shock after a drug bust erupted in a hail of gunfire. four officers were wounded and the town's long time police chief, just days from retiring was killed. paul has more. >> reporter: in tiny new hampshire, they are trying to figure out how a tragedy like this could have happened to them. >>> it's sad it has come down to something like this. >> reporter: started around 6:00 last night, when officers tried to ser avenue search warrant at the home of 29-year- old collin, a man with a history of drugs and wents charges. leading the way was a police chief, michael maloneny, he and drug task force detectives moved in, officials say the suspect gunned them down. >> police officers and chief ma lony, attempted to gain entry in to the residence, gun shots were fired and the officers were struck. >> reporter: maloneny, who had 26 years on the job did not make it. he had been chief for 12 years. was set to retire in just 8 days. the suspect and unidentified women remain h

with more on the story, here's abc 2's jeff hager.reporter: packing up the voting machines here at precinct 1504 in middle river middle school, workers look back on a long day that was short on voters. in fact, no one showed up when they first opened their doors. >> we had nobody waiting for us, and it didn't go through for a long time. we had just periodically here and there, three, four, five people. reporter: even tonight if you expect people to get off work and come, would you see that it happen? >> no, not at all. it stayed mostly 10 an hour. reporter: patricia payne was one of the 370 voters who cast a ballot here. out of the 3400 on its rolls. a republican, payne says even though no gop candidate has locked up the presidential nomination, she still thinks they can unseat president obama. >> it is just what it is. but overall, i think the republicans can do what they need to do. all of the name calling. do your job. i have to go to work everyday and do my job. just do your job. reporter: in a primary short on votes, state senato

highs today 81 frederick. 79 hagers town. 80 washington, d.c. temperature not too far from our daytime highs. we are in the 80s. in the city 76 up north to york, pennsylvania. 81 frederick. great evening out there. not a cloud in the sky. i'll show you the radar. a few clouds in and out. other than that we are seeing clear skies. we are seeing no rain on maryland's radar. winds breezy out there today. if you are deciding to grill out you might want to put plates down. they'll blow away with winds out of the south 9 miles per hour in our nation's capitol. we are getting a southerly wind. see the wind direction. that's why we were warm. we are getting a southerly wind. we are pulling moisture from the south into the baltimore area. enjoy it. we'll stick around in the 70s. drop a few more degrees from 82. great evening out there. it will be breezy. it looks like we'll stick with the wind through tomorrow and half of the day through tuesday. satellite and radar showing nothing on the radar. we are seeing a few high clouds. those are common with the

abc2 news jeff hager has more on this longhand tore chewous attorney -- tore chewous journey. >> every moment it feels like i'm going through labor pains over and over and over again. i don't need this circle. i need my baby found. >> reporter: less than four months later workers at the conowingo dam spotted her body in the susquehanna river. if michael johnson remained under radar, his sister dina gave no indication of it. >> we're not giving up. we'll keep moving forward and this case will be resolved. >> reporter: oar reached by telephone phylicia's father russ sell barnes said the family suspected job son from the bang. >> we suspected him from day one. nothing at all or -- and that's what it is. >> reporter: barnes' father also got on the phone to don rondo a missing persons advocate who befriended the family early on and provided reward money ot of his own pocket. >> we were silent for a second, both of us trying to process what this meant. for a moment it's a sense of elation and relief. then you realize, you come back to earth and understand this is part of the process, part of

. >> reporter: at umbc, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> as customary, freeman hrabowski couldn't make time but put umbc first. you can find all 100 names posted on our home page. >>> students from the baltimore county public school system, they're screaming with clears after the announcement that summer vacation will start four days sooner than and. the last day of school was supposed to be june 14th. the new last day of school now will be june the 8th. >>> today was a big day for one special baltimore city public school teacher. he was surprised after being named the teacher of the year. this year's winner chosen from dozens, bradley nornhold is a teacher at kipp ujima village academy. he is so dedicated that he gives his own home phone number to his students. he said the secret to his success is motivating students. >> just getting them to buy into what it takes to be successful. >> well, he is now the nominee for the maryland teacher of the world competition. the winner of that will go on to the national level. good luck to him. >>> mayor stephanie rawlings-blake visited a different bal

abc2's jeff hager has a caution from fire officials. >> reporter: the largest fire in harford county is contained but it's still burning. fire officials said people should still refrain from burning. they are returning daily to put out hot spots. they liken the red flag warning to tornado or hurricane warnings and encouraging people to hold off on their backyard barbecues at least for now. >> the biggest thing that will help us is rainfall. even if we get a little bit of rain, that's not going to curtail the conditions. it's still going to be dry. we need a good soaking rain that lasts over a day or two. >> reporter: the state fire supervise said the conditions in maryland are like throws in new jersey. a wildfire spread across 1,000 acres. each spring and fall maryland averages 500 wildfires that burn about 400 acres, so people should take this threat seriously. >> fire officials are also asking to us use extreme caution when discarding cigarettes, operating outdoor grills or anything else using an open flame. >>> if it couldn't be use at least it's a group of people you're happy to

. >> reporter: in halethorpe jeff hager, abc2 news. >> an attorney for the business says he will apelt injunction to the state's highest court. >>> all right. take a look. maryland's most powerful radar tracking showers. northern harford county, northern cecil county. most of this rain is not hitting the ground. we've got extremely dry air at service. freeze warnings up in garrett county and northern virginia. it's going to be a chilliy night. north eastern shore it's comfortable. 60 in baltimore. 57 even in hagerstown. the rest of the evening will call for 50s and staying on the breezy side. how will we say our next weather system. we look at your weekend in a few minutes. >>> if you want access to maryland's most accurate forecast, 24/7 right there in the palm of your hands, just towed our website abc2news.com/mobile. you can take a look at the growing list of apps and weather forecasts. all of that just one click download away. >>> there's a daunting deadline approaching for college students who need to take out a government subsidized loan for the next school year. jamie costello h

abc2 news jeff hager with the details tonight. >> reporter: their roles in a jewish community watch program landed them in court. the role eli and avi werdesheim played on the assault of an african-american team will not be spelled out by the victim. that teen who we're in the identifying because he's a moan for became des spond didn't and refused to answer. >> i can't hear what the witness said, so how am i supposed to know -- how are we supposed to know how is he responding to it. >> we can't do our job unless we have the ability to hear what the witness says so we can accurately cross-examine. >> reporter: ultimately the teen refused to continue saying he never wanted to testify and pleaded with the state this doctor the charges. new information revealed in court suggests the victim actually lived with his grandmother on the same street where the attack occurred. the reason he left northwestern high school was to meet his mother to go to the doctor. >> to let people know they're not just walking around at night and if you come over to them and threaten them -- so i think this case shows

jeff hager, website whoib news. >> we have an update is on that flea market raid. four were arrested sunday about 39-year-old ba ba toure has not been found yet. >>> now to a developing story. is madeleine lynn -- madeleine mccann still alive? she disappeared in portugal in 2007. on done police said there's a chance the girl may be alive. >>> now to tucson for the latest on the missing 6-year-old. police are looking for surveillance camera for isabel celis. an employee at one of the stores said isabel's brother walked in alone. >> he came in and he asked did you hear anything. we were all sleeping. the next thing, she's gone. >> abc news got their hand on cameras, and whether dogs were barking and who isabel was normally with. >>> testimony in the trial of jennifer hudson's brother-in-law focused on the never fiew. william balfour killed her family members. >>> a disurk new discovery in california, a cow has tested positive for mad cow disease. now feeshes are trying to determine how the animal got sick in the first place. >> reporter: it's the first case of mad co

jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> the body found under an elk ridge has been identified and it is christine gerrit. earlier this week acting on new information they went to jar let's former home. they're separated. police found the body of christine jarrett in concrete. robert jarrett is charged with her murder. >>> a brand-new speed camera has gone up in flames. someone intentionally lit the camera after dousing it with a flammable liquid. replacing it will cost the county $13,000. neighbors say it's much more than that, saying that stretch of road is incredibly dangerous. >> children board the bus at the end of the driveway. you have cars doing by. they're speeding. i have people almost hit me and the kids. that happened. >> coming up at 6:00, we'll have more reaction from neighbors who saw the burning. >>> this was a beautiful day. it turned into a beautiful evening. the skies are clear. a good night for the dragon boats, but are things going to stay this way for the weekend? let's check in with meteorologist wyatt everhart. >>> it's a weekend of changing weather. as good as it's going t

jeff hager, abc2 news. >> great news there. >>> you want to know who else made this list? head to abc2news.com where you can click and find all the 100 names right there on our home page. congratulations to dr. hrabowski. >>> mayor stephanie rawlings-blake along with students, parents and teachers pushed for the bottle tax proposal to fund schools. the mayor wants to increase it from two cents to five cents. she toured john eagan howard elementary school school. >> i'm standing here because he can't fight for what he needs. a lot of times the city has to stand in and pass things so we can really begin to flourish and pass on. >> the mayor's efforts to get general assembly to pass it failed this year. >>> the clock is ticking and the state education program is watching each passing second by marking it with a dooms day clark it. scribed of represents when the state's so-called dooms day budget will go into effect july 1st. they said education would be severely hit. anne arundel stands to lose $13.7 million in revenue. baltimore county $14.2 million. baltimore city stands to

. >> reporter: in cecil county, jeff hager. >> the victim's friend said the stolen dog mysteriously showed up the next day. >>> well tonight annapolis police are looking for two men connected to a triple stabbing at an elks long. it happened on sullivan islands road. a private party and a fight broke out. if you have any information, you should call the southern district at 410-222-1965. >>> let's go to harford county, county executive david craig said some leaders are playing politics. a bill before the county council would establish a commission con srng fire and rest ciew. some thought this was a push to have a paid fire department but the county executive said that was never the intention. >> it appears we're not getting the leadership and change from some members of the council and some members of the association. >> executive craig said the advisory board should not be a threat to anyone and those opposing such a commission are not acting in the best interest of public safety but rather political safety. >> the state's top court said pitbull owners along with their landlords are liab

in carroll county, jeff hague are, website -- hager, abc2 news. >> call 410-386-2900, if you have information about the crash. >>> traffic is running very smoothly here. the rain has moved out before becoming an issue, but the cooldown is on its way. meteorologist wyatt everhart has your first forecast. wyatt? >>> there were rain showers we had to deal with. that system now moving further and further offshore. you she it way over the atlanta pick. we're high and dry and crystal clear. temperatures now so comfortable despite the winds gusting to 33 miles an hour. still sitting at 60 in baltimore. frost and freeze concerns northward and a freeze warning for carroll county west in the hagerstown area. a deeper freeze after 2 a.m., so bring in those plants, protect any tender vegetation. through the day we'll bounce back rapidly after that early morning freeze. once the sun comes out we'll warm up. we'll talk about how things will change through the week. that's coming up. >> here's the latest on the animal abuse case that happened nearly three years ago. the torching of a young pitbull later nam

jeff hagueer joins us -- hager joins us from cockeysville. >> reporter: if you live in a blue state like maryland, if there was ever a time to be excited, it's with this late primary coming in maryland where the republican race for the presidency is still up for grabs. delegates still out there. yet, upwouldn't know this by the -- you wouldn't know it by the turnout at warren elementary school. there are more people lined up at rita's italian ice than here. we spoke with congressman harris. he was hopeful the primary would energize support for gop candidates throughout the state. >> with regards to the congressional race we have to deal with our debt and deficits. we have to overturn the president's healthcare act. these are things republicans are trying to do. democrats have been opposing it. we hope america comes out and sends another message to washington this fall like it did two years ago. >> reporter: back here live, usually campaign workers are feeling the competition. they're all staking out their ground. looks like they're sharing their life stories. they've probably gotten to k

we'll hear from jeff hager. >>> many of us wish we could skip jury duty, right?ht want to think twice. who scammers are targeting and why. those stories and more coming up at 6:00. here's a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news, the made in america team is back. they're getting back it work buying made in america. so game on. the entire month of may is made in america as you've never seen it before tonight on world news. it's time to get going. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip-hop. with the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles ... you'll want to get up and go. >>> stocks started lower. the dow isdown 13. the nasdaq is down 23. the s&p 500 down five and half. >>> it's a couple many people face when they have children. does this make financial sense for one parent to stay home while the other works. an emerging trends in child care might just surprise you. >> reporter: with the rising cost of daycare,

jeff hager takes us back to the scene. >>> first tonight we start off with breaking news from oaklandrnia, where police just captured a suspect wanted forshooting at a christian university. at least people are dead and quote many others injured after being shot. s.w.a.t.

harford county, jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> in court, we learned hays is an un ploimed construction worker a 7-year-old daughter. >>> take a look at this, you are looking live at i-395, at i- 95, just south of downtown baltimore where there are plenty of vehicles on the road. traffic is moving good. it's a nice night, too. very, very nice, warm, maybe a tad gusty. pretty good. wyatt everhart has your first forecast. >> a nice night for an evening perhaps. i mean, really nice. temperatures running in to mid- 60s, so this is comfortable stuff, more seasonable than the last few days, which have been unseasonably cool, the 50s, very, very dry conditions out there. you are going to fire up the grill, go for it. be extra cautious with the coals , the hot coals. take a look, big storms, firing up in oklahoma now, couple of supercells on the map. we will track that through the evening, seeing what happens there in the southern plains, quiet in the mid atlantic and warmer tomorrow, warmer for sundays, we talk about that in just a few minutes. >>> it is a storm many marylanders won't forget. plenty

jeff hager has the details. >> you can call it the gauntlet, that stretch that feeds into route 50 just before cars have to move right. you have a recipe for disaster. >> reporter: every time an officer pulls over they're risk their life. that was the case when the officer attempted to stop a car and it braked to a stop. the officer instructed the driver to move to the shoulder. the toyota celica came around that curve and slowed down when it saw the flashing lights but the car behind it did not. >> at that point the celica was struck from the rear. that vehicle struck the celica, that hit the officer who was attempting to avoid that collision. >> the ac cow a still struck another car and ended up in the guardrail. the officer later identified as corporal cameron mont suffered injuries to his lower extreme ties and were taken to the shock trauma center. this underscores the heightened danger of some of their most routine duties -- policing our roads. >> many officers are killed on roadways. this is indicative of how dangerous it is and then sustained serious injuries from a vehicle. >>

south sudan killing at least five people tension escalated after southern forces seized the town of hager lead which is responsible for half of sudan's oil production the u.n. wants forces from both sides to withdraw behind borders and for violence to stop it's the worst fighting along the oil rich friend here since south sudan became independent us to live. a little just north korea marking one hundred years since the birth of the late kim il sung with mass organized celebrations in the capital pyongyang for the man who founded the nation in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight thousands gathered for a huge military parade where the current supreme leader kim jong un spoke in public for the first time so liberations came a day after a failed rocket launch brought international condemnation on the already isolated state. of. a truck tore through a talon southwest colombia after security forces forced the driver away from a police station vehicle was loaded with explosives and headed for the police post but was stopped by gunfire from officers forcing the driver to flee it's the fourth e

and not windy or gusty and in town, gaithersburg, stronger for martinsburg and hagers town and some gusts to the mid-20s or so and cooler and the winds are gustier around 31 miles an hour and yesterday zone, this and today, we have this. the red flag warning until 8:00, the low humidity, gusty winds again and that rapid fire growth more than 3 inches motor month of -- and since the beginning of march. 66 in town; quantico, 73; a gorgeous evening out there. nice at 7:00, nice at 9:00 and some temperatures will dip into the 30s. again tomorrow, the forecast of more clouds and a few showers. we'll detail that and we still on track for the weekend. remember what i said about sunday yesterday. >> i am remembering. can you remind us later. >> and pushing 80. >> all right. >> and thank you, gary. >>> check the weather 24/7 with live doppler radar and that is with somek isosis to our weather blog and more. >>> coming up, bride busted. wait until you hear what this woman did to have a lavish wedding recession. >>> and find out why show and tell at one school ended with the stepfather's arrest. 's

barometer 29.89, 37 oakland, 46 cum beer land, 48 haggerstown, low 50s -- excuse me, 48 elkton, low 50s hagers easton ocean city, mid-50 has pax, those are your currents in those areas. there is a cool flow moving our way. i really think that is going to be the headline and then we will be talking about a couple of showers or the chance of it late this afternoon then again tomorrow but it is going to get cool, below normal for three straight days and that hasn't happened in quite a while. clouds and sun in creasingly windy through the afternoon, 68 the high, late afternoon and evening chance of a shower that breaks early, patchy clouds overnight, 44, tomorrow the same forecast but down tone to 48 degrees, we are going to ciept in the mid-50s on wednesday, just barely 60 thursday. finally back above normal friday with sun, 65 saturday, partly sunny, 68 degrees. don take it away. >> thank you. now over to christie bresland at wjz tv traffic control. >> good morning, don, good morning, everyone, well still a mess on the west side of the beltway in both drictses, as you can see on the inner loop t

this guide was a hager commander of a terrorist group essentially that had some association with al qaeda, had some sort of church and the taliban but these guys are nasty characters. there are a lot of foreign fighters from chechnya, guys who were not used to fight for afghanistan or their version of afghanistan. these guys are mercenaries and what he was doing in the area was recruiting while prepping people into fighting for the hagan he was rumored to have service -- surface to air missiles and sought billington said he was also credited with ambushes in the valley that caught the attention of some of the commanders. so they decided they had to go up to schott valley. he was able to export a lot of the violence from the safe havens for the idea was to go get him and take care of the safe haven. but they ran into was not only were they hiding the geography because it was such a hard place to get to, they were also fighting some of the restrictions placed on the u.s. and afghanistan. i'm sure we have all seen the news, right? the night raids are highly regulated. who patrols the battle

now, tomorrow's sold out cancer will feature samemy hager, alice cooper, members of journey and kiss. no well, in employee, -- well in florida, representatives of gorge zimmerman won't say how much money was tan given un. >> he's in -- he's in riding right nowle he we -- right now. >> reporter: this trial is very interesting. the defense strategy appears -- trying to pick apart if both of what he said in route what he -- in both statements are true. he will go -- go through a series of questions and then abbe lowell asked him whether he had fallen in love with john edwards. >> john edwards a lot of the in the country. >> lowell said did you fall out of love with him? young responded i -- i have mixed mixesed. san francisco -- i have. >> reporter: when young confronted edwards, young said he had evidence of everything that had transpired. he said edwards looked at him and said you can't hurt me, andrew. you can't hurt me. >> all right. >>> 7:37. let's go to sal, see what's happening in our commute. how are we holding up? >> we're doing okay. we've had a couple of things pop up. there's

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