jayne miller is live downtown. >> this is clearly a security plan. it comes after those two violent incidents on the 4th of july. will it create new problems? >> baltimore's inner harbor is fully open and accessible, but starting late next week a temporary fans will go up, and limiting access to certain entrances. -- a temporary fence will go up limiting access to certain entrance is. >> it will be 6 feet high, slightly higher than this fence. >> it will be on the southeast side -- side of the harbor all the way around 2 president street on the northeast side. it will be funneled -- the public will be funneled to nine entrances. the entrances will be staffed by it safety personnel, but no other checkpoints will occur. >> anybody can come in and out during the event. >> there is no searching and no backpacks? >> no. -- there is no searching of backpacks or anything like that? >> no. >> i think it is a pretty good idea. >> but one law-enforcement experts, a former police chief, notes that the shooting of a 4- year-old happened outside of the fence line

live from the newsroom, jayne miller, wbal-tv 11 news. >> kim jong il graduated from kim il sung and he was officially named his father's successor in 1980 and he took over in 1994. you can see his life in pictures on wbaltv.com. in baltimore county woman woke up to a mass of gunmen in her home. it ended with the responding officer shooting the suspect. nadia has been following the story cents a broken and is following us live from police headquarters in towson. >> the officer was placed on routine administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. they are glad because of what the officer did because they considered it to be the right thing. >> it sounded like four or six shots. >> police responded here after receiving reports of an armed robbery. a woman reported waking up and seeing a masked armed man and managed to get out of the house to call police. >> it scary. i have three kids. >> police say the suspect was told by the officer repeatedly to drop his semi-automatic handgun. he refused, turned toward the officer, and then fired his gun striking the suspect

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jayne miller, wbal-tv 11 news. >> european markets rebounded the day after leaders there agreed to new proposals to help save the euro. german chancellor angela merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy both called for changes to the eu treaty that would penalize countries if their deficits are too high. meanwhile, officials increased say the economic crisis forced 60,000 businesses to close between 2009 and 2011, and it fears another 60,000 will close next year. leaders of all the 27 eu countries will discuss their proposals at a summit in brussels on friday. the effects of the new treaty could be felt here in u.s.. the dow closed up 78 points while the nasdaq bank 28. the s&p ended the point but -- ended the day with a 12 point gain. big changes coming to the u.s. postal service. how multi-billion dollar reduction plan could impact what you have come to expect from your mail delivery. >> i think now with the political climate the way it is, if i was going to make a move, now is the time to do it. >> will she or won't she? nancy jacobs says she may be the perfect challenger to unsea

jayne miller has more. >> this is action news. >> good evening, everyone. i'm ron smith. >> ron smith spent most of his life with the wbal family, first as a tv new anchor on our old action news team between 1973 and 1980. >> those against, well, they say it is just another scheme to yank still more cash. >> then after a brief break from broadcasting to work as a stockbroker, ron returned to wbal radio in 1985 to begin a whole new journey as a talk- show host. >> there were able with our technology to bomb from far away, which is what they do. >> never a screamer, ron succeeded by staying on top of local and national politics. and standing firm on his principlees, even if his listeners didn't agree. a former marine, ron opposed both wars in iraq. >> a war of choice that, like many wars, hasn't gone as planned. >> and this year criticized the u.s. action in libya. billed a conservative, he had no problem picking on both political parties. in the 2008 presidential race, he called john mccain too angry to be trusted. hillary clinton, he thought, saw goverment

jayne miller is live at the mitchell courthouse with more. >> the jury got the case about 1:30 p.m., took a lunch break, and then deliberated starting at about 2:30 p.m. prosecutors told the jury not to let stupidities way you -- this way you. >> prosecutors spend 90 minutes closing their case against paul schurick, asking the jury to finding -- find him guilty of all four fraud counts. the call, authorized by schurick, suggests elections were over before polls close. prosecutors told jurors there was a clear attempt by the campaign manager to bob ehrlich to keep black voters at home. they said it was to motivate crossover voters -- and they called the claim that it was to motivate crossover voters ridiculous. this is a sacred right, of the right to vote, and you do not mess with it. where is the beef in the state case? reasonable doubt plagues the case, the defense said, if the state brought a reasonable case at all. he said is all about attempt to make money. pettitte called schurick's decision to authorize a political misjudgment, but not a crime. he characterized it as the rough

jayne miller has more. >> this is action news. >> the evening. -- good eveni ng. i'm ron smith. >> they say it is another scheme. >> he worked as a stockbroker and he returned to wbal radio to be in a whole new journey as a talk-show host. >> there were able to bomb from far away. >> he succeeded by staying on top of local and national politics. opposed both wars in iraq. >> the war has not gone as planned. >> he had no problem picking on both political parties. he called john mccain too angry be trusted. and barack obama, he asked, what is beneath all the fervor? >> there is too much debt loose the world. >> this year he chided both sides over the debt limit. declared it was inaccurate. his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer came in mid october. began working as long as he could. he loved what he did and was lucky he could spend so much of his life pursuing it. this is woody wrote in april of 2010 -- is what he wrote. "this makes me incapable of being a good corporate citizen. it took years to figure out how to overcome this characteristic enough to stay employed and

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jayne miller is live with more on today's closing arguments. >> prosecutors are asking jurors to deliver a guilty verdicts on all four counts in this case. they want jurors to see them their way, that people look -- and the defense wants the jurors to see it their way, that the political calls were nothing more than a faux pas. >> the call suggested the election was over before the polls closed. and they had no authority to identify the campaign behind it. where is the beef in this case, the defense said? reasonable doubt place the case, if the state brought a reasonable case at all. hanson is the political consultant hired by the bob ehrlich campaign, who wrote the rowboat calls. he has described as nothing more than rough-and-tumble politics. >> we think it was a big disparity in terms of allegedly crossing the line of criminal prosecution, while all these other things are just accepted as hardball politics as usual. >> prosecutors said was a clear attempt by schurick, the campaign manager to bob ehrlich, to keep black voters at home. he dismissed his explanation of the call as a motiv

. >> i am jayne miller.olice identified a victim at a fatal shooting at the towson town mall and say it is not a random crime. >> the young man at the center of a landmark bullying case said he was lying. >> a free high-school diploma and job training. i am tim tooten live in the newsroom. this story just ahead. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this man knows what he is talking about, and ron and i have been together mostly in this studio for the better part of 20 some plus years. >> we are honoring the man we all called the voice of reason, with fond memories of ron smith. good evening. this is certainly not what we wanted to hear last night, that wanted to hear last night, that ron

. >> jayne miller looks back at the life and career of the man listeners knew as the voice of reason. >> this is action news. >> good evening, everyone. i'm ron smith. >> ron smith spent most of his life with the wbal family, first as a tv new anchor on our old action news team between 1973 and 1980. >> those against, well, they say it is just another scheme to yank still more cash. >> then after a brief break from broadcasting to work as a stockbroker, ron returned to wbal radio in 1985 to begin a whole new journey as a talk- show host. >> they were able with our technology to bomb from far away, which is what they do. >> never a screamer, ron succeeded by staying on top of local and national politics, and standing firm on his principlees, even if his listeners didn't agree. a former marine, ron opposed both wars in iraq. >> a war of choice that, like many wars, hasn't gone as planned. >> and this year criticized the u.s. action in libya. billed a conservative, he had no problem picking on both political parties. in the 2008 presidential race, he called john mccain too angry to be tr

here is jayne miller. >> when a buyer and seller agreed on a price it was almost always a done deal. not anymore. real-estate agent trend has been trying to find a buyer for this home in baltimore for the past nine months. recently it looks like the deal was done. >> we had a willing and able buyer. >> they agreed on a price but the appraisal needed for the mortgage came in a whole lot lower. >> 25%. >> the appraiser said, it is not worth that. it is worth less. >> it is a new wrinkle in the new normal of real-estate sales. no longer is the deal between buyer and seller the end of the story. if you had a buyer and seller that agreed on a price, was there ever a problem? >> i never had a problem. never. every day went pretty smoothly. you lois have some issues but never with the appraisal. i'm not going to say it happens every deal but probably on a third of the deals. >> data confirms the trend. and at auburn -- in october 2004, there were new pending contracts. the next month, there were 3536. that is what happened in those days. all the deals went through. now, a different story. i