representative john sarbane will be here in the 8:00 hour to answer your questions on the issue. and the congressman elijah cummings will be live in our studio tomorrow. >>> gunfire rinse over baltimore overnight. there were two shootings. let's start in the northeast section, where a woman was taken to the hospital where police had to open fire. it happened in the block of arizona avenue. officers say the woman was shot in the shoulder. she was taken to john hopkins, bayview but is expected to recover. no word on what led to the shooting, but fire officials have confirmed there's been a history of domestic violence at that address. >>> officers were called to two other morning shootings. the first took place after 1:00 at the 2700 block of fen wyc avenue in the northeast dribbing. district. an adult male was shot. another the other occurred at baltimore. police have not released information about the victim. neither incident left was life-threatening. >>> 59-year-old mary koonz faces charges for the shooting death of ronald koonz. it happened at their home. her trial begins on d

congressman john sarbanes was in rare form this afternoon at bel air edison. he read two books, one of them "five little monkeys jumping on the bed ," one of my favorites. reach out and read provides books for children age six months to five years old. >> we're making sure that children have appropriate literature, books that parents -- [ indisseenible -- [ indiscernible ] >> there are 53 reach and read sites. the program has been around for 20 years. >>> surges -- surgeons at two washington, d.c. hospitals has performed a record seven kidney transplants. they were performed at georgetown university hospital and washington hospital center over a four-day period in july. surgeons used a process called plasma exchange. during the process, machine separates antibodies that can cause organ rejection from a patient's blood. it virtually eliminates the possibility of rejection. >> the sacrifices that these people made i really believe will never be forgotten because this will forever change our fear of transplantation. >> of the 80,000 people on the kidney strand pl

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