john sherman is live with the latest. >> the developed -- the development company is saying there is brought in this petition process. the board of elections certified the petition in anne arundel county before any court ruling. there are neighborhoods. you can see the mall for the woods of this home. he is an organizer for slot machine gambling here. they have a huge wink under their belt. >> -- wing under their belt. >> these people will have their voices heard this november. they will say they want this as a family from a mall or not. >> there are big plans for the slots facility. they released the plans for the first time last september. many lawmakers are questioning the second location saying the mall is not where many people envisioned a slots. >> to have that at a shopping center, many people are not for that. people think we need the revenue. [unintelligible] we have a right to go back and put restrictions where we want them. >> many are waiting on that slots revenue to solve some of the budget mess. the petition is certain to delay some of these things. >> we are not happy

john sherman to joins us live with the latest. >> there were only four families affected, but the impact was significant. one family has been drinking bottled water exclusively since 2003. people still have questions. the neighborhoods around the intersection of route 140 and six road is filled with families, but -- sussex road. a gas take underground leak to mtbe into the ground. >> it is scary. it is amazing they don't have higher standards even in the 1970's to contain these chemicals. in it is scary because a lot of neighborhoods have a local gas station. how many more problems are there? >> a jury awarded four family's $400,000 to be split among them. it has been an emotional issue. >> people who live closest to the gas station are angry about it. people who live a little bit further away are just curious. how much will this affect my health and my property values? it has been a range of emotions. >> they found the spill was traced to the gas station, but they argued it was coming from a nearby junkyard. >> people have been damaged. their health has been damaged, so i am not sure ho

john sherman has the story. >> in this neighborhood, it is been 23 months since a homicide investigation unfolded. police say this may have been domestic. >> we received a call that a woman had been stabbed in this neighborhood. they found a female victim on the scene. she was transported to the medical center and passed away this afternoon. >> the neighborhood could not stay out of the headlines a few months ago. there was a lot of violence and drugs. >> we are doing and give jobs. this is an encouraging sign looking at the numbers. >> police shifted tactics, a tactic that appears to be working despite the murder friday night. there is no ongoing danger. >> one of the key strategies is to be where crime can happen and get crime off the street. one homicide is too many. we will not be satisfied until i am saying none at the end of the year. we know that what we are doing is working. the community police and what we are doing. that is also important. >> what is important about this case is that they do not believe it is a random act. they have a suspect in custody -- custody. wbal tv 11 n

here's john sherman with more. >> he'll soon turn 90 but leaves at the top of his game.is leadership will be sorely missed. >> he wrote the scathing descent when the bush verses gore trial happened and led the guantanamo bay policy. just as he was nominated by ford. republic. >> at after that, it's a lifetime appointment. >> law school professor. michael greenberger says he's the perfect example of no matter who president obama selects you never know how the justice will turn-out. >> gave no indication to be a progressive judge but he's now the leader of the progressive movement on the court. very heart hard to predict where people will be. >> on the short list are elana cagen and merit garland and diane wood. >> i think all of those would be deemed moderate judges. >> justice stevens asked for his replacement to be confirmed by october. despite the political climate he thinks it will happen before political elections in november. but if it were a conservative stepping down it would be a different story. >> aefr judge to change the make-up of the court and move it from c

john sherman is live with that part of the story. >> the raleigh was planned a couple of weeks ago and was envisioned as a protest -- the rally was planned a couple of weeks ago and was envisioned as a protest. they gathered a few blocks from city hall to stand up to the public safety funding they strongly believe this city needs. just a few weeks ago, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announced her doomsday budget that included drastic cuts to police, fire, personnel and services. there was great concern over jobs and pensions. >> the cut had already been announced in the preliminary budget and a neighbor rather deep and wide. it is our understanding if the mayor's revenue proposal passes either in whole or in part, then that will mitigate some of the cuts to our department. we're in support of that. >> the mayor came out with her initial budget in which she called for those cuts. and now she came forward with the split decision today where she hopes to offset those cuts with another package. but nothing is written in stone. >> it was billed at first as a protest, but morphed into a show

john sherman who joins us from the state house tonight. particular can be very tough. >> absolutely, you know, everything in historic downtown annapolis is very old and very much on top of everything else. that is why when you have a fire like we did on saturday, the concern about aids spreading its high. -- about its spreading is high. >> the fire burned in the space between the buildings, but it was the fear of fire spreading that makes every fire here serious. it corrects i have -- >> that building is relatively new and was rebuilt in 1990. it had a wire -- a to wall fire wall. that is probably what prevented it from spreading. >> saturday i was down the street at my hair dressers video-game my hair cut and someone said there was a fire in the building of the street. i came and saw that it was mine. >> the cause has been deemed accidental from a smoking product. the damage is estimated at $250,000, but clearly, it could have been different. >> it could have been much worse. conditions were ripe for it to be much worse. it was very dry a

john sherman has the details. >> it has been a bit -- a busy day at dr. john bacon's office. >> it feels tighter here. >> all those flowers and trees in bloom all exploded with pollen together, right now. the natural staggering effect was taken away by the snow that sat on everything green for weeks. >> this was an unusual day. the first six to eight allergy patients came in, complaining bitterly that the last day or two they have noticed a flare in symptoms. >> the patient, a talk radio host on a.m. 1090 wbal radio says this year is worse than ever before. >> this year is particularly difficult. plants are growing well. the pollen has burst forth in the last week or two. i cannot garden, mow the lawn, wash the car. i cannot work at the garage. >> will it get worse? dr. bacon says unfortunately yes. >> the weather is warm. everything has started to pollinate at roughly the same time. the bad news is that oak pollen will hit in mid-april, so we have not hit a peak yet. >> there are things you can do to help. >> sun glasses will reduce the pollen load into t

john ensign and senator isaacson and senator begich. >> mr. chairman, thank you. chairman rockefeller i appreciate the fact that you take on these tough issues and this is a tough policy issue. mr. shermanwith me if i might focus on a statement you made a couple of times and it's in your written testimony, and the statement is you believe that you have the power and the authority within the communications act to implement a broadband plan. now i read a part of that plan to talk about net neutrality and that is on page 58 in a plan. now here's where i'm coming from on that. i look at the comcast case and there's something in this case in the very first paragraph that tells me a lot the courses in this case who must decide whether the federal communications has the authority to regulate an internet service providers network management practices and goes on to say in the second sentence of this very lengthy opinion and it has no express statutory authority over such practices the commission and the commission goes on to put forth this argument that you've got this incidental authority. now here is where i site us to that as i start my questioning today. as a former cabinet member there wer

john ensign and senator isaacson and senator begich. >> mr. chairman, thank you. chairman rockefeller i appreciate the fact that you take on these tough issues and this is a tough policy issue. mr. shermanith me if i might focus on a statement you made a couple of times and it's in your written testimony, and the statement is you believe that you have the power and the authority within the communications act to implement a broadband plan. now i read a part of that plan to talk about net neutrality and that is on page 58 in a plan. now here's where i'm coming from on that. i look at the comcast case and there's something in this case in the very first paragraph that tells me a lot the courses in this case who must decide whether the federal communications has the authority to regulate an internet service providers network management practices and goes on to say in the second sentence of this very lengthy opinion and it has no express statutory authority over such practices the commission and the commission goes on to put forth this argument that you've got this incidental authority. now here is where i site us to that as i start my questioning today. as a former cabinet member there were