. >> live, local, latebreaking. >> a special medical alerts at 5:30. >> a new study links it to an increased rate for heart problems. >> if there is one thing the medical community agrees on, it is this. if you smoke, you are likely to develop some kind of illness. many smokers tried to quit, many turning to a drug to reduce those health risks. >> i did not think i would never quit. >> that is where doctors began to disagree. >> it is the worst drug on the u.s. market. >> i do not believe that it is a dangerous drug. >> smokers to take the drug had a 72% increased chance of serious heart problems. >> we have smokers without any evidence of heart disease. that is where we found an increase in this product. >> a significant finding. >> if you look at the 72% number, you will miss the larger picture. >> the total number of cardiac events was quite small. just over one% of people. other experts put the differing views into perspective. >> it means that whatever risk seems to be there is a very small. >> it is working with the fda to review and monitor data. the numbers time did hazy, one thing i

energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking -- this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon. >> the search for answers after a four-year-old is injured. last hour, police released these photos of men wanted in connection with a deadly stabbing that also took place during the holiday festivities outside of the pier 6 pavilion. two groups began fighting. 15 minutes later, another -- a little boy was shot and taken to the hospital. it really is these maniacs with guns. we are going to work, and keep working hard to get more, and more, and more people off of the street. >> baltimore city police and their stephanie rawlings-blake are speaking about the violence right now. we will have an update. police in westminster search for the two men responsible for an armed robbery just after midnight saturday. police say the men held the employees at gunpoint, and took an undisclosed amount of money from the store's safe. rescue crews work -- searched the maggoty river for a missing boater. robert james fell yesterday afternoon, and his friend was thrown

energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon. >> casey anthony may be spending last full day in jail after being acquitted on charges she murder her daughter caylee. good afternoon. i am sarah caldwell. about 500 people gathered outside orlando courtroom yesterday as the verdict was read. casey anthony only convicted on misdemeanors. her fiancee spoke on "the today show." >> could be just a day away from freedom after almost three years in jail. it is possible the judge could sentence the 25-year-old to time served on the only of the four count she was convicted of, making false statements to police. the jury took less than 11 hours to acquit her of the most serious charges related to her daughter's death, including first-degree murder, a charge that could have resulted in the death penalty. the only juror to speak out is one of the alternates. >> i thought the prosecution was able to show how she died, what was the motivation. >> but others who watched and even testified had been very vocal agai

energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking -- this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon. >> we begin with breaking news -- florida mother casey anthony will be released from jail next wednesday. her sentence was announced minutes ago. i am sarah caldwell. the 25-year-old who was acquitted of murdering her daughter was sentenced based on lying to investigators. the judge gave her the harshest sentence possible. she will stay in jail that least a little longer. we have the late-breaking details. >> both sides are ready to proceed. >> belvin perry was firm in his sentence, the maximum on each of four counts of lying to investigators. >> i will sentence you to one year in orange county jail, imposing a $1,000 fine, all four accounts to run consecutive to each other. >> belvin perry says each lie lead investigators on an expensive and unnecessary search. >> this search for her went on from july, through december, over several months, trying to find caylee mar re-anthony. >> the court reserved jurisdiction, and could tax anthony on that. >> c

energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon. >> america continues to dream. space shuttle atlantis in orbit has happened after the final shuttle lifts off from cape canaveral. good afternoon. i am mindy basara. 30 years and three months after the first shuttle flight, space shuttle atlantis blasts off on a nasa's final shuttle launch. thousands packed cape canaveral to watch the flight takeoff. jay gray has more. >> 1, 0 and lift off. >> shuttle atlantis rushing towards space on a rendezvous with history. up until the last few minutes with the countdown, there were serious questions about whether the final flight what happened today. but as the clouds cleared, so did the concern of mission managers, allowing them to give the all-clear for one last launch. parts dropped with the countdown on hold at 31 seconds over concerns about a technical issue that was quickly resolved. >> we are going to go ahead and proceed. >> the final flight is our restocking mission of sorts, atlantis delivering spare p

. >> live, local, latebreaking -- this is wbal-tv 11 news at 5:00 in hd. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> welcome to 11 news sunday morning. i am lisa robinson. >> i am lowell melser. let's look outside with meteorologist in memory. we have a line of thunderstorms -- meteorologist ava marie. >> you can see quite a bit of showers and thunderstorms all across this part of the state. a cold front is approaching the area. this will move through later today. at any point, we are talking about the possibility of heavy thunderstorms. keep that in mind if you plan to be outside. things will be shaping up much better towards baltimore as we head toward the holiday. that is good news if you have plans for monday. for today, keep in mind, those storms could be in the area. 71 at bwi marshall right now. he midi is that 81% -- humidity is that 81%. the full force as is coming up. >> outside of baltimore county nightclub, a man is dead, a police officer is how the allies -- is h

in court yesterday, and i was there taking notes and writing about it, a latebreaking development tooklace where books a million, which is the third largest book chain in the country, they put in an offer for 30 stores, 22 superstars and eight smaller stores, and the details were still being worked out as of today but the judge approved provisionally, it's just that creditors had some concerns and some of the parties as well, and to the best of my knowledge there are still working that out. which means that a good 369 stores are beginning to liquidation proceedings. by that it means that there is i believe 40% off sales, customers are borders award plus cards can use them, and other discounts up until about august 5. the cards are valid until the liquidation sales are finished. it means that landlords will be able to market those real estate properties to others, once all these stores close at the end of september. inventory, they're trying to get everything sold off as quick as possible. they're trying to sell furniture. all the contracts that they had with various other companies, th

did all the junk bonds -- and this that rated all the junk bonds and other stuff live, local, latebreaking they -- could make millions that rated all the junk bonds and other stuff aaa so they could make millions of dollars? guest: they are exactly the same agencies. the ironic thing is that all the complaints and criticisms heaped upon the credit rating agencies in the financial crisis, in particular their reading of asset backed securities, that they did not do a a good job initially and more timely in terms of the downgrade, or i want to come back around -- are ironically, back around with respect to ratings on the sovereign debt. it looks to us as analysts that the credit rating agencies are trying to do a more honest and diligent and timely job in reflection on what the default risk is for issuers. as we said during the opening session here, they have to look at this notion of default, u.s. securities and other sovereign issues, because is part of the debate at the very highest political and leadership level. it is something at they would have to pay attention to. how that factors in,