by doing so, the mta hopes to deter crime like this brutal beating of a passenger on an mta bus. but not every passenger who is seen on camera thinks that they should also be heard. >> i don't always think it just because technology exists we should use it. >> i think that this is something that's going to fix problems that they have and i'm very, very skeptical not to mention the civil rights issues that this bricks up. >> this is definitely a privacy issue. we know that big brother is -- is watching. >> if approved the audio recording would take place on all mta trains and buses and record all passengers and employees. a posted sign advising passengers the recordings are taking place might be enough notification and getting on to the bus or train would be seen as the passenger consenting to being recorded. >> a lot of people talk loudly on a train about what they're going to do before they do it like robberies, fights, stuff like that. >> they should be monitoring it >> constant. >> buses, light rails, subway, metros. >> everything. >> reporter: audio is being recorded at a tra

new rules for mta buses and trains. i am mary bubala. word of a vehicle fire that has the southbound lanes of 95 blocked at the fort mchenry tunnel. we will talk about that in just a few. right now send it over to marty. >> bringing some comedy to baltimore. comedy you can believe in, hon. david alan grier. pretty much say it is all. one of the most ireverently funny men will join us on coffee with. he will plug some stuff, we will talk come stuff and hang out with a guy we truly enjoy watching. you stay tuned. the morning edition continues tim, nobody ever asks me what i want to be when i grow up. maybe it's your name. richard? no, smucker. (laughs) (announcer) when your last name is smucker and you live in orrville, everyone knows what you'll do when you grow up. you're gonna make the world's best jam. i love jam. (announcer) for five generations, with a name like smucker's, it has to be good. >>> good morning, maryland. now don scott, marty bass, breaking news with mary bubala, your first warning weather and wjz traffic control with s

the mta has inspected the trains and found no obvious signs of an accident.t their investigation continues. >> we are fairly confident they were not passengers. we just don't know what circumstances led them to being on the track. none of our operators reported any incidents. >> reporter: the boys' names have yet to be released. brittney gordon, abc2 news. >>> let's take a look at some of the other stories abc2 news is working on for you. police are calling the shooting death of former nfl quarterback steve mcnair a homicide but have not reached a conclusion about the death of the 20-year-old woman who was found with him. nashville police spokes "people" said sahel kazemi was killed with a single gunshot wound, the pistol found near her body. he was shot four times, twice in the head, played most of his career with the tennessee titans before being traded to the ravens and retired last year. >>> a total of 8,700 people have been chosen to get their tickets to michael jackson's memorial service in los angeles. officials say they expect that most of them will t

there are still many questions without answers. >> i do want an answer, from the mta. i want an answer as soon as possible. these are my babies. >> reporter: peterson says it is the only thing he can hope for as he plans to bury both of his boys within just three days. in baltimore, brian kuebler, abc 2 news. >> both train operators remain off-duty pending the outcome of this investigation. the mta has also asked baltimore county police to take the lead in this investigation, and they have reached out to the ntsb and the federal transit administration for experts to reconstruct how this happened. >>> tonight maryland health officials are reporting the second death in our state linked to swine flu. authorities say the victim is a baltimore metro area adult with serious underlying medical conditions. the state's first swine flu- related death was an elderly baltimore resident who also had significant health issues. to date, health officials say 686 cases of h1n1 flu virus have been confirmed in maryland. >>> now to a developing story. today loyal steve mcnair fans rememb

. >> reporter: mta officials say they never received any reports of a train hitting anyone yesterday. the two teenaged boys were found lying on the tracks in lutherville and one is now dead. mta officials say the two teens were found on the southbound tracks close to the lutherville station. one parkway is dead, the other seriously injured. they were found around 3:00 p.m. on sunday after a fair inspector spotted them. mta did not receive any reports of a train hitting anyone at that station and an inspection of the trains shows no obvious signs of an accident. but one passenger thinks he noticed when it happened. >> it was clear cut they hit somebody. you could feel it, thump, thump, thump. and, before you know it -- but the police didn't show up for a while though. when they showed up and the medevac rolled away that's when i knew something was wrong. >> reporter: mta officials do not think the boys were passengers. they are still investigating how they ended up on the tracks. brittney gordon, abc2 news. >>> dozens have been killed as tensions erupt in violence in northwest china. t

mta video captures a train hitting the boys 2:55 past a curve in the tracks. 3:50. police called the family. investigators are bringing in more agencies to fill in the gap. they have asked a collision expert with the ntsb to re- create the crash. >> we will work in partnership with the county. but we have asked them to take the lead out of respect for the family. >> we are getting really angry. we get one scenario, we get this, we get that, we get that, and none of it makes any sense. >> this morning investigators are looking into cell phone records and the work history of the two light rail train operators who are suspended. don, back to you. >>> baltimore county state attorney's office will sort through the evidence to determine if criminal charges could be filed in this case. it is standard procedure whenever there is a death of this type. >>> the h1n1 flu virus claims a second life in the state of maryland. health officials say this person also had an underlying medical condition that contributed to the death. they have not released the person's identity but say

. >> change for mta drivers that could keep you safer on the road and on the rail. >> they were on the basketball court when the argument began. >> what happened after the argument that forced police to step in. >> 10 days into the new fiscal year and maryland is already deep in the red. how bad it really is. >> and remembering a raven. what former team mates of steve mcnair are doing to remember him. will. >>reporter: hello. >> a new zero tolerance policy is unveiled for mta transit operators who use cell phones. >> it follow this is week fatal accident involving a light rail train. john live in north baltimore with the latest on the story tonight. john? >>reporter: it is still not known whether operator of that train was actually using the cell phone at the time but the mta has adopted a new zero tolerance policy for anyone that is caught using the cell phone. now videotape from a security camera on the light rail train shows that 2 teenagers were struck from hyped by a northbound train. but the operator did not know his train had struck the teen teens. it wasn't until 15 minutes lat

and baltimore county police say they're still working very closely with the mta. but they're trying to transfer over all of the information from this investigation. and that could take several days at this point. >>> the parents of two teenagers whose bodies were found in the light rail tracks near lutherville are demanding answers. they want to know why the driver of the train never stopped. how could the operator not notice, kyle bankmiller and connor peterson? >> somebody, big-time, messed up. >> the family questioned the mta's ability to lead this investigation. because of that, the agency agreed to allow baltimore county police to take it over yesterday. >> i'm not angry. i just want closure. >> reporter: connor and kyle were inseparable. their parents say they were born on sunday and went for a walk. >> they had their cell phones. they always called us. >> always. >> so we weren't worried. >> a short time later, the train hit them, just past a sharp curve, both died. walking on mta property is considered trespassing and prohibited. >> at least the two of the

the mta says this new policy is not in response to the lutherville crash on sunday.will apply to train operators, but it also applies to mta bus drivers. >> i think it's a great idea, because i think they need to be very safe when they're driving them things. >> i disagree with using a cell phone, but i think they should have been given a warning before they are fired. >> reporter: and the lutherville case is still being investigated, and that driver has not been linked to techsing. if you see a driver texting or calling on their cell phone, you are asked to call mta. live from north baltimore, kelly mcpherson, eyewitness news. >> in baltimore county police still are investigating the lutherville crash. that includes checking the driver's cell phone records. >>> a drug suspect is under arrest tonight but only after hundreds of students were forced to evacuate a city elementary school. the suspect ran into the school and it took police six hours to find him. jessica kartalija and eyewitness news followed this story all day long from peca elementary. >> reporter: hours

they were found just 100-yards away from the lutherville station, and mta is confident the teens were not riding the rail. >> they were found lying inside of the tracks and so generally when someone is truck by a train they are either knocked aside or whatever else. we are still trying to understand the circumstances that got them in the middle of the tracks. >> late monday evening an mta spokesperson says they have new information on what may have happened. they say they have preliminary evidence a train may have struck one of the teenagers, no information on the second one. >> i feel like it was foul play and somebody just drop them off back there. >> others think the boys were playing off the tracks. >> i have seen a couple of kids going down and walking up and down that way. >> michael says eight years ago, someone he knew was run over by a moving train. >> you win or you lose and unfortuntely, they lost their lives, and that's that a price that you want to pay. >> from a distance they don't look like they're moving that fast but they really are. >> exactly why mta police urge eve

mta video captured the train hitting the boys at 2:55. at 3:50, police call the family. >> we have tape of the boys in the track being hit. that's all we have. >> reporter: is it once or is it twice? >> again, that's all being explored and investigated, what actually happened, the whole sequence of events. >> reporter: the boys were hit just past this curve. mta says the train could have been going up to 50 miles per hour. but in the end the train that hit them, that's on video, that driver did not report the accident. >> i answered the phone like i always do when either one of the boys call, like, hi, sweetie, what's up. it was an officer, and he said, there's been an accident. and then everything just fell apart. >> i love him. >> reporter: investigators will look at cell phone records of the two suspended operators, the one whose train hit the boy and the one would was on the tracks before the accident. >> thank you very much, kelly. the state's attorney will sort through the evidence to determine if criminal charges should be filed. t

the mta says most likely the boys thought they would be able to spot a train coming.hnical error changed the direction the trains normally travel. >> the whole thing doesn't make sense. >> reporter: it's a story that only has one certainty. the devastating ending. >> it's a terrible tragedy for the family. >> reporter: two 17-year-olds, connor peterson and kyle wenkman lost their lives. >> that's a stretch of our track, where it has a greater speed. so a person's reaction time would be a lot less with a train that doesn't have the loud, locomotive engine that runs on runs on electricity. and that factors in. >> reporter: investigators focused on the underceacialg of two light -- undercarriage of two light rail trains but stopped short of identifying either one as striking the boys. >> you have to understand, these boys were distraught. >> reporter: family members left sunday at 2:00 on their bikes. police are not saying whether they recovered the bikes. >> something went wrong. join if someone pushed them or maybe they were already hurt before the train hit them. >> w

commanders and investigators will meet with the mta.on and wile wankmiller were found lying on the tracks on sunday afternoon. originally the mta reported that they didn't know anything about how it happened. a few days later they confirmed that one of their trains suffered some type of impact. later they came forward with video caught on one of the security cameras revealing that the step brothers were struck by behind and run over. they were walking north on the southbound tracks and weren't expecting a train to come up mind them but the train had switched tracks. the train operator did not see the boys before or after the accident, something family members just don't understand. >> i cannot believe that somebody hits two children in a train that has got a windshield the size of a football field and doesn't know what they did. >> reporter: mta officials says shortly after the accident the train operator was tested for drugs and alcohol. he has also been questioned about what he was doing on that northbound train that resulted in trage

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all of it progress, but none of it consoling. >> i do want an answer from the mta. i want an answer, and as soon as possible. these are my babies. >> reporter: gary peterson is the father of connor and would have been the stepfather of kyle. it has been a dizzying week for this family. the mta released several different versions of what may have happened, only to settle on one it gleamed from the front end camera. they say the teens were struck from the back once by one train. it kept going only for the two young men to be struck again by a second train before they were found. both would later die, but the mta only races more question for a grieving family. >> you got to know you hit somebody. you got to know. >> i understand from the family's point of view, they want to know how the driver didn't see that very same exact view. >> and that's exactly what the investigation is going to show us. >> reporter: that would be the mta's final comment this week, not al all satisfying for a father and his family as they spend this weekend burying two boys. brian kuebler, abc

we have a great partnership with mta, take the light rail. parking is ten dollars, but just take the mta. >> it costs $5 to get in and if you want to see the great anita baker, she'll be on stage at 7:30 tonight. >> out of all of what we said, fish, wings and jumbo shrimp. >> i was eyeing that sign. i'm hungry. >> my husband has breakfast made when i get home maybe. >> looking at funnel cakes they're not open yet. >> we'll make it down there later. thank you very much, we'll see you later. reporting live. >> if you're down there, you need to work it off. >> we have a way to do that in the studio. >>> giving you a better golf swing. some exercises you can do from . >>> if you're not a golfer, you should still listen up. >>> the secret of a good golf swing is a good body and movement. just tin is here that talk to us. it's not for the faints of heart. >> not really. obviously use a little weight to strengthen the muscles, we'll focus on corps muscles important to the game of golf. you torque your body through the swing. that's what we're going

. >>> the mta has adopted a zero- tolerance cell phone policy for drivers and operators.mary bubala explains this new rule. >> reporter: don, the mta is counting on riders to help them enforce this new policy. it if anyone sees a train operator or bus driver using a cell phone, ipod or texting, they should contacts the mta. it there is video evidence to back up the claim the person will be fired even if it is a first offense. d.c. metro adopted the policy the day before. and mta continues to investigate how two teens were struck by a light rail train while walking on the tracks. the train operator never reported hitting them. in d.c. recent video captured on a cell phone sees a d.c. metro driver sleeping or texting at the controls. don, back to you. >> thank you very much, mary. >>> prosecutors are dropping three new subpoenas in the corruption investigation of mayor sheila dixon, the subpoenas were withdrawn after the mayor's attorney filed a motion to get them thrown out. prosecutors wanted to speak to two employees and one former one to talk about use the gift cards, t

that action saint rebuke of the mta boss who came up with it. reporting live downtown, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news. sending it back to you on tv hill. >>> family members of the man who said gunned down two officers is apologizing this morning, the cousin of shawn sinclair said he took 30 ecstasy pills before going on the rampage. he and the officer are hospitalized and a second officer is recovering at home. >>> a manatee spotted in havre de grace. they are tracking the wandering manatee that typically lives in the warm waters off of south florida. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next, hotel peephole. espn reporter erin andrews at latest victim. >>> plus baby kangaroo. meet skippy and see how >>> it is a soggy tuesday morning in new york city but we have a great crowd on our plaza nonetheless. welcome back to "the early show," everybody. hope it's a brighter morning where you are. jules, good morning. >> i hope it's going to be bright here. it's still dark right now. good morning. we have a lot coming up. >>> in this half h

it is very -- very feasible. >> that won't be known until the mta completes a full investigation. inin lutherville, john rydell, x 45 news at 10:00. >> now, stephanie airs said she contacted the mta several times, since sunday's tint explain what she saw. but as of late today, she has not been interviewed by anyone from that agency. >> federal judge approves the sale of general motors but the plan is meeting resistance tonight. sunday the sale of gm's assets to the new gm owned by the government was given the gnawed. but plaintiffs and car accidents opposed it. saying victims will get no money after the sale is complete. this transaction needs to go through by friday or the treasury holds back $50 billion in aid. >> gm power-train plant in whitemarsh returns to full production tomorrow. it closed, you may recall, for eight weeks, because plants and supplies in the states of michigan and texas were both closed b 200 hourly workers and 40 salary employees return to work tomorrow. >> tourism numbers released showing big bucks headed to baltimore city. the visitors association said mo

mta police now say there is video showing a train hitting the teens.tness news is live in lutherville. tonight kai jackson explains what investigators think went wrong. kai. >> reporter: well, vic, the video solves the mystery of how the young men were killed, but the question of why they were on the tracks remains unclear. the afternoon of july 5th changed two baltimore county families forever. the bodies of kyle wankmiller and connor peter son, both 17, were found near the lutherville light rail station. >> it's a tragic, tragic thing. >> we've discovered a videotape equipped on the front end of our train. >> now questions about how the friends died have been answered. surveillance video from a train shows the teens walking north on southbound tracks when they were hit from behind by a train. >> we found out that, in fact, the individuals were struck by one of our light rail trains as they were walking inside the tracks. >> reporter: the mta says their surveillance video has determined that the teenagers were walking north on southbound tracks and pr

i'm getting reports that that is an mta fuel spill. there could be delays and detours if you are headed this that direction. also on falls road at black rock road, that has been reopened. they cleared that tree from the roadway, so things are flowing freely as well. this is 50 at sandy point. if you are headed to the beach, now is the great time to go. jamie, back to you. >>> 11 minutes now away from the hour of 6:00. carol tucker thought she had a job for life. on a friday 25 years to the day, she was told her services were no longer needed. so she came home, told her mom, hey, we're going on a road trip. >> reporter: what do we have here? >> you have the burgers, fries, hot dogs and the mural here. >> yes, my cousin's husband did that for me. >> reporter: what we have here is carol's chuck wagon. >> it's really carol's chuck wagon express but didn't have enough room for it. >> reporter: what we have here is pennsylvania. >> i bought it in pennsylvania. it was an old postal truck. >> reporter: an old mail truck. >> we gutted the whole

mta captures suspects on video regularly. past acts of violence, like this beating, could not come with sound. >> do you think recording audio might help? >> it might. >> i don't think that just because technology exists that we should use it. >> i think this is something that's going to fix problems, i'm skeptical. not to mention the civil rites issues. >> this is a privacy issue. we know that big brother is watching. >> reporter: mta says in its letter to the attorney general that it will help deter criminal activity. this is a clip of a train crash. in maryland, it would be just this. video with no audio. but this was recorded in san francisco. see if you think there's a difference with sound. >> help, help! my leg. >> reporter: mta wants to record on all trains and buses to hear passengers and employees. a posted sign might be enough notification. gets on is the passenger consenting. >> for quality assurance purposes, this may be recorded. they are notifying you that they are going to record. you have implicitly agreed. >

. >> reporter: mta says it is starting to get an idea. based on video surveillance, officials now say both teens were struck while walking the center of the trucks, but that the conductor didn't see them and kept going. mta says that part of the rails are dark, and the teens were wearing black. according to its preliminary investigation, mta say the boys laid there while a second train ran over them. it was that train that stopped, and the crew discovered the bodies. >> at least two trains show that they may have come in contact with the individuals. and again, we need to go through and do an accident investigation. we have to interview the operators. we have to interview passengers. >> reporter: but it already doesn't make sense to the boys' families. >> this is not right. something is wrong. with this situation. these boys are smarter than that. >> reporter: a father's intuition as he is now forced to bury two of his boys at the end this week. in baltimore, brian kuebler, abc 2 news. >> and the mta says its investigation is still contin

the mta is also

now two boys are dead in what has become a very baffling case for the mta. as linda so reports tonight, people apparently walk along those tracks all the time. [ bell ] >> reporter: mta workers were back at the lutherville stop, inspecting the tracks and searches for clues. there is still a lot of unanswered questions after two teen boys were found lying on the track sunday. one was killed, the other seriously injured. >> it's going to be a very complicated investigation. and we're sorting through everything so we can hopefully find some answers. >> reporter: witnesses reported seeing what looked like a damaged train dragging metal under it. one woman says she saw the injured teens lying on the tracks. mta officials are hoping video footage will shed light on what happened. at this point, they don't know if the teens were actually struck by a train, or why they were there. lisa hernandez walks along the tracks almost every day. she says a lot of people do it. for her, it's an easy shortcut from where he is coming. >> in order to get where we're at the light

. >> mta police reviewed video from a security camera on board one of the trains.s john rydell reports now. investigators now know what happened. >> i don't believe this. >> a distraught father struggles for answers. gary peterson the father of connor, and he kyle kyle his stepson. both died after struck by a light rail train. >> i don't think that my son would be right in front of a train. i think, there was something -- something went on. >> the mta initially say eight fare inspector spotted the two teens inside the tracks. no one saw them walking or being struck. video from the train shows the teens were struck from behind, and run over near the lutherville station. >> because one of the trains was disabled at the lutherville station, it forced the mta to divert all trains to the southbound tracks. >> and since the two teens were walking north on the southbound track, relatives say they could have been caught offguard. >> they could have been on cell phone. could have been texting. and those wizards were a whiz at texting. >> friends haunted by what happened. >>

now the mta says that is a possible. one train appears to have made contact with someone. we are trying to determine and piece that together what happened. since the story fwroke, 11 news has received a number of phone calls. passengers like stephanie >> i know i was on the train. i am 99.99% sure i was on that train. she says she left bwi marshal about 1 kwln 15. about an hour later, she says several hundred feet from the station, something hit the train. we thought it was a large dog, i dear or somebody. it was like oh, my gosh sthafment a person. she said the driver of the train got out, made a phone call and got back in the train there was a huge piece of metal hanging from the train. >> officials are reviewing audio and individual joe from several trains in the area during the estimated time of the incident. miller was a junior at delaney high school. peterson was currently with his g.e.d. >> around 7:00 tonight, authorities say the mta light rail hit a pickup truck. fortunately no one was hurt. baltimore city police investigate a circumstance around a shooting on the

that's because another train was disabled right here in the station and the mta was forced to use theouth bound tracks for all trains. now the accident occurred on sunday afternoon around 3:00 p.m. when a fare inspector on another train discovered the 2 teens lying in the south bound tracks. now both were alive at the time. 17-year-old connor peterson died yesterday and his step brother kyle miller died of catastrophic injuries. he died on sunday. but for the father of one of the victi victims, it just doesn't make sense. >> i don't think that my son was right in front of a train. i think there was something, something went on that we don't know about. >> they wouldn't walk in front of a train. they rode the light rail so many times. they knew that way. >>reporter: mta spokeswoman says at this point they don't know why the train operator did not see the 2 teens before they were struck on sunday afternoon. they say this investigation is far from over. live in lutherville, lutherville, fox 45 news at 5:30. >>> latest on the information you saw first on fox. the teen charged in the shoot

the mta is investigating the cause of death. she knows what happened. megan guild land join gillilande from the lutherville station. good morning, megan. >> reporter: since the accident investigators are here searching for clues trying to figure out if in fact the teens were hit by a train. this morning, mta officials are confirming that one of their train did suffer some kind of impact. the victims have been identified as kyle wankmiller and conner peterson. they discovered them lying on the tracks between 3:05 and 3:15 near the lutherville station. steveny roastephanie road the sd in fact she believes she was on the train that hit the teens. >> it hit something. when we got off the train, we saw there was i piece of metal longed underneath of the train. it looked like a guardrail had been ripped out or something. >> reporter: mta officials are going over camera footage from their trains trying to determine exactly what happened here. as part of their investigation, they will be talking with passengers who were on a northbound

what mta officials have concluded about their investigation. >>> plus, mayor sheila dixon calls for city budget cuts earlier this year. those cuts could affect your family's safety beginning this morning. all the details just ahead in a live report. >>> in the meantime, good wednesday morning. july 8th, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i'm megan pringle. you get your weather and traffic every 10 minutes. here's meteorologist justin berk. >> here's your morning zen, whatever you're doing, stop and come to the tv. randy, want to thank him for sending this shot. the rotation of the earth is just too fast to hold a close tight shot of this. the moon was officially full last night. you might as well call it full this morning. absolutely gorgeous. we're about 10 minutes from sunrise but over the western sky you can see that full moon there. that is beautiful. of course the kids may be howling today. that is a whole other story. generally we're looking at conditions, 63 degrees, winds currently calm. what an absolutely pleasant july morning. and what an absolutely gorgeous july da

. >>> plus, officials with mta, they turn over the death investigation to learn exactly how two teenaged boys died on the tracks of the light rail. >>> and all your luxury needs can be fulfilled. just head over to the towson town center. we'll tell you about the new addition there. >>> thank you so much for joining us. good morning, friday eve. it's chilly out there, if now been outside yet. it's 50s. unheard of. let's send it over to justin berk. >> my parents tell me about the 50s. they say it was -- good music. 5:30 on the clock. taking a look outside now, harbor cam looking westbound. we have a little of the predawn light just backlit here. the buildings. starting to pop out here with the backdrop. clouds to the west and south. let's check out the easterly view from catonsville, 65 degrees, a light wind from the north that will turn to the northeast. that will help to pile in more clouds. that will help to lock down our temperatures. 65 in catonsville, that's an ano, anomaly because most of us outside the beltway in the 50s. including the airport. we increase the clouds this afternoo

mta spokeswoman said the train operator did not see the boys.hey were apparently walking north, on the southbound tracks and were not expecting a train to be coming up from behind them. but the train had switched tracks. >> i don't think that my son would ride in front of a train. i think, there was something -- something went on that we do not know about. >> mta officials will not say why the operator did not see the teens. before or after they were hit. the operator has been tested for drugs and alcohol. which is routine after accidents. but the results of the tests are not known yet. >> new information tonight about the teen charged with shooting a 5-year-old girl in southwest baltimore. governor said he wants a full explanation of why a 17-year-old lamont davis cutoff an electronic monitoring device before the shooting. parole officers were looking for davis within minutes of him cutting off the bracelet last week. davis returned to the scene, of a fight, and sprayed the street with bullets. the girl is still on life support this evening. da

mta is now looking at the undercarriages of the trains for more news.tney gordon, stews stews. >>> a monorail in disney world is closed after one of the employees died over the weekend. it's after fireworks celebrations ended. six passengers were on the train, none were hurt. there have been no other accides in the monorail's 35-year history but this is the first time someone has been killed. >>> baltimore city police say they've charged a 17-year-old as an adult for shooting a 5-year-old in the head. lamont davis is charged with attempted murder, south baltimore and gun violations. the shooting happened thursday after several teens got into a fight on south pulaski street in southeast baltimore. police say davis started shooting and the girl was struck in the head as she walked on the street. he's scheduled to go before a judge in two weeks. >>> marion berry is denying charges he stalked a woman. park police arrested him on the fourth of july after a woman flagged down an officer and complained he had been stalking her. a spokesman called the accusatio

. >> reporter: behind the roar of the engine and the squeak of the brakes, many doubted the mta could electronically eavesdrop on conversations inside the buses anyway. the riders like mary allen didn't like it. >> i don't think it's a really good idea, because i feel like it would be an invasion of my privacy. >> reporter: eyeing future camera upgrades, transportation leaders wanted to see if adding audio capabilities to their existing video cameras would violate the state's anti- wiretapping laws. the mta asked for an machine on maryland's attorney general on whether people who ride the bus would have to be notified before their audio was recorded or whether a signposted inside was sufficient. >> i think that is definitely big government gone too far. >> reporter: state senator nancy jacobs and others began voicing their concerns over the matter. acting transportation secretary beverly staley called off the inquiry, at least until the department can get legislators, community groups and customers all to weigh in on it in the future. >> one of the reasons you may consider it is for s

. >> a tough new policy for mta transit operators who use cell phones. it follows this week's fatal accident involving a light rail train. john rydell explains. >> those that depend on baltimore's transit system can tell you stories about some mta drivers and their bad habits. >> have you ever seen a bus driver or a train operator using a cell phone? >> bus driver, yes, i have. yes. several times. >> does that worry you? >> yes, it does. because, i mean, it is a big 40, 50 passenger vehicle and you need to pay attention. >> riders are disturbed by this week's accident. which two teenagers were struck and killed while walking on the tracks. but it is not known whether the operator was using a cell phone at the time. up until now, mta policy gave supervisors discretion on how drivers could be disciplined if caught using cell phones. but today governor o'malley announced a change in policy. >> we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to any operator of any vehicle, using a cell phone or texting while operating a transit vehicle. >> the train operator i

the mta made the decision after d.c. metro officials announced a similar change in which it got rid of its three strikes and you're out policy. >>> an amtrak passenger train collided with a car near detroit, killing five people. the crash happened at a road crossing about 20 miles west of detroit. investigators say the train was heading north when it crossed the tracks and was hit pushing the car about 150 feet. the crossing area has a gate and flashing lights that were believed to be working at the time. the train carrying 150 people was on its way from detroit to chicago. five people in the car were killed. >>> another nice day across the region with below normal temperatures once again. and right now maryland's most powerful radar is not showing any precipitation near the baltimore area, but there are a few showers down to the southwest of us. as a matter of fact, across portions of virginia, near richmond, we're seeing a few showers there. all that shower activity will remain down to the south and not affect the balt

of the mta about the accident. kyle wank miller was struck sunday afternoon. while walking near the train tracks. a camera on the train showed the two 17-year-olds were struck from behind. the mta says it was a second train operator who noticed the body. both have been put on leave. >> we have tape of the boys being on the track. that's all we have. >> is it once or twice? >> again, that's all being explored and investigated. what actually happened, the whole sequence of events. >> the mta has asked baltimore county to take the lead on the investigation. the ntsb has also been asked to provide a third party expert. kai? >> at the time of the accident, all trains are running on the southbound tracks. the train that hit the boys was going northbound. >>> police are trying to clear a portion of i-95, after a tractor-trailer overturns. that accident occurred around 3:30. the truck was carrying vegetable oil, when it tipped over near sandy spring road. at this hour, it's unclear why that truck overturned. >>> a baltimor

mta siting privacy concerns and will now review whether the state can move forward with such a program. >>> new york times report shows the government with held hundreds of pages of research about the hazards of drives using cell phones. the national highway traffic safety administration allegedly with held the findings because of the fear of angrying congress and losing financing for transit officials. among the findings is that driver distraction causes 25% of all traffic crashes. research found that even with hands free devices cell phone conversation takes the driver's focus off the road. maryland assessment task revealed whether schools in our state are making progress or lagging behind. eye witness news is live with the state department of education head quarters. adam may has the results. >> reporter: we got the results and started combing through the data. maryland students improved in 2009. elementary school students, grades 3, 4, and 5 showed improvement in reading and math except for fourth grade reading those were down 2%. middle schooner students did well in the testing th

we are looking good here on the mta systems. no rails on the rails. light rail and metro subway are on time. 36 bus is a diverting due to a water main break repair. the 58 best is also diverted -- the 50 bus is also diverted. there is a program this is nt customers -- mta customers. back to you. >> good morning. we are looking at a pretty mild start for things today. what 70 degrees downtown. the coolest location is york. the best measure of moisture in the environment is the dewpoint. we can welcome back the july humidity. is will be around for the rest of this week. we will search into the low 90's by saturday. in the meantime, the temperatures are below normal. 76 in the mountains of western maryland. our chances here up seeing a rainfall are pretty minimal today. only about 30% later on this afternoon. a high of 86 degrees today. cloudy out there were mixed with sun and clouds. possible pop-up thunderstorms this afternoon. wind will be picking up out of the south east today. we will see moist air, coming in from the gulf of mexico. waves are only

the mta asked the police the apartment to take over the investigation.the witness was sitting in a certain spot that will give them more information in their investigation. wbal tv 11 news new. >>> she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. this woman explains why she killed her father. to amazing stories are coming up today on the "oprah" show. >>> good morning, coming up thursday here on "today. " in other arrests connected to the murders of the parents of the 17 children in florida. the woman was taken in custody on a yacht in alabama. the share of leading the investigation will explain her connection to the case. >>> than the infamous pepsi commercial showed that changed the life of michael jackson. we will show you never before seen video of the accident. >>> we will also have information on the prime-time emmy nominations. >>> amazing grace will be with us live to show us her stuff when we start our show right here on "today." >>> i would buy tickets. i am easily entertained. >>> will take another look at weather and traffic when we come ba

two teens found along the light rail tonight the mta still doesn't know what happened to them. eyewitness news is live with new information about the victims. >> reporter: we knew one teenager had died yesterday and the mta just released moments ago that the other one clinging to life has also lost his life. but police are no closer to answering why or how this tragedy unfolded. light rail investigators and passengers have a long list of questions after a train employee made a gruesome discovery sunday afternoon. >> it was a fare inspector that happened to be looking out of the window and saw two bodies lying inside the southbound track. >> how did they die? was he shot? was they thrown on the track? >> reporter: maryland transit authority say one teenage boy is dead, another seriously injured. they were found 100 yards from the lutherville station. they are confident the teens were not riding the rail. >> they were found inside the tracks. when they are struck by a train, they are knocked to the side or something else. >> reporter: at this time investigators say it doesn't loo

mta police says there a video showing the teens being hit by a train, but as kai jackson reports, therere still a lot of unanswered questions. >> reporter: the afternoon of july 5 changed two baltimore county families forever. the bodies of kyle wankmiller and connor peterson were discovered. >> we discovered a videotape that was on the front end of our train. >> reporter: questions about how the friends died have been answered. the mta says surveillance video from a train show the teens were walking north on southbound tracks when they were hit from behind by a train. >> we found out that in fact the individuals were struck by one of our light rail trains as they were walking inside the tracks. >> reporter: the mta says their surveillance video has determined that the teenagers were walking north on southbound tracks. and probably weren't expecting a northbound train on those tracks. under normal circumstances, it probably would not have been. >> you have to understand there was a sequence of events that happened. initially we had a report of some debris being on the track. and because

. >> a week ago today when the mta as the baltimore county police apartment to take over the investigation, detectives have been looking for evidence. it seems as if they had found one valuable clue in what a certain witness on the trains all. they need to find this person. police are helping that these images from the surveillance camera will help lead them to the witness that they are looking for. these were taken on board the train that hit and killed 17 year-old boys as they walked on the tracks back on july 5. >> we want to identify with this person is. we would like for that person to come forward and taught for a couple of minutes with our detectives about what he saw on that date. >> baltimore county detectives are in a week of their investigation and have taken it over from the mta. they are anxious to talk to the man because of where he was sitting. because of the investigation, they would not reveal where that was. >> we know that he was sitting in a position that he may have seen or experienced something in the area where he was sitting that could help us provide -- help to pro

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mta said the operator of the train never saw them. before or after the accident. >> i cannot believe that somebody hits two children, in a train, that has a windshield the size of a football field, and does not know what they did. >> video from the train security camera shows the two were struck around 2:55 sunday afternoon. but the injured teens were not discovered until 15 minutes later. by the operator and fare inspector of another train. >> train operator texting or on the phone, not paying attention, and something really tragic happened. >> the mta said it is still collecting more information about the fatal accident. >> we have reached out to the federal transit administration, ntsb and group called american public transit association, which is basically looking for a rail accident expert to come in and provide another set of eyes to examine what occurred. >> most of the trains that travel along here are going at 45 miles per hour. and the teens may have been caught offguard because all the trains were diverted to southbound tra

police are taking over from the mta as the lead agency. the mta administrator is now taking questions about the ongoing investigation. >> we have tape of the boys in the track. being hit. that's all we have. >> is it once or is it twice? >> that -- again, that's all being explored and investigated, what actually happened, the whole sequence of events. >> reporter: two light rail operators have been suspended. the one who was driving the train that hit the boys and the one that reported them on the tracks. earlier this week, the mta has said that the boys were hit twice. back to you. >> okay. thank you very much, kelly. >>> a third party collision expert from the ntsb has been requested for this investigation. >>> at this hour, a 5-year-old baltimore girl remains in the hospital after being shot in the head. for the first time, we are seeing her picture and hearing from family members. mike hellgren is live near the scene where it happened. mike? >> reporter: denise, we're in the carolyn ridge interaction here at south pulaski and ashton st

these are my babies. >> reporter: the family questioned the mta's ability to lead this investigation. because of that, the agency agreed to allow baltimore county police to take it over yesterday. >> there's been something wrong with this whole thing from the beginning. >> reporter: the mta says the driver is experienced. baltimore county police plan to ask for outside help as they investigate the deaths of these best friends. >> at least the two of them are together. because if one had survived and the other didn't, the other one would not have been able to cope. >> reporter: inseparable guys. just 17 years old. you notice in the piece, these trains have huge front windows. so that the conductor can clearly see see out what's happening ahead. reporting live from county police headquarters, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> okay, mike. thank you very much. >>> tonight, the fbi is asking for your help in getting a dangerous bank robber off the streets. sally is live in the newsroom with details for us. >> reporter: the man has robbed three banks in the last week alone. take a good

this one, involving an mta bus. one other on charles at lake.arnold, one at college and richie highway. just very minor one on the west side inner loop. slight delay there at security boulevard. there is a look at the west side at wilkins, running at full speed there. no problems on baltimore national pike. this traffic report is brought to you by loyola. now is the time to invest in your career with loyola. attend an information session. back over to you. >>> thank you, sharon. >>> the 4th of july weekend was a success. 321,000 people visited the resort over the long holiday weekend. that's about the number that was expected. it's about 4,000 fewer guests than last year. a more exact number will be released in september, when tax revenues are released. >>> still ahead. microsoft problem. the computer virus technicians can't seem to stop. >>> how police put a stop to the suspect. >>> where is sarah palin. she resigned her governorship in alaska. what's next? >>> and summertime weather doesn't get much better than this. bob is updating the foreca

people rely on the mta.fety is in the hands of the person at controls. >> texting, talking on the telephone, it is very distracting. >> they are in charge of taking people from one place to another one at safely, and doing all of this with their telephone, no. >> we do not, for public safety's sake, what anyone using their cell phones when they are using our vehicles -- want anyone using their cell phones. in light of recent incidents is, it is prudent for us to take this very progressive step -- in light of recent incidents. >> they believe they should not have to worry about distracted drivers any more. >> çnobody should be texting while they are driving. it is dangerous. >> know that they should not be doing it, i think it is fair. >> the policy also applies to fare collectors and vehicle maintenance crews. çin the newsroom, kerry cavanaugh, wbal tv 11 news. >> now, tonight's report. it appears that more aig execs will be getting bonuses. they are pressing the federal government to support the company's

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