>> the measels, mumps and rue bella. and our children now get a battery of vaccinations which obviously have a very laudible aim to prevent childhood diseases but there were serious concerns and it was backed with data that immediately after getting the shot, some kids began to manifest symptoms of developmental disorder called autism. there is also a very provocative stud they came out of texas that coal burning plants which spew out mercury latent pollution, if you did an overlay of where the plants and were where the prevalence or a spike in autism occurred, it was in proximity to those plants. it's provocative. it's suggestive, not conclusive but it raises the bar that there may be or red flags, a number of triggers. and mercury at predisposition, a gene problem, unborn children may have some early indicators that they are going to be autistic. so we need to be looking earlier with the hopes of mitigating the early onset or the manifest station of this developmental disorder and earliest prevention, vigorous early pr

the record number of books is expected to dump as mump as 700 million dollars back into the economy. carin redman, abc 2 news. >> and the future room books stretch from this year to the year 2019. >>> well, along with many other libraries across the street, the enoch pratt free linebacker system announced changes at several locations today. the cuts were evaluated first to make sure that patrons wouldn't be too greatly impacted. there will no longer be service hours on fridays at the hamilton, herring run and light street branches, and sunday hours will be eliminated at the southeast anchor library. all other branches will remain the same. >> a lot of people rely on the library for the internet, for books, obviously to 2 free programs. but as i mentioned, we looked at all the statistics and all the times that people visit us. fridays and sundays are the least impacted times. >> for a list of the updated service hours, you can log onto our website. you the find the information on abc2news.com. >>> towson university has the opportunity to expand its incoming class, but has to hold back

. >> reporter: because there is so mump excitement, the city is urging everyone to take public transportation. or if you must drive, please plan to leave early. park your car and then travel around on foot. >> reporter: however you get there, the game is sure to score major goals for soccer lovers and for charm city. >> and it will be busy this weekend. >> reporter: and the soccer buzz in baltimore could continue to grow. the city is placing bids to bring world cup soccer here within a decade, and wjz, eyewitness news. >> thank you. i'm excited. i'm going to that game. >> that is very nice a lot of people are excited in this building. >> but one of them. >> yes. >> and bernadette will be there, 70,000 other people will be there as well. >> it will be a lot of fun. >> but it is the soccer game. we should really call it football because that's what they really call it. >> it is football. the real football a sport with a foot. it will be really, really great for our city. [ and the weather should hold up. it is going to be warm. >> that's okay. as long as it is not raining, jim. and from 8 to 88

while older adults can recall the impact of polio or mumps. >>> let's get an update on the steamy forecastb, how is it looking? >> it is a little steamy. our temperature now with the lonesome cloud still up well in the 80s. right now on doppler, once again, there have been showers. one now popping up in montgomery county. take a quick look at that o. as you can see, they are few and far between damascus and frederick. overnight tonight we will see those. tomorrow there is a better chance that all of this may see at least, i think, 60%, 70% chance of needed primarily late day, late day showers and thundershowers. after that, back to more sunshine as we head into the weekend and it will be hazy and humid. it will be also july. make late sunday another chance for showers and thundershowers. see you at 11:00. >> thank you, bob. a church in central florida is using some of its receipts toun en emeur t m encourage members to pay it forward. members of the first baptist church each received envelopes that held $10, $20, $100. they were told to pass on the cash to someone that needs it. the only r

the animal control of diseases and you earlier mentioned in answer to your questions smallpox and mumpshave a number of vaccinations, inoculations. we have these for cattle and animals. these are prevention. these are not antibiotics. they'rem39 vaccinations, someti they're weakened agents of the infection itself. sometimes they're alternatives. we do not for human health use antibiotics, which are specifically designed to kill bacteria and frequently more than the bacteria they target, we don't use antibiotics in humans for prevention and so my question is, obviously, in different kinds of animals, humans are an animal, cows are animals. why would we have a different code for antibiotics and why would we want to use them as a preventive agent in one species but not another species. >> we've gone to the science. we've gone to the research universities, and we've learned from them that this is something that would healthier animal, healthier food and healthier humans. >> i just want to be clear. so you do dispute -- we had earlier expert testimony that indicated that it is a belief among

i can remember us dying as humans from smallpox, mumps, all those different things.ed it out and it does not happen anymore. and we did the same thing with our animals. there are regulations when you have got to go off of it and let this get out of the system and so forth. by the there is a time to do that and do it right. that does not mean that there's not room for improvement, but we are willing to do that. in appreciation of everything you said, i feel the same way. >> thank you. . . has reinforced this idea that this is something that we can change that we're bringing this on ourselves, that our industry will survive that with better health practices and limited use of anti-biotics, theerputic use of antibiotics our animals will do just fine. we could make this transition without causing these undue consequences whether they are economic loss to our farmers because countries are changing their practices. and i will say my grandmother was one. and i don't think they're stupid. the reduction of antibiotics -- everybody in our testimony said they increased the use