i'm pat warren. back to you. >> and harris beat out democrat frank kratovil after just one term. >>> tessa hill aston was elected tuesday to replace marvin doc cheatam. she is a community activist and city government employee. >>> just a week away from the annual festival of trees celebration. mary joins us now with more on the big event. >> reporter: as more on or continuing community commitment, wjz shows you why this event makes a difference in so many lives. >> reporter: the kennedy krieger festival of trees is about to mark the start of the season. proceeds from the event, which wjz is proud to sponsor, is part of our continuing community commitment, to help children with neurological disorders. >> up. put your feet up. >> reporter: 1-year-old ben chaisson is enrolled in one of the programs. ben showed sutlez red flags-- subtle red flags for autism at only 6 months. but through this program... >> down! >> reporter: he is making noticeable gains. >> i'm a stay-at-home mom. and i feel very confide

reporting live from pimlico i'm pat warren. >> maintaining his innocence. the man accused of plotting to bomb d.c. metro stop appears in court. >>> well, it will be up to a jury to decide if he is guilty of a plot. >> he was arrested last month, after being targeted in a federal sting. he believes he was talking to al qaeda members. but they were actually undercover officers. he eventually requested a jury trial, which was scheduled for april 27th. >>> speaking out about sentencing a man to death for a deadly home invasion. jurors sentenced him to death. jurors say they kept a picture of the victim in plain view during their deliberations. and after they reached the meeting, they had an emotional meeting. >>> one year and no arrests in the case that left one man dead and another paralyzed during a shooting at a howard county party. suzanne collins explains, police and the murder victim's father are asking the person to come forward. >> reporter: it was here where aaron bryce was shot to death in the front yard. a 22-year-old was also paralyzed inside, as an

pat warren reports. some think the decline in procedures is related to the publicity, surrounding possible unnecessary stent procedures. >> you may remember how it started. hundreds of patients at st. joseph's medical center, receiving letters telling them they may have undergone heart stent procedures they may not have needed. susan carery of parkville spoke in a wjz report. she had stents placed in her coronary arteries, only to find out they may not have been necessary. >> doesn't seem right. >> reporter: now, the procedures are dropping. johns hopkins conventional cardiologist, to believe doctors are taking a second look at the procedure. >> the physician doing the catheterization often acts as the gatekeeper. and he or she is making that decision at the time of the catheterization. and to some extent, there is incentive for that physician to put in a stent. because there's additional professional fees that are garnered in that setting. >> reporter: and there are patients, too, who often shop around

i'm pat warren. coming up on eyewitness news. baltimore teachers talk about their new contract. >>> ask the expert. if you are suffering from frequent pain, you can get much- needed help. stick around for details. >>> an overcast thursday evening. bob will give you a look to the weekend coming up. ,,,,,,,, >>> we have breaking news for you right now. firefighters arriving just at the scene. chopper 13 is over the scene. >> looks like a shed fire in rosedale, vic. this is 68th street, right off of pulaski highway and an industrial area. apparently, some type of semi trailer in the rear caught fire. as you can see, firefighters are making pretty quick work of it, nuthat it -- now that it has been burning apparently for sometime. we actually could see the smoke and flames coming from a distance miles away. this is primarily an industrial area. and no reports of injuries. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you very much, captain mike perry. >>> the anne arundel county fire department is coping with a loss. iris. the first county fire a

political reporter pat warren explains, the odds of rice racing at laurel have been revived. >>> the partners in the track appear to have split. and that could mean a change of heart that could affect the future. >>> the post-election was grim. >> devastation and destruction. >> reporter: trainers and owners left out in the cold. >> changed completely from when i was a boy. >> that's the scenario, painted by the maryland jockey club, after losing its fight for slots at laurel, to the cordish company at arundel mills. the maryland jockey club had planned to change it. and limit racing at pimlico. but one of one of the owners of the track appeared to have a change of heart. >> we're very concerned about it. there's so many jobs that depend on racing being vibrant in the state of maryland. we want to do everything we can to save every possible job we can, knowing everyone is important. >> reporter: that's good news for eddie perviva. and others who make a living at laurel. >> reporter: if we're displaced, it's unreal. there's no racing close. it's an hour and a half to anywhere. we all

reporting from frederick, i'm pat warren.back to you on television hill. >>> the governor's office on crimes control also distributed grants to police officers in prince george's county. >>> a heartbreaking end in the search for a missing north carolina girl. just a short time ago. police say they believed they have found her body. vic is in the newsroom with the unfolding developments for us. >> police in hickory, north carolina, are fairly confident they have found 10-year-old zara baker's remains. she was reported missing more than a month ago. dna matched zara. the child had bone cancer and had a prossetic leg and hearing aids. the girl's mother has been charged with obstruction of justice after police say she wrote a bogus ransom note at the home. >> police say they have had a hard time hearing anyone outside of zara's family saying they had seen zara alive in the weeks before disappearance. >>> 34-year-old tina herman was reported wednesday. that's when police realized, several were unaccounted for. herman's truck was f

reporting, i'm pat warren, now back to you on television hill. >> thank you, pat.he task force will make it's recommendations by february 2011. >>> and captain mike perry over an accident to bring us more. >> reporter: this at lynch and beltway. three vehicles involved. most serious injured is the rider of motorcycle. you see there the shattered motorcycle apparently had a collision with a gray sedan. knocked it into the path of a white pickup truck. we have one person going to shock trauma. that is the operator of the vehicle. as you can see, police do have lynch road closed at guyway in north point baltimore county. back to you. >> captain mike, thank you we'll continue to follow that as well. >>> back in july we told you about the teenager who plunged 100 feet from a ride at a wisconsin park. vic is in the newsroom with the recovery of a very determined young girl. >> reporter: it was a tragic mistake with serious consequences. the girl plummeted 10 stories before crashing into the ground. today tigan is unable to walk and can barely speak. her mother has high h

reporting from city school headquarters, i'm pat warren, now back to you on television hill. >>> the task force will make its recommendations by february. >>> the city ends up on opposite ends in two national studies. baltimore is once again. looks at large cities, only detroit is more dangerous than baltimore. >>> but on the bright side, if you are looking for work you don't have to go far. the charm city ranked the fourth best city for finding a job. that's according to the job search engine juju.com. they compared the number of unemployed people and the number of jobs posted online. >>> how do you do that? >> i don't know, i throw my voice. >> the wjz newsroom still beaming over the newest addition to our family. jessica cartalia's precious baby boy. >> today mary sat next to the bed to bring us the news. >> reporter: meet baby drew, all 7 pounds 1 ounce of him. and here's the new mom, jessica is glowing and loving her new role. >> i think it's incredible. you know everybody says that you can't imagine the feeling and how wonderful it is, and there isn't anything like it. i just c

reporting live, i'm pat warren.n television hill. >> the state board of education still has to work out the guidelines for the performance- based evaluations. >>> scandal forces a new editor out his job. jay montgomery cook stepped down from his job. he allegedly resigned amid allegations he sent sexually explicit video. cook was at the sun and left that position to work at unc. >>> the search is over as three busies were found in a rural area. just a short time ago, police confirmed the bodies of tina herman, her son, and a friend were found inside a hollow tree. they went missing eight days ago, along with herman's daughter. she was found bound ask gagged in the home of matthew hoffman. hoffman is currently in custody. >>> in cold blood, a popular d.c. principal shot dead. tonight, a plea from one of the men responsible. denise has more here. >> the principal of shaw middle school was found dead in his silver spring home back in april. tonight, another suspect is admitting his role in the botched robbery that led

wjz political reporter pat warren has the new pressure being put on teachers to say yes. >>> outside the baltimore teachers union headquarters, these teachers let it be known they plan to vote against the tentative agreement reached between the union and school system. >> we say the union members are against the contract. >> what's the rush? >> mayor stephanie rawlings- blake is running this video on you tube, urging teachers to vote for the new contract. >> a quiet storm of education transformation is happening right here in baltimore. >> reporter: the mayor calls it a quiet storm. but for a group whose function relies on organizational skills, the teacher's first vote in october was a mess. the long line and varied opinions resulted in 454 votes against the contract. 1107 for it. and the dissatisfaction was evident. >> parents aren't held accountable. administrators aren't held accountable. >> teaching to the test. giving teachers all of the answers they need to make an informed choice. but even after studying the agreements, they vote no. >> we say this is body. -- >> bad. >> mayo

no. >> greta: do you think warren buffet is for the pat-down or the nude pictures?> he's got to be a pat-down guy. like me he's an aging american man. meet new friends. he's probably for it. >> greta: how is the daily caller doing? >> great. >> greta: you like it? >> i love it, we a staff of 30 who wake up every morning trying to find interesting stories. it is a dream come true. >> greta: nice to see you. >> greta: bobby jindal is here to go on the record next. >> plus prince william and kate have someone lobbying facebook missiles at them. >> guess who is writing a tea party book? that answer coming up. ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] got a cold? [ coughs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] confsed what to get? now robitussin makes it simple. click on the robitussin relief finder at robitussin.com. [ nose blowing ] [ male announcer ] click on your symptoms. ♪ get the right relief. ♪ makes the cold aisle easy. the robitussin relief finder it's that simple. >> greta: louisiana governor bobby jindal joins us live. new book good evening governor. >> thank you for having me >> gre

. >> pat buchanan, warren buffett, he thinks he should pay more. do you agree?llion and he makes his money by capital gains, buying and selling, only a 15% tax. maybe he should pay more. if you're talking about a guy with a family making $250,000, should his taxes go up? i don't think it's good economics. i don't think it's good politics, and i don't know that it's a good deal for the country. i think the private sector is what we ought to rely on. >> let's kick it around a little bit, mark halperin. does it have to be the difference between $250,000 and what warren buffett makes? is there room for negotiation on capitol hill to raise the ceiling? >> there has to be. this is going to come to a head f not this month with the deficit commission report in december, but when the republicans in the house have to write their budget. it's going to be fascinating to watch paul ryan write a budget that doesn't raise taxes but somehow balance the budget. it will be an important moment for the republican party. >> mike barnicle? >> there is something flammable within this

pat. magnums. you know what -- >> that is from her foundation. the candies foundation. i kept saying you know you could have -- warren, what did i say, you could have flipped roles and that could have been levy johnston, that would have been very effective, don't you think? >> i'm happy to see these guys do this psa. it is important to put that message out there about teen pregnancy. >> a lot of people, warren, laughed at that. i thought it was a serious message and it was important. they may not be the best actors like they are not the best dancers. both were on "dancing with the stars." go ahead, warren, sorry. >> i don't know if they were the best actors to do that. it is a necessary message. the only thing i wonder, it's been millions of teenage moms and how the republican party has this hypocritical stance it is okay to be a teen parent now that bristol palin is a teen parent. if the message and psa is to stop teen pregnancy i'm all for it. >> maybe this is a look forward. back to reality. back to "dancing with the stars." tom delay is a political person. and was on "dancing with the stars." go ahead, maureen. >