northbound ritchie highway remains closed at glen burnie for someowned wires. the major roads are looking good. we are in the green on the j.f.x.. 54 at northern parkway. the top side of the beltway, 11 minutes. 12 minutes on the west side. same story at the harbor tunnel thruway. same story at the fort mchenry tunnel. southbound traffic is running freely. same story northbound. >> 6:17. this is video of the emergency chutes being deployed on the plane just moments after it crashed in san francisco. passengers getting off the plane . fire crews dousing the plane as it burns. investigators look at the moments surrounding the crash and the training of the pilots. lawmakers return to the state house in texas. the governor announced he will not seek reelection next year and call the recession after an effort that would close most abortion clinics in that state. filibuster staged a at the end of last month. we should see more evidence hernandez.on the public should know what was seized from his home. he is charged with murder of a friend and a semi pro football play

northbound ritchie highway, ordinance road. apparently a truck hit the signals and it caused signals to be stuck there. northbound lanes are blocked. you can take route 10 or 97 as an alternate. on the beltway you are doing fine. same for 95. that is the top side of the beltway. live at harford. that is the west side. similar situation at exit 17. now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. here is don. >>> there are many questions about how a korean jetliner crashed at san francisco's airport saturday. investigators hope to get more answers when they interview the pilots in control at the time of the crash. it's melanie woodrow reporting for wjz. >> the focus of the investigation into the crash of asiana flight 214 shifts to the cockpit today. all four pilots will be interviewed to find out what they were doing in the moments leading up to the crash. >> we will get a lot more details about their activities, their work, their training, who was the pilot flying, who was the pilot in command in the cockpit at t

ritchie, you will start? >> yes. steve ritchie earnings assistant general manager for water and bawsca on water supply on our system and if we could have the slides up, please? there we go. okay. first i want to review our water supply levels of service. these are obligations to our customers. on the goals and objectives front it's meet customer and water needs in non-drought and drought periods and there are various parts of that. meeting average demand of 265 million gallons per day from the sfpuc watersheds from non-drought water years and the second is meet delivery needs while limiting rationing to maximum of 20%, which translated to a significant number and most of the burden for that shortage under our current arrangement falls to the wholesale customers and that is a significant figure that we need to make sure our eyes are wide open on. the goals and objectives, diversify our water supply options and improve use of new water sources. the second piece was some of the specific details in the wsip approval in 2

rochelle ritchie is live with local rallies in baltimore but let's start in sanford, florida with the latest reaction to the not guilty verdict. >> trayvon, trayvon! >> reporter: thousands of people across the country hit the streets to show they're not happy george zimmerman was acquitted. >> we're disappointed with the verdict. >> reporter: from the east coast. >> what do we want? >> justice! >> reporter: to the west coast, peaceful protesters voiced their opinions. >> we came out because right now we're still empty handed. >> not guilty. >> reporter: a jury found the neighborhood watchman not guilty in the shooting death of trayvon martin. many who live here in sanford were trying to move on. >> we went to court and he was proven not guilty. >> reporter: zimmerman is a freeman but his brother and lawyer say he's on edge. >> there is a fringe element who have said in tweets and whatever else that they want revenge. >> reporter: this is an open investigation into the case. the naacp wants federal prosecutors to file civil rights charges against zimmerman. >> there is evidence that ra

ritchie talked about are intended to. provide a degree of accountability and transparency that i know a lot of the community folks have been asking for we would like to when we get to the public comment, period, i would like the comments to address the item presented and also the amendments and if there is a procedural step we need to do and move the item and move the amendment then i will do that. if we can just do it by it, but i would like the comment to address the mlu and the potential amendments to improve the accountability. >> that is a very good point, in addition of the two other s and they prefer that vice president present his and so that we have all of the amendments in front of us before we go to a vote. >> okay. >> thank you very much, president torres. we have been talking about the lake for a long time and i actually grew up on the west side and so i am very familiar with that space and the boat house. and i think that one of the problems that we have is that there is we don't take credit when we should b

i'm rochelle ritchie.y leaders say people are afraid to report crime it in ,,, >>> coming up now on wjz eyewitness news at 6:00. deadly plane crash investigation. did pilot error factor into the crash-landing in san francisco? wjz is live. >>> taking a stand. a peace violence under way in the city. to address the increase in crime. >>> the orioles are well represented for baseball's game. i'm mark viviano. we'll hear from the brightest of the stars when eyewitness news continues. >> check in for these stories and all the day's breaking news. wjz eyewitness news at 6:00 starts right now.

rochelle ritchie with new information from police. rochelle? >> reporter: well, hi, vic. we are just return -- learning that this shooting happened just about a mile away from where mayor stephanie rawlings- blake participated at a peace walk just last night. baltimore city very frustrated with the shootings. police say just as one shooting happened, another life is left on the line. >>> chaos erupts in west baltimore after four men are shot. >> we are comparing this immediately to other crimes in this general area. as it relates to crimes that occurred. >> reporter: the violence upsetting for residents. kirk was living in a danger zone. >> i think it's sad because you can't have your kids sitting out front or anything. you'll know if they're going to come or shoot. >> just before 3:00, baltimore city police say the four guys were sitting on the porch, when they became the target of several bullet the. >> it's very frustrating. in fact, we ran a a crime strat knowledgey planning meeting this afternoon. >> people afraid to talk on camera say they are tired of the violence.

rochelle ritchie has more on the message local ministers and a university of maryland medical student are sending. rochelle? >> reporter: hi, denise. the organizers of this event says this is more than just about having great time and great food. it's about breaking the code of silence that had plagued so many baltimore neighborhoods. [ sirens ] ? the streets of baltimore, riddled with gunfire and crime tape is now being replaced with the voices of fed- up residents. >> i have kids. and since the very first week i moved in, there's been a lot of things that's happened. >> reporter: at apples and oranges market on north broadway, marcus stent, a community activist, is hoping that today's peace rally will break the code of silence in the community. >> watch baltimore be redestroyed by violence. >> reporter: since june 21st, baltimore's crime rate has spiked with more than 40 shootings and 15 homicides. littered with shell casings. and homicide detectives say their desire has been replaced with a fear of being shot. >> it's kind of scary for little kids to see. for like yeah, for little

ritchi's amendment and vice president courtney's amendments? >> yes. and the, just a minute... the word is... >> right here. okay. so, first of all, if i could move the item so that then i could move the amendment to it. >> do you want to add another amendment. >> i second the motion. >> right. >> but what i would like to do is move the basic on the ago agenda so that i could move the amendment which will make all of the other changes. >> we will have to make two amendments. >> we can make one that will incorporate all of that. >> that is how you want to proceed? >> right. >> that is basically i will advice the counsel the way to make it happen. >> we will get the public comment once we get the item. >> second, the two motions on the table. >> the motion on the table. >> and i would like to move an amendment >> all right. >> to the resolve clause. >> all right. >> so that it all of it reads the same, that this commission her by authorizes them to execute a memo of understanding between the sfpdc and the san francisco rec and parks commission regarding management of the merced t

ritchie mentioned the use for this year is 224 mgd and wouldn't it be great if we could keep it at that level? but you are facing reality and it's a population growth. the bay area is required to create more jobs and more housing and just something to think about, the global population, expected to reach 9 billion. >> we have until that year to leave the planet. >> increasing to 9 billion and so i would love to see some leadership talking about population and the demand side. >> we won't include the vatican in that discussion. [ laughter ] >> let me take it in a slightly different direction. and thank you for your comments; which makes we want to say that we think about san francisco's water demand as kind of capped over time. at least that is an allusion we have worked under and fact that infill is important and everything that we do in san francisco for development is basically infill that generated additional water demand and we'll deal with some of that, i guess at our next meeting. so i don't think we have complacent on that front. i want to make a request of staff and that is that

ritchie, if you can get me those answers later, that would be great. welcome. >> >> good afternoon. art jensen with [pwa-ufrpbgs/]. >> and here we thought you were retiring. >> pardon me? >> and we thought you were retiring. >> not yet. >> good. what do you mean "good? [ laughter ] >> okay. sorry, i couldn't resist that. >> for the sake of the decisions that our bode will are have to make we're adding the word "with certainty." businessstitions or policy decisions that the board is going to be forced to make investments of public money and they want to make those decisions with some certainty and that doesn't mean all certainty and doesn't mean we'll be able to predict hide rawling, but it means what you or anyone else would reasonably thin as i said to our board policy commit, i never got to quote linc, but the one i like, the best way to predict your future is to create it and we're in the process of create our future. second, it's certainly one of the least expensive supplies available to us, but no [s-erbt/] it will be there. in 2008 when the planning commission certified the pe

patty ritchie with target. discuss the trauma becoming the wyoming race? sorry? >> yeah. i think i'm going to stop answering questions from this right over here. you know, there are a lot of why incumbents draw challenges. sometimes somebody is old and touch with the state. sometimes they've gotten either liberal rvative or too or too moderate in i'd logically their state.ith sometimes they might have that.als, something like i can't really find any of those enzi.mike and it would be uncharitable to this is just about personal ambition. to be mind is open persuaded that that's not the case. sometimes silence is golden, you know? who's next? i guess over here is next. charlie richard hall from amway. i had the pressure to go back to day. port the other >> uh-oh. >> i tried to engage everyone i landrieu about mary and no one wanted to talk politics at all. thosere you hearing about races down there? >> part of the issue. he reference to the hometown, by the way. is that he problem shreveport about what it is. not known particularly in shreveport. all.race isn't engaged at s

ritchie >> general manager for water, this is an issue that was before the commission before and we also had as you recall a workshop in march out at lake merced to talk about the issues related to the lake and this item is as important to move forward now and really established the structure of the relationship between the puc and the recreation and parks department and relative to the mutual responsibilities out there but again, clarifies that the puc is ultimately responsible for the land out there as the owner of the property. and we made one minor change from last month, or last, july 9th we had to continue the item and added the clause that to clarified that in effect as almost a land relationship that you are sure that that rec and park would not allow the conditions to exist out there and that would be in part to make sure that we don't end up with a case of pollution or something that again the pec would have been ultimately have been responsible for and we do have a couple of additional proposed changes to the mlu. one of those is to item b, which basically was say that the com

medicine, school of medicine and public health, university of wisconsin, madison, wisconsin; gail ritchie, public health analyst, center for mental health services, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. pierluigi mancini, ceo, clinic for education, treatment, prevention, and addiction, inc., norcross, georgia. pierluigi, between 2002 and 2011, the total number of adolescents that received prevention messages through the media went from 83.2 percent in 2002 and 75.1 percent on 2011. are we reaching enough young people with prevention messages? well, i think the question is how are we trying to reach the youth with prevention messages? i think that the development of technology today has given us an opportunity that we haven't quite caught up with. traditionally, we have public service announcements, we have school activities, but today, we have facebook. we have texting. we have an ability to find new ways that we haven't quite exploded yet. so, the media we have to look at from a broader perspectiv

>> isam danny ritchie, a college student. as far as i know, there is still pending redistricting cases. currently the maps are pretty non-competitive but if one of them were to get overturned, would you expect that has an effect on the race for the house? i wish i had david wasserman here to throw a lifeline to. know.of all, i do not i do not know which way it would go. i think i remember david saying there are only a couple of places it would likely change, so i do not really know, but in the big scheme of things, there is a 17 seat difference. is not going to be materially changed much by court's overturning maps in florida or anywhere else. so i would say it would not likely have a significant national impact in doubt if it would have that much more than a seat or to either. started my newsletter in 1984 when they i realize very quickly is i am not a lawyer. i am very careful on redistricting and all kinds of lawsuits, that that is not where my area of expertise goes, so i tried to stay in my lane. i do not think it would

that ritchie wrote a book called "arrested justice."need to get the anti- violence and anti-sexual violence to get to know what stand your ground mean when you say i am human. we know that this will have to have justice and we will be able to see marissa. this is out of control because of the decades of the prison crisis and because of this thing called slavery by another name. it is intentional disregard of the law. >> thank you for being with us. the founder of the new jim crow movement in jacksonville, florida. she has met with marissa alexander in jail. the group will be in sanford barack. seema iyer, thank you for being here. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the clo

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. >> benjamin ritchie was in for a pretty horrendous crime. he's on death row.eath row is a very dark, depressing place. but when he started playing with his cat, cletus, there's some kind of bonding. there's a display of affection that you would never normally see in a prison environment. >> you wouldn't believe what a cat would do. i'm not a cat person to begin with, but i got me one and, you know, i like the little fellow. >> it's interesting to see this change in these hard core, tough inmates whenever they're around their own cats particularly. they just become so much more softened by having this connection with an animal. >> he's my buddy. when times are hard, you know, he can snuggle up to you. >> here there's a safe place for these guys to kind of mellow out, have something to love, and embrace something a little bit different than the darkness and pain they're usually surrounded by. >> there's a code of sorts with these cats. you do not mess with somebody else's cat. you don't hurt them. you don't look sideways at them. heaven forbid you spit at one of

so i want to bring in now nick ritchie who is here. he runs a website that broke the latest chapter in the anthony weiner trouble and scandal. he is from the dirty.com. i'm sure a lot of people didn't know about the dirty.com but they know about it now. so, nick, thanks for joining us. tell me how the dirty got these latest anthony weiner pictures and messages. >> well, don, how it works with the dirty is people can submit content kind of like an e-mail upload similar to youtube and i get submissions and tips i guess from all over the world from individual people and this girl sidney leathers reached out to me saying, hey. i have this information. can i send it to you and see if you can do anything with it. it happened to be anthony weiner basically lying about his whole situation. and telling her that he is running for mayor and telling her to hard delete all the conversations and it was pretty amazing when i got it. >> so she reached out to you, correct? >> yeah. >> here's the thing. i see your site showing pictures of anthony weiner

. >> i am danny ritchie, a college student. as far as i know, there is still pending redistricting cases. currently the maps are pretty non-competitive but if one of them were to get overturned, would you expect that has an effect on the race for the house? >> i wish i had david wasserman here to throw a lifeline to. first of all, i do not know. i do not know which way it would go. i think i remember david saying there are only a couple of places it would likely change, so i do not really know, but in the big scheme of things, there is a 17 seat difference. that is not going to be materially changed much by court's overturning maps in florida or anywhere else. so i would say it would not likely have a significant national impact in doubt if it would have that much more than a seat or two either. when i started my newsletter in 1984 when they i realize very quickly is i am not a lawyer. i am very careful on redistricting and all kinds of lawsuits, that that is not where my area of expertise goes, so i tried to stay in my lane. i

we have an accident on route 2, ritchie highway at east ordinance road.the area. two right lanes blocked. two left lanes are open. watch for traffic lights on 32 at 70. speeds slow on the west side of the beltway and slow on the top side. 95 full speed at white marsh. don't miss game day the navy way this fall in annapolis. get the 2013 navy season tickets by calling 1-800-u.s. 4- navy. don, back to you. >>> more than 40 people shot in the city since the start of the summer hasty leaders hitting the streets speaking out against the bloodshed and trying to stop it. mike schuh has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, don, good morning, everyone. a nighttime walk through a violent part of the city. the may i don't remember and city -- the mayor and city state's attorney walked west. those who do come forward need to be protected. police have double patrols in problem areas. the commander of the western district says crime spiked because of gangs and turf battles. i'm mike schuh. >>> did you get stuck in the last night's rush hour traffic? a tanker truck ca

you want to stake with ritchie highway or 97: we were the first to tell you about the crash on twitter a crash at pratt street. traffic slow on ate south. 25 miles per hour at the beltway. here's a live look at the beltway. going to take 20 minutes on the outer loop from 95 to 83. the west side also going to be jammed from 795 to 95. that stretch will take 23 minutes that. your traffic. here's meteorologist lynette charles with a look at your forecast. >>> thanks. this is what's going on right now on maryland's most powerful radar. we see a little shower popping up around sykesville and you can see this around woodbine, and lisbon. if you're heading towards montgomery county there's a shower there as well. these showers will continue to pop up through the morning, but will be more likely as we go into the afternoon as well. possibly with thunderstorms. a few clouds out there but also some sunshine mixing in. that's going to be the scenario as we go throughout the day. in terms of temperatures we'll come in around 87 degrees for a high. >>> we are back in half an hour with more news, we

julia probably had the time of her life on this world tour ritchie devotes almost a third of her memoirs to it. she developed a friendship with queen victoria and a very good friendship with the emperor of japan and ended up staying in japan longer than they had expected because they develop such a nice, close relationship with him. after president grant passed away, julia was living in new york and the emperor of japan came to visit julia while she was there. they still kept that friendship and had it for the rest of her life trade this was always a place where the children's family could come back to and this was always considered home and was always welcoming. of galena and refers to her dear, dear galena. >> lucy hayes was known for her kindness and compassion, not only to her family but the many other lives she touched. lex she and her husband had eight children. five of them lived to adulthood area we know from letters that this was their gathering space. ,ot only is this their bedroom but this is where they spent a lot of family time together. this room is important to lucy as a m

-- " the troopers have a right to know what they are being asked to fight and die for." " see don ritchie writing, manning is guilty of espionaging to the public." david is up next from st. joseph's, missouri, republican line. thatr: i want to say manning and all the people who support him are traitors. the left has always hated this country. they will do anything to get us killed and ruin our missions on protecting this country. continue toeople deny it is terrorists that destroyed the twin towers. in fact, they celebrate it. many people -- they say that the people who died in the terrorist attacks deserved it. host: who said that? caller: the people that support this punk, ok? host: david, why are you so angry about this? have served my i country and i had friends who served their country and went to they have people like this manning edit what is going on so they can portray them as matures. -- as butchers. sun,"in "the baltimore the case unfolding in maryland at fort meade, they write, "a balanced verdict." the law noinst matter his motivations, but it did not amount to aiding the ene

don ritchie via twitter writes -- to facebook -- a viewer writes -- mike is on the line from west virginiaow. hello. great program today. -- iady that was just on do not think the people in the united states, i did not think the unions, i do not think the people in government had ever thought that other countries would have the capability of and losing them here. high, thees went so unions had a great effect upon our economy, both very positive and somewhat negative. i think that is one of the reasons. also been from west virginia, when we look at our economy here and we look at what the epa has and to our coal industry our natural resources industry, it certainly make us feel defeatist. one more point i will make and then i will jump off here, is -- thee pro-government federal government has completely tried to control the education of students in the united states. know from the educational standpoint, the teachers and administrators are very frustrated. it is certainly in that segment of our population that has given us a defeatist attitude. they are catering to the upper 60% of the kid

. >> danny ritchie, a college student. my question is, as far as i no there is no pending redistricting cases in florida and texas making a way to the court system. currently the maps are pretty not competitive, but if one was to get an overturned, particularly in florida, would you suspect that has any effect on the race for the house? >> i wish i had david wasserman, our house editor here to throw the lifeline to. i am not sure -- first of all, i don't know. i don't know -- i don't know which way it would go. i think i remember david saying that there were a couple of places that it would like to change. and so i don't really know. in the big scheme of things they're is a 17 seat difference. and, you know, that is not pulling to be materially changed much buying court's overturning florida vertexes or anywhere else. so i would say what we will not likely have a significant national impact and i doubt if it would have that much more than a cedar to either. when i started my newsletter in 19841 of the things i realize is a