i'm roosevelt leftwich. >> we're tracking scattered storms. what about the rest of your evening into the day tomorrow. we got the details coming up. >> soy and wheat are gluten based products. >> food allergies. how do you know if your child has one and how to make the symptoms go away. >>> we begin with breaking news from weldon park right off of 41st street. it has led to a police officer firing his gun. cheryl conner tells us this did not end well. >> reporter: it has been. neighbors are standing outside of their home which is blocked off by crime scene tape trying to figure out what's going on. we're getting some of those details. the baltimore spokesman said a family argument brought them to weldon place north. that was late this afternoon. the first officer started to struggle apparently with the man inside. he called out a signal 13. that means he needs backup. another officer saw the two fighting on the ground with a weapon nearby so he fired his handgun. >> there was a, what we believe a knife like object in the vicinity. the officer

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i'm roosevelt leftwich, that story is coming up. >>> what a beautiful day, we hit the 80s. the humidity is coming back. we have a full look at the forecast coming up. >>> top story this evening, baltimore city's fire chief will get a waive and contract extension. this has drawn sharp criticism from firefighters and union leaders. christian schaffer is in downtown baltimore where the reaction was less than receptive. >> reporter: chief james clack of the fire department makes $161,000 already, today the board of estimates extended the contract through the year 2018 with raises of $3000 each year at the end of the contract, for the making, $190,000 a year. this is drawn fire of course because of all the talk of the past several weeks and months over the closure of three fire companies in baltimore city, truck 15, east baltimore, truck 10 west baltimore, squad 11 southeast baltimore. the heads of both of the union that represent firefighters and fire office testified here against the raise saying the members haven't gotten raises and the chief shouldn't either. the firefighter

roosevelt leftwich joins us with more. >> reporter: you're looking at the beginning of what will be three weeks of work. some of the crews are in place getting ready to do some work to repair that main. not just that main. they will dig up 700 feet of street from baltimore all the way down to lombard street as they replace not only the main that broke but deeing up a 10-inch main that's almost just as old. what they've been doing today is prepping everything. they've been going and installing a temporary water line that's above ground. you see this pipe going down president street on the west side. that's to get water to the businesses and the buildings on the west side of the stleet haven't had water all day. there's a royal farm there is, a restaurant there. there's a 7/11. they've been closed all day. they managed to get water back into the bank of america building. part of the issue is when they open up the street they gift other utility as chance to get in and do some work. there's bge crews out their utilities seeing if they need to do work. ltz, the big issue for the next three wee

roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >> if we see mother nature shopping, we'll give her a piece of our mind. >>> the heat waves and drought conditions are driving food price up, but electric bills are rising because we have to cool down. on the plus side a warmer spring in new england has sent lots of prices plummeting. the lawn care bill should be down because less rain means less growth for our grass. >>> we got some new warnings, we see warnings, and that's up until 6:45. we have this one lone flash flood warning but roads fanning out. a tremendous amount of lightning still over the same spot at 5:30. this storm is moving slowly toward the east at 15 miles an hour. let's take you closer. from chester river to queens town this is where we have the special marine warning. this storm is move sog slowly and it's producing a recommend men dust cloud to ground lightning. we've seen 1500 bolts per 15 minutes. that's tremendous. you're seeing a tremendous amount of rain. the good news, this has pushed away from parts of annapolis, seeing a couple of scattered showers. it's quite the lightning sh

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roosevelt leftwich has the latest. rosie, what do you have? >> reporter: it's still a mess. this is probably some of the first work you're going to start seeing on this whole. they dumped a load of back fill and put some in the hole to help shore up the street. when that water started coming through here it basically under mind the street as well. one thing you'll see, too, you'll see this length of pipe. that's in an effort to get water to some of the areas that zoo have water. once again, let's go back to the hole. eight feet across by seven feet deep. it undermines the street from redwood street to lumbar but everything to lombard is closed down. they've been trying to get water to the west side. the east side of light street that's where the business where the duncan don't nuts are, they have water. they weren't able to get water to the bank of america. now one of the things there was a news conference a little less than an hour ago. it's going to be a long one. it's going to take three weeks to repair the road to get this back up to snuff. they will also do proactive wo

roosevelt leftwich with the story that just won't go away -- people without power. rosie. >> reporter: folks on lake avenue are not happy. six days without power, no ac. you got the tree from the yard here, fell over, broke the poll. it's the same story repeated throughout the country. everybody is miserable. people have come out to talk to us. they want to give us a piece of their mind and bge appeals of their mind. they haven't seen anyone at all. let's put it this way. the misery index is very high. six days without power. it's like watching the same episode of gilligan's island over and over again, and the one you don't like. the same story. however, this time it's in french. these guys are in quebec in the middle of woodlawn trying to restore the power. for the folks they are just glad the crews are in their area. others are just waiting. they are done. complaining doesn't help but it does make you feel better. >> whenever we have major snow storms we always go out. because we always go out we're last served. >> reporter: matt is staying at his elderly brother'

is tied to the battle over table games and will have to wait until the session next movement roosevelt leftwich, abc2news. >>> switching to continuing coverage into violet ripken's abduction. they have been getting a lot of tips. yesterday police released a surveillance picture of the person they believe took vi ripken. we do know where the picture was taken. aberdeen police is asking anyone who recognize the man to call their tip line no a porch collapsed in the city and isn't a pear medic and patient falling through the floor. it happened on east 33. the man is in his commits -- 60s. >> the paramedic stepped out of the house on to the point the patient and the paramedic went straight through the flormt the floor literally collapsed inward down to the basement level. >> crows arrived on -- crews arrived to pull out the patientment the fire department said the home is vacant and the porch collapsed due to warring and age. >>> more than a dozen people in randallstown have to find a new home. management from that complex, along with the american red cross are helping out the people who were force

. >>> i'm roosevelt leftwich. coming up all brand-new at 6, in the wake of the colorado shooting in crofton, abc2 works for you. the five signs someone may be in trouble. >> a warning for mazda drivers. why the car company is recalling more than 200,000 suv's. a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news, she's a fearless resilient fighter who refuses to remain a victim. now she talk about her remarkable journey and celebrates one of the happiest days of her life. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. >>> in tonight's consumer alert, new wireless technology on smartphones could leave you vulnerable to hackers. we have more. >> reporter: if you own a smartphone, rogue app can already steal your private date ta. the guy sitting next to you may be able to do the same thing. can you imagine your pictures, videos and contacts stolen. a

as roosevelt leftwich tells us, there's been no change except it's hotter. >> reporter: i asked you about an hour ago. i said, why would you ben to work on this. here's how you begin? these are the tree cutters. it happened within the past 45 minutes or so. the tree cutters are here. that's when the power crews can come in. peck this mess back up and get power back on. the neighborhood has been without power for six days. after six days know what to do. they don't know whether to become irate. ind would lawn folks were trying to cope with things. trees down, just a lot of problem for folks trying to figure out what to do. the hear has been without power since sunday night at 11. folks here say they've gone beyond complaining to end this. with the power, they just want the power on. with bge giving them answers about why it took so long to do so. >> going to different places, going to different people's houses, sucking up air conditioners. it's terrible. >> we haven't seen truck. we haven't seen anything. i called them on the phone. we're sorry. blah, blah, blah. well, you don't have to sl

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here's roosevelt leftwich with the latest. >> reporter: there are new organize ares in charge this year and they're bringing in new promoters. they said changings at the top will trickle down into the neighborhoods. the roar crowf the crowds, the -- of the crowds and cars could be heard. it left debts and a lot of businesses had their weekends crashed. >> tickets are available starting at 1:00 on our newly extended website. >> reporter: this time the folks or rung the big race say they are paying their bills. early ticket sales are good. in fact, they expect to start working on the track about now. they're also working on make the race more inclusive to the rest of the city and not just the west side. >> people will have the opportunity to come and go through our ticket styles. most don't allow you to leave the venue. in our case we are. we're stopping racing and entertainment at about 7:00. people will have the opportunity to have dinner. they can go out to phelps point. >> reporter: the prob lem with last year's race, once you got away from the street, traffic came to a halt. no one w

roosevelt leftwich has more. >> reporter: for the past 15 years this has seen an average growth of 5% to 10%. this year is no exception, the lottery, even in the stays of inisn't that competition, continues to do well. if it weren't were a -- were a jackpot, this would be the biggest in year. despite the competition from another casino -- >> you have a casino player, a lottery player. there's not a lot of crossover. if if they do, they budget their money and spend a little bit on lottery and a little bit on the casino. one doesn't necessarily take away from the other. >> reporter: he said there were plenty of casino players before. they were just taking their dollars out of state. if there was an impact, he said it would have happened years ago. they are putting back more than $585 million in state cof fers this year. he said with the expansion of gambling coming from new casinos and possibly national harbor, the lottery's role is to make sure it all runs smoothly. >> ultimately something goes on the ballot for voter approval. if it's passed we'll implement. this make sure the backgro

roosevelt leftwich has the latest. >> reporter: this is the first work of what's going to be three weeks of work as they try to reconstruct a good part of light street. take a look you can see they're widening out the hole. this will be some of the first asphalt that you see turned over as they get ready to replace 700 feel the of road and pipe and everything under baltimore street -- under light street from baltimore to lombard to fix the leak and do an awful lot of other stuff. it doesn't do it justice. it's like an e rption of water. -- eruption of water. what's under the street has been washed away. that means three weeks of work to make it right. >> a contractor will basically dig up this entire street and replace those 20-inch water mains and that 10-inch water main which is parallel to it from -- i think it's from baltimore all the way down to lombard. once we replace those mains, we'll come back and close up the street, repave it and should be good to go. >> reporter: by taking a holistic aproarchtion the city hopes to avoid major problems. three weeks of work means a lot of prob

roosevelt leftwich, c-abc2 news >>> there is welcome rain, it's also helping to break some of the heatwe had today but it is packing some pretty dangerous lightning too. be careful with this. outside, north central from timonium, cockeysville to hunt valley, reaching to the north side of the beltway, storm here, downpour could be tough to see for you out there driving and commuting. don't forget this, at the beach they are getting walloped too. we're watching a secondary line of storms, a more impressive line, northwest of hagerstown. perhaps holding together and arriving overnight, will mean -- or later this evening, could lose strengths but keep the rain. could be a -- could be much- needed rain soaking in the ground overnight. we were able to capture some of this active weather this afternoon on our hd cameras. huge downpour here, massive storm over the beach, you don't want to be in this. wet weather in ocean city and the eastern shore is one of the driest parts of the state of maryland now. in harford county we could use the rain and we're getting it. downtown, bel air, wet roads,

i'm roosevelt leftwich.xplain coming up. >> how do you tell a story about a family who is hurt so much. their 3-year-old was found at the bottom of the pool. all we can do is offer our sympathies. we have four more who have died bring the total

i'm roosevelt leftwich.g up, we'll tell you why they say that's a good thing. >>> a massive blackout leaves thousands of folks without power. >> find out about the new marketing trends involving your smartphone and product packaging you should expect to see a more of in the future. @

roosevelt leftwich joins us with what made this young man so special. >> known as one heck of a swimmer all around nice guy. alex's friends knew him as someone they could depend on and miss terribly. it's sad when a young person dies. the loss of alex for folks is a loss

hello, i'm roosevelt leftwich, coming up, a better pick chew picture as police arrived on the scene of colorado. hear what police are saying. new information about the victims injured and killed in the shooting. those stories and more at 6:00. now a preview of what say head on world news at 6:30. >>> a new trick is on the rise. karen tells us what to look for and how to avoid getting snagged. >> reporter: most of us avoid clicking on links and shady looking emails, fishing attempts to gather personal information or install malware. another trick growing in popularity, one that web users may not think about. searching for news on a hot topic like celebrity gossip, a new gadget or a major world event or something as mundane as a recipe, be careful where you click. that search result could be a tainted link. >> people are aware they should be careful when they are in the email what they click on. the same level needs to be there when you are in a search engine. >> reporter: many companies and entities spend time and money pinpointing how to get their site to the top of a list of search re

. >>> i'm roosevelt leftwich, coming up, brand new at 6:00, lifeguards in one area county will have a new training tool to save lives. all in the memory of a 5-year- old boy who drowned. plus, would you be okay with your insurance company keeping tabs on you. a big brother of car insurance. details so you don't waste your money. those stories and more coming up new at 6:00. a preview of what is ahead on world news at 6:30. coming up, captivated baseball with a strange pitch. 80 miles an hour knuckle ball. the thing we love about the beach can reek havoc on our electronic devices. >> reporter: beach goers slather on sunscreen to stay safe what about protecting your favorite gadget? >> the beach is not a very friendly place for technology. water is obviously an enemy of it and sand can get in to the ports of your devices, they can get in to the seems between things and make them grind as they move. >> reporter: this are a variety of cases for smart phones, ereaders and tablets, consumer reports found a simple plastic bag with a zipper or seal can also provide protection. keep a few thin

roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> check it out. maryland's most powerful doppler radar, a couple of storms up into northeastern maryland. zoom in a little here and you can see the storms flaring up over basically harford county, a little bit into western baltimore county, and all toward carroll county too getting downpours there. most of the state sitting relatively clear now. but not those particular areas in the northeast corner and also ocean city with a pretty big storm at the moment. this is the other story, isn't it? the humidity has come up. air temperatures are actually 10 to 15 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. with the humidity it feels almost as hot. heat index, nothing to play with. 90s the rest of the evening. we'll see temperatures fall to the 80s and 70s overnight but it's still going to be hot tomorrow. still the chance for more storms tomorrow. will we see any change for the weekend? we'll talk about it. >> thank you. >>> it is expected to be the biggest hit of the summer. tonight "the dark knight rises" on

roosevelt leftwich joins with us more on what you would call a street overhaul. >> reporter: this isa picture of light street in better days. the actual break of the 20-inch main happened here where this red van is. there's another thing under the street too. you see the yellow line there? that is a 10-inch line as well. that line is going to be taken up as well. it's almost as old as the 20-inch line. so the city wants to be proactive, take this all the way back to baltimore street. >> reporter: what can you say? it's a big hole in the ground and now has a lot of smaller ones with it. it's just the first steps to rebuild the streetscape, a lot of digging still to do. that 20-inch water line is four feet

i'm roosevelt leftwich.oming up, we'll talk to bge about why it's been taking so long. >> the worst. they looked around and he was gone. a 3-year-old drowned in a backyard pool in brooklyn park. >> if you could grade bge, what grade would you give? >> this heat wave is deadly. we have lost four more people to heat today. it's not going to cool down soon. you need to listen to the weather reports and protect yourself. here's wyatt everh

roosevelt leftwich, abc news, baltimore. >>> in other news this morning, michael jackson's mother hasve family drama. in an abc news exclusive, katherine jackson denied rumors she was being held against her will. speaking from an arizona spa, she said she had been resting and is just fine. jackson turned up after a judge granted temporary custody though of michael's three children to their cousin t.j. in case you are wondering who t.j. is, the son, 34-year-old son of brother tito. >> i'm devastated that while i have been away that my children, my grandchildren have been taken away from me. >> she said the ruling was based on lies. meanwhile her son randy is denying reports that sister janet slapped michael's daughter paris during a pretty heated confrontation earlier this week. >>> in aurora, colorado, the oldest victim of last friday's massacre is the first to be laid to rest. 11 more funerals will follow. while families and friends bid good-bye to the victims, investigators are following disturbing new clues. here is abc's larry jacobs. >> reporter: in denver, wednesday afternoon th