that is the same area stephanie blake represented. the campaign slogan is, we can do better. a former state delegate and current state senator, she wants a new job. the mayor of baltimore. >> with me, we can do better. >> i am making her candidacy official, she went for the jugular, proposing to cut the city's property taxes in half. she will pay by giving incentives to city college and university graduates to live and work in baltimore and phil attacks avoid. >> we will create the kind getting people to live in our series. >> the mayor who is trying to keep her job reacted to the plan monday. >> i have not taken a look at the plan. if it is too good to be true, it is. i have a plan that will put us on a tax structure with less dependence on property-tax as. >> neighborhood improvements will be a big issue. pew>> i want to build our citie. >> she has the big-name endorsements and a big lead. she is a distant second with a quarter million dollars. >> we will have what we need to win this campaign. >> the official fundraiser is a dinner. she is the fifth person to run against s

will run against stephanie rawlings-blake. >> now the tearful apology. the new york congressman admits to sending a lewd picture. tracie potts has more. >> the picture was of me, and i sent it. i am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife and our family. >> new york congressman anthony wiener admits no one hacked his twitter account. he sent a lewd photo of himself to a college student, then panicked and lied when he realized he accidentally posted it publicly. turns out, it wasn't his first time sexting. >> for the past few years, i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook, e-mail, and occasionally on the phone with women i have met online. >> a conservative activist broke the story and has more photos he claims are wiener. nbc has not verified them. >> we only wrote the story after a sitting congressman claimed that his computer system had been invaded by a hack. >> how damaging is this to democrats? >> there is an embarrassment level here that is going to be very hard for him to maintain public tru

the're all running against incumbent stephanie rawlings- blake with platforms to cut taxes. >> i have sat down with the economists and business people. >> depue appears to be the most aggressive. she says she will cut the property-tax rate in half by 2014, in part through incentives for taxpaying residents. another promises a 50% cut over 10 years. he will rely on better efficiency. landers relieve -- believes a 25% to 30% cut is more realistic. he wants to raise the rates on vacant properties. all three have proposed a tax rate that is nearly double of neighboring counties. >> it is too important for conjecture. a much -- like a much more conservative approach comes from the mayor. -- >> a much more conservative approach comes from the mayor. >> we need to be fiscally responsible. the type of dramatic reductions that we're talking about is a intelsat guy and that is not who i am. >> what is your definition -- is a high in that sky and that is not why am. >> what is your definition of responsible tax cuts? >> i will talk about that during the campaign. >> some say these cuts could kil

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baltimore city mayor this afternoon did she fieldjoined a growing of candidates who hope to oust stephanie rawlings-blake. another candidate now vying for the white house -- former pennsylvania senator rick santorum, who confirmed his bid this morning. the big talking point for all candidates is the economy in. >> former pennsylvania senator rick santorum announced this morning not far from the coal mines where his grandfather worked that he is running for president. then he is headed straight to iowa, new hampshire. he joins tim pawlenty, mitt romney, and others who have declared . >> what president palin what to do is cut the federal budget. >> she is talking like a candidate but says she is still 50/50 in deciding whether she will run. >> five months of this new congress, we have not seen a jobs agenda. >> friday's news that only 54,000 jobs were created last month, way below expectations, gives republicans plenty to talk about. the white house calls it a bomb in the road. anyon't make too much of one-month job report because they are highly variable. >> rick santorum already said he would participate

stephanie rawlings blake will try to keep her position. jody landers, council man karl stokes and frank con a way, and on the republican side, vickie. >>> an elderly woman is battling painful injuries tonight, mauled by a pit bull in her neighborhood. her he northerly -- emotional message to the owner. >> remains in a medically induced coma after she was attacked while checking her mailbox. the one-year-old dog lives with henry et a. >> i take full responsibility for what happened to this lady because usually my dog is in the house. >> reporter: is he admits the dog did bite the elderly woman in the face. >> reporter: say after the 6 hour jaw reconstruction surgery she is still in icu. she's hooked up to a breathing machine in a medically induced coma and could be on a feeding tube for 2 or 3 months. >> i feel terrible. i really do. >> reporter: rouser feels so bad she has even written this apology letter to the victim and her family. she had a copy translated in greek. for now the dog is being held. >> the family you might imagine wants t

incumbent mayor stephanie rawlings-blake hasn't frmly announced her candidacy yet. >>> plenty of excitement on i-95 in cecil county today. the famed miracle on the hudson plane is making its way to north carolina. people lined the interstate to see it drive past. it's now parked near perryville for the night. tomorrow it heads down the baltimore beltway to i-70 and then i-68 through west virginia. >>> news from the nation tonight. we start in florida with a judge in the casey anthony murder trial. may have to decide whether to let jurors smell air samples from a car trunk. the air samples will be a groundbreaking move and might make or break the prosecution's case. witnesses came the car smelled of a decomposed human. the prosecution hasn't yet asked to open the canisters. >>> the former head of the international monetary fund back in the new york city courtroom today. >> a group of hotel workers outside the courthouse chanted "sthaim on you" when dominique strauss-kahn arrived in court. he pleaded not guilty to the seven charges attached to the alleged sexual assault case. his lawyers say

jayne miller details the cabinet's plans and how income and net stephanie rawlings blake is responding there is still time for another candidate to file, but the race for city hall is already started. former city planner and otis raleigh, and states under who is makinge corporate tax reduction a centerpiece of her mayoral campaign. >> these things are not just coming out of the sky. >> for years, they have double the texas other neighboring county. -- double the tax rates of their neighboring counties. pue says she will cut the rate by half by 2014. how? she has listed in seven of programs for tax paying residents. roley realize in part on a plan to reduce the cost of city governments for better efficiency landers believes that 25% to 30% cut is more realistic. the mayor says the size of the cuts the opponents are talking about cannot be done. >> the type of dramatic reductions that many are talking about are pie in the sky. that is not who i am. >> what you call a pie in the sky? >> because it is unrealistic and it is not me saying it. the experts have looked at the plant's coming for

she joins several others including incumbent mayor stephanie rawlings-blake who is not formally announcing her candacey yet. >>> rick santorum is ready to run for president. he made the official announcement today in his home state. that kicks off four days of campaigns including stops in iowa and new hampshire. santorum served as republican member of the senate from 1995 to 2000. actually, that was twoaive seven -- 2007. >>> the housing authority of baltimore is taking heat for not paying judgments by people whose kids were hurt by lead paint. >> reporter: the housing authority owes about $12 million in judgments, mostly to people impacked by lead paint as you said. not all of them. tonight at 11:00 we introduce you to lady fighting her own battle. she lived for six years in a public housing unit in southwest baltimore plagued with toxic mold. she filled out work orders, complained to supervisors but never got action. during that time she was in and out of the hospital. when she finally had enough she sued the city and won. but later her judgment was slashed. based on a maryland law many

will joint otis rolley and jody landers in a list of the announced candidates to challenge stephanie rawlings- blake. carl stokes has not officially fired. >> another republican is expected to announce his bid for the white house today. continues to grow as the state of the economy remains the subject of much debate. >> a conservative will enter the race. he is concerned about the state of the economy. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is expected to jump into the race for the white house today. >> i have seven children, and i'm concerned about the future of this country. >> he'll become the latest gop candidate to announce, as the economy shapes up to be the hot-button issue for 2012. >> barack obama has failed america. when he took office, the economy was in recession, and he made it worse. >> the latest jobs report was a dismal one. >> i have been really worried and really stressed out. >> with unemployment now up to 9.1%. >> i've been looking for a job now for maybe about six to eight months. >> consumer spending is down, as food and gas prices remain high. still, president obama insists

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mayor stephanie rawlings-blake is also planning on running. we'll have more at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> public works crews are cleaning up thousands of dead fish they may have been processed and dumped. the small fish are drawing other fish to the shore. >>> nothing annoying about the weather today. it's dry and sunny with a bit of a breeze. just gorgeous. we have weather and traffic together. bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers. >>> hello, today is the calm day before the heat moves in our direction. there's nothing going on in our area. even when we open this up you can see there's nothing here. tomorrow, we'll get a front coming in. we'll show you, there's really warmer air introducing once again. we'll show you the temperatures going back up to where they were last week. the humidity is creeping up and so are the dew points. we'll have the forecast coming up. >>> thank you, bernadette. the grand prix is a few months away. it's causing havoc downtown. drivers aren't the only ones affected. gigi barnett has more. >> reporter: for the