the list. trucks and vans, even a bobcat, all owned by baltimore's housing authority and about to be tagged by the city's sheriff. >> whatever we get, we get. >> evan goldman is a lawyer retained to collect from the housing authority more than $2 million. the money was awarded in judgments to two people who claimed they were lead-poisoned when they lived in the authority's public housing as children. the housing commissioner and the mayor insist that the city cannot afford to pay the judgments without affecting services to the city's public housing residents. but like any other debtor who refuses to pay their bills, their property can be taken. >> once we get the list, we're going to deal with an auctioneer and auction the vehicles off. it's going to be a public auction, advertised in the paper. anyone can go there and bid on a non-federal vehicle, and all the funds are going to be used to pay the judgment. >> the sheriff is also working on tagging hundreds of the authority's computers. they are also being taken to help pay the judgments. the city spent a lot of money fighting the cases in legal fees and

it is assigned to the director, the housing authorities construction division. >> this is his vehicle. >> in the lexington terrace high-rise where they live with demolished by the city1996. an internal housing memo suggests that the housing authority was well aware it might have a lead problem. they instructed staff to check for cracking paint to make sure that the lead paint is painted over. >> the liability is enormous, but the housing authority is taking the position of sticking their head in the sand like the ostrich. the brain damage that all of these children have won't go away. >> our request for an interview with the mayor was refused. they said it involves a complex and ongoing litigation. they are declining to comment on the continuing efforts to resolve the matter. >> i want to be a nurse, but i can't because i have the fourth grade reading level and it is hard. >> involved in the long term resolution in unpaid judgment. that is one of 34 take-home vehicles used by city housing officials. the >> the air association will move ahead with the full competition even after a tragic air crash. the plans to work with the national transportation safety board to en

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days after officials moved to seize two dozen vehicles from the baltimore city housing authority, mayor rawlings-blake is not responding sort of. they tagged 20 vehicles that would be auctioned off. at a public appearance today, the mayor offered little on whether her administration will try to stop the auction. >> this is an ongoing, a very complex litigation, cases that we inherited, and i really cannot see much more than that. >> the mayor says she is working to resolve the matter but did not provide details. well, the road to the super bowl in indianapolis is clear now after wild-card weekend. gerry sandusky joins us live with all the ravens are gearing up for their playoff run. >> the ravens have a lot going for them -- home field advantage and history. they have never lost to houston. i do not confuse that with overconfidence. the texans lopsided win over the bengals has everyone's full attention. yatesvens haven't faced before. yates started the last five games of the regular season. he looked polished in the win over the bengals. the ravens will test the rookie's portis on sunda

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from them in the internal document that shows why the housing authority is still worried about how big the liability might be. >> it was anything but the usual start to the day at the cityousing authority is mansard. city sheriffs were on site to attack as many as 20 vehicles the authority own spirited it is the first up to auctioning off the vehicles, perhaps within a month. the proceeds will be used to pay the judgment to bring me and her brother. -- to britney and her brother. both suffer from the telltale develop mental disabilities caused by lead poisoning. >> i cannot keep a jo

the court found the city failed to do anything about lead paint in housing projects during the early 1990's. >> the viability is enormous, but the housing authority is taking the position of sticking their head in the sand like an ostrich. but the fine will not go away. the brain damage all these children have will not go away. >> the auction could be earlier -- could be early next month. adam meister and frank conaway are sticking to their stories. they began arguing last month. the confrontation eventually became physical. both men say they're glad the proceedings are now over. >> i am not surprised. i did not to anything wrong, so i am pleased the circus is over, i guess, and we can move on. >> i was relieved, of course. at the same time, and was very angry because of the kind of coverage on this story because some of it was wrong. >> legal documents show that at some point adam meister tried to kick frank conaway, and frank conaway displayed a handgun. >> the news in the weather has been about temperatures. we did hit a low spot in the last couple of days. this red line indicates the normal high of this time of year, around 42. we have bottom

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. >> the mayor's response to the move to seize nearly two dozen vehicles from the city housing authority. >> we're seeing some fog. the sunshine will return. >> fog evident as across the bay bridge. we have on >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. ill bit of snow at my house yesterday. >> 70 and sunday at mine -- a little bit of snow. >> people were excited to see the snow. very common this time of year. we should not be talking about rain in the forecast. to date is a different flavor. we're starting off with some fog -- today is a different flavor. we're moving into the low 50's this afternoon. it will be a beautiful day. then temperatures and the precipitation will be all over the place this week. >> could news as far as your morning commute. one problem in the city. if you travel into overland avenue, there is an accident being cleared. 66 on the northeast corner as you make your approach to bel air in the outer loop. 52

a recent indictment includes four people to steal $1.4 million from the city housing authority. they said they set up a phony company and was true money from the account. the accused are from prince george's county and from washington, d.c. >> gregg bernstein says he will back legislation to reduce penalties for those convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. the top prosecutor considers 14 grams a small amount and the city wants to change it to a maximum of 90 days. >> we are looking at the statistics and few people if any are incarcerated for possession of these small amounts of marijuana and to keep us more in line of jurisdictions of other states and we think a maximum sentence would be more appropriate. >> they say better late than never. a veteran has been honored for his service. >> i want to say thank you for your outstanding service and welcome home. >> michael lewis was given five service medals that were long overdue. he barely had any words describe the joy he was feeling. he served in the navy from 1959 to 1979. more than 30 years later, he is getting recog

the baltimore city housing authority may be off the hook. court overturned a verdict. >> what does the tax change do? we will of the details coming up. >> fireworks at the republican debate last night. >> sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. we have some construction wrapping up on the west side. we [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. have people friday. -- b. purple friday -- happy purple friday. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thank you for joining us this morning. >> this could be a touch of a problem tomorrow morning. the weather will be fine today. the weather will be fine today.

the airport. 33 greece. >> coming up to nine alaniz at 6:00 p.m., days after officials moved to slu levels of glucose from baltimore city housing authorityr stephany -- move to seize dozens of vehicles from the baltimore city housing authority, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake speaks out. and we're live in east baltimore with out 40's are speaking -- reaching out -- h >> city officials are taking steps to cut down on violence in baltimore youth. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announced collaboration's that have significantly reduced violence among the youth of the city. among those efforts, the prevention program where law enforcement officials work with schools to prevent crime. the numbers, they say, speak for themselves. >> it is hard to imagine and in 1999, there were 168 children shocked in baltimore city -- shot in baltimore city. by comparison, this year, there were 28. >> they're working to build on that success, making progress by providing opportunities for young people and intervening in what could become a cycle of crime >> and now, your 11 insta- weather plus forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> light snow and

the city is reported in northwest baltimore along edgewood road. police have said an adult male was shot at this location. stay tuned to wbaltv.com for updates. >> the housing authority of baltimore city is on the wrong end of an extraordinary legal matter. jennifer franciotti is live at city hall with more on what will be done to make the city pay up. >> the housing authority says they cannot afford to pay these judgments and they stand to lose a great deal of property to pay for these judgments. there are 21 vehicles on the list. even a bobcat, all owned by the baltimore housing authority. evan goldman is a lawyer retained to collect more than $2 million. the money was awarded to two people who claimed they were led poisoned. the house a commissioner and the mayor insist that the city cannot afford to pay the judgments without affecting the city. but like any other debtor, their property can be taken. >> once we get the list, we're going to deal with an auctioneer and auction the vehicles off. it's going to be a public auction, advertised in the paper. anyone can go there and bid on a non-federal vehicle, and all the funds are going to be used to pay the judgment.

trucks, vans, even the bobcats -- all owned by the baltimore housing authority, and about to be taken by the city share. kevin goldman is a lawyer retained to collect from the housing authority, more than $2 million, awarded in judgments to two people who claim they were led poisoned when they lived in the public housing as children. city leaders insist the city cannot afford to pay the judgment without affecting services to the city's public housing residents. but like any other individual who refuses to pay their bills, their property can be taken. >> will auction the vehicles off. it will be a public auction advertised in the paper. anyone can go and bid on the non-federal vehicle and all of the funds will be used to pay the judgment. >> the sheriff is also working on tacking hundreds of the authorities computers, also to be taken to help pay the judgment. the city has spent a lot of money fighting the judgment in legal fees. it is $290,000. tack on 10% interest and the unpaid bill jumps by another $259,000. >> it is amazing that the housing authority continues to fight this and spend more mon

the baltimore city housing authority could lose a lot property in order to pay it unpaid judgments to people who claim they separate lead poisoning his children. -- they suffered lead poisoning as children dread mayor stephanie rawlings-blake insists that the city cannot afford to pay the judgments without affecting services to the city's current public housing residents. lawyers said that like anyone else in debt, if the city refuses to pay bills, its property can be taken. >> once we get the list, we are going to deal with an auction and auction the vehicles off. it is going to be a public option, advertised in the paper. anybody can go and get on a non- federal vehicle. >> 21 trucks and vans, even what bought a -- one bobcat vehicle. residents at the university of maryland college park have put a building on the chopping block. the existing building has not been upgraded since 1991, and it doesn't meet current safety codes, making it unsuitable to live in or for hosting a president's events. the college park foundation plans to build a university house next to the original site usi

. >> hearing on the city's response to the surge in homelessness, and families and for various city agencies, including the her -- human services agency in the housing authority to outline the response to the crisis, including any plans to expand the rental subsidy programs, and he plans to address the loss in federal homeless prevention and rapid re-housing funds, any plans to increase, is prevention efforts, any plans to expedite the filling a vacant san francisco housing authority units, and moving homeless families into them, and ways we can protect households from for closure evictions. supervisor avalos: thank you, madam clerk. i call this hearing just last week, but it is an issue that has been on my mind for a number of months, especially with the advocacy of the coalition on homelessness, and a lot of the families are related to the coalition, and they work with a lot of homeless families. it was first brought to my attention about our crisis in a sheltering in providing housing for families in san francisco probably at the end of september, beginning of october. in fact, while i was out in my extracurricular activities over the past seven months, at

. >>> repoman is threatening the city of baltimore housing authority because they haven't played a multimillion dollars judgment against him. the city says by being forced to pay, it will "threaten agency stability" the authority says it wants to address this in other judgments while -- authorities says it also dealing about 185 other pending cases here. now, earlier this month the sheriff's office started seizing authority vehicles and other equipment to pay the judgment in this case. >>> weather wise it has been one cold blustery day around here. temperatures have not changed all that much tomorrow. take a look, clear skies and still quite a bit of wind out there tonight. wind steady from the west park west 15 gusting over 20. it is one breezy night with wind chill factors look at this feeling like 17 now in baltimore. feeling like 14 in hagerstown. tomorrow a slow climb into the mid maybe upper 30s if we're lucky, at least the winds will begin to die down tomorrow evening we'll talk much more about how things look on game day coming up. >> we have a laundry -- as you come across every day. a

the city pay up. our investigative reporter has the story. >> there are 21 vehicles on the list. trucks, vans, even a bobcat, all owned by baltimore's housing authority and about to be tagged by the city sheriff. a lawyer is set to collect more than $2 million. the money was awarded in judgment to people who claim they were led poisoned wine -- when they lived in the housing as children. the mayor insists the city cannot afford to pay the judgment without affecting services to public housing residents. like any other who refuses to pay their bills, their property can be taken. >> once we get the list, we will deal with an auctioneer and optionee vehicles off. it will be a public option advertised in the paper. anyone can go and bid on a vehicle and all of the funds will be used to pay the judgment. >> the schurick is working on tagging hundreds of the authorities computers. they are to be taken to help pay the judgment. the city spend a lot of money fighting the cases in the legal fees and interest. in this case, the amount is $2,593,000. with 10% interest, and it jumps by another $259,000. >> it is hard to believe that the housing authority has cont

my firm became the largest landlord of section 8 tenants in the city and had more units in the berkeley housing authority. this was all done at no cost to the city, and all of those unions stayed on the tax roll. the city got essentially 100 units of below market income rate managed by a private investor at no cost and everything state. this leads to my last and final observation. this arrangement has the great virtue of requiring no money on the part of the city, no commitment of future resources, and no expenditure of staff time. in this age of diminishing resources, this is a valuable aspect, a self perpetuating, self-encouraging feature. thank you. >> is there additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini? commissioner antonini: i have some questions about the legislation. my first question deals with the surface parking lot. maybe i did not follow your comments correctly. it sounded like, on the one hand, you are saying surface parking lots would be grandfathered. on the other side, you are saying that they would be subject to cu approval every five years to

the intersection family-for-family between the shelter process that the city is operating in the waiting list that the housing authority operates. what we're discovering is that many of those families, there is an intersection. they're not always number one. they could be 200, 300. our goal is to try to process families in an expeditious way to get to all of those families. with that, i think there will sit and try to get to the question and answers. supervisor avalos: ok. you know, this past year, i have heard that there has been a lot of families with in the housing authority that actually have been evicted, and i am wondering if we're seeing now some of those families that have lost their housing in the house about 40 are now in our shelter system and coming back into the housing authority buildings. what has happened over the past year in terms of families being marginally house, being released from the housing authority, and what conditions lead to families end up being evicted? >> i would like to talk about those it the context. there are those families that week evict for cause, for some sort of lease a violatio

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the city human services agency will work with the housing authority to give homeless families that arein the shelter system and on public housing waitlists immediately into a vacant housing units. this is already underway as a staffer and human services and about 40 are currently a defined families and will begin processing by today -- are under way as our staff and human- resources to work with those currently defined families and will begin processing today. they are now processing the first 18 homeless families. human services will also find a new rent subsidy voucher and moved in rent for first month rent, furniture for families, and provide post placement supported case management. the long-term goal, i should add, is to increase the incomes of these families in order to place them into permanent come on subsidized housing. human services is committed to using a hundred thousand dollars out of the mayor's homeless fund to matching the contributions from the founder of sales force. i extend the deep gratitude for engaging in such an intractable issue and for putting real resources

the housing authority says this will hurt their operations. >> this is his vehicle. >> he uses it -- >> it is assigned to him? >> does. >> of the lexington terrace high-rise was demolished by the city in 1996. an internal housing memo in 1991 suggest the housing authority was well aware of my have the lead problem -- it mayb have the lead problem. >> liability is enormous. the housing authority have taken the position of sticking its head in the sand. the brain damage that all these children have will not go away. >> our request for an interview with the mayor was refused. a spokesperson issued a statement think this involves complex and ongoing litigation, and as a result, we are declining to comment. >> i wanted to be a nurse. >> but? >> i cannot, because i have a fourth grade to fifth grade reading level, and it is hard. >> an official told us that agency is involved in the resolution -- term of cases involving unpaid judgments. one other note, the jeep you saw in the story is one of 34 take- home vehicles used by the city's housing officials. >> a local video has gone viral. it shows a baltimore city police officer being attacked by a man while trying to wrest another suspect.

authorizing the office of contract administration to altogether noort fourth amendment between the city and xtech in which the amendment shall increase the contract limit from $40 million to $60 million. president chiu: same house same call. this resolution is adopted. >> resolution authorizing the contract of administration to enter into the third amendment between the city and en pointe technology sales in which the amendment shall increase the contract limit from $28.4 million to $38 million. president chiu: same house same call. in this resolution is adopted. item 26. >> resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing to retroactively accept and expend a grant for lead-based paint hazard reduction in the amount of $2.5 million and program income not to exceed $200,000. president chiu: this resolution is adopted. item 27. >> from the budget and finance committee, without recommendation, resolution authorizing the sale of city property at the northeast corner of fulton and gough street to the boys and girls club of san francisco for $2.5 million. subject to a declaration of economic covenence and a project use restriction. supervisor olague: thank you. this was legislation that i believe was sponsored by

the city ... and will that pay the debt-how do you get all the money-housing authority says it will shut them downid-part of the concern of housing authoriiy is if they pay one judgementt .. it's set's aaprecedent and more will come ... 185 cases pending -tell me about your clients and what they deal the lead paint poisoning coming up.. a tiny spark.. is all it took. took.itts not a myth it actually can happen happenthe mistake one woman made... that caused her car to explode while filling up...and it's probably something you do every time you're at the pump t. too. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. for illeggl immigrants. the latest push to fight the law.. on fox 4 nenenenenenenenenenenenenenenene 3 & 3 3 map 175 map 3 a street fight in east baltimore... involvingga baltimore cityypolice officer... is caught on camera. the video shows the officer being attacked in front of a crowd on monument street.megan gilliland is here with the disturbing video. good morning patrice,just about everyone we talked to on monument street... had heard about this video... many f them have een it.it was captured

maintain the housing access and housing obligations that formulate the publication of the redevelopment agency. if the city does not like to do that, this would go to the redevelopment authority. the city does not need an election to become a successor agency. they automatically transferred to the city unless the city determines that they don't want them. that is the context of this legislation. under the proposed legislation, it would transfer housing assets to the mayor's office of housing and the non housing assets, any responsibility for the three major development projects to the director of administrative services. this would be candlestick point, some parts of mission bay and transbay. the city would be responsible to meet the obligations of these forms of redevelopment obligations and the increment financing that would have to sit on to the redevelopment agency and would be transferred to the city to pay for these obligations. under the legislation, the assumption is that there will be remaining property tax revenues to the city for general purposes once the obligations are met and the property taxes have been distributed to all of the taxing industries. at this point

the housing authority is pay a price for its failure to pay on a judgment in a lead paint lawsuits. about 20 city owned vehicle that were tagged. >> the liability is enormous. the housing authority is taking a position that they are sticking their head in the sand like an ostrich. it will not go away. >> vehicles tagged for auction could go on the block as early as this month. >> after examining testimony, frank conaway and adam meister, they have decided to let the bad blood stay a private matter. of a saw adam meister screaming at conaway on liberty avenue. it is alleges the blogger tried to kick conaway. if men say they're ready to put the whole incident behind them. >> i did not do anything wrong. i am pleased that the circus is over and that we can move on. >> i was relieved but i was angry because of the kind of coverage that was on the story and some of it was wrong. >> started when adam meister alleged that his daughter did not live in the home she claimed as her city residents. those allegations may of played a role in her losing her seat. >> you can send a message of support to the balt

relate to light square and the said we only get documents to the chairman of the authorizing committee, the house and senate commerce committees. cities placed a hold on those two. the three commissioners, commissioner copps commesso they can do their work for three. but we are waiting on the other to to get confirmed and we will see when that happens. >> ase at&t in 2011 is just gone, no more? any further d. phillips and in that in 2012? >> i would say we would have to wait until -- i think if the administration the election results and the republican administration i wouldn't be surprised to see them try again because the democrats in the justice department made it clear they don't have concerns about the merger. it would surprise me to see something else. when they filed the merger we think their needs to be for nationwide carriers. so that would under the current administration seem to preclude t-mobile and sprint from merging. people looked before and said we want to buy t-mobile they thought even though they had different technologies. i think if you have a new administration you could see at&t go after t-mobile or perhaps sprin

the judge was a smart judge because he told the bailiff i want you to call the new york city housing authority and have someone bring the records down here. come back from lunch, bring a little piece of paper -- is that all you have? my secretary went in and this is all i could find. anyone in the audience from the housing authority? here comes this guy with a big bundle of papers and he looked at them and said the project received money stipend to spray the trees. the last 15 years they received stipends. the last 15 years. how often have a spray in the last 15 years? 15 years. they wrote that is a spray every year for the past 15 and took that money. so now from johnnie being the full of the neighborhood now switch it over like i am ready to be the hero of the neighborhood. the judge looked at the guy and the mayor looked at the guy from downtown. come with me. they fired him right then in the court. my father looked at me and the judge looked at me and the judge looked at my father and said mr. carlos, you should be really proud of your son. he had more concern for the people and you should

the state house. >> there is talk here on e house side about giving baltimore city the authority to raise the state sales tax by one penny in use the money exclusively for schools. would decide whether to raise the sales tax by a penny. the proceeds would help fund a massive overall a public school buildings. >> we have to think old and creative and the incredibly innovative if we are to tackle this really huge problem and give schools the children deserve. >> everything from broken heating systems are and repair. $2.8 billion is needed to cover the cost. >> as long as people get a choice, and the money does go where it is supposed to go, then i am for it. >> the proposition everything the state sales tax, but only in comes from the board of state. >> there has been a steady stream of dollars that have come -- >> andrew solangez has a headstart. the mayor says she would earmark 23 million in school funding so the school system can float $300 million worth of bonds. that figure includes 10 million generated from increasing the bottle caps, 12 million save by overhauling teacher pensions, and 1.6 and

the job, u.s. sign owe flement, wasn't authored to be working on the house. three days earlier, city officials issued a stop work order because the hillside has not been shored properly. saturday crews were back out at the site working. the city's chief building official says that the project manager was asian and told calosha there was a language barrier. but the official says he's not buying it. >> that was the gentleman working for the contractor. he said he did not understand what that stop work notice means. >> reporter: calosha says it started its investigation on saturday twon hours of the incident. >> if we find there are violations, there will be citations issued. there will be penalties issued. depending on the severity of the violations, they can go up to $70,000 for penalty per violation for those that are willful. >> reporter: we've also learned that the contractor left the country sometime before last wednesday. he wasn't even in the united states when this happened. it will take calosha up to six months to in the and officials could levy heavy fines as recommend that t