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. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> a carbon monoxide leak kills two people and sends 11 othersthe hospital. coming up, how this tragedy could have been prevented. >> a major road shutdown for hours. we'll tell you why next. >> live, local, late-breaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news tonight in h.d. >> two people are dead and 11 others are sick after a carbon monoxide leak in pikesville. good evening. i'm deborah weiner. the cause of the leak is still under investigation. but officials think the poisonous gas may have come from a furnace. 11 people including three police officers and two children are still recovering. 11 news reporter sheldon dutes has more now from pikesville. >> we're still waiting for officials to release the identities of those victims but neighbors in this community tell me that the folks who lived in that home were pleasant and kept to themselves. >> it's very scary. and it's very alarming and it's sad that sometimes it takes this kind of thing for people to understand that it's not costly to go buy a carbon monoxide detector. and those type of things do save l

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