wallenda. >> well, vic. nick walinda -- nik wallenda is the 7th ins in his family to do so. he did the entire act in just over seven minutes. >> reporter: it took nick nik wallenda, just over seven minutes to walk the inner harbor. crowds watched in silence, as he put one foot in front of the are the, pausing twice. his walk was a tribute to his great grandfather carl, who in 1973, walked over the inner harbor on a rope between two cranes. at 100 feet above the water, wallenda took a knee just before the happened of the walk. >> i always get comfortable when i am almost done. and i talked to my friend in the basket. and he freaked out and turned pale white. he was like, are you okay? are you okay? and i'm okay. definitely shows that i need to not lose focus. and that's when i lose focus.

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mini cooper. >> nick wallenda will be walking the inner harbor. he begins at 5:15 and we'll be broadcasting is live. will be important because nick will walk in rain. there's a slight chance for a thunderstorm. the cold front has not passed through yet. we're cooler for the end of the week. another chance for storms on sunday. we will be keeping an eye on thunderstorms for nick. >> that will be exciting. thank you. 65 degrees on tv hill. using hockey to show off his skills. more of >> a new king reigns over st. louis. this is the largest chess piece in the world. this set a new guinness world record. this will kickoff the chess championship. >> it is your move. ever let the boss whin? how about if the boss is the leader of a superpower? after seeing an hon tigehim hun, putin had plenty of room to do his maneuvers on the ice. he had a goal in regulation and an assist and a goal in a shootout and he was not checked during the match. >> he was not looking all that manly. >> he is a pretty accomplished guy. >> 65 degrees on tv hill. >> delays on the j

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everyone came to see nik wallenda.ickly took him down the crane, loaded him into a water taxi of sorts, took him back to, i'm assuming his hotel room, or whatever they do to debrief after his tightrope walk. we'll have a look back more at his walk coming up at 6:00. >> we'll bring you more, coming up on eyewitness news as jess mentioned, at 6:00. >>> ladies, if you love to shop, listen up. this week, you can cash in on sales while helping out women in need. monique griego has more on style at the station. >> reporter: sister lynn fram and mindy liken, are finishing up the final details. as their stor gets ready for style at the station. >> it's a way to get out and go shopping. every store here is going to have different events. whether it's a trunk show, or giveaways or special discounts. >> reporter: thursday night, all of the stores on falls road will host various events for girls night out. >> reporter: and this year, not only will women be able to save a lot of money because of the all of the sales, but they'll al

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that's nick wallenda of the flying wallenda flying family, following in the footsteps of his great grandfather. >> he's there! >> just stay with him, can we? >> he did it! big finish! way to go, nick! and. >> he did >>> caps versus rangers. >> this is it, folks. game six tonight. dan's live at the phone booth. go big, or this is it, huh? >> reporter: that's right. we're cooking with gas. this is for real. i guess you can say, you win or stay home if you're the capitals. you're trying to stave off elimination here. the rangers win, they're moving on to the eastern conference finals. this is for all the marbles. carl alwalsner joins me now. it seems like every game has been nip and tuck. >> there's been nerves through every game. everything's been so close, when it does come to being an important time like this, we're kind of prepared for it. and with the last series, having to go to game seven and we're ready for these kind of challenges and it's going to be an exciting game for us. >> it seems like a lot of people have been saying that last lost to the rangers up at the garden, one of the most

nick wallenda, everybody.oing here up there on june 15th. >> well, i'll actually be the first person in the world to walk a tightrope directly across niagara falls from one side to the other. >> now, i'm going to throw stats out here. june 15th, live. this is live. >> it is, it is live. >> live television on abc. >> you' will be walking approximately 1,500 feet crossing where nobody else has attempted to do. i have to ask you why. >> you know what, it actually started as a dream and started walking a wire at 2 years old. at the age of 6 i visited with my parents niagara falls and saying, it would be cool to be the first person in the world to walk a wire directly across niagara falls. so at 6 years old, seven generations and 200 years of my family, it's just in our blood. this is what we do. >> earlier you were in baltimore performing your high-wire stunt. you almost fell. very, very scary. >> it was. it was. >> are you sure you're up for this. >> yeah, i am up for this. i lost focus and it was a great lesson,

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he had a close call, but thesenth generation one of the flying wallendas avoided falling. his next big adventure attempting to cross niagara falls. >>> for a look at national weather, here is bill karins, well aware of my fear of heights. >> no close calls. >> apparently for the wallenda family there are. >> you want offspring, no close calls. got to keep the family genes going. good morning, everyone. rain is exiting up through new england, going to be gone by the time we get to the afternoon hours. definite lay soggy, soggy drive this morning on i-95 through massachusetts and rhode island, maine will be locked in the rain for good majority of the morning. good news from philadelphia down to d.c., most of the rain is over with, the morning commute should be okay. so will be heading out during the day, try to get sunshine in the northeast later this afternoon. other things of interest, down here in texas, the worst drought in the country, in georgia it's bad and west texas. we're going take a big dent out of that with the storm system, just now starting to rain. this will

there were thrills chills and almost a spill has wallenda got near the end. he said i'm almost there but had a little slippage. just to see him do that and their heart goes up into their throat as they see the man almost slip off. first we thought that may be part of the show but when we talked to him after, he said that was in the a piece of showmanship. >> i looked up and was talking to a friend of mine, he turned pale white. are you okay? are you okay? i'm okay. that's what matters. it definitely shows me i can't lose focus. that what happens when i lose focus oar loor losing focus is something he's not going to do on his next trick. that's june 2nd. he will trito walk from the u.s. side of niagara falls to the canadian side. he said this was a little warmup as he gets ready for that big trick which is something even his grant father, great -- grandfarther, great grandfather or even father never attempted. >> did you see him slip? >> reporter: you should have seen the crowd. when he made that slip it was one of those big moves and he said this was no act.

hundreds watch as nick wallenda crosses the water on a tight rope without a net. here is meghan mccorkell with the story. >> he made that walk over the inner harbor, the tight rope just one inch wide and it was the lejts lengths -- lengths of a football field. >> i thought he was going to fall. >> if you make a mistake, you die. >> half way there a waive for the crowd. >> i was like, oh, my god, i hope he don't fall. >> seconds later near tragedy. >> i looked up and was talking to a friend and i looked and he turned pail white. >> after just 7 minutes he makes it to the top. >> i was glad when he was done because i was scared. >> the walk to accept brat the june -- to celebrate the june opening of riply's believe iter not. this was wallenda's final balk before he teams to cross niagra falls. >> here a boat or something could grab him. niagra falls, it's different. >> there is extreme amounts of mist at times. it will be live in prime time, so it will be dark out. i have a lot of things to contend with. >> those challenges inspiring young fans. >> do you think you

wallenda's great grandfather pulled that same stunt 40 years ago.s entertainment organized the event to promote the opening of the new ripley's believe it or not oddties museum in baltimore. >> we've got that going on at the inner harbor, those people hanging from the old post office building. what's going on around here today? >> i don't know, but a lot of suspension, right? suspense, suspension, whatever. >> both! >> "nightly news" coming up next. >> see you at 11:00.

. >>> high wire daredevil nick walling wallenda -- wallenda is practicing in canada.0 foot long cable. last week he walked over the inner harbor here for practice. he will attempt to walk across niagra falls the night of june 15th. we have a baltimore city school advisory. saint ber deans is closed to students because it has no water. the staff is being asked to report. >> do we know how much the bar nick wallenda carries weighs? >> i was surprised at how long it was. it looks heavy. >> he's doing a buy accept bicept curl the entire time. the fact of the fact remains, to hold something like that has to be heavy. >> concentrating on a wider picture. >>> we have got some pretty wet conditions in the area now. we are expecting them through the day. we will have those first warning details come ugh up shortly -- coming up shortly. coming up, it's olympic h -- oh lum -- olympic hurdler lo lo jones. we're take ing a break and -- we're taking a break and coming right back. frsz -- right back. ,,,, roar! alright, what do lions eat? that's all the horses sir. ...and the men? a

this is the seventh generation of the great wallendas also known as the flying wallendas. >> now trafficse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. skyteam 11 looking at eight delay on the west side at liberty as you travel down towards edmondson. those delays falling into place. there is a problem in harford county along singer road, an accident. we are tracking some closures in advance of preakness at rogers avenues at northern parkway until saturday at 9:00 p.m. northbound 95 approaching 32, we have a disabled tractor-trailer that is taking up the right lane. a disabled clearing eastbound old hanover road in westminster. an update on 795. southbound traffic at franklin is building. a delay is starting to form in that area. all of traffic at harford is also building in that area. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> good morning. a beautiful start on this friday morning. you might want to take a light jacket. this is the storm system that may affect the weekend. it is drifting to the north to the carolinas. high pressur

. >> nik wallenda is practicing for the next challenge. where you can catch the act>> thousands in parts of china evacuated for the weekend. the efforts being made to get them help and get everyone out safe. >>> and maryland's most powerful radar is getting active. i will tell you when the real wet weather works its way in across the area coming up. >> reporter: and everything is nice and clear on 895 at o'donnell street. i will let you know if that's the case on 95 and beltway coming up in my abc timesaver traffic report. you are watching "good morning maryland i. can spread around the kitchen. that's why we created the lysol no-touch kitchen system. one solution for sparkling dishes, plus clean surfaces, plus healthy hands. all in a no-touch design. >>> feel living in parts of china are fed up following severe rainstorms. the storms have caused rivers to rise very quickly damaging roads and homes there. rescuers have had to help some people trapped by rising waters. it has been going on since friday and will end sometime today. >>> you w

nik wallenda of the famous flying wallenda family successfully walked a 300 foot long wire about 90 feet above the water. his great-grandfather did a similar walk about 40 years ago. riply's entertainment organized the stunt to promote the opening of the new ripley's believe it or not museum in baltimore. got to go. >>> if that didn't give you the chills, this story might. it's a home grown urban legend of man beast that roams the wood of prince george's county devowering anybody caught out there alone. there's a movie that's now giving new life to that legend. derrick ward tells the tail of the goat man. >>> no one can quite pin down the day the legend started, but by the late '60s and into the '70s, it was thriving. >> experiments took place back in the '50s and '60s. animal genes and human genes created a concoction. >> reporter: one of the places the goat man was said to frequent was the grounds of the old glendale san any tori up wielding an axe and exacting an evil toll for his misfortune upon wild pets, and the occasional prince gorges county resident. he is he was borne out of an

. >> nick wallenda is going to walk 300 feet out into the harbor to a barge that's 100 feet tall. a crane and he will be walking uphill. and it starts at 5:15. everybody is welcome to come down. we will have is a little ceremony here in front of the building at 4:30, announcing details of the museum. it involves a many cooper car covered have one millioncrystals. >> reporter: what else can people see. >> we have a 12-foot tall dinosaur made out of pop tart wrappers. >> reporter: oh. >> and 10-foot diameter penny made out of pennies. and we have of course we have the typical shrunken head and the two headed animals. one thing we have is 11 galleries and we have 120 interactive activities. so it's just not walking around and reading. it's a lot of interaction. this is our biggest museum as far as having interbeing atives. and this is our 32nd believe it or not museum in operation. >> reporter: we are looking forward to it. eye opens june 1st. and in the meantime, come down and see something that will make you say believe it or not yourself. it's going to be an incredible thing and i

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you're the seventh generation member of the wallendas too high wire walk.t is going through your mind? >> i'm very relaxed. this is life to me. >> my stomach is turning. >> i have done this for 31 years. this is normal. this is something we do four or five hours a day. >> you're up on the wire at 2 years old. how long did it take for you to prepare walking over it high height? >> i broke a world record at 19. the sky is the limit. i'm walking across niagara falls. >> you have a petition to let you walk over niagara falls. >> it was banned for over 100 years. we needed a new law. it is part of the process. >> people have a chance to see this on the air. .> i'm starting at 5:15 >> the wire will be starting here and you go out 300 feet. >> i tried to make every walk unique. i decided to go out to a barge in the middle of the water. >> we are so excited for you and we wish you the best of louck. you concede this later today. >> this will be at 5:15. >> there is a chance for thunderstorms. can explore the chances. >> will the what if it is like rain or drizzle?

at sears. ♪ walking on a high wire >> nik wallenda there.in baltimore, but -- oh, keep walking. keep walking. yes! a little slip. and that's why i don't walk on tight ropes. he's planning to walk the tight rope over niagara falls next month, so this is a demonstration in baltimore yesterday. he did make it across safely. welcome back to can be "cbs this morning." >> that's what wallendas do. >> still. my stomach's in knots for him. >>> gayle king joins us near the control room -- in the control room. what's next? >> thank you. i knew exactly what you meant. how are the black and latino communities reacting to president obama voicing his support of same-sex marriage? will it change how they vote in the next election? bill whitaker has that story. creator of "will & grace" is here. he landed at 4:00 this the morning. he said he's tired but he wanted to be here. "will achd grace" just got a shout out from joe biden. we're advancing this conversation. very curious to see what max has to say today. and he's a two-time emmy winner and stars in "th

nik wallenda crossing the inner harbor on a one-inch wire cable. were on the edge of our chairs and gasping. >> it had everybody gasping, including yours truly. i tell you, these guys do not mess around. they are already breaking it down. the wire is down, and they are rolling it up. we had in live, and it was something to see as he walked across the inner harbor. the swap was a little over 300 feet, no problems whatsoever. now, he did at the end of it, i do not know if he slips, or maybe he tricked us. but it worked, because everybody went, "ah!" it was something to say. it is packed with people watching, and not many people were talking at all, just watching him walk the wire. as i mentioned, it was about 300 feet. it was in 1973 when his great grandfather walked across the inner harbor. karl walked a bit furtther, 600 feet, and nik did it differently, walking to a barge. he is back home having a good time. i do not know where he is right now. this is the warm-up for his walk across niagara falls. no one has ever done that before. that is a long

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. >> the great wallenda doesn't disappoint us. he makes the walk across the inner harbor. i'm roosevelt leftwich. we'll show it to you coming up. >>> all right. check this out, maryland's most powerful radar active to the west. we have moderate showers toward the martinsburg, virginia area and more rain to the south. this is what we're really watching, more significant rains coming out of the richmond areas. over several hours the showers will track further north into the baltimore region, so keeping a sharp eye on the rains to the south. for now light to moderate showers. the rest of the evening, cloudy mild. with the showers moving in from the south could mean

nick wallenda of the flying wallenda's family walked a tight rope from the food pavilion.-foot rope 90 feet up. wallin da walked it without a net. no safety devices. he did okay. you see him there. he plans to walk across niagara falls next month. >> the rest of us have a hard time walking a straight line throughout the studio. >> i couldn't do it. >> talented. good balance. >> 5:51 is our time right now. tom kierein is here looking at keep an eye on the forecast. >> it's a lot like forecasting the weather too. is it going to rain? is it going to snow? today we're getting sun back in the wage of the rain and i know they're not in season yet, but that's a peach dawn over the potom potomac. live view from our hd city came camera, and the sun will be rising here in about nine minutes. sunrise this morning is at 6:00. 57 at reagan national and the winds picking up. gusts near 20 miles an hour. you can see the wind-swept potomac river in the foreground and, yes, the rain clear out. we have wet pavement but it's beginning to dry out. we did get about a half inch or more yesterda

member of the flying wallenda family. walking a tight rope of the harbor. announcing the opening of ripley's believe it or not. >> this is an amazing market. so we're here. >> reporter: ripley's auditorium will officially open june 1st. >> and just a few blocks away, here at power plant live, there are several new restaurants, including a tattoo in kettle hill that are unpopular to tourists and locals as well. >> reporter: retailers are paving the way for new stores like j. crew and anthropology. coming across the water in harbor east. >> this is all part of a trend that i hope will continue. >> reporter: with more in store, people are once again excited to visit the inner harbor. >> it's kind of, you know, construction-y right now. but once that's all done, i think it's going to be fantastic. >> reporter: mccormick's world of flavors is set to open in light street pavilion, as well as three brand-new restaurants in harbor east. should be a good time to be down here at the inner harbor. i'm jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitne

. >> nik wallenda went over the baltimore harbor from the new ripley's believe it or not odditorium. >> the good news, everything went smoothly, and that is the good news. right at the end, there was a little slip, and that have everybody go -- including yours truly. it was exciting to see him walk across the inner harbor, a 300- foot walk. his father -- grand -- his great grandfather did the same walk back in 1973. karl, the great grandfather, and nik made the walk today. no problems. a lot of people walking. everybody had their eyes on him as he made the walk about 100 feet high at times. he says after the walk, it was not as easy as it looked. >> the wire was a little more unstable than i am used to, with the fact that i was hooked at a barge. it was moving. i am sure you could see it moving. at the end, i had a split, which is not fun. my heart jumped into my throat, but i was able to recover. there were a couple of points. you saw in the middle, balancing pole went out. i started to get into a rhythm. i was getting in a rhythm, and i started looking down. i started calling it, a

. >>> we knew you were worried about the fate of curt wallenda, grandson of the great flying wallenda. apparently he's done. he's in a basket. it worked out. he's promoting the opening of the ripley's believe it or not museum at baltimore harbor june 1st. >> i guess he is kind of flying, just in biscuit. >> make sure you go, lesli. >>> -- just in a basket. >> make sure you request, lesli. >>> ford is recalling 27,000 wind star minivans from virginia because the rear axles can crack and fail. those vehicles are added to a larger recall of about 600,000 wind stars in the u.s. and kansas dating back to 2010. since -- canada dating back to 2010. since that time the company learned about the same problem in virginia. so ford will either replace or reinforce the axles. >>> ford workers can count on one last week of vacation this summer. the u.s. automaker plans to produce an additional 40,000 cars and trucks at its 13 factories. car manufacturers typically shut down their factories for two weeks in the summer, but the rising demand for vehicles is keeping ford's assembly lines revved up. >>

. >>> in maryland, a member of the flying wallenda family of stunt performers will follow in his great grandfatherer's footsteps by walking on a 300-foot-high-wire 90 feet above baltimore's inner harbor. his great grandfather completed a similar feat in 1973. >>> singer billy joel turns 63. all day long, you can stay on top of the latest developments on those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> finally, a look at what is coming up late this morning on the "today" show, a live report on the manhunt for suspected kidnapper on the run with two young girls. >>> a pageant mom known as the human barbie and her daughter will be live in studio to respond to attacks by critics. >>> now keep on it this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry, thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

he had a close call, but the seventh generation wirewalker, one of the flying wallenda, avoided falling. his next big adventure attempting to cross niagara falls. >> here is bill karins with your weather channel forecast. >> maybe practice over the harbor, do that before the falls. >> warm up. >> exactly. good morning. beautiful weather continues in the west. no issues in sight. we are enjoying gorgeous spring weather finally in many areas. now, it did cool off in the last two days in the northwest. high temperatures were only around 56 in seattle. 60 in portland. the desert areas heating up. yesterday, 95 in phoenix. a pretty good dust storm yesterday, too. tucson and phoenix both reported a dust storm late afternoon yesterday. jet stream took the dip here. instead of being warm, we will call it mild in the afternoon in the northwest. warm air down here to the south. high pressure protecting the northern rockies. beautiful weather from colorado nor northwards. the next system is not expected to cause problems when it comes on shore in the northwest. today possibly near 100 in vegas. th

member of the flying wallenda family. walking a tight rope. >> this is our destination. we found a place here in the harbor to do it. so we're here. >> ripley's auditorium will officially open june 1st. and just a few blocks away, here at power plant live, there are several new restaurants that aren't popular just among tourists, but locals as well. >> reporter: next, a ripley's, retail chains; like h&m are paving the way for new crew and anthropology. coming across the harbor. >> this is all part of the trend i hope will continue. >> reporter: with more in store, people are once again excited to visit the inner harbor. >> it's kind of constructiony right now. but once that is all done, i think it's going to be fantastic. >> reporter: mccormick's world of flavors is also set to open here at light street pavilion, as well as three brand-new restaurants in harbor east. going to get exciting this summer, guys. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you. bubba gump is the first restaurant group based on a movie. and the mayor had s

skyteam 11 hovered over the harbor as nik wallenda walked the wire. his famous great-grandfather -- grandfather completed the same stunt. to see the video and a close call, can go to wbaltv.com. click on video. >> public school students as young as four years old and five years old are being disciplined with out of school suspensions at an astonishing rate. >> this is a growing problem and tackles the question, how young is too young to be suspended from school? >> a steady rainfall through much of the mid atlantic. we will see of the weather hangs around for the weekend. 59 degrees at the airport. 62 downtown. >> did you know that hundreds of 4-year-old and 5-year-old are suspended from school? >> the question is, is that too young to be suspended? we look at the growing social and academic problem. >> he is a big brother. is in kindergarten. >> michele is upset. the 5-year-old has been suspended 12 times since the start of the school year. specialists diagnosed him with adhd and disruptive behavior disorder. >> he has had a lot of to birk tantrums w

. >>> high wire performer nik wallenda has set june 15th as the day to try to cross niagara falls onight rope, the first to attempt it in more than a century. in baltimore wednesday the 33-year-old took a warm-up stroll over the inner harbor, a tribute to his great, great grandfather karl who did it in 1973. near the end he slipped, giving everyone a scare. >> but, you know, hey, i'm okay. so that's what matters. it's a wake-up call. definitely shows me i need not to lose focus. that's what happens when i lose focus. things like that. >> he better not lose focus over the falls, a walk six times longer than in baltimore. >>> and here's one bizarre stunt in southern india. babies were tossed from the roof of a temple down to a sheet held by men below. it's part of an ancient ritual believed to make the babies grow stronger. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," why your commute may be making you unhealthy. i'm danielle nottingham. this is the "cbs morning news." [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allerg

the television sponsor of nick wallenda history make cross across the falls are make him wear a harness. he says he will fight the issueuntil he puts his foot on the wire. abc is airing a 3-hour documentary airing it live as he walks. the harness will attach him to the wire in case he he slips won't fall. >>> around the nation this morning, a man is in trouble accused of punching a kid in movie theater. young kim says boys kept bothering him and his girlfriend as they watched the movie. the kid were running around and hit them in the back of the head. so kim seas he had enough and hopped a few rows over the seats and told the boys to stop talking. when they wouldn't listen, he says that's what set him off. >> i didn't mean to do it, but it happened. >> prosecutors say kim hauled off and hit the 10-year-old in the mouth so hard the tooth was knocked out. police showed up and arrested kim a short time later. >>> a man outside a new york city street passed out in someone's yard and for a number of hours, no one came by to help. people did stop by but didn't call 911. and instead, one man w

nick wallenda is the 7th generation of the family the flying wallendas and he would be the first to walke falls. keeping t khe family business going, that's a fox watch across america. >> harris: a wild black bear taking a trip through a wisconsin neighborhood and people there spotting the beast at about 6:30 in the morning. it was trotting through a suburb south of green bay, no reports of damage, but wild life foushs say if people see him, let him be. they're hoping he'll wander back to the wild on his own. he looks pretty happy. might stick around. dramatic 911 tapes of a girl who came face-to-face with an intruder. >>. >> if that were not enough, police say the same guy could be a suspect in a totally different crime. and the shuttle enterprise moving close tower its new home. a look the at the retired space shuttle as it prepares to the last leg of the trip to intepid air and space museums, it's one of the greatest places to visit in the city that never sleeps. ♪ i'm leaving today ♪ i want to be a part of it, new york, new york ♪ ♪ these vagabond shoes are longing to stray ♪ instead

. >> daredevil nick wallenda is not happy about a decisionconcerning his upcoming walk over niagara falls. we will have his reaction coming up about the tightrope walk. >> temperatures in the upper 70s today. but record heat is on the way. i will tell you how hot we will get in just in time for the weekend coming up. >> reporter: and expect a slow ride on the west side of the beltway. i will show you how 95 and jfx are coming up in my abc2 timesaver traffic report. çñç?ç?çñçwçñçwç?ó?çwçñó?ç?çñó?çw >>> and welcome back. 6:39. a disturbing story out of new york. >> a man in westchester county passed out in someone's yard for several hours and he was robbed repeatedly. you have to see this. it was caught on camera. a man went through his pockets and actually picked him up. and he threw off his shoes to check his socks for cash a woman came by and took his belt. as time wept on, many people simply stepped over the man. others looked around for valuables but no one seemed to stop to help him. >> you can check this video out. an alleged puppy napping on camera. >> oh. >> there it is. a woman an

now nik wallenda gearing up for another stunt and will do something heart stopping.this is video of the daredevil tracking -- practicing for the walk across niagara falls. he will make the walk on june 15th. abc is devoting three hours to this event so we will bring you details about the special as soon as they become available to us. >>> it's common to hear about police officers handing out tickets to people 40 text while -- people who text while driving. >> but a town in new jersey is taking it is step further. hear who they are going after. we will tell you about it when good morning maryland returns. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. >>> you're w

this is tight rope walker nick wallenda. he was on the show yesterday arrange and he was 8 -- morning and he was 82 feet in the air with no net or safety device walking 300 feet -- oh did you see that? across the harbor. >> staged it. >> you see him right there. he almost slips if he doesn't fall though. now this walk was to bring attention to the opening of the rip lee's believe it or not museum. he made it across and the next stop is niagara falls. i believe he's going to be on "good morning america" tomorrow. >> okay, cool. >> were through yesterday? we would love the see the pictures, posterior pictures on the -- post your pictures on the wmar facebook fan page. >> does he ever get nervous? >> he never thinks about falling which is crazy because i'm like i'm going to fall. >> what does the family do in their spare time? >> i don't know. they practice i guess. >>> all right, he was -- he was removed from his mother's care because he weighed more than 200 pounds. >> stay with us because this morning we have a lot of us tal