protecting themselves. tonight on fox 45 ne 3 3 3 3 3 3 map will map 3 another key vote happens today in the battle over same sex marriage in maryland.a house pommitte hearing is scheduled for this afternoon.megan giililand is live with more on this next hurdle. good morning patrice,12 members of the house committee are actually co-sponsors of the bill.áávirtuallyáá guaranteeing passage in committee... after that, this heads to the full house... where the vote appears to be evenly split. sppit.this comes after the senatt approved the measure last week... 25 to 21 to give same sex couples full marriage rights here in maryland.they did it after two days of what seemed to be reepectful discussion.but some delagates predict the house will be muuh more volatile.delagate don dwyer, a sttunch opponent of the legislation has already promised to taae off the gloves when talking about gay marriage this week. (dwyer) "i don't care what homosexuals do in the privacy of their own home and in their pwn bedrooms, it's none of my business, don't make it our business."(ramirez) "we should not deny consenting adults the same rights my wife nd i enjoy every day." day." if the house does approve the measure, the governor says he'll sign it into law. maryland would become the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. annapolis lawmakers resume the debate over medical marijuana. marijuana.they're trying to decide hether patients with terminal or chronic illness... should be allowed to use pot... to relieve their pain. several patients who've sed medical marijuana in the past... testified before lawmakers, monday. (considine) "we can't come o this body of lawmakers and say this is why this works, we can't give them the why, we can just give them the anecdotal evidence that it work" works."(sharfstein) "if there is to be access that it's narrowly drawn to particular conditions for which there's evidence that it actually works, not just anyone who thinks they might benefit, that's not aastandard we apply to other drugs." drugs."a similar bill passed the state senate last year... but didn't survive a house committee vote. as maryland ccnsiders legalizing meeical illegal nationwide.starting found in synthetic marijuana are now banned.the drug is sold in drug paraphernalia shops and online.. and is commonly known as spice or k-2. a ban on the drug was proposed after increasing reports of bad reactions to the chemicals.. including seizures, hallucinations and dependency. hundreds of mourners gathered monday... forrthe funeral of a baltimore countyy police detective... who died of lou ehrig's disease.. police precinct detective pete sharman battled criminals... and a difficult diseasethose who knew him say he devoted hhs life to protecting the communityyhis death comes just a week before a planned fundraiser, 'for pete's sake... to raise money for a.l.s.... that event will still take place... in his honor. (jim and sharon andrews)we knew his health wassfailing.. we knew sooner or later he would pass on.. we just didnt expect it this soon" soon"family and friends are vowing to continue his fight to find a cure for lou gehrig's diseese. disease.if you'd like details you can visit our website... . foxbaltimore dot com slash morning. 3&an oklahoma father is arrested... for teaching his kids how to make meth. if you think that's bad... listen to this.turns out the man is a police officer too. authorities say a tip led them to michaee hagaa's home... where they uncovered a meth lab... and evidence that all three sons were elping out. "ride hooses, go fishiig. that's good bonding father-son activities, cooking methamphetamines is really not." pplice say hagar rewarded his sons with meth... and that all three tested positive for drugs in their systems.hagar is now in jail... facing several charges. ... your morning pick me up is more exppnsive han it's been in 14 years.in fact.. some of the most popular coffee bbands have gone up 10- percent in just the last month. the reason for the surge?there have been several low harvests in one of the iggest coffee producing nations in the world... colombia. a reisterstown coffee shop is the latest small business to fail during thh nationwide economic downturn. joel d. smith is live at "java mamma's" this morning to see what went wrong with this seemingly popular cafe'. good morning joel d. d. 3 3 it's national pancake day... and tt celebrate... i-hop is giving away free shortstacks to customers.the restaurant is asking for a little in return, however... a donatton to the children's miracle network... and other ocal charities.last year... the breakfast chain raised more than 2-million dollars.today's oofer runs from 7 to 10 a-m. 3have you checked your email today?turns out thousands of g- mail users lost every email saved in their accounts. accounts.according to goggle... roughly 39-thousand of its 1-hundred-93 million users have been affected by the glitch.the company says it is working to restore the accounts... and hopes normal later today. coming up on the early edition... a baatimoree pieces..it was broken in many peices... there was a human skull that surfaced surfaced one person's fight to bring respect back to a final resting place. place.here's a live look of 70 at 29 in howarddcounty.just a few cars trrveling on the &pcorriddr and there's a lot of room in between cars.i'll show you what you'll find on the beltway cooing up in the traffic edge report. 3q it's a beautiful day inside when you use lysol neutra air fabric mist. it eliminates odors at the source better than febreze, and kills 99.9% of bacteria on soft surfaces. learn more at lysol.com/missionforhealth. ((ad lib meteorologist)) &p 3 ((traffic reporter ad libs)) map will map fiber map providence coming up... dead... and apparently fogotten in one cemeteryyin baltimore... baltimore...it was broken in many peices... there was a human skull that surfaced surfaced the fight to fix it... in sports... the orioles season begins... find out how the birds did in their spring training opener... (((ump out)) 3 a historical gem in the city pf the baltimore. the mount auburn cemeteryy.. is the oldest african american burial ground in town.but after decades of neglect, its some say, to the oint of . - disrespect.in this morning's cover story...melinda roeder taaes a closer look at one person's fight fight for eternal dignity. 17:33:42 natssund of trrin in background/ sunrise shotsin light...(cover) 16:32:30 "every one of these people meant something to someone in their life."this hallowed ground...is a glowing testament... to baltimore's past.(cover) 16:17:44 "it's important to know where yoo came frrm. to know who your family is."a place where family names...16:25:54 "this is a davis. 1958."are also pioneers... for civil riggts. 16:18:31 "there aae a lot of people where that are prominent. the carrolls. the mitchells. they're all here." lu moorman has eight family members here among the dead.... áandá the debris. 16:14:32 "i know what i have at least two in this area. here."but she can only find áoneá of their tombstones. 16:16:52 "it;s just. it's just. a mess. it breaks my heart everytime i come out here."with more than 32 acres of burial sites... there's much to maintain.but over the years.... much has been loss to both nature and time. even markers... have gone missing. 23:17:10 "literally when i found the cemetery and rode through it, i got out and cried."reverend dell hinton is pastor of sharp street methodist church... which has cemetery. she took over six years ago.23:17:14 it was horrible and the weeds were as tall as i am and i'm 5'8". she agrees the burial ground is still in bad shape. and mistakes were made in the past... especially with money. 23:29:48 "people have given money to sharp street... and for whaetever reason those monies were not used in the way that people intended."but she hesitates to point fingers. claiming she has a masterplan to restore everything.... including lost records.23:18:45 "we've got documents on burial that when you touch them, they're just crumbling."there is currently no working map... to mark who or where... souls have beee laid to rest here.23:22:15 "there was a map, to my understanding, decades ago that actually mapped out where the plots were in the cemetery. that we have not been able to locate. something but in the last two years.... some progress has been made. 23:17:34 "now. the weeds are down by my knees. that means weeve cut them down by five feet."using volunteers and inmate labor... some of the weeds have been cut down. 16:25:14 "yeah, this is the good section. this is the good section."while otherr... are still overgrown... leaving loved ones... to wonder why. 16:21:31 "that area is the &pworst maintained right now because it hides a lot of secrets."moorman says she's seen everything here from old, mangled caskets... to human bones that have been unearthed. ---------------incorporate jacobi here.............. carolyn jacobi was so upset by what she saw by herrfather's gravesite... that it prompted her to beccme an advocate for the dead.she founded "eternal dignity." a voice that pushes for proper perpetual care. but herr... she has little power to intervene... because the cemetery is privately owned. -------------------------------- -some ssy it would be best if the city of baltimore... or &pthe state... could takeover the historic site.16:50:22 "if they can't showwresponsibillty then let somebody eese do it. // why hold onto it if you're not gonna maintain it with the respect that it deserves?!"but reverend coming up in our 6 o'clock hour....just how smart, are ásmmrt carsá. carsá."electric vehicles have come a long way. but they still have a long waa toogo before they're ready to replace he average person's primary vehicle." vehicle."find out if going green.. will actually save you some green. green.and.. it's the orioles spring training opener.what their season is expected too look like. ((break 3)) 3 coming up in our 6 step!!a sinkhole disrupted several shoppers from completing thiir shopping was...and the battle over same sex marriage heads to the house.i'mmmegan gilliland how a judiciary committee is expected to vote today. today. [ male announcer ] what if you could combine america's most advanced fiber optic network with america's most loved mobile device? wouldn't that be something? control your tv, manage your dvr remotely and with a flick of a finger, send pictures straight to your flatscreen with the fios app for iphone. to get more from your iphone, wherever you are, you need verizon fios. a network ahead. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v.