made off the tax hike. 3 3 today is wednesday, september 14th. 3 maps-fiber-back toomapp 3or first hit please :) with an with an overwhelming lead .. stephanie raalings--lake all but guarantees he'll be elected to a ffll term as payor of baltimore. sse easily beat all of he democratic challengers in last night's primary. with 1000percent of the precints reeorttng .. here are the resulls. results.incumbent mayor stephanie rawlings blake... p>her closest competitor... state senator catherine pugh... 3 pugh... 3 megan giilillnd is live at city halllwith tte ayor's response to last night's &pdemocratic nod. nod.good morning patrice,she's the incumbent mayyr... but this is stephanie rawlings-blake first primary win.a win... hat some predicted months ago. ago.in hhr first campaign for mayor, rawlings-blake brought raised more money than the pntire field combined.in thee end... she won more votes than all of themmcombined too. say to the people of our city, ttank you baltimore, it's almost a little crazy whhn you think what we've been through over the last 19 months, one hurricane, onn earthquake, one tornaao and two blizards, two years of budget defiits, but ww are standing here ttgether so congratulations to all of you and thank you for yourr confidence to be your mayor in these times22:39:32 22:39:32rawling's blake's ttughest challenger toughest rawling's blake's 22:39:32 22:39:32rawling's blake's toughest challengee turned out to be hallenger toughest challlnger turned out to be catherine ugh.when the votes were all countee, pugh had this to say... 22:24:16we can do better nn realitt is that we must do better mediocrity is not acceptable we can not alloww fflks to believe that whht goes on downtown meets the needs of those uptown22:24:42 22:24:42in baltimore, democrats outnumber 3 republiians by more thaa 99tt 1.that means, that laat night's primary win assures rawlings-blake offvictory in the eneral election. for now, rawlings-blake says schools, safee streetssand stronger neighborhoods. stronger streets and schools, safer focus is on bettee blake says her for now, rawlingg- blake says her focus is on 3 better schools, safer streets and stronger neighhorhoods. live from city hall, megan iland, fox45 morning news 3 3 we're... getting a better idea.../ of... voter turrout in the primary,,and the numbers are pven looer than expected. only 222perrent of registered voters bbthered showing p at he polls. joee d. smith was at a baltimore yesterray, and now to look at some reasons why the turnout was so good morning joel d.. yeah megan, these &pof early voting. i - pas hhre yesterday and thee judge of elections knew it was slow in he morning... they were just hoping it wwuld really pick up later in the day.... it did not. not. it was though... by noon... ess thann 5 percent of eligible voters... about 15 thousand people - hhd made it to the polls. empty voting booths &pmany were preaching ccange, those cassng a ballot... were pew and far betteen.... there are 324 thousand voters registered herr in baltimore, 72050 yesterray. with the future of the city t stake, the quustionnis why? maerk tarasiewicz: :"between 10 and 3 o'clock it was very slow. the wwather is nice but i dont know why. i suspect people dont care anymnore in the city and that's not goodd" tc: 32:48 - 32:54skip barbee:because thee've given up, alot of people have given up.. because they're seeing the same thing. 3 many say that lower turnout favors incumbants,,.. maybe votees figgreetheir vote won't mmtter. and maybe that's what haapeneedwith steehanie rawlings bbaae as megan said, she got more - votessthan thh other 5 3 poel d..n northwest baltimore, - smith, fox 45 morniig news. fiie candidates for mayor...make it a crowded prima. primary.... p8::6- 28:51glenda davis: in this election and ou want 3 toovote in, in the acutal seat."a race... that cculd change the direction of baltimore city. tc: 28:26: 28:35glenda davis: "there are alot of things i'mm pcncerned about, property &ptaxes, education and the safety offthis city, so i voted for then person i thouuht was best for that- to carry out those jobs.. jobs." &p3 but in the overwhelmingly democratic city... the primary usually 77 primary races were also held primary races 3 primary racee were also held for every baltimore cityy council district... aaddcity council president.áallá of those races are listed in the ticker at the bottom of the screee. in some districts... there are more candidates than we can list on the ticker.áeveryá candidatt is llsted oo our eleccions results website.just go to fox baltimore dot com... ann click on the "baltimore the scceen.er near the top of for the secood day in a row, howard county is seeing violent activity. a man wassstabbed tt death in the middle ffa parking lot. lot. pt happened at his partmenn complex on harper's farm road in columbia, tuesday afternoon. the man was found after he was sttbbed ..then fell on are offering a 5-thousand the information leading to an arrest. also in hooard county, policc are investigating the murder.. of bail bonds wommn.42-year old niccle mcnair was shot ann killed tuesday night outside a columbia apartment complex. police aren't sure whether shh was there on business or ffr peesonallreasons.so far no suspects or arrests at this time. < "well i think we woulddbe remiss if we didn't look at what she did for a living... and that's what we're asking for the public to helppus with."> with.">police say the victim was in the middle of a divorce.. and requested a protective order. casey anthony's attornny is now defenning the mannat the center of the missing maryland woman in aruba. aruba. jose baezz onfirms he's representing gary giordano, who's in jail ii aruba right now.he's he prime suspect in the disappearance of 35- year old rooyn ardner.baez iss't expected to be the leaa attorney, but he will help with giordano's defense. trouble for a formmrraide who worked for john edwards. a young...his wife.. .and their attorneys could face criminal for edwards' former missress are bringing the charges against them.they claim, one of them illegally shared information ttat was sealedd while edwwrds was under pnvestigation for possible senator... beings ii january. you an add president obama's &plist of things republicans an democrats can't agreeeon. today, he president will take his fight for the proposal to northhcarolina.but, as ommm battle. battle. p-reporter pkg-as follows -- "mm question to ccngress is, what on earth are we waiting for? "ppesident obamaais taking his jobs plan straight to voters.in ohio tuesday, he accused republiians of playing politics with their opposition to the 447-billion-dollar wants toodeny him a victory.st "give me a win? ttis isn't isn't about givinggdemocrats or republicans a win, it's abouttgiving the american people a win." republicans say they're open to someeparts of the plan.but they're against paying for it with proposed tax hikes on the wealthy."my sense is we nned to work very hard and try and peel off the things that we can actually agree on. letss get some ins on board together...""this is largely a campaignnproposal and not aaout getting our economy going."but president obama says its reppblicans that are trying to turn this intooan ellction issue."maybe there's some people in congress who differences att he ballot box, putti've got news for hem: the next election is 14 months don't have the luxury oo waiting that loog. " the pressdent will spend most of even ii it's ii pieces.i'm tommy andres reporting. in a new c-n-n poll, 46-peecent of people say they prust president obama more to to 37 percent for republicans. obamm administration officials saa the president is planning &panother bus tour to promote his jobs package. exppdia... travelocity... and now... you can ook your flights through google.tte launched "flight search". conduct a regular google search for a domestic flight and "flight search" creates aa list.or... if you accees "flight search" directly... you can enter your departuree city andddaae... how much you want to pay... and how long you want to fly.the search engineewill show yoo where you can goowithin your coming up on the early edition... a judge hands down the sentence in a vicious woman... caught oo tape.ered tape.it's like you were watchhng somebody being murderrd almost. almost. find out how long the connicted erson will spend in jail... and also hear frro the victim of that brrtal beating. 3 ((break 1)) &p((bump n)) meteorologist)) 3 ((traffic reporter ad libs)) maps-83nof695-95at175- fiber-back tt maps please 3 3 3 3 3 still to comee.. going somewhere later? later?you may want to book your flight now... to avoid a packed plane!the two airlines ... cutting the amount of seats they have. have.i still have nightmares i meannwhen you see somebooy ii neeee ddeamed would ever see anythiig like that in my life n! neeer!and closure after a brutaa beaaing of transgendeeeddwoman... ii wwtness of the fighh... and the victim herselff.. aboott how the crime has forever changed her life. ((bump out)) ((break 2)) 33 a vicious attack against a transgender omaa caught on tape and pooted to youtube. a teens connicted in the hate cri. first oo fox... and crime and justice reporter joy lepola was in thh courtroom when the senteece was handed do. down. 3 3 3 3 p3&((pkg))it was a horrificc beating... deemed a hate crime. transgendered woman attacked inside this rosedaleemmdonalds. nat op of screaming... phile trying to stop the two teens ....vicky thoms was also attacked. actions and images... still fresh eventhough it's been nearly seven months. 9:11:06 i still have nightmares i mean when you see somebody i never dreamed i would ever see anything like that in my life never! todaa,,a judge sentenned one of thh teens... 18 year old in the viciius attack. stand up 10:35:29 before learninn her sentence teonna brown apologized for the actions she took and skeddthe judge if he would give her a seccnd chance. instead, the judge ssntenced brown tt ten years sussending all but fivv. (ssellenberger) 9:19:05 this for a einous crime thhttthey committed.(thoms) 13:13:00 it's like you were watching somebody being murdered almost. chrissy pollii didnnt attend the sentencing but described pn a viitim witness statement how her ife has forever changed. she wrote.."since the incident i feel my identity has been taken away from mm. my private life has been eeposed to the world. cannot go anywhere without the fear of getting hurt agaan. i want to go into a hole and hide." for thoms.... she too struggles but inds peaceein knowing the two teens she watchhd drag, kick and violently assault last april are tonight locked up. 9:12:37 i jst wanted to make sure justice was seeved.in towson joy lepola fox 455news at ten. the other teen invooved in this attack is serving time in p juvenile facility. straight ahead... shocking numbers about the poverty rate in he u-s. u-s.it's the highest itts been in 17 years.how many people are barrly getting bb. by.and it's been a nice break from the rising gas prices, the upswinn.the reason behind the possible hikes.. next. ((break 3)) rising crude oil prices pump. nd as elizabeth maadonald reports... a new &psurvey shows small buuiness ownerr have a bbeak outlook on the ecooomy. economy. the folks that hire folks are still bumming... a small business survey showing optimism falling to a 13-month salee and difficult business conditions zapping confidence about the future. and one big business...taking a best buy seeing its net income 3 fall 30 percent, as consumers cut back oo electronics and other non-essentials. and this might be why.... the census bureau reporting almost in 6 americans are living in poverty. the highest rate in 17 years. meantime oil prices rising... on worries america's stockpile is falling. crude back above 90 bucks a barrel tuesday... wednesday... the government expected to report those tropical storms in the gulf hit oil supplies... and that could hit you at the gas station. and planning to fly later. pelta and american airlines announcing hey're cutting seattng capacity... n order to cut their operating costs. that'll mean more jam-packed planee when you fly. that's a look at business... iim liz acdonald. 3& coming p... stranded for three ddys in his car what this 85-year ood man did to pass the tiie.... until he was rescued. rescued. 3 baltimore's primaay election. what the results mean for the city. tonight on fox 45 news at 5;30