today is wednesday, july 18. 3 3 3 3 3 first on fox...nearlyy70 passengers on a "megabus" headed to baltimore... are stranded in new jersey... when the driver efuses to bring them any further. further.megan gilliland is here with an inside look of the megabus meltdown... and the injuries that happened on good morning guys,as the temperatures rose... so did tempers.and one passenger caaght the wholeething on camera...take a look... look...it all started when someone asked the driver if the air conditioninggwas working.at that point... we're told the driver pulled ovee and slammed on the brakes... forcing a jolt so hard that hospital. was later sent to - 3&(corrina) 17:52 she was going down 95 and she was like ruur and it's a double decker.(corrina) 23:14 everyone is confused, everybodyyis worried and some people are scared.(corrina) 17:37 i'm just sitting there going wow this is really crazy this is my first trip to manhattan never drove a bus there i always drove myself for reason's like this. after getting back on 95... of leaving passengers behind.... aad no way to reachh customer service because of the hour... the new jersey ptate police were called. eventually theepassengers dii make it back to baltimore. since then the egabuu has issued a statementthear why &pddiverr.. coming up next half pour.i'' megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. hazmat crews are called to a &pmassive transformer fire, tuesday afternoon. afternoon.a viewer sent in this picture of a large cloud of smoke from the firr.it happened in essex, on eastern boulevard... near the back river water treatment plant. one baltimore county firefighttr was treated for heat-rrlated problems. a massive watermain break downtown is still causing problems this morning... and now it looks like repairs willl take nearly a month. you can see the water gushing from the pavement near light and lombard strrets just before rush hour on monday evening. now crews must replace two aging pipelines... the oldest one wassinstalled in estimated the work will take three weeks.in thh meantime... the city was able to create a temporary above-ground pipeline to reetore ater service to nearby businesses. aabaatimooe county man takes b-g-e to court... for one ábillioná dollars. pikesville home for nearly seven days.he says b-g-e's customer service record is 'disgraceful.'the company says last month's storm... was worse than hurricane irene, and gave them no notice to alert out of state crews. ralph jaffe: 1.01.43 "abbut it's unconscionable. nobody should have to suffer like that."rob gould, bg&e: 1.20.24 "we're going to let the publicc service ommission review process take its course. that'ssthe appropriate venue to judge how the utilities efo" peformed."jaffe says he ill donate any money rewarded to him to he needy. 3 the heat has gone from uncomfortable... tt dangerous. 5 more deaths in maryland are being attributed to this latest heattave, which means seeking relief is a must. must. joel d. smith is live aa one of the cooling centers in baltimore with some ways to cope a little better in this awful heat. good morning joel d. how hot is it ? already? here we areein mount vernon, this cooling center like all the ress in the city open at 9:00am but frankly, it could open right now aad help ome peoole out. 23 people have died in the state from heat related causes. with this latest count...the since he last heattwave. s - even in hot places like dry cleaners... even with the digits. 11 cooling centers in the city are open todayy 3 a disturbing incident out of virginia... where a man was hit by a car and ignored by people nearbb. the entiie thing was caught on camera... and we want to warn you it could be disturbing to somm vie. viewers.this is dash cam video from a bus that stoppedjust feet from a man... who lay dding on the sidewalk in his body next to the trash can. but not a single persoo stopped to check on him.police say the pedestrian was hii by a car... that didn'' stop at a traffic signal. the man later diedd a urglary suspect in ohio tries getting away from police by stealing on of their cruisers... and its all caught on camera.take a look. and a 21-year-old man is - kklled. that's when the suspect hops into a cruiser... and taaks off as police fire shots at the car. but he doesn't get far. police arrest him minutes fter he crashes inno another apartment building. theyyare now looking for aasecond suspect. he's nn longer the world's highest-paid athlete.according tiger woods has been knocked off the top spot of its "fortune 50 ranking"... or the first time since á2004.á coming in on top now... is boxer floyed mayweather junior. fellow olfer phil mickelson also surpassed woods to take woods at numbee 3.n-b-a stars kobe bryant and lebron james round out the top five. a democratic bill thattwould k - force independent political groups tooidentify their big-money cootributors. the "disclose act" would have put a face ann name to those who donate 10-thoussnd-dollars or political action committees. secret.... unlimited contribuuions to these groups are bankrolling this year's flood of political attack ads. three siblings in texas are biologically triplets ... even though two of them were born four years apart. andrew gracin is the third of chris and joyce mallon's children. andrew... four- year-old julianna and two-year-old anna sophia were n in 2007. julianna was born nine onths later through in vitro fertilization. her prother and sister waited their turns in frozen limbo... and finally they each got their chance to be born. ((sometimes when yyuupray for a miracle, you get three. and so that's what we have. )) ))the mother calls them "triplings," since they are siblings by their dates of birth. fertility experts say freezing ttchniques have improved, o embryos an now be preserved for longer periods of time. johns hoppins is still a top number one. known hospital is now ranked. ranked. ((break 1)) ((ad lib meteorologist)) 3 ((traffic reeorter ad libs)) map fiber map 895 map 3 3 3 3 3 penn state's president speaks out... after a ddmaging report reveals a cover up. up.we're not gginn to use tuition money, donor money, or tax money to deal with any of the civillclaims or other costs for legal expenses the part of the scandal he says is the ámostá disheartenin. disheartening.and later... facebookers aren't happy.the two major things that are making it difficult for people to embrace the sociaa networking siie. ((bump out)) ((breaa 2)) 3 penn state's president is speaking out about the sex scaadal that has rocked tte university... and the federal of covering it up.as john clay reports... the school's president says the most troubling aspect is knowing that not enough was done to 3 --reporter pkg-as follows -- president rodney erickson has &pno dispute wiih any of louis freeh's allegations. and he believes the university needs to take full responsibility at all levels. i think the most troubling part was reading the judges conclusion that there was consistent lack of empathy of concern for victtms, not followwng up, nnt pressiig the case to see approoriate actions were taken to protect children. the rrsponsibility will come with a cost. they're paying legal fees for pennn state administrators implicated in a cover-up. aad former athletic director tim curley is still getting a paycheck. erickson says that could change. he was put on a paid leave of absence last november. that's continued through many months. now that re-evaluate that. dr. erickson says the school will use interest gained ffom sizable loans and insurance coverage to meet the needs of any settlement.. e're nnt oing tt use tuition money, donor money, or tax money to deal with any of the civil claims or other costs for legal expenses and so forth. we have indicated we're will be engaged by plaintiffs attorneys so that we can have a fair processsdealing with litigation. erickson says the university is still deciding what to do with the paterno decision in the next 7 to 10 days. they're balancing what joe paterno's positive impact was on the university with the in the freeh report. outlined they may be posting status updates...but facebook users... aren't happy. happy.the two main reasons userssare complaining about site now ranked at the top.ing - top.aad later... the new diet drug... that's approved by the f-d-a. çç 33 a new report found a llt of unhappy facebook users. aliion kosik has mooe on which site is keeping its users in higg spirits. 3 --reporter pkg-as follows -- hey facebook users-- annoyed by advertiseeents? tired of you're not alone. according to the american consumer sstisfaction index -- facebook saw a nearly 8-percent drop in user satisfaction this ear. that's the biggest drop of any social media outlet surveyed-- and it sets a record low score for the category. facebook users are unhappy with changes to the user interface-- like thh addition of timeline. they also complain about privacy issues and advertisements. twitter and linked-in also disappointed users-- debuting on the list with customer below average atisfaction scores. meanwhile-- rival google plus ee the pack, nummer one spot. in its first year on the list-- the social media site scored a 78-percent customer satisfactionnrate. google plus-- like facebook-- aims to coonect users through links social media content to other google applications-- like search and g-mail. users are pleased with its mobile app-- and the lack of ads. but it's nnt all bad news for facebook. google plus users may be happier-- but they are still far ouunumbered by facebook's more than 900 kosik in new york. alison - banning gay members... pin boy scouts. scouts.how the decision was was made... and how long it took to reach the controversial ... resolution. &presolution.a megabus meltdown. whht happened toopassengers headed to baltimmre that sent one to the hosptiil and leftt the others stranded in jersey. jersey. i don't smoke cigarettes and don't understand why anybody would. but that's not foo me to decide. cigarettes - more specifically, the manufacture and sale of cigarettes - issan example of crony capitalism. tucced deep inside the 600-page highway bill recently signed into law was a small paragraph that effeetively wipes out roll-your-own cigarette shops. roll-your-own shops are mom and pop operations where customers purchase loose tobacco and cigarettes. they're cheaper than the name-brandss and they don't have chemical additives. roll-your-own shops were not banned due to any health reasons. but due to competitioo. the paragraph phht wiied out the shops was slipped into the bill by montana senator max baucus. since 2000, baucus has received $20,000 in pac contributions from altria - the $70 billion tooaaco company. the real issue isn't about selling tooacco. it's about the cozy relationship between members f congress and the special interests they serve. ttere is a world of difference between being pro- business and prr-free markets. what's to top congress from businesses? lunch trucks, roadside sttnds, farmers' markets, co-opss by the way, this was a ipartisan effort. republicans and democrats overwhelmingly passed the highway bill. for more on this story isit behind the headlines dot net and follow us on twitttr and facebook. i'm mark hyman. the dream act debate.how the fight over the november referendum is heating up. tonight on fox 45 news at five.3