map fiber map 3 3 the battle over same sex marriage in maryland moves to the house of delegates. a house committe is expected to vote on the &pcontroversial issue today. today.this comes after the senate approved the measure last week... 25 to 21 to give same see couples full marriage rights here in maryland.they did it after two days of what appeared like respectful discussion.but some delegates predict the house will be much more volatill.they're already speaking out. 3 3 "many of the legislators, african americans.................d on'' see how they can vote for it." 3 "i predict, 10 years from now we'll look back and people will say what was the big deal." deal." if the house does approve the measure, the govvrnor aysshe'll sign it into law. it's likely though, that opponents would petition for a referendum... giving maryland voters... the final say. annapolis lawmaaers resume the debate over medical marijuana. marijuana.they're trying to decide whether patients with terminal or chronic illness... should be allowed to use pot ... to relieve their pain. several patients who've used medical marijuana in the past ... testified before lawmakers monday. a similar bill passed the state senate last year ... but didn't survive a house committee vote. as maryland considers legalizing medical marijuana ... synthetic versions of the drug become illegal nationwide. starting today.. five of the chemicals found in synthetic drug is sold in drug ned.the - paraahernalia shops and online p. 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. the family of missing teen phylicia barnes tries to keep her caseefrom going cold.. with a prayer vigil. viggl.family.. friends.. and the guardian angels gathered at the reisterstown apartmeet complex where she was last seen.. before she vanished without a trace 2 months ago. the police department has pedicatee an entire squaa of seven investigators to this case... and they're still .. none of the leads has o far - panned out.... bbt police and her family remain hopeful. 02:03:17-33 "it's been a whole praying that somebody has seen - something that'' very important... that they would just say something." something." police are still treating this case as a possible abductton. the ccst of two thhngs most of us need to get through the week.. is skyrocketing.a gallon of gas has shot up 21 week.right now, a gallon of gas costs an average of 3- dollars 33 cents in maryland... last week it cost 3-12.this time last year, it was 2-67. ... and coffee is now at a 14 ááyearáá high.in fact.. some of the most popular coffee brandd have gone up 10- percent in just the lasttmonth. the reason for the surge?there have been several low harvests in one of the biggest coffee producing nations in the world... colombiaa a reisterstown coffee shop is the latest small business to fail during the nationwide economic downturn. 3 joel d. smith is live at "java mamma's" this morning to see what went wrong with this seemingly popular cafe'. good morning 3 áá2shot chatáá 3 p it might be hard for a parent to do... but the next time your ccild has a fever.. you might need to just let it run its cou. course.áákid fussingáá fussingáá trying to wipe the nose and pamper an upset kid isn't fun.. but a study in the journal pediatricc says a fever ii the body's normal response to an illness or infection. the fever might actually bring about healing ore quickly. but parents "fevvr phobii" can get in the way. important to keep your child hydrated... and you can give them pain relievers.. but &pdon't worry about getting the pever down. rules are different for infants.. and experts say anyy fever over 103 degrees should be checked out. 3 the american acadmey f pediatrics says tanning beds should be illegal for teens. its pussing for new laws to ban teens from using public salons.. saying the skin cancer risk is too high. since women has gone p three percent every year. melanoma spreads quickly and s tte most deadly form of skin cancer. more escalator problems at washington d-c metro stations. stations. a camera was rolling when an escalator failed back in pctober.. sending people tumbling down like dominoes. yesterday.. another escalator jolted to a halt.. causing riders o fall. shows escalators have been breaking down more often.. failing after about eight daas of use on average. american idol's top 12 guys.. take tte stage tonigh. tonighh. what they musttremember.. if they want to make it to the group of top ten singers. and next.. get fit.. without the gym. our expert is taking your fitness questions. the lines are open now.. 410-488-4545.. or go to our facebook page.. facebook dot com slash foxbaltimore. you're watching fox 45 good day baltimore. 3 ((bump out)) ((break 1)) with fios, when you're watching the picture, it just jumps out at you. -it was like, "wow!" -bam! 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((break 3)) pe now know the top 24 onn american idol and the live performances begin tooight.it all kicks off with the guys.so how are they feeling?this morning.. they are revealing their raw emotions. emotions. we've watched a guy win american idol theelast three seasons..and this yearrs bunch is ready to prove the streak can continue.. nats: with a diverse group of talent, ranging in age and guys are hoping to win over america aad make the cut. to go have ome fun on that stage, it is a killer stage.. loewenstern says: "now your performing in front of a live audience and in front of america, on camera, see you have to know how to cater to the audience, you have to know how to convey the message." thisstime around, the five guys and girls with the most votes will move on to the finals,.there will also be a couple of wild card possibilities, raising the performance.. but through it all they must remain true to themselves.halperin says: "you have to do the routines that &pyou always do and bb the person ttat you've always been because that's what has gotten us here. (jd being humble.) and we don't want it to change who we are." but with more responsibility for arranging theirrsongs, the idol pressure cooker continues to heat up. durbin says: "this is make it or break it. if you make it, you got a good chance of getting into the top twelve, if you break it, it's like goodbye. you now, this is that one shining moment." you can watch american idol tonight... tomorrow and thursday at 8-pm here on fox45. fox45.and.. we want to hear what you think of american idol.you can now chat with me on facebook during he show. just become a fan of our facebook page and join the conversation. charlie sheenn. isn't backing down. down.do you owe cbs an apology? no. they owe me a big one, publicly while licking my feet. feet. strong words for sheen's bosses. the name he's calling his drug counselors.. coming upplater. later. áájoel adlibsáá you're watching fox 45 good day baltimore. ((break 4)) 3 ááemily will take plunge later this houráá 3 3 895 map ,3 p3 895 map 3 p, 3 here are the stories we're following this morning. the battle over same sex mmrriage in maryland moves to the house of delegates. a house committe is expected to pass the controversial issue today. floor for debate. thh senate approved the measure last week. startinn today , two new bus routes are starting service servicethe i-c-c is up and running, and now.. you have a new option to travel by.two new bus routts begin...linking gaithersburg for fort meade international thurgood gton marshall airport. a hollywood egend passes away. actress jane russell died monday... after suffering respiratory difficulties. russell was one the movie industty's leading sex symbols... after starring in films from the 19-40's and 50's.one of her biggest roles... was alongside marilyn monroe... in the movie the bad economy.. is hitting small businesses hardest. high fuel prices.. and skyrocketing coffee prices mean the end for a coffee shop in altimore county. joel d. smith is live at "java mamma's" now, only days before they close the doors for good. good morning joel d. áá2shot chatáá 3 a historrcal gem in thh city of the baltimore. the mount auburn cemetery... is he oldest african american burial ground in town.buu after deeades oo neelect, its connition has deteriotated. some say, to the point of disrespect.in this morning's cover ssory...melinda roeder takessa closer look at one person's fight fight for eternal dignity. background/ sunrise shotsn in - in the halo of morning's first "every one of these people meant something to someone in their life."this hallowed ground...is aaglowing testament... tt baltimore's &ppast.(cover) 16:17:44 "it's important to know where you came from. to know who your family is."a place where family ames...16:25:54 "this is a davis. 1958."are also pioneers... for civil rights. 16:18:31 "there are a lot of ppople 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 an only find áoneá of theirrtombstones. 16:16:52 "ii;s just. it's &pjust. a mess. it breaks my heart everytime i come out here."wwth more than 32 acressof burial sites... there's much to maintain.but over the years.... much has been lost tooboth nature and &ptime. even markers... have "literally when i found the ceeetery and rode through it,, i got out and cried."reverend dell hinton is pastor of sharp street methodist church... which has owns and oversees the cemetery..she took over six years ago.23:17:14 it was horrible and thh weeds were as tall as i am and i'm 5'8". she agrees the burial ground is still ii bad shape. and mistakes were made in the past... especially with money. 23:29:48 people have given money to sharp street... and por whaetever reason those monies werr not used i the wwy that peoppe intended."but she hesitates to point fingers. claiming she has a masterplan to restore everythiig.... including lost records.23:18:45 "we've got documents on buriaa that when you touch them, they're just crumbling."there is currently no working map... to mark who or where... souls have been laid to rest here.23:22:15 "there was a map, to my understanding, decades ago that actually mapped oot where the plots were in the cemetery. that we have not been able to locate. something that has to be reconstructed."but in the last two years.... some progress has been made. 23:17:34 "now. the weeds are down by my knees. that means we've cut them down by five feett.using voluuteers and inmate labor... some f the weeds have been put down.16::5:14 "yeah, this is the good section. this is the ggod section."while others... are still overgrown... leaving loved ones... to wonder why.16:21:31 "that area is the worst maintained right now because it hides a lot of secrets." mmorman says she's seen everything here from old, mangled caskets... to human bones that have been unearthed. ---------------incorporate jacobi here.............. carolyn jacobb was so upset by what she saw by her father's gravesite... that it prompted her to become an advocate for the dead.she founded "eternal but here... she has little ushe- power to intervene... because the cemetery s privately owned. -------------------------------- -some say it would be best if the city of baltimore... or theestate... could takeover the historic site.16:50:22 "if they can't show responsibility to maintain this cemetery, then let somebody else do it. // why hold onto it if you're not gonna maintain it with the respect thaa it deserves?!"but "no."hasn't consideree handing over the property.23:34:04 "i don't know why we should."her church did seek financing for a fence....that the city will part of a master plan she says will take several years... to see through.03:14 "we have &pbeen in discussion with total construction about this. we have not been able to get any further because of finances." in the meantime... family members grow impatient. with wiating for action.16:30:50 "it's embarrassing. it's embarrassing that we treattour heritage like this. "moorman has a plan of her own. to restore records... by tracking tomsbtones... 16:24:45 "we end up clearing them just to see who they are. someone's looking for this person. i'm sure."and with eech stone she uncovers... he holds out 16:23:28 "i'm always searching por my family. always. that's never-endinn."her appeals for help... have been answered... by some who don't even have famill here.17:12:14 "now i'm into geneology, i'm like a cemetery junkie and this is sort of like my cemetery... very important in history.... long forgotten... ann slowly disaapearing.... unless something... someooe... steps up. 11:40 "i know it'ssgonna happen... it's happennng."and lives up to the responsibility....17:02:39 "i know in my heart that i'm trying to make it better. that this is the path i was meant to lead.... of paying respect... (begins to sob)... sorry." to the souls... who sleep here...in disarray... 17703:14 "it's just not right. it's not right."melinda roeder, fox 45 news at ten. the church is now working with morgan state university to restore old records. and they're working on a plan for fundraising. but they're rrluctant to seek grant money that would with many stringg attached. ((toss to weather)) ((ad lib meteorologist)) 3 it's our mobideal of the day! every day.. we'll bring you provides coupons directly to your cell phone! phone! today's deal comes from the great framm up in cockeysville. get 20-percent off an entire custom frame order. just go to my-mobideals-dot-com to get started.. or look for mobideals on your smartphone. smartphonee mobideals is a product oo our parent company.. sinclair broadcast group. is he cured.. or in den? denial? 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((break 6)) if they don't, the president could shut down non-essential servvcess president obama is thanking canada for imposing panctions against the libyan president and the prime minister agree on the need to deter additional violence by libya's leader moammar qaddaffi. hundreds of people have been killed since protests began in the middle eastern country. charlie sheen has had his moments over the years... from drug problems and stints of rehab... to domestic assault charges. last week... c-b-s mega-hit omedy show 'two and the season... shortly after - sheen blasted his boss on a radio show.and on mooday... his long-time publicist announced his resignation.as led up to sheen's outrageous prime-time interview with c-n-n. so, i don't think i would trade any of it. because i'm still alive, which is pretty cool.hollywood's quintessential bad-boy, charlie sheen, says he's cceaned up his act.he says he's ready to go back to work pn the c-b-s show 'two and a half men.'production was halted last week after sheen lashed-out at the show's co- cceator.i have a viiion of us getting back on the air for season nine and then doing season ten and then cleannng up all this mess behind us.in a live interview monday night, c-n-n's piers morgan asked the actor about his struggle with addictioo.i don't believe myself to be an addict. i don't. i think i ignore or smash or finally dismiss a modee that i think is rooted in vintage balderdash, you know? sheen seemed to have a special diitaate for for psychologists and addiction specialists...i'm a winner and their lives look like they're ruled by losers. just to put it in black and white terms. i don't want their lives and they want mine. but they want to criiicize the hell out of it. he's anic, i don't even know what that means. i guess that woull imply there's gging to e a crash. i don't knoo when that's oming, but maybe you can cover it when it does. sheen says he plans to sue c-b-s for alting the show.i'm andy rose reporting. take the plunge...the popsicce plunge! plunge!it's marshy point nature center's festival and fundraiser.meteorologist emily gracey is live with the details on this morning's hometown hoospot. hotspot. the popsicle plunge is at gunpowder state park on more informatioo, log on to r fox baltimore dot com slash morning. libyan dictator moammar qaddafi is famous for his rambling speeches. speeches. jeanne moos tells us one of those speeches has now been auto tune. tuned. betcha moammar gadhafi doesn't think this is funny... (nats of music)his recent speech autotuned to an american rap song accompanied by images of a gyrating irl bodyguards. and what sticks in your head is the word repetitioo.(nats)"it sounded so funny. it's eant to be like the title of a song."it means alley. the repeated words were from gadhafi's threat to hunt down protesters 'home by home, alley by alley.' (nats)the song beeame a viral hit, an anthem for libyan protesters. then gradually arabs realized 'this video waa made by a jew?'"for me as an 31-year old musician noy alooshe got back-handed compliments such as 'well done jew' and 'i'll skip my daily death tooisrael' chant today because of this.'"so what if the poster is an israeli, it's still funny."and funny is a potent weapon. ridicule of gadhafi ranges from using borat's voice as mock translation....one time in washingtons i invited two boys to my hotel room and we justtmaking up the othes."to - translation, as conan's been doing."i will now stare blankly for several secoods to make yyu wonder ii i died. fooled &pyouu i didn't die."as for repeating certain words... "zenge zenge.""zenge zenge...reminds us of another pair of twin words in the news these days."you've hhard of a sex scandal involving a pertain italian prime minister? "berlusconi has been accused of bringing many girls to his sardinian villa for what is know as bunga bunga parties. bunga bunga is an italian word meaning bunga bunga."and now bunga bunga and enga zenga have met, joined in this youtube mash up ridiculing gadhafi with a bugs bunny partoon."dar dar bunga bunga bunga."it sure is a lot bunga - catchier than 'down with gadhafi.' jeanne moos ccn(nats) new yyrk(nats) áá7 day forecastáá the world's greatest villain is no match for three little kids in the animated film "deepicable me". carell voices a bad-guy who plans to steal the moon. but when a group of kids start to look p o him.. hee has a harddtime remaining evil. universal sent give away. away. you can win one on d-v-d now f you're the 4th or 5th caller at 410-481-4545. ((break 8)) 3