So, will conditions clear up at some point . We hope so. Meteorologist tim williams has the answer in first warning Weather Forecast. Eyewitness news saturday morning starts now. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. First, heres what people are talking about today. Majorleague action against the pretennis Johns Hopkins hospital. Millions of dollars in lawsuits filed by patients after their gynecologist is accused of secretly videotaping one of them. Meghan mccorkell speaks to one of the patients who is suing. Reporter good morning, the first two lawsuits were filed against Johns Hopkins on friday and many more are expected to come. I cannot believe it. Thats a violation. This is shocking. Reporter patient after patient of the doctor in shock. The obgyn who worked at john hopkins for 25 years is under investigation. He took his life on monday. I was so comfortable, i referred my mother to him. Reporter bell has filed one of the first law suits against the state and the hospital. I had no idea that this man was capable of doing such acts. Reporter 685 patients have signed on for another Class Action Lawsuit against Johns Hopkins. The hospital did not do enough to protect its patients. What did he do with his images . Did he put them on a site . Did he sell them . Reporter investigators believe that dr. Levy may have used a camera hidden inside of his pen to tape his patients. That invasion has some paranoid about feature doctor visits. Im going to say, can i see your person. Reporter Johns Hopkins released a statement. Police are now sorting low what they call an expensive amount of evidence that was discovered inside of dr. Levys home. Meghan mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. Thank you, meghan. Dr. Levy saw a thousand patients during his time at Johns Hopkins. Multivehicle crash is under investigation this morning in anne arundel county. Police are saying that three vehicles crashed yesterday. A ford pickup hit a mini van, that caused it to push into the path of a gm c pickup. The driver of the ford truck sustained lifethreatening injuries. The driver of the mini van sustain serious injuries. The other driver had minor injuries. It is not clear the alcohol or speed played a role in the crash. Another shakeup in the Baltimore Police department. After a Training Instructor shot a trainee in the head. The Academy Director announced he is leaving the force. At the same time there is good news in the case. Mary bubala reports on the improving conditions on the wounded trainee. Reporter ten days ago a university of Maryland Police trainee was rushed to a state Police Helicopter suffering a gun shot wound to the head. He is stable, with any thoughts or predictions about longterm neurologic outcome at this point. Reporter the recruit was shot by his Training Officer who mistook his Service Weapon for a training weapon inside of the old rose wood center. Now, two weeks later sources tell wjz Eyewitness News that the trainee is talking a little and able to recognize people. Police visioner has visited his bedside . There doctor have said to me, she progressing better than what they expected. However this is a log road. When you have those type of injuries. You can not be too sure. Reporter the commissioner shutdown the Police Academy for a week. Six officers in the chain of command have been suspended. A wjz Eyewitness News found a lack of staffing and supervision, that leadership didnt know the old hospital site was being used for training. The Maryland State Police is conducting an investigation into what went wrong. Mary bubala, wjz Eyewitness News. Well, two of the six officers suspended after the shooting have been reinstated four of them are off the job this morning. The Justice Department is joining a lawsuit against the cyclist Lance Armstrong. The suit lengths that he concealed his use of performance enhancing drug and defrauded his major sponsor, the u. S. Postal service and armstrong and the Postal Service riding team violated their agreement using the drugs. More coming up in the next half hour. A new bge rate increase takes effect today. So Pay Attention to the bill. The Maryland Public Service commission has granted 65 of the utilitys requested increase for electric and gas rates for average electricity customers the bills will go up 3 a month and gas customers under 3 every month. Bge is saying the expenses will be used to updated the utilitys aging infrastructure . There fact is that baltimore is no different than any other city in the mid atlantic or the next. We have a lot of infrastructure that is aging. We can see it with bridges and tunnels and water and sewer systems. Were no different. We need to continue to invest and reinvest in the system. To keep up and modernize the system. That takes investment. Reporter bge says with the new increase customers bills will typically be lower than 2009, because the cost of energy has dropped. Massive automatic spending cuts will take effect in less than a week. Democrats are saying if the cuts go through on the 1st of march, everyone, from food inspectors to fbi agents will lose their jobs. But republicans are accusing the white house of using scare tactics the raise taxes. Among the many areas impacted if those cuts take effect marylands airports. We could see widespread delays at bwi and smaller airports could shutdown. Kai jackson with more on the looming travel crisis. Reporter a budget battle in washington, d. C. Could have a ripped effect on air travel across the country. The Obama Administration is warning that the sequester could be devastating. Flights to major cities like new york, chicago, San Francisco and others could experience delays up to 90 minutes during peak hours. Reporter a high stake degrees bait with 85 billion of cuts on the line. I think it is posturing on both sides. Reporter transportation officials are saying that it could stop airtraffic controllers. In maryland the towers at five regional and National Airports could close. These controllers provide an important function in the congested and busy airspace. Is also possibility that tsa screeners could be furloughed. If it happens there could be lengthy delays at security checkpoints. Passengers here at bwi is saying any delays greater than what they experience would be a big headache. Someone who travels for business it is a concern. Im in the airport two to three time as week. The last thing i need is to spread extra time. Now if the spending cuts do go into affect. The five airports in maryland will close on april 1st. Kai jackson, back to you. Thank you. One of baltimores favorite desserts disappeared. This morning the mystery is solved. Deliveries of burger cook as were cutoff. The Health Department shutdown the company for operating without a license, but dont worry. The burgher bakery has it back and operations are expected to resume next week. Keep them coming. In this morning masn spring training report. The orioles will put two weeks of preparations to the test with their first game in sarasota. Adam jones and the os will take on the twins. The first of 34 florida warmups leading to the opener april 5th. The os are hoping to build off of a successful 2012 season. 93 victories and the first playoff appearance in 15 years. Jones was asked what it will take to be as good this year as last. Consistency. I think doing what we did last year and just concentrating on what got us there. We dont need to do anything different. Whatever got us there, just maintain that. Now jones has limited time with the spring this team. In ten days he will leave camp to play for team yeast u. S. A. Wow. Of course, that Florida Weather. It is beautiful. I bet you those shades he had on are going to be the hot seller this year. Orange nike mirror shades. That will be the hot seller. I might have to wear them myself. Im get you some, tim. I can see you with them. Yeah. Not for you, i can see myself. Thats why youll get them. Of course. Unbelievable. But, actually, very believable. Im joking. All right. If youre out and about this morning not so nice weather. Not sarasota weather. A little bit of ice out there. I was impacting. From the outlining areas you will deal with light, in the layers. That is the problem. We have a Winter Weather advisory in place because of that. Because of the temperatures hovering around freezing. Anywhere that youre coming in from Baltimore County to points west. Carroll county, you get the idea all of the areas shaded until 10 00 this morning. You will be dealing with that until the temperatures get high enough. Be careful if you go out you may not see it. You could slip easily and definitely slick spots for your car out and about. So, take it slow until the temperatures start to rise. Right now, a light bit of rain out there and more along the Eastern Shore and southern maryland. The rain that we have had is falling down in a mid misty fashion on the cold areas. In the suburbs not the warmer conditions early on. So, this is in the form of rain, but temperatures are getting up above freezing. So, be reful for a a little while. The winds are calm right now. A little bit of fog out there as well on top of the frozen conditions the milder air is starting to move in and create a visibility issue in the area. You saw that from the harvard camera. The rain from the south. The storm system that rolled across the midwest broke up a little bit. The precipitation, much of the snow moved up into michigan, near minnesota and the great lakes. The rain is streaming across the South Carolina and North Carolina, south of our region. That is bringing in the milder air. Our temperatures will go up to the 40s today. And then a stretch of 50s into the week. The mildary for the future. We will see sun, really today and tomorrow. Then another chance of rain on tuesday. But in the meantime, what were going to are the winds pickup through the afternoon. That storm system develops off the shower line and moves to the northeast. That will be this afternoon, but we will also see clearing. The sunrise is at 6 47. We are in high tide. A northeast wind on the bay. Today going up to 45 degrees. Rain and drizzle early on, especially on the Eastern Shore. Even rain and cloudy. 33 degrees. 48 tomorrow. Partly sunny and breezy. The nicest day of the weekend for a while. 48 on monday. A chance of rain on tuesday and then temperatures go up to 51 on wednesday. 46 on thursday. And the lows down in the 30s. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. 23rd day of february. Believe it or not, this is the last saturday of the month. The last weekend of the month. Taking a look at a foggy start to the day. A little bit of mids out there and ice. Be careful out and about. The temperatures are around freezing. Were looking at rain across the region. A high of 45. Occasional rain and drizzle on the Eastern Shore in southern maryland. 33 degrees and rain and cloudy tonight. 48, partly sunny and breezy tomorrow. The nicest day of the weekend. Your the exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. G. All right. Thanks, tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Four deaths are now being blamed on the winter storm that has moved from the midwest to the great lakes. Many folks in the nations heartland will spend the day shoveling inches of snow, but some are saying it is not necessarily a bad thing. From oklahoma to michigan, the snow totals range from half of a foot to a foot and a half. Slick roads caused this collision in iowa. Kansas city reported 120 accidents in the state. 300 in minnesota. Heavy snow caved in roofs and Airline Schedules were marred in houma, chicago and st. Louis. Ice caused this jet to skid off of the runway in cleveland, nobody was hurt, but some westerns welcomed the snow. When you looked up this morning and saw the snow, what did you think . Any moisture is great. Reporter george richardsons family has farmed this land in illinois since 1840. The persistent. That has participated half of the country cost him 50 of his corn crop last year. I think we would need many feet of snow and then a nice slow thaw so the moisture would sink into the ground. A medical helicopter crashes in Oklahoma City just 100 feet from a nursing home. Medics are saying two of the three people onboard were killed. The three perm was pulled from the wreckage by nursing home workers. He is listed in Critical Conditions this morning. The flight team was traveling to pickup a patient. No one on the ground was seriously injured. The search continues this morning for the gunman who pulled the trigger in a wild, deadly shootout on the las vegas strip. The gunfire led to this fiery accident involving a car and a taxicab. Police quired the driver of the car as a rapper named kenny cheery. Someone in the suv opened fire on his vehicle following an argument in the valet area of a casino. The federal agencies in neighboring states are on the look out for the range rover. The driver and the passenger in the taxicab died in the accident. Researchers are saying there is a growing concern in lake tahoe it is because of a growing population of goldfish. The fish, we usually see in homes are living and thriving in lakes and streams. Experts are saying it is because people are emptying their aquariums into open waters. They are afraid it will upset the ecology and feed chain of the link. It is all over again. Right here in maryland. And lake tahoe. There goldfish, but here in maryland the snakeheads. Not a good problem. No. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning the exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast, today, occasional rain, 45 degrees. The temperatures mild enough to meltdown the ice. 48 tomorrow, breezy and sunshine. 48 on monday. A chance of rain on tuesday. Temperatures back up to 51 on wednesday. A chance of showers heading into the end of the week. Baltimores most famous doctor is in the National Spotlight this morning after criticizing president barack obama. This morning dr. Ben carson speaks to wjz Eyewitness News. We have the story. Reporter are you surprised about the attention that this has gotten, dr. Carson. I am. Reporter in his first interview with a wjz Eyewitness News tv station. Dr. Ben carson talked about his recent attack on president Barack Obamas policies. Our deficit is a big problem. With the person is born, give them a birth certificate and an electric medical record and a Health Savings account. Reporter the speech has been viewed 3 million times on youtube and praised by many conservatives. President barack obama, the doctor is in the house. People are not used to hearing things that make sense which out of washington. So, somebody gets up and says something that makes sense, it is like people start hyperventilater. Reporter dr. Carson is one of the worlds top neurosurgeons now he is concerned about political gridlock in washington. The best thing they can possibly do is stop trying to interfere with everybodys life. Reporter dr. Carson favor feels the complicated tax code with a flat tax. There is not fair to sit around and say, well, you are doing exceptionally well. So, we need to hit you extra hard. That is not fair. What is fair is what you spend. You make 10, you pay 1. Reporter these ideas have many calling on independent to run for office. That calling to me has to come from god. I never rule anything out, because i recognize that im not totally in control. Reporter adam may, wjz Eyewitness News. Dr. Carson is retired from john hopkins. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning this is my friend diane. Shes played by the rules her whole life. But then the rules flew right out the window. Having just lost her husband she stepped up and adopted her three grandkids, while working full time and caring for her brother eddie, with cerebral palsy. I get the three children up. I walk andrew at eight i drop olivia off at eight thirty. Spend a few minutes at emilios school. I stop at the grocery store, and then i might do some laundry that has to be done. And then i have about five minutes. The baby sitter comes in and then i go to work. Im not back home again until 11 30 at night. Hard as she works, its still a struggle to keep up with the bills and stay warm at night. When we asked the Biggest Oil Companies to help families in need only citgo, the people of venezuela and president hugo chavez responded. Thanks to them, Citizens Energy is able to deliver millions of gallons of fuel to families just like dianes. Im joe kennedy. If you need help staying warm this winter call me at 1877joe4oil. Because no one should be left out in the cold welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. Here at the bottom of the hour, the temperatures around freezing around the area. A little bit of fog out there now as we take a look outside. Were seeing milder air moving in on top of a frozen layer that came in yesterday evening and in the overnight hours. Now were dealing with a bit of cooling. That mild air is sitting there and cooling and creating clouds out there at ground level. We have fog this morning. So, visibility is challenging if youre moving around early on. The sun will come up and clear things out. Right now, 34 degrees at bwi. Then, temperatures in the freezing range in oakland. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect until the sun comes up. The temperatures going up today to 45 degrees with occasionally rain and drizzle and cloudy skies into the overnight hours. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. Thanks, tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Hundreds of patients are suing Johns Hopkins hospital after their gynecologist is accused of secretly recording exams. Attorneys are saying that the hospital did not do enough to protect patients from dr. Levy who committed suicide after being fired from the hospital. Nearly 700 patients have signed on for a Class Action Lawsuit against Johns Hopkins, seeking 70 million in damage. Another patient filed a lawsuit against levys estate and the hospital itself. I had no idea this man was capable of doing such acts. John hopkins released a statement, saying in part Baltimore City hallicide detectives are looking for answers after the bodies of two people are found in a burned out car. Police taped off a block area where the burning car was found in an alley. The 2000 block of north monroe street in west baltimore. Police found the bodies of two people inside of the car. It is not clear if they died from the fire or before the flames erupted. We now know the ideas of identities of a man and two children killed in prince georges county. Firefighters are saying prices were killed in thursdays fire. Ag11yearold who was reviewing revived after being pulled from the home without a pulse is in grave condition this morning. An adult female and an 8year old twin sister remain in the hospital because of smoke inhalation and minor injuries. The cause of the blaze was electrical in nature and an accident. A Baltimore County woman is in the hospital this morning after being attacked by her own dog. Baltimore police are saying she was attacked by were of her two pill bulls. She has serious injuries this morning. The dogs ran away after the attack, but they were found a short time later. Investigators are saying one of the dogs became aggressive and was shot and killed by one of the officers, but the second dog or the second pit bull was located and in care of Baltimore County animal control. The Justice Department and the Postal Service go after Lance Armstrong in a federal law suit against the cyclist. The government is saying he and his teammates owe 30 million in sponsorship money. We have the latest. Reporter the u. S. Postal service paid Lance Armstrong millions to wear the logo. Now, they want to money back. There is a lawsuit that accuses the cyclist of defrauding the Postal Service. The cyclist denied drug accusations, but last month he admitted to oprah he doped his way to 7 titles. I view this situation as one big lie. I repeated a lot of times. Reporter the cyclists was in settlement negotiations with lawyers, but talks broke down because two sides were tens of millions of dollars a part. In a statement, Justice Department is saying Lance Armstrong and his cycling team took 30 million from the u. S. Postal Service Based on their promise to pay play fair and abide by the whiles including the rules against doping, but armstrongs attorneys is saying their clients drug use did not damage the Postal Agency and may have benefited it by 100 million. On wednesday armstrong said he will not talk to the u. S. Antidoping officials, that means his ban will remain in place. This morning former olympian Oscar Pistorius is free on bail in south africa. Prosecutors there insisted that the runner was a flight risk, but the judge disagrees. We have more with the latest on the case. Reporter photographers crowded around the range rover carrying Oscar Pistorius. South africa judge released the athlete on bail until his trial for the throttle shooting on his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. A camera crew followed his car to his uncles home. The court ruled the runner could not return to his own house, the scene of the crime. Prosecutors charged the former olympian, known as blade runner with premeditated murder say that he intended to kill the model when he shot four times through a bathroom door after a heated argument, but the double amputee claims that he accidentally shot her. Claiming she was an intruder. There was an intrusion. Reporter Oscar Pistorius supporters cheered in court and his family says theyre relieved. We know Oscar Pistorius version of what happened. That, that tragic night and we know that, that, it is the truth. That will prevail. Reporter a smokesman for the grieving steenkamp is saying the family does not know what the feel. Whatever happens will not bring reeva back. Reporter the athlete will have to report to police twice a week and is due back in court on june 4th. Wjz Eyewitness News. Oscar pistorius coach is saying he will start training next week, even though future competitions have been canceled. New information this morning nothing volving a maryland dna law being challenged in the Supreme Court. Maryland has required people convicted of serious crimes to provide a sample of their dna for years. But the state changed that law back in 2009. Now people arrested for certain Violent Crimes have to provide dna. However, according to newly released state data, 29 of 43 convictions made over the last four years could have happen without the law ever being changed. The change is set to be, be argued in the Supreme Court on tuesday. Final preparations are underway for hollywoods biggest and most glamorous night, the academy awards. Here is a report of the oscar preview. Reporter it is show time for crews outside of hollywoods theater. They are preparing for Years Academy awards. And catherine from florida is waiting to catch a glimpse her entire life. It is just amazing. Until you are actually here, you dont know what it is like. Reporter la times writer has covered the oscars for 25 years and is saying argo is this years movies to beat. Argo has worn awards. It has been like an unstoppable force. Reporter the star of lincoln is a favorite for best actor. If he wins, it would be a record three oscar for a lead actor. Reporter but 9yearold wallace and 85yearold riva had made history. Riva is the oldest nominee ever. Wallace is the youngest. This years list of oscar winners still under wraps and most of the decorations inside of the theater. Now, the red carpet is looking white, but all of the wrapping comes off on sunday. Catherine has too many favorites to pick just one. I want pictures and autographs. I want to all. Reporter fans will get their chance with this years moviemakers arrive for hollywoods biggest show. The oscars are tomorrow night. From movies to music. Two of the biggest names in. [ rock music ] joining forces to come to baltimore. [ music ] jay z and Justin Timberlake will perform at M T Bank Stadium as part of their legends of summer tour. Tickets dont go on sale until next week. Wow. Im so disappointed, gigi. You . Because i thought that the script said Justin Timberlake is performing at wjz Eyewitness News. Thats not what it said. Can you imagine what would happen here . Nobody could any work. They would be in the out back. Where are the producers. That would be insane. In the outback. And hopefully, they will not climb the walls like for the ravens parade. Thats going to be exciting. We will have to make sure that the weather for august 8th is on point. There good thing that were talking about august 8th. Yes. That is nice. It doesnt feel like summer today. But we can dream and think ahead. All right. Right now temperatures with freezing out there and ice out there and Winter Weather advisory. So, yeah. Not quite august 8th just yet, but it is definite going to be here before we know it. This is the last weekend of february. So were counting down. Right now were dealing with this Winter Weather advisory, it was in place initially until 10 00 a. M. In the morning. Then it was today be in place until the overnight hours. When these are issues it is just until the sun comes up, the temperatures have high enough to meltdown the frozen precipitation. So, well have basically a meltdown as soon as the sun comes up. The temperatures are starting to reflect that. We have rain on the eastern shower and cutting the corner son southern maryland. The light rain that hit yesterday evening, the temperatures were just cold enough to cause a bit of a frozen layer. Thats what is in place right now. It is going to take a while. A layer of black ice, thin ice in place. Be very careful this morning. The winds are pretty light. They are going to pick up has system that is moving across the southern portion of the region is going to setup shop offshore and move up to the northeast. This is part of the same, massive storm that moved across the midwest. It broke up into two pieces. The Northern Tier near the great lakes. The Southern Tier joined a low and streaming across North Carolina and South Carolina and virginia and form up shore and move to the coastline. It is the reason that we have rain today. For the most part not a big problem for us. We will actually start to see clearing tonight. Because it is slow by the winds will increase. Then maybe sun breaking out. Tomorrow is the better day of the two days. High pressure will build in. Sunshine and a few clouds tomorrow. Then a chance of rain by tuesday. Tomorrow and monday, things not too bad at all. The temperatures will also rebound. The average high is 46 degrees. We will be up in that range heading up to 50 into the weekend. Sunset today is at 5 54. 6 47 is your official sunrise time. Were in high tide. The next high tide is around 4 30 this evening. 45 degrees today. Rain and drizzle and cloudy tonight. 43 degrees. For tomorrow, 48, mostly sunny. And breezy. Sun stays with us through monday and then clouds increase again. 48 degrees on monday. 45 on tuesday with a chance of rain. Then wednesday and thursday the temperatures 51 and 46. Overnight lows in the 30s for the next few days. Still ahead on Eyewitness News saturday morning it is 34 degrees. Cloudy in central maryland right now. Wet, too. You can see there. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is straight ahead. Well, ice is a problem at a runway at the cleveland airport. A united flight from Fort Lauderdale hit a patch of ice landing in ohio and skidded off the runway. More than 100 passengers were onboard along with five crew members. Witnesses saw the plane go one way, and then another. Then ended up in the grass. It managed to keep going. The next thing you know, there was a larger bump and then we were down. There plane should not stop that quickly here. Reporter the airport is saying no one was injured in the incident. Floodwaters overtake 8en, greece. The water continued for more than a day. The riser water trapped people in their home and took parks vehicles downstream. One woman suffered a heart attack and died trying to escape the flood. They are saying they received 1,000 emergency calls. The nations largest conference of roman catholics meet in an high this weekend. As randy paige reports for wjz Eyewitness News. With a new pope about to be chosen and priest scandals to be cleared leaders have plenty on their plate. Reporter one weekend every year anaheim hosts the largest catherring of catholics in the united states. Some come from other parts of the country. It is a time reflect on the depth of faith. There feeds me. Reporter for many we spoke to from the plant archdiocese, there is another word to describe their feelings. Forgiveness. We have love. Reporter this deacon is speaking about deep spiritual counts about the sex crisis and the cardinal role in dealing with it. A lot of cadillacs want to keep him on the cross. Im sorry im not one of those. He has acknowledged his mistakes to the public. Reporter some question whether the cardinal should be allowed to join the 117 cardinals in elect a new pope. What the cardinals will say, this is not a personal choice whether to take part. Reporter john allen is the Senior Correspondent and a noted vatican expert. It is the most important duty of the office of being a cardinal, unless they have a grave problem of health, they are obliged to take part. Were supposed to be a people of forgiveness. Reporter members of the los angeles archdiocese that we spoke to, spoke to forgiving the mistakes of the past and looking forward to sing a new pope and a new chapter for the Global Community of faith that is known as the catholic church. More than 40,000 catholics are expected to attend the conference before the weekend is over. Brewers fans in maybe are braving the cold this morning. Check it out, they are hunkering down in tents for what they are calling an arctic tailgate to get first days on individual tickets for the upcoming brewers season. They will not be getting warm for another couple of hours. Tickets dont know on sale until 9 00 this morning. My question is why . Oh, no. High, why i have never known, well, milwaukee has a good team if you are a fan. But i have never known milwaukee fans to be that diehard, but they are. Look at the picture and no words. Thats not a word. No. No. No. I dont want to look at that. Our weather is cold enough. I dont want to look at our weather. But we have to. Still ahead on Eyewitness News saturday morning 6 all right. Charities are looking for new ways to energize. Now, as mike schuh report as colorful twist on an old idea. Looking good. Reporter put 12,000 people in white shirts. Promise them a good time and set them free and douse them with colored cornstarch again and again, and again. Do this and you have the countrys largest 5k series. The color run. For the first time on may 11th it is coming to baltimore to the stadium area downtown. Coming to benefit the cool kids campaign. A charity that helps kids with cancer survive and thrive. There color run, the happiest 5k on the planet. Reporter well, why would they call it that. So popular races sell out within minutes. The registration for the baltimore race opened on friday. They sold at one race in two days. Opened up a 2 00 p. M. Race. Are on their way. Reporter there will be 400 voluntaries to staff the two races. At the color stations, they will go wild. Unlike most runs the people on the sidelines are cheering for the runners. This is the runners cheering for the people on the sidelines. This is what we hope. It is about the kids, families, caregivers and sponsors who support us and make it possible for the kids. It is about them. We want to runners to know that. Reporter so it is not sold out yet, but it will be. Mike schuh, wjz Eyewitness News. There cost is 45. Cool kids could raise 15 to 30,000. We have a registration link on our website on wjz. Com. Click on the news tab and then local. A lot of color. A lot of color. Well be right back. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. All right. Look for occasional rain and drizzle through today. Mid afternoon and then things clear up. 45 degrees today. 48 tomorrow with sunshine. A bit breezy tomorrow. 48 on monday with clouds increasing. Then rain on tuesday. 51 on wednesday. 46 on thursday and the lows in the 30s. Thats the first hour of our saturday morning show. There is another hour of wjz Eyewitness News straight ahead. Good morning. Coming up next on Eyewitness News saturday morning a doctor under investigation for secretly videotaping his patients. Good morning. Im Meghan Mccorkell with more on lawsuits now being filed against Johns Hopkins. Good morning. See questeration spending cuts in washington could mean the control towers of five Regional Airports in maryland could start closing. Im kai jackson. Plus it is spring training opening day. The orioles are gearing up to take the field in florida, what allstar outfielder, adam jones is saying about this years season. Taking a live look outside, a foggy and wet start to the weekend in our area. Will conditions clear up . As we take a live look in the out book. Meteorologist tim williams with the answer in first warning weather. Eyewitness news saturday morning starts now. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. The temperatures are just starting to slowly get above freezing this morning. Still dealing with a few frozen precipitationtype problems. We have a little bit of a layer of ice out there in the outlying area. Because of the frozen ground and the mild area. We have fog over the area. So, visibility around the area will be a bit of a problem this morning. There is a Winter Weather advisory in place until 10 00 this morning. Until the temperatures area wide get above freezing and meltdown the layer of ice on the ground. So, be careful this morning. It is the type of morning to go out and slip. Sliding with cars. So, be careful. 34 degrees around the beltway. So, the hot air is not far away. We do have a chance of showers through the day. The temperatures up until the mid 40s. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. Thanks, tim. Now heres what people are talking about today. Major legal action against the prestigious Johns Hopkins hospital. Millions of dollars of lawsuit filed by patients after their gynecologies is accused of secretly videotaping one of them. Meghan mccorkell spoke to one of the patients. Reporter good morning, the first two lawsuits were filed against Johns Hopkins on friday and many more. I cannot believe it. Thats a violation. This is just shocking. Reporter patient after patient of dr. Levy in shock. The obgyn who worked at john hopkins for 25 years under investigation for secretly photographing and videotaping his patient. He took his life on monday. I felt so comfortable that i referred my mother to him. Reporter bell a patient for six years has filed one of the first law suits against levys estate and the hospital. I had no idea that this man was capable of doing such acts. Reporter 685 patients have signed on for another Class Action Lawsuit against john hopkins. Attorneys are saying the hospital did not do enough to protect its patients. What did he do with theseilityages . Did he put them on any sites . Did he sell them . Reporter investigators believe dr. Levy may have used a camera hidden inside of his pen to tape his patients. That invasion has some paranoid about future doctor visits. Im going to ask can we see your person. Reporter john hopkins released a statemented saying any invasion of patients privacy is installable. Is intolerable. Reporter police are now sorting through what they call an extensive amount of evidence discovered inside of dr. Levys home. Meghan mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. Thank you, meghan. Dr. Levy saw a thousand patients during this time at john hopkins. A multivehicle crash is under investigation this morning in anne arundel county. Three values crashed yesterday. It all happened when a ford pickup hit a mini van and it pushed it into the path of a gm c pickup. The driver of the ford truck has lifethreatening injuries. The driver of the mini van has serious injuries. It is not known if alcohol or speed played a role in the crash. Another shakeup this morning in the Baltimore Police department. Just after a Training Instructor shot a trainee in the head. Now the police Academy Director appointed weeks ago says that he is leaving the force. That a time, there is good news in the case. Mary bubala reports on the improving condition of the wounded trainee. Reporter ten days ago a university of Maryland Police trainee was rushed to a state Police Helicopter suffering a gun shot wound to the head. He immediately want into surgery. He is stable, but any, um thoughts or predictions about longterm neurologic outcome at this point are way, way, way too early. The recruit was shot by his Training Officer, who mistook his Service Woman for weapon for a training weapon. Now, less than two weeks later sources tell wjz Eyewitness News, that trainee is talking a little bit and even able to recognize people. Police commissioner bats has visited his bedside. The doctors said that he is progressing better than expected. However this is a long road and when you have the injuries that he sustained you cannot be out of the woods. The commissioner shutdown the Police Academy for a week. Six officers in the chain of command has been suspended. A wjz Eyewitness News investigation showed a lack of staffing and supervise, that leadership didnt know that the old hospital site was used for training. The Maryland State Police is conducting an investigation into what went wrong. Mary bubala, wjz Eyewitness News. Two of the six officers suspended after the shoot having now been reinstated. Four are still off of the job this morning. The Justice Department is joining a lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. The suit alleges the champion conseized his use of performance enhancing drug and defrauded his sponsor, the u. S. Postal service and armstrong and his teammates violated their agreement using the drug. More coming up in the next half hour. In the next few weeks make sure that you closely look at your bge bill, because rates take an increased to. The Maryland Public Service commission granted 65 of the utilitys request 175 million increase for electric and gas rates. For average electricity customers that means their bills will go up a little bit more than 3 every month. An average gas customer will see an increase under 3 every month. Bge is saying it will be used to update the utilitys aging infrastructure. The fact is that, baltimore is no different than any other city in the mid atlantic or the northeast. We have a lot of infrastructure that is aging. We see it with bridges and, and tunnels. We see it with water and sewer systems. Were no different. We need to continue to invest and reinvest in the systems to the sure that we keep up with the system and modernize the system. That takes investment. Bge is saying with the new increase customers bills will be lower than back in 2009 because the cost of energy dropped. Massive automatic spending countries will take affect in less than a week. Democrats are saying if the cuts go through on the first of march, everyone from food inspectors to fbi agents will lose their jobs. But republicans are accusing of the white house of using scare tactics to raise taxes. Among the many areas impacted if the cuts take effect are marylands airports cdc see widespread delays at bwi and smaller airports could shutdown. Kai jackson has more on the looming travel crisis. Reporter a budget battle in washington, d. C. Could have a Ripple Effect on air travel across the country. The Obama Administration is warning that it could be devastating. Flights to major cities like new jersey, chicago and San Francisco and others could experience delays up to 90 minutes. During peak hours. Reporter it is a high stakes debate, with 85 million in cuts on the line. I think for the most part it is posturing on both sides. Reporter transportation officials are saying it could force furloughs of airtraffic controllers. As a result control towers in cities across the country would close. In maryland, the towers after five regional and local airplanes could close if the spending cuts take effect. All right. They provide an important function in busy airspace. Reporter it is also possible that tsa screeners could be furloughs at the nations busiest airports. If that happens travelers are expected to expect lengthy delays. Passengers here at bwi marshall is saying any delays grater than what they experience would be a big headache. Someone who travels president business it is a concern. Im in airports two to three times a week. The last thing i need is to spend extra time. Reporter now, the the spending cuts go into effect. The five Regional Airports here in maryland will start closing as of april 1st. Kai jackson, back to you. Thank you. One of baltimores favorite desserts disappeared from store shelves a few weeks ago. This morning the mystery is solved. Delivery of burghers cookies were cutoff. The Health Department shutdown the company for operating without a license. Cookie lovers have no fear. The company is licensed once again. Operations are expected to resume next week. This mornings masn on wjz Eyewitness News report. The orioles will have their first exhibition game in sarasota. Adam jones and the os will take on themen twins. The first of 24 games. The os are hoping to build off of successful games from the 2112 season. That included 93 victories and their first playoff appearance in 15 years. Jones asked what it would take to be as good this year as last. Consistency, i think doing what we did last year and just concentrating on what got us there. We didnt need to do anything different. Just maintain that. Jones has limited time with the team this spring. In ten days he will leave os camp to play for the team u. S. A. In the world baseball classic. All right. We have been talking about the outfit that he had on between his hat, the shades, the original shades with the nike and the orioles color. The original tent and the shirt. He is wearing 300 to 400 from the waist up. It is so expensive to live in florida. You need that stuff. You need it. Just to block the sun. There at, the shades and the under armour. The sunscreen. We wish that we had Florida Weather today, not the case. We have milder weather moving in, nothing like sarasota. We have a few problems in place. Right now, 34 degrees. We are above freezing area wide. 34 degrees. So the air is saturated. The result of that, we have some fog out there. Visibility is limited right now. The winds from the north, northeast at 5 miles per hour. The barometer now at 30. 07. We have a little bit of rain along the Eastern Shore along souther maryland. The frozen precipitationation that came down yesterday evening fell on roadways that were warm enough to melt it down. As the temperatures dropped overnight and into the early hours of the morning much of that froze. If youre out and about this morning there is a thin layer of ice in place. There is a Winter Weather advisory in place until 10 00. Until we see the temperatures above freezing long enough to melt it down. So, you can see around the immediate metro area and points to the south and east the temperatures are above freezing, but you get out towards westminster, you get the idea, thats where the Winter Weather advisory is in place. And the temperatures are still hovering around freezing. The winds are coming in currently from the north at 5 miles per hour. A bit of an easterly component as well, adding to the moisture in the atmosphere. That is a result of the storm system that is moving along the coastline and expected to develop and move to the northeast. The big, massive system that moved across the midwest hit drier air and broke up as it moved into the mid atlantic. The top portion of it took the snow up to the great lakes. The lower portion keep the rain streaming across georgia and the North Carolina and South Carolina and virginia, that is moving off to the coastline now. Going to develop into a low that will kick wind back and the rain back early on today and then move to the north and northeast. It is going to move away. High pressure is going to build in. The result of that for us is clearing tonight. Then tomorrow well see sun, but the winds will also pick up as one system moves out and the next one will move in. Sunshine tomorrow, tomorrow is the better day of the weekend days. This is the last weekend of february. Were looking at temperatures in the 50 capitol hill not argue too much with that. As we start to turn the corner heading towards spring. There are no advisories currently on the bay. Occasional rain and drizzle. 45 degrees today. Tonight 33. Look for mostly cloudy skies. Then for tomorrow, 48. Partly sunny and breezy for the next few days. 48 on monday, clouds will increase ahead of our next rain chance on tuesday. 45, and 51 and 46. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. The 23rd of february. It is going to be a foggy start to the day. Relative humidity is, ah, around 100 . The temperatures at 34. The dew point is at 34. So the air is pretty saturated. Going up to 45 degrees today. Occasional rain and drizzle. Lows down to 33. Tomorrow is the better day of the two weekend days. 48, partly sunny and breezy. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. G. All right. Thanks tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Four deaths are now blamed on the winter storm that moved from the midwest to the great lakes. Many people in the nations heartland will spend the day shoveling several inches of snow. As we report, some are saying that is not necessarily a bad thing. Reporter from oklahoma to minnesota, snow totals range from half of a foot to a foot and a half. Slick roads caused this collision in iowa. Kansas reported 120 accidents in the state. 300 in minnesota. Heavy snow caved in roofs and Airline Schedules were snarled from chicago and st. Louis. Ice caused this jet to skid off of a runway in cleveland. Nobody was hurt, but some westerns welcome the storm. When you woke up this morning and looked out here and saw the snow, what did you think . Any a little bit of moisture is always great. Reporter george richardsons family has farmed this land in illinois since 1840. The persistent drought that has parched half of the country cost him 50 of his corn crop last year. I think we would need many feet of snow and then a nice slow they show that moisture would sink about the ground. Forecasters predict above normal springlike conditions from the Mississippi Valley eastward into the great lakes region. Moderate precipitation through next month. A medical helicopter crashes in Oklahoma City, 100 feet from a nursing home. Medics are saying two of the people on board of the aircraft were killed. Nursing home workers pulled a third person from the wreckage. He is in Critical Condition this morning. The flight team was traveling to pickup a patient and no one was injured on the ground. Researchers are saying there is a growing problem growing, literally, in lake huso, it is because of a lowing population of goldfish. The fish that we see in homes are living and thriving in lakes and streams. Experts are saying cause people are emptying their acquirements to open water. They are afraid it will upset the ecology and food chain of the lake. Like snake heads did here. Are they call coy if they are large and goldfish in a small tank . Yeah. Okay. Well, if you love to craft listen up, one of the largest craft shows in the nation is taking place downtown this morning. Wjz Eyewitness News is live at the American Craft council show, were join this morning by monica, the editor of American Craft magazine. He joins us this morning with ideas what you can expect if you go to the show. Good morning. Hi, tim, how are you . Good. So, monica, we hear craft and we think in our grandmothers basement and doing something with our hands and popsicle sticks. Thats not what this is . Well, thats one end of the spectrum. The people at this show are masters of their craft and some of their crafts are very high end. I can tell you about some of the pieces that ive picked as special at the show. Sure. Walk us through. Okay. First lets talk about this big one. This is a wood cultural piece by michael. Continuing in the vein of wood are the wooden eyeglass frames by peter. For glass, we have fred whos work is love, wonderfully dimensional. Ceramics. A lot of ceramics at the show. Im partial to justin. His red poppy detail is a signature of his. A lot of wearables a. The show and exas excessaries. I love this handbag and wood and fabric. A lot of jewelry. Tons of jewelry. Very hard to narrow it down, but i want to highlight a couple. This mushroom piece by jeanine, i can imagine it on a bridal gown. Then just for fun, i love the work of daniel whos work is done and make things that look like legos or eye shadow sets or candy. This necklace looks like a string of chocolate bonbons. Those are all beautiful. Monica, those are all beautiful. When we come back all of the names you mentioned, were going to talk about that. Because it is really hard to get into the American Craft council and have your work featured there. When we come back, well talk with you about that. All right. Okay. Monica with the American Craft count this morning. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning [ no audio ] governor omalley, propose to ban assault weapons is a controversial items. Vic carter explores the national debate. Reporter good morning, everyone. Those for and against limits on gun agree that the horrible shootings we have seen in the past few years need to stop, but they are far a part on the solutions. Aurora, colorado, triggers are call for action. It is clear, were not doing enough. America. We are not doing enough. Newtown, connecticut, the call gets louder. These are weapons of war. They belong or the battlefield not the streets. Reporter but gun owners strike back. I dont think that you can stop the people who are anti gun. Until there is no guns around. Reporter guns are a part of every day life for tracy and her family. Several times a week they practice firing their ar15 and other guns. Tell me what do you like about firing the ar15. It is smooth. It is just fun to shoot. It is something we do as a family. We come out and shoot together. Reporter but tracy and gun enthusiasts are on edge. Maryland is supposed to be the free state. [ applause ] for this bill passes, maryland will no longer be the free state. Reporter thousands storm annapolis outraged over the governors bill banning militarystyle assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Is it a concern that youre rights are going to be taken away . Absolutely. Why . I will not have the time to protect myself and daughter. Reporter passions one just as deep. What about my rights. I dont have a gun. What about my rights . What about my rights. Reporter charms admits he hates guns. It grew deep ago 12 years ago when a man shot and killed his son. He was 28. He was on the force 18 months. Charles believes his son would be aliveed to with the state had tighter controls on guns. There are millions of guns in our society. Why they are there, it just boggles my mind. Reporter the police chief pushes the issue to the National Spotlight. Representing Law Enforcement across america. Saying there is no good use for certain weapons. Across weapons and large capacity magazines are not used for hunting. We have seen too frequently lately, they are being used for mass murder. You take guns away from a law abiden citizen, you get the criminal. Reporter america without guns will be better for every one. What do you say to gun owners afraid that one day they will have to give up all of their guns. You up. Grow up. Lose your son to a murders and then tell me how you feel. Reporter vic carter, wjz Eyewitness News. Both the house and Senate Versions of the bans are scheduled to have hearings the first week of march. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. Temperatures just above freezing. A Winter Weather advisory until 10 00. Area wide were starting to see the fog settle in. So, visibility is a problem for now. The Winter Weather advisory is in place for northern Baltimore County and points to the west until temperatures get above freezing. Were going to see the temperatures climb as soon as the sun comes up, but there is not much sun right now. 34 degrees at bwi. Were going up to a daytime high around 45 with occasional rain and drizzle. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. Thanks, tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Hundreds of patients are suing Johns Hopkins hospital after their gynecologist is accused of secretly recording exams. Attorneys are saying that the hospital did not do enough to protect patients from dr. Levy, who committed suicide after being fired from the hospital. 700 patients have signed on for a Class Action Lawsuit against hopkins seeking 70 million in damage. Another patient filed a lawsuit against levys estate and the hospital as well. I had no idea that that, this man was capable of doing such acts. Johns hopkins released a statement. The legal problems for former Tour De France winner, Lance Armstrong are mounting this morning. Now the Justice Department is going after the disgraced cyclist. In a federal law suit, the government is saying he and his team owe millions of dollars in sponsorship money. We have more. Reporter the u. S. Postal service paid Lance Armstrong millions to way its logo, now the government wants that money back. The Justice Department is joining a lawsuit that accuses the cyclist of defrauding the Postal Service. The cyclist denied drug accusations when he rode for the team, but last month he admitted to oprah he doped his way to seven titles. I view this situation as one big lie. Reporter the cyclist was in settlement negotiations with government lawyers but talks choke down because the two sides were tens of millions of dollars a part. In a statement the Justice Department says armstrongs attorneys argue their clients drug use did not damage the Postal Agency and may have benefited it by 100 million. That was denise reporting. On wednesday armstrong is saying he will not talk to the u. S. Antidoping officials that means his ban stays in place. Baltimore county homicide detectives are looking for answers after the bodies of two people are found in a burned out car. The car was found in an alley in the 2000 block of north monroe street in west baltimore. Police discovered the becausies putting the fire out. It is not clear if they died by the fire or before the flames erupted. If you have information give police a call. A Baltimore County woman is in the hospital this morning after being attacked by her own dogs. Baltimore police are saying that she was attacked by one of two of her pit bulls. She has serious injuries this morning. Police are saying the pit bulls ran away after the attack and found a short time later. One of the dogs were aggressive. The officer had to shoot and kill the pit bull. The second dog is in the care of Baltimore County animal workers. From news now to music. Two of the biggest names in music are joining forces and coming to baltimore. [ music ] jay z and Justin Timberlake will perform at M T Bank Stadium part of their legends of summer tour. Tickets to the august 8th concert will go on sale next week. August 8th, though. This is cool that were talking about summer . Yeah. You know, im thinking that i can get away with doing weather like this. You know. Like. 34 degrees. You know, do you think that i can do that . And partly cloudy skies. You know, im thinking that i can. Were at w jay z. Why cant i . I dont know if it will go over weather. You a pretty good weatherman. Dont rap it. Lets take a look at first warning Weather Forecast. Okay. 34 degrees right now. 100 relate activity humidity. Were looking at north winds at 5 miles per hour. We have light showers around the area. South winds going to bring some of that up into the region right now. The midst that came in and the light frozen precipitation from yesterday settled on the frozen ground. That created basic problems that we have in place even now. So, the temperatures area wide get above freezing. Right now we have frozen precipitation in the northern counties. Hagerstown as well and out towards the west. The light frozen precipitation, the light layer of ice right now is going to be something that you have to deal with early on. Just be very careful, until the sun comes up and the temperatures across the region ran high enough and long enough to melt it down. 34 degrees around the immediate metro area. A northerly wind right now. A northeast wind around the Eastern Shore. Most of that on the Eastern Shore is in the form of rain. It is going to be really rain across the area for much of the day. The massive system that moved across the midwest broke up into two parts. It hit dry area cross the mid atlantic. The frozen precipitation moved to the great lakes. The rage around the North Carolina and South Carolina and georgia. But we have a bit of the frozen mix that is moving across the region. It is going to setup shop just across the Eastern Shore and move up to the northeast. What it is going to do for us is kick back that marine layer, that east winds. It is moving up. We and keep the moisture sitting over us for now. High pressure builds in. We are going to see clearing late tonight. Sunshine and a few patches of sun breaking through out towards the western counties and then see a better day tomorrow with temperatures up in the 40s, breezy conditionses as one system moves out and High Pressure moves in. The next high tide is around 4 30 this evening. Fog in place right now were looking at occasional rain and drizzle. 45 is your high. 33 tonight. Rain and a cloudy night. For tomorrow, 48 degrees. Partly sunny and breezy. A chance of rain on tuesday. Temperatures around 50 degrees on wednesday. 46 on thursday. Lows in the 30s. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning this is dylan right here this is dylan, and this is his big brother hayden. Dylans only five, but hes already been through two surgeries for brain tumors. And he just went through his second round of chemo. And this is their mother, dawn who runs this loving and happy home. She too struggled with tumors. But that doesnt slow her down. Her love of family comes first. Their dad, phil, works two jobs, repairing copiers, and on weekends delivering newspapers. But the bills keep piling up and the heating bill gets pushed off. When you learn about their difficulties it just breaks your heart. When we asked the Biggest Oil Companies to help families in need only citgo, the people of venezuela and president hugo chavez responded. Thanks to them, Citizens Energy is able to deliver millions of gallons of fuel to families just like the berios. Im joe kennedy. If you need help staying warm, call me at 1877joe4oil. Because no one should be left out in the cold oh, not a good looking inner harbor today. 34 degrees. First warning Weather Forecast is coming up. First there is a problem on a runway at a cleveland airport. The united flight from Fort Lauderdale hit a patch of ice landing in ohio and skidded off of the runway. 100 passengers were onboard along with five crew members. Witnesses are say immigrant plane went one way and then another and ended up in the grass. One bump led to another. Then it just kind of kept going. You know, there was a much larger bump and then we were down . There plane shouldnt stop that quickly here. An investigators say no one was injured in the incident. Floodwaters overtake athen, greece. The sudden and heavy rains continued for most of the day causing rivers to over flow. The rising water trapped people in their homes and carried parked vehicles downstream. One woman suffered a heart attack and died trying to escape the flood. They received more than 1,000 emergency calls so far. Brewers fans in milwaukee are braving the cold this morning. They are hunkering down in tents for an architect tailgate to get first dibs on individual tickets for the upcoming brewers season. It will not get warm for a couple of hours. Tickets dont go about sale until 9 00 this morning. You. Handmade jewelry, clothing and furniture you can find at one of the countrys top craft shows here in baltimore this weekend. Wjz Eyewitness News is live at the American Craft council show. We are joined by monica, the editor of American Craft magazine. Good morning, again. Good morning. So, monica, earlier you showed up kind of what is on the table. There you mentioned the names of the artist. We want to talk about how prestigious this show really is. Well, thousands of people enter or apply to be in the show. Only 650 make it in. Its highly prestigious. People try for years to get in. The people who do get in have very much masters of their craft . Are the artists coming in from the region, from the country, from the world. How far reaching are the artists . From all over the world. So, show us again, you mentioned i, saw on the table there, one of the artists that works in wood, wood only. Yeah. That is michael. Hes a wood sculpture. There is really something for everybody. It is a show. We have a lot of category signs to help people navigated the show. We have things under 100 like the baby spoons, and we have local artists at the show. This is the work of rachel and her jewelry is colorful and fun . And then the shoe. The shoe and the tie. All right. There are plenty of things here for men. I love the silk ties. Handmade shoes are a luxury item, once you go there, you might never go back. So, monica quickly, before we go, how can folks get in and what time are you guys going to be there . Today 10 00 to 6 00. Sunday 11 00 to 5 00. Tickets are 16 and worth every penny. All right. Thank you. Great stuff, thank you for joining us. Of course, all of the information is on our website. Wjz. Com. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning the ravens super bowl victory in new orleans turns out to be the last game of matts career. He announced his retirement yesterday. Matt made the announcement doing something close to his heart. Helping children learn to read. Did you hear that the ravens won the super bowl . His shirt said it all, finish everything. Today ravens center, matt burke did just that. Announcing his retirement after 15 years in the nfl. To play here for 4 years and coach harbaugh and his staff, it was truly an honor. To cap it with a super bowl win. Burke, a harvard graduate made announcement surrounded by students. That was part of another special announcement he had for a student he formed a very special bond with this year. 5th grader larry. A special kid who won over matts heart with his love for the ravens. Were going to put your name on it. Were going to call it the larry bryant reading oasis. So, kids that come through here after you will, will know about you, too and how special you are. Okay . What does it feel like to have a friendship with matt . It feels awesome. Like awesome. Reporter burke will miss the moments, he cant wait to spend more time with his own children. I have six kids. It is just time. I really enjoyed football. I have got tonight play for a long time. I have been very fortunate, but i just feel like it is time to to, to do something else. With that said, one last huddle for number 77. One, two, three. Reporter mary bubala, wjz Eyewitness News. Now burkes teammates smith treated that burke is a great role model and a parent. Great. Well be right back. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast. 45 today. Rain and drizzle in the afternoon. Clear tomorrow and sunshine. 48 degrees. 48 on monday. Rain on tuesday. 50 on wednesday with the sun returning by the end of the week. College basketball game in mississippi the crowd flipped out when a cheerleader makes this trick shot. Watch this. Oh, wow. Wow. Take another look at this student from william carry university. Combines gymnastics with basketball in a spectacular way. It was so spectacular. The globetrotters contacted here. She will try it at one of her games. That is impressive. Thats our show for this saturday morning. Captions provided by caption colorado, llc. 180077578