>> a very outgoing guy. he would do anything in the world for anybody. very scary, because you know, we live off the main road which, you would think nothing like this would happen. all of a sudden, there it is. >> reporter: now, again, state police are still in the scene. the names of both men are withheld pending notification of next of kin. police say the woman wasn't injured in the shooting but was taken to carroll hospital center for observation. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. the woman accused of killing her infant son whose body was found buried in druid hill park will remain behind bars. police say lakesha haynie confessed to the crime last night and is now charged with first and second degree murder as well as child abuse. records show lakesha haynie has had four other children and each of them had been taken away from her by city and county departments of social services. she was denied bail in a hearing this afternoon. police in anne arundel county are looking for this man. authorities say that 25-year-old thomas vertz of glen burnie is charged with assault and child abuse. police say on march 9th his 6 week old son was taken to the hospital suffering from apparent head trauma. the child remains in critical condition tonight. now homicide detectives say after conducting interviews and talking with medical personnel they determined that the injuries were the result of child abuse. worst fears confirmed for the mother of a baltimore county woman whose been missing since november. police say they had found the body of jerryell foster and charged her boyfriend with her murder. the young woman's body was found nearly two weeks ago along an exit ramp on i-95 in virginia. she had been shot in the head and stomach. and now police believe her boyfriend, frederick christian, pulled the trigger. >> i want you to know fred. this is only the beginning. only the beginning. the day has come, you're going to pay! you're requesting to -- you're going to pay. >> court papers say christian bleached the carpet in their cockeysville apartment, tossed their love seat and later told investigators he planned on pleading guilty to killing her but backed out of the deal days before jerryell foster was found. christian is behind bars in baltimore county tonight, without bail. baltimore county police identified a man found dead outside onwomenson lane in cockeysville. on williamson lane in cockeysville. authorities say he's 48-year-old vincente perez-soto his body found march 10th. detectives say they've interviewed several people but have no suspects. if you have any information you're asked to call metro crime stoppers, the number is 1-866-7-lockup. a man murdered during an attempted robbery in baltimore and tonight police are trying to find his killer. authorities say that 25-year-old daniel dixon was walking with a friend on frankfort avenue in east baltimore shortly before midnight. three men approached them and announced a robbery. dixon refused to hand over anything. there was a struggle and he was shot. he was taken to bayview medical center and pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. a man captured in west virginia after mistakenly being released from a maryland prison has aeed to be sent back to baltimore. raymond taylor was serving three life terms for attempted murder when he was mistakenly released february a 5th from from the maryland adjust center in baltimore. authorities say he posed as his cellmate who was scheduled to get out of prison that day. taylor was captured the day after he escaped. the wife of former baltimore raven michael mccrairy has withdrawn her petition for a protective order. mary claimed her husband had threatened her and a nanny. michael's attorney says the former defensive end denies the allegations. the attorney says the two are involved in divorce proceedings and agreed to communicate only to discuss their daughter. the father of a florida girl killed by a convicted sex phoner is calling for a change to maryland laws. mark lunsford, whose 9-year-old, jessica, was kidnapped, raped and murdered five years ago but a convicted sex offender says marylanders need to demand that state law protects children from repeat sex offenders. he says mandatory minimum sentencessed in to to be made for the rape and molestation of a child. >> we try to be strict. we don't have choices. let them challenge the laws we raise. let us raise them as tough as we can. and let them challenge us. >> mark lunsford has traveled the country with the child advocacy group calling on states to pass tougher penalties for sex crimes against children. many states have approved such bills calling them jessica's law in honor of jessica lunsford. also in annapolis, state senators have amended a bill to increase the dropout age to 18. they tweaked the measure including wording that the measure cannot be put into effect unless o'malley provides funding for it in the budget. the provisions of the bill could cost up to $48 million in the first year alone. supporters argue the state would save money on services for delinquent youth. the state of frederick? looks like it's not going to happen. the frederick commissioners rejected a proposal to consider seceding from maryland. the panel voted 4-1 against republican commissioner lenny thompson's resolution. thompson proposed secession is a a way to protest what he calls the general assembly's financial irresponsiblity. the pikesville chamber of commerce had a special guest at the monthly meeting today. former maryland governor robert ehrlich stopped to talk to the group. he encouraged small business owners to hold politicians accountable for their actions. >> we talked about what business people can do, on this election cycle, future election cycles, to protect themselves. to gain more influence in general assembly, to elect small business people, to serve in the maryland general assembly. >> ehrlich has not publicly announced his candidacy for governor in the upcoming 2010 election. a lot of supporters are actually urging him to run for the u.s. senate taking on democrat barbara mukulski in november. you could soon be playing games like craps, poker and roulette in maryland if the baltimore senator gets her way. she urged a senate panel tuesday to let the public decide whether to amepped the constitution to allow table games in maryland. >> let look live from our camera down at the inner harbor. after days of rain a welcome change. sunny and warm but will this springlike weather continue? meteorologist wyatt eberhart here with the first forecast. it was beautiful today. >> a nice beach scene there, too. won't be long before we're all heading to the beach. we've got blue skies across maryland now. just the last piece of that coastal storm well offshore, still cloud cover down toward north carolina. none of that here. baltimore 62 now. 62 from dc. we still got 63 out in hagerstown and high country. so really mild day in the wake of all that sunshine. i do think we're back in the mid-60s overnight tonight. it's going to be a clear and cool evening with a light north breeze continuing. that north breeze is going to actually change over the next day or two. so we're actually going to get warmer around here. much warmer, in fact by the end of the week. you won't believe how warm. we'll show you the numbers coming up in a few. just in time for st. patrick's day. if you plan to go out and about celebrating tomorrow, aaa and yellow cab want to make sure you get home safely. yellow cab will offer free rides to people who have been drinking as part of the tipsy tacky program -- taxi program. the only catch, you have to be celebrating at a baltimore city bar or restaurant. >> we will take you anywhere within the baltimore metropolitan region up to $50. anything above and beyond the $50, however, the balance then becomes the responsibility of the passenger. >> tipsy taxi begins tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. and continues through 4:00 thursday morning. if you need a ride, call 1-877-963-taxi. young drivers actually encouraged to be talking or texting behind the wheel. and if they have an accident all the better. it's a new program that allows young drivers to learn from what could otherwise be a very deadly experience. looking at columbia tonight, currently at a lovely 63 degrees. tomorrow's going to be even nicer. the details coming up. you're sure about this? i'm telling you: on our budgets these are bucket seats. but it rides like a dream. just buckle up and i'll take you for a spin. buckle... i would love to buckle. 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three of them. but that final stubborn south face hadn't ticked or toked ever since. artisans have come in to perform one of the most elaborate clock repair jobs ever witnessed in the city, pulling the 12-foot clock hands off the face. many of the same brass, bronze and cast iron pieces disappeared over time, and it's not cheap to craft them from scratch. >> it's a job that costs about $30,000. so we have received a $10,000 grant. we also had a match by the baltimore development corporation so we do need to raise an additional $10,000. >> the, the original cost, just $3,500. in the toughest of economic times the baltimore office of promotion and the arts will try to raise the money needed to finish one of the toughest jobs imaginable. just in time for the tower to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. >> this is such an iconic building when you look at the baltimore city skyline and you see the tower and it's truly just a part of the city. >> reporter: in downtown baltimore, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> the massive repair job is expected to take 10 days. the bromo seltzer tower also serves as the largest arts studio in the city and it's open to the public once each month. i hope we get that fixed soon. beautiful day, some blue skies out there. we're going to keep this going. we're on a good streak here. >> you have no complaints from anyone i don't think. >> just at the beginning here. late in the weekend and early next week, that's when we get another shot of rain but we have like five days in a row. >> it's a ways away. >> talk about a beautiful day on the water. we've got these nice longer days now, which makes things pretty nice out there as well. current conditions 62. we've only dropped a degree in the last hour from bwi marshall. light north wind 6 miles per hour, barometer 29.96 and holding steady. probably on the rise over the next 24 hours. i want to show you a couple of the stats from the day. 63 the high. 54 would be normal this time of year. you get an idea, we were above average. we'll blow this away as we go towards friday, temperatures up towards 70 degrees. blue sky. earlier this afternoon, earlier this morning at chesapeake beach, see the morning cloud cover? then clearing out very nicely into the afternoon. just a sapphire sky. look at mount airy, morning clouds quickly clearing out. then you see the blue sky. as a result local temperatures well up into the 60s. you see 63 from edgemere. 63 perryman. 63, kind of the lucky number today. some spots 62. some temperatures only 62 to 59 depending on which side of the chesapeake you're looking at. it's a little cooler off the chesapeake. a light north breeze still going on, not too strong but enough of a cool north breeze to hold the numbers down a little bit. we would have been even warmer without that north breeze. still a coastal flood advisory up for the southern eastern shore, those tidal sections, low-lying areas, there could be flooding there with one last high tide this evening and then should be be just about done with the flood threat in maryland. our satellite and radar shows things cleared out nicely across the state. here's the back edge of that coastal storm that brought us rain into the last part of the weekend and early into the week. that's now well offshore and well south of us. behind it there's not much there. the oath thing that storm is doing for us now, helping to provide that north breeze that held us into the low 60s today. that is going to let up tomorrow so we should be in the mid-60s, very mild air pushing in, up near 70 toward the end of the week. forecast model keeps us clear, no cloud cover, you have to get down toward alabama to find any kind of rain over the next 24 hours. back here, it's going to be all dry, clear, cool, light north breeze tonight. into your st. patrick's day, one of the best we've seen in baltimore in many a year. we're talking low to mid-60s. downtown, places like canton could see 65 or warmer. mostly sunny, beautiful day to be out under one of the tent cities that will pop up across the area. 37 tomorrow night, mostly clear as perhaps the party goes on for a few of us. then the outlook for the rest of the week, sunshine, warmer temperatures. we're talking close to 70 thursday. i think we'll hit 70 friday. and again on saturday. great day to kick off the weekend. in our "health alert" -- from cell phones to i-pods, no doubt your teens face a variety of distractions behind the wheel. there's a new virtual program that allows young drivers to live through the consequences of not paying attention. dr. san jay gupta has the details. >> reporter: 17-year-old hen rue suele just rear ended a car while using his cell phone. high school junior kaley markum just hit a pedestrian. well, not really. >> you're in trouble now. >> reporter: the students are testing a new driving simulation program called one simple decision, geared to teach drivers the consequences of driving while distracted or impaired. >> do me a favor. turn around. place your hands behind your back. you're being arrested. >> i do text sometimes in my car. i occasionally i do talk on the phone. >> i have a gps, my cell phone and i-pod. >> reporter: according to the national safety council drivers of all ages, are four times more likely to be in an accident when using a cell phone. at least eight times more likely while texting. >> you take inexperience, add on handheld electronic devices, distracting teenagers and you have a fatal combination. >> reporter: when the teens do inevitably crash during simulation they experience a mock arrest booking and sentencing. >> you're going to serve five days in the county jail. >> reporter: sobering consequences that shocked both kaley and henry who are both rethinking their behavior. >> i think i'll put down the phone and wait for a stop. >> reporter: a good practice that can make the roads safe for all of us. you may soon have more food choices at the movies. the head of sony pictures thinks theaters should offer healthier snacks to help fight the obesity epidemic. a survey by the studio finds 2/3 of movie goers would be likely to buy healthier concessions if they were on the menu. some choices are fruit cup, granola bars and air-popped popcorn. a live look now from our camera at the inner harbor. wyatt will be back with the final look at his forecast. and right now a look at our exclusive weathernet, in perryman, currently 63 degrees. honda is recalling about 410,000 vehicles, it includes odyssey mini vance vans and element small trucks from 2007 to 2008 model years. the brake can feel soft to drivers and must be pressed closer to the floor than usual to make the vehicles stop. honda says take them to a dealer as soon as they get notification from honda. letters go out the end of april. looks like the federal reserve pledge to hold interest rates giving stocks a bit of a lift. the dow closed up 43. the nasdaq up almost 16. the s&p almost 9 today. if you haven't checked out our "financial survival guide" you may want to take a look. on our web site today we're talking about building your own credit card. some companies are letting you design the look and actual the terms. plus, lifestyles of the smart and frugal. their formula for saving money. looking for a new job? four last-minute tips to help you make a good impression. just log on to abc2news.com. tonight at 11:00 -- we're following the arrest of the baltimore mother who police say killed her infant son and dumped his body in druid hill park. we'll have the latest tonight. plus, with the nicer weather comes an even bigger chance for your kids to get hurt while playing outside. tonight at 11:00, what local hospital is ready to give your children the extra special care they need if they do get hurt. those stories and much more, coming up at 11:00 right after "flash forward." to baseball now, spring training. the os beat the minnesota twins 3-1. josh turner had two hits and drove in one run for the birds. david hernandez pitched three scoreless innings. they head to fort charlotte tomorrow for the first time this spring to face the tampa bay rays. and now to golf. it's official. tiger woods is returning to golf. he says he plans to play in the masters next month in augusta, georgia. woods hasn't played since mid-november. a couple of weeks before that car crash outside his florida home that led to the revelation that he had been cheating on his wife. the golf star says though he's returning to competition he still has a lot of work to do in his personal life. congratulations. locally now, to the joppatowne lady mariners for winning their first state basketball title over the weekend. coach michael harris and his team defeated smithsburg 63-46 on saturday at the umbc arena to take the class 1a crown. jones and head lady the lady mariners to 18 points each. they were not the only harford county team to walk away with a state title. the fall -- fallston 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