suspected shooter. >> matt mcquinn. makalea medics. ver onicca oiz. >> reporter: one by one a city mourner promising never to forget those who died ann an emotional vigil. the community came together to grieve. >> tonight we reach out to each other and love each other and love our neighbors. >> reporter: president obama offered condolences on behalf of the country. >> it was a opportunity for families to describe how wonderful their brother or son or daughter was and the lives they touched and the dreams they held for the future. >> reporter: the suspect in friday's mass shooting at a packed movie theater will face a judge monday. james holmes could be charged with first degree murder which carries the possibility of the death penalty in colorado. police are not commenting on apossible motive but there's evidence of calculation and deliberation. leading up to the rampage. 12 people died and dozens more recovering from injuries hahned by what they experienced. >> i thought i was -- hahned by what they experience night thought i was dying and going to fade away. >> reporter: this is expected to be a emotional week in aurora as families prepare to bury loved ones. the prosecution will continue to build the case against holmes and figure out what charges they will file against him. the list of charges will likely be extremely long. reporting live, renee marsh. >> thank you. the movie studios are waiting until later this morning to report the official figures from the new opening weekened. numbers were delayed out of respects from the victims of the shooting massacre i'm cord together "new york times," the dark knight rises is estimated to be around $162 earned from the weekend. -- $162 million earned from the weekend. keep with us for the new information and slide show under the national section including video and pictures all of this once again at abc2news.com. update on a developing story out of texas. we have been following this throughout the morning. and at least 11 people are dead after a pickup truck left the highway and crashed into a tree. this happened overnight in the town of goliad about 100 miles southeast san antonio. all the victims were in the same ford f-250 peckup and another 12 people were -- we are talking about 23 people 11 in one car alone. they are dead. some have life-threatening injuries. the decision from the nc a a could be three hourss away what sanctions will be hand down to penn state university's football program as they have taken down the at that time stat you of joe paterno -- statue of joe paterno. sherrie johnson has a preview of what's expected for today. a lot of people are saying the punishment could be severe. >> reporter: a lot going on at penn state. the ncaa plans to announce sanctions against penn state and the football program at 9 this morning. while the statue of the late legendary football coach is gone. it was taken down early sunday morning by the university. they used tarps to keep underwraps as much of the activity as possible and an independent report found paterno should have done more when he heard jerry sandusky was abusing young boys. a turn cowas fired after 61 years at pen -- paterno was fired after 61 years at penn state. the removal of a crowd of people. some felt it had to go and others didn't quite agree. >> it takes time to heal anything. i think that time is what we need. it's a knee jerk for penn state. >> reporter: now in a statement the paterno family says removing the statue doesn't help the victims. >> a lot of people are talking about guessing in terms of what the sanctions will be. we have had reference to the death penalty that's begin to smu in 1987 effectively killing the football program. are we expecting something similar with penn state. >> reporter: well, espn reports that penn state will be banned from bowl games for more than a year and lose several 1k08ar -- scholarships but we will await the announcement at 9 to hear what happens. we will stream this live on abc2.dome. -- abc2news.com. >> thanks so much for the update. and abc2news.com is the place to go. when the punishment is handed down we will have it on the website and if you head to the facebook fan page, let us know what you think about the decision of the ncaa sanctions hand down around 9 this morning from indianapolis. thanks a lot. all new this morning, we will find out today how a person died in baltimore city after officers found a decomposed body near johns hopkins university on the campus. all police know this morning is that the body was that of a woman discovered in an apartment in the charles village neighborhood. an autopsy should reveal how she died. as a parent, when a child gets sick or needs medical care you want what's guest for them and available. but when you are losing the care things can appear bleak. linda so is live with a story of a baltimore family's fight to get the best care possible for their young daughter. linda. >> reporter: she is a 3-year- old girl who spent a lot of time at mount washington pediatric hospital. that's why today her parents will head to d.c. to urge law makers save pediatric health care programs on the chopping block. meet simone, this 3-year-old from hampden has beaten the odds. from birth she has been treat for a number of illnesses and needs constant medical care. her mom quit her full time job to take care of simone but that hasn't been enough. they rely on government aide like medicaid and she has doctors visits and therapy and her parents are going to dc to ask law make make -- makers to preserve medical. >> if anything the reqierlts will increase so we need the funding to continue. >> reporter: now they will be joined by 30 other families in dc today. it's part of a 3-day event called family advocacy day and the message they are hoping to get across to lawmakers is that they know the importance of how important the funding programs are to families, like simone's because little lives depend on it. live, lnda so, abc2 -- be linda so, abc2 news. clash between protesters and police and all caught on tape. find out what fronted -- prompted this near riot. think i've seen a lot of dust? check this out. how bad visibility got. >> right here. i should have my foot in the water right there. >> drought conditions drying up profits and the sacrifice a maryland farmer is being forced to make. >> called boobs. storms we will be talking about a cold front that could bring us strong to severe thunderstorms. wonderful forecast coming up ongood morning maryland. 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rains a lot or none at all. it's the darnedest thing. >> reporter: he is a third generation farmer. >> it's fairly dry. won't have anything to dig with. >> reporter: look at his water reserves and you can tell why. >> water is supposed to be right about here. i should have my foot in the water right here. >> reporter: to save water he has to turn off the irrigation pupp to the christmas trees that are just coming up to keep water flowing to his money crop, the peaches. these peaches are growing well now, but it hasn't been an easy year. aside from the drought and the hot conditions, it was an early spring. >> there's farmers in the drought out there singing blues and reevaluating the risks and extend risks. >> reporter: the fires in the midwest and corn belt are getting socked. in this, the worst drought since 1956. for consumers, it will likely mean fire food prices. for farmers, it could mean the end of the livelihood. >> you can't control mother nature. >> right. you can't control mother nature and the corn is in the ground at the right time and they can go to market at best price but you better be sure they have the corn to deliver or you are coming up short. we will take this and this weather thing is the only monkey wrench in it. >> reporter: the weather is maddening and the highs and the lows. lisa sylvester she's inn. >> we get rain throughout the course of the weekend and think there's relief in sight but we are so far behind and as lisa talked about in the piece, the trickle down effect of the crops being sacrificed corn specifically that gets into your grains and breads and things we eat on a daily basis and also feed for cattle. now the meat provides also go up. it's a chain reaction. >> you are right. and it will hit us hard. maybe not yet but as we continue in august, we have to get through august out there. and that's the driest month. >> traditional on the calendar year. >> and then things change been you this -- but this is going to be bad. we are way to dry way too early. you said it's all intertwined. >> absolutely. >> so the rain weekend i hate to use the metaphor a drop in the bucket. >> we need a soak rain and that's not going to happen. this pattern is locked and load for dry conditions. i am sorry but that's what's going on. maybe storms today but it's isolated. chesapeake beach socked in with the clouds this morning. that's going to be the story through the course of the morning hours. in fact, look at temperatures. 72 in town. 7 # in easton and 76 in dvland. eastern shore. 70 to 72 degrees but that's going to change. tonight it barely gets down to 75 degrees. here's maryland's most powerful radar. a few spotty showers early on around 4:30 edition when we talked. the spotty showers moving quickly now over into the eastern shore. let's show outthe setup. suddenly wind bringing in that humidity. and out towards the west a vigorous cold front doesn't look like much just yet. but that's going to interact with a low level moisture. the humidity and tryinger's shower afternoon thunderstorms. we will call strong but some of the storms are capable of producing some hail damaging winds and certainly dangerous lightning. and all the humidity will trying earth lightning. future trend shows temperatures around 88 degrees on the way from 91 for the two degree guarantee. this one model says most of the action is towards the north. i think it will be a start for maryland going into the course of the afternoon. only down to 78 at midnight and dropping to probably 75 and then we are up into the 90s as we head into tomorrow afternoon. the best shot of storms will be well down towards the south and to the east of the cold front that will sag through. so we will be watching the storms. right now indications are there will be -- they will be strong to perhaps locally severe. in terms of the forecast today, 91 degrees. humid sunshine. there are real feel numbers into the 70s with after the noon storms developing. tonight going down to around 73. early storms and muggy and warm. here's seven-day forecast. really, not bad. the seven-day forecast unsettled it will be the theme. 91 with humidity today. tomorrow starting out humid but we will dry things out. look at the forecast, 95 on tuesday. it's a by phut dale -- beautiful day on wednesday. here comes humidity once again by thursday, and going into friday, 91 on thursday and friday 90. and all indications points to a dry weekend going forward with temperatures into the middle and upper on the abc2 timesaver traffic. we will miss the issue into the traffic center. 95 northbound at route 100, a report of an accident involving a single vehicle. expect delays north of meadow ridge avenue. we are keeping ion in baltimore city lombard and light street being affected this morning in addition to fleet street between caroline and bond street. several lane closures continue this morning. that's going to to be a long- term issue we will address. so avoid the area at all costs. 695 harford road looking good. and the drive times well not too bad at this hour. 795 to 95 about a 13-minute ride. 695 to downtown 12 minute ride and hitting up the 695 to fort mchenry route, just about an eight-minute commute. now to you. thanks a lot. funeral arrangements being made for the 11-year-old stepson of usher ray mand. he died two weeks after a jet ski accident on a lake in georgia. the boy's mother was married to your otherrer for two years they have two children together and divorced in 2009. he and others had been tweeting condolences to the family. authorities believe catherine jackson the mother to michael jackson was vacationing in arizona after being reported missing. paris has been tweeting saying she hasn't heard from her grandmother in a week. catherine is the children's legal guard yenian and this is in the -- guardian and this is in the midst of the estate left to his children and mother. in health news criticism of a recommendation that there should be a widespread screening for u.s. children and high cholesterol. in journal pediatrics researchers say the guidelines from a government appointed panel were influenced by the finances tiges to druse make members reportedly had ties to the drug -- research efforts will be discussed in the it's conference. one doctor says the aids epidemic is far from over. >> we have a long ways to go. hiv for now at least, is with us for a long haul. we don't have a cure. we do have the ability to control it much like we control many other disease states whether it's diabetes or high blood pressure and other things. >> it's been 31 years since the first case of it's was reportacross the blob globe. researchers at the -- globe. researchers say all though the rate of the new hiv infections has declined, it's still killing thousands of people every year. you planning a summer get away? what you need to know before booking the vacation rental so you don't send up being scared. details 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home which is down a long tree covered driveway and sits on the beach is not owned by bruce christian although she says that's what he told her. she had a contract for the deal with him. >> you have called. [audio not understandable] please leave a message after the stone. >> reporter: christian's number has been disconnected and vacation homes.com says they can't comment on any investigations. but they emphasis they don't get involved with transactions or payments and don't provide guarantees or srt if i cases. the family are upset they are out 6200 dollars for a one-week stay. >> i am heart broken and devastated. as a head start teacher and two children i work hard for my money. >> reporter: money lost on a vacation that turned out far different than the one they planned and paid for. joceterman -- sterman, abc two news. users are urged to be aware of lower than normal rental prices offers with poor or broken english and any landlord who wants you to wire monday y. those who do are typically scamers. if you want to check out this or other stories, joce's filed in the past, head to abc2news.com and click on the money tab and find it under scam alert. the opening ceremonies for the olympics is this friday. the torch got a bird's eye view of london yesterday. the nape was on top of the ferris while which is a landmark in england. a 17-year-old carried it on a specially built cage hundreds of feet in the air. the torch will arrive across london this week before arriving at olympic park. 17,000 unpaid volunteers will spend summer holiday work the games. to save on expense camping out london all to be a part of the once in a lifetime experience. one of the 2 dozen volunteers pitched a tent. during the next few weeks, thousands will be arriving across ten locations and 15 dollars a night americans staying here says this is the way to go and for spectators and a budget. >> it's exciting and a once in a lifetime opportunity and i am interested in sports. i want to see. [audio not understandable] >> so far he greets athletes at olympic village and he says it's going pretty smoothly. you can go to the mall for new clothes and new phone or maybe a haircut. but it's the visitor who took a stroll inside the pittsburgh mills mall that caused a run for the exit. and ten seconds and a pile of dustch the company helping to change the skyline in new orleans. we will show you more and what's causing that and mike matteson you like that. >> i love it. it's going on. humidity is in play. we have a cold front out to the west. this is going to creep from storms across storms. that's good morning maryland. 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