begins.(18:20:08) "i put a for-sale sign on my buildingg how the event to is sending one small business packing and the pesssmistic outlook frrm the race's own organizers. organizers. a reversal of fortune. how a major league sta the world of business. high's in the mid--0's with a that trend will continue in mm &pskyyatcc forecast. foreeaat. and some rough waters for battle over a business thht . promises fun and dventtre. hello, i'm jennifer gilbert 3 jeff barnd is off toniiht... tonight...a jarring prediction tooight from tte new organizers of tte baltimore grand prix..... after last years race ended with years race will lose money too.- too. jeff abell streaming story, jeff.... jeff.... in about eight peeks,,the roadwaas downtown new ooganizers willltry . - to make a go....oo baltimore's struggling grand prix. but already they're predicting a loss....before the race has startee.arted. (federaa hill sidewalk/businesses) for store owner beth hawks..... (18:22::9) "it was the hardest decision i've ever had business has survived a decade in federal hill..... but it maa not survive anothee weekend of racing. sign on y building. whee i heard they wereebringing the grand prix back i decided to no respect for any ssall hhs business in this town." (grand prix race nats) in eight weeks, the baltimore grand prix is slated to racee through city streets..... it not only shuts down business....it shuts off sales.... organizers of last years race lost millions of dollars....and left many bills un-paid. this year....theee's a new set of invessorssand nascar's michael it. (mayor) "i don't e - thinkkanybody can bb frustrated about andretti motor sports being eight weeks to go, the new organizers are already predicting this race will lose money. but with a five turn a profit next year. t (17736:44) "you're not going pt gee it right the first time out." (17:54:18) "i think in order tooestablish certain reddntials as a city,, you haae to do it a few times even if you loseemoney." (18:20:50) "hh's awfully luckyyhe can lose money this yearr ttey don't care about last year and have never recouped from laat year.. in federal hill, they've gained a race....and lostta business. ( 3 organizers aren't saying how many tickets arr sold ffr ttis planning to unleash a marketing campaign next weekk...and insist ticket &psales are on target with expecationss downtownn jeff abell, fox 45, nnwwsaa tee. thattbrings us to our question of the daa.knowing thht the baltimore grand prixxis not expected to make aaprofit this should go ahead with the race? here's a look at our facebook page...still a lively discussion about this one tonight...many of you saaing that the city should not go ahead with the race if it will discussion by going to - faccbook dot com slash fox- baltimoree a former priiccpal of chesapeake high school in anne arundel county is found are chaaged with killiig him. 76-year-old william norman floating in a canal in davie, florida last thursday.his head was covered by a plastic bag with tappewrapped around it. 19- year- olds ádavid desirá are charged with his murder.according to recordss.. weintraub lived in a house owned by norman in tamarac... just about 10- miles from whhee his body was found.he norman... 27-36"you see it on the news and papers all the ime - but you doo't think it's going to happen to someone you deserves that but especially nnt omeooe like him." him."129-133"it bothhrs me a lot. little punks taking on a 76 year old man." &ppan..the sun sentinel reports that on at leaat one occasion norman and his tenants ggt into a heated argument.andd norman told nnighbors he was threatened and was afraid of them. a bbltimore city and the charges involve prosti. daniels --in roland park whhre co-workers have leerned the arrest happened after a raad byya federal task force.. keith. jennifer..... tte he's a firefiggter and parammdic. simmons works here at the truck 25 company in roland park. but acttvity has put his job on the line. line. jamar simmmns s a city firefighterr.... a public servant accused of running an on-lineeprostitution ring. now to the serious allegations cartwright) again, it's arll in the process. we initially have prooeeded with suspending thiismember ithout pay. we''e beginning, as we speak, our own investigatiin."" pollce have also arrested franklin coit. he's nn firefighter, pollce call hhm a man with a criminal past, a convicted felon.. who like pimmons, faces prostitution investigators arrested both - mennmondayymorning.. after police ann theef-b-i's human trafficking safe streets task force moved in at the ccabridge buiidinn on southh pulaski street near west pratt. (smaalwood/tenant) "there's studio spaces ere that alllw people to wwrk essentiallyy some peopll use it as storage, here."(keith) "ooce inside simmons' space,, genns say they found a handgun, drugs, prostitution "tally sseets," large amount of condoms andd severaa computers." tony uuger...... ...........was sittinn n his &psttps across the street, when (burgerr/itness) " thee pull up, wwnt in,,did whht theyyhad to do, they was out. there was no marked cars,,no it was just real smooth andd polid." police say phe investigation lead them to tteee,,lead themmto the suspects. they diicovered later, one oo them was a firefighttr.(guglielmi) "the bottom line is whether whether you''eea fireman, - whether you drive aa ambulance or ice cream truck, this aggncy is committed to holding according to fire officials, simmons haa been with the department since 2000. he's suspended tonight, wwthout pay, ending tth outcooe of hiss rooanddparr, keith daniels, fox 45 nnws at ten. an early morning fire... sends one person to the hospital.it north linwooo avenue near started innthe back of the house... wwere construutioo is neighbor was sent to he hospital because of smoke inhalation. just one day ago, we reported the ccosing of two baltimore city fire companies. tonight.....((?))a pay raise for the fire chief???i's not a wants to give him a tww yor percent raise.but as john rydellreports...that proposal...is drawing fire from theunions representing fire fighters... ((nats))hees been chief of baltimore's fire department for our years. james clack then mayor...sheila dixoo. mayor..oosteppanie e's curreet - rawlings-blakeis offering clack a two percent raise...ann plans to exxend he currently earns more than 161-thousand a year. (mayor) "we'veehad the lowest number &pof firr deaths in the city siicc the early 30's, i'm pleased wiih the work f y fire chief and tte department &pand i'm glad that he's stayii onboard."(rydell) "but the uuion representing fire fighters say even a two percent raise for the chief is fighters are not receiving ann increase."(campbell) "we were told toolive with zeeoo percentt i don't hhve a problem with that if everrone's going o feel the i don't have an issue with it, and as far as i'm conccrned,, the chief of the fire ddpartment should jst turn phe raiss down and say if my folks get a raise, iim not going to accept raise.""no pne'ssgetting laid off, no rick hoffman...who heads firr fighters local 7344..is still pppet. he calls the proposed raiis for chief plack...ill-timed.... trying to save money...byis shutting doww two fire all asked to take a hht and we pave been, we ust cllsed two comppnies, the axe issstill october, i think any perceet raise is way too much."but in the hands of ttheboard of estimates...which lans to vote on wednesday.in baltimore, john rydell, fox 45 in a stttement...chief clack sayy he's verr honored to have served as fire chief...and is haapy that the maaor haa asked him to continue serving. 3&&panother altimore police offiier isssentenced in a towing scheme.offfcer jamie lugo will spend two years kickback scam hat exposed n more than 66 officers.lugo is the 14th officer sentenced in phh scandal which involvvd police refeering the owners of damage vehicles t a rosedale cash. three men pled ánntá guilty in a quadruple shootiig that killed a 12-year-old last suumer.deerick brown, antwan mosely and danyae robinnon are ccaaged wiih first-deggee murder in the shootiig death of 122year-old sean johnson. the oy was shht o death while watching a basketball game on the front porch of a home in east baltimore. innestigaaors say neighbors helped identify the suspects.. &pand phhne records ccnfirmed p& a oophole in the law is pllowing crimiiallsto use junkyards as clearinghouses for stolen cars. crime and justice reporter joy lepola lepola investigates how it's ha. happening. ((pkg))3 the sign reads 2-hunn fifty dollars for vehicles. &pan enticing offer if you're a &pcar thiee looking forr place to get id f a stolen carr come to find out... it's legal avenue. that can ed to picking uu cars sometimes right oof the street or off aa prooerty without any the owner and taken o the destroyed often wwthin minutes there was o notice to the oower and ot tttle presented ii many casss... jist omeone pigning aapiece of paper.14:15 9:57 certainly it's not what &pyears owever certain lawmakers have loooed the otter way refusing to changee criminal activity to continue. delegate and assistant 15:466at one point you could n. saa it was a car a dayyalmost butt bite7:09 ii becaae very clear we had a huge proolemm numbers show... in the first pour months of 2012... 148 at junkyards liccnsed by tte mmtor vehicle administration. buell 1:05 our osition has alwayy been that the dismantler or scrap processor haa to notify an individual the last owwer or lein holler of a vehicle when it comes into their possessson. that mighh be the cuurent practicc &pbut owwers offjunkyarr would argue the law allows it.stand up... the way the law is written right ow any sttlen car can trade it ii if the vehicll is 8 years or older is ended and owners oo these businnsses aren't liable becaass of annagreement signed between them and the individualldellgate 12::3 the car theives are in the business of stealing cars. the scrappyards are in the business of recyclinggmetal particuallary junk cars. thatt busiiess practice howeeer is reevmped..... f beeng - video ggme company heaaed to p federal bankruptcy court toda. today. schilling was a tar diamondbaaks but aaso played for the oriolls, phhllies and astros. his business... 38 studios... reportedly owes more than 270 milllon dollars. the company closed its doors last month. ann schilliig says the collapse has probablyycost him is entiie baseball fortune. &pit's now official....maryland marriage.opponents of e sex mar- maryland's new law allowing same sex marriage.... number of signatures requiree fall's ballot.and nnw...the stateboard of elections....haa ooficcallyy"certified"more than 100-thousandof thooe signatures. the lastest statewide improvement for students iggt mixeddnews forstudents in baltimore city public schools. mmth scores are up arouud tww percent in gradesstree through eiggtfrom thh year beforr.but school students are middle down...nearly threepercent. the c.e.o...sayy one problem...is that between twelle to fourteen percent of students....are chrrnically pbsent. (alonss) "ttere'' a huge challenge nd we need tt work communities about making sure that the kids arr in school or phh progress is going o be sustain."students considred chronically absent...miss "20" or more schooldays a year. 3 3 3 need some eep wwth your dollars in free groceriessit's our giant summer contest!ii you waat to winna 50-dollar giant gifttcard... go to our faccbook page.. facebookkddtt become a fan and compleee the entry form. we'rredrawing winnerssall eek oo fox45 morninggnews. adam jones... at the home un derby... enjoying a snack... &pphe thhng he said it needed.. that made maryland proud... later on fox45 news a ten screaming natsdrops out of ride ride look at that... a ride...the thing that scared her so much... she had to get ten (41:499its going to give me the ability to ive a more house.....e life in y house.... but next...a navy sailor... with terminal rrin cancer...the repairs... and the volunteers...thaa will aalow hhm to peed hii remaining days at home...after [ female announcer ] over the last ten years, your mouth has sipped, snacked, ...yellowed... giggled, snuggled, ...yellowed... chatted, chewed, ...yellowed. and over all those years, your teeth...have yellowed. fact is, if you're not whitening, you're yellowing. crest 3d white whitestrips remove over ten years of stains by going below the enamel surface. and, they whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. life opens up when you do. a nnvy sailor with terminal bbain cancer makessa final requestt.....to die at home... karen pprks joins us now to tell us how more than 100 volunteers made this possib. possible.... its truly a &pttuching storyy...this soldie wants to spend his remaining days at home.....buu epairs needed were beyond his samaritans......gatheree to true.... (nats of building)(27:05)for me its the beginning of a very happy story......its a new worrdd...... for kenneth fennell, his wiff and two children......(39:46)its a different place....... keennth fennell an ctive duty sailor haa termiial brain cancer.....he and his family with 20 other fammlies..... g because his hhuse could not &paccomodate his disabling disease.....(22:09)when you haveeyour last days there are tinkgs i want him to tell our children and teach them just private moments.....special spenn his finalldays at along with the navy marine phat wish...(24:41)they are puutingg a ramp throught the back of the house wiiened a walker.....team depott....painted patti furniture......refinis heddwalls.......and so much more....(41:49)its going to give meetheeability to live a more comfortable liie in my house.....(nnts)comfortability his wifeesays......will prolong the inevitaalee.... come ome....more than 100 wwrkers....shooed up......and pitched in.....(23:06)its unbellevable that ttis many people came on thhir own free time to help somebody hhy didn't know....(23:12)we'll forever be bonded by his..... home depot would not release the cost of the prooect.......but for the outcome......is priceless.... (27:588 &pif culd ssnd each and ever person a hug and a smilee nd just thank you my ccildren will have heir father at ome they'll be able to talk to him and have private moments and quality that we would have neeer had.....((ats)(42:19) there's nothing like being hhme.. the project is expected to be it seems very few people aree restoring pooer after the violent stoom n june 29th. 299h.leaders of baltimooe city...baltimore county...and and othee couuties......sent a letter toothe public service commissiin.they want power comppnies tt disclose exactly which buildings didn't have power.......to look in to burying power lines......and baltimore county councilman david marks will have a community meetinn with b-g-e... no date has been set yet. 3&people areestiil cleaaing up from ttattstorm.. and many over tteir insurance policies and looking to hire contractors to handle repairs. melinda roeddr haa some crucial advice rrm the experts. experts. rolaad park... barbara dalles &plimbs and chunks anddtrunks. p5:22 "it sucks" thhs is ne of thee&neighborhoo the big storm.57700 "the &pproblem is there arr so mmny matuue trees in this neighborhood... ttey just come down in this kind of weather." she's not even surr the lack cherry tree is echhncally in her yard - or her nnighbors - buu when it comes to cleanup... it doesn't really matterr58:19 "i think/ if our neighbor's tree falls on your house, it's on you."md insurance admin: 01:09:13 "the general rule is whomever home itthitt, that's experts with the maryland insurrace administratioo... areegetting lots of questioos about claims and coverage.most dollarsstotallfor tree removal. and most deduutibles are around a thousand.01:10:24 "so if it's a very small claim deductible - you wanna think long and hard about whether to make the claim at all." of having their rates o up ii thee file a claim.but raking care oo the cleanup on your "and it's expensive!... it's very epensive"barbara understaads - it must be done. feeling hassled.(from e - a claim."ed herbbrt was upset caused by his neighbor'sse fallen oak.03:19 "somebody pesees tree... whoever it lands oo. that's what's responsible." he's getting a hand from frienns - with a chhinsaw. (backkto today) 01101:47 - hired the proffssiinals with hours of work....she was ready to kiss that cherry tree goodbye... for good.01:00:16 - "goodbye!... waves"melinda roeder... fox 45 news t ten., 3georgg zimmerman's attorney says his client s in despprate need of money. money.he posted ten-percent of his one-million dollar bail oo friday.ziimerman's defense lawyer is using hissonlinee blog to urge those who feel &pzimmermannwws justified in shooting trayvon martin.... to donate money to his legal deeeese fund. (("well, it ii a bit unique, again, anddi'mma bitt conflicted by it to be honest. we're trying to deal with the realityythat georgeedoes noo have any funds of his own. he his suuporterr and a lot of those supporters, the comments phey've given us have shown a variety, a pectrum of supporr...a lot of which are ttoseethat believe that georre did in fact act appropriaaely.") in a safehouse provided by his - security team in seminole county, florida. &p as the race for the whit house heats up, the candidates are debating who's better forr economy. tonight the president is taking new criticism from republican mitt president obama has been quoting a washington post report that romney made bii money by outsouucing jobb at bain capital. while ssme independenttfact-checkers have debuuked the chhrge, the president doubled down on the aatack. romney fired 3 "by putting money ntooenergy companies, solar, wiid, energy their products outside the pnited states. if there's aa outsourcer in chief it's thh &ppresident of the unntedd ptatts, not the guy who's running to replace him. thee bama camp is also steppinggup ts attacks on romney's offshooe accounts. p vice presidenttbiden told a prominent hispanic grouu that quote,,romney wwnts yyurrpaperr, but e won't show meeting oo axes. it's set for thii ttursday at 7-pm in our studios..and you can see it by going to our website at fox baltimore dot-com. union memberrhii in the u-s political influeece seees to ' be oo the rise. the "wall street journal" has revised iis estimatt for how mmch orraniizd abor has sppnt on political activity over the last seven years. the "journal" now places the biilion, the number usually cited... buu at four- point-four billion, a figure reached after examination of newwddcuments unions are 3equired to file...- saas: tte powwr of unions has been in thhir ability to mobilize their members, eitterr to get thee ut to vote, to volunteer in campaigns. i think it's a controversy within the labor movement, how much emphasis they should be placing on politics poliiics and union membership, both or the private-sector workforce and as aawhole, has decllned since 2005. see all of our stories about the race for the white house on our website...fox-baltimore dot com.click on the vote 2012 icon in the ews features seccion...all of the stories it's the busy sseson for the water sports ndustry.tubing a balttmore county river has a local buuinessman in hot watee. paul gessler reports hundreds of dollars in fines wonnt stop tte tube 'n taxi owner frrm paddling ahead with his summee . business. at gary's tubee 'n rafts in mon. monkton.. nobody today, no. and three yesterday."empty parking lots p. prove... ""ou kkow, i'm just trying to make a clean living..." tuesdays don't necessarily bucks. for unch today (llughter). y - where is somebody? c'mon! we gotta pay for lunch."after though--hough---- (door shuts)the rmitage wet. "the weekend being so hot, it was gonna be crazy here, so we two."garr could uss the money. he was fined 315 dollars this peekend for running a busiiess in a state park. park. "there you gg!"hii ussness address, though, is onnyork transporting)thii s the problem, according to the departmeet of natural resourcee.gary drives river riders tooa rop off point in gunpowder faals state park. park. "now i'm dropping peopll off rrther than yyo driving down, everybodyydriving down taking up ll the spots." spots." "trout. rainbowwtrout, brownntroot. they're ll in herr."trout fishermen have complained tubers crowd the river with trash. traah. "people someeimes leave big stuff. ttat's the ppoblem, ut little cans and stuff, that's not the problem. sn't really thhnk."ggry says heewelcomes a case. p"i think the courts will overturn any fines when thhyy commerciil enterprise in state park land."(closing line, going downnriver, under water) but, currently, fines won't county,m.in baltimore county, "just trying to make an honest dollar, and make people haapy."paul gessler, fox45 newssat ten. the charge of running a commercial business in a state park issa misdemeanor... and comes with a 105- dollar fine. gary says he plans on continuing his tubbng busiiess 3 a baby n the aggage.why two parents tried to smuggle their own child on board an airplane. scceamiig natsdrops outtof ride ride a life oo death decision endsswith a girl plummeting more than 30 feet sky ride.sand. why she -3 3 ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone likes a bit of order in their life. virtual wallet helps you get it. keep track of spending, move money with a slide, and use the calendar. all to see your money how you want. ♪ ♪ [ ping! ] [ ping! ping! ] that's why i use new tampax radiant. it helps keep my period invisible, combining tampax's best-ever leak protection with a revolutionary resealable wrapper so all they'll see is me. [ ping! ] ♪ hi. totally new, awesomely-invisible tampax radiant. check out the whole radiant collection. an egyptian couple is ccarged ith child endangermenttafteertrying to security in theer checked luggage. security emiraaes found the 5- arab bag. you cannsee theeall outline of tte baby in this p-ray photo. after giving their baay a massive ddse of radiation, the parents were taaen inno ustodd. police say the couple didn't have a visa for the child and tried to smuggle him in. the but they're still facing major charges. a teen loses part of his arm after beinggattacked by a gator.it happened monday friends in a flordia river. witnesses ay the 10-foot-long alligator suddenly ccme out of the water ... biting the teen below the elbow. coming after him. on top of the water, as fast as he coold back aad forth, he was coming." coming."bakkr says: (covered with video): "the gator was juss came straight at him. m, 3 abrahhm yelledd..fred...he look...and punched the gator pnd then it took his arm and he went under. " " wiidlife officers cauuht and killed the aaligator....they retrieved the teen's arm... but doctorr were unable to peattach it. a brazzn crime ccughh on camera at a new yorr cemettry... but the suspect may urprise you. youulast week, at cedar parkk cemetery, 35 ameercan flags wereestolen from the tombstones of civil war vets. flags, only to see 17 more stolen the following nightt sttng... mounting cameras inn prees... and soon... the suspect reeurned. a woodchuck... caught mmnching on the flagss...the evidence continued to grow as they investigated his home. "ww did deploy a pole camera into one of the holes and ffund remnants of the flags going down iito the hole." susppct.but nexx ear, nst the - caretakerr at the cemetery plan to post flagg on longer sticks, in opes that the woodchuck can't reach them. a teenage girl's trip to a new jersey boardwalk turrs into a nnghtmare.she had to make a split second decision for survival.. and it wassall caught on camera. of riie ridemellnie rossomando was sky ride".... when a nasty storm came uu.the ride ost power - with melanie and her priend dangling 35 feet in the air.with liihtning on thee horizoo.. melanie deciddd to jump. "looked to side nd was like we're next to a huge metal pole and in my mind, i'm like we are in a metal death trap now. in my mind i was like i'm eitherrgetting sttuck by lighting, or i break a leg mayb" maybe."luccily.... everyyne &pgot off safely including rossomando's friend, who didn't jump. 3 p3 3