military branch came before the senate armed services committee on the issue on tuesday. and senator kristen gillenbrand wants the military to give prosecutors rather than commanders the power to decide whether sex assault cases are investigated. she says the current chain of command system opens victims up to retaliation. she also criticizes how the military lumps all sex assaults and harassment cases together. and military leaders say sexual assault is a serious problem and one that commanders are equipped to handle and sara plumber a fellow marine raped by a fellow marine and describes reporting the crime to her commander. it is like saying a brother or sister has assaulted or raped you and your father and mother is the one legally deciding the case. i don t think it is reasonable to even expect that that person can be impartial, which is a foundation of our legal system. it is shameful. it is repulsive. we re failing our efforts to fully protect our people from sexual
continue throughout the day. i will call it mostly sunny, i will call it dry and we will look at the temperature at 74 degrees by lunchtime for today. let s get a check of the traffic now with lauren. beautiful weather ahead of us today, lynette. and the roads pretty great shape. if you re heading out on the jfx, 54 miles an hour clocking in around the southbound lanes at the beltway. you won t have any problems getting all the way to downtown baltimore. 95 downtown, speeds clocking in at 55 miles an hour. the tunnels will be in great shape. and if you re headed out to the beltway, a live look at park will, at harford road. the inner loop cleared to 95. and the outer loop, taking a look at the latest drive times, normal drive time 11 minutes to travel from 95 all the way up to 83. and then the northwest corner, also going to be delay free. a live look at park heights avenue. looking at a 12 minute ride on the outer loop from 795 all the way to 95. that is your time saver tr
on your ride heading south from pikesville to woodlawn. topside of the beltway, starting to get volume on the outer loop at harford road as well and starting to slow down a little bit but not too bad and the inner loop is moving just fine. this time it is not the cantaloupe but lettuce. a farm in california is voluntarily recalling their crop after traces of listeria has been recovered. corinne is standing by with the latest. true leaf farms in california is recalling chopped romaine lettuce because of listeria concerns. one bag of lettuce from the farm tested positive for listeria. the company says the lettuce was grown on a washingtonville farm, true leaf farms is recalling roughly 2300 cases of the chopped lettuce and the ceo says expensive food safety measures are already in place. we re testing product. we re being audited all the time. we re testing it at our plant. and you know, we re sanitizing every day. this latest food recall comes on the heels of that majo
we re dry on maryland s most powerful doppler radar. a quick peek of the forecast. the wakeup window at the bottom of the screen. take a look at the rest of the weekend and the forecast coming up. here is tonya with traffic. good morning. for the most part, doing okay this friday. good news. live traffic cameras. the beltway is moving well through catonsville. this is the beltway at frederick road. outer loop still has most of our volume but it is at the speed. and inner loop moving very well right now, going northbound. and 95 at 395, we have steady flow in both directions. and with volume building. and 395, inbound, has no problems coming into downtown. back to you charley. breaking news this morning. we just learned that an american citizen linked to aol qaeda has been killed. an official statement says anmar alawaki is dead believed to be killed by an air strike attack that was carried out by u.s. forces. he is believed to have spotted and plotted the recent attacks i