downtown area. even forecast, more thunderstorms, hot and breezy. we will let you know if we get any new warnings in here. it has been a rough afternoon with severe weather so far. kelly, back to you. we want you to know that abc 2 is working to help you and your family. we want you to be prepared. we have some safety tips we want to offer in the event of a severe weather which we re experiencing right now. you should always have a flashlight, extra batteries, a portable battery operated radio, an emergency stash of food, water, any medications, snacks, and essentials, and you can get up to the second updates on our website at abc2news.com. while you re there, sign up for our breaking news alerts and text alerts. everything you need is right there on our home page, abc2news.com. in other news tonight, instinct kicks in for a retired firefighter when a two-year-old nearly drowns in a crowded pool. it s a story that came close to being a tragedy ib ending, but la shawn jack
mark can t handle problems. they have no plan. they just wait and dump you some place, and after that the next train they ll pick you up or something like that. hot or heck, or cold as whatever you re stuck. yes. you re just stuck here. there s some problem, they just dump you in the station no plan, no communication, no information, nothing. but mta says they have customer concerns and they will be more than ready. the biggest change is better communications between amtrac and mta when things go wrong. they ve stepped up and owned their responsibility and pledged to do a number of things and told us that if we ve got a coach that s down, they re going to dispatch immediately a rescue one to the team. that s the kind of response we re looking for and that s the kind of service we want. they say mta is condition continuing to have more supervisors than others in union station to talk to passengers and make sure that the trains are running smoothly and that issuesed
classroom. it s too much for one teacher. you can t have 30 kids in one classroom so you can t layoff teachers, you can t fire teachers. if i know another way to cut back, not with our school system. reporter: hairston says the system made stuff choices when it had to. class sizes have remained very stable, they have not gone up. we have been again very efficient with our resources where maybe in the last three or four years we have been able to identify areas in terms of initiatives and programs that we didn t think were yielding the results that we were looking for and we made some internal adjustments. reporter: those prior cuts will keep the school system from having to cut teachers now. other school systems across the nation have apparently failed to do. in baltimore county, jeff hager, abc2 news. even historically strapped budget systems like baltimore city plans to hire 100 new teachers next year. proponents of the teacher jobs bill says states like california
accompanied him there shopping in another area of the store made no difference. birdum could have argued that he was simply shopping with the young boy, that he didn t mean him any harm, but terms of his probation were very clear. birdum could have no association with boys turned age of 18. a judge has sentenced him to 10 years in prison for the violation. in the court of public appearance, pirdum will find little support. being in law enforcement for 22 years, there is just no excuse for child abuse. and in my experience, they us a revert back to the old ways, a guy that s going to have to prove to me that he s rehabilitating. i haven t seen one yet. reporter: jeff hager, abc2 news. police say he received probation for his original conviction in large part because the victim did not report that he was molesting him until several years after it happened. well, baltimore police say they have a person of interest in the investigation of an 18 month old who contracted go
actually be the swaying vote in every local election. once we understand that we don t have to ask politicians for anything. they will ask us what we want. congratulations. reporter: he is the only person to file for one of the three elected school board seats. he says he wants to work for the county s children and wants items addressed and having representation is the best way to do it. i could assist in that school program. not only to do homework but to build character. it will give them skills for their future. reporter: now the primary is september 14th. so far mcdonald is running on a post for for the edgewood seat. roosevelt leftwich abc 2 news. a developing story involving teachers in howard county. the county s board of education and group that represents the county educators reached a tentative agreement about a new salary benefits package for employees. it includes salary scale adjustment of $500 and reduction in the board s contribution to medical benefi