in the casnext on fox 45 mo. it breaks your heart. there s more things you want to do. a registered sex offend erred charged in the abduction of a young girl found dead. how it could lead to changes in the maryland law. a homeless man accused of trying to steal a plane. what he told police after his arrest. no pandemic has been detected so early or watched so closely in realtime. from swine flu to ma a mammo, a look back at the biggest health scares of 2009. good morning, welcome to fox 45 morning news. today is tuesday, december 29th. i m megan gilliland. patrice harris has the morning off and for those of you getting up and etging the da getting thd it s a chilly one. meteorologist tony pagnotti is here with the chilly details. reporter:details. the wind has been out there. we have a wind advisory in effect until 6:00 p.m. this evening, folks. we re not kidding. this is worse than just having plain old cold. the wind goes right through you. that s the kind o
. they were told not to move. early morning emergency. why a man had to be rescued from under a city street. unfortunately some of the consequences were lives lost and minichanged for the rest of my life. loan survivor of the deadly medevac crash rablingts to final report on the cause. rain gets even heavier through the night. when it will finally clear up in the sky watch forecast. tears, laughs, up and down. reporter: swine flu scare hits close to home as hundreds of teens in andarundle county say farewell to a friend. . hello. witnesses say a man was walking along a sidewalk when a metal grate suddenly collapsed beneath him. we are live at the intersection of saratoga street where it all happened. reporter: it was a little after 8:00 o clock this morning when the man who was presumably on his way to work was walking along this freight here when a metal bar that supports the grate bent and collapsed. other commuters saw what happened called 911. then th
warnings ignored. hours before a hopkins student was run over and killed, a man called police about the repeat drunk driver. tonight, an exclusive wjz investigation. how did police respond? and was it enough? hi, everybody. i m sally thorner. i m kai jackson. here s what people are talking about. serious questions are being raised about a 911 call police won t let the public hear. a man claims he warned police about the dangerous driver before the crash that claimed the hopkins coed life. but his call, according to him, was ignored. tonight, he tells the story only to wjz s adam may. we have been asking about that 911 call for the last two days. and now, tonight, police admit there was a miscommunication and an attempt to get this drunk driver off the road before the accident. he just blasted off through a red light. and flew up the road. reporter: speaking only to wjz 13, nick walter said he followed repeat drunk driver, thomas megan for 13 minutes. tried to war
this is abc 7 news at noon. it is election day in afghanistan. president obama insists democracy is winning the war. the ballot counting is under way. courtney robinson is following the latest developments. amid insurgent attacks all over the country, afghan citizens are voting. i ve been waiting for this day. since i was not in the country for the last election, i am very happy to have my first vote. despite a large presence by security forces of 300,000 nato and afghan troops, millions are staying away from the polls. numerous rocket and suicide attacks. f-bomb at a line of voters killed a child. several afghan police officers are dead. the attacks killed more than two dozen people in all. but alabama threat closed 13 polls the taliban threat. much less than the 2002 election. they re hoping afghan citizens will accept the results. generally, it seems to be working well. the current president karzai has the most support in southern afghanistan, where there h
outside fort armistead park tuesday morning. 17-year-old zachary watson and 16-year-old miller both arrested at their homes last night. police say there were accomplices to alleged white suprem cyst calvin supremecist, calvin lockner. i think he played a lead role in all of this. reporter: he says it is unclear if the two teens were also accompanied by racial motives. there s a couple of different accounts as to who did what, even as subtly as who drove the vehicle when it crashed or who was operating the vehicle when it crashed. i think the version depends on who you talk to. reporter: adolph hitter appears hitler appears to be an icon to lockner. police say he has a tattoo too of hitler on his chest that says he lives. according to documents, lockner told police this wouldn t have happened if fisher had been a white man. steve haines is neighbors with the victim. glad all three suspects are now in a city jail. i hope and pray that justice will come to them