reporter: governor o malley signed the civil law protection act in march, but opposition groups got the issue put to voter referendum november 6th. once people have an opportunity to think about this issue a little more, i think you ll see marylanders supporting question 6 because it will protect every child s home equally under the law while also protecting religious freedom. reporter: another ravens player is speak out publicly on question 6. center matt birk is in a tv ad for the other side. i m ravens center matt birk. marriage is not easy. marriage is and should remain between a man and a woman. reporter: on the streets of federal hill we found most saying they ll be voting for question 6. i m all for gay marriage. so i guess is that a yes or no? reporter: that s a for. i ll be voting for question 6. 100% voting for question 6 no doubt. reporter: but maryland voters opposed to gay marriage say their votes will building counted. against gay marriage
officer lied about a confrontation that landed a teenager in jail for months. tonight we are analyzing that evidence. local leaders playing a prominent role in the first full day of the democratic national convention. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. we ll begin with the first court appearance for a car veteran accused of a disturbing a war veteran accused of a disturbing crime. nathan portnoy is the soldier in the virginia national guard recently recognized for his heroic actions during the summer s derecho storm. fox 5 s laura evans has the top story tonight. this was the same guy who made news on june 29th during the derecho for performing cpr on a man in falls church hit by electric wires that came down in the storm. many called him a hero. now prosecutors argue he s a sexual predator, but today his defense attorney insisted the prosecutors got it wrong. it was around dinner time august 24th. police say nathan portnoy kidnapped a
county fair. animal lovers are not amused with the kangaroo. but first, a fire tears through a home with a family caught inside. we have breaking information from tonight, we ve learned a child has died as a result of that blaze. good evening. i m brian bolter. we begin tonight with bob live in chapel oaks, maryland, with the latest. bob. shawn and brian, we just learned from prince georges county fire officials here at the scene that a five-year-old girl that lived in that duplex over there died tonight from her injures at children s hospital. she was severely injured in the fire that destroyed her family s home. i started screaming. screaming, help. help. jeanette gibson lives next door to the duplex here on carrington court. where a fire that was reported around 4:30 this afternoon killed a little girl and critically wounded her teenage uncle and 24-year-old father. he was inside the house and he was call, help, help. fire officials say the young man suffered
capital where they were protesting earlier in the day. police are on the scene. we have a crew on the way. we ll bring you more details as soon as we get them. and as for a developing story overseas. the italian cruise ship disaster. that on the same day recordings between the coast guard and the ship s captain were released, the show he sat safe in a lifeboat while passengers were struggling to save their own lives. laura evans tracking the latest. 24 people are still missing tonight. the search continues. meanwhile, crews are trying to avoid an environmental disaster doing what they can to keep the 500,000 gallons of fuel on the ship from leaking. captain francesco schettino accused of manslaughter, back to jail and appearing in court where he gave his version of the event. all the questions he was asked and presented with and given the proper version of the fact and developments. the reconstruction of the events that he provided had not changed the prosecutions c
including the 74-year-old man piloting the world war ii plane. the ntsb investigators are looking at video trying to figure out what caused the plane to spiral out of control and then slam into the crowd. investigators say video appears to show a small piece of the plane falling off right before the crash. closer to home, another tragic crash today. this was in martinsburg, virginia. fox 5 s john hanrahan is working the scene and returned a short time ago. only one plane was involved in the show near martinsburg and in this instance, no one on the ground was injured. the airport near martinsburg, west virginia, is an enterprise operated jointly by the state s national guard and a civilian airport authority. this was the second year for the air show, but it was a big event. one of the featured attractions as seen on this video was a civilian group called the trojan horsemen. that team operates vintage aircraft known as t28 s. at certain points, the pilots aim their aircr