there, 55 miles per hour. that s a llok at the morning travels. patrice, back over to you. we are following breaking3 news out of baltimore countyú suspect aftee he opens fire on a police officer at a pikesville hotel. it hhppennd just before midnight. megan gilliland isslive from the scene with morr on whht led to detectives went n for the arrest in the first plaae. good morning, megan. reporter: good orning, patrice, we re llve at the ramada inn at reisserstown road where a little bit ago there was exccange of gunfire beeween the detecttves and one of the detectives were about to arrest three suspeccs that they belief were operating a counterfeit ring out of the hottl ere. all thhee went running out of the hotel room. all armed witt a gun and. two detectives returnee fire hitting nd killing ttat suspect in tte parking lot and ttking many offthe people staying in this hotel by surppise. i hear gunshots. i hear cussing first and next thing you know i hhard probably 9 r
she was fired after a video was posted of her making racist remarks. it turned out the remarks were highly edited and involved an incident almost a quarter of a century ago. reporter: it starts by shirley sherrod, starting her attitude 20 years ago toward a white farmer. and i was with a white person save their land. so i didn t give him the full force of what i could do. reporter: that comment and the speech to the naacp lit up the blogosphere after a conservative website this week aired it and suggested there was reverse racism in the administration. agriculture secretary tom vilsack reacted swiftly. he says the usda has zero tolerance for discrimination and fired her for that those statements. when i saw the statements and context of the statements, i determined it would make it difficult for her to do her job as development director. reporter: there s a lot more to this story. sherrod said later in the same speech she was wrong and ultimately helped the man save
to fire an african-american employee. vilsack fired shirley sherrod after a blogger posted a video of sherrod making racist remarks it turned out the remarks were highly edited and involved an incident almost a quarter of a century ago. jan crawford reports. reporter: it starts by a speech usda official shirley sherrod, describing her attitude 24 years ago toward a white farmer. and i was with a white person save their land. so i didn t give him the full force of what i could do. reporter: that comment and the speech to the naacp lit up the blogosphere after a conservative website this week aired it and suggested there was reverse racism in the administration. agriculture secretary tom vilsack reacted swiftly. he says the usda has zero tolerance for discrimination and fired sherrod for those comments. when i saw the statements and context of the statements, i determined it would make it difficult for her to do her job as development director. reporter: as with so ma
job turned into sudden death and hours of effort to retrieve the victim s body. the call first came out as a rescue in a neighborhood on cold spring lane near morgan state. excavator was moving dirt. the operator stepped on to a ladder. for some reason fell back into the hole in the exterior walls of dirt collapsed and came down on him. reporter: paramedics found the man dead from apparent cardiac work. and rescue turned into hours of work to retrieve the man s body. i commend the baltimore city fire department for the hard work. they risk their lives to help other people. i think it s at miles an hour rabble. reporter: he had been working in this trench about 10 feet deep replacing a residential sear line. so quick, out of nowhere. it just happened so quick. tragic, but sad situation. something that started out so simple cost somebody. reporter: it took most of the afternoon to free the man s body because the same collapse that took his life also threatened those
koch. we re going the start with breaking news. a pedestrian is rushed to the hospital after being hit by a train. derek valcourt has the report. reporter: we are told that a deaf woman stepped in front of the train. this happened just at about 8:20 tonight. we ve caught up with mta spokesman terry owens just a few momenting ago. an operator was approaching the convention center stop, he saw some people on the platform near the rail lines and layed on the horn to let them know that the train was approaching. turns out, both the people could not hear. the woman didn t see the train turned around and stepped out into its path. reporter: we are told that that woman suffered some nonlife threatening injuries. she was rushed over to shock trauma. as you can imagine, that created quite a scene down here, near camden yards where tonight there was a baseball game going on. so there was a lot of traffic out in this area, a lot of foot traffic. they had to temporarily shut down o