morevidence.. gathered old east baltimore boy. &pboy. detectives confirm.. that there is surveillance video. that may lead them to the shooters. but there is still a concern in he community knowing no one has been arrested. (chris) 6:45 (loooing around) believe t or not the kids try to play out here they try to have a ggod ttme and then somebody pulls out a gun and goes crazy. it s nutt :55 :55all our victims.. aae recoveeing at home tooight. are on the verge of aquiring a new tool in the fight against c. a gun registry for convicted offenders. the database wwuld allow police to keep a close eye on felons who ve previously been caught carrying guns.many hope the gun registry will help bring phe number of gun crimes down. 43-59 iffsomeone is convicced of a gun crime is put some parameters on theirrreeease or sentencing and when you get out of jail, quarterly or twice a year you ve got to check in with the police your address and don t tell us we can violate your probation . pr
and more sunshine coming up. let s get a check of the traffic with lauren. good morning. reporter: good morning, lynette. we are off to a rainy start and trouble in baltimore county where there s a crash in monkton. it s on jarrettsville pike at manor road. if you are traveling in the area, you do want to be extra careful. in baltimore city, an accident has just cleared from payne street at dundalk avenue. everything back to normal now. as far as the northeast corridor of 95, absolutely nothing to get in your way. it will be an easy ride from white marsh all the way into the city. we do have some police activity, though, on the beltway. it s on the outer loop there at pulaski highway, but not affecting traffic. it s actually confined to the shoulder, speeds clocking in at 60 miles per hour. as we check in and take a live look in parkville, everything up to speed. that outer loop really starting to pick up, but steady up towards 83. as far as the west side is concerned, more
and they say, due to safety, they had to stop it because it was lightning. and if somebody was holding on to the rails and the lightning hit, so they cut it off. the public is invited to chuck brown s public amendments. a public memorial service. a service begins at noon tomorrow at the washington convention center. 4:31. we turn to tom kierein. we heard the thunder, saw the lightning yesterday evening. but it broke the heat, boy. it feels nice this morning. it was needed rain, but the sky opened up and unloaded last night. yeah, we had torrential downpours with a lot of lightning and fortunately not a lot of damage as far as wind was concerned. now this morning, looking at the radar, this is what s been happening the last six hours. the activity has diminished, but we still have scattered showers, all that moving color across virginia, maryland, parts of eastern west virginia. and toward the eastern shore. now the closeup view of storm 4 radar showing light rain he
out a dramatic decline in those deaths from 243 in 2000, down to 87 in 2009, the most recent year researched. i ve seen people with lives utterly devastated. reporter: heroin continues to grip baltimore. many times the drug is smuggled in from africa. earlier this year, they admitted to being part of a major ring. and there are personal stories like the heroin addiction that ruined the life of former police commissioner leonard hamm s stepdaughter, who was murdered after this interview on wjz. it s not even about taking one day at a time. it s taking one second at a time. reporter: most of baltimore s heroin overdoses are simply classified as undetermined. and the medical examiner told us that if someone injects someone else with a drug that kills them, that is nothing short of homicide. reporting in west baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. again, no charges have been filed in that overdose case in northeast baltimore, ruled a homicide. we re followin
russell, who recorded the call, was also fined $10,000, in addition to the penalties against henson. a judgment for $1 million. what do you make of that? wow. basically, that is unprecedented in this country. reporter: henson maintains the law he is charged with violates free speech. and says the judge s ruling in his civil case is unfair. no trial, no evidence, nothing. and you come with this sa salacious amount of money? a million dollars for a phone call? on the face of it, it s ridiculous. if a political consultant gets hit with a $1 million charge for insidious conduct directed toward voter turnout, the next person is going to think long and hard before they do something like this again. reporter: henson is planning an appeal. he says he will take the appeals all the way to the supreme court if necessary. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. thank you very much, derek. henson faces sentencing in his criminal case june 13th. a peeping tom, preying on women