good morning, maryland. now don scott, marty bass, and the latest breaking news, from wjz s news team, your first warning weather, and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala. it s wjz, maryland s news station. it s friday. and it s not only the week s end, it is the start of the baseball season for the baltimore orioles, who take on the twins on that grass and dirt this afternoon. opening day 2012 and now a 20-year-old ballpark. a lot of people are still shook up over the fact that the ballpark is 20 years old, it seems like yesterday. sharon is watching the roads and marty is over in first warning weather. crystal clear morning. we have had this incredible moon set in the past hour. 41 on tv hill. that is going to be a 7 degree difference from yesterday. 59 degrees at lunch on its way to a high of 62. a look at feel like yesterday. we will add a breeze. this evening still pleasant at dinner, 57. going to work here is sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. not
hail. and we have had baseball sized hail reported with the storms, just imagine how big that would be. we ll take you closer and show you one more time. this right here was a tornado. this on this side it this one right in here, this coming up from the south also possibly producing a tornado, over the last half hour, this is still a very dangerous situation and will continue, even though it shifts a little bit further to the east. we ll keep you updated. okay, thank you. a handwritten note threatening others. now bomb sniffing dogs are looking at every school in kent county. more on the latest, from concerned parents and students. reporter: well vic, that note that has rocked the entire county was found right outside this school taped on a door. police say it was simple, written on the notebook paper here, the words were explosive, saying every school in the system would be blown up. police say it is one of the biggest threats to target the maryland schools. a sing
doppler radar. and that damage also went north of the city, as that is where the storms moved. we ll take you back, looking at the doppler radar, the main line of storms is now east of dallas. but when it moved through dallas earlier, producing a couple of tornadoes they were very large and very damaging tornadoes. you already saw some of the damage. and that was just on a couple of hours ago, there is a lot more unfortunately that will probably come out in the next 24 hours, what we ll do is take you closer, show you the exact tornadoes when they pass through. notice that was some black, even white that popped up. indicating massive sized hail. it was the size of baseball can you just even imagine that? and another thing, too, as the storms passed through, there was video that came out in the texas ranger stadium, mike napoli, the catcher had it. there were a lot of people affected by it. not quite over because the severe weather may have left dallas but it is moving to
and the week is beginning. the rising death toll and the threat of more storms. hello. i m don scott. i m jessica kartalija. there s no rest for the met. another round of severe weather and tornadoes hit three other states but steered clear of joplin, missouri, although much of that town is destroyed. as joel brown reports, people are determined to rebuild. reporter: utility crews are repairing power lines in sedalia, missouri. a tornado slammed the town yesterday. it was pretty devastating. reporter: it ripped apart a mobile home park and damaged more than 50 homes. the damage is pretty severe. we have to be thankful, though, that it is really limited to a fairly small area. reporter: across parts of indiana, illinois and missouri, another blast of severe weather and tornadoes punished residents. dozens of people suffered minor injuries. there s significant property damage but no reports of death. in southern indiana powerful winds toppled trees. here in jopl
has improved. but we will be here monitoring his condition all night. reporting live from st. agnes hospital, kelly mcpherson, wjz eyewitness news. kelly, thank you. governor schaefer lives in the charlestown retirement community. police say a boy tried to murder his grandmother. and we are uncovering new details about how he planned that attack. wjz is live in waverly, where it all unfolded. and mike hellgren has the investigation for us tonight. mike? reporter: mary, it did happen here. and police say he is the head of the used the head of the hammer to attack his grandma. he was denied bail. reporter: 14-year-old hasani garrett has no record of violence. he gets good grades. so what made him snap? police say he beat his 66-year- old grandmother, shirley garrett, over and over with a hammer, inside their home in waverly. she s now fighting for her life. the sounds woke the next door neighbor. what did you hear? it was just like a loud thump. like something fel