she led for decades as a lawmaker and neighbor in west baltimore, the legacy ruth kirk leaves behind that many say will inspire others. i think it s fair to say that politics enters into any kind of decision like this. it is an he have to earth to try to help you save cash or is this a precursor as ad by for reelection. president obama makes a controversial move to ease gas prices. there is a huge interest in what s going on at the national zoo in washington. the reason one panda is getting all the attention. it s going to be a big one. we ll explain in a moment. thank you so much for joining us on this friday morning. i m megan pringle. i m charley crowson. let s check in with meteorologist justin burke. it s a good morning in harford county, where some of you are getting rain. aberdeen, some have had thunderstorms between 3:00 and 4:00, each of the last two afternoons. now you have rain. we talk about between 95 and route one, this thing has followed the coarse ri
the harness attaches right here. it s a device that allows the sailors to lean back over the edge of the boat, to keep it balanced. her harness becoming entangled in the rigging. and she was unable to reach the surface. nearby, they responded. he freed her within a couple of minutes. reporter: but it was too late. well, we ve closed we ve not had practice today. reporter: at the place where she went to camp, where her parents are members, profound sadness. makes it difficult. and that is a sense of sadness that i have now and have had for, since this happened, is indescribable. reporter: the investigation could take a month or more. we don t believe there is any criminal charges at this time. meantime, friends wait for more news. i have been crying all day, all yesterday. it was very sad. as you might expect, her immediate family is not able to talk about this tragedy today. her uncle tells me that her funeral arrangements are pending. reporting live, mi
courtney s body was thrown 40 feet down mlk. city police are trying to determine if it shows anything, including whether the light was red at the time. these girls were doing nothing wrong. hike i told them, red light or green light, you still hit something, you left them there. this is a human life, not an animal you can leave and let somebody clean up your dirty work. shortly after the crash, police stopped a car with damage and intrude a man and woman. if he s doing this without a care in the world, who s to say he wouldn t do it again. she said police told her the car has been impounded. police said they are waiting for test results gathered from the car. courtney says she understands the need to build a strong court case, so she ll be patient to a point. when it comes to the death of your child and it s her being run down in the street, i m not going to give them a lot of time at all. i spoke by phone with mary k. smith, emerald smith s mother. she says sh
miscellaneousenge messenger made long-time calls with a source. they believe he used the terror regime mujahideen. it s difficult to tell if they were using this group as a froantd front to then help bin laden. reporter: tera cot reportedly has deep ties to the military city of abbottabad where u.s. navy seals hunted down bin laden. but they say there is no link between harracot and pakistan s anymore. they are still going through evidence seized in last month s raid. bin laden s journal showed he was worried about al qaeda s image. in his final writings, he said that al qaeda was causing too many problems. bin laden was considering giving the terror group a new name. to convince muslims worldwide, they are in a holy war with america. u.s. officials are reviewing the many documents taken from intelligence compounds. but they ll keep sifting through the data about clues on how they eluded forces for so long. mary is in the newsroom with more on the reopening of t
we re getting rain near delta, and just in the northern fringe here, of harford county north of junior rodsville, you ve been try in bel air. we re watching this thing together, one thing i had noticed, look it is still there. i am so happy to say this. not good for the drivers along 95, near laurel, we do have an extension of that line. i was watch not guilty during the last hour and it looks like that little trail of energy is starting to fire something up here. southern sections of howard county, south of columbia, and it appears this thing will be riding up and along 95, maybe columbia we ll be watching you for the next ten to 20 minutes to see if you can get this beneficial rain which would maybe slow you down in the morning, but we ll take any rain we can get. 71 in baltimore, 72 in easton. 88 this afternoon, warm, humid and yes, again, another risk of severe storms, but after this, we take it out for a good looking weekend. more on that womaning up. here is our traffic