patterson home. you can t get to him. reporter: donald and jenny patterson both died of smoke inhalation. the cause of the fire still under investigation. the home did have smoke detectors that could be heard on that tape. kai detectives say a man s body was discovered this morning. the 57-year-old employee was found unresponsive inside the 27 story building near the inner harbor. right now police are calling this a suspicious death, but they aren t releasing his identity or how he died. baltimore s world trade center contains offices of course, an observatory for tourists, kai. the maryland transportation authority are leading the investigation. it s official an ethics committee will look into representative curry and his relationship with a grocery store. reporter: mike millan launched an investigation into whether senator curry committed illegal acts. convincing his colleagues that he acted ethically will be a lot harder. curry will have to plea his case in fro
ruth is at freedom plaza with more information. bruce. reporter: yeah, j.c., the protests, the marching, the music, the speech making set to begin right at this hour back up on the stage which is behind me. but this place is starting to take on the feel here at freedom plaza of woodstock, but with a decidedly political bent or as the protestors are fond of saying, square square in cairo tahrir square in cairo. here s one sign, a favorite one, corporations are not the people, referring to the supreme court decision. you can see nationalized the federal reserve, stop corporate greed, imagine, act and create. and then down over here all these booths representing troops who have been killed in iraq and afghanistan, each one has a name. and over here shoes representing some of the civilians who have been killed in afghanistan and in iraq. take a look at the videotape. the numbers here not significantly larger than a lot of the anti-war protests have been. but they say the organi
recognizes the suspect. now, the profiler also told us that he may have tried this type of behavior with a wife or girlfriend and was rejected and now he s turning to strangers. back to you. andrea, thank you. late this afternoon we learned of new details regarding a mount ranier police officer accused of trying to sexual sexually assault and murder a 20-year-old man he met at a gas station. sources tell us there may be other victims from other incidents. wendy has the latest lindsay has more. lindsay? reporter: prosecutors say he told the victim that he would pay him to be in a porn movie with women but when they got to the defendant s house there was no one there. these are very serious injuries. the facts are very serious. reporter: the state s attorney was the only person willing to talk to us about the case on camera. the defendant s friends, family and attorneys said nothing, although many were crying in the courtroom. in court prosecutors said gillet want
has come into question just last week. last thursday, cadets were over at the public safety academy testing for their emt certification by the state when it became apparent to state officials administering the test that the cadets had some of the confidential testing material ahead of time. sources tell me this was a class in the range of about 20 cadets. and that the investigation may be centering whether instructors were giving students material and scenarios they would be tested on in advance of the exam. the fire chief has stopped all training we spoke to him. we got official notice last thursday late afternoon that they had concluded that there had been an occurrence in what they termed cheating on a practical exam. reporter: so for now, we are told that the cadets will continue their fire academy training perhaps training some more over at the fire suppression training facility over on polasky highway while this entire matter continues to be under investigation. we
two phases of training. one for their ems certification and one for fire suppression. those fire cadets have now been moved to the fire suppression building. they will continue that training while this investigation continues. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. all right, derek thank you. we ll have much more on this developing story coming up new at 6:00. hot weather is back in maryland. we re just beginning a temperature climb that could bring triple heat. in townson people tried to stay cool. in west baltimore people lined up for icy cold snow cones to combat dehydration. kids cooled off by swimming but this heat is going to get worse and much more dangerous before it gets better. meteorologist bernadette woods and bob turk are tracking the high temperatures. reporter: all right as you mentioned it is going to get hotter toward the end of the week. several degrees warmer than it is right now. so how warm is it right now. last report coming in at 94. that s one of t