thunderstorms and shower activity in the region. by the way the extended, severe thunderstorms watch until 8:00 tonight. because there's still activity in the region. take a look at our warning, for all the area west of the bay we still have that watch in effect. west of it is quite a down. that tornado warning is out for the next 15 to 20 minutes. we will continue to watch these storms as they continue to move through the region. once it passes, things will quiet down in the region. >> this system has been much quieter. at least 116 people are dead in joplin, missouri. bernadette woods with more on the strength of the storm. but we begin with luz samora who is in the town of joplin, missouri. >> reporter: rescue crews are climbing through massive mounds of debris looking for survivors. dozens are dead. >> it's indescribable. i don't know what to say other than that. >> reporter: sirens gave residents up to 20 minutes warning. >> that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: but this video captures what many saw. the tornado tossed tractor trailers, split treed and devastated entire neighborhoods. >> i was trapped in the bathroom because all the dining room furniture came in. >> reporter: 180 people were inside this building at the time. about an hour and a half later, everyone was out of the building. >> the hospital workers, ems workers, everybody worked together very well. >> reporter: the hospital is closed and a medical hospital smashed. at least four people died there including a doctor. the tornado that hit joplin just one of many. >> my mom, my grandma and aunt kathie live here. they don't have anything left. >> reporter: liz samora, joplin, missouri. first warning weather coverage continues with bernadette woods with the large number of tornadoes we've seen this year. it's really unbelievable. >> it really is. seems like every week we're doing one of these stories. in april alone there are 875 reports of tornadoes. the average number for april is only 185. so we're actually flying past that number. the old record for a full month is may 2004 and that was in the 500s. so you can see we're way above that for april. in may alone we have another 100 plus and more are being added to that today with another round of severe weather specifically to the west of us. but we're not finished with the severe weather season. vic. >> bernadette, thank you. wjz13 is always on. check in for first warn weather coverage. plus additional pictures of the damage log on to wjz.com, click on news and click on local. a desperate plea to find a south baltimore native who vanished in libya and maybe held captive by gadhafi forces. mike hellgren has the story. >> reporter: representative ruthesburger joined the family outside their home here in south baltimore. they talked about the role gadhafi may be playing in all of this and the danger matthew vandyke is in right now. the fighting remains fierce as libyan rebels battle dictator gadhafi for control of the country. 31-year-old matthew vandyke wanted to witness history firsthand. but his family believes he was captured by there likely by gadhafi's forces. now congressman ruthesburger has promised to help them navigate a diplomatic nightmare. so what's being done to free matthew vandyke. >> the pressure on the gadhafi regime. >> reporter: wjz has learned hillary clinton's state department has taken the lead on the investigation. the talks have gone all the way to the white house. ruthesburger says the forces have been contacted and he plans to call for a legislation on the state floor, hoping to get gadhafi's attention. >> you don't want to take it public untilnothing else works. what i know about gadhafi, he's very controlling and he's on top of everything. if he knew he had americans there i think he would know who they are and where they are. >> reporter: vandyke's mother has traveled the globe trying to find her son who went missing in march. she says her son did not ever intend to put himself in dangers way. >> he never planned to be near where gadhafi was. i think when gadhafi arrived, matthew was there. >> the number one priority is to bring him home safely. >> reporter: and job one is pinpointing exactly where matthew is. right now complicating matters the u.s. officially does not have any diplomatic presence in the ground in libya right now. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. all right, thank you very much mike. vandyke is a umbc graduate who speaks soft arabic, he has traveled extensively in the middle east. as his investigation into his death continues, the trooper is being honored. >> hunter was killed early saturday morning when his crewer crashed in the back of a tractor trailer. witnesses say he was pursuing a speeding motorcyclist. his viewing is this thursday from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the vaughn funeral home. flags across the state will be flown at half staff the day of the funeral. vic. >> kai thank you, trooper hunter is survived by six children. homemade bombs inside a home at umbc. tonight police are looking -t into the scare. wjz is live there now, and derek valcourt has more on the investigation. >> reporter: two fire bombs were found just outside of this dormitory. not in any of the specific rooms and that has police trying to figure out who put them there. on the unbc campus. >> are you serious? >> reporter: students are just now learning about the fire bombs discovered near her dormitory. >> it's a little crazy. i'm living right there. >> reporter: it happened just after 10:00 saturday morning when a dormitory staff member working near the building found two molitile cocktails near the building. >> i saw the cops come around, they were all worried about moving people out of the way. and then they went and they grabbed him. >> they're not sure who placed them there but they found them and they were a little freaked out about it. >> reporter: classes here ended last week and students were asked to leave by saturday at 8: 8:00. so by the time saturday rolled around, there were very few students. >> now that i'm hearing something about it. i'm like oh god, i cannot believe that was happening behind my door. >> that's not a college prank. that's an incendiary, so it's very concerning, yeah. >> umbc is a very safe place. you have to wonder what these kids were doing, definitely. campus police investigating say so far they have no suspects. we're live in catensville. the state fire marshal's office responded to the campus to collect and dispose of the devices. it's an annual tradition. the practice flights set for tomorrow and wednesday afternoon have been cancelled. cancellation is due to a safety concern follow ago poor performance yesterday in an air show in lynchburg virginia. it's not known if the jets will make their traditional fly over graduation. jessica cartalia was there as first year students scrambled to get it done. >> reporter: on this hot and humid day in may, a naval academy traditional dating back to 1943. >> 35 years ago i did it and i still remember it to this day. >> reporter: one thousand members of the academy's freshman class make a human pyramid around the 21-foot tall herndon monument. >> it's really hot, we're sweaty. so when you start climbing, i got up pretty far. you start slipping and people start pulling you back but it's fun. >> reporter: there was a little bit of controversy over last year's climb when the superintendent did away with the lard. this year new superintendent and all that lard is back. >> the grease, you can be the get ahold of anything. >> it is dangerous, one student was taken to the hospital, he was treated then released. three hours and 15 minutes after they started. today's climb was one of the longest in the history of the academy. they beat the climb of 1995. their time was four hours, five minutes and 17 seconds. vic. >> the lard is back and we're helping the local economy by selling all that stuff. jessica, thank you. >> the fastest climb was in 2007 with two minutes and two seconds. that was without the grease. >> no we like the lard. and the grease personally. still to come, irish eyes are smiling. >> we received a very warm welcome from all the people there including my long lost eighth cousin henry. >> president obama in ireland visiting the relatives he never knew he had. >> i saw him inject it more than one time. exclusive allegations against lance armstrong and doping in the sport of professional cycling. more on the doping allegations against lance armstrong. and the steps being taken to protect children from bullying in maryland. and more storming are in the forecast, stick around for the forewarn weather update. ♪ [ rock ] [ chattering ] [ man on tv ] 96309. 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positions he may take and unfairly. >> reporter: it's never too soon to stop. >> other than that, i'm perette good. >> reporter: pat warren, now back to you. the governor and lieutenant governor are also participating on anti bullying events this week. rein the jury is hearing secret testimony on doping. >> he was using epo in the tour de france in 1999? >> correct. >> scott pelly's interview marks a huge crack in lance armstrong's intercircle one that protected him until now. >> i saw him inject it, more than one time. >> you saw lance armstrong inject epo? >> yeah, like we all did. >> reporter: epo is a banned performance enhancing substance. 60 minutes reports that tyler has told a grand jury he and lance armstrong used it. he says they used code names for the doping agents and communicated through secret phones. and positive drug tests were covered up. >> reporter: how do you know he had a positive drug test? >> he told me about it. someone took care of it. >> sadly i think sometimes that's the way professional cycling views doping. you know this is the way the game is played, if we get caught then we're penalized but this is what we do. >> reporter: 60 minutes also says kathy the teammate closest to armstrong also told the jury that armstrong took the drugs. >> i feel bad i had to go here and do this but at the end of the day, long term the sport is going to be better off for it. >> reporter: the international cycling unit denied any reports that they covered up positive drug tests. if you're looking for a new job that pays well, you might want to apply for work at the university system. most of the state's top earners work there. retiring baltimore coach gary williams was the top earner at 2.3 million. former terp coach at 1.1 million. in comparison governor o'malley makes 150,000 a year. what's wrong with that picture? okay. >> there's some change in the way. >> we have a severe thunderstorms warning for you folks. southern baltimore county. we will take a look at that in just a few seconds. meanwhile we have showers region. southwest winds at nine. still very humid, the barometer holding steady. we will come back and look at ,, here's a live look outside. we have a few rain drops here and there and everywhere. >> and more could come. >> not a whole lot here in the city but we do have strong storms north of us and south of it. we have a severe storm warning for north western portions of pg county. that cell that came in from leesburg still pretty strong. a little bit of perhaps a little bit of howard county may be affected by more than likely northern pg county around the rockville area and northern portions of that region. around the baltimore area a little light rain. heading up thwart hartford county. west of us pretty quiet. nothing going on. looks like this would do it for this batch of storms for tonight. the cells are starting to lose energy. but tomorrow it will repeat the whole thing once again. temperature wise around the region right now 81. 79 up in elkton. still sunshine with no storms there. where it did rain temperatures have dropped back into the 70s. severe thunderstorm watches still in the city. and where we have shower activity once again, severe thunderstorms watch in effect from the bay. west to fredrick county all this area until 8:00 tonight. with storms still moving through the region. still a risk of some strong locally strong storms. winds now southwest bringing up warm and humid air across the region. that's going to continue pretty much all week long. one batch of rain missed us but shower activity developed later on. that will move in tonight, but tomorrow afternoon there's another batch developing. that will get us in the afternoon. so warm and humid conditions are probably going to stay with us for the rest of the week. with temperatures running above normal and a risk of showers and storms every afternoon. a small craft advisory tonight. showers and storms will be clearing out, 64 overnight, maybe a little fog if it rains tomorrow. storms possible at 3:00 or 4:00. we'll watch those. >> here we go again. thank you bob. we are cruising toward summer season and finally gas prices are coming down. right now we're paying an average of $3.87. that's down four cents from friday. this time last month it was $3.87. talks with motorists who say this is a good thing as we approach the holiday weekend and the start of the summer driving season. >> prices at the pump are changing. right before your eyes. down 11-cents in the past week. driver manny garnez is taking note. >> the price of gas is good for today, because yesterday a couple of pennys, a couple of cents makes a big difference. >> reporter: the biggest winner may be robert morgan. check out his yamaha scooter. fills it up for $4. >> about 70 miles to the gallon. if they raids the gas up, take a little ride across town. >> reporter: heading across the bay bridge down the ocean, prices are even lower. >> the cheapest gas in maryland in the eastern shore is about 20-cents cheaper in the gallon there. >> reporter: gas is still a buck more a gallon than this time last year. >> and i'm hoping that prices will drop closer down to the lower levels, maybe where it was this time last year. >> here is more good news, industry experts say the decline in gas prices in maryland could be just a start. they could drop even more later this summer. >> and hopefully by july or august, even see them as low as between the $325 to $3.75 per gallon. >> pray for lower gas prices. >> pray, hum it, think, hope everything for lower gas prices. >> reporter: ron max, wjz eyewitness news. right now the national average is $3.84 a gallon for regular. >> we can do one of those scooters. >> i would go slower if we have one of those scooters. eating red meat and a type of disease. it's warn in cyber space and that could make maryland a winner. that story as eyewitness news continues. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it is now 6:30, 81 degrees with some storms in the region. good evening thanks for is staying with wjz. and here are some stories people are talking about. 160 people dead following a tornado that slammed into the territory. the death toll could continue to rise. >> reporter: in joplin, missouri a path of devastation after one of the most powerful tornadoes in u.s. history touched the area. >> it's undescribable. i don't have anything else to say other than that. >> we know it is indeed a sad day in joplin. >> reporter: rescue teams are going door to door, car to car, pile of rubble to pile of rubble looking for survivors, but bad weather is hampering their effort. governor jay nixon says five families have been pulled out alive and he believes there is more. >> we're going to have to comb the area and make sure no one was left behind. while this cell phone video shows just darkness as people huddled up in a gas station, it shows their fear. in washington, nicole collins, wjz eyewitness news. and we are tracking some storms here in maryland tonight. meteorologist bernadette woods has live doppler radar for us, bern. >> severe thunderstorms warning in effect for three separate counties. we have live doppler radar and show you what we have going on. severe thunderstorms warnings are in effect until 8:00 tonight. the worse we're seeing is right in here. it's just extreme northern section of prince george's county. because it's this thunderstorms moving off to the east of rockville. it is producing winds, possibly up to 60 or 70 miles per hour. these storms have shown history of hail. so these thunderstorms are making their way through. in additional to what we're seeing right there. no warnings out but some thunderstorms also making the way to the city and up toward northern parts of the baltimore county and cecil county. also thunderstorms watch effectively until 8:00. it has been extended to all the pink shaded counties. we will keep you updated. crashing cracking down, the police department is cracking down on gang members. >> reporter: his mother says the warrant sweep keeps her son's legacy alive. about 50 sheriff's deputies were in anne arundel county. >> most of the suspects were wanted for assault and battery. it's warfare where the bullets are not missells but keyboards and data. >> reporter: in cyber space information flows both ways. that's a plus for peaceful uses, it's not so good when cyber war is being waged. >> anybody who works in the area is convinced that next to a nuclear weapon a cyber attack on the united states is the worse thing that could happen. >> reporter: targets like air traffic control to banking and finance to the shutting down to the nation's electric grid. and war is already being waged against government agencies to get information. >> before the sun sets on the patomic, the site will have been hit 1 million times. >> it's both a challenge but an opportunity for the university system of maryland and quiet frankly our state. >> according to the most recent numbers, 1,000 people graduated with cyber degrees. alex demetrius, wjz eyewitness news. >> the university study doesn't just stress more cyber security course work in college, it recommends the math and science courses that go with that study start in high school. and here are stories you will find tomorrow on the baltimore sun. two dozen of the superfresh stores already have interested buyers. and the break down of the lacrosse final four. read tomorrow morning's baltimore sun, remember to look for the updated forecast from the wjz weather team. timpawlenty announced his intentions. he says he is the candidate that will tell the country's hard