Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition 20130812

WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition August 12, 2013

Its the top of the hour. The bottom line is what should be more pleasant temperatures are feeling just as humid as last weeks higher temperatures. Its Christy Breslin in for sharon and meteorologist tim williams in for marty bass at first warning weather. Good morning. Don mentioned it, the temperatures are comfortable. The dew point is still high. That stickiness is building just a little bit as we are sitting here on this august monday. 62 oakland, 72 elkton, 71 on the shore. Humidity is building because High Pressure is pushing offshore. A chance for showers and thunderstorms as a result of some of that instable caused by that humidity and some of the dew points going up. Tomorrow could be an active to o day. Today not too bad. 8 7 degrees your high, 78 degrees your low. Theres been trouble this morning. Here is Christy Breslin in for Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. That utility problem in timonu s m has been cleared. We have a disabled vehicle northbound 95 at mccomas blocking the righthand lane. Southbound 95 a minor slow down as you approach the beltway. We had an earlier accident at liberty road that has been cleared. On the outer loop from 83 to 95, 55 Miles Per Hour average and 10 minutes to get through. Lets take a live look. You can see not too much to talk about there. Thats the top of the harbor tunnel. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning, heres don. New development when it comes to former maryland and nsa Edward Snowden. Good morning. Weve learned the father of nsa leaker Edward Snowden will visit his son in moscow. Snowden is wanted in the u. S. On espionage charges. Edward snowdens father wants his son to have his day in american court. Where my son chooses to live is going to be his decision. I would like for him to be able to come back to the u. S. Lon snowden plans to meet his son in moscow to find ways to dispute the espionage charges. Hes been granted asylum for one year. The only deal will be true justice. Maryland representative dutch rups ruppersberger had strong words. He went to cry that and russia snowden is accused of leaking classified information. Late last week president obama announced plans to make programs more transparent and accountable. Ruppersberger said reform is needed but those programs protect americans. We need this program. The president understands that. Do you at this point feel that the agency has invaded anyones privacy . Absolutely not. Lon snowden said much of what the friday suggested friday about reviewing nsa programs is super official. Snowdens father said he has not spoken with his son since he departed the u. S. The son has been charged with espionage. A Baltimore County girl is being treated after shes drug by her dog. It happened yesterday around 4 president at 4 30 at cotswald court. Closing arguments are set to begin today in the murder for hire trial of karla porter. She told jurors he suffered years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her son. The five defendants are serving prison time. Towson was the location of a car crash that sent eight people in the hopped. It happened on the beltway. A Passenger Van went down the end bankment and flipped over. Nobody was trapped inside. Everybody was taken to the hospital. No word on their conditions or the cause of that crash. If youre morning commute includes filling up your gas thank thatses relief at the pump as gas prices have hit the lowest mark since the middle of last month. Mike schuh is live at cold spring and falls road. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its the old supply and demand ratio. Supply is up, demand is down, prices fall. Pull up to the pump and the numbers seem like theyve gone up. Over the last few days the prices nationwide and in maryland have be falling. It takes a little less of the sting out of your wallet. Prices hit a high of 3. 70. Its fell 9 cents last week. Still know lotter than this same time last year but some relief none the less. Weve been seeing crude Oil Prices Trend high. Weve been seeing gas prices trickle down, which is certainly encouraging news. Sounds good to drivers who say theyve been pinching their pennies. You have to watch every dollar in this economy. Ive been able to keep the tank filled. You wonder when are you doing to get up to 100 fill up one of these days. Reporter experts say the push to put more fuel efficient cars on the road is finally catching up, meaning less demand. So far yesterday i saw a price of 3. 49 a gallon near white marsh. Back to you. Thank you. So if youre filling up youll likely be paying 3. 59. Its still less than 3. 64 a week ago. The ravens added bran dan stokely to their roster. They previously drafted him in 99. He was at yesterdays open practice downtown but he did not suit up. Thousands of ravens fans turned out to see their favorite players in action at that open practice. Here is rochelle richie. Good morning. Well, purple fever is already in effect and football season hasnt officially kicked off just yet. Are you ready for some football . Ravens fans certainly are. As M T Bank Stadium bank stadium is filled with eager and anxious diehard fans. This is an exciting day. I couldnt wait. Ever since we won the super bowl ive been waiting to come back. For many it was the only chance to be this close to the players. A great opportunity to come down, free, spend time watching your Favorite Team and enjoying football. Ravens supporters watched flacco and suggs with intensity to see how prepared the ravens are for another spectacular season. Ravens fans say they still expect the team to dominate on the field. Ozzie reloaded the team, had a great draft. We have a lot of our core players coming back. I think were going to be hard to beat. We have a great coach. I think we can build a dynasty in flacco continues the play well. For some this is their first time to the stadium after watching the team bring home the lombardi. Theres no way they couldnt come out and support this guys this year. Its amazing the people that come out to support them. The team sign ed ed auto graphs after practice. Thank you. Ravens fans say they are hoping for another super bowl win so we can all celebrate like this again. According to the ravens official twitter account, 25,000 people were in attendance. Im rochelle richie, wjz Eyewitness News. A third and final open practice will be held next week at stevenson university. Of course, theres another preseason game at m t this thursday night. Now on to the orioles out on the west coast. The birds win their series with the giants in san francisco. Yesterday the birds were shut out for the first five innings before getting a run in the 6th. In the 7th j. J. Hardy drove one does he have to left. The orioles take a 32 lead and add four more runs in the 8th. Then in the 9th adam jones gets a threerun homerun shot. It was his 24th homerun of the year. The orioles win 102. They now are no arizona to play the diamond backs. In the dry heat. Rolling right along. Two teams playing from our city now. Two teams to stress about for a while. The orioles will be stressing about more sooner than later. Got you. The ronster standing by. How about that, stokely is coming back. Reporter how about that. Caught the famous pass in super bowl 35 in tampa. He did indeed. Reporter and also dallas clark, the former indianapolis player, great tight end, theyre signing him. Maybe todd heap will come back. You ner know. Reporter ravens are going to be good this year. Go os, they win again. In arizona tonight. Its manic monday in fells point. We have a great group this morning. We cant wait for their performance. Its open door care when the Eyewitness News morning edition rolls on. Nrz ,,,,,,,,,,, good morning. How come christie cant go after the thunder from down under . Why do i have to go first . Okay. 70 degrees right now. At least they have a weather name, thunder from down under. I got nothing. 90 humidity. 67 the your dew point. Humidity building into the region for right now. We may have some thunder later this evening into tomorrow. We have dew points building. 62 oakland, 71 ocean city. Around the immediate metro area, temperatures around that 70 degree range. 68 westminster and bel air, 69 rock hall and 73 in annapolis and kent island. Winds are calm across most of the state. We have this snaking along, this is a front thats stalled to our south. Its starting to rise back into the region. You can see it just meandering back in. The closer it gets the better chance we have for thunderstorms. Thats going to happen late tonight into tomorrow. Cant rule out one this afternoon. We will see that instability building, have potential for thunderstorms. Tomorrow could be an active day. That front starts to push away. Another front coming through thats going to bring us less humid conditions, drier air, sunshine blue skies and cooler temperatures. We get past tomorrow, which will be the active day. Then the rest of the week you will see temperatures dropping down to below average. 87 degrees today, thunderstorms in spots. Humidity building through the afternoon and evening. 87 tomorrow. Thats pretty normal. Then 82, 79, 81 and 8 2. That 79 comes with an over night low in the 50s. Your rush right now from Christy Breslin at wjz traffic control. I was playing my violin for tim. We have a couple issues out there. Downed tree stone road at east mayberry. We have slowing 95 over to the beltway. As far as the beltway goes, it continues to run at about 55 Miles Per Hour average. As far as your over time drive times go, on the inner loop from 75 to 83, 55 Miles Per Hour and 8 minutes to get through. Not too much happening there at the harbor tunnel. Not bad drive, but more cars than just moments ago south of mountain road. This traffic report is brought to you by toyota and your local toyota dealer. Ever dream of the places youd like to go . Toyota can take you there. Now is a great time to get a great deal at buyatoyota. Com. Now its time for manic monday. Its his time for another manic monday. Ron. Get it ronald. Reporter don and tim, how are you guys doing on this manic monday morning . Good. Not bad. Reporter we have a great group. Its manic monday in fells point with open door care. [screams] reporter i love the not that hat the what do you call it . The wig. I need one of those. Here is jeaanie. Thanks for having us reporter tell us about open day care. Its a before and after school program. We have fabulous fun activities for kids, home work support and openings for the fall at opendoorcare. Com. Reporter how many places . 24 places, 2,200 children in before and after school care. Reporter thats excellent. Thank you for coming down. Thank you so much. Reporter were glad to have you. Good morning, everybody. How you doing . Good morning. Reporter open door care is here. We have tony, we have luther. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning, luther. Good morning. Reporter yeah, yeah. Let me grab my twanger first. Hang on. Standby. Luther, let me hear those imagie magic words. Maestro is music if you please. Reporter all right. Here we go. Manic monday in fells point with open door care. Oh, yeah. 6 oclock already, i was just in the middle of a dream i was kissing valentino by crystal blue italian stream but i cant be late because then i guess i just wont get paid these are the days when you wish your bed was already ma its just another manic monday open door. I wish it was sunday open door. Thats my money fun day open door. I dont have to run day its just another manic monday reporter excellent job. We want to invite you back for the manic monday melt down in november. They had art work. Reporter yes. We love the sign. Beautiful. Nicely done. Open door casewors care, thank you so much for coming down. I got lunch money at jimmys. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Reporter all right. Guys, don and tim from fells point, studio j, have a great one. They had a good plug several times. They did. Still to come on Eyewitness News this morning. Hes one of the longest surviving heart transplant patients. This month hes this month hes caramel mocha. Caramel almond. Caramel turtle. [ sighs ] that wouldve been awkward. With dunkins caramel iced coffee flavors, there are more ways than ever to love caramel. Try the new caramel coconut today. America runs on dunkin. And say hello to the white sands and sunny beaches of northwest florida. Feel good getaways. Thats how we fly. Southwest airlines is offering nonstop service from bwi airport to panama city beach, florida, starting at 120 oneway. Book now online, only at southwest. Com. We are southwest. Welcome aboard. Pretzels [loudly] no, thanks pretzel roll from dunkin. Try the new pretzel roll sandwiches from dunkin get any bakery sandwich on a soft, warm pretzel roll today. 6 23. A maryland man celebrating the 30th anniversary of his heart transplant. Christy alleto explains the milestone makes him one of the nations longest surviving transplant patients. Baltimore county resident orlando knows how far heart transplant surgeries have come. The way were walking 30 years ago you wouldnt have been able to do this. It would have been difficult. At 28 he was fighting to live. When i was first told that i was going to need a heart transplant that was very scary, especially at that time heart transplants werent been done. In 83 they put the heart of a 16yearold into his chest, making hopkins second heart transplant patient. We knew it was going to work, just not how well. It was more risky, more complicated. He was given a 50 surviving his first five years. Edward casper has been his cardiologist for the last 20 years. To be able to point to people we helped and say this man is alive today because of this is a good feeling. He celebrates 30 years of life after surgery. We have seen firsthand how wonderful Organ Donation can be and save someones life. Now orlando and his wife pamela are asking ones to be donors. Theres still a shortage of donor hearts. Doctors are hoping his story will encourage people to become an organ donor. Next up this morning on wjz, a california teenager is safe after going missing for a week. How police found her and her abductor. Out of ordinary news about gas prices theyre down. Marylands ship comes in at the port of baltimore. Another record breaking economic year. Good morning. Christy breslin at wjz traffic control. Some congestion along 95 and a couple of slow spots around the beltway. In for Marylanders Marylanders are expected to travel marty bass, you dont have to avoid the weather early on. Tomorrow, thats a different story. Your complete first warning Weather Forecast is coming up. Red 2 is now in theater. Features marry louse parker. On coffee with she talks about working with actor john malcoi malcovich. Stay tuned the ,,,,,,,,,, it is 6 30. Some clouds on the Eastern Horizon there. A story to share with you. See the water on the inner harbor, i went swimming in that yesterday morning when my kayak over turn overturned. We dont have any problems on the waters. No advisories on the bay. If youre in a boat and on the water today you shouldnt have problems. 87 degrees with a chance of thunderstorms in spots. Over night lows around 70 degrees with a couple thunderstorms later. Tomorrow could be an active day. We will talk about that coming up. We hope your vehicle stays up right this morning. Here is Christy Breslin in for Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. We do have couple of problems on the roadways. If youre traveling northbound 95 some late breaking construction has one of the left lanes blocked approaching mountain road. Traveling around the beltway, thats still moving very well. You might see a slight slow down as you make your approach to charles street on the outer loop. Northbound on the jfx a little bit of slowing there as well as you make your approach to cold spring lane. You can see everything just free and clear there top of the Baltimore Harbor tunnel. Now for more of the stories people are talking about this morning, hes don. Thank you. A california teenager miss missing for a week has been found and the man with her was shot by Law Enforcement officers. Here is marly hall with the story. After nearly a week of worry ralph and sara brit will soon be reunited with their granddaughter. Were going to hug her. The 6 day or deal came to an end in central idaho when fbi agents rescued Hannah Anderson and killed her kidnapping james lee demagio. The way its ended up for hannah and jim, its h fitting. The brits are relieved hannah is okay. Just a week ago they lost their daughter, Kristina Anderson and 8yearold grandson, ethan. The two bodies were found in demagios burned california home. Thats when authorities believe he fled hannah. Law enforcement officials tracked them to a remote area in central idaho after a tip from four horse back riders who reported they saw a man and young girl who looked out of place. The amber alert was on the television i told my wife, thats that girl. Authorities found demagios car in the idaho wilderness. A helicopter dropped fbi agents for a 2hour hike to the camp site. They approached on foot, waited until they separated then shot and killed the suspect. Fbi agents are still processing evidence. They say they wont release Additional Details about what happened until an investigation is complete. Marly hall, wjz Eyewitness News. Anderson was air lifted to a hospital for evaluation. Authorities say she appeared unharmed. Lon snowden, the father of former nsa contractor Edward Snowden said hes obtained a visa from russia and plans to travel to moscow to visit with his son. Edward snowden is wanted in the u. S. On charges of espionage after leaking classified material. His father said he wants his son to fight those charges in court so he can one day come home. Where my son chooses to live the rest of his life is going to be his decision. I would like at some point in time for him to be able to come back to the u. S. Because i believe that the truth will shine through. The fa

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