Transcripts For WMAR ABC2 News Good Morning Maryland 6am 201

Transcripts For WMAR ABC2 News Good Morning Maryland 6am 20110620



stuff spilling in your direction. we have had pockets of moderate rain around the baltimore beltway. but it's much lighter to the north and heavier on down towards the south and it's pretty much the way it plays out. lower eastern shore you have really heavy rain here. and that heading towards 50 and salisbury going to be a slow trip. back home check out the temperatures annapolis here at 67. and 69, nottingham. and cockeysville middle school where i was at the graduation on friday, they gave me something special and i will show you later on. right now, i don't think the traffic is special this morning. here tonya with how the rain is impacting your commute. >> reporter: you have to be careful and slow down for your braking distance. keep enough distance between you and -- between you and the car in front of you. 695 at harford, doing okay at this point. no major problems. outer -- the outer loop is lighter. we have a few incidents to tell you about. 700 martin boulevard at riverton road, emergency roadwork affecting the right lane. and we have an accident anne arundel county duval at central avenue. charley. >> thanks. new this morning, the search for a missing 20 years old comes to a heart breaking end for family and friends. rodney goggins was first reported missing three weeks ago. now, his body has been found. abc2 sherrie johnson is here with details. >> reporter: well, there's still a lot of unanswered questions over the death of rodney goggins after a three- week search his body was found on sunday. a boater saw the body in a foot of water on the south shoreline and called authorities. for family and friends and fellow recruits, it's a heart breaking loss and they are their's a lot of unanswered questions like how did he end up in the water. three weeks ago when goggins left the randallstown home he said he was going to visit his girlfriend. according to his girlfriend's mother he left around midnight a few days later his car was parked on a liberty road bridge. he entered the fire academy in march training to be a emt. >> this has been a daunting three weeks just knowing our recruit is missing. and it's been an overwhelmingchallenge for the family and we are happy in a sense that we will bring closure to the family. >> reporter: now rodney goggins would have graduated from the fire academy in a few months but his body is at the medical examiner's office where an autopsy will determine the cause of death. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> three minutes after 6. an autopsy is being done to determine the cause of death for a man pulled from the chesapeake bay a boater spotted the human remains yesterday morning south of the bay bridge. the body was then sent to the medical examiner's office to determine how long that body had been in the water as of right now that person has not been identified. another body was found in owings mills in the median of the 9900 block of reisterstown road. that's near the giant. the police say they don't expect foul play but they are treating it as a suspicious death. police are trying to identify the man. police are questioning a man in connection with a shooting in northeast baltimore that left a woman in pretty bad shape. they discovered the woman at kirk avenue as she had been shot several times sunday. officers trying to figure out why someone would have opened fire on her. the woman accused of making a bomb threat against the u.s. airways plane that spent the night -- she spent the night in a mental health if a significance. the plane was on the way to reagan airport. the plane land in dc at remote runway and everyone got off safely. fbi found no sign of explosives after searching the plane. four minutes after six. another chance to sound off about the proposed toll hikes that will be traveling around our state. a much bill bigger financial burden. the public hearing is set for today at the severn middle school on peninsula farm road in arnold. that meeting starts at 5:30 in the evening. it's 6:04. you want the best for your family, so why not live in the best city when raising them. parenting.com compiled a list of the top 100 cities for families to live in in the nation's capital tops the list. the magazine boasts dc history government and museums. 44 museums to be exact. second only to new york city. austin texas number 2 followed by boston and minneapolis and des moines, iowa. they didn't forget about baltimore. charm city came in number 37 of the top 100. right now, it's 6:05 in the morning. it's little after 3 in the afternoon. and in athens greece, 16 maryland athletes are doing touring and some working out for the special olympics. they left yesterday at bwi for the big adventure overseas a flight to athens greece. the maryland athletes are competing in soccer gymnasticskayaking and they say it's a feeling they are never going to forget. >> well, it gives me -- dish feel, you know, emotional that i got picked to represent our country. >> this is the best father's day present i've ever had is to be able to go with my daughter to athens, greece and represent team usa. >> all right. good luck to those teens. the games kick off june 25th, saturday. okay we have heard the news time and again, vacations are great for our health but sometimes could the offers be too good to be true? >> we will show you how scammers are use your needs to get a chance with a way to grab your cash. and food allergies are a big concern. especially when it comes to your kids. a new study is causing alarm this morning and two food products kids are most often allergic to. all right. this kid really loves rihanna's music or maybe watching too many videos at a time. we will watch when we come back. but first new york with the latest business news happening right now. >> reporter: good morning topping america's money, back to normal at the airports. united ills and u.s. airways -- airlines and u.s. airways are resuming normal operation. u.s. airways problems were not related to united's. bailout for greece is on hold while protest tns. europe's finance ministers put off a decision until next month but the greek parliament has to approve spending cuts and other financial reforms. the measures are not sitting well with greeks. and american luxury auto brand is getting a makeover. the wall street journal reports that ford will spend a billion dollars to develop new vehicles for the struggling lincoln brand. a ford official is quoted as calling it a last chance forlincoln. and green lant urn lit up the box office. a super hero adventure debuted at number one with almost 53 million dollars in sales. and that's america's money. i am peggy bunker. news sometime 6:10. in tough times vacation spending is the first thing to get cut so a free cruise or discount trip that drops in your lap may seem like dream. but as joce sterman has a warning about the postcard offerings the cruises that could be offering in this week's scam alert. >> they arrived like a gift from the travel god a postcard that claims you can take an will- 8-day cruise that's complimentary. >> the bottom line for these is there's a catch. >> reporter: the better business bureau wants to make sure you understand this which often ties in names like carnival even though they are not necessarily linked. night time share but once you call the number on the cart, the bbb says you will find out it's a travel club. you will have to attend a seminar and hand over your personal information and if you decide to join, you will pay an up front fee and recurring fees. maybe as much as 8 to 10,000 dollars according to some marylanders. >> if you stand back and look you can pay that much money and get the trips that you choose and be able to travel as you choose rather than the travel club. >> reporter: but the bbb says with the clubs you will be stuck with their choices and a long-term contract. it's a deal that may sound a lot less complimentary. so be careful. >> people need to really be aware that if something is offered free, it absolutely must be free. no strings attached. >> reporter: joce sterman, abc2 news. >> and for more information on this and other scams, head over to abc2news.com and click on consumer and then the scam alert tab. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> #:11. good morning. fellow runners as baltimore 10 miler we had ourselves rain just before the race and made it sticky on saturday morning. i hope awed good run and i want to thank lee cori -- corrigan for donating 3018 for the pool i passed. and we raised over 18,000 this year for the cool kids campaign i want to thank everybody i met. this morning a different story. we have a lot of rain basically to the south of baltimore and ann aid rundle county on through easton and this is lower eastern shore highlighting that. looks up to the north, it -- looking up to the north, it breaks around bel air. rain heavier on 95 than bel air and fallston and trying to work its way off towards cecil county but running into atmospheric roadblock here. further west we have had hits of light to moderate rain around the top side of the baltimore beltway. cockeysville towards towson and back towards westminster coming into the end of the rain. it will hit around liberty reservoir and up to the north by pretty boy reservoir and the heavier rain stays to the south. but we have to deal with that this morning. another knot of moderate rain near crofton. we have a wave of low pressure passing to the south. as that happens we churned up the wind and shifted the winds helping to keep things cool. the good news is this will be the coolest day of the week. and we get this rain out of here over the next couple hours. maybe peeking in sun with the scattered afternoon storm. but beyond that we are going to surge the temperatures up so we will enjoy what we have got. this is the most comfortable of the week. even though it's wet and a little sticky and it's going to slow travel down on this monday morning at 68 degrees, we get the rain out of here and again sun and scattered storm in the afternoon and hit or miss variety thunderstorms will look at for the next couple days. today's high temperature again, 80. and going on the lower end of our two degree guarantee. and we will pull it back into the 60s. isolated thundershower and we may have a better shot after midnight and towards daybreak. and the rest of the week we are looking at heat and humidity and afternoon storms every day. 90 tomorrow, 93 wednesday. thursday could bring severe weather at 94. and we will break that to 91 on friday and try to break that heat even more so by next weekend. just about every afternoon for the upcoming week scattered showers and storms in the humidity. let's check out this morning's ride with tonya. >> reporter: wet roads and rush hour don't get along. slow down out there. look at 50 at i-97. we have heavier traffic coming with the westbound traffic oncoming but no incidents to report here. we are doing okay. 700 westbound at riverton machining road -- emergency roadwork affecting the right lane and we have an accident reported 795 southbound at the beltway on the ramp to the inner loop. megan. thanks. 14 minutes after 6. a new report this morning when it comes to kiddy pools and your child's safety. they might want to take a dip in the hot temperatures, especially this week, but they say you are better off leaving the kiddy pools alone. sherrie johnson is here with more information on what parents need to know this morning. >> reporter: that is pretty big deal. the report conducted partly by a maryland research group says a child dies every five days in portable pools during warm weather months. report is published in the today's journal of pediatrics. the studies finding shows drownings happened when children opened the doors of their homes and climbed into the pool using a ladder or another method. it also discovered examples of kids playing in the pool when parents were not paying attention he where the moms and dads were on the cell phones or doing chores around the house. the study conducted from 2001 through 2009 shows that adults were watching the kids fewer than half the time in that most adults were home during drownings or near drowning. the journal pediatrics shows more than 200 deaths and 35 near drownings of children happened from ages 12 and under in kiddy pools. you can get more on this on abc2news.com on the slide show and we have provided links to the other resources for the story. you will read about reaction from a baltimore professor who weighed in on the study. experts say the best way to prevent drownings is to have your child wearing a -- wear a life vest especially smaller children on build fending -- fencing around the poureddable pools. >> thanks you. 6:16 this morning. health news for you. growing concern that hundreds of hospitals are getting patients powerful ct scans and they don't need them. those additional scans mean extra exposure to radiation and extra tax money from taxpayers. a new review shows many patients are being scanned twice. usually unnecessarily. records from 2008 show many hospitals performed double scans on more than 30% of its patients sometimes nearly 90%. >> it does double the radiation exposure which is of concern, but in many instances it's an appropriate test. it's when it's not appropriate then it's needless radiation. >> experts say the double scans happen most often in smaller community hospitals while the nation's larger hospitals double scans rarely if ever. smaller community hospitals argue that they don't have the resources to make quick and efficient diagnosis on their own without the help of that second scan. 6:17 right now a new study suggest that food allergies affect more children than the government health officials estimate. the study is published in the journal of pediatrics and says one in 13 kids in the united states have some type of food allergy and researchers say 40% of the children suffer severe reaction. in the study, more of that 40,000 children, 8% had food allergies in peanuts and milk were the most common. most recent estimate from the centers of disease control found that about 3 million children have food allergies. figures from the new study translate to double that estimate. and that's nearly they say 8million children have food allergies in the united states. young athletes face a greater danger when they suffer new head blows before concussions. a study says the key findings are worrisome. especially the numbers in football players who died of head or neck blows after they had sustained recent concussions. the findings comes at time when there's growing awareness about concussions including the dangers of second impact syndrome. that's what they are calling it. the study says most of the deaths were preventable and showed the importance of better equipment better protocols for when there is an athlete injured and they should turn to action and possible changes in the rule games. news time is 6:18. we have been hearing about the deadly tornadoes across the u.s. and they have been happening all spring. >> a family lost nearly everything they had but they are in a fight with new neighbors and it's over their homes. we will explain. plus, the young irishmen on his way to become the top player in the world of golf. how far can rory mcilroy get in the sport. you watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30. time for your birthdays. and we got a belated birthday first here. >> all right. say happy birthday to miguel here. he graduated from high school and is a student at morgan state. this comes from your aunt. and our picture of the day from our own employee up in alaska vacationing. he and his wife spotted a moose on the loose while crossing the road. so how can you resist taking the picture. but i have to question here, she is a little close. >> she gets nervous. if you have a interesting photo and want us to air it. picture of the day send it to morning show at wm-ar.com. give us the information behind the picture so we can pass it along to everyone else. they're two of a kind. and, just like toddlers, puppies need food made for them. that's why there's purina puppy chow... with all the essential nutrients your growing puppy needs. purina puppy chow. bacon?! bacon? bacon! who wants a beggin' strip? meee! i'd get it myself but i don't have thumbs! yum, yum, yum, yum, yum... it's bacon!!! mmmmm...i love you. i love bacon. i love you. [ male announcer ] there's no time like beggin' time. welcome back. 6:23. there may be a changing of the guard atop the world of golf. 22-year-old roy rory mcilroy captured the 2011 u.s. open from fame to congressional ken try club in bethesda a at 16 under par the wire to wire win eclipseed the record of 12 under par at pebble beach held by tiger woods. he destroyed the field and took the place atop the game's best. no sweep for the nationals, o's rebounded from a win and mark reynolds was a big contributor. 3 hits by the o's third baseman and orioles win 7-4 and the win snaps the nationals '8-game winning streak and now they head to pittsburgh for a 3-game set. tonight first pitch at 7:05. 6:23. neighbors are upset at what a massachusetts family is living in after losing their home from the last month's deadly tornado. now, there's not much left to tina and cory's home. look at this. they rebuild and plan to live here with their three children at a temporary trailer that is paid for by their insurance company. however, neighbors in that area say they don't like what they see. >> we don't understand it. we don't understand how someone could be that cold and calous. somebody called it an eyesore. the town is a eyesore because of the tornado. we are homeless if they take that away from us. >> again, it's a temporary trailer. the family says they got verbal permission to use the trailer in a paper permit would be sent in the mail following. instead they are being told it got to go. the family has looked for an apartment but they don't want to move they have three children and they want to stay in town and keep life as normal as possible for the kids while they rebuild the home. >> doesn't seem like there's unrealistic expectation. >> it's unneighborly i can't imagine people can't look past that. >> we will put this on the facebook page this morning. this is going tonight two cent hot topic. what do you think? should they be forced to move or is the temporary home while they rebuild realistic. >> let nice you think. stay with us -- let us know what you think. stay with us, the dance video games are popular and a little boy is practicing pretty hard. >> he was in a microsoft mall in washington state and someone captured him busting his moves. . >> looks good. of course, what do you do when you have a dancing kid? you post it on youtube and apparently he was playing the dance game on the hardest level. >> okay. >> it's not easy. >> not easy at all. 6:256789 he doesn't have a home -- 6:25. he doesn't have a home but he has a pile of cash. >> the homeless man whose fortunes could change. where this money is coming in from. >> this is more than battle between lawyers. the fight between the judge and anthony's defense attorney and the order that judge is recently given. clear. wild fires continue to burn in arizona and several other states. i am sherrie johnson. hear who a politician blames for setting the fires. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30. it's 6:26. we will head to the white house and give you a live picture this morning. 68 degrees and we will be right back. now "good morning maryland. new information in the death of a fire recruit. what authorities hope to find out in the next coming hours. back to one of the most recognizable rock stars. the role

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