coming up next on eyewitness news: tornados destroy homes. we ll survey the damage just ahead. one step closer: what just happened in washington that brings health care reform closer to patients. details next. what does mother nature have in store this first weekend in august? eyewitness news saturday morning starts now. good morning. welcome to eyewitness news this saturday. good morning. it is august 1st, the first weekend of the month. it is really flying by. we re talking about a nice calm day compared to some of the days we ve had over the last week. take a look outside, nice start to day. temperatures in the upper 60s to about 70 degrees in some parts of the area. we re looking at a prey calm sky, pretty calm day. really no chance of showers around, but you can t rule it out in the summer. some severe storms moved through yesterday. it is possible a tornado touched down in carroll county yesterday. today the national weather service will be on the ground evaluatin
hello, i m vic carter. and i m denise koch. president obama is hoping to squash what is a debate. tonight, president obama hosted the police officer and gates. joel brown reports from the white house. it was a round of drinks heard around the world. president obama invited crowley and gates for beers at the white house thursday evening. vice president biden also sat down with the men for a conversation the president called friendly and thoughtful. gates applauded meeting. there were no apologies. this is a positive step in moving forward as opposed to reliving the event, moving cambridge and two individuals and the whole country past the event. reporter: they sat at a rose patio near the garden. the police sergeant says the events of the past couple of weeks are a blur. i m still not having caught up with this. reporter: both men brought their families to the white house. they took a tour then sat down with the president before the rose garden. the controversy beg
. this is wjz and wjz.com, baltimore. good morning, maryland. now, don scott, marty bass, breaking news with mary bubala, your first-warning weather and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala. it s wjz, maryland s news station. it s friday. it s the top of the hour and a lot more clouds have moved in in the last hour. we thought was a dramatic sunrise is high in the clouds. tim williams has first-warning weather. good morning, we have a slight risk for severe thunderstorms because of a system moving into the region. out to the west, we do have some light showers moving across cumberland and into washington county on the western edge. oakland, parts of cumberland starting to see the lighter showers and these could start to fire up. it s a large system that is extensive and goes down into the gulf state and to shift it over, to give you an idea on how big the system is, it s going out pretty big, it s called clicking the button one time too many. it s an idea of where t
changed. wjz with was the mayor who stuck to her schedule one day after she was indict on nine criminal counts. they re more detailed. she denies them all and won t back down. if she beats these characters, if we goes down, her career is over. i m going continue owe to come out and work. wjz takes you through the charges. the mayor lie on finance forms and required to report cash and gifts. the prosecutor contends she got thousands of dollars from her ex-boyfriend and did not report one dime. ron lipscomb ran the construct company and agreed to help the profession. it lays out trips they took together incluing to chicago and new york. other charges include theft and misconduct in office. the prosecutor claims that the mayor solicited gift cards and received dozen of them from best buy, old navy and target and used them for herself and her family. the indictment shows a suspicious transaction saying the mayor handed $40,000 to her driver and used the money to pay her cre