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"big time rush".. is coming to our area. your chance to win tickets to the show... is coming up sometime in the next 60 minutes. 3 3 3 monday, august 6th 3 monday, august 6thmonday, august 6th monday, august 6thmonday, august 6th 3 monday, august 6th 3 3 3 3 3 3 monday, august 6th 3 -harbor 3 3 3 3 3 state legislators will return to annapolis this week for a ásecondá special session. they're expected to address gambling questions that were left unanswered in the spring. spring.but some politicians say now is not the time to go back.megan gilliland is here with more on the controversial meeting and what could come of it. good morning guys,that first special session was to balance the budget... now we're putting our money on gambling... this second time around. governor martin o'malley is asking legislators to vote on a proposal that would allow a casino to be built in prince george's county and would create "las vegas style" gambling in all state casinos. the governor says the measure would bring in an additional 100-million-dollars in revenue... and thousands of jobs.but many legislators say a special session should only be called for emergencies. "well i think we had a pretty emergency situation when we adjourn serny dye without a budget and i want to avoid that emergency." o'malley declined to specify if he believes expanded gambling... constitutes an emergency. either way... most lawmakers will meet this thurrday to talk about it. most... but not all of them. coming up next half hour... the group of lawmakers actually boycotting the special session.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. prince george's county police arrest 18- year- ood melvyn watson junior and dikembe david-brandon... after police say the men fired several gunshots into a crowd of people sunday morning.it happened while police were attempting to break apart a group of 2-hundred people at the mcdonald's on baltimore avenue near berwyn park road in college park.both have been charded with possession of a handgun and reckless enganderment. cell phone video shows the thick smoke billowing out of a reisterstown home this weekend. the fire claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman. woman.it happened saturday afternoon around 4 on main street.the woman was found dead in the back bedroom of the home.firefighters believe smoking was a factor in the fire. w bill harris, reisterstown: 1.07.54 "i never dreamed that there'd be someone actually inside.." bill harris, reisterstown: 1.08.55 "if any of us had known, we would have done something. we could've gotten in there, i bel" believe."investigators are not releasing the victim's name , right nowbut we've learned... smoke detectors were operational in the home. a fire on harford road in northeast baltimore remains under investigation, this morning.firefighters got the call around 4 o'clock , sunday morning.when they arrived...they found heavy smoke pouring out of the "hip hop" chicken restaurant which appeared to be un-occupied.it took crews more than 2-hours to get control of the flames. one firefighter suffered minor injuries.investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire. five people are recovering from an accident sunday that involved a city ambulance.the ambulance collided with a car at the intersection of north calvert and east lexington street as it headed out on a call.five people... including a member of the fire department... were taken to area hospitals with injuries that are not life-threatening. the cause of the accident is being investigated. the latest data proves even more americans are looking for jobs. the u-s unemployment rate has ticked up to 8 point 3 percent. joel d. smith is live in dundalk with one profession still searching for tens of thousands of new employees. good morning joel d. 3 3 a small goat in maine is a big hit online. meet "buttermilk"... a six week old... nigerian dwarf goat... and the latest youtube sensation.this is video of her jumping over other goats... "buttermilk's" owner posted the video on friday and said if they got a thousand hits... she would make a 25-dollar donation to a farm sanctuary that helps rescue and rehabilitate farm animals.now the video... has far surpassed that... to ámillionsá of views. so we made the donation for the first thousand views of the video ann we're talking with farm sanctuary about how we might be able to work together to help benefit the work that they do." "when we brought her out the day to run in the yard and took the video that was the first time we had ever seen the real sort of karate kid move..." "the kicking and kkocking them over. that's the first time never seen her kick the other ones over before. so it was sort of serendipity that we caught it on video." 3 while harnish and lawless still can't believe all the attention their little goat has received in a short amount of received in a little goat has attention their believe all the lawless still can't while harnish and caught it on video." while harnish and lawless still can't believe all the attention their little goat has received in a short amount of time, they don't think it'll change buttermilk ll that much. 3 that much. coming up... history was made...while you were sleeping. sleeping.touchdown confirmed cheering nats natshow long it took the "curiosity" rover to make it to mars... and the first item of business... now on the agenda. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((bump out)) ((break 1)) 3 3 3 3 3 coming up... one man's revenge... on police. the charges he's facing... for allegedly running over their cruisers with a tractor. "i called my teammates because we had to come support you man, that's big from someone your age." age."and college athletes pay a special visit... to 2 young boys.what they're doing... that's receiving national attention.you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 2)) [ male announcer ] good paying jobs. better schools. that's what a world-class resort casino at national harbor would mean for maryland. but it won't happen if the special interests get their way. with thousands of local jobs and millions for maryland's schools on the line. we need to fight back. call your lawmakers and tell them to put national harbor on the ballot this november. because it's not up to the special interests, it's up to you. because it's not up to the special interests, new this morning... new details are emerging from sunday's shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin that left 7 people dead... including the suspected shooter.the f-b-i says the suspect was a white man... around forty years of age.the shooting happened around 10-thirty in the morning athe the sikh temple in oak creek.the suspect killed six people before he was shot by a police officer. three others are hospitalized... inluding a police officer. the man accused of shooting several people including gabrielle giffords in tucson last year is expected to plead guilty.jared lee loughner is scheduled to appear in court tuesday... where psychiatrists are expected to announce he's competent to stand trial. 6 people died... and 13 others were injured in the shooting outside a grocery store last january. a former u-s attorney is conducting an independent reviiw... into how the university of colorado handled james holmes... the man accused of opening fire inside a crowded movie theater.holmes was a doctoral student at the university's medical campus until june... when he withdrew from the program.he was also a patient of a school psychiatrist... who was reportedly so concerned about holmes's behavior... that she mentioned it to her colleagues. holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a screening of the new batman movie. a deadly weekend for nascar fans.2 people were taken to hospitals in critical condition... after being struck by lightning in the parking lot at pocono raceway. it happened behind the grandstand... after the race. one of the victims later died. at least 9 other fans were injured. the vermont man accused of doing this stunning damage to seven sheriff's department vehicles faces 14 criminal charges.34-year-old roger pion appeared shackled in a vermont courtroom friday.pion is accused of taking a tractor... and driving over the department's leet last week before officers were able to stop him.pion was arrested last month by newport city police for possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. but police wouldn't say if the rampage was revenge. he will be back in court tuesday to enter a plea. "big time rush"... is coming to our area. area.windows down nats and we've got your chance to see them live.listen in for a shot at winning tickets... sometime in the next 40 minutes. (2nd to last sot) get it done. mr. president, we need your help. you're the commander in c. chief. and politicans go head-to-head... over last week's job report.what one politician is accusing another... of lying about. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 3)) i'm drinking dunkin'. i'm drinking dunkin' iced mocha. they make it exactly how i like it. medium, iced, with a turbo shot. french vanilla, hazelnut, caramel -- i love 'em all. they make it perfect every time. america runs on dunkin' coffee. wheeeeeeeeeeeee! whee! whee! wheeeeeeeeeheeee! heads up. everything you love about geico, now mobile . download the geico app today. following a july jobs report with mixed reviews... politicians from both parties butted heads on key issues sunday. as cristina mutchler explains... republican senator lindsey graham called on fellow republicans to revisit their views on taxes... mitt romney talked jobs... and democrats stood strong on a claim that the g-o-p presidential candidate hasn't paid his taxes. 3 politicians talked two key topics sunday -- taxes and jobs. republican senator lindsey graham addressed senate majority leader harry reid's accusations that mitt romney has not paid taxes in 10 years -- saying the democratic leader is "lying". i've been around this town for a while. i actually like harry. but what he did on the floor of the senate is so out of bounds. i think he's lying about his statement of knowing something about romney. senior obama campaign adviser robert gibbs countered that opinion. harry reid isn'' the one who's made this debate. mitt romney has brought this to the fore.it's a claim the g-o-p presidential candidate strongly denies. coming off of last week's july jobs report -- with more jobs, but a slightly higher unemployment rate -- romney says he'll add 12 million jobs in his first four years.that's what happens in a normal process. when you come out of a kind of recession we've had, you should see this kind of job creation.on sunday, graham also called for congress to reach a deal on a deficit reduction plan to avoid widespread automatic spending cuts -set to take place at the end of the year. get it done. mr. president, we need your help. you're the commander in chief.he's not gotten consensus because it is hard to get consensus when the other side of the aisle has no desire to build consensus.congress may be starting a five-week vacation, but it leaves a long to-do list for its return. i'm cristina mutchler reporting. 3 coming up... they're making headlines... with each cup they sell. sell."i called my teammates because we had to come support you man, that's big from someone your 3age." age."the unusual cause two michigan kids are supporting... by running a lemonade stand. 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((break 4)) 3 3 3 session on gambling....why things might get tense.in -live look downtown 3 3 3 3 395 map 3 it's back to work for state lawmakers.a controversial second special session is set to begin this week. week.the issue at hand... is expanded gambling.megan gilliland is here with more why some lawmakers are actually boycotting this time around. good morning guys,governor o'malley just announced his goals late last week for a special session to begin this thursday.saying he wants lawmakers to expand gambling to "live" table games... like black-jack and poker. poker."casino special interests and maryland legislators are trying to pull a fast one.""we get a tax hike while casino owners get a bailo" bailout."this commercial... sponsored by the taxpayers protection alliance... urges maryland lawmakers to stay home during this second special session...to expand gambling.and while some lawmakers are boycotting... others say they want to be there to read the fine print. reilly) "taxpayersshave currently bonded and are paying for those machines? how does that interact in the future, there are a lot of unanswered questions." questions."the bill... also calls for building another casino... at the national harbor... in prince george's county. the governor says it'll bring in 100- million-dollars in revenue... and thousands of jobs. lawmakers must act by august 20th though... to have the issue of expanded gambling placed on the ballot this fall. we're told lawmakers will also debate legislation surrounding that recent court decision on the liability from pit bulls. i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. that brings us to our question of the day:do you agree with the governor's decision to hold a special session on gambling?we'll take your calls in our 7 o'clock hour. you can also go to fox-baltimore dot com and tell us what you think... sound off through facebook or send us a tweet.. at foxbaltimore. police need your help, this morning... finding the person who fatally stabbed another man in northwest altimore last month. it happened back on july 23rd... just before 5 o'clock in the evening.the victim was talking to three men near a 7- eleven store on reisterstown road and west belvedere avenue when he was stabbed in the chest by one of the suspects. the victim then walked into the street where he was hit by a car. he was found by police and taken to a nearby hospital. the victim died earlier this month. anyone with information should call police. the man who abducted cal ripken's mother is still on the loose....but hopefully not for long.áamerica's most wantedá has joined in the fight to find the suspect. a profile picture of the suspect is now on a-m-w's website. cal ripken has also purchased billboards with a sketch of the kidnapper's face that tower over highways across maryland. ripken spoke publicly about the incident and said the moment he found out his mother had been kidnapped...he got in his car...drove around and looked for her. "it was the worst feeling you could imagine it was about nine o'clock at night my sister called me that a woman was tied up in the back seat of the car and um they wanted to know if we knew where mom was." we've posted knew where mom was."wanted to know if we knew where mom was." we've posted cal's entire appeal for justice on our website fox baltimore dot com. to hear his entire interview, just head to our website and click on the raw news section. a roman catholic priest leads parishioners on a 100-mile walk from hancock, maryland to baltimooe... to protest the president's health care plan. protesters departed from saint peter's catholic church last sunday... and ended at the baltimore basilica. protesters say they disagree with the obama administration policy... requiring health insurance plans to cover contraception. religious leaders say no one should be forced to violate any of their religious beliefs. "for all americans to express our faith or people of no faith that they don't deserve to be cohersed by the government under health care packages that include sterilization or contraception's so we're marching for everybody." everybody." walkers called the march a "pilgrimage of religious freedom." at the same time the unemployment rate is ticking up to 8.3 percent... one profession continues to need tens of thousands of new employees. why isn't there more interest? interest? joel d. smith is live in dundalk to show us himself why truck driving might be the job of the future. good morning joel d. 3 3 a young boy from detroit is making national headlines... for trying to help his city out of a financial crisis.and he's doing it... one cup of lemonade at a time. time.in just one week... 9-year-old joshua smith... with the help of his his friend dwayne durant have raised more than 2-thousand dollars.on friday... their hard work and dedication paid off.they received a visit from some star players... at the university of michigan. :46 i read the article for myself about you were doing out here and i called my teammates because we had to comeesupport you man, that's big from someone your age. both of you guys out here. there's a lot of kids our age that aren't even doing the things that you're doing and taking notice of what's going on.it's going to take more people thinking like you to help this city. along with some university of michigan freebies... joshua smith was also awarded a 2- thousand-dollar scholarship... so long as he graduates with at least a 2-point-5 grade point average. coming up... we've got your chance to win tickets to see "big time rush"... live in concert. concert.windows down nats listen in for your cue to call... listen in for your listen in for your cue to call... sometime in the next 30 minutes. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 5)) ((bump in)) lib meteorologist)) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 coming up... susan g. komen... under fire again.what the breast cancer charity group is accused of doing... that's upsetting some researchers. cheering nats natsand history is made... in space.the first thing the rover is scheduled to do... after landing on the red planet.you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 6)) [ male announcer ] good paying jobs. better schools. that's what a world-class resort casino at national harbor would mean for maryland. but it won't happen if the special interests get their way. with thousands of local jobs and millions for maryland's schools on the line. we need to fight back. call your lawmakers and tell them to put national harbor on the ballot this november. because it's not up to the special interests, it's up to you. because it's not up to the special interests, new this morning... "susan g. komen for the cure"... is accused of using misleading statistics... to convince women to have mammograms.the breast cancer charity group is accused of overstating the benefits of the procedures and ignoring the risks.komen claimed 98-percent of women survive 5 years when the disease is diagnosed early... versus 23-percent when it's not.but some researchers say... those statistics are meaningless and out of context. nasa is getting closer to once again launching astronauts from the u-s.it's awarded more than a billion dollars in contracts... to 3 commercial rocket and spacecraft developers.the space agency wants to bridge the gap left by the retirement of the space shuttle program.right now... nasa pays millions of dollars to russia when astronauts hitch a ride on a soyuz rocket. cheering nats nats cheers erupt in mission control just hours ago... as nasa's 2-point-6 billion-dollar rover "curiosity" touched down on mars.the s-u-v-sized spacecraft made its dramatic arrival on martian terrain in a spectacle popularly known as the "seven minutes of terror." this morning emily schmidt is live in washington... with more on why scientists have been waiting a long time for this moment.good morning, emily. 1) how long can a 1) how long can a rover do its job so far away from earth? coming up next... we've got your chance to see "big time rush"... live in concert. concert. windows down nats listen in for your cue to call... less than á5 minutesá from now.you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. i'm one of six children that my mother raised by herself, 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. and so college was a dream when i was a kid. i didn't know how i was gonna to do it, but i knew i was gonna get that opportunity one day, and that's what happened with university of phoenix. nothing can stop me now. i feel like the sky's the limit with what i can do and what i can accomplish. my name is napthali bryant and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. ♪ nikki! rick! wow, you look terrific! 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"it was the worst feeling you could imagine cal ripken... chokes up while making a plea to catch his mother's kidnapper.the first thing he says he did when he found out about her disappearance. "this is where the greenhouses were. right here. both of them. and they took all the plants." and.... an 87 year old busted for growing pot.but why he says... he wasn't doing anything illegal. 3 3 today is monday, today is monday, august 6. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 state legislators will return to annapolis this week for a ásecondá special session. they're expected to address gambling questions that were left unanswered in the spring. spring.but some politicians say now is not the time to go back.megan gilliland is here with more on the controversial meeting and what could come of it. good morning guys,that first special session was to balance the budget... now we're putting our money on gambling... this second time around. governor martin o'malley is asking legislators to vote on a proposal that would alloo a casino to be built in prince george's county and would create "las vegas style" gambling in all state casinos. the governor says the measure would bring in an additional 100-million-dollars in revenue... and thousands of jobs.but many legislators say a special session should only be called for emergencies. "well i think we had a pretty emergency situation when we adjourn serny dye without a budget and i want to avoid that emergency." o'malley declined to specify if he believes expanded gambling... constitutes an emergency. either way... most lawmakers will meet thiss thursday to talk about it. most... but not all of them. coming up next half hour... why some are actually boycotting the special session. morning news.liland, fox45 that brings us to our question of the day:do you agree with the governor's decision to hold a special session on gambling?we'll take your calls inour next half hour. you can also go to fox-baltimore dot com and tell us what you think... sound off through facebook or send us a tweet.. at foxbaltimore. cell phone video shows the thick smoke billowing out of a reisterstown home this weekend. the fire claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman. woman.it happened saturday afternoon around 4 on main street.the woman was found dead in the back bedroom of the home.firefighters believe smoking was a factor in the fire. w bill harris, reisterstown: 1.07.54 "i never dreamed that there'd be someone actually inside.." bill harris, reisterstown: 1.08.55 "if any of us had known, we would have done something. we could've gotten in there, i believe." believe."investigators are not releasing the victim's name , right nowbut we've learned... smoke detectors were operational in the home. a fire on harford road in northeast baltimore remains under investigation, this morning.firefighters got the call around 4 o'clock , sunday morning.when they arrived...they found heavy smoke pouring out of the "hip hop" chicken restaurant which appeared to be un-occupied.it took crews more than 2-hours to get control of the flames. one firefighter suffered minor injuries.investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire. investigators say arson is behind the cause of a fire that damaged a denny's restaurant in harford county friday morning. police are looking for this man in the orange shirt who they believe is a person of interest. it happened near route 24 and i-95 in bel air.damages total over 500-thousand dollars. anyone with information should call harford county police. 3 is conducting an independent review... into how the university of colorado handled james holmes... the man accused of opening fire inside a crowded movie theater. theater.holmes was a doctoral student at the university's medical campus until june... when he withdrew from the program.he was also a patient of a school psychiatrist... who was reportedly so concerned about holmes's behavior... that she mentioned it to her colleagues.holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a screening of the new batman movie. the man accused of shooting several people including gabrielle giffords in tucson last year is expected to plead guilty.jared lee loughner is scheduled to appear in court tuesday... where psychiatrists are expected to announce he's competent to stand trial. 6 people died... and 13 others were injured in the shooting outside a grocery store last january. an 87-year-old denver man is arrested after police found hundreds of pounds of marijuana growing at his home. the man was a medical marijuana dealer. but police say he was growing more marijuana plants than his license allowed. edward bogunovich says, it's a family business, even his daughter is involved.police raiddd his backyard... and found what they called... a forest of marijuana trees.they estimate 500 plants were growing in his back yard, more than double what he is allowed. "it don't make sense to me. there was no crime 3 committed. we didn't do nothing. we were trying to be legal." "how do i feel? i lost a lot of money. that was the worst part." bogunovich is facing charges of possession with intent to distribute, cultivating and possession of marijuana. the latest data proves even more americans are looking for jobs. the u-s unemployment rate has ticked up to 8 point 3 percent. joel d. smith is live in dundalk with one profession still searching for tens of thousands of new employees. good morning joel d. 3 3 slicing and dicing...withoot a . knife.you'll never believe what this man is using...to cut these vegetables! vegetables! you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 1)) some severe weather in saint louis... makes for some impressive video.take a look at this footage. footage.lightning strikes surround the gateway arch.at least 2 homes were damaged... and several trees were uprooted. 3 3 3 3 3 3 it's supposed to be a safe place of worship. worship.i just thought it was the safest place, maybe on earth, or in oak creek. apparently not notbut on sunday... tragedy strikes a sikh temple in wisconsin, as a shooter opens fire.how many people are dead...and the gunman's mysterious past. past.and later...the jackson family matriarch says... she was duped.how katherine jackson says she was tricked into her disappearance, last month.you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 2)) 3 new this morning... a two- alarm fire breaks out at the m-and-t bank on ritchie highway sunday night.smoke billowed out of the building as fire crews from anne arundel county worked to knock it down.in all ... it took more than fifty firefighters to bring it under control.no one was injured... and right now there is no estimate of the damage done. the f-b-i is leading the investigation into sunday's shooting rampage at a sikh temple in suburban milwaukee. when it was all over, seven people were dead, including the shooter. as rene marsh reports..three others are critically injured, including a police officer and the congregation's president, according to his nephew. 3 --reporter pkg-as follows -- law enforcement sources on the law enforcement sources on the ground in oak creek, wisconsin say a gunman opened fire inside this sikh temple sunday morning. the man - believed to be an army veteran- is suspected of using a semi- automatic handgun. investigators say he ambushed the first officer on the scene, shooting him several times; a second officer shot and killed the gunman. police dispatch calls reveal what happened next. the subject's not moving, we're approaching upon him, he's not moving. 10-4. ambulance up!! subject down!! subject's down!! bring the ambulance!! we have one officer shot. at sunset, a candlelight vigil drew mourners to milwaukee's cathedral square, as the sikh community tried to cope. every time i go to temple i'm going to think of this and it's so unfortunate that that's the case i have to think of a tragedy, suppose to be able to focus my thoughts on god and loving my community and loving people. i just thought it was the safest place, maybe on earth, or in oak creek. apparently not. i just want people to know that they shouldn't be mistaken by us, and 'cause we have turbans and long beards too, and that's just our religion, and it's very peaceful. along with looking into the suspected gunman's military past, authorities are investigating whether or not he was a white supremacist. one source says the shooter's name may be released as early as this morning. the baltimore washington area... could be the site of the 2024 olympic games.the c-e-o of the washington baltimore 2012 regional coalition says he's had informal discussions about making another run at the olympics.he tried to put a bid in for the 2012 games, buu of course london won.mayor stephanie rawlings blake says the city would do a phenomenal job of hosting the games. shh was turned down... at firs. first."i'm totally happy they didn't let in at 220 pounds. i think i probably would have died out there." how many recruits are trying to enter the military..but are too fat... to fight. fight.find out what this man is using to slice these vegetables. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 3)) ((bump in)) 3 america's battle against obesity has reached the front lines. deborah feyerick tells us... according to a new report ... 25-percent of potential recruits for the military-- are simply too fat to fight. fight. --reporter pkg-as follows -- this is not how mercedes lipscomb looked a decade ago -- when she tried to enlist in the national guard and was rejected -- told she was too fat. "i'm totally happy they didn't let in at 220 pounds. i think i probably would have died out there." according to a eport releasing later this month from a group called "mission readiness", 25% of alllpotential recruits are turned away -- because of their weight. (nats) the problem is potentially so serious commanders of all ranks who spearheaded the study describe it as a potential threat to national security. "the statistic that blows me away on that is 1 in 4 americans is too obese, young americans is too obese to join the military." rear admiral jamie barnett and more than a hundred retired generals and admirals warned of the problem two years ago. in a new, follow-up report, "still too fat to fight" -- they contend the military is working harder than ever to find eligible recruits. "more and more we're seeing that those folks showwng up at the recruiting centers are not really fit to come into the military." hundreds of recruits wind up discharged early-- because of weight- related issues. "recruits who have not done s well, who have been over-weight, don't do as well in boot camp and are more likely to not complete their first term of enlistment." the cost? somee60- million dollars a year invested and lost in recruits, military leaders say the problem is reversible. they're now targeting school lunch programs and vending machines -- pointing to the success of new york city schools in regulating unhealthy food and lowering average student weight. as for mercedes lipscomb -- she reapplied to the national guard after dropping nearly eighty pounds. "if you're sent into a combat zone you want to be in shape. you want to be able to maneuver, you want to be able to protect yourself and protect your fellow soldiers. if you're overweight, how are you going to run? how are ou going to get away?" the study hopes to target young generatioos so when the time comes -- they'll be combat ready. the natiin's leaders, hoping to stem the child obesity crisis -- so it doesn't become what they believe could be a "national security crisis." deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. -----end-----cnn.script----- a tiny youtube star ... hails from a maine farm. farm.how many views a video of a goat on a hopping fit... has gotten since it was uploaded... on friday. you're session on gambling....why things might get tense.in you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof. some things will. save up to 20% on an ikea kitchen. real big deals of the week. or how to keep from driving all over for the best deals. you don't need to run around. safeway gives you real big club card deals each week. this week get whole seedless watermelons fresh off the farm for only $2.98 each. skip the warehouse. 24 rolls of charmin are just $11.99. and kellogg's frosted flakes are a buck 88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. 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"it was the worst feeling you could imagine it was about nine o'clock at night my sister called me that a woman was tied up in the back seat of the car and um they wanted to know if we knew where mom was." we've posted cal's entire appeal for justice on our website fox baltimore dot com. to hear his entire interview, just head to our website and click on the raw news section. the son of philadelphia eagles head coach andy reid has died. died.garrett reid was found dead sunday in his room at the eagles training camp at lehigh universityteam officials say he was a guest of his father and was assisting eagles staff at the training camp.police say there are no signs of suspicious activity and are investigating why the 29 year old died. katherine jackson is speaking out about her family drama... saying she was átrickedá into disappearing last month.the 82-year-old was out of touch with her grandchildren... michael jackson's kids... for 10 days.that led to a missing person report... and the suspension of her guardianship over the kids. through court that she was duped into flying to an arizona spa... instead of her sons' concert in new mexico. she says someone took away her cell phone and i-pad when she landed and that the hotel t-v and phone weren't working. a judge restored her last week. p over the 3 kids - at the same time the unemployment rate is ticking up to 8.3 percent... one profession continues to need tens of thousands of new employees. why isn't there more interest? interest? joel d. smith is live in dundalk to show us himself why truck driving might be the job of the future. good morning joel d. 3 3 why use a knife... when you can use playing cards? cards?that's exactly what one man from china asks.he hopes his unique skill... will land him in the guiness book of world records.the 48-year-old has been training for 10 years... slicing things like watermelon and cucumbers... by throwing cards at them.his current best performance is to cut a row of 12 cucumbers in 47-point-2 seconds. his goal?... to cut 18 cucumbers in 60 seconds. a small goat in maine is a big hit online. meet "buttermilk"... a six week old... nigerian dwarf goat... and the latest youtube sensation.this is video of her jumping over other goats... "buttermilk's" owner posted the video on friday and said if they got a thousand hits... she would make a 25-dollar donation to a farm sanctuary that helps rescue and rehabilitate farm animals.now the video... has far surpassed that... to ámillionsá of views. it's a cloudy start to your day. day.but find out when the clouds will finally part and let the sun shine through.next in your skywatch weather foreca. forecast. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. you know what's exciting? graduation. when i look up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. people c heering heeringcheers from new york's times square... as they recieved confirmation from nasa about a historic moment. after traveling hundreds of millions of miles since last november, the curiosity rover has finally touched down on the mars surface. new yorkers and tourists were able to watch on the big screen as nasa's mission control received confirmation of the touch-down. scientists hope to assess whhther mmrs ever had an environment able to support life. ((toss to weather)) ((ad lib meteorologist)) 3 3 3 meteorologist))((ad lib meteorologist)) 3 3 3 3 meteorologist))((ad lib ((toss to weather)) to support life. environment able to support life. ((toss to weather)) ((ad lib meteorologist)) 3 3 3 3 a controversial second special session is scheduled to begin this week. week.the issue is to expand gam. gambling.that brings us to our question of the day.do you agree with the governor's decision to hold a special session on gambling?our phone lines are open now.. 410- 481-4545. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 6)) all morning. 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"well i think we had a pretty emergency situation when we adjourn serny dye without a budget and i want to avoid that emergency." the governor declined to specify if he believes expanded gambling... actually constitutes an emergency. either way...lawmakers will convene thursday.we're told they will also debate legislation surrounding the liability from pit bulls. the latest data proves even more americans are looking for jobs. the u-s unemployment rate has ticked up to 8 point 3 percent. joel d. smith is livin dundalk with one profession still searching for tens of thousands of new employees. good morning joel d. 3 3 nasa makes history... with a successful landing on mars. just after 1-30 this morning... nasa's 2- point-7-billion dollar rover... called "curiousity"... safely touched down on the red planet.the rover will be used to see if mars has ever had an environment that could support life forms.curiosity's first stop will be gale crater... which may have once contained a lake. 3cheering cheering meanwhile... this was the scene in new york... as revelers burst into cheers.new yorrers and tourists were able to watch on the big screen as nasa's mission control received confirmation of the touch-down. and in mission control... it was one of the crew members that had people talking.that guy on the right there... is bobak ferdowsi.he's a flight director for the curiosity mission.there are reports that he changes his hair for each mission. 3 a young boy from detroit is making national headlines... for trying to help his city out of a financial crisis.and he's doing it... one cup of lemonade at a time. time.in just one week... 9-year-old joshua smith... with the help of his friend dwayne durant have raised more than 2-thousand dollars.on friday... their hard work and dedication paid off.they received a visit from some star players... at the university of michigan. :46 i read the article for myself about you were doing out here and i called my teammates because we had to come support you man, that's big from someone your age. both of you guys out here. there's a lot of kids our age that aren't even doing the things that you're doing and taking notice of what's going on.it's going to take more peeple thinking like you to help this city. along with some university of michigan freebies... joshua smith was also awarded a 2- thousand-dollar scholarship... so long as he graduates with at least a 2-point-5 grade point average. coming up... know who you'll be sitting with... before you arrive. arrive.the new technology... that helps you connect with people... before any event. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone at southwest airlines works together for one goal: to get you where you're going. and with flights all over the country to choose from, it's a good thing we love our work. and now we're excited to take you to the beaches of northwest florida. fly nonstop from bwi airport to panama city beach, florida, for just 99 dollars one-way. book all of our destinations online only at southwest.com. your mouth has sipped, snacked, ...yellowed... giggled, snuggled, ...yellowed... chatted, chewed, ...yellowed. and over all those years, your teeth...have yellowed. fact is, if you're not whitening, you're yellowing. crest 3d white whitestrips remove over ten years of stains by going below the enamel surface. and, they whiten 25 times better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. life opens up when you do. breaking news just into our newsroom... pollce identtfy the suspect in the wisconsin sikh temple shooting. shooting.police say 40 year old wade michael page opened fire at the temple sunday.they say page killed six people before he was shot by a police officer.three others are still hospitalized this morning... inluding a police officer. 3 ((toss to weather)) 3 3 3 3 3 coming up... a scare... for runners in the london olympics.what one fan áthrewá... just seconds before they were set to start.you're watthing fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. 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((break 4)) 3 3 ((open)) -live look downtown 3 3 p3 fiber map 3 it's back to work for state lawmakers.a controversial second special session is set to begin this week. week.the issue at hand... is a gambling bill.tom rodgers is here with more why some are boycotting the session... plus your other top stories of the morning. governor martin o'malley announced his goals last week for a special session to begin this thursday... saying he wants lawmakers to expand gambling to "live" table games... like black-jack and po. poker."casino special interests and maryland legislators are trying to pull a fast one.""we get a tax hike while casino owners get a bailo" baillut."this commercial... sponsored by the taxpayers protection alliance... urges maryland lawmakers to stay home during this second special session...to expand gambling.and while some lawmakers are expected to boycott... others say they want to be there to read the fine print. reilly) "taxpayers have currently bonded and are paying for those machines? how does that interact in the future, there are a lot of unanswered questions." questions."the bill also calls for building another casino at the national harbor... in prince george's county. the governor ays it'll bring in 100-million-dollars in revenue and housands of jobs. lawmakers must act by august 20th though... to have the issue on the ballot this fall. 3 a former u-s attorney is conducting an independenn review... into how the university of colorado handled james holmes... the man accused of opening fire inside a crowded movie theater. theater.holmes was a doctoral student at the university's medical campus until june... when he withdrew from the program.he was also a patient of a school psychiatrist... who was reportedly so concerned about holmes's behavior... that she mentioned it to her colleagues.holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a screening of the new batman movie. the man accused of shootiig several people including gabriille giffords in tucson last year is expected to plead guilty.jared lee loughner is scheduled to appear in court tuesday... where psychiatrists are expected to announce he's competent to stand trial. 6 people died... and 13 others were injured in the shooting outside a grocery store last january. investigators say arson is behind the cause of a fire that damaged a denny's restaurant in harford county friday morning. police are looking for this man in the orange shirt who they believe is a person of interest. it happened near route 24 and i-95 in bel air.damages total over 500-thousand dollars. anyone with information should call harford county police. the man who abducted cal ripken's mother is still on the loose....but hopefully not for long.áamerica's most wantedá has joined in the fight to find the suspect. a profile picture of the suspect is now on a-m-w's website. cal ripken has also purchased billboards with a sketch of the kidnapper's face that tower over highways across maryland. ripken spoke publicly about the incident and said the moment he found out his mother had been kidnapped...he got in his car...drove around and looked for her. "it was the worst feeling you could imagine it was about nine o'clock at night my sister called me that a woman was tied up in the back seat of the car and um they wanted to know if we knew where mom was." we've posted cal's entire appeal for justice on our website fox baltimore dot com. to hear his entire interview, just head to our website and click on the raw news section. a scare sunday... durrng an event at the london olympics. olympics.just moments before the start of the 1-hundred- meter race... a man in the stand behind the racers... threw a plastic bottle onto the track.the fan was quickly arrested.it's not clear whether he was trying to target anyone in particular... but officials say it doesn't appear the bottle contained anything suspicious. at the same time the unemployment rate is ticking up to 8.3 percent... one profession continues to need tens of thousands of new employees. why isn't there more interest? interest? joel d. smith is live in dundalk to show us himself why truck driving might be the job of the future. good morning joel d. 3 3 a man's attempt to harass a chick fil a employee backfires... and lands him without a job. job.check out the clip that adam smith posted to youtube.. that got him fired. fired.1:10-1:30 "you know why i'm getting a free water, right? ... i have to stay neutral on the subject."-butt to-1:53- 2:03 "i don't understand how you work here. .. i will i just did something good i feel 3purposful." purposful."smith was the c-f-o at a tucson medical manufacturing company... and his bosses fired him immedately once this video went viral.smith recorded the video on chick fil a apprecation day last week... when customers showed their support of the company president's stance on same sex marriage. coming up... the "seinfeld" soup truck... is rolling into town. town.the hilarious items you'll find inside... besides soup. you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 5)) 3 some severe weather in saint louis... makes for some impressive video.take a look at this footage...lightning strikes surround the gateway arch.at least 2 homes were damaged... and several trees were uprooted. 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((bump in)) ever walk into a wedding reception or a party without knowing anyone else in the room? what if your online connections helped connect you with the crowd before you arrived? karin caifa looks at the new trend in social seating. seating. for dan (prono: don) berger, inspiration came from 3 attending a wedding. i wanted to see where the cute girls were. i didn't know where anyone else was going to be, it was a destination wedding. so i thought to myself, "wouldn't it be cool if i saw a published seating chart before i got to the wedding?" that thought evolved into social tables, his washington-based startup working its way into the event planning business -- do everything from manage their guest lists, to the floor plans for events, to the seating charts. and the cool part is we let guests interact with each other before or after, based on where they're seated. that last part is what puts "social" on the "table." the platform draws data about guests from their social networks, so planners can seat people with common interests together, hopefully trading awkward icebreakers for more meaningful conversations. planners can publish a guest list before the event to give a head start on the "getting to know you process." and for those who feel that's too much information too soon, there's the option to publish the list after the party too, which berger says more people seem to be opting for, even though he sees online and offline worlds merging. nowadays our online identity is the same as our real-life identity. and we need bridges between those two identities, because of the fact that we spend so much time online. meaning as more people get more social, all that time online could potentially turn into more face time. i'm karin caifa, and you're now, clicked in. -----end-----cnn.script----- coming up... take the stress... out of detangling your hair.a look at one product... that could change your daily routine forever. cheering nats natsand later... history was made...while you were sleeping. how long it took the "curiosity" rover to make it to mars... and the first item of business... now on the &pagenda.you're watching fox 45 morning news.. all local.. all morning. 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