he is expected to appear in federal court tomorrow morning. as a result against libyan rule, muammar gadhafi continues to grow, governments around the world are scrambling to get their citizens out of the country. joel brown reports there seems to be no end to violence between government support and protestors. soldier and militia lowell to muammar gadhafi are striking back against the opposition. the capital city of tripoli is all but locked down as gadhafi fights to hold one to power. he called in to hit stays television broadcast this morning claiming osama bin laden is behind the protests. hundreds of americans hoping to escape libya had their plans put on hold. high winds and rough seas are keeping a ferry chartered by the u.s. government, in a libyan port. eventually, they ll be taken to malta, the state department insists it is secure and has plenty of food and water. thousands have managed to flee the violence, some left on large ships, others managed to get pas
self-reports can not rule out other contributing factors like smoking. if we don t pass the bill, what is going to happen is catastrophic. reporter: maryland s cancer rate between 2003-2007 was below the national average and frederick county is much higher, ranking worse in the state. although the health department found no evidence of a cancer cluster around fort dietrich. i don t need a single person in our state who doesn t have a cancer story in their family. reporter: senator jamie raskin has cancer, too, like many, this is a personal fight. reporter: advocates say blood tests on five out of seven people with cancer in the area showed dioxins linked to agent orange and lawmakers say there is a disconnect between health officials and the e.p.a. and said that everyone keeps passing the buck but by mandating the state now, look at the environmental causes and that will not happen anymore. this is going to be expensive. do you know how much would all of this cost
guys? all right. thank you, doug. you know, those high winds last weekend, they did this. they whipped up some major brush fires across our area. is there going to be a repeat when these new high winds come through tomorrow? and what is being done to make sure that this doesn t happen with this latest round of weather? derrick ward continues our coverage, he is live in clinton, maryland with the answers. derrick. reporter: well, as you see behind me, there are still signs evident of all those problems we had over this past weekend. you may be thinking, well, it s raining, it s snowed since then. and that shouldn t be a problem, but that isn t necessarily the case. so far, crews all over our area are being prepared for the worst with high winds on tap for tomorrow. the images are burned into the collective memories of parts of the county where the brush fires burned. and now, with more high winds expected within the next 24 hours, it s all about preparation for the worst
resume, and i think his resume, to the extent that i noticed, speaks for itself. beyond that, i think i would have to defer to wayne and his you know, his interactions with him over the last however many weeks a month. reporter: and then in a big surprise, suleman brown himself suddenly showed up and sat among the reporters at the mayor s news conference. he said gray had helped get him the job, and he was unfairly fired because of things said about him. i m disappointed with the process that was made me lose my job. unsubstantiated allegations in the media to defame my reputation and my character. if you want to let me go, then let me go. but don t tell me nothing that s not true. because my background and my record speaks for itself. reporter: questions have been raised about brn s experience and his temperament. some legal trouble in his recent past. but there are more questions than answers about this abrupt turn around and a major embarrassment to the new gra
here. just volume but no real problems as you head toward the 14th street bridge. back out now, this time, we ll zoom into the northside of town. show you what it looks like on the beltway actually south side of town, we got the volume from braddock road. this is the inner loop of the beltway right here heading northbound on 495. it is incident-free. now a look at your travel times on the outer loop of the beltway, or southbound 95 from 216 to the beltway is 9 minutes. route 4 to the wilson bridge is 9 minutes. 295 from the beltway to the 11th street bridge, only 7 minutes right now. another update on the accident coming up next at 6:12. andrea? let s get to some of the stories happening today. we re just under 11 hours away from the launch of the space shuttle discovery. it is the final planned launch for this shuttle. we ll get a live report from cape canaveral coming up at 6:45. a rehab project begins on the historic streets of georgetown today. ceremony is going to