>> i'm jeff. karen is off tonight. elderly church worker is found dead on church grounds. police are calling it murder. the victim of a robbery. he was known as someone with a big heart. keith, what can you kill us? >> we are -- tell us? >> we're live on north avenue near aiken street. milton hill, he was 70-year-old. church members say he would do anything for anybody at any time. he would often volunteer his time daiiy here at the church. he had just trimmed the church's hedges. he lived right next store in an apartment above the store. he was found slumped against a fence, lying in a pool of blood shot to death. his friend, a church deacon, says the scooter hill used to get around town, a retirement gift he bought himself was missing. tomorrow, relatives are calling the party robbery and murder another senseless crime. >> i pray to god that whoever did it, that they turn themselves in. that they don't get any rest at all. no sleep for what they took a life that they did not give. >> baltimore city police are investigating. so far they have little to go on, no suspect or motive. we're live in east baltimore. fox 45 news at5:30. >> a man is shot and killed overnight in northwest baltimore around midnight on florence avenue near west belvedere. a 36-year-old man was shot in the head. he was rushed to the hospital where he later died. a new trial issordered for a baltimore man accused of murdering a taxi driver. the jury failed to reach a decision for robert lee murphy. prosecutors say he wanted a cheap ride from frederick and couldn't afford the $150 fee. he robbed at shot the cab driver shortly after researching the city of baltimore. a west minister man, sentenced to 50 years for attacking a woman with a hammer. -olice station say paul scott went to a friend's house in may and tried to rape her. he hit her in the head with the hammer several times during the attack, according to police. court documents indicate this is scott's 9th assault conviction. a new report out lines how widespread animal cruelty is in the city of baltimore and what can be done about it. john rydell joining us with what's in that reported. >> this report outlines many disturbing indications of animal connection between many of those cases and violence against humans. one of the most pluckily sized cases, the knock named phoenix -- dog named phoenix who was burned to death. the task force wants tougher penalties for those convicted. the sheriff is very disturbed by the age of many of those accused. >> in some many of these crimms we find jjveniles were the perpetrators. in some instances they were as young as 10-years-old. that's a huge wakeup call for a city. >> the task force says the city should implement a low cost stay and neuter clinic for pit bulls. >> thank you. now that brings us to our question of the day. should bbltimore city adopt the recommendations of the animal abuse task force? go to foxbaltiiore.com and tell us what you think. sound off through facebook, send us a tweet. text your answer, a for yes, b for no. and your esponse may air later tonight on fox 45 news at 10. funeral services held for the johns hopkins researcher killed %-loved one gathers at a churchn north palm beach to say farewell to stephen pitcairn. he was talking to his mother on his cell phone sunday night when hh was suddenly mugged and stabbed. a 5-year-old gets an apologies after he was run over by a police cruiser. the boy's family wants more than that. news of the family's demands. >> the family wants to city to pay for the mounting medical bills. the incident left the 5-year-old with a broken leg and more than $7,000 in medical bills. this week a member of theecity's top brass personally apologized to little alvin but fell short of admitting fault. the grandfather fears he's be saddled with the bill. >> all they have to do is stand up and say he's 5 years old, we'll fake care of the build -- take care of the bills, makes sure he's okay. >> the final accident reported is yet toobe complete but according to police, the accident appears to be the child's fault. jeff able, fox 45 news at 5:30. >> a helicopter crashed that killed a pilot and 3 passengers on i70 ruled an accident. the helicopter hit a power line and burst any lanes. the safety board says the dark and fog made visibility very difficull. no mechanicaa malfunctions were discovered. how are the roads looking out there at this hour? candice joins us with our traffic edge report. hello. >> hello, well, we're talking about the actual speeds. 51 miles per hour right now on 95 traveling through white marsh. it's een a tough afternoon on 295 and here is why. all because of an accident on the southbound lanes an 195. ú%l rains were completely shut down..ú they just now reopened. we're left with residual delays. let's see how it looks. you can see we have delays, there too. so again it's goong to be a difficult ride. you an always use 29 a the alternate rooted. we're dealing with a cramped ride on the belted way. 27 miles per hour there and little bit further up watch out, right at security boulevard. a look at the evening travel. back to you. >> thank you. baltimore city celebrates a big, big birthday today. ♪ mayor stephanie blake, after singing haapy birthday workers enjoyed cake. now, baltimore was founded in 1729 named after lord baltimore, the first governor of the privance of maryland under king george iii. a great day today. wiil the mild weather stick around for the weekend? >> a sum or of power out -- summer of about outages, what bge is doing about it. >> i'm going to talk with you. >> and stopping a robbery with religion. what a store clerk said naconvinced the thief to just walk >> bge says power is back on for more than 700 cantons are. >> neighbors say they're her that before. more on the problems. >> jeff, it's been 3 long weeks for are who say their power has been going on an off. the electricity has been off on several streets. homes were dark for more than 11 hours. bge a itts they are unacceptable outages. the company believes it's foun the source of the problems, an underground cable. >> we don't believe we'll have subsequent outages, that said, i don't want to sit here and declare victory and say we'll never have an outage aaain. >> they plan to hold a community meeting to keep residents up-to-date. effected customers can try to recoupe money for outage related expenses such as spoiled food. the numbers on our website. go to foxbaltimore.com/news links. judy, fox 45. >> thank you. a maryland lawmaker tries to gain support for immigration. planning on mailing questionnaires to every lawmaker to find out where they stand on the immigration issue in canada. they plan to publish the results on line. >> the arizona bill is a great symbol to all mericans including marylanders is to where their representatives should be and lead on this issue. >> he says if ree lected he will be introducing legislation tooú maryland similar to of arizona. new citizenn were sworn in during a naturalization ceremony at the war memorial auditorium downtown today. the americcns come from 44 different nations. not a bad day weather wise. how does the weekend fare? meteorologist has the latest on our sky watch forecast. emily, hello. >> the weather couldn't be better. we have one more day of good weather. take a look at the temperatures outside right now. 84 degrees. sure feels nice compared to heat and humidity we have dealt with so far this winter. 84 in dc right now. a very comfortable night in store. the dew points 52, that means low humidity and very comforted then weather right now. we will cool down into the 60s overnight. another thing is the radar, there is nothing showing up. we're dry out there all across the area. we will stay dry for another 24 hours or so before another low pressure system brings wet weather so enjoy saturday because sunday is looking wet out there. going in toward the end have of sunday, those continued showers will be here all the way through until monday morning. we will see an increase in clouds for tomorrow. the jetstream is coming from the northwest. partly cloudy to clear skies for tonight starting off the day on saturday, mostly sunny skies. then we'll cloud up by tomorrow night. for tonight. 65 degrees. very comfortable. winds light out of the west. the humidity will be very low making it a gorgeous evening to be outside. tomorrow morning, the same way. headed down to ocean city, saturday will be the beach day. a few sunny skies with a high of 84. a welt day in store on sunday, 83 degrees. a good chance of showers and thunderstorms there in ocean city. all the details when that will arrive and when we'll see a warmup coming up. jeff. >> thanks so much. you can be in charge of your own personalized weather. i-radar is now available. use theeinteractive tools. go to foxbaltimore.com. a store manager earns the title of christian crime stopper. talked a thief out of his crime through faith. >> i know -- i'm just going to talk with you about the jesus in. >> he what? >> the jesus i got, before you leave. >> got bless you for that. >> i'm christian and -- >> so am i. and iihail doing this. >> wow. she continued this conversation and found out the armed robber was about to get evicted and only needed $300. he eventually left without the money. she says it was divine intervention. >> i don't think it was me. it was some angel or god or something. >> the robber left after learning that stolen ittms would have have to come out of her paycheck a wild life preserve in the state of georgia, home to unique breed of animal. a sedonk. a cross between zebra and donkey. the name, pippy long stocking. they usually don't mate but someone put a luther vvnddros record on. an exception was made. >> major stars are getting together for a meal. why this is one dinner you don't want to be invited to. this singer could be the next "american idol." his chances of making it just got a whole heck of >> if your head hurts from a viewing of inception, there areú easy on the brain movies this week. candice who is about to go on maternity leave at day, congratulations, explain's in tonight's low down. >> thank you, jeff. i will definitely miss it around here. but after all we are talking about the low down and it's not like steve coral to make a movie that makes you think. stars in the new comedy, dinner for some -- sh muck. >> plays an executive with an eccentric boss. they have aadinner for idious every month, ringing the biggest buffoon could jump starú his career. paul turns to steve coral. >> does the cheese come out. hole with the -- come out of the cow with the holes? >> it's rated pg13. %-domesticated animals in cats d dogs, the revealing of kitty galore. >> some kind of cat, get back! >> iiforgot, this is the cat 3,000. >> the never ending wars gets put on hold wwen a rogue cat spy enters the meow minx, rated pg. >> high school musical and hair spray crooner zach returns to theaters with his new film charlie st. cloud. rated pg13. %-congratulations. we're going to miss you. right after news that ellen degeneres comes a new report kara dioguardi has reportedly been fired. several reports say she was axed the same day ellen announced she was leaving. sources say jennifer lopes has been fired and steven tyler will likely replace simon cowell. he left the show to work on his new show "the x factor." mean time one lucky an verytalitianted viewer will be showing off his skills in front of "american idol" producers. ♪ >> brandon won the -- brandon ambrosino held the contest. the grand prize, a guarantied audition in front of idol producers at the new jerseyyú tryouts. we spoke with brandon on fox 45 morning news to find out what his strategy will be about. >> i think that i have a lot of experience in the vocal field, and i'm alsoojust going to try to get on there and just e sincere, not have an agenna. >> brandon beat out 199 other singers. >> the first full squad practi >> welcome back. live at mcdanielle college in the ravens wrapped up their first full squad of practice. we have injure news to report. in the afternoon practice. offennive tackle jar rad gateder was carted off the field -- jared ghaither. we don't know how batted it was. but dominique fox worth tore hii acl during practice yesterday. he said he was running and turned directions llke he's done a million times. his knee just went. torn acl, out for the season. this is only his second year. a big let down, fox worth had 4 interceptions and a big blow to the ravens defense. >> every time faces some time of adversionty through the course of the year. it happened for us it came in day one. losing a guy like fox worth. the next guy has to step up. the bottom line is figure it out. move whatever pieces you got to move and keep moving. it hurts to see somebody go down. %-for them and keep on moving.ay >> so with fox worth out for the year here is a look at the remmining corner backs who could take his place. washington and web are coming off torn acls of their own..ú chris stepp in last year. they signed travis fisher and walt harris but harris is currently on the physically unable to perform list and carry williams would have been another option but he spended the first 2 games..ú coming up tonight at 10:50 we'll have more on ravenens training camp but orioles highlights. back to you. >> thanks so much. back to emily to find out if we're going to have a beautiful weekend. what's the latest. >> it will be really nice, perfect weather. a live look over the harbor, that weather is great. plenty of sunshine, just a few cumulus clouds. 85 right now. winds out of the north northwest at 7.