Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition 20130809

Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition 20130809

Meteorologist tim williams in for marty bass and over at first warning weather. All i can tell you this morning is that your car windows will be steamed up because of the dew point and the humidity level is very high. A few showers out there. You might need your wipers early on. Expect thunderstorms later this afternoon as youre driving home. 66 oakland, 76 elkton, 75 ocean city. A high of 86 degrees. Look for peaks of sun that could fire up storms later in the afternoon. How are those cars, trucks and suvs doing this morning . Here is Christy Breslin in for Sharon Gibala at wjz Traffic Control. Hi, everyone. Although the roads are dry at this point we still have a lot of accidents out there. 97 southbound, a new accident just reported there after generals highway near hawkins road. We also have accidents liberty road at pike wood drive and 100 westbound at oak wood drive. The right shoulder remains blocked. Were starting to see some volume building around green spring avenue on the beltway. 95 moving well in both directions. No problems to report on 95 around white marsh boulevard. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning, heres don. Thank you. Later this morning the life of a local legend will be membered. Mike schuh is live outside the cathedral where a funeral will be held for art donovan. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. Art had many chances to leave baltimore but he liked this town so much that he decided to stay. Now baltimore will be paying their respects to back to art. Art donovan made his name as a feared member of the baltimore colts, winning two championship. To friends and fans, the lineman, a gentle giant. Probably the most loved player that ever played here. Not only here, but throughout the nfl. He had more fun than he was allowed to have. Donovan grew up in the bronx. Those who knew him said you would never know. He was a piece of this community. All those guys, they were that blue collar mentality with the colts. Donovan stayed in the spotlight well after his playing days were done. Voted into the hall of fame in 1968. Then came fame on the talk show circuit. I remember the first year i played, 1950 with the colts. The way they cut us was very simple. We got off a plane in baltimore. We played a game against green bay. Nobody wanted to get off the plane because the coaches were standing down on the ramp and as you come by say youre hired, you made the team. Of course, donovan also had a friday football segment right here on wjz. These guys are making a million dollars, theyre supposed to catch the ball. A baltimore legend. Reporter art was the first baltimore player inducted into the hall of fame. Services begin at 11 00. Thank you. Arts funeral will be at 11 00 as mike just said. You can watch live coverage of the service right here on wjz 13 and also at cbsbaltimore. Com. The Baltimore County woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her husband said she had to or he would have killed her. Wjz stays on this story. Derek valcourt was in the courtroom as karla porter testified in her own defense. Have you ever seen him before . No. During her video taped Police Interrogation karla porter repeatedly lied about her involvement in the murder of her husband, ray, at first blaming a robber. Eventually she confessed the planning it. I just wanted someone to hit him for me. I didnt want any of this to happen. I didnt. What happened, karla . He was being really mean. Porter admits she enlisted the help of several people, including her family, to hire Walter Bishop to kill her husband in march of 2010 at the gas station. Everybody talked about what a wonderful man he was but he hit me. Karla porter took the stand thursday to detail years of physical and verbal abuse. She said he punched and shoved her, threw things at her, slammed her head into walls and floors and held a gun to her head threatening to kill her. Porter told jurors she lived in constant fear. It was getting so bad i knew that ray was going to kill me. I just wanted to kill him first. Ray and karla porters daughter took the stand to testify she witnessed her father verbally abusing her mother. Prosecutors suggesting shes just trying to help her mother out and suggesting karla porter is making up those stories of physical abuse. The other five defendants are already serving prison sentences. A Howard County man getting the maximum since of 30 years for killing her. Christine jarretts body went undiscovered for 21 years. It was earlier in the year a jury convicted Robert Jarrett of Second Degree murder. One top doctor reverses his decision on medical marijuana. Dr. San jay gupta is speaking out about the switch he made. Kai jackson explains how it can impact the issue here in maryland. The use of marijuana has been controversial for years. In 2013 maryland pass ed ed a law legaling medical marijuana. I feel like it will cut down on my pain. Some critics say it has a placebo effect at best or question whether its recreational in nature. I think weve been misled. Now a c nn and cbs medical core respondent as made an about face on medical marijuana. Dr. Gupta who was critical now believes theres science to support usage. This science is there. This is the realm of of this anymore. It was a drug ed used for thousands of years. Medical marijuana is used be i those terminally ill, those offers from cancer. Washington dc recently approved medical american. Marijuana is not a dangerous drug. It does not make people aggressive. Not addictive. Frankly, it does have med ical applications. Dr. Gupta said hes working on a documentary that should be released soon. Im kai jackson reporting. Back to you. Thank you. Marylands Marijuana Law goes into effect this october. The state is trying to determine how marijuana will be dispensed. This morning were learning more about the Powerball Jackpot winners. The first is paul white from minnesota. He will be pocketing over 58 million million. The second winners from nonlife new jersey, a team of 16 people. The ravens head back to the field for the First Time Since winning the super bowl. Here is sports director mark viviano. Good morning. Well, the ravens remade the roster of the super bowl and after mini camps and 2 weeks of Training Camp time to see how the new squad stacks up to competition. Preseason opener at tampa bay. Terrell suggs leading the pregame huddle. Veteran chris canty introducing himself to buccaneers quarterback josh freeman. Its a sack. On offense joe flacco start ed at quarterback, played the first quarter, completed seven of nine passes and missed one interception. The guy who picked it off, former raven danny gore. A number of ravens fans made the trip to tampa. They endured a first half rainstorm. Bernard pierce did some dancing through the rain drops. Takes the hand off, heads down the sideline. Into the end zone for the first touchdown of the game. Ravens leading. How about special teams . Brendan trolwith blocks the punt. La Quan Williams had had a touchdown, a fumble. He also caught a touchdown pass from taylor. They beat the bucs 4416. The next preseason game is next thursday when the Atlanta Falcons come to ravens stadium. John harbaugh reporting no significant injuries. Always good news. Thank you. The next preseason game is next thursday night, the falcons come to town. Taylor had a good night. Some had a good night and some names you dont know had good night. We will know them soon. I know one name we know . Papas. That. Reporter happy friday. How are you guys doing . Doing fine. Reporter did you stay up last night watching the game . Reporter yeah, i watched part of the game. People were on twitter saying get rid of flacco after the first interception. Ill tell you, the fans get upset. Yes, they do. We won. Were moving along to at lanta next week at home. Were at papas restaurant. Thank you guys for coming out. Good morning. Reporter Baltimore County Restaurant Week starting today. We got the famous papas crab cake when the Eyewitness News morning edition rolls on. ,,,, good morning. It is a steamny start to your friday. It definitely is going to be another day that replays like yesterday when you consider that any of the rain that comes down could be heavy. Its the dew point and the moisture that fuels that through the afternoon. Right now light showers across the region. Much of that has lifted north of the state line and into pennsylvania. Some of it not making it to the ground. 76 degrees, 73 is your dew point with a south wind at 3. 66 oakland, 76 pax river and easton. That seems to be the range across the state. 75 annapolis and kent island. 76 columbia. With that south wind we dont need much sun to get our temperatures up. The winds are going to bring if that warmer air and the dew points are going to continue to rise. Any shower could come down with drenching downpours. We could see localized flooding like yesterday. While we will see some sun through the afternoon that sun could fire up some of those thunderstorms through the afternoon, especially during the heat of the day. Lower humidity moving in by the end of the weekend. Actually saturday into sunday. Sunday will be a day you notice the change as that front moving through and brings our temperatures how pushing that moisture and humidity out of the way. Sunset at 8 08. Today 88 degrees, showers with a heavy thunderstorm potential through the afternoon. Over night lows down to 69. That same chance stays with us through sunday with showers. 87 through tuesday. 80 on wednesday with a bit of a cool down. Whats happening on the way to work is this here is Christy Breslin at wjz Traffic Control. Well, we cant get away from the accidents this morning. One more at falls road at middleton road. 100 westbound an accident at oak wood road has the right lane and shoulder blocked. 97 southbound over turned vehicle after generals highway near the farm road over pass. We are starting to see things pick up around green spring avenue on the beltway. 95 at white marsh boulevard everything moving along. This traffic report is brought to you by toyota and your local toyota dealer. Ever dream of the places youd like to go . Toyota can take you there. Now is great time to get a great deal at buyatoyota. Com. Theres one place we all want to go at this hour, thats where theyre serving that. That crab cake, green beans and sauce. That looks good. Reporter yeah, don and tim you are in crab cake territory at papas restaurant, taylor avenue parkville. What a way to start off Baltimore County Restaurant Week. Wont get a better crab cake than this. Are you guys all right . Im wondering the Life Expectancy of that crab cake. Reporter not long when i get ahold of it. Steve is here. Good morn. Good morning. Reporter Baltimore County Restaurant Week. We love participating this this. We can feature foods, bring out people in august. Reporter weve justin here. How are you doing . Reporter good morning. Doing great. Lets talk about the specials that you have. Of course, the fabulous papas crab cake. Our main entree is our crab cake. Its a 10 ouns crab cake. A portion of the pro ceeds of the crab cake go directly to the ed block courage award commune foundation. Reporter you do a lot for the community. Thats one of our favorite. Thats a beautiful piece of salmon our chef calls it a summer salmon. Its a 10 ounce fillet of salmon. Reporter wilson the chef. Hi. Reporter thanks for getting up so early. We know you work late. Thank you. Reporter the proud owner mr. Mark papas. How are you doing . Very well, thank you. Good morning to everybody. Thank you to channel 13 who came here. Reporter its our pleasure. Happy Restaurant Week. Happy Restaurant Week. Reporter you have a good one. Great to see you as always. Thank you. Reporter justin, it starts today, Baltimore County Restaurant Week. And it goes right until the 25th. Weve got actually 17 days all total. Three weekends. Its a great opportunity for people to come out to our rest restaurant and 52 other fabulous restaurants the try their different foods. Reporter thats the truth. We love it here, we love papas. If you havent been here , taylor avenue at oakly in parkville. The crab cake is phenomenal. I hope you have an appetite this morning, ron. Reporter oh, do i. I have two of them in the parking lot. You can have the 10 ounce crab cake and 10 ounce salmon and call it a surf and surf. Reporter very good. We have to wrap it up. Have a good friday. We will see you from papas in Baltimore County Restaurant Week. Thank you guys. Thank you. Reporter see you. Papas is a great place. Nobody treats you better. All right. Its august and the dog days of summer are here. Have you felt them outside . Wjdz still wants to movie photos of your pets. Go to cbsbaltimore. Com and click on photos galleries to up load your photos and see the [ jessica ] so i opened the box and i said to myself, this is a tablet that im going to have to learn how to use. Literally the flip of a switch i was logged onto our wifi network at home and i was off and running. 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The exhibit is the Worlds Largest rep la cal of the Great Barrier reef. Here is mary bubala. The 260,000 salt water reef is about to be invaded. The most important i needed to know before i got in is that the sharks arent in yet. For now the black tip reef is 4,000 pieces of artificial coral, a few small tropical fish, a 500 pound sea turtle and me ready for an underwater adventure. Its a little chilly. Along with snoshg snorkeling were going dive under. Holly burr hand is my instructor and guide. What should we be looking for . Float around, be calm so the fish will come and look at you. Then you get to see the turtle. Were off and headed below the surface. Its a rare stunning up close eye of the what the barrier roop would reef reef would look like. She seems at home floating peacefully in the water and not seeming to mind the company. She had a few days to adjust. The sharks arent in yesterday. When they get in you have divers. For our safety we feed them first thing in the morning. As i dove in visitors were getting a sense of what its like to be at sea level. Glass goes out into the water bringing the coral into view without having to get wet. Getting to such and see calipso in her new habitat was amazing. We know divers go in every day so shes used to the company. Mary bubala, wjz Eyewitness News. For more on the grand opening of the new exhibit make you go to cbsbaltimore. Com and look for the many stories we have posted there. Also next up this morning right here on wjz. The funeral for art donovan, athlete, story teller and friend is today. Im mike schuh, a live report next. Two People Killed in a tragic catamaran accident, including a baltimore man. Good morning. Im meghan mccorkell, we will hear from his family. That fast moving wild fire in Southern California forces hundreds to evacuate. Im bijhaz shaban. Good morning. Christy breslin at wjz Traffic Control. Some congestion on the north side of the beltway. Thats all straight ahead. In for marty bass in the first warning weather center. A replay of yesterday, humid with storms potentially in the afternoon. Yo you are your complete first warning Weather Forecast is coming up. The best young Baseball Players from around the world have converged on aberdeen for the cal ripken world series. Guess who is stopping by to tell us about it . The iron man himself. Stay tuned, the Eyewitness News morning edition will continue in a moment. ,,, caramel mocha. Caramel almond. Caramel turtle. [ sighs ] that wouldve been awkward. With dunkins caramel iced coffee flavors, there are more ways than ever to love caramel. Try the new caramel coconut today. For a strong bag that grips the

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