drivers began their test 8-am. that brings us to our question of that brings s to our question of the day.do you

think the grand prix will be more successful than last year. go to fox-baltimore dot com and tell us what you think. you can also sound off through facebook. send us a tweet.. at foxbaltimore. and you can text your answer to 45203. enter fox45a for yes.. or fox45b for no.

baltimore's mayor and racing executivesgattered at baltimore'' convention center this morning for the official &pkick-off of the race. race.mayor stephanie rawlings-blake greeted supportersand drivers...in the is hoping to capitalize on the national publicity generated prom lastyeaa's race. (mayor) people saw a whole new side of baltimore with cars running allnggour inner harbor and our skyline in the background, it was beautiful." beautiful."the mayor says last year's race generatedtens of baltimore. as the race gets underway, there are concerns tonight that the city is taking too many officers out other communities to police the race. this meeo obtained by fox 45 shows that morr than downtown to patrol the grand - prix. last year... organizors overtime. but new police - commissioner anothony batts says deploying officers to make sure the grand ppix is successfull will pay off in the long run.

322:42;24 22:42224"we're not going to neglect any communiiy, and the reality is that what's happening with the city is you have this, i come from a city that has been doing it or 40 yeaas. you hve this money fund that comes into this city to enjoy the retuarrnts and the shops which goessto fund more p" police" an unspecified number of supervisors are also expected to work at the grand prix. how is the race affecting traffic onight... tonight...brandi proctor has our traffic edge report. report. map395mapwilkens fiber

we will soon know the fate of two of 4 men accused of pulling off a shooting last year at the towsonntown center that left ooe teenager dead janice park joins us live from the courthouse in towson with more... janice janicekaren the jury...black guerillia family gang was

overseeing the murder.

an update now on a story you saw first on fox at 5 last nighta woman remaans in seeious but stable condition... ...after being attaaked by a dog in fells point point it happened yesterday afternoon around 3 o'clock near this intersection.... at east pratt and broadway... inside a building, which uued to be a church.police say a fire inspector happened to be there... and saw the woman waa being attacked by what's described as a 70 pound pit bull.it all ended when police shot the dog multiple times. "very horrorfied, i saw her shaking screaming for help i saw them shoot him five times" times""her arm was hanging off, if it wasn't for police, i don't think she would have made it to the hospital still b" breathing"the wommn is expected to 3 survive.police say since the

attack happened in their home... and it appears the dog won't be ann charges filed.re - hurricane isaac has finally &pstoppedddumping rain on mississippi and louisianaa.. bbttas george howell shows us...it left behind a mess that will take months to clean p up in louisiana and mississippi residents aae left to clean up the mess isaac left behind.now is not that time to let our guard down, we are not finished in the city of new orleaas, we have a lot of work &pto do and i continue against very difficult odds to urge caution and common ense.a-i-r worldwide, a disaster modeling firm estimates the storm will end up causing as much as two-billion dollars in insured lossss. and that doesn't include ost

residents had to be rescued in coastal areasflooding is still a majoo concern, just as it was aftee hurricane katrina. we're still in the middle of this. if you think about seven years ago today, everybody walked out of tteir house and saw the sun and the sky and thought everythinn was over. and then the water started to continue to cooe up ann up ann up.some of these rivers could beeat flood stages well until late next week, there's going to be a long duration of elevated water.in slidell and tangiphaopa pariss, flood warnings prompted further the flood, ut not the llvee breeching. they got water in it i can deal with that, bbt that's a different story.the - over arkansas and southern missouri today, bringing the threat of tornadoes and flash flooding.

3 3the baltimore ravens have less than 4 hours... to get their 3 roster down to 53 players... morgan adsit joins us now... morgan... how's the roster going to shape up? the ravens have to cut 22 players...to reach the league rule of a 55 man roster...by tonight.8 of those guys can still land a spot on the ravens practice quad....if no other team claims them. them.now before yesterday.... would have said john harbaugh and his staff had some tough decisions to make...but last night's final preseason game performance...was retty much awful from the 2nd tringers on down to guys close to cutsville..the ravens had a walk through this afternoon... pnd even at 1... harbaugh saidd doubt... this is the hardest - part of his job... telling guys who have been with the team since early summer... their n---l dream will not happennin baltimore... or 3orse... maybe not at all..-

the ravens won't confirm the final roster until later tonight...coming up in sports handful of players' fate. 3 the problem with this teddy bear......that caused one woman to get a 260-dollar ticket ...in just 10 minutes but next...2 people die...in a shooting in a super-market in new jersey.the background of the gunman...after the break 3 --adblib weather tz--

jersey supermarket after a gunman opens fire. all three were working the night supermarket. among the dead, the gunman -- who police say shot and killed two co-workers before turning the ggn on himself. police say the shooter was a twenty-three year old maa... ...who was discharged from the military 2 years ago......and worked at the store. and the victims were an 18-year old woman and a 24- year old man. investigators say everyone in just one day after mitt romney officially became the pominee.jennifer davis tells us about their trip to 2 swing . states. ((on cm toss)) no rest for the republican presidential nominee.... mitttromney takes his message on the road and schedules a last minute visit to storm

(take pkg)romney says: "what - a welcome, whht a send off!", the romney/ryan ticket bids farewell to the republican natiin convention... romney says: "i need to a elected the nnxt president of the united states." the ticket splitting apart with mitt romney in new orleann to meet with state and local leaders dealing with the aftermath of hurricane isaac. paul ryan heading to the swing state of virginia. &p(nats onvention) but thursday iggt it was mitt's moment... romney formally accepting his party's nomination and focusing on the short-comings he sees with the obama administration.. romney says: "his policies have not helped create jobs, they have depressed them. /// the president's entire re-election campaign is attacking success. is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the great depression?" ...and ann romney says she is glad america gottto see the man she's nown... but says she is preparing for the even more intense campaigning that's coming next.ann romney says: "i know why we are doing thii, i know how important this is for america nd yes it is going to be tough, but i've done toughhr. davis says (on cam tag) "up next the democrats who get their turr

next week in charlotte. in tampa, jennifer davis fox news." we have a lot of stories about the race for the white house on our website...including a fact-check of mitt romney's speech last niggt..just go to our website... fox-baltimore the top of the screention at 2 - 3 earlier we ttld you about the start of this year's grand prix of baltimore. baltimore.aad tat brings us to our question of thh day.do you think the grand prix will be more successful than last ye? year?lynette writes on facebook...."more successful in making traffic a complete me" mess." and doug writes..." it has no where to go but up." up."mmst of you who responded aren'ttvery optimistic about the grand prix.

go to fox-baltimore dot com and tell us what you think. yoo can also sound off through facebook. send us a tweet.. at foxbaltimore. and you can text your answee to 45203. enter fox45a for yes.. or 3 a woman gets a 260-dollar ticket for having a áteddy beará in her car. what police mistook this bear for. 3 --adblib weather tz--

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a new world-class resort casino in maryland. two thousand construction jobs to build it. four thousand permanent, good-paying jobs when it's done. hundreds of millions for maryland schools... real oversight to make sure the money goes... where it's supposed to. but none of it will happen unless we vote for... question seven this november. vote for question seven. and help build a better future for maryland. oregon driver in trouble with the law. ((:15 i'm rolling by...i am getting a ticket right now. :23) :23)) she's lauuhing about it now... but police slapped this girl with

a 2-hundred and sixty dollar ticket for driving in the h-o-v laae... wwth aastuffed passenger.the girl says she just wanted to get home a little bit faster.she says she's learned her lesson. its a great day to be at the state fair fairemily gracey joins us now...streaming live from timon, timonium,,,

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for "mobile" at the top rrghthand corner of the screen. 3 he's not your usual passenger. the hissing áserpentá that was found in one ehicle. and the sneaky place he was hiding.

nearly a million mangos... sold at costco, ralph's, kroger, aldi and whole foods... are being recalled due to threat of salmonella. the mangos affected have a "daniella" brand sticker... and were sold between july 12th and august 29th. if you think you have the recalled fruit... you're asked to throw it out or return it to the store. health officals say more needs to be done to protect girls from cancer &pa low number of ggrls... are getting vaccinated for the human papilloma virus... also known as "h-p-v." this is according to new research by the enters for disease control and prevention.almost all cases of cervical and anal cancerr.. are caused by h-p-v. 3

a 3-year-old new hammshire trapped under a 6-hundred - pound gravestone. this massive gravestone fell on thh little girl during a game of áhide and seeká. the un-secured stone somehow tipped over pinning the 3-year- old's leg. it took 3-men to pet it off of her. they couldn't pick it up, that'' how heavy it was.it was a granite stone weighing between six and eight hundred pounds. it was very very heavy, thank god it didn't land on the upper torso. lifting it was not what we thought about at the time, just getting care to the little girl in the firrt place. place. serious leg fracture and - underwent surgery...but should be fine. imagine driving home from work after a tough day and seeing a ásnakeá peek out of your dashboard vent. 3 it appened in tennesse in ájim tipton'sá car. the shy snake came outtfor a moment and then disappeared. but the ddiver remained calm.

i calmly and slowly turned on the turn signal, pulled off the road, set the brake, turned on the hazzrds, looked in the mirror to make sure there was nothing coming in the lane beside me and then bolted from the caa as uickly as i could. could.we tried turning on the heat, we tried turning on the air-conditioning, we tried tried pulling out one or two of the vent covers, but no luck. luck. so off to the honda dealer jim went. thh meehanicc spent hours taking apart the dash before they found this guy. he's been set out into the wild. 3 coming up new at 5-30...the shooting at perry hall high school...an pdate on the condition of daniel borowy ((o- are saying tonight...right nts - after the break 3 --adblib weather tz--

well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't you make that call? see, the only thing i can think of is that you can't get any... bars. ah, that's better. it's a beautiful view. i wonder if i can see mt. rushmore from here.

geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. the parents of the boy hurt in the perry hall school shooting say their on is recovering.. but he remains frightennd over what happened. keith daniels is herr now pith more from the parents and an update on daniel's condition.. keith. keith. karen..... milton borowy (bo-roar-ee) says when he arrived at the hospital and saw his son breathing.. he was overcome with relief..... but tonight.. he says.. his son is struggling to recover. recover. 17-year-old daniel, who has down syndromee is still in critical condition. doctors say he suffered a bruised lung and a fractured rii. his muscles are damaged and there is a hole in his chest. in an interview yesterday at shock trauma with the associated press, daniel's father said his son hears what everyone tells him.. and he is scared. baltimore county police say 15-year-old robert gladden shot n