reporting live, kelly mcpherson, eyewitness news. >>> our complete coverage continues now with how this is affects the entire community. >> reporter: even though the water has gone down, people here have a lot to deal with. first of all you can see their street is just a sheet of mud. there's significant amounts of waters inside their homes, inside their cars, condensation on all of these vehicles because the water rose so high. these cars are just on a long list of damages. for onlookers the sight was hard to believe. >> this is a waterfall, a gusher, whatever you call those things. >> reporter: for those who have built their lives around this area, the sight is hard to believe. >> there is still 3 feet of water in the basement. >> reporter: that means many of the items will be lost, many of which belong to her grandchildren. >> all i could do was cry because i didn't know what was happening. i feel very bad for everybody, because not only me but everybody lost all the stuff that was in the basement. >> reporter: the water rose so high, many vehicles were filled. rosy's story is identi

reporting live, kelly mcpherson, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you kelly, wilson and tillet have a juvenile record but they could not state what crimes they've been charged with before. >>> and another youth has died from the h1n1 virus. a young baltimore girl remains hospitalized with the h1n1 virus. jessica catalia speaks with the girl's aunt. >> i peeked at her, to actually stand a couple of feet away from my niece and all i see is that machine doing the breathing, my heart was crushed. >> reporter: ernestine harbor talks about the first time she saw her niece destiny in the hospital. >> we were finally told she had h1n1. her heart stop, they resuscitate her. >> reporter: school officials say they are doing a thorough cleaning of the campus. dr.anne balowitz is with the city school department, she says it's crucial students both get the seasonal and h1n1 vaccine when it becomes available. >> h1 may well not last for the entire flu season. it may go down, and when it goes down the other types of flu may come up. so it's important to have both seasonal protection and h1 protection. >> repo

i'm kelly mcpherson and we'll tell you how some students got the assembly of the school year and what a-rod had to say to them. >> and i'm in the traffic control. we have some volume building on 95 southbound and we'll give you the details, next. >>> and looking at a nice stretch of days and we'll keep you posted on the tropics. erica is stewing around. >>> and thank you and billy ray cyrus is feeding the homeless and hungry and he's not holding the mayo, either. that's coming up with coffee with. >>> hello, again, it's 6:30 and we're 6 minutes away from the sun coming up. it's coming up on another gorgeous, if cool day. and traffic hasn't been that bad christy will tell you more after tim williams has the first warning weather. >>> well, not a lot of weather to talk about. that's not a bad thing, heading into the holiday weekend. we're looking at cooler nights and a comfortable day. this is the forecast. starting out with temperatures around the 50s area wide and we're getting up to 78 degrees and overnight lows around 60 degrees and cooler in the north and west suburbs. we'll have t

kelly mcpherson attended an emotional vigil for the victims. >> reporter: it was very emotional. the officer is hear at shock trauma. his brother-in-law tells me the man is starting to talk now but is obviously traumatized by what has happened to his son and his son's girlfriend. >> she was like my sister, like my family is hurt, and i never knew how close she was until she was gone. >> reporter: few in the large crowd could hold back tears monday night as they mourned two 2009 graduates killed in a car crash. >> mikey, number 44 on that football field, touchdowns, offensive players, and now he's rocking the number 52 up in heaven. >> reporter: michael jones and his girlfriend shaniqua tucker died. they were helding back from michael's football scrimmage. >> he wanted to surprise his mom, come to a birthday party, go back up to college the next day. that's just him. >> reporter: michael senior, a baltimore city cop, was driving and lost control of the car. he survived. >> i know that he's in a it lot of pain because he lost his son, too, and i know that, you know, my daughter and

we are going to go to kelly mcfirson, -- kelly mcpherson. you are near the shopping center, right? >> reporter: yoos. -- yes. we're going to go right to the expert. i'm joined with curt coker from dpw. tell us what happened here, wherare we now, as far as-- where are we now, as far as infrastructure. >> right now, we're pretty sure it's a 72-inch main. we're working on shutting it down. that's a rather large main. but why it broke, we cannot say right now. but things you have to remember, a main cannot be shut down like you turn off a tap. you cannot just turn one thing and expect the water to magically go away. this could go on for a few hours. the second thing is, when you have a very serious situation, where a lot of neighborhoods are flooded, you basically have to stay away. and that is, if you don't belong in the neighborhood, please leave the neighborhood. if you do belong here, if your house is in the flooded area, you're not going to be able to access it. so we're asking you to work very closely with police. listen to the police. listen to the fire department. they will giv

new tonight, kelly mcpherson spoke to the baltimore man who was inside the world trade centers during the attack. >> reporter: what he tells me, what he remembers from that day and that is the look on the faces of the firefighters who were going into the towers as he was trying to escape. >> reporter: the sounds of remembrance. >> michael p.obrian. >> paul j.obrian. >> and my sister, kathleen -- >> reporter: we remember in new york, pennsylvania, and washington, d.c. >> the defense of our nation, we will never waiver. the pursuit of al-qaida we will never falter. >> reporter: steve kiy was about to start a meeting wearing this badge. >> we hit the stairwells been 20 20 second, and we were running really fast. i remember looking into those firefighters eyes and they knew it wupt wasn't going to be good. >> it doesn't matter if you were ceo, janitor, anything in between. what race you were, none of that mattered. everybody was helping everybody out in a true spirit of america, we were living that day while we were trying to handle an awful situation. that's something that fades with tim

reporting from fed hill, kelly mcpherson wjz "eyewitness news." >> thank you. those who died aboard flight 93 head a unique me motherly riding motorcycles along the scheduled path from new jersey to san francisco. 40 americans died on board the plane when it crashed in rural pennsylvania. >>> there are still serious questions this morning about a security scare on the potomac. turns out it was all an exercise staged by the u.s. coast guard. now as joel brown reports for wjz, the coast guard never notified local agencies. >> reporter: coast guard officials say the security scare was just business as usual. >> what we have seen as a reaction to a training exercises that really was just that. >> reporter: that drill included radio conversations between the four coast guard boats on the river, the chatter included a mention of gunfire as part of the training. but some media outlets reported that the coast guard had opened fire on a suspicious vessel. >> no shots were fired. there was no suspect vessel. there was no criminal activity. this was a preplanned normal tr

reporting from dundalk baltimore county, kelly mcpherson wjz "eyewitness news." >> thanks kelly. >>> complete coverage continues with weija jiang with more on how the water main break is affecting the dundalk community. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. even though the water has gone down, people who live here have a lot to deal with for starters, the street is one thick sheet of mud. there's significant water-side the homes and inside the cars. you can see condensation is built up in the vehicles because the water rose so high. of course, these cars just one item on a very long list of damages. for onlookers, it was hard to believe. >> this is like a water fall i mean a gusher or whatever you call this thing. >> water started busting out and people were running. >> reporter: for those who built their lives and homes around the part of dundalk, the sight is hard to accept. >> then it was 2 feet water. >> reporter: the water means rosy will lose countieless items many of which belong to the grandchildren she is raising including dominique. >> i feel really like upset inside. and li

live from fed hill, kelly mcpherson, wjz eyewitness news. >>> new at 11:00, a telephone scam alert. numerous senior citizens are being called, claiming that they are past due on the bills. the scammer says that they will cut off the utilities. you should call the city police if you receive a phone call. >>> launching speed cameras. sheila dixon was at glenmount elementary middle school. 51 speed cameras will be installed around the city near schools and highway construction zones. if you are caught going 12 miles over the speed limit, you get are $40 ticket. >>> new terror tactics. >>> beaten to death. a chicago honor roll student is killed. who's in custody tonight. >>> an update on the broken water main in dun dank. >>> i'm bob turk. the complete weather forecast coming up next. >>> it is 54 degrees and clear in central maryland right now. the complete forecast coming up. >>> a dangerous new terror tactic is uncovered. it's being called the trojan bomber. there may be few security measures to stop it. an example of the new technique came to light when the al-qaeda operative tried

kelly mcpherson breaks down the numbers. >> reporter: hi, kai. well, the numbers are not good. fewer people spent fewer dollars. but we spoke to the tourism experts and they offer some hope for the future. >> reporter: the 2009 summer tourism season has taken several hits. the downtown duck tour has shut down, its owners saying it has incurred significant losses since it opened in 2002 and that the visitor's market has been down for the last two years. the economy has killed several locally-owned restaurants. in june, mount vernon's x closed. >> to us, it is a part of baltimore. a part of baltimore we knew and grew up with. >> if you get laid off from your job, the last place you're going to go eat is at a fine restaurant. >> hopefully we have seen the worst of it and will start to see some recovery. >> reporter: this shows the tourism season was not as bad as other cities. when it comes to filling hotel rooms, baltimore is neither the best or worst off, coming in at 8% down from last year. >> reporter: revenue is down about 16%. it's partly because of the economy. but it's als

reporting live, kelly mcpherson, eyewitness news. >>> you can read more about the inspections in tomorrow's baltimore sun. >>> as baltimore drivers brace for speed cameras, there is some real evidence they do save lives. in montgomery cameras where speed cameras have been in place for a year, collisions are down 28%. the number of travelers driving below the speed limit have risen to 18%. >>> two downtown restaurants we mentioned roys and ocean air are both open for business and we apologize for any confusion. >>> ray lewis, joe flacco and other ravens players hit the town to help. >> reporter: two rings for o.j. is about o.j.brogransky. als has taken a toll on his body as well as his life. but he is a fighter, and he's fighting tonight to raise awareness and money for this disease he has. o.j.brogans stands out personally and professionally. professionally he can say -- >> o.j. is the only player, only person to have won the two rings and the one time city. >> reporter: one ring playing for the stallions in 1995. the other a super bowl ring with the baltimore ravens in 2000. so tuesday, th

reporting from the inner harbor, kelly mcpherson, wjz eyewitness news. >> and for the latest, the duck tour is already giving refunds to anyone who has already purchased tickets. >>> governor martin o'malley and other states continue to push for new regulationless to -- regulations to jam cell phones in prisons. governor o'malley, along with top leaders in 19 other states sent a letter in support of legislation and congress to allow states to jam cell phones. so far, this has been approved by a senate committee. and a full senate vote could come this fall. >>> president obama is not letting up on his push to retake control over the healthcare debate. he is trying to keep the issue front and center in order to win over skeptical lawmakers and the american public. >> reporter: president obama is launching a full court press to get a healthcare reform bill through congress. >> the time is right. and we are going to move aggressively to get this done. >> he pushed his cabinet to help work to cut healthcare costs. [ applause ] and met with nurses to talk about the millions of americans who

kelly mcpherson is live in the newsroom with more on tonight's flu watch. >> reporter: the naval academy is questioning every midshipman, every day, about flu-like symptoms. and those not feeling well are examined and immediately quarantined. and an athletic facility has been converted into an isolation ward. as of this afternoon, 30 were there. the most in the isolation ward were 75 last friday. about 170 have been isolated. but only seven were confirmed with h1n1. >>> stay with complete flu watch coverage. >>> the baltimore city council took up smoking laws today. the tough new proposals are likely going to spark some debate. suzanne collins reports. >> we're talking about flavored rolling papers for cigars or cigarettes. also selling cigars one at a time, things that teenagers may be issued in. those are issues related to these two tobacco bills. >> reporter: it's believed some young people aren't just starting out smoking with cigarettes, but with cigars that they can buy cheaply at the corner store and buy just one. >> the purpose behind the bill is to raise the price of these produ

reporting live, kelly mcpherson, eyewitness news. >> wilson has juvenile records. >>> the g-20 summit wrapped up in pittsburgh, but the protests raged late into the night. police were in force as they tried to dispurse protesters overnight. thousands of peaceful protesters marched. the world is still buzzing about president obama's surprise announcement about iran's nuclear program. >> reporter: iran's development of a secret underground iranian enrichment plant. late friday, mr. obama put iran on notice. >> the choice they make over the next several weeks and months could well determine their ability to rejoin the international community or to find themselves isolated. >> u.s. intelligence has been monitoring construction of the facilities for years. it shows the plant is capable of producing nuclear weapons and could be operational within months. iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, saying the west has no proof of violations and shouldn't interfere. >> it seems to me that was done was a really big mistake. i'm sure they will definitely feel sorry about their mo