this is wjz and wjz.com. now, complete coverage on wjz 13, maryland's news station. paying tribute to a political legend. >> thousands are gathering to remember the lion of the senate. >> hello again, here's what people are talking about. the first of several official tributes to ted kennedy is getting underway. the latest from the jfk library in boston. >> reporter: the family is holding a private mass for senator ted kennedy. >> it's difficult we see the out pouring of sympathy. >> after the service, the senator's body travels in a

motorcade past places that were important to him including a park he helped to create and then to the library in boston. >> what we're going to do is celebrate his life, it's a remarkable life. >> reporter: kennedy will lie in repose here tonight and tomorrow. thousands expected to visit his closed casket and the library will remain open until the last perp comes through. >> i'm coming to say farewell for a great senator. >> the kennedys have been a part of my life and it's the end of an era. >> reporter: tributes to the senator have been pouring in from all over the country. >> for your lifelong opportunity. including one from his favorite team, the boston red sox.

an invitation only memorial service will be held on friday night and president obama will deliver the eulogy. he will be lay to rest at the arlington cemetery near john and robert. >> kennedy died tuesday at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. for more about kennedy, go to wjz.com. >> a young woman found dead in a vehicle today. live in the news room with the developing story. >> city police say they responded to a call and discovered a young woman shot many the head and the chest. the scene was still blocked off with crime tape as investigators collected evidence.

they found the body inside an suv. police have not identified the woman but believe she's in her 30s. >> thank you. police ask you to call if you have any information about the case. in the northeast section of the city, a police-involved shooting ends with a woman wounded. police say they tried to stop a car when the driver tried to run them down. the driver got out and ran away. it's a woman passenger whose arm was hit. they're not sure if she was hit by a bullet or broken glass. >> danny is strengthening towards the east coast. the top winds are near 50 miles per hour. danny is on a path to clip the u.s., we could be in for a rough and rainy weekend. eyewitness news live with first warning coverage. let's go to marty who is tracking danny. good afternoon. give me your attention, i'll bust it down in pure english.

what is developing is a complex weather situation of which danny is only about 1/3 of. let's look at him on the satellite. about 5 50 miles southeast of the cape and makes a turn to the north and then northeast, the winds 50 miles per hour and we're expecting danny to strengthen. before i put it in motion, i want you to notice the time line, danny is a beam of the mouth of the chesapeake bay early saturday morning and 12 hours later danny is long gone. going to turn into a category one hurricane. danny will throw, come back here, danny will throw a bunch of moisture at us. inland about 1/2 inch of rain.

winds of sustained 40 miles per hour along the coast of ocean city, a steady breeze here in baltimore. here's where it gets complicated. now, not only do we have a source of moisture, we have a warm front starting to sag and stall over the region. additional source of rain starting tomorrow through tomorrow night and probably all day saturday. come back here. that's 2/3 of the equation. now we see a cold front to the west that will slide in saturday and sunday. that's going interact with this warm, humid air mass and the remnants of danny and give us more shower activity saturday night into sunday. danny is 1/3 of the problem that could include some rain and maybe some flooding. we'll have updates through the

afternoon at wjz.com. it's going to be a wet weekend. stay tuned, back to you. >> thank you. stay with wjz and first warning weather for complete coverage of tropical storm danny. log onto wjz.com any time. >> a leaking barrel may have led to a foul odor last night. a news crew on the scene as hazmat responded. people reported smelling something similar to burning plastic. the fallout continues after the public works approves the budget cuts. 200 state employ employees get pink slips and now it's spreading to local government. we're live outside of city hall. >> reporter: good afternoon. baltimore city workers could

face layoffs and there could be a cutback? cutback in services. >> major dixon is balancing the city budget. >> we'll probably have furlough days. it will mean cutting back. we have our deficit. >> reporter: money is flying out of the window. the city is losing $35 million in state aid, revenue down making the budget $60 million short. >> we're going to have to really stretch the dollars and make some major decisions. >> that's just some of the fallout for yesterday's 454 million-dollar state budget reduction. $211million cut from local government. >> acknowledging the fact that these are going the impact and

put a greater stress and challenge on our ability to protect our core priorities and have public health care and public education, we have to use this time to strengthen the connections that allows to protection those in tough times. >> this was the sixth round of board of public work cuts and up until yesterday, local governments were spared. now back to you on tv hill. >> thank you. stay with wjz for the cuts and for a closer look at what is being done and why, go to wjz.com. delegate reimburseed baltimore city after he staged a proposal using taxpayer resources. on august 7th. he set up a mock police raid to surprise his girlfriend in the inner harbor. he's repaid $300 for the

expences. the army is breaking ground today on a bio defense lab that allows research on the world's most dangerous pathogens. in response, they will begin a health and safety review of the project. it's expected house a thousand new employees by 2015. still to come on the eyewitness news, a pirate attack. surveillance video catches somali pirates in the act. news crew attack caught on tape. a woman comes out swinging. keeping an eye on tropical storm danny as it heads towards the u.s. we'll be right back

. the u.s. navy says pirates attacked its helicopter. the navy says the helicopter was not hit and there's no injuries. it marks the first time the

pirates have not at a navy helicopter. the highly contagious dog flu spreading across the country. the virus jumped from horses to dogs in 2004. a small portion of dogs can develop severe disease. a new vaccine given approval in the u.s. police in new mexico say a man was arrest for his 22nd dui. officers found the 51-year-old passed out in his car wednesday night. he had 16 out of state dui arrests and five in new mexico. can crew got more than they bargain for. >> don't put that camera in my face. ma'am. >> the woman came out cursing and wielding the garden hoe

after they knocked on her door. nobody husband hurt by police are investigating her. >> michael vick takes two more steps on the trail today. the quarterback finished up a court appearance in virginia where a judge approved the plan for bankruptcy. he makes his debut tonight. just a reminder, nfl football friday night here on wjz when the redskins host the patriots here on wjz tv. still ahead, we continue to track the path of tropical storm danny and marty will be back with your updated forecast in about 2 1/2 minutes. here's today's mid-day stocks.

now, complete forecast and the first warning of severe weather. good morning. good afternoon. 18 minutes after the hour. now we're getting closer to the event that we call danny, because he's going to be the primary driver for a complex weather situation. but the cards are not going down faceup. let me go ahead and again run this by you, what is really three weather systems appearing to be one storm.

danny is going to be the driver. just kind of chugging along, 5 50 miles southeast, he's gaining strength, sustained winds at 50 miles per hour. he will get to 75 miles per hour, hurricane strength here along the northeast carolina capes if you will. the next thing, we're talking about a weather system involving three different parts that will be called danny. the moisture overruns, that's the second source of rain and then the computer model, you'll see the cold front to the west, saturday night into sunday, this comes in on what will be the warm humid sticky air mass we're calling danny. it's three completely different weather systems if you will that combine to bring us a slug

of moisture. this is danny, watch him come up the coast and turns into a hurricane. he will be a beam of ocean city saturday morning early on right will ever dawn and we'll be long gone by saturday night at midnight. do understand, that's not the end of the event. the watch warning and advisory graphics are now, we'll have coastal problems, problems on the eastern shore because of danny himself, between the warm front, the overrunning moisture, i can see a bit of flood watches and warnings breaking out because we're going to see a couple two, three inches of rain, we will be under the umbrella called danny but not danny himself. don't kid yourself, there will be problems, sustained winds, good rainfall and the storm is not big enough to run everyone out of town. this is not a good scene coming

down. it's not all because of the weather. 80 degrees on tv hill. northerly breeze at 3 and barometer 30.08. warm, humid, 87 ocean city. beautiful, 74 degrees, in between the upper 70s to lower 80s. now the forecast for the day in baltimore call as far as good amount of sunshine, thunderstorms in spots this afternoon, 86 degrees is the high. i want we start to cloud up and tomorrow and saturday there will be showers around the area, steady rain in the region. >> still to come, a warning about medical imaging tests. why a new study suggests they could do more harm than good. here's some of the stories on the web site this hour, go to wjz.com.

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we'll ply into the weather starting tomorrow with clouds and some showers coming through and saturday i think we'll have a good amount of rain. we get a couple peeks of sun, get a couple thunderstorms. start to clear it out saturday, monday and tuesday looking good. >> that's our report, thank you for watching. i'm mary bubala. >> don scott. >> marty bass, frequent updates at wjz.com.