Baltimore City getting ready for fireworks

BALTIMORE - Tonight is the big night for the huge fireworks display at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

City Police are expecting a large crowd to turn out for the festivities and they are ready.

After the celebration last year a man was stabbed to death with a broken bottle on Pier 5 and a four-year-old boy walking with his father was shot in the leg.

This year Baltimore Police say they have a new plan in place to make sure it is safe for people to come and celebrate the fourth at the inner harbor.

They will use a perimeter fence made up of bike racks about waste high-- enclosing the Inner Harbor area to control the crowd.

And they'll be watching the crowds in real time using city watch cameras and foxtrot.

Police expect more than 200,000 people to flood the harbor for the fireworks show.