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Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News At 4 20131021

Problems continue to plague healthcare. Gov. The white house wont say how many people have been able to select a Health Insurance plan. Nobody is as mad as me that the website isnt working as well it should. That means its going to get fixed. President obama said experts are working on it repairs but is not giving a target date when the software will be up to speed. There are problems throughout the site. It could take weeks or even months to fix. This is a system that was rushed out much too quickly. They didnt have a chance to thoroughly test the system before it went into operation. With one change already in the works, users will be able to view plans without having to first fill out applications with huge amounts of personal information. Tara mergener, wjz Eyewitness News. There were a few scary moiments duringy moments during scary moments during the president s speech. A lady almost passed out. After the event she thanked the president for catching her. She tweeting she went feeling that great because shes pregnant. A School Shooting near reno, nevada leaves two people dead, including the gunman who is a child. It happened at Sparks Middle School shortly before class started. Officers say the gunman killed a teacher and shot two other students. They say appears the teacher was killed trying to intervene and stop the gunman. Theres no word on a motive at this point. Wjz will have more on this still developing story in a few moments. We are learning more about a deadly shooting at ballys hotel in las vegas. Denise is in the news room with the latest. Reporter an argument over the cover charge led to the casino. One patron was killed when he tried to subdue the gunman. Two employees were hurt. The shooter is believed to have acted alone. He was taken to the hospital. We do not have word yet on his condition. Police have not released the names of the shooting or victim. Gambling continued after the shooting but yellow crime tape stretched around the slots. A Gas Leak Forces an Elementary School in Baltimore County to let students out early. Sky eye chopper 13 is over dogwood elementary in wood lawn. There was an odor of gas inside the school. Bge was called to the scene and found that all the lines outside the school were safe. The school is now investigating inside the building to find an exact cause. Police in Anne Arundel County need your help to find the person they say robbed a bge substation. Police say this man is suspected of stealing copper from the substation on war chapel road. They say the man cut a hole in the fence and stole various amounts of copper. You recognize this person call crime stoppers. Also in Anne Arundel County three teens are facing felony theft charges after they confessed to stealing ammunition owned by the federal government. Mike schuh has our story. This is what police found. At approximately 1 50 a. M. Officers were on patrol. They say a car driven by Brandon Shreve hit a car and drove away, parking with the lights off. Officers approached the vehicle and noticed loads and loads of ammunition. Police say they couldnt comp with the reason they had so much ammo and it was special ammo. It came to our attention that a storage shed thats owned by the u. S. Air Marshall Service was burglarized. Burglary tools were found, including a bolt cutter. An 18yearold and 15 and 16yearold juveniles involved. All three were airs ed were arrested. Only shreve was identified as hr 18. Court records indicate the 15yearold is from glen burnie and the 16yearold is from baltimore. Workers at the port of baltimore are back on the job after striking last week. Longshoremen went on strike last week after contract negotiations stalled tuesday. Three other unions representing port workers joined that strike. The port of baltimore said management and the longshoremen agreed to a 90day cool down period while negotiations continue. An absolutely beautiful fall day to start our work week. Taking a live look outside. The sun is still shining. It is about to get a lot chillier. Wjz has weather and traffic together. Well talk to christy in a second. Bob turk is up daytonaed the is updating the first warning weather first warning weather. Its october were going to get cool. Its 65, 61 oakland, 62 ocean city, 70 cumberland. The dew points down at 40 degrees. This morning, look at the morning lows, 38 at the airport, 32 in cumberland. Theyre up to 70 now. 37 at the Ocean City Airport and oakland bottomed out at 34. Dc the wart spot at 36. Tomorrow we have another front headed our way from the north, northwest. It will bring clouds and cooler temperatures tomorrow night and early wednesday. We may see a period of rain developing along that front. We expect to see low pressure. We have rain in the forecast late, late tonight night and on wednesday. Temperatures are going to get chilly. Lets check on our roads. Here is christy breslin at wjz traffic control. We are starting off with a lot of accidents. Northbound 95 at white marsh boulevard. Right now delays stretching back to mirevea road. Too many accidents in Baltimore County. A couple include east northern parkway at york road, washington boulevard at south monroe and eastern boulevard between quinton and 45th street. The west side inner loop slowing down from 895 over to liberty road. On the topside of the inner loop moving at about 35 Miles Per Hour and delays from the jfx back to harford road. Theres delays on 95 going back to harford county. Watch for slowing northbound 95 from 322 over to 100. Lets take a live look. Not too bad there on the beltway at greenspring avenue. This traffic report is brought to you by pnc bank. Go to pnc. Com. Back to you. Thank you. A 93yearold hotel on ocean citys board walk is damaged by friday. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire at the majestic hotel. No one was inside when the fire broke out. It took 3 hours for firefighters to get those flames under control. Halloween is first approaching. One florida resort is hosting a unique pumpkin carving contest. 30 people carved on the floor of ma floor. The divers had to keep them from floating away. The winner a pumpkin sportmpkin sporting a retainer. Still ahead on wjz Eyewitness News at 4 00. Animal emergency. Someone inside said theres gator at the door. An alligator traps people inside a walmart. How everyone gets out safely. How two men were saved after floating 14 hours. One of the most violins in history played as the titanic sank is auctioned off. How much it sold for. A beautiful fall day. Cooler temperatures are coming. Bob will be back with the updated first warning Weather Forecast. 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Theres just enough snow accumulation for kids to make snow balls and for the parents to scrape off the car. The snow has sense moved out. Temperatures are going to be in the 40s for the next couple of days. Some shoppers at a florida walmart get trapped inside when an alligator blocks the entrance and the exit. It happened at a store in apoka. The slowmoving gator set off the automatic doors forcing employees to lock them. Police and animal control were called for the scene. For shoppers seeing the gator so close is a scary sight. It was right against the door. I mean, you could see it. I mean, it was probably five, almost six foot long. It was a nice size gator just chilling. There he is just chilling out. No one was hurt. The 6 foot gator eventually movd d along and returned to a near by body of water. A peaceful day out on the water turns into a scary lesson of survival for two New Hampshire men. Theyre boat capsized leaving them stranded in the ocean for hours. It was supposed to be a leisurely day at sea. Their trip took a terrifying turn. We knew it would be a long night. The men say a strong gust of wind caused their 25 foot homemade sailboat to capsize, leaving them clinging for life on a wooden plank on top of their boat. Our best chance was to stay with the boat. The men had no radio to call for help. The one with life jacket drifted away. As the hours passed in the dark of night they turned to their faith. We prayed together and encouraged each other. Thats a life or death struggle. Their prayers were answered Early Saturday Morning when a fishing crew spotted their bolt and called for help. They were very cold. They were very thankful that wed them and that we took them in. The men were brought back to dry land safely, cold, wet and a little shaken up from their or deal. I can not imagine being out there for 14 hours. The men refused medical attention once they made it back to land. We are updating the developing story out of nevada. A child is dead after a shooting at a school. Teresa garcia has the latest for wjz. Police in nevada say a student opened fire on a campus at Sparks Middle School shortly before class started. Officers say he killed the teacher and shot two other students. One has gone through surgery and is out. The other individual is doing well. The suspect is also dead. Police say they have nearly 30 witnesses to interview and video to review but that it appears the teacher was shot and killed trying to intervene and stop the shooter. As you can imagine, the best description is chaos. Its hard to say whether he was targeting specific people or going on a shooting spree. Nearly 200 Law Enforcement officers secured the school. Students from the middle school and Elementary School evacuated to a high school. I want to say how tragic this is and how saddened we are. Our students safety and our staffs safety is of utmost paramount concern to us. The School District said its closing Sparks Middle School for the week as it Offering Counseling and an investigation getting underway. Teresa garcia, wjz Eyewitness News. The identities of the shooter and the three victims are not being released yet. An up and down day to start the week on wall street. [bells ringing] the dow ends the day down. It is down more than 14 point s. S p is up a fraction and the nasdaq is up 6. Lets go to new york right now with Wendy Gillette has tonights cbs money watch update. Mcdonalds is hoping youll be loving new menu options. It announced it will add higher priced item to their dollar menu. Koinlt it comes as the chain announced its Fourth Quarter profit rose 5 . Americans bought fewer homes this month. The association of realtors said sales dropped 2 . The september jobs report was delayed because of the Government Shutdown and should be released tomorrow. Heres a new way thieves are stealing cargo, posing as truckers and driving away. A few of the thefts 80,000 pounds of walnut, 200,000 worth of cheese and 400,000 worth of king crab. Thats your money watch. For more log onto cbsmoneywatch. Com. In new york, im Wendy Gillette. It may be one of the famous violins in history instrument played on the titanic as it sank. This violin belong today a musician named wallace heartily. He was the bad leader of the titanic. Thats why the instrument fetched 1. 7 million in action. The violin didnt fall to the ocean floor. They believe it was strapped to heartilys body when it was pull from the water. What helped identify it was an engraving. For wallace on the occasion of our engagement from maria. The violin was returned to her after the ship wreck. She never married. To be fair, other historic violins have gone for more. One fetched almost 16 million. This is one of many titanic artifact has come up for auction. It tells a story that is a romance and a tragedy. As remembered in film, this is believed to be the instrument heartily used for the hem mirror my god to thee as the bank played on when the ship sank into the atlantic. This is violin is not playable and may never be again. Coming up on wjz Eyewitness News at 4 00, prison escapees caught. The people who helped two immates get out of a florida jail. Sunny skies and seasonal temperatures. You might need a jacket later this week. Bob will update the first warning Weather Forecast next. Wjz 13 is always on. These are the hands of a surgeon. A pediatrician. These are pioneering advances in heart surgery. And these are developing groundbreaking treatments for cancer. Theyre the hands of the nations top doctors. Kaiser permanente doctors. And though they are all different, they Work Together on a Single Mission saving lives. Discover how we are advancing medicine at kp. Org. Join us, and thrive. A beautiful afternoon right on the money as far as temperatures this afternoon. Bright sunshine and dry air. 65 now. Dew points way down at 40 degrees. Humidity only 39 . The winds shifted a little bit now to the south and southeast at 12. The barometer is going to start the fall as the front approach from the west. 70 in cumberland. This morning they were 32 degrees. Oakland now 61. They were 34 were at 65 now at the airport, they were down to 38. Familiarly thursday and friday we will probably see our first frost. 67 dc now, 63 ocean city and easton up there at 68. Once again, very dry air will continue tonight. 66 bel air, 63 by the bay, annapolis and on kent island. Right now we have a southeast wind in the region. Tomorrow it shifts back to the west as the front approach from the west. We will have some clouds. Temperatures behind that front, 49 in chicago, only 38 minneapolis. Theres been snow most of the day in the Upper Peninsula of michigan and across northern sections of minnesota. Temperatures in the mid 30s. 37 winnipeg. 84 in phoenix, south of us in the 70s ahead of this front. Were going to have that front go through the area tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night. We will start seeing some clouds on the increase late tomorrow night. Maybe, just maybe a shower will come through the area with that front. Along that front we expect low pressure to develop. So tomorrow night and early wednesday, thats when we have the best chance of picking up some rain. Most of it to the east of us. We have some rain in the forecast for wednesday and certainly cooler temperatures. Wednesday may not get out of the low 50s, particularly if we have rain around the area. West winds on the bay 5 to 10 knots. Sunrise 7 24, sunset at 6 18. Bay temperature stuck there around 65 degrees. Over night tonight, generally a fair night. Late tonight some increasing clouds. Down around 46. Warmer than it was this morning. Tomorrow back up exactly where we were today but well have a lot more clouds. Late tomorrow night, maybe after 11 00, a little rain develops. It looks like that rain chance will continue into your wednesday morning drive. So we have to deal with that. After that temperatures only to be in the low to mid 50s for the rest of the week. It will be 8 to 10 degrees cooler than average and a chance of frost. So far so good. Weve been spoiled. Dont s tonights cbs prime time line up. At 10 00 its a new episode of hostages to be followed by Eyewitness News at 11 00. Samesex marriages now legal in new jersey. Marriage is equal in new jersey. Celebrations for couples across the state. The mother of a florida teen charge in a bullying suicide case now faces charges of her own but its because of this video. How police found it. Football rivalry gone too fm. A jets fan punches a patriots fan in the face. Thats only part of,,,,,,,,,,,, it is 4 30, 65 degrees and clear in central maryland. Thanks for staying with Eyewitness News. Im denise koch. Im vic carter. Samesex couples are free to marry in new jersey. The services began at 12 01 this morning. Marly hall reports for wjz. Governor Chris Christy said hes no longer going to fight the law. Its officially past midnight. Marriage is equal new jersey. The stroke of midnight ended 7 years of waiting. I cory booker declare you janell and lydia lawful spouses. You may kiss your spouse. They were among dozens of couples who didnt waste a moment as new jersey became the 14th state to recognize samesex marriages. Im glad we stood up, fought and won. Newark mayor cory booker refused to perform wedding ceremonies for any couple until now. It was my way of protesting the painful reality that i could not marry all citizens equally. He asked if anyone objected to the marriage. A protester spoke up. This is unlawful in the eyes of god. Chris christy tried to put the samesex marriages on hold while they appealed. This morning christy officially dropped his appeal. The governor argues the institution of marriage for 2000 years has been between a man and woman. Hes now promising to uphold the states new law, allowing samesex marriages. Marly hall, wjz Eyewitness News. New jersey has recognized samesex unions since

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