The jury has been selected in the trial of a Baltimore City police instructor. William kern faces charges in the shooting of a recruit training trainee during a Training Exercise. Barry simms joins us live from with the latest. There was a lastminute offer from prosecutors but william kern rejected it. He did not want to plead guilty to seconddegree assault so the case is moving forward with the jury really tear it. The trial will focus on what happened every 12 at this site. And questions about whether an officer should have had an a handgun with live ammunition during the exercise. The details arent selling. Ramin gray shot in the four head during that Training Exercise. He lost an eye. A man accused of shooting him, Training Instructor william kern charged with seconddegree assault and reckless endangerment. He had an unhealthy attachment to that gun, prosecutors thought. It was interesting. Acute observation. Something is definitely wrong. The attorney has filed a 500 million civil suit. Muscle function and has trouble maneuvering without help. Gray will not see pictures of his injuries. Question is impossible to hear from him and his condition. He does not recall anything thats a waste on that day. The jury could hear evidence describing how he was trying to teach the trainees alyssa, stay in anm about area. He may have pulled his Service Weapon by accident and following turned overas his weapon when requested. Jurors will have to do consider if he followed proceeds Police Procedure and if you accidents were intentional. What i heard this morning almost in defiance of policy. He is a person have has been on the floor and none of policy. Jurors will not hear that the Maryland Department of into health and hygiene was unaware that the Training Exercise was happening at rosewood in the Opening Statements are set for tomorrow. The trial is set to last for hree days. Wrecks baltimores mayor says do not expect the double tax to if a longtime grocery says the tax drove him out of business. Bitterly fought when it santonis decision by has put the bottle tax on the front page. The mayor insisted it is here to stay. So the released today five cent bottle tax is bringing in more than a Million Dollars a month. Better than projected and one more reason today. Asked if she would consider revising the tax the mayor answered this way. Absolutely not. Santonis announced it would close after 83 years in business saying the bottle tax hurt sales and your weight customers but the store is facing increasing competition and has a new landlord. The mayor rejects the idea that the tax is to blame. It breaks my heart that he is closing but i think all of us are realistic about the reasons. Curt anderson said the tax the city was able to convince the state to devote a billion dollars to build new city schools. The bottle tax proceeds go to pay the debt. It is never a popular thing to increase a tax. Newalternative was no schools in baltimore. We had to do something to change the culture and Baltimore City did that. It put skin in the game. Even with the tax five new Grocery Stores have opened in the city. Three more are due to come online. The ceo of shoprite called the tax a ridiculous money grab. Which he expected to have little effect on the shoppers he will start serving. The city had to suspend an Online GroceryShopping Program because santonis was the main grocer involved. A search for a replacement is underway. Overrylands controversy gun permit law will stand following a decision from the u. S. Supreme court. And rights advocates had been pushing to have an appeal heard by the high court but justices are refusing to review the case which claims current gun permit requirements violate the second amendment. Anyone who applies for a permit to carry a handgun has to demonstrate a substantial reason for carrying that weapon outside the home. The Supreme Court will confront his biggest case of the term so far. One hour of oral regimens raises questions over race in her minis. The justices are being asked to decide the constitutionality of a voter referendum in the state of michigan. Basedd race and sex discrimination or preferential treatment in public Universities Mission decisions. This is the second year of oh they have taken on affirmative action. The Court Ordered stricter scrutiny of the law allowing the use of race in College Admissions in that case. On day 15 of the Government Shutdown with a debt default limning, there are dueling plans emerging on capitol hill and now all of yesterdays talk of progress has been replaced with more uncertainty. Sally kidd joins us live in housegton to explain. Republicans came out with a new proposal this morning. It has one that amounts to seven times, Democratic Leaders say. Wereenate negotiators putting the finishing touches on a bipartisan deal, Republican Leaders began uploading a new proposal. Whatever propose we move forward will reflect our position unfairness that no special treatment for anybody under the law. In addition to reopening government and extending the deadline may, the house proposal would include delaying a new tax on medical devices and prohibiting contributions to the executive ranch and members of congress. We are continuing to work with our members to try to make sure that there is no issue of default and to get our government reopened. That was news to House Democrats who said there is nothing bipartisan about it. Sabotageicans want to the bipartisan effort in the senate. The Senate Majority leader says negotiators were blindsided. Extremist republicans are attempting to to tito the bipartisan progress with a ill that cannot pass the senate. President obama sounded upbeat. We are stuck in the house but i remain optimistic that this will get resolved. The challenge is, can we get it resolved sooner enough . Pulley republicans say they day. We want to find a solution for this in a bipartisan manner. Senate leaders have suspended their talks for now while they wait to see if House Republicans can pass that plan. What is the likelihood it will pass . It is not clear. Speaker john benard has the votes to get that plan through. It could come up for a vote as early as tonight but is not likely to be put on the floor. If speaker benard says he does not have enough support for it. Enqueue. Thank you. He was at the center one of the most highly political scandals bethe but he wants to baltimores state senator. Julius hanssen spent two days. He tells 11 news voters in the 45th district where he plans to run would not only forgive him but vote for him as well. Do you think you can win . Absolutely. I would not be doing it if i did not think i could win. The current senator believes i can win and you must dig i have a chance because you would not be here. Confident 64yearold Julius Henson says he is now going after senator nathaniel 2014 and iseat and not holding back. People are hurting. Most of the people do not know who their representatives are and those that do now are not satisfied with the direction the district is going. He served 30 days in jail for conspiracy trade for his role in the illegal 2010 election day robocall. That the race between governor Martin Omalley and the former governor was over before the polls had closed. He said voters in the 45th district will be able to look past his past. It was a minor charge that still in the courts but we will see. It will be no problem whatsoever. Agreesy glover committing his conviction could be a roadblock but not a dealbreaker. He would leave a bad taste in peoples mouths. At the same time people will also have to consider 20 years as heator mcfadden and peaks . It will be very hard to [inaudible] there may be more of an uphill battle but it will get henson recognition. This will get him back in the public eye and allow him to state his case before the public and maybe restore his career as a political consultant. The threeells us year probation which he says is under appeal prevents him from pulling out Political Consulting and not running for office. He plans to make his announcement official next monday. Senator mcfadden declined comment for the story. Thank you. Maryland state board of education is pushing for some changes when it comes just in or student discipline. Officials say we like the way our system works already. We will have details in an educational or. It is steelers week but it is also speed week as the ravens focus on getting off to a faster start this weekend this week. We will see if what are you doing . Were switching Car Insurance. 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Carroll county is trying to allow the encourage the state to keep their discipline house he. They will not take changes without considering public comment. They have been able to reduce numbers by sending students to alternate programs. We have understand the word has the ability to set guidelines. We believe the changes will change our policy which works. To be a less favorable result for us. The state ordered will take up that regulation when it meets in early december. 71 at dwi marshall. That is relatively mild. Four degrees above the average and 49 this morning. Three degrees warmer than normal. Kind of a mild spell in the october. 86, the record high goes back to 89. Temperature still mid60s to low 70s in downtown baltimore. Chris feel that 66. Some cloud cover there and coming in from the west, the only part of the state that is under increasing cloudiness. With that blanket of cloudiness it will keep the temperatures up not much below 50 in the coolest suburbs and it will be a struggle to get below 60 in downtown baltimore tonight. An unusually warm october night. The storm that brought us that rain is over the atlantic area it is far enough offshore so that we have got some shin sunshine in the area. Some showers and thunderstorms in the changes to snow. Snowing and 36 in denver. There is some cold air out there behind this front. This is the front that comes to our area on thursday morning. We will not get into the chilly stuff until the weekend as it tracks across the country. A mild day but you can see our computer models are indicating lots of cloudiness and shower stay in the mountains through the day tomorrow. Thursday we catch a chance for a sprinkle in the morning but the best chance for rain will be scattered showers in the afternoon and evening on thursday. The system will move through and get off the coast and clear up in time for friday and the weekend looks nice. Not talking about flooding rains again. Were talking about some hit and miss showers mainly thursday afternoon. Mostly cloudy and continued warmer than normal. 69 to 74 degrees. A southeast reset by miles an hour and that is the wind direction on the bay with waves around one foot and less than 10 knots for most of the day. They do have a better chance for showers but east of the mountains the front will fall apart. 63 in deep creek lake. Eastern shore locations, more clouds than sun tomorrow but still mild and a slight chance of a shower on thursday. Along the coast clouds and sun mix and showers into friday morning. 73 tomorrow and 74 on thursday. The front drops temperatures closer to normal. A for 60s for highs and lows back into the 40s by monday we could see some temperatures in the upper 30s. Around here this week the mantra is faster started. They have not succeeded nearly often enough playing from behind. Wantsall bar harbaugh to see his team get off to a faster start. They ranked 29th in yards gained on the first down. A lot of that has to do with the struggles in the running game and they do not stand alone in isolation. They have a trickledown effect area they have struggled on first down and because of it face to many third and long situations which tend to lead to a lot of frustration on the sidelines. All more important on the road games and the ravens no to win in pittsburgh they have to start beating the steelers by beating pittsburgh each and every time they have the ball on first down. Runou cannot consistently for two years two yards of kerry to be what you want to be as an offense. It makes it hard to stay with it. We need to do a better job of passing the first down. We need to pass well on the first and second down and keep ourselves third and long as much as possible. Early down has not been good to us and we have to improve that. Marlon brown joins us tonight radio to talkn about his first ever steelers game and more. Tonight at 7 00 on the ale radio. A classic matchup in the championship series looking like it will be a series incident the sweep at the doctors say their way within a game of the cardinals last night with the series shifting to los angeles. Picking up the action in the fourth inning. Adrian gonzalez the living a double to the right and brings and mark ellis. The dodgers 10 at that point. And to bring a big hit. Adrian gonzalez comes in to score and the dodgers in front 20 and ready to hold the lead at home. In the eighth inning, ramirez, sometimes placement is everything. A single into shallow outfield. Crawford gets the greenlight. The dodgers climb back into the series dating st. Louis last night 30. The cardinals lead the best of seven series two games to one and the American Lake champion series, trying to beat out the comeback. This is what is this, the super bowl . A power outage led to a brief delay but they resumed play and they have gone to the bottom of the sixth. The power outage carrying over at home plate. Scoreless between the red sox and the detroit tigers. Stick around. Tom tasselmyer is back to let you know how we are following breaking news involving the mother of cal ripken, junior. Of ken was the holdup victim of a holdup. She was not injured and a suspect is in custody. We will have many more details on that story and much more mild temperatures, 73 tomorrow, 74 thursday. That front will get temperatures back to normal as we head into the weekend. Enjoy. Thanks for joining us. Nbc nightly news and Brian Williams coming next. See you back here at 11. [captioning made possible by Constellation Energy group] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org on our broadcast tonight, danger zone for the u. S. Economy as this dead lock in washington now threatens to pull it down. There are questions about the u. S. Credit rating with just over a day to go now until the deadline. Outrage over the events that led a young girl to take her own life. And who the local sheriff is blaming for her suicide. Tonight, a wakeup call for all parents. Acts of bravery, caught in an ambush, caught on camera, an American Hero who led his team through grave danger as tonight his Team Receives the highest military honor in the land. And making a difference, a great story of a coach who is teaching students what caring really means. Nightly news begins now. Good evening, this was to be expected as the hour nears, but a major Credit Agency has put the Credit Rating of the United States of america on a negative ratings watch. Just last night, we came on the air reporting that hopes were high for a deal, things were moving. That collapsed today in a pile of noise and hurt feelings in washington. The government has been shut down for 15 days. The debt ceiling deadline is just over 24 hours away now. The world is watching and the Financial Markets are clearly watching. And profiles in courage are in short supply tonight in washington. We have it all covered beginning again tonight with the sorry state of affairs in congress, Kelly Odonnell has spent yet another day covering it. Reporter good evening, brian, confusion and being paralyzed are all i can say right now. They had a deal and then quickly scrapped it as Speaker Boehner said tonight they would not go along, the senators tell me they dont know how it will end. How did we go from this just last night . Im very optimistic. Reporter to this today. And it is nothing more than a blatant attack on bipartisanship. Reporter hopes fell on a deal. When the House Republicans rejected a Bipartisan Senate compromise. Mr. Speaker, can you guarantee that Congress Wont go past the deadline and push us into default . Listen, i have made clear for months and months that the idea of default is wrong. And we should not get anywhere close to it. Reporter but time is running out fast, and the m