Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Weekend 20131026

Morning starts now. Captions provided by caption colorado, llc. 18007757838. Comments captcolo. Com. This broadcast is real time captioned by carrie obrien. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. It is cold outside. It is so cold. Definitely. It feels unseasonably cold. The temperatures are a little bit low. We have a freeze warning in affect for another few hours. Because the temperatures across the area are getting down into the low 30s. That is a little bit early for this time of the year. Typically not the levels until late november. Right now a Crystal Clear sky can, a calm day, not as much wind. Of course, it calm down overnight. Thats one change that we will see today. Over the last few days, less blustery at times. Take a look at the temperatures around the area. Were looking, temperatures ranging from 28 degrees in cumberland and oakland, to 25 degrees at bwi marshall. The freeze warning in effect for the area is in effect until 9 00. Thats for all of the areas in blue there. So most of us are under that until the sun comes up. Temperature 57 degrees. Breezy, not as windy as yesterday. Sunshine and patchy clouds and the lows into the 30s. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. All right. Thank you, tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Here admits that he should have done more. For the second time this week, Maryland Attorney general and governor candidate, dogginessler speaks out on issue surrounding his presence at a party where underage drinking may have been going on. Pat warren has the latest from doug and a growing debate. Reporter attorney general pictured at the teen party where underage drinking may have been going on, trigger as firestorm of question about what she should done. He spoke to his son and left. How do you react. Whats the appropriate thing to do, there are 19, 20yearold kids having fun and a party, some of whom may be drinking in parts of the house. Do parents have options. Were in charge, not the teens. It is your child. Youre responsible for your child. Me, personally, i could definitely stop it. To the extent that people are looking at this, as an issue it is a good thing. It confronts every parent that has a 19 or 20yearold kids. Reporter jim is saying that parents face tough questions, but the responsibility is there. To contract the chaperones there. I would probably do it to reassure my something that things were going well there. Reporter in a statement today, doug said that he tried to make the best decisions. The head of the group that created a Public Service announcement, in which he cautions against teens drinking agrees. We know that parents dont want other adults providing alcohol to their kids. So at that point i think that you do have a moral responsibility. Gansler says that when he made a mistake, she willing to admit it. Pat warren, back to you. The party took place at a beach house in delaware during senior week in june. Behind bars the man accused of shooting a Howard County Police Officer is out of the hospital this morning and facing very serious charges. Police arrested 23yearold thursday along route 1 in savage after a 15 hour manhunt. Hes accused of shooting an officer on wednesday night who is in stable condition at shock trauma. The 29yearold was shot in the leg during a shootout with police. He is charged with attempted murder. A former Fire Department volunteer is accused of sexually abusing two children. Thats the beginning of the charges. As Monique Griego explains. There may be more victims. Police are asking them to come forward. Reporter parents dropping their kids off at a Community Dance at a Fire Department received shocking news. A former department can volunteer and organizer of the dances. Scott, was arrested for abusing children. It is a shot to the neighborhood, of course, you would expect it to be safe. It is local. Reporter even more disturbing is that Anne Arundel County Police Believe that scott videotaped some of the abuse which allegedly occurred over a six year period. At this point it doesnt appear to be rundown. Reporter the Fire Department leaders are saying scott who resigned in may, not a firefighter, but an administrative employee. He was involved with fundraiser activities. The department handed out the flyers to parenting drop parents drop drop canning children off. Parents that we spoke with, did not lose trust in the department or events. I dont think that anyone has to worry about anything at the dance. And scott is facing several charges. If you have more information on the case or possible victims should contact police. Reporting live, Monique Griego, wjz Eyewitness News. Police are not releasing any information about the victims or to protect their identities, scott remains in jail on the 22 million bond. An Apartment Fire in bronx, new york, leaves three Young Brothers dead. The flames raged out of control killing the boys, 5, 3, and 4 months old. The their mother and young sister were able to escape the flames. They were treated for smoke installation. Three other people were injured. Crews were able to get the flame under control. No word on what sparkedded the blaze. Seven people, including two Police Officers are recovering from injuries after a homecoming event at Howard University goes awry. This is after a large crowd rush towards the gates dur yard fest. One person broke his arm and the other minor injuries. The university is saying most of the people surrounding that gate did not have a tick that the concert. The event went on. Problems with the Affordable Care act website keep popping up. Now there is a timeline for solving the glitches. President barack obama is appointing top Management Consultant jeffrey giants to fix the delays. He admits there are a does cannens of dozens of issues. But he can take care of them. Three out of ten people can complete the process. Clean canning out your medicine cabinet take and make your home safer. The Anne Arundel County Police Officer is participating in the sick National Prescription drug take back initiative, a way to get rid of unused or expired prescription or overthe counter medication. They help to dispose of the medicare. You can drop them off from 10 00 until 2 00 this morning at the four county Police Officer departments in Anne Arundel County. Possibly postseason honors for the orioles. Jessica kartalija explains in this mornings sports report. Reporter hi, everyone. The orioles were the best feeling team in baseball this past season. It is no surprise six players finalist for the prestigious gold glove. Manny is one of the finalist at third base. It seemed like every other week it may a spectacular play at the hot corner. If he were to win, mannys first gold glove. And also a finalist orioles center fielder, adam jones. Jones won last year. If he were to win again, it would be jones third god glove. And also a finalist this year, matt wieters, hardy, markakis, and davis. The winners will be announced tuesday night. Homecoming in college park on saturday. The terps host clemson. Maryland needing one more win to be bowl eligible. The terps are dealing with a number of injuries. Two are out with broken legs. Ross and brown and the head coach is saying the team is up to the challenge. The is unfortunate, but we have to continue to move forward. Everybody has to step their game up. We have to step it up as coaches. Players have to step it up. We have to deal with it. The terps will honor former all americans as part of homecoming weekend. And coach joke canned he might need a few of them to help out on the field. Im jessica kartalija. Back to you. The turperize undefeated at home this year. Okay. So cold enough for you . Too cold for me. I think, it just came on. That is the problem. I didnt have a chance to switch out the summer clothe to the fall clothes. All right. The clothing scramble in the morning. That is true. Two weeks ago we were talking about temperatures in the 70s. Right. 80s. Now boom. Boom. Sorry. Well, if there is one benefit it is that you have to get your first frost before you can have an indian summer. So we should be able to look forward to one more warmup, before the temperatures are cold before the rest of the season. Indian summer is guaranteed. I didnt say that. You have to talk to the groundhog about the guarantee. We usually have it. Right now temperatures like late november. They are around freezing. 33 at bwi marshall. And 28 is your dew point. The air is dry overall. When the temperature and the dew point start to separate, you will start to feel the dryness. Right now it is just moist enough that we could see frost out there. We have not quite see the temperatures line up. You need them to line up to get the moisture and the dew to form. But the bottom line it is very cold out there. Thats the one thing that you will deal with outside. Westsouthwestly wind at 3 Miles Per Hour. The barometer is high. Across the state, temperature range is 28 in cumberland. 29 on the shore. Around the immediate metro area the range, the high side, 36 in washington, d. C. Annapolis, and kent island. Winds have called down in the overnight hours. We had a pretty breezy last few days. Well call them windy at times, but see the light breeze today, a Small Craft Advisory on the bay. The shift will bring in milder temperatures. Right now 33. And our neighbors in detroit and chicago are warmer than we are right now. Were going to see tapping into a little bit of this, because of the High Pressure that is in control. That high is my enough up towards the great lakes. It is bringing in a very cold, clockwise flow around the Hospital Hospital High Pressure throw. And the high is going to stink and allow for milder hair to move in across the west. And a front that will come through on sunday and monday and knock the temperatures back. And then get back up to 60 degrees. That will take us to the closer high. Sorry. 64. Southwest winds. That is the shift, on the bay at 10 to 15 knots, gusting up to 20. He serm the forecast today. 77 degrees. Breezy, sunshine and patchy clouds around. Lows around 38 degrees. 57 tomorrow, much like today. Cool and partial sunshine. Then we get up into the 60s. So the warmup, good evening, good evening, it will feel like summer compared to what we had. 61 on monday. And lows getting into the low 50s by wednesday and thursday. Im willing to bet, im not the only one. All right. Youre right. At this time of the year some pumpkins are tossed, smashed and carved. It is the annual tradition at the maryland zoo and children love it. Look at this. All right. For it is. Children watch as the africa elephants did the pumpkin smash. They are a special treat and available only this time of the year. It looks like the elephants like it, too. Why do we love to see things get blown up, smashed, crashed tossed. Tossed. Chunked. We will be seeing pumpkin chunking here, soon. Yes. Our producer karen is saying nobody gets hurt. It are for fun. The pumpkin doesnt think that. Thats true. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning ,,,,,,,,,, welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Hard to believe, this month is zooming by. But it is. Were feeling lake november with the temperatures down around freezing. We are at 33 degrees right now at bwi marshall. Food, were looking at milder air moving in then we have had over the last few days. High pressure will allow the wind from the west and southwest bring in the milder temperatures. If you are using today to look at the fall colors head to the west. Were seeing slight changes in the colors up to a moderate change along the 95 corridor. And 75 west and points farther west the best color. Our forecast today around 57 degrees. Breezy and patchy clouds. The low around 30 degrees. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast. G . All right. Thanks tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. Well, nearly 17 years after 6 yearold jonbenet rammy was bludgeoned to death, a Court Releases new documents on the case. Reporter this is the first time the documents were released. This reveals charges against ramseys parents. John and patsy never received charges. But a grand jury indicted the couple 14 years ago. Them District Attorney hunter refused to pursue the charges cited a lack of evidence. The grand jury accused them of child abuse resulting in death. And in another count the couple is accused of accessory to a crime for trying to delay the capture of the killer, but that person was never named. Please, if you know anything, i beg you. The ramseys also maintained their innocence, pathae died in 2006. Only four pages of the records were released, but john ramseys attorney is saying that hundreds of thousands of patients of testimony and exhibits are still sealed. If you in fact, had the benefit of a full review of the evidence there would be no evidence that would in licat kate imp luff implicate the family. Jonbenets murder is unsolved. Kai jackson, back to you. A judge ruleed to release after a colorado journalist sued for the document documents. Students concern to a Massachusetts High School where a math teacher was murdered earlier this week. Class at danverse high reviewed. The body of call colleen was found behind the school. Family members of a school of a fatal limo fire in california are filing wrongful death lawsuits against six different companies. Five women were killed in may after a limo erupted into flames over a bridge. Four others and the driver were able to get out alive. A failure of the air Suspension System caused the fire. The lawsuit is saying the companies are responsible for the modification and the maintenance of the limo. Millions of americans who rely on food stamps will see a change in benefits. Next friday, the benefits will be cut. 47million people currently receive food stamps. That is 15 of the u. S. Population. And the average ben it is 133 a month. That amount will be reduced. It is a 5 billion saving for the governmental. Ellis island in new york is reopening. A year ago next week, Hurricane Sandy swamped ellis island. The systems were damaged. And much of the damage is not prepared. But the National Park service will reopen on monday, the 127th anniversary of the dedication of the statute of liberty. That is a great anniversary. Yes it is. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning ,,,,,,,,, today, we going up to 67 degrees and the same tomorrow. For monday, 61. 52, 65 and 60 heading into halloween on thursday. The milds day. A good thing. A chance of showers, but lows in the 50s should make for a nice evening for trickor treaters. All right. A new way to put an end to bullying on and off campus. Students and parents in howlered county will be able to report it with their cell phones. We show you how the program works. Reporter need to report bullying. There is an app for that, it is part of the campaign, for stand up, it stop bullying online and in person protecting the individual reporting. Were giving our parent, students and adult as way to report bullying wherever it happens. Reporter go online, or the app w. With a click of a button fill out this form. The has a great possibility to protect children. Reporter this could have save graces life. The 15yearold committed suicide easter after repeated attempts to stop bullying. The green form is what students filled out. Because she was not willing to fill it out there. Was no action taken. And, you know, it accumulated and it is damaging. Reporter online reporting is not the only way to check count on bullies. Look at this, the cameras are coming to all Howard County school buses to catch bullying in the act. There is a lot of buses. Reporter and with 400 buses in the fleet, each bus will have four cameras. Kylesy part of voices for change, a group that survey students about experiences with bullying. We found that almost all of the kids who have been bullied reported once or twice it was on the school bus. Reporter now, multiple students are in place so the community can stop students from falling victim to a bully. More than 250 county locations are in the system right now. Users can enter any location that there. The system is used in 25 other states across the country. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning ,,,,,,,,, welcome back to Eyewitness News saturday morning. Im gigi barnett. Im meteorologist tim williams. Here that bottom of the hour, the temperatures are in the 30s across most of the area. Some 20s and a few 40s. But 30s in most of the area. Chilly. It is chilly. Were looking at a pretty Crystal Clear sky. It is a calm day starting off. A light breeze, it will beef breezy at times through the afternoon. Not quite as blustery. You know can, weve had almost a bit of a wind chill that we have been dealing with. But for the most part this is a nice fall like weekend. On the cool side. The temperatures are in the 30s. 33 degrees at bwi marshall. We do have 36 degrees in easton and towards washington, d. C. A freeze warning in affect for all of the areas in blue. This is for most of the state. Sun will come up and things will warmup nicely. 57 degrees. Our normal high is 64. We are below normal. But breezy, sunshine and patchy clouds. The lows down into the into the 30s. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecast is coming up. Thank you, tim. First, heres what people are talking about today. For the second time this week, Maryland Attorney general and democratic candidate for governor, doug gansler tackles issues surrounding his presence as a party where underage drinking may have been going on. Pat warren reports, gansler admits that that he should have done more. Reporter attorney general, doug gansler at this Underage Party trigger as fire start of question of what she should have done. What he did do, is speak to his son and leave. How do you react . What is the appropriate thing to do, in that situation, there are 19 and 20yearold kids. Having fun and a party. Some may be drinking. Reporter do parents have options . Were in charge. Not the teens. It is your child. Youre responsibility for your child. Nobody else is. My, personally, i would definitely stop it. To the extent that people are looking at this, as an issue that is a good thing. It confronts every parent that has, you know, 19 or 20year old kids. Reporter clinical psychologist jim is saying that parents face tough questions, but the responsibility is there. To contact the chaperons are there. I would do it to reassure myself. Reporter in a statement today, gansler said the head of the group that created a Public Service announcement, in come gansler cautions against teen drinking agrees. We know that parents dont want other adults providing alcohol the their kids. So at that point, i think you do have a moral responsibility. Reporter and gansler says when he has made a mistake, he is willing to admit it. Pat warren reporting. Back to you. That party took place at a beach house in delaware during senior week back in june. A former member of the ferndale volunteer Fire Department is arrested for sexually abusing two children. Police are saying Preston Scott abused the children and videotaped it. He resigned in may from the department. He was not a firefighter, but an administrative employee. He is facing a list of charges now. If you have information, come forward and contact police. Anne arundel county delegate, don dwyer is sentenced for two chop relate alcoholrelated arrests. Reporter when don dwyers boat collided in 2012, people were hurt, including broken bones and bones and a conduction, and he was pulled over for drinking and drive canning. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for each conviction. 60 days behind bars. Bare minimum of a sentence. Reporter mark was piloting the other goat with his grandchildren. In cold, dwyer lawyers is saying it was carbons fault. To be drunk and not watching where you are going is a crime. It was nice to acknowledge and apologize what happened. Instead of denying. If he was not on the water drunk. Reporter once you are willing to admit you are an alcoholic it is not something that it goes away. Reporter his efforts to do that keeps his jail time down. He will take the judges words and put them into action making sure that reremains sober. For the next three years on probation. The judge ordered him to stay out of places that serve or sells alcohol. Step inside, is a year in jail can. Dwyer will serve on weekends. As this political future, dwyers lawyers are saying he continues to serving out his term. 57yearold Phillip Nolan junior died at a scene on friday morning. A car traveling west in king county. Lost controlled and trapped into a garage. He was hired from the state police in 2005 as a sergeant after serving 22 years. There are two suspects involved in the crash. Crack downs on the road. State troopers are on the lookout for drivers who relate the move over law. This is after several of their own were injured by drivers who didnt make room. Meghan mccorkell with more. Reporter good morning. Earlier this month, trooper Jacqueline Cline was hit by a car and nearly killed assisting another trooper on the side of the road. Along side of route 100, cline was struck by a car and thrown into the air. Cameras captured the near death experience of david in september of 2112. I have been hit by a car. Reporter both troopers nearly killed by drivers in violation of the move over law. Now, state police are cracking down. That vehicle is in violation. Reporter they are targeting drivers who dont obey the law that requires cars to move a little bit away from emergency workers on the side of the road. If drivers cant get over, they must slow down. In just the first day of the crack down, state police made more than 1400 traffic stops. 335 were cited for move over violations. There was an addition 481 issues. Im noticing that you didnt move over. Reporter one driver understands the importance of the law. You have to be curtious courteous. Reporter for troopers it is life and death. This is a law that saves the life of officers and people that were dealing with. Reporter a law that could prevent scenes like this. Trooper cline has been released from shock trauma and moved to a rehab facility. A 5k will be held on november 10th to raise money for her recovery. Meghan mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. State troopers will have more move over crack downs throughout the year. Six orioles are announced as finalists for one of baseballs most prestigious occur awards. Many is manny is one of six finalists. The others jones, wieters, hard a few areas, davis and markakis. Nearly a year after superstorm sandy, maryland gets federal money to help present future flooding. The government is handing out 162 million to protect the coastal communities. All right. Much needed funds. It is hard to believe a year ago. Tuesday the year of it coming into the northeast. And, yeah. So, you know, things have moved on. A lot of folks are still recovering from it. Fortunately. Unfortunately, we have not had that store coming through this season. It is a quiet hurricane season. And one, one, one more month until it is over. Right. November 30th. Knock on wood. Yes. The other things we have. Wood and glass, we dont know. Yes. Anything. It will be a calm weekend. If you plan on getting out and doing things outside. It is a good one. Put on the fleece. Go pick out pumpkins. Yes. Pumconpumpkin patches and corn mazes. The shift in the wind will be the difference. We have a normal high of 64 degrees. And our low is 42. Thats where we typically tom out. So the southwest wind is the difference in the forecast. We had a northwest wind that is tapping into cold, canadian air. And the southwest wind will bring in milder air and get the temperatures up. The airline will be pretty dry for today has things get underway and the sun comes up. The wind from the west southwest at 3 Miles Per Hour currently. Right now, 28 at cumberland and oakland. Thats the 95 corridor for you. Around the immediate metro area. We do have that westsouthwest wind coming in across maryland and the washington, d. C. Suburbs, calm readings around the rest of the area. As long as you have that southerly component you will get the milder temperatures. Around the region we are one of the coolest right now. Detroit and chicago are warmer than we are right now. But towards atlanta and memphis, everyone is seeing the milder temperatures. Thats the air moving in our direction. Right now, much of the sate is under clear conditions. Around the great lakes, lake affect snow. Back towards colorado and back towards northwest texas, youre seeing showers. But much of the country right now is under High Pressure. This is basically the jetstream. You can see the carve out. It is lifting higher and pulling the cold air to the north. And High Pressure will allow the southwest flow. That means milder air for us. G. X. For a cold front that will move through here on sunday or monday, the temperatures go up. So a little bit above the normal high next week. That the clouds halloween for the trickortreaters. Our forecast today, with a Small Craft Advisory in effect at noon until tonight. 57 degrees and breezy and patchy clouds around. A little bit warmer, if you call 38 warm. So but warmer. 57 degrees tomorrow. Cool and sunshine. And then 57 to 61. 62. 65 and 68 for the last day of october. All right. Still to come on Eyewitness News saturday morning a nice day ahead in baltimore. Right now, though, it is cloudy and 33 degrees in central maryland. The exclusive eye witness news first warning fiveday forecastver coming up. First, dna tests confirm that a gypsy couple are parents of a girl found in greece. Reporter authorities are saying that dna tests confirm that this 35yearold woman is the biological mother of maria, the girl discovered in a camp in greece last week. The tv she had a baby girl four years ago and greece, but they gave her away, because they were too poor to care for her. She said, yes. I gave birth there, i gave the baby to a woman to take care of. So, i could come back to my other children. Police did an International Search after they discovered maria. They questioned the couple looking after her, because they looked so different. The couple was arrested and charged with kidnapping. Now, marias biological family want to 4yearold back. She says, i would like maria to come here. She is my sister. But it is not that simple. Police are investigating if the biological parents sold their child, if so they face up to six years in jail and thousands of dollars in fines. Lucy mcdonald, wjz Eyewitness News. And the greek couple who have raised maria plan to fight for custody. One of the quarterbacks of the nfl is saying that he suffers from memory loss. Brett favre talks about why he is so scared. Reporter for 20 reasons, brett favre stared down the biggest, meanest players in the nfl and won. Now, retired favre is saying Something Else has him scared. I dont remember my daughter playing soccer one summer. Favre said that he is experiencing memory loss. So that is a little bit scary to me. Yeah. For the first time in 44 years, that put a little bit of fear in me. Favre is saying that the fear that he has been affected by concussions. In august, the nfl agreed to pay 765 million to settle lawsuits for 4,000 former play here claimed that they conditions were caused by repeated concussions. Often the ct scans or the initial scans we dover a suspected help injury that is severe may be normal, but functional changes. Fav know favre knows his career has taken a toll on this body. After 20 years. God only knows the toll. For now, she try he is trying to enjoy his retirement with his family. Favre played in nfl record, 297 regular season games in a row. There is time to sign up for the 2013 pro football challenge. Just go to wjz. Com. Still ahead on wjz Eyewitness News i wish i was made of money. I wish you were too. Chances are, youre not made of money. So dont overpay for motorcycle insurance. Geico motorcycle. See how much you could save. A maryland Production Company is turning tragedy into a learning tool. Educating high school and College Students about the danger of Relationship Violence. Jessica kartalija has more. 59, take 1. Reporter a home is transformed into what looks just like a hollywood movie set. But this story has a powerful message. All that you have to say 1 out of 3, in baseball it is a great average, but in Relationship Violence it is terrible. It has gone unrecognized too long. Kim watkins is the ceo of renegade communications, partnering with the 1 Love Foundation, to create a Digital Education piece about Relationship Violence. We do anything to try to prevent another family going through what we had to go through. It is thrilling to think that people will Pay Attention to this and get out and, and, and, save themselves. Reporter sharon love started the 1 Love Foundation in memory of her daughter, yardley, a university of virginia lacrosse player beaten to death by her ex boyfriend. The presentation is part of a campaign aimed at 16 to 24 years old. Highlighting the signals of Relationship Violence. Samantha plays main character, paige. All is not that many opportunities to do something in the arts. Reporter renegade and 1 love have create an app and Public Service announcement. Turn our tragedy into a positive. And to honor yardley in that way. She would want us to to do something about this. Reporter the presentation will be available for schools and colleges online and will also have an interactive portion for students to participate. Jessica kartalija, wjz Eyewitness News. The final presentation will have women giving personal accounts of their experience with Relationship Violence. When when we ,,,,,,, sac, today and tomorrow, 57 degrees. Lows in the 30s. We get into the 60s for monday through thursday. 61 on monday, 62 on tuesday, 65 and 68 in time for halloween. That is the first hour of our saturday morning show. Theres another hour of wjz Eyewitness News weekend addition coming right up. ,,,