Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition 20131030

Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Edition 20131030

It is the top of the hour. Our bottom line this morning is it is milder and cloudier than this time yesterday. Sharon is watching the roads, of course. Marty is over at first warning weather. In some cases its a little bit wetter. Heres first warning doppler weather radar. What were seeing is very light shower activity. Its going to be pressing through the area for the next few hours. By the afternoon variably cloudy and mild. We have rain right now but its mild. That 47 degrees is 6 warmer than this time yesterday. By lunch 62 on its way to a high of 63. 63 was our temperature yesterday. 63 is normal for this date. Whats wrong on your way to work . Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning. Were seeing some of that rain n one of or traffic cameras. Were start together see more accidents. One of them on 32 eastbound at 108. That one temporarily blocking two lanes. A pedestrian involved report at patacso avenue. We still have that accident on eastbound cold spring lane and evans chapel road is the cross street, a sleight change there. 55 and 54 on the beltway. 56 and 54 on 95. Thats a look at 95 where we are seeing some wet roads there at 152. Thats mountain road. So possibly some rain in that area. Theres a look at 95 at 395 looking good. Now wjz has the stories people are talking about this morning. Heres don. Thank you. Members of congress fires oe questions at a Top Obama Administration official over its problematic healthcare. Gov website. This as many marylanders are still trying to sign up. Here is Meghan Mccorkell with the story. Good morning. That problem plagued website had ed lots of questions on capitol hill. Were barely four weeks into this one and were already declaring it dead. Why should the American People believe you now . Rapid fire questions for the head of the federal Health Care Website who apologized for whats being called a disaster roll out. This is fixable. Now another hit for o. K. Oh it for oh lam baabama care. Insurance providers are dropping more than 2 million people. The white house website said if you want to keep the Health Insurance that you got you can keep it. Now theyre being told they cant. Thats a lie. Thats sending more people into the Health Care Exchange. Here in maryland Officials Say more than 300,000 people visited the States Health Care Exchange website. Website woes are a slow down. The exchange is working hard around the clock to fix all the kinks and work out things. 40,000 have created accounts on the site, 3,100 have enrolled for coverage. Ann chester said shes waiting until the glitches are gone. If they can get it fixed then well see what it is that we then may have to talk about in terms of whether it works or not. The lack of a fix, the source of a frustration for many. A contractor who developed marylands Health Care Exchange has hired more staff to try and fiction those glitches. Martys Meghan Mccorkell, wjz Eyewitness News. Some are calling for the health and Human Services secretary to step down. Maryland state delegate don dwyer injured in a car crash. It happened yesterday in pasadena. A driver in another car turned at the red light leading to the crash. No one is seriously hurt. Last week dwyer was sentenced to 60 weekend days in jail for a dui in august and boating under the influence where there was a crash that injured seven people. One year ago super storm sandy devastated parts of maryland, delaware, new york and certainly new jersey. Today some areas are still trying to recover. Wjz and mike schuh are live with more on the storms impact and that recovery. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. For most of us sandy is no longer in our head lines. For those who lost everything it still tops their personal front page. A bonfire in sea bright, new jersey marks a celebration of survival for those who endured d super storm sandy last year. A year after the storm ravaged areas of new jersey and new york rebuilding continues. Flooding and fire wiped out homes also. Right now every conversation we have leads to hurricane sandy. I look forward to the day when we move beyond that. Stories of hope continue to emerge. In rock away, new york the home of rosa vasquez looked like this january. The house has been rebuilt with numerous donated items. Its overwhelming when you dont have your own place to go to. To finally have your own home and be able to come home, its undescribable. There was water into the dressing drawers. Ruth fountain of crisfield remembers super storm sandy. Flooding ravaged the Eastern Shore town. Shes among some of the hardest hit residents in maryland. The rebuilding continues. Theyve been through a lot. There were people who lost ever. There were people who have damage to their homes. Reporter marylands already received 73 million from the feds to help with our damage. They promised another 19 million more to come. Im mike schuh reporting live. Back to you. Thank you. As you saw sandy hit the eastern sea board with incredible force. Here is meteorologist Chelsea Ingram with more on how those conditions developed. One year ago today impacts from sandy were felt across the entire eastern sea board, including maryland. The whole state was effect from the mountains to the coastline with significant rain, wind and yes, even snow. Rainfall in addition to other factors like storm surge contributed to moderate and severe coastal flooding in maryland while places like the jersey saw saw great devastation. Marylands coastline saw major impact. We saw extremes here in maryland. The highest rainfall occurred in easton, maryland. 12. 5 inches. High land beach, maryland the ht est wind guest, the highest snowfall red house, maryland with 29 inches. Tonight at 6 00 on wjz rising waters. The First Warning Weather Team uncovers its not just storms threatening maryland shorelines. How the coastline in our state is disappearing tonight at 6 00. This morning another crime caught on camera. Two women stealing more than 500 worth of meat from a Grocery Store in frederick. It happened at the giant there. Surveillance cameras showing the women filling reusable shopping bags with meats. That occurred on october the 10th. Police are asking anyone with information to please contact them. A Morgan State University honor student files a complaint with the school after he said he was barred from joining a from tenty. Kappa alpha psi is at the center of days crimination complain ant seen major Bryan Stewart said a member told him he would not get in because hes gay. It took me aback a little bit. I really didnt pay it too much attention. It was something that i was like, okay, youre saying this but im still going to apply, im still going to do what i believe i can do to get in. Stewart said hurtful messages prove his sexual preference would be an issue. Stewart shares the messages he received from a source with wjz showing a conversation between two members of kappa alpha psi using racial and gay slurs. This n word, bryan, keeps calling me, son. I dont want another expletive writing any leters. When asked about the Text Messages. You can call ihq in philadelphia, pennsylvania and speak with them. Comment on the Text Messages . No. They go on. It said give them the perception of a fair and equal opportunity. That put in perspective of why they denied me. University officials would not go on camera but said we are aware of the complaint and reviewing the party. Stewart will be a First Generation College graduate. He holds a 3. 2 gpa and interned at the white house. This is mainly to raise awareness this this happens. Stewart said he received a scholarship from kappa alpha psi to pay for his college career. Im rochelle richie, wjz Eyewitness News. Morgan state said it does not tolerate or accept discrimination. Turning to sports, its back to the court for the nba. Depending champs, the heat, take on the bulls. The heat showed off their rings on opening night. After that they started their quest for a Third Straight title. The heat beat the bulls 10795. In baseball news, Orioles Center Fielder Adam Jones has two reasons to celebrate this morning. His longtime girlfriend announced the couples engagement on instagram yesterday. He proposed to paris. The good news doesnt end there. He was voted the best in the field in his position winning his third career gold glove. Manny machado was voted the best third baseman earning his first goal career club. Hes the first orioles third baseman to win since Brooks Robinson got the last of his back in 1975. J. J. Hardy also got a gold glove for the second straight year. Congratulations to them. Absolutely. Im going to tell you somethinge. We got to throw out some kudos. We may sound like homers doing this but i think the stats bear this out to wieters to davis. A heck of a year. All five days had a heck of a year, three with gold gloves. The glory shall not be diminished. Davis deserves an gold bat. I know. Doesnt he. Lets take a look at first warning doppler weather radar. Were about that close in some neighborhoods to more shower activity. Light moisture pressing over the area. Theres a warm front coming our way. It will take us into the low 70s tomorrow. By the weekend its going to be sunny but chillier. Well have first warning details shortly. Sunny this weekend, ron. Thats a good thing given what were getting ready to talk about. Take it away. Reporter thank you. Its sprinkling a little bit outside in little italy. Thats italian. Thats exact. Reporter tina and ger jerry. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter saint leos church the big ravoli dinner is sunday. How many meat balls are we making . 5,000. Reporter thats right. 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Now almost 50 degrees. 45 elkton, 46 ocean city, the low 50s easton, pax river, dc, rock hall and kent island, 46 bel air, 45 columbia, greater westminster now at 52 degrees. We have shower activity around the area. Were all going to see a little bit of rain. This is not a tremendous amount of moisture. None the less, it may not be out of the ordinary to say spotty showers this morning. I can see that part of the forecast being in tact well into the midday. Theres a warm front moving our way thats going to give us a great halloween. Mild weather for the kids and big kids too. Right on the hills there will be more chilly air moving into the mid atlantic. Its a temperature roller costar as we end october and start november. 63 your high today. 53 over night. Tomorrow mild with a high of 72. Breezy friday. By the afternoon here comes that cold front. Sunny and beautiful for the weekend but getting below normal. Normal will be 62. So saturday 66, 56 sunday, 54 on monday. Don, take it away. Thank you. We know light rain can have a heavy hand on the hurry up. Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. It sure can. We have a couple of accidents. One is blocking two eastbound lanes of 32 just past 108. Also an accident on east patacso avenue at 3rd street. That one is reported to be involving a pedestrian. One more on east cold spring lane at evans chapel road. On the beltway speeds over all still pretty good. 55 and 54 are your outer loop averages. No problems on 95. Thats a look at the west side of the beltway. Definitely getting busier there at liberty road. I would say that were getting close to congestion there. Theres a look at 95 approaching the tunnel. No issues except we were seeing rain on 95 earlier. This traffic report is brought to you by your maryland toyota dealer. Do you ever dream of all the places youd like to go . Well, toyota is ready to take you there. Now is a great time to find a great deal on a toyota at buyatoyota. Com. Lets go places. Back over to you. Thank you. Ron , not only is the weather going to work out for the festival at saint leos this weekend but sundays ravens game at 4 15 here on wjz 13, so you have the early afternoon to go down there and get your game day munchies on. Reporter you got it. A lot of people do that. I came back in march. They do this twice a year here at saint leos church. The meet balls, ravioli dinner. Good morning, tina. Good morning. Reporter lets talk about youre going the meat balls here. You have volunteers and the whole nine yards. This weekend we will probably have about 100 volunteers helps us make the meat balls. Reporter how many again . We make 5,000 meat balls. Reporter 5,000. So this starts, you got to get a big head start on this. Absolutely. I heard you talk about the raves game. Reporter yes. If you dont want to come down for the actual dinner we have carry out. Reporter thats exactly right. We have carry out at saint leos. They can come and get their food and go home and have their ravens party and watch them beat the browns. Reporter yeah. Put on your sweat pants, sit on the sofa and belch and enjoy the game on wjz. Absolutely. Reporter what are we make ing we making here . Spaghetti. Reporter youve been doing this how long . 27 years. Reporter youre a wonderful volunteer here at saint leos. Thank you. Im proud to be here. Reporter us too. Lets talk about the desserts ye because you were kind enough to put them out. They were homemade from the wonderful volunteers that we have here in little italy. The cookies i believe were donated by pastoris, a wonderful family thats helped us throughout the year. The cannoli of course. Reporter absolutely. The cannolis. Absolutely. I wanted to mention that theren plenty of free parking at the Stafford Culinary School parking lot. Theres really no excuse not to come down. Reporter no excuses this sunday. We want to show you something. In the fridge here at saint leos do you know what that is . Thats 11,700 ravioli ready for sunday. Wow. Reporter ma ma has been in the kitchen cooking. Thats for sure. How about that . I got to tell you, i come down here for the dinner every year, its fabulous. Youre going to see a lot of friends and good folks. Its noon until 6 00 here at saint leos church. Thank you, tina. Youre welcome. Thank you for coming down. Scor reporter pleasure is ours. Jerry. Thank you. Reporter tomorrow were at middle river, the annual wjz Halloween Costume contest well, not a contest, just a show is. Thats at 6 00 a. M. , come on by. Sure it is. The winner gets a weekend. Reporter what does second place get . Two weekends. Reporter thank you, ladies, gentleman. Have a great day. See you. Its always fun. It always is. The gateway to middle river. We love it. Still to come on wjz this morning. The annapolis city will give a major facelift but not without opposition. Im Christie Illeto to explain the details when wjz retu,,,,,,,,,, at 25 past 6 00, the Annapolis City Dock is getting an anticipated facelift. Not everyone is a fan of the current plan. Here is Christie Illeto. Its a maryland gem for locals and tourists that will soon see big changes. What the plan does is it provides a 20year road map for the future for city docks. The plan to the Annapolis City Dock among other things widens the promanad and gives the option of building a flood wall, something major collins said preserves the city with allowing construction. We have the fix this. We have to fix the nuisance flod flooding. The main parking garage is over 40 years old. It would be nuts to do any major project without a coordinated plan. You have to accommodate for whats happening in the future. Local businesses say the docks history needs to remain untouched. Theres nothing broken about city dock. Some businesses told me off camera they do support this city dock master plan. Other businesses and residents have been concerned about the fact that there could be changes to traffic flow the historics and of course the big concern removal of parking. Taking away parking, surface parking, on the city dock will damage the access and volume of the businesses that are here. No secret parking is limited near the water. City leaders say a parking study will be done if spaces are eliminated by those changes. Some businesses hope additional parking can be part of the first phase of the changes coming down the pike. Christie illeto, wjz Eyewitness News. City leaders said it will lay ground for future projects not area. Next up this morning right here on wjz. The president s Top Health Official answers to Congress Today about the botched roll out of the governments healthcare website. Im Susan Mcginnis in washington with a preview of what the health and Human Services secretary will say. Reporter its been a year but super storm sandy is still effecting the east coast. Im mike schuh live, a report next. A politician, a photo and a nationwide conversation. Im Mik

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