Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Weekend 20121223

Transcripts For WJZ Eyewitness News Morning Weekend 20121223

Detailed. We will give you details on it and you can see it close up. That is in just a few as Eyewitness News is seconds away. Good morning. Welcome to Eyewitness News this sunday, im gigi barnett. Im tim williams. Temperatures are in the 20s and 30s around the area. Brrr. Yeah. Difference today than this time yesterday is the wind is gone. Oh, good. That is nice. A lot more comfortable out there, not a wind chill, theres hardly any wind at all right now. Taking a look at the purple palace, quiet right now. Tailgaters will be heading down shortly. The nice thing about today is it will be under sunshine even though the game is not until 4 25, but at least the conditions are comfortable, football speaking, that is. Its still a little chilly. Right now temperatures are in the 20s around the area. 27 the temperature at bwi marshall, 23 in oakland, 30 in elkton, 28 down in ocean city. We will eventually get up into the 40s today with sunshine and blue skies with less wind than yesterday. Temperature today up around 46 degrees. Well have the complete first warning forecast coming up and your ravens forecast in just a few moments. Thank you, tim. First heres what people are talking about this morning, saying goodbye, the final victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting are laid to rest this weekend. The entire nation is coming together to grieve for the children. And one of them has a very special connection to maryland. Rochelle ritchie explains. Reporter josephine gays angelic face, bright smile and innocence is now being remembered here in baltimore and newtown, connecticut. We want a moment of silence to remember these victims. Reporter she was one of 20 children fatally shot december 14th at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a School Shooting that rocked the nation. [ sirens ] they would be taken away from their mother. Reporter josephine turned 7 just three days before the shooting. She was a native of colombia, maryland and moved with her parents to newtown four years ago, and she loved the baltimore ravens. The father of three, its extremely upsetting, and a week later everything is still setting in. Reporter several people who have felt the pain of the tragedy in newtown gathered in mount vernon to remember josephine and the 25 other victims. Its something that strikes to the core of all humanity. Reporter her family has not come forward to speak out about the shooting but released this statement saying she touched the lives of so many around her, teachers, friends, therapists, neighbors all cherished and loved her. The shooting in newtown has sparked debate on gun laws, many calling for the ban of assault weapons, others for more security at school. In baltimore, rochelle ritchie, wjz Eyewitness News. More than a dozen or 1,000 mourners, rather, also gathered yesterday for a final farewell to 6yearold ana mark ez greene. Meanwhile, donations flood into the town to help the families. Several colleges, including the university of connecticut have also set up scholarship funds for sandy hook students and relatives of victims. In Baltimore County Police Arrested an 18yearold in the shooting of an offduty police officer. Investigator charged michael gibata with attempted first degree murder. The shooting happened earlier this month in overly. Police say gibata shot through the Police Cruiser after the officer honked his horn to disburse is crowd leaving a house party. He is being held without bail. A pedestrian is recovering this morning after hes hit by a car in pikesville. It happened yesterday. This was the scene at reisterstown and old court roads. Police say its still a mystery how the crash occurred or who was even at fault. But we do know the victims injuries were not life threatening. Nearly two months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the east coast, thousands of people are still trying to rebuild. Days before christmas volunteers delivered a little hope to one family still trying to move back into their home. Erica ferrari has the latest for wjz. Reporter lanny doesnt have a job this christmas. Superstorm christmas destroyed the restaurant where she and her three daughters worked. It also wiped out the first floor of their home in breezy point, new york. You just want to be back in your home, i mean, even if its not going to be the same. Reporter volunteers from operation blessing are trying to make that happen. Give me 52. Reporter days before christmas seven of them put up insulation, an expensive job that this single mother says she just doesnt have money for right now. Its such a relief, its such a burden off your shoulders. Its fabulous theres such kind, thoughtful people. Reporter the family wont be back in their house this christmas. In fact, they dont expect the work to be complete here until the spring. But they say knowing others volunteered their time to make their christmas a little brighter is the best gift they could have received. This family rnlt the only ones getting help from operation blessing. In october sandy caused billions in damage along the east coast and devastated this waterfront community. Volunteers have done more than 300 jobs like this one for the people of breezy point. This has been an area thats been so devastatingly affected by the storm, and theres so much need. Reporter laura kelly and her family came from connecticut saturday to help rebuild. If i was ever in this position, i would hope that people would come and do the same for me, and i figure its the least i can do. Reporter but the family says its not a little deed, its given them hope and a sign the Christmas Spirit is still alive. In breezy point, new york, erica ferrari, wjz Eyewitness News. And the kelly family says they came to new york to help sandy victims in honor of those killed in newtown, connecticut earlier this month. They say it is one of 26 acts of kindness theyd like to complete this holiday season, one for each of the Sandy Hook School victims. Parts of western maryland could see a White Christmas this year. Snow has been in the forecast in Garrett County since friday. And parts of i68 were closed for a short time yesterday because of ice. Residents say the weather is tame compared to what theyve seen in the past few years. The ravens are preparing for another game day without ray lewis. The defensive captain will sit out for his 9th consecutive game after tearing his right triceps. The ravens hope to have him back on the field in time for the playoffs, but, first, they must deal with defending super bowl champions. Sam saunders has more on the showdown with the giants. Reporter good morning, everybody. While the raiives did give up 34 points in last weeks loss to denver, its fair to say that today against the giants most fans will be looking at the offense to make up for last weeks performance. Against denver the ravens offense went scoreless in the first half and it was not pretty. They had running plays that went no where and passes that went everywhere but to their own receiver. So with two games left, can the ravens find some consistency and put up some much needed points . I view it as being a very good offense and capable of going out there and scoring 30 plus a week and thats what we have to aim towards and thats what were going to have to do to win down the stretch here. Were playing a lot of good teams and were going to have to make sure as an offense we go out there and put points on the board. When youre looking at us now, you see a couple of weeks here, a couple of spurts here and there where we havent within consistent, but there have been times in the year where weve been explosive. Reporter a giants pass rush has been inconsistent, but still can cause the athletes a lot of problems. They do a great job one on one. Theyre not a big blitzing team, but they are a big matchup team. They move their guys around. Youll see any one of their rushers on any one of your linemen. Thats their game plan. They have to be prepared. Theyre tied with the redskins and the cowboys atop the nfc east, meanwhile, a ravens victory would clinch the north and guarantee them a home playoff game. Back to you. Thank you, stan. Next week the ravens head to cincinnati to wrap up the regular season with the bengals. Turning now to weather. Turning now to weather. Yeah. Today will not be a weather excuse for anything that they do. So dont blame it on the weather. I gotta tell you something. Oh, no. Did you get your tree . I did. And it was windy, so i sent somebody else to do it. Of course you did. Weve been going through this every weekend, did you get the forecast to go get the tree and never gets the tree. You finally got the tree, on the windiest day of the weekend. Right. You get the tree thats probably ready to blow off the top of the car. Thank you. But i gotta say this, no gifts yet. I got 48 hours and being inside today will be a good idea. Yesterday was a good idea to go inside. Today is a good idea to stay inside. The Towson Town Center. Wrapping it up with wjz. Stay inside and go outside to do your shoching. Shell go shopping here in the studio. Were looking at a pretty nice day today. Look at all the blue sky. And what youll notice from this, our camera is not jumping around. When the winds are really, really brisk out there, camera jumps around, you can really tell, even just by looking out there. Today, though, the storm is completely gone, all the impact from the storm scpleelt gone. Camera from the storm gone. And just in time for the ravens game, its going to be pretty nice, mainly clear. Were going up to about 46 degrees today. So at 4 25 when the kickoff happens, well, 42 degrees, calmer winds, only about a five mile per hour wind from the west or southwest, actually, and thats going to be very comfortable. Just dress for the chilly conditions because, of course, at that time of evening temperatures are dropping. So its going to be pretty cold before that game is over and done. Right now its pretty cold, 28 degrees is our temperature at bwi marshall, 19 is your dewpoint. South southwesterly wind at three miles per hour. Barometer is building now, getting higher at 30. 07. 20 in oakland, 31 in elkton, 30 down in oash obvious city. Around the ocean city. Around the metro area we have 20ss across the board for the most part until you get over towards the western thats the eastern side actually. Weather people have a challenge with directions. Eastern side of the beltway. Bel aire over toward rock hall and kent island all in the low to mid30s and thats where were going. Were going to gradually start from there heading into the 40s. This southwest flow is going to tap into some milder air, not very warm, but milder air with High Pressure now in control of most of the east coast right now. That storm system you can still see a little bit of the rotation up in the canadaian maritime but the High Pressure is building in. What were going to be watching over the next few days are several ripples of Energy Moving along the jet stream which is moving right across the country. The first one is going to happen tomorrow. Its just going to bring a little rain in the area, really not much at all, but it will kind of breeze on through. The next one will happen the day after christmas. Not going to have a White Christmas, not even going to have any problems on Christmas Day. The day after christmas, another bit of energy thats going to track across the Mississippi River valley and move into our region could bring a little bit of a mixture, a wintery mix of sleet and maybe even a little rain, but temperatures are going to be up in the 40s, so thats the day after christmas. Well keep you posted on that. Its not going to be a major problem, but youll want to keep an eye on the roads if youre traveling early on wednesday and through about wednesday afternoon. Sunset today is at 4 49, southwest winds on the bay at 10 knots. Our forecast today up around 46 degrees well call it. The average is 43. So were on the comfortable side of it, albeit just a little bit chilly. 30 degrees tobility, clouds will start to build. For tomorrow mostly cloudy, a little rain in the afternoon, 42 degrees. Again, its not going to hinder your travel, just slow down a little bit. It might be a little damp. Tuesday Christmas Day pretty nice, 46 with a good bit of sunshine. Clouds again on wednesday with a chance of rain, maybe a little sleet and then 40 on thursday with some clearing, 41 on friday, temperatures staying in the low 40s. Still to come on Eyewitness News sunday morning, a florida shootout leaves one person dead. How it happened and what police say started all the violence. Papel pardon, the pope caps off this Holiday Weekend with a show of mercy. The details are coming up. Reporter and im sharon kabello live along the tracks with the weiss avenue volunteer station train garden along this morning with ron maith. The details of this place are amazing. Well show you some of them. Thats after the break. All right, hes our favorite, ron. But, first, here are yesterdays winning lottery numbers. Good luck. Were back in a moment. Welcome back to Eyewitness News on this sunday morning, the 23rd day of december. Wow we are two days gigi has already said were 48 hours away from christmas. Were looking at the last few, actually, 48 shopping days, shopping hours away from christmas. We figured that out. Today is going to be a pretty nice day to do anything you need to do last minute. Weather is not going to get in your way. As a matter of fact, itll help you, especially if youre doing any outdoor decorations. Mostly sunny, 46. The wind has simply died out. Its pretty calm out there right now. 30 degrees tonight with partly cloudy skies. A little rain tomorrow in the afternoon, otherwise mostly cloudy, 42 degrees, rain will be about. 10 inch or so, nothing too major and it will not be mixing with snow. Thats a good thing. Well have the fiveday forecast coming up in just a moment. Gigi. Thanks, tim. Now back to some of the other top headlines of the morning. An altercation inside a florida bar leads to a Fatal Shooting out in the parking lot. Police say two groups of people started arguing inside the bar when they decided to take the fight outside. Police say thats when one of the men pulled out a gun and shot another man. A Security Guard confronted the shooter and then shot him when he didnt drop his weapon. Investigators say the entire ordeal began as an argument over a missing handbag. It is senseless that a fight over a purse ended up leading to a death, but thats just the reality of what happened here. One of the men died from his injuries and medics rushed another bystander to the hospital after he was hit in the leg by a stray bullet. Fallout today after two high profile egyptian officials hand in their resignations. Egypts Central Bank Governor along with the Vice President of that country Mahmoud Mekki have both resigned. Mekki says he realized that politics just didnt suit his background as a j. In the case of egypts central bang governor, it appears that officials met with him earlier this week to pur suede him to stay. However, those talks failed. A christmas pardon is on the way for the popes former butler. The man was convicted of stealing private documents from the vatican and then leaking them to the media. The pope visited him in the vatican jail to tell him personally that he had been pardoned. The former butler had been serving an 18month sentence. With no deal on the fiscal cliff in sight and congress on holiday recess, president obama officially started his christmas vacation. The first family arrived in honolulu yesterday. Mr. And mrs. Obama and their daughters sasha and malia will spend the holiday in the president s home state of hawaii. And just to make you a little enveous, the temperature there this morning envious, the temperature there this morning 72 degrees. I am a lot envious. It is a holiday tradition for the young and the young at heart. The annual christmas train garden is going on right now in Baltimore County. Wjzs sharon ja bala is there checking out the largest animated train garden in the area. Good morning, sharon. Reporter good morning, guys. If there was any train garden that you see this year, it should be this one. It is the biggest, most elaborate train garden that i have ever seen. The details are absolutely spectacular, and we have one of the men that is behind it, bob francis, with the weiss avenue Volunteer Fire Department. Good morning. Good morning, sharon. Reporter how long does it take to put this into play . We start constructing this around the middle of october, but when you talk about the number of main hours, youre talking almost 3,000 main hours to put it together. Reporter were not just talking trains with some houses. You have a working drivein theater, theres a ravens game going on that the ravens are beating the steelers, baseball game, every car is moving or animated. Its absolutely amazing. Yeah. We have lights and these cars dont come this way, these guys have to work them up, they add the lights, the flashing lights and the animation, its pretty time intensive. Reporter and to make it even more difficult, you do something new every year. Every year this garden, we have a lot of the same animations, but every year the setup is different. As a matter of fact, our chairman Wayne Nichols is probably already thinking about how hes going to do this again next year. Reporter i see you had a harbor this year, thats very cool and appropriate for where we live. Yeah. We have the inner harbor, we have bethlehem steel mill on the other side and very elaborate carnival scene this year. Reporter so cool. And theres actually the external factors, i understand, are the hardest part about this train garden. There are some very funny stories that go along with that. We will talk about those coming up in about

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