Good monday afternoon, everyone, im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. This is first at four. Thanks for joining us. We have a developing story about a gun going off in a crowded park. It is a frightening situation for dozens of people in south tampa a 6yearold found the gun in the mothers diaper bag, took it out and fired a shot. It happened while the park was packed with people yesterday. It is a miracle no one was struck by that bullet becky rhiners friend was in the park when the shot rang out. They were very scared. You dont know where that shot was going to go. It could go into you or me or any other child here. Especially in a crowded park. And it was a sunny afternoon, very loaded with kids and parents. Tampa Police Arrested Ricardo Mendez for storing the gun in tampering for trying to throw the gun in the bay when he found out the police were on the way. A clerk turned the tables on two armed men when they pointed guns at them inside a store. He pulled his own gun killing one of
Maam oh, my god. [sirens] [police dispatch chatter] p. A. atteion, all patrons. This is an emergency announcement. We have gone into immediate lockdown procedure. Please follow all directions of Law Enforcement and security persoel. Attention, all patrons. This is an emergency announcement. Weve gone into immediate lockdown procedure. Please follow all directionsof Law Enforcement and security personnel. Where are the parents . Over here with the head of security. Ms. Samuels, thank you. No problem. Mr. And mrs. Jacobs, im james franklin, director of the bureaus rapideployment team. We need a photo of your daughter. You have onen you . Yeah. There was another little girl who went missing last week. Maybe on your phone. Got a picture of katie on your phone . She was murdered, right . Maam, its too early to know if that case is connected. Yeah, why so many fbi . Standard operating procedure. Ive also alerted our Behavioral Analysis unit. If there is a pattern to these abductions, theyll
This morning after the dow and the s p toastposted their best gains of the year. And carl icahn said one company has the worst Corporate Governance hes ever seen and Steve Ballmer making his first address since leaving microsoft, he did not disappoint coming to you later this hour. But first up well start with the markets, stocks coming off a record session, the s p a record high and the dow and the s p having their best day since december 18th. And adp showed the economy created fewer private sector jobs in february as the cold weather restrains hiring. You said the data has been okay. The durables and the chicago pmis have been all right. We have great data out of europe pmi. How could the economy be good and stocks be good and employment be bad . The economy is not necessarily good its delivering but with the employment weaker and the macromanufacturing come out and continue to amaze and the Mortgage Application number this morning that is strong. If you get russia off the business
Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with big changes to obamacare. Thousands of americans will get to keep their plans at least for a bit longer. Tahman bradley has the details and Quick Reaction from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter marci and john, these changes would affect as many as 1. 5 million people. Up the new guidelines those people will get to keep their old plans for two more years even if those plans dont meet the requirements of the new law. The new set of regulations helps insurance customers but it also helps democrats facing a political problem in this falls midterm elections. Thats why republicans quickly criticized the president. A spokesman for john boehner said the president is rewriting laws around the election calendar, but the white house says the decision was not political. Without this change, john and marci, there would have been a wave of cancellations of Health Care Plans before the november election. All right, Tahma
Good morning to you. Im richard lui. We start with double trouble in the skies. A smoking American Eagle plane with 48 people on board was forced to make an Emergency Landing in texas. This happened right after takeoff in dallas last night. A passenger on the illinois bound plane tweeted this saying, quote, im hearing the cockpit was full of smoke, captain and Flight Attendant cant say thank you enough for getting us on the ground safely. Nobody was injured there. Also, severe turbulence on a United Airlines flight bound for newark from west palm beach. A passenger says it was so bad that trays and drinks were flying all around. One Flight Attendant injured there. The plane landing safely late last night. A u. S. Army one star general facing a courtmartial on Sexual Assault charges is expected to enter a plea this morning. Jeffrey sinclair is accused of sexually assaulting a junior officer. He maintains his innocence on allegations he forced her to perform sex acts but his lawyer says