Reporter new york, north charleston. Baltimore. Images captured on cell phones sparking anger and protests. The response across the country so far has been bring in more cameras. We have to get it right. Reporter and put them on the men and women charged with keeping the peace. It is turning into quite the year for the companies who make them. We have gone from 2,500 departments to more than 3,000. Reporter that jump was in the past three months at Taser International in scottsdale arizona, the makers of the well known stun gun. Got in the business of body cameras in 2009. It was an enormous expense. We lost million s of dollars. At first this was perceived as big brother and laughed at. Reporter now taser stock is on the rise. In the last year they saw a 73 increase in revenue from its three body camera products and digital sthaves stores the videos. Some argue the use is all about capturing officers behaving badly. Keep in mind it wont be the officer on video. It could be you. It doe
Have lunch with Baltimore Mayor and urge others to visit as well. Our tourist industry cannot suffer. Brad the mayor says tourism is one of baltimore top five industries. If you look out this afternoon the mayor hopes the crowd return to the town. They are making an appeal to the community much like the president did after 9 11 for people to come back to new york. County executives baker, and the mayor say please come back to baltimore. In baltimore brad bell, abc7 news. Alison meanwhile Police Week Kicks off in district this sunday. One of the big events there is changing because of what has been going on there in baltimore. Participants in this years unity ride had to take buses through parts of maryland and virginia to get to r. F. K. Stadium this morning. Once they were there they rode en masse to the National Law Enforcement officers memorial. Scott nice day for a bike ride in fact. But a bit south. Carolinas are bracing for possible Tropical Storm in the second week of may. Chief
Cases last month compared with just 901 the first three months of the year. His past week, four people were treated in millersville maryland, after being found unconscious. Prosecutors are seeking a 17 Year Prison Sentence for the georgetown rabbi who pled not guilty to secretly recording naked women. Rabbi Barry Freundel say prosecutor say that he spied on at least 50 woman as they undressed for a ritual bath. Youll be sentenced next week. Cases like the death of freddie gray and baltimore and the Michael Brown in missouri have fueled nationwide calls for the police to wear body cameras. 7 on your side takes a closer look at how they work. Jennifer donelan went to scottsdale, arizona, to meet one of the top makers of body cameras. Jennifer if the answer to this is to put cameras on the bodies of the men and women in blue, the question of will they work might lie in the question of how they work. Welcome to taser. Jennifer yes taser the company known for stun gun weapons is one of the
Cyclone phailin slams into the indian peninsula. How long troops will stay in afghanistan good to have you with us. In washington president obama met with Senate Democrats today to try to reach an agreement over the shutdown and debt ceiling. Meantime it is no, no and no from the white house, congress and the senate. John terrett joining us from washington. Were waiting to hear a yes john. What more can you tell us about president obamas meeting with the Democratic Congress caucus . No no and no. The meeting was in the oval office and present at the meeting were apart from the president of the United States himself, harry reid, Dick Durbin Charles schumeer they put a lid on the day which means the president wont be speaking about it either. We have heard a resume that the meeting went rather well, a state of the union really, so the president could be on the same page as everybody in the Democratic Party in the senate and the reason for that is they had had a meeting earlier in the day
Succeed. I am in for ali velshi and this is real money. The race to develop a vaccine for ebola is finally shifting in to high gear. We learned today that global drug manufacturers have committed to producing millions of vaccine doses in 2015. Hundreds of thousands should be ready by the first half of the year. We are going to explore how big of a challenge that will be both lodge its lodge us lick atlogistically an. A day after fears in america spiked after a doctor tested positive for the virus right here in new york city. Today we learned that dr. Craig spencer is in stable condition in an Isolation Unit at bellevue hospital. He had been treating ebola patient in guinea. In maryland, mean mile, nina pham was leased from the National Institute of health after being declare ebola free. She later met with president obama at the white house. She had treated Thomas Eric Duncan the liberian man who died of ebola in dallas. Earlier in washington lawmakers held another hearing on the u. S.