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witnesses say thee felt a rumble... then the water jjst starting ursting from below street.a surprising ssene for one woman who caught it aal on (jillian/witness) "the street it just burst open,,like something was trying to come out of it.. it's just reaaly minutes to travel 3 or 4 bllcks" blocks."again police haae shut down light street baltimoree street down toopratt street. they blocked off partssof lombard too.no word oo how long the repair work will taae. but... he departmeet of 20-innh wwttr main is ccming up next half hour... hear from department officials
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on why this continues to happen.iill give you a hint... age might have played a ole. iim megan gilliland, fox45 morning neww. pounty... leaves onn perron ddad... and another injured. injjree.it happened monday... in laytonssillee.. just north of gaithersburg.the pllne went down just before 7-30 p-m... near davis airport.as of now... it's unclear what invvstigating. 3& poliie are continuing to investiiate a trippe that left one person dead.it haapened mmnday morning... near lothian and turnbridge homee.. where they shot 3 people.a mall victim was shot in the head... and later died. tthre's no word yet on the connition of the other 2 for the suspects. iowa irrs are puuting on a g brave face.auuhhrities say thee're treating it as a &pthere are no signs of foul g
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plly against the young cousiis. &pas d payne explains... they town. irll aae outside their eight-year-old eeizabeth collins nd 10-year-old lric cook were llst seen leaving for a bikk ride in evansdale, iowa n fridaa.thhir bicycles weree ound atta neaaby lake --- hours affer tte girls were reporttddmissing.it's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight. sunday to heep n the earch.d grateful at moments because - ww've had such a huge turnout offpeople,,of family, of priends, of people we don't evvn kkow thattjust want to worst bbt hoping for he est. after dragginggthe lake sunday, authorities began draininggit monday -- hoping to rrle out the sitt.lyric's who would want to hurt the girls -- calling them a oy to
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be around.no enemies, no nothing like that. it's just baafling to ry to figure oot thh pieces to the puzzle. they're cooperating with the ee3 pooygraph this morning, dan haa yet to do his. dd hhs later. severaa of our other family members did theirs everybody is illing to do a polygraph testt we just want our girls home, you know. um. we're cooperating to the fullest.i'm ed payne reporting. authoritiessssy they'vv suspended the volunteer search point.bbt they lways have thee- volunteers back out. the search for a missing boater turns into a recovery mi. mission.the coast ggarddwas called sunday after two men jumped iino the bush river... and were seen struggling to swimmone man... sunny sing... made it to ssoree
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with the help of stranners who heard his ries forrhelp.the &pother viitim a man celebratin hiss35th birthddy... is stiil missing and presumed dead. 35:48:16 we just feel aadthat we couldn't do more for the person. we did ur best. it's saddit's jjst sad it tragic. pragic.3&thh search was ssspend &pnight... after a k-9 unit attempted to catch a sceet.... but stronggwinds hamperrd efforts. a number of deaths on marylaad waterways has officcals sending out new warnings this m. mmrning.joel d smithhis live at sandy point staae park with pome safety tips that could be life savers . . 3
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3 3 pome local businees leaddes someelocaa 3 some local usiness leaders are callinn president obama's remarks heemmde on friday 'ridiculous'.president obama ttld supporters in roanoke... puccessfullbusiness owners are from othhrs, includiig government..itt romney called thh president'sswords 'insuuting.'baltimore counny's chamber of commerce president says thh president shoulddhave chosen keith cott, baltimorr co. chammer of commerce: "i'd just be very careffl about the words you say, because they can really have a stinging effect, especially to people that are working 60-70 hours just to develop aabusiness."
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business."the lines drrwwig criticism aae a fraction off thee resident's speech.to see the entire speech weeve com slash newwliiks. some other remarks resident made are caussng conttoversy... among girl scout cookii fans. fans.--sot --obama: this year? ave you beennhaving -- two years? have oobeen haviig fun? questton: yeah. obama: yeah. you know, i've -- iim pretty partial to those mint...(applause) obama:... i'm just saying -- thaats juut me. i didn'tt-- i didn't mean to create controverry here. thereewas someone -- did you hear, there was (lauuhter)-----end----- cnn.script----- ááchatáá 3
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3 city firefighters are being sent to an overwhelming number of false calls.in today's cover story.. jeff baand tells us... itts a problem with 9-1-1 calls ttat has gone largely unnoticed. unnoticed. 25"26"baltimore city fire department is one of the busieet departments in the couutry"at the old town firee pouse on gay streetinside one of the bussest fire comppnies in the city.truck 6 prepares to saddle up...and move oot. repsonding to a calllffo help....as a hot july day turns into an oven.but even as thh city struggles to keep up with demand for emerrency servicesa&.there's a lingering problem that puts these trucks...and the people falss calls26:23"one of the types of calls we respond to, the ddsposstion turns ouu to that aren't urgent at all. pleas for eep, thattare
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simply not serious. 26:27"when a firefighter or paramedic responds to the scene, they incident"and according tt these figurrs obtained by fox that continues to plague the citylasy yeara&. the fire deparment responned to 1000 calls for iresa&that didn't exiit.and even more trrubling for emergency medical services that werr also classified s false.pleas for help where the victim could not be found..orrsimply wasn't injured.that's thouuands f bogus calls everyyyear which unnecessary runs for an already overtaxed departmant 4:28"24 hours a dayy, 365 days a year e neverrclose"heee in office, the nervv center for city firerighhingg operations...the true costs of false calls are well understood
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seven men and women under the guidance of battalion chief anita hatteltrring to balance demand, with limited resources 1:40for us, sometimes it's difficult finding thh where they're needee"a task made more difficult because the ciiy must respond to a call noomatttr what.3:37"the thing you have to understand when someonn calls 911, it's an emergency to them, it may not be tt you or i,,but when yoo're in the idle of something haapening and it's your life, it's an emergency to you. "still as calls come in and medic units are dispatcced with responding to a calla&even if it's fakeais not without risks.1:15evvrytime a pieceeof apparatus goes out, on the street you have a possible danggr to theepublic as well as fiie personal for injuries bbcause of accidents and such" that's why fire officials saa while they're committed to answering every calllthey also &pwant city residents to be
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mindful that criticcl care...is sometimes in ssoot supply26:42"someone on the other side of town can need critical services at that same time that we are responding tt that call hat urns out to be a false call."meanwhile, backk at old town sttttion, truck 6 returns with lttile to show forrit's efforts. while firefighters wouldn't talk about what happenedawe learn later the calla&wasn't an emergency. it's a wasted run, during a day when the poopany's dedciated edic untis have yet to returr.all the more reason say fire officials, to think before you pick up thaa phoneaand dial 91126:52"ss we urge anybody too rrassess the sstuation before you make that 11 call, because yoo ertainly could be taking from someone else who really needssit": coming up in oor 6 o'clock hour... a 250 dollaa giant gift card coull be yours!go to facebook dot com slash foxbaltimore ann your name in the boxxwe'll
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