both appear to have long criminal records... dating back to 2006. while police won't say whether the officers were pursuing the honda... they do admit officers had reason to be suspicous of those inside the car. (rodriquez) 6:00:58 right now we don't have a lot of answers (paul) 17:19:41 not in person i've never seen an accident like this. 17:21:26 i looked out the window and flames started shooting real high into the trees 17:21:03 i thought the gas tank was about to explode> the female passenger in the jeep... was also killed. while driver remains in critical condition. their names are expected to be released once their families are notified. i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. tense momens on a work construction site in maryland... after a worker gets stuck in the mud. it happened in new market. officials say the man was in a ditch when a water pipe

burst. the water quickly started to gush out and filled the ditch......leaving the 49-year-old worker trapped waist-deep. as you see he was eventually pulled out. he's reportedly is in good condition. the housing crash and federal mortgage fraud settlement is to credit for new demolition in baltimore city. --nats-- these were the sights and sounds on tuesday in east baltimore along lansing street. the first three of 500 vacant houses were brought down. the city received 10 million dollars in the settlement... and put most of it into its "vacants to value" program. james larry jordan, oliver: "ain't nobody lived in these houses ever since i was little." ronald lang, sr.: "it's a sad day. i knew people who lived in those houses." jamie brown, oliver: "tear it down. ain't no use. ain't nobody paying for it. ain't nobody buying it." the remaining 497 homes the city plans on

demolishing represents about three percent of the city's total vacant homes. kenya's president says the four-day terrorist siege of an upscale mall in nairobi is over.. in a televised address, he said the terrorists have lost. the criminals found us unafraid as we shall ever be, we cannot be conquered, our confrontation with the terrorists at the westgate mall left 240 casualties - i report with great sadness that 61 civilians lost their lives in the attack, six security officers also made the ultimate sacrifice to defeat the criminals. the president also said five of the gunmen were killed and 11 other people arrested over possible connections to the attack. al-shabaab claimed

responsibility for it. they says it was retribution for kenya's involvement in an african union military expedition that has hurt the terror group in its somali homeland. one of the victims killed in the attack is a former johns hopkins student. e-lif yavuz graduated from the school of advanced international studies in 2004. fox45 spoke with one of her former classmates. (3:00) she was feisty she liked to be challenged she was challenging and she was especially interested in international affairs. (2:53) i know they always say when tragic things happened to people that everybody loved them but everybody did love her in this case. after graduating from johns hopkins... yavuz went onto harvard... and eventually ended up with the clinton health initiative. she was also eight months pregnant. president obama tries to clear up some of the confusion about his health care law in a conversation with former president bill clinton. the president joined clinton tuesday for a q- and-a session

sponsored by the clinton global initiative in new york. obama compared his plan to other countries who have universal health care. "and if we spent the same amount of money on health care that canada or france or great britain did or japan or any other industrialized country, with the same outcomes or better outcomes, that essentially would remove our structural deficit, which would then free up dollars for us to invest in early childhood education and infrastructure and medical research and all the other things that can make sure that we're competitive and growing rapidly over the long term." the white house has planned a series of speeches and pitches for the affordable care act in the coming months. enrollment open begins october 1st and closes march 31st. republicans are trying to stall a government funding bill unless it defunds obamacare.

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the push to raise the minimum wage is a hot topic across the country. recently members of the baltimore city council urged state lawmakers to raise the maryland minimum wage to ten dollars an hour. but would a government imposed wage increase really be a good thing? that's the question jeff barnd asks in today's cover story. earlier this month we introduced you to this mana business owner who has much to say on the debate about raising the minimum wage 02:54:00 "for our company it would be fairly

dramatic." david j. norman is the owner and president of davco a company which operates over 150 wendy's restaurants in the washington dc area and employs hundreds of low wage workers. he is concerned bout growing momentum to increase the federal mimunum which now stands at $7.25 per hour.and in the impact it will have on both his employees...and his business 02:55:35 "it would cost us, our payroll is aournd eighty million, this would have an impact of twelve to eighteen million." recenty a law which would have bumped up the minimum wage in dc to ten dollars an hour was vetoed by the mayor ... but a series of wild cat strikes by fast food workers many of whom make minimum wage has kept the issue front and center so would hiking the lowest allowlable pay truly hel p the people who need it? towson university economics professor thomas rhoads studies makrest and how they react to change.

21:04:06 "labor typically is somewhere around sixty to seventy percent of a business's cost" and his take, an artficial wage floor imposed by the government could have unintended consequences. 21:01:52 "there are trade-offs, so if you're a small business or a big business you have to pay your unskilled workers or just anybody ten bucks an hour, you're forced to do things to make-up the difference." one of those consequences higher prices for basic goods and services that could impact low wage workers the most. 21:03:58 "one of the responses businesses can make they are forced to pay higher minimum wage is to raise prices of the goods they are selling and try to make up the costs of labor." in fact, research suggests key prices did indeed rise after the most recent increase in the minimum wage went into effect. this paper from the economic policy research council published in 2013 food cited a study which concluded food prices rose roughly four percent the last time federal mimunm was

raised in 2009 the same study also found a slight increase in overall prcies which is why rhoads says it may be more beneficial to low wage workersto increase their skills and experience. 21:05:43 "when you're 16 years old and you have no experience, you're unskilled you're not going to get paid a lot, as opposed to somebody who has been in the workforce for 35 years. a perspective norman hopes will not only will help his empl,oyees.....but also gave him, a leg up. 02:58:48 "i worked a minimum wage job my son worked a minimum wage job. it gives you a resume builder to show your next employer..you can show up everyday to work that you can be a good worker." about one- point-seven million u-s workers earn the current minimum wage. in maryland, 25- thousand workers earn the minimum wage. coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... an envelope delivered to a water utility company... doesn't have the

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we have new information this morning... surrounding yesterday's deadly crash in north baltimore. some of the victims have now been identified. but there is still one big question looming... was it a police chase or not. megan gilliland was at the crash site all day yesterday... this morning... she's

live from city police headquarters where the investigation is underway. good morning guys, whatever it was... it ended in a high speed crash... that left three people dead. it happened a little after midnight... at northern parkway and york road. we were on the scene... as police described the crash and the events that led up to it. they say a honda accord... was fleeing north- bound on york when it smashed into a jeep cherokee... heading east on northern parkway. both cars rolled down an embankment and caught fire. the... two men in the honda... that police were tailing... died in the crash. they've been identified as... 26-year old devell johns... and... 28 year old terrell young. both appear to have long criminal records... dating back to 2006. the female passenger in the jeep... was also killed. while the sole survivor... was seen stumbling from the wreckage. (paul) 17:20:01 he actually walked and fell down over here...