screen. at this hour firefighters are still on the scene of a two- alarm fire in baltimore. this is video taken just a couple hours ago in the 12- hundred block of east preston street... that's near the greenmount cemetery. the fire is out, but crews remain on the scene, cleaning up and putting out hotspots. fire officials tell fox45 the three-story building houses a business on the main floor and residential living space above that. nearly 30 people are not waking up in their homes today because of a two-alarm fire in a baltimore county apartment complex. it happened during lunchtime yesterday at silverton road in lansdowne. firefighters arrived to find flames shooting through the roof. all residents got out safely... one firefighter suffered a hand injury. the red cross is helping residents whose apartments were damaged. fire investigators are looking into the cause. homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting in northwest baltimore. just after five yesterday

evening police responded to penhurst avenue where a man had been shot. we were there as police were still gathering evidence and talking to witnesses. no word yet on the identity of the man... or who may be responsible. baltimore police commissioner anthony batts has spoken out on the fiery crash on york road that killed three people. still... questions remain unanswered... like what was the "suspicious activity" police say prompted the pursuit?

ticking toward a potential government shutdown, some federal workers will begin to get verbal furlough notices in the next 24 to 36 hours. but as dana bash explains... that isn't the only deadline looming for lawmakers. it would be one thing for the government to shut down in 4 days. national parks would close. medical research interrupted. that would be bad. but then - 17 days later - the u.s. could default on its loans if congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling. that would be catastrophic "on the debt limit, we're going to introduce a plan..." house republicans say they want to raise the de ceiling but with a catch. along with it, a lengthy list of gop priorities: from the keystone pipeline, to tax reform, to delaying obamacare for 1 year. its a direct challenge to the president "i will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the united states of america." "now, the president says, 'i'm not going to negotiate'. well, i'm sorry but it just doesn't work that

way." the reality is republican leaders are also doing this as a negotiating tactic with their own restive conservatives. senior gop sources admit to cnn that they've learned the hard way: to manage unpredictable hard liners, gop leaders have to first show theyre trying to stay true to principle. dana: "and based on what you heard is it something you can support?" "i'm not sure." and even this debt ceiling plan democrats dismiss as gop fantasy, doesn't satisfy some republicans. "the plan right now does not address the spending." that brings us back to more the imminent october 1st deadline over funding the government. "we have no interest in seeing a government shutdown." that may be true, but time is running out. once the senate finally passes a bill funding the government, house republicans plan to change it and send it back. "everything is a big, big stall." senate majority leader harry reid tried to move senate votes to today, but ted cruz objected and fellow republican bob

corker came to the floor to chastise him "that my two colleagues who i respect have sent out emails around the world and turned this into a show. and that is taking priority over getting legislation back to the house so they could take action." "why is majority leader harry reid going to vote the same way you're proposing to vote? why is every democrat in this chamber going to vote the way you're proposing to vote?" that was dana bash reporting. congress must pass a spending plan by midnight on monday to avoid a government shutdown. if you're confused about what health care reform means for you... there's a new tool available to help you pick your best options. consumer reports has launched an online questionare. you answer fewer than 10 questions, then they give you a recommendation. open enrollment begins october first. for a link to the questionnaire.. go to our website foxbaltimore dot com. if you need a reminder for

open enrollment... or anything... you might reach for a post-it note. now... you can reach for your phone instead. the handy little sticky notes are going ditigal. a new app lets users save items like notes and audio files... and access them across mobile devices and desktops. it also includes the "post-it note camera" for apple's new operating system. the feature lets users take pics of their notes and upload them to the app. of their notes and upload them to the app. google turns fifteen years old today... and they're going all out to celebrate! the search- engine is introducing changes to its search formula that provides richer answers... new results for music searches... and push notifications on its iphone app. but the best thing they're doing to celebrate? this! on the google homepage, you

can whack the pinata! (whack the can whack the pinata! (whack the pinata and chat) millions of dollars of strawberries... possibly going to waste... the problem one farmer is facing... because a certain

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earlier this week, burger king served up some healthier french fries... now mcdonald's is promising some calorie- conscious options of its own. later... the changes you'll see to the typical value meal and kids meals. plus... "we put in the money... i don't know if we can get it back." a farmer worried about picking his strawberry crop. what could keep him from making millions this season. ((break 2))

farmers are saying tighter border security is working... but it's making it tougher for them to find enough laborers to harvest their crops. a strawberry farmer in santa maria says half of his crop will be left to rot -- costing him millions of dollars. ophelia young talked to him. luis chavez began growing strawberries here in santa maria about 30 years ago. "every year, we raised it... a little bit, a little bit. and now, we plant about 500 acres." a 500-acre farm...and he needs at least one strawberry picker for each acre...right now he only has 250...and the big strawberry season is about to start. "if we don't find the people we lost the fruit." that's right...no pickers...no fruit...chavez

has no choice but to mow down the plants and the strawberries go to waste. two months ago...chaves threw out 400 of his 500 acres...80 percent of what he planted. if things don't change this season...he could be throwing out 250 acres... that'll be half. "planting one acre cost about 20,000 dollars..." "so, 250 times 20,000?" "... it's a lot of money." calculations say that's five- million dollars he stands to lose. luis believes one reason is tighter border security. "not a lot of people coming this time. before we had... two or three years ago, we had enough people." his solution... "we wait for immigration reform... but i don't know." but for now... "we put in the money... i don't know if we can get it back." chavez says

he'll keep planting his 500 acres for the next two years... if things don't change by then... he'll says he'll have to start producing less. a man is on his feet again thanks to something that looks like it came out of a robo-cop movie... "it's exciting, it's neat, it's intuitive. it puts energy into me walking and moving around." he's using a bionic leg... we'll show you the science behind the mind- controlled limb... next. ((break 3)) ((break 3))

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a crash is back on two feet once again. he's wearing a bionic leg that's controlled by his brain waves. the doctors at the rehabilitation institute of chicago say this could mean a different life for amputees. suzanne lemignot has the story. "so i move my leg out, push the toes down and bring my toes back up..." zac vawter is the

first man in the nation to have a bionic leg. (reporter question) "when you took that first step, what was that like?" "it's exciting, it's neat, it's intuitive. it puts energy into me walking and moving around." in 2009, vawter lost his right leg from the knee down in a motorcycle accident. his bionic leg allows for knee bending and ankle movement. "probably the most exciting is doing stairs for the first time is really awesome." with a regular prosthetic leg, movement like this isn't possible. so how does this all work? two nerves in vawter's leg were rewired to his hamstring muscle. those nerves communicate with the sensors inside the prosthetic leg socket. the sensors send a message to this computer. "so when he thinks about straightening or bending his knee, this computer can detect that and tell the knee to bend or to straighten." a team, headed by dr. levi hargrove, spent four years

perfecting the technology vawter is using. "he's giving back so much. he's taken a less than ideal situation and made the most of it and he's helping potentially, millions of people." vawter, a software engineer, knew about ric's bionic research. he never thought one day, that technology would be used to help him walk. "ric is really pushing the boundaries of what's possible with prosthetics and it's exciting to contribute to that and to help them push forward into new areas of research." ric research is funded through an eight-million dollar grant from the u.s. army with a goal of creating better prosthetic limbs. more than 12- hundred soldiers have had lower limb amputations from the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. caught up in a party bus controversy... jacoby jones and bryant mckinnie say t- m-z got it wrong. hear what they say really happened in washington d-c last weekend.

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students are pepper sprayed at patterson high school after an all out brawl breaks out. while some join in... others take out their cell phones and record it. megan gilliland is live in east baltimore with a story you saw first on fox. good morning guys, it wasn't just one fight but two... brawls... that broke out

here on monday. the fighting... so out of control... one student has her shirt ripped off. "all of a sudden 4 girls come out, all beating her up while she's on the ground" what you're seeing is cell phone video of that first fight in the cafeteria. it was captuered by a junior here at patterson high school. the violence later spills out into a nearby courtyard. students say both fights started over something trivial and then... suddenly there was a brawl. we're told it went on for at least 5 minutes... until police officers intervened... pepper spraying the crowd. now some students are questioning their own safety. 00:4:57- "it makes me wonder what they're doing about this, i heard this school system is not really good and it need a lot of improvement" "i don't feel unsafe bc i can hold my