one of our own and to be able to on a sad day such as this at the same time celebrate so may wonderful accomplishments an incredibly prolific writer.... clancy published 28 books including a new novel... yet to be released. he was also known for being part owner of the orioles. tom clancy was 66 years old. it's now the third day of the government shutdown. some 800- thousand federal employees are out of work and no telling when they'll return as lawmakers from both parties cannot come to an agreement. ainsley earhardt has more on the stalemate. last night, president obama met with congressional leaders at the white house, trying to put an end to the budget battle that sparked the government shutdown. obama says: "i am exasperated with the idea unless i say 20 million people you can't have health insurance these folks will not reopen the government."

the meeting ended without a resolution. and afterwards, the finger pointing continued. rep. john boehner / (r-oh) speaker of the house "we sent four different proposals over to our democrat colleagues in the senate, they rejected all of them." nancy pelosi / house minority leader: "i can only conclude that they wanted to shut down government, that they think that that has a purpose for them." republicans and democrats alike say the shutdown could last for two weeks or more. and one financial analyst says the failure of both sides coming to terms will likely leave a negative impact on the u-s economy. joe minarik / former chief economist of office of management and budget of us government: "probably, you will see a falling stock market. you may see rising interest rates, falling bond prices. the value of the dollar may go down. and this is not a good time in the us economy, which is struggling to regain growth after the financial crisis." (anchor tag) and while much of the government is shutdown, the republican- controlled house approved legislation to reopen the nation's parks and the national institutes of health. democrats criticized the move, saying it is a piecemeal approach

falling short of what's really needed. in new york, ainsley earhardt, fox news. americans aren't buying as many cars as they used to. automakers sold just over a million vehicles last month, that's down four-point-two percent from the same time last year. general motors is still on top, despite an 11 percent drop in sales. japan's big automakers... toyota, honda and nissan all saw a drop in sales in september compared to last year. a negative analyst report and a fiery crash of one of its vehicles sends automaker tesla's stocks falling. an auto website posted photographs from a reader showing a fully electric tesla model s on fire near seattle. tesla stocks then dropped six percent. the automaker issued a statement saying the car hit a large metallic object in the road igniting a fire in the car's battery pack. starbucks debuts a new kind of gift card.. for the blind.

a braille giftcard will now be available at all star bucks stores. the card was first introduced two years ago in select stores, at the urging of disability advocates. starbucks says it was asked to offer it to all stores by a mother who says her blind daughter appreciates the independence the card gives her. a representative of the braile authority of north america says starbucks is the only company offering a braille gift card. concert promoter a-e-g live is off the hook... for the death of michael jackson. yesterday... jurors in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the late singer's family... found that dr. conrad murray wasn't unfit or incompetent for the job he was hired to do. so while a-e-g did hire him... the company can't be held liable for jackson's death. that doesnt mean that we felt he was ethical, and maybe the word ethical been in the question, it could have been a different outcome, but because it was for the job he was hired to do, that's what we had to focus

on. murray is in jail... after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in jackson's death. the pop star died of a propofol overdose in 2009. you are not the father? actress mia farrow hints in an interview of "vanity fair", the only biological son she had with director woody allen, may actually be the son of frank sinatra. 25-year-old ronan farrow - who was born 20 years after farrow's marriage to sinatra ended - is reportedly close to the late singer's family. a rep for woody allen calls the article fictitious and extravagantly absurd. justin bieber is catching flack... for hitching a ride up the great wall of china. these images recently surfaced on twitter... showing the singer's bodyguards... carrying him up the wall. so far... bieber hasn't responded to the criticism. the photos can be found on the page "believe

tour updates"... which has been following bieber on his current world tour. the archbishop of baltimore will be busy tomorrow... blessing dogs and cats that are waiting to be adopted. archbishop william lori is expected to spend part of his day perforng the blessings... at the maryland s-p-c-a in baltimore. in the catholic church... friday is the feast day of st. francis of assisi... the patron saint of animals. coming up on the early edition... from tracking your taxes... to holding elected officials accountable. why some of the answers we're looking for... are so hard to come by.

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to know what government does behind closed doors an inquiry prompted by our attempts to get basic information about topics like how your tax dollars are being spent government officals told us the information we wanted was either costly to produceor simply secret. 23:25:56 "the roblem with the public informaton law is that it's too vague." like when we asked the state highway adminstration about a growing expense called liquadated date damages. charge backs to private contractors who take too much time to finish the job. a request the state denied ever after we showed them this document which revealed just one contractor could owe the state nine million dollars or when we asked the city police department for copies of so- called called after action reports which detail police involved shootings another request denied becuase attorneys for the police department told us the reports

are in fact personnel records...and thus secret and the biggest obstacle for obtaining public informationth e offices of md attorneygenera l doug gansler where many of our requests are vetted and often returned with steep price tags that total in the tens of thousands fo dollars. so we asked the ag's office for a list of public informaton requests received in the past two years and how much it charged to fulfill them just to get a sense of fair, and effective the state's transparency laws are and their answeratwent y five hundred dollar price tag just to find out. in fact, the ag's office told us the information we wanted would have to be assembled by hand it's a stark contrast to gansler's campaign rhetoric abouttranspare ncy. 01:00:41 "one of our ideas rolling out was transparencyan d accountablity and how we have to have more

things on the internet adn acess for people to see what we do." we even asked him about our difficulties getting information from his agency 01:01:11 (add nats from roeder's question) "the fact of the matter is you shouldn't have to make a public information request for a lot of ,material that should be public anyway." advocates point out the state recently received a gade of "d" for transparency. 23:30:29 "maryland was d miuns and other states were given as and bs." in fact common cause executive director jennifer bevan - dangel says our transparency laws favor the state. 23:26:00 "it's very easy for an agency to come and inflate the cost where the average citizen can't afford it." a lack of basic openess which state senator bill fegurson says he wants to fix. 11:05:08 "right now we're in theproces of putting together a comprehensive transparency law" he plans to introduce legilsation during the upcoming general asembly session in january to strenghten the state's public information law 11:09:02 "we want to make maryland a very opne state>" an idea advoctaes says

is essential to keeping our democrary healthy 23:25:39 "there is very little acccess to public information" another analysis found that maryland has a "weak" public information law coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... a little league coach is shocked to find his truck... has been vandalized. the hate-filled message written on the vehicle... and why he thinks... he was targeted. navy will tee it up against air force this saturday after all. the plan approved by the secretary of defense himself... that will allow the game... to go ahead as planned. ((break 3))

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we are following breaking news out of baltimore county... right now... baltimore county police are investigating a body... found just hours ago in towson. megan gilliland is live at the scene... with what we know at this hour. good morning

guys, police say the body was found in the woods along a trail. it was found around 2:30 this morning. we know it was the body of a man. but at this hour... police are not releasing any more details. we don't know how the man died... or even if it is suspicous. what i can tell you is... that baltimore