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a 6 -month-old baby choked to death. >> baby basically was being punished and tortured by him. >> tonight, reaction from family members and why the baby was left in that man's care. hello everyone i'm denise koch. >> and i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. >> a 6 -month-old baby dead and his father is charged with murder. kelly mcpherson has the reaction and the reaction from the family. >> the father confessed to choking his pay by girl while she was crying in her crib. the baby's maternal family says this could have been prevented. >> reporter: chloe lewis was a week away from turning 6 months old when she was strangled by her father. her father and sole guardian brought the baby to the hospital telling doctors she

had stopped breathing and believed it was sids. he later admitted he had choked her and it was not sids. >> we knew that he was not a responsible father. >> i sat down personally with one of the social workers and i told her specifically that i did not feel my gut feeling was telling me that he does not, that chloe does not need to go with him because of all the things i heard. >> i was there with him when chloe was born. he would always tell him what he should do and he would do it. he would say, make sure you change her diaper, he would change her diaper. make sure you feed her, he would feed her. >> but the autopsy revealed old wounds in the baby's body including several broken ribs. >> one of the lose ends that we

have to tie up to see what the baby may have been through before her death. >> god took that baby from him because he was, he mishandled the treasure and god said no more. that's it. and took -- now we're one dead baby later. >> reporter: the family says they hope social services will re-examine this case in case it can be prevented for another family. timothy lewis does not have a criminal record. reporting live from city police headquarters, kelly mcpherson. kelly, lewis is now charged with first degree murder, assault and child abuse. a shocking crime emerged from facebook. a 40-year-old man is charged with having sex with a 13-year- old. she told the deputies that the two had had sex earlier this year. the 22-year-old denies it, he

is being held on $80,000 bail. baltimore city teachers are headed back to the negotiating table. they would have tied their pay to their performance. gigi barnett has the latest. >> reporter: after a two day vote, city school teachers say no to the city contract and the way they receive pay raises and other rewards. more than 2,000 of the districts 6,500 teachers cast a ballot this week. >> i'm voting against that because i feel as though i did not receive enough information about the new contract. >> reporter: other teachers wanted it to go through. >> evaluation system right now is broken and right now this is a change we have, these are the changes they're giving us and i'm saying go for it. >> the new changes will do away with how teachers are doing pay raises right now. instead teachers would have

received increases based on student achievement. dr.andres alonzo, with other school districts and give teachers more say about how their schools are operated. >> we also felt so strongly that because our schools had such unique identities and challenge that we needed to make sure that it's a large number of teachers in a school felt that they needed to do things in a new way, that they could which is not possible now. >> alonso thought teachers would back the changes. >> when i propose, i usually expect an hope for an immediate yes. but sometimes it's okay for me to hear let me think about it a little bit more. >> reporter: gigi barnett, wjz eyewitness news. the current teachers contract ends later this month. tonight city police are investigating a shooting in

southeast baltimore it happened at east born in south clinton streets near the canton waterfront. a woman was shot in the leg, rushed to bay view hospital. she is expected to be okay. police need your help, they are trying to identify a man found dead in his her say mercedes at a rest stop. investigators believe he had been dead as early as this morning. religion and humor, the rescued miners in chile say those two things kept them alive. >> reporter: as the miners begin returning home, hidden details of their understood ground ordeal are surfacing. >> one of the guys said, we give ourselves up to death, we were afraid that the first one who died would be eaten. >> reporter: writer jonathan franklin spoke to the miners

and their families throughout the crisis. following the collapse, the miners split into two groups, one remained in the safety zone. the other group attempted to climb out through air shafts. tires were burned in hopes the dark smoke would find its way to the surface. the miners even set off explosives, hoping to alert rescuers, but there was no response. >> the shaft, the one area that might have been able to climb out caved in and they were sealed in. >> reporter: as the days dragged on, emotions ran high. some pushing and shoving erupted but then a comradery was born. it was 17 days before they learned they had not been forgotten. >> at one point the miners joked, johnny doesn't want to be rescued, he'll stay down

here. >> reporter: this is a homecoming that has changed barrios life. who will be coming home to his mistresses home instead of his wife. >> he's all mine, meat and bones. >> reporter: when i asked him, he tears up about it and says, no, no my love. not now, later. hundreds of home foreclosures that shouldn't have gone through did. now a maryland judicial economy is pushing a measure to stop

it. the court of appeals will consider the proposal that will allow the courts to stop foreclosures in their tracks unless lenders, services and attorneys can lose they're legitimate. by the end of this year. experts predict a million homes will be under foreclosure and some banks have already taken steps to freeze foreclosure while filing practices are investigated. the air is crisp and that means thousands of runners will take to baltimore streets tomorrow. it'll be the tenth anniversary of the under armour festival. it is the most ever runners, the run starts at 8:00 tomorrow morning. >> good for them. maybe some day. bedbugs, they are itchy pests that turn up where you least expect them. you won't believe which new york land mine is infected now. the lengths one criminal will go through and will go again. another very historic day

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clouds in central maryland right now. the complete forecast weather is coming up. a police chase in brazil turns wildly unpredictable. see how the trapped driver puts h his vehicle in reverse. runs over five motorcycle police officers. he eventually got cornered again and finally gave up. three people were injured during a 20 minute pursuit. the american tourist shot and killed a mexican waters may have been a case of mistaken identity. a warning from the pentagon to gay members of the military about the don't ask don't tell policy. they are telling them to stay silent and not to come out everyone though a federal judge has ordered an end to the ban

in openly gay troops. the legal uncertainty of the 17- year-old law led to this morning. president obama wants to end the policy through congress not the court. the house has passed an appeal but it has failed to make it to the senate. bedbugs have reached if famed lincoln center. they were limited to the dressing used for the opera and ballet. the opera house also discovered bedbugs in nonpublic areas. exterminators treated the complex today. lights, cameras, action, the historic center is back up and running tonight. the theater has undergone major renovations. >> reporter: after three months in the dark -- >> today we're reopening the doors at the theater center. >> enjoy the show. >> thank you. >> reporter: the historic

theater made its debut here in baltimore 71 years ago. >> everything that was done in this theater is memorable to me. i'm so happy to be here today. >> we live in the area, we came to the center for years, it was great to have it here. >> reporter: films stopped running here at the senator in 2009 when former owner missed payments. the city bought the theater and sold it to the cusack family. >> many years ago i was -- >> reporter: just like marcy remembers when -- the new owners tell me if all goes as

planned they plan to eventually add a restaurant and possibly an additional theater. at the senator theater, i'm jessica cartalia, wjz eyewitness news. and the new operator of the senator theater also owns the charles theater. take a look and listen in a monumental construction feat in switzerland. that was the last section to fall in what will be the world's longest tunnel. 17,000feet of rock was moved during the excavation of the rail line. the project still has six more years to go before the first trains pass through it. that's a drill. may not want to see snow in october but for the ski resorts in new england it is a beautiful picture. this is the scene in the mountains of vermont after today's storms. several ski resorts say they received more than a foot of snow even though it's october. the green mountains of vermont

have their winter coat of white. already. >> wow. i'm not quite ready to see that yet here. >> that was the rainstorm we had here. it was enough cold up 3, 3,004, 4,000 feet in new york and new hampshire. a few flakes were as far south as extreme western maryland and near by west virginia. saw some snow as well. let's take a look at temperatures around here, it's not quite enough cold for that. 51 west winds at 10. the barometer way up back up two-point # 77-inches. and the humidity at 60. 52 in cumberland. and ocean city at 53, right now the wind still a bit of a

factor, 16-10. earlier today we had a wind gust of 32-miles-an-hour. there will be coming down, but tomorrow once again with that storm still sitting across eastern storms of new england. still causing a lot of wind. the snow areas mainly in the high elevations of new hampshire, vermont. basically ant 3,000 feet which was pretty chilly. to the south, a lot of clear skies and some clouds over central pa. they will probably stay there as they head toward new york. high pressure builds in, tomorrow about like today. a little lest wind, sunday, a slight warm up. then monday night, we start seeing more clouds. we think this front will kind of develop an area of low pressure. might give us some rain showers here on tuesday maybe on wednesday. temperatures again close to normal which is now in the mid-

60s by the way. on the bay, the bay temperature about 65 degrees. wednesday in the bay tomorrow, 15 to 20 and a gust as high as zero again. and a small craft advisory on the bay through the afternoon tomorrow. sunrise 7:17. sets at 6:27. clear skies for the most part, breezy and it'll be chilly. 42 by morning. if you have to run tomorrow, it'll be a little cool but not a bad day for running. sunny, windy and cool. temperatures pretty close to normal. normal is around 66. 65degrees and the next five days warming up on sunday. 72, if you're heading up to massachusetts for the ravens game about 60 for the game. 72, 45 on sunday night. mid-60s, maybe some showers on tuesday. low to mid-60s, a few left over showers, 64 here by the middle of next week. denise. >> thank you, bob. check in with gigi barnett

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well, there weren't any injuries. >> it's football, there's always injuries. most players would say nobody is at 100%. but just a few concerns, defensive tackle nada hobbled with a knee injury and josh wilson has a thigh injury. but nada said on wjz radio today he is going to play on sunday. the team flies out tomorrow. it's clear they're incensety focused midst the talk that they are expected to beat the patriots. a cool breeze was flying today.

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terps and tigers will kick it off at noon. maryland's first road game in play this season. basketball fans out in force for maryland madness. the official start to practice for both the men and women's team. the gala introductions included sean moseley from st. francis. expected to take a leadership roll. gregory entering his senior season in college park. six newcomers enter the team including keishon howard. that will get the ball rolling for regular season which tees off in about three weeks. >> means winter is not far behind. do you know what makes you happy? there's an app for that. there's an app for that. >> we'll ,,

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baltimore is named one of the easiest places to find a job. >> economists say this is just a small glimpse of what's in store for baltimore job seekers. just days before baltimore may mayors met with president obama, a report was released

that baltimore was the fourth best place to find a job. mayor blake says one key to similar success is skill building. >> working with our nonfor profit partner and there are other training opportunities for our citizens. >> not everybody who lives in baltimore agrees with the unemployment rate. they say the latest numbers available from the state, 10.9% of people who live in the city don't have a job. >> i was kind of looking for anything. and it was not easy. you know online and through the paper. it was just not a lot available. >> reporter: still which i >> reporter: still economists believe that baltimore will soon see a the boost. >> we know we have many big years in front of us. this is another piece of good ,