. this is wjztv, wjzhd and wjz.com baltimore. from the city to the counties to your neighborhood. it's wjz, maryland news station. a killer's confession. the trigger man in that twisted murder for hire plot. his chilling words come back to haunt him and seal his fate in court. here's what people are talking about. the owner of a popular gas station is gunned down. his apparently hired by his wife. has the dramatic confession

that swayed the jury. >> it took a jury just under 5 hours to convict walter bishop, jr. of murder. and has obtained the key piece of evidence that could lead to his execution. >> reporter: in his own words, walter bishop, jr. described how he killed. >> he just started to turn his head and i went like this. >> reporter: and the tape recorded in an interrogation room. the gunman explained the bizarre murder for hire plot that went down inside the gas station owned by the victim. >> i walked in and just towards his face. i just closed my eyes and pulled the trigger. >> reporter: at the center of the scheme, karla porter, the victim's wife whom he claims promise to do pay him $9000 to kill him. he said karla porter turned to

him and asked one question. >> she said, was he dead and i said i guess. >> reporter: could face the death penalty under a new law. a friend says bishop got messed up with the wrong crowd. >> he's 29 years old, he's got 5 kids. he's never been in trouble before. >> reporter: but now, it's this conversation with detectives that may end up costing bishop his life. and the jury could sentence bishop to death or life in prison. the penalty phase of the trial begins tomorrow. reporting live, megan mccork al. thank you, in all 6 people were arrested in the murder for hire plot. karla porter goes on trial next year. another shooting at a gas station in baltimore county at the gulf station. at least one person is wounded.

county police say that victim has been rushed to -- and they are trying to gather more details. police need your help find ago man behind a brazen sex assault. the girl tells police she was looking for directions when the men took her into the van and then gang raped her. police are looking for a tan van with this one with curtains covering the windows. enough is enough. across the country and in baltimore leaders are fed up with the occupy baltimore movement. the mayor says it's time to go. we're live where protesters are gathering for growing conviction. >> didn't it's unclear when potesters may have to leave.

there are protesters, some quite loud in downtown baltimore. >> we will be a single party. >> reporter: grievances are being aired under the watchful eye of police. >> in a very. >> reporter: and there are plenty of -- the occupy movement has made it clear they are here to stay. yet leaders are making it clear the campers have worn out their welcome. right now protesters admit they are walking a fine line of freedom of speech and occupying the spreets. they are working with the city to work out a compromise. >> i think it's got to be an ongoing discussion with the city. i actually think we're both wanting the same things, which is the ability for all citizens to peacefully protest but still allow all others to be here. >> reporter: the occupy

movement has been spreading across the country. groups are complaining about disparities between americans. in some cities the protests have turned violent. in oakland california demonstrators clash with police. >> i think in their way they are trying to civil eyes that. >> reporter: and occupy members tell eyewitness news they will continue to stay out here until they hear otherwise from the city. >> reporter: the occupy movement has been in baltimore for more than 3 weeks. the story of a murder, she killed fellow worker dana murray. now they are just trying to prove it wasn't a premeditated attack. prosecutors argued more than 300 wounds are proof that norwood should be convicted of first degree murder. revelations from birdie

madoff, shows they may have. >> in the only interview, she tells 60 minutes she and her husband were so upset they tried to end their lives. tonight we hear ruth's emotional words and revealing new insights from burdeny's son. he was convicted of the largest ponzi scheme, fielding $50 billion from investors. after his arrests the madoffs were so hated they attempted suicide. >> i don't know whose idea it was. but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous, what was happening. we had terrible phone calls, hate mail. just beyond anything. and i said i can't -- i just

can't go on any more. >> i couldn't understand how she could do this. i mean, what were they thinking. >> it was very impulse i have and i'm glad we woke up. >> bernie made off is behind bars. you can see the entire interview this sunday on 60 minutes right here on wjz. an emotional day in michael jackson's death trial as dr. murray breaks down crying. prosecutors say murray gave michael jackson a deadly dose of a powerful anesthetic. a scary scene when a car slams into a mcdonald's. take a look. the elderly driver slams into the glass. police are still trying to figure out how the driver lost control. same sex marriage in

maryland, this one an oscar winning actress. >> i believe since we've all been given free will, let's use our will. >> reporter: that's monique throwing her support behind the same sex marriage in the state. she's the first to release a video. governor o'malley plans to release a same sex marriage bill next year. that will be the answer to a moldy smelly problem at st. marry's college in maryland. a rented cruise ship will be turned into a dorm. >> i can't see the mold but students say you can certainly smell it. it's in the ceiling. >> we have chilled water pipes that run above the ceiling and you can see the gray on them. >> reporter: it is so bad the students were moved out of the dorms more than 20 miles from campus. >> if i was a person in the hotel i would be pissed.

it's like a 30 minute commute. >> reporter: enter the voyager, a luxury cruise ship that will dock on the river. >> they will have the full run of the ship, the ballrooms and the decks. >> i think it's pretty sweet. it fits pretty well with the school and i think a lot of the kids are super stoked about it. >> reporter: another plus for the school, it will cost less than all those hotel rooms. school administrators will help students make the move to their new digs and they hope to resolve the mold. the city sticks a boot on one of its own -- spokeswoman for the department of transportation says they ticket any illegally parked cars, even if they belong to the city. they aren't sure how the car aaccumulated enough tickets to

earn the boot. a cat that disappeared at the airport and how he was finally found. plus children allowed to live in filth. some say it's the worst they have ever seen. we finally know what killed amy winehouse, the tragic binge and the one item the coroner didn't find in her system. some more rain and chilly temperatures temperatures headed our way. i'll have the complete weather forecast coming up next. complete coverage continues with denise koch, vic carter, kai jackson and first warning weather with bob turk and sports with mark viviano, it's wjz, maryland's news station. ,,

it's 65 degrees and cloudy in central maryland right now. a 100-year-old power dam is sent crumbling to the ground in ohio state. >> explosives were used to blast through the base of the 2 story structure. the utility chose to remove the dam instead of retrofitting it for fish. young children forced to live inside a dog kennel in nebraska. they called the living conditions the most unsanitary they have ever seen t. children ranged from 8 months to 8

years. large dogs were running free in the house while 2 of the children were inside the kennel. >> it's an open wire kennel that had a little mattress on the inside of it. the cane he will was -- kennel was actually wired shut apparently to keep the children from climbing out the windows. >> reporter: parents have been arrested. incredibly more people were found alive inside turkey. you see trying to save a 27- year-old woman. the quake hit 3 days ago. today's rescue was a success, say the hope of finding more survivors is fading. amy white house drank herself to death. died with 5 times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. her family has been waiting 3 months to find out exactly what

happened. >> a british coroner says singer amy winehouse died from drinking too much. the official cause is death by misadventure. said she voluntarily consumed alcohol and risked the consequences. the 27-year-old was found dead at her london home on july 23 july 23rd. money assumed she had overdosed. but at an inquest wednesday a pathologist testified winehouse was more than 5 times over the drunk driving limit when she died. and her parents learned their daughter hit the bottle after being dry for 3 weeks. winehouse's body guard said he thought the singer was sleeping on the morning she died but when he checked on her again several hours later she hadn't moved. detectives found empty vodka

bottles scattered around the bedroom. the oh singer was tipsy but fine. the autopsy revealed winehouse was not ticking illegal drugs but doctors say she had -- a spokesman for the family says winehouse was battling hard to conquer her battles with alcohol and said it's a source of great pain that she could not win. winehouse's father is writing a book about the late singer. it's due out next summer. the theme park is being sued over its treatment of the whales. they say the orcas are slaves and want them released under the 13th amendment. this is the first lawsuit that

applies the. better deal lasted for 2 2 months. in august jack the cat was put on a cat for california. he was lost inside jfk's terminal. he was finally found after falling through a ceiling tile and now recovering at the vet. gives the couple a big surprise on their wedding day. all of a sudden a full scale dust storm breaks out. as you can see things got scary for them. hopefully that's a sign their marriage can make it through anything. >> and they didn't have bob's report. >> reporter: they have got a great future ahead of them if they can get through that. they have got dust in their ears and noses. just take a look at temperatures. it's pretty mild now but it's

going to get a lot colder the next couple of days. the dewpoint at 55 degrees. no winds at all. a little bit of patchy fog in some spots. the barometer beginning to fall. right now 63, pretty mild. and still 68 down in pax river. most areas across northern maryland in the mid to upper 50s. it's going to stay mild through about early morning, midday tomorrow and then temps will begin to fall. tomorrow the winds by noon or 1:00 will start shifting to the w's, northwest. that will start bringing colder air and by this time tomorrow night will be in the upper 40s. and late tomorrow night and friday we have a freeze watch for extreme northern maryland. as you can see out to allegany county. these have not seen any frost

conditions so far this season, which is getting a little late. that's why it's possible some of these regioning could get down to 32 degrees on friday morning. it will clear out once the rain moves through the region. that colder dryer air will come back in. the only caviate is it may be too breezy for that to happen. we'll see this rain tonight, during the day tomorrow late in the afternoon and evening we'll start seeing some clearing as that cold air comes in. arena hasn't done a whole lot and a lot of the models have it dying out and hanging right around the yucatan and just dying out there by monday. it really hasn't gone anywhere. at least that's what all the models are looking at. all have them right through there. it looks like it's going to stay. never even get to southern

florida. at this point just kind of hanging out. a rainstorm and western cuba. so it looks like right now coz mel will see rains. but the hurricane force winds only extend out 15 miles so that's a very small system. mild weather to our south. colder weather coming in, yes, but overnight friday into saturday another low could form down to our south. might bring us a little more rain north and west of the region. might be cold enough for snow flakes to move in on saturday morning. the bay temp 62. today a little rain coming in. 52. tomorrow, periods of rain, then turning colder. 65 down into the 40s, eventually upper 30s. more rain possible saturday ending in the afternoon. 45, very cold, 34 at night.

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mark is here with our fans the sport report. >> reporter: talking to the guys, no panic, they know it's a long season. fans, they panic a little bit. getting ready for the arizona cardinals who will be in town on sundays. yes they realize they played a terrible game, but they are tuning out all the negative talk. it is up to the team leaders to make sure they stick together in tough times. ray lewis the unquestioned leader. and as a quarterback joe flacco

is in a significant leadership local and i asked -- player and i asked those three the significance of a loss. >> the greatest leader comes out in adversity. and then i think the thing i was trying to tell the guys this week, the season is so long. the journey is so long. you have one bad game, brush it off. >> i'm going to be one of the guys to pull it back together. going for forward i'm positive we'll be more successful. >> we're in this together. we're playing a game where we can have fun. >> reporter: injury updates good news for the ravens. ed -- suffered a -- terrence cody suffered a similar set back. he also practiced today. arizona's top running back missed practice today. has a right knee injury but he

says he believes he'll be ready to play against the ravens in 4 days. suffered an injury sunday. it was feared he may be out for several games. in baseball the orioles interviewed their 3rd general manager candidate today. met with peter anglo. the os have not indicated a time line as to when they plan to announce a hiring. there were players on the field in st. louis today but no world series game. after some early warm ups the game was postponed with heavy rains. so game 6 will be tomorrow night. more ravens tomorrow as they hit the practice field. >> thanks a lot, mark.

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