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school children scanned, dozens of -- school children scammed. >> it's not that easy to raise that kind of money and i feel very guilty that i trusted this company. >> those visits never happened and those schools want their money back. i'm dick carter. >> here is what people are talking about tonight. >> an annapolis company are under fire accused of tens of thousands of dollars raised by schools' ptas. it's a scam spanning several counties and now parents want answers. megan. >> reporter: much of that money was raised by students during fund-raisers and now parents say it's gone and they can't get the company that took it to return their phone calls.

big game raven shark seeking out kids, that's what dozens of schools say they were promised. >> it was so great because it was antibullying and we put up a ravens player. >> reporter: pto paid $600 for the program but it never happened. >> we paid them and then they defaulted and they haven't given us back our money. >> reporter: it's not just this school that says it was scammed. nearly two dozen other schools say they were cheated out of money too. baltimore county and schools in northern virginia say the odyssey group took their money too and didn't deliver. >> the company that has marketed these assemblies before. >> reporter: 17 schools are out more than $14,000. >> our office of legal services is looking to the avenues that are available to us at this point to try to recoup this money. >> reporter: wjz obtained a letter sent by a lawyer saying, odyssey contacted an agent that

had access to several ravens players. the project grew too fast and odyssey very quickly had more bookings than available players. their relation with the agent fell apart. parents just want the money back. >> i would hate for them -- for this to happen to other kids. >> reporter: we tried to contact the owner of the odyssey group but he didn't return our phone calls. reporting live, wjz eyewitness news. >> if i recalls say the team has no affiliation with the odyssey group and never promised any appearances. for the first time we're seeing the grew some evidence from the murder. jurors today were shown pictures of the tools used to kill jana murray. prosecutors say the brutal attack lasted more than 30 minutes. norwood could spend the rest of her life in prison if she's convicted of killing her

coworker. >> power state senator ulysses his wife takes the blame for his problems. explains why -- she's let her husband now. >> reporter: walked to the federal courthouse holding hand with harem battled husband hoping her testimony could convince jurors not to convict. faces charges that he accepted nearly a quarter of million dollars in bribes from grocery giant shoppers food in exchange of using his power to benefit the grocery chain. according to his defense attorneys who argued the 74- year-old never used his political power on the grocery chain's behalf, though they do acknowledge that he failed to disclose his work for the grocery chain adds required on state ethics forms and that mistake his wife told jurors was her fault. she testified because her husband was unorganized and

messy, she did all the paperwork in their household including filling out her husband's ethics forms telling jurors i was copying -- calling the omissions to mistake, she ended her testimony by saying, i feel in a way i failed him in a time when he should be enjoying the golden years, he was fighting for his integrity. >> closing arguments in the case are expected next week. a big chain reaction crash involving a sheriff deputy slows down traffic. skyeye chopper 13 flowing over the scene on the bell air bypass, five vehicles were tangled up in the wreck. two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. we're told the deputy is doing fine tonight. exotic animals won't be going back home. they'll keep taking care of the leep address, bear and premates. their owner let dozens of wild

animals loose. state officials decided the animals need to stay quarantined for now. deplorable case of animal hotting getting worse. more than 150 cats dead and alive are found on the frederick property. they raided a out and it has taken 9 days to count the bodies. wjz is live and kayak son has a disturbing detail. >> reporter: the surviving animals will be put up for adoption, sadly many of the animals did not survive. this may be among the worst cases in maryland history of animal abuse. animal control officers removed some 150 cats from this house. 68 of them were dead. >> we had removed some deceased animals that were in plastic bags and igloo coolers. >> reporter: many of the dead animals were put in white plastic bags. it was the tragic case of

animal hording, one in which neighbors say they were well aware. >> i think everybody knows about the smell. any time you went by there was a smell. >> reporter: when they are in different forms of decomposition, the odor is tremendous. when we served the warrant on that tuesday we had a device that measured that smell which was over 300 particles per million which does require gas mask. not providing necessary vet care and air for the animals because of the high ammonia smell in content. >> reporter: 89 cats survived and now veterinarians are assessing their health in hopes they'll be adopted. the homeowner has been saving the lives of unwanted cats. >> everybody knows around here if you've got a cat you don't want you throw it in her yard, it's going to be all right because if you take it to the animal shelter, they're going to kill it. >> reporter: authorities say the owner faces 90 days in a

jail and $1,000 fine for each count once charges are formerly filed. back to you. >> animal control says some of the cats taken from the home alive were later euthanized because they were in such poor physical condition. change of plea, historian's assistant says he did help steal valuable documents from museums. he entered a guilty plea today in one of the largest cases of his kind. after he stole valuable documents from the society. the suspected master mind is waiting to go on trial. >> the wife of another master mind comes clean, roof may doll f opens up about her con artist husband's private confession. pulled off the largest scheme in u.s. history stealing $50 billion from investors. his wife says he broke the news to her just a day before his 2008 arrest. and that moment that changed their lives lives forever.

>> i was kind of paralyzed. bernny got up and said i'm going back to the office. >> later that day, that evening, he both turned up from the office. >> he said we have to go to the office, so i got myself together and went over there. i stayed half an hour and we just went home. and the next morning the fbi was there to arrest him at about 7 a.m. >> he pleaded guilty to 11 federal charges and publicly apologized to his victims. you can see the entire interview this sunday. violent protests spread across the country now some people are questioning the response by police. this was the scene at occupy oakland when officers shot an iraq war veteran in the head with a rubber bullet. he suffered a fractured skull but he is recovering tonight. police promised to investigate the violent confrontation.

at occupy baltimore the protesters are still standing strong. they found a large crowd filling the square tonight. it has been 48 hours since the city told them to scale back their camp, so far the city has not shown any sign they're going to force the protesters out. right now members of maryland's national guard is celebrating their first night home and one very warm welcome. the long wait has ended for families for l 0 national guard members. they served in afghanistan. with one word, dismissed. >> happy tonight. coming up miraculous rescues in the rubble, the latest survivors to defy the odds in the hope that's getting rescuers tonight. >> a new health benefit from taking a few aspirin every day. >> when we -- will we see snow this week? coming up next. ,,

45 degrees, few clouds. the forecast is coming up. a massive building fire threatens an entire anybody hood in carson, california. the 3 story structure was under structure and unoccupied but the flames spread. police went door to door to evacuate people. several homes were damaged but no injuries had been reported. critical stories of survival from turkey. two people are rescued after being trapped for 4 days following a powerful earthquake, cheers went up as an 18 male was pulled from a building and a few hours later a 13-year-old was found alive. the government says 186 people have been rescued from the rubble. more shocking charges against the alleged ring leader

of philadelphia's basement of horrors. did not acknowledge the cameras as she was taken into court. today she was charged with torturing her teenage niece for the last three years. they were arrested for holding four mentally disabled adults captive as part of a welfare fraud scheme. the no. 1 drug maryland's abused isn't crack cocaine or heroin it is prescription painkillers. one small town is at the center of alarming epidemic. wjz investigates jessica talks the former addict who almost lost her child so she can get high. >> reporter: population 15,000, a little town with a big problem, a hot bed for prescription drug abuse. >> it's so bad here, like, very very bad. >> reporter: prescription painkillers once ruled her

life, now 22-year-old stephanie berry is clean raising her young son in the town of elkton right off i-95. >> when do you think you hit rock bottom. >> i lost my home, my car. i had no job. i had nothing. >> reporter: stephanie was part of an alarming trend, over the past decade the number of people living here admitted to treatment centers for prescription drug abuse skyrocketed almost 800%, that's nearly double the percentage statewide. >> everything is irrelevant. nothing else matters. >> reporter: so your son didn't matter? >> at a point he didn't. that quilled me. i lived with -- i -- that killed me. i lived with that guilt for a long time. like i still do, i look and i'm like, that's my baby and i gave him for a high. >> reporter: her story echos throughout maryland, admissions

to treatment centers are up in baltimore count by over 270%. harper count up over 730% and carol county up more than 600%. clearly there's an explosion in prescription drug use. >> they are more abused than heroin, ecstasy, lsd, marijuana combined. that's huge. >> reporter: with easy access to i-95 multiple prescriptions, they can travel without being caught. users say elkton is a convenient home base. some say the problem has gotten so bad you can literally walk down the street here and get your hands on any prescription drug you want. >> you know, it will take me 20 minutes time to have at least one to get started and then you can continue. >> reporter: maryland is taking aim at prescription drug abuse

with a new computerized system to track who is writing them and who is filling them. >> i think you need a vigilant program in every physician's office. >> reporter: did drugs ruin your life? >> yes it did. >> reporter: wjz eyewitness new. >> the program is scheduled to start next july with the focus on helping addicts get treatment rather than reporting them to police. death investigation underway at perkins middle hospital, state police say a man was found dead in his room around 8:00 this evening. the medical examiner will determine how he died. state police are also investigating. prescription drugs are at the center to f a beating and robbery. police say a 24-year-old man was beaten with a handgun shortly after picking up his prescription, the giant. the attacker took the medicine

and fled. british researchers discovered that a common aspirin can help ward off colon cancer. two a day can lower cancer ritzings. millions of people already -- cancer risks. people in northern texas woke up to a little taste of winter. take a look, 2 to 5 inches of snow fell in the amarillo area. it continued to slow down a family of ducks but it did cause several trees to fall. this was the biggest snow fall in the month of october. it will soon be a memory, temperatures there are expected to get into the 60 and melt that snow. but wow, amarillo, texas. >> the ducks are saying what's the -- what the heck is going on here. >> you probably heard there's a talk of maybe we'll see some snow here on saturday. i think areas north and west of town could see some

accumulations of wet snow, saturday afternoon before it ends. in the city maybe a trace, maybe a little bit on the grass, that's about it. it's going to be a little too warm for the much of that. we do have rain on the way. it's going to be cold, nasty, right now partly cloudy skies and temperatures have dropped down to 45. earlier today we're in the 60s. humidity down to 70%. northwest at 6:00 now. they come down barometer way up north. 32 freezing. oakland 41 hagerstown. still kind of warm, 55 in the 70s this afternoon. and look at that, down to freezing to the west. once again the dew point 36. it's possible areas around the city can get down to 36. we do have a frost advisory on on the overnight hours. down to 42 already west

minister. the wind have come down quite a bit down to 6 here. so everybody is going to cool down and the winds will eventually calm down over night. now, the low pressure that caused this, there you see it, northern texas to panhandle area, that was in denver yesterday. this is heading a little further to the south and heading off to the east getting somewhere off the carolina coast in our part of the woods here. we've got colder air coming in. we've got colder air to the north. the problem is -- you've got wind coming off the ocean. the ocean is warm, 55, 60 degrees, warm air moving into this chilly air and it has to rain pretty hard to bring down chilly enough air for wet snowflakes in the city south and east maybe a little bit north and west it may be cold enough for a few hours while we see some moderate to heavy wet snow for a few hours on saturday before it clears out. colder, yes, low pressure there it goes and eventually it's gone. sunshine returns on sunday.

quick look at the tropics down to about 58 miles per hour not going anywhere that's good news. it is raining in the cancun cross moe area. the wind 25, 30 miles an hour will not effect -- northeast wind 5 to 10 knots, generally clear, 30. the winds will be dying down from where they are right now. tomorrow look for sun and clouds, high of 52. yes the chance of rain and snow on saturday. sunshine, 51. anything that falls saturday will be gone by sunday. denise. >> good. okay, thank you bob. the reigns prepare for their next game and the critics. >> the latest on the team's efforts to bounce back. that's coming up next in sports. ,,,,

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nfl is challenging enough, they have another challenge to live up. spend some time with them in owens mill. it's clear they're following a lead that directs them to move forward, the ravens need to put aside the bad luck from -- on the practice field today to continue preparations for the arizona cardinals who come to town on sunday. fans and media continue to hammer on the ravens failing on offense and what was historically bad performance in jacksonville, that's offensive coordinator, he's been the target and today he and the team talk about blocking out the criticism. >> he really can't worry about outside criticism. that's not going to help you. it's not going to hurt you one way or another. the only thing you can do is focus on what you can improve and we said all this time, we get better, you know, every week. >> i have a ton conference and guys that are coaches and players and we've got the kind

of guys to make sure that we're going to do everything that that happens again, i think that's the best thing we can do. >> injuries update, safety was a notable absence from today's work out. he did practice yesterday. receiver lee evans remains out. he has a lingering ankle injury. bad news for howard, he has a broken bone in his left foot that will keep him off the court for 10 to 12 weeks so he's expected to miss at least the first 12 games of the season. his absence leaves new coach with seven scholarship players, horse racing history at world park today, down the stretch he will win the sixth race, with that the 5-year-old earns his 19 19th consecutive victory. 19 in a row ties the north american record. it was claimed by for $6,500. the horses won 20 of 21 races earning nearly a quarter million. now that's an investment plan.

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a big trip for a little dog ends up 600 miles from home. he escaped from his backyard in tennessee. somehow he wound up in michigan. he was gone for 3 months but his owner's information was on a micro chip. he's on his way back home. he has quite the adventure to tell his buddies about. >> and he's also on a ,,,,,,,,,,