charity. before his final stop at mar len's park in florida he was struck by a car. we have an exclusive interview with him and you'll see it tonight on abc2 news at 11:00. there's so much going on. a lot of us are really confused about the state of our health insurance with obama care scheduled to take effect january 1st. >> john matarese, planes why you need to be extra careful. >> health insures and employers are making changes. many of us are receiving letters in the mail. if you find a new health card, you may think it's part of the program but we have an important warning. christine opened her mailbox to find this, two discount pharmacy cards from the national

prescription discount network. >> all of a sudden i get what looks like prescription cards and it says you have been preapproved. >> reporter: they claimed they can save her up to 5% of prescription. he is wondered if it was part of obama care. >> it started talked about what the new healthcare is supposed to do. i thought that felt nice but something felt fishy. >> reporter: the los angeles times investigated it and said it is legitimate. the company script relief is a marketing term. script explained it has paid by drug companies when its cards are used. should you join? maybe. the website, consumer world dot org recently tested a half dozen des couldn't cards including costco as and aaa's and the

savings vary but not 75% and it as giving cress teen pause. >> well, i'm real worried about privacy and too much information out there. >> my advice, if you're confuse body any health card, check. there's a good chance it has nothing to do with ob care. so don't waste your money. let's talk about acupuncture. >> now the ancient pressure technique is about to go high tech. we're going to show you technology pressure points and how they work. >> we'll show you how couples can save money. >> all right. i'm abc2 chief wyatt everhart. it would have been a quiet day to get out on the both of how much long are can the summer

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in our health alert tonight, i see double. moms are seeing more double. more and more twins are being born here in the united states. in the past parent have been told c section are the way to go but a new study hints that may not be the case. researchers studied two groups of women. those who had twins by c-section and those who did it the natural way. there was no difference between the two groups. tens of thousands of children are diagnosed with epilepsy every year and some can simply take medicine to become seizure free. for 3-year-old bailey traditional treatment did not work. on bad day she had hundreds of seizures. doctors helped little bailey get ore life back. >> reporter: 3-year-old bailey bates is about to have her

second brain surgery. >> it's scary to have to take out your child's brain and not know the aftermath. >> reporter: bailey has focal epilepsy and has had seizures sense she was known days old. on bad days, she would have hundreds. >> basically two to three minutes. she was losing everything she lorn learned. >> reporter: after trying a long list of epilepsy drugs and one failed surgery, bailey's parents came to cleveland clinic. >> it's a procedure that treats each area of the brain. we make little teen ni pen holes and place probes. >> reporter: once the probes containing tiny electrodes are

in place, seizures are monitored for several days. results help doctors carefully pen point which part of the brain is caution the seizure. >> all of this was coming from an area in the left frontal lobe, which is one of the most prime real estate areas, if you will, of the brain. >> reporter: several weeks later bailey had the part that was thought to be causing the seizures, removed. >> in the and bailey is more active now. >> reporter: this is bailey now. she's happy, healthy and most importantly, seizure free. >> she continues to be seizure free. there are greater chances she will continue to be seizure free for the rest of her life. >> i want it have a family, be married, do what she wants to do. those aren't possibilities with the medication. it's been such a long road, so looking forward to being normal

again. >> reporter: at cleveland clean neck -- clinic, reporting. blue skies, temperatures in the 80s. that's october, not feeling like itself. take a look outside. sunshine dominating throughout the day as we hd time lapse our camera. a let fall foliage along charles and towson, our view, a good one as always. how about the sunshine on the severn river. they may not get that navy game in this weekend. i hope they do. sounds like the government shutdown may impede that. at least they're getting sailing practice in. sunset will be shy of 6:5 this evening. so will be a pleasant evening. if you a ton grate photo

with your smartphone, you need to send it in or shoot it our way on twitter. we want to see these early pictures of fall color. boy, it's not feeling like fall, is it? mid-80s in baltimore. it's the entire region, not just the baltimore area for sure. the winds, which have been light and steady out of the west a little breezy at times making it feel more comfortable. humidity is starting to come up and set to increase tomorrow. we like a breeze once we're over the mid-80s and the humidity is going up. so there you go. summer like, not just with temperatures but increasing humidity on the south wind flow. tomorrow, i think a lot of sunshine again, maybe hazy sunshine at times as the humidity cranks up. into the day friday to partly sunny. the closest rain will drift up into northern pennsylvania but you can see out there tonight it's has clear as a bell and set

to stay that way into the morning commute tomorrow. the overall setup up and down the east coast is fantastic. there's no active weather. your travel plans look good via amtrak, via the airport. there is a stalled front to the west between chicago, detroit and cleveland. the thing's not moving. really, the air behind the front is not det trimatcally different. it's a weak boundary. we think this high pressure will drift north into the new england states over the next day or two. any change in the weather will be slight what could spark a bigger change is south of florida. this could become tropical storm karen in the next 24 hours, showing good seens of organization,'s suspicionly between the yucatan peninsula --

yucatan and cuba. that's looking more and more impresscy. the hurricane hunt are aircraft should get in there later this evening. most of our computer model guidance brings us into alabama, mississippi or the panhandle of florida. they do drive the moisture up ultimately toward maryland. this would be toward monday and fuse -- tuesday. it could bring a lot of rain, no doubt about it monday and tuesday. it's rain we could use at this point. tonight down to 58, clear and mild. tomorrow 84, your two-degree guarantee as we get this late august weather continuing. check it out. mid to upper 80s on saturday. it's not out of the question one of the days the city will go above 90. we'll bring in the chance for heavy showers as we see what

karen brings our way. in the mean team, enjoy the extended summer. >> varen karen was very -- karen was very nice. >> not all karens are equal. this is different karen. >> you might not like this karen. >> hey, we want to thank you who donated to our two cans drive. it did a lot of good to help hour hungry kids. there are still ways you can help. >> people can definitely come in and volunteer their time. we need people to sort and package up the food that goes out to the soup kitchens and pat tries that people rely on. we always need monetary donations. >> the program is geared toward kids. it will provide meals after school during the summer and stock food pantries. >> thankfully, some contaminated meat didn't make this. nearly 90,000 pounds of ground

beef headed to the lunch program are being recalled. there's no reports of anybody getting sick from the beef. the company recalled meat for the same reason last year. that is not good. tonight we're going to reveal the best ways couples can save. plus, do you really want homemade ice cream but don't want to weight for it to get cold? we'll show you how to make it instantly.

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abc2's investigators uncover a fire code violation at a school. >> and the outrage from people living in annapolis. how the federal -- how the federal government shutdown could ruin things. >> the government shutdown hitting ordinary americans. you have to hear what your neighbors are saying tonight. back to you.

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most people wouldn't think of science and the state fair in the same sentence until now. a man is mismg up his own ice cream. >> is called nitro ice cream. it's made using liquid nitrogen. the chemical freezes it instantly. the faster you freeze it the creamer and more dense it gets -- creamier and more dense it gets. >> the faster you freeze that water, the smaller the ice crystals. >> the process was created by chemical engineering students and has been a feature of the iowa state fair. >> brain freeze already. all right. you can't live without your smartphone. what happens when it's no long are new technology. >> we'll take a look at gadgets which are going obsolete.

padlocking children in the school, an obvious violation of fire code and students say their safety was at risk. this is a story you will only see on abc2. >> dpeef geef. a baltimore -- good evening. a baltimore city school on lockdown. >> brian kuebler has more on how one city school is blocking all but one exit out. >> reporter: students say it feels like a jail. there is only one way in and one way out. >> padlocked on every one. >> reporter: abc2 news investigators obtained pictures showing just that, exit doors that clearly lead outdoors with bolts on the bottom and a padlock through the bolt.

students who attend said every single door except the main president triis bolted. the concerns are obvious. >> i can't get out. >> so it's every door except the main entry. >> reporter: there is no fear code where it's an acceptable practice. it states locks, if provided will not require the use of any key, a tool or special knowledge for operation from the egress side, meaning from the inside. otherwise, it could be a catastrophe in case of fire or save the crash on a smaller scale as we witnessed yesterday. the baltimore city teacher's union confirms that the ambulance and the city school response that we caught on camera yesterday was in response

to where officers used mace to break it up. a teacher with asthma tried to step outside to got some air, and the door was bolted shut. we asked baltimore city schools to who approve -- who approved them in the first place. the school could not immediately answer hour questions. it would only say the system has instructed the school to remove all the padlocks from the doors, as it is a violation of baltimore city fire code. baltimore, biewb burkes abc2 news. >> it took all day for the city school system to respond to our story. we want to know why the locks were used and who installed them. abc2 introduce is always working for you, investigating stories.

you can tom brian and -- follow brian and joce. well, this was a beautiful sunny weekend in store for annapolis but the forecast may not be so great for local businesses at -- if the navy air force game is canceled. don harrison talked with the mayor and he really can't see a reason for asable cancellation. >> it makes no sense. >> that was about the most polite thing the mayor could say about the possible cancellation of the navy home game this weekend. he has a weekend to be upset. if there's no game, businesses in his city would lose almost a million dollars in tourist revenue. >> it's the compounding one bad decision with the other. >> they couldn't fathom why the feds would --

>> the entire game, expenses are covered by the naval academy athletic association. they're covered by parking fees. >> the naval academy athletic association will lose more than $4 million if the game isn't played. >> we have hotels that clearly have reunions coming in. >> she says there are only five navy home games this year and businesses have been planning for this all year long. >> may have added pel to work this weekend and restaurants who's added folks to come in and those employees would not be working this weekend. it's unfilibuster that they need to pay -- it's unfortunate that they need to pay. >> that's what happens when you eliminate just a few games. >> the naval academy plans