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filed. stay with abc2news.com for the latest on the story. >> looks like a fit over an unpaid bill turned into a stabbing that left two security guards injured at the baltimore comedy factor. police said 20-year-old kenneth corporal and some of his friends got into an argument with the club's management. while being escorted out, corporal stabbed the security guards several times before police caught up with him. the scoter guards are expected to recover. the woman accused of robbing two banks in glen burnie and trying to rob another is in custody. 47-year-old jamese queen is facing several charges. she targeted the same bank and got lay way with more than $1,000 in both cases. >> lawmakers appear -- lawmakers appear to be no
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closer to getting a compromise. republicans want changes to benefits programs. liu liu -- treasury secretary jack lew said the government will hit its debt limit in 107 days. >> there are several appeals including virginia's attempt to bring back the hasn't sodomy law. chief justice john roberts opened without mentioning the government shutdown or the new healthcare law that it upheld last year. the supreme court decided not to hear an appeal for sick smokers to pursuit a lawsuit against tobacco companies. the families claim the company knew the dangers. the city of baltimore is
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taking a closer lock at how it collects your taxes. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake wants to make sure there are fewer tax credit errors for historic and enterprise zones. she said they are working to identify the problems and correct them. there will be a review of all tax credit accounts and eventually automate the process to reduce human error. >> this is an issue of fairness, fairness for people who have done the right thing but paying the price for an inefficient system. they work actively to identify errors and worked overtime. we put in mechanisms to crack down on mistakes. >> the finance department expects the auto mated system to be sphully functioning and available to the public by march of next year. looks like you'll start
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seeing construction. bge will be relocating only underground activities. there will be closures and there will be work on streets. the work is expected to happen during nonrush our hours. maryland's casino is bringing in tens of millions. maryland live! brought in $50.5 million out of the more $65 million for the casinos. and the second highest was at $6.6 million. the rain tried but it had to stop the transport of more than 1700 animals from the national aquarium in d.c. to baltimore. katrina bush was there.
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>> reporter: it was a much anticipated arrival at the national aquarium in baltimore with so much of the attention focused on this joint octopus. >> when they're resting or stressed they turn to this wrote ish color. >> reporter: all of the new additions will be welcomed with open arms, but the change of locations was unexpected. >> they had to close unfortunately because the commercial building where we're housed is doing renovations and it requires it to turn the eel ti off, which you can't house 2500 animals with no electricity. >> reporter: this was a quick turnaround with the d.c. location officially closing on september 30th. they housed 2500 animals. 1700 will now be in baltimore. the majority will first come to the animal care center and wait out a 60 to 90 cred yesterday
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quarantine. they will make sure they're healthy enough to join the other exhibits. >> to see some new animals they might not be able to see. all right, it's not just new animals this will be calling baltimore home, some employees will be here. the aquarium board is looking for a way to make sure they do have lap presence in d.c. all right. you can follow all of katrina's stories on twitter. she's at katrina bush at abc2. it is a growing concern as we get older. a new report shows how soon we can expect to have people over the age of 60 than younger than 15. we'll also tell you why that age difference is so porchlt we're still taking your phone calls as
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kelly? >> we've been taking your calls about breast help. lock the is known as breast cancer awareness month. thank you, doctor. tell us about these clinical trials. >> clinical trials are the way that we really make progress in treating cancer and not only treating but preventing and just learning about cancer in general. sadly, only about 5% to 10% of the american cancer patients are on trial. that's how we find the next path. >> are they safe? that's why some people are reluctant. >> we hear often i don't want to be a guinea pig but the trials are in different levels. they start out three people at a time with a new drug that is carefully titrated, watching carefully for side effects. they were looks like we have a shave dose, then we compare it to the best standard treatment to see if it's better than the
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standard treatment if this adds something to the standard treatment. >> tell me some of the things you learn from clinical trials. >> well, people do clinical trials for two reasons. either this is the only way to get access to a new drug that's not commercially available yet and the other reason why a lot of women do it in particular is for hall true wis tick --al true wis tick reasons and they want to had themselves but help women coming ahead of them so scientists may learn something about the drugs that they're trying out. >> how many trials are they involved with. >> for breast we probably have 107 and overall maybe 25. some are prevention trials. some are treatment trials. some are observation or registration trials mentd there
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truth of -- trials. there are trials all over the country. they can be accessed by calling 1-800-4 cancer and say i'm interested in this trial for this stage of the disease. >> thank you for coming in. again, they're taking your calls next droor in studio b the number to call is 410-481-2222. all right. fewer people are choosing to have children and soon we'll have more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 15. that isn't just a random stat. the united nations release lad report showing mostountries are not prepared to deal with older generations and one in five older people have a pension let alone healthcare.
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>> start off with a look at maryland's most powerful radar. quite a bit of action. still getting decent gully washers. most of the state is clearing out, a couple showers in dorchester county, eastern easton and carroll county. otherwise, rain from wicomico county. check this out. those numbers are in the one to two inch rain. first, i want to show you the changing setup with heavy rain draped across the central east coast. the front will clear out to the east. however, what you're seeing are the remnants of karen providing some of the moisture feed but the low drifts slowly north and i think impacts maryland weather into the next couple of days. our severe weather threat shifted well north of us, north of new york city.
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we have coastal flood advisory concerns. enhanced tide. it has stacked up extra water in the chesapeake. so the southwestern part of del mar va and eastern shore and the western shore counties along the immediate bay front. you know who you are. those communities will have enhanced tide action. look at the rainfall totals. this is our silver lining with the line of heave slip and gusty rains. we picked up 1 to 2-inch rain totals. more than 2 inches in german town. columbia an inch and a half. so that line did lose some of its intensity as it drifted east. the rain, we can use. you see some of the heavy rain as it came through baltimore county. tough to see at times of downpour. you have to drive with extra caution. traffic gets rough. a live look at dundalk.
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you see the cloud deck holding steady but no rain. 62 right now degrees at bwi and winds calm for the most. that west, northwest breeze will be kicking in through the day tomorrow, very fall like and breezy. i'm not sure why the temp numbers will not update. these should be in the upper 60s, not the upper 80s. the upper 80s were done saturday and sunday. here's our cool front draped over central maryland. 62 in baltimore now and cooler air will keep funneling in. you see the wds in the western half of the state and more of a south variable wind on the eastern shore. the front is over the chesapeake bay. we're getting a wind shift. temps continue to cool off. there will be 40s at daybreak and warming to the upper 60s. how about that for a cooldown. we were up north of 8 degrees.
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some spots were 90 or higher. high pressure to the west will help clear the skies for a dray or so. however, the remnants of karen setting off cape hatteras will have the impact. tomorrow previously a chance to dry out. then the karen remnants beginning to drift further and further north and into the day on wednesday they arrive with potentially a decent amount of rain, not just wednesday but maybe into thursday. so we could pick up some more needed rain, especially wednesday into late thursday. there's a the remnants of karen. it does not look all that impressive. sop tonight down to 50s. clouds turn brisk. the rain is just about done. tomorrow 69 is it. october is cool, in the upper 40s. the next couple of days only upper 60s. the chance for rain late wednesday into thursday and trending drier and milder next
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weekend. that's much more october like temperature pattern. back to you guys. you're going to start seeing new benjamins at the bank. the new 100-dollar bills will start circulating. they include a blue 3d security, right? that's a ribbon that makes it easier to authenticate and harder to counterfeit. >> october is breast cancer awareness month. as you can see we are proudly sporting our pink. local businesses have a special way of treating survivors. what's coming up tonight on "the list." >> baltimore tattoo removal has a way to help people get something off their chest and backs as well. >> i had cancer and the radiation spots are here. >> when you think about ink you don't think about treatment.
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>> i can imagine for some women they are pain f they are a reminder of a finful time of their -- painful time of their life. >> the service is free. it's a month long offer. plus, we take a look at some of the more creative tattoos people get removed what else is going on? >> we take a look at adam jones, the orioles player. he is going to take a swing at being a tv guy and there is a local restaurant that's one of the best seafood restaurants in the entire country. we'll tell you why. >> don't forget list right here at 7:00 on abc2 and let's ask america at 7:30. we'll be right back.
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(slurp) (whirring) we were talking about clinical trials. tell us, doctor, about some of the new drugs. >> there are two exciting new drugs. one is a drug that has been shown to increase the rate of having a complete clearance of your cancer before surgery by about -- increased it from 20% to 40% and then there's a drug that's targeted against hormone receptor positives. >> thank you very much, doctor. operators will be here for about five more minutes. the number to give them a call is 410-481-2222. we will have another house call on wednesday from 5 to 6:30.
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welcome to "world news." tonight terror takedown, a major al qaeda leader in u.s. hands after a daring mission, american special forces hit two terror targets halfway around the globe. collision course, the dramatic crash on the race track, the superstar driver and more than a dozen spectators injured. are fans getting too close to
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the action? unbreakable, our exclusive interview with malala who defied the taliban because she wanted to go to school. her impossible story of survival after she was shot and the message she brings tonight for everyone about home and staring down fear. >> i am malala. >> i am malala! good evening on this monday night filled with bold new details about america's two secret missions this weekend. daring warriors, the delta team and navy s.e.a.l. team six took the fight against terror straight to the enemy. here's the map. one, a surprise raid in libya, the other a raid by night in somalia. now a major al qaeda figure is captive and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with this new
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captor on the war. >> reporter: groups threatened revenge, posting messages for american citizens to be kidnapped all in the wake of those two bold raid, one more successful than the other. it's what the navy s.e.a.l.s train for, the same navy sooem team six that killed osama bin laden came out of the water this weekend to hit a terror strong hold in smol ma. under heavy fire the s.e.a.l.s were in trouble. a terror leader saying they feared civilian casualties. >> the commander on the ground made the right decision to withdraw forces. >> reporter: a delta force team moved into place in tripoli libya in broad daylight and captured one of the fbi's most wanted terrorists. 49-year-old abu anas al libi. >> this is highly risky but highly effective. >> reporter: the operation was carried out after months of
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surveillance with military precision and great surprise as the wanted terrorists recounted to abc news, pointing to his father's car. one broken car window not a shot fired. >> textbook to move, his car shows up and pull him out of there without any casualties or any of our own casualties is the art. >> reporter: tonight they're being interrogated on the intelligence gold mine if he talks. he's one of the founder fathers of al qaeda. under indictment for the 1998 deadly bombing of two u.s. embassies that killed 224 people. and an al qaeda computer and communications expert. with libi's capture, 12 of the 22 top terrorists identified by the u.s. after the 9/11 attacks have been killed o captured. >> of course that means ten are still at large.
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>> they're entire gating libi. what's the big secret. >> does he know where top al qaeda leaders are hiding right now and was he involved in any way or know anything about the attack on the benghazi u.s. consulate last year. >> thank you, brian ross. now we head to washington and the government shutdown about to enter week two. tonight americans increasingly signaling they have had enough. the latest abc news "washington post" polls shows 70 percent of americans disapprove of how republicans in congress are handling the negotiations. today the president came out to issue a new challenge. here's abc news chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: president obama today placed blame for the shutdown entirely on speaker of the house john boehner. >> the reason that speaker boehner hasn't called a vote on it is because he doesn't apparently want to see
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