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rosedale derainment. a fire at the ha, ha started in the oven. they don't know when the market will reopen. their mother was killed 24 years ago and no one has been charged with the murder. now teresa's daughters are hoping to spart new interest. their moghts are was killed in her dundalk apartment but they're still remembering her. they are taking time to remember teresa. >> now i kind have you put my foot down and said i'm going to do this myself. i'm not going to not talk about her and i'm not going to forget about her. >> anyone with information is asked to call metro crime stoppers at 1-866-7-lockup. you can remain anonymous.
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>> the navy has arraigned four sailors in the death of two divers. the two drowned in february. four sailors are charged with dereliction of duties. a small group of house republicans will meet to discuss the shutdown and debt ceiling negotiations. president is having the entire caucus over today. the president says he won't negotiate until the budget is approved with no strings attached. and the fallout from the shutdown has created a public fire storm over benefits denied to the families of fallen members. now the fisher foundation, based in our state, has stepped in to help families with $100,000 death gratuities. some count on that money to
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travel to dover and the foundation has agreed to front the families the money until the government reopens. >> my eye will be on meeting the family's needs and that's what i have control over. so working with our organization, working with the department of defense, we're going to find a solution and one that works for the families. congress and the president will work things out. i have every confidence that at some point this mr. work again, but in the meantime we need to be thinking about the families. >> david and his foundation stepping up. defense secretary chuck hagel traveled to dover as four families await the return of their family member's bodies. he said he was offended, outraged and embarrassed because
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of this situation. the baby boomer and senior expo will take place tomorrow. admission is $2 or two cans of nonper rshable food items. you can get the chance to win prizes and meet some of the people on abc2. stop by and say hello to jamie costello. >> i was right there. all right. words can hurt just as badly has sticks and stones but the battle against bullying is getting more difficult. coming up one area is putting up a fight. >> we're taking your calls on health. >> on this cloudy breezy day. 61, eight degrees below average. no two-degree winner today. we're tracking the coastal storm, when this could bring the
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you know what i'm doing in ocean city tonight, walking the dog along the beach, and get ready for crab fest. fix this, will you? we'll find out if wyatt can make ocean city beautiful. all right. we're taking your house calls, lansing your questions about breast health as we deal with raise breast awareness month. we're talking about the options for women diagnosed with breast
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cancer. surgeries have changed. there are more options. >> reporter: yes, definitely. in the years past mastectomy was the only option. thank goodness we have other options. that's where screenings become important. the earlier they are diagnosed, the more options, not only mastectomy but breast conservation therapy. i think the trend is overall, when possible,000 do less surgery and remove less tissue when possible. >> i'm sure the word surgery is frightening. >> right. right. so i think part of that whole process when a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, it's very frightening but we do our best to thoroughly explore the options we have available. >> doctor, you're looking at video of our experts standing boy to take your calls. the number to call is
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410-481-2222. they'll be there another 15 minutes. doctor, if you have to have a mastectomy, is that your only option? >> we can have a plastic surgeon come in and do an immediate breast reconstruction. some women have an option, depending on the location of the tumor where we do an incision where it's not a very visible part of the breast, usually the lower mammary fold and able to preserved nipple and we have a better cosmetic appearance. >> why is that so important. i imagine you want to feel as close to normal as you can. >> the more natural we can make the breast appear, even after treatment, it makes it a lot easier for the woman. >> doctor, thank you very much for coming in. our house calls, we've got about 15 minutes to get your questions
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answered. the doctors are standing by. bullying has always been a problem. it's bigger now with social media and the internet. children were made aware of the growing problem. don harrison was there. don? >> reporter: that's something many of us have experienced growing up but with forks twitter, instagram for bullies to hide behind, bullies have more avenues. they want to let kids know that they're not alone, that together they can stand up and stop bullying. some schools are getting help from the purple and black like here at this elementary school. >> so we're going to be nice to everybody, right? >> reporter: batman showed up and bugs bunny. even the ravens cheerleaders were on hand along with captain defense. >> i've been bullied probably
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twice now. >> reporter: she design lad logo for this campaign. it's a broken heart. >> this one is not connected. it's pushed to the side. >> reporter: kent island high school is involved. almost the all student population is in support visit program. they're getting together as one and spelling out no bullying. >> we're hoping that bringing them together as a community that they will know that we're serious about no bullies and that they'll be the wall to stop the bullying. >> reporter: some of the kids we talked to said with the internet bullies can find them in their home. >> they think they can say whatever they want to because there's a buffer. >> that's the last thing we want
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is for a child not to feel loved or saved. >> on kent island, don harrison, abc2 news. >> all the schools in queen anne's county joined in against bullying, and that is great. >> we've been tracking this coastal system moving slowly north. big rain off of ocean city f looks like a lot of that will make its way offshore, so it's going to be a very, very wet night. for the lower part of delmarva, some of the rain edging its way into maryland. it's a fare live sharp cutoff. this is the rain and -- on the leading edge. some spots getting significant downpours, reaching across into the easton area and a broader view, you see a lot of the heavy
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rains wrapping into worcester county and around the pow comos. this will band and come through during the overnight hours. you can see on the broad view here, large circulation. someone asked me this earlier. just the remnants of tropica storm karen have been wrapped into this. it's a rain maker type system with some wind embedded. totals would be lighter ultimately by the time we get to friday morning and baltimore. more than an inch of rain over time. also, you see that small craft concern and also coastal flood advisories for anne arundel county south into calvert county and the lower shore for that northeast wind stacking the rain
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up. bottom line is this, coastal flood concerns and the potential for a flash flood warning. so you can have it downlloyded -- downloaded. this is the last four hours here along the beach of rehoboth and the same thing through the maryland beaches. large surf continuing to bumped. chesapeake beach, southern maryland. this is one part of the state with that coastal flood advisory for normal high tide. right now in dundalk just cloudy, 59 at the airport. it's going to be a tough day to be out there with the winds up north gusting to 230. the air temp in the 50. feeling raw this evening but without the rain quite in here yet. north wind steady, some gusts
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higher, especially on delmarva, gusting around 2 30e, 2 -- 20, 25. not fit for man or beast. one wave of rain. it will be more intermittent, more hit and miss, especially for the central part of the state. the beaches and the eastern shore will get more rain over the next 48 hours. it's a function of how close the system will hug it. it makes all the difference in terms of which part of the state will get more rain. cool and dry air trying to wrap in. we think the low will ultimately get pushed out as we go into the mid-part of the week. we'll be under the clouds at least into saturday. you see how cool things are, held down in the 50s and 60s tomorrow with that cloud. 52 tonight. on and off showers. as we look ahead into the next few days, you see the showers
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lightening up, possible late friday into saturday. we dry things out for the ravens game on saturday. early next week we're talking about sunshine and temperatures hovering around 70. we return to good weather. hopefully it's just in time for the pack attack for the ravens game. right now looks like this will feel like football. >> all right. we'll take it. all right, kelly? >> a roller coaster in orlando may have won a baltimore company bragging rights. a real thrill ride. >> get ready to hold on to your seats. a company will bring home the golden ticket. you can thank baltimore's premier ride for these twists and turns. revenge of the mummy snagged the golden ticket award for best indoor roller coaster pooh it's really the world's first psychological thrill ride.
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it uses magnetic propulsion where you're being shot forward, backward. when you get off the ride, you'll be shaking. >> this has been around since 1995 designing flaggings for six flags, and as far away as finland, japan and china. check out some of the more interesting people you'll see running around this weekend for the marathon. >> all right. you can catch "the list" right here at 7:00. abc2 news at 6 is right back after a break.
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here's what we're working on at 11. don't wait until black friday. >> those items you should buy right now and those to avoid. >> maryland's most powerful radar, a little bit of rain edging into the southern part of the city. we're into the main rain in southern maryland and down toward the beaches. that's going to pick up and into the day, on and off rain through
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welcome to "world news." tonight, shutdown shame. the scramble to restore military benefits to grieving families of troops killed in action, as anger at washington hits an all-time high. a warning tonight about a weight loss supplement. scare in the air. the frightening accident in a hot air balloon festival. passengers screaming for help. and real answers tonight. a workplace secret.
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>> unadulterated misery. >> what millions of adults are facing on the job from their coworkers. good evening. we begin tonight with 26 american families caught in the cross hairs of a political fight. mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, all denied government help to fund tune rams for the loved ones they lost who was serving our country. a solemn government promise, broken. this was the scene today at dover air force base in delaware, as the bodies of the fallen heroes returned home. defense secretary chuck hagel paid his respects and announced late today that the pentagon had found a fix to the problem. bull there are new signs of more troue coming, this time for veterans. we have two reports tonight, starting with abc's senior national correspondent, jim avila. >> reporter: poignant images of shutdown day nine, a lone patriotic volunteer mowing the
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lawn and trimming trees in front of lincoln in advance of a weekend veterans convention. while at dover air force base, the shutdown hits america's bravest, fallen heroes. 26 killed in action in afghanistan or on military bases at home since the shutdown. their families denied the $100,000 so-called death gratuity. the four heroes brought home today all killed over the weekend in an ied attack. sergeant patrick c. hawkins of carlisle, pennsylvania, sergeant joseph peters of springfield, missouri, private first class cody j. patterson philomath, oregon and first lieutenant jennifer m. moreno, of san diego, her friends and family forced to raise money to pay for her funeral. >> she sacrificed for the country, for her family. why wouldn't that be taken care of? there is no excuse. >> reporter: the outrage heard and late today, the pentagon announced, on orders of the president, a contract with a civilian charity to pay the
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death benefits immediately. >> when i heard about this story, i told the department of defense, within our administrative powers, we should be able to get that fixed. >> this hearing will come to order. >> reporter: but a widespread problem remains unsolved. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki, warning congress today, more than 5 million military service veterans and their families won't get november benefit checks if the shutdown continues. georgia eaves served in korea, her military pension is all she lives on today. >> if i took care of my soldiers the way they took care of their constitutes we would have lost the war. >> reporter: but as veterans and military families stress over the shutdown, there is still a place where congress at least can get away from it all. no worries, the senate and house gyms are open, although some complain on the radio they have to bring their own towels. >> there's no towel service. >> no. >> and we're doing our own laundry down there -- >> serious -- >> we pay a fee.
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>> reporter: only acceptable federal facilities are supposed to be open, and a fit congress is important. but essential? his advice, shut down the gyms until the madness ends. george? >> okay, jim, thank you. let's get more from jonathan karl. jon, no surprise, the disgust with washington just keeps piling up. >> reporter: that's right. and republicans are taking most of the blame. but the president isn't doing that well, either. take a look at the latest poll from the associated press. the president's approval rating at 37%. that matches his lowest ever. as for congress, look at this. 5% approve of congress'sob performance. george, with the margin of error, that could be as low as 1%. >> you'd think they'll be scrambling for a solution. >> reporter: that's right. i am hearing more talk of proposals about a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, just really delaying all of this, but george, the president in
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