along reisterstown road, responding to the 5500 block around 12:45 this morning where they found frank harper shot in the stomach. police are currently interviewing a person of interest. we are monitoring the trial of city police officer william kern , who broke into tears on the stand. he expressed concerns about security at the facility where he shot a police recruit. -- thatfied immediately he knew immediately that he accidentally fired his service weapon rather than the training weapon. the defense played the 911 calls that followed the shooting. you can see david collins report tonight. no there for the man charged ricktrying to kidnap vi and. was able to scare him away by setting off her car alarm, and police arrested him a few hours later. we are told nobody was injured, believe heice do not was connected to her mysterious kidnapping 18 months ago. baltimore county police do not asked -- suspect foul play in the discovery of a body in hunt valley. an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death. ravenshead, 10 lucky fans are preparing for the trip of a lifetime. how dare non-winning

tumaina bakari got into a fight with frank harper, jr. the fight continued outside the restaurant.akari shot harper several times. harper was taken to sinai where he died. not clear if bakari was on duty at the time. >>> there's a rash of car break- ins. three happened has women were dropping off their children at daycare centers and the other happened when a woman was working out at an ellicott city gym. >> we really want women to stop leaving their purses in the vehicles all together, definitely not leaving them visible. take your purse with you, even if you're going to be a few minutes. better yet if you know you're going to the gym, leave your purse at home. >> police say they're looking for a group of people who have hit the hear before and they need your help. if you see anything suspicious, particularly around the dray care centers, gyms or public parks, give them a call. >>> an annapolis surgeon with ties to a woman accused of faking medical paperwork in another county. shawna gunter said she never touched the patients. gunter worked with dr. jerrilyn jutton for a year as a

officers confirm the victim's identity, 35-year-old frank harper. he was found shot in the stomach and died later at the hospital. police said they wore release more information once interview is completed. >> the search for what sparked a fire that had 100 firefighters battling a huge blaze in california as we cover the nation. administration is open to making changes on a controversial test. the story is new at 6:00. >> a six alarm fire raced through an apartment complex in california this morning. the call came in around 5:30 this morning. more than 100 firefighters responded. at least four people have been reported injured, but not considered life-threatening. our officials say the blaze began on the third floor. they have not been determined what started the flame. >> arizona officials are trying to figure out what caused the home to explode into flames, causing two people to be hospitalized in critical condition. happened just outside of phoenix. tremorsr described similar to an earthquake. there was natural gas detected in the home. >> it sou

this morning officers responded to the 5500 block where they found 35-year-old frank harper shot in the stomach. he died at the hospital. we are told police are currently interviewing a person of interest. there was another shooting around 11:00 tuesday night on reisterstown road. a 25-year-old was fatally shot in the head. wednesday night shooting involved a city police officer. the commissioner revealed the suspect in the case was trying to hide drugs. kim dacey is live at city police headquarters with the latebreaking details for us. >> police say 40-year-old sean dean has an extensive criminal record. he is out on parole on a drug conviction. he decided to take a drive to be belair edison neighborhood last night. the neighborhood in northeast baltimore used to be a quiet place to live, according to longtime residents, but it is changing. the neighborhood has steadily, rapidly declines. the drugs and the gang activity. 10:00 wednesday night am a police officer shot and killed 40-year-old sean dean after investigators say dean drag the officer alongside his car for several blocks afte

some perspective the impact is having on the political landscape we're joined by thomas frank, a columnist at harpers magazine. what's wrong with kansas is his book. flad to vo you with us. >> sure thing. >>> it's changed a lot over the long term. these successive movements to the right you know ever since well my entire life ever since the 1960s. one of the things that's really interesting to me about the shutdown is that it -- and you know the debt ceiling nonsense, is that it's an active idealism. you saw the same thing happen, remember you had the gingrich revolution in 1974. these republicans very idealistic yo utopian vision for what america should be like and very quickly they managed to you know, steer the government into a shutdown and now they've done it again with the tea party group. again all these new members of congress very idealistic almost with a sort of yo utopian dreamr what america should be like. and this is what they sort of gravitate towards doing. >> so is using the crutch of obamacare a bad idea for the republican party, was that a bad move? >> well, everything they're doing

this shutdown is having on the political landscape earlier i talked with thomas frank, he's a clo columnist with harpers magazine. i asked him who the perspective is like as the stalemate continues. >> things are plummeting in the polls, the republican party looks worse than it has ever looked. you know at the same time obamacare remains fairly unpopular, certain of the details about it. on the other hand certain parts of it are immensely popular. they have a theory that if they allow obamacare to get up and get going it will turn out to be very popular. and it will win people over and people will discover that they really like having guaranteed you know health insurance and you know i suspect they're right about that. i some people would really like that and they are determined to stop it before it gets going, that's why they're doing it. >>> about a dozen iconic national parks are going to be allowed to reopen, despite the shutdown however states will have to foot the bill. how much tourist money they would lose. 401 parks are closed and the average tourists who go to them every day is 450,000, and th