now to our other big story, a former ob/gyn at johns hopkins hospital commits suicide amid allegations he took inappropriate pictures of his patients. there could be more victims of the doctor who have not yet been identified. >> baltimore city police and the hospital say that the doctor treated hundreds of patients at johns hopkins hospital and there could be more patient out there. >> baltimore county police were called to his home on monday morning and found the 50-year- old dr. dead inside. they confirmed that the doctor took his own life. an apparent suicide, the ob/gyn was being investigated on allegations that he photographed and videotaped his patients. an employee first alerted the hospital of the very fourth -- on february 4. the doctor acknowledged the allegations and was fired on february 8, 10 days before police discovered his body. the maryland board of decisions website said that he had no known disciplinary actions in the last 10 years. he graduated from cornell university in 1984 and received his maryland not -- and received his maryland license in 1988. hopkins offici

accusations involving and ob/gyn. >> investigators say the doctor took his own life. allegations surfaced he secretly took inappropriate pictures of his patients. he was recently employed by johns hopkins. >> baltimore city police say they have a lot of evidence against the investigation. they say he treated hundreds of patients. not all of the potential victims have been identified. baltimore county police were called monday morning. the former employer confirmed he took his own life. at the time of his suicide, ob/gyn was investigated for claims that he photographed and videotaped his patients. employees first alerted him on february 4. within a day security personnel confirmed he had been photographing his patience and possibly others with his personal photographic and video e equipment and storing them of electronically. doctors say he acknowledged the accusations and resign. neighbors declined to comment about the doctor's death or the investigation. the website said he had no known disciplinary actions in the last 10 years. he graduated from cornell university i

numerous patients at john hopkins may have been photographed or video taped by a former ob/gyn.his morning some of those patients are voicing disgust and out rage. mike schuh is live outside city police head quarters. good morning. >> reporter: good morning . this investigation is getting more complex. city police have asked for federal help, part of the reason is they need to know if any of these videos have been posted on the internet. >> wjz learns that federal authorities are actively involved in the investigation of dr. nikita levy, the john hopkins gynecologist fired for taking pictures and video of his patients. >> i can't believe it. >> tracy william s is sick. >> what was he doing with the pictures sm -- pictures? >> that's a big unknown. gynecologist porn is all over the internet. >> we have a lot more work to do. we have a lot of evidence to review. that is definitely an angle we're going to be pursuing which is why we're working with federal partners. >> john hopkins calls the invasion of privacy saying dr. levy's behavior does not fall if their code of conduct. >> t

baltimore hyundai dealers. >>> a local ob/gyn under investigation commits suicide.good morning. a towson ob/gyn a ccused of secretly video taping his patients has committed suicide. doctor nikita levy, a john hopkins doctor has been under investigation by the hospital after staff members told security that levy was using personal camera gear to capture videos of his patients. one of whom spoke to wjz saying the invasion to her privacy is intolerable. hopkins says their doctors behavior was contrary to everything hopkins medicine stands for. with 1,000 patients city police are asking them to call as the number of victims could be huge. reporting from city police head quarters i'm mike schuh. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next, american catholics reflect on the sudden resignation of pope benedict xvi [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compar

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levy after a staffer found evidence of the ob/gyn taking pictures of some of his 1,000 patients.able to determine if patient videos were posted online. there's fear some victims might be underage. civil lawsuits are expected. i'm mike schuh reporting. >>> stay with wjz 13 maryland's >>> it's 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." automatic spending cuts are nine days away. republicans say bring them on. we'll ask former house speaker newt gingrich why he agrees with them. >>> we'll show you the device that could save thousands of lives every year, but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> with the deadline still nine days away there's still a lot of posturing and there's no sign that anyone's trying to make a deal. >> president obama is warning americans about across-the-board budget cuts soon to kick in. the president warns people will lose their jobs and services will be slashed. >> we've talked about these budget crises as game of chicken. it's actually game of until. >> a natural gas explosion last night. >> police and cadaver dogs search for possible

police say the ob/gyn secretly photographed and videotaped his patient.ails on the investigation tonight at 6:00. >> are you ready to take your yoga on the water? i will explain, coming up. >> what do you get when you call -- when you cross year ago with a swimming pool? its latest fashion trend and its coming to baltimore. >> yoga is going the aquatic. these folks are getting a taste for the latest fitness trends -- stand up paddle board yoga. >> using the floor as a mat to do the traditional of yoga. there really engaging the core, keeping the heart rate up. >> it was first offered about a year ago in an outdoor water from baltimore. but now that winter is here, they have moved to an indoor pool to get the same workout in a different environment. >> the all five locations are extremely beautiful and serene which is complementary to the of the idea. indore, we have a much more dynamic atmosphere. to comeincredible place and get a great workout. >> because it's on an unstable surface, it works different muscle groups more effectively. >> it's the same pos

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a local law firm holds a forum, educating potential victims of a former hopkins ob/gyn who is accusedvideotaping his patients. >>> also, a final thanks. the pope speaks to his central administration. and local lei, parishioners pay tribute in a massive thanksgiving. >>> here's a side of mercury you've probably never seen in living color. nasa and johns hopkins released these false color images of the planet that is closest to the sun. boy, isn't that beautiful there? it's not what a lot of people would think mercury would look like to the naked eye. but astronomers say it illustrates a different mineral that make up the planet. is that what they do on these things, bern? they kind of assign different colors to chemicals and elements? >> i don't know the

tamara goldwasser is an ob/gyn who counsels women on how to have a healthy pregnancy. >> you're taking your vitamins -- >> reporter: she is also pregnant and knows a nutritious diet plus folic acid supplements are an important part of giving her baby the best chance for a healthy body and brain. concern starts even before the pregnancy. >> a woman's health before she becomes pregnant definitely will influence the way that her pregnancy is going to progress. >> reporter: while it is well known that folic acid can reduce the chance of certain birth defects, the latest study suggests that women who take folic acid supplements before getting pregnant may also reduce the risk of having a child with autism. the researchers followed the development of more than 85,000 children born in norway between 2002 and 2008 and tracked their progress until last year. they found that mothers who started taking folic acid supplements at least one month before getting pregnant and continuing for two months into the pregnancy had a 40% reduced chance of having a baby that later developed autism. >> folic ac

investigation, more patients are coming forward worried they were video taped by a former john hopkins ob/gyn police custody. what the police are saying. >> a self-defense accident or premeditated murder. the defense for oscar pistorius tries to convince a judge he's innocent. >>> more news, first warning weather and your first traffic report ♪ you signed up weeks ago ♪ ♪ sunlight says get up and go ♪ ♪ mountain-grown aroma coming through ♪ ♪ a new challenge waits for you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ jumpin' into something new ♪ ♪ you really see all you can do ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up ♪ ♪ is folgers in your cup ♪ ♪ that aroma calls to you ♪ ♪ time to jump in to something new ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up ♪ ♪ is folgers in your cup ♪

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let me introduce myself, i am a regional director for region 6 and also an ob-gyn physician, also a physician. one of the things that i have come across, having dealt with in my education and everything else, is that the school itself is a huge community for the kids and if we leave that community out of the picture and focus just on the family and the outside community and teaching everybody else and not making sure our teachers get the diversity training, we are missing a big point in that picture. for example, my kids went to private school, this is the first year they are going to public school, and we listed punjabi as the language spoken at home and we got so many calls from the school just to make sure the kids would come in, they are proficientin english. they know english but we got at least 3 phone calls and messages left on our answering machines. why is it these schools do not list the diverse population of students coming in and actually have a parents day where they talk about and give them a little spiel on diversity, information on the culture? that information goes back to th

the ob-gyn who worked at john hopkins for 25 years is under investigation. he took his life on monday. >> i was so comfortable, i referred my mother to him. >> reporter: bell has filed one of the first law suits against the state and the hospital. >> i had no idea that this man -- was capable of doing -- such acts. >> reporter: 685 patients have signed on for another class action lawsuit against johns hopkins. the hospital did not do enough to protect its patients. >> what did he do with his images? did he put them on a site? did he sell them? >> reporter: investigators believe that dr. levy may have used a camera hidden inside of his pen to tape his patients. that invasion has some paranoid about feature doctor visits. >> i'm going to say, can i see your person. >> reporter: johns hopkins released a statement . police are now sorting low what they call an expensive amount of evidence that was discovered inside of dr. levy's home. meghan mccorkell, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you, meghan. dr. levy saw a thousand patients during his time at johns hopkins. >

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nikita levy made videos of some of his 1,000 patients at an east baltimore ob/gyn practice.nts are responding to print and online ads but local lawyers looking to sue john hopkins. some lawyers say that the patients will have a strong case others say that such a suit depends on whether the victims are identifiable. it's reported levy left a note of apology to his wife. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a 3-year-old is dead having been run over by husband father's car. the father and a 2-year-old got out of that car with the grandmother and 3-year-old still inside and the car still running. if -- the car started rolling back ward and the 3-year-old fell out and was run over. >>> a freight train derailed over night. two of the trains ten cars are carrying acid but there's no leaks or injury. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next, is the government being ripped off >>> here is why you shouldn't mess around when yoosing a ski lift. earlier this month a teenager was seen hanging onto a chair before plummeting more than 45 feet. apparently he was trying to throw a sn

those with regular, private, ob/gyns will still be able to terminate pregnancies.hese rules will eliminate safe and legal abortion for the most vulnerable women. there's a very easy way to describe this world being created by anti-abortion forces whittling down the options for women. this is the pre-roe v. wade reality. it's now affordable and accessible in some states and not in others this fundamental, cops contusionally protected right, in practical terms, depends on where you live. women shouldn't have to live with that. >>> a little news on a big story today. we're a bit closer to understanding what caused the more than half hour power outage in the new orleans superdome last sunday. the outage was caused by a relay, electrical device that's supposed to prevent precisely these kinds of outages. the relay manufacturer has asserted the problem wasn't in the device but in how the local power company, entergy installed it. the intrigue. here is one thing we can now reliably say about the power outage. it was not caused by beyonce. yes, that was a theory being floa

. >>> a former john hopkins ob/gyn accused of secretly video taping his patients has committed suicide. dr. nikita levy took his own life. police are now working to identify the women targeted. >>> police are investigating some gun violence in middle river over night. three people were shot there one has died, two others in the hospital. it happened on eastern boulevard. there's no word on the names of the people involved or what may have led to that shooting. >>> jury selection will again today in the trial of the perry hall high student charged with shooting a classmate on the first day of school. last week a judge decided 15-year-old robert gladden should be tried as an adult in the shooting out daniel borowy. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. complete news, weather and traffic still ahead this morning. what motivated

take two, ob-gyn facebook getting negative reaction from a lot of people. this is a doctor in st. louis sparking a little outrage after posting on her facebook wall this message about a patient. quote, i think we've got it right here. so i have a patient who has chosen to either no show or be late, sometimes hours, for all of her prenatal visits, ultrasounds, nsts. she is now three hours late for her induction. may i show up late for her delivery? that's from the doctor. doesn't ever name the patient. >> right. she's been reprimanded, of course. >> she didn't mean to post it publicly. it was supposed to be a private posting and somehow it got out there publicly. >> that's the danger with social media. we've seen those before that didn't mean to post it. have you to have some privacy, i think. >> i have a much bigger issue. you're almost there, honey. who is showing up three hours late to give birth? >> come on. >> i would show up three months early. at that point you're like, please, please, take the baby. >> obviously this is somebody who was very frustrated with a patient. obvio

parker is a board-certified ob-gyn everywhere he's practiced in his long career.ississippi knew he wouldn't be able to get that status in that state. so it's trumped up, and i think the courts are going to take a look at it and see it for what it is, which is a backhanded way to try to take away the rights that roe versus wade protected and which saw the 40th anniversary of last week. >> i am struck by the fact that north dakota, which also only has one clinic, is moving forward not just with the same type of law but with the exact same rule. seeing how far it's gone in mississippi toward shutting down the last clinic in mississippi, how tough that fight is and how far along we are there, they're now doing the exact same thing in north dakota. do you think they saw this starting to succeed in mississippi? is that why we're seeing it now pop up in this other state? >> well, i'd like to say it's not succeeded yet in mississippi because it's blocked by the court. but yeah, we see these copycat laws all over the country because it is a coordinated effort throughout th

take-out ob/gyn. but a lot of primary care is going to be family centric.s going to be coordinated. then of a sudden if you have to go fend for yourself, you know, it completely is -- you know, flies in the face of all notion of trying to improve efficiencies and bring down costs. and the other ironic thing here is that on the one hand, employers have to make a decision now in terms of whether there are going to provide benefits. if you qualify for the subsidies in the exchange, the formula calls for factoring in the compensation of not just the individual, but the household. gerri: all right. let's get back to what we're talking here. i get confused easily on this topic. obamacare is incredibly complicated. you know, here is what i don't care about what is going on in this country without care. we had a system in place that cost the federal government virtually nothing. that was sponsored by corporations, companies paying for insurance. now we are dismantling that as fast as we can. this seems to me we're going to have nothing left. >> no. what you will ha

morning in the case of the john hopkins gynecologist accused of secretly videotaping his patients ob/gyn east baltimore medical center where that doctor worked. good morning, mike. >> reporter: good morning. the women who came here share a common question, which is was i videotaped and now a group of attorneys are trying to answer that question for them. >> from full page ads to hotel room meetings to tv commercials -- >> call now, no matter how long ago you were a patient of dr. levy. >> it's an effort by local attorneys to find former patients of dr. levy, the john hopkins who took his own life amid allegations that he secretly recorded videos of his patients. >> i just can't believe it. >> that's a violation. >> this is just shocking. >> attorneys for this woman have already filed the first of what promises to be many lawsuits against the levy estate and the hospital he worked for. >> because i would like first and foremost for all of his patients to receive some sort of compensation. >> i think this is something that john hopkins is going to want to do everything they can to put it b

. >> the former patients of the dead hopkins ob/gyn involved in the scandal are now lining up to see lawyers. i'm mike schuh a live report next. >> we have a big accident on the topside of the beltway causing a huge delay. we'll take a live look at that delay in just a few. now over to marty. >> the pair normal activity films have a following now. actress catherine newton joins us on coffee with. stay tuned it's the morning edition and we'll be right back. >>> here at the bottom of the hour that's a live look at traffic moving in and out of baltimore city on 95 to the north of that the topside of the beltway things are much worse this morning. sharon will have the latest on that for you marty is over at first warning weather. >> let's take a look at the numbers. the wind has become a steady breeze but without any gusts. 23 right now on tv hill. that's 10 degrees chill ier than this time yesterday morning. by lunch our high of 37 with a good amount of sun today. >>> what's happened on the topside of the beltway? here is sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. >> good morning. now we hav

drew pointed out, i was surprised to find out that ob/gyns and general practitioners can prescribe theseills. i was really surprised about that. i think there's an ease in getting them. you go see one doctor, they say you need it, another doctor says you don't. it's not like breaking your arm and putting a cast on it. this is a little bit -- it's a little more murky. >> shawn, i'm just wondering, where is the disconnect here? what do people actually think life is like? do they all of a sudden wake up in the morning and go, well, my life isn't like the soap opera or the fairly tale movie -- it's never been like that. where is the disconnect here? [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4.99. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. what's going on? >> well, it's interesting that when you look at how they diagnose depression and you look at those symptom

drew pointed out, i was surprised to find out that ob/gyns and general practitioners can prescribe thesels. i was really surprised about that. i think there's an ease in getting them. you go see one doctor, they say you need it, another doctor says you don't. it's not like breaking your arm and putting a cast on it. this is a little bit -- it's a little more murky. >> shawn, i'm just wondering, where is the disconnect here? what do people actually think life is like? do they all of a sudden wake up in the morning and go, well, my life isn't like the soap opera or the fairly tale movie -- it's never been like that. where is the disconnect here? what's going on? >> well, it's interesting that when you look at how they diagnose depression and you look at those symptoms, fatigue, irritability, sense of worthlessness or hopelessness, that describes a lot of the parents that i know. so you go into that area where you go, am i just dealing with everyday parenthood or do i have another situation that i've really got to get checked out? >> i ask that because i would say that we have it much bette

. >>> looking into secret recordings, made by hopkins ob/gyn. dr. nikita levy was fired and later his body was found. they say levy used a pen camera to make some of the recordings and computer recordings were found at his home. police say levy left a suicide note, apologizing to his wife. >>> a military judge refuses to discharges against an army private accused of sending classified documents to wikileaks. lawyers argue their client was denied a speedy trial. he's been detained for nearly three years. manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum life sentence. his trial is scheduled to start in june. >>> the hospital ship comfort no longer calls baltimore home. alex demetrick reports, after a 25-year relationship, the navy decided to move on. >> reporter: long before dawn, work was under way to get the hospital ship comfort under way. for those who work the dock and watch over it, it was an emotional departure. >> i work with security. and i deal with people every day. and it hurts. it hurts to see them go. >> repo

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. >> ob/gyn who counsels women on how to have a healthy pregnancy.lso pregnant and knows a nutritious indict it plus supposed supplements. concern starts even before the pregnancy. >> of women's health before he becomes pregnant definitely will influence the way her peg nancy will possess. >> while it was well-known that folic acid can reduce the chance in birth defects. before getting pregnant, may also reduce the risk of having a child with autism. the researcher s followed the development of 85,000 children born in norway between 2002 and 2008 and tracked their progress until last year. they found that mothers who started taking folic acid supplements one month before getting pregnant and continued for two months into the pregnancy had a 40% reduced chance of have been a baby that later developed autism. >> to lick acid helps to make sure the brain el ises agreed a the rate that they should be growing. >> reporter: how much of the supplements does it take? experts advise that all women who think they may become pregnant may take it yoont you'lly.

drew pointed out, i was surprised to find out that ob/gyns and general practitioners can prescribe thesei was really spried about that. i think there's an ease in getting them. you go see one doctor, they say you need it, another doctor says you don't. it's not like breaking your arm and putting a cast on it. this is a little bit -- it's a little more murky. >> shawn, i'm just wondering, where is the disconnect here? what do people actually think life is like? do they all of a sudden wake up in the morning and go, well, my life isn't like the soap opera or the fairly tale movie -- it's never been like that. where is the disconnect here? what's going on? >> well, it's interesting that when you look at how they diagnose depression and you look at those symptoms, fatigue, irritability, sense of worthlessness or hopelessness, that describes a lot of the parents that i know. so you go into that area where you go, am i just dealing with everyday parenthood or do i have another situation that i've really got to get checked out? >> i ask that because i would say that we have it much better, all