>> ryan owens with us again tonight.n, thank you. >>> a shakeup in ferguson, missouri, after the federal government's scathing report on the ferguson police department in the wake of the death of michael brown. the judge who ran the city's municipal court system has resigned. the state replacing him with someone who will make, quote, needed reforms. last week's report found that ferguson used the police to generate millions of dollars in fines. a disproportionate amount were imposed on african-americans. >>> and the new development tonight after a story we reported on last night here. a manager at a v.a. hospital in indianapolis now removed from her job after sending an e-mail apparently mocking the very veterans she and her team were supposed to be helping. robin paul is on administrative leave, pending an investigation. in december, she allegedly sent her staff pictures of a toy elf pleading for anxiety medicine and apparently hanging himself. the hospital director called the e-mail totally unacceptable. >>> to the bos

a suspect running away with 22-month-old owen wright in his arms, moments after snatching the toddlerm a park in sprague, washington. ten seconds later, the boy's 8-year-old sister is seen sprinting after them, then the boy's brother pushing the stroller in which owen had been sitting when he was taken. dorothy giddings saw owen's sister running and screaming. >> i'm holding her trying to find out -- she said, he went that away, he went that away. >> a man grabbed a 2-year-old baby child and was running with it. and the little kid started screaming. >> reporter: after others joined the chase, the suspect put owen down and kept running. the boy is now safe with his parents. >> the sheriff said, your daughter's got some lungs. i think there's no one in that town that didn't hear her. >> the little girl did what she was supposed to do, which is run after him, yell, scream, and draw attention to herself. >> reporter: the three kids had been staying with a baby-sitter. deputies say they were playing in the park unattended when the suspect, a stranger, started talking with the kids before g

owen james says he can't believe this is his fraternity. >> these are not my brothers and not deserving of the letters, those letters mean something. >> karen travers, channel 6 "action news." >>> the fbi is continuing to look for an ocean county man last seen six years ago today. a letter carrier found a side door left open at john wisebecker's home in 2009 and he was gone, officials think he was kidnapped from his home by someone he knew, there is a $50,000 reward for information leading to his location. anybody with information is asked to call the fbi. >>> a new jersey man is facing 20 years in jail after robbing the same clerk at a shoe store twice. police say that miller robbed a stride right store in 1999 and he served 15 years in prison according to prosecutors he went back to the same store last year the day after he was released only to rob it again and now he faces 10 to 20 years in jail when he is sentenced in may. >> more to come on "action news" at 12:30 firefighters are on the scene of this massive tanker fire in michigan. the smoke and flames that shut down a major inter

we are talking with ron owens and his wife jan black. joining us is his doctor, a professor of neurology at ucsf. thank you for being here. >> you are quite welcome. >> you are an expert on this. when you talked to ron, did it take a while for guys you worked with him? >> ron and i have been working five.5 years. when he saw me, the diagnosis had been made and he wanted to optimize his symptom control. >> he was jokening on the shaking things in his hands. what are some of the symptoms? >> parkinson's disease is the way the brain's motor controlling areas deteriorate. so the movement type symptoms, classically tremor, particular when the arms are at rest. slowless of movement, whether handwriting, getting up out of a care. problem with stiffness of the muscles and difficulty with walking and balance. >> i noticed he has a band aid over a couple fingers. you talked about that. >> well, you tend to fall every once in a while. if you are clutcy and i did. so this one i fell and broke a couple of bones. it will be fine. >> ew. >> it's a good

. >> reporter: 22-month-old owen wright is safe and sound with his family. thanks to his brave brother and sister. 9 will-year-old and 10-year-old tell us a man tried to make friends with them at the playground before grabbing little owen and running. their babysitter left them alone for a few minutes when it happened. what did you think when you saw him grab your brother? >> i thought he was going to kidnap him. >> reporter: weren't you scared? >> yeah. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i ran. and screamed. >> reporter: weren't you afraid to be chasing after a bad guy? >> no. i was chasing him so i could get him back. >> reporter: the suspect put owen down in an alley and took off. >> i'm glad i have my son with me. >> reporter: here in the park where it all started, police are on the lookout for that would-be kidnapper chased off by some brave kids. neal karlinsky, abc news, washington. >> i'm glad that had a good ending. >> the kids, the siblings, it could have been so -- it could have been horrible. >> absolutely. every parent's worst nightmare. >>> comin

i spent a morning with owen at walter reid.s he went through his routine appointments and physical therapy with his new prosthetic leg i was honored to be there with him. there were maybe a dozen other service members present they were missing arms legs or a combination. they were in wheelchairs or on prosthetic s prosthetics they were using canes and crutches. and as i looked around i didn't see america's broken soldiers. i saw america's tenacious survivor s survivors. [ applause ] >> that day, that day with owen reinforced to me that in the end, we will not be judged by what's on the outside. our physical perfection and strength, by what's on in the inside. our inner perfection and strength, that strength which enables us to stand up for what is right and to stand against what is wrong these men and women owen his teammates, our other wonderful veterans, they have all demonstrated their inner strength and courage. as we gather together over the next few days to celebrate our values, our beliefs, and our great freedom i encour

also just to show you along with what's going on with owens, you can see that 200 -square foot maximum sign area that we are proposing as part of the amendments in that light teal or blue. that is an idea of what that would look like. that's all. i'm available for questions and catherine riley also available for questions. >> any speaker cards? >> i have mr. ace washington. >> i spoke on the last one but i thought i would save on this one. for the ones that came in late. i announced my semi retirement. i wanted to elaborate, is it up there? >> can you switch to the overhead, please. >> we are talking about mission bay, right? >> yes. >> as i got up here before when i spoke, my retirement. i'm not badgering. i'm supporting it. the reason is so we can have some kind of legacy with mission bay. i know most people were not around when this is one of my mentors was one of the consultants down at mission bay. what you don't say about mission bay and i'm an activist. all this was constructed by african american black negro however you want to call it. it's one of the smartest, one of my allie

a young man then allegedly snatched owen from the stroller. surveillance video shows that young man, running with owen in his arms. owen's sister, and brother, can be seen sprinting after him. the suspect then later left owen unhurt in the empty lot. >> i'm relieved that the arrest has been made and they have a subject in custody because not only is my family safe but other families will be safe because he is off the streets. >> owen is doing just fine tonight. police where holding the teenage suspect's identity because he is a minor. >>> a factory worker is in serious condition have after he was injured by a pallet of hams. investigators say that pilot felon top of the worker a at hatfield quality meats in montgomery county. chopper three over the processing plant on clemens road. the cause of the accident is now under investigation. >>> still to come on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" the latest on the deadly military chopper crash in florida as officials discovered the wreckage. >>> and a bus carrying college students get into a nasty crash two tos

but he lied to me. >> he did lie to you. >> reporter: the suspect dropped little owen down the street after two teenagers joined in the chase when they saw the kids running after him. late today, police announced they've made an arrest. a 15-year-old who lives nearby charged with second-degree kidnapping. but little owen is home and doing fine thanks to his very brave brother and sister. >> weren't you afraid to be chasing after a bad guy? >> no. >> no? >> i was chasing him because -- so i can get him back. >> get your brother back. >> for my cousin's birthday party. >> for my kids to sit there, run after him, you know that's an act of courage. if it wasn't for my daughter yelling, screaming, nobody would have even known what was going on. i'm proud of them. but i'm also scared because of the fact that they could be gone just as well. >> reporter: everyone hopes they'll have the courage to be a hero if the time comes. but no one really knows until the moment. and that includes kids. a rare and astonishing club made up of some of the most unlikely little life sars. >> 911, state your e

versus 45, the western facade of commercial industrial designated building located to the west of owens street. >> mission bay is governed by the redevelopment plans. the development standard are not in the planning code but rather for the development and a companion document is master plan north and south. as mission bay has been fully built out there are a number of buildings adjacent to the 80 freeway, now that they are built out or in the process of being built out like the kaiser building, it has been become clear that we need to alter our signage standards to recognize that certain signage if left unchanged is really just blocked by the freeway. so this is meant to address that particular issue. with that ethan wash is prepared to go through this amendment. >> good afternoon. my name is ethan warrish. assistant project with ocii. as executive director mentioned i'm here to present a proposed amendment to the mission bay signage master plan and the mission bay south design for development. the quick over view of what i'm about to go into more detail as essentially as the executive

the two siblings of owen chased down that teenager they caused him to drop owen in an alley. the siblings were able to help police positively identify the one who nabbed their little brother. the family says they are fankful that everyone is back home. >> not only is my family safe but other families are going to be safe because he is off the streets. they are not going to have to go through everything that we have been going through for the last couple days. >> if he wasn't in jail he would almost kidnap my brother again. >> the children were being baby sat by a family friend who let them go to the park by themselves. >> brave siblings there. >> the incredible toddler who survived being trapped upside down in a car for 14 hours in an icy utah river is home from the hospital. 18 months old lilly groesbeck is back with her family after four-days in the hospital. they say she is back to singing laughing, smiling and just has a few bruises. many believe angels may have led rescuers to that baby. all this happened after her mother died in the crash. they all reported hearing the

versus 45, the western facade of commercial industrial designated building located to the west of owens street. >> mission bay is governed by the redevelopment plans. the development standard are not in the planning code but rather for the development and a companion document is master plan north and south. as mission bay has been fully built out there are a number of buildings adjacent to the 80 freeway, now that they are built out or in the process of being built out like

. >> that is 2-year-old owen wright in the unknown man's arms.aying in a park with his brother and sister. his 8 and 10-year-old siblings cased the kidnaper down the street screaming for him to stop. that caught the attention of several witnesses who called 911 and also ran in to help. >> i told that little girl, i said honey, you did exactly what you need to do scream your head off. that was what saved that baby was her screaming and us running. >> when you pick up there's a girl running behind him. she is running down an alley way with a kid. things don't look right. >> the kidnaper was so spooked he dropped owen in a nearby alley. ' we know is back home with his family. the kidnaper is still on the run. >> an unbelievable rescue in california. watch as this mother hands off her baby girl to a firefighter as their home goes up in flames. that baby as you can see remaining calm as the firefighter brings her down to safety. the mother climbs down the ladder and gets out of the burning home. amazingly everyone made it out unharmed. >> time to brew

this is the grocery store in the small town of sprague, washington he runs off with 22-month-old owen wright in his arms you see his older sister followed close behind by his brother pushing an empty stroller. >> i can't explain the anxiety and everything that goes into finding out that your child is missing. >> owen's father says his three children were with a baby sitter that let them play at a park unsupervised that is when cops say the man scooped little owen out of a stroller and took off. the sister gave chase and alerted passers by including two teenagers that followed suit. >> i don't consider myself a hero just a person doing the right thing. >> i told that little girl, honey you did exactly what you needed to do scream your head off, while the mystery kidnapper got away for now the sheriff's office is still on the case and little owen is back home safe with his family after a terrifying ordeal that could have been much worse if not for his quick thinking brother and sister. >> that is what saved that baby, her screaming and us running. >> sprague is a small town with less th

overnight asheville police revealing for the first time that robert jason owens charged with tple murderned the bodies of pregnant food network reality contestant cristie schoen codd. her husband, j.t. and their unborn child. >> he did admit to taking the bodies storing on his property and destroying. >> reporter: police calling the arrest of 37-year-old owens a handyman who did jobs at the codds' home a major event in the case of zeb quinn. an 18-year-old last seen with owens before vanishing 15 years ago. >> the fact that he has been arrested on three counts of murder, that is a huge event in the zeb quinn case. >> reporter: quinn's family stunned by the arrest and speaking out on "good morning america." >> it babies my heart that these other people had to die for some more information to come to light. >> reporter: despite owens being a primary suspect, detectives were never able to find evidence needed to bring charges. quinn's heartbroken mother and sister now desperate for an end to their turmoil. >> my hope for zebb's case is that either jason talks or someone else who has informa

police accuse jason owens of killing pregnant tv chef cristie codd, her unborn child and husband j.t.shock. i'm in shock. >> reporter: relatives reported the couple missing sunday outside asheville and police say the trail led right to owens, a neighbor up the road who the family often hired to do work on their home. cristie schoen was a contestant on the "food network star." >> i'm a movie caterer so i cater big-budget movies. >> reporter: friends and business partners say the codds were kind and forgiving people. so gracious they didn't hesitate to hire owens to work around their home even though he's had a long history of run-ins with the law. >> we hired him to do some work for us on the rehab project. he never gave us any trouble and worked well. >> reporter: but the codds might not have known about one very dark shadow over their handyman's part. police say that he is the primary person of interest in a 15-year-old cold case, the disappearance of 18-year-old zeb quinn. >> owens was a friend of zeb. he was a person of interest almost immediately. >> reporter: owens was never char

him while little owen is home and doing fine thanks to his very brave brother and sister. >> weren't you afraid to be chasing after a bad guy? >> no. >> no? >> i was chasing him because so i could get him back! for my cousin's birthday party. >> the kids' father is shaken for what happened but beyond relieved and proud. >> i, fortunately, am very lucky that i still have my son owen with me you know and for my kids to sit there and run after him, that's act of courage. >> now to ferguson missouri we've got some breaking news coming in just at this moment. the police chief there is officially resigning. thomas jackson submitted his resignation later today on the heels of the justice department's report about racial bias in the ferguson police department. for months jackson has been ignoring calls to resign after a white ferguson police officer shot and killed michael brown a black unarmed teenager. we expect to get more details on his resignation when the mayor of ferguson has a news conference coming up in the next hour so keep it tuned right here. now, up next on abc 7 news at 4:00 -

ryan owen has more now. >> the frat brother seen leading this racist chant 19-year-old parker rice has apologized and isn't coming back to the university of oklahoma but that is not enough for these protesters. >> about two dozen marched down the street in a ritzy dallas neighborhood that evening, rice's family is not home, they are in hiding due to threats. >> they said this neighborhood is racist and that is painting with a broad brush and the school's disgraced chapter, sigma alpha epsilon, is not a chance thing. they say it was done three to four years ago and was not totally stopped it should have been in a statement released late wednesday the latest in a string of apologies first from rice and then the parents of his former frat brother, levi petit back on the campus that neither young man will return to students went to a forum on race, hoping to heal. brian owens abc news. >>> the university of delaware has joined a landmark nationwide study to look into the affects of concussions on athletes, the $23 million study is a join initiative between the ncaa and the department of de

he was a person of interest almost immediately. >> reporter: owens was never charged in that case andice say he also broke into the codds' home stealing a laptop jewelry and a handgun and haven't shared a possible motive but holding a brief later today. for "good morning america," steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >> and our thanks to steve. >>> now to the latest on robert durst. the millionaire heir is behind bars in louisiana, as you know charged with murder as local law enforcement in areas he once lived review old murder cases. abc's matt gutman is there in new orleans for us with the latest this morning. good morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. you could call it a cross country dragnet for evidence. police departments in five states now investigating possible links between robert durst and unsolved murders and they're getting help from the fbi. police this morning dusting off old cases, assisted by the fbi looking for possible links between 71-year-old robert durst and unsolved murders across the country. >> i know that we are doing a number of things in differ

. >> thank you, john morris and paul and owen o'donnell. >> hello. thank you for your research and trying to find the right community answer to this and residential parking permit i've lived in area q for 26 years 13 years of trying to find parking living on oak street i find myself parking on another street the next 13 years i lived on steiner street and the parking is taken up by visitors for the park and the long term non-resident by creating the non living area for q the people will not be ditching their cars and will create for short term parking one thing i object to by creating two blocks the pathway doesn't work why not create the same rules for the hole park plenty of turnover isle i've been walking and searching for parking the spots will on up but there's two blocks that the rules do apply most of the stops on my park or on the odds the minnie's can get the curb spreadsheets spots but the rest of the cars don't fit so they'll be enough turnover again, thank you for your research our close not quite there i'd like a little bit of tweaking t

the moment with owen.thing on the one hand literally this happened within ten minutes of each other. paul rud received regurgitated food. ten minutes later literally gilbert god forty three was maybe -- god forty three was making people cry. >> not the kind of crying people generates. >> jon: it's a movement where he's the conduit through which this young man owen communicates his feelings to his family and to others around him. it's amazing. >> the whole show is about raising money not to cure autism. a lot of people are working on bio medical research. we can't get him into a program until he was seven years old. people with fewer resources than us it's unimaginable what they have to go through. and the kids. they deserve better. last year we had a show on-line katy perry did a duet. >> jon: yes. >> and this little girl plays the piano and then there's this moment where they receives spontaneous applause and she smiles. >> jon: lights up. >> that's the kind of thing a lot of people are shocked. they don'

presumably jenna she's as relieved as owen wright's family. >>> getting to the bottom of the hillarynton e-mail scandal. judicial watch taking effect in civil court. director of investigations for that watch dog group still ahead. >>> we have some surprises for you tomorrow . >> a lot to work on. have a great day. the real story with gretchen starts right now. >>> we start with a fox news alert, a massive man hunt is under way after two police officers were shot during a protest in ferguson, missouri. several people now being questioned. but so far no arrests. check out the chaotic scene from last night. [ bleep ]. >> one officer shot in the face, another in the shoulder, hours after ferguson's embattled police chief resigned. the county police chief describing the attack as an ambush that easily could have killed those officers. both of them now out of the hospital and expected to fully recover. mike tobin, live in ferguson with the real story on

dave owens caught up with him at practice.s more. >> reporter: well, it's the buzz being heard around this building. eastern washington head coach guaranteeing victory on thursday. man, the games haven't even begun. if georgetown needed bullets material, they got it. >> it registers. no doubt it registers. we'll show up and play the game tomorrow. we'll see. >> reporter: eastern washington head coach sent a shout across georgetown on wednesday during a radio interview and then later in front of tv cameras didn't back down. >> i want them to know that their coach believes in them, is confident in them and is sending them out on the court to be fearless. >> reporter: the hoyas heard it and digested it. >> whatever it is that they want to discuss, hope flip they bring it to -- hopefully they bring it to play tomorrow. game on. >> reporter: this is fun, right? autographs, greeting young fans. >> it was awesome. >> reporter: cotton candy. georgetown about a seven-point favorite coming up on thursday but jonson knows he will be in m

here's ryan owens. >> this is where it happened.his is where he cut me off. >> reporter: kay will be the first to tell you it's a miracle she's alive. the 28-year-old taking us to the very spot on interstate 45 where a gunman shot her in the head less than a week ago. >> his mission, although it was to kill me and i'm still living i know that is killing him. >> reporter: hafford was driving headed to work when she honked at the driver of a white chevy tahoe that she says cut her off. he pulled up next to her he shot a single shot through her passenger window and took off. >> i don't know how i did it but i pulled over here. >> reporter: despite shot in the head, hafford grabbed her iphone. >> when i heard siri that's when i cried. when i heard her say who do you want to call? when the 911 operator picked up i lost it. i told the 911 operator i think i had been shot. >> reporter: bullet fragments launched in her skull but they removed them and she is on her way to a full recovery. the worry now the gunman is on the run. >> have you f

manassas, d.c., over toward owens, owens a minute ago was 42. howntsingtown, excuse me -- huntingtown, excuse me, huntington is at 43. we had the rain come through this morning. this is all ahead of a warm front. you see the rain toward delaware, northeastern pennsylvania. other than a stray shower, i think we're pretty much done with the rain for today. still, a slow climb out of the 30s and 40s to upper 40s and low 50s. however, way west, you may get into some of that warmer air into the lower 60s. charleston, west virginia right now 67 degrees. so the warmth not that far away but we've got the cold in place thanks to the appalachians. our day planner, lots of clouds. upper 40s by 3:00. 6:00, 7:00 probably get the high around 52. we're going to stay in the 40s to around 50 tonight. tomorrow spring like, 70s, showers, storms. aim have more on take coming up in a few minutes. mike, back to you. >> thank you, howward. >>> coming up on wusa9, a megamerger in the food and beverage industry. a $36 billion. >> plus, show me the money. we'll tell but

ryan owens, abc news, dallas. >> ryan thank you. >>> and to the extreme weather in the heartland tonight. the deadly tornadoes, outside tulsa tulsa, an ef-2. listen to this. >> oh my god. keep going. >> and we saw the pictures decimating a gymnasium. teachers keeping the children calm. and let's go to ginger zee. >> we're talking freeze warnings and watches as far south as atlanta. parts of missouri to south carolina north carolina all in blue. sub-freezing. louisville pittsburgh. and the antithesis the other side. 180 degrees different, 10 to 20 degrees above average. 100 for yuma. tons of records broken. >>> and businesses may now cite religious belief to refuse business to gay people. and the ncaa expressing reservations. but supporters saying worries about discrimination are overblown. >>> and harry reid announcing he will not seek re-election. saying his decision has nothing to do with his injuries exercising. >>> and the school bus bursting into flames and the hero driver. >>> also real or hoax? what some thought was the real-life "gone girl." what her lawyer is now saying. >>> and

folks, owen lives here now at least temporarily at walter reed medical center.ast deployment to afghanistan he and his team were caught in a firefight and he was shot multiple times which resulted in the loss of his leg and the sight in his left eye. i spent a morning with owen at walter reed and as he went through his routine appointments and his physical therapy with his new prosthetic leg i was honored to be there with him. there were maybe a dozen other service members present. they were missing arms, their legs or combination. they were in wheelchairs or on prosthetics, they were using canes and they were using crutch crutches and as i looked around i didn't see america's broken soldiers, i saw america's tenacious survivors. [ applause ] that day that day with owen reinforced to me that in the end, we will not be judged by what's on the outside, our physicaln strength, but by what's on the inside, our inner perfection and strength. that strength which enables us to stand up for what is right and to stand against what is wrong. [ applause ] these men and wom

the victim is 29-year-old geneva owens. police are still looking for her killer. owens was found shot inside of a house on spruce street in west philadelphia early yesterday morning. police say her body was found underneath a burned mattress. they're asking anybody with information to give them a call. >>> we have more details about a teenager who was found strangled in philadelphia's kensington section. her name is margaret molina. the 18-year-old was a student at olney high school. she was discovered inside her house on heartville street yesterday afternoon. police have questioned several people but there are no confirmed arrests. >>> today a gun violence prevention group plans to rally outside of a delaware county gun shop. the interfaith group will hold a demonstration at miller's gun shop in linwood. the group is urging shop owners to refuse to sell to straw buyers. they purchase guns for anybody who cannot legally buy a gun on their own. >>> news from our trenton bureau marijuana supporters plan to come together for a legalization rally. the spring smokeout