they had the panhandle part. the panhandle was the same with as golden gate park, but there was dealmaking going on between park commissioners and they decided they would buy the land and cut off part of the panhandle. >> the development of lincoln park is interesting. you can see the cemetery. >> on the map, it is a cemetery. >> what happened to that and all of the bodies? >> they decided around the turn of the century the land was too valuable to bury people. where uss is now there were four cemeteries. they moved all of the cemetery's out -- cemeteries out. the heir did not want to move one of the places. there are two people -- two places where people are buried in the city. the other ones were moved out. >> the big scandal of lincoln park, someone wanted to build the legion of honor out there. she did and she got it done. they had to prepare the land, the golden gate cemetery, so the people they hired did not get rid of any of the bodies. they got rid of the headstones. they built a museum. when the renovate

. >>> check out this unusual panhandler. a bear stopping traffic, begging for food. wait until you see what happens next. >>> good morning. ginger informs us, this is the last weekend of summer. she's happy about it. >> time to change. >> she's the only person in america. exactly. >>> also coming up this morning, a dangerous game of political chicken in washington. and it is already hurting your 401(k). all the talk of a government shutdown, driving down the dow. is there a way out of this thing? we're going to talk about that, coming up. >> also a debt ceiling debacle. we were here just two years ago. >>> also this morning, a very strange crime story. a guy dressed as spider-man charged with trying to rob a store. how a clerk stopped him. and why his roommate says this is all a misunderstanding. he's just a big fan of the superhero. cops don't necessarily think that way, though. >> that's interesting. ron will have that story coming up. >>> also this morning. cereal killer. what is causing fewer of us to eat cereal in the morning. sara haines will have that. behind

it has learned how to panhandle on the highways of central russia. and this, i'm going to channel my inner park ranger here. this is not something you should be doing in yosemite. but this guy is feeding a bear a piece of bread. we turned the audio down because they're swearing like pirates in russian, apparently. >> i can translate it. >> apparently, that would violate fcc decency standards. this, you don't -- oh. you do not do it. watch this in slow-mo. he gets away with his hand. >> they look young, the bears. they look kind of -- >> their baby teeth are big enough. >> big enough for me. >> right. >> either way. >> oh. >> giving him beer? >> according to the website i read, that was either malt liquor or orange juice. >> that looked like beer. yes. >> it's almost bad for the bears. they say, aside from the danger, you shouldn't feed animals in the wild. >> absolutely not. bad, bad idea. but fun video to watch. >> very fun. >> we'll stick to our cereal. >> exactly. >>> coming up on "gma," an extraordinary story out of seattle. brothers, twin brothe

here are the flash flood watches going into the panhandle of florida.quick rain could lead to flooding there, but then the showers push off to the north. heavy rain is possible along the gulf coast state, and that's where the rain is headed. up across the northeast there is rain across ohio and pennsylvania, but these showers and storms will move through new jersey, and up into new england. so the rain is coming in over the next 24 hours. as far as where it is now, in western pennsylvania, and these showers and storms will push off to the east, and that will lead to cooler temperatures coming across new england and the philadelphia area. temperatures here, 72 tomorrow. that's where we'll see the showers and rain close out. 72 degrees on tuesday, and wednesday, thursday, we are back up to 76. so the cooldown is here but it's one day of dry weather and warmer temperatures coming in tuesday and wednesday. stay tune, headlines are coming up in just a bit.

you can see them coming down across parts of tampa and across parts of the panhandle.r centr florida and into fort meyers the city of tampa you are under a flood warning daytona beach and in the city of orlando. some areas have picked up 6 inches of rain. forecast over the next several days is we are expecting drier conditions. condg in the city of tampa.Ñi across the northeast beautiful weather continues into the weekend. 70s widespread. 74 for a high in new york city. 70 for a 72 in cleveland. across parts of texas you have been talking about record heat today. 98 degrees for the high temperature in san antonio. northern rockies cooler air is moving on in. with this cooler air we have a storm system that is producingñ areas of snow. 1-2 feet of snow another cast above 7,000 feet. we are lacking at mountain snows. lower elevations you will be getting rainfall. winter storm ié effect in parts of montana and idaho andç2l sections of idaho. ainsley and heather i want to remind everyone i don't make the weather. i just report ](%w%%oux,z24wcitr no haters. >> it is weird

flash flood watches from southern louisiana to the florida panhandle has this continues to move. we are also watching the weather carefully in colorado twher they are still into a rescue effort there. we could see rescue efforts for strong storms and snow in the higher elevations as it gets cold this time of year and even in parts of colorado. looking at your five-day forecast, sunday is when we will see the potential for showers and thunderstorms or a dry forecast as we look to monday, tuesday and wednesday. so, arthel, we are covering the u.s. but that typhoon is going to make some headlines tomorrow. >> and then when you think about it, we are talking about 2:00 p.m. hitting landfall our time. that's middle of the night there. it is dark and it compounds things i imagine. >> but the one thing we have to take note of is they are very prepared there in that part of the world for storms. but this could be one for the record books. >> let's hope their preparedness will protect them from too much damage. jd, thank you very much. good to see you. >> coming up, a call for gop unity a

wouldn't be surprised if parts of frederick or even the east and west virginia panhandle, western maryland toward winchester, stephen city, cross junction, even -- look at manassas. there was some patchy frost this morning. that would be fairly isolated. locally down to 43 in leesburg. manassas we saw 39 with the 40 in germantown. 47 for arlington this morning. even a chilly start for waldorf and baden and bowie all at 44 degrees this morning. one more look at the glow in the eastern horizon on our michael & son weather camera. mainly clear skies right now. 51 degrees at reagan national with a north, northwesterly wind at 6 and the dew point of 45. we've cleared out. still have some clouds off to the southwest and southwestern virginia with the fog also extending into the mountains. but really for us, high pressure in control. and it's going to stay in control. so we're not going to have any real significant weather headed our way. not just for the next few days but probably right through the weekend. there is going to be a storm system that's going to be developing down across areas comin

how many officers you have and how many people will take vague of that and maybe talk about the panhandling. and we have 48 officers who are trained under the old system but whenever that training is available we sign up for it >> do you see - i'm glad you know the numbers off the top of your head. do you see them being used >> we've seen a big spike in people with mental health problems. i read every single report that comes into central station and i come in in the weekend hours to go through any box. everyday my officers are putting psych codes a 50, 51 code. i had one officer who got a broken hand and another officer had his thump schaffer and another officer a broken leg in 3 places. i used to walk a beat and i really would like to have two beat officers walking it's too dangerous now. it's dangerous and it seemed like so many mentally ill people they have been dropped off from other cities and it's a disservice to the city and i'm really concerned about hearing about the officers and i am wondering if the c it program to make sure that the officer gets the training and address the c i

there is a nice paved path in the panhandle about 50 feet away. just yesterday as i was locking my door, two bicycles within about three men's zoomed by the sidewalk and i have written the mta about this and it does not seem to be a priority to protect pedestrians from cyclist. thank you very much. >> hi. i'm here and thank you for letting me speak. i'm here to make announcements to talk about activities that will interest the disabled. we have a guide dog event. bring your dog to our community garden right across from the lighthouse at 165 grove. we are going to provide refreshments for the entire guide, the human and the k9 guide and the money we raise will be used to start a fund for people who have guide dogs, who have extreme veterinary bills and are low income. not all guide dog schools pay the veterinary bills. we want to make sure these guides have the care they need. the second item is the lighthouse is a lighthouse for the vision impaired is an annual walk. it's on october 15th, have extreme veterinary bills and are low income. not all g

summerlike heat's in the panhandle of texas down towards dallas. mid 90's there.e are enjoying nice fall temperatures. 60's and 70's for highs. a normal day in baltimore. a normal high. 53 for the lowes. right on target for the average this time of year. rarely seen. exactly the 30 year average for the day. 95 is our record high in 1970. chilly 40. the record goes all the way back to 1879. down to 50 at frostburg and 55 at oakland. 53 degrees at hancock. chestertown, 57. 68 degrees in downtown baltimore right now. we may see the temperatures dropped and stall a little bit. we notice a patch of cloud cover coming out of pennsylvania. hard to see low clouds and a little bit of fog with it. cloudttle patch of coming late tomorrow morning and may hold the temperatures up a couple of degrees. , they have been drifting farther to the south and east. it it looks like it will keep our nice weather going. this will dominate our weather pattern for the next three days. -- it means most of the next seven days will be dry again. a little patchy fog in the morning, and then sk

. >> we learned the dallas-based tri-global injury expects to expand 190 square miles into texas panhandle making it not just america's biggest wind farm world. >> that's big. l how big is wind energy. >> wind is still a tiny part of america's energy consumption wind power last year became the number 1 source of new e ledge trick generating capacity making up a blustery 43% that means wind energy can power about 15 million homes. wend energy projects totaled $25,000,000,000 in the last year alone. there are 891 wind projects. nine states now get more than 10% of their power generation from wind energy the u.s. and china lead the world. contributed $78,000,000,000 to the world's economy. it's an unpredictable they are heading offshore. off the west coast. no where is the battle to create jobs harder than the middle class that shrunk in africa. wilk wilk has a plan. the city best anyone for beer is bet okay water. as an effort uniting prunes government officials. the silicon valley of water. david shuster has the story. >> what i am xooekt excited about today is that what we have been here i

the security guard optional keeps those people panhandling outside the door but can't go anything about what happens on the sidewalk. that's only going to further the noise. we all know very well there's a large threat for people who pickup prescription medication to go out at night. it doesn't add any i kind of security or adding the security guard and cameras the 24 hours pharmacy is not something i'm going to support >> can i 60's ask is the entrance on the sidewalk is there an entrance from the parking lot garage into the store? >> good afternoon chair fong and members manufacture i'm the project manager from the customer parking garage sub service garage it leads to a shared lobby internal 0 to the space as well as the door you indicated on the corp. >> there's two enterprises. so at night you might be able to pull into the garage and enter through the center of the building >> that's correct. >> commissioner. if i could produce that map on the screen >> so this idea of over concentration. here's the subject site and here's the blue circle are where they're currently type of 20 and

the security guard optional keeps those people panhandling outside the door but can't go anything about what happens on the sidewalk. that's only going to further the noise. we all know very well there's a large threat for people who pickup prescription medication to go out at night. it doesn't add any i kind of security or adding the security guard and cameras the 24 hours pharmacy is not something i'm going to support >> can i 60's ask is the entrance on the sidewalk is there an entrance from the parking lot garage into the store? >> good afternoon chair fong and members mantu

once past the street entertainers, panhandlers and trinket salesmen, pilgrims enter the imposing mahabodhi temple. >> we have people visiting from many buddhist countries -- japan, korea, vietnam, cambodia, thailand. most of our visitors are from sri lanka and thailand. >> devotees line up to enter and pray in the inner sanctum. they spend hours meditating just outside, under the ancient bodhi tree, a direct descendent of the one under which buddhists believe siddharth gautama, the royal prince, also meditated as he embraced a life of asceticism and became enlightened. >> i also would like to do the meditation here to discover myself, for my soul. and i believe this is the best place to do the meditation. >> buddhists believe that this is a very powerful place and anything that you do here is magnified, so any wishes you make for other people, any good wishes, any practice that you do, it's increased. the power is increased. so for example you see people prostrating you know, going down, i've been doing this for a month and that's a purification practice and it gets rid of pride and they b

the florida panhandle as well as georgia.those are going to stay, but not going to be too heavy so accumulation will be quite light. temperatures up there in atlanta about 87 degrees, down towards the south, new orleans 90, houston 93. and as we go towards the weekend for atlanta, your temperatures will drop down all the way to 83. down towards texas most of the heavy rain will be along the coastal regions as well as over here towards the west. and because of those clouds and rain, we are going to be seeing those temperatures a little cooler. el paso will be seeing about 82 degrees, dallas about 96. and your 5-day forecast, well, thing don't really change, no rain not forecast and temperatures dropping down to about a low of 74. >> in the philippines a stand off between government soldiers and islamic rebels has forced official to his completely shutdown an airport. on monday a disdent faction of the lip raise front attack the city. they took hostage, dozens are still held captive. at least eight about been killed they are at

it's at the infestation level in louisiana and parts of mississippi all watt i to the florida panhandlenagement experts say it's only only going to get worse. >> we have to be very careful where we park, they run across the dashboard. >> reporter: louisiana pest management expert henry leblanc has been battling the raspberry crazy apt for his two years and has seen them take over entire homes and businesses. >> we talked in the camper it have from the floor, the walls, the ceiling, everything. >> reporter: the ants are annoying, but they don't sting and are harmless to humans. however, they prey on other insects. >> one of the things that people are noticing is that when raspberry crazy ants move in to an area they consume so much food that fire ant colonies starve. >> reporter: howard says the antants can have a devastating effect on bees. the environment impact is a concern, he tell us people to use liquid insecticide on the perimeter of homes and not to pan. >> i can wait until they head to your neighbor's house, i am sure that nobody wants to hear something like that. but unfortunat

. >> reporter: sutherland's district in the florida panhandle includes tyndall air force base. this colonel who served in iraq worries u.s. intervention in syria could lead to a wider war. >> one of the unintended consequences is going to be how are we going to end this and not have it grow out of control or flame out of control. >> reporter: the war fatigue, how big a factor is it in this district? >> that's a huge part of our decision-making process. to make sure the most weighty decisions of sending men and women into conflict that we have done so with heart, mind, and soul. >> reporter: congressman sutherland has also asked constituents to call or e-mail him regarding syria. scott, he says so far 300 people have and 96% of them oppose u.s. intervention. >> pelley: manuel, thanks very much. we woke up this morning to the surprising news that ariel castro had committed suicide in prison. for a decade, castro held three young women captive in his house of horrors in cleveland, beating them and raping them. but he apparently decided that he could not live behind bars. here's mi

. >> reporter: never mind most people won't give panhandlers their pocket change let alone their vitalneed a kidney! >> reporter: larry at the age of 73 started walking all over his hometown of anderson, south carolina, basically begging for a kidney. >> i had to do something. she looks after me and i -- i look after her. >> reporter: after 57 years of marriage -- >> we've been together so long. >> reporter: their love is so palpable it practically melts you in your seat. which is probably why after our first story aired thousands of people called to offer their kidneys. >> there's a mighty bunch of good people out there that's wanting to help. >> reporter: more than 100 of that mighty bunch went through the testing to see if they were a match and, would you believe - - >> well, how are you doing? >> reporter: -- one was. >> oh, my goodness! >> reporter: after a full year of searching this week larry swilling finally met his miracle. she's a 41-year-old retired navy lieutenant commander named kelly weaverling. >> have you ever just hae you eh yo instinct because you knew it was right?

work well it's not quite begging it's sit well there's panhandlers and then there's a guy who will wash your windshield with the sports page for a buck this is more that he's doing they're both annoying. if you want them both to go away but at least the one guy is doing some modest went yeah so what you say is you want to make a movie called behind the suspenders. write that down larry and the suspenders behind the incident was save this to and then you say to your dear massive audience here i want to make this movie behind the suspenders and i believe it's going to take me it's going to cost me about a million dollars to make this movie behind this is spenders and what you can do is if you want to donate ten dollars you'll get a script from behind the suspenders and if you want to do twenty five dollars you'll get a script and the first blue ray that comes out of behind the suspenders but if you want to go to the big star studded party at the premiere that's one hundred fifty dollars and then people said send it in and we are goal was one million dollars and we got about one point five

now here is the kicker the buy was warned to not buy from this panhandler nats that whey i was lookingt it what it is, it that they take off the strip and it says that amount of money some ot the time well actually all the time its not so it will let you go in but whe you come back out it wont let you go out >> reporter:yes he was just ripped of for 6 dollars for a bart ticket the wont work it happen every day in fact if you just spend a little bit of time watching the powell street bart station it happens way too often >> reporter:on bart the beggers come in all shapes and forms many of them use the altered bart tickets to releive you of your cash and some just straight out beg >> reporter:like this woman asking people for money, the same for this man in the twinkie shirt as they get pushed away they return >> reporter:these guys work in tandum using the altered bart tickets to get cash which buy the way is illegal (laughter) >> reporter: then there are the beggers that have what i like to call a captive audience by approching you while you are on the train >> reporter:in just a few m

the thunderstorms in the florida area in the panhandle, and we'll expect that to continue for the nexty or so. then finally cool, dry air comes in for parts of the southeast. that is going to be a relief for them. it's been a very wet spring. >> this is al jazeera, i'm tony harris from new york. president obama has made one last push at the g20 summit for action in syria. obama said he's encouraged by his meetings with world leaders, but the pos host of this year's, russia, has stood firm regarding the attack. john mccain has been an ardent supporter of action on syria, but he made it clear a short time ago that there would be no u.s. troops on the ground in syria. >> i promise you that if we put an american boot on the ground, i will do whatever i can c

perhaps as many as 50 children in the florida panhandle. the question is that is this going to help on what the sentence he unlock the sinister secret. >> we could find out if there were any broken bones and bring some closure. >> reporter: it closed in 2011 but the painful legacy still is haunting. dozens of former students have come forward about the sexual abuse and even murder 50 years ago. they insisted that the boys were buried on the ground but there were not accounted for, properly. last year, this doctor and a team of anthropologists made a stunning discovery using high-tech equipment there researchers found evidence of it least 19 more bodies. the search shows that there is a possible additional 22 boys were not accounted for. >> we are trying to identify everybody. realistically, that is not going to happen. >> reporter: this child was sent here in 1940 and was never seen again. however, they believe that he was shot. >> they said that he was shot. and i think that they probably killed him and brought him back to the school and b

when he first gets here, he goes around to golden gate park to panhandle. there according to dr smythe you could have one doesn't cruz p -- preaching media hindu therefore it baptista there an an art is your the eighth he is here and an alien on that side. manson would stand around listening to these people then come back to the free clinic impact this the best minds on the sick hippies' waiting to be treated that he would go out into the park to use the best of everyone else use his best teachings. that is how he got followers , one at a time. in other words, charles manson is charismatic. he is not a stupid man although he is uneducated he is crafty and cagey. he knows how to take the best of other people and turn it into his own. what you've heard before so to be a rock-and-roll star musicians at a time in the log cabin on sunset boulevard when wilson cannot get the recording contract and deceive the people don't know is what manson tried to work through. neil young tried to push to the record label and try to cozy up to the mamas and papas people hear t

the southern plains we're starting to see severe weather break out, strong severe storms, texas panhandle as these lines develop here. this area certainly has a potential to see more thunderstorms. there are watches and a few warnings in effect. here is a severe thunderstorm watch, warnings with gusty wind and hail with these storms. the blue is cold air, freeze watches warnings and winter weather advisors. as the storm pushes east it will take all the snow out of the area, cold air will stick around but the snow is gone. state of wyoming, see the grassy surfaces s the snow but the road mainly wet. slippery spot pacific northwest with the snow coming down. the temperatures have really warmed up ahead of the storm, s severe weather warm weather and then a quick drop with our temperatures. cold air is moving east. national forecast see how it will affect your weekend coming up a little bit later john. >> all right, thank you. the u.n. security council unanimously agreeing to rid syria of its chemical weapons. is there growing optimism in syria, let's talk to a journalist proximityasha, we'r

and part ofrs mississippi all the way to the florida panhandle. they say it's only going to get worse. >> we have to be very careful where we park. they run across the dashboard. >> louisiana pest management expert has been battleing the raspberry crazy ants for two years and seen them take over spire homes and businesses. >> some are on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, everything. >> the ants are annoying but don't sting and harmless to humans, however they prey on other insects. >> one of the things that people are noticing is that when raspberry crazy ants move in to an area, they tend to consume so much the food that fire ant colonies tend to start. >> reporter: howard says these ants can have a devastating effect on bees. while the environmental impact is a concern, he tells people to use liquid on the perimeter of homes and not to panic. >>> wait until they head to your neighbors house. i'm sure nobody wants to hear something like that but unfortunately, these ants their going to be with us far while. >> reporter: there is no real solution

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this time on a pensacola beach on florida's panhandle p.m.mid-20s was swimming a few hundred feet offshore on saturday when something bit the top and bottom of his right foot. >> all of a sudden, we hear people screaming. get the lifeguards! >> inherently a dangerous place and not meant for humans. a whole other world there. there is rip currents and there is tied and surf and green life we aren't accustomed to. >> did you hear what he said? not meant for humans. the man is treated and injuries said to be nonlife-threatening. the predatory fish in those waters in one of them could have been responsible for that. be careful if you're in that area. >>> coming up, 13 people dead in a massacre at the washington navy yard. john berman is there with the very latest for us. >>> clear and convincing. the united nations now sure that war crimes were committed in syria. mohammed jam joom is live on th ground. we will check in with him after this break. . >>> welcome back to "early start "54 minutes past the hour. the world is dicgesting. what a chemica

the heaviest rain predicted through western montana, the panhandle of washington and the northern tipf oregon here. we could get thunderstorms and lightning, which does pose that fire risk. no rain predicted in the northeast. there's still weather happening. these are frost and freeze warnings. this is the freeze warning in new york. the lighter color is a front of the advisory. the temperature does not have to get down freezing to see frost form. we do see numbers dropping into the 40's there, toronto, albany 65 degrees. maybe not dropping to freezing. might wake up to frost this morning and there's a definite chill in the area across the northeast. temperatures by this afternoon up to 78, could be cooler tomorrow afternoon, but dry weather continuion saturday and sunday. by the end of the weekend, and next week, temperatures are climbing back above 80 degrees. the radar and clouds show that it is all clear from the great lakes south through the southeast here. this is the front that pushed to the south and what this will help do is any tropical storms that form will steer them out t

. >> today lindsay lives in a small rural town on the florida panhandle with her husband, two young children menagerie of pets. >> sometimes i like to just come and sit outside and just look around. it's our own little sanctuary. >> but the past never fades away. lindsay still cherishes memories of her mother. >> i like this picture because my mom looked more like this one before she passed away. >> lindsay's husband, blake, is a corrections officer at a florida state prison. they've been married for six years. >> i never thought i'm going to marry someone that works at a prison. it just turned out that way. just knowing things about prison life i guess helps me to know what my dad had to face every day. and this one was when he had first went to prison. >> how did you feel when you was in there? >> i was hurt and sad that my dad was in prison, but then i was angry because i felt alone. >> she thought about how her dad was in prison and the rough life she had. i would ask her about it and she would come out more and more, and she finally came out and told me the whole thing and i was hoping

from the panhandle of texas back up to denver and salt lake city.nd clouds continue down toward las vegas. it's been amazing stretch there. low cloud deck fair. it will be cooler inland but today we will bottom out on the temps. antioch, oakley, brentwood. 80s. santa rosa is in. vallejo at 72. berkeley 68. san francisco 68. some 80s morgan hill to gilroy. 77 mountain view. redwood city. atherton. palo alto in there as well. we get high pressure on friday but cooler as we go into this weekend. >>> a woman makes a surprise move on election night. plus bats plaguing one bay area community and why children may be at risk. it's halloween time my frightful fiends, and disneyland is ours! going down! boo! with haunted mansion holiday... space mountain ghost galaxy, and wicked fun in both parks, the disneyland resort just got spookier! visit disneyland.com/halloween trick or treat. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] it's time healthy gets a dose of happy. new yoplait greek. bye-bye, stir. so long, sour. hello, happy. it's time to lick the lid again. ♪ >>> student

and warnings posted for citious see shaded in green stretching from the louisiana to the florida panhandlere also watching this big weather story. this is typhoon sagi. it's a category three storm. 135-mile-per-hour sustained winds. they have red alerts right now. severe threat as the typhoon is poised to make landfall the next 48 hours. we'll track this as well. typhoon osagi. back to you, um ab, in studios. >> uma: thank you for keeping us posted on that storm that is coming our way. well, a new dangerous trend in those highly popular e-cigarettes. how a growing number of teens are using e-cigarettes not to quit smoking but to get high. pope francis pushes for change in the catholic church doctrine. what one previous has to say about the pope's new focus. congressman trey gowdy posed tough questions for men in charge of the first official report on the benghazi attack. find out if he thinks they gave him any answers. next. >> how could you look at everything if you don't even bother to interview the person who is ultimately responsible for what happens at the state department? [ sneezes,

look at that spectacular video right there from the panhandle. and places are dry out. louisiana, mississippi, places saw some 15 inches of rain yesterday. they will be drying out. atlanta, other places, like new orleans, had record rains yesterday. more than 2 inches. that's going to get out of there. the northeast, starting to dry out, too, overnight, quite a bit of rain. everyone was concerned about the race here this morning. but good news as we dried out. not so much in new england. as you can see with that radar right there. i want to give you one look at the western storms, because not only did it rain in california, but it snowed, that's right, fall comes in later this afternoon. i'll have much more coming up in the next half hour. but first, t >> so, even if you're not up to running a 10k there are ways to help, i'll have that and much more weather coming up. dan and bianna? >> thank you, ginger. >>> from road racing to an entirely different, much riskier, much weirder competition, it involves homemade flying machines. it's called flugtag. i think that means ba

secrets, exhuming bodieses, perhaps as many as 50 in all, from this hidden cemetery in the florida panhandlehe question is will the dead help unlock the sinister secrets of what happened on these grounds decades ago? >> the bones will tell the truth. they will be able to study whether there was a fracture or a bone broke or whatever. that will help to bring out the truth and some closure to this whole situation. >> reporter: the school for boys closed in 2011. its painful legacy haunts this place. over the last few years dozens of former students have come forward to tell stories of how teachers and administrators dealt ruthless beatings, sexual abuse and even murder more than 50 years ago. for decades state officials insisted 31 boys were buried here on the grounds. the bodies were never properly accounted for. then last year dr. aaron kimmerly and a team of anthropologists from the university of south florida used high tech equipment and found evidence of at least 19 more bodies buried in the area. their research of school records showed the bodies of another 22 boys who died at the school

we do have showers there, about two to four inches maybe in the panhandle.the northeast is going to be another cold front making its way through. here's the good news, it's pretty dry so we're not looking for a lot of rain with it. the big story is temperatures. they're going way down. we're talking low temperatures and maybe frost -- >> what! >> -- in the mid-atlantic. either way, definitely cooler. >> no one asked for that indira. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> all right. this next image, it sends chills up many spines. this huge record-breaking gator caught in mississippi. this is not a toy. it is the stuff of nightmares. and no, it's not smiling, zoraida. >> it looked like it was smiling there with the guys. >> it weighed more than 720 pounds. 13 feet long. one very big one, overweight happy alligator. now we're hearing from the guys who caught this obese alligator. dustin and ryan bachman and their friends are amateur first-time gator hunters. and shockingly, they say catching it was not easy. >> we actually tried for three hours to get this gator

the school was in the panhandle north and west of tallahassee.s were looking into stories from former students, stories that the school's staff had physically and sexually abused them back in the 1950s and '60s. and stories of other classmates who mysteriously disappeared without a trace. phil keating live with the rest of this. phil? >> reporter: shep, this weekend grave digging yielded the remains of two unnamed children between the ages of 10 and 13 buried for decades in unmarked shallow graves. ground penetrating radar used by the university of south florida researchers suggest about 50 long hidden graves, a group called the white house boys describes sadistic horror when they were there all inside a white house on campus where they say guards beat, raped and tortured them and murdered others. the lead researchers tells me tonight the skull, teeth and bones they exhumed are in good condition and will hopefully yield cause of death and especially dna. some relatives of long lost dozier boys prayed nearby. >> this is both a solemn and a joyous

much of his life as a sky practice or the, adjusting grateful patients backs in the nearby florida panhandle. known affectionately as dr. michael, he was a from innocent member of the medical community, smiling in the newspaper and online. but money trouble plagued the sky practice or the like a crooked spine and his financial problems troubled shirley's family, because one of her husbands, gene seitz, had died and left her with his name and a hefty inheritance. $1 million. were you worried about her money? >> yes, i was worried about her money. i mean, he come into her life with the clothes on his back. and he's a doctor? he doesn't have a home, mama? well, he's in transition. he doesn't have a job, mama? well, he's a kchiropractor. he's gonna get a job in alabama. >> he come into the marriage with a wore out pickup truck and a bunch of debt. >> reporter: her engagement ring from dr. mike, the wedding rings. the house they lived in that first big purchase together. the family says, shirley paid it all. mike seemed to appreciate it. women from their church later said michael was a wonderful

panhandling used to be a way of life for billy ray harris.he has a new home, a new car, a new lease on life. >> when i think of the past, i think thank god that it's over. i feel human now. >> in february a homeless billy ray sat in his usual spot hoping for spare change when sarah darling accidentally dropped her engagement ring in his cup. >> i didn't really look. i was walking by and i just kind of went like that. >> billy ray did think about selling the precious piece of jewelry. >> just couldn't do it. i'm not saying -- i'm no saint but i'm no devil either. >> but instead held on to it waiting for sarah to return. a few days later she did. >> it's such a feeling of loss when it was gone and so i was so eternally grateful for you. >> so grateful sarah and her husband, bill, set up a fund for billy ray. his story made national headlines. >> her engagement ring -- >> a homeless missouri man -- >> immediately returned the ring. >> and led to an appearance on our show. >> a lot of people who had been touched by the story had expressed interes

secrets, exhuming bodies, perhaps as many as 50 in all from this hidden cemetery in the florida panhandle dead help unlock the sinister secrets of what happened on these grounds decades ago. >> the bones will tell the truth. they'll be able to study whether there's a fracture or a bone broke or whatever and that will help to bring out the truth and some closure to this whole situation. >> reporter: the reform school for boys closed in 2011, but it's painful legacy still haunts this place. over the last few years dozens of former students have come forward and told stories out teachers dealt beatings and even murder 450 years ago. they insisted 31 boys were buried but the bodies were never proply accounted for. a team from the university of south florida made a stunning discove discovery. using high-tech equipment they found evidence of at least 19 more bodies buried in this area. the research of school records showed the bodies of another 22 boyed who died at the school were never accounted for. >> we approach this with a goal to identify everyone. that's our objective. we know that reali

. >>> joining us now for our agenda panhandle, viviana, bill, the executive editor of liberal owe cases.com and james peterson is an msnbc contributor and director of africana studies at lehigh university. starting with you, bill, it appears to be a game of chicken, right? but this game of chicken is within the gop, not between the gop and the democrats. the speaker saying, hey, you know, you're holding me hostage of the defund language. i'll give it to you, okay, tea partiers, but when it fails, as i have just been talking about with the congressman, don't they fail too? does he save face, though, as the tea partiers fail in this exercise? >> that's the big question, what happens next. no one believes this has a prayer in the senate. no one believes republicans can successfully filibuster it in the senate. you have the congressman on just before saying the senate asked for this. no, ted cruz asked for this. he is not the voice of the entire senate republican caucus. he could not get a unified republican support for this proposal. so it's not going to get filibustered in the senate. the bal

before he came to the penitentiary, he was panhandling on the streets of albuquerque. >> for me livingeless life that i lived for almost the past seven years out there and doing nothing but alcohol and drinking a half gallon to a gallon of vodka a day by myself was actually prison for me. it saved my life. for the 2 1/2 years i've been down, this is the cleanest i've been and really made me think about how alcohol played a major part in my life. >> with his release only a few weeks away, abear hopes to someday work in a homeless shelter. >> go back out there and get back into the work style and everything. it's going to be -- it's going to be a little difficult at first, but i believe i'm going to handle it no problem, and i'm ready for it now. ♪ twinkle twinkle little star ♪ how i wonder what you are >> while high-security felons are allowed to visit with loved ones through a thick wall of glass, level 2 inmates are permitted to sit next to family and friends during visitation. >> hi, baby. >> hi, baby. >> in about two months. >> has it been that long? [ speaking a foreign language] >

now here is the kicker the buy was warned to not buy from this panhandler >> reporter:that whey i was it what it is, it that they take off the strip and it some ot the time well actually all the time its not so it will let you go in but whe you come back out it wont let you go out >> reporter:yes he was just ripped of for 6 dollars for a bart ticket the wont work it happen every day >> reporter:in fact if you just spend a little bit of time watching the powell street bart station it happens way too often >> reporter:on bart the beggers come in all shapes and forms many of them use the altered bart tickets to releive you of your cash and some just straight out beg >> reporter: people for money, the same pileup for this man in the twinkie shirt as they get pushed away they return >> reporter:these guys work in tandum using the altered bart tickets to get cash which buy the way is illegal >> reporter:then there are the beggers that have what i like to call a captive audience by approching you while you are on the train >> reporter: man rack up a few dollars that he openly counts and then

flood advisory ropes for parts of lieu -- advisories are up for parts of louisiana and the panhandle.ant to go back and see where we could seattle the potential for more showers and thunderstorms. this will happen tomorrow. just a heads up because we are still into a rescue phase here around the denver and boulder area. as we get into sunday we will watch the potential for showers and thunderstorms. it won't be a total washout as we head into the new workweek. things will dry out. a heads up for sunday because we are still watching that situation. also this is china. we have a typhoon that would be a category 3 storm with winds of 125 miles per hour. this could be one of the top five storms to hit hong kong in the last 50 years. hong kong of course has a population of over seven million people. this is going to be a major event over the next 48 hours as this storm barrels toward the hong kong region. we will keep you up-to-date. arthel, back to you. >> that's not a good looking weather shot there. gosh, it is huge. all right, janice dean, thank you very much for that update. >> keep a