vic carter -- vic carter has more. >> reporter: this is how we last saw the children after the bus they were on crashed. >> and did it roll once or twice? >>> three or four times. >> reporter: she and her brother were among six in the crash. he held tight to his seat. and they were part of a group from a catholic school in pennsylvania visiting the national mall and the zoo and the 66-year-old driver died in the crash. the children say they first thought they were dreaming. >> and seeing everyone hurt on the ground. >> seeing everyone laying down, bloody, no parents there, it was really scary. >> reporter: the and the passengers are still in the hospital. the nephew is okay, and their mother is recovering from surgery. >> they're old enough to understand, this happens and

. >> and i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about tonight. >>> 26 miners out. only seven to go. just moments ago, claudeio akuhn was brought to surface.

i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. >>> oil spill fallout. they are talk about the disaster in the gulf. bill plant has the story. >>> the report says they were not able to handle the spill or not fully candid with the american people about the full scope of the problem. besides faulting the administration for its initial estimate, it singles out karen brownert for her unfolding response to the disaster. in an early august show, browner said that most of the spill had already been taken care of. >> scientists are telling us the vast majority of the spill was contained. almost three-quarters was captured, contained and skimmed. >> reporter: but reports now show that the oil could still be there. in late april, the white house denied a request from government scientists to make

. >> and i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. >> a california man risks his life to save a child who was abducted from her home. kendis gibson reports with the story. >> reporter: victor perez recognized the truck in the surveillance video from television news reports. >> i just took the chance to follow the truck. >> reporter: he cut off the driver. they exchanged words. then perez saw the girl who had been abducted while playing outside her home monday. so he cut off the driver again. the suspect then pushed the girl out of the truck. perez stayed with her until police arrived. >> she was terrified. she said twice, i'm scared, i'm scared. she asked me if she was going to be okay. and i said, you're okay for now. and just waited for the right people to get there to help her out. >> reporter: the little girl had been sexually assaulted. police arrested 24-year-old suspected gang member, gregorio gonzalez. they say he fits the description of a man who exposed himself to two girls

. >> and i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. >> even exchanges for the two men that want to lead maryland. wjz is live with complete coverage, political reporter pat warren breaks down the show down, pat. >> reporter: that's right denise, it's definitely something to see maryland gubernatorial candidates cramming eight years of bad blood over opposing policies into an hour long debate. it's the 2010 rematch of 2006. >> this is not a personality contest. it's not martin o' malley, bob ehrlich, it's about you. >> you count, you get the vote. >> you have a clear choice to make in this contest. >> reporter: governor o' malley and former governor ehrlich open old blood. >> he increased tolls and fees, and maryland was not making much progress. we were spending more but we weren't moving forward. >> the largest tax increase in maryland history. $1.4billion. that was your answer. you also transferred a couple billion dollars from existing cash accounts. you also took $3.7 billion of stimul

i'm mary bubala. >> i'm vic carter. >> baltimore city councilwoman could a plea deal. is live outside the courthouse east downtown. alex

i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. here's what people are talking about tonight. >> the fa a's new proposal directly affects the causes. but they don't include all of the recommendations from the ntsb. there is a broad impact it could have on safety nationwide. >>> the proposed new guidelines affect equipment, training and bad weather, all found to be factors in maryland's deadliest medivac crash. the faa calls their proposals comprehensive and significant. they're the first major step toward mandating safety reforms since a rash of deaths in 2008 including this chopper crash with five people on board. only one survived. >> i looked up to the star and said, god, save us. please. >> that night, the rain turned from bad to worse. >> completely fogged in. we're unable to land there. >> reporter: the new proposals would mandate better pilots and better risks for flying. it would also require a terrain warning system. which would require a new pilot flowing to the ground. >>> they're flying in challenging conditions. often

. >>> hello everyone i'm vic carter here is what people are talking about tonight. an amazing scene in west baltimore when an old planet goes up in flames. kelly mcpherson explains there was serious concern that the building could crumble on surrounding buildings. >> reporter: all that remains is what's behind me, the facade and elevator shaft. authorities are concerned it will collapse. >> there's a large amount of black smoke touring out of the building. that's when i parked here and that's when the top of the building erupted. >> they had floors three, four and five, it's unusual to have a fire suddenly be that big. >> reporter: watch the fire from the distillery as it tumbled. only one side survived. the building's owner will tear the rest of the it down. >> mr. and mrs. brown were celebrating their celebration. >> are you going to serve food? >> we were ready to serve, just as we were getting ready to get everything set up, they shut the electricity down. >> reporter: the fast moving fire was fueled by 100-year-old wood interior and barrels of the old seagrams

. >>> good evening everyone, i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. >> baltimore teachers just rejected a new contract that would have tied teacher pay to how students perform in the classroom. it was a proposal that had both sides up in arms. >> reporter: the union says it's not giving up. a radically different contract proposal brought school officials to vote out thursday night. not enough yes votes were cast, but the district is not dropping the idea. to base salaries on student performance. >> parents aren't held accountable, students certainly aren't so why are we the only ones ever held accountable. >> reporter: more than 1,500 voted against the idea and 1,100 voted in favor. people say they weren't given enough information. >> every time you ask them for information, they say it's still in preliminary stages. >> when i voted for barack obama who's the president of the united states of america, i did not stand in line this long. >> reporter: the line snakes through three hall ways all the way to the doors of the school. only 500 people voted yesterday which means 6,300 people hav

. >> good evening i'm vic carter >> and i'm denise koch and here is what people are talking about tonight. >> here is mary bubala. >> reporter: the u.s. supreme court will make a major decision in albert schneider versus the founder of the westboro baptist church. it's a case that started at a maryland the marine's funeral more than seven years ago. that's when the church protested feet away. albert schneider says his son wasn't gay but that matthew was targeted during the protest. with signs that said thank god for dead soldiers. >> it's hard enough to bury a child, but to have this go on too, it's like somebody kicking you in the face. >> reporter: schneider sued the wanesboro church for causing him stress. he thought the church would go bankrupt and stop protesting at hundreds of military funerals. but an appeals court overturned the case siting freedom of speech. >> my son and hundreds of others have died to protect freedom of speech. and to have a group of 80 people degrade it and mock it is disgusting. >> reporter: the case is shaping up to be an important test of first amendment ri

. >>> hello everyone i'm vic carter, here is what people are talking about tonight. an unbelievable amount of rain is still falling across maryland causing some tremendous flooding. the chesapeake bay is soon to be hit especially hard. chopper13 caught these images. up in hartford county, the bay is also unwater. the bay spilling over their limits. the situation is bad the county has already announced that hartford county schools will be opening two hours late tomorrow. >>> in annapolis it's an absolute mess. store owners and volunteers have to put out more sandbags to help keep the water out of their business in the dock area. the governor has issued a state of emergency. >>> wjz has extensive coverage. let's begin with bob turk he's following the storm. >> reporter: i've been tracking this all day long. take a look at radar, we still have a steady band of rain going down to eastern virginia even into the carolinas, to the west and southwest of us it does begin to cut off just a bit. we'll talk about that in a minute. but i want to take you back to the local radar.

. >>> hello everyone i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. it's been two years since ken harris walked into the jazz club robbery that cost him his life. today, two of the three men charged with killing him were convict. mike hellgren has reaction from both sides and just released surveillance video. >> reporter: this surveillance video never before seen by the public shows former baltimore city councilman ken harris just minutes before the robbery. you see them flee through the back door, one in a halloween mask. jurors found two of them, mcgannee and jerome williams guilty of killing harris along with a slew of gun charges. harris' widow. >> this will not bring him back, so this is something we have to live with for life. >> i would have thought if they found him not guilty of the felony murder then they would have found him not guilty of the felonies attached to the murder. i guess not. >> reporter: prosecutors relied heavily on dna evidence included those found on the discarded dna mask. and the case was a bittersweet victory for pat jess

. >> and i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. >> a 6 -month-old baby dead and his father is charged with murder. kelly mcpherson has the reaction and the reaction from the family. >> the father confessed to choking his pay by girl while she was crying in her crib. the baby's maternal family says this could have been prevented. >> reporter: chloe lewis was a week away from turning 6 months old when she was strangled by her father. her father and sole guardian brought the baby to the hospital telling doctors she had stopped breathing and believed it was sids. he later admitted he had choked her and it was not sids. >> we knew that he was not a responsible father. >> i sat down personally with one of the social workers and i told her specifically that i did not feel my gut feeling was telling me that he does not, that chloe does not need to go with him because of all the things i heard. >> i was there with him when chloe was born. he would always tell him what he should do and he would

. >>> hello everyone i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. >> it's happening right now. we begin with the rescue. crews are waiting the first arrival of the miner. you see the wheel turning there to the right, that's the cable bringing the first miner up from the surface to the surface from down below. he was loaded into the pod some time ago. a rescuer went down, loaded him in there and right now he is on his way up to the surface. sandra hughes reports for wjz on the amazing progress being made right now. >> reporter: the long awaited rescue operation got under way with a mining expert entering the capsule for the long ride down. his job will be to prepare the trapped miners. the men of the first few miners have been released. florencio avalos, mario sepulveda and carlos mamani who is from bolivia are believed to be the most skilled in the group and will be brought up first to help with any problems during the remainder of the rescue. tuesday the chilean president arrived. >> i hope that today, tonight this long journey will end with a very happy ending. this story tha

. >> and i'm vic carter. here is what people are talking about tonight. >>> americans visiting europe are urged to be vigilant after threats of terror attacks surface. why some americans aren't changing their plans. >> reporter: most here are on alert but not alarmed. the intelligence is just so vague. still travelers are asked to take common sense precautionings. the state department issued an extraordinary alert to americans traveling in europe warning against terrorist attacks there in mayor cities where security has been tightened at tourist sights and transportation hubs. >> we believe we have credible information that justified the alert. >> reporter: sources say osama bin laden and other senior al- qaida leaders are behind the plot. the trained operatives may have already been dispatched to carry out attacks mod modeled after the one in mumbai. >> i wouldn't say we have specific information about a particular place, a particular time, but we have sufficient information that justified the issuing of the

. >> i'm vic carter, kai is of

i'm vic carter. >> and for bob and bernadette, i'm ,, >> couric: tonight, uranium soalert for a possibleor attack and a u.s. drone takes out a home in pakistan where a plot may have been hatched. i'm katie couric. also tonight, it's the disease that killed senator edward kennedy. now a new vaccine shows promise in extending the lives of patients with brain karen. the military made them brothers in arms. now they've been laid to rest side by side for eternity. and everybody in the world has a story. tonight, steve hartman visits a totalitarian society and finds a liberated woman. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. ever since 9/11, officials have taken ever threat, ever hint of a terror plot seriously. with a threat of a possible attack against a major city in europe,

i'm vic carter. >> i'm denise koch. >> governor martin o'malley and bob ehrlich held their second vigorous debate. our political reporter pat warren was there has the candidates clashed. >> reporter: the running debate about raising state revenue in the gubernatorial campaign may be as tax together voter's state of mind as

. >> and i'm vic carter. >> a resounding no from baltimore teachers that would have tied pay to children'srmance. teachers he

. >> and i'm vic carter, here is what people are talking about tonight. >> a corruption

and vic carter is in the news room. >> reporter: mary, it continued through this morning. the detectives were called to shirley avenue after 9:00 this morning, the police found an adult male shot in the head. the victim isn't identified. er and the other six homicides are separate incidents and two of them may be related. >>> all right, thank you. and what police are saying about the weekend, coming up live at 5:00. >>> and one week after a crash takes the life of a teen, the parents learn more details about the crash. the car collided with an off duty police officer. it was at patapsco in brooklyn. and wjz speaks to the teen's family in a live report newality 5:00 and 6:00. >>> the 33 trapped chilean miners may soon be free. they may be aboveground in a couple of days. >> reporter: chilean rescue workers finished installing the last of 15 steel tubes designed to reenforce the top of the shaft and the next step is building a platform above the shaft. and officials say they'll hope to start the actual rescue as early as wednesday. >> and below ground, the men prepared for t

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm sick carter -- i'm vic carter. >>> and i'm mary bubala. >>> flames destroyedarehouse and kelly mcpherson has more. >> reporter: the firefighters are here fighting the fire. it's just smoking here as you can see behind me, we're at the dundalk high school, we'll show you the video

. >> i'm vic carter. don't go away.ews" with katie >> couric: tonight, banks repossessing homes in record numbers. but are they doing it it legally? wait until you hear who is signing some of the paperwork. i'm katie couric. also tonight, after 10 weeks in darkness, those chilean miners are basking in the spotlight and their newfound celebrity. control of congress is up for grabs, and independent voters could be the deciding factor. we'll listen to their american voices. and clint eastwood-- actor, director, and that legendary line. would do you it for me? >> you'd be tough to resist. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. the numbers are staggering-- american homes are being repossessed by the hundreds of thousands. more than 800,000 so far this anar.

. >> i'm vic carter. >> we are learning more about the american man shot to death while jet skiing in mexican waters. the drug dealers may have thought david hartley was someone else. >> reporter: david hartley, the american shot to death in mexican waters on september 30th may have died as a result of a tragic mistake. according to the u.s. consulate in mexico, the pirates thought they were drug runners when he was shot in the back of the head as he and his wife were jet skiing on the texas-mexican border. you have two american tourists who stumbled into a bad area and pursued when the shooting occurred. the tragic event could have been set in motion by the mexican license plates on hartley's truck. on thursday, the security expert told the early show how the plates could have given the pirates the wrong idea. >> they were identified by the spotters. these are individuals that are posted as lookouts to keep an eye out for undercover agents from u.s. law enforcement or mexican law enforcement. i think a set of dominoes started to fall when they went on the water. >> reporter: neither

i'm vic carter. >> denise is off today. here's what people are talking about. shot and killed on a jet ski. today, blood is found on a life vest that may belong to american david hartley. don teague reports from the mexico border. >> reporter: a lone woman rode a personal watercraft thursday on falcon lake. safely in american waters. but when david hartley and his wife tiffany rode their jet skis last week, they were attacked by enforcers of the zeta drug cartel. that, at least is the conclusion of this sheriff who believes the hartleys were victims of mexico's drug war. escorted by heavily-armed averages, we took a boat ride with gonzalez. >> there are problems on the border. they don't want to admit it. but there are problems. >> reporter: the sheriff showed us the american side of falcon lake is safe. >> once you cross that marker, that's mexico. >> reporter: and to deliver a message to the drug cartels that controls the water and land beyond that pylon. >> what i've told them is i need a body. give me a body, guys, and the news media will go away. >> report

i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. here's what people are talking about tonight. >> st.h medical center and a prominent doctor who worked there, are slapped with four separate lawsuits. it's a story that wjz has been investigating for months. wjz is live with mike hell

. >> and i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. >>> finally free.ore than half of the chilean miners are pulled. the 23rd miner is on his way to the surface right now. kai is in the newsroom with an update on the progress at the rescue site. kai? >> the 22nd miner came up a short time ago. this is a live look at the mine in chile, where just minutes ago, that 22nd miner, samuel alvalzo was rescued. the family is waiting. begeno will be the 23rd pulled. >>> it's called the phoenix. so far, no problems have developed. and the process is expected to be completed overnight. the men have been trapped a half mile underground since august 5th. since that collapse. and it buried them under 700,000 tons of rock. >>> requests are now pouring in for the miners to tell their tales of survival. there is also word of movies and book deals. >>> the worst may be behind the chilean miners. but they still face a number of health concerns. what doctors are saying about their condition. >> many of the miners look healthy. but they face a number of challenges. their wea

i'm vic carter. >> an amber alert with a missing north carolina girl with bone cancer is called off. mary is in the newsroom with the disturbing reason. >> police in north carolina indicated today that they believe someone killed the 10- year-old. right now, both her parents are being questioned by police. >> reporter: police and the fbi are still trying to peace -- peace together what happened to 10-year-old zara claire baker. around 2:00 p.m. saturday, her dad, adam baker, called police to report his daughter missing. he also said his wife last saw zara asleep in her bed 12 hours earlier. zara suffers from bone cancer, a disease that has left her with hearing aids in both ears and a prosthetic leg. both hearing aids were found in the home. neighbors say they hadn't seen the girl outside the home in weeks. a ransom note addressed to her father was found in the house. police now say the stepmother confessed she wrote it. we have your daughter and your son is next unless you do what is asked. 1 million unmarked will be in touch soon. >> we are questioning the note. no further demands

. >> and i'm vic carter. people are talking about tonight. >> albert snyder's father is in court. it is a case that pits a

i'm vic carter. >> i'm denise koch.e's what people are talking about. >> a deadly scene this morning after police find a man gunned down outside his home. it happened earlier today in finksburg, carroll county. as weijia jiang reports, another man was found dead just doors away. >> reporter: police say the victims have had a contentious relationship for years, that they used to be neighbors who would argue over things like property lines. now both men are dead and police do believe this is a murder-suicide. an aggressive search for the man police believe murdered 48- year-old steven focht came to an end after maryland state police found him also dead. investigators say 911 calls led them to focht's home in finksburg. he was shot to death lying in the driveway. >> as daybreak came this morning, the trooper on the perimeter near a house about two doors down saw a body in the backyard of the residence that turned out to be the individual troopers had been searching for believed to be the suspect in the shooting. he was dec

i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. what people are talking about tonight. >> we, of course, want to update the breaking news wjz first told you about this evening. massive fire inside fort mchenry tunnel. forcing it to close down for a while. sky eye chopper 13 and captain mike perry on the scene. but first, kelly mcpherson is on the ground with more information. >> reporter: we're on the north side of the tunnel, where just a little bit ago, the road opened back up. so now there is traffic going north. although not much of it. be

. >> i'm vic carter. >> i'm mary bubala. denise is off tonight. >>e