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. >> i'm jessica kartalija. >> here's what people are talking about today. wjz has been following breaking news all morning long. all lanes of the baltimore/washington parkway are back open following a couple of accidents, including a fatality just before dawn today. ron matz is live in the news room with this. >> reporter: all northbound and southbound lanes of 295 at 175 were shut down. the closures led to huge back ups along the bw parkway as you can see. according to park police an adult male was struck around 5:00 a.m. by a vehicle traveling south on 295. investigators say the man was hit following another accident on the same highway. >> we're still trying to determine exactly what happened. there seems to have been an accident northbound and then the subject was struck southbound issue just south of 175. >> now all lanes of the bw parkway were back open by 10:00 this morning. back to you. >> thank you. we will continue to follow the investigation and bring you the latest today at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >>> today president obama will announce his nominat

i'm jessica kartalija. don is off today. here's what people are talk ing about. breaking news. the best selling author and a baltimore native tom clancy has died. mary is live in the news room with more. >> reporter: well, tom clancy who was born and lived in baltimore died after a brief illness at johns hopkins. he wrote the hunt for red october and patriots game. he attended loyola college. before making his literary debut he spent time selling insurance. he was a minority owner of the orioles. tom clancy is one of only three authors to have sold 2 million copies on the first printing. tom clancy was 66 years old. jessica back to you. >> thank you. more on his death and life coming you up on wjz at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >>> day 2 of the u.s. government shutdown and lawmakers are still trying to find a solution. tara mergener reports from washington. >> there's no sign of compromise on capitol hill. plenty of finger pointing though. >> republicans in the house have proposed one can't pass idea after another the last few days. >> in the end they got their shut down, which they a

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. >> hello, i'm jessica kartalija. >> i'm don scott. here is what people are talking about today. >>> people up and down the east coast including maryland hunkered down as superstorm sandy roared through. 137 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes were killed. we are in breezy point, new york as the recovery efforts continue. >> reporter: construction crews are hard at work in breezy point one year later removing pieces of an old foundation. half the neighborhood is not back in its home after the superstorm triggered a massive fire. >> there had to be about 70 homes fully engaged, flames 50 to 80 feet high. >> he spent the next six months rebuilding his home. >> i can't believe it's a year. >> reporter: sandy cause destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, flowed lower manhattan and left a roller coaster in the ocean. 350 homes in breezy point were destroyed. high school students that lost their homes are pitching in on this year anniversary, forming a habitat for humanity homes in the rockaways. >> trying to rebuild stuf

. >> i'm jessica kartalija. >> here's what people are talking about today. the severe weather moving through maryland right now. a cold front is coming into the region and most of the state is under a tornado watch until 5 o'clock this afternoon. some areas have already seen some heavy rain causing some localized flooding. the worst may be yet to come. taking a live look outside right now. it is humid and we have cloudy skies and on and off rain. looks like it might be on again. >> more on than off. >> wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. marty bass is in the out back and meteorologist chelsea ingram in the weather center. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. the good news is the cool front is going to cool us down but it's moving fast and furious. let me take you live to first warning doppler weather radar. we've got a line of storms pushing there you the region with some heavy rainfall about to make it into the city. i'll zoom in here just a bit for you. we have some red and even pinks. that's an indicator we could have hail north of wood lawn. w

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i'm jessica kartalija. >> i'm don scott. >> here's what people are talk talking about today. breaking news. the search for the man accused of opening fire on a howard county police officer is over. wjz is live with complete coverage of the capture of stephon prather. sky eye chopper 13 is over the area where officers found him. first we go to mike schuh with the latest on the manhunt and capture. >> reporter: good morning. this incident happened just abok away from here. prather fled into the woods. it's believed he stayed there over night. he emerged from the woods at that tree line and police caught him right here. >> he was captured here, just 50 yards from yesterday's shoot out. at 8:30 this morning freddy pina was first to see him. >> he looked like the guy that they described on the news. he had two sticks in his hands. face was covered. >> prather was using those two sticks to try to walk with as he head a leg injury. he spotted him here. he told police and they caught up with him about 300 yards down the road. >> i don't know if they saw him or not. they were coming o

. >> i'm jessica kartalija. >> we begin with today's break breaking news from out west. two separate shootings in nevada in the northern part of the state near reno. police have investigating a shooting at sparks middle school. that and an elementary school have been evacuated and taken to a near by high school. the call became in at 7:30 mt. police have someone in custody. we will continue to monitor this situation and bring you updates as we get. >>> the other nevada shooting was over night in las vegas where three people were hit in a. -- hit. mike schuh has the latest. >> reporter: it happened inside an after hours club inside ballys. one person was asked to leave and that person pulled out a gun and fired three shots. gambling continued at the casino but yellow crime scene tape is stretched around several slot machines. the gunman was injured and his condition and the condition of two other victims are not available. >> more on this at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >>> with website for the affordable care act is off to a rocky start. many people who tried to enroll have not

i'm jessica kartalija. >> i'm don scott. >> as we enter the eighth day of the government shutdown congress is no closer to a solution. fears over the looming debt ceiling are rising. just moments ago president obama urged speaker john boehner to hold a vote on a senate democratic plan to raise the debt cap. susan mcged innes has the latest from washington. >> reporter: house republicans will meet behind closed doors this morning to strategize about how they will handle the government shutdown and the looming debt ceiling crisis. >> over the last 10 days we've been through quite a bit. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner says the president has the power to end the stalemate. >> the president's refusal to negotiate is hurting our economy and putting our country at risk. >> reporter: but the president says only congress can approve funding bills. and is calling on boehner to allow a vote on a no strings attached bill the president believes has enough support to pass. >> the reason that speaker boehner hasn't called a vote on it is he apparently doesn't want to see the shutdown end at the

. >> i'm jessica kartalija. >> it's sabilas turn to take the hot seat in front of congress. they want to know when she found out about healthcare.gov and the problems and who she told. here is danielle nottingham. >> the cabinet secretary in charge of the troubled healthcare website apologized to americans this morning. >> i'm as frustrated and angry as anyone with the flawed launch of healthcare.gov. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sabilas took responsibility for the problems with healthcare.gov but blame some of the failures on contractors. >> it's the verizon server that failed not healthcare.gov. >> republicans are not satisfied. >> healthcare.gov was done last night at 5:00 p.m.? it was down on monday and crashed last weekend. even this morning when we attempted to view the site before the hearing we were hit with an error message. >> gop lawmakers grilled sabilas about why more than 2 million people are getting cancelation notices for their current health insurance even though president obama said if you like your insurance you can keep it. >> he's been